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THE BLESSED
BARRIER
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By FANNIE HURST
(@® by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
(WNU Service)
OMEWHERE in the heart, the
mind and the spirit of young
Sterling was a barrier as high,
practically, as his life was long.
Had you even suggested anything
of this to any member of the Buh-
low family, they would have met the
implication with loyal and heated de-
nial.
How could Sterling secretly feel
himself an outsider in the Buhlow
family, when not one of the Buhlow
children, although they had quite sim-
ply been told when they each became
eight, had an atom of consciousness
that Sterling not blood brother?
As a matter of fact, bending
far backward perhaps to achieve this
end, Ann Proscow Buhlow took
pains to see to it that Sterling re-
celved even more than their own chil-
dren of parcntal solicitude.
The fact that
adopted by Ann
marriage was as remote
of her present husband
as if it had
Sterling belonged. As the
member of a remarkably rt
of children, he was the ackn
leadér of the ¢l
“Sterling |
er,” Ann Ww
alleged eldest, t
loquial young
mother, “He sets
to the rest of
have to live up
“Sterling is
ly eldest,
such occasions,
anthrope, an
misbehaviorist,
mong the unworldlings of my moth-
er's generation as clever.”
“Oh, Shirley, be yourself,”
two Shirley,
tort om the
“You know J
head to be as cl
“What Shirley
going to i
ther,
pillow flung b3
that had been
sister,
“Father, it Is
it a point t
in jest. Otherwise
never grant
Typleal,
ling
so-called
was
{00
and
had been
previous
in the minds
and children
never happened.
: 1
Steriing
during a
Lis
genlor
group
wiedged
yas
Ann's réal-
sing out on
eynie, a
yd he passes off
\
Terry,
would re-
How,
years below
dodgin
would
stood
gisters,
Buhlow
their
figshand, as a
job it was to analyze the
of the human brain, Proscow
to be to ferret out the
attack streak of cynical
in Sterling.
“Darling,
there anything
“1 want my father to
with ten thousand
antee against the horirble
ever wanting to be anything
“Sterling, won't you be serious just
You're twenty now. The
has when gimply have to
decide what you want to do with your
fife. You're talented!
sainting. Writing, I've a
you can be a great person in any one
of them.”
“Perhaps.”
“Proscow, you talk to him."
Curious, with any one of their own
children, this problem would have
been treated in quite another manner.
In fact, the problem of Terry had al-
ready been handled with decision and
the school for his medieal training
solocted. With Sterling. just because
of his equivocal position In the
tousehold. the dilemma of stimulat-
ing him to action was a subtle and
troublesome one,
“You know after all, Sterling, your
father, in spite of his wealth, could
never be wealthy enough to encour.
age a dilettante in the family”
A flush ran beneath the pallor of
the best-looking member of the Buh-
tows. Ann had struck in. Proscow,
and rightly, wonld not permit one of
his gons to live off of his largess
much less Sterling, the out.
able
way to
the inertia
all your brains, isn't
to be?
subsidize
you want
“
once? time
come you
too Musie
suspicion
alder,
How Yo convey to these dear, warm
discreet people that gnawing, sicken-
ing sense of his outsideness, The
very coloring of the eyes and halr
af his five foster brothers and sis
ters wns something Sterling could
never look upon without the cold
sense of being allen sweeping through
the lonely Inner moors of his desola-
tion,
The Buhlows were blond, every one
of them, blue-eyed, straw-haired,
Dark, aloof, alone, he stood in thelr
dear, kind world—the alien whose
{solation no one dared mention, The
allen, who by very virtue of the
|
anomaly of his position, was treated
with considerations that hurt more
than helped. All of his childhood,
Sterling had yearned for the heartler
reprimands handed out so unselfcon-
sciously to the Buhlow children, No
childish dispute had ever been get-
tled against him, The allen deferred
to!
The same way now with his re
tarded decision, With not one other
of his children would Proscow have
been so indulgent. Terry was a con-
crete example. Even Shirley, the only
girl in the group, had never met the
quality of indulgence that had been
meted out to Sterling.
It made the bitterness and the hurt-
ing and the secret gnawing pain of
being special, and a little outside the
dear, inner group of people who were
dearer than dear to him, almost too
vast to be borne.
It was not alone the sense of being
the outsider, it the knowledge
that their unspoken sense of it kept
them all sp cruelly considerate, so
deferential “to his special position,
Not even his foster father was to
sense this out as the of the
curious problem confronting him In
this foster son of his
Too bad. Most gifted member of
the family. Brains. Talent. Will get
iis bearings in time, of course. But a
curious licked kind of psychology to
the lad. Doesn't care a great deal
abou anything. Fine intelligence,
High strung, but not unduly nervous,
Sensitive, of course. But somewhere
in the machinery of the boy's fine
mind, a monkey wrench.
For a
have
was
secret
while Shirley had seemed to
the
were so
easiest access to confidence
They
admiration, each
entire chil
cloge: 80
had
their
repartee, gibe and banter, they were
nonetheless closer than any other two
of the children.
jut then
hood
Merciless In
at this stage, when
ever Sterling had
noncommittal dilettante,
had fallen
was eating Sterling.
However, in the end it was Shirley
who was to find her way into the tor.
mented labyrinth of Sterling's dl
lemma,
more
the
Shirley
Something
become
even
back defeated.
