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Thursday, March 12,1931
»/ LAURAIILQU BROOK
MINERAL WELLS INDEX, MINERAL WELLS, TEXAS
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BKGIN UEIIE TOD AI
OYT'SY McBRlME, 10-year-old
typist, Kpcs to meet the boat on
■which AEAN CKOSBY is returning
troni a year and a half in Paris.
Two nights later Crosby breaks
an engagement with Gypsy, ex-
plaining he is spending the eve-
ning with business associates. The
Kirl goes to the theater alone and
•encounters Crosby with a MRS.
CATHERINE l.AX'GLEY. There is
s» scene. Mrs. Langley drives away
in her car and Gypsy and Crosby
jH'o home in a cab, quarreling ail
the way. Next day at the office
Gypsy is offered a promotion and
takes a dictation test. She hurries
home determined to apologize to
Crosby. They meet and in the in-
terview following Crosby makes it
plain his former affection for
Gypsy is ended. Next day at the
office Gypsy is reprimanded for
some careless work and she re-
signs her job.
P«OW GO ON WITH THE STORV
CHAPTER VIII
VfTHEN Gypsy opened the front
** door she heard footsteps on
the second floor landing. Then a
familiar voice called down: "Miss
McBride—is that you, dearie?"
"Yes. Mrs. O'Hare," the girl
answered.
"Well, somebody's been trying
to get you on the telephone ali
afternoon. i told 'em yon
wouldn't be in until five, but they
kept calling. Last time was about
half an hour ago, I guess."
It couldn't be—no, of course
not! Gypsy told herself it was
ridiculous to let her hopes rise
Still there was a quickening in
her voice.
"Do you know who it was?"
"No, they didn't give any
name Number's on the pad be
side the telephone, though. They
said you were to call back."
Gypsy's feet flew down the hall
At the far end was the pay tele-
phone for the roomers' use and
beside it a pad on which messages
were posted.
There it was—"McBride—call
Center 594 2 before C p. m."
With a weary gesture the giri
turned and started back toward
the stairs.
'Did you find it?" the land
lady's voice persisted from above.
"Yes. I know who it is—noth
fng very important. I guess."
"The woman who called the
last time said you should be sure
and ring the minute you came
in!" Mrs. O'Hare said insistently
"Well, 1 guess—"
Further discussion was inter
rupted by the jangle of the tele-
phone bell.
"I'll answer it," offered Gypsy,
turning back.
"On, that'll save me coming
down. Thanks, dearie."
The girl placed the receiver to
her ear. Immediately she recog-
nized the voice at the other end
of the line.
"Hello." the voice said, "May 1
speak to Miss McBride?"
"This is she," answered Gypsy.
"Is that you, Anne?"
"Oh—at last I've found you.
I've been trying all day long to
get in touch with you! First I
called your office and they said
you'd gone. After that I tried
this number. There's something
you've simply got to do for
me-—-!"
Just as she had thought. When-
ever Anne Trowbridge called it was
to ask a favor. Anne was the ouly
relative of Gypsy's who lived
within 1000 miles of New York
but their paths crossed so infre-
quently they Seldom thought of
each other as cousins. Anne had
come to the city as the bride of
Phil Trowbridge. She had "mar-
ried well," according to the old
phrase. Anne's father and Gypsy's
mother had been brother and sister
but the two girls had never seen
each other until the day two years
She sal down before ihe dressing iable and rvent to tCork•
before when Gyspy had called on
young Mrs. Trowbridge in her hotel
suite.
Here in New York Anne and her
husbknd lived in an apartment on
the upper east side. Gypsy took
Sunday dinner there twice a year—
and was slow about calling after-
ward. She thought Anne patronized
her, though in reality the fault
was on both^sides.
It had been six months since she
had heard Anne's voice.
"What do you want me to do,
Anne?" Gypsy asked.
"1 want you to come to dinner.
Oh, you must! You see, I'm having
some people in for dinner and
bridge. There were to be 14 and
this afternoon Mildred Lane was
in a traffic accident and fractured
her arm. I simply cannot have 13
people—I'm terribly superstitious!
—and everyone I've called has been
out of town or sick or giving par-
ties. You're my only hope, Gypsy!
Don't bother to change. You can
dress here. I'll lend you some-
thing—"
So that was what to Anne's mind
was a tragedy! Gypsy had been try-
ing to get a word in. Now she spoke
abruptly:
"Sorry," she said. "I'd like to
help you out but 1 won't be able to."
What was the usual excuse? Oh.
yes, of course—"I—I have an en-
gagement for the evening." Gyspy
stumbled a bit over the words.
"Oh but Gyspy—can't you break
it off?"
"Afraid not."
"But won't you try?"
There was nothing to do but work
her way out. Gypsy tried a white
lie.
"I'll try to," she promised. "I'll
call you back about it. I mean I'll
call you if I can come."
