The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 27, 1932, Page 4

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, 27, 1932 Pais, ae, An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) _. _ S Senteoteeelind Published by The Bismarck Tribune Company, Bismarck, N. D., and en- tered at the postoffice at Bismarck as Second class mail matter. [ GEORGE D. MANN President and Publisher. ed Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year ......$7.20 Daily by mail per year (in Bis- ree vss Daily by mail per year (in state outside Bismarck) 7.20 i. | Weekly by mail in state, per year $1.00 formance at 30 miles duced to 75 per cent at 50 miles, to 63 per cent at 65 miles and to 55 per cent at 70 miles. The calculations are based on a normal temperature of 70 | degrees, A Sour to the Home Folks {stimulating interest in the livestock {exhibits at the annual exposition in |the Gate City. It consists of an offer to pay a 25 per cent additional prize to winners of horse, cattle, swine and of counties in Minnesota. The object is to bring in more ex- we tate, thi ie henge “a ee uo nen 2.50 | hibits from these districts and to en- 1 Weekly by mail outside of North courage stockgrowers to improve the Dakota, per year ...... svoceee 1.50 i 2 Ms quality of their product so they may eae 4 it ts Notte bo? 2.90 | Share in the additional prize money. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication pi 2h of all news dispatches credited to it] or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of Hy Spontaneous origin published herein. ct, All rights of republication of all other , in Matter herein are also reserved. A Ciera ema haeadhie : : Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER Cncorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON State and County Newspaper) a e a vai & s th The Rockefeller Straw r It begins to appear as though the 1B) ‘feller, Jr, against the prohibition + #mendment may have been the straw el Which broke the dry camel's back. 1+ Judging from the actions of poli- ‘ ticians and of other individuals im-| li Mediately following Rockefeller's let- agter to President Butler of Columbia F university, it loosed a flood of anti-| je Prohibition statements from persons] at Who heretofore have been regarded as :€ friendly to the dry cause. One result| 'Y has been to emphasize the peculiar | ii) Moral leadership which the Rockefel- ut lers exercise in certain phases of the} A American scene. % It was John D. Rockefeller, Jr., it] , will be remembered, who first made 2 morals a private issue in American €! big business. It was he who unseated Col. Jim Stewart as head of the uk Standard Oil company of Indiana} after the Continental Trading com- pany expose, after a battle of proxies which will long be remembered. His Teason for doing so, it will be remem- 4 bered, was Col. Stewart's connection it ‘with that unsavory mess as disclosed by a senate committee. The leadership of the Rockefellers qin the dry cause has long been a by-} word. So much so that, at various! times, the family has been charged in with contributing millions to the ex- chequer of the Anti-Saloon League. | vay As so often is the case the charges} e were false, but the fact that they were | made is significant. AaAOs rae « xership among sincere drys, and par- “ ticularly among dry businessmen, may be found in the following paragraph of his letter to President Butler: “I a was born a teetotaler; all my life I : have been a teetotaler on principle. r Neither my father nor his father have « ever tasted a drop of intoxicating li- fi quor, nor have I. My mother and her “mother were among the dauntless 3 Women of their day who, hating the Nhhorrors of drunkenness, were often found with bands of women of like > mind praying on their knees in the > Saloons in their ardent desire to save 5 men from the evils that so commonly Sprang from those sources of iniquity.” The reference to his own habits { cannot be successfully challenged, for f the Rockefellers have long been known ;S folk who practice what they j/reach. ‘The really significant refer- | tence, however, is that regarding his/ "mother and grandmother. When a| ; [man with a heritage like that comes| tto the conclusion that prohibition has | ‘\peen a failure and should be abol- | | Sshed, he is likely to speak up and say { 60. That is what Rockefeller did. | +| Is it any wonder that his example | ‘tinspired other men of like mind but jf less moral courage and with a less | frigid personal