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HrEDFOTtD MAIL TRIBUNE, rEDFORT), OREGON, TVEDXESD AY, OCTOBER 27, 1937
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
THE WINNING TOUCHDOWN
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
Tor farther proof address the author, Inclosing stamped envelope for reply. Bet;. V. 8. Pat Off.
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The Characters
Nlu. a nlc girt uith bum
hair, meett a young man at a
party. '
Oivld drlu htr Homt, on
ftuin; h eraihcd Dm party and
U an automobila talesman. Ha
Naj capper hair and a dog named
Sutton.
Honer, Nlna'e plump, youthful
mother, bring home a new hue
band. Richard, Mna't ttepather, e
harming, poised, dark -haired,
well-tailored and Honey'' Junior
by 10 yean.
Cordelia, Nlna'e closest friend.
Chapter Four
'Stick Clow To Her
npONIGHT Nina did not notice
A har beautlfui room, or drink It
In appreciatively, as aha usually
lid. She drew her things off over
her head, cold-creamed her face,
brushed her teeth and hair and
opened the windows, in a sort of
daze; and the minute she was in
bed, she started to cry, softly.
"Oh, daddy," she murmured into
her pillow; and as the wintry dawn
crept in, she was a little girl again,
having her first serious talk with
her father, about Honey.
"But it would have been so easy
for her to remember, daddy! I said
tan,' so plainly, and she got green
. . and now I'll have to wait a
whole week for another order, and
your present won't be done for
Christmas! I do think she might
have . . .
"Now, listen, youngster," she
could absolutely see her tall thin
father, with his sensitive mouth
and kind, humorous eves. 'There
are two kinds of people in this
world: the serious, sensmie Kind,
like Annie, who mend your clothes
and look after you, and never for
get things . . . and then there are
people like your mother, who
make all the fun and gaiety in the
world. Now you couldn't expect
Annie to make you scream witn
laughter, and think up wonderful
new kinds of games, and have all
the kids crazy about her, could
you? . . . No. Well then, you
mustn't expect your mother, who
brings you so much of another
kind of happiness, to be like An
nie, as well. That's sensible, isn't
It?'1
Nina had been able to see that
It was. After that she had thought
of Honey as having a very special
Your mother cares for ma a lot
As a young girl she was engaged
to a man, and something went
wrong. ... I practically browbeat
her Into marrying me.
Nina had interrupted. "Oh. dad
dy, darling, you couldn't brow
beat anyone!
"Well I did, Just tha same,
youngster; and I don't feel badly
about it because we have you as a
result, and we've been awfully
happy together. Of course I should
have let her go in a minute, if she
had ever wanted to . . . ever met
anyone else. But the point of all
this Is that your mother is still a
child, almost You're not old
enough to know it yourself yet but
a normal passion, a love that is
satisfied, matures a person com
pletes them; and Honey has never
had that. ... All her sudden en
thusiasms . . . her Instability . .
her darling crazy fads, are simply
because she has never been crazy
enough about me. Can you grasp
all this, Nina dear7 . . . Well, now,
a person like that needs a lot of
looking after, and on the best au
thority, I'm not going to be here
much longer to do it.
Nina had marveled at his being
able to speak of his death so light
ly. Her own throat had closed up
on her till she had had to make a
little choking sound to breathe.
You've Got To Grow Up'
"yOU'VE had a grand childhood,
haven't you? And I want you
to forget all this, for now, and go
on being just as young and silly as
you like. But when I'm gone,
Nina," he was very solemn, "when
I'm gone, you've got to grow up
. . . and speedily. Will you prom
ise me, child?"
"I do promise, daddy, I do."
"And another thing, I don't wani
any loyalty to me, on your part,
to make you unhappy if youi
mother should marry again. I wanl
her to ... if he's the right man
She would turn into an entirelj
different person if she really feli
in love, deeply . . . and if I'm any
where up high enough to get I
flood view of her, I shall be entire
y happy about it. But if he isn'i
the right man (and here's when
you've got to be grown up and
keep an eye on her) . . . she'll g(
to pieces, you know that. Stici
close to her, youngster, you've goi
a good head on your shoulders. I't
be depending on you. . . ."
Nina remembered all this, as ahi
lay, now, between her peach crepi
de Chine sheets.
Her father had been dependin
Nina brushed her hair in a sort of daze.
sort of gift as Indeed sha had
and bad understood her much bet
ter. Never Been In Lov
ONCE or twice the had coma up
on her father unexpectedly,
with an inexpressibly tad look in
his brown eyes, and she had won
dered if Honey's special gift
brought him as much happiness as
It did others; but she had been too
f'oung to think very much about
t. It was not until she was 16, and
daddy had another little private
talk with her, that she understood
better.
It had been In the library-
daddy's room then with rows of
slightly musty books and dark
green leather chairs and tofa.
When he had called her in for
that second talk about Honey.
they had all known of his heart
trouble that he might go, sud
denly, at any time.
He said: "I want to tell vou
some things, Nina dear, that I
wouldn't be telling you it I were
a well man. I'll plunge in." He
tighed. "You may, or may not have
noticed that your mother has
never Deen in love with me,
That's very different, vou know,
child, from caring tor someone.
on her, and she had always done
her best . . . till now, when it was
too late to do anything at all, only
hope.
