98
A
POOR
MARCELLA
A
^ A Story of Persistent ^
Love
A
Cy FANNIE HURST
98
((c) by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
(W.NU Service)
WHEN she was eighteen, the
only child of the Uouontble
Eestus Martin had been pulnt
ed by Delrnar, pi'esented at
the court of St. James and Introduced
with formality to the official social life
of Washington.
, It was a quick transition from the
busy, uuremarkuble life of Marcella
Martlu’s childhood, as daughter of a
prosperous manufacturer of radio
parts, to the highly complex social
plane achieved by Keslus Martin aft
er his growing wealth had enabled him
to foster political ambitions, and aft
er those ambitions lead lauded him in
congress.
Undoubtedly it was the combination
of Marcella's estate of only child, com
bined with the doting ambition of par
ents who could have loved her more
wisely, which was accountable for the
six years of rigid social disciplining
which were Imposed upon the protest
ing Marcella.
It was said of the Martins, laughing
ly, in certain Washington circles, that
the adoring pareuts of this girl had
' actually succeeded in making over her
face. A rather plain face, too long,
with overhanging brow and dull brown
hair entirely lacking In lights. But
so ofteu had this and that artist ideal
ized it, and so long and arduously had
schools of massage, dentistry and hair
dressing, expended skill in improving
It, that by the time she was eighteen,
Marcella was indeed quite an improve
ment upon the lank, lusterless little
girl of other days. •
It can readily be imagined that the
•Martins spared neither time nor the
most elaborate expenditures to launch
successfully Into an estute befitting
'Iter father’s rank this idolized and only
daughter.
The fact that she was diffident,
frankly unsocial, unimpressed by
wealth or station, unambitious along
' lines assiduously mapped out for her
by her parents whose dreams of ulti
mate highest realization lay in this
girl, only conspired to urge the elder
-uaruns to maximum eirorc.
“Why, Marcella, another girl with
your opportunities would be In her
seventh heuven of delight. Doesn't It
mean anything to you to have all the
things your father’s wealth and po
sition can afford for you?"
“Of course It does, mother, only I
want them in my way. I'm no good
ut this social-round kind of thing. I
don’t like it chiefly, 1 guess, because
I’tn a failure ut It, Don't force, moth
er. Can’t you reconcile yourself to the
fact that I’m not what you want me
to he?"
No, neither of the parental Martins
could. Festus -Martin, as much as his
more obvious wife, wanted this daugh
ter a fitting.complement to his achieve
ments both official and social. His '
wife was that: A pretty, paropered
iooking woman with small eager ways
arid deep gold eyes that were brighter
than, if not as profound, as her daugh
ter’s.
“JCmma,” lie confided to. tier once
during one of their frequent contro
versies about this problem of their
girl, “I actually believe you still have
more youth and social charm than
Marcella. What is it ails the child?
She’s as fine a girl {is you’ll meet In
a thousand years, and yet—and yet—
no two ways about It—something’s
missing."
"It's .her own fault, Festus. Mar
cella's heart isn't in living the life
about her. That's what hurts me so.
To think a girl witli her opportunities
doesn't appreciate them.”
Marcella’s reaction to these implica
tions of her, doting parents was emo
tional and deeply sincere.
“Dears, don't you think it hurts me
as much as it hurts you that X don’t
seem to live up to what you want of
me? If only yon could make up your
minds that you’re trying to make a
silk purse out of—”
“Marcella Martin, nothing of the
sort. You’ve ten times the sense and !
intelligence of tlie girls you compete
with. Why, a man like Senator Morris
wouldn’t look at the swarms of silly j
girls who buzz around him, if you so 1
much as took tlie trouble to exert your
self to interest him. That's what troll- I
ides us, dear. You have all the op
portunities for success, including some
very natural qualities of your own, and
you won’t use them."
The subject of Senator Morris was a
mooted one in the Martin household.
It seemed fitting to the parents of
Marcella that the most eligible bach
elor in Washington, one of the most
outstanding members of 'the upper
house, a man with much achievement
behind him and obviously again as
much ahead, should tie potential timber
for Marcella. After all, the only child
of a millionaire many times over, per
sonable, probably the most all round
educated young woman In the capital,
traveled. Informed and h.v no means
without a certain quality of distinction,
had the right to cast her eyes high.
Anyway, the Martins felt that way
uhout It, and spared neither time, ef
fort nor expense to the bringing to
gether of these two.