The recital of his years of secret
anguish and
from him
the
}
been
hurt and jealousies came
one night in a
heels of a discussion
having together on
refusal to compete
they had
the sublect
of his for an
prize.
Sentence
revea
“I'm too jealous, Si
the
with being
v
i
the peopl
to care abot
licked before 1 start
the world,
thing, Sterl
late years of mine U
years that they has
are not
mear
it you
lease don't sit there pretend.
i't know what I mean.
w terrible it
were of us”
would
iuddenly, seeing her there in a ra-
» to bless the
them!
and seeing, ca
was not
Coal Mined in Great
Britain Since Year 1239
The first charter giving liberty to
the town of Newcastle-upon-the-Tyne
to dig coal was granted by Henry III
in 1230, and denominated
coal” on account of its being shipped
to places at a distance. In the year
1281, this trade had so extended that
laws were passed for its regulation.
In Scotland coal was worked at
about the same time and a charter
was granted in 1201, in favor of the
abbot and convent of Dumfermline, in
the county of Fife, giving the right of
digging coal to the lands of Pitten-
erieff, adjoining the convent.
Coal began to be used for smelting
about the beginning of the Seven
teenth century.
The working of coal gradually in-
creased until the beginning of the
Eighteenth century, when the steam
engine was brought forward in the
year 1705, and was applied to col
Heries in the vieinity of Newcastle
about the year 1715. This engine pro-
duced a new era in the mining con-
cerns at Creat Britain and collieries
were opened In every quarter and the
coal trade increased to an astonish
ing extent,
Biblical “Slips”
Our recent note on a clergyman’'s
discovery that a Bible verse ran:
“Gird up thy lions” instead of “loins”
brought from correspondents letters
concerning other errors that have
slipped into this and kindred religious
works. Thug in one Bible an error in
punctuation made a certain passage
ran: “The wicked flee, when no man
pursueth the righteous, is ns bold as a
Hon.”
And the omission of a letter in a
passage in the Book of Common Prayer
made it run: “We shall all be hanged
in the twinkling of an eye."~Doston
Transcript.
was “sen
GIA ARI
| Modern Contract
Bridge
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By Lelia Hattercley
No.
Distributional Values
HEN your hand indicates that
a suit take-out is the best policy,
but the sum of your honor-tricks is
below the yardstick measurement for
game, you should declare only a suf-
ficient number of tricks to cover your
partner's bid. In taking out with a
no trump, use the yardstick measure.
ment, bidding one or two no trumps
according to the indications of your
partnership holding in honor-tricks,
In short, whenever you are taking
out and it is still uncertain whether
your partnership hands will prove
congenial at your new bid, you must
tread gingerly unless the sum of your
honor-tricks spells "GAME."
Often however, when your partner
has made an original sult bid of one,
there may enter into your
a factor which justifies you in totally
disregarding the yardstick measure-
ment of honor-tricks, so important in
most responses, This factor is the
distribution of your hand. If your
hand is so favorably distributed as
to show great length {n your partners
sult, length in a second suit and com-
plete for
response
of 4 third, as
ample: 8-Q100876
10086
absence ex.
53, when your
a spade, could
of honor-tricks and
you
i
into a game
3
bx
would
your partner's
promise no
length in clubs off
of setting vj
your partner repeated ruffing op-
portunities, and most important of all
for your deficit of
honor-tricks, your short and missing
suits would enable you to trump
your opponent's defensive strength in
honor-tricks. It is certain that no
more than one honor-rick in hearts
tru
losers
y some
ing
ing
in compensating
off
all in diamonds. So that evan
ugh your partnership total of hon-
ri only to the 2%
partner's original id
practical certainty
the opponent's
nt to a strong honor
when
1 3
fcks sums up
which your
f breaking
de
reckoned
e to your partne
aying Tricks
As a rule the last thing that a con-
player learns Is the
wtant thing he should DOW,
the play
most im
Ti iL
tricks
, how to count
og his hand
&
Bat
and no trump
there is no belter
count of
be set up.
bids
than the wardstick
tricks
The
COUN
DE
direct and method of
honortricks, so helpful in
valuing no trumps, will not answer
raises and rebids at declared
which must be played under
totally different conditions. As a mat.
ter of fact, the difference in play of
no trump and suit hands creates two
almost totally different games. #0
that a separate system of valuation
tnust necessarily be used for each
The count of playing tricks at a
suit bid is an easy matter for a play-
er of long experience and judgment
Fortunately for the average player,
in the approach-forcing system what
is an unconscious mental process with
the expert has been translated into
a concrete form known as the dis
tributional count. The distributional
count may be mastered in half an
hour's study, and once clearly com-
prehended, enables any team of play-
ers to value their hands at suit bids
with the precision of experts
(©. 1932, by Lalla Hattersley.)
(WRU Berviee)
simpie
Angling Pro and Con
Tzank Walton said: “We may say
of angling as Doctor Boteler sald of
strawberries: ‘Doubtless God could
have nade a better berry, but doubts
less God never did’; and so, (If 1
might be Judge) God never did make a
more calm, quiet, innocent recreation
than angling. But Doctor Johnson, a
mueh more erudite man, defined a fish-
tng rod as “a stick with a hook at one
end and a fool at the other”
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