New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 28, 1928, Page 4

\V \— —) = —v — —/~ =7 G\ e —— S \\. e == == o ——3 (65 —— — —— THIS HAS HAPPENED Ashtoreth Ashe, a beautiful little stenographer, is having an exciting | time on shipboard with an English- man named Jack Smythe, who looks exactly like the Prince of Wales. Ashtoreth is taking a cruise to the West Indies for her health. Her roommate is Mona de Musset, a mys- terious and beautiful lady, whom Smythe distinctly dislikes. He tells Ashtoreth that Mona is notorious| unmoral. But Ashtoreth refuses to give up her transient friendship with the Frenchwoman, who has been par- ticularly sweet and generous to her. Mona goes ashore to visit fricnds at St. Thomas, the first island at which the ship drops anchor. And Ashtereth is alone on board with the young Englishman. He has already warned her that he means to malke love to her—and says that if sh doesn’t like the notion she had bet- ter go to her cabin. Ashtoreth docs not mean to ac cept his caresses, but to teach hum a lesson. He thinks that all Ameri- can girls pet, and she is determined to make him change his mind. With a good deal of bravado she accom- panies him to the starlit deck. NOW GO ON WITH THE ST CHAPTER XIX Ashtoreth slipped her Smythe's, “Come on!" she challenged. But all the while she was won- dering exactly what was going to happen. And just how an English- man acts when a girl laughs at his love making. She imaginec at Eng- lish people were mightily dignitied, and she meant to humiliate Jack g that all American girls pettec d show hin “You're sure,” he teased hadn’t rather go to hed “Bed!” she echocd A night like this?” He held her 'ORY hand in “you close against his You know,” le “you're not going to slap me again. Because this time 1 shan't stand for retorted would you do about it? Suddenly it occurred to Ashtoreth not doing a . Lnglish people made about heing sport ad warned her meant to kiss her. It was, in fa expressed purpose. Probably then she really onghtn’t to go. No girl, she supposcd, went up to the boat deck with a man, un- less she meant to be Particu- larly on sucth “You know, 3 “someone’s said even an atheist half believes in a God by night. Did you ever see anything so perfect in your an's a silver sea!” Ashtoreth sighed. “It's heavenly,” she whispered A moonlit mood was on her. After all, why not let Smythe kiss her? She'd be a dreadfully poor sport to tet him think he might—and then get mad ovey it. She glanced at him sideways. He look extraordinarily like Prince of Wales. Those lift about his eyes. And his nout} P “And what the lines “It's wonderful,” he said, “what a night like this can do to a man. Why, 1 knew a misogynist once—he simply hated women, Loathed and despised them, and all that sort of thing. And he took down here through the Indies—and fell in tove with every woman on the ship!” “A misogynist,” thought Ashto- reth, “must a womaian . It was one of the words Sadie talked ahout. v, cor a croise be inued Smythe, ht a . Womer viously made to be loved “But—" Ashtoreth felt curio tongue-tied. She wanted to say something women e meant for finer things. But sh ed to sound terribly prir 1 old- maidish. And she cc anything at all cle “If all women agre she said, “the really good we 1 mean, if want to. make | a dreadfully tarnishe wouldn't be what women’ at . wonld w They had leancd ov watch the lights twinkling across 1 ““Good' 2" ping his “Why, T s your definition of George Bernard Shaw thing interest ject. Goodness, say ular British sense of sel plies that man is viciol And that supreme supreme martyrdom “The idea British. you know American notion. 1 any such in races—they thing that is natr s0 myself. It's natu Kiss a pretty girl, It for a girl to e to by fore it i “It s s lieve that - wicked. O a virtue tions. Dut dull.® misogynis ere ob- about nien call ‘good g to s isn't co coneeptions. b al is zood for hat It eve fully Ashtoret ed that stupid. things were wrong. It ly safe way to look But Smythe mad ish and ignorant. was Monty der. And Monty" hair. It would be such a 1 have to be g0 dreadfully For months and mor had been pretending. had gone to work f Pretending - to bo 1 and high ideals. And culture wealth. And all sorts of things There was that day she had tricd to make Mr. Hart think she knew whispered, 1l s —7 (3 = = = e ——) \ i \‘ i Ashtoreth put her hand on Smythe's sleeve. But Mona struck his ar m away and turned upon him in un- controllable wrath. 