Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1938 — Page 24

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Joz Love

By RACHEL MACK

CAST OF CHARACTERS POLLY CHELSEY, heroine; stranded in London when war breaks out. JERRY WHITFIELD, hero; the Yankee who sees her through. CABELL BANKS, privateer captain.

Yesterday: Trapped by the impress ment gang, Jerry is knocked wunconscloms. His last thought is of Polly.

CHAPTER NINE Wa" Jerry Whitfield opened his eyes he was not conscious

of himself as a person but only

as a cramped body and bruised |

head that ached intolerably. He was those things, and those things were himself. He lifted his arm in

the darkness. His hand touched a planked ceiling. Under him was flooring, equally hard and strangely slimy with mud. He was aware next of a swaying motion and the continuous slap of water against wood. The odor was dank and oppressive. “—ship,” he said to himself aloud, but dully and without surprise. *“—ship’s hold.” It was only when he became aware of himself as a personality that surprise gripped him. This was Jerry Whitfield that ached sore-

ly and lay in the darkness of a|

ships hold. . . . Where Jerry Whitfield to be? What ought he be doing? ... “—Unicorn and Crown,” groaned aloud. And then, “Polly— Polly Chelsey—" He arose to his knees and began to pound the planks above him, savagely and frantically. A voice somewhere near in the blackness said, “Stop it, you fool. Don’t scratch His Majesty's pretty sloop.” The voice had a Yankee drawl, but cityfied. It was bitterlv humorous and very weary. “Who are you?” Jerry asked. “Where are we?” “I'm Cabell Banks from Boston,

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Continent of America. We're definitely below decks on a brig sloop named the Sunrise. British ship, I mean—or have you caught on?” “God help me!” Jerry muttered. | “I doubt if He does for a While | vet. Lie down and think things over. You've got plenty of time.”

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ERRY lay down, heavily. To ease | his throbbing head he put his| right arm beneath it. “If you know | how I got here,” he muttered mel patiently at his unseen companion, “then tell me and have done.” “You came rolled in a blanket,” retorted Cabell Banks. “Very cozy. A couple of pressmen brought you | on board an hour ago, and four | marines stowed you down here. happened after my bedtime,

1t | conversation. you | Healy's eve as he was dancing, and

“I've mot got any. . . . Can I have some water?” “Yes. There's a small keg »f it here. Stale but wet. Wait =a minute—I'll defy orders and light the lantern.” This he did, but so awkwardly that Jerry, in his feverish thirst, almost cursed him for his slowness. When he had been handed the cup of water and had drunk it empty, Jerry looked at his benefactor. He saw a slight, fashionable-looking youth, as ugly as Puck, with aristocratic features and a sardonic expression, but with eyes that were surprisingly boyish and friendly. It was the eyes that made Jerry like Cabel Banks without reservation. “Banks,” he said, “my name's Whitfield. I've got to get out of here. Tonight, I mean. There's aigirl... = = = HAT one you mentioned?” this with malicious humor. “No.” said Jerry impatiently, “not that one. An American. Polly Chelsey from Connecticut. We're going to be married when I can take her home to America. She's

| waiting for me now at the Unicorn |

and Crown Tavern. She hasn't got a friend to her name in all of London.” “Hm-m. Very bad business. ... Take another cup of water and quit talking. . . . Here! ,. . Now 1 must blow out the lantern.” Jerry drank the water. “I tell vou I've got to get out tonight, Banks!”

“And I tell you you can't, Mr. Whitfield. You're a prisoner of the strongest mavy on earth, and the most hard-hearted.” During the ensuing hour while Jerry cursed his captors, clawed at the hatches, kicked and pounded the bulkheads, the wealthiest young man in Boston lay quietly with his eyes closed, as if infinitely bored. But when Jerry Whitfield had fallen heavily to the deck at last, spent and despairing, Cabel Banks rolled his own coat for a pillow and put it under the blood-matted head. “If you want more water tonight,” [he said, “call me. But don’t order | port wine or roast guinea hen. We

| are out of both.” |

(All events, names and characters in this story are wholly fictitious.)

Daily Short Story

AN OLD LOVE—By Fran Keith

Bad

ARCIA felt herself go limp. Her knees were trembling.

She heard herself making inane She had caught Bob

“It's Too

might say. I'm not allowed on deck now he was coming to her table. after sundown, so I didn’t see what | With him was a petite brunette,

happened. But I've got ears.

I| pert and smart looking, and not

gathered vou were a choice deserter his wife.

and had been picked up in a Lon-

don street fight.” |

The last time she had seen Bob she had been the girl in his arms,

There was a long silence filled |in this same hotel dining room.

with labored thinking.

of an outraged Yankee: Fight!

“Deserter! | their ways. There was not even a fight. | jpoked into each other's eyes, and

Then Jer-| They had drunk a toast in chamry’s voice, heavy with the dialect | pagne.

