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|®ie Snramswfllc Herald
_ Established July 4 1892
Published every afternoon (except Saturday) and Sunday morning.
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j * The Challange of the New Frontier
n One of the reasons why America always came out of
j its 19th century depressions so completely was that it
always had a frontier awaiting development. When
industrial stagnation in the east had reached a certain
point the country could turn west roll up its sleeves and
proceed to pull another section of the frontier into the
fold; and before it got through it discovered that the de-
pression was gone.
No one needs to be told today that the old frontier
is no more. We haven’t any vast undeveloped spaces along
the western horizon any longer; none at least that we
can use just now. But we have a new frontier these days
if we only stop to recognize it. and it can serve us today
precisely as the old western frontier served us a genera-
tion or two ago.
Our new frontier is less tangible than the old ones
and you won’t find it on any map. It includes practically
all of industry and nearly all of agriculture. The pioneers
who are attacking it are the workers the farmers and the
business men of the United States; their map—still a bit
j rough and uncertain in spots—is the combined industrial
j recovery and farm relief program.
It isn’t just a figure of speech to say that all of this
. stands as a new frontier.
The old physical frontier represented an obstacle
j to be conquered new paths to be found jobs to be filled
daring decisions to be made—with a new space in which
! men and women could establish homes bring up children
and hunt for happiness as the prize.
This new frontier represents exactly the same thing.
It is a challenge just as the old one was. to our dar-
ing our ingenuity and our endurance. .Beyond it there
lies nothing less than a new order of living waiting
to be exploited. The possibilities are as unlimited as any
that an early pioneer saw when he climbed an unexplored
mountain peak and looked off to the west.
The present moment is the end of a depression but
it is also something more important; it is the beginning
of a new era. The future can be finer than anything in
our past has been if we just recognize our new frontier
and tackle it as a frontier should be tackled.
When Luck Is Kind
* The big dream of the small investor has always been
to “get in on the ground floor.” Too often especially in
recent years the investor who has tried to do that has
stepped into an open elevator shaft and dropped into a
sub-basement; but the goal is reached once in a great
while and when it does happen the results are spectac-
ular.
The late Horace H. Rackham who died in Detroit
recently at the age of 73 was one of that small fabu-
lously fortunate group who got in on the ground floor
with Henry Ford. In 1903 he invested $5000 in the Ford
Motor Co.; in 1919 he sold out for $12500000.
That is the sort of turn to fortune’s wheel that the
optimistic investor always remembers. To be sure it
doesn’t happen very often. But it happens occasionally
and the memory of it will be green probably as long as
there are investors—and stock salesmen.
The
Once Over
Br K. L HflUiVt
THE TABLOID IN MUSIC
(Paul Whiteman and Perde Grofe
are composing a number to interpret
the spirit of the tabloid newspaper.”
—News Item).
While Mr. Whiteman and Mr
Grofe were a little reticent on the
composition some of the facts leak-
ed out today. The number will open
it was learned with a mournful
movement of obes denoting the
deep despair of the city editor be-
cause there have been but three
“heart balm” headlines in the last
hour.
• • m
You next hear the contrasting
notes of harp and flute as illustra-
ting the contradictory personality
of the publisher who is dictating an
editoral on “Higher Standards tor
Young America” and at the same
time dismissing a managing editor
for failing to publish the life story
of a notorious gunman on page one.
• # •
At this point there Is a deep wail-
ing of saxophones indicating the
hysteria of a columnist when he
hears that a woman has become a
mother without any publicity.
“ » •
A pistol shot is heard. This indi-
cates that there has been a shoot-
ing in the street. There is a mythi-
cal movement of zithers to denote
the sincere hopes of the tabloid staff
that the victim is somebody of prom-
inence. A crash of cymbals denotes
the keen disappointment when it is
larned that the victim is an obscur3
woman of about 47 and that she was
shot by a whisky-crazed stevedore.
* * •
Here the music breaks Into a live-
ly movement of trombones and vio-
lins interpretative of an immediate
change of mood when it is decided
to play the woman up as a prom-
inent Society Girl Shot by ExBank-
er in Love Nest Scandal.
