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Show WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1922. THE WEBER HERALD MARY Mary Ash'ton wag neither extremely pretty nor rich, but she was certainly extremely happy when she married Josh Anderson and went to Jive with him in two liny rooms In the top of a high Apartment house. Of course they were crowded, but then Josh had a steady Job driving a truck for a bottling works and he was saving, almost hoarding, us a miser, every ftpa.re cent until he would be able to buy a Utile farm far from the heat and dust of the city. Mary herself would ri'ther have rented a better apartment for her memories of twenty years In a little pide-tracked village were rot such as would induce her to return. When Josh was married he expected a.raisc. Hard times and winter came on and he didn't get it. Then after a year or two there were doctor bills and another mouth to feed, so the savings grew slowly. Times began to mend and the raise came. For a month or two the balance in the pass book grew larger . and larger, 'but then Josh became a father and means of support of a pair of twins. They were a pair of husky boys and Josh could not reasonably help but be more than pleased, so he maintained a cheerful countenance and at least a patient heart. Winter and a slack in business In the soda trade came on again and Josh received notice that his wages would be reduced to the former level. When Josh brought the bad news to Mary he expected to see her cry. She had a good way of taking disappointments, though, and so kept back the tears. Seven years In a crowded apartment had made Josh's ambition her ambition, fihe longed and prayed for the time when the children would have a green on which t to play. As the gambler says, ' Sometimes your luck changes it gets worse." One day when -the frozen rain and sleet had made the sidewalks treacn-'erously slippery, Josh fell, while carrying a heavy barrel and its full weight rolled onto his chest. The police came and Josh was taken to a hospital. Then they sent for Mary. From the first Josh's case was almost hopeless. Broken ribs had torn ' his lungs until they were a bhoked and bleeding mass. The doctors worked hard. They kept him alive for three weeks. Then when he died they sent the bills to Mary. She paid the doctor bills and fu-neral expenses out of the savings. It took them all, so Maty set out to look for work. She had no mother nor relatives to go to, so she was forced to move the children into a crowded tenement. The care of the twins fell on the six-year-old girl. Mary got work in a laundry. They set her to folding napkins from the mangle and nil day she handled pieces of cloth so hot they- sometimes scorched her fingers, at the rate of a napkin a minute. The whole nine hours she was hunched up over a machine that was almost blazing fwith heat. When she learned to do it real fast they raised her wages from four and a half to five dollars a week. Two of this went for rooni rent. Threo fed four Hungry mouths. t As can be Imagined, Mary grew used to going hungry to work, in order to havn something for the children. Even a constitution developed by it child in the open air 'could not stand the strain put upon it. Mary had been weakened by three weeks of spending her days with the children and her njghts with Josh in the hospital. Then she grew nervous and irritable from starvation and constant worry over the children- . She often grew dizzy us she leaned over the steaming rolls, and maddening headaches were not at all uncommon after the day's work. The speed of her work fell off and her wages were reduced. This only increased the strain on her. One morning she found herself unable to go to wbrk. She rested all day, which was what ehe needed, and it would have done her good if she had not had to out when she didn't work. Hut she was ',,'ible to go back to work next day. The boss asked her why she had been nbsent. She told him her mother had been ill. She had. learned from experience that the laundry did nut hire people who were subject to sick spells and competition was keen for a job that paid four and a half a week. The headaches grew worse, the days of nbseuce more frequent and her ingenuity was taxed taxed to the limit inventing excuses. Then she missed two days in succession, when she went back the boss nttt iter at. the door, tie was in an angry humor and demanded n reason for her absence. She knew that the truth meant luln. On the spur of the moment she fullered. "My baby died day before yeslorday." Scnider, the boss, taught his Sunday school class never to lie. lie thought he saw ono here. "I suppose you burled the baby yesterday?" he asked suspiciously. Mary didn't think und answered "No." j "Well, then," said Senider, "we'll go up and see