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Show THE PAGE TWO Siiluia of the Minute By Helen R. Martin by Dodd, Mead Copyright WNU 4k Service CHAPTER X Co. Continued 23 He drew a long, deep, quivering breath. Well, be would have an explanation of this mystery If be bad to drag Meely by force Into the parlor car to face either her empty chair or her living counterpart! "Meely I" She turned with a bound and at tight of him, her dull face expressed "Well of urprise and pleasure. Mr. Crelghton yet! all things! Well, me, I'm that took back, Mr. Crelghton I What brang you to New York over? Come on," she said, making room for him besiae her, "and set down here. Bide by each ain't? My land's sakes!" she exclaimed as he obeyed her, "ain't you feelln good, Mr. Crelghton? Tou look that pale! Most like a dead one ! What alls you. 1 ? anyhow? Are you mebby got awful car-sicgoln'. But comln', I'm feelln right good. I was to New York over to look for a place. I'm a right good cooker and I heerd they paid good cooks In New Tork as much as five dollars a week. With room and board yet! So I says to 1'op, I ays " She stopped short, reached for a coat that was crushed between her and the window, slipped it on and stood up. "Come, St. Croix," she spoke naturally, "the game's up of course. Let's go back to our chairs If you're not embarrassed to walk through this train with my pompadour! I thought this the quickest, easiest way to make you see how I do It! For I'm In the way of being a professional actress, St. Croix, and 'make-uIs my strongest point." Her countenance was concerned and sympathetic as, sitting opposite him In the parlor car, she considered his white-face- d suffering. Was she cruel, she wondered? But surely, this was "coming to him" he deserved It! And yet he looked so ghastly! Perhaps he might kill himself and It would be her fault ! Well, would that be as bad as what he had plotted to do to "Meely Schwenckton"? It would not! "I'll tell you, St Croix, all about It If you want to know," she suggested In a troubled voice, her face almost as pale as his own. "I'm sorry if I've hurt you terribly, but think how you were going to hurt me!" "Not you ! the girl you pretended to be," he said huskily. "And such a girl would not have been hurt ! A girl like you cnn't Jud'e for one like Mee of the Schwenckton breed!" "Better than you can, St. Croix! Tou would have ruined her life for her !" "Not If she'd been what she seemed !" he Insisted, his voice and hoarse. she seemed was an Ijmorant. stjr-.iObut perfectly decent girl! And afryrlthe pitiful note Mr. Schwenck-tonVCrotyou which you thought was about me! It was about his daughter Nettle, who he knew was In love w!!h you. It wus she that scut you - t. 1 !T r the b you ever managed viish coup!" he exclaimed des- - Meantime, as Marvin has Jilted me, Mother and Father decided there was no obligation upon us, now, to tell your family of my adventure and my ambition, until we saw how I succeeded on the screen, if at all!" "But It has surely been understood all along, Sylvia, that I was eager to take Marvin's place " "There wasn't any place to take, St. Croix. Marvin may think, In his pride, that he Jilted me but the fact of the case Is that I Jilted him first 1 never would hear of marrying either of you ! But my poor parents needed your money so badly, they always hoped I'd change my mind, and so they never broke It to any of you that I'd backed out Well, I came over to America in the utmost Ignorance of everything I should have known ; rather expecting to take Hollywood by storm ! feeling quite condescending In offering my talents (which I myself greatly admired) to the American managers; and not knowing that Hollywood was three thousand miles 1 from New Tork. Fortunately, learned a few needful facts on the way over. My deck chair happened to be next to a young American woman who had been a country teacher. She told me all about herself how she bad gone over in June with the student-teacher excursion and had met and fallen In love with a man on the ship, a young college professor. As soon as they'd landed at Plymouth, they'd gotten married, traveled all summer and were now on their way home. She told me the first thing she'd got to do when she got home was to send In her resignation to the country school she was to have taught If she had not met her fate and gotten When she mentioned the married. state, county and township where she was to have taught, I recognized them car-sick- k p' "You Mads Love to That Girl and Would Have Despoiled and Ravished Her." as the address of the Crelghtons. Next thing I was telling her my story ; and when she learned how little money I bad, she was appalled ; and when she told me Hollywood was three thousand miles from New Xork and that It took five days and Hve hundred . dollars to get there, I was So we fixed up a plot ller parents' home was In Reading, Pennsylvania, nnd her husband and tdie. were going there until his college opened. She Invited me to go home with them and she would give me her normal school diploma and lend me the use of her name, Amelia Schwenckton (now no longer her name), and I could go and appropriate her school for a few months, until I'd saved enough to go to Hollywood. "She