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I PAGE 7-D The Columbia Record By ERNIE BUSIIMILLER Thunday October 12 1950 Daddy The Great Columbia Ringtail Great Day like a runner fart lie said he felt like a runner rtrong He aaid he felt like a runner so fast and ao rtrong that nothing could atop him not eveji that great big tree right there not even if the Huffen ran kerrmack agalnrt it "Now now Daddy Ringtail raid with a laugh He thought NANCY KEEP THIS DIAAE FOR I'M TRYING TO SAVE BUGS BUNNY By WE8LEY DAVIS Today wai tha treat great day Mugwump Monkey and the Huffen Fuffen were going to aee about things they were: Each of them had a quantum rapiule Each of them equeezed it tight in hia hand Smoke came from between their fingers Red amoke from the lluf-fen'a hand Blue amoke for Mugwump Oh It waan't a amoke from fire that bum it waa amoke from the quantum capsules Everyone waited The Huffen waited Mugwump waited And ao did Daddy Ringtail They were welting to are wbat would happen next Thoae quantum capaulea were very mysterious thinga you aee "Does anyone feel different now?" Daddy Ringtail asked "Aha! eald the Huffen In his wolfy voire nI feel different si-icady I do I feel like a some-Ihing I have never felt like "Aha from me aaid Mugwump In hia wolfy voice "And a queer queer feeling la now over But the Huffen waa wanting to do the raying firat of what hia feeling waa like lie aaid he felt $750 Phono 4-0333 COMPARISON TUNE-UP TIGHTENING SPECIAL 1 Tune Motor 2 Tighten and Adjuat Brakea 3 Tighten all body bolta Tighten all spring bolta and ahacklea 5 Clean and replace wheel hearings fL Align front wheel (Toe-In) 7 Cheek all steering connections All the above operations for a special price of JOHNSON MOTOR SERVICE 8939 Main 8t gSEeeSBBE WE CHALLENGE APPEARANCE OF CONDITION LAST OF A SERIES Unpublished Manuscript By Frances Gives Sparkling Autobiography Of TWO CONVENIENT LOTS MUTUAL MOTORS Phone 4-1673 2218 Main St Pursuit Of Happiness A Free Evening By JftABKMK end HUBBARD -HOOVER "Seem to me Jlin Brennan It remarkably Rood fmlly man Hu bard He takes hie full share of responsibility for the their discipline their education and their "Don't think that's Juit an accident Isa hells Jim told me he had to learn the hard way to be good father Ife an instructive story and there Is an amusing angle to said that when he and Ellen were married he hadn't a domeitic bone in his body Ha was crazy about Ellen but ha had been on his own quite a few years and ha didn't want to feel that he had to spend all his time with one person So before they were married they made an agreement that each should have one tree evening a week -no questions asked "The arrangement- worked out fne for a while Mostly they forgot shout fneir free nights and went mu together But sometimes Just to hold the franchise he went out bowling with the boys and she went visiting some of her old girl friends that he didn't like then there was a baby coming and Ellen didn't feet Ilka running arcund At first Jim was so delighted with the thought of pa-lernity and so suliritoua for his wife that he didn't want to go out either But before long he felt liko a caged lion and probably acted like one Ellen urged him to taka his free night She said sht would enjoy resting "After the baby ramr there were no more free nights for Ellen They didn't have much money and they couldn't afford a bnhy sitter In the course of Ihe next lew years there were two other babies and Ellen had her hands full Jim enjoyed tho children a he enjoyed all little he liked lo play with them But the care they required hoied b'm He spent more and more time at his rluh and hie free evening increased from one a week to three nr four Ellen never com-plained whrn their oldest child Belly was ten Ellen began to feel that family life waan't what it should be instead of mourning or scolding she decided to do something about it One evening when Jim came home he found Ellen drvysril all ready to go out Thia Is my free she said 'Dinner is nn Ihe tahle and Betty will help you with the dishes and getting the children tn bed need the car Jim was flshhrrgurtrd hut what could he any? She was quite within her rights was surprised to find that there was a certain deep joy in hearing the children's prayers nnd lurking them into bed but he was exhausted too And he waa tormented hy wondering what Ellen was doing three miserable weeks Ellen broke down and told