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Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-08-18

by a huge mass of tawny fur, which
leaped in and out of the tangle.
From the middle of the ruge, Steve
Hubbard's face, what she could see OF
it, for Mickey's small arm flung a.
cross the nose and mouth, peered up
at her.
AS soon as he had dislodged the
young strangle-hold, Steve grinned up
at Linda and said:
"Howdy, stranger. Drag up ring
side seat for the championship match.
Right now Mighty Mickey has one fall
on Stronge-Arm Steve. Also, meet
Major, the referee. He's the pant
ing one.'
"Hello, MOTHER" Mickey beamed.
His face was flushed, happy. "We're
fighting
$50 see," Linda said and she didn't
smile.
"Must you DO so rough?" she said
Major bounded up to her and tried to
lick her hand. "And Please take that
big dog out of here"
When Steve was on his feet, trying
futilely to smooth his rumpled hair,
his grin was something to behold.
When he and the dog had gone, Mick
ey stood there, in the middle of the
rug utterly devastated, heartbroken.
Mother he said, "why did you
make Steve go way? I like him
and :"
His lower lip trembled, dangerous
ly close to tears.
e.. and dogs aren't bad!"
Linda gathered him to her.
"No, DEAR" she said. Mothers
sometimes are :"
That night, when Linda, Janice and
10 got together to map out the start
of the courtship campaign aimed at
DIR. Bill Blaine, Linda's feeling had
changed. In the place of genuine self
censure, which had been so difficult
to subdue before she decided upon this
course, there was that tingling feeling
of intrigue's excitements.
"Hmmm," said 10 standing back and
surveying Linda through narrowed, crit
ical eyes, hands on hips. Lessee,
not much needed in the way of make
up or costuming for the part. But
as for 'props'-ah, yes :"
Linda's gaze, sparkling interest In
her eyes, followed the line of JOS
vision to the third finger of Linda's
left hand. There was the beautiful
combination engagement and wedding
ring which Mike Morton had given
eye-holding as an ornament but
unobtrusive as marriage symbol. AT
least, Bill Blaine certainly hadn't re-
cognized it as such.
"The ring doesn't fit the perfect
picture of the eligible girl" 10 con-
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non-paying patient for your boss :"
you're sweet" Linda smiled CRATE
fully, and Mr.. Avon wondered as she
said it why this same lovely girl could
confide in an anonymous old man
but would become all stiff and awed
and frightened if she knew he was
really J. R. Blaine, "Mr. Titan Tow
err, himself.
"But, really" Linda continued, Il
don't need a shoulder to cry on-not
now anyway. My problems all solved.
Do you mind if tell you all about
it,"
Mr.. Avon didn't mind.
Linda told him everything. She
told him about Mike and about Mick
ey; about JOS formula for Linda's
happiness, about the difficult dilem-
ma it placed her in, about Janice's
warning aginst her final decision. Lin
da told Mr.. Avon the whole story
but she told it like story, third per-
son, without names.
When she had finished, Mr.. Avon
spoke without hesitation.
eff that course will bring her happi-
ness, Linda, she should take it by all
means. She has happiness coming to
her; all she can get out of this tough
old world. If she's sure she loves this
young man, nothing should stand in
the way -.
"But remember, child" he went on,
"that line about it's fun to be fooled
wasn't written about men in love. Way
back-a hundred years or so ago when
I was a kid in SCHOOL, learned a
poem that's stuck with me pretty well
all through life. You know it:
"'Oh what tangled web we weave
" When first we practice to de-
ceive %"
eyes," said Linda, 81 know it"
She wished she didn't know it, later
that afternoon in the office when the
couplet kept running through her
mind, necessarily set to the tune of
a popular song. No matter how
strongly she willed against it, the
words kept cropping up in her mind.
The words were there when Bill
Blaine telephoned. He asked if he
might see her that night and Linda
pleaded a prior engagement.
Tomorrow then, Linda" Bill had
urged. 81 have to stop and ask my
self if I'm a doctor or a disease, the
way you avoid me-
81 won't any more, Bill Linda ans
wered. Tomorrow them
Linda was in mood several shades
darker when she opened the door of
her apartment, later, to find her front
room in turmoil, with two tangled
forms a big one and very small
one-wrestling on the floor, impeded
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tinued, so we'll shed it. Many's the
time I've shed my gems for uncle
but I've never done it for love-
A flicker of a shadow crossed Lin
da's brow, but didn't linger.
"Okeh," Linda said. "They're off"
But Janice gasped in dismay.
"Linda!" she demonstrated. "That's
terrible! I'd-I'd never take mine
off,"
"Wait til you get one on, darling"
10 laughed. "Now, let's see about the
stage setting. He can't come to get
you at your apartment. Guess you'll
have to move in here, for the pre-
tense. Well be three little gals from
school :" She stopped to execute
an impromptu dance.
"We're Lin and Jan and Jo," she
improvised.
"Three little girls in a row,
$50, yo-ho-ho and a bucket of -
She stopped midway in a pirou-
cite and dashed for the kitchen, re-
turning a moment later with a bottle
tall, dark and with gilt foil cap.
Linda" she painted, Give been saw
ing it for my own wedding, but I'm
afraid it won't keep that long. Let's
drink to happiness for little Linda!"
When they had finished, Janice's
glass was hardly touched.
Continued next week
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CHAPTER z

