The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 30, 1931, Page 6

{ i H ¥ i i 3 H i | 3 ‘| Ol NEIGHBOR'S SIGHT-SEEIN'. W‘fl"\". e ] X 4 LR NOSEY St TmN COUPLA COATS ON TOP OF THIS HERE PARTY POLLY AND HER LL HAVE HAD HIS LAST BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF US PERKINS'/ e PALS ettt Mad¥e UV BY JESSIE DOUGLAS FOXm SYNOPSIS: At the home of Ncra Lake’s late hucband, Ni- chclas Thayer, ncar Albany, hic step-cicter, Damon Van Veret, blames her for having failed to prevent his suicide. But, impclled by duty to Ni- ehclas, she acks Nora to live with them. Jonathon Thayer's frank talk to her concerning his brciher overcomes Nora's diclikc for him, but it fiames ancw when the cverhears his refercnce to her “wretched tramp of a father,” Planning scen to live at the Thayer place, Ncra returns to the home of her Aunt Emily and finds a letter from Italy, advising that her fathcr's marriage plans are called off. She joins her aunt and cousins, Frances—de- serted by her husband—and erippled Hallie, at dinner. Poor young Dr. Mere is their guest. Chapter 19 DOES JON WANT HER? Like a spectator Nora looked about at the faces gathered around | the table of her Aunt Emily's house; Aunt Em, Fran, Hallie, and young Dr. More with his sensi- tive mouth; each one of whom was defeated by life, struggling against poverty and drudgery, hard work and illness. Against the instability | that such a precarious existence en- tails, she saw the solidity of the old Thayer mansion. Dr. More had turned to her and was asking, “Your aunt tells me you have lived so long in Eurcpe, have you ever stayed in Germany? I want to go there one day to study.” “No,” she answered indifferently, “I've never been there. And not for years and years do I want to go away. If you know how glad I am to be home!" He nodded silently, looking at the faces under the glow of the yellow globe. Sheets of rain blew against the windows. The dining room was warm and cozy and they were rest- ed and stimulated by the hot food. Nora saw his look and she added honestly, “I meant, with my hus- band’s people. Do you know the Van Vorsts?” she asked with sud- den interest. He told her no, drawing his vel- vely brows together. Nora com- pared him with Jon again, his thin plain face, sensitive, humorous, eager, without Jon's pride of race. But Jon was treacherous. ... Her heart swelled with anger as she thought of him. “Mr. Van Vorst bought up all the land down by the river for a mile,” Nora said for the pleasure of thinking aloud about them. “Van Vorst,” Fergus More mused. “I think T do remember that name now. Was it he who bought up a whole village so that the people who were foreigners had no_place to go and had to give up their livelihood —it seemed a great pity to make those people leave what had once been a thriving settlement,” he concluded. Nora said impetuously, at this hint of criticism, “I'm sure it's much more important to preserve that beautiful country without ugly small shacks—" “Yes, more beautiful for the Van Vorsts,” he admitted. She flashed a glance at him. He| did not approve of her, she could see, but who was this poor strug- gling young doctor to approve or disapprove? After supper when Fran had car- ried the sleepy baby up to bed, she returned to play the violin for them. Nora was carried out of her- self, away from the firelight and intent faces to the old Dutch house standing high above the yiver. There life was lived beauti- fully, gracefully, and there she too wonld live it. 4That night as she and Frances went to bed, she told her her plans. . “Don't you want us to help you with your clothes?” Fran offered offered her opinion: d shces and hats. A well dres | woman should think of those first. | Nora looked at Hallie in the drab | brown dress with the sleeves that |showed, her bony wrists, and the | high black shoes laced about her distorted ankles. . . . jtered about the table where Fran- {ces pinned lengths of crepe de |chine to tissue paper patterns, |while Aunt Em made the sewing | machine hum, and Hallie set in |one fine stitch after the other. There was something pleasantly | intimate in these evenings as they |laughed and talked together. | “Mother, take those pins out of |your mouth; you're worse than | Dickie!” | Aunt Emily laughed and related "one of Dickie's amusing experi- | ences. | Nora listened, joined in their i laughter, drawn closer to the