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FATOT! ETOUT TrEDFO'RD MAIL TRTBTTSrE, MEDFORTV P'REfiON'. TUESDAY, yOVEFBER 16, 1937. WO 4 (CtfttPdftlf FOILED By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tot further proof address the author, meloelng a tamped nrelopo for reply. Reg. V. 8. Pat Oft Ms ty MARGARET cuion herzoc V V mm The Character Nine hat married David, trying to escape her intense love lor her tteplather. Richard, the clwrmtnjr, tlU tailored itepather, tried to pre vent her marriage. Boner, Nlno't gag, plump, youthtil mother, it crazy about Richard, her recently ocijulred Jiueband. David, a bright Iounfl auto talesman who ujorihlpi Nina, ha loped with her at Wina'e tug- gettton. Chapter Jl Afraid To Go Home XJTNA had urged her mother not to hurry home. Richard would still be away, ahe pointed out, and she herseH was plunging right into house keeping. ... She suggested that Honey carry out her original plans wiin norse face, and then, when she returned, the apartment would be settled and they could have more time ' together. - The truth of It was, Nina did not want to see her mother just yet. She wasn't readv. She wanted to convince herself ' that she could be perfectly happy with David, before being reminded that she had married him out of loyalty to Honey. Grudgingly, her mother con sented. Button arrived one afternoon m a frenzy of excitement. To show his appreciation at being reunited with the family, he did his darnedest to wreck the place; knocking things over with his incredibly strong tail, leaving wet nose marks on the day-bed cushions, and generally doing his poor best to express his joy. He even glanced longingly at tne syntnetic aogwooa, dooming so temptingly beyond his reach. "Now, if those were only lower," he told Nina and David with his eyes, 'Td know how to leave my mark on them, too." But they weren t, and he could only loon. "He's going to be a great com panion for you, Nina," said David. And Nina answered: "Ye-e-es" ... a touch doubtfully. But she really did love the en gaging young fellow. After a honeymoon that was strung out to 10 days by virtue of two weekends, David went back to his salesroom in the Broadway au tomobile district, and Nina took up the study of cooking and bed making in a big way. She knew how she liked a bed to feel, and food to taste, but she had no idea how to produce re sults. Burnt fingers, an aching track, and frequent trips to the incinera tor with inedible dishes, seemed to be the only reward of her labors. And at that, she probably didn't make as many stupid mistakes as most inexperienced brides, because she put her very good mind to it ... and didn't bother with trying 10 ao aeiiDeraiejy amusing tmngs, that would make good telling but bad eating afterward. Her fault lay in that she was too ambitious. She spent long hours cleaning the nickel gadgets on the stove with silver polish, because she was so strong for an immaculate kitch en, and found that she had barely time to mop the floor, before Da vid came home. She gave difficult and unneces sary personal-maid attention to the appointments in the bedroom, and then had to rush the essen tials, like bed-making, and carpet sweeping. The dishes she threw away were souffles and biscuits . . . not hamburger and potatoes. But she soon learned that there is in variably a bakery around the cor ner, from every love-nest; and that a smooth coverlet and a whisk of the vacuum cover a multitude of sins. The Fried Egg Situation HER proudest moment was on their third Sunday morning, when she had forgotten the butter for the fried eggs that David had asked for . . . had no lard or grease of any kind, and finally surmount ed the seemingly insurmountable difficulty by using cold cream. David said they were excellent, and only turned mean and clutched his stomach afterwards . . . when they were eaten, and she con fessed. That she never set her nose out of doors during the day except to market and take Button for walks . ... did not disturb her. She would work out a system presently, and then there would be time for other things. That there was no monev for other things, she did not reallie until the system was worked out . . . and that was not for a very, very long time. How in the world did house wives with big houses and families manage? When she was rushing from early morn to dewy eve, with only one tolerant man, and three rooms on her hands? Oh, yes, and the "foyer" ... she miutn t forget that important chamber. This problem of management was a Last Of Gangmen To Take Medicine HAMMOND, Ind., Nov. 1ft. (API Diminutive James Dalhover, SI, only At Brady ganator to survive a bloody battlo with trderal agents at Bangor. Ma., October 13, pleaded guilty In federal court here today to an In dictment charging him with the murder of State Policeman Paul Mln neman. Judge Thomaa 81lck accepted the plea and act Deoember A for calling a