Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1937, Page 24

WALL PAPER £A00 Beautiful patterns to select ot reero> ‘o room $1.50 ORGAN’S Paints and Hardware 421 10th St. NW. NA. 7888 S-wet-n-g--i-m-e At countless social whirls youth steps out in gay rhythm. This mere wisp of Bien Jolie moulds the figure so unobtrusively that not even the dance partner is aware of it. The satin and net lastex allow free- dom with every swing. Lace uplift and smart low back $12.50 Other Bien Jolies for every figure type and size $3.50 to $25 at better department stores and corset shops. BIEN JOLIE FOUNDATIONS NEVARK, N. J. BIEN JOLIE FOUNDATIONS Sold at Whelan's 1105 F St. N.W. (Intimately Yours) POKE BONNETS 33.95 Maybe it's that sweep upward. Maybe it's that graceful curving line. ing brim. Whatever may be the reason . . . the Poke Bonnet is Of Sisol, a lightweight summer straw . . . trimmed with grosgrain or velvet . streamers or bows. Navy, Beige, Black, Brown. IN THE morning John Harvey ocomplained of a headache. He sald he felt rotten all the way througn. He wasn't actually 11, understand, but there was no telling what he might be getting and he ' thought he better spend the day in bed. Margaret stared at his in dismay. “But, John, you can't have forgot- ten. This is the day—the day Mr. Ferguson is going to listen to your idea for his new advertising cam- paign. Your big chance to start your own agency. He'll never make another appointment if you fail to keep this one. He'll—" | Forgotten! John Harvey groaned: | Of course he'd forgotten. Since last | night he’d thought of nothing but the gypsy fortune teller, had seen | | nothing but her wrinkled, evil mask | |of a face, had heard nothing but her | fiendish cackle. * ok ok X ‘HER words still rang in his ears. | “Tomorrow—tomorrow is the day! Oh, vain, conceited fool, your vanity will be your undoing just as surely as there are forces of evil loose |upon this earth. It is in our un- guarded moments that the fates strike at us. For you I see violent, horrible death. It will strike at you through your unseemly vanity. Hear me and prepare for death!” John Harvey squirmed. He had entered the fortune teller’s tent only at Margaret’s insistence, had entered scofing. Now the cold fingers of fear squeezed at his heart. “Is there—is there no hope?” ‘The old gypsy leered at her crys- tal ball. Her obscene laughter filled the tent. “Hope! He asks for hope. He upon whose brow the fates have already set their mark asks for hope. | Yes, there’s hope. Guard yourself |every moment against your own vanity. If you live until sundown to- morrow you will live to a ripe old age. The fates strike but once, win or lose, but when they strike—beware!” Her voice sank to a hoarse croak. “If you live until sundown—if you live until—" * ok ok X JOHN HARVEY waited to hear no more. He rushed from the tent. Violent death! His father and mother | had been killed in a train wreck! The |aunt who took him and his brother to raise met her end in an automobile accident. His brother fell out of a tree, broke his back and died in agony. | His father's father—— Back—back as far as his knowledge of his family extended the curse pur- sued them. Violent death! Not one | had escaped. He was the first to live | past 40, he who had attained to the ripe old age of 41. And now he, too, was to— John Harvey groaned again. He couldn’t tell Margaret what the gypsy had said. She'd be frightened herself, yet think him a coward if he let a half crazy woman frighten him out of an opportunity he'd been working toward for over a year. John Harvey reluctantly threw off his bedclothes. He avoided Margaret's eye. I'd forgotten about old Ferguson. Brain Twizzlers GENEAI.OGY is a great thing. Some people spend half their time studying their own family history or talking about it. It's worse than gos- sip. | One of the prominent women in a | small town did a good deal of brag- ging about her flourishing, deep-rooted family tree until she found that the tree also cast some shade. While reading about her great grandpa Icha- bod she learned that Ichabod, the old S Maybe it's that flatter- miraculously becoming. with 1224 F ST *Tomorrow {s the day.” THE EVENING REFLECTED FATE By Wayne Dixon. “I'll have to keep the appointment?” Outside the house John Harvey squared. his shoul- ders. The matter- of-factness of the stiff breeze that blew down the street helped to clear his brain. What a fool he'd been to allow him- self to be Impressed by a gypsy fortune teller, a mystic of the lowest order! | She probably told the same story to ] every one. In his case she had hit upon a hidden nerve of fear. * % ok % OF COURSE she had been clever enough to see that he was a vain man, and had used that fact as an impres- sive approach to her rigamarole. John Harvey admitted his vanity. He was proud of his appearance, of his clothing, his job, his home, his wife, his children. That was a weakness, but it wasn’t a crime. The fates would be busy indeed if they attempted to strike down every man with a similar fault. He smiled to himself and was sur- prised to find his facial muscles still tense. Suppose—suppose the old gypsy did know what she was talking about? He shivered. The thing to do was to go to a hotel—if he got to town safely—take a room and &pend the day there. May- be he was a fool and a coward, but there wasn't any use in taking a chance. He could tell Margaret