The Hermiston herald., April 22, 1937, Image 6

Thursday, April 22, 1937
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
Bright
Star
By
Mary Schumann
Copyright by Macrae Smith Co.
WNU Service
SYNOPSIS
Kezia Marsh, pretty, selfish and twenty, ar-
rives home in Corinth from school and is met
by her older brother, Hugh. He drives her to
the Marsh home where her widowed mother,
Fluvanna, a warm-hearted, self-sacrificing and
understanding soul, welcomes 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 his fore­
bears, Hugh passes Doc Hiller, a boyhood
friend whom he no longer sees frequently be­
cause of Dorric’s 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 hap­
pily tells Fluvanna she has become engaged
to Jerry Purdue. Ellen fears that her father
and mother, Gavin and Lizzie, will not ap­
prove the match. Hugh and Dorrie go out to
the Freeland Farms to dance with their
friends, Cun and Joan Whitney. Whitney, who
has been out of work, announces that he has
landed a new position. They see Ellen Pendle­
ton and Jerry Purdue. Cun and Dorrie dance
together and then disappear for a while. Danc­
ing with Joan, Hugh is amazed to find her in
tears. Apparently she has some secret worry
over her husband, Cun. Hugh sees Kezia ac­
companied by a young man.
CHAPTER III—Continued
They rose and floated away to
the rhythm of the sentimental mu­
sic. Ellen felt closer to Jerry when
they danced than at any other
time. They seemed so completely
attuned then, step seeking step,
turning instinctively in each grace­
ful movement. He was just enough
taller; he gave himself to the spirit
of the underlying sensuousness of
the air, communicated it to her.
The music ended with an in­
creased tempo and a final bang.
They walked to their table where
the waiter had placed their des­
sert.
The place was filling up. There
had been only eight or ten for din­
ner, but now almost every place
was occupied. Across the room El­
len caught the eye of Hugh Marsh,
gave him a laughing salute. Dor­
rie and Joan nodded to her, and
Cun Whitney too. She had never
met Cun, but supposed it was a
pleasant informality evoked by the
friendship of the others.
She turned to Jerry. “That’s
Hugh Marsh—you remember we
called at Cousin Fluvanna’s one
night? The one in green with the
stunning hair is Dorrie, his wife.”
Jerry put sugar in his coffee.
“Your cousin, Hugh, is a good
picker. What a profile!”
“Isn't it? Like a cameo.”
“What kind of person is she?”
“I never feel I know her very
well. She's not very friendly. You
have the sensation she is passing
judgment on you, finding you odd
or amusing. It may be imagina­
tion on my part, or----- ”
“What?”
“I think a person so beautiful
creates a wall around themselves.
Such a picture that you’re a little
in awe of them, wondering over the
effect. Your fault, really, for you
make them conscious of the ad­
miration you feel, and they’re
amused by it.”
Jerry nodded. “She sounds high­
nosed to me,” he pronounced brief­
ly, cutting through Ellen's strug­
gling analysis. “Is Kezia like
her?”
“You’ll meet her soon. She
wants me to take you over some
night.”
Just as they were leaving, Kezia
came in with Arthur Williams and
they met on the steps.
Kezia
turned cordial, radiant eyes on
Jerry as she extended her hand.
“Nice to know you. I’ve heard so
much about you.”
Ellen could see that Jerry looked
pleased and impressed.
“El, you’re not leaving, are
you?” came Kezia’s sweet ag­
grieved complaint. “Do stay with
us and dance—we'd have a four-
some!”
Arthur seconded the invitation.
“Sure—a foursome.
What's the
idea of leaving now?”
But Ellen pleaded another en­
gagement and they took their de­
parture.
Jerry helped her ceremoniously
into the car. His manners were
much better than most of the men
she knew, she thought with pride.
If he hadn't learned them at home,
he had picked them up from obser­
vation of others. They would pass
muster with her mother, Kezia—
anyone. She hugged the reflection
to herself with pleased content.
One more point in the sum total
of the graces which endeared Jer-
ry.
They drove down the winding
drive to the main road. ”1 wish
we had stayed,” said Jerry, re­
gretfully. "Kezia—she’s charming,
isn’t she? 1 wouldn't have mind­
ed meeting Hugh and what’s-her-
name, too. We could have had a
good time.”
Ellen was conscious of a pang.
The knowledge that she was drag­
ging him away from the gay com­
pany for an awkward interview
with her family, made her feel
guilty. “We’ll go out again some­
time,” she said quickly.
As they spun along the concrete
road toward town, edged with sub-
urban bungalows and an occasion­
al farmhouse, she wondered what
would Mother say? Any of the ter­
rible things she had voiced before
she left? She wouldn’t hear Jerry
insulted! She would be firm on
that. But how protect him from
the iniquitous insul. of the look
Lizzie could wear upon occasion?
