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Newspaper Page TextPJGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUXE, MED FORD, OREGON1, "WEDNESDAY. APRIL 15, 1936. Golden Rain ty bifrgartt CWtddtmer a 7WVJI lYKOPSrS: IHm Laming flde hereelf in the fairyland of her Aunt Phina'e Park avenue avortment. ' meeting the conventionally beeutU - Oven ie in love. Aunt Phina ie Amertoa'e moat famoue ocvturiere; Outen deetgne or her. And the etranee thing ie that trie did not even Know whether either Phina or Owen ioae living three daye ago. Morgan Black, IrW beet friend, found both of them for her, and then at once enatched Irie from the etd-faehtoned home of her Uncle f w in ana Aunc etio. Chapter 18 GAY PARADIS IRIS never bad nan a platinum blonds before, except In a morSe. Glgrld'a naturally yellow hair had been made almost silver; her browa and laahea had been done with the conventional mascara. Aunt Ella would have called her "actressy, except for her quick forthrlghtiiesi of gesture and manner. - , Fhlna Introduced them formally. "Where la Mri. Russell?'' Iris asked to break the moment's tension. "Oh, she isn't staylnx," Fhlna aald. . ;. . "I do not think she will' ever be worth the trouble Miss Fhlna put npon her," Slgrld aald. - , Bhe had no foreign accent, bat a light Inaccuracy about the proper Taluatlon of words and the. right elisions. Her intonations were - a little flat and vaguely wrong, also but It was so Intangible that Iris could only feel that It was a pity one flaw marred the girl's perfection. Bhe was so beautiful, and so ob viously Intelligent and charming. Bhe looked no more than sixteen. ' , "I suppose It Is a part of the work, but when fat women cry on me I want to give them a kick In the pants." Ker doll-tike childish beauty and high cool childish voice made her rough words irresistibly funny. Owen laughed out with a look of pro prietorship and pride. "Mrs. Russell. Is my very good : friend," Phlna said, at which Slgrld lifted a black line of eyebrow mock ingly. Fortunately dinner was an nounced. , , . . To plainly reared Iris It looked like a party. The four tall candle sticks, with yellow candles matching yellow rosea In a low translucent bowl, the lace runners, the low glass nut dishes matching the bowl for the roses. But It was, sbe knew, Phlna's normal state. What might aeem ess- ; ual charm waa careful correctness. Iris loved beauty and order, and It soothed and delighted her. The little dining room had deep liver-cloth draperies, hiding the windows and making all one wall; It had odd geometrlo silver lights, tri angular silver chairs. Ton felt aa If you were living In a patternnot a real, tossed-about place. You wanted : to step and speak like a girl In a pageant. .- . Tbe courses followed ceremoni ously: clear tomato soup, a mousse of fish, peaa and broccoli passed In a silver dish with two compartments. Then endive with something curly which proved to be chicory and a , tingling Roquefort dressing. Finally for dessert a dish of fruit . Iris had thought wax, it was so beau tiful, which had been standing on the odd-planed aide-table; and a choice of cheese and biscuits, passed on a big silver dish of a sort Iris re called put away at home, and a mys- ' tery till now. Coffee In small golden cups. "Tired. Irlsr Fhlna asked when dinner waa two-thirds over. "Or do you want to go to a show?" Theaters, as casually aa that? "I'd love It!" "Get the paper, Honora i" and Fhlna read down the list, discarding this one and that She settled on a . revue, finally, that Iris "must see." Honora telephoned an agency; it waa all arranged In five minutes. "RIB will have to use my black Tel- vet cape and the bag with It I haven't her evening . wraps yet" Phlna aald, with more seriousness thin she had used on all tbe rest to gether. Her voice Implied the deep Importance of evening wraps and the baga which matched them. Slgrld, too, looked serious. Iris thought It was b'.cause of their busi ness, but she discovered later that ' most women felt that if ay. , Honora cams with Phlna's gold and fur coat and bag and long gloves. She herself was given the blaok velvet cape, a short thing with long ties. Slgrld slipped Into some thing that had been lying across a chair: Owen was given his overcoat folding silk hat glovea and cane. They entored the mysterious door to the elevator, and were off. It was all pure enchantment to Iris her first New York theater. When she told Phlna, her aunt was shocked. "Owen, you must see to that Make out a list of revivals she must see, and buy her seats to plays the should know about" "All right" They were settling themselves in the taxi, by a known routine: tbe glris one each side of Phlna. Owen on the folding aeat In front "I can't get over the casual way you use taxis," Iris couldn't help saying. "The limousine's no good for the theater district" said Owen, above his cupped bands, manipulating his lighter. "In fact no private car Is." 