| OCR Text |
Show 1 FICTION corner Ipk X&jjs I 1 WEATHER AHEAD By JOHN H. HOSE The counter man reminded Hanr of someone he knew a brilliant man whose life had been destroyed by a selfish, beautiful woman. settled down on the trips to the coast to give his perTHE plane field, and Jolted to a halt sonal attention to some of the real. . . the explanation for the unly important clients. "It was on one of those trir" that scheduled stopover was simply the he met Elsa Armstrong. Did you "Weather statement, cryptic ahead!" The stewardess had no in- ever see a bouganvlllea in bloom, formation about the length of the Stu? Or a hibiscus? That'a what layover, so we walked across the she was like. A lovely, fragile field toward the town. Harvey Albeauty, and that's an inadequate delen and I were bound for the coast scription. But she was smart, too. on a brief business trip, seeking a Smart . . . and tough when it came new contract for one of our major to getting places." Harvey twirled the iced tea glass, clinking the ice network productions. We walked along the main and cubes against its hard surface as he only street of the little town until reminisced. Then he continued, "She wasn't an actress; even in we came to a small restaurant It was dark and cool inside after the those days talent was an Important heat and glare of the midafternoon item, but Elsa's only talent conNew Mexico sun. Settling in one of sisted In looking so beautiful it hurt the tiny booths which lined the wall, Strangely enough, she didn't want we ordered some lunch. Except for the counter man and a tired looking waitress, the place was empty. I noticed Harv staring intently at the man behind the counter. I glanced up, but the fellow was a stranger to me. "Know him?" I asked. Harv had a genius for knowing people everywhere . , . and remembering them. "He reminds me of someone," he answered. The girl came with our lunch, and we ate quietly for a few moments. Harvey continued, then, asking, "Did you ever know Mark Stevens?" I sipped at my iced tea before replying. "Nope; he was before my time. But, of course, I've heard about him. Who hasn't? Isn't he the chap into the office. Another shrug; Mark owed her something for the way he'd acted, she felt "My personal opinion was that he'd acted pretty generously toward her. Too generous, from the shape both he and the firm were in. I said so. And I nearly choked when she agreed with me. Yes, she was very candid about the whole thing. Very candid, indeed. I almost gagged. I gave her a brief idea of what I thought of her, adding that we weren't paying any more bills. Without further ceremony, I left. "When ' I got back to Beverly Hills, Mark was awake, sober, and sick as a dog. I told him I'd seen the books . . . and Elsa. I told him to be a star. Elsa was hunting something entirely different She wanted money and position. Mark had both, and Elsa took him like Grant took Richmond. The first thing I knew, I was back in New York and Mark had taken charge on the coast. Or rather, Mark was on the coast and Elsa had taken charge. "I lost track of events then, un til one day the auditor came to me with the remark that Mr. Stevens' personal account was in terrible shape. Together we went over it. I decided that the auditor's original evaluation was strictly an un derstatement. The bills Mark had okayed seemed to indicate that he alone was trying to support half of California's furriers and jewelers. A few days later I began to hear complaints from different accounts that their affairs on the coast were not being handled properly. I decided to fly out and see what went beaten, wasted shell of a man I once knew and respected. He took it all without a word. When I finished, he just sat there, nodding his head foolishly. I walked out in disgust I never saw Mark Stevens again. "The rest of the story you've heard, Stu. How he walked out on everything and just disappeared. The company was taken over by the associates; but his genius was gone, and a few months later we folded." Harv snapped open his cigarette case, lighted the smoke casually, Indicating that was the end of the story. Finally, I broke the silence to - -- . . j As we strolled back to the airport, I asked the question that had been In my mind ever since Harvey started that story. some Hollywood glamour gal took over the hurdles?" Mark nodded. "Elsa Armstrong. The face and figure that launched a thousand hopes! Elsa the beautiful. Elsa the magnificent" He lifted his tea glass In toast "Hail, Elsa! Destroyer of men of Mark Stevens In particular. Would you like to hear what really happened, Stu?" I lighted a cigar as I replied in the affirmative. Harvey settled back in the booth as be recounted the