Show 1 SEWING CIRCLE HOMER 6CROY WNU THE STORT THUS FAR: Amo Croy ob a farm a Maryivllle Mia wuri where be married and a son Bo waa horn Sunday meant church company for firmer and steer welfht Dehomlnf ( the calves guessing of hams weaning of calves and were jobs that Homer had with- One of Homer's big thrills was helping Newt b neighbor breah'la his male Newt used his own system be would hitch the mule double to a wages and force them to run away Be ways said that a mule was no good until after it had run away and he made by breaking mules proving hts tem was pretty good The neighbors did °l approve of his method however Willed CHAPTER IX It took experts for this for a crazy quilt is twice as hard as an ordinary quilt But Phebe knew how and would go from one to another arranging patches and tasking sugAnd now as the day's gestions quilting drew to a climax there would be a great hubbub as they tried to decide which color of thread “"went with which patch and what kind of stitch to use But Phebe knew She wouldn't fancy stitch at all herself because she would be too busy showing others Ma would come in and stand in the background handing out patches and picking up the chalk when it rolled off on the Phebe ‘Aunt paign "In The away knew floor lower her voice you want the camgo?" the middle" Ma would say women's voices would fall to a hush because they all what the campaign ribbon would where ribbon do The one we toctk and the one that was most popular in our section was Comfort published In Augusta Maine where they all seemed to I can still see the beading spawn which said COMFORT Key to a Million Homes The letter in Com fort were strung along a gigantic It seemed to me there was no hey limit to human Ingenuity This along with others of its tribe carried r which advertisements’ had to do with "How to Make Money Raising Belgian Hares’ “How to Cure Bed Wetting" and "Big Mon ey in Squabs" There was an id that was tremendously persuasive to me — "Send Ten Cents for Big Mail” I loved to get mail and so saved up and subscribed to one or two Of course it was all advertls ing matter and it never had my name right but just the same it was something coming through the post office addressed to me Sometimes got more mail than Pa He would say "Homer ’ why do you want to carry all that trash home? But I clung to it I had many hours with nothing to fill them so I pawed through it from "How to Get Rid of Chicken Worms" to "Make Easy Money Selling Soap to Your Friendly Neighbors” We had a “patent" washing ma chine just as most of our neigh to meant It could not be finished in a day sometimes It took a woman years working alone winter evenings to complete her crazy quilt But it was helped along and the women all wanted to aay they’d had a part in the quilt They would begin looking out the to see if the men were window coming "There’s Newt” Mrs KenOne by one the nedy would say men would arrive and stand in the lot talking to Pa never dreaming to go to the house One by one the carts and buggies would leave Mrs Gerilda Knabb come out but there would would be no surrey now so I would have to go to the granary and get two I would try to maneusawhorses ver her horse up but be had been standing all day and wanted to get Knabb standing on lop Airs home of the sawhorses would wrote It plainly on one side o f and sent it paper as Instructed Our National True Dream Contest without saying a word to anyone The watch touch might not really 1 the to work I expected the winner would be the next number for I did not that a monthly magazine had problema our weekly didn’t have to contend with One day I would be sure I would win the next I would be sure I wouldn't that being tho nature of hope One day Pa went to town alone and when I saw him coming I rushed out to get the mall as I always did There among the advertising matter was an envelope addressed to me on a typewriting machine tha first I ever received The big mail concerns wrote my name in lead pencil except now and then when seemed promising enough to have my name printed on a slip of psper and pasted on When this happened I was sure to get mall from them for quite a while But after a time they would get discouraged and I'd have to make new contacts But there it waa! I opened It— "Dear Mr Croy: We take pleasure in telling you that you have won first place In Our National True Dream Contest and we are here Htb enclosing check for first prize” I opened the check and there it was — a check for a dollar It was thrilling moment I went around to the side where Pa waa Unhitching and said with a tremendous effort at casualness "Well I got a check" He stopped with a tug in his hand "A and looked at me incredulously check?” “Here it is" I fluttered the docIn know ument "How I told "How I told "Take much is it for?” him did you get it?" him It in and show it to your mother" he said and led the horses down across the lot