It must he admitted, however, that
tbew ihimtwlmt Ingenuous and not al
way* skilful effort* met with little
success.
W U doubtful It In all the times he
met Marcella, both lu the Martin borne
and at public occasions, the beautiful
ly gowned, jeweled, caparisoned little
lady of lougltli face, bulging brow,
deeply Intent eyes aud cleur brown
skin, ever more than passingly snugged
bis attention. Oh, yes, bis reaction,
If any, might have been: Martin’s
daughterly Said to be clever; but a
solemn young lady with that dark
brown look. Good enough fellow, Mar
tin, If be knew enough to keep out of
politics. Pretty little wife with soap
suds for brains. •
Marcella’s reactions, secret as her
own sercretive-looklng eyes, were not
in line with the senator’s. There re
sided in the makeup of this aggressive,
massive-Jawed, rough haired member
of the liberal wing of polities, quali
ties that were stirring within Marcella
keen, new and exciting thrills.
The most interesting man In all
Washington, the most interesting man
In America, the most Interesting man
she bad ever met, was the senator.
Secret as were these deep-seated emo
tions, and Imperturbable as her brown
eyes continued to remain, that fact
grew with the months. Secretly, Mar
cella was In love with Senator Morris.
That It was unrequited caused her
neither bitterness nor undue pain.
One just went on—alone—caring—hop
ing for the glimpse of him here und
there, picking up crumbs of Informa
tion of his comings-and goings, and
outwardly reconciled to defeat.
After a while, even the Martins be
came half reconciled to it. At twen
ty-four, Marcella simply had not mude
her dent. Her generation of debu
tuutes hud come und gone. Practical
ly all of the girls who Imd made their
hows the winter that the Marcella Mar
tin coming-out hall was the crowning
event of an eventful social season,
were married now—rightly.
At twenty-five, something latent in
Marcella rose and asserted Itself.
Against the resistance of her par
ents, which she wore down with a high
handedness uncharacteristic of her,
she enrolled In a school of social re
search, and after two winters of inten
sive work became allied with a set
tlement house in Xew York known as
Mulberry Center.
Then began the happiest, most inter
ested years of her life. When she was
twenty-eight, Marcella was first assist
ant head of this lurge Institution and
an outstanding figure In her chosen
The Martins, in their way, were
proud of tills success. Of course it
was miles and miles removed from
wlmt had been their dreams for her,
hut, well, it takes all kinds of people
to make a world. I’oor Marcella. Of
course, one appreciated her brains and
her distinction, but just the same, the
heart of the mother of this daughter
seemed to beat to the rhythm: poor
Marcella.
It was when she was thirty-two, con
siderably heavier, and with streaks of
faint gray in her strong dark hair, that
Marcella Martin, appointed by her gov
ernment as first woman member of an
International conference on honslng
conditions to he held in Geneva, again
encountered Kdgar Morris, now Gov
ernor Morris. He, too, gray now,
heavier now, found himself sitting be
side her at a political luncheon at
Geneva where he was in attendance
at a conference.
Ufc. tides, affairs, had flowed swift
ly for him in the years which had In
tervened since ilia previous meeting
with her. It is doubtful if tie recalled
tier at all. Ho only knew that sudden
ly he was meeting a woman whose
talk, whose point of view, whose deep
ly quiet eyes and a certain unworldli
ness, were giving him the first serious
pause he hud ever in Ids life felt where
the other sex was concerned.
It occurred to him even, as he sat
there beside her in the tlrst hour of
ttiat lunch in Geneva, that tie seemed
to he developing symptoms of a man
on the verge of falling in love.
Strong Bond Between
George V and Scotland
When the iord provost handed to
King George the keys of Edinburgh,
rhe ceremonial required his majesty
to say, in returning them, that the
key could not be in “better hands.”
The British rulers were celebrating
tiie thirty-eighth nnniversry of their
wedding in Edinburgh. This was fit
ting, because it is due to two wed
dings that t lie keys of the city were
handed to them at all.
if tho Tudor princess had not mar
ried n king of Scotland. James. VI of
I hat country could never have been
Elisabeth's successor under the title
of James I of the United Kingdom, of
Ireland and the Dominions Beyond the
Seas. And if liis daughter had not
married the elector palatine the house
of Hanover, from which George V is
more directly descended, could not
have come to the Britisii throne after
tin* death of Queen Anne.
