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automobiles, club house, pro shop, into gopher holes. : Others, like myself, were. sp’ stunngd that movement was impossible. Water just trickled dows gue eoliective necks Shortly it streamed wn. Only after every stitch of clothing was oozing water did the diehards, the guys who will pull wool over the eyes of wife and time clock with the minimum amount of compunction, get out of the downpour, : : The pro shop at Speedway, biilt to accommodate about 25 people comfortably, a refuge for 200. That's a conservative exaggeration typical of a golfer. It was impossible to breathe, over in the structure. Each me some soaked-to-the-skin fan backed into the open door and pushed under the roof, it looked as if not another human being, not even a pygmy, could get in. But they did. Man is sure a clever beast and in many ways quite intelligent. But not where golf is concerned. For almost an hour we stood in damp, steaming atmosphere. A rumor swept through the crowd with electrifying speed. The match would be played. It was still raining, the greens were under water but the four champions would play. Hurrah. The pro shop creaked as the charge outside began. : Shortly the rumor was confirmed. Drawn faces changéd to happy ones. Shoes were removed. Here and there a man splashed toward the tee in his undershirt. Directly in front of me a man paused to lift the limp edges of his sailor hat. I swerved in the mad flight to the retaining rope around the tee. I missed him but those behind me ran the poor fellow down.
“ «Walt. Disney couldn't have done betier in a
cartoon. The links were no place for the weak and slow that day. > The first thing that struck me was the number of crowd marshals. There were so many that
Sammy Snead's exhibition ‘was rained out. Here's a an gol crowd that had sense enough to get out of the rain.
they were pushing each other around. I missed the first drives of the day as did hundreds of others. Before the last golfer completed his follow through the stampede was on. Women with bables in their amms galloped over the grass along with the rest. I caught a glimpse of Wilbur Shaw trying his best to keep up with the leaders. He was hampered by a pair of rubber boots. “I traveled all the way from Bloomington to
served as gee Sammy Snead play golf,” growled a charging
man with a stout umbrella in his hand, “and I'm going to see him.” From the sound that
move or fall watted back, dull whacks and cries of pain, I!
would say he saw Sammy.
Why Wasn't Anyone Hit? PLAYING CONDITIONS were not exactly ideal. It's still a mystery to me why no one got hit with a club. Of course, Snead, Middlecoft, Scott and David know what to do with their equipment. That might be the difference. ’ to imagine, however, driving a golf ball on any of the four corners at Meridian and Washington Sts. during a heavy shopping day. The conditions were such at Speedway. All in all, I saw Middlecoff once, pushing his way to the green. I saw Snead twice In the middle of a fairway. David and Scott came into view on the way to the club house. I'm told there was terrific golf to be seen. I wouldn't know since most of my time was spent in running. Nice to get out in:the open where wounds heal faster. hf : * » o “Lookee here; bub — I'll want two of your books.” The letter was signed Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Noell and David, 3614 E. Washington St. Are you sure two will be enough, Mr. Noell? You can have more. Thirteen plus 1138 makes 1151. Only 28,949 more requests to go for “You, Too.”
