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Show THE MURRAY EAGLE. MURRAY, UTAH I few I" SEW IMG CIRCLE XEEDLECRAFT LLr M Kathleen Norris Says: HOMER, ffini Isomer Sunday nd wa. born. company for dinner Croyi attended f" I built a home In Forest Hills, Long Island, New York ("The Utile House with the Big I called it) and wrote Mortgage" two more ping books. I wrote all sorts of stuff, and that's just about what it was". There was my old trouble of never being able to tell whether what I was writing was good, or not. It all seemed good when the words were flowing; pretty bad when the words were stiff and cold. But I kept grinding away and managed to make a living. We had more ambitious plans than burning a mortgage, and soon we were about them. Yes, actually on the way to Europe. One of the persons on the ship was Walter Lipp. mann. I wrote him a note I would like to meet him, and soon I was buying him a drink. How sweet it was to consort with the famous, elbow to elbow, no looking up and no looking down. And it was not long before we were in Paris. Wonderful Paris! That was the way I had always seen It described and that was the way it was always mentioned by returning friends. But I had to see It through my own eyes. It was disappointing. It was odd and strange and it was Interesting, but certainly not wonderful. Nothing seemed to be logical, and to me the people seemed to be slightly on the demented side. I looked at the French through what were, I supposed, cornfield eyes, but I was making up my mind as to what I saw and felt. They seemed aloof and artificial, some- - CrOV th. Homer bad all fU'Son,h EIP He finished outside- New nUete, then went to tb. Preiser's woman'! U maga-Tv- " Had to who bad been bis "inc. his mother". hi, father. Homer i b. wa, fa-'- P I'L'L accepted for were pracUcaUy - pub- noth- - CHAPTER XX l.L He .pttlers were going, to the buggy would get I When there the procession. would put he CAR. funeral, and stand old blue uniform would come Vnave; then he In the uniform the bang yird fin next time. Phebe'i do more at all father "Your ended, always you whenever home j 4 come 'i , Uevltable happened. One day father is telegram. "Your j.Phebe." meet me at the ( came to one to swing no was ?there But when I got out of the II 1 Pbebe was at the door to her ge looking old and worn, 'jjl'trarned in the gold glasses. all morning when leen asking jttbere." was In the i,M eentleman i loom, In the house south of the walnut bed from the farm. J Jstttd, misshapen hands were He outside of the covers. hand out to me and said fats voice, "I'm glad to see I guess you got In on tower, In brought In it" u toot of the bed, j Ice kind-face- a. were about me. Homer?" "What have you been hav questions East?" he began "Homer, I not long before tbout the farm, 5t i good farm there." The was re- "Some I '.tughed it me when I got it there wasn't any timber on it worked out pretty well!" Id bis eyes there, for now he best farm In the neighbor-IfTou- r mother was always r-- 4 of you." He was not one compliments himself, and I fcat he was also saying ky touched me. He jiiis bold on the farm. the The crooked narrow streets, yard-uld- sidewalks. o f himself. lk lie of events of years ago bad Just hnpponcd. Once If ) ali-e- w ideal-suita- A4d is too much fussing in the way l.ina does things; (loiters on the table end beauty parlor every week and taking Jane to dancing school uhut the heck does all that matter, anyu-ay.