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PSGE TOUItTEEIT "RrEDFOTlB MXTL TRTBTTNTE, M"ET)FORD, (VRECiOy. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 29, 1937 wo cmvanif STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tot farther proof 'address the author, tucloalnt (tamped envelope for reply: Reg. U. 8. Pat Off. I, MARCARET CU10N HERZOC V LISTENING IN By gluyas Williams H -TV .75T "TV . Tbe Character Nisi, a nice girl with flaxtn hair. Honey, Nina's plump, youthful mother, brings home a new hue band. Richard, Nina's Hcplathtr, it harming, poised, dark - haired, wait-tailored and Honey's junior by 10 years. David, a young auto talesman, meets Nina at a party he crashed and drives her home. He has cop per hair and an engaging man ner. Cordelia, Tina's closest friend. Chapter Sl David 'Gets It' Wrong A S NINA passed the telephone in the hall, It rang and she lifted Ml receiver. It was David Day. "Oh, hello David. How"! But ton?" "He's fine . . . and I'm very well toe, thank you for asking." After all the serious thoughts that had been filling her brain, his foolishness was refreshing like a drink of cool water, on a hot day. She said: "Oh, I'm splendid, thanks, since you ask." leenng max last mgnt we were an play-acting." Nina's eyes opened so wide that she had to blink quickly. She didn't want Honey to see how as tonished she was. Daddy's words came back to her: "If he was the right man, your mother would be a different person. . , ." 'There were so many things 1 wanted to say to you, and just didn't, somehov I do so want you to be happy about this new mar riage of mine, darling. I thinr your father would be. ..." Nina reached over, took the soft plump hand that lay on the coun terpane. '1 know he would be, Honey dear; and I'm happy, if you are. "And I wanted to tell you thai it won't couldn't come between us, in any way, babyi or interfere with your life." Nina said: "Silly, I hadn't even thought of that" "You wouldn't think of vour- self! ... Of course you hardly know Richard yet at all, but you'll adore him in no time the wav 1 did the way everybody does." "Bridget has succumbed al ready." Has she? That's nice. Bridge) can be so difficult" Nina smiled at the memorv of ine mam s aour lace at oreaKiast. And then she smiled even mors &mLTi fp'oKekrifH was n freshing like cool water on a hot day. Ttaod. And now that our healths are an established fact do you till want us to call this after noon?" "You and Button? Will vou tell him to keep a civl tongue in his head? . . . Oh, listen, David, I just thought . . . could you make it some otner aay? A muiioti tnings have come up since I saw you. . . ." She didn't feel like broadcasting ooney s news, wimoui asxing ner. He interrupted: "Can't I be one at them7" But she said she was afraid not "O. K. I get it, PaL I get it" . "Don't be a sap, David." "I won't" "Give me a ring tomorrow?" . "Oh, sure. Sure. . "David. ..." But ha had said: "Ooodby," and bung up. Nina stood, frowning, for a mln nte, and then continued on her Way. No Diet, No Dye TJONEY was sitting prODDed un li In her double bed, all radiant and white and goldy, like a Christ mas-tree angel. Nina felt a little embarrassed. Honey was 44. She kept her hair Its original flaxen color with some tort of an egg shampoo; and the had occasional facials, when he was worn out from running around not doing much of any thing ... but that was all she did to herself. Her skin was pink and smooth, but when you looked at it closely you could see dellnite lit tle wrinkles under her blue eyes. There was a distinct line, too, just under the point of her chin, with fullness below . . . but somehow, on Honey, It only looked cunning. She wore clothes that were in clined to be frilly, but in perfectly food taste for a woman of 44, and he was the youngest looking thing you ever laid your eyes on. She was the despair of those of her friends who dieted, and dyed and made themselves up into a semblance of youth. Hers came from within . . , and they couldn't compete wan mat broadly, because JHoney had ap parently exhibited enough new qualities for one morning, and was back to normal again. It Was A Madhouse SHE began to scribble down lists of things that had to be done before she left, on the backs of en velopes that had come in the morning's mail; and then she said: "Oh, let's clear away this mewl" and tore them all up, and couldn't remember what she had written. She made little incllectual motiom with her soft, plump hands, and begged Nina to help her. llie papers and lists of friends to be notified and last minute shoppings. . . . The whole day went like thiit. It was a madhouse. Telephone calls, and flowers and bundles, and reporters, and more telephone palls. Cordelia had whooned with ex citement over the