She had watched Fanny Plaice
shrink and wither under its dis­
dain and disapproval the time Ca­
leb had brought her to the house.
Her mother had asked Fanny icy
questions designed to disconcert
her. She hadn't come a second
time, and presently Caleb had mar­
ried Ena Mills. Mother shouldn’t
do that to her and Jerry! She
must not. Ellen’s delicate face
looked almost steely in its valor
as she decided that nothing would,
shake her determination to marry
Jerry.
Mrs. Pendleton was evident­
ly waiting for them, for she sat
very erect in a torturingly stiff
carved, high-backed chair. The
living-room was in the full blaze
of all the chandeliers. "Like a
queen,” crossed Ellen’s mind in a
nervous snickering instant. Mrs.
Pendleton was a blond, big-boned
woman, with distrustful, cold gray
eyes and lips pressed close to­
gether. She hesitated about taking
Terry’s hand, then withdrew hers
quickly. Gavin Pendleton greeted
them, gave short hard pulls at his
mustache, then rushed out of the
room, only to reappear in a mo­
ment.
“Ellen’s father and I were very
much surprised — very,” began
Mrs. Pendleton accusingly.
“But knowing Ellen,” said Jer­
ry, striving for lightness and ease,
‘knowing Ellen—you couldn’t be,
could you?”
“Just—what do—you mean—by
that?” she spaced her words and
fixed him with a glittering eye.
This is awful, thought Ellen.
Mother giving him the third degree
and Father waiting for his cue to
play the heavy parent. . . .
“I mean that anyone should be
forgiven for loving Ellen.”
“Loving Ellen? . . . Mm-mm.”
Gavin rushed out of the room,
snapped on the lights in the dining-
room, put them out, returned.
“You see,” said Gavin, brusque­
ly, “we don’t know much about
you.” He turned, got as far as
the French doors, came back. He
stood with feet apart; his hand
reached for his upper lip. “Haven’t
paid much attention to whom
Ellen was seeing . . , 'gave us
quite a shock tonight . . . Mother
not strong . . . very bad for her
. , . shock. Girls—mm—thought­
less —mm — parents — mm —
consideration.”
Lizzie
raised
her
platinum­
framed eye-glasses, held them at
the corner. “Do I know your par­
ents?” she asked insolently.
Jerry colored at her tone. Ellen
rushed in with: “Mother, they are
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Purdue and
they’ve lived here all their lives.”
“I’ve never met them.”
It was slogging hopelessly. But
Jerry braced himself and came
through smoothly with: “Extreme­
ly nice parents—mine. Awfully
fond of me and all that. I know it
has come suddenly. I’m sorry that
you’re not well, Mrs. Pendleton,
and that it has shocked you.”
“I was feeling better, hoping,
ever so faintly, that I might be
able to enjoy the pleasures of life
again
. and then this comes!”
“But, Mother, It is nice. Some­
thing to be happy about! Why do
you take that dismal tone?” cried
Ellen exasperated.
Lizzie glared at her and drew a
deep sighing breath. "I have been
a martyr for years. No one knows
what I have endured. Some days
better—some days worse. I can
never make plans like other people,
never do the pleasant things I want
to do.
A sudden shock like
this----- ”
Gavin disappeared from the
room and came back with a cigar
wrapped in cellophane which he of­
fered to Jerry.
Jerry took a chair nearest Liz-
zie, shook his head gravely. “It
must be terrible.” he murmured.
"I have an aunt who is an invalid.”
Lizzie looked somewhat mollified.
"It started with a sore throat, an
infection in the blood stream. A
very slow and dangerous disease.
Few are ever cured.” She actu­
ally smiled, although it was the
slow, self-pitying smile of the in­
valid who enjoys her illness. “I've
tried every doctor here that I have
any confidence in, and I’ve been
to specialists in other cities. Some­
times I am helped for a time—usu­
ally it is money thrown away. I
manage to get about—just get
about.”
"Seems to me my aunt tried
some kind of drinking water, a
special kind.”
Lizzie knitted her pale, scraggy
brows. “Gavin, what was the
name of the one I used so long?”
Gavin shook his head gloomily.
“Dunno.” He, also, took a chair
as if the worst of the tension was
over.
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By Elmo
Scott Watson
• Western
NeWPer
Founder of the Chautauqua
THERE was a time when the
- Chautauqua was “next only to
the public school system in bringing
to the masses of people some share
of their inheritance in the world’s
great creations in art and litera­
ture.” It was literally the "uni­
versity of the people” and it was the
creation of a man who did not him­
self have a college education.
He was John Heyl Vincent, born
in Alabama in 1832 of a line of Penn­
sylvanians who moved back to that
state soon after John was born.