heart | of the family. She saw that poverty i had not embittered them. It seemed to have added a zest for the hopes and struggles and small triumphs that they faced each day. On Monday Jon was to come for | her. On Monday the sport dress tleaf green, the white crepe that i‘Fran had made so exquisitely, the jcrisp linen were .all laid between tissue paper; the slippers, the small hat, and suede gloves were ready to slip on, on the instant. And it was oh Monday that Dickie was burned. ‘The colored woman, Mattie, who came every Monday to wash, had lifted a pail of boiling water from the stove, and Dickie, who had ibeen piaying under the Kkitchen | table, ran full tilt into it. | Nora heard his sudden, piercing scream. She rushed downstairs to find the baby in agony and Mattie, | ashen-gray, groaning and crying out to the good Lord to save them all!| It was Dr. More who lifted him up | to his bed. “Will he live?” Nora whispered beside Dr. More in the bedroom. He did not even answer as he gave his orders. “The antiseptic cotton, and tele- phone the drug store for this—" he said, scrawling a list. “Hurry!” She heard Dickie's small moans like those of a tortured animal. She spent a terrible morning trying to ,get'Aunt Em who had gone out to give music lessons. Fran came home, so white and sick with fear that Nora could not bear to see her. “Frances will help me,” Dr. More told Nora curtly. Fran's intense quiet, Hallie so strong in this emergency were strange to Nora. Nora went out to the kitchen closet and hid her face on the towel crying, “Please God, let him live. Just let him live.” She knew she could do nothing for them. Aunt Em would be home at any minute now and Frances and Hallie were here. She would go with Jon when he came at five, she thought, washing the dishes in greasy dish water. All day she had been answering the telephone, solicitous neighbors had come in; but she would still have time to dress and be ready for Jon. ‘The bell rang again and she hur- ried up the back stairs. She opened the door to see Jon Thayer stand- [ing there. Back of him was the thin spring sunlight opening on a world that she had almost forgot- ten existed. “Are you ready?” he asked pleas- antly. “I know I'm a little early.” i He Jooked at her hands still wet, and greasy and at the kitchen apron she had not yet taken off. Her resentment at his superb in- | difference flared up. | “The baby'’s been burned. may not live,” she told him. “Is there anything I can do?” But he was not really touched. His indifference angered her. “I don’t see how I can leave them,” she said. | | He planned on going and then these words had sprung to her lips. But “The most important things are| In the evenings now they clus-/ ori A few minutes before she had | In some way that was obscure to her she knew that she and Jon were fighting a battle with hidden weapons: Jon with his indifference and she with her distrust. He must urge her! He must reassure her; tell her that he had been expecting her, and she walted. | “Damon expects you,” he smiled. He did not say that he wanted her to come. “No, I can't come.” “Very soon then, nexi week, when he is out of danger?” | He stood smiling on the steps. He drew in a breath of fresh airas though the atmosphere of the dingy iold house had clouded his lungs. Then he ran down to his car. \ (Copyright 1930, Jesse Douglas Fox) A letter from Damon Mon- day ccnfronts Nora with hard reality, and tears blot out a doctor’s compliment. DOUGLAS NEWS —_— MAYOR KILBURN TO MAKE TRIP EAST; LEAVES MONDAY An interesting trip planned by Mayor L. W. Kilburn begins for him next Monday when he takes the Yukon for the routh to attend the annual session of the grand lodge I. O. O. F., which convenes at Spokane on June 8. Following his representation of the Douglas Odd Fellows at the meeting, Mr. Kilburn intends to go East to at- tend the 150th Anniversary of the founding of Stferling, Mass, the town in which he was born. Mr. Kilburn remembers distinctly the occasion of the 100th Anniversary celebration of Sterling which took place when he was just a young lad. He has several brofiiers £nd sisters living there still, and a cou- sin of Mr. Kilburn's, who is judge of the Supreme Court of Massa- chusetts, is to be speaker of the day. During Mr. Kilburn’s absence, Councilman H. L. Cochrane will be acting mayor of Douglas. e ——— GOETZ ON BEAR HUNT A. E. Goetz left yesterday as