code, to follow his lead? Speed and Tires i In these days of economy many mo- \torists will be interested in the ob- | servations of a leading scientist re- garding the effect of speed on theiz | fpocketbooks. Nearly any car now on the imarket is capable of doing 70 or more miles an hour and 50 miles an hour . mow is a common touring speed, re- gardless of what the state laws say about speed limits. The average horsepower of 12 popu- lar automobiles has increased 80 per cent in the last five years. The aver- ge weight has increased 25 per cent ‘and the size of the wheels has de- creased 20 per cent. The result is more wear on tires by reason of more weight and faster wheel revolutions. Add to this the burden imposed by higher speed and we have some con- weption of the problem which the tire / makers have solved in keeping abreast 4 jot the times. The fact that the mod- | jern tire is rated by experts as 70 per it better in performance than the of five years ago gives cause for wonder. Good roads and their inducement speed have the effect of retlucing The reason for the Rockefeller lead- | It will be interesting to watch how the proposition works out. The fair | directors deserve credit for attempt- 'ing to give the local men the best of the deal. The Call of the Wild | The call of the wild is supposed to {be an ever-potent thing as far as forest animals are conquered; but apparently wild creatures can become so fond of captivity that they don't like freedom when they get it. New York's state conservation de- partment a year ago brought a herd lof elk to a corral in the De Bar | mountain game refuge, planning to ifeed and develop the herd, turn it |loose and thus restore the wild herds |that once roamed over the state. recent declaration of John D. Rocke-| The other day the animals, having |waxed robust in the corral, were given their freedom. A few wan- Gered off into the woods—but most. of them, after sauntering about aim-; essly for an hour or so, came back to the corral! The call of the wild, evidently, is not as alluring as the prospect of good bedding and three square meals a day in a man-made habitat. Advice From London Amid all the dolorous forecasts produced by the depression it is com- forting to find a prominent London economist urging English investors to put money into American securities. The present moment, this British expert declares, offers “an amazing Opportunity”; increases in security values of 300 per cent within a few years, with corresponding yields, seem to him very probable. As a result of this forecast, Lon- don newspapers are predicting a strong switch of English capital to the United States in the near fu- ture. Whether or not this Englishman is correct in his optimistic view is per- haps a matter for argument; but it is at least encouraging to find that there is one economist who is not moved to despair by the sight of our present difficulties, Editorials printed below show the || trend of thought by other editors, They are published without regard to whether they agree or i with The Tribune's pol! A Prophecy That Failed ! (Duluth Herald) When it became known that Min- nesota’s nine congressmen would have there were those who predicted that, | because of their massed voting power, of the places. Well, they didn’t in tions, anyway. the nomina- It is true that Minne- jcan nominations—Nolan and Burn- quist—but on the other hand St. Paul lost its own member of congress and has no man on the Republican ticket. Neither did Northern Minnesota lose out as many feared, for Selvig of the old Ninth district and Harold Knutson of the old Sixth are definite- ly safe, and at this writing it seems almost sure that Pittenger of the Eighth has been renominated. And as the districts that lost out will have nine representatives to ap- j peal to instead of one, this at-large arrangement is not going to be as bad as it looked. Though one term of it will be enough, and the state will look to the legislature next winter to abol- ish it by a reapportionment bill. | Statesmen alone carinot solves the problems which arise in international affairs. The nations must become ac- customed to look to the organized sys- tem of the expert report, which gives a just and impartial lead to govern- ments and public opinion and should be regularly accepted just as judicial decisions are accepted as a matter of course.—General Jan Smuts, South African leader. ae ® ‘Women frighten me.—Charles Rog- ers, former movie actor. * * * Every-time the nation has needed to be rescued ... it has turned to the Democratic party.