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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1940-03-28, Page 7Tea At Its Best a 1 .che9 riViaek (� i935 NEA Service, Inc. SYNOPSIS RUTH WOO.DSON, pre t t ,v high-spirited girl of 19, in search of work, seeks refuge from a storm in an old stone house with a blue door. The queer old care- taker, BERTHA GIBBS, also known as "PENNY," mistakes her for ELAINE CHALMERS, whose grandfather }wilt the house. Ruth needing shelter and fall- ing in love with the young man next door, JOHN McNEILL, de., aides to stay on a while at the old house, pretending to be El - nine. Elaine, meanwhile, at school at Graycastie College, vows in a sorority meeting to win the love of John McNeill, her childhood hero, and plans to go to his home town to renew their acquaitance. A man known as JOHN SMITH escapes from an asylum, buys a used -car and starts for "the house with the blue door." Penny seems happy to have Ruth in the lonely old house until one night when she is summoned to the front door by a knocic. Aft- er a half hour's absence, she re- turns to the room a changed per- son, furtive and queer in her ac- tions and concealing some mys- terious news. Ruth goes to bed, frightened. John McNeill has fallen in love with Ruth and worries about her being alone in the old house with .Bertha Gibbs. - . * 0 0 CHAPTER XVI The clouds and wind spent themselves during the night. The next day came in clear and ser- ene. When Ruth opened her eyes in response to a bird song in the hedge outside, her room was full of sunlight. The world seemed so entirely normal that she laughed at her fears of the night before. She had been foolish, she felt, to let the moods of a simple old wo- man frighten her, She .thought, stretching her arms above her head and blinking in the sunshine, "Any sort of tele- gram would upset Penny, natur- ally, because she's not used to getting them. Maybe it said her brother had broken his hip. That's something she could be expecting and dreading.. . Or maybe her sister's being put out of her house because she can't pay her rent. In that ease Penny ca.n borrow money from 'Miss Gwen' to help her out. Anyway, I shan't worry. I offered to talk it over with her and she almost bit my head off, 1'11 mind my own business." She got out of bed, took a lei- surely bath, dressed and went downstairs. THE PAPERS OUTWITTED " 'Herrero', 1V.liss Maine," res sponded a matter-of-fact Penny, "PR have your breakfast on thee table in a jiffy. Just sit down." "Well!" exclaimed Ruth with pleasure, "here's the morning pa- per! lid forgotten all about newe- papers in the last week." "I bought one," explained Ber- tha Gibbs, "to see about the weather, A body never knows what to expect rn the fall of the year." . "No," replied Ruth, "one sloes not." The paper was in complete disorder as if Penny in her. per. nal of the weather forecasts had become lost. Ruth assembled the scattered sheets and as she sipped her coffee and munched her toast she read it avidly. It seemed good to have news of the outside world again, to know what Inas hap- pening. in Washington and Eur- ope, to see who of irnportanc'e had married and divorced and had babies and died, even to see what new enticements the stores were advertising in the way • of pocket- books and Vanities and fall shoes and fur coats. Presently Ruth uttered aztoth er, "Well!" having, to her sur- prise, found a continued story which she had begun to read in Brooklyn and thought never to encounter again, She quickly read the synopsis and was soon fol - leaving the :Fate of the very like- able heroine with es much enthus- iasm as if she'd stumbled on an old friend. x, e: She said to Bertha, refilling her coffee cup, "It's a shall world, isn't it Penny? And the newspapers bind us all together. They're the greatest power of all ----greater than airships and arum' los and navies. Nothing's hid from the newspapers, and the news-' irapeee hide nothing'," The old wonnatl stared at her without Mines nig. "The neeers think they're pretty sm.lrt, 1' guess. But there's seine that tem outwit 'cm." The remark had no meaning for Rutin, so she dismissed it. She said, "'You're feeling better