Because of their marriages George
V hears the blended blood of the royal
house of England and Scotland. His
Dlantagenet ancestors (through John
of Gaunt) were repeatedly chased out
of Scotland. His Tudor ancestors
didn't dare try to conquer the braw
ilk of Caledon. His Stuart ancestors
were the Scots’ well-beloved. Because
of that strain they forgive him ids
Hanoverian blood.—New Turk Times.
The Art of Illusion
“Remember," said 1 he earnest citiz
en, "that the eyes of the public are
upon you.”
“That condition is provided for,”
answered Senator Sorghum. "In po
litical prestidigitation the hand-out
must always be quicker than the eye
sight” . . ... ,.VJ
!ALASKA INTERESTS AT
i THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
By Will. A. Steel
Washington, D. C. j
December 31, 1931
j Ernest Walker Sawyer, of
j the Interior Department, is
again in Washington with var-;
; ious projects for the develop
! ment of Alaska up his sleeve.
j _ I
The 22 qualified voters of
j Copper Center with possibly !
120 more in neighboring vil
i lages, want an election pire
! cinct etsablished at Copper
! Center.
A constituent from Nenana
writes the Delegate that coal
shipped 120 miles from Healy
to Fairbanks only costs 18
| cents more than the residents
; of Nenana are required to pay,
when they are only half the
distance away and pay $1 per
i ton. He also complains of the
cost of freight on 3250 pounds
of groceries amounting to
$230 in Seattle, while the
! freight was $119.
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Steele,
formerly of Valdez, returned
to New York after a sojourn
of a month in Washington.
Mr. Steele has been interested
in securing leases from the
General Land Office for cer
tain coal land in the Bering
River country. He succeeded in
that and says he has capital
available to open up these
properties .mine the coal and
crush it, and make shipment
from Comptroller Bay to Cali
fornia, to be used for making
coke.
Bids will be opened on Feb.
18th next for construction of
the Federal building at Fair
banks. It is expected that it
will the latter part of March
before the contract is award
ed, bond submitted and ap
proved, and preliminary ac
tivities commenced. from
which time the contractor will
have 480 days to complete the
work. Of the available appro
priation it is expected that the
building will cost $404,775,
and the balance of the $450,
000 will be used for lock box
es, furnishings, etc.
Representative Welsh, of
California, has introduced a
bill to prevent the operation of
floating canneries in Alaskan
waters. Protests against this
bill have been received from
Alaska and Seattle, and oper
ators from the latter city wish
to come to Washington and be
heard when the Fisheries com
mittee has a hearing on this
bill. A similar bill was intro
duced in the last Congress and
was favorably reported by
committee.
The Juneau Radio Club of
ficers have written the Dele
gate complaining of the pres
ent interference in getting
good reception over their ra
dos 'because of the inadequacy
of the Signal Corps transmis
sion line, and asking that ef
forts be made to secure the
erection of a proposed wireless
station about nine miles from
Juneau. In taking the matter
up with the War Department
it was found that there is no
appropriation available for the
erection of the new station
and not likely to be from the
present session of Congress.
However, a larger transmis
sion plant will be sent to the
Juneau station, which it is ex
pected will obviate all inter
ference.
In the budget submitted to
Congress by President Hoover
there is no reference to a build
ing program for the fiscal year
commencing July 1, 1932. In a
statement recently made by J.
Clawson Roop, Director of the
Budget, it is announced that
all projects already specifical
ly authorized and appropriat
ed for will be pushed to com
pletion. But on account of the
heavy government deficit
which will amount to two bil
lion dollars at the end of June
next, and the necessity of rais
ing new taxes, it has been an
nounced by the Budget not to
obligate the Government furth
er during the approaching fis
cal year by requesting new
authorizations. If this policy is
carried out it will apply to the
whole country, and would nec
essarily affect the early con
struction of the public build
ings at Anchorage and Ket
chikan.
However, various members
of Congress, like Senator Jones
Chairman of the Appropria
tions committee, Senator La
Follette, and representative
Swing, believe that Congress
should assist the unemploy
ment situation by providing
jobs through appropriations
for public works, which would
laigely mean public buildings.
