Show THE GARLAND TIMES GARLAND UTAH The Antwere 1 J 3 4 5 The Questions 6 CHAPTER I heat in town had been and Julia McFarlane rolled under the ivy covgratefully The big old house would 'be cool It was always cool the solid brick built over a century walls since shutting out the sun with aloof dignity Julia Jerked off her hat before she opened the door and slid out of the coat of her smart gray suit She dropped the hat and coat on a chair and was pushing the heavy moist auburn hair off her forehead when a yell came down A young yelL the curving staircase is that you?’’ “Dooley She was so tired Julia sighed It was five o’clock and she had had She had spent hours in no lunch an airless office growing more furious by the moment and then she had argued for father hour with a young government representative who quoted regulations most smacking his lips over them To her desperate plea that there had to be more wiring for power and pumping 'on Buzzard's Hill that there had to be more fence if they were to raise hams and bacon for the army he had smiled a maddeningly superior smile To his smug vision all this had steel spelled wire — copper wire wire— and wire was not to be surrendered even to a handsome woman in a stylish hat So Julia had come back to the farm wrung out and” exasperated and now here was Jill yelling from upstairs come up here right “Dooley The tense the ered “Oh Mother you know how much attention Ric pays to maternal admonition You only had one dutiful child — me” “Stand still or I’ll never get this right” She was so tired that her legs quivered and her eyes blurred And now worry was spinning like a dentist’s drill in her brain For now she was beginning to know what before had been only a nagging fear a Now she motherly apprehension knew that the thing she hated had not died had not removed itself from her life It was going on Richard her son bom in loneliness and torment — Richard was going on being another mad and reckless McFarlane not to be beirresponsible lieved You could have spared me this God she was thinking I’ve had so much and I’ve tried to be patient I’ve tried to do my best Aloud she said “That gets it I think But it will probably sag somewhere else That heavy stuff does” Jill pulled the and dropped arms sweet round dress over her head stool her naked and virginal and “Will you tack it up for me I’ve got to do my nails Dooley? and press my suit and there’s a spot on the toe of one of my sandals where somebody stepped on me Oh I forgot to tell you I asked He hasn't any Spang to stay here I fixed the bed be family at aU away!" Julia went up the stairs slowly In the bright little room at the of the hall Jill was standing on her a stool before a slim legs hidden in folds of white Jersey her face full of woe “It’s all crooked!" she wailed it when they “They stretched cleaned it and it’s all in scallops It looks like the devil What am I going to do?” Julia dropped on the bed and looked at her child Jill’s hair was lighter than her own taffy and sunlight and wild curling mischief where Julia’s had darkened to the hue of old cherry wood and lay back sleekly under a brush Jill’s eyes were darker too almost black under striking arrogant brows direct with demanding eyes impatient little compromise in them “What do you want to do Jill? Cut the hem off and even it?” “I haven’t got time It’s yards around the bottom though it does hang so straight Would it look awful Dooley if we cut off the worst places and hemmed it? It has to be right it simply has to’’ terri“What cooks? Something bly special?” Jill Jerked special” “Frightfully “It’s angrily at the stubborn folds Spang And the club dance He has a pass He’s coming on the bus” He sounds “Do I know Spang? I could like some kind of canned cause Mamie was pouty sheet only find one hemstitched so I put a plain one under” Worries “Will Spang be here to dinner? About Her Son If he will you'll have to set the I’ll fix your dress but then table Would Spang be outraged by an I have to talk over some things with even hemline?” “Don’t make gags Dooley you're Foster and your grandfather” “John I rode up to mark posts in not the type Handsome dignity is know the woodlot”g Jill said “Foster No you don’t your line He’s a turret instructor had to help him on the horse and Spang I He’s bound that made him furious right now down at Ric's Field met him when I went down last to break a hip some day and then week to see Ric He’s a lieutenant you and I will have a lovely life” “But he’ll die if he stops wanting and a flier but right now he’s TS He reaUy to do things for himself — technical to you Dooley” “But he wasn't christened Spang doesn’t believe that he’s eighty He surely — the font