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Show J THE AGE TWO TIMES-NEW- Livm By HELEN R. MARTIN Copyright by Dodd. Head WNU Senrlea Co. 8T0RY FROM THE 8TART Handaoma, faatidloua fifteen-year-ol- and wealthy young St. Croix Crelgh-to- n awalta Ma aweetbeart at their tryating" place. She la fifteen mlnutea late, thle ordinary little Pennsylvania Dutch Ctrl, but he Mealy Schwenckton, walta her eagerly. She la ao demurely beautiful, he thlnka. of hie "claaa. Rout aoherouteeemlng innocence and Ignorance, aha aucceeda in keeping htm at a distance, to hla chagrin. CHAPTER II 3 Meely Schwenckton, hurrying back the October breathlessly through twilight to the farm house, lest the autocratic head of the house get In from the fields ahead of her and become suspicious of her goings-on- , seemed to have undergone a transformation since she had left her lover. Not only bad she managed, on the way home, to shed her cheap, gaudy frock of blue voile for a trim tailored ult, but also that veil of bovine dullness which her pretty face had worn tad been replaced by a soft, bright amusement; her timid bearing, so abjectly expressing a sense of Inferiority, was changed to a look of suppressed excitement, an air of Intense vitality, which made her recent humility unimaginable. Reaching the kitchen porch of the farm house, she was brought up abort as her hand touched the latch ef the door, by the sound of a whining nasal voice within, reproaching and threatening, to the accompaniment of a child's crying. Meely's hand dropped from the latch and she stood listening, a look to her eyes of mingled distress and disgust. "When your Pop hears how you done me dirt this after," whined the nasal voice, "oh but you'll get the food whlppln', Lizzie Schwenckton ! Oncet I tell him how you run out after school and let me with all the work, mebby you won'tketch It with that there switch he keeps handy I mef alne here Ajrtitb .rajl; the , Lettln' diapers and all the cleanln' and cookln' and his sick wife and.bnhy to tend! Well ! of ! all ! things! Tes. If he don't give you the worst switch-Iyou ever had, then I don't know the man" "Ach, Aunt Rosy, don't tell him!" the child's voice begged In gasping obs, "I'll help you now I'll do this here whole tub full of washin' and m wash all ihe supper dishes for you you can just set and rest yourn self - "Well, I guess anyhow you'll wash the supper dishes after the smart switchin' you're gettln'J That'll make yon spry for a couple days. I guess. If my talkln' at you don't ! Tou needn't to beg me " The nasal whine stopped short as the speaker became aware of a third person In the room, though she had not heard the opening of the door. There stood Meely, her back against the kitchen door, looking at Aunt Rosy with those bright, clear eyes of hers that somehow always cowed the 'woman, giving her, unreasonably, a sense of guilt which Rhe resented. Always she was resolving that she would not let herself lie "downed" hy this hussy" who had no rights In this house anyway. "I'll show her who's got rights here !'' she daily determined. Yet she found herself just now, as always when confronted by the silent criticism of this girl's confusing regard, trying apologetically to justify herself. "Mind you what Lizzie done yet! 1 give her the diapers to wash after school and she run out to piny and let em. And me with nil the cleanin' and the supper to get acj my sick sister s broth to make and all my lands! How kin I get through all when e runs out after school and won't help?" The big, warm, cozy kitchen which, like most farm kitchens of Pennsylvania, was also the family living room, was covered by a bright rag carpet and furnished with a roomy settee against the wall, several big, a large gayly painted rocking-chairs- , decorated calendar labeled "Sweet Smiles" bntiglng from a cuckoo clock, a table spread for supper, a cooking stove on which sausage and potatoes were sizzling. The Schwenckton family, as well as all the neighboring furin families, had seen this kitchen become transformed In three weeks, under tb temporary reign of Aunt Rosy during Ihe confinement of Schwem-- ton's young wife, from a spotles cleanli-Besr to a messy untidiness and which. In the eyes of the Pennsylvania Imtrh was a scandal next only to Immorality and more unheard of. Aunt Cosy's Incompetent housekeeping, combined with her autocratic and tiiimiabl attitude towards her sister's stepchildren (from which there was do escape nor appeal, since It was Hacked np by the Head of the "high-minde- House) had driven the elder son and daughter to rebel and run away ; Netd girl, having tle, the found refuge In the home of her grandmother and Jakey, seventeen years old, having disappeared entirely to the genuine distress as well as inconvenience of their father to whom Jakey