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Show The Lucky Lawrences Sally Sez the beauty and sweetness she wanted to if she hadnt had to plug to Mullers day after day. In her shabby little corduroy dress! But she was happy, GaiL She was one of the happiest girls I ever knew. If she could just have you But this would be too much. Gail must flash from the room, flying, hurrying bowed before the storm. On a certain March Sunday Phil asked Gail rather timidly if she thought it would be a good day to take their luncheon up to the dam. Gail looked up with her perplexed little smile, bringing her thoughts home, drawing her thick dark brows together for a second. Then her serious face brightened. Oh, Phil, itd be a marvelous day for It! He looked at her as If he had never seen her before, although he gave no sign of finding a change in her. But there was something actually beautiful In Gails face now, something disciplined, spiritualized, something for which Phil this morning found the word noble. Somehow he felt a blur over his eyes and a certain dry thickness In his throat, as she began, with all her old readiness and easiness, .the familiar preparations. Of course you never saw any sandwiches like them, Milesy, because I Invented them. When Uncle Sam was only a little boy, he and my sister By KATHLEEN NORRIS Copyright by Kathleen Norris WNU Service SYNOPSIS The Boston Lawrences came to Calat the beginning of the gold rush, but the holdings of the family have shrunk to a small farm, and the old family home In Clippersville. Phil, Is working in the Iron twenty-fivworks, Gall in the public library and Edith in the book department of a store. Sam is In school, and seventeen-year-ol- d Ariel Is becoming a problem. Phil is fascinated by -- that terrible Lily Cass, whose husband has deserted her. Young Van Murchison, scion of a wealthy family, returns from Yale, and Gail has visions, through marriage with him, of the turning of the Lawrence luck. Dick Stebbins, Phil's friend, has the run of the house. Gail goes with Van for a week-en- d with the Chipps, his uncle and aunt. She is received coldly. At a roadhouse Gail sees Ariel, at midnight Next day Ariel admits she was at the place, and displays no remorse. A policeman brings Ariel home, announcing that a child has been killed In an automobile smashup. Ariel was driving one of the cars. Dick Stebbins, who has been admitted to the bar, has the case against Ariel dismissed. Gail suddenly realizes that she loves Dick and not Van. Stebbins and Ariel elope, according to a note left by the girl. Phil and Lily, now widowed, are married and Lily and her three children make their home in the Lawrenco house. Edith is fatally injured in an accident for which little Danny, one Ariel . of Lilys children, is innocently Stab, ifornia e, Local patronage means local success. Local success means local employment Local employment means more nice dresses tor what have you?) 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He and my sister Ariel used to ask CHAPTER IX Continued for heavenly sandwiches, and I used 19 to make them this way deviled ham, The oil company began to build a and jelly, and cheese, and anything trim little station, all else I had all together. look went paint and fences, on the corner of the Her mild, Lawrence place, and Phil spent his Sat- kindly to the little boy. Her skillful urday afternoons and Sundays clearing hands went on slicing the big loaf, the overgrown garden at the other side trimming crusts, pressing the filled of the house, chopping down moldy old halves of the sandwiches together. shrubs and trees starved and cramped See If there are any of those paper for light and air. Sunshine flooded the napkins on that shelf,, Phil. house that had been robbed of it for She looked up, caught her brothers forty years; the rusty marks of the gaze. vines showed on the shabby paint. What is it, Phil? The trees fell with long crashes in Nothing! Phil said. the hot January sunshine, and lay If the sight of the shining dam, surprone across the pampas grass and rounded by feathery spring greenery, verbena bushes. Light streamed oddly hurt her when she and Phil, Sam, Lily, into the dining room, and into the and the children reached it at a glowdownstairs sitting room, where Edith ing noontide if the sight of it hurt had lain muttering on a chill October her, she gave no sign. Phil noted that afternoon. The old house seemed shabher thick dark eyelashes were wet, and