Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Richard Connely had felt for the past few months that something would have to happen— something with a pretty hard jolt — if Maida weie ta wake up He had not expected however that it would in the manner- it had nor that it stun--mn- g Would leave such crushing effects trailing after them Here was Maida huddled down in her chair not on the opposite side of the hearth but with her'chair so close to his that they touched as she ner-- ’ vously rocked back and forth sobbing and looking as old as his mother this was Maida s way of saying that she was very sorry and indeed in this- case Maida vould have given her very life no doubt could she undo the thing which had been done And there was Junior JuWhat was Junior doing now nior was partially to blame oh he Junior hadn't mustn’t say that asked them to trail him —dog him through life Nor had he encouraged Maida to lose her head over Doctor Weston One too manv teachers — that was it — Maida bringing Weston into the family to help in- - struct Junior Life was a funny thing Funny They — Maida he and Junior — had made a triangle of theirs They had been pals and sweethearts for eighteen years From the day of Junior's birth both his and Maida’s life had been wrapped up in and revolving around Junior's From babyhood they had watched his every step Oh not to hedge him in They had however maneuvered In such a manner that Dick Junior's days were quite vacant and flat if they were not present in person and if they w'erc not present in person they were in spirit — last word admonitions He Connelly had felt that they wrnre creating a fairly good type of citizen It was Maida those hundreds of evenings in which Junior was puckering up' his little pug nose and wrinkling his forehead who insisted on them staying home wdth him to help unravel knotty little problems in arithmetic It was Maida who had pulled Junior through many a tough spot in high and Junior usually came home with marks top-notc- h too Of course he had taken a turn at the wheel now that Junior was in his teens Spring would come Junior would be restless and uneasy try to climb to the top of the house and other things and he Connelly did take the wheel Many a case he had passed over to his partners Wheeler and Matson and had only appeared in court for the summaries that he might steer Junior’s little craft of a soul into smooth waters Howr Man! Junior could take those big breakers on that little strip of beach just by the shack Spurt right through them swifter than a fish— his body straight as a sword He had not been so bad himself He had seen to that — he and Maida had always been able to follow Junior an where yes indeed And those fish frying on the pink-le- d coals And the little whiffs of sand sprinkling down into the bread and everything — just enough to spice things up Then the walks up to the tops and over the tops of the And every step of the mountains In every fresh crisp leaf of way Iho plant m the every bright wing of the insect and bird in every cool clear stream there was a lesson for Junior and Junior caught the idea — jov and health was the result of clean living Many men would be happier than they are if they lived good clean lives And did Junior enjoy those spins three hundred and fifty miles along the coast highway Down to see the football game in the Rose Bowl the gang packed in the tonneau like sardines in a can That sea of eighty-fiv- e thousand faces had taken their And how tbey had breaths away hoped and prayed that “Stanford would lick the waddin’ out ot Yes indeed that gang knew' all the answers to all the questions from a grandstand point of view The game had always stood out in his mind — the little rascals decided to slay all night and go to a movie d His when he returned home was not as fat as w'hen he left but it was worth it And at the lodge At the lodge he kept 9 few ponies Not bad poIf he and Maida and nies either Junior felt like racing each other and jumping over a few ditches and incidentally howling like Indians they did it There were not however many miles of territory in Sacramento valley and Feather River canyon that they were not familiar with The trees animals streams And above all and in alL and fish it was Junior Junior here there and everywhere Tu-lan- r” bill-fol- ' NOTICE TO WRITERS eriii1tntTiJJSoafaiwn ?ire®ted lo a11 amateur writers submitting Trbune’s Shrt Story and Short Short Story n?anoscriPts will not be returned unless stamps to cover ?nep °Id’ Nelher will The Tribune enter into any correspond- concerning disposal of such manuscripts made1 of each manuscript received and this is returned n ih5!