the funeral. Where ' , w M:iry was trapped and she knew it. She faltered and stammered and told him she could not go. "Then," ho aid, "I don't bellevo your baby i j dead, T won't Maud a liar around J hern, when you show me your baby's j dead you can have your job back, i jSot until." In hopeless despair Mary went out! to look for a new Job. Nobody want-! ed her. She went, home at nigrht, tired, discou raped and hungry. She gave the children the last of the food and put the tn to brd. A Meepless nfsht for herself did not help her in her search next day. She even tried begging- but was driven 'from the corner by a policeman. She tried at every place she Knew but nccom-plished nothing. That night the children were clamoring for food. They went to bed hungry. As they f av there in bed ehe thought of Sell iter's words, "When you show me your dead child you can have your job back." A ji other unsuccesisf ul day followed another sleepless night. She came-to her starving children empty handed, she had a hard time to g-et them to bed, but they finally quieted. As she laid them in the bed she came to a final decision. Better one than all. She would show Senider a dead baby. Bettor one than all but which one? She went over their qualities carefully and slowly. There was Alice, the girl. She had taken care of the twins for over a year and was seven years old now. If she went the other would he left a Inn e. It was out of the question. The twins w e r -j left. Which one? Surelv not Tn strong, sturdy one that would be sure j oal. A photoplay had to be sensa-to be able to earn a living soon. Sure-itional or carry an entirely new plot ly not the bright and Intelligent ono i to win comment, and then it is as oft-who had his mother's deepest love I en bad as zooti for picture? of this by his pretty baby ways. She started In again and again came to the blan wall. Then thought of an old rhyme that ended "out goes he." She left the question to chance. One of the twins went out. haggard and crazed Next dav WOinnn nrpnt In Runidor'a nffifP Hp-' hands were covered with blood and her hair was uncombed. She staggered into the office and seized Senider by the arm. "I want my job. Tou can see the child." Senider was busy and the memory of Mary's discharge was indistinct, in his mind. She had done the same thing a dozen tlrhes since. He turned to her and said: "Tour position is filled. What do I want to see of a baby that has been dead a week? It Sought to have been buried long ago." RALPH FLYGARE. i SIS'S FEIJjKR ! I've got a big sister and she,'s the big- j gest nut, j Cause when her feller's comin' she sends us away. Pa says he's a mutt; He calls my sister up most every day. I can't understand why she's so stuck on him. He ain't so very swell, His name is only Jim. He just rings the fire bell. This mornin' Ma was lookin' grave An' Sis was lookin 'awful happy. An' Pa, he says Jim's awful brave As well as bein' snappy. I don't see how they got that way; He ain't done nothin' great. He just stopped a little fire in the hay But he's been comin' more often of late. I think I've discovered why they praise him, by Jo! I saw him kissin' Sis last night So j suppose he's Sls's beau. I guess that it's all right. Eleanor Shorten. AN INTERVIEW. The manager who gives his long hours trying to please a photoplay trade has a hard task. I have been in a position to study just such a man whose greatest effort has been put fori h to bring success out of failure and that has been accomplished by diligence and Jong hours of worry. After finding myself in the office of the beautiful Alhambra theatre on an errand of interview, I suddenly became conscious of the presence of my subject, the manager of Ogden's motion picture palace on Hudson. He was seated on his office chair which I noticed had a new leg. By the way, this is a revolving chair of the new type. I found out later this leg, or the bne before it, had given away under no other than Ogden's popular musical director, Mr. Albert Erickson, in such a way as to rather humiliate this individual. After noticing this and other things, I became conscious that I was in the presence of probably the best showman in Utah, most probably the best because the rest of them had chosen him president of their statewide association which is also affilated with the nationwide association of motion picture exhibitors. This person sort of thrilled me, aiid, as this was my first interview, 1 could think of no way to start the conversation. Mr. Skinner pulled a cigar from his drawer, lighted it and leaned back as if in thought. Slowly the eldud of smoke was moving in my direction. Here was my chance. "I do love the faint aroma of a good cigar;" t ventured, only to see a scowl on his face as he answered me. "You surely don't like this