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Show Thursday. March 13, 1947 THE TIMES- - NEWS, NEPHI, UTAH PAGE SIX NEEDLEWORK PATTERNS WOMAN'S WORLD Full Length Coats Easily Made Crocket a Gift Doily or Runner Into Fashion-Wis- e Shorties Heart and Flowers Embroidery O Twenty-livyears have elapsed since thinking of the wonderful time I've the disappearance of Richard McFar-lan-e In World War I and his wife, "And trying," Jill asked, her head Julia, li beiet with fresh worries as the a little, "to remember how children she has raised with the atd tilted of her father-in-laJohn I. McFarlane, I look?" become Involved In World War II, Rlc, i He bent his head, and his eyes moved over her slowly and soberly. Z7, has "washed out" In the air corps while Jill, 26, falls In love with Spanf "I won't have to try. Hair like conJulia Gordon, a young lieutenant. h shell and a sassy a new fides her troubles to Dave Patterson, nose " an old family friend who has always "Disposition like T.N.T.." Jill secretly loved her. JU1 and Spang go to a dance and Jill discovers she Is supplied, keeping to the airy mood, "hair-triggset. If things don't In love but Is nettled when Spang apparently doesn't return her feeling. She happen when I want them to, I exacts gay, however, to conceal her own plode all over the place." love from him. "No," Spang said quietly, "you aren't like that When you go up against a thing you really want, you CHAPTER V e had" five-inc- er Then abruptly Spang cleared his throat. "I've got something to tell your mother," he said, "and I'm worried whether I should tell her or not. Maybe you'll know what I should do." "You mean something about me?" He broke oil a head of goldenrod and examined the small sulphur-colore- d blossoms minutely. "No, not about you. You suit me fine. I've had a grand time, and I hope you'll let me come back again. If I'm not shipped out. No, it's about Ric." "I suppose he's In some sort of trouble? That happens," she said wait for it quietly, with considerable determination." "Grim. Very grim!" "Have you found anything yet that you really wanted and didn't get? Something you really wanted. I mean not a whim." Jill set her teeth. Was he trying her, trying to get past the rigid control of her chin and her care-- stiffly. "Ric and I wers pretty good friends at college," Spang went on. "We lived In the same house, and though I finished two years before he did, we wrote now and then and kept in touch. Then this war came along, and I got in early and got my commission, and of course Rlc was an enlisted man, so that complicated things. But I've managed to see him occasionally." "And you don't like what he's doing? Is he ducking out of things, breaking regulations, that sort of thing?" "I don't know about his service record. I haven't any contact in that direction. But the last time we were In town I saw him with a woman. They were both drinking, and though Ric wasn't tight, exactly, he was talking too loud. He wanted me to meet her." "Did he salaam properly before the shdulder-bar- s and the beautiful whip-cor- d breeches?" Jill spoke more bitterly than she knew because her heart was hurting from dis appointment. leaf Spang laid the on top of her head. "Don't be nasty, gaL Can I help it If this army is all stiffened up with military courtesy and stuff? I still like Ric. That's why I didn't like what I was seeing. She's older than he is, she's been divorced, her first husbrnd was an officer who got kicked downstairs after Pearl Harbor. She's living there in the hotel, and a sergeant I know pretty well told me lot of her. that Ric was seeing She's a handsome wench, one of .those silver blondes with nice skin and a helpless look you know the type. I have a feeling your mother wouldn't like It, but still I hate to say anything." "But surely Rlc couldn't get serious about a woman like that?" "I don't know" d , Ric Provides a New Worry "You do know. Spang, more than you're telling met I don't have to be protected from the truth, even if It Isn't pleasant" "No, I really don't know anything I'm Just worried, definite, Jill. that's all, and since I've met your mother and seen the sort of home Rlc has, it bothers me. It may be just another episode. Ric had a few when we were together." "The trouble is," Jill said, "Mother spoiled Ric terribly. My father didn't come back, and. I think she needed somebody to lavish all that love upon, somebody to keep her heart from breaking. I was Just a good egg. somebody she could talk to, but Ric got her deep affection. And anything he does that's would hurt her frightfully. I'd hate to tell her. I'll decide whether I ought to, after you're gone. You couldn't do anything about it anyway, could you?" "No, I couldn't do anything about it. Ric's a man, he'd resent any interference from me. He'd have a right to resent it. Of course he may be shipped out, and that will put an end to the affair." "Then It is an affair?" "Jill. I've told you all I know. I've heard her discussed In various places and heard the things other men say about her, that's all. I've