PJGE EIGHT
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUXE, MED FORD, OREGON1, "WEDNESDAY. APRIL 15, 1936.
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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
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Jim k PieDouTiNfcrt' . a-,
eafiS&r' S WJSTRfcUAN DISTRICT ft jMk &
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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'
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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
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Srft POWW A&WrJ omu.
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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.
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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.
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