wire, and prom ised to come in to luncn tne next day, when the honeymooners were off, and things were quieter. When Nina had waved her last wave at the night train for Hot Springs, she sighed a sigh of the most devastating fntlgue, and re turned to a house that was a heav en of calm. Cordelia Thorpe was a vear old er than Nina. She was as dark as her friend was fair, and this year she had gone in for a soft wavy bang across her white forehead. In tableaux and chnritv fashion shows, wherever it was possible, iney were exploited as a team the perfect complement, one for the other. Nina seemed doomed to Bride roles, and Ice Maidens; while Cordelia had been Maid of Honor, and Queen of the NiEht so many times that she didn't even nave to go to rehearsals. In their debutante year, they had lixunllv callerl tin anri funnl out what the other was wearing, so as to go well together; but they were pretty sick of it now, and of compliment, too. That was prob ably one of the reasons whv Ntns had liked David so instantly, he- "Darlingl Come over here and j cause he had been rude to her, for It down. I'm glad we're going to a change. And, by the wnv, where have t minute alone together." was he? He hadn t phoned. So was Nina. And then her mother said a very extraordinary thing ... for her. 'You know, baby, I have the (CcrtritM, ISJT, Iftirffaret tttmf) Nina rnni Into Button on the street Monday. 10 L Three-Dimension Chart Is Found Need For Smooth Flying Pilots Depend Heavily Upon Forecasts Hy tan Nm (UP Staff Correspondent) LONDON (UP) A three-dlmenslon map, probably In the form of a cubit, like a child's building block, la one of the minor problems tech nicians must aolve before regular trans-Atlantic night mar be ptr-i formed amootoly, 1 Experimental survey flight by Imperial Airways and Pun-Amrrlcan Alrwaya during the past summer demonstrated the paramount Im porlance of accurate, weather report and loreeaata to the pilots of the oversea aircraft. The value of radio. of course. Is beyond computation tn transmitting weaihar Information after the flight ha begun. Maps Now Mat rharts Bui since the ovrrwater crossing takes only about half a day, the pilots lean heavily on the weather mspa handed them at the takeolf And these maps, at present, rmiat expire on a flat chart of Nar rators Projection weather tendencies In three dimensions. The command er must Imagine he la looking at i crosa-eectlen of the air and Inter' pret the symbols on the chart ac cordingly. experts are working on a plan whereby In future pilots will be given a large cube on which all weather data arc described. Thus altitude will be shown aa well aa latitude and longitude when move ment of air currenta and temper aturea are shown. Experimental flights to date have led to these conclusions: AtlailUo weather ba proved, sum. Saved By a Beetle Were It not for the ladybird beetle. California probably would have no citrus fruit Industry. About the time California's orange trees first started to flourish an unwelcome Immigrant arrived from Australia, the Icerya, a scale Insect. Multiplying by the mil- Hons and spreading like wild fire through out tho state, the Insect wreaked havoc on the citrus 'groves. sucking away the trees' sap. For a while It looked like the entire citrus Industry was doomed. Unable to find an adequate method with which to cope with the on slaught of the Icerya, citrus raisers turned over the problem to the gov ernment. A group of scientist was hastily sent to Australia In search of INTO WRIER Key west; CAWINCOOUPfieWO W00WPW WllSCN AMMAN iVMftSW. ftCTlHtf ffteif foRWMTof MORE j? that Is, It behAves according to forecast. Therefore the 34-hour fore cast may be depended upon. Uadlo Aids Invaluable 4 Radio alda to navigation func tioned perfectly. Pilots of both air line received regular reports and transmitted their positions on 30 mtnute clockwork Intervale. 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Evening , Newa were to swallow some magic bexerage and be reduced to a scale of three-elgtita of an Inch to the foot, he could walk through the entire miniature plant, built by Charlea Beenau, a linotype operator, and hardly notice he wasn't In his newspaper's full-sized plant. A marvel of miniature, the pigmy plant Includes three miniature presses composed of thousands of parts, 32 linotype machines, and all the rest of tho equipment of a modern news paper plant. Though the presses do not actually work, they hold lull page plates, only one Inch by thrce fourths of an Inch, that really print. fort. By taklng( bearings from any two ships, It was simple tor the pilot to double-check his position. The bubble sextant, developed es pecially for air use, was equally efficient for stellar observation. 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