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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02
INQUISITIvE SAL


Hello, Folks:
l doubt if anyone will care to
stop long enough from his spring
occupations (such as dragging out
the old garden hose, rake and hoe,
and planting and a-ploughing) to
read these few lines that Sal week
ly grinds out. But, anyway, it's
an exciting time of the year and
all our hearts are light and gay
these days (or are they?)
Some More Deductions From the
Gray Book: (The book that pos
sesses the names and biographies
of fine" young men about town
compiled by group of well-known
Twin City lassies.) HENRY
BOWMAN and BOB MARSHALL
are both leaving some time this
week for Illinois to join the Air
Corps - 159th Pursuit Squadron.
All their friends will miss them
and are wishing them loads of
luck.
Back on the Carpet:
We're all glad to see GERALD
me DAVIS and LAWRENCE
BROWN looking bright and cheer
full these days. You know they
were both kinda i'll not so long ago.
(By the way, Lawrence was
plagued with airmail specials from
his g.f. in Omaha while he was in
the hospital and Geraldine was
swamped with flowers from her
'lovelight" in St. Paul.)
Amt Love Grand?
What popular st. Paul fance
about town, it's said, spends most
of his spare time trying his best
to avoid his "bride-to-be"? Some
one said the fiance had the fiancee
just boo-hooing at one of the To-
cal st. Paul mite spots the other
evening when she at last caught
up with him.
Wedding Bells: Have just rung
for cute MARGUERITE PAYNE
of st. Paul and EUGENE CAR
TER of Minneapolis.
Can 1t Be True?
What is this wild tale friends
of M. of Mpls. are telling on him?
1t seems as if his lady love got
angry at him (for some unknown
reason) and deliberately cut his
Easter coat up into shreds. (Ain't
jealousy grand?)
Did You Know?
The JIMMY MITCHELLS are
greeting spring these days in fine
style with a new Al Mercury?
Stranger Than Fiction:
The scene of this weeks story
takes place in st. Paul just before
the last World War. Our hero and
heroine were in love - oh, so in
love-so they married. A month
afterward our hero was drafted and
sent across seas. They both vowed
eternal love before he left, prom
ised to wait for each other eter-
nally. The years passed with our
lovers writing letters that rarely
reached one another. Then came
the Armistice and then the return
of many of the American soldiers.
Yes, our hero did return but with
him he brought much sorrow, for
he had been shell-shocked, and up
on viewing his wife for the first
time after his return, he did re-
member her, but fate had played
a cruel trick-he had completely
lost his love for this lovely woman
who adored him.
Years upon years passed and the
couple lived with one another, hop
ing to keep their sorrows only to
themselves. Now at last there is
bright ray of hope for all these
years our heroine Ia matured wom-
an now has been sending her hus-
band to a specialist who is trying
to help him regain his original
mind (and, incidentally, his origin,
al love for his wife, Suddenly ou1
hero has begun again, to get thai
nIn,rsr,n. 1no1r -. L.. .--.-- .------- L.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-05-02