After the gray man resumed eat
ing, upon asking her permission, Lin
da noticed that he hadn't changed a
bit. He was wearing the same gray
suit and the same gray twinkle in his
eyes. His old gray hat, too, was the
same, only now it was off his head.
And in its place was shock of thick
gray hair. The only thing about him
that wasn't gray was his face. It was
rudy and healthy.
Linda turned from her appraisal
of him to stare again at her untouch-
ed cake and to wrestle again with her
thoughts. How long she stared she
didn't know; nor did she know that
there were tears in her eyes, until
she heard her companion speak.
"You know you really should" he
had said, "eat something. Need some
thing on the stomach for good days
work"
And then she turned toward him
the lovely, anguished face, down which
tears had started twin courses.
II don't want anything on my
stomach" Linda said. "I've got too
much on my mind"
replaced his fork on the plate, "sup-
pose you get it off, il you feel you
. can trust a new friend"
It was the genuine, friendly way
: he said it. Linda was about to start
pouring out the whole story when
she checked herself. What kind of
a fool would she be-spilling her per-
:s0nal woes to a stranger? What was
the matter with her anyway?
It was as though she had asked it
aloud.
"Now, now, don't you worry" he
said. 81 won't be a. stranger if you'll
let me be your friend. Besides, this
old shoulder needs someone to cry
ON it once in while. It's sort of out
of practice. I never see enough of
my own youngsters to have them use
it any more.
Young lady," he went on, "just to
keep the record straight, you may
consider my interest in you to be avun
eular and totally conventional. Al
though, blast it, hate being conven-
tional. Why, the last time had any
thing but conventional interest in a
pretty young woman like you it had to
be a stage star. She unfortunately,
never found out about it."
Linda was smiling again.
~But," she said, 81 don't event
mean we've never met"
With that, he began delving in his
pockets, .ostensibly hunting for his
personal card. From one pocket he
pulled a card of brightly feathered
things with sharp hooks, which Linda
recognized as trout flies. From an
other he withdrew blackened old
pipe and a paper package of tobac-
co.
From the same pocket he took sew.
eral coiled loops mounted on card.
board, which Linda thought resembled
ukelele strings.
Leaders" he explained
It seemed his pockets contained
everything but Tom SAVERS Pd frog
Linda thought, but No card
well h said, the search fruit
Iess1y ended, guess we can't be for
maIIy introduced. Reckon the name
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UOOSn A1Rt1OAs e$AAJ AAN"S ~~oS
the start of beautiful friendship.
81 just work near here" he contin-
ued, gesturing in the direction OF
Titan Tower. "The Building is
good part of my life-that is when
I'm not hiding out in my hermitage in
the hills. They tell me down at The
Building that I'm indispensable but
I think they do it to flatter me. Reck-
on The Building will still be standing
right there long after I'm gone"
He said "The Building, each time
as though it were the proper name
of a friend.
Wrong again, Linda thought, re-
Numbering Steve. And I thought he
was a newspaperman. This funny
looking, ikeable old guy is probably
the assistant chief janitor on his day
off. But I like him.
"Phooey to names, anyway" Linda
smiled, extending her hand, "I'm Lin
da and you're Mr.. Avun 8. what'd
you call that interest you said you
had in me?"
"Make' it, the gray man said, make
it 'Mr. Avon for short. Shake!"
They did.
Later, after he had escorted her
down the street to Titan Tower, Mr..
Avon tipped his hat, said goodbye and
walked twice around the block for his
constitutional.
AS he came back to the building
and entered the elevator to return to
his own office, Mr.. Avon was greet
ed enthusiastically by an elevator
man.
"New here, SOM" Mr.. Avon asked.
eyes,. SIR the elevator operator
answered.
"Well, this isn't a lecture, son but
you can do me a favor, if you will.
All of the old boys here know I feel
mighty conspicuous if I get mister
ed to death all around the place. It
doesn't fit me, somehow"
"No, sir" the operator said, 81
mean-yes, sir"
$50 I'll feel much better if you'll
