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Show r THE PAGE TWO ylvia of the Mmute CHAPTER V By HELEN R. MARTIN Continued 13 "Oh, I say! Stop and have sandwiches and coffee with me!" she suggested chummlly not at all as a subordinate addresses a superior officer. "I can't bear eating alone It's almost gross, Isn't It? Will you? I've heaps I've a we'll have a Jolly lunch thermos bottle of hot coffee, good strong coffee that I made myself," she chattered as she began to set things cut on the flat desk-tofeeling exhilarated at a bit of normal human association and talk after ber weeks of strained, artificial relations. With this man, If they kept off of pedagogy, she could be herself up to a certain point at least (though of course she would have to watch her accent). She almost snatched his hat and coat away from him as she directed him to draw up his chair before the array of dainty sandwiches, coffee and fruit which she had spread out. "But," he said as he placed their chairs and they sat down, "why Is my company all of a sudden so welcome? An hour ago it was, 'You here again !' " "Well, since you know the very worst about me, I can enjoy a chat with you. I've been dying for a man to talk to! I've been almost driven to flirting with the wooden Indian in front of the village cigar store !" "'Flirting'? I'm afraid I can't play up. Don't know how. Afraid I've always been rather a stick with girls," he said dolefully, his eyes on her glowing face and creamy neck encircled by a fluffy, fluted white ruffle. What a brute he had been to make her cry anything so dainty and sweet ! "I wouldn't presume to flirt with the county superintendent," she reassured him, "who knows the very worst about me !" "The very worst you're sure?" "What further do you suspect me of? Not knowing the Presidents in order? Well, I don't Nor the Twelve Apostles either. And I can't name offhand the Chinese dynasties for the past five thousand years. Have some 1 Copyright by Dodd. Mead WNU Service Co. Conversation at supper, In spite of her efforts to sustain It, seemed to languish. No one but Aunt Itosy seemed to be in the mood for this friendly chatting. "Susie tol me about your holdln' up young Crelghton and takin" hla watch off of him, Sam," she said, "and If I was you I wouldn't like It so well that that fast young fellah got a foot hold In here with Nettle so lovesick she don't know half the time what she's about " "I don't know what you mean by a 'foothold,' Aunt Rosy," replied Mr. Schwenckton irritably. "He ain't been round here since." "How do you know he ain't? JThis after, when I got here, I seen Nettle makin' sich chocolate futch and " "Yes," broke In Susie In a tone of grievance, "and mind what she done m fellow-professo- lips. I was thinking of " "Editor of Foreign Affairs," she nodded then Instantly regretted her knowledge of tills English editor. Wasn't the mention of him a halt? Would an American be apt to know of him? "Of course," she hastened to add, "liberals all over the world must take heart from Mr. stendfnst courage and heroism !" "Ye but he Isn't very much known In America how did you come to know of him?" Head about him in The Nation." He locked surprised. "I'm sure," he said, "you are the only teacher under my jurisdiction that has ever even heard of that paper!" Conversation with him was, after nil, too full of pitfalls, she decided. She was glad when the children's returning to the schoolroom obliged him to take his leave. Her curiosity as to how much he suspected was fairly consuming her. "Heavens, no! Mr. E. D. Morell, for Instance I'm Afraid I Can't Play Don't Know How. Arald I've Always Been Rather a Stick With "'Flirting!' Up. Girls." She cooked my fire out, so's I had to build it fresh to cook my sup- yet! per!" "And when her futch was done a'ready, did she offer some to me and Susie? She did not! And what's more, I don't see none of it beln' passed 'round to yous neither! What did she done with that there futch? Why, I seen her packln' it all up nice In a white box and hidin' It good away! Who for? That's what you'd better find out, Sara Schwenckton! Who for?" Nettie, her face crimson, muttered something about "a big nosey" and "buttin" Into other folks' business" but her father Interfered. "Be peaceful, both of you. I won't have no wranglln' at our meals. Till supper's through a'ready. Nettle can tell me who the futch Is for." Nettle, flashing a look of hate at Aunt Itosy, subsided Into a sullen silence. Aunt