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Show Friday, MAGNA TIMES, MAGNA. UTAH wmmwa rmmmm I DAUGHTER By Kathleen Norris Le KathlMn Nsrrla WNU CHAPTER Service. XV I I Continued 17 Vickys eyes found the little round violet puncture of the bullet hole at the flawless marble temple. Serena's sleeping face was placid, but the once scarlet mouth was pale and flecked with blood, and the beautiful pale gold hair was loosened into a careless cascade that hung in a web over the side of the bad. There was a horrible sprawling relaxation In her position, a dreadful mysterious shutness In the colorless lips that made Vicky tremble. 'Is there anything to do, Quent? Not now." He did not turn from his contemplation of the wreck of what had been so soft, so lovely and alluring and fragrant Jand No, warm only a few hours ago. it was instantaneous, Vic," he muttered. Killed herself!" She thought he was dead, dyou see? the older man supplied suddenly. The Chinese woman had come out of his room. It was while we were all in the hall there, awhile back, when we all thought that poor Morrison had no chance. I thought, from the way you all that he talked." Quentin said, was! I was amazed when Amah said he wanted to see me. And certainly she must have thought so. Poor woman! An hour later Victoria and Quentin walked across the Morrisons side garden, and through the gate into the lane and through their own gate. A perfect spring dawn was strengthening over the world now; it was four o'clock; the east was flushed with exquisite delicate pink, against which shoals and galleons of delicate silver and gray and paler gray cloud made long bars. I feel reborn, Vicky said. Reborn. Im terribly grateful, Vic, Quentin said. Oh, grateful! If you knew what I was thinking of all night long. Every horror that anyone can imagine seemed to be sweeping over me. I had you in Jail; I had us ail moving to some remote place. Perhaps you think I didn't, Vic. while we were working over him. Perhaps you think I didnt have a chance to think how I'd taken my life and destroyed it with my two hands. But thank God its all over now: but thet youve forgive them worked It out your wey." You did something of which you ere ashamed. she said simply. "I didn't Why should there be any question of forgiveness? If I did something wrong, tosomething morrow youd bo sorry youd think a little the less of me; but you wouldnt be personally touched because I forged a check your own honor would be Just what it wasl My life Isnt yours. Pm me. I wish to the Lord you would do something dumb, Quentin said with ineloquent force, after a pause. I sound smug, Vicky said, "but Im not And I dq dumb things every day. Thousands of them. There were months there were actual years when your home life was nothing but mistakes, nerves, uproar, my crying and being tired and sick, the children going Into mumps and whooping cough, bills piling up." "But good heavens, Vic, what's that! the man said roughly, in Impatience. What's all that compared to the other thing, compared to hurting your pride, end killing your love for me, and putting the thought of another woman eternally between us? Why, lots of the fellows go home to women who are extravagant and nagging and nervous, and who dont have a houseful of gorgeous kids to show for itl Theres no comparison between the two. I think there is. I think nagging and extravagance and nerves are serious things, too, and I think women who won't have children, who hate home, who are always running about with other men, are just as bad! Even If they dont go to the limit even if they fool along, getting everything they can out of a didnt break my heart" Breaking a person's heart is a cheap way of putting It" Quentin said. It founds romantic, when it wasnt anything but damn stupid and selfish. You said what it really did, a minute ago. It made you think less of me; that the real price. We never can go back of that Youll never be able to trust me again. There'll alwaya be that feeling, somewhere, way back in your mind, that I failed you! Vicky, her elbows on the kitchen table, her chin in her hands, looked thoughtful. I suppose so," she said (lowly. But I don't know that it matters.' Youve seen me looking pretty horrible, ugly and crying and frightened and only anxious to be let off pain; It doesnt seem to make you like me any lesa when Im all gotten up in my new Paris clothes. Luckily people forget those things, when under it ali they love each other. Quentin answered her with a long No, you man and then stopping short, never giving