to the water tank Ma thought it was wonderful It wasn't long till Pa came up from the bam walking faster than and usual took off his overshoes sat down in hi rocker "Well Susan it seems the boy’i got a check!” It waa a supreme moment for me “How long did it taka you Homer?” "Two hours” Two hours " he repeated and I could see' he was doing mathematics “I guess you’d better read his piece aloud Susan" I tried to look as modest ai shout "Whoa! Whoa Stand still nowl" and I would shout too to the prancMa and Phebe would ing horse hear us shouting and would come to the door and begin calling warnings to Knabb and instructions to Mrs me And now with everybody shouting ' the horse would prance more than ever Finally Pa would come up through the hog lot and take hold of the bit and I would help Mrs Knabb and pretty soon she would be on and going toward the main road pulling and sawing at the frisky snorting animal "Homer take down the frames” Ma would say once more coming into charge The people in our section took few papers but the ones we did take were read and reread and stacked We even in s pile and treasured magazines That kept our SERVICE Sometimes it would keep on a year or two after your subscription ran out before it would whack you off The one most popular was Comfort in our could As Ma reed the expression on Pa’s face changed He quit rocking and sat there puzzled and The piece about leamin’ the calf to drink waa fine helpful anybedy could put it to use But a dream I’d made up out of my head! He praised it a little but enly a little for he wasn’t a man to say something he didn't mean Finally chering time came and he put on his overshoes and started back to tha barn lot It But Ma wasn’t disappointed was a fine piece One day shortly after this as waa going down the street in town I saw in the window of the racket store a picture I knew the instant I saw it that 1 wanted It was a panel containing pictures and a caption which said "Six Famous AmeAuthors” rican Under each wai Henry Wide- printed the name: worth Longfellow John Greenleal Nathaniel Hawthorne Whittier Ralph Waldo Emerson James Russell Lowell Edgar Allan Poa I looked at them and thought what great men they- were and wished that I myself sometime could do something worth while I was able some way or other to raise the money and bought the panel When I got home my mother wanted to know what I had and did was suddenly not show It to her because my secret was so precious She came up after I had gone to my room and there was the panel unwrapped She looked at me for a moment seemed to understand my hesitation in showing it and said: 'Til help you put it up” And she did" but neither of us mentioned the significance ef tha picture In Julymy father would say to my mother ‘I've just been through the watermelon patch and some good melons are coming on I think we might have a swimming party" Then he'd tay to me in hie sly humorous way "Homer would you mind telling the neighbor!?" Of course I wouldn’t because nothing evas more fun than a swimming bad The patent consisted of Iren ball fastened to a pendulum When you pushed the handle forth the pendulum with and back its iron ball swung to and fro clumpThe ing everybody on the shins printed notice pasted on the side said that running this machine was the I would look at a pleasure tice and wonder what kind of man had written that not was mother strong so I My always had to help with the washHow long and dreary and haring Carry water rowing Monday was from the wash boiler on the kitchen was the final test and dump it into the Ezy Famto stove subscribe tried to Everybody ily Washer then push the damned the home weekly but there was a handle back and forth tiU I thought pinch it was $150 a year When I would die Now and then Ma Pa went to town Saturday and asked would come out I would swing up for the mail there it would be with the lid and she would peer into the Pa’s name written across the top in steamy depths A moment’i rest till wait We couldn’t lead pencil and I'd hope the clothes had been we got home so Ma would put on washed long enough But they neher glasses and read snatches aloud ver had The lid would have to go as we jolted along in the hack But down and the pendulum again startit wasn’t until after the chores ed swinging back and forth' and the lamp lighted were done I used to read as I pushed the hanthat we really tore into it Item by dle was too heavy and A book item then After nearly every one too awkward to hold But COMa would there was a discussion wai MFORT Key to a Million Homea a be would and there name read a about right So I would grasp just silence Then Pa would say "Why it in one hand and read about people I saw him not three weeks ago” It did not take me long in Newport Everybody took a farm paper Or to discover they were a pretty bad Farmnearly everybody Wallaces’ 'but The lot Also I thought I would like to er