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CHAPTER Al

CHAPTER Al
IT want to say something to
you, Grafton, that I don't be-
heve have ever formulated
even to myself, much less put
into words before"
"I feel like the devil. The
things I've let out aren't usual
ly said, and then, hang it all.
I'VE said just about half, and
the less important half Of what
I feel"
This means to be the time
and the place for saying. l
don't mind telling you that
much of what you have just
admitted, while not new to me,
is bitter. I'm not so resilient
any more. I'm near to sixty.
young fellow"
"Oh, not so old, but, as the
span goes, time to put the
house in order"
"It's a big house"
can appallingly big one. I'm
going to tell you about that
house. The house that Jenni-
fer lives in"
'"The e-that-Jenniferlives-
In. That should be the incest
house there isl"
Perhaps in view of all you
have told me, there isn't much
point, but I'm going to say 1t
any way. 1 want Jennifer set
tied, young man.
A MOtherleSs Child
"She is % now. Motherless.
Her brother is gone. l am
not going to live to be an old
man. There are certain things
we know irrevocably. That is
one of them. I have always
known it. I will not get old"
II hate to hear you say that"
''I would give great deal if
you could like my girl"
That's what I meant just
now when 1 said. I've said just
half of what I feel, and that
half the less important half. :"
You probably know, without
my dwelling upon it, the fail
ure of a parent I've been to
her"
"It's been a mutual failure"
"She's got brains and sweet
ness"
God knows she has. Too
much of both for my peace of
mind. You're going to reap
from them, too-mark, you-"
Il want to tell you a little
about myself, Grafton"
eyes"
"Young man. am worth one
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FIVE AND TEN = a
A PuIse-TinsIins Romance
Starring Marion Davies
By Fannie Hurst
Whose novels have her place the foremost
modern wrtcrsJ

hundred and eighty million dol
lars. And yet, personally, I have
never succeeded. My success
succeeded"
II see what you mean"
I'm my youth, Grafton, I
wanted one thing out of life as
hard-heartedly as you seem to
want one thing. My success
Snatched it away"
Il think I summed it up
when said once of you that
you asked for bread and got
gold nugget"
Excellent. l would have a
hard time getting jury to
vote me sympathy. but 1 am as
short of success. today, Graf
ton. as you see me sitting here,
as l was in the days when I
used to figure my plans on the
backs of envelopes behind
counter in a hardware store"
Il know that"
That is why there IS some
thing about young fellow like
you, so sure not to be deferred;
something that to an old fellow
like me, is just about sublime.
l want you TO look ut me,
seated here as you say, in a
home contrived by kings, and
try to understand some Of the
things that 1 am going to tell
you. Follow"
Yes"
His Life Finished
First, as to family. You see
me practically bankrupt. My
wife gone. That I cannot dis
cuss, even here. Need say to
you," he went on, and began to
twist his face-"need l say to
you that my life was finished
the day Avery took his? We
never got to each other. But I
no fool like an old fool, that
boy was my reason for having
the endurance to fight through
the black and colossal years Of
my success.
He made the nights, filled
with my wakefulness. endur-
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to say of me that I lacked
cardinal sense of humor Ihave
never believed she was right.
That is the last thing a man
wants to believe of himself. but
it is true that I do not take this
matter of my colossal wealth
lightly. I have given it more
profound thought. its relation
ship to the world from which
I derived it, the economic
scheme which made it possible
and my responsibilities toward
those sources. than even you
might think. I am not an edu-
Gated man, Grafton, like You,
But I have thought my share
and pondered :"
Il once heard it said OF you,
Mr.. Rarick, or perhaps read it
in some magazine, that you
never reached a conclusion that
was not based upon at least
several of the best opinions you
could muster and that those
several opinions were almost in
variably all yours"
The Lonely Road
I've gone my road alone.
Open the third drawer of that
table,"
"Here?"
Eyes"
"Take out that pile of manu-
script"
"ThiS?"
EYES,"
"Whew!"
Eyes, $40 pages longhand."
eyes, and what fine, steel
point longhand. Yours?"
Eyes. Brevity being the soul
of wit, that would just about be
the bulk of my story"
your life?"
Everything but, and yet
nothing else. 1t is the story of
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= By FANNIE HURST
Manners and
Correct
Form
BY Mrs. c. Beeckman
DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:

DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
There is to be a wedding in
our family and "a" claims that
the mother and father of the
bride arrange things to suit
themselves as they are paying
for the wedding. "B" says that
the bride and groom do as they
please and the parents just pay.
Kindly explain this to me in
your column, as 1 find lot of
help in it. MOTHER.
This is putting the matter
rather bluntly, but "B" is really
right. The wedding day is the
Brides Day. and she usually is
allowed-within reason-to have
her plans carried out as she
wishes them. Of course, if she
is, as we hope she is, a girl of
taste and judgment and devo-
ton to her parents, she will
naturally wish to adapt her
plans to their budget-possibili.
ties. In other words, insofar as
they can, they should try to
carry out her dreams to her own
wedding, but she should be
curbed in her demands, if she
needs be.
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MissFairfax' S
Advice to
LoveIorn
BY Beatrice Fairfax
Graduation Present


I have a girl, who is train
ing to be a nurse, and have
been going out with her once
a week. But during the last
few months, I have been seeing
her on the average of two or
three times a week. Now she is
going to graduate next week.
Please give me some idea as to
what would be a nice present
something not too expensive,
yet not too cheap. 1 have been
thinking of numerous things,
but haven't decided yet.
PUZZLED.
It depends so much on the
girls personal tastes. A wrist
watch is always a useful pres
ent; pendant in good taste,
but not too expensive; some
thing in leather, a portfolio,
travelling clock, bridge set, books
if she's intellectual, a scarf
the world is full of lovely
thinS4-ttS up to your pocket,
@eok and her preferences.
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Your Health
And Diet
By DIR. Logan CIendening

OF CHRONIC headaches, mi
graine in one of its many forms
is probably the commonest.
Sometimes it is called sick
headache, because there are
usually symptoms of digestive
upset that go with it. especially
nausea. possibly even vomiting.
When these digestive symptoms
overshadow tie headache the
patient often calls them at
tacks of biliouSness. I earned
several years ago that patients
who use the old, and among
medical men discarded, term
billiousness and say they are
subject to billiousnesS, really
have abdominal migraine.
Affects Certain People
Migraine is a peculiar consti-
tutional disease which afflicts
certain people. and visits them
in attacks. 1t usually begins
at about the age of Is or 20
and lasts until about the age
of 40 or so, when it often goes
away, never to return. The at
tacks come on once week or
once a month. or two or three
times a year, the time varying
with different individuals.
A typical attack can usually
be predicted by the victim.
There may be spots before the
eyes, or the sound of ringing
bells in the ears, or of tullness
in the abdomen. These pre-
liminary warnings are quite
varied, but the victim always
knows the headache will come
on a few hours afterward.
The headache itself is often
on one side of the head; it Is
accompanied by nausea, and
sometimes vomiting and a feel
ing as if the stomach and bowels
were absolutely paralyzed. On
account of these digestive symp-
toms the victim usually ascribes
it to poisoning from the in
testinal tract and blames some
thing in the diet, but this is
undeserved. Varying the diet is
not calculated to stop the at
tackS.
A Mysterious Malady
It is a mysterious disease.
And aside from the known fact
that it is hereditary and runs
in families, we know little or
nothing about its causes. OF
its hereditary nature there is
no doubt whatever. 1t has been
traced in one instance through
five generations. one or more
members of the family in each
generation being subject to at
tackS.
Treatment has not been con-
spicuously successful. Much can
be done to moderate the dis
comfort of the attack itself, but
prevention of occurrences can
not be assured to anyone. Diet
has been found to be of little
value. 1t is important, how
ever, for the patient to be
warned against getting on a
one-sided. unbalanced diet or
a starvation diet in the idea
that the attacks are due to
food poisoning or digestive up
sets. Radical treatments of all
kinds should be regarded with
suspicion. Rosy hopes aroused
of cure by removal of the gall
bladder have been in most in
stances disappointments.
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HishIishts In
Great Lives
Robert BrOwning-WhOSe Rom
ance Transcribed His
Poetry

