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"THURSDAY, MAY 2% 1947 | Today's Short Story IN THE FAMILY By Oma Freeman Lathrop long black limousine with a uniformed chauffeur at the wheel came gliding slowly down the bumpy k street and rolled to a stop in front of the little white house. No one got out. ly in the drive, she was home, back yard, are idn"t they come in? --Tiustrated by Nicolet. "Id love to come In," Aunt Sarah said. 1hree minutes--four--went by and still no one knocked. Ann Marie had tidied her hair and powdered her nose. She peered out again. Aunt Sarah sat on the edge of the back seat staring at the house, the motor still purred idly, the chauffeur thrummed the wheel impatiently, yet no one stirred. > At dinner she told Tom. "Your Aunt Sarah was here today." "Well, fine! I knew she'd un- sooner or later and call," Ah all, the old ot of human kindness ? You don't say? , think she'd te pull , is as rfiendly as can be when she comes in the store. wish--" He didn't say more but Ann Marie wondered. "Well, evidently she still can't stand the idea that you married beneath you. Some day I'll show that nd dame on her pinnacle just far beneath you you really did marry, if I lose my sufficiently," she vowed. 'll you do, Mommy, Tommy wanted to know, his eyes as saucers, his mouth ce that sig- nified 'little pitchers" but Tom- my persisted. "Whut's marryin' beneath you?" he demanded. They laughed, "Oh, Daddy was upstairs and I was in the basement," Ann Marie told him jokingly, and they hast- ened to talk of other things. But the thought rankled the next day as Ann Marie went about her work. Had Tom step- ped down to her level, or had she come up to his, or was there any difference at all? She recalled how she and Tom had been high school sweethearts and how flattered she had been to have one of the boys from Transport Fruit In Refrigerated Freight Cars The recommended packing and shipping of peaohes, grapes, and sther fruits in open or leno covered baskets was generally adopted by fruit growers and shippers in the Niagara district during' the 1946 season. Much damage and waste were avoided during the season, in accordance with the suggestion : Depart. ment of Agriculture. However, in consequence of some damage being GENERAL Country Club Place come calling for her at the little white bun- galow on Main Street. She'd been swept off her feet when he asked her to marry him, but after all her parents were good country stock, and there was no reason why they shouldn't have their happiness. Or was there? She hadn't foreseen that his family would drop him from the accepted order of "son following father" in the big department store they owned. ose had been hard years -- living in with her folks while Tom worked at odd jobs about town, and then Tommy coming along to complicate mat- ters, But last year Tom's father had died and Aunt Sarah had unbent eno to ask him to come back and help with the store, and now they had moved into the little white house and everything was rosy--or would be, if only Aunt Sarah would gecept her too. Well, it wasn't Ann's fault, was it? She kept the little house shining and they had their own circle of friends and Aunt SaraH shouldn't spoil her life. But she knew Tom in some obscure way felt there was somet they should de about it. Well, she wouldn't go to Aunt Sarah's first, that she had vowed. And then that afternoon the big limousine drew up to the curh again. This was too much! She would not go out and beg her te come in. Let them sit and stare Only this time Tommy was play. ing in the front yard. Ann Maric watched discreetly from behind homespun drapes. "Are you Tommy Parkhurst little boy?" Aunt Sarah called. Tommy went right on tinker ing with his tricycle. "Sure. Are you Aunt Sarah Parkhurst?" "Why, yes. How did you know?" Her dignified expressior almost cracked into the semblance of a smile under her black bon. net, "Oh, I've heard my folks talk about you and your big car." "Well! And what did they say?" she inquired indignantly. "Oh, nuthin', only Mommy said you never liked it cause she was in the basement and Daddy up- stairs when they got married and the preacher had to yell. Could you hear him clear out to your house?" Ann Marie stifled the impulse to call him in. She went om eavesdropping, "No, I couldn't," Aunt Sarah Juswered, a puzzled expression on ace, "Maybe you were