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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH n- - i i i ia ia a a a a a Love and Mice May a a a a a a a a a By JESSIE DOUGLAS a tt. ( by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Alice saw him coming down the plat-Hirtoward her. She would have known him anywhere, the way he carried his dark head, the humorous glint in his brown eyes, the sudden smile that showed his very white teeth. She wondered whether she could avoid him. I havent seen Why, Alice May ! he cried, dropyou for a blue mqon 1 ping his bag and taking her little gloved hafed in his. A blue moon four years old, she answered. f Then she could have bitten out her , tongue for admitting it. What are you doing here? Billy Rogers asked with that engaging way of his. I live here now. Youre married, of Oh, yes. course? ' Yes, she answered. Crimson swept over her cheeks. In that moment she had covered over all the hurt of four years of reSomehow membrance with a yes. she could not have Billy pity her, have him think that she still remembered. And how is your wife? Alice May ' asked. "Oh, very well, ' She had smiled to him bravely enough, told him how glad she was until she had seen his train pull out the station. Ajid his letters that had began so lengthy had finally stopped altogether. And then she had i. ab- ruptly. He turned to her with his old eager way. I want to hear all about you. Ive got to wait here for two hours for the next train. You couldnt you wouldnt that Is, would you have tea with 1 neutral-- old-tim- . when their tea and crumpets and marmalade had been brought and Alice poured with that dainty precision of hers, I want to know all about that house of yours and those chubby-cheekechildren She blushed again. Yes, two lumps; how did you remember? I know you have sunny rooms and that flowered stufT beside the windows and a piano overflowing with music and flowers everywhere you? And two rosy !' youngsters Ill tell you all about that, she said quickly, but first t want to know all about you! Hows your work and and your wife? Oh, my work? his eyes lighted up. In Im -- going down to Mexico shortly. Think of it, Alice May the adventure putting a new bridge across the wilderness. A companys sending me down there, but Its at my own risk. he stopped. I'm keen about it There, Im boring you to death; And your wife? Alice persisted. He stirred his tea absently and forgot to drink it. Alice knew all at once that he wasnt happy, that this woman who had married him was not the woman for him. She bated her In that moment. She thought suddenly of her friendship and Billys. They had walked and skated, danced and teased each other. They had exchanged books and opinions; Alice had made chafing-dissuppers and Billy bad brought her -looped boxes cf candies. Yet they yhad never enough strangely verged on love making. Alice knew she could never forget as long as she lived the night Billy had told her he was bfing sent to Alaska. Think of the adventure of it, Alice May! But she had only thought of the loneliness of it. h ribbon- cles, carrying heavy loads, are responsible for the deplorable- condition .off some of- our highways.. We- have and other proof of the wrecking, of roads,. Indicating that these- roads had' been blown up from, beneath the- surface; We have seen the - calamitouscondition- of pavements-smasheby pressure of some kind. What is the answer?' In the fall we: find some roads ap- to protect them from the Incident dangers. In China the peony is regarded with superstitious reverence and pride The natives of Samoa, in order to secure the admission of a departed spirit to the joys of their paradise, wreathe the head of the corpse with ' flowers. Prodigals. - : By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN ERE is a short cablegram from London that might be' expanded to a page article, since it deals with a situation that quite upsets the Britishers and is international causing comment: A flurry of criticism wafe aroused today by an exhibition of One caricatures by Max Beerbohm. depicted the Prince of Wales, aged and bearded, marrying the daughter of an English landlady. The time of the supposed marriage was set in 1972. It is entitled: and beginning choosing Long late. The basis for the caricature is the Prince of Wales apparent aversion to marriage. There was, hojvever, a storm of protest from press and public and the caricature was withdrawn. ' The Weekly Aux Ecoute9 of Paris prints a story in which it says on inside authority that the Prince of Wales has decided to renounce the throne in favor of the Duke of York. is Wed? Not even for a crown! practically the attitude of the Prince of Wales, according to Aux Ecoutes, which says, among other things: Queen Mary is insistent that he marry, but the prince will not listen, especially since during his voyage to India his parents married off his sister, Princess Mary, whom he desired to see the wife of his friend and comrade, Lord Louis Mountbatten, to Lord Lascelles. The prince did not even send a wedding present to his sister. Curing the last season Queen Mary privately told the Duchess of Coni naught, Edward will marry this year. The duchess thereupon arranged a grand reception at which the news was scheduled to be given out. But the prince stayed at home, sending the Duke of York, to whom he said: ' Tell them if they want a king, I am here; but if they must have a queen, too, then I renounce in your favor. Really, you know, one of Englands even in these parlous chief times of reconstruction, seems to be Just what to do with His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. My word! He should have married long ago and given Great Britain a future queen and a whole fleet of little princes and princesses. Instead, when George and Mary talk marriage to him, he gives them the bird.