VERNONIA EAGLE
Thursday, July 7, 1927
THE
KIDS WERE
WILLING
at
<© by D. J. W«Hh.
ILDRED FRASIER walked
four blocks after leaving the
car, through the strange, still
heat that foretokened a
Storm. A few drops of rain were fall
ing to a rolling accompaniment of
lightning ax she monnted tho steps to
the door of the small brown house
which still bore her husband’s name,
Dr. Ezra C. Frasier. Doctor Frasier
had been dead eight years and his
widow was now a saleswoman In the
dress department at Coleman’s big
department store.
It had been a hard day for Mil-
dred, for she had sold but one dress,
although ■he had tried, as never he-
fore to please her customers. She
had a feeling that unless her sales
mounted up she was not going to be
retiifned much longer, and she trem
bled with apprehension. Her last resort
would be to sell the house, the dear
home Ezra had given her. The chil
dren would not like that, for there
was a bit of garden that Trlvllla
loved. But, of course, they could not
staj’ there unless she could keep on
at the store. In fact, she hud not gone
to work until she had been forced
to. As the children grew older they
needed moro and more money, and
they were now practically using for
themselves every cent of the small
Income Ezra had left her. Thus she
had been forced to provide for her
self and almost entirely for the house
out of her small earnings.
As Mildred entered her living
room, after having hung up her coat
and hat, her daughter sprang up from
the sagging davenport. Trlvllla was
fifteen, tall, slim, flat-figured, yet
with a look of grace and pliancy
that convinced one of an Immense
store of vitality. She was like an
American Beauty rose—Just that ra
diance and perfection. Flowing hair,
brilliant skin, eyes like hand-pollsh
ed agate and a mouth which dared
the whole world to kiss her. Mil
dred had never been like that, and
■he paused now to gaze at her daugh
ter; wondering where Trlvilla's beauty
had come from.
"Mother 1” Trlvllla said excitedly.
"Leon and I have asked Mr. Boyd
to dinner."
Mildred turned pale.
“But, dearest—” she began helpless
ly-
“I know. There wasn’t a thing In
the house to eat this morning after
we cleaned up the breakfast table
and built our lunches. But there Is
now. Leon got a whopping big steak
and I stopped lit the delicatessen’s
for pie and potato salad. And If you
could Just make a cup of good cof
fee—’’
“I can, of course,” Mildred replied,
She wont on to the kitchen,
A moment she stood with Imr eyes
shut trying to pull herself together.
Then she reached for the »ofTee per
colator.
John Boyd had been a friend of
her husband's. He hud gone west
soon after Ezra’s death and had re
turned within the year.
The first
time lie had called after his return
lie had seemed to be greatly Im-
pressed wftli both cblldren, Leon par-
tlcularly, and had made a real friend
of him, and the bov hud Improved
wonderfully under the man's fine
training. But Ills feeling for Trlvllla
seemed altogether different, Mildred
suspected that some day, when the
girl whs old enough to know her own
inlnd, John Boyd was going to p ro
pose to her. Until then he was tt In-
nltig her by every means In Ills power.
it would be n splendid thing for
Trlvllla to have this handsome, rich.
Intellectual man’s love, and Mildred
whs glad for her daughter's sake. But
there was something In her own heart
that terrified her. She herself loved
John Boyd.
Trivilla crone Into the kitchen
presently.
“Mother, Mr. Boyd Is here. Aren't
you going to tlx up or anything?”
Mildred smiled. “No. Won't I do?”
“oh. you «III do.” But Trlvllla was
frankly disparaging. "Only I hate that
sloppy old dyed blue thing and your
hair Is rough. Let me smooth It." She
attempted to pat smooth the rich
braids of dull brown hair which cov-
ered her mother’s bend.
Mildred went In to greet her dill-
(trial's guest. She found Leon slt-
ting on the nrtn of John’s chair wltb
hi- arm frankly about John's shoul
ders. Leon was thirteen.
“We pretty near had to kidnap
him; mother,” l.eon proclaimed, as
John arose to shake bands with her.
At the table Trlvllla was captlvnt-
Slie loved good food and a
Ing.
gttest anti she and Leon talked gav-
ly while Mildred sat In apparent
serenity with no outward display of
uneiisines is or heartache.
.As d<*sspit
dessert was served the storm
broke In fury and the lights went
out. Trlvllla brought her pink cati-
tlles and Leon produced a flashlight.
They laughed as they groped ambng
the dishes.
If Trlvllla had been lovely under
the chandelier she was ten time*
more lovely by candlelight, a glow-
Ing. Imperious thing with hafr like
n helmet of burnished copper. En
der cover of the dimness Mildred
watched the man opposite her ns Ills
eyes rested upon her daughter. In
three years lie eonld have Trlvllla.
She herself had been married nt that
M
"Too bad It Is storming," John
said.
“1 bad planned to take you Poet Lost in Wonder
kids for a ride up Choconut creek.
at Friend’s Capacity
It Is lovely there now, with every
Absent mindedness was one of Ten
branch aud bough burgeoning."
nyson’s faults when deep In conversa
"Can't we go tomorrow?” asked tion on bis favorite topic—his poetry.
