CHAPTER XI
('lamp Fields, managing editor
of the Westhaven (Tarton. fires
Tony Blake but Barbara \\ est.
his secretary, intercedes. Tpny
saves himself by scoring a news
beat and gets a raise in pay. Tak
ing Barbara to dinner and a
dance Tony proposes and is ac
cepted. They get married and at e
very happy for a time, and build
gieat hopes on a play Tony is
writing. When the producer a
gtves to produce the play if tub
sequent acts live up to Act 1, 'Bo
ny quits his job. Barbara—now an
expectnant mother—gets out ot
patience with hint for gadding a
lioi.t instead of working on his
play. She is forced to support
him. When the theatrical pro
ducer decides not to produce To
ny's play he begins to realize
his folly. The two make up. Tony
hustles around looking foi a .job
and eventually lands one, at a
very small salary. They move to
the small town of liwigbf. ami af
ter awhile Anthony dr., is horn.
They nickname (uni ' Sweeter.
Skrefer contracts .scarlet fever
and- Barbara and Tony arc great
ly alarmed-.
The doctor looKi d grave. He
staved quite a while. "Wnat is it .
Doctor? Pneumon i;t ?"■: asked 'I'u
nv. his voice flat. The doe.'or no.!
ded. ••We'd he! t nr gv :i n m-a
ha.In I we?" Tony asked.
"It w ill take eX|Hwt i.’ir
to 11 id) .HI! of Sd'.l
doctor, Tony got ins hat a.nd went
to try to run the motley for a
muse, for two nurses it nones
sary.
Tony name hank welt a nan;:
lee loo!..ilia women Who monied to
I-now her business. The doctor
under sunh circumstances. Tony
said grimly that specialist could
be arranged for The two doctor
dcnided it would he necessary to
"ife don't want to -paie ex
petise. Doctor.” Tony >a.’d. "(let
another ruu e h\ all a.nans.
"1 got an advance from the
Iioss." Tony etpiu lived1 to P-arhara
Ill’ll let me have- .whatever :!
tal es, (df course well he nr ’.!
y; ged to hint for the res; of nr
natural lives, hut that’s all light
Evert with nurses there wa-. a
great dcd for Barbara to (to. She
was gr; mil : it. Ton;, waik
eci the :ioor. • kept going
tl.e (loot of tl . -n\ room, hut the,
would ni.t let him iti. They were
using an i xygeii uitt. Shooter
hoi.i se, breath;! o' lorn Barbaia
to pieces.
The hai.y was bo. better
tlie t« v mol ing. Hath tiin uurs
vried when he
thought si'* had
f hint- so i ad
"lie’s gut a n! .
"1 should, thm
Once m
Sl-.id ter mended
tun! of the w«
to}* ll «a: '
belt He wa;
He had heel
walk io .whey k
Ti ; v'- ms pia\
(T. 111 tile ioadu
t lloria ha : ra,,
.! hate!'
rhe i
p. ant .
share the '.me! e!" o ;>
the hoard . at least so' far
'nv was concerned.
' Hai harn w-n Hi kgi red
T( n.V got ' t'tie ’( l.t s.-.- iim
Pint. 1 I . i • Tot ; .■• .1 -(■; let
Iv to iug hin elf lo held-', e ;t wa
t’l ne. • • i 1 (•’ r! .. .1 hr mind i h
exclaimed ‘Tie waai- i, i.■:t.t fla
h anybody
1 far as l’o
V "l!
tliusiashir JetVy:
to conie into the
of a half hoi ha .
vaiice and the pin
rehearsal t'-e i |r
tctvdier. “I.av.
Inc rovaltie
sibh i'.efo-,
i an e lioiio
to vo. There
i ■ -li -did la i ait
I'll d> aw
I 1, ' ol.e: a. i* pus
: Tony when lie
“We e in : i! o'., ill the si a- Imre
fill duly .lid \ ug II * !" exvla : * I ■ 1
[!ai ham. " if e.ioirse >*(.;.• 11 t'e
>l*_■ |. your [nr i tit 'he factory.'
Tony -hook In- head, his face
si 1 e red “/ope," lie -aid. “I
won't. I've I::1'f m\ ies■■ n. fhere
is no guarantee t!n- play will he
a hit, I’m ha-on to the .ioh
till I l ie vv I 't an a! 1 or i to ■■i ,;
So Bat'htir;i • ai d SheeteI went
to the sea: : ne alone. Tony hoard
t( with <i Jamily whose charges
v eie very reasonable. lie took
tile inis every NaMtlday afternoon
and spent , he Weekend with Bar
bara and the iaby. All three of
tiiem grew In'own. Their appet it -
h were marvelous, they slept like
tops.
