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Show PAGE TWO THE TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, Sylvia of the Minute By by Dodtt Head 77ie A Wife's I Transformation DAIRY.., The Story of K Comeback of Woman Gone to Seed By Mary Culbertson Miller HELEN R. MARTIN Copyright Friday, February 24, A Co. WNU Serrte Clothes Values. 'M SHOWING you the absurdities Mrs. first, Crane," smiled a charming woman officially known as a personal shopper, "then you can laugh with me later on." It's Just in such garments that some women disguise their own precious individualities under clothes that bear no relation to them. If a certain model comes into I CHAPTER V Continued 12 Meely decided that for at least a few weeks she could breathe freely, and feel comparatively secure from the danger of a visit. And that very morning, Just after recess time, as the children were trooping In from the playground, he walked In on her. "Oh, dear, you here again I" she openly lamented as he, without offering her his hand, bowed rather curtly and drew forth a platform chair not, however, seating himself while she stood, a courtesy to which she had, for so many months, been a stranger, that it thrilled her, to her amusement, almost as much as St. Croix' "manners" had thrilled Nettle the night before. "I'm here," he grimly stated, standing behind his chair and folding his arms with a resolute, Napoleonic air that made her heart sink, "to hear you teach geography !" "Here I stand so help me Gawd!" she mocked at his determined mien. "Martin Luther 1" "And I donT leave this schoolroom until I have heard you !" "Oh, gee!" she sighed. He set his lips and stared straight, ahead of him. "I've had this school on my conscience since you yourself admitted that you can't teach. We can't let these children suffer from your excuse me Incompetence. Will you coll a geography class. Miss Schwenck-ton?- " . Did he or did he not hesitate over her name? She could not feel sure. "But why this passionate Interest In she complained. geography?" "Aren't you longing to see me teach spelling? I'll call a spelling class " "Geography, If you please." "I suppose," she said accusingly, "you Just wont to expose me as not knowing any geography of the United States! Well, If you call that chivalrous " "I'm not here to be chivalrous, but to hear you teach." "Why won't spelling do?" "I prefer geography." "Just because I Jokingly pretended to think there were forty-sevestates ! and told you Instead of that when I was a mere child, I thought the Mississippi river ran east and west!" "Exactly." "Well," she said reflectively, "well, Mr. Creighton, before I take your request Into consideration, will you tell me what Is the extent of your power over my Job? Can you take It from me?" "I can advise your school board to take It from you. But," he hastily added, "of course I don't want to! I'd hate like the dickens " Again he pulled himself up. "I should greatly dislike," he said primly, "to resort to such stringent measures." ; "That's better sounds more profes"Be sional," she encouraged him. professional or die!" The children of the school were nil rented now rigidly upright In the presence of that magnate, the county superintendent and Meely could no longer dally with the situation; she must decide what to do. She might repeat the successful geography lesson she had already given that morning on Italy though a deliberate reitition of the whole performance would be so astonishing to the children' as to be embarraslng to their teacher! For Venice, she had given thorn the songs of the gondoliers, and Impersonations of Portia and Shylock ; for Naples, street beggars and cornl worker.- for Rome, impersonations of Caesar and Mark Antony with tales of gladiators Interspersed ; for Florence, Impersonations of Savonarola arid the Medici. Mitch more tlinn the school bad been able to digest at one dose, but sli bad enjoyed It. feeling liow cleverly flie was doing it ah, there was the rub! She did It too cleverly, too professionally. She could not risk offering It to Marvin Crelgh-ton- . n fifty-seve- n - Well, then, nothing left but to try ;, a geography lesson In the uninteresting way she had seen It done In a school she had .'Isi'-v- l. where the teacher, for a weary half to give pro-sal- hour, had had the children telling glibly what states enclosed other Kates. What had the teacher called that a certain word she had used? "I'll bore this man so he'll keep way from here for the rest of his life!" she determined. "Zebilla," she addressed the bright-co- t girl of the class that she summoned to stand before the desk, while he and the