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PACK ETP.HT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 1942. 1 $v WATKINJ I WRIGHT ' Chapter Tea Off For Romance 1AVINIA doed her suitcase ' with bang, and locked it All right" the said, "I'm all el" She walked over to her aunt. fiut her arm around her. "Dar ing." ahe aaid. "if it'a going to make you happy for me to have a fling at frivolous living. I'll try. I hope I make your hair stand on end but I doubt It" "You'll get by," said Aunt Dorcas. "Just about," said Lavinla. "And that will be all." "All you've got to do Is forget Armsworth'a Department Store," Miss Dorcas said. "Forget that, and the fact that you are a fairly successful young woman from Manhattan and Tend an attentive ear to whatever young men aay to you." ''Suppose there are no young men? "Of course therell be. Harbor Head Is full of them." "I mean suppose there are no young men for me?" "Nonsense! You're an attrac tive young woman, and the men will be quick to see and get busv." "Which will be lust ducky." aid Lavinla, with a touch of sar casm. Miss Dorcas gave her a sharp look. "And don't talk like that to the men." ahe warned. "If there's anything men dislike if there's anything in the world that laps a wet blanket on romance It's sarcasm, and what you modem young people call vim cracks." "Goodness!" said Lavinia, try ing to speak gayly. "You sound like advice to the lovelorn. Don't tell me you are speaking from actual experience! "Maybe:" Tell me about It, Aunt Dor cas." "There ls'nt time. But please remember, Lavinia, that I wasn't born in a jungle or a buried city." "I've always suspected you of having had a romance back in the old home town. Am I right?" "All girls even a girl as plain as I was get attention," aaid Miss Dorcas. Presently the buzzer rang. Miss Dorcas went to the sneaking tube. "Yes?" she said. "It's the taxi you ordered, ma'am," said a masculine voice. "Then come on!" said Aunt Dorcas, picking up her suitcase. Lavinia picked up hers but he hesitated. She stood in the center of the room, looking about at all ber little possessions. She had a sad sort of feeling that nothing was ever going to be the same again. It made her feel like crying made her wish ahe could drop Tier suitcase, make a flying leap for the bed and there bury her face among the pillows. And then the taxicab was mov ing off downtown. The first lap of Lavinia's journey had begun. Grand Central Station. A stream lined train. Speeding northward. To Maine. To Harbor Head. To a cay hotel. And then what? Now they were turning Into East Forty-second street. Now they were setting out of the taxi cab. Aunt Dorcas was paying the tare, and tipping far too generous ly. A red cap came out He picked Up the two aultcases. "What train, lady?" The Boston Express," aaid Aunt Dorcas. "Yes'm. Right this way. lady." Aunt Dorcas hurried after the man. Lavinia fell Into step with her. Aunt Dorcas looked at her. "Stick up your chin," she aaid. "You look like somebody on the way to the guillotine." "Then I look exactly like I feel." "Then I look exactly like I feel," said Lavinla. And a sudden wave of home sickness for the quiet little spot in Connecticut swept over her. . . . A Little Frightened THREE days later Lavinla Pren tiss was standing on a high rock unon the rumied coast of Maine. She was alone, and had never before In all her life felt so alone. Aunt Dorcaa had atayed over night had seen that she was comfortably settled in a room at the ClifTside Inn, had gotten her properly introduced to the host ess, had sampled the meals and then departed. "Here I go for the musty Plunk etts!" she said ruefully. "Be a gay girl, my dear, and are what you ran do to masculine hearts while I see what I can do to a dead whale's innards!" "Oh, Aunt Dorcas," Lavinla wailed. "I do wish you'd stay here witn me! "Nonsense! You're on your own now, Lavinia. Remember, your mother was a heart-breaker, even If your father was rather dull. Try being your mother'a child for a while. You've been your father's quite long enough." "Yes'm." Lavinia promised. Very meekly. Then Aunt Dorcas's Portland tram coming along taking her away. And now the rugged coast of Maine and Lavinia, lonelv, mis erable, gazing out to sea. "I feel," she told herself, "like I Imagine Napoleon must have felt when he was left upon the Isle of St Helena." Then, seeing some bathers upon the stretch of sand down at the foot of the rocks, she decided upon a swim. At least it would give her something to do. Perhaps the icy water would shock her out of her feeling of depression. She walked slowly bsck to the Inn, conscious of people glancing at her as she crossed the wide veranda. She knew that they looked at her as she crossed the lobby. "I'm Just another new girl come to the Inn," she thought "and