Educated at Wesleyan institute in
Newark, N. J., he began to preach
at the age of eighteen and later was
ordained into the Methodist min­
istry. Transferred to the Rock Riv­
er, Ill., conference in 1857 he be­
came the pastor of a church at Ga­
lena, Ill., where one of his parish­
ioners was a quiet little ex-captain
of the army named Ulysses S.
Grant.
After a trip to the old world Vin­
cent was elected genera! agent of
the Methodist Episcopal Sunday
School Union in 1866 ard two years
later corresponding secretary of the
Sunday School Union and Tract So­
ciety in New York. In these offices
he did more than any other man to
shape the International Uniform
Sunday School Lesson system.
In 1874 Vincent and Lewis Miller
founded a summer assembly on
Chautauqua Lake, N. Y., for the
training of Sunday school teachers
and in 1878 the Chautauqua Lit­
erary and Scientific Circle was in­
stituted, providing a system of pop­
ular education through home read­
ing and study. The next year the
first of the summer schools was or­
ganized and these developed rapid-
ly.
In speaking of his work at Chau­
tauqua Bishop Vincent said, “I do
not expect to make a second Har­
vard or Yale out of Chautauqua,
but I do war t to give the people of
this generat n such a taste of what
it is to be in telligent that they will
see to it thut their children have
the best education the country can
give.”
How well he succeeded in doing
that is shown by the extension of
the idea—to the summer schools of
colleges and universities, the sum­
mer assemblies, conferences and
training schools of the various re­
ligious and secular organizations
and the summer courses of lectures
and entertainments which made the
word “Chautauqua” a common
noun. It is also shown by the dec­
laration of Theodore Roosevelt that
“Chautauqua is the most American
thing in America.”
Camera Man
WITH telephoto lens to aid them
in
getting
long
distance
“shots” and high-speed film to re­
cord the scene even when the light
is poor, it’s not so difficult for the
camera man of today to “cover” a
modern war. But it was very dif-
erent when the first camera man
who ever “covered” a war went into
the field to do his job.
His name was Mathew Brady,
the son of Irish immigrants to New
York state, who was engaged in
the trade of making jewel and in­
strument cases when he became in­
terested in the art of daguerreo-
typy soon after it was introduced
into this country in 1839. The man
who brought it here was Samuel
Finley Breese Morse, a painter,
(later famous as the inventor of the
telegraph).
Brady learned his first lessons
from Morse and learned them so
well that by 1853 he was this na­
tion's outstanding photographer.
When the War Betweer the States
opened he was both famous and
wealthy and he could have lived a
life of ease on his income. In­
stead he chose a career of priva­
tion and danger on the battlefields,
Brady fitted up a canvas-covered
wagon to carry his equipment and
to serve as his dark room in the
field. In it he had to make his
own emulsion to coat the large
glass plates that were his negatives,
for the convenient film roll had not
yet been thought of.
His wagon became a familiar
sight to all the armies. It plowed
through muddy roads, it was fer­
ried over rivers in constant dan­
ger of being dumped overboard and
all his precious equipment lost.
But fortunately for posterity
Brady came safely through all these
dangers and the United States gov­
ernment now owns a collection of
his negatives, which are priceless
records of one of the greatest trag­
edies in our history. It is also the
symbol of a tragic career. After
the war was over Brady found him­
self in financial difficulties. His
negatives were sold to pay a stor­
age bill and in 1874 the govern­
ment acquired them by paying the
charges of $2,840. Brady did not
benefit by the deal but later—much
later—the government did give him
$25,000 for the collection which was
then valued at $150.000. In his later
years Brady lost his pre-eminence
as a photographer and he died in
comparative poverty and obscurity
in 1896.
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST,
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicage.
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Murmurings of Spring
1257
1231
Lesson for April 25
THE OBEDIENCE OF NOAH
LESSON TEXT—Genesis 8:20-22; 9:8-17.
GOLDEN TEXT—By faith Noah, being
warned of God concerning things not seen
as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared
an ark to the saving of his house. Heb. 11:7.
PRIMARY TOPIC—The Meaning of the
| Rainbow.
JUNIOR TOPIC—The Rainbow's Message.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
Following God's Plan.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
Deliverance through Obedience.
The “book of beginnings” (Gene­
sis) has already brought before us
the creation of the world, the origin
of man, the entrance of sin into the
world, and God’s judgment upon
that sin. In chapter 4 we find the
first murder. Cain, who brought an
offering before God which was not
acceptable, murdered his brother
Abel, whose offering pleased God.
Strange it is that man has it in
his heart to hate those who expose
his sin by their godly life.
God does not leave himself with­
out a witness in the earth. The
God-fearing line of Seth appears.
