The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 16, 1931, Page 6

~ POLLY AND HER PALS [HOW'S THIS YOUNG BFHE SAYS THAT |F HE J IPSYCHOLOGIST &7 COULD ONLY GET PUPPOSE T'BREAK & HER TO SMILE, THE DOWN DEAREST'S REST WOULD BE RESISTANCE? BASY/ ) LADY witha DAST BY HARRIET HENRY envelopes into the mail box she felt as if an important step in her future was definitely taken. This sense of something about to occur was all very well, but after a week of wandering about alone, not speaking to a soul except the coincelerge and the maitre d'hotel at the Louis-Le-Grand, a clerk or two at the Bankers Trust, and to waiters who served her at this or that cafe, her heart began to sink. She began to feel herself caught in a blind alley from which no open- ing led to the things she wanted to achieve. When she returned to New York she wanted to be able to talk casually about Pigalle’s, Flor- ence’s the Peroquet and the Flor- ida, races at Longchamps and Au- teuil, Count So-and-So and Lord This and-That. But how could she? Walking slowly along the Place Ronald Wainwright, who snub- | 4o 1'Opera one afternoon she mull- bed her, and surprise Drake |oq over these unhappy thoughts. Farrelly, who pitied her. The |ghe must shake them. Passing the decision makes her happy, bul | Cafe de la Paix she sat down a bit has yet to work out details of |yearily and half-heartedly ordered her campaign. a champagne cocktail. She eyed |the passing throng with forced in- Chapter 18 terest. Here was life, movement, THE START OF VENICE'S PAST colour. | Venice awakened the following| vyenice began to absorb it all with morning to a benign day of Warm,|genuine enjoyment and to forget early summer sunshine and gentle, \the slow sense of unavoidable stag- friendly air. Opening her €3S | nation that was creeping over her. :he krnewm:?g: q““l’z‘-‘s:“ni“:gdfi‘::; Finally her gaze swept her com- ng of 5o ng p | panions at the neighboring tables. usual about to happen. |On her left an English couple quite Of course. She was golng tostay evidently indulged in heated words in Paris and launch herself, a gay over something that had occurred and fascinating butterfly. After her the previous night. petit dejeuner she wrote a letter| “My word,” he exclaimed, you to uncle Livingstone and one to are a nagger!” aunt Laura telling them of her de-| “That's better than being cision to stay abroad for several moral,” she snapped, onths, She put it down to the| . Venice's eyes meandered to the vslre for change of scene and;tnble at her right. A young man . Later with the slipping of the 'shabbily but neatly dressed, vague- Synopzis:Suddenly left alonc in Paris by the death of her mother, Venice Muir decides to make a drastic change in her- .. Several seasons of un- popularity in New York have given her a keen desire {o go back and prove herself a social success. She has been self- ccnscious at dances and tongue tled at teas. Watching other girls, she has discovered that mystery holds a high allure for men. This knowledge alds her planning in Paris. She rcsolves to stay aboard for six months and rcturn with a manufactured past. She will hint at her experiences, and her naturally reserved conver- sation will seom a curtain for mystery. She can pay back im- Y'REALLY WANT THAT INSECT T'SMILE, SON?, INDEED I DO/ BUT I FEAR HER SCOWL HAS ME ON! MAYHEM AN’ ARSON ALLUS GITS A ly debonair, a trim, little sandy moustache, brown eyes that twin- kled and a wide humorous mouth. You felt that his clothes had been very expensive once, but it was a long time ago. There were hand- some links in his frayed, bige cuffs. His glance met Venice's with un- expected directness and she felt herself blushing uncomfortably. “Parlez vous francais?” he asked with such a nunmistakable Ameri- can accent that Venice smiled and answered, “No, not very well.” Without so much as a by-your- leave he slid over into the chair beside her. “That’s a relief. struggling with tongue.’ ’ “Youre and American, you?” “Yes. And so are you. We can’t disguise the twang, can we?” “No.” “What are you drinking? must have another with me.” “A champagne cocktail.” It all seemed quite natural and easy. Venice did not feel in the least embarrassed or nervous. He was a nice, every day fellow-coun- tryman and she knew a tremendous relief in exchanging words with some one who was not later to re- ceive a tip from her. “Whoops, dearie, American.” He laughed and hailing a waiter, ordered her a cocktail and a beer for himself. “Are you on a holiday?" she asked. “No, I've been over here for sev- eral months. And now I'm toohard up to go home so I'm staying, I came over to take a position which they didn't hold for me. I haven't been able to get anything