BRICH By Mary Schumann Copyright by Macrae Smith Co. WNU Bervice SYNOPSIS Kezia Marsh, pretty, selfish and twenty, ar rives home in Corinth from school and is met by her older brother, Hugh. He drives her to the Marsh home where her widowed mother, Fluvanna, a warm-hearted, self-sacrificing and anderstanding soul, welcomes her. Kezia's sis ter, Margery, plump and matronly with the tare of three children, is at lunch with them Hugh's wife, Dorrie, has pleaded a previous engagement. On the way back to his job at the steel plant founded by one of his fore. pears, Hugh Doc Hiller, a boyhood friend whom he no longer sees frequently be rause of Dorrie's antipathy, Fluvanna Marsh wakens the next morning from a dream about ser late husband. Jim, whose char acter she fears Kezia has inherited Sam Kllen Pendleton comes over. She is an artis tically inclined girl who is a distant niece of Fluvanna's and a favorite of Hugh's pily tells Fluvanna she has become engaged to Jerry Purdue. Ellen fears that her father and mother, Gavin and Lizzie, prove the match. Hugh and Dorrie go out to the Freeland Farms to dance with their friends, Cun and Joan Whitney. Whitney, who has been out of work, announces that he has landed a new position ton and Jerry Purdue. passes unstable She hap- will not ap They see Ellen Pendle CHAPTER II—Continued Bs “Art?” said Cun. —but beautiful.” Dorrie moved in her chair slight- ly. “Dance?” on Dorrie. They went off together. Hugh stood up. ‘‘Joan?” As they swung into step he said, “Well, Jonny, the troubles are all over. I'm ever so glad that Cun has work. You've been a brick, but I could see it was hard on you.” Joan gave a smothered exclama- tion and did not reply. He looked down. tears. “What you? asked Cun, his eyes did 1 say? Awfully sorry.” He was dismayed. ‘Come on; we'll go outside.” He led her through the screened door to the long veranda. They sat in a swing. ‘Overlook i, Hugh. Nerves, 1 think.” She dabbed her eyes with his handker- vhief. ‘““And relief from the strain. A man has to work to fill up his time Cun has to be busy more than most men—hz's built that way. Then you spoke to me so sweetly and sympathetically and I went to pieces.” Hugh sat beside her touched and bewildered. It plain she had some worry on Ler mind about Cun. Presently Joan rose, saying: to the dressing-room and I'll wash up . I must be all streaky. Hugh, I'm sorry I pulled this scene for you. You don't know abased I feel.” “Forget it. want to know. with our friends. We'd be more understanding if we knew was in the other person's heart.” “Most hearts don't bear show- ing.” “ I can’t believe that.” ners,”’ said Joan dubiously. to live on the surface of things isn’t a bad way take what comes row; forget you have a heart! I'm trying to achieve it. 1 never quite make it . . still I try very hard.” He left her at the dressing-room door and went back to their table Dorrie and Cun were nowhere about, and Ellen and Jerry had disappeared. He saw his sister, Kezia, dancing with Arthur Wil- liams. He left the sandwiches un- touched but opened a bottle of beer, and sat sippine it Dorrie and Cun approached; she was animated, laughing. ‘‘Where did you and Joan disappear? We in some secluded corner. Of course you weren't parked in the automobile? Or were you, Hugh?" Joan came up just then, her face freshly powdered and bearing no trace of emotion. “We were moon- ing on the veranda,” she said gay- ly. Cun drew out her chair. “I'll have to look into this,” he threat- ened. “Is there a moon? It seemed terribly dark to me!” Dorrie teased. “Explain your absence!” Hugh with a smile. ‘Never explain!” answered Dor- rie lightly. ‘Explanations lead to nothing and nowhere! Hugh, you haven't danced with me.” At home and in their own room, Hugh sighed with contented fatigue as he untied his tie. Dorrie slipped off her dress and sat down on the bench before the dressing-table to cold cream her mails. “Lovely evening, wasn't it, darling?” “Enjoy it?” “Very much.” “1 did myself after we got start. ed. Naturally they wanted to celebrate after such good news. it has been a tough winter and “pring for them. Especiaily Joan." Dorrie frowned a little as she sent her head lower. “Why espe- vially Joan?” “1 think she felt it more. Fact 1s, she cried tonight . . that was the reason we left the floor. | said something about the new job, and she broke down--hysterical re- def, I think. Wept all over the place when I got her outside.” Dorrie’s lip curled. “Silly.” den yourselves said along.” He looked at her, verse the case, Dorrie. I had been out of work for almost a year. Wouldn't you teary with joy when 1 something?" ‘“‘No—I'd have confidence enough in you to be sure you'd get some- thing splendid in place of the old one. Cun is a simply marvelous salesman. Everyone says so. He was sure to be placed in a little while. The future with the Cres- cent company is much better than his old place at the Arrow Steel.” “But even so——'' He hesitated. “1 gathered something else was bothering her. She seemed to feel that Cun might get into difficulties, not working." “Oh!” Dorrie's eyes startled. “How odd.” ‘““Perhaps.”’ “No, she didn't did flew open, say what she afraid of. Drinking—gam- Cun’'s a popular fellow.” He started for the closet and said from its depths, ‘‘She gave me min | i yl “You're So Gullible!” jolt. It was so unexpected, ing from her suppose “And 1 when she wept, He laughed a little “Yes; lent Dorrie, her CHAPTER III Jerry lingered late at inner at the Freeland The dancing began at nine the orchestra, a pian- player and a taking their cllen and their d Farms o'clock and ist, a saxophone drummer, were just “They wanted to know whom 1 was going out to dinner with again you, they looked at each other—you know parents—and with you a great deal laiely so then I told them.’ Jerry picked at his then laid his fork down His hair was dark brown, almost black, straight, and lay back, sleek and glistening on his head with the help of a pomade lis com plexion was a smooth olive and went well with his eyes, the color of black coffee When Ye smiled his eyes had sparkling depths, and his lips a combination of sensitive- salad idly, Sensuousness “And what did they say?” For an instant Ellen looked troubled, remembering. Then, ihe dimples played over her face as pride in Jerry reassured her “They want to see you-—talk to you. When they do that, it will be all right.” ' “Sure?” Jerry was not smiling now. There was a hint of brood- ing in his eyes. “I'm certain of it. I told them I'd bring you in after dinner.” Jerry gave a faint groan and looked at his plate. “Frightened?” “1 feel as if 1 were to be shot at sunrise.” “Silly! never fart" “Yes, but it sounds ominous. I'm to be brought in-—tried-—executed! Couldn’t we put it off until tomor- row night?” When she did not answer, he went on: “Look your last on me as a whole man! I have a feeling My parents have committed a murder so so—shot full of holes. I've met your father several times but he doesn’t speak to me on the street, and your mother has never been-— friendly! What will they say when they know I have the audacity to want to marry you?” (TO BE CONTINUED) Hog Bristle “Chu Chang” In Hotu, China, where bristles are obtained for paint brushes, the natives call hog bristle ‘chu chang.” After being scraped from the hog's back the bristles are beat. e with sticks to knock out the rough dirt. Tales and Traditions , from American Political History FRANK E. HAGEN ELMO SCOTT WATSON THAT TWO-THIRDS RULE N 1832 a Democratic President decided to have his party's con- | vention (the first it had ever held) renominate him and along with that decision he directed that the nomination of his running mate should be made by vote of two- thirds of the convention delegates. One hundred and four years lat- er a Democratic President decid- ed to have his party's convention renominate him and along with | that action he brought about the abolition of the century-old ‘‘two- thirds rule.” The man who originated that dis tinctively Democratic institution was Andrew Jackson. The man who ended its existence was Frank- lin D. Roosevelt. Jackson had selected his secre- tary of state, Martin Van Buren, for the position of vice-president. The senate had only recently re- jected Van Buren's appointment as minister to Great Britain and “Old Hickory’ thought it would square accounts with that body to have the “Red Fox'' preside over it. Also vice-presidents in those days usually succeeded to the Presidency through regular elec- tion and Jackson wanted Van Buren to be his successor. So when his party prepared to hold its first convention in Balti more in 1832 Jackson wrote out this resolution which he gave to one of his lieutenants to present to the delegates “Resolved, That each State shall be entitled. in the nomination of a candidate for the Vice-Presidency, to a number of votes equal to the number to which they will be en- titled in the Electoral College un- der the new apportionment in vot ing for President and Vice-Presi- dent: and that two-thirds of the whole number of the votes in the convention shall be necessary to constitute a choice.” The Baltimore convention was as completely dominated by Jack- son as the recent Philadelphia meeting was controlled by Roose- velt the delegates obediently adopted the resolution During Jackson's lifetime several efforts were made to abolish the rule but all of them failed. After his death it became all but sacred and for the hext hundred vears the shadow of Andrew Jackson, in the form of this hung over every Demo- cratic convention S50 sl rule, GASTRONOMICAL NE of the best ways to win a Presidential eampaign is to get a good slogan and din it in the voters’ ears A good siogan ap peals to the instincts or to the emo- tions rather than to the intellect. Combine that fact with the old say- ing “the best way to a man's heart is through his stomach” and it's easy to understand certain in- cidents in political history Back in 1840 when the Whigs were trying to elect Gen. William Hen- ry Harrison over Martin Van Buren, the Democratic candidate, they raised the cry of “Van's Policy, Fifty Cents a Day and French Soup; Our Policy, Two Dollars a Day and Roast Reef.” Would a hungry voter hesitate long between the two? Of course not! But there was another gastro- nomical angle to this campaign. The “singing Whigs'' set to the tune of “Auld Lang Syne’ such words as these: Should ¥ +4 aboul good be despised And oe'er regarded more! Should bow cabing be despised Our fathers built of yore? For the true old style, my boys! For the true old Let's take a mug of For the true oid So the thirsty voters who wanted “good old cider’ joined with the hungry voters who wanted ‘roast beef’ and: together they elected Harrison. Although the Whigs’ slogan in 1840 was the ancestor of the “Full Dinner Pail’ of a later era, that expression didn’t actually come in- to use until 1896. In that year the opponents were Democratic Bryan and Republican McKinley. The tar- | iff was the principal issue and the Republicans had various prosperity slogans. But wise old Mark Hanna boiled them all down into the vote. | getting slogan of the *‘Full Dinner Pail’ and the American laborer who wanted one voted for McKin- ley and elected him. 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