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Show THE LEIII SUN, LEIII, UTAH m OF THE SEA BY (ftLlL'M VtHU. &Scl4 CHAPTER I Such a small thing as a shrimp may save a man's life by putting new heart Into him at a time when his digestive organs have ceased to function for lack of fuel If the will to live or die is dependent upon a bunch of nerve cells and ganglions, the proper activity of the latter is contingent upon the regular carbonisation carboni-sation of commonplace foods. Dick Jordan had reached the point of semi-starvation and physical exhaustion ex-haustion when lethal forgetfulness seemed the greatest boon to man-to man-to drift off painlessly into a world of dreams and fancies that ends in death. He didn't want to live; he had lost the will to go on and suffer; suf-fer; he craved surcease from the torture of wind and sun and waves and from thirst and hunger! Clinging to his frail support that had been the toy of the waves for davs and nights he scarcely knew how many he raised his head for one last look around his narrow undulating un-dulating horizon before releasing his hold to slip down into the green waters elamorine to receive him. It was the last despairing look of dying man when the faculties flare np an instant, in full intelligence. before the final collapse. Then, coming on the crest oi a wave, sliding down its slope to meet him, a small island of seaweed thrust its tentacles of air-bladders and greenish fronds about his neck and shoulders, rustling and mur muring against the sides of his raft. Aroused an instant by this unex pected break in the monotony of his horizon the castaway stared at it to stupifled wonder. It was alive with crustaceans and molluscs. those tiny forms of life that cling to algae and make their homes in their branches squids, snails, slugs, bar nacles and anthropods. A tiny crab floated on the surface, Dick made a grab for it, but missed it His splash startled from their hiding place a school of shrimp, Catching one of these, he decapi tated it and ate it raw. The taste awakened dormant impulses in him. He began fishing warily for the tiny creatures, driving them into the open with one hand and cupping them with the other, or corraling them into a dense mass of seaweed, he would fling them on his float with the algae and scramble for them before they could leap back into the sea. It became an exciting game, with real food as the prize. Every time he caught one and swallowed it, his appetite craved more, and his fagged brain power rallied to his assistance, giving him the necessary neces-sary mental alertness and skill for the work. A Handful of Shrimp Revives Will to Live It saved his life the shrimp and the game! By the time he had scavenged the mass of seaweed, robbing it of every form of life that could be called food, his mind was clearer through the functioning of his digestive organs, and the will to live and fight it out flared up again. But the handful of raw shrimps had, after all. been a mere morsel to a starving man, and the salt of them, which had tasted good at first, was beginning to intensify his thirst-He thirst-He had been fortunate in securing rain water for the first three days, but the last of it was gone, and the agony of thirst was beginning to add to the tortures of an empty' stomach. stom-ach. "If there was a sail now " he began, and then stopped. Insanity lay in that direction. He had looked for a sail so long that his eyes were sore and unsteady; he had prayed for it until in a frenzy of disappoint- 1 ment he had anathematized all prayer as silly and misleading; he had hoped and longed for the sight of a ship until he had seen them in his dreams a dozen of them sailing sail-ing around and around him, mocking mock-ing him, tantalizing him even in his ;' waking moments. There had been I strange illusions, mirages of ships and argosies, pictures of islands and headlands, of towns and cities, of people walking their streets. They had come and gone until the befuddled be-fuddled brain was at odds with itself. it-self. "There isn't any sail!" he muttered mut-tered aloud, closing his teeth. "There are dream sails, mirages of them, but nothing real They disappeared dis-appeared from the ocean ages ago. I know, for I saw the last of them." He had glimpsed a sail a real ; sail when he thrust his head upward up-ward after his meal of shrimp; but i he wouldn't believe it wanted to i believe it but wouldn't "It's only in my eye," he added. Td get cross-eyed if I tried to look at all the ships I've seen since ; since