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Show f IROl\TY OF FATE By By R. H. WILKINSON @, Bell Syndlcate.-WNU Service. ! Midvale, Utah, F1iday, March 1, 1935 THE UTE SENTINEL PAGE T\VO BEGINNING with the day Sheila Flake commenced her duties at the Bellevue bos· pltal, she promised herself that, under no conditions, would she fall in love with Dr. Julian Oakes. The resolution was "II!.ade entirely because of hearsay. Until the moment she stepped into Doctor Oakes' office, garbed in her immaculate, starched uniform, she had not set eyes on the unsus~cting object of her self-denial. And for this reason, Sheila can be forgiven for so hasty a decision. For as Sheila stood there just inside the office door and loolted across the room at the tall, spare man who, at the moment, was stooped over a filing cabinet, understanding came. Ia one breath-taking moment she knew why it was that all the other nurses (with. no exceptions) so frankly admitted their affection for this noble-featured surgeon. lie looked up at her and smiled. Sheila saw the marlts of strain and worry that lined his face. She saw eyes that were filled with kindness and gentleness; eyes that were at once alive and interesting, yet thoughtful and appraisIng. He came ~cross the room and spoke to her, introduced himself, offered a chair. And for some unaccountable rea· son her heart began to pound, a pounding she could not still. There was something about him; his voice, his manner of walking, the gentle allPeal of· his personality, thnt sent the warm blood coursing through her veins. And from that day forward Sheila was miserable. She loved him. She admitted it frankly, but only to herself. And this reluctance to release the Jast fragment of her crumpled resolution only served to rna ke the misery in her heart more poignant. Those others-her fellow nurses -who so openly discussed their regard for ••handsome Doctor Oakes" foun<1 relief for their feelings in those little intimate tete-a-tetes that are forever in progress in one room or another during the course of a day or night; a relief. that Sheila would not permit her tortured soul. Never, she told herself, would she admit or even hint at the depth of this strange emotion that stirred her at sound of Doctor Oakes' familiar steps in the corridor, at sight of his tall form bent over an operating table. There was consolation in the knowledge that Doctor Oakes' at. titude toward the obvious flirtatiousness of the other nurses was quite phlegmatic. Though by the same token Human Sacrifice an Old Indian Custom Washington.-The savage practice of offering human sacrifice-s to the. gods of war was widely in effect in North America at the time of the corning of the white man. So said Dr. Truman Michelson of the Smithsonian institution. The practice is supposed to have been confined to the Aztec and Pawnee Indians, but actually was widely diffused throughout the continent, he said. In the Aztec rites; the heart of the victim was cut out with a stone lmife. In the famous "Morning Star" rites of the Pawnees, a maiden was sacrificed. The Hurons burned maidens at the stake, Doctor Michelson asserts. Sheila knew that should she betray her own feelings, her humiliation would be ten times greater; her hurt unbearable. For even as Sheila was certain of her love for the man, she was even more certain that that love was a thousand times deeper and more lasting than that of all her companions combined. Sheila knew it couldn't last. So~mer or later he would have to know. Either that or she'd have to go away. And of the two courses that were open to her she wondered on more than one occasion if she had the courage to choose the latter. For the present it was bearable; though with each passing day the tortur·e increased. For of all those to choose from, old an~ new, Doctor Oakes had seSheila steeled herself to the task. lected her to aid him in the majorIt was the smile with which he ity of his operations. had looked. upon her before going If, at first, Sheila had dimly under the ether that steadied her; hoped his discrimination for her at- that bore her up during ' that delitendance upon him was prompted cate performance of the surgeons. by personal interest, she hoped in And now it was over. Things swayed crazily. vain. Not by the merest broadening of Sheila leaned against the wall for a smile did the man indicate his support. concern was other than profesShe felt herself sinking; knew sional. that she had found a chair. The climax carne six months aftShe tried bravely to rally. Lights of New York Three hundred men are hard at work making a 50-fo~t square model of New York city. Every block is represented as a unit, every building 15 or more stories in height being modeled and cast. The five boroughs are separate units which may be detached from the whole. It will take the 300 a year to complete their task. . But the model, constructed at the suggestion of Bernard Deutsch, president of the board of aldermen, will prove a great value in fire and police work as ~ well as in administration, traffic control, building and future planning. 'Vhen the workers, all of them expert, have completed the model, they w111 turn to a geologic map of New York. No such map exists, the cost having been prohibitive. That map will prove r:ot only of intt~r est to science but will be of much aid to builders. Br L. L. sTEVENsoN two tassels with greenish flowers~ For three months, the blossoming will continue. Then the tree will: die. During the years of its life.. the tree has been storing up starch for its blossoms. It is a sugar palm which originate~ in Malaya. The specimen in the Bronx Is the oJ;Iy one that has ever bloomed In thaUnited States, principally becausB there are few greenhouses largeenough to mainhtln a sugar palm. • • • Natives of various Pacific islands -this is getting a bit away from the City of the Seven Million-in which the sugar palm has been successfully intt oduced, find many uses for it, according to Dr. Elmer D. Nerrill, diJ;e~tor of the botanical gardens. Parts are used as thatch for houses, fibers for rope, caulking and materials for brooms, baskets and raincoats. From the flower stalks sap ls obtained which is • • • boiled into sugar or e;xcellent wine. The depression bas made posBut think of waiting 30 years for sible the model and the map as coffee sweetening or a drink of well as other models and maps. winel Two