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MEDFORD MATL TRTBUXE, MEDKOKD. OREGON. MONDAY, if ARCH 30. 1936
SUNDAY SNOOZE
By GLUYA5 WILLIAMS
- uoiaen Main
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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l&prrigbt, 1836. hy The fell By
El eX htxtjargartt CWfddtmer
adloau.1110.) outfit.
BYNOPStS! Irf ttunlll M
(Iff'tumed that tA unburdsned nr
10 tho strange young man una
oved AU way rom her. She Kae
fold aim that eha U a little tired of
being a povertg-ttrieken aristocrat,
and alto a living sacrifice to the
memory of her geniue father u-ho
got all the good thinge tine impover
Uhed tanning could provide, until
he died. For ichen Iris reached
homo ehe found that her Aunt Ella
had taken Morgan Black at a
boarder, and Morgan Blook it the
etrange young man!
Chapter Fonr
FIRST MEAL .
IRIS flunc hartal! across tha honey
comb counterpane, sick with
ishamedness. All her fayety and
braver; were gone. To tell things to
a man who would be living In tha
honsel
"The one thing I hare!" aha half
lobbed. "Privacy!"
There waen't much of that even
at the moment Aunt Ella clicked
the door open. "Supper'e ready,
darling," aha said.
Irla eat up and brusbed her hair.
"Aunt Ella, what made you take a
boarder?"
Mise Lannlng looked surprised.
"Why. darling! It will more than
pay for the table."
"I'd rather not have a thing to eat
than somebody round the house all
day!".
"lou're wrong, my dear," aald
Miss Ella mildly her invariable1 re
ply to Iris'a protests.
Miss Ella was small and thin,
with untidily-coiled tron-gray balr
and Intensely-bright restless dark
eyes. She was dressed in a neat un
fashionable dark wool dress with a
white apron to keep It clean.
As ebe stood, her eyea and bauds
moved, restless; but spiritually she
was Immovable. The god on her al
tar, to whom she sacrificed herself,
and everybody within reach, dally
and hourly, had been her brother
Lawrence, Iris's handsome gentle
oblivious father. When you have
lived under such a regime all your
life you accept IU But Iris was be
yond berself tonight.
"Supposing I am young,' she
cried, still with lire, "what haa chat
to do wltb a boarder's being a
nuisance?"
"When you're older," said Aunt
Ella, still with kindness, "you'll And
that one does what one must, not
what one wishes."
"You're taking away the last
thing that made, lite worth living!"
Iris aat erect In the middle ot the
mended counterpane.
"IRIS, what possesses youf Would
a you take the money from your
father's memorial for your selfish
pleasures! Don't you know that en
dowing one room in the town mu
seum for his permanent exhibit will
take all we can aava for two years?
I'm hurt and astonished at yonr self
ishness." said Aunt Ella.
Then aba patted Iris's shoulder.
"If there'a anything In my oloaet
yon can use to make over for Kath
arine's tea, dear, you must take If."
Then she heard some domestlo
noise and scurried away. '
Irla lay still. Aunt Ella's attitude
did not seem strange to her; she
had always lived wltb It. Presently
she rose and dressed. There wasn't
much she could do; she put on an
old red frock, nearl) as short and
shabby aa the other, but sotting off
her vividness of Ivory and dusk and
rose more sharply than she knew.
She wen reluctantly down to the
dining room. Her uncle and Morgan
were there before bar.
The dining room bad been a state
ly place; tbo motb-eaton, deer heads,
the enormous engravings, the thick
faded carpot, an Empire museum
piece of a sideboard, all said thst.
So did tha fish and game pictures of
a departed day, brightly dead In
their oval frames, and the portrait
of an unmistakable arrogant Lan
nlng In the rohea of a Supreme
Court judge of Madison's day.
Tbe price of that picture, Morgan
mused (tor he came of Bound com
merclal atock on one aide), would
certainly run to new carpets and
wallpaper for the whole bouse, not
to speak of new :lothcs for the poor
kid. Well, everybody to their taste,
lie hoped the food would be good
IT was. Iris waited on the table,
altering provocatively from a
flushed silence ,o dashes of gayety
Morgan was a little annoyed girls,
even bere! And her occasional looks
mat e him think she wasn't much
more pleased than be.
But the table-talk was dellibtrul.
Miss Klla and her brother and niece
had apparently bought all possible
books that a small Income allowed,
and got everything else ttom the li
brary: Miss Ella was genuinely
musical and artistic: Mr. Latinlng
LOVE FOR FELON
GETS WIFE CELL
8 A CP A MFNTO, Mnirb St. (AP
Twenty-four fiour ftr Owg Hull
n htiKM t Piltim prlpon. hU
tf, Ann. plciirtfd pr'iilty SAttirdr
to rhMifc of tiiucl,ng two guna
tnt the prwn ind wu rTtnci
to a trm of nn to Uvn warn.
Mrik. HhI wm iwntnoM by PtipAT
t ifttric t attorney, Otis D. DaNsx-A.
hat) moved for cllAmlM! of 4 nwond
rharftr of titrmptlng to llbrat
f-lon from pnltntIiiTj. Thl
rharg, rairtes a pnlfy of on to
14 years.
