OCR Text |
Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS 0adored pafamaA Wdi-3itli-nj Smart I i ' J t f I J ! J t j : I ? f ! I I I In love Jill McFarlane, 26, has fallen Her mother, Gordon. spang Lieut, wlu, own husband, Julia, Is npset as her first Bichard, disappeared during the her war and she had hoped to spare an army wife. daughter from being Involved with a Jill's brother, Ric, is to camp to divorcee and Jill goes Ric tells her investigate the matter. to see her S on duty and unable bnt while she is dancing withIn Spangqneswoman they see Ric and the Jill tion, Sandra Calvert, together. worn- finds Sandra an older, hardened an. Later she Is accosted by Captain, as Old Cyan-5Mackey, known at camp mother lde. He tells her he knew her familiar. looks He vaguely ago. years . s CHAPTER VIII ; t I i I She might as well catch the after- bus, but she would have lunch and then try calling Spang I again to say good-bI Few people were in the dining- I room, a few commercial travelers, I several lonely looking women whom Jill catalogued as officers wives, a child perched in a high chair and I being coaxed to drink milk by a I g mother, and at a table secluded near a window was the blonde Mrs. Calvert. Jill went straight to her table. How do you do? she said coolwe met ly. "Im Jill McFarlane, last night Mind if I sit here? I have a phobia about eating alone. Mrs. CalDelighted, Im sure. and too, definitely cool, was vert unenthusiastic. Im practically fln- she lshed, however. My lunch made a little gesture toward the half consumed salad before her, is usually unimportant. A few vitamins and no caloYoure ries? Jill took a chair. one of the courageous women. Im I a farm gal myself, with an outrageous appetite. Youre very fortunate to be able to indulge it. Few women can and keep the respect of their mirrors. Ill have the jellied soup, stuffed crab, and some coffee, please, Jill told the hovering waitress, then leaned her chin on her palms. You live here, Mrs. Calvert? In the hotel? Mrs. Calvert was studying her eyebrows in a little, mirror, discid plining the curves with a forefinger. Im a camp follower, she said. I followed my husband here my Then he was former husband. transferred back to the Islands, and I decided that I couldnt endure being married to him any more. So Im staying because when youre entirely alone places dont matter. And with all the boys at the field so near theres less chance to be lonely, of course? Mrs. Calverts eyes sharpened a little, but her voice kept its cool smoothness. Theyre such nice boys, all of them. I was an officers wife, bad-- I ly cramped by a lot of taboos and military procedure, but now that I Im free I enjoy being with these I boys of my own age. My husband I was years older, she added, and I definitely a home tyrant. I shouldnt about Win, he may Stalk in some him, poor ghastly jungle now in horrible danger! Nice, safe danger, after being married to you! Jill was thinking I with the crude brutality of youth, f Aloud she said, Nice of you to ? give so much time to Richard. Ric I has always been more or less of a J family problem. My mother was t terribly worried about him until he - enlisted. Rickys getting on well, Im I sure. Though, of course, military life is difficult for men with his background. Men whove been ac customed to freedom and having the best, of course. But they adjust themselves beautifully. We have to admire their spirit I hope Ric decides to stay on in the army. Jill salted the vapid soup, poked at rubbery lumps in it, He hates our farm, and he hasnt shown any aptitude for anything else. And, of course, he hasnt any money. He told me about your farm. It must be a lovely place quite a show place, he said. I was so interested in hearing about it I noon I first had done a naive and childish thing. Shes quite sure that Ric is a rich womans son and that Im a meddling sister with my knife out for greedy throats like hers, Jill told herself. She put Ric out of her mind, grimly, and thought only of Spang, wondering if she would see him again. Everything lovely that- she owned she had put on this morning. She had turned a hundred times before the mirror, changed her lipstick twice, worried at her nails, and pinned and repinned her hair into exactly the right sort of halo so that every curl should shimmer with allure, when at last the telephone rang. Hello, Jill. I was Spang said, afraid you might have checked out. Oh, no I may not go for hours. Will I see you again, Spang? he said slowly, while Sorry, Jills heart grew heavier, cant make it today. Theyre running in Sunday classes on me, Ill be tied up all day. But I had a moment, wan-lookin- long-naile- Spang Calls to Say Good-B- y Its a pig farm. Jill was blunt Ric must have let his imagination get the best of him once he got away from it When hes there he loathes We have to everything about work awfully hard to keep it going. My mother works all day