anaheim-gazette 1931-08-06

ROWENA RIDES THE RUMBLE BY ETHEL HUESTON Seventh Instalment Rackruff Motors hire Rowena to accompany Peter on a nation-wide tour in their roadster as an advertising stunt. At the last minute Little Bobby is engaged to act as chaperon. A few miles out Bobby becomes tearful at being parted from her sweetheart and Rowena insists on taking her place in the rumble so that she can ride with Peter and have him to talk to about Carter. Rowena gets Peter to consent to divide the expense money each week as soon as it arrives, and astonishes Peter by eating too economically. The three tourists reach Denver, after passing through Buffalo, Chicago and St. Louis. Peter and Rowena have many tiffs on the way while Carter keeps wring Bobby to return to New York. The morning after they reach Denver, Peter and Rowena discover Bobby has deserted them and returned to New York by train. They are faced with the impossible condition of continuing their trip without a chaperon. Rowena suggests to Peter that they make a "companionate" marriage. They are married and go to Cheyenne, where their actions, when they ask for rooms on separate floors, arouses the suspicions of the hotel clerk. They finally succeed in getting rooms, but not without exciting the laughter of the hotel loungers. They resume the trip next day and are overwhelmed by a cloudburst in an arroyo and are thrown out of the car. A party of tourist campers gives them dry clothes and food. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "Oh, that'll fix us up just fine," said Peter gratefully. "Thanks very much. Here you are, Rowena, a la Biltmore." "It will do for you both with a little room, he called her on and asked her to come in lobby. "I have a wire from the explained, 'and I the better see it.'" Rowena left off her unhurried down. "Did you get a room whispered." "Yes. Everything's okay. Rowena read the telegram." "The red-headed person said, 'Just came in to that all is forgiven. Say eron left you at Denver her way back to New York do you mean by continuing entirely against our orders wishes. If facts are please consider contract Send Miss Rostand to by first train and you back immediately." Peter looked quite worn all but Rowena laughed at "Tish, tosh, and even tu brightly." "It's nothing. know we're married. Co give them the low-down so they went to the te and with a great deal of many foolish suggestions scratching out of words worked out an announcer..." on separate floors, arouses the suspicions of the hotel clerk. They finally succeed in getting rooms, but not without exciting the laughter of the hotel loungers. They resume the trip next day and are overwhelmed by a cloudburst in an arroyo and are thrown out of the car. A party of tourist campers gives them dry clothes and food. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "Oh, that'll fix us up just fine," said Peter gratefully. "Thanks very much. Here you are, Rowena, a la Biltmore." "It will do for you both with a little squeezing," said the farmer's wife pleasantly. "Jim and I camp on one the same size." "S-so it will," said Rowena. "Lots of room." "Make your bed close to the fire," said Farmer Jim. "Turns cold up here nights." "And don't get nervous if you hear things wriggling around," called some one else. "Sometimes the rattlers go crawling around nights like this." "Peter," whispered Rowena, "perhaps after all—you had better sleep on the edge of the mattress—the farthest edge. After all, I suppose we're as good as married. And—I shouldn't like to have you bitten by a rattler." Peter laughed at her. When all the others had said good night and gone away to their beds, he spread one of the blankets on the mattress, and rolled up his coat to make a pillow for her. "I'll just lie here on the grass beside you," he whispered, "and they'll never know the difference. "Good thing it's dark!" "Are you comfortable, Rowena?" "Oh, it's perfectly wonderful—You take your coat, Peter. You will be cold on the ground with just that one thin rug." "Nonsense. Why, I'm snug as a bug. Snuggery for that matter. Isn't this great? Isn't it just corking?" "B-better than last night, isn't it?" "Well, rather—Better than almost any night I ever saw." Slowly the full night settled over the mesa and a crescent moon rode high. Little night sounds echoed loudly in the great silence. Owls hooted. A coyote whined. Now and then a wolf barked in the distance. Little footed creatures scurried past them in the grass. Suddenly Peter felt a little shiver in the blanket roll on the mattress beside him. He touched it gently with his hand. Rowena was noiselessly sobbing in the darkness. He put his arm over her and pulled himself up until his lips were close to her ear—so close that a little bronze perfumed curl touched his face. "Don't be afraid," he whispered softly. "I'm not afraid." "Please don't cry." "I'm not crying. I just feel sorry." "Because I smashed the car?" "No. Because you are so nice, Peter, and it is so awful to hate a nice person so very, very much." Both Peter and Rowena were profuse in