The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

F A a £ ~ Narrow Escape: By Richard Hill Wilkinson "Jud's 'only going: to he here a couple of weeks," Connie = sdid "Aud after all, he's my brother Tom's: guest and it's up tame to - hdlp entbrtain him. Yop understand, don't you, Mare?" "Sure," said "Mare, not looking" You "go ahead and be nice to him, 'Con- at her, "sure 1 understand, -nie. | understand all right." Which 'was true, bitterly true. " Mard had begun to understand two days after Jud Morrison had landed at the Norberts' for a fortnight's visit. Jud was big and 'handsome and bad a way. with him. In col- lege he had been quite a rage. Tom Norbert, his roommate, had raved about_him before he arrived, but even Connie hadn't expected such a splendid specimen of man- hood as Jud proved to be. A roadster stopped before the house and Jud came bouding up [0 v . y 1] Special Occasion "It was a wet night--a bad night for the Plume of Feathers. In the saloon bar there were just. the three of them. The young couple-T vho had come inwat nine and the man who had been sitting in the same corner" chair, silent. and gloomy; the whole. evening. For *a tine the young couple - didn't notice, him, Just' as they liadn't seemed to notice the rain. They were Tost in a private world of their own, When they stopped laughing and talking they looked imto each other's eyes. They did not "hear. the man's hicavy sighing 4 breath that. came every few min- ties. They had no time to notice the misery "in the lines roufid hig wouth, the pain in his eyes. © But when "the boy started to order a second Faund, the girl nudged hin and whispered, He hes- itated- for a- moment," then smiled ard nodded, He walked across the bar to the man in the corner.' : "Excuse me, but won't you join us? I mean," he added, shyly, "well, seeing there's. just the three of us---" A thin smile. struggled on to the man's lips. "That's very kind of you but----" "Please, no 'buts.' As » matter pi the walk. "Hi, Connie," he grinned. of fact, his 1s a frightfully special "All set for our round of golf" fiecagion OF: us MWe want. some: Be I : ! ody to drink with us. We shall Lhen he saw Mare standing on the be really upset if vou don't." 'porch beside Connie. "Hello there, "All right. I'm poor company Marc. How about joining us?" Ym afraid. And mine's ny, v : 1 ; 14 atratd. And mine's 'only a. Marc smiled and shook his head. bitter." "rE "Thanks," he said. "I've got a "Sure?" tennis date. See you two tonight." "Quite sure." If, he reflected, he could only The three glasses of bitter made get Jud out of his element perhaps their appearance. The barmaid Vor Ths wollen hero wouldn't show up | moved herself along the counter so 'well. \ - ivelv ao : . Several nights later at the coun- FE 10e Yous Broly Stimoeplisty of try club dance Mare got Connie |' "Well, then, here's to your spec- gi ge 5 fal occasion!" said the man, making jud along," he explained. "Iti a io pindune o be something new in his rexper- rg Ge os ay ny hie icnce and probably he'll get a bang = seven or ciglft Vears. older But hap- out of it." piness -was taking years off i 8 TTA So hie thice of them drove | ear fase pipet they might have up to B caver Lake the next day. The giv} Beshed seli-consgiously i: 213 Hie ajieeem tig put on their Mos y gale. "Thanks. "You're - Conuie elected to show Jud how eal ing rope. you feel duly hon to rig his line and cast, and watch- pig wv! "wriuned sheebiehv ing_them Marc knew--a: feeling--of-- ihe boy : tinned "Sheps ¥. frustration. Ile had latmed to Ou' S06, Ave. gol, engaged, ot panned an hour ago. On the top of'a bus. somchow get Jud to follow him into an 280 ot . ". the rapids where the going was S We didn't get off it--stayed on © treacherous and where "only - one nl the 6d of the Jourtiey, Tiger ) we came in here. [ expect it all . sounds mad, but it's how we felt." © "We just had to ask somebody to drink--to our future," the girl ._ added. : "Rather! --only once -in a life- time," said. the boy, heartily. The man fumbled in his pocket, found his wallet, For "a moment they looked hn%ioysly at cach other, frightened he wis going to em- barrass them with the offer of a present. But he handed them in- stead. a. tiny 'photograph. . The-girl caught her breath. "Why she--she's lovely!" "Yes. Very lovely." His voice was. toneless, "I was engaged to "And, besides, I'm satisfied lier for three years." He fumbled with the man I have--a man in his trousers pockets. "Ah, there who's blg chough to be kind it is. Yes, that's the ring. She to a man like Jud Morrison." gave it back to me at five-thirty . 