this morning, aren't you Penny?" "Yee," replied Penny. "As fit as a fiddle." Going Somewhere With Someone As a natter of fact the old wo- man did look stronger. She was less bent and shuffling. She mov- ed more- purposefully. She said, "Now that you've finished your breakfast, Miss Elaine, I've a message for you :from Mister John McNeill, He wants you to drive to Cleveland with him today, belle' as he has to go there on bus- iness. He'll start about 11 o'clock. He says he won't take "No" for an answer. He says even if you are here on a rest cure there's no cause for you buryin' yourself." Ruth •laughed.. "He won't 'have to take "No" for an answer, Pen- ny. I'll snatch at the chance— unless you need me here at home?" "I don't need you," replied Ber- tha with promptness. "You go, Miss Elaine, and stay as long as you like. It'll do you good. There's a sight of things to see in the city." Ruth laughed again for sheer ' joy and ran upstairs to her room. She had ample time to clean her room, set her hair and dress. She thought of a quip she had once heard in a clever talkie. An ac- tress had drawled, "Any woman's in heaven when she's going somes where and has something to wear." Ruth told herself, "That's sere today --with additions, erne going somewhere with someone T -cave. about, and I've. got somean thing to wear 1" John McNeill called for her at 11. "Good' girl," he said, "on time! You don't keep ache busy business pian waiting. You look sweet, by the way, in that two shades of green set-up. Another new one?" "Not new," Ruth answered, "except to you. It's even got little darned places in it. It's knitted," "1 know," he said, starting the ear. "My mother does 'em, She knits 'em for herself aid .my mar- ried sister in Washington, Flor- ence." Superior To All Men "Oh, yos," said Ruuh, "She's older than you." She made the guess recklessly, since she knew she ought to revall his family, "Yes," John replied. "Picture me with a 10 -year-old nephew and twin nieces, aged 51" Ruth pictured hint and found it 'a pleasure. If he had said, "Picture me with two pet dinos- aurs and an uncle who looks like Popeye," she would have found him charming in that group, too. He was that perfect to her. That superior to all other Hien. But she must hide this :From enure, John McNeill was constantly being greeted by people on the street and he lifted his hand in .s Published by A the C om a da Starch 1 -Tonne tler- vico Dept.. headed by Mrs ,,Altkon famous Cloolcinl • Autltorzty, a rc valuable booklet entiired'G2Oakes' Write for your PREDcopy zaoty enduing at Crown Mend label, to Canecia Steroh iloano &twice Dept 1E. 90 Wellington Street East, Toronto. HE CANADA STARCH COMPANY LIMtrfo impartial salute to leading cities en -s, colored 'porters, traffic.' cops and pretty ladies, , .. "111, fete:" This to a lanky' young chile Iles- condin the courthouse steps, c".How's theboy $". Ruth was relieved that they did not pause to eee how the boy was, for she suspected, and right - 1S', that here was someone Elaine Chalmers was supposed to t'eineni- her, "Peter Ashton," explained john, avoiding an ice cream truck by at hair's; breadth, "He and his sister used to play in your back yard when you visited l;ere. They sold thole old horie and moved out on the Het'hts u couple: c:f years ago Aline "oee to Mount Holyoke Pete's about to be a senior at Yale." "Thirsk of that!" remarked Ruth politely, "All grown up." "Funny thing," John said, "Just last surntner Pete and I were Iaughing about the day you and Alice dressed up in some old fin- ery you found in a trunk and fete and I yanked your trains, off. You were fastening then to the flagpole out the third storey when Penny caught us and sent us home." "Served you right!" said Ruth sternly. She must retake up some plausible excuse for not seeing Pete and Alice Ashton.. "Especial- ly Alice!" she thought in a pan- ic. "She'd know me for a fraud in two seconds." She said to John, to divert him, "How far is it to this Cleveland town?" "Don't be uppity," John ans- .rrly Marriages Are Advocated -Columbia Pr.ofessoa' Says That Young People Should Not Wait Till They • Have Acetate— elated a Comfcrtabie Surplus Young Hien and women should marry and hese, hostiles as early as possible, according to l'rofes or Benjamin Anirewe of Com eauiaa leuiversity. 