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Show f i I Pace Seven The Cache American, Iifran, Cache County. Utah Dutch Designs for Painting, Stenciling HOMER. bjC ROY nRIGHT designs in typical 1 Dutch colorings are Just the thing to decorate your kitchen cupboards, the chair or table you have just repainted or that old chest of drawers in the chtldren'a room. Never mind if you are not a artist, you can cut a free-han- d V-'- T J STENCIL .3 UWltTUI I f.'iOtass.TlN- - fh .IGIFTS1 T 12 FOTttRY J'S Q ' M-Q-m THE STORY Tit IS FAR: Ames Cray sad Ms wilt, whea Sul married aetUrd oa t farm la Mutourl. wber Homer was kora. Every Sunday meant tbarrh. company for dinner, and tieer welshing. The troy attended lb Omaha FspoaUloa, a her Homer lie Me Srl boneless hula carriage, motioa pic lure and dancer. Rrnio pure heard a farm nearby and becarat a welcome addiuoa lo the community. Ilomor wae lb Brel Croy At Srtl ahy, belo atiead high school. fore be graduated ba frit al bom. He the Urea went to rollege and aigaed up Aral student la (be Brat fouraaliam claae In America. He edited tbe Poat tnapaUb for one day. Arriving la New York, be vlaii aa editor. stencil for the most difficult parts or just trace outlines and then fill I got up respectfully. them in. Sit down. he said, and we sot Here is a set of designs espe- on the creaking seat He looked st cially planned so that you will me, puzzled. We've bought some have no difficulty in using them things from you. haven't we? either for stencils or tracing. A few. I said as if the thing was Tulips, hearts, flowers, fruits, hardly worth mentioning. borders and other motifs large Lets ice, you're from Kansas, and small even the dove of peace with an olive branch is included. or Missouri, aren't you? The designs may be used again "Yes, sir, from Missouri and again and, if you are not You didn't have any trouble satisfied with your first effort, all ibout getting your last check, did you have to do is to paint it out you? and start over. "No. sir." He looked relieved. Well, someNOTE Pattern 262 give the 2 stencil-Iror painting designs described here, times . . . you know how things with complete direction and color guide are. pattern are IS cents each postpaid and I nodded to show him I was an may b obtained by sending direct to: old hand at such things. He looked at me, evidently makMRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Bedford Hills ing up his mind about something. New York Drawer IS 'You're quite a ways from home, aren't you?" Encloao 15 cent for Pattern No. 262. It's the first time I was ever in Name. ......... New York. quite a little burg!" Address........ I said and gave a laugh to show how quaint the place was. While I was here I thought I would drop in on the Job. I wss delighted. Here was s peek at things other people had written. At first I read each one carefully and meticulously, making marks on it to refresh my memory. Then I saw that the anecdotes fell Into classifications storiea about dogs, cats, ponies, spiders, and ao on. Pretty soon I learned how to read quickly. I would glance at the beginning and if I aaw that It was a story about a canary, I would jump to the end to find the climax. If the atory wasn't as good as the canary story I already had. then into the rejecta" It'd go. At last. I had read them all and the onea I bad selected went to the honorary Judges." The Judges agreed that a story about a pet crane was the best, but there were also twenty small prizes. Then I had my first glimpse Into the way prize contests are decided. There was not much difference between the stories, so it was agreed to spread the prizes around geographically. And that was exactly what was done. One prize went to Maine, the next to New Mexico, snd so on. And Ive seen that work out many times since the geographical angle." One day I got to see the wheels actually go around. Dreiser called me the cub into his office and, peering over the trp of the glasses dangling on his nose, said: Gel the staff together. Bring them into my office. A staff conference was held once a week, in this big room, but this was not the day for it; never before had he called for a conference to be held in his private office. It was not long before we were filing in. But Dreiser kept on working, never looking up. for he was a bit of a showman. some of their created stationery, snd had fine flourishing correspondence. I'm sure no one ever guesaed I was living in a lecond-clasrooming house on Lexington Avenue, at a Street Twenty-eight- My seeming prosperity was too good to last, for my hotel friend left, end when 1 tried to continue my was sternly rebuked. But had way around that. I still had their stationery snd at the bottom of their impressive letterhead 1 would add: Temporary address. Lexington Avenue, New York." Meanwhile I had gathered up some other hotel stationery, and one day, by chance. I mixed my swanky envelope snd letterhead. It was not long before I had a letter from my friend wanting to know at exactly which hotel 1 was living, then explained I had the stationery of two hotels. I was rhngrmed at being caught in my deception, but aa I read on I found he was treating It lightly, in fact humorously. So 1 wrote to another friend, this time purposely mixing my Ingredients, and got a mystified reply from him. I began to see the humorous possibilities of what I had stumbled Into. 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The whole story depends on the woman smoking. If the cigarette is edited out, there is no story." They discussed it in detail, and that point was true. All kinds of wicked substitutes were suggested, but none would do. She smoked, or she didnt. There was no halfway. Someone suggested sending it back to the author and letting her solve the problem. But she was in Europe and the story had been scheduled. . h Bay War Savings Bonds then-famou- I haven't quite decided." All the time I was becoming more and more and couldnt think of anything to say . . . when for so long I had looked forward to this very moment We talked about this and that, but all the time I was growing more and more ill at ease. The conversation died away; we worked hard and revived it With so little to say, I could look at him more closely and as I looked I saw something that shocked me a grease spot on his necktie! A great editor