their gratitude. "You're just wonderful," said Rowena. many foolish suggestions scratching out of words worked out ah announcement "I never knew people could be so kind," said Rowena. "I never knew that people could be so kind." And there were tears in her lovely blue eyes, and something of a quiver stirred the pleasant voice. Just because she was so glad to learn that the people of earth were so very good. And they smiled at her and told her to take good care of herself and not get "run down," and with many such friendly farewells and admonitions the curavan forced the dwindling creek and wound off over the mesa behind the hills. But before the Kansas farmer and his wife had gone far they turned back and pulled up beside the dripping roadster. The woman got out and went close to Rowena. "You mustn't catch cold, child," she said in a confidential voice. "Your clothes are pretty short and pretty thin. It gets awful cold evenings up here in this high altitude and you're not dressed for it. Now you take this little wool blanket and soon as you feel the cold coming on, you bundle yourself all up snug in it. It's old, but it's all wool and warm as toast. You mind now. Catching cold is the very worst thing you can do." Rowena thanked her and promised to be very careful and not catch cold whatever she did, and then stood high on a boulder waving the blanket after the farmer's car until it rounded the hill and disappeared. Then she turned to Peter with a puzzled air. "Aren't they queer?" she asked wonderingly. "I don't look sickly or anything, do I? They seem to have a complex on catching colds out here. And what difference does it make if I do get tired? Everybody gets tired, don't they?" Peter was working very hard on the satisfaction. "Everything's jake will were married in Den wants a chaperon on a hot Cody tomorrow night. kisses from Peter and Blande." This dispatched, and pleased with themselves or they got into the elevator up to their rooms. Their tour of the park was fully delightful, auspicious, embarrassing complications. "I can't everything turn gorgeously?" demanded Ree Butter and Rowena come into the fulness of tional experiences. They lay by the northern route. Butte and Helena, and after they started for Spokane, of untroubled days had given confidence and they were worries lay all in the past. Up to the hotel in Spokane ner qualm or morbid preserver Peter asked for two single names and smiled broadly. "Oh, how do you do?" he cheerfully. "Just a moment." (CONTINUED NEXT) He touched it gently with his hand. Rowena was noiselessly sobbing in the darkness. He put his arm over her and pulled himself up until his lips were close to her ear—so close that a little bronze perfumed curl touched his face. "Don't be afraid," he whispered softly. "I'm not afraid." "Please don't cry." "I'm not crying, I just feel sorry." "Because I smashed the car?" "No. Because you are so nice, Peter, and it is so awful to hate a nice person so very, very much." Peter laughed. "If that's all, cheer up. It should comfort you to know that at least there's no love lost between us." He patted the blanket kindly. "And I really admire you, Peter, for ever so many things. Nobody else in the world could ever make me half as mad as you do. Really, you're just wonderful." One slender hand wriggled out from under the blanket and felt about until it found his, which closed over it warmly. It was hours later when she fell sleep. Although Peter awakened very early the next morning, almost before the dawn of pale gray light, he found the big farmer standing near and looking down upon them with a quizzical, and friendly grin. Peter got up rather shamefacedly, dropping his blanket on Rowena's mattress, and the two men strolled down for a look at the river. "Don't begin wrong, youngster," said the farmer kindly. "Don't make life too easy for 'em right at first. Let 'em have their share of the hard knocks. Does 'em good." "Sh-she's not very well," said Peter, floundering desperately for a suitable excuse. "I—want her to be—careful." "Oh, that's the lay of the land, eh?" The man was cordially interested. "Golly, I hope that wetting didn't hurt her. She's got spunk, that one. You should 'a-told my wife. She'd 'a-give you a hot-water bottle and a nip of whiskey." "I think she'll be all right," said Peter uncomfortably. "You better take these rough roads a bit easier, youngster. You passed us yesterday like a streak of greased lightning. Bumps is the worst thing for 'em. We lost one that way." Rowena thanked her and promised to be very careful and not catch cold whatever she did, and then stood high on a boulder waving the blanket after the farmer's car until it rounded the hill and disappeared. Then she turned to Peter with a puzzled air. "Aren't they queer?" she asked wonderingly. "I don't look sickly or anything, do I? They seem to have a complex on catching colds out here. And what difference does it make if I do get tired? Everybody gets tired, don't they?" Peter was working very hard on the car at that moment and mumbled something quite indistinguishable