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Show THE LE1II SUN. LEIU. UTAlT ""fit, Each F 4 j thront t 15 ort"igtrwt. Million, hrt irrit. su'tinR fro, i only ity m Cpuntruf Cure HOMER. Mm W.N.U.StRVICt CjV Amos Croy where be wai born. MOTHS! MACA SAW... i(ces 3 fc EAS issedye: o leara i on yc weeks erafion Maca Yes- ung delicJ using it i special m i joy the fe; gesofp:; gives jy 2 Wtfi ast-riss led bah; extra trips )ucarilK- pantry ssJ :or yourc& it tiffed ead aad.'J led Hot used to k irilllS FAR I" .' . Homer. i Jets, church, company lor din-CrweiSht din-CrweiSht guessing. Dehorn-d Dehorn-d ' ..... ,urinc of harm, wean- PC. and sausage making were Hhi.work. Th. Croyi attended 'Useless carriage, "hula" danc tit motion picture. Renzo. tZTZ everyone liked, but t would not keep company with. K He returned years later ' , - ferm-and wai thereby ac StLg a member of landed gen-LTcL. gen-LTcL. d'tincUon. Hi. wife be- i leader In the community. CHAPTER XV n. rf T walked out across the I be told me with a sort of rush- ,l . tuinffs that haH eagerness d The siock wcu Jve-in and he'd had to take off Platform, lower a scafto d in o ,ell and brick up the wall. He d i new zinc float for the horse 'I didn't know how Ifd work , the tank froze. 't asked, with the same rushing trness, my "judgment" on things j judgment which was so feeble jmparison to his. Did I think Lht to turn the steers, or feed j out? I told him as best I could, there was that pull to do the s I had my heart set on. Yet, Croy farm did look lovely. . . . at evening I heard Pa coming i house for the milk buckets, (I got up and went out. "Ho-ji "Ho-ji you needn't help tonight," he 4 and marched off with the buck- ;olden-asj thrilling th Mao, ie the italwiys st Foam. res breach javor. COMPtf 1 sight Pa usually read our farm rs, but tonight we visited. Ma id again about the food and Kit the bed. Had I gone to ech? She was silent when I ex-ied ex-ied I had had to work on Sun- and I wished heartily I had uiaged to get in some church at-selance. at-selance. What did I do on my day J! When I told her that I went to ie Contrary and roller-skated, she ia:ed to know what "kind" of peo-t peo-t sent there. Isold about my trip to the south it Joseph stockyards., Pa, could Idly get enough of that. "You I't see any of the Clay Robin-imen, Robin-imen, did you?" Clay Robinson the name of the firm we shipped i but of course I hadn't seen him, I any of his buyers. 8a and I were alone, and a fine fsonal understanding floated over and folded us into its warmth. I voices grew lower and lower, i we became more conscious of ith other, and closer and closer i understanding. Then she began ) pinch a fold of her dress, with it thumb and forefinger, as she so to did when she was thinking, but ot knowing quite what to say. Then ! said it in a choked whisper Homer, you didn't have anything to i) with bad girls, did you?" . "No, Mother." I said firmly. &e released the f,old and settled ack in her chair. The boys and girls iii our section sit to Drake University, Grinnell ege, William Jewell College: fcit College, or to the University of Issouri. Now and then one strayed I to the University of Kansas. Or. the University of Iowa. Only one $ in our county went to Harvard, to his father was rich and could 5ord the things the rest of us fclda't When he came back, in-N in-N of having his neck shaved Wght across, he had what he fed a "feather-edge" neck hair-It hair-It opened our eyes to the pos- Uties of an eastern education. j wanted to go to the University Missouri, but there was the mat- of money; and I had the same tag of inadequacy I had when I f thought of going to high, school. "Wld I make a success among all se smart girls and boys? But I want to go. University! Even f name had a thrilling sound. fWhen I proposed it to Pa. he fight of the cost; but he was ased. His boy goin' off to school ere would be the matter of work, F h coud manage it some way or If His oy must get him an edition. ed-ition. Pa . . . Who had hardly ?. found he was thinking in the "ms Of fa Prtn 1 n rr tl.l t ..11 ,. """5. wuen i 101a mm ia not want to study agriculture f he was hurt Well, I must r,1 out such things for myself, he Pposed. i?!6 decision meant expenditure, i b0ght a valise, so I would not ' to take the old telescope with mouse hole, and a tin camel- cd trunk, with a special hat ar- TiTent-like ,Renz Davis'-Pa . Ma ,t0k me to the depot (Wa- -p uus xme and j gQt 0) iJZ ndl once more. my Uttle fjM slid away from me. I by nd girls were on the fcaS:.1 rwas t0 shy to get ac- J had the name of a rooming e and, lugging my precious va-if va-if ; , ed "t looking for the ad-L ad-L "ere through the trees-1 "nl glimpse of the university, tred e five ancient ivy-cov-fczs r !umns and the great build-td build-td m 8 CamPus. and the boys fcn-j WaIking briskly and confl- ..: "na aown. again I was I would go back home a newspaper. All my ufe j h been like that-fearful when I Lave entered a new situation, gaining con-fidence con-fidence little by little .3 I accom-phsh accom-phsh some small bit. Some people are supplied with great self-confl-dence and seem never