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MEDFORD MAIL TRTBUXE, MEDKOKD. ' OREGOX, SUNDAY. APT?TL 19. 1936.
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SYNOPSIS: Iris Lannlng has
been caught up by her managing,
tvenlthu and forceful Aunt Phina
, and taken to New York from her
home in Persia, Pa. Iris hat lived
the tire or an mpoverienca aristo
crat hitherto; now the ie being in
traduced to the delights of Neto
York. Her Aunt Phina ie America's
leading couturiers and wealthy be
sides ; her brother Owen designs for
Phina; Owen's Hancee Stortd is
Phina's business partner. For ths
moment Iris docs not think much o
her Aunt Ella and Uncle Will In
Persia even ot Uorgan Black, who
has told her that he loves her.
Chapter II
NEW YORK REVEL
"TTELLO, Iris. Evening jacket! to
1 match all gowns, iports suits;
that's right. It It notT But It Is as
much as anyone's life Is worth to
make a chalk mark on you till Miss
Phlna comes."
"Sure, Miss Slgrld," said the pret
ty yellow-curled doll who had con
royed Iris, becoming suddenly pert
ly human. "I only brought her along
or you to make the chalk marks. All
I do's walk them!
Both girls laughed.
"Why Is everyone so afraid of
aunt Phlna?" Iris asked when the
girl, still giggling at her own wit,
was gone. Slgrld had dismissed the
other woman till Phlna arrived.
"Power of personalty, I suppose,
Blgrtd shrugged. "Owen Is afraid be
cause she has always had blm under
her thumb."
"Slgrld, I'm on Owen's side," Iris
laid. "I want you both to be happy.
Why won't you marry blm unless he
Itops working here? I should think
rou'd like It"
"Because, well as he does It, be Is
ashamed of It: and because as long
is he does It Phlna will own him as
- ihe always has. And Phlna will hold
blm through what he tblnka Is grati
tude and honor. And eventually be
will marry somebody whose father
was not a Swede carpenter. That Is
what Papa was. and darn good at
his Job, too, I tell you!
"Slgrld, you shan't talk so of my
aunt! You don't know what she's
been through.. She doesn't feel like
that, she's always worked herself."
"Girls, girls!" said I'htna's coo!
rolce. Sbe was evej laugblng. "If
ilther of you can abandon romance
for a moment we'll get to work."
Iris expected Slgrld to be ashamed
or surprised. She was neither.
"What do you want ntted first?'
Slgrld asked as quietly as It noth
ing had happened, and Phlna, also
quietly, told ber.
"How can you go on being her
partner? Iris asked when Pblna had
gone again. i
"Why not?" Slgrld -asked; and
Iria began to understand what Owen
had said about wanting someone
soft and nwian wltL him. Slgrld had
a Northe.-n hardness. "Business Is
one thing, personal feeling another.
Pblna is one of the finest business
women I know, and honest. She
feels the same way about me. She
rang for the women, and the work
began.
A FTER the fitting, which took all
morning, aad luncheon with her
aunt at the newest and biggest and
most exciting hotel, she was sent
home to He down until time tor the
cocktail party. But sbe walked np
Fifth Avenue Instead. The shop win
dows w.,e so exciting.
. Everything beautiful In the world,
bronzes, oriental Images, Jewels, ex
quisite rugs and draperies: what
might have been museum exhibits
of beautiful shoes hats, gloves,
frocks, rare books a clock In a Jew
eler's window Anally sent her racing
borne In a taxi.
- "I'm late, Honors, Tve only time
to dress," she told the older maid,
whose special charge she was.
She found herself being redressed
from the skin out, different shoes,
stockings, everything)! Unally ar
rayed In black velvet wltb a short
silver Jacket under an afternoon
coat she had not seen.
"But Is this right are yon sure?"
she asked Honors. It seemed like a
funny costume.
"It's what Madame said you were
to wear," the maid 'ssured her. She
crowned the work with a close
wrapped sllvoi turban, gave her
fresh white gloves and sent her
down to the wilting car, Dicky Ham
ilton's madly-shsped. madly-palntsd
runabout. Owen and Slgrld were al
ready In the rumble, wherever he
had found them. Dicky waa rather
nice, now that he was alone, and.
oddly, a little sad.
