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Oshawa Daily Times, 14 Apr 1930, p. 9

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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, PAGE NINL Cinderella's first ball ended in Sean Brandes, oan automobile nate, Wile A: Docker, Hg io made #'bosuty at Mr. Baker's ore ,» OF B Wager w younger oid v Larry. While hie beans ty dassles Beott wealthy young society man, Larry Decker, at hor first ball, ahe, nienis agein Jimmie Rebs. | A some young pilot, w | wl she hae Leen in love for | yours, nise she Is sut He does not Ag Kihei Hl Soom Vor , ----. is links ih in malicious gossip in hor I vit Roberta's fathr | nine-day Wonder un st the office, but I { avy: . [[ahe stil loves Jimmie and that || she always will, As she is about | to leave the office that night Jim- mie s and begs permission to drive her home, THE OLD DREAM My wis glad that the roar of traffic made conversation impose ible when they got down on the treet where Jimmie's car was parks d in front of the Decker building, How often she had dreamed of ding beside Jimmie In his ear or it his plane! had come true, ut It did nef mean| anything, like wost dreams which mwterialize, Jean eculated, ("How did you know where | works @d1" she asked In his ear as they ung Into Sth avenue trafic, Then fe was sorry instantly, for she real hed that all Hillsdale must know hat the notorious Jean Brandes borked for the wealthy Mr, Decker, immie did not answer, but swung iis ear into Central Park: | "We'll head out the drive," he ex~ fained, "It will be quiet and we an tlk a lictle" | They drove along in silence, It | as dusk, and the lighted windows If the skyscrapers blinked out age inst the deep winter sky, As they ung into Riverside Drive the light n the Jersey shore twinkled, he ludson below looked sinister, threas aning, They drove on for a while nd Jimmie awung his car into a side rive and parked it where they could bok buck on the city and out toward he harbor beyond, "You wonder why I'm here with ou," he sald quietly when he turned ff the metor, "I've mw message for you from Mr, Perry," und his voice sounded strain. id, "I've been waiting two years to eliver it" : Jean nodded understandingly, but id not speak, "It was before he left for Europe, hen ull that trouble was over, He d to 'tell you some day he'd try th make it all up to you" Still Jean Bid not speak, If she had thought Bf Mr, Terry in the last two years was always with sympathy and un. Herstanding, She hoped he had und some kind of peace and happls oh, } ll Jimmie was still talking, "We were pretty close, Mr. Terry ind 1, J'2 was almost like a father Mini I felt terrible about everys thin, waren! "Mr, Terry In a wonderful man," Bean said finally, "I'm glad you fave me the message, It helps to now he understands," ' They sat in silence then and look: at the city shining in the winter ight, "Beautiful, fan't it?" Jean said af- ar & time, "That is why 1 love New ork, Skyscrapers are always beau. (ful, like the mountains I fons only make them look different," | Jimmie turned to look at Jean's bvely face halt hidden in the shad. "Were you terribly in love!" he aked buddenly, Jean started, His ace was close to hers and his eyes boked sick and pained. She wanted i reach out and draw his head down in her shoulder and comfort him, | "Terribly!" she sald, Then she idded quickly as she looked back at i. Nuddjsome mobile face, "dnd 1 am!" Jimmie turned angrily in his seat, i "I wish you hadn't said that!" he emanstrated, | "Why not} Nothing ean ever me of it and it helps just to say in" she replied at seemed to .atisf ] the you vitor, . At least he realized she ine © was glad for Roberta's sake, Qdd nobody in Hillsdale had ever ought of Jean as a beauty, Quite 0 contrary, . Certainly Terry had a lscerning eye! [*Ihe whole thing's wrecked his fe," Jimmie continued, "He was sperately unhappy and n at ome understood, I think he was ore sorry sbowt you bong 0 0 . |. fh hd Sn HE "Jean even in adow Jiminie knew We was p s't unhappy?" whe de. ed "Iam; Me . i A 1 ] tt Happiness on this earth? ve d salfucion in my work, That's Jim pL. Bh for this, 0 omet Hi Jean's attitude baled di seem ashamed, pon rudeness?" i rudeness didn't huet me, 1 hot han hee, tort hme "By what can 1 do" Jimmie atk. on do was rr you felt