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PAGE TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUTE, MEDFOltl), OREGON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 2. 1934. wm MMMmm btSOfulS: Bob Potoert hat. in hit ttlff-necked manner, forbidden Marsha, to explain an epitode out ot her pntt. He ha also demanded that the divorce him. Sow he learnt that hit mother it incurably ill. and atke Uartha to remain xeith her. acting the part of the happily married daughter. Uartha it glad to do it. tor the lovet Bob very deeply. Chapter 21 LECTURE BOB saw Martha move toward the door to slip away, despite the moat pressing of Victorian Invita tions to linger. "She knows I want all the mo ments alone with you that I can bare," said Bob after Marsha bad disappeared. He stood looking at the spot where he bad seen the last flutter of her skirt, as he continued to shake a long-extinguished match "I feel that we lack, Robert, when she la not here. I have no sense, with your wife near, ot Intrusion.' Mrs. Power paused; Bob saw that she was "displeased." "I hare been wanting to say few words to you, Robert, for some days." "Yes, Mother?" "I cannot feel that you quite ap preciate Marsha, Robert; hera is a rarely selfless, sweet, loving char acter." "Ob, I know, I know that!" he fal tared. "Don't pluck at that nail, dear, You'll make It sore." "Sorry." He clasped bis bands raised his face. "If you had added your word to my Invitation, dear, she would have lingered." He wondered, as he felt a sharp knife plunged Into an old, dull pain, whether she would have lingered If he had added his word. He thought not. "Be tender with her, Robert. She baa sadly lacked affection." Ha had a flash of her. In Geoffrey Tarleton'a arms. Ha rose to wander to and fro and hoped fervently that It wouldn't last much longer. This particular lecture was not easy to endure! "She loves you sol" "God!" The old bard plunge of heart . . . and longing. "Of course," Bob managed to say quite steadily, "of course I know that." "You accept the tact too casually, my dear. Every man la not loved as you are loved by your wife." "I hope not," he thought with a flash of bitter humor. "Marsha says that no woman can do Justice to herself or the subject with a man stamping around the room, Robert." ( He sighed deeply; again he set tled to the small stool. He mur mured, "All right, dear. But get at It. I must change, you know" "She la so tweet!" "Oh of course!" "1 don't mean to take exception, nor to nag, Robert, but there Is no 'of course' about It. She Is rare. And to eager to learn. Now, Letltla would not have been Interested." "No," be admitted. He hoped It wasn't wearing Marsha out. Lord, she was being good about It; gen erously, marvelously good. "DOBERT, you should kiss her when you come In." "Don't you think," he hazarded, voice conscious, "that that sort of thing haa rather gone out?" "Robert!" "Well, all right I will hereafter!" he hastened to promise. "1 would!" Mra. Powera advised. "You come In and klsa me. but sever kiss Marsha, I can see It wounds her; It shows." He didn't respond. "And flowers. Your dear father tent me flowert every other Fri day." "Every other Friday, you say?" he questioned. He laughed delight edly; he was living one of those rare, light moments when he was not haunted by the picture that Marsha and Geoffrey had burned deep Into his heart with the acid that la known only by those who love overpowerlngly. "Kiss her." be muttered, "and tond her flowert every other Fri day" "You could make It another day. of course, Robert, If you thought another day would be better than Friday." "Yes. darling!" He rose, patted her shoulder and hurried up the Ktalra. Marsha opened her door to him; one was wearing toe gom negligee with the soft yellow fur at the neck and broad cuffs. He wished the would get rid of it. It brought too close to him a moment be would forget. "If I may have a tew words with you?" he said. "Certainly; come In." He stepped from hla room to hers. "Will you sit down?" she asked. 