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■nwgBKSBSB Goose WOMAN FOURTH INSTALLMENT The likeness almost wrenched a cry from her lips. "She’s very beautiful, mother, very talented and very fine.” The boy’s eyes were fixed and shining; a breahtless, reverent quality had crept into his voice, and it was plain that when (he mentioned this girl his soul bowed in worship and his heart paid homage. "She is infinitely superior to me, of course. That’s what makes it so wonderful, so incomprehensible. I want you to— —well, to make yourself over into what you were so that she can meet you and know you.’ There was a moment of silence. Mrs. Holmes broke it by exclaim ing harshly, "Forget it!” Gerald had hurt her bitterly to night. He had tubed salt into her wounds She had fallen low; she hed become ugly and old and con temptible, had she? j Jnstead of sympathy he gave her a sort of supercilious pity and implied that she was unfit to meet his sweet heart until she regenerated herself. Instead of sharing her sorrow he went out and made his own life, made for himself a career such as he had robbed her of. The in justice of it. Well, this would be their hour of reckoning, the hour when she would compel him to take up and share the burden that had bowed her shoulders. Those alco holic demons in the back of her head were dancing dizzily and it gave her a prodigious, wicked satis faction to realize that she had the power now to humble his spirit as he had humbled hers. "Forget it, Jerry,” she repeated. "You can’t get a girl like that to ’‘"marjj^you.” "I can if we stop right here,| mother, and if you’ll let me help you—er, get back on your feet.” "She wouldn’t have you—not the kind of a girl you’ve been talking about.” Mrs. Holmes giggled malevoluently. "You see, my boy, j you haven’t any name to give her.”| but I’ll make one. I’ll make it: "Not much of a name, of course,! something to be proud of.” Mrs. Holmes rose, Walked to' the cupboard, opened its door, and' took out a thick drinking glass j and a square-faced bottle. Slowly j she poured the tumbler half full of i gin, then drank it, her eyes as they^ met those of her son were hostile,; there was malignity in her gaze. It ; was an act of deliberate, calculat-; ed defance, for never before had she taken liquor in his presence.; for never before had she taken1 liquor in his presence. Gerald looked on incredulously. "‘You don’t understand English,” she said, harshly, 'tf you're old enough to run around with wo men and think about getting mar ried, I guess you’re old enough to stand some plain talk. You give me enough, God knows. A little of your own medicine won’t hurt you. What I mean to say is this— your father and I were never mar ried.” Gerald gasped; his face whiten ed; a look of fright, of abject misery, crept over it. "I—should have known better than to talk to you when you|ve—wbfcn you’re not serious, mother!” '"Oh, yes I am! I mean ex actly what I say. You’re forever telling me unpleasant things about myself; now I’ll tell you some. I’ll have to go back and explain, so you’ll understand_Opera sin gers, in my time, were about what they are now, and the profession was about the same. A girl had to exercise every means at her disposal to get to the top. It was the price. Success in any art must be paid for; every great artist has to make some sort of sacrifice. I made mine, but the reward was worth it. It was worth any price. Art is so much bigger, so much more im portant than other things—every thing else is so small, so trivial, so false and so fleeting. I was young, I had sex appeal, and I had a voice. I used them all to get ahead. I had temperament, too. I lived every' role I played: I put vitality and, fire into them. When I was on the! stage they used to say I was a flam ing genius. Flaming!” Mrs. Holmes tramped about the room as she talked; beneath her feet the bare floor boards creak ed. "I’ve told you how my big suc | cess came abroad. You know all I that and how I was anticipating 1 the day when I could come home and achieve my supreme triumph, here in America. How I met your father—in Paris. It wasn’t his first affair, nor mine, but it was the first time I had ever been geniune ly, madly in love. I didn’t know I had it in me. I was a perfect fool. Most women are, by the way, at one time or another. He hadn’t a thing—money, I mean—so I gave him what I had earned and what had been given to me. I show ered him with gifts, spoiled him, turned his head. He took it all and we lived wildly, extravagant ly, drunk with each other’s love. That temperament again! "I suppose it had begun to pall on him even before we learned that you were coming, but he didn’t show it. When we discovered that I was going to have a baby I supposed we talked about mar riage—people usually do. Prob ably that helped to spoil things. Perfect love, perfect romance, was one thing; marriage, squalling chil dren, milk bottles, dirty