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BYXOP81S: dug WKum hat
been ot great tervice to Atitott
Rtdt and Aliton it very fond 01
titty. But her life it complicated by
the fact that her wealthy and eaty
going father it being victimited by
Daphne Bumcrt. the woman he it
about to marry. AUaon believet
Guy knowt tomtthing about
Daphne, but he it mytterioutly
rlote-mottthed. Now A liton hat
ten Daphne, through the window
of her Hat, locked in the arm of
a man. And tht man it not her
father.
"ITS
un
unhappily. "If 1 told father, ha
mightn't believe me! And she'd find
some way of wriggling out of It.
After all, I can't prove what I saw;
It's going to be my word against
hers."
And If It came to that, ahe felt
certain, her father would choose to
believe Daphne Burners.
"She'd only say that I'd made It
all up," she thought despairingly.
"Anyway, can It be right to tell
tales? Ia it ever right to do wrong?"
So Impossible to know! She might
only succeed In hurting her father
without doing any good. Perhaps
the best way would be to go direct
to Daphne herself and tell her that
she had been found out?
It was still early when Alison got
off the 'bus at Knlghtsbrldge. In any
case, her father would not be at
home before five. She would finish
off her shopping, she decided, try
and make up her mind what she
must do then.
But she was still uncertain as to
what was right when at last she
got home.
Sitting In her own chair by the
fire, alone with him, pouring out his
China tea, poking the big logs on
the fire to make them blase, as she
had done hundreds of times before,
she found It harder than ever to
make up her mind.
She could not listen properly to
his description of his day, his lunch
with Daphne and two old friends,
some gossip he had brought home
from the club, the latest political
scandal; she assented at random,
trying to make up her mind to
plunge.
"Father she drew a deep
breath and got as far as that but
Robert, still chuckling over his last
Joke as be lit a cigar, broke la before
ahe could finish.
"By the way, did Daphne tell you
about our new plan?"
Alison pulled herself together
with a Jerk.
"No. As a matter of fact, t missed
her this afternoon."
Was he going to ask why? For a
second she held her breath.
"Oh? You haven't seen her then?"
"No."
"Oh, we settled everything at
lunch!" Robert was pleased to be
able to break the nowa himself, he
had rather a childish love of being
the first and he did not notice All
son's expression of relief.
"She and I were talking things
over." he went on cheerfully, "and
we both feel that there's no real
reason why we should wait a whole
six weeks to get married. 1 was wait
lng because your aunt wouldn't be
back from India to look after you.
but Daphne says that ahe would
much rather that you came with ua."
"On your honeymoon?" All All
aon'a anxious thoughts were scat
tered by this bombshell. She stared
at her father blankly.
"WES." He laughed rather shyly.
1 "We're not a young couple, my
dear, to be romantic about that She
aays you'd enjoy It. Daphne thinks
lt'd be great fun having you with
her while I'm playing with my bo
tanical collection. You see we've
decided to go to Spain now, the
Southern Pyrenees, Instead of Ma
deira, and you'd love that."
"I think I'd feel horribly In the
way." Alison could not keep the
sheer dismay out of her voice.
"Nonsense! How could you be In
the way? We both want you." He
patted her shoulder.
"Father, please honestly, I'd
rather not!" It came out with a
rush. I'd much rather stay In the
bouse alone. If Aunt Emily Isn't
back In time!"
"I thought you'd be pltased."
Robert looked upset and very hurt.
"I I think It's sweet of you both
to want me." She got that out with
an effort.
"We do want you. Surely that's
enough!" There waa a note of an
noyance In his voice now.
"Hut I'd rather stay here." In her
despair. Alison plunged. "I 1 want
to talk to you about that. You aee.
I've been thinking things out and I
think I want to take up aome work."
