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Show THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT, | A WOMAN'S INSTINCT By BARBARA BENEDICT Associated Newspapers. WNU Service. tilt of her nose and the look in her eyes. She was stubborn, and, therefore, Dave Norden was a little surprised when she yielded in his embrace and lifted her lips to be kissed. He had been a little wildered by her stubbornness, be- but this-the pressure and warmth of her mouth against his-he understood perfectly. He released her and said: ‘Jinks! I didn't think you really loved me. I thought Say, you listen, were there's only cense and Shirley get kidding. a preacher to Meadows Corner. over there right now over We'll drive and get a li- married!" gasped. ‘‘Why "It's a grand idea,'' hoping and expecting you'd explain it. But since you won't-" he picked By CHERIE NICHOLAS AXIS CONFERENCE Mussolini-Well! Von "‘Whoa,'"' wound the said. "Get down," he said to Shirley, and Shirley got down. "‘Now, Dave Norden," she began, "if you think for one minute-" But Dave was grinning again, leading her up the walk toward Gus Stevens' front door. Why, shucks, he thought, no harm in a woman being a little stubborn if she wanted to. leaped to the JANET MAKES DECISION m By JOYCE TEMPLE (McClure Hitler Syndicate-WNU took the explanation has mouth! make to me? Ribbentrop-Explanation for what? Mussolini-He was to have licked England by August. I had his word for it. Von Ribbentrop-Everything in a war can't be done according to schedule. . Mussolini-This is a fine time to tell me! s*h6.sthC 8 Von Ribbentrop-Germany can't help it if the British fail to give up in accordance with our expectations. Their slowness in surrendering is very disturbing to Herr Hitler. Mussolini-If it disturbs Hitler, what do you think it does to me? * s a Von Ribbentrop-But nothing for us to worry is there about. Mussolini-Did you ever try standing for any length of time with one foot in the middle of a desert, one in the middle of the sea and the other foot in the middle of Europe? Von Ribbentrop-You yourself too many feet. Fairness and impartiality marked selection of the first draftees in accordance with the selective service regulations during the W orld war. Here you see Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, blind| folded, drawing the first draft capsule from a glass bowl, in 1917. Mussolini-Before are giving I get through | T LAST Janet Conrad came to a decision. With a sigh of relief she jumped up and started dressing. She did not whistle as she usually did-instead there was a little frown between her finely penciled brows and her ordinarily sunny face was clouded with thought. "No, sir," she told herself, ‘no love in a cot for me. Jack Benton's a darling, but nothing can take the place of my freedom and my forty berries per. As soon as he rings I'll go down and tell him ‘no,' then he'll go away." She thought back over the telegram she had received that morning. ‘Reach town via auto late this afternoon. May I see you seven o'clock? Something important to tell you. Jack." She knew what the something important meant and at last she had reached her decision. She was glad Von Ribbentrop-Everxthing come out as we promised. need is patience and a new os s Von got has Der to take Gibraltar. ready? Mussolini-Who? & Eng- Now lisyou have Are you 7}? NOT decide on the new coat, dress or suit until you have thoroughly looked into the matter of the cloth-trimmed-with-velvet vogue that is fairly taking the world of fashion by storm this season. So inspired have designers become in this direction they are playing e Black velvet sleeves, yoke and front panel have been used with telling effect to give an assuredly newthis-season look to the smart twopiece wool jacket-dress shown to the left in the illustration. Yes, indeed, you will show fashion alertness if Scenes like this, showing draftees checking in at Fort Slocum during the national call to arms in 1917, will once more be the rule now that the Burke-Wadsworth military training bill is in effect. Von Ribbentrop-We must have the co-operation of Spain. We must move fast. Mussolini - My troops never moved faster than they did when they were in Spain. Von Ribbentrop-This time it's got to be in the right direction. a s ?