Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 15, 1937, Image 12

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE" TWELVE MEDFOHD MATL TRTBUyE. MTDFORD. OHEOON". TKTTRSDAY. APRIL 15, 1937. By MARGARET WIDDEMER. SYNOPSIS: Eve Mannersfield goes back to her 200'year-old , house and orchard in Connecticut after five years in New York, She . plans to rent, marry gay, city loving Denny and return to Man hattan. "Uncle" Henry moves in to help her run the place. Then . come Peter, the penniless artist, . his languid wife Marylin end their serious young son Judge. Eve's neighbor, calm, practical George Cleveland, who loves her, come over with his father eve nings. One day George tells her i the renting agent said Eve had given up the idea of renting. Eve denies this excitedly. Chapter 28 Placid Evenings MRS. MORTON, trim and tense Jn her small glass-fronted office be tween the post office and the grocery, said In dismay; "Mrs. Featherstont said so. She watt out walking and I met her. She said you were all too happy there to want to rent. 1 supposed you thought it would be as easy to go on with the eld business your aunt was In Eve turned to George. There must be some mistake. She couldn t But as she said It she knew that Marylin's fatal inconsequence might have made Just that mistake possible. "I'm terrihly sorry," Mrs. Morton laid. "It's a shame, and with the rent ing season almost over, but I'll do everything I possibly can to rent it for you." ... Marylin, lying among her pillows and papers, with the breakfast tray still across her knees and the rose aatin wrap Molly De Peyster had given her huddled about her, was first uncomprehending and then In an agony of penitence. -"Oh, darling," she mourned, "what a horrible thing to do to you. I never dreamed it could make the least, bit of .difference. And when I said to you. didn't you love our being here, and wouldn't you rather we kept on like this all summer, you said you were so glad we, liked it and wished we could . . V and 1 thought that meant you didn't want to rent ..." - Marylin was too horrified and mis erable for Eve to do anything but aay, "Well, there's nothing to be done now; It may rent still." I Pflter was more horrified than Eve. He even volunteered to go low-brow and do some book covers. That ought to help. And Uncle Henry says Judge ought to have more pleasures. I'll buy him a bicycle and give you the rest for extra rent," said ! Peter generously. j ' Uncle Henry and Peter and George held a council of war with Eve that night in Uncle Henry's end of the! parlors., She felt one of her recurrent waves of guilt about concealing her; Intention of marrying Denny as soon I as he came back. But she mustn't talk tfbout it, It wasn't certain. And when i they did marry, now that the country weather was getting more heavenly every day, Denny would probably just settle in here with her till fall; he liked the Featherstones well enough. So she said nothing, to their assur ances .that with the help of Peter's money and Uncle Henry's greenstuffs they could carry on well. "And with Denny's help." she said irrelevantly to herself, "we could af ford a tennis club membership" Seeing her so brlghteyed and flushed and content. George Cleveland and Henry De Remer smiled at each other, relieved. Brldre Or Anagramc MARYLIN called to Peter lovingly from the fire In the front room, "Darling, here's darling Daddy Cleve land simply champing for his chessl" The older Cleveland, sitting near her with his usual air of having all the time in the world, smiled benign ly at Marylin, stretched In her chair with an arm around her little boy. Peter smiled and crossed to get the chessmen. Judge got up and went into the back room to Uncle Henry. The group had settled Into its accustomed evening routine. For routine it had come to be, a aettled evening arrangement of un derstood placid comfort. Both Cleve land seemed domestically Inclined men. Mrs. Cleveland had tired of the country after a week of rain and was still obstinately at the Park avenue apartment. Her son was busy with his orchard and small fruits; her hus band was a fanatic golfer, and his fa vorite club within driving distance of George's house. So he played chess with Peter the three weekend nights and George, drifting In with him. read the papers, or did mathematics about genetics on the round table where Uncle Henry and Judge car rled on games of checkers or hunted for stations on Eve's little radio. Both father and son behaved In general as if this were where they most liked to be. "At home my wife always retires after dinner unless we're doing some thing social." Mr. Cleveland said apologetically. "I don't know when George and I have had so much solid comfort as sitting round here, Hope wa aren't overdoing It.' Everybody assured them