{Past Cruelty in Spain
Savage cruelty to one another
is nothing new to Spain. In the
1860s’ in one of the many Spanish
civil wars of the last century,
after a battle in the streets of
Madrid when many of the cap-
tured rebels were killed as ex-
amples, Queen Isabel, not satis-
fied, sent word to her general to
kill still more of the captured.
Her general's reply is worthy of
repetition: ‘‘Does the lady not un-
derstand,” he said, ‘‘that if we
shoot all the soldiers we catch,
the blood will rise up to her own
chamber and drown her?”
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is the only animal that
The other animals don’t
Man
blushes.
need to.
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ay
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Tempered Optimism
The true optimism is one that
is tempered.
Miss
REE LEEF
"CAPUDINE
relieves
Miserable
CTL ETE ETH
By Mary Schumann
Copyright by Macrae Smith Ce.
WNU Service
SYNOPSIS
————
Kezia Marsh, pretty, selfish and twenty, ar.
tives home in Corinth from school and is met
by her older brother, Hugh, He drives her two
the Marsh home where her widowed mother,
Fluvanna, a warm-hearted, self-sacrificing and
upderstanding soul, welcomes ber. Kezia's sis:
ter, Margery, plump and matronly with the
care 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.
bears, Hugh passes Doc Hiller, a boyhood
friend whom he no longer sees frequently be.
cause of Dorrie’'s antipathy, Fluvanna Marsh
wakens the next morning from a dream about
her late husband, Jim, whose unstable char.
Kezia has inherited Soon
She is an artis
acter she fears
Fllen Pendlet
tically ir
Fluvanna's
distant niece of
i She hap
pily tells
to Jerry Ellen fears
and mother, Gavin and lizzie, will
prove the match. Hugh and Dorrie go out
i Farms with their
arms
Joan
that her father
not ap.
to
i to dance
in and Whitney, Wi
Ad work, announces that
ytney, who
) he has
position, They see Ellen Pendle
Purdue. Cun and Dx
y disappear for a while, Dane
rrie dance
ns. Hugh is amazed to find her in
ntly she has some secret worry
nd, Cun. Hogh sees Kesia ac
When Ellen and
+ engagement to EI
Jerry sym
Gavin, 8
While Liz
iy, the matter is left pending
ens
greeable until
gined ailments
Terry's pre
CHAPTER ITI—Continued
sav F a
“It's a shame when a woman is
at the age when she can enjoy life
“and she
taken with something ghastly
like that! My aunt was a wonder-
ful looking woman too." He hitched
his chair an inch or so nearer Liz-
zie, looked into her face with sym-
pathy and interest.
Pale lit in her eyes, a re
vival of vanity. "Wonderful?
Perhaps not now,
fires
but you should
see my pictures taken when I was
Ellen's age! 1 remember when I
was young and lived in Ridley,
Mr. Parkinson—later he became
the lumber capitalist out west
somewhere, Oregon, I think-—used
to call me the Rose of Ridley!
. x You remember that,
you, Gavin?"
“Ellen has something of my look
—at times."
“A girl is usually indebted to her
mother for her charm.”
Lizzie laughed and tapped him
with her eyeglasses “1 see why
my girl was so taken with you!"
The ice in her voice which had
broken up with mention of her ill-
ness, now became a fluid running
quantity, 1 t, even playful. "But,
seriously speaking, we {eel our
ting married.”
“Working?”
first pause.
asked Gavin in the
the Arrow Steel Works,” Jerry an-
swered
“H'much?"
“Thirty-five a week.”
is fist lip, Gavin
his head. ““N'much.”
‘No, but I have hopes get-
ting something better A fellow
has to start at the bottom in the
steel business. 1 intend to go to
the school for salesmen if I can get
in
Gavin looked at him through his
thick-lensed glasses “Keep a
car?”
“A sort of one.” Jerry grinned.