"You're tho kind of girl that
makes men feel romantic," he said.
"Swearing allegiance, dropping on
one knee, all that sort ot thing we
read about when we were kids, you
know? Where'd you think up your
swell line?"
His blue eyes looked so wistfully
Into hers that she could not be entry
at his words. She lsughed. "I'll have
to get a placard and wear It 'I was
brought up by romantic old-fashioned
peonle It. a country town on
OF BUTTER HIGH
PORTLAND. Ore., April 18 (AP)
Dr. Frederick M. Huntr. maiulIor
of higher education, told the Oregon
Dairy Council that "the quality of
Oregon butter baa been raised to the
highest level In the country throush
the reeeareh and experiment of the
ernoola under the Oreson state ays
ten of higher education."
Dr. Hunter said. ' You nave some
thing here In vour system of higher
duration. But you should try to
know tt."
At the business session, Mrs. Ads
Reed Mayna, rounrll manager, re
ported on educational work accom
plished the past year.
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recollections of vanished grandeur.'
Sorry, Dicky. It Isn't a line. It's the
only way I know how to behave!"
"You mean you're real?"
"As far as I know I'm real."
"Never thought It up or any
thing? Oosht Iris, from now on I'm
your tr-rue knight. That Is, until you
turn Into something else."
- There was no visible bontess In
the big studio apartment whore
Dicky led them. A red-sashed negro
waa playing a frenzied accordion
to which fifteen or twenty girls and
men were dancing. There were col
ored lantern-like lights hanging here
and there.
The atory-and-a-half room was
misted blue with clgaret smoke.
Two painted life-size wooden Ren
aissance Madonnas brooded, lost,
above the place. There were t-pes-trles
on the dark panele. walls.
It might have been a revel of
Cosmo de' Medici's but for the ac
cordionist, and the taxi horns crying
louder or softer, recurrently, below
the enormous frosted windows
draped In red damask fringed wltb
gold.
Georgia Blair danced past them.
In scarlet velvet pajamas that made
Iris's costume seem quiet by con
trast. Sbe reached out unceremoni
ously for Owen.
"Here, take the platinum blonde,"
she ordered her partner, who effect
ed the exchange swiftly and neatly.'
Dicky saw a table under a window
with cocktails and hors-d'osuvres.
"Come along," he said to Iris, and
dived through the dancers without
waiting for her to follow. Two other
men stood there with glasses. They
all began to discuss polo loudly and
continuously.
f RIS stood still, gld ot a moment
to look about her. Off in a corner,
heedless of the accordion, a boy
with a girl's chiffon scarf tied round
his head was playing the piano. The
scarf'a possessor, severely rallnrAri
one foot on the piano bench, was
singing to him "Why Was I Born?"
In a mock-tragic voice.
Two'or three other couples were
nerched on sills and niiahinna n,fli..
iPZ cheerfully open love. Empty or
uau-iuii glasses were everywhere.
An arm came round her waist; Allan
eeciey was with her. swinging her
In his long-stepped dancing. She felt
hlS thInnflSS. hlM av nrai-llnn
smelt Ulao water faintly and clgareta
of a very good kind aa he swung her
down the room.
The dance was so nearly done that
they atopped directly before a fire
side seat Allan drew her down Into
It. There were embers of a Are
j!utCu opoiivd wiuilowa had kept
from overheating the room. His
light-blue eyus considered her aa if
he were looking at something very
new, very Interesting which had
been given him for a plaything.
But wbat be said waa simple
enough. "Like all thls7"
"I'm crazy over IL It's llvln. anil
the way It looks the llrhra nH
spots of color, like a Matisse. Nntur.
does imitate art even If Wilde had
to say It."
He looked surprised. "Who tnd
you to talk to me about Matisse and
wuae, young Iris?" he said lightly,
but still aa If be wanted to know;
'and as if anything he said, Iris
thought Indignantly, was all right,
"la there any reason whv it la tar.
bidden? Doesn't your mother let you
reror to modern painters? You asked
me a question and I answered It.
