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PAGE TEN MF.DFOTCD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOItl). OREflOX, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 5, 1937 1 THE FAMILY ALBUM MAN'S WORK ay GLUYAS WILLI AM3 wo s ompanu STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tot farther proof address the erjthor, Inclosing stamped envelope tor reply. Beg. TJ. S. Pat Off. H-2.7 ty maacaret cuion heuzog V liie Character Nina, Junior Leaguer end ex debutante, impu!iuIi married Oavtd to escape her love for her stepfather. Blclurd, the charming, tfltlt tailored stepfather, is on a 5 moRth trip uilth hie wife, alter shamelessly talking love to Nina. Honey, Nim'i gay, youthu! mother who i uiild about Rich ard, is traveling on doctor's or den. David, a bright young auto ' salesman, adores Nina and strives to make her happy on his small salary. Chapter 36 The $5-A-Day Businesi AFTER a while, Nina looked back oo that listless, standstill period, as one of extreme happi ness ... not as happy as the earlier part of the spring and summer, when she had ditcovered she could get along without Richard . . . but happy, just the same. The next step was a step downward. Things like this happened: David developed an impacted wisdom tooth, and ran up a large dentist bill. Whenever he made more than S50 a week, that went toward the doctor; so did the absurd "emer gency" money; and whatever they could eke out of the day's stipend. Three nights running David tele phoned that he had to demonstrate cars, and wouldn't be home , . . after she had prepared the dinner. Twice in one week. Grade turned up, unexpectedly, with him; "I'm hanging round the office, to see if I can't get my old job back . . ." and Nina found herself wondering about those night demonstrations. . . . The party at Coney Island had been one long series of Gracie's grabbing David and going on the Red Mill with him, the roller coaster, the merry-go-round . . . Nina had never lost a beau, whom she hadn't meant to, deliberately; but she knew, for a certainty, that 'if she had, she never, never would have run after him the way Gracie was running after David now. Perhaps the girl really did love him, poor soul; and very probably i j!j u 1. u: sne uiu ilium Bile cuutu iiiuno nun a better wife than Nina , . . but this pursuing business! It was quite beyond ner Ken. It was in only her most miserable moments that sne was annoyed with David . . . she knew that he wasn't encouraging the girl; but she was getting pretty fed up with Gracie her apparent friendliness, and her underhand methods, David's Accusation ONE evening, In the first part of September, David came home, and after greeting Nina with his customary, dear enthusiasm . . . and Button, too . . . he went over to the strong box. He took up two $1 bills that still lay in the day's compartment. He looked at them and then at Nina. After a minute, he put them Back and closed tne cox. He said: "Nina, I haven't been ipying on you, but ' tely, with this dentist bill hanging over me, I've been watching the budget pretty closely . . ." He looked away from her, out through the window. He aid: "Nina, you've been using your own money for household sxpenses." He said It quietly enough, but as though he had just discovered she was a murderess . , . and Nina felt quite as guilty. "Just ever so little, David . . . Just to help out." "Have you been doing It right along?" You have, haven't you, from the first?" "Well, I don't remember exactly how it started, darling . . . Really, truly, it hasn't amounted to a thing. . . ." He said, gravely: "It amounts to the fact that you've gone back on our agreement, Nina. That's quite a lot, the way I figure things." He was right, of course, but Nina becan to cot angry, just the same. "I'm sorry, David." She couldn't lecm to say any more. He appeared to be waiting. Then: How much has it been? I'll pay you beck . . . How much, five, ten dollars a week? "Oh. David! I haven't kept track Don't be . . . don't be stupid about this tiling, darling. You said I could spend my money on clothes and personal things, well, I haven't needed anything at all, practically ... So what's the difference if I icend a few cents of :t for a melon low and then ... or the movies in the evenins? He smiled at that . . . but not his usual gay smile. "I dare say you have reasoned out what seems to you a perfectly flood excuse, dear; but the thing a, 1 happen to feel very strongly on the subject, and we agreed about it at the beginning . . . You . . . You'll stop, now that I ask you, won't vou, Nina?" "Yes." That was all she could seem to