him she hail spent her free evenings driving up one street and down tho other and that often she had to park so she rould dry her tears got the point lie auddenly realized that he had been treating his wife and children very and himself ton A man can't shirk hi paternal responsibilities without losing the licit experience of fa' (Copyright 19VH PeeWee Reese is the only one of the 19 player who saw service with the 1941 National league champion Dodgers still with the team A man from Malvern England has rycled 1200 miles through Europe without a puncture Mrs Keith had to face the rest of her life alone Again her courage sustained her and she continued to participate in the life around her and to use her pen to good advantage Pei haps nothing ever touched her more deeply than did the death it Ihe grandchild who bore her name However she faced that sorrow as she would have a lion and conquered it Her own life extended only a few short months beyond Hie loss of her grandchild and on October 4 1948 Frances Guignard Gihhes Keith died She hud been called "a woman of glowing We should like to add and a woman nf glowing courage Behind that slow-moving pain-laden qu ie 1 -spoken fucade there lived and breathed a woman who had taken illness sorrow and tragedy and made of them thing! o' leauty and enduring delight Answers to Previous Pu2zfeT EE MLMW3 PJUL30 mwouwau jucisiatiranuaiui-x HPJOl-l UllllfcJldl SWLTTTFggj 43 Burrowing animal 46 Famous English school 47 Roman road 48 Indian weight! 50 Milk pail 52 Era 34 Us 56 Symbol for njtoo 29 Vend 30 Chinese weight 39 Dolts 40 Assist 42 Bamboolike grass 43 Makes mistakes 44 Symbol for liver OLIVER MOTOR COMPANY OCTOBER itniti I A Srttii! It tU Keith 'Lucy' tn take up mi American bank and discoter nut only nn trace nf elaborate driving fnr effect of literary self-runsciouaness hut a production worihy of the Elizabethan tradition of poetic drama hnl undoubtedly this work gives distinction In Ihe American pnetir drama of the new Surely Mrs Keith had reason to be pleased with such a critical survey of her play Another critic wrote of the same play readeis were intpiessed with (lie soft langourous melody of her lines the tich sensuous phrasing the search for the inevitable word the maik nf a fastidious at tut Her lyriis pulsate with strong emotion which is constantly restrained hy reflection and psychological analysis Tlte burden of her songs is the esxenliiil worth of the human heart Hie hi-auty of individual effort and the glory of aspiration Everywhere is an earnest probing of the mysteries nf nnture and I lie nreuit relation of the individual lo the Over-soul" Following the sucres of Mrs Keilh devoted herself almost exclusively to the writing nf poetic dramas in Carolina" Strange Woman" and "Jael'' were some of her most beautiful She iierself says Face'' was her most successful poetic disnm although she did not feel Hint waa ns good as In 1919 Mrs Keilh was interviewed for The Ktate newspaper The In lervicwer asked her do you write a and Mrs Keith's answer was very revealing idea lakes possession of nte and I have lo express it in a dramatic way For inslnnre I was reading in Ihe Apocrypha 'separate yourselves front Ihe heathen of the hind and from the women' I got the Idea for 'The Strange Woman" from At least two volumes of poetry tame from Ihe pen of Frances Guignard Gibbes All hough Dr Maurice Frances Egan wrote nf her poems 'The' Mocking Her work is exquisitely musical and hat (rue Betrachnn feeling No sweeter titter rendering of the impressions made hy a bird than her Mocking ia to he found in alt American Mrs Keith herself said (hat she preferred to all Ihe rest of her poems Although Mrs Keilh saw Fn'-e" prodined In New York at Beach and heard it nn a National hook-up over the radio she always frit that the Town Theatre gave the play the pel feel production Five of her plays were produced on the stage of the Town Theatre In Columbia and she felt that all of them had been well done but that the artistic triumph of tier life and perhaps the aitislic triumph of the Theatre was in the production they gave to Knee" Professor Keith died in 1 and HORIZONTAL 3 Chicken 4 Behold! 