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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKU, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1935.
MORNING STAR
SYSOrSltt: Emtly Pelton hat
yr.-.duated from colleae with ion
oi"3, ami cith three precious mem
ories. One- is Judith Carroll, the
flashing roommate the had as a
Freshman. One ie Jutlith'e brother,
David, whom K-ntly promised to
marry just before the Carroll tost
their fine old plantation. One ts
Charlotte, who euecceded Judith as
roommate. Hut Judith is married,
David is lost to her and sensible
Charlotte hat a ioh. F.mihi won
ders, at the farewell dance, what
she sha'l do.
Chapter 13
. PUZZLED
MOST ot the dancers, she thought
enviously, wera going back to
school next week: moat of them had
one more year between them and
what the lecturers ominously called
Life.
It was only tonight that she had
realized that school was over. Sum
mer had been just another vacation,
just as all the summers before this
bad been vacations; but this was
September the first September she
could remember when there was
nothing definite ahead of her.
Frances Felton had advocated a
"year ot play." "You've been away
from us most of four years, and
your father has counted so on hav
ing you at home," she had said
subtly, realizing that Jeffrey's lone
liness was her trump card.
"And besides, I think you really
Jock Cuihlng cut In,
need a vacation. Graduating from
Ardinore la a very severe mental
and physical strnin."
To Frances it would probably
have been a severe strain,' but
Frances was not twonty-one and
eager. Frances was forty-six. and
above all cautious. '
She was a.zt determined that
Emily should nover become "strong
minded," as the girls who went
into the newer vocations Invariably
were; nover realizing how complete
ly out-worn the term had become.
And, partly because Emily had
no counter -proposition to mnke,
Frances had won her point. You
couldn't put i p a very stiff resist
ance to a thing when thoro was noth
ing you wanted vory badly to do In
Its stead.'
"A year of play." It sounded en
trancing, hut how did you go about
It? With Edwin? Or with the youths
who were nt this moment shouting
tho belligerent words ot the Wash
lnKton and I.co Swing?
She had grown up with these
boys; had aoen them recently
emerge from the nwkward stages ot
adolescence; and whntover charms
they mlpht possess were blurred by
familiarity. Just as her own charms
were probably blurred for then.
That, she decided, was why so
many marriages wore mado between
people from different towns: the
snnbnosed boy you'd played with
was Invested, away from home, with
tho t-'lamor of strangeness and mys
tery. Jock dishing cut In, grinning
amiably. "What's your program for
the year. Bachelor of Arts?"
She slithed. "I wish I knew.
Bridge, 1 suppose, and tho Woman's
Club. Or maybe a troop ot gtrl
scouts."
Ho frowned. "It sounds bad. Milt
then, yon might bo teaching oehool,
and iinthlng could he worse than
that. Drlclge and girl scouts may
help you to live down that Arilinoro
diploma, but If you begin to teach
you're lost."
S!IK laiiRhed ruefully, thinking
how Charlotte, for different rea
suns, had said the samo thing. "Hut
what's the use In getting a diploma
If you hare to live it down?"
Olii-rtitln Patient YnteN. I'enk rllnilier lletrlees Pm-e.
MFMWIl. Ti'iin. (IIP) - CU-orci R HOOD RIVER. Ore till" I It m
Powei. 75. took e. local anaesthetic. Mr worth eevrral hundred ctollnrs U t 8.
n operation. During the otdesl Help. Thorns, New York mountain
crsked Jokes with the do-tors and i climber, to eltmb Mount Hood twice
"yodeled." m the nurses. ' They al-l In A ten- iisys He ltwl his wallet on
niot torKot what they were iuh;osert the tlr-st assent. Two d;s later be
to do when I starwd yortllng be j climbed Ihe peak vain tel found
said. I the purse.
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by IvlARiAit Sims
He shrugged. "God knows. Ksji.
daily with matrimony In the offing."
Her eyes widened in surprise. Was
It, she wondered, such a foregone
conclusion among ner friends that
she would marry Edwin? If she
wasn't careful, tbe mere force of
public opinion would push her Into
it. She shook her head.
"I hate to disappoint you, but It
isn't."
Jock grinned. "No-oo?" he drawled,
and relinquished her to another
partner.
As if to give the lie to her denial,
the partner was Edwin.
Edwin danced, as he did most
things, smoothly and proclsely, with
a complete lack ot abandon or Im
agination. When the orchestra had drifted
Into "Good Night Ladles," Edwin
said softly, "Would you like to get
out before the crush starts?"
Ordinarily she rather liked
crushes, and calling goodbye; but
tonight there was too much ot fare
well In the goodbys. She nodded,
and slipped away to find her wrap.
They were silent during the drive
home, but then she and Edwin were
silent oftener now. When there was
nothing but surface subjects to dis
cuss you eventually exhausted them,
and Edwin had never yet lost his
fear of abstract or intimate topics.
grinning amiably.
