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A-* ' . • - .• , ' * • ursday, December 8,19211 PLAINDEAUOt Page Frre iVisiting Day . V . % l O E S M I T H E H S : Jr. Wrtn»-Wiro s«r*to*.' ^-ST as if," sputtered red- _ haired Eileen Donnelley, first- . year student nurse at E. C. H., ^we girls didn't have work enough to do without getting a whole flock ...Of rubbernecks around to a$k sillv ^Jfuestiohs arid make idiotic remarks." Ouch, my feet ache!" and lovely Rusty subsided into a chair in the • diet kitchen and rubbed tired hands •cross her eyes as thbugh to wipe itway the purple shadows of overwork that lingered there, "Well. I'll say this is no rest-cure, keeping . this health factory going according '.-to Ryder! But it's worth it, and, > you know, Rusty, darling, if any of Hs were acting 'supe,' we'd do just .-<M Ryder does, only more so!" com- " forted Sylvia Cranston as sh6 Weighed and measured the difficult vfeaby formula..- . ; ' « t "Oh, I suppose so," grumbled ^Eileen, dejectedly, "but it seems vlfke an awful waste of energy; SHORT SHORT STORY | Complete in Thrs fssue *' Grandmother/ - / By ANNE CAMPBELL t ; . !*r4the wintertime of life has brought . Her glints of summer sky. ». ".Ilrhen she was young, she never thought The sun would climb so high! , ;iut vanished youth shines out again i * In eyes, her own in hue, • 1 v And every dream she dreamed in vajit < , V In them is coming true. . i\:-» ft "J J She revels in her motherhood ' ^ And did long, long ago. ""fiut now her tinppy plans" include Robin and Sharon Zoe, tfiwo little girls, whose birthdays come \ With Spring's first blossoming, H^fore the bees begin to hum, . . jAnd nesting brown birds sing. : t They are two flowers that dance The snow of age, and crown ":-A life that cherishes the dawn. As dark night settles* down. •;.: VThere is no sting in growing old • • y <[. When such glad musings stir,; ' •*. \And on the sky God writes in golft % dear name "Grandmotheli^ Copyright.--WNU Service. -- ; RINGWOOD Mrs. Nick Young entertained the Bunco Club at her home Thursday afternoon. Prizes wef£x$warded to-Mrs. Viola Low and Mrs. R&y Merchant. , Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Carlson and •children visited relatives at Wauketained the five hundred club at their home Thursday evening. Prizes were awarded to Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Hitch* ens and Mr. and Mrs. George Young. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Heine and son, Eugene, of Chicago spent Sunday afternoon and evening in the George Shepard home. Ralph Smith of Harvard spent Sunday afternooh in the S. "W. Smith homo. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Schmidt of parents, Mr. and Mrs. Shultz at Richmond. . Mr. and Mrs. Lester Carr called on friends inr Richmond Saturday afternoon. , .Mrs. S. W. Brown visited friends at Woodstock Wednesday afternoon. ^ John Smith spent from Monday until Wednesday in the Lyle Hopper home in Chicago and attended the International Stock Show. \Y iedrich . and - visit- Smith of Waukegan, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Morgan of Libertyville, Mrs. Charles Vogel and daughters of Elk-, horn, George Vogel and Miss Browta of Dodgeville, Wis. Clarence Harrison attended the International Stock Show in Chicago M Saturday. v Frank1 Harrison attended the Inter* national Stock Show in Chicago Tuesgan Thursday. ^ day. W1I-. BI1U owpnen ocnmiat 01 ^ "«««• « • , n i Mrs. Fred Wiedrich, Jr., and daugh-McHenry spent Sunday in the George M-w*- Fred Wiedrich and, daughter, on friends * in WW f ;ters and Mrs. Frankie Stephens** Young home. , Mae, and Charles and Joe Carr vfsif^Ste^ooS^ ^ Woodstock . Friday [spent Wednesday at Harvard. | Mis. Ben Walkington, Mrs. Joe Mc- ed the former's brother at Crystal! Mr -ink \f>« xv a- u * T* Mrs. J. F:"McLaughiin