'Well, perhaps. I want to talk over with you a few matters," he answered. "There are several things." "Sorry my raiment It so spread around," she apologized aa he paused. She picked up from a chair a filmy bit ot straps and lace, a pair of golden stockings. He bad been tu Insane about her; everything the wore or touched. He must have bored her fright fully, he realized, despite the fact that he bad exercised an amazing restraint. She remembered bis kneeling at ber feet; kissing a small, gold shoe before he slipped It on for her and how the had felt; ber Inner plea that ran, "Don't! Don't! Let me knoel to you and tell you how cheap I've been and hear you eay 'I love you! It doesn't mat ter! I love you anyway!'" But that dream was past. He knew how cheap she bad been and he didn't love ber; and he couldn't say so, of course. "Is there anything particular?" she asked. He was oddly, heavily silent, staring down at bis hard- gripped bands. Ob, yes!" He came back with a Jerk. "It's about the way I treat you. I am not sufficiently affectionate." I tee." You are good about all this. Marsha." 'MO. I'm not," the denied flatly. "Don't offer me AVAn nnm laurel; I don't deserve It! I'm doing What I love to do. Mother vnur mother thinks we're rather chill?" "mat I am." "I sea " "So, you see occasionally. I shall lave to " "I understand." "I hone VOU won't mlnri rv much." he said. She nmllnA at h and In a way that he did not under stand. "And one mom thfntr" h added. Yet again he hesitated. "Yes?" "You must need money." "No, I don't. Bob. thank von n much " "But" "I have a sufficient Incnm nt own; lt'a not a treat deal, hut it'. quite enough I meant to speak to you bdoui it, nut we never talked of money save at that moment when you told rae I could check on vnnr account." He wondered whv aba had tnvrf with Miss Moore to whom h not suited; with whom she had not been nanny. Ha had Marsha to be without Income of her own. Marsha spoke as If she had hnrii his thoughts. I lived with Aunt Gertrude." aha said, "because I suppose It sounds silly and It's not eaiv tn thought If I left people might think sne naa lacked In some way. And she did do her best and I didn't want them to think ahe hadn't, you see." 'There are moments whan mi, make me feel small" Ha ,imit,AH. he added oulcklv. almmt hruuiv "You'll have to take money from me: I owe you everything; you're doing so much hore." No. she combated. "I don't have to, Bob" "You make It hard for me. Mar. sha." "You make It hard for mA whn you ask to reward with money a service I long to give; or rather wnen you ask to nav me for a nrivl. lege you allow me. I can't take any thing trom you. Bob." e II have to talk of thl irfn " he said, as he rose. "Roally must we?" ahe ankAit looking up at him. I OB. he smiled down on hr he said his Inflexible, "Yes." She did not answer the smile. Nt won't take monev from von." she said stubbornly. Marsha!" 'I won't! You can't miVa mA Don't you understand anything of this? I can't. You aren't fair to ask me to." (Cefrri,!, 1)14, ly X. ecilt,i-Tevler) Bob loalc at Cli,ltmit tomorrow, FREE E Adult Evening Schools and Education in Army Among Methods Being Used to Bring Light to Country Br Ferdinand C. M. John United PreM Staff Correspondent. ANKARA, Turkey (UP) Illiteracy is being combated by the Kemallst government. , According to the laat ceiuus. In 1927. only ten per cent of the Turkish population were able to read. It la estimated that, at present. about half of the population U lit erate. Aalde from normal achool activity. progress chiefly la due to the work of adults' evening schools which were organized when the Latin script was Introduced four years ago. Education In the army, where the young recruit la acquainted In ft course of three months with readin?, writing and arithmetic, also has done much to diminish Illiteracy. Education Obligatory Primary education Is obligatory. j According to official statistics the ' number of primary schools in 1932 wes 6353 with 13.821 teachers. 