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Show THE TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, DAIRY POINTS Latest Design for Blouse !"he Branding Iron Styles in Winter Coats Vary Burl Bij Katharine Neujlm Bart Copyright by Katharine N. designers have weather vanes of fashion, for they had to determine the direction of the wind before they launched their new creations for the and for spring. In styles there is a strong, unswerving blow from the east fabrics and colors, garnitures and lines reflect again the Chinese Influence. In all kinds of blouses another fully established fact is the predominance of the overblouse. Plnitlngs are "scheduled to play an Important part in tailored and styles as well as In dinner blouses, and tills Is Important to know, because "It Is In the air" that the best- demi-seaso- CHAPTER I Continued. 13 This young woman by the fireplace of perilous had Just that panther-ai- r She was very haggard, quietness. very thin; she wore her massive black hair drawn away hideously from brow and temple, and out of this lean, unshaded face a pair of deep eyes looked Iler mouth drowsily, daneerously. was straightened Into an expression of proud bitterness, her round chin thrust forward; there was a deep, scowling line that rose from the bridge of hei straight, short nose almost to the roots of her hair. It cut cross a splendidly modeled brow. She was very graceful, If such a bundle of bones might be said to have any trace. Her pose was arresting. There was a tragic force and attraction bout her. The man by the door appraised her carefully between his narrowed lids. He kept In mind the remembered melody of, her voice, and, after a few moments, he strolled across the floor and came up to her. "Will you dance?" he said. " He had a very charming and subtle smile, a very charming and sympathetic look. The woman was Btartled, color rose into her face. She stared at -- hi no, "Pm not dancing, Mr. Morena," she answered. "Ton know my name," smiled Morena ; "and I don't know yours. I've been ol Mr. Yarnall's ranch for a inonth. Why haven't I seen you 7" "Fer not lookln', I suppose." She had given him that one startled glance, and now she had turned her eyes back to the dancers and wore a grim, Her speeches, air. contemptuous though they were cut Into short, crisp words, were full of music of a sharp, metallic quality different from the tone of her other speech, but quite as beautifully expressive. "May I smoke?" asked Morena. He was still smiling his charming smile and watching her out of the corners of his eyes. "I'm not hlnderln' you any," said she. Morena smiled deeper. He took some time making and lighting his cigarette. "You don't smoke yourself?" he sked. "No." "Nor dance?" "No." "Nor behave prettily to polite young teen?" Again the woman looked at him. "You ain't so awful young, are you?" He laughed aloud. "I amuse you, don't I? Well, Tm not always so d funny," drawled the creature, lowering her head a little. "No. Tve heard that you're not. You rather run things here, I gather; got the boys "plumb scared'?" "Did Mr. Yarnall tell you that?" "Yes. Tve Just In the last few minutes remembered who you are. You're Jane. You cook for the 'outfit,' and Yarnall was telling us the other night how he sent one of the boys out for a cook, the last one, a man. having been beaten up, and how the boy had brought you back behind him on his addle. He said you'd kept order for him ever since, were better than a foreman. Who was the man you threw out tonight?" "Perhaps," drawled Jane, "lie was feller who asked too many Just questions?" Again Morena's smile deepened Into his cheeks. "Tou must pardon me. Miss Jane," he said In his murmuring, cultivated voice. "You see, I've had a Ereat misfortune. I've never been In your West. I've lived In New York, where good manners haven't time or space to flourish. I hadn't the lenst Do Intention of being Impertinent you want me to go?" He moved as If to leave her, and she did not lift a finger to detain him. "I'm not carln. Do as you please," he said with entire Indifference. "Oh." wild Morena, looking back at her, "I don't stay where people are not carln'.'" Klio gave htm an extraordinarily Intelligent look. "I should sny that's the only plare you'd he wnntin' to stay In nt all where you're not exactly urged to come," she said. Morena flushed nnd his lids flickered. He a fur an Instant absurdly Inclined to nner and made two or three steps awny. I'.ut he