The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 23, 1932, Page 4

ee § ieibe € 2m & PeSE ed BEEZ ume Ssige EE e ae & es, cross the administration knee and 1 Bro ary cor heh _THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1932 eee q . he Bismarck Tribune |. An Independent Newspaper i] TMB STATE'S OLDEST ‘ NEWSPAPER ‘ (Established 1873) {Published by The Bismarck Tribune : y, Bismarck, N. D., and en- Ted at the postoffice at Bismarck as Class mail matter. GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher. ———— | Subscription Rates Payable in | 4 Advance tally by carrier, per year ......$7.20 yally by mail per year (in Bis- “ally by mail per year (in state ' Outside Bismarck) .. 5.00 | 6.00 ally by mail outside Dakota eekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 Teekly by mail in state, three Teekly by mail outside of North per year ............. 1.50 Teekly by mail in Canada, pe! Member of Audit Bureau of {| Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively | atitled to the use for republication f all news dispatches credited to it 2 + not otherwise credited in this; ewspaper and also the local news of dontaneous origin published herein. ll rights of republication of all other watter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER (Incorporated) 1 HICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON} i Painting the Lily W. Irving Glover, second assistant ostmaster general, is getting a lot of | eat these days for the speech which | @ made recently to the Missouri) ostmasters. | Glover was quoted as urging every- ne of these federal officeholders to} ake off his coat and go to work for | ze reelection of President Hoover— nnd the accuracy of the quotation has ot been denied. Publication of the remarks brought minor cyclone in Washington. Sena- or Norris demanded that Glover be fired” forthwith and Representative faas of Minnesota came to the front ith the more definite suggestion, in he form of a bill, to eliminate all ostmasterships. He contended they nd that tremendous savings could be aade in the postoffice department by liminating these positions. Whether Glover should be turned ut into the cold streets of political Vashington is a question, for that is| iltra-severe treatment, but there can ve no doubt that he should be taken hastised aplenty. It is not that he let the cat out of he bag, for all of us have known that me of the primary jobs of postmas- | ers, as with other public officials, is! - © perpetuate themselves in office. {sew of us are so naive as to assume | hat the injunction against political | ictivities by postmasters is anything | oy a gaudy gesture. | { Neither was his faux pas a political | { under to worry about, for neither | he politicians nor the people will 220 -egard the matter as of real im- on vortance. | at No, Glover's blunder was of a dif-| cor ‘erent sort, when you stop to analyze peor t. It was a crime against political sig art as it has been known and prac- Sh iced these many moons. With a arc group of Republican postmasters be- | or, fore him—and all postmasters are Re- | a oublicans—he was painting the po-| p, ; litical lily when he enjoined them to rar go forth to the G. O. P. wars in full! ee panoply and with flags flying. im: —— =a A Good Example | ¢ One of the most interesting govern- ¢ nental and economic experiments that | has come out of the depression is re- j jare more to be pitied than admired. re merely the spoils of political war)|_ | suffice for those who have a personal is no place for poetry in the world to- day.” This is a complaint that nearly every poet has felt like making, at one time or another; and the pecu- | liar part about it is that it was just! as true 20 years ago, or 50 years ago, | or 200 years ago, as it is now. The} world is never over-kind to poets, or; ‘over-eager to get their songs. It pre- | fers to go its own way in peace—for poets disturb it, and make it discon- | tented, and question the values by} which it lives. | But the poet sooner or later comes | to realize that there is a place for | poetry, in spite of the world’s indif- ference. There is a place, that is to say, for songs and dreams, and there always will be; and it is a pitiful) tragedy that gifted Hart Crane could j not have lived to realize it. What a Prodigy Misses | Child prodigies, generally speaking, | Joanna Xenos, 7, who went from the | first to the eighth grade of school in} the one year that she has attended | the Chicago public schools undoubt- | edly has a superb intelligence quota. But just the same she is decidedly out of her class. Having