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and murder, too.
 His assistant tells the same story. And Sue, did Sybil bring her keys here late one Saturday night when she was going to be out of town on Monday, and had forgotten to leave them at the bank? No one could get in her money drawers without them so she had to see that they were turned in.'
 "Yes, just last week. And I gave them to my father"
 The key that opens the bags wasn't on the ring when he turned them in Monday morning. But 1t was downstairs sticking in one of the bags, inside the vault"
 But he didn't do it! Jack. you know he didn't!' Her voice raced on, scared, hurrying, as though 1t wanted to get away from some- thing.
 I know he didn't, Sue. But there's the evidence against him. Circum- stancial, purely, but it's hard to get around. He gave the key-ring to the teller at that window. How the key got in to the bags nobody knows"
 Was an. money gone that night?"
 Jack nodded. "A couple thousa nd dollars. It was the night of the big gest haul. Sue. several times money disappeared during week when Sybil was out of town a month or so ago. I investigated. She couldn't have been guilty then. There must be somebody else"
 '"Then you're defending =. herr" Sues voice said the words quietly, quite as though they were gray peb- bles that she turned over that she might not miss any of their portent.
 Not bit! But I'm trying to find who did so we can get your father out of the mess. Sybil was gone at that time.'
 Couldn't have planted that key on my father?" Then she sat up the bag instead of on her ring why accuse Dad of it? Wouldn't he have used the key he had in his pocket ?"
 Jack didn't answer but his chin was stubborn and there was a wor- ried line between his brows.
 You aren't trying to defend Sybil. are you?" Sue asked. "If she's inno- cent I don't want her to suffer. but she can't be trusted. you know that. Jack"
 He nodded and came back 10 the davenport where Sue leaned against the cushions and slipped his arms around her defiant shoulders.
 "Sue. how many keys were there on the ring when Sybil gave them to you?"
 "Four. remember because I counted them.''
 "You're sure?" His voice seemed to search her memory for her.
 Sue nodded. "I was afraid I might loose one of them. for the chain was loose. Jack. how many were there on the ring when they received 1t in the morning?" She caught her breath, Jack, were there only.... three?"
 NEXT-Sue questions Jack.
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YOUR,
 CHILDREN mN;IpRohor,SRa,zy,
N0lo3IBYNfA: :SfRWCf.lMc. (

We know now that children need tc be happy to grow and be we'll. Taht is, tl.ey must be contented. We think too often of happiness as ex- citement. Real happiness is a feel ing that all's well. not constant feverish expectancy of something 10 come.
 But in our anxiety to keep them sheltered. protected, provided for, and away from the slightest breath c! trouble, We are decidedly over looking one thing. How long will 1t last?
 When they are older, and not So much older at that, whether we will 1t or not, their responsibilities are going to increase. And then they will have all sorts of experi- ences completely outside our shel- ia to stand by and watch the strug- gle.
 Wrings Mothers Heart.
 Nothing wrings the heart of any mother like seeing her child-al- ways to Der child, no matter what his age-meeting up with trials aid rebutfs, while she is helpless to aid him.
 Particularly if he is soft. I mean by soft child who never has known what it was to want anything with cut getting it, or to work at any thing he didn't like who couldn't have his own way, generally speak ing. about all the little things Of daily living.
 A soft child isn't a spoiled child necessarily. for I know hundreds Of happy children untouched by any of the troubles of life who are as fine as silk. Yet they are soft. green. helpless and unused to struggle and tough breaks.
 Someway O" other I think this old world works pretty much on the law of compensations. The older ] get. the more 1 believe in the law of averages. Ard than Unto each life some rain must fall" 1 am con vinced utterly.
 I don't want to be wet blanket or a Calamity Jane, but we have tu face :be fact that our children one and all are going to have sorle troubles m their lives.
 Must Face tho World.
 The first trouble they will face probably is when they are through with school and go out to fit them- selves into jobs. often square pegs, SoHeliIIles very lIny pegs, III Varl- GUS ways utterly unsuited to the holes in which they find themselves.
 It takes all the iron in character to stick 't out. go through with T., bear it. and not break under 1t emO- tonally from sheer unhappiness and failure, 10 adapt themselves to d tough proposition. Small pay. long hours, work they dislike-it is his tIry in the making. but they don't know 1t.
 And who succeeds? Who goes
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GlNFYN WRSEIF
 NALNAH4RT
@ i03l BY NtA SERVICE. INC.