bier than ever in this humiliating un- her eyes ringed faintly with umber. dressing, and yet it was good to have Busily, efficiently, she set out about the the great oaks on the western side of preparing of the luncheon, she and the garden exposed in all their stal- Lily murmuring as they made coffee wart beauty, and to obliterate the old and toasted little sausages on sharppaths with their bottle borders, and ened sticks. ' roll the tortured and raked earth smooth for a lawn. Phil and Sam toiled and sweated happily at the changes ; the small boys tumbled ecstatically, like robins, In their wake. Great brush fires smoked up Into the clear warm spring air, and the ashes sifted softly upon Lily and Gail, who sat on the steps of the side porch and gave general directions as to the pruning of vines and the lopping of branches. The heavily massed foliage gave way, parted, fell in great clumsy masses to the ground. Sometimes both men got tangled in it, and had to be helped out, with panting and laughter. They are happy, Gail thought, seeing Phil grow younger, simpler, more contented every hour. The disreputable old house, weather-beatewithout and within, was heaven to him. Lily, paler now than she had been, her slender shapeless body already rounding out toward motherhood again, held in her stubby little common VVibser hand the keys of life for Phil. He had never been ambitious, socially or in a business way; what other men did, what the neighbors meant, signified nothing to Phil. They are happy, and I mustnt spoil it Sam will marry here In Clippersville, just as Phil has, and theyll always be friends. And when I can Ill go away, Ill find my sort of living, worm-huntin- Starting Ont of Town Students Earn Living Expenses g n ENROLL NOW Write For Catalogue Henaser Business Cqllege 45 East Broadway, Salt Late City, Utah Watch for the Squirrel When a squirrel runs across your path, you will be disappointed. KETCHUM j BUILDERS SUPPLY Everything In Plumbing 78D West 4th So. Salt Lake City Bristol Depot Huge Temple Meads station at Bristol, ingland. Is the largest covered relght depot In the world. per week will be paid for article the best on Why you should use Similar made Goods nterroountain o above. Send your story in prose or erso to Intermountain Products P. O. Box 1555 Salt Lake City. If our story appears e his column you will check for 53.00 too. But until I go, I must add to their happiness. Nobody nobody ought to suffer, if theres any way out! If Lily had ever annoyed Gail, she did not annoy her now. Lilys complete Gail lack of culture was nothing never thought of it. Lilys little airs and graces as Mrs. Phil Lawrence passed unnoticed. Lily could go to the movie with Phil, at the end of the long, busy day; there was no Imposition in leaving the children with Gail, for Gail was at home anyway, and the children adored her. She spent a wet March evening pasting pictures In her camera book, turning the pages backward, lingering against her will over the little prints. Ariel, about ten, a fairylike little creature, with ringlets. Edith, in her white sweater, laughing and holding the dog what was his name? Phil, what was the name of that mongrel we had for awhile? Bim? Bim. Pictures taken out on the Stanislaus place with the Stebbinses. Dick, a rough-headefellow of twenty, little Sam all freckles and ellong-legge- d Week No. 3536 W.N.U. stab, stab at her heart Her sweet-tempere- Service Stations in Utah and Idaho Fall Term Now . . Salt Lake City Carlisle Indian School The Carlisle Indian school was originally a military post at Carlisle, Pa., and was made into an elementary school for Indians In 1878. It was never a college, but remained an elementary school for Indian youth until shortly after the World war, when it was discontinued and the plant restored to the War department, September L 1918. Area of the Alps The land of the Alps covers an area of 15,737 square miles. bows. Picnic pictures, up at the dam. Edith, quite a little girl, laughing, with her eyes glowing under a broad straw hat, and In the gingham Miss Lotty had made her. Pictures with Papa in them : Papa opening a bottle of olives Papa going off bicycling with Doctor Smith. And Edith again and again and again : in her bathing suit ; In a kitchen apron, with a big spoon ; In her kimono, with her drying hair all over her shoulders. I think I could bear It better, Phil, Gall said sometimes, If Edith had had d for a name ! and she says, Shall w call the