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Show THE PAGE TWO TIMES-NEW- ylvia of the Minute By HELEN R. MARTIN STORY FROM THE START and fastidious Handsome, wealthy your? St. Croix Crelgh-to- n awaltt his sweetheart at their tryat?AS place. She Is late, this ordinary little Pennsylvania Dutch glr, Meely Schwenckton. Despite ).r seeming Innocence and lenojance, she succeeds In keeping uim at a distance, to tn the his charln. Meely, Schwencton home, where she Is Is boardlncr, altogether unlike the grin who meets St. Croix clandeelinely. She Is the teacher In the neighborhood school, of St. which Marvin Creighton, Croix' brother. Is superintendent. Meel) learns that Marvin was to have uiarrled his cousin, a titled En shah lady, but, believing she was attracted by the Crelghton weajth, had refused the alliance. It U the rumor that St. Croix Is to lAke Marvin's plRce and marry thti English girl. St. Croix' Jealousy Is aroused by Meely's report of an aged suitor for her hand. Te girl cleverly decoys him into admitting he has no intention of Marvin visits marrying her. kvhool in his official capacity as superintendent. CHAPTER IV Copyright by Dodd, Mead WNU Service Co. and Mr. Schwenckton both loathed her uncleanllness; Meely feared her spying upon her; Sammy hated and resented her; Lizzie was afraid of her spite for the humiliating defeat the child had caused her; and Mr. Schwenckton was Impatient to be rid of her so thnt he could bring bpme his daughter Nettie. And at last. In spite of unsanitary conditions, and through the occasional conniving of Meely and the doctor to outwit Aunt Rosy and Mr. Schwenckton and air the house, Susie began to rally and the baby to pick up; and a week after they were brought down from the stuffy bedroom to the less confined atmosphere of the kitchen, Susie was almost as strong and blooming as she had ever been and the baby began to get fat. Aunt Kosy was so reluctant to leave that Meely would have suspected her of having purposely prolonged Susie's Meely d Continued 9 fcBut, you see, we modern teachers, we normal school graduates, do not and fawce. In believe In my government of this school, for Instance, I try to have all come from within, not from without." "Fine; if you can work It; can you? And this idea of yours teaching children 'what is for their immediate use' (and 'pleasure,' I believe you added?) Is it for their physical or mental growth that you are striving? for what I saw as I came In here appeared to be violent gymnastics or an execution of the Charleston !" "I was acting out a play for them Barrle's 'A Kiss for Cinderella.' I was at the ball" "Um-mmlie murmured. "Acting?" "Trying to." "But you'll have these sectarian parents on your back! The 'plain' people, you know, are horrified at the word 'acting.' " "But I act everything I teach history, spelling, grammar it's the only way I can teach." "Now, do you know I would like to ee you act spelling!" "Well, you won't get a chance to !" "Look here! Don't you know what a county superintendent Is?" "Oh, don't I? To you your superintendent should be as a god ; one to whom you are but as form In was, Within his power to leave the figure or disfigure It,'" she dramatically recited a passage from "Midsummer Night's Prearn," slightly adapted. "Very well, then, how dare you cheek me and say you won't when I tell you to do a thing?" "Because I'd rather lose my Job than have you sit there and laugh at me!" "It's not for a mere superintendent," he shook his head humbly, "to laugh at a normal school graduate! though I'm sure, Miss Schwenckton, that the normal school course does not Include I do know that much histrionics! about normal schools! However, I congratulate you." "On my intelligent Ideas about teaching?" "On your excellent acting." She stiffened with alarm. "But but you've not seen it !" she objected. "You're sure? By the way what role were you going to play when I passed you on the road the other day dolled up like a comic valentine?" She caught her breath. "But but you never looked at met Do you see with your left ear?" He laughed, rose abruptly, and held out his hand. "Oood-by- , Miss" his eyes bored Into hers like gimlets 'Schwenckton ; I won't torture you any longer with my unwelcome presence I" "Good by," she sighed with deep relief. "But a few questions beiore I go, If you don't mind." He took out a pencil and notebook. "Your class at Kutztown normal?" She could not answer that question offhand, apparently. "Walt a minute." She opened a drawer of her desk, took out her diploma and handed It to him. She had been prudently keeping this