Jie dune Here ve v : i about the affair. up atred of vou has ° fastor of her life. Somes : she'd do some- sh 1M 3 ho seas | | asl baded never 10 see Mr, Terry again, | looked hungrlly at his bandsome face as his lighter flamed, "All this Is why I'm going te build on ong, Island, Besides it's near Curtiss Wield, That's where | keep my ship, Jean felt cold and suddenly tired, So there was no doubt, Jimmie was going to marry Bob. he'd | been sure of It, of course, but *o hear him talk of thelr home together made her gry with unhappiness, "I think we'd better * ¢ golng back,' she said suddenly, ST She had a wild desive to esc from Jimmie and his happiness, He turned the ear back, and so they were sipping back down the drive, As the light Niekered fitfully over his face Jean realized Just how much she loved the young man sitting there beside her, Come what might, it was always there, her love for him, It came back always to s, oll things for her, And she was helpless, "Fooll Fool!" she thought bitters I She ould do ap Loretta had done If Jimmie asked her: She saw Loretta's tragle face again and real ized for the first Hime Just how bite ter her suffering had been, Yes, she'd drive right off tonight with Jimmie to the other end of the world without stopping for anything or any body She smiled as she thought how surprised Jimmie would 'he ii she could tell him just what was in her mind, "Why are vou smiling?" he sald quietly, Hg had been watching her, too, as they rode along, thinking Just how beautiful she was, No wons der Decker was crazy about her, Homely Jean! How: this ugly duck= ling had blossomed, "Nothing," Jean sald In confuraun "I've had a hard day at the office and I like to sit here and relax." As they reached Sth avenue Jean asked Limmie to drop her at Mrs, Brent's apartment over on Park, "But tell me something of your plans, about the things you're doing," Jimmie looked at her quickly, "Fancy your knowing anything about my plans!" he laughed, "How could anybody help it with you hopping all about the country and making endurance flights and things, I read the papers you know, Any week I count as lost when you haven't a front-page story," Jeun bantered, "Seriously enough, are you planning anything interesting right now!" she added, "Right now I'm involved, er trying to be involved, in Mr. Decker's plans for this two weeks rrom New York to Toklo," he sald, "At present I'm busy testing some new ships out ut Curtiss Field, We're trying some now tricks in refueling so that we won't have to stop between New Yark and San Franglsco" He turn ed into Park avenue, "I've a new ship of my own coming ene of these days, She's a beauty, Allsmetal monoplane with a slick little cabin, I'll see you get a ride, Maybe I'll let you name her," Jean was delighted with the idea She pramptly forgot all about Bob and all the unpleasant things in the world, Then before she realized it, they were before Mrs, Brent's door and her happiness was at an end, "Can I see you again soon?" Jim mia waked eagerly as he stood with his hat in his hand, looking at her admiringly, "Isn't it sort of uselers}" said quickly, "There isn" to od is there!" "I'l find something Luportait]" he premised as Jean ran up the steps, As Jimmie drove away Jean watchs ed him from the safe harbor of the impressive doorway, And she knew he'd come back again, Semething in Is eyes assured her that it was so, and she was unreasonably happy, "Where in the world have vou been 1" demanded Mrs, Brent when Jean was admitted to her boudolr a moment later, "I've been trylng to find you for hours, and I'm' dining out, You're to have dinner. here, Felice will take care of you, Now get into a. dressing gown while | tell you all about everything" Jean came back In a moment wear. Ing the soft green negligee and she curled up in the chaise lounge to listen, "I've been houseshunting!" Mrs, Brent announced triumphantly, "And I've found you an apartment!" ean laughed. 