3 this evening. That's why Uve been experienced no such things could Sitting in here Sihee six--drinking. navigate without losing his foot- Funny, Isn't it?" His voice was liold. He had a vague idea of res- still toneless. . . a ma i cuing Jud "irom the swirling for- = Ob, Dsay; we're terribly sorry-- rents, thereby establishing Jud's |* If we'd realized we--we'd never : weakness in Connie's min] and his have butted in-----714 OWN prowess. 3 He shrugged his shoulders, "I'm Suddenly he knew that he was not feeling: as bad about it as 1 helpless There: was noihing le was at six. Sunk quite a few beers could do "uhout the thing that was Sticy then. It helps. 2 Se happening: between Jud and Connie, And Jove we've made I worse The fecling that™ he had toward for you," said the boy, guiltily. ; Jud was not one of condemnation, : No, for Heaven's sake don': but ciievy. If Jud were trying to imagine that. Talking--once you steal Connie away, he was doing get Started--helps as 'much as -- so--unwittingly, "Any ope but--a drinking. CR Sir WR fool. could tell. he wasn't aware of 1 W gre you very much in love . any anderstanding existing between with her? asked the girl. . dhe aid arid Marc: ; He paused. Well, the idea we And so Marc abandoned his were going to get married one day scheme for. revelge. - was a méntal- habit. - They returned homie the next "Perhaps she'll change her-mind ' day. and the day after that Mare again. 1 think long engagements are made a business trip to Belknap, awfully difficult -- especially for When he got back, Judson Morrison | girls. We'd have been eneaged J was gone. Mare didn't call Connie. Pemorrow or the dav after' he was leaving on a month's journey up- state, He didn't want to see Connie Lefore he left. f--would hurt too z much. < o EA BEATTIE g2 Bur hie did see heres Connie cde Li) ] aver that n'ght and found hind sit- 2 tae alone on the porch, : a "Hello." she said, "where in the world have vou been?" "Away on husiness" Unexpected." - SAW sheuld think so." She y 2 came close to him ofl sat down, * i Tad eT this morning, Te asked : me 1o goodbye to vou" ~"fud's a good cze." Mare said, "I'oo geod," said Connie, "Good- : ness, 'd-hate to he married to a 5 man dike that" : ' o "You would" said Mare. aston-- " ished, "why" pt? # : "Why? why, becanse---1 would, oh He's too self=suffictent.' She fy laughed. "And besides, I'my satis fied with the nian 1 havea man who's big enough to be kind to a man like Jud Morrison." Abruptly he laughed, "and when, puzzled, slie asked "hing what was funny, he shook his head. "There's nothing really - fituny," hie said. "1° was just thinking about a close call I once had--how nea I came to making a fool of .myseli sand what a relief it is to know I escaped" gether on cancer graduate, a ~----tocat-umrot-thre Sucie Dr. Bertram-entered the field of medicine by a rather circuitous route. Elgin dpctor, Dr. James 5. Fraser, she studied music at Alu before finally deciding to enter the medical School at AVeste Favart Bertram is a graduate biologist and after his marriage to the in the fall of TM9 they commenced (héir research career together, De Barr, an RCA veteran, i$ in charge of (1% research project which concerns the struc- ture of cell nuclei as it may relate to the cancer cell. Dr. Barr's project is hanced bv the Na- tional Cancer Institute and the National Research Council. He is dilso assisted by HL Part of the funds raised during the A used to assist-this and similar research voor mailed di 1 Cana § jects Canadian Fighters In Battle Against Cancer-- ITiroughout Canada there are some 70 highly trained groups of research workers carrying on -scientific