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Show The Cache American, Iipim. Cache County, Utah Iaee Svm PRELUDE to CHRISTMAS Kathleen Norris Says: By PEGGY DERN MtClv S)mdaa SO MR: TIIB STURT W. H. Chin Srfl rtturni lo ker boms Iowa, ttr thr frara away al school, lh aa Idea that Chrltimai bunk. Ska la determined to spend the holidays on a eruUe altb School friends, lb Peartalli, onUI bar car atrlkea and badly Injures a younf I or tor aamed Srolt Kelvin aha, a lev taya before, bad called her "The UlUe Crown Prlarrta" and told ber ahe aaa ipoilrd. Now Chloe area aa opportunity so kelp Dr. Kelvla by (tvlni the party ae bad planned lor the children ol at ber lather's mill. She baa tnllttrd the help at Jennie Harwell and lara Jenklna aad la buty with plana tor lie party obea Jim Pearsall arrlvea. NOW CONTIME WITH THB STURT la INSTALLMENT After dinner, that wchestr It's good of you to luke so much trouble. Miss Sargent, he thanked her. "But Im aure there i no longer any need of your giving it your peraonal attention. You've already done so much that I feel sure it mill be all right from now on." Chloe turned to stare at him. astonished. "Do I understand. Dr. Kelvin, that you are trying to discharge me?" she demanded haughtily. III someone He turned his hesd ts she sp peared but his face did not tight up as it usually did, and his greeting was quiet and .restrained instead of the daily friendly, eager, Hi. Pard-ner- ! in. remem-ere- d a New York was playing a limited well-know- Scotts stern manner did not relax. "Not at all. Miss Sargent, but I think it is a shame you should have to stay here, instead of with your fiance during Christmas" be began. "Who told you about my fiance?" demanded Chloe. "Im aure Its not a secret Callie happened to mention it when she was in. "And did she happen to mention that the reason she has, until today, refused to have anything to do with the Christmas plans is that she has bad some idiotic idea that you and I might be romantically Interested In each other? The moment the words had left her tips, the wished them unsaid. But it was too late. Dr. Kelvin lay quite still, his bandaged body outlined by the covers, his eyes upon her face. Eyes that were bitter and hurt and angry. "You think It such an idiotic idea that I should be In love with you? he asked quietly after a moment Chloe said, after a startled moment "But you cant possibly be saying that that "That Im in love with you? Believe me, I realize as well as you how utterly ridiculous it seems but there it is. Im Im sorry. I never dreamed that you that you felt this way, she said unhappily. There was a telephone call for Chloe the next morning shortly after at Oaktons one night club ut on the Washington Pike, and with HoweU and Jane as Chaper-inethe party drove out The Pine Tree Inn was a rambling log struc-sur- e set weU back from the highway in a beautiful pine grove betide the edge of an artificial lake. Jim claimed Chloe for the first lance and before they had finished t he bad danced her to the door, tcross the threshold and out Into a veranda that looked ut over the lake. "Look here, Chloe, Ive had about ill of this I can stand, he told ber ilmost roughly. Im In love with rou. Frankly, I havent wanted to e. Ive liked being free, and when first met you I Just thought you vere a cute litUe trick and that wai that But when I found that you weren't going south with us, I was 10 disappointed that I knew right iway it was more than Just liking Jiat I felt for you. 1 had to come after you. I had to see you again. , thought maybe Just seeing you would be enough, but it wasn't! It was Just enough to make everything worse. Will you marry me, Chloe? T yes, Jim. she uttered at last, tnd Jim laughed triumphantly and tissed her again. When shall it be, darling? On die cruise? Rios a grand place for he suggested after an breakfast i wedding, Is that you. Miss Chloe? This is cterval had passed and speech was Jennie Barwell, said the flustered nce more possible. Chloe said quickly, "But, Jim, Ive told you that I can't go on the truise! Darling, don't be a stubborn lit-J- e goop. Of course youre going! protested Jim shortly. "But I promised him At last, cold-eye- d with anger, his landsome face set, Jim walked tide her back into the club rpom. He laid good night to her quite coldly when they reached home, and Chloe went off to bed worried a little apprehensive. Yet with her determination completely unshaken. When Jims plane finally went winging its way south, Chloe stood lor a long moment watching it until it had been swallowed up in the s, Blue sky. Mrs. Barwell was getting along tlowly with her task of securing the lames of all the children and their lesires; and Callie Johnson had seen very wary, very uncommuni-:ative- , not to say downright when Chloe had approached