Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING The Scar By Olive Maiben Nicholes Provo sat for a long time DIANNE had at her reflection in the little mirror Dark eyes returned her troubled gaze carmlned lips trembled in response to her question Jackson Rolf? What had become of him? She had been waiting all spring for his appearance Tonight at Rhoda’s "roundup” he had walked in — unexpectedly—still possessed of that devastating charm she had found so irresistible that lonely winter in Chicago' He had come to her at once pressing her fingers in the passionate grip of his own She thad leaned fondly against him in the dusk of the patio had felt his responsive kisses warm against her hair Then she had urged hirp away from the sauntering crowd into the bright conservatory— fragrant with hyacinths and early roses “Darling Dianne! We are to be sumtogether through all mer Do you know what that means the-gold- to me beloved?” Her cloak had slipped with studied indifference to the floor as he had turned to take her into his arms He had retrieved it a moment later and raised it to her shoulders Then he must have seen the scar! But not the slightest flicker of his eye- lids had betrayed him The orchestra had struck up Immediately after He had only time to whisper “Remember sweet— four dances for me” Then Rhoda had claimed him for her waltz and Dianne had slipped out to find her errant husband She had discovered Jim watching the moon rise on the bay He was making mental sketches- for the new picture that was to take the peninsula He had reluctantly acby storm companied her to the ballroom and arranged for her programme with husbandly solicitude He had to - leave in the midst of everything Mrs Kenny sponsor of the autumn exhibit had been witless enough to choose the wrong time for her conference with the board" But Mrs Kenny was one of the “powers-that-be”not to be offended nor restricted She had been very good to both of them was especially kind to Jim struggling for recognition in the eyes of the critics Their happy domesticity had pierced her reserve She had no patience with those halfmarriages that cluttered the Colony Such a stickler for morals! The merest breath of scandal could forever cut one off from her good graces Jim had danced with her twice smiling indulgently at the laoe scarf she had thrown about her bare' Fleet’ this afternoon" She had looked up in astonishment “Not tor a hundred Jim? You were asking ‘Three’” He had flushed with boyish guilt “Old ‘Pederson’s almost deaf He didn’t hear the ‘three’ when he asWed the price last fall Ldidn’t have the heart to tell himwhen he came He’s been skimping and starving all winter- He said the big boat reminded him of his father’s- - He used to watch it come into tiq docks when he was a little chap in Copenhagen” Tears of compassion had stung her eyes How would he ever protect himself? So credulous! So generous! So easily exploited! Then Rhoda had come with Jack-sonmessager "A long distance call my dear He’s chewing up the directory with impatience such beastly connections!” She had waited out Jackson’s first Iwo dances but popularity had ’s banned further excuses She was swung into the gayety of the evening without a chance for retrospection It was only when she was riding home in Rhoda’s new sedan she had grasped a moment for conAll secutive through thought Rhoda’s tinkling chatter the question had moiled about in her brain She had found Jim poking about with palette and brushes anxious to record his notes before sleep erased them from his brain He had smiled a brief recognition and was immediately absorbed in his work Nothing to do but dawdle at the dressing table waiting for him to clarify his thoughts She had pulled the sleezy silver dress over her curls and hung it under the cretonne curtains beside Jim’s rented suit Ever since — an hour perhaps — she had been sitting here staring at her reflection in the mirror asking her question over and over rehearsing the evening with exacting detaiL high-necke- low-back- ed Attention is again directed to all amateur writers submitting manuscripts in The Sait Lake Tribune’s Short Story and Short Short Story contests that manuscripts will not be returned unless stamps to cover postage are inclosed Neither will The Tribune enter Into any 'correspondence concerning disposal of such manuscripts Criticism is made of each manuscript received and this Is returned to the writer along with the manuscript if the story is found not acceptable providing return postage has been sent -- Editor’s Note: All manuscripts submitted In The Tribune’s contest for writers must be accompanied by the signed certificate below This certificate can be clipped from your paper and signed or you may copy it on your typewriter The Tribune reserve the right to reject any manuscript not accompanied by a signed certificate AUTHOR’S CERTIFICATE State City But the scar? Surely Jackson had seen the hideous thing! It twisted almost imperceptibly from chin to ear There frqm beneath the lobe course to it ran a flaming zig-za- g scarlet sprawl in a violet-shade- d pattern across her lovely shoulder “Funny about Jackson” Jim volunteered daubing vigorously