especially had been a great help on the farm. But the other two, Lizzie and Sammy, were too young to escape. The one soft spot about Aunt Rosy, apparently, was her devotion to her young sister. Susie, Mr. Schwenck-ton'- a girl wife, whom she had "raised" from a baby. But although she Idolized Susie, she completely dominated her. In all things Susie followed her elder sister's advice and judgment and obeyed her, when she was with her, as ranch now as when, before her marriage, she had lived In Rosy's home. Susie was the only person In the world who did not find Rosy re- d . Liz-y.i- s die-orde- pulsive. Lizzie, a thin, delicate-lookinchild, was working frantically at the fur end of the at a wash-tucluttered, dirty kitchen, crying hysterically while she worked, terrified of the punishment hanging over her. Meely, going across the room to hang her Jacket on a rack on the wall, spoke over her shoulder In reply to Aunt Rosy's complaints, her pleasant tone and manner betraying none g d b of the loathing she felt towards the woman. "But since you didn't do the cleaning. Aunt Rosy (look at this kitchen !) nor the diapers, and kept Sammy home from school to wait on Susie, what have you done all day? And Sir. Schwenckton won't like it, you know, that you're having the diapers washed here In the kitchen where we have to eat " It Is to he noted that Meely's accent and diction were net now so studiously Pennsylvania Dutch 89 when she had talked with St. Croix Crelghton a half hour ago. The hint of forelgn-nes- s In her speech was not that of the Pennsylvania Hutch at all. A heavy step on the porch at this Instant was followed by the opening of the kitchen door and the entrance of the farmer In overalls. Lizzie's crying was1 Instantly" choked back while she bent to her work more frantically than ever; and Aunt Rosy acquired suddenly a great air of Industry about the stove and table. Mr. Schwenckton, closing the door behind him. stood surveying with disgust the disorder and dirt of the kitchen. man of mild, A big, red faced though' obstinate, countenance, he looked so that one might have wondered why his children were so afraid of him. But family discipline among the Pennsylvania Dutch is a religion; "spare the rod and the child," a dogma. Mr. spoil Schwenckton had ever tried to perform his whole duty by the children God had given him to rear for His honor and glory In a heavenly home, the Scriptural prescription for accomplishing this being the only means he knew, disagreeable as he often found It for he was withal an affectionate father; not naturally severe; only very conscientious; obstinate In the performance of what he saw to be Ids duty, however difficult. "VI, yl. yl !" he shook his head and frowned at the dirty kitchen, "but you're the dopple of a housekeeper. Aunt Rosy! You ain't the nice housekeeper your little sister Susie Is. Well, I guess anyhow not ! Yl, yl. if the neighbors won our kitchen so through-othe- r good-nature- d yet !" "Yes, well, but when I tell you oncet how Lizzie won't help along when I tell her to." his sister In law complained as she began to dish up sausage and fried potatoes, while Mr. Schwenckton went to the sink to wash his hands, "you'll see for yourself. Mister, how 1 can't get through all by myself. Lizzie she run " "Lizzie!" the farmer broke In, raising his voice above the running wnter, "stop that splashin' at the tub and come new to your supier." , sir," the child stammered, her teeth almost chattering. As she dried her hands on her apron and "Ve-yes- ldy J Frances Vtorqan I i PROVO Probability that the flow of natural gas from Wyoming fields, long expected in Salt Lake to aid in the development of Industry and to help solve the smoke problem, will enter the populous center of the state by way of Provo instead of Ogden, has de- to the table, Aunt Rosy gave her a look as who should say, "You veloped during the past few days. EPHRAIM Ranger Thursby made Just wait I Don't thluk because he cot me short that I ain't tellln' on a trip to the top of the mountain east of Ephraim recently for the purpose of youl You Just wait!" Mr. measuring the depth of the snow and "Where'a Sammy?" asked Its water content, as well as to take Schwenckton. sister-in-lahis readings of the maximum and minisettin'," "Upstairs told him as she carried the food from mum temperatures. He reports 3.57 the stove to the table. "With Susie. inches of water, with 17 inches of Susie she's too poorly to be let alone, snow on the ground, maximum temperature of plus 56 degrees and minimum whiles I gotta be down here." Mr. Schwenckton shook his head temperatures of plus 4 degrees at the dolefully, his fuee, as It emerged from Great Basin experiment station. MANTI The woolgrowers of Mantl the roller-towelooking deeply trouand Gunnison have agreed to pool bled. 