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Evening star., 1941-04-27

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Evening star., 1941-04-27

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Evening star., 1941-04-27

Tommy wanted horribly to leap upon
the mate and pound him to a jelly.
But such an end was improbable, and
Tommy's revenge would not be won
by his own defeat. His hatred intensi-
fled as he hauled, but his plans van
ished in a lads hideous inability to
envision the proper, the manly, the
adult thing to do.
The boat grounded on the whales
body where it began to dwindle to-
ward the tail. He stood erect and
came negligently out of the water,
steadied by the line Tommy held
taut. He held to the rope by one hand
The other remained indifferently in
his pocket.
He nodded to Tommy without cor
diality. He said: SLACK off! Now I'm
here, d'you want the boat pounded
to smaller bits? Slack off,
1oMMY half-sobbed in fury. But
he Stacked off. The shattered planks
which had been boat drifted away
from the giant carcass.
Nov make fastr" said the mate
impatiently. There's one iron! D'you
want to stand holding the line for
ever?''
Tommy moved across the whales
almost unyielding flesh. He made the
line fast to the one harpoon which had
struck low enough to be above water
on the dead creature. The mate nod :
ded, one hand still in his pocket.
Now" he said coldly, ''it will be
dark in an hour or less. Well have to
make brides through the blubber to
hold fast by. Else We'll be washed off
before morning"
Tommy obeyed the implied order
doggedly. Deep slashes in the blubber.
Other cuts, deep down, connecting
them so the line could be passed
through and knotted. Something like
a surgeons stitches, only made with
heavy line Tommy made dozen such
loops in the blubber. knotted togeth-
er, the lines from them made a sort
of inverted cats cradle of line from
which one need not be washed in any
sea.
"That'll do" said the man briefly.
The sun already hung low in the
sky. The Bedford's topsails barely
broke the serrated line which was the
horizon. She could not beat upwind
before the darkness fell. Tommy
stared at her, choking on his fury.
There was savage swirling in the
water close by. A triangular fin
showed for an ninstant. Tommy clamped
his jaws bitterly Sharks, of course.
Blood had drawn them. In another
hour there would be hundreds about
the dead whale, worrying at it.
CONTINUED on pose 13)
Evening star., 1941-04-27
THE FOURTH MOMENT
Continued from pose seven

from him. Down-wind. There were
two other boats lowered, and they
had gone after other members of the
shoal of whales first sighted. Probably
they had made fast. too. In any case
they could be picked up more quickly
than the boat to windward. and they
would be.
Tommy searched for nearer COM
panionship. He saw an oar as it
crossed a wave-tip. Then he saw a
huddled mass of rags fifty yards away,
floating soggily. That had been man.
Then he saw the remnants of the
boat. 1t was smashed and shattered.
Crushed bits of planking projected
from it, and man clung to the wreck
age. 1t was the mate, and it was typi-
cal of him that he held negligently to
the boat by one hand only.
Painting, Tommy began to haul in
on the harpoon line. Presently
wave crest passed on away from him,
and over it again appeared the splin-
tered mass of planking. There was
another human figure in view. now.
Tommy recognized the violently
checked shirt of Jack Gale And Jack
floated Imply, nearly if not quite
gone.
xr,,fh htc hnovf y, fhroaf
Tommy saw the mate turn his head.
Jack floated within arms length. But
the mate turned his head only. He
watched with what seemed an icy,
cold-blooded calm while Jack Gale
drifted within yard of him. and at
last drifted out of his reach once more.
He had not even shifted his grip. He
had made no faintest effort to help
the drowned or drowning man.
T OR a little, Tommy was incredu-
lous. Then Jack Gale was plainly out
of the mates reach and floating far
ther away. Tommy suddenly cursed.
He flung down the line and shook his
clenched fists. He tried to below
threats at the mate, and failed. He
found his voice going up the scale to
a youthful shrillness, and his tongue
grew thick with the rage and hatred
which welled up in him.
The mate floated on, oblivious.
He held to the smashed boat with
one hand. Tommy sobbed with ha-
tired. Then he suddenly began to haul
in on the line again. His whole body
trembled. He had first hauled in to
save the mate Now he hauled in to
take revenge He pulled and pulled,
and very slowly indeed the litter to
which the mate clung came nearer to
the floating carcass.
Then the terrible irreSolution of
youth assailed Tommy. He had seen
the mate in action. AS a rough-and-
tumble fighter, the mate was deadly.
Evening star., 1941-04-27
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Evening star., 1941-04-27

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tired eyes with Murine.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21

