Zurich Herald, 1941-08-14, Page 3neer You Can Duy
SYNOPSIS
RUTH WOODSON, 19 years old,
an orphan, leaves Brooklyn by bus
:for the mid -west to look for a job.
Unable to pay her fare she is put
off the bus in the little town of
Worthville, just as a storm is
breaking. Ruth seelcs shelter in an
old stone house with a blue dour
and faints from hunger just as
PENNY, the old housekeeper,
opens the door.
Ruth is carried upstairs by the
old woman, assisted by JOHN Me-
NEILL, from next door. The old
woman mistakes Ruth for ELAINE
CHALMERS, whose grandfather
,built the house. Ruth lets her con-
tinue to think this. She is asham-
ed of her deception and resolves
to slip away, but decides to stay
longer when Penny tells her the
next day is her 75th birthday and
pleads with Ruth to make "a long
visit."
Elaine Chalmers, meanwhile, at
Graycastle College, vows in a so-
rority meeting to win the love of
her first sweetheart, John Mc-
Neill. She writes him a letter, tell-
ing him she plans a visit to Worth-
ville, but fails to mail the letter.
When Penny turns over to Ruth
a box of lovely clothes, sent by
the Chalmers family for a rum-
mage sale, the girl resolves to wear
them, "letting charity fall where
it will." She has promised John to
go for a ride with hint that even-
ing.
CHAPTER XII
Ruth spent the day entertaining
Penny. That is to say, she listen-
ed to Penny and she talked to Pen-
ny. She was well rewarded. There
was the knowledge 'that she had
made the lonely, half -blind old
woman happy, and there was the
• useful information she gleaned hi
regard to Elaine's family.
Elaine's father, she learned
from Penny's rambling tales, was
an admirable young man who was
killed in the World War. (Ruth
thought, "At least Elaine Chal-
mers and I have that in common
—our brave fathers whom we
can't remember.") Elaine's moth-
er, "Miss Gwen," eventually mar-
ried a second time. The man was
an old suitor, Higate Deal, of Wall
Street fame.
In speaking of Deal, Penny
•hinted dark things. "He's ruinin'
your grandpa's railroad..Now that
he's got hold of it they don't pay
the stockholders around here like
they used to. I hear reports—"
She stopped, as if afraid she bad
said too much.
Ruth, in turn, invented inter-
esting accounts of Elaine's life in
the east. "I was at a wonderful
house party` last summer, Pen-
ny—" and she told glamorous de-
tails without a twinge of con-
science. She knew that she was
feeding Penny's starved imagina-
tion and making her temporarily
happy. What else was there to of-
fer for birthday diversion?
"I won a swimming event, at
Newport, Penny!" "At Saranac
one time I was skiing and took
an awful tumble. The young "man
who picked me up afterward pro-
posed to me, but mother and Mi.
Deal didn't approve, so nothing
came of it."
"Maybe he didn't have enough
money," remarked Penny with a
faint snort. Any mention of Hi -
gate Deal seemed to throw her
into a suppressed rage. •
e s,
"I Hate Publicity"
Ruth Ied her to talk of "Grand-
father Hunter," the old railroad
king. "There was a man for you!"
Penny declared. "Six -foot -two.
White hair piled on his' head like
a corn shock, A nose like an eag-
le's beak. He spoiled hie.children--
your mother and Uncle Duncan-•--
scmethin' awful, but •he never
spoiled himself. He let 'ein go east
to school and do as they pleased.
But he always said the state of
Ohio was good enough' for him.
Folks around here still talk about
Si Hunter. If they knew you was
in town, his only grandchild,
they'd likely wx;ite a piece about
you in the paper." •
"Penny," exclaixned Ruth in
real panic, "if anything like that
happens I'll leave town! I—I hate
publicity!" She made Penny take
a solemn .oath that she woirlcl tell
no one of her presence.
"f woudn't anyway," Penny ex-
plained. "I keep to myself, People
pry. There's lots of things' I'd die
before I'd tell 'ens!" She peered
around her defiantly, as if holding
the whole town. at bay.
"Yes, Penny," said Ruth sooth-
ingly, and patted her arm. "Would
you mind if I'd go for a ride with
John 1VJeNeill befoxe supper? Ho
asked me this morning."
A Drive With John
Penny relaxed. "Do go, Miss
Elaine. It'll do you gcod, Only be
sure to put on that warmer suit.
It's turned chilly with the rain."
Ruth and John McNeill wore
both 10 minutes early for their
appointment. Ruth answered the
door when he rang and said, "1
meant to keep you waiting. This
childish eagerness of nine is ging
to ruin you."
