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Show THE LEHI SUN. LEIII. UTAH m '"10 Rot rush lig 'oir, which liefs, up of 1 is worr iws eve i an old ' and use : dated g T'g CUS' k aits of r; of fat:' i I, NJ dub: W0MAM1B W.N.U jlH PETER B.KYNE I " niDi u9n Ruth. I "'TToM 1:1 , - 'WCTCCwceeeI10 1 1 .dvertlsement. 01 wevagn .rted by Ma nd l't"r.. met .tths station l.g Bewu, h.. rona out P1' ' L to"" her to Phoenix f"" .... i.-n's Aunt Margaret 'Hearing that the Wagon Wheel K n,m Henley, Len'f dad, pur- rl. Burdan note, from uw Dan. f' knpnlx Len enten the rodep, p o. !oWn a. Mad Hatter. ft LYeta the West Ham Henley Uwr e W" woBt fce sliKnu- it dance itay on " " . " employ mem Titerg, i :ilANGE I Citjr, li lilers I ludi than Len tovei her. CHAPTER VI m they returned to the table en Uiej T Sutheriana saw ---, to tell your father he '' il uAn nn that bet to try w ucu6:::..." 7wn, iade with you. I assured him automtM eighbor! ind lot 'A meet. net Grid Jr. r HayJrt ' trial td s, Ed 1 e certainly going to ride horse to a finish-and he n.' heilpve me. K Henleys have to be shown, kel between us, , r . . tt- I,. Hat m k show mm. - " thousand aonars w - ,31 not maKe tune wuw means.' mean. I nave to sij wiUJ r.ttr long enough to scratch with my taped spurs twice In shoulders and twice In the that I must ride with one b free and held high, with the t hand holding rope natter-k natter-k If I 'claw leather that is, p the pommel to Keep urum ihrown-or if I lose a stirrup, I be disqualified. If and when I olete my contract uic pieaiimiB l. will Are a pistol ana alter I - :i if Maa Hatter wrows wc, n't count fcel our bet takes in more ter-ty," ter-ty," his father explained. "She that you WiU not onoy mane but you'll ride him until he js and you leave him without (help of a pick-up man. fce girl drew from her purse a carved ivory elephant. "Ele-fcts "Ele-fcts are good luck, Don Leonardo. Id this one with me this morn-fand morn-fand what happened? Why, I met I So have this in your pocket In you ride tomorrow. By the if, Mr. Henley, Senior, how much jdug up will your innards stand?" don't know." I'm going to find out." fe knew then that she would mar-iii mar-iii son if she could marry him r the sake of a new thrill; marry i because she had built him up t?ui I a romantic figure and stick un-ure. un-ure. Ft jhe discovered he wasn't. .tie toward him across the table. ?i victory," she toasted. "To vic-r vic-r after a fight worth while!" I Sam Henley dropped the ladies .'at their hotel and said to his son: ftw about spendin the night at f house?" Tot tonight, sir, thank you," Len plied coldly, and his father did not as the issue. Mrs. Maxwell, glad escape to the peace and privacy her suite, bade the young folks Sfl night and Len led Mary into a dor off the lobby. "What hap-ied?" hap-ied?" he asked. "You and Ham-i Ham-i were throwing off sparks." speak Spanish better than you your father do also French and tfan. I've spent much of my life ad and was educated in Switzer-& Switzer-& The Latin languages were a fey of mine." y old man is like that," he id sadly. "He didn't know it was ifolite to address me in Spanish fen he knew Margaret didn't un-Rtand un-Rtand that language and believed j you, being an Easterner, didn't He had something to say he said it He's a direct ac-icist." ac-icist." A rugged individualist, perhaps. he doesn't like me and I don't him, and I hope I do not meet P again." p181 Possessed you to make that i"A number of reasons- J wante(j f shock him, to let him know I s dead game a sport as he jM gamer, intact." J.0" shouldn't have bet him I'd Mad Hatter until the brute was ousted and then leave him with-I with-I the aid of the pick-up men." t3e shouldn't have accepted the f ffiy dear, because in so doing I Proved he was wilUng to take "ntage of my ignorance and de-FJs de-FJs of feeding his silly and in- rie "slute. of me. And I want-Jet want-Jet him know I considered you aordr :onstd posing ittle dom .s we. ours' i that ictor. f m uihal an' worH 1 o started that bet talk?" ' 1 did. I tfllrf KJr T k. . " A 1.VU1UU k UiJ fand why a father would try to J "ousand dollars from a son ?couidn't afford the loss and he Lea ttat he felt it his fatherlv F to defla . 5e sense- 1 wen sug- i"a L wai he were nossessed of f-e Of that lnrr, fU'Iy One VdllMn't K L v '-oe chill that enveloped iu nis son whenever r they eMew up, of course?" h? smiled- B"t te smoul- c. , v -"u wrew up a smoKe ' a oy asking me if I'd like some e tO OTP nr. K:. T t r-u anri j ,usea a naer w tne e made with you." 