—Newton D. Baker, Democratic presidential possibility. ** % In America .. . the owners of in- dustry have sacked the richest conti- nent in the world, sold gold brick after gold brick to the producers whom they needed to grow the wheat and the hogs, to drill the oil wells and run the machines and buy the Fords and the stocks——John Dos Pas- 50s, . * * * ‘Unless the people take the matter into their own hands and refuse to hour is “a|| The management of the state fair at Fargo has arrived at a method of 'sheep prizes, if they come from North ; | Dakota, the northern tier of a 6.00 |in South Dakota or the western tier | jchance to win his bout. ; to be nominated and elected at large, | bacco before the age of 25 years—not the Twin Cities would gobble up most | apolis won two of the nine Republi- Tut! Tur! 115 zien “TOO STRONG FOR You! One Man’s Poison May Be Another Man’s Meat! addressed envelope is enclosed. WHY TOBACCO DESTROYS YOUTH Some persons insist that a smoke quiets the nerves. Now let's see what that means. A normal, healthy young animal naturally desires physical ac- tivity, play, romp, run about, fight. A senile animal naturally desires rest, Snoozing, day-dreaming, just sitting around, vegetating. Certain drugs have narcotic or se- dative or depressing action on the nerve centers. Tobacco is such a drug. That's what it means when a con- firmed smoker says a smoke soothes It dulls his natural desire for physical activity, and enables him to take it sitting or lying down when he should be running away or fighting. It makes the young animal for the time being an old one. Athletic coaches invariably forbid even occasional use of tobacco by the young aspirants under training. Even the untutored youths who go in for professional boxing know from expe- rience that smoking lessens a boxer’s Diminishes his resiliency, shortens his wind, low- ers Dis endurance. A great many youngsters whose Editorial Comment |jnome®tainine “has been neglected (and I'll explain just what this means presently) begin smoking mainly for the sake of nonchalance or finding |somethng to do with the hands to | cover consciousness of inferiority. There are laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco to children, but something more impressive than a law is re- quired. Every parent should exact @ pledge from his child at an early age, jsay 12 years, against the use of to- 21 years, for the majority of children do not attain full development of adulthood until they reach 24 and 25 jyears of age. Exercise, play or work is the health- work. 28 Child. 29 You and [. 30 Food containers. 31 To clip. 33 Seventh note. 34 Rites of a religion. 35 To skim. 36 Exclamation of inquiry. 38 Digits of the feet. 40 Platform. $1To exist. 42 Neither. 44 Director or minister. 46 Sesame. 47 To stuff. 49 Rod. 50 To apportion cards. 51 To come in, 53 Beverage. 54 Trunk of a human body. 55 To harden. 57 Laments. 59 Balanced. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease diagnosis, or treatment, will be answer Letter ink. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. his nerves or quiets nervous tension. > by Dr. Brady if a stamped, self- should be brief and written in ful substitute for tobacco in youth. Activity, not dignified quiet and re- Pose, is the natural state and index of youth. Habit is a characteristic of old age. The senile are creatures of habit. Every smoker, young or old, should ask himself er herself regularly whether he has the habit or the habit has him. The only way to find out which it is, I think, is to refrain from smoking for 24 hours now and then. The smoker will find a lot of satis- faction in one smokeless day a week or even one smokeless day a month. It is assurance that old age has not yet crept upon him. Employers, commanding officers, teachers, executives have a substan- tial reason for enforcing no smoking rules while those under their direction are at work or play. Tobacco invar- iably slows down both physical and mental activity. Not even the most brilliant writer or painter or the most skilled machine tender or cabinet maker can do his best work while smoking. Not even the fastest runner jor the most accomplished pianist can give his best performance while smok- ing. It is a sad day for youth when it first surrenders to tobacco. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS What, Actually Tongue-Tied? About a week after my 5-months- old baby was born my mother said he was tongue-tied. I did not worry much, as I thought the doctor would have told me and fixed it when the baby was a wee baby. But recently the doctor told me it was true but would probably correct itself as he. grew... .—(Mrs. M. A. J.) Answer—In a fairly large experi- ence both in private practice and in maternity hospitals I have never seen an actual instance of tie. Per- tongue: haps that is because I never hit it off = a 66 9 Central Cross a e = HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Puzzle Great Lakes. 1 Napoleon's WOMANLIS 5 14 eed pet wtamer. TCIEROIM TL EIR Telferson. 13 Rounded Cli TT GIAIMIUIT) 16 Hither. projections. |KIOMEMILINITM a aN us Fish. ; 15 Cr ition. JE mEK LV a mn in i77o help. AL OMS IEE | smoke, 19 Double bass. {S/LIAT) IN} IRIA} TT IRIAIDE! 22 Middles. 21 Fields. AINCIE ISIOAIMBBAME IN] 23 To search 22 Apple drink. [AMT] ISMERIOIAIDIS EEG! = hove. zConmen BAR MMATTIMAISOR TERME] 2 Lez cane 25 Work of skill. Bre SKIT INSI 30 Slash, 26Maidof-all- [TINISTTIAITIINIGH| 32 Matter. 37 Substance which forms horses’ hoofs. the Olympic games. 6 Seniors. 7 Behold. 8To recede. 9 Tide. 10 Valuable property. 11 Outlet of the 48 Bill of fare. 50 Puts on. 52 To hasten. 54 Fish. 56 Right. 58 Hawaiian bird. all babies it-has nothing whatever to|of a cabaret which had brought out/should have the honor of accepting do with lisping, or with any other|scores of Broadwayites, a master of the surrender. | speech defect. (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) ceremony began to call on the talent for contributions . . . Into the raucous The American lined them all. up, made them throw away their rifles, scene stepped an actor who went at/and marched them back to the Amer- very well with the fishwives, old gran- nies and the like. Anyway, if the baby nursés or takes his food all right you need not worry about the imag- inary tongue-tie. The Haw Haw Corner Local news item from Hickville on Hudson: “Inspector » one of the most popular... is a patient at the hospital where physicians are striving to ward off an attack of pneumonia. The inspector caught cold last Friday and was removed to the hospital on Sunday.” Answer—You can see pictures of People catching cold in any almanac or announcement of the cold cure peo- ple, but here is a rare one of physi- cians striving to ward off pneumonia, Superstition Still Rampant After my sisters’ baby was born the doctor snipped a web under the baby’s tongue and said that would prevent lisping. Now my 4-year-old boy does not lisp, but sometimes he does not enunciate clearly and my sister's hus- band’s people say I ought to have the web under his tongue cut .. —(C. ) ‘Answer—Sheer Superstition. Even if there is a web that is not there in MANHATTAN EPISODE New York, June 27.—In Toledo, O., not so long ago, opened a musical ver- sion of “Cyrano de Bergerac”... You will recall, of course, that Cy- rano was a poetic-souled fellow—a sentimentalist, as quick with his ra~ Pier as with his newest phrase But with such a nose as et “Schnozzle” Durante has never been able to achieve . . le ‘was, in the modern vernacular, a “stooge” for the Fates... In the tryout towns, critics of the operatic “Cyrano” were generous and praiseful . . . Several gave particular mention to the music of Sdmuel D. Pokrass, a new name in the compo- sition circles of Broadway ... * * Oe Very well! ... Perhaps with things as they are the wags are right and, paraphrasing Shakespeare, “all the world’s a “stooge” . . . Within the year the “stooge” has become the topical form of clown ... Phil Baker had something to do with the origin ‘of stooges .. . He placed one in a box to shoot caustic remarks... Ted Healy carried a young swarm of stooges who mauled each other mer- cilessly about... Richy Craig, Jr., uses @ serious-faced fellow who stands shivering in the spotlight ... As Craig explains it: “I hire him to be nervous for me.” ee # “STOOGE” PLUS GENIUS At any rate, during the winter months the vaudeville act of Pepper and Salt added a stooge routine. Bob Coleman, the critic, called my atten- tion to the number and added a few interesting bits of background... In this act, a grand piano was part of the stage set ... After a bit of dancing and clowning, a serious-faced, dejected looking musician came on stage and seated himself at the piano ... A spotlight revealed an artistic fellow, with eyes fastened rhapsodi- cally upon space... - “Softly he began to run over the keys .. . Through the opening notes a Chopin waltz and a Brahms con- certo... But