The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 2, 1932, Page 4

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(Official City, State and County Newspaper) a Representatives { SMALL SPENCER, BREWER (incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON ' Definitely Defeated | Every measure, the passage of which would have reflected badly upon the credit of North Dakota, was beaten| at the recent state-wide primaries. Voters showed a rare discrimination between measures which pointed to tax reduction as against those which meant repudiation of contractural li- ability of a most binding nature. There was no danger at any time that these measures, creatures of someone's enthusiastic and unques- tionably honest desire to assist the| farmers, would be enacted. It was evident in the very inception of the campaign that these measures were not to gain any united or special support by Nonpartisan League lead- ers. Many of them came out defi- nitely against the moratorium bil] and measures affecting the handling of mortgages and the operation of farming in this state. This vote rather gives the Ke to the charges of radicalism hurlwl at the opposition by the I. V. A. campaign managers. North Dakota voters have demonstrated belief that this kind of legislation is dangerous and should not be countenanced. Tax reduction measures providing a different basis of valuation for tax- ation purposes passed because they received support both in the cities/ and the country. Many prominent farmers, supported by some of the leading financiers of this state, got | behind those initiated measures with | @ vengeance. Almost identical support was given | to the salary and mileage reduction measures. The vote was a protest} one from a tax-burdened electorate which believes that public officials have not gone as far as they might in the curtailment of public expendi- tures, The way is already charted for the next session of the legislature. Tax! legislation will be of commanding in- | terest. Thousands of farmers, unable to meet their tax obligations, will be insisting on some form of relief and adjustment. Millions of tax-exempt children will lose their lives in the actuarial records of many years stand | impressively behind them, and while! the death lists of next Tuesday morn- ing may not bear out their calcula- to pay for the privilege of celebrating ful reaction to the verbose and high- sounding platitudes of the past. In Platform framing, the Democrats have shown good sense as well as good political strategy. Siam’s Revolution In an era where most revolutions seem to aim at gaining absolute pow- er for one man or one class, it is comforting to come upon at least one that is headed the other way. European revolutions since the war have headed away from democracy, and have had @ dictatorship of one kind or another as their object. But the revolution in Siam has ended a dictatorship and given the Siamese a larger degree of freedom than they had before. The kingdom of Siam was one of the last absolute monarchies on earth. If the blessings of a dictatorship were all that some people seem to think, the Siamese should have been satis- fied. But they put on a very effi- cient and decisive revolt, and they now seem on the verge of getting a large degree of self-government. The demonstration is rather encouraging. 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, Death and the Holiday (Minneapolis Tribune) With a grim insistence on detail that could only have been born of vast experience in the field of statis- tics, a New York insurance bureau has staked its reputation as a prophet on a tabulation which purports to show the exact nature and extent of the accidents which will occur in the United States over the three-day Fourth of July holiday. According to the calculations of this bureau, 600 men, women and several thousand mishaps which the week-end celebration holds in store. The automobile will take the greatest toll of deaths, 275, and 500 persons will be injured in motor car acci- dents. Drowning will claim 200 lives, while the remaining fatalities will be caused by fireworks, sunstroke, heat Prostration, sports accidents, tetanus poisoning, etc. It is impossible to brush such fig- ures as these aside as the handiwork of morbid statisticians who pretend to have the gift of prophecy. The tions in every detail, it is safe to say that the story they will tell will not be essentially different than that which has been predicated on statis- tics of the past. ink, THE SHOE DYE BLUES WITH VARIATIONS One authority, according to a clip- ping sent in by a reader, asserts that | shoe dye poisoning nearly scares everybody to death but never has any serious consequences. A young man dyed his tan shoes black and wore them to a dance im- mediately afterward. He suffered nitrobenzene poisoning with a fatal outcome. The case was