Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE The Tribune' SUNDAY MORNING Corner The Mystery By LEORA MITCHELL Fayaon High School The early morning aun rose In a blinding ball of fire The earth was dazzled by its rays but it never penetrated aa far as the "mystery house" The huge mansion was sinister in Trees hundreds of appearance years old surrounded it on every side It was a gloomy place No wonder they called it the “mystery house” Michael Swanson the owner of the house dwelt in solitude Folks said be was a little bit touched in the head therefore they left him entirely to his own company Every night at the appointed hour a light ahoned out over the valley from one of the attic windows of the house Shadows passed to and fro In front of it The superstitious fisher people fancied many things and thought they-samore than they did Fop years new- a band of-- smugglers had been making their headquarters somewhere about The police had sought out every clue but never a trace was found of the contraband and the smugglers had never been caught Night after night Michael sat and Folks didn’t know his pondered secret How was he to accomplish such an outstanding feat? Michael’s father had been the leader of a ring of smugglers and they had always used the "mystery house” as their headquarters With the death of his father the smugglers expected Michael to step into the leader’s place and go right on as before Michael had always rebelled He abhorred the sight of the dope I will show them he thought But how to do it? he was alone He was afraid the village people would not believe him If he did tell them about it They already thought him mad and were suspicious of his actions He knew he could never do it alone Michael was only 28 but he looked older than his years He had a patch of premature gray at his temples But this only gave him an air of distinction He was a handsome man Even the village people agree'd on that Miss Cecile thought so too Although she had never dared reveal her thoughts for fear of what the neighbors might and had said about h’lm Michael loved her too She was the village minister's daughter however and they thought It best to let their love remain secret They haijs private jueeting place in a grove of trees out near the bay beside the house and they had been meeting there for over a year before Michael’s father’s death This morning as Cecile made her way up the beaten path she kept pausing to listen She was sure she could hear someona talking She heard the sound of angry voices She became alarmed "Michael!” She ran stumbling up the path She burst into the clearing just in time to hear Michael say wildly: “You shan’t ship your dope through here any longer I’m through! I'm getting out!” "Bravo” someone whispered They whirled around to behold Cecile making her way toward them The men muttered among themselves they turned and made off and the man who had seemed to do most of the talking yelled back that they would go on as usual tonight "And you hadn't better try any funny business” he added Michael turned in despair to Cecile "Oh you took" an awful risk Cecile why did you come?” "I came because of our usual meeting but I’ve thought of something that might help you” "But— but” Michael stammered “It’s out only chance" she added Michael had to give In Later as they made their way over the old stone terrace she outlined what they were to do Eight o’clock that night found Cecile and Michael stationed in the "mystery room” Out on the bay as seen faintly through the trees lights glimmered faintly spotlights Footsteps were heard on the teps “Ready?" whispered MlchaeL ‘Ready’ she answered The men filed Into the room Five of them each with a case under his arm “This Is the last” one of them - aid “I’ll say it Js” Michael had risen —apd stood with his gun leveled facing them Behind Cecile too had them covered The men saw that they were trapped All their munition was In a box on a table But they made a desperate attempt at freedom The room was a tumult of action Michael grabbed the machine gun It stopped and started It the men although he didn’t even aim at them directly not wishing them hurt any more than he could help The meri backed off into one side of the room — " one of g "You rat-tat-t- at double-crossin- - then) began ' "I warned you” Michael told them Cecile telephoned for the police while Michael held them there Later in his story to the police Michael had a difficult time explaining his part In the crime Cecile’s word didn’t count for much One of the older 'men however seeing that there was no escape told the story Michael was acquitted ‘Now the whole village honors him The “mystery house” is being remodeled It has lost its sinister look Michael and Cecile are happy in a little world of their own father has given his consent Frogs Heed Gall Of Lady’s Voice Woman Tralna Amphibians to Do Goose Step as She Sings House OAKLAND 'Califi (UP)-M- rs Kathryn Vorhels la the “frog woman” of Oakland She la not inpurely for comterned In frogs She la interested mercial motives emotionin them psychologically ally Intellectually and socially Mrs Vorhels declares she always has had a peculiar power over frogs from the time she was a girl when she hitched them to toy Now all she has to do is wagons to sing “Nlllle Grey” and the 8000 frogs in her pond will do the goose step in an effort to get properly lined up for feeding time Mrs Vorhels