The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 28, 1932, Page 4

ok i in @ me, The Bismarck Tribune! An Independent Newspaper THE STATE'S OLDEST 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. ! Subscription Rates Payable in Advance Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail per year (in Daily by mail per year (in state | outside Bismarck) ............ 5.00 Daily by mail outside of North Dakota . . 6.00 aided | ‘Weekly by mail in stave, per year $1.00 | ‘Weekly by mail in state, three years . eee e enon eeeeeee Weekly ty mi utside of North Dakota, per year . Weekly by mail in GUUS i cds cas sasecssscese Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper and also the local news of spontancous origin published herein. All rights of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved. (Official City, State and County Newspaper) Foreign Representatives SMALL, SPENCER, BREWER (incorporated) CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTON Unconscious Arsonists In the United States there are many agencies, public and private, working unceasingly for fire preven- tion, thus making the lives of every man, woman and child safer. Our national fire loss approaches $500,000,000 a year—a figure which cannot be justified, and is the result of abysmal ignorance, carelessness and neglect of one’s duty as a citizen. But without the work of the fire prevention agencies, the loss would have been many times as large. They have labored for sound building codes and hundreds of towns and cities have responded. They have labored for better fire departments—and to- day the average American fire-fight- ing unit is the best in the world, both in apparatus and personnel. They have labored to eliminate fire traps| from our communities—and thou-| sands of these menaces have been re- moved. They have labored to make the public understand the A B C's of fire prevention—and many people have taken advantage of the op- portunity offered, and made their homes and places of business safe from fire. | Fire prevention success depends on | @ stern public consciousness that will force the careless person to be care- ful and the ignorant to learn fire cau- tion. Every fire affects every citizen. It raises taxes, destroys employment. and business opportunity, despoils neighborhoods and endangers life. We fight the willful arsonist—but we must also fight the “unconscious arsonist,” who, through carelessness, is respon- sible for fire. Modern Prisons and Archaic Laws It isn’t always enough for an en- lightened state to build one of those mew modern prisons. Occasionally a state discovers that such a prison can't be used unless the state’s penal code is revised too. California is having that experi- ence now. Not long ago the state appropriated half a million dollars to build a new prison for women. The prison is a model affair. It has no surrounding walls. It looks more like a comfortable ranch than a cor- rective institution. It was designed to give its inmates a chance to re- build their lives without the usual handicap of prison surroundings. But now, with the prison fniished, the state finds it can’t transfer any prisoners to it—because an old pro- vision of the penal code provides that prisoners must be lodged behind walls and bars. Until that archaic law is amended, California's model prison nust ->main empty. Our Tie to Canada More than 13,000,000 motorists from the United States crossed the international boundary into Canada during the vacation season of 1931, according to figures just released by the Department of Commerce; and while vacationing in the dominion these motorists, together with 1,175,- 000 of their fellow countrymen who went to Canada by train or steam- ship, spent upwards of $188,000,000. While this was going on, Canadian vacationists in the United States were spending $40,000,000 on their own trips. The figures represent only @ comparatively small decline from 1930, and it is believed that this year’s travel will not be far behind. There could not be a better illus- tration of the close relationship be- tween the two nations. It is hard for the ordinary citizen of the United States to look on Canada as a for- eign country. Those 13,000,000 va- 30 | are badly worn to equip his car with as it is without working any hardship on anyone. The result is that we support far more governmental units than we need to. Each of these units has the power to tax and the power to spend; and the upshot is that a tremendous amount of money, in the aggregate, is spent needlessly. Before the tax- payer can get real relief, there must | be a reorganization of government machinery in every state in the union. A New Step for Safety Massachusetts authorities are re- ported to be getting ready to make a strict check-up on the tires used by Massachusetts motorists. It is said that the state motor registrar is pre- paring to order the driver whose tires a new set or surrender his driver's license. Here is an angle of the safety cam- paign that is often overlooked. Every- body knows that the driver whose car has defective brakes or faulty head- lights is a menace