'But, darling! I don't want one, I'm gomfortable where I am." Mrs, Brent waved that remark Jean ANY more 0, "Bille has already ordered me to nd a new plage for you to live, | guess. when your boss tells you to move, you'll move!" Then she con- tinued, "It's a love of a place and umustn't scold, but it's down in reenwich Village. You can see Washington Square from your living room window, It's bei given up a really old New York family, ou're getting the library and two adjoining rooms, There's a huge clothes closet which is to be the kitchenette." Jean fan at the thought of such an establishment, al I can't afford it, can 11" she "My dear child, it's only a hundred a month! Of course you, can, When I get through with it you won't know the place!" Mrs, Brent had never been Japhice than she had while lave. more delight In fixing up her "Qh, yes, there's a fireplace, tool" NE a a hy 's possible," Jean en -- : a lik aven't you somebody you' © to live with you and share the ex» pe ge I" Mrs Brent asked, ere's Grage Themas, and we've often talked of living together, But ldn't afford that rent, I'd t hot course." nt had still more plans Sh oltered her own cook's ar for a mat "She needs a job und she can live she 3 have cer and take care : sa - an . ment, And Wil keep Ihe git out of mischief, "Now your apartment must he i done in early American. with ruffled Now she was to}d A Thrilling Romance of Adventure in the Clouds nderella of the Skies VeriBrown L 4 curtaing and things, Orientals ul donate and there are bullt«ln bookcases piready" Jean was thrilled ut the prospect, "Tust think, It will be the first res) home Kve ever had since mother died" she sald, "Then it's all seitled," and Mrs, Brent planted a light kiss on thy top of Jean's blond fend us the mald held her sable coat for her, "Get dressed "i you might have callers" Mrs, Brent admonished, "and your flowers are sll over the place, Dinner here will be In hall an hour," and she swept out of the oom 'wearing most of her dismonds, The muld drew Jean's bath for her, Jald out w blagk ehiffon disner dregs and hung up the glothes she had just taken off, "What luxury!" Jean thought, us she splashed about with perfumes and soaps, "A handsome place to live: 1 conld have company, I'll call Grace tonight and get her promise," As Jean slipped on the black frock the mald brought her the orchids with Larry Docker's curd, They were Just the touch needed to make Joan the perfection of blond beauty In a blnek frock, She went out into the drawing room to await the ane nouncement of dinner, and stood in the flower-filled window looking down at the glittering lights along Park avenue, Her thoughts were all of Jimmie and his obvious admiration of her during thelr stolen ride, What queer things happened! She sat down to her solitary dinner rather glad of quiet after the day's rush, She had a new %ook on banking for company, and the butler served her fine chicken broth, a filet of sole, 4 queer but delightful salad and im» ported cheesy, "Shall T serve offge In the draws Ing room!" he asked, Jean felt as though she were u movie star us she arose and followed the silver coffee service to the fireplace, Just as the tray was settled conveniently near her comfortable chair, Scott Gerald wap announced. He came in smiling, and he noted his roses in a huge Jur near where Jeun wat, "Just in time for coffee,' Jean sald "Can't 1 carry you off ta the the atre?" Seott begged. "Everybody 1s gossining about the blonde that Lar ry has gone completely cracked about, I want to show you off," "I'm going to make you listen to me tonight" Jean said, as she with drow the hands he had been holding since he came in, "Sit over her and talk to me and take this cup of coffee" Scott gave up with a mock alr of tragedy and threw himsell upon a som, "You knew, I was afraid to see you today,' he confessed, "l've not hat a drink all day, I was afrald it was the cocktails that made vou look ns you did last nights I wanted fo be sure He arose and bowed low, "Miss Cinderella, it wasn't the cocktails!" "I'm so glad, Mr, Gerald!" Jean retorted, "How many times have vou nro mised not to call me Mr, Gerald +" "Hut that was last night, Scott)" Jean sald, "I can't Jet you take me out again until 1 confess, It wouldn't be Tair," "Don't tel me you're the hammer murderer' !" Scott mocked, "I can't stand the shock |" "I'm worse!" Jean: insisted, Tm nobody! I'm just a poor working gin!" Beott sat quiet for a moment look Ing at her frock and the orchids. "Poor little girl! Holes in vour stockings an' everything!" he laughs ed, "Have to eat caviar and wear orchids, 1 suppose. What hardships 1" + "Be serious, Scott! | am a work Ing wel I'm just Cinderelling