in overalls and a mans shirt I got this blister hoeing beans." She exhibit- it her palm. Our farm help have gone off to the army, and even my d grandfather has to work, so if Ric has been embroidering tales to you about green lawns and pedigreed horses and stuff, just write them off as a homesick boys wishful thinking. Mrs. Calverts eyes were masked behind carefully trained eyelids. She put away her lipstick and the little mirror. She reached for her check and picked up her purse with fingers that clutched a little. Nice to have seen you again. Good-bshe remarked, rising. She walked away briskly, without looking back.. Jill, watching her receding shoulders, felt a heavy ease of fafjue. a feeling that she ed eighty-year-ol- Im quite delirious about the army hadnt you heard? and I thought Id spend it with youi Nice of Mr. Alexander Graham Bell to have fixed that for us, isnt it? Well put up a plaque for him somewhere, Jill answered, making her voice light, not letting disapSorry I pointment creep into it. have to go without seeing you. Spang. Som L Though I didnt know whether you could stand another dose of the army. Im quite delirious about the army hadnt you heard? Dont you know that all women rim dizzily after uniforms, especially if theyre all decorated up with brass and stuff? I did hear a rumor, but I thought Morale it might be propaganda. stuff, keep the boys happy, keep em singing while theyre marching off to war with blisters on their heels and shoulders. A Warning Against Mackey Spang, I ate lunch with that Mrs. Calvert today. I simply crashed in, and I know now that I was awfully stupid about it. I told her that Ric hadnt any money, and she looked at me with those cynical eyes of hers and didnt believe a word of it. It worries me, and yet I hate to tell Mother. If Ric gets himself into a mess let him wiggle out of it, counseled ' Might be good for him. Spang. Maybe hes depended on other people too much already But it might break my mothers heart I have to think of that. Spang. And she has had enough heartbreak for one lifetime. I hadnt thought of that, Spang said. You couldnt do anything about getting him moved to another post, could you, Spang? No, I couldnt Jill Im only a technical officer here, and those things are handled by personnel e inboards with a lot of on that board, volved. Mackeys e tightened and he keeps the I cant even talk up plenty stiff. to Ric, he wouldnt listen. Jill said, By the way, I saw that Captain Mackey last night after you left me, Spang. He came up and introduced himself. He thought that he once knew my mother. Spang did not speak for a breath. Then he said, soberly. Thats an old line, Jill. All the old spring it when they get their eyes on a pretty young girl Fatherly em off their approach. Knock guard. But he didnt appear to be inHe merely terested in me at all said that he knew a girl once in She said, red-tap- red-tap- Tennessee lane. named -- Julia Swo-jfiec- jor er &&re5S- - McFar- Thats part of the technic, it could be true, you Jiu-B- know. 0 OTHER winter season, no other Hot Stove League of Sport, has ever known as much discussion nor has seen as many headlines about gambling and bribery as the present winter. Almost every cure in the book has been suggested without covering much ground. For example George Preston owner of the Washington Redskins, suggests that all racing entries, odds and selections should be transferred to the stock market page, away from the sporting fellow. and that no page Oh, Ill be going home right away odds or selections dont You bus. afternoon now, on the should be carried know when youre leaving. Spang? on football, baseball if No, I dont know, and even or basketball and Jill tell you, I did, I couldnt games. you know better than to ask. Racing is legal- - Grantland Rice Youll be fighting, wont you? ized betting Marof tired so! Im Gosh, I hope but it is a financial The Japs shall says, this academic stuff. not a sporting look entirely, proposition but books, read havent any It doesnt belong on a proposition. how they fight! In opinion no my page. sporting Will you write to me, Spang? One connected with college sport, Will will. If I have a chance, I professsonal football or baseball, in you answer if I write? a guiding capacity, should ever be Of course Ill anHow silly! seen at a race track. about swer. Pages and pages, all I cant see much cure in this. the pigs. has had no part in the scanRacing what me youre You can tell dals and bribery talk involving other doing. Cupid Black, former Yale sports. What would she be doing? Waitfootball star, has a much sounder ing! Hung up by the heartstrings, suggestion tormented by the inching of the Black says, I can see no harm, me hours! Oh, Spang, please let in betting a hat or a reasonable have love to keep, a fire to warm amount with a friend bn a football too myself by when the dark comes game. Or a fight. The trouble comes with