-“ °1gr wth the manuscript if the story is found not acceptable providing return postage has been sent manu-contM- te aa Modern By KATHLEEN NORRIS When things go wrong and life gc to be a burden men often brroir silent and depressed and sometime go on into artu sickness W o m c get nerves Thousands of w men who are on tl verge of a nervoi breakdown r struggling in i depths write n despairing lette every year Th ere tired to exhau tion they are wo ried b u r d c n e i blue they car take Mme out fi rest and meai while the daily d m e s t i c treadm Kathleen Norn turns inexorably on Money docsn become more plentiful ease and beau: and good times arc increasingly ina cessible every year drudgery and di couragement and doubt have the fic to themselves Perhaps there is illnei added a child is seriously ill the: are bad nights and there is heavy e: pense The nerves of the wife mothc manager of the house become rasp to the last stage of endurance she b gins to give in under the strain SI can’t sleep she trembles she ejcpec trouble There is no spot anywhere which she can turn for rest and and comfort: her l esponsibilities pea ho her tightly tq her job and her job too big for her Rich women flock to sanitoriun When social life grows complicate At a cost of perhaps $25 or $30 lie day they still are sponged ar fed and coaxed into normality agai Their friends send flowers: the nur sees that no disturbing element com near Poor women -- and this means woman: can’t afford toIeave g maids at home to look out for the f ily have no such resource They h to fight it through even though so times they permanently destroy t nerves and health attempting it so times destroy the family’s nerves health as well The man of the h grows sour and gloomy the chile are rude and dissatisfied as soor possible everyone gets away and wife and mother scores up her and herself ns a failure Yet the cure for this problem close at hand no mutter how des ate the situation may seem no ma how completely unable to deal It the woman feels herself to be Tl crises are not accidents they are logical results of causes and nine ti out of ten their causes understood d analyzed are at thii atart If our tired anxious hi arhv puzzled nervous woman will I HERSELF in hand straighten her ut completely body and mind ’ half-cure- Women soul she will find her mountains molehills and feel herself equal to twice the burdem-tha- t she can’t carry at all today If it’s health that is the worry perhaps this woman doesn't realize that rhronic poor health is just as nowadays as waiting until Saturday night to take the weekly bath We have reached the point now when we know what and inside cleanliness will do for that once popular long list of feminine ailments blues headaches indigestion dyspepsia heartburn faintness and all the other disgusting stupid troubles of which women used pathetically to boast fifty years ago The right simple diet plenty of water and proper elimination are the secret Heavy dinners destroy rept and sleep and rest and sleep are essential to sane living Try eating just what the eats at night cereal soup vegetables applesauce or prune pulp and sleep just as sound as the baby docs If the problem is money remember that the solution isn’t to live on your income buto live on HALF your income "Living on your income” said a brother of mine once ruefully "is like trying to get into dn evening dress in an upper berth” And about as sensible too! Live on Tialf of it The other half won’t go into the bank It will supply plasters and cushions for those expenditures that come under the head of “unexpected" It will mean that when the plumber has to be called or when grandma has to have a tooth out or when Mary needs a wig for the school play there won’t be one moment of worry over outlay To live within your income may be slavery But to live within half of it is an adventure Reduce your overhead expenses to so little that you aren’t' worrying about them and then wn trcaF Tpnyouf to ncrveS “quiet-clothe great adventure that yourself comes with meeting and conquering dragons Life is full of them some women never face them some women settle them so swiftly and finally that they very soon find themselves sighing like Alexander for new worlds to conquer Or was it Caesar? Probably it was both of them they were the sort SUNDAY MORNING JULY 14 1935 8 go w ith them He was too stubborn He lould see it now He could have One Too Many Teachers By Martha G Hoffman University of Utah Student Oh why did Maida lose her head Of course it was his fault too He' ought to have just put his foflt down when Maida insisted on "auditing’' — they had gone too far Maida had had all that work — auditing — to “be near Junior and assist him” Well it had cost them good and plenty in And "to find more ways than one out what character determiners were going to influence Junior's life” Well she had found that out — they had carried the thing too far And she was going to "assist Richard in registering" Richard It had caused a twinge around ther hearts to call him that and not Junior— Ye Gods! He Well he had called him Junior was glad now that he had Yes Maida was “just going to assist Richard to register” She did And more She made out every single registration card — according to "She Junior's statement that night certainly opened the door for me And when the other boys were haggling over tuitions Maida just stepped up and pushed a bill or two through the window and told ’em: “We will come back for the change ” Connelly was Surprised at Maida's doing that — that was not like Maida — she was excited Why hadn't she waited her turn He let that pass however Yes Maida made out every card and caught the campus fever — which developed into a disease That was the real beginning of the trouble He had said to her “Maida I am not home much but when I arh here I like to sit especially in the fall in front of those logs Sam piles in the Don’t those pink reddish grate flames trying to best each other up the old chimney get you too Maida?” “I love them Dick” Maida had “When are we going to answered begin