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Show THE LEW SUN. LEHI, UTAH r s i m m m m n x & uirecr Amoi Croy Bf THUS FAR 310 ..m. in Missot o um(.r. was M company for din, . elcht guessing. " . ..usage making nd i e . ' J .... mulei were all are. -- f He won ! - li Exposition, t hr h In Misiou"i cum. WeWt 1 1' W : ...il dream." The "mosi """ tit h uman L .f a BIS nr , Winer i" - t rootion "Cv ever bad. HI. lather I . wi own pants and drove Uahome atnight. w Homer. HOMER. W.N.U. SERVICE bole In your telescope,' res tog 1 00 StOBUti -umiort, tu, marts". Tertgaij, derfol 1 Syrup Ptf Preparation edicinemu, e. So be a. jrup Pepsi -JhefaTotii, Jthatwholi. iresfiaict) ed. peisd CHAPTER XIV Ue secrecy of youth, I said 11 anyone. Even when Ma fme bow I liked the city boys IS I said, All right. I had no Tet I liked people and ,d desperately to make ids. In stormy on helji ieth, and tocoldi tins that id-it's codha !ruggL"tsl IT Doctos ... .hnm. except er when I wore boots, as I did I farm. One morning, as I saddling Dave, he bumped my li nat day at school my loot ore and I quietly slipped off W. ''Colonel" Cox, who sat id me, saw that I had. it ofl i got it away from me. In' a pinutes the teacher told me to to the Doara ana c&imou I I said I didn't know how, but Md me to come and try. I jed up, one boot on, one boot J , , i humiliating moment lople were fascinating to me. g had seen very few, only our tves and neighbors; now sud- there was a whole new world, gened to the students recite, taped ta-ped far more by them than by g they were saying. I would jover some item of interest about (of the students; the next day I jd discover something else. Ev-day Ev-day I added to my collection of about each student. No longer jt they a formless horde, all lined against me, each was an indi-jal; indi-jal; each had traits and charac-itici charac-itici a good deal like my Knabb jhbors. The discovery just about jred me. legan to feel a bit more at home made a few shy advances, so lulating were people to me. Lit-Jby Lit-Jby little. I accumulated a few Ids, like a tree making rings. I id up out of the areaway and n taking my lunch to the schooled school-ed eating it on a bench. Some-ftsieme Some-ftsieme of the very boys I had down the areaway to avoid ild rush through their lunch at tt to come and sit on the bench I me. i change had taken place. But I i not know why. I became acquainted with a farm 8 from another part of the county. itemed to me she was wonderful i I began to "go" with her. I m her father owned more land K mine, but I didn't realize how tortant this was going to be. fee day, when I happened to Etioo that my father owned a liter section, she said, "I know S1- 5 was surprised, as I knew I hadn't fctioned it before. So I asked her fc she knew it I looked ardor fell off. and a young whose father owned far more W than mine succeeded, later, in fciing her. " aristocracy of land. I plowed and harrowed and Ved, I thought how wonderful it Md be to go to St. Joseph and get 1 J as a reporter. The same f of doubt and lack of self-Wdence self-Wdence laid hold r.f that I ac had when I had first decided to " high Sfhnnl Who i T ehnlrl ! Yet I did want desperately to " on a "citv" tianr graduated frnm iSiffh cnhnnl rt L t" v ' me world I knew was the Croy and our town. But how thor-I thor-I knew then, our neighbors , people 1 came m contact J- I had been out of the county " once and that was when I had to the Omaha Exposition. But ught nothing of that. None of other boys or girls had been any One day one of the boys I vj he "as going to Oregon on ? bought of it all the way back " "ave. When I told Ma about it U i 'iWed tone' she laughed and . He means Ctroann Jio,n.i4 " v.guii, AIAJOOVUA. fed that Was What ha kt nomt a "ce of about thirty miles. hurt . I 7 v "ier wnen i tola mm wnted to go to St Joseph and ' get a job. Why did I want to and leave our good farm? 5stt,aifed tte to lnsist' but there mat inner urge to do the kind of fcin J wanted to do. And Pa was w Never had a Cry or a fcv , 0141 matter. wanted to few m lani But finaUy he said " " uul noid out." ;When we . . 'fner a " noie m 1 tj, " "'cope, i must explain, co. m! 5 tW0 pieces- top 'W r!. Ver the other Uke 8 , Around the middle was hand 5lrap, ana mere was tous, . Some way r other fcawL been tapped and bad city with Ma said. But I was not thinking of the hole I would make good. I would get that job! Pa and Ma and I got In the hack and started to town along the road I had traveled four years on old Dave As we drove along, pa told me how I must guard myself in the city. St Joe was full of men who would steal every penny they could see. Every, body would try to take advantage of me. But he never mentioned worn-en. worn-en. And Ma did only once, and that was when we were alone for a mo-ment'on mo-ment'on the depot platform. "Homer, "Ho-mer, I am going to pray you won't have anything to do with bad girls." Pa