111 about Tsyptology and Cleopatra | and scarabs. Well, it dn't gotten r far. Mr. Hart thought now that st as common and cheap most likely. . . . Then, of course, there was Sadie. She was al- ways trying to impress Sadie. And Mona. Mona thought she had been to boarding school. Not that Ashtoreth had directly implied any such thing. Only Mona picked up the notion somehow, and it scemed | senscless to deny it. Mona thought, | too, that she had read all sorts of hooks. Not, of course, that Ashto- veth had ever said so, After all, though, could a girl ever just herself? With anyone, that who really counted? Wouldn't it perfectly insane to let anyone you cared the least thi hout dis- how silly and stupid vou really were? Tn her secret heart Ashtoreth be- lieved ignorance would simply ar vone who actually knew anything. Anyone really clever. Hollis Hart, for instance. Or Jack Smythe. { 1t was. really, a lot easier to he | Kissed than to get philosophical | ahout it. Tf they went on talking about abstract good and evil, Jack would learn how stupid she was. Whereas, if simply It him kiss ber, he wonld discover her to be al- togther desirable. He drew her from 10w are fwo chairs somewhere over here,” e was saying. “T had | the steward place them after din- n > as ook the rail into e held he “You “you've Then her hair curled in . r close know.” he the softest whispered, skin in he kissed her arms, and his lips to her neck, where little tendrils. Maizie Maizie a 3 lips to 2 man unless you really and truly loved him and were going to marry him. But of course Maizie didn’t know anythin about such s these! Mother: cent—the poor reth was aw dears, Ited softly in his arms 1 moment he held her away mitlered s “Thorets v in that chair down there. an—she just 4 the wircles heart was beating 1 her throat ing bird. 1 laughed a iands admonish- take-a- Brant Plentiful On Coast of Hatteras o er sout from Ha Island Sound as they migrate north ully old-fashioned. 1ys said you shouldn’t give | 50 inno- | . Ashto- coughed. Over T0 STUDY SECONDARY SCHOOL CURRICULA Five Year Job Ahead of Society Which Hopes to Reorganize Social Studices, Indianapolis, Ind., De A five year study of condary school curricula with a view to re- | organization of the will be initiated by the American Historical association, Prof. August €. Krey, University of Minnesota, announced, today. social studies, s put his arms around her, and the | The study has been made possible by virtie of a $50,000 grant from the Carnegie corporation. Speaking at the 43d annual meet- ing of the association, which opened today, Prof. Krey, chairman of the committee which drafted the plan for reorganization of the studies, said it had been made necessary hecause public education had ad- vanced four grades beyond its natur- al terminus of 30 years ago, the cighth grade. The Carnegie grant wil finance the first vear of study, Krey said. Representatives of other social studies will be asked to gooperate. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS STENTISTS HEAR OF WEB OF LIFE Birth of Oceans and Continents Considered Today New York, Dec. 28 UP—A drama which might be entitled “The Web or Man and , His Environ- was outlined today before members of the American assogia- tion for Advancement of Science and affiliated societies. { ~ The geologists and geographers considered the birth and growth of continents and islands and what they meant to the men who later came to dwell upon them, while the | web of life itself was unfoiled before | the Geological Socieoy of America. “There is no independent influence of any factor,” Dr. K. I'riedrichs of the University of Rostock, visiting | professor at the University of Min- esota told the geologists. “They all [influence one another directly or in- directly and are connected by a mu- tual interrelation. It appears strange that the fact that nature is a great unity seemed to be forgotten for & certain time. You all know the web of life. Connect together the fnor- ganic and the organic web and you have the unity of nature.” Cites Nitrogen As one of numberless examples he cited the “cycle of the nitrogen | taken out of the atmosphere by the | nitrogen-fixing