• • •
Drums French horns and flutes
break into a fiercely incoherent
movement indicating an orgy of
cameramen sob-sisters and photo-
graph touchers. The kettledrums
run amuck to denote that the steve-
dore has consented to pose as an ex-
banker and write his life story in 23
installments.
• • m
At this point a movement for xylo-
phones indicates a telephone call
conveying the news that a Follies
girl has killed a stranger In a night
club. Her story as conveyed through
a picollo solo is that he was an Ape
Man who had pursued her since
childhood that he threatened to ex-
plain technocracy to her unless she
eloped with him and that then
everything went black.
• • *
Beyond the fact that there Is a
mass movement by trumpets and
pianos indicating her acquittal and
10 weeks in vaudeville nothing
about the remainder of the new
number could be ascertained.
Hopeful
Most Americans will approve the
giving of freedom to the Philip-
pines. Some day we hope to get it Id
our own country too.
The annual Motorboat and Yacht
Show is being held in New York as
usual and many people are attend-
ing It so that they can decide on
the type of boat they CAN’T afford
this year.
Citizenship Problem Simplified
Mr. Instill wants to become a
Greek. Why not announce a split up
and become two Hawaiians?
“U. S. Moves to Stop War in Far
East.”—headline it’s hardly a move-
ment; more of a slight muscular
twitch.
_Barbs
From cur observation those
snappy beach pajamas that the
girls are wearing this summer are
used more for posing than for
dozing.
mm*
Wcrry over the depression has
increased baldness says a Chi-
cago scientist. And we always
thought the crisis the nation has
just gone through was a hair-
raising experience.
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New York
_Letter
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEW YORK.—The curtain hav-
ing been lowered with Appropriate
shudders on the late lambasted
Broadway theatrical season statis-
ticians of the stage are now of-
fering corroboration for the con-
tention of the critics that it was
the leanest dramatic period since
the war.
The magazine Variety lists 117
productions out of which only
nine were hits and seventeen mod-
erate successes. But one of the
so-called hits the Jimmy Durante-
Lupe Velez revue called “Strike
Me Pink” took the largest loss ol
the season since it cost $150000
to produce and garnered omy
$60000 at the box office. “Take
a Chance” another "hit” and a
better musical show has scarcely
made a dime of profit. Which
gives you an idea of the financial
hazards involved in stage gam-
bling.
* * *
Dramatic Endings
Within a few more days the
riaito will have reached a new iow
in summer theater fare with cxxly
four legitimate shows remaining.
Some have moved out of town but
more than a hundred have gone
into the gloomy limbo of Caine
warehouse. In fact there's a story
which has been told about practi-
cally every one of those dead dra-
mas. It has to do with the pro-
ducer who asks a friend what ne
thinks of the show. “Well” says
the party of the second part “I
think you better polish up that
third act or even Cain won’t take
it.”
Speaking of Cain though he
and the warehouse he has con-
ducted for 18 years are only sym-
bols of the theatrical undertaking
business. For there are other such
storage places where the props and
scenery of dreams - that - didn’t-
come-tnxe are put away in the
hope that some later use may be
found for them. The Shuoerts
Gilbert Miller and Geoi'ge M. Co-
han have their own warehouses.
The Metropolitan Opera has four.
Tons of drops and props from
Ziegfeld’s warehouse were burned
after his death. The lares and
penates of George White Sam H.
Harris and dozens of other man-
agers are in the custody of .tsy
Cain. But even some of these are
being carted away to oblivion.
Not all are destroyed though.
Up along the edge of the Hudson
overlooked by Riverside Drive
some of this scenery is making a
last brave stand. For there In an
orderly row of patched-up shacks
is a remnant of the first Bonus
Army 120 strong. The men have
appropriated the more substantial
sections of scenery to make roofs
and walls and incongruously dec-
orative fronts for “Hoover City.”
• • •
Happy Exception
One of the plays just closed a
revival from the previous season
furishes a happy chapter in the
success stories of two people. They
are Rose Franken and Arthur
Beckhard the author and the
producer of "Another Language.”