he was never allowed to finish a single phrase .. . For he was @ “stooge” for the act. Each time he would finger the keys, his fellow play- ers would pounce on him and maul him about in the best stoogic fashion «+. The more serious did the musician become, the harder the audience would howl and the more the team fellows would tear him apart ... Yet anyone with half an ear would have known that here sat a musician |... Another symbol of a “stooge for; the Fates”... * eK A STOOGE’S STORY BEGIN HERE TODAY CHERRY DIXON, 19 falls in love with DAN m ily act a reporter on the rival newspaper. . ‘The other paper gets ti ry boss thrente: a Cherry move from ti hotel erry, loaded NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XVIII querer let Pearson relieve’ her of the heavy packages. She stepped into the roadster, settling herself with a sigh. “This is awfully kind of you,” she said. Her shoulders ached painfully and she was beginning to realize how tired she was, “Not at all! Not at all. What in the world have you been doing? Buying out a grocery store?” She told him about the apart- ment. “We're going to have our first dinner there tonight. It will be the first meal I’ve ever cooked. I’m only beginning to learn about housework—” Pearson said he was sure the din- ner would be @ success, Suddenly with a rush of confidence Cherry found herself telling him all about her trials of the morning. Max Pearson wasn’t hard to talk to or frightening though he had read all those books and knew so much. He seemed really interested in the things she was saying. “That's where we're living.” She pointed out the building a few doors ahead. “There on the right. You must come to see us soon. If I ‘weren’t such an amateur at cooking T’d ask you to dinner—” “That's a promise I’m going to hold you to. I'd like very much to come.” Pearson’s dark eyes flashed in a smile, Cherry thought he seemed utterly sincere and was touched. She was grateful s moment later when he insisted on carrying the packages up the stairs for her, The second floor hallway was dark, Cherry found the latch, turned her key in it and the door opened, “The place is a sight,” she apolo- gized. “I haven't had time to halt finish and things are thrown every ray. Pearson stowed the sacks of gro- ceries on a chair. He stood in the One early morning at the premiere LEAD YEAR BRID pockets, and looked about. “It’s homelike,” he said. “I believe you've actually begun to make this room look like yourself. Yes, it's very attractive.” He swung about, facing tho girl. “You have personality,” Pearson said. “Did you know that? Of course you're beautiful but it’s per- sonality that makes you different from everyone else. That's why I like you. Few people have it, you know. They're like so many dry sticks or stones. You're real—your- self, And you're lovely and excit- ing and—well, I hope we're going to be friends.” Cherry said, “Why, of course. Dan thinks so much of you. He'll want you to come to see us often.” “And you and I will be friends?” The girl’s cheeks were tinged with pink. “I hope so,” she said. groceri +a Keting expedition, meen MA AEMOST immediately, rather ab- opel aiiacathacii ruptly Pearson departed. Cherry He really did seem rather unusual. But he had been friendly and she never could have managed all those packages alone. There was no time to think more about Max Pearson. Cherry put away her coat and hat and set to work preparing dinner. She got out the cook bgok and hunted for instructions for cooking beefsteak. When she had found the place she propped the book open, then de- cided it was a little early to put the steak on the fire. She unwrapped the other packages. They seemed to fill every available bit of space in the kitchen. She had bought fresh peas be- cause the grocer had suggested them. They were in a huge sack— two pounds. Cherry dumped the péas on a newspaper because there ‘was no pan large enough to hold them. Armed with a paring knife she sdt down to remove the pods. She did this laboriously, cutting off the ends of each pod and removing the peas one by one. The sunlight had disappeared by the time she had finished and long shadows darkened the room. Cherry straightened her shoulders. Oh, how they ached! Her feet were smarting. All day she had been wearing the only sort of shoes she owned—tiny, thin soled kid pumps with Louis XVI heels. They were not the sort of shoes to wear tramp- ing up and down stairs and work- ing about a kitchen, She turned back to the cook book to find out how to