* Mussolini-There are moments when I think maybe we are biting off more than we can chew. Von Ribbentrop-You have my assurance this will be done on a 50-50 basis. Mussolini-What do you mean by that? Von Ribbentrop-Germany will do the biting; you can do the chewing. Mussolini-The more you talk the mere nervous I get. Von Ribbentrop-Brace you know Germany and super races? you see to it that your first town dress flaunts accents of velvet. Cunning style details that add to the prestige of this costume are the barbaric pair of clips, the centers of which are huge cabochon emeralds, the huge silver fox muff and ‘the veil-draped black felt chapeau worn with it. up! Don't Italy are The other velvet trimmed model shown here is one of those allimportant long-coat costume suits which best dressed women are accepting as a most welcome fashion this season. Bottle green tweed is the chosen material for this handsome ensemble. The gored skirt is topped with a full length coachman's coat accented with green velveteen (velveteen vies with velvet for trimming) collar lapels and buttons and various binding of edges. The lapel ornament-everybody's wear- they of Don't you know are the two greatest Powers on earth? Don't you know they are nations with a destiny? Don't you know they will rule the world? know ing lapel gadgets this season-is Fur-Faced Hat cents in no uncertain manner. be nex ators many s ple who in the in modern eB & s 2 . New York schools have Stopped buying maps. Boundaries change so often that the schools draw maps on « blackboard and make erasures or additions as news from Europe tomes in. "The class in geography will now look ‘nd give all the at yesterday's errors." top skirt that with VelV€ oon is finished Off a ; make simplicity of line their tiairs note show they are of newest? mus tage when they are piped with® fac vet, have velvet covered buttons ter most likely a velvet collar of m= ing velvet. Of course the favi suit is black with black velvet. Li, z ever, the ‘‘call to colors" is Te: ye ing in suits and coats made of geous tweeds that are COOP aig 3 velvet-trimmed. inn One house of design noted foi mer smart fashions is making a plat ar dresses that exploit the new peli), 2 slim lines that take on a flounce' an low the knee. These are of s*i tw wool, notably cashmere jersey 2 the new suede-finished wools, * High high style feature max in cunning schoolgirl collai, matching reaches its. ‘is velvet. Shirred vé muffs are also a new style note. math (Released by Western Newspaper Un tho . WS Fashion-Wise Use = 2 e the § one is developing into a s i on map hats flaunt color q Accessories are a riot of : color. design a play on Cx trast colors is one of the most cinating gestures fashion rec this season. For example, it is for a dress to have a neutral cola shirtwaist top, with a skirt w= introduces panels of vivid co Such a dress could be made of ‘\\\\ beige with sections of scarlet, and royal If blue. The new black frocks achieve f dash of color with yokes, vestee front panel effects mace up of g cerise and purple crepe. Da t FOR THE FIRING SQUAD A man I'd smack upon the kisser Is Crabby Cal, the Newsr eel Hisser (Unless he takes to tactic s new And hisses when I'm hissing, too.) ¢ jersey green GANDIDATES we a blouse jersey at neckline and wrist ¥ San down the front: ‘nowiz The very chic jacket suitsm e is being niade that is startling ii fect, but the bold handling of war. WHAT A LIFE! This is his pain And this is his sorro w: It's hair today- And gone tomorrow. - ichard Avedon. zs | -? plac too, for the two-piece dress is ®: Gra of In costume (zerman submarine commanders must get instructions, "Proc eed with the atrocity; we are ready with de. tials." Countless rolls of cloth in the| Scene inthe Philadelphia quurtermaster's department in | quarte Philadelphia soon will be cut | tailor rmaster's depot showing a examining a completed into soldiers' uniforms. | uniform on a clothes dummy. as the 2 cunningly trimmed with velven such accents as collar, cuffs' , novel pockets. It is very good at blinding gv s manner Dresses of cashmere jersey ™0 Feathers scoff at the talk of a new € same Coats that tie to one side. limit. a weapon | a. mode, such as a princess dreémtyrit black sheer wool that fastens t Brig: one side under a wide borde tire velvet. At a long-torso waigire point the dress is tied with ve of never so strikingly colorful. P have gone on a rampage of ci A man showed up at an army re. truiting station the other day with a portable radio. Yet there are peo- and. terrible are teenth of gorgeously gay colors. tweeds for coats and suits zs s fashions interpretations Bright, Gay Col- General De Gaulle is making the mistake of assuming that the French realize what has happened to France, s smart novel This J NEW LINE-UP The Japs now join The Nazi deals And sing, "Heil, Heil, The gang's all heels!" ~ of advantage of the vogue to intre. it? a | Be avenue of design has been OF that promises anything and elican thing in the way of artful e sion. The smart side fasteni I one piece dresses invite Velv@. no Mussolini-I_ know it, and you know it . . . but does the world. # Draftees training with wooden guns during the W orld war. up the theme with all the cunning and imagination at their command. The idea is being exploited to the utmost, and as the movement develops, the possibilities offered unfold in endless chain. Me! * }. In the chic velvet trims a Pri¢ All we plan. but 'em all in jail. Fuehrer says hangii off-the is of felt in matching green. s Ribbentrop-Yes, land sen, silver with three charms chains. The stunning hat will Mussolini-Why can't you mop up England the