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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH THE WRONG ENVELOPE 88 By FLORENCE UELLISH I McClure Newspaper Syndicate. WNU Service. T TI J I ULLO, Will Carmodyl ' Packing up? Something of the sort. Do you think this grip will hold one more parcel? There! If you hold it together m pull the strap.". Thats all right, if it doesnt bust. Has old Ennis at the bank 'given you the grand bounce? Hardly. He has given me two .weeks vacation and a raise. Will 'tried to speak in a casual tone, but ,he could not keep out a note of sat-iiaction. i ! ! i sf ' Good work! And youre going to spend that vacation with your uncle and aunt in Kirby? Carl Andrews glanced at the label. Yes. They were awfully good to me after I was left alone. I lived 'with them two years before I came here. i Hence these knobby parcels. What sort of place is Kirby pretty lively? Just a little village around the station. Then half a mile up the hill theres a cluster of houses where Ill have a good visit with Aunt Martha and Uncle Ben and the old neighbors." Is there a bunch of pretty girls in that cluster? Only two girls, but they are both pretty. Ah! Please show me the one in your watch. Will laughed helplessly and opened the case, revealing a gentle and thoughtful girlish face. Why, she is pretty. Whats her name? Janice Merrow? A pretty name. What does the other girl call herself? Ruby Merrow. Theyre cousins. Ruby is more gay and dashing than Janice. No picture of her? No, I dont think so. I did have two or three, but But youve been housecleaning. Quite right my boy. Now you may as well tell me the whole story, like those guys in Shakespeare. As you seem a little bashful, Ill adopt the Socratic method. Very considerate of you. Fire away. Wills story was soon told. The cousins were inseparable, though quite unlike. The families on the hill were intimate, and it seemed a matter of course that Will should escort the two girls to the merrymakings in Kirby village. He hardly knew which he liked better, though he seemed to be better acquainted with the frank Ruby. She was a little hoydenish, perhaps, he went on, but good and sensible. Janice was always very sweet, but a little remote in her sweetness. After I left Kirby I corresponded with both girls, but 1 havent been writing to Ruby much lately. You see, I began to get acquainted with Janice through her letters. She is really wonderful in her depth of feeling and sympathy, and in her appreciation of things, and weve come to understand each other better and better, and have come nearer and nearer to each other just through letters. I see, Carl nodded. Well, last night I wrote to both of the girls. Both, eh? Yes. A nice, friendly letter to ; Ruby, telling her that I anticipated the renewal of our acquaintance, and so on. Exactly. Hail and farewell. Then I wrote to Janice, telling her well, just how I felt, and asking her, if she felt the same way, to meet at Kirby station. Then perhaps well walk up the hill togeth- er. And if the girls are inwill Ruby be along? separable, with some imOf course not, Whew! patience. Carl asked more if Janice shouldnt what soberly, come, either? Will, But, I should think I should hope, something had happened to detain her. - On the northbound train Will sat with his gaze fixed on a recent magazine, but the sharp-eye- d little spinster in the seat behind him noticed that he never once turned a leaf. ' His own story was too absorbing. Would Janice be on the platform to meet him? He felt sure she would. And would she be wearing that dull blue gown in which he had seen her last and which suited her pensive beauty so A girl did perfectly? Probably not.two for a years. wear gown not Still, he fancied the new one would be blue. He pictured the shy, gradual smile that would curve her pretty lips just a touch of archness with the shyness. He would smile back. They could not say much Car-mod- y just then. The western sun would touch them warmly, and perhaps they would cross the street and sit down together at a marble-toppe- d table in the back of the little fruit store for an ice cream soda. Then they would climb the hill together going past the row of maples, a bright leaf now and then falling like a benediction on their linked arms Kirby! sprang up and seized his grip. Then he was on the platform, shaking hands with two or three of the townsmen. But Janice? Hadnt she come? Yes. There she was at the end of the long platform, and waving her hand. She was not wear-m- g blue, as he had hoped, but a dashing sports skirt and an orange hat and sweater. It was not Janice! It was Ruby. Heavens! Had she come with her cousin, as Carl Andrews had suggested? No. Janice was not there at all. Will stood as if glued to the spot. As Ruby came nearer, radiant with smiles, his mind worked rapidly. Both those letters had begun with Dear Friend. He had simply placed each in the wrong envelope. Fatal carelessness! And Janice! What could she be thinking of him? He had only a few seconds in which to decide what to do, but he made the decision. He would not spoil three lives for the sake of gallantry or to save a temporary embarrassment and mortification. He would tell Ruby exactly how it was. They would laugh it oft together and Janice would under stand. . He waved to Ruby mechanically and smiled in a sickly way. But when she met him with her joyous Hullo, kid! there was a new tenderness in her hand-clas- p and a soft light in her happy eyes that he had never seen there before. Could it be that she was caring, and that he had given her a heartache with his clumsy carelessness? Ruby, he said in a choked voice, I must speak to you alone before we say anything more. Cant we he looked helplessly around. Sure we can. She piloted him into the little station and they sat. down on