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Show 1 THE TIMES- - NEWS, NEPHI, UTAH PAGE SIX Jill McFa.rla.ne, 26, has faUen In lava with Lieut. Spang Cordon. Her mother, Julia, Is opset at ber own husband, Richard, disappeared during the first war and itae bad hoped to spare her daughter from being an army wife. JIM'S brother, Ric, Is Involved with a divorcee and Jill goes to camp to Investigate the matter. Ric tells her be Is on duty and unable to see ber but while she Is dancing with Spang they see Ric and the woman in quesJill tion, Sandra Calvert, together. finds Sandra an older, hardened woman. Later she Is accosted by Captain Mackey, known at camp as "Old Cyanide." He tells her he knew her mother years ago. He looks vaguely familiar. CHAPTER VIII She might as well catch the afternoon bus, but she would have lunch first and then try calling Spang again to say good-bFew people were In the dining-rooa few commercial travelers, several lonely looking women whom Jill catalogued as officers' wives, a child perched in a high chair and being coaxed to drink milk by a g mother, and at a table secluded near a window was the blonde Mrs. Calvert Jill went straight to her table. "How do you do?" she said coolly. "I'm Jill McFarlane, we met last night Mind if I sit here? I have a phobia about eating alone." "Delighted, I'm sure." Mrs. Calvert was cool, too, and definitely unenthusiastic. "I'm practically finished, however. My lunch " she made a little gesture toward the half consumed salad before her, "is usually unimportant." "A few vitamins and no calories?" Jill took a chair. "You're one of the courageous women. I'm farm gal myself, with an outrageous appetite." "You're very fortunate to be able to indulge It Few women can and keep the respect of their mirrors." "I'll have the jellied soup, stuffed crab, and some coffee, please," Jill told the hovering waitress, then leaned her chin on her palms. "You live here, Mrs. Calvert? In the had done a naive and childish thing. She's quite sure that Ric is a rich woman's son and that I'm a meddling sister with my knife out for greedy throats like hers, Jill told herself. She put Ric out of her mind, grimly, and thought only of Spang, wondering if she would sea him again. Everything lovely that she owned she had put on this morning. She had turned a hundred times ftefore the mirror, changed her lipstick twice. worried at her nails, and pinned and repinned her hair into exactly the right sort of halo so that every curl should shimmer with allure. when at last the telephone rang. Spang said, "Hello, Jill. I was afraid you might have checked out." "Oh, no I may not go for hours. Will I see you again, Spang?" "Sorry," he said slowly, while Jill's heart grew heavier, "can't make it today. They're running in Sunday classes on me, I'll be tied up all day. But I had a moment ho-tel- ?" long-naile- Spang Calls to Say Good-ll- y "It's a pig farm." Jill was blunt "Ric must have lot his Imagination get the best of him once he got away from it Whpn hes there he loathes everything about it. We nave to work awfully hard to keep it going. My mother works all day in overalls and a man's shirt I got this blister homing beans." She exhibited her palm "Our farm help have gone off to the army, and even my grandfather has to work, so if Ric has been embroidering tales to you about Rrecn lawns and pedigreed horses and stuff, just write them off as a homesick boy's wishful thinking." Mr. Calvert's eyes were masked behind carefully trained eyelids She put away her lipstick and the little mirror. She reached for her check and picked up her purse with flnpers that clutched a little. "Nice to have seen you again. Good-by,- " she remarked, riling. She walked away briskly, without looking back. Jill, watching her receding shoulders, felt heavy sense of fa Jiie. a feeling that she eighty-year-ol- named Julia McFar- SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS Woman's World Gay Spring Coats for Children lAarm 14Jealier Jog6 for Jots Arc Easy to Make from Old Wool (l2utlon-l- ) rimmed 2br.ifiifne '5roctk of the technic, Jill." fl3u "But it could be true, you know. Mother was a belle before she was married, and It was war then, too, mothers are acutely aware Spang. You couldn't by any chanca MOST their youngsters are growbe jealous?" ing by leaps and bounds, and last "Sure, I'm jealousl I don't trust spring's coats are woefully unpreCyanide, for all his bars and med- pared to cope with this year's sizes. als." If the clothing budget doesn't perJill giggled delightedly. You're mit buying material for new coats, so funny. Spang. The poor old then mother had best look to her old man looked entirely, harmless to pieces of wool for available material. me. Just a lonely, unhappy old Grownups' clothing can easily be man." converted into something useful for "He's not so old. I don't trust the youngsters, but this will take him any, Jill. Stay away from the some care and attention. It's not fellow." merely' a matter of cutting the coat "Oh, I'll be going home right away down, but rather of ripping it apart now, on the afternoon bus. You don't completely, and oftentimes