111 a raC'nt asdreas no ' .'d»rcia;;v and the Family," l)».0 Prof.ssra.Ara - draws Bald ''yenta, people should ant wait until tlrry have aectunulat- ed a eotnfortably .surplus. or both acre welkin; en geed Jobs." IDEALS OI' HOME Provided a young man feels that Lis job is fairly secure ha: shlulci not bo too hesitant about leading Ms fair maiden to the altar. Two may not be able to live as cheaply as one, but money that would ordin- arily be frittered away foolishly while one is in ,the single state us- ually is invested in things that go to make up the home .after mar- riage. In many cases it is easier to pull a big load In double harness. "The experience of working out some hardships together is one of the finest welding processes," Pro- fessor Andrews declared. "If a con. pie waits and works upward into better jobs, they may lose their early ideals of a home and a family through working for security rath- er than mutual happiness," YOU'LL NEED A TURBAN THIS SPRING DESIGN NO. X 948 Turbans are beautiful and especially the terocheted ones, made in the knot design, or in crocheted cross stitch pattern. Pattern No. X 948 contains list of materials needed and complete instructions for making both. To order this pattern, send 15 cents in coin or stamps to Carol Aires, Room 421, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto, wered, "just because you're from New York. Cleveland's got a mil- lion people in it, most of 'ern good-looking, It's got some good places to eat, too. We'll find ono." The restaurant that he a'huse looked like a provincial b'rent+ village. There was an ice -filled well in the middle of the reek floor from which pretty waitres,- es in peasaant dresses fetched bai- ter. There was a three-piece or- chestra --- a piano and two violin. —which played remarkably geed music. Victor Herbert Romberg, Jerome Kern. 13rirnl, and even Strauss. The table linen was gay and coarse. The food delicious. John ordered a bottle of the right wine, and Ruth, not being used to it, because very gay and nimble of tongue. * 0 a "I Won't Be Strung" Jdlnn said teasingly, ".I'd have thought Elaine Channels was a cocktail girl. Imagine you getting higher than a kite on two little glasses of wine!" "Maybe I'm just pretending it's wine," :Muth replied. "Maybe' it's' being with lou that makes ' nit this way." Ile leaned across the table and looked at her very hard,. "If you say things like that," he said, "you've got to mean them, I won't be strung." Ruth thought, "If I were El - eine I could tell him that I do mean them. If 1 were eveu, my, self, Ruth Woodson, I' could tell hien. But I'm just a phantom, I'n the body and brain of one all, shamelessI,y wearing another gird's name." 'She would not answer the Took in his 'eyes. Utterly Penniless After they had agreed upon a place to meet, he loft her. Ruth saw his tall, erect frame disappear in the crowd and she had a swift, sharp taste of how it would be with her when she had seen him for alae last tinne. She had the afternoon to hill, so she "did" the stores thorough- ly. She choke Mile iection ploture she would have liked to sae inane studied the advertieennelnts in the outer lobby, so she could pretend to have seen it. That done, she went to pi-Weltase a gift for Ber- tim Cribbs, • She shopped diligently through the five and ten. When you have just two nickles and one copper cent in the whole world, you do not spend them without thought, You consider a hundred things they might buy. In the end, Ruth chose a string et glass heatds, knowing that Penny would think them a crystal net?dace from a department store. Thus the girl she was impersonating would not be made to appear email and stingy. It was a queer feeling, paying out the dime and the one -cent tax, because it left her purse quite empty. . , Th bus delver had said. to her, "Gimme your dol- lar. Keep the 'leven cents!!" It was his way of telling her a girl should never be without the price of a phone call or a street car ticket.... But now the deed was done. Huth was utterly penniless, (To Be Continued) Reveal