superintendent now sat behind It, "enclose the state of Pennsylvania." Zebilla looked blank. "What's that I in to dor "Knclose Pennsylvania," repeated Mm-I- j confidently. Zebilla still looked unenlightened -even dnr.ed. "I wouldn't know how to. I don't know right bow you mean en. lose It!" Meely saw she had gotten the wronz "'I mean surround It; tell word. linl states. If any. surround it ttt . i what bodies of water, or whatever enclose, surround or circumscribe HI" she explained desperately. "Ach, do you mean. Miss Schwenck-ton- , I'm to bound Pennsylvania?" "That's the word yes, bind It A snort from the county superintendent was a signal for the amazed school and they broke Into a roar of laughter that revealed to the embarrassed teacher how seriously she had erred. Her face flushed crimson. She hated this monster sitting on her platform laughing till the desk shook! She rapped for order. The school became quiet. "Proceed," she said to Zebilla coldly. "Pennsyl-wanl- a Is bounded on the does north" When Zebilla had finished, Meely took as long a time as possible in drilling her to pronounce the letter V by catching her lower Up between her teeth. She prolonged this drilling to the point of absurdity, for if she called on any other pupil of this class to bound a state, she herself would have to keep her eyes glued to the map to see that they got it right. With Zebilla Zook that had not been necessary, for Zebilla could be depended upon to answer correctly. She always knew her lessons with depressing thoroughness. So It was not until the poor girl became restive and resentful under her prolonged drilling that the teacher desisted. "Bind Connecticut, Hiram," she at last proceeded most reluctantly. "Connecticut is bounded on the north by Massachusetts, on the east by Rhode Island " "Oh, come, an Island can t bind anything. What is an island, Hiram?" she asked, very pleasefl at Hiram's blunder, for here she could be sure of her ground; she did at least know the forms of land and water! "But Rhode Island." said Hiram, gazing at her almost In horror, "ain't no Island " Her finger on the map, she could see for herself, now, that it wasn't and turning hot and cold with ion, she yet tried to save herself. "Very good, Hiram I was trying to catch you up ! Of course we all know how it came to be called an island? Zebilla?" But Zebilla, her stand-by- , failed her there she did not know ! "I'll ask the class," said Meely hastily, "to look that up for next lesson." She feared she was not succeeding In her plot to "bore" the superintendent She saw. In a quick side glance, that he looked anything but bored. Indeed, he seemed to be enjoying himself. Probably he'd stay the rest of the day Oh, how she hated and despised him! Conceited pedagogue! After a few more states had been bound (her eyes and finger fastened the while to the map) she heaved a sigh of relief and dismissed the class to their seats. "Now you've bad your heart's de sire and have heard me teach geograWhat further," she Inquired phy. with dignity, "can I do for you?" "I leave it to yon," he bowed, making no move whatever to go. She decided to call up a reading class. There were no serious pitfalls for her In American literature. That is, if she could manage to resist the temptation to act out the reading lesson. In case it happened to be a "piece" as the pupils would say) that lured her to a dramatic execution of It! She settled that danger by ordering the class to turn to a speech of Theodore Roosevelt's. And too late she realized her mistake. The speech abounded In political allusions which none but a native American would understand. If only no one asked any qwstiotis! They so seldom did manifest curiosity about anything but It would be Just like the perversity of fate to Inspire one of tlietn to show off before the superintendent. A hand was raised the youngest little girl in the class. "Please. .Miss Schwctickton, what does ti. A. K. mean?" Meely beamed with pleasure, for this was a question she could, as luck would have It, answer with convinc con-stern- al 1 Tradition Bars Jews The American Hebrew says that the tradition against Intermarriage ctnong Jews Is traced back to Abraham, who ordered bis estate manager, Kllezer, to obtain a wife for Isaac from among his. Abraham's, own people, In Aramea. It should be added that this Is only a tradition. It became a practice among Jews at the time they returned from the Babylonian exile In the Fifth century before the common era. Intermarriage, however, has taken place among Jews at atl times. The reason why Jews have clung to the tradition of Abraham and the enactment of Kzra lien In the