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MEDFOHD MAIL TRTBUNT5, MEDFOItD. OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 17. 1936.
Golden Rain
ty by Margaret CWIddemtre
COMPETITION
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
For further proof address tha author, Inclosing a stamped evrelopa for reply. Reg. V. 8. Fat OS.
"31WAS
KTNOPSIIt Irli Lannlng, poor,
aristocratic, eager, hne been caught
tip -in the train of her htphlv suc
cessful Aunt rhino, America's moat
famous couturlere. Her brolner
Owen is already in the train, and
Sigrld, China's partner who alio I
Oysn's fiancee, rhino it asking trie
about her accomplishments, which
ere numsrous And trie hat iuet
about forgotten Aunt Ella and
Vncle Will, at home in Psrila, pa.
Chapter SO
TRUTH FROM PHINA
nHINA asked her lome rapid que
tlons In French, and then nodded.
'Yes good. Well, we have a winter
before us here In New York, and I
hope In spits of lessons you'll have
time for some fun., You can ride till
late in November In the country
after that In Central Park. Now got
your bath and get dressed, and come
down to the place for a tilling.
Aunt Phlna was an avalanche!
Iris was beginning to understand
why Owen went on being a designer
when he wanted to be an architect,
What she couldn't understand was
why Uncle Will badn't meekly mar
rled her the first week tbey met, such
a general was she. That strong Irre
sistible sureties that you would do
what she said swept you along like
a tide.
But, oh, a kind tide! Iris dressed
swiftly. Life was beginning! This
. morning a fitting for beautiful
clothes; this afternoon a gorgeous
party! ... If only Morgan were to
be there, Morgan with his quizzical
slow phrases that conveyed subtle
comfort and encouragement and ad
miration! Well, Morgan was ther In the
background, waiting, Love with Its
strong bands out til hold her. Per
haps ho'd come over soon, or she'd
run back to him tbey were young,
and there was plenty of time to de
cide, meanwhile, here were the pleas
ures and palaces and Morgan was
altogether too cynical about life. . ,
She splashed through her bath,
and, In an echo of remembering Mor
gan and Uncle Will and her other
life, began to sing as she went down
stairs, the old signal:
"Just as sure as It is half past
sight,
Bomeone's tapping at the garden
gate
"What's that you're singing?"
Phlna called from the desk where
she was going over a stack of bills
like Intelligent lightning,
"One of Grandmother Lannlng's
funny old songs that Uncle Will used
to like, to the guitar, In the evening.
I used to dress up In her clothes and
put on performances for him, bless
his heart, and sometimes I did It
for parties."
"Something Ella taught you?"
sharply.
Ella was the one chink In Fhlna's
smooth armor.
"No . . . Aunt Phlna, after all
you'ro a wonderful person and you've
dono It all yourself. Why do you
mind about poor Aunt Ella?"
The handsome dominant well
groomed middle-aged woman silting
at her desk, mistress of herself and
of most other things about her,
changed before Iris's eyes.
She became suddenly twenty
years younger and forty times an
grier; the outraged capable pretty
thing who had come to the aristo
cratic old town with only a needle
between herself and the wolf at the
door, half defiant, half frightened.
Her facs worked, The words poured
out In a stream.
"Because Ella Lannlng bad been
ntrenched In money and position a
generation ago because Jean and 1
were 'common sewing girls' as she
called us and because the was In
sane on the subject of your father,
she was Insolent merciless cruel.
Bh broke off my marriage with
Will she wrecked Jean's wllh
Lawrence. I've gone a long way.
I'll end higher than any Lannlng
ever dreamed of being. When I am,
IH go there agnin and show her
tell her."
AUNT PHINA stopped, pnntlng.
white, shaking. Iris shrank
back. Was this the driving force be
hind thnt dominating capability?
Phlna Ross ssw what effect she
had made, and was suddenly herself
again, the quiet masterful unmoved
woman. She smiled.
things sny, didn't I? That's all non
sense, of course. I really owe the
poor soul a good deal; I doubt If
I'd have made as much success or
money without that feeling. I'd
renlly supposed thore was E"thlng
left of It. Now sing your dramntlr
old auntie the song about the garden
gate. I want to know everything you
can do. You seem to have all the
talents." She put an affectionate
hand on Iris's shoulder.
Olad of somo outlet for her own
shaken feelings, Iris went to the
DEATHS PER MILE
LEAST ICE 1932
6AI.KM. Orf.r April 17 (AH Ho
tnrlAM In Oirnon trawlM 7,4!!l.a.n
mil for f'h fatality dua to a mo
tor whirl arrMcnt In IMS, 8cre
1ary of Bute Earl BnMl rrportd to
day. entMt'a figure listed on acrtdant
to flvtry 70.443 ml lea travll and
one perianal tnjui-y 10 cvrry ;U7 138
ml). Tha flgurta were bantd on
an average of la mi ion to tha gallon
of Kanoluia for v?iilclr of all tyr.
Thla allowing wm the best since
1933 In rrtard to fatAiitiea nnd u
anbatant 'ally better than the yeara
incs that lime.