A toast to the parting of They had danced, and

I was hit on the head from behind | sajd, “I'll never love anyone again

and went out like a candle. I'd

as much as I love you.” And then

walked into a dark side street, like @ | Bob had taken her home, and on

fool, to help a woman.” “Ah, my unseen friend, my low countryman, how naive!” “If that's a French word,” Jerry complained, “don’t use it. I'm as | good a sailor as ever hauled a rope | or steered a course, but I'm not | educated. . . . It appears vou are.” | “Yes and no,” said Cabell Banks, and he could be heard shifting his position in the darkness. “I studied | the classics at Harvard. Also the | French language, mathematics, and | astronomy. But I'd not learned how | to shave with a razor or how to| relish wormy ship biscuits. No, nor | how to sleep without a mattress. | It appears that while Britain rules | the seas, every young man about to |

| ried sweetheart. thing that kept her from marrying

| the way home they had promised fel- | never to see each other again. They | had ended two years of loving each | other madly, and quarrelling continually, and being forever hurt, on a very gay note.

Two months later Bob had marsomeone else. A childhood Marcia knew that the

Ralph Blaine was the memory of

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{her love for Bob. She knew deep | inside her that there would never again be anything in life for her | like that.

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E'RE going to have some champagne,” Bob announced

take a voyage should master these | after they had been’ invited to sit

subjects.”

{ down.

“This is an occasion. My

“You talk like a drunk man,” | wife is going to divorce me.”

Jerry stated. |

The waiter came with the cham-

“I'm not drunk, but low-spirited | pagne and after a few sips Ralph

and glad to have an audience. I've | had two days of my own company, | if IT calculate right.” “How did you get here?”

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WAS on the Hardy, a small merchantman out of Boston that had just cleared Ostend. On the day news of the war reached the North Sea, an English ship-of-the-line came down on us from one direction and this brig sloop Sun- ’ rise from another. The ship-of-the-line—I learned afterward she carried 110 guns—signaled to the sloop to take us. Navy courtesy, vou might say, or else we were too small for the big ship to bother with. She stood by while the Sunrise went through the formalities of asking who we were, where from and where bound. Then the brig's captain gave us choice of surrendering or having our decks raked. Our skipper wisely chose the former course, and so we were not raked or boarded. They brought us in to the London docks like a hen bringing in a chicken. I take it we were the first prize of the war.” “Where's the rest of your crew?” “They were all pressed into service yesterday on a water tank sloop that was about to start to the West, Indies and short of hands. They were told it was that or a Government prison for the duration of the war. Not wishing to be buried alive, they chose the tanker. By that choice theyll end up a couple of thousand miles nearer home. They plan to escape at Jamaica, of course. But even if they're held they'll not be called on to fire at Americans. The tank carried no “Why didn’t you go with them?” “I wasn’t wanted. I weigh just 130 pounds and I confessed I knew nothing of hauling rope. They've put me down here till they can decide what fo do with me.”

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T do you expect them to do with you?” “Exchange me for the first English officer that's captured by the United States. I told them how much money my father has.” “Has he got so much?” “He owns more merchant ships than any man in Boston. The ttle Hardy was one of my father's Yrigantines. I was taking a cruise n her to show my opinion of Mr. dison. A 7Virginian’s got no t ordering Boston to close her rt.” “He's our President.” “But merely a Virginia farmer. . « However I get the point now. had some time to think. He hat to England by ||

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politely asked the other girl to dance. “Shall we dance?” Bob asked. Marcia nodded, and then she wag in Bob's arms. “I'm sorry Bob about your divorce.” “I'm afraid it was your fault, Marcia.” “My fault! But I haven't seen you or tried to see you since we parted. How could it be my rault?” “I left you with the belief in my heart that I'd never be able to love anyone again as I loved you. I've never been able to get rid of that belief. I told my wife about it when I asked her to marry me. And every time we had even the slightest quarrel I'm sure she thought of it.” “I'm sorry,” Marcia said softly.

Mind Your

Manners

Test your knowledge of correct social usage by answering the following questions, then checking against the authoritative answers below: 1. Is it good manners to exclaim over a person's new dress when in a group? 2. Does a gentleman ever eat in his shirt sleeves? 3. Is it the best usage to speak of a dinner coat as a “tux”? 4. Is it good usage to speak of wearing a “white tie” or a’ “black tie” instead of explaining whether it is full evening dress for men or a dinner coat? 5. Is it good taste for a young person to call an older woman by her first name?

What would you do— About finding a name for your parents-in-law if you are a bride? Call them— A. Mr. and Mrs. McDermott? B. Father and Mother McDermott? C. Names meaning “father” and “mother” other than those you use .for your own parents?

o ” » Answers

No. No. / No. Yes. Not unless she requests it.

Best “What Would You Do” solution—Rither (B) or (OC).

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

We Ever Mel.”

“Remembering the way I was in love with you has done things to me too. It's too bad that we ever met.” “Marcia, is it too late vor us to begin over again—you and I together?” ® ® =» ARCIA had known from the moment she saw him again, had been sure, that that was the one thing in her life she wanted, to begin over again, if it could some way be possible, with Bob. “I don’t think it's too late.” “I Jove you, Marcia.” “And I you.” “Can I see you tomorrow night?” “Darling, I'd rather see you tomorrow night than anything else in the whole wide world, but Ralph and I have been invited to dinner and the opera by some friends of his, and I can’t make an excuse at this late date.” Bob said nothing. Just stopped talking completely until the end of the dance. Then he took Marcia back to the table. Ralph and the other girl were deep in conversation about a play they had seen and were too interested to be polite and stop talking about it when Bob and Marcia joined them.

