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STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
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THE NEIGHBORHOOD LEAGUE
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
By BLANCHE,
FERGUSON
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J (Copyright, 1833, by Tha Bell flrndiwU, Ine )
Jbt Starr Far: Loving somf
on tl$e, gently bred Judith
Coodlof marrlM Reuben OUuer
" telf-mad man and outrider
for hit money, only to discover
that hit ortune It loit. With dl
firmt backorounde, different
' codee, a clash i$ inevitable. Judith
retuee to help Reuben make a
fresh tart with money he pave
lier amity, but he trill etick to
i her marriage. Forced to take a
' mining Job in Nevada, Reuben
bringt her to diemal Fordney'i
Gulch.
Chapter 21
Repressed Hatred
LIKE flash upon i screen Ju
dith saw her life as she had
planned it with Gary from this
distance achinjtly beautiful! She
forgot Gary'a waverings, his ir
responsibility and remembered
only his perfection as one remem
bers or; the good qualities of the
dead. She tried to shut him from
her vision, but he invaded the lit
tle room like an actual physical
presence. Somewhere in the world
was Garyl
Morning did not hrlghten the
outlook of life in Fordney's Gulch.
Not a maid to be hired in town.
The women of the place unless
bedridden, did their own work and
were proud of it. There was good'
natured rivalry among them.
Judith saw them on all sides,
Ihow," Mrs. Kraus scrutinized
tCissv's eorceoua sift critically.
: "Throw it out an.1 get yourself a
irouple of those Wilton scatters
sown at tne ismponum.
j And life went oi . An endless
'procession of dirty dishes. Dirty
j I'lothes. Wood. Splinters. Chapped
hands. Burnt Angers. Ham. Mud
! Loneliness.
Thanksgiving came to Ford
ney's Gulch. Judith knew it be
cause every woman in ine now
spent the greater part of the day
cooking a turkey. Judith didn't
cook a turkey. Reuben was called
to the mine early. "I'll bring our
dinner from the restaurant, Judy."
Not having to cook dinner gave
her time to manicure her nails,
wash her hair and while it dried,
to sit by the front window and
I look out Into the sleety, muddy,
I mean little street, with its gas
I station, its third rate moving pic
' lure house, its five and ten
i Thanksgivingl Judith had noth
, ::ig to be thankful for. At home
: this morning there had been thj
i Hunt Breakfast. A blazing hickory
tire in the dining room. Amos and
Ben passing coffee, hot rolls,
browned pieces of fried chicken.
Afterwards the pe.ace of old St.
John's followed by a run across
frosty fields dogs baying horns
calling
Horrible Interlude
SUDDEN tears welled to Judith's
eyes making the lights of the
gas station wink and sputter. If
Her polite enthusiasm no longer fooled Reuben.
battering and happy. Women with
racuum cleaners anC mops. Wom
en with stewing pots and dish
oans. Women going tc market
ludith among them trying to
neet their kindly advances half
way. Trying to appear interested
in bacon, lard and beans. Winning
meir ill concealed contempt be
cause she did not know how to
bargain for marrow bone.
"Wasting your man's hard
earned moneyl"
Judith trying to Jaugh. Trying
not to swear. Trying to be a good
sport A good mixer.
She slaved all day and every day
In a futile effort to make the little
house clean and attractive. Her en
deavors to have something fit for
Reuben to ent in the evening were
Bathetic. The house reeked of
burnt food, scorched nluminum
ware and smoke. Judith always
had a cut or burnt finger. When
Reuben came home he kissed the
injured member, and set about
preparing more food.
When the meal was eaten he
helped her wash the dishes. Then
they set abit trying to bring a
semblance of beauty and order to
the impossiblo little house.
It was a hopeless task. Cissy's
rug covered the floor completely
end left a foot to turn under
around the sides. Dick Blout's
table It had belonged to an an
cestor patina of polish overlay
ing the wood like mellow gold,
made the wall behind it look more
muddy by contrast The lamp with
the white jade base and green
shade mde an incongruous blob
f color and the Sevres vase stood
out like a lily in a Held of dan
delions, or rather Reuben thought,
n Judith herself stood out among
the women of the town with their
cotton house frocks.
