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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-26
SYNOPSIS

Jim Fielding, one of the lost generation"
who had left college in the depression and
is unable to find a job, arrives at Glendale
to visit hts friends the MacPhersons. Mac
had formerly been gardener at his late
uncle's estate and now works for T. H.
Vaughn of "Meadowbrook" Jim is tired OF
being supported by his married sister Kay.
While he still can marry Lenore, an at
tractive divorcee who is In love with him
and have an easy life because of her wealth,
his mind rebels. Stopping at the village
drug store for a sandwich he meets Dolly,
a pretty soda fountain girl. When he in
quires about the Vaughns, she asks If he is
a friend of "Cecilys." She also entrusts
message to Tommy. young son OF the
family and tells him how to reach the
Vaughn's estate. Approaching the house,
Jim encounters tomboyish little girl, fish
ing. She is startled and falls in the brook.
Incensed at first, she discovers she likes
Jim and he learns that she is Susan Vaughn,
He discovers Cecily Is her older sister. He
sees Tommy, youth of eighteen who mag
ines he is in love with Dolly. Jim explains
his impecunious position to the MacPher-
sons. They tell him that Mr.. Vaughn Is
recovering from a nervous breakdown and
has been a widower since Sue was little
child. Mrs. Macpherson suggests that Mac
give Jim a job as handyman Jim goes
for walk to think it over and picks up
horse shoe. Soon Cecily, lovely young
girl, appears, riding limping horse. Jim
scolds her when he sees the animal has
thrown shoe. There is an angry scene.
Jim's ire cools and he Is intrigued as he
thinks about her. He tells the MacPher-
sons he wants to stay and assumes his
duties as handyman. He sees Dolly again.
She explains that she has been seeing Tom
my, but regards him with amusement He
writes letter to Lenore, explaining about
his new job. When Cecily returns from a
house-party she asks him airily. IT wonder
how long you'll stay?" Jim acts as Mr..
Vaughn's part.time secretary. He opens a
letter for Vaughn by mistake and learns
it is love message to Cecily from Jeremy
Clyde, young actor at a neighboring sum.
mer theater, of whom her father disap-
proves. Cecily accuses Jim of being hired
to spy on her. Jim comes upon Sue Sob
bling rebelliously after an encounter with
Cecily.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-26
TRUE gu THE SUN

under his skin. He watched the
small mincing figure until the pink
ruff1es had whisked out of sight;
feeling as he fancied Pygmalion
must have felt when his statue
came to life. He had, inadvertent-
ly, discovered an approach to SUI
san. Not that he wanted her to be
tanned entirely. He was fond of the
spunky little rebel. His attention
returned to the sheet of stationery
on the table.
Did he want to spend the ap-
preaching week end in Roselyn?
He'd have to make up his mind.
He was taking Dolly to dance to-
night and he ought to mail the let
ter to Lenore while he was in the
village.
Why not let Fate decide the ques-
ton. Jim took coin from the
watch-pocket of his trousers. Heads
he'd go and tails he wouldn't. He
tossed the coin experimentally.
Then again he tossed the coin,
watched it descend to the table,
spin, roll, waver, come to a stop.
In that split-second he knew that he
didn't want to 60 back to Roselyn.
The decision of the coin was I'M
important. He took up the pen,
ignoring the coin with feeling of
defiance. He'd make his own de-
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Susan appeared to be in a sort of
gentle daze. ''Fight?" she repeated
absently. "Oh, no." She smiled
dreamily. 81 guess I'll just go up
stairs and wash my face"
Cecily stood watching Susan's dig
nifed departure. Her expression
was puzzled, astonished. After a
time she glanced at Jim.
''Have you ever been connected
with a circus?" she asked, walk
ing toward him across the terrace.
Her gaiety was contagious. Jim
felt his resentment ebbing away.
"Never-until now," he replied.
"You win!" she said amicably.
''We are pretty awful, aren't we?
A private menagerie. Parker is a
startled doe and Susie's wild cat.
Tommy is a donkey and Fathers
the big bad wolf. L" She paused,
smiling down at Jim from the arm
of a wicker chair.
"Yes?" he asked, neglecting the
hedge. "In the menagerie, what
are your"
II don't know" A shadow clouded
her gaiety. "I'd like to think of my
self as something magnificent, a
white peacock, a bird of paradise,
a mythical creature with wings and
wisdom and glamour. She smiled
ruefully, little embarrassed, a lit
tie sad. "Really, though" she con-
tinued, 'I'm afraid I'm just the tor
toise-shell cat who thought she was
lion"
The words, lightly spoken, gave
Jim new impression of Cecily.
Was her arrogance a defense? Un-
der her surface manner of self
assurance was she unhappy, rest
less, confused? At the moment he
felt drawn to her by something
more intangible than her beauty.
A dangerous moment, filed, for
him, with disturbing magic. His
heart beat with an accelerated
rhythm. There was a singing sound
in his ears.
The moment passed. Cecily
laughed, a clear gay sound, UNI
acquainted with sadness or regret.
"Can you tame donkeys?" she
asked teasingly, ''and ambitious
tortoise-shell cats? Father would
give you a Croix de Guerre. A
shining gold medal" she added,
moving away from the arm of the
chair. ''Think how magnificent it
would look with your six medals for
swirnming!'
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-26

