Show — -r- PrromrP irsionrwrIrrr-r-"' - c f 5 t- - i - - - Sunday 31orning 1 5alt gakt Zributit —Zbc father's money ran through his fingers and he and I were always moving from one town to another and leaving a lot of debts behind So ' I changed schools often and had a hard time making friends Every time I was 'about ta get acquainted some little girl or boy would tell the whole school that my father had cheated his father out of some money Some of my father's creditors always I used to had children In school shout that it was a lie and run home crying and make myself ill Sometimes I skipped school because I couldn't bear to face them once they had found out" Mrs Barra cheeks flushed with the old humiliation 4my father was away from Ihome moot of the time and that left me home alone with a lot of time to brood and be lonely and frightened by strange noises There was no one to see that I had the proper food or went to bed when r should Some-- times I think it's odd that I'm not neurotic "When I was in high school Mr Barr was teaching history there—he's s a m e w h a t older than I am—and I think he realized something was wrong and felt sorry for me He said afterward that I had such big sad eyes and always looked so thin and hungry that one afternoon after school he couldn't stand it any longer so he caught tip with me and asked me to have dinner with him" Mrs Barr laughed gently at the remembrance "He persuaded meto take a home economics course the next year—that was my senior year—and he said if I learned to cook he'd marry me the He did too day after graduation though I'm still not a very good cook" Lassie was somehow embarrassed It didn't seem right to see someone's was life stripped naked- that way sometell should she as if same the ') one about herself and fey "We're not having very good luck" Lessie said- lifting her empty dip we should go back In" net"Maybe They sat on Ithe bank with their My Or 110411111111111111111pall I ' 0 101111111600 IMIF 4r4- -''' 4 1 ien-)--- I k---- - :: Vt -- 0: R ‘ 173 lela " 40 ' 4 4 C'") ‘ v itb a I fx : 4- c: ' 1 s - N ' ''' 1 ‘0014 effeo- - r "'''-- " 0 - - 1b-k VOPwwr''''4'24-- 0100000or -' eesy 4410""1- kIZRZNN-- 4 -- - t414-- ' "'SI ode it' ri' ' g::) w 1 cSIIN "Sil‘N Tvie- 1114 x t 0 I::ct1‘cc wyNio blAilb itizeommi 111111iP le441:ZZg°1" Oil' da - p 11 11110-6100111- arr ' THE nineteenth of May fell on a Tuesday that year ind Lessie 13allance awoke early and lay in bed worrying about what she should do o with the wasn't - going-dee- p woman-fourist-wh- woman tourist had name like anybody else but Lessie never of as tourists thought people like other people They represented acicli- g 'Anal problems in' and and they also repre serited Lessie's only personal income which she spent as she liked The tourist idea had been her brother-in-laHe had said to his After breakfast !Jessie opened her wife Grace "Maybe Lessie would birthday package Frank and Mr perk up if she had some income of Barr had left to pick up the fishing her own" Actually Lessie hadn't heard Frank say this but she knew party from the hotel but Mrs Barr he had just as she knew that all of was still at the table finishing her them were watching her wondering coffee and seemed Interested In see if she'd snap out of it or go off the ing the gift It was a book of piano end deep pieces When it was 7:30 Lessie got up the ''I bought it the day we were in same as on an ordinary day dressed Grace said flushing and Norfolk" ran- a comb through her heavy brown hurrying her words "I thought you hair and went downstairs to put on Might enjoy playing again it you the grits for breakfast In a way had some new music ButI guess we an ordinary day and then in should have the piano tuned another way it wasn't because it "Thank you" was Lessie's thirty-fift- h birthday ''Oh so you play?" Mrs Barr said Thirty-fiv- e been she had yearsbefore her voice sounding small and nest and born in the big old North Carolina eager just the way she looked house in the very room where she "I used to" Lessie told her She now woke every morning thinking laid the book of pieces on the butr "I'll have to go down to put en the "Shall we get these dishes all fet had been times last grits"sheThere washed up ?" remembered when her mind year While Marguerite and Bobby took had skipped overt the grits to pleasMrs Barr on a tour of inspection anter things bessie and Grace did the kitchen Her younger sister Grace blond work and straightened up the Barra' and shorter than Lassie came down room the steps while Lessie was putting on "After dinner today I want you her apron to enjoy yourself I'll do dinner dishes "Happy birthday Lessie" and get