such a swift! mental development it would be even more cruel to keep her confined in a primary room than it is to let her take the place with those her age as far as her mind is concerned. | The pity rests in the fact that now} and then a child, by some strange mental freak, gets cheated out of childhood because he is too bright. In after years, when his normal con- temporaries have caught up with him no one will care that he was a very bright boy or girl as a child. He won't, either. He will just remember that he missed out on hide-and-go-seek and jumping ropes and marbles because his mind kept thinking about the law of diminishing returns and cal- culus or something else that children have no business being bothered with, anyway. Editorial Comment Editorials printed below show the trend of thought by other editors. They are published without regard to whether they agree or disagree with The Tribune's policies. Ask Me Another (Minneapolis Tribune) The tax questionnaire which is be- ing distributed in Minneapolis this week should not prove particularly difficult for the average citizen to answer. The first question asks him if he wants Minneapolis taxes reduced, and if he does not laugh himself into a state of complete exhaustion over the implied suggestion that he might be unalterably opposed to the idea, he will almost instantly perceive the correct answer to be “Does a duck swim?” or “Would Mr. Roosevelt like | the nomination?” The three remaining questions, all of which are supplementary to the first, seem to lend themselves no less to the same dignified and simple treatment, and are hardly calculated to furrow the brows of many tax- payers or put them in a deep brown ‘By reducing activities of our city government?” Most certainly! “By salary and wage adjustments?” Of course! “By reducing the number of em- ployes to the lowest number required at the present time?” Elemental, | my dear Watson! : These answers to be sure, will not} and vested interest in the mainte- nance of all the city’s present serv- ices and activities or in the job and salary status quo at the city hall, but they cannot logically be avoided, on the other hand, by anyone who is solely concerned with lightening the present crushing load of taxation.| The taxpayer who has had his salsr’ cut or his income otherwise reduced | in the depression is obviously in no position to underwrite government activities on a prosperity scale. He can not fairly be asked to finance a Prosperity city pay roll from a de- pression pocketbook, nor should he be expected to support, from his de- pleted resources, those municipal em- ployes who are not absolutely essen-| | tial to the efficient conduct of the| city government. It is well enough to insist that a Policy of wage cutting and job re-| trenchment in government is cruel | and hard-hearted, but the time has come, it seems to us, when the in- terests of the taxpayers as a whole must be put abcve the interests of any particular group or class which! subsists on the public treasury. With ~ {mains a seismograph of the nation’s 12 ported from Canada, where the local} iat governments of six small towns that | ‘ity. have gone bankrupt are being taken leat over by the province of Ontario, un- id der a new law. ae In effect, these six local govern- isn ments are going into the hands of re- | ime ceivers appointed by the province. A| f oard of control composed of two rep- | Ot resentatives of the municipality, two | ind «representatives of the banks, two rep- | 0.1 resentatives of the bondholders and | F Ja creditors and one representative of | 85 «the province will attempt to straight 143 en out the tangled financial affairs eet of each municipality. Each board will have full power to hire and fire municipal employes, treat with bondholders and creditors The town coun- | ; 3 aid Paced ey ar * hands of receivers for the protection and sign all checks. cilmen must obey the orders of the) board or face heavy fines; if council- men dare spend money without the | approval of the board they will be Personally liable to suits for the re- covery of such moneys. By dint of close supervision and ef- ficiency in administration, the boards are expected to pull the cities out of their financial plights. Such a plan seems well worth while. Insolvent business firms go /into the hands of receivers for the || Protection of thelr stockholders and | there seems to be no good reason why insolvent. cities should not go into the | of thelr taxpayers, instead of letting |, the same gang of politicians continue | to tritter away the public's money and ‘Aporease the city’s