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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD, DUCHESNE, UTAH ii None of Her Business By PAPINTA 1 KNOWLES IT WASNT Her voice was almost as young as CHAPTER I Now Hopes, with none of the harshness What are that it was settled there were that age usually brings. several problems to be handled before they moved from Harbisonville One concerned Granny, who was frequently a difficult person to deal with because she did her own thinking and sometimes that of others. "I still think it might be better for Kate Ives her to go to Chicago, said for the umpteenth time. "She'd have every comfort there with Gertrude and Wilton, but Not every comfort," Andy broke in. Shed never be In a very good humor around Wilton She says hes as interesting as a toad, except that he doesnt have warts Kate laughed, then quickly turned Ill have to talk with her serious. You right away, but I dread it know how she is, Andy. He nodded. 'If its going to hurt her feelings, 1 say let her go with us. Shed rather do that, anyway. and Why, she's just sixty-eighshp can stand as much as most women between forty and fifty. If its going to hurt her feelings, dont mention it to her; shes the best mother-in-laIve ever had. "And its such a coincidence that Kate wasnt she's my mother too! convinced that she liked this brand of humor. Andy, are you sure youve done the right thing? When I think of moving 'way off there and turning pioneer, I get shivers! Andy Ives, who had been a clerk In Jaynes Hardware Store for nearyears, ly twenty unprogressive looked at her for a long moment without speaking. His keen blue eyes held a hard, almost fierce, light. We may get a lot more than shivers out of it, Kate And 1 cant know until weve tried that Im doing the right thing But itll be something else, and well be working for the kind of life Ive wanted all these He leaned toward hei, took years. finher hands in his big, farm-breThe Lord made a lot of gers. acres, Kate, and I want some of them for my own a place for Hope and Dave to call theirs someday, a place that will flourish according to the strength and thought we put into it. The land down there is rich and black and good. I think Ive don6 the right thing. The question is, Are we the right people? Kate Ives had never been quite sure of Andys wisdom in business matters. At times he seemed to be a dreamer. Gertrude, her sister in Chicago, whose husband, Wilton Warner, was a successful executive Mattress in the Company and made enough money for them to afford an apartment from which they could see Lake Michigan, had never quite understood why Kate had married Andy. Of course, Gertrude had never come right out with It, for Gertrude was proud of her tact and the delicate subtlety with which she could project her disapprovals; but Kate had long known that in Gertrudes view Andy was not a complex form of t, you mooning about this pretty fall morning? Oh, why, nothing, of coursel How are you, mother? Ready for breakfast. Have you and Andy eaten? Some time ago. She turned and ID fix started for the kitchen, your egg. Want it poached this morning? If so, ID poach it. Go back to She chuckled. your window. Standing there that way, you reminded me of the day before you married Andy. You were so wor-neBut you got a good, steady man, Kate, bless his heart! You like Andy, dont you? If you had to do It over and turned him down, Id take a barrel stave to you Mrs. Craig said gentGo caff Hope, and ID get her ly. breakfast too. Wheres the apron? On the pantry door. Kate started out, to call Hope, who had been d! d Dusk-to-Daw- n Lie. Granny Approves Of Her Son-in-Lai- v Of late years Andy had been hearing of free land in the state a great lowland region a hundred miles south of Haibisonville, in the fiat, black cotton country of southern Arkansas which was being parceled out to those who paid a small fee and agreed to live on the land two years, making certain simple imYet she had never provements. dreamed that a man as cautious as Andy would tear loose from the security, even the static, humdrum aecunty of Harbisonville, and take up a tract of that land. But be had done it! And now they were going to move from staid Harbisonville, from the bungalow where Hope and Dave had been born and had grown up, to the swamp country southeast of Newcastle, where they would begin a new life, perhaps a very difficult and strange life! She was standing at the window after Andy had gone off to work that November morning, looking out at the autumn-daube- d world, thinking about it. She must tell her mother today, and she must be tactful about it. How could they haul Granny off to the swamp for a pioneer life when the old lady could live in a warm apartment in Chicago, high enough above the ground to redect Wilton's prosperity and offer a pleasant view of Lake Michigan? Mrs Craig came Into the living room, slender and straight. In black, wearing her usual high white lace collar and yellow gold watch pinned Her bearing high on her bosom. gave an Impression of height. Just as her manner of dressing gave her the air of a patrician, yet she was neither taU nor very patrician Her