supper" Grace insisted "A "Thank you" 'Jessie said silently person's birthday ought to be difcounting eggs as she took them out a ferent from an ordinary day" pan She didn't look at her sister "I don't know what I'd do" "I'll make my town tea" Grace said "I might as well be working" offered "Maybe ylu'd enjoy talking to Mrs The two women worked quietly Barr and showing her around She each busy with her share of the seems shy but quite nice" breakfast Grace from time to time Lessie really hadn't meant to take wondered aloud what kind of a 'day Mrs Barr under her wing but Papa It would be and why Frank and the started talking too much After dinchildren weren't down yet Lessie ner he went into the living room and made no replies to these wonderings sat down in his rocking chair and and Grace seemed to expect none rocked and rocked Mrs Barr went Then the kitchen was all at once In too and shyly began complimenting noisy with people Frank was washMr Ballance on the big old house ing at the sink (the bathroom was the kittens their one milch cow and kept pretty clear when tourists were the l'iew of the sound In the house) and Marguerite and Papa was plainly pleased to have 4 such little Bobby were in and out of the flattering company He went kitchen slamming the back door and Into a history of the old house and lugging the kittens in then he began on the family "I have "Do I have to eat grits this morna boy working in Raleigh" he said If my oldest "and the two girls ing?" Marguerite asked making a -face that's Lessie — seems daughter "Can we give Aunt Lessie her presmopey don't let it fret you She and ent now Mama?" a young fellow were courtin' last Grace shook her head "Not until year He came from Raleigh to do after breafkast Bobby" some carpenter work around here and tAssie liked him right much I "Why don't you get married Aunt Lesate?" Marguerite said "You're reckon she planned on gain' back with Roy when he went getting pretty old" "Because I don't feel like it Miss about Christmas time but he never asked her and he never sent her Nosey" "I thought you and Mister Roy so much as a postcard and she's been were courtin' You should have marmournin' all these months as if someried him before he went away" one were dead Why anyone wants to Lessie took the fried eggs out of live in Raleigh anyway I can't see the pan frowning and not answering when they can live here" Marguerite or looking at hen "Papa Mrs Barr doesn't want to "Mr Right hasn't come along yet all about us" Lassie interrupthear l said giving his ed "You tell more than you know' Marguerite" Frank young daughter a warning look anyway" He changed the subject abruptly "Well then why are you mopin' "Grace I'll have three eggs instead around if it's not on that fellow's ac of two and pack some sandwiches for count?" me I'm taking out a bunch of fisher"I'm not moping" Lessie said men from New Jersey and the way sharply "Roy was nothing to me If they talk they won't give up until you took care of this big house you'd we spot a school of drum" find out there are plenty of things Grace nodded scooping the grits to upset a person" from the kettle into bowls "Frank Lessie asked Mrs Barr if she cared look to see if Papa is up" to look around some more outdoors "He's up II looked in before I and little Mrs Barr accepted eagercame down He said you should turn ly They walked down to the sound his egg over" "We never have the big waves "Shame Frank" here" Lessie explained "The banks "Well in the seven years I've lived stop the waves" She pointed to the in this house he's never missed a islands of sand that long ribbon-lik- e morning telling you girls to turn his lay farther out Yes she had seen the islands on a egg over" "Twelve years he's been saying it" map Mrs Barr said Lessie said without smiling "He be"Grace end I and my brother Clyde used to catch crabs here" gan telling us the day of Mama's Lessie said for want of better confuneral" "The Barrs will be down soon" versation Frank said "They were wondering "How do you catch crabs?" If they could get their meals here "With a dip net" tessie said 'a Instead of driving into town Mr little impatiently Barr is going with the fishing Party Then it was plain that Mrs Barr from the hotel that I'm taking out had no idea what a dip net was to the inlet but his wife gets seasick and was afraid to ask so Lessie and would rather stay arotnd here wept into the little house on the If you girls don't mind I guess the water's edge where Frank kept some to her The way I of his fishing supplies and brought hotel appeal out two dip nets get it sdahntel wants to wander around "I would have guessed they were the trees and things She looking