- When the London press picks out a new bride for him he goes steepleehasing. When the whole empire shudders and protests because hla horse falls, he gets a better mount and wins. When he should be on hand at some heavy state function he sends the Duke of York in his stead. , With unmoved serenity he sees the advent of Princess Marys Master Lascelles and the marriage of .L- s ; William H, Allen writes in Civics and Health: The man who is prodigal of his health may work along all right for years, never realizing until the test comes that he is running behind in his vitality. The test may be hard times, promotion, exposure to cold, heat, fever or a sudden call for all his control In avoiding accident. His career may be ruined, because of no health bank account to draw upon in time of need; because of vitality depleted by alcohol, tobacco, overeating, underexercise or too little sleep. Critical Criticism. The young editor had just founded a new magazine one of those highbrow things with pale gray covers and uncut pages and was eager for applause. What do you think of it? hq asked the celebrated literary critic tp whom he took a copy for examination, Well, replied the other, wearily, but warily, the stuff you rejected must certainly nave been rotten. American Legion Weekly. v Modest. Alexander wanted to conquer the world." I have done that, said the popular What I would like movie actress. dow would fee for the constellations to arrange themselves so as to spell out my name in the sky.Lou!svi!le pearing to be models of .durability. spring they are- wrecks. Meanwhile heavy trucks had been driven ever them. Could there be a superficially plainer case of cause and ef-feet? On gome stretches of the very rdad where the collapse of the pavements Is most discouraging nothing goes wrong. There the trucks do not crush the concrete or buckle the brick pavements. The loads are- precisely the same that are hauled over the other stretches of the road. The same wheels of the same vehicles roll over sections that stand up under the test that roll over the strips that give sway. What, then, is responsible? Is it the weight of the loads or Is it the manner' in which the road was constructed? Is it the way the builders failed to adapt their work to the conditions they had to deal with? Matters of soil and drainage, materials and construction methods were not given proper attention. When one road along a sandy ridge, with good natural drainage,'; comes through a hard winter scarcely the worse for wear at any point, and another road in the same district and the same climate, carrying the same traffic, with the same truckloads, but with spots where the subsoil Is wet and' there is no natural drainage, Is found In a state of collapse after the frog comes out of the ground, what Is the logical conclusion? Is It lighter roads or closer attention to drainage and other Important features entering Into the construction of our highways? Isnt the remedy to be sought in the more scientific adjustment of the highways to the natural changes In the direction of. larger vehicle units and more economical transportation on the public roads? The question Is vital to the solution of the whole problem of county highways, their construction, and maintenance. It is of immense importance to all producers and consumers. It Is a basic transportation problem for Americas millions of people who want to do the sensible thing and the right thing by all. interested: One of the gratifying evidences of appreciation of the value of truck transportation throughout the country is the determination of responsible authorities to have real highways, not merely makeshifts. They have profited by experience and realize that to meet the transportation conditions the highways must be constructed accordIn-th- A furious crimson swept over her white cheeks. Billy Rogers stopped still. What does she mean? Why did she call you Miss Hill? Are you still teaching? Yes, I am teaching. And Im not her married. And I never will be and now voice caught in a little rob will you let me go, Billy Rogers? He caught her hand and tucked it into his arm and his voice was something she could never forget. Let you go how that Ive found you again? Do you think Im crazy, Alice May Hill? Im going to take you off with me now to Mexico. Well be married this afternoon by the little preacher In the town where we used ' havent - answered. me? My my husband Is very broad' minded, but what about your wife? Alice asked quickly. Oh, my wifes heard all about you. to live Shed be glad, he answered. Alice tried to draw her arm away. They walked up the main street toBut your wife? she whispered. at in turns cold Alice and hot gether, My wife and your husband belong the monstrosity of the lie she had told. And yet at the moment" it had seemed In the same boat. They were both the only way to save her pride, the made up on the spur of the moment at least my wife