psychology of group consciousness, especially as this Is welded by the religious Ideal. The belief of the Jews that they are a people chosen by Cod to disseminate knowledge of 1 ro and Ills moral and 1 ing intelligence. She rejoiced that little Becky had been moved to ask It "The G. A. R. is a society of American women," she blithely replied, "the Granddaughters of the American Revolution, whose ancestors came over In the Mayflower." favor, everybody makes haste to possess one, irrespective of her height "Well," said Meely Icily, as she weight, or proportion." stood with the superintendent behind "I've never given much thought to her desk at the end of the morning what I should wear," Helen admitted session, "I suppose that awful confrankly. science of yours will force you to ad"You. are not the only one," was vise the school board to discharge me smiled. "And how often we see for 'Incompetence'!" clothes that attract all the attention They were practically alone now, away from the wearer, when rightly those of the pupils who did not go they should be a frame to enhance home for the noon meal having gone natural attractiveness. I want you to out of doors to eat their luncheon. Mrs. Crane, and let yourself, study Mr. Creighton shook his head. "No, your garments express your personI can't be expected always to act disality. Some indulge In little interestedly for the good of society and that Is a calamity. In I'm only human, after all and yours every woman should be dressing Is the only schoolroom I've ever visaware of every single one of her good ited that hasn't bored me to death ! and bad points. She should select Whenever I'm dull and need a riot of her outfits accordingly. If she recogI fun, can Just drop In here and hear nizes the fact that she has broad you teach geography! No, I cannot shoulders she will avoid buying frocks rise to such heights of altruism as to with kimono sleeves. If stout she recommend your dismissal It's ask- will steer clear of plaids, checks, and " ! too I'm much ing only hu so on." She paused. "Oh, yes be"Well, believe me," she retorted refore I show you a suit I've selected sentfully, "you'll not get a chance to for you I want to discuss the clothes sit 'round here making fun of me you were wearing the day I met you. I'll resign !" She turned away haughe Your cut the hipllne, ac tily but she was too good an actress centuated your abdomen and hips, not to know that she was not tall and had a very ugly neckline. Your enough to look haughty Impressively skirt was too long, and your hat and suddenly, without warning, she which was close fitting, gave your found herself crying. Desperately she face a moon appearance." fought to control herself, more morti"I'm .afraid trimness has been sadfied at such a childish display than ly absent from my appearance," Helen she could possibly feet over perfectly admitted ruefully. "And that red hat excusable ignorance of a vast patchwords can't express how I feel work quilt of states, or of the fine disabout it now." tinctions between American alphabetTasteful Dressing. ical symbols D. A. R.'s and G. A. R.'s! "Trimness and neatness will reUseless Information anyway ! trieve the most tasteless outfit, Mrs. But the strain of the morning had Crane. Rut I want to call your atbeen too much for her and she could not stop crying. Her breath came In tention to necklines they are most little gasping sobs, her shoulders important in a frock. If a frock has a becoming neckline It is far on the heaved, she fumbled for her handkerto perfection, for that feature Is road chief and not finding it, she Jerked one which has the most bearing on open a desk drawer, dragged out a one's looks. The most extravagantly towel and buried her face In it. beautiful frock in texture, workman"Oh, but my child ! you poor kid !" Mr. Creighlon unprofessionally and ship, and design, con be quite worthless to its wearer as far as lending very remorsefully exclaimed. "I didn't if the neckline is unbecoming. want to hurt your feelings! Oh, charm And too times women choose please!" he begged In distress, laying a neckline many which is modish but which a reassuring hand on her arm. "Come, reveals to the least advantage their come, don't cry ! You're not going to bony structure, or other homely debe thrown out of your school and I swear I won't laugh at you any more!" fects, when a rightly chosen neckline could cover them." She wiped her nose and her eyes "I've been wondering about a suit," beta corner with of the towel. "I'd Helen meditatively; "do yon said ter resign !" she said dolefully, "or think I could wear one to advanyou'll be lying awake nights thinking of