Honey By ^ Copyright by Frances Shelley \V? CHAPTER IX?Continued ?19? Ami his tenderness toward her? Hi hand over hers, sitting there in th twilight? What was that, then? Deborah got up and went into he bedroom. She stood before her mirror and Jr'ted iter eyes to the girl in th. glass. The faded gingham dress, thj braided hair . . . she looked liki some forlorn little orphan youngste who needed someone to love her. I?ryi was kind, lie was sorry for her. Tin feeling he had for her was . . . pity She pressed her lips together firmly to stop their trembling. She went int< her bathroom and bathed her eyes ii cold water. Aral, just at that moment, she heart the sound of Joe's horn, far down tin mountain. Three long blasts and tw< short ones ... a pause . . . threi long notes and two short ones. Deb orah's heart sprang up Into her throat She tore open her door and race* down the stairs to Grandmother am Madeline, out on the veranda. At the foot of the stairs she caught the sounc of Madeline's voice, going steadily or with "Shadows on the Rock." Peboral stopped at the sound of that caln voice, and hop?.!f Thon tip, she walked out serenely and smile, at Grandmother. She dropped dowr on the step, and sat there, waiting. A low humming sound made itsel1 felt on the air. It rose to a whine . . the shining top of a motor car ap peared sliding along outside the wall It slowed abruptly, and swung In to ward the gates. Gary started dowr the drive. "It looks as H we had guests.' Grandmother said, interrupting Made line. "I wonder who it can he?" "It's probably another plumber,' Madeline said languidly. Gary had reached the gates. II* opened them, and passed through. Hill then, after a moment's colloquy witl the driver of the car, whom Dcboral could not see, he came back to tlu gates again, and swung them wide and the long blue car jolted a litth ami came on through. Deborah put * slow hand to her throat. Hut it was not Stuart Graham driving; it was a woman ... a girl . . . In a bright red silk beret, and a ret jacket. Gary plodded along behfnthe ear. after he had shut the gate? and locked them. The car came slowlj up the drive, and stopped opposite tlu end of tlie veranda. The girl got out Her Eyes Were Black and Sleepy, Like a Cat's. and Deborah knew her. She was ta! and very slim, with a long oval fac and a very red mouth. Her eyes wer black, and sleepy, like a cat's, with slo\ black lashes drooping over thein. Del orah rose, and found Madeline at he Side. They went down the steps. "It's Pilar," Madeline said under he breath, and Deborah nodded. "Ah, Madeline!" Pilar said, in voice that made a tune. She move forward, and let her hand rest lightl on Madeline's elbow, holding her, a she looked down at Deborah. "An this," she went on caressingly, "tbi will be little Deborah. My child, yo are adorable." "Thank you," Deborah said sweetl; and put out her hand In welcome. ' am so glad you have come. I am sui you must be Pilar. 1 have heard t much about you." Pilar looked a little starred, bi she lost not a whit of her poise. St looked at Madeline. "And aren't yc glau to see me, too, Madeline?" "Oh, rather," Madeline said cool!, k The Cherokee Sc moon M ? Frances Shelley ^ i?es and turned back toward the verandi "We must take you to Grandinotli er." Deborah explained, as Pilar's eye ] lifted to the delicate old face turuei toward her. "Lovely," Pilar said. In an audibl r whisper. "Oil, lovely." "Grandmother." Deborah murmured "this is Miss D'Avillo. She is anothe '* friend of Sally's and Madeline's." "I'm so happy to welcome you. m; r dear," Grandmother said warmly. "W< 1 are having such a pleasant time an< I am very glad you have come to joh us." "Oh, thank you." Pilar murmured ' and held Grandmother's hand quite un i necessarily long. She straightened. Simon and Tubby and Bryn, all si 1 lent, came around the end of the ver anda. Bryn's face, as he glanced a > Deborah, was very queer and stiff Tubby was white. Simon looked de tnched. as usual, but his eyes went a once to Pilar. And she stood there I for a moment, beside Grandmother, be i side Deborah. She put