Page Six 9/4 7>y C/ V JL XV J. Senior Class Play ¿MARIE All of a Sudden-- Peo'ov A* Uy Eleanor H. Porter A* Illustrations by H. Livingstone / O 3-Act Comedy Copyright by KI mum * H. Port«* 8YNOPSIS TCOI PREFACE.—‘Mary Marie” explains her appuient "double personality” and just why she Is a "cross-current and a contra­ diction;” she also tells her reasons for writing the diary—later to be a novel. The diary Is commenced at Andersonville. HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM CHAPTER I.—Mary begins with Nurse ■araii's account of her (Mary's) birth, which seemingly Interested her fr.’her, who Is a famous astronomer, less than a asw star which was discovered the same night. Her name Is a compromise, her mother wanted to call her viola and her father Insisting on Abigail Jane. The child quickly learned that her home was tn some way different from those of her small friends, ard was puzzled thereat. Nurze Sarah tells her of her mother's ar­ rival at Andersonville as a bride and how astonished they all were at the sight of the dainty elghteen-year old girl whom the sedate professor had chosen for a wife. ' Thursday, May 18th, 1922 Tickets E.E. Koch □ p. tn. CHAPTER II.—Continuing her story, Nurse Sarah makes It plain why the household seemed a strange one to the child and howher father and mother drifted apart through misunderstanding, each too proud to In any way attempt to smooth over the situation. % CHAPTER III.—Mary tells of the time spent “out west" where the "perfectly all right and genteel and respectable" divorce was being arranged for, and her mother's i u Friday, May THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT Ö —x>. COOOOMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQGOOGCCCOOGOOOOOOOOCCOCOOGOQQOCX $ Our customers are taking advantage of our discounts CHAPTER V—At Andersonville Aunt Jane meets her at the station. Her fa­ ther Is away somewhere studying an eclipse of the moon., Marie—"Mary" now Instinctively compares Aunt Jane, prim and severe, with her beautiful, dainty mother, much to the former's disadvan­ tage Aunt Jane disapproves of the dain­ ty clothes which the child ts wearing, an.I replaces them with "serviceable" serges and thick-coled shoes Her father arrives home and seems surprised to see her. The child soon begins tn notice that the girls at school seem to avoid hor. Her father appears Interested In the life Mrs. An­ derson leads at Boston and asks many questions In a queer manner which puzzles Mary She finds out that her schoolmates do not associate with her on account of her parents being divorced, and she refuses to attend school. Angry at first. Mr Anderson, when he learns the reason for her determination, decides that she need not go. He will hear her lessons In Aunt Jane's and her father's absence Mary dresses In the pretty clothes she brought from Boston and plays the liveliest tunes she knows, on the little- used piano Then, overcome by her Ion»- aomeness, she Indulges In a crying spell which her father's unexpected appear­ ance Interrupts She sobs out the story • >f her unhappiness, and In a clumsy way he comforts her After that he appears to desire to make her stay more pleasant. Her mother write« asking that Mary be allowed to come to Boston for the begin­ ning of the school term, and Mr Ander­ son consents, though from an expression he lets fail Mary believes he Is sorry she Is going 1« not to go to school st all, any more, she gasped. “Exactly." Father read on in his paper without looking up. Aunt Jane's lips came together hard, Discontinue issuing discount tickets on large a mou h ta "diaries. I’m amazed at you—yield­ but will deduct tin* 5 per cent discount from purchase ing to that child's whims like Oils— that she doesn't want to go to school I price at option of purchaser. It's the principle of the thing Uiat I'in objecting to. Do you realize what it We save you money by our discount otte r will lead to—what it—" "Jane!" with a Jerk Father sat up straight, "I realize some things that Try It and prove It. perhaps you do not. But that is neither here nor there. 1 do not wish Mary to go to school any more this spring. That Is all; and 1 think—It is sutlleleut," OREGON TILLAMOOK. "Certainly." Aunt Jane's lips came qqooqoqaooooooooooocmxkoooocoqooqoooooqoooooooooioocck : together aguin grim and hard. "Per­ hups you will be good enough to say w hat she shall do with her time." "Time? Do? Why—er—what ahe always does; read, sew, study—" "Study?" Aunt Jane asked the quea- tloti with a hateful little smile that Father would have been blind not to Three IVi.