doctor? she says. Hes been minutes! lying like that for fifteen and Ma says, All hes doing Is snoring, Louise ! and honestly, said Lily, with a pathetic, serious look at the others honestly I thought my grandmother would pass quietly out of the pic- Family System Is Cracking in Japan, Says Observer The Japanese family system, described by Mrs. Hugh Fraser, Pierre Loti and other European visitors to days, Is gradJapan In the pre-wually disintegrating, according to the ture, I honestly did! Tokyo correspondent of the Observer And when Gail, who laughed so rarelof London, who explains: y now, would laugh, Lily would look This system, which still possesses surprised. But she liked to hear Gail a good deal of vitality, especially in Phil always the country districts, presupposes an laugh, just the same, and rewarded his garrulous little wife with attitude toward life utterly different a look of gratitude. from that of European or American Today they also had to discuss, as Individualism. did all Clippersville, the amazing, the It Invests the head of the family sensational bankruptcy of the Murchiwith great power over the destinies son Flour mills. Rumor had been playand at ing with this possibility for some time, and property of its members, but Clippersville was as full of rumors the same time imposes on him a as an army camp, and nobody had tak- strong sense of responsibility. It is en seriously the idea that the invincia frequent observation that the ble Murchison fortune might fail strongly developed sense of family But fallen it had, completely, entirely. The Clippersville mills, the Salinas offices, the New Jersey plant had all passed Into other hands, the Chipps mansion was for sale, and the Chipps were going to live, without a servant, on the Los Gatos. ranch and try to make it pay. It was all too bewildering ! Why, the mere name Murchison had been one with which to conjure for a generation, and for years everybody had told everybody else that they had been coining" money, that they had scads, that they were made of it! The Murchisons and the Chipps, with their trips to New York and their fashionable affiliations with San Francisco and Burlingame! This was a tumble for them, sure enough. They say that Arthur Murchison could have been sent to jail! Clippersville said, not without satisfaction. What dyou suppose will happen to Van, Gail? I was thinking. He was working at the New Jersey plant, the last I heard. I thought he was abroad? He was with another boy. Or he was going. Mrs. Chipp told Edith A pause. Gail saw Mullers book de- partment, and the fashionable, white-glove-d Mrs. Chijjp pausing to patronize grave little Edith in her corduroy dress. Hell have to get to work now! Phil said, with a chuckle. Every penny he had came from his stepfather, Gail added, and if Mr. Murchison really is down and out, Van will have a hard time! Probly the best thing that could happen to him!" Lily opined heartlessly. They talked of other things, but they always came back to the Murchison failure. The March day grew very hot at the dam; there was no wind. Lilys three little boys after lunch crept into the shade near the grown-ups- , and laying Afterwards the children dug and their whining, panting, and fretting, faces flushed and wet with heat. splashed in the creek, and their elderp as if absently, Gail began Dreamily, grouped themselves on the shingle, to tell them a story. of talking Clippersville affairs and Well, once there were three little Clippersville folk. boys, just the ages of you and Miles Lily had the peculiar quality, not unand Danny, Wolfe. Their names were usual in women of her alert, keen Hammy, Jammy, and Sammy Hammy, type, of being able to make even the Jammy, and Sammy Formaldehyde. most casual gossip Interesting. What They were relations of the immortal she did not herself know about the old In the pause, his families in town, her mother and family? asked Phil heart beat quickening. Gail had fallen grandmother did, and Lily had been to dreaming, with her eyes far away. listening to Ma and Gram all her life. She roused herself, They were Gail listened fascinated to her stosmiled a little. They were Monicas ries. They were never sensationally children. told, although they dealt with murders, Oh, Monica married then? mysteries, feuds, crimes,' life, and Monica married a sewing-machin- e death. But there was something In the details, in the general pictures Lily agent." Oh? said Phil. A look ot peace painted about