Tags of
Utterance
By RUBY DOUGLAS
© McCiure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.
'T'HE older Isabel grew the more
* she realized the wisdom of the
ancient adage, “The wind sounds
loudest in an empty house.” Also,
there was another proverb she could
not quote but it meant that the shal
low breakers nearest the shore are
the noisiest.
“You’re getting to be a regular
clam,” her brother told her.
“Clams never get into trouble
talking too much, anyway,” she re
torted.
No one seemed to know exactly
what it was that had, more or less
suddenly, rendered Isabel so inartic
ulate. Directly and indirectly, her
friends tried to And out just what
had occurred to change the gay,
spontaneous companion into so si
lent and thoughtful a young wom
an.
“Undoubtedly it has something to
do with Gordon Ralston,” said one
friend.
“Yes—it does seem as if her pres
ent mood dated back to about the
time that Gordon got himself a job
corresponding on the Continent for
a string of papers.”
“If only I could unsay the things
I told him.” Isabel whispered over
and over again to herself.
“Never mind—I’ll not try again
to tell anyone else what I think is
wrong with them,” she declared.
“Words are often such treacherous
things!”
She was bitterly sorry for the
things she had all unintentionally
said to Gordon Ralston. Gordon—
the only man she had ever loved;
the only man she would ever love.
Theirs had been a wonderful ro
mance and again and again they
had told each other that it was for
all eternity.
“And then my silly criticism of
him—” Isabel would live the hours
over and over again.
He had misunderstood her mean
ing. She had tried to tell him that
he was not living up to her ideal of
him, that he was becoming just an
ordinary man to her. What she had
meant to do was to spur him on to
develop his gift of self-expression
through writing. She knew that he
had ability and always she tried to
foster the application and concen
tration that she knew he needed if
he were ever to create anything
worthwhile.
THEY had quarrelled before she
could make her meaning clear
and he had taken her remarks to
mean that she was tired of him and
that, in order to let her preserve
what little was left of her ideal, he
might better get out of the way.
There had followed weeks of stub
born and childish quarrels and, at
last, when he thought he could
stand it no longer, Gordon had
secured a position
SHORT with a syndicate to
do some special
CUODT writing on foreign
affairs. This would
CTOD Y serve a triP,e Pur*
3 I 1C ■ pose, he had decid
ed. It would remove
him from the presence of Isabel; it
would be cultivating the gift she be
lieved he had, and it would keep
him busy enough to make him for
get how lonely he was.
But it hadn’t made him forget.
One soft, velvety, starlit night Is
abel could stand it no longer. She
was not a fit companion for her
family. She tried bravely to seem
natural and to conceal the loneli
ness. But this night was too much
for her.
There was a lane down which
they had frequently driven. It was
not many miles from home and, un
der some pretext or r>ther, Isabel
got out the little roadster and sought
that fragrant, starlit lane.
Beneath a cluster of white birch
trees on the side of the road she
drew up her car and dimmed the
lights. For a few moments, she
was afraid of being alone. Then,
lost in memories the spot brought
back so poignantly, she forgot to
fear.
She could almost hear his voice
whispering, “My beautiful girl—my
wonderful sweetheart, I love you.”
She was rudely brought, back into
reality by the sound of a motor ap
proaching. The headlights shone
full on her car. She thought she
would start her own engine as if she
were about to proceed. Before she
could do this the car stopped. Is
abel was terrified for an instant.
A man got out. It was Gordon.
“Isabel—my girl,” he cried.
After many wonderful moments
there together in the starlight, he
sat beside her in her little roadster
and told her how it had all come
about.
He had been unable to stand the
loneliness and had sailed back to
America suddenly. He had arrived !
only that afternoon and had come
straight out to her home that night.
They told him she had gone in the.
roadster to a certain place. She
was not there.
“But how did you find me—here?”
she asked.
“A kind Fate whispered to me |
that you must be feeling my love j
and my presence in the country
again and that you—oh, I can’t tell !
you any more than that I borrowed
this car and came to our trysting
place.”
“Love surely pointed the way
truly this time, dear,” she said.
French Express Train Wreck Costs 27 Lives
Made shortly after the tragic accident, this photo shows the telescoped carriages of the French passenger
express in which 27 persons were killed when the train jumped the rails near Villeneuve St. Georges. Rail
road officials attributed the accident to faulty setting of a switch.
