Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 113, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1928 — Page 11

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THIS lIAS HAPPENED SYBIL THORNE, Boston society girl, has scandalized her little world by having a baby and failing to present its father. Sybil w'as quite properly married, but there are a great many people tvho decline to believe it. She married RICHARD EUSTIS durne a vacation in Cuba. Thev met on shipboard and were married after an acquaintance of five days. Two weeks later Sybil left him for great and serious cause. She meant to keep the marriage secret, until such time as she might quietly secure a divorce. But, to her dismay, she learns that she is going to have a child. Passionately rebellious at first, she loves her baby wildly from the very moment of his birth. Before her marriage to Eustls Sybil had been informally engaged to CRAIG NEWHALL, who had loved her devotely for years. Before she knew Craig there had been another man—JOHN LAWENCE, who went to Francs with the A. E. F. and never returned. He sailed on the eve of his contemplated marriage to Sybil, and left her thoroughly heartbroken. _ Meantime MABEL BLAKE, Sybil’s dearest friend, weds JACK MOORE, and Sybil is matron of honor. She reproaches herself for having negelected the baby ’uring the preparations for Mab’s wending. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXXIII SYBIL held her baby on her lap, and twisted his yellow ringlets into curls. “I’ve got an awful, clammy feeling,” she said, “as if something dreadful was going to happen to him.” She clutched him to her heart, and held him so tightly than he cried in fright, and dug his small fists against her face, to free his little body from her embrace. Tad, picking out idle notes at the piano, stopped his humming to laugh. ‘‘Eve said that to Adam,” he remarked, “whenever Cain or Abel got a cold in the. head. All mothers have the same ‘clammy feelings’— and the offspring invariably survives.” Mrs. Thorne drew her purple afghan about her narrow shoulders and shivered. “I’ve got so’s I believe the Lord’s never going to be through punishing us,” she confessed dismally. “Though if He ever let anything happen to that baby, it seems as if there’d be nothing else to live for.” They all worshiped Teddy, and declared staunchly that he was “a real Thorne.” He was a handsome child with endearing, small manners. It was, for instance, his adorable way to slip his soft baby hand into the hand of one or another of his worshiping relatives. He was an affectionate baby and unusually demonstrative. When he was tired he liked to be held, and, with one hand clutching his own yellow curls, would lay the other confidingly against the cheek of the person who held him. tt tt tt CHRISTMAS came, and Teddy, at 8 months, was lovelier and more winsome than ever. Tad brought home a small tree in the back of his car, and it was Valerie who begged to decorate it. She hung the baby’s stocking, and bought him toys enough for a dozen children. Then between Christmas and New Year’s she sold her pleated silver crepe—only slightly mussy—and her scarlet Russian blouse to Dolly Weston for $42, and purchased with the proceeds a broadcloth baby coat of rosy taupe with a beaver collar. '‘You mustn’t, Val!” remonstrated Sybil. “Why not?” she demanded. “I love him mors than anything.” tt tt tt AFTER the holidays Mabel phoned. “Sybil, dear,” she pleaded, “you simply must help me find an apartment. We came back yesterday, and went directly to Aunt Emma’s. But Jack’s as nervous as a witch with aunty puttering around. And we absoluely must get into a place of our own. “My dear, I never was so happy in all my life. Jack’s perfectly wonderful. But he’ll die if we stay here —I know he will. “Rents are something dreadful. A hundred and twenty-five for any place you’d look at. Seventy-five for the most miserable little kitchenets. “I’m dying to see the new apartments on Commonwealth—electrict refrigeration and everything. I suppose they’re simply out of sight —but we’ve got to get somewhere —and that’s all there is to it. “Jack says he doesn’t care what it costs. He's like that. The most extravagant creature you ever saw. Why, on our honeymoon, he simply made me buy everything I as much as looked at. Oh, darling, it’s simply too good to be true. I keep pinching myself to see if I’m really awake.” Sybil met her that afternoon. A new Mabel, in abbreviated skirts and French pumps. “For ten years,” she explained, surveying her stubby vamps complacently, “I’ve been dressing like a stylish stout. Now I’m on a diet, and I buy my clothes in the misses’ department.” Sybil laughed. “Marriage,” she observed, “is like the things you eat —one girl’s meat, and another girl’s poison.” “Well, my dear, the dose you had would have poisoned any one.” tt tt u MABEL nibbled a bran muffin, and toyed abstemiously with a salad of beets and eggs. “Please don’t think me too nervy for words,” she burst out suddenly, “but why don’t you get a divorce, and marry Craig? Is it because of that boy who was killed?” Sybil pushed her sundae away, and cupped her chin reflectively in her palms. “Time,” she answered slowly, “changes everything. Stark tragedies become beautiful memories. When I think of John it isn’t like a great gaping wound any more. It’s a scar that is healing over.” She smiled at her memories as one smiles at a child, tenderly. 41 ‘And the past’,” she whispered softly, “ 4 is a moonlit city of dreams, beautiful in distance.’ It was a lovely little romance. All exquisite things are frail, and perish. First love is like the first violet in springtime. There’s never i another that seems so sweet.” L. Mabel stirred her tea vigorously. Hkrbil’s unexpected eloquence emHwrassed her. she said, “you sound like after a minute, “Do Sib, that a woman can ,re than one man in a life “