heard men cpeak of her when they were talking without inhibitions. And Ric is pretty young" "Twenty-seveisn't so young, lie's old enough to have a little sense," Jill said angrily. Thef walked down the lane, saying little after that. He isn't going to say anything, maybe he doesn t care at all, Jill was thinking, with the painful knot made of anger and tears growing hard and tieht In her throat. Spang talked of the future, presently, but of a future in which she hod no part or any other woman, if that could be called a comfort He said, "A month from now I'll back on this week-enbo off-col- n Julia's face changed, paled and grew taut. "What a ridiculous suggestion," she said stiffly. ful eyelids? "When I find it I'll get It some way, some time I" "Desperate,' eh?" Spang laughed a little. But the laugh was shaken, and so was the pressure of his hand on her elbow uncertain. "Your eyes don't give you away as a desperate female, at all." "How do they look? Inane, I suppose?" "Oh, sort of sweet and melting. I think you'll find ways to get what you want without any fight" So her eyes were melting! But they were melting, they were practically dissolving, and if she talked any more she'd be crying like a fool, because she was in love and men were so unbearably stupid! She said coolly, "I've trained my eyes to lie very politely. Let's hurry, shall we? I smell the roast and Mamie gets peevish if dinner waits on Sunday. She belongs to the Holiness Church and they have services In the afternoon." After that the day wore on, her grandfather telling over again interminably the story of how Buzzard's Hill had been a military hospital in the Civil war, Julia trying to efface herself and maneuver John I. away so that Jill and Spang could be alone. Sweet of Dooley, Jill thought but all quite useless. Spang wasn't in love with her. How could he be and keep so carefully silent about it? Thank heaven, when she put him on the bus at dusk, she hadn't let herself go, hadn't been careless enough to let him see how utterly lost she was! He had held both her hands when and she had promhe said good-by- , ised to come down to the field again as soon as she could, and then he had given her a gay little salute and climbed aboard and been rushed away out of her sight A Talk Betuecn Julia and Jill The heat settled, drowsy and enervating as it pressed upon the world in August and Jill grew a little wan. She tried gallantly to fit herself into the quiet life of Buzzard's Hill. She pretended an excited interest in the new pigs, though privately she thought the wriggling, hairless little things revolting, and thought what must an amazing thing mother-lov- e be, that It could believe any new creation lovely. She even put In a warm morning digging In the garden that was going sadly to weeds since Foster's son had gone off to the army. At noon she went back to the house, soaked In perspiration, a good man icure a sad ruin, and every muscle screaming weariness rrom the unaccustomed activity. After that strenuous adventure she took a hot shower and flung herself on the bed, too utterly tired to ge down to lunch. Julia found her there and looked at her shrewdly. "You're taking-thi- s the hard way, JUL I've brought you some cold milk. Drink it and go to sleep. You're being very gallant but try to be reasonable about it" "I have to do something, Dooley. Life has to be for something or about something. Mine Isn't It's Just a purposeless existence. Just using up days. And there are so many of them, and they're so long!" Julia dropped into a chair. She wore her heavy jeans, and she was warm and weary, too. '"I know. You haven't had to learn yet how long years can be, Jill. I hope you never will." "How did you bear it Dooley, that last war? You aren't changed, you aren't old. You haven't any lines in your face." "I had two children to take care of. And I had hope." "And I," Jill said sadly, over the rim of the glass, "haven't anything at all!" "It turned out that way, did it? I didn't want to ask any questions." "It turned out that I fell in love so deeply I was practically shameless about it And to all appearances. Spang didn't. He liked my eyes, he thought you were a handsome woman, he said he had a good time, and then he talked about the job he had to do and hoped he'd see me again. If that's love, Dooley, what kind is it?" "Perhaps the bravest kind of all, Jill. The kind a man keeps to himself because he knows he has nothing to offer a woman, nothing but uncertainty and dread and grief." "Even those are better than nothing at all! You wouldn't know, Dooley, how awful nothing can be. Emptiness! Time going on. Oh, I know I'm talking like an idiot. I told you I hadn't any shame at all. Dooley, I want to go down to the field I want some new pretty soon. knockout clothes and one of those feather hair cuts and to have my eyebrows touched up. Why did I have to get these ferocious brows, Dooley, when yours are so delicate? You're a McFarlane, too." "There were dark McFarlanes and red McFarlanes. I got a little from both strains. Your father