reported with eight others which ended in recovery, by Dr. C. W. Muehlenberg, Wiscon- sin state toxicologist. Shoe dyes containing nitrobenzene are unsafe to apply to shoes on the feet. Shoes so dyed should never be worn within 24 hours after the dye- ing. The same “authority” who asserts the poisoning is -never serious in- Six hundred lives is a heavy price Independence day, and the sacrifice is a particularly tragic one because forms the public that when shoes so dyed are worn too soon (before the leather has dried out) the heat of} the feet volatilizes the dye and it is PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to discase 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 confotming to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, in care of this newspaper. so much of it could be averted with a little care and foresight on the part of every individual. a certain number of fatal accidents are unavoidable when millions of per- sons turn to the beaches and high- ways for a week-end holiday, the fact remains that a certain large group of casualties results from recklessness, ignorance or folly, and can therefore be classed as preventable. ting down of this group, of course, is largely the problem of persuading the individual that it pays to learn and adhere to the simple rules of safety, and that the only alternative to that gamble with death. try, it is largely so because we refuse to take the easy, elementary precau- tions whith guarantee, to the indi- absorbed into the blood through the skin of the feet. This is as logical as the inference that the poisoning is never serious. Why volatize or va- porize the poison if the skin is to absorb it? There is no scientific or experimen- tal evidence to support the assump- tion that the dye or rather the sol- vent used in the dye (nitrobenzene, or in Europe anilin) is absorbed through the skin. There is such evi- dence that nitrobenzene or anilin is absorbed when the volatilized or va- porized liquid is inhaled, absorbed through the lungs. An athletic girl aged 16 dyed her suede shoes black and soon became dizzy and turned blue (cyanotic) and began vomiting. She complained of chills and headache and she was put to bed. Next morning she felt muen | Conceding that The cut- is to take the long and desperate If human life is cheap in this coun- better, but within an hour after | dressing the symptoms recurred, and she remained nauseated and cyanotic (blue) all day. After that she did not wear the dyed shoes and had no fur- ther trouble. Nitrobenzene costs about half as much as anilin and is more common- ly used as the solvent in shoe dyes in this country. At the time Muehlenberg reported the nine cases, he found records of 47 other cases in medical literature. He noted only one shoe dye at that time bearing on the label a warning against wearing the shoes before the dye has dried 24 hours or having them dyed on the feet. has a less agreeable odor than anilin. Painters using anilin or nitroben- j zene preparations are likely to suffer from tha poisoning if they acciden- tally spill some on their clothing, and fail to remove the clothing promptly, especially when the work ts indoors or in a plant where the ventilation is poor. The clothing serves as a sponge and the warmth of the body vapor- izes the liquid so that the victim is constantly breathing an atmosphere more or less impregnated. Nitrobenzene or anilin poisoning i: strikingly like poisoning by acetani. lide, phenacetin and other coaltar! derivatives used in medicine as the Painkiller or sense-deadener in scores of nostrums purporting to be good remedies for “colds,” grippe, neural- gia, headache, shopping fatigue, worry, depression and other common complaints. The cyanosis (blueness of lips, nails and sometimes the en- tire body) so characteristic of these Poisonings is due to grave interfer- ence with the oxygen carrying func- tion of the red blood corpuscles. Whenever we encounter marked cy- anosis, with faintness, nausea and great weakness in a presumably healthy person, we have to think of the possibility of such poisoning or vidual, the maximum of safety. But acres owned by the Bank of North Dakota will be under fire and some way must be worked out, so that this land will yield some taxation to the end that farmers and city folk are relieved of a most pressing burden. Passage of these measures at the primary is an emphatic mandate to) every public official for drastic tax | reduction. It is a job that must be well done, not half done. Unless a political miracle happens, those state Officials and members of the legis- lature who won by such staggering majorities last Wednesday will form the new administration charged with great responsibilities. This vote should Promote the best kind of public Service and encourage policies born Of sanity and conservatism. Se The Democratic Platform