sincerely that they were not. "And it is such a comfort to hav enough for bridge or anagrams when ever you like," Eve and Marylin agreed. The battered box of letters, the cards and chess and checkers were scarcely ever put away. The big old dictionary from the attic, in Its Iron stand, its calf covers coming off, its vintage that of Eve's grandfather, stood permanently In the niche be hind the parlor fireplace. Sometimes the whole group was coaxed into game of anagrams, Judge and all. There had been Jokes last night about a return match, after Peter had won over everyone by six three-syllable words. He and old Mr. Cleveland were the best players. "It's like the homes in library books," Judge said. "I didn't ever know they were real before." It was the middle of May before Denny got back from the road. Six long weks. He called up on top of a letter that had given no hint of it to say he was actually here, actually coming out this Friday afternoonl Eve went over his room lovingly; : had she forgotten anything? Daffodils on the marble table between the win dows; the funny 1880 pillow shams that belonged on the towering elabo rate walnut bed with a package of cigarettes and an ash tray beside it and the new novel Mr. Cleveland had brought over night before last. Everything. The wallpaper was cer tainly a disgrace, but that couldn't be helped. The room was furnished exactly as it had been since Eve'i grandfather bought It new for hii bride, and Denny, who had seen the tall marble-topped bureau, with lti long glass sunken between the slda drawers, had pronounced It priceless. "You must let me sleep in that bed," he'd said. "And if you come in and wake me up, you'll probably find I've grown side-whiskers and a derby." She laughed now as she thought ol it, excitedly. Tonight he would sleep here, and they would laugh about her "period furniture" together, - 'Eve You're Beautiful' TOO restless to stand still, she went out and gathered more daffodil in the back garden, went up and down the walks to see what had come up since yesterday, and finally came to anchor In the portico in the rear. Standing there on its high eight eenth-century floor, she drew a.lonf breath of delight, looking down on lawn and orchard. All this heavenly outdoors to r.how Dennyl Time and Uncle Henry had done wonders with the tousled wilderness the Jennings had left behind. . The long lawn stretched clipped and green to the tangle of fruit canes against the southern slope where the orchard climbed. Below them was the mat of darker green leaves that was the old strawberry bed. The high rosebushes, leafing out now, bordered the walk to the orchard; thick out side them flowered the two long rib bons of daffodils that had always been there. Eve herself, standing in the Ma; wind, was spring-like In the soft close-clinging green wool with a yel low braid girdle, the high guimpe collar of creamy silk. She had brushed her hair to the top of her head In a new fashion, with a daring plume of rings across the top, to see how Denny would like her that way. Peter, straying by on his way to get a de tective magazine In the village for Marylin, said, "You look as If you were understudying the daffodils, Eve you're beautiful," In his pleas ant Impersonal artist fashion. . . . 'There are simply thousands of daffodils," Eve said happily. "Isn't It incredible how persistent flowers are? They've Just gone on and on bloom ing maybe a hundred years, for all I know. And oh, Peter, my apple trees are in bud. I was down through the orchard yesterday, and they'll be In full bloom in practically a minute now. I'd forgotten that daffodils could come from anywhere but a basket on the corner, or the florist's if you were extravagant." "What I admire is the lawn." said Peter proudly. "Mowed by my own hand." "It was heavenly good of you. And better yet to do the parlor floor. In fact, what with Judge weeding the vegetable bed and you doing mowing and floor-waxing, the, place looks like a gentleman's elegant countryseat, at least In spots." "Well, as the neighboring nobility and gentry insisted on spending all their evenings here something had to be done about that floor, Marylin told me." said Marylin's obedient husband. "They're a comfortl" Eve said. "Think of their giving Adriano or ders to lend Uncle Henry anything he needs In the way of garden tools. And finding that wallpaper in their attic for Judge's bedroom." "Personally I think he was all right In with us; always up quick as a flash when Marylin wanted anything In the night," said Peter placidly. "But the kid's so proud of it It s cute to see him." "He says he sleeps better," Eve said reluctantly. "Oh. very likely." said Peter. Ha grinned, dismissing the subject as un important. (Copyright. JSJ7, linrgant TrfrfrftmtrJ Denny, unchanged and joyens. ar