The Hermiston herald., April 01, 1937, Image 2

Thursday, April 1, 1937
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
BRIG H T STAR UNCOMMON
By Mary Schumann
Copyright by Macrae Smith Co.
WNU Service
SYNOPSIS
Kezia Marsh, pretty, selfish and twenty, ar­
rive* home in Corinth from school and is met
by her older brother, Hugh. He drive* her to
the Marsh home where her widowed mother,
Fluvanna, a warm-hearted, self -sacrificing and
understanding soul, welcome* her. Kezia’s sis-
ter, Margery, plump and matronly with the
care of three children, is at lunch with them.
Hugh’s wife, Dorrie, has pleaded a previous
engagement. On the way back to his job at
the steel plant founded by one of hi* fore-
bear*, Hugh passes Doc Hiller, a boyhood
friend whom he no longer sees frequently be­
cause of Dorrie’* antipathy. Fluvanna Marsh
wakens the next morning from a dream about
her late husband. Jim, whose unstable char­
acter she fears Kezia has inherited.
Soon
Ellen Pendleton comes over. She is an artis­
tically inclined girl who is a distant niece of
Fluvanna’s and a favorite of Hugh’s.
She
happily tells Fluvanna she has become en­
gaged to Jerry Purdue.
CHAPTER I—Continued
Kezia sulked for a minute.
Then she broke a piece of toast,
crumbled it thoughtfully. “I sup­
pose I might have come down.”
Her mother smiled as she saw
victory in sight.
Kezia was
ashamed of her action, but had
had to defend it.
“She has a tough time at home.
No wonder she comes here so
much. Cousin Gavin is too nerv­
ous to allow the radio to be played
when he’s in the house, and her
mother, pretentious and calculat­
ing, nagging the life out of her—
what a mother!” shuddered Kezia.
“I have no reason to be envious
of Ellen. If a man goes romantic
over her—they think of Lizzie for
a mother-in-law—then it’s good-bye
Ellen!”
She sat there, her eyes dreamy
and misted. “I’m so mean,”
she faltered, “and you’re so good
to me! Oh, Mother, how do you
put up with me?”
Fluvanna was moved, as she al­
ways was when Kezia was peni­
tent and misty-eyed, even though
she knew it did not hinder her
from doing the same thng over
again directly. The girl rose in a
sudden whirlwind and came around
to her chair, laid her cheek against
hers. “I know I’m horrid!”
Charming, emotional and impul­
sive—like Jim. Her heart plunged
with misgiving for Kezia, a vague
anxiety. She caressed her auto­
matically.
Kezia went back to her chair.
“Be nice to her when she comes
again—or, better still, telephone
her.”
“I will,” Kezia nodded between
bites. “I’ll telephone her this
noon. Pete told me about this Pur­
due she has been going with—very
smooth looking—like Ronald Col­
man. They’re all betting it won’t
last a month!”
“I wouldn’t be too sure.”
Kezia looked up quickly. “H-m-
mm, have you a scoop?—she tell
you anything?”
“Not for the public yet. So keep
it secret.”
“No?” Kezia’s brows went up.
“Well, is that a headline! Ellen
put it over! Cheers for Ellen!”
Kezia rose from the table. “I’ll
breeze around there after I get
through playing tennis and ask her
to bring him over some night
soon.” She dropped a kiss on her
mother’s hair. “I'll tell her that
while I’m immured in the halls of
learning, she grabs off the best­
looking man in town!”
“I’m telling you first, before
anyone,” the girl went on. “I can
tell you things, Fluvanna—you un­
derstand. I’m exquisitely—divine­
ly happy! . . . Why, Jerry---- ”
she shook her head, murmured:
“It’s beyond words—the feeling. I
never thought anything so nice
would happen to me!”
“All nice things should happen
to you, Ellen!"
“I wish Mother were as easy to
tell things to as you, Fluvanna."
She gave a rueful smile. “She
won’t be pleased—nor Father. It
will be hard—that part—the telling
them. Perhaps I’ll wait a while.”
