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The Wingham Advance Times, 1934-12-27, Page 6SIX SYNOPSIS Ellen Church, 17 year old, finds herself alone in the world with her artist mother's last warning ringing in her ears, to "love lightly." Of the world She knew little. All her life She had lived alone with her mother in an old brown house in a small rur- al community: All her life, first as a new baby, then a bubbling child, then a charming young girl . . she had posed for her talented mother who sold her magizine coyer painting through an art agent in the city , . Mrs. Church's broken life . the unfaithful husband, his disappearance . and after seventeen years of sil- ence announcement of his death was at last disclosed to Ellen. The news of the husband's death killed Mrs. Church, .. , Ellen, alone, turned to the only contact she knew, the art agent in New York. Posing, years of posing, was her only talent so she was introduced to two leading ar- first time, flinched under it, even though site had precipitated it. "If he loved me," she said to her- self, "he couldn't go, It wouldn't be possible for him to leave me. T was right—if he could go, tonight, to see another woman, why then—"' Poor little Ellen. She was right about herself! She was a fool. Being one, she said -- "I'm sure Jane understands you. By all means go to see" her." Tony was reaching for his hat. "I suppose," he said, "that as soon as I'm gone, you'll phone for Alven. I have no doubt that he understands you as well as Jane understands me." Ellen was blinking to keep back the tears. "Dick always leaves his receiver off, in the evening," she said. "He like to work at night—he doesn't like interruptions. I couldn't reach him by phone," she finished. "That ought Lists; Dick Alven and Sandy 1liacin- to be a comfort to you!" tosh. Both used her as a model and "So it is," said Tony, He nad his both fell in love with her , but hat in his hand. He was fussing with Ellen, trying to follow the warpedthe brim of it. philosophy of her mother to "love "So it is," said Tony again. He too lightly resists the thought of love. was blinking. Her circle of friends is small, artists Ellen was speaking. Out of turn and two or three girl models. Ellen again, but she couldn't help it. Mo - attends a ball with Sandy. While ther, or no, she couldn't help it. dancing a tall young man claimed her "Tony," she said, "believe this. You and romance is born. A ride in the mustn't think. that I phone to men— park, proposal, the next day marriage that I have them come up here, alone to Tony, and wealth. But she'd "Love with me at night. Dick stayed just Lightly," Ellen told herself. She'd once, after a little, party. He stayed never let him know how desperately to talk about work. Then he asked she loved him, even though she were me to marry him—that was the time. his wife. But I sent him right home. I—I're never had any of these sessions Tony, d h andthisEx- cept last night, evening. e ,NOW. GO ON WITH THE STORY g cept with you. 1 haven't lived in the Tony was standing. city very long. Only three years. I'm "Why," he grated, "must you al- —I'm not used to the racket, 1 sup - ways bring Jane into it, at a time like pose. But I've always wanted to keep I this? Why can't you let us be us: myself, Tony .. _ for—" she paused.' .thud if you don't care for me, how But up over her white little face a can you kiss nae," his voice broke, "as' heavy flush carte creeping. you'vejust been kissingme?in Tony. fascinated, watched that _ How, c chin, coverherh ed-` He a it r flush. saw all decency and fairness?"" , y try to ]told you—you're the one, £ran; Eflep answered- And it would leave'den her vest'* ear lobes. k Im sure Jane Understands you B WING IAM ADVANCE -TIMES vancing. But she had crossed, for the moment at least, her Rubicon. "Yes, I would mind," she said, "Just as 'trach as' you'd mind if you knew that I were going to stay here, with Dick!" She was back against the wall, now, nut her eyes: were lost in Tony's gaze. They were. bluer than ever,, Tony's eyes. Perhaps because they were wet, "Darling," . said Tony huskily, "you de love me!" Ellen tried to deny it. To say i -hat she didn't love him. She tried to, but the words stuck in her throat. With. her eyes lost in his gaze, with the lovely color staining her childish throat, she nodded; Mately, but ve- hemently. She was held tightly in Tony's arms ---so tightly that it hurt, that it left her .breathless. Or was it the pounding of her heart that made breathing so difficult? "Darling," Tony was saying, and his voice seemed to conte from ever so far away, "I love you. You're my wife." Automatically Ellen felt of her wedding ring with the thumb of her left hand. "You're my wife!" Tony was say- ing. But she couldn't answer now, not the way the walls of the room were closing in, not the way the lights were dancing. And then the lights had ceased to dance. For Tony's hand, feeling along the wall, had found the electric switch, and the world was all dark - All .at once lie was out of his chair, was on Ellen's side of the improvised breakfast table, was on the arni of her chair, "I didn't know," he said, "that be- ing married was so—so swell. 