"Oh, daddy, darling ..." she
murmured again, and fell asleep,,
because after all, she was young
and healthy, and it was nearly
6 a. m.
At 11, she went down to break
fast. Honey had never, never had
breakfast with her first husband,
so Nina had always made the ef
fort; and now some peculiar left
over she always felt disloyal if
she stayed in bed. Sometimes after
a late night particularly in her
debutante winter, she had strag
gled in more asleep than awake,
merely kissed him, gulped down a
glass of tomato juice and returned
to bed , . . but it had been com
radely, and her father had never
been able to break her of the habit.
This morning as usual, these last
two years, the dining-room was
deserted.
When she stepped on tha bell.
Bridget the waitress, appeared
and said: "Good morning."
fCopyrioM, IJ7, Uargartt Rtrtttffj
Rlrherd wlna Bridget, tomorrow,
and turni to Nina.
OF
HATS. Km., Oct. 37. (AP Mr.
Kothryn 0'Lughlln McCarthy, for
mer eongremiwoman, today urged the
lUt board of administration to pre
vent further sterilization in atate
correctional Inatltutlona.
Mr. McCarthy charged m week
"wholesale sterilisation" had been
performed on 82 Inmates of the girl
Industrial arhool at Belolt the past
few years. She told the board In a
letter today:
"I hope I have brought enough In
formation to your attention
for use irtdrafting an amend
ment to the present (stent I eat Ion)
law."
At Topeka, Will T. Beck, former
chairman of tha board, labeled un
fair and untrue" Mrs. McCarthy's
charges girls were terllid as pun
Uhmcnt la 1035 and 1090.
PARIS. Oct. 37. (API The gtant
French flying boat. Lieutenant De
Valaaeau Paris, landed this afternoon
at Maceto, Braj.ll, after a trans- At
lantic survey flight from Prench Mor
occo. Air France Raid the 7apusenger
plane travelled A.7PO kilometers
(about 3.013 miles, to surpass the
world's non-stop distance record for
seaplanes. She landed at 13:58 p. m.
(PBT).
Her original destination had been
Rio De Jsnelra, approximately 1.000
ml lea southward along the coast but,
as the distance record already was
aurpasaed, It was decided to land at
Macelo. The plane took off yester
day from the harbor at l.yautey,
Morocco.
She was in the atr 34 hour. 2H
I minutee.
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Battle of Snblne Pass
Along with the credit of having
saved Texas from Invasion during the
Civil war, to Lieut Dick Dowling and
bis 47 men goes the distinction of
having won out In a battle against
what were perhaps the more over
whelming odds faced in the entire
war,
Backed up by four gunboats a
Yankee force numbering 6.000 men
attacked the small, rebel-held fort at
Sabine Pass, Texas, on September 6,
1863 and. strange as It seems, were i
beaten off by the tiny force man-1
nlng It. To top this off Dowllng end
nia men actually captured two of the
attacking gunboats with the crews
and soldiers aboard them. The cap
tives numbered 330 over seven times
the number of men who captured
them!
Founding of Carson City
Late In the 1850's a pioneer named
Abram Curry arrived In the Mormon
settlement of Genoa, Nevada, liked
the town and considered settling
down there. When told that the price !
of the corner lot he selected for him- !
self was $1,000, though he waa riled, j
"I'll found a town of my own rather
than pay that price." he declared. '
and found a town he did. Going far
ther into Ea?le Valley, Curry bought j
a ranch for a few hundred dollars and j
laid out the settlement which grew
Into Carson City, now capital of Ne
vada. I
Football Veto
Challenged In 1873 by the DtilTer
slty of Michigan, the Cornell univer
sity football team agreed to take part
In what would have been, If It had
come off, the first Intersectlonal foot
ball game. The game was to be play
ed in Cleveland. When Cornell ac
cepted the challenge they didn't fore
see any faculty objection, but a facul
ty veto of the game waa fast in com
ing. President White, of Cornell, on
being told of the Impending game
said, "I will not permit 30 men to
travjl 400 miles merely to agitate a
bag of wind!" and that was that.
Tomorrow: Which Chapter of the
Hlhle Ends with a comma?
Zellerbach to Up
Newsprint Price
SAN FRANC SCO, Oct. 37. (AP
Crown Zellerbach company announc
ed today that It would Join other
companies In Increasing the price of
newsprint 7.50 a ton for the first
tlx months of 1038. The new price
will be 50 a ton. Stock exchange
oficlals here said all major paper
companies would post the new price,
except Northwestern Paper, which
would charge 848 a ton for the six
month period.
Cockroaches were originally con
fined to the tropics. They spread
with the Increase of commerce.
.on don Too Lonely
LONDON (UP) Because ;ie found
London, with Its S.OuO.OOO imputation,
lonelier than his sheep station in
Victoria, Stephen Staughton, 39, had
a nervous breakdown. This as the
oTory told at w Inquest when ho
fell from a window of a London nurs-I.-;
home and suffered fatal Injuries
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