She is the young and pretty wife
of a dentist and had no idea of
being a writer until she came Into
ownership of a typewriter some
years ajo. While looking after
her house her husband three
sons two dachshunds and a cat.
she turned out some short stories.
Finally she decided to do a play
which she accomplished in six
days flat.
The Shuberts turned it down
as did Al Woods and Arthur Hop-
kins. After they refused it other
producers decided it must be ter-
rible and didn't even want to read
it. Beckhard did though and be-
ing a concert manager and not a
producer he thought it was pretty
good. He plunged with all his
savings in the hope the show
would last three or four weeks
and return his investment. It ra4
for a year and then sold to the
movies at a handsome figure.
The average Londoner must be
having a tough time these days
in trying to figure out whether che
fog arises from the weather or
from the Economic Conference.
Evidently the news that the New
Deal frowns upon over-production
hasn't yet reached Lima Ohio
where a hen has just laid an egg
that' is seven inches around and
weighs nine ounces.
Daily Health
_ Talk _
Especially in the months from
June to November infantile paraly-
sis threatens children throughout
the world.
It is generally believed that the
disease is spread by ordinary in-
tact with patients or those asso-
ciated with the sick and to some
extent by contacts in an indirect
manner. In few instances it is pos-
sible to trace the infection directly
from pre-existing cases.
It is universal practice to isolate
patients with this disease in order
to reduce the number cf carriers.
Therefore every person suffering
with the disease should be kept ab-
solutely alone except for pursing at-
tention for three weeks from the
time when the fever first comes on.
It is also advisable to keep alone
as far as possible children who
j have been exposed to the disease.
w t •
Those who have been exposed to
infantile paralysis should have fem-
peratures taken regularly for three
weeks so as to detect the onset of
fever and symptoms at the earliest
possible moment. When there are
epidemics in the community chil-
dren should not be allowed to min-
gle with crowds and travel should
be discouraged.
The occurrence of fever head-
ache with vomiting drowsiness and
irritability when disturbed fiusn-
ing congestion of the throat and
nightly sweating during a period
when infantile paralysis is preval-
ent in a community should be view-
ed with suspicion. Any evidence on
the part of the child of stiffness of
the back and the neck demands the
most careful medical investigation.
Becauss this condition brings
about inflammation of the nerve
roots at the front of the spine the
occurrence of tenderness of the skin
of the muscles or joints should al-
ways be considered suspicious.
* * *
When a physician is called to ex-
amine a cipld he is likely to want
to make an examination of the spin-
al fluid. Thus he do:s particularly in
order to distinguish between infan-
tile paralysis meningitis due to var-
ious types of infection and inflam-
mations of the brain.
As soon as infantile paralysis Is
well established it becomes impor-
tant to have a careful examination
of the muscles in order to find out
which muscles are permanently in-
volved so that plans may be out-
lined for treatment leading to re-
covery of the power of motion.
Movie Sidelights
QUEEN
The most sweeping indictment of
gangland which the American
public has been privileged to w.V
ness is Howard Hughes’ great mo-
tion picture “Scarface” the United
Artists picture which shows Tues-
day and Wednesday at the Queen
theatre.
“Scarface” is a daring expose of
the most ruthless and terrifying
power which has ever threatened
this country from within. As such
it may do more than any other
single factor to arouse public
indignation and bring about the
ultimate extermination of the
gangster.
For the first time the gangster
is shown as he really is and with
such vivid and graphic realism that
there can be no further doubt of
the urgent necessity to stamp him
out.
“Scarface” is acted by Paul Muni
who plays the title role; by Ann
Dvorak the new Howard Hughes
discovery; by Karen Morley Os-
good Perkins. C. Henry Gordon.
George Raft. Vince Barnett Ines
Palange and others of the dis-
tinguished cast.
CAPITOL
Bing Crosby. Richard Aden
Mary Carlisle Jack Oakie George
Burns and Grade Allen. Coach
Howard Jones of U. S. C. Lona
Andre Mary Kornman and the
“Ox-Road Co-Eds’’—
They’re the imps that turn dear
old “Whcozis’ into a mad-house
of hot-cha in that glorification of
what co-education ought to be
aptly titled “College Humor” which
shows Tuesday and Wednesday at
the Capitol.