says they don't have holly trees in butterfly nets" Mrs Barr said laughtheir yard in Jersey" ing a little and showing her even - bed-changi- room-cleanin- 4 4 i ' white teeth She was prettier when she laughed Lessie stooped down to trail her hand in the water "We could try to catch some" she said wondering why she was going to this bother for some tourist she'd never 'see "The water's not too cold again It all depends on the direction of the wind One day it's warm and another day it'll cold" Lessie at down to take off her shoes and stockings and Mrs 13arr did the same unfastening her garters through the cloth of her dress and tucking the dream hem under the ' r7 r il 1 i 1 ' i I : - 1 1 Lie ' - I - I - - ' I I I SKIN 1 - 1 - :271P 0 ''' Ate' kk )110J -- tavt V '' : 41 i 4P ill t - 41- t 1 ' sI I" X:OLLa&- - ing hot reddened skin with refreshing Resinol SoapSmarting fiery AI:!tOatarAiS usually fades in minutes as the special Resinol medication acts quickly to help At all druggists N -- -) ' ' - z RELIEVES IT healing of the chafed spots - )- 1 -' RESIIIOL Gently apply soothing Resinol after bath - eoro 44::?fc I T - d rototh HOW QUICKLY A For THAT TROUBLE TOO safORVIRE I 1 i I HAD SO cHAFEs 1 soft-shelle- "0 L 4 ) Why not buy now? Cflii r 1 0 11 ri OINTMENT E110 MID SOAP - 4 1 k t 7) ( I 1 4 i A ' s t I 11 - C)1 ' c Ill -- - r ( 1 8 - 1 I f"-- ( (riti i I t '4 I i A i 6 I t f t i ro 7 g (e II 1 ' 1 c oaoeoioowa4 ''':'- - i P'''---' r''' ear 7311 - f':-- I 7 ' '7"1"--7-- ' ''''''' ' ' '74001 ' ''''-- ' ' ''''''''''" - ' ' 111e ARNI '''14:11::oc ''IC I 1 4 '"'"-lba- giloomo ir : Illo i -- --- - - -- '19)) k ''''' 4 itat - -- t k - ) -- : - : - 't- - r"' ftmeo- 0446Yde00441) iiill17111) - -- 4o - - - - 1 t0 hyper-emotion- 30"11'- 111" Rgoqg - to - i ex--cit- d ':4 ''''''' illi4:'''' '''''' - - -ovneo glIBP -' 117 - ki1 Mt ''''''''''''''''''' tr--- - are always very much interested when any of our writers at— such a difficult piece of writing as thia one would have proved tempts to any author We noted on our filing card that this had a slight placid a Such plot plot la the Waterloo of anyone who la not skilled in writing for it is difficult to wring out of it the necessary emotional intensity wi'hout which such a plot would all flat as it bride's first cake We have consistently warned all of our authors that slight plots 11 ad better be Legate said "when you compare it left to the masters of fiction Tyros with the lives some people have" usually do one of — "Yes I guess we 'did" Grace said things with : bilCii a as If she thought that atter all jt-- : -- - They do story not see ' did have fun when ' :' the poignancy of everyone they i'f were little the action o r seeing it the y It seemed odd Lessie thought that tko haven't the abilonce she and her little sister had been 1rs ft Ity to infuse the so close They alwaya had told each i' whole story with Even the night other everything it or they see its Frank proposed and Grace was quite ' I ':emotion no longer seeming like grown-un d in thei r adeep had she "little sister" awakened forced attempt to Lessie to tell her Elia after that they bring it out theyt'N had grown apart When Lessie had 1 1 : over - emotional! Ff' refill She about had it $t thought It Either lie Fesented Frank insisting to herself that is sure ) course he had come between them tut it to all of death vrot Nuivev came to her clearly now that if she ' the values inherwould had married first everything ent in sueh a story Another handihave been all right It was because more over arose out of this cap Grace had marHed first and Lessie author's occupation She particular had never married at all with year Is one of the staff of the Albert after year going by that the sisters Lea Evening Tribune and newspaper were now so far apart She had been are given to getting all the writers jealous all these years out of a story that they sensation to She said Grace almost before can and they usually over- possibly she realized she had thought it emotionalize Yet she held this in "Sometimes I think I wasn't so crazy check The fact of the matter is that I about Roy after' all' think I just this story is just excellently handled wanted to get married" There were times as we read the '‘ Grace looked at her sister in surthat We thought that one porstory prise because Lessie never had adhave been a little more tion might mitted before that she wanted to subdued and then again that another marry Roy might be somewhat more emotional'TM glad" Grace said "because ized Perhaps this is a matter of Frank heard he had married emit our own indiviqual interpretation of flaleigh girl but we hated to tell the material at