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Evening star., 1937-03-31
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BEAUTY CULTURE
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Evening star., 1937-03-31
HELP DOMESTIC.

care for baby neat: reference; SO week.
Call Thursday afternoon. b011 3rd st.
NV Randolph 1890.
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After retirement of several years,
Feng Yu-Hsiang, known as the
christian General" of China, has
taken charge of all Chinese forces
in the Peiping area in the strug.
gle with Japan.
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and she didn't hire you personally
so bewarew
Mary continued to eat her sand.'
wich placidly. Francine Long did
not disturb her and she saw no
reason why she should disturb the
designer.
Mrs. Long was Tony Castles
foreign buyer and his right hand.
She was brittle, chic, cold as ice
and as perfect a machine as Mary
ever expected to meet. She hoped
that someday when she owned q
shop like Tony's, she'd be lucky
enough to have someone like Mrs.
Long to work for her.
It was true that Tony had en-
gagged her while Mrs. Long had
been in Paris, Mary remembered
with slight, swift feeling Of in
security, but then she remembered
Tony and felt secure again. After
all, even though she didn't like
Mrs. Long, there was no reason to
fear her.
She brushed the crumbs up into
her paper napkin, rinsed out the
milk bottle and washed her hands.
Then she went over to the Boucher
gown which had been left on a
form and studied it from all
angles. A small frown grew on
her forehead. She rubbed her chin
ON her hand, trying to find the
solution to the problem that both
cred her. How could you get q
diagonal twist like that? The
frown cleared away; she'd make a
pattern and work it out that way.
She worked with muslin, cutting
jaggedly, pinning and then draw.
ing with her soft pencil, clipping
the jagged edges away, basting to-
gether. It wasn't good enough to
do the sleeves; she'd have to do
the whole thing.
She didn't even notice the pas
sage of time, didn't hear the tower
clock strike 9. At last it was fin-
ished and she held it up to her.
self. So completely engrossed was
she, that she didn't hear the sharN,
click of heels.
It was Francine longs scream
Of rage that startled her so that
she dropped everything and turned
white, frightened and looking very
guilty as Francine-no longer cool
but in a fury, white-faced with
anger, snatched the pattern from
her. ~
"Get your things and get out of
here! We have no place for spies
around here!"
Somehow in that nightmare, she
thought she saw Tony Castles :
face.
Ito Be C0ntinuedl
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every NICE"

