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Show et THE MILFORD NEWS; MILFORD, UTAH County At first the calf wouldn ’t pa attention to the saw, but J tere Fae would be working back and forth and the blade would be going grh-grhgrh. Then all of a sudden the calf would begin to pitch and kick and bellow and white Slobbe r would run down on my hand. “Hold him, hold him!” Jim would pant, his elbows worki ng. Off would come a horn and blood would squirt out of the holes in the soