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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1940-07-11, Page 2THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1910 THE EXETER T1MES-ADVOCATE .K “£eap If ear £ady” BY ALMA SIOUX SCARBERRY Had Smoky known. Tex Stacy looked at that moment very much Ike a man who couldn’t be trifled with. Tex’s thoughts came back to her. “You’ll tell you’re father we’re go­ ing to be married tomorrow?” he asked then. “No." Shamrock shook her head swiftly. “We’ll surprise him. Pop’s crazy about you. He’ll be glad.” Tex did not look any too well pleased. “One thing I must ask Smoky,” he crushed his cigarette on the ash tray before him, “No one in the show must know we’re mar­ ried. I don’t want it getting into the newspapers. Is fliat under­ stood?” CHAPTER XIII Shamrook had promised Tex she would keep their marriage a secret at the theatre because she felt it was no time to argue with him about it. But she lay awake a long time af- ter he had gone, wondering why he had seemed so worried about it. A natural reticence perhaps in having the press agent of the show make a circus of their private affairs? But again, she wasn’t sure. For some reason he had seemed afraid. He hadn’t liked the fact that she was going to keep their plans from Clancy, however, Smoky pushed that thought away back in her mind be­ cause she hated herself for keeping anything from her father. However, there was no telling how Clancy would react. Sometime* he was a stickler for the whole truth and nothing but truth at any cost. If he felt Tex should know about Karl and that she had been jilted by him. he would tell. And Smoky had no desire to let Tex know he was being used to show Karl and Dagne Hetrick that Shamrock O’Toole could walk right out and find a husband. Alone With Her Thoughts It was impossible for Smoky to sleep and so she lay for hours star­ ing at the dark windows of the Het­ rick house, with her bitter heart and her dark thoughts choking her. The window of the bedroom where she knew’ Karl lay beside Dagne held a cruel fascination for her. She told herself with a grim sat­ isfaction that from that night on Karl could look at her window’s and know’ another man made love to her in the shadows of her room. And she hoped his hear would break as hers had broken. When morning finally came and Shamrock got up to get breakfast, Clancy was -waiting downstairs to hear all about the opening night of “Snapshots.” “Everybody went crazy over Tex,” Smoky told her father excitedly, set­ ting the table. "He's going to be a big star, Pop. Gogo Lp Maire’s got a crush on him, too, but he doesn’t look at anybody but me.” What the Critics Said Clancy, sensing the undercurrent of her excitement, attributed it to the fact that at last she considered herself a full-fledged actress. The morning paper came and Shamrock hurried to see w’hat Darian Crom­ well had to say about the show. She read happily: “A new voice and a new person­ ality that will go far was discovered in Tpx Stacy, Texas cowboy. He is by no stretch of the imagination the type usually seen in that role. In­ stead of the nasal twang of the range, Tex possesses a rollicking baritone that is truly musical, and he plays the banjo with the fingers of genius. Although he is only in one act. we predict a large part of the singing job of this excellent mu­ sical will be heaped on Mcdvin’s new­ est find after the show is ironed out, "Truthfully, the male star, Harold Snow’, can’t begin to compare with the boy from the range either in voice or looks. As for the twenty little redheads known as the Ginger Snaps, there is more oomph in that line of voluptuous beauties than All Tired Out Before Day Half Over Women who should be strong and healthy become weak, run down and worn out, and are unable to attend to their household duties. They get up in the morning dreading the day’s work ahead of them. Some disease or constitutional dis­ turbance has left its mark in the form of shattered nerves, impover­ ished blood, and an exhausted con­ dition of the entire System. Women will find in Milbum’s Health and Nerve Pills the remedy they need to supply food for the exhausted nerve force, and one that will help them back to sound, perfect health again. The T. Milburn Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont these old eyes have ever set on in a Broadway chorus. Every chorine L a bachelor's dream some true. Watch the jools and the furs pour into that stage door, me hearties.” Smoky ended reading the comment breathlessly. (Taney grinned: “Well, it looks like they mean you, too, baby.” Smoky tried to eat breakfast, but she was too emotionally upset to care whether she ever had another bite of food as long as she lived. Afterward she tied a cloth