was really a young woman of quite a feverish Imagination, I do assure you. Her Schwenckton relatives nneer thlntr. St. Croix tm had never seen her (they're very distJnfr.here wnsn't a thing premeditat tantly related) so I could pass myself ed altout It it all Just happened. I off to them as their cousin. The thing Just fell Into the thing step tiy step. appealed to me not only as a solution Ml tell you. I'll begin with the mole. of my penniless predicament, but as a I knew that was a landmark fur you! Jolly adventure, especially as I knew So I put court plaster the school was in the neighborhood of over It and powered the pot with the Crelghtons' home ! I'd have a chance, t thought, to look them over powder." without their knowing It He stared at her helplessly. "Of course, St. Croix, I meant to "The big mistake you made. St. make myself known to your family Croix, was In not knowing I was (he teacher of Wiiliam IVnn school. Netvery soon. P.nt I had not realized tle Schwenckton wasn't. You had us how difficult that was going to be. I tnlxed. I wad the teacher; nnd I got In deeper every day. And It was such fun, I didn't want to give up my boarded fit the Schwenckton farm." "Hut but." he stammered, "then lark nnd my freedom and become Marvin helped you put this thing over Lady Sylvia! And it was all such a marvelous school of acting for me; I on me '" was proving to myself that I could "Oh. dear, no' He had nothing to uct mastering that dialect with its do with It!" Inflections; and suc"Do you swear to me he didn't know extraordinary ceeding In taking you in, St. Croix, so who yotj were?" St. Croix demanded far beyond my highest hopes! with Jealous suspicion and resent"It was when you were pointed out ment. dance "Well, he certainly did suspect me to me. St. Croix, at that barn that the Idea first came to me to for a fraud nnd a bluff when he heard me teach United Ftates urography! pass myself off to you as a PennsylBut be didn't know anything more vania Hutch girl for I thought It about me than you did. Now, I'll tell would give me such a chance as no ever had before to learn to you ALL! I've always been mad to girl had know my possible future husband !" go on the stage or the screen. I man"I'm afraid," St. Croix murmured, aged to scrape together enough money to go to I'aris to study dramatic art "you think yon learned to know him a few months. Then I got a small too well !" "Pm afraid, St. Croix, I did!" part In an English repertoire company "Do you think If was fair to take that played In the province and I earned enough to buy my pnsnse to me unawares like that?" "Why not?" America, the only plnce, I wan fold, Suddenly a new realization came where screen stars earned anything. to him that turned him a degree cold It was an awful risk, my coming here. I had so little money. But I reas er than he already was. "l!ut If you tired my n?wus parent by telllna were the teacher," he exclaimed, "why, them 'hat If f got stranded I'd send then. It was you that Marvin was all out n f" O S$ t. he 'relghtoo fa ml I r. the time seeing at that scboolhouMl fJat . e r 1 " flesh-colore- d flesh-colore- d panic-stricken- TIMES-NEW- It was to you my father paid five th sand dollars to get away! My G dP "Tea, wasn't that a sprightly scene! That's what I'm going to sea your father about. I ran home to England with that money to feed my starving parents. Now I'm going to make a clean breast of It all to your father and then If he'll let me borrow what I've still got of that five thousand, I'll go to Hollywood with It The only blot on my family escutcheon," she sighed, "Is my having taken that bribe from your father ! But I needed It" "Will you tell me," demanded St Croix, frowning darkly, "Is Marvin In love with you?" "I'm sure I don't know. He never told me so, the one time I met him unprofesslonally." "And you are perfectly confident, are you, that Marvin had no suspicions at all as to who yoa were?" "I fancy he had several suspicions. Oh, St Croix, It's going to be awfully embarrassing, facing them all! Especially your awful father after my taking that money from him! It makes me shudder! When we get there, St. Croix, let me walk In behind yon, will you? and I promise to bring up a good, solid rear In the procession! Oil, but I'm nervous about it!" "To see you Bitting there looking like Meely Schwenckton and talking straight English ! it's the d t knockout I've ever experienced!" St Croix almost groaned. "Didn't I do the part to the lifer she amazingly appealed for applause "Now I can go to Hollywood not onlj to offer Myself, but my Piece as well for I've written a scenario of this weird, wild escapade, St Croix, that they can't resist I Tou'U see yourself In a 'movie' and find out Just how Just what you're like!" "Sylvia!" He leaned forward and took her hand. (They had their end of the car pretty much to themselves.) "Give up this Hollywood Ideal Tou know how I love you " "'How,'" she repeated thoughtfully, as she gently withdrew her band. "Yes, I know 'how'." "But look here! Tou're not going to hold me to account for treating you like the creature you pretended to be!" "What sort of a creature was I pretending to be?" "Tou know what I mean, Sylvia!" "Yet you made lov to that