Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1935, Page 41

DAILY SHORT STORY LITTLE IRVING , Trying to Be a Modern Child's Modern Mother Wore One's Nerves Thin Sometimes. BY BETTY GAILEY. “But, Henry" wheedled Mrs. Tib- ble, “it would be good for him. It's “JRVIE” Mrs. Tibble ven- tured persua- sively, “it's time THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, {NEWS PRINT MILLS INENGLAND BOOM, Hearst Executive Says Out- put Has Doubled Since 1926. for your nice nap.” Little Irving looked up without any show of inter- est, and continued to pound his new blackboard with a toy telephone. “Irvie, dear.” Mrs. Tibole tried other . tactics, “I wouldn't hit the blackboard if I were you. You'll break it. Draw some pictures on it. Pretend you're an artist.” “Don’t wanna be an artist. Rather be a bricklayer." And fired with this new ambition he banged away fiercely. Mrs. Tibble glanced apologetically at her husband, who was drowsing behind the Sunday papers. So far he had made no com- ment about the noise, but she had a feeling that one was forthcoming. and wished to prevent it. Little Irving's grandmother sat in a low rocker, knit- ting a small boy’s sweater. On her face was the placid expression of one whose only grandchild could do no Wrong. Mrs. Tibble stirred uneasily as the blackboard cracked under a barrage of blows. “Dearest,” she coaxed, “mother wishes that she could take a lovely long nap.” “Then let mother take my nap,” he said generously. Mrs. Tibble prided herself—at times to her own contrition—on being a modern mother. “That child certainly has a will of his own,” his grandmother often said proudly. Now she beamed on him as he finished battering the blackboard with squeals of delight Mr. Tibble rustled the papers im- patiently. At length he threw them on the floor and kicked them aside. ‘“Are you going to let him get away with that?” he demanded Then the grandmother interposed: | “It’s his own blackboard. I gave it to him. He can do as he pleases with it.” Mr. Tibble spread his hands help- lessly. “All right. Go ahead. both of you. Take up for him. Spoil him to death. Why. if he asked you to get up and bake him a dish of tapioca at midnight you'd do it.” “You don't bake tapioca,” grand- mother corrected mildly. That was enough to start little Irving on a new track “I want clamored. “You boil it in a double-boiler,” continued grandmother, as though there had been no interruption “Boil me some good old tapioca.” insisted Irving, running over and sit- ting on grandmother’s foot. ‘The two women looked at each other.. There was only a moment's hesitation, then grandmother spoke: “Have we no tapioca?"” “No, but the delicatessen is open. Henry, would you- i Mr. Tibble put his foot down em- phatically. In fact. he stamped the floor with it. Little Irving wailed “Tapioca, tapioca!” and proceeded to stamp his own small feet. a dish of tapioca!" he He backed away fiercely. not as though it were soinething that he shouldn’t have. It's whole- some and--and nu- tritious. Now, if it were something that would hurt him—like lob- “I want a lob- ster, .lobster, lob- ster,” Irving decid- ed, hopping about excitedly. “I've had enough of this. What that young man needs is a little discip- line. He's going to cut out this fool- | ishness and go into the bed room with me. If you can't handle him, I can. Il see that he takes his nap!” Without giving his wife time to protest, Mr. Tibble picked little Irving up and carried him screeching into the bed room. Grandmother was speechless with amazement. When she found her voice she murmured, “Grandma’s poor little boy.” and went to the telephone to order tapioca. “Poor Henry,” said Mrs. Tibble, re- calling similar experiences of her own. In a series of sounds the drama in the bed room was conveyed to her. There was the scamper of little feet across the floor, and the scuffle of heavy feet in pursuit. There were intermittent grunts and squeals; an occasional whimper, and frequently a deep sigh. The creaking of springs told Mrs. Tib- ble that Irving was on the bed and that the spread would shortly lose its freshly laundered appearance. Oh, well! The deep sighs came more fre- quently. exhaustion in every note of them. The whimper became a wail Then above the wail rose a weary, baritone voice rumbling off key: “By-O-baby-bunting, Daddy's gone a-hunting—" and immediately following it a child- ish treble, supplying the appropriate sound effects, suggested by the word hunting: “Bang, bang, bang!" A caustic note came into the bari- tone, as it improvised: “Daddy’s gone a-hunting, | To get a little rabbit skin To stifle baby's yelling in." These mingled noises increased in volume to a point where a listener's thead must throb (as Mrs. Tibble’s did): then it died gradually down. Then at last—at long last—it ceased her. Mrs. Tibble heaved a deep relief Well.