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Show THG RICH COUNTY RKAPER. RANTOUPH. UTAH ) A GUEST IN ERROR By SOLLY WENDERS Associated Newspapers. WNU Service JENKINS was sure had given Mrs. Boyd what she had asked for. But within an hour of having bought the figured crepe Mrs. Boyd was back with a complaint. She had asked for five yards. Milly had cut off four. Four yards MILLY wouldnt do. It was a bad mess for Milly. Mrs. Boyd had a charge account at Watermans, she was a valued customer. She got her five yards and Milly got a calling down she had not merited. She was nearly exhausted and discouraged as one can be who is healthy and young and still hopeful that life has something more in store for one than the many complications one has thus far encountered. Milly never knew how she would find things when she got home. Anything might have happened in ber absence. For instance, she had come home not so long ago and found that her mother had just married Mr. Swan. Now when she opened the door and was not greeted by the familiar odor of boiling potatoes and frying meat she knew there wasnt going to be any dinner. Loud voices came from the diningroom. Mother and stepfather were quarreling again. They hadnt done anything but quarrel since they got married. For while Mr. Swan had been an amiable boarder he was. a very poor sort of husband. And he had made it so unpleasant for the other boarders that they had all gone elsewhere. d Millys mother, stout, and worried, came to meet Milly. Lend me some money, Mrs. Swan demanded, holding out her hand. Ed hasnt got any job yet. And the meter man says theyre going to shut off the lights if I dont pay up. I didnt have a cent to buy red-face- meat with. Milly was mounting the steep stairs when the telephone bell rang. The telephone was on the wall of the hall, easily accessible to everybody in the house, except the lady in the kitchen. Milly went back to answer the call. Miss Jenkins? It was a mans voice, well-bre- d with the resonance f of confident youth in its deep tones. I am speaking for Mrs. Austin Boyd. She wants you to dine with us tonight. At seven. Please dont say No. I will! stammered Milly. That was all. Y-y- Th-tha-nk you, She stood, stunned, staring into the receiver. Mr. Boyd had asked her to dinner I After what had happened that morning! It was unbelievable. And yet it was true. And she had promised to go! Suddenly a wave of joy poured over her. She stopped just long enough to shout into the dining room, Im asked out to dinner! before she dashed upstairs. Fatigue had vanished. In its stead was radiant expecta, tion. There was plenty of hot water for once. She emerged from her bath, drenched and shining like a rose. Her dress was just a little russet crepe, picked up at a bargain sale, but clothes dont matter much when one has a graceful body, gleaming hair and the color of excitement in ones cheeks. When Milly rang Mrs. Boyds bell she was too happy to tremble- - very .much. The same young man who had telephoned to her opened the dcor for her. She had never seen him' before, but he impressed her as looking very healthy and vigorous with his tanned skin, sunburned blond hair and clear, gray eyes. He was the ;kind of man she didnt get a chance to meet often, and liked. Lawrence Boyd, son of Mrs. Aus, tin Boyd, saw a tall girl with lustrous, unbobbed hair and dark eyes . , rain-wash- ; ed home. Trinidad Isle Lifes Quietly In Caribbean Discovered by Columbus, Land Now Belongs to Great Britain THE CHEERFUL CHERUB In life Im piling .ct on xA'. Of nujKty deeds fc. , crop. jve quite I 1 better start now beintj $ood The island of .Trinidad lies within sight of South Americas nation of Venezuela , in the southern reaches of the Caribbean sea.: my life look nice on top. C- To nYhke R.T- , Prepared by National Geographic Society,. Washington, D. C. WNU Service. Columbus discovered Trinidad in 1498, on his third voyage to the New world. In a letter to Ferdinand and Isabella, he explains why it was named Trinity: A sailor went up to the main-to- p to look out and to the westward saw three mountains near one another. These peaks, locally known as the Three Sisters, officially are Trinity hills. Sailing along the islands southern coast, the explorer saw lands as lovely and as green as the orchards of Valencia in March. After crossing the Gulf of Paria, he turned westward along the coast of what is now Venezuela. This shore he termed the most lovely in the world. Convinced that the earthly paradise of the ancient philosophers lay somewhere in these newly discovered regions, the admiral later petitioned his sovereigns for authority to explore further, but his proposed expedition was never carried i. Out of the palm' groves, mile