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Show UINTAH EASIN RECORD and In a few weeks he forgot all about it, Magda said. I havent any doubt he did." But now his wife gets a divorce, and then he has to marry the other woman, and shes Mrs. Joe Jones, or whatever it is, and shes won IT out. time wool-i- d of keep When away pillow in at-l- ... d, of better ish in CI1AP1EE X caling said mildly. quickly. Continued 12 misery blotted out all other and she turned desperate-towar- d the duty of the minute, ,ard the wrapping and tying of ,sents, the heaping of bundles, of trimmings on the j fastening that stood in lone cold state in downstairs drawing room. ;;was cold in the drawing room; .toria worked in a sweater; left undone. There j the trimming Christ-,- s a no heart in it today. e had always been a wildly in the Hardisty family-- in the dreadful first Christmas and Gwen en Quentin and Vicky all been ill. It would be no s holiday tomorrow. It would ?( seem Christmas again. Oh, my God! Vicky said, stand-- : still in the middle of the room, ,ag her hands that were sore n wires and string 'and tinsel, t were cold and dirty, tightly rher eyes. My God, what shall ,'otions f put-ke- ep close-s- et it It ter. ig. re e hid-- e and niture fest-jtim- When 1 ot wa--i been then new, , i o tea- - stirred g just ;ive it fresh ler of id cur-ol- what had to be done the rest of the trees "lining Nurse must help; it was much to do alone in this' cold u. Victoria went out to the nen and asked Claus, the old man gardener, who was brewing self some coffee on the laundry ,e, to look at the drawing-roorators. Company tomorrow. Then upstairs again to find beds je, arid the children dressed and TQulating about with their usual oaripus activity. Bricks, Cray-5- , railway trains, and blackboards re all in evidence. The question stockings arose; when were they Jig to hang the stockings? The holes of the nails we had jt year are all here! Susan said uitedly, in interested investigation the hearth. the gentle twin said, 'Mother, .her knee, if we hanged them might they be filled by sup- - ds if are -- just sins to edges m be 70 . to! Jell, and t! With ill love nt and s apple, etened water, juice, lemon r. Let the ice er?" r it is no, darling, because Christ-i- s isnt until tomorrow! The nursery door opened; Gita rly insinuated herself into the juice .er will m, closed the door again. Amahs sick, and Mma said I aid come over, she said. Victorias face paled, but there is no one to see. Come in, Gita. Better close it, ar, because Madeleines getting all ady fnr her bath arent you, my eetheart? She rubbed her face atly against Madeleines little d and felt the tears, hot and rtful, in her eyes again and the ony of despair in her heart, it noon Quentin telephoned. That you, Vicky? Vic, will you k in the pocket of my coat the y coat and see if theres a book there? Ill send down "Oh, moved. Drange fluf-hea- lit-bla- it" Just a minute, Quentin. it if you find It was doctors wife talking; it was no ger only Victoria Hardisty. In nd more thaCoie moment she was back. Its here, 011. Jaaft nt Claus to bring it in? lights m- is quickly Well, but wont that mean that iotir. S i've no car? DKR. I dont need it. I'm not going JVE CO, - I was downtown o,in : this morn- if. (7320 W) i . j i 1 4 - Everything all right? pause. Then Vicky said heavi- - 1 guess so. Well, dont get too tired. Ill be ue early. lcky put down the telephone, d up, and somehow moved "dly toward her bed. In another ment she was flung upon it, in a sion of tears. To have to end have to end the happy she had felt so sure t she and the children were ugh to have next Christmas day n on a nursery to which Daddy i a stranger this to rs when ... JCQ Whats the matter, Vicky? gda asked, late in the afternoon, ea Vicky, from sheer inability to anything more was lying idle the couch near the- - fire in the airs sitting Matter? room. Vicky responded Too much Christmas! Yes, but it isnt that, she said, 't a pause. You were crying Whats the matter? morning. fitly. en or KISS the ted. Fran-- o Los both ioncd xtra). zilic Gen. Aft. tit Gtj Victoria You know why? in surprise. .. looked up she demanded I suppose so," Magda said reluctantly and uncomfortably. She jerked her head In the general direction of the Morrison house. Dont take it so seriously, Vic! her mother urged, after a silence in which she had obviously been casting about for something to say. Seriously! Vicky blew her nose, wiped her eyes, spoke in a calmer and quite determined voice. Im not going to make any fuss, she But if thats what Quentin said. wants, I wont stand in his way. Oh, but you cant ever be sure. Quentin doesnt seem to me like