Insists her charges really do this Perhaps one of the reasons Is that Mrs Vorhels has devised a secret formula for feeding frogs and perhaps it is merely the call of the food that makes the frogs come in a hurry But Mrs Vor-hethinks not She believes it is her power over the frogk She believes in them in their intelligence their memory their affection for persons they like and their marked antipathy for those they don’t like Mrs Vorhels has named some of her niost responsive irogs Tney Buster include Rascal Cock-ey- e Blind Boy Tasus Slnbad and a dozen others Each one will respond to its name She is certain frogs have memory because they will respond only to her voice If she calls "Rascal" Rascal comes If someone else calls “Rascal” about all they are likely to get is a sullen croak The “frog woman’s” power over her pets is especially conspicuous in winter time When water U eold the frogs embed themselves in the mud at the bottom of the pond to keep out of the cold water They hibernate in every sense of the word ls MYSTERY Uncle FISH— A pen and Ink drawing by H Clark East High School Salt Lake City The Working Life Bub--1- 8 By JUANITA SUNDBLOM Jordan High School By MAVIS CrREER Jordan High School Have you ever watched an boy when he visited his n nepheltf? What an Inspiring sight! “Now Bub" said his mother "If you don’t go now you'll have it to worry about next Saturday" The boy groaned “Durn it! Why do people have to go havin' the little d brats anyway? I’m no good at ’cooing over cradles” But next week Bub dutifully went to see his new month-ol- d nephew After deceiving final Instructions from his mother he felt as if he were on the verge of a nervous breakdown His sister Ushered him Into the nursery “Now be quiet Little Buddie’s asleep I’ve named him after you Now you’ll hkve to be good and not talk naughty so little Bud will be a big good boy when he gets older" “Gosh sis you ard' getting silly You know dam well I’m grown up now Cut the baby talk” "Just wait till you see him though My he’s! a darling I’ll wake him and you can hold him” Poor Bud! How he had dreaded holding a baby! But it was really worse than he had expected “Here he is1’ said his sister "You are klnda wet little sweetheart but Uncle Bud won’t mind After all you’re his only little nephew" Bud planted his feet squarely on the floor breathed deeply anjd tried to remember what his mother had told him to say when he saw the baby “Oh yes I remember” he thought “Now hold his little back and don’t drop him” said the mama as she placed the small proud bundle in Bud’s unresponsive arms “Oh oh!” he thought “how could a kid be so darn ugly? All mouth! And talk about red faces!" But he knew he was expected to say "isn’t it cute or sweet or sumpln’” so he followed the usual procedure and between gulps said: “It is aorta— klnda — cute” He tried to console himself by thinking “Anyway this ‘social call’ is just about over Am I glad I don’t have a nephew born every day!” sis don’t you think I’d bet"Hey ter go talk to your husband? You know I’ve gotta see him and I’m get-tiawful hungry Maybe I’d better go home now Here he’s howling again Take him” He pushed the baby toward her but she ignored this thoughtful advance “Don’t hurry away I’m going to bathe baby now and you can help Won’t that be fun” “Yeah” he said but he was thinking “I’m sure glad she Isn’t a mind reader I hope St Peter forgives me and don’t put down a black mark for" the white lies I’ve told today There ought to be an exception to that rule when a fellow goes to see a nephew!” “Now I’ll go get the tub Be careful with him while I’m gone He’s a funny baby He seems to cry when he likes a person You see he likes you quite a bit" "Yeah he sounds like it" Bud answered sarcastically "if bawling has anything to do with It” When his sister returned she found a very disheveled "little” brother One baby hand clutched Bud’s hair The other stuck straight into his eyes Bud’s face was red and drops of perspiration covered his forehead "Maybe I’m wrong but tending a baby is just one nightmare after another Oh' sis! Take him before I faint!” new-bor- red-face- lat-minu- te n’ Blind Girl Skilled In Toy Manufacture BOSTON (UP) — Twenty-nin- e year-ol- d Mary Doyle blind since babyhood knits crochets and makes toy animals and dolls which she has never seen Miss Doyle needs only a metal or wooden figure as a pattern she learns it by touch and starts the object Among the toys she has made are kangaroos penguins and elephants Each is made in perfect proportion Besides her ability Miss Doyle is an expert in the art "D- -n that can!” Warren swore violently under his breath That was the last straw He’d cut his finger twice trying to open that can of pickled pigs’ feet “I’m through — quitting — finished!” he expostulated wrapping his injured finger in the dishtowel “This business of never being home to get a husband’s supper is getting me down” He threw the can opener across the room where It landed on the cold stove and lay there He glanced at it contemptuously “I married Helen because I wanted a wife” he continued glaring at the can opener' “not so she could go out every day to work ‘to help on pay day’ Even If I am only a common working man with a low salary my wife doesn’t need to work I can take care of the money end of this business” His voice grew louder and louder His hands shook as he tried to remove the dishtowel from the wound' ed