- d By KATHLEEN NORRIS and Robert Adams CA. married five years ago. They had a little daughter two years old when con-fr.fe- j down cares. ! hi I 2.d. I Cet a farm not fce e V:r V tarm. t." t"f rt he wa, ttl" 'ltrm "S ll fre? mhitlon 11 . n ,' T,r, V9 tike . "V t 't ,M . IIICIH ' h VC0 ,T vtf M,1"' u , ,:lfl on the ' BIHIH1. r " t! Mid la iboul t f , m.l d j r f l't to f Tk ,i ere. e t! CHJ.l shtepw.t.' trtba't' r'''e H feet l'' farm r Havirc 4 Ueh-iif- W1lfid Uut anl era anil !,rr. m t'e mat te Itwai (3i a e. 1 to o U'r t.' rr., pct went W lutncd in a go d but. s l! l t a lillle i ,.' -- 'fl t y o . mr re e taV'-ed- tan. '- - fie rrJy w,!d H f r wn "'e r. 1 a town. Lina wrote Bob constant and affectionate letters while he was away, sent clippings and snapshots and presents every, week. She was lonely; she loved th? memory of their marriage, the'r home, their And of perfect companionship. course, as so many mothers and wives are doing, she Idealized the thought of Robert; he was perfect. Every night she and little Jane looked at his picture and said. "Goodnight. Daddy. Come home safe to Mummy and Jane." Robert got a great reception when he finally did come back, but almost immediately things began to go wrong and they haven't straightened out yet. Both husband and wife write me their respective feelings. Robert says that he hasn't changed at all: he never did like meeting people and going places, he never was especially fond of kids. If Lina would let him alone he'd be all right. He doesn't sleep any too well, and he hates arguing. He thinks there is too much fussing in the way Lina does things; flowers on the table and beauty parlor every week and taking Jane to dancing school what the heck docs all that matter, anyway. 'Musea by the Hour.' LIna's letter says, in part: "He used to be sunny, easily amused ready to fit into my plans. He simply used to adore Jane. Now he never notices her, and of course, nt the ar;e of four, she hasn't sense enough to be friendly with him in spite of It. He mures by the hour. staring at the floor; not hearing me, apparently, if I speak, and not answering if he docs hear. He won t go anywhere, and even with clients he has a sort tit "what'sthe-dif-fcrenc- e - anyway that attitude doesn't help him In burl-es- s. The other night." Tina's letter he likes for goes on, "I had a dinner and he said to me briefly and shortly, 'Good.' This encouraged me to say that there ought it be a mixed green salad with It, hut that I had hunted all over for chives, chicory and cress without sucrcs. "So you hunted all over f r chives, chicory and cress, did you"" he said In a dreadful voice. And he got up and He f the house. slammed out came bark lat? and apologized in a sort af grudging way, and I cried him. and all night. I'm so corry yet 1 feel that I Can t s'and this "Yes'erd.iy 1 nsKerj him If he simply didn't like me. 1 recm to irritate him s". anl he answered that I could draw any conclusion I liked, t asked him if he would like me to go to my mother f or awhile, and he said that he had seen and knew 1 was crazy that eon-iIrto pet away. "Do Jou think this shows actual dh ' -- 1 1 1 v.w iu 1 , H t . iTO St r NT'.M ED) SPRAINS AND STRAINS Muscular Aches ond Palm derangement, or Is It another woman, or is It my fault? We're both writing you, and we want a fair answer. Who is right and who is wrong?" e a 1 1 !.'. envs rtd'.-- th fioot by the hour. , . ." asBarttfsV iv M sjSSliffsiisis2i t f pritwnr ir-J- riayn u-- gncl I': Keep cp" m a rdi ihrr etod i larc to h .;rj.v..r s Hrcausp let's readily, s'otc th r 1 fro.hr.el. 'Staring at Brulsti go-in- g or j Stiff Joints a My dear Lina and Bob, my answer is that neither Is wrong. The deep and bitter wrong is when the sons of men turn to world war as a preliminary to establishing world peace. It is as stupid a solution of international differences as was the old custom of men and women in cheerful groups to a pest house to have smallpox all together and so Immunize themselves. Rut the smallpox inoculation affected only a few persons, and this war Is touching us all. Love Lives On I believe that under this prcv ent trouble your old love and companionship live on. But Robertas was Inevitable, has come back with a mind and snul and heart scarred by the terrible realities of modern warfare. He has seen the men beside whom he waked, the men who were his companions, blown to pieces, maimed, drowned, frozen, hungry, exhausted. He has not days, not gone for months weeks, but months, without those common luxuries Llna has taken fnr granted; a warm house, a good reading liKht. quiet me.nls. the blessed