LIE HAD always gone hod like that Chosen boots instead of
~ bedroom slippers dancing pumps neat standardized
business he had things that with
there something him despsed safety and dreaded
comfort
Above all he had chosen independence and action He wanted
live while the living goodo live constantly minute
of the hudhe wanted live inside and
thoughts make his decisions, his
risks. take his blame.
Perhaps thoughts decisions far from
admirable He guess pretty bad man 'as Judge these
things hed-ived And he wouldn't wake the other
cry why didn't take chance? And then in his
beard because he hadn't.
LIE ded-and had lNed-wih his boots And the
H battered boots him marks
He'd hated TO have out with the
neatly and his feet hot water
bag.
Perhaps you condemn him. but others have chosen TO
liveke that They always to be found
mining through force of circumstances spent all
quiet humdrm street Some sat IN the
difficult of the mighty But they all lived and died with
their boots
1t wasn't easy People called them fools-or They
could have profitable time they had
willing compromise and ab and evade like cautious
folk But they They their soul strange
the and the dust They were ready
with life issue And they died the
things their travelling boots still Which seems to
me proud, way do
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
Daily Short Story
THE GOOD DEED

1.-THE firemen's carnival Is
next week." she observed.
I'm trying to forget it,"
said ClariSsa. ITO think
WAS looking forward to IL. l
thought maybe I'd he queen
or you would"
The firemen'S carnivak in
previous Summers, had been
run by the college set. This
year. with the college men
away learning to be second
lieutenants and aviators, the
fledglings had a say.
Fudge and Bulge might
have used their influence to
make Eva or Clarissa, carnival
queen. But there sat the two
dopes, on a rock, fascinated by
a strange, elderly woman.
"Does your mother wear a
mask at night ?" Eva asked
suddenly.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21

} her.
Then a tall figure in violent.
striped pajamas loped past
the rest of the crowd. Mr..
Payne flung his arms about
Mrs. Garrett.
Darling, are you all right ?"
he howled.
Eva and Clarissa stared.
google eyed.
"Of course I'm all right"
said Mrs. Garrett, coldly, dis
entangling herself.
81 saw the fire, here! BY
this cottage! thought"
"You said you didn't want
TO see me again--alive or
dead" Mrs. Garrett reminded,
still coldly. but wobbling.
81 was crazy. 1 was sore"
She glanced at the crowd
and drew him around the cor
ner of the house which put
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
SNEAK HOME

The fire was out and so
were the fireworks. Eva and
Clarissa sneaked quietly down
hill. Even their curiosity did
not Justify further intrusion
on the intimate and touching
scene.
On the next day they sat in
a secluded cove, munching
peanut brittle.
Their feet. under white
socks, were bandaged in oil.
Their eyebrows had been
singed away, giving them a
surprised expression.
They would not be able to
go to the firemen's carnival.
In fact they would not be able
to go anywhere until the
scorches and scratches on
their chins and noses got past
the Scabrous stage.
When Eva's father came up
for the weekend and heard
about the fireworks - well.
that would be one more
bloW-up.
Everything went all wrong.
but somehow l feel fine" said
Eva. 81 mean about Mrs.
Garrett and Mr.. Payne-Only
her real name is Mrs. Payne,
isn't it? 1 feel like we'd done
a real good deed, bringing
lovers together after sad
separation"
81 feel kind of noble, too"
ClarisSa confessed snugly.
"And BESIDES" she added, DE
sides. even II Bulge and
Fudge aren't speaking to us,
they certainly aren't goOping
at her any more. Mr.. Payne
is seeing to that"
THE END.
TOmOrrOw's short story:
Two Tickets TO Niagara
Falls" by Pat Adam.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21