dyeing know when you're leaving. Spang?" it Into an attractive color for the "No, I don't know, and even if youngster. I did, I couldn't tell you, Jill and Children are too young and gay by nature to be clothed in somber you know better than to ask." "You'll be fighting, won't you?" colored things, so try to make even A "Gosh, I hope so! I'm tired of renovated clothes attractive, The Japs young mother I knew recently this academic stuff. husband's haven't read any books, but look made use of her how they fight!" "blues" by converting them into spring coats for her two youngsters. "Will you write to me, Spang?" "If I have a chance, I will. Will On the little girl's coat she added a crisp touch with a white pique you answer If I write?" "How silly! Of course I'll an- collar; and on the little boy's coat swer. Pages and pages, all about she sewed some miniature navy insignia on the sleeves. Both youngthe pigs." "You can tell me what you're sters are delighted with these additions to the wardrobe. doing." What would she be doing? Wait- a This only goes to prove that even navy blue shade can be lightened ing! Hung up by the heartstrings, or blight tormented by the Inching of the effectively with little crisp few minwhich take only a hours! Oh, Spang, please let me touches have love to keep, a fire to warm utes to apply. coats of your If have myself by when the dark comes too own you even pastelthat have faded. (or suits) early! half But though he said good-b- y a dozen times, he did not speak of love. He hung up, with the same little flick as the salute he always gave when he left her. She breathed, "I love you, Spang." But the click of the tele phone being disconnected left the whisper hanging in air, unheard, unanswered. After that she cried. Long and wretchedly, all alone, with the hot afternoon passing. The yellow leaves began falling from the apple trees and the sumac burned red against the fences. Use old woolens for making . . . Jill crossed her booted leg over the saddle. The mare, Dave's new plan to dye them into bright colors saddle mare, was warm and saltily which are particularly attractive on moist and lazy. the younger set. "I hate September!" Jill said Don't become so beset with your abruptly. "It's a stupid month, that cleaning and laundering problems doesn't mean anything. It isn't that you shy away from gay, summer, and It isn't fall. It just bright things for the children. We sulks through thirty days. All the don't want the youngsters to look flowers are tired, but they won't like miniature wise old owls even if die, and the whole world looks we have a little more cleaning to shabby. People look shabby, too. do. in fady summer clothes or fall things that show dust and are Fitting Is Important smothery. If ever I do something For Children completely mad and unforgivable it I've emphasized this point before, will be because it's September and but I'd like to mention it again. I can't bear it" Never make things too large for the Dave did not look at her. Julia children, thinking they will grow was worried about Jill, her growing into them. Little girls will look like irritation, her restlessness, her Im- dolls if they are dressed in short, patience with everything. perky dresses and coats, and little "That isn't the answer, Dave," boys look all the more masculine if Julia had said. "Not trumped-u- p their clothes are of a proper length not an inch or two too long. jobs that she sees through instantly and does with that air of awful paOf course you may make tience and thinly concealed con- hems on coats and such so theylarge will tempt." last longer, but the point is, don't She knew so well that there was make them long to begin with. If no answer to the problem of Jill. you do so, the child will dislike the The bloom of love, fruity and glow- garment so thoroughly by the time ing, was upon Jill now, she was he really fits into it that he will ripe with it, gilded with it and ev- refuse to put it on unless there's a ery nerve and vein were vibrant major battle every time you insist with readiness, and she had not on his wearing the garment. been chosen. Her loneliness was Try to make fittings as brief as made brackish by the bitter distilla- possible, as it becomes tiresome for tion of disappointment, and tears the little folk to stand still for a too fiercely contained canker into lengthy period. Have all your equipacid and weaken the strongest spi- ment handy, set the children on a rit stool or table to make the task "Take her places, Dave," Julia had pleaded. "I can't do anything for ber. To a woman in Jill's state of mind other women are utterly obnoxious, even women they love." "That's part rlla JJafeu Sunbonnet Sue ex-na- wan-lookin- Mrs. Calvert was studying her eyebrows in a little mirror, ' discid plining the curves with a forefinger. "I'm a camp follower," she said. "I followed my husband here my Then he was former husband. transferred back to the Islands, and I decided that I couldn't endure being married to him any more. So I'm staying because when you're entirely alone places don't matter." "And with aU the boys at the field so near there's less chance