to all other driv- ers; but how often do we stop to think that the driver whose tires are worn down to the fabric is in the same class? A tire of that description is apt to explode at any moment. A blowout at a moderately high speed can throw a car completely out of control and cause a disastrous wreck. A cam- paign to rule all worn-out tires off of the highway might be an exceed- ingly sensible step. The Ohio Mound-Builders News that skeletons of six “mound builders” have been found in an In- dian mound in Ohio is interesting, in that it gives us a new reason for hoping that more light will be shed on the mysterious race that built the middle west's astounding chain of mounds. Probably everyone living in the middle west has seen at least one of the works of these pre-Columbian people. They are scattered all the way up and down the Ohio valley, and they lap over into the upper Mississippi basin. Serpent mounds, rectangular enclosures, pyramidal structures—they are exceedingly abundant, extremely ancient in ap- pearance, and deeply mysterious. No one knows who built them or what purpose they served. It seems clear that their builders had a fairly high degree of civilization; and not one with even a passing interest in the American Indian can fail to be stirred by the hope that this new discovery may add a little bit to our knowledge of them. Editorial Comment Is printed below show the of thought by other editors. are published without Let’s Get Down to Brass Tacks (Brass Tacks Magazine) The American citizen is getting good butter for 21 cents a pound. He is getting a good suit of clothes for $25. He is getting a good five-cent cigar. But—he's still paying about as much rent as ever for a decent place jin which to live, AND a large part of the money he pays to the merchant for butter and eggs and potatoes and coal and clothing has to be paid out | by the merchant in rent, out of which |the merchant's landlord is compelled jto pay exhorbitant taxes. No matter how you look at it, the American citizen, and nobody else, pays the taxes. There are three major expenses in this vale of tears—food, clothing and rent. The cost of food and clothing has come down to a figure within reason. But the big overhead—rent —still hangs and casts its shadow. Most rent payers can’t understand this. Food and clothing have come down, why can’t rents come down more, too? Everything is cheaper. they say. Yes, everything is cheap- er, except taxes! The average person knows little about taxes except the income tax and the pennies that he pays for | amusement and luxury taxes. He; has no realization of the hundreds and thousands of dollars that prop- erty owners have to pay for owning property and trying to do business on it. ‘Why do property owners have to pay this tax? To cover the cost of| running the city. ‘Where must the property owner look for the money to pay these taxes? From his tenants, of course. If ti go up, his rents must go up to meet the increase in taxation. He pays his taxes out of his rent money. If he doesn’t pay his taxes he loses his property. What could be simpler than that? If taxes could be reduced the land- lord could afford to reduce his rents. But would he, you ask. Yes, he would. Competition would attend to that. In other words, the burden under which all of us are struggling, is— taxes. Only the fool doesn’t realize What the Two Parties Need Most Right Now Is One of These Treasure Detectors! 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. ink. 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. NEVUS OR BIRTH MARK CAN HAPPEN. “I had always thought of you as a friend and a physician wi nd kind,” writes a correspondent, “but after reading your article on marking I must disagree with you. An un- born baby can be marked, for I am living proof of that. I was born with a dark red mark on my cheek, and still have it. Now don’t give me some long-winded name that means the same thi Everybody calls it a birth ma: I am sorry, but there is only one name that I know of for such a blem- ish which is present at birth or ap- pears within a few weeks after birth. The name for it is nevus. There is just one objection to the popular name of birth mark, namely that it conveys the suggestion that the blemish is somehow due to some un- pleasant impression made upon the mother before the child is born, That suggestion is preposterous. The blemish is due to anomalous develop- ment of the skin and God only knows why this happens. The nevus may be a mole—that 4s, a small protuberant spot, stain or blemish, with or without coarse hairs growing in it, or it may be a mere port wine or claret stain in the skin, or a warty mass, or a fatty mass, or just a purple blemish willed with veins, or an abnormally pale or white patch in the skin. Whatever name you prefer to give it, nevus is congenital (that is, pres- ent at birth) but not inherited, not an indication of any “marking” or maternal impression, not a taint, not a sign of any deficiency or fgult on the part of parent or other forebear, but just a bit of bad luck which may happen to any human being and de- serves the sympathy of