Dreams Of Home
"IT's no use," Judith sighed dls-
I consolately, "Our things are
all wrong somehow."
Reuben agreed, nuzzled because
they couldn't make things look
right The neighbors, coming .0
view the effect were frank in their
comments.
"Your carpet's too big Mis'
Oliver."
"I know it Mrs. Kraus. I didn't
realize it was so mammoth." Not
for worlds would she have hhUed
that the room was small. Casper
Street bragged about the size of
its living rooms as compared to
those of Newman Street.
"It's old and kinda faded any-
she could only go home stay there
lorgot this horrible interludt
that was her marriage!
Tea was over at Goodloe'i
Choice now. And tonight, at the
kennels, all the old crowd would
Vance in pink coats and festive
rrocks. it seemed like a dream
that she had ever been one ol
them. Had ever been clean, rested.
good tempered, well groomed.
In such moments of introspec
tion, Judith hated Reuben with s
bitter, repressed hatred. He was
nothing and nobody and all the
kings horses and all the king!
men couldn't make him into some
body. He was a failure as a busi
ness man too. He couldn't stay in
the place he had mado for him
self. Couldn't climb any higher at
the mine
If she had given him back his
money as he asked her she wished
with all her heart and soul she ; d
the bargain between them would
have ended. Now because she be
lieved in such things as honor ant.
decency as long as that hedge
stood Life in Fordney's Gulch
Life in hell were synonymous 1
Judith.
Always after her rage had spent
itself she was ashamed. All the
generation:; that had gone Into the
making of Judith Goodloe arose to
mock her. The old habit of gentle
courtesy would resume its sway.
She would try harder to be p.
t ion t. entertaining; to see only the
best in Reuben; to stop comparing
him to Gary There was the fly
in the ointment Gary.
Reuben came home. Wet Tired.
Silent. He handed her the basket
of food. Atop the coarse towel that
covered it lay a short-stemmed,
scarlet geranium.
"A Dame Durden! How lovely!"
She raised the flower in gentle,
brown Angers. While she had been
hating him he had been tramping
about the dull, huddled little town
hunting a blossom!
"Only this morning I was
thinking how a blooming geranium
would brighten this room want
ing one" she lied galh-.ntly.
"And how!" His wife's polite en
thusiasm no longer fooled Reuben
He was by turn humbly grateful
and sullenly resentful of her un
failing courtesy. Did she think he
didn't know she desnised him? Did
she think he wanted to be tolerat
ed? Did she think he was a com
plete fool?
Tomorrow: A new Interest.
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WASHINGTON, April 39. (L'P)
Rpreaentatlve Clare E. Hull man, (It .
Mich.) demanded toddy that thr
senate lobby InvcMlKAtlng committee
Inquire Into Income tx return M
Secretary of Labor Frances IV r Klin
and Jamea Roosevelt, son and aec
retary of Ui ptwldrnt. to aaceruin
the source of thetr outMde Income, if
ny.
Hoffman said reRordlng Mlas Per
kin that Textta newspaper! rharped
that during a recent aouthwestern
tour ahe "boycotted" Amarlllo, Trx
because an organization which she
tu to bava uKlreeavd reJuAoU to pay
her several hundred dollars. The
newspapers alleged tthat ahe refused
to itop off In Amarlllo and that
when reporters sought to Interview
her she sent word from her Pullman
that she "could not be disturbed."
Mlsa Perkins wsa not available for
comment but a labor department
spokesman mild she had delivered a
I limited number of lectures for feea,
'possibly seven or elht."
(NATIVES GIVE CLUE TO
FATE OF RUSSIAN PLANE
WASHINGTON. April 3P. n The
possibility that Alaskan Ice packs may
cover the plsne In which the Russian
aviator. Sintsinund levanevsky, and
hla companions vanished lat August
appeared today In beited report
from Olltuk. MO miles southeast ol
Point Barrow.
