PAGE 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
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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
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to "bravo" the prima donnas.
Tomorrow: Illtlens Plnch-Hltter.
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