4SODCAG OlU"AAAAS- AOSC NULL
ance Transcribed His
Poetry
Surely Robert Browning's
greatest hour must have been
when he realized that his ex-
quisite romance tranScended
even his exquisite poetry in
the imagination of the world.
How often he must have toyed
with the poetic and lovely
thought of lovers everywhere
defying parental authority,
overcoming handicaps, brush
ing aside obstacles to gain each
other in emulation of the
BrowningS.
For the love story of Eliza
beth Barrett and Robert
Browning is one poem to which
the last Stanza will never be
written-not as long as love
continues to make this old
world go round.
The Spring Poet
1t was fitting that Robert
Browning was born in the glad
some days of Spring-on May
7. 1912, to be precise. Who is
there who at some time or an
other has not thrilled over the
lovely The years at the
Spring-God's in His heaven
ALPS we'll with the world"
These lines epitomize the
career and life of Browning
better than the most eminent
biographer could.
One of the poets most ad-
miring readers was Elizabeth
Barrett, who was a noted writer
of glorious lyric verse. She was
an invalid and as such led a
carefully sheltered life. Brown
ing read some of her poetry
and made up his mind to dedi-
cate his life to its gifted au-
thor.
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the house and man my wealth
built. OF the walls it reared for
me and the hearth it kindled.
It is filled with moralizing. the
kind nobody will take the time
to read. It is the result of my
study, my thoughts. my expert
ence. 1t is my last will and
testament. But more of that
presently. wonder if you hap
pen to have heard. Grafton,
rumors that Rarick Chain is
about to be absorbed by Bit
Chain?"
Eyes"
"They are founded on fact"
you have completed that
job?"
Eyes. And now have a new
one. A stiff one. The job of
dying a poor man. The entire
philosophy behind that deter
mination is in this stack of
papers. The years I have left
are few in which to give back
intelligently the one hundred
and eighty million dollars to
the people from whom I have
earned it. Earned it. mind you.
IF there is anything miracu-
louS about the vastness of my
wealth, it lies in the fact that
corruption has passed me by.
The average man-and woman
Grafton, is beholden to the
object, the inanimate thing for
his comfort and much of his
happiness. I have filled the
hands of the Masses with OBJ
jects and cluttered their minds
with the easy happinesses of
which they are SO capable. I
have struck more atrociouS
paper flowers into more atroci-
GUS glass vases than probably
any man in the history of the
world.
The Sin of Ugliness
II have anointed the tongues
of the masses of children whose
humdrum lives stand ready to
snatch them out of youth with
the red of the sticky lollypop,
and they tell me that the sin of
uglineSs and cheapness is upon
me. That may all be true,
Grafton, but 1 know to what
extent I have made living easier
to the masses whose days are
chained to the trivialities of
things. My daughter, Jennifer,
owns a Six-carat pigeon-blood
ruby ring. The craving for that
ring is deep in the hearts of
millions of women like her.
II partially satisfy that crav-
ing red-glass 1O-cent rings.
Women with scalded, horny
hands can now cope with their
dishWater in 1O-cent rubber
gloves is a side to my
colossal, absurd, undignified bar
tering in snide objects that is
labor of mercy. Don't you for.
get it,"
lone isn't apt to, after hear.
ing you."
THE wisest man I ever knew
showed me the way to give back
what I have earned. He never,
even in his great wisdom, knew
to what extent his mind was
endoWing mine. I refer to my
friend. Felix GerkeS."
Concluded Tomorrow
Copyright. 1891. by Fannie Hurst,
Distributed by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.
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Your RuIinq
Star
BY William Shwader
THE YEAR AHEAD
For Those Born June Is

If June 1S is your birthday,
the coming year will tend to
bring improvement all around.
1t will be a good time for trav-
cling and making new friends
and if you put all your efforts
toward efficient and conScien-
tiouS work, the beneficial results
obtained will be long felt in
your life. There will be an in
clination-through an dnfavor-
able aspect between Mars and
VenuS-to show a lack of dis
cretion and strict check
should be exerted on all per-
Sonal temptations that will
come your way. Watch the
following dates: Guard health,
avoid depression from July H.
16, Sept. 1921, Oct. 1911, Dec.
1919, Jan. 1914. Bad Martial
vibrations, tending to quarrelS,
accidents, ETC., from July "a
20, Aug. 27-29, Nov. 2-7, 1928,
Dec. II, Feb. 1925. The rest
of the year is neutral and it
will be your own personal
effort that will give the indica-
tionS.
May Win Success
A child born June l3 will
have all the qualities essential
to success, provided that they
are brought out through cor
rect training on the part of the
parents. The child should be
kept frugal and without luxury
in his early years to avoid dis
contentment and a morbid dis
satisfaction.
Tendencies for June 10: A
favorable day: Push your at-
fairs, make your investments
and things will take a decided
turn for the better. Artistic and
literary endeavors are also
benefited.
TOday'S Famous Birthday
Robert Stewart. born 1853,
Marquis Of Londonderry, Minister
of George ~ Of England.
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"Or the man who loved a dancer" We
might call it that-for he told US he had
heart-trouble-and we later found that he
lived his bright evenings in the third row
in a red.velvet seat with his worshiPful
eyes fastened upon a thistledOwn figure
that fitted here and there night after night
on the wings of a difficult and beautifully
neat routine.
He said he had an aching heart. He said
it felt sometimes like it had pins and
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Susses tons FoI
Housewives

