Show Iso SOME ME GIRLS DONT DON'T KISS Begin here Ruth Wilson the new English teacher at Wakefield is invited to the home of Jim Bailey bus bu driver and former college fullback for Sunday dinner Coral Brown who loves Jim Ji expects expect Ruth will further her cause with Jim but Ruth is herself becoming becoming becom becom- in ing interested in Jim Coral is jealous Rolf RoIf Rol Harwood comes to take Ruth to her home in a distant city for the once a month week week end end she ma may spend pend away from the school com corn CHAPTER TEN HOME IOIE AGAIN GAI It I was a joy to be ridi riding off oU that wonderful Saturday mor morning in in the October sunshine with Rolf Roif Rol Ruth Rut did not even mind that Roll Rolf Rol parked his Ius car in front of the Dillons Dillon's Dilons Dilon's while she ran lan in to get her week weekend week end bag Roll Rolf Rol looked exactly like a million milon dol dollars l' l sitting silting in his hi- hi new car out in front and the girl had a savage wish in her heart heat that all al the teachers in including in in- eluding the haughty Mr 11 Radcliffe and all al the Dillon Dion tribe would see iee ee her driving of offIs offIs off Is that your our young man Mrs Dillon Dil lon Ion a asked k d as Ruth came into the thc front hall hail hal Mrs Dillon Dion was doing a abit bit hit of dusting handy to the front window Well Wel hes he's one of them Ruth flung nung the saucy remark over her shoulder hastily She was va half hal way up the stairs and she knew her bag was vas packed and waiting Two min minutes min utes more and with wih her back turned tinned on Wakefield shed she'd forget orIet that the little town existed existed COlt COItAL CRIES For more than 30 20 hours of or her reprieve she would be just Ruth Wilson Wison Wil Wi- Wi son soil who had been one of the most popular girls in m college and who had Just lust finished the hardest four weeks of her gay Jay young life le But it didn't help Ruths Ruth's mood that thai she found lound Coral curled up on the bed bee v weeping when s hc she burst into Inlo the room loom to get her ba bag Coral had seen Rolf Rol RoI Harwood waiting at the curbing for Ruth and of a sudden her own loneliness loneliness lonel ness nes came upon her afresh To fo Ruth Coral was an interesting enigma a regular Dr and Mi Mr Hyde Coral was impudent nonchalant nonchalant non non- sophisticated to lo her associates ates ales in m general but to Ruth who had hac somehow unlocked the secrets of the theirl's girls girl's irl's heart she was just a wistful girl gir sighing for the moon 4 Gee hes he's swell Ruth Coral CorDI said sitting silting up drying her eyes and try tl mg ing to smile smie through her leals tears Honey you ought to be the happiest girl in the world with wilh wih the sweetheart you want Why is it some girls girl have everything e and other girls have jus just nothing at all al DOES SHE SIn WANT HIM 1111 I With the sweetheart you want wan Ruth pondered that statement on the way down to Rolf Roif Rol But was Rolf Rol the sweetheart she wanted Somehow it i seemed to lo her that maybe it was just jut because Rolf Rol didn't bel belong on to lo Wakefield She thought though over there e new nev acquaintances that bound her life le for the last four weeks weeks Alton ilton Alon Radcliffe she Radcliffe-she she hated haled him She had got so she cringed every time he came Into her classroom I Iwas it I was to criticise sho she knew that before he even opened his mouth to lo speak peak J J. W W. Dillon Dion one would think that all al the virtues of manhood were Ube to U tobe tobe be found tied ted up in thus this thi one bundle o of humanity Every community nily has a pillar J J. J W W. was certainly the piar pillar and the foundation o of sleepy sleep little Wakefield Mrs Mis Dillon self effacing meek ever elc little woman perfect fo roil foil l for or a dominant mate Bill Bi Dillon good Dion good natured scala By PRISCILLA WAYNE wag rag Since her first talk with young Bill Bi nil Ruth knew he va was her hel friend Elsie Dillon Dillon and and Dion-and and she was the secret se sc- cret ret in the closet of the Dillons a athor athorn thorn thor n in i her fathers father's flesh for Elsie Dillon was a stupid stolid girl in i her ici late teens who could never learn lear earn In a city school system Elie Elsie would rankly frankly franky have been called caled a moron and nd sent to a school for exceptional children hildren But in m well Wakefield-well well in n Wakefield she was the daughter o of f J. J W. W Dillon Dion president of the school chool board Rose Bailey Ruth Bailey Ruth could touch louch hands lands in m real friendship wilh wih Jims Jim's mother But Bui Wakefield folks didn't care are for Mrs Bailey Too stuck up jp Mrs Dillon Dion iL it Guess because she was v as a college graduate and her man had been a college professor she thinks she Is better belter beter than tian the rest of us But she hasn't any ny call cal to act that way He was wab an out and out failure failures as s a farmer They've got a mortgage mortgage mortgage mort mort- gage on that farm bigger than the whole hole ki and caboodle put pul together amounts to to GLOWING HAPPINESS Jim Bailey and Coral Coral somehow somehow since mcc Corals Coral's confession of her feeing feeling feeling feel feel- ing ng toward Jim Bailey Ruth Huth could never think of the one without thinking think think- ing ng of the other Jim handsome bronzed giant who could get more excited over a good crop of corn than