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Show THE LEW SUN. LEW, UTAH huere p , r dinner, i l'Zlw. ."ended . .. FAB: Arooi Croy ..(lied OB I farm In Ml m n in l a and the ihlnf. ln" ' mr had rSoB.ed Will"' . . 4 tn Kftw York. Homer returneu w nnmer wai unable to off- ; M ftmerai. CHAPTER XXI it my heart to go back to .- A succession of renters t stripped it; the cave "we had hidden from the cy-was cy-was falling in; the fences it unr nans m v fa- town, we 11 ad taken so mucn pnue ui ile deep witn mm; we cum tere green wiw cacwcums. Lay, I was glad my lamer 1;ot see it s tempted to sell it But I at quite do that, lor we ieei (arm is aeep anu nuiuuig, llv if it is wrapped wnn len- . T 1J thful memories, no, i couiu it Nothing could make me ck shadow appeared. A mem- my family got into trouble anted to put a mortgage on m of $8,500. 1 thought of what ier had said as I had sat on rel-backed trunk, but the situ-m situ-m so serious that the mort- ,;d to go on. It was as u a ad squeezed my heart. fee back to 10 Standish Road, Lei I looked at The Little with the Big Mortgage and trt went down again. As so ppens, this was the time my was up, when everybody ; I was prosperous. My name the papers, I had sold the bang picture for Will Rogers everybody assumed to be a fcg price; ana l let tnem minis cofortable as I sometimes tone there was that $210 a and some months I was not that How often they came The Irving Trust Company mortgage on both the lot and be. I can still see those print- i; that came snowstorming in It blank spaces filled in with 7 a certain day, the money been paid, an impersonal fid call up and say that we t)ubtedly overlooked it. , trying to write humor. In riting business there is noth- aard to selL You'd think agazine would want humor; ery magazine says it does. h don't buy it Chiefly be- to two persons ever agree bat is humorous and what is table. In a maeazine of- Mg the manuscript readers, always a divided opinion; pj, the editor plays safe by komething everybody agrees the lane turned, but not it was almost at the preci- eot a new tenant for the h and Mrs. Spide Logan. N it was just in time! I n Spide when I was a boy, very well. His first name 'Aflame, but it had become sal that it took an old-timer fcat he had another. He P le?s. in his growing days, m had started to call him finally it had shortened to L-d Spide it still is. Never kslized what a blessed differ- I'Od tenant rnnW mslr. Wo contract which said, in e Were nartnoi-cr on tiro 0 share-and-share alike fif- rth certain provisions. I Ornish the land and the the seed; he was to fur- Power," which meant ea, and the help to operate i!e contract eot down to " than that; for instance. Pay half the fuel oil, if we enough money to buy a Ven a httle twist in the 1 was to get one-third of 1 did tako it tnr a N thankfully, too-but final- e ugan the egg money K which pa had built aft-pone aft-pone had whisked the first fw a noble ruin. When m you ran a chance of ome down on you. One 0 fancied An v departed with him. We JUU new ham w , 11 to build it, I didn't know. Z meant omething to had slept in it during " wnen an exciting P"! exciting storleg 0ne "u naa come e enouBh tr. d.. .v.- r-alO. Ynn i . . "u iu respeci a that "tonishing what you juu nave to Rut it ' tcei uiai nan was The Pretty weak vesseL to cost n V,,,, A ' w HiUU9aUU um .,. JnspnK t . "wggering. I -P0 Jackson, president t' and tnl u: Ibe d my irou- tt.r'w UP ome papers there was a toou-m toou-m the farm account 1 suppose ours was the first barn in he world that didn't cost more than Uie amount originally planned When finally, the barn was up, we didn t have enough money to paint it But, Nellie Logan turned the hens vSl T.016 job- By ft"t I mean she had to take her egg money and turn it into paint. But at last Nellie and the hens and I painted the barn! I built that barn by mail and in my imagination. They told me the day the first load of lumber would be hauled and I was on that load of lumber; they told me the day the slushers would arrive and I saw them taken out to the barn lot. They told me when the head carpenter would arrive, and I saw him put on his apron and drop his hammr in the loop on his leg. And the barn progressed, they sent me snapshots of it, and I watched it grow. I was like a father a thousand miles from the hospital. But at last it was born my white-and-blue-trim child. Some way or other I raised the money mon-ey to go out and see it, and Spide was down to meet me, as Pa used to be, and we climbed into his car. We came in from the east side of the farm and, when we topped the hill, there was the