after mile of them, come millions of coconuts a. year. Many of them are turned into copra, which is the dried broken meat of the coconut. In some regions of the island you see East Indians working in. the flooded fuzzy-gree- n areas of rice fields, their legs bare, their heads shielded under big hats, their whole aspect suggestive of the Orient. But rice is rare. Mile after mile of sugar cane rolls down from the mounn and high. Water tains, buffaloes work in these fields at cutting times. You happen upon a group of women who are chopping ' stalks into small sections. They plant these," says your guide. After a while another sugar cane grows out of each section. They get about five new sugar canes out of each old stalk. Use Weapons Craftily. The cane workers wield their machetes with consummate skill. They INSTRUCTION pale-gree- Shorthand Study 'at home, test papers weekly. Your papers corrected. $4 month, sample lesson $1. Professional Stenography, S Woolworth Bldg., Dunkirk , N. f. 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A very poor kind of joke, In 1595 Sir Walter Raleigh came plantations. my son. to Trinidad, on his way to El DoEast Indians throng No joke at all if the salesgirl rado, which had been located be- They crowd the streets and marfinds out the mistake, Lawrence yond question in the upper regions kets with a lusty carelessness; they I knew I was in Dutch of the Orinoco. Being returned. of a miliregard work but little, and seem to the minute I saw the expression on tary mind, and knowing the danger almost miraculously, withsubsist, your face. But you were talking of a hostile city at his rear, he out it. They stride on their way about both girls at lunch. Id never burned the Spanish capital. He with easy carriage, rather a lordliseen either of them and I was tarried in the Gulf of Paria to calk and incessant amusement. thinking of something else. Besides, his ships with pitch from the fa- ness, And they laugh at themselves, look at this." He took a slip of pamous Pitch lake. An. East Indian wholeheartedly. per from the desk and gave it to Another arrival, Sir Ralph was his hair cut, or rather having her. Theres the telephone numsailed to in (although unwittingly) having it ber you wrote down for me. The 1797 and demanded that Don Jose shaved. Absorbed in conversation devil himself couldnt tell your 5s Maria Chacon, the Spanish gover- with someone standing in the doorfrom your 6s. nor, surrender the island. Chacon way, he was unaware that the barI didnt have a rich father to eduwas a humane man, out of touch ber was half asleep at his work; it cate me the way you did, she said. with his times. Sensible of the was near siesta time. Not until the I was working in a store by the Port-of-Spa- All this was an old story to Milly since Mr. Swans entrance into the household. She took a neatly folded bill from her purse. Her shoe money, and her soles were almost through. Her mother snatched the money. She was unfair to her daughter, but it seemed to her Milly had a very easy time of it. All she did was to work a few hours each day in a beautiful store and earn a nice salary. that met his with directness. Come into the library. Mother isnt down yet, he said. The library was a room of ones dreams. Milly pounced upon a book of travel. Dad knew the man that wrote Ive been this, she said eagerly. reading criticisms about it in the papers. Its a beautiful book, isnt it? Mr. Cummings always illustrates his travel books with pictures he takes himself. He wanted dad to go with him to Yucatan. That was a great opportunity, I think. I thought so, too. But dad-d- ied. Milly turned abruptly from the book, remembering her manners, just as Mrs. Boyd, half-wa-y down the stairs, paused to see what was going on in the library. Meanwhile Lawrence was all taken up with Milly. He voted her a rare find. She had sense. She had an air. And her dark eyes with their long fringes sort of thrilled ' him. loved her dinner. Milly She was honestly hungry, and there was lots of food, all of it delicious, some of it untasted by her before. Everything went smoothly until the maid told Mrs. Boyd that Miss Hankins wanted her on the telephone. Mrs. Boyd came back look ing flushed and grim, but while she was gone Lawrence had discovered that Milly knew a great deal about lacrosse. Her father had played lacrosse splendidly. Milly didnt have to walk back n. y, in time I was 15. A girl like Milly ought to appeal to you then. Milly! Mrs. Boyd started. But Lawrence was lighting a cigarette with a thoughtful look on his face. Deep in the night Milly jumped into wakefulness. She began putting two and two together and they made four all right. There had been some mistake. Shed had ho business to eat