-ndly liuve understood. And he was equal G.nrtemen to It—but I moat fell over backward when 1 found how equal tv it lie was. TURKISH "Certainly," he says, "study. I— I'll hear her lessons myself—lu the li­ VIRGINIA brary. utter I come home in the aft- BURLEY vrmaiu. Now let us bear no mor« shout It." With that he pushed back his plate attd left the table without waiting for dessert. And Aunt Jane and I were left alone. 1 didn't say anything. Victors shouldn't boast—and 1 was a victor, of course, about the school. But when I thought of what Father had tuild about my reciting my lessons to him every day in the library—1 fn 0 new package that fits the pocket— wasn't so sure whether I'd won out At a price that fits the pocket-book — or not. Recite lessons to my father? Why. I couldn't even Imagine such a The same unmatched biend of thing I T urkish . V irginia a^i B uruy Tobaccos Aunt Jane didn't say anything either. 1 guess she didn't know what to say. And It waa kind of a queer situation, when you came right down to it. Both i of. ua aitUn< . there and _ knowing. I Are you one of them? CONOVER & CONOVER *111 innex* wasn't going back to scKoorany more, IF hasn’t. <5h, foF three'or four days and I knowing why, and knowing Aunt he asked questions quite like Just a Jane didn’t know why. (Of course I teacher. Then he got to talking. had not told Aunt Jane about Mother Sometimes it would be about some­ and Mrs. Mayhew.) It would be a thing in the lessons; sometimes it Ivan Donaldson, Mgr. Tillamook, Ore. funny world, wouldn’t it, if we all would be about a star, or the moon. knew what each other was thinking And he'd get so interested that I’d all the time? Why, we'd get so we think for a minute that maybe the un­ wouldn't any of us speak to each oth­ derstanding twinkle would come into er, I'm afraid, we’d be so angry at his eyes again. But it never did. Leaves Tillamook—7:30 a. tn., 12 m., 3 p. m. Sometimes it w asn’t stnrs and moons, what the other was thinking. Well, Aunt Jane and I didn’t speak though, that he talked about. It was Leaves E^ortland—8:30 a. m., 12:30 p. m., 3:30 p m. that night at the supper table. We Boston, and Mother. Yes, he did. He finished in stern silence then; Aunt talked a lot about Mother. As I look via Jane went upstairs to ber room and back at It now, I can see that he did. I went up to mine. (You see what a He asked me all over again what she perfectly wildly exciting life aiary is did, and about the parties, and the Hebo, Grand Rounde, Willamina, Sheridan, McMinnville, living! And whep I think of how full folks that came to see her. He asked Dayton, Newburg, Multnomah. of good times .Mother wanted every again about Mr. Harlow, and about minute to be. But that was for ttye. concert, and the_young man who Marie, of course.) (Continued next week) The next morning after breakfast Aunt Jane said: "You will spend your forenoon study­ ing, Mary. See that you learn well your lessons, so as not to annoy your father.” “Yes, Aunt Jane,” said Mary, po­ lite and proper, and went upstairs obediently; but even Mary didn’t know exactly how to study those les­ sons. Carrie had brought me all my books from school. I had asked her to when I knew that I was not going Shall Oregon continue to hold the Shall she forge ahead as a leader in back. There were the lessons that had been assigned for the next day, pre-eminence that is now hers? the Republican party? of course, and I supposed probably Father would want me to study those. AKSWER "YESP’ But I couldn’t Imagine Father teaching me all alone. I couldn’t imagine my­ self reciting lessons to Father! But I needn’t have worried. If I could only have krtown. Little did I think—But, there, this Is no way to tell a story. I read In a book, “How to Write a Novel.” that you mustn't Ralph W’Uiains is the first com­ In the presidential election of 1916 “anticipate.” (I thought folks always anticipated novels. I do. I thought when there was dissension and di­ mitteeman representative fròni any you wanted them to.) western state to be elected to the vision everywhere, Oregon was the Well, to go on. Father got home at four o'clock. I only state in the west of the Mis­ vice-chairmanship. saw him come up the walk, and I souri river to go Republican. Ralph Williams is a vetern of the waited till I was sure he'd