seeurity cif Amerien. Wcri he sees Llna concerned for a hair- do, for Jane's dancing s!i t ers. fur j the Hollandalsc sauce and the fre-j flowers, a sort ft rnadne. ut the insane contract comes over him. and he can hardly breathe the air of home. l.ina. on her siile, is Just.f.ed. too. She believed that all he u.ir,iel, when he went away, was for her to keep the home fires btirnit c. C'i on with her nursing twlre a verk. keep up with her Red Cross work, srrup watch, for tin and f,t and paper falvoces, ohey the f" l aril fuel laws-a- ll t).ee he Ins drme. She hasn't cotr t laiiied of oijrliiie or dullne?! or food hort.ii"ii, She eff ected praise and the didn't pet it Give time and fntienee yur problem, l.in.i and H.b It can te r- by a determination to oi f ilve l fit''! help e.ieh otter There gthfd M f r will !e a million more thr wntieti c f An erica V h ii itf. ;n- Render this last aid t your , tl It; tfl.it V'- -l hfl Jut nt,p if !t. e ..!.!' n from the great J i't Ly si much t! f yu cllh. v-- .r Tl well-know- n -' ; BEGoodrich any-thin- g odors fr i,Ti thr'ik'i 1! c pores. 'A':,!! it film, and the tec t' en " o.'d r, .Is rapidly. To wi;e dry Spo's on rgS. ii?e a rn. .( I'M" Scene: A military hospital. Visi tor had been talking to a badly wounded Irish soldier. Afterwards he asked an orderly: "When are they sending that man home?" "He ain't going home," said the orderly. "He's going back to the front." "But he can't. He'll never be fit. Anybody can see he's far too badly hurt." "Maybe. But he thinks he knows who done it. Robert has come home, discharged honorably, after a year's active duty in the navy. Like so many other veterans, he seems constantly moody and depressed, lie is cold to his pretty wife, and unappre-dativ- e of her efforts to please him and to help him fit into the old nays of life. His little daughter doesn't interest him, nor his law practice, nor that used to delight him. Robert is suffering from the effects of the ter rible strain and horror of tear. Only time will cure him. kert) bacteria 1 S!,Wli BATTLE XEUROSIS !, (etween -; rr'oaui'n. I p. a mnrif)i.e . days. Wounded G.I. Was Going Hack to Settle a Score Keeping l ess 1 revh not wth ej;e until - o! ate t'.em. An res 'H has ready in a t roierthe fi'm which to lh"rl li,rc-Hif;,r b that neat sum. rire. ng ff f!a; left off, as a junior member of his uncle's law firm in a small 11. e tway. ami recam I t was. It There f era a crtnf '.;,cl sens! It, ouri! , v'fty irrh ft it; we'.l r f ireh. uM really hav to work t N V uiv.ie-- E evetythi'ecT.idetfI. thy j- ' .ii.. stood or ,(, the more rou! 1 ee re was rigni. uui a tatrh. I would have to s month m'rrrt and im B .t It would be. ''rr.'e , fsrnr i It A.,r n 1' n e : iuia id 1, wije o;i me men- tave a rest sum in ne '' M ty. V- -,r aid thr.r t ''; nJ rrin. ive nachirerj, my Mm-inf- hd $"".8 - S I ."ra-'rrir- ti.i- rt ijrs to g ...jrm. . ,vr. I aa T) e !hrr.'a tkirfi. t tt,P.PC'4 w 1 - 1 n.- - f w e n u.j w ui.17 mr M; e. tl .en we'd clean up (as tio.iM 1 it r! ivv ft, lark f f en the thai .... l n Btid If their n I rntt hw harj I fio I ehasel e n-- faf ina'e aayt j wa to Ke fatti ed Ut f. ife ! ! i i t. t ' "l fw ,rr. was n lit ' jetMt, 1 talk 'in, but I ws, I'.r ;r Ui d aiid welche.l !' ! wtitkirtf t ri nut tave watthe to t aNi-V- a In't ,1)rfor ln. 'f I I r.aVhcl.caliy. " l- tft tt'uihto tl how 1 coul I ,in ..tt Tl i. l'-- fut that fr.af'r. want t" said with e pot when it feit about it n :rh -e you car. l e.er The pinwheel medallion is quick lv memorized; lnexpepve in string; joins beautifully for over all eilect. Pattern 7008 has direc tions; stitches. 