story of Mark Stevens. "Twenty years ago, this business of ours was Just a puppy. And the master of that puppy was Mark Stevens. His was the brain that built the advertising business. You really owe that $130 suit you're wearing to him, Stu. Mark Stevens lifted us out of the mire and into the moola. We all owe him plenty. "Mark built his organization by buying talent where he found it and he had a genius for finding it. I remember I wss doing advance work for Williams Brothers Carnival when I met him. We got together in San Antonio one night and the next day I was working for him. Just like that "I started small writing copy on some accounts that weren't too Important And all the time I was watching the master, learning all the little nuances and twists, getting set for the day he saw fit to move me up a notch. It wasn't long In coming either. The firm wss marching, and I was right in step. "After about a year, Mark opened a branch office in Chicago. I went there as copy chief. From that move, both the business and I mushroomed. Dallas, Seattle, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco. Five years after that meeting in San Antone, I was head of the San Francisco office. We had branched out all over the country, but this San Francisco outfit was second tn Importance only to the home office la New York. "When radio and advertising had a happy marriage, the Mark Stevens Associates really hit the top. We opened a Hollywood office and began handling only the largest accounts. I came down from San Francisco to head the new office, and Mark made almost monthly "And what became of Elsa?" "Elsa? Oh, she dropped out of A scansight shortly afterwards. dal washed her up in Hollywood." was no APPARENTLY Harvey in the story or its principal actors. He just sat there watching the counter man, and I was mulling over the details of the story, thinking about how easy it was for . a guy to go haywire. Just then, one of the airline employees looked in, saw us and announced that the flight would start in twenty minutes. We rose to leave. While I paid the waitress, Harv walked over to the counterman and said on. '." quietly, "Mark met me at the airport "Good luck, friend." He was As we strolled back to the airah, well . . . definitely not in the best of condition. He port I asked the question that had The been in my mind ever since Harvey was unshaven and mussed. meeting was most embarrassing started that story. for me, and I piled Mark Into a "Harv, that guy back in the cab and directed the driver to restaurant . . . Was that Mark StevMark's home in Beverly Hills. He ens?" He smiled. "No, that wasn't passed out on the way, and when we got there, I had one rugged Mark. Didn't even look like him." time getting him upstairs and into "Then why," I asked, "did you bed, even with the sympathetic and happen to recall the story of Stevcapable help of the cabbie. This ens? And why did you wish him done, I returned to Hollywood and luck?" the office. "Because, if things haven't "There, I began to ask questions. changed, there's weather ahead for The answers weren't pretty. Mark him," he replied softly. "You see, hadn't been In the place in weeks. the waitress in there was Elsa." But his bills had. His and Elsa's, that is. Oh, she had a personal account, too. It figured on the books as his, which explained why we In I the East didn't know about decided to see Elsa. "She wasn't available at home, so I started to make the rounds by NANCY PEPPER in pursuit, finally catching up with her at The Players.' She wasn't DID YOU KNOW THAT: alone. I sent word to her table that A Sloppy Joe is the new name for I would like to see her, and in a Dagwood Sandwich? Joined me. she few minutes A Schmoehopper is a girl who was "I told you she beautiful, but Drips? Stu. When she sat down beside me, dates nothing I almost forgot what I had wanted An S. S. N. D. is a Steady Saturday to talk to her ajpt. She was loaded Night Date? Fish Bait is your name for anyone with diamond crWcads, and in each one I could see Mark's money re- who reminds you of a worm? Custaxdy is the expressive new flected. That snapped me out of the trance and into the purpose of our synonym for Smooth? K. O. is the new way to say "Drop "I told you she was tough, too. Dead" because it means "Keel Brother! She was hard as nails. Over"T A Sleek Sheik Is the Wolf that you No, she'd not seen Mark in a month. Why? After all, a girl has to look should keep away from your door? out for her future. And Mark had Well, If you don't know ANY. been troublesome. Stuffy about her friends. I asked if the guy she was THING, you'd better fill your ball with belonged in that category. She pen with Info Fluid. It's a won merely