around her head and gave the house an extra cleaning because Tex was coming home with her that night. Her husband. Tex was going to be her husband. The next morning she would get up and get breakfast for him. and she and Clancy would, never be alone again. Hiding Her Secret When the housework was all done Smoky went to her room and took her wedding gown, slippers and veil from the shelf of her closet and went up to the little attic and locked them safely away in an old frayed trunk. Bitterly she choked back the tears from her aching throat, and only the look of deep pain in her eyes told of what was in her heart. She changed her bed, using her new linens that she had put away in a cedar chest and on the dresser and dressing table placed the scarfs ‘hat she had made with her own hands. Mrs. Hetrick had shown her how to do the embroidering and t-he hemstitching. Afterwards Shamrock washed her red curls and brushed them until they sparkled and danced on her shoulders. Then she got in the tub and scrubbed and scented her lovely young body with her favorite toilet water. From the trunk she took the snow- white underthings that she had bought for her wedding with Karl, and she put them on. In the closet she found the Alice- blue basque wool dress with the swing skirt that she had bought with money Clancy had given her for the fur coat. There was a matching hat that contrasted strangely with her red hair and made her eyes look a deeper blue. When she was all dressed she looked in the mirror at herself and thought it must all be some kind of a strange dream. In a few' minutes she wmuld leave the house and she would come back Mrs. Tex Stacy. Away To Sleet Tex Downstairs Smoky kissed her father hastily and hurried away, afraid that she might break down and tell him and that he wmuld try to stop her. Then, when she was riding over town in the subway to meet Tex at the Municipal Building in the after­ noon, she was stricken with the ter­ rible fear that he might have chang­ ed his mind. Suppose he couldn’t meet her at the marriage license bureau. She would surely die. Tex had wanted to come to Astoria and ge her in a carb, but she had been afraid Clancy might ask questions. Shamrock hurried away from the subway and scarcely stopped to breathe until she got off the eleva- or and Tex spoke to her. He w’as in grey tw'eeds and a fedora hat and she didn’t know him, he w’as greatly changed. She had never seen him in anything but his cowboy clothes. She gasped: “Oh, Hello!” Tex bent and kissed her quickly. "These clothes are less conspicuous.” “You—look wonderful.” Sham­ rock clung to his hand. “So differ­ ent.” |“You,” Tex smiled down at, her,' “look very beautiful, my darling.” She flushed, suddenly very self- conscious. “I—if you don’t want to marry me, Tex,” she began help­ lessly, “you can still back out. I mean—” He laughed softly. “Try to get aWay from me now’.” She’s Mrs. Stacy, Now In a few minutes they were out on the street and Tex was helping her into a taxi. “Mrs. Stacy,” he said huskily, “Where would you like to dine?” “Are we really married?” Smoky said dazedly when she found herself sitting at a corner table of an ex­ pensive cocktail lounge down the street from the theatre, a few mo­ ments later. Tex's deep grey eyes were almost black in the intensity of their pas­ sion as he gripped her hands under the table. “We are, God help us,” he said tensely. Smoky looked up at him ques- tioningly, and her eyes dropped be­ fore his steady gaze. “I don’t know what this is all about, Smoky,” he told- her quietly. “But I married you because I loved you, and because I couldn’t keep from marrying you. I’ve fought against it from the day I first saw you sitting in Melvin’s office." She swallowed, too startled to answer. Tex bent and kissed her swiftly on the dips. , “Don’t be afraid, little Smoky. I won’t hurt you. I know you don’t love me. But so help me, I’ll kill the first man that tries to take you away from me.” CHAPTER XIV Tex wasn’t Tex. Not the smiling, gentle, good-natured cowboy Smoky had married so that she could lead him around by the nose and make use of him to her own best advan­ tage. The shedding of his cowboy rai­ ment made hime look like a stran­ ger. Gone was his Texan drawl and his country-boy manner. Smoky, looking at him across the table of the restaurant, knew sud­ denly, intuitively, that Tex Stacy was not all that he pretended to be. This was the atmosphere in which he belonged. Smart cocktail bars, dining with lovely ladies—not a horse riding a trail, or eating bacon and beans in a chuck cabin. «I—What makes you think there would be another man,” she stam­ mered finally when she could catch her breath. “Th-that’s a nice thing to say to your wife when you’re just beginning your honeymoon.” Getting