dishes— that was another. He was an artist. You came between us even before you were born. "He couldn’t bear to see the change in me. My appearance got more and more on his nerves. He quit finally—went away. That' was a terrible shock to me; it was enough to kill most of the affection I might have felt for you. Oh, I know it sounds unnatural, in-! credible! That’s because you can’t | understand how some people are'. constituted. You’re full of story-j, book sentiment; this was real life, y Neither of us was domestic. Youjj won’t understand, either, when j I tell you that his desertion! wouldn’t have left any ser-'j ious results on me; they said - as a mattter of fact, that it - would make me even a great artist j —having suffered. But at least you j can understand how it turned me back to my work with a more pas sionate devotion than ever, since < it was all I had left, all that was real 1 and substantial and satisfying. My s voice had never been so splendid i as it was during that period. My £ friends told me that a miracle had i occurred and that I possessed the 1 most beautiful voice in the world. 1 They worshiped it. They, and I, 1 blessed you as the cause of it. 1 1 "Then you were born . . . Again j Mrs. Holmes turned her eyes upon her son, and now they were bril liant, feverish; her face was work ing. "You know what happened! For a while, the doctor encouraged me to believe that my voice would come back. That was to keep me from killing myself. But it didn t come back. It was gone, lost to the world! There were artists in the company who would have strangled | you, gladly, and hung for it, if it j would have brought back Mary j Holmes’s voice. That’s how much^ they thought of it. That s what a truly great voice means. "You wonder why I’ve never been a real mother to you. God! you’ve been a living reproach to me; every day of your life you have tortured me, stuck knives in me. As if that weren’t enough, you ve j grown into the very image of your ! Father—you’re like him, inside ! and out. I suppose this girl feels i towards'you the way I felt towards 1 him—so far as she’s capable. But I I’ll bet she won’t marry you. Not ! now she won’t.” For a second time j the speaker giggled. | Gerald flinched at the sound, but ihe did not raise his head. "It I seems to give you an unholy satis faction,” he said, wretchedly. "I j wonder why?” " 'Why’, Why not?” Mrs. Holmes allowed a hiccough to es cape her lips. "Turn about is fair4 play, isn’t it? Maybe you’ll shed 1 some of your fine airs, now. Maybe you’ll quit nagging me, quit this holier-than-thou’ business. Why shouldn’t you help me carry my oad? . . . Well, why don’t you answer? What have you got to say?” "Not much”—Gerald rose weari ly and took his hat—"except to curse the day you tasted liquor for the first time. If you were in your right senses you would never have told me this. You wouldn’t —couldn’t take such devilish joy in causing me pain. You would have carried this secret to your grave. I dare say you expect sym pathy, but what about me, the fel low who has always cherished an old fashioned reverence for mother hood and who believes in pure wo men and such things? You men tioned the hand of God, a while ago. The hand of God is on you, mother: it’s on both of us. I— I’m afraid it will destroy us both.” Without another word Gerald walked to the door, opened it, and stumbled out into the night. I-. The time was when Westland hadj t seen a first-class theatrical town|l ind most of the good road shows; i aad played it. But conditions had; f :hanged. Chicago was only a fewjS hours away, picture palaces had.t leen built, and now the old West t Theatre, the city’s leading play louse ran a stock company. It was b i good stock company, however; 0 \mos Ethridge, the owner of the f iroperty, had prided himself upon a jeing a patron of the drama and g he had seen to that; in conse- ]\ }uence a number of well-known j v trtists were usually featured upomti he West’s billing. This season the 0 nost popular, if not actually the L nost prominent, member of the S itheridge players was Hazel Woods, I> he youthful leading woman. Mr. \ rthridge had hired her out of a ic sTew York dramatic success and s Westland considered itself for-^t unate in having a real Broadway;a: avorite to worship. Stock engagements in small " sides like Westland are often , ^ >oth profitable and pleasant, for,^ alaries are good, the players form; ^ iew friendships, they enjoy an greeable social life, and receive ” lumerous co^irVesies and ad- ~ antages not infrequently denied 1 hem in larger cities. In Miss food’s case, for instance, Ethridge lad put a charming little house at o ler disposal, rent free, there be- s< ng no really first-class residential to tel in Westland; and there she b ■eveled in the unfamiliar joys of 1 housekeeping and entertained as v nuch as her arduous duties, very t sprightly young woman, she had quickly made herself popular. t s Through Amos Ethridge she had met Gerald Holmes. She and Gerald were about the same age, but in experience he was much ^ lounger than she, and this fact, per- j. haps, as much as his shyness, his j modesty, and his undeniable genius r had engendered in her a desire to "mother” him and to help him men an impulse to hover them, and Jerry was one. But not many ” emotional young women with f abundant personal charm cam : successfully maintain a maternal at titude towards an attractive and 1 magnetic young fellow, no matter 2 how humble and how reverent may 1 be his regard at the beginning. 