bring herself to say. And David had finished, too, apparently. They had their dinner, and went for a walk, and came home and read for a while before going to bed; but there was a feeling of strain throughout the whole eve ning. Nina felt it dreadfully, be cause, in spite of heat, or fatigue, m discouragement, or anything, there had been only comradeliness between them, before. He had always been an angel of thoughtfulness and devotion. Even in her most depressed moments it had never occurred to Nina to blame him for the plight she was in . . . That had been of her own choosing. He had always done his best; but now she did think he was being a bit unreasonable. Money . . . That was funny. Rich ard didn't seem to count so much any more, but money ... She thought: "Everyone knowa that the first yeat of marriage is the hardest . . . needs concession on both sides. If I can only stand the gaff now, everything is bound to be all right. We are happy to gether . . . there's only this one thing. David la bound to make good, and then even that will b swept away. Hold on, Nina . . ." When the lights were out, he asked her again, gently, please to tell him how much she figured she had spent on melons. He wanted to pay her back. But when she cried a little, and begged him, please, not to make her feel badly, he said all right, let it go. Perhaps he wasn't so unreason able after all . . . Perhaps she hadn't played fair ... , Fear Grips Nina BUT things have a way of going in pairs . . . and the next dis agreement about money was much more serious. Everyday, it seemed, the papers were coming out with headlines: hottest September such and such, in ten years; so many deaths; so many people prostrated . . . Nine began to wonder how long it would be before her name joined the list. She looked at the pictures of naked little boys enjoying their two weeks at some charity Fresh Air farm, and envied them . . . Nina ... the former Nina Stafford of East 74th street, Junior Leaguer, ex-debutante par excellence . . envying a lot of little undernour ished news bovsl She had to laugh. The $5-a-day business ("No foolin' this time, Nina!" "No foolin' David!") was going very badly. Was it possible that 10 or IS dollars a week could make such a difference ... or had she taken more? Or what? Beside the food, there were so many stupid extras, every day , , , things that didn't show. Razor blades, soap, the window cleaner when the glass got so dirty you could hardly sea through. Though she tried her best to press David's suits, every other time, there were frequent SO-cent pieces that went to the valet , , . and, in spite of washing out her own stockings and silk underthings, the laundry bills were alarmingly high. It was on one of her least cheery days, a close, muggy Tuesday, that McDuff called with a pair of newlyweds. As luck would have It, the apart ment had never looked sweeter. Everything was in order. David having been taken to dinner the night before had brought her some white roses, and a few sprays of blue delphinium. They looked too lovely in the blue and white living-room. To cap the climax, Nina had just made herself some lemonade, and it stood In a frosted silver pitcher beside a tall glass, on one of the walnut coffee tables . . . It was probably the iced lemon ade, as much as anything else, that completely broke down the bride and groom, when they en tered. To them, hot and weary from apartment hunting, Nina and ner frosted pitcher, and her blue walls seemed heaven indeed. "It's perfect, that's all thert It to it, Jim. Perfect." Nina and McDuff exchanged forlorn glances. The faithful superintendent be- an getting in sly pokes about the imness, and the noisy alleyway. The bride and groom loved a aim light. They adored noise. McDuff then remarked that of course the rent was pretty high . . . perhaps, on the first of October, he would have a cheaper one vacant. Money meant absolutely nothing to the bride . . . but fortunately oh so fortunately it did to the groom. "Ninety a month, you say? M-m-m-m." "The veree best I can do, air," said McDuff gravely. "Well, we'll think it over. Coma on, darling." They went out, leaving Nina In a paralysis of fear. Oh, God! Sup posing they took HI If the place had never looked better, it had certainly never seemed dearer to Nina, either. In her new fright, she realized how lucky she had been to have a cool sweet place like this, to come home to. She grew frantic at the thought of having to move away. She confided her fears to David that night, who became quite as alarmed as she. (Copyright, JSJIT, Jloroartt Rtrtgi A tense moment In the Dars' mar ried life occurs Monday, $ SjST ... aV- :,Ki& .