IRONY OF FATE B By R. H. WILKINSON ®. Bell Byndlcate.~~WNU Service. EGINNING with the day Shella Flake commenced her duties at the Bellevue hospital, she prom: ised herself that, under no con- ditions, would she fall in love with Dr. Julian Oakes. The resolution was made entirely be cause of hearsay. Until the moment she stepped Into Doctor Oakes’ office, garbed in her im maculate, starched uniform, she had not set eyes on the unsuspecting ob Ject of her self-denial And for this reason, Shella can be forgiven for so hasty a decision, For as Sheila stood there just inside the office door and looked across the room at the tall, spare man who, at the moment, was stooped over a filing cabinet, understanding came. In one breath-taking moment she knew why it was that all the other nurses (with no exceptions) so frankly admitted their affection for this noble featured surgeon. He looked up at her and smiled. Sheila saw the marks of strain and worry that lided his face. She saw eyes that were filled with kindness and gentleness: eyes that were at once alive and interesting, yet thoughtful and appraising. He came across the room and spoke to her, introduced himself, offered a chair. And for some unaccountable reason her heart began to pound, a pounding she could not still. There was something about him; his voice, his manner of walking, the gen- tle appeal of his personality, that sent the warm blood coursing through her veins. And from that was miserable. She loved him. She admitted it frankly, herself. And this reluctance to release the last fragment of her crumpled resolu. tion only served to make the misery In her heart more poignant. Those others—her fellow-nurses— who so openly discussed thelr regard for “handsome Doctor Oakes” found relief for their feelings in those little intimate tete-a-tetes that are forever in progress in one room or another during the course of a day or night; a relief that Sheila would not permit her tor- tured soul. Never, she told herself, would she admit or even hint at the depth of this strange emotion that stirred her at sound of Doctor Oakes’ familiar steps in the corridor, at sight of his tall form bent over an operating table. There was consolation in the knowl edge that Doctor Oakes’ attitude toward the obvious flirtatiousness of the other nurses was quite phlegmatic. Though by the same token Sheila knew that should she betray her own feelings, her humiliation would be 10 times greater; her hurt unbearable. For even as Shella was certain of her love for the man, she was even more certain that that love was a thou- sand times deeper and more lasting than that of all her companions com- bined. Shella knew it couldn't Sooner or later he know. dither that or she'd have to go away. And of the two courses that were open to her she wondered on more than one occasion if she had the courage to choose the latter. For the present it was bearable: though with each passing day the tor- ture increased. Her work brought her in close con- tact with him. Irony of fate it was. For of all those to choose from. old and new, Doctor Oakes had selected her to ald him in the majority of his operations. Little did he know that the act was adding fuel to the fires of conflict and suppressed emotion that raged within the girl's soul. If, at first, Shella had dimly hoped his discrimination for her attendance up- on him was prompted by personal In terest, she hoped In vain. Not by the merest broadening of a smile did the man Indicate his concern was other than professional, During business hours he looked npon her with the same expression as he bestowed upon an unusual streptococel infection. And when. during off hours, they chanced to meet in one of the many corridors. his greeting was nothing more than the bright nod which he reserved for all nurses alike, The climax came six months after the first day that Sheila had stepped into Doctor Oakes’ office, The conflict in her soul had not raged without leaving physical traces of its existence. The color had left her cheeks. There were rings under her eyes. Her nerves were jumpy. And when at last she was forced to admit to herself that the end had come, Jt she must get away, she was thank. ul She thanked God for the courage that would enable her to depart from the hospital without betraying her se. eret. It was mid-afternoon when Shella descended to the floor where the super. intendent’s office was located. The corridor was empty, the hospital unusually quiet. But as Shella hurried past one door ry another, the quietude was abrupt: interrupted. day forward Sheila but only to last, would have to A door was y flung open, and 1 a a doctor | emerged. He stared wildly about him for an instant, and his eyes fell on Shella. He gestured excitedly, “Quick! It's Doctor Oakes! must operate at once! as a result of overwork and strain!” Shella’s heart stood still For just a The doctor had gone. The corridor was empty again. yond lay the superintendent's office, Could she go through with it? On top of everything else, this! Would her nerves stand the strain? Other nurses were avallable, , There was one in the corridor now, She shuddered at the thought. Another in attendance while an op eration was being performed on this man who had stirred the very depths of her soul! Unbearable! Shella steeled herself to the task. It was the smile with which he had looked upon her before going under the ether that steadied her; that bore