bacteria and deliver- | ed to the plants which, without that would very soon be starved for ni trogen.” ¢ ‘On the other hand,” he contin- ued, “the nitrogen-salts, washed out of the soil by the water and carried through the rivers to the sea would transform the ocean into a strong salt solution, dealy for organisms, if the bacterial life did not again re- store the balance by taking out of the nitrogen-salts the free nitrogen |and delivering it to the air fn the | form of gas. “All factors are serving the whole and they are all effects of it. Noth- ing stands alone for itself and un- connected. All created things are | connected by an indefinitely com- | plicated net of relations, Wherever a condition of life is changed consid- crably, others are altered too. | “While all other beings are domi- |nated entirely by the environment, man is in a position to break up the unity of nature by his intelligence |and to create situations which elicit new results. the unity of nature, in order to maintain his density of population, | “Man must continuously break up exceeding by far the normal degree. Here the question arises as to Whether he does not go too far in the breaking up of the unity, so that there are undesirable consequences. “Yes, and three times, yes, he goes too far very often and contin- uously here we touch the very basis of our age, 80 far from nature—the age of machines and technique.” Breaking Web The great insect outbreaks which use excessive losses in wegetation “are the. consequence of the heed- less breaking of the web of life," he declared, asserting that the great problem of plant protection is to de- termine what man can do to restore the unity of the natural order when his activity has disturbed it. “Nature can restore losses and can reconnect broken threads of the web, but this ability s not in- definite.” The restlessness of the earth's crust in the region of Central Amer- ica and the Antilles over a period of nearly half a billion years was de- scribed by Prof. Charles Schuchert of Yale. “What stands out most clearly,” he said, “is that there was no Guilf of Mexico 100,000,000 years ago.” It was formed millions of years later, he said, and was at one time at least three times as large as it is now, covering northern Central America, most of the greater An- tilles, all of eastern Mexico and all of the gulf states from Texas north to Illinois and east to Florida. MAPLE HILL NEWS Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Shonts of tuart street spent Christmas in New York as guests of their daughter, Miss Hengletta Shonts. Mrs. Shonts is spending the remainder of the week there. returned after &pending Christmas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Hart of Thompson street. | Graham Spring, son of Mr. and | Mrs. G. K. Spring of Thompson | street, returned to Troy. N. Y., after spending the holiday at his home. Miss Ruth Lienhard has returned |to Brooklyn, N. Y., after spending Christmas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Lienhard of Golf street. Albert Nordstrom of Robbins ave nue has réturned from Bangor, Me., where he was a guest of Miss Dor- rice Higgins over the holidays. Mrs. M. M. Holly, dean of Glen en school in Stamford, Mrs. E. F. ewell, Mrs. L. H. Junker and son |of Pelham, N. Y. returned home yesterday after spending a couple of Jonathan Hart of New Haven has | P | the 200 acre site acquired on the days with Mr, anad Mrs. C. O. Fer- guson of Golf street. Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Hurd of Golf street hav returned home after spending Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hurd of Shelburne Falls. “George Duquette of Boston was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Fergu- son over the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Damon and Miss Dorothy Damon of Jack- son Heights, L. I, have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Powell of Rob- bins avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Mann and Miss Mildred Mann of Robbins ave- nue, spent Christmas with relatives in Wollaston, Mass. Miss Frances Sorrow returned to Boston yesterday after spending a week with her parents, Mr. and MM, Walter Sorrow of Sequin street. Miss Evelyn Sorrow returned ‘with her sister to spend a few days. ‘Miss .Eleanor Proudman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Proudman, has returned to Boston after spend- ing the holidays at her home op Frederick street. Miss Eleanor Skinner, Miss Louise Harding, Miss Betty Spring, Miss Frances Monier, Miss Isabel Ingham, and Miss Susan Hubert were enter- tained at their respective homes yes- ferday afternoon with a progressive luncheon. Commissioner Caldwell Visits WTIC’s Site Hartford, Dec. 28.