way you did all those other countries? There must be traitors, fifth columnists and quitters there, too. Draftees being examined by a military medical staff in 1917. The army of 400,000 men who are taking the oath of allegiance under the Burke-Wadsworth bill will be the healthiest conscription group in the nation's history. I may need 'em. I don't like the looks of things. Von Ribbentrop-Why did you come into the war? Mussolini-You know very well why I came in: You gave me a complete scenario, showing that France was finished and that England was as good as sunk. Service.) ‘You haven't. You're just saying that. You want to marry me only you're scared. Now that you've gone this far you're trying to back out. That's foolish, because after it's all over you'll be glad." She started to run from him, but he overtook her easily. "*You let me alone. Dave Norden, you must be crazy!" "Crazy about you. You're coming to Meadows Corner and you're goin' to marry me." He lifted her into the seat with no more effort than if she had been a doll, and climbed in beside her; held her with one hand while he picked up the reins with the other. She fought and bit, but he paid no heed, and this enraged her. It enraged her because he was so strong and handsome and clean and wholesome, and in so many other ways like the kind of boy she had sometoo for Jack's frequent visits had times pictured. caused her anxiety. She had always Presently she sat still, staring anlooked forward to them and at the grily out between the bobbing ears same time she had dreaded them. of the horse. He grinned and looked He was so irresistibly boyish in his at her. manner and so flatteringly infatu"That's right. Take it easy. ated that she had always felt the Tucker yourself all out squirmin' danger. around."' If he had proposed to her without "You won't get away with this," having given her the chance to reshe said bitingly. ‘*You won't make flect and think it over she would me marry you. Soon as we get have probably fallen for him on the where there's people, I'll scream." spot, but this way-thank goodness "We won't see any people between he had warned her. Now she had here and the Corner." herself well in hand and it would be "There'll be people in town. A easy to resist his pleading. body can't get married without peoShe wondered how he would take ple around." it. Of course, he would probably He nodded. ‘‘That's so.'" Then: feel pretty distressed at first, but "Most of the people know how we've that was natural. Nobody liked getbeen carryin' on. They'll underting turned down. She would be as stand."' gentle and considerate as possible. "You mean-you'd tell them- Her thoughts ran along as she got Dave Norden!"' into the little pink dress. "‘Won't tell them anything, let 'em When Jack saw her a few minfigure it out for themselves." utes later he gasped involuntarily, "Dave Norden, you must be a but much to her chagrin he did not fool! You can't scare me. A girl propose. And you simply can't say doesn't have to get married unless "no'"' to a man who has not said she wants to." "will you?"" He merely remarked "‘Nope,"" said Dave, "‘not unless after greetings were over: she wants to."' "Say, I know a road by the river. "And you think I want to! Why, I've always wanted to explore it. I wouldn't marry you if-if-for anyShall we take a little spin in the thing!"' car?"' Dave didn't answer. He wasn't Janet was slightly irritated. Howgrinning any more and there was ever, there was nothing she could do a furrow between his eyes. but consent to the ride, so they got A mile this side of Meadows Corinto the little waiting car and were ner a nut came off the rear left soon hurrying along the highway. wheel and he pulled up. He climbed The river road was several miles out and looked at the wheel and said out of town and by the time they he'd have to go back and find the reached it dusk had crept off into nut. the woods and had given the world Without waiting for Shirley's reover to the moon. Janet had no ply, if any, he started to backtrack. idea how long they had been drivHe walked slowly with his head ing when Jack stopped the car. bent. Fifty yards down the road "Now it's coming," she thought he found the nut and returned with with a little shiver. ‘He's going to it. Shirley was sitting as he'd left propose right here and now. What her, staring Straight ahead, her shall I say? Goodness, I wish it were eyes still angry. over."' Presently they were plodding But he did nothing of the sort. He along once more. They passed sevsaid nothing, not a word. He simply eral outlying houses and after took her in his arms and she felt his awhile turned into the main street. gentle kisses. She was hypnotized. There were a dozen or more pedesThere was something electrical, trians in sight. Dave glanced sidemagnetic about his touch and her wise at his companion, as if half mind whirled around in a chaos of expecting her to scream and attract thought. ‘If only he hadn't