Things Straight She smiled a little scared smile. It was the key to the real Smoky that he adored and Tex smiled back whitely: “I’m sorry if I sound like a Blue­ beard. I’m not really. But surely you don’t think I’m in the habit of letting beautiful ladies wind me around their fingers as you’ve done, darling. You made up your mind to land me the first evening I was out at your house and you’ve been work­ ing overtime at it ever since.” “Oh!” Smoky gasped, and her face colored crimson. She was too flabbergasted to deny it and Tex sighed: “If you hadn’t asked me to marry you last night, I suppose I’d have proposed to you. Ive been trying not to for two weeks. That’s why I had never kissed you, or torched you. I knew if I did I was finished. Smoky toyed with her first cham­ pagne and her heart beat so fast she could scarcely breathe. It if she hadn’t been sitting in a restaurant she was cerain she would have had to scream. “I—I suppose you think I’m not good enough for you,” Shamrock found her voice finally. “Good is hardly the word for it,” Tex released her hand to light a cigarette. “If you mean that I may be harboring the idea that you’re a woman of the world, don’t let that worry you. It’s just that I’m afraid* you’ve got the idea into that little red head of yours that you’re going to be. And that I’m victim num­ ber one on youi’ parade." It was so true that Smoky lost her fear and found herself getting an­ gry. Perhaps Tex had married her to make a fool of her. She wanted to kill him because he saw through her so clearly. Smoky Gets a Lesson “I-—.{’a like to slap your conceited face,” she wailed childishly and Tex shook his head and smiled I crookedly. “Not here, Mrs. Stacy! A woman should never stike her hus­ band in a public place. Shall we dance?” Holding her closely as the or­ chestra played softly, Tex said thick­ ly: ‘If you stay in my arms, Smoky, I’ll remember to scold you.” “I’ll remember that,” she breath­ ed softly, pressing close to him. “I’ll make you glad you married me, Tex. I promise." Back at the theatre Smoky’s hands shook until she couldn’t bead her eyelashes. Torchy put down her own jar of cold cream and asked suspic­ iously: “Say, what’s wrong? You’re a nervous wreck. Here, let me do that for you.” Smoky held her shaking knees. 1 “i—,i think I’m catching cold. Chills." “You had better take a good hot shot of liquor and go to bed when you get home.” Torchy picked up Smoky's match stick and began to help her make up her eyes. “I guess you’re not used to running around drafty theatres in a G string.” “I guess that’s what’s the matter,” Shamrock chattered. “But I’ll be all right tomorrow.” “Your cowhand certainly got a break from the papers,” Torchy said. "And so did we. Now’s the time to cash in. When you’re in a spot like this. If I don’t make a killing this season my name ain't Clementine Goldenberg. The first guy that takes me out gets hit for a fur coat. Mine looks like an under privileged prai­ rie dog.” Shamrock scarcely heard the bab­ bling of Torchy or the other girls in TRY IT THE "SALADA" WAY Infuse 6 heaping teaspoons of Salada Black Tea in a pint of fresh, boiling water. After 6 minutes strain liquid into 2-quart container; while hot, add 1 to 1 % cups pf sugar and juice of 2 lemons, strained; stir until sugar is dissolved; fill container with cold water, Do notallow tea to cool before adding cold water or liquid will become cloudy. Serve with chipped ice. The above makes 7 tall glasses. the dressing room. She moved thro’ the second performance of “.Snap­ shots” in a daze. Just before the closing of the first act the doorman delivered another small box. In it was an orchid exactly matching the one of the evening before. Smoky’s first thought was that Tex would probably be jealous if he found out about it. Especially if she wore it. Torchy was flabber­ gasted when she pushed the box aside indifferently and offered: ‘You wear it, Torchy. I don’t want it.” Torchy felt her head: “Are you sure you don’t need a doctor, Smoke? Or are you just plain nuts.” Clancy is Told Smoky had called Clancy and broken the news of her marriage to him before she and Tex went to the theatre. There had been a short silence at the other end of the wire and then Caney had recovered his voice and given his blessing. Shamrock hoped devoutly that her father would be in bed when she brought her new husband home to Astoria. Clancy, wanting time to get his own bearings, w’as sitting *ln his room with the light out when they arrived. I-Ie heard the key turn in the lock and then a little later two pairs of feet tiptoeing up the stairs. Smoky’s marriage was the greatest blow Clancy O’Toole had ever had in his life, and his weak heart fluttered coldly in his giant chest. It was the damn O’Toole pride that