' ' THE PERQUIMANS "WEEKLY, HERTFORD. N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1938
THERE'S ONLY ONE
By . SOPHIE KERR
m : : ,i 9 Sophie Kerr Underwood.
WNU Service.
' CHAPTER XIV Continued
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Everywhere they went Rachel
could not fall to see how well Curt
got on with all types and levels of
, people, how they invariably ac
cepted him ftd liked bim. He could
get by any barrier, past any watch
man, however crabbed, and every
one taximen, beggar, waiters po
licemen, grand old ladles in limou-
sines, clerks, smart young men
.strolling out of the Racquet club,
t t,v youngsters roller skating in the
s $ parks,. street cleaners all respond'
r ca n any personal wora xrom mm,
often with overwhelming confidence.
Rachel decided it was because he
looked so interested and always lis
Ti tened while anyone talked to him.
Pink told Rachel she didn't be
lieve a word of the stories she
brought back about places, it was
all, she insisted, made up by Curt
So now and then they would take
. pink with them on their explorings.
v , But usually they went alone.
- They had so much to talk about
Rachel and Curt Little by little
, Curt told the story of the Midwest
f , city where be had always lived ex-
, ' cept tor his school and university
years. Rachel could see the man-
I i sard brick house, horse chestnut
' ' and sycamore trees with myrtle be-
,( neath them in the front yard, big
t 'untidy garden at the back, the
rooms, high-ceiled, spacious, filled
with the furnishings of earlier gen
erations. His grandfather had lived
there, and his father, and. the older
man had started a newspaper which
the son had inherited along with
the house and the black walnut ta
bles and chests. But Curt's father
had died when Curt was only . ten.
- He had never told her much about
his parents and Rachel did not ask
questions, but this mention of his
father's death made her wonder
about what had gone on in the fam
ily after that They had gone to
walk in the park on a Saturday
afternoon when he began to tell the
story of how his father had started
the plan for a park in his home city,
but that he had not lived to see it
carried out It made Rachel think
of Anne and Harry Vincent
"What did your mother do after
your father died?" she said.
"My mother carried on. There
Wasn't anything but the house and
the newspaper, so we lived in the
house and she ran the paper. Night
after night she'd go down there and
work and I'd go with her. I stud'
led my lessons is her little office.
She'd be checking over the ads or
maybe writing something for the
editorial page, or phoning for some
special social item nobody but she
could get like the newt of an en
ffsgement or a list of wedding pres
ent the people in our town like it
when Mrs. Elton herself caus up
or maybe she'd be auditing the
books, or talking to the foreman of
the pressroom or one of the print
ers. Our shop's very personal, my
mother and I know every man.
woman and child who works there
and all about them, and they all
come in to her when they want any
thing' special. She's the boss and
the banker and the adviser and
ever-present help in trouble to all
of them. Just as I've got to be when
I go back and anchor in again."
"What does your mother look like,
Curt?" asked Rachel. "Haven't you
her picture?"
"She's never, had one taken that
I know of, not even snapshots.' She
looks well, my., mother looks like
a nice little quiet homebody who
doesn't know a thing outside of a
sewing needle and a cookbook She's
plump and her hair's gray and she's
wrinkled around the ayes and she.
j : wears mostly rawer plain aanc wue
, dresses with.a .white rufBe ome
' : where and aha puts on horn-rimmed
;- glasses when - aba; reads'- or Writes
: : ! v'r and she giggles she feat a perfect
ly enchanting giggle "when she's
'li ;; amutad.And her voice is rather
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low with a flat Midwest twang in it.
and she's got tiny little feet that
she's very vain of, and she's afraid
of mice, but that's the only thing in
the world she is afraid of. , She'll
bawl out a corrupt local politician
or a soldiering printer like nobody's
business. And she knews, everything
were is to know about running a lit
tle city newspaper. Sometimes; 1
think she knews everything there
is to know about, everything else.
She's uncanny, that woman."
"She sounds sweet", s
"She isn't sweet She can be, as
nippy as an Airedale pup. Every
body comes and tells her their trou
bles because she can sympathize
and understand without being slushy
and she can give good advice with
out getting sore when it isn't fol
lowedwhich it unusually isn't
She's got a cayenne temper. And
she's awfully obstinate when she
sets set on anything. When I was a
kid, after those evenings, at the of
fice I'd trot alongside her all the
way home after midnight and there
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"I Suppose," 8aJd Curt, "You'll
Be Going Over to France to
Tour Mother."
was always a pitched battle because
she wanted me to drink a glass of
milk. I hate milk, always have
hated it but she said it was good
for me, and I had to drink it"
"Who won?"
"I did for a while because I cheat
ed. Fd go out to the icebox get
the milk and pour it quietly down
the sink. Finally she got onto me
and there was hell to payl After
that she got the milk herself and
watched me until the last drop was
gone."
"She must miss you," said Ra
chel, thinking of Anne.
