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Show THE PAGE TWO Sijliria of the By Helen R. Martin by Dodil. Mesd A Co. WNU Swvlca CHAPTER X Continued 22 "Lady Sylvia St. Croix? That Is I nm that is to say may I present myself? you are who are you?" She stared at him in what seemed undisguised astonishment and drew away her hand. But she stepped out of the crowd and stood aside with him on the dock. "You have been sent to fetch me? You are, r suppose," she said, scanning his recherche attire, "my cousin's groom?" The voice, the accent, were, to be sure, as utterly different from Meely's as were the tone and manner of the reserved mangirl a ner that made St Croix her abject lave in spite of her unflattering and stupid mistake in taking him for a groom heavens I "I am your Cousin St. Croix, Lady Eylvia," he stammeringly explained. "Oh?" with a surprised lift of her Bne brows. "How do yon do?" She offered her gloved hand and as he took it it flashed upon him that he would know Meely Schwenckton's hands among a thousand he would know the very touch of them he had always thought her hands so unusual for a working girl. When this girl drew off her gloves But how utterly absurd! though the resemblance was truly amazing An experienced traveler, St. Croix knew how to expedite the tedious customs business and in a very short time he was helping Lady Sylvia into a taxicab. Seated at her side In the cab, listening with strained attention to the tones of her voice, stealing glances at her exquisite profile, noting the movements of her gloved hands (If only she'd take off her gloves), St. Croix felt every minute more bewildered, more uncertain. There was something In the very atmosphere of her presence that made him feel as if he were sitting beside Meely yet the incongruity of identifying in any way this elegant creature with Meely Schwenckton her civilized speech with Meely's Pennsylvania Dutch dialect, her grace with Meely's vulgar clumsiness, her sparkling countenance with Meely's heavy dullness, the simplicity of her coiffure with Meely's elaborate pompadour The wild absurdity of his predicament in not being sure made him feel, as he told himself, "woozy!" All at once he recalled that Meely had a tiny brown mole under the lobe of her ear he had kissed it often, tier hands and that mole If he could only lift the lobes of Lady Sylvia's ears and have a Took t But suppose he found the mole there what would it mean and what would he do about it? Purely this was the weirdest experience that had ever fallen to the lot of a man! "You have changed so much since you were a child. Cousin Sylvia! I'd never have recognized you." He put out a feeler. "No, of course you wouldn't. When you last saw me, I was a homely little 1 bow-legge- tow-heade- pigeon-toed- , kid!" The words had a vaguely familiar Found to St. Croix. He seemed to hear Again the unaccountable Indignation with which Meely Schwenckton, that day In the woods on the hill, had re!" His bead swam lated, and he felt almost 111. Suddenly he turned In his sent nnd looked straight Into her eyes with a very definite and frank suspicion. "This," he inquired with what he felt to be subtle cunning, his eyes probing hers like gimlet, "was of course your first crossing?" "Well, I've crossed the Channel so often that crossing the Atlantic didn't eem anything I Why, I'd hardly know I was on a boat at nil, crossing the Atlantic. Why, crossing the Atlafreckle-face- "Bow-legge- d ntic" She was evading a direct answer to his question ! and covering the fact by volubly chattering. Seated opposite each other, presently, In the dining car, he waited In drained suspense for the critical moment when their waiter would bring their order and Sylvia would be obliged to remove her gloves ; and at tbf same time he was wondering how he could contrive to have a look behind her ears for that tiny mole; for that mole could have been no part of he know it too Intimatea make-up- ; ly not toI be quite sure that it did t come off "So," she suddenly remarked, rest ing her folded arris on the table nnd bending forward confidentially, "your Mother, Marvin, won't have me, will he?" St. Croix made an effort to concent his ururlse nd embarrassment at tMa unexpected broadside, lacked delicacy lie felt it Friday, May 4, 1928 NEPHI, UTAH S, delight la her, now, without fear and dread and be proud of her distinction and even anjoy thla weird resemblance to the girl tor whom his senses hungered. It' a Privilege to Live in "Now appease my "eatlabla curt osityT she Insisted. "How did you discover that farm gtrl'a little mole?" "Well, youll find It In your heart to VERNAL The severe