Thursday, May 13, 1937
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
BRIGHT STAR
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By Mary Schumann
S cHooL Lesson
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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. Kezias 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 Dorrie’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.
Ellen
Pendleton comes over. She is an artistically
inclined girl who is a distant niece of Flu
vanna’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
a new position. Cun and Dorrie dance to
gether 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. When Ellen and Jerry
speak about their engagement to Ellen’s par
ents, Lizzie is disagreeable until Jerry sym
pathizes with her imagined ailments. The mat
ter is left pending. Unexpectedly Hugh has to
visit a neighboring city on business. Return
ing home to ask Dorrie to accompany him he
finds her telephoning. In confusion she quick
ly hangs up without saying good-by. After
hesitating about Hugh’s invitation, she finally
agrees to accompany him.
CHAPTER IV—Continued
"I am glad I had to go to Con
gress City.” He waited. “Not pin
ing to have me go to New York?
Got over it?”
“It’s all right. If you couldn’t—
you couldn’t, I suppose,” she an
swered. “Sweet here, isn’t it? Too
bad we have to leave. I could loaf
here all afternoon.”
“And yet at first you said you
couldn't go. When I came in”—his
brows puzzled. “By the way, who
were you phoning to when I came
in? You hung up without saying
good-by.”
Her body stiffened against his
ever so slightly. A subterraneous
tiny pain moved in Hugh.
“None of my business of course!”
he said with an apologetic laugh.
“Shouldn’t have asked you. Ex
cuse me.” He sprang to his feet.
"You would ask that!”
"I’m not checking your phone
calls, my dear. It was just an
idle question ... I didn’t think
how it sounded when I spoke.”
She traced the rock with her fin
ger. In a moment she said: “Any
one who is having a birthday in a
few days shouldn't be too inquisi
tive.”
“Next month—August.”
“Well, even then?” she parried
good-humoredly.
The pain vanished.
He looked at his watch. “One-
thirty.”
“Time to go?”
“Afraid so.”
Ellen switched on her light and
looked at the clock on the mantel.
A quarter to four and she hadn’t
been able to go to sleep! Two
hours and a half of this tossing
about.
She poked at the pillow to soften
it. What were some of the things
which made you go to sleep? Count-
ing? Squeezing your eyeballs and
then watching the funny lights that
came under your shut li is?
Scenes from the evening over at
Marshes’ kept intruding. “Hello,
Ellen! Hello, Jerry!" Kezia had
smiled enchantingly up at Jerry.
“You're ever so nice, aren’t you?
Almost up to Ellen's description!”
She had helped Ellen with her coat
and whispered, just loud enough
for Jerry to hear, “He’s precious.
You’re in gorgeous luck, Ellen.”
Kezia's hair had been in soft
curls all over her head, at. effect
which looked natural, yet had tak
en time to achieve. She wore a
long white organdy dress, with a
huge scarlet chiffon handkerchief
drawn through a bracelet.
“Just two tables of bridge—you
know Art? And that's Hugh over
there . . . Hugh, put up the card
tables like a love!” she said. Mar
gery and Will Platt, and Mrs.
Marsh — Dorrie — beside the man
tel.”
And Dorrie had been very cor
dial, had said to Jerry: “Welcome
to the family!” Her voice had a
rich moving animation sometimes.
“We look like the home guard
drawn up to receive you, but we're
really not so formidable.”
Hugh had been fine—always was.
“I wondered why you were so dis
turbingly pretty this spring, Ellen
. . . so this is the reason!" Will
Platt had told her of the pictures
he had seen in the Roerich Gallery
recently . . • poetry and symbolic
mystery, he called them. That was
while Kezia was out fixing the
lunch. She had come in and called
—not Art Williams—but Jerry to
come out and help her with the ice
cubes. They were gone a long
time, and came in laughing . . .
But the thing which kept her
awake was trivial—even ridiculous.
All evening long no look from Jer
ry, no quick little glance of re
assurance that said: "Hello, dear
. . . all right?" So absorbed in
being agreeable to Dorrie, to Mar
gery, to Kezia, that she might have
been anyone—just someone whom
he had met for the first time and
was not interested ini ... Of
course she didn’t want him to act
dithering in her presence—give her
burning glances. She liked him to
be reserved. Still, if only once his
eyes had flickered in her direction
with trust and mutuality, made her
aware that he remembered . . .
She clasped the palms of her
hands together. “You know, God,”
she said soundlessly, “that I don’t
bother You very often, but I do be
lieve in You. For I prayed to go
to art school . . . Mother was so
against it. Suddenly she gave in—
gave in all at once for no reason at
alli ... So You must have done
it. . . . And this time it is about
Jerry ... I love him so terribly
that I don’t believe I can go on
living if I don’t get him. I don’t
have to tell You—You understand.