"Rachel, I've held out on you,'
said Curt 'Tve never told you the
real reason I m taking trot year
off. Damn it, my mother wants to
get married again and it made me
so mad I couldn't stand it! It's not
that she's old, she's only forty-six
and the man's a perfect corker, he's
a grand chap, I've known him all
my life, he's been in love with her
for years, but when she told me
about it I was so Jealous I acted
like a perfect fooL And she said.
and she was perfectly right that
if. Td come to depend on her like
that it was high time I went off
somewhere and got over it and
when . I had I should come home
again and go to her wedding and
take over the paper. She said she
was dead tired of working and I'd
get married, and she wanted me
to,' but she didn't mean to be noth
ing but a mother-in-law on the side
lines, she intended to have a home
of ber'own and somebody her own
age to live with."
"But Curt,-aha sounds wonder
ful!"
"She 'is wonderful. But it was
Just a trifletoo" sane and sensible
for me all at once. I went off in an
elegant gloomy rage. Of course I'm
completely over it now and I am
going back and do exactly what
she wants. ' Because now I want it.
too';' ; 'L-'V":
"Curt, don't you think the most
of us are all wrong about our moth
ers? We don't think of them as sep
arate human beings, they seem part
of us, we feel as if they ought to
consider us before they consider
themselves at all."
"Oh Lord, yes, the world's made
up of mothers grabbing at their
children, never wanting to admit
they're grown up, and children
grabbing at their mothers, denying
them any existence outside of their
role of motherhood. It's tough, ei
ther way."
Rachel thought of Anne and then
of Elinor. "It's all twisted either
way," she said. Then, slowly,
"When you said you were going
back did you mean soon?"
"I can't stay here much longer,
you know. It's not right I've got
to get at my real work."
Rachel turned silent with dismay.
She could feel the coming loneliness
as if it had already begun.
"I suppose," said Curt "you'll
be going over to France to your
mother, you spoke about that once
a long time ago. I mean, I Sup
pose you think you're going over to
France to your mother unless she
comes home. Well, I'll tell you
something. D'you want to hear it?"
"Yes, of course."
"You're not going to do anything
of the sort Or at least, if I do let
you go no, I don't believe I could
do it I can't have you gallivanting
over there with fifty million French
men making a play for you. I'd
have to go along to keep them off
or I'd go crazy. So you see, Ra
chel, there's only one thing for us
to do and that is get married. What
do you think? I'm only asking your
opinion as a matter of form, dar
ling. I don't intend to pay the least
attention to any argument you may
.start."
They walked along very quietly
for a few steps and then Rachel
said: "I'm not going to start an
argument. Curt I want to go with
you. There for heaven's sake
don't shout like that don't Jump
this park's full of people "
"They ought to be glad to see
somebody happy these days," said
Curt, and flung his arms around her.
"Let 'em look do 'em good!" He
held her and kissed her half a dozen
times before he would let her go.
"My dear, my darling girl would
you mind if I ran round up and down
this path and threw my hat in the
air and yelled a couple of Comanche
whoops ?"
' "War-whoops?" laughed Rachel,
pushing her hat back into place.
"Love-and-war whoops! Oh Ra
chel, you are the most beautiful and
darling creature listen, do you love
me honest and true?"
"I must love you. I felt so lost
and forlorn when you said you were
going away."
"That's what I've been working
tor, to make myself indispensable,
essential, necessary, sine qua non
and so forth and so forth. Darling,
to think I've succeeded! You mean
it, don't you? No fooling, you're go
ing to marry me?"
"No fooling, I certainly am."
"Very well, when? Couldn't we "
he looked at his watch "no, it's
too late to go to City hall today.
How about tomorrow morning?
Then we'd take an airplane and
along about teatime we could walk
in on my mother and say: 'Here
we are. Now go your wanton way,
we'll take over the house and the
paper and' "
"Nothing doing with this mad
rush stuff- You're forgetting about
my mother. I wouldn't be married
without her, I couldn't. Curt."
- : "No, I suppose not" 'He drooped
pathetically. :
, "And I ought to finish up a lot
more work; for Vinco. And I cer
tainly want some new clothes."
(TO BK CONTlNUFn) -
WHAT'S WHAT
- ABOUT
SOCIAL SECURITY
Young pigeons feed on a milk
which comes from the crop of both
the male and female parents.
Faithful Mohammedans pay $5 a
bottle for India's Age Khan's daily
bath water, believing it curative.
Questions What are the condi
tions upon which lump-sum payments
of old-age insurance are made?
Who gets that money?
Answer: There are two types of
lump-sum payments that can be
made any time after January 1, 1937.
One is a payment which an eligible
worker may receive after he reaches
the age of 65. These claimants are
men and women who have earned
wages in a factory, shop, mill, mine,
stare, hotel, filling station, or some
other line of industry or business, in-.'
eluded under the law, and who have
attained the age of 65 since January
1, 1937.
The . Federal Government, unde.-old-age
insurance provisions of the
Social Security Act, is also paying
benefits to relatives (or estates) of
workers .who have died and whose
wage-earnings since 1936 in -employment,
as mentioned above, entitled
them to benefits.