to toast the marshmallows — just think Junior won't be with us many years now — I am glad now that we didn't send him to school at the earliest moment It was always Junior She had “Pull your chair up gone too far Dick” sne said to him “We'll have to get Richard started” And that was the beginning of the trouble Handsome young Doctor Weston in their biology class sat right next to Maida and this was the beginning of the end — had he only had the brains to see it Here was where he should have put his foot down Yes Doctor Weston as many and most doctors are was interested in the character determiners of his own children and the red corpuscles and -- Can’t Lily has collapsed into in the home of a friend - The doctor howsomething che ever like many doctors now had And unmore time than patients fortunately this doctor had money A block of apartment houses in the best lentmg location in the city — a Too bad Connelly had legacy thought a dozen'times that Weston's mother had not had to to keep boarders as his Connelly's mother had had to in order to educate him That might have made a difference However here thev were Weston coming in cverv evening In go over Maida's textbooks— the fellow wa evidently too damn careless to take care of lus own Study jnvd leseaich ovciy evening He Connelly would till all hours finally rustle lus paper a time or two cough yawn and then sneak off upstairs promising himself that he would join a club tomorrow He mustn't be too hard on him Doctor Weston was all right Clean He asked him why he had gone m “I piefer mountains for biology and lakes clear skies and tlun puie air to stuffy clubs where one t an rut the air with a knife" Right enough About six Good chap the doctor years older than Maida — funny how he kept associating the two he had done that when he had asked Weston about his income — handsome russ And the gift of knowing how to say the right thing at the right time and then shutting up Just the type a dame would fall for Yes he and Maida were to blame He could see that now He mostly He should as he went over things have put- his foot down especially when Maida edged herself and the doctor over to the matinee dances "to just have one look at Richard dancing” Then of course the doctor being a gentleman danced once tw ice with Maida Being good dancers the two of them thev had danced until the crowd left “It was the first time fliey had enjoyed themselves so much in years Thev had waited for Richard Richard must not pick up with the wrong - girls” A week later at dinner Junior had sort of twitted Maida Connelly thought — perhaps Junior had intended to sort of reproach her Junior had put his arm around Maida saying: “You and Doctor Weston have a few neat little steps of your own haven't you Maida?” “I don’t What do you think?” And know Maida's face had flushed a little Then the hikes for specimens began He as usual was too busy to Afford the house plastered metaphorically with mortgages is plastered tangibly with largo “For Sale” signs daughters son husband are scattered The tale of the Smiths is a common story today in your town and mine Alice Jones moved into the country saved them all Maida had alwayi loved him there was a still small nice Jibuti had told him that all along But he" was hurt and stubborn — Maida was only a kid after all he should have gone along And he would have paid no attention to the little things if Maida liad only kept Weston fiom under his nose The man Spent most of his there And then the long hikes began They were becoming too wrapped up in their research For instance night before last the three of them had stayed Out nearly all night It was almost morning define he heard the doctor's car in the duvewaj He had jumped up and turned on all the lights in the house Maida had gotten the drift too She knew she had been indiscreet many a big siandnl had started with less pi evocation and they were going too far to suit him But Maida came in her arms full of plants — floweis The blues and pinks no more beautiful than her face beaming and talkTpo fast It was the first ing fast time He had ever seen Maida act She got nd of the doctor at once and Then scooted Junior off to bed she had ruddled down into his lap like a little kitten and looked up at him through her fingers “Maida" he had countered “about the expenses of the trips— gas and luncheons We are not you know very well acquainted with" Doctor Weston: and if we were — “Oh the doctor paid for everything today Tomorrow 1 shall take You haven't a ten spot mv car you could loan a guy have you? Wc v evc-'nin- Editor’s Note: All manuscripts submitted In The Tribune’s contest for writers must be accompanied by the signed certificate below This certificate can be clipped from your paper and signed or you may copy It on your The Tribune reserves the right to reject any manuscript not tvpcwritcr accompanied by a signed certificate AUTHOR’S State Street Number 15 Date 1 hereby certify that the short story enclosed titled la submitted to The Salt Lake Tribune as an original composition that no part of the same has been taken or copied from any other story o- - publication and that the entire composition has never been printed or published before In any other publication or in any form I further agree that any payment I receive from The Salt Lake Tribune In the event that this story is accepted for publication