70,000 now and their wool of approximately "Well, come everybody fleeces. There are thirty-fivpersons eat and to I want set. hurry up or get firms in the pool. Alevander Barto Susie." ton, P. C. Madsen, Junior Metcalf, During the long "blessing" Invoked Wintch and Roy D. Mellor make by the head of the house, after they the committee to transact the bus ncss. were all seated, Meely's was the only LOGAN The blizzard of Tuesday head unbowed. The expression of her afternoon e brought with it a carpet of gratr-tudof face (while fulsome words about five inches of snow during the were directed to the throne of night and in the morning the city sidethankbut God) suggested anything walk scrapers had their first season's of the as she surveyed fulness platter workout. The thermometer dropped In of a lake grease, to 10 sausage floating above zero during the the burnt potatoes, the pale, heavy night, degrees but at 9 o'clock it registered 31 pie. degrees above. At the "Amen" she rose at once, SALT LAKE Estimates place the went to a cupboard and brought back value of Utah's 1927 sugar crop in exto the table a fresh napkin for her- cess of $15,000,000. This state proself. duces more sugar beets to the acre The temporary housekeeper spoke than any other, while the sugar con up In against the implied tent of the beet is exceptionally high. UTAH Colections of the tax on gascriticism of this gesture on Meely's part. "Well, If I did forget your oline in the current year will exceer napkin again, I must say I wasn't that of last year by more than $200,-00raised to eat so hoggish myself that the tax this year being approxiI need a napkin to my meals!" mately $1,461,670.93, as compared with $1,293,315.73 in 1926. The figures were "You've got no need, Aunt Rosy," her brother-in-lamildly admonished given out by the motor vehicle departher, "to speak so unpolite. Us we all ment of the secretary of state. LAYTON Cache county farmers know," he added as they all began to help themselves, each one for himself, had 8703 acres of sugar beets intended as was their custom, "that Meely was for harvest in 1927, the report of fae bureau of agricultural economics of raised more refined than us." the U. S. Department of agriculture to as so far I wouldn't go "Well, shows. There were also 3024 acres of say that. Mister," Aunt Rosy resentoats, 2683 acres of barley; 1024 acres fully objected. "To call myself common yet toward what she Is! I ain't of potatoes; 462 acres of corn, and 28 acres of rye. belittlin' myself that much! I cert'nly LOGAN Heber Swanner, field suas other as consider myself good of the Utah Packers' corones; and so I likewise consider perintendent and his reyour poor, sweet, little wife, Sam poration,finished a assistants Vive survey of southern Schwenckton! If she'd heerd you'd cently ai'he county, which was made to compared her to this here stranger whether or not a pea canning common was toward and sayed she factory could be supported. . Mr. Swanwhat this here stranger Is " ner was favorably impressed with the "A eh. Aunt Rosy, be peaceable," results of the survey and notified the Mr. Schwenckton checked this whinof south Cache that he would people a ing tirade. "Meely ain't ezackly know within a few days as to whether stranger to us. even If we didn't get a canning factory would be built in fall. till this here her with acquainted their community. You can't call a cousin a stranger SALT LAKE Constant igilance by yet !" the state road commission forces kept "You ain't got no proof she's your open the main trunk highways of the cousin. She don't lock like as If she's state through the storm of almost blizor act Nor speak zard proportions Wednesday, it was your cousin. like none of your cousins I ever met announced Thursday. The Parley's up with." canyon road, where the most trouble met never with was encountered, was opened by a up "Yes, well, you none of the Berks County Schwenck-tens- . road gang under the direction of S. L. r battle with driftThey're different, too, again Cate after a from us Schweucktons here In Dau- ing snows Wednesday. PLEASANT GROVE Between lf05 phin county. They're better educated that way and more refined. Meely," and 1926 the value of Utah's factories he addressed their boarder, his tone increased from $50,000,000 to $325,000,-000- . This includes a variety of prodanxious, his eyes worried, "how do ucts, many being shipped out of the you think my Susie Is today?" "She can't get better so long as state. DUCHESNE The cold snap of last you keep her room dark and don't air It, Mr. Schwenckton. Air and light week caused a suspens'on of read con struction on federal aid project. Duare all she needs to get well." Cont-acto- rs "Yes, well, but I don't hold with chesne to Dead Ox Flat. A. G. Young and company and associ thf ra doctors that says