"I'ni easily spoiled," John re-
plied as he helped her into the
low -swung roadster which was
parked • before the porch.
"For instance, that kiss prece-
dent. Couldn't we do it—once,
say, every time we meet?"
'Why should we?" Ruth asked
in a cool, aloof vciee.
"Why?" repeated John McNeill
slowly, starting his •car and pon-
dering the question. "I was hop-
ing you'd just 'want to, Elaine.
The way 1 do. My msitake—"
He swung the car out of the
circling driveway onto the street,
and immediately assumed a more
inperscnal attitude. "You said
the country, I believe. Well, we're*
on the edge of town now. You're
about to see something very c:.oice
in rustic scenery."
Ruth said, "I suppose you'll tell
me this is the garden spot of the
world—finest soil, finest crops,
finest climate, finest everything."
(Her heart was saying, "Little
feel, you chilled him by your prig-
gishness! Why houldn't you kiss
when you meet? Aren't you sup-
posed to be lifelong friends?")
"I could tell you plenty about
this town," replied John. "Only
I'm afraid it might sound pre-
sumptuous to an easterner."
"We New Yorkers do feel su-
perior," Ruth agreed. (She wars
thinking, "Dear Lord in heaven,
what have I to feel superior about:'
I, a tramp. A nobody. A piece t!
driftwood!")
4 1k tl:
"Your Most Impressive"
He slowed the car to point out
a rambling brick house with :iii
avenueof trees leading to it. He
said, "You recall that place, of
course. The Phillipses still live
there. Lucy's at Vassar now. I
guess you see her sometimes in
New York?"
"It's Imlay," Ruth answered,
"I never do. Has she changed
much?"
"Not as much as you have,"
John McNeill said.
He offered her a eigaret which
she took, hoping she was not too
awkward at catching the light he
offered her. Elaine, she felt,
would smoke under the circum-
stances.
He said, looking at her until
the match burned his fingers.
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"Yoa leek lovely ,today. Mind ray
ell'ing you?" tl
"Mind? I like it. But we'll have.
to give credit to my clothes, I've
flsways lilted Wee suit, It'0 more
attering than the little Tag I ar-
rived in."
"When I first saw you," John
remarked, "you were the limpest
little piece . of wreckage I ever
laid eyes on. It was a first-class
faint, if I aver saw one,"
"What a way to enter your life
after an ' eight-year absence!"
Ruth mourned. "At my very
worst."
"At your very most impres-
sive," he disagreed.."I've met sev-
eral hendred perfectly turned out
girls in my day, and promptly for-
got 'em. I never ,before picked up
one that looked like a wet dish-
rag fallen off the line, and, five
'minutes later, saw her turn 'into
a thing of beauty'right tinder my
nose."
"Did you' realize who T was?"
Ruth asked curiously.
He 'said, "Until Penny 'started
calling you 'Miss Elaine' it never
entered my head that you were
anything but a little nobody try-
ing to find a dry spot."
"Oh—" said Ruth. "These elms
are gorgeous. Like—like New Eng-
land, aren't they?" -
"Have you forgotten this is the
Western. Reserve?" John asked.
"Your ancestors and mine who
helped settle it came from those
states. Got their land grants for
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Her full, bunehy unpressed pleat-
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of contrasting color at the tell.—
the bared is pleated with the rest
o':the skirt. A narrow inserted
grosgrain ribbon marks the hip-
line on other skirts.
Doll's Mansion
A motor driver of Wood Green,
London, England, Mr. W. R. Clat-
worthy, has spent three years mak-
,ing a doll's house. It has 1,000
tiles, glass windows, electric light
and french -polished furniture. His
only tools were a pen -knife and a
sixpenny. drill.
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They held on to the old New Eng-
land customs—white frame hous-
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groves. All that sort of thing."
"i'd forgotten," Ruth replied.
She Dodges People
The car sped through the rain
like a smooth, purring animal that
,delighted to transport them. Dark-
ness had fallen .and the headlights
outlined a road that was level and
faintly curving. Ruth thought,
"Heaven must be like this. I'd like
to crystalize this hour and keep
it always, shining like the head-
lights and the rain on the wet
leaves. Only I can't. I think I
want us to hit a tree and crack up
and end it all before I stop being
Elaine to him. Bofore he finds
me out for a cheat and a liar—" •
But they didn't crack up, John
war an excellent driver, and pres-
ently he turned the car around
and drove home. As they turned
into the driveway he said,
guess old Bertha's going to ask
a few dozen questions about this
ride."
"Who??" asked Ruth blankly.
"Bertha Gibbs," he said. "Pen- -
ny „
"Oh!!" laughed Ruth. "Imagine
ane. not recognizing her name!"