was. only way to be on equal terms with Butxare you sure, Alice persisted, Billy again. For she wanted to hear about him, that you want me? And why, if I didnt, did I stop off what he did, what he thought, what he felt Surely It would be no disloy- at Hilly Center on my way to Mexico? But, after all, it wasnt his words alty to the woman Billy loved his wife to spend just two hours with that silenced her, but the kiss he gave him on their old terms of comradeship her behind the dreary waiting room, when she forgot everything but that and understanding. ! Alice looked up at him shyly. How she loved him, too. good he was to look at She liked the seriousness of those brown eyes, the EACH FLOWER HAS PURPOSE clean-cu- t mouth, the brown cheeks, even the. way his hair grew. Many Peoples Are Intensely Supersti He smiled down at her suddenly. tious About Uses to Which Where are you taking me, Alice They Shall Be Put. , May? Here, she said. The Japanese are very superstitious Here was a tea shop with crispy about many flowers, and will have fresh dotted swiss curtains at the win- -' none of them. The orchid, gentian, dow, and once they had pushed open daphne and azalia, are utterly pro the door Billy cried, How Jolly ! hibited for felicitous occasions. There It had a wide, white fireplace with is also with them an aristocracy of shining andirons, oval rag rugs, a flowers most sharply defined.. The Iris spinning wheel and round tables with is of princely dignity, but because of a pot of primroses or wild violets cen- its purple color muft not be used for tering each. weddings. Some flowers in themselves They chose a table by the window, are regarded as feeing of and Alice watched Billy shrug out of Such is the camellia, for Instance, his coat with that old familiar gesture which is neglected because Its red und fling .himself down in the settle blossoms fall off whole in a manner beside her. which reminds the Japanese of deI believe, he said with that glint capitated heads. of humor in his eyes, that you brought In Mexico the Indian carnation bears me here because you knew how becomname of the flower of the dead, the ing it was to you ! and when a virgin dies It is customary Alice. The It was becoming to for a young woman to carry a gare colored walls, the pleasant land of flowers and sweet herbs in furniture, seemed to be her back- front of the coffin. The high priest She was not exactly pretty, of the ancient Mexicans gave aloe, ground. but something more than pretty. leaves, traced over with sacred characAlice May, Billy said thoughtfully, ters, to people going among volcanoes, now, Scientific- Adjustment ) of Highways; Is; Needed Often it Is thought that heavy vehi- heard he was married. What are you thinking of, Alice May? Billy asked, breaking into her thoughts. I am thinking, said Alice softly, that if youre going to get that train youd better begin to go for it! And you havent told me about your husband and those two kids? he said a little wistfully. Would you really like to know? she asked. Id like to know ' anything about you, he answered. His voice sent her heart beat hurrying. She stood up and gathered up her gloves. The waitress, coming to look for her tip, observed with gratification that the tip was large and the crumpets untouched. There Wasnt any use of pretending any longer. Alice realized how weak she had been to come with him. She loved him still, she always would, and now she would have to begin all over again to put him out of her thoughts. Hello, Miss Hill, a little girl called as they came out of the tearoom, did in geography? pass my zamina-tioIll tell you Monday, Alice Hill - Billy answered IMPROVED ROADS Mythical Proteus In classical mythology Proteus was Neptunes herdman, a prophetic old man who had charge of Amphltrites seals. This aged man or the sea could tell all things, the past, the present and the future, but would only do so under compulsion. According to Homer, Proteus dwelt on the island of Carputlms. between Rhodes and Crete. The only method by which it was possible to obtain Information from Proteus us ner at the Ritz or the Claridge, with anybody who can afford $5 to say that TFScwam zAJ&zi.gs Jim they dined with' the Prince of Wales.' i zmzrx&sz&&ar And so on to a revue, some bright and Jnt&rrtaCi ona( frofo tuneful mental narcotic. One show, the Duke of York to Lady Elisabeth called the Nine oclock Revue, he has Bowes-Lyoseen 16 times in three months, always Apropos of the story printed by the sitting in the stalls and never in a Paris Aux Ecoutes, here is the Brit- box, and going behind the scenes beish version corroborating It: tween the acts to chat with members I Duke : of the company, or else standing sipCarry on marry Betty I ping at the bar. All excellent (Lady Elisabeth Bowes-Lyonstuff never will. And what is more, learn but think of Buckingham I palace to be King of England. I never will Twelve oclock the show Is over. With be. his gay companions, of which Lord And what t are they going to do Burghersh is the chief, H. R. H. reabout it? thats part of the British pairs to the Queens hall or Grafton worry. ' Parliament, of course, Is su- Gallery Dance club, sometimes escortpreme, but can it order the prince to ing a society lady, such as Mrs. Dudmarry or to stop steeplechasing? ley Ward ; sometimes . a beautiful All joking aside, it is probably no young actress, such as Beatrice