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PXGE EIGHT rET)FORD WAIL TRIBUTE, HfEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 2, 1937. f SAAR CARET CUION HERZOC If The Character Nina, a nlc girl tolth tun hair. Honey, Nina's gay, plump, youthul mottor, haj brought horn a nets husband. Richard, Wina'i stepother, charming, polled, dark haired, well-tailored an'' Honey's junior by 10 years. David, a iaunff auto salesman, nut Nina at a party he crashed. Ht hoi copper hair and an tnoao inp manner. Cordelia it Nina's closest rlend. Chapter NIn A Revealing Flask U'HEN Richard turned ground and came over to them, '! face was imperturbaole. Nina introduced him, and after moment, the Hallldays con tinued on down. Richard took Nina's arm. He be. (an to chuckle softly. His chuckle was different from most people's . . . way down in his throat "So I'm the na heart throb am IT" And even in the dusk she could see that his eyes were alow. ing . . . with amusement, probably. She had to make an effort to an swer liKhtly: "You hear everv. thing. I n.-er knew such a man. Well ... are you flattered that iney tnougnt so7" "Immeasurably, Nina. ImmeasJ. urablv." "I was Just going to turn 'round." But her legs kept right on walking ahead, just the same. "I thought you were all tied up with that crowd at nomer' "My dear child, when . ou left, the party became as a pricked bal loon. It faded away, immediately. Honey is now prone, with a cold towel on her forehead, and a soda mint on her tongue. I knew I should overtake you, Nina glancec at him. "You Knew that the air would do you good. "Er . . . yes." His legs were not enough longer tnan ners to maxe any difference In their strides. He was just under six feet, anu una was tall a good Ave feet seven. It was almost like dancing she thought, they were so one. Darkness came on all of a sud. den. the wav it does in the autumn and they lit cigarettes and walked for some minutes In silence. Nina began to feel an absurd light-headed feeling; and when they turned 'round finally, and faced the lights o 89th street glowing in the sky over the dark outlines of the trees she had an even more absurd feeling that she would like to cry a little. Quite happily, of course . . , because what was there to cry overt Just then Richard said: "Hap oy?" But she could only look at him, Quite without volition, she squeezed his arm up against her siae, ana ne returned tne pressure, Keeping ners close. Adventure In Africa I "THOSE IghU . . . they're quite heartbreakingly beautiful aren't they, Nina?'r She nodded. "Lights in the darkness have a sort spot in my heart. He went on: Once, in Africa, I got separated from my safari . . . wandered half the night through the dense under brush, with nothing but my ciga rette light and a pop light, to keep the beasts away ... At first, I could only sense that something; was fol lowing me; and then either my hearing became more acut- or my inemy more sure or nimseu, De eause I could hear an occasional twis crackle ... a branc anan back that I hadn't touched . . . I don't think I have ever responded to anything in my life, as I responded to the beauty of those camp lights iwinKiing out into tne African night." He laughed. "I had reason to. The next morning, our lead boy bagged a huge black panther, not 500 feet from my tent." The casual way he spokt of it, made the horror seem all the more vivid. "Those snug little 59th street pinpoints must seem pretty pale in comparison." "On I don't know. They mean home . . . and safety." "You mention all these places In such an offhand manner, Richard. Budapest . . . Shanghai . . What were you doing in Africa?" "Oh, I had a place In Morocco once with a friend." He looked amused at some memory. Nina thought she would never get his life straight, and sh wanted to . . . not for t oney's sake, or to get any clue about his char acter, but Just to kt ow. Sometimes when she had been a little girl, driving in the big open car with daddy, she had slipped a hand into the huge fur glove with his . . . and she had felt as though she were the same person as he. She wanted to feel that way now. A something soft fell n to her face, and another. It was the first snow of the . ear. "Look, Richard But in a few minutes It had turned into rain. "Wait a second," he told her, "I'll get a cab." They paused under a street lamp, but though several passed, they were all occupied. After a minute, two cars shot out of the side street on a green light. The sedan turned south, ut tne empty taxi hefted north. across the way. Richard whistled, stepped off the curb waving his stick . . . just as he did so, th? driver of the second car changed his mind and wheeled about drunkenly. Richard, with his back turned. stood directly in the car's path.' ine seaan, overloaded with young people, :areened madly evidently quite out of control. Nina called out somethine. franti cally, and Rlchrrd lumped to one