that Ferguson had turned him down. She need never know the truth. He stopped at the foot of the hill and paced impatiently back and forth waiting for his bus. He caught a glimpse of himself in the narrow mirror of a penny slot machine. He paused instinctively, as he had done all his life in such circumstances, to adjust his tie. Gosh, he was getting gray! That was something of which he could never be vain. Unless—un- less it gave him a distinguished look. It did to some men. * ok ok T THE top of the hill a delivery truck, parked carelessly at the curb, started to move. It rolled slowly at first, but gradually gathered momentum and sped down the hill A woman saw it, saw the man at the foot of the hill with his back turned to the rolling disaster descending upon him. She opened her mouth to scream without emitting a sound. The truck raced down the hill, faster, faster, unswerving as though possessed by the very fates the old gypsy had evoked. John Harvey continued to study himself in the mirror. The truck jumped the curb behind him, crashed against the slot machine, carried it like a toy into & store window and came to a shatter- ing halt. John Harvey stared, trembling, at the death which had passed him by. Then abruptly he grinned and the last specter of fear left his mind. Vanity! Ha! A curse? “Unseemly vanity,” had the old witch said? At, no, not this time! This time a saving grace, revealing the truck through that little mirror, enabling him to dodge its crushing onslaught by a nimble step to one side! (Copyright, 1937.) reprobate, had been quite a gay blade in his day. He had been famous for the beautiful women who had always sought his company. The record showed that in his family life he had married the sister of his widow in 1835, just about the time he started making a fortune in a business ven- ture. His bragging descendant was chagrined at this and quite puzzled as |to how such a situation could be. What is the explanation? (See Answer on Page C-6.) (Copyright, 19375 Woman Named Bailiff. Twenty-two-year-old Alleen Mary O'Neill has been appointed Australia’s first woman registrar in bankruptcy and also will act as bailiff and clerk of the courts at Darwin. STAR, WASHINGTON, Nature’s Children BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. HE States are selecting their tree emblems. The blue spruce is the choice of Colorado. ‘What & handsome tree for any State! It is 80 to 125 feet high, of & broadly pyramidal outline, with rigid branches and inconspicuous horizontal whorls. The bark on the trunk is gray and thick. It i5 broken into rounded, scaly ridges on the older trees. On the younger trees the bark is inclined to have a reddish tinge and to break up into oblong plates. The wood is soft, weak, light and fine-grained. The stout buds are blunt, with large, re- flexed scales. The leaves are a dull blue green with a silvery white tinge. They are sturdy and rigid with horny, curved points. There are stripes on either side of the leaves. Two types of flowers are on the same tree. The pistillate ones are green, the scales covering them square at the ends; the bracts are pointed. The staminate flowers are reddish-yellow. ‘Wind and insects transport the pollen. The fruit is pendant on the upper limbs. They are stalked cones, 2 INSIDE-OUT CREPE ALLURE SLIPS * Reautifully to! ore« Ehe d rip-proof seams Suarantee ng to : %fie lengths vary according SZe i gops, front ond 4., .. inside ® b otk cut for perfe : Each size is occurd tioned ot fit tely propors Extra sizes 2% nlW\F)ig\f(fl‘he OMEN'S SPECIALTY S oS0 ee N0 D. to 3 inches long, oblong and a glossy brown. The scales are flat, finger- like in shape, but blunt at the ends. The seed babies are winged. In Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, with 6 to 10 thousand feet elevation, on the banks of streams will be found the most handsome blue spruce and the happlest. It is a favorite orna- mental tree in this country and Europe, It is strong and sturdy in the Middle West and in the East a conspicuous and beloved tree. One reason this tree is especially welcome to those of us who know it is its appearance both Winter and Summer. It does not seem to have “off-seasons.” Any time of the year it 15 lovely. In the Summer it looks cool and poised. 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Leghorn chiffon Drape______$5.00 Millinery Shop Street Floor C., FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1937. youth, in Winter of sturdiness and protection, for in the thick boughs many a bird finds safe retreat. One must be truthful concerning all of Nature'’s children. It is always a Dpleasure to sing the praises of the out- door folks, always a task to speak even softly of any defect. The blue spruce in old age has a rather immodest way of letting her skirts get shorter and shorter. This naturally is rather embarrassing to the proud owner. The spruce in its youth is careful to wear skirts that sweep to the ground. There is nothing one can do apout it. ‘When old age begins to tell on your spruce you will know it, for the space from the ground and the lower limbs R e e s RS Try ELLIS Special Sea Food LUNCHEON 40¢ Fresh Potomac i j Shad Ros, 85¢ )] BONED SHAD FSE) DINNER, $1 1011 E St. 2 N.W. Raw Bar & Restaurant “Home eof Toms Covi Oysters” Kill Those Moths Speay closets, rooms and chests with Dethol. 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