Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1938 — Page 20

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By RACHEL MACK

CAST OF CHARACTERS XY CHELSEY, heroine; stranded when war breaks. out. WHITFIELD

BANKS, privateer captain.

day: Too late, the woman in - the blue bonnet attempts to tell Polly the truth about Jerry and Jerry, meansetting out to sea on the Sun-

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OLLY CHELSEY got off the coach at the Queen Anne Tavern in Dover, where she took a room overlooking the stable yard in order to keep an eye on Nuisance. She had a fear of being separated from the dog before leaving England. Next morning in a nearby shop she bought a dress length of black woolen - material of the cheapest sort, and thread to sew it with. ‘Then she found a mantuamaker who said she could turn it inte a dress before night. “Make it plain and ill-fitting,” Polly ordered, “and high in the neck.” “Lud, Miss! Are you doing penance for something?” Polly shrugged. “Yes, for my follies. Where can I get a widow's bonnet made?” The mantuamaker said her sister had been a milliner in her day and still knew how to fashion and cover a hat frame. She promised to have the bonnet and dress ready by nightfall and would, herself, bring them to the Queen Anne Tavera. Polly then made another surprising request. “Can you direct me to a wigmaker?” The woman told her there was such a man on the next street, next door to the tobacconist’s. “And not busy any more since people have taken a fancy to their own hair.” Polly found the wigmaker to be an elderly Jew with a sympathetic manner. When he had finished waiting: on a customer and they were alone in the shop Polly explained her need. “I must dress as an old woman for a time. An old woman of no importance and no money. Can you help me?” The old man looked into Polly’s - honest young face and decided it * was free of evil intent. “Come into the back room,” he said. He placed her on a tal stool and studied her head. “Your hair is too heavy to be covered with a wig. Will you permit me to cut it?” “Cut it,” answered Polly. “It’s of no interest to me.” , Yet when the first brown lock fell to the floor .beneath the shears, . Polly shuddered. She remembered with a stab of pain a remark of Jerry Whitfield’s: “Your hair’s so shiny, Polly. I like the way you coil it on your head, without curls.” « . . Well, her looks no longer mattered to her. : = 2 # HE old wigmaker knew a good T deal about disguise. He had some shadow salve he had ‘once made up for a theatrical troupe. He experimented on Polly’s face with this. Now and then he would be summoned to the front room by the jingle of the shop bell, but he would always return eagerly to his amusig task. The white wig that he fitted on her was too elegant, he said, so he skilfully applied the shears to make it appear thin and scraggling. He was an artisan with the artist’s urge for perfection. When he had fitted the wig and applied the lines of age to Polly’s eyes he said exultantly, “That is good!” But he added, “If it's a reckless prank youre up to, think twice. - Such things can lead to trouble.” “It’s no prank,” Polly said. “It’s an escape from danger.” The old man’s face grew grave. “Then it’s well I've contrived with skill” He refused pay for anything save the wig itself and wished her bon voyage. ; That night when the dress and bonnet had been delivered, Polly was obliged to send for the innkeeper and porter and tell them . of her intent. She showed them dress, bonnet. and wig, assuming a high-handed aggressiveness she was far from feeling. “When I leave here tomorrow _ morning,” she said, “I'll be disguised as an old woman for reasons entirely my own. I assure you no harm will come to anybody because of it.” To forestall any qualms of conscience on the part of either, she hastily overpaid her tavern bill and tipped the porter.

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morning, what. appeared to be a tall, bent old woman, , and © uncommunicative, came into the stable yard of the inn to take conveyance on the Deal coach. She was followed by a mongrel dog and by a porter bearing her trunk. As thé latter helped her into the coach he said, “Watch yer dog, old dame. He's a frisky one.” He lowered an eyelid to show his enjoyment of the!situation, for he was a good-natured Devonshireman who relished a joke. “Mind your . manners!” retorted the old woman, frowning severely. “Get along with you!” Her mouth twitched oddly. : © “Not till I ask ye about a letter,” said the porter. “Here ‘tis. This came from Lon’on last night, but not by regular :post. The driver carried iv down. He remembered about it this mornin’, sayin’ it was to be delivered to a young lady by name of Chelsey. Now your name be Chelsey, but it’s been a time since ye were young. . ..” ' “Give it here!” said the ‘old woman and whacked him smartly across the shoulder with her staff. “It’s for my niece.” Her eyelid, too, ‘lowered discreetly, in mute apeiogy - for the whack. £ : As the coach jolted out of the

highway, Polly Chelsey examined the letter with curiosity. She did “the cramped femi-