will bo accepted by me as evidence of good faith that this is an original composition as stated ’above Signed Breakdown Almost immediof the move a success so marked hecame it ately that he had nothing hut praise for it anyway Of course it was a success! Courage and simplicity are a quick road to it Alice put her children into fine public schools almost all of our schools are fine They had dogs and cats thought wers and trees to help them develop ter a while they all went in for poul-- y and pig raising Alice a woman ith high college honors a woman married a rich man 18 years ago gan to raise flowers Now she em-oeight other women and her counified parlor Is decorated with fifty ophies and ribbons At 44 she hasn't fare in the world "I was on the edge of a nervous eakdown when we came out here” ho ys told me a few weeks ago “We sre In debt hard times were begin-n- g and I thought I was going to se my mind with bills and anxieties We couldn’t lubling all the time ford to go up and so went iwn We were paying $65 rent — and tie enough too for a fine house ith two baths Jim and I decided face the music I’ll never forget the in day we drove about through all e deserted country districts the poor lghbnrhoods and came upon this acc To come down from $65 to $12 sensational -- it thrills you! We went ime on air! "After that it was only a game Wa ok the children into It with us They werent old Iicy adored it lough to feel that they were losing took good care iv social caste and we words poverty' it to let them hear the ‘trouble’ They had supper in the was their trd they climbed trees It stirred me first that think I light i appreciate just what a glorious it was all going to be We one moment of regret n had ever first nights after Jim and those on as had done some figuring with pencils ad paper and realized that j£®tead° RICH eing poor we were a head-rh- e an to sleep I haven't had since attack nervous or a Cal Not every woman can find four the begin ornia acres with which noto woman in ew life But there is stave off a ner ie world who cannot breakdown— more make it im nervou iblc ever to have another own nd-ikdown by handling her First by problem intelligently the that gives diet baby a complete clean mplete rest and Second by ealeu nut every day just what carefully and g honestly both cutting then and do to has in the served meals One-dis- h alf up hen children hangingbeds befor hes and making their w® to say need the Lkfast But rd it” are not ideal things than a thousand times better you vousbreakdowns If you think for find a place pay a $40 rent nerves! and see what it does to your sanitariums oney and leisure and They only put 't cure bad nerves glimpse the dav when a woman she is tremendous truth that cure lie herself and that the ler own hands 16 four-year-o- srt-har- CERTIFICATE City self-contr- ol that nothing daunted Take your choice in a world between the position of Lily Smith and Alice Jones Lilv has lived in our town for the 14 years of her marriage scrimping worrying pretending killing herself for her husband and children They MUST live on Bryant street: the girls must go to an expensive school they must have a car Nervous hysterical explanatory Lily has gone about telling everyone of their misfortunes asking favors straining for invitations suffering those and humiliations that only a climber knows Now Uzayre ruined Pie) iCoulinutd on Following Notice lo Writers Nervous She paid $12 for a cottage in the center of four acres of glorious oaks No bathroom no electric lights no garage But then neither had her fine colonial any of thpsc To Alice's children life was an adventure her bewildered husband for a while was kept too busy raking and painting and digging to say what he stopped at a roadhouse and had a Doctor Weston couple of dances thinks that should be part of Junior’ education — he thinks that Junior should sec the other side of life” That didn't harmonize so well with the "lakes mountains thin pure air and clearn streams” but he underHe gently eased stood Perfectly Maida onto her feet while he gritted his teeth then he spent the rest of the night in his car Not having had any sleep that night and pacing his office floor all the next day had somewhat prepared him for that evening Maida’s first words W’ere when he entered the door: "The doctor and his wife are coming to dinner" Yes those were the first words that he heard And for the first time in their lives— m Junior's life at least — Maida served cocktails and they were "not fruit cocktails Those bottles with the faded dim labels could hav come from only one source He could have killed them both— he did throw out a fang: “I suppose this also is part of Junior’s education’’" Junior never made a move to pick up his glass He would have thrown it in hjs face if he had Maida without even glancing his wav did She made a little face struggled choked it down How many drinks had Weston given them They had Maida informed him decided to dance for an hour after they played a hand of bridge Wouldn't he join them — it was for him really that they were going A nice crowd at the roadhouse he would be surprised After dinner he told them that he i al She paid twelve dollars for a milage in the renter of four Alice Jones moved into the country cres of glorious oaks No bathroom no eleotric lights no garage To Alice's children life was an adventure |