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By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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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,
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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
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HAMMOND, Ind.. Nov. 16. (&
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went on -trial here today, with heav
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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
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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.
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proceeded to Philadelphia to give up
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not guilty and not guilty by reason
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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
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