1 There was only one possible out- 1 come to this affair. Gerald fell 1 head over heels in love and, having j nothing, he magnificently offered to share it all with her. Hazel had astonished him by accepting. c Eagerly, and yet with caution, she ^ became engaged to him; she promis- 1 ed to marry him—some time. : i Tonight as Gerald parked his : car near the stage entrance of the theatre a few minutes after eleven j he experienced his first genuine re- i gret at having permitted himself ( Mr, and Mrs. Green Now Have a Horse (...» »>.. NEW ORLEANS . . . Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Green, two daughters and a son of Jena, La., were too proud to go on relief. They had a patch of ground but no horse. During 1934 and 1935 they tilled the soil by “human horse” power, taking turns ir twos of pulling the plow in the cotton patch. This year the Rural Settlement Adminis tration heard . .. and supplied a horse. Photo shows Mr. Green, wife and one of the daughters with the horse . . . which neighbors say “is treated just like one of the family.” An Eagle Scout Points To World Peace The great game of Scouting’ oints the way to world peace ac ording to Eagle Scout Owen W. I fatthews, 3rd, an able Sea Scout nd Divisional Officer of Regional ea Scout Flagship "Columbia” and lember of Troop 83, Portland, Ore.] latthews is the winner of the Ed-j ie Cantor $5,000 scholarship prize ssay contest entitled "How Can imerica Stay Out of War.” One of 212,000 entries submit-] ;d, Matthews’ whole approach to is subject is based on his two .reeks experience camping in a : areign country with 30,000 Boy :outs from 46 different lands plus' ie friendships with foreign boys in le years that have followed. The fourth World Scout Jam-l aree which Matthews attended as] ie of the 402 Scouts and leaders' ■om thet United States was held ! Godolloy near Budapest, Htin ary. The four judges—Robert M. lutchins, President of the Uni srsity of Chicago; Frederick Ber-] and Robinson, President, Colege E the City of New York; Ray! yman Wilbur, President Leland ranford Universityy, and Henry j Eoble MacCracken, President of; assar College—based their decis-’ n on the quality of "the most con-; xuctive, sincere and interesting tter, regardless of fanrv writing] id technical knowledge. Mattehws, a Veteran Scout, has; Scout record reflecting his lea-; irship qualities. Successively he rved his troop as Patrol Leader, :nior Patrol Leader and then Jun r Assistant Scoutmaster and he! is bad extensive experience at amp Meriwether, the camp of the artland, Ore. Boy Scouts. Matthews’ wining essay follows: "My idea how America can stay at of war is based on my per inal experiences. "I am an Eagle Scout and have sen in Scouting for seven years, hrough Scouting and other worth hile youth movements is the way lis can be accomplished. "The spring of 1933 I heard of ie coming Fourth International j tout Jamboree to be held in God- j Uo, Hungary, and made my plans 3 attend. I went to the Jamboree nd there found my solution for uture world peace. While a mem er of this wonderful Jamboree I :arned what true brotherly love, leant. "In Europe wherever we met a, erson in the Scout Uniform we, new he was our loyal friend and] brother. Although unable to converse with some foreign Scouts, their actions always bespoke friend liness. "All boys at the Jamboree wanted to be friends and we made new ones every day. By actually living for two weeks with thirty thousand foreign Scouts we learned that they thought and acted just as we did, even though their color and creed might be different. We loved these brother Scouts as much as those in America. Throughout the Jamboree encampment covering many square miles was an attitude of friendliness and good will, no thought of enmity, everyone show ing their paramount thought of creating world peace for the future. "The real benefits from this Jamboree are being manifested as time goes on. ' I am corresponding with eight Scouts I met at the Jamboree who live in the following countries, Esthonia, Luxembourg, England, Austria, Paris, Syria,; South Africa and Australia. We exchange stamps, songs, literature; and various articles pertaining toj 3ur respective countries and thereby; continuing our worthwhile friend- i ship. After these contacts how could we ever want to go to war against each .other? "If