arid daugB-r^an,10n "aT,ds&TT, Loten, and Mrs. CT| ^^^^aTufday aTternwn. *' ,r [-IV ter, Julia, Mrs. Louis Hawley, Mrs. J-JePSOn attended the McHenry Coun- _ Mrs. S.W. Smith and daughter, Ber-!attended the funeral o^Mr Ralph Simpson and Mrs. H. M. Steph-1 ty Church Institute at the M. E.nice, and Lucy Howden spent Satur-iat Harvard ;enson.'Were shoppers at Milwaukee onlc^urc^ in Woodstock Sunday. |day in the Lyle Hopper home in Chi- I Wednesday. The Sewing Circle will meet with ca&o and attended the International Mrs. Emma Merchant attended the Mrs. Ralph Simpson Friday, Dec. 9. Sfbck Show in' the evening. |funeral of Emory Carr in Chicago on {Everyone is welcome. A pot-luck din- Miss Mercedes Lintlemann of Crysi no>« will Virt nniMtA/] " 11 Miss Catherine Coyne spent the past week with her sister in Chicago. Miss Alice Peet of Barrington spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peet. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Marlowe and s<m of Huntley and Mrs. Etta Wattles New Automatic Anti-Aircraft Gun •eems as ""tTTough a gick person Would be a lot safer if his nurse didn't have to work to the point pf dropping. One of us will have night tluty. If it's poor me I'll do a nice King Tnt;^ct in some quiet corner!" "Rusty's peeved because we have ct visiting day, and I'm not sure I blame her!" explained Sylvia. : The smartly coiffed and charmingly gray head of Miss Ryder appeared in the doorway. , ; "Miss Donnelley, theref's a glass of water in seven and it's not covered and there are quite a few specks of dust on it, too; I snould nevgr forgive myself if any of our ^ visitors should see such a disgusting example of laxness!" and Miss t ftyder departed. ,;";*^tileen smiled grimly as she started f©r the stairs and went-noiseless-. to No. 7, her trained ears catching and identifying the sounds below' as *hat of the arrival of the first coterie of visitors. . "I'll bet I look like a hot sketch with my hair flying in- every direc-^ tion and my stockings so damp from* perspiration that they cling in wrinkled bunches all the way up. and if this uniform is Miss Ryder's idea of a soothing landscape for a dying man, deliver me from her jurisdic-' tion soon." Voices, high and shrill, low and guttural, soft and eager, voices asking questions and making comments , «md delivering cheery messages to te tacitly silent patients of E. C. . floor-ward (street level), Soft ';v;;ijrafts of costly perfume; soft rustle Of exquisite silks; soft gleam from exquisite jewelry and the white perfection of hands that toil not, carry- : ing costly gloves and purses from #aris. Ironic comparison of such . Msitors with the hard-working, hardecrubbing, tired and dejected squad 4*f nurses at E. C. H. Small wonder that Eileen paused a long moment, hands clenching the railing to the ..'flairs; paused to gather her self- ---Control and summon her sense of bum or, above all, her fine loyalty find enthusiasm for the nursing profession, before she went in to retfieve the offending specked glass. ; And as she made that brief pause fnd tried to regain her lost cheeripess Rusty realized that her feet ached with a stinging throb and her - "back was so tired that she hated even fhe thought of%iat long walk back up three long flights of stairs Wednesday. • 'will be served at noon. tal Lake called on her grandparents, I Mrs. Edward Thompson of McHenry Miss Alice Mae' Low of Waukegan Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Smith Wednesday spent Thursday with Mrs. Wm. M<> sP°nt Sunday afternoon and evening ev^ning^ Cannon. , at her home here. . ' . Rov.^fh Mrs. Harry .Collins were 1Z Mr. and Mrs. kichard Gault And Mr. and Mrs. George Young and callers in the Wm. Walkingtori home dav dinner guests of M^nd^Mrs C. [family of Woodstock spent Sunday ®°n- Alfred, spent Sunday evening in on Sunday afternoon. ;l* Harrison nnrl fnmilv . with'the latter's parents, Mr..and Mrs. the James Bell home at Lake Villa. ! Mrs. Milford Smith and Billy .and \Tr« Pr»ni 'Fred Gibbs. / . .. r Mr. and M». S. H. Beatt>--and Will ^. H.mson | Mr. and Mrs, E.