AT tbe doorway he stopped the
motor and laid his band gently
upon her arm. "Is it too late to
talk a few minutes?"
The tone betrayed him. It was
husky with emotion and nervous
ness, and Emily guessed with a sink
ing heart what was coming. She
longed to put blm off, but the thing
had hung suspended so long above
her head that there would be a cer
tain relief In having It fall. She said
qulotly:
"I don't think so."
He cleared his throat and she
wanted to laugh hysterically. It was
like Edwin to mnke a formal pro
posal; If there had been room he
might evon have gone down on his
knees to her!
"1 wanted to ask you to marry
me," he began haltingly. "You must
have known I love you; that I've
loved you over since wo wore chil
dren. Ilcfore this I wasn't In any
position to tell you, but now I am.
"I'm mnklng three hundred and
fifty dollars a month and we could
live comfortably on that if you
could love mo enough to marry me
I'd he the happiest man on earth."
Ho stopped abruptly and waited.
Suddenly, to her infinite disgust,
she began to cry. She didn't want
Edwin to love her like that because
It gave him such a hold on her. You
couldn't help feeling a certain pity
and tenderness for a man whoso de
votion had been so enduring and so
w hole hearted, even while you knew
that you didn't return It and prob
ably never would.
Ills distress was Intense. "Emily!"
he begged, laying an nrm gently
about hor shoulders. "Please don't, I
won't hurry you; I Just wanted you
to know."
She managod a shaky smile and
the arm lightened, very s'lshtly,
about her shoulders. In a moment,
if she didn't speak, ho would tie kiss
ing her reverently, and she didn't
want to ho kissed reverently.
She wanted, when the time came,
to be smothered, as David hnd smoth
ered he- Hut thl was certainly not
the right time.
ft'epvlot l.'.n, bu Stark Sims)
Emily qv timid Edwin hit an
ivtr, tomorrow.
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FOR U. S. THIS YEAR
WASHINGTON (UP) There'll be
plenty of food In the Unitd State
this year, according to tho bureau
of agricultural economics.
The bureau said this year's food
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The panic-stricken people In the
church crowded closer together; they
crawled over one another trampling
the weak underfoot. When the Turks
stormed tho doors they found the
Christians plied seven feet deep in
the church. Over this mass of hu
manity they rode their horses, kill
ing as they went. Today at St. So
phia there are gashes In the columns
1 3 feet above the floor level, left
there by mounted Turks who rode
their horses over the Christians'
bodies. None was spared snve those
chosen to be slaves.
Jacob Hycr won the big fight ot
TAILSPIN TOMMY Proptu-ing
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BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER
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WITM TUE TECMS
TW&V'PE NCE PEOPLE
AND I KNOW VOU'LU
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supply would exceed average con
sumption during recent years. It
will be somewhat leas than the
average supply of the last five years,
but about five per cent more than
domestic "disappear ante In 1034,
and about nine per cent more than
in 1933.
Figures . Include prospective pro
ductlon plus the carry-over at the
beginning of the 1933 crop season.
There will be less meat and pos
sibly leas of other livestock pro
ducts available for conaumptlon this
year, the bureau said, but there will
be adequate supplies of other foods
mvihti vet? mvt wrtiis&iiiRK rope
There Trvns an old legend In six
teenth century Constantinople that
one day the Turks would success
fully storm tho city but that as
they poured through the gates an
angel from Heaven would appear
with a sword in his hand to defeat
the enemy.
So, in 1542, when the forces of
Mohammed II did enter the city
many people were not greatly sur
prlned snfrty lay, they thought, In
going to tho Church of St. Sophia.
There they went by the thousands,
packing every corner of the church
still the Turks advanced,
his career In 1816 when he defeated
for tho Great Battle!
There He Goes!
vf.S.I'M LOOKING
FORWARD TO IT
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V'OL'LD TO MAVINV.
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"to which dietary shift can be
made."
Total milk production Is expected
to be about the same as In 1934,
or about two per cent leas than
the recent five-year average. Cer
eals may be 35 per cent less than
the average of recent years, but
probably more than ample for do
mestic requirements plus a normal
carry-over.
As for fruits and vegetables, In
dications are for a somewhat larger
supply during the last two years
and a supply larger than the recent
five-year average.
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Tom Bensley. Thereafter he an
nounced himself American champion
and no one attempted to take the
title from him. After him his son,
Tom, then 22, declared himself
champion and offered to defend the
title. First John McCluster chal
lenged In 1841 and was beaten, then
eight years later Yankee Sullivan
from England, challenged the champ.
Hyer knocked him out In 16 rounds
and after that could find no one
to fight. He, too, retired undefeated.
Tomorrow:
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