MOTHER, between you and me
Iva Sis is getting to be little
show-off. Last night when Dick
called, there she sat, big as life,
right in the middle of things chirp-
ing about the new dress you made
her: how you used a remnant left
over from one of your dresses,
and got it finished in one after
noon-she even had Dick feel the
material.
Well, Elsie, you can't blame the
child's approaching herself in a
new dress. How about ourselves?
Didn't you say your jumper was
the talk of the Tennis Club meet
ing yesterday? And haven't I
been spending more time before
the mirror since I made my new
"Stylish Stout model? I actually
feel like a new person in it-imag-
inc me being vain at my age!
Flatters Stout Figure.
Oh, Mother, you're not vain and
you're as young as any of us. You
just were lucky to find a particu-
larly fiattering style for your fig
ure. That soft jabot makes you
look lovely and the whole thing is
so slenderizing. But only an ex-
pert like you could make such a
dress.
1t isn't being expert, Elsie, it
is choosing a pattern that is deity
designed and giving full step-by-
step instructions on how to pro-
coed.
Several Blouses.
I'm going to make another
blouse for my jumper soon, Moth
er. l always admired that white
pique shirt of Dicks, so think
I'll try it for my blouse, since the
pattern is a lot like a mans shirt
in design.
The Patterns.
Pattern 1929 comes in sizes IA
to 20; 80 to AZ bust. Size Is re-
quires 31s yards of 39-inch ma
terial for the jumper and rs
yards for the blouse. Pattern 1847
is available in sizes So to So. Size
38 requires 4s4 yards of 39-inch
material.
Pattern 1882 is designed for sizes
2 to 10 years. Size 4 years re-
quires ia yards Of 39-inch ma
terial.
New Pattern Book.
Send for the Barbara Bell
Spring and Summer Pattern Book.
Contains interesting and exclusive
fashions for little children and the
difficult junior age; ,slenderizing,
well-cut patterns for the mature
figure; afternoon dresses for the
most particular young women and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-26
CHAPTER v