to be lonely, of course?" Mrs. Calvert's eyes sharpened a little, but her voice kept its cool smoothness. "They're such nice boys, all of them. I was an officer's wife, badly cramped by a lot of taboos and military procedure, but now that I'm free I enjoy being with these boys of my own age. My husband was years older," she added, "and definitely home tyrant I shouldn't talk about him, poor Win, he may be in some ghastly jungle now in horrible danger!" Nice, safe danger, after being married to youl Jill was thinking with the crude brutality of youth. Aloud she said. "Nice of you to give so much time to Richard. Ric has always been more or less of a family problem. My mother was terribly worried about him until be enlisted." "Ricky's getting on well, I'm sure. Though, of course, military life is difficult for men with his background. Men who've been accustomed to freedom and having the best, of course. But they adjust We have themselves beautifully. to admire their spirit" "I hope Ric decides to stay on In the army." Jill salted the vapid soup, poked at rubbery lumps In it "He hates our farm, and he hasn't shown any aptitude for anything else. And, of course, he hasn't any money." "He told me about your farm. It must be a lovely place quite a show place, he said. I was so in terested in hearing about it" Tennessee lane." Thursday, April 3, 1947 "I'm quite delirious about the army hadn't yon heard?" and I thought I'd spend It with you. Nice of Mr. Alexander Graham Bell to have fixed that for us, isn't it?" "We'll put up plaque for him somewhere," Jill answered, making her voice light, not letting disappointment creep into It "Sorry I have to go without seeing you. Spang." "So'm L Though I didn't know whether you could stand another dose of the army," "I'm quite delirious about the army hadn't you heard? Don't you know that all women run dizzily after uniforms, especially if they're all decorated up with brass and stuff?" "I did hear a rumor, but I thought Morale it might be propaganda. stuff, keep the boys happy, keep 'em singing while they're marching off to war with blisters on their heels and shoulders." A Warning Against Mackey She said, "Spang, I ate lunch with Mrs. Calvert today. I simply crashed in, and I know now that I was awfully stupid about I told her that Ric hadn't any money, and she looked at me with those cynical eyes of hers and didn't believe a word of it. It worries me, and yet I hate to tell Mother." "If Ric gets himself Into a mess let him wiggle out of it" counseled Spang. "Might be good for him. Maybe he's depended on other peo ple too much already that it "But heart It might break my mother's Be Smart! Jill Tries Her Hand at Cupid So Dave and Jill rode the hills on this first Sunday in September, and when Jill had spoken her tirade against the sun-drun- k weather she I have to think of that, kicked her toe back into the stirAnd she has had enough rup and jerked the mare's head up Spang. heartbreak for one lifetime." and said in a sharp and harsh voice, "I hadn't thought of that" Spang "Dave,., why don't you marry my said. "You couldn't do anything about getting him moved to another post could you. Spang? "No, I couldn't Jill. I'm only technical officer here, and those things are handled by personnel in boards with a lot of volved. Mackey's on that board. and he keeps the tightened up plenty stiff. I can't even talk t wouldn he listen." to Ric, Jill said, "By the way, I saw that Captain Mackey last night after you left me. Spang. He came up and Introduced himself. He thought that he once knew my mother." Spang did not speak for a breath. Then he said, soberly, "That's an old line, Jill. All the old spring it when they get their eyes on a pretty young girL Fatherly approach. Knock 'em off their guard." "But he didn't appear to be Interested in me at all. He merely said that he knew a girl ones in red-tap- red-tap- e e mother?" Dave let his reins fall slack, and the horse reached instantly, for a sassafras bough. "Because," he said slowly, "she believes that she's still married to your father." Jill clicked her teeth. "You know that hope is fantastic, Dave." "Yes, Jill. I know." "I never saw rr.y father," she went on. "He was in France when I was born. Mother doesn't even know, for sure, that he ever knew that I was born. She wrote letters but never had any answers. The letters didn't come back, nothing came back: It's grisly to think about. going over there and watching them open graves, but in war things like that happen." "Yes, they happen." Then we went to Washington, and Mother and Grandfather spent days investigating records, but there wasn't anything And yet set goes on waiting." unre-prove- (TO BE CONTINUED! Wear the flowers and discard the hat, if that's your mood! The flowers, colorful aa life and twice as large, are anchored to a wisp or band of a brim that's the fashion that la lovely head-dres- s becoming more and more Important. f,W If I f I fIi I u I 8138 12-4- 1, i mUnliiHM nil,. in. lit . This little lady is all ready for the sun and beach with this sun-su- it and bonnet outfit made at home. 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