Please don’t let him stop loving me
—ever . . . Thank You. Amen.”
Three hours before this Kezia
switched out the light in her room
with the gold and green chintz
draperies, snuggled down in her pil
low. The night wind rustled the
oaks, stole in with the fragrance of
honeysuckle; the window was a
framed oblong of silver from the
moon; the clock downstairs tinkled
the half hour. Kezia was very
sleepy, very contented with her
self.
The power she had over men was
tremendous—simply tremendous. It
was all quite easy, just as Lolly
had said. It worked every time.
You made your eyes so'ft and in
nocent, got your face very close to
theirs, spoke low, and said “You”
a great many times ... It had
worked with Walter DeGraffe, with
Arthur, with Pete Matthews—Pete
was almost engaged to that Pease
girl, too—with Eric Olsen, with Jer
ry Purdue tonight.
Ellen didn't need to think she
had that boy on a hook! . . . When
he was getting out the ice cubes,
he had turned his eyes on her—he
had keen eyes, dark brown with a
sort of droop to them—and said,
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“I'm Not Checking Your Phone
Calls, My Dear.”
“Don’t stand so close; I might
splash that dress. Mind if I say
you look charming tonight?” She
hadn’t moved from his side but
answered in a half whisper,
“You’re sort of unusual yourself—
you fascinate me.” He had laughed
and replied, “I’m not really so
phisticated, you know!” . . . He
had understood. It was enough for
a start.
He’d be calling her up soon, she
assured herself. Like the others. She
might have a little fun with Jerry—
show Ellen—then hand him back to
her . . .
CHAPTER V
The telephone jangled constantly
for Kezia. Young people came and
went with chatter and laughter, the
radio played at all hours and meals
frequently were delayed, for Kezia
was always hurrying from one en
gagement to another. The constant
clamor began to pall on Fluvanna,
and her usual serenity was now oc
casionally disturbed.
It was a little hard to become ad
justed to the furore of excitement
after the quiet winter. Fluvanna
assured herself that it was good
for her—good to have a gay young
person in the house. Kezia must
have this youthful time of pleas
ure. This springtime of her life
was so fugitive; its memories
threaded the pattern of life with
shining strands for the years to
come.
For the past week, Margery had
been having illness in her family
and had sent the boys over to stay
with her each day. Michael and
Will were a strenuous pair, aged
three and five, who came at nine
each morning, and departed with
tears and grubby embraces at five
when Will Platt came to take them
home. She had been strangely lan
guid each night, too tired to glance
at a paper or a book.
She stood near the windov after
lunch, glancing over some mail
she had received. The telephone
rang. It was Margery.
“Mother, can you take the chil
dren out in the car this afternoon?
Millie Jennings is here visiting, and
I haven't seen her for ages. I
haven’t been out of the house since
Baby took sick ten days ago.” Her
voice had a plaintive note.
(TO BE CONTINVW)
UNDAY I
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for May 16
THE FORBEARANCE OF ISAAC
LESSON TEXT—Gene»!» 26: 12-25.
GOLDEN TEXT—Blessed are the peace*
makers: for they shall be called the chil
dren of God. Matthew 5:9.
PRIMARY TOPIC—A Man Who Wouldn’t
Quarrel.
JUNIOR TOPIC—Was Isaac a Hero?
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
How to Prevent Quarrels.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
Promoting Peace.
In a world largely dominated by
the philosophy that might is right,
and in which men are urged to as
sert themselves and demand their
rights, exacting them even by law
less and violent methods, it is in
creasingly difficult to proclaim the
truth that meekness is not weakness
and that the Christian virtues of pa
tience and long-suffering are not
simply outmoded theories which do
not fit our modern world.
The story of Isaac, the second of
the patriarchs, is instructive from
beginning to end. The five chap
ters preceding our lesson merit
careful reading. Isaac had come
through many blessed experiences
and had also sadly tasted the de
feat of unbelief and sin before we
reach the time of our lesson. Fear
ing a famine, and evidently not be
ing certain that God would care for
him, he had gone down from the
promised land, and was dwelling
in the land of the Philistines. But
God had not forsaken him, and even
there he blessed him.
I. Peace, Prosperity, and Envy
(vv. 12-17).
Isaac was at peace although he
was in the enemy’s territory. God
had given him great prosperity with
the result that the Philistines hated
him. Times have changed, but men
are the same. Many are they who
will not have the Lord Jesus Christ
to rule over them, but who cast en
vious glances toward those who be
cause they have honored God have
been honored by him with peace of
heart and have been prospered in
whatever they do. (Read Psalm 1.)