Trlvllla eagerly.
After dinner one evening he turned to
John said " We’ll see,” and smiled
a friend who hail been his sole guest
In Mildred's direction.
It was the
ami began a long dissertation on the
last thing she remembered for a time. production of one of Ills plays, while
Faintly at last Into her conscious the butler, having tilled the guest's
ness came voices, the sound of some glass, placed the decanter of port be
body crying and the feeling of hands. fore bls master. As Tennyson talked,
Thoughts gathered. What was the mat he drank, and not noticing his guest's
ter? Hud she fainted She opened her empty glass, kept refilling his own
eyes and saw that the lights had until the decanter was empty. Then
come back on aud that three persons, he said, “That was a very good bottle
John, of course, and the children of port, don’t you think? Shall we
were about her as she lay on the have another?" The guest assenting,
floor, Indeed, she lay in John's arms the butler brought in a second de
and his face was white as it bent canter which went through the same
above her.
experience as the first, Tennyson's
She felt herself being lifted and friend having one g!"ss from the but
borne to the living-room davenport. I ler. and the poet, entirely engrossed In
She could see now and her head felt talk as before, consuming all the rest.
right, but there was a queer faintness Early the next morning bls guest
at the pit of her stomach.
awoke to find Tennyson rtandlhg by
“Mother," Trlvllla sobbed, “We Ids bed, regarding him with evident
thought you were dead.”
solicitude.
“Dead 1” she spoke painfully,
“How are you this morning?” was
only fainted—”
the host’s query.
"No, no." Leon said, "You were
“All right, thanks.’
struck. A bolt came down the chlm-
<
“Sure you are all
ney. We all felt It, but you were
"Quite sure.”
sitting with your back—”
“Ah. but pray, do you always drink
Suddenly Mildred realized the whole two bottles of port after dinner?”—
unhappy thing. A little more and she Kansas City Star.
would have been gone beyond recall.
Would it not have been better?
Dust as a Shield
“What a pity," she suid.
The British royal commission on
"Thank God it was no worse," John
mines has made some interesting ex-
breathed.
pertinents on explosions of mixtures
Mildred tried to smile.
"I feel as If I had gone to sleep all of coni dust and air. It has demon
strated that such mixtures are emi
over," she said.
“You can't go back to work tomor nently explosive, and also that the ex
plosions can be mitigated, or confined
row," Trivilla Insisted.
“Oh, of course I shall. I shall be in area, by means of stone dust,
which Is not explosive.
all right by thin.”
A coal dust area was placed be
"No!" John said sternly. “You won’t
go back to work tomorrow, or next tween a dustless region and one
day, or next week. This thing hns got spread with stone dust, after which
to end. I’m going to take care of you an explosion was produced in the coal
dust by firing a cannon. The results
after this, Mildred."
“(th, mother I” begged Trlvllla. •nt appeared to demonstrate that the ef
fects of an explosion may be transmit
he wants to, let him.”
ted to a considerable distance over a
"Please, mother," added Leon.
dustless zone by the coal dust driven
Mildred drew herself up.
“But I am quite capable of taking before the air blast, but that the
stone dust has a restraining effect
care of myself,” she said, coldly,
Suddenly John laughed and took
her hand.
Picking Up a Pin
“I know that, my dear, And you
In this country to pick up a pin
needn’t get huffy at my Interference seen on the pavement Is supposed to
with your Independence. But don't be an indication of thrift, In Russia
you think if you married me we could this Is not so. A traveler writes:
make a pretty happy family? The
"I was walking one day with an old
kids are willing, I’m sure, If you Russian lady down a street In Mos
are.”
cow. Seeing a pin on the ground. I
"Marry you?” Mildred said,
And stooped to pick it up. when my com
fhen she began to cry, she who had panion restrained me, saying:
been so brave for eight hard yi ears.
‘“Don't do that. According to a
John took her Into his arms and at Russian superstition, if a person af
a signal from him the boy and girl flicted with a disease drops a pin and
stepped from the room.
somebody picks it up, the disease will
pass from the dropper of the pin to
the picker-up.' ”
Wild Animals Swayed
by Musical Sounds
It Is a well-known fact that some
animals are fond of music, whllq
others are exceedingly particular as
to the instruments played in their
presence, says Ruby Denton in Our
Dumb Animals.
Lions have been
found to listen with marked attention
to the piano. They appreciate the top
and middle notes, but begin to roar
terribly when the bass notes are
struck loudly. Tigers cannot endure
the shrill notes of the fife. Scientific
experiments have been made to show
that the ears of the tiger are much
more sensitive than those of human
beings, and that sharp-toned instru
ments Irritate the sensitive organs of
hearing.