would have fallen thinks that’s something somebody made up” down” a pet to fix the dress "You’re His name I ask you! "Dooley But Spang is and he hates it because Dpoley my love is Spencer Maybe he doesn’t like some uncle or other worth it he is definitely Here About time! He won't look at my dress but all he’s the one and the females on the prowl will cut I am crowding maiden look a an I’ll and getting already down get their eyes imchin” the And is around this feriority complex You look “Don’t be ridiculous portant!” "All about eighteen Don’t forget about “Is it?” Julia was gentle Mamie's been busy all But I refuse the table turn around end Julia right Remember results to guarantee not a couturiere I’m a Is Ric coming with your Spang?” “MothJill puckered her brow Just a plain er Ric's a private He Joe and a casual at that couldn’t get a pass home unless he and he bought one from somebody now says they’ve hiked the price till it isn’t worth it” "But—do you mean that he came last time on some other home man’s pass?” Julia spoke between day” Jill Mustn't Be An Army Wife “Oh Spang’s bus won’t be here till eight I’ll give him sandwiches and beer Anyway Mamie likes soland all the boys want is a diers soft chair to sprawl in and a hot tub They stand up all day or sit on a hot curb and they can’t even lie down on their cots till night Ric told me” pins sharply In her own room dim and cool Unless it was an “Of course of and serene with the branches a pass emergency he wouldn’t rate out the huge old trees rustling close to him to ship They might want Julia shed the regithe windows smy minute” reof a career woman mentals “But that was a foolish and risky to get laxed in the tub and put on soft thing to do when he’s trying Later she’d have to cotton slacks into officer’s school!” denim and boots that the Ric get into “Oh they organize things she’d have answer were her farm uniform ays— get some other Joe to to tell Foster who ran the place or something for them at that there would be no more coptoes on her Jill turned slowly more and no fence till wire sternper don’t like it” Julia said the government gave her a priority “I won't have Ric jespardizing ly knew when that You should have told and heaven only his chances would be me before She would have to tell her too old John I McFarlane and he would fume angrily and im- potently for hours to any one who would listen Working on Jill's dress she hoped this young lieutenant would not be a disappointment but all the while she nursed the secret wish that he would pgove to be only another passing fancy moving on as so many other lads had moved on out bf Jill’s life To be an army wife — she did not want that for Jill She wanted to save her child from that heartburning that dreary waiting the endless the torturing silences that nights And for she herself remembered had never her the wretchedness ended There had been no finale no period no yellow telegram no shock of grief —there had been nothing Now after years there was still nothing with all the But in these days a girl even young men in service as pretty and desirable a girl as The world Jill had little choice was swiftly turning into a confused and dismal place She had told herself so many times when Jill and young Richard were small and everything was very grim for her that no child of hers should ever live through what she herself was living through She had worked so hard she had even done rough work with her own hands to She had build up this old farm fought drouth and ariimal epidemics and insects and discouragement to make a richer kinder life for Ric and JilL And she had succeedShe looked through the window ed at the white fences marching over the lush green of the fields of Buzzard's Hill and she knew that she had succeeded Her had helped She gave him his due in all loyalty He had been a rock to lean upon he had been a pillar— a fiery pillar but steadfast Through aU the' strange years when no word had come from when there Richard her husband had been only silence as baffling as the hoUow sky as deep as the sea old John I had stood by her— the grim times and good through times She had lived through it but she would fight to save Jill from a life like that She heard the clump of John I’s boots presently heard him yelling AU into the telephone something even JilL the McFarlanes yeUed There was so much in them that Pawas alive and m a ferment It tience had been left out of them was as if they had a yeasty brew instead of blood in their veins married she whom had Richard had yeUed too Up three flights in that little flat in Washington— why must she think of that Just now? Why couldn't she make herself forget flnaUy and forever? Last year she had