Gypsy replaced the receiver and
mounted the stairs. She walked
slowly, discovering that she was
tired.
What if Anne's dinner party were
spoiled? What did that matter?
Had Anne ever known what it was
to feel this weight like lead in her
heart, to face bitter loneliness—
not just for today but stretching
on and on in the future? Had Anne
ever known a pain like the one that
had been throbbing at Gypsy's fore-
head 'all afternoon?
Well then, who was Anne to need
sympathy!
* * •
YPSY reached her own room
^ and entered. She threw her hat
and coat oil the bed and sank down
beside them. It had been a long day.
Purposely she had stayed away
from the rooming house until after
five o'clock, the usual time she ar-
rived there. She did not want the
other roomers of Mrs. O'Hare to
know that she had given up her job.
She thought about tomorrow.
Better start hunting a job, she sup-
posed. What sort of a job?
It occurred then to Gypsy that
employers would ask where she
had worked before. They might
want references. Should she go
back to MacNamara's and ask Miss
Tuttle for a letter? Hardly that!
There was McNider. the city edi-
tor who had helped her get the first
job. She might call on him. Gypsy's
mind wandered, taking half a dozen
| different trails, but never far from
the main subject. Where was Alan?
What was he doing tonight?
Suddenly the girl sprang up. She
would not spend another evening
here alone.
She stood in the center of the
room, staring at the wall in in-
decision. Then she caught up her
purse and ran down the stairs,
Gypsy was breathless when she
reached the telephone on the first
floor.
"Operator," she called impatient-
ly, "give me Center 5942. I-Iurry!"
A man's voice came Qver the
wire.
"Is this Phil?" Gypsy asked.
"This is Gypsy. Will you tell Anne
Fm going to be able to come for
dinner. Tell her I'm starting right
away. Yes, I'll try to get there in
half an hour. That's all. Goodby."
It was reckless to spend money
on taxi fare but Gypsy was in a
reckless mood. She pulled on bat
and coat without even a glance in
the mirror, and hurried out of the
house. On the curb she signaled a
cab and 35 minutes later was alight-
ing at the canopied entrance of the
up-town apartment.
As the elevator car rose to the
16th floor Gypsy had a moment of
foreboding. She stiffled it. Anything
was better than another evening
alone.
"Gypsy—I'm so glad you came!"
Anne was waiting for her in the
open doorway. Phil Trowbridge was
there too and said a casual "good
evening." Gypsy had always liked
Phil.
Immediately the girl was whisked
down a corridor to Anne's bed-
room.
"I knew you wouldn't have time
to dress so I got this out for you.
Do you like it?"
* * *
ANNE TROWBRIDGE held up a
creamy flowered chiffon with a
vivid design in crimson, orange
and dull green. Anne herself was
gowned in flame. A stranger might
have thought the girls were sisters.
Anne was nearly an inch taller but
her frocks fit Gypsy perfectly.
"It's lovely," Gypsy said.
"Glad you think so. Now hurry
up and get into it. You'll find every-
thing you need on the dressing
table. Oh, do try my new rouge!
I'm simply crazy about it. You'll
excuse me, Won't you? I've got to
see Phil. Dinner's at seven so you'll
have time if you hurry. If you want
anything just call—!"
The hostess disappeared. Gypsy
pulled off her jersey office dress
and hung it away in a closet. A
bath room, stunning in blue and
silver, adjoined the bedroom.
Gypsy took a quick plunge, wrapped
herself in a rose negligee and went
ovier to the dressing table.
What an array of lovely bottles
and boxes—all for the purpose of
making Anne beautiful! Gypsy
picked up a jar of crystal and lifted
the turquoise lid. i
There were lamps at either side
of the dressing table, flooding the
glass with pitiless light. ® Gypsy
studied her reflection; then she sat
down before the dressing table and
set to work.
Twenty minutes later there was
a tap at the door.
"Gypsy!" Anne Trowbridge
called, "are you ready?"
The door opened and Anne
stepped into the room. "My dear!"
she exclaimed, "you're looking won-
derful,!"
Gypsy turned slowly for inspec-
tion. Anne was enthusiastic. "I
never saw you looking so pretty!"
she declared. "I'm proud of you.
Come on out with me. Some of the
people are here and I want you to
meet them."
Obediently Gypsy followed. She
was wearing a lovely gown and it
had been amusing trying out
Anne's cosmetics, but already she
wished the evening were over. She
wished sh^ had not come.
Gypsy had no way of knowing
that this was to be the most mo-
mentous evening of her life.
(To lie Continued)'
ST.AM1 ORD, March 12.— Every
correction suggested by the West
Texas Chamber of Commerce for
"Advanced Geography," textbook
used in the sixth and seventh
grades of Texas public schools, has.
been accepted by Rand McNally
Company, publishers of the book,
and will be included in a reprinted
edition now being made ready fori
the press.