her hand light !y on Deborah's shoulder, before sh< I moved, and Bryn looked at them to i gether. so, Pilar beautiful and soplds i ticated and perfect down to the las i gleaming finger-nail shining In the sun i Deborah small and insignificant in hei 1 faded gingham. i Pilar smiled. She went forward am held out both hands. "My dear Bryn,' r she said affectionately. "But how wel you look, and how happy! Allow nn to congratulate you; ! think she 1: the loveliest thing I have ever seen." Grandmother looked up swiftly a i Deborah; and Deborah, calm now, wit! something cold and frozen where liei heart had begun some short time ag' - to ache, smiled gently and contentedly back. * ? * The rain, which had threatened fm twenty-four hours, came at last 01 f Tuesday night. Dehorah lay awakt and listened to the soft steady fall 01 i the balcony floor outside her bedroon window. She found herself wishlnt : ardently tnat It might rain hard an. % long, so that the road might be tin i passable to Smart lira ham, so tlia nothing further should break in upoi the peace and loveliness of the sum nier days. 1 tut that was a useless 1 wish, she knew. Tiie peace and love 1 liness were already gone. 5 Pilar was very beautiful, but tin most troubling tiling about her was th< so obvious fact that she belonged t< j Kryn's world. Ids real world, that sh< was part of his own life and always had been, and not just a chance passer by whose path had happened to mee his and for a time followed along closi beside it. Madeline and Sally and SI mon and Tubby were out of Rryn's life too, but somehow before Pilar came Deborah hadn't realized what a dif ferent life it was from her own, hov far away and impossible. Pilar wa very kind, and she did her best to drav Deborah into the conversations, and al ways stopped carefully to explain anj | imug Liiut ane uiuuKiu wouiu ne mi Scientist Estimates Tv 70,000,000 Tim The celestial champion for weigh and heat has been discovered by a foi mer pupil of Professor Einstein, th Harvard College observatory recentl revealed, notes a Cambridge (Mass. United Press correspondent. The champ is twins?a twln-stai And no fledgling either. Its discoverei Dr. Sergei I. Gaposchkin, estimate that it is 70,000,000 times heavier tha the earth. II The earth, scientists estimate, weigh e more than six sextillion tons. Th e champ's weight is something like foi v ty-t\vo octillion tons, or forty-two Wit. ?- no less than twenty-eight zeros trail r ing. As for brilliance, it puts the sun i ir the shade, being 10,000 times brightei Doctor Gaposchkln estimates that th a heat on the surface of the star is 65 d 000 degrees Fahrenheit and seven y million degrees at the interior. 18 The scientific name of the star I (' "20 Canis Majorjs." which means tha '8 it is the twenty-ninth in the constelh u tlon of the Great Dog. Old "29" makes its existence no si fj cret despite the fact that it is 20.0C light years away, or some 119 quadri lioi. miles. 10 Its existence has ticea known t astronomers tor 2.000 years and It I easily visible to the eye In the soutl iu ern sky nnder Slrlus. The fact that It held the henvywelgt y title of the universe never was knowi out, Murphy, N. C., Thurs ountain ] iVees WNU Service c i familiar or strange to Deborah, in a [ i- way that Sally and Madeline never ^ s had thought of doing. But IMIar'g very g J kindness and thought fulness seemed to emphasize Deborah's unfnmlliarity e with the world, Bryn's world, and its customs. I. All the time she had felt lost and r forlorn and alone, because this was Bryn's world and Bryn's life, a modi ern sophisticated pageant in which she i? had no part; and because it made her 1 see how drab and dull and uninteresti ing her own life of cucumber frames and brook trout and made-over clothes , must be to him. And all his talk about knitting, ffnd | winter evenings by the hearth, and the kittens he would get for her ... all j - his interest in that simple sort of thing ! ? t was pretended for her sake. Bryn was ; ; a gentleman, and he lived up to his f bargains to the last pencil stroke. Not ^ t by word or