Co-eds are out for their men
Today’s Radio Features
TUESDAY JULY 4 (Central and Eastern Standard Time)
Note—All programs to key and basic chains or groups thereof unless speci-
fied; coast to coast (c to c) designation includes all available stations.
Programs subject to change. P. M.
(Daylight Time One Hour Later)
NBC-WEAF NETWORK
BASIC — East: weaf whv weei wtic
wjar wtag wcah wfl wilt wfbr wrc wgy
when wcae wtam wwj wsai; Midwest:
wmaq wcfl ksd woc-who wow wdaf
NOR THWEST & CANADIAN — wtmj
wiba kstp webo wday kfyr ckgw cfcf
SOUTH — wrva wptf wwnc wis wjax
wfla-wsun wiod wsm wmc wsb wapi
wjdx wsmb kvoo wky wfaa wbap kpre
woai ktbs kths
MOUNTAIN—koa kdyl kair kghl
COAST — kgo kfi kgw komo khq kpo
kfsd ktar kgu
Cent. East.
2:30— 3:3C—Songs by Jane Pickens
2:45— 3:45—Lady Next Door Kiddies
3:00— 4:00—Melodic Thoughts Orch.
3:30— 4:30—Schirmer Schmidt Pianos
3:45— 4:45—Nursery Rhymes—also c
4:00— 5:00—Dinner Concert—also cst
4:30— 5:30—Weekly Hymn Sing—to C
4:45— 5:45—Songs by Jimmy Melton
5:00— 6:00—Mountaineers—weaf only
5:15— 6:15—Wm. Scotti’s Orchestra
5:30— 6:30—The Dandies of Yesterday
5:45— 6:45—The Goldbergs Serial Act
6:00— 7:00—Sanderson-Crumit Songs
6:30— 7:30—Wayne King's Orchestra
7:00— 8:00—Ben Bernie and the Lads
7:30— 8:30—Ed Wynn & Band—c to c
8:00— 9:CO—National Heroes—also cst
8:30— 9:30—Radio Forum—also coast
9:00—10:00—Jack Denny's Orchestra
9:30—10:30—Talkie Picture Time Skit
10:00—11:00—Harcld Stern's Orchestra
10:30—11:30—Don Bestor's Orchestra—
east; Ben Bernie—repeat for coast
CBS-W ABC NETWORK
BASIC—East: wabc wade woko wcao
waab wnac wgr wkbw wkrc whk eklvv
wdre wcau wip wjas wean wfbl wapd
wjsv; Midwest: wbbm wgn wfbm kmbe
kmnx wowo whas
EAST & CANADA — wpg whp wlbw
whee wlb* wfea wore wiec efrb ckae
DIXIE — wgst wsfa wbre wqam wdod
klra wrec wlac wdsu wtoc krld wrr
ktrh ktsa waco koma wdbo wodx wbt
wdae whig wtar wdbj w’.vva wmbg wsjs
MIDWEST — wcah wmbd wtaq wkbh
kfab wisn ksej wlbw kfh wmt wnax
wkbn weco
MOUNTAIN—kvor kls koh ksl
COAST — kh.i koin kgb kfre kol kfpy
kvl kfbk kmj kwg kern kdb kgmb
Cent. East.
2:00— 3:00—Gypsy Mus. Makers—to c
2:30— 3:30—Roundtowners—also est
2:45— 3:45—Memories Garden—also c
3:15— 4:15—Fred Berrens Or.—c to c
J:30— 4:30 — Skippy Sketch — east
only; Between tha Bookends—west
Cent. East.