brought attention. me here. Thank goodness, he But Shirley didn't, and when they brought me here." drew up in front of Gus Stevens' After awhile he spoke. "It']] be house she sat still. Gus was the tough sledding at first, honey, but town clerk and could issue Marriage we'll get along."' licenses. "Who cares about tough sledding Dave twisted the reins in his as long as we're together!"' hands and kept his eyes downcast. She heard herself Saying the There was a moment of silence, and words, but still she could not bethen he said: "Listen, Shirley, |] lieve her own ears. Then this new reckon if I wanted I could go in Janet said something else with a there and get us a license and then little lilting laugh: ‘‘Jack, I was bedrive down to Squire Robbins and ginning to be so afraid you wouldn't get married. I guess I could do proposes You took so long to get to that all right, but somehow I've - sorta lost the urge." As a matter of fact he never did "Well, I should think so,"' said actually get to it, but neither one Shirley. "The very idea!" realized it and just at that second There was another moment of sithe old dead Janet raised up her lence. Something seemed to be head for a last laugh as she chanted troubling Dave. He looked up derisively: "Little trick nature again. plays on all of us." to Von ground. A out of my Mussolini-What said Dave. Carefully he reins around the whip- Dave and Ribbentrop-You word up the reins again-‘‘I reckon we better drive back. I reckon I couldn't go through with this even if I wanted. I don't understand women."' "T should say you don't. Far from it. Or you wouldn't have to ask why I didn't get out and run.'"' She paused, but Dave's frown only deepened. ‘"‘Why, anyone with any brains at all could have seen as plain as anything that it was because I was afraid you wouldn't try to catch me that second time." stock, **You let me kiss you,'' Dave challenged. "‘Why, I've let dozens of boys kiss me."' She knew she shouldn't have said it. Dave couldn't understand that. Kissing meant more to him; it meant something sacred. It was as good as a promise. A Popular Fall Fashion Slog f "hed "T've been trying to," said Dave. very "Why, listen, I've been waitin' to ask you to marry me ever since you came out here. Only," he grasped her arm and began leading her toward the buggy, "I didn't dast."' Shirley jerked herself loose. Her eyes flashed angrily. ‘‘Dave Norden, I believe you're serious. The very idea! Just because I told you you were the nicest boy I'd met in a long time, I declare!"' ‘Trimmed With Velvet' Beco 4 he Burke-W adsworth selective military service bill, which calls to athens service men between the ages of 21 and 35, ap recalls the scenes of 1917 when Uncle Sam drafted his army for the World war. As in 1917, there are not enough arms to go around, and some draftees may be forced to train with wooden guns. Physical requirements will not be as strict as those used in selecting men for the regular army in peacetime. ‘But it's got me licked. That's why I drove on in town here-sort of the idea!"' UTAH Draft History to Repeat As Uncle Sam Gets Busy out?"' HIRLEY OAKES was stubborn. You could tell that by looking at the set of her chin and the ; "‘There's just one thing," he said, "T'd like to know about. It kinda bothers me. Back there in the road when I got out to find the nut, why didn't you run then when you had the chance?" "Run? Why should I run? Besides, you're so smart and sure of yourself, why don't you figure it MOAB, Nothing less than a sensation, that's what the new and dramatic fur-faced broad-brimmed hats are creating. The model pictured tells the ‘‘reasun why'"' every woman of fashion is Sending in a rush order for a fur-faced hat to match her coat. The hat and coat ensem ble shown here is of beaver. It is made of such smooth furs as Persian lamb, black Sealskin, leopard and other spotted varieties, also ermine for evening wear. ‘These repeat again and again in millinery to match the fur coat or fur trim on the suit. For those who Can indulge in fur luxury, an important new fashion is hat and muff twosoines. It is Said that the white fur theme in acces. sory sets of this type will become a pronounced vogue this winter. They add a distinctive appearance that women find most becoming. much color will be none as you please and too colorful this seai Newest Hats Made Of Pasted Feath orm It is a season of gayest of 3 plumage and novelty feathers. much so, the newest hats of the § suo. son are made entirely of pa LIFC feathers the new in gorgeous colors. V¥ dark furs they are sim Stunning. Your feather chap may be of the now-so-chic br¢ brim type or it may PO WI Needad wma ww little novel shape or a close fi turban. Just so it's feathere distinction. °* Felt casual hats flaunt spec lar quills and other feather n ties. New A be a cunmeTh ws: WY pTARA too are the felt bret as well as those of velvet that h a fringe of brilliant feathers ou ing the brim. - Nou: Yn Fre |