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Death of a Pre-War Diplomat
Viscount Grey of Fallodon, dead at 71, won a place
in history which will certainly be secure but which is not
entirely enviable.
It was Grey who, as foreign secretary in 1914, took
England into the wai; and as the English ever since 1918
have been nourishing a slow suspicion that the war caus
ed practically all their troubles, it is not surprising that
this veteran diplomat suffered a kind of eclipse in his
last years.
For Grey will stand for a long time as an epitome
of the kind of diplomacy that was so common before the
war—the kind that thrived on secret agreements, secret
understandings and the jargon of what H. G. Wells has
called the “great power game.”
Prior to 1914 the average Englishman calmly as
sumed that England could not be embroiled in any Eu
ropean war unless the people of England as a whole wish
ed to be embroiled. It was Viscount Grey, as much as
anyone, who had to dispel this illusion.
Like practically every other chancellery in Europe,
the English foreign office saw the war coming long be
fore it actually arrived. It is possible that the ease with
which all the diplomats saw its approach was one of the
reasons why it finally came. But at any rate the British
foreign office, having visioned war from afar, got ready
for it by making certain agreements with the French for
eign office concerning united action against Germany.
Thus, when the storm clouds finally broke, the people
of England did not have a free hand. Their diplomats
had committed them in advance. When Grey laid the
Whole situation before Parliment, there wag only one an
swer that could be made. To all intents and purposes,
it was impossible for England to remain neutral. The in
vasion of Belgium rallied Englishmen to the standard, but
the die had already been cast.
Now to recount all of this is not to condemn Viscount
Grey. He was an able, sincere and patriotic man. There
is no doubt that he actually wanted peace. He did his
best according to his lights, and it was hardly his fault if
his lights were wrong.
It is the kind of diplomacy he represented that needs
condemnation. The World War was a product of that di
plomacy; and a world which is still suffering from the war
can hardly be blamed for concluding that that diplomacy
was an expensive sort of luxury.
Liverpool Cleans House
It is extremely interesting to read that the city of
Liverpool, in England, is about to spend around $35,000,
000 to rebuild its slums.
Nearly 13,000 ancient and unsanitary houses are to
be demolished and 16,000 new ones are to be built in
their place, to provide homes for some 40,000 people.
Liverpool’s slums have had an unenviable reputation
for many years. If they have not been the worst in Eng
land they have been very close to it; and the vice, illness
crime and general bad citizenship which they have bred
have cost Liverpool many times the sum which is now to
be spent on slum abolition. Liverpool’s -willingness to spend
money on that scale in a time of depression might be a
useful object lesson for a number of cities on this side of
the Atlantic.
The World At
a Glance .
By LESLIE EICHEL
Wall Street believes that auto
mobile production this year will
reach 2,200,000 unit*, if that prove*
true, the depression Will be well oh
its way to an end.
From present indications, it will
prove true.
September will be the fifth suces
sive month with production above
300,000 units.
That is the greatest sustained
level since the first half of 1031.
Demand is keeping up. with de
mand goes purchases, chiefly of
steel.
• * *
CLOSER
At the same time, there is increas
ing talk in New York of inflation,
due to the “failure” of the NftA.
ihe trouble seems hot to be with the
NftA, but with the extravagant
claims that some of its administra
tors made for it.
It isn’t New York, however, that
desires inflation, but th* agricul
tural regions. There the price of
commodities hasn’t kept pace With
the cost of manufactured goods.
If the Roosevelt administration
can stave off congressional pres
sure on inflation, it is stronger titan
New York believes it to be.
Pres. Roosevelt may put off the
move till congress assembles on
January 4—and then put the onus
on congress.
• • *
PECORA
Ferdinand Pecora, chief counsel
of the U. 8. senate subcommittee
investigating bankers and stock ex
change methods, is having his way.
The Case National bank has
been considered (in New York) as
friendly to the Roosevelt adminis
tration. It is the bank (dominated
by the Rockefellers) that is sup
posed to have stirred up action
sgainst the House of Morgan.
It, one may recall, put Winthrop
D. Aldrich, brother-in-law of John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., in as its chief
executive when Chinn. Wiggin step
ped out. And Aldrich announced
new ideals.