stood holding the telescope and Ma stood with her arm around me. The train thundered in. Ma kissed me and whispered, "Don't forget what I said." Pa handed up the telescope. "Write whenever you can. Homer." I leaned over and looked back and there they stood as far as I could see. . . . My problem began as soon as I arrived. What was I going to do with my telescope while I went to look for a job? There must have been a checkroom, but I did not know what it was for. I solved this problem which had suddenly jumped up before me, by looking around for a grocery store, for a grocery store was a sort of club for farmers; where they met and visited and left their packages and parcels and children. chil-dren. I found one and asked a man, who seemed to be the owner, if I could leave my telescope. He stud- its 5 "What is it you want?" he asked when I finished. ied me a moment then said I could if I wanted to. I marched to the rear, as we always did in our own grocery store, and left it among the boxes and barrels. Then I started up the street to get my job. I had never read a Horatio Alger Jr. story and, so far as I know, I had never heard the name, so I had no false ideas of what a young man must face. All I knew was that I was going to get a job and nothing was going to keep me from it I asked the direction of the newspaper news-paper offices, and started north up the street. I saw a streetcar, but I wasn't surprised. Hadn't I seen one in Omaha? I found the office of the paper, which is now the St. Joseph News-Press, News-Press, and walked boldly in. for I had that all studied out, and asked very businesslike where I could find the city editor. Pretty soon I found myself standing by the desk of a man wearing a green eyeshade. It seemed to me that every man in the office was staring at me and burning with curiosity. Not very far ftom me truth, IcnawWIJ.torI was tall and lanky and thin . as a n"f,v feet two inches-with an overbit upper jaw and a large nose and I was painfully ill at ease. I edged dose?, for I didn't want all Se .taring people to hear, and told lith the green eyeshade me ma" -that I wanted a job. "What is it you want?" when I finished. I again imparted the confidential . . Then he cupped his uuormauu r4aiized auu So I had He he asked Got too Then hand behind his ear, u .as hard of hearing to shout at the top of my voice took his hand aown. 'Don't need anybody. Tc'or hardly believe my ear, 1 h1 ThnVf staid rUaovraeimhowgoodI fas He took his hand down agam radalmlystar:ea-rthe Sd have happened to me. There was another paper there, .h c Joseph Gazette. The paper the St Josepn gnd was nc as good. Paper. and I knew little about it But it was a newspaper. I inquired where its office was and started determined down the street. I would show Old Green Eye-shade Eye-shade I wasn't licked. Not only ujai, oui x would scoop his paper. A man was sortine letters and shoving them into boxes. My first glimpse of want-ad answers. "Where will I find the citv edl- tor?" I asked professionally. " The city editor? " he repeated. "The city editor," I said firmly. "His office is upstairs." I stared in astonishment, 'when I got there, for there were only two persons in the office. No green eye-shade. eye-shade. But I didn't know whether I wanted to work on snrh a small paper, or not for the other office had been humming with activity. "I want .to speak to the city edi tor." A man stopped running his type-writer type-writer and looked at me curiously. "Do you want a job?" "Yes, sir." "Come back at one-thirty." I crept down the stairs, beginning to get the hang of the thing. I had known there were evening papers pa-pers and morning papers, but only vaguely. I wandered around the streets, feeling lonely but confident. No one spoke to anyone else. Hardly any horses on the street At one-thirty I climbed the stairs again. The place seemed alive with people. The man who had been running run-ning the typewriter silently pointed a finger at a man sitting at a desk and I marched over and toy him I wanted to go to work for him. Thank God he could hear! Finally, when I was through, he said, "How much money do you want?" I said, "I'll leave that to you." In Maryville that would have been a challenge for the man to be generous. gener-ous. But I was to find city ways were different "I can pay you $9 a week." I told him I would take it "When can you go to work?" "As soon as I can get a place to live." ' ' I found a rooming house and got on a streetcar and started for my grocery store. The telescope was there. I hadn't been in the city long enough to realize Pa knew what he was talking about I was given a "run" of the under-takers under-takers and the YMCA which was the first I knew about that organization. organiza-tion. A place for young men. But they were playing pool I was beginning be-ginning to see Pa was right Ma wrote twice a week. Was I sleeping .well? Was I getting plenty plen-ty