Rosy was certainly a very disturbing element in this household. It was because of her presence here this evening that Mr. Schwenckton found himself, greatly to his astonishment, not to say bewilderment and distress, "up against" the younger generation In a way that was a shocking revelation to him of how times had changed. Incredible It seemed to his patriarchal Ideas of family life that his own young daughter should dare to defy him but here was the fact before his very eyes Nettle stubbornly refusing to snswer his questions as to what she had done with the fudge she had made. She admitted that It was already disBut neither commands, posed of. threats nor coaxings would elicit anything further from her. . Meely was pledged for a rendezvous, school-closintime, with St. Croix In the woods on the hilltop. This would be her first meeting with about g too-read- y CHAPTER VI Aunt Rosy was again at the Schwenckton', and It was manifest was not "ovci-- I that her brother-in-lapleased" at ber unexpected visit. News Notes It's a Privilege Embryo Lawyer Put Apparently lawyers are born and not made. If a dcllg'itful yarn published the Manchester Guardlun correctly illustrates the development of the legal mentality from a start In the cradle, writes the London correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor. Tliere had been a certain liveliness In the nursery Just before bedtime, with the result thnt some of the furniture was broken. There was a fog of highly conflicting evidence In the nursery, and father decided that, falling a full and accurate account of what had hnppened, an anticipated holiday at Scarborough should be canceled. After some moments of deep thought his young son, who will probably some day be lord chancellor, summed up the position In a sentence "I hove said I didn't do It hut If I cnti'J go to Scarborough unless I say 1 ill.) do It I think I had better say I did It; but If I did do It I dou't know I did In TtC to Live in Utah him since their wordless encounter In the Schwenckton kitchen the night of the "holdup" and Meely, as she hastCEDAR CITY A $35,000 swimming ened after school to the bill, was tingling with curiosity as to what he pool at Zion National park. Including would have to say of that dangerous water treating plants, facilities for the resermoment which they had managed to installation of a 100,000-gallovoir and fifteen more cabins at Zloo come through so uabetrayingly. She was pretty sure that poor little and Bryce are some of the ImproveNettle's fudge had been made for St ments to be installed by the Utah Croix. "For all I know, he has been Parks company, F. E. Lesser, superseeing her and has discovered that I intendent of the lodge and hotel service announced. am the teacher!" she speculated. LOGAN Twenty dairymen of Hyde Not that she believed he had been seeking Nettle. He was, for the time, Park held a special meeting and detoo engrossed In herself. But Nettle, cided to form a cooperative bull assoIn her adolescent infatuation, may ciation, consisting of three blocks. have been thrusting herself upon him John Duce, Willard Duce and L. Lamb and St Croix would not be overscru- were named as temporary directors of pulous In accepting gifts the gods of- the three blocks. Another session will be held February 27 to perfect an orfered. "I'll find out about that fudge," ganization and also purchase bulla Meely resolved, "and If he Is taking M. C. Reeder had charge of this meet advantage of that Ignorant child, I'll ing. protect her!" PLEASANT GROVE Utah ranked She wondered, as she went on her eighth in the United States in the way, whether St Croix would notice actual number of cases of canned the coat she wore. The season having goods pro'duced in 1927 and Beventh in advanced too far for her gaudy voile the equivalent number of standard frock, without a wrap, she was In a cases of twenty-fou- r No. 3 cans, ao bit of a predicament, for her Jacket cording to bulletin of the bureau of suit was far too stylish for the Meely census of the depratment of commerce of St. Croix' mental gallery and the Just issued. From its thirty-thre- e faconly other wrap she had was this half tories in Utah is produced 1,018,562 worn-ou- t coat she had used on the cases of canned goods and 792,264 of steamer en route for America, an Eng- twenty-fou- r No. 3 cans, in equivalent, lish tweed that had once been such a according to the report. Maryland led s garment she feared St the list with 18,870,894 