When washing up, put piece
of lemon peel into the bowl. It
will soften the water, remove
all traces Of the smell of fish,
onions and so on, and put a
fine gloss on china.
BeeSwax and salt will keep
irons smooth. Tie the wax in
a piece of muslin, rub it over
the iron while the latter is still
warm, then move the iron over
a paper Sprinkled with salt.
A piece of horseradiSh placed
in a jar of pickles will keep
the vinegar from losing its
strength. The pickles will not
become soft or mouldy.
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What Do You
Know?
Answers To Today's Test

ANsWers To Today's Test
Questions On Editorial Page
/. False-speaking two Ian
guages. 2. False-nearsighted-
ness. 8. True. 4. False-Egyp-
tian. S. True. 6. False-Scot-
land. z. False-"The School for
Scandal" 8. True. 9. True. 10.
FalSe-north. IL. Greek tragic
poet. IL. Enables vessels to
pass around Niagara Falls. 13.
Spanish American IA. Magne-
tized needle. IS, Odyssey.
GCOpyriEht, 1881 King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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Let's Confess the Truth
What is the girl Of today
coming to-"
Well. if she has her way, she
is coming to the same station
where her mother got off-a
two-by-four apartment, with a
pink bassinette in the corner
and an embossed marriage GER
tificate in the lower bureau
drawer.
She may shrug her shoulders
at marriage, and vehemently
protest against the idea of be-
ing owned" by any man. But,
don't let her bluff you. She is
Just as determined to OWN a
MAN herself, some day, as her
mother was.
Times, customs and hdirCuts
may change, but you can't
change biology nor the work
ings of the human heart.
Today's daughter says, mo
wedding bells for mel"
Her mother said. "I am we'd
ded to my career"
But it's the same old habit,
dear heart, with which to
house a mans fighting spirit
and BACK him into marriage.
She may speak a different
language. But the universal
language of love is, now and
always, a KISS.
And a kiss is the same old
mixture of doubt, thrills, curl
osity, perfume, stale cigarettes,
hope and disappointment, as
ever.
Feminine methods may have
altered. the net and the snare
have been camouflaged to re-
semble a golf stick, and an
arrow. But the old love Of the
chase. and the masculine desire
to do his OWN pursuing IS
still mans ruling passion.
You can cheat him out OF
II nv meeting him half way;
YOU can make his Woolng a
path of thornless roses. You
can lead him to an easy con
quest and a ready-to-serve kiss
but you can't make him
LIKE it!
The clinging vine may be as
passe as petticoats, but she
still manages to twine herself
around a mans heart; while
the girl who goes after him
with a bludgeon can't make a
dent in it.
One-piece bathing suits may
match the rowing eye, but frills,
vampish draperies and widows
weeds still catch the husband.
A man may like a frank,
snappy, hail-fellow petting part
ner for a holiday afternoon,
but she doesn't make his head
swim, nor cause his heart to
skip a single beat. Today, as
always. it's not what he
DOESN'T know.
It may be a great deal easier
to get a man to MAKE love
to you in these chummy days,
but it's just as hard as ever
to make him really LOVE you.
And lovemaking, without any
love in it, is about as Stimulat-
ing as a champagne cup with
out the champagne.
You can change the shade
of your hair and the shape
of your nose-but you never
can change the color of the
human eye, nor the masculine
viewpoint. Nor the rules of
the love game!
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times it fluttered and he felt sure it had
grown wings-red wings that smarted as
they beat upon his wishbone.
his poor heart tossed. For what wouldn't
when danced upon; even by faery-feet?
Liberal of feet, and lavish with her
hands," the poor man who loves a dancer
has his heart slowly worn out.
NELL BRINKLEY.
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This famous story has been
made into a talking picture by
Metro GOldwyn-May with Ma.
riOn Davies in the leading
rOle).
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needles in IL" Sometimes it jumped up
and down. Sometimes it made him see
rose-eOlor. Other days it just had a
permanent and unceasing little "crick" in
it. 1t dented, he knew, because it
beat unevenly with a sort of hitch-up in
its "getalong." A poor toad under a
harrow, or a finger caught in a motor-car
door was as nothing to the dOIorous smart
of his aching heart. 1t twitched, it tingled,
it felt like a cold, heavy stone. Other
The Washington times., 1931-06-17
The Merry-so
Round
Rv Ho1on Rowland
BY Helen Rowland