determined to It irand the year before forget ritated her that she a strong woman was not strong enough to conquer this thing that haunted her The dress finished she laid it carefuUy across JiU’s bed and got into the faded shirt the rough clothes that went with being a She tied her hair up in a bandana and went downstairs of the population ocean (fish) “Robin Hood" Her uncle William IV About 63 feet divorces for every Thirty-on- e marriages The Cold pork will rarely spoil bed mild fail days which raise the ais above 40 degree temperatures speed up the growth of spoilage germs that are on and la pork Want pork spoils as rapidly and for the same reason as warm milk Flaatio Work doves A washablf- - plastic coating hag been developed for work gloves The plastic is vinyl butyral" Tough bid Candy Land In 1945 over 40 flexible it can be cleaned with Illinois produced per cent of all the candy made in solvent to remove grease ell and the U S grime 7 The Constitution of the United States provides that the President must be a resident of the United States for how many years? 2 How many Americans have moved from fine part of the country to another in the last three years? 3 A schoolmaster an alewife and a sailor’s choice can be found in one place Where? is 4 The song “O Promise Me’ from what light opera? 5 Whom did Queen Victoria succeed to the English throneT 6 What was the approximate boat the length of Columbus’ Santa Maria? 7 What was the rdtio of divorce to marriage in 1945? 1 Park Spoilage Fourteen years 00 Splendid Cough Relief Mixed In Your Kitchen No Cooking Saves Big Dollar Tea ma'am right In your own kitchen you can easily mix a cough medicine that is a wonder for quick results and gives you about four And times as much for your money It’s no trouble — a child could do it You'll need a syrup Make it by of grahulated surar-- i stirring 1 cups water a few moments and one cup of until dissolved No cooking needed Or you can use com syrup or liquid honey Instead of sugar syrup Now get 2 ounces of Plnex from it into pint any druggist and pour bottle and fill up with your ayrup There you have a full pint of remarkable medicine for coughs due to colds It lasts a family a long time and tastes fine— children love it You’ll say It's hard to beat for real relief It loosens the phlegm soothes the irritated membranes and helps clear the air passages Eases the soreness and lets you re t at night Plnex is a special com: ound of In concentrated proven ingredients form well known for quid: su’tlon on throat and bronchial Irritsttlons Just try it and If not pleased your money will be refunded - for fast soothing gently Ilurry— rub in the origiwarming relief I Insist on genuine contains up to 2 Vi nal Baume Analgesique times more methyl salicylate and menthol— two doctor— five known than to every agents acts fast where other widely offered you hurt Also for Paia duo to COLDS Aak for Mild mm GfcuaiMifi ®f aed MUSCLE far STRAINS CbOdrea mm Arc® Sow Shows Its Teeth A John I McFarlane — thin with smaU hands and feet and bright hot black eyes —was sitting on the side porch cutting tobacco into a newspaper spread across his knees He looked up as alerUy as a robin and said “HeUo you back?” “An hour ago” Julia sat down The old man snapped his knife shut slid the tobacco into a red tin and put the tin in his hip pocket “Bet you forgot my bottle of bit- ters?” “I did not It's in the kitchen with the groceries” “I’d better rescue then before Mamie rubs it on her rheumatism Last time you brought me some she used it to kill mites on a duck I Well marked about two hundred posts” “No use John I They won't give us priority for any more fence” He drew his white brows together “What do they expect us angrily to do? Teach hogs not to cross a chalk line?” “No more wire no more copper no more steel It’s war John I But it makes It tough for the pig business Would you be interested in growing cucumbers or peanuts or something?" “I would not! Pickles give me the hives and what good are peanuts when there aren’t any more county fairs or circuses?” “They use the oil for something I forget what Did you tell Foster to shut up your prize sow? She ought to bring a good litter” “I shut her up myself She's a She bit me and I cagy female hit her with the pitchfork before I but the wasn’t hurt any thought What's wrong with you Dooley? You look shot and you’ve gotcir-cle- s under your eyes” (TO BE CONTINUED) it Yon get e robber with full tread width and depth You get the famous Firestone Do Xuxe Champion p Tread design with 3156 sharp angles to protect against dangerous skidding Why be satisfied with ordinary skimpy retreading? 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