them, that Gail found came into his kind, worried eyes. He inexhaustibly entertaining. settled back. Go ahead! he said. "Old Mrs. Peevey, Lily would reThe hot spring sun beat down upon count, always felt that Jim Canna was there the night Belle White was the sapphire waters of the dam, but killed or knew something about it where the creek widened and spread anyway and she used to go to the at its mouth the shade of the redwoods fell, and there was greenness and courtroom. . . . Ma had gone over to get a cup of coolness. Only the dragonflies were moving in the fragrant March world; yeast risins from Lizzie Gunn . . . there was no cloud in the Italian blue She says Do you spose you have of the sky, no splash of fish in the a piece of that gray voile in your piece dam. bag. Mis Wibser? . . . Dp on the surrounding ring of the Ma didnt have her clothes off for hills the lilac was still bloomfour nights. She always sets up with guardian in pale blue plumes; the manza-nlt- a ing, the Rogers family when they die. . . . streaked the summits with creamy And old Mrs. Gansey tore her hair even the bay trees bore golden Gram says she just twisted It like it lines; A tips. bluejay screamed like a bullet was so much cotton yarn and she through the air, and was gone. Then was boots It them him to says, drug silence, and the ripple ripple ripple his death! . . . of the water that accentuated the siThey say when Old Man OConnor lence once more, and Galls slow, rich, was dying he kep sorter groping on voice beginning the new hesitating the bed, and Daisy she was expecting chronicles of the Formaldehydes. But minute then Do any Daisy says, you no Formaldehyde story had ever afwant your big blackthorn stick, Pa? fected Gall before quite as this one Yes, he says, I dont know where Im did. This was new. This was creation. going, Daze, and Id just as soon have The hour marked a change in Gail, my stick in my hand! and she felt it without realizing just Just now, when the waters of her what it meant. She knew, vaguely, that own soul were running so low, Lilys stream of conversation had its uses; everything was different, on this March Sunday the sky bluer than she had it soothed Gail, it diverted her from ever known it before, the buttercups too constant a contemplation of the more mysteriously golden, every new own current dark of her life. leaf, every crystal shadow In the dam It was all real, all human ; Gail was or flash of diamonds In the creek penconscious of a little thrill of pleasuretrated with new meaning, with unable anticipation when Lily got into a earthly light. narrative vein. Phil, in his shabby old clothes, Lily, And of course there was always a little and slow in already plenty to talk about in Clippersville. movement, seemedclumsy to thrill and throb There was always a fire, an accident, with the cosmic pulse of the whole a marriage or divorce to supply interworld, and more than all more great est and to lead the conversation off than sky and trees, creek water and into countless collateral and connected blossoming spring Gall felt herself lines. alive, alive with everything that lived. was there the Today astonishing fact Gail Lawrence, nearly twenty-seveof the Wilcox baby to discuss. An blue-eyeyears old, tawny-headeeight-pounboy normally born to a lithe, strong, rememadequate feeling, and normal happy mother, and put- bering, acting, loving and suffering ting on an ounce a day nobody in was living at last! Clippersville could believe It, least of 'The miracle of it remained with her all the happy parents. as they went home In the late after"He acts, Gall said, like a person noon ; stayed with her illuminating, Inin a dream. terpreting, changing all the commonMa and Gram," said Lily, went places of life into glory." Gail felt over to see the baby because Gram dazed with felicity; It must not stop nursed Mrs. Wilcoxs mother for seven this penetrating, poignant sweetness! years she was a paralytic and she She knew It would not stop. says that Mrs. Wilcox was crying, and She went through a week of (loafing, she ast her would she look at Sterling of dreaming. what do yon know about Sterling TO BH CONTINUES ar the Infiltration of w western pictures, which may be seen In 1 Japanese small town; translati from the literature of the West steady drift away from patrlarc farming and handicrafts to large tories and commercial enternri. to mention only a few of the m obvious. 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