diploma nt hand to be ready at need When he should call. he said thoughtfully, "two years ago. You didn't leach last year?'' "No no." "Why not?" "Well I was going to lie married but, strange as It may seem to you, I pot Jilted." He caught Ms lower lip between Ms teeth and stared at her. Then, with nn abrupt nod, turned away and left the schoolroom. "My G d 1" she thought, her band pressed to her heart, "how much does he suspect?" , It was, of course, her accent that betrayed her. She could perfectly disguise It when she adopted the extreme Pennsylvania Dutch dialect, but nothing short of that could hide the foreign touch of her speech. She could only hope that her possession of this Kutztown normal diploma would throw him off the scent the Bchwenrktons, except the ailing wife and baby, were very tlrrd of Aunt Rosy and longed for Susie's recovery not only for her own sake, but because It would rid them of the older woman's unpleasant company. All Susie, News Notes It's a Privilege to Live in V, Utah why did you marry Iop?" asked Nettie. "Ach because." "But why? Tell me! G'on." MT, PLEASANT Maple canyon, in "Ach, well, because I did." county, Utah, is so narrow "Ach, Susie, you must o' had some Sanpete and the walls so high that a person la reason." the bottom of the canyon finds stars "Ach, well, a body has to marry visible in daytime. somebody." LAYTON Farmers who have been "Why must you marry somebody?" "Well If you don't want to be an bothered with coyotes this winter are cooperating with G. E. Holman of the old maid." "Wouldn't you sooner be an old state and U. S. biological survey comaid than married to Pop? I would! operative campaign against predatory You couldn't o' been In love with Pop," animals in an effort to destroy the animals. The heavy snowfall recently, said Nettle reflectively. "Nettie Schwenckton, I do believe it is thought will result in more coycoming down from the mountains, you think love la like in them movies! otes more precautions will be taken to That's only In them and My sakes! Poimovies, Nettie. It ain't do such a protect the chickens and sheep. son bait will be put out to attract the thing for really !" "But It Is. too. I felt It myself marauders. SPANISH FORK Havoc among the a'ready !" deer is being wrought by four or five "Ach, you Just think you felt It because you seen so many of them mountain lions in Spanish Fovk canmovies whiles you was in town there yon near Red Narrows, it was an- with your gramma. But It ain't no nounced by D. H. Madsen, state fish such a tiling for really. You only and game commisioner. Sorie weeks gotta look around you a little to see j ago two lion kittens were killed in that for yourself it ain't no such a thing." j section by George Holman, who is in "I won't get married," exclaimed charge of the federal work of exter-- I Nettie, "unlest I can meet up witli minating predatory animals in Utah, such a fellah like Rudolph Valentino Mr. Madsen said. The old lions could or Tom Mix or whoever ! I wlsht," she not be found at that time. Since then, sighed longingly, "I could run into Mr. however, the old ones evidently have St. Croix Creighton " returned and brought reinforcements, Meely looked up from her letters as several deer have been reported and watched the girl's childish, pretty killed in that section. face whose commonness was almost VERNAL Lovers of pets, wild and obliterated by the soft, dreamy ec- otherwise, find this city a paradise. stasy that lit up her vivid youth. "I Quail and Mongolian pheasants withseen Mr. St. Croix Creighton oncet or out number are in town, driven by twicet or so. Gee, he's some swell Bnow and cold weather, and they are dresser! And ain't he a good looker! d guests in barnyards. If I wlsht I could meet up with hira !" the domestic fowl get too plain at Though this longing of Nettle's times, in signifying objection to the seemed as far as possible from immevisitors well the pheasants are good diate realization, that very night was boxers and make use of their knowlto see It fulfilled. edge. "Say, Meely," Nettie nppealed to the EUREKA At the end of its first Mr. St. see ever "did you teacher, of operations, during which deyear Croix Creighton?" has been carried forward velopment "I I tiiink I did." and methodically, the Ameriquietly "You'd know It if you did! Gee, can lead-silvmine on the he's got the style to him! That," af- SouthBeauty fork of the Humboldt river near firmed Nettie, "is the only kind of felLee, Elko county, is shipping six tons lah can have me !" of concentrates daily to the Utah Susie sniffed. "You hate yourself smelters. I don't