American Epic
By Robert C. Ruark
NEW YORK, Aug. 19—Now that Margaret Mitchell's dead, I suppose the critics will finally get around to calling her an artist instead of a oné-shot phenomenon, and “Gone With the Wind” will wind up in history as one of the greater American novels. . That 1s what it was, of course, despite the fact that the author was an amateur. There was none of the tedious, windy sermonizing that now tends to stamp a book as an art form, and the characters, perhaps, were cut too closely to a. Hollywood pattern. That is mere coincidence, and should reflect no discredit on Miss Mitchell on her tele-phone-tome sized epic. x x
Remarkably Accurate Job
GWTW WAS a tremendously long book, over 1000 pages as I remember, but it never abandoned its pace and it never sagged in the middle. Unlike the wordy bore, “Anthony Adverse,” which preceded it, it employed na mysticism or allegory. FRR ATT whieh:
accurate picture of a starkly dramatic time. Since its publication more than a decade ago, I have read and re-read GWTW half{-a-dozen times, looking Tor flaws in its construction; characterization and plot. I never found any worthy of remembering. Neither the wilful Miss O'Hara, the flamboyant Butler nor the wistful Wilkes were..overblown, in terms of the post Civil War period. ) Miss Mitchell never knew a lot of long, tough words, but her dialog was ear-perfect. Her descriptive stuff was. as sound as any the tonier professionals have produced lately. Her research was both colossal and accurate. The critics knocked her around some, but about the only real fault you could find with GWTW was that it was so easy to read that 8 million people read it. This always outrages the precious boys who will find artistic merit in nothing this side of Virginia Woolff. One of the things I always admired about Miss
Mitchell was her complete lack of pretense of professional authorship. She spent 10 years or so hammering out the single epic she knew so well, and was content to float on the splash it created and the money it made. She never made a rush into print again with a shoddy substitute, which would have automatically sold several million copies on the impact of her name. She sat quietly at home in Atlanta, counted her money, looked after her foreign rights, and never chucked her weight around a nickel's worth.
Ranks With Huckleberry Finn
1 SUPPOSE they will shoot me for saying that
Scarlett and Rhett and Mammy will hang around’ the future with Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, but
they will. In my tired eyes Miss Mitchell's labor showed a higher craftsmanship than a great deal of Mark Twain's work, which so often bounded off to a whooping. start and wound up cheap twent-thirt melodrama. I cite you here “Huckle-
Finn. which was.
fiction. : You cannot set common critical standards
against a book that so inflames the public imagi—pation that the citizens of 30 foreign lands are
avidly familiar with the burning of Atlanta and the strains.of post-war’ reconstruction. GWTW was the top literary phenomenon of the age, and as such strode strongly Away from the miserable muck that has since been labeled “historical novel." Eras Qnly one major criticism can be fired at Miss Mitchell as an author. She firmed the pattern
-for the copycats, so that ever since 1936 we have '
wallowed helplessly in a quagmire of busty, tempestuous heroines, side-whiskered bravos, and cornpone conversation, written largely by natives of New Hampshire and Vermont on the strength of an afternoon's visit to the public library. And that, again, merely strengthens “Gone With the Wind's” position as an all-time epic of the American South.
| Sticky Stuff
‘By Frederick C. Othman
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—There seems to be
an argument about what Sen. Karl E. Mundt, the Nephew Harold for what the latter called a fast Course. South Dakota Republican, called the deep freeze, hundred dollars. Thit added up to $1268 paid by|
race track and molasses expert of the White House, Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan. About all
Bunny - Maragon immediately. put the bee on
was he'd testified previously under oath that Hon-
Utopia on the Rocks—. |
t Labor Governm
Resisted By
Trade ‘Organization of 250,000 Retailers Demands a Hearing
The British government is an elaborate structure. It is trying to run a completely planned state — just as systematized as Russia ~under democratic forms and handicaps. This calls for a wealth of regulations and rules. Also, since there is free speech and the play of public opinion, it results in many changes and sudden revisions of policy. i’ * This complicated system throws a heavy burden on British industry. in a wogd in which prices are falling and competition growing. It contributed fo Britain's grave financial crisis. In order to study and report on Britain's growing problems, the Scripps-Howard pers sent E. T. Leech, one of their most skillful editor-re to the British Isles. This is the fifth in a series of stories telling what he found. —
By E. T. LEECH, Scripps-Howard Writer LONDON, Aug. 19—Britisn storekeepers awoke the other morning and read that prices on an important part of the goods on their shelves had been cut five per cent during the night, There {had been no intimation of such action. The merchants had to take the full loss, since the articles had been bought at former prices. : Business spokesmen quickly denounced the cut—which was in utility clothing, footwear and; United State A Gowns household textiles—as ely. n Ss and Canada— [ouse purely. >” would be reduced one-fourth, | . {Since the government does “bulk [been through» “ough. month Ing", of most basic commodi-
(ties, and then re-sells to business {8 24-hour dock strike, sporadic s..' "it" con turn imports on and rallroad slow- loft at will downs followed v by notice of an intended general rail strike, a barely averted
{ford’s action—which will mean {less tobacco and food--there was
{few ration quotas. And a tight-
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ndon i ening of some others—including | strike, [restoration of candies to the ra- | flock of {tion list. inomic erisis. | These incidents illustrate some |Some move was {of the uhcertainties of life among
{businessmen and consumers in
needed to relieve i {England. The so-called
| To soften the blow of Sir Staf- .