—{(A—Commis- sloner O. H. Caldwell, of the Federal radio commission visited the site of | the Travelers broadcasting station on Avon mountain here yesterday. Commissioner Caldwell is ~under- stood to have been impressed with mountain for the new 50,000 watt transmgission plant of WTIC. The commissioner was accom- panied by his daughter, Miss Joan Hope Caldwell. Owes Police Court $9.59, Michalowski Under Arrest Louis Michalowski of New York, formerly of New Britain, was ar- rested last night by Officer John Riley and will be sent to jail unless he makes payment of $9.59 which he is alleged to owe the police court since January 8, 192 According to the court records, he was fined $7 and costs, totalling $14.59 and paid $5 on account, with the promise that he would pay the balance if allowed to leave the cus- tody of the police temporarily. He was arrested later and went to jail, NEW BRITAINS LEADING AND MOST RELIABLE FURRIERS CoNNECTICUT FURRIERS INCORP ORATETD 70 West Main Stre: but the alleged balance remained unpaid, Early Wednesday morning Officer Riley arrested Michaldwski and a companion for fighting in a Mam street restaurant, and each was fined $5 without costs. Before leav- ing the police station Michalowski was asked about the $9.59 and he claimed to have worked it out in jail, but later Chief Hart ordered his arrest, saying he had not done so. WONDER ABOUT EFFECT OF SWERINGENS' GIFT Railroad Magnates Give Several Hundred Thousand Dollars Worth of Stock to Minority, New York, Dec. 28 (UP)—Wall street had anxious eyes on the tick- er today to see what eflect the Van Sweringen Christmas gift would have on the valus of .Chesapeake and Ohio railroad stock. The Christmas gift consisted of several hundred thousand dollars which O. P. and M. J. Van Swerin. gen, the Cleveland real estate wiz- ards, and railroad finaciers, turned over to minority stock holders In the Chesapeake & Ohio. The gift, announced just before the stock exchange closed yesterday is believed to remove the last ob- stacle to a railroad merger which has been agitating financial circles for years. The money probably will go to cover litigation expensgs in- curred by the minority stockholders | in opposing the Van Sweringen meér- ger plan before the interstate com- merce commission. | Should the Christmas gift, am Wall street insists on calling it, | make the way clear for the Van Sweringen consolidation, the follow- |ing railroads probably would be in- volved: Chesapeake & Ohio, Erle, Hocking Valley and Pere Marquette. The announcement of the gift was made oo late yesterday to cause = a reaction on the stock market, ana financiers were eager to see what would happen today. Only 2,400 shares of Chesapeake & Ohio stock changed hands vesterday and the issue closed three-quarters of = point off. The fight ot the ‘CNO minority committee against {the Van Sweringen merger goes | back to 1925 when members of the committee opposed the old Nickel Plate unification which was reject- ed by the interstate commerce com- mission. Chesapeake & Church bells are tuned by cht ping the edge till the proper note is obtained. Tomorrow—The Beginning of Our Annual January Fur Sale ‘Ghe Outstanding “Fur Coat” Event In New Britain We can usc volr raw fu Attention ! 5,000 Muskrats to us—hig Minks—Skunks—Raccoons, Etc. FUR GARMENTS THAT DEFIES COMPARISON WHEN VALUES ARE CONSIDERED Trappers ! onee—bri ccs paid for HARTFORD STORE “BUY YOUR FURS FROM A FURRIER" If You Cannot IN OUR JANUARY SALE WE OFFER A COLLECTION OF FINE We invite you to see these coals, use your own judgment—compare with others—and we ase confident vou will attest their superiority. All the favored skins are represented, with the most beautiful and ap- propriate trimmings. A large selection at a price range to please every purse. Chere’s a Reason “Why We Are New Britain’s Busiest Furriers” Pay Cash ™ Arrangements may be made under our busi- ness-like budget plan.