anything it seems to me detestable, Vic said. My own temptations are different, she added. I think maybe Im a mother first and a wife afterward; Ive never gone in for pink baby pillows and long-legge- d dolls! Perhaps we're both tired," she said. For that matter, whats happened tonight is enough to throw us into nervous breakdowns. We dont often, talk this way. But Its only fair to tell you something, Quentin, that may partly explain the way I feel the way I act When we were married, eleven years ago, I talked about marrying for reasons, about not being carried away by excitement, about not falling in love. I told you my idea of marriage was companionship, home, children. You were a widower with a deliShe laughed. It cate youngster seems funny now to think of Gwen as delicate, doesn't it? she said. Women were making your life a burden, and you needed just what I had to give. I remember our talking of it once, and your saying that whatever the agreement was before marriage, however reasonable and dispassionate the feeling was, no man could have a young wife around is and not come to love her,-thpresuming that he didnt come to hate her. Do you remember that? Vaguely. Well, the Joke was on me, Vicky said, for I had it had it desperately, the whole timet I trembled and got silly when you spoke to me, I thought of you all day long and lay awake dreaming of you all night woman who I was the ever knelt down and thanked God that the most marvelous man in the world had deigned to look at her! I never told you, I was too proud. I tackled the big house and the servants and Gwen; I even went to the hospital and had your babies, Quent But I never dared tell you! You never asked me to; you took me calmly for granted, meals and furnace and Gwen and babies and answering the telephone and buying you new shirts, and that was the way I wanted it to be. I didn't want to be the one to introduce the silly, the sentimental side of it, cry when you forgot my birthday, and expect you to compliment me every night on the way my hair was done! I'd said I wanted a certain kind of marriage work and responsibility and companionship, and plenty of criticism if I didn't do my job, and I got it! But I've loved you all the time! Quent, when you come home tired at night and go to sleep with your big heavy head on my shoulder. 1 lie awake sometimes for joy. Juliet has nothing on me, nor Beatrice, nor The words brought back with a moment of horror the memory of her last sight of Serenas bedroom, and she was still Serena loved you, she said thoughtfully. In the silence. Thats all it was. She never loved anyone but herMy God, he said again, struck self, Quentin said. "Everything She did do it, didn't she, Quent? she said and did revolved about he said with a serious that She loved her own beauty Yes, I guess she did. look and power. She used them to get Nicolette! She stood up, smiled at him. The words what she wanted. I knew it, after Her killing herself sounded so strange that Vicky had a while. Morrison must have disThere! she said. That's my to stop short and think of them covered it as soon as they were awful confession. I've made you her killing herself looked as if she married. Her first husband tried a speech. did. she mined. twice to kill himself. She was cold Quent took Victoria in his arms. She had that I dont know what and vain, poor girl' And she was You've made me a speech Vic. to call it ruthless quality, Quenthe woman. he ended, "for whom I'll never forget it." She went over any ob- I broke your heart! tin said. THE END stacle that was in her way. "He roused the very worst in her; he always did, Victoria mpsed, He seemed to sit back and (laugh at r, and he never let her have enough money even to get away She told me she came to see me every few days, you know that she had to charge even her lunches at hotels. That day she seemed to me She looked so beautidesperate. ful. too; she was in a sort of com eolur. and her eyes looked so blue Mother said after she left. 'All tlres'-eup and nowhere to go! 1 life to her suppose it was death-ito live in that quiet country house." Quentin nodded, listening. "You've been a trump all night 1 ng, Vic, he said, after a while. If you'd been like most women, and refused to go over there, we might be in bad trouble this morning. If you were like most women, A new story of the West . . cattle ranges . . 