came back. He bowed and spoke as he would have spoken to a groat lady, suavely, deferent Inlly. "Goodnight I wish I could think that you hare enjoyed our talk as prently as t haw. Miss June. should very much like to he allowed to repeat It. May I be stupidly personal nnd fell you that yon are very beautiful?" He bowed, gave her an upward look and went out, finding his way cleverly among the dancers. Outside In the moonlit court, he stood, threw back his bead and laughed, not loudly but consumedly. He was remembering her white face of mute astonishment .She lolsed almost as If his compliment had given her sharp pain. Morena went laughing to his room la the opposite wing. He wanted to the interview to his wife. dTlbe Moron was sitting Id rustic Btty I chair before an open fire, smoking a cigarette. She was a short woman, so slenderly, even narrowly built, as to appear overgrown, and she was a mature woman so lmmaturely shaped and featured as to appear hardly more than a child. Her curly russet hair was parted at the side, her wide, eyes were set fnr apart her nose was really a finely modeled snub more, a boy's nose even to a light sprinkling of freckles and her mouth was provoklngly the soft, red mouth of a sorrowful child. She lounged far down In her chair, her slight legs, clad s In of perfect cut, stretched out straight, her limber arms along the arms of the chair, her chin sunk on her flat chest and her big, clear eyes staring Into the fire. It was an odd figure of a wife for Jasper Morena, a Jew of thirty-eighproducer and manager of plays. When Betty Kane had run away with him there had been lamentation and rage In the houses &f Kane and Morena. To the pride of an old Hebrew family, the marriage even of this wandering son with a Gentile was fully as degrading as to the pride of the old Tory family was the marriage with a Jew. Her perverse Gaelic blood, on fire with the Insults heaped upon her lover, Betty, seventeen years old, romanttc, clever, would have walked over flint to give her hand to him. That was ten years ago. Now, when Jasper came Into her room, she drew her quick brows together, puffed at her cigarette, and blinked as though she was looking at something distasteful and at the same time rather alarming. "Have they stopped dancing, Jasper?" she asked In a voice that was at once brusque and soft. Jasper rubbed his hands delightedly. He was still merry, and came to stand near the Are, looking down at her with eyes entirely kind and admiring. "Have you ever noticed Jane, who cooks for the outfit, Betty?" "Yes. She's horrible." "She's extraordinary, and I mean to get hold of her for Luck's play. Did you read It?" long-lashe- d riding-breeche- t, "Yes." "Ae play 4 Is absolutely dependent on the leading part and I have found It simply Impossible to fill. Now, here's a woman of extraordinary grace and beauty Betty lifted skeptical eyebrows, twisted her limber mouth, but forbore to contradict. "And with a magical voice a woman who not only looks the part, but Is It You remember Luck's heroine?" Betty flicked off the ash of her cigarette and looked away. "A savage. Isn't she? The man has her tamed, takes her back to London, and there gives her cause for Jealousy and she springs on him yes, I remember. This woman, Jane, Is absolutely without education and hasn't a notion of acting, I suppose." Jasper rubbed his hands with Increased delight "Not a notion and she murders the king's English. But she Is Luck's savage and In spite of your eyebrows, Betty she Is beautiful. I can school her. It will take money, no end of patience, but I can do It It's one of the things I can do. But of course, there's the Initial difficulty of persuading her to try It." "That oughtn't to be any dlfliculty at all. Or course she'll Jump at the chance." "I'm not so sure. She was ready to throw me out of the kitchen tonight She la really a virago. Do you know what one of the men said about her?" Jasper laughed and Imitated the gentle western drawl. "Jane's plumb movln to me. She's about halfway between 'You go to h 1' and 'You take me In your arms to rest.' " Betty smiled. Her smile was vastly more mature than her appearance. It was clever and cynical and cold. The Oriental, looking down at her, lost his merriment "Do you feel better, dfarT he asked "Do you think you will he timidly. able to go back next week?" She stood up ns he enme nearer and walked over "to the little table that played the part of dressing table under a wavy