Lillie, exaggeration to say that the Prince All excellent stuff but think of Buckof Wales is the constant worry of ingham palace! And so to bed, somehis parents and the disappointment of times In St. James palace, sometimes in Clarges street. . the English people. And then the Anyway, the Prince of Wales' has round begins again. Of course all this has its amusing had a good time since 1919. In that year, fresh from four years, of war, side, especially to an American. Still, he was sent out to conquer the do- says the New York Times, one canAnd not avoid the fact that the Prince minions of the British empire. he did a good job. All through 1919 of Wales is to a and 1920 England read with thrills throne of some importance in the the Odyssey of its princely young am- world, and the Times goes on to say : The Duke of York has lived hithbassador. Comes the summer season 1921.' erto with his parents. The prince has It finds him traveled, perhaps too much. Nevei H. R. H. is twenty-seveMost prospective refeting, the restless Instinct has been still a bachelor. For years at a time overdeveloped. kings are married at twenty-sevewith heirs. So the English press be- he has wandered homeless, doing his gins to pick out a future queen of Eng- bit. He Is so utterly popular that, in One after another royal young public esteem, there are now no new land! But worlds for him to conquer. He has woman is tentatively chosen. H. R. H. says never a word In ap- already exhausted all the first thrills proval. One after another the select- of kingship. He has passed beyond , ed brides go into the discard bars of the illusions. So, under the circumstances, It is religion, nationality, caste or looks, ' not to be wondered that the British you know. Then vox popull, through the press, public is asking in ' whispers: What begins to suggest a bride from the is behind It all? -- Its a fair question. : Is this young English nobility and another succession of tentative candidates. And so prince, who seemed destined to be the Idol of his countrymen, merely a on up into 1922. And now the prince has become a lightwit and an idler?' Those who know him well say lie is not. They young man about town. At eight in the morning Wales is assert that fees the stuff of which Why, then, up and driving his car to a meet of real leaders are made. the Pytchley or the Quom, where he his shirking of his obvious duty, as proceeds to fall ofT his horse, says the. British, public sees that dutyi Ferdinand Twohy In the New York London sees no answer to this World. At midday fee Is photographed question. It whispers about a possible unfortunate affair of the heart, drinking champagne at a meeting at which, in the course but cannot find the lady In the case. Finally, the speculation gets down of the afternoon he is thrown at the water jtimp and photographed emerg- to this : Does His Royal Highness the a dripping, draggly Prince of Wales really want to ascend ing Neptune-like- , , mass. And so back to Lon 'on to din the throne? n. ). ingly. ' , Concrete Car Stand Is Big Farm Convenience There has been considerable com- plaint in' the past from roadside markets, because there is a tendency for motorcars that are stopped, to buy ' : point-to-poi- ' to surprise him as he slept in his great cave at noon surrounded by his seals, seizing and binding him. Even wheui surprised and captured in this manner, he would endeavor to escape by changing into a great many different shapes such as that of fire, water.' a tree, a snake, a lion. If. however, his captor did not permit him jo go until he gave the truthful answer required of him as a seer, he would answer and then Is a saying plunge into the sea, Tnere about having as many shntes a.i Proexpert in disguises. teus meaning Only Slightly Changed. An Instructor In a church school where much attention was paid to sacred history, dwelt particularly on the phrase: 'And Enoch was not, for Bo many times wa God took him. this repeated in connection with the death of Enoch that he thought ever the dullest pupil would answer cop rectly when asked in examination State Irij exact language of the BibU what Is said of Enochs death. Bu this was the answer he' got : Enotfj was not what God took him for." Concrete Car 8tand. the farm produce to block the traffic; Holderman, near Morris, Rl, not wishing to either discontinue his profitable business, or to be the cause of a traffic jam,1 had this concrete car stand built with the permission of the v state highway authorities. S, D. Smoothness in New Road Is Important Requisite It Is now realized that smoothness In the new road Is one of the requisites to Insure continuous good sup face. If the road contractor turns over a road that shows rolls to the slightest degree these rolls mton the ultimate destruction of the road, for they furnish the means for starting the pounding of the heavy motortruck wheels which eventually break up the surfare. Most Important Thing in Late Hatched Chickens The most important thing In the chicks costs success of nothing but labor, feed and water. Neglect giving the growing chicks these essentials, and all the e feeds, poultry quarters, good stock behind the chicks will prove of no avail. Comfortable quarters, plenty of fresh water, shade In some form, coupled with good feed, will go a long way toward making a uocess with the chick. late-hatche- high-grad- late-hatche- d |