side in time. The fender missed him oy a care two inches. He was safe, but Nina stnnrf there trembling. In the fraction of second that she had watched him in danger of nis lire, a revealing flash had come to her . . . and she was friphtene1 still. Terribl. "Nina ..." He hurried over to he v lht the tears were brimming over on to her white cheeks, and put his arm around her. "I m all right, my f.ear . . . But it wasn't that. When she had seen him ntnnHlnv there, right in the nath nf th on coming car, she hadn't called a warning ... or his name . . . P . had cried out: "Darlino!" Nina knew now that h nvA him. Just A Silly Girl ON Thanksgiving evenin Nina left the Fenwicks' dinner party as earlv as she rleepntlv could. Honey was a confirmed stoy-out-late-e- and Nina wanted to be in bed when they got home. She chose to olav back rather than bridge, because it was easier to break up one person's game, than three. And sl.e chose to piay witn Tom Halliday, Betty's brother, because he was so easy to handle. Tom was a nice, ugly, boyish person, whose every remark you could predict. If j r.u said it was a grand party, he would say, yes, :t had b-.en grand ever -ince you came. In other words, you knev where you stood with him H could be counted on, hich was something. He was one of the people who had asked Nina where she had been all his life, the first time he met her. He was pretty err y to: her, poor Tom. After four uai,is. she stnnne. without compunction. Tom was so delighted to have h: i her choose him, in the first place, that his evening was made any way. Nina bade him good night on her shiverj 74th street stoop, and couion t get up to her room ."ast enough. brio tiade ready fm the nigh., refusing to think. Sh mnmn. trated on creams ant'. lntinnt anA oruy lei nerseit go when the lights were out, ana sne was in Ded. Nina Was in the first at30e b series of emotional reactions to mcnard. In this present staee. she snnohl to convince herself that she was:i't really in love with him t oil Physically attracted, yes. But not in love. Nina had a eood mind nH pretty fair smattering nf nsvehnl. ogy. In a fluttery, excited state . . . quite out of keeping with he. de liberate calculations , . she bege i to count up on her lingers, all he' past loves. There! You see? Bv this method she told herself, she had explainer: cvt-iyuiiuK. inai m-year-oid St Paul senior: those two Yale boys Tony and Frank; that good-look ing golfer, who won he cup a' Mid-Ocean, in Bermuda: thn- crazy Vanderpooi kid, last wintci . . . an young, immature creature; beside whom Richard Challone: was the very embodiment o sophistication. The fact that hei stepfather would have made mam of the current men-about-towi seem decidedly bucolic, only add ed weight to her argument. It was decided then. She wa not in love with him, merolv be glamored. So there wa- nothina ti bite her fingernails about, or heavi over. tne was Just a silly girl. one was just aoout to curl up li ball, like a kitten, and in I. sleep, with a Breat load off het mind, when she thought of some- wing. Lord! Had Richard .icnrd hei when she called out "Darlinff." frantically? Had ht suspected he: childish infatuation? More cogitating. Then no. She thoueht not Everybody was "darling ' In this indiscri .inntj age, and besides he had acted quite naturally on th( ride home. Everything having been settler too conveniently, Nini. curled m n a ball, for the second time, an this time she went to sleep. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the anther. Inclosing a stamped' envelope for reply. Reg. U. S. Pat OS. Risers 65-0 IN VbSb- 7S-0 IrAlflfc . VhiTU rur rv-umtA MeRlCbN INPI&N4. CftTCrl Fl4r -ruetf tfvr me hsa w-spiTe of 1HC fftaW THE HDrSON TO HUrAPiNS Mlk MncklliK Mllrn;,. To produce thn silk In one nnlr of milady's service welRht hone re. quires the life work of somo 64 sllk- woms. me average silkworm, In spin ning Its cocoon, produces and wlndu about Itself about one mile of silk filament. It takes four miles of fila ment to make one mile of thread and some eight miles of thread go Into each stocking. The silk fllamont Is first produced as a glue-like liquid, squeezed out of the silkworms' glands. After ez posure to the air It hardens. It re quires three to four daya for a silk worn to spin Its cocoon. President!!!! Illrlhdnjs Though November and l the onlv day of the year marking the birthday of two U. S. presidents, strango as It seems. July 4th. the "Birthday of the Nation," Is the deathday of three American Presidents John Adams, Thomns Jefferson and James Monroe. Adams and Jefferson, both signers of the Declaration of Independence, both died on the SOth anniversary of American Independence. July 4. 