just say hello to me, nice and CHEEKY,
like you say it to anyone else who
works here. And never mind the
Mister Blaine'."
"Right!" the operator said 'Twen-
ty-five."
And John Rayston Blaine-or Mr..
Avon-got out of the car and stepped
into the automatic elevator which
took him to the penthouse of his build
ing.
When Linda came home that night,
after her new-formed friendship with
Mr.. Avon began, her thoughts kept
playing hop-scotch. She would take
two or three mental jumps forward
along the line of solution of the prob
lem of Bill Blaine and what to do a.
bout him, and then her thoughts would
skip sideways-to Mr.. Avon, to Steve
Hubbard and again backwards to
Mike. After she went to bed, her sub
conscious self carried on the game in
that strange half-world of dreams.
Tossing restlessly, sometimes half
awake, sometimes more than half a.
sleep, Linda saw Mike Morton, in a
tiny plane with burning wings, trap
ped at the top of a fog-filled pit,
which sometimes looked like a huge
elevator shaft. And, she saw hand
some young doctor, who sometimes
was Mike himself and sometimes was
Bill Blaine, trying to save Mike from
his fate.
She dreamed of woman, who was
Linda for sure, dressed in smart even
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ing gowns and fur wraps, going dane
ing and to gay parties, laughing, play
ing, enjoying life-and always on the
arm of a very handsome man, who
was sometimes dark like Mike and
sometimes tall and blond like Bill
Blaine. Sometimes he was her own
Mickey, looking all strange and grown
up in tuxedo, dancing with mother.
And then she saw another Linda,
Linda who didn't dance, but who
sat motionless in a rocking chair
while her hair grew white. She didn't
move, because she was scarcely alive
Linda didn't know what time it was
when she threw the covers back from
the, bed, covered her eyes with her
hands palms outward-as though
to fend off a horrible vision, and then
swiftly rose, slipped into mules and a
robe, and went to Mickey's crib.
She stood there long time, look
ing down on him without waking him.
watching him sleep the deep, restful
sleep Of the very young.
mickey, DEAR" she said softly,
you'll understand some day."
And then she walked from the room,
straight out through the front room
and into the hall, leaving her door
ajar behind her.
Joe Monroe was yawning and
grumbling in alternate breaths when
she opened the door Of her apartment.
But Janice, who stood behind her,
was more hospitable.
"Come right in, honey" Janice said,
whats the matter? Is something
wrong?"
"Nothing's wrong, JAM" Linda said,
throwing her arms about Janice.
"Everything's right-now."
"Jo," Linda said, emphatically, turn
ing to the tall girl, who stood, lean
ing with elbow on wall scratching her
tousled head, 80! I'm going to do it!'
"Do you have to do it right now?"
10 yawned. "Why at 2 o'clock in the
morning?"
"Do what honey?" Janice asked as
she climbed back into bed and Jo
sat on the edge.
"I'm going to take JOS advice"
Linda said. my minds made up now
definitely. I've just decided. I'm
a single woman and I'm going to
act like one-I'm going to have fun
like one!"
If 10 was not as tremendously NOV
ed by the announcement as Linda had
expected, Janice was more so.
30. H." 10 said. "I'm really glad
that you've finally seen the light"
"I'm not!" It was Janice.
81 think it's terrible" Janice said.
Don't you do it, honey! Don't you
be so foolish as to let him think you're
single. If I loved man, I'd tell him
everything; no half measures. I'd :"
"But Jan DEAR" 10 interrupted.
you're so different. Lucky man that
gets you-lucky you, if you get a
man."
Linda went back to her own room
and slept very soundly the few re-
naming hours until her alarm clock
tangled her into consciousness again.
Her lack of sleep showed in the
tired lines about her bloodshot eyes
the next morning. The look was still
there at noon when she again met
Mr.. Avon in the little sandwich shop.
After they had talked awhile, on gen.
eralities, he said:
"Linda, the old shoulders still here.
Sure you don't want to use it? You
look as though you'd better confide in
somone, before you become another
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With the close of the Princess
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-05-25
CEDAR GROVE