at his canvas She was not startled by the abruptHe was ness of his introduction always catching up the conversa- tion just where she left off her soliloquies “I believe Rhoda said someone held him up on a long distance wire” she forced her voice to answer ‘Yes I heard him putting in the call when I went up for my overcoat Didn’t think much about it me on the teruntil he button-hole- d race Said he’d made reservations on the ‘Salamander’ You could have bowjed me over with a feather I’d asked him to make headquarters with us this summer —whenever he happened to be in San Francisco He’d almost knocked me off the pier Street Number self” d buy one of those things like Rhoda’s wearing Pique their curiosity for awhile” She had shrugged wearily whUe she searched the crowd with fevered eyes “I’ve a hundred iron men when you want them” He tapped his pocket significantly “Sold ‘Fishing NOTICE TO WRITERS Notice to Writers the guard” “Just give me time Jim" she had begged “Let me work it ouj by my“Surely" he had agreed gener“That’s the way I want it ously done No use forcing the issue only to have it grab you again when I least expect it But why don’t you 5r1936 -- shoulders “You hate it don’t you?” she had x smiled up at him “The scar? Yes burl know it’s not you so I love you anyway What I can t understand is this deuced complex you developed two okys before you left the hospital Everyone knows you weren’t to blame Grace lived long enough to swear she took the wheel from you twenty minutes before she crashed through 'APRIL Date 19 I hereby certify that the short story enclosed titled is submitted to The Salt Lake Tribune as an original composition that no part of the same has been taken or copied from any other story or publication and that the entire composition has never been printed or published before in any other publication er in any form I further agree that any payment I receive from The Salt Lake Tribune In the event that this story is accepted for publication will be accepted by me as evidence of good faith that this Is an original composition as stated above Signed “Before you make another stroke dear please scrub this thing off I promise never to ask you to paint it on again!" Editor’s note— Here Is another attempt at the short story which shoots - ' —accepting" Dianne tried to moisten her lips with a dry tongue “You mean— he’s gone —?" “Touring the Orient for the next two years or so Decided he’d study Chinese tapestries firsthand He’s sailing at 2:30” He turned his wrist up to the light "Great guns! She’s casting off now!” He hurried to the window and looked out across the spangled city to the bay “Well —that’s that” he shortly wheeling back laughed “Funny though” A high happiness ran through her She bared her shoulder with a swift gesture -- straight at the mark but spends its force before it hits it Our definition of the short short provides that the writer must in a short spec suggest a long story so well that the reader could put in words the full plot It also provides that the plot shall bocompU-bate- d Now this story was going right toward this mark and w read1 It with full expectation that the author Would euoceed but she failed us for wo were unable when we got through to tell the story which Is vaguely suggested right- from the first We can see that Rolf was In some way connected with an automobile accident in which Dianne (My my isn’t that naming romantic now?) was injured that there had been very amicable relations between the two that there was something "about the soar to scare Rolf that Dianne was after all away Just that pleased at his desertion near does the author get to the Ideal itory Wo oro maddened by our Inability to put the pieces Into a pattern it is a jig-sapuzzle with one of the One or two xnoro conpieces gone trols and wo would have been able to build the picture isn’t it Irritating when an author does such an awkward thing? There are two or three minor errors: “Groat guns” is out of character and too expressive of emotion for the place whvre it Is used The lady doee not run after hdr delinquent partner as dance Rhoda did exept at a leap-yeThere is a vagueness In two places In the middle of the story as to what question Is meant it was not sufficiently impressed in the first paragraph that one could later refer to it wtihout being more specific Yet all in all the story arouses considerable Interest w ar Heart to Heart Talks — By Kathleen Norris Young Bride Elect S o r e Iy Troubled Because Her FiT ance Doesn’t Like Babies Dear Mrs Norris: I am 23 years old my mother died three years ago I live with my father and brother in a country town Last summer I met a man who has just come here a lawyer six years older than I we fell In love with each other almost at first sight and for a few weeks I lived in a girl’s paradise believing that we were destined to a life of cloudless happiness together and thinking myself the luckiest woman alive I still feel for Irving and I know he does for me the full happiness of that first discovery that we loved each other but now that our Wedding day is drawing near so many things have "nze up to confuse and puzzle me that I don’t feel I can go much