'He'd like to win from von hp. cause he likes to humble an enemy, but he wouldn't accept your money If he won," Len defended. "He'd return your check-just to have the laugh on you." "Do you think I'll lose? You told me you were going to make Mad Hatter beg for mercy." "I'm going to try to prove to my father what a poor judge of women and horseflesh he is. I am not merely mere-ly content to win from him. I want to win by a dozen lengths." With that large confidence women have in the men of their fancy she said, "You'll do it." "I have sufficient incentive to ride a cyclone, Mary. I'm terribly sorry my father hurt your feelings." "You won't have to grieve over it very long. One of my weaknesses is inability to live with a grouch and I wouldn't be surprised if you don't possess sufficient influence to induce me to abandon my grouch against your father within a week." Her hand slipped over his. "I couldn't bear to hurt you, Len. We've known each other for eons and eons ever since you were a tadpole and I was a fish in the paleozoic slime. And we never quarreled, did we?" The dominating sweetness of her choked him; she had about her, when she chose to exert it, an elfin quality. She had character enough to have a temper, and courage cour-age enough to go to the attack. Finally Fi-nally he managed to say: '.'Would you care to ride with me, on Pabli-to, Pabli-to, in the street parade to the rodeo grounds tomorrow? Sort of a Wild "Elephants are good luck, Don Leonardo." West spectacle. All the dudes in this area will participate." "I'd love to." "You'll have to have a costume, but you can buy that tomorrow morning early." "If you'll go shopping with me." "I'll have to. And I should not like to see you wear anything gaudy. I'd like to see you arrayed as a working cow-woman. Blue or gray flannel shirt, whipcord slacks with reinforced seat such as I wear, cowboy cow-boy boots, flat-crowned black hat with medium brim, a bright Windsor tie, chaps and spurs, with a wind-breaker wind-breaker if needed. All garments you can use when you visit me at the Wagon Wheel." "That will be fun." He had heard her use that phrase before and be wondered if it was her habit to embrace only that portion of life that promised fun and discard the remainder. "Tell me of your plan for acquiring that ranch on some cash and more credit." "The Burdans are going to lose everything and anything they can salvage from the wreck will be welcome. wel-come. So I'm going to buy their state land lease and their equity in the home ranch for say twenty-five twenty-five hundred dollars and stipulate that the money must be paid to Ma so she will be protected against Pa's weakness for investment in speculative enterprises floated by people he is not acquainted with. I shall then .bring them back to the Wagon Wheel, because they love it and hire Pa as choreman and Ma as my cook and housekeeper, at a very nominal salary, because Pa is a Spanish War veteran and was wounded at Santiago, so he iraws a pension of sixty dollars a month. The knowledge that they have a home I'll give them one of the dude cottages food and an ample income will break down sales resistance.'' "It's liable to come from Ma," Mary suggested. ';She is the strong man of that team." "She thinks she is. Well Til then get them to give the bank a bill-of-sale for all the cattle on the ranch They can't save themselves from foreclosure and a deficiency judgment and the bank wffl grab the unmortgaged cattle anyhow to meet the deficiency judgment: so why subject the bank to that annoy-ance annoy-ance and expense? The bank will accept, of course, and sign a receipt re-ceipt and agreement freeing the Burdang from a deficiency Judgment." Judg-ment." "Then you will pay off the loan on the home ranch, Len?" "Not if I can help it I'll need my capital for another purpose, so I'll have to high-pressure the bank into carrying me for it I'll remind them that they have about three thousand head of cattle eating my grass and I wish them removed immediately, im-mediately, in order that I may stock my range with cattle of quality. They will investigate and discover that the Burdans have assigned their state lease to me and that I have paid the defaulted rental before the lease could legally be canceled. That news will throw a chill into them." "Why?" "Because they'll have to spend a couple of thousand dollars to round up the cattle. They'll have to hire it done and the loan is sour enough without adding more vinegar. Then they'll have to sell the cattle to a packing plant because nobody will wish to buy them for breeding stock; the local buyers will know the bank has a bear by the tail and the result re-sult will be murder most foul." "But would your action be quite ethical, Len?" "Absolutely. In the world of business busi-ness one must protect himself in the clinches and breakaways and the bank should have protected itself by securing an option, at a reasonable reason-able price, on the Burdan state land leases, as additional security. By exercising the option when foreclosure foreclo-sure on the cattle could no longer be