the United States govern-, ment sent picked groups of youth' to these international gatherings, expenses paid, it would open the eyes of youth the world over as to the futility of war. Upon their return to America they should de liver lectures in schools and to older organizations telling the thoughts of youth in regard to war with other countries. If thought in youth the crime of war, as adults these boys will wholeheartedly dis favor war. Peace gatherings and encampments of youth from all countries will do more to further world peace than adult peace con ferences held in some castle or other building. "Stress the movement for in telligent voting at the polls, to see that the only people sent to Con gress are those who will do every thing humanly possible to always vote to keep us out of war. "If we teach our youth of to day the crime of taking human life, as in war, they will vote in the future to never leave their own shores to fight against other nations. "Thus America can stay out of war.” o fall in love. What his mother ad so brutally told him an hour efore left him dismayed, sick. All he way in from her farm he had sked himself whether he should ell Hazel and risk—nay invite her o break the engagement, or whether he should deceive her. His luty seemed plain, but the mere tossibility of losing her was un learable. He was in turmoil. Members of the cast and some •f the stage hands were leaving as le entered the stage door and spoke o Jacob Riggs, the doorman. He nd Jacob were great friends and he old fellow welcomed him with smile. "She’s dressing, but she’ll be out n a few minutes,” the latter an lounced. "Have a good time in Chicago?” Not exactly a good time, uet aid said, with an effort to speak naturally. "I was too much up set by the news of Mr. Ethridge’s death. It must have been a terrible shock to Miss Woods and to all of you.” "Yeah!” Jacob nodded. "It caused quite a stir all over town. "All Judah did Hezekiah honor at his death.’ ; D’you think they’ll ever find out who done it?” "I hope so. I can’t bear to think—you see, he did a great deal for me. He was a real fnend.” "He treated me all right, too, but—” Jacob shook his white head. "A lot of things about him we don’t know, Jerry. A lot in a mysterious way and the wicked is doomed to destruction.” CONTINUED NEXT ISSUE ^HEADLINES <V r NEW DEAL’S • NEW “BIG THREE”— O. to ft.) Dr. Luther H. :: Gulick of New York; Charles E. • Merriam of Chi cago: and Louis SBrowjilow of ■A Washington, D. SB C., have been M named by Presi dent Roosevelt to the special com m mittee which will ||| survey the muiti- 1 HI tudinous new deal ilia agencies to ascer “ tain which shall -1 be scrapped. ■BliiBBiKi wamnnanDHaoivm illllllllllllilliiiiiiBiii :? BRUSH ON YOUR EYE SHADOW with one of the new gold paint ed Kurlash eye-beauty brushes. Only in this manner can vou achieve the smooth even line that beautifies the eyes and eliminates that hard artificial, stagey appearance. Never, never “smear* on your eye shadow - with your finger. J L BERMUDA IS THE HOME of the loveliest lilies in the t world. Field after field of i these glorious flowers bloom throughout the season, and it is now lily time in Bermuda. TOWNSEND PLAN "BIGHT HAND MAN”, R. E. CLEMENTS—founder, secretary treasurer, and director, of the Townsend Old Age Pension Plan, tossed a bombshell into the pension ranks when he resigned all hl« offices. It is now predicted that within ten years we shall be traveling through the air at the rate of 5001 miles an hour. "Swing Your Partner” is a new movie. This is a concrete hint to bridge-playing wives whose hus bands trump their aces. A Neasho Falls, Wis., mail car rier delivers mail in a hearse. He is not supposed to carry dead (et- J ters. <31 Yearly evaporation is so much greater in the South than two rain drops in the Dakotas equal three in Texas. BENT FENDERS Straightened and refinished to look like nev BAUKNIGHT DUCO PAINTER 129 S. Church Phone 1416 E. Carr ChGate DENTIST Office Over Purcell Drug Store No. 2 Phone_141 Office in Mocksville is Closed Keep a Good Laxative always in your home Among the necessities of home is & good, reliable laxative. Don’t be without one I Do your best to pre vent constipation. Don’t neglect it when you feel any of its disagree able symptoms coming on. . . "We have used Thedford’s Black-Draught for 21 years and have found it a very useful medicine that every family ought to have in their home,” writes Mrs. Perry Hicks, of Belton, Texas. “I take Black-Draught for biliousness, constipation and other ills where a good laxative or purga tive is needed. I have always found Black-Draught gives good results.” Sold in 25-cent packages. BLACK-DRAUGHT - , STAR LAUNDRY "The Good One" Launderers and Dry Cleaner* Phone 24 114 West Bank St. ONE DAY SERVICE DR. N. C. LITTLE Optometrist Eyes examined and glasses fitted Telephone 1571-W. 1071/2 S. 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