Well, it's the Wiesin regime that
Pecora is seeking to exhume.
But the Rockefellers wish he
wouldn’t.
Tls said that even Pres. Roose
velt was doubtful of the wisdom of
it—tout Pecora had his way. rhe
administration has given him a free
hand.
And. of course, as previously an
nounced here, Pecora is preparing
to recall J. p. Morgan to the stand.
Morgan will be assured no midgets
will sneak in—but there can be no
assurance as to what set of ques
tions will sneak in.
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STOCK EXCHANGE
That’s nonsence about the stock
exchange going across the Hudson
river to Newark. N. J.. to escape new
city taxes In New York.
if anybody desires to trade with*
out taxation there are plenty of ex
changes available—in Chicago,
Philadelphia. Boston* Pittsburgh,
Detroit, and Cleveland.
The whole thing is a little trick
of Tammany’8. New York bank
ers refused to lend the city ad
ministration $4(5.000.000. The bank
ers said Tammany had to find new
tax sources first.
Tammany therefore taxes the
bankers and their allies. Tammany
followers (to the tune of several
hundred thousand) are laughing
with Tammany about l.t
Tammany has had the bankers in
a hole since the beginning.
• * *
EXCHANGE?
Newark has offered its while ele
phant market house as a stock ex
change.
This structure, representing an
investment of some $8,000,000, has
been used as a parking space for
autos.
If the New York stock exchange
people won’t take it, the Newark
city administration threatens to
turn it into a beer garden.
But even beer gardens have a
limit. With all the closed banks and
shops being transformed there
doesn’t seem the possibility of fill
ing a two-block-long building
• • •
OVER-PRODUCTION
Washington has a new over-pro
duction worry:
Milk cows produced seven-tenths
of 1 per cent more milk in August,
1933, than in August, 1932.
Call out the NR A!
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New York
_Letter
BY JULIA BLANSHARD
NEW YORK— Men-about-tcwn
ate taking up cooking in a big way.
Edna at. vihceht Millays husband,
Eugene Boissevan, is one of the
most celebrated. His specialties are
pheasant, other game, and meats
of all kinds. At their farm he ha*
a special herb bed where he raises
his own seasoning. He really does
the major part erf the cooking done
at home, while Edna Sits around,
leaking pdetic and lovely, Eugene
Will turn out a sumptuous repast.
They always dress for dinner, eat
by candlelight ahd preserve an
elegant formality and ceremony
about their evening meal....
Col. H. H. Rogers, father of
Milllcent (Countess Salm) Remos,
is ndted far ahd wide for his soup.
No yetching party he ever gave
docked without the guests enjoy
ing one or two of his dishes, pre
pared entirely by his own hand...
Lewis Gannett Is one of New
York’s best all-around cooks. He
turns out the flakiest, tastiest bis
cuits and other hot breads of any
man in the city. His salads make
your mouth water as he mixes
them at the table, in a huge, wood
en bowl that he brought back from
Mexico.
• • *
The NBA has made its influ
ence felt in New York’s speak
easies. A 13th street one boasts a
new cocktail, "The Blue Eagie,”
"Drinking one,” boasts the bar
keeper, “is a personal recovery
act.”
^ w w
Margaret Widdemer, well-known
poet and novelist, explodes all
theories about specialists, she is
one of the best all-around women
New York has. Known for oer
hospitality, she brings people of
diversified talents together to enjoy
One another’s company. She ptays
the piano w-ith real gehius, sings
Old English ballads to perfection. In
a recent exhibition of sculpture, ner
heads w-on acclaim. She has worked
with Rosenbach, the first-edition
man who bought Alice-in-Wonder
land, and he testifies to her expert
knowledge of first-editions. And
to top it all, she Is a marvelous
housekeeper and cook.
• * *
New Yorkers love to live in state
in old New York houses. Two of
the most noted of old mansions
have Just been turned into snooty
restaurants to satisfy this yen.
Glimpsing the Hudson, you now
can get a perfect Italian meal
in the very rooms where the famous
Bell (telephone) family used to
have Its regal parties on West 75tn
street, Just off Riverside Drive.
The same red silk brocaded waits
are there; the old ornate carved
woodwork and huge mirrors give
you a sense of the lost elegance of
by-gone days.
