The sun. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1937-1972, December 19, 1947, Image 6
THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C.
J UDY kept her eyes on the Jersey
shore line all the while she was
talking.
"I ... I don’t know what to do,’*
she said. “He asked me, it I could,
to let him know tonight.”
She had tried to tell Ted about
Lloyd Richards earlier that evening
—first, when they
met, and then when
they were having
dinner in the cafe
teria—but each time
she had made the
mistake of looking
at him. And then
they were in the
narrow park by the
river, and she
couldn't put it off any more.
“He ... he says we could be
married tomorrow,” she went on.
“He’s staying in town another day.”
And there it was! She sat back
and pressed her hands in her lap.
She didn't want Ted tq see how they
were trembling.
But Ted wasn't watching. His
arms were hooked over the back of
the bench and he was staring out on
the Hudson. His short-cut hair and
dark, brooding face stood out sharp
ly against the cluster of lights from
the Palisades. She reached out to
touch him—to clear that face, even
for a moment—then she fought back
the impulse. . . . “Oh, I'm going to
kill him!” she thought wildly. "If
he just sits there and takes it like
that!”
“I think you should do it,” Ted
said.
Judy went limp. She dug her nails
Into her flesh and felt nothing. "I
... I promised I’d call him,” she
said weakly. "He’ll be waiting."
Imagine? Making a crack like
that! She’d fix him good!
“Why shouldn't you?” Ted said
egain. “This Richards can give you
the things you should have.” He
straightened his leg and his heel
tore a rut in the dirt path. “What
can I give you?”
Nothing, Ted. Nothing at all, you
big lug. Only everything a girl. . . .
“What could I give you?" Ted
went on. “You’d have some life with
me. Dinners in cafeterias. Evenings
in parks. On our honeymoon, for
variety we’d go to a museum. You’d
have some sweet life!”
It sounded sweet enough to Judy,
but she didn’t say as much. This
was the beginning of a familiar
routine. There was nothing that
could be done until it ran itself out.
“A lawyer!" Ted said. He ad
dressed the single star that hung
dimly above. "Twenty-five thousand
lawyers in New York weren’t
enough. I had to starve, too.”
It didn’t do any good to tell him
that things were bad all over, that
they would pick up; that, after all,
he was only out of law school a
short time. It didn’t do any good,
when he was like this, to tell him
anything. He glared at the people
sitting on the benches around them
as though they were directly re
sponsible.
“Let me tell you,” he said, "you’ve
got to be somebody to starve to
death in this town. Do you think
they’ll let anyone starve? Nol
You’ve got to have background.
You’ve got to have a college diploma
and a law certificate and an office to
hang them up in, and then, okay,
you can go ahead and starve."
The woman on the next bench was
eyeing Ted nervously. Judy stood
up. “Let's walk a bit,” she suggested.
She slipped an arm through his
and walked lightly beside him, a
slim girl in a simple dark dress.
Her brown eyes were troubled, as
Ted hurried her along. He couldn't
stay depressed long—not when she
was with him. When they were to-
closed It quickly. When he let go of
her she hung on to his lapels.
Ted spoke through her hair. “You
were saying something about some
guy named Lloyd?”
TUDY waited until she could feel
solid ground again beneath her.
"Don’t joke about it, Ted, please.
The man wants to marry me.”
“He does?” Ted shook his head
in wonder. “You don’t say so?”
This was more like it This was
Ted. Judy sighed. If she could only
keep him like that.
“I don’t suppose I want to marry
you?" Ted said. “I suppose my in
tentions aren’t honorable?”
He was still smiling, but it was
very much on the surface. “I sup
pose, if there weren’t a dam good
reason, we wouldn’t have married
long ago?"
Two years, to be exact Two years
that could have been among the hap
piest in their lives.
“Tell me," Judy said. She tried to
keep her tone light. “Just for the
record. What was that wonderful
reason again?”
Ted turned away, wearily. “Let’s
skip that for once,” he said.
She slipped an arm through his
slim girl in a simple dark dress.
gether, he was soon the real Ted.
And that couldn’t help but make a
success. That was why it was im
portant that they. . . .
Ted freed his arm and tried to
drop it around her. Judy stepped
aside. Ted looked surprised and
drew her into the shadow of a
tree.
“Hiya, Judyl” He was smiling at
her now.
“. . . it’s getting late,” she said.
”1 have to call Lloyd."
“Lloyd? Who’s Lloyd?"
She looked at him furiously.
“We’ve only been talking about him
for the last . . ,i”
“Gosh, honey!” Tod ran his hands
back over her ha ! r. “You’re so
swell.”