Fluvanna called up the stairway.
“Ellen is here.
Hurry down,
Kezia.”
Ellen returned with the flowers
arranged in vases. “I mustn’t stay
for breakfast. I went out early
painting in the ravine and left word
that I'd be back by breakfast time.
She’ll worry. I’ll stay until I see
Kezzie. Nice to have her home,
isn’t it? Not so lonely for you.”
Fluvanna nodded. “Very nice.
And I’d have been much lonelier
if a certain person hadn’t been
very kind about coming often.”
“I? . . . Pouf! I loved coming
. . . you’re just fascinating to
me. I never get tired of being
with you—perhaps fascinating isn’t
the word.” She sat down on the
davenport beside Fluvanna. “I
told Jerry I could tune in with
you. He understood. He under­
stands everything."
Fluvanna patted her hand.
“So all this happiness came to
CHAPTER II
you last night? May I tell Kezia?”
Ellen laughed. “I don’t mind.
The back yard lawn of the Hugh
And Hugh — do tell Hugh. He’s Marshes was veiled in the translu­
an understanding sort of person, cent light which comes just before
my favorite cousin among hun­ darkness. The west was a faint
dreds!”
saffron streaked with mauve; birds
The older woman knew she was talked in sleepy twitterings; a
getting pleasure out of her naive wood dove cooed in a willow.
confession so she encouraged her.
Dorrie reclined on a wicker
“You met Jerry in April?”
chaise longue and Hugh sat near
“Oh, no—last fall. I’ve seen her smoking a pipe. Hugh’s eyes
something of him for a long time. were on the arabesque pattern of
He would come—then stay away. the trumpet vine.
You see, he thought his family
allowed the evening pa­
would matter. His father is a roll­ per Dorrie
drift to the ground. “Hugh,
er in the mill and his uncle runs I’m to
constitutionally lazy.”
a cigar store. He said he couldn't
“M-mm.”
bring them to meet us and all
“Aren’t you interested? Did you
the relations—you and the Ren­ hear
what I said?”
shaws, the Woods, the Moffats, the
“That you are lazy? Yes, I
Debarrys—we are an awful crowd, heard.
don’t know what we can
you know. Not that he’s ashamed do about I it.
”
of his people! He says they are
She shrugged and a curling smile
plain, nice people, saved to send that he never liked to see crept
him to school in the East . . . he’s around her mouth.
very proud of them . . . just
“It means nothing that you have
thought it wouldn’t do.”
“Afraid to let himself go because a lazy wife?”
“You make pretty things for the
your father has money?”
house—curtains, cushions.
Your
Ellen nodded, then said in a low clothes—you spend a lot of time
voice: “I told Jerry that the fact sewing.”
that he loved me meant every­
“But that's what I like to do!
thing—more than money, more I mean I’m lazy because I don't
than family. It seems to me that do the things I ought to—but don’t
when two people love each other, want to! You see there's a distinc­
they give the most priceless pos­ tion.”
session-something greater than
“I'm not complaining."
anything in the world.”
His mind slipped away to the
Fluvanna kissed her impulsively. plant. If they landed the Cincin­
“You are a sweet child—and a nati order and the one from Day­
very wise one.”
ton it would keep them running all
A silence, then Ellen rose. "I through June, when there would
must be going.”
be a natural recession. They nadn’t
“Wait. Kezia will be down in a done badly for a small plant, con­
moment. She asked me to call her sidering conditions.
early because she’s playing ten­
“You're not thinking about me!”
nis.” She went to the stairway. said Dorrie sharply.
“Coming, Kezia? . . . Ellen is in
"Who else?" He knocked the
a hurry."
ashes out of his pipe. “If I think
She heard Kezia murmur to her­ about the business, it’s for you, isn’t
self before she replied: “A few it?”
minutes.”’
"I'm trying to make a confes­
In a little while Anna announced sion, but jou won't listen.”
that breakfast was getting cold.