A second Ritzy place has been
opened by Ciro and serves mag
nificent. French cooking, making a
specialty of provincial dishes that
you cant get even in Paris. It is
located In one of New York's most
historic chateuaux, the old man
sion owned by Mrs. Arthur Twom
bly. It has ceilings of hand-wrought
Florentine leather, a magnificent
mahogany staircase and ornate
fireplaces of real marble and real
gold, all done with pretentious
lavlshness by Florentine decorators
whom she engaged to come over
here 25 years ago.
_ Barbs _
The business of plowing under
cotton and wheat may be all right
for a starter. But the big day will
come when they start plowing un
der spinach, carrots and turnips.
Henry Ford’s Peace Ship, the
old Oscar II, has been sold for junk
to a London firm. Seems too bad
for a peace ship to wind up in
scrap.
• • •
Leader of this week’s revolution
in Cuba is a short-hand reporter,
thus assuring that the new gov
ernment will be headed by a person
of note.
• • •
Report from Indianapolis that
six alligators have been caught ia
the White River near there, though
zoos hadn’t missed any. Maybe
we’d better go slow about this re
peal business.
Daily Health
_ TaUt _
Practically all of the cases of
earache that develop during in
fectious diseases, arise from the
spread of infection from the -throat
along the eustachian tube to the ear.
The eustachian tube passes from
the back of the nasal cavity to the
middle ear. Such infection is more
likely to spread when a young child
has enlarged adenoids and tonsils,
which tend also to become inflam
ed. This is particularly true when
a child has an ordinary cold.
Dr. T. O. Oraham of Dublin says
in the British Medical Journal
that the vast majority of infections
in the ear are due to colds in the
head and influenza. Moreover,
about 10 per cent of children with
scarlet fever and measles develop
infection* in the ear, and about
five per cent of those with diph
theria. in addition, there is r small
number of such cases developing
after mumps, typhoid fever and
whooping cough.
• • •
One of the conditions most com
monly associated with infected ear
is scarlet fever. If a child has been
getting well, with its fever prac
tically normal for several days, and
its fever rises suddenly, the phy
sician is hkely to suspect an infec
tion in the ear.
The infection in scarlet fever
is virulent, so that the eardrum
ruptures promptly or maftoidltis
develops even before the eardrum
ruptures.
In such a case, the physician
determines the presence of the In
fection and cuts the eardrum. This
relieves the pain, causes the tem
perature to fall promptly, and per
mits the pus to drain out rapidly.
The infection of the ear which
follows both measles and scarlet
fever seems more likely to develop
an infection of the mastoid than
the following other conditions. In
severe cases of influenza the infec
tious material ip the ear may be
bloody in character because of the
nature of the germ associated with
the disease.
In a certain number of cases nf
severe infection of the ear after
one of the infectious diseases, it is
possible to avoid operation by see
ing that the patient is promptly
put to bed. Drops of warm glycerine
are put in the ear and then a small
piece of cotton. A hot water bag
may be applied to ease the pain.
If the eardrum bulges even
slightly, it Is well to open it
promptly so as to prevent mas
toiditis, if possible. It is not a
serious operation to cut the ear
drum, because this heals promptly.
It is important, however, to make
sure that the opening stays open
sufficiently long to permit the in
fectious material to drain away.
Hence the ear must be inspected
every day by the physician.
If the temperature does not
come down and if the patient con
tinues to 1* severely sick, he Is
likely to have an infected mas
toiditis must always be consld
| ered. The only relief for this con
dition is surgical operation.
’ I didn’t know my head was worth
20,000 marks.
—Prof. Albert Einstein.
* ♦ •
A judge is as much affected by his
predispositions and prejudices as
any one else, and the necessity of a
unanimous vote of 12 is some pro
tection.
—Arthur Garfield Hays, attorney.
• • *
Hospitals are on their last legs,
with free care increasing.
—Arch Mandel. executive secretary,
Dayton Community Chest.
• 9 •
I would define a saloon to be a
place where neither meals nor lodg
ings are served, but a place where
intoxicating liquor is sold and is
drunk perpendicularly.
—U. S. Sen. Henry F. Ashurst.
• • •
There is a thrill in seeing a lady
of refined background and culture
lose herself in the game of love.