'lony did not take his vacation
until rehearsals on the play start
ed He still steadfastly refused to
give up his job until he knew
that the play justified it.
“Nobody in the company likes
Gloria,” said Tony, “but you have
to band it to her. She can act, ana
if the play goes over she will do
From the beginning, “Angel
Unaware” was a hit. After the
thiui night they had to hang out
the S.R.Q. sign. The** litefally
eras standing room only*. Every
body who met Tony was charmed I
with him. By the time the play
was two months old, the movie
rights had been sold for what
seemed a fortune to Barbara, and
Tony was being besieged with in- J
•tations to this literary tea and
'Init dinner party in New fork.
“We’ll have to move to town,”
; e told Barbara. They went to an
ipartment hotel in New York un
til they could find the sort of
place they wanted, ft would have
to be large enough to entertain,
Tony said. j
Barbara was never quite at
ease in the circle which reached
out greedily for Tony that win
i-r. Barbara was fundamentally
a wife and mother. She went ev
s ryvvhere with Tony, because he
'vfused to go without her, but she
war never actively part of the
I he house which Tony bought
i.invii on Long Island was not
unwisely what he would have
. i.ost'n’ had money been no ob
ject. He compromised on a pleas
iiit, white brick colonial nouse in
i small village of moderately prie
s' homes, each with well-kept
.awns and large landscaped back
irds within a few blocks o.t the
Sound.
Barbara
Ttl. clubs. 1
ent. T my
'in the very be
subuf bail" life,
bridge and car
Barbara a small
Barbara loved driving her own
•at. They joined the Country
dub. It was more a family affair
Than anything, but Barbara liked
lie in formality. She enjoyed sit
ing on the veranda,with the other
women. knitting and talking,
while Skeeter and the rest of the
children played around on the
awn under the big elm trees and
Tony and the various husbands
•i dul'ged in a leisurely ganie ot
i olf
"I'm "list hopelessly middle
class." Barbara told Tony once.
"I like all the lowbrow things.
if’ii as having supper in the k it -
when ortho maid's night out. and
calk is: to the ne ighbors over the
'.agk fence, and wearing comfor
table clothes whether they're the
"Me too." said Tony with a
To y was working on a new
play. . He shut himself up in his
- . ■. id • morning at eight and
at not eniei go until .time for
. atrelv••.■it at one. but botn before
aftcrw.’vM lie had time to
Urp Skeeter. The other fa- ’
: lie' s were away all day at blisi
-- i]x -I'lc on Saturdays and
T
lib!"-’ in the he igl.borhobd
c and taught diem to
and live, and showed them
O make -"b'tiera out of ill at
They adored him.
re was al adut -iy no flaw
r! a.nk 1 ••ipr-rvess. She had
s. her ou u k mi of people,
a ‘.retting s'own and well
lump, skee-ier was growing
' a I comnei < ami Tony's
dav \\a ■ coming along with
U ;. hitch.
Barbara had even arrived at a
'inpiofei.-e with her conscience
■a! Tory'- : ceil for a livelier
a! life'. She urged him to go
to town at least one night a
ii k to tlie kiiid of brilliant party
which ho win such a success
in which he enjoyed. At first
e d ui'" • cd violently at going
without her.
lint you must go," she declar
'd "It. ist:' fair to your career
not to. Certain things are ex
ectc of ■ , a. i couldn't hear, To
ut ;« t'ce! that 1 was holding you
.'Minuim'ii 'in* uni not realize it,
Barbara was unirm;' a shade
unplacent. She v. as also slightly
liLil not. get in
terning dresses
tit
•lie lu
ight. She
rxpeiKiv
ill led it.'
She .lid
o look i
-Don't
‘tev aIVo
l.Minded
fall
hair herself and
sun because it
: 1 1 o to go to a
>arlor in the hot weather.
;d her
it T
ny 'then
tta.li
not bother with much
Her friends did not try
ke fashion plates.
er feel a little mi
v. practically sur
e- every time he
.sked liertha Niles
;• picture in the
"inch showed 1 o
f a bevy; of beau
tiful women at the annual Beaux
Vrts Ball the night before.
Barbara grinned. “No,” she
aid. “if I’ve learned anything, it
is that Tony will stand hitched.”
“I don't know how he keeps
is head,” remarked his mother.
"It seems to me it's rather risky
opr abandoning Tony to the wd
cs of the kind of women he con
tantly meets in New York.”