all the education those children are tage?" course "Of you can. Your rhythm missing Just because you were too work has straightened and slenderweak to withstand a girl's tears!" You'll look ized you wonderfully. "Well." he said ruefully, though very well In the adorable model I've gently, "you have got me up a tree, selected for you. Although the line you know ! How you ever got a Kutz-tow-n Is broken by the bottom of the Jacket, on Normal school diploma your effect is that of the straight the still knowledge of United States geograline. It will be good for you because phy " She showed signs of weeping it lengthens the figure. I've an Ideal again, so he hastily veered off. "All hat for this suit, too quite In keepright, let's never mention geography It ing with the tailored trlgness. ! again I do admit that the pupils in looks dewere as it though specially your school are more alert and wideto bring out your personality. awake than any children in the signed We'll try it on In a moment county ! There, doesn't that comfort About Fads. you?" "You said something about fads She smiled dazzlingly through her the other day we were Interrupted." tears. "Oh, but then I'm a success Helen reminded the shopper. as a teacher! since the whole pur"Yes, I've a word or two more pose of teaching children must be to don't be misbrighten up their wits, cot to stuff about that. stales and mimes Into them ! It Is not led by fashions! as you see them i what I pour Into them, but what I Interpreted at the noon honr. The girl that Is in town every day has lead them to give out!" new features dangled before her eyes neca lot of "Ah, yes, but there's essary drudgery In teaching which and she adopts them thinks them quite smart. To be fashionable does can't be my child ; which really must be done. So If you'll be not mean to uenr what everyone else is wearing. Certain general modes good and get down to hard work prevail, of course, but the discerning here" woman will make them fit her par"Hut Indeed I do! These things 1 ticular style, and thus actually ma"ke do, yet do not leave the higher mather own." They were walking ters of the spirit undone. I do assure ththe suit department to. you." "I'rilllai t colors, Mrs. Crane." He looked skeptical, but evidently the suoppcr, "must always be diil not feel It safe to pursue the sub You should wear considered. well too her eyes bright ject, looking reudy red. The softer, more subdued shades to shed tears again. will bring out unexpected glints In "I'm keeping you from eating your the hair and accentuate the crenml-nes- s lunch," be suddenly sold, reaching reof the skin. As you are studyluctantly for bis hat and coat ITO BB CONTINUED. ing clothes values I'll Just mention that definite color types are obviously easier to find becoming clothes for than any others. The darker shades are ns good for blondes as brunettes; Union black Is a charming frame for fair or Titian hair." ethical will an..r.ig the peoples of the no ) it: bf th Bell Syndic-Hi- . world Is also a great factor motivated by the deslr to hold to Ita mission In Spent $25 for "Mud" the world and, prohuhly, also by the P.lank vs. P.lunk was a divorce case fear lest Intermarriage should weaken tried recently in an Indianapolis court. the force for carrying out Its mission. Tim 'husband's oblef complaint was that bis wife was extravagant. Vain Search for Treature "Tell us how your wife was ex- ' An Australian miner spent part ol the court requested. travagant," his life In the bush trying to re find Mr. I'.lntik enumerated a number of ' a mine his partner found and died In ways In which be thought Mrs. I'.lnnK But he never succeeded, describing. tniv it) money to the wind and and, eventually, the bush men stumbled concluded fio the statement that she on his skeleton. A party of French j for mud. your honor." scientists narrowly e.ciied death from speit "Mud? $i"i for Intnl. you snyt I thirst In the Sahara seeking traces ol don't und r- - 'and." said the eoprL a lost caravan of precious stones that She "1 hat what it was; mud. never reached Timhuctoo, and was on her It face to in. ike her pretty." put supposed lo have been overwhelmed our honor. "He means beauty ci and4ortn, low! Ita tracks, and by ourt and "(Mi. I see," smiled V mlmd the wells. the case ontinued, 1 n,.ooHs New s, 1 over-blous- j I side-steppe- I I With Gentiles J I i t News Notes It' a Privilege to Live in Utah 'COW FRESHENING IN FALL FAVORED INSTALLMENT XVIII 1928 OGDEN County Agricultural Agent announces that L. Christiansen thirteen farmers in Ogden valley will A. Variation In milk supply and concooperate with the county farm bureau sequent