Women Are Healthier Statistics of Lift Insurance Company Show From Cradle To Old Age f=ewer Females ,in U, S. Die Than Males • Wtienen of the United States are growing healthier than the men, and their superiority is so great that in every tleca•de of life, from cradle to old age, fewer females die than males. A clear -out surplus of women is in prospect as a rosult of this trend, figures published by the Mctropoll tan Life Insurance Co, Inchoate. The superior ability- of the wo• Men to escape death covers the pre sent Century up to 1987, the last year When data az'e available. During this period, the death rate 4E white male babies under one ;rear alai doer6ased 61 per een,t; Of girls, 83. At 20, the young Nut's death rate dropped 57 per cent; tribe young woreee, 65, At 40, the men Were down 40 per cent; the wonien, a At 40, males experienced a re- duetioti its Mortality of lest than per cent, against 26 for the women.. ISSUE NO. 13---'40 0, Says Marriages Aren't 'Nappy' English Jurist Claims "Nor- mal" Best to Be Expected • Judge. Alfred Bucknill of the King's Bench, England, last month was bearinga divorce ease, "Was a lawyer said to a witness; "Ml as Your marriage happy. at the. start?" Then Ills Lordship chim- ed in: "We cannot aesunne marriage R, stair to which the word happy t.,•att proem ly he applied. It is enough if the epetrse Can say it was nor - mai. It may then be un 1eretoo 1 than normal means there wa• nothing, much to eoreplain abou, and that is quite enough for any- body." EAR IX RAPTURES Perhaps 90 per eent or more couples enter marriage in love with each other, argues the St. Thomas Times -Journal. Amon;; the younger people the early rap- tures moderate in course of time, but he they young or old, love was the inspiration of their part- nership, and unless it withers from neglect or cruelty, which sometimes happens, a husband at wife c;cperiennces a mild thrill, and in massy cases a thrilling thrill, from the turn of a key in the front door and the welcome home, a joy ineffable from companion- ship that no other person can give, an inner satisfaction from the un- expected gift of flowers, candy or a little article to wear or to decorate a room. Possibly this oc- curs oftener with those who have been married some years, or who marry in the latter years, when, as Douglas Jerrold said, love is like the measles -- all the more Bovero when it comes late in life. Ilueknill is a cold-blooded mon- ster; the Boris Kurloff of the bench, thinks the Times -Journal. Chinese Girl Is Mum on Confucius When a Chinese amiss, June Dove Wong, 19, passed through St. Paul, Minn., last weep en route to Havana, Cuba, with five other girls awarded the trip as princesses of the 1940 Oregon winter carnival, a reporter acting on instructions from his city edi- tor, inquired: "What did Confucius -say?" Miss Wong say: "I have nothing to say. Con- fucius said everything," Reporter say: "Do Chinese re- sent Confucius gags?" Miss 'Wong say: "We respect hire. He was a very wise man," Reporter also wise man. Be shut up. Most Beautiful, Most Spacious Re- frigerator Norge has Ever Built/ NEW FEAT Cit C' ELI,.11tl+.!°" SEE THE NEW NORGE AT YOUR LOCAL DEALEI3. March March is the month of little Liv- ing things_... The gossamer of baby spiders, gnats, Small beetles folding up their shimmering wings, And silver gleaming on diving water -rats. Spring cones with April, Sum- ner is far away, When March brings these for lace: of bigger nowe--- The cry along the night shore, and by day The startling, shepherd of the lambing ewes. Catkins there are, and brown flowere on the elm, And wavering trout in brooks, and celandines; Not like the thousand things that . overwhelm A summer day, but little broke en signs And practicings of summer not begun, All lingering on the senses one by one. --William Montgomerie. Blues- at least twice and put a little powdered bora.s and, for the white linens, a bit of bluing in the third rinsing wa10.r, Linen should not he starched. Mr. Caf"`eine..1Nerrzees Does a Disappearing ng Act r SHE: If you could snake your bad temper dis- appear,you'd really be doing a trick! 1 MR. 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