Gavin glanced at Jerry's suit
meaningly. He had computed its
cost and suspected Jerry of ex-
travagant taste in clothes. Lizzie
shook her head at him. "Settle it
again—no hurry,” he muttered. He
left the room precipitously and did
not return.
Lizzie changed to a more com-
fortable chair, and drawn by Jer-
ry's deferential attention, recount-
ed in a tangential flow stories of
her activities before she had been
stricken, of her two sons, Caleb
and Gavin Junior, the trouble she
had keeping competent help, the
oriental rugs she had bought, and
the hotels she had found most
agreeable in Atlantic City.
It was almost twelve when she
rose to go upstairs. She even shook
hands with Jerry cordially ‘Be
patient,” she admonished them.
i “I'll see what I can do with her fa-
ther.”
Ellen went to the front steps with
i Jerry. “You ruinous man,” she
| whispered, “‘captivating Mother
| like that!"
{ “I took your cue. You said ‘Be
| nice to her’ and I followed instruc-
tions."’
| She kissed him. “We might sit
| here on the steps while you smoke
a cigarette.”
“A cigarette? How about two?”
| “Make it two,” she unswered
| laughing. She was proud, hopeful,
| unutterably happy.
{ The first Hugh Pendleton had
| come out from Connecticut in the
year 1802, made his way with
horses and an ox team over the
hazardous mountain roads, and tak-
en up land along the Penachang
Valley in Ohio. He bLuilt a cabin
near the stream and traded with
the few settlers and the wandering
bands of Indians. He sent for his
family, his wife, with three small
children, and his two brothers.
Hugh started a store which flour-
ished as the settlement grew into a
village. He made trips to Pitts.
burgh by boat for supplies and bar-
tered or sold, ar~ording to the need
of the individual.
Presently the word traveled
shook
at his
of
about that two settlers, Wyant and
Nash, had erected a blast furnace
on the shore of the river a few
miles above the settlement. They
turned out stoves, kettles and cast-
ings, crude in appearance, but
serviceable.
Hugh's trips to Pittsburgh had
awakened his interest in the need
for iron in a new community, and
a nebulous idea took form as he
weighed out coffee and tea and
flour. He talked of it to his sons,
Hugh and Caleb and Silas, and fired
their youthful imaginations.
Wyant died and Nash moved on
to Indiana, abandoning the simple
furnace, while Hugh figured and
planned and explained to his sons.
The Pendleton boys went into
partnership when they grew up,
started another furnace. By the
middle forties, Hugh Junior, Caleb
and Silas Pendleton were the own-
ers of a successful iron works
which employed eighteen hundred
men.
The Pendletons intermarried with
the Woods, the Renshaws, the Mof-
fats, the Debarrys, newcomers
from Virginia, the east and Eng-
land, until in the nineteen thirties
the relationships would have taken
a genealogical expert to unravel.
The society of the town was a spi-
der-web of distant cousinships turn-
ing up at unexpected places. Much
of the leadership of old Hugh Pen-
dieton had descended to the men of
the family; the women had grace
and fastidiousness. Alien blood
mingled with theirs, warm blood,
cold blood, but something racial
persisted.
Fluvanna was the great-great-
granddaughter of the first Hugh,
descending through Hugh, his son.
Her father had been Ely Pendleton,
and she his only child—a swaying,
anemone creature, fine-boned as
most of the Pendleton women were.
Light brown hair grew back from
a curving hairline; the tracery of
the brows above full eyelids might
have been done by a pencil stroke;
the nose was sensitive; the mouth
curved and wistful.
Although James Marsh had been
welcomed among them as a cousin
of the Clements, there was not a
She Was Proud, Hopeful, Unut-
terably Happy.
great deal of approval of the mar-
riage of James and Fluvanna.
There were local grievances—fami-
lies whose sons had yearned for
Fluvanna and been passed over.