Sybil crumbled a ladyfinger reflectively. “Yes-s-s. I suppose you could love a dozen different men in a dozen different ways. “There are so many degrees of the well-known ecstasy—not all of them ecstatic, to be sure. There’s young love, which is altogether blind, and violent during incubation. “And sane, sensible, middle-aged love, with its eyes wide open—not so much fun, of course. And passion, that burns itself” out. Infatuation, that comes to its senses after awhile. And compatibility, on which all permanency must be founded. Good old-fashiohned affection, without speeches and furbelows.” “Then why, my dear, if you believe all that, don’t you marry Craig?” Sybil poured herself another cup of tea. “Because,” she said, “I’m an in-

A hot flush swept over Crystal Hathaway’s entire body. Instintcively, as his handsome dark head came nearer, she raised her face to meet the kiss. Poor Crystal was never to forget that she had met his kiss eagerly! She was about to close her eyes, to taste the full ecstasy of the moment for which she had prayed, when—just as his lips touched hers—she saw that his eyes were not upon hex face, that their smoldering black fire was turned toward Tony, who still stood close beside Crystal. He was going to kiss her because Tony was there to see, so that Tony might be made jealous. In that paralyzed instant after Dick’s lips—stiff and cold, so obviously merely going through the gesture of a kiss, not the realitymet hers, Crystal’s poor, foolish heart knew the bitterest agony that had ever twisted it. She had time to wish that she had really drowned half an hour before, that Harry Blaine had not rescued her. Then, out of the depths of Crystal Hathaway’s nature came pride to her rescue. Pride, and terrific blind anger. Crystal Hathaway slapped Dick Talbot. Within a few minutes that bald description of a truly momentous crisis in a girl’s life—“ Crystal Hathaway slapped Dick Talbot”— had been relayed to every member and guest within the confines of the Marlboro Country Club. Crystal’s outraged pride and anger supported her amazingly until Tony’s green roadster, which she permitted Harry Blaine to drive, was

This story tells of the first national political conventions and the birth of the two-thirds rule. It is '.he seventh article in Rodney Dutcher's series, “The Presidential Parade.”

BY RODNEY DUTCHER , NEA Service Writer (Copyright. 1928, by NEA Service) ASHINGTON, Oct. I.—The first national political conventions were held in the campaign of 1832, when President Andrew Jackson ran for re-election and overwhelmingly defeated Henry Clay. The three which nominated presidential candidates all met in Baltimore. In September, 1830, anti-Masons from New England, New York, Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware met*at Philadelphia in national convention. This movement dated back to 1826, when William Morgan was supposed to have been kidnaped and murdfered

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for revealing secrets of Freemasonry. The movement had spread through the north, figuring frequently in State elctions. The ninety-six delegates at Philadelphia voted for a second convention a year later at Baltimore, which met and almost unanimously nominated former Attorney General William Wirt, a Marylander. Wirt went to the convention, announced that he had been a Mason, that Masonry didn’t appear to be such a bad thing anyway and that iif he had been nominated under a misapprehension the party had better get someone else. But the nomination was unanimously confirmed.