other than feebly, followed him
when he led the way back to Tony
Castles shop and let them in
through the bronze doors, on
through the richly carpeted, per-
fumed salons into the Office at the
back. .-...-.
She sat quietly thoughtful while
he rubbed, pressed and repaired
with artists tools.
"It's awfully nice Of you to do
this" she said hesitantly.
"a pleasure" he answered po-
litely.
"It was really your fault"
Really" he repeated disinter-
estedly. He went on carefully OUT
lining a blurred line.
Certainly it was! IF you hadn't
tried to pick me up, wouldn't
have hurried and lost control of
my portfolio"
Better that than your morals"
he contributed cheerfully.
my morals were in no danger"
she retorted coldly.
"Quite right! They were not.
/ wasn't trying to pick. you up.
I thought the name Mari Barat
very fetching. Is that your
name ?"
"In a way" she said, Modified.
That's the way it sounds, any,
way. Someday when I'm a ia
nous couturier I'm going to spell
it that way"
He held the sketch up to the
light and studied the repairs care
fully. $50 you're going to be a
couturier? Why? Good Lord!
Why should an artist want to be
a dressmaker
II don't want to be just a dress
maker" Something came into her
voice. 81 want to be a creator.
That's an art. You-you are an
artist, aren't you? You should un-
derstand."
He sighed. TN a way l am.
I work here. I used to be an
artist-of Sorts" He pasted It's
sues over the finished sketches.
used to be? But you're an
artist now! Aren't you proud to
be an artist in an establishment
like this? I mean :"
His wry smile looked down at
her from immense heights. cit
was more fun being a portrait
painter"
ooh portraits! Of course. You
did them ?"
He fished in his pocket for a.
cigaret case, opened it and offered
it to her.
'Why did you give it up?"
He looked at her steadily for a
moment. lit a cigaret. drew in the
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Head walters surveyed the win
dow tables benignedly. Telephone
bells were beginning to tinkle
summons to April gaieties. The
cherry trees blossomed along the
wall of Central park and, from
across the way in the mansions on
Fifth avenue, eyes of servants and
masters alike gazed on their
beauty with a sense that some
thing new was beginning.
The night made you think of
violin music and fragile frOcks, of
white flowers and delicious foods
and cocktails sparkling in thin
stemmed glasses.
Perhaps it made you think Of
that. But to all this chartreuse
newness of the earth, this cham
payne in the air, Mary Barrett
gave an unheeding ear.
The wrist. watch in the pocket
of her smock-placed there be-
cause it was heavy on her aching
arm-marked z O'clock. The last
of the girls had left she thought.
1t was dark and cool and blessed
ly quiet in the worlkroon back of
the perfumed salons Of the Castle
shop when Mary came back from
her locker where she had gone to
get her small bottle Of milk and
the sandwich she had brought in
at noon.
She was not as alone as she
thought. In the shadowy dinnness,
Louise, the tallest Of the blond
models, was wriggling herself into
a svelte frock.
Oh dear, she thought, If she's
working, I can't stay. Aloud, she
said, "Need any help?"
"And how! Only they don't
make shoe horns big enough to
use on dresses" Her head emerged
and she saw Mary, sandwich in
hand.
"Old Legree keeping you work.
ing tonight?"
mo, I'm not working" Mary
answered. I'm staying to study
the Boucher gown Mrs. Long
brought back from Paris. I can't
figure out how that under-sleeve
is cut. thought I'd study it,"
"Well, you're queer one! On
a night like this you think of
sleeves. Well, sleeves are better
than broken hearts. l think I'm
going to get my heart broken to-
nj olof af fh9tw
mot if you look as pretty as
you do now,' Mary said honestly,
watching Louise improve expertly
on nature.
Look out for Francine Long,"
Louise warned, moved to friend
" gesture. THAT gals dynamite
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smoke. No one had ever asked
him that question before. Not
even Eve. His last portrait had
been of her, Of Eve who had loved
him! He corrected his mental
phrase. That Eve had not ex-
listed, she had married another
man. you've got to understand,
darling, thought I loved you but
we'd be so poor. Who'll buy por-
traits?"
He curved his mouth and blew
away a perfect ring of smoke.
There wasn't enough money in
it," he said aloud, forgetting Mary.
Her eyes, dark and sympathetic,
drew him back. He remembered
to. smile again. "You see I had a
particular talent for knowing the
right clothes for women"
"But if you wanted to paint :.
If you could paint :" she per-
sisted.
Perhaps it was because her eyes
were questioning him. He did
something he had never done be-
fore. He opened a. drawer in the
big desk, fumbled in it's contents
and drew out something. It was
a red ribbon. He gave it to her.
She held it for a moment. Then
she spoke and her voice was
hushed:
"An award in the American Art
.Galleriesw
He tried not. to look as pleased
and proud as he felt when he
nodded.
Her glance went again, to, the
ribbon. Then she said in a little
excuse-it-please voice, "Why you're
you're Tony Castle!"
He said he was and looked away
from her eyes. Somehow he felt
that being Tony Castle, owner of
New York's smartest shop, didn't
quite measure up to what those
eyes expected of him.
Look here" he said quickly,
you've got something in those
sketches. Do you really mean all
you said about that big ambition
Of yours? Enough to come to
work here in the workfoom
Mary caught at her chair to-
keep from floating up to heaven.
Her lips parted but she couldn't
say anything.
ut won't be easy. It will be-
hard, manual labor. You'll only,
be an apprentice-sewing, basting,
pressing, running errands. g. And
there will be no privileges"
"But that's the way they all be-
gan" Her voice was breathless
and her eyes were. like stars in
heavenly company.
Ito Be Continuedl
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[MRUSTLE OF SnKS
READ THIS FIRST:

READ THIS FIRST:
Now a famous couturier in Paris, on
a visit back TO America, Mari Barat
looks back six years.
(NoW GO ON WITH THE, STORY
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CHAPTER 3