Let's Confess the Truth
What is the girl Of today
coming to-"
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TOday'S Famous Birthday
Robert Stewart. born 1853,
Marquis Of Londonderry, Minister
of George w Of England.
The Washington times., 1931-10-13
Vets OPEN new
BONUS DRIVE

A new campaign for cash pay
ment of the soldiers bonus call
ing for issuance of $4,000, ,000, 900
in bonds, was launched today
despite the American Legion's re-
lection of the proposal in its ma
tiona1 convention.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars
and Disabled American Veterans
assumed leadership in the move
ment, which is declared to en-
brace nearly a score of lesser
bodies of former service men.
Plans for the new effort were
discussed today at a conference
between Commander-in-Ch Chief Oar
old Decoe, of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, and Representative
Patman CD of Texas, who led
the fight for cash, payment last
year. Patman said he had already
conferred with E. C. Babcock,
head of the Disabled American
Veterans.
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By LEIGH MATTESON
Copyright, 1881. by International
News Seryicel


News Seryice)
NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-In one
of the more than 100 hospitals
conducting clinics for physicians
visiting this city this week, a
young woman of "a, suffering
from exophthalmic goitre, was
operated upon this morning.
The anesthetic used in this ex.
tremely dangerous case was Aver
tin, the trade name in this country
of ordinary alcohol first altered
by chemical processes three years
ago by a German physician.
Since then it has been used in
operations on some 100000 per-
sons in Germany and, in recent
months, on about 175,O0O patients
in this country and Canada.
Not once was pain response
noted in the patient. Two or
two and a half hours later the
patient will awaken. There will
be no nausea, as usually accom-
panieS ether operations. There
will only be the actual shock OF
the operation to di0SreSs the pa
tient.
And. perhaps most striking Of
all, the patient will not remember
anything in connection with the
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4 DAYS
WITHOUT FOOD.

WEST ORANGE, N. j., Oct. 1S
G.N.s0-The condition of
Thomas A. Edison, noted inven.
tor. who is waging a gradually
losing fight against death, re-
manned virtually unchanged to-
day. DR.. Howe said:
'Mr. Edison slept through
the entire night and there is
little change to report except a
gradually progressive sOmnO-
lence."
The aged inventor remains in a
stupor, unable to recognize mem
berS of his family,
He has had no food for the
past 96 hours, except few spoon
fullS Of cereal Monday morning
and has taken no fluid for eight
days.
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CANNON s VIEW
ONDIV0RCE HIT

SPARTA, Ca, Oct. 13 G.N.SJ.
Assailing Bishop Cannon, jr., for
statemc--5 attributed to him in
an interview published Monday,
the Rev. Rembert G. Smith, Sparta
pastor, today charged the bishop
was Gin contempt of the law of
the church" for his statement con-
corning divorce. The Rev. Smith
said:
Concerning divorce, Bishop
Cannon said: I believe it is fair
and decent to grant divorces for
deSertiOn, for infidelity, and for
drunkenness, but beyond this
we should not co. In this
Bishop Cannon miSrepresentS
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, which recognizes only
adultery as a ground for di-
vOrce." >
Bishop Cannon well knows
this, and his statement is in
contempt of the law Of the
church i'm which he is bishop"
(Other Cannon News on Page 81
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FARM ND SUIT
ASKS $4,000

Alleging he had lost 100000
In farming and cattle raising last
year, due in part to the refusal
Of railroads to allow him reduced
freightS on cattle and hay for
drought relief, former Governor
Henry C. Stuart, of Virginia, to-
day filed complaint with the
Interstate Commerce Commission
seeking $4,000 damages for al
legged discrimination.
Stuart said the emergency re-
lief was refused him ON the
alleged grounds that he was
not q needy farmer, but a mil
IiOnaire and q former governor
Of Virginia"
The complaint asserted that
Mr.. Stuart derives 80 per cent of
his income from his farming
operations:
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Students Fix $l.90
As Cost of Dates,
Goods TO Share

TUCSON, Ariz., Oct. l3
. U.N.SO The depression in
the "date" industry ended to-
day at the University Of Ari-
Zona.
Men students Of the univers-
ity at a mass meeting COM
puted costs Of a date" at
$1.98, voted that the co-eds
should pay one-half the ex.
pense because of critical bust
ness conditions" and agreed
unanimously that the girls
could ask for dates" with pro
priety.
The goods. led by heads Of
80 sororities and honor ,orgaIli-
zations, said 20. K"