PACJT5 SIX
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1932.
' denying Barbara
ffiy P by Jnlln Cleit-Addmns Author of "rou cant mamy
BYNOPS1 8 Farrell Armitage
it determined to ui;i Barbara
Qventin, although Barbara it to
be married to the cruel (and crip
pled) Mark Lodely in five days.
Leila Cane had r.pcctcd Ftirrcll
to propose to her; ichcn he con
fessea hta iot'a for Barbara, Leila
agreea to help him, So Farrell
tangles Barbara'a iveddiwj pinna
by perauadinrj Mark to visit him
in London the day set for the
ceremony. Now. in a cupboard of
Mark and Barbara' a tieia home,
Parrel! and Barbara find a por
trait of Leila In Mark. Hhe is
wearing the haitd.iom3 emerald
Mark just haa given Hatbara.
Chapter 18
BARBARA DESPERATE
HpHAT'S a an interesting
quite an Interesting piece or
(rork. Isn't It?"
Thft words came clearly Farrell
thought that Barbara Quentic.,
what ever her extremity, would al
' ways speak with that chiselled
Olearness; hut the lingering soft
boss of voice had gone. It was the
rolce of a woman, harsh with fear
and grief, that said carefully and
elearly how very technically Inter
eating was this revealing portrait.
A heart-wrenching vo!ce. . . , Arml
tage dared not take his eyes from
the floor.
ears to them and to flx his mind
upon the future, when his ease of
life should have wiped all this mis
ery from her heart. But her grief
stabbed at him; and all he could do
was to pace back the length of the
room and put a deliberate foot
across the portrait, obliterating it
beyond repair.
As yet he had given no clear
thought to Leila, the living girl, his
friend and ally, She stood only for
one of the Impertinences which
Lodely aimed at Barbara Quentln.
That emerald, so fantastically set,
must have been Leila's, first. Given
by her to the artist, as a fee for
the portrait? Or offered by the
artist to his modol as a token, a
souvoulr; rejected by her and re
offered by him to his acknowledged
love?
Mentally, Arraitage broke Lode
ly 'a neck, and dropped his remains
from a high window into a back
yard full of garbage. Then he re
membered the man was a cripple.
Barbara's sobs ceased and Arm!
tago, with a final kick at the por
trait, went back to the fire. He
saw that she had taken off the
pendant and that It dangled, at the
end of its chain, from hr half-open
hand. As he approached her, the
hand relaxed entirely and, with a
coiling gleam of platinum, the jew-
Old Beliefs in Teaching
Children Are Ruled Out
In Ultra-Modern School
asm r &as&J miMm4,
"What about a cup of coffee?" Farrell asked.
"The emerald sulfa hor coloring,
loosn't it, Farrell? The emerald
sertalnly suits her better than It
iults me. And then here's a little
sea-scape. It looks like Bogey Cove.
I that effect of sunlight, on the
sand Is There's a favorite of
mine! It's the back of King's Darn,
seen through the blossom of the
pear tree. The pear tree Is Is
there's a beautiful pear treo "
The desperate volco broke at last.
He was still quite unable to look at
her. He swung away and walked-,
across the echoing boards to the
window. Tho cotton curtain tore
from Its rings as he dragged It back
and leaned his forehead against the
pane.
He stood there for some minutes,
Intently listening for a sound from
her any sound. Ho felt Indifferent
whether she cried or cursed or
pitched to the floor, provided she
broke down In some way. There
teemed to be nothing to think about
except perhaps that it had been too
easy a victory, after all; a mere
walk-over.
He turned. There hod only been
the faintest whisper of a move
ment, but she was crouched, palms
down, upon the floor gazing almost
Tacantly at the portrait. The em
erald at her throat swung within
an inch of Its pain'-jd llkenoss.
Armltage walked back across tho
room and, bracing himself f.i;alnst
the cupboard, stooped ovor her uud
picked her up. Her head sagged
against his arm, her faco had a
greynoss that he did not like; but
ahe was not unconscious. He stood
Quite still, holding her easily,
vaguely aware that she was not as
heavy as she should be. Then she
muttered "Hark."
"Forget him," Jorkod Armltage.
"Tou were nover his. You're mine.
Don't you know it?"
Sho turnod her face against his
shoulder and began to sob terribly.
He carried her to tho only chair tho
room possessed, a wooden kitchen
chair near the fire, ai'd put her Into
It Sho snt there stiffly for a mo
ment, then turned to loan hor fore
head and hor crossed arms upon
Its comfortless back.