least we are willing to give the lady the advantage of you" It did hurt some Lessie found but the doubt in commenting above She she couldn't help thinking that it does however really falter just a would have hurt more if they had told little in building her dialogue lier her yesterday Yesterday she might people talking in and energized by have gone off the deep end permathis plot clid really feel the fullness and breadth of the emotion that is in nently It was an ugly thought "Will you tell Papa and Mrs Barr it yet their speech is at times flatter than the situation demands She they can wash up now?" Grace asked "Mr I3arr and Frank are coming up might very well have pepped up the and I'll have to get the drive-wa- y dialogue to the good of the story Marguerite and Bobby Into the house May we again remind our writers for supper" as to what injects more emotional Supper was pleasant The fishing intensity- into speech outside of the subject-matte- r We of that speech party had had good luck so the men were full of the day's experiences are here entirely thinking of the meand for dessert there was strewberry chanical handling of such speech ice cream Mr Barr 's treat which he First of all is the shortness familiarhad brought from town and ring of the word phrasee ity "No birthday can be properly 3:ele- and sentences chosen The clauses brated without pink ice cream ' Mr shorter the more familiar and the Barr said more sound-ful- l they are the greater "And cake" Grace added She they promote the intensity of the natural emotion that exists in the brought in the birthday cake vith its thick white frosting and the one thoughts and feelings expressed the pink candle in the center longer thel less familiar and the less "What nice eurprises!" Lessie said ring they have the more they subdue a little touched by the pink lighted modulate and soften the emotion ' Then there Is the choice of words birthday candle "Thank you both" as to their meaning This needs litGrace flushed with pleasure "There are black walnuts meats in the calte: tle comment except to caution Lessie always has liked black walagainst exaggeration If the surnuts She used to beg Mama to put roundings and conditions are properthem in cakes" ly built up a skilful author can How little it took to please Grace make "Pshawl" sound more profane In the mouth of a given character Lessie thought and perhaps just as little to hurt her Her glance travthan would "Hell"! or "Damn!"- from-thsame lips There should be a elled to the music book still on the constant study- of the words one buffet "After supper" she said "I'm gives to his' people that they are going to try my new piano pieces" such words as that particular person Her sister smiled with would use in that exact place at the pride in the birthday gift Lessie had said it really to please specified time to get the wished-fo- r emotional tenseness This is a real Grace but now she actually was about the new pieces She study and delightful It ought to be the favorite pursuit of a real author hadn't played for a long time Believe me folks I'm giving you big "Maybe we could get the old piano tuned and I could start giving Marthings to ahoot at Build yourselves up by now going back oyer this good guerite some lessons" "Oh Aunt Lessie" breathed Marstory and finding where and how you could have made the dialogue guerite happily more Intense without falling into the "If Mama and Clyde were here My or sensational the birthday would be perfect" Lessie the sentimental said "Your mother is here" Papa contradicted childishly right Perhaps Papa-waeach of them in turn and at little "I think we'll ask Clyde down for Mrs Barr last of all next week end" Lessie said "He and "I hope you'll stay a few days Mrs Grace and I used to have a lot of fun and we'll have another try at Lam about we and talked haven't together a now" catching crabs with butterfly nets" it for long time Lassie laughed and her laughter She saw Frank and Grace exchange sounded new and strange but good a look of surprise and relief It was Mrs Barr laughed too' and began as if they had said aloud "Lessie will to tell her husband about catching be all right now"' It was comforting crabs to know they had cared enough to Lessie couldn't remember When worry she'd had a nicer birthday Lessie looked around the table at self-conscio- - ' ' k' 4 as "MO 1 AU qP"AZILT-'"- )) II ) - " 'WI I 14 ! Imo (i 4 ' i I S 1 ) of ixk A - 1 ' - 4)- ' i ) t k 44VAb - N-- N Fr fe 1 I ' f I p bf - 4 --- : zi ‘-- N - k Iiki (tr ) I"9 i 04 ' f T-- - r k 0 1 1' I - I e 1 4 E '- 1 )1 '1 6i tz - e71) ( ) - 1 - t I p4 4 r A I 7 299 19 12 We 's f Mardi By Pro! yL A Quivey They waded around