{simultaneous small easing of a _
“free
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ent Price Small Shopke
general pressure for pay Iincreases. The price cut was particularly hard on small shopkeepers. In time it would apply to wholesalers and manufacturers. But at the start, announced for early September, the retailer vould: take the full loss. = » ” A GOVERNMENT spokesman pointed out that it might be off-
Mr. Leech
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{business”—which is the part that {hasn't been nationalized by the
{Labor Party—is actually very far *
{from being free. It is privately
jowned, but publicly controlled.
{Sudden and drastic things happen [to it. | British business, state-owned jor private, runs under an amaz{Ing network of planning. There (are plans ‘within plans; bureaus {within bureaus; national, regional, {local and plant committees; ex-
set by savings in staff and sery-/POrt and import licenses; prioriice. That is, fire some clerks ties for raw materials and maand make the customers wait chinery and labor; endless forms longer. Meanwhile, get busy and/t® be filled and records to be write new price tags. kept. Plans get snarled, and are For almost the first time, how-|Supplanted or modified by new ever, business is resisting a gov-{Plans. Rules don’t work, so they ernment ruling almost as- fiercely|are bolstered by new rules. as unions sometimes have done. . The trade organization of 250,000 BIG AND . little policies can retailers met and refused to make/change suddenly. the cuts unless given a hearing. There is really no free business So a hearing will be held—for it/in Britain. = Americans have Is far harder to face the anger heard mostly about the basic in-
than. of a few big ones. {They haven't generally © A couple of weeks previously, that all business is run under Britain's economic boss, Sir Staf- elaborate Socialist rules, to fit ford’ Cripps, had announced with definite political theories.
almost equal suddenness that buy-| The general theory is that |
Synopsis: Ned Ramsey has come to live with his Aunt Lydia, Uncle Hiram and his cousins; Almira, Tom .and Porter in their home on fashionable Prairie Avenue in Chicago. Since his arrival he has become infatuated with little Celia Kenneriley and suspects his Aunt Lydia of being too friendly with Mr. Kennerly. Ned is somewhat taken aback by Mrs. Kennerley's alcoholic antics but says nothing, Uncle Hiram leaves for Mississippl as soon as he learns that his largest mill is on fire. Now go on with the story— CHAPTER EIGHT
EARLY IN the New Year Uncle Hiram returned from his trip, looking, against reason, more rested than when he had left; he declared that the change had done him good. Almira and her brothers went back to school; Ned resumed his studies with Mr. Leslie (which now took nearly the whole morning). Mrs. Kennerley soon recovered from her indisposition. The first
of a lot of small businessmen dustries taken over by the state. 1 ealized
should work under a national plan for the same social The threat of being nationalized or penalized or subjected to state competition hangs over much of private industry. Part of the Labor Party's platform is a program of power to (1) start new public enterprises when needed, or: (2) take over inefficient concerns failing to meet government standards, or (3) concerns offered for sale, and use them to compete with . private
{1950 election, inatio
jest of all
buy existing
Also, if the Socialists win the they have a new
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: The author of "Utopia on the Rocks,"
at the Tower of London during his visit to England.
by the state, and (2) privately owned and operated business
a
chats with a Beefeater
three-fifths of the nation’s steel
the move.
workers—the biggest and toughthe nationalization schemes thus far attempted. They are trying, and apparently will manage, to do this before the elettion—thus avoiding a test at the polls. If the Conservatives win, they have promised to block
But if the Labor Party wing a second term, it is turning its eyes toward -some schemes in state ownership which will shake both England “and the world; "One “of them involves taking over some Make it hard to conipete in a big insurance companies. England | moving world. : long been a world insurance —
program on tap. Their immediate fight is to take center.