a man whod go very far in anything like that. Look at the lovely way he is with the children, Magda argued. I know. Vics eyes watered. Thats what makes it so ghastly, What have she said in a whisper. you seen, Mother? she asked, after a pause. Oh, well, ' that he liked her, Magda answered somewhat cautiously. And certainly that she was after him! she added with more confidence. Well, shes got him! Virky said grimly. her mother presently Vicky, began placatingly, in real uneasiness, "you wouldnt break up a home like this just because Quentin happened to look at another woman? , "What else can a woman do when everything shes ever loved and trusted Vicky stopped abruptly, choked by the tears that rose in her throat. After all, one has some pride! she added, in a lower tone. Oh, Its all so horrible, she said bitterly half aloud. Its all such a nightmare! Shed marry him, like a shot, Shed get a diMagda predicted. vorce and a big settlement from Spencer Morrison, and then shed marry Quentin. She can, Vicky said, trembling. She knows Quentin is going to be the biggest of them all, Magda went on. How old is he, Vic? Forty-fiv- e nearly forty-five- . Ah, well, Magda said, thats the time they get them! Victoria did not question this cryptic comment; she was hot listening. "Its like a death. Vicky said. Its worse than a' death!" Oh, Lord, no, it isnt, Vic. It happens all the time." But it never seemed as if it would happen to me. Vicky fell into brooding thought. It ends everything everything that I ever built into my life, she said. And perhaps Im wrong. Perhaps men like the sort of women who go right on in marriage and have their own affairs! Perhaps a home and children and a woman who loves him arent enough. Oh, I wouldnt say that! Magda said soothingly. But something in her completely false tone made Vicky laugh suddenly. But you think that, dont you. Mother? she asked, looking up, her haggard cheeks suddenly scarlet. Well, yes and no, Magda said, pondering. I think most men would like a mother-wif- e and a a show-of- f wife, she formulated it slowly. They love home first, and to find a big steak ready, and a fire, and kids all washed and fresh and ready to be shushed off to bed, and someone to love them in a quiet sort of way. And then they like another woman to flatter them, and meet them places, and be admired. Vicky considered this, a faint scowl between her heavy brows. And what would a man think of a wife who fqlt that way? Oh, well, you cant go by that, Vicky! Magda assured her hastily. No, you cant go by anything, Vicky lifelessly agreed. In the old days, you see, it was harder for eml Magda presently observed, as if blinking aloud. Harder for wives? No, harder for the other worn- en. flow dyou mean harder? Well, before there was so much divorce, Magda offered simply. ,A "ky turned raised eyebrows toiwoman had to be a mans mistress l her in innocent surprise; thpn, and that wasn't so good. Oths. and looked at the fire, biting er women wouldnt speak to her, P and the man himself got pretty sick at is it? persisted Magda, of it after a while. Then he came s back to his wife. nothing really. silence. The older woman "If she was a spineless fool. supplied Vicky. "She didn't have much choice. nothing. That's the way tilings were. s "That isn't the way things are only, Vicky began deliber- in a thick voice that cleared now! Women have changed all that, o vent oil "its only that I at least. God knows it's not fair, Quntm and I are going to be even now, that men can do what ' "d. they do, and get away with it! But r eyes met fully; both worn--,- I at least a woman doesn't have to back at the fire. make a doormat of herself! that way about it? Magda "In the old days she fuigave him, M -- Not always," V!cky said. The man is apt to find that he didnt want her quite as much as he thought he did. Oh. the man usually Is stung, then, Magda agreed. "I know one fellow in New York terribly nice chap," she further expanded it, who's paying three alimonies. It keeps him broke, poor kid. He wants to marry a dear friend of mine, Pearl Ashburnley Victoria was not listening. Quentin may wreck my life," she said. But I wonder how hell feel when he discovers that hes wrecked his own, lost his children, made himself ridiculous She paused. As 'far as the children go, if a man is successful and makes money, Magda said, they pretty soon find good reasons for getting back to him. He takes one to Europe, or he gives another a car they dont take sides. You never resented anything I did, poor kid! Yes, but that was my mother! I know. But I was the one who got out I threw Keith Herrendeen over. You know. Vic, its an awful mistake to bring children