debt. | Consider, for example, what s board af receivers appointed by the state cf F_- | Tilinols might have been able to ac- | ticket on any reasonable platform of - complish in Chicago. a suicide, complained to before his death that he recently in what seems to} half a century of prosperity. The {prices at their present low levels the linjustice of any moderate salary re- | ‘duction is much more apparent than | jYeal, byt there is nothing illusory at} {all about the injustice which the tax- | payer suffers when he is compelled to ;maintain something approaching the | 1929 standards of government on an; income earned in 1932. The wide, spread between prices and wages has constituted one of the most serious | maladjustments of the depression, and since prices will not rise, it is inevitable that wages, whether paid from public funds or not, must drift toward a lower level. And it is just} as inevitable, of course, that taxes! shall adjust themselves to lower in- come levels. The questionnaire which is being distributed this week throughcut the city may serve some good purpose if it sets the taxpayer uncompromis- ingly on record for lower taxes and all the essentially disagreeable revi- sions of our city government that lower taxes would involve. The tax- payer, in the last analysis, holds the key to the situation, and if he is audi- ble and persistent enough in his ap- peal for tax relief, that relief will be forthcoming. The questionnaire is one way, but by no means the only one, of giving voice to his suppressed emotions, Those emotions, unless we are badly mistaken, will align them- selves behind the straight “yes” city tax reduction. EVEN HIT MATCHES ‘Fence-Jumping’ Tryouts for Olympic Games Get Going in Washington WHAT 1S (T> A GRASSHOPPER, NO, (75 JUST THE. CONGRESSMEN CHANGING THEIR POLICIES BEFORE ELECTION TIME! |certain extras may be involved... {special organ music, with wedding marches, etc., runs to $15... When one desires all the trappings, includ- ing awnings and candles, a blanket fee averages about $50 up. Oh, yes, and if you forget to bring to know anyone in New York, it’s possible to retain one for $1. ee & Naturally, one clergyman cannot attend to all the weddings. The Rev. Randolph Ray gets around to as many as possible, but requires no less than two assistants. When 42 wedding records are be- ing established, as they have been, ceremonies speed up the shifts. A 30-minute turnover is often recorded. So there you are! Pick your mate and come along—you'll find the Lit- tle Church, framed by flowering shrubs and trees, hemmed by a me- ticulously trimmed hedge and criss- crossed by tiny crunchy paths ... And you'll have plenty of company! * Oe OR | WE NEW YORKERS: In a novel I read recently, a coun- try girl turns down the marriage offer of her New York sweetheart. She must, she says, stay with her people. “What,” she asks him, “would I talk about with all your friends? And what would they have to say to me?” Well, you'd be surprised, You'd find most of the town made up of people from your part of the world sitting around talking to each other about the so-called smart things of the town. You'd see the new shows and hear about the who's- who and you'd get in the habit of trying to keep up with things. you'd be surprised how many no- vodies there are in this man’s town. THE LITTLE CHURCH New York, May 23.—The Little Church Around the Corner, now a pastoral pastel in spring hues against its hulking, leaden neighbors, re- romantic disturbances. And are there quakings and quiv- erings in the torrid heart zones? Superficial analysis of the charts would indicate that young men and maids, content to flirt with the dawn and dance away the night when times were more careless, are begin- ning to relax into serious romance and matrimony. There are further indications that Cupid Ltd., will be up about 10 points by June. Whatever the status of legal tend- er, there's plenty of legal tenderness! Last year, the Little Church linked more than 2,000 couples. And no signs of depression at the moment. x x In order to take care of the Hy- menial rush, answer the thousands of questions and attend to requests of oldsters and newsters, a busy lit- tle marriage factory functions be- hind the serene and soothing exte- rior of the big town’s far-famed church. Highly efficiencized meth- ods have been adopted to meet the flood of demands for information of fees, rituals and the like. A busi- ness-like pamphlet must substitute for more romantic literature. find him a timid soul, tickled at your * * * admiration and friendship. IT’S A BUSINESS Ss your own