her up during that delicate perform ance of the surgeons, And now It was over, Things swayed crazily. Shella leaned against the wall for support. She felt herself sinking; knew that she had found a chair. She tried bravely to rally. How humiliating for them to find her like this. And her last operation, too. But no one was looking, no one pay ing any attention. Doctor Oakes was coming out of the ether, She heard him moan. She stood up, tried to reach the door, ailed. She him, He was safe now, It would be better that she didn't walt until he'd regained consclousness, better that she didn't look into his eyes again. She clutched at the door jamb. . . . The unconscious man was talking, mumbling incoherently. Shella tried not to listen, tried not to hear his voice. . . . And then her grip on the door jamb tightened. Her heart stood utterly still A strange nausea swept over her. But through the thickness of it heard Doctor Oakes’ Clearer now, more dis tinct, unmistakable. “Sheila! Darling, come to me. Oh, it's been torture not telling you, trying not to let you know [ loved you. . . . Silly 1 was to even think there was a chance, that you could care. . . . Why, I'm so much older, . . . Of course you couldn't care. . . . No fault of yours. . Idiot I was for even thinking. . . . jut it's got the best of me. . . . | must get away some place where | ean forget. , , . Darling, 1 love you. . . must go, must get away from she voloe, “Man of Mars” Is Myth, Scientist's Photos Show There are no men of Mars. There is no life on the great planet that has intrigued the world for many years The statement was made as a scientific fact by Dr. Walter F. Adams, director of the Mount Wilson-Carnegile Instito- tion observatory. The has been sent to the institution's beadquar- ters In Washington, evidence Here Is how one of the observatory scientists, whom Doctor Adams would not name, convinced himself that “a trip to Mars” and the discovery there of splay-toed, froglike bipeds, must re- main fiction forever, Through Mount Wilson's great lense he photographed the earth-—as it looks from the moon! This was done by shooting a spectral photograph of the dark side of the new moon. The thin bright crescent, of course, reflected the sun; but the dark side reflected the earth as clearly, to the scientist's eye, as a mirror, With the developed negative there was a photograph of the earth as it looks 230000 miles away. He then compared the earth's photograph with those of Mars, taken from the earth, of course. He was able to show that earthly atmospheric conditions—of the kind necessary to sustain life—do not exist on Mars. Erga, there is no life: if there ever was, it has long since died. It is a bleak expanse of cold, hard dirt and rock, devoid of vegeta. tion, Embassies and Legations The United States government now owns 22 embassy and legation build. ings at the following capitals: Tirana, ES, the fashions paraded in style shows and pictured in newspapers and magazines are attractive enough, but they are only for slim and svelte young creatures, why don't they ever consider the needs of women who have reached forty and plus! It's a com plaint, and only too often a just one, which those older are continually vole ing. Just to prove to mothers and ma- trons that they are not left out in the scheme of things, look what's here in the picture—two of the loveliest flat- tering lace gowns imaginable, for wom- en of stately grace be they young or not so young. In spite of all the fren zied excitement over sumptuous gowns for the budding debutante, when It comes to beautiful appearance, smooth- ly groomed self-confident and slim-of silhouette, daughters better Jook to thelr laurels when it comes to com. peting with mothers and matrons In the art of dress these days The fact that lace is scheduled to play so important a part In fashions coming and here, is a good omen for matrons who appreciate the magic which flattering apparel yields in eras ing the years, and as every woman knows, there Is nothing more flattering, more exqulsitely feminizing than beautiful lace. The siately matron to the left in the picture is wearing a lace gown of high distinction. It is particularly ideal for the woman who has a limited wardrobe, for it is a rich black lace, which will give grand sery- ice the year round, winter and sum- mer. With an eye to being practical, the designer has created a short match ing Jacket, making the gown as happily apropos for informal dining as for for- mal dancing, The other gracious lace gown which is here pictured is charmingly tuned to a8 very youthful matron's dress-up needs, Bands of moire at the back ven it. This lovely dress is a Lucille Paray model. Lace is also being worked into chif- fon dresses very cleverly, the lace and fifty fifty. A winsome gown has a deep flounce of the lace with the same lace intricately set into the bodice and sleeves There are legions of novelty laces being shown In the advance displays Most interesting are the laces which have cellophane and metal accents. Beaded laces and embroidered laces of every imaginable type are also among the showings. Interesting news about lances includes the shirtwalst dresses which are being fashioned for resort wear and which will be good for summer wear later on. Midseason afternoon frocks in dark or bright crepes or light woolens are also trimmed with lace dyed a perfect match, Tallored lace is also being smartly featured