Question: Is it necessary for an
employee who has reaced the age of
65 to quit work in order to get a
lump-sum payment of old-age insur
ance? Answer: No. It is not necessary
to retire from work at the age of 65,
in order to receive a lump-sum pay
ment under the old-age insurane pro
gram of the Social Security Act.
Lump-sum benefits are paid to work
ers who reach the age of 65, and
who have worked some time since
1936, in an employment covered by
the old-age insurance provisions of
the Social Security Act.
Question: If a young person who
had been employed in a job that is
covered by the law should die could
the family collect old-age insurance
benefits on that account?
Answer: The fact that the deceas
ed worker was young has nothinc
whatever to do with the claim for his
old-age insurance benefits. Whether
he was 16 or 60 makes no difference
During. , the , time that he was employ
ed in. a ?iuh covered under the Social
Security Act, benefits were accruing
to his account; and his estate is en
titled to that money. If for in
stance, his record shows that the
youth had received $900 in wages or
salary, his relatives should receive
death payment amounting to 3
percent of $900 which is $31.50.
N. C. Farmers Need
More Certified Seed
CROSSROADS
Herbert Hollowell, Jr., from Green
;HlaII, jpent SBhaawith Carijmla
.HollowelL
f Mr. and Mrs. t Raleigh Hobba and
children, of Hobbsville; Mr. and Mrs.
1 Wilbur HoUowell attd daughter, and
Mrs. Ernest Privott and son visited
Mr. and , Mr,: Ralph' .'HoSowtlUSim..
W Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Hollowell and
on visited , Mr.- and Km. R. W.
Leary, Sr., fa JtodtyiHw ,, Sunday
rvening, fifi1 '?,$--.'
ITr. and Mrs. a J. Hollowell and
son virfted - Mr. and ,- Mrfc : . Johnnie
Asbell Fri Jay evening.-"
and Mrsj Fred White and
children, and Mr. and 'Mrs. Ctussie
CFcrsjr and child, of Gates County,
visited Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Jordan,
Sr., Sunday afternoon.
Miss Alma Winslow, of the' Chlcod
, C ool faculty,' spent &e wcJc-end
h her patents, Mr. and Urs. C I
:ow.
T : -.e Perry spent the wecli-er.i
i Us parents at Colerain.
: I.e. Lena Asbell and family :
' 7 with . Mr. and .Knv Lin ' j
. " y and A.' T. Belch, of
T t ! I'r. and Mrs. E. N.
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rivins til
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.Mr. and Mr,?-Tommie King and
children of Gate County, spent Sun
day with Mrs, King's sister, Mrs. W,.
w. uentgar, ana Mr., uenigar. ,
. urs. h. w. .wara is spending uie
week to Edenton with her son and
daughter-in-law, Mr. and. Mrs. E. J.
"'Mrs.' Herbert Lane has "returned
from Suffolk, Vs., where she has been
at the bedside of her sister-in-law,
Mrs. Boy Parks.
Mrs. Harriett Parks, Miss Addie
Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. Canon Davis
spent Wednesday ,in the R. S. Ward
borne.
Mrs. Louisa Ward's children and
grandchildren visited her Sunday af
ternoon. ; Mr. and Mrs. Jim Ward, Mr. and
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The production of certified seed is
one of the steps essential to improv
ing the quality and yields of North
Carolina crops.
Last year, North Carolina farmers
produced more certified corn, cotton,
tobacco, and watermelon seed than
ever before, but this amount was
still far short of being enough to
supply the State's needs.
Certified seed are produced by
grower members of the N. C. Crop
Improvement Association, said A. D.
Stuart, extension seed specialist at
State College who is working with
the association.
Growers who wish to grow seed
that can be certified as pure, of a
good variety, and free from noxious
weeds and diseases may join the as
sociation and secure approved seed
from the N. C. Agricultural Experi
ment Station at State College or
from other credited breeders.
Mrs. Crover Brinkley and family
were among the guests in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Jordan on
Sunday.
Miss Addie Jordan spent the week
end with Miss Avis Ward, near Sign
Pine.
Mrs. Herbert Lane, Mrs. Vernon
Jordan and children were in Edenton
shopping Saturday evening.
A number ,of Mrs. Roy Parks'
friends have visited her at Lake View
Hospital this week.
Your cemetery lot
should reflect your af
fection for those who
have departed . . . how
does it appear?
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fciint Co.
TIME PROOF MONUMENTS
CEMETERY MEMORIALS
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USED THAT NEW SWIFT'S
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TT'S a real job to make fertilizer that will produce
big yields of long staple cotton year after year.
That's why we are so anxious that you talk to a user
of Swift's Improved Red Steer Fertilizers.
Those who have used this Physiologically Neutral
and Non-Acid-Forming Fertilizer can best tell you
what you can expect from it. The added plant foods
make it the biggest 1938 value in fertilizers.
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C, T. Phillips
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