cases of canCroix would instantly detect its qualned goods and 13,137,042 of twenty-fou- r No. 3 cans. ity and style he was so observant and Informed In such matters well, DELTA The framers of the Pahrather ! vant valley' are making strenuous efIf he did notice that her coat was a forts to get away from the one-crogood English tweed and ask questions, plan which has been in operation here how on earth should she explain? She for a number of years in the produc-ito-n would have to trust to the inspiration of alfalfa seed. The plan which of the moment is now being promoted by local busi"It's almost unbelievable that Tve ness men and farmers is to diversify come through so far without his disthe crops in such a manner that the covering me I I'm some actress, I raising of alfalfa seed will be incidam ! They'll certainly have to notice ental rather than the main crop. me when I get to Hollywood !" OGDEN One hundred grown ChiHe was there ahead of her at their nese pheasants are soon to be brought meeting place and the nipping air of from the state farm at Springville and the hilltop had acted as an Irritant placed on the game preserve In the to both his passion and his temper. It western part of Weber county, under was getting much too cold for these an agreement reached between D. H. meetings and he knew of Madsen, state fish and game commit) no place under a roof where they sioner, and the Weber County FisU could get together without risk of de- and Game Protective association. Th tectionespecially as Meely's father announcement was made by P. L. had grown suspicious for some rea- Ford, president of the Weber associson ; he had brought old Schwenck-ton'- s ation. funny letter with him to show GUNNISON Railway and aerial her; as a warning that she must be transportation were allied when a more careful ; he would demand an ex group of railroad men and shippers planation from her as to what she christened the Gunnison "airport" and to rouse her father's suspi attended a had done to arrange for meeting cion. construction of a branch line to West-view- , Was there no way that he could near this city. have the girl except by taking her MYTON L. C. Potter, who resides from home But her away altogether? at the North Myton bench and who of course he wasn't going to get him self Into that kind of a mess! Absurd raised 471 sacks of alfalfa seed in 1927, shipped his crop to Price, having sold to think of It! it during the past week to J. Sheehan, St. Croix still felt confident that a Beed buyer for the Griswold Seed when he nodded his readiness, Meely oompany of Lincoln, Neb. Mr. Potter would be only too glad and eager to had the largest crop of any grower in come to him. Why he had put it off this part of the basin. Nine trucks so long was a mystery to himself. were used to haul the crop to the railSomething about her all along had road. seemed to check his being precipiDRAPER J. R. Rawlins, president tate though probably she was Just as of the Draper Poultry association, as he himself his at dallying impatient states that 1135 cases of eggs are now was. But the time was surely ripe now being shipped each week from Draper to eastern markets, and of these, 800 and he must delay no longer. 'I'm very displeased with you," he cases are the product of Draper hens.Coops are being built in Utah's Petabegan as they sat huddled together to luma this spring which wil take care keep warm, on the big flat log. "What of 10,000 more laying hens. The ason earth made you do such a reckless in to this, is putaddition sociation, box as to send that thing, my dear, out sacks of chicken feed 17,000 ting to of fudge my home? My mother got hold of It! Don't ever do such a fool each month. GUNNISON Gunnison Sugar comthing again, Meely ! What on earth pany has added about 1000 acres of made you break out like that?" In Salt Lake and Utah Aeh, well you see, you gimme contract beets them swell handkerchiefs and so 1 counties and, with the local growers maintain the standard of planting wanted to pay you back." It was nice course "Of of you to during the past few years, there Is make the candy for me hut to send every assurance that the 1928 cam It to my home! My mother asked all paign will be the biggest since the sorts of questions she's awfully wo- factory was built. MYTON Sheepmen who have their rried" "She must be awful stuck-uIf herds grazing south of Myton. In Pleas ant and the Nine-Mil- e country you're so scared of her knowln' you sear