MEPFORD 'MAIL TRTBUNT1. MEDKOKD. OREfiOy. MONDAY. APRIL 20. 1936.
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Gnldpn Pain
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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bi)Aarqartt CTWIddemer. -dtj
nT r.i lfYAS WILLIAMS
.it.vrttl8: Irit tanning u at
tending her frtt New York cocktail
party, and perhapt because it it her
tret, the it enjoying it immenetly.
She hat tun enatched from her
tmall town environment till her
Aunt Phtna, the tamoue eouluriire,
and her brother Owen, who deeigne
tor Phtna Sow the it talking with
Allan Beckley, who it piqued by
trie' "differentnest," ana it draw
ina her out to tell her whole tlory.
Irit talkt eagerly, and well'
Chapter 21
CAMILLA AGAIN
"T onlj wanted what the other girls
had," Iris ended limply;
"money (or movies and nice clothes
like the others, and to give back lit
tle parties for their little parties.
And sometimes to give Uncle Will
things thatl knew he never had. And
run In to town to a show, and maybe
own a Fc-d."
She laughed. Quite his friend
again, he had listened so eagerly,
amlled so sympathetically. "Just a
small-town girl In the city; but, oh,
It's a heavenly city. Aunt Phlna
giving me everything In the world,
and a perfectly strange bunch of
people asking me to a party the sec
end day out. And I'm buying Uncle
Will a radio tomorrow, and a dozen
Dicky caught her up.
of the kind of shirts he always
wanted."
Her eager gray eyes, with their
dilated black centers, her whole liv
ing Intensity and charm, were close
to him. But he answered quietly,
mlllng at her.
' "I'm sorry the Ford and the movies
re all you wanted; 1 am a collector
of sorts; 1 was hoping you cared
enough for Matisse to come see my
place."
"Why, thank you, I'd love to,"
the said politely, ,
"But not mad about It? Like this
sort of thing better?" His voice was
piqued, and yet little relieved.
. "1 do love It!" she answered Joy
ously. "I hope lots of people ask me
to lota more parties and I have ones
, like this myself."
He glanced around them. Tbe ac
tordlon was playing Jauntily with
loud exaggerated rhythms. The
dancers In their reds and blacks and
tinsels swung and moved and sang
the whining ucltlng silly words to
the negro's tunes.
"1 don't," he said wearily.
"Then why do you come to places
like these?"
"Because," he ssld, "I come of a
race that's run out; too tired, too
devitalized. 1 happen still to have a
sufficiently good brain to realize that
And so 1 play about with these yell
ing dancing children Instead of my
own generation because they have
what 1 want. Life, vividness, vitality.
That's why 1 come to Georgia's Ml
tle parties. Georgia Is vital. Tbe
parties aren'L"
"Why, everything's alive, every
thing's vital!" Iris said, surprised.
She did not understand blm.
"You are," he said. "More than
anyone 1 have seen for years Iris"
DICKY, lit to his usual state,
caught her up and away In the
lance before she heard the end of
what Allan had been saying. "Where
you been all my life?" he demanded
Inevitably.
"Just waiting for you," Iris said,
as she would have said bark home.
"Tbls Is noble of me. taking you
away," Dicky Informed her. "1 like
It, you know. But's nobility. If
Georgia sees you burning up Allan
Beckley she'll bite your ear off.
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Wslter W. Abbey. Medford auto
dealer who was recently appointed
emissary eitrnnrfltnury for lit an
nual reunion of the 6Mn c.-xuit Artil
lery corps, today announced that
many men from this district are
planning on attending. The get
together Is alsted for May 9 in the
Congress Hotel In Portland.
The OSth was stsllrvned at Camp
Stevens at the mouth of the Colum
bia river and left for overset In 1917
Tbe reRlment was composed of co.l
mei'i, and included moet of the Ore
gon national guard.
While the meettne 1-. pnnnred
and promoted by the old flMh, all
coast artillerymen stationed at Camp
darling. Georgia threw his cousin
Jimmy last year when Jimmy's dad
got Into tbe tabloids as a malefactor
of great wealth, and then finished
himself and some of the wealth.
"But she seems to have a taste for
the family and who wouldn't, 1
ask you? Social stuff to burn, money
to burn, nice manners, well-known
polo player and art collector. Girl
collector, too. Georgia thought she
had him hung over the side of tb4
boat.
"Lots of girl thought they had
Allan hung over tbe side of the
boat, but he's a collector. 'Member,
I warned you, Beautiful, he's a col
lector! An' here I've spilled Georgia's
beans, Inlroducln' another new girl.
Will Mother give mo hell?"
Iris stopped his cheerful mono
logue by a quick, "Do you mean to
say Georgia didn't want me at the
party?"
