Show 0 Hearts Heart Haven IRATE HAS LAUGH OVER RIBBING By BETTY BLAIR People show their true colors most of the time What Wha t you are speaks so loudly I cant can't hear what you say is true of most of us Yet Yet vho who is there of us but gets off the beaten track now and again And indeed its it's good for us to do so It opens safety valves that let of off the steam of excess emotional pressure Ii It gives u a truer fl perspective when were we're all through h and the debris is cleared away Dear Miss Blair I had no idea when I told you my little tale of woe that it would stir Mir up so much comment nor that I would be the object of such an attack I lost the column that had my letter and answer and I haven't been able to think yet what could have brought it on knew nothing of me except except except ex ex- ex- ex what I said in my letter It must have been a poorly written one for her to assume that I was wasa a ft moron Or was it because I Imade Imade Imade made such a failure of my party The worst of it was that she not only sailed into me but she was very ery uncomplimentary to my guests of whom she knew noth noth- ing Furthermore she assumed the right to question your belief In our democracy Nothing that you ou said gave her the slightest cause to do this Am I balmy or oris oris oris is she Had Hada a no Good Laugh Anyway I have had a good laugh over the whole thing It has paid for my failure to be a good hostess for the occasion under discussion It is so ridiculous ridiculous lous bus for anyone to think that because ones one's position in life I helps her to meet interesting people a stigma is therefore attached I have had as interestIng interestIng interesting interest- interest Ing guests from among the Hoggans Hoggans Hoggans Hog gans of Shantytown whom she knows so well as from the so- so called upper crust As a matter of of fact my guest of honor under discussion would Im I'm sure prefer to class himself among the Hoggans Hoggans Hoggans Hog gans to saying he belonged to the intelligentsia though he is isone isone isone one of the most brilliant men I have ever known kno and perfectly able to choose his own subject and to talk well weIl on it among the brains of the land N No hard feelings Just a good time for all who read your you column and Im I'm sure amre they are legion legion Irate Irate Glad you came ame back in form true truet t to your nature Irate even before you were paged by Cynic I r really think now you should change your column name name to one that doesn't betray y your weakness or your your failure failure failure fail fail- ure of a few weeks ago But no on second thought leave it as it is your contrasts will be all the more interesting And column readers know you now as Irate Though the name doesn't reveal your true nature natures It will be fun hearing from fromy y you from time to time Then maybe maybeth th they'll come to know your tolerance tolerance tolerance toler toler- ance your genuineness as I knew it first through column contacts Thanks to AH All ll And right here I want to thank you and those other grand column friends who came to the help of Harassed Mother of 10 The help you gave was more than Subbing for lor Santa Y Your ur personal calls helped to lift her spirit The clothes and other gifts were so welcomed by the family snowed under by their bad luck Im I'm proud of you all for the way you responded and hope your resolution to carry carryon on through t the e year will not fail To The Defense Dear Miss Blair la 4 I dont don't see how you kept your patience with Of all the uncalled for digs hers was the limit I I- I wonder Iwonder if she thinks Irate is the th first wom woman n of wealth and culture who has has ever ever written in your column Ive I've been reading it now for many many ye years rs and though I have little of this worlds world's goods I have always loved to hear from those who have I enjoy by proxy what they have in reality Its It's like going to the movies and seeing people goIng going going go go- ing s someplace ce all dressed up even though you know you have to go back home and make the best of things as they are It makes you know for certain too that The Colonels Colonel's Lady and arid Rosie OGrady are sisters under the skin I can never never tell in words how much you have helped me Miss Blair Whether written for or me or for someone else your words are always a source of comfort There are hundreds of others who feel the same as I. I You should have got real mad at But it lt wouldn't have been you if you had though plenty of us are righteously indignant for you Ive I've always thought that people who were intelligent were kind too attack on your meanIng meanIng meaning mean- mean Ing of un Ameri democracy was can in the extreme What does docs f she he think any good d American r means by democracy Mad democracy Mad As Asa AsS S a ft Hornet Tut tut M A. A A. A H. H youre you're misreading as much as she re-I re did Irate One spasm doesn't reveal re reveal re- re veal true character any more than one swallow makes a summer However I appreciate your defense defense defense de de- de- de more than I can say as well as that of Ivy and several others which it will wilt be impossible for me meto meto meto to print but which I shall keep in my treasure chest of personal files You know every once in awhile every every everyone one of us is possessed by bythe bythe bythe the desire to pluck the mote from the other persons person's eye forgetting all the while the beam in our own But were we're all good friends in this column family of ours Whoever saw a family that didn't have a spat once in awhile and was all the better for it FOR LONGER WEAR Dear Miss Blair I have tried various kinds of fingernail polish but it seems that even though I put on fresh polish every morning it is half peeled off of by night I work in a shop where I must keep myself well groomed Naturally there is neither time nor money to have my nails done daily by a mani man Have you any suggestions as to how to keep the polish from peeling Thank you Shop Girl 1 For added sheen and luster asI aswell as aswell I well as longer wear weal try putting on onI I your polish foundation last instead of Jf first Two coats of polish wear belter than one but a a coat of polish j plus foundation gives the maximum maximum maxi maxi- mum in both wear and luster SYNOPSIS Flying Officer John Vere-Vaughan Vere of the British air force torce In India goes with his pilot one day across the border to shell the stronghold of the trouble maker the Singing Hadji Hadit of Kot The pilot Is mortally wounded by fire from the fort and dies as he attempts to land his plane But Vere-Vaughan Vere Is not Injured He HeIs Heis Is captured by a band of natives He tries to persuade them not to kill him by suggesting that they can de demand demand demand de- de mand ransom for tor his safe return to his base An argument arises between the Malik temporal Malik-temporal temporal head of the vil village vii vii- lage and lags and the Mullah Mulish the spiritual leader of the district concerning the disposition of the captive CHAPTER FOUR Suddenly a rifle banged and a swift silence fell upon the noisy as as- Turning sharply Vere- Vere Vaughan saw that a man standing behind the Malik had fired the shot doubtless by his order and probably a variation of the idea of ringing a abell abell abell bell for silence or tapping with a chairman's gavel The The Malik was on his feet Hearken oh men of The Pir Sahib has said his say and to the words of so holy a Mullah all must give ear though the Mullah will not recompense us for the great loss of those sacks of rupees those m mule le loads of minted silver government government government govern govern- ment of India rupees that we should lose by foolishly cutting the throat of this man But the Mullah has said that the prisoner must die his throat must be cut as that of a sheep or goat making him an acceptable sacrifice sacrifice sacrifice sac sac- at the Mullahs Mullah's shrine and in inthe inthe inthe the sight of Allah If we obey the Mullah ullah we have his blessing and andi the favor of the |