There are always those who have
not bowed the knee to the Adver­
sary. Consider the astonishment
of Soviet officials at the deep-seated
and wide-spread faith in God re­
vealed in their recent census.
But sin again lifts its ugly head
and ere long God is driven to the
necessity of judgment upon man­
kind. Read the terrific indictment
of humanity in Genesis 6:5-7. It is
still true that the heart of man
apart from God’s grace is “des­
perately wicked” (Jer. 17:9). Well
does a contemporary writer say
that even modern “psychology has
unveiled the dismal and sinister
depths in human nature. Man can
no longer flee from reality into
the romantic refuge of his own
heart; for the human heart has be­
come a house of horrors in whose
murky recesses man cannot erect
for his solace either a shrine or
a citadel. Man is bad; he is a sin­
ner. The depths of his meanness
are being unveiled in a ghastly way
in individual and social life in these
times. What a contemporary ring
there is about these old biblical
judgments on mankind! (Gen. 6:5,
6; Isa. 1:6.) What a tremendous ar­
raignment of sinful human nature is
Paul’s prologue in Romans 1”
(Mackay).
So God sent a flood upon the
earth. It used to be fashionable to
doubt the story of the flood, but
archaeology has joined hands with
geology and history to agree with
Scripture. The facts are available;
let us use them.
“But Noah found grace in the eyes
of the Lord” and prepared an ark
at God’s command. Here again it
can be demonstrated that the ark
was sufficiently large to meet the
need of Noah and all his family,
with the animals and their food, and
with room to spare. It is significant
that the proportions of the ark were
those of a well-planned boat. God
knows how to build, and man does
well to obey his instructions.
The rain came, the fountains of
the deep were opened, and all the
living perished, except those within
the ark. What an instructive type
of our safety in Christ is the ark!
But our lesson concerns primar­
ily what occurred after Noah came
forth from the ark and presented
himself before God.
I. An Obedient Man (8:20-22).
To come before God with accent­
able worship, man must come w th
clean hands. The question is not
whether he is brilliant, learned, or
of high position. The one thing that
counts is obedience. When such a
man offers the worship of his heart
before God, it goes up to him like
a sweet savor.
II. A Covenant-Keeping God (9:8-
17).
The beautiful rainbow in the cloud
became a token of God’s promise,
and the visible assurance to “all
flesh” that the judgment of the flood
will not be repeated. Never again
will seed time and harvest, nor any
of the orderly processes of nature,
fail throughout the whole earth.
What a gracious God we have!
And what a pity that men presume
upon his goodness. Because he
“maketh his sun to rise on the evil
and on the good, and sendeth rain
on the just and on the unjust”
(Matt. 5:45), men not only forget
that he is the giver of all things,
but assume that they may sin
against him with impunity. Let us
remind them that it is the clear
teaching of Scripture that “every
one of us shall give account of him­
self to God” (Rom. 14:12).
Well Spent Days
Oh, what a glory doth this world
put on, for him who with a fervent
heart goes forth under the bright
and glorious sky, and looks on
duties well performed, and days
well spent —Longfellow.
Purity of Heart
A holy life is the very gate of
heaven; but let us always remem­
ber that holiness does not consist in
doing uncommon things, but in do­
ing everything with purity of heart.
—Cardinal Manning.
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‘IF YOU’D take a few steps,
- Sis, I believe I’d be inspired
to answer that question, ‘Did you
ever see a dream walking?’ You
are nothing less than devastating
—truly a menace!”
“You meow so sweetly, Connie.
I’m a bit suspicious that this little
peplum frock of mine has got
you catty. Your eyes really aren’t
green by rights, you know.”
Connie Sews Her Own.
“How could you? I think my
dress looks as nice on me as
yours does on you. Why practical­
ly all of the girls at the Laf-a-Lot
last night wanted to know where
I found such a lovely frock. Not
one of them guessed that I made
it myself. And did I feel elegant
when I played Mendelssohn’s
Spring Song on Diane’s new baby
grand! The girls said I fit into
the picture perfectly. I thought
if only Dwight could see me now.”
“I still say my two-piecer with
its piped peplum, cute little but­
tons and stream-lines is the No. 1
spring outfit in this woman’s
town.”
Mother Happens Along.
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only half as pretty as your frocks
you’d be better off. Sometimes I
wonder if you wouldn’t be more
appropriately titled The Cheek
Twins, rather than The Chic
Twins.”
“Okay, Mother, you win. Let’s
change the subject by changing
clothes. We’ll put on our cullottes
and join you in a round of golf,
how’s that? Gee, Mother, you nev­
er look sweeter than when you’re
wearing a casual young two-piece
shirt dress. The plaid pique is
just the thing for you, too. In
fact, Mom, you’re just about
tops from any angle.”
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