of good wholesome food? What kind of bed did I have? Was I being a good boy? Then she would tell the family news. The price of eggs, who was sick, Uncle Will Sewell had come up in the cart because the roads were muddy. The Kennedys had hog cholera. Ma hoped it wouldn't get down our way. They Ma's letters always ended the same way: "Your father sends regards." One day, after I had been working work-ing about a month, I came to my desk and there, on my Oliver typewriter, type-writer, was an envelope with my name written in heavy pencil Inside In-side was a sheet of copy paper typewritten type-written with this sentence on it "As of Thursday, the Gazette will have to dispense with your services." serv-ices." The bitterness was almost overwhelming. over-whelming. I went out on the street to be alone. ... i When I came back, I went to the city editor and asked why. I found then, that it had not been my work after all. The star reporter had had a better offer and to hold him they would have to pay him more money mon-ey and cut down elsewhere. I was the elsewhere. , I went to the Press (now the St. Joseph News-Press) and succeeded in getting a job. I wrote home that I was now working on another paper and received a letter from Ma which said "Pa says he is glad you could better yourself." One day I brought in a copy ol Puck with a piece of. mine in it, and proudly showed it to the city editor. He read it and said "Well, I must get around to writing one of those." I looked at the girls tripping along art wished I knew one. Sometimes T tried to strike up acquaintance but I was so shy I was usually put off at the first rebuff. At last the lonesome summer was over, and I got on the train. Faithful Faith-ful Pa was at the depot shook hands with me and said. "I'll carry your grip," and picked up the telescope with the mouse hole in the corner. As we jogged home, I told him about mv work; now and then he hinted was I satisfied with that way of earning a living? He naa turned the hogs, he said, and told how much he had got There had been plenty of rain; farming conditions were But things nadnt gone so oii with Mr. Knabb. He had hoof- rot It was all interesting to me; every detail. Ma came out to meet us, looking frailer than when I had seen her last; one shoulder blade turned out (TO BE CONTINUED) Kathleen Norris Says: What Can Parents Do About It? BeU 8yndlcau.-WNU Ftaturte. Plastic Holders May Be Used With Old Drapery Rods for Elaborate Effects ENTERTAINING AT HOME "Sally has twice been reported to me by $chool tulhorities as frequenting roadhouses, smoking, drinking." By KATHLEEN NORRIS "TT TE HEAR a great deal A about parents' re-V re-V V sponsibility for juvenile juve-nile delinquency," writes Marna Sf. John from Seattle, "but not much about what and how and why and when parents can do anything about it! "Ours is a normal household of father, mother, two girls, one boy, small Income, no servant one car. My girls, 19 and 17, have jobs. Margaret Mar-garet makes good money in a local defense plant, Sally has a part-time job and keeps up with her college studies. Mart is in second year high. "Margaret is a good, quiet pretty pret-ty girl, but she has always been discontented, feeling herself socially handicapped. Sally is independent pleasure-loving, not affectionate er domestic. Mart seems to live a life of his own; his boy friends are always al-ways here, in the basement or he is off with them in their basements. Incidentally we have a spacious, warm, well-lighted basement Go to Roadheuses. "Never having had money enough to enable my girls to entertain, or take their place In society,"! can't blame them for finding their pleas ures away from home," the letter goes on.' "But I feel deeply the dis advantages under which they have had to suffer. I am as distressed over Margaret's periods of depres sion as over Sally's irresponsibility and independence. Margaret's case is serious enough to have needed medical advice; Sally has twice been reported to me by school authorities as frequenting road- houses, smoking, drinking. These re terrible words to write of one s daughter, but In my anxiety to find an answer to this problem I will not spare myself. I have worked hard all my life, am a good cook, manager; the house is always clean and comfortable, and my husband is a steady, hard-working man de- Toted to his family. But he is some what quiet undemonstrative, and puzzled by what goes on. "I know we have failed, witn a neurotic child, an unmanageable child, and a boy whose interests appear ap-pear to be anywhere than at home, but how have we failed?" the letter let-ter ends. A mother admits that she has failed. Her two daughters and her son have been seeking their pleasures away from home since their early teens. One daughter has gotten into serious trouble; the other, on-ly on-ly 17, has been frequenting roadhouses and other danger' ous places. The boy, in second year high