got settled In the library, then I went down. national organization. He stands Harmony! -. He wasn’t there. Progressives and Republicans at the head with the leaders. A new A minute later I saw him crossing man would, of custom and necess­ united in giving credit for this re­ the lawn to the observatory. Well, what to do I didn't know. Mary said markable achievement to Ralph E. ity, stand at the foot with the fol­ to go after him ; but Marie said nay, Williams, national committeeman lowers. nay. And In spite of being Mary Just now, I let Marie have her way. Republican leaders, in Congress since 1908. Rush after him and tell hltp he'd In recognition of this and other and out, are Ralph Williams’ forgotten to hear my lessons? Fa- friends. This friendship means services Ralph Williams was elect­ ther? Well. I guess not! Besides, It I was there all dasn't my fault. ed vice-chairman, the second high­ much to Oregon and the North­ ready, It wasn’t my blame that he est honor within the power of the west. Without ostentation Ralph But he wasn't there to hear me. might remember and come back. Well. Republican National Committee to Williams enlists the aid of these If he did, I’d be there. So I went to bestow. It is a position of influ ­ leaders for the things the Noirth- one of those bookeases and pulled out i • a touch-me-not book from behind the ence to be reached only by years of west needs from the national glass door. Then I sat down and read faithful ind intelligent service. government. till the supper bell rang. Father was five minutes late to sup­ per. I don’t know whether he looked at me or not. I didn’t dare to look at him—until Aunt Jane said. In her chilliest manner: “I trust your daughter had good lessons. Charles.” 1 had to look at him then, 1 Just So I couldn’t look anywhere else, was looking straight at him when he gave that funny little startled glance (Paid Aduertisement by W. B. Ayer) into my e.ves. Aud into his eyes then there crept the funnlezt, dearest little understanding twinkle—and I sudden­ ly realized that Father, Father, was laughing with tne at a little secret be­ tween us. But 't was only for a sec­ ond. The next moment his eyes were very grave and looking at Aunt Jane. “I have no cause to complain—of my daughter's lessons today," he said very quietly. Then he glanced over at me again. But I had to look away quick, or I would have laughed right out When he got up fron^the table he said to me: “I shall expect to see you tomoriow In the library at four, Mary.” And Mary answered: "Yes, Father," polite and proper, as she should; but Marie lnsble was just chuckling with the Joke of it all. The next day I watched again at I four for Father to come up the walk; and when he had come in I went down to the library. He was there in his pet seat before the fireplace. (Father always sits before the fireplace, whether there’s a fire there or not. And sometimes he looks so funny sit­ ting there, staring Into those gray ashes Just ns If It was the liveliest kind of a fire he was watching.) As I said, he was there, but I had to speak twice before he looked up. Then, for a minute, he stared vaguely. "Eh? Oh! Ah—er—yes, to be sure," he muttered theu. "You have come with your books. Yea, I remember." But there wasn't any twlukle In hla eyes, nor the least little bit of an un­ derstanding stull«; and 1 was disap­ pointed. 1 had been looking for it. 1 knew then, when 1 felt so sud<1enly lost and heart-achey, that I had been expecting and planulng all day on that twinkly understanding smile. You know you feel worse when you've Just found a father and then lost him! And I had lost him. 1 knew it the minute he sighed and frowned and got up front his seat aud said, “Oh. yea. to be sure.” He w as Just Doctor Anderson then—the man w ho knew all about the stars, and who haft Iwen unmarried to Mother, and who called tne "Mary" in an of course-you're-tuy-daughter tone of voice. Well, he took my books and heard ■uy lessons, and told me what I was to study next day. He's done that two days now. Oh. I'm so tired of being Mary! And Fve got more than four whole months of it left. I didn't get Moth­ er's letter today. Maybe that's why I'm specially lonesome tonight PORTLAND AUTO STAGE £ $ £ £ ? REPUBLICANS! Vote X 13 for Ralph E. Williams for Republican National Committeeman £ £ £ £ Keep Oregon to the front £ JULY FIRST. School la done, both the regular school and my school. Not that my ■chooLfeaa amou»te