Jim, partially dressed for the eve
ming, his blond head still damp from
a shower, sat beside an open win
dow in his bedroom in the cottage.
Writing materials were arranged on
the table before him. A sheet of
stationery bore the crisp saluta-
ton
"Dear Lenore''-
He scowled at the paper, laid
down his pen and Lit a fresh Gig
arctic. He didn't want to return to
Roselyn for IGNORES house-party
and he was finding it difficult to
decline her invitation. He had prom
ised, of course. That was the worst
of it. He had promised soon after
he came to "Meadowbrook" when
the party was still in the unde-
termined future and he had used
any means at his command to
placate Lenore. Now that the time
had arrived he found himself in a
perplexing situation.
+ Pleasant, but Perhaps he was
afraid to go. Perhaps that was
the truth of the matter. He might
find the old life too easy and agree
able. He might not want to re-
turn to "Meadowbrook'' after the
weekend.
Why should he? He wasn't get
ting anywhere. He couldn't con-
ceive of lifetime of living with
the MacPhersons and serving the
Vaughns in the capacity of an extra
man in and about the house. 1t
was quixotic to stay, perhaps. He
was a romantic fool, though Ger
tainly there was nothing romantic
in using typewriter clumsily and
pulling weeds and buying groceries.
Perhaps if he accepted IGNORES in
vitation, someone would be there
who'd put him on to a decent job.
Business conditions were improv-
ing. The newspapers were opti-
mistic. Perhaps
But he liked being at Meadow
brook" He glanced out of the WIN
dow, over the young apple trees to
the visible portion of the grounds
at the rear of the house. The sun
set was fading into the clear still
light of early evening.
Jim's eyes fingered thoughtfully
upon the tranquil scene. Presently
two figures came into view, scat
tering his thoughts. The first fig
ure, amazingly, was Susan, dainty
almost unacceptable Susan in
pink dress artfully ruff1ed, slippers
tied with bows, an Alice-in-W Won
derland comb restraining her taffy-
colored hair. She walked toward
the house along the drive with con-
sciously mincing steps, her pointed
chin lifted high. Behind her, at
respectful distance, followed VIII
fred, the farmers boy.
Jim laughed. Little monkey!
She'd lost no time in acting upon
his suggestions. The pink dress and
the slippers tied with bows were
probably the reason for the shop
ping trip to the city which she and
Miss Parker had made yesterday.
Susan was testing the effect of her,
altered appearance, and with OBJ
vious success, upon the only male
person on the estate approximate
ing her age.
Jim was amused and touched.
Susan. too, he reelected, had gotten
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-26

cision. The pen moved swiftly over
the paper, making a scratching
sound, which, presently, blended
with the melody of a dance tune
loudly and cheerfully whistled.
Half an hour later Jim drove the
MacPhersons' coupe down the drive
toward the road. It was nearly
dark. In the deepening dusk he saw
a solitary figure seated in an atti-
tude of dependency on the fence
rail beside the mail-box.
"Hey, wait a minute!" Tommy
detached himself from the fence
rail. He walked over to the coupe.
"You going to the village?" he
asked.
Jim nodded.
"Will you-?" Tommy hesitated.
"Can I trust your" he asked sol
EMMY, his expression strained and
anxious under a dropping lock of
hair.
"Of course" Jim assured him.
81 mean it's pretty private" the
boy continued. 81 mean, I wouldn't
want it to get around, if you know
what mean"
"You can rely on my discretion,
old man."
"Well-" Tommy gu1ped and
went on. "You know the girl that
works in the drug-store?"
"Dolly?"
"Well, will you take her letter
from mel" Tommy drew from I'M
der his jersey a somewhat crum-
pied envelope. II was just trying
to decide whether to put it in the
mail-box or not" he continued. II
should think a fellow would have
a right to ask for his letters back.
But gosh, I don't know what she'll
do"
Jim drew his eyebrows down over
his twinkling eyes.
"What's the matter?" he asked.
''Have you and Dolly quarreled?"
Tommy worried a loose bit of
gravel with the toe of his oxford.
"Well, Dad wouldn't let me use the
Pierce after he got better. I'd taken
her out in it lots of times before and
I guess she sort of got the impress
sion that it belonged to me. I
haven't had any money to take her
out with for about three weeks.
That's why I thought maybe I'd
better get my letters back"
"But what could she do?" Jim
asked, controlling his amusement
with difficulty.
"She could do plenty" Tommy
limited darkly. ''She knows Dads
got jack"
'But Tommy" Jim protested.
SIT happened to a fellow at
school," Tommy went on. "His ia
Their had plenty Of jack and the girl
who worked in the drugstore in the
town where the school is sued him
for breach of promise and it got in
the papers and cost his dad a lot
Of money"
"But the fellow of whom you're
speaking was well, older than
you are, wasn't her"
81 don't know what difference
that Makes" Tommy's voice was
little aggrieved. Anyway, it was
the mess Pete VanHorn got into that
got Dad all hot and bothered over
Fay and me-"
sFay?" Jim inquired.
Tommy, for moment, forgot his
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-26
Calotabs Help Nature
To Throw Off a Cold