valley Green River, have begun feeding travel with me! But I knowed folks as much as corn and expect to keep this up until a'ready that's got she's got and they ain't so proud that after the lambing season. Myton la the distributing polat (or this source of they're ashamed to know me!" and truckmen have been kept supply, mother Isn't My 'proud, Meely the corn and groceries busy hauling she's the gentlest, sweetest, deafor the camps. The sheep this season rest" so far are In good condition. He spoke with such feeling that i OGDEN Utah produced 1.018.562 who so seldom saw him sho Meely, fooda last year. This of feeling for anyone but himself, was "se It Incanned puts eighth place among all the Impressed. states of the Union In the production (TO BB CONTINUED.) of this commodity. RICHFIELD Preparations for the building of the tabernacle are being pushed. All the gravel is on the ground and the hauling of sand will be this week. As soon as the It" Father Is reported to have re- completed weather breaks, laying of the foundatired from the dHcussion at this stage, tion will be without risking further discomfiture by will cost commenced. Thj jullding approximately $80,000 and will be equipped for all requirements for many years to comi It will have a big auditorium, classrooms, a full Duttin, the Retourceful Harrison Glbbs tells of a night basement and other apartment. when the stage manager neglected to OGDEN Members of the county plnce a mattress outside the castle walls as a landing place for Dtistlu and city commissions held a Joint conFareum when he made a spectacular ference In the city hall recently In leap In some melodrama. Farnum regard to the proposed paving of two landed with a thud audible all over the theater. To stave off the Inush stretches to connect the city with par- ne ' fetch Is on he thought fast with the remit that ln 'n ,he coun,T- almost Immediately he peeked over Wilson lane from the Twenty-fourtthe parapet and remarked, "The lake street viaduct to the line Is frozen 1" and the other is on the Harrlsville road from Five Points, also to connect with Salt of the Earth the line. City and county The entire evaporation of the engineers were directed to make a reworld's oceans would leave layer of port covering the proposed type of pavsalt 2.15 fet thick. ing and vh' T details. first-clas- p coffee?" She poured him a second cup and his heart thrilled to her as he saw how gay she now looked after her tears. He himself was lonely enough, In all conscience, and this bit of companionship with such an engagingly Impudent child was, to say the least, very diverting. "You made this coffee?" he asked. "Teach that to the girls of your school and I'll advise your trustees to raise your salary and if they taste your coffee they'll do It !" "You put good coffee before learning and call yourself an educator! Men do like their comforts, don't they? I wonder why I'm teaching school anyway, when American cooks are paid such huge wages. What do American cooks do with the millions they earn? Buy country estates and retire?" "American cooks?" he repeated re"How about foreign cooks? flectively. English cooks, for Instance?" She felt a betraying warmth In her cheeks. He suspected her! No wonder, the way she so often spoke of American things, as though she were not an American ! she answered "I should think, calmly, "that with the terrible unemployment we read of over there, cooks I'm told, Mr. ought to be cheap. Crelghton," she changed the subject, as she leaned back in her chair with a sandwich In her hand, "that you're a terrible idealist. How do you manage It?" "I don't. Though the alternative Is Do you (am I to so conclude), like most young people of this day. Imagine yourself a cynic?" "How can one escape It?" I have a cousin who was a radical Socialist until he married a rich wife. I have an uncle who was a liberal in all his r at his ideas until a college was expelled for his liberal-Iswhen my uncle changed his views. Believe In liberals with Ideals? No, It's asking too much !" She shook her head over It hopelessly. "Did you never know anyone," Crelghton asked, "to sacrifice something fur the sake of his Ideals?" "You?" she Inquired, looking et him over an expnnse of sandwich nt her Friday, March 2, 1928 NEPHI, UTAH TIMES-NEW- p tw-!c- Up Successful Plea city-count- city-count- VI A Wife's Transformation The Scorv of the Comeback of Woman Cone to Seed By Mary Culbertsoa Miller NO SUCH THING AS GENTLE BULL Now that