finger “If she’d only get home before I Bill "Easy-Go- ” do so she—” Bill came to a conclusion quickly Glancing at his watch he went Into the bedroom Four-thirt- y Another half-hoand she’d be there Only another half-hoto wait for his supper “I won’t be here I’ll show her Anyway what do I get when she leaves in the morning? A peck at my cheek and 'Will you put supper op dear? I'll be home at five’ And at night It is the same ’Oh dear I'm sorry I’m late Got supper on yet? Let’s hurry I’m starved’ Damn! What a life I've taken that too — but no more I’ll be a man and do something awful Why I’ll— no maybe that won’t do at all— better do something worse I’ll give her a good scare anyway “Well anyway she’ll put her own supper on now— forever for all I care I’ve told her a dozen times but she insists that she is ‘helping’ with the budget money Why now she doesn't even want to go out with' me any more Either too tired for pleasure or ‘just tired’ Is her excuse Even if I speak out of turn she jumps all over me— like she is so darn nervous— well I’ve taken all that I am going to!” He pulled the old battered suit case down from the shelf He’d show her- She’d worked for two whole months now and he hadn't seen any of the money ‘to help’ The cut finger got in his way He clutched the dishtowel from his hand and threw it across the room The wound bled freely on the floor Bill swore — again under his breath— he had that habit of swearing under his breath He watched the blood drop to the floor and then spatter in a huge red spot It made him sick at the stomach Retrieving the dishtowel he the finger and began throwing things into the suit case with his left hand He stepped across that red bloody spot each time Each time it made him sick to the stomach Shirts ties hankies sox everything his other suit— he’d wear his overcoat and hat— shoes from the gloset— and that was all “Easy-Go- ” Warren slammed the suit case lid down with a bang He groaned The dishtowel with his finger inside was caught under the lid After extricating the dishtowel and his very painful appendage Bill shut and strapped the suit case Four forty-fiv- e He had 18 minutes “Maybe I’d better write hex note” he thought aloud his temperature lowering “No sir I won’t Let her worry—anyway I can’t Write with a cut finger" he said in apologetic tone He’d just go and stay She’d have plenty of time to wonder and worry He donned his coat and hat With suit case in one hand the bleeding finger and dishtowel in the other “Easy-Go- ” left the tiny apartment house without a backward glance He'd go somewhere— away He’d show her he would Leaving h( swore furiously under his breath a the sight of the bleeding finger in the dishtowel Helen Warren arrived home at ur - Her mood however this afternoon was changed She walked slowly nervously not seeing plainly the things before her Missing Bill at the kitchen stove swearing under his breath at the fire which wouldn’t go she passed the back of her hand over her eyes as if to brush away some unpleasant vision “Bill" she called her eyes tired and weary No hnswer She began to cry softly She was so tired Bill oh BUI Where are you?” Her voice shook The room swam before her ri MARCH 8 1538 t DM Sha rk Ski n Used for Cover OfNovelties inJewelryTrade By MARY FENTRESS PARIS (UP)— Jewelry is being made of every known material For example the shark skin which has been tinted and used to cover clgaret boxes lighters and cases Is being dyed gray and combined with silver links to make the heavy type costume jewelry which is so popular today The gray shark skin Is used Intermittently with jhe silver to form wide links of a bracelet which is matched by clips and earrings Equally unusual are the bracelets copied from old Persian craft in which black porcupine quills are combined with gold Four or five of the heavy quills are' banded together by flat gold rings and the result Is not unlike an gold and jet bracelet The newest compact powder boxes are equipped with mirrors which can-b- e lighted by a small flashlight run on a battery Thus in a dark theater or movie house one can light up one’s face to apply lipstick powder and other aids to feminine charm No one can work up a great deal of enthusiasm about the smell of moth balls Inasmuch as French moths flourish all seasons of the year Parisian women have a hard time covering up the camphor odor with perfume The solution of the problem Is e pleasant one which consists of stuffing cloves Into an Fgfc The pomander at it is called gives off an aggreable spicy odor and successfully keeps away the moths Sheets and pillow shades have become here In pale pink sheets are frequently slips In pastel most popular and blue the decorated with la aet herself gently to calling “Come my babies come up my babies” and within an hour one by one the frogs will leave their winter hibernation ooze themselves out of the mud brave the eold water and come Inquiringly to the Surface “Frogs “Are peculiar people” says Mrs Vorheis “They dis)ke noise —one must always speak to them gently” Hawaii Capital 1 Tops Crime Rale hand embrlodery In fine floral apReveals Murders plications of sheer white batiste Survey with pillow slips to match Even Three Times Greater more colorful are the sets in a flowered print of pink rosebuds Than in U 3 with pale green leaves The sheets and pillow slips have a fpur-inc- h hemstitched border which is piped HONOLULU This