frosts of the forgive me, I know, that her beauty, so very much like yours, proved so past two weeks have considerably damirresistible that sometimes I kissed aged Ashley valley fruit trees. Apricot trees in some Instances were caught her when I got a good chance. "And it was while engaged In kiss- In full bloom and while other fruit ing her that you discovered the little trees were not in bloom, the buds were eo far advanced that the frosts mole?" killed some of them. Very little plant"You see if she hadn't been beautiful, like you, I shouldn't have wanted ing of garden seeds has been done, as to kiss her being a bit fastidious in early ventures along theee lines were my taste." nipped to complete destruction. "Your fastidious taste," said Lady MYTON Water has been turned InSylvia reflectively, "didn't find her too to nearly all irrigating canals in this vulgar to be kissed, though she's too part of the Uintah basin, Including vulgar to be asked to call on me?" the Indian irrigation project end the She shook her head hopelessly. "It's canal which furnishes water for the too much for my logic. I don't get it. South Myton bench. Under the superKissing doesn't seem to me less intivision of Lyle Young, additional Work mate than calling! But one thing I Is being done on the canal which cardo get I am to play the role of the ries water to Pleasant valley. This rival of this 'Ignorant, vulgar farm will prove very beneficial to the fanngirl' in your affections! It isn't a ers, not only for irrigation, but also role that appeals to me." for household and stock purposes. "I'll show her to you and you'll unVERNAL People of Uintah county derstand !" are anixously awaiting the expendi"But how will she like that your ture of $2500 on the Vernal-Manil- a bringing me to inspect her? She highway, promised by the state road might not like It at all I I shouldn't from the Lions a think she'd like It! She might fall appeal by delegation to an urgent in response commission, upon me and scratch me I" club and county farm bureau, which "But, my dear cousin, you don't waited on the commission, I suppose that a girl of that class takes .personally Federal aid project DUCHESNE seriour men class of caresses of the "Lndy Sylvia," he said abruptly, 110-A- , to Dead Ox flat, nine Duchesne with a sudden reckless daring, "I want ously?" f miles, will soon be com"You're sure that girl didn't take and pleted. The first bridge on Strawberry you seriously?" river is completed, and the second "She wouldn't presume to!" he anin of bridge will be filled in this week. uneasiness a faint swered, tinge Graveling has been completed Intc his voice. town. The contractors, A. G. Young "I've never been able to underand company, expect to have the main stand," she said almost plaintively, "how It is that while men of the most highway completed within two weeks, civilized background will seek the and will then begin the extension of most Intimate relations with low girls, the project through Duchesne to conit would be worse than death to wom- nect on with the Duchesne to Antelope VERNAL, en of the same background to be so Shipping wool by truck much as touched by a common, coarse to Watson is under way from Ashley man. Why is that, St. Croix?" valley shearing plants, the loads averSt. Croix looked rather shocked, as aging three tons each. 'The wool is though he felt her choice of a "theme delivered at Watson to the narrow to be in very poor taste, to say the gauge Uintah railway for transporta least. tion to the main line at Mack, Colo. Fleeces average eight pounds in "Well, you know," he answered lightly, "when the gods made man weight, grease In the wool being someand woman they used a great deal what below normal due to the cold less clay and much more divine fire spring weather. for tire woman than for the man ; so MYTON Sheep shearing in this porthat woman Is of course less earthly, tion of the basin is progressing in Will you," he satisfactory manner. Several of the finer, more celestial! asked as they now rose to leave the smaller sheepmen have finished. At diner, "come to the smoking corridor the Antelope Sheep Shearing associ-tion'for a cigarette?" corral a full crew of about fifty She thought she would not; but shearers is working and several trucks when he had taken her back to their are hauling the clip of wool to Price. chairs, she urged him to go for a Recently, Moon Brothers began shearsmoke without her. That he refused ing at the corral of R. L. Hurd, in to do ; he had no desire to tear himThis work is being done with self from the delectable sight of her Myton. the use of clipping machines, by four I Is to