Mrs. John Beall was given a sur
prise birthday party Tuesday in honor
of her 22nd anniversary. Those at
tending the party we're: Misses Fan
ME May Thompson, Anna Nehause,
Catherine Poole, Virginia Burdette,
Mrs. Eva Beall, Mrs. Roby Brown,
Mrs. Luther Poole, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Poole and family, Mrs. Mary Beall,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Beall, Mrs. Tai
madge Watkins, Mrs. Minnie Watkins,
Messrs. Glenmore King, Royce Wat
kins, Francis and William King, Dietz
Beall, Kenneth King, Price Brown
and Alton Bryant.
Mrs. Nellie Beall and Mrs. Willis
Watkins attended delightful lunch
con at the home of Mrs. Ernest A.
Bursiem of Hyattsville, Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice Cue had for
their house guest last week their sons
wife, Mrs. Edwin Maurice Cue, of
Pittsburgh. Mrs. Cue was also guest
of her husbands sister, Mrs. Willie
B. Watkins, of Damascus, on Tues
day.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-05-25
PAGE THREE
BOYD

The Ladies Aid Society will hold
its regular monthly meeting at the
church hall on Thursday night, with
Mrs. James p. Kerr, Sr., and Mrs.
James Norris, hostesses..
Mr.. Ralph Whittier and family have
moved to Boyd.
Mrs. w. M. Williams visited her
daughter, Mrs, B. N. Headley, on Sum-
day.
Mrs. Howard Fisher, of Pittsburgh,
visited her mother, Mrs. James
Maughlin, ST., recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Good were
the guests of the formers parents,
near Front Royal, Va, on Sunday.
Mrs. May Wood was the guest Of
her daughter, Miss Mae Louise Wood,
Of Washington, on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Dahn were the
Sunday guests Of the latter's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Norris.
Mrs. B. Andrew GALAXY and mo-
ther, Mrs. Charles Kuster, visited rel
atives in Washington on Sunday.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-05-25
Sunday, August 6

Rockville at Colesville
Glen Echo at Bethesda
Market Pharmacy at Kensington
Takoma at Dickerson
Sunday, August Is
Bethesda at Rockville
Kensington at Glen Echo
Dickerson at Market Pharmacy
Colesville at Takoma
Sunday, August 20
Market Pharmacy at Colesville
Takoma at Bethesda
Rockville at Kensington
Glen Echo at Dickerson
Sunday, August q
Dickerson at Rockville
Colesville at Glen Echo
Bethesda at Market Pharmacy
Kensington at Takoma
Sunday, September 8
Glen Echo at Rockville
Bethesda at Colesvllle
Takoma at Market Pharmacy
Dickerson at Kensington
Monday. September A
Labor Day.
Market Pharmacy at Glen Echo
Kensington at Bethesda
Rockville at Takoma
Colesville at Dickerson
Sunday, September 10
Kensington at Colesville
Dickerson at Bethesda
Rockville at Market Pharmacy
Glen Echo at Takoma
Mote: This ends regular schedul
nth each team having played ever,
Their team three times. Post-seasol
ames will be played September Il
a and October H.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-05-25
Montgomery Co.
Baseball Schedule

(First Third
Sunday, May 20
Market Pharmacy at Colesville
Takoma at Bethesda
Rockville at Kensington
Glen Echo at Dickerson
Tuesday, May 80
(Memorial Day)
Dickerson at Rockville
Colesville at Glen Echo
Bethesda at Market Pharmacy
Kensington at Takoma
Sunday, June 4
Glen Echo at Rockville
Bethesda at Colesville
Takoma at Market Pharmacy
Dickerson at Kensington
Sunday, June IL
Market Pharmacy at Glen Echo
Kensington at Bethesda
Rockville at Takoma
Colesville at Dickerson
Sunday, June 10
Kensington at Colesville
Dickerson at Bethesda
Rockville at Market Pharmacy
Glen Echo at Takoma
END Of first third of schedule
,ach team has played every othe
eam).
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-05-25
(Second Third
SUNDAY. June Is

Sunday, June rs
Market Pharmacy at Rockville
Takoma at Colesville
Glen Echo at Kensington
Bethesda at Dickerson
Sunday, July 2
Takoma at Glen Echo
Market Pharmacy at Bethesda
Colesville at Kensington
Rockville at Dickerson
Tuesday, July
Colesville at Rockville
Bethesda at Glen Echo
Kensington at Market Pharmacy
Dickerson at Takoma
Sunday, July 8
Glen Echo at Colesville
Rockville at Bethesda
Takoma at Kensington
Market Pharmacy at Dickerson
Sunday, July 16
kenSlngton at Rockville
Dickerson at Glen Echo
Colesville at Market Pharmacy
Bethesda at Takoma
Sunday, July %
Dickerson at Colesville
Rockville at Glen Echo
Bethesda at Kensington
Market Pharmacy at Takoma
Sunday, July 80
Takoma at Rockville
Colesville at Bethesda
Glen Echo at Market Pharmacy
Kensington at Dickerson
END of second third of schedule.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-05-25