That is why some people in the
Jungles of India and China have some
times been able to save their lives by
playing a fife or some similar instru
ment that they have happened to have
along with them when attacked by n
wild beast. The ferocious animal has
appeared to forget all else but the Irri
tation caused by the sensitive mem
brane of its ears and has been more
than willing to flee with all possible
haste. In zoos experiments have been
made with horns, fifes and violins, and
their effect upon the animals noted,
ilie result being that all take rather
kindly to the softer notes of the vio
lin. but are much disturbed by the
shi ill tones of the harsher instruments.
In those countries where oxen are
used for labor they take great pleas
ure In the singing of their driver.
They work better at the plow when
stirred by a cheerful song. It Is also
customary for the Arabs to sing to
their camels during long Journeys
across the desert.
Phases of Life
As the ice upon the mountuin, when
the warm breath of the summer’s sun
breathes upon it, melts, and divides
Into drops, each of which reflects an
Image of the sun. so life, in the smile
of God’s love, divides Itself Into sep
arate forms, each bearing in It and re
flecting an image of God’s love.—
Longfellow.
A corn and apple show is to be ar
annual feature at a bank in Baltimore
County. Maryland
Another baukei
has been able to get bis county t<
‘thinking corn,” over 5011 farmers
planting improved corn. Many other
bankers in the state are giving moral
support and funds to thi3 work.
Pry
From
Tire,
Damage to tires has been great
and indignation of motorists cor
respondingly greater, due to cuts
wrought by gravel imbedded In
PLANER ENDS
Oregon-American, de
livered during July,
August and September
for $1.50 PER LOAD.
Phone 253
Famous Cemetery
Arnone the first large cemeteries
ID America was Greenwood cemetery,
which had Its beginning whan a stock
company in Brooklyn purchased' the
wooiled heights of slowanus bay. Aim’ll
of the land was swampy, rocky «aste
>nd thick undergrowth. The founding
of (Ids cemetery was to provide n
largo centriti burying ground to re-
plnce the many -mall, private ones,
whore too often the hones of the dead
lititl been scattered by tho growth of
file city, -a.vs Maude Stewart In
Gravel
The State Highway Department
and the Oregon State Motor as
sociation issue the following ad-
motorists driving over
vice to
freshly oiled and grevelled roads.
The warning is this:
After you have driven over new
ly oiled highway and at the end
of every eight or ten miles of
oiled highway, stop and with a
screw driver, pen knife, or what
you have, pry out all bits of crush-1
cd gravel that have collected on
the tires.
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PORTLAND - VERNONIA
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INSURED CARRIER
be
Vernonia Office
At
Resourceful
the
Brazihg Works
Avenue.
on
Rose
Phone MAin 343
' Brown's nene Is the limit."
"AA'hat's he done now?"
Portland Office
“He called yesterday morning to
Auto
Freight Terminal
borrow a gun. saying he wanted to
-hoot a dog that kept him awake
I
E. Water and Yamhill Streets
nights.”
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Office No. It
"AAvIl?”
DELIVER TO YOUR DOOR
“My dog's been shot."
tires, according to the highway de-1
partment and motor association
who have been bombarded with
calls from all parts of Oregon
during the past few days.
No. 1 Sonora at San Francisco. 1 at $12.50 a hundred* duty paid at
Coast malting barley continued firm New York. The domestic crop is
I
but central western barley went about half as large as last year’s
lower permitting exporting from ¿the carryover about 100,000 pounds
Chicago.
more. The Danish crop is a little
Orchard Grass seed—Danish or- better than last year’s, the carry-
The exact condition is this: Oil
ing of the principal unpaved high-, chard grass seed has been offered over less.
ways is necessary. Spreading of |
crushed rock and gravel over the I
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new oil to keep it from splatter-
HOTEL
HOTEL
ing over the under sides of auto-
mobiles is also necessary.* But,
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and
the film of oil that gathers over
the tires picks up rock and gravel.
After the automobile has left the
oiled stretch the rock is ground
into the rubber by constant press-
ure between the car and highway,
and consequently punctures the
tire, Thus, damage to the ttres
We Try To Please
brings about indignation of the
Hot and Cold Running Water
driver, with a subsequent recoil
upon the highway department and
Harry G. Phelps, Manager
motor association.
The state highway department
have carried on a series of investi
gations to remedy the situation and
arrived at the conclusion that both
oil and gravel are necessary to the
motorist. The motorists themselves
must keep the gravel from working
into the tires anti that is where
the screw driver, pen knife and
what nots enter into the situation.
This condition is purely tempor
ary and will only exist while roads
are freshly oiled and onlv causes
trouble for a few days after the
gravel has been spread. Were it
posisble to shut off the oiled road I
and eliminate
the necessity of
k
gravel,
— it would
-------- be
— much
------- better!
—|
for the highway denartnv nt. and
for the motorists themselves but
this condition is not always poss-
ible and since it is not, this gnev-|
ance must be born as the lesser of
two evils.
Wlherever possible the highway
department is providing detours so
that the oil and gravel
be
avoided.
The highway department is now
experimenting
with
rolilng
the I
gravel after it is spread over the '
oil and should this prove success-
ful, much of the trouble will be
eliminated.
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