a member of a hunting party with Judge Harding and George Folta, for a ten-day quest of the big brown bear in the Whiting River district. e, BIG' FEATURE AT COLISEUM The “Big Trail,” a gigantic Fox movietone drama of frontier days is the unusual attraction for Sun- day at the local Coliseum. Twen- ty . thousand players, savage In- dians, charging buffalo, battles, swollen - rivers, blinding blizzards, make up this great play. ———————— Old Papers &t ihe Emplre. CLOSED , ACCOUNT MEMORIAL DAY Doug Church Services Noticee fo: thie cnarcn column must be recelved by The Empire not later than 10 c'clock Baturday morning to guarantee change of sermon topics, etc S bl i ot L Douglas Catholic Church { L oy e n ey e e e Sunday, May 31—Feast of the Most Holy Trinity. 1:00 p.m.—Sunday School. et G -] | St. Luke's Episcopal Church | No evening service. Douglas Native Presbyterian Churth "HARRY WILLARD, Lay Worker Meets Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons. T Con;rent‘l:);nl Communi‘y h Chure] | B e s i “"REV, PHILLIF E, BAUER. Sunday school at 10:30 a. m. Preaching services 11:30 a. following Sumday. school. FORMER CHANNEL GIRL! IS COMING FOR VISIT Mrs. C. E. Bwert is a passenger aboard the steamer Queen from Se- attle for Juneau, with her young daughter. Mrs. Ewert, (nee Ruth Wilson) will visit this summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wilson. She attended school in m, 600D OUTLOOK FOR THIS YEAR ‘Mining Wom.ikely to Be | More Extensive Than 1 Last Season FAIRBANKS.—“€verybody in the Livengood camp is working| land taking advantage of what water there is,” Sam Godfrey, who |returned to Fairbanks ' after in- }specting his mining holdings there is quoted as saying by| the Fair- |banks News-Miner. “Prospects are |that this season will be equally as |good if not better than last year. | “Tony Silva and his partners, George Gadoff and Tony Bann, |are drifting on the Virgin claim {on Livengood. They have pay. Fritz Dangel has a hple to bed- rock on the left limit benches op- head of Livengood, are preparing to drift. “On Lucky Guleh Henry Sproul = e s I . > ] / |has very good pay in drifting ground. He has a working shaft . . to bedrock. ~The ground is being posite the town and is ‘going to do| “Ted Hudson is operating on some sluicing this summer. The|ground owned by Mrs. Julia Frisco brothers, working at the|Wheeler, Luther C. Hess and Mike worked under a lease from Jack McCandless and C. H. LaBoyteaux. “Chris Stedelman is working at the head of Amy Creek on ground formerly owned by Jack Nelson. “On the benches of Gertrudeand Glenn Gulch ,Chub Douglas and Luther C. Hess have a good open cut proposition. They have two cuts with about 30,000 feet of bed- rock ready to clean up and with any water at all will have a good summer. “Ben Fall§ has an open cut lay-| out at the head of Ruth Pup. Carl) Olander is working the Barker and Godfrey property on Lillian Creek. “Nick Mandich and John Jurich, who purchased the interest of M. Beegler last year, are open cut- ting. good season. Two Cuts on Olive “On Olive Creek, Cliff and Jim Hudson have struck pay dirt on No. 1 above and are now working two cuts. The ground is shal- low and has the earmarks of be- ing something very good. Wagner. He has started sluicing. “Several stampedes have been! made to Wilbur and it now begins| Three Deliveries Daily Frye-Bruhn Company ‘ . PACKERS—FRESH MEATS. FISH AND POULTRY | Frye's Delicious Hams and Bacon | {Barbers See Double Edge They should have a very| prr e e Phone 7 Douglas and Juneau and is a real Alaska girl. ston pin tebt—showing the many marvelously accurategaugesusedtomain- tain Chevrolet quality standards unsurpassed automotive industry, must 'be within 1% ten If you could see the new Chevrolet Six being built, you would understand why it performs so well, lasts so long and brings somuch satisfaction and vleasure to its owners. The quality of raw materials is held to ture of the engine alone there are hun- dreds of separate hup.etlmu Pistons are matched in sets to. within one-half ounce. Piston pins one one-thousandth of their specified size. Connecting rods’are: matched -to - within Sol_mdly built te serve you long and well | : B is the subject anywhere in the ounce! In the manufac- ards indiclte ths of The Great American Value P New Low Prices— Chevrolet’s passenger car pricés range from $475 to $650. Truck chassis prices range from $355 to $590. All prices §. o. b. Flint, Mich. Special equip- ment estra. Low delivered prices and easy terms. and are individu- ally fitted by hand. The special alloy- steel crankshaft !rufy amazing care and precision in manufacture and cannot vary from per= fection in balance more than % inch- These few examples of Chevrolet stand- manufacture of every part of the car. - Soundly built to serve you long and well! promise with quality in manufacture means no compromise with complete satisfaction in ownership. | DAY AND NIGHT TAXI SERVICE Stand Opposite Chamber of Commerce Booth | nce of the care used in the No com- NEW CHEVROLET SIX to look like the creek will be a real producer. Joe Haley, Henry Johnson and Granville Lanott are open cutting. They have a lot of bedrock uncovered which they will try to clean up this summer. “During the past winter they put a hole to bedrock on the extreme left limit benches in about the same position pay lies on Liven- good . They have some pay pros- pects in the hole and will con- tinue prospecting next winter. It may develop into something good. “Lee Murray and Billy Mahon and John Cignitti are the sole merchants in Livengood and seem to be getting along well. There are 50 or 60 in the camp now and everyone is working. 3 “All are tickled pink with the prospects of getting a road. “The Hudsons are not doinz any thing with their quicksilver mine on Olive but intend to- develop it further this coming winter. They| have a good showing of cinnabar.” Bulgaria Moves to Limit Students in Universities EOFIA, May 30—Entrance universities in Bulgaria is limited under plans of the tional authorities. The census revealed that whereas the population increased by 13 per | cent and the enrollment grew by 80 | ‘per cent. The authorities have advised par- | ents to teach their sons and daugh- | ters trades, warning them that hun- dreds of young people who gradu- | ate from the universities can't find | “white collar” jobs and have to un- dertake labor for which they are not fitted. - to two | to bel educa- In Tax on Razor Blades FRANKFURT - ON - THE-ODER, Germany, May 30—A tax on razor blades, to check the increasing nu- | mber cf those who do their own sha- aving and to add to government in- come, was suggested at the annua’ meetings of baibers here Y It was figured that a tax cf about a cent and a quarter on every razor blade sold in Germany would give | the treasury $7,400,000 a year. | DOUGLAS COLISEUM Sunday and Monday MARGUERITE CHURCHILL in “THE BIG TRAIL" Movietone All Talking Picture of Trail to the West ACTS NEW COMEDY .. - | The Florence Shop | | Phone 427 for Appointment | | RINGLETTE and NAIVETTE | | CROQUIGNOLE and SPIRAL | I | WAVES | | Beauty Specialists | [ . ile Painting Duco or paint job, var- nishing or striping, no matter how you wish your car refinished we can guar- antee you a first class job and at a price so ridicu- lously low, you cannot af- ford to ride in a shoddy car. No charge for estimat- ing. Juneau Auto Paint Shop Foot of Main Street FOUND A GOOD $6.00 Man’s Shoe generously. p ;*I don't want them to be asham- ed of me,” Nora admitted. _“But how could they? Poverty s to be ashamed of. And father’s father was governor . the state and-WUncle Chapman a judge of the Supreme Court.” my own mother was the seeing Jon face to face she remem- | bered how he had told Damon that | she was a tramp. She wanted Mim | to urge her; to show in some way what he felt toward her. “But there's nothing here for you to do, is there? His mother is with H. S. Graves The Clothing Man him?” .- of a mnelshwh-lkeew; h(: They stood in the narrow hall|| '| " . “An 1” Nora n:\'d aughing. and he glanced at the long line of ‘\ QHOE REPAIR]NG | proud of it! coats on the hooks and up at the ALL RUBBER HE| g discussed just how far her.shabby young doctor who came run- | | SEE BIG v:;;s' et R should go, what she would|ning down to his office without | Opposite Coliseum | E looking toward them. 1 e { - had joined them and shzl “It would be heartless to go.” [ ———— .i s mon e P4 a4l CONNORS MOTOR CO. DISTRIBUTORS “It neither crimps your roll nor ' cramps your style” DEVLIN’S Pt et i Fresh Stock Ball Brand Shu Pacs SABIN’S Everything in Furnishings for Men e T P 4 — o | COLEMAN’S | | Hollywood Style Shop | | “One of Alaska’s” Distinctive | Shops” First .and Main I | D e e 183 . 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