think ! What makes you s'pose OGDEN Ogden is covered by the like him would take a blanket of snow of the winheaviest Good with lands!" you yet? up the fall in Weber county ter, although in do the movies sometimes "They is reported to be not as heavy as that when they fall good In love." of points in Davis and Salt Lake coun"Yes, In them movies," Susie scoffed. at intervals during the "But, Nettie," Meely felt urged to ties. Snow fell streets day. The city department, unwarn the child, "a man In Mr. Creighder of Harold Tripp, the direction a ton's position would never marry street supervisor, was busy with snow girl in your in our place in life, i So that your 'meeting up with him' wo.ili plows clearing streets for traffic and reported good progress. only mean unhappiness for you espeMYTON Importance of alfalfa in cially if he fell In love with you." Utah agriculture is shown by valuation "But in them movies " figures on that crop for 1927, which "Ach, them movies!" Susie interamounted to $12,420,000. The next polated. "All rht, then!" retorted Nettie most valuable crop was wheat, which willi sudden passion, "I'd sooner live brought to farmers last year, $5,702,-000- . three weeks with a swell gen'leman PROVO With over 100 birds on exthat I could ndmar, than be respectable all my life with a old man like hibition, among which are some of the Top! And I'd think more of myself finest strains to be found in this territory, the first day of the for iloin it, too!" assoei-ation'- s "Well, Nettie Schwenckton, If you Utah County Poultry Fanciers' annual poultry show opened aint!" said Susie, only mildly scandalized ; nothing could ever really rouse recently. The show is being held in the Graham building, situated at 1112 her to any show of feeling. West Center street "Nettle," Meel7 experimentally reCOALVILLE The Uintah Ranch marked, "you know there's Sir. Marvin water company filed articles tf and Absalom over 1'untz' at Creighton incorporation with the county clerk of there'd be some chance of your meetSummit county last week. The coming him and none at all, I should think, of your running into St Mr. pany will Incorporate under the laws of the state of Washington with its St. Croix Creighton" principal place ot business at Seattle. "Ach, that there county superintendamount of capital stock is $30, The him seen I often a stiff! he's ent, 000 and the trustees, who also are the a'ready and he didn't gimme no romantic feelings. He ain't nothln' like incorporators and own all the outstanding stock are Ben C. Grosscup, them movie actors " The sound of steps on the kitchen L M. Annesley and Charles A. Wallace. MYTON The ice harvest has startporch Interrupted her. ton Top's back a'ready," she said, with ed in My T. and this portion of the Rogers has started to a glance at the clock whose hands basin. W. of Myton on the Duchesne cut east like won't we're it to "He ten. pointed river and is getting fourteen-incic(. up so late." Several of the farmers living near the She rose, yawned, and stretching wide her arms, revealed a beautifully Lake Fork river also are filling up their ice houses. It is also reported developing young figure. frozMeely, looking at her. wondered that the Green rlrer at Ouray is over teams en and are crossautos and In to case the girl's longing whether, meet St. Croix were ever realized, he ing there. Ice over a foot thick la being cut there. would not find her even more irresistEPHRAIM Ephralm wool clips ible than he was finding "Meely from range and home-fesheep were Schwenckton." sold during the week. The home-fe(TO B CONTINUED.) wool, which consists of about 15,000 fleeces, was sold to L. R. Anderson of Mantl for Jeremiah Williams & Co. at 33 cents per pound fiat. This Is d Sunt; of a cent less than was paid for Manti wool, but is three cents more the Klver Vlrc, tn Normandy, were than was received for local wool last called Vuldevires, or Vauxdevlres, and year. later Vaudevilles. Just as one might BRIGHAM CITT More than 150 say today, sing us a Illcksvllle ballad, sportsmen from Ogden, Brlgham and so fastidious Paris branded the songs other sections of Boxelder par- of Olivier Basselin, as of lowly pro- ticlpatcd In a rabbit hunt county at Promon- vincial origin. Yet for fWK) years the tory recently. The sportsmen were name has stuck, and Is now considmet at the Promontory station by ered more elegant than the American ranchmen and taken to the hunting HarJohn Walker term, "variety." j grounds. According to the hunters, In the Smokers Companion rington, abount 6000 rabbits were killed during Magazine. the day. At the conclusion