dairy farming has come to be an Important part of the agricultural Industry of North Carolina and pure bred stock Is being purchased in, large numbers, It is time to give more attention to handling the herd sire. "In the first place, the dairy bull must be considered the sire of our future herd," says Dr. C. D. Grinnells, dairy investigator at state college. "If this animal Is as good as he should be, he must be liberally fed, properSo ly boused and well exercised. many of our bulls are not fully grown out In developing the young sire, we must aim to promote rapid growth with a large frame and this calls for good feed and handling." But the young sire must be taught that he Is to be under the control of his master. At an early age. It is advisable to Insert a ring In his nose and train him to lead with a staff. This should begin when the animal is from nine to twelve months of age Then as the animal matures, states Doctor Grinnells, feed him roughage of good quality, a liberal concentrate mixture and see that he gets plenty of exercise. Respect his strength enough to keep him under control at all times. Nearly every week one hears of live stock growers being hurt by some bull which was considered harmless. Doctor Grinnells thinks there are few such animals. Especially Is the dairy sire apt to be nervous and Irritable, especially under circumstances new or strange. With the bringing in of many new bulls to build up the herd, the owner should always be prepared to handle his animal with firmness and caution. Early training Is most important Properly trained and well fed, the young bull may become a valuable herd sire that will build up production and add to the profits of the dairy farm. N INSTALLMENT XIX . More About Clothes. HELEN continued her shopping tour the next day she was smil- ing, revealing teeth that had received excellent care in the last few weeks. "Do you know that I'm getting to love the feel of beautiful fabrics? Somev , - it. nu iiniig, I oi iue suuie . t 1. mustT . J .nppeui AS auu . trApeneucva. iu V. liiiiijl uuw .,ia used to just grab anything." The charming shopper smiled back at that, there had been other Helens In her career. "I had an Idea there was a bit of an artist tucked away in that dreamy nature of yours." Then came a thoughtful moment "Brown" is such a good color for you, Mrs. Crane, tlwtj I should like you to make it the ba(c color of your wardrobe. Shoes, stocfo- -' lngs, hats, and sports to tone In. It suits ypur sunny brown hair and hazel eyes so well that I should like you to let your preference for colors lie with the browns, tans, yellow anl ....OF rich creams." They were in ft fitting room now, the shopper was taking down the suit the stock girl had hung up the mo-- j ment before. "I am going to advise, this tan tweed, Mrs. Crane. Isn't this d short box coat a darling? And please note this adorable radium silk blouse. The vest effect is good it buttons high at the neck. The turn-baccuffs are drawn down and turned over the coat sleeves. The skirt you see is just a plain wrap-- ; around." "I've been so fat and clumsy I can hardly visualize myself wearing that nifty little suit," Helen demurred, all the time her eyes fastened lovingly upon it Indulgently the shopper smiled. "With this you must wear a taupe fox scarf when you don't want the tal- -' lored notched effect of your collar. two-tonYour shoes must be calf-skioxfords, without a toe-caand service weight stockings to match the lighter shade of your shoes. Your hat will be a simple tan visca designed to fit your head, a smuli brim and tailored bow." This outfit was typical of the best taste In street clothes. Clothes Sense. "You know" and Helen's smile was Infectious, "I really believe I'm acquiring clothes sisise. I fully realize that this is an Instance where the costume . follows the individuality first." "Fashion should last, my dear Mrs. Crane. Always always consider Individuality first. In this Instance we have admirably combined both. It's too bad that fashion and good taste are not at all times synonymous." "The other day," Helen said, "I called on a woman who Is short and stout she was wearing a dress light In color to her broad hips, then dark' to the hem. It made her look squat- -' ty." "It would a short, stout woman needs every inch of height that line can lend her. Only the tall and very slender can afford to have striking change in values. Take plaids and checks sometimes their color schemes are most pleasing, yet