face, untouched with cosrnet ics, was finely wrinkled, her nose was straight and well bridged; her eyes were level and clear, dark brown, she bad thin lips, but not too thin for a quick smile, her cheeks were firm, with no hint of sagging at any point. She and the years she had spent had appai ently got along very well. Good morning, Kate, she said. Were going Kate told her. to move, honey," to a dance the night before, then stopped and turned back. Now was the time to talk with her mother, before Hope came in. She bit her lip and wondered how to start. What la it? Mrs. Craig asked, noting her daughters expression. What are you thinking? We may be moving before long, mother. I want to tell you Finel the old lady cut in. Where to? Well, Andy has always wanted a farm, you know, and now he has paid the fee on a quarter section of state land, with a two-roocabin on it, where we can set up houseWeD move before the keeping. month is out. Well, gentle rivers the old lady exclaimed. Wonderful! The emancipation of Andiew Ives! There wiD be terrible hardships, mother. Its down In the swamp country, southwest of Newcastle. Its out in the wilds, thinly settled, and and Well, Im just wondering if we ought to subject you to the hardships ahead of us, mother." The old lady stiffened as if I understand what youre slapped. getting at, she said quickly. Have you written Gertrude yet? Hope Is Happy Over the Farm Kate Ives flushed a little. No, 1 havent. You know I wouldnt write Gertrude about it before talking with you, don't you? Well, I certainly didn't think so. Now, you listen to me, Kate. I can take as many hardships as you can, and you know Id get a job washing dishes and keeping house for somebody before I'd go up north and live In the same house with that smug, tiresome mattress peddler Gertrude marriedl Mather! Dont talk Uke thatl I Just thought All right, don't you talk Uke tnat either. Look here. Ive been with you ami Andy since your father died, and Ive helped bring up Dave and Hope, and my place Is with you aU. Dont you be thinking for a minute that Id traipse off up to Chicago to dry up and die In some stuffy apartment, with never a chance to walk tn the mud or to feed chickens or to hear a cowbell at night or a hound trailing just bifore sunup! I'm a human being. Kate Ives! Im not a bit afraid of your swamp and your hardships! asked Hope, What on earth? who had reached tha door just tn time to catch Grannys last words Whose swamp and whose hardships? Kate looked at her daughter and felt a twinge of pain, for Hope was too pretty to be hidden m a swamp, torn loose from her circle of friends, removed from her admirers to a place where there would probably be no worthy admirers to replace them. Hope was vividly attractive, n with gray eyes and curly hair. She could have Wall Harbison, cashier of Harbisonville Bank and Trust, If she wanted him But I dont want him, she had told Kate on the morning after his third proposal. HeD be bald before hes thirty-fivand he has ancestors. Kate had pointed out that this was normal, particularly In view of the fact that .WaD was a Harbison and must be expected to But his are have ancestors. Hope had informed her, ending rather neatly Kate Ives faint hope that a great love might bud and give them a connection not only with a prosperous bank but also with the founding family of the town. It was disappointing to learn that Hope's dread of having a bald husband was so keen. There were many worse afflictions than baldness Stuffiness, for example, or chinless-ness- . any of her business, of course. But the fact didnt keep her from worrying over the situation that was as evident as the nose on her face between Jim and Betty upstairs. Shed slept very little the night before from thinking about them. And now she sat in Pas old rocker by the heater m the front room, listening to Mikes little feet patter across the floor above her. She wondered what an old widow could do to Tighten things between two that shed come to love as her own children. For three days Mollie hadnt heard Jim step bis foot on the stairs, which substantiated the news shed heard that morning from TiDie Smith across the street that Jim was staying in a room downtown. Everything had been alright at Christmas, apparently. Jim had shouldered a cedar tree up the stairs thatd been almost too big to get through the door, and hed said to Mollie, grinning his infectious grin through the cedar branches, Mike dark-brow- e, What are you talking about? Hope Insisted, when her mother began hedging, not wishing to break Whose the news of the move. swamp and whose hardships, I repeat? Were going to move, honey," I was just telling Kate told her. Granny that" "Move? Hope yipped, flinging back a swirl of shining hair that had swung across one cheek. For heavens sake, where? And when? Isnt this rather sudden? Its been brewing for years. AD your life youve heard your father talk of wanting a farm of his own, haven't you? WeD, were going to have one. You make it sound so simple All at once were going to have a farm. Just like that! As easy as ordering it from Sears." Kate explained the arrangement It's free land, you see. Except