"Work? What on earth for? My
dear child, doa't be so silly!" He
quite heated. "There's no earth
en to work. You know per
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ENJOYS GREATER
MINNEAPOLIS (HP) DeAplt
rcnt .ncrc-inr In living crt, the
ftverRgp American fa.mil y with a
2.000 annual Income enjoytxl greawr
purchRAlnfi ixer during the spring
of 19SS than In tht prosperity year
of 1018 and 1029. according to a ro
i nt aurvey.
The fivera,! family enjoyed luxur
lea auch a electric refrigerators, for
eign reception radio, and a new au
tomobile evc-y threr years on the
a,me Income, the mirvot showed.
Def.pl t Uiese addition luxuries, Uie
fectly well what 1 think of all this
modern nonsense about girls earn
ing their own living!"
"I don't want to earn my living
Alison strove to be patient. "I Just
want something to do."
Hla annoyance faded suddenly
Into laughter.
"Something to do. You'll have
plenty. Why, Daphne's planning to
give a dance to bring you out aa
soon as we get back, and you'll
be much too busy playing round
and amusing yourself to worry
about work."
"But 1 don't want to dance and
amuse myself."
"Don't want to come out and be
presented? What rubbish! You'll
love It. All girls do. Dancing and
spending money and having new
frocka and stuff what a little goose
you are!"
Was there no way of making him
understand? thought Alison help
lessly. A few months ago, he would
have listened to her views, have
taken them seriously, but now
Daphne had taught him to think of
his daughter as a child still, to be
treated as a tool!
She made one last desperate
plea.
"Let me try It Just for a little
while anyway. The three weeka
you're away and see "
"See what?" His anger burst sud
denly. "My dear, you're being very
stupid! It's not like you. All this
nonsense about work! Daphne and
I want you to come with us, and
that's enough. It's extraordinarily
sweet of her to want you, and 1
don't think you're behaving any too
well. I'm afraid It's simply that
you're Jealous, and I hate to think
that!" His anger died away, as it
always did In a few seconds. Hs
touched her right hand gently.
"Alison?"
She broke from him and fled.
I CAN'T bear this! I'll have it out
with her!"
That was the one Idea In Alison's
mind as she rushed upstairs to her
room. The thought of being third on
that honeymoon trip, of being left
half the day with Daphne and with
no eacape, was dreadful.
Skl-lng and mountaineering had
been Alison's hobbles when she was
at school: the freedom and the lone
liness of the high peaka appealed
to a myatlo streak In her nature.
She had found In those solitary ex
peditions some things she had al
ways wanted, peace to stralgbten
out her tangled Ideaa and to know
herself and her alms.
The light and color of those wide
landscapes In summer, the utter si
lence of the snow and the thin cold
air In winter enchanted hor and had
formed a secret Joy to which she
could look forward during the dull
est term. The notion of sharing her
particular escape wlh Daphne waa
abhorrent.
"She'd get nervea and scroam
I'm sure she would! She'd stick
somewhere and expect me to lug
her down and then tell father that
I wasn't kind! She'll probably turn
up In high-heeled kid slippers,"
thought Alison rebolliously. "And
whatever happens now I shall al
ways think of her kissing that
man!"
She did not go downstairs again.
She could not face her father until
she had made up her mind what
she was going to do. She lingered
In her own room, pretending to read
while ahe thought deeply. Yet when
the housemaid came up to lay out
her dress for the evening she seemed
no nearer a decision.
" anything more funny " Guy
bad said. And surely this was
funny? For Daphne to change all
her plans on the spur of the moment,
change her arrangementa tor a
honeymoon trip to Madeira and In
sist on a third person coming out
with them to Spain!
"It's not that she wauts me,"
thought Alison with conviction.
"She doesn't like me a little bit
She may put that over with father.
It doesn't go down with me!"
"We Bottled everything at lunch,"
he bad said. What had made her
change? Not that kiss, then. In the
basement at Fulham. Something
bad happened before that.
Could this new motive have any
thing to do with Guy? But the but
ler had said distinctly that he had
given no name, so It couldn't be
that!
