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Show T". " v i .-..-.Vi.sV THE LEIII SUN, LEIII, UTAH 3 3 18; End craft Btn ticim,cJ l OMte' lot Pi J ids i mm the seat a en and i indaidsf iw, tends UCOUJ B gist to si in with 'if likethei ighorjs bact LSIC tlds, BroKt man most m am: of cunt L'iCClS I V. . .0 L' a . 3 mm Was i a mr m mmm ff a vri i w Va a v h m w m..sa- ' mammw mm m a at mm at m w INSTALLMENT SIXTEEN The Story So Far wife of nappy-go- " " -a m.vor of Cov. rlmba' M.y. i trying to r w hanking meth- Z mother of four children: S .state lob peter out """Tib -but whose wife. Mary 1 tve up her aecretary ieW.. ,h. .maUer town. can't have gone. I ten ha. nowhere to go." sa.a KSeTast down to breakfast if2S Die ,. - . j.j . ... 8o lrhedouthis hand shook her head. "It's Cl to Laura." U black eyes wu Fs . . ki. roaA the lines rhuennnio"'" - , ji had written In a small. Mi painstaking hand. be demanded sharply. ' says that she thanks us tor r kindness but she can't im- u us any ion8. . , jwore unaer iuo little devil." he said. ."I dare- ke felt SS uncomioriauic o at an orcnia snow. .mincer son glared at him. t- be cried fiercely, ."may L nover went to finishing I probably she doesn't always which writ to use, uui du Vtively a laay. uiai mo. vc raft of gins 1 a aie Deiore i u home to Mother. But-" his broke-"Lou wasn't one of began Laura imploring- jut Alec bad slammed the door, I aim. ie!" cried Kathleen. irother sore, or is he?" teust find that child if any of t to live with Alec," Laura "Is our CHAPTER XXIV telephone rang eight times Laura finished the dishes. It ostly friends and acquaint-ailing acquaint-ailing to tut-tut about Shirley. it nine Mifce rang up. ne brned that a brief memorial was to be held for Pete at nine-thirty in the old mis- hirch near the railroad shops. limself was in conference and foot attend. But he thought might like to. She did. Lou fcrtain to be there, no -matter she had taken refuge. ;'j pve time Laura got out the sedan. But two blocks from Lse the old motor Wheezed, and died. The gas feed was up. Laura wasted precious i because sometimes you Jnscrew the bottom of the vac- Ijri and blow through it and I welL But not this morn-h morn-h the time she gave up the k and called a taxi it was a i to tea She had hopes, how-ijf how-ijf arriving before the church ite emptied, and did. But lad been only a handful pres-I pres-I these scattered quickly. Al- Laura waited outside she Khing of Lou. pa not appear. When .Laura te grocery store she discov- F her son bad not shown ud fk that day. So much for lowing promises of the night wura could have wept &nd Lou," Laura told lust U didn't find her, or any ner, ana Alec did not come aiMer or teleDhone. steadily later, and no Alec. I never stayed out all night HBut day had broken and a I tod was singing outside I window before she heard pep coming on tiptoe up the Haura got softly out of bed, I him outside his door. aarling, I'Ve been so wnr- e were tears in her voice. he said stifflv to find Lou for y0u." UEEed hio ck..,j. F It She Cnillrtr,' K. V, hze that n H away and Laura went pQown the halL Saturday fa June Laura decided to nm ,m , m sundry reasons. 2P Sant- " had been Shirley's marriage. month Laura had eve; n monotony. T?U5lMike continued fcnand , fancier both TOing accounts waKathleea Going raj, Gene May, 1 d6hted with bis NaT! ?ec had de- . -Truant secret and probe into the. k. 77 savior. He rwd weird he thoJ usually home ri tortlit Dever lingered eveTV room. He m Ian n iai ..itu j clerk after a long siege of unempw ment and running around with a flashy divorcee. He had brought Lou Knight the town drunk1! daughter, to hla moth er s home when her father died rescuing rescu-ing crippled boy in a fire. Shirley, at last married to Jalrd New-urn New-urn though Ma Newsum wanted him to marry Connie Mays, the banker's daugh- said to expect him at table when they saw him. And that was seldom enough to worry Laura to the point of tears. But on this sultry June morning it was about Tom Laura's concern was chiefly exercised. Tom had been home a month, doggedly working away in Colonel Shoup's office, making progress slowly but steadily and looking more drawn and haggard hag-gard every day. Laura had decided to take the bus to the city. It was cheaper than the train and money was becoming distressingly scarce in her establishment, estab-lishment, with Mike's business steadily submerging. That was partly part-ly Laura's errand in town. Sometimes Some-times in a pinch she took orders from a Woman's Exchange for home canned fruits and vegetables. It didn't pay a lot and was hot tedious work, but Laura had on other difficult diffi-cult occasions collected several odd dollars that helped to turn a hard corner. On the way out of town the bus passed what had formerly been Joe's place, now christened "The Oak Tree." Laura grinned to herself. her-self. ' Shirley was the only comfortable comforta-ble spot on her mother's horizon. The town had nearly burst its side with derisive laughter when Shirley and Jaird took on the hamburger stand. But people who dropped in at "The, Oak Tree" to sneer, remained