witness, or don’t happen | sister! | Yes, | And, if by chance, you came upon a! native New Yorker, chances are you'd | | the Democratic party owes John J. And there are those who say that regardless of what the amount is, it is small compared to Raskob. what the Republicans owe him. for 156 years now. * *e * After a recent drive on bookmakers, to hire barbers. ee % the taxmakers. Rotenone, most effective insect killer in the world, has been made synthetically by chemists of the U. 8. department of agriculture. STICKERS Using the above letters, see if you can { ! | form four three-letter words that, when |] read backwards, will form four other | | words, 23 % oH About the only answer to the ar- gument that the United States can’t survive half drunk and half sober is that we've gotten along pretty well many Ohio barber shops actually had A penny saved used to be a penny made. Now it's a penny hidden from (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis, or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady if a stamped, self- addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. ink. INSULIN FOR PROGRESSIVE CHRONIC ARTHRITIS Arthritis is medical Greek for joint inflammation. Acute arthritis is well understood. Ordinary chronic arthritis, com- monly dubbed “rheumatism,” is like. wise well known to be a focal infec- tion, that is, germs of one strain or another (such as Streptococcus he- molyticus) which are cultivated in some septic bed in the tonsils, about the root of a tooth, in the pelvic or- gans of men or women, lodge in the tissues of the joint and set up a low grade inflammation there, which eventually seriously cripples the af. fected joint. But there are a minority of cases of chronic progressive arthritis, vari- ously known as rheumatoid arthritis, atrophic arthritis, arthritis deform- ans, which we do not understand, and when I say that I mean no one knows the cause of this type of arthritis. Some students of arthritis have re- garded this atrophic form (atrophy means wasting and gradual loss of use) as of metabolic nature. That is, they assume it depends on some fault in the assimilation or utiliza- tion of food or the oxidation or com- bustion of body tissue. But this the. ory is exceedingly unsatisfactory and treatment based on it has given in- different results. Of course that does not prove anything one way or an- other. . It is pretty well agreed, among Physicians of experience, that infec- tion is not a factor, at least not the main factor in this form of arthritis. Last year we told here of a meth- od of treatment which had been used in France with considerable success —not a cure, just a helpful treat- ment. This is a course of hypodermic injections of parathyroid hormone. Only a physician can safely admin- ister such treatment. It brings to the patient a definite metabolic boost, increased activity, increased well being. Physicians who have given such treatment compare the results with the results of insulin treatment in diabetes.. Some English physicians now re- ,| Port marked benefit in cases of chronic progressive or rheumatoid arthritis from a series of injections of normal blood and then a course of insulin treatment. They give two blood transfusions of about a pint each, at intervals of eight days, and get the patient up on the ninth or tenth day, if the patient has been bedridden or nearly so. The insulin is kept up until the patient's weight shows a steady gain—the patient weighs himself or herself daily and keeps a chart. The gain averages a Pound a week in favorable cases, some gaining two or more pounds a week. The English physicians cau- tion against expectation of any mir- aculous results, and say frankly that the treatment merely offers a prom. ise of gradual improvement in gen- eral and local condition. In any case of arthritis of long standing it is of first importance to take suitable measures to prevent the | insidious deformity which is likely to develop from prolonged disuse. The ; Judgment of the physician as to the j best measure for this should be had.} & And if you've wondered what a wedding at the ittle Church might || Barbs | cost, here are a few figures from a| & ———— BEGIN HERE TODAY folder: The office fee is $3 .. . a voluntary offering to church and clergyman is expected to be not less than $10... use of the chapel is $10 and the church itself costs $25 ... where a party of 12 friends or more are asked, Now they are talking about chang- jority a chance first? * * Hidden Proverb HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Puzzle 25 Camera glass, 1 Particular 26 To classify. period of 27 To rectify. duration. 