mirror. "Oh, yes. I am quite well. I don't think the doe-tohave much sense. I'm sure I hadn't anything like a nervous breakdown. I was Just tired out" Jasper drew back the hand whose touch she had eluded, and nervously, his long supple fingers a little uncigarette. At that steady, lighted moment he did not look like a spider, but like a lover who has been hurt. Hetty could see In the mirror a distorted linage of his dejected gracefulness, but. entirety unmoved, she put np her thin, brown hands and began to take the plus out of her hair. "I like your Jane experiment" she said. "Let me know how you get on with It and whether I can help. I shall have to turn In now. I'm dead beat Yarnall took me halfway up the mountain and back. Goodnight." Jasper looked at her, then pressed his lips Into a straight line and went to the door which led from her bedroom to his. He said "Goodnight" In a low tone, glanced at her over bis shoulder, and went out Instant, then slojr- Betty waited rs ly unlaced ber heavy, knee-higboots, took them off, and began to walk to and fro on stocking feet hands clasped behind her back. With her curly hair all about her face and shoulders, she looked like a wild, extravagantly naughty schoolgirl, a girl In a wicked temper, a rebel against authority. In fact, she was rejoicing that this hor rible enforced visit to the West was all but over. One week morel She was almost at an end of her endur ance. How she hated the beautiful white night outside, those mountain peaks, the sound of that rapid river, the stillness of sagebrush, the voice of the big pines I What a malevolent trick of fate that Jasper should have brought her to Wyoming, that the doctor had Insisted upon at least a month of Just this life. "Take her west," he had said, and Betty, lying limp and white In her bed, her small head sunk Into the pillow, had Jerked from head to foot. "Take her west I know a ranch in Wyoming Yarnall's. She'll get outdoor exercise, tonic air, sound sleep, release from all these pestiferous details, like a cloud of files, that sting women's nerves to death. Don!t pay any attention to whether she likes it or not. Let her behave like a naughty child, let her kick and scream and cry. Pick her up, Morena, and carry her off. Do you hear? Don't let her make you change your plans." The doctor had seen his patient's con vulsive Jerk. "Pack her up. Make your reservations and go straight to 'Buck' Yarnall's ranch, Lazy-that'l his brand, I believe Middle Fork, Wyoming. I'll send him a wlrr. He knows me. She needs all outdoors to run about In. She needs Joggin' around ail day through the sagebrush on a In that sun; she needs the smell of a camp-fir- e Gad! wish I could get back te tt myself." Betty, having heard this out began to laugh. She laughed till they gave her something to keep her quiet But, except for that laughter, she had made no protest whatever; she did not "kick and scream and cry." In fact, though she looked like a child, she was not at all inclined to such exhibitions. Tlls doctor had not seen her through ber recent ordeal. Two years before her breakdown, Jasper had been terribly hurt in an automobile accident and Betty had come to him at the hospital, bad waited, as white as a for the result of the examination. They had told her emphatically that there was no hope. Jasper Morena could not live for more than a few days. She must not allow herself to hope. He might or might not regain consciousness. Betty had listened with her white, rigid, child face, had thanked them, had gone home. There in her exquisite, little sitting room above Central park, she had sat at her desk and written a few lines on gray note paper, "Jasper Is dying," she had written. "By the time you get this, he will be dead. If you can forgive me for having failed In courage last year, come back. What I have been to you before I will be again, only, this time we can love openly. Come back." Then she had dropped her head ob the desk and cried. Afterward she had addressed her letter to a certain Prosper Gael. The letter went to h cow-pon- y snow-Imag- e, of fashions, In the winter gard-nothing has flourished so luxuriantly as coats. They have never been presented in more varied styles or In such distinguished and beautiful designs within the memory of the oldest fashion reporter. One can choose a lung, slim model, a long flaring model, a a straignt or an uneven hemline, or turn attention to short coats with almost as great variety to