to have any doubts. But not I. I don't think In all my hfe I have undertaken any. thing that at first I wasn't afraid I would fail How simple we were; how green " If I had never been away from home but twice. I am sure many others hadn't, either. I am sure that more than half were from farms; the others from small towns - the ones I had once thought of as "city people." But I was soon to meet real city people. At my table at the boarding club was a boy from Brooklyn. I could hardly get over staring at the strange crea-ture. crea-ture. There was the problem of earning money, but it worked out better than I had hoped, for I got a job corresponding for the Kansas City Star, and my St. Joseph paper. Then, to my delight, I began to sell, small fry to the eastern magazines', such as The Critic, The Circle, The Gray' Goose, Four-Track News, The Bohemian, Bo-hemian, The Quill, and to The Eell-man, Eell-man, which was published in Minneapolis. Min-neapolis. None of them survived my efforts. But this work wasn't any hardship, for I suppose one-fourth of the boys had to earn extra money. mon-ey. The ways mostly used were getting a laundry route, driving a bread wagon, or opening up a trou- l-'raid N try to jet a I was In my sock feet. ser-pressing establishment in the back part of one's room, or taking pictures of football games and selling sell-ing them to the students while victory vic-tory was still sweet. And always there was work on the state farm which was run by the school's Agricultural Agri-cultural Department. Seventeen cents an hour was paid for digging postholes. I thanked God I could run a typewriter . . . the pay was about the same., It was not long before I was working work-ing on the school weekly, and, after a time, I had a department, and, when I was a junior, I became editor of the annual, The Savitar. And I started a humor magazine which is still going. I wish I could capture some of those thrills today. I wanted to be considered sophisticated. sophisti-cated. But I didn't realize what a firm grip the farm had on me. I could not buy the suits that the St. Louis and Kansas City boys wore, but I tried to look jaunty and a man-of-the-campus. But the farm had its hand twisted in my collar. One night one of the boys brought a very sophisticated man to my room and introduced him as Nelson C. Field without explaining anything about him I was in my sock feet, which was the way I had rested on the farm and was pecking away on my Barlock. It was a shock, later, when I found he was the national organizer for Delta Tau Delta fraternity fra-ternity and had turned me down because be-cause I was too rural. Later, however how-ever when the chapter was going. I was asked if I would join. At the end of the first year. Pa came to the depot to meet me. and ! was back on the farm again. My mother was not so well a. when I Sad seen her last; a thin hollow-eyed hollow-eyed look had laid hold of her which ouchedmeto.theheart. But she was glad to see her son who had been to the university. She listened eaSerly as 1 told of school doings. What kind of boys do you associate with. Homer?" "With good boys," I told her. Did you get to see much of the Agricultural Department? Pa asked, and 1 knew what was in h mTnd Maybe I would enter up farming. 1 worked all summer and every spare moment pecked away on my Bartoc" When fall me I wen KfS !t university very myself now and Milling at the bewildered be-wildered frrshmen. Big events are hard to see. and often we don't see them until long afterward; and so It was now. The university was expanding and taking tak-ing on new ideas. Some of them seemed wildly extravagant to the legislators who had to appropriate the state'g money. But little by little, lit-tle, new departments were added, new equipment was put in. One of these new Ideas came from the editor of the paper in the town where the university was located Walter Williams. He talked it over with the president of the university, but the idea was so new, so utterly unheard of, they realized they would never get It past the farmers-for-the-most-part legislators unless they proceeded with great circumspection. circumspec-tion. The two of them took the idea to George S. Johns, editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch who not only had a son Orrick Johns ln school, but was also a far-seeing man. But I knew nothinsr of all thi ma. chinery of preparation this father-ing father-ing of a new idea until one day I saw an announcement on the bulletin bulle-tin board that set my heart Jumping. Jump-ing. It asked all those who were interested in newspaper work to leave their names with the secretary to the president. Interested in newspaper news-paper work! Why, that was what I lived for. I tore in as fast as I could. A week or so later, I got a letter from the secretary asking me to come to his office on a certain evening eve-ning at a certain time. I shook a little, boys being boys, then I connected con-nected it with the mysterious notice on the bulletin board. Nine of us filed in, when the time arrived, much mystified. In a few moments Walter Williams walked in! How plainly I