school, brings his friends to the house, but he seems to "live m life of his own." There is little family unity or real affection. They have only a small house, and the girls feel unable to entertain enter-tain at home. Miss Norris, in reply, tells of a family she knows who lived contentedly in a small and humble dwelling, yet who knew all the best people the young folks were quite popular, and had company at home most of the time. WelL Marna. I think perhaps you have failed as most of us do, in not realizing that good food, education. fatherly and motherly sympathy are not enough. We can't be merely negative in solving mis problem or safety moral safety for our children chil-dren we have to struggle and work and plan to achieve it faere in this college town where I Ive I often think of the Martins, and what Mrs. Martin did for her children. There were four of them, two boys and two girls; they have lived for two generations in a rambling shabby big place Just out of town. They have always been poor, for the father is an asthma sufferer and works only intermittently. intermit-tently. The mother has helped out the family income by taking chil- dren to board, raising vegetables, making eakes and Jelly for the Woman's Exchange. Yet hospitality and gaiety and cooperation co-operation were the rules of this home, and love was the under- eurrent of it alL I have heard Bee. the oldest girt greet calling swains from the strawberry bed: "come and help me fix these plants, and ril see what Mother has for sup- "Help m fix these plants." By Ruth Wyeth Spears WtSTOT WINDOW, p rip FRAME WiM Mil t L holder THERE are many new drapery fivnrno mnrlA nt nlaKtifa nnd at wood ; and there is still an attractive attrac-tive assortment of drapery and curtain fabrics. Also, the new cur tain styles require a minimum of time and effort to achieve really elaborate effects. The side draperies shown here are unlined but the swag valance is lined with plain sateen which repeats the darkest color in the drapery material. This plain color is used also for the tie backs. Either wooden rods or old metal rods that you have on hand may be used for the glass curtains and side draperies which should be hung close to the window so that the holders for the valance may extend over them, as shown in the sketch. All the dimensions for cutting cut-ting the valance and lining are given here in the diagram. ' NOTE This sketch Is from BOOK 5 of the series ot homemaklng booklets prepared pre-pared for readers. This book also contains more than 30 other Ideas for keeping homes attractive with things on hand and Inexpensive new materials. To fet copy of BOOK S send your order to: MRS. RUTH WVETH SPEARS Bedford Hills New Yark Drawer II Enclose 15 cents for Book No. S. Name........ Address 'Fluffy Ruffles' Apron In Simplest Crochet per!" I have seen Phil and Jack as eagerly and as skilfully helpin to pack a picnic lunch as any tw women could. It might be only apples, buns, frankfurters, but by the time the Martins and their friends had dragged themselves the top of some hill, or gone off in the rickety car to some beach, it tasted like nectar to them. Games at Ilome. Father and mother instituted and led the games, in this house. There were guessing games at the table, and nobody minded the fact that the entire meal consisted ef one generous gen-erous stew filled with garden vegetables vege-tables and built around two pounds of shank beef. Phyllis, the younger girl, was as expert a cook at 14 as her mother was; everybody in the Martin house was busy, and they always impressed callers into help ing. They never interrupted anything any-thing that was going on just because be-cause company came, and the young people of my household used to come home to relate that they had assisted at putting the Martin attic in order, raking the Martin'a paths, or pasting photographs in the Martin scrapbooks. Three of the Martins married most nappily; in each case the sweetheart was one of the familiar guests of the household. Phyllis, the youngest is now a WAVE, and reports re-ports enthusiastically that "all the girls love pencil games. Everyone loves pencil games, guessing games, charades, the atricals, hide-and-go-seek with the lights out Everyone loves to be drawn into arrangements and preparations. One of the Martin boys married the lonely, lovely daughter of one of the richest and stiffest and dullest families in town. This girl used to telephone Bee Martin Mar-tin wistfully, on many a Saturday night: "Bee, can I come? Ask your mother. I'll bring two roast chickens chick-ens and a layer cake." In her own magnificent home the chickens and the layer cake were just uninteresting food. But on the Martin's table, with laughter and love, teasing and competing, chal lenge and triumph all about they became food for the gods. It may be too late for Marna. Bui how about you? 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