'Well, I like the feeling that if you have your car down there the taxi people have to wait" aald Slg rld pertly. You could have the runabout" aald Owen hastily, aa If to check something Phlna waa going to say. Iris felt dimly that .Owen was ner vous when the two women were talking. And yet they worked to gether. And tbe vague feeling of antagon ism waa dimmed by the fairytale to lerance; two ears, evidently, Owen's runabout and Phlna's limousine. Waa sbe a greedy pig to like It that taxis were a commonplace, and limousines and runabouts a casual possession? ... And then they entered the warm white and gold brilliance of the the ater lobby; there were little usher girls In gay costumes like French cadets; the party swept forward down the aisle to orchestra seats; the orchestra began playing heaven- merry dancing music; the cur tain presently rose on a stage full of slim beautiful girls In long rose colored gowns, leaping and laugh ing with exquisite precision. The long lovely curves of the dance, the light and color and music, so moved Iris that her eyea filled with tears. She hoped they didn't see ner, and presently she was laughing with the rest She did not know that the others watch her with amused pleasure at her frank rapture. "I'm dying for a clgaret," Slgrld said, at the end of the first act "Come on out In the lobby." "yES, you go, Iris, I'll stay here," said Fhlna, who looked a little tired after her trip. After all, she waa human. So the young ones, Iris, In her black and rose, alight and ex cited, small Slgrld with her silvery head, Owen, slow and casual, ollmbed over three stout sulky Im movable women and down the aisle to the gorgeous lobby. The smoke waa thick. Somebody finally opened the front doors, letting In a gust of spring air. . "Ob, that's good.V Iris said thank fully, supposing she was next Owen. "You bet baby!" said the man be side her, and abe found aha waa look ing at the red-headed Dicky who had tried to make friends with her on the chair car that afternoon. His party had evidently also decided to end the evening at this, the most popular of the revues. . "We meet again I" said he, with a hand on bis shirt front "Who's the platinum blonde? You kept her from me." "Slgrld Swenson. The name Is Swedish, so you needn't wisecrack, beautiful," said Slgrld for herself behind Iris. "And you, young strang er?" "Dicky Hamilton. The name Is Csechoslovaklan. Clgaret?" "Sure, I'm nonchalant Seen you somewhere lately. No, I'm not try ing to make you. I did." "Yep, thafa right I remember the silver wheels. But I don't know where. Where I saw the other one was on the train coming over from Pbllly thla p. m. from the game. I waa Just getting her sold on the gang when Alien pulled me off her crab be Is. Hey, I know. Phlna Weatherley'a. Georgia Blair dragged me In there last week." "Tbat'a right I'm the Junior part, ner," aald Slgrld; which Impressed Dicky, or at least he stopped talking long enough tor her to continue. "Iris Is her niece, Owen's her nephew Phlna's." Owen waa beside the two rlrls. listening to Elgrld's quick patter of tan witn something of Uncle Will's detached serenity. The handsome nutcracker face, black-eyed, bright-painted,- black-banged, of the girl called Georgia pushed In beside Dicky's. Her red dress, her spatter of glittering earrings and necklace and clips and bar kits all focused on Owen. "We saw you both," she ssld with emphatle friendliness. "You never waked all tbe way across. Do you always aleep like that?" She had a sharp possessive charm when she smiled. "Curtain's going up," said the cool voice of tbe tall man Allan from be hind the rest He and Iris smiled at each other like friends. Georgia