into a quarrel, because they dont understand and it just scares them. I certainly wouldnt bring them into this! Victoria protested almost indignantly. Well, I didnt suppose you would. All you tell 'em is that Daddy is going to be away for a while, and that you feel happy about it. "Oh, my God, Victoria prayed, in an agonized whisper, as the full sense of her own helplessness and of the desperate nature of the situation strengthened in her heart. Daddy going to be away for a while no Quentin to come into her room from the dressing room in the early morning, when spring light was widening over the wet garden, and ' right, Magda said then. But Mind You, Im Not ing You. Advis- a wood fire was snapping! No tired doctor for whom to call at the office so proudly, so lovingly, in the late afternoons, and drive home to warmth and fire and heartening dinner. No picnic on the scimitar shore of Half .Moon Bay, with Quentins big figure recumbent and and small asleep on the sar-I- , forms, barelegged to the hip, digging and running in the level warm rush of waves! Feel happy about it! .she echoed bitterly. And in despair she added: I shall never feel happy again! Theres nothing I can do. Whatever I do is wrong! "People get over divorce, Magda siad. I never will. Funny thing," Magda mused, as her daughters bitter laugh died away into silence and the room was still. If a woman I mean the wife, now could only keep her mouth shut and wait, shed win out every time. "You mean kiss a man, and be kind to him, and keep his house comfortable, and let him go off to the other woman whenever h e likes? Victoria asked, In a proud, quick voice. Yep. About that. You mean knowing that he was unfaithful, knowing that he despised her and wanted to get away from her, knowing that another woman was reveling hi his compliments and presents in the love that belonged to her, to keep it up for weeks The indignant summary halted; Victoria, her cheeks scarlet, was looking a challenge at her mother. Weeks!" Magda echoed. "Months, anyway Years, maybe. Years! Virky echoed. And with a brief and mirthless laugh she plunged' her head into her hands and rumpled her hair. You make me laugh, she muttered scornfully. You see, she wants something that you've got," Magda offered mildly. Well, she can have it! So that it's a sort of compliment, in a way. You have to loik at it like that, Vic. Youve got to well, face the facts. Quentin is a terribly attractive fellow. Women like him, and hes always going to be nround them that's part of being r doctor. Don't be a fool about It and run your head into the sand like a giraffe or whatever it is. A strange woman will always have something for a man that his wife hasn't got ( Yes, and a strange man something for a woman! Vicky put in hotly, triumphantly. So that if I wanted to run around with well, say Dr. Bledsoe. Quentin would presumably wait for me, and bear everything, and then forget it as if it had never been? But youre not that sort, Magda reminded her. I should hope Im not! Victoria exclaimed, again with an air of scoring in the argument. But strangely enough, against this mother of hers who had known so many worthless men in so many discreditable ways, and who so rarely argued, or indeed said anything considerable at all, she could not seem to score today. You dont think, Mother, Vic asked quietly, that any woman who had borne a man children, spent years of care and love on his own child, nursed him when he was ill, worried over his bills and his diet for seven years you dont think that that woman can calmly put up with his setting up a a mistress, and shaming her and wronging her, and wronging his own children, too? And then when hes tired, Victoria rushed on, warming to her subject, and comes home calmly, she is to forgive him, and make a fuss over him again! Well, perhaps there are women who could do it, but Im not one of them! No, I didnt say that there were women who could do it, Magda observed mildly, in the pause, as Vicky sat back defiantly and sipped her tea, bridling, breathing hard, I just faintly shaking her head. said that if a woman could do it she always won out. Won the other womans leavings, you mean! Well, in a way, I suppose. And as I say, Vicky, it may go on for years. Three years, four years but then the break comes. Her husband and hes just as good, or as kind, or whatever he was, as ever comes back. Unless shes said something he cant forget, or done something radical, he comes back. Then its the other womans turn to worry the wife is holding thirteen trumps. Shes got his children, his home, shes gentle and kind and respectable, just as she always was. Id never respect myself again if I