delayed they would have protected protect-ed themselves from the rabbit punch I plan to give them. And the lease would have been readily salable after aft-er the option had served its purpose. pur-pose. v Ham Henley, viewing the parade from the front window of his office on the second floor of the Henley building, with Mrs. Maxwell as his guest, saw Mary ride by with his son. Both Len's mounts were high-school high-school horses and he had taught Mary the trick of putting her mount through his act. They rode at the head of the parade now some fifty feet in advance of it and an equal distance behind a band that played "Alexander's Rag Time Band." And the horses were cake-walking. "I reckon there's some peacock blood in my son," Ham Henley said. J'He. certainly loves to show off. The cheers o' the mob mean ' more to him than the cheers of his pappy." "Has he ever heard any of pap-py's pap-py's cheers?" Margaret asked innocently, inno-cently, and he did not answer. His sultry glance was on Mary Sutherland. Suther-land. "Isn't that girl lovely, Ham?" his guest went on. "She can ride, too." "I got a plan in mind to bust that deal up, in case it's incubatin', Margaret. I can acquire the Wagon Wheel ranch for a song an' sing the song myself. Len like's that spread. He's wintered with the Burdans the past five years an' knows it thor-oughly. thor-oughly. I'm not goin to ask him again to join up with me, but if he'll agree not to marry that dude woman wom-an I'll buy the Wagon Wheel ranch for him. I'll clean out all of the low quality cattle on it now and stock it with the best I'll give him a good caballado an' sufficient operatin' capital an' my blessin'. He'll be on his own then somethin' he always wanted to be, an' we can get together to-gether socially, anyhow. After all I can still hire good men to shoulder shoul-der my worries." Margaret Maxwell burst out at him. "For heaven's sake, Ham, will you ever learn to mind your own business insofar as your son is con- j cerned? He'll make no such trade with you and you shouldn't have to be told that. You can't give him anything because you alienated him . in the beginning by threatening not to give him anything unless he took program from you. You used the quirt on a thoroughbred. Ham. Don't do it again. If you want to set him up in business, get the Wagon Wheel in the shape you know he'd like to have it and then say: 'It's yours, son, if you'll take it because your ( old man loves you, and the accept- ance doesn't even entail an obligation obliga-tion on your part to love your old man." "Margaret," he replied petulantly, petulant-ly, "he'd ought to know he's all I got an' I love him. He ain't dumb." "Men don't get soft with each other, so you never have given him any visual evidence of paternal affection. af-fection. You're so afraid of being considered soft you lean backward to be hard. Ham, you know I'm a good friend of yours and don't like to scold you, because I feel sorry for you, but really, you're very difficult at times." "If that dude woman wasn't beautiful; beau-tiful; if she wasn't the kind to have men' chasin' her like cows with calves chase a dog in a field, I wouldn't mind. But her kind sp'iles j early. They get the notion men was made to sag in the knees on meetin' 'em, an' the sucker had better sag ; or roll his hoop out o their pres- j ence. How can her kind make good j n wives for poor men when the papers is full o' news about them j flyin out 10 tienu w i w rich men?" TO BE CONTINUED) Kathleen Norris Says: The Family Goes Crazy Bell Syndlcat. WNU Feature!. AC-XT - i ixv 1 - M 1 i I "liimt As wholt houf to hi needs' CENTER OF INTEREST What is a woman going to do when her 49-year'old husband hus-band goes out constantly with s 17-year-old girl whose moth' er works in his office? lie is in love with this "vapid little thing," she writes. He has two sons by a previous marriage, both marines. One, Jim, is coming home crippled. The father seems to be completely upset by his son's plight. This may partially explain why hm has turned to a young girl for consolation of a sort, Miss Norris counsels this woman to ignore her hus-band's hus-band's infatuation. It is a passing thing, she intimates. The returned marine should be the' center of interest, Miss Norris says. lie is someone upon whom to lavish attention and affection. By spending her time making him comfortable, com-fortable, by playing games with him, by trying to make him happy, this woman will lighten her own burden, and achieve a measure of happiness happi-ness for herself. POU&US RYAN -v- TTiev to out to attractive funtrv rutaiiranti. or mvttn nirnlc toeether. In ihort, h is in lov with this vain UttU thing." By KATHLEEN NORRIS T IS MY opinion that the entire world is going crazv." writes a reader from Seattle, Wash. "My husband and