'He thinks ther j - relieve the critical need for military tires, men who work In a large rubber plant In lot Angeles (B. P. Goodrich) have sworn not to miss a day's work, ond, like submarine crews, not to shave for 120 To help 'yi h- A?! crochet fan wants to make at least one heirloom ble cloth. This medallion is for either large or small pieces. houI-dera- re, 'f IT VERY - tad l.vrJ W S e ;j ..'i j times on the verte of childishness. Now that I lack, this may have been because I met only the f fused drummer for nur- - French v. ho came In contact with l torre to our house, driving the public. I did not get into a ;erpir.f livery team, and home where I could meet "the real to drive around with him French," as my wiser and more 'duct him to the farmers. experienced friends called them; a be would pay my father and I could not parley their lann i day- -a fortune. And guage. So I had to Judge by what I tAer spoke of it. taw. And that was what I have I didn't take dne all my life. I realize much of pito was reit and I crenl out of it has been wr ng. but still it of view. own point while. VhcnIlokcd my w blue eyes were still We went to the Riviera and t(k rooms at the Grand Hotel In S;nule I went to work en an you'd pre rny finger- - Maxime and Idea for the novel that was to folI re d low "West of the Water Torr." aomethlng that The I! h"1 jjuidcUfk said Sainte Maxirr.c Mver l J a" ortn murks one of the lovely apols on the was of afTec (V8 Mediterranean, and the two or 11. tee p,J!Ur hu ,rm round "That's mithirg in comparison to id it was dr. sern so many fathers Americans we n rt some i f the boys are making!" w mv hildw.Out what was it me To Just iUn lihtful. J now... in cockrvrd. said he The crooked narrn . he wanted the ir-When 1 told hnn it jrrmed big to sidewalk, the the yard-wn!aim-!-, I had am, l'd JU5t enough nometiMCul cam. tie rre. he an.ilH Ww rHrS tf the nails last real estate. areomd in led a w.i hm never in letters fi mailman catrvif . Then he I Id of arotl.rr man. who, tin box him ended from his A R- C1C 'Jithangm' in he hra?cd it. had hit the jack aittir.fi ctrrt Tlie to1p aliy r been proud t. drills 'f pi wiifi'4 caM He came several times and seva flare wai intfieting to ttr, fier a while Such I walked serosa the cor-rr- r i ' a i mi. t kin thrA. but cert ..r '.y eral lm-e"Do" yni rerrrmhrr I to wanted was bour.d to ak) rocket, j.ve. where that J lot M.l the lae J I Or the kind tf li?e I wanted to lue lie wan a Ht shorkH 1when We!1, 1. rt ,v i h,d was who f brr. Li.il" Crr.e;r. whrte I wp. wri'era weie simp'y ""t buinrS. f,rm a lew ri j In ftetn He bad rrn n e n o men. fee came it C't aro!i:d to putting tnofo f K.it"je thnn I had; in fat. p,,t t y f W. j nothing helps, for when the big crises come we enter them alone. But some way or other we do stand them, we do go on living, we laugh again. months In EuAfter twenty-tw- o rope we returned to 10 Standish Road. (Item: fourteen windowpanes in our little house were broken.) It had been a lovely fling, but all of our money was gone. One day a real estate neighbor "dropped" In to see me. (On what small incidents does the door of life swing.) I had known him for soma time, and had seen his cars grow bigger and rakier. Now what was I going to do? he asked. Well, I was going to plug along as best I could. Then he asked me about how much I expected to make without quite asking it And when I told him without quite telling him, he looked distressed. It was a shame to see a person work so hard and get so little. He becan to tell about "deals" he had pulled off. He wasn't the only one doing that; everybody was making money in real estate. All a person had to do was to get "control" of a piece of property, hang on a while, then sell at a whacking price. My tongue was soon hanging He mentioned two or three out. men who. as he said, were playing the game. I becan to think of my self as playing the game. There was a piece of property coming onto the market by forced sale; tl was an easy way for somebody to pick up some easy money. I had never picked up any easy money in my life and now under his hypnotic powers it seemed about time. If I could raife some money and make a down payment, he could buy that corner lut for me. The way I property was Jumping. could sell It tin e at a neat profit Why. in no I could make five thousand dollars! your wife, It Ii difficult to detect th ordinary "tlow leak" In lima to piavant "roadside Aat." The Office of Defame