barn shimmering in the sunlight At least, it seemed shimmering. Of course it was a bit different from what I had expected isn't a child always? but there it was a fine white, stanch, center-drive, center-drive, hip-roofed barn with two lightning-rod points. And on the front of it there was painted: The Homer Croy Farm, J. Theodore Logan, Lo-gan, Manager. I think you would I hated the farm. like that barn; I think anybody would. Owen Davis was turning my story into a film play for Will Rogers. I remembered what my friend had said about Hollywood needing somebody some-body with the homey touch. In spite of the almost desperate situation, situa-tion, Hollywood was managing to get along without me, for the telephone tele-phone didn't ring, except from the bank and a few scattered bill collectors. col-lectors. The bank wanted to know, since I had sold a motion picture for Will Rogers, why I didn't pay up. I told them I had got only a crumb or two from Mr. Fox's table; they said they knew how to handle people like me. The picture was released and made an outstanding success. I went down to my club, The Players, and let them look at me. I was congratulated con-gratulated right and left Lots of drinks . . . money that should have been going to Mr. Boerner, the grocer. gro-cer. But that is human nature. It was sweet, indeed, to nibble the fruit of success the first I had had since West of the Water Tower. But there was no fruit in the bank I hated the farm. It was taking everything and giving nothing. And yet there was still a lingering love for it as one might have for a person per-son who has broken his heart. For the first time in its existence our town saw people lining up before our banks demanding their" money. Two of the banks closed and people went on relief. A word my father had never heard. The Salvation Army played on the streets where it JaTnever played before. Knots of farmers, to patched clothes, stood on corners. Food was do ed out in J basement of the church where BiUy Sunday bad shaken his fist at the d men I went down to the depot to geion the train, I felt exactly as I did when I had left Pa in bed that fatt time. I fett the farm would slip away. too. I told myself I did not care. I was weaned away from it; it was douig ... - ..... omandina money. I notnmg uu. - t man. a mo" . Kathleen Norris Says: The Roving Husband of m aitv was v -- . , D,ece StaSTrd be that much aheai But even while I was te W seS this. I knew I could not go through with it Any more than one can desert a member of the family who has become a burden. There is, Indeed, truth in the old adage that the blackest hour is Just before dawn. I have seen it work out too many times to doubt it. This special dawn began very sim-7 sim-7 " telePhone call from the McCann-Erickson advertising agency, agen-cy, in New York. Would I come in and see them? Would I! I would have crawled. But you don't tell an advertising agency that You pretend you are very busy and successful writer and say you think you can manage it and work out a date convenient to all. It is quite an art The best hope I had was that they might want me to submit something for a radio program. But also I knew that advertising agencies expect ex-pect the poor author to take all the risk. Well, I would growl a little about doing it on speculation, but I'd do it Maybe something would come through . . . that is the hope an author lives on. And 'the only way, so far as I know, to make a success of writing is to keep putting in an oar here and there. After a while you may get your boat mov-ing. mov-ing. I found a most impressive gentleman gentle-man who, after some cigarette talk, wanted to know if I had been to Hollywood lately. I told him I hadn't While I kept wondering to myself what this strange conversation meant. Certainly Cer-tainly he had nothing to do with pictures. pic-tures. Scenario writers were not hired on Madison Avenue. "I've received a telegram from Chicago about you," he said and picked up a yellow sheet and slowly read it through to himself. Hours it seemed to me it took. Who in Chicago would wire to him about me? I kept asking myself. But also I knew the ways of advertising advertis-ing companies were inscrutable. He laid the telegram down. "Have you any scenarios you have written?" writ-ten?" "Scenarios?" I said, for things are not done that way. "Yes." "I might have a copy of one. I don't know. I'd have to look through my things." "Will you do that? I wish you'd bring it in and write down a list of everything you've done for the movies." He picked up the telegram and again silently read to himself.' Then