It took even few minutes the for "Lady Sylvia St. Ooix? That men. Am That Is to Say May I Present smoke a cigarette. But when she InSALT LAKE Over 100,000 tons of sisted that he must go so that she salt were Myself? You Are Who Are You?" produced last year in th socould take a little nap, as she was lar plants of Utah. evaporating to take vou to see an acquaintance of he sleepy," reluctantly "awfully MYTON Recently a light rain fell mine who looks so remarkably like yielded. in Myton and this portion of the basin, you that It's uncanny !" His reflections as he smoked were which will prove beneficial In laying "You mean, don't you, that you U The reassuring. agitat the dust and starting vegetation. This increasingly bring her to see me?" dual ense of the personality girl's is the first rain in this vicinity for She's a farmer's ing "No. Couldn't. was somewhat dulled by the soothing from weeks. miles five about living daughter effect of several cigarettes. Even the several VERNAL At a meeting held here, us. An Ignorant, vulgar ' recollection of certain vague doubts attended by farmers from all parts of He stonned short, his face flushing he had always felt about Meely, cerred, feeling, insanely, as though he tain Inexplicable things like her fine Ashley valley and by state and county were insulting Meely Schwenckton to hnnds, her being able to get away so officials, it was decided to continue her face ! "A very nice country girl, often from the hard work of the farm, the campaign inaugurated last year he hastily amended his remnrk, "but the touch of foreignness In her speech. for weed and crop pest control. The not a person one would ask to call on her very stupidities that sometimes meeting was presided over by A. Theoyou !" had seemed more like keen thrusts at dore Johnson, president of the Uintah "But why?" county farm bureau, and was atended him none of these things were con "Oh, not in our class." to counteract the eviby Harden Bennion, state commissionenough vincing "Then you have 'classes' in Amerdence of the mole. Meely had a mole er of agriculture; Dr. F. E. Stephens, ica state agricultural inspector; W. L. nnd Lady Sylvia had none. "You know we do! Ever hear of several day Fletcher, chairman of the board of to had He go through our Colonial Dames or D. A. K.'s?" coaches to reach his parlor car, and It county commissioners, and E. Peter"I've heard of your G. A. K.'s to my was when he was hurrying down the son, county agricultural agent. sorrow! But these C. D.'s and D. A. aisle of the last of these, scarcely seeBEAVER Two petitions containing It.'s they seem to be an expression ing anyone as he progressed, for the nearly 200 names of residents la Solof the national yearning for a titled backs of the passengers were toward dier Summit, Scofield, Winter Quarters order; for all those silly social en- him, that suddenly the back of a head and Clear Creek urging that the state cumbrances which England, so much Just a few feet ahead of them brought highway between Beaver Creek and more advanced In democracy. Is tryhim to a petrified standstill froze his the mouth of Spanish Fork canyon ing to slough off. So this farmer's very blood and made his henrt Rink be kept open during the winter months daughter Is an Ignorant, vulgar girl like lead ; for there, under his very have been filed with Utah state road who is 'uncannily' like me? Thanks!" eyes, so close that he could have put commission and the commissioners of "I'll take you to see for yourself out his hand and touched her, sat Utah and Wasatch counties. how much you look alike. I want to Meely Schwenckton her heavy, fair third LOGAN Hyrum's annual see you two together! Why, you're as hair arranged In the vulgarly exagBlack and White day, similar to are that you nllk as twins except gerated pompadour she always af- the big event staged In Richmond wholly unlike I mean your features fected; wearing a grotesque flowered annually, will be held soon acare dike; that's all." blouse that looked like a kimono or a cording to Orson Miles, member tucked Into her skirt of the committee dressing-sac"It will be Interesting to see her fn charge of like seeing oneself on the screen! I'll (which no doubt It was!) no rings on arrangements. committee exThe I like. do look know, for once, what her hands; sitting in the slovenly, pects that close to 100 animals will A portrait painter once told me my way that bad so often ofslouching be on display. fended his sense of "decency." type was unusual " to InDUCHESNE Permission he but She chattered on, scarcely The sent behind her was empty. crease its rates on freight hauled into heard her, so Intent