THE LILAC MAN eyed Mary
Barrett and stepped briskly around
to the front of his cart. Mary
eyed the lilacs, looked at the con-
tents Of her slender purse and
sighed. She pretended to look into
the windows of the Flea Market,
and her nose wrinkled deliciously
as the perfume Of the fragrant
flowers came to her.
1t was no use to resist them
she knew. Fifty cents was half a
dollar, an important sum, but she
had to have the lilacs because who
can deny that lilacs were April
itself? She crossed the street
with the coin in her hand.
She had to have them because
she had to bring the spring into
her home. In other Aprils she had
gone out to meet it, walking long
distances in the April twilights,
her dreams lending wings to her
feet. In those days her dreams
had been vague things, the ro-
mantle visions that even now were
, within her grasp. Now they were
coming to her; she was not going
out to capture them only in fancy.
To the models, the seamstresses,
the tailors and Tony Castle, she
was the new apprentice She was,
"Hey, grille! Watch that iron!'
or, "Miss, run down to Farber's
and get eight spools of silk to
match this violet"
But to Mary Barrett, swinging
along this April evening on her
sensible low-heeled shoes, her eyes
bright and gay above the ilacs in
her arms, she was an apprentice
only to art.
If her tasks were mental and
her pay barely enough to pay the
rent on the studio apartment over
looking the river and to purchase
her few needs, they represented no
limits to her sphere.
In little while she would be
free to take out and spread before
her the treasures that she CLEANED
from those same mental tasks, SO
happily undertaken.
There were drawbacks to this
opportunity that had come to
Mary Barrett-so let us see and
accept and dismiss them as she
did. There was the back-break-
ing fatigue Of lifting heavy irons.
There was the incessant torture of
being on her feet long, weary
hours. There were sindignities too
numerous but too small to men
ton. p
But II
There were the hours, when
rested by her bath, after her light
supper she stretched on her lounge
and had her day to review, her
growing knowledge to parade
across her memory. The big, little
things she was learning-the in
tricacies and mechanics, the tricA
Of getting lines, the manipulation
Of fabric that distinguished 8
gown from address. Oh, she was
an apprentice welding heavy
irons, hopping about in a crowded
dusty, hot workroom with needles
and scissors and pins. But she
was learning and saving hel
knowledge against the day when
she was going to need it.
She owed it all to Tony Castle
Tony who had smiled as one does
to a child when she had confideo
to him that she was going to be
great one day.
An American had no chance, he
had said. Americans don't have
the feeling for it,
The only chance she wanted was
right where she was. In Tony
Castles workroorn. So she thought
the next night when already the
lilacs had faded.
Out of doors, in the April twi-
light, the world was quickening
Once-weary feet on high stilted
heels tapped a spritely cadence
along the sidewalks and disap-
peared into the subway kiosks
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One of the two American women
who charged they were kicked and
beaten by Japanese pickets on
guard before the Japanese EN-.
bassy in Peiping, China, is pic
tured above. She is Mrs. Helen
Jones, 80, of Detroit, who has
been in Peiping a year.
Central Press
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-07-23

A 22-year-old radio singer made
an engagement with G-men on
busy Times Square, New York,
and then told them he was q
fugitive from a Georgia chain
gang. The singer, Thomas Merle
Wofford, was serving 35 years for
kidnapping and robbery when he
broke away from the chain gang
near Elberton. Ca. June 22.
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SAKSSS
READ THrS FIRST.

Ambitious to be dress designer, Mary
Barrett accidentally meets Tony castle,
owner of a smart New York dress snop.
After examining some of her sketches,
he offers her a job.
(NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-01-21
MARINES HAVE LARGE
QUOTA FOR JANUARY

According to an announcement
received by Postmaster A. ]. Twin
ing. from Captain c. c. Gill, OFF,
Ger in Charge of the U. S. Marine
Corps Recruiting District for the
states of Montana. Washington
and northern part of Idaho. with
offices in Room 433, Federal Build
ing. Seattle, Washington. the U. $.
Marine Corps now has slightly
larger quota for the month OF
January than it has for some tlme
in thepast; this is due to recent
increase in personnel authorised
by Congress. Although a number
of these vacancies have ALREADY
been filled. limited number are
still available for those in this DIS
trict who can pass the required
physical examination and are
otherwwise qualified to character
and education. Upon benig accep-
ted for service at the Seattle o1-
flee. all applicants will be trans
fered to the Marine Base at san
Diego, California, for their 1irs'
training as Marine.
Further information and liter
ATTIRE may be had by writing or cal
ling in person at the abive ADDRESS
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-01-21
CONTRACT AWARDED
FOR POMONA SlPHON