1 didn't know that love could be like this!" His head ducked down, was snag- gled into the curve of Ellen throat, He was kissing the place where a pulse throbbed crazily. "Don't Tony," she said, almost sharply, "Please don't, That's aver," Tony's arm tightened. His voice came in a muffled fashion, because his lips were against her throat. "You mean that kissing's oven?" he questioned, "the first day after .we're marrieds,. Ellen tried to make' the tone of her voice seem hard. It was time to make herself clear, at last. Her whole life night depend upon the stand she took —her every chance at happiness! She should love lightly, "I told you," she said, "night be- fore last when we met at the dance, that marriage—to me was' just mar- riage! That I wasn't in love with you, not in the way you mean." "How?" Tony questioned, "how about last night?" "Last night," answered Ellen, "was hysteria. It wasn't love." Slowly Tony was rising from the arm of Ellen's chair. He walked the length of Ellen's print little room - and stood looking down, from her window, to the crowded street below "I guess you're right," he said, "about there being no honeymoon, for us. 1 guess you're right about the whole thing. Only. I'll go a trifle far- ther than you've gone: Seems to me the don't belong together, at all, in a married sense, until you feel differ- ently. It wouldn't be right, somehow. to go on living together. Not if you actually: and I believe the thought has penetrated into my brain, at last —don't love me!" Ellen's .hand, flung out, knocked over a coffee cup. She hadn't expect- ed Tony to go a step further than she had gone. Tony continued in a dull monotone. "I'll go back to live at the club he said. "You can stay here—you can have all the money you want, t'f course—but we won't go hunting for Ian apartment. You're been right, I suppose, .all the time—about not let- ting it get yon, .Well, it won't get me, either. I'll see you, but it won't be as if we're man and wife—I guess it's my turn to snake terms! I won't "Beep yourself," he echoed rather all means go to see her" now on, who must make the advent- , taken a man far cleverer than the ; stupidly, 'keep yourself for what, badgered, heart-hyngry bay, to know Ellen?" that She was answering the fig.t pertten's whole heart was reaching nesesweet, warm, throbbingclerk of his speech—,rather than the last; ee, her hgnee „ogee reacng out. She m— ess. it isecause," said Ellen, "I"m a fool; couldn't help it. 'That's why!" This was love. This desire to give Tony was laughing, and in his and give and give .. laughter was hurt pride and injured "Ta keep myself for 'nay 'husband, dignity and a black and blue soul onv7"` site answered,can't hast be left to slide along by Ellen put the cup right side up, ot: br•e a - � -se ` The boy was laying Weil, he said, �2s iito earth with a thud. Her eyes were family," she said slowly. "I suppose "Well' since you think ` He wasn't blinking, any lucre, but he;to 'you -perI' - hisngue 'sober as she surveyed Tony, across it's up to you. Have it your own way. her little breakfast table. I'll take none of your money , . Tony reached for his hat. Only this time be didn't hesitate in the doorway—this time Ellen didn't call him back., - "You're stepping out of character," he said shortly. "Well, see you soon," For Ellen, this morning, had many i he called, as he clattered down the _ . _ ... __ -- - things to say. Ellen had waked.this stairs. He might have been just any morninga woman, and all of the fears body going out just anybody at all! that are woman's heritage lay OR her Ellen called out the conventional heart. reply. There might have been no sap - Always, to almost every bride, phire hoop upon her finger. comes a moment of terror. A mo- "That will be nice!" she answered. -hent when, looking at her new bus- And then she went back into the band, he asks an age-old question. roam and cleared off the table. It "Will it always be Tike Ibis?" she wasn't until she made the bed, it a arks. Even though she knows, in her certain pillow, she saw a round dent. that might have been made by a head, that she broke down. "Oh, Tony, I love you!" she sob - tide forever," Even though she knows 'bed. "r:)h, Tony, 'I want you! :I vant. 1 that even God can •not put the stamp to be married to you --'1 want to be of forever on earthly things! 'your wife. Come back to incl" Ellen was asking the same queetion . ilut Telly didn't conic back.' I -Ie that every bride asks, Was saying the won his way to some office where s„rne prayer. But in her case, it was he worked. not a rpiestion—and it wasn't a pray- `" * * er, It was a cruel fact that she was Ellen expected to feel shy when she telling herself, and telling God, tee. 'met Tony for the first time, after he "'This won't Jaet," she was saying in 'had let her room, but she didn't have r snul. "It can't last. Oh, I wocc't the opportunity at once to feel shy. it inure inc—it ninstn't kill me--• For the. first two days of the first urn it's all. over!" week, she stayed at - home waiting,' ex- p "Pearly was epcaking, pecting !tarn momentarily to return, "rye get tr, go to the office this Flinching at they sound of �.veryfoot-.. r,rn:n•;," he'said, "for juet a little step on' the stairs.