research into the cause and cure for cancer. Perhaps one of 'the most unusual research t of the University of Western Ontario. Dr. sity, and her husband Ewart Bertram, M.Sc rams is to be found at the Medical School Lee Fraser Bertram, a graduate of Western Univer- woacgraduate of the same college are working to- research under the cuidance of Dr. Murray Llewellyn Barr, another Western Daughter of a Port ic College and attained hee degree rn. . briltiant young doctor mdsay, pril campaign of the Canadian Cancer Society will he i a. Contributions mav--be-sent-to--ary---- ET . y! TET hl to Ontario Headquarters, Postal Station "1°, Toronto. cighteen months ago but I wouldn't. Now we-shall only be engaged for a few months. Dick didn't like me being obstinate, but Um sure it was right." "Well, it's been the same thing --- we've gone, about together every: vihere," -said the boy, quickly. "Yes, but because we winted to. 'about getting married before. Now deal simpler." She. smiléd almost cistantly. She was still in lier own privaie world. The man sighed. "Yes, I know all that. Waiting--this year, next year. Money, money -- always blasted money! [eople say it.doesu't matter but, by Heaven, it does! Well, you Not because we Jelt we "Tad to. That's the big difference. And it | wasn't -really . possible to think Dick's had ®risc--well7it's a good two are all right. Stick to it. 1 hope you'll get a devil of a lot more rises. Jig ones. My ruddy firm's in the wrong sort of trade for these days "they've just cut my salary." They looked at him with sudden understanding. "Was that why--z" "Yes, that was why, After three years of waiting--and now smashed them! Only it was all so nearly possible. We'd have had to be care- "Tul, of course, but, still, it wouldn't have been all scraping and watch- ing- every. farthing. Ol, I can't blame her. They haven't leit- me cnough to offer any woman." gulped. "Makes me fecl a 'pig. 1 mean, I got my rise this morning and you---" "Don't. be a fool, man! [i any- body ought to feel a pig it's me=-- shouldn't have said a thing about Jit, --ought--to-have--just--deunk--your-- healths. "Spoiling your great day for you--ought to have knbswa bet- ter. But it was a kind of coinci- dence and I suppose I had to get it off my chest to somebody. Been drinkin' anyway--rmakes yon say things yon shouldn't " . "We were thinking too much about_oprselves, anyway. [ know I 'No, No, Not Again! The year is only three. months old, but already the flagpole sit- ters are. at it, First to jump the gun on the summer silly season. is Odell Smith, ex-Mar- ne paratrooper, of Atlaiita, Ga. shown ascend- "ing to his perch, He plans to bust all pole- sitting records by . squatting up there! for nine. months; coming down con Christmas. "to pieces. I suppose I can't blame Iter. It was a pretty big cut, blast: "Pretty tough luck!" The boy- was. A hell of a chap T was think Sing myself. Just because they'd shoved my money 'up to c.eht quid Woweeki-- C3 "How mue™ shouted. > almost back lle Ie stepped as of someone had hit him and the rem - rants of beer in his glass splashed on to the floor. The _boy flush. Lie said, curtly. The man flung the glass against the bar counter. "Light pounds -- cght quidl My God, that's what they cut my money down to!" He reached the door laughing like a madman, The young couple looked at cach other. When they agaii there was swinging violently. om "And what's up with him, I'd like to know," exclaimed the bar- maid, looking angrily at the floor. "Glasses cost money!" oo From "{if Hits", How The Donkey Got His Bray Waterloo wis a large black don- key. In those days donkeys were the wsual means of transportation "Fight pounds." just the door --in--Jerusalem; and people rode don= key-back qu their business rounds and even when paying social calls .. . * Our Arab nurses told us the. | story of how the donkey got his bray when we were little) solemnly assuring us it was true. When Noah was collecting the animals for the ark, Mr. and' Mrs. Donkey came carly, but lingered a few minutes on the green turt for a last nibble of grass, They did not | "notice the gathering clouds nor (he first huge drops of rain. Then Mr. Donkey looked up to see that the door of the ark was closed! He was terribly frightene 1. What it lie and his mate were left hind? So he lifted up Tod and called: "Noa-ah! No-ah!" ce The rain beat and the lightning - frashed and the thunder' tore, and suddenly Noah opened» ihe door of the ark to them. Mr. Donkey was -so relieved to sce Noali that his shouting sub- cided nto "Ah! al! ah!" and that ie how the donkey got his bray and the reason" why it" is 0 loud, for he had to raise his voice above the ~downpouring of the I'lood. } The storygls much better told n Arabic, wh the cries of Noah sound exactly like tlie donkey's bray. : ii : We children had glorious times siding Waterloo. He was big and strong and could carry seyeral of us at one time: -An- ingenious con- "older, chile looked rouud- be- | wivance of panmuicrs made of two vpholaered hoxes was slung on either side of an Arabic was fastened, Ler SCC vaadle, on which "throne dike, u collec shop stool up-"F sslde down with-one rung cut out Ao tuake-a chair. Plump and: cheer- ful Jobu Whiting sat "in this, his sister "Ruth" and my "sister Grace in the kerosene boxes, and we en walled or ran. along- %ide. We often Yveut donkey-back to Ein Farrah, Zand in my | pavents' letters are fmany mentions of pie- nics in thi wildly picturesque ang rocky gofge. near Anathoth, he - birthplacé of Jeremiah. | iif - We liked going to Lin Farrah carly, to "avoid. travelling 'in the suminer. heat,-- and generally ar- rived by sunrise at a certain plain which we children" dubbed "The Plain of the Rising Sun," for we loved giving names to places. On this plain was a Moslem shrine or "wel," and we noticed thas all the donkeys hited up their voices ir i tremendous bray as they ~faced the first rays of the rising sum, which was usually just as we were. approaching the well. Because of the Arabic tale of the donkey .and his bray, "we valled the shrine "Noal"s--tomb A few years ago | gave a tea- party to a group of Biblical stu- dents visiting Jerusalem. Taey were late, and in their apology tnentioned that they had been taken to sce Noah's Tomb. [ questioned them, * tor I knew tlicre was no tomb in Palestine that" could possibly at- tributed to Noali. --- To my amusenient [found they had been taken by one of our old donkey-boys," now graduated inte a dragoman, or guide, to our shrive cf our "Plain of the Rising Sun? both named by us when we were children. So fantasy _ get handed down to become a sradition. --lrom "Our Jerusalem," hy. Be does tha Spafford Vester. Imagination "Mrs. Cohen." said Mrs. Nathan, "what's the trouble? You look worried:" . "Yes, ves," sighed Mrs. Cohen, "my-hushand is alvays ick" "Your husband is just a hypo- chondriac," said Mra. Nathan, "Ie isn't sick. He just thinks he's sich. Take no notice of "his eoinplaints ard watch him get well." A month 'later, the two women 'met again, Mrs, Calien looked even more worried. : : "Your husband no better?" asked the friend. "Worse," said Mrs. Cohen. thinks lie's dead." "He fd 'lect your building site. will How To Build A- Barbecue Grill Naturally you'll nced first to se- Choose a spot where there is shade in the late afternoon, if this is podsible. You had better get the whole family to- gether to. decide on this, because although the grill an be moved, it is unnecessarily hard-work., Then you mnst place your order for cqn- crede blocks, "Tt wilt take 63'whole "blocks and 12 half ones; While this order is being filled, vou éan use this time to find the articles you need in order to start work, They are few. A hae, "a spade, » four "pegs and some string, a level cand a trowelwill: do. -oute side of the firebox, that . form. Stake the pegs and string you have to" the ground to the outline of your pit. Take sone sharp instrument Sand mark this outline off so that the strings may be removed. Then you start to dig because you must have a base for the grill that will not allow it to sink and become unlevel. You ac-" comphish this by sinking the blocks their full 8" iu the ground. The hase is completed, = 7 The remainder of the work is placing the blocks