changes In price, usually re- this year in growing a large acreage of sulting In lower Income for the dairypotatoes and grain for state certificaman, can In large measure be avoided tion for seed. This is the largest numby breeding the cows so that they ber of farmers yet to undertake the freshen In the fall Instead of In the growing of certified seed in the valley. spring, according to C L. Blackman, Utah seed, it is said, has been making dairy specialist in the extension serv- larger yields than that brought in from ice of the Ohio State university. the outside. Mr. Christiansen, District "The cows freshening In the fall Agricultural Agent LeRoy Marsh and produce a more uniform flow of milk a committee from the farm bureau will for a number of months," says Black-maassist the farmers. "These cows can be kept unBRIGHAM CITY The contracting der more uniform conditions than can beet acreage for this season in tiie for cows. Adverse spring .freshening and Garland districts Las changes do not come to them when Brigham been begun by field men of the Utah-Idah- o they are in full flow. The contract Sugar company. "Most successful dairymen can keep as the beet upon by growers' agreed cows a freshening high level up to association and the sugar companies of production until they are turned ' out on grass. Then, If pastures are seems to be satisfactory, and the availwill It use is all farmers, said, Ingood, production may actually able land in the growing of beets this crease for a time. When hot weather, flies arrive the cows year. dry pastures, and VERNAL are not in heavy flow and are not According - to observaseriously affected. Thus they make tions made by the national forest serva greater total production. ice, the amount of snow throughout the east end of the Uintah mountain "A study of more than 10,000 recrange, taken on an average, is under ords from 64 testing associations rethe amount of the corresponding perveals the fact that spring freshening iod a year ago. At the end of January cows produced an average of only 5,842 pounds of milk a year, while Ian average of about 14 inches was on the ground in elevations between 7000 fail freshening cows produced C889 and 8000 feet, and an average of from pounds, or 18 per cent more milk. 24 to 36 inches in elevations between "Milk from spring fresheulng cows is not the cheapest. These cows are 9000 and 11,000 feet. OGDEN Utah canners will pay kept during the winter on a low level of production which offsets their low growers approximately $2 a ton more for peas this year than they did in summer costs and eliminates their 192", it was agreed Tuesday at a meetearly advantage." ing of committees of the Utah State Farm bureau and the Utah Canners Cow's Nervous System association. MAGNA Aid of the county commisVery Much Complicated It is surprising that an animal sion in establishing a mail delivery system in Magna was sought in a peshould have a more delicate nervous tition received from Dr. C. F. Wastphal system than human beings, but that of Magna, Is exactly the case with the cow. Any According to the petition. Magna citizens are willing to comply departure from normal conditions upsets the proper functioning of the with postoffice regulations as to the numbering of houses and in return decow's organs. If the cow sire a delivery system. The matter Is abused, If she Is uncomfortable. was taken under advisement. Irritated, underfed, wet or chilled, the SALT LAvE Decision to expend reaction is noticeable In decreased milk flow. $250,000 in bu.lding in Salt Lake City "the finest motor park in America" on Clipping about the flanks, udders and underline during the stable site of old Bonneville park was announced Tuesday by John L. Reynolds, months removes Irritations caused by who recently purchased the baseball clinging dirt and filth. When a cow field. Mr. Reynolds had just completed is clipped there is no clinging place a tour of California, Texas and Arizfor dirt. The animal Is thoroughly cleaned merely by wiping with a ona, during which he made a study of the best automobile camps in the three damp cloth. The pores of the skin are kept clean and open. states. Dirt falling Into the milk contains DELTA Operating revenues of the uncountable bacteria which cause the Pahvant Power and Light company of milk to sour, giving It an off flavor. Delta for 1927, as shown by, the anTests show that 85 per cent of dirt nual statement filed with the public which falls Into the milk goes Into utilities commission, show a decrease solution and can never be strained of $2,638. SO as with 1923. out Most of the dirt which finds Its Revenues for 1927compared were $34,448.04 as way Into the milk bucket drops from compared with $37,086.84 in 1926. The the cow into the bucket; therefore, net income shows a loss of $1530.26. the best way Is to keep It out In the The capital stock of the company is first place. This is easily done by listed at $21,127.03 clipping the cow about the udder, OGDEN At a meeting of the Utah flanks, underline and tall and cleanCanning Crops association, held in the ing thoroughly Just before milking, by office of the Utah State Farm bureau, wiping with a damp cloth. arrangements were made for general meetings with the Utah Canning association, consisting of twelve manuSilage Will Increase ' facturers, to set prices for the Income of Dairy Farm coming season. contract Two crops, peas and At the Pennsylvania State Dairytomatoes, were considered. The crops association will meet with the canners men's association meeting at state colat Ogden soon. lege recently Prof. It. II. Olmstead' gave some Interesting results of a HEBER CITY Eggs handled by the survey, showing the value of silage Utah State Poultry Producers' assocl- In the dairy ration. The results of jation for 1927 showed an increase of this survey showed that Pennsylvania $500 000 in value over the preceding cows getting silage averaged 1.2(H) year. During 1927 423 carloads of eggs pounds more milk and more than 30 jwere shipped by the association. LOGAN Directors of the Cache pounds more butterfat per year than those who did not In Lancaster coun- - county farm bureau met at the courtty the farmers who used silos had an house recently and adopted their 1928 average labor Income of SKIO.fiO more program, the principal features of Ihnn those without them. This, be which promise to be taxation legislasays. Is due to the fact that a cow tion and wheat marketing. The bu- needs succulent feeds the year around. 'reau will work for reclassification of In order to make the most profits, and property for taxation throughout the (hat corn silage Is the best feed for entire tax system. It was decided to ' form a wheat this purpose. marketing local In the county to work in cooperation with the state wheat marketing association. Various Grain Mixtures President J. II. Schenk was in charge Used in Feeding Calves of the session. OGDEN Commissioner llarman V,'. Several different grain mixtures can Peery bewailed the fnrt that Ogden be used successfully In feeding young calves, depending on what ynu have was so deeply In debt when a committee representing farmers in the northavailable and on the price of the dlfr western part of the county apperred to ferent feeds. A mixture of either corn or barley, oats urge the paving of a link of highway between Five Points and the county d bran makes a very suitand able mixture. Corn and oats can be line on the Harrlsvllle road. OGDEN At a conference between fed very successfully as shelled corn a committee representing the Utah and whole oats. If barley Is used It should be state farm bureau with the Utah Canground. There Is no harm done In ners' association held In the office of grinding the corn and oats In fuct. the canning association In the Klesel building. It was agreed that prices of If one has a grain grinder It Is preftomatoes to the canneries should re erable to grind these grains. A mixmain the same as last year, $11 a ton f f ture of and barley SALT LAKE For 1927 one oats could be nod to goid ndvantnge poultry or a mixture of one half corn and one-hal- f association shipped to outside markets a total 170.000 of cases of eggs, or, oats. counted one by one, 61.000.000 eggs. BRIGHAM CITY-Fi- eld men of the Quality of Butter Utah Idaho Sugar have begun company Th quality of the butter Is con contracting beet acreage for next seasldernbly affected by the time of stop- son in this territory. The contract Is ping the churning. The churn should be snppcd when the grnnulos are as agreed upon by the beet growers' association and the sugar companies. about the size of wheat or split peas. If they are too small many of them Orson A. Christensen, field superin will go through the strainer Into the tendent of the sugar company In thi buttermilk. (Uerchurned butter will district, says that, due to the good avretain a large amount ol hullennlllt erage tonnage last year thirteen and tons per acre and the high which will be difficult to remove In sugar content, and alfo to the general washing. The buttermilk rhonl.l n dn.wn off as soon as the churning tf Impression that the winter has been a iuiiiui uur, i.Miners are opnmiKlia tn:pi ered At th outlook for the next crop. n. milk-makin- g i one-thir- one-thir- d one-thir- one-hal- one-hal- one-thir- I |