was almost a blond. His eyes were blue." "Blue eyes would be horrible with my hair. I could see Ric if I went down to the field, Dooley. That is, if he isn't shipped out somewhere. He won't get a furlough, you know, for ages." "Do you think you really want to go, Jill? You know there is such a thing as being too eager." "Oh, Dooley, they buried all that stuff with Augusta J. Evans! A nice girl would stick quietly at home to be wooed and won, but try sticking and see what it gets you, how beautifully you're stuck! I have to see Spang again before they send him off to Africa or some other hideous spot or I'll curl up and die! And I haven't an Inhibition in the world, but I do have sense. Nobody knows what a fool I am but you, You've been through this Dooley. waiting business. You know how it hurts.'" Jill Offers A Suggestion "Yes, I know." Julia took the empty glass, pushed Jill's damp hair back and patted her casually. "By the way, Dave Just telephoned. He has bought a new saddle mare, and he thought you might like to try her out Sunday. He's going to bring her over." "Did you enlist Dave to divert my mind, Dooley? Don't you know that I bore Dave stiff?" "Please give me credit for a little sense, JUL I haven't discussed your personal affairs with Dave. And I don't like riding. I can't risk being lame and stiff, with all I have to do here." "Why don't you taU in love with Dave?" she asked abruptly. "It would simplify everything." Julia's face changed, paled and grew taut "What a ridiculous suggestion!" she said stiffly. ridiculous about it? "What's Dave's been in love with you for centuries don't tell me you didn't know it! You must be blind. Even Grandfather suspects It I observe his sly look whenever Dive comes around. He likes Dave, he'd be terribly pleased, I think." Julia's frozen expression did not change except that pain crept into her face, darkening her eyes, making her mouth a wan line. "Dave is a gentleman." the said, evenly. "He would not faU in love with another man's wife." Jill puckered her brows. "But years! Just beDooley twenty-fivcause Grandfather couldn't find any grave when he went ever there maybe my father Is the Unknown Soldier. When you took us to Washington I pretended that he was lying there. I felt beautiful about it It could be true, you know." "We won't talk about it any more," said Julia, severely. "And please put ideas like that out of your bead!" e 4TO BE CONTINUTD) namawawaiaamaaaaanva'aaaavaaaBan ""j,, ' i WHEN you can convert old coats into something fashionable and ceedingly wearable, it's like finding a bargain that you didn't expect Yet there are very few woolens that cannot be made fashionwise and practicaL Take an outmoded full length spring coat which now looks shabby and extremely unwearable. This can be completely re-cand made into one of the new coats with a full, rippling back, and full push-u- p sleeves, If you desire. Yes, even the lining, if it will still give wear, can be used for the new coat. When you are making something new out of something old, always select a pattern that is simple. You will have to make the old fabric do, and there is usually not enough to plan on for lots of extra detail. However, it is a matter of practical experiment thata full length coat, even though it has rather narrow shoulders and sleeves, can be made into a new shortle coat with fashion features such as the full back and new, wide sleeves. But how is this done, you ask? Well, by clever piecing, of course. You may use a tweed coat if you wish, but if you are still somewhat of an amateur in this business of sewing, I'd suggest working with a solid color that is easier to match In the Intricate job of cutting and fitting together properly. Preparation of Material Precedes Cutting It's 'no fun working with a dusty piece of fabric. Do have it cleaned first, as this wUl make It easier to see just what you have for working.? 'And another thing, if the old coat'bas faded, it's perfectly possible ' to have the material dyed ei ther commercially or at home before you do any cutting at all. Woolens dye nicely if you use a dye suitable for the material and work ex- Suit Many-Purpo- se uuaaujiliu,iuimujiuij..i..lLu.N.Ju.UUuu - j y ' ut Wjllk I smart For Pillowcases and Sheets TJERE'S a romantic design to teen-ag- 5885 e embroider on pillowcases and Bride's roses of soft enclosed in a "heart" of The dainty blue h embroidered ribbon is done in two shades of pale top-sheet- s. rose-pin- k choice for the miss is this dressmaker suit so fitted for social or business Pineapple Design gathering. Young dressmakers will find it easy to style in plain gray or TJ ANDSOME eleven-inc- h squares to crochet in the popular beige gabardine that combines well with light or dark accessories. pineapple design. Crochet one square and use it as a doily do If, on the other hand, you have a three and join them to form a bufcoat with a boxy look and one that fet or dresser runner. It will make shows a great deal of shoulder in- a treasured gift for a friend who terest, it's best to select heavier collects