further without advice Every day seems to present some new difficulty I get quite distracted trying to solve them all To begin with my father doesn’t want me to marry at all he differs politically with Irving and although Irving is always patient and amused about It I don’t believe they’ll ever be congenial My brother Scott is still In college and after I go dad will be very much alone and he says he’ll never marry agalh That worries me Then Irving’s people are not very They’re rich and socially friendly In a big eastern city and v prominent their letters say quite frankly that they think he ought to have married 7X 1 “LAST NIGHT BILIOUS AND UPSET - 0001" Here’s the way I did itt 1 cleared op biliousness end that logy generally rundown feeling overnight— 1 took the easy way" I juat chewed it for three minutea before I went to bed and feel marvelous today With there are none of the erampe or griping pains of tastes ao cathartics And 15c and 25o good too at all druggists FEEN-A-MIN- T FEEN-A-MIN- T Yn a girl from his own old circle He has a married sister here and she gave us a very formal and beautiful dinner but to me personally she is very cool She wants to have our wedding at her handsome home the alternative would be a very eimple affair at our house for I’d have to arrange all the details myself and I feel rather inexperienced In managing even a small wedding Fiance Doesn’t Like Children Finally knowing this man only a few months how can I be sure that we are the right persons to pledge our lives to each other? I don’t know his faults— to me he hasn’t any faults— and he says he doesn’t know anything To me in me that he doesn’t love is kind that is and everything Irving strong and quiet and clever and he sees in me a thousand beauties and perfections that I know I haven’t got That sort of feeling can’t last can it? What will be left us when the first glamor goes? Can I depend upon some other feeling to keep us safe and devoted as man and wife? And a last worry Irving doesn’t like children His partner is a fine n man whose wife jolly has had six in rapid succession and Irving who loves books and quiet dinpers and peace at home says that their house is a bedlam’ "Let’s not go in for that sort of thing" he has said more than once "I love to see I’d you free and young and happy not care if we never had a baby Certainly we don’t want one for a long time” How can a girl like myself without her mother answer that sortof argument even in her thoughts ?Tpadore children I’ve always hoped to have a nursery with a little girl and a little boy in it to have the fun of raising them Mightn’t the lack of them spoil my life make me feel bitter and cheated? Life has always been serene for me going along pleasantly enough now with this new great happiness come these new fears and problems Is there any way in which you can assure me that I will be equal to them? Doris My dear Doris: In the long letter 1 sent you when I received this letter I answered these questions as well as I could Now I’m answering them rt columns through the because they’re typical of the agitations and confusions and disturbances that inevitably arise In connection with a marriage If you’re going to have any sort of a wedding at all the details complicate themselves maddeningly until everyone concerned (mother ' especially) Is out of his or her senses You with no mother get a double dose of responsibility your father isn’t being helpful your brother is away much of the time Irving is so happy in the anticipation of his coming happiness that he is just "patient and amused” at the whole Hurry and the sister Irlsh-America- Heart-to-Hea- wants the wedding at her house— as some woman relative of the bridegroom often does— so that she can share the glory of the great day and show the world that she can be generous to the Insignificant little pjgon Irving is marrying Not Sure of Marriage Added to all this is the natural anxiety that every fine woman feels when she marries the deep desire to make a good wife to hold her husband’s first passionate love and to have him hold hers to solve theip early marriage problems wisely and happily The hope that if children come to them their father will be as proud and delighted as she will be is an Wedlock to the wife-to-b- e undiscovered country Of anything shq knows school problems social problems office problems she would feel quite' sure Of these she could say what she would do and what she would not do But of marriage she is not sure She sees the most promising unions breaking up in wreckage all she knows of her new estate is that' she knows nothing’ ' To begin at the beginning then Since Her home is her background and a part of herself she must have the wedding there If a grandmother or an aunt — of hers not of his— can offer a suitable place that might make a difference Otherwise since their faith is of the same denomination a quiet g wedding in church with the prayers of a few close friends for their happiness and then the simplest of home receptions will be quite suit-- f able The invitations must be hand written the refreshments in the nature of a breakfast any tea shop will undertake the catering and the cost will