of the hunt the sportsmen were given a dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ethelbert Toys Thought Wonders ' tarsen. Less than ikj yeiirs ago three quite SALT LAKE Predicting that 1928 niechantcal toys attracted ordinary great attention when they were ex will be a record.breaklng year forI hihlted. One was a figure that pli.yed Utah poultry products on eastern mar-ttie flute, another a tamlx.urlne play- kets, Benjamin Brown, former presl-dent of the Utah State Poultry Pro-- ! er, and the third a sniinaliig duk ducers' Cooperative association and Lifelike canaries that sing natural now director of markets for that or--' ly when they are wound np are comarrived in Salt I.ake from monplace toys nowadays. The first rt ganizatlon, He Is here to this type f toy was shown at the New York Thursday. business of the or-- j take matters up 1S."1 In exhibition of great England. gnnlzation and also Is scheduled to (deliver bis annual report and address When a man begins to reason be Saturday at the farm bureau convencenses to feel. tion in Ogden. Local turkeys and eggs, Mr. Brown said, are especially If demand along the Atlantic seaboard. j self-invite- ," "l"m-nim,- "Say Friday, February 3, 1928 NEPHI, UTAH S, high-stepp- "But Nettie," Meely Felt Urged to Warn the Child, "a Man in Mr. Creighton's Position Would Never Marry a Girl In Your in Our Place In Life." convalescence hy her bad care of her had It not been manifest that these two sisters were really very fond of each other. It was a peculiar attachment, for Susie seemed phlegmutically Indifferent to everyone else, even to her baby, and certainly to her elderly husband. Meely thought she had never met anyone so stolid ; so Incapable of being stirred by anything. This stolidity seemed more marked than ever In contrast with the adolescent vividness of her stepdaughter. Nettle, who, on the very day of Aunt Rosy's departure, was brought home from her grandmother's by her father; a young girl In her early teens, with a pretty, though plebeian face, whose awakening nature was making her avidly curious about life. She worried Susie with questions to such an extent that the older woman, not accustomed to using her brains, found the girl's challenging curiosity exhausting to the point of pain. One evening Mr. Schwenckton's absence from home (he had gone on a business trip to town) gave Nettle an unwonted opportunity, for her father's 'presence was a check upon the Intimate questions she loved to ask. Llz-ri- e and Sammy had gone to bed; Meely, In a bathrobe, with her hair In a heavy braid down her back, was sitting at the kitchen table writing letters; Susie was rocking her baby before the kitchen stove; and Nettle was stretched at full lengtli on the settee facing her pretty and ridiculously young stepmother. First "Topical Song" What purports to have been the centennial of American vaudeville was celebrated recently, and although much was said about the origin of this form of amusement, Olivier, "the fuller," a Frenchman, was left out of the picture. When Olivier was born, nobody knows, but In 1118 his booming voice went to the choir celestial on the cherubim circuit. Olivier was a poet as well as a fuller, and composed songs which be sang at his work. His songs were Just frivol, yet they caught the public fancy. They were filled wlih hits on the foibles of the day, topical songs we would call them now. These then new lyrics, named In derision from the hamlet where Olivier lived in the valley of Need Law's Rettraint What a cngy Is to the wild beast, law Is to (he selflsh man. Restraint Is fur the eavuge, tho rapacious, the violent ; nut for the Jdst, the gentle the benevolent All necessity fur external force Implies a morbid state. Herbert Spencer. inter-mountai- n h d by Frenchman one-thir- ' j j J 1 i j V I ;r4 World Owes Much to St. Valentine If for Nothing Else Than the Establishment of Pretty Custom. It Is a far cry from the year 270, with Its pagan celebration and St Valentine suffering martyrdom, down to the present one, and yet he still holds majesty in the heart of today. Down through seventeen centuries has persisted a pretty custom which proves that human nature does not, after all, change so very much. The origin of observances of St Valentine's day Is somewhat clouded in obscurity, but it Is fairly well established that the saint who met his death by being first beaten with clubs and then beheaded had very little to do with the celebration except that his day happened to be at hand when it became desirable to substitute a Christian festival for a pagan observance. la