they must be resisted by the short and stout Some women you meet on the streets have the symmetry and line of their bodies broken up by too Plaids greatly contrasting values. and checks, white stripes, flowered material, all must await careful study of the wearer's limitations before selection. I consider plain materials In better taste," the shopper declared unhesitatingly. "I'm quite certain I shall always like them best" Helen enthusiastically concurred. "One of the fundamentals of real smartness, Mrs. Crane, Is that each type of costume has Its own good time h to be worn." The shopper seemed to Gj " be boring that In by her steady gazS Into Helen's brown eyes. "But I'm sorry to say this principle Is sadly violated. Business women frequently appear during office hours In evening frocks, arms bare to the shoulders, and very low necks. They don't seen N to understand that to be smartly dressed Is to understand the fitness of things." Helen vlsloned one that did, but refrained from mentioning It But she did smile Inwardly as she recalled how effectively thnt "pleasing exterior" had pitchforked her Into new avenues of thought and Into new and delightful living. Hats and Shoes. The fitter was putting a few last pins In the hem of Helen's skirt The i ogle eye of the shopper was carefully watching the alterations while she went on talking. "Hats and shoes are Indeed Intergral ports of a costume, Mrs. Crane. And I want to gay Just this while I think of It It Is not the frock, the hnt or the shoes alone that makes n womnn; It Is the suitable combination of ull three of them. "V.fts womnn has the feeling for her dress born In her If she will ojily consciously nld Its development by observation of herself and others. And give plenty of time and thought to this Important question. But hats they really are a problem, niul we'll discus them more fully when ynti have decided to make jour selections." double-breaste- k low-heele- ed n ' Good Bulls Are Sent to Butcher With the Scrubs It Is unfortunate for the dairy industry that good bulls are sent to the butcher along with the mediocre and scrubs when their service is no longer needed In the herd. A careful estimate, says Dr. J. C. McDowell of the federal bureau of dairy Industry, shows that really high-clas- s dairy bulls are going to the butcher at the rate of one every eight minutes from daylight to dark every day In the year. How to stop this great slaughter and keep these bulls for a lifetime of service Is a great problem in dairying. A study of association records shows which are the good bulls and which the inferior ones. But, unfortunately, by the time these records are available most of these bulls have been slaughtered. Doctor McDowell says that it Is of little use to learn how good a bull was after he Is dead, bo he Is urging that some system of exchange be started at once among owners of well-brebulls In order that such animals may be kept until the daughters have demonstrated their sire's true value. cow-testin- g d Minerals for Abortion Not Favored by Iowa Infectious abortion Is not stopped use of minerals In dairy raThis conclusion has been reached at the Iowa State college as a result of experimental tests. This does not mean, however, that minerals by the tions. are of no value. Cows Buffering from lack of minerals are benefited by additional minerals supplied In their feed. Abortions resulting from mineral deficiency are prevented when minerals are fed. There Is a distinct difference In the two types. Anyone who attempts to cure the Infectious types with minerals alone will be disappointed. Strict sanitation Is the only sure treatment so far developed. Dairy Notes Pure milk Is better than purified milk. Always allow cess to salt dairy cows free ac- Building a good herd with scrubs Is as hard as building a good house with refuse lumber. Soy beans when fed to cows should be ground, otherwise most of them will pass through the cow undigested. If cows leave the alfalfa leaves In the mangers they are getting to much protein. Overfeeding, right after calving, often causes rnllk fever. Co slow on the grain for a few days. It's better for the cow to drop a little flesh than maybe to lose her. , cow will not drink large amounts of Ice water nt one time, so If automatic drinking cups ennnot be A pro-Tide- d, a link is heater Installed In the watel the best subrtltut. cc-m-e , well-chos- wide-awak- e Ivc) by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) |