prepare the po- tates, There were a dozen recipes —potatoes julienne, potat au gratin, potato souffie, Ch them all and decided the: easiest way would be to bake them. She tried to light the oven and wasted half a dozen matches before she succeeded. The potatoes looked rather grimy. Cherry scrubbed them, thrust them into the oven and shut the door, It was almost 5 o'clock and Dan middle of the room, hands im his|would be there any time now. The Debussy number. It was the vaude- ville “stooge”... x Still later a group sat talking with him at the table. Bob prodded him for his story. ° once to the piano and opened with a+ican lines, . . Barbs | —_———+ “Well, I was considered somet ng ment is making such headway, con- of a composer abroad,” he began. somehow my operettas never got pro- duced. I was asked to come to New York to write a music show. tion and that, but somehow they didn’t get to the stage. I waited un- til my money was running low. Had to get a job... Along came a chance in vaudeville where I had merely to sit at a piano and be mauled around «I took it, although music is really my life... A man must live... How- ever, there is one score I have written that you may hear... It is going to ‘be produced ...I think, maybe, you will like it...” “What is the name again?” came the question. “Pokrass ... Samuel D. Pokrass!” *# * & Some time toward fall, when the try-out period is over, they'll be hear- ing from M. Pokrass hereabouts—and his day will come! . Meanwhile, this is just to illustrate that New York is—well, New York... where anything can happen! TODAY WORLD WAR ANNIVERSARY 0 LENERT’S CAPTURE On June 27, 1918, the story of the heroism of Private Frank P. Lenert, German-American soldier from Chi- cago, was made public. ‘Times were tough. I worked on this produc- | It's little wonder the nudist move- sidering.the number of people who are constantly talking about having lost their shirte. He OF How far is a stone’s throw, asks & reader. Well, if you've ever rented one of those “stone’s-throw-from-the- ocean” cottages, you'd probably say about two miles. ~* * * A Paris composer has been charged ‘with assaulting his publisher with a roll of his music. Just being sure that his songs would make a hit. eee Suggested slogan for Patman: Let's get the bonus army out of Washing- ton by Christmas. eee A writer says that a good story must. always have an ending that satisfies. The trouble with that is that most wives won't wait to hear the end. (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) SAVED WHO? Columbus, O.—Thomas Mathews was walking along the banks of the Scioto river when he heard cries. He looked and saw a small girl flounder- ing in water over her head. Mathews dived into the water and rescued her. Looking out again, he found a small boy submerged about 18 inches below the water. Again he dived in and rescued the child. -After it was all over he found that he hadn't even stopped to find out the names of the children. FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: ' Lenert had been surrounded by 83 Germans while a small American ; ‘force was staging an attack. His cap- tors showed interest in knowing how many Americans were in the attack- ing party. They knew that an Amer-| ican barrage behind them had cut off ; their retreat. | Lenert informed them that eight | regiments were in the attack and that | they were following him. The Ger- mans, seeing a huge force in front of them, and the American barrage behind, decided to surrender without | fighting. They agreed that Lenert STICKERS BZOCNTGLEDY Tf you combine three of the above let- ters in the correct order, they will be the last three letters of eight words that can be formed by putting, one at a time, the other letters in front of the three. 27 (Oin32 BMA SO NC {People with breezy natures often blow ! about them. was a little puzzled by his manner. S dinner was far from ready. Cherry, flushed and nervous, bustled about. She put the peas on to cook, in a pan almost filled with water, dump- ing in a cup of salt. The steak went on next. She did not know that the skillet should be smoking hot and greased with fat before’ the meat went in. In a flurry of anxiety she left the’ kitchen and began to set the table. There was no table cloth. The dishes had to go on the bare table top and this was a disappoint- ment to Cherry who had visioned a table with flawless linen, shimmer- ing crystal and silver—the sort of dinner table to which she had al- ways sat down in her own home. There