be very small Far better this even with possible mistakes delays deficiencies than the most brilliant affair in the home of the bridegroom’s sister Then as to family relationships with her father and his sister and with the letters she must write to the formidable new relatives in the east the young wife has only to be friendly little simpleas much sensible and as sensitive as possible showing to them all her kindliest and yet her most dignified side and in no time they will all come into line The father will grow fond of his new son proud of his daughter's new position Irving's sister will diecover that Irving's wife is not a little nobody to be patronized or snubbed as occasion offers but a' poised and charming and independent person who contributes nothing but credit to the family The Exhausting Preparations As for the babies Well a good many young men made uneasy by the serious prospect of approaching marriage confronted for the first time with responsibilities of rent and furnishing insurance and social claims lists and letters and gifts and a thousand unforeseen expenses feel a- little staggered when sisters and mother hint archly that these burdens will hardly be shouldered before fresh ones will be on their way It is an unfortunate feature of our modern marriage that preparations for it often so swamp the bride and bridegroom that when the great day arrives both are exhausted and nervous too dazed to know who came to early-mornin- - the wedding without an Invitation and who was accidentally slighted and left out what anyone said what there was to eat why his aunt and her sister were exchanging acid asides at the church and what became of Peggy's engagement ring I have known cases plenty of them in which the bride actually collapsed after the ceremony and had to spend part of the honeymoon in a sanitarium Only last year wild-eye- d I saw a bride chalk-whidistracted dosed with bromide mechanically going through the motions of eating and drinking at the wedding feast only to succumb a few hours later to complete exhaustion and be rushed to a hospital Even the simplest wedding is a formidable business for the chief actors If the prospective husband hints good naturedly that he hopes that after the tymult and the shouting dies he and his Doris will be left a gqod long interval of peace and solitude before the children come along he Is expressing ' only a natural feeling after all Give him a few months a year of the joy of happy married life homemaking entertaining going about in all the pride of possession of this lovely young wife of his and his satisfaction in the prospect of parenthood will quite equal her own For the rest it’s a good thing for all brides to know that the tragedies of the first year have a way of turning themselves into comedies as the years go by Silence in crucial moments forgiveness when forgiveness is asked laughter when mutual mistakes cause misunderstandings generosity toward the new" relatives whose ways are different— it doesn’t take much of any of these ingredients to build stability and confidence under married life but every marriage needs just a little of them applied at just the right te or what friends and relatives are near to lend a hand to the complete re- establishment cf the wife it Is hard to answer this question comprehensively Advises Her to Stay But my advice based on the little I know would be for this wife to stay in the home town live quietly and simply for her home husband and boys seeing only the few friends whose loyalty is unquestioned brooding as little as possible upon what is done and past and gradually building herself once into happiness and more When I think of the infidelities the covered sins of some of the wives I know this fault seems to me comparatively slight But forgery has always been a serious business our civilization Is baeLjypon the rights of those who possess and while the law is what it is we must respect it In every community there ought to be a fund for such cases as this and women of understanding to administer it then the miserable $40 would- - be forthcoming to save this man and woman from years of shams and pain self-respe- ct have never betrayed a confidence res vealed a secret or let any other eyes than mine read what was intended for my eyes alone If this particular woman will write me some day to tell me how this troubled matter is working out I would be very happy to write her directly Copyright 1936 Bell Syndicate Inc SWELLING REDUCED And Short Breathtaf relieved when rauied by unnatural collection of water in abdomen feet and legs anda when pressure above ankles leave dent Trial package FREE COLLUM MEDICINE COMPANY Dept 273 Atlanta Ga (Advertliement) - 1 Hints to Commerical Refrigerator Users time Happy marriage is one of the miracles of life It is worth any young wife’s time and thought and good will to aohieve it A Pardonable Sin Another letter A man who does not sign his letter writes me of an unusual problem His wife is about to be released on parole after 19 months in prison for forgery He was out of work two years ago had been out of work for more than a year She - 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