I" 81h wilted to see the expression of an nayance on his face, "I'm just Wil liam - A, Decker's secretary!" and Jean turned away so that she could not see the face of the young man across frome her who had set his coffee cup down se abruptly To Be Continued Tom (Copyright Publio Modger Co.) LOVE AND HONEY SUED FOR DAMAGES "What's in a Name?" Brings Answer "Not a Thing" Chicage, Harry Sommerfields's an« swer to the famous inquiry, "What's in a name!" is "Not a thing" and he cites Love and Honey, the sweet cognomens of two gentlemen he is suing for $20,000 damages, Subsequent to a collision between Sommerfiield's automobile and one in which rode Love (Elmer) and Hons ev (Hayeroft)=electrical contractors wtherg was an argument, Sommers field declares that Love, despite the sentiment the name inspires, popped hm in the jaw: and that Honey, far fram being sweet, slammed him in the midsection, While he was own, deposes Sommerfiield, the firm of Love and Honey did a concerted Wh dence upon his: prostrate form, e estimates his physical damage and mental Siuish at $20,000 which he hopes a Superior Court jury will award him, Finger Prints Are Means Of Arrest Of Man For Old Crime (By Conadian Press Leased Wire) Drockville, April prints on a4 pane of glass in the {aoe here of the Robert rel Co, d,, 'after it was robbed of 262 RR olla court today of Melvin Hart, Toledo, Leeds county, who stands charged. with the theft of the Vve some old # Ld=Fingors | of Poter Wilson, old, a farmer, of Middle ten miles from RR Fa es t 8 aurhter, Lilli x ¥ are of came of | to see her shine, valued at #081, The Sugers prints corresponded with other prints in the hands of the authls thew ut Toronto us a result of Hart's provipus conviction and for visonment on another nhargs, art' wos remanded until Thurs fay next, upon appearance in po 0a gourt, 4 ------------ FOND FAREWELLS SLOW UP TRAFFIC SAYS POLICEMAN| Harassed Officer Quite Per: turbed Over Prolonged Demonstrations r---- Westfield, N, J=Patrolman John Shirley, & Jovial young member of the Westfield police foree, Is somes what upset over the prolonged der monstrations of public affection ex« hibited at the Central Railroad of New Jersey station every morning by the citizens of this town, Some departing husbands, Shirley has ob. served, linger on the station drives way kissing thelr wives three and four times before dashing for the trains for New York, Such a practice has become a has bit, and, like all habits, he sald it grows steadily worse: Already the kissing problem constitutes a elvie menace, It delays traffic deplorably ut the most erucial hour of the day, "If thelr men folk were leaving them for Havana or for some other place, like Europe, I'd may OK to the ladies," Patrolman Shirley ex plained during the breathing spell, "Hut this is different, Their hus hands are going only te New York und once they've got all the kissing done, it's all to be done aver agaln the next morning, Just watch them now, In one automobile the man kisses a wife and two kids and with another its three, What a lite] J My "Now If there is anythin is particular, if they would only let me know, 1 could find a parking space soon enough, There's plenty of room to stop down by the freight shed but, no sir, they must stage their kissing out here in the drive- way right In front of the station: "I've. got my regular every-day customers trained pretty well, Some of them have it down to a sclence now, 'The husband drops out of the car, the misses switches over to the wheel, and the kissing Is over like clockwork, H's net them that causes the trouble, It's my rainy day peo ple, the ones who walk down eon clear days and only ride to the sta tien during wet weather," A prolonged farewell bidding takes half a minute, he has computed, and it 100 ears took that amount of time, the result, in so far as the 7146 was concerned, would be a calamity, he sald Patrolman Shirley in so well known in Westfield that hundreds of com. muters lose a little more time every day just in pausing to say goods morning to him, He is succeeding, too, in his faster traMo campaign, for he has laughed at thelr farewells so frequently that many eitizens of Westfield have become kissing eons scious, "He had heard it sald that somie of his customers did more kiss. ing at the railway station than