THE NEXT afternoon at ten|ciate herself from her mother’s minutes before the appointed activities. _In_the dining-room hour, Aunt Lydia appeared crack-!J ling with efficiency in her bestiof Negro waiters . . . For a few brown taffeta and sables, and de-|awful minutes it occurred to Ned clared herself ready for the fray. {that perhaps nobody was going Ned and Almira were to ac-to come to the party. However, | company her, at Mrs. Kennerley's four o'clock had hardly struck! particular request; Aunt Lydia when the front-door-bell rang, | said it would néver do to hurtiand for the next twenty minutes Aunt Corinne's feelings, and she/it went on ringing briskly, allayed their misgivings by say- * # = ing they might sit in a corner] IT. SOON became apparent out of everyone's way and not|that curiosity had conquered—or speak unless spoken to—which else local society had decided, was all that was expected of | with Colonel Mapleson, that the
time Ned saw her he thought she seemed markedly quieter than be-| There was a general murmur of fore, a little meek and pathetic. Sympathy. Mr. Cobden cleared his . As the wintér passed Ned's de-|throat and looked up from tlhe votion to Celia grew stronger, carcass ‘of the prairie chicken he though it had little to grow on./Was systematically demolishing to {She accepted his preference for|say: “Danged awkward, Abner; her company as a matter of You have my sympathy, old man!” | For the next few days nothing
{make any real progress. She ceived “to meet Madame Sigrid
the reporters can agree is that it wasn't exactly est John Maragon never accepted a dime from might be perfectly charming if Svenson.”
complimentary.
anybody for helping out with government deals.
{she felt like it, but that augured
children at parties. Mrs. Kennerley jumped up all-|snub: the whole of the feminine a-flutter to greet them. Ned|South Side was there, with a thought she might "have been (goog slice of the North and the taken for a- prima donna: her- possible part.of the West as well. self, in her brilliant orange gown| Madame Swenson commanded and black beaded Zouave jacket. general attention when she made
Somé of Its companies ing from “dollar areas”—chiefly basic industries should be owned over the 107 biggest firms in the have great investments in bus-' cine is Costly but Popular,
Kennerleys weré too influential to!
He saw Aunt Lydia eye her smart {French toque regretfully; Prairie
(chance in one’s own,
jher entrance. She was a very [tall woman-as tall as Aunt
What was discouraging was| Was talked of but the Kennerleys’'| Avenue seldom approved of. hats Lydia — big-boned . rathér than | that, ‘with Celia, one could not/Party. Invitations were duly re-|/in the house, and never by any stout, with héavy hands and! the molasses boilers to the Bunny. The trouble {blunt peasant fingers.