Although pride in clothes was a
Pendleton credo, James was
thought to lean toward too great
an elegance in dress. His hand-
some bearing was no novelty;
many of the men had that; they
suspected his grace, his flattery, as
qualities which did not go with the
solid virtues of monogamy. As the
years went by, the older ones shook
their heads oracularly as reports
of his irregularities came in—gam-
bling, drinking, neglecting his busi
ness, Ely Pendleton looking grim
and Fluvanna, gay in company,
but when off guard, seeming fright
ened and distrait.
Ely Pendleton died suddenly, and
Fluvanna and her family moved in
to the old house with her mother
who was an invalid. A year or two
of comparative ease and prosperity
followed. James was thoughtful to
ward the suffering mother; debts
were paid; the feverisk prosperity
of the War was on. James made
money in the stock market and it
erased the galling sense of obliga-
tion he had left when old Ely, stern.
browed, thin-lipped, had met his
pressing deficits. Mrs. Pendleton
died just after Armistice day, and
James was very kind that winter.
Then business took a holiday,
stocks slumped, and Fluvanna be
gan a gradual parting with the in
come her father had left in trust
for her. Her mother's money had
been left to her unconditionally, and
that went in appalling amounts to
cover the very good securities, sure
to hit a hundred and ten, which
James had bought on margin.
The more James lost, the more
he drank, the oftener he was seen
morose and truculent, leaning
over his cards late at night, playing
with men who were luckier than he.
Late one afternoon, the town
with the news that he had
himself
(TO 2E CONTINUED)
By Louise Brown
YZ can't expect to get as
much light from a lamp
with dusty bulbs and shade as
you can from one that is clean
anymore than you would expect
the sunlight to shine through a
dirty window as brightly as
through a clean one!
trick
Mi
There's
clean,
to
ye
zing bow often they are
no at all
ping lamps and
when the rest of the
I cared for. Lamp
@ dusted as you
objects in the room,
washed frequent.
I as you would a
the metal
1. Make
fis the
y before
Crow Is Nineteen Inches
Long; Mockingbird, Ten
Some of the standard bird lengths
follow:
Bob white, 10 inches.
Mourning dove, 12
seems longer),
Hairy woodpecker, 9 inches or
more.
Red-bellied wood-pecker, 9 inches.
Red - headed woodpecker, 9
inches.
Flicker, 12
Ruby - throated
inches.
Phoebe, 7 inches.
Pewee, 6 inches.
Blue jay, 11 inches or more.
Crow, 19 inches
Starling. 8 inches or more.
Cowbird, 8 inches
Baltimore oriole, 7 inches
Red - winged blackbird, 9 inches.
Purple grackle, 12 inches.
Purple finch, 6 inches.
Goldfinch, 5 inches.
English sparrow, 6 to 7 inches.
White-throated sparrow, 8 inches.
Chipping sparrow, 5 inches.
Fox sparrow, 6 to 7 inches.
Junco, or snowbird, 8 inches.
Song sparrow, § inches.
Towhee, 8 inches.
Cardinal, or redbird, 8 inches.
House wren, 4 to 5 inches.
Indigo bunting, 5 to 6 inches.
Scarlet tanager, 7 to 8 inches.
Mockingbird, 10 inches.
Catbird, 9 inches.
Thrasher, 11 inches.
Carolina wren, 5 inches.
Nuthatch, 6 inches.
Titmouse, 8 inches.
Chickadee, § inches.
Wood thrush, 8 inches.
Robin, 10 inches.
(it
inches
inches.
hummingbird, 3
Carpets and Rugs Play
great political and religious cere-
monies. Every year, states a writer
in Tit-Bits Magazine, a special car-
pet is carried from Cairo to Mecca
where it covers the Kaaba, a build-
ing in the Mohammedan mosque;
openings in this cover are made to
show two sacred stones.
sold to the pilgrims. It is made of a
black brocade and on this
scriptions woven in silk. These
vey the following ideas: Good Luck,
Health, Happiness, Dominion, Craft,
Fire, Water, Royaity, Divive Wis-
dom and the Glory of
Color has its various meanings:
Plain, parchment lamp shades
may be dusted or wiped off with
a damp, not a wet, cloth, Fabric
or pleated parchment shades
are best dusted with a soft
bristled brush kept especially
for them
Slik Shades May Be Washed
Silk shades which are soiled
may have a bath. First, make
sure the bindings or any trim.