Roosevelt Newlyweds Like the Sun
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and his bride, the former Ethel Du Pont,
pictured as they enjoyed the sun on the Italian Riviera as they honey
mooned in Europe. The young couple expect to return to the United
States in the fall. When the newlyweds take up housekeeping, young
Roosevelt is expected to complete a law course that will fit him for his
business career later on. The honeymooners have traveled extensivly
in Europe since they sailed from America some weeks ago following
their wedding at Owls Nest, the DuPont estate in Delaware. The wed
ding, was attended by President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
Zionist Opposes
Palestine Split-Up
An outstanding opponent of the
British plan to partition Palestine,
Menachem M. Ussishkin (above),
world president of the Jewish Na
tional fund, was elected chairman of
the World Zionist congress at Gen
eva, Switzerland recently. Elec
tion of Ussishkin foreshadows an ad
verse vote on the partition plan,
observers believe.
50,000 HOURS ALOFT
Captain Robert H. Fatt,y^he new
chief pilot of Pan American i^r
ways’ eastern division of Miarhi,
Fla. Captain Fatt has spent more
than five years of working days at
the controls of a clipper ship, or 50,
000 hours in the air. He has flown
more than a million and a half miles
since he started, in 1918. Captain
Fatt who learned aviation in the
world war has a flying record un
usually free of accidents.
Seeks Bride on 121st Birthday
Cutting a birthday cake decorated with 121 candles, Abraham Wish
kovsky is pictured, as he began his one hundred twenty-second year of
life, at the home of the Daughters of Jacob in the Bronx, New York.
In a birthday interview, Patriarch Wishkovsky, who is Polish by birth,
announced that he is ready to marry again—for the sixth time—
stipulating, however, that his bride must be “young and pretty.”
Even This Didn’t Make the Chinese War Official
When this photograph, showing a transport loaded with steel-helmeted Japanese soldiers arriving at
Tsingtau was made, Japan and China were technically at peace. Many of these men and many Chinese sol
diers died, slain by each other, but still there was no "war.” The undeclared war endangered the safety of
Americans in Shanghai and other leading cities in the war-ridden area and caused the creation of an Ameri
can emergency committee on evacuation.
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
1—A Japanese outpost in the front line as the Nipponese engage the Chinese in undeclared war in North
China. 2—View of mass meeting of 20,000 people which followed the annual parade in New York city of the
American League Against War and Fascism. 3—Archbishop Edward Mooney (left), recently installed in the
Catholic diocese of Detroit, confers with Archbishop Giovanni Cicognani, papal delegate to the United
States, who consecrated him.
SPECKLED KING
“King Freckles” was the title
conferred on Jackie Martin II of
Philadelphia, winner of a freckle
contest in Philadelphia. Jackie was
chosen from among hundreds of
runners-up as the kid most abun
dantly freckled.
Italy Launches Biggest Battleship
Thousands shouted and waved their hats as this sleek monster slid
down the ways at Trieste, marking a red-letter day in Italian naval
history. The battleship is the Vittorio-Veneto (35,000 tons), the largest
of Italy's sea-warriors and one of the largest in the world.
Cleveland Decides to Extend Its Exposition
Throngs such as these shown crowding its amusement area caused
the Great Lakes exposition in Cleveland to extend its closing date from
September 6 to September 26, according to Lincoln G. Dickey, general
manager of the fair. Dickey, shown in the inset, stated that the Sep
tember 26 date was final and by that time more than 8,000,000 people
would have seen the 1936 and 1937 editions of Cleveland’s celebration of
Its centennial. Visitors from every state have seen the Fair.
TO SUPREME COURT
Senator Hugo LaFayette Black of
Alabama, whose nomination to fill
the Supreme court vacancy created
by the retirement of Associate Jus
tice Willis Van Devanter, was pre
sented to the senate by President
Roosevelt. Black, a vi»3rous New
Deal Democrat, is fifty-one.
King in Shorts Forgets State Cares
Garbed in shorts and stockings and sweater to enjoy a day of fun.
King George VI is shown on a recent visit to the duke of York's camp for
underprivileged boys at Southwold, England.