re-mained to envy. Curiosity may have accounted for the rush of business and Jalrd buy a ham "The Oak Tree." the first week. But it was good food appetizingly served in attractive attrac-tive surroundings that swelled the cash register the second and third and fourth weeks. "The Oak Tree" had become quite the rage, as well as the rendezvous for the young elite. Even Belle Newsum now pointed with pride to her son's achievement. Crlisfa ast V9. J CHAPTER XXV Laura's visit to the Woman's Exchange Ex-change was not heartening. It appeared ap-peared that everybody had had the same idea. The market was glutted with the products for which Laura had hoped to receive orders. But she did wangle a small commission. Fifty jars of watermelon preserves on the strength of one of old Aunt Julia's recipes which Laura had brought from her father's plantation. planta-tion. By then it was almost two and she was hot tried, diheveled and hungry. She went across the street to a large cafeteria which at that hour, fortunately, fortu-nately, was not crowded, picked out the-most economical dishes on the menu and, balancing her tray, made for a table in a secluded corner near a window only to come face to face with Mary Etta. Mary Etta had finished her lunch. Her black eyes looked startled when they recognized Laura who had in stinctively ppaused beside ner. "How are you, Mary Etta?" asked gently. Tm splendid of course," the girl said, as if daring Laura to think otherwise. "Do you mind if I sit with you?' inquired Laura. Mary. Etta shrugged her sharp shoulders. Laura sat down. "I'm grieved about you and Tom," said Laura at last Mary Etta'i lip curled. "Why should you be?" she demanded. "You've got him back, haven't you? Mnthof. oiu-avi take their sons awav from their wives if they can. And von ran. Because he thinks you're perfect" she ter. Shirley burger stand. Kathleen, who despite herself, be-comes be-comes interested In Ritchie Graham, who aids her father In fighting Maya. She thinks of her mother's hardships when he tells her his milt wouldn't starve. Kathleen tells Ritchie she has no wish to live in poverty. Was there a sob behind her voice? Laura could not be certain. "No, Mary Etta, I haven't got my son back. He's under my roof, yes. But his heart isn't." "Why did he marry me and make me care when he wanted someone so different?" cried the girl in a tormented voice. "Then you do care, Mary Etta?" "Care!" Mary Etta laughed bitterly. bit-terly. "Do you think anyone could have had Tom and not care?" "Why didn't you come to Covington Coving-ton with him?" "Because he didn't want me. Because Be-cause he's sick of the sight of me. He'll marry someone like you of course when I divorce him. My lawyer law-yer mailed Tom a notice yesterday." yester-day." "Mary Etta!" j( The girl's haggard face twitched. "There's no use living on chained to the corpse of a dead love. I can at least set Tom free." "And yourself?" Mary Etta shivered. "I swore no one should ever matter enough to upset my life. I vowed I'd not be submerged as my mother was. But if it's any satisfaction to you, I didn't pull it off. You see," her voice sank, she looked away, "Tom does matter. More than anything on earth. You don't know what it's been like this past month. Wanting him! Missing him! Longing to go down on my knees and beg him to love me again." Laura glanced at her wrist watch. "Can you be packed and ready to go home with me by six?" Mary Etta started violently. "Go to Covington?" Laura nodded. "If your lawyer mailed Tom those divorce papers yesterday, he got them this morning. morn-ing. And he's been in hell ever since. I'd cut my arm off to spare him that But I can't Only you can change Tom's hell to heaven." Mary Etta's hands clenched. "Tom will be glad to be rid of me," she insisted. "Tom loves you, Mary Etta. But he believes you're disgusted because he hasn't been a violent financial success like Harvey Leigh. Tom thinks you want a divorce to marry Leigh. And Tom will give you a divorce if you ask for it. But you mustn't Shirley and I may be his ideal. But you are the woman he loves. You've got to go home with me tonight and tell Tom it's been a nightmare, but it's over." Mary Etta's thin hands gripped the table tremblingly. "And I thought you hated me." Laura laid her hand gently on the girl's quivering shoulder. "It doesn't matter about me. I bore Tom I reared him. I've done everything ev-erything I could for him. But long ago he passed from my keeping into yours. I don't hate you, Mary Etta But I am afraid of you. Because you can make or break my son." Great tears stood in Mary Etta's haggard eyes. "If I could be sure Tom wanted me " "I am sure." "Oh, Mother!" Mary Etta had never called Laura mother before. Laura stooped and kissed her while their tears mingled. She would not come into the house with Laura. She was afraid of a public rebuff at Tom's hands. She asked Laura to tell Tom she was waiting outside in the car. "Come." His voice sounded thin and stretched, and when Laura opened the door he was sitting at the reading table staring straight before him, and the face he turned to her was