Jury tor punishment, which may be death In the etectrle chair. llu.nnrKt lilt by t ar HOLLWOOD. NOV. 18. (4l Donald Ogden Btewart, 43-year-old Iv.imnrlM, Is Mghtly Improved altho not out of danger from a basal skul! rracture. Cedara of Lebanon hoapttal reported today. Stewart waa struck and critically Injured by an automo bile at a Hollywood boulevard Inter action fnturday. - Clorln lime tor Too Late to Ciaa. ally Ada la 1:S0 p. ra. blessing, really, ;cumi it kept hex busy for weeks. When Honey and Richard came home on the same day, there was nothing for it, but to face the mu sic. Nina wouldn't go to the house on 74th St until the evening, when David could go with her. She was terribly, terribly, afraid. He took her In his arms just be fore they went, and rumpled her a little a thing Richard never, never would have done, no matter at what fever pitch his ardor and told Nina not to worry about his slight contretemps with her step father. . "I wen't Insult him, precious," David promised, looking adorably little-boy brushed and washed. "He's probably a very fine fellow . . . only the form in which he chose to express his concern for you, happened to strike me the wrong way, that's alL Maybe when he sees I don't breathe in my soup or balance peas on my knife, he'll think more highly of me." "David, you're a lamb, and he was beastly, only, you know, some times when people are perturbed . . ." Why couldn't she just let it ?;o? Why did she have to stand up or him? And the old truth came back to her with astounding force, because she had not allowed her self to think of it She was stand ing up for Richard because she was in love with him, that was why; and she didn't any more deserve to be accepting David's devotion, and his care and hard-earned money, than . . . than . . . Oh, it was a dreadful muddle. ". . . you know they say things, David dear, that they're sorry for afterwards." David's left eyebrow hinted at his doubt of Richard's ever being sorry for anything . . . but he said: "Oh, sure, forget it, sweetheart I have." So Nina let it drop. David kissed her again causing another return trip to her dress ing table for repairs and they started off, at last The Yellow Frock DAVID had asked her to wear the deceptively ingenue yellow frock he had seen hanging in her crowded closet, and which she had worn on her fatal last evening at home. She had started to tell a fib about it involuntarily . . , that it was torn, soiled, anything to keep from wearing it. But then. sh had checked herself. There was to be truth between them in all thines Dossible even the littlest things; so she took it and pressed in, and wore it shivering. If Rich ard remembered . . . But she was shivering for more reason than the wearing of the yel low dress, as tney stood - on tne stoop of her mother's house, and wnen Kicnard himself, opened the front door, smiling, welcoming, beautifully groomed David had to push her forward . . . actually. Her feet wouldn't work. "Well y o u t v o runaways. Hello! How are you?" He might have sent them off with his blessings, the way he be haved. Nina was grateful. .Hni.iu, juu uivuic, ucov enly creature. Don't be too nice! Behave a little badly . . . that I may be free!) Ana tioney ... if Nina had had to give a one-word description of her mother's attitude, she would have said: "Fluttery." Honev cried: "Mv babv " and waved her little plump hands in the air; and kissed David and called him every name but David, apologizing each time; and wept iust the least little bit, so that her ilue eyes looked like rainy April skies. It was Richard who might have been suspected of causing difficul ties who really did the most to carry things off smoothly. Honey was unreliable, lapsing into long, preoccupied starings at David, end then bursting into ex cited chatter, interrupting some one else. Nina was so troubled by her own traitorous heart that she felt sick and behaved like an absurd pup pet. And David . . . well, David, was really all right It was the two men disliking each other as they did who carried the evening to a certain degree of success. Honey said: "I can't belieue it! Are you nice, young man? Is he sweet to you, Nina? I can't be-Iieu it!" And Richard said: "I behaved like a Dutch Uncle, Honey; you should have heard me! 