for the few dollars weve put into the fee, aU we have to do now to make it ours is to work. At last" Hope said gladly Now dad 'can work for himself, instead of handling bolts and nuts, hoes and rakes and plowpomts for the other feUow! Its wonderfull There wont be much for you Ii down there, Kate said slowly. youd rather, you can get a job and stay here, where youve friends and recreations and and die of homesickness for the rest of you! Hope cut in. Stay here? Im going too, and dont think you can park me in HarbisonviHe while the rest of you sail off to the great adventure! Why, ID outpio-nee- r PriscDla herself! Women Plan a Pioneer Life And who knows? a light In her eye. Granny asked, Maybe thereD be a John Alden down there in the swamp country. Then the old lady shrugged and laughed without mirth, spoke to Hope: She tried to persuade me against going. Imagine that! Hardships! Why, manys the hardship Ive caught by the tail and swung around my head three times before throwing it over the mountain. Have you told Hope laughed. Dave yet?" she asked her mother. Dads going to teU him at noon, when he comes by the store, on his way home from school. It wiD make Dave very happy, I know. What could please a gangling, freckled boy of sixteen more than going into wUderness where there are deer, wild turkey, fish, coons?" Is It that wild?" Hope broke in. "Really deer and turkey and aU that?" Rattlesnakes too," Kate added, and mosquitoes, frogs, and maybe an alligator now and then. Dad says its primitive." Dave can wear a coonskin cap and be our young Leatherstocking What of Ives!" Hope mused. neighbors? 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Meals After-Holida- y , SMART HOMEMAKERS, instead of looking on holiday leftovers with scorn, wiD welcome having them because they save time in meal preparation a s weU as conserving time in marketing. Who doesn't welcome succu- lent slices of ham, turkey or roast beef when served with slices of bread or rolls? Theyre the refrigerator raiders delight! Then, too, there are exceUent dishes which Mom can prepare quickly from vegetables and roast. Everythings cooked and needs just a bit of ingenuity and heatmg to make them ready for the table! To make leftovers palatable, its best to disguise them completely. With the right recipes, it isnt much of a trick, and its fun, too, to test your ingenuity. Chicken Rice Leaf (Serves 6) 2 cups diced, cooked chicken or turkey 2 cups cooked green Combine chicken, peas, rice and pimiento. Add milk to egg yolks, then fold mto chicken-vegetabl- e mixture. Add onion, salt and pepper. Place In a greased loaf pan and bake in a moderate oven for one hour. Serve with cream or mushroom sauce. Place pan of Cranberry Peach Taffies in same oven during the last half hour of baking time. (350-degre- Cranberry Peach Taffies 4 canned peach halves 94 can Jellied cranberry sauce 2 tablespoons butter 6 tablespoons brown sugar ar YOU HAD HAM for Christ-your- e undoubtedly looking for a smooth way to get rid of the ham shreds. This main dish loaf stretches the ham with unflavored gelatin and cheese and wiD make nearly as big a hit with your family and friends as the whole ham. Serve It for a buffet meal or snack with a green salad. 94 94 94 94 Ham Loaf (Serves 6) envelops unflavored gelatin cop cold water cup hot water teaspoon salt cup vinegar cup diced celery LYNN SAYS: Heres What to Do With Bits of Leftovers with creamed macaroni or spaghetti mixed with leftover holiday meats can be baked for mighty good eating Add some dabs of leftover vegetables to the mixture, if you Gresn peppers, MENU FARMS AND RANCHES Hot Tomato Juice Chicken Rice Loaf Cranberry Peach Taffies Molded Leftover Fruit Salad French-Frie- d Eggplant Bran Muffins Cookies Beverage Recipe given CANAOIAN FARMS FORMA! ION on farm Write os for FRFE IN settlement opportunities. F 8i tile soils. Reasonably priced C F. Corn wall, Canadian Pacific Railway, Vancouver, B C. HELP WANTED AGENTS cup diced sweet pickle cup grated American cheese cup diced cooked ham Soften gelatin in cold water. Add hot water and salt and stir until dissolved. Add vinegar. ChiD until the mixture is the consistency of unbeaten egg whites. Mix in celery and pickle; divide mixture into two parts; to one, add the grated cheese, to the other, the diced ham. Turn ham mixture into loaf pan and chill until almost firm; add cheese mixture and chiD until firm. Unmold on crisp greens and serve with tomato wedges. 94 1 1 For three days Mollie hadnt heard Jim step his foot on the stairs. ... and drained. Grease a ring mold with the shortening and pour in mixture. Bake in a moderate oven for 35 minutes. Turn onto a platter and fill the center with buttered broccoli, peas or other vegetables. filled like, Have some leftover cranberry sauce? Heat it and use as the liquid with lemon flavored gelatin. Mold with other leftover fruits for a alad after the holidays. MEN, WOMEN WANTED Insurance agents wanted, full or part time, Utah and Nevada. 