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POE SIX MEDFORP MAIL TRIBUNE. MEPFOIIP. OREfiON. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 20. 1037. 'I CAREFUL By GLUYAS WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tot farther proof addrosi the author, Inclosing a tamped envelope for reply. Ke. U. 8. Pat OC L- jk MACACT CUI0N HtllZOC V 11-73. The Character Nins tmpulf Ively married David, hoping to forget her in tense love for her stepfather. Rlchtrd. the charming, :;ell tailored stepfather, shamelessly talk of love to Atna. Honey. Nina's gay, plump, . touthul mother, is wild about Richard, her newly acquired hus band. David, a briaht young auto talesman, adores Nina and strives to make her happy on his rmall salary. Chapter 31 A Little Tight Budgeting MINA was thinking the same old thoughts, all over again. Her terrible, insatiable longing to have Richard for her own . . . No effort, no reasoning, had been ible to curb it. Now perhaps sepa ration might. Though she knew deep down in lide of her that it was the right thing, the hot tears welled up into her brown eyes at the thought of not seeing Richard for Ave long months. She put on Button's harness and took him out with her while she did the marketing. She had spent this last day with her mother, and had not got to 1? j in the this stu-ke;, Uavici. That would make a dear little emergency com partment over there, don t you think?" "Just dearl" said David. Two more new $1 bills, and an other battered 50-cent piece, intc the dear little compartment at the side. "Thirty-five dollars a week, ther 'And they both said: "Five dol lars a day, in unison. "I tell you," suggested Nina "write seven little stickers: 'Mon day, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs day, Friday, Saturday. Sunday' . . . and we'll put five little dollars ir each!" "Five dear little dollars, intc seven dear little compartments.'' David was really having fun. Hi said he was feeling married foi the first time. Led on byjiina, this deteriorated into an ode on the more fleshh joys . . . But presently, he returned to the task at hand. "Five dollars a day . . . Doesn'l sound impossible, docs it, baby?" "Heavens, no!" But. oh. heaven itdidl "Anything if there should bt anything left over from one day it goes over to swell the next day'i dear little compartment. Right?" . "Right. David." "Cash for everything." "Cash for everything, David." When she woke up the next morning, Nina felt as though sh had only so many words a day tc David was having fun budgeting. Said he was feeling married for the first time. morning. And after she had done the marketing, she started the din ner. And, after she had started the dinner, she brushed her hair, and refreshed herself for David. . . . The thought of the dishes she must wash made her feel angry nd rebellious. She decided to ask David to take her to the theater. Dress up, and everything. If ever there was a time when she needed a little diversion, it was now. But when David came dashing In, with that engaging eagerness of his, it was apparent that he had already made plans. "You know what we're going to do tonight, sweetheart? . . . Book keeping. We're going to do a little tight budgeting, if you can stand it. . . . We've sort of been meandering long gaily, without any definite plan . . , but, as the walrus said. The time has come.' . . ." Nina repressed a shudder. Dishes greasy dishes and a budget . . . and Richard sailing farther away with every minute that ticked byl Thirty-Seven Fifty A Week "rVD Honey get off all right, J darling? Feeling a touch blue? . , , Come here, then. David'U fix that . . ." But David couldn't fix it; and the whole evening was one long, hideous effort not to cry. . . . Into the soup: into the dishpan; into the strong box, with the separate compartments, where David put different allotments of his pitiful week's salary ... It was awful. The budget went like this: They figured it on a $50-a-week basis when he made more, they greed to save the surplus. Now then $12.50 a week for rent. The long compartment at the back of the strong box was the rent compartment. Into it went two fives, two ones new and a bat tered 50-cent piece. David licked his pencil. "That leaves thirty-seven fifty week, left over." Nina said, making a tremendous effort to act interested: "I can put seven days into $35, but I can't into 7 . . . let alone that extra 50 cents!" "I can't either. What do vou say we put the two-flftv aside ... for emergencies?" Nina had to smile at the thought of what a very tiny emergency it would have to be. "Good idea. Print 'emergency' on say: and only so many breaths to draw; As usual, David had turned the actual making of the budget into a gay afTair ... but the sticking to it, that was something else, again. Amazing Discoveries TTHAT next day that day after -1 Honey and her stepfather had sailed Nina's spirits were at a very low ebb. Flat . . . everything seemed fiat. line looa without seasoning. She realized, with tremendous force, that the thought of Rich ard his love his nearness the possibility of meeting him, had sus tained her through many a dreary day: and now all that was re moved . . . even thinking about him, for if anything was to be ac complished by his absence, she must do her part. The percolator. The toast. The steel wool. Button's interminable tours around the blork or else! Fresh linen for the bed. Heave-Ho, and over with the mattress . . . Godl Would it never end? And then, one day, simultane ously with her amazed discovery that the dogwood was blooming in Central Park . . . she suddenly dis covered that sho was having fun: that the percolator made lovely bubbly sounds and lovelier smells: that her toast was actually good, at last; and that steel wool pro duced speedy and pleasant results. She discovered that Button was