that night" That night was forever indelibly impressing itself upon his mind a I nightmare of horror! The steamer ! had struck in the middle of the night, and out of the staterooms had streamed an endless array of strange forms white-faced women, wim-liDDed men. and weak-kneed; passengers of both sexes who need ed help to get them in the smau boats. Dick himself had helped women and children into the first boats, win ning smiles of trust from the latter lat-ter and glances of frightened ap proval from the former, mere naa been a few others of the passengers who actively arrayed themselves alongside the officers to maintain order and system. One of them was Pettigrew Hen Pettigrew whose whole life and training made him immune to fear and excitement Hen had distin guished himself in that melee, as he always did, and won the approval of the captain. Early in the confusion they had separated Hen Pettigrew and Dick Jordan for the exigency of the moment mo-ment severed all conventional bonds. Dick had been allowed to go his own way, free as any other passenger; pas-senger; but he knew, or felt, that the other's eyes were on him, watch ing that he didn't slip into one of the boats filled mostly with women and children. He had an unpleasant unpleas-ant sensation that he was still being watched as a criminal. The vigi lance of the law never relaxed not even in the panic of a shipwreck. WOMAN'S WORLD Plan Trim New Dresses for Fall While Fabric Selection is Good Bu Crlta JJafeu "No, not in the same boat," the unexpected reply. came When all but two of the boats had been cast off, and the sea was full of them, bobbing around like cockle-shells, he and Hen had come face to face the only two passengers passen-gers left aboard. Hen had looked at him, and nodded pleasantly. "You've done well, Jordan," were his words. "Which boat do you want to go in?" Dick was surprised Into stammering stammer-ing by the question. Until then there had been no choice. He still considered himself Pettigrew' s man; he had not thought of making a break for liberty. Ever since he had left the South American port in Hen's custody he had been a model mod-el prisoner, and it seemed slightly dishonorable to take advantage of the disaster to escape. "Why, the one ycu choose for me," he answered. "It makes no difference. differ-ence. Is there room for both of us?" "No, not in the same boat" came the unexpected reply. "That's why I'm giving you a choice. You deserve de-serve it after this." He waved his hand around to indicate in-dicate his meaning. collision In a rough tea. In a couple of hours each boatload was a separate unit, dependent upon the skill and exertion of its own crew for safety, with no knowledge of what was happening to the oth ers. The black pall of night de scended upon them, obliterating the rest of the world, and circumscribing circumscrib-ing for them an existence bounded by the gunwales of the boat In this narrow space they huddled, awed and terrified as much by the sense of isolation as by the roar of wind and waves. Jordan was not greatly surprised when the accident he had been anticipating an-ticipating came; it seemed the inevitable in-evitable climax to their adventure, and unavoidable. A giant wave lifted them clear out of the water and upset the frail craft, rolling It over and over before allowing it to descend into the trough to be trampled tram-pled upon by the mountain of surging surg-ing green brine. After that it was every man for himself. There was no further opportunity op-portunity for team work or mutual co-operation. Dick Jordan found himself clinging to a few boards that had been in the bottom of the boat It made an excellent raft for one. but hardlv of use for two. In his eagerness to take full possession of it a fat man climbed upon it overreaching himself by his greediness. greedi-ness. The slender raft sunk out of sight, and when it finally came to the surface sur-face again the fat man was gone. Jordan retrieved It; clung to it; clutched it with both hands, refusing to yield his hold even when the waves rolled it over and over and buried him fathoms deep in the sea. He had been three days on the raft before the will to live had finally final-ly cracked, and then, fortified by the raw food washed up to him by the mass of drifting seaweed, revived, and once more struggled to reassert itself over exhausted, tortured flesh. It was a real sail that his red-rimmed red-rimmed eyes saw this time", but he refused to believe it for a long time, laughing at his own inconsistency in hoping