It's unsanitarl-uto keep the windahs shut and the ates leaving Duchesne for their homes weeks room dark when you're sick," Mr. Saturday morning. Two of favorable weather would hnve s en Schwencktcn pronounced conclusivefrom a conclusion once the project practically comp'eted. as ly and has been computed and a readied, position once taken, the all grading more than two miles left to bj power did not exist that could move little graveled. Sam Schwenckton, OGG DEN County Treasurer David He drew a deep sigh. "I did hope 15 In W. collected $1,249.5-1was better for tin' Susie ine after taxes get before the period del'nqtiency her lookln' o bright yesterday.' on November 30. "The reason she was so much began at his office d'scl-sd-figures . Thj better and said brighter yesterday," amount which the treasurer is charged when Aunt Rosy with colecting is $1,898,977.41. Coll Meely, "was because was taking a nap. I covered Susie and were ahead of last year. Mr the bahy with blankets and aired the Evans reported. His office opened fc room! Threw oon all the doors and the colectlon of delinquent taxes windows and left them open for an which the provided by law will penal'y I Then hour! washed Susie and be added. changed her nightgown and the bed BEAVER Subzero with She and the bahy slept after more snow than has weather, linen. covered the thut for four hours! That's why she ground at this time of year f;r some wns better yesterday." time, is the prevailing condition here. I TO UK CONTINUED.) Wood hauling, one of the chief occupa-- ' Hons for many men in winter time, is XXX'XXX 5XXX2XXX' relegated to memories of other years. Stockmen are becoming alarmed over ' British feed and mei. are buying up all avail-- j able hay at in advance In prices. IiiiimI. a writer In the Cleveland Plain BINGHAM -- It was boys' night at Dealer comment. In the cornice ex j Ihe Klwaiiis club recently. Members tending the full length of the build of the four troops were present. Claran Talor itii, excellent ence McNeil was sculptured with a tluiire of Britannia, some years after second class scout presentedReno Gal-- I badge. the completion of the building "This legher, aji Kacle scout, told of his ex curving, the "trade mark' of the hank." periences In the work. writes Mr Steele, "was prolmhly the Wool sales have CEDAR CITY inspiration for that trite appellation the 'Old l.ariy of Thretidneedle been active during the past few dnys. Street.'" Taylor added to Stimpsoii'e and more than 50,000 fleeces were sold t.iillijlnc and In PvTii the Gordon riots In one pool, with a price of from thirled the directors to fear that the ad cents. Among the ty to thirty-fouvhurch of St. Ic joining Christopher p- -i inent men who are disposing sheep Stocks might lend itself ss n danger of their wool are J. N. Smith. James oiis vantage point for s mob. so now J. D Hopkins, and L. W. Jones. ers were obtained, the fabric was Smith, Prospects in the industry are very pulled down, and more extensions bright with the most favorable weathwere made. er conditions in three years. A convention of the local woolgrowers" asNo man's food Intentions ave sociation will be held on the 10th of boosted him Into the hero clasa. Januav came l, e Wil-for- e XXXXXXXZXXX !'XX Cheapside First Home of Great Mow came the batik of I to Arid why the he built? of Thre;idtieedle "The Old Street?" Mr H. Unokshy Steele, s well k turn ii Loiiihiti architect, supplies the answers In an article on the nrchl tectunil history of Britain's bullion house. Many think that Sir .lohn Sonne, the wizard of Lincoln's Inn Ills are the fields, built the bank. girding wutls. but In the raisin of the fabric three other name (hoe of Sampson, Taylor and CoeKeroll have to be Joined. Merger's hall. (Tienplde. was the bunk's first home; hut a quick move was made to the Grocer's hull. In Poultry, and It was not until IT.V' that the foundation stone of the present bank was laid. George Samp son was the first architect, and It Is curious that nn building, other than the bank, can be attributed to hit The Tlew TJear, Blithe and Bold News No tes in it's a Privtttg to Utah Sylvia of the Minute . Friday, December 23, 1927 NEPHI. UTAH S. two-hou- Vyy. AW'. JCZ- - i , 127. Western Newspaper Union.) Ihe name of this debonair actor is "1928". His "lines" scintillate and hope. H?hat the future holds and the " is to he receipe he does not knou?, net, like all rjouth. applause he feels equal to emergencies and trusts to his "hunches" to carnj him . safelrj through. One could do worse than emulate his example. At this time when huelue hole months lie ahead on the stage of life, ours to make of them what ne anil, it might be ell to bear this in mind, that the man or tooman hawing the abilitg alaraqs to see life on its brightest side possesses something that ill carrg