should have been candles slowing softly and a bowl of flowers, The odor of burning beef steak suddenly recalled her to the kitchen. Oh, dear, something was wrong! eee HE caught the iron skillet han- dle to take it from the flame, then cried out in agony. Her whole hand was scorched. The pain was terrific and tears filled her eyes so that she could scarcely see. Some- thing must be done about the meat! It was burning and the smoke and fumes became worse every moment. Cherry did the only thing she could think of. Groping, half-blinded, she drew a cup of water from the tap and poured it into the skillet. There was an enormous sputtering sound and clouds of steam. The girl turned on the water tap and held her injured hand under it, How good the cold water felt! The minute she took her hand away the | stinging began again, An unfamiliar sizzling sound caused her to turn back to the stove. The water covering the peas had boiled up and was dripping over one side of the pan. Cherry choked back an exclama- tion and pushed the pan trom the blaze. That would not do, though. The peas would never cook unless they were over the fire. Perhaps they were done. She fished out one and tasted it. Horrible! Cautiously Cherry dipped off some of the liquid, placed the dish over the blaze and turned it lower. Her burned hand was still painful but ‘she could not spend more time holding it under the water. 4 Who would have imagined that cooking could be so dificult! Every- thing was wrong and everything was to be done at once, She had not even started with the celery. There were the strawberries to be washed and hulled, The rolls—hor- rors, what had she done with them? Moaning- involuntarily because her hand was so painful, Cherry be- gan searching for the rolls. It was no use. Sho must have forgotten to buy them, » Forgetful of ateam and smoke and the mingled odors of burned beeféteak and vegetables, Cherry sank into @ chair. The rolle—the one thing they might have eaten without cooking—were not there. eee DAN was comforting when he ar- rived and viewed the ruined supper. He made Cherry sit in a big chair with her hand wrapped in an oiled bandage. Then he made a trip to the neighborhood delica- tessen and returned with rolls and some packages of breakfast food. Dan was persistantly cheerful and finally won Cherry from her dark ‘mood, “Of course you can’t learn it all in one night,” he told her. “No- body could. You're going to be one of the best cooks in Wellington one of these days. And right now you're the prettiest!” “But I’m no cook at all. I spoiled everything I bought and it cost such ' ' a lot! Oh, Dan, I’m not the right wife for you at all, I don’t know how to do anything—” He answered convincingly and shortly, They finally ate a meal consisting of bowls of breakfast ! food heaped with strawberries and covered with cream, celery, cups of steaming strong coffee and cheese. Afterward they washed the dishes and put them away. It was too late and they were too tired to plan anything else for the evening. Cherry did not even remember to tell Dan about her meeting with Max Pearson. The week that followed was the busiest, the most exhausting and ! the most disappointing Cherry Phillips had ever known. She had much to learn and to unlearn. She found that trying to prepare the sort of meals she would have or- dered in a hotel dining room was a mistake. Simple food and simple recipes were best with the limited facilities of the tiny kitchen. There were mornings when the milk was sour for breakfast be- cause Cherry had forgotten to order ice. There were evenings when the chops wére like rubber, the pota- toes underdone and the dessert hopeless. i A bright spot in the week was the visit Sarah O'Fallon paid the apartment. For one thing, Sarah insisted on taking off her coat and - ot stirring up a batch of muffins. She. showed Cherry exactly how to do it, Sarah had practical suggestions galore and all of them proved help- ful. Cherry's housekeeping improved. ‘They had been in the apartment 10 days when Dan suggested casually, “Mind if I ask Max to come out tor morrow evening?” Cherry said, “Of course not. Ask him for dinner.” : It was Max who. called next day to say the invitation had been eagerly accepted. It.was a rainy, dismal morning.. Cherry, looking out the window, was pleased at the Prospect of spending the evening at home. She was pleased at the thought of seeing Pearson again. She did not dream that so long as she lived she was never to for- get that night. ‘(To Be Continued)