Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1935, Page 22

DAILY SHORT STORY- SEPARATE WAYS Funny, Sarah Thought, to Be Talking Casually With the Husband Who Was Deserting Her. BY MARGUERITE BEHRENDT. V]S SHE pretty, John?” Sarah Graham tried her level best to keep an edge from her voice as she asked the question, but it crept in, & sharp, disapproving little edge. John jumped be- hind the paper which he had been pretending to read. “She? Well—yes. Oh, hell, Sarah, do we have to hash over all that again?” “No, I guess we've had enough of it.” Funny, sitting here talking casu- ally to one’s hus- band after they had agreed to go their separate ways, each to erase forever the picture of the other from his or her life. Sarah thought of her horrified ques- tioning of a friend under somewhat similar circumstances. She remembered herself saying dis- gustedly, “You don’t mean you really want him back after that other wo- man’s had him for months?” And the friend’s shamed nodding of her head. Now she knew that she wanted John Graham no matter what he had done; no matter if he was admittedly in love with another woman. She looked at him as he sat, quiet, guiltily twisting his fingers. Of course, since it had happened they had both said bitter things; things better left unsaid but never- | theless true. | In a fit of anger he had flung at her: “You've always been so darned | dictatorial. I tell you a man gets | tired of a woman who's always right | and tells him so. Our marriage has been one of those misfits—it hasn't | clicked from the first, and there's no | use carrying on the comedy.” | After that she had inquired of a | friend about the “other woman” and had been told: “She’s all that you | aren’'t, Sarah; soft, cuddly, with that | ‘Oh, you big he-man!" look in her| baby blue eyes. Hasn't a brain in her | fluffy head.” That had settled it. The next day she started packing— tearing up the home which it had | taken 10 years for the two of them | to build. In businesslike manner she tagged the boxes to go to John and others to be sent to a small cottage on the city's edge. The cottage wasn't much to look at; but it was compact and com- fortable. For a week she cleaned and straightened it. And then one after- noon John called to say that he was leaving on a permanent transfer for the West. He wanted to come out to say good-by to Johnny. Sarah tried to feel relieved. | There was just this one evening to| live through—and he’d be gone. Gone | forever! And Sarah pricked her finger | with the pin which she was using| to fasten the ruffled curtain to the frivolous glass tie-back holder. She didn't notice the tiny splotch of red | but saw only the cheery room with | its home love seat and gay chintz-| She started packing. covered chair the corner. A room such as she and John had planned before they were married; one they had lived in during bright day dreams. That was before John had his raise in salary, before they built the fashionable English house with its 10 rooms and 3 baths, before little Johnny was born E —and before “the other woman.” Sarah tried to shake off such thoughts. She must get them in some order. There was the chicken to roast and butter- scotch ple to make. She was deter- omined not to ap- pear completely crushed by the situation. This one last night must be carried over for Johnny's sake. With an air of efficiency she brought out the wedding silver and the old blue plates. They seemed to belong to the small oak table. To Johnny's question, “When'll daddy be here? Won't he stay now, mum- my?” she answered, “He has to take a train West tonight, dear. And he'll be here in about an hour.” ‘The hour passed all too soon. Be- fore things were quite done, she heard Johnny's young whistle outside. “Hey, daddy. We were waiting.” She forced herself to smile. John's eyes shifted uncomfortably. “Yes, come in, John, Dinner is ready. I'm doing the cooking myself these days, you know."” “Oh, uh—yes.” The stiffness of their manner re- laxed after much sage dressing and several helpings of butterscotch pie. Strange she could have chosen John's favorite pastry. An accident, of course. He stayed even after little Johnny had said good night, toying thought- fully with the radio. Sarah moved restlessly on the love seat. After all it wasn't fair to have to endure this for so long. “Your train, John. It's late,” she stammered. “Yes, it is late. Late in my life, too, Sarah.” She had not time to inter- rupt, for he went on immediately: “And I've come from—from her.” In some sense he seemed to realize the torture she was undergoing and hur- ried on. “She is pretty, Sarah—and help- less. But life to her is a series of night clubs. She'd never be able to make a cottage like this look like home. The key to happiness might lie out West for both of us, Sarah.” Sarah thought of the days spent in | in back-splitting labor to make this place comfortable for Johnny and her, and then, for just a moment, of | friends who would sneer. “She'd take him back, now? My dear, where's her pride?” Then slowly Sarah Graham nodded her hea (Copyright. 