“Ted, now pL . .1” Judy wrenched
her mouth to one side and then
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and walked lightly beside him, a
She was as tired of the subject as
he was. They had been over and
over it countless times without get
ting any place. . . . Yes, Ted said,
he knew all about it. Two could
live as cheaply as one, sure. And
Judy could keep her Job. Sure. Okay,
he said, he didn’t think she could
support him in the manner in which
he had become accustomed. And
so, until the time he could handle
that end of it decently himself. . . .
Judy knew it was useless, but still
she persisted. She had used the same
phrases so often, she knew them by
heart . . . “Don’t you see, darling,
we’d at least have each other. . . .
Those other things aren’t important.
. . . We’d at least. . . .”
“Let’s not discuss it,” Ted said.
“We’ll just have to wait.”
“Why should we wait?” She
clenched her hands angrily. "We
don’t know how long it’ll be. I want
to settle it—right now!
He turned back to her slowly. “I
see. Before you speak to your friend,
Mr. Richards?”
She had forgotten about that, but
now she met his gaze fully. “Yes,
before I speak to him."
“It’s always good to have a guy
in reserve, isn’t it?” Ted said.
She gulped in some air. All right,
my boy! O. K.I She waved at him
airily. “So nice to have known you,”
she said, and walked away.
“What was so nice about it?” Ted
called after her.
Oh, it was pretty nice, Theodore,
don’t kid yourself. But Judy didn’t
glance back. She crossed the drive
and went on down the street.
Back in the park there, she knew,
he was miserable. And that made
her miserable, too. But they couldn’t
go on like' that indefinitely. There
was no other way.
Besides, it wouldn’t last long. She
knew his moods perfectly. Let’s see
now. She looked at her watch. Two
minutes for despair, then the next
two for thought . . . and then, in
about two or three more. . . .
She slowed down. She wasn’t so
sure now. They’d fought before and
sometimes hadn’t made up for days.
But then he didn’t have much to
worry about. He could just let it
slide. He could let everything slide.
This time. . . .
She was near panic when she
reached the corner—and then she
heard heavy footsteps behind her.
She caught a glimpse of Ted as she
rounded the building. And his wild,
frightened face was enough. The
only thing that troubled her now
was where they would live—uptown
or out in the suburbs.
As for her conscience, that didn’t
trouble her at all. Consciences,
sometimes, were pretty much of a
bore. And as for Lloyd Richards-
well, she wouldn’t even have to call
him. Lloyd knew her answer. She
had given it to him that afternoon.
Trend Toward Religious Christmas Indicated
50,000 Youngsters Select
Ideal Father and Mother
NEW YORK. — The ideal father
has the daring of Roy Rogers, the
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The ideal mother has the "soft
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People are placing greater emphasis this year on the religions
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Nativity scenes and reproductions of famous Madonnas. Present-day
religious practices are emphasized by congregations streaming to
church on Christmas morning, families praying and choir boys sing
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I cannot think or reason,
I only know He came.
With hands and feet of healing
And wild heart all aflame.
With eyes that dimmed and softened
At all the things He saw,
And in His pillared singing
I read the marching Law.
I only know He loves me.
Enfolds and understands—
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And oh, His certain hands.
The Man, the Christ, the Soldier,
Who from His cross of pain
Cried to the dying comrade,
“Lad, we shall meet again.”
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The basic idea for today’s expres
sive Christmas greetings traces
back to an old English custom. More
than 250 years ago, English school
children demonstrated their pen
manship by drawing elaborate
“Christmas Pieces” using large
sheets of special paper with en
graved borders picturing the year’s
Important events.
Our Favorite Trees
For Christmas
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They brought back the balsam fir.
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wood.
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The Burning of the Greens has
i formed a central part of Twelfth
! Night festivities in England since
the Middle Ages. Large fires were
I held to purify the fields and to
I assure bountiful crops. Everyone in
the district gathered together tc
sing the Wassail Song and to drink
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The ceremony was revived in
America in 1930, when George M.
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Greens at Rochester, N. Y., and
since has become an annual event
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ties. Discarded Christmas trees and
wreaths were held for the New
Year’s celebration, then collected
and burned at a gala community
bonfire. It has been accepted as the
end of the New Year’s celebrations
Character of Santa
C,laus oCeads Oth eM
No other Christmas symbol has a
greater hold on the youth of the
world than the character of Santa
Claus. He probably originated in
Holland and was imported to Amer
ica by the early Dutch settlers.
While his character has been changed
in different countries and regions
he remains in spirit the same Santa
that came from Holland.
Object to (Christmas
To the Jehovah’s Witnesses, i
Christmas tree in one’s home “sig
nifies that one is willing to'worship
the evil descending all the way
from Nimrod.”
The Witnesses also believe thai
Christmas should not be celebrated
because it Is an admixture of t
Christian idea and a pagan setting
The older Witnesses still observi
Christmas because the founder no
where spoke against ih
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