3:45— 4:45—George Hall Orches.—to c
4:00— 5:00—Reis and Dunn—also c
4:15— 5:15—Don Bestor Orch.—to cst
4:30— 5:30—Don Bestor Orchestra —
east only; Skippy—midwest repeat
4:45— 5:45—Leon Belasco Orchestra
5:00— 6:00—Gypsy Nina Songs—to c
5:15— 6:15—H. V. Kaltenborn—basic;
Trio—wjsv wbt whig only
5:30— 6:30—The Road Reporter—east
5:45— 6:45—Boake Carter Talk — ba-
sic only; Midwesterners—west
6:00— 7:00—Mary Eastman—cst to cst
6:30— 7:30—Kate Smith Songs — ba-
sic; John Kelvin Tenor—Dixie
6:45— 7:45—Novelty Rhythms—also c
7:00— 8:00—Wayfaring Men—also cst
7:15— 8:15—CBS Piano Team—c to c
7:30— 8:30—Nino Martini Tenor—to c
'8:00— 9:00—Calif. Melodies — c to cst
8:45— 9:45—Light Opera Gems—c to c
9:15—10:15—Betty Barthell—also cst
9:30—10:30—Isham Jones Orch.—c to c
10:00—11:00—Glen Gray Orches.—c to c
10:30—11:30—Ozzie Nelson Orch.—c to c
11:00—12:00—Dance Hour—wabc only
NBC-WJZ NETWORK
BASIC — East: wjz wbz-wbza wbal
wham kdka wgar wjr wlw wsyr wmal;
Midwest: wcky wky kfkx wenr wls
kwk kwcr koil wren vmaq kso
NORTHWEST & CANADIAN — wtmj
wiba kstp webc w’day kfyr ekgw cfcf
SOUTH — wrva wptf wwnc wls wjax
wfla-wsun wind wsm wmc wsb wapi
wjdx wsmb kvoo wky wfaa wbap kprr
woai ktbs kths
MOUNTAIN—koa kdyl kgir kghl
PACIFIC COAST — kgo kfi kgw komo
khq kpo kfsd ktar
Cent. East.
2:15— 3:15—Jack Walton Orchestra
2:45— 3:45—To Be Announced
3:00— 4:00—Program by Orchestra
3:30— 4:30—The Singing Lady—east
3:45— 4:45—Orphan Ar.nie—east only
4:00— 5:00—Sam Robbins’ Orchestra
4:30— 5:30—Kathryn Newman Songs
4:45— 5:45—Lowell Thomas—east
5:00— 6:00—Amos ’n’ Andy—east only
5:15— 6:15—Radio in Education—to c
5:45— 6:45—Ray Heatherton Baritone
6X0— 7:00—The Crime Clues Mystery
6:30— 7:30—Adventures in Health
6:45— 7:45—Floyd Gibbons on the Air
7:00— 8:00—Lewisohn Stadium Con.
8:0C— 9:C0—Music Memories <t Poet
8:30— 9:30—'“Miss Lilia” Radio Play
9:00—10:00—Pickens Sisters — east:
Amos ’n’ Andy—repeat for west
9:15—10:15—The Poet Prince — east.
Floyd Gibbons—midwest repeat
9:30—10:30—The Mastersingers—to t
9:45—10:45—Health Adventures—c rpt
10:00—11:00—Mills Musical Playboys
10:30—11:30—Mark Fisher’a Orchestra
OH SECRETARY WALLACE! HOW’S THIS FOR AN IDEA?
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and men are out for their co-eds
and petting takes the place of
studies and Bing Crosby is an in-
structor. Jack Oakie the brag-
gard frosh enters Mid-West. “Col-
lege Humor” registers the events
of his four years there. Burns and
Allen run the campus sweet shop
selling sweets to the sweeties and
nuts to the nuts and they sell as
much of one as they do of the
other.
Quotations i
Great liars can be counted on the
fingers of one hand and there is
not a woman among them.
—Dr. A. S. Rasenbach bibiophile.
• • •
People still patronize doctors more
than patent medicine salesmen be
cause they can stall on doctor bills.
—Dr. J. Cramp director of investi-
gations for American Medical As-
sociation.
• • •
Franklin D. Roosevelt could have
been elected on a platform that
declared for the repeal of the law
of gravitation.
—Rep. U. S. Guyer of Kansas (a
Republican nevertheless).
1 ■ — «
BEGIN HERE TODAY
BARRETT COLVIN back In
New York after years abroad
falls In love with 20-year-old
ELINOR STAFFORD. Barrett Is
;$5 wealthy and has made a name
tor himself os *n archeologist.