His left brow went up in its hu­
Ellen started toward the door, the morous twinkle “What's bother­
rainbow expression of her face ing your conscience?”
faintly clouded. “I really must be
“I should have your family here
running along. Tell Kezia I’m sor­ once in a while. We’re always be-
ry-some other time!"
ing invited to your relatives'. It's
She had scarcely started her car one of the things I ought to do, but
in the street and moved off, when don't want to.”
Kezia came downstairs. Her arms
“You mean you don't care for
stole around Fluvanna's neck. my family?”
"Alma Muter,” she murmured ca­
“I don’t care for many people,
ressingly. Then she said with silky do I?” she tossed back, smiling.
vindictiveness: “What was Ellen
"No; but 1 thought you and
after at this hour in the morning— Mother---- ”
a worm?”
“I’m fond of your mother. She
“Kezia!”
has an extraordinary effect on me. |
“I know—wanted to see what I Makes me feel good inside aud out
was doing today and make plans! —like a steam bath and a sooth­
She doesn't need to think I intend ing oil rub by a Swedish masseur."
to go around with her all the
“Gosh. Dorrie!"
lime.”
"Margery, since she has those
Fluvanna took a drink of coffee. children, doesn't talk my language.
“Why do you think such unpleas­ I can't get passionate over croup
ant things? You played together a and adenoids and spinach, can I?
great deal when you were small. But Kezia has a streak of wicked­
Wouldn't it be just as easy to think ness I undet stand. Fun to watch
she was fond of you, wanted to wel- her maneuver her own purposes "
come you home?”
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UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
UNDAY I
CHOOL Lesson
Harmonizing With Spring
AMERICANS S
252
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST,
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
By Elmo
Scott Watson
© Western
Newspaper
Union
Schoolmaster of a Nation
[ E WAS “the most popular
- - American of the Nineteenth
century, the man who had the larg­
est influence in determining the
thoughts and ideals of the American
people during that period and the
man to whose work many great
Americans of the present day
pay tribute as being the fountain
of their inspiration to aspire and to
achieve.” He was William Holmes
McGuffey, the “Schoolmaster of a
Nation.”
Born in Pennsylvania in 1800, Mc­
Guffey became a pioneer teacher in
Kentucky after his graduation from
a little college in his native state
and later was offered a position on
the faculty of Miami university in
Ohio. Recognizing the lack of good
reading material in the common
schools of those days, McGuffey re­
solved to do something about it.
The result was the publication in
1836 of the first and in 1837 the
second of a graded set of readers.
The next year he published a third
and a fourth reader. Then, with
the help of his brother, Alexander
McGuffey, who aided in the revision
of the earlier works and collected
much of the material fol the next
two, he issued his fifth and sixth Ec­
lectic Readers.
McGuffey not only had a keen lit­
erary sense but he was also able to
select from the world’s best lit­
erature selections that appealed
to children. That fact, combined
with the high moral tone of the
selections, which recommended
them to parents trying to bring
their children up in the way they
should go, gave his readers great
popularity. They sold by the mil­
lions in this country and were trans­
lated into many foreign languages so
that the McGuffey influence was ex­
tended into other lands.
How great that influence was—
especially in this country—it is im­
possible to estimate. But there is
no doubt that the serious purpose of
the McGuffey Eclectic Readers,
their kindly spirit and their teach-
ings of the essential virtues made
children of an earlier generation
better men and women today. At
least, that is the unanimous testi­
mony of many American notables—
authors, educators, industrialists,
statesmen — not to mention thou­
sands of “just plain folks" who be­
long to the numerous “McGuffey So­
cieties” scattered all over the
United States. At regular intervals
they gather together to read again
their favorite selections from the
Eclectic Readers and to the end of
their days they cherish in their
hearts the lessons they once learned
from this “Schoolmaster of a Na-
tion.”
He Saved an Empress
[F IT had not been for the re-
- sourcefulness and courage of an
American dentist, the last empress
of the French might have met death
at the hands of an infuriated mob of
revolutionists and another tragic
chapter might have been written in
the history of deposed royalty in
that country. The empress was Eu-
genie, wife of Napoleon III, and the
man who saved her wa s a Dr.