was the most popular have a fling at it myself Iowa Homestead was on its heels One day as I was pushing the And there was The Mail and Breeze I read an pendulum back and forth more took any But hardly family announcement which said the magathere a year than one TwodoHars was going to have a true dream zine Ma would read the Farmer aloud contest open to any subscriber (Thia and it opened up a world the county was before the deparThere weekly didn't know existedwe never tment got ideas) And that all ydu would be mention of towns to do waa to write plainly on had In Iowa even heard of far off places one side of the paper and see that Now and then there was paid up and Nebrapka Pa your subscription be a mention of Ohio would swayed the pendulum back As would lean forward a little forth I began to think up a true and took a religious paEvery family dream A little trouble with my Still the NeOur was The Ram s Horn conscience there per have hesitated Sometimes of an evening Pa would wport set wouldn’t Ma Farmer Wallaces’ be reading scene In the Ozarki the laid Horn Ram's I would be reading The The in The party though I had never been there and I would be breathless The evening of the party we'd get in idea dealt with myself andi Especially Youth’s Companion the chores done early and eat an Carruth companion who had gone op a campTrack’s End" by Hayden The poor early supper then get the plates trip in the Ozarksu-crawling came ing Indian the where man got lost and I dreamed where and knives and benches ready and through the now tunnel to watt he was and I went to the cavern go out on the front porch of there was snbther kind It’d seem to me where he had faUen and lowered a for the neighbors And took that everybody which I happened to have they'd never come but at last we’d rope mai"the we called what Then that was see them coming down the road in handy and pulled him out everylorder monthly" The reason which had Pe’d Newt Kennedy's was we looked at his watch took It was because it "I do believe he’i body he had fallen into the lean forward cents a year stopped Itwhen the at exactly had cheap — stopped got a new mule on the water it kept dream somOnce the thing got coming to kill somebody hour I had wakened from my watch He’s goin' It was not like The on coming about the etime you Just mark my word” gave you I felt pretty hupeful Youth’s Companion which meant (TO BE CONTINUED) — touch it two weeks’ notice and bora s big PATTERNS Shirtwaisters Are Top Favorites Buttons and a Bow for Accent' INSOFAR as fan mall A goes the bulk of the correspondence we have received lately concerns the scoring in boxing matches Apparently there ii a nationwide interest in attempting to thia which Commisolve problem ssioner Eddie Eagan of New York ha tackled ao intelligently He is making progress but thera art still many tall barricades along the road His campaign however haa started many fana to thinking along these lines Kor example here la ona letter I think worth recording It eomea to me from Maj Richard Maibaum of the U S army signal corps: "Dear Rice: Mr As chief combat films branch signal corps photographic center one of my duties is supervising the review of several “hundred thousand feet of film per month shot by army combat cameramen all over the world much of it under battle conditions The exposed negative unprocessed is sent in from the field accompanied by caption sheets In which the cameramen describe the action they have photographed And I am often amazed at the discrepancy between what actually appears on the film what the cameramen in all good faith believe will be found there W ish Fulfillment ’ "I the think I found the answer to puzzler about scoring boxing matches the night a friend of mine lost a unanimous decision after a fight In which I thought he won every round The boy was young clean-cu- t and honest skillful I had a strong personal terest in his career The match was crucial a big step up if he won “On the heels of the shock administered by the decision I indulged in a little introspection It came down to this: how could my eyes have so completely deceived me? "Yet deceived me they had and with my own stubborn connivance I ’saw that boy win because I wanted him to win It was a pure case of Actually I bad fought that fight with him identifying myaelf with his efforts and seeing It thronyh bis eyes Haven’t you caught yourself ‘following only one of the fighters in the ring snd saying ‘Now I’ll “follow” the other fellow for a while? "When the two men touch off no interest it is usually special some incident during the bout that your preference suddenly ‘flxee’ of one the combatants A diupon splay of courage a sudden personaa common prejudice appeal lity aroused (or overcome) "Ns matter bow Impartial we try do to be we subjectively choose the man we want to emerge victorious And we interpret what we see In that light Especially in close