—Ernst Lubitsch, film director.
* • *
If both sexes thought and acted
alike, the world would be even more
monotonous than it is.
—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Today’s Radio Features
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 (Central and Eastern Standard Time)
Note—All programs to key and basic chains or groups thereof unless speci
fied; coast to coast (c to c) designation includes all available stations.
Programs subject to change. P. M.
(Daylight Time One Hour Later)
NBC-WEAF NETWORK
BASIC — East: weaf wlw weel wtlc
wjar wtag wcsh wfi wilt wfbr wrc wgy
wben wcae wtam wwj wsai; Midwest:
ivmaq wcfl ksd woc-who wow wdaf
NORTHWEST A CANADIAN — wtmj
wiba kstp webc wday kfyr crct cfcf
SOUTH — wrva wptf wwUc wis wjax
ivfla-wsun wlod wsm wmo wsb wapi
wjdx wsmb kvoo wky wfaa wbap kprc
ivoai ktbs kths
MOUNTAIN—koa kdyl kglr kghl
PACIFIC COAST — kf[0 ktl kgw komo
khq kfsd ktar kgu
Cent. East.
3:30— 4:30—The Three Jesters—also c
3:45— 4:45—Paul Wing’s Story—east
4:00— 5:00—Dinner Concert—also cst
4!30— 5:30—Back of News—also coast
4:45— 6:45—John Pierce, Tenor—to c
5:00— 6:00—The Mountaineers—weaf
5:15— 6:15—Ernie Holst A Orchestra
5:30— 6:30—Lum A Abner—east only
5:45— 6:45—The Goldbergs, Serial Act
6:00— 7:00—Fannie Brice, Geo. Olsen
6:30— 7:30—Revue of 1933—weaf only
7:00— 8:00—Ferde Grofe’s Orchestra
7:15— 8:i5—Fur Trappers—weaf only
7:30— 8:30—One Man’s Family—also c
8:00— 8:00—Cob Pipe Club—cst to cst
8:30— 9:30—The Ship of Joy—also cst
9:00—10:00—Meyer Davis A Orchestra
9:15—10:15— Buddy Rogers Orches.—
east: Lum A Abner—midw. repeat
9:30—10:30—Richard Cole’s Orchestra
10:00—11:0CV~Ralph Kirbery, Baritone
10:05—11:05—Ben Bernie A Orchestra
10:30—11:30—Mark Fisher’s Orchestra
CBS-WABC NETWORK
BASIC—East: wabc wade woko wcao
waab wnac wgr wkbw wkrc whk cklw
wdre wcau wip wjas wean wfbl wspd
wjsv; Midwest: wbbm wgn wfbra kmbe
km ox wowro whas
EAST & CANADA — wpg whp wlbw
whec wlbz wfea wore wicc efrb ckac
DIXIE — wgst wsfa wbre wqam wdod
klra wrec wlac wdsu wtoc krld wrr
ktrh ktsa waco koma wdbo wodx wbt
wdae whig wtar wdbj wwva wmbg wsjs
MIDWEST — wcah wgl wrat wmliJ
wtaq wisa wibw kfh kfab wkbn wcco
wsbt
MOUNTAIN—kvor klx koh ksl
COAST—khj koin kgb kfre kol kfpy
kvi kfbk kirj kwg kern kdb kgmb
Cent. East.
3:30— 4:30—Jack Armstrong—east
3:45— 4:45—Round Towners—also cst
4KM— 8:00—Wagner Orches. — east
only; Skippy, Sketch—midwest rpt
4:15— 6:16—The Ranger*—tast only
Cent. East.