suggestion would lie let her t . discover bow bored and dull he was ^ going to And the rest of his year here ? on the mountain, nor with what di3i- ! } ? culty he was going to earn the money c - she would pay him. Deborah slept very little that night. c r Life, that only yesterday had seemed s so beautiful and serene, was hecom- 1 r Ing complicated and unhappy. There i didn't seem to be anything ahead but ( 1 more difficulties and a lonely unhappy f time. Because Bryn would go back ( 1 to Pilar when the year was up, ai^l $ * when he did, there wouldn't he any- j ? s body at all. Nobody could ever be like < Bryn, even if he were only pretending, c t But there would have to be a way to c i make him stop pretending, Dehorah i t knew, because If he went on like this, c 1 even though the look in his eyes was 1 r only the tenderness one feels for a \ child, or a lost puppy, she wasn't going to he able to bear it when at the < r end of the year he drove out of the ( i big gates to leave her forever. t The morning was cold and grey, nl- s i though the rain bad stopped at dawn. ^ i Deborah bad them lay a fire in the < ' small sitting room downstairs, so thftt c 1 Grandmother might not feel a chill. j There, when breakfast was over. Pilar i and Madeline and Sally and Grand- 1 i mother and herself were sitting. The ? three men were outside. * 5 Pilar, in a beautiful dress of some ^ very fine woollen material in a dark j crimson color, sat beside the doorway . i with her foot out on a low stool and i i a long cigarette holder between her > fingers. She could ?ee up into the j e orchard, too, and Deborah noticed that \ s her eyes went to Bryn frequently, al- j though she gave no sign. Grandmother t was in a low chair beside the fire, lis- j . ? toning to Pilar with the same fasci- ! j nated interest she had shown last j i >. night, watching her, taking In every | , perfect detail of her grooming. j "I hope you don't mind my coming v here uninvited like this, Mrs. Larned." s she was saying in her low voice. "I v found myself completely deserted and j !- lonely and I couldn't stand it any ' - longer." I- I (I<I lit: CONTINUED) j /in-Star Weighs , les More Than the Earth ] 1 t however, until Doctor Gaposchkin dis- 1 - covered it a short time ago. Paradox!- i e cally, its discovery was made through i y one of the smallest photographic tele- t ) scopes used by scientists?one equipped 1 with a half-inch lens. ] 1 Romans Used "X" Chairs 3 The simple construction of n chairs is of great antiquity and their use was known in Europe at a very early date. They somewhat resemble * an X if you give your imagination free ] e rein and gracefully curve this letter of the alphabet and place it on its k side. It is reputed that Henry VIII introduced this type of chair Into his j Palace of Nonesuch when he brought n over continental craftsmen. Some of r. these chairs were essentially Italian in e design, but were undoubtedly made in England, possibly under the direction il of Italian craftsmen. A large variety of "X" chairs belong to the Tudor pels riod though they show evidence of ' lt strong foreign influence. 1 Red Feathers on Macaw's Head ^ Scarlet red feathers cover the top of ~ the macaw's head. On the breast are many shades of blue, and here and there are tiny grc n feathers, giving a soft mottled effect. The long wing and ? tall feathers are r bright blue. Very 18 much of a Beau Brummell, he spends hours grooming them. Taking each long feather carefully In his hooked it beak, he runs It over them until the/ i, lie smooth and shiny. day, October 29, 1936 HO&XO^RE Ifoiiysm / DR. JAMES W. BARTON Ttllc, About ^ Underweight Children. IN AN examination of a numbc * of children in the public 01 gran nar schools it was found that tb lumber of underweights was ri iuced by supplying milk at tl school at least once a day. In th ligh schools where no milk was su] ilied the gain in weight ior heigt ind age was not so satisfactory. While this habit of supplying e: trn milk for scho< children is exceller there is often phys jj 1 cal defects and ba b health habits tin BMba are