She was
epers
ness —~just as American firms. do, but on more of a world-wide
companies. Also, they could a lot of insurance away 1
and Canadian. - #" ~ ¥
OTHER INDUSTRIES eyed for a new round of nationalization include cement, sugar refining, chemicals, metals mining and cold storage. The government which has done or plans these things is run by an organization much like the American Federation of Labor
"in structure, The Labor Party—
like the AFL — is a federated organization, with dues-paying members and votes dependent on the number of dues paid, The Labor Party has around 4,700,000 paying members. More than four million of these are in unions belonging to the Trades Union Congress. The TUC therefore pays over four-fifth of the dues and casts over four-fifth of the votes on party policies. These policies control the British government. . In addition to the unions, there are about 600,000 Labor Party members belonging as individuals or small societies, There are about 40,00 Fablans—who are the early intellectual or theoretical Socialists. Intellectuals and left-wingers from business, .the professions and the upper classes (approximating the U. 8. “parlér pinks") are a small minority. But they
. have a majority of Socialist seats
in Commons, and many official jobs. The trades unions are chiefly interested in economic matters. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin is an outstanding leader of that ul
iron and steel business, employing|S' 0uP-
Sir Stafford Cripps is the leading intellectual left-winger. Prime Minister Clement Attlee comes from a third influential wing—the social workers, who are passionately devoted to security plans, the health and housing programs and welfare activities. 2 These various wings—dominated by labor union votes—run the British government. Each following its own particular line, they have given England an intricate and slow-moving network
fast
TOMORROW: State Medi-
| forcements. Mrs. Kennerley ran |to met them, perhaps for the first
; see her husband. | Madame Svenson revived rapid{ly in the atmosphere of masculine homage and remained in high good humor. At supper Madame Svenson ate {twice as many oyster patties as anybody else, though she spurned the Kennerleys' vintage champagne for some steins of good Milwaukee beer. And when she found that Uncle -Rock was an |expert pianist she brought the {party to a rapturious close by singing for nothing, in a voice as sweet and pentrating as a violin, both arais from Aida and a few graceful Swedish folksongs that sounded as innocent as Mother Goose.
took her departure, hearty and | beaming to the last.
" ” » | THE STACKS were the last to
There was no-one else in sight also one of the blondest persons leave. Aunt Corinne and Aunf
"Festivities were to start at four|except Sonny; his big, dark eyes Ned had ever seen.
For the record and in case anybody wants to Hence, the perjury charges which, if they stick, [nothing for the future: the day o'clock with a ladies’ tea; gentle- brimming with suppressed laugh-| -She stood where she was, mak-
sue, or punch somebody in the nose, I can Feport ~could- send my neighbor. away for about three after, it was
that I had a front seat. My ears were in first. class working condition. The Senator had a cigar in his face and hence could be accused of mumbling, but I heard him say that at first he thought President Truman's military aidé was a mere bumbling fumbler, But having listened to the tale -of the General and the million gallons of molasses, which turned out to be sticky stuff indeed, Sen. Mundf said he had decided that Gen, Vaughan was a finagling " bargainer, “ The whole day seemed to be devoted to insults. "Another Senator, Joseph R. McCarthy (R. Wis.), sald he thought the General's sidekick (and my neighbor in McLean, Va.), John (Bunny) Maragon, ought to go to jall for perjury. :
Meet Over the Suds
SEEMS THE GENERAL and the Bunny were qhafling beer at a shindig in the Schlitz brewery * ‘with about 60 politicos in Milwaukee. Over the suds they met one Milton Polland, an insurance agent, whose nephew was in a jam with the Agriculture Department over a million-gallon molasses deal. 2
So ‘Milt slipped the Bunny $500 in cash, gave .
him a check for another $500 and paid his bill for $168 at the Carlton Hotel in Washington in exchange for favors yet to be done. Then Uncle Milt introduced the Bunny to his nephew, Harold Ross, president of the Allied Molasses Co., of Perth Am-: boy, N. J. ’ :
The Quiz Master
“ture Department's young men told the General
years. Messrs. called a lot of things by a lot of people, but I must report that the official evidence. indicates they tried hard to get the molasses for Nephew Harold.
And when I said he was in a jam, that was put-|
ting it mildly. Divérsion Charged
THE AGRICULTURE Department charged| him with diverting 771,000 gallons of scarce cane
syrup after the war to the Pepsi-Cola Co. Officials!
of the department charged Mr. Ross with criminal disregard for the law and refused to let him buy any more molasses. Imagine their surprise, said they, when Gen. Harry called up from the White House to demand that they give Mr, Ross some more molasses, namely: One million gallons. They'd hardly recovered from that when the Bunny dropped down to insist that Mr. Ross was| a sweet fellow being forced out of business for al lack of sweetening. The trouble was that the agriculture people thought Bunny was a government official. No wonder. He told 'em to phone him at the White House. They did. There he was In Gen. Vaughan's office. I am happy to report finaily that the Agricul
and the Bunny, in language not much more diplomatic than this, to go jump. Nephew Harold never got any more of that scarce molasses. There wasn’t any bumbling fumbling in the Agriculture Department, or finagling. bargaining, either.