one, then." he said, tossing it to the waste paper basket and adding, "That was the worst cigar I've had in months." "M-m-m," I muttered to myself. "Failed that time." Again I glanced around the room, this time noticing the plainly, yet beautifully finished wall with the pictures of Marguerite Clarke and Clara Kimball Young adorning one side and an office calendar adorning the other. Again I ventured a starter. "A fine theatre building you have, Mr. Skinner,' I said. "Yes." he answered, "it is a fine building. Isn't it wonderful that motion pictures require such tine buildings like this; today?" I agreed with him and said that motion pictures are an art in this age. "Of course I hey are nn art,1' he said, then added, "When I slatted In this field some fifteen years ago and when the movie started, there was nothing to worry the manager, if you would care to call him that. If a person want ed to start a movie, all he did was rent a storeroom, set up a picture projector and a ticket booth and grind away a couple or three reels at a nic-kle a show. Then, if you can. contrast that with the movie house of today." I could hardly imagine such a movie. The worst movies I had ever attended were not bad. In contrast, they must be palaces. Again Mr. Skinner started to talk, and I was all ears for more of this information. "Motion picture theatres hare grown to test one's ability to operate them successfully." "Yes," I acknowledged, "the public knows the Alhambra always gives it more of the best shows, presented in the best possible manner. Just tell me how It is done," Mr. Skinner. "That, answer in easy," said he. "Motion pictured are like the rest of the things in this world. Just buy the most, expensive ones and you will usually get the best ones. The good pictures and their progressing have I advanced the movies from the j.aj I hole' to the finest thetre the world." "Picture buying is a comparatively easy task, then." I said. "Oh, no." he answered. "There are many things to consider. First, one wants a picture that will please as near 100 per cent as possible," and he added, "The people, as you know, are of varied tastes and the fellow who pleases half of his following has prov-i en himself more than successful. That is the theatre man's vision. I had often fancied the connection with the fascinating, everchanging business of the tneatre. Dut it was easy, now. to sw that showmen meet many human prob- lems as well as the rest of us or the j average person. I astaiu listened to the words he put before me. "Now the time has arrived." he said. "when (he audiences are more, criri kind. Many express themselves with words of praise while many others use the plain term, 'rotten.' The latter seem to forget that all minds are not of one opinion and to forget the j detail, work, story, and m some in- i stances the tremendous cost, but just rpmpmhpr ihar ihP nictm-p did not set well in their judgments. Their tern peramental condition was not in a receptive mood for anything, and they breathed out a knock as they passed the door, painting the word 'ignorance' in red letters. "And what pictures have you now in mind?" I asked. "Many and many." was his answer and he named a few. Among them were the 'Miracle Man,' 'Humor-esque,' 'Four Horsemen,' 'Conquering Power' and many others just a little from the usual program picture. There he paused and through the partly opened office door we heard a commotion. He rose quickly and bounded upstairs. In his absence, I wondered what sort of views he must have on life. He must know life to choose entertainment approved almost unanimously by everyone. He came down muttering at some smarties' ig norance, one who had been spoiling the show for everyone sitting in his vicinity. Aram we hard the noise. The next time he came down stairs he brought with him a couple of 18 or 19-year-old babies, much to their embarrassment. He promised them they would not be privileged with the liberty of attending tne Ainamora in ine tuture aim as sured them of their luck at having not been arrested. 1 then knew how this man must wdrk for the comfort of his patrons and I realized how he must know human nature as he said, "You know, -today, we. are more inclined to complain because complaint is the common password. Those boys didn't quite like the picture so they made everyone miserable in their complaining aloud by uproarous noise." He was smiling now and asked me how I liked to sit and have the picture titles read aloud from in front of me or from the rear. He added, "The people haven't quite become educated in the photoplay, they take many liberties in the photoplay theatre 4hat they would never take in other places. When the public becomes sufficiently educated, such an occurrence as tonight's will not happen during such a wonderful