Transportation recommends on effective cure for stealthy leak 11 (1) Make ure volve caps have been screwed on finger tight. (2) Before odding air be sore to test pressure In each tire. (3) Check variations in tire pressure a marked difference In pressure Indicate! a slow leak, which should be repaired immediately. j Bob went off for navy duty in March, 1943. Now, after the streets, the Frenchmen lifted more than a year's service he their hats. That helped, too. It all is home again, to stay, and helped and yet, at such a time, has taken up his life where he s.t separated, leaped up. 1 RUBBER When the coffin, covered with an American flag, was taken through is ever. The same Weather SNAPPY FACTS It made America seem very close. I mutual understanding we fiyt when we got together, t No When our little boy was buried from the American Church, there must have been a dozen Americans there we had never seen before and who came up and offered their symman I had ner-e- r pathy. A seen before and have never seeu since, put his arm around my shoulder and said: "The rest of them asked me to say they know how you must feel when this happens so far from home." but his eyes was drawn, blue Circle Needlrrraft Dept. San Francisco 6, Calif. Enclos 16 centa for Pattern Sewing He died in that lonely Paris hotel. But in the next room were three Americans we had never seen before who had come, as they said, "in case we needed them." I sat down on llanket, and WNU Festurei. Wax 3217 In the spring we went back to Paris. The day after we arrived, a3 Homer, Junior, was riding his tri cycle around the hotel grounds he put his hand on his back and said in his childish voice that his back hurt, By morning he was worse. We got the doctors at the American Hos- pital, and they also brought in the best professeurs in Paris to help our little boy. How far from home we seemed! But it wasn't really so far, after all, for five Americans came to our hotel to ask if there was anything they could do. But some- times no one can help. 111 next to the was the old tin, camel-kur.- k I had taken to the unl- It was now covered with a )ti!l. Bell Syndicate. Often I thought how I would lfta to take one of them to my farm and show him the long straight stone-les- s rows, three horses abreast swinging down a black loam field, a whole hill covered with steers, a feed lot alive with shoats. How he would blink. Yet these French farmers knew tricks I didn't If our Missouri farmers had to clop around in wooden shoes and plow with a four-inc- h moldboard . . . would we have done any better? jkr k Due to an unusually large demand an4 current war condltiona. slightly more time Is required ln fllllnn orders for a few oi the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: The Disappointing Homecoming W.N.U.SERVICt Amm Pimvhecl Medallion Easy to Do a' ti e 'th am from strurgsmellmg f ! f.ich as onions, chef&e, pickle jr.. I kraut. r understand bach home they're saying the uar is over." "Speak louder I can t hear yuh." d brute louder, America! You'll ll.1e to, to Jin irarl alnr the J,1hh1t f urplra of tlif inrti sli' am l)ing at litis scry tiniuent of our ljy of "Viitory". ..the plio.lly sslii'prr, inislity In volume, of tlir men !n lieil not tn kill ne rtattoti lut SurelM-spc- l louder, ak U kill all tjr.miiy. ro.l,iy our pre.il fiplit Is l.ul I1.1U voiu Japan, f nir l.n,ij ami nmt ilaneruiis rnemy, lill live. o.imh fan,itiil, last an Army f that many in ffenc lildi filitet-- , with half n we.ilth of I!inpirc is still essenJapan's lni;r, J.ip.iti Mill ImaMs m in tU-gn- tially tnt.11 1. liates our pu!. Totl.iv we r an, if s Iimi. l.irt l feaVing fiitli villi il. i!i tho.n wki f can c on a fixil i orgy, pet lrunk r s f,ir. on our mj we can. if vp li"o, jr av f"r our ArA, mul fur tlif lisrs of lli'i'- - vh liar i f,r l e,t pared. p ran slay n the j"l-- . I 'JV atiotlirr Var pise a pint of lilon.l, win.J fur Wccan fh ike 1! k ur he rs . . . an l save ihp mi Jity ta k that lie alie.fl. 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