You're the second man who hn mm.
ed as If I said things to make an
effect I don't and Iidon't know any-
nody who does."
"I am very sorry," said Allan sim
ply, his voice amused again: "Unfor
tunately. I do know neonle vhn An.
too many ot them; and knowing your
oacKgrouna "
'But you don't!" Irla said In aim
prise. "Or do you feel as If I ought
to talk In effects because Aunt
Phlna Is a dressmaker? fnnkli i
don't understand your attitude or
Dicky's. Or nerhana It's ha,-aii l
don't belong In New York, and you're
lauguing ai me. -
He answered her dlrectlv. InnVlnr
st ber In a new way, almost as It
she were a man.
'lm not laua-hlna- at vnn. t am
known to be Interested in the things
you referred to. Most girls, try to
talk to men of thlnsa or whfrh thav
themselves know nothing, to be.
snail we ssy? kind. As for Madame
ruins, it wasn t ter profession 1
meant I have the hlahnat mnAH
for her; she la a female Napoleon,
I have always hesrd. And it you
have foralven mv alln. nlaaa tall
me about your background. I bate
kow yorx myseir. '
Before she realized It aha had. In
answer to p. few swift questions, d
scribed the place, the people, sh
came from.
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Irlt and Allan play trut coitfts
alona. tomorrow.
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6ALKM. Or., April 18. (API Au
tomobile fn tAllt it during March In
Oregon totaled H. half th number
remit I ng from accident the Mm
month yer go, tht necretary or
junto announced.
Pernoni Injured during tha month
were 4fll. an Increase, of 16 compared
to March laat year.
ratal l tier tha first qut.rter reached
5.1. Jut one lens than the 1995 first
quarter. Injur! en totaled 1.3,18 aa
compared to 11M1. Number of accU
dent were 6,177 as compared to 4,
999.
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VALE HOMESTEAD
WASHINGTON, April 18. (AP)
Secretary Ickes announced today 7,
310 acrea of land to b irrigated by
the Vale and Owyhee reclamation
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In the unofficial world's golf cham
pionship challenge match between
Walter Hagen, winner of the British
open, and Cyril Walker, winner of
the American open. Hagen scored a
victory m decisive that It set a new
record for lop-sided scores for this
event. At the end of the third 18-
hole round of the 72-hole match, Ha
gen was 17 up. The two contestants
halved ths first hole of the last 18,
and Hagen won the second for an
all-time record of 18 up and 16 to
play. In 1928 Hagen met the British
pro, Archie Compaton, In a 72-hole
challenge match. Off form and out
of practice, Hagen went down by 18
holes and 17 to play.
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project In Oregon would be opened
to homtedert in May,
Application for 27 farm unite, to
taling 1.021 acres of the Vale pro
ject, will be received between May
lfi and MAy as, and request for 107
farms, totaling 6,260 acres, on the
Mitchell Butte division of the Owy
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Italian Composer Dead
ROME, April 18. (AP) Ottorlno
Resplghl, 66-year-old Italian com
poser, pianist and conductor, died
today of heart disease.
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Persian brides take no cnanoes on
unpaid alimony In case their wedding
Is a failure. All that la agreed upon
in the contract of marriage before
they are actually married. Some con
tracts call for a definite cash settle
ment to be paid by the husband If
he should divorce his wife; others
are drawn with the Idea of making
divorce Impossible the contract may
require that the husband pay his
wife several pounds of mosquito
wings as alimony In case he divorces
her.
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ter "o," the f irat eight In the list I racy.
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Boy Hikers Perish
BERaJN. Germany. April 18. (AP)
Five English schoolboys, members
of t hiking party of 27, died of ex
haustion today In the hilly region
of the southwest German state of
Baden, after the party lost Its way In
a heavy snowstorm.
Cholera in 81am
BANGKOK, 61am, April 18. (AP)
Medical reports disclosed today that
1.400 persons have died of choelra In
Slam from the beginning of the out
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protection. Generally birds which lay
their nests In hidden places lay white
eggs, but birds which nest In the
open always lay colored or spotted
eggs. Birds nesting In green trees
and shrubs often lay greenish eggs.
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