She had a more pressing matter to think about. The driver would soon be asking his passengers

and Polly had not chosen her des:

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tination. Even yet her only beacon was that phrase of Jerry's: “some Where short of Deal there's a wretched fishing village where this smuggler puts in . , .” Will I know the place when I see it? she was asking herself. Her fingers were automatically break-. ing the seal of the letter, and opening it. And now she began to read. By the'time she had reached the second line she was sitting erect, gripping the paper. ” # 8 ¢ " HIS will surprise you no little. Your Sweetheart Jeremiah Whitfield is now in His Majesty's Navy against his will.’ I was the one helped put him there and I regret same because it made you think he had gone off with Another. For some days I Worried over this and then went to the Unicorn and Cr’n to tell you. You had Gone and my Troubles were added to when I lernt you were Amerikan and frendless. Mr. Toby says you are trying to get to france. I Hope this catches you first. I hereby confes I never saw this J. Whitfield before the.day he was pointed out to me in your company -and I Waved to him so frendly. The hackney coach Driver was the one employing me. That night this man went into the Unicorn and

with J. Whitfield and pretended to

tended to look for him because he was the driver of a hack I was Riding in. Then I saw this J. Whitfield of yours and told him I had Mistook him earlier for a Navy Man I knew and also told him I was having trouble with the hack Driver. Your Sweetheart got coffee and sobéred the man up and then went with us to the Vehickle. It was Nothing but Kindness on his part and it shames me to say he was then Hit on .the head and carried to a Ship. They said he was a deserter from His Majesty’s Navy but -on thinking it over I realize this may be a lie as our Navy is Short of Men and sometimes they are not to careful, they would as soon have an amerikan as not. maybe rather. But whether he was a Navy Deserter or not, he was not a Deserter of you and this is what I had to Tell you. ‘My advice to you is go to the fishing town of . Corly south of Deal and ask at the Inn there for a Man named John McGean, He is & smuggler that don’t mind a Passenger. And now Good luck and God Bless you from your frend Mazie Miller.

P. S. The Ship they took J. Whit-

out in the Harbor but I think it has already Sailed.- This is a "very sad situashion.” (To Be Continued) (All events, names and characters in

be drunk and I Came in and pre-

this story are wholly fictitious.)

Daily Short Story

NO GILDED CAGE—By Marcia Daughtrey

“ OMEN in prison are no different from women elsewhere; they have to have something to love to remain normal or: contented,” the wardress, Mrs. Counsel,

said to her assistant. “Even feeding birds may redeem some of them if’ they watch me often enough and become interested.” The prison board had wanted to glaze the windows with opaque glass, but Mrs. Counsel had demurred. “A mid-Victorian practice. We surely should be civilized enough at this time to eliminate most of the punishment factor from imprisonment and make it a period of training.” Through these clear windows Anna Xithrin looked down into the walled prison yard. “There she is, the old dame,” she muttered, “feeding them birds again.” a She scowled at Mrs. Counsel's trim, black figure dramatized by cotton-white hair. “Birds. have a swell racket, don’i they? Gosh, what I'd give to have a pair of wings and beat it out of here, home to my kid,” she added bitterly. “What's wrong with your kid now?” demanded Mazie - Wallton from her bunk. “She’s got to have her tonsils out. Mama wrote to me. I'm afraid something may go wrong.” “Thank God,” sighed Mazie, “I'm a four-sided orphan.” “There isn’t any such thing? “Sure. No parents, no brothers, no sisters, no kids. See? Also, no worries.” “No worries excepting how much longer you got to stick around here.” 8-8 8 MAZE arched her eyebrows. “I can get out any time I want. You know that supply cupboard off the laundry? Well, Slicky—during visiting hours—has been passing me a lead pencil or two. The lead is glued in at the top and bottom, but there’s a glass tube in the center that holds just a few ‘drops of acid. You'd be surprised what a

lovely mess a little acid will make |°

of an iron bar, I've got four of them weak as spaghetti at the bottom.” Anna moistened desert-dry\ lips. “What are you going to do?” she asked. “Nothing. I'm getting to like it here. I feel good all the time—get good eats and plenty of them. And

Anna heard only the “nothing” at the beginning of the monolog. With freedom like air on her face, that dumb bunny Mazie was turning back to the windless closeness of this cage. Of course Mazie didn’t have a 5-year-old kid that had to have her tonsils taken out. Doctors were such dopes—anything could happen. _ State Prison for Women huddled in a little valley protected on all

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sides by the steeply rising walls of Red Rock canyon. Climbing thick- | ly to the rim of -this natural cup were forests of secretive evergreens. The laundry supply room gave out on that portion of the old yard which was not enclosed by the stout new wall, but it was 20 feet above hard and rocky ground.