performance as is, 'Just Around the Corner'. Have you seen it?" he asked. I replied that I had and agreed that it was wonderful. By this time I heard the big organ playing loudly and the crowd passing through the foyer. I looked at my watch. It was 11 o'clock. "Great Scott, I've been in here two hours." I prepared to leave after begging his pardon for taking up so much of his valuable time. He remarked that the "Mrs." would think we were dead or something. Just then the door opened a little and Mrs. Skinner, the charming assistant manager, yelled merrily "The show's out" Edwin Stoker. A BOT'S COMPOSITION OX BREATHING. Breathing is made of air. We breathe with our lungs, our lights, our livers had our skin If it's not all stopped up1 with powder. If it wasn't for our breath we would die when we slept. Our breath keeps the life a-going through the nose when we are asleep. Our noses was made to breathe with and our mouths for eating and to talk w i t h . Women that stay in a room all day should not breathe. They should wait till they go outside. A lot of people in'a room make bad, Coul, unholy-some air. They make carboniclde; too. Carboniclde is poisoner than a mad dog. Once a big heap of soldiers was in a black hole in India, and a carboniclde got into the room arid killed Pearly every bne before morning. Girls and women kill their breath with tight clothes that squeeze the diagram. Girls can't holler or run like boys, 'cause their diagram is squeezed too much. If I was a girl, I'd wish 1 was a boy so I could run and hoi lei- and breathe lots of air and hive bright eyes and rosy cheeks, a good appetite and a good diagram. tka(;i;dy again: 'Twas night and the sea was heaving, The fish were awaiting a meal. On the deck of a ship stood a man forlorn. (The thought makes my senses reel-. Tli en 't was dawn and the night wai lea vlng. The fish had had their share; On the deck of the ship was no man forlorn. For, alas! the deck was bare. GENEVA LARKIX. -oo- HIS GKM I. There's an English teacher our school A very beautiful creature And in the life of a certain coach She is the crowning feature. II. So to this certain coach School ten chins is a pleasure. Guarding the "Pearl'' of the English room, A rare and precious treasure! M. X. McCoy. -GO TO MY TEACH KRS. Fellow st u dents, the most difficult problems t hat enter a student's li fe J"'e teachers. I hese etherial crcntump ii inn niiiuiiuim. now i. ney pu?,ZiO HP: creatures oi wisoom. we a a red nut contradict your opinion. Yes. we almost worship you. Oh, the sadness that enters our hearts when we find that our heroes' feet are made of cla'v. Fellow students, teachers are mnde of clay; they nre human. Tt was not later than yesterday that M iss Mauphn decidedly stated that we were not to criticire her in any way. If we did and our remarks were uncomplimentary, she kindly reminded us that our English marks could easily be lowered. If complimentary, we did It only to raise our marks. Oh, the sorrow of it! She is afraid of criticism even as you or I. My most cherished illusion is shat- torM and mined. But a spark of hope still remains. This kindled to a flame when I entered citisnn- snip- -Mr. MoKes pave us the most delightful examination. Oh. the thrill rancor! r,-m 'to 4s' ',-,h 'brii'imm Muilent 45. low e envy you: ,tr. have not f.'llen frr J your pk-;al. ; The pedestal of Mr. Xeilson. our I esteemed inst ructor of bookkeeping. 1 has ion? turned to ashes. Students, lie , aciuaMy keeps house ,-ts well as hooks. : f':i n you ve:i li;:e tha l ? Xo. it is i in-' possible; our minds ai not ready ir the awful truth. I am so fflad history comes the last period. My ideals have been so shattered that nothing matters now. I say i I am glad heause Miss Parry is so hu- man. She is wearing a platinum band. , set with a sparkling diamond, around i her third finger. I blush with shame ! when I say she powders her nose, but i to bring peace to my troubled soul I t must admit it I am sure vou all know the worthy land dignified Mr. Blaylock. How; thrilled I am when lie stands before the class expounding theology! Ala j he, tuo. breaks my heart by running, 1 yes. running, up the front walk and ! bounding up the stairs. i Students. I always vanish when see Mr. Ricks, our president, coming my direction. 