The National Republicans, or Whigs, met at Baltimore in December, 1831, with 167 delegates from seventeen States. Temporary and permanent chairmen were named. Clay Is Nominated The delegates voted by rising and announcing their choice as their names were called and Clay was nominated unanimously, with John Sergeant of doubtful Pennsylvania for Vice President. Politicians of Jackson’s “Kitchen Cabinet” board of strategy fomented the first Democratic national convention in order to nominate Martin Van Buren for the vice presidency. The Jacksonians had called themselves Democrates since the last election. Van Buren’s nomination had to be manipulated, because he was not popular with the masses. Jackson was not nominated —his candidacy was merely indorsed. He dictated Van Buren’s nomination, made by 208 of 283 votes. No platform was adopted. Two-Thirds Rule Enters At this convention Jackson or his strategists—put through the famous two-thirds rule which has plagued the Democratic party ever since, providing that “two-thirds of the whole number of votes in the convention shall be necessary to constitute a choice.” Despite Van Buren’s unpopularity, the party was solidly behind Jackson. At the outset, Vice President Calhoun, Senators Webster, Clay—back in Congress as Senator from Kentucky—and Secretary of State Van Buren had been aiming for the presidency in 1833, for Jackson had declared against more than one term for a President. Jackson soon revealed preference for Van Buren over Calhoun, who became his mortal enemy when be learned that Calhoun had sought his trial during the Monroe admin-

curable sentimentalist—a poor, embittered little devil, chasing rainbows on a silly primrose path. “Once I had a golden boy—my beautiful John. With the sun in his hair, and all „he blue of the sky and sea in his eves. He died, like a crusader, for an ideal. And now he slips, like a phantom in khaki between Craig and me. “Dear old Craig, in his doublebreasted serge, with a little dandruff on his shoulders, and his hair a trifle bald, where he parts it.” Mabel crumpled her napkin. “Sybil Thorne, you're a bigger fool than I thonght—and goodness knows that IS a fool. Don’t you know that' all life is a compromise? If you can’t have what you want, take what you can get—and be thankful. There aren’t even crumbs for half the girls who cry for cake. (To Be Continued)

turning into Serenity Boulevard. She had been very quiet, as had Tony, who had patted Crystal’s clenched hands reassuringly, fondly, every now and then, but as Harry swerved the car into the boulevard on which the two girls lived, Crystal suddenly and completely collapsed, shuddering and crying. She had slapped Dick Talbot, and she still loved him. He would never speak to her again. “Crystal, darling—sweet!” Tony pleaded. “It’s nervous shock. Harry. Hadn’t we better get a doctor? . . Oh, Crystal, honey! Toney’s a brute not to have realized . . . Careful, Harry! Someone’s cutting in behind you . . . Oh, it’s Dick Talbot!” “I think I’d better handle that young man!” Harry Elaine said grimly, as he swung the car against the curb before the Tarvers’ house. “I can annihilate him much more thoroughly,” Tony retorted, even more grimly. “Let Crystal cry, Harry ... It always does girls good,” and Tony swung her slim body agilely out of the roadster. From the comfort of Harry Blaine’s strictly brotherly arm, Crystal watched the encounter between Tony and Die’*, who had also leaped out of his car. Her sobs went on rhythmically, but she mopped her tears from her eyes so that she could see . . . And now Tony and Dick, after low, heated argument, mostly on Tony’s part, were coming toward Tony’s car. Crystal automatically reached for her vanity case, patted her wind-dried hair . . . (To Be Continued)

istration for his conduct of the Florida Indian War. Calhoun Is Crushed Jackson crushed Calhoun for his nullificationist sympathies. Webster had hopes for the anti-Jackson nomination, but friends convinced him he had no chance against Clay. Clay, Calhoun and Webster formed an anti-administration Senate coalition, aided by a similar House group led by John Quincy Adams. Edward Everett and Rufus Choate. The Senate blocked Van Buren’s appointment as minister to England, Calhoun casting the deciding vote. The big issue was the United States Bank in Philadelphia, renewal of whose charter Jackson had vetoed and which he was later to wreck by withdrawing Government deposits. > Bank Finances Clay Jackson called it “The Monster.” Clay made the bank finance his campaign. It spent SBO,OOO, bribing editors, spreading propaganda and forming a combination of capital against Jackson. Jackson’s strategists merged the masses and won. They appointed a Jackson leader in every village and played to the tall grass for the great mass of new voters. They formed campaign glee clubs, mass meetings with spellbinders and torchlight parades. Clay hoped to carry Pennsylvania and especially New York, where his ticket was merged with the AntiMasonic ticket. But the returns gave him only Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and Kentucky. Wirt carried Vermont, South Carolina, controlled by the Nullifiers, threw awaj' its electoral vote on Governor Floyd of Virginia. Floyd and Wirt got about 30,000 popular votes between them. Next: The Battle of the Succession.

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In 1899 President Harrison appointed hin, ,o the United States Civil Service Commission in which he served six years. Then he was police commissioner of New York City and did much to expose and correct corruption in the police force by methods which won national fame. President McKinley appointed him assistant secretary of the navy. • (To Be Continued)

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