"She's a funny old creature,"
John - remarked, not noticing. •
"Sometimes I think she's gone a
lit'lte potty. In the last few years
she's taken to dodging everybody.
Even my mother."
"People often seem queer as,
they get old," Ruth offered. "It's
usually, Mist bec=ause their facul-
ties aren't keen and they don't
keep up with the times, What-
ever makes people think Penny's
crasy?"
She Paint, the Deer
"Well," answered John, "she's
got the dam'clost habit of painting;
ll:c front cleor a blight blue! She
,logs it at night—every few weeks,
t:ititet and ;axvnier. .She lets the
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rest of the place go hang, but she
never passes up that door. I ask
youe honey, is that crazy or not?"
";it's crazy," Ruth agreed. "But
I'M not afraid of her, John. Other
v.-aya she's normal. She's 75 years
old today, by the way."
"Too old to be a menace, 1
sues.,," John said. "Still I worry
about you being shut up in that
old barn with her. You might. as
well. be alone."
7"!ley had reached the house
and he was helping her across
shimmering •little pools of water
to the steps of the dark porch.
Ruth said softly, "Please keep en
worrying about mc, I don't need
it but I like it!"
After she had gone inside, John
McNeill stood for a time before
the dark, still house, wondering
shy he felt as if the heart and
breath of him was locked up in-
side it.
(To Be Continued)
WINTER
11e5w large that thrush looks on the
•' bare thorn -tree!
•A swarm of such three little
months ago,
to,:EI'as hidden in the leaves and let
none know
Save by the outburst of their min-
strelsy.
A White flake here and there—a
snow -lily
-Of last night's frost—our naked
:Clower -beds hold;
And for a rose -flower on the dark-
ening mould
• The hungry redbreast gleams, N9
• bloom, no beep
The current shudders to its ice-
bound edge;
Nipped in, their bath, the statk
reeds oneone
by
Flash each its clinging diamond
in the sun;
'Neath winds which :Cor this Win-
ter's sovereign pledge
Shall curb great king -masts to the
ocean's edge
And leave memorial forest -kin}.,
o'erthrown.
•---Ii, (, Rossetti.
Trained Youths
Find Positions
99 Per Cent. of 2,3966 Boys
And Girls Enrolled in Ont-
ario Youth Training Courses
April 1 to December 1, 1939,
Are Now in Jobs
Hon. Norman llipel, Ontario
Labor Minister, has announced
that 90 per cent of 2,395 of the
boys and girls enrolled in Ontario
in the Dominion -Provincial Youth
Training Scheme from April 1 to
Dec. 3:1, 1939, have been either
placed in employment or Bate posi-
tions to take when their courser
are finisled.
SOME AVIATION MECHANICS
Included in those Placed are
some 200 boys who have enrolled
in the Galt Air School where the
province is contributing 50 per
cent of the cost of training stu-
dents as avaition mechanics. The
students will graduate into the
Royal Canadian Air Force on Ap-
ril 1. The Minister said his Depart-
ment is beginning now to select
a new class for aviation training
and is studying possibility of in-
creasing the enrollment of the
Galt school. Selection of students
is made by a committee represent-
ing the •Departments of Educatiox:
and Labor.
Applicants for machine shop
and welding courses must file with
'their applications an assurance
that they have been promised r.
job on graduation, he said.
Signed A.Pledge
To Remain Aloof
Maureen Parry, pretty English
giel whose accomplishments in-
clude a bicycle trip across Canada,
is getting ready to return home an
the only woman aboard rd t Gree;
freighter.
Toting a 74 -pound pack, Maur-
een tried to get a job as stoker
aboard the vessel at Vancouver,
B. C'., when she heard that soros
of the crew had refused to sail
because of the hazards cf war.
She didn't get the job, but the
master of the freighter agreed to
grant her free passage if she sign-
ed a pledge to keep aloof from
every male on board.
Brains Won't Slim
The brain and bone -marrow ii
the human body are the only parts
not affected by lack of food. Star-
vation, or slimming dicta., may re-
duce the weight of every part of
the body except there two.
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Quality of Feathers Usually
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she should inspect the pillows as
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can rejuvenate a pillow that is gene
limp and flabby with age. Putting
fifteen -year-old pillows in brand.
new cases is like slip -covering a
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In buying new pillows, keep in
mind that the lightest ones are the
best because they contain a maxi-
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feathers !Hake the best tilling not
only because they are lighter than
chicken or turkey feathers, but also.
because they are naturally apringy
and resilient.
SOFT AND FIRM
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of feathers used. Down (which is
the soft undercoating that grows
beneath feathers of water fowl)
makes the, softest, lightest and the
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