else..” He spoke cheerily. His dilemma didn't seem to matter much to him one way or another. “Hard luck,” said Venice. couldn’t feel sorry for him some- how. this appalling aren’t ‘You an expensive “But Paris is a grand town. Who “,\“NG Bring the Children to THE o q CASH BAZAAR / Santa \ % Claus HERE IN PERSON EVERY DAY From 3:30 to. 5 P. M. THE CASH BAZAAR 1 im tired of You | cares about being exiled in Para- dise!” “I love it too. There's something —well, you can't put your fing r} on it, but there's a fascination, an I N To LE A n Fu R allure about Paris. It’s like wilie your veins. Once you've caught t : BRIDGE HONORS glow of it if you're slightly into: cated.” “Nicely put. You're a bright [Posl Mortems Grow Bitter as Bridge Experts Test Systems girl.” “Oh, po.” “Are you over on your own?” “Y-yes.” “What are you doing with your- self?” A A NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. “Everything.” | 16— “That sounds sweeping and ex- As Mr. and Mrs. Culbertson swept | citing. Another cocktail?” “Are you going to have another beer?” “Of course.” “The people passing. Couldn’t you watch them forever?” Venice made a comprehensive gesture. to- wards the street. They lapsed into silence watching the parade. Venice looked at her wrist watch. "l;'s almost seven. I must go,” she deficit to go into the lead. said. | At the conclusion of the seventh “What for?” You should never session, the nerve tension was too hurry in indolent Paris.” great for the players, and each “It doesn’t quite fit, does it? side accused the other of aband- But I must go.” |oning the principles of play espous- “Garcon,” he called. Then he ed by its system. The Culbertsons turned towards her with a smile proclaimed that the results are a that lit up his entire face and pos- triumph for their own system. itively charmed the cockles of the Forty-cight rubbers have been heart. _*'Look here, could you pay played to date. Linz and Jacoby for this binge? And I had two have won 25 and the Culbertsons beers at my table. I'm stony 23. The marathon schedule calls {into the lead last night in the seventh sesslon of the contract bridge tournament, post mortems lgrew heated with charges flying thick and fast for some minutes. The Culbertsons now have a lead of 410 points on Sidney Linz and Oswald Jacoby. Each team won four rubbers last night, but the Culbertsons wiped out a 15 point The Ciro’s, in the next installment, where the meets a marquis. ——————— Venice laughed. You couldn’t re- ———.————— “Primarily. But I'm glad I did| 9 . . | Strains Sought in | Suddenly she caught his arm. | There's something 1 want to talk| 16:—Like scientists mixing chem: |lahoma experiment station are with longer lint, higher yield, uni- broke,” | for 150 rubbers. sent him. b Is that why you spoke to me?”!Improved Cotton anyway. You're a nice girl.” She I i handed him fifty francs. Oklahoma Tests “Wait a minute,” she said ex- citedly. “Let’s have another each.| OKLAHOMA OITY, Okla, to you about.” Her face was vitid Cals-in a laboratory in search of a with an unexpected idea. new formula, workers at the Ok- idea leads Venice to |Crossing, and segregating strains of cotton in an attempt to find types | form fibre, large bolls and resist- ance to drought. Taxes on nearly 7,118,000,000 gal-| In the gigantic cotton laboratory lons of gasoline were levied in the this year are 1,160 rows of plants United States during the first half undergoing experiments. Fourteen of 1931. strains of Acala cotton, e T T e e T T T T 4 CULBERTSONS 60 none of fall. DOUGLAS | NEWS | WAHTOS RETURN TO DOUGLAS| Gust Wahto and family removed“ to Douglas the first of the week after several months residence in Juneau. They have moved into ,the former Ohristoe house on H | street. —————— BUILDINGS BEING REPAIRED The store room on Front street where once the “Little Douglas” saloon flourished and later the | home of the Cable Office, is being |repaired by E. Uberti, owner, for |the tenancy of Tom Haine, as a barber shop. Mike Pusich, owner of the cot- tage on Second street, recently | vacated by the Stevens family, is having it reconditioned for future tenants. —pl GUILD TEA WAS SUCCESS Ihe Tea sale of fancy work, which was held in the League rooms yesterday by the St. Luke's | |Guild, netted a neat sum and the |affair was considered a good suc- cess. which has been placed with grow- ers, are being developed. One of the chief accomplish- ments of the station, which has been in existence 20 years and is assisted in its work by the United States department of Agriculture, is the development of the famous Oklahoma Triumph 44 strain by the individual plant selection meth- od. . 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