77? Test Your Skill ???
Which President of the United States was
, .. administered the oath of office by his father?
Ivin Coolidge took the oath in the Vermont 1 ouse where he was born. The oath of office was administered by his father, John Coolidge, the local Justice of the peace.
as al Sle “ ‘Who discovered the
Whiére does the nation’s supply of popcorn come from? 2 The nation’s popcorn supply comes largely from Iowa, which produces about 50,000,000 bush-| els yearly. » 9 north magnetic pole? James Clark Ross is credited with the disin 1881, while
Vaughan and Maragon have been
» » » IN FEBRUARY the influenza! their offices; and the affair would (Season opened. Everybody at 1817 conclude with a buffet supper. caught it. The young Stacks were —————— {sent to bed one by one as they | succumbed. o But the Stacks were not the
all to do over again, men were asked to come in after-|ter, and Celia, who looked ‘heart-| {wards, on their way. home from breakingly beautiful and exqui-
|sitely aloof; as usual, she con-
{ing no effort-to advance, raking the crowd with a blankly insolent stare. It took a long time to
{Lydia had naturally a great deal |to discuss. Mr. Kennerjey. and Uncle Hiram; incredibly, began to talk about business. |" "When at length “Aunt Lydia
|trived without words to 'disso- present everyone, but the ordeal| called for her veil and her cloak
No Bugler Left to Sound
I) ff 8s. Everybod ‘ ‘ boc was cougning wns mens LAST Sad Taps for GAR
—and indeed, thought Ned, with such “a climate, they be?
why wouldn't VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug.
ferent kinds of weather, but as last encampment. ) far as he could tell most of the, kinds in winter were bad. Spring came in the end of meeting at Indianapolis Aug. 28. March. Spring ii Chicago meant| ‘I wish there could be a bugler that the wind slued round to the there to sound the final call for north-east; rain fell in a never-|/ us,” he said, “but none of the reending deluge; “the = greening Maining boys are buglers. lawns grew soggy, then frankly| The old soldier said the assemturned to mud. | ply of four survivors would take Ned's first outing after in-/Placé’ in the. town where the fluenza took him’ down to lunch|original Grand Army formed with his uncle at “the club.” They|under Gen. John A. Logan in entered the dining room to find|1867. ® quite full and were ushefed by e steward to the round table : in ‘the corner at which hel Mr. Penland will have no suc-
Hir . ] {cessor as commander. He will Prairie a aye Fi ofl head the GAR until, as he put it, sticking together: of the eight or the books are closed.
nine men already seated Ned had] He was born Jan. 23, 1849, in met all but Realy . Goshen, Ind., the son of a farmer,
The food was very good, ang He served with the Indiana vol-
Will Be Final Chief
dishes to choose from. k ; "on » {-, “People were tougher then,” he FROM MATTERS of . public declared. “My father. walked concern Mr. Kennerley switched three miles with a hole in his beltthe conversation to a more per-|line before he dropped dead.” sonal irritation: Mrs, Kennerley,| Mr, Penland attributes his long It appeared, intended to-give aljife to travel, clean lving and party. Whom did they ‘.suppose waking. : Corinne purposed entertaining?! He once walked 1400 miles on
Why, an actress—some Swedish the trail to California after Appowoman who happened to be sing- mattox.
uncle, Sir
son's troupe! ,
ing here at the
He ‘enlisted at the illegal age of 16 by writing “18” om & scrap of
a Wo
opera with Maple-
there was a distracting array of He 8, principally on picket du-| 4 :
rounded up 800 Boy Scouts and 800 wheélchairs to trundle us off to the train. I asked my Boy
me push owt.