in order to build up the sides and back. No cement is used. The blocks are merely stacked one on top..of the other. The sides of the firebox are built 3 blocks high from the base: and are 320 blocks deep. In order to keep your wood in a dry and order- ly fashion, a wood box is built on The walls of the wood box are only two blocks high, but are the same depth as the firebox, This wood box also Serves as a table during cooking operations. Now take twa and one-hali blocks and place them on the top. of the back wall of the firchox. On top of these vou place_two more blocks and another ones on top of these two, so that you have a simulated chimney in the back. All hlocks should he placed so that they inter- lice, since this lessens their chance cof falling. Since no.cement. is-used, thie blocks may be replaced easily should one crack from "the heat. However, ~ chances are you won't have to worry about this for sey- cral ' The building operation can be completed ina day and your grill finished ¢xtept for three items. The years, -- 'this frame. My dear," wood box needs a, top, the firebox: needs a grill and the base of the firebox needs to be built vp about eight inches so that so much wood need not be used for the fire, The base of the firebox may be built up with cither concrete blocks, gravel, cinders, or old bricks. The grill must be obtained and can cither be made out of iron rods about 7 inch in -diameter, or any suitable grill that cané withstand great lieat, . Stig The: top of the wood box will look best made of concrete. This - means that a frame the exact sige of the top must be built. : The ground may serve as the base of The concrete must be moxed in these proportions: 6. coal "buckets of gravel, 4 of saud, and 2 of cement. Water must be. added to form the correct mixture of gone crete. Mixing concrete is heavy." work and you may need some help on 'this. "After it is poured, the top must be smoothed with" a trowel until there are no lumps or pieces of - gravel left on top. The concrete must be leit to dey for at least 24 ours and must be sprinkled with water several times during this dey- ig period to prevent cracking. Then with help, -a great deal of lielp, * because "this concrete block is very heavy, the finished slab is placed on top of the wood box and the harbetue grill is complete. ® PB nr ------ - Comeback A wealthy widow married a maa of slender means. The honeymoon liad scarcely entled before she hes - gan remimding her husband that it was her mosey which was paying the bills. Iiven when friends drop- ped in and admired the newlyweds' home, the wife would remark, "Of course, if it weren't for my money, Henry would not be able to afford a * place like this." One day the hus- band bought a television set. © His "wife examined it and said: . ° "It's Beautiful. - But I don't have to remind you, Henry, that if it weren't for my money, it wouldn't be here." ' quietly, "I think it's time to tel you that if it weren't for your money," I wouldn't be here either." And then, of course, there was the optician's: daughter. Two glasses and she made a spectacle "of herself. : = 0 oe i 2 -- en ° Warp and Woof of 'Fashion--Snug as two dogs in a rug are "Fancy Dapper Dan," left, police bloodhound, and "Merry Windjamnrer," champion Surrey English cocker. spaniel. The "dogs suffered through the fitting of their new "rug-ed look" hats for a special benefit fashion show, --, being made of carpeting. [Tats get that way Leper Mission Begins--Navy doctor, Gordon MeNeilly, with his-daughter, Miviam, 4, eit Alameda, 18 month tour of duty in Calif., bound for an the leper colony on Tinian "Island. Dr.t McNeilly volunteered for the hazardous cause he felt it his "Christian duty." were his wife and another daughter, 4 months old assigiiment he- Vso accompanying him JITTER FORRY IF $500A WERK DOESN'T SUIT You WELL HAVF TO GET ANOTHER, LEADING LADY, LOoW AT THIS CROWD WAITING TO 586 [ MEANWHILE THAT'S REAL. BOX OFFICE" APPEAL' by oo Arthur Pointer YoU WiN- (FN I You can pRAW ( "THAT B13 A CROWD YOU'RE WORTH, $1000. 0 J = By Teplicd" the hisbaud, A AEs » NC Ar ro et or wy AE a "or gs 7 2 on i i