undermining tb ""y / | youngsters' healtl ft j and these must b I corrected l perm; jU^" M nent results are I be obtained, youngster that play ?,v>. all the time and ; Dr. Barton j?? Urad '? ?at an digest his food prop srly may be keeping his weight lo ust as can a youngster who doesn ;et outdoors at all, and has no appi ite for his food. Infected teeth < onsils, a nose that is blocked ar preventing proper breathing, roun ihoulders, and other physical di ects all prevent proper growth an levelopment. Dr. W. R. P. Emerson ir "A. :hives of Pediatrics" says: "The e lontials for good nutrition and no rial physical and mental develo] nent are: (1) freedom from phys :al defects, (2) adequate fcad, (! ree air, (4) sufficient exercise, ar 5) proper rest. From a survey < i large number of children of pr school (three to six years) ar school ages it was found that eac :hild had an average of 4Vi phys sal defects and 6 faulty eating hal ts. Of a group of 1.000 childre inly 2 per cent (20 in the who [,000) were found to be free froi ihysical defects. "The most frequent defects ai ibstruction of the nose, bad teetl liseases of various organs, and po ural conditions (round shoulder sway back, spinal curvature), whft vere either the result or partly tl sauses of the underweight and ui lerdevelopme^t." * The Family Physician. There was a time when the "ou standing" doctor of a communil vas supposed to be very silent, vei ;ruff. having no patience with tt patient who wanted to tell him a about his sickn ,ss. It was felt th: ic knew so much that just a giant at his patient anu the taking i pulse and temperature was all th; re needed to know what was wroni Fortunately the real family phys :ian was not of this type, but a re ill-round friend of the family wl tad all the affairs of the family < lis mind. And then came the "hospital type of physician who took sampli if blood, urine, sputum, used tl X-ray and other types of examin tion possible in the hospital, ar after waiting the hours and da; lecessary for'these examinations je completed, told the patient ar the patient's family exactly wh. was wrong. Now it is only good sense for tl ioctor to get all the help possib from the hospital's laboratories, b cause this will be of help to tl patient; but the up-to-date docto Che successful physician now ret izes more than ever before th; more than a knowledge of mec cine, more than the findings fro: the laboratory are necessary if tl not iont te fn not fKn Knot ruvsnlk (.UMVX. .-> V" gvv utv ucov pvsoiu treatment. Humanism Is Needed. Dr. Oscar KJotz in addressing tl roronto Academy ol Medicii states: "In the practice ot mec cine the physician is called upon use his every effort and equipmei to learn the cause of the ailment ar its treatment. He is often calh upon to strain the last resourci known to science to attain a sati factory result. But over and a bo' all these scientific endeavors, aid< by all the available skill, there need of a very commonplace a tribute of man best spoken of i humanism?love and understandii Df your fellow man. There is ne( of a sympathetic understandii which serves to support the couraj of the patient, an appreciation the mental and spiiitual reactioi oi the sick, often determined I their surroundings, and made wor: by the poverty and distress of oth members of the .a nily. The ft understanding of 'humanism' medicine is acquired through var ing circumstances of life and is t tained in greatest measure by tl family or general physician, rath than by the specialist." ?? WNU ServiM. ' |Ithe cimmlSfl ' Tke otker people, stvy indoors e.t night H? And sit in le i-tKer tWtrj jlS tround the. light. Kt But 1 ?o out tnd spretd { T my win^s fc.nd fly I I |e And spend the. -p evening with w> ) I !e tKe st^rs V |v > ^r\d sky (\\ f _rsMI WNU Sertirr. fe 11 i i- | Jj Wealthy University '' ie The University of Texas owns 1 over two million acres o. land and p ie the discovery of oil on the land , has resulted in the receipt to Aug- V 0 ust 31, 1935, of over <21,500,000 | ^ from oil and gas royalties ? 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