Mrs. Boyds dinner. Mrs. Boyd hadrit wanted her. Mrs. Boyd wasnt the kind to make amends for a hasty word by inviting the girl she had accused of making a mistake to dinner. Mrs. Boyds kind never made mistakes. They were rich and splendid, they had always Behad everything they, wanted. sides, there was that telephone call from Miss Hankins. , Milly knew Miss Hankins. She was handsome and moneyed, young enough for Lawrence Boyd. Miss Hankins often bought silks at Millys counter. She was just the kind of girl Mrs. Boyd would pick 'out for a daughter-in-la- Pattern 1 Dont be lacking doilies when you can make such lovely ones as these in little time in 4 strands of string. The three sizes lend themselves to luncheon and buffet sets and to doilies. Pattern 1715 contains directions for making doilies; illustrations of them and of stitches; materials required; photograph of doily. Send 15 cents in coins for this pattern to The Sewing Circle, Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Please write your name, address and pattern number plainly. Man at Home It is indeed at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor and fictitious benevolence. Johnson. IN relieve (M (COLDS Olio) 0) w. LIQUID, TABLETS SALVE, NOSE PROPS The following night when Milly went home from work she was met by the good news that Mr. Swan had got a job. And Miss Avery is coming back East Indian employees at work on a sugar plantation , cutting to board with me, her mother said. At the table Milly drooped. stalks which will be replanted and produce new cane. Thist up She was too tired to eat pork chop like almost everything else , is an immensely humorous business to and fried potato. She couldnt help natives. the thinking if dad had lived all' might have been different. He would have bloodshed which was certain to re- patron had risen, clapped on his pulled mother and Milly out somefrom any conflict with sult hat, and found it - upheld only by how. Now his eaTS, was he conscious of what force he turned superior The telephone. Go answer it, Milly, Mrs. Swan, Trinidad over to the English. There had happened. and then the island settled into its A flood terrible abuse descenddishing stewed tomato, commanded. niche, became steadfast and loyal. ed on the ofbarber. It continued unvoice was listless as she Millys Ranking next to Jamaica in size abated until finally, screaming spoke into the receiver. his misfortune, the bald vie Miss Jenkins Milly? It waa a among the British West Indies, Trin-of aloud onto the street where tim area the twice has idad emerged nearly voice she had never expected to on the passers-b- y called colhe Rhode of Island. to witThe state the hear again. This is Lawrence Boyd of Trinidad and Tobago has a ness his misery. Heads popped from ony comI Mother and are speaking. windows, men stepped to the doors population estimated (in 1935) at of ing round to your house in half an more their stores, even the donkey than 439,000. hour. Can we get you to go for a ' carts paused. Not Distinctive. City ride with us? it was funny, Perched on the bow of a tender .Everyone thought Millys .heart skipped several The victim ,sstormed funny. very from hum.the see the you capital beats. away, shaking his fists. Iguess so, she managed to ble viewpoint of the early visitors. But after a while he came to a today is rather enigreply. matic. Unlike most cities of the silent alley, where he, turned aside world, it has no established person- to contemplate himself., r His big Edible Scorpions no formula of atmos- hand explored the stubbie that stuck Diyarbekir, near Istanbul, Tur- ality, thattangible one can grasp and hold out on top Aftet;amoment a key, was troubled for years by a phere with triumph. It is a tropi- smile spread upon j his face. He aloft plague of scorpions, says London cal metropolis of about 75,000 peo- grinned. He put both' hands to his Magazine. Tahir Baba with some of the finest hotels head and chuckled,-- .. In a moment, came along, began to scoop up scor- ple, West Indies. hands still on his head, he started in the pions and eat them. - Said Tahir: The coconut is a Trinidad feature. to roar. They taste like shrimps. Try WNU W Headaches and Fever due to Cold 80 minutes. Wonderful Liniment la 5138 Foe of Tranquility ; '' Nothing is so great an enemy to tranquility, and a contented spirit, as the amazement and confusions of unreadiness, and inconsideration. Jeremy Taylor. ; Aber-cromb- ys . - . -I Port-ofrSpa- in - Tit-Bi- ts . May Warn of Disordered Kidney Action ' ' Modern life with its hurry and worry. Irregular habit,, improper eating and drinking it risk of exposure and infe tion throws heavy strain on the work of the kidneys. 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