The various departments Of the
school presented very entertaining
program before the PIT. A. on Tues
day evening. A fashion show was
worked out by the Home Economics
Department. A POD. skit was pre-
sented. A biology talk was given and
student curriculum were given.
several other interesting phases of
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-05-25
Richard Montgomery
High School News
Student Government Nominees

At the meeting of the Citizen
ship Council on Friday, May IL, can
didates for the presidency and vice.
presidency of the Richard Montgom-
cry Junior Republic were selected for
the coming school year. They are as
follows:
Nancy Swecker and Jean Leighton,
candidates for president. Margaret
Williams and Eleanor Leighton, can
didates for vice-president.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-05-25
Rutton Gwinnett Document

The document signed by Button
Gwinnett is owned by DR.. A. S. W.
Rosenbach, who purchased it for
$51, 900.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-05-25
Ostia Military Port First

Ostia, port Of Rome, was founded
in $50 B. c. and was at first essen
tally q military town.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-01
LIFE OF STRAUSS
IS DEPICTED AT
| CAPITOL THEATRE
The Great Waltz" Seen
for Last Times Tonight at
Local Show House

Magic melodies of Vienna amid
a dramatic, romantic story of the
musician who was the voice OF the
gayest city in the world, brings
Luise Rainier, Fernand Gravel and
Miliza Korjus, viennese opera star,
to the screen in The Great Waltz,
drama of the life of Johann Strauss,
ending tonight at the Capitol Thea
ter.
The story deals, with the COM
poser from the time he lost his po-
sition as a bank clerk and turned
to music to his final honors in the
Emperor's court. His marriage to
the sweetheart of his youth and
his subsequent infatuation for a
brilliant opera star. who sends him
back to his faithful wife, form the
plot against which dazzling spec
tacle, ballets and other glamorous
incidentals bedeck the best-loved
music in the world.
Gravel, French star, plays Strauss
appearing throughout the story as
young man until the final scenes
where he appears during old age,
the Strauss best known to the world
Luise Rainier is appealing and pow
erfully dramatic as Poldi, the wife
Nine. Korjus, credited with one OF
the greatest voices in the world, has
fine flair for comedy, is beautiful
and makes Carla Bonner, the singer
q glannorous figure.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-01
Tea This Afternoon
Is Complimentary
To Mrs. DoIohanty

Mrs. Charles Sabin and Miss Nell
McCloskey are entertaining this
afternoon between $3.50 and $50
O'Clock with tea at the West Sew
enth Street home of Mrs. Sabin,
for Mrs. John j. Dolohanty of Chi
cago, who is visiting in the city with
her cousin, Miss McCloskey.
Approximately one hundred and
thirty guests were invited to call
during the afternoon.
Presiding at the tea table, which
was centered with huge bowl of
delphiniums and spirea, off set by
ivory tapers, were: Mrs. Homer
| Jewell, Mrs. M. E. Monagle, Mrs,
r. l.. Bernard, Mrs. Harold Knight,
| Mrs. Hugh Wade, Mrs. L. Turoff,
Mrs Keith c. Wildes and Mrs
Gertrude Naylor.
Those assisting during the after
noon included: Mrs. j. G. Shepard,
Mrs. Wilbur Burford. Mrs. E. L.
Bartlett, Mrs. w. A. Chipperfield,
Mrs. Clarence Wise, Mrs. c. H. Met
| calfe, Mrs. Arthur Adams and Mrs.
w. c. OVERLY.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-01

summer staple and their number
remains relatively constant. The
collegiate play boys and girls or
ample allowances, however, are
not the conspicuous feature they
were a decade ago. They are being
replaced by a more serious type OF
numbers seeing Europe by walk
young people who are in growing
ing. hitch hiking and bicycling
their way from one youth hostel
to another.
Disruption of international trace
has greatly reduced the number OF
American business men on regu-
lar trips abroad Replacing them
to some degree has been for two
seasons past a small influx of new
Americans millionaires," as those
who make their living off the tour
lists see them. They are on their
first visit to Europe usually and
they come from the middle west
and the south.
Despite strained international re-
lations there are few new bar
riers for the transatlantic visi-
tor. Spain has not yet recovered
sufficiently from the revolution to
be generally open to travel. What
was Czechoslovakia may not De
visited except through the use of a
special permit issued by the Ger
man authorities. Elsewhere, how
ever, the American tourist, be-
cause of his current rarity enjoys
even more than his former well
come.