countenanced encouraged that sort of thing! Vicky exclaimed. Ugh! Oh, men dont care whether you encourage them or not, so long as you dont cry and fuss, Magda observed, with her irritating power of making a point while not trying to do anything of the sort. The minute a man leaves you, what you think doesnt matter to him any more. They can walk right out on things, Vic. Women cant, quite. If you make all this easy for Quentin, hell think youre a good little sport, but he wont care whether you do it by divorce or by just being decent. Stupefied by this philosophy, and by the blankness and darkness of her thoughts, Victoria was still staring at her mother dully, her brow knitted, when Anna came in to announce a caller. Magda had time only for one more word: Ive always thought and Ive been thinking it especially lately," she said, that of all the girls I ever knew you were the one to try the long way I mean stick to your guns, and not let what anyone does make you anything but what you are. But mind you, Im not advising you. You were smarter when you were born than Ill ever be. Vicky dragged her eyes, eyes into whose mutinous light a new look suddenly had come, from her mothers face to the maids face. But her thoughts were still upon what Magda had said, and she had to have the message repeated. Did you say someone was here? madam. She Mrs. Morrison, says she just wants to say Merry Christmas! Vickys color, under the glow of the fire, faded a little. She turned toward her mother. Magda shrugged. Say youre not at home," Magda said, in an undertone. But an odd determined light had come into Vickys eyes, and after a hesitant moment she told Anna simply to ask Mrs. Moriison to come upstairs. A few seconds later Serena came in. (TO BE COSTISVED) Easy, Easier, Easily Records do not show how old the Easier said than done, adage, may be, but as far back as 1564 occurs the sentence, This thyng is easyer saide of you, then prouved. Proverbs, like idioms, have a way of confuting the grammarians. Easy, edsier, and easiest have been used as adverbs since early times. A number of such usages are to be found In Shakespeare alone; for instance: Loves Labours Lost" (act Thou art easier v, sc. 1, 1. 45): swallowed than a Merchant of Venice" (act i, sc. 2, 1. 17): "I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done"; "Macbeth (act ii, sc. 4, 1. 38): "Lest our old robes sit easier than our new, Among other advetbial users are: Spenser, Tucker, Byron. Smiles, Steele. Keats, and Mrs. Stowe. Some grammarians now condemn the u;e of easy as an advetb. One wonders why when our literature is so full if such usages; but despite their dicta, the adage, "Eas.er said than done, is still correct, and may justly be used us well as, "More easily said than done." Literary D.gest flap-drago- The SUPREME COURT AND HOW IT WORKS How to Get a Hearing By ROBERT MERRILL BETWEEN the Supreme Washington and a citizen on the Pacific coast an entire continent intervenes. But when it comes to the protection of his Constitutional rights, distance means nothing. His case in a local state or federal court may reach the Supreme court ol the United States by steps easily and quickly taken. How can he get his problem before our National Umpire for a decision? Here, step by step, Is the method: Suppose, for example, a state should pass a law making a home-ownliable for the cost of repaving the street from curb to curb In front of his house. The home-ownclaims that tills is a municipal expense, which the city should pay out of its general er er fund. Appeals From State Court. The city ignores his objection, files a lien against his property end threatens to sell him out for nonpayment. In the local state court the citizens attorney moves to strike off the lien. The court, relying on the state statute, refuses. The home-ownappeals to the Supreme court of the state, which dismisses his appeal and declares that either the citizen must pay or have his house sold over his head. Am I through? asks the home-owne-r. "VOU can stay on the cool side this summer and still bask in the sunshine of flattery if youll look to for your inspiration. Witness todays trio of smart fashions: do they not fairly take you by the hand? For Sheer Comfort The model portraying the cool poise of a well groomed cosmoCertainly not," replies his attor- politan, above center, can be ney. Well find out what the Su- yours, Milady, with very little Choose a beauteous dark preme court of the United States thinks about this. ground sheer for this stylish frock. So the attorney Fersonal Item No. 1. sends to Washington a short printed This cleverly designed slip is, petition, stating the facts, giving the in