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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. HAVE YOU HEARD SuitcetDepCtndia cstdarMeaH M. Aitken, famous Cooking Authority? It offers a wide range of valuable recipe and other booklets FREE. all. .CROWN BRAND. conN SYRIU.!... OLLIE Writo now for the Booklot en. titled "G2 Cakes a Year" Enclose a label from a Canada Starch Product and address Tho Canada Starch I1oine Service Dept. A, 49 Wellington S6 EN, ,xoroiito �`.r:wu„,�, x �:. asc`m (6 414 -... "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 Hips Slim In New Paris Fashions Hips are frequently featured by. ..yokes that hold their slender curves—for hips must be slim. •okes on .tailored skirts contain pockets; for afternoon' they are in a Contrasting' color, for even., ing they may be shaped to suggest draped sashes, Sahiaparelli's nov- el step-in skirts, which have no fastenings but are shirred at the top with elastic thread, create the effect of a hip yoke without break- ing the line, Alix often dramatiz- es the hipline without molding it. Her full, bunehy unpressed pleat- ed skirts have an inserted band 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. Race:'fans bet almost twenty - ,two million dollars at Canadian horse racing tracks in 1930. To -Day's Popular Design By Carol Aimes ••�•3atga �.:rPC.'..•'.t. ��;.'.^3r.�'i:'.•••O.��:!*a:3:.:•?�•'.`�0�ea'�4�e4e .:�":...,"•��., ; •.;��.rn•o.:�,•�'',.-qp. - : ,. :.'•••S••'r.latai:";�` .•f'A1•.+�:•,�•,'�..':� .•:::�:.f�e;r w - :a'•" •me5�- aw�;y�u: .•�' a•ttn:4i.'.•3°.r•.•,.:�F: ":� :��•.ka�, • .� ' •p;.: gi;ir"A:aa�:.•: 4. •q•:.... 1 1:1. .:, ry 1 yw,,.� �: '.. •. .LID;..... 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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 S UE N'0..9:540-. . 1) 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. New Norge Refrigerators have axe Extra Shelf, Plus Extra "Cellaret" Compartment—at No Extra Cast/ SEE THE NEW NORGE AT YOUR LOCAL DEALER'S Light Pillows Claimed Bast Quality of Feathers Usually Highest Wheu a good home manager is checking liar stock of pillow slips, she should inspect the pillows as well. Not even a glossy new slip 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 broken chair. In buying new pillows, keep in mind that the lightest ones are the best because they contain a maxi- inuln of feathers. Goose and duck 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 The softness or firmness of a pil- low is determined by the mixture of feathers used. 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