creature ! A man's standards," she shook her head over It, "are certainly low!" when It "They're high enough comes to choosing a wife, Sylvia !" "Then let a woman's standards be as high when choosing a husband I" "Tou don't know life, my dear, or you wouldn't say such an Impossible thing! My own standards are far more fastidious than the average !" "Gracious !" "If you'll marry me, Til worship and reverence and adore you all my life long!" "My dear St Croix, I can't Imagine anything more uncomfortable than be'reverenced' heavens I Tou've ing known Schwenckton much Meely longer and better than you've known Cousin Sylvia and I'm afraid If yon married me, you'd be far more likely to bully and browbeat the meek and lowly Meely than to 'worship, reverence and adore' the Lady Sylvia! Tou're so used to bullying me, I couldn't risk It !" "Tou actually believe I could ever for a moment confound you with the stupid, vulgar girl you pretended to be?" "You made love to that girl and would have despoiled and ravished her!" He Friday, May 11, 1928 NEPHI, UTAH S. and looked shocked. "Please Such words on your lips !" "Bunk ! Bosh ! Tou would have done to her what you consider Indecent even to speak of to me ! Do you think I forget what you told her of your feelings, about your marriage? Tou said to her. 'I will marry my cousin because I shall enjoy the prestlgs this marriage will give to me and to Tou weren't even hopmy children.' ing for love In your marriage. That you would find outside of marriage with girls like Meely Schwenckton!" "I hadn't seen you then, Sylvia !" "Tou were planning to marry one girl while you were trying your best to seduce another! And In the face of that, you dure to speak of marriage winced ! 055 HOW TO BUILD UP MUSCLES Wilton Arena "Y,M Chicago. Something like the sprintof a race, but with one leg extended. Nineteenth Exercise Extend flexed leg, as you flex extended leg. Position Place yourself in a position as a runner does at the start of a race, with this exception. Keep the Tou one leg extended well back. place your one foot between the bands, the other (eg extended backward as far as possible. Now here Is the exercise; It Is a dandy. We call It the "Rest Exercise" In our gym classes because It Is a little more playful than some exercises. As you extend the flexed leg backward, you quickly flex the extended leg, placing foot between hands. We call this continuous alternation, extension . and All right are you flexion of legs. ready? Let's go. One two etc Remember this as "The Sprinter." The next five exercises are a special group adapted for the reduction of weight and will also build up healthy tissue. Position er at the start Position Lie on back, bands under thighs. Raise both Twentieth Exercise legs, toes pointed. Position Lie oh your back. Place hands under thighs, palms down, Be sure that your arms straight arms are straight Placing your hands In this position will make the exercise easier. After a while you can change the hands to alongside of body. Exercise Raise both Kegs, pointing toes toward the ceiling. Do not raise will This exercise your back. strengthen the abdominal muscles and reduce fatty tissues. Tou can vary this by gradually lessening the raise of the legs until they are raised only within a few tnches from the floor. This latter method will reach all the deeper muscles of the abdomen. Also reaches many other muscles In Do this legs and chest and arms. about six times the first day unless you have had plenty of abdominal work, and then Increase It from day to day until you reach thirty-twcounts. o Sir.uppopx.pENV: Position Same as XX, but wltn arms bent and closed hands resting near shoulders. Exercise Raise body Twenty-firs- t to sitting position without raising heels from floor. Position same as XX, lying on back but with arms bent bands closed and placed near shoulders. Exercise Raise body to sitting position without raising heels off the floor. If you need the help of the arms, use thera by reaching forward toward your toes, but try and hold thera as close to The closer shoulders as possible. you hold closed hands to shoulders, arid succeed In sitting up without raising he.els, the better the control About of the abdominal muscles. eight cmints to start with, then Increase from day to day up to thirty-twcounts. mnd (TO PK CONTINUED.) Ancient Stone Unveiled The "Urn Stane," which dates for 150 years, fram 1301, and was wus recently installed permanently In the staircase of the town hall at Annan, Scotland. At the ceremonies the unveiling was by Sir Ilobert was originally Bruce. The part of the ardent "Castle of Urus" at Annan. After its disappearance for a century and a half It was found ten years ago In a North Devos gardcu. ht Position Same as XX, lying on back with bands under thighs. Twenty-seconExercise Same as XXI, but add separating or spreading the legs. The position Is the same as In Exercise XVI, with the hands resting on The exercise Is floor under thighs. to raise legs ns In Exercise XVI; this Is count 1 ; on count 2 you spread them or separate them as far as possible; on count 3 you bring them together again; on count 4 you lower thera to floor. d Is will asserting Itself Obstinacy le to Justify Itself. without