han over anything else and the wistful moody Coral who loved him and wanted him more than anything any any- thing hinc else in all al the world I R Rolf RoIf lf broke Into her meditations Look Lok here you he said What the he heck are arc you Jou dreaming about Haven't lavent you had enough of Wakefield Wakefield Wake Wake- field feld the last few few weeks Do you ou need to think of or it all aU the way home Ill Il say I dont don't dont don't Rolf RolE Ruth laughed And believe beleve mee mcc I dont don't intend to lo think of it again not for fori fora fo i a 1 single minute until I have to go goback back back backI It I was CDS easy enough to keep that thai promise for tor the visit home was an event of or glowing happiness I Katherine Wilson Wison had prepared for that visit home of her daughters daughter's as carefully as though the visitor came from across the world and belonged be belonged be longed to a royalty As a matter of or fact Ruth was quite quie the most distinguished visitor vis visitor vis vis- Katherine could have for to lo loher her mother the girl would always be DC little JUle short shoil shor o of a n miracle race quite quie the most exciting event in her placid life Katherine and arid Peter Wilson Wison dated every event in in their lives from he lie date dale of Ruths Ruth's Ruts Rut's advent into the world It I It was before Ruth was born bor or it was after Ruth was born so was every event placed in i Its it correct time Ruth laughed at them Called Caled them her dear old smiles My word we ve ought to t establish h a calendar calendar- B B. R It R and A. A R. R R Before Ruth anc and After Ruth Katherine Katherne was waiting wailing for them today toay when they drove up all al aflutter aflutter anut- anut ter in a gay ay hued house houe dress with wih the tn tiny home so spick and span that Ihn Ruth said sid il it i fairly shone She knew her daughters daughter's admirer only s1 slightly and she sho was wa deeply impressed by him But Bui then of course he would not be good enough for Ruth no rio matter mattor mat mat- ter tor how grand crand he might appear to beI be If I you'll youl just wait a i bit bt Ill I'll Il have hove dinner ready She fluttered about excitedly Ive Ive got everything read ready It I wont won't take me more than thai thana thaia a few minutes All Al right Ruth agreed Wanta stay Roll Rolf Rol Roll Rolf Rol did He lie wanted to lo be close cose to Ruth just jut as long as shed she'd let him beThen beThen beThen be Then Ill I'll Il set the table Kate Katie Ruth told her mother Rolf Rol wants to drive over to Rainbow Gardens to dance tonight And glory wont won't that seem good to little lUle Ruthie Ive I've Ive been sticking slicking around Wakefield so long that Ive I've Ive forgotten how to dance Here Roll Rolf Rol lets let's sec see Think I could pick out a good waltz walt step Dancing over to the radio she twisted the little dial dial She felt fel like a prisoner released like a new bein being suddenly unfettered Wakefield had certainly been a damper to youthful enthusiasms As luck would v have it orchestra music floated to lo them over the ether The Te two young things stood poised for an instant to catch the tempo of the music and then Ihen they were off of like gay cay hoydens Katherine stood in the doorway watching them with v wih pride her hei face one big motherly grin The sweetest sweet sweet- sweetest est thing in the world Ruth was to her mother and handsome Rolf Roll a worthy I Katherine atherine stepped out clo closed ed the thedoor thedoor thedoor door glad that she heard Peter com corn ing ng in the back way His face ace lighted up at the sound of the music 4 LO IETER Did Ruth come Come Ill I'll Il say she did and that grand giand looking young man with wilh wih herlies her lies He's les le's staying for dinner and then they are arc going to lo dance Guess they arc getting in practice right light now First thing Ruth did when she got her hat hatoff hatoff off orr was to turn on the radio Peter grinned and took off oH his coat coat All Al right right mommy he said Let Le the young folks play What Whal can I do Just whip up that cream father futher Ive I've I e got it i right there in the icebox all al ready read beater and all al I made the kind of fruit salad Ruth likes with wih whipped cream on it iL I All Al right mommy I It I was an nn amusing thing that though Ruth with wih modern pertness called caled her parents parent by their first names when the they spoke to each other it was wa always with that fond allusion to lo their parenthood as mommy and and father Ruth and her visitor came bursting burst burst- ing lug through the closed cosed door when hen the music stopped slopped Lo Peter you old rascal BABY BAnY SUNSHINE It I pleased Peter Wilson Wison to feel that tha Ruth nuth came into his arms ms as spontaneously as S she he had when she was just his little girl girl Bab Baby Sunshine he whispered fondly and Ruth laughed aloud a at athis athis his words Oh the she he felt like a dif die girl away from Wakefield and the Dillons DUons and that prig of ot a superintend super super- intend ent There she was Miss Wilson Wison the school teacher but here in thi this blessed home she was Baby Sunshine Sun Sun- shine Now if i someone would ony call cnn her herthe herthe herthe the Golden Girl Girl GirlAnd And someone did That night The Te someone was wa Roll Rolf Rol and he had hac never pleaded his case more desper To be co continued Monday Monda Can Cnn Ruth Forget Wakefield |