with a grease spot! Even if it was a small one. Suddenly, almost with a blinding revelation, I realized that be was human, had the same frailties and shortcomings that other people had, and I relaxed and became more natural. The artificial barrier melted away and we talked in a natural manner. Really visited. It was not long before words were flying and we were laughing, when, at first, my mouth had been full of cotton. He followed me to the elevator, both of us at ease. He became a fine friend of mine and, later, became magazine editor and still later, drama editor of the New York e. I thought I could get a job on the New York World, after having been but on the St. Louis it didnt work out that way. I went Post-Dispatc- JUST A DASH IN FEATHERS - - W.N.U.SCRVICC CHAPTER XVII RF & 't- SEiriSG CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK from one newspaper to another, but got nowhere. After telling my experience, I would add, "By the way, I am the first student in the first school of journalism in the world. That usually ended matters, for I did not realize how bitter the feeling e was newspapermen by I against a school of journalism. might as well have said, By the way, I am a dope addict. They could have got rid of me but little faster. I tried every paper in New York and Brooklyn; even answered an ad and went to NeVv Brunswick, New Jersey. The situation wasnt desperate, for I was selling a few things. Potboilers they would be called today, but I thought they were good. At least, I wrote them with all the skill could summon. My weekly letter came from Pa. Dear Son, it always began and ended, Very truly, Your Father. To anyone else the news would be inconsequential; to me it was important and vital. The cutworms were at it again. There seemed to be some indication of black rust. Chicken thieves had been in the neighborold-tim- That was the way an qditor should look. any place I could. In fact, no sheet of bizarre stationery was safe. If I could purloin a letterhead from the Eden Musee and put it in a Fiss, Doerr & Carroll Horse Auction envelope, I was delighted. The way people rose to this foolery was most stimulating and kept me from being quite so lonesome. My impersonal Missouri friend did give me one tip. He said that Theodore Dreiser, who was editor of three Butterick womens magazines, was looking for a cub. Theodore Dreiser! Author of Sister Carrie." In Philadelphia there were two great names Lorimer and Bok. In New York Dreiser. I seemed hardly to breathe when I was shown into his presence, but I might as well have, for he seemed hardly to notice me. He was tall, but not so tall as I, and balanced on his nose was a pair of eyeglasses with a cord running down the side. That was the way an editor should look. But there seemed to be no stovepipe hat. Then I said something about Missouri. I must have already mentioned it several times, but seemingly he had not heard, for suddenly he paused in his paper shuffling and said, You say you are from Missouri? Yes, sir. Where is Washington, Missouri? It came with such utter unexpectedness that I had to think a moment before I could answer. Its in Franklin County, not far from St. Louis. Thats where they make corncob pipes. He looked at me with real interest, then asked a few questions about my experience which, evidently, he had paid no attention to. Then said, Ive asked a hundred people that question, but not one has known. I think Ill hire you. Thats where my wife is from. I was tremendously pleased. A New York magazine! And under Theodore Dreiser. I was terribly afraid of Dreiser, but still I liked hood. him, for he was a curious combina: think one of the deep feelings of tion of sternness and gentleness. I anyone coming to New York is to can still see that flashing eye and underlip; and I want the home folks to believe he that can still hear his sympathetic voice Is doing well. I was lonesome, so I if someone was in trouble. developed many correspondents, and to each I painted as glowing a I had been there only a few days I before I was picture of myself as I could. given my first real did not say, outright, I was prostask. The magazine had had a con1 test entitled My Pet Animal True perous; but, on the other hand, didnt tell them I wasnt. Then I Story, and ten thousand letters had indeed. lit on something very nice, come in. They were stacked in I became acquainted with a clerk boxes and piled on desks and tables. it the Hotel Astor and arranged to None of the regular staff wanted to eceive my trail there; so I got read them, but when I was given Do You Know That Cooked Wheat Cereal! the worlds dependable breakfast for centuries still is the best 1 iv as Millions of Americana still demand steaming bowl of appetizing cooked wheat cereal for the daily mornings repast Why? Because, careful blended like Cream of the West from the meaty and nourishing center portions of golden wheat grains its the most nourishing the most easily digestible for babies for children for grown-ups. CREAM of the WEST Is Tastier J MONTANA CEREAL CO. Billings, Montana Finally Dreiser said, The point is far bigger than this matter of a cigarette. All the womens magazines are too nice; they dont meet life squarely. If we want really to touch the lives of our readers, weve got to get down to vitals and stop being prissy. The woman in this story is going to smoke." There was a moments hush, for all recognized the seriousness of the situation. It might lose the magazine a great deal in the way of circulation. Certainly a hundred ministers would thunder. At last the conference was over. But the trouble wasnt, for the business office soon saw a copy of the story and now there was a conference indeed! This time Dreiser had to go to their office. He had enemies in the business end, and they made an issue of this. But Dreiser was a fighter and, by sheer force of personality, won out. Of course the magazine failed, but this was many years later. I dont think the cigarette killed it. I want to return to the feel of corn growing at night. Growing weather we call it. It will grow d as much during the night as it will during the day, we say. And it would seem to be true. For when you come out in the morning, it does look bigger; and when you cultivate, it strikes you higher on the thigh. 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