5 Ileum (comb form) 6 Go by plane 7 Opening in a fence 8 Cupid 9 Musical note 10 Doctors (eb) 11 Reverberate 12 Require 17 Forenoon (ab) 1 Depicted flower 7 It is a hardy plant 13 Cacti spine ravlty 14 Mulct 13 Number 16 Muse of lyric poetry 18 Pronoun 10 Electrical unit liKIJCX KOIIX 11EXNIG It must be a delightful aensation to receive a bequest of a million dollHre from an unrle one had never known exlited Surely it rould nnt he pleasanter however tn receive the million dollars Ihnn it was to find al the Carolina Library of the University of South Carolina an unpublished manuscript by Fram es Keith who wrote under the pen name of Frances Guignard Gibbes In this manuscript titled "Lucy" Mrs Keith has written a charming auto-biography tender interesting amusing and very challenging to the Columbians who knew the people mentioned in this book Frances Gulgnnrd Gibbes was the daughter of Wade Hampton Gibbes and Jane Allan Mason Gibbes both of whom ranie from distinguished ancestry She was born in Columbia with which her family had been brilliantly associated for many years and grew up in the capital city of South Carolina In the autobiography which Mrs Keith labels Lucy A Novel" she tells of her early education in this city and of the fact that she was fortunate enough to come under the training of Mrs Preston Dnrby whom she labeled "a true Frances Gibbes' early childhood followed the usual pattern of girls born into families of wealth and Influence Some of the most charming passages In the book tell of the little girl's Interest In Trinity church which was attended by her family and of her confusion in hearing people speak of the prayers of the congregants winging up to God She was always puzzled as to whether they went through the windows and If so what happened when the windows were closed If they did not wing through the windows was there a tiny hole in the roof This was even more confusing because she could visualize the prayers many of them all fighting to get through the tiny opening Mre Keith does not spare herself when she tells of making her debut at the famous St Cecelia Bail in Charleston and of her efforts to he a wit for says the author "I knew I was not witty" Perhaps not but she eertatnly accomplished the purpose of which she started out in telling the story of the bishop at the dinner table One of the great tragedies in Frances Gibbes life was the loss of her beloved mother Such an experience made her feel that she must express her unhappiness through the form of poetry She herself stated that she had certain assets notably that she loved poetry observed closely nature and human nature the beauty of form and sound and color and above all she was sincere and willing to work These felt Frances Gibbes were not too many assets with which to start out life as a poetess However luck was on her side for the South Carolina Legislature passed a law allowing women to enroll as students at South Carolina An announcement was made that there was really no use to get so excited about this new law for "no woman could be bold enough to enter South Caro 1949 Chrysler Windsor Highlander 4 door radio and heater extra dean $2195 sssaesesses 1946 Chrysler Royal 4 dr radio and Cl IQK heater yjlilw 7 1942 Chrysler Royal COQC 4 door 1949 Plymouth Spedal Deluxe club coupe heater 1 495 ssssaeasssss 1948 Plymouth De- ClflQR luxe 2 dr VlUUO 1950 2S' $1695 1949 Chevrolet Special 4 dr hpater- $1595 sessesssess it ell a Joke you know: Why nobody could run keremaek againat a mighty tree and Jurt keep going The Huffen barked up and away from the tree He leaned back to get ready- to run and there he came like the fait! 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Mrs Keith was partially French by inheritance Of her hiisband she wrote was the country of liis inelinslions'' He spent many years studying in that counlry and absorbing Ihe ntmospheir and the beauty around him Their honeymoon" as Mrs Keith culled it was spent in Italy and in France Hiid year aflrr year the two who loved the culture and the beauty of Europe went abrnnd for a summer of relaxation and study In 19M Forum" a popular magazine ran a series of opinions on the subject you think thnt romunee is an asset or a liability to They invited Mrs Keith to contribute her opinion This would certainly not have hern necessary had they read the manuscript for in it she has sensitively beautifully poignantly told of the growing love whlrh existed in her rase at leasl between husband and wife It Is therefore nnt at all surprising lo find her quoted in The Forum as snying that she thinks that is an impossible question lo answer for nnr learns In love and to know onr's mate