19. (UP)— Theodore A. Penland,
paper, wedging it in his shoe and swearing he was “over 18.”
was not so bad, after all, In the first place, Madame Svenson, it |developed, spoke English pass{ably well. In the second place, {she was not nearly so rude .as {she had seemed at first. Her {Initial gesture had been one of {pure surprise; she soon became
| 100-year-old commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, WAS quite expansive, smiling often to Chicago had a great many dif-| sad today because there won't be a bugler to play taps at the GAR’s ‘reveal her large, very white
teeth, (and accepting the compliments of
Mr. Penland is one of five surviving members of the GAR Who her Chicago admirers with naive | plan to answer the final roll call at the GAR's 83d and final—
and child-like pleasure, As soon as formal introductions were over the prima donna,
“I was on the skirts of the|asserting that she could. stand
crowd at the first encampment in Indianapolis, and I didn’t heat any of the speakers,” he reflected. “This time I'm going to give a ship-launching speech that I composed during the last war.” He recited it without a slip in a firm, resonant, drill-sergeant’s voice. J It began: “Guide this victory for America. . , x The spry, bespectacled centenarian has 12 great-grandchildren and 19 great-great-grandchildren, He doesn’t expect to marry again, soon. “I'm going to wait a little while , ,, until I get older,” he
ship to
Then he told of his trip in 1938 to Gettysburg for the unvsfling of a monument, dedicated to both the Union and Confederate armies, ! “After they lit the gas flame that will . burn forever, they
Scout what is was for. After he told me I said, ‘Getgjn son. Let
{no more, settled herself by .the
fire. in comfortable armchair, . ” » SHE DRANK several cups of very strong coffee and ate a great number of sandwiches and cake. She had eaten, she had drunk, as much as she cared for; she had said everything she had to say to Mrs. ‘Kennerley’'s good women, and had listened patiently to everything they had to say to her. Now, if they would he kind enough to leave her alone till the men came in, she might be able to snatch a short nap. Although she did not express it, her manner made her meaning clear, A The ladies were less pleased than they had been. Mrs. Kennerley’s sprightly chatter died away in a trickle of random remarks; “iy Iv To The door-bell rang, and Mr,
[Kennerley and Uncle Rock, first
of their contingent, entered with the caution of African hunters exploring a dangerous bit of ter-
ritory. Aunt Lydia smiled vieforiousty at the sight of rga-
{Mr. Kennerley took her hand and [thanked her profusely. “I'm sure I don't know how we'd have got {through his ordeal without you, ‘my lady. There are no words to express my gratitude. Ah, if only Corinne would see fit to expend such efforts on her neighbors {instead of exploiting the town for |that crude Swedish washer(woman , , ,!” Lo {| Mrs. Kennerley looked as if she {would like to annihilate her husband. For a moment Ned feared [she might be going to slap his face; then, tired to death by t®e strain of the day, she began crye ing Instead—not loudly or hyster-ically--but with the hopéless, con-
The tears poured down her cheeks; she made no effort to stop or to wipe them away. Mr. Kennerley stood biting his. lips with an expression of sorely tried patience; he said nothing. Finally Aunt Lydia roused herself. “Take the children home, Hiram, without waiting for me, You can send Tim back, if you will; I'll be ready to leave in just a few minutes. There, there, my darling .'. . XI know . . . 1 ow, J»
Placing her arm round the little - trembling. figure “in bright orange satin, she half led, half carried her friend upstairs. One could only applaud her skill, her resourcefulness, her instant response to the other's need. Yet somehow Ned had never so neaply disliked his Aunt Lydia,
(To Be Continued) , by: :
It was almost eleven when she -
British firms and into competing “.. 4 companies — especially American
™™N,
i
ohnson had marshalled his corps time in years genuinely glad to ~~
{ de,
centrated woe of a desolate child, *