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Mike and I will Spaghetti-HaRing She got play train and balL (Serves 6) out the little train she kept for Mike V cup spaghetti, uncooked when he came to visit her. 3 eggs After a while an odd, happy glow 94 teaspoon salt came Into Mollies dim blue eyes, 2 teaspoons prated onion and she asked Mike, would you like 2 cups ground, leftover ham to go over to see Aunt Tillie, dear? 2 tablespoons shortening Mike was afl eagerness, because 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce Aunt Tillie gave him little bags 94 cup top milk He of candy. Les go les go! Break spaghetti into small pieces Jumped up and down with exciteand cook in boiling, salted water ment. until tender. Theyd hardly reached Tillie Beat eggs slight- Smiths little house across the street ly, add season- when Mollie asked TiDie, Would ings, milk and you keep Mike a little while, Tillie? ham. Mix with I have something I must take care spaghetti which of at the house. ID not be gone has been rinsed (350-degre- lf 1 CHAMBERS ham-spaghet- ti Drain peach halves. - Cut craninch berry sauce into one-haslices, then cut each slice in cubes. Crumble butter and brown sugar together. Place cranberry sauce cubes into hollows of peach halves, allowing at least two cubes to each peach half. Sprinkle with butter-sugmixture. Place in shallow pan and bake during last half hour with Chicken Rice Loaf. 94 LYNN m peas cups cooked rice tablespoons chopped pimiento 2 egg yolks, beaten 94 cup milk 1 tablespoon minced onion 1 teaspoon salt Dash of pepper 2 2 ones? I dont know about that part of it, Kate told her, but from what J gather, weD have room to turn around, and just worlds of privacyl You two get your breakfast now. Ive broken the news. Next month we may be living on possum and squirrel, so enjoy your civilized rations while you can." When Andy told Dave at noon, the boy was happy. They were walking home to lunch, and Dave was telling about their first basketbaU practice the afternoon before, and of his hopes of being star forward on the Harbisonville High team. It seemed very important to him. Andy listened patiently until they had passed the City Wholesale Grocery warehouse. and then he broke the boys chatter, saying gravely: You wont be on the basketbaD team much longer, son. Ive something to teD you " Naturally Surely, Miss Jenks, you know the Kings English? Typist Of course. Whoever said he wasnt? Employer long. GREAT MUTUAL IIFE INSURANCE CO. 606 Beason Building Salt Lake City, Utah - HEALTH - ACCIDENT LIFE and Snap It S- - Mold IjouA, (Bondi. Savinqi Get Well QUSCICER From Your Cough Due to a Cold cycHoney&Tar rni rtlaSU8 Cough Compound Believes Distress of MONTHLY Also Helps Build tip Red Blood! Do female functional periodic disturbances make you suffer pain, feel so nervous, Irritable at such times? Then try Lydia E. Plnkhams TABLETS to relieve such symptoms Plnkhamt Tablets are also very effective to help build up red blood In simple anemia. Lydia E. PinkhanTs TAGIETS Why, yes, Mollie, ID take care of Mike. WeD get along fine," she said. Mollie sat in Pas old rocker by the heater and a strange little prayer slipped from her bps, Dear God, forgive me, but it cant be a sin! She became silent and fastened a WHEN YOU HAVE just a little look upon Betty who had frightened can left from the roast, it turkey town with her arms from returned be extended with oysters in this loaded with groceries. savory pie: Hes gone . . . Betty, hes GONE! Turkey-Oyste- r Pie No it wasnt Jim who took (Serves 6) She managed the falsehood, him. 1 cup small oysters but somehow she wasnt feelmg bad 2 cups leftover turkey, cut in inside for doing it. strips Mollie hardly knew what happened 1 cup leftover turkey gravy after shed spoken the Ue; only that 1 cup milk Betty had dropped her groceries In 1 tablespoon butter the middle of the floor and had 1 tablespoon flour dashed to the telephone to caD Jim. 1 teaspoon salt Then after Jim was there, holding teaspoon pepper in his arms and trying to stop Betty 94 cup mushrooms, if desired and the whole neighborher tears, 94 recipe plain pastry hood was roused with the news that Combine first four ingredients. someone had taken little Mike, Tillie Heat to boiling and simmer gently Smith and Mike walked In the back until oysters curl. Melt butter, add door. TUlie said tn surprise at "WeD flour, salt and pepper. Add to turkey mixture. If fresh mushrooms the neighborhood gathering. Whats are used, saute them before add- this? A New Years party? Mollie, ing to turkey mixture. Pour into I thought you intended to come back pastry tin. Top with for Mike. deep, nine-inc- h slashed crust. Bake in hot Betty and Jim were holding Mike oven until top is browned. between them and Laughing now For pastry, use one cup flour, Presently their eyes slipped to Molteaspoon lie sitting quietly in the old rocker, cup lard, one-hasalt and two to three tablespoons and Betty said, so that only Jim cold water. could hear, Bless her heart, Jiml Bless her heart! Released by WNU Features. ... Help, build stamina helps build resistance to colds, if youngsters dont get enough natural A&D Vitamins! Scotts Is a high energy FOOD TONIC -- a gold mine of natural A&D Vitamins and energybuilding natural oil. Easy to take. 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