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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX MEDFORT) MAIL TRTBUXE. MEDFORD. OREGON. TUESDAY, AUGUST 18. 1936. THE WORLD WITH A FENCE A New Novtl by Marian Sim$ BYNOPStB: To her tamily't hor tor. Carol Torrance hat left Here with, Oa,, flat. Bhe hat taken a job teaching hietory and French in the Athboro, Oa.. high tchool at a flrtt ttep toward an indefinitely vitioned career and perhapt partly to get away from Don Rioharat. Now the hat found, at the preliminary teachere' meeting in Athboro. a girl who teeme to be likely to make a good companion. The meeting ittt hat ended. Chapter Fir BOARDING HOUSE THE meeting iu oyer. Carol glanced toward! the dark tin and amlled again, and they met In the doorway. "Are you walking?" Carol asked Mary Ellen Sanda nodded. "Are you?" "Yes. Should we atay and get met again, do you suppose?" "I don't aee why. It'a about din ner time and I'm hungry." She would be. They went down the steps and turned towards tows. Mary Ellen said: "You're Caroline Torrance, aren't you?" "I was. It'a been Carol for a long time now. Which are you: Mary or Ellen?" "Both." Carol laughed. "Don't think I'm going to call you all that. Which bad you rather?" "Ellen, I guess." "Ellen It la, then. Thank good ness (or somebody that knows how to walk." Ellen grinned. "It's my business. Good thing, too; we'll probably hare a lot of It to do In theae nine months. Is this your first year of teaching?" "My second. The first ws four years ago: I was drafted Into this at the eleventh hour. Are you new at it?" Ellen Sands grimaced. "Yea: I Just graduated In June. I'm acared to death." "You needn't be. Bluff It out" The pavement was hot beneath their feet and an occasional tree laced the aldewalk with ahadows. The grass smelled hot and dusty, like the golf course at home. Nos talgia swept Carol again, washing away her confidence. She aald quickly: "Toll me. about you. Where you went to school, and all that." "O. W. C. One sister younger a mother, and a father who's In the drug business and too generous for his own good." Carol matched her Information and then said: "Do you know where you're going to lire?" "I haven't the faintest I Just came this morning. Do you?" "No, but I've got a list of pros pects. After lunth we might go on a hunt , . ." THE search was not encouraging. The first house on Carol's list waa filled: the aecond frowned on them as they went up the walk. It was a beautiful shell of a bouse, with boxwood bordering the walk, and paint finking from the Doric columns. "It looks sort of bleak," Ellen whispered. Carol shrugged. "Twelve foot ceil ings and black walnut Empire furniture and a two foot grate In each room. I know Ha kind by heart" Sbe was right The bouse and Its owner gave oft the sick, sweet odor of decaying gentility. They made a quick escape. Carol looked thoughtful. "What do you say to hunting a place that's commoner and baa steam heat?" "Suits me. If you think our social position can atand It" In the end they found a house on the stroot leading to the high school, a nondescript bouse that lived tor the present and cast no longing glances over Its shoulder. The land lady was youngish and friendly and Intentionally blonde. She had two vacant rooms, sbe said; a large one at twenty dollars a month and a smaller one of fifteen. They Inspect ed the rooms, both as nondescript as the house but light and with ap parently adequate heating, and en gaged them at once. The living-room, Carol noticed In passing, waa discouraging: gilded rat-tails In a pottery Jar, a chromo of Notre Dame de Paris with mother-of-pearl windows, an ungain ly cabinet radio blaring unheeded Jan. All It needs, she thought. Is Venus with a clock In her stomach. , , . Hut after all. It wasn't her llrlng- room, and she wouldn't be using it Mrs. O'Connor followed them to the porch, where a little girl of eight or nine sat on the ateps sort ing autographed photographs of movie stars. "This is my little girl, Rosavel," sbe aald. "Rosavel, this is Miss Tor rance and Miss Sands." Rosavel muttered, "H'lo," without interrupting her rapt contemplation of Clark Gable's quizzically uplifted eyebrow. JUST after supper Ellon burst In to Carol's room. Ellen Sands didn't move like other people; she seemed to breast the air, suggesting the figurehead of a ship. "Well, for Pete's sake ... ." She stared at the room. The search was not encouraging Carol looked up from the letter she waa writing to Mllly. "What . . . ? Oh." The room did look better. She had replaced the thin, mossy ruga with hooked ones from her own room, and covered the bod with a wool coverlet of faded rose. The "Stag At Eve" and "The Melon Eaters" had bowed to German lithographs, and a dozen booka atood on the table In the mellow glow of a lamp. "I couldn't have stood It the other way," ahe admitted. "It only I could do aomethlng about the Groat Lakes on the celling. ..." Ellen sat down. "You certainly are good-looking," Ellen aald Impulsively. She looked Impersonally at her self and supposed ahe was. Her eyes wore smoky blue and wide-spaced, with thick lashes and straight dark brows that woren't quite In line, and her mouth was wide and well-cut The nose wasn't much, but the gen eral effect was good. Her hair waa light brown, and because it had a slight wave and was cut very short she never bothered with porma nents. She said honestly: "I guess so. I'd