The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 6, 1931, Page 6

! ] BY JESSIE DOUGLAS FOX—[ JCOanued from Page One) they were penniless, not even that at you to do what you don't want | —— - they werc adventurers, but that to.” Nérah brushed back her dark |her father’s restlessness was a con-+ “What do you want to do?” she hair, thrust-her feet into straw san- |Suming passion. How many places| asked. dals and, dragging a coolie coatthey had lived in this last year| . rainer uunk 1 snau o a joyer her pajamas, went down the alone! Julian Lake was enchanted |, . 1o saiq casually, “not any of stairs to the salon. The room reeked of smoke and spilled wine. 8ba unhooked the blinds, but the last, one resisted her. The salon looked tawdry. night when the candles were lit it seemed almost palatial, but in the pitiless morning light the marble floot was seamed with cracks; the eprved chairs were worm-eaten and the tapestry, with the Medici coat of arms, sagged from the wall like @ rag. She picked up two glasses and a | bottle and went toward the stairs to the kitchen. Magdalenna re- sented intrusion of her quarters, and it was no wonder, Norah thought, stepping over a string of red peppers that had fallen from the rafters. The charcoal| brazier was unlit, on the table was, a bag that had disgorged its contents of gnarled green apples, apd onions and garlic rioted beside it. Yet in this kitchen Magdalenna coyld conjure up delicious dishes. Norah picked out the least worm caten of the apples, poured herself a glass of milk and cut a slice of bread from the end of the loaf that was not yet moldy. She unlatched the kitchen door and walked up two steps into the garden. At was cool and fresh in the| marrow wild garden. She could} hear the birds talking cozily among | themselves about what they wou]d have for breakfast. Here at the end ©f the garden stood a plaster faun | that enchanted her father. Green patina overlaid one f L% * a but the lewd satirical grimace on his face had not beén altered by 18in or weather. She put down her glass of milk, | stepped out of her sandals and felt | At | SEARCH SUNRISE - e NATURAL, {POLLY'? .Mth a view of the Mediterranean | ypie’ min o stuff, you understand. jor a dark hill that rose behmd‘Bm Eomethlng— he made a sweep them. He could paint here, hel o pic arm, “something good.” would tell Nora exultantly. But. His face was charming when he before the month was out the villa {smiled. Tt lost the look of inso- was too chilly to work in or hely. .e and seemed young and boy- was dying of the sultry heat. S“‘lsh gy dred jon. | They saw the rector coming to- Once in England she had a cough ' ward them and the boy sald in that annoyed her father. So he that same, casual tone, “Your hair gave her ten pounds—a magnificent |is like dark beech leaves.” sum—and told her to do what she| She knew that it was time to chose with it, but to leave him in'go as the rector joined them. peace. l “Good-by, my dear child, and ‘ Norah, munching her apple, took |God bless you,” the old man said. |out this precious memory and hung ' She saw the boy’s greenish eyes it in the sunlight, much as Magda- |and his fair hair as she turned the | lenna hung out her scarlet and yel-|corner on her bicycle and waved a |low skirts, last time with an abandon that al- | 'She remembered how she hired a|most sent her into a ditch. bicycle and set out to explore the| She tried to remember his name | world. She had stopped at little| now. Suddenly it came to her. Jon- lost villages where she had a clean | athon Thayer. Perhaps she had re- bed for the night for two shil-|membered it all so vividly this lings. She had talked to anyone morning because the tall shaggy DOUGLASP-T.A. HOLDS SESSION! dancing hoof, | |who would answer her, and many |Dainter was named Thayer aiso. {had scemed to find this slim, brown, blue-eyed child strange and Jovely. It was in Sussex she had met old Mr. Frewen. He was the rector of the small \village and he had taken her into the rectory with its faded chintzes {and its shabby books. A tall, fair | boy with a pale, clear-cut face, had |bowed to her without a word. Miss | Frewen, the rector’s sister, had poured tea from the Sheffield serv-| | ive. Norah, glancing about the room | felt its charm. It was a home. It ‘lmd deep Toots. She wished she might stay there forever. The gen- tle qld man questioned her about her travel. “And where is your father?” he had asked. “Oh, he was tired of me,” Norah explained, “but later I shall join the wet grass about her ankles,i From where she stood she could see the walls that closed in the sun- villa with its green blinds faded to the blue of old turquoise. A rose bush, with glossy leaves and pale buds that smelled like apples bad given the place its banal name. JIn this moment she was lost in the narrow wild garden, soaring up among the tree tops, on and on| through the golden air like the bird | that darted upward and melted into the blue. It lasted a moment this strange ecstasy, and then she was standing ankle-deep in wet grass, Bupgry and bare-footed ing over the stone on which 8bg,sat, she saw one of the snakes that lived there had eome out to an himself. He was a little fellow with a mnarrow golden pe. She bent down and picked up by the tail. There was a rithing motion and something ed away through the grass was holding only his shell back; you left your pants " she called to him. Her was like that. she thought; n how hard you seemed to " him between thumb and fin- e had a way of leaving you the supreme fact of their n _existence was not that