Barbara laughed galy. "They
just go in one ear and out the
dher. so far as Tony's concern
Yes, without wjgtz.ing' it Bar
ara was resting flrher oars, She
.'id not believe any other woman
could touch Tony’s heart. She had
seen too many of them try it
without making an impression one
way or the other. She had grown
accustomed to Tony's unwavering
loyalty and devotion.
Then gradually, so gradually
lu was not aware of it, she began
w take Tony for granted. She
never thought of the possibility
of losing him. She relaxed all her
guards and drifted lazily on the
current of her pleasant life not
bothering to buy new clothes be
cause the old ones were pood e«
hough for where she went, net
thinking a lot about her appear
ance because she was happy and
contented and there was no appar
ent reason that she should take a
great deal of trouble to make her
self attractive.
“Isn’t il wonderful to be so
congenial, Tony?” she asked one
night.
“Sure,” he said now, turning
away from the window where he
had been staring out at the moon
light.
“Remember on our honeymoon
how wre swore not to get bored
and crosswise like other married
couples?-’ murmured Barbara.
Tony gave her an odd look.
“Yep. I remember.”
Barbara smothered a yawn.
“Well, we might as well go up to
bed, I suppose. There’s nothing
else to do.”
"No,” said Tony with a faint
sigh, “there’s nothing else to do.'
Barbara fell asleep as soon as
her head hit the pillow. But she
woke up some time later to find
Tony again staring out the win
dow. “Got the willies or some
thing, honey?” she inquired drow
sily.
‘‘Sort of.” confessed Tony.
Barba, a was almost a.ueep a
gain when '*• went on, "uston.
SUe<7ieks, do me a favor, will
‘■You bet," said Barbara,
snrotbeiinp another yawn.
‘•(Vine up to town with me to
morrow night.”
•‘Toniov. w night. Iony?'
tested Barbara. “But that’s the
Akers’ dinner party. 1 couldn’t
naige in at the last minute. It
would upset everything.”
Barbara had not met Glendon
Akers and his daughter Rosemary
who had recently returned from
two years in an exclusive Swiss
finishing school, but Tony had
told her a great deal about them,
(if all the friends he had made
in N’ew York, Tony likes Glendon
Akers the best. He was the real
thing, Tony said, a genuine aris
tocrat, not a cheap imitation.
Mr. Akers owned a penthouse
apartment in N’ew Yonfc, an estate
■it Southampton, a place at Palm
Reach, and a yacht. Yet, accord
ng to Tony, the multimillionaire
was plain and unassuming. Tony
had not met the daughter until
'he returned to New York that
fall but he said she was a chip
of the old block.
Barbara paid a hurried visit to
a beauty shop after they reached
New York that afternoon, but as
the opeartor told her, it is im
nossible to undo months of neglect
m a couple of hours. Barbara
was dismayed when.she took time
to observe herself carefully in the
minor. She had slumped physi
cally. there was no doubt of it.
She .bad gone slack and it showed
all over her.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Two pulpwood cutiuv demon
strations were held this past week
for the purpo.e of discussing the
needs for thinning thi.vc stands
of pines for pulpwood and demon
rating the use of the one-man
bow saw and the use of a power
shA in cutting trees for pulpwood
Two meetings were held— one
at Lester and Willie Kendrick's
farm, Route 3, Gastonia, in the
morning and another in the after
noon at W. D. Plonk’s farm, Kt.
1, Dallas. Some 40 farmers took
part in these meetings, discussing
the need for thinnings to increase
the growth of remaining trees,
the need for pulpwood that finally
goes into more than 1000 finished
products used on the fighting
fronts and other war uses. These
meetings were held in cqpperation
with various pulpwood companies
and the agricultural agencies in
the county.
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SHALL CHILDREN HAVE
PERMANENTS
Do you approve of permanent
waves for children? Since there
are things to be said both for and
against youthful permanents, we
| decided to find out what mothers
i thought of tuem.
| Among | those whose children
I were all boys or whose daughters
wcie still very young the answers
were almost uniformly in tfie
negative, ranging from a mild ‘no’
to an exclamation-pointed ‘ridi
culous!’ But from the mothers
whose daughters had had perman
ents in childhood there were only
a few dissenters from the opinion
that end curls were a help' in
dressing unruly hair, provided
they were given by an experienced
operator and the curls were well
taken care of afterwards.
Since many of the objector*
bad based their dislike on the
kinky look of unset curls we
might as well say at the start
that it is useless to have a
permanent put in a child's
hair unless you are prepared
to have it set, or do it your
self, after shampoos. But who
ever said curls were no trou
ble!
