Evening Star Newspaper, March 3, 1931, Page 28

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, by William Almon Wollt nor 11 by Nk Amrven Monempm Anc . 1 a_wori under & flat stone woods, Where it’s damp and erawly. he sat foy that mad loy that made a ver: gine possible, Tils patents for cash and a royalty that staggered him and en headed for the fleshpots of Man- ttan. r met Martha at Emma's night club, with Tack, and was in love with her before he realized it. Peter's sister, ~Carol, Mrs. Wentworth, had ‘warned him that Thavers were in with bad crowd. The Ross to whom Tack d referred ‘as a worm was Evan Ross, Who was with Martha a great deal. INSTALLMENT VIIL JUST what had ‘gone wrong, just across light sirpiane en- i what had happened to spoil things for Martha. and _Tack Peter didn't know. Betty Roge: shrugged her shoulders; if s had views, she wasn't broadcasting them. “My dear!” sald Carol. “It's the life these young people lead.” “You talk as if you were 501" said Peter. “Not at all. But it's true, and you ought to be able to see it for yourself. They won't accept the standards we were all brought up with, and they haven't evolved any new ones for them- selves. They're reckless and impatient and self-centered. They won't realize that marriage involves compromise, that it means a certain amount of give and take. They don't understand the difference between love and passion, Just for one thing. ‘They—oh, I do think, sometimes, they're groping for something—that they're working toward something that would be rather gorgeous if they could only get it. But I think the trouble is they're groping for it by themselves and for themselves, instead of making an adventure of looking for it together.” ‘That rather silenced Peter. Carol had a way of doing that to him, some- times. He did't admit that she was right, so far as Martha was concerned. But there were plenty of these kids he was seeing to whom what she'd said certainly did apply. That was what he wanted—to find some girl, and start out with her, looking for something you never could find by yourself. He was inclined to think that Carol wasn’t far from being right. The key to a lot of the trouble he saw around him, made and in the making, to un- ‘happiness, to many divorces, seemed to him to be the egotism of these young- sters. They weren't, as a matter of fact, particularly selfish, he thought, most of them; 'y were perfectly pre- pared to do astonishingly unselfish and decent things, indeed, when some one suggested them. But self-centered they emphatically were: self-centered and egocentric to a rather appalling degree. They just didn't accept the fact that there was anything comparable in im- portance and urgency to the satisfac- tion and gratification of their own de- And, correspondingly, it seemed to Peter, they embraced, with extraordi- nary e:nrnen. s bJ‘nd ":’n-urh}- istic philosophy. eved, or af- fecu;w believe, that nothing lasted, that the only chance of achieving hap- piness at all lay in smatching at it as it passed. They professed an utter lack of belief in the essential good faith and unselfishness of other people; it was an article of their common creed that they must at all times look out for themselves, since, if they did not, no one else would. He wasn't himself inclined to take all this too seriously. A lot of it, he thought, was just talk; he remembered talking a Jot of nonsense himself, and hearing a lot more, at New Haven, in his own salad days. A different sort of mpzrflm!l'y]”,. to be sure, but in Martha mind; that it didn’t embrace her whole being to a disturbing and even alarm- ing degree. ‘They had rushed headlong into in- , of course. There'd been other luncheons at Romi’s and such places. There was nothing clandestine at all about those meetings; they both re- ferred to them ite casually before ‘Tack, who certail never showed any resentment. They had lunch at Romi's, rather than at some place where they were likely to be drawn into a crowd. because they liked to talk. And so they argu bated with another about life—about abstractions and theories. As a rule, that was. Occasionally something broke down the wall they were both inelined to build up about realities. There was one day when she was pale and worn, with deep violet shadows under her eyes. She looked dreadful, and some shocked comment was torn from him. “Oh, I'm all right!” she said. “I Jook like the devil, I know. But that's because I couldn’t get an appointment to have my face done until after lunch. 