grad' unity as the years go on Pmfrssor Keilh happened to he in the United Stales the year thnt war broke out In France and Mrs Keilh always felt that it was that Imky accident which kept him out of Ihe French army In 1914 lie did a great deal of war work in Columbia however while she served as chairman of the Snulh Carolina Chapter The Fatherless Children of Frnnee and was filled with pride that her organization adopted 9d0 children Her huahnnd finally attended officers' training camp and prepared to help his beloved France when he received his commission However the war ended before he ever gnt into the actual fighting which Mrs Keith says a great relief to me" When the terrible flue epidemic struck Columbia alt of the Keith family were taken ill Mrs Keith however seemed not to recover from this illness and was finally so desperately sick that it was decided to send her to Johns Hopkins for treatment She tells amusingly of the fact that site thought she must be a very popular lady be rause all of the doctors managed lo find a reason lo visit her at Johns Hopkins She was quite dlsallusion-ed when slie discovered that the attraction was nut herself hut the fact that she had been diagnosed ns suffering from sleeping sickness and most of the doctors at Johns Hopkins had never seen a rase When she learned lhit she would probably never lie well again and that always she would have to carry-wit her intense pain caused by in-imy to the nerve ends of her body she fined the situation courageously and realistically Was she going around complaining whining sick woman or would she conquer pain as she would have liked to conquer a lion? She derided on the latter and tried for the rest of her life not to bring her own suffering into the consciousness of her friends nnd acquaintances As a matter of face she niys that nothing annoyed her more (hen having people ask her how she felt In an effort to forget her pain she thiew herself into writing which she had neglected (o a very-large extent since her marriage and the birth of her only daughter Frances Keilh Some years earlier she had tried her hand at writing a poetic drama As she reread the manuscript she realized that it showed the work of a woman who bad not been tried in the furnace of suffering and so she threw it aside and spent more than a year in re-wriling her play She herself felt that was her best work and she always regarded it with affection because of its excellent quality and because she was sure that through tt she it she had worked through to her own salvation In Mrs Keith tells of a very amusing incident when her husband's fellow-professor Yates Snowden called at their home quite late one evening to say that he couldn't wait until morning tn show them eomelhing Mrs Keith had retired but she could hear Mr Snowden's voice and had decided that surely he had written another poem whlrh he wanted to share with Mr Keith However she found to her delight that it was not a poem but a review of her book which had appeared in The London Times which she considered the epitome of fine literary criticism The Times had laid Is a relief lina women are modest'1 They did not know their Francos Gibbes however Quaking in her hoots contra to the wishes of her father and ihe men of her family she derided to enter Carolina ns the first co-ed Dr Woodrow then President of the South Carolina College suggested to Mr Gibbes that he persuade his daughter Frances to withdraw because the tait of a woman being a student on Ihe CHmpus was creating so much excitement However the self-willed Frances refused to do so She again came in contact with the authorities when she declined to register for a regular course Hy to doing she would have had to take chemistry and mathematics neither subject of which interested her in the least As a matter of fart she speaks of nisi hematics In the same category as rice which she abhorred heartily A compromise was rear lied and Frances Gibbes spoke of her career al Carolina ns being limited "for she had to be content with Lntin German French psychology botony and two classes in Fngllsh" of this in one tenson After her graduation from Carolina Frances Gihbes went to Boston for additional work toward her ambition of becoming a poet When she applied to Radeliffe and told the dean that she was anxious to learn to be a poet the dean dismissed the idea with the words one can learn to be a poet" However she did direct the