---. shivering as- she s'.laa:c. I :bet, 'honey, retire- surprised. • Iay ie bed, wide-eyed and, elecples , I. bet, you didn't have any idea I real- Net being wise enough to know that ly worked! And these we'll take the. Tony was himself wait"rnc wistfully, ear and start off somewhere, for a eagerly, ' for a sign from her, blit honeymoon, Well just go -..we'll not after the first' two days she didn't eat plan where. Well start far the stay at home any more. Pride can be Plate where the blue begins, We may lilr.c that. She went out to luncheon with Gay, and talked blandly of the es. But remember this. I don't want a bought -and -paid -for wife, not nosy. I don't really want half -portion love. any more. Something's happened to * me., I want love to be—" he choked, Sanity always comes with the he turned back again to the window. morning. Oh, sometimes it would be "as real," he finished, "as it seem td, better, far better, if it didn't! Life last night,"" down his hal ! day light, Sanity brought Ellen back t the table. "You're the head of the ter go away from here.Idon't dpub t if they were dry, before he spoke. that as Tong as you don't care a han s, "You don't want me to leave, do Jane wood be glad to see rte. I've 'you?" he said, and he was whispering always talked things out with Jane. too. "You would feel badly if I went that lay back of them. No, Tony She—understands me!" to Jane, now?" wasn't sober, that was why Ellen The old, old come -back. She under Ellen was retreating, somehow, be- found it so hard to say what she felt stands mel Ellen, hearing it for the , fore his advance—for Tony was ad- she must.. Tony wasn't sober. Tony's wasn't sane. His eyes had a deep warm .glow King Makes Formal Award of Nobel Prizes soul, that no fire can burn at fever heat eternally. d "0 God," she prays, "let it be like end °I' a couple of other places, But dime. 11nv:rkan eater; wh'i'artri. �,tii E. ,;i I'irattdr;lio, Italian play- it doesn't matter" --as lying as we're to- e joule winners of the 1034 Nobel ';aerial ,t annrl novrlist, f✓ar,n pies prise frjr pretherl" rstt igcnit...,LE f" ter mom, :his contribution la Patera were get- Flim iralped down some coffee, Est r,rtte 'I. Whipple of the t;,t;- ',tine; their awards in the ceremonies "Tony," she said "I--1 hate to ?, Y, r y of «oelte•,tr:r, and Wiiliiiam Y.` here, the moat coveted Nobel prize, t17rr,w cold water on your pleats, but y and George Minot +;f fI:nr. for peace, was being presented to two I think it might be better if we put "."ere" Mediseal o i',,.�..while kx'a4, - .>7�t3r '.14,..3s<.�3 r.,,,3�ity.,3, :art,• ; 3.ratotar, at t'y.71 rj, �1�rrrvray. The I.fi,�4 off the honeymoon for a little Rz E'J")'ftt hag King rxus4Nrbe1 Peace prize, given to Arthur Tony voice. was hurt. tar of »dwerl spa who:is making the ' le-n4+rst n, and the deferred' award. proem tatitttt tTje; t,sard to Dr.; frsr 11920 to 'Sir Norman Angell, ell, Brit. Murphy, r ,z pals autTt r aril let t tt double standard. It was after she had been married for two weeks—after she'd lived through two aching weeks of not sec- ing Tony—that she met Sandy on the 1 avenge one afternoon as she was go- inhome. Sandy's attitude toward her was carefully veiled, Ellen could "Buy why?" he questioned, "We, of see that her marriage to a millionaire all rtrarried folks, need a honeymoon, had given her an added importanec t get acquainted—" in his eyes. LUXURIOUS "FLYING HOTEL 1I dad`, c. 27th, :934 RASHES IN YRIAN DESERT • The Uiver, known as "The Flying Hotel" and the pride of the Dutch commercial air fleet, lies a chared pile of twisted wood and metal in the Syrian desert following a severe thunderstorm, which struck down the giant ship on its flight from Amster- dam to Batavia, Java, All seveii of its passengers and, crew were killed in the crash. The fate of the Mer was unknown for two days and the wreckage *as found by a scouting. neroplane of the Royal Air Force. Grim irony to the disaster is added by the fact that the air liner was loaded with mail and packages intended to• reach East Indian colonists for Christmas. . "Mind, Mrs. Brander," he asked, "if I walk along with you for a couple of blocks?" Ellen laughed. "A couple of blocks, at least," she said, "For I'm not in a hurry to get anywhere." Sandy's eyebrows were raised, "The poppa got a night out?'" he questioned. And added, "So soon?" Ellen tossed her head. 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There arealways Keane in the mouth which are ready •to seize upon the smallest particles of food left between the ;teeth, and the result is fermentation anl. Putrefaction, a little bit of which goes a long way in fouling the breath. Despite all that is'said, there is no mouth wash which sterilizes the mouth. The practical way is to have the teeth healthy, be- cause there is an odour to decaying teeth as there is also to the tartar which collects around the teeth, 'Vcthen the teeth have been naaile healthy, thy should be kept clean by regular brushing after each meal. Odours do not rise from the &.tom- ach unless air is brought up from the stomach. When belching occurs, there should not be any disagreeable odour if the stomach is healthy. Some foods contain volatile oils; these are absorbed after digestion and, ` when carried by the blood stream to the lungs,gs, they are ssnelt on the breath. This is what happens when you eat onions or drink alcohol. 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