shrugged. I got the idea. I derful new invention, indispensable rather pointedly asked her how during Finals' week, on account of come, if she and Mark were It's guaranteed to write only the through, her bills continued to coma Right Answers. tete-a-tet- JSUL Grace new hope within an help t brother difficult loog slope I the heart begrudge no time that I can spend, for well be his need. rrujr great V I know j can help through any darkened hour, I shall be glad indeed. how often I hare bees Distressed, distraught, dismayed. And hands hare reached to help, and voices called That kept me unafraid. If I can share this help that I hare had, God knows I shall be glad. ff X lm'Vr?T"T J .v -- Place a small hand brush, bristle side up, in the soap dish. Keep the soap on top of the brush and when you need to use the brush it will already be full of soap. v If flower stems are too short to arrange gracefully, try sticking them in drinking straws, which you can cut off at any desired length, and through which the TNI flowers can get water. lujjunn Cfamehs iff - i A hard head of lettuce can be separated more easily if you hold it under running water, top side up, for a bit. A plate scraper with a rubber edge makes an effective window drier for small panes of glass, When you wrap frosted cake or cupcakes for lunch boxes, grease the inside of the waxed paper with butter and the frosting will You can double the life of glass not adhere to the paper. ' curtains if you make double hems in both ends, then reverse the curtains each time they are laundered and hung again. J ' r,' - I Do as so many do for skin improveuse Resinol Soap for daily cleansing you'll enjoy medicated Resinol to soothe pimply irritation. If the bone handles on cutlery become yellow or stained, rub them with a flannel cloth well moistened with peroxide of y ! a ment RaE5IN0 LAN0 ME NT HO LATUM , Don't give in to d and other ingredients help thin out thick mucus, fast-actin- Baking head-col- misery get Mentholatum. Feel Mentholatum's famous combination of menthol, camphor Plan to Bake Once a Week Set Recipes Below) Simplify WHILE OUR SOAP Quick relief with LX Soothes iKKrmiti ' g LYNN CHAMBERS' MENU and MOTHERS grandmothers had more to do than Pie with those of us who are homemakers, Mashed Potato Topping find an to somehow managed they Molded Pear Salad Rolls afternoon a week in which to fill the Carrot Curls Sticks Celery house with fragrant and delicious Banana Spice Cake odors from the oven with weekly Beverage baking. Recipe Given most of one the To me, this was delightful times in the whole week Whole Wheat Bread because then I, too, could get my (Makes 3 loaves) hands into pie crust or sweet roll 1 quart hot water dough. It was great sport! 1 tablespoon shortening But, naturally, this was not the 1 tablespoon salt came from week only blessing that 2 tablespoons molasses We ly baking. 1 teaspoon caraway seeds, ' usually had deliIf desired cious homemade 1 yeast cake bread as well as 6 cups flour rolls or coffee 4 cups whole wheat flour cake for breakto hot water Add shortening fast. To save When lukewarm, add all remaining time, the dinner for that evening ingredients. Stir B was usually a for three minutes. baked one, a fra- or until thoroughgrant meat loaf ly mixed,- then set in a warm .T g or Z casserole with a delicious baked place to rise for pudding for dessert. Then, too, the two hours. Knead cookie jar was filled for the best again until dough forms a ball, thenrise again, about one and onepart of the week, and that meant let cookies for the lunch boxes and half hours. Turn onto board; form more delicious tidbits when we into three loaves and place in greased bread pans. Let rise until came home from school! tn bulk, about one hour, doubled these families Are your missing in a Bake hot oven (400 degrees) for treats? Then organize the house 10 minutes, reduce heat to 300 de hold schedule at once so that you can bake once a week, and fill the grees and bake for 45 minutes. Nut Wafers larder with such delicious things as cup lard can only come from home baking, H cup butter But how can you make all these 1 cup brown sugar how: mix things in one day? Here's 1 egg, beaten cookie dough and store in refrig Hi cupa flour erator; make ice box dough for ii teaspoon salt sweet rolls, and store this, too. H teaspoon soda Bread dough can be mixed In the 34 teaspoon vanilla morning; or, if you are making quick H cap nuts, chopped a in mixed lew breads, these can be Cream butter, lard and sugar; minutes right after lunch. add eggs. Sift dry ingredients and You can plan the baking for any add to first mixture. Fold in day of the week. We usually do it and vanilla. Shape into roll, Friday or Saturday afternoon, so wrap In waxed paper and store in there will be a cake or pie in the needed. Bake in house for Sunday, and, of course, arefrigerator until oven for seven to 12 for the cookies and rolls bread, minutes. whole week. UNCORKS STUFFY Nostrils: GR0-PU- P CONTAINS ABOUT AS MUCH FOOD AS FIVE ' se taste-temptin- . g lessen congestion and swelling, soothe smarting nostrils. Soon soreness eases up, head starts to clear, you can breathe again in comfort. 