Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1937, Page 28

DAILY SHORT STORY SMALL By Alice LUCY CARLSON jerked the vacuum cleaner back and forth and shouted above its isn't that Bill lsn't a grand hus- band, as husbands . she was say- tng. “But he doesn't give me credit for having the brains I was born with.” “You imagine it!" her friend. Sally, shouted back from the depths of the davenport. Lucy disconnect- ed the cleaner, sat 1n the nearest chair and cupped her chin in her hand. “I certainly should be able to determine whether T'm sick of living in this one-horse town or not,” she said. She rose again and viciously wound | the cord on the cleaner, adding, "‘Here he is with a perfectly good chancc! to transfer to a man-size town, and | he wanders around in a daze trying to make up his mind. He says I can't help him decide because I never know | what I want to do from one minute to the next.” Sally smiled lightly. I do this time,” Lucy retorted. Sally rose, saying, “Well, I feel in- | spired after seeing you dashing around here. Guess I'll go and get my own house cleaned.” She paused at the door. “Why don't you try the old psychology on him, Lucy, if you really want to g0. You know, make him want | to do what you want to do by first making him think it's his own idea.” | * ok Kk % *THAT only sounds simple,” Lucy murmured as Sally left. After wheeling the vacuum into & closet she began dusting the furniture. As she polished the coffee table her eyes rest- ed on the goldfish bowl. “That's what we are, a couple of goldfish,” she thought, “swimming around in our little allotment of water. ‘The faster we swim, the sooner we ar- rive nowhere.” She sat and watched the fish in grim samusement. “There we go visiting our circle of friends,” she thought as she watched the fish leisurely swim around the globe. In a Sudden spurt both fish flipped {heir fins and dove from the top of the bowl to the bottom. “Well,” Lucy said, “if we didn't inter- rupt the monotony to go to a club | dance!” | One fish appeared to gaze through | the glass into the room. “Won't do | you & bit of good to eye the outside | world, Emma,” Lucy said. ‘“Your friend, Jakey. there thinks your own | little bowl is the best place for you.” | * x % x | HE longer she watched the gold | ' fish, the more smothered Lucy felt. | Buddenly she smiled. “I wonder,” she | murmured, “how Bill would like a dose of speculating on the goldfish. They were finishing the dinner dishes. | I think I'll get Sally and take in & movie,” Lucy said Bill looked surprised. want me—" “No,” Lucy interrupted, “I want you to spend the evening in undis- | TREE CEREMONIES AT FRELINGHUYSEN Class of 1937 Will Plant Memo- rial Group at University This Evening. The class of 1937 of Frelinghuysen University will plant a group of me- | morial trees on the university grounds &t 201 T street at 6 o'clock this eve- ning. | Guests participating in the program will include Rev. W. H. Jernagin, | president of the national Sunday School and Baptist Young People's Union Congress; Elwood G. Hubert, president of the Community Cultural Development Society; Judge Armodd W. Scott of the District Municipal Court; William J. Tompkins, District recorder of deeds; Comdr. L. H. Rus- sell of the J. E. Walker Post of the American Legion; Rev. Francis J. Grimke, trustee emeritus of Howard University; Mrs. Lula "Love Lawson, eocial director of * the Rosenwald Apartments, Chicago; Miss Fletcher Mae Howell, State secretary of the Virginia Woman's Missionary Union; Rev. Walter H. Brooks, pastor of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church; | Col. West A. Hamilton, U. S. A. Re- eerve Corps, and Rev. Daniel E. Wise- | man, pastor of the Lutheran Church of Our Redeemer. | Frelinghuysen University is a group | ©of schools for adult education found- ed in 1906. The memorial trees will be planted in accordance with the plan of the Sesquicentennial Commis- sion of the United States and in co- operation with the American Tree Association. Her eyes rested on “Do you?" she asked “Don’t you GRADUATION SET VIENNA, Va, June 1 (Special).