Secretary of Interior Harold l..
Ickes announced today award VI
the contract for construction OF
the Pomona siphon and wasteway
and construction of 5000 feet OF
the Yakima Ridge canal, Roza nl-
vision of the Yakima project, 10
T A. Terteling & Sons of Boise,
Idaho. on their bid of $374'4os'
The successful bid was the low
est of twelve received by the bu-
reau of Reclamation December H.
1886, at it's Yakima, Wash, office.
The contract contemplates the
lining of the canal with concrete
ercept at the siphon and the bench
flume sites. About 4,300 feet OF
the canal will consist Of con-
tinuous concrete bench flume.
The Pomona siphpn will carry
the Yakima Ridge canal across the
Yakima river at a point near the
town of Pomona, Wash. The 81
phon will be cylindrical with ra-
dius of seven feet eight inches. 1t
will be about 1,400 feet long and
will be of reinforced concrete con-
struction.
The contractor must begin work
within thirty days after notice to
proceed is issued and has five
hundred calendar days in which
to complete the contract.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-12-16

9and lots of candy and nuts. l wish
you a Merry Christmas.
Ruth Macklanburg.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-12-16
Small Boys Make
Weighty Decision

Ortonville - Two local small
boys, observed recently in an act
of charity, won the praise of Or
tonville residents when, after a
weighty decision, their pennies,
intended to buy them candy, went
into the milk fund for needy chill
dren. Walking into a cafe the
little fellows each presented an
empty pop bottle to the fountain
employee who in, turn handed
them each a penny. With a sur
vey of the candy case they were
seen making a weighty decision
as both heads came into close
contact. Turning from the candy
case with its trays of tempting
sweets the boys walked up to the
counter where there was a sign
and large empty milk bottle,
placed there by the Civic club to
solicit funds with which to fin
ance a milk campaign for Orion
ville's underweight children. In
to the container the boys deposit
ed the two pennies just given
them for the sale of their bottles.
Thinking their acts of generosity
unobserved the lads headed for
the door, only to be called back
by the proprietor, who patting
them on the shoulder, praised
them for their kind deed and pre-
sented each with a candy bar.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-12-16
Gets Bible Lost 19
Years Ago in France

Cokato-A bible lost by a sold.
Ter 19 years ago in France during
the world war has been recovered
by Julius Richter, who lost a cloth
bound copy of the New Testament
when he was wounded during the
St. Mihiel drive. He was taken to
a hospital behind the lines and it
was there that he discovered that
the book, which he had always
carried with him, was gone. Re-
Gently he received a parcel and a
letter from E. Head of London, a
member of the Royal field artil-
lery. Head wrote he had found
the Bible among souvenirs he
had gathered during the war. He
said he picked it up in a billet,
somewhere in France" Richter's
address was found inside the
cover and the bible mailed to
Candy, Minnesota, Richter's home
at the time he enlisted for service.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-12-16
Child Asks Eyesight For
Brother in Santa Letter

and lots of candy and nuts. / wish
you a Merry Christmas.
Ruth Macklanburg.
= = =
Springfield Mimi
Dec. z. 1887
Dear Santa.
l am seven years old and in the
Third Grade.
l would like an electric train,
wind up truck and a pocket
knife for Christmas. My sister
Patsy will write her own letter
but please bring to my brother
Tommy who is two years old, a
toy that will run SO he will let
my toys alone.
l am living on the farm again
so don't look for me in town. 1
know a poor family who never
has any Christmas and 1 will tell
you who they are when you get
here Please bring them some
toys.
A Merry Christmas to you.
Your friend,
Dickie O'Callaghan.
i = = s.
Redwood Falls MINI
Dec. 8 1887
Dear Santa Claus,
Please bring me a road grader
caterpillar for Christmas. 1 am in
the second grade. l am Z years
old.
Your friend
Alex Jordan
s & 8
Redwood Falls MINI, 8, 1887
Dear Santa Claus,
Please bring me a rood grader
caterpillor for Chrisems.
1 am in the third grade.
I am 8 yeays old
How is your reindeer?
Your friend,
John Jordan
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-12-16
Blossom Upholds
Minnesota. Status