with their dip nets dot saying 1 1- - -- " - ki t ' (( s 1 r ' ' m 0 r7--- "- 1 " -- 0000006 ''' wt 4 '''':: ' ck A 4- 4 0 '''' tt fl tC r6 M0 2 15 -- -- No 14 44 ‘'' 'CP tat ' ii NN - ': t t IN& 1 it t rt‘ ( - qs - 0-- - - 'S N 444 (4 t t n0 li '''""' 'Arr"'" a':' "nompoin00 ' ' ' - - smo '' ' - elastic of her bloomer legs "My' but she's shy" Lessie thought wonderingly "You'd think I was some strange man staring at her" They waded around with their dip nets not saying much except for Legate's demonstrating how to- go about capturing crabs and explaining that they were best Just after they had shed their shells and before their new shells had herdened They hadn't been saying anything at all and there was only the soft flip of their nets cutting the water when Mrs Barr announced: "I've never been wading before" ner nice teeth showed white be: tween her smiling lips and Lessie noticed for the first time what pretty blue eyes she had "I didn't do anything that well fun when I was a girl" lire Barr went on not looking at Legate but looking down instead through the water and wiggling her toes "I often think that anyone who had a happy childhood has something that no later happiness can come up to Find if you're miserable when you're little you never lite forget it" "But you have a nice husband and you can go places together" Lessie protested "You must be happynow' "I am" Mrs Barr said "My husband is very good to me We were married when I was quite young because I was so earger to leave home I never talk about It to him but the hurts that come when you're little last a long time" "What was the matter?" Lessie asktd not so much because she wanted to know but because Mrs Barr seemed to want her to ask :'My mother snd father quarreled a great deal" Mrs Barr began "I don't know whose fault it was really but finally my mother left my father and ran away with another man -- 'Mrttrfied front of them so the Sun could dry them "I could have brought a towel if I'd known we'd go wading" Lessie said "This is better This is the way we'd do it if we were nine years tegg - old or so" When they went back into the house Lessie went out in the kitchen where Grace was stirring up biscuits and Mrs Parr Wenttin the living room to tell 31d Mr Ballance about catch- ing crabs "Mrs Parr had never seen a dip net Lesale said to Grace "so we tried to catch some crabs but didn't have any luck j wish she had caught one It would have tickled her so" "You and Clyde and I used tohave a lot of fun catching crabs" Grace e hid said "Remember the behind the rock and we thought he had drowned ?" Lessie remembered it well and slowly other pictures came back too and she and Grace began putting together little incidents that had happened a long time before "We had a very happy childhood" - CONSTIPATION SLOW YOU UP When bowels are sluggish and you feel irritable headachy and everything you do is an effort do as millions do — chew FEEN-A-MINthe modern chewing gum laxative Simply chew FEEN-AMINbefore you go to bed—sleep without being disturbed-ne- xt morning gentle thorough relief helping you feel swell attain full of your normal pep Try FEENA-MINTastes good is handy and economical A generous family supply T al Notice to 'Writers rditor's Note: All manuscripts submitted in t he tribune's contest for writers must be accompanied by the signed certificate below th Tribune will reject any manuscript not accompanied by such certificete Ala tIOWN CritTIFICATt P 0 0 0 I State City 0 t time-Clyd- DON'T LET - Street Number Date I lp 19 I hereby certify that the short story Inclosed titled t submitted that no part of the to the Salt Iake tribune as an original composition same has been taken or copied from any other story or publication and that the entire composition has never been printedor published before in any other publication or in gmy form further agree that any prize money I may receive from the Salt Lake will be tribune in the event that this story is accepted for publication an is compothis of that faith as me evidence original good accepted hy ition as stated above' Names inked in this story are purely fielitious They have not been taken from life and any resemblance to those ot any person locality or organized body lb purely coincidental as none such has been In niy mind -- or intentions T T FEE11AmMINTlii Signed sufficient postage is not inclosed the read nor returned Neither will the trititine ence concerning disposal ot such manuscript Criticism is made of each manuscript read writer slang with the manuscript if the &tor) manuscript will neither be enter into any correspondand this is returned to the is found not acceptable l' - 1 0 - - 0 f 1 |