all human | beings, | The kindest way to manifest your |sympathy for any such blemish or anomaly or abnormality or peculiarity tis to ignore it absolutely, to carry on |as though you have never noticed it. Even if the victim insists on discuss- ing it with you in any way, then be as sincere a liar as you can and min- imize the enormity of the blemish as much as you can. Above all, never express sympathy to the victim if you don’t wish to earn the victim’s ill will or hatred. As a rule it seems that individuals who are too prone to shower sympathy upon these crea- tures of unkind fate have the least charity for them. Flat nevi, whether white or pig- mented, may be concealed by the skillful use of cosmetics. Dr. William | A. Pusey suggests as a paint for con- | cealing patches of leukoderma (pic- | bald skin) a mixture of two drams of glycerin, 1!2 ounces of zinc oxid | and 1% ounces of calamin in a pint) of water. To this ichthyol should be | added drop by drop until a tint to; |match the normal skin is obtained—j| | usually from 10 to 60 drops of ich-; thyol will be necessary. | For more permanent concealing of | flat blemishes tattooing is now used, but here we warn against the tink- ering af amateurs or quacks. For one thing, such crude surgical efforts ; are likely to produce hideous results. For another thing, any unnecessary irritation of a nevus predisposes to the development of cancer. Only the physician or specialist of good profes- sional standing and RESPONSIBIL- ITY should be intrusted with the treatment of a blemish. In a later talk we shall consider the best methods for the removal or cos- eee improvement of these blem- hes. ) 2 | Political Questi 5 t] HORIZONTAL Answer to Previous Puzzle —13.Chairman of 1 Father. the platform 5 Ditches. committee at 10 Who was the the Democratic Democratic national con- candidate for vention. president of 15 Neither. U. S. A. in 1896, 17 Alienated. 1900, and 1908? 19 Abrupt. 11 From what 21 Threshold state does U.S, 24 Trap. Senator Burton 26 Contends. K, Wheeler 29 To ran away, come? 31 Spirits. 13 Opposite of 34 Forced air cold. with violence 14 Giver 37 Company. 62 Allotted. through the 16To eat away, 39 Prostrate. 63 To peruse. nose. 18 Type of lily. 41 Poisonous VERTICAL — 36'Followed 29 Prickly pear ptomaine. 1 Painters. after 22 Thick shrubs. 43Gratn. 2 Per 38 Propelled by 23 Examinatjons, 45 After song. 3 Evil. oars, 25 Small me- 47 Popular cant.: 4 Soon. 40 Bordered. morial, 48 Black bird. 5 Having*(cer- 42 To inhume. 27 House cat. 28 Oily hydro- of rye. or comprehend it. He understands the income tax, but the rent tax? No. He doesn’t take the trouble to. (That's why he is @ fool) If he wasn’t a fool he'd give a little thought to the matter and wake up to the fact that if his city’s expendi- ture were budgeted in a business-like way, if the appalling extravagance and waste in running the city gov- ernment were cut down, his own per- expel The fool doesn’t realize that, afte: all is said and signed, he pays the If the city increases the land- lord’s tax, the landlord simply passes the increase along to the tenants, as The County Problem When the high cost of government 4s discussed, the organization of the typical American county ought not to ig one thing, counties are far too and consequently far too num- lines were fixed in the he has every right to do. If he didn’t he’d be out of pocket and even a landlord has to live. And speaking of landlords, for the first time in our life we're kind of sorry for them. The tenants are yelling for lower rents and the gov- ernment, on penalty of foreclosure, higher taxes, so what's the landlord to do. We know plenty carbon. 52 Local position. 30The populace. 53Alcohelic 32 Railroad. ketone. 33 Closes with 55 Dogma. wax. 57 Guided. 35 Railroad 58 Contrived. station 60 One who aims. iad i NS 50 Fungus disease TPA N"| | LEN COP “| | LEN Ae ae tain) morals: 44 Clan symbol. 6 Upon. 46 Age, 7 Devouted. 49 Manufactured 8 Sour. as cloth. 9To pry about. 51 To lacerate. 10 Wattle tree. 54 Kindled. 41Gave way to 56 Scarf. , dejéction, 39 Southeast. 12 Snake. GY Mother éeene N* | S QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Cross Eye. Six year old daughter has slowly developed a crossed left eye in the past six months, and after a recent attack of mumps it has become more noticcable. What is the best way to deal with this? (Mrs. J. M. K.) Answer—Glasses fitted by the phy- sician after the child’s eyes have been kept at rest with atropine for a few days, and special exercise of the eye that turn, with the straight eye cov- ered. Olive Oil For three years I have been taking a tablespoonful of olive oil every evening after supper. The other day I read that olive oil causes soap- stones to form in the intestine... (L. C.) Answer—Well, what harm if it does? It doesn’t unless you take more than you can digest. Olive oil is good food, if you like it. Persons who take large doses of olive or other oil, plai: ‘or disguised, are likely to notice such “soapstones” and some charlatans make gullible customers believe the soapstones are gallstones. CONEY’S BIGGEST SHOW Coney Island, N. ¥., July 28.