he was In trying Nolselesslv he slipped into it. Her and out of the Uintah basin was grants to penetrate the veil of her head was bowed over a copy of Snap- ed the Sterling Transportation comwhen suddenly she stopped short, laid py Stories; curly tendrils of hair on pany by the public utilities commisdown her knife and fori and looked at her white neck The company estision recently. him In puzzled astonishment. The mole! Was It there? A mad mated that revenues from its 1928 "Why," she Inquired breathlessly, hope seized him that even yet he might operations under the present rates lind Lady Sylvia and Meely to be two would her brows puckered In bewilderment, lark S1S.277.44 of being suffiHe bent his head Oiffereni people. "are you looking at me so strangely?" to cient pay operating expenses, allow "I'll tell you," he smiled frankly. nnd looked. And there, under her left for deprhiation on Its trucking equip"You look so like that farm girl that ear, was the little brown mole! ment, and pay 8 per cent on the in(TO PB CONTINUED.! the very shape of your ears Is like vestment. Under the rates proponed I be all at not should no that )ipre. If. the company estimated the defl. by Odd Had even Accomplithment the surprised to find you had be Earl Ilussoll has this anecdote In rit for the purposes named would same little brown mole under the lobe his book, "My Life and Reminis- I7S61.M. of your ear that she has I" cences" : GREEN RIVER To preserve as "Well !" fhe exclaimed, "how ex"My grandmother, Lndy John Bus-sel- muc h of old Fort llrldger as is possible traordinarily Intimate you must have was a great favorite with Queen Is occupying the attention of many of been with her to have learned nil Not the public-mindemole brown Victoria under her throughout her life. liltle citizens of the three her about This is Interest Ins, not to alone, of course, because she bad the southwestern counties of Wyoming ear lobe of wag- right now. The state historical landsay exciting! Own up how did you peculiar and unusunl a capacity But this mark commission has secured an opd"g. ging her ears like come to know about this mole?" accomplishment Intrigued the queen tion on this property from W. C. Casio. "Do you have one, too?" "What "satiable curiosity' I See for and she suddenly called on Lady John Ita present owner and recently the to an ambassador. My commission held a meeting at Rock yourself." She lifted the lobes of her to show it offwas so taken back that grandmother cars nnd he looked. Springs and took steps to get the mon-ty- . the lost for a long time the power t There was no mole there. The commission has no funds for But his relief was not greater than move either ear, and only utlmntely purchasing such places, hut It has apmove one, his astonishment and confusion that regained her power to pointed H. J. Dolce and John W. Hay two people could look so alike with-a- t which she occasionally did for ruy it Rock Springs, Mr. and Mrs. I'ayson could he related. However, being "I'm afraid when he sees you, he'll change his mind!" - 'Afraid' V "1 needn't tell you why you know I" "Tell me," she smilingly Invited, "what's he like?" "A Queer birdl Seems to hate his comforts! Wants to live like a or a or a street-cleane- r Why, he's gone and taken a teaching Job, if you'll believe me, for a petty little salary that wouldn't keep me In gasoline ! Insists on living simply and working for his living." The waiter's arrival with their food brought him up short. As Lady Sylvia drew off her gloves, he fairly held his breath. But to his chagrin, that test proved no more conclusive than anything else about her, for her hands were now, to his distaste, so covered with rings and so perfectly manicured (Meely's nails had never been so pink and polished) that while these lovely hands certainly did somewhat resemble Meely's, he felt, as about everything else concerning his cousin, that he could not feel sure. "I wear all these rings," she explained apologetically, "when I travel because I think it's the safest way to carry them." failed, he Well, since the hand-tes- t was all the more determined to find that mole! if it were there to be found. A very vague attention he gave to his dinner, as, with every least movement of her head, he tried to see under and around and through her I News Notes I "Mother of Mine!" Utah bod-carri- er Minute Copyright TIMES-NEW- ear-lob- one-hal- s r k par-lotw- l, d 1 God aeea In her a worth Toe great for this dull earth And beckoning-- , stands At Heaven's open gats Where all His Angels wait With welcoming bands. Janus Whltcomb Rller. So brmra h was and rood In worth of womanhood So lika