for afternoon wear. The inces are of a somewhat sturdy charac. ter and the ensemble idea is carried out in that there is always an accom- panying jacket. ©. Western Newspaper Union. green enli if, 19 the chiffon gobing very SMART SPORTWEAR By CHERIE NICHOLAS 4; #7 Fa 5 de Janeiro, Brazil; Ottawa, Canada: Santiago, Chile; Peiping, China: San Jose, Costa Rica; Havana, Cuba: Prague, Czechoslovakia; Paris, France: london, England; Tokyo, Rome, Italy; Mexico City, Panama, Panama; Teheran, San Salvador, El Salvador; Bangkok, rocco. an international status, Parachute Packing Taught school are required to learn to pack parachutes and they test their efficien cy In this work without leaving the | ground by opening them in thé slip | stream created by an airplane engine | and propeller. The tester takes a po sition In the slipstream about fifty feet | from the engine and pulls the rip eord on the parachute at the same time running toward the motor. As the parachute opens he Is spun around and pulled along by the hig umbrelln until guards rush In and collapse it, Popular Mechanics Magazine, For fun and right smart juuntiness, | look to the leather hiplength Jacket, It is easy to slip into, comfy, free with | action back, and Inside it has a Johnny | collar to keep out wintry blasts. The | Scotch plaid skirt has as its predomi. | nating color, the same color of the Jacket, as do the calfskin kiltle tongues | that are excellent for walking. The | beret adds yet another note of jauntl ness, A New Volver ith 4 pile of ak le A dk capes and evening Br a cellophane on mended f mended ¥ shiny recom- such FASHIONS INSPIRED BY PEASANT THEMES Peasant themes, with their lovely col- orfulness and freshness, are inspiring the season's fashions. In virtually ev- ery branch of apparel there are innum- erable detalls that bear the unmistak- able imprint of peasant inspiration. Materials, with the new fringed edges In rustic fabrics, the peasant print cottons in sports frocks, and the combinations of gay colors, like red and green, purple and pink, are dis tinet changes from the modern trends Bloused bodices and gathered skirts, beits embroidered in peasant colors and motifs, raflia, cord-tied detalls and heavy linen and cotton laces In acces sories further establish the pre-emi- nence of this Influence, Trains Are Short for the Evening, Gowns Are Slit Most likely your new evening frock will have a slit skirt to show an al luring few inches of silk-clad leg, but if it has a train, the train will be short. And it Is quite likely that It may have a tunic and it may be trimmed with fur. All these points mark a lovely gown which is of dull rose taffeta with slanting shoulder straps of brown kolinsky that econ lightful for the more mature woman is a tunic dress of plum colored Chan tilly type lace with a long slim tunie and a trained skirt. There Is a sash of plum-colored satin, Another tunie dress has a tunic that is pointed at the back to form an overtrim. It is skirt, Patou Uses Moderate Slit Patou has surpassed himself with the simplicity and elegance of his “lite tle season” collection. He probably never before has designed such come pletely Jovely things, The lines which were felt 11 be a bit over-severe In his August collection have been modified into the most grace. ful of curves and angles, and the slits have become shorter for daytime and smartly moderate for evening, Let Our Motto Be GOOD HEALTH BY DR. LOYD ARNOLD Projstsor of Bactrer sad P; ai of Hlinois, Medisini us getty of ila GRANDMOTHER'S COLD REMEDIES ARE BEST If your head aches and your back aches and your legs ache, and you shake with a chill in a hot room, and your eyes are wa- tery, your nose stopped up, and you keep sneezing and speezing, you do not have to see a doctor for a diagnosis that you are beginning a head cold. You know from experi- ence that's what ! you've got. There probably isn't a person In this country older than an infant who has not had at least a few colds on the debit side of his ledger. Colds are the most general disease we experience, Now when you have a cold just start- ing, the most sensible thing is to stop it immediately, and the sooner you start the more successful you will be. If you say to yourself, “I won't bother now, but I'll do something to- night,” you may be In for a three- -day siege, which is the normal run of a cold that gets a good headway, or you may be in for a longer siege that may end In bronchitis, sinusitis, pieurisy or punewmonia. Medical sclence has been moderate ly successful in proving out ways for bullding up the body's resistance against colds, but thus far in the way of stopping a cold that has started, modern science has not been able to make any Improvement upon grand- mother’s remedies. Grandmother knew that her remedies did the trick. All that modern sclence has been able to do has been to tell why the remedies were successful Now, what did grandmother do? She told you to get into your night clothes while she filled a pan with hot water Then she set the pan on the floor with a chair beside it, and you sat on the chair with your feet in the water and a blanket around you until you were wet with perspiration. Then she tucked you into bed with several layers of warmed blankets over you. But be- fore she tucked you close around the head, she gave you a glass of hot lem- onade or of sweetened vinegar water. If your throat was sore, she put a warm flannel turpentine