—Fun goes on as usual at Coney Island to- day. The one-million-people who ordi- narily show up over a week-end to buy hot dogs and ice cream; to rent bathing suits and hug girl friends in the Cave of the Winds, has been swelled to a couple of million. The first million are regular; the new million is drawn by the same curio- sity that takes crowds to scenes of murder and disaster. The million of “regulars” who step on each others faces each Sunday have taken Coney as a playground. The fact that Coney Island is also a@ bustling little city, with year- round residents who rarely attend the freak shows or ride on the scenic railway, is emphasized by the fire news. Figures of Coney Island Chamber of Commerce state that some 6000 persons force the civic aspects of Coney on the public. For Coney’s civic body says that nearly 6000 per- sons have been left homeless by the fire last Wednesday. Such statistics may, in the end, change the entire playground status of America’s most famous summer spot. These 6000 will need help. And Coney wonder how many of the mil- lions who have used its sands, its ocean and its play-places will come to the rescue. * ok & A FIRE-PROOF FUTURE And yet, fun goes on as usual at Coney wonders how many of the mil- There were tens of thousands who accepted its $5,000,000 fire as the greatest free show Coney has ever staged. In Steeplechase and Luna they have staged pyrotechnic dramas, in which cities and states were des- troyed. These cost from ten cents to two-bits. But this time for the price of car fare, a vast audience could watch an actual holocaust. The Coney Chamber of Commerce sighs and admits that the destruc- tion will have to become a largely local matter. Like the freaks and sideshows of the boardwalk, the town itself has become a mere part of the playground atmosphere. As a matter of fact, hard-working residents rent out rooms to summer slummers; grocers and butchers and department stores depend upon the home town trade. ee ‘True that the Prince of Wales de- manded to be shown Coney Island as first stage of his itinerary. So did Queen Marie. They all gasped at the ‘lurid papier mache and wooden superstructure; the lights and the tinsel. But Coney will strive from this {moment on to be a fireproof town. When that section which lies in blackened heaps recovers, the rule will be that all future buildings be fireproof. For ten years there has are scores of buildings more than ten years old. * * * ALWAYS A SHOW! The populace of some 60,000 will gather, while outsiders gasp to the thrill of steep dips and chute the chutes, and solemnly decide how the town that is their home shall be re- built. There has even been advanced a plan that the state take over the burned area and convert it into a park. The Wax Works will have a new display showing lurid details of the disaster. The fat woman, the hu- man skeleton, the bird girl and the} rubber man will be grateful that their fragile fabrics have been saved. ‘The managers will be pleased at the extra crowds attracted by the ruins. Coney will wonder about its home- less. It will wonder about its injured and its unclothed. Typical of the situation is the fact that the Log Cabin Lunch Room on Surf Avenue became a temporary hospital. While dressings for the burned were being prepared, on the sidewalk a sign mockingly referred to the place as a “whoopee garden.” From their high point atop a chute, a Ferris wheel or a@ roller coaster, the mob is still getting a grand view of the charred pano- rama. For fun goes on as usual at Coney Island! * * * Incidentally, this is the first free “Tower of Flames” show Coney has ever staged. It’s last great fire ca- tastrophe was in 1911. That one was discovered about 2 o’clock in the morning. This time at least 100,000 were on hand when the first tongue of flame went up from the boardwalk. Be- fore the night display was at its peak, the number of sightseers had doubled. Christ would not live long if He returned to earth today. He would see the world still bleeding from the wounds of the most terrible war in the history of mankind. He would see nations doing their utmost to per- fect weapons more destructive, more shattering, more terrible than any in- vented and utilized in the World War.—David Lloyd George, ex-pre- mier of Great Britain. If we examine what has taken place at Washington during the past 30 years or more, we cannot escape the conviction that something is go- ing on which is structurally chang- ing the character of our politicai democracy.—Clifton D. Gray, presi- dent, Bates College. Modern science has shown us how to load a large part of the grinding labor upon the backs of soulless, feel- ingless machines so that leisure of the higher things is now a possibility for everyone.—Dr. Robert A. Milli- kan, scientist. been such a regulation, but there | Life in America has been growing too rank, growing all to leaf and vine and not to fruit and harvest. We needed some pruning and we have been getting it.