4:30— 5:30—Geo. Scherban Or.—east;
Jack Armstrong—repeat to midwest
4:45— 5:45—Ted Husing, Sports—to c
5:00— 6:00—Morton Downey—c to cst
5:15— 6:15—Jack Denny Orchestra
east: Chicago Dance Time—chain
8:30— 6:30—Travelers’ Quartet—east;
Dan Russo's Orchestra—midwest
5:45— 6:45—Bcake Carter, Talk — ba
sic; Howard Ely at Organ—west
6:00— 7:00—The Happy Bakers—east;
Sextet—midw; Drama—west
6:15— 7:15—Edwin C. Hill—basic: The
Texas Rangers—west
6:30— 7:30—The Metropolitans—c to c
7:00— b:00—Irvin S. Cobb—coast out
7:15— 8:15—Kate Smith, Songs—to c
7:30— 8:30—Burns and Allen—cst out
8:C0— 9:00—Pennsylvanians—c to cst
8:30— 9:30—Alexander Woollcott—toe
8:45— 9:45—Barlow Symphony—also c
9:15—10:15—Vera Van, Songs—also c
9:30—10:30—Charlie Davis and Tom
Gerun Orchestras—coast to coast
10:00—11:00—Barney Rapp Orch.—c toe
10:30—11:30—Glen Gray Orches.—coast
out: Burns & Allen—coast repeat
11:00—12:00—Dance Hour—wabc only
NBC-WJZ NETWORK
BASIC — East: wj3 wbz-wbza wbal
wham kdka wgar wjr wlw wsyr wmal;
Midwest: wcky kyw wenr wls kwk
kwer koil wren wmau kso
NORTHWEST & CANADIAN — wtmj
wiba kstp webc w'day kfyr crct cfcf
SOUTH — wrva wptf wwnc wis wjax
wfla-wsun wio3 wsm wmc web wapi
wjdx wsmb kvoo wky wfaa wbap kpre
woai ktbs kths
MOUNTAIN—koa kdyl kgir kghl
PACIFIC COAST — kgo Kfi kgw komo
khq kfsd ktar
Cent. East.
3:30— 4:30—The Singing Lady—east
3:45— 4:45—Orphan Annie—east only
4:00— 5:00—Dick Messner’s Orchestra
4:30— 5:30—Three X Sisters in Songs
4:45— 5:45—Lowell Thomas—es. only
5:C0— 6:00—Ames 'n' Ancy—east only
5:15— 6:15—Ray Heatherton in Songs
5:30— 6:30—Cvrdnna Van Gordon—e.
6jC0— 7,:00—Crime Clues, Dramatic
6:30— 7:30—Potash and Perlmutter
6:45— 7:45—The King’s Jester's Trio
7:00— 8:00—To Be Announced
7:30— 8:30—Dr. Ortia Tirado, Tenor
8:00— 9:00—Quest of Perfect Woman
8:30— 9:30—To Be Announced
9:00—1Q:0O—Annie. Judy, Zeke — east
only; Ames 'n* Andy—west repeat
9:15—10:15—Poet Prince, Sengs—to c
6:30—10:30—Jack Denny & Orchestra
10:00—11:00—Mills Rhythm Band-to c
10:30—11:30—Henry King’s Orchestra
THERE OUGHT TO BE SOME CURE FOR THIS CASE
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Movie Sidelights
CAPITOL
In “It’s Grea*, To 3e Alive,” the
new Fox musical comedy which
shows Thursday only at your Capi
tol, Brownsville, you have a full
season of hilarity.
Telling the story of a man who
finds himself literally the last man
on earth, the film depicts a world
populated entirely by women, each
of whom has one end in view—to
get that solitary male. It is a dread
disease that wipes the globe clean
of the masculine sex. What goes
on toward a solution of this emer
gency forms the extremely funny
basis for the picture.
Raul Roulien, the South Ameri
can star, plays the highly enviable
role of being the last man.
With the comedy in the expert
hands of Edna May Oliver and
Herbert Mundln, "It’s Great To Be
Alive” has a generous supply of
scintillant moments. Gloria Stuart
is lovely in the leading feminine
role.
QUEEN
One of the most fascinating
screen comedo-dramas of the sea
son is “Handle With Care,” the
Fox film which shows Thursday
and Friday at the Queen, Browns
ville.
It brings James Dunn of “Bad
Girl” fame, Boots Mallory and El
Brendel to the screen in a delight
ful romance involving a shop girl,
left with two small boys to care
for, and a youthful lawyer.
Dunn and Miss Mallory who are
co-featured. both give splendid
performances in “Handle With
Care.” The same may be said for
Buster Phelps and George Ernest,
a pair of y>ung actors who are an
important factor In the intriguing
plot. El Brendel is, as usual, equal
to every demand of his comic role.