years ago Dr. Casper Kramer, • • a professor of ancient languages Subway eavesdropping: 11He's S() in New York unh·ersity, came out tight that when he dropped a nickel of his office· one day and saw two in the movie last night, he poked "parcel boys" deliverin~ packages. around under the se-ats and didn't He talked with them and learned he pick up 35 cPnts !'' • • * * World's Largest Dam Begins to Rise Looking over the displays of the new model alltomobiles with all their attachments, from two horns to cigar lighters. my mind goes back to the old days when horns and even windshields were ''extras" and thus added to the original cost. It seems as tf I also recall a law which provided that if a horse . became scared, the motorist had to get out and lead the. animal past the goldarned thing. Looking into Broadway show windows discloses how times have changed. @, Bell Syndicate-WNU Service. Goat Serum Discovery Lessens Smallpox Scars 'Vinter sweeps down on Fort Peck, Mont., but an army of 5,000 men continue on the jolJ of moving more than a hundred million .cubic yards of materials to control flood waters of Missouri river. W'hen the dam is completed the bridge seen In this picture will be imbedded far down in the "heel'' of the datn which wili be 242 feet high and 20,000 feet long. It will contain more than four times as much material as the Gatun dam in the Panama canal, which is the largest earth fill dam in the \Yorld today. Three more years will be required to complete this project. er the first day that Sheila had stepped into Doctor Oakes' office. She thanlwd God for the com·age that would enable her to depart from the hospital without betray· ing her secret. It was mid-afternoon when Sheila descended to the floor where the superintendent's office was located. The corridor was empty, the hospital unusually quiet. But as Sheila hurried past one door after another, the quietude was abruptly interrupted. . WITTY KITTY A door was flung open, and a docBy NINA WlL.COX PUTNAM tor emerged. I He stared wildly about him for an instant, and his eyes fell on Sheila. He gestured excitedly. "Quick I It's Doctor Oakes! We must operate at once! He's collapsed as a result of overwork and strain!" Sheila's heart stood still. For just a moment she hesitated. The doctor had gone. The corridor was empty again. Beyond lay the superintendent's office. Could she go through with lt? On top of everything else, this! Would her nerves stand the strain? Other nurses were available. • • • There was one in the corridor now. The girl chum says a garden is She shuddered at the thought. ~omething that never has been Another in attendance while an known t o live up to promise of the operation was being performed on seed C;ttalogue. this man who had stirred the very ta ,1 ~~1 ~·ndic->te- w:Nu Re,.,. 1 ~""'depths of her soul! Unbearable! • How humiliating for them to find her like this. And her last operation, too. But no one was looking, no one paying any attention. Doctor Oakes was coming out of the ether. She heard him moan. She stood up, tried to reach the door, failed. She must go, must get away from him. He was safe now. It would be better that she didn't . wait until he'd regained consciousness, better that she didn't look into Jlis eyes again. . She clutched at the door jamb. • • . The unconscious man was talking, mumbling incoherently. Sheila tried not to listen, tried not to hear his voice. . . . And then her grip on the door jamb tightened. Her heart stood utterly still. • • . A strange nausea swept over her. But through the thickness of it she beard Doctor Oakes' voice. Clearer now, more distinct, unmistakable. .. Sheila! Darling, come to me. Oh, it's been torture not telling you, trying not to let you know 1 loved you. . • . Silly 1 was to even think there was a chance, that you could care. • • • \Vhy, I'm so much older. • • . Of course you couldn:t care.••• No fault of yours. • • • Idiot I was for even thinking. • • . But it's got the best of me. . • . I must get away . . • some place where I can forget. • • • Darling, I love you . . . . " •••••••••••••t.tt.t•••••••~•••••••••••"••••••••••••••••••••• . they were architects unable to ob· tain work at their profession. He wanted to help them. Thinking the matter over, his original idea expaLde~ to Include other white collar workers. The cartographic study was the result. Advanced, backed and carried on by Professor Kramer it is a project of the works division of the City \Velfare commis· sion. Tokyo.-Dr. Hidetake Yaoi, government scientist, announced development of a goat serum which apparently greatly lessens the severity of disfigurement in smallpox cases. Doctor Yaol, connected with the Institute of Epidemiology, expects to make an official announcement of his findings to scientific circles in April. In .his research he treated 100 patients In a recent smallpox epidemic In Kumamoto prefecture and had "encouraging results.'' Sponge Catch Assists Church to Stay in Pink Tarpon Springs, Fla.-St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox church here Is never in need of repairs. It is kept in the best of shape because one-halt of one per cent of all Sponge sales made here are donated to the church, and Tarpon Springs is the • • Funds for the project were lim- most prosperous sponge market in ited so at the outset the ·problem the western hemisphere. of the fine tools necessary to carry it on arose. The men solved It themselves. From scraps and junk, knitting and darning needles, they made their own..... They also found a use for discarded razor blades since they were also turned into tools. With their homemade implements they have constructed prod· ucts which were shown in a recent exhibition at Grand Central palace, while the map o1 the Mississippi valley, made by 70 men in six weeks, was shown at the Century of Progress in Chicago during the 'summer. Also more than 300 men are receiving weekly checks instead of being on relief rolls or doing menial jobs. • • • Up at the New York Botanical gardens, a seed was planted 30 years '4Between that trip to Niagara ago. By and by, a sprout came up. Falls and the one to Reno," says Now the seedling has grown to a knowing Nora, "the furtherest most height of 90 feet, the tallest leaves married women get from home is brushing the glass dome in the to the corner grocery store." conservatory. 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