Thomas W. Evans.
Not long after Louis Napoleon be­
came emperor, Dr. Evans was
made court dentist of the second
empire. At that time dentistry was
not the respected profession that it
is today. But such was the genius
of this former Philadelphian that he
was held in equal esteem with all
of Napoleon’s ministers.
So on September 2, 1870, when
news of the disaster at Sedan
reached Paris and a bloodthirsty
populace began clamoring at the
gates of the Tuilleries and threat­
ening the life of the empress, she
said to the officers of the palace
guard “I will go to Dr. Evans. He
is an American. I am sure he
will render us every assistance we
require." With only a veil as a dis­
guise and accompanied by one of
her servants, the empress fled by a
secret passage to where a carriage
was waiting for her. Then she was
driven in safety to Dr. Evans’
home, only to find him absent.
When he returned, he realized
that it would be dangerous for the
empress to try to escape then, so
she and her servant spent the night
there. Meanwhile Dr. Evans had
engaged a private carriage and
the next morning he started out
with the royal fugitive on a peril­
ous journey
Everywhere soldiers were on the
look-out for the empress but the
quick-witted action and ingenious
ruses of the American, more
than once prevented their capture.
By spending his own money freely
he brought Eugenie in safety to
the coast and there he persuaded
the owner of an English yacht to
take her to England.
Dr. Evans continued his practice
in both France and America, and
his inventions in his profession
made him world famous. He later
became one of the founders of the
Red Cross society, and upon his
death in 1896 he bequeathed his en­
tire fortune of some twelve millions
to American institutions.
Lesson for April 4
GOD THE CREATOR
LESSON TEXT—Genesis 1:1-5. 26-31.
GOLDEN TEXT—In the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth. Gen.
PRIMARY TOPIC—When God Made the
World.
JUNIOR TOPIC—In the Beginning—God.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
God the Maker ot All.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
God In Creation.
From the completion of the great
Gospel of John, which took us back
to that time “in the beginning”
when the Living Word “was” and
“was with God and was God,”
we turn to the first book of the
Bible, which is, as indicated by its
title, a book of “beginnings." We
find in it not only the record of the
creation of the heavens and earth,
but of man, and the beginnings of
his history, the entrance of sin into
the world, the beginning of God’s
revelation of redemption. It is in­
deed a most important book, funda­
mental to an understanding of the
rest of the Bible.
Genesis has been the special ob­
ject of attack on the part of crit­
ics, and especially by those who
saw in its account of the creation
statements which apparently did
not square with the announced find­
ings of science. Fortunately, as men
make advances in scientific discov­
ery, as well as in the understand­
ing of God’s Word, they are begin­
ning to realize that there is no
real conflict between the established
facts of science and a proper inter­
pretation of Scripture. When there
is an apparent clash it will be found
that either the Bible has been misin-
terpreted by men or they have mis-
taken a hypothesis of science for
a fact.
We are in error when we talk
about the Bible’s being confirmed
by archaeology or by science. If the
United States naval observatory
should find that its master clock
does not agree with the observa­
tion of the stars, it would not as­
sume that the universe had gotten
out of order. It would know that the
clock is wrong, and would make
correction. Science does not confirm
the Bible; the Bible confirms true
science.
The account of creation may be
considered in two great divisions.
I. The Creation of Heaven and
Earth (1:1-5).
“In the beginning God”—what
awe-inspiring words! How fully and
satisfactorily they state the origin
of all things.
Men ask us to believe their
theories, but there is no cosmogony
offered which does not call for a
measure of credulity. Man cannot
explain the origin of matter, the ori­
gin of life, the origin of rational
life. These three great gaps and
many smaller ones his theories can­
not bridge. Man asks us to take his
word for them. But we prefer to
take God’s Word.