Have you ever wished that your too, too solid flesh would melt?
 There Is a method if you'll assist in the disappearing stunt. It will help you tighten the burden of the scales, when you try them aga:n.
 -A weekly weighing record is bet ter than a daily one, for a slow re- duction is more natural, healthful and lasting. Besides, it is possible to lose inches, without vanising pounds. so the measuring system is advocat- ed, also.
 There are seven exercises for re- ducing the shoulders and arms, each of which should be done 10 times, night and morning, gradually being increased until you can manage 100 times very easily.
 Stand erect, with your limbs to- gether, and stretch your arms for ward. Separate the arms sidewise, inhaling through your nose. As you bring the arms down, breathe out through your mouth.
 The position for the next exer- else is the same, but this time swing the arms across the body, first with the right one above and then the left.
 The third one requires that the arms be extended sideways and then swung upward, making a complete circle.
 Take the erect position again. with your hands at your sides. Raise on your toes. lifting your arms over your head. Inhale as you raise, and exhale as you return to position.
 The next exercise requires an erect position, with arms extended up- ward. Swing the arms down in front of your body, and touch the ankles from left to right, then the trunk at the waistline.
 The sixth exercise of this group requires the same erect position. with limbs together, but the arms are extended sidewise. Bend your el- bows, bring arms up to the head, then straight over the head, and back to position.
 The concluding one consists mere- ly in swinging both arms up and down rapidly alternating left and right.
 TOMORROW: Hin reducing.
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ness and sweetness of a domestic Penny Grain. so different from the thorny little office Penny who prided herself on her efficiency as secretary to the district attorney. Penny in lowered voile. with d saucy, ruffled apron. :. But there was purplish shadows under her brown eyes. and her gayety lasted only until he had reached her side.
 "Sh- h-h,- Have they found Ralph?" she whispered anxiously.
 He could only answer "No".
 Mothers all of twitter at my having detective to dinner" she whispered trying to be gay again. "She fancies you'll be wearing size II shoes and a 'six-shooter' at your belt-Yes, Mother! It's Mir Dun dee!"
 She did not look "all of a twit- ter" this pretty but rather faded middle-aged little mother of tient sadness, which Dundee was sure were habitual of her, lay in the faded blue eyes and upon the soft, sweet mouth. ..
 But Mrs Grain was ushering him into the living room, and it's charm made him forget for the moment that the Grains were to be pitied, because of their "come- down" in life. For ev.ry piece of furniture seemed to be authentic early Amer ican, and the hooked rugs and fine. brOcaded dama@ks allied themselves with the fine old furniture which the Maple Court Apartments architect had been fiercely determined 10 punish it's tenants.
 "'Scuse me. Gotta dish up!" Penny flung over her shoulder as she ran away and left him alone with her mother.
 Dundee liked Mrs Grain for making no excuses about a maid they couldn't afford. liked the way she settled into a lovely. ancient rocking chair and set herself to en- certain him while her daughter made ready the dinner.
 Not a word was said about the
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grocery store.
 Much to her surprise she found 1t was not hard work wheeling the pram. The baby gurgled and soon cooed and soon slept. Lois almost scampered on, she left so exhilarat- ed. When she reached home she was tired, but her thoughts had a new lit. Life was fun, living was good when she had a baby and a husband and home, warm one, to come back to.
 Write to Nancy Page, care of this paper, enclosing stamped. self addressed envelope. asking for her lcaht on Child Care. Copyright, 1881. Publishers Syndi-
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you about it? I thought so. Muffied as she was in the closet it is unlikely that she could have heard Nita's frantic whisperings to Ralph. 1 doubt if he spoke at all. Nita must have been sure he was leaving by the porch door"
 Dimly there came the ring of the telephone. With curt word, Penny excused herself to answer it. Dundee went on polishing glasses with a fresh towel.
 "Bonnie!" Penny was coming back, walking like a somnambulist, her brown eyes wide and fixed. That was-Ralph! And he doesn't even know Nita is dead!"
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With a sigh, Lois began to put Ann into her out-of-doOr wrappings. She was careful to see that the feet were socked, booted and ensconced in the baby bunting with its pocket for feet.
 She slipped the hood well over the forehead. Then she put on her own winter coat. She slipped wOolen stockings over her thin silk ones be- fore she put on her galoshes, and warm gloves. And out she went. She had manufactured an errand at the
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through the fire and comes up smiling? These very children who were taught to do some things they didn't quite like when they were small. those who were innursed more or less to appointment who could tackle atough job and not complain abotu it.
 We can overdo the sheIteriny We do rverdo it. It is unwise and shortsighted to make living one soft pillow for our children, no matter how we love them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-06
Cough Threatens
 Delicate Child
But Triple.Action Helps Triple Quick