rives for the weekend, tomorrow. A1EE STILL LOVES LOS AKOKtW, April IS (.MM 1ap!t domMUr anrt nrntwlonal frtctlnn. Aimer fmpl MPhrvn tes tified today ahe a' ill lovea hr a t fan M daufhtr. Rnhrta Nmpte. Plrer Aim made her protestation Of mammal atfertlon during croiw framlnation in th? trial of Robertas SIJVO.OOO slander suit against Willedd Andrew, counsel for Mr. Mcpher son. ' The evangelist I a defenae wit ness. "You still loved rmir daughter after the left the temple last year?' asked Joneph Palner. attorney for Roberta. "t did and attll do." replied Mrs MrPhernon. . . . The bloDde leader of Angelua wnv pie wore a black ault to court today She bad on a.fos fur -piece and a corsage of orrhlda. Replying to question aoout 4 con ference the had wltn Roberta and Jacob Moidel. attorney, and Roberta' flnnre, in a Phoenix. Arlr.. hotel room a year ago. Mra. MoPheraon testified Motdet had come tnere from Urn Angeled at her telephonic requenf. , Roberta told me he was the only one who knew what was going on ai the temple," aaid Plater Aimee. She eld that after Roberta left the temple. Helen Wlllett. a friend or her daughter, telephoned to re port that Roberta was at her home. weeping and protecting Ahe had not wanti to usurp her mother power and fame. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tot fiptbar proof ddreu th author, tneloln stamped enrelop for reply. Reg. U. 8. Pat Off. 'DYNAMITE' SEEN IN JAP SALMON FISHING rORTUAND. April 15,-rAPi-B. R Brennan. Vahiiton state director of fisheries, described the Jnpanese lmAlon of Amerl.n fishing watera a a major national problem at i meeting of the- Ort(ton tth oommla slon today. "Our thre mile law ta only a jovxl a our army and rwirv, he Mid Prom Senator Homer T. Poe of Washington be quoted thla meaeage "Are very alarmed here id Washing ton ( D. CM, over the lnvneion of Japanese fishermen The condition Is most serious ana could poaaibly pre cipitate a war. ofMonireal, . Woulrtt wo&te 10-Mii.e ewmwt crt&rAPiqNSHiP OH rt0W.?S oTTfWP " Or tetTHiw Z: vt wm Witt wrten ttw&mum HAD fi Mtrie NKW6 Nftwe w-ure ywruiw f WW WT INI I in l,-iriereKi9eNT" mmMsmm CIVIUWhR&ftTUK &ef ore iHey took fiftce 3?.w l-'ltk ""I n-w wr "r i Lincoln's Dreamt surrender of Robert B. Lee, dreams At 7:35 In the morning. 72 yeara cm to Mm- prophesying each event. 'I ago today, tbo President of the Unit ed States breathed bis laat hie death the reault of au atwawtn's bullet. Strange aa It aeema, on the nlht be fore his aasaAAlnntlon he had dream ed of thla death I There can be no doubt of the au thenticity of Lincoln's vlstonary dre&ma, Incredible aa they were. Lin coln himself told of tht-m told of them In several cases BEFORE the event of which he dreamed took place! On the eve of the firing on Fort Sumter, the battlea of Bull Run. An tic tarn, Gettysburg, Stone River, Vlrkaburg and Wilmington, and the How much these drenma went into the details of them happening Is dif ficult to determine. Either Lincoln did not fully deAnrloe the dreams to the persons he told about them, or else they weren't handed down In full by the persons to whom they were confided, The dream that forecast his death, however. Is still remember ed In full. Into his sleep came the vision of a ensket, lying In state with soldiers on guard. When the guard was asked whom It contAlned, the answer was "The President." Two days later the President's body was being prepared for Just such a cas ket na he had visualized! Rnowless Snow Champ Stmn&c as it seems, the 10 -mile, 1937 World's Snowahoe Championship was finished without any snow I Wear ing snowshoes. Walter Young, a mem ber of the Happy Heart Club, of Montreal, raced down snow less, con crete streets in Ottawa to make the required distance In one hour, tlx minutes and 23 seconds. False Teeth The only poisonous mammal In the world, the platypus, Is equipped with a set of true teeth when young When about a year old, these teeth are lost and replaced with eight horny plates. Tomorrow: The Ilowhiuit Admiral! BLOW TORCH LYNCHING DUE FOR INVESTIGATION WINONA. Mis., April lft. (tfV-The lynching oi two negroes, their flesh seared with blow-torch flames to ex act "confesslona" to the killing of a white man, faced a two-fold investi gation today even as congress con sidered legislation to curb violence of such character. Governor Hush White, apprised of the killing of Roosevelt Townes and "Bootjack" Daniels. Just bad fin ished telling a Jackson farm confer ence that MlsslsAlsslppl had nuaT bad a lynching In IS months, ordered a full Inquiry. HAWKS EYES WRECKAGE OF SPEED MONOPLANE NEWARK, N. J.. April IS. (P) I.lput.-Commnndpr frank Hawks t- tiay considered salvaging the damaged 6100,000 monoplane in which he broke a New Vork-to-Miaml speed record. 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