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# OU’D break an ankle, prophesied Mazie complacently, reading Anna's mind. “Besides, they’d catch you.” “Not me. I know this country like a"book.’ I'd be harder to catch than a jackrabbit.” “Maybe. But a jackrabbit’s faster at dodging lead.” “I could go into the supply room just before 5. While they're lining up to march down to dinner I could run for it. It’s dark now by 6 and I'd have all night to get home.” “Going to run all the way?” “I could hitch-hike.” “In them clothes?” : Anna clung franticallys to her idea: “Nobody would “notice at night.” ~ “Pigs fly,” agreed Mazie. . Anna turned her head to listen suddenly. “What's that?”“The kleptomaniac they brought in a month ago. She hums like that a lot. Says she’s singing her birds to sleep.” ' “I wish she’d shut up; she’s driving me nuts,” said Anna. “I got a lot of thinking to do.” “You might cross your fingers, too,” observed Madzie,. tipping her head back to listen to the crooning. “That Molly,” she refered to the singer, “is funny. She keeps whispering to me that she’s got a secret. She’s the gentle kind, but I wouldn’t want to make/her mad. She grabbed my shoulder/and pushed me away when that little steam pipe snapped the other day. If was like being kicked by a mule. Of course, she was saving my hide—friendly like— but I'd hate to rile her up.”

NNA was staring ‘ahead unseeingly, her finger turning up a minor hem in her uniform and gathering it in even puckers. “Tomorrow,” she said, “about 5.”

It required every ounce of cunning in Anna’s trembling body to manage to dodge into the supply room. With her back toward the precious window, she stood for several moments —eyes closed and breath coming in long, shivering gasps. Then, at her elbow, she heard:the same humming, vague tune that had haunted |. the corridor the night before. “Molly! What are you doing here?” s : Molly’s fingers crossed her lips. “Singing my babies to sleep.” She pointed toward the window. Cuddled between two of the bars and woven partially around them were two bird nests. “I coaxed them by saving pieces of bright raveling from the laundry water and tying them to the bars,” Molly confided proudly. “Pretty soon two sister birds brought their husbands over and decided to build their nests.” Her eyes were dilated with pleasure. “If you won't tell anybody I'll show you the eggs. Four in one nest and five in the other.” “I'll see them okay. I'm taking out those bars and doing a birdie of my own. I'm going home to see my kid.” “Tear out the. bars! You can’t. It

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YOUR HEALTH By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN ‘American Medical Journal Editor OST physicians can remember ‘the time when neither the

word nor the idea of allergy had developed in medicine. Today everybody talks about sensitivity, hypersensitivity, allergy or anaphylaxis.

We have recognized the fact that

changes take ‘place in the human tissues whereby they become exceedingly sensitive to various substances and that the manifestations of those sensitivities may be of the nature of disease. :

It is generally believed today that

heredity is important and that people who are themselves sensitive with symptoms of hay fever, asthma. headache or eruptions in the skin as manifestations, are slightly more likely to have chil similar symptoms.

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rupted by Mazie. wants you, Anna, right now. It’s too late to do anything. Better come to her office. I'm telling you.”

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would ruin the nests.”

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somewhere until I get out.”

“No. The mother bird would ‘never come back to sit on the nest.” Her

childish explanation was desperately serious.

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bird nests,” snapped Anna,

making for the window as Molly's siesl hands closed over Anna's Wr

Anna jerked, pulled, wrenched.

The blood drummed in her throat and behind her eyes, but she was helpless.

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As Anna stumbled info the room

a bright patter of child’s footsteps crossed the floor.

“A birdie told me you'd want to

see your child after her tonsillectomy,” confided understanding Mrs. Counsel.

“God bless birds,” cried Anna,

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nature of the condition, studies have also been made of the glands in re-

jority of the evidence does not indicate that the phenomenon of sensitivity is primarily glandular. Since, however, the glands are intimately bound with most of the functions of the human being, it is reasonable to believe that the nature of the reaction’ to sensitivity may be modified by glandular disturbances. Since the vitamins have also attracted a great deal of attention in recent years studies have been made of the influence of the vitamins on allergy. Particularly interesting are studies to determine whether or not the allergic condition could be modified or controlled by giving vitamin C in excessive amounts. It is conceivable that vitamins may affect the processes of infection as well as the processes of sensitivity. : t J 2 2 Cie VHIEF of the phenomena of senA sitivity is hay fever. Gradually complete studies are being made of the pollens available in every part of the United States at various seasons of the year. Patients with hay:

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