an engaging gamin, with a person ality; and that making beds was keeping her figure trim. But most surprising of all was the discovery that David's return at night was something to look forward to with an anticipation bordering on joy. Amazing. . . , "Nina . . . sweetheart!" Every evening he looked and looked at her as though he had been away for months. Each kiss might have been Iheir first, for the enthusiasm he put into it. There was no getting around It. it produced results. Sweet David. All he needed was a break: and though she was too superstitious to crime out and sav it to herself, she could not help thinking: "I am freer." "I am freer." And at last: "I am . . . free." fCepvHpM, ll.IT. Wironrrt nernt) David aurprlMt Nina with a IttuX, tomorrow. FOR LOST FLIERS EDMONTON. AtU.. Nov. 99 (ITF, Tim winter-Ion Arctic nlnht hu eWrl in, Str Hubert Wilkin nd four companion soon will begin the irplane fliRhU which they hope will urntfAl the Ire -locked mvntcry of whut hppenwJ to flittmim) Levun eff.Miy. Soviet nee, and ht five coun trymen who 1 1 an p pen red tut Austin while nt tempting a flight from Mae cow to Ban Pranclaro. Wllklns and hit party now are at Aklavik, northernmost Canadian out poat. 1750 mllea north of here In a latitude m-here the aun nevr rtea during mint of the Arctic winter. Aided hv radio beams fr mi ftta- Alttftka. 8lr Hubert will direct tht huge twincngtned monoplane sup plied by the Russian government over the frozen Beaufort ae. the grcteat expanse of ocean without land In the Artie. The Might a will be made during the eight days eexh month when the moon la lull. LONDON. Not. 3D. (HPi Prlnceaa EllMUwth, an imperious young lady of U who aome day may be queen of the British empire, consent now to obey her father without question, "because when he speaks it'a the king command " I I!! -p. otmicn, TooTDdii waw rum nui iunt.g. PIPN'TlOSSb &M6LB6N& WolVCRlNes -SCORED 2,821 Point To Their I. irirJfi rrtHK V Jb THE KtN6S &REECHKV l ruin ircw.ii t,inr vu tuit IK. www t; v t m u t w. j, . f i m SECRET fAlV5fPW MM&5 WERE 3RMPSO INTO m P6miLf OF GHNese pie$ wjHwese of ficers PURlrAS TBe RUW-JhPftHKE Vim, If of -OS once snapped "Royalty speaking!" when a nurse Ignored her order refused to be ordered to do any thing. But aha has come to respect a new authority In her father during the year he has been on the hrone, Buckingham palexo circles related to day. ik OKlMflMft fTlNrtnNPlV OR GOVERNMENT M MO WPP Wfu4lM 115 UMrfc f ROfA rvnivnmeni vk Outlnwa Pnrnrilse. Strange aa It seems, the "Okla homa Panhandle an area of SUM) square miles, from 1846 to 18WU waa unclaimed, unwanted and with out governmental control of any kind whatever I This atrip of land, 36 miles wide and 170 mllea long, now comprising' the Oklahoma counties of Clmaron, Texaa and Beaver, waa successively j a part oi tne opnnisa ponflrnsion ui North America, a section of the Republic of Mexico and the north ernmost tip of the Republic of Texaa. When In 1845 Texaa was admitted to the union aa a state, the "pan handle" area, lying north of 36 de greea, 30 minutes north latitude, waa prohibited by terms of the Missouri Com prom I so from statehood, as the document ruled that no laud nortn of the "36 and 30" line should enter the Union as a stave-holding state. Inamuch aa Texaa favored slavery, the strip of land waa abandoned by Texaa. unclaimed by the federal government, and until 1890, when it was annexed to the Oklahoma Territory, waa literally a "No Man's Land" In the center of the United States! Strange as It seems, no govern ment control whatever could De exercised In this "Outlaws' Paradise" during those 45 years. Law enforce ment was non-existent because there were no laws there. Extradition also was unknown, and the spot Be came a mecca of the bad men ot the west, who had merely to step over the border line to secure Im munity from the law. UcNaiubt Sr4kaM. tm. H'2.f37t Many of the moat desperate out laws of the last century found their way to the "No Man's Land" a geo graphical loophole In the law ot the west. Pigtail Code. From 1627 until 1912, when the Manchu dynasty of China was over thrown, Chinese men were torcea to wear pigtails aa a sign of submis sion to the Tartars who first placed a Manchu on the throne of China. Strange as it seems, these same pigtails were utilized by Japanese military officers during the Russo Japanese war of 1904-06 to hide secret messages. Chinese spies were employed and messages were braided Into the Innocent-looking queues of Chinese runners who passed unno ticed through Russian lines In Korea. Tomorrow: Kiisln's Ecapc Artist. B-H RESUMES MINING ON FORREST CREEK The B-H mining operations In the Forest creek -Poarman creek section near Ruch, have been resumed with three shifts dally, accord tnc to Jack I Horner, manager. Some of the oper ations are on virgin ground, but principally worked soil. There Is sufficient water for the winter's operations, according to Horner. Closing time rui Too Late to Clas sify Ada is 1:30 p m. SoP5 fo WA1CH SCRUB F60f&hU &AMI, CAU.IN6 HECANTnhV HE'S 60t HIS 6001) CtfrtHES Oil 66ES ON WAfCHlKG, WSH- SHOW'S iO WAIT A MlNUIt, . 0W VERS" FIR&T PWV iKfc M0SE AND MORE HE HEU PlftV, If WOM'f HURT flHD& WMSELF At BOT HIS. CtMHK IE HE'S 1bM OF ?ILE CARTFUL coll: DISCOVERS msEWHV FltfDS W BE- SOON AFfER 15 fACKlEP DECIDES HE'D BEffEK SfoH ftftt his -Trousers are ik6 WA&6ED alon6 oh) by his shiri", which ACQ0IWW6 NUMEROUS HIS STOMACH FOR FIVE RIPS DIRf STAINlS . "TRIES fO VARDS, HIS WHrfE SHIRf BRUSH THEM OFF ISMT AS CIEAK AS If WAS IN -Time, COVERS UP riE DAMAGE AS BEST HE CAN ANPSIARISFOR HOME WrW SREAf MIS61VIM6& (Copyright, 1937, by The BU Syndicate, Inc.) S MATTER POI By C. M. PAYNE TSee-im' yj ,JL-7(t look' r 'VScPgCy 4$t ((Oopyright, 1937, by Th. Bell BynJirat., Inc.) 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