ler and asked her help in arranging the party. d Sara Jenkins, to whom Chloe as much, nodded her graying lead and her small, shrewd eyes twinkled a little. "I reckon Callie But I promised him :an't forget that Scott Kelvin lanced with her a few times at one voice on the other end of the wire. if the monthly dances here, she I got bad news for you this mornidmitted. Callies head over ears ing. My old mans real sick and n love with Dr. Kelvin, not that its Im gonna have my hands full takjoin' to do her a mite o good, of ing care o him and Im gonna have zourse, but that wont stop her mak- - to fall down on what I promised to a fool o herself about him. Shes do for the Christmas party. Miss Chloe. Oh, Mrs. Barwell, Im terribly is jealous as all get-ouId 'a' thought youd a seen that sorry about your husband, said said Miss Chloe quickly. I did, !rom the first. And dont you worSara firmly. ry about the Christmas plans. Jealoun? Chloe repeated. "You We'U manage. You run along and l, mean she's jealous of me? Oh, but look after your husband. Mrs. and dont you worry about the why, that's absurd! Is it? asked Miss Sara politely. babies. I'll think of something! I aint so sure. I reckon I cant Chloe promised rashly. She hung up the receiver and sat (lame Callie much for bein jealous i you and the doc. staring straight ahead of her for a Chloe flung up her head proudly. long while, a little appalled at what Then if thats the case, you might she had so recklessly promised. tonvey the information to Callie Jane came down the stairs and said lohnson that I havent the remotest Now, Chloe, before you eagerly: nterest in Dr. Kelvin, beyond the rush off to the village, I was to react that I caused his accident and mind you that Margaret Grahame o feel responsible for carrying out is having a bridge luncheon today be plans he can't carry out! But I for Ellen Stephens and you promlan assure you theres no personal ised to go. You mustn't disappoint nterest. As a matter of fact, I am Margaret. No, I won't darling. Of course ingaged to be married in the spring, not. 0 Mr. Pearsall. As Chloe went along the hospital She reached Margarets home erridor late that afternoon, she among the last of the sixteen guests. erne face to face with Callie John-on- , She looked about the table as she who had just left the doctors settled herself and noted the girls. All somewhere near her own age. oom. Callie was twenty. Plump, blonde, Daughters of parents sufficiently limpled. Heretofore she had greet-prosperous for the girls to need no e Chloe coolly, with a blank aim in life beyond marriage and a of not understanding her. But home. Not one of them had any . low her greeting was almost thought of a career, save Rosalie Oh, hello. Miss Sargent, Ive Hastings, who had .had a year at ust been in telling Scott all about dramatic school in New York and he plans for the entertainment. I was home now for the Christmas Uppose 1 ought to have come to you holidays before returning to school. On a sudden impulse Chloe leaned ibout the things instead of to Dr. RosaCelvin," sue began, but Chloe forward and spoke to her. for Christhome now her. that you're lie, Not at alL It's Dr. Kelvin s pai-jmas. hows for coming down to the after all. The only thing is that village and staging a few tableaux don't want to plan more entertam-nen- t for me? than we have time for. But Rosalie looked a trifle startled but .m sure the things you've arranged after a moment she said. "Id love vill be very nice. to, Chloe. although I don't know Chloe hesitated a moment and how good I'll be at staging things! ten opened Scott's door and went Chloe leaned forward suddenly, hei con-lesse- t. Bar-wel- d pre-ens- effu-ive- lfar Times Are No Fun U. hands clasped on the table and said. Unit spots of color in ber checks: "Look here, were ell bored SUIT because we hsvent enough to do arid too much Urns to do it in, (low'd you like to have somethin to keep you occupied mentally and physically? Oh, lm aayrng It very badly, but there's a woman in the village whoa been running a sort of unofficial day nursery where mothers of small children who work in the mills can leave their offspring in l, safety while they work. Mrs. the nursery lady, has a tick husband and aha cant keep the children any more. Thera ts an empty house not far from Mrs. Barwell Dad would give It to us rent free. There are sixteen of us. That would mean that thered be two each day, and with a matron to supervise diets and all that, wa could help to keep the children amused. What do you think? Margaret said Instantly, "I think its a awell idea! I vote for it heaviBefore ly. Ill taka the first dayl luncheon was over tha sixteen had enrolled and were planning so busily that tha bridge tables were neglected and the packs of cards unsealed when the party was over. Chloe