—Bishop Lester H. Smith, Methodist Episcopal Church, bs TODAY . anoieeahy GERMANS IN RETREAT On July 28, 1918, American and French troops pushed German forces back nearly five miles in the Marne salient in a day of bitter fighting. Americans crossed the Ourcq in ‘many places despite stubborn resist- ance by German troops. French and American troops en- tered Fere-en-Tardenois after the day's advance and reached the out- skirts of Ville-en-Tardenois. Thousands of prisoners and vast quantities of equipment and ammu- nition were lost by the hastily re- treating Germans. Allied military observers hailed the victory on the Marne as the most decisive conflict on the western front since the first battle of the Marne in 1914. STICKERS OLCDADEKREWD See if you can switch the above letters around so that, reading from left to right, they form the abbreviation for a month, a state, a title and a day. Nowadays, the person who wants to loaf has a lot of crust. BEGIN HERE TODAY CHERRY DIXON, pretty 19- year-old daughter of wealthy par- e marries DAN PHILLIP: She and Dan move into a chea apartment and Cherry's first stra: gles with housework are discou: aging. DIXIE SHANNON, movi critic of the News, is friendly. MAX 0 of the News, who Cherry me handsome IRS. DIXON other climate mother’s health, meets her. lnborate in which from her, Dan asks Bre! to New York with him, to go—in a week. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XLIV Beeps VAIL spread more the bluish-gray paste on her face. She smeared it on like mask beginning at the edge of the towel, pinned tightly about her forehead, and working downwa! to the base of her neck. She patt fingers and when she had finish The eyes looked like slits in tl her, fastened at the waist by She rose from the dressing tab! mask must remain on her face relaxing as magazine articles beauty experts always advise, room or in the apartment. The form and ruffled cap appear there only when Miss Vail h: Minnie Johnson, though on duty she o'clock, Ten minutes passed and then darkened with annoyance, the soft, wet compound with her only her eyes and mouth showed. gray mask. Brenda's lips, usually so vividly crimson, were pallid and Pressed together in a tight line, Here in the privacy of her bed- room Brenda had abandoned the luxurious chiffons and satins she usually wore. A cotton kimona, faded and soiled, was draped about safety pin. Her hair was concealed by the turban-like towel. Shapeless bedroom slippers covered her feet. went to the chaise longue and lay back against it with a sigh. The minutes and the watch at her wrist gave the time as 2 little after two o'clock. Brenda closed her eyes, There was no one else in the maid who wore the crisp, gray uni- visitors to impress, Her name was answered to “Yvonne.” Yvonne was to arrive this afternoon at four bell shrilled loudly. The telephone in the next room. Brenda’s eyes There was nothing for her to do, however, but arise and answer the call. The heelless bedroom slippers flopped clumsily as Brenda walked. She tad te push back the cloth about her head so that she could hold the instrument to her ear. It was a French telephone done in ivory enamel, “Hello,” she said. Dan Phillips was speaking. His voice sounded eager and excited. “Is that you, Brenda?” he asked and went on without giving her time to reply. “Wanted to tell you I've just seen the boss, Told him I was through with the Wellington News and this town, too. I'm quit- ting Saturday. Everything’s all settled—" “You mean you've given up your job?” “Sure, Why not? I had to quit if we leave for New York Saturday, didn’t I? I thought you'd be glad to hear it! It won’t be long now, Brenda!” There was no change of expres- sion on the woman's face. The clay mask made that impossible. But resentment sounded in her voice. “Don’t you think you should have waited?” she asked, “There's nothing to wait for! Say, I feel better already. Listen, Brenda, I want to talk to you. Sup- pose I drop around as near to five as I can make it? We'll have din- ner together—’ . of . S#= interrupted. “Not this eve- ning, Dan, I—I'm so sorry but I’ve been having a beastly headache, I'm going to lie down and try to sleep, That's what I was doing when you called.” “Oh, I’m sorry! Shouldn’t have bothered you, Maybe if you have some rest you'll feel better.” “I hope so.” Instinctively Bren- da’s voice had become the delicate, faintly martyred tone of the in- valid. “Then I won't keep you any longer. Will it be all right if I call back early in the evening? I do want to see you tonight.” Brenda started to say “no,” hest- tated, and qualified by telling him that he might telephone. She couldn't promise to see him though because her head was raging— “And, like an imbecile, I keep you there talking, Forgive me! ‘.oodby, Brenda, I hope you feel a lot better soon.” She said “goodby”—almost too cheerfully—and put down the tele phone. Brenda let the gray mask remain on her face another 10 minutes, Then she applied steaming hot cloths until the ugly clay was re- moved, The beautifying began in earnest now. Lotions and creams and cubes of ice, Brenda worked with practiced fingers. She patted and molded and smoothed out the tiny lines about her eyes and rd ed ed he le, 20 by ed. ad with atinging ointment that brought