SAN BENITO—Jose Ramirez was
bound over to the district court by
Judge W. R. Crockett and commu
ted to jail when he failed to make *
$1,000 bond on a charge of sw1n- x
dling filed by members of the
Mutualist a lodge who allege he
misappropriated $450 of lodge
money.
PRIMERA—Mr. and Mrs. Homer
P. Huntley are parents of a daugh
ter born at their home near here.
HARLINGEN—S. A. Thompson,
San Antonio contractor and resi
dent of Harlingen for 30 years dur
ing which time he was mayor and
president of the Planters State
Bank, la visiting here
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BEGIN HERE TODAY
EVE BATLESS, pretty assistant
to EARLE BARNES, advertising
manager of Btxby’a department
store, marries DICK RADER, a
construction superintendent tem
porarily working In Lake City.
Mick wants Eve to give np work
ing but she refuses.
SAM ItOLERIDGE. an advertis
ing man employed by another
store, becomes Infatuated with
ARLENE SMITH, stenographer at
Btxby’a. but she fancies herself
in love with GEORGE BLISS.
Handsome THERON REECE has
been forcing unwelcome atten
tions on Eve.
Unknown to Dick, Eve has been
playing the stock market om
money borrowed from her mother.
MONA ALLEN, copy writer, dis
likes Eve and tries to make
trouble for her. When an error,
coating the store 92,000, appears
In an advertisement Mona Is
really responsible but the blame
falls on Eve.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XXVII
OATURDAY evening Dick took
Eve to dinner at a popular res
taurant known as the Old Planta
tion. The atmosphere was that of
the hospitable old 6outh. Pretty
mulatto girls, wearing bandanas
and checked gingham dresses,
served Maryland fried chicken and
corn fritters. A string quartet
played lively tunes and Eve soon
found herself dancing with spirit
Later they were Joined by a
group of Dick’s business friends
and she enjoyed the evening so
much she was almost able to forget
that Bixby’s had lost |2000 through
a mistake in her department
The next day she and Dick went
for a long ride in the country.
Office cares seemed far away and
Eve arrived home tired and sleepy
from being so long in the fresh air.
But Monday morning as she neared
the office she began to feel nervous.
Barnes would be back today and j
the dreaded interview must take i
place.
The advertising manager sum
moned her to his office at 9:30. Eve
managed a tremulous smile as she
entered but Barnes’ face was grim,
his voice crisp.
"I scarcely need tell you, Mrs.
Rader,” he began, "that the price
error In Saturday’s coat advertise
ment wps the worst of the kind the
ktore has ever had. I am amazed
that you should have permitted
such a blunder.”
Eve started to speak but he si
lenced her with a curt gesture. “It
is one of the things that simply
cannot be explained away or
sm-xrthed over,” he continued.
' “But you don’t understand—!”
she began. *
“I understand the result of the
mistake and results are what count
in this department,” he went on.
“I feared your marriage would in
terfere with your interest in your
work here. All I have to say now
is—don’t let anything of the sort
happen again!” There was a grim
threat in the words.
Furious that he had not per
mitted her to defend herself, Eve
returned to her desk. Mona had
scored against her at every point
Eve was tempted to go to Mr.
Bixby about the affair; tempted,
too, to resign. But she knew that
was exactly what Mona had hoped
might happen and therefore It was
the one thing Eve determined not
to da
see
AT 10:30 ft rosy-cheeked little
woman with a youthful face
and graying hair appeared and
asked for Mr. Barnes. Arlene es
corted her to his office.
A few moments later the buzzer
sounded for Eve and she was
introduced to the newcomer. "This
1b Mra Penney," said Barnes. “She
will take MIbs Vlad’s place."
Eve took the new artist Into the
outer office and introduced her to
the rest of the advertising staff
and to her new duties.
“At first I felt sorry for her,”
Eve told Dick that night, “but after
she began to work I knew why
Barnes had hired her. That woman
has genius!"
Mrs. Penney adjusted herself eas
ily to the office routine and Eve
blessed her for that With things
running smoothly again, Barnes re
sumed a more pleasant attitude
toward his co-workers and the ten
sion was lifted.
Apparently mild and yielding,
Mrs. Penney proved to be firm and
self-reliant to a surprising degree.