this exquisite motif. pads. The size of the pads in each To obtain complete crocheting Instrucshoulder can vary, depending upon for the Lacy Pineapple Runner (Pathow your shoulders line up with each tions tern No. 5885) send 20 cents In coin, your other. name, address and pattern number. ' When the coat is completely finished it's ready for the lining, which should be of a smooth, closely woven material that wears weU. The lining may have an extra fold at the back to give you a feeling of roominess. I The sewing on the lining is done much as that on a dress would be. The important thing is to cut it to If a shingle stain has been exfit and then sew the seams and posed to the weather for three or slipstitch into place. The coat, nat- four years it can be safely painturally, is hemmed before the lining ed. Earlier than that, there is is added, as lining-- and coat are a chance it will become discolored. separate. You can save yourself a lot of If the collar of a man's shirt is time in fitting the lining if the coat badly worn, cut it off with a rais turned inside out Also, press the zor blade and use it for a pattern seams of the lining flat after you fin- in cutting a new collar from the ish sewing it. tail of the shirt. Pinning and basting will help you keep the lining in place while yon do Rubber heel marks may be rethe slipstltching. Try tho coat on moved from linoleum with a cloth after basting to see whether or not moistened with turpentine. you feel comfortable in it Move, the arms about to make certain Sweep up broken glass carefully there is enough roominess. and empty it into a tin can. Use A social-minde- 5318 d 1U0USEH0LD forget-me-not- s. satin-smoot- rose-pink- s. To obtain 2 pillowcase transfers. 1 sheet transfer design of the Hearts and Flowers Designs (Pattern No. 5318) color chart for working, amounts of various flosses speci-20 fied, sketches of stitches used, send cents in coin, your name, address and pattern number. Due to an unusually large demand and current conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orders for a few of the most popular patterns. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK Francisco, Calif. 709 Mission St., San Enclose 20 cents for pattern. No Tgnmg Address. UMTS you bavt an outmoded coat ... with the directions instead of against them. I can guarantee they will be soft and pliable to the touch. If you have a light blue coat that has faded in spots, dye the whole thing a navy, which will cover faded portions. A yeUow coat which looks rather soggy can be dyed with blue to give you one of the popular new greens. Brown dyed with red gives a lovely reddish brown, while an orange dyed with purple gives a nice rust shade. After the material has dried, it should be pressed smooth just as would any other woolen garment Use a damp cloth, and not too hat an iron and keep going aver the damp cloth long enough t dry it out and make the wool smooth. Choosing Fabrics If you've decided you want gathers In your next dress, here's the way to select a suitable fabric. Gather the material in your hands, as you would in gathering it and see whether it lies in soft gathers or whether it Juts out at angles. If you want pleats in your next dress, you must look for a fabric that has a certain crispness or wirkiess, or you will constantly have to press in your pleats. If you can crease the fabric and have the mark remain readily, you can be sure the material will pleat When you are making a woolen dress, always select a light weight wool. Heavier woolens are made only for suits or coats, and are somewhat difficult to work with. Rtcul and tu it into a fatbionabU . Hang for a few minutes to permit a thorough drying of the materlaL If the wool has worn badly, plan to use the wrong side of the material as your right side: it will look more fresh and new. Finish Coat With Lining, Shoulder Pads There are so many types of shoulder pads now avaUable that It probably will not be necessary for you to make your own. However, you will want to select them with care. If your coat has a soft shoulder line, you will not want too large pads. Choose something that will make the coat look truly casual. If you've decided on ruffles galore, choose a fabric that has some crispness like organdie, marquisette, etc. You'll also do wisely choosing a fabric that has a permanent finish. For dresses with straight classic lines, choose a material that has some body, and one that wlU hang straight easUy without too much tugging. Firmness of fabric is very important here. For dresses with draped choose a fabric that has softness but enough weight and not to much stiffness. For dresses that have a softness, choose fabrics that seem to meld themselves easily like rayon, crepe or silk. a damp cloth or moist cotton to pick up the tiny slivers. Cut worn out bath towels into rectangles to put under table place mats. The toweling protects the table from hot dishes which may mar the surface, especially if the mat used is of a thin material. 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