10 40 win the exrta make these boom times?
Why is 1t the Chinese do many things
Chinese skirts: women
starts with dessert ends with and fish, They read books
from back to front white weddings
ducd anybody they shake hands with themselves Still perhaps
the Chinese right and reversed.
THE seats coffee shop counters
Portable and too close together
have dizzy dame section reserved for those females who order
of coffee and smoking dropping
blowing smoke all the place.
The German government keeps buying newspapers in
Mexico There must be a
From the classified:
"Astrooger wanted to horoscope o horse"
think I'll have record taken of the time of birth of
one of the horses born IF and when it, ranch and
will him according to astroogy Will him according
to his birth sign.
So in the you in entries
Sagarus Pisces Leo the Lion will probably
hope he doesn't turn out to be "bookmakers darling
ssVoU get"
San Franciscan. didn't getting
And husband he handle morning brings
my breakfast to bed"
Recently pie adjusted
any OF pie desired great idea have always thought
there should be 10 and 15ent pie lunch
and restaurants; such would make this possible
ASK Glenn Mccarthy who Davy Johnson was" writes
Chicagoan 1 don't have ask Glenn. my counryS
history Davy Johnson bgme boomaker contemporary
of Riley Grammar.
Hitler thinks he going die before 1871 and he
he before
that time. all Adofs luck ended the seventh
of his rule July. 1910
NAME ditty be in the film Betty Coed is Zig Me
AZ Baby With a Gentle Tag"
Sometimes think forget many pleasant evenings
plays produced John Golden you realize John
gave "Lghtnn,' Turn the Right" The First Year"
Fools Seventh Heaven Let Us Be Gay when
Ladies Meet" LAS Husbands Co. Susan and Cod "skylark
and Claudia?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
By MARION ROBERTSON

Before them was the spectacle
of Mrs. Garrett running out
into the night in chin strap
and mask, to be rescued by
her admiring young men, the
gallant Fudge and Bulge.
Then they would return to
their true loves.
On black Saturday mid
night. Eva and Clarissa toiled
up Mount Patty-calIe. Juggling
great pasteboard boxes, from
which protruded Roman
candles and pin wheels and a
special object labeled, "Patri-
otto Finale
They arranged the lot in a
heap under pine tree close
TO Mrs. Garett'S front gate.
1t was an imposing pile, with
rockets pointing in all direc-
tionS.
Clarissa lit a fuse. They
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
Better Health
By DR.. Logan Ciendening

apoplexies. however and only a
small percentage of them have
the residual one-sided paralysis.
A valued old friend of mine
had a mild apoplectic attack Is
years ago and has gone on ever
since in spite of frantic medical
advice to the contrary. tending
to the details of a large bust
ness.
The little losses of memory
and habitual forgetfulness. that
descend upon some over 50 are
undoubtedly due also to changes
in the arteries of the brain.
The blood sometimes flows slug
gishly through quite important
areas and their functional ac-
tivity is diminished
Personality changes, moods,
suddenly acquired prejudices
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21

yes, and chin strap. She
looks awful"
so does mine. I'll bet all
old women do. I'll bet Mrs.
Garrett would look horrible II
she got awakened out of bed
and didn't have time to take
off her face harness"
ClariSsa sat up straight and
demanded simply, How"
THE boys are on night
watch, Saturday"
$50 WHAT" Clarissa de-
manded, still willing but
blank.
Fathers fireworks" Eva
said dreamily. They'd get
her out in a hurry-if they
went off in her front yard.
They'd get out the firemen,
too"
Bright brown eyes, met mild
blue ones in instant, nefarious
understanding. Eva's father
had bought a supply of pyro-
technics to celebrate the
Fourth, such as only a middle
aged man could select, in try
ing to be young for an hour.
A BLITZKRIEG
Then he had learned about
a new law, or something, and
decided not to use them. So
there lay the magnificent col
lection, a wood shed full of
fireworks.
Flower pots, golden snakes,
skyrocketS, set pieces. Roman
candles. pin wheels. giant
crackers and big packages of
little crackers. A regular
blitzkrieg of fireworks.
Eva and Clarissa giggled.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21


by Vsn Dyke: Hours fly, flowers die.
New days, new ways pass by. Love stays"
-EVDD
IN SOME very fancy note paper comes
" a communication signed
Patricia, Meta, Connie. Emma, Ethyl,
lone, Gertrude, Ruth and Pearl"
All. no. sir, this message does not speak
of love- On the contrary these young
women. who are mattresses, give me merry
you know what for suggesting mattresses
should divide their tips with cooks
I'VE all hate you,' concludes the letter,
except Emma, who says she is only mad
at you"
PASSENGER car sales were up % per
= cent in 1910 as compared with 1899
Gasoline consumption was up per cent
Refrigerator sales were up 80 per cent. Life
insurance business was up 2 per cent
How's your business? What are you going
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21