they did at home, but he would say. noth. ing about that, He liked them tee well, he declared FINDS TRANSRUSION PARENT'S BLOOD 1§ MEASLES' ANTIDOTE on thet New York==The inoculation of a child with the blood of ona of the parents is a simple preventive that will ward off the danger of a severs attack of measles, Major Edward J, Abbott, M.D, said in a radio talk delivered under the auspices of the Health Department, The injection will he valueless uns loss made within five days after exe posure to the disease, Major Abbop sald, A small amount of blood is drawn from one of the parents who has had measles and transferred to the ehild in an intermusoular injec. tion, One ounce will 'give sufficient protection, 'The child may not ea cape the disease, but will: have it only in a mild form, 8 "Almost no Yerver, seanty rash and complete lack of the usual aching and constitutional mplome may be skfected, Major hott said "Above all, the pneumonia, which so often follows the measles with fatal consequences, will he prevented, A dose of double the size gives complete but temporary immunity, The smalls or injection in preferred hecause' ft permits the ehild to develop " ims munity which lasts the rest of hid {18 WONN PRISONER | 60 YEARS, VICTIN OF WISER FATHER Autos, Electric Lights, For First Time Middletown, Conn, = The death ninetys Fi addam, father's \ Z It was the first time In her life that Miss Wilson had left her fa thers farm, Eleetrle lights, payed treats, tretley cary and stone bullds nes were & surprise to the woman, wi rove Into town with s nel bor, ftnssd n # sibonnet and. a black gown trulling ubout her rust on tit Huddam, villege of 500 inhabitants, is set In a circle of sony hills on the bank of the Con. nectieut River, There Is no rallrond near, und the roads are rough snd roeky, On the farm, six or eight miles from the village, Lille Wilson was born, Close Prisoner Her mother died when she was n baby and since then her father hus opt her & close prisoner in the tiny ouse Hard .9 the rocks of his hilly Peter Wilson did all the work necess ry to keep up his fifty-aere farm, which kept him and his daughter alive until & few weeks ago, when o fall fractured his hip, Few automobiles came down the road w aro the Wilsons lived and when neighbors, driving by, effered to stop for a few words of gomlp, Wilson came out with a shotgun, warning them away, After a while the neighbours stopped coming, Many of the farmers In the district younger than the Wilsons and new comers, did not know there wus # woman in the house, Years ago Wilson's two other daughters rebelled against thely fa: ther, One dork night they took horse and buggy and ran away, The) went to New York, where Phoebe still Hives, unmarried, Mer alster, Hilma, married a man named Erick- gone 'They never came home, No Newspapers Books and newspapers were taboo RL in the Wilson household, Lille Wile son knew nothing of the march of modern life, When thers was shops ping to be done in the Middle Had dam house It. was her father who took the horsé and went to: town, first taking care to lock his daughter fl, When Wilson broke his hip, a few waeks ago, 8 neivhbor took him to the hospital, Lillie did not want to 0, Hhe had to stay st home, the sughter sald, and take care of the fuem until her father got back, or he would be angry, "Besing Is Believing" When the aged farmer died the neighbor drove out and told his daughter, She climbed into the nu- tomoblle == the first. she had ever been In = and sat quietly on the trip to Middletown, Her eyes opens od wide ns they approached = the town, and her escort w.s busy ex plaining the uses of everything she saw, Such things as radio, phono: graphs and talking pletires she re fused to helieve th until she saw them When Wilson's will was opened It was found that he left an estate of $50,000 to his daughter, the result of the years of hoarding n his (arm Miss Wilson will take her Inheritance and hegin to Jive the life denled hor all her sixty years, She: probably will go to her sister's home In New York, Peter Wilson asked In his will that he have no funeral, He wanted to he hurled In the hills where he had lived The death tell of a doensperate dush for fresdom at Folsom Prison, Callf,, was brought to three Mon day when W, H, Tinkelpaugh, 40, Fullerton theatre robber, died