drove straight to the mill found her father in his office and broached the subject of the day nursery. Just as she had expected, he gave the house freely and, before she left his olfice, he had ordered carpenters and painters to go to work that same afternoon putting the place In order. So Chloe bad good cause to be pleased with the report she had to take to Scott when she stopped at the hospital on her way home. The nurse smiled at her as she came along the corridor and said You can go right in. cheerfully. Miss Sargent Dr. Kelvin Is expecting you. Scott turned his bead as Chloe came into the room and amiled at "1 heard what the her faintly. nurse said, that I was expecting be said frankly. "She was you, wrong. I wasn't expecting you. I was afraid to expect you after what I said last night Bar-wel- Chloe? Come here, Ive a surprise for you, Jane called to Chloe as she entered the hall Chloe went into the long living room and there, to her amazement sat Melissa. Why, Gran how nice to set you!' cried Chloe. She bent and kissed the old lady's cheek and Melissa sniffed daintily. "Is it? she demanded with frank A pity, then, you dont suspicion. give yourself the pleasure of seeing me more often and not allowing me to learn of your engagement through the newspaper. Chloe said swiftly, contritely, Oh, Gran, Ive been so busy Melissa sniffed again and cut in brusquely, "And thats something else I was curious about I thought you were hiking off to the south somewhere for Christmas. I was surprised, I must admit, when I found that your young man came here and that you refused to leave. Some nonsense about carrying out the Christmas plans of a young scallywag who got in the way of your car. Chloe said quickly, Dr. Kelvin is not a scallywag. Gran, and the accident was altogether my fault." "And now whats this nonsense about a day nursery for the village womens children? demanded Melissa. "Ill be glad to answer you, Gran, but Im sorry you think it is nonsense. Some of the women who work in the mills have small children and babies. They are under school age, too young even for kindergarten, so of course they can't be left alone while their mothers work. Mrs. Barwell has been taking care of them in her home, simply because she is fond of children and because she is a very kind woman. But now her husband is dangerously ill and she can no longer keep the children. So some friends of mine and I have arranged to take an empty house in the vilfrom lage, furnish it with cast-off- s our various attics, put a matron in charge, and help her see that the babies are cared for all day. to furnish it? MeWhy cast-off- s lissa wanted to know mildly. "Because well, because we are spending rather a lot for the Christmas party and we didnt like to call on our parents for money she began. Melissa cut in dryly. You neednt. Ill consider it a privilege to furnish the house from cellar to attic, and with the things very small children will need. Cradles and trundle beds and small-scale- d furniture. Stop in at Cunningham's tomorrow and have the bills sent to me. I'll underwrite the matrons salary, at her wide-eyefor the moment speechless. Her color rose, and after a moment she gasped in a tone of utter amazement, "Why, Gran!" Well, why are you so surprised? Am I a dragon, or an old witch, that you should be so Surprised that I make a small gift to the people of Melissa demanded Sargent Mills? sharply. (TO BE Nppr Vnlon. Evil Syndlcete. WNU Pestur. BENZEDRINE SULFATE In try article on health and weight. I hava mentioned tha use of benzedrine sulfate (amphetamine) In reducing weight. It has a dou- ble action effect in that it takes away the appetite for food and cause the Individual to be more active, lie la Inclined e about more IR instead of allowing hla excess weight to li keep him lazy. I That benzedrine Ik f I sulfate has this same double action effect Dr. Barton in the treatment of alcoholism has been reported. $ome months ago I mentioned the work of Dr. W. Bloomberg. Boston, as recorded in the American Journal of Psychiatry. While this article has aroused interest and helped many alcoholics, there are many who have not heard about it and so I am again passing it along to my readers. "When an alcoholic stops the use of alcohol, he is severely depressed and very uncomfortable and feels that he must take something to relieve him. As the only thing he knows to give relief is alcohol he turns to it and the vicious circle continues. Because he continues to take alcohol to obtain relief, it is often t doesn't know the kidt a md here at well as the did in the old necessary to place him in an instistreet, and the fort a round with prrl tough croud after school. tution. Dr. Bloomberg's method of treatBy KATHLEEN NORRIS ment is simple and effective. The A FACES THERE a family in this