* she said proudly, “after all it takes a man to maintain discipline.” Grandmother nodded. unable to dis- agree, yet not altogether pleased with the whole affair. “Anyway,” went on Mrs. Tibble, “you've got to give Henry credit. When he starts out to do a thing, it's just as good as done.” | The door opened softly. A tousled head and a small, triumphant face peered out. “S’sh!” whispered little Irving. “Don’'t wake daddy. I finally got him to sleep!™ ‘o (Copyright. 1835.) | Tomorrow: “Politic Male,” by Frank Kern Levin, tells how a broken home was mended for the sake of love, the town of Riverdale and Auld Lang Syne. PRINCE JUAN VISITS PARIS AND FIANCEE Heir-Claimant to Throne of Spain Has Yet to Secure Father's Consent to Wedding. By the Assoclated Press PARIS, March 22—Prince Juan, | heir-claimant to the vacant Spanish throne, came to Paris today to see his fiancee. Princess Marie Mercedes of the two Sicily branches of the house of Bourbon-Anjou | He brought her no engagement | ring, however, for his royal father, | former King Alfonso, has yet to gi\'e‘ his consent to the engagement of his third and only unmarried son. | Princess Louise, mother of Marie | Mercedes, said Alfonso was expected to come to Paris within the next month. He may write before then to give his consent, however, she said Don Juan has not yet called upon the. princess. her mother said. He is staying with the Count de Ramora here. Marriage of King Alfonso’s third #on, who came into line for the throne when his two elder hrothers surren- dered thelr claims, would leave Al- fonso with only one unmarried child, the Infanta Maria Christina, and royalist circles here say her engage- ment may take place soon. Missing Deeds Found. 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Under the Auspices of Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist | CHARLES T. VINCENT, ACTOR, DIES, AGED 76 His First Play, “A Grass Widow,” Was Presented in 1887 in Gotham Theater. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 22—Chatles 1. Vincent, actor and playwright, died at his home at Glen Cove on Long Island yesterday at the age of 76. Vincent's professional debut was in “Yakie” at the California Theater in San Francisco, and his first play pro- duced was the farce, “A Grass By the Associated Press. | Widow,” presented in New York in " | 18817, NEW YORK, March 22.—J. D. Cof-| "y 000t was born in Bristol, Eng- fin, a member of the committee in |jand, spent his boyhood in Australia charge of purchases of paper for and came to the United States when Hearst newspapers and magazines, | he was 17. | says in an interview with Editor & S Publisher that newsprint productive capacity in England has more than | COYOTE FINALLY LOSES doubled since 1926. | - Recently returned from an {‘Xltn-’ PENDLETON, Oreg., March 22 (#). sive trip in Sweden, Finland. Ger-| _an aged coyote that had managed many and England, he described con- | to éke out a living on the Eastern ditions in the newsprint industry. | Oregon plains despite the loss of two Since 1926, he said, 13 new ma- | legs in traps, finally was brought down chines have been added in England | by a rancher’s hounds, Bill Huddle- with a total annual capacity of nearly ston, Albee rancher, related yesterday. 500,000 tons. The coyote apparently had gnawed ‘Since 1930, he is quoted saying. off its right front leg and its right nine new machines have been added | rear leg to escape traps, Huddleston and are now running at capacity with | said, and the wounds had healed long the exception of the 320-inch machine | since. now being installed by Edward Lloyds, Ltd., at Kemsley-on-Thames, 42 miles from London. i The machine will be in operation on | June, 1935, and with the steam and grinder auxiliaries will represent an in- vestment of approximately £1,250,000, it was stated, adding: “It is interesting to note that during the years in which the Canadian | Newsprint Co., its successor, the Newsprint Institute of Canada, and, in turn, its successor, the Newsprint Export Manufacturers’ Association of Canada (NEMAC), have been func-| tioning, and with the apparent ob- ijennve of controlling the newsprint | market in the United States by either | increasing or maintaining prices, the | newsprint industry in Great Britain | has nevertheless been able to more than double its productive capacity | and at the same time pay all fixed charges and, in addition, dividends on the common shares, which are selling | considerably higher than their value at the time of issue | “It would seem that the Canadian mills might well have developed a market in England, which would have relieved their idle mills to a very con- | | siderable extent.” No Collection All Welcome For That Spring Appetite PISTACHIO o Cheam Delicious Pistachio nuts frozen with pure rich cream - as enjoyable as it sounds—-as satis tying as a Spring morning. 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