color rushing to ber cheeks. It was an hour's work but when it was completed undeniably the years had dropped away. Almost Brenda ced have passed for 26 instead of Sho glanced at her watch again. Twenty-five minutes until four. Well, that was time enough. Yvonne would come in time to arrange the tea table. There was a desk to the right of the window and Brenda sat down before it, Half a dozen letters lay on the desk. All of them had been opened and in five the contents was strikingly similar. “On account due from Miss Brenda Vail” most of them began. One was from the management of the apartment ho- tel. Another was from a New York dress shop, There was a bank state ment, imposing in its long enve lope, but the figures on that state- ment were anything but impressive. She passed over all these, picked up the sixth envelope, It was buff colored. Thick, expensive looking stationary. The handwriting on the sheet inside the envelope was masculine, It read: “Dear Miss Vail: I will be in Wellington next Monday on my way to Hollywood and hope to see you to discuss screen rights of the stories about which I wrote before, My time necessarily will be limited and I am taking the liberty to ask it I may call on you at about 4: Since I must reach tl udio Wed- nesday my stop in Wellington will be only between trains. I am hope ful that we may come to an agree ment that will be mutually satis- factory. With sincerest regards. —™M. P. Harris.” That was the note Brenda read. When she looked up her eyes were lighted with radiance far more effective than any beauty pack. “He's coming!” she - whispered aloud. “Brenda Vail, you're having your chance today. You can’t fail now! You can’t!” * 2 « 1 across her forehead. She finished|The HE was on her feet, suddenly transformed into a flame of energy, There was much to be done yet. Dozens of things, Why hadn’t Yvonne arrived? What about those flowers? The man had Promised they would be delivered early and here {t was nearly four! Yvonne should be preparing the tea things! Brenda flounced to the dressing table for last minute touches of rouge and powder puff. She applied the Mp rouge with trembling fin- gers. It smudged, had to be re moved agd done over again. She adjusted dangling gold ear drops, sprayed her hair with scent and Bot into the costume spread out on the bed, It had been purchased two days before—immediately on receipt of Mr. Harris’ letter—and was exactly Brenda Vail's idea of attire suitable in which to receive an important figure of the motion picture world. jade green velvet fell into graceful trousers. The bodice molded her figure closely and was h bi on the tray, better begin right away with the sandwiches!” Brenda assured herself. lighted it and placed it to her lips, Then she sat down. It amused her to think of Dan Phillips. Headache —she had managed that very nice ly! that tiresome youth when the great chance of her career was at hand? thought. “Won't he be surprised to be a scene, of course. Well, he's self!” instant later the bell rang and Yvonne hurried through the room to answer it. herself, Another instant and a figure flung itself through the doorway. Phillips stood there waving some thing in h this mean?” accented by a girdle of cloth of gold. neckline with a ruby clasp. stepped into sandals of gold kid and buckled the straps. Bills, bills! There would be more bills for this new finery but what was expenses on such an occasion?” Brenda fastened the low She “I’m going to Hollywood!” The thought danced madly in Brenda's mind. There would be money enough there! wood to write for the movies!” “I'm going to Holly- The bell rang and she answered it. Yvonne had arrived, prompt to the minute, Brenda began to snap out orders to the girl. “Remember—the cocktails in the crystal glasses, Yes, they’re ready. mixed them myself. The shaker Yes, of course! You'd A MESSENGER delivered the box of yellow roses and Brenda arranged them in a low bowl. She placed the bowl on the table beside the davenport, then moved it to the opposite side of the room where the flowers were reflected in a mirror. The setting must be exactly right. Every detail was important. Brenda stepped back in the doorway, sure veying the living room. A fire was crackling in the fireplace and the dancing flames cast a warm glow over the room. nearer to the hearth. That was for Mr, Harris. davenport where the light was flat- tering and the table for the cock- tail tray conveniently near. She pulled a chair She would take the Brenda moved to the fireplace, held out fingers that were icy to the blaze. “It's because I'm nervous,” she told herself, “and there's no reason for it, Of course everything’s going to be all right!” She went back to the kitchenette to give Yvonne final instructions. It was 20 minutes past four now. “He'll be here any minute,” She took cigaret from a lacquered box, How could she bother with “So he's given up his job!” she ear the news, The {diot! There'll rought the whole thing on him- Brenda shrugged, smiling, An “Now!” Brenda whispered to “Now—!" There were voices in the foyer. Dan ant “Brenda!” he cried, “What does (To Be Continued) q@)