Brevity is the soul of the Demo- cratic platform. Those who worked upon it have wrought an exceptional | Political document in so far as ver- biage is concerned. There is no re- @undancy of “whereases” or “re- solves.” Someone wielded a potent blue pencil in committee, bringing forth an unusual platform compared to the lengthy one conceived at Chi- cago by the Republicans, Its pronouncements on agriculture should be satisfactory to the farm- ers of the nation. The Democrats have come out definitely for Parity between agriculture and other indus- try. That is what the Republicans promised at Kansas City in 1928 and then, through congressional enact- ment, turned about-face and refused the same modicum of protection to for that refusal the statisticians, who today can accurately predict the sac- rifice of 600 lives in week-end acci- dents, would relate a much less mel- ancholy vision. A The old notion that the president of a company was the paid attorney of the stockholders for the purpose of taking as : uch as possible both from the workers and the public for the benefit of the stockholders has gone. —Owen D. Young, financier. * # Having for many years followed ex- tremely closely the devolopment of America's economic life, I have defi- nitely reached the conclusion that the despondency now Prevailing there has gone much too far—Lord Rother- mere, British newspaper publisher. * * * The idea that we ought to Ameri- canize ourselves has not done us any good.—Dr. Adam Stegerwald, Ger- man Labor minister. xe % France must give up, for a long time at least, any hope of receiving Payment of that unconditional an- nuity established by the Hague agree- ments.—Paul Painleve, former pre- mier of France. * * * I never made a resolution in my life. I never struggled nor consulted oe People.—George Bernard Shaw, * ee Roosevelt will have 675 sure yotes when he enters the convention and will get enough from the favorite sons before the vote is announced to nominate him on the first ballot.— ‘agriculture as was accorded other in- dustries of this nation. Despite attempts to follow the siren James A. Farley, Roosevelt campaign eee The old type statesman depth in the affairs of | Questions on,England | HORIZONTAL 2 Westminster is a famous —— in Lon- don? 7 Grinding tooth. 13To depart. 14To love ex: *’ cessively. 15 Ocean, 17 Over and above. 19 Sun. 21Genus of moths. 23 To guzzle, ee without, Head is presi- 45 Fetid. dent of the Boy 46 Posts letters. —s of 47 Jewel. America? 30 Unoccupied. 31 English coin. 32 Beating caused by contrac: tions in the heart. 33 Close. 34 Grand- Darental. 35 Employed. 36 Grass plot. 39 Herring. collectively. 50 Winner of the Memorial Day auto race. 51 The gods. 52 Pertaining to th. side, 57 Golf device. 58 Inquisitive. 48 Scandinavians" Answer to Previous Puzzle ¥ 11 To dwell, 12 Visitor. 16 Wriggling. 18 Heathen god. 20 Bulging jar. 22 Small bodies of land. 24 Chief residence of English kings. 26 Paroxysm, 27 Guilt. . 28 Customary. 29 Examinations, 36 Where is Downing Street? 81 Herb, 38 Telegraphing. 40 Mature. 42 Want of teeling. 43 Title. 44 Drowsy. 49 Otherwise. 50 Apartment. 53 Bronze. 54 Ore launder. 55 Tatter. 56 Striped fabric 59 Violent whirl- wind. _61 Street, AIBIAI tL INISIETE 10) OL ILIAY HIAISITIU LY) flew around the world? VERTICAL 1 Inferior. 2Mount McKin- ley is in ——? 3 To exist. 4 Plum cake. 5 Night before. 6 Aye, 7 Insane. 8 Poem. 9 Opposite of gain. 10 Measure of area. Nitrobenzene | inquire into the medicine the victim is in the habit of using. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Grinding the Teeth Must take exception to your state- ment that grinding of the teeth of children in sleep is not caused by worms . . . our son, several doctors laughed at the idea, but finally a friend said to give him (a humbug “worm” medicine) and later he passed several worms .. .—(C. S.) Answer—I did not say children who grind their teeth have not worms. They're just as likely to have ‘em as are children who do not grind their teeth. Likewise children who have worms are as likely to grind their teeth as are children who have none. A considerable number of children have worms at one time or another, and in only rare instances do the worms cause any trouble. Certainly there are no “sure signs” of the pres- ence of the common round worms in the intestinal tract. The alleged “worm medicine” you mention is a ridiculous concoction—a mere laxa- tive, without particular influence on the parasites. To your knowledge is the diathermy method ever used in the treatment of, flight, he was on the job to bid Miss laryngeal tuberculosis?