1 didn't have any sleep, that's all Tack—well, Tack was pretty bad last | night.” ed, quarreled, de- | Isn't there anything to do about Tack?” he said. “T don’t know what!” she said. “He— I suppose he can't help it. We're in a treadmill, both of us, and we can't get out. Tack—well, Tack does get out, for a while, by getting tight. I can't. Liquor doesn’t do so well by me.” “But——" said Peter. “Martha— what's the matter? What happened to you and Tack? You—when you married him—you must have—-" “I .was. mad about Tack five years ago,” sald Martha. She raised her eyes and looked at him steadily. “Tout casse—tout passe! You won't admit that, Peter, but it's true. I'm fond of Tack—1I think he’s rather fond of me, in his way. But he never was in love with me. ‘I only got him because an- other girl turned him down. We—well, we called it & day a long time ago. Thank God, we didn't have a child first!” “But-—you keep on—together——" “We live on the same roof—if that's what you mean. I don't think Tack's unfaithful—" She laughed. could call it being that—I wouldn't! I wouldn't blame him if he were. But I don’t think. he cares enough. Life’s been rather dreadful to Tack, Peter. I suppose he's weak. I suppose he's been stupid, or he wouldn't have let it be. But that doesn't make it any easier.” ‘That was one of the days when they didn’t discuss life in the abstract; when, as a matter of fact, they had very little to say to one another. Martha made a pretense of eating; Peter, whose appe- tite, normally, was a hearty one, did very little more justice than she to Romi's excellent fare. He drove her, after lunch, to the place where they looked after her face and her hair and nails. He' was thoughtful and worried after that talk. He had never, since the night when he and Tack had s on the roof, felt any resentment toward Tack, such as had stirred in him that first night at Emma's. And now, more than ever, he saw Tack as some one to be pitied; saw in him, too, a quality of strength he had heretofore completely missed. He was baffied and confused; his rather smug complacency was assailed; he wondered if, perhaps, life didn't hold some problems that had escaped his notice. But even now he didn't realize that such problems could present them- selves to him; that all his neat and precise and ready-made philosophy was in danger of being swept away by cir- cumstances that would stormily and rebelliously to accommodate themselves to it and to him. Then, one night he was at Emma's, and Martha came in with some people he didn’t know very well. Tack wasn't with her, nor was Ross. She looked around, saw Peter and came over. “Have you got to stay with this crowd?” she whispered. ‘“They seem to be getting ready to move on.” “No,” he sald—truthfully enough, though, by that time, he'd have com- mitted any crime in the social deca- logue to please her. “Stay with me, then” she said. “I can’t stand the people I'm with. I lost Tack hours ago—Heaven knows what became of him.” So, five minutes later they found themselves, side by side, on two stools at the end of the bar, in a corner of the room, in the only place in Emma’s, perhaps, where two people could talk 'Stubborn Cough EndedbyRecipe, Mixed at Home Here is the famous old recipe which millions of housewives have found to be the most depend=- able means of breaking up a stub- born, lingering cough. ~ It takes but a moment to prepare and costs little, but it gives relief even for those dreaded coughs that follow severe cold epidemics. i any druggist, get 2% ounces of Pinex, pour it into a pint bottle and fill the bottle with plain granu- lated sugar syrup or iruined honey. ‘Thus you make a full piat of better ly than you could buy ready- made for three times the cost. It Dever spoils and tastes 8o good that even children like it. Not oply does this simple mix- ture soothe and heal the inflamed throat membranes with surprising ease, but also it is absorbed into the blood d acts directly upon the tubes, thus aiding the l‘ulfln in throwing off the cough. It loosens the germ.laden phlegm and eases chest soreness in & way that is really astonishing. Pinex is a highly concentrated compound of genuine Norway Pine, containing the active agent of creo- sote, in a refined, palatable form. Nothing known in medicine more helpful in cases of distres-. sing (‘oll{hl, chest colds, and bronchial troub Do not accept a substitute for Pinex. It is gu ';:!ntnd prompt relief or. d b “If you | thi by themselves with some chancé of not being overheard. Not that, at first, they talked much. Martha looked as she had the first night he'd seen her, in this same room. Her eyes were sullen; her beauty was dimmed and shadowed by a hars] d at mood. She was nervous and ir- ritable; she snapped up Peter’s attempts to make talk until he, too, grew silent. “I'm sorry, Peter!” she said. “I'm beastly—I know it. I