ambitious young South Carolinian to Josephine Preston Peabody a noted poetess of that city For several seasons Miss Gibbes studied under the famous Miss Peabody nnd gained a great deal of confidence in her own ability 111 health made it necessary for her to spend a year in New Hampshire and it whs while she was regaining her health climbing mountains and admiring the beautiful scenery that she published her first thin volume of poelryThis was well received although she nl-ways felt that It had been done too quickly and without enough polish given to the poems Finally it became time for Frances Gibbes to return to Columbia Her father had died and the family was no longer wealthy Miss Gibbes derided to do what was commonly practiced in Columbia of (hat time open her home to hoarders Among the young boarders who found a delightful home in the old Gibbes house was Osrar Keith who came to South Carolina College to take the piare of Professor Joynes who had headed the department of Romance languages seemed to her that through no volition of her own she had opened her door to a high-powered explosive who however was totally unawate of his own force" France Gibbes had known Oscar Keith off and on during their lives and she had always been interested in him While he was a guest in her home she expressed a desire on one occasion to rend Dante in the original Italian whereupon the young professor offered to leach her Italian He did so and also used the opportunity to more or less express hi own afferiion priests go hai'k to ihe homes of their parents Usually they are of peasant stock and their help is needed in planting and gathering crops It is common for Cambodian men I to join Ihe priesthood for short! periods They are allowed to give' it up after only a year or two An old lule says that Ihe piiests must ncter attend a Cambodian jdance but other people like to go to the dances Dressed in many colors including gold young women of Cambodia appear as dancers On their heads they wear coverings in the shape of pagodas Their face are covered i thickly with a white powder The motions of the dancers are slow and that is a good thing in a hot climate Even with slow motion they pei spire streaks appear in the flour or whatever else they have on their fatvs River boats carry people ftom place to place in Cambodia as in other parts of Indo-China There also ere several railroad lines built by order of the French government Some of the great ruins of Asia have been found within the limits of Cambodia I shall speak of these in our rxt story For TRAVEL section of ynur scrapbook UNCLE BAV Tomorrow: Jungle Ruins Sririce pupils and their teachers may obtain a free copy of a new t'nele Pay leaflet entitled FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT THE PLANETS Simply send a seif-addressed stamped envelope with your request to Unde Ray in care of this newspaper Uncle Corner The Cambodians i 1948 Nash Ambassador Custom 4 door $395 sedan 1948 Ford RinfiC sedan VlUUU $1195 $1095 1947 DeSoto 4 door sedan 1947 Plymouth club coupe 1947 Nash Ambas- ft I I1QR sador sedan 1947 Nash "600" club coupe $995 23 Symbol for AHen selenium 24 One key only (ab) 26 Pace 28 Pause 31 Sound quality 33 Range 33 "Emerald 34 African river S3 Wale 36 Bile 37 Eye (Scot) 38 Hebrew deity 39 Exclamation of surprise 41 Visionary 47 Exists 49 Roman bronss 51 Fungoid disease of rye 52 Goddess of infatuation 53 It Is a 53 Of greater length 57 Races S3 Penetrates VERTICAL 1 Palm fruit 23 Aged 23 Continued story 26 Seethe 27 Ripped In the southern part of French Indo-China Is the area known as Cambodia Its people are and they differ in several ways from the Annamese and other natives of the colony They speak in a more even tone than the Annamese (who have a singsong speech very much like that of Ihe Chinese) Cambodia is a center of the Bud-dhlst faith and contains many thousands of yellow-robed Buddhist priests It is a custom for the priests to "retreat" from the world for three months each year During the other nine months they are likely to go forth to beg for money or food In the begging period a priest carries a bowl from house to A Cambodian woman handling silkworm racoons: house If those who live inside are pious they will give something if only a handful of rice Instead of begging during all the Inina months soma Cambodian AND MANY note All VALVES GAtOEE! 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