4 you'd have kicked me out years ago, I don-- know why you act the adventure . . . romance and murder It was murder way you do, but I want you to I know this sounds damn flat but that struck once, twice, three times . . a series of want you to know that I admire I I'm owe that and you grateful! puzzling crimes that made detectives out of cow everything I've got in the world to you. I'm just beginning to realize punchers, that left the finger of suspicion pointed that its an awful lot. You know at when I'm not good speeches, but at innocent men. Heres an unusual drama that I think about you and this is what I wanted to tel) you I get all adds real mystery to the ever-thrillistory of choked up. I m I'm grateful. Vic ,said Thank you, Quentin! outdoor life in the Rockies. Youll enjoy -- Cattle from the other end of the- - table. 'A'e'll go on here, and some day Kingdom, a truly great story by a popular I'll have a chance to show you that said. It's I'm changed," Quentin Western author Alan Le May. taken me a long time to wake up. I've been a fool. J did the rottenest thing to jtdu it man can do to his wife; it's Just my luck, its my inwell;-- 1 credible wont say forgiven me; you dont forget those things, and you cant 1 am tired. Quentin, doesn't the tea for the Vienna doctors and our lunch at the St. Francis seem longer ago than yesterday!" he exThat wasn't yesterday! claimed. In our next issue! h-- CATTLE KINGDOM d ,Nt ta by Alan LeMay t 1 ng -- Read Every Installment ! tisualbL' ala; Ith usually km j.'': re around 4 or $ 7 may attain a Nasal Sprays Save Laboratory Monkeys, But Will They Work on Humans? rs rough edged, $nd rough in th tree la young. textur,' J. leave, .re On fi kt, : grows older ths l a darker green and them develop witho The bark of tha muiwF la, distinctive In r j i - 4 The Purple 1 j ( The purple of Cauhu , Punl. pigment first prZ Andreas Cassius abouti cslled also gold purpi, TJ v Vj IF; i 4 J talned by treattag V" Md fi'1011'1 OlxteTj believed to consist of mixed with finely divided I think you really believe that, he laid after a while. Youre not like anyone else in the world!" Vicky in her turn was thoughtfuL love-sicke- Herself! topped tree, look. at "Killed Infantile Paralysis Wave May Let Science Test Preventive i ' f , - gold. It is used to taput, ros or ruby red color h j tk glass, in painting pottery m amel, and In coloring 1 ;J, Frl 1 V'.sV? ' im fin (j lev Filipino Not AntbUlewii, i Tht Filipino la not an man Its too hot to bo infci To them, the siesta, or during which sileoca h , served by custom and hr, t frittering away of tlmi 1 people. It is just that tbs' the year around that enerp away. But while tha fiii t tha Chinese works. j . ifie-na- !; ''S ? X 1 ' , - A V V? 4 s ! 1 i t," f Lv , , ' f m r - - j , " V ' ' I',;-- ' f ..V Wagner Liked I A J ' Hero monkey thats what science calls the tiny rhesus monkey, like the little fellow here, whose bom Is being sprayed in an experiment to test a preventive for infantile paralyais; thousands of monkeys have died la the cause. If the sprays prove successful on humans it may mean the end of pitifnl cases like that of the litUe aeries of Fresidents Birthday parties helps to raise fnnds for the regirl above. The annnal, nation-wid- e search work; a scene from one is also shown. By WILLIAM C. UTLEY of infantile WITH a wave assuming serious proportions in the south central region of the United States, science may find its d opportunity to make mass tests of nose sprays as a means of preventing the dread, crippling disease. long-awaite- Nasal sprays have proved nearly per cent effective upon laboratory monkeys, which respond to poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) In the same way humans do. But until an extensive outbreak of the disease occurred there was no chance to conduct experiments upon humans, for the lives of large numbers of persons must not be endangered unnecessarily. Now that outbreak may be at hand, for the south central regions are reportirg an increase in "polio cases far over the normal increase which comes with the summer months. Between May 9 and July 24 there were, according to the United Stntes public health service, 486 cases reported from the west south central region, as compared with only 18 cases for the same period of 1936 and 65 cases for the same period of 1935. During these weeks the east south central region reported 317 cases as compared u ith 234 in 1936 and 57 in 1935. There was some Indication of the spread of the disease eastward. Doctors hope that the nose spray will be proved definitely successful in its application to human beings, for it is more than a century since the first written account of poliomyelitis was made by a trained physician. English