THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1932.
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Not Shanghai, but San Salvador tiny Latin American republic, which fell to revolution. ary troops. It was in the presidential palace, shown in the background of this remarkable action picture, that former President Arturo Araujo barricadad himself during the 18-hour revolt which accomplished the averthrow of his regime.
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Miss Marjorie Leigh, Great Britan's wealthiest heiress, at a meat in Leicestershire.
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This throng of 5000 persone imid peaceful siege to the Philadelphis City Hall, protesting proposed
increases in the local tax rate. They won; the rate will remain the same.
THREE KINDS:
of LOVE
CHAPTER 1 (Continued
Lacking."
"
by KAY CLEAVER STRAHAN
(KUNDI ET PRUBELSA, OGENE MET LI
This seemed possible, it bad Rosalie and Grand acerpted more than a year now since Ann's entrance into what Grand Grand had raade even a small deal culled the world of commerce with) In real estate. girls-will-be-giris expressions. It was Re odd of the starting. Hew-ville either to Ann or to Grand. was that for the past several yours ever, both Rosalie and Grand be Grand had been disposing of the Iteved in autonomy For children. Finants of his own land boldings Teo,
as Rosalie explained to their at prices so low that he could find! best friends the Carmichaels, who buyers for them with no
no difficulty, lived on the corner acrests the other tandowners were unwilling, street, she and Grand felt even mak these sucrifices; or, if more reluctance opposing the
the ruled by recessity, they made! whims of their grand-children than bom for themselves without j they might have felt in opposite Grand's aid.
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the whims of children of their own. Grand owned nothing When Cerity, In her senior year acept the family house and the! high school, determined to quit and upon which it stood. Thesa, high school and go at once to the he stated, he would sell at the same business college to which Ann had fun that he sold his wife and his | gene, they again offered no objee-granddaughters. He made spre- tions.
cher about it. Dis son and bie! "Of course," Cecily said to the yon's children tud been born there. pencby English instructor who in-They hadn't, at all; but Grand's sisted that surely she could wait! antil after her graduation, "I did memory at 74 was failing. It had stood through the years, in stress
his
hope to finish here and go on to and storm, an ever ready haven for college. It doesn't seem posable him and his--that sort of thing. just now. Bet my sister Ann and Rosalie, getting wind of the fact. I are going to nuinage so that our some way or ather, that there were little sister, Mary-Frances, can such things as mortgages, hnd once have a college education."
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Russian peasants aren't schooled entirely in the ways of peace, as this picture shows. A group of residents of the Achkasova State Farm, near Moscow, are seen as they were taught the use of rifles. Note the young woman, at right, sharing
in the Instructions.
Lying on its alde while flames and smoke still poured from its deck, the $3,500,000 liner Segovia is pictured above being destroyed by fire at Newport News, Va. Under construction for the United Mail Steamship Company, the rosel was nearly complated. Note the keel, at right, completely above the surface after the ship had listed under the weight of thousands of tons of water poured into the structure.
juggested during a trying manth A
never lived to bless a man's declin-quantities of melodrama, and ing years. Better at heart that
18. And when Mr. Carmichever to mention
had suggested that the girls with
their salaries might be able to help There
at was no pressing aced
For
Rome pesky
reason
"The man that you cannot afford these
your foot down.
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Grand told Mr. Carmichael that that they borrow a mortgage or plague-taken pulleys that were to things. Refuse to buy any more same afternoon, "Modern girls whatever one did with a mortgage manipulate the wings would not of them. Get him a stick to upon my soul they seer money --on the home place. Grand, suns- mad. Not that I am criticizing my ing perhaps the inalienable right of wark, always, with the required de-whittle. Put granddaughters. Better girls mortgages to melodrama, produced gree of exactitule. It did not Woukin't that be more sensible?
matter greatly, because their per- Ann said, 'Yes, dear," na it has wept some, through her ersity gave Grand an opportunity been said by placatory women to get to work in carnest on his since the year one. Though, of such a collapsible fire escape, and this car course, she did not put her foot again.
ried straight on and naturally to||down.
It was in July, 1929-odd out a trife at home, Grand had the time TOP a mortgage. Part of something new in elevators-11! waved gestures and declared: the $41 a week had to be put aside Pace-saving device which no one. Ceclly to remember the date, but I perny, my friend. Not for what Cecil called the "Very perhaps not even Grand entirely was she who went on the frat errand that the two elder Fenwick one penny. Their little chicken Fancy Educational Pund" (Mother,
understood.
