Evening Star Newspaper, November 12, 1935, Page 25

'DAILY SHORT STORY LOVE LETTER By G. C. Coler. E ordinary ' evening sounds of the boarding house in Southwest Washington had almost died away, the laughter from the parlor, the dull taps from down the hall where a sister act was re- hearsing, the for- lorn scraping wail of the violin from the third floor front, the belated rattle of dishes in the kitchen below. Marcia sat on the edge of the bed, & bridge table open before her with writing ma- terials upon it, and looked back over 10 years of her life as she nibbled abstractly at the end of her penholder. Ten years of | hope, of waiting . . . for what? | The cheap little alarm clock ticking | away upon the dresser seemed to her ; to symbolize her life; a tawdry but| useful thing moving mechanically through time, changing very little | R \ It was from you could man- age some Saturday, when 1 am not obliged to teach, to come here and we ' could talk things over . . .” Marcia considered careful- ly, and asked him to set the date in his next letter. How different, thought Marcia, to conduct an affair as one would man- age & business deal, with such clear apprehension of cause and effect. She remembered, and contrasted with the present, the sterile plans Richard and she 4 had made, and with what exquis- her unknown! their foiled en- deavourings to understand each other had been tinged. A moment's un- sureness touched her. Could she ever care for any one else with her memories of him? She wondered. * ok ¥ K WEEK later the now familiar ite uncertainty all| THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1935. ARKANSAS SCHOOL DENIED U. 5. RELIEF Communist Commonwealth College Students Lose Federal Aid. Commonwealth College in Arkansas, so-called “Communist university,” which has been widely publicized in recent years, has falled to qualify under the new W. P. A. education division, officials said today, and for that reason has been left off the list of colleges to be granted benefits for student aid. The Federal Emergency Relief Ad- ministration, which supervised this phase of college aid last year, gave four scholarships to Commonwealth | College. The institution recently was | You With an Account We Can Best Serve investigated by the State Legislature of Arkansas. Dr. L. R. Alderman, educational di- rector of W. P. A, explained that he acts solely on the advice of State boards of education. This year, he said, the Arkansas board did not in- clude Commonwealth on the list of institutions eligible for scholarships. Two former presidents of the college were given positions under the Gov- ernment. Dr. Lucien Koch is with the consumers’ division of N. R. A. Dr. W. E. Zeuch, the other college head, is no longer in Washington. He was with the Subsistence Homesteads Division of' the Interior Department and transferred to the Tugwell Re- settlement Division, A statement by Harold C. Jaquith, president of Illinois College, Jackson- ville, IIl, indorsing Federal student ald grants, was made public today “without comment” by the National Youth Administration. Jaquith Is Quoted. The announcement was entitled “College president denies interference by N. Y. A” and began with this quo- tation from Jaquith: “There has not been the slightest evidence of Government interference or desire to control the individual in- stitutions. On the contrary, the col- leges have been given the greatest freedom in assigning the individual student to community and campus service, providing it was socially use- ful and educational. Each student must return in working hours service for all aid received.” Harvard, Wellesley and Smith were among the colleges missing from the list of 1,602 institutions accepting the grants. Jaquith suggested that the $15 a month paid undergraduates was not enough to permit a student to “attend a college where the total ex- pense is comparatively high.” P.-T. DELEGATE NAMED Special Dispatch to The Star. LEONARDTOWN, Md., November 12.—Mrs. J. S8amuel Dyson of Great Mills will represent the Parent- Teacher Association of the Great Mills Consolidated School when the parent-teacher association from over the State meet November 19 to 21 in Baltimore. 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With commend- sense of longing for some bit of |able aplomb she chatted with the beauty in her life, instead of grinding | landlady for a few moments, walked dully away year after year in a class | to her room and removed her coat room, keeping in her heart the image | and hat before opening the letter. of some one who had gone away long | But her hand trembled just a bit as years ago, too shy to assert his love, | the letter opener smoothly slit the and hoping . . . | flap. Her head bent over the paper, and | “Dear Miss Henderson: As you the lines formed themselves on the | requested, I have made arrangements blank sheet: “Dear Lonely Heart.” |to leave my business in other hands Rapidly she wrote, as if fearful of | this coming Saturday and shall arrive not being able to finish the letter. | a¢ the Union Station on the 3 o'clock Then she quicky folded it and placed | train. I shall be on the last coach. it in an envelope addressed to & boX | I know it is romantic and old- | number in Baltimore. | fashigped, but will you wear a car- X2 nation so that I will know you? I “THERE! You've done it TOW.shall do the same. I confess that I Marcia,” she told herselt. “The | am looking forward to our meeting old maid’s revolt!” She smiled half- | with more than ordinary expectation.” fronically at her image in the dresser | wfarcig laughed aloud at that. It mirror. But even that did not prevent | \o¢ o004 to know that some one was Sale of Luxuriously Furred. Smartly Stiyled WINTER _ COATS An exceptional Here are some of the very smartest “toppers” you can pick! New Blouses group at a very a flush from tinging her cheeks at her temerity. She hurried down to the corner mail box and quickly drop- ped the fateful letter lest her resolve | friends. weaken, And then one afternoon as she reached home there was a letter wait- ing for her. She picked it up from the table at the foot of the stairs and saw the postmark. It was from her unknown! She went to her room with elaborately careful decorum, although she wanted | S to race madly up the stairs, and opened the letter, her eyes rapidly devouring the contents. “Dear Miss Henderson,” it began. “Like you, I, too, have suffered a great disappointment years ago. I went away and when I returned the girl was gone, and I never found her. But that was many years ago, and since I have been too busy to worry about women at all. Now I have a comfortable sum of money and am still young and desire an understand- ing comnanion. And so I am answer- fng your letter « « " % JVIARCIA felt a wave of compas- sion for this “Mr. X.” Too well ghe knew the searing agony of lonc liness. She thought over the letter for a long while and then got her paper and ink out of the dresser drawer. “Dear Lonely Heart,” she wrote. “I call you that because you haven't as yet told me your name. But it doesn't mattery very much, does it? I am sure that we could become very good friends, for there seems to be a bond of similarity between us. Perhaps if actually impatient to see one—after almost 10 years of practical excom- munication from the society of| She hummed gayly to herself as she ; surveyed herself critically in the mir- | ror and made plans for a shopping | excursion. A new hat and dress, a | permanent wave, new shoes. * ok k% ATURDAY at 3 o'clock found Mar- | | cia waiting at the station. Her | | heart action accelerated as she made | a last-minute decision. If she went | through with this she must forget | Richard forever. All right, she would. The carnation at her shoulder lifted | and fell with her respiration as the train drew slowly into the station | and stopped. Marcia’s eager eyes strained toward the passengers who were coming out. Her hand flew to her breast. 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