put it down. "'Can you do that today?" I said it so happened I could. : Then we shook hands and I went out. I looked through my things and found a scenario and two or three "treatments" and some odds and ends, and raced back. He picked up one of the manuscripts. manu-scripts. "Is that what a scenario looks like? I never saw one before." Then looked through it in his slow methodical way. I thought, "If he doesn't know anything about scenarios, why did he send for me?!' But maybe this was the way advertising agencies work. "I'll let you hear from me as soon as I can," he said finally. I went out again, unable to make head or tail of the mysterious affair. Maybe I should have asked what it was all about Or should I? I simply sim-ply didn't know. Three or four days passed, then came a telephone calL Could I come in to see him? I said I could manage it Tve just talked to Chicago," he said, "and they want me to ask you some more questions." He glanced at some notes on his desk and cleared his throat "Have you ever written a training film?" I hadn't the slightest idea what training film was. But I wasn't going go-ing to show it "No, I haven't" I said as if I hadn't got around to the chore. He cleared his throat again and ..m "Wmmm!" and my heart ,aiu dropped to my belt. . think you could?" he asked. I said I thought I could. He considered this for some moments, mo-ments, looking among his papers and wrinkling his brows. Finally he m "I euess you are wondering what this is all about?" "Well, yes," I said as if the idea had flashed into my mina. T haven't been permitted to dl vulge my client but I think I can do so now." I le-ned forward to show I was interested. "It is for the crfard Oil Company of Indiana. ,.nt tn make a film which inejr will help their dealers. t wasn't Quite sure what a "deal r- was but I wasn't going to snow fu. .hPr. "I think I can do that" Uias w- t .m modestly. ' " ... , vi i f-vi. If everything u asiu: u, cago. could you go to wont a; once; I said I thought I eouia. My heart now fcack in place' wa n under my shirt front 'Hnw nvjch would you expect In the way of rtxuneraUon? M, heart gave a violent thump. . nvbodr who said 're- gnew ------ - numeration" had money. (TO BE CCNTEiUED) SETTING CIRCLE PATTERNS j BeU 8yndlct.-WNP Featurti. j CvBff Button-Front for All Occasions Lingerie to Charm Young Miss A CHANCE TO LET DOWN The emotional stress of war effects everyone. Many find new strength, unsuspected courage when crisis come. Others discover that the social upset gives them a chance to do what they've always secret' ly longed do, but refrained from because of public disapproval. disap-proval. The 40-year-old dentist discussed dis-cussed in this issue is a case in point. He has developed a passion pas-sion for his office nurse, a pretty pret-ty divorcee of 26. She is going along with him, taking his presents and entertainment. His wife, Rhoda, writes that she is "desperate." She has thought of suicide. His coldness cold-ness and cruelty are "driving her crazy." "What you have to do, Rhoda, it to get it through your head once end fat -it .... l.ij 7j .t. n .f. j. l i. ii li. t.t.. a' By KATHLEEN NORRIS EXACTLY how much hard, conscious effort are you making to keep your home atmosphere nor mal in this dreadful timer Lx- actly how clearly do you realize real-ize that extraordinary goodness good-ness and strength and unselfishness unself-ishness are being demanded of every one of us; that we are being given a test beyond anything any-thing our forbears ever knew? we nave to keep ourselves sane in a world gone insane, and preserve pre-serve for those about us, and for the boys when they come home, something of the goodness and hero ism and wisdom that has made America what she is. Anyone who doesn't recogniza the situation, and doesn't rise to it is failing America Just as much as if he were a sentry asleep at his post But unfortunately there are a good many men and women who are drifting along in the old lazy way, making their concessions to the times only in complaints and pro tests against war inconveniences. Here is the case of a husband and wife whose lives seem untouched un-touched by the world conflagration, but who are obviously suffering from the nervous strain that is over us all. Rhoda is 37. She has been mar ried 11 years, and bas three daughters, daugh-ters, 10, 9 and S years of age. The middle child is a polio case and will never be welL Rhoda's husband hus-band is a. dentist 40 years old, and formerly a devoted husband and father, especially close to Tanya, the handicapped child. A Pretty Nurse. But in the last year, Rhoda