Levanevsky left Moscow Iwt Au
gust 12 for the United states, rhe
war department was Informed Vf-tt-r-da)'
by ttt'ifcaul fcStnulcj Morf&u tfeai
-famed Japanese i vMrs mnrm
Suicide crater, Wjff VW JT
pin
Ertglattd'f great naval hero,
rteaaiWNdrseeft
&m To mwdrmwu
wrrw conmmti, hpriiijsoi.
. HemtRezp victorious
Hllnd Man's Bluff
Second in command of the Brit
ish fleet at the Battle of Copen
hagen. April 1, 1801, was England's
great naval hero, Vice-Admiral Hora
tio Nelson, blind In one eye and.
with only one arm.
Nelson's superior officer. Sir Hyde
Parker, fearlrig Nelson's ship, the
Elephant, was unable to withstand
the withering fire It was undergoing
during the battle, ordered a signal'
to retire hoisted on a halyard.
Aboard Nelson's ship observers
called his attention to the signal.
Nelson, feeling he was capable of
turning In a winning battle, had no
Intentions of retreating.
However, to dispose officially of
the Incident, he raised his telescope
to his blind eye and scanned the
horizon In the direction of his com
mander's ship, then lowered It, an
nouncing that he could see no sigr
nail
The battle continued and Nelson
brilliantly completed the campaign.
All but three .of the Danish ships
were sunk or taken.
Hlfih Price of Sugar.
Strange as it seems, sugar sold
for 9500.00 pound only 40 years
ago!
Only It was' not ordinary cane
sugar, but sorbose, a rare sugar
chemically classed as ketose sugar,
which can be used In making syn
thetic vitamin C. Today It can be
manufactured for 7ft cents a pound
by a new process developed by the
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
Because of a lack of any practical
way to make It, sorbose remained a
laboratory curiosity for years. Its
structure makea It especially suit
able for starting material' for the
chemical synthesis of vitamin C,
according to scientists.
New York In Africa.
Only Negro republic in the world
is Liberia, founded In western
Africa to provide a free land for
freed American slaves. Only blacks
are permitted to hold office in the
entirely Negroid government, pat
terned after that of the U. 8. The
capita), Monrovia, was named after
U. S. President James Monroe and
many of Liberia's Jungle towns bear
American names.
week later natives at Olltuk saw a
big object "hit the water two or three
times" and then submerge.
To Squeeze Liner
SAN FRANCISCO (UP) When the
Canadian Pacific's giant liner, the
Bmpresa of Britain, parses through
tho Panama canal, It will oxpcrlenco
a "squeeze" not only from tho stand
point of Its size, but also from the
standpoint of Its wallet, as It will
have to pay 40, 000 for the passage,
officials here disclosed.
School Too Bright
HERKIMER, N. T. (UP) Horklmer
high school's lighting system staged
an "on again, off again" act and
power company investigators searched
for a short-circuit. Instead of the.
short-circuit, they found, that the
school's power line was overloaded.
4-1 .
Inventor Dies.
PORTLAND, April 29. (p Funeral
services were to be held today for
Herbert D. Eubank, 64, secretive In- -ventor
who designed a forerunner of
modern streamlined railroad trains.
He died here Monday.
TriE OVEM6 6AM OF THE YEAR WAS
HELP UP FOR HALF AW HOUR BECAUSE
EACH -TCAM CLAIMED THAT YHE OfHER 0U6HT
T6 60 AFTER A FOUL BALL "THAT HAD BEEM HlT ItfTo
The swamp, at the fnd of which -time the
game" had to be callep off because
The ball couldn't be tcuhv anvvav'
WILLIAMS
3 MATTER POf
By 0. M. PAYNE
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AN' CHECK UP ON THE POET OKAY,
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STALLIN ON THE JOB, I
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