mings are sewed not glued, If
glued, they will come
off, of course, in the washing
process and will have to be re
placed, although that is a very
® ie matter. Any metallic
t
t
they are
nming would naturally have
removed. If you feel the
be washed, dip it up
in thick, lukewarm
followed by two rins
ings in lukewarm water. Then
place the shade on a towel or
oO be
shade can
and down
soapsuds
Ostrich Bolts Pebbles,
Glass for His Digestion
As arf aid to his digestion (which
isn’t all it's cracked up to be), the
and broken bottles,
any, notes W. H. Shippen, Jr., in
the Washington Star.
vouring soda-mint tablets.
Gravel in judicious doses, how-
ever, is quite a contribution to his
uses gravel to grind his food. In
addition to his eccentric diet,
ostrich has a peculiar home life.
He is a polygamist whose several
shift.
The male ostrich
caicks which hatch out first.
Most of the ostriches on display in
on farms in Florida or California.
The domesticated ostrich
usually plucked as fast
plumes mature.
sometimes hunt
First Balloon Ascension
On January 9, 1793, at Philadel-
in the United
States. Great throngs, including
President Washington and other
distinguished public officials, wit-
the spectacle. Blanchard
minutes
and traveled fifteen miles, descend-
ing at Woodbury, N. J. Thus began
the history of American air com-
munication, for Blanchard carried
a letter from President Washington,
calling on all citizens to "receive
and aid him with that humanity and
good will which may render honor
to their country and justice to an
individual se diztinguished by his
efforts to establish and advance an
art, in order to make it useful to
mankind in general.”
support it on a hat stand or tall
vase to dry. The work should
be done quickly, so there is no
chance of the metal frame
rusting.
To give their best, lamps not
only need cleaning, but a bit of
renovating now and then. Be
sure to replace old, frayed
cords with new ones of the ap
proved rubberized type. These
are so much neater and more
durable
Check the Voltage
To get the most light for your
money, buy lamp bulbs not only
according to wattage, but ac
cording to voltage, too. You'll
notice that bulbs are marked
many watls, so many volis.
The bulb you use should have
the same voltage as that on
which your power company op
erates. (They'll be glad to give
you this information.)
50
Related to Cockroaches
Termites are not white, but 2
| neutral grayish color. They are not
ants, but are related to cockroaches,
The relationship is fairly distant and
{ is based on anatomical resem
| blances. The termite is free from
the cockroach’'s filthy habits and
deplorable morals.
{ On the other hand, according te
{ Dr. Thomas M. Beck, in the Chicage
| Tribune, the termite has evolved a
| social organization quite similar to
that of ants. The colonies of most
| species of termites are divided into
five castes which differ greatly from
| each other in appearance. First
| there are those of the winged type,
which periodically swarm out inte
the open and fly away to ostablish
new colonies. These are the largest,
| being about a half inch long.
A second and larger group cone
gists of individuals with only rudi-
mentary wings, and then there is a
| third group whose members are
wingless. Each of the three groups
consists of males and females and
apparently is capable ol! repro-
ducing any or all of the five termite
types.
Finally there are the two most
numerous groups, the soldiers and
the workers, which are sexless. The
worker resembles one of the wing-
| less type mentioned above and does
most of the hard work around the
colony. Such being the case, he is
the one most responsible for the
damage done to buildings.
| Termites Are Not Ants;
“Point” in Market Reports
“Point,” as employed in marked
reports, means a recognized unit of
variation in price and is used in
quoting the prices of stocks as well
as various commodities. In the
United States siock market one
point ordinarily rieans one dollar a
share. The value of a point, how-
ever, varies according to the com-
modity in question. Therefore in
order to understand the market re-
ports one must be acquainted with
the value of a point in reference te
any given commodity. In the coffee