and praying that it was not an optical illusion, and declaring in the same breath it could not be any thing else. It was not only a real sail that he saw, but it was coming in his direction, bearing down upon him at a speed that quickly dispelled dis-pelled all doubts. As the boat drew nearer, Dick made out its nondescript character from its sails. A two-masted lug ger, quite common in the Caribbean for fishing and coasting, with lump ish hull and mildewed canvas, spotted spot-ted like the coat of a leopard, it slopped along in the rough seas as if unwillingly propelled by a power that it could not resist TT SOMETIMES Is hard to realize I during hct summer days that all the big stores and foresighted worn-en worn-en are planning their wardrobes for fall, but that's a fact If you plan your fall wardrobe now, your chances of getting better material In a wider selection of colors and weaves is greater than if you wait a few weeks. Every woman likes a few trim new dresses for fall, and the matter Is easily solved by selecting pat terns and -materials that will be figure flattering as well as practical. One dress for the woman whose wardrobe does not permit the ex penditure of too much money is a good basic style with Beveral changes of collar and cuffs. She might like one set of collar and cuffs In a prim and dainty sheer fabric in frosty white. For more dressy wear, a good choice would be a gay stripe or plaid, in taffeta or one of the rayons. Then again, the basic dress may not need collar or cuffs for really formal, dressy occasions. For this you might like to splurge on some clever costume Jewelry a touch of glitter at the neck, and a matching bracelet Remember how popular pearl type necklaces were and still are and how much they do for a simple black, brown or navy blue dress? That's what I mean. Easy to Sew SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Sailor 2brc33 for Joiing Cjirh Sbate rocli, Jxeiilioie iJechlL 5 uie frightened children Pettigrew Wishes Dick Good Luck in Future Jordan was more astonished than ever. Pettigrew was eyeing him as a man, and not as an officer of the law; he even placed a hand familiarly famil-iarly on one shoulder. "We're just man to man now, Jordan," Jor-dan," he added. "We're not going to leave this ship together can't, you know captain's orders. You go your way, and I go mine. If we meet again on shore I'll pinch you. It's my duty. But Just now we're Well." laughing quietly. "friends. I guess. I don't mind call ing you that I wish you good luck! If you reach shore and I don't I wish -wish-" Dick never knew what he intend ed to wish, for at that moment the harsh, grating voice of the first mate interrupted, and Jordan tumbled into one boat and Hen Pettigrew into another. Almost instantly they were sep arated in the blackness of the night Dick was free, in truth, then not on probation. He had the whole world to roam so long as he didn't run afoul of Hen Pettigrew. As they drifted through the darkness of the night, he smiled broadly, while the others sat and moaned or spoke In awed, frightened voices. Would they ever reach land? How far were they from the nearest shore? That was the burden of their conversa tion. At first an effort was made to keeD the Doats together, but this tua conn a hand nned bv the seamen. Q.tU T FT"- and nurses, There was always the danger of Basio Dress Must Flatter Figure Unless you select the most flgure- fiattering basic dress you won't be able to do a thing with it. The side drape is only good on some figures. Others look better in gored or slight ly flared skirts. Still others prefer neat pleats or strictly straight lines. -A ( xV,, i - n s u i ; ; - j i V-V-" A V L ; v ' V . N'-.?1 . .-,. i ... : -;: :::.'.;'.:., . . Two-Masted Lugger Hoves in Sight Long before any one aboard sight ed Dick Jordan, he had studied the craft from stem to keel with greedy, anxious eyes, taking in everything from the clumsily bent topsails to the ill-fitting jib that was forever shifting in the wind. "Fishermen," he concluded, speaking his thoughts aloud. "I can't be far from land." A moment later, when the lugger acted as if about to change her course, he raised his free hand and shouted with all the strength he could muster. Even at that distance, dis-tance, it seemed almost miraculous that they heard or saw him; but keen eyes had been scanning the sea closely, looking for just such derelicts. It was their business to pick up flotsam and jetsam of the ocean on the chance of finding a prize. His cry brought several black faces to