wouldn't blame you if you walked out on me.” “You know I won't” he said, and laughed at her. “Anything the matter— specially, I mean?” “Plenty,” she said. “Don’'t ask me what. I don't want to talk about it." ‘They were still sitting there, still silent, when Evan Ross came in with Rita Gould. Peter saw the sudden flame in Martha's eyes, the stiffening of her shoulders. And it was as if anger passed from her into him. He felt, and it was something new for him, a queer tenseness of nerves and muscles, a nervous irritabllity to which he was altogether unaccustomed. Martha turned to him, abruptly. “I want to go home, Peter,” she said “Do you mind?" He did mind, damnably. He disliked Ross, by this time, with a definite, ac- tive dislike, and he hated Rita Gould. He didn’t 'want them to be able to drive Martha from this place by com- ing into it. But he said nothing of all is. “All right” was what he did say He got the check and paid it and slid down from his stool. Without another word he and Martha went out. Benny, THE CAMELS THE CAMELS the fat man by the elevator, stared at them for a second; he added fuel the fire that was raging in Peter. They went down and found a taxi and, still with nothing to say to one another, started across town. All the way across, in the cab, they didn’t speak; Martha sat staring straight ahead of he: ne hand tapping her knee nervously, until Peter thought the tiny sound would madden him. But he, , kept quiet. “Come on up,” she when he hesitated, in the lobby. “I don’t know whether Tack’s home—I don't want to go in the house alone, anyway.” (To Be Continued.) COthS SWAY EPICURE Green Beer and Red Caviar Count With London Hostess. LONDON (N.AN.A).— Gourmands may be shocked. and no doubt your true connoisseur will hold up his hands in horror, but it is becoming more and more evident that in 1931 color counts for more than quality with the up-to- date hostess. No one can say that green beer tastes any better—or, indeed, so good—as the ordinary golden brown variety, but it is undoubtedly decorative - and blends charmingly with the esthetic color schemes of the present day, therefore it is to be seen at nearly every dinner table. And some one has discovered the charm of red caviar. (Covyright, 1931, by North Ameriean News- paper Alliance.) % EDUCATION AIDE QUITS MACDONALD’S PARTY “Socialist Measures” Urged by Sir Charles Trevelyan on Resigning Post. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 3.--The MacDonald government, harassed from within the ranks of Labor, uncertain of the Lib- erals and under constant and unremit- ting attack from the Conservatives, has lost another of its members. Sir - Charles Trevelyan, president of the Board of Education, resigned yes- terday, disappointed at the rejection of the education bill by the House of Lords and “very much out of sympathy with general government policy.” “In the present condition of trade great Socialist measures are our only hope,” said Sir Charles in & letter to Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald. “The government, instead of undertak- ing Pllnlul and ineffective economies, should be occupied in demonstrating to the country that socialism is an alter- native to economy and protection.” H. B. Lees-Smith, postmaster general, Was _aj rolmed to succeed Trevelyan, and Maj. Right Hon, C. R. Attlee, chan- cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster since Sir Oswald Mosley's resignation - last which a significant change has recently besn made ARE COMING!? What MARCH 3, 1931 May, was named to succeed the post- master general. The education bill's main ?rofldon was for the raising of the school-leaving age by a year. PAUL WHITEMAN FREED, PAYS WIFE $600 WEEKLY A, Former Mate Also ‘Gets $80,000 in Insurance Policies by Decree in Chicago Court. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 3.—Paul White- man, self-styled “King of Jazz,” has won a divorce from his dancing wife, Mrs. Mildred Whiteman, known on the stage as Vanda Hoff. Desertion was the charge. ‘The decree was granted yesterday by Judge John J. Sullivan in Superior Court, where the copy of an agreement between the couple was filed, in which each expressed” willingness not to do or say anything to “annoy, harass or vex” the other. It was lvt;gn)lted in the agreement that Mrs. iteman is to receive $600 a week alimony and three of the “jazz king’s” insurance policies, totaling $80,000, on which she must pay the pfemiums. Whiteman is to_have cus- tody of their 7-year-old son, Paul, three months of each year. ART MUSEUM OPENED Ringling Institution at Sarasota, Fla., Cost $20,000,000. SARASOTA, Fla. 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