particular condition that are
very different from the symp-
toms of that condition in
younger life. And besides that,
they have special problems of
their own.
These observations apply TO
disorders of the nervous system
in those over so Most nervous
symptoms at this age are due
to changes in the arteries of the
central nervous system, par
ticularly in the brain. The COM
monest serious complication of
this is when one of the hardened
arteries breaks and an apoplexy
occurs.
Plenty of people get over
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21

them even closer to Eva and
ClariSSa.
I'm going through with the
divorce" she said.
Then why did you come
here and rent the very cot
tage where we spent our
honeymoon 10 years ago."
roared Mr.. Payne.
Mrs. Garrett began to cry.
I'VE had such a wonderful
time here then" she snivelled.
And why did you chase after
me and then pass me on the
street and not speak to me:"
II was afraid I'd break
down II / spoke. Darling, 1
love you"
"Oh, Allen, l love you, too"
walled Mrs. Garrett, and this
time she flung herself in his
arms.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21

is growing up
which deals
W t h I h i S
subject. All
bodily condi-
tions are diff
ferent at the
extremes of
life and diff
ferent indeed.
from those in
V / G o r o u s
a d [ life.
The middle
a pc d an d
Ell d erly pa
[ e n [ m a y
h a We Symp-
toms from a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
SOCIALLY DEAD


This year at Lake Pate
wawa was dry socially as we'll
as climatically.
The Evans twins, Fudge and
Bulge, whom Eva and Clarissa
had marked as their own
since kindergarten days, had
abandoned tennis and SWIM
ming to join the volunteer fire
department.
The girls b a m e. this,
rightly, on a manly impulse to
appear as heroes before the
lovely Mrs. Garrett. a new
conner to Pattewawa.
She gave Fudge and Bulge
an occasional gentle smile.
That was encouragement
enough to keep them perched
on a rock near her house.
July was hot and dry.
There was real danger of a
fire. But that was no excuse
in the eyes of Eva and
ClariSSa.
"All she does il stick
around her garden. Why
doesn't she go out some time
and maybe get together with
that Mr.. Payne. They're both
DID," said Eva, Venomously.
A SURE CURE
THAT would cure Fudge
and Bulge of gooping ut her."
.Clarissa agreed.
But saw him pass her on
Main street and they didn't
even speak. They don't know
each other" said Eva. sadly.
Another silence while they
abandoned this far-fetched
hope of getting rid of Mrs.
Garrett.
Mr.. Allen Payne was also
a newcomer at Pettewawa.
He had arrived at the Inn
only few days ago. In spite
of his years-he must be all
of 35-he was charming in a
gloom-cloud, Laurence Olivier
way.
The sub-debS, in their best
bathing suits, had lurked one
day in the cove he used. He
had flung them black look
and gone to another cove.
They deduced that he was a
woman hater or an enemy
spy.
Eva finished the last piece
of peanut brittle.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21

crown, L saw a local nero whose VISIT ndu
been granted.
He lay sprawled upon the ioor-a
great hairy mountain of man, his FAM
ing beard still flecked from his last
schooner of beer. Others were discussing
the nicely of the shot that had laid him
low but my interest centered on his shoes.
l had never been able to understand that
craving to die with my boots on"
What was there about boots-these,
for instance? Dusty. shabby, knee-high
affairs, SCARED and stained by a hundred
trails, scuffed at the toe and worn at the
heel-why had he wanted to die in those?
1t was many years before l found
the answer :. but l came at last to
see that only those who die with their
boots on have really lived. To have lived
with his boots on-that was the great
point to the red-headed man. Death was
only an incident