2 tives of 5 Conjunction. __. Denmark. $8 Ebb and flow 29 prerarers of water ree. 31 Spike. 12 Egg-shaped. I 13 To fire a gun 33 Nespiive 15 Smell. 16 Political divi. [RIEIEIDMMESIAIVIEISMEHIOlolT} 35 Essential . characters. sion of a city DDEGAS OAR Asem fe! Is! R 17 Stops for - IMI VILIEMESIMIVIRIt [R] 37 U. S. judge of 18 Nobleman is} IPIRICISIPIEIRIE IO} the Permanent 9 Before Court of In- Female sheep. under skin. 2 Bugle plant, ternational Tale published 44 Joins closely. 3To damage. Justice. ve 45 Russianmoun- 4 Senior, 39 Neither. 41 Beverage. 43 Back of the neck. tains, 47 Repast. 48 Wing-shaped, 5 Exclamation, 6 Waste fiber periodical. ing the laws to let the minority have | more of a sayso in government. How | about changing them to give the ma- | * They're still talking about what Stowed way. 7 Because, 61 Pertdining to Cent 44 Existed. 30 Sandy the poles. 9 Fish 46 Affection, 32 Male. 53 Foretoken. Geo 47 Manufactured. 34 Metal. 57 Combustion, 10 Female deer. 4s astern, 8 To elude. 11 To sin. 49 Falsehood. 36 Trap. 37 Form of lotto. 38 Part of a forti- fication. 40 To perch. 41 Principle. 59 Blood. 60 Golf devices, 62 Departed. VERTICAL county commissioners have ordered that no more matches shall be pur- chased by the county for free distri- despondent because “there | bution to visitors at the courthouse. 61 Organ of sight. 50 Verb. 52 Unprofes- sional. 54 To low. 55 Sea eagle. 13 Curses. 14 Muscid fly 20 Inlet. 22 Grief. 23 Ulcers. 42 Threads placed 1To pull along. 24'To eat into. ful, has become engaged ERNEST HEATH, h fn neci LAMPMAN, an po Heath one she sees Dunbar for the first rT Bod has tried to le CHAPTER XXXIX rassed, though, by the man’s air knowingness, “Come and have a soda, I want talk to you.” ing drug palace and they sat do’ ingly bright mirror. an hour,” the girl explained. began to question her briskly. on us.” His tone was agreeal enough, but Susan though she lenge, ried. denly grave. “You don’t mind do you?” Susan said no, she didn’t. went on confidentially. doing before you go into this, cause {t's awfully easy to ma! mistake that needs. a lot of doing. SUSAN CAREY, 20 and beauti- NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY 6 HELLO!” It was Jack Waring. Susan smiled with pleasure. She had not seen him for several weeks. She was a little embar- “You are a stranger,” he com: mented, taking her arm and steer- ing her through the noonday crowd. Susan followed him into the shin- on high stools facing a disconcert- “I'll just have a glass of milk. I'm having lunch with Rose in half That matter disposed of, Waring “What’s all this I hear about you? You certainly stole a march tected an undercurrent of sarcasm. She flushed, answering the chal- “What do you know?” she par- “Everything.” He smiled at her. “IT must admit I was surprised.” His manner changed, became sud- I talk to you like a Dutch uncle, “Well, it’s this way,” the man “I hope you're peffectly sure what somes “I know that,” answered Susan faintly, puzzled at his implication. “I don't want to barge in where I'm not wanted,” Waring pursued, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS The Child With Side Ache Tell the anxious mother whose lit- tle girl gets a “side ache” when walk- ing, to have the child stoop over, carefully pick up a stone and exclaim “Phutt-phutt-phutt!” to the under side of the stone and replace it as it was, and the ache will leave. That's what we used to do when we were kids—(Mrs. E. B. C.) Answer—Thank you. Sounds like @ sensible idea. Quackery in a Shoe Store Our 17 months old baby has a ten- dency to bow-leggedness. We took her into ’s shoe store and bought shoes for her. They built up the outer edges of the soles and they said that would correct the con- dition. Also they showed us how to massage her legs every day . . — (F. P. B.) Answer—And did the benevolent chief clerk give her a prescription for a good tonic, too? X-ray Men Should Make Up a Purse My daughter had plantar warts. Our physician said X-ray treatments were the only cure, and it would take from one to maybe five treatments, at $5 a treatment. Feeling I could not afford this I decided to see what the Whitfield ointment would do, that you recommend for ringworm or trench foot. After five applica- tions the warts dropped away. Her foot now is all healed.