about not knowing what it was all about. "Well, of course, they meant well," declared Rowena. "And I'll be careful to please them. But I do hope I'm not beginning to look anemic or anything." A day of ecstatic, heavenly calm followed. Peter worked on the car. Finally they got under way again. At last in the early evening when they approached the town where they had agreed to spend the night, Rowena put her hand on his arm in tender appeal. "Peter," she said gently. "I do realize how very embarrassing it is about the hotels. It is for me too, though I dare say you don't believe it. How would it do for us to go in separately and register each for himself? I could go in first and ask for a single room and go right on up, and they wouldn't even know we came together." Peter turned it over reflectively. On the whole it seemed the best way out. Certainly anything was better than their first experience. So when they pulled up to the hotel Rowena stepped quickly out with her bag and hurried up to the desk. She asked for a single room, registered "Miss Rowena Rosstand, New York City," and was taken up-stairs. Peter, meanwhile, put the car in the garage and then sat on the veranda half an hour with a cigarette and a paper. When at last he ventured in to the desk his request for a single room aroused no undue interest, and he was handed a key and a telegram. The telegram was from Messrs. Rack and Ruff, written by the former but signed by both to make it more official. He read it and then inquired if a Miss Rosstand had registered at the hotel. Upon being told that she had and was in her Death reaped a red haunt highways of California during six months of 1931, snuffing lives of 1,216 persons during motor mishaps. The incinerator deaths for the period cent over the first six months. Added to the awful toll the period were injuries to persons, many so serious times were disabled for life. These figures were related bureau of statistics of the Highway Patrol with the cost at least 90 per cent of the could have been avoided by ing. A total of 16,509 accident injury or death to one or more occurred during the period 25,461 vehicles in all involved damage running into thunder lars. The number of persons eeded the same period of time 4,000. There were 4,732 pedestrians; these accidents shows some excessive speed was the ruling factor in more than of the cases. "Speed-mad driving continue our accident situation California," the bureau's ruler. "While conditions and changing so rapidly in the no single-factor may be be awful holocaust of death said that the car traveling the conditions involved for the biggest share of it." "California is paying penalty of recklessness. Uple wake up and reform there can be no hope of it." The month of June of one of the highest months with 244 deaths and 4,152 juiced. ANAHEIM GAZETTE room, he called her on the telephone and asked her to come down to the lobby. "I have a wire from the company," he explained, "and I think you had better see it." Rowena left off her unpacking and hurried down. "Did you get a room O. K.?" she whispered. "Yes. Everything's jake—but this." Rowena read the telegram. "The red-headed persecution," it said, "just came in to announce that all is forgiven. Says the chapel left you at Denver and is on her way back to New York. What do you mean by continuing alone? Entirely against our orders and our wishes. If facts are as stated, please consider contract canceled. Send Miss Rostand to New York by first train and you bring car back immediately." Peter looked quite worried about it, but Rowena laughed gaily. "Tish, tosh, and even tush," she said rightly. "It's nothing. They don't now we're married. Come on—let's live them the low-down on it." So they went to the telegraph desk and with a great deal of laughter and many foolish suggestions and much cratching out of words they finallyorked out an announcement to their LODGE Time always brings out the truth. We are beginning to learn a great many things about Henry Cabot Lodge that we did not know during his lifetime. The "scholar in politics," as he loved to be called, became a conspicuous figure when, in 1919, he led the cabal in the United States Senate which prevented our ratification of the Peace Treaty of Versailles. His personal venom against Woodrow Wilson was apparent at the time. Now it turns out from the disclosures made by ex-Secretary Fall that Senator Lodge expected that the Republican president effected in 1920 would make him secretary of state, and that he was immensely disappointed when Mr. Harding picked Mr. Hughes for that position. "I have known Henry Lodge since boyhood and I do not believe that he ever harbored a single generous impulse," said the late President Elliot of Harvard to a friend not long before his death. ECONOMICS The man or woman who has a job and whose wages or salary has not been reduced since the depression of 1929 is better off today than two years ago. In fact, a dollar will buy more today, in almost all of the necessaries of life and in every one of the luxuries, than at any