—(K. M.) Earhart farewell. itt Answer—Surgical diathermy, vari-|the hotel when she arrived. Bi ously called endothermy, electro-sur-|is “good luck.” gery, “radio knife,” is used in all * % * fields now, especially where a dry | HOW IT’S DONE wound is Cyt as 4 brain sur-/ Just aon the room, bs Fuk gery, goiter operations, lung surgery, | scious of 's presence, x cancer operations. nam busies around in his shirtsleeves. waiting at | | (Copyright, John F. Dille Co.) A BYRD EXPLORATION New York, July 2—The first time I encountered Admiral Byrd after his historic polar exploits, he was half dangling from the side of his bed Peering into the black spaces between mattress and floor, Only a section of his pajama-clad back was visible.. The object of his search was—of all things—a collar button. In a few moments, it seemed, he would have to hurry into a stuffed shirt to attend a reception. Only a few seconds previously a sleepy spokesman had escorted us through the corridor, rubbing his eyes and mauling his uncombed hair the while. eee He is'the fller’s husband. Also he is @ publisher, As a publisher he is copies of Amelia's book, “The Fun of It.” In a few moments, when the reporters are finished, she will have to wear out a good right elbow eT a Miss Earhart prefers to be inter- viewed sitting down. She has se- lected a room with a Iong conference table. She sits at the head of the table. She chuckles easily. She makes charming designs with her long flexible fingers. easily be the hands of a dancer. Ob- viously, they are the hands of a poet. She has picked out a room with an old-fashioned lamp. Glass adorn- ments on the shade tinkle when the wind blows against them. She fre- quently watches the iridescent pat- terns which the sun paints on the glass. She has charm, poise and a sense of humor. Now and then shirt-sleeved secre- taries look triage fie hte on and cS ug! e tee. Tare are dates and dates and dates: eee One of the most amusing back- a Barbs _ —_— 000,000 visi- expecting 50 ete werie's a on eee ‘ood time to sl c ett the gangsters, since during that time the hoodlums will be outnume bered. x eK Scientists in Asia claim to Bins discovered the cradle of “ in Now they can start hunting for hand that ee pi i‘ . r claims that he has panned a tiret polt which will re- duce noise to 1 per cent of its pres- ent volume. That must be what you would call a Hl liad device. * * ‘The harvest has started out in Kan- less know, Amelia Earhart. Such off-stage incidents in the]stage scenes was provided by Queen swift panorama of public ceremonials|Marie when she visited America. A to heroes are reserved chiefly for the} group of newspapers had purchased eyes of newspaper folk, secretaries,| her personal record for a large sum. camera-men and such, A representative had accompanied The most recent object of acclaim|her. His instructions were to keep in Manhattan has been, as youdoubt-/the queen from talking to other pa- pers. And what a job! For two days =e this newspaperman had practically BILL ON DECK slept outside the regal door to pro- The scene is an elaborate suite in|tect the investment of his concern. the Biltmore Hotel. The triumphal 3 TODAY ¢ parade from the waterfront has end- ed. Little groups of curious peepers have gathered on the sidewalk out- ‘ 10, | U. S. ARMY AT 2,000,000 side, waiting in the hot sun. ; Upstairs, on the seventeenth floor, reporters are massed for the invari- able “mob interview.” Cameramen clutter in an adjoining room. But in the reception room there jare two people. One is a red-haired, On July 2, 1918, Secretary of War Newton D. Baker disclosed that the American army now numbered 2,010,- 000 men and 160,400 officers. The completely at home on a comfortable | statement was contained in a letter divan. He appears to be all of 14 or sent to the House Committee on Mil- 15. itary Affairs. is standing on tip toe. Always grin-| nightfall were consolidating their ning! newly won positions. + & British forces near Albert on the freckle-faced lad with the most ex- pansive grin to be found in a day’s travels. He wears a Sunday best suit and a starched collar. His grin is ineradicable. He is making himself His name is Bill McNeil and he is,} | American troops stormed the vil- in a sense, an off-stage guest of|lage of Vaux after a day of severe honor. When the “blanket” inter-/ fighting. They also drove the Ger- view begins, Bill is at the ringside.