Senator Jones says: “I should
think that $500,000,000 in ap
propriations for public works
would be about the limit to
which we could go with cer
tainty that the funds would be
economically and properly ex
pended.” Senator LaFollette
favdrs expending $650,000,
000 for Federal public build
ings, river, harbor and flood
control works, forest roads
and trails, etc. Representative
Swing, of California, strongly
urges putting hundreds of
thousands of men to work in a
Federal program of expansion
of internal improvements, in
cluding building programs.
Should these ideas prevail, and
it is more than possible that
they may, it is expected that
allocated buildings like those
for Anchorage and Ketchikan,
would be appropriated for,
which in the Alaska case
would mean $400,000 for each
building.
Location Notice Forms and
Proof of Annual Labor Blanks
for sale at the Herald office.
Get your Canadian Customs
Invoice forms for Exporters
(new type) at the Herald
office.
ALASKA NUitS
Culled From the Newspapers
Of the Territory.
Stroller’s Weekly, of Juneau,
celebrated its 34th year of
publication by enlarging from
a four to an eight page week
ly paper, despite the depres
sion.
Because of curtailed pro
duction at the Kennecott cop
per mines the Copper River
and Northwestern Railroad ex
pects to close down its 196
miles of rail operating about
the middle of January to re
main idle for three months.
Edward Schultz, aged 69
years, resident of Cordova for
the past 23 years, died in that'
city last week at his apart- j
meat in'the Lathrop building, j
aftei a lingering illness of sev- j
eial years, says the Cordova,
Times.
Ordman Kooley, 5, was at-'
tacked and killed by two sled
dogs, at Kasilof,recently, ac
cording to news taken to Sew
ard by the steamer Starr. The
boy was absent from home but j
a few minutes and when \
found was in a mangled and j
unconscious condition, dying \
shortly after.
~ While helping salvage a I
plane which had been forced
down at Kanakanak, at Dill-:
ingdhom, on Bristol Bay, i
Dwight Mason, 28, teacher in
the government school on the
Bay, was struck in the head
with a piece of pipe being
used as a tripod and died
shortly after the accident.
Mason had been teaching at
Kanakanak but a short time.
He previously had taught at
Kanatak and other Alaska
schools.
In compliance with orders!
received from Washington!
during the past month, pay-1
rolls of the Alaska Railroad
are being sharply reduced all
along the line. Several posi
tions are reported to have been
abolished in the headquarters
offices, maintenance of way
forces are being reduced dras
tically and the shop forces in ;
Anchorage are going on a
five-day week basis, which
means that the present force !
of upwards of 60 men will
continue working but at ma
terially reduced wages.
In the new budget there is
no appropriation for the main
tenance of the two agricultur
al experiment stations in Alas
ka, and the matter has been
taken up by the Delegate with
the appropriations sub-com
mittee, in the hope of securing
an appropriation so that these
stations may continue their
effective work. It is the plan
of the Department to close the
experimental stations in Alas
ka, Guam and the Virgin Is
lands about July 1, 1932, and ;
this saves $126,470.
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RADIO PROGRAM
K O M O
FISHERS BLEND STATION, INC.
Metropolitan Center. Seattle Wn.
(Owing to poor reception during the
earlier part of th» day in Hyder, the
programs printed below will include
only such broadcasts as occur after
5 p. m. daily.)
Program for week ending Saturday,
December 23, 1932.
Sunday, January 17
5:00 Enna Jettick Melodies, NY
5:15 Collier's Radio Hour, NBC-NY
6:15 American Album of Music. NY
6:45 Buick Motor Co., NBC-NY
7:15 Barbasol Co.; NBC-NY.
7:45 Sunday at Seth Parkers, NBC-SF
8:15 Seiberling Singers, ET.
8:30 Carnation Contented Hour, SF.
9:00 Chase and Sanborn Program,
NBC-SF.
9:30 Readers Guide, NBC-SF.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes; LA.
10:15 Organ Recital, NBC-SF.
11:00 Silent. *
Monday, January 18
5:15 Stock Quotations.
5:30 Pacific Coast Borax Co.. NBC-NY
6:00 Maytag Orch., NBC-Chicago.
6:30 General Motors Program; NY
7:00 Baldy Homespun Melodies.
7:15 P. S. P. and L. Novelty Program.
7:30 M.J. B. Demi Tasse Revue.
8:00 Amos and Andy
SMS Vermont Lumberjacks, NBC-SF
S:30 Voice of Firestone, NBC-NY.
9:00 Florists Telegraph Del. Assn. ET
9:15 G. Washington Coffee Refining
Co. Sherlock Holmes, NBC-NY
9:45 The Stebbins Boy3, NBC-Chi.