being It Is persistence vithout a reasons-himotive, It Is the tenacity of self-lovsubstituted for that of Amid. and conscience. e reoa Hands Position Lying on back. alongside of body. Exercise Raise head Twenty-thirand look at toes. Use the lying position as In the last exercise but with arms resting alongside of body. The exercise Is to raise hendnd look at your toes. Do not raise the toes. You may tire quickly with this exercise and you need not perform It many times; nhoul sixteen counts or less will do circulation This will help equallze-thof the blood after heavy exercise. d e f!o through life seeking a "k'ri' and you'll probably get several. Liv I Utah RICHMOND Approximately 2000 people of Utah and Idaho attended the thirteenth annual black and white day at Richmond, where 190 head of cattle were exhibited and competed for many The cattle were on the premiums. gTounds at 9:30 a. m. and the judging conducted by Professors George B. Caine of the Utah Agricultural college and C. Y. Cannon of the Brigham Young university followed one hour later. that noOGDEN Representing madic bands of sheep are depriving stockmen of their ranges southwest of Ely, Nev., a petition has been received at the Ogden office of the forest service requesting that approximately acres be added to the Quinn canyon and White Pine dsitricts of the Nevada national forest. The petition is signed by more than 200 persons comprising stockmen, mining men and business men and also is supported by the White Pine chamber of mines and commerce. PRICE Price is the shipping poirl for the largest shipment of wool from any one railroad station ever sent out of Utah, in the opinion of railroad officials here. More than 225,000 fleeces of seventy-fiv- e and in the carloads of wool will be shipped out of this city between now and June 10, according to contracts now on file with the Denver & Rio Grande Rail road company at this place. MYTON C. P. Wallinson, propri etor of the Upalco flour mill in Myton, views the outlook relative to the acreage of wheat planted in this portion of the basin in an optimistic vein. Indications point to the fact that the season of 1928 will surpass any other in the years gone by in this region. In order to meet local demands for flour during the past season, it was necessary for Mr. Wattenson to purchase a large quantity of wheat in Ashley val ley. Barley and oats have also been sown to a considerable extent this year. MANTI Shearing started at the Fayette shearing corral, where most of the sheep that are owned in this section are sheared. Small flocks that have wintered in close vicinity are be ing shorn on the farms. Sheepmen of this city have been driving their herds in from the west desert lands to the land in the proximity of the shearing corral, preparatory for shearing and for the lambing season. The report that the sheep ae in a thriving conditions, both as to flesh and wool. Lossei have been reasonably low during the past winter. PANGUITCH Belief for the con gested condition at the Hatchtown hatchery came when the specially built state truck anu two attendants arrived and began moving the fingerlings to Panguitch lake. The attendants spent three days moving the fish they then returned to Richfield as wit nesses in a case of pheasant shooting. VERNAL The Utah Private Truckers association has been added to the freight and express transportation fa- cilities between Uintah basin points and the railway. The new venture is comprised of 30 members various towns being represented, and the articles of incorporation state that it is organized for mutual benefit, this to include road maintenance, protection of rights and interests of truckers, promotion of legislation favorable to trucking operations and efficiency of service. PROVO Since 1905 the wealth bringing powers of manufactured products in the state of Utah have increased over 600 per cent. MYTON Farmers of Pleasant Valley are rejoicing that water has been available for culinary and irrigation This is the same project purposes. that furnishes water for the south Myton bench, which the Uintah Basin Construction company completed under the supervision of S. Y. Taylor of Salt Lake. EPHRAIM Ephraim Lions are supporting the city of Moroni in its endeavor to have an appropriation made to build a state highway to the beautiful Maple canyon west of Moroni. This canyon has been recommended by Governor Dcrn and others for a state park, but no appropriation has been made. BOUNTIFUL Bountiful city has Just completed conduction of a tunnel on the city farm east of the city to obtain water for culinary purposes at a cost of $4500. The pipe line more than 1000 feet long consisting of 650 feet of tunnel work and 400 feet of drain, starts from the surface and runs east to the depth of seventy-fiv- e feet from the surface, making it so deep that the flow, it is believed, will not be affected by the seasons. The water i. the purest mountain water which drains from the mouth of Ward canyon. Farmers on the bench parallel get their water supply by similar drains. tie Obstinacy Defined It'a a Privilege By J. J. TOEDT to me?" "Yes! Because I love you! I was about 'Meely' and you are she with Just the difference that turns desire Into worship!" "I'm