"My four year old Dorothy is not very strong. I was quite worried, therefore, when she came home with a bad cough. put the child to bed and immediately gave her some Smith Brothers Cough Syrup which the druggist had recommended. Her recovery was nothing short of won- derful. She felt better that same afternoon. In two days she lost her cold and cough completely" Mrs. Tn. Thurlow, 160 Barr Avenue, Pitts burg, Pa.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-31
Slow Motion Races

It is discovered that snail racing
provides just as many thrills as any
other speed contest. In race be-
tween snails the excitement isn't so
quickly over as when horses, grey.
hounds or motorcycles are concerned
Snail races are now being run in
Wales. In London another proverbial
"slow-coach," the tortoise, is also be-
ing pressed into service, and tortoise
races have been features of some
parties. Tortoises, of course, cost
money to buy, but snails can be
picked up by the roadside. And
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-31
HAILED FATHER OF
GAME OF BASEBALL
Abner Doubleday Celebrated
as Inventor.

Baseball has a picturesque vocabu-
larry all it's own, and when world
series is being played we expand this
indefinitely. All season we have with
us czars and moguls and kings of
swat, but when Earnshaw pitches
such game as his first in the world
series he becomes, in addition to a
big moose and a human scythe, many
other strange and wonderful things.
However. baseball has had one gen.
eral. who was that in both fact and
title, and was, besides, the father of
his country's national game. He was
Maj. Gen. Abner Doubleday, officially
recognized by the Spalding commits
sion in 1907 as the inventor of the
sport, and in whose honor recently
has been held an informal celebra-
ton at Cooperstown. N. Y, where
Doubleday laid out the first diamond.
AS has been said, Doubleday was
real general. He was West
Pointer and saw gallant service in
the Mexican war and the campaign
against the Seminole Indians. He
fired the first Union gun at Fort
Sumter, and at Gettysburg had just
been given command of corps that
stemmed the first days Confederate
rush and made possible the align
ment against which Pickett later
charged gloriously but in vain. There
is a monument to him near Gene
terry ridge and another in Arlington
cemetery and third at Cooperstown.
The latter proclaims, from it's site
on the original sand lot, that there,
in 1889, was played the first game of
baseball, Originated by Maj. Gen.
Abner Doubleday"
Historians agree upon the glory due
the man, but, as is their wont, differ
as to the date. Some contend he was
or should have been in the military
academy at the time he was sup
posed to be making his bid for i'm
mortality, but the state Of New York
officially recognized 1889. and so the
marker stands. The field is one for
and against which much can be said.
It is just off Main street and the
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-31
Unbreakable Spectacles

Unbreakable spectacle lenses are
recent invention. Two pieces of glass
with piece Of celluloid between
them are cemented together under
pressure, forming one solid piece.
This glass sandwich is slightly
thicker than ordinary glass: but it is
just as transparent, the celluloid be-
ing invisible. Unbreakable glass has
for some time been employed in the
windshields Of motor vehicles and air
planes and in. goggles, but this is
believed to be it's first use in spec
tacles.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-31
Scientists Happy

Scientists of the nation are find
ing their happy hunting ground in
the Great Smoky mountains, soon to
become national park. The Great
Smokes constitute one of the best
laboratories for scientific research
in the nation because of their primi-
tive nature, scientists say. Establish
ment of the national park gives as
surance of the preservation of this
condition. More than 800 small man.
mails were collected in 1881 by a
group of Chicago scientists who have
visited the area regularly since 1927.
In all, IS species and subspecies were
collected.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-31
March to the Arctics

Summer excursions to the Arctic
regions by airplane and dirigible are
promised for the near future, but it
will not be so long before the auto
mobile tourist will be able to make
his way to Alaska with good roads all
the way. The distance between
Seattle and Fairbanks is trifle more
than 1900 miles, and at the present
time there are stretches of good
roads for nearly 1000 miles, so that
there are comparatively small por-
tons yet to be constructed.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-31

villagers are able to hurry back to
their stores and wait on chance Gus
toners between innings. The west
ering sun shines full in the catcher's
eyes, but no perfect diamond ever
has been built. Appropriately enough,
DR.. q. L. Pitcher of Albany, N. T.,
dug up the records that led to recog-
milton of Cooperstown's almost for
gotten glory.-New Orleans Times
Picayune.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-31
Sympathetic

Bride-to-B e-Well, what did your
friend say when you showed him my
photograph?
Fiance-Nothing;- he just pressed
my hand i9 silence.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-31

The latest wrinkles are rough on
any Of us.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-31
'Shakel

Mrs. Richley-This month is sim
ply glorious. How I wish the end of
it would never come!
Mrs. Owethemall-Shake dearie.
We have a lot of bills coming due on
the first, too.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-31

The true test Of friendship is not
in words but actions.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-31

neither Of these "racers" needs an
elaborate track.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-12-31

A man can't give "jolly evening
lunch" without cheese.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-26
Who's a Vampire?