I have been happily hap-pily married for fourteen years; ours has been a relationship rela-tionship of affection, mutual respect, easiness. Sometimes In the old days he laughed at my club interests, sometimes t grew impatient when he went a little too far with a poker game or stayed out too late and drank too much for his comfort or mine, but I always al-ways regarded my marriage as a settled thing, and felt myself my-self one of the fortunate and beloved wives. "Jim was a widower and my employer em-ployer when we were married, he is now 49 and I am 36. We have a small daughter of nine, and Jim has two boys by his first wife, both bow marines. One came home on furlough and was decorated, has bow cone out aeain: the younger should be here this summer for a long rest; he has been seriously in-lured in-lured and may never be able to go back.- i ' "Jim, the most devoted of fathers, seems to have gone crazy about young Jim's coming home. "What will we do with him active boy like that not able to walk any more-sitting more-sitting around here watching the other fellows play tennis and dance -out of everything.' He keeps up this kind of muttering even in his sleep. He says repeatedly that he would rather hear that the boy was dead. Husband Flirts with Girl. "But that's not alL Recently he has been spending a good deal of time with a 17-year-old girl whose mother works in bis office. He took her to the circus, said it was good to hear that kid laugh. She writes him little notes, and he makes her constant presents, and takes her and her mother to lunch somewhere almost al-most every day, from the office. They go out to attractive country restaurants, or even picnic together. In short, he is in love with this rather vapid, vain little thing, and whatever I do or say about it seems ridiculous, clumsy and useless. "Once when I mentioned the absurdity ab-surdity of the whole thing, he assured as-sured me that nothing would ever alter his affection for me or his sense of duty to Leslie, our little girL Unfortunately she is a rather fat awkward little girL wears glasses, and is at the rude age. She can't help me out much in my effort to make home attractive to Jim and to counteract the effect of the pretty little Fritzi to call her that. "This and the thought of young Jim's return, invalided, has made me terribly nervous, and I find it hard to sleep. With no cooperation from either husband or daughter I don't feel I can cope with the situation, to which ls added my anxiety for my twin brothers, 28, both in the navy, and worry, of course, for the children of friends and relatives away in the service of the country. Please give me a guidepost to get through this." , My dear Millicent I say in an-gwer, an-gwer, we all need guideposts to take us through this fearful summer of ,n,j mm tnr nni hin shift ta lltn. BUI mm " cope with your situation, of course you can cope with it ana thank Cod that you really are needed now by every member of your family. Jim senior's infatuation for the flattering little office friend is not a serious problem to you, whatever it may be to a girl of 17, who is fool enough to waste her time on a man almost 50. She must be unattractive to younger men, for your town is swarming with uniforms, and Fritzie could have her pick if she had even ordinary charm. Girl Can Overcome Rudeness. As to Leslie, there need not be a "rude age" and there should not be. A lasting and effectual cure, is to prepare her for everything you say, for a few days or weeks. "Leslie, Dad is going to ask you what sort of a time you had at the field sports today, and he wants a polite answer." an-swer." "Leslie, when I ask you in a few minutes to go up and make your bed, I want you to say gently, 'Immediately, Mother,' or 'May I finish this program. Mother?' " "Whatever you're going to say when Mrs. Baker talks about the party, Leslie, say it gently and politely." Warn her in this way before you so much as say. "Good morning" or ask her to pass the toast, and you will be amazed how fast she breaks herself of the habit of rudeness. A very common habit by the way, between be-tween eight and ten. As for Jim junior, he will be your salvation. Don't pity or question him, but adjust the whole house to his needs; radio, big chair, telephone tele-phone handy, a few friends In now and then, good meals, puzzles, new books, and any game he likes to play with you. If he doesn't play gin or dominoes, backgammon or cribbage, teach him. It is a real privilege to have one of our boys home again to spoil; God knows we American women had little to do with the making of war; we would give our own lives to save these ruined younger lives if we could. But since we cannot our share must be to make their handicapped time normal and happy. 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