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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOR13, OREGOX, FRIDAY, 1UGUST 10, 1934.
PSGE F0TJRTEE1T
sunns mamhm3i
8YNOP8I8: Bob Power mothm
fa ill of an incurable disease, and
Marsha, Bob' wife, i in Sew York
carina for her. Mr. Power' ill
net ha postponed the divoroe that
Bob had demanded Uareha secure;
Marsha has never eeaeed loving
Rob, and find comfort for hi mie
understanding her relatione with
Geoffrey Tarleton in the faith and
dependence of hie mother. Bob i
in Mexico at work.
Chapter SS
SELF-SACRIFICE
OU will never know,"
laid
1 Marsha "what your faith In
me, and your e irlog (or me, meani
to me; will always mean to me!"
Her Tolce broke; (he (aw Mra.
Powers' eyi (111 and aha tpoke
quickly, lightly, ot other mattera.
Maraha's first thought now was (or
Mn. Powers and (or that which was
good (or her; she was learning that
lesson of lore which makes the
needs of others one's own,
She had new eyes, and they told
her that Mrs. Powers was helped by
seeing her on those sleepless nights
when pain kept vigil and that Mrs.
Powers' knowing the nurse to be
awnke and alert was not the same.
The (act warmed Marsha, who
felt (rom It a rise of tenderness that
made her eyos stlng; an almost ma
ternal tenderness. She reflocted
often and gratefully on the (act that
she was, "so absurd! strong" and,
fleotlngly, she reused upon the
mercy of crowded hours and the
weariness that sent her soon Into
sound and dreamless sleep.
The loss that she would know
with Mrs. Powers' going, a loss that
must come to Marsha who had be
fore known nothing ot gentle and
real affection, would hare crippled
Iter had she bad more time to brood
upon It.
As 't was by day there were
trips up and down atalrs, domestic
matters to attend to In the bouse,
ordering to do, the doctor to see, be
side the odd, lncreeplng extras that
took time.
Such, (or Instance, was the call ot
Mrs. Powers' old (rlend, Mrs. Vln
lug, who always stayed a round two
tours. There were checks to write
or the family attorney might come
or the Curate or the Rector. And
Bowers must be arranged and Mrs.
Powers must be diverted, enter
tained and Bob's letters must be
written every two days.
Many were tbe worlds (or Marsha,
who had known but her own selfish
and sometimes cruel world; and
there was so much to do In each of
them.
Ppy done, Marsha would oreep
Into the high, black walnut bed to
sleep soundly for an hour, perhaps
two; to wake with compunction and
to fumble thickly tor ber elusive
slippers.
Then, a negligee around her, she
would make shivering, stumbling
way down the passage. It the light
by Mrs. Powers' bed showed a ye.
low slit beneath the door, Marsha
would blink herself to aharp wake
fulness and push open the door.
"Pain, dearest'" she would ask
anxiously. "We can do no more than
so much!" the wecry doctor had ad
mitted to Marsha; "the effect of
opiates wears away with this!"
She would see Mrs. Powers smile
on her, ler eyes brighten; she
wonld hear, "Just a little, dear,
QH0 would settle by the bed;
l5 sometimes Mrs. Powers admitted
that she would have to have "a little
pellet" and when this happened
Marsha would lrop It In a glass ot
water. Thei she would slip her
arms beneath Mrs. Powers' ri:oul
ders to lift her while she drank.
After that she would sit down by
the bed to wait, watch and hopo; to
lope so (ully, so fervently, that she
was often drained hy the energy she
gave to hope.
"Please, please!" she petitioned
allently of that vague something
that was drawing closer and grow
ing warm for Marsha; "Please keep
pain from her!"
You 11 get cold, dear," Mra. Pow
ers would murmur.
Marsha would answer with a con
vincing, "I'm quite warm," fre
quently when her hands were stif
fened hv the cold and alia had in
sot her teeth to keep them from
'chattering.
"Will yon, Just to gratify me,
wrap that comforter around your
; "If you like, but I'm not cold. Is It
any better, dear!"
j "I think so."
I And then igaln. she'd sit back to
iwnlt. It was at such times that she
folt oddly close to Bob; quite as If
his strength sustained her, as If his
love encompassed jer. as If every
thing were well between them, and
as If he cared.