LIDA STAFFORD EllnoFs
beautiful mother has **** *“*
girl In the background wanting
attention for herself. Lid* Is
carrying on a fflrtntion with
VANCE CARTER and constantly
scheming to keep In the good
graces of rich MISS ELLA SEA-
TON. her hnsbnnd’s nnnt In order
to inherit a share of the Sexton
<0Vcj"rs before Barrett shielded
his half-sister. MARCIA when a
youthful romance ended disas-
trously. Marcia bad a son whom
llarrett adopted. She tells Bar-
rett *hat if her husband learns of
the affair he will never forgive
{iff
Lida goes to Miami. Elinor Is
glad knowing that wrlth her
mother away she will have some
.-hance to hold Barrett’s Interest.
«ihe sees him frequently during
the three weeks her mother Is
away. Then Lida returns unex-
pectedly. She enters the apart-
ment. henrs Elinor talking to a
man and listens. deliberately
eavesdropping.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XII
r IDA leaned forward listening
frankly. She wanted to know
what Elinor and the young man
were saying. Her eyes took in a
luge bouquet of red roses on a
:able in the hall. Beyond in the
irawing room she saw butterfly
irehids in a silver bowl.
Then 8he heard Elinor say “But
Barry—!"
It was Barrett Colvin. Lida real-
ized. She did not want to have
Barrett Colvin devoted to Elinor!
She wanted him to admire her; to
recite her good qualities to Miss
Ella Sexton who was devoted to
Barry and obviously easily in-
fluenced by him.
A tragedy it would be Lida de-
cided swiftly for Aunt Ella to
eave the bulk of her fortune to
Elinor. And Aunt Ella was quite
ikely to leave a large part of It
o anyone Barrett Colvin admired.
Elinor’s tastes were too simple;
Elinor would have been perfectly
lappy living on the smallest allow-
ance while Lida simply had to
nave money! Elinor of course
would give her mother what she
needed but Lida did not want her
laughter in the position where she
ould give nor have her capable
if spending what she pleased and
where she pleased. Elinor would
ne altogether too generous with
ueh people as the Thropes and
Philip Sexton.
“Any young girl Is better off for
■ontrol” Lida thought often. She
ould always make herself comfort-
ble concerning any lie and assure
erself that whatever she wanted
vas the fhlng that was right.
She tiptoed a little closer to the
Irawing room doorway and stood
lose tc a billowing curtain pressed
gainst the wall. Elinor was say-
ng “But I’ve never known anyone
o fine as you are. Barry. It’s ri-
liculous for you to keep harping
)» age as you do!”
He blurted out “1 want you to
iave the best!"
• • •
THERE was a silence. Then Lida
* heard his deep-drawn breath
uid knew he had kissed Elinor.
“I didn’t mean to do that be-
ore—” he said and hesitated. He
as going on Lida was sure to say
before 1 asked you to marry me ”
Oh but she eould not have that!
Lida moved swiftly toward the
drawing room door. On the thresh-
old she paused knowing the pic-
ture she made.
"My dear dear dear child!” she
exclaimed tremulously. She saw
the color drain from Elinor's face
and her eyes grow big and dark.
Elinor had on a new dress and was
wearing her hair in the way Lida
had declared to be absurdly theatri-
cal. Barrett Colvin did not like the
interruption she saw. He was
flushed and looking sullen. But she
would manage it so that he would
thank her and later with a little
more managing she could bring
him to heel.
The envious malice asserted it-
self and brought a tinge of pink
to Lida’s lovely skin. It would be
an absurd marriage for Elinor she
decided. Elinor would be far hap-
pier married to some poor man
puttering about at housework as
Bessie Thrope did trying to
stretch pennies and nickels than
attempting to manage the house-
hold of a millionaire.
“Be a little glad to see me
please dear!” Lida begged wist-
fully of Elinor and very tenderly
kissed her. She saw a question in
Barrett Colvin’s eyes which she
knew (with satisfaction) had been
put there by Elinor’s turning a cool
cheek for that kiss.
Lida laid her small hands on Eli-
nor’s shoulders. “I can’t tell you
how good it is to see you my dar-
ling” she said her voice full and
throbbing. “I’ve missed you so
much.
