BRICH
By Mary Schumann
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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
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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-
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The “singing Whigs'' set to the tune
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Should
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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.
Thirty-two years later the Re-
publicans used a variation on the
prosperity theme and their prom- |
old cider
plain
style,
ever
now
style,
a chicken in every
pot” helped Herbert Hoover defeat
Al Smith in the election of 1928.
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