they re all curious, bhe got Into the elevator, still thinking. The people who eyed her didn't know, of course, that she was a dud so cially. But they'd soon And out when they played linage wun her. or when they asked ber to dance. Oh. well, after the first bout with her bridge-playing and the first skirmish with her dancing, they would leave her alone. Then she could sneak out the book about advertising out of her suit case, find a secluded spot on a tall rock, and do as she pleased. "Remember." Aunt Dorcas had said, "you're to put thoughts of business completely out of your head." "Yes'm." "You're to act like an attractive lrl on a vacation not like a itu ent cramming for exams." "Yes'm." Well, here she was at her room. Now for the swim. She got out the brief swimming suit and the Say beach robe. Then, taking a ecp breath, she prepared herself for the trip to the strip of sand, where she had seen so many good-looking men and lovely girls stretched out taking the sun. 'Thank goodness I can swim," she said later, as she left the inn by way of the entrance reserved for bathers. "I can always dive into the water, if I'm cornered. Goose pimples are better than be ing made to feel like a social flop." On The Beach REACHING the beach she tested the water with her toe, and decided to wait a while. The sun felt wonderful to ner back. It was better to enjoy that, than to tor ture herself by plunging into wa ter which felt like the inside of the frigidalre in the apartment back in New York. She found a spot a little way from a group of young people, and sank down upon her beach robe, leaving her legs and body exposed to the sun. She began to feel relaxed and began to doze now and then hearing scraps of conversation that came from the group of young people she had passed. "I wanted to go to a livelier spot than this," a girl said. "But now I'm glad I didn't." "Why?'' asked another glrL "Didn't you hear? We re so close to Canada, they say the most fascinating-looking prisoners are escaping right over the border only a little way from Harbor Head." "Not really?" "Yes really." "So what?" said a masculine voice. "You don't mean there's anything to get excited about prisoners from Internment camps escaping?" "Of course It's something to get excited about I heard that some of the men in the camps are sim ply devastating." "And you'd flirt with them Im mediately, I suppose?" "Naturally!" "You wouldn't report them and see that they were sent back to Canada?" "Well, maybe only " "A consistent girl you are knitting for the British, and flirt ing with their enemies." "Consistency," said a second masculine voice, "is not one of a woman's strongest points, my dear lad." "Oh, come on." someone cried, "let's have a dip. The water's probably warmed up some." Lavinia sighed. Such lay young things. They made her feel a mil lion years old. Girls, able to get excited over escaped prisoners, willing even to flirt with them. And young men who tried to think seriously about such things, and "You'd better not take too much sun all at once," someone said at her side. Startled, Lavinla looked up. Margot Linden, the Inn hostess, was smiling down at her. "Oh, thank you," Lavinla said. "I felt so relaxed. I hardly no ticed the sun at all. "That's the way It works," Mar got aaid. "You feel relaxed, and the sun gets in his dirty work." She sank down upon the sand. "I'm so sorry your aunt couldn't stav. She's adorable. I have heard of )ier, you know." "Yes," said lavinla, "lots of people have." She laughed. "But Aunt Dorcas says she's through doing the things that made people hear about her." "Do vou have ambitions to be like her?" "I did have." "Meaning you've changed?" "No." said Lavinla, 'meaning Aunt Dorcas has changed." Ta fee conUnarA Rationing of Sugar May Be Ordered to Break Up Hoarding Washington, Jan. 10. The government may order sugar rationing for consumers, author itative sources said today, In order to halt an unwarranted hoarding epidemic. Disclosing that auch action was being considered, these sources declared that the supply situation itself did not require rationing, but that regulation appeared necessary to assure an equitable distribution among all users. Present supplies were aaid to be ample, and prospects were that they would continue sufficient throughout the year. Nevertheless, officials report ed, many consumers have been buying In excess of normal needs and storing the extra sup plies for use In event of a short age and higher prices, such as occurred in the first world war. It was explained that these prac tices, If allowed to continue much longer, might result in acute shortages later for non-hoarders. SOLOMON A PIKER Pawhuska. O k 1 a. (LP) A chain letter to end chain letters is now In circulation. 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