up on your pinnacle that Mommy says you sit on," he went on nonchalantly. "Do you like it up there on your pinnacle? Ain't it lonesome up there all alone?" he sauntered toward the car. Aunt, Sarah was wiping off either a tear or a smile, but she back shyly. Suddenly Ann that this was her chance to bring the family together. She stepped to the door and went down the walk. "Why, hello, Aunt Sarah. Why don't you come in? I've been waiting for you to call on us in our new home. Go hug Aunt Sarah, Tommy. Aunt Sarah got out of the car and took Tommy in her arms. Then she turned to Ann. "M dear, you don't know how I've longed to come in, but I supposed you wouldn't care to have me. I've had James drive past night after night, but I codn't get up the courage to stop. If you only knew how lonely I've been for Tom. You see, I used to live in a little white house very much like this before I married Tom's uncle. I wasn't always a Park- hurst, you know. And I know exactly how you feel about being in the family. I'd love to come in." Well! So she was human after all. An Marie put her arm about Aunt Sarah's shoulder and led her graciously into the little white house. (Copyright) still in evidence, the circular has been amended to include a sugges- tion for using racks over the top layer securely fastened down for shipment. In this way, safe trans- portation may be attained. Full information is given in the revised circular as to the method of storing and bracing the baskets in refrigerator cars, together with de- tails about the construction of Wandering Tabby Returns Home Racine, Wis, May 22.--(AP)--It took two years and a 800-mile hike to do it but Boots, -Mrs. Raymond McCullough's wandering cat, fin- ally has come home. Mrs, McCullough shipped Boots, a gray Maltese, to the hcme of her mother, Mrs. E. J. Mosher, at Al- bion, Pa. two years ago. The cat Sayed one month, then disappear- Yesterday Mrs. McCullough look- ed but the window and saw Boots. She raised the sash. Boots leaped into the house, accepted a saucer of milk, sauntered leisurely to his favorite spot in back of the sofa and went to sleep. . Gets Pie in Face, Culprit Makes Off Jackson, Miss, May 22.--(AP)-- A cafe operator complained to pol- ice that a waitress off duty enter- ed his restaurant, picked up a chocolate pie and slapped it into his face. "This is what I"wanted to do for six months," she remarked. Police went to the waitress' rooming house but the landlady re- ported she had gone to Texas. THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Canada's Gift From Netherlands ri 2 Re etherlands government to the Canadian people, more than 6,000 ornamental trees and shrubs have reached Niagara Falls, Ont., for planting in a Netherlands memorial garden in Queen Victori Park, overlooking the Canadian Horseshqe Falls. The shipment is one of Canada's largest single horticultural importations and 'was transported to Niagara Falls in four railway cars after a four-thousand-mile ship and train journey. racks, supports, and centre begms, and also the amount of mate required to make them. A copy of the Circular No. 53, entitled "Rec- ommended Method of Loading and Bracing Heaped Fruit Baskets in Ref Cars," may be obtain- rigerator "| ed by writing to Dominion Depart- ment of Agriculture, Ottawa, In most lower animal forms the female is larger than the male. MQTORS DELCO-HEAT AUTOMATIC HEATING EQUIPMENT OIL BURNERS -- COAL STOKERS ncome by the Convenient yment t FRIDAY NIGHT Is Appointed To Wheat Board J. G. Davidson, MBE, BSA, who for the past four years has been Feeds Administrator with the Do- minion Department of Agriculture in Ottawa has been appointed East- ern Feed Grain Representalive A headquarters in Toronto. 10 the Canadian Wheat Board, with Mr, Davidson's new appointment dates from May 1, he will continue for the next three months as Feeds Administrator in Ottawa. Mr, Davidson was born on a farm near Kemptville, Ont. Following his graduation from the Ontario Agricultural College, he joined the livestock branch of the Dominion Department of Agriculture, serving as promoter of egg and poultry pro- duction in Ontario and Prince Bd- ward Island. In 1945 he joined the Feed Division of the Maple Leaf » PAGE ELEVEN Milling Company, Lid, and later became manager of the Eastern Provinces 1943 succeeded F. W. 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