One thing Alison felt sure ot
something had made Daphne change
her mind. It was no mere whim, for
Daphne Sumers wss not the type of
person who acts without some deep
motive. The more she considered
It, the more Alison mistrusted this
sudden change of plan.
(Copyright. 1131. Kvelyn li. Wtnch
AIi.au ia lallh.ut IfiiAW.
lng II, Monday. I
family waa on a sound footing with a
margin for pa vlngs. Insurance and
recreation.
The study revealed that a family
consisting of husband, wife and two
children, which could live in modest
comfort with i'J.000 a year In IfllB.
I could buy the name comforts and
iieoewltlea for 11.077 In 1035. lea vim;
a surplus of 323 for additional pur
ely
The Items In the 191B family's
budpet would haie com 2.038 tn
1929. the study showed. Althout'.i
food and clothes ere 1cm expmisne
In 1P20 than In 191 B. an Inerenw? of
almost 40 per cent In rental coL
used up savings made on the other
two items.
Food costing 00 In 1018, could be
purchased for SOO in 1929 and for
only 1381 st price levels In the
nprlng of 1935. the survey showed
A home or apaitment or the type
which could te rented for .190 yfar
In 191R. rented for .S0 In :nt
equal Ikiiw i. ,-:v. v i.m n-. . uild
be obtained for about 370 in 1935,
LOW BIRTH RATE
IS MENACE
FUTURE AUSTRIA
By F. C. M. .Inhn
United Prewi Staff Cor respondent
VIENNA (UP) The Austrian
nation will die out alowly, If the
present downward trend of the birth
rate continues, according to statistics
by Wilhelm Winkler, head of the cen
sus department.
More Chan a quarter of all Aus
trian marriages remain sterile, hts
statistics demonstrate.
Of all marriages concluded In Aus
tria between 1800 and 1930 not less
than 25 per cent remained without
Issue; 27 per cent of the couple had
only one child; 20 per cent had two,
while 27.0 per cent gave birth to
three or more children.
A detailed analysis of, the figures
for the laat decade reveals that the
birthrate continue rapidly to decline,
as la shown by the following figures
for Vienna. It la true, the situation
In the capital la worse than In the
provinces, but there the trend also
la downward.
Of the marriages concluded here
between 1800 and 1003, 20 per cent
remalnded childless. Prom 1004 to
1913 this percentage Increased to 22:
between 1914 and 1918 to 26; between
1919 and 1923 to 32: In 1924 to 40:
in 1925 to 41: In 1928 to 42; In 1027
to 45; in 1928 to 48, and In 1029 to
53.
One-child marriages developed
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similarly, but their percentage re
mained stationary In 1928 and 1929.
While among Viennese couples,
married between 1890 and 1003, there
still were 17 per cent with four or
more children, the corresponding
figure was only 3 per cent in 1030.
CLOCK BACK 15 YEARS
LOS ANGELES (UP) Dr. Serge
Voronoff. rejuvenation specialist,
whose monkey gland operation make
people look 15 years younger, believes
man should live 140 years.
"Every animal on earth should live
seven tlmea the time It takes to reach
first maturity," he explained. "Man
la mature at 20 years. Therefore, I
give him 140 years to live.'
Or. Voronoff made the surprising
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estimate that nine out of ten times
monkey gland seekers are men, rather
than women.
"The glands restore mental aa well
as physical power," the specialist re
lated. "Many men still must work at
65 or 70. and need new mental
strength.
"But the women they come for
coquetry. That's why there are few
of them."
For three months after the gland
operations, no effects are felt, he re
lated, and then
"For seven months the Improve'
ment Is continuous. A man 65 finally
takes on the appearance of a man of
50.
"The effect lasts 10 years. Then It
can be done again, but I think that
patient will get the benefit of only
about six or seven years the second
time. We never have made a third
operation."
Card of Thanks,
We wish to express our sincere
thanks to our friends and relatives
for their beautiful floral offerings and
words of sympathy. Mr. and Mrs.
William Meek and Family.
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