Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1946 — Page 8

they've put her. in maternity Se we're so crowded down here.” . ‘» ® »

2 A MOMENT I felt as if I arma suffering from. shock, though after nine years in the nursing profession TI had thought ays immune to any such sensa-

girl again and I was with sudden poignant “summer at Innison the fill, and Miss Charlotte she had been in those days. “She’s not bad-looking,” the protioner was saying now. “You , 1 thought she'd look like a , but she doesn’t.” » » a. SOMEHOW it annoyed me to hear a little snip of a girl with a paper-doll face and no figure say condescendingly that Miss Char~“lotte was not _bad-looking. x “Why should she look like a hag?” 1 demanded. hen I knew her she was beau That was ~. 10 years ago and she was 23. That makes her only 33 now.” I was faintly amused by the look of -horror on the probationer's face. My ability to remember back 10 years put not only Miss Charlotte but myself definitely in the hag class, Xs

3 8 = . THE GIRL rallied at once, however, and went on. “It was odd, | wasn't it, the way she never went i out? And they say they had an awful time getting her down the stairs.” :

“The stairs?” 1 said sharply. “What stairs?” “The front ones,” she told me. e back of the house was a mass «of flames, but the front stairs were + still all right, and yet she refused to take a step, Are you, all right; Miss Hart? You look—". . “I'm quite all right,” I said. And then as she turned away I sudden--ly realized that I hadn't inquired for the others at Innisfail. I called after her. “Clancy, was anyone else hurt or burned?” “No, Miss Hart,” she said. “Every- | one else got out all rgiht.” But my hands were trembling and | after she left me I still sat there

“desk before me: Gok ‘» STARING 4 the charts and not

front stairs at Innisfail, and trying | to realize ‘that the house was no| more, that nothing was left of the | + place, not even the sugar maples. * Like soldiers they'd been, those « sugar maples. The tall ones Mare 4 ing in formation straight up to the| front door, a scattering of Salle ‘ones at the rear of the house, ts on reconnaissance, sy Hue er the ledge at the shallow, windstream below, as if they exted to find the wretched enemy little Lost River.”

THE HOUSE ftself had seemed to possess two distinct and contrapersonalities, for there was! old part, with its low-ceilinged, and straight narrow stair. , eroliching humbly behind the | , that swaggered across the en- + “tire ‘front, where a huge living room with French doors onto al formal garden.

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nificent, even afler I heard Mark's views on it. An-atrocity, he called “it, and though I had the greatest respect; for Professor Mark Fitz-|

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seeing them. Seeing, instead, the

1 thought the living room mag-

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able awe of the gentleman—secretly

” » ” - PERHAPS, subconsciously, I agreed with my mother, who considered the Pitzgeralds an insufferable lot, opinionated, snobbish and arrogant. In spite of Cousin Ellen,

to 'whom the Fitzgerald point of

view was the only point of view, whatever it happened to be at the moment, “Sure, they're no peasants, those PFitzgeralds,” Cousin Ellen would say, taking great pride of ownership | in them, for, after all, had she rot been their housekeeper for so many years that they were like her very own? “They've got the blood of kings in them, that's what they've got,” she. would boast,

» #” ” “HAVE THEY, indeed?” my mother would say scornfully. “Well, maybe that acourits for their bad dispositions.” And Cousin Ellen would-be outraged. They were arrogant, to be sure, .all three of them: old Honora Fitagerald, who was desperately fighting a losing fight with death that summer; Mark, who taught science and mathematics at the Academy, and Colin.

{just reutrned from Indo-China or Malay or some other such place of high adventure and romance, Ah, yes, Colin was delightfully arrogant, #

» AND THEY lived their lives at Innisfail aloof from others, as the house itself was aloof on its hill above Lost River. So perhaps. they were «snobbish, a3 wel, and certainly they were {opinionated. And yet—there was {some magic about them. What was lit they had? I was never able to | determine why they made everyone else that 1 afterwards met seem drab and uninteresting. All T know is that it was so, As for Charlotte Brent, such was {my almost servile admiration for {her that when Cousin Ellen insist-

WHITE RUSSIA” NEEDS;

FOOD, UNRRA SAYS

MOSCOW, Sept. 2 (U. P.).—A report compiled by Theodore Waller, | American executive officer of the | UNRRA mission at Minsk, disclosed {today that schools, hospitals and {children’s homes in southwestern Byelo-Russia are heavily dependent upon UNRRA food. Mr.: Waller reported after a tour of Baranovici and < Brest-Litovsk

(provinces that the institutions are. =.