Doctor Started Crusade. Even so progress has been phenomenally rapid in the light of the age of the disease, for it is probably as ol as mankind. But it w s only 102 years ago that Dr John B idham. of Worksop. Eng-ind, rro cd by the condition of four t.nv pat on's, pleaded through the med.um i f medical journals for other doctors to come to his aid w.th suggestiui s for the ciye of a disease nobouv knew anything about. Dr. Bad urn's paper, telling of the plight of the four crippled youngsters dot med to pathetically unhap100 1 mnehed one of the greatest crusades in medical history. Poorly equ pped as they were, doctors of tlu Nineteenth century did not hesit.re in responding to the pioneering Dedham's call for assistpy lives, ance. Only fin- years later, Jacob von Heme, German orthopedic surgeon of Canns'aat, made public an important study of infantile paralysis. His pracbce brought him in contact with many cases of deformed limbs in children. A shrewd observer, he noticed something about young wh.ch other medical men had largely overlooked. He saw that -paralysis" wai the result of some k.nd of acute d.sease which preceded the appearance of muscular par-aljti- weakness. Get on Trail f Germ. The discovery was epochal for, In other words, Heine perceived that v paralysis m children didnt Justhap pen it had a definite antecedent cause. He won for himself a place of honor in ranks of those battling against the spread of infantile paralysis. It was a battle that widened to many more fronts as time wore on, and by 1885 the infectious nature of the disease was pretty generally accepted. Yet it was not until 1908 that the first real advance was made in the search for a germ. Then Land-Steinand Popper, in Paris, injected portions of the brain and spinal chord, taken from a fatal human case of infantile paralysis, into some monkeys. They succeeded in infecting the monkeys with the disease, thus putting it on an experimental basis for the first time. Only a short time later several doctors almost simultaneously managed to pass poliomyelitis from one monkey to another. They were Flexner and Lewis in New York, Leiner and Von Wiesner in Vienna, and Landsteiner and Levaditl in Paris. The way was now cleared to studying the mechanism of the disease. It was indicated how the germ was spreading, but scientists still had not banded in any united effort It took a national tragedy to wake them up. In the summer of 1918 the great infantile paralysis epidemic hit the United States. It began in a small area in Brooklyn, then spread rapidly over the rest of New York City and Long Island, eventually cascadIt ing over the entire country. touched every state, and struck down more than 25,000 persons, most of them children. Health Officers at Loss. Panic swept the nation. In the mistaken belief that only those under sixteen were susceptible, railroad officials refused to let children ride oh trains. Vigilante bands of citizens established unofficial martial law in many places, and health certificates were required as "passports for children moving from one community to another. Health officers made every conceivable effort to check the disease, but they still lacked a working knowledge of ways and means to combat its ravages. The epidemic died of itself, finally, and so did public terror. There have been lesser epidemics since then; 15.000 cases were reported in 1931, and 10,000 each in the years 1927 and 1935. Medical science recognized infantile paralysis as one of its most challenging problems and redoubled its efforts to find an answer. Foundations, research laboratories both public and private, universities and individual physicians and research workers concentrated their attention upon it. But it rema.ncd for a lavman Col. Henry L Doherty, to begin the most novel, move m the battle, one which popularized the fight among all classes of Americans. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, himself a victim of infantile paralysis, the move. President Roosevelts previous interest in the cause of fellow sufferers had been repeatedly manifested by activities err behalf of the Warm Springs, Ga foundation where victims are treated. First Presidents Birthday Ball. Visiting Warm Springs in 1933 Colonel Doherty also became deep interested, and acquired a firsthand knowledges the research and work going forward In this country. He saw the need for more widespread of effort. After discussing the after-treatme- ter with the President, he conceived the Idea of a gigantic series of parties which would enable million of Americans to do their share in the war on polio. Under Colonel Dohertys direction g the mammoth task was started. A national headquarters was established in New York d and persons were called upon to help. The first series of parties was held on January 30, 1934, the President's birthday. Fund Aid Experiment. So far more than $4,000,000 has been raised by the annual parties. Seventy per cent remains to fight infantile paralysis in the community where it was raised, while 30 per cent goes to the national fund, to be used for research or rehabilitation party-organizin- civic-minde- work. One Important use to which the receipts from the parties was put was the development of the nasal spray preventive for poliomyelitis. How this spray came to be discovered is a dramatic episode In medical history. The subvisible microbes have ever defied scientists to follow their meandering!. Yet, after long and brilliant experimentation, scientists in laboratories In New York, Chicago, Stanford university and London at last found out that the nose was a doorway to the polio virus. In the laboratories of the United States public health service, Charles Armstrong, a microbe hunter, decided that if he could find some means of blocking that doorway, there would be no way for the deadly germs to attack. For three years he experimented with a whole drove of rhesus monkeys. Finally he found what he wanted. By washing the insides of the monkeys noses with a weak solution of picric acid and alum, he was able to save 24 out of 25 monkeys exposed to a hot, exceptionally dangerous infantile paralysis virus! Confusion Hampers Test. Armstrong was confident that if his solution worked with monkeys it ought to be effective on humans-But he was forced to wait for an to opportunity make the test. It ap- n. C Wurn Newspaper Union 1st I Jk Sponge and Peart Diroi Sponge divers of Iht Ilet. Dean sea are able to work slit mum of 150 feet without drinp They only make short itayi i pearl divers of Australia dote, a depth of about 120 fed Erie divers remain below nrtaet k. 1H minutes. Only h exetpt, cases can they stay tUM two mimila Claim Violin Bow brofla The Hindus claim to hankie, the violin bow. They maintut Ravanon, king of Ceylon, who! about 5,000 years ago, hmsteq ravanastron, an Instrument ft with a bow. Sanskrit tcholin that names for the fiddle bow in works which art not Its 1,500 to 2,000 years old. r i Not Profitable the veudi; As a no Importance because of th e ness of his pelt. While his coat of white is attractfo $ white weasels are rare, mostrt pelts being a light yellow. Fsr-Besr- fur-bear- I Drury Lane, Co vent (Urfa Drury Lane theater wu V under that name in May, 1W 1?: Covent Garden In December, ia lfit rebuilt s wa Lane Drury I ent Garden in 1858. Acceleration 937 During Eartto During severe earthquake. acceleration In a vertical la greater than the accelerate j gravity, and loose objecti Jump into the air. j Opossums Found la J Tiny South American sometimes are found to aeril often u packed bananas, and resemWe stroyed because they mon mice. j ' Guam Language Though English In the public schools ofeoott01 stiH years, the natives Chamorro. native their - parently arrived last summer, when an epidemic broke out In Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. Rushing to the scene, he won widespread support to his plan of spraying the solution into the children's noses. He planned to have the doctors supervise the spraying and keep careful records. Unfortunately ths experiment got out of hand: the doctors became swamped with demands upon their time and nmny parents used the easily procurable solution without bothering about scientific counseT on Its use. After salvaging what records he could and making extensive records of his own, Armstrong decided Uiat a more powerful solution was heeded. Two California scientists, working on funds supplied by the Presidents Birthday Ball commission. supplied it. They were E W. Schultz and L. P. Gebhardt of Stanford university, and they offered a I per cent zinc sulphate Z.nc sulphate had been used for years as an eyewash.-Th- ey discovered it was virtually 100 per cent effective In preventing infantile paralysis when sprayed Into the noses of monkeys. Silk Richard Wagner, wboeartec greatest influence upon mono;. In the last century, lovod cl j the noise that silk msdo vtai: died so much that ho would 1 times ask his wife to vox 1 dress and walk up and lor, room so as to make tho sHn He said that it made his mini tile. 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