ghastly. And then she realized that lie was alone. "But where's Alec?" she asked. "Your father said Alec came in almost al-most an hour ago." "He went out again." "But Mike didn't see him." Tom said nothing only his eyes were very sorry for her. And sud denly Laura knew. Maybe she had suspected all along. "He's only been pretending to sleeD at home?" she whispered. Tom nodded and Laura staggered a little. "I'm so terribly sorry," said Tom, lnvini- his hand on her arm. "You don't deserve such trouble as this. She came back from a long distance dis-tance to stare at him blankly and then to remember that after all Tom was also flesh of her flesh and he at least could be snatched from the burning. "Mary Etta is outside in her car. She thinks you hate her and she's hreakine her heart for you. "You must be mad. She filed suit for divorce yesterday. "I know. But she doesn't want divorce, Tom. She wants to be taken tak-en into your arms and told you love her. Better than me. Better thousand times than you have ever loved me or Shirley or any other tnm an. "But I do love her like that" said Tom simply. "I always have." He was gone Taking the stairs two at a time. He had forgotten his mother and Alec He had forgotten everything but the woman who was bis to have ana to now. (TO BE COXTIM'ED) Kathleen Norris Says: What a Job in Washington Holds for You Bell Syndicate WNU Fttturia. Te ubtnion a pruptreus dairy farm and land herself and her three children in Wmthingten whoie every inch of living space is fiercely disputed, would be insanity. , , By KATHLEEN NORRIS FOR the consolation of thousands of women who want desperately to get into some sort of dramatic war work, let me state definitely defi-nitely that most war work in these tremendous days falls very rapidly into the routine, not to say drudgery class, and that Washington itself is far from the exciting center that everyone who isn't there fondly fond-ly imagines it to be. Washington was essentially a small town, with all the delightful features of a small town, until war preparations began. In the last year it has grown spread out wildly in every direction, blossomed with great office buildings and hurriedly constructed apartment houses. Transportation is difficult for the thousands of new werkers . whe crowd into the city; street cars and busses are Jammed, restaurants are suffocating, the romance and beauty of the Capitol are dimmed for the time. Girls who get jobs in Washington have their fun and glory before they leave home. The family treats them with new respect; the other girls and beys frankly envy them. Merely One of Many Cogs. But on reaching Washington the lucky job-winner immediately discovers dis-covers that she is merely one of a great number of eager, willing, unimportant un-important cogs in a great machine. No, not unimportant no cog is unimportant un-important But a cog may be useful, use-ful, and still not have a very exciting ex-citing time. She gets to Washington and reports re-ports somewhere. She is given a desk in an office, and to that office she repairs every day. She walks miles, climbs stairs, lunches in a packed cafeteria, shyly makes friends ef her associate workers. Te be sure her letters home are dated "Washington," but as far as any sense of being en the battle front, being a witness te great events, having hav-ing a share in the destiny ef the nation goes, she might as well be anywhere else. The conduct of a war, like genius, depends on an infinite capacity for taking pains. No longer do handsome hand-some captains ef cavalry dash up at the critical moments, with flags flying, to report that the reinforcements reinforce-ments are here, GeneraL No longer de hoop-skirted women slip through the lines to kneel beside soldiers on the field. War, as the young clerks in Washington know it means bookkeeping, filing, typewriting, answering an-swering telephones, climbing stairs; it means complete subjugation to orders frem superiors; it means seeing see-ing others preferred te oneself; ft means sacrifice of good times. For there are few dances in Washington Wash-ington this winter, and there are few theaters twe er three at most and only a few first-class picture-houses. picture-houses. Lonely Girl's Preblem. Friendships are difficult for the lonely girl who gees en there te live in a boarding house in a small, square, taeersonal room, because what eur uniformed men want new is home life and simple hospitality. It is oo treat te them te take a girl te a second-class restaurant and afterward te stand to line for an hour to get into a movie. The first-class first-class hotels are expensive, and often both girl and boy are Bred and don't feel up to the exertion of dressing formally for the ereniEg. Motoring Is oat of course. Now this if not to aay that pleasant things. hTte evenings in IMPORTANT COGS There's nothing paTticuUrly exciting about being a cog, even if you are cog in an extremely ex-tremely important machine. That, says Kathleen Norris, is what you would be ij you went to Washington to work at one of the hundreds of necessary, nec-essary, but not glamorous, jobs girls and women like