19:5.) Tomorrow: “Out of Her Hand,” by by Katherine Gorman, tells how a devastatingly attractive formal dress helped a girl in her campaign for a suitor’s affections. RURAL REHABILITATION EXPERT INF.E.R.A.QUITS! L. V. Reese to Become Assistant Secretary of American Engi- neering Unit Here. L. V. Reese, one of the rural re- habilitation experts of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, re- signed yesterday to become assistant secretary of the American Engineering Council in Washington. Mr. Reese has been handling rural industrial communities in the F. E. R. A. program and also has served as secretary of the District of Co- lumbia Rehabilitation Corp and as planning engineer for the Texas Re- | lief Commission. ! In his new duties he will assist the | executive secretary, Frederick M. Feiker, in carrying out the enlarged program of the American Engineering Council for correlating the organized engineering professions in the public | interest. Mr. Reese is 43 and was educated in | ¢ivil engineering at the University of | | Texas and in mechanical, metallurgi- cal and industrial engineering at Co- lumbia and New York Universities. | The New washington ‘ TELEPHONE DIRECTORY CLOSES SOON You owe it to your family to be in it Call MEtropolitan 9900 to order a telephone or to ar- range for additional listings Come to our HOOVER SPRING SHOWING See the new Sentinel 35 Hoover . . styled for the home of the future by a famous de- signer. Learn the marvelousimprovements now offered in the most efficient cleaner. Come in or telephone for home trial. THE NEW SENTINEL 35 HOOVER SPECIALTERMS, SHORT TIME ONLY $ Balance |Moathl Complete with Dust- ing Tools or Daustette. Allowance for old electric 12 Z THE EVENING CHICAGO BANKER KILLS WIFE, SELF Police Say Illness Caused Trag- edy in Seattle Hotel Room. By the Associated Press, SEATTLE, April 1.—Police said yes- terday Willard M. Perkins, 70, Chicago banker, shot and killed his 65-year- old wife, then shot himself to death. Tiness, police said, was the reason for the shootings. A housekeeper, Liliian Bookholt, in the hotel where the Perkins lived, sald she discovered the bodies when she went to their room to inquire about Mrs. Perkins, who had been {ll. A note which hotel officials be- lieved was written by Perkins, said: “We have reached the end of the| road.” SABBATH GROUP ELECTS Mrs. Ellis Logan Is Named Aux- iliary President. Mrs. Ellis Logan was elected presi- dent of the District of Columbia Aux- illary to the Women's National Sab- bath Alliance at the annual meeting at the home of Mrs. Henry F. Sawtelle, 6200 Connecticut avenue. Other officers are: Vice presidents, Mrs. Sawtelle, Mrs. Nellie Good, Mrs. { Anson Rogers Tracy, Mrs. Wintemute W. Sloan, Mrs. Frederick Newburgh, Mrs. Russell Bowen and Mrs. F. C. Brinley; treasurer, Mrs. Herbert G. Powell; secretary, Mrs. Wallace Streeter: director to the District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. Sarah Nevins; committee chairmen, Miss Clara Boynton Hadley, music; M Frederick W. Ashley, literatu Irs. W. A, Winklehaus, de- STAR, WASHINGTO votional; Mrs. Charles Osgood, poetry; Mrs. Minnie Briggs, current art. Mrs. Charles Sawtelle was indorsed for the office of first vice president of the District of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs. I S T WIFE PLEADS GUILTY TO PLOT ON HUSBAND Women and Two Young Men Ac- cused of Attempting to Kill Hackensack Man. By the Associsted Press. HACKENSACK, N. J., April 2— Mrs. Lucille Hey, 36, pleaded guilty yesterday to the charge she conspired with two youths to kill her husband by pushing him over a palisades ledge at Alpide. The woman changed her plea from not guilty as her trial was about to begin. Charles Mucci, 26, held on the same charge, also changed his plea to guilty and the two, together with the third alleged conspirator, Edward J. | Price, 18, will be sentenced April 17. Price pleaded guilty January 31, after saying he had been promised $25 to take part in the alleged attempt on Hey’s life. Hey saved his life by clinging to a ledge. |;iner--- and Fresher "SALADA TEA D. ¢, TUESDAY, STATE AID FOR SCHOOLS VOTE ISSUE IN MICHIGAN 700,000 Ballots Are Expected. Democrat Urges $25,000,000 Flat Appropriation. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, April 2.—State aid for public schools was the paramount is- sue yesterday -in Michigan's Spring election, the first since the State went Republican last November. A vote of 700,000 was expected. Dr. Paul F. Voelker, Democrat in- cumbent, is opposed by M. R. Key- worth, Republican, for the State super- intendency of public instruction. Dr. Voelker advocates a flat emergency appropriation of $25,000,000 o keep schools open. Keyworth, aided by Gov. Frank D. Fitzgerald, has said sufficient funds would be provided and has assailed his opponent’s insistence on a flat appropriation sum. Placed Where King Was Hurt. A cross hus been erected at Marche les Dames, Namur, Belgium, where King Albert was found fatally injured | on February 17, 1934, after a fall while rock climbing. APRIL 2, 1935, THREE JAILED IN FRANCE AFTER STERILIZAITON By the Associated Press. BORDEAUX, France, April 2—Two men and & woman, who voluntarily had themselves sterilized, were under arrest yesterday and the French secret service expressed alarm over the prac- tice of sterilization, saying the French army would be endangered if such practices became widespread. Investigators said a mysterious Austrian doctor with two assistants came here several days ago and per- A formed 15 sterilization operations on men and women, then disappeared. Further arrests are expected. Attorneys for the prisoners said there was nothing illegal about voluntary sterilization, but the prose- cution said birth control propaganda was contrary to law. $2,000 Hairbrush for Indian. An Indian rajah walked up to a booth at the British Industries Fair, | now being held in London, and picked out & hairbrush with a gold and jew- eled back which would cost about $2,000. 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