time since before the war. The one exception is rents in the big cities. About four-fifths of the people who ECONOMICS The man or woman who has a job and whose wages or salary has not been reduced since the depression of 1929 is better off today than two years ago. In fact, a dollar will buy more today, in almost all of the necessaries of life and in every one of the luxuries, than at any time since before the war. The one exception is rents in the big cities. About four-fifths of the people who work for a living in the United States are still employed regularly and at the same pay as before. About one-fifth are out of employment or on part time. In Oklahoma a mob of unemployed raided a grocery store the other day. In one rural county in Massachusetts, where I saw the records, 99 new automobiles and 54 new trucks were bought by farmers and village people during the month of June. These economic inequalities offer a problem which it is going to take more than one session of Congress to solve. RAILROADS One of the biggest jobs that confronts the Capital is the rebuilding and refinancing of the nation's railroad system. Practically all the railroads today are in bad shape financially. The success of the German experiment in running an air-propelled railroad car at the rate of 130 miles an hour means, to engineers, that all railroad transportation methods will have to be enormously speeded up in the course of the next few years. The whole railroad situation calls for leadership of a kind which is not now in evidence. If Daniel Willard, president of the B. & O., were twenty years younger he could supply it. Somewhere in the railroad field there must be a young man who will come to the front in the next year or two and lead the railroads out of the wilderness. LATIN A magazine in the Latin language has just started in New York. The purpose of its publishers is to revive and maintain interest in the study of Latin, which is the root language from which French, Spanish, Italian, Roumanian, and, to a very large extent, English are derived. A hundred years ago Latin was the world's international language. The educated men of every nation spoke Latin; so that a traveler could find someone with whom he could converse. Gradually French began to supplant Latin and in Europe today French is the tongue spoken by the more cultured people of all nations. In the world of business, however, English is probably more widely spoken than any single language, and the study of English is now compulsory in the upper grades of the common schools in probably three-quarters of the nations of the Good Spellers Are Wanted at Fair Wizard spellers of Orange county, here's a chance to "spell down" the entire state and win a cash prize of $200 and a gold medal giving you the title of spelling champion of California. This state fair contest will be held at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning, September 8th, in the grandstand building, where the educational exhibits will be housed this year. H. V. WEISEL ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Civil and Probate Matters Only PHONE 2287 or 2238 607 Bank of America Bldg. Anahlm, Calif. Red Harvest on California Roads Death reaped a red harvest on the highways of California during the first six months of 1931, snuffing out the lives of 1,216 pereons during the period motor mishaps. The increase in mortal deaths for the period was 14 per cent over the first six months of 1930. Added to the awful toll of death for the period were injuries to 22,614 other persons, many so serious that the victims were disabled for life. These figures were released by the bureau of statistics of the California Highway Patrol with the comment that at least 90 per cent of these accidents would have been avoided by careful driving. A total of 16,509 accidents involving injury or death to one or more persons occurred during the period. There were 4,61 vehicles in all involved, property damage running into thousands of dollars. The number of persons injured exceeded the same period of 1930 by nearly 4,000. There were 4,732 pedestrians involved. The bureau's analysis of causes of these accidents shows conclusively that excessive speed was the main contributing factor in more than 50 per cent of the cases. "Speed-mad driving continues to dominate our accident situation throughout California," the bureau's report said. While conditions and causes are changing so rapidly in the state that no single factor may be blamed for the awful holocaust of deaths, it may be said that the car traveling too fast for one condition involved is responsible for the biggest share of the accidents. "California is paying the inevitable penalty of recklessness. Until our people wake up and reform their driving there can be no hope of a reduction." The month of June of this year was one of the highest months in history, with 244 deaths and 4,154 persons injured. A hundred years ago Latin was the world's international language. The educated men of every nation spoke Latin; so that a traveler could find someone with whom