yourself think they want. In answering a 34-year-old mother this week she points out the fact that there is still much work to be done in the home and on the farm. Not all this war's battles will be fought overseas, yon know. There is still the home front remember? some friend's home, contact with other working girls, the novelty of a new job and a new place, don't exist. They do. But they strangely enough have nothing to do with the war; they are just the diversions that exist everywhere, curtailed, more expensive and much more limited in war times, but inevitable wherever youth meets youth. The point I am trying to make is that Washington will offer you nothing noth-ing just now that any other Job In any other city doesn't offer. You may be boarding in the house next to the secretary of labor or the English ambassador, but you'll know no more of world affairs than your father is reading in the evening eve-ning paper, or your mother is hearing hear-ing on the radio, at heme. And added te all its ether disadvantages dis-advantages is the constant sense ef hurry and pressure, the keencom-petition keencom-petition for places, the nagging sense that one has volunteered for the wrong work after all, that perfectly per-fectly new, untried recruits are pushing in to far more advantageous positions. Eager te Help. '1 am desperately anxious te get into all this," writes Lily Davis frem an Ohio town. "I am 34, and have three small children. When we married, Oliver was a lawyer with political ambitions that I shared. But ill-health and a series of business busi-ness misfortunes sent us out to this rambling dairy farm, 20 miles frem the nearest town. I have help in the house, and on the farm he has three men continually, and mere in summer. We prosper, but I am feverish to do something to help, and plan this autumn to go on to Washington to see whether the services serv-ices of a former school teacher can be put to use. Should I obtain a jeb I must then make some arrangement ar-rangement there for my boys, now aged eight seven and three. I would not want to live in the city, but near by. where there are good schools and nursery schools. My husband has consented to this plan. Will you advise me as to the first steps toward accomplishing it?" This is typical of the attitude of many women. But surely it is obvious ob-vious te us all and in saner and less restless moments it must be obvious to Lily herself that te abandon a prosperous dairy farm, land herself and her children in a city whose every inch of living space is being fiercely disputed, burden her shoulders with the responsibility re-sponsibility of managing a delicate man and three small children, a bouse, a servant and a new job, would be insanity. How many thousands thou-sands millions of women in the world would thank God on their knees for the security and peace of a farm for the children they lore, far away from bombs and battlefields! Proper Alignment To keep precious robber from Tapidly wearing; off the front tires on automobiles and trucks, the wheels mast be ' kept in proper alignment The wise motorist has the wheel alignment checked twice a year. A tire a half inch out of line will be dragged 87 feet every mile. Ant Slant Ants predominate In number over ov-er any other living creatures. , Mississippi Hirer Oddity In following its course of nearly 2,500 miles the Mississippi river reaches a point four miles nearer the earth's center than at its source. If apple trees are grown in sod they should be mulched and ferti-ized. ferti-ized. One of the best materials for accomplishing both purposes is harvard manure. It will pay to apply nitrate of soda or sulphate of ammonia around the trees soon after af-ter growth starts or at least two weeks before bloom. Use five pounds of nitrate of soda or feur pounds of sulphate of ammonia. Do not apply close to the trunks. Flavored, Though Edible mushrooms contain about 80 per cent water. In One Operation : Walls can now be built in one operation. Colorkote insulating panels pan-els can b nailed right to studs and joists. No need to lay laths, plaster, plas-ter, or calcimine the wall. Castle in Poem Chillon, castle in Switzerland once used as a prison by the dukes of Savoy, was made famous by Byron's By-ron's poem. "The Prisoner of Chil Ion." Home Filtered Air Busy women who are doing volunteer war work do not have time to clean grimy walls and woodwork. New coal flow winter air conditioners filter the air before be-fore it is circulated into the rooms. This clean air keeps the . h'ouse clean. The "Cradle of the New World" is beautifuL mysterious Haiti. With its two restless little republics and their contrasting populations, it has had a history as bizarre and topsyturvy as anv island in the turbulent West Indies. It was dis covered by Columbus on his first voyage, and called "Ilispaniola' meaning Little Spain. Attracted by the gold the Indians displayed, he immediately planted colonies, OFFICE EQUIPMENT NEW AND USKD draka end chain. Bin. tyjuwrhrrt, nrfdlnt mrli't. (, bk-ram. a U DKHK KX 11 W. Broadway. H. L. 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