had done it. The O'Toole’s always did have to show ’em. And they would stop at nothing short of mur­ der to do it. Clancy didn’t believe it possible Smoky could have mar­ ried Tex Stacy because she loved him. Becuase if she had she would have come to her father and asked for his blessing. Clancy's Plans She had sneaked off down to the municipal building and gone thro’ a quick ceremony like a heathen be­ cause she knew he would see thro’ her reason. She had been afraid he would try to stop her from ruining her life. Clancy hoped that by morning he would have recovered his bearings sufficiently to put on a good show. There was no need adding to- Sham­ rock’s heartache by letting her see the blow had been almost a fatal one to him. If Smoky had really made up her mind to marry for anything but love Clancy was sorry Tex Stacy had to be her victim. He had grown very fond of Tex, and it wasn’t right for Smoky to take a clean-cut, square­ shooting boy from the Western plains and make a doormat out of him. But, Clancy reasoned, offering ex­ cuses. for his changed daughter, how could you expect a 19-year-old girl to react any differently to the blow of having Karl marry Dagne Olsen and bring her next door to live? Maybe if Shamrock’s mother had lived she would have known how to have helped her through without a tragedy. A man couldn’t raise a little girl right by himself, no mat­ ter how hard he tried. (To be Continued) DIED AT ELKTON, MICH. Word was received here on Mon­ day of the passing of one of Zurich’s former elder residents in the person of Mr. John Gallman, who passed away Monday at the home of his daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Danel Her­ ford, near Elkton, Mich. Mr. Gall­ man, was only 20 days away from his 91st birthday and has been ill for some time. The funeral was held Thursday at Elkton.—Zurich Herald Saly op&nLnq CariSLCrt ApiM L40 CALUMET BRAND -yv. DOUBLE-ACTING BAKING POWDER 3 out of 4 Jam and Jelly Champions use CERTO Mrs. G. G. 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In the inconspicuous flowers, pollen grains are produced abundantly and being light in weight pollute the atmos­ phere in the slightest breeze. Though hay-fever is more preva­ lent in the fall of the year, it is not confined wholly to that season. Some people may be affected in the spring when the trees are shedding pollen in profusion. Among the of­ fenders are maple, elm, poplar, wil­ low, oak, ash, birch and butternut. Other people may suffer in early summer when such grasses as tim­ othy, red top, orchard grass, Ken­ tucky bluegrass, and couch grass are in bloom. Of the plants causing trouble in late summer and fall, rag­ weed is by far the most important, In fact it has been estimated that 70 per cent, of all hay-fever is caus­ ed by ragweed and related species. Other weeds causing hay-fever at this time of the yeai- are pigweed, lamb’s quarters, cocklebur, hemp and English plantain. 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TUERKHEIM — HABERER The chancel of St. Peter’s Luth­ eran church, Zurich, was beautifully decorated with standards of peonies .basket of roses and ferns Thursday June 27th, when Rev. E. Tuerkheim united in Holy Wedlock Miss Lenora Kathleen Haberer, A.T.C.M., only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Haberer, and John Mark Tuerkheim son of Rev. and Mrs. E. Tuerkheim, both of Zurich. Soft bridal music was played during the ceremony with Mr. W. R. Goulding of Exeter pre­ siding at the organ. The bride en­ tered the church on the arm of ‘her father to the strains of the Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin. Miss Ellen Tuerkheim, of Stratford, sister of the groom, was the bride’s only at­ tendant, while Mr. Albert Deichert assisted the groom, and Misses Ar­ lene Haberer and Betty Ann Gascho, made charming little flower girls. During the signing of the register Miss Gertrude Tuerkheim,, of Mont­ real, another sister of the groom, sang “Because.” The bride, who was attractively gowned in a floor-length gown of white net over satin, with a finger tip veil, which was held by a halo of orange blossoms, carred a bou­ quet of Briarcliffe roses. The brides­ maid wore a gown of seafoam blue chiffon, which matching jacket, and carried a bouquet of dusky rose car­ nations. The lovely little flower girls were dainty in blue and pink organ­ dy frocks, fashioned on Victorian Ines. Followng a ceremony a reception was held at the home of the bride’s parents, at which approximately fifty guests were present. Later in the day the young couple left amid showers of confetti on a motor trip to Northern Ontario, the bride wear­ ing a navy sheer chiffon dress with rose accessories and a beige coat. 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