'How dare you carry off this unwilling maiden . . . ?' and all the rest of it. He laughed apparently all hearti ness, wunout rancor. "Nina wired you were in a frenzy." Richard laughed again. "After all, what's the fun of be ing a stepfather if you can't go on a parental orgy once in a while? Besides . . ." he glanced at Nina, "it didn't make much difference what I said, did it?" (Copyright, IMT, Margaret Rertafff Nina realises, tomorrow, that aha ff-anta Richard's love mont of alt Evangelist Given . Term For Murder ELIZABETH. N. J.. Nov. 1(1. (4r Lloyd Puaey, 44-ye.ar-old Itinerant evangelist, waa sentenced today to 18 to 30 yeara at hard labor In state prleon for the hammer slaying of his evangelist wtfe In Linden three months ago. The sentence, Imposed by Judge Lloyd Thompson, followed acceptance of Puaey'a plea of guilty to second degree murder aa hla murder trtlal waa about to atnrt. Women net Elk LA GRANDE. Ore., Nov. 18. (ffl rvrty-two more elk carcaaea were checked Into La Orande over the week end, bringing the total kill checked In here to 9ft. Pour women were successful over the week end. HOLLYWOOD. Calif.. Nov. 18. (API Four bullets from the- pistol of an unldenttted aaaalliint eerly to day critically wounded Hvmle Miller. SI. film actor, reeuup.int jroprletor and former pxlitlignt Buuer, aJ6,4 1M3PlRP0lrt.oiN Vi M &R0TH5R OF Trie IWE Or GUOliC6IER,FR0M WHOSE Mrb He f ifisr HepiRo of The American itelUubt trndW-At. to. Marquis D Lfifnyctfo. D'Artagnan, lmmortm hero of Du mas' "Three Miinketeeni," led no more thrilling a career than did In real life Mnrte Jean Paul Rock ?ves Gilbert Motler, the amazing Marquis de Lafayette. In 1774, at the age of 17, Lafayette entered the French army as an officer of the guard. While stationed at the garrison at Metz. France. Lafayette attended a dinner at which the Duke of Gloucester, brothor of George III of England, was guest of honor. The duke had been exiled from England by hla brother-king because of his love for and marriage to the Countess Waldegrave, and hla sym pathies concerning the new American UNDER HEM GUARD HAMMOND, Ind.. Nov. 16. (& Folsorh's five convict defendants went on -trial here today, with heav TAILSPIN TOMMY The Sheriff Comes After All! ry-:) ', WEV, fU I ll DRAP THET THAB SHOOTIM IRONM( rV 5HERIFF THESE PEOPLE) JJL-''Mr f&rf "OW I'LL MAKERS BOSS I MSKaIMA worn TARhATION'S A-GOIN' M&'S ARE WANTED IM BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Some Mistake? r.V,) TRAL6 -EVftRYTHlkl&'O- JOa.l fcETW.' Las5- ( VJHAT'S THAT? WOVW.' AM HUMKX OOR.V.' YOU'LL btft MO 6taVlCE f KWEW ijB COULD T Nfl. V 6W6WE MOVIM' IT CAN'T J - HERfe FOR. TVJEUTX-fOUa HOURS AUO rT DEPEM0 UP0M VOU - MO CHWJCt i ! "7 BEj: J LiWM MOT UUTlL THE COVSTlUEMTM. TWttsI PTZt I OP A SUP-UP, SH ? WVife.' FME .' j Fr IjK I1 1--, ZXH P yX.' THE NEBBS I'm Sorry TiELLO, Mere uje have I'M SORRV NOUR. SSU-V APPLE BV AT EMMA'S HOUS SHE COUUDtOT RE.SVST TWE TEMPTATIOM TD CHIDE WECt OM HP5 BVIGWTEO ROMA.NJCE. 11-13 rSM exefflaf ON A ... ft KIM THE KING OFtHGtbWQ Revolution were decidedly antl Brltlsh. Strange as it seems, the Marquis de Lafayette in this manner first learned of the American Revolution a war, In which he was to play a great part from the lips of the brother of England's king! His im agination was so fired by the duke's words that he took Immediate steps toward Joining the American forces In their struggle for freedom. In Deoember, 1776, Lafayette ar ranged In Paris with an American agent. Silas Dean, to ally himself with the colonials as a major-general. Against the w)6hes of the king of France, Lafayette sailed Incognito for America with 11 companions, in ily armed guards patrolling the court house and a guard sitting behind each of the men accused of murder ing Warden Clarence A. Larkln In the Sept. 19 riot. The small court room, seating scarcely more than 110 was half filled by the veniremen and only as many of the public were admitted as would fill the remaining seats. The trial Is on an Indictment to MISS 6RUNJTLEV, IF VOU'RE MATRIMONJIAL VEMTVRE Z-SORj OURMED OUT TO BE VA P tbWTnoKfilt: HALL KICMF? WRMffijn PRlMCflbMMM.1WKl.ttV TO RKlUAeTHSflftMB OMWU00MU.KL0N6 FROrATlPTOTlP ANCIENT esVPT WERE MUMMlFlfl) TOG cluding Baron De Kalb. In a yacht equipped by himself. During the voyage be learned what little English he could pick up. Arriving at George town, S. C. on April 14, 1777. he proceeded to Philadelphia to give up his command and serve as a private without pay. Yet, strange as it seems, this boy of 20 became a major-general ,in the American array and a member of Washington's staff. These facts of Lafayette's life are dramatically portrayed in a current "Strange As It Seems" motion pic ture, "The Boy Who Saved a Nation." Tomorrow: tojtrnphed? Can a Mfrnge Be Pho- which all except one defendant, Robert Lee Cannon, entered pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of Insanity. During the past year there were reports of 3.402 missing persons in St. Louis: 6.108 in Philadelphia; 10,796 in New York City; 2,638 in San Francisco, and 3.082 in Los Angeles. euT WOO RE Be COMSRATULATED NOLJR. ONI SETTIMG 1 MOMEV back:. THE lO.OOO.. AMD WE vjust purred wou rOUT Vu BU WAKES UP, AMD SYfiRfe IH MOUfH AS USUAL ISM MKH WfiWIED BKA05E HE NtfflWS HOW 1b fAXE Mlf-fENS OFF BY PUUIKS WW MOifrH i ( WfeR 1EN MINDTK MMrfS HIMSElF BAFFLED wd rm ohlV -Thing To do isTo crv . S 'MATTES P0I TO 1 DOSJT WANJT L- It I AjiM-Hece-o-i-y TeAW V el'ooj NO COWSRATULATIOMS VOUR. 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