First we want to record our de
light in the frequently well-stated
preference for naturalness in
children’s looks. Their belief that
clean, shining, well brushed hair is
just as beautiful as braids or
hanging straight as it is in curls,
echoed our own. But we also liked
the open-mindedness which made
many a writer add, "When a cnild
with straight, stringy hair which
doesn’t look well in braids wants a
permanent above all else because
her playmates have them, gratify
ing this wish may give her self
cinfidence and cause her to take
pride in her appearance.” The
above is a complete statement hut
I must include one mother’s en
gagingly honest confession. "1 dis
approve of permanents but my
daughters are young yet and 1 find
one does weaken where one least
expects to.” And another put her
reason for giving in as, •‘Ttather
harm their hair than their ego.
The interesting thing about these
capitulations was that they were
all based on the child’s longing lor
curls—no one felt that a mother's
desire for a curly-haired child was
sufficient reason for a permanent
The age most frequently
approved for the first perma
nent was 12-13. Most mother*
who disliked artificial curls
for children agreed that they
were often a boon to sensitive
and not-so-pretty adolescents.
One writer reported that she
had seen very few gawky
looking young girls during
the last ten years and credited
this to their attractive hair
arrangements.
One fairly general exception in
favor of an end curl for the
younger child was to use it for a
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stop-gap if the hair proved diffi
cult during the time it was grow
ing long enough for braids.
Sime mothers based their ob
jections on the undesirability ot
encouraging children’s vanity and
bringing beauty-shop experience
into their lives too soon. These
seem valid criticisms, for first of
all childhood is meant for care
free play and if consideration for
how the child looks gets in the way
of this, it is certainly being over
emphasized. Again, though, there
are exceptions, for many little
girls seem born with an interest
in their appearance and to deny
this would be as unnatural as to
force curls on an active child who
loathes sitting still long enough
to procure them. This, by the way,
was a stipulation almost everyone
made, that a permanent should
not be given until the child was
able to accept stoically the length
and possible discomfort ot the
process.
LINCOLNTON MAN
RHINE BRIDGE HERO
WITH THE AMERICAN AR
MY EAST OF THE RHINE, Mar.
lfi.— (belayed)—Sgt. John Rey
nolds of Lincolnton, N.C., was re
vealed as one of the three soldiers
who pushed hundreds of pounds
of TNT into the Rhine river on
March 7 after they hauled it out
of the stone piers at each end ot
the Remagen bridge.
Lt. Hugh Mott of Nashville,
Tenn., under whom Reynolds and
Sgt. Eugene Boran of Manhattan,
Kansas, performed the task, in
sisted that credit for the feat go
to the two sergeants.
“They were there on the bridge
all the time,’’ he said. “1 was run
ning back and forth.”
Reynolds was glad Doran
brought the pliers with which they
cut the wires. He said, "He always
thinks of everything. Y\ e figured
at first we were just going to make
a reconnaissance to see if tanks
o>uld get across the bridge.”
Reynolds worked in the Massa
poag mill at Lincolnton with his
father and was the only one of the
three with previous experience in
handling dynamite.
"I fooled with it some when 1
was in a CCC camp in the western
part of the state,” he said.
Terrace lines were staked rec
ently on the following farms:
County Home Farm, Dallas; G.G.
Howell, R-l, Bessemer City; C.B.
Dixon, R-3, Gastonia; and C. L.
Stone, R-l, Clover, S. C.
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right treatment, the easier it is to
remove*.
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A fbaM/ IN POINT
The Seaboard Railway has claimed for
itself the distinction of being a builder
wherever we serve. Our friends—patrons
of the Railway—have been gracious in
confirming that claim.
A case in point is the Seaboard’s con
tribution to recent developments in the
pulp and paper industry of the South.
For many years, this has been a major
project with our Industrial Department.
As far back as the 1920’s, detailed surveys
were made of the best locations for pulp
* and paper mills, and the cooperation of
the local people was enlisted in our ef
forts to develop the pulp and paper
resources of the territory. These effort!
have been abundantly rewarded. Several \
large mills have been located in our ter
ritory in recent years and others will no
doubt be built in the future. 1
Many other new enterprises, industrial
and agricultural, have been brought in aa
a result of the Seaboard’s cooperation
with local communities. The Railway
-is continuously on the alert for every
opportunity to aid in improving the fro- \
nomic lot of its territory. 9
And so we say with justifiable pride^ Jj
“A builder wherever we serve.*!
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