can see. him that great Midwestern journalist a small man with a thin, quavering voice, a homely face and a down-hanging un-derlip. un-derlip. The upshot of it was that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch had made an offer to take us to St. Louis and keep us, with all expenses paid, and let us get out one number of that paper. St. Louis! All expenses paid! Were we interested? If so, please sign. I could hardly whip out my fountain pen fast enough. When it was all over, I was elected head of the group and thus became (although (al-though I didn't know it at the time) the first student in the first school of journalism in the world. I don't remember how many of the boys had been in St Louis,..but I hadn't, and I think I was a cross-sample. cross-sample. We got off at Union Station, Sta-tion, bewildered, in spite of ourselves, our-selves, at its hustle and bustle. But this lasted only a few moments, for Carlos Hurd, representing the paper, swooped down n us, a very urbane man of the world. It wasn't long before I found myself my-self in the biggest and most fashionable fashion-able hotel I had ever seen in my life the Planters. Immediately I had a return of inferiority and felt ill at ease and out of place. And the other boys were looking to me for leadership! , He took us to a magnificent (so It seemed) dining room, and colored waiters, wearing what I thought of as evening clothes, put bills-of-fare into our hands. I didn't know how to order, and I don't believe the others did, either. I' find myself embarrassed as I set this down; and I only set it down in order to give as clear a picture as I can of what the young man in the Midwest in my day was like. How small his world was, how simple and naive he was in comparison to the dashing college lad of today. My eyes fastened on something I could understand and I half whiS' pered to my waiter that I wanted jerked beef and ice cream. Carlos Hurd saw the embarrassment we were laboring under, and put in an order for us, all the same thing. We breathed with relief and sat stiff and upright, a contrast to the laughing, laugh-ing, joking, confident group we had been on the train. After dinner we felt a trifle more at ease; but it was still a bewildering world. The next morning someone told us to lock our rooms. I locked mine and started to put the key in my pocket, but I ran into an unexpected problem. Attached to my key was a strap of iron about the size of a six-inch ruler. I put it in my pocket, but it was most uncomfortable, as I went down the elevator. I was not going to let that defeat me, so I promptly went upstairs to my room and managed to pry the strap of iron off. I left it there and put the key in my pocket where it would be safe. That evening when I came in and saw people having their keys handed to them from a set of boxes. I hurried upstairs and pried the strap of iron on again. 1 did not mention it to anyone, let alone Carlos Hurd who, I knew, was having his own private thoughts. The big day arrived. The St. Louis Lou-is Post-Dispatch Junior came out. I was disappointed when I saw it; was this all there was to show for so much hard work? But there was my name as editor-in-chief. I proudly sent a copy home. A few days later 1 got a letter from Pa. It said "I am glad you got a trip to St. Louis." (TO BE CONTINUED) Kathleen Norris Says: The Woman Who Couldn't Bear It Bell Syndicate. WNU Feature. SEWISG CIRCLE PATTERNS j Cover-All Apron Has Tulip Trim 1815 1 . . . nn,. m n A current war condition. nehtly more ttm la required In filllnil order for a few ot the most popular pattern number. Send your order to: SEWrNO CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montfomery St. San FrancUco, Calif. Encloe 23 cent la coin for each pattern desired. Pattern No Slzt Nam Address erticlct from the digests, everything short ond cheerful that you can find. By KATHLEEN NORRIS "ALL my values have changed," writes Mar--Zjl guerite Williams from Tennessee. "I feel as if I were a strange person living in a strange world. Three years ago "my splenma son ana ms wife and two babies lived near me, my daughter uvea wim me; we were a happy ana united family. "A few months after Pearl Har bor my daughter married and went to California with her captain hus band, who is an instructor ln a base camD there. That was a shat tering blow, for Betty was 30. and I had rather thought she would al ways be with me. "Then Howard, my son. went to officers' training camp and emerged a lieutenant, being sent immediate ly to the Philippines.