- . Genesis mr 6 CONTAINED iNlHfclftftPtfiON or more Than ft voitw peopL&s NELSON, EttdJieh mortK. WRoTe rtrS 3 lAMlllWrtOll lAtUll-. t ANP'wmermuM''" miLB IN PFlSOH I b.kAP. VlORllTiS M6HTWeie3rff i"uaiA7inw own : LI101 MS PlMF;T V miner -THftM TBKT Or HERMAN, hbSKh! I 3 O.Y HOIT6R iHBN KtlCtllnWyj 4 HELD EVIL WAYS ZION. ni., Io. 4. (API MovlM and bowling, long bannM a "iun eifs of evil." w?re liuun tn Zlrm's Th form of r! t rrftion . long with stnnktnjr, pool playing, and drinking, wri c1hw.n1 a harmful lnflunoNi tt'hn Dr John Alxannr Dowia ajid hi rHifrioua flock f MindM tha city a a bulwnrk against wlrk edntvut, Wilbur Qlenn Voliva, overatar of the Christian Cathollo chun :, and one-time dictator of the city, warnM the faithful they would "live to nhed bitter teara" If they vot, to ipllre movlea. Voliva, coatroU4 city ailaua for 3S years and per&Uta In a belief that the world la flat, said ha had no objection to movies "if they are (ihown by a Christian man," but op poerd their operation by thou "who know only one god. the almighty dollar." Blast In Building Held Strike Phase KANAAA CITY, Dec. . (AP)-A powerful blaat shattered more than 300 windows today at the BuAlnees Men'i Auranc6 building where a service strike, marked by sluggtnga and other violence, has been in pro grew. No one was reported Injured by the blast which police believed was caueod by a dynamite bomb. H oc curred at 9 as a. m. For all week, many employees slept and ate In the building rather than go home. Dm Mali rrlbuue tat ads. Story of the Flood "And the waters prevailed exceed ingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered." Genesis VI-IX thus unfolds dra matically a Biblical story of flood and disaster which, strange as It seems, Is repeated In the tradltiona of most of the world's nations! Numerous traditions resembling the Genesis story have been found In Babylonia, the best-known form ing the Uth tablet of the Gllgameah Epic which recounts the experiences of "Utnaplshttm." the Babylonlai. "Noah." The Icelandic flood story Is remarkable because Its deluge is caused by blood (lowing from a wounded giant. In India, Sanskrit records dating MeNncki Snadfcatt. fw back to the aJstfc century B. C. relate how the hero, Manu. was warned by a fish of the coming flood, and ad vised to prepare a ship as a means of escape. When the flood came Manu's fish towed the ship to a mountain In the far North. After the flood receded, Manu offered a sacrifice, from which a woman was evolved. Deluge stories are found In China. Burma, Cochin China. Malay, the Indian archipelago, among the Aus tralian aborigines, the New Guinea, and in Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia. They are common in southern Asia,, scarce In Europe and Africa. The Semlnoles and Choctaws of North America also have a story of the creation very much like that of the Bible. M-4.Z7 Strange as It seems, the valley of the Nile has no deluge story among Its native traditions! Roger Itacon So advanced mentally was Roger Bacon, English monk and philoso pher, that he was considered hy con temporaries to be In some manner associated with the devil. Accord ingly, he was imprisoned from 1257 to 1267 and again trom 1278 until 1292. Bacon's "black magic." as set forth In his prison writings. Included a mystifying glass that magnified tiny objects and a chemical com pound that exploded violently. Fur ther proof of hla "derangement" were his forecasts of the Invention of steamships, telescopes, airplanes, locomotives, bridges and elevators. Monday: Wind of niscoveryl Pacific Telephone Announces Dividend BAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 4. (AP) Paclflo Telephone and Telegraph com pany will pay the 2 dividend on common stock December 21 to stock holders of record December 10, and the preferred $1.60 quarterly dtdldend January 15 on records of December 31. The dividends will amount to 4. 840,000 on the two stocks. There are 820.000 charea of preferred and 1. 805,000 shnres of common outstand ing In tho hnnds of about 7,300 owners. Air Ticket 7 Feet Long. SALT LAKE CITY (UP) Mrs. Gertrude Benjamin bought an air trip ticket 7 feet 2 Inches long, costing tl875. which will take ner 10.000 miles. She has already uown 8000 miles. She will visit several South American countries and ny 1000 miles Into the interior of Brazil. sek wife sTbW for PArtfRV WW-fOOlSfo W IM "The cup-hoc he PROMISED TO WlH A WEEK AGO CAU51oWWfAMlrUTE, HEUD01T, HCSBEEn MEftrllNG "ft, BDT tf SUPPET? HIS MInP MOMDff UrfE5? CAllS MAYBE SHED BETTER. 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