"Now, now, baby-child! Don't mind
poor old dopy Dicky, best, heart In
the world! 'Course sho wants you, I
want you, everybody wants you,
that's your trouble. Do you know the
Double Trouble? Step I Invented."
She removed herself resolutely
from him In a convenient corner.
She stepped backward In the half-
gloom, found she had almost put a
satln-siippercd foot on somebody s
hand. She dropped down beside this
somebody In order to apologize and
also to conccnl ucrai-II from Dicky,
who stared around vaguely, then
finding on a noarby tnble an un
touched drink drained the glass
and wandered off. ,
As her eyes became accustomed to
the dark corner the largo dark ob
ject proved Itself to be, of all people.
Camilla Wendell, sitting as con
coaled as possible In the background
of the party.
-I BEGIN to think I'm In Wonder
1 land!" Iris quoted. "Is every
body I've met In Now York In two
days at this parly? How nice to see
you again. MIbs Wendell'"
"I'm sorry," snld Camilla which
was, Iris learned later, Camilla's
nearly Invariable beginning to her
sentences. "But people do go In
groups, you knew, and Georgia Blair
Is my cousin, she told me at luncheon
she was having a party, and who
was coming, and I said, If I paid the
catoror couldn't 1 como? And she
said yes; she's hard up, you know,
and I'm not. it was vory nice of
her nnd I'm so awfully glad to see
you.
She peered across Iris through the
gloom, her eyeglasses held tight
Iris did not know whether to be
sorry for her or a little shocked.
Then she realized that poor Camilla
had been made to feel so unattractive
that the transaction she had Just
mentioned wns a commonplace for
hor. It had of course onnhlcd her to
spend two hours In the same place
with Owon.
Iris remembered with dread a
quotation of Uncle Will's from
Thackoray. to the effoct that any
woman without an absolute hump
could marry any man whatsoever.
Which recalled a letter from Uncle
Will she had rocelvcd Just as she
left and thrust down Inside her
dress to read at the first opportunity.
Camilla wouldn't care.
"l'vo Just remembered a letter
from my uncle," sho said, reaching
for a candle high above her and
holding It near the letter. "Do you
mlrd It 1 read It?"
"Oh plonse don't mind me." said
Camilla cngerly. "It's so nice to have
company In this rornor."
tC.'l, llll le. It 4 i, -ii Widitmrr)
T.-.;c
brief tncounttr.
ytrvens dirtn); Itie wr are Invited,
nrd urct. to Attend. Abhey jttttied.
He asked tiiat thfwe imcrestcd In the
conclave either contact htm or write
to llnrold Hunt, woo Ouardlnn
butldltiR. in PtlUnd
ttrMiiliA Sir t '.i tilt u
g.M.KM. April '.'11 - t AIM Ahout i(
orra'l.ilR of tlie statr ommMl DeMolay
risltrd hr untr o;,'ob end insti
tution nrrp aturdAy to conduot a
study of the workinp of 9tt gov
ernment. la I i;mm- rp
VATICAN CITV, Apl 11 30. lAPl
A brief dlnpatch reported today thut
Mon!:nor Tito Cwpl. auditor of the
Papal Ntinnldtutr nt Madrid, dlrd
aboard a bout carrying him Irom
Banvlona, Spain, to Oeno. Italy.
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Although piracy 1a almost aa old aa,
sea-faring Itself, the period now gen
erally associated with pirate days
waa that during the seventeenth cen
tury when sea-robbers began to In
fest the West Indies. In the early
days of this period of piracy, many
of the hostile acta against shipping
were committed by privateers that
Is, sea captains who were authorized
by one nation to carry on a private
war against the shipping of another
nation. Although thor,e la a fine legal
distinction between privateering and
piracy, the results proved to be about
the same In either case.
If a ship was a privateer. It sailed
the flag of Its country and commit
ted acts tantamount to piracy. Others
who were out and out pirates also
flew flags of whatever nations pleas
ed them. Sometimes a prlvateer-ptrat
eot authorization from more than
one government and thus waa able
to claim protection of the same gov
ernments whoae shipping he attacked.
It wna not until after the balmiest
days of piracy on the Spanish Main
were over that pirates generally dls
clslmed all nationality, adopted the
black flag with skull and crossbones.
and declared war on all shipping.
But by then the tide of public feel-
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lng had turned, and piracy waa on
the wane. In the early days colon
ists of Spain. England and France,
who were compelled to trade with
their mother countries, welcomed the
contraband goods that the pirates
were able to supply.
The bablrusa Is a true swine, but
natives of Celebes in the Malay Arch
ipelago call It the "pig-deer" because
of Its body which more resembles
that of a tiny deer than a pig. This
pig. unlike almost all others, is a
good swimmer.
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