ancient Rome It was the eustora during the greater part of the moBth of February to celebrate the Luper-calior feasts In honor of Pan and Juno; the latter deity was then named Februalis and Februlla. Februata, On these occasions part of the ceremonies consisted of placing in a box the names of young women and then as chance directed they were drawn out by the men. Old Customs Modified. The leaders of the early Christian church diplomatically endeavored to quash all such pagan celebrations and This was chiefly acsuperstitions. complished through changing the forms somewhat or substituting other thoughts or ideas, for it had been proven that It was impossible altogether to extirpate a ceremony to which the masses bad become attached through generations of observance. Accordingly the outline of ancient ceremonies was followed, but modified In ways more In keeping with the Christian era. St Valentine was a recently martyred priest, and as the festival of the Lupercalla had commenced about the middle of February it was natural to choose bis birthday as the day of celebrating the substituted feast In various countries the celebration has taken on different aspects. At Norwich, In England, for instance, St Valentine's eve Is kept as a time for general giving and receiving gifts. In "Madder's Rambles In an Old City" Is found a description of the scene, as follows: "The streets swarm with carriers and bnskets laden with treasures; bang, bang, bang go the knockers and away rushes the banger, depositing first upon the doorstep some packages from the basket of stores. Again and again at Intervals at every door to which a missive Is addressed is the same repeated, till the baskets are empty. Anonymously St. Valentine presents his gifts, labeled only with 'St Valentine's love' and 'Good morrow, Vfientlne." "Fake" Valentines Common. Many of the gifts were hoaxes, much like April Fools' day, for continuing, he says: The mock parcels that vanish from the doorstep by Invisible strings when the door opens, monster parcels that dwindle to thread, papers denuded of their multiplied envelopes, with fitting mottoes all tending to the final consummation of good counsel, 'Happy Is he who expects nothl.ig and be will not be disappointed.' It Is a glorious night ; marvel not that we would perpetuate so Joyous a festivity.", In a series of essays published In F.tiglrnd In 1754(1 other customs of the day are given. Ono rniss. It Is recorded, pinned a bay leaf to each cor-neof her pillow and placed a fifih In U center; If she dreamed of her j sweetheart the marriage was sure to take place during the year. As the celebration of St Valentine comes down to the present generation it Is one of purely sentimental remembrance, emphasizing the modern tendency to sweep away the cobwebs of antiquity and retain the sociable customs of merit Hearts Old and Young Young hearts are sending many a rime To other hearts today. And I've been thinking all the tiros What old hearts have to say. Young hearts are Ending love is bliss And life is full of song, And what shall old hearts say to this, Who knew it all along? Well, here's a line to you, my dear, From this old heart 'of mine; The festal day of love is here, And here's your valentine. Young hearts are sending many a vow. The way that young hearts do, So let an old heart send one now, And send it all to you. here's a heart, a simple heart, heart of other days Although we meet, although we part-T- hat So A loves the same old ways. here's a heart a little old, For much the heart endures, little flutt'ry, I am told, But all that heart is yours I Yes, A Doaglas Malloch. Two Loving Hearts On St Valentine's day Look like that at a miss, And you've got the girl pat If she looks back like this. Heroic Invocation Maidens have always their Unit secret ways of Invoking dreams, ilere'a a confession of stub a maiden, 100 years ago: "The night before Valentine I got five bay leaves and pinned four of them to the four corners of my pillow and the fifth to the middle, and then If I rirtnmt of my sweetheart we should be married before the year was out. Hut to make sure, I boiled an egg hard, took out the yolk and filled it with salt, and when I went to bed, ate It. shell and all, without speaking or drinking after It. Well, such stoic behavior wan certainly deserving of something In the wny of nightmares. Sentiment Almost Cone Pown through the ages has come the observance of St. Valentine's day. Today the celebrntlon amounts to not much more than a display of cards In shop windows, wlih Cupid cavorting with a crimson quiver. pnsslon-nfe-eolore- d |