capita (UP) in a narrow band of pale pink of Hawaii has a higher major crlma A severe arid simple toilet set for rate than 53 leading mainland U 8 the woman who dislikes fluffy cities of corresponding population feminine bedrooms is In white crysMurders and nonnegllgent man tal which is frosted In diagonal slaughter approximated 76 offenses There is box a for powder stripes and another for rouge as well as per 100000 persons In Honolulu and small flasks for perfume and toilet rural Oahu— all part of th water All of these have plain of Honolulu— during 1935 ivory tops which screw on securely while a small ash tray of the plain according to a survey mads by the and frosted glass Comes along in police criminal statistics bureau Manslaughters in 83 mainland the bargain cities average 25 per 100000 popu’ lation There are nice tall beer mugs of Honolulu also led with criminal green porcelain which are painted assaults numbering 71 against 87 by hand with various hunting per 100000 In cities taken for comScenes Each tall mug holds more parison than a pint of beer while the Honolulu had fewer robberies but fewer auto larmatching pitcher holds almost three more burglaries cenies but more general larcenies quarts Comparisons in theas crimes per It looks as though cut glass is lOOjXX) population : Mainland coming back into fashion although the modern glass Is not nearly so Honolulu Cities ornate as that which was sent out Robberies 98 481 for wedding presents early in the Burglaries 4561 8248 Larcennles 10531 de6864 century Llquer glasses and 1243 canters are shown in cut glass Auto thefts 2263 made square jn shape Probably the chief reason for tha extremeijr ibw percentage of motor car thefts is the fact that the conCraftsman Uses Knife fining character of the island virtually prevents a “getaway” To exTo Carve 75 Violins port an automobile without detection would be almost impossible and police find It comparatively easy WESTFIELD Mass (UP)-M- ore to apprehend stolen cars within the than a half century ago Horace circumference of Oahu Ripley won a violin In a lottery Chief of Police William A The following year he won andeclares tha poor showing other of Honolulu In criminal statistics “That second fiddle was a pretty might be accounted for by the high good one and the more I looked at degree of cooperation from Honolulu It the more I thought I’d see If citizens in reporting “each and every could make one like it” he said offense” while on the mainland violin out a carved with his Ripley many go unreported knife Then another jack Today at 85 he estimates he has made 75 One person out of every 14 in to 100 violins several zithers and Britain now holds an two guitars— all by hand license - city-coun- cil - 150-mi- on auto-drlvi- eyes Working in that hot place wasn’t good for anyone It made her feel so hot and tired She started toward the sink In a daze she saw the opened can ihe drops of blood on the floor the cold fireless stove and the can opener lying there Everything went black Helen screamed Her head hit the table knocking the telephone off Blood flowed freely from the deep cut In her skull Bill—oh Bill” she moaned and consciousness left her Helen Warren was back to work in that hot dreary place in three weeks Only now she had to work Before it had been stubbornness Bill told her she couldn’t go to work if she found a job She had to show him that she could Anyway they needed the money to help on the furniture Now when she was will ing to quit and stay at home Bill had to disappear Not one word had she heard from him No one knew where he was Someone else took over his job Helen still lived In that tiny three-rooapartment Often she wondered about that blood on the floor It wouldn’t come She scrubbed and up ht all scrubbed It had dried three weeks before she had a chance to wash it Now it wouldn’t even start to m come off Two uneventful months passed Helen still worked until 5 p m every day except Sunday She still worried and wondered about Bill “Maybe I was wrong” she said to herself Friday evening while putting on supper “But Bill’s such a baby We really did need the extra money to pay on our furniture And when Bill said I couldn't go to work —but I’d give up everything if only Bill would come — ” She sat down that evening and tried to read Her eyes slipped from the printed page to the big chair where Bill often sat She began to cry softly It was so lonely there all alone— no one to talk to no one to see or anything I’ll take a walk Maybe I’ll forget It might rest me too” she said as she rose to get her coat “I have stayed home thinking that maybe Bill might come back” Putting on her coat she again saw that huge red spot on the floor in the bedroom Blood— meaning what? The landlady had seen Bill go away— and he wasn't hurt But where was he? Helen wondered Quickly she hurried out of the building forgetting to turn out the light She started rapidly northward Before she took many steps she bumped into a thin nervous-lookin- g man “I beg your pardon” she mumbled without looking up The man started at the sound of her voice— and swore softly under easy-to-u- se his breath “Damn” he said controlling the impulse to take hold of her arm “What did you say?” asked Helen “Just ‘damn’ ’’ he retorted quickly “Bill you! Of all people What are NO RUBBING OR BUFFINGI you doing here? Where have you t been? 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