{dependent as much as 75 per cent {upon UNRRA food aid, excluding bread and cereals. % 1 Hospitals are entirely dependent \ipon UNRRA for soap. He said in spot checks of food stores. the misn found very little domnestic raned food except bread and tea. |All other foodstuffs came from the UNRRA.

By Stience Service LYNN, Mass. hy, Sept. 2—Jet power, for all future’ American high~per-

600 MPH Jet Airliners Are ~ Predicted i in Next 10 Years

Pointing out that the speed dan-

ger ‘zone lies between /6 miles per hour, the j

and’ 740 engineer de-

formance aircraft was predicted |clared that an inténsive program here today. The army air forces by government industry —is has given the green light to Gen- underway to send/sSpeeds above that eral Electric's aircraft gas turbine’|of sound, 7 division . here to manufacture all Although turbines require present. designs of jets and speed |oxygem to gperate, Mr, -Standerdevelopment of new and more POW- wick said altitudes of 60,000 to 80, erful designs " { 000 feet br be reached, where R. GQ. .Btanderwick, chief engl there is still some oxygen. neer for General Electric Tiere, fore- Once jet speeds. have broken cast that high-speed gas turbines through the wall of sound's speed, may largely replace conventional he pointed out that ram Jet, the airplane engines “in the next, 10; “flying stovepipe,” might replace years. sas turbines. He predicted that jet - engines | “Then,” he concluded, “if we are propelling commercial planes at 500 to fly higher and faster; we “will to 600 miles per hour ‘will be forth= | depend upon rocket planes, which | ~ coming, For the future, jet-pro-|will break through. the earth's at-| 1 pelled aircraft may speed at 1500 | mosphere—100 miles up—at ‘speeds ‘miles per hour to altitudes as high [between 3000 and 4000 miles An

as 15 miles witli engines as oe great [hour which are not physiologically : as 10,000. horsepower, lunreasonable.” . y

¥ Last Act of Bitter Hatred For All Men Proves Futile

NEWARK, N. J, Bept. 2 (U. P.. ~Miss Bttimates > 4 an insane hatred and looked LEER show been rejogted.| orward tothe selentific day when oa out set aside her will that Women could bear children without relatives with Off all her male|the aid of men. the prerogative | & penny and leave court justice said, : estate to the Na+ “In 1937, shé wrote: ‘It remains for feministic organizations to make 's $15,000 {exposure of women's “protectors” gold coins dug} and “lovers” for what their vicious of her home in land conterhptible selves are Mr, j | Bigelow said. A 8 hoarded ler, Two male first sousiiia who had ot find a{been left out of the will and a second 4 cousin, Mrs, Ruth Robbins, Penns . Bigelow Grove, N. J. who had been left $300, ed of men contested the will, They will share 3 fh the estate under the court's

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“Miss Strittmater regarded man

TIMES SERIAL—

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CHAPTER ONE’ ; Miss Charlotte into Saint Gregory’ 5

I always admired that living room. gu

Colin, -debonair world traveler, *

‘ ® =» ~ - 1 "REMEMBER that I thought Charlotte beautiful, which I also’ thought her quite old and MN | extremely wise, which she was not. with the girl herself, She was very young and not wise

at all, Gay she was, and quick: to} piss Charlotte and ‘the Professor.” {laugh; -but: her laughter, sweet, held a faint note of hysteria, they’ II make a fine couple, those ing I was then too young| two, Som ‘recognize.