alcohol is stopped at once and he WAR I is given 10 to 30 mg. (sometimes country that hasnt been An unusually wise and senmore Is needed as determined by blown into pieces by this sitive girl is distest) of benzedrine sulfate daily. In war? from in her writes turbed the Miriam, changes by two equal doses, one with breakfamily brought about by war. fast and the other at noon. It is not an Oklahoma city. We were She wants her usually given later than noon and a solid family two years ago; mother to stay home and run never in the evening as it keeps now there never seems to be a mind and body active and would inas in the pre-wdays. things or our in meal house, terfere with sleep. This dose or the regular is also worried about a She answered or an a clean towel, dose best suited to his needs should sister who appears to be continued until the patient is rea- telephone. Once it was only be running wild and traveling sonably comfortable and able to Pop who worked, and we all with the wrong kind of comwork without his alcohol. It should went to him for Now money. pany. Kathleen Norris advises finalthen be gradually reduced and has a job, except my this to give up her ly stopped, after which an occasional everyone who is 14, job and try to guide her youngdose can be taken in periods of de- sister, Mary-Beller sister, as they work together, pression in place of alcohol. This and yet we have less comfort to bring back some of the nicedrug should not be used to give the and less home life than before. individual a "pick-uties of pre-wa- r ice-bo- x following an salesfamily life.The Pop was an occasional spree. is vital to the work mother s He on. Dr. Bloomberg states that benze- man, the letter goes war effort. month a drine sulfate is a dangerous drug in made around $150 unskilled hands and should never be and Mom managed us all ficient, if her salary exceeds $500 a taken except under the supervision wonderfully. But when the month. She has been drudging of a physician. war started Pop went right in- along, raising three children, educatto defense work. ing them, keeping them comfortable, even including hospitality in her plan I am 17. and am paid a little all the time she has more than $45 a week in a machine for them. But been capable of this business sucwho is Mom, the but surprise shop, cess. Now comes her chance to worried so about my brother Jim earn money, to buy the house of her As one of tfie most severe pains told being drafted that the doctor that afflict man is that of cancer her to get a job, and now she makes dreams, to save. which cannot be reached by surg- much more than all of us put toIt seems to me that It Is Pop, and yourself who are not or radium, the use who Mary-Bell- e ery, Jim even counting of morphine has come into almost gether fully. In any case your his lieutenants pay sends her half mother could exert over Mary-Bell- e general use. While morphine dulls every month. or deadens the pain of cancer, it also only the fond, anxious watching of a Well, Mom found a chicken farm somewhat deadens the mind, eyes, hearing, helpless parent. She can ago that she wanted to buy, only as all of us who taste and other senses of the body. yearsnow say feebly, weve and is she buying it are Where were you, do, In addition, the forming of the mor- and parents moved in. It's three miles from dear? Arent you acting foolishly? phine habit quite often follows. town in the hills, with an orchard Are you telling me the whole truth? However, all severe pain is not and some woods; we're all crazy But to you are close to Mary-Bell- e cancer but to many other about it. But were so dead tired due conditions, so that a substitute for and so dirty all the time we cant in years, and the influence of a sister morphine that would give relief from enjoy it much. And the real trouble is one of the strongest our lives who is just running ever know. Couldn't you and Mary-Bell- e pain and not dull the senses, nor is Mary-Bellenter into a conspiracy to help establish a habit, has been the wild; I dont care if she sees this, aim of research workers throughout we've all talked ourselves hoarse to Mom buy the house, strengthen her the world. That cobra venom is a her. Shes affectionate and shes bond investments, and insure that worthy, substitute in many cases of awfully pretty, but she doesn't know future toward which she perhaps Is severe pain is now established. the kids around here as she did in looking anxiously. Your father is Some years ago Dr. David I. the old street, and she goes round old; he will have great difficulty in Macht was able to show that the with a pretty tough crowd, after getting any employment at all after the war. Isnt it possible that Mom pain of cancer could be relieved in school foresees that, and foresees, too, a inat least 50 per cent of cases