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 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. BUY BONDS HEADACHE' I IS SUCH A big 1 UTT1.E THIWO | ALL SET for a good fall day's work when a'nagging head* ache sneaks up on yon. You suffer and so does your work. « 1 Ready for an evening of relax* ation and enjoyment — a peaky headache interferes with your fun, rest, enjoyment or relaxation. DR. mttjlu Anti-Pain Pills usually relieve not only Head ache, but Simple Neuralgia, Mus cular Pains and Functional Monthly Pains. Do you use Dr. Milea Anti-Paha Pills? If not why not? You can get Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills at your drug store in the regular package for only a penny apiece and in the economy package even cheaper. Why not get a package today? Your druggist has them. Read directions and use only as directed. Your money back if you are fat satisfied. « jSfcs^f&rmttiood 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. 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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. The first cleansing treatment a spot on clothing receives may de cide whether it comes out or De-1 comes a permanent fixture. 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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.*! THROUGH THE HEART OF