Th entire court irtion UMed )er
than fhf mlnutfti during hl n Bab
co-.k pictured Mrs. Hail u wo mm
had a slow discursive way that
broke from time to time Into Ironic
wit, and a historical bobby or two.
Iris flashed in and ou of tbe talk
"like a highly educated firefly,"
Morgan told himself. Talk of Ds
Qulncey, of Peacock, of the hidden
history of Mary Queen of Scots, of
back-country folklore, of states
men's plans and literary move
ments, went lightly round the table.
It waa not pedantic, it was salted
with small jests, light allusions. II
waa Morgan's Brat discovery that
such scholarly talk could be gay. '
Uncle William awept him off en
Joyably for further talk at tbe
meal's end. Iris piled plates on a
tray and carted them to the pile on
the wooden dralnboard of the old
Iron sink.
Iris went reluctsntly down te the
dlntng room.
"I hate strangors round at meals,"
she said crossly, getting her apron
from behind tbe door?
"Are you chilly, dear?" said her
aunt solicitously, from whore she
knelt putting away food In tbe high
yellow wooden Icebox. "Or are you
still upset about Katherlne Oliver's
tea? Why, when her people were
blacksmiths the Lannlngs were en
tertaining Washington's staff. She
ought to be glad to bavb you come
in a waterproof!" -
"Italncoat And nobody remem
bers those tblngi now. I wish I bad
some of the money they spent on
General Washington!"
"Darling, you aren't yourself.
Now wash your .hands and put
glycerins on them, and go In and
help Uncle William entertiitn Mr.
Black. Show him your father's
studio."
She went obediently. And she
found to her dismay that Morgan
Black was for some reason Just pas
log the kitchen door. Uncle William
must have been showing him the
back garden, brave with tulips and
hyacinths. Oh, hy what evil chance
was he always to overhear her pri
vate affairs?
Nevertheless, she came out. and
said, stiffly but politely, "My sunt
says she would like me to show you
my father's studio."
Morgan assented with more than
conventional politeness. Ha was
eager to see tbe possessions of the
dead man whose ahadow brooded
over this house. He followed the alert
young figure In the worn red cash
mere Into a room which had been
obviously, the long salon parlor.
tCetmttt. !')!. M,.rH WUil)
Moresn s.r-.rlcncst eemtdsr
M di.Mlu.icnrrt.nt. tomorrow.
who rltxkiKl hr Ufr snd freedom only
berauM of her depfrat lore for her
mue.
Sense of Humor Is
Boon to Gov. Martin
BAlEM. Mftrrh SO ( AP, Medlra
mn diwov?nM wh? Oovnior Murtin
doA not lt the rare of offlr 'get
him down," drpif hi 73 yeiira ol
ase.
At the lonf conferenoe o! medical
men before the board of contnU
fUturday. thfy made thtr dtirovej-y
hi rwn-K? of humor.
Aiter Mvra hour' diK-UAAlon over
eiutsndy nd treatment of mental
rae. the gowrnor rallM a "reow,'
rtltmlMed the ten:grapher nd aald:
"Your dluion here reminded
me of 4 atory." He then related
hu moron tnrldAnt He frequently
doe thla tn hoard of control meet
ing !
Puij ApeciAl Hi Urel. JJU Ceul j
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Strange as It eee-ms, the ben and
moAt accurate of time-keeping de
vices agree with the eun on only
four day of the yeargenerally on
April 15, June 16, August 31 and
December 34. although -these days
may viiry by a day from year to
ynr because of the extca day In
leap year.
At all other times your watch
Is running' ahead of or behind the
sun. This difference Is accounted
for by the sun's uneven motion In
relation to the earth, hence the
unevenness of sundial time. Gener
ally speaking, from December 34
to April 1A and from June 15 to
August 81, sundial time lags "after
the clock." At other times It runs
before tha cloclt." The greatest dif
ference occurs In the early part of
November when sundial time Is off
by 16 minutes, 31 second.
.Robert Heron, 1764 to 1807, was
Imprisoned for his debts In about
1791. During bis stay In Jail be
wrote his "Comforts of Human
Life, and published It shortly af
ter bis release. Another English au
thor, James Beresfnrd, who was
born the name year and who lived
nmldt eniw and plenty, made his
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biggest hit with a book called "The
Miseries of Human Life."
Onions are strong or weak, de
pending on the amount of a char
acteristic oil they contain. This oil
In Its pure state Is so strong that
a drcp of it will spread the odor
of onion through several large
buildings. It takes 10 tons of on
ions to produce a pint of It. Strange
as It seems, tbe amount of oil
varies not only In tha type of
nlon. but also ltb the season
In which the onion Is grown. Early
onions contain leas oil. hence are
not as strong as late onions. The
earlier the onion, the fewer the
tears.
DECIDES -To SLEEP UrfE ON SON
W M0RNlrV6. SM6&LES UNDER
covers ns wife finishes dress
IK6 ArlD 60ES D&WHS"felW .
IS 6EIN6 SLEEPV WHEN WIFE
S&FtLV OPENS DOOR AND
WHISPERS IS HE ASLEEP VCf?
COMES WIDE AWAKE AS POOR.
IS F1UN6 OPEN AND JUNIOR STAM
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LOOKS IN Y -TELL HIM ft SLEEP
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IN AND IS VO0KIN6 Af HIM
SA"S SHE NEEDN'f BWHER, AMP
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