bookearly! half when you starta betting But though, he said good-b- y of even where array long makers, a dozen times, he did not speak of small b$ts can run into millions of love. He hung up, with the same dollars, which in turn can be used little flick as the salute he always in the wrong way. I happen to love gave when he left her. college football every variety of "I love you, football. She breathed, But the click of the teleSpang. phone being disconnected left the No Bets With Bookmakers whisper hanging in air, unheard, Id like to see everyone who loves unanswered. who believes it is a great football, and After that she cried. Long to make a bet with refuse wretchedly, all alone, with the hot game, or any other profesbookmaker any afternoon passing. No one is going to sional gambler. The yellow leaves began falling football or any on the betting from the apple trees and the sumac stop we can wreck the But other game. fences. the burned red against if we leave Jill crossed her booted leg over gambling professionals would eliminate the the saddle. The mare, Daves new them out. This handle. saddle mare, was warm and saltily big sums these bookmakers to bet There is always somebody moist and lazy. the professional Jill said with, apart from I hate September! gamblers. that a month, abruptly. Its stupid This is a sound suggestion. There doesnt mean anything. It isnt will always be the cheaper sort of summer, and it isnt falL It just who will still place their sulks through thirty days. All the humanity the bookies. But the list with beta wont flowers are tired, but they down. cut can be die, and the whole world looks block is human naThe stumbling look too, shabby, shabby.' People of what a selfishness the ture, in fady summer clothes or fall has called the are philosopher and top show dust that things human race. All through the smothery. If ever I do something a large part of the completely mad and unforgivable it fading winter, have will be because its September and headlines on sporting pages the. with stopping concerned been I cant bear it most of those, who feel( If gamblers. Julia Dave did not look at her. have to bet on games will only was worried about Jill, her growing they themselves and leave the bet among imher irritation, her restlessness, out, there would be no gamblers patience with everything. problems of bribery or crookedness. That isnt the answer, Dave, This will be impossible to stop in' p Not trumped-uJulia had said. is gam. jobs that she sees through instantly racing, since racing legalized 26 or and does with that air of awful pa- bling or legalized betting in tience and thinly concealed con- more states. But football, baseball, boxing and basketball still have their tempt from any betting an-- 1 She knew so well that there was thrills apart who Those happen to like or no answer to the problem of JilL gle. can solve the probthese love games The bloom of love, fruity and glowlem quickly along the lines suggesting, was upon Jill now, she was ed above. evand with with it ripe it gilded ery nerve and vein were vibrant Honest ' with readiness, and she had not Majority Are There are more than a few kinks been chosen. Her loneliness was made brackish by the bitter distilla- in sport, since it is conducted by tion of disappointment, and tears human beings. But its general avertoo fiercely contained canker into age, In the way of honesty, is still acid and weaken the strongest spi- well above politics, labor unions or rit what is known as big business. I disTake her places, Dave, Julia dont believe anyone will try to statement. this do I cant anypute had pleaded. The point is that the publio at thing for her. To a woman in Jills state of mind other women are ut- large demands a far higher honesty terly obnoxious, even women they average from sport than it demands love. from politics or business or labor unions. The public expects its sports to be completely clean, not nearly Jill Tries Her clean. Amateur bettors are not goHand at Cupid ing to try to fix anything. Only a So Dave and Jill rode the hills few professional gamblers will. But on this first Sunday in September, these few can wreck a sport if not and when Jill had spoken her tirade suppressed in one way or another. k weather she The suppressing part isnt as simagainst the kicked her toe back into the stir- ple as it sounds. But at least a rup and jerked the mares head up heavy curb can be developed. Aftand said in a sharp and harsh voice, er all the publicity that has covered Dave, why dont you marry my the sporting pages, any athlete from mother? now on who doesnt report an atDave let his reins fall slack, and tempted bribe is either a completely the horse reached instantly, unre- dumb or a completely dishonest person. proved, for a sassafras bough. Because, he said slowly, she The terrific amount of money that believes that shes still married to has come into sport was sure to set