|mans out of the Bois de la Roche, When pictures are being taken, Bill/ west of Chateau-Thierry and by What is he doing there? Well,| Picardy front repulsed a counter-at- when Miss Earhart first crossed the|tack led by crack German guard Atlantic as a passenger, the Boy|regiments. They held every acre of Scouts nominated a member to pre-| ground gained in their advance of ‘sent their particular tribute. Bill was|the previous day. that one. In the meantime, he has] General Otto von Below was ap- followed with boyish adoration every| pointed commander-in-chief of the minor and major exploit of his he-| Austrian armies, following another roine, Austrian reverse in the region of When he heard of the daring solo| Monte Grappa. ! s, but it won't be official until_we ot the first picture of Marion Tal- Jey standing beside a ee of wheat. * * ‘There are times when the amateur gardener calls a spade a lot of things le. besides a repel — Most cities are running deeper into debt, while many businesses are slow- ly emerging, an economist says. May- be the bankers should be firm with the cities, too. (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) ABCEHLPRT If you combine four of the above let- ters inthe correct order, they will be the ast four letters of five five-letter words , that can be formed by putting, one at @ time, the other letters in front of them. os FLAPPER, FANNY SAYS: Wien GayS PARKER The person who thinks he “won't even get to first base,” never makes a hit. BEGIN HERE TODAY CHERRY DIXON, | ‘They are married first time Cherry find: it means to Inck money. Her stru; on the News. ‘Cherry her mother enclos! a check fo1 = eek fo e when D: ives he tells he has something for her. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Bessehx, pretty 19- a rt recelven a letter from F . Shoulder. CHAPTER XXIII pp grinned down at her. “I'll give you three guesses,” he an- nounced. “What do you think I have?” “Is it something for m asked. “Yes,” “But I haven't the slightest idea!” “You can guess, can’t you?” Dan insisted. “What would you think it’s likely to be—a Rolls-Royce or the crown jewels of England or—” A faint cry, plaintive and high- pitched, interrupted him. It came from Dan’s coat pocket. It was re- Peated, this timo louder. An un- mistakably kittenish “Meow!” “A kitten! Ob, let me see it!” Cherry cried. “Where did you get ft, Dan? Oh, you little darling, you—!" Cherry | LEAD YEAR BRIDE. “Do you hear it?” Cherry de- manded. “It's singing. Oh, of course we'll keep it! And it was sweet of you to bring it, Dan.” She began to laugh. The kitten had raised one velvety paw and with ex- perimental gestures was investi- gating Cherry's ear. “Put it down,” Dan suggested. “Let’s see what it thinks of the place.” Cherry set the kitten on the floor. It was completely gray except for a white line down the center of its forehead, rounding out in a sym- metrical arc of white about its nose and mouth. As though aware of their scrutiny the little animal backed slowly away from Cherry and Dan, stopped and gazed up at them. “Well, I'll be darned!” laughed Dan. “Would you look at the little beggar giving us the once over?” eee (emnnt was down on her knees beside the kitten again. “I know what I’m going to call it,” she an- nounced. “Did you ever see any- thing so pink as that nose? I’m going to call it ‘Pinky’.” “That's a swell name for a gray cat!” “Why, I think it’s a grand name —and anyhow that’s what it’s going to be.” Their own meal was forgotten in their interest in the new pet. Pres- ently, however, the kitten was left curled up on a pillow on the floor and Cherry and Dan sat down to dinner. Dan broke a roll and buttered it. “Well,” he said, “I had a piece of This last was addressed to the wriggling ball of gray fur that had emerged from Dan’s pocket. The kitten, balancing in Dan’s two hands, looked about on this new world in which it found itself and emitted another “Meow!” “Cute, isn’t it?” Phillips asked. Cherry had taken the kitten and was holding it nestled against her The warm, soft fur touched her cheek. The girl's eyes were bright as a child's, “It's adorable!” she told him, “Did you know I’ve always wanted a kitten? That’s another thing I could never have at home. But where did you get it? Can we really keep it?” “We can if you want to. I stopped at the drug store on the er for cigarets, There were four of these little fellows there with their mother. One was black and the others were sort of gray striped. I thought this one was the cutest and the man said he'd be glad to give it to us. It's not quite a month old yet.” ‘ The kitten seemed eminently con- tented. with its perch on Cherry's shoulder. It was purring now—a miniature sing-song that could barely be heard, fe be welcome news today.” “What was it?” “Your husband, Madam, {s the winner of the $5 bonus for the best written news story of the week.” “Oh, Dan, I'm glad!” “So'm I, That five bucks will help out considerably in our finan- cial status. But that’s not all. Two of the fellows who have been owing me for the last six months kicked in -with $12 more. I'd forgotten about both of them! Yes, it looks as though we can pay our bills and stay out of debtors’ prison after all, My check Saturday will pay the rent for another month and this $17 will carry us over the week.” “It’s worked out wonderfully, hasn’t it?” Cherry asked. She said it so fervently that the young man across the table looked up, “I—had some news today too,” the girl went on. She told Dan about the check from her mother and about sending it back. When she had finished Dan leaned across the table.and