by Mother Wont Stay Home. comfortable old age on a small jection of cobra venom. "Pop and I think Mom ought to chicken ranch, with Pop and herself More recently, in the Transactions home and run us all as she did asking little or no aid from yourself stay of the American Therapeutic sociebefore, keep an eye on Mary-Belland Jim and Mary-Belle- ? ty, Dr. Macht has been able to show entertain her friends here, as she Give up your job. Take Mary-Bell- e that cobra venom also relieved the always does. But Mom seems wedinto your household interests. pain in tic douloreux (trigeminal neu- ded to her overalls and her lunch Meet her after school and market lucomotor ataxia, box, she tells us that Jimmy is sacralgia), arthritis, sciatica, angina pectoris, shingles rificing everything and that we can with her; ask a few friends out to the farm for week-endor for and other painful diseases. all do something thats needed to Moms free day. You are evidently is Another gratifying discovery war. the and shorten the boys help a fine, little person with that, whereas morphine dulls the finishes MirI get home early, of none the lawless temptations that venom cobra vision, actually sharp"and get dinner. Mom beset Mary-BellGive her the ens . the vision; objects become iams letter, wakes up, has her bath, comes benefit of your own experiences; clearer and for a greater distance. out and eats about five. Pop is make that new spacious farm house Further, while the sense of smell home just as Mom goes off, and a happy home, and watch Mom and is depressed by morphine, it is Mary-Bell- e straggles in whenever greatly increased by injections of she feels like it. Its getting us all Pop relax gratefully in the atmosphere of order and comfort. Many And that other specobra venom. this way of doing, and a girl your age was a married womcial sense, hearing, which is blunt- nervous, must lhve had this an with approaching maternal reed by morphine, is sharpened by knowing you to solve many times beproblem sponsibilities a hundred years ago; the use of cobra venom. fore I write you and ask your ad- your grandmother probably married Finally, what is most important vice. at 16. Take your place in this to patient and his family, is that, Isnt a mothers place In her troubled war time as a useful huwhile morphine dulls or deadens the care of her children? man being, and put off until after intellect, cobra venom, on the con- home,all taking well to have a lovely the war the frocks and hair-do- s Its very that to requicken mental trary, tends old farmhouse instead of your is paying for today. salary sponses. This mental test ef the aspacious four-rooflat with your brother Mary-Bell- e is affectionate; you can effect of cobra venom was tried out in the dining-roobut if draw her very close to you. What sleeping 20 on college students. The use of we arent getting any fun out of it, her big sister does probably already cobra venom brought answers in less it worth while? Mom is 43; Pop seems important in her eyes. time and decreased the number of is 63. is Womans Skill Needed Now. mistakes in mathematics tests. Miriam, there is more than one Your mother is doing a magnificonsideration involved here. It is cent job. It is a job that needs QUESTION BOX true that thousands of American skill, quick thought, secrecy, in factories strength. Not many men and Q. What can I use to get rid of mothers, now working very or plants, are sacrificing their small few women have been trusted in pimples on the face? welfare by childrens taking jobs. this particular line. It is of inesA. Many cases of pimples are Domestic agencies and boards all timable service to the country. Our greatly improved by taking 20 drops over the country are attempting to men overseas must not only be kept of viosterol daily for a month, with this situagenerously supplied with exactly Q. What is the cure for fibrositis? deal, case by case, A. Fibrositis is an inflammation tion. But I am not sure that your what your mother is making, but of the fibrous or hard end of a mus- mother should give up her job and they must know that fresh supplies go back to housekeeping. in limitless quantities are on their cle that is attached to a bone, usuMothers Big Chance. One a way. To have your mother report form of joint. ally adjoining For one thing, she is buying a that, as the head of a department, treatment is heat in various forms and the diet used in arthritis, that home, a very important element in she is resigning, is to pull out one the lives of all of you. For another, precious indispensable cog in an is, low in starch foods she is evidently conspicuously ef- - enormous machine. Mary-Brll- "TS war-u'orki- ar e, "Is that you, too. Chloe stared fieleesed by Western d, COVnl,Ehi p Cobra Venom Eases Agony of Cancer e, s, level-heade- d e. |