35 and 75. Beef-Vegetab- le nrr I 17? i For sound fee diner, eive only niDDon-has 23 nourishing in. Gro-Pup is 92 gradients. Thrifty, too! food by dry weight (many canned foods are 70 water). Simp tiiMrtly! yuur uur tusiy tvoe doe food j Mod by Kiioeat o tanim Crk and Omaha urro-ru- : p, rap tJMlm v m,w ; jr r, I . .idsssBB 5 Always We Pay Highest Market Prices For Your Elk and Deer Skins nut-mea- ts Banana Spice Cake K cop shortening This refrigerator dough may be used for cloverleaf rolls, cinnamon braid, fruit filled rings or pecan rolls. cup sugar teaspoon vanilla eggs caps sifted cake flour teaspoons baking powder 34 teaspoon soda M teaspoon salt teaspoon cinnamon Yi teaspoon nutmeg 1 cap mashed banana M cap milk Cream shortening until fluffy, add sugar a little, at a time, creaming after each addition. Stif in vanilla extract; add eggs and beat well. Sift all dry ingredients and add to shortening mixture alternately with mashed banana and milk. Pour batter into a well greased, square glass cake dish. eight-Incsize. Bake in a moder oven for 43 to 5P ate minutes. Remove from oven and let cool before spreading with the following icing: 2 tablespoons shortening IK caps confectioners' sagar 2 tablespoons lemon Juice H teaspoon grated lemon rind Cream shortening; add confec tioners' sugar and lemon Juice, beating until fluffy. Add lemon rind, and coloring. Spread on cool cake. Released by WNU restores. LYNN RAYS: Interesting Tips Make Tour Work Easier Coal oil or kerosene will remove stains and dirt from enameled bathroom fixtures without scratching the surface or lessoning the gloss of the surface. You can keep your silverware if you keep bright and Urnish-preo- f the pieces wrappod tn a specially treated flannel cloth which Is actu ally impregnated with particles of silver that absorb the tarnishing elements In the air. Leather pieces around the home like furniture, bookmds, albums and waste baskets can be cleaned with a mild soap and luke-warwater shampoo. Soak pastry cloths In cold water before washing. Brush away flour mixtures with a brush before wash ing tn hot water or the matter will cake and stick. Keep your pot holders Immaculate if you want to avoid sticky fingers by working in the kitchen. Wash and rinse the holders out as you do the towels, after a meal. IT MAY SOUND ambitious to attempt all this In one day, but it the really isn't once you get into eveswing of it Do all you can the ning before, and keep on hand such things as piecrust and biscuit mix. Refrigerator cookies, too, take no time at all to bake, and they're easily mixed ahead of time. teaspoon salt yeast cake egg 2 to 3 cups Boor Scald milk and In it dissolve shortening, sugar and salt. When mixture is warm add yeast cake, crumbled, and the egg. Add flour gradually and mix thoroughly by beating. Let rise until doubled In bulk. Place m piece of waxed paper over the bowl and hold securely with a rubber band. Store in refrigerator until 1 1 If I For I recall 0 face "BrokenOul?" 1 up I shall How Jf i Cwl ?vV Y.jvtf J-- 12-1- That teems too Seep for tired feet to go. If I can help hint climb Into the light upon the hill's far deft, Or T V. Refrigerator (Makes 1 cup milk 3 tablespoons shortening 3 tablespoons sugar IFOf one who has loft hope, Some CA " O- .'.? Rolls. Noll Crowell I cn put VIP A' M ask, it x- -' k a lot of other things, too. Boss or no boss, I got the whole works off my chest. But it wasn't Mark Stevens I was talking to. It was the ... ifJy" Thursday, October 28, 1948 THE TIMES-- NEWS. NEPHI. UTAH PAGE SIX ready to use. 1 1 2 2 2 BY-PRODUC- 463 South 3rd West St CO. TS Salt Lake City Branches Logan 49 Ogdon 4, Phone Utah Garland 35-1-3 g Affiliate UTAH HIDE AND TALLOW CO. Heber City S7-- I Spanish Fork 88 Lehi21G-Richfield 732--1 f. & 4 heat-resista- h (350-degre- l,altr rrf Rub la m t,., Inn., r ..mi, ,., in. for gently soothing contains up to relief from neuralgic pain. Den-Ca- y times more 2 Vi methyl salicylate end menthol two famous Ben-Ca- y fast-actin- agents your doctor knows five other widely offered rub-inInsist on icnuirw Ben-Gathe original Baume Analge-siqu-e. It acts fasti pain-relievi- about-th- an s. i y, ts RKCOMATISM, W0SCU ACHE, saa Ms for Pais Ask far Mild Bm-C-jj far CMldrea. C010S. V f |