Sneezers Sought
To Test Theory
CHICAGO (UP) Tils Unlwrilty ot
Illinois colliye of mtdlclnt has start
ed an elimination contest to find the
10 Illinois women with th moat In
triguing anoowa. Tho women are
And ona sight aa she sat In the
chill, dimly lit room she fell asleep
to wake wltb a atart and a sob be
cause she had heard Bob aay, "My
dearest dear! My poor, tired child!"
It had made ber tremble violently.
"Yon spoke, mother?" sha fal
tered.
"Water, dear, please."
Sha stumbled as she moved
toward the table upon which was a
pitcher, but the ache and the depres
sion that had rooted In an unusually
long and trying day, were gone.
Bob must not know how bad It
was, she decided again and again;
he must never knowl When he re
turned, she must keep hla from the
room at the bad hours. She consid
ered, and at length, ways ot do'sg
this. She decided that ahe could
with the help of the eerveata and
the nurse, who would certainly un
derstand the (utility at his baring
more hurt than must be his.
"You'll break down," said the
nurse one morning that followed a
sleepless night; "lt'd just a whim ot
hers, wanting to see you; It 11 wear
you osi!"
For a brte( moment a little ot
Marsha' chill arrogance returned;
"Never suggest to her, please, my
being tired. Do you understand,
Miss Thrope?"
"Yes, Mrs. Powers. I didn't mean
to annoy you, but you're too self
less." "Nor did I mean to be sharp. But
I want to be with her, to do every
thing I can (or berl And It she
thought I was being worn down. It
would mnke It too difficult, yon
see?"
THE nurse did see, but she did not
cease to be troubled. She re
leased pressure through angry mut
ters to Hannah, to Ellen; mutters
In wblch ahe aald, "Slio's wearing
herself outl That's all! The human
body won't stand more than so
mucb. When's he coming back any-
wayT She a a saint and "
But Marsha was finding new food
as well as new fatigue through do
ing what she could (or "mother."
The diversion she best liked wss
looking, with Mrs. Powers at Mrs.
Powers' many portraits and anap-
shots ot Bob. Bob In the photog
rapher's high chair, Bob In bis first
short dresses, B"b wearing his Hist
sallor-sutt with the real whistle
of which be had been so proud,
banging (rom a cord that was
around hie neck.
Bob In military-school unKorm,
later. In college and on the crew;
Bob at some picnic. (The girl seated
by him was really beautiful, Marsha
realized with a chilling of heart.)
Bob with his father, that happy year
they spent together abroad.
Under this beading too, cams
Bob's dogs; horses; the Adirondack!
place. "Of course you will go there
often with Bob," said Mrs. Powers;
"Bob loves It"
And Mrs. Powers' life ending,.
Marsha waa certain, was the very
reason why she would never go with
Bob to the Adlrondacka place. His
loving It would, ot course, wall It
away from her.
All that the faded, wasted, small
women had been to Bob began to be
too apparent to Marsha and It led
her to write him, In extra letters
which Marsha did not show to Mrs.
Powers, every small detail concern
ing his mother which she felt could
Interest him; his mothor's enjoy
ments; how she spent her time;
what they were reading; of her ap
petite, (If good, that day) who had
called upon her. The chronicle was
faithful In narrating all Hint could
cheer.
Marsha felt that such word would
help him; but once and again doubt
crept in through her weariness.
which reduced her Judgment and
left ber certain only ot the fact that
she loved two souls wltb alljier
heart and mnst live. In the chill fu
ture, without both of them.
She wrote, one doubtful day,
when her bead ac' ed (rom lack of
sleep and she could not see quite
clearly.
"I have written as I have, think
ing It might help you. If my extra
letters annoy you, put parentheses
about "Your letters are so long and
good, dearest" and I'll understand
that you wish a terse report and no
more.
"I don't want to make things
harder for you than they must be:
nd I thought you might, and most
naturally, feel I Intrude where I
can't belong through telling yon of
your mother.
"The only thing I could not for
give la your letting me continue to
annoy yon, It I have."
Ctfrrt,ki, ttu, h AT. Bmiltmi-Urlt)
Marsha haa, tomorrow, a tola
Oram from Mfxlco.
wanted for um In determining wheth
er electrical changes In the air may
be ons cauae of chronlo aathma.
ReT. Evelynn Marshall, missionary
of the National Federation ot spirit
ual Science churchea. Free lecture
Sunday, o p. m at 813 So. Rtreraldc
Subject. The New Revelation.