your father. the chiselers and crooks to work. Jill clicked her teeth. You know Whatever happens, the directing that hope is fantastic, Dave. heads of every sport will have to Yes, Jill, I know. redouble any past efforts in the way she I never saw my father, of vigilance and guardianship. He was in France when went on. I was born. Mother doesn't even know, for sure, that he ever knew Baseballs Major Shifts that I was born. She wrote letters The two major shifts of the year but never had any answers. The in baseball belong to the games letters didnt come back, nothing strongest offensive player and the came back. Its grisly to think games best defensive player. This about. Grandfather going over there means Hank Greenbergs shift to the and watching them open graves, but Pirates and Joe Gordons move from in war things like that happen. the Yankees to the Cleveland IndiYes, they happen. ans. Then we went to Washington, Even at the age of 36, many years and Mother and Grandfather spent away in the service, Greenberg was days investigating records, but lusty enough at bat to lead Ted Wil. there wasn't anything. And yet sh liams in home runs and runs batted goes on waiting. in. was Mother was a belle before she too. then, war was it and married, chance any couldnt by Spang. You be jealous? trust Sure, Im jealous! I dont medand bars his all for Cyanide, als. Jill giggled delightedly. You re The poor old so funny. Spang. man loqked entirely harmless to me. Just a lonely, unhappy man. Hes not so old. I dont trust him any, Jill. Stay away from the Mar-shal- l, Spring Two-Piec- er soft, feminine two- WANT a frock for spring? Heres an attractive version that will be perfect for special dress- up events. Short sleeves are gently gathered, the nipped-i- n waist pares your figure smartly. Pattern 1386 Comfortable Pajamas our sewing is easily followed "THESE crisp butcher boy by step. step you chart guides the are sure to delight tailored who likes things. 1386 is designed for sizes girl Pattern No. 12, 14, 16, 18. 20; 40 and 42. Size 14, short Theyre so useful and comfort- sleeve, Wa yards of able you cant have too many! cents for Send an additional twentv-flvFASHION. Its Pattern provides short or long your copy of the Spring with smart ideas for to brim filled the an extra And for personsleeves. spring wardrobes. Free pattern printed al touch, why not put your mono- inside the book. Due to an unusually large demand and gram on the handy pocket? current conditions, slightly more time Is 1559 12-4- 2 pa-jam- as e required in filling orders for a few of the most popular patterns. Send your order to: No. 1559 comes in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20; 40 and 42. Size 14, short sleeve, 4 yards of 36 or Pattern SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. St., San Francisco, Calif. Enclose 25 cents In coins for each 709 Mission pattern desired. Pattern No. Size Nam- eAddress- - Personal He Like simple things? She Are you proposing? Splendid Cough Relief, Mixed Maybe Not Hubby This place is so dirty I can write my name in the dust. Wifie Stop bragging that youre No Cooking. Yes, maam, right in your own kitchen, you. can. easily mix a cough medicine that is a wonder for quick results, and gives you about four times as much for your money. And Its no trouble a child could do it. Youll need a syrup. Make it by educated. 'Agree There I aint deaf and dumb. Dont shout at me! Bill His Wife Who said you were deaf? stirring 2 cups of granulated sugar and one cup of water a few momenta; until dissolved. No cooking needed. Or you can use corn syrup or liquid honey, instead of sugar syrup. ounces of Pinex from Now get 2 any druggist, and pour it into a pint fill and up with your syrup. bottle, 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 its 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 rest at night. Pinex is a special compound of proven Ingredients, in concentrated form, well known for quid: action on throat and bronchial irritations. Just try it, and if not pleased, your money will be refunded. Admitted Bix self? Dix Bix Did you think that up your- Yep, out of my head. I thought you were. We make Sign in a restaurant gravy to match any vest. Blankety Blank Hank Does he play much golf a day? Joe Oh, about 36 holes, roughly" speaking. Hank Yeah, Ive heard him. A man was arrested for picking his way through a crowd one pocket at a time. Rub in Buy U. S. Savings Bonds! quick! Gently warming Ben-Ga- y discomrelief from chest-col-d welcome brings speedy, contains up to 2 Vi times more fort. You see, Ben-Ga- y methyl salicylate and menthol two agents known to all doctors than five other widely the origoffered rub-in- s. Insist on genuine Ben-Gainal Baume Analgesique. Also for Pain due to RHEUMATISM, MUSCLE ACHE, and STRAINS. Ben-Ga- y, pain-relievi- y, Ask for Mild Ben-Ga- I In Your Kitchen sun-drun- (TO BE CONTINUED! ldp y for Children. |