Millions have found in Calotabs a
most valuable aid in the treatment
of colds. They take one or two tab
let's the first night and repeat the
third or fourth night if needed.
How do Calotabs help Nature
throw off a cold? First, Calotabs
are one of the most thorough and
dependable of all intestinal elimi-
nants, thus cleansing the intestinal
tract Of the germ-laden mucus and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-26
CHAPTER IV-COntinued

who WOn?" Jim asked casually.
The child looked at him question
ingly, looked away. Jim surmised
that she was about to take refuge
in fight. He was relieved when
she remained seated on the terrace,
her arms clasping her knees.
II don't know" she said. "Cecily
stopped u.s."
"Who were you fighting?" Jim
clipped off sprigs of box.
''Wilfred. He called me some
thing"
"What was it?"
ST won't tell you"
"Please." Jim smiled.
The smile accomplished its pur-
pose. Susan flushed. A wave of
pink washed over her face.
she called me 'freckles,'" she
said in a barely audible voice.
slave you freckles? Let me see."
She lifted her face.
"You have, haven't your" Jim
said. 81 like freckles."
'Do your" The pink flush deep
ened. The wide hazel eyes bright
ened with interest. "Do you really,
Jim?"
81 certainly do.'
Jim was moved by the wistful
note in her voice.
'Do you dislike frecl1les enough
to fight about them?" he asked.
81 don't like not being pretty"
she said. "Cecily's a beauty and
I'm just plain Old grievances
were in the words, a lifetime of
secret humiliation. "You think she
is, don't you? You think Cecily is a
beauty?"
Jim considered the phrasing of a
carefully tactful reply. Susan
rushed on.
"You dol" she insisted. 81 thought
anyway you liked me better than
Cecily. And then you told Mrs.
MACPHERSON that Cecily's eyes were
the color of that kind of wine and I
thought you didn't like them and
told Cecily one day when she was
acting hateful and it was a compli-
ment all the time. Cecily was as
pleased as anything. She knew it
was compliment. Susan's eyes
were reproachful. "She said thank
you, Susie, that's an intriguing COM
pliment. That's what she told me
so l knew you liked Cecily better
than me and hated you, Jim. T."
She broke off abruptly, then asked
in breathless voice, ''You Go think
Cecily is beauty, don't you, Jim?"
WELL" Jim said slowly, 81 think
she's very pretty"
Everybody does" Susan's chin
trembled. 81 hate to be homely!"
she cried. 81 hate it! I hate it!
That's why I wish I was boy. If
your a boy, it doesn't matter if
you're homely."
"You aren't homely." Jim took
handker hief from his pocket and
wiped a Ry the tears that streaked
her face. "You have a cute face"
She looked up at him gravely.
Have /? Honest, Jim?"
"But you ought to wear shoes
and stockings"
"Why?"
"You'll ruin your feet If you
don't" He looked at her apprais-
ingly. "Pink would be becoming
COLOR" he said. "Your hair cut
even. One of those Alice-in-Wo
land combs"
people would laugh she said.
II wouldn't"
She looked up at him shyly.
"You're NICE" she said. ''I like
you"
She plunged toward the door and
bumped into Cecily coming out of
the house. Jim returned to the
hedge. Cecily addressed Susan.
rs the hunger strike over?" she
asked.
''What?" Susan asked vaguely.
"What did you say?"
"Oh, nothing!" Cecily shrugged
her shoulders. What's the use? I
suppose you're going out to start
another fight.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-26