pack around your peck. Then she left you to sweat it out, and by morning, while you were still weak, the cold was gone, and by noon, if you bundled up well you were able to go Into the winter alr, with little danger of the cold coming back. Grandmother figured that these he roic measures were lots better—and lots less bother In the end—than hav- ing you hang around the house for days coughing your head off and per haps getting worse, and besides the rest of the family wouldn't be in such danger of catching the cold from you. Well, science says grandmother did the wisest thing possible. When you have a begiming cold, your skin is clammy and cold, and the blood is col- lected in the Internal organs. The sweating forces the contracted skin vessels to dilate, the sweat glands secrete, and the blood becomes concen trated by the loss of water from the sweat glands. This causes water to be drawn from the body cells into the biood stream, and there Is complete re- distribution of fresh blood. Heating the skin of the feet Is much better than applying heat to any other single body area since our feet are important ther mal regulators of the body. The blan- ket prevents heat Joss, The hot lemon julce or the hot vine gar water helps get the digestive sys tem In order, which was put out of order by first the chilling and then the heating of the body skin, with the con- sequence that the normal action of the stomach was upset and no acid could be secreted into it. The lemon juices give artificial acidity to the stomach and the heat in the “ade” causes a local increase in the blood supply to the stomach. Thus the digestive sys- tem becomes normal and active again without being loaded with food, and there is no danger of an accumulation of body acids. Likewise the flannel cloth moistened with warm turpentine and wrapped around the neck Is sound In its scien- tific principle. It is a form of counter A day and a night of grandmother's It is estimated that the average per- son engaged in gainful industrial em. days per year from his work because This causes a loss of millions of dol lars in wages alone, and In addition there is the loss In energy and effi. clency for many days following an at- tack, the loss from illness due to colds, and there is the cost of medicine and | the medical and nursing services, Colds are in their most infections | stage at thelr beginning. Perhaps some | day we shall become so enlighrened | that employers will send omployees | home Immediately at the first tion of a cold so that other emp Among Lower Animals When It comes to fasting, man is & poar second In comparison with the ability of various animals to go for long periods without food. Hu- man beings can go for ten or twelve days without food or water, and for weeks If they take water, but ani- mals can do much better than this, according to Professor Hartkopf, a German sclentist, “Man, under the somewhat ener. vating Influence of civilization,” says Professor Hartkopf, “has undoubted. ly lost much of his physical endur- ance, }y comparison with the in- ferlor organisms, he emerges only moderately well from this form of competition. Beasts of prey, inclod- ing birds, In the vicissitudes to which they are liable where the food sup- ply Is concerned, show a wonderful capacity to adjust themselves to un- favorable circumstances and readily endure fasts of two weeks and longer “All these records are surpassed by those of fishes, turtles, salaman ders, snakes and the like, “The winter sleep of the hedgehog and its fast, will last from three ta four months while a variety of wood. chuck fasts for more than four months without any kind of nourish ment.” The Fallen Mighty A £100 sult on his back, a £1,000,000 deal on his mind—and his lunch in his pocket. That's Wall Street today -8tock Market Technique, If You Eat Starches Meats, Sweets Read This They're All Necessary Foods w= But All Acid - Forming. Hence Most of Us Have “Acid Stomach’ At Times. Easy Now to Relieve. Doctors say that much of the so- called “indigestion,” from which so many of us suffer, is really acid in- digestion . . . brought about by too many acid-forming foods in our modern diel. And that there is now a way to relieve this often in minutes! Simply take Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia after meals. Almost im- mediately this acts to neutralize the stomach ‘acidity that brings on your trouble. You “forget you have a stomach!” Try this just once! Take either the familiar liquid “PHILLIPS”, or, now the comveaient new Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia Tablets. But be sure you get Genuine “PHILLIPS'™. Also in Tablet Form: Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia Tablets are now on sale at all drug stores everywhere. Each tiny tablet is the equiva. Je of a teaspoonful Caoryuine Ph lip’ Shak of PHILLIPS’ HELP KIDNEYS FF your kidneys function badly and you have a lame, aching back, with attacks of dizziness, burning, scanty or too frequent urination, getting up at night, swollen feet and ankles, rheumatic pains . . . use Doan's Pills. Doan’s are especially for poorly functioning kidneys. Millions of boxes are used every year. They are recommended the country over. Ask your neighbor! DOAN’S PILLS CHERRY-GLYCERINE COMPOUND For Coughs due to Colds, Minor irritations Bronchial and Throat JAS. BAILY & SON, Baltimore, Md. INDIGESTION, GAS
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