1 could not stand to have him become human. I would weep tears of blood. I already weep, such a cloud of gloom rests over me. My heroes' feet are made of clay. A. STEYV-. DENT. Have you ever been Introduced to your Chum's Fair affinity, and Immediately she tries to Gather you in? But you remember that he's Your chum and consequently Act rather cool towards her, and Straightway she advised Your chum to shun you, because You are no fit v Companion for him ? Goblin. THE FAMILY DOCTOR. No household should be without a good, sober, reliable doctor one wilh two autos preferred. A good family doctor is almost as necessary in a home as a pump or a cookin' stove, not that anybuddy is liable t' die, but because he exerts a st.eadyin', quietin' influence. Th' family gits t leanin' on him as a kind o' somethin' 1 don't know what, but a necessary somethin' part an' parcel t' th' establishment. Even th' father changes his whole demeanor an' tiptoes about th' house an' asks if ther' haint somethin' he kin do, an' stands pale and ashen when ui tamiiy doctor ties up a stumped toe, or asks little Gertie t' come over by th' window an' throw her head back an' open her mouth real wide, an' say, "Ah." But a family doctor has got t' look th' part. Any kind of a lookin' doctor can't be a successful family doctor. He mustn't be too young or too ole too dapper or too sloppy. He must be sympathetic an' jolly, have a knowledge o' checkers an' croquet, able t' converse on th' gossip o' th' day, pretend t' love children an' if possible, have a couple of his own, talk about wall paper an' flowers an' cows. All fear should leave a home th' minute th' family doctor turns th' door knob. He ought t' walk in a home like he lived there, an' throw his hat on the sewin' ma;' chine. ' "Well, well, well, what's th' trouble here," he should ask. "Let me see him where he is, upstairs in his room? Well, well, we'll see what's the matter." That's th' way a real family doctor talks. Then, when he reaches his patient lie says, "Hello, what are you doing in bed? Let me have your pulse. Stick your tongue out. Let's see your throat. Open your mouth wider wider widej. That's it, that's fine. What have you been eatin'? I thought so. Well, we'll git you out of here. Emmy, have you got any saHs in th' house? That's fine." Then th , family doctor turns at once t' baseball, j or th' weather, or asks how your to- i matoes are doin'. After that he gives his orders about th' salts an' maybe scribbles a prescription fer somethin t tone up th' system jest, t' make th' case seem more difficult. Then he seemin'ly dismisses th' case from his mind, chugs th children under their chins, maybe admires a rug or a pic- , ture an' asks where he left his hat. i Sometimes jest t' appear that he's not rushin' off too soon, th family doc- j tor'll tells how he lifted a pair o' fierce tonsils th' day before, or how he's lookin' forward t' an appendicitis operation tomorrow. Then maybe he'll say, lookin1 at his watcn, "weu, now I've got t' go about fifteen miles in 1 th' country t' see a patient that's bleedin' f death. I ought o' gone yis- 1 terday, but my car hadn't been actin' i right." Bigelow Magazine. ij oo il EXCHANGES. Rifle teams representing both the East and the West high schools will enter a gallery competition which will be held between all R. O. T. C. units in the Ninth corps area some time between February 12 and 2?. The different teams will fire on their, own ranges and the firing will be f witnessed by a commissioned and a non-commissioned officer of the United States army. The EaRt high school will present "Clarence." Booth Tarkington's four-act comedy, under the direction of Miss Nellie Brown. The play will he given the latter part of .March in ikt East high auditorium. The Li. D. S. basketball players w-jn over the panther quint, the score be-: ing 40 to 33. ' Wilford J. Morrill won the nieihi 1 offered by the I.; tan chapter of the Sons of the A meriean Revolution Wednesday for the best ten minute oration in patriotism The contest was held during student body exercises at the U. A. . Kour students entered the contest. The Utah Apsic Girls' Rifle el ib on Saturday hr-ld tlm first in tercel - i, yon alon OGDEN STEAM LAUNDRY CO. 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Part of the apparatus used was furnished by the department 'of physics and the rest, a field receiving: set furnished by the war departmevt. Roland Smith, John Orme and Gunner Twister do the operating. I On account of the students not sut- scribing in sufficiently large numbers, the Ogden High school will n it publish its annuai year book. "The Classicum." The music department of the B. Y. U. is doing very effective work. It recently gave a concert and contributed musical numbers during Leadership "Week. A new college.- that of Applied Arts, is to be added to the Brigham Young University, according to ah announcement made by the Board of Trustees last Wednesday. Dr. M. C. Merrill, who is at present at the head of the department of horticulture at the Utah Agricultural college, has been chosen dean. On February 1. the students of '.h 1 U. A. C. had the opportunity of hearing the Cherniavsky Trio. The trio is perhaps the best known in the musical world today. 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