the port rail, and Jordan's former conclusion that the lugger was a native fishing craft seemed confirmed by the appearance of the crew. They were swarthy Caribs, an ancient type weakened and diluted di-luted by the blood of pure Negroes. A burly half-breed, with the white part of him showing in his straight hair and mottled complexion, seemed to be in command, for the order came from him to heave the lugger up In the wind and lower a boat Twenty minutes later Dick sat on the dirty, ill-smelling deck of the vessel, greedily eating and drinking food and liquid that under ordinary circumstances would have repelled him; but nature's cravings had to be satisfied, and it was no time to be critical. The crew formed a half circle around him, with Captain Tucu, the half-breed skipper, and Black Burley, the lugger's mate, in the immediate foreground. They were inspecting him with something more than curiosity with greed and avariciousness, Dick thought but he could not exactly translate it in words. Captain Tucu had an evil, sinister face that in repose was hard and sullen, as if the white blood in him was silently protesting the Injustice of the trick played in mingling negro with it; in action it lighted up with a fierceness of either joy or anger thai had an element of the fanatic's. (TO BE CONTINUED) A simple pattern plus a simple rayon fabric that is easy for a beginner be-ginner to handle makes this a nice frock on which to start sewing. The neckline can be worn high or low, and the fluffy pcplum at the hip adds nice detail to the cos tume. h mi ins 4 vu M 8059 4-12 yr$ Select figure-flattering material. All of these things must be im portant considerations in choosing a dress that will take the place of several. Select, too, one that has good sleeves and neckline. If you know for example, that a V neck doesn't do a thing for you and it doesn't do much for the very thin. flat-chested woman then choose something with a little fullness in the bust. If, on the other hand, you have a well-set pair of shoulders and are well-filled, stay away from too much material at the top of the dress. Should you be planning several changes of collar and cuffs for the dress, then you will want a basic style that will be usable with collars most flattering to you. Buy a good pattern, a good ma terial, put the dress together as carefully as you know how, and you will then have the most important ingredients of the successful dress. Black, navy blue, brown, dark green and gray are the classic col ors lor this type of dress. The one you look best in should be first, second and third choice. Small Details Make Dress Fit Wearer Recent figures prove what most of us have always suspected. That is that few women come close to the perfect figure. This means that small adjustments must be made on patterns pat-terns and clothes to make them fit perfectly. so that they will balance the figure. but this is an individual problem that must be handled directly in front of the mirror. I Another important problem in fit- 1 ting is the bodice. To give a well-molded well-molded line, it's advisable to take one or two darts under the arms to get this effect. How much of a dart, and just where it should lie, is best determined by basting and fitting. Just where the hemline should fall is another point that has troubled many of us for a long time. This should not be determined, I feel, so much by what the fashion is, but rather by where the line is most attractive to you. If you are short and plump you will want a longer skirt to give you the long line that is most flattering. The shape of the legs is often the most impor tant factor in the length of the skirt. Waistlines and sleeve lengths are another detail which would be judged by the figure. For this there is no guide like the full length mirror. mir-ror. Another detail which can be used with the basic dress is to have one of those soft sheer wool or wool jersey jer-sey Jackets to wear over it. There are some gathered-at-the-waist styles that are nice. There are others oth-ers that are more tailored. " If you wish to have a bolero jacket jack-et as another change of costume with the basic dress, select enough material and then choose a contrasting contrast-ing print for lining it and make a belt of the print to have with the dress. IDEAL school frock for the grammar gram-mar school crowd. Sailor dresses are a favored style with young girls they're so crisp and fresh looking. Make this one in a bright check or plaid material and have the collar in snowy white trimmed with