pulled from the other groups as they widened apart putting a thin glitter ing hand on Owen's arm. (C-fyie'l. mi-It. M.;.l WUiimer) Mi. a milt dad. Is still whirl. Infl tomorrow. OTTAWA. April 10. ( API Stoclts of whtat In Canada on March SI were about 37.000.000 buahtla below the corresponding date last year, aald a crop report Uaned today by the dominion bureau of atatlatlca atocka at the end of Mrch In Canada were given aa 34I,093,M0 and a year ago at 883.033,184. The 1039 figure waa the lowest fjr that date or any year alnce 1930 when the total waa JM.tn.S07 buahels. In addition to the storks of Canadian wheat In Canada on March 31 lut, there were 10.435.105 buahels of Canadian wheat In the United States making the total In both countries 363.4fia.0M buahels as com pared with 328.343.330 In the earns peeltlona a year ago. IF F. R. JERSKY CITY. K. J April 15 (AP) Alexander Calder, president of Bag at Paper Corp, aald at the an nual itockholdert meeting today, "tf Rooaevelt la re-elected, we will have the greateat business boom In the hutory of the country, but I wont aay how big a crash we will have after." "If a Republican Is elected we won't have ao big a boom, but we also will have lee of a rraeh." The stockholders approved an In crease In authr!?d capital stock to 300.000 shares, wlthort ptr value and all of one cla. from 300,000 shares sow outstanding. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further, proof sdis th.author,nclolng stamped envelope for reply. Rec'U 8. Pat Oft 2 ' 10-6OM. m MJ -A. DA , HANDICAP ' MlUvt tW A, crtV vs not ft cflY foR 13 : FiV. m Jim k PieDouTiNfcrt' . a-, eafiS&r' S WJSTRfcUAN DISTRICT ft jMk & ffc 1 WBKBN, HONK! HONK! By GLUYAS WILLIAMS Strange as It seems the successful growth of white clover Is often de pendent upon the presence of cats In the vicinity. The strange chain ot lnterdependency of various forms of plant and animal life was related by Darwin. Clover, be pointed out, Is dependent upon the presence of bumblebees because they carry the pollen from one flower to another and thus fertilize the crop. If the bees are to flourish, there must not be too. many mice, for mice destroy bees' nests. Thus, the more mice, the fewer the bees and the poorer the clover. If, however. there are plenty of cats, there will be fewer mice, more bees, and better clover. One area In Australia had a clover failure because there were not enough cats to destroy the mice. Clover Is not native to Australia, and before it could successfully be grown there, bumblebees had to be Imported. ' 61LVW THREAPS' tlyr? UiT. Liter rwn nr- out tf PAMKS DIED AU5N6 IU t CHtftP ROOMING HOUSE. A COrV ' Of HlS S0N6 IH HIS HfcND Yet, strange as It seems, thla mov ing song of undying love could not preserve the composer's own happi ness. Within a year after It became b. success be and hie wife became estranged. Thirty years later Dank was found dead, alone In a cheap rooming house his Immortal song clutched In one hand.' Across It was written an unfinlahed last message: "It la hard to die alone and . . . " WRrfS WR TOEUD WHO ra 60l6f0S1bPF0RHRIi her CflR fo -Cake wvOb he w.itet.ajii HEARS A MONK OlX" S1PE KiV TOSHES OOf No car -There, supposes rf W6 frtftf DELIVERS' ' ifeUtK 1URNII6lr! CORKER Srft POWW A&WrJ omu. -ftNfD ORIrlREE SHORT HONKS SOUrVD. PEERS 0Uf. SEES ff !5 iffE MArJ ACROSS "THE SfREEf BACKING OltfOFHIS ' DRIVEWAY ' HEAPS ANOTHER HONK BOfWArTs UN-til If HAS BEEK REPEATED Af lK ItRVftlS . RUSHES OUT . FINDS tfS 1HE KE16HB0RHOOD CHIl-' 5REN PLRV1W6 WllH 1rlE HOWiAFfHECflR NEtfDDOR. (Copyright," 1838, by The Bell Syndicate, IncT)' DECIDES rfS LESS WEAR WIS "lb WAIT OUT ON tHE STOOP ElEH IF SHE IS COLD toauiKt, S'MATTEE POP- Bj 0. M. PAYNB The words to "Sliver Threads Among the Gold" were bought for $3.00 by the 'composer, Hart Pease Dunks, and set to muslo by hlra. Although the song became one of the biggest sellers of all time, It was composed by Danks as a tribute to the love he felt for his wife. i I afyy keTp' wrisley'sI &Ffgpfc , ON YOUR MIND fp ca5zm WHEN YOU WANTJ YJFty JfJ FLAVOR AND j A polo player who rates a 10-goal handicap Is considered theoretically perfect. Hitchcock: was given this rating 13 times. Tomorrow: Town of S Governments. Use Mall Tribune want ads. 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