matrons and other patterns for
special occasions are all to be
found in the Barbara Bell Pattern
Book. Send Is cents Tin, coins)
today for your copy.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept, 247 w.
Forty-third street, New York,
N. Y. Patterns Is cents Tin coins)
each.
g Bell Syndicate-WNU Service.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-26

toxines. Second, Calotabs are diu-
retic to the kidneys, promoting the
elimination of cold poisons from
the blood. Thus Calotabs serve
the double purpose of a purgative
and diuretic, both of which are
needed in the treatment of colds.
Calotabs are quite economical;
only twenty-five cents for the fam
lily package, ten cents for the trial
package. (Adv.)
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-02-26

Belittling Is Useless
The foolishest thing is to belittle
genius. Genius is.
Evening star., 1937-10-14
PACHYDERM HOUSE
OPENED TO PUBLIC.
100000 Quarters Re.
create Climate of Tropical
Animal Inmates.

The Zoos new 100000 Pachyderm
House. which was opened to the pub
lie yesterday afternoon. will provide
continuous fair weather for the big
tropical animals on display there.
A hone-chillne drizzle was sweep
ine Washington Yesterday when the
tust-cOmpleted exhibition house was
opened. but inside the building the
riraffes. the Malay tapirs. the Asiatic
and African wild cattle got acquainted
with their new quarters under condi-
Tons which closely paralleled those
OF their native climates.
The air which the four young Nu-
hisn elraffes breathed had been con-
dltioned for temperature. humidity
and purity. 1t was raining and cloudy
outside, but within the building the
cages were illuminated TO resemble
d1ffused sunlight.
Giraffes Are Pooled.
In fair weather continuous sky
lights around the ends and sides of
the big building will provide natural
illumination Big indoor swimming
pools have been built for the tapirs.
three OF which have just been re-
turned from the East Indies. and the
hippos.
The four young giraffes were so
Impressed with their new surround
inRs Yesterday that they tried to nib
bic from the walls of their natural
habitat cage the foliage of the African
veldt painted there by P. w. A. ar
fists.
The giraffes. between II months and
years OF age, are only about two
thirds grown. They are pairs of two
somewhat different species, one pair
sliShtly lighter in coloring than the
other.
one OF the prize displays among
the hooved animals brought here from
quarantine in New Jersey Yesterday
WAS two mouse deer. one from Sinea-
pore and the other from Sumatra.
They are smaller than young terriers.
and scamper about on legs as delicate
and thin as lead pencils.
Gibbons I on an Act
The mouse deer are OF a species
next to the smallest in the world
At frst glance many spectators yes
terday mistook them for rabbits. They
are on display in the new House for
Great Apes and Small Mammals.
In their big new exercis. cage in
the mammal house, the Zoos three
young gibbons from the East Indies
yesterday put on a circus aerial act
rarely eoualed here The young apes
srs beginning to get accustomed to
their new quarters. They fly through
the air executing trspeze stunts that
would stump Tarzan and his jungle
playmates.
Wrestler. the young orang-ontsne. is
not as active as the smaller apes
although he is beginning to show
signs OF real talent on the trapeze.
The animals recently were brought
10 the States by Dr. William M. Mann.
Zoo director and leader OF the Ma
tionsl Geographic Society-Smith-
sonian Expedition to the East Indies
and Africa
Evening star., 1937-10-14