contrasting braid, She'll love it for that first day back at school. Pattern No. 8059 is for sl7.es 4, 8, 8, 10 and 12 years. Size 6, 2V yards of 36-lnch fabric; 'a yard for contrasting couar; yards braid. V v V Adjust clothes to your figure. Some women run narrow in the shoulders and need an extra dart there or at the collar to make the dress lie smoothly. Shoulders, of course, can be built up with padding in 8052 Keyhole Neck AS NEW as tomorrow is this n-rhnntine n-rhnntine date dress designed especially for juniors. It featuret the popular keyhole neck, deep sleeves and softly rounded hipline. Make the wide belt of the same fabric or use one of the smart new purchased ones. A noney oi a frock. Pattern No. 8053 comes In sizes 11, II, 13. 14, 18 and 18. Size 12 requires Sl yards of 39 or 38-lnch laDrlo. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 709 Mission St,, San Francisco, Calif. Enclose 25 cents In coins tor each pattern desired. Pattern No. 1 Size Nama- Address- 3 aVtfJtFi WE--'9. s m fc. ,. a - I i ii i El M a J - Lingerie Touches A dress will always do more for you if you have proper clothing cloth-ing to wear underneath it. A bulky slip can ruin the good lines of a dress, and a sagging slip Is a mark of poor grooming. groom-ing. Slender figures can wear bias cut slips; the stout figure should have one with gores. Pay Just as much attention to the seams on the slip as the fit. A too-small bias-cut sup will ride up and yield little comfort. Select the correct length for your height They now come in short, medium and tall lengths and everyone can be fitted properly. prop-erly. Leave only the minor adjustments ad-justments for the straps. Seams on slips should be flat and double-stitched. The zig-zag stitched seams wear well, but they may look wrinkled if you are wearing a sheer dress. The top of the slip gets hard wear and should be flat and self-stitched self-stitched around the edge. Lacy tops are pretty and dainty, but if a lightweight dress is worn, a simple slip will give the best lines underneath the garment jiinmuuiiiuisr When painting doors or furniture cover the knobs and hardware with a coating of petroleum jelly. After painting has been finished wipe it off. Paint spatterings and spots are removed at the same time. For a good swinging - gate support, sup-port, use an old wagon wheel buried and staked down so the hub Is level with the ground. The gate (s bolted to the axle, which is then placed in fiie hub. Don't overcrowd the dishpan. Wash one pan at a time and you'll spare knobs and handles from useless use-less dents and breakage. Way to locate a tiny leak in a roof is go into the attic on a bright sunny day. Then no matter how small the hole, the light will show through. Before reputtying seal th wood with a coat of paint so that the oil in the putty will not be absorbed. Putty, if used over plain wood, may become dry and fall off. Before dyeing a garment, it is best to remove all buttons, buckles, buck-les, or other trimmings and rip out hems, pleats and linings so the dye can penetrate the fabric more evenly. Rub tin and Iron utensils with unsalted fat and they're rust-prool for even a long period of rest. A holder for kitchen knives can be made in a jiffy by cutting half a dozen grooves (to take blades) in a block of wood and nailing a piece of plywood to the block to form Blots. ''' ' Ketchup on luno mokes a tasty cocttall StarKiit fancy it best of our J grades Smf?y ecous RAISIN BUNS Fashion Forecast A good fall pick-up for last year's suit or this year's too is a smart stitched dickey. It's fins foil for the felt bats which are destined to appear soon. If you're buying a good skirt for day wear, select at least two blouses to go with it for extra wear. One may be tailored and in bright jewel-like colors, while the other may be crisp tubbable white. Tailored frocks for business and school carry ever-popular saddle stitching, leather belts and other bright accents that liven the costume. cos-tume. You'll notice some influence from men's wear in some of the sports wear. Some plaid jackets are tailored tai-lored like the men's, and there are coats, so very sporty looking, that have four pockets. wise Melty-rich, piping hot Raisin Buns made with Fleischmann's Fast Rising Ris-ing Dry Yeast D7 YOU BAKE AT HOME use it to help you turn out delicious breads at a moment's notice. Stays fresh for weeks on your pantry shelf ready for quick action. Dissolve according to directions then us as fresh yeast At your grocer's. Stays fresh .on your pantry shelf |