he could converse. Gradually French began to supplant Latin and in Europe today French is the tongue spoken by the more cultured people of all nations. In the world of business, however, English is probably more widely spoken than any single language, and the study of English is now compulsory in the upper grades of the common schools in probably three-quarters of the nations of the world. Nevertheless, no person has a right to call himself an educated man unless he has a working knowledge of Latin, which is still the international language of scientists. CASE Anna Case, the opera singer who has just married Clarence Mackay, head of the Postal Telegraph and Commercial Cable system, has long been known in musical circles as perhaps the most generous of singers of the first rank in her attitude toward ambitious young musicians. For years Miss Case has given not only lessons in singing at her own expense, but free board and lodging in her large apartment in the West Fifty to a number of young women whose musical talents she deemed worth cultivating. Her marriage to Mr. Mackay is the culmination of a romance of several years standing. As he is one of the wealthiest men in America it is to be expected that Miss Case will now be able to do a great deal more for young singers even than she has done before. Pomona Fair Busy With Preparations The management of the Pomona Fair is busy with the preparations for the annual exposition, which opens on Sept. 27 for a ten-day period. New buildings are being constructed, exhibit facilities are being increased and parking grounds enlarged. The fair offers prizes and trophy awards amounting to approximately $110,000. Horse racing will again be an afternoon feature and a horse show will be held at night. BOWELS need watching Let Dr. Caldwell help whenever your child is feverish or upset; or has caught cold. His simple prescription will make that bilious, headachy, cross boy or girl comfortable, happy, well in just a few hours. It soon restores the bowels to healthy regularity. It helps "break-up" a cold by keeping the bowels free from all that sickening mucus waste. You have a famous doctor's word for this laxative. Dr. Caldwell's record of having attended over 350 births without the loss of one mother or baby is believed unique in American medical history. Get a bottle of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin from your drugstore and have it ready. Then you won't have to worry when any member of your family is headachy, billious, gassy or constipated. Syrup Pepsin is good for all ages. It sweetens the bowels; increases appetite—makes digestion more complete. DR. W. B. CALDWELL'S SYRUP PEPSIN A Doctor's Family Laxative test last year. In addition to the first prize of $200 and a gold medal, a second prize of $100 and a silver medal, and a third prize of $50 and a bronze medal, are offered. In absolute fairness to contestants, a new rule has been adopted this year, which bars winners of previous contests from participating. It has been found that some persons cannot be "spelled down." The contest is a written one, 100 words being selected at random from standard dictionaries. No entry fee is charged and anyone in the state may enter the contest by sending name and address to Mrs. Jade Amundsen, superintendent of Vocational department, State Fair grounds, Sacramento. Look Sharp, Men, For "Black Widow" Look sharp, men, for the "Black Widow." Dr. K. H. Sutherland, county health officer, has issued this warning after being informed that another case of severe illness as the result of the black widow spider's bite had been reported. The latest case to be reported is that of Wilbert Mayse, nephew of Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Harley of Placentia. Mayse, an oil worker, was reported to have been bitten severely on the hip. Persons bitten by spiders should not take a chance with home remedies. Dr. Sutherland suggested, as the consequences of bites from the spiders with the red spots on their abdomen may have very serious results. The Mayse case was the second black widow bite in the county reported during July. A Mexican lad, believed to have been bitten by a poisonous insect which may have been the notorious black widow is recovering after a long stay in a hospital. Dr. Sutherland said. Excess acid is the common cause of indigestion. It results in pain and sourness about two hours after eating. The quick corrective is an alkali which neutralizes acid. The best corrective is Phillips Milk of Magnesia. It has remained standard with physicians in the 50 years since its invention. One spoonful of Phillips Milk of Magnesia neutralizes instantly many times its volume in acid. Harmless, and tasteless, and yet its action is quick. You will never rely on crude methods, once you learn how quickly this method acts. Be sure to get the genuine. "Milk of Magnesia" has been the U. L. Registered Trade Mark of the Charles H. Phillips Chemical Company and its predecessor Charles H. Phillips since 1878. A. B. C. 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