This marks the second success- i
ful accomplishment in the effort of !
the WTCC to secure justice for j
Texas in the school books and of I
ficials of the organization are J
much gratified at the cooperation'
given the undertaking by the pub-
lishing concerns and by members
of the Texas state textbook com-
mission and boai'd of education.
Corrections and changes present-
ed by the regional chamber have
already been made by the Macmil-
lan Company in "Elementary Geo-
graphy," the fourth and fifth grade,
text. Now an effort will be launch- j
eel to get similar corrections in all
school geographies used in the
United States.
Proof sheets of the pages in
"Advanced Geography" on .which
the charges were requested have
been received at the WTCC gen-
eral office here and reveal that
Texas, and especially West Texas,
is much more fairly and accurately
treated than in the heretofore dis-
tributed editions of the book. Now
the student who uses "Advanced
Geography" will be told that West
Texas produces wheat, cotton, oil,
gas. copper, gold and silver. Also?
he will learn that the use of power
machinery is widespread in agri-
cultural operations in West Texas
Mid-West Digs Out of Snowdrifts
To Wed Austrian
Envoy's Daughter
i Closer relations should exist be-
tween Austria and the United
j States now. For Francis Lecompe
| Spalding, above, of Boston, soon is
to marry Miss Lorando Prochnin,
. jdaughter of the Austrian Minister
After an almost snowless winter, the whole mid-western section of the country was buried under a !to this country. He is the son of
blanket ot March snow as deep as 15 inches. This huge pip-, cutting a path'in the outskirts of Chi- ' Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Maurice
vago, shows how cities dug themselves out, but many rural suctions were badly tied up by th^ storm. Spalding.
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and that the area has a large pro-
duction of grain sorghum.
Further, the book will say that
immense quantities of wheat are
grown, milled and exported in Tex-
as; that there has been a rapid
development in western Texas and
Oklahoma in recent years; that
Texas produces nearly ninetenths
of the world's supply of sulphur
and that the state ranks second
in the production of rice.
On top of all the fore-going, the
reprinted geography will give the
"Great Plains" region of Texas
credit for being one of the leading
cotton growing regions of the
United States—that matter will be
stated as follows:
"Cotton grows best in the rich
soils of the costal plains of Ala-
bama and Georgia, and in the
coastal plains and portions of the
great plains of Texas, and in the
Piedmont Belt south of Virginia
and in parts of the rich alluvial
plain of the Mississippi. This is
the so-called Cotton Belt, from
which comes most of the cotton
grown in the county. Texas leads
all the states in production."
The geography in its improved
form, also recognizes Texas as a
leading producer of citrus fruits,
vegetables and other commodities,
which heretofore, has been credited
to Florida and California only.
None of those items have been in
this book.
A question in the book which
reads: "Why are there so few
large* cities in western Texas and j
Oklahoma ? Why is this section I
less densely populated than Miss-j
issippi and Alabama?" has been
eliminated and its place this will
now be asked: "What reason can
you give for the rapid development
of Western Texas and Oklahoma?
How did this development affect
their towns and cities ?"
Another statement—"'West of
the 100th meridian and extending
to the eastern foot of the Cordil-
lerari Highlands is a dry region,
but one not dry enough to be a
true desert,"—has been cut out, as
has one immediately following
which told about the territory west
of the 100th meridian being the
home of that system of dry farm-
ing Which was made up of the pro-
gram of using two year's rainfall
to make a crop every other year.
In listing southern resoi*ts, sea-
ports, important cities and places
of tourist interest, the reprinted
"Advanced Geography" will give
Texas a "square deal," El Paso is
now mentioned along with Ashe-
ville, N. C=, as among the interest-
ing and attractive places in the
South. Corpus Christi is added to
the list of "significant ports and
shipping centers, which has prev-
iously included only Savanah, Ga.,
Charleston, S. C., and Key West
and Tampa, Fla."
The map carries in the geogra-
phy up to now, which-classed parts
of the United States according to
production and other parts accord-
ing to physical characteristics, and
on which all of Texas, west of the
100th meridian, was designated
either as the Great Plains region
or as the Arid Inter-mountain
plateau, has been changed and
now shows that a part of the cot-
ton belt extends all the way
across West Texas and that the
Panhandle area is in the winter
wheat belt.
Another significant addition to
the book is the picture of a wheat
field near Lubbock, which shows
three tractor-drawn combines har-
vesting the grain. This picture
and the text explaining it, indi- j
rectly calls attention to the dif-
ference between agriculture in
West Texas and in other sections.
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Meet Thursday nights
in Woodmen Hall
Adult and Juvenile
Life Insurance
W. C. COX, Clerk
MINERAL WELLS LODGE
♦ No. 212
Knights of Pythias meets
every Tuesday night in I.
O. O. F. Hall. North Oak
Avenue
O. II. GRANTHAM, K. R. & S.
MINERAL WELLS LODGE NO.
611 A. F. & A. M.
Stated meeting on
second Tuesday of
each month. Masonic
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