By Alice M. Laverick'

“ling reports that Russia is’ growing

ed on my calling her “Miss Char-|came to live with us. The old lady's lotte,” I was all for adding a bob-| her godmother, you know.” bing curtsey and ‘Yes, m

ni'lady” quite

heard. 1t often enough, And how Mark had fallen in love e was,| With Miss - Charlotte and = how pleased his mother was at this, old: Honora being very much taken

"They're-engaged: ‘to be married;

though| cousin Ellen—said, beaming. “Ah,

situation,

worst, And they had sent for

naturally, was the colin to come home. nearest it came to us; no one we

knew having any fortunes to lose. she really’ wanted. Which was for

And this brought Ellen to what

me to come to Innisfail: snd help

» » “SHE NEARLY had a nervous|j ring the summer breakdown, herself, after he died,” er out during HEY: Cousin Ellen went on.

gerald-—indeed; -stoad in consider-|

“Then she {To Be Continued) :

The fastidious woma cherishes

Shocking" by

- THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Of course we knew. We had

Then she told us that the old: “Miss Charlotte's father lost all lady was very bad, and since they his Toney and died of hears, fail- weren't telling what was the mat- ' Cousin Ellen told. us. Which ter with her, she, Ellen, feared the | an unusual’ though this,

VALUE OF COLORED

.GOTTON DISCOUNTED

By Science Service WASHINGTON, Sept, % Term

red, green and brown cotton “a bit exaggerated,” Dr. H. W. Barre, head pathologist in charge of cotton and other fiber crops and diseases, U. $ departnient-of agriculture, bureau of plant industry station, Beltsville, Md. today said brown and green strains of cotton have been grown in this country with no promise of commercial ‘value, Dr. Barre said naturally “colored cotton has poor fibers and fades rapidly. + Denying Russian claims asserting that the naturally colored fibers fade Tess than dyed cotton have beén substantiated, Dr. Barre said that -American observers have not been impressed “with the Soviets brown, red and green cotton, “We are growing brown and green strains of cotton but they produce poor fiber, which fades rapidly and has no: commercial value,” the pathologist reported. :

‘House after

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Prisoner Paints Bubbling Brooks on Walls

That Hold Him in 'Prettiest Jail i in Illinois’

GALENA, IIL, Sept. 2 (U. B.—| student at the Chicago Art instiA man’s home 5 his. castle, Merle | tute, : Pi Sankey said today, even ¥'it's a jail.| The grey cell Walls. gave— way to Sankey 1s a prisoner who is proud |pastoral SCenes;. 4, of his jail. With his paint brush,| “ “This place’ is a wonderland of | lie has turned it into what the jailer scenic beauty, proudly calls the "Previest jail 1iraan said, Illinois.” . The pre-S8ankey jal in Jo Daviess 'a cell wall. A bubbling brook ran county was drab, dismal. ahd “de-{ a wooded hillside. Similar! pressing. It hadn't been changed

much since the Way.it was. built—

which was just about the time Ga-| lena's most famous citizep, Sankey himself walks about in his

tocki S. Grant, was leaving the ‘White | stocking feet. No point .in marring |

his > sebond “term s/he floor, he says. Paints ‘Way Out’ for Drunks

With the extra time on his hands, {

{tric cell”

jail's 18 cells.

President.

; colors. But last May,

Sankey walked in| Sankey

worthless checks. sniffed, and called for a scrubbing | pail and a paint brush. Then he went to work. . ! First he painted gaily colored de-|the ‘others. signs on the floors to take the place of rugs. Then he put to use the because it makes it possible for him | said. training he once acquired while alto “put my mind en canvas.’

: a nts in his jail cell. One won a. prize e

ailspin” $2. Dana's "Tabu" 425 .

TRubinstein’s "Heaven Sent," 1.75

Shoulders,” 8.50 . . Arden’s "Blue Grass,” 1.85... /i o a Sake : 3 .

"450; | . prices plus tax . . . Toiletries, Street Floor.

the ceiling.

“Hf I don’t feel right, storm,” ‘he said. “If 1 feel fine I might do’ flowers. pana portrait of somebody I like.” But his greatest paiming tFiUmph ' Jailer George Her-| in the jail was his special “psychi

That's where they p He pointed to a Sankey mural.on|ye drunks.

tires He was to start serving a term Mr passing | Sankey began putting his paint on!/lucky to land in-a jail where they Sankey looked, canvas. He has painted 15 pictures let. him turn loose his creative tale

“I figure it saved 1 my life.”

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Weil's

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On one wall he painted a ladder scenes cover the walls of all of the leading to a trap door painted on Some of the inebriates - And the place is so clean fhat| \get a sobering up workout trying {to climb that wall,

wall is covered with pink elephants and other jungle animals in weird -

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