-L; Snyder and ffciri- Beatty spent Sunday afternoon in the Sunday afterftoon with her parents, With her math™ Fi*rf' Wiedrieh lily hive moved from the Ladd farm -Wnr;- Hendrickson home at' Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Harrison. jr * •' ,* • to the Cooper farm near Keystone. Mr. ami Mrs. Roy Neal and family -Anion? those from here to attend. ' - ' - " ' t. ' • v Mr. aftji^rs. Harold Gelow.have mov- Visited relatives at North, Chicago on the Installatibh of the Eastern Star from tnlP- Flanders flat to a house - Sunday^'. -. ; . McHenry Monday evening were- Mr, they recently purchased at Lily Lake. The- Home Circl<? will m^et ^yith Mrs. C. L. Hafrison, Mr. arid Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Frtnind Have moved Mrs, D^L, Hall Wednesdayj Dec. 14. M- Stephenson, Mrs. Rilla Fqss, fforrt Johnsburg to the Fay flat, r and -Mrs. Fred. Wiedrich spent Hrs. Lo|)is Hawley and daughters,; S. W. Smith spent - Thursdayv^Btl. Stfnrfay Har^" Shirley and Marion, Mrs. Ro|g, Harris I'riday in' Chicago and attended the old, andffamily> . . • .son an.d'Mrs. Harry Collins, .i {irtocjc- show, ^ | . Mr., and Mrs. Roy Wi^dirichsind son' Sunday guests of [Mr. and Mrs'. Fred , Mr. and Mrs.^1 B; T. . Butifer enter- ' were Sunday dinner guests of the lat- Wiedrich, Jr., were Mr. and Mrs. John BRING A FRIEND Oil Permanents. 2 persons for ....$5 up to fl 16, singly S3 to S12 complete Non-Ammonia Waves S2 50 C'tnpTte STOMPANATO'S Beauty and Reducing Salon Phone fill Woodstock, 111. -• . . *4 , x H . - 4-: A new, highly effective anti-aircvaft gun which has recently been removed from an experimental status and standardized for issue to troo')•*. In the ground defense against aircraft the gunnery in the higher altitm'.v s has proven more satisfactory than that designed to defendf against ire high speed, low-flying attack plaoes. This gun supplies the lack of an automatic weapon capable of goinir into action instantly and of delivering a heavy volume of lire with an explosive bullet. The new weapon is <>! 37mm. caliber, automatic type, mounted on an all-around fire, four-wlu i trailer which may be towed hy a'li&'ht truck at maximum speed. The i;vii has a wheel base of 120 inches, v. ith a 58-inch tc«ad and weighs about 5,000 pounds. Sculpture for San Francisco Fair to the next to the top floor ward. And fll this weariness and discomfort - ;;#as because of a few rich people #ho pretended to be interested in their city's hospital! With set lips Eileen turned and ' ft a r ted to enter No. 7, and stopped, • Hooted to the spot. A man was Igtanding by the perfectly made Vacant bed and he was just in the act of reaching out for the offending -----gfesa of waterJ Horrified, Eileen rushed forWard^ and snatched the jlass of watCTf saying: "You Biustn't ever drink anything you see On the tables, it might be deadly |k>ison! Don't you know better?" . ind her voice was crossly maternal; Is one would speak to a small boy. , Smoke-gray eyes gleamed down Ht hei4 from a six-foot height and the 1 , foftest, southernmost drawly voice .-jjhe had ever heard in all her worlrfidden life, thrilled the little red- , beaded nurse as he said: "My it's 2 bice to be scolded by such a pretty girl as you! Go on, say some more, .Vfrte'ase! I almost think you meant and Rusty was uncomfortably rr,:n|kispicious that he was laughing at ,'t>er. "But really, the water isn't , flean, and it might have been a Jgargle that was deadly poison! • I'll S-- et you a fresh drink," and she was irious with herself for blushing so botly. 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