a way, like the lovely flower decision of the state court and ask- born to blush unseen for it knows ing the United States Supreme court its place and keeps it. Because to order the state court to send its of superb styling, this slip offers record for review. new chic to the meticulous womState Court Supplies Record. an. It has a wide shadow proof When this petition reaches Washpanel, and smooth fashionable ington every one of the Supreme lines that make for a well turned court justices separately examines out appearance. it and also the printed answer of the Sweet V Tart. As wholesome and becoming as lawyer for the state. At the justices conference on the following her suntan, is this exciting new Saturday morning, if all or a ma- dress for Miss Junior Deb or her jority of them think there is sub- kid sis. It is young enough to stance in the citizens claim, they please its youthful client, and grant the petition and the record pretty enough to satisfy the most comes up from the state court. fastidious mother. Noteworthy is case is then The er ta-do- o: home-owner- s the front. This means easy laundering. The Patterns. Pattern 1946 comes in sizes 14 to 20 (32 to 44 bust). Size 18 requires 3'i yards of 39 inch material plus 1 yard of ribbon for shoulder straps. Pattern 1325 is designed for sizes 36 to 52. Size 33 requires 4 yards of 39 inch material plus yard trimming as pictured. Pattern 1301 is designed for sizes 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 years. Size 8 years requires 2',ii yards of 35 or 39 inch material plus 5 yards of trimming to finish as pictured. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., 149 New Montgomery Ave., San Francisco, Calif. Patterns 15 cents (in coins) each. button-all-the-w- Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. home-owne- rs set down on the argument list. Lawyers on both sides file briefs. When the case is about to be reached for argument all parties are notified. The citizens own attorney either appears for him or entrusts the argument to an attorney in Washington. doesnt have to apThe home-ownpear at all. The The case is now argued. justices go into a huddle over It. After thorough consideration the decision Is announced. The first paving of the road, it may find, peculiarly benefits the citizen's property, and therefore the cost can be assessed against it. But subsequent repavings of the space between curbs are a community responsibility, and must be paid for out of the tax money which all the citizens contribute. State Court Reversed. The judgment of the state Supreme court is therefore reversed, and the record is sent back across the continent with instructions to strike off the lien. If, in such a case, the citizen has of the state In been a which this property was situated he might have sought relief in the local United States district court instead of in the state court. If he had lost his case both there and in the local United States circuit court of appeals, his subsequent approach to the Supreme court of the United States would have been the same as in the appeal from the state court just described. The great help to the citizen in any such typical case lies in the fact that the final decision is in the hands of an umpire, concerned with constitutional rights. In this imaginary paving case, the mayor and city council could see only community advantage in making the householder go on paying for successive repavings. Fortunately the Supreme court exists to see both sides of a picture and so to insure the citizen against loss of his property otherwise than by the due process of law guaranteed to him by the Fifth and the Fourteenth amendments to the Constituer EDGE PE-K- O JM RUBBERS xy States w uppIy you ,end 20c with your dealer ine li'O Broadway, Now York H "7 Criticism Is as Rain No one can grow who does not has profit by the criticisms of his pro- LIFES LIKE THAT friends. By Fred Neher Western Newspaper Union. Dog Is Affectionate there is no deeper Jar Kings; Rubber Company tion. Surely Pe-K- o sent prepaid. United btotet RubOor Product. Inc., Room 6 Od, Mans Morals Intellectually man has gressed and his intellect taught him morals. If your dealer cannot love than a dogs affection for his master. Friends may come and go, patting us on the back when fortune smiles our way, making excuses when the black clouds of depression break over us, but a dogs affection for those he loves goes on through all adversities. Those of us who have seen the devoted, sincere look In a dogs eyes, the friendly wag of his tail or felt his cold nose nuzzle our hand have indeed felt true, unselfish fri fish ip. "Youre sure this guy is baiting .91671 |