him or her far toward the attainment of the heart's desire. Optimism, of course, can be carried too far. There is a hair's breadth between too much and not enough. " yl J with optimism, faith Faith in one's own capabilities is not the least necessanj ingredient in the recipe for happiness and success. Like optimism, howeper, self-fai- th . should be kept on a leash. , And hope what would life amount to without hope? Hope for the spiritual as well as the material thinqs that are higher and better J J than those already uours. Wlsa?SSaVNaTNSyNaVsTNaraTNar New Year's Wishes richly robed than any MORE his fellowL, 1028. the ')! The Passing crown prince of all the years. Is standing at the gate of time. Beneath his Jeweled robes he carries our consignment of good wishes for the world. Peace and prosperity, with freedom from calamities, for the nation; double progress toward Its goals and the realization of its ambitions, for this community : profitable Investment for capital ; pleasant conditions and full remuneration for labor; abundant harvests rewardine the tillers of the soil; health and wealth. In right proportions, bringing the comforts of home, alike to friends and strangers and the exhausMess mercies of God to all mankind. William L. Gaston. (2). 1627. Western Newspaper Cnlon.) of rhe Old Year i?! ALL the festive occasions which OFmark our celebration of the pass- ing days, perhapr, the most significant is New Year's Eve. No matter how hilarious may lie the crowd of friends and relatives; no mutter how gay the caps and favors, how fast and furious the dance, how Jocular the quips and jests; no matter how delicious the food there comes at midnight a moment of a tr-'.r- I? turrij Daij a Happy : rim-pute- j i I - Bank ' r ESr jx Uy XL P ft Crjotifl JAMISON sat wondering New Year's morning why folks didn't go about doing nice things for people on that day as well as on Christmas day. She resolved that she would try It. Perhaps she didn't give purchased gifts, but she gave ilnd words, smiles and good Ideas, made several cheering culls and wrote several happy letters. The remainder of the day Gloria spent in making notes. On on old tablet she put down numbers from one to three hundred and ulity-four- , for the remaining days of the jear. Reside each she Intended jotting down good deeds she might do. She supposed It would be a hard task to provide for that many days. Yes, the tack was bard for she found a year should have a thousand days to accomplish nil the kind deeds fhe thought of to d for others. 1617, Wt-Nwspairr L'ntoa.) GLORIA A Wish May this opening year be to you II. e best of .ill years hitherto, and may yonr yenrs grow brighter as they p.iss. so that your life may, be filled with I'ghf nt evening time. Everybody Sign Why Dot have soritbody rte1egit1 set of good resolutions to drew op ',ir ui all and Just tava o sign them deep seriousness that beats through the sudden silence and darkness like the throb of a heart. The lights of 1027 fade out, and In the blackness ouch of us looks back through the year Just passing, and sees It all in one flash of memory. Some of us smile In the dark nt remembered Joys. There was the trip to Europe. m Ioii,t anticipated; the wedding of our two dearest young people; the new baby In the family; the uew bouse completed and the fire lighted. Others at the long suppr table drop their brave cheerfulness for a nicnient, and think with a pang of the dear on who has gone, of the bitter failure of another, of hopes blasted, and of desolate days and nights. Thought flies buck to New Year's Eve a year ago, and of all the happy plans and aspirations which bloomed In the moment thnt marked the entry of 107. How far short we have fallen I Then the great gong In the ball strikes 12, and ttie next moment the brilliant lights Hash on. announcing HKJ8. There is a clapping of bands, a rousing cheer, laughing wishes and congratulations, and the host raises bis glass In a toast to the New Year. The music starts up, a grand march the dancing begins again. forms, Young people look In each other's eyes, wondering what the year will bring forth. Elders are more sober, also wondering. . . . wondering. And so we are off again, on anothr The hopes spring up afresn. cycle. the d ternilniition to do better in RCS than we have ever done before, rises up buoyantly. A new year, like a new day, unfold? Infinite possibilities. Ma? your New Year bring the realization of nil the Ripirationn and consecrations of your moment In the dark, a the old year passes. K.'itisas City Star. Another Year Ari"thfr KM riivft jat ihe curfew ring;, U rfifh coal; Th cid yar dies, the old fear fllea, Tl.a lell lta requiem toll; A rtllcrlm year baa reached lta abrma. The air with Incense jrlows; The spirit of anutr.tr yea Cornea forth trom tons l rea-oaa- |