— Closing exercises at Vienna Elementary 8chool will be held the morning of June 8 at an assembly to begin at 10 &m., it was announced today by FPrank C. White, principal. Instead of having an outside speaker for the assembly, the four honor pupils in the graduating class will each give 8 short talk. They are Alice Smith, Thelma Ankers, Ellen Higdon and Earl Yowell. Buck Thompson, presi- dent of the class, will preside. Stomach Gas | So Bad Seems | f To Hurt Heart “The gas on my stomach was so bad I could not eai or sleep. Even my heart seemed to hurt. A friend sug- fested Adlerika, The first dose I took Tought me relief. Now I eat as I wish, sleep fine and never felt better.” —Mrs. Jas. Filler. Adlerika acts on BOTH upoer and lower bowels while ordinary laxatives act on the lower bowel only. Adlerika gives your system a thorough cleans- | ing. bringing out old. poisonous matter | that you would not believe was in your | system and that has been causing gas ains, sour stomach. nervousness and | eadaches for months. Dr. H. L. Shoubd, New York, reports: | “In addition to intestinal cleansing, | Adlerika greatly reduces bacteria and | | colon bacilli.” Give your bowels a REAL cleansing with Adlerika and see how good you feel. Just one spoonful elieves GAS | a fljtubbom constipation. At all ing dru TOWN Sankcy. turbed cogitation. It is about time you're making up your noble mind, you know.” “I suppose you're right,” he sighed. “A guy can't be too hasty about de- ciding his future.” “He sure can't,” Lucy said. With elaborate carelessness, she said, before going out, “Bill, would you mind keeping an eye on the gold- fish? I tried put- ting salt in the water aud don't know if it will make a difference in them or not.” He grinned. “Okay. I'd be de- lighted to watch your goldfish, ma- dame. There's nothing I do better than watch goldfish.” “I hope.” Lucy said to herself after she closed the door. * %ok % 'l‘RXUMPHANTLY she was explain- ing the whole thing to Sally as they walked home from the theater. the goldfish bowl. “Don’t you see, he can't help but | get the idea if he spends the whole | evening considering them, and matu- rally he will connect the settling of his big problem with little Emma and Jake,” she laughed. “You'll more likely find him in the basement, tinkering with his radio set-up,” Sally responded. But Lucy didn't. She found him in the living room. thoughtfully, and with a certain dignity, contemplating New THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON the goldfish. So deeply was he lost in his reverie that Lucy was already standing beside him when he noticed her. Even then he acknowledged her presence with nothing more than a philosophic grunt. Thought produced in Bill, as it does in most men, a dis- | turbing silence. Well, never mind the silence—as long as the thought was there. Solemnly he helped Lucy remove her coat and led her to the davenport. “Darling,” he said, “I've made up my mind.” “Great day,” Lucy murmured, afraid to breathe. “I think you had an idea in your funny little head when you asked me to watch Emma and Jake. 'Fess up, didn't you, honey?” * ok Kk % LUCY smiled, but didn't answer. “You figured if I watched them | long enough, I'd start making com- parisons.” | Lucy smiled again. “Sweet of you to help me like that, dear,” he said in all sincerity. “And I want you to know that your clever scheme worked.” Lucy heaved a sigh and mhxed.! Bill kissed her and started for the | stairs.” “You're perfrectly right,” he said on his way up. “We sure would be | a couple of fish out of water if we moved to the big town.” Silence. Then Bill heard a loud | crash | “What was that?" he yelled down. “The goldfish bowl,” Lucy answered, | “What happened to it?” “It fell,” Lucy said. (Copyrizht, 193 Royal Portraits Absent. | Absence of royal family portraits from the coronation year Royal Acad- emy, which opened in London before the coronation, puzzled the many visitors and many caustic remarks were made. There was exhibited only one picture of King George and one sculptured bust of Princess Elizabeth, | but nothing of the Queen, the Duke of | Windsor or other members of the family. ! Store Hours 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Meeting, Nu Alpha Chapter, Kappa Delta Phi Sorority, 1308 Vermont ave- nue, 8 pm. Meeting, War Bemflment Local No. 261, N. F. F. E, 710 Fourteenth street, 8 pm. Meeting, Electrical Contractors’ As- sociation, Potomac Electric Power Co, Building, Tenth and E streets, 8 p.m. Meeting, Vincent B. Costello Post No. 15, American Legion, Pythian Temple, 1012 Ninth street, 8:15 p.m. Dinner, Georgetown Preparatory School, Mayflower Hotel, 7:30 p.m. WOODWARD 10™ 1I™F AND G STREETS You Get D. C., TUESDAY, ciety, Mayflower Hotel, 7 p.m. Meeting, Treasury Post, American Legion Auxiliary, Mayflower Hotel, 8 pm. Meeting, New York State Society, Shoreham Hotel, 8 p.m. American Federation of Employes, Hamilton Meeting, Government Hotel, 8 p.m. TOMORROW. Luncheon, Washington Alumnli, Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity, University Club; 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Zonta Club, Y. W. C. 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