of o bullet wound through the back, ---- With the death of three persons in an Olta, Xyushu perfecture hos pital in Tokio, the death list re- sulted from an explosion ahoard a train near there was raised to 40 today, cil A: I ALL CANADIAN "BRIDGE TO CROSS ST, LAWRENCE Private Bills Committee Ap- proves Project From Corn. wall to St. Regis, Que, a a, Ottawn, April 12, == An Interna- tional bridge whelly within Canadian territory Is projected In a bill aps proved by the private bills ecommittes of the House of Commons, The bill Is designed to Incorporate the Corn wall Bridge Company with power fo construct a bridge across the St, Lawrence River from n point below dhe town of Cornwall, in Ontarle, to the village of St. Regls in the Pro. vines of Quebeg, The Southern end of the bridge would he within 500 feet of the Uns ited States boundary, In this way the sponsors of the schemes hope to make the bridge wu medium for In ternational traffic, It is an alterna. tive scheme to the proposed bridge ut Broekyille Arnold. Smith, (Lib, Sterment), who sponsored the bill, explained the Brockville project could still go through I New York state approved, The promoters of the Cornwall hridge wotld be glad to see it go through because the two hridges would pro. vide a loop for traffice and help one another A protest against granting the charter was comained In mn letter from Hon, George S, Henry, Minis ter of Highways for Ontario, He sald provincial governments had been try ing to do nway with toll bridges as far as possible within a provinces and between provinces, The government pss -. rv Your Income / OES your estate amount to ten times your income? ra If s0 you havé made unusually good piro- vision foe the future, You have assured yourself and family of an income equal to omenbalf your present earnings. Suppose, for example, that you earn $3,000 a year . . . and your estate is ten times that, or $30,000. This total at five per cent. interest will yield $1,500 a year. % ufficient, perhaps, to make it possible for youto live independently "in your old age. Sufficient, too, to enable your wife and LifeIn of Ontario, he said, objected to tolls being eharged on any bridge between, Ontario and Quebse and felt, if & bridge. was needed the two goveris ments would be prepared to eons. struct it, The proposed bridge would . be about two miles In length and would cron over St. Regis. Island. ln the centre of the river by a trestles work, On the Ontario side the . bridge would eonneg. with the Toronto. Montren! provinelal highwey, On the Quebee side the terminus wouldbe within a few fret of 8 New York state highway, Teo Jormie it te take full advantage of the tourist traffic the hill would authorize the company to establish and operate restaurants, parks, summer 'resorts, amusements and landing and parking facilities for ucroplanes, Mrships and. atitomobites, a I ------------ More than 19,500 free: mesls were served by Yonge Birest Mise sion, Toronto, where lunches were/ given the unemployed this winter, J, ©. Davis, the, superintendent ntoten, In these lunches Were 125, 700 beef sandwiches, 2,000 gallons of coffee, 120 gallons of tes, $00 gallons of milk, Police fired on 8,000 steiking workers of the Kilar goldfields in Gorghun, India, Monday, Appyop- imately 60 were injured. hres rioters were wounder, one fatally, when a policeman fined on TRINAY strikers in Bhausawal, who were trying to vescuo two of their Lol lows who had been arrested. Well, if the whale didn't swal- low Jonsh and later liberate him, who started the theory that yuu oan' hep a good man down?' Border Cities Star. ( ---- An expert declares that the wheat situation 1s "clesring up" and this, of course, involves » clearing out for the elevators, Brantford Expositor. family to "carey on" if they are left alone. If your estate does not measure up to this standard, the simplest and quickest way of bringing it up to requirements is through Life Insurance, Millions of people have built estates "on the installs ment plan" with the aid of Life Insur- ance, And in so doing they have safeguarded the future for themselves and those whom they hold most dear. Ask your Life Insurance Representative to- explain to you the many advantages of an estate founded on Life Insurance. -

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