1826. President Coolldge was born on July 4th. Fishing with roisnns Though the poisons ueed by the Indians of South and Central Amer ica In catching fish are poisonous to hnmnns us well as to fish, they do not poison the flesh of the fish killed or stupefied by them. Several differ- ent poisons are used for catching fish, all of them being extracts from various plants. Methods In "poison fishing" vary also. The simplest Is that of pouring the plant extracts In a river, then wading Into the water and picking up the dead or stupefied fish that float to the top. One species of fish, the 3heat-flsh, cannot be caught by means of the poison method. Seeming to feel In stinctively when the water has been poisoned. It swims speedily down the river to escape the poison's eflect. MIDNIGHT PARTY By GLUYAS WILLIAMS '""XT- tWlUAffd 6 AWAKEHFD IN MlTOiE OF NIGHT BV' .A PAWV NEf POOR 606T) 6RAC1DUS, WMf A RUMPUS- RAW? PIANO. SlN&lftb NU tVfcKYOf ut I'WJno A UDf OF NOISE Wishes Yhed have some f?6ard FOR PEOPLE LIKE HIMSELF WHO WANfffj1 SLEEP "PAWV StARf5 1b BREAK DP AM) 600D-8YES ARE CALLED. rWBE HE CAN 6E 10 SLEEP iNOW 6&0Dr)tS&,Yr)!5 IS W0P.5E fHAN EVER-CASS BEW6 SfARtED. 600P-mSHT BLASfS OH H0RMS AND FlrJAL SHOOTS QUIET AT LAST. WELL, HE'LL 6IVE PEOPLE NEW DOOR. NOW IrlAfTHPr1 WArJflB 6tf 10 SLEEP, SoMEfHINS 1& THINK ABOUT (Copyright, 1837, by Ths Bell Syndicate, lac) S 'MATTER POJ (CevyriglH ifSI, Margartt tttrtcg) DTid. tar and rltllrulout, rcm- ! for rorktatlt with ln, tnmnrrovr. FOR UK SALEM. Not. a. (41 Governor Martin proclaimed today the week of November 14 to JO m national milk week, urging Oregon cltltens to "give their attention to the greater use of milk and Its producta In the dally diet. From a health and family-budget basis, milk furnishes the most aatla faetory and economical Item In the dully list of food purchases. From a business standpoint the purrnsae and sale of milk, a dally and steady cash transaction, etlmtilatea the busi ness artlvity of every community as well as giving employment to thou- j sands of persons In tat production and distribution branches of the milk Industry," he governor wrot. "The S0.O00 dniry Inrms ot Oregon have a net worth of more than 306. 000.0O0. five times the cost of llonne vllle dam. and the dniry Industry of the state gives employment to the greatest number of workers." "TleUMl ThrftT" SAl.EM, Nov a vv Rnlph Taylor. said to have admitted taking two .45 caliber automatic pistols irom the armory at Klamath Fulls last March 30. la being held In the city Jnll here federal olflrers. The charge is GRANGE FOR ELECTION HIGHWAY COMMISSION ROSEBURO, Nov. a (P) A reso lution urging that 3S percent of state highway funds be ttaed on roads car rying school bus and mall routes, has been adopted by Douglas county Po mona Orange. The resolution also proposes that the highway commis sioners be elected pointed. rather than ap- Famous .starter Dies REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 3. (AP) A former Jockey who became Known nationally as a horse race starter, Hnrry Morrlssey. 63, died of a heart attack yesterday. Morrlssey war starter for the current meeting at the Bay Mendows track. tVealher Northern California: Fair tonight and Wednesday, with local fogs on coast; moderate temperature; light northwest wind off coast. By 0. M. PAYNE VALK-IW' J ( t S -AW- W, J 5A,W ( Lb-3 )( " Can't Ve5E.E IT J VAVAUkT J rJj- S f TAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy Decides to Take Bently Oregon: Unsettled tonight, Wed nesday generally fair with valley fogs west portion; moderate temperature: decreasing southerly wind off coast. JRT 'li )( 3uiT AtTTA If V CAeJeToVyALK- Oopyrlglit. 1937, by The Bell Snaictte, Ine. JHILE THE GUESTS AT THE DUDE RAMCH ARE ALL EXCITED OVER THE MYSTERIOUS DlSAPPEARAMCE OF TOMMY, BETTY LOU AriD PeT6,THE GUIDE, AMD BENTLY IS WOMDERir-iG VVHETHER HIS EVIL PLAN WAS CARRIED OUT BY PETE, LET5 TAKE A PEEK INTO THE BARN tlEAO. THE RANCH HOUSE 2957 E BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Hired 1 IUHWMIHIIIIM.III FVir.NIIJI- I rill 1 I I urn HAL FORREST VAAIT FOR MB AT THE PLAHP-. LL TRY TO GET BENTLY TO IT WITHOUT ALARMING WCLl.ftlR, I FIGURED THt COLO RUSH WOULD MAKt yVOU 16RRI6C BUSY AMD- J moWD VA HAPPtM T0l -a, I By EDWIN ALGER THE NEBBS Forgive and Forget 1 T ii (0A CWCK- VOU MU9T HAVt J ALL RI6HT, CWCX. I'LL Z United jstntcs government for 4 he ft of projierty. IliHid lltintlng ASTORIA. Nov. 3 (API Hunters who brought 540 rturk stamps here reporteo good hunting After Initial visit to lakes anud sloushs. SAI.FM. Nov. 3 -iAPifi. Kills Pvirvlne. S3. lotner iM.rnnn snd member of a pioneer family, died Mondsyt WIFE. OP tAMCrNiBlJOC, ALIAS . BRUCE AR.OL.EVi AT EMMA'S HOME, BEGGIMG WER. tcoT TO PROSECUTE HER. WUSBAMD 'C-?0 MISS GCUUTLEV, WISW NOU WOULtMO' PROSECUTE. MV WU5&AKJO - WOJT MOU TELL TMEM TO LET HIM OUT OF OAl r LET MIM STAV 1 IS! OAULUELL BOTVt KMOLO WHERE WE 15 By SOL HESS 1 'sr. TTH'TTj f I'M SORRV HE ' made a pool-our I Or YOU BUT ITS LACGELV VOURCXUrO PAULT- UJWV DO YOU WAMT TO MARRV A MAsj VOU KNJELU V MOTWINJG AB0UT3 IT5 ALL YOUR. 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