a side bench, sheltered by a big box. The pressure of her hand on his arm and the confident air with which she waited, gave him a twinge. Ruby, he began hoarsely, I wrote you a letter. Oh, yes, I got it. It was all She smiled reassuringly, right. and Will stumbled on. I wrote to Janice at the same time. I know, Will. Ruby nodded. That is all right, too. She pressed his hand, sympathetically. Oh, Janice! he thought. What bitterness of spirit might be hers at this moment! Ruby, you see Oh, Will, will you never give me a chance to explain? Janice was coming, of course. . All yesterday she was like somebody in a dream. But that little brother of hers you know he is always catching something has caught the measles, and that idiotic Doctor Judkins has quarantined the house today. Ive talked with Janice through the closed window, and she was worried for fear you would be disappointed and a misunderstanding might arise. So I offered to meet you and explain. I know how you both feel another sympathetic for Ive been engaged to pressure Charlie Twiss for a week and were almost as bad as you and Janice. Goodness! with a glance at the station clock, I have a date with Charlie in 15 minutes. Will had straightened up. He was all smiles and cordiality now. r Ruby, I am very glad Charlie is an good fellow. But Ruby never knew how glad Will was. dry-goo- ds Baseball Sloths Speaking of Sports slow-foote- Rookie Stars Pace Maj ors In 1938 Race By GEORGE A. BARCLAY FRESHMAN ball players are rul-- k lng the roost in the major leagues this year. A crop of brilliant rookies unprecedented in the history of the game have achieved stardom right off the bat and clinched key jobs on seven of the sixteen teams in the American and National leagues. These boy wonders are no morning glories, mind you, who are likely to fold when the going gets tough. Theyve demonstrated their right to their jobs by sheer merit. For inmark of stance, up to the half-wa- y the season, six of the freshmen outfielders and infielders playing regular positions had knocked in 249 runs and compiled a composite bat . de coats-of-arm- s, d, 1897. Two men preceded and bettered him in stolen bases. They were John M. Ward of the New York Giants with 111 in 1887 and Billy Hamilton of Philadelphia with 102 in 1890 and the major league record number of 115 in 1891. Wonder Woman LJELEN WILLS MOODYS recent victory over Helen Jacobs at ting average of .322. And four of the rookie pitchers taking their regular turn on the slab had won 28 out of 42 games for an average of .700. Standout among the first year men, of course, is Cincinnatis sensational Johnny Vander Meer with n t, two games in succession to his credit. His teammate, Frank McCormick, a husky, slugging first baseman, has also made good in a big way. no-hi- no-ru- Wimbledon, England, confirmed her as the greatest woman player in the history of tennis. Whether you Helen or not, you like poker-face- d Stair IlDust Children of Stars A Break for Nancy Goodman s Cornetist By Virginia Vale " Q when you SOME day are grown up, and see by the papers that Ellen Powell is going places with this or that young man, youll feel know how the when they read that Sue Vidor has been going about with Buddy Armstrong. old-time- rs Youll probably say, Why I remember when that girl was born-- way back in 1938! Her mother was a movie star, Joan Blon-del-l, and her father was a movie star, too Dick Powell, and a master of ceremonies on the radio, too. But, of course, you dont see them in pictures now. And it seems like yesterday that Sue Vidor was playing that tiny little piano, and her handsome young parents were standing there, smiling at her. Her mother was a Florence famed movie actress Vidor, who retired to marry Jascha Heifetz, the violinist. Sues father is King Vidor, the director. well-know- n And, speaking of the passing of time, when she started work recently on Three Loves Has Nancy, Janet F Gaynor also started out on her twelfth year making of movies. Few others have stayed at the top for so long. Which reminds me that in Tropic Holiday, the new Martha Raye-BoBurns b comedy, one of Bobs scenes is a Janet Gaynor of the one burlesque must agree that her championship in A Star Is Born in which a of comeback feat after layoff three Fredric March swam out to sea years was unparalleled. to his death. People who liked the hit picture wont This latest comeback was the sec- Gaynor-Marcond in her career. In 1935 after care for that. being inactive for the two previous years because of a back injury, she Having fought with Columbia and Now, had her contract bought off, Grace triumphed at Wimbledon. h Moore departed for Paris, where she will start right in making pictures again. Shell do both a French and an English version of Louise. And, as French pictures are rarely up to the United States standard, she probably wont like the result. Classy Talent Another scintillating recruit is Joe (Flash) Gordon, second baseman of the New York Yankees and regarded as about the classiest infielder in the junior circuit. The Cleveland Indians have Ken Keltner on third base, who specializes in home runs. In the outfield there are such young stalwarts as Sammy Chapman, the Philadelphia Athletics star rookie from the University of California, Enos Slaughter of the St. Louis Cardinals, and Hank who has been batting around .350 for the Chicago White Sox. Ranking next to Vander Meer among the young pitchers is Bob Klinger, of the Pittsburgh Pirates, who has had an earned-ru- n average g of about two per game up to date. Then theres Jim Bagby Jr., of the Boston Red Sox, who has shown enough stuff to become a dependable regular starter. Jim is the son of famous old Sergeant Jim Bagby ear winner who was a for the Cleveland Indians a couple of decades ago. Tot Presnell has helped the Brooklyn