him.” “And your mother?” “She died when I was seven. I've had to bring my father up alone,” Norah confided, “and. sometimes I don't think I've made a very good job of it.” Mr. Frewen said it would be very pleasant if they went to see the garden. He left them walking alone. But once he had gone the boy said: “Dreadful old fogics, aren't they? I'm glad I go up to London tomor- Tow."” “I loved them.” He smiled and one of his eye- brows lifted in a superior way. “When you are as old as I am you'll know most of our elders are awful people.” “How old are you?” she asked. “Twenty,” he said with pride. She hastily decided to concea! her age from him. No one would think her 15, she was such a tall, brown, thin creature. “You only think they're dread- ful. If you knew Julian, my fath- erl” Impetuously she told him how unlike a fogy her father was. “Well, he may not be so bad,” the boy admitted. “Let’s you alone, doesn't he, and doesn't go nagging | | She would ask him if he had ever |known a Jonathon Thayer. The sun was hot on her bare head. The dream was fled. She was back again in Ttaly sittingz on a rock in the sun, staring at the villa that Mrs. N had lent tnem while she weul on to the 1ialian Lakes, (Copyright, 1930, Jessie Douglas Fox) Being unhappy—is that liv- ing? Nora's father doesn’t di pute her explanation of Thay- er's presence tomorrow. Nora heard her father’s bolsterous wel come tc the painter, Nicholas Thayer. FOR YOUR GARDEN Marigolds, Snapdragons and other bedding plants, five cents each. Pansies in bloom, seventy-five cents per dozen. adv. JUNEAU FLORISTS ——— - ELKS' NOTICE! Initiation and important busi- ness! Members and visitors urged to attend. Refreshments. Wednes- day, May 6th, tonight. M. S. JORGENSEN, —adv. Exalted Ruler. o L ] Juneau Recreation Parlors EMILIO ‘GALAO, Prop. BOWLING—POOL Lower Front Street CHARLEY’S: AUNT LALWAYS GET 3 > TO BED BEFORE SUNRISE ! DOUGLAS | NEWS Epan \ Martha Pohnert Makes Ad- dress — Election of Officers Held An important business session was held and a very interesting pro- gram was given at the last regu- lar meeting for the school term of the Douglas Parent-Teacher Asso- ciation last evening. “Twenty-one Days with Chinese Bandits” was the subject of a talk by Miss Martha C. Pohnert, who has spent the last sixteen years as a missionary in China. Miss Pohnert related some of the important facts of conditions rela- tive to the lack of vocational training, and particularly Christian schools there. 1In 1914 when she first entered the field of her ren- deavors there was just one Chris- tian school in a city of 750,000 pop- ulation, she said. Since ‘then| nine schools have been opened. It | was while she was in charge pof that school that she had her ex- perience with the Chinese bandit- ry. During the civil war which almost engulfed China, bandit ar- mies over-ran many of the prov- inces of the northern part, looting towns and villages and taking Lhc‘ women and children for ransom. In | spite of repeated warnings to flee | the city with the girls under her | UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT ! | care before the bandits took the c)t,’, Miss Pohnert remained at her | post and successfully carried on | iher work among the bandits with- | cut loss or harm to any in her | school. | Miss Mary Schramen, with two violin solos opened the program | and Mrs. Glen Kirkham sang two songs. Miss Margaret Pearce ac- companied the numbers on the piano. Officers Elected During the business session which preceded the program, officers for | next year were elected and seated, as follows: Mrs. Glen Kirkham, president; Mrs. J. R. Langseth, vice president; Miss Edla Holbrook, sec- retary and Mrs. Jack Sey, treasur- er. A report on finances revealed a balance of something over nine dollars in the treasury. e ——.— HOME DEMONSTRATION | | Miss Fohn-Hansen will be a visi- tor at the home demonstration work meeting which is to be held Friday evening. Everyone interest- ed is invited to attend. i D. F. D. MEETING ‘The regular meeting of the Doug- las Volunteer Fire Department will be held tomorrow evening. ———— SCHOOL DANCE FRIDAY The annual Apron Dance of the Douglas High School will be held Friday night in the Natatorium. OF THE INTERIOR GENERAL LAND OFFICE U. S. LAND OFFICE Anchorage, Alaska, April 3, 1931, Notice is hereby given that L. Juneau, Alaska, described as fol- lows: A tract of land embraced in U. 8. Survey No. 1924 from which corner No. 1 M. C. U. 8. L. M. No. 7 bears N. 45’ 50' W. 5.7 chains, containing 7.09 acres. Latityde §8° 18 33" N. Longitude 134° 28’ 177 W. The proof is now in the files of the U. S. Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska. Any and all persons claiming ad- versely any of the above mentioned land should file their adverse claims in the local land office at Anchorage, within the period of publication otherwise ‘they will be barred by the provisions of the Statutes. J. LINDLEY GREEN, Register. First Publication, April 29, 1931. { Last Publication, June 24, 1931. NOTICE The Auxiliary, Pioneers of Alas- ka, will give a Public Card Party after their meeting Friday, May !8th at 8 pm. Refreshments and prizes. Admission 50 cents. adv. —teo———— LEAVES HOSPITAL Guy McNaughton, who was in St. Ann's Hospital a few days, has returned to his home. DOUGLAS COLISEUM Tonight and Thursday JACK OAKIE in ‘LET’S GO NATIVE’ F. Morris has made application for a Soldiers’ Additional Homestead serial 06940, for a tract of land, situate 2% miles north-west from! Wow! What a Picture! 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