—(Mrs. G. W.) Answer—I do not advise the use of the ointment for such purpose. So it the X-ray specialists were contem- Plating chipping in to buy a little testimonial of their high regard for me and my heinous work, I beg them not to hesitate. I merely offered to send any correspondent who tells me he or she has “athlete's foot,” ring- worm, trench foot, tricophytosis, the formula for Whitfield’s ointment with directions for its use, provided no clipping or other message is in- Cluded in the letter, and the stamped addressed envelope is not omitted. (Copyright John F. Dille Co.) iL TODAY AShERAny U. 8S. TRANSPORT SUNK On May 23, 1918, the American transport Moldavia was torpedoed and 53 lives were lost. An official Allied bulletin an-/ nounced that 252 German planes had been brought down and destroyed during the previous week, and that more than 1,000 had been brought down since the beginning of the German drive in March. General Semenoff was reported to have quarreled with Admiral Kolchak and to have established an autono- mous government in the Trans-Bai- kal region in Siberia. His forces were opposed to the Soviet government. British forces in Palestine contin- ued their drive forward, defeated the “Anyone who tries to advise peo- ple about to be married has picked himself a thankless job, But I like you both and I've been through the mill myself.” He paused and Susan did not attempt to assist him. “The old man is a grand one. Nobody knows that better than I ry Heal ron |do,” he went on awkwardly. “He's r ; , 5 sussig, whe caged gti 4 a bit set in his ways but that er doesn’t matter particularly, The thing is, are you quite sure you care enough about him to make him s2 |happy? He's had a stiff time of it for the last 10 years, I happen to know.” eee Grs4n was annoyed to find her- self blushing. She was con- scious of a deep anger swelling within her. What right had this man to interfere in her private con- cerns? “There, I knew you'd think it was none of my business,” Waring muttered in disgust, “I knew I was going to bungle this. Maybe I'd better not say anything more.” “I’m sure you mean well,” Susan told him coldly, but really you don’t need to worry. Everything is going to be all right.” In spite of herself her voice shook a little and the man beside her gave her a keen glance. “As long as I’m in bad,” he said dryly, “I might as well go a little further. There’s just one more question I'd like to ask and then I’m -through, I'll say ‘Bless you, my children’ and join the mob scene after that.” “What is it?” “I just wanted to know if that Dunbar lad got in touch with you. He was burning up the wires both- ering Miss Smith to get your tele phone number.” - “When was this?” Susan felt her heart pounding now. “Oh, two or three weeks ” Sho felt his shrewd eyes upon her. “Why, does it make any differ- ence?” . “How can it now?” said Susan in a voice of despair. There—she had given herself away! She had not Meant to say that. The words had Just slipped out. Waring continued to sip his orangeade. “It’s never too late, you know,” he observed dispas- sionately, Susan looked away. “Ah, but it is, sometimes,” she said. “I don’t know how deeply you'v: got into this thing,” Waring said; “but I can tell you this, If you're not absolutey certain you want to go through with this marriage, don't do it. I'm not one to say they're made in heaves. Not all of to wo ble de- it the MAN HUNTERS BY MABEL McELLIOTT rapidly dwindling Turkish troops again, T've seen only five people in two years and I ran from them.—George Survel, ex-miner, now a hermit. ee & In my short stay in Washington I have learned té trust and respect the correspondents. Unquestionabi: they know what it is all about— Patrick J. Hurley, secretary of war. ee % I attach the greatest importance to the acid test of whether a naval treaty can be made a general treaty agreement (at Geneva). Failure in view of the consequences, is unthink- able—Prime Minister Ramsay Mac- Donald of England. Motor Permit Pleas Will Be Heard Soon Application for authority to oper- ate motor freight service between New Rockford and Devils Lake has been made to the state railroad commis- sion by tee Turtle Lake Transfer line of Carrington. The company proposes to serve intermediate points, includ- ing the inland town of Lincoln Valley. The commission will conduct a hearing on the application at Devils Lake June 8. Two other applications will be con- sidered at the same time, one filed by the McCauley Motor company, Devils Lake, for a certificate to operate a special motor passenger service, and the other by Bell's Transfer, Devils Lake, to operate special motor freight service. The commission set for hearing four other applications to operate special motor freight service. These are: L. E. Zieman, Sheyenne, to be heard at New Rockford, June 6; Anton Schiele, ‘Tappen, at Steele, June 