TO
EMPHASIZE PERIL
KBW YORK, Auj. 10. (UPj "Na
tional regimentation" and bureauc
racy are endangering the entire struc
ture of America, liberty, former
President Herbert Hoover will aay In
the book he h!i Just completed under
the title oi "The Challenge of Lib
erty" it waa announced today.
The book will represent Hoover'
flrjt aignJflcant utterance since he
it ft the White House two years ago
to make way for the Rooeevelt "new
deal." It will be published Ute next
month by Charles ficrlbner'a eons.
Hoover, who has worked on the
manuscript during the lat year, will
set forth his defense of "the Ameri
can system" of government. He will
give critical consideration to the
growth of fascism, communism and
socialism.
He will discuss his general pur
poses In a foreward, In which he de
clares; "It Is the purpose of this examina
tion to survey briefly the movement
of revolution through the world since
the great war the method of over
throw of liberalism: to recall our
American heritage, the growth of our
liberty, the forces in human nature
and human behavior which govern1
economic life, the restraints and Ideals
of the system. Of ordered liberty, the ,
achievements of the American sys
tem; to analyze from an American!
point of view the alternate systems!
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BRINQINQ UP FATHER ' By George McManul
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I ) COLUMM- -V; OlCMATURE- I LIB v csjm n .'., -T-.M5S5 want miM '
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of society; to examine our ov-n abuses
of liberty; to review the purpose of
American life; to consider construct
ively, not a detailed program, but the
method through ?hich alone we can
solve national problems."
The publishers said the ex-presl-
dent's bocic will be divided In to 11
parts under the following principal
chanter heading:
1 Revolutions from liberty, our
American heritage, the utility and
Ideals of liberty, the accomplishment
of the American system, alternative
phllosophiejt of society and govern
ment, national regimentation, the
consequences to liberty of continued
regimentation, the constructive meth
odfl of liberty, the abuse of liberty,
economic stability and security."
Hoover, unlike many statesmen, has
done little private writing. Ho Is list
ed as the author of "American In
dividualism," published in 1922, but
he la better known for his Joint trans
lation, with Mrs. Hoover, of "Agrl
cola de re Me tallica'
fiALKM", Aug, 10. Kenneth
Beach of Roseburg and Mrs, Sarah V.
Caae of St. Helena were appointed on
the ataff of the state department of
education for the federal emergency
relief program In education, It wa
announced today by Charlea A. How
ard, superintendent of public instruc
tion, through hla offices here.
Beach was named general adult
educational supervisor, while Mrs.
Case will be supervisor of nursing!
and parent education. Both have been j
connected with school work for some i
time.
ENGINEERS TOLD
ABOUT HIGHWAYS
FOR HEMISPHERE
VANCOUVER, B. C. (UP) High
ways that eventually win link the
entire western hemisphere, were de
scribed In papers read before the
highway and construction division of
the American Society of Engineers
convention here.
Details of the Alaska-United Statea
highway, which will stretch 2204 miles
north of Vancouver and the Inter
American highway, linking the United
States with Central America, and
which eventually will be extended
to South America, were given by
American engineers.
The proposed Inter-American high
way, which will cross seven countries
and pass through seven capitals In
linking up the United States and
Central America, Is the longest ever
surveyed and planned, It was revealed.
It will skirt volcanoes, penetrate Jun
gles and open areas now practically
Inaccessible.
Roads already In existence will be
utilized and, like the Alaska-Unlted
States highway. It will, when ".om
pleted, be of historic, economic and
social significance.
The Alaska-United Statea highway
project will be about 2204 miles long.
BROOKLYN, N. Y., Aug. B. (fp)
With her clothing In flames, Mra.
Bertha Deutsch, 43, was hurled, bound
and gagged, from a motor car early
today, after two men had kidnaped
her some time before. Hospital at
tendant said her condition was not
serious.
SUBURBAN HEIGHTS
2-IO
ON A BLISTERING HOT NI6HT WMEM
THE WHOLE MEI6HB0RHOOD WAS FORCED TO
SEEK SLUMBER ON VERANDAS AND
5LEEPIN6 PORCHES. MILT 6RI6SBV SHORED
. SO LOUD THAT NOBODY ON THE
S1REET COULD 6ETT& SLEEP
' ' (Copyright, 19M, by The Bell gjradleits, lis.) ' .
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
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