bouts "Tha bafflement is caused by the fact that the choice we make is often a subconscious one We’re not aware that we have installed one of the men as a ‘psychic favorite' the one who somehow squares with notions so a lot of preconceived much a part of us we don't even realize we have them "I think this also applies to the officials who may be as honest as Abe Lincoln but who are still suto the same psychological bject laws that govern the rest of us Maj Richard Maiburn Signal Corps U S army" Judges Hera a is a true report of at least part of the plcturt You and L sitting together sea two different actions taking place "I have only one solution to offer” the major says "The age limit of officials should be around six years After the scrip tha kids should be asked — ‘Who got licked?’ I think you’d usually get the true answer The kids haven’t had time to sop up that ego that makes most fight fans see what they want to see because what they want to see must be the way it is" This is a completely correct statement We usually see only what we want to see once wrote — Aar'Hnghey Keogh “The world’s greatest liar ia the man who says be can bet sue way root another" and Tbit Is like saying a man can tand on his bead and his feet at the aame time A contortionist can perform this feat but he won’t bo standing Be will be In a knot II ow About SEWINO 12C0 and CIRCLE PATTERN DJCFT New Montgomery St See Ptanclaco Calif Ill Smart Shirtwaister CHIRTWAIST frocks have won a favored spot in every wardrobe They’re versatile smart and a boon to the busy homemaker This button-fromodel has a belt skirt and graceful EncIoe 29 cent pattern desired Pattern No Name in eolni be each Size Address e Pattern 54 3?s 36 38 yards yards of No 40 of 1280 Is designed for slzee Size 36 42 44 49 and 48 or short sleeves requires material 1H or material 39 really soothing they're really medicated Frock for Tot a young miss a dainty long- pOR waisted frock she’s sure to love The Peter Pan collar and cuffs are edged in gay ric rac and the bodice boasts a parade of buttons One of the prettiest frocks for a tot you’ll see e e because 17 COUGH LOZCfJCES e Pattern No 1279 Is designed for sizes 3 Size 3 requires I1 3 4 9 and 6 years material yard yards of 39 or (or contrasting collsr lta yards rlc rae to trim Millions use F A F Losengee to givetbeirthroet alSminutesooth- treatment that way down For soughs throat irritations or hoarse- ness resulting from colds or (molcing sooths with FA F Box only 10£ Fng eomforting all tha reaches ! I If the knob Is palled off a tightly closed drawer use a plunger or a large suction cup to open the drawer — — To rewind the spring in the roller of a window shade insert the flattened end in the lower part of a keyhole e— For a grease spot on wallpaper try making a paste of cornstarch and water Apply this to the spot and allow to dry Then brush It off and the spot will be gone Real bed comfort depends largely upon the under sheet being tucked in so firmly It will remain smooth and tight Miter each corner then tuck under the sheet — e— A pleasing flavor that’s somewhat different in candied sweet potatoes may be had by adding the juice of one lemon to the molasses (or sweetening) and butter — — Thoroughly and frequently massage any reddened areas you notice on a sick person whom you are caring for at home Keep pressure off such spots with a slightly inflated rubber ring or small soft pillows LawSpMted Mooes fatigue Are Ofrea Systems Of Censfipeftoal For eonstipetion take Nature's Contains no Remedy (NR Tablets) chemicals no minerals no phenol derivatives NR Tablets are different —act different Purely vegetable— a combination of 10 vegetable formulated over 60 years gredients or candy coated their ago Unooated aotion is dependable thorough yet Get 25 Convincer Box gentle Caution: Toko only as directed And N TOMOttOW ALUOHT IAXATIVE OMEWORD SUGGESTION FOR ACID INDIGESTIO- Nmi iuw TUMS Hmn SPRAINS AND STRAINS Aches ant IflPI II Eyesight? Along this line I have just received letter from Dr M T Gilden in optometrist and eye specialist connection with boxing decisions "Because you speak of the importance of eyesight and I am an optometrist I suggest that both judges and the referee should have their eyes examined to determine totheir devisual acuity In plain words termine what their degree of vision ia and their visual speed of recog-nition" (An extremely important detail seldom mentioned) I I I 1 n 1HB PUBLIC nature of advertising benefits everyone it touches It benefits the public by describing exactly the products that are offered It because benefits employees the advertiser must be more fair and just than the employer who has no obligation tJ the public These benefits of advertising are quite apart from the obvious benefits which advertising confers — the lower prices the higher quality the better service that go with advertised goods and firms |