Snell said that a atudy of Ore
gon'a accident problem had convinc
piano and sang the gong through
with all it outmoded gayetlsa and
archnesses. Phlna clapped when she
bod done; sue was completely her
self again.
"Darling, you art nearly a profes
sional diieusa, bless your heart. W
must work on that. I'll get you cos
tumes. Now come along."
Pblna's shop was not like any
shop Iris knew: not like a shop at
ail. Indeed. An ostentatiously quiet
window with one hat and one drafts
tossed on a chair; an almost In
visible sign.
Witbln, two large rooms, one with
paneled pale green walls, one fur
nished as a replica of on of Marie
Antoinette's, so she was told later.
A handful of bright particolored
necklaces dung on one table, a dress
or two across chairs. A fireplace
full of flowers at one end, with chairs
grouped about it; three or tour
lovely young girls, "types," drifting
about, gay and docile and flattering
to the five or six women who were
being shown as If one's relatives
did It, rather superior relatives
clothes from behind the panels.
An e 1 e c t r 1 e stiffening went
through the rooms with Pblna's
quiet arrival. The customers be
came excited; the sales people in
tensified their manners, whether
thce were gny or scornful or coax
ing. A tall awkward girl with face
that might have been handsome If
it had been less tense, broke away
from her salesgirl and rushed over
to Phlna. Her attitude was that of
schoolgirl toward a worshiped
teacher,
"Ob, Miss Phlna! Oh, Miss Phlna!"
Her Insistent voice rang through
the room, and she stopped short,
embarrassed and frightened. Phlna
spoke to her very much like a
teacher, Iris thought; kindly, a little
reprovingly.
"New. my dear Miss Camilla," she
said, looking brightly up at the girl's
stooped height, "you don't need any
thing mora at all this snrtne. Your
mother would think you war hor
ribly extravagant If I let, you go on
buying."
Iris, waiting at a little distance,
was sura the heard one of tht ex
quisite goddess blondes snicker.
There was some Joke about the poor
girl.
But but Mother won't mind,
honestly she won't at all," said Ca
milla, Jerking her shoulders under
the smart cont and flushing a dull
red ucder her unpowdered skin.
WHAT you need Is more time Id
the beauty parlor." Phlna said
almost severely. "If you wear your
clothes properly, and look after your
ihake-up better, that's all you need."
"But 1 do need one more evening
frock, anyway I" pleaded this topsy
turvy eustomer. Phlna shook her
head Indulgently.
Very well, If you must, but speak
to your mother first," she said.
"Oh, It tbls your nleca? Is this
Owen's sister? Oh, she's lovely!"
said Camilla with ber uncontrolled
voice. "And ehe looks like him too.
You look Just like Owen!" She
stnred at Iris with the same devo
tion she bad given Phlna. "Do come
see me! Or bavt luncheon with ma
tomorrow."
The enigma was solved poor glrll
It was Owen't designs, Owen him
self, In fact, that Camilla came for.
But the girl was so helpless, to
honest and Inept In her schoolgirl
crush thnt Iris could only be sorry
for ber. It this was a New York so
ciety girl, one needn't feel back-
wood sy!
Phlna made the luncheon engage
ment tentative, shitted Camilla
adroitly to the head saleswoman,
and beckoned Iris upstairs to the
tilting room.
"Is she" Iris began, half pitying,
half laughing.
"She la," said Phlna Irritably, and
yet with an amused lifted eyebrow.
My dear, thnt poor girl has every-
hing; except personal attraction.
Her mother turned her over to me
to dress. In despair; and I really was
doing well with her. All on earth
thnt nils hor Is a complete convic
tion that she Is awkward and ugly
and nobody loves her. I have told
Owon a doien times that It he had
mercy on her and married ber she
would bloom. She Isn't actually plain
Its her manner and voice. Iris,
you could help the poor child. Will
jruuT"
'Oh. not to marry Owen!"
"It might be tor his best In
terests." said, Phlna. "But 1 don't
mean that, foolish child. Don't be
romnntic. In splto of her money and
position sho's the Poor Little Rich
Girl. She took to you you can do
something kind there. Be her friend,
my denr."
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Irli trns more, Monday, of the
relation between her sunt end
Slgnd.
ed htm that Oregon motortata v-exa
making progrrM In infer driving, and
that hla department would continue
lta aafety cAn.pntgu.
WASHINGTON'S TROWEL
IS USED BY ROOSEVELT
WASHINGTON, April 17. (AP) In
laying the cornerstone of th new
Interior department building today.
President RooeveU noted that he
wa mi rig the aame trow I "uwvt by
the flret president In 179S In laying
the cornerMon of the capitol it
aelf." I think It la a find augury," he
added.
riMle strait.
PORT ANOKUKfl. April 17 (AP)
William Ordano, young Vlrtoria.
B. v., inventor, arrived hci ivdiy
aft or landing on the beach eicht
mtlea et of here laat night, he
Mid. at the end of a puddle trip
tn hla f inner" craft acroea the
Strati of Juan de rue a.
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note, wee eccentric In her smoking
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selected cigars, and these sho smoked
until her death, when, after the
outbreak of the world war, It seemed
lUely that her supply of favorite
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long outlasted the war. They even
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