Sectional doors came next. The girls discovered pawnshops and feed is theirs, to spend, as they Sometimes for a joke, had called the like. Their own, for little girlish babs "Vers-Faney"; Grand and principle was involved, but the began to eat, according to Cecily. luxuries and extravagances, Rosalie
not approved), but the point was that two or three inches Mother's and Father's wedding hope they are extravagant with taxes were lower, since the new fa door could be opened, while presents. their poor little moneya, It will make me feel easier about permit appraisni, and a slick shoemaker the remainder of the door stood
of
"Not 11
shall always so care for them.
down
The ate the little hand-carved firmly closed. Failure of the doora chest that the professor of Romance was tragedy, for with them Grand languages had bought in Genen: wearied of things folding and they ate the clear ringing brass collapsible, and in the spring of the bowl that Mother's girl friend had
1929 turned his attention to nent year
[rom Ceylon. They ate radio development. The electric Grandma Tamasie's silver tea ser- is mounted high, and the trises vice (yes, one of the Tamasics, bat that Grand needed
for his
his expert-she and Grandpa had both died long before Ann was born), and ments were rulously priced.
ting them to enter the world of Holes and even small patches
the street put on hul commerce, rub shoulders, as it that they scarcely showed. Grand were, with the herd. At the Ume
my Ron's passing. I gladly under-arely borrowed more than a dollar two at a time. It always had to took the care, the support, the be change, small change, that he education of his little brood.
needed. He
began his new venture in a humble way.
At any rate, the cost
It was in May, 1929-odd of Ana quantities of flat sliver. Cut ginan By the time that Ann was carn- fitting up his workshop in one of to remember the date that Philand hand-painted china proved in- ing $25 a week and Cecily $16 the spare bedrooms was just under told her for the first time, flatly edible. For Thanksgiving they week, Grand had retired from the the amount Ann had planned to and with no softening diminutive, and Father's hand-made trout rod, real-estate business. Had, as he spend on her winter coat. (Cecily that she was a fool.
and his set of ivory chessmen went told Rosallo and the girls, decided had bought her coat winter before
"You," he elaborated, "pretend to for Christmas.
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given us a home all these years."
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Seventy-four-year-old Stefano Bonifacio who has laid claim., in his nama and that of five re- latives, to 75,000,090 pounds ster- "which" "King" Francesco ling Claudio Bonust of Madagascar transferred to London from the Indian Bank of Calcutta IDO yers AED.
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The remark was made in the
to leave the game to the youngsters, last, so it was Ann's turn.) But despise your grandparents' senti- the lads-unlicked cuba fresh the old cont was made to serve mentality. You are as sentimental Three days aftor Christmas from coilage, who were willing to and na Ann told Philip croyd as they are, every bit-both you Grand took to his bed with a bad step on the other fellow's fingers (Phil and Ann had been engaged and Cecily are."
attack of quinsy and arose from It said it to Cecily this time "Grand to gain footholds of their own. He only two years in 1924; Phil was Ann said, "Why, Phil Ecroyd, we early in February pessimistic as to and Rosalle don't know they still could compete with them; yes. graduated from law school that
are not! And, anyway, Ann said, the future for radios and deeply He would not stoop to do so; no. same summer), it saved on car fare but more weakly, "Cissy and I do interested in the Improvement of think they are supporting the Ho would now
and at last devete and lunch money, and Grand was have to remember that they have kettles used to generate steam in family smiles could be exchanged himself to the field wherein he happier puttering around nt home.
about it. Lick-rooms. Grand knew his real talents lay-the fleld
not was
pultering.
were wedding presents a handsome, digni fet of Inventions.
Philip at work on his Grand was "I'll wager you $10,000," sald model for
unfold as a bird's might be added, except that it tion. But gadget things for steam versation with Grand in which he them that day had 10,000 cents in wings fold and unfold. There is his shoulders and said, "Oh, yeah 7" Very-Fancy
secma redundant-merely shrugged kettles were inexpensive, and the had said that it had occurred to him Educational Fund, that his illness, the holidaysOnG the world, that at the end of one fortune in If," he said, implying, as it was being said in
1920.
severely threatened, had not been thing and another, might have boon year I shall have more to show for however, that he held a low opinion
Ann argued, "But what can we touched. The relief was ao great rather a drain on the girls' pocket Rosalie bad intimated that this time, when Cecily said to money,
(Continued on Page 11.) "Do? Simply tell the old gentle- 'Ann-or perhaps It was Ann who
Grand to Ann, though neither of should one wings that young lawyer by now-struggling. The, with no hope of redemp- į upstairs hall, directly after a con-
my efforts than I would have after of persons who cared for fortunes. do when he asks for things?" 10 years of this miserable land "Ah, yes-an unlimited (ortune."
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