took her hand. His eyes were troubled, “You're sure you wanted to do that?” he asked. “Of course I couldn't have let you spend any of that money for our living expenses or for me but you might have bought something for yourself, Clothes maybe, Or—whatever girls buy. K Cherry laughed. “Of course not, silly, What could I be wanting? Oh, Dan, you and I do have so much! We ought to be so thank- ful—!" ees SHE told him about Miss Jamieson who had lived on the top floor and was now at the City Hospital. The recital of the story sobered both of them. For some time after the meal had ended they sat in silence, All at once Cherry cried out. “It’s the kitten! It must be hungry!” Little Pinky’s front paws press- ing against her ankle had startled thé girl She filled a saucer with milk but the kitten was not inter- ested. Try as they would they could not make Pinky drink until Dan filled a teaspoon and poured it down the kitten’s throat, Pinky coughed, licked the milk from his whiskers and decided to try a gulp for himself. The kitten’s antics kept them amused most of the evening. It chased paper balls ‘attached to a string. It climbed into boxes and out of them and once, when Dan threw down a newspaper, the kitten crawled under it and had what must have been the most exciting adven- ture of its brief lite getting out. “It's going to be company for me when I’m here alone,” Cherry said. “I don’t see how I'll ever have a dull moment with that little rascal around.” “You'll probably wish that little rascal was 100 miles away a good many times.” ‘Tho girl was sure that she would not. The kitten finally went to sleep in ber lap and Cherry trans- ferred it to its pillow so gently that it did not awaken, It had been an eventful day. She ) p52 ara soon nc money enough to do that it prob- ably means she can take care of the girl and see her through.” “I'm so glad!” Cherry said fer- vently. “And thanks for telling me. I've been thinking about her all morning.” “It’s bad business to be sick and alone in a city,” Mrs. Moreau said, shaking her head. “Well, I must be getting upstairs—” Bad business indeed! After she was alone again Cherry got out her purse and examined its contents. There was $2.75 inside. On impulse she hurriedly changed to street clothes, Pinky, the kittep, was dozing on the window seat as Cherry softly closed the door be- hind her and went down the stairs, She boarded a downtown car and rode to Twelfth street. Lawrence’s flower shop in the corner of the ‘Wellington Hotel was where Cherry had always bought flowers. She reached the shop and paused te fore the window display. ‘Tall, long-stemmed roses and ex. otic lilies filled three huge vases that stood on black velvet. They were beautiful: roses. They must cost a great deal— Turning, the girl walked down the street. There were other florist shops. She would find one less ex. Pensive than Lawrence's. Cherry tramped for half an hour and finally Was satisfied. She came to a small shop flaunting price marks all over its windows. “Roses 75 cents.” “Lilacs 60 cents a bunch.” “Iris 75 cents.” Cherry entered and patd 50 cents for a large bunch of lilacs, “We don’t deliver, Ma’am,” the clerk told her. “That's extra. It'll cost 25 cents to have them deliy. ered.” “ Cherry paid thé extra quart She wrote Miss Jamieson’s mane a a white card and the address of the and Dan sat in the window seat and looked out on the night. Moonlight streamed over the patch of ground below that by day was nothing more than a weed-grown space where laundry flapped in the breeze, Tonight it might have been a gar- den. Ugly buildings took on grace} from the black shadows. The faint scent of plumb blossoms came from @ tree-across the alley. Cherry put up a hand and touched Dan's cheek. “We've so much to be thankful for,” she whispered. eee was the middle of the next morning and Cherry was frown- ing over the cookbook when there was a knock at the door. She arose and opened it, “Oh —good morning!” said. “Won't you come in?” Cherry hospital. On a separate card to be enclosed with the flowers she wrote, “Best Wishes from a Friend.” There was less than $2 in her purse (car fare had taken 10 cents) when she left the shop, ee weers we'll again for dinner,” Cherry told her. self, “Dan won't mind when he knows why it happened. Wonder whether he'd like ‘em fried or in an omelet?” She was considering this pro) lem and had almost decided to pad dertake an omelet when she recog. nized a young man coming toward her. Cherry stopped. There was a stationery store ahead. In another moment she ‘would have entered it tt ie young man called out her have eges “Well, Cherry!” he exclaimed, “T haven't time to stop,” she said, “but I thought you'd like to know “This is luck. Seen you for days!” one Berea “I—I've been him, “It's nico “but I've got a test. If you one it come and have Tuneh with +13 (To Be Continuea) E = ; ‘