Her sobs went on, hard and ago
nised. Armltage tried to close his
el slid on to the boards beside her
chair.
"What about a cup of coffee In
that efllclent-looklng kltuhen?" he
suggestod. "I make extremely good
coffee."
She looked up, faintly smiling.
Hor face was stained with tears
and there was a mark on her lower
lip where sho had bitten it noariy
through; but her gaze was candid,
grateful fundamentally uninterest
ed In Him as a man. It was evident
that sho had not heard what had
been Jolted out of him by tho llrst
uprush of her misery. She said:
"I make excellent coffee, too, but
I'm afraid I haven't any here. I
suppose cocoa wouldn't do?"
Farrell, looking down at her,
shook his head no. He was afraid
that ho might shatter this first mo
ment in which she knew a need of
him, however slight. She pointed to
a corner.
"There are deck chairs over
there. Perhaps you'll bring one
nearer the firo?"
He fetched It, Installed her In It
and took the chair she had vacat
ed. Ho Bat astride It, his arms
folded across the bnck as hers had
been, but his head erect and his
eyes intent upon her.
"It isn't possible," she said, "to
Judge Mark by normal standards."
Sho was lying back in her chair,
hor silks a wash of parl and Ivory
in the glow of the poor little Are,
her hair pure sllvor-gllt under the
unshaded lamp. The crude lights
laid shadows upon her face and
upon her hands the Bhadows,
thought Armltage, of her tears and
her long endurances. He was in
finitely moved. Talk of Lodely
seemed to him an intrusion.
"I don't intend to Judge him at
nil," ho answered with Indifference.
"He'll go his way. Leila Cane will
go hers." He paused and added
gently: "And we shall go ours."
Sho did !iot return his gaze. She
shook hor head slightly, her own
eyes upon tho fire.
"I shall go Murk's way, of course,
with Mark. Hut I shall always re
member how good you've been."
(Core-lfli(, loss. Julia Clttt-Addams)
B.irb.ir.i Qwentin fa shocked, to.
morrow, by an unexpected proposal.
CODDING ADVISED RAILROAD TO USE
OH HAULING KIDS
SALEM. Dec. 23.--(API Mo provi
sions are found in the Oiriron st.it
utea providing that a school b.iawl
must ml vert K' for b!!s when nmiv-;-
Ing trnnsportfttlon for pupils, Attor-ncy-OoiuTfll
I. H. V.uiW lnUe held n
An opinion handed down today. The
question whether tho board should
advertise for bids ilea ;olcly with such
board, VnnWlnkle held.
The bplnlnn was requested by
George A. Coddln?, dlMtift uttornoy
for Jackson county, concerning bids
for transportation on b basis ot 42
miles a round trip.
By RUTH COWAN
Aiiociated Press Staff Writer
CHICAGO. Dec. 29. (AP) That "A
is for epple" way of mastering tho
alphabet Is "out."
That's according to advanced peda
gogical theories propounded these
days In three nursery schools, two
of which are run as part of public
school systems, and believed to be
pioneers In this connection.
Also "Cinderella," "Little Red Rid
ing Hood" and "Sleeping Beauty"
are decreed as unfit literature for
baby's first books.
However, in these ultra-modern
pre-kindergarten schools, children
still lesm to count In the old-fashioned
1-2-3-4-5 way.
But when it comes to learning
their letters the youngsters absorb
them Incidentally in words, such as
"cat."
Aa explained by Mrs. Hose H. Al-
schuler, founder and staff director of
the Franklin, the Wlnnetka and the
Garden apartments nursery schools,
fairy stories are not 'ruled out alto
gether but are held over until the
infant Is 4 or 5 years old and has
some comprehension.
Then, she explained, he Isn't terri
fied and confused by the wolf that
did more than appear on grandma's
doorstep In the story of Little Red
Riding Hood.
The child's first stories, she de
clared, should be about himself, his
surroundings, the persons and ob
jects that make up his world.
These nursery schools are the out
growth of Mrs. Alschulers educa
tional work with her own rive chil
dren. In 1925 the Franklin nursery
school was opened in a room donated
by the Chicago board of education
In the Franklin elementary school.
Within a year, by Invitation from
the Wlnnetka public school superin
tendent, a like school was opened
In that suburb, where Mrs. Alschuler
lives.