tha snow Sha, smllinc lave her Ufa Ta blend tha sum of wlfa With Mother So, Sunday in May Debt to Mother Given Mother Hard to Repay One day about 100 B. C. a rich Roman woman was visiting Cornelia, a Roman mother. The visitor was showing off her rings and her necklaces and her other ornaments. She had a great many and she was proud of them. When she had shown off all she had, she asked to see Cornelia's Jewels. Cornelia called to her two boys, were playing outside. They came In and their mother put her arms around them. Then, with emphasis on "these" and "my," Cor nelia said: 'These are my Jewels." On Sunday, May 9, 190", Miss Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia told a friend that she had set the day aside to honor the memory of her mother, who had died the year before. During the months that followed Miss Jarvis told many persons that she would like to see one day in each year set aside to honor all mothers. so many I'hiladel-phianShe Interested that Sunday, May 10, 1908, was observed throughout their city as Mother's day. Miss Jarvis made herself a veritable missionary in behalf of Mother's day and the movement spread farther and farther each yenr. By 1913 It was being observed In England. In 1914, by authority of a Joint resolution from congress. Wood-roWilson as President of the United States Issued a proclamation for the Mother's day of that year. beBy that time Mother's day was ing observed generally on the second Sunday of each May. go because mothers are like Cornelia, and because Anna Jarvis wanted all mothers to be honored as she honored her mother Mother's memday Is now a treasured day of who s ory. Love Without Limit mother's love Is the medium through which we understand God's. It will go to the deepest of depths to save. Victor Hugo, In his "Les has given us a vivid portrayal of mother's love in the characters of Cossette and Fantlne, and In Ron lltir and his mother we find an other Illustration of a mother's love withont limit. There Is an old story of a mother who left heaven to save her child, and this Is Indicative of the great mother henrt of God manirest In Christ A ," self-sacrifl- Motherhood Univenal The dominating Impulse of woman Is motherhood, whether she bears children of her own or mothers another's ; or mothers a community, a state, a reform; or. In her Interests and dedication, mothers the whole world. of nodding flowers, about like morning hours, leaves in April showers, On Mother's day. a host 1SAW Or The debt which the world owes to the mothers of America will never be fully known, much less repaid. Their contribution to the history of freedom Is one of those Intangible quantities not easily defined nor accurately arpraised. Yet it lies back accomof much of the worth-whil- e plishment that makes the history of our country. Trace the careers of men who bulk large in the building of America and you find woven into their character the influence of mothers who had faith in their sons, faith in their country and faith In their country's God. We have come Into a new age which grants to women a larger place In the affairs of mankind. Some of the ideals associated with womanhood have changed with changing times. We no longer Insist on that measure of thought proper for the women of another generation. Put no one can Imagine a state of affairs wherein ini? motherhood will not be exalted or the contributions of motherhood to the state not acknowledged with loving remembrance. Yet it Is to mothers individually rather than to mothers Impersonally that the devoted tributes of Mother's day are paid. One thinks of his own mother and. If possible, sends her some token of his thought He appreciates what other mothers have done and are doing toward making this a better society, but his act of devotion Is to the particular mother who brought him into the world, protected him when helpless. Inspired hlra to strive, blessed him as he started out In the world and never ceases watching out for his welfare as long as life remains. "Men are what their mothers made them," wrote Emerson. America la great because the mothers of American men and women have been great Today we recall what the mothers of Washington, of Lincoln, of Grant of But Lee, meant to their generation. we recall even more vividly what our own mothera have meant and still mean to us. And with full hearts we pay them tribute. ncw-pree- n bloomed in gowns of fluffy white. big brown eyes were sparkling bright, Ah, they were such a dainty sight. THEY On Mother's day. AND yet a tear dropped in my cup When 1 sat down with them to sup, For no one came to pluck them up. On Mothers day. lfr t tr |