Note that Isaac's testimony is
strengthened by his willingness to
yield even what was his right,
rather than cause contention. Un
doubtedly there are times when one
must defend his name and his pos
sessions, but all too often those who
“stand up for their rights” have
wrecked homes, churches, and na
tions, and have gained nothing but
an empty victory.
II. Peace in the World Is Tempo
rary (vv. 18-21).
Isaac moved on and digged more
wells, and for a time he was again
at peace, but not for long. He was
still in the land of the Philistines.
We are in the world. We long for
peace, we would throw all our influ
ence on the side of peace. But let
us not be misled, for as long as sin
is in the world there will be strife
and war.
Many noble Christian men and
women have permitted their God
given hatred of war and killing to
mislead them into support of un-
scriptural and impossible peace pro
grams, often to the loss of their in
terest in the preaching of the gospel
and the winning of souls to Christ.
But is there then never to be
“peace on earth”?
III. Perfect Peace in the Pres
ence of God (vv. 22-25).
When Isaac came up into Canaan
the land which God had promised
him, he found permanent peace and
renewed fellowship with God. Even
so, the Christian man and woman
who will step out of a spirituality-
destroying fellowship with the world
and will come wholly over into the
spiritual Canaan will find true peace
and intimate communion with God.
A broader application of the same
truth brings before us the teaching
of Scripture that when the One who
has a right to reign, the Lord Jesus
Christ, returns to take his throne,
then and not before, will peace
cover the earth. In the meantime
those who bear the beautiful name
Christian, who are true followers of
the Prince of Peace, will give them
selves to such patient, loving, and
longsuffering testimony to Him that
their personal influence will be to
ward peace in the home, in the
church, in the community, in the
earth.
Always remember that God’s
Word, the Bible, is our guide. Let
us read it diligently, intelligently,
prayerfully. To help the reader to
do this, the writer of these notes
will be glad to supply without cost
or obligation a Bible-reading calen
dar with a workable plan for read
ing the blessed Book through in a
year. If possible enclose a stamped
and self-addressed envelope with
your request.
Items of Interest
to the Housewife
AROUND
the HOUSE
"Quotations"
—v—
Let me not forget that the power
and joy of sacrifice grow upon those
who exercise it. Pure passions grow
as well as dark ones.— Dr. W. L.
Watkinson.
This thing that we call “failure” is
not the falling down, but the staying
down.— Mary Pickford.
Village improvement is the only
foundation on which conditions in
India can be permanently amelio
rated.— Mahatma Gandhi.
Human beings feel bored in this
mechanical world which they them
selves created by means of brains
and hands.— Dr. Alexis Carrel.
As once we put an end to slavery,
so now we must slop war or war
will destroy us.— Sherwood Eddy.
Americans are becoming too civi
lized—too much like the effete Euro-
peans.— Dr James Marshall.
pinch of salt, put the beef and wa
ter in a glass jar and stand it on
ice, over night. Shake and strain
it through coarse muslin, squeez
ing hard to obtain all the juice.
• • •
Butter Layer Cake—When rasp
berry jam that is not of firm con
sistency is to be used for filling a
sponge sandwich cake it is ad
visable to butter the inner surface
of each layer before spreading it
with jam. This will prevent the
moisture from soaking into the
cake and making it sodden.
• • •
Soaking Salt Fish—When soak
ing salt fish add a small glass of
vinegar to the soaking water and
it will draw out more of the salt.
• • •
ITS NO
Washing Windows—Add a little
starch to the water used for wash
EFFORT
ing windows. It not only helps re
TO KEEP
move the dirt, but gives a lasting
polish.
FURNITURE
• • •
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WITH
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and combine the beans with a can
POLISH/ IT'S
of tomatoes. Add a little butter
and seasoning, then mix. Place
SO QUICK AND
in buttered casserole. Cover.
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ing to draw the threads on linen
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Outer Leaves of Lettuee—The
outer leaves of lettuce, often
trimmed off and thrown away, are
more than 30 times as rich in
vitamin A as the inside leaves.
• • •
Hanging Pictures—Never allow
picture frames to touch the wall
if it is damp. The frame will soon
become damaged. With a small
tack or gramophone needle, at
tach two small corks at the bot
tom of your frame. These will
keep the frame off the wall.
• • •
Removing Mustard Stains —
Mustard stains can be removed
from table linen by washing in hot
water and soap and rinsing in
warm water.
• • •
Boiled Whitefish—Clean a white-
fish. To sufficient water to cover
add salt and vinegar and a bunch
of parsley and a quartered onion.
Cook until the flesh separates eas
ily from the bones. Drain and
place on a hot platter, garnished
with parsley and serve with a
sauce.
• • •
Beef Juice—To make beef juice
add 1 pound of fresh, raw, finely
chopped round steak without fat
to 6 ounces of cold water. Add a
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