turned most OF the spoil at grave risk
OF capture. Shortly after the theft the
merchant found box In his garden
full OF gold coins and jewelry accom-
panied by note reading, We have
taken only enough to cover our ex-
penses-you surely do not grudee us
such . little when We return you 10
much" They had kept about 81.
Evening star., 1937-10-14
Bruce Barton
Would Repeal
a Ln,U Each Dnv
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, October l4.-Bruce
Barton, who wants to be known Al
"the great repealer," said today II
elected to Congress he would move tc
repeal a law a week.
The advertising executive, Repub-
lican nominee for congressman from
the silk stocking seventeenth dis
trict here. said an afternoon in a law
library convinced him no other ma
ton in the world is so ridden to death
by legislation.
Il discovered that If I read a hum
dred laws day. it would take two
years Of solid reading to cover them
ALL" he said.
Since the Pilgrims landed on
Plymouth Rock in search OF free and
simple life. IS Congresses have passed
59.282 statutes. The last Congress con-
tributed 900. and President Roosevelt
last Summer signed oO0."
Evening star., 1937-10-14

piilsory retirement Of railroad en-
ploy1s At the age Of so.
Other phases of the program pro-
posed by W. w. Royster, Glenwood,
Mimi. retiring president, for amend
ment Of the railroad retirement act
included: Permissive retirement at
the age of so or over for employees
with 20 or more years of service, in
stead of 80 years, and specified an
Evening star., 1937-10-14
SUMNER FUNERAL
Rites Tomorrow Afternoon for

Rites Tomorrow Afternoon for
Late Real Estate Dealer.
Funeral services for Charles M
Sumner. So. will be held at 2 pm.
tomorrow in Cawler's chapel. 1856
Pennsylvania avenue. Burial will be
private
Mr.. Sumner. who had been IN the
real estate business here for several
years, died yesterday Of 4 heart all
nnent at his home, BIS Eighteenth
street. He had been 4 resident of
Washington since 1925 and is survived
by his widow, Mrs. Debora Akers
Sumner.
Evening star., 1937-10-14
RETIREMENT At so
URGED BY RAIL GROUP
By the Associsted Press.

BY the Associst ted Press.
CHICAGO, October 1.-THE Rail-
road Employees National Pension Az
sociation closed its seventh annual
meeting yesterday with adoption Of
a legislative program calling for COM
Evening star., 1937-10-14
The Original Complaint.

A clay letter. dug up in ancient
Ur Of Babylon. dating some 1000
years ago. was from a travelling sales
man in = distant country complaining
that he had written fve times before
and had no reply!
Evening star., 1937-10-14

nuities for retiring employees and
widows. James L. Cosgrove. Chicago,
was elected association president.
Evening star., 1937-10-14
Thieves Return $1,000.

After breaking into . store in PoAs
gorica, Yugoslavia, and taking money
and goods valued At 5000, thieves re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-18
MRS. F. B. LOR|NG
SUCCUMBS HERE
Doctors Widow, 70, Was
Granddaughter of Latrobe,
Capitol Architect.

Mrs. Lydia Latrobe Loring, 10, widow
Of DR.. Francis B. Loring, once a we'll
known physician here, died yesterday
at her home, 1854 N street. She had
been i'll more than year.
A member of one of Baltimores
most prominent families, Mrs. Loring
came here as bride more than so
years ago. Her husband was one of
the founders of the Chevy Chase Club
Mrs. Loring was member of St
Johns Episcopal Church, Sixteenth
and H streets, which was designed by
her grandfather, Benjamin H Latrobe,
who also was one of the architects
of the Capitol and leading exponent
of the Greek style of architecture.
Her brother, the late Ferdinand c.
latrobe, was a number of times Mayor
Of Baltimore. Mrs. Loring was
cousin of the late Henry Latrobe
Roosevelt, who was Assistant Secre-
tsry of the Navy She is survived
by daughter, Miss Lydia Latrobe
Loring, with whom she made her home
here.
Funeral services will be held at ii
am. tomorrow at the residence. Rev.
DR.. Oliver j. Hart, rector of st. Johns,
will officiate Burial will be private
in Rock Creek Cemetery.