“It's going to be ridiculously
easy” Lida thought. But she
mustn’t leave them alone until 6he
had had a chance to speak to Bar-
rett in private!
“Darling” Lida said pulling off
her gloves “would you do some-
thing for mother?”
• • •
J^LINOR stood like a stick. All
her grace had been wiped away
by resentment and growing fear.
Yet surely the girl thought trying
to down the ache that was begin-
ning in her heart he cared! He
was too true too loyal to be in-
fluenced now. If he could be
changed by her mother he warn not
the man she had believed him to
be. Nothing could be then as sbe
had dreamed. Life would be—oh
it would be horrible!
Her heart cried out “Please Bar-
rett! Please understand!"
Lida went on "I want you to
telephone Aunt Ella to tell her I
am back home safe sweet. And
dear Cousin Bessie and of course
your father. They’re all so ab-
surdly anxious about my safety”
she ended turning to Barrett.
Without a word Elinor left the
room her knees weak. For the
first time In her life she had
been truly happy. For the first
time she had realized what life
might hold. And the moment be-
fore—She could hardly realize It
now—Barrett bad kissed her.
As she left the room Elinor
could see. without turning her
head to look back that her
mother was holding out an ap-
pealing band to Barrett. Until
that moment Lida bad Ignored
him apparently completely ab-
sorbed in her reunion with her
daughter.
It took several minutes to tele-
phone Bessie Thrope. Mias Ella
(who would talk talk talk) and
her father for whom she had to
wait. When Elinor returned she
found Barrett still standing look-
ing rather white beneath his
heavy tan and with new tines
around his mouth. He said bow-
ing stiffly that he must leave.
“What have you done?** Elinor
asked as she heard Benson close
the outer door after him.
“But what can you mean
dear?’’ Lida questioned in t«rn
and with an assumption of in-
nocence that made Elinor know
something very bad bad hap-
pened.
“I mean what I say Mother."
Her voice shook. “Can't yon-
just for once—be honest? I love
Barrett Colvin and he loves me.
He was—going to tell me so when
you came in—’’
The child Lida saw wearily
was going to make a scene. BHnor
was crying shaking.
“If he loves you dear of coarse
he will tell you so. What could
my coming have to do with it?”
Elinor laughed suddenly hys-
terically. Then sobbing deeply
she turned and left the room.
• * *
ARRETT walked Mindly w»h
out knowing where be was
heading. Mrs. Stafford had said
(it came back slowly bat all loo
clearly): “It te so good to And
you here with Elinor!” He had
thanked her a trifle surprised at
the way she had spoken the
words.
"I was afraid” she went on
hesitantly as she sat down “that
Bobby Telfair might be here. His
influence Is not at all good for my
little Elinor. She is I must con-
fess quite modern enough with-
out—help. Can you get used to
what these youngsters caU ‘nedk
leg’ Mr. Colvin?”
He had cleared his throat. He
had murmured a stifled “Why
no—”
“Elinor is so appealing” BMa
continued in a troubled way
“Everyone likes her especially
older men. Bhe flatters them
mercilessly into the feeling that
they’re young again and ther
laughs about it afterwards. Yoatb
is so cruel don't you think?”
He bad moistened his Bps nod
ded.
“Little scamp!” Lida mormoreo
and sighed. “Promise me you’ll
use your influence with her!”
she appealed. He made no re-
sponse. “I’m sure” Lida admit
ted laughing and ruefully “that
I won’t have to cough loudly
whenever I enter a room in which
you are alone with Elinor!"
She sat silent then for a short
time apparently given over to
her unhappy problem.
“I am Mr. Colvin” she con
fessed with a sigh “a rather old
fashioned sort of person. I lear
Some of the—amorous tableaus
Elinor has provided for me have
quite broken me up. I—** but
her Ups trembled. He saw her
fumbling for a handkerchief anc
saw that she could not go on. that
she had all she could do to regain
control.
Elinor came In then. Barrett
could not look at her. tie could
only stand dully aching In every
fiber and feeling a cheated fool
Somehow he realized in the chill
of the outer air be had made hi*
escape.
(To Be Continued)
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