THOUGH the makers of American
entertainment in the playhouse
whether it be spoken or screen, smile
when they meet and often dabble each
in The others undertakings, all the
world knows that the movie and the
stage are engaged in war to the death.
And while these pleasantries are born
in the memory, it may be interesting to
learn that one of the loyal old lovers
of the stage, who says he never would
and never could see anything in the
movies, is now calling the latter ''vam-
pire." Isn't it wicked in Christian
world?
More. He even says the movie sucks
the lifeblood of the theater to keep its
NOISY glue substitute up and going"
and he is actually beginning to cite
things in support of the charge.
with all their bought and borrowed
talent" he savagely proceeds, these
picture fellows lit is possible he said
'fell2rs'1 have never been able to pro-
duce one great dramatic offering that
can be compared with the great plays
of the living theater. They claim they
have a technique of their own, but no
body can learn it from the Hollywood
gang, who keep it a closely guarded
treasure. Even the great Maetterlinck
fell down before that claim-and there
arc other dramatists just as great who
seem unable to catch on to the trick.
But when they find that they simply
have TO produce drama to hold their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-26
Vale Professional Players.

WITH the coming of up Pops the
w Devil" to the Shubert Belasco
1heater this week, the Professional
Players will sing their swan song" in
Washington for the current season.
Six plays in all have made their
debut here under the Professional Play
ers' banner since last November. They
have been diversified in theme and
content, and, 1t is said, have appealed TO
the varied tastes of their audiences.
Opening with the frothy comedy OF a
mythical kingdom, "Everybody's Secret"
carly in the season, they presented in
turn the delightful Michael and Mary
Of A. A. Milne, with Madge Kennedy; a
few weeks later. Grace George and her
original New York company in st. John
Ervine's THE First Mrs. Fraser; LAS
You Desire Me-" by Pirandello, with
Judith Anderson, and recently Philip
Merivale in Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's
DR.. Harmer." Their last presentation
win be up Pops the Devil" opening
Monday evening at the Shubert 8elasco.
1t is reported from the orgsr ization
headquarters that plans are being made
for next seasons productions in WASH
ington. Eight plays win be chosen for
preSentatton-one month for eight
months. Active work for next years
subscription season will start early in
the Autumn, when the entire list Of
plays selected viii be announced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-26
Admirable Crichton.

The reproduction Of j. M. Barrie's
THE Admirable Crichton," which
opened at the New Amsterdam Theater
in New York March 8, with Walter
Hampdcn, Fay BANTER and distin-
guished company, had its farewell per-
Torrance this season last night, accord
ing to an announcement by George c.
Tyler, who sponsored the production in
association with Erlanger Productions,
Inc, by arrangement with Charles
Frohman, Inc.
1t closed with seven weeks and Sc
performances to its credit, establishing
record for the longest engagement of
any of Mr.. Tyler's star-cast revivals,
understanding not only Diplomacy"
but also "Trelawney of the Wells and
Sherlock Holmes" Hitherto John Drew
and his associates in "Trelawney of
the Wells" and William Gillette in his
farewell engagement in Sherlock
Holmes" jointly held the record with
six weeks each.
In announcing the conclusion of the
Spring season of THE Admirable
fed the rumor that he intends to send
the production on long tour next sea-
son. Walter Hampden has agreed to
head the cast, and in order to do so
has postponed for season the resump-
ton of his own independent activities
as an actor-manager The tour will
take the comedy, which has helped to
celebrate Barrie's SEVENTEEN anniver-
sary year, to Boston, Philadelphia and
other cities on the Atlantic Seaboard,
to Chicago and the Middle West and.
probably, as far as the Pacific Coast,
with bookings throughout the season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-26

carefully suppressing anything
like enthusiasm over the talents
and accomplishments of these
splendid thespians, it did careful
ly explain that their success is
due in large measure, II not en-
tirely. to their coordination.
which is described as married
act!.Ig," a new one in this neck
NJ the woods. The story ran,
Generosity Is the keynote OF
their work together, and that Of
ferS, in it's own way, the key to
the talents they possess and the
pleasure they provide" This gen
crosby, it is explained, sis not
based upon the nonesthetic prin-
cipleS of philanthropy. It's source,
It's solitary source, is the unerring
instinct for the theater which
they both possess and from which
it springs"
If the reader, perchance,< had
the good fortune to follow the
magnificent performance of Lynn
Fontanne as elizabeth the
Queen" and also that Of Alfred
Lunt as Essex, he may be able
to appreciate where and how the
married acting" crept into enter
tainment.