10:00 Richfield News Flashes
10:15 Gold Shield Symphony Hour.
10:30 Schwabacher’s Symphony Orch.
11:20 Globe Trotter.
11:30 Hotel St. Francis Dance Orch.
12:00 Fox Fifth Avenue Organ
12:30 Silent
Tuesday, January 19
5:00 Brazilian Coffee Matinee, NY.
5:30 Heel Hugger Harmonies, N.
5:45 Stock Quotations.
6:00 McKesson Musical Magazine, NY
6:30 Fuller Brush Man, NBC-NY
7:00 Lucky Strike Dance Orch, NY.
8:00 Amos and Andy.
8:15 Gen. Pet. Corp. Memory Lane.
8:45 Sperry Smiles, NBC-SF.
9:00 Caswell Coffe Concert NBC-SF
9:15 Chevrolet Chronicles.
9:45 The Stebbins Boys, NBC-Chi.
10:00 Richfield News
10:15 Greater Washington Hour.
11:15 Globe Trotter.
11:25 Hotel St. Francis Dance Orch.
12:00 Fifth Avenue Organ Recital
Wednesday, January 20
5:15 Stock Quotations
5:30 Goodyear Tire Co. Program.
0:00 Halsley Stewart Hour NBC-Chl.
0:30 Mobiloil Program, NBC-NY.
7:00 Coco Cola Program, NBC-NY.
7:30 Washington Baker’3 Program.
8:00 Amos and Andy.
8:15 Vermont Lumberjacks, NBC-SF
S:30 Wesson Oil Snowdrift Sales Co.
9:00 Rin Tin Tin Thrillers, NBC-SF
9:15 Montag Fireside Hour,
9:45 Seiberling Singers
10:00 Richfield News
10:15 Fisher's Blend Hour.
10:20 Fishers Blend Hour.
11:20 Globe Trotter.
11:30 Hotel Olympic Dance Orch.
12:00 Fifth Avenue Organ Recital
12:30 Silent.
Thursday, January 21
5:00 Fleischmaun Sunshine Hour
0:00 Am. Radiator Corpn. NBC-NY.
0:30 Maxwell House Melodies, NY
7:00 Lucky Strike Dance Orch. NY
8:00 Amos and Andy.
8:15 Standard Symphony Hour, SF
9:15 Sperry Smiles, NBS-SF.
9:30 Baldy Homsepun Melodies.
9:45 The Stebbins Boys, NBC-Chi.
10:00 Richfield News
10:15 Mozart Hour.
10:20 Schwabacher Mozart Hour.
11:20 Globe Trotter.
11:30 Olympic Hotel Dance Orch.
12:00 Fifth Avenue Organ Recital.
12:30 Silent.
Friday, January 22
5:00 Cities Service Concert Orch.
0:00 Cheesborough Friendship Town.
6:30 Armour Hour, NBC-Chi.
7:00 Paul Whiteman's Painters.
7:30 RKO Hour NBC-NY.
S:00 Amos and Andy.
S: 15 Brownbuilt Footlites, NBC-SF
•8:30 MJB Demi-Tasse Revue, NBC-SF
9:00 W. P. Fuller, House of Color
9:30 Fisher Flouring Mills Recital
9:45 The Stebbins Boys, NBC-Chi.
10:00 Richfield News
10:15 The Globe Trotter.
10:25 Moonlight Meditations. NBC-SF
11:00 Olympic Hotel Dance Orch
12:00 Fifth Avenue Organ Recital.
12:30 Silent.
Saturday, January 23
5:00 Health Products Corporation;
Danger Fighters, NBC-SF.
5:30 Totem Broadcasters, Program
under auspices of National Ad
visory Council on Radio in Ed
ucation. NBC-NY.
6:00 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
6:30 Campana, The First Nighter.
7:00 Lucky Strike Dance Orch. NY
8:00 Amos and Andy.
8:15 Gilmore Circus, Gilmore Oil Co.
8:45 F. S. Lang Male Quartet.
9:00 El Sidelo Minstrels, NBC-SF
9:20 Globe Trotter
9:30 Associated Oil Co., Spotlight
Revue, NBC-SF.
11:00 Life Saver Success Reporter.
11:10 Olympic Dance Orchestra.
12:00 Fifth Avenue Organ Recital.
12:30 Silent.
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