Dodgers make things uncomfortable for other National league teams this year. Behind the plate, Cincinnati scores again with Willard Hershberger, who came from Newark, the wonEarly Tiles Handmade, Sun Dried, Then Painted der team of the International league The earliest tiles were made by last year. There are several other impressing the soft clay of the half-matile with a pattern, and when the clay was dry, this impressed design was filled with a white slip. The entire surface was then covered with a powdered lead oxide and given a baking, the lead forming a transparent yellow glaze. Old Spanish tiles were all of an inch thick. These were pressed by hand only, and do not have the hard, close compression Of the machine-mad- e tile. In the old process the tiles were sun dried after hand pressing and then painted. The designs to be found on tiles are almost infinite in variety and include frequently found in medieval examples as well as conventional foliage and flowers, many ornaments derived from vegetable forms, animals, badges, shields, texts, mottoes, emblems, prayers, human heads, single flowers and composite pictures. Transfer-prin- t enameling on tiles was produced in Liverpool as early JIM BAGBY JR. as 1750. These tiles, says a writer in the Los Angeles Times, were used for lining stoves or walls and were classy young catchers, including Riddle of the Boston Bees, very popular. Theatrical charac- Jonnny ters were frequently represented on Cap Clark of the Phillies, Herb Bremer of the Cardinals and Tom them. Heath of the St. Louis Browns. all-rou- dull-w-it A RACE of ted ball players will soon dominate fiie national game If the present emphasis on slugging continues, according to Bill Lange, who 42 years ago stole 100 bases for the way Chicago Cubs and speeded his into diamond immortality. ' Modern ball players think too much in terms of home runs and not enough about base stealing, The slugger has Lange declared. supplanted the thinker in baseball. Base stealing makes a player more alert mentally. He has to try to outguess the pitcher and the rest of the opposition, instead of trying to knock the ball out of the lot by brute force. As a rule the superior base stealer is also the brainier player. One of your illustrations is Ty Cobb, the greatest we ever had. He was worth more to a team than a dozen Babe Ruths. 'It is an interesting coincidence that Lange, in his day regarded as the outstanding player of the game and the immortal Ty Cobb now are neighboring country squires near San Francisco, Calif. Lange, now a prosperous real estate operator was a star for seven years, from 1893 to 1899. He quit the game in his prime. Lange was the last man to steal as many as 100 bases. He reached that peak in 1896, leading the National league that year and in & Nancy Kelly, aged seventeen, has been booked to play the heroine in Splinter Fleet, and a lot of people in Hollywood are asking who she is and where she comes from and why she should be given so important a Stein-bache- r, nine-innin- 30-ga- m -y HELEN WILLS MOODY three years later, she has repeated. She dropped out of tennis so far as major competition was concerned after her 1935 triumph and stayed out until she hit the comeback NANCY KELLY trail this year in England. Heien has been a dominant figure role in such an expensive picture. in the world of tennis for 15 years, But at seventeen Nancy is a veteran ever since she won her first United who rates important assignments. States championship in 1923. Before She acted in the movies made in the that for two years she was the girls East as a child, but gave it up 10 national titleholder. She took the na- years ago because she had reached tional singles crown seven times, the awkward age, and devoted her1923 between and 1931. Since 1927 she has won the Wimbledon singles title eight times, including her recent victory. Just for good measure, Mrs. Moody has won four French womens championships and a respectable number of doubles and mixed doubles championships. Here and There X7HEN Bob Feller was pitching for Van Meter there were only 200 high schools in Iowa playing baseball. There were 570 high schools entered in an Iowa tournament this spring which climaxed in a three day competition at Manson in Calhoun county . . . Lefty Grove takes a nap on a rubbing table before each game he pitches . . . Rudy York needs only one more home run with the bases full to tie the season record of four, held jointly by Frank Schulte of the west side Cubs, Babe Ruth, and Lou Gehrig . . . Jack Beynon, former Illinois and quarterback, is prepared to demonstrate his new movable goal posts. The posts, which can be set on the end lines d wheeled up to the goal line wL a team attempts a field goal, are designed to eliminate injury. . All-St- ar Western Newspaper Union. self to radio. She was going strong a year ago when she got the role of Gertrude Lawrences daughter in Susan and God, a successful play that was one of the New York theaters big hits this year. Nancy was a hit, too, Darryl Zanuck saw her performance and bought her contract, so now shes back in the movies again. You cant tell, these days, where a swing musician will bob up. When Benny Goodman and his band were playing an engagement in Texas last year everybody for miles around who liked swing music came to dance. During the intermission a young man with a cornet in his hand came to Goodman and asked to play for him. Goodman took him into an adjoining room, Jess Stacey sat down at the piano, and the young man began to toot. said Goodman when Buddy, Whatever your he had 'finished. name is, you can join my band. By the way, where did you learn to put a horn through its paces? Im a member of the Salvation Army band, replied Henry James, whos been a member of Goodmans gang ever since. Western Newspaper Union. |