Even Mona, who usually found
some means of gaining her own
ends in such matters, could neither
outwit nor wheedle Mrs. Penney
intg taking care of minor details
of office routine which were Mona’s
responsibility or exchanging lunch
periods to suit Mona’s whims.
mrs. renney was a widow with
a young daughter who was in col
lege. Every stroke of the artist’s
pencil was for the sole object of
assuring her daughter's education.
Mrs. Penney worked swiftly and
untiringly eight hours a day—
longer when necessary. But she
managed to turn out smart, fin
ished drawings at a speed which
usually enabled her to leave the
office promptly at closing time.
Eve, looking ahead, felt that
Mrs. Penney would be very helpful
in putting the office routine on a
prompt and efficient basis when
ever the time came that Barnes
should leave and Eve herself be in
charge of the advertising office.
• • •
ND then Eve’s mother came to
visit her. Kate Bayless made
an inspection tour of the apart
ment, then shook her head and de
cided to spend the morning doing
the things Eve found little time I
for. Painstakingly she “did up’’ ail
the ruffled curtains and washed the
delicate crocheted rugs. To Dick’B
delight, she discarded the "bache
lor buttons’’ which Eve had been
snapping on his clothes and re
placed them with buttons sewed on
firmly with heavy thread. 8he
spent three mornings darning heels
and toes and catching runners in
hosiery. And she made orange i
marmalade and a supply of noodles 1
calculated to last into the summer.
Every noon Kate met her daugh- ’
ter in the ladles’ lounge at Bixby s. 1
Here, while she waited, Kate sat
at one of the desks and addressed <
postal cards to relatives, neigh-1 (
bors and friends at home. During ];
luncheon Eve planned the after
noon’s entertainment for her moth
er—usually either a shopping toui
or a matinee.
"Why, 1 could almost forget there
is such a place as home,” Kate said
one day. “if it wasn’t for worrying
whether Pa is getting enough to
eat and if he remembers to feed
the canary! I'll bet my plants will
be all dried up, too, for want of ,
a little attention." 1
At the end of a week no amount
of persuasion could keep her In
Lake City any longer. “I’ve fixed
you up p bit and that will give yon
a good start again,” she told Eve.
‘I’d much rather you’d stay at
home and not try to do too much.
No good can come of it—and I’m
worried about your nerves.”
When the train pulled out of the
station Eve and Dick, standing be>
low, watched Kate smiling at them
through the closed window. Eve’s
own eyes were blurred as she
waved a last goodby.
• • •
rPHE week had passed so swiftly
1 that her mother’s departure had
been unexpected. Eve regretted
that she had not found time to take
her mother to the stock exchange
and^the brokerage office. "Mother
gets such a kick out of seeing what
makes the wheels go 'round and
she’s such a good sport that I like
to show her new things,” Eve told
herself.
She was watching the activities
of the market anxiously these days.
Pure Soap, Inc., had fallen four
points and then, following brisk
selling, had resumed its former
high and plunged ahead. This
fluctuation caused a similar one In
Eve’s spirits.
And then Pure Soap. Inc.,
reached the point Eve had been
hoping for. Lest it take another
slump she hurried to the bank that
noon and arranged to sell.
She felt rich as she figured her
gain. After all, one had to pay
some price for success and this had
cost her only anxiety. She was
eager for a new venture In finance.
Eve left the office that evening
promptly as the closing gong
sounded. Sam was waiting at the
side entrance for Arlene and they
offered to take Eve home. Thus it
happened that she reached their
apartment before Dick, who had
been detained by some extra work.
Eve, still exulting over her
financial gains, set light-heartedly
to work to cook the dinner. It
would be nice to surprise Dick by
having the meal ready when he
;ame. But scarcely had she start
3d her preparations when the tele
phone rang.
There was a perceptible pause
ifter Eve answered. She was al
nost certain she heard a sharp in
ake of breath at the other end of
•he line and then a girl’s voice
laid, “Oh, I’m sorry! They must
lave given me the wrong number.*’|
The voice was Mona Allen’s. J
rhat she had been given the num
>er of Eve’s telephone by mistake
vas oossible, of course, but a coin
cidence almost beyond Eve's ere
lulity. What could it mean? Had
dona been telephoning to Dick?
(To Be Continued)