6; J. N. Roles, Towner, at Towner, June 7; Milo F. Gubrud, Ambrose, at Bowbells, June 8 FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: Being willing to meet another per- son half way, is a step in the right i} direction. © @©/932 BY NEA SERVICE Inc. of them, at least. But there's all; things behind glass. Fun to play the difference between heaven end |with the idea that all these things hell in some of them. Ready?” He “Forgive me for being a meddling old busybody,” he said at parting, “but think over what I’ve told you.” Susan promised, glad to escape. She would not admit even to her- self how excited she was at the idea that Bob had been looking for her. That explained, then, the abrupt transition from eagerness to coldness in his glance the night before. Sceing her with Heath, knowing sho had left the office— what would his reactions be? She was angry at him, nevertheless, for |a having come to the conclusion he had undoubtedly reached. He might have had more faith in her, “Are you shopping this atter- noon?” Rose wanted to know 10 minutes later over the luncheon table. “No, I'm not.” eee Susan picked up a spoon and laid it down again. She had no ap- Petite. “I don’t know what on earth ts the matter with you,” Rose re- marked, attacking her chicken a la king with relish. “Charge ac- counts opened for you, and all, and you're too bored to use them.” “I said I wouldn't,” Susan re- minded her. “All those things will have to wait until afterward. 1 haven't any money and Ernest knows that. He'll just have to take me as I am.” “I never heard anything so silly,” said Rose, “Even Mamma thought it was perfectly proper for you to take these things. After all, pet be yours in a few weeks any: yw.” Susan was stubbornly silent. “Well, I wish I had the chance. That's all I've got to say,” Rose told her. “You come up to the third floor this afternoon and see the new French lingerie and I'm sure you'll change your mind.” Susan shook her head, “I can’t.” “Ob, well,” said Rose, this as temporary dismissal, “come tomorrow then while the things are fresh.” The two girls parted a few mo- ments later, Rose returning to her Post with eagerness, Susan wan- dered down Michigan avenue rather aimlessly, It was queer, this feeling of not having anything defi. nite to do, Now that the novelty had worn off she was not sure that she liked it. At first it had been fun, Fun to dawdle past the shop|n windows and stare at the lovely had lost its appeal. sionally a sensation of sheer panic as she visualized her life to come, She would be a rich man’s wife. She was not at all sure she would fit. into the picture Heath had sketched for her. would travel for a while but the re- turn would be inevitable and then what? do the charming, useless things at queen rich women spend their ime. lessons, She might even in time discover the mysteries of the bridge table. All these would be merely devices for killing time. she shuddered. more meaning than that. were going to stay downtown till supper time!” “but I changed my mind. I got tired. Do you know,” she went on childishly, “I’ve discovered I like home best. I used to think when I went downtown to work that I en- joyed all that glitter. Now I think it would be wonderful if Aunt Jes- sie and I could be back in the little house together, poor as we were.” “Scoldings, and all?” Mrs. Milton teased, quietly. sound quite right from a very lucky girl who's about to be mar- ried,” opined her listener, let anyone else hear you say that. They might misunderstand and think you weren’t happy.” which had been threatening all day to engulf her flooded over her now. “I'm not happy and I'm afraid 1 would be hers for the taki helped Susan down from her stool.|day soon. thing Now the whole thing She had occa- Of course they She had never learned to All her life Susan had been worker, She might have golf She might study French, At the prospect Life should have SHE could catch an occasional glimpse of herself in shop mir- rors as she passed. A tall girl in last year’s blue suit that just escaped being definitely shabby. This time next year she would own dozens of costumes. She would have a new house, cars, servants at iid disposal. The thought -tired er, cided suddenly. “I ne about like this with nothing to 0." “I'd better go home,” she de- tupid to wan- Mrs. Milton looked up in surprise as Susan entered the house. “Why, lovey, I thought you “I -was,” Susan said listlessly, “Scoldings, and all,” said Susan “Well, I must say that doesn’t “Don’t Susan stared at her. The misery “That's just it.” she whispered. ever shal! he!” (To Be Continued) } qd