choose among. Fur or fabrics are equally good style or combinations of the two and fur is everywhere present In collars and cuffs. Fur bindings, often outlined with narrow silver or gold braid, have addee1 blouse INTENTLY n n wrap-aroun- semi-tailore- d if if 1 trrt " Y1 - ftII . rt bases, bo koel becued Immediately. It was brought out by County Agricultural Agent M. H, Falrbank, who acted as prosecuting attorney, that the accused had been depriving the people of this farming community of many luxuries and even some of the necessities, taking the butter from their bread and cream from the milk. According to a representative of the United States Department of Agriculture, "Scrub" was well represented by counsel appointed by the "court" but no arguments could prevail against the overwhelming evidence presented by the prosecution and the damaging testimony of a large number of farmer witnesses who had been robbed and had seen their neighbors robbed in the same manner by this old offender. The Jury was unanimous for conviction, and J. R. Dawson, of the dairy division, United States Department of Agriculture, delivered the funeral oration. Scrubbull meat Is not of the best, but It was well cooked, and a hungry crowd enjoyed it In a measure, because they had a sense of doing a good thing for the community. The trial was followed by a sale of pure bred bulls. One of the unusual features of the trial was a brass band which provided appropriate music during the day. Interest In the "trial" was shown by a large attendance from adjoining counties. two-piec- coat-bargai- n semi-tailore- d ready-to-wea- Feeding Test Made With Corn Silage and Fodder .... VvV-- V " f I, i f r- ' ' V t : .. t i 5 Models. "V , 1 t. t - - ' . ; . ' ' i i . -, . (TO BE CONTINUED ) Poor Follow. Snail They won't let mo o th ball team, 'cause Psa too slow ruanlnf hard-workin- "No one thing has done so much to. Increase the productivity of pure bred dairy cattle in New Jersey as advanced registry testing," says W. It Robbers, dairy expert at the agricultural experiment station, New Brunswick. "The average production of all cows has been given by the United States census as 4,000 pounds of milk a year. Pure bred herds under the advanced registry tests soon develop cows which produce twice that amount of milk without additional feed cost "Care in the management of cows Increases their productive capacity. It Is the care incidental to advanced regSilk Blouse of Two Colors. istry testing which eften results In the dressed women are going back to their ! to the richness of handsome material cow doing much better during her second testing period than her first. e first love the strictly tailored Nothing is too gorgeous for coats thli "By means of these tests and the suit for street wear. senson. Besides lustrous pile fabrics, records kept the hopelessly unproducCrepe de chine, printed silks and there are luxurious wool brocades tive cows are detected so that the pussy willow taffeta Just about mo- Even regal shawls have been resur- dairyman can eliminate them from the nopolize the field of fabrics they are used for the several classes of blouses. rected from cedur chests and trans- herd. "It has long been recognized that Strictly tailored styles look to pin formed Into short coats or long wraps. Now Is the open season for the bull Is the most Important factor tucks or plaited frills for their embehunters. After the holidays in Improving the herd. Through admodels llishment, while period, vanced registry It Is possible for the supplement these with combinations of are past In the are nil for turning their dairyman to observe whether or not printed and plain silks or of two col- merchants r stocks Into cash. The the daughters of the bull are better ors, as In the blouse pictured. Decorations are simple; points and scallops more stunning and unusual the coat than their dams. In this way superior much featured, often with outlining of the more necessary to move It from bulls are discovered and are chosen to narrow braid. Buttonholing and wide rack to wearer and coats eu oa raise the standard of the herd. "The advisory experts maintained hemstitching are used for outlining straight and ample lines are good style collars and cuffs and for decorative for more than one or two seasons and by the department of dairy husbandry at the State College of Agriculture, purposes. The personal monogram Is It Is good business to buy now. New Brunswick, are always glad to answer, questions on advanced registry or any other phase of dairying." 