» ” = ARCIA, who hadn't seen the play, asked some question about it. Bob continued to say nothing and ordered more champagne. When it arrived and Ralph tried to pay for it Bob sullenly refused to let him do so.

The other girl sensed that something was wrong and tried to make the conversation general. When directly addressed Bob answered in nfonosyllables. Marcia could see that Ralph was beginning to feel uncomfortable. She was beginning to feel not only uncomfortable but depressed.

What a fool she had been to think that what she had been missing for two vears was love. What she had been missing for two yesrs was an amount of heartache and resentment and unhappiness that no amount of making up and being in love could recompense. » = »

UDDENLY in the place of the depression she felt there came a feeling of singing and lightheartedness and great relief. But she was going to be surg this time. “Shall we dance?” she asked Ralph. She knew before she started her experiment what the outcome would be but she would have the satisfaction of proving it to herself. “Ralph, I can’t tell you why, but I can’t go to the dinner party with you tomorrow night.” A queer look twitched Ralph's face. “All right, dear,” he said. Back at the table Bob was still drinking champagne, the girl with him sitting in embarrassed silence watching the dancers. Marcia gave Ralph a knowing look and he asked the girl to dance. After the other two were on the floor Marcia asked, “Don’t you feel well, Bob?”

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» » ” y H, I'm all right,” Bob answered and went back to his champagne, Marcia toyed with her own glass and stared at Bob. She gave up any further attempt at conversation. As the other two danced, and Bob moped, Marcia sat remembering, not all the happy times she and Bob had had together, but all the unhappy ones. There had been so many more of those. And now that one of the unhappy times was here again, the nostalgia that cloaked the past in a dreamy mist was dispersing and she was beginning to understand how she had been able to say goodby. Ralph and the other girl had finished dancing and were coming back. When they were seated Marcia said, “Let's have one more glass of champagne. This is an occasion. Ralph and I are announcing our engagement!”

THE END

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By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN American Medical Journal Editor N a previous generation spinach was seldom seriously considered as an article of diet. It was just something that put sand in the system. Then came increased use of leafy green vegetables because of the mineral salts and vitamins they contained. Now spinach, turnip tops, beet leaves, and similar substances are widely used. Following the introduction of quick freezing, such vegetables have been available at all times of the year in many large cities. Canned vegetables of this type, including spinach particularly, may be purchased everywhere. The vegetables are served whole, chopped, sieved, or in other forms, or it may be purchased in dry form, as a powder and as a tablet.

The Increasing use of spinach stimulated the Council on Foods of the American Medical Association to determine its real value in the diet. Spinach is useful in diets of patients with diabetes because of its low content of carbohydrate or sugar. It contains a rather high concentration of vitamin A and is rich in vitamin C. As a vegetable it is particularly rich in iron and calcium, and contains a fair amount of copper. Most recent studies, however, indicate that the real value of spinach is not to be estimated from the chemical determination of its mineral content. In using various foods we are concerned not only with the amounts of the various substances that they contain, but also with the extent to which these substances are taken up and used by the body when the food is eaten. Spinach grown in various parts of the country, of course, differs as to the exact percentages of minerals that it contains. More important than these variations in percentage is the manner in which the spinach is pre The amount. of vitamin C in the leaves of fresh spinach diminishes rapidly when the spinach is cut and the

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leaves are allowed to stand around. Five or six days after the leaves have been cut, the vitamin C content has almost vanished. If the material is stored at refrigeration temperature, and in the absence of oxygen, the loss takes place more slowly. There is also some evidence that cooking spinach _ the wrong way may cause it to lose a good deal of its value of mineral salts and of the water-soluble vitamins. In general, cooked spinach has .been found to be an excellent source of vitamin A, a fairly good source of vitamin C, and a fair contributor of iron. ” » » OW, while spinach is one of the richest plant sources of iron, it is clear that not all the | iron in spinach is used by the body. |

Workers in various laboratories have studied these questions. Apparently spinach as a source of iron in feeding infants is of little importance because little spinach is fed to babies. For older children and adults spinach may have greater value, although this has not been certainly established. The calcium of spinach is not used very well by the human body because it is largely present in the form of a salt called calcium oxalate which itself will not dissclve in the fluids of the intestines. Altogether, then, spinach is valuable chiefly to older children as a means of providing vitamin C and vitamin A, iron, and some roughage to the diet. For infants it is not to be particularly recommended.

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People today have stopped thinking about God, although they have not rejected Him. Our problem now is to reawaken the ideas of religion in the minds of everyone —Francis Joseph Sheed, British author.

If you have to choose between an automobile and living with your inlaws, give up the car.—Dr. Ray H. Abrams, University of Pennsylvania, advising prospective brides and

grooms.

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