afraid, St Croix, that Marvin's me is more to my taste! repudiating ' Tou see, my denr cousin, I know too well how unchlvalrous you are to womanhood, how you dishonor It and ravage it !" Again he winced nnd drew back. "1 cannot bear," he frowned, disgust In his eyes, "to hear such coarse language on the lips of a girl I respect !" News Notes in to SALT LAKE Utah poultry brought $2,500,000 into the state laat year, Clyde C. Edmonds declared at the recent membership luncheon of the chamber of commerce. Mr. Edmonds, general manager of the Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative association spoke on bchald of the local observancf of National Egg week, which began Tuesday of last week. SALT LAKE With 20,000,000 pounds of wool produced annually Utah has only one woolen mill in op , ration. FRENCH WEED IS TOUGHEST PLANT French weed, said to be the toughest member of the mustard family, Is under the dairyman's ban for the flavor reason that it gives a garlic-lik- e to milk, cream, and finished butter when dairy cows are kept on pastures where tne weea uourisues or nre leu con.auilnated mill feeds. Only recently a shipment of tainted butter originating in Minnesota bad to take a discount of $2.75 a tub of 60 pounds when sold on an eastern market Dairy division men of the University of Minnesota will conduct an experiment to convict the weed scientifically and to determine just how much of It can be fed In bay to the cow without tainting her product They will study the matter of pasture regulations that will eliminate the danger of contamination to the minimum. Finally they will try to determlnQ what tieatment it any, can be given the milk to remove the objectionable flavor. According to botanists, french weed, or pennycress, is an annual like wheat of winter or spring. The severest cold does it no harm, and chemical sprays that make other members of the mustard family curl up and die do not faze It It cannot be crowded out by farm crops for It likes to do all the crowding itself. A single pod smaller than the head of a thumb tack carries a dozen or more seeds, seeds which have such astonishing vitality that they will live for years In the soil and develop plants In dense timothy sod. Large Road Signs Tell of County's Good Bulla (Prepared State Department by the United of Agriculture.) large sign bearing the announceBulls ment "Craig County, Pure-BreUsed Exclusively," greets visitors who enter Craig county, Virginia, by any of Its highways. The United States Department of Agriculture believes these signs to be the first of their kind erected anywhere. A few months ago Craig county with County farmers, Agent W. O. Martin and state extension specialists, succeeded in eradicating all grade and scrub bulls and In bulls establishing the use of pure-breoperaexclusively in tions. To "tell the world" of this accomplishment conspicuous road signs have been erected at all points where roads enter the county. In a recent letter to the department. County Agent Martin says, "Enthusiasm for pure-brelive stock Is still growing and we have a vision of purebred sires for all animals In the near future." The fulfillment of this promising outlook would mean the extension of the accomplishment to include the exclusive use of pure-brerams, boars, stallions, and other sires In the breeding of all farm animals In the county. A d d cattle-breedin- g d pure-bred-bu- ll d Dairy Cows Doing Well on Many Illinois Farms As If to do their bit in the present agricultural situation, dairy cows on Illihois farms ore becoming higher-geare- d milk producing machines, according to John II. P.rock, of the University of Illinois. This Is reflected In records from the state's dairy herd Improvement associations in which approximately 13.0(0 dairy cows are being tested for milk and butterfat production every month for the benefit of some 800 dairymen. Cows In these associations averaged 22.5 pounds of butterfat each during December, the most recent month for which complete records are available. This was a shade more than the average of the association cows In December, 102(1. Likewise, the highest producing herd In December of the year jurt past exceeded the production of the best herd In December, 1020, by two pounds of butterfat a cow. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I Dairy Facts OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Silage is a valunble feed for dairy cows. Heavy producing cows need some grain to supplement the roughage portion of their ration. Generally about one pound of a grain mixture Is fed to three or four pounds of milk. Dairy farmers are beginning to realize the ninny advantages which obtain where generous amounts of grain are Incorporated in rations for the protein thus supplied Is of a high quality which is enjoyed and appreciated by domestic animnls. No firmer has time to milk a cow that will not produce enough butter fat to pay for the cost of feed. Any cream separator that Uaves over four one hundredths of 1 per cent of butter fat In the skim milk Is dealing money from the farmer who own It Calve are apt to pick up Infection either through the navel or through their Therefore conditions should be watched from the standpoint of sanitation. |