swap It any time tor your test tor living." Ellon gilmnced. "That'a what you think. I stay in hot water all the time because ot It I act first and then think, and half the time I can't toll what I'm going to say until I hear It, and then I'm more surprised than anybody else I" Carol laughed. "I wish I waa like that." She rau a comb carelessly through her hair. "Lets go. I've got a hunch you'd better not be late to meals at our establishment." (Copyright, Ml, by Uarian SlmiJ And tomorrow, Btn Tyler shows up again. TATOOED WOMAN IE PLACKRVILLE, Calif., Aug. 18. AP Tatooed Initials on the hip or i woman vhoM nude body waa found sear here were the sole clue to Irien ;lty In whaV officers Mid today they vere convinced is murder mystery. Sheriff George M. Smith, who Mid :he body hud apparently lain several veeka off the nghway where It was round yesterday, reported Uie Initial aero 'KM." He announced bruises n the body and two missing teeth indicated the woman, about 35 year. ?ld, had been beaten. The body was discovered 100 yard. ?ff the Plserville-SaTamento high ray near Clnrkcville by Walter Sou cle and Samuel Bell of Del Faso, who were seeking water for their over heated automobile. State Hospital Is Taxed For Space SALEM. Aug. 18.(AP) Housing apace wna at a premium at the Ore gon state hospital today aa the popu lation of the institution reached a new record of high of 26 putienta, as compared to lt normnl capacity ot 3100. Dr. R. E. Lee Stcincr, superin tendent, reported. Stelner ftntd a new unit to be com pleted next month would tnke cure of of 318 patients, but that "unless the nxt leglalature makes provision for expansion the new unit will be the only addition through the next blen-nliim." WINDOW OLAStH-We sell window gf and nil) replace your broken windows reasonably. Trowbridge Cab inet Work ELEVEN BY SALEM, Aug. 18. (AP) Eleven prisoners were freed from the Oregon state penitentiary Monday by parole order from Oovernor Martin. The governor alao authorized four other paroles, to become effective at a later date. All of the prisoner were serving indeterminate sentences. Most, of the paroles were recom mended by the state parole board at Its last meeting. Virtually all of the prisoners had served their maximum terms, less good behavior credits. Included In the parole llat were: Kenneth Redlfer, received for lar ceny November 14, 1935, and Vernon Redlfer, received March 13. 1935 after conviction on a statutory charge, both of Douglas county. Allan McMillan, assault, received September 24, 1934, and Max John son, burglary, tecelved April 36, 1935, both of Umatilla county. Alexander King, forgery, received November 13, 1935, from Lane county. Bart Hayes, larceny, received March 38. 1938, from Union county. Barbara Stanwyck- was a telephone operator when she was 13. ( During her school days, Jean Ar thur earned spending money by poa Intr for commercial photographers. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tot further proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. V. S. Pat Off. i ! l.u i v ; r' , -TT V'a & was ft fiRDUPOF PRDFWSONhl 'il 'I ' UftUGHcKS ftND OlHCr? W OKQBNIXEP IN PftRVS, 1320, 10 AllcNI ineftlKlCBl-rerTFOKMfiHCK fpRTrifi PROMOTION OF EKTHlrSlftSTlC 52? U)HGST tool flftME . Mobile, d is,, PlrYED'GOUF FROM N6W ORVEftNS. U3,r 159 Miles 4?gS "STROKES- LOST 27 'rmmmsT CIRCLES WHIL6 W&m 3T KEEP FROM WERE LAID IN h SIMLE PAY-' TiI7V vMfollirt TrP April 28, 18b9, SJhNf ft REC0T?P THbT rtrVS NEVER ' Track Laying Record. Working with furious haste to com plete the old Central Pacific Railroad before the rival line, the Union Pa cific, a construction crew of 5000 men laid 1000 tons of track extending over ten miles betwoen the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., with an hour off tor lunch. Even with the muchly Improved equipment for track-laying that Is In use today, the record estab lished near Promontory, Utah, on April 38, 1869, still stands. Six miles of this track was laid In 8 hours, a spoed of 144 feet per minute t The Claque. Dating back to the days of ancient Rome when the Emperor Nero hired 5000 people to applaud htm In a ting ing concert, the claque still exists to day. In Paris, Prance, 1830, an ap plauder's "casting office" waa opened. Under a "chef de claque,' applicants were selected for their various talents. If a man had a hearty, contagious laugh he waa chosen as a "rleur" to attend comedies where It was his duty to laugh uproariously at the program's witticisms. Usually women were chosen as "ploureura,', for. this clans waa paid to attend tragedies where they were given the Job of keeping the audience In a aad mood by placing handkerchiefs to their eyes and feigning tears. "Com ml Ma ires were scattered through the audience to call the at tentton of those sitting near them to the good points of the play. "Bls seurs" simply clapped their hands and shouted "bis! Dial" to provoke en cores. Even for the great Metropolitan operas In the United States profes sional applaudera are still employed to "bravo" the prima donnas. Tomorrow: Illtlens Plnch-Hltter. "TICKETS, PLEASE" By GLUYAS WILLIAMS 6ffi SE1YLED M -fRftirJ AMD J6KS FtrfrtER CAW HE PLEBSE 61VE "frtE ficKEft "to to CCH- PUtfOR RrfHER,Wrfrl CON SIDERABLE RELUtfAHCE, BURSTS HIM Wrfrt CUKCHES "TAKE'S AiWP 100K5 OOfOFWlKPfiW WHILE WAIflrfcS TDR CMtoUCfOR-fo COME CI6C6vTRHfil'lrlSPTt'E! 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