's Wanted His Money's Worth. "Why don't you discharge your pre ent doctor and see If somebody else can't help you? Here he's bad yon In bed for three weeks now and yon seem to be getting worse all the time." "I would make change, bat this fer low owes me $00 sod his bill foots up only $19 to date. I've got to work It oat of htm somehow." (Praparsd by th United States Department of Agriculture.) In a special "court" convened In Howard county, Md., the last of October, A. S. Bull, known familiarly as "Scrub," was found guilty of robbing g farmers and their families and was sentenced to be bar- Dairy Cows Improved by Advanced Registry Test Wyoming. Three days later Jasper regained consciousness and began slowly to return to health. He had the tenacious vitality of his race, and. In his own spirit an iron will to live. He kept Betty beside his bed for hours, nnd held her cold hand In his long sensitive one, and he stared at her under his lashes till she thought she must go mad. But she did not. She nursed him through an Interminable convalescence. She received Prosper, very early In this convalescence, by her husband's bed, and Jasper had murmured gratitude for the emotion that threatened to overwhelm his friend. It was not till some time nn extraordinarily long time after complete recovery that the had snapped like a broken Icicle. And then, forsooth, they had sent ber to Wyoming to get back her hentthl Having paced away some of her restlessness. Petty Stopped by the cabin window and pushed aside one of the short, calico curtains. She looked out on the court. A tail woman bad Just pulled up a bucket of water from the well nnd had emptied 1' Into a pitcher. She finished, let the bucket clash, snd drop with a whirr and raised her head. For a second she snd Jasper Morena's wife looked at each other. Betty nodded, smiled, and drew the curtnln close. Speedy Justice Recently Meted Out to Scrub Sire Two Stunning Coat even more approved than ever as an embellishment, and Is variously placed, but usually near the corssge. Speaking of hip bands, they appear to be of two main varletieg the plain narrow bn and the crushed or draped kind. These are supplemented by occasional models with peplums. flair Sleeves are long and there Is for collars and cuffs of plain silk, link cuffs nfl very narrow ties of silk at tb Back. . J ' " - , ' , - : " ''; Two handsome examples, that Insnr lone service nnd general dependability, are shown In the picture. The model at the left, mnde or n fine pile fabric, nnd handsomely embroidered In self color has a collnr of dyed squirrel. The stunning short coat Is made of a paisley shawl nnd finished with collar nnd cuffs of black fox fur. Wool brocade might be used for this model te, ItSi, Wertera Newspaper The dairy cow has long found favor because she is able to convert large quantities of bulky roughage Into concentrated and highly nutritious product There are, however, certain roughages on which a cow produces much better. As the business of dairying Is to produce milk profitably rather than merely to convert fodder Into milk, a comparison of the common farm roughages Is valuable. A careful feeding test was made at the Iowa experiment station with corn silage and fodder, alfalfa and timothy hay, and a combination of corn fodder and timothy hay. The use of corn fodder In place of corn silage reduced the milk production 0 per cent, and the fat production 3 per cent When silage Is worth $4.,r)0 a ton, an acre of corn yielding eight tons, If converted Into si Inge, is worth $3(1, while if converted Into fodder the value Is reduced to $10.21. When alfalfa hny was replaced by timothy In a good dairy ration, milk and butterfat production was reduced 7 per cent When both alfalfa bay and silage were replaced nt the same time by fodder and timothy hay, the milk yield dropped 18 per cent and fat 14 per cent If possible get the corn crop In the silo. Timothy hay should be sold and clover or alfalfa bought to take Its pi nee. Wash Milk Cans Clean. The cleansing of milk vessels Is best done by first rinsing them In cold or lukewarm water to remove the milk after which they should be scrubbed with a brush Inside and out Use hot water snd washing powder and hea rinse In clean, hot water. Show Up Poor Cows. Almost sny cow can make a profit on pasture, bat the feeding of grain and roughage Indoors soon shows np the poor ones In rtward. |