Waseca- Southern Minnesota
hurled flaming torch of defian-
&c into the face of southern CAL
lfornia recently when Bob Bar
telt plucked a dandelion in his
front yard and exhibited the bios
son here. This yellow posy, re-
miniscent of the thousands which
bloom in rapturous profusion on
Waseca lawns during the summer
months was picked Wednesday,
November &c. Rob found the
da,-delion to be quite a compen-
sation after having read a letter
concerning the rose blanketed
mountains and valleys of Califor-
mia.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-12-16
Catherine JOnesOn
Receives Honorable
Mention in Contest

Catherine Joneson of Redwood
Falls received honorable mention
in the senior division of Christ
mas Seal high school radio con-
test sponsored by the Minnesota
Public Health association.
Miss Joneson is not included in
the list of 10 high school students
from throughout the state who
will broadcast their talks over
radio station WCCO this week
and next.
Last year Catherine was among
those who read their essays over
the radio.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-12-16

The city of Hutchinson provok-
ed comment far and wide recent
lv by erecting statue of the In
dian Chief, Little Crow, leader of
the Indian massacre of 1862. In
honoring their former foe, the
Hutchinson park board, which
arranged for the monument, gave
consideration to the fact that
Little Crow was a remarkable
man in many respects. He knew
we'll that the outcome of the In
dian war would be failure for his
countrymen and he entered their
ranks only when every plea was
over-ruled by the hot-headed
Young braves who openly accused
him of cowardice. In the picture
above, Leslie Kouba, boy artist of
Hutchinson who nodded the con-
crete statue, is shown putting on
the finishing touches of his work.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-12-16
Redwood Falls
Dec. z. 1887

Redwood Falls
Dec. z. 1887
Dear Santa.
l hope you remember all the
sick little boys and girls this
year. My little brother Billy who
is years old is blind from an
operation he had in August. Dear
Santa all I want is for Billy to get
mis- eyesight AS Ever your Friend.
Charles LeClaire
Redwood Falls
Marshall MINI
Dec. IA, 1887
Dear Santa Claus,
3 1 am years old. I am in the
second grade.
For Christmas please bring me
blackboard, a pair of bedroom
slippers,
a pajamas and some candy and
nuts.
and don't forget my brother Eu-
geCe he tease'S me lot but l
wants him to have some thing
any ways.
But please don't forget my dear
teacher Miss Nancy. Dear Santa
Claus Don't forget to leave the
presents for little Irene Christop-
herSon.
And not for big Irene Christop-
1erson across the road.
Am l ever glad it showed yester
day so you can come with your
sleigh.
With love,
Irene Christopherson.
Vesta, Mimi
Dec. II, 1887
Dear Santa Claus.
We are glad Christmas is COM
ing soon. For Christmas. eve is
the birthday of Christ. I am eight
years old. And in the fourth
grade. 1 have been a good girl.
Please bring me a manicure set.
My little brother Bobby is five
years old. He wants a farm ard
rtacor. Please remember all the
other little girls and boys also.
And bring us Christmas tree
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-12-16
Ministerial Meeting

Meeting Monday afternoon at
the home of Rev. c. D. Lindsey,
the ministerial association was
addressed by Reede Gray. A dis
cussion on the cooperation of
school and church in giving the
best moral and spiritual training
to the youth of the community,
followed The next meeting of
the group will be held January
10 at the home of Rev. w. H.
WeStby.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-12-16

= Children ask Santa for many
things but the most touching re-
quest the Old Saint may receive
this season is the earnest plea of
small Redwood Falls boy that his
brothers eyesight be restored.
His letter and others follow:
Evening star., 1937-06-18

Right Rev. James Z. Freeman, Bishop
Of Warrington, and confirmed BY the
chapter at ix meeting yesterday.
DR.. Brown - professor emeritus Of
theology at Union Theological semi-
nary and president Of the American
section of the Universal Christian
Council for Life and Work. He Il
wen known for his writings. including
two recent books, THE Church Catho-
lie and Protestant" and Church and
State"
DR.. Mott, chairman Of the 1nterna-
tional Missionary Council, has beer
for many years the recognized leade,
Of the Christian Student Movement
He served for = decade as chairman
Of the Constitution Committee Of the
Edinburgh World Missionary Confer
ence and likewise was chairman oi
the Institute Of Social and Religion,
Research.
DR.. Freeman u editor of the Rich.
mond News-Ieader. author OF thu
definitive biography Of Gen. Robert Z
Lee and celebrated throughout TIN