-, His wife, MurieL would not move in with me as I suggested, and I soon discov ered why. She did not want any par ticular attention drawn to her conduct from that time on. It was bridge and cocktail parties, night clubs and fashionable bars. She had manv beaus: eventually one was more successful than the others, and she wrote to Howie for a divorce. I knew nothine at the time, my first Information came frorrL.their oldest daughter, who is seven. iieartsicK, i tried to reason with Muriel, it was no use. She got a divorce, married her new sweetheart, and moved awav. with her children, to a near by town. Comine Back Blind. "What that meant to me I won't ettempt to explain. It is Howard in whose interest I am writing you. He is comine home now blind. He will live here with me, without wife, babies, home and without eyes. "Mrs. Norris," this letter goes on, "I have tried to become reconciled to this. I have tried to accept it as God's will But I cannot. Rebellion rises un in me and half chokes me Mv bov is 37 now. a fine, balanced, hnnk-and-music-lovine man who never did a cruel or selfish thing in w life. He loves his little girls. Why should this cross be laid upon him, while this cold, self-centered woman goes her way to a richer marrlaee and hifiher position? Is there any reason or Justice in this? How can I face the future that is before me now?" . . My 'dear Mrs. Williams, I say in reply, don't attempt to "face the future." Face only today. Live it as heroically, as simply, as cheerfully as ye can, and let tomorrow a problem prob-lem wait until tomorrow. When Howard gets home meet him without gushes of sentimentality and pity; concern yourself with making him physically comfortable, and discuss Muriel'i actions vith-out vith-out bitterness. Unless his wife is an actual monster, she will be willing to lend you the children frequently frequent-ly and when they come, make their visits as happy as you can, so that they will want to come again. Meanwhile, build up a real life for Howard, until he has found his footing foot-ing in the new darkened world. He will have a dog, of cours; he will eventually have a routine, and, believe be-lieve me, there are many mothers who well might envy you the opportunity oppor-tunity you have to stay close to him and be needed by him. Naturally, don't introduce the new order with bustle and rule-making. Rather let it gradually develop. He can take walks; encourage him to go about Radio and record music will be a tremendous help, and until un-til he masters Braille get Into the DOUBLE LOSS Howard is coming home to his mother from the Philippines. Philip-pines. But it will not be an entirely en-tirely happy return, because he was blinded in combat. 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Money refunded if not pleased In every way. The Oilier Fellow- habit of daily reading; headlines, articles from the digests, everything every-thing short and cheerful that you can find. After a while introduce passages pas-sages from Shakespeare. Stevenson, Steven-son, the poets; things that uplift our hearts and stay with us. Music and F fiends. You say he is muCjil If he plays the piano that will ben inexhaustible inexhausti-ble interest to him. Nothing of this will be easy at first, but you will get through the first hard stages, and eventually you will find that you have a busy, content, philosophical son restored to you, the tie between you being more tender and close than ever. Remember that friends are a great consolation to anyone so temporarily tem-porarily handicapped. Ask the men he likes to drop in at all hours, and keep your tone away from pity. He will hate to be pitied. The more quietly and normally you take the situation the more quietly and normally nor-mally he will. Here is perhaps the most comforting com-forting thing I can say to you; ask anyone who knows anything about the blind and I believe you will find that it is true. Blind persons are almost invariably cheerful. Perhaps in their darkness they don't see much that is ugly and hateful in this world. Perhaps they see through some of the veils that are over our eyes. Whatever the reason, thousands of totally blind persons lead active, useful, interested and happy lives. His daughters may yet mean much to Howard. Married love may well come again Into his life, and more fortunately. You will find that he does not complain; so don't you begin be-gin it I had a blind friend years ago who read, talked, wrote, played on the organ, walked, helped in the household house-hold and generally lived a more than ordinarily full life. We others were the "sighted people." "There's a lot you sighted people never see," he used to say pityingly. 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Most Parlor Games Were Devised Centuries Ago By ELIZABETH RANKIN Ches. nrobably the most ancient Indoor game, is essentially a matter of warfare in miniature maybe that accounts for its continuous appeal! ap-peal! Certain it is that some variety of the chess idea is found In every land from the most ancient to the most modern, from the most primitive primi-tive to the most civilized. Dominoes on the other hand didn't turn up till the 18th century in Italy, getting get-ting their name from their resem blance to the black cloak known as the domino, while mah-jong goes back to about the time of Confucius. As for bridge, it is fairly modern mod-ern in its current version. The game is variously credited to Russia. Denmark, Den-mark, Turkey, but it first came to wide attention in Turkey, while the modern rules were first formulated in England in the 1890s. But of course cards are very ancient probably originating in Asia. 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