318.964 male and 174.833 female pupils. i The government rapidly Is filling the gaps, and many a Turkish village school compares quite well with simi lar Institutions In western countries. Great stress Is being laid in all schools on physical culture for boys and girls alike. Education Free Education la fre of charge. Even in government boarding schools no fee for the maintenance Is made. The Ohafl School, the Ismet Pasha Institute of Domestic Sciences, the Commercial High school, the Acad emy of Mualc In Ankara, with their splendid equipment and their highly qualified staff of teachers, furnish proof of the ambitious program the Ghazl's government is carrying out in the field of education. Internal reforms of Hlkmet Bey. energetic minister of education, leave no doubt that it is not the facade only which Is being changed. He haa ruthlessly dismissed over -30 profes sors or Istanbul university as not corresponding to modern standards of science. Most of them have been replaced temporarily by foreign scientists. otner experts are Invited1 from aDroaa ior high and secondary W.11WU, THE PARKING PROBLEM UNWRITTEN LAW SLAYER IS HELD FOR HEARING WOODLAND. Cel., Aug. i. (UP) Judson Charles Doke. war veteran end Ban Leandro city official, was ar raigned tcday arid charged with the "premeditated first degree murder" of his young wife's poet-lover, Lamar Holllngshead. Preliminary hearing will be held August 22. Too "Nosey" with Bull. ZANE8VILLE, O. (UP) When he attempted to twist a ring In a bull's nose, James Ford, 45, farmer of Ful tonham. was injured seriously when the animal became angry. SAMS VALLEY, Aug. 3. fSpl.) Plre broke out on the Archie Downs place at 9 o'clock Sunday night and before being detected had spread to! the grain stacks, resulting in the ' loss of eight stacks of grain or an 1 estimated loss of 1000 bushels. ! Help was quickly summoned J through the George McDonough fam-' uy, out the grain was practically gone when help arrived. Mr. Downs attributed the fire to a party of squirrel hunters who he be lieved dropped a cigarette while pass Ing through his plsce earlier in the evening. Communist Funeral for Two. CLEVELAND (UP) Communist funeral services were held for Samuel Arsentlnl, 42. and Mrs. Vlnnle Wll llsms, S7, shot to death during a riot at Cuyahoga county relief admlnis trstlon office. The double rites were srrsnged entirely by the communist party. Police guarded the procession. Probate Court Judge Dead. WILMINGTON, O. (UP) Judge J. S. Klmbrough, 89, Civil War vete ran, for many years on the probate court bench and once superintendent of the Soldiers' and Sailors' orphsns' home st Xenla, O., died here recently. Irrigating Now. OGDEN, Utah (UP) P. A. Hulsh solved his drouth problem for $5. He started digging a well, ssnk It 25 feet. I struck water, bought pipe for 5, and now has a steady stream of fresh water. By GLUYAS WILLIAMS fiWVAS VwlUlftrtS MOTHER Cflltt HIS SUP ER'S ready, com: iw RI6HT AvvW TRUrlDLES CARf IKfO 6RRA&E Tc WRK IT CARf URSffe 0WIK& 1b ROUGH PIKE OF KOAP OBMS'fRUtfioK. SlfePS AND CAREFliUY RELOADS rr, piece bv piece PARKS CARf, AND R -TURKS fO PUSH TRUCK IK, OK HMflS AiKU KHEES PARKS TRUCK AMD RE- "Tor ns To vvitp up MECHANICAL AUTOMOBILE TRIES To SET AOfo IrJ UNDER ITS OWN POWER., Which PROVES HARD BE CAUSE OF 1ft TENDENCY1 TO RUN IN CIRCLES PARKS AUTo AT LAST, AND pushes Truck out a- SAIN TO PICK UP VZiE OF FREIGHT -iUfff HAD PROPPEP OFF (Copyright, 1934, by The Bell Syndicate, Ine.) AND 50 COMES IN FOR SUPPER HALF AN HOUR LATE, CP1.AIHIN6 HE COULDN'T BE QUICKER BECAUSE OF SO MQNV CARS TO PARK. M. Payne CALVES' TENDONS T 'VULNERABLE' IN A TENNIS BAT BEVERLY HILLS, Csl. (API A fellow usmed Achilles, mythology has It, vulnerable In the heel, but the tendon which bears his name may produce string for tennis rac quet, oiighrr than snythlng yet used lor this ptirme. j Testa made at the Unliernty of Southern California laboratory here by rr. Ernest A. Rayner mowed thstj suing nude from the tendon of a I calls heel withstood the pounding of lennts bslln for an accumulative , effort of 308.961 bloms. mhlle the 1 closest rival, the best brsde of sheep gut commonly used in racquets. ws more thsn 53,000 strokes behind Other specimens Here some loo.oou ; blows behind, all ot them ranging i from 24.V24A blows to tBS.oan blows before they broke. Elasticity tests showed the new string to vsry only 3 centimeters In detlectlon as against 2lt to 5 centt melers for the other strings tested. Put to the extreme humidity test,, the string made from the ralf s ten don, alter being soaked half sn hour In wster, came back to its onglnsl starting point, while the other spec. Imens showed a deflection of from J to a rentlmeteri.. The tests. 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