writes me, Lew has changed. He nas grown irritable and silent at home, he is often away. The cause is a pretty grass widow of 28, who is a nurse in his office. There seems to be no question that Lew is infatuated, in-fatuated, and while he doesn't talk of a divorce, Rhoda believes that that is what he would ask if he dared. "But he'd better not get that far," says Rhoda's letter. "It would ruin his practice in this town, where my father and mother are much beloved, be-loved, and he could hardly estab lish himself anywhere else, for he is almost entirely deaf. "I do all the work of my house, with the older girl's help. I bathe, feed, amuse my darling little invalid, and manage that my baby has plenty of fresh air. Washing, cooking, dusting, planning are all up to me; certainly I show the fatigue and weariness that I feel at night; I am human, I get tired, discouraged, impatient nervous I know it But most of the time I am the mother the girls adore, and the cook and housekeeper that other women copy and consult. "Mrs. Norris, Lew spends most of bis money on this worn a a He takes her home two miles out of bis way, every night and often takes her out to dinner. They have been seen dancing. They have spent nights together at the Mountain Inn. His present to her this year was a squirrel coat; I have never had a fur coat He sent me soap and perfume, per-fume, and the girls toys and dresses; she picked them out, I 9 2 Be ebuxbed in your children. . . . suppose. He was away then, foi four days, and I think she was witb him, though his story to me was thai she was sick, at her married sis ter's house. "He seems a different person; he hardly seems sane. We have alwayi loved each other; I feel as if 1 couldn't stand his complacency, hli silences, his coldness and cruelty any longer. But what life do 1 make for myself, tired, feeling 2( years older than I am, with thre children to raise on alimony? I'vt thought of suicide, I've thought o) everything, I'm desperate. Tell me what to do." What you have to do, Rhoda, ii to get it through your bead onc and for all that you hold all the cards. Don't throw down your hand; call his bluff. Take the attitude thai Dolly is being something of a fool a generous foot of course, bul nevertheless a fool, to take up with a married man, partially deaf, witi three children. Wake her up in th night every week, asking if Lew ii there; some patient wants him. Make yourself over with a new frock and a changed hair-do. ; Appear Happy. Be happily busy and absorbed with your girls, almost rueful when Lew decides to come borne for dinner. din-ner. A pretty happy wife, In pretty lounging pajamas, laughing over a supper of milk-toast and cookies, with her children around her, is a mighty attractive thing on a cold night Resolutely refuse a divorce. Following these tactics you'll find yourself bappy again, and happiness is the one thing that draws a man back. As he tires of Dolly's charms they always do yours will begin to gain on him. Then treat the wholi thing as a sickness a weakness, which it Is, and go into a new relationship re-lationship of confidence and affection affec-tion with a changed man. To men these adventures on the side are not nearly as important as to their wives; he can have no respect for the complaisant Dolly, and what h does feel for ber is not a lasting thing, as everyone knows. Concede him this period of irresponsibility ir-responsibility in a crazy world, and don't let it seriously jeopardize your lasting happiness and security. Button-Front Frock. A POISED and charming afternoon after-noon frock to wear shopping, to church functions, and on all those occasions when you want to look vour nicest. It will be lovely in soft pastel crepes, allover scroll prints or In striped cotton lor tvery day. Pattern No. 1287 Is deslfned for tins 13. 14, 16, 18, JO; 40 and 42. Stz 14. short ilKvti, requires 3 yards of 39-inch ma' terlal. Slip and Fantie Set. O ERE is a slip and pantie set to 1 make sister feel quite grown up. The slip has built-up shoul ders and is slightly fitted for smoothness under dresses. Dainty lace edging is a pretty touch. Pattern No. 1297 is designed lor sizes I, 8. 10. 12 and 14 years. Size S, slip. re. oulres 1 yards of 35 or 39-inch material; panUes. yard; 8',i yards laca to trim the set. OUSEHOLD IhTS Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly mora time Is required in Ailing orders for a few of the mott popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery St San Franclico, Calif. Indole 23 eenU la eotna for each pattern desired. 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