Later a third was opened, in the
Garden apartments, a development
by the Rosenwald fund to better liv
ing conditions among negroes.
The teac,hers, of which there are
generally two to each school, draw
their salaries from support given by
the, Chicago Woman's club, which
sponsored the first local public
school kindergarten, private dona
tions and small . tuitions. Frequent
deficits have been shouldered by Mrs.
Alschuler.
Patronize Hume Industry.
Buy White law's Chocolates.
Keep that money at home.
600 CHILDREN GET
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FROM LADY LIONS
Once again Christmas has come and
gone, and in spite of the depression,
Santa Clans, with the aid of many
willing helpers in this city, made
many children happy. More than 600
little ones were visited by the Jolly
fellow, through efforts of the Lady
Li ons . The members work ed for
weeks agthering toys, making and
dressing dolls, and with the help of
the local firemen, who spent days
fixing springs and painting wagons,
they revived the old-time faith in
Santa Claus,
The people of Medford responded
wonderfully to the call for toys, Lady
Lions announced today. The fire
men and the Davis Transfer com
pany spent a day and a half deliv
ering packages In the vicinity of
Medford. Donations were made by
Mann's department store, Penney's
and Newberry's. KMED and the
Mall Tribune were also thanked to
day for publicity given the project,
and John Nledermeyer. manager of
the recently closed Holly theater, for
the matinee given for children, which
brought In many toys.
The Boy Scouts helped with the
delivery of toys anl It Is believed
that all children were reached, with
the exception of a very few for whom
lndefllnte addresses were given in,
Eight Popular Beliefs
Thrown Overboard by
Savant's Investigation
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Vcc. 39.
(API Eight popular beliefs that are
' . ...., rtrrlbd bV Dr. Otl
W. Caldwell and Gerhard E. Lunden
ot Columbia unlM-Tslty wltn mem
ods of training school pupils to avoid
them. The unfounded Beliefs are:
A child Is Influenced by what its
mother sees or thinks before the
child Is born:
Birth marks are caused by what a
mother sees or touches before her
child Is born;
In former times the average length
of human life was much longer than
now;
Pat people are always" good na-
tured;
Mental disorders are caused oy
overstudy:
Children of first cousins, though
of good parentage, are likely to be
feeble minded.
Hnnvw Growth of hair on a per
son's limbs and chest Indicates great
physical strengtn.
flv nf mmA jinakea can be told by
the length of their tails, said Norman
L. Schmelchel and Edith R. Force.
Studying 411 "lined" snakes of Ok-
In.Vinmn. t.hnv fminrl females had
tails less than 14.5 per cent of their
total lengtn and males- taus were
wore than 16.5 per cent ot their
length.
Your whole body wastes energy
when your eyes are strained by try
ing to see In bad light, reported
Doctors M. Luckless and Frank Moss.
They found nervous muscular ten
tlon of a man reading a book in
creases or decreases in direct propor
tion to the amount ot light falling
on the book.
Because the eye atraln la trans
mitted to the whole nervous system,
the body wastes energy under bad
seeing conditions, they explained.
An example is that an automobile
driver grips the wheel harder than
necessary when he finds it difficult
to see at night.
said n. . ...
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REFUNDS
A possible aid to study of cancer
discovery of the organism that ap
parently plays a leading part in pro
ducing cancer in plants, was describ
ed by Dr. Michael Levi no of Mont
flore hospital, New York.
The organism he haa Isolated seems
to be what causes cells of a plant
to multiply rapidly and produce a
tumor. Human cancer results from
a similar abnormally fast growth of
cells, but the organism that causes
it Is now known.
Study of how the organism works.
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pioneer historical cfai
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Caramels, Ftuigo, Prulr jScjimrcs, pop
corn Bftlis. Holly Theater Bldg.
BIG TIMBER ORDER
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 2f. (AP)
Oiviron lumber companies are receiv
ing spcclitcallon blanks from ths
ChlofiRO iV Northwestern for between
3,0(10,000 and 4.000,000 feet of fir
lumbor for January delivery.
Tho amount to be needed by the
railroad for repair work on bridges
and rnrs will nmour.t to about 135
carloads. Tho mntcrlnl will bo moved
to Huron. D. a. the line's concentra
tion pot lit.
During 11.32 tho railroad bought
between R.000.000 and 10,000.000 feet
of fir timber In Oregon.
Desirable houses always in first
olfvis condition for rent, lease ox sale. 1
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