Study the entire account of crea­
tion. Space here forbids more than
the briefest reference to its perfect
order and symmetry, its complete­
ness, the self-evident fact that it is
a true account of the working of
God. It is so received by thoughtful
men and women of our day. Even
scoffers have long since ceased to
speak foolish words about “the mis­
takes of Moses.”
II. The Creation of Man (w.
16-23).
“Let us” is an indication that the
Holy Trinity was active in crea­
tion. God the Father is mentioned
(v. 1), the Holy Spirit (v. 2), and
without the Son was nothing made
(John 1:3).
Man was created in “the likeness
and image of God.” This undoubt­
edly refers to a moral and spirit­
ual likeness. Man is a moral being,
possessed of all the characteristics
of true personality. He is a living
spirit, with intelligence, feeling, will-
power. This image, no matter how
it may have been defaced by sin,
is that in man which makes it pos­
sible for us to seek him in his sin
and beseech him “to be reconciled
to God.” “Down in the human heart,
crushed by the tempter, feelings lie
buried that grace can restore.”
Notice that God gave man “a
helpmeet unto him,” that he es­
tablished the family as the center of
life on this earth. He gave man
dominion over the entire creation,
and his restless pioneering spirit
still carries him on to the complete
realization of that promise. He pro­
vided not only for man's spiritual
and social needs, but also for his
every physical need. Surely we may
say with Moses that “everything
that he (God) had made . . . was
very good” (v. 31).
A Man of Sorrow
One reason why Jesus was a man
of sorrow was that He saw as none
other the pain and sin and woe of
the world.
HIS week’s crop of fashions
- seem fully as sweet and gay
and long-awaited as lovely Spring
—with which they’re meant to
harmonize. Mary, Sue and Emily,
three charming standees, know
how to have day in day out chic
without forfeiting that pretty
silver lining in their new Spring
purses.
Hints From Mary’s Boudoir.
“I’m especially fussy about the
slip I wear, perhaps that’s why I
always sew-my-own! I never miss
the few hours it takes, and I can
spend the difference for a finer,
better-wearing fabric. A slip
that’s well-behaved is a joy to
yourself—others as well—and just
as easy to have. So take a tip
from one who knows: choose this
model and a good fabric and you’ll
have no further slip troubles.”
A Lift for M’Lady.
“A new frock means more to
me than a new fabric and a
change of color—it means a lift,
a new lease on life!” So says
Miss Sue, a snappy sophomore
who sews. “I decided 1252 had the
kind of newness I want : the clever
cut of the waistcoat bodice first
caught my fancy, and the saucy
swing skirt made me sign on the
dotted line. I go for simple neck­
lines, and I like lots of buttons
too. You should see my version in
royal blue silk crepe—really, it’s
something to be proud of.”
Designers Win Praise.
“Smart Matron your granny,”
retorts Emily to an intended bit
of flattery regarding her new wel-
come-to-spring frock. “If I look
as young as I feel I’ll be mistaken
for a Laf-a-Lot! But honestly, this
new dress gives me a more
dressed-up feeling than any I can
remember in Springs gone by. I
think Sew-Your-Own designers are
smart to give us ‘40’s’ some of
that swing the youngsters rave
about. Do you suppose they sym­
pathize with the poor young men
who are urged nowadays to
‘Swing, Swing dear Mother-in-
law’?”
The Patterns.
Pattern 1909 is for sizes 14 to
20 (32 to 46 bust). Size 16 requires
2% yards of 39 inch material.
Pattern 1252 is for sizes 12 to 20
(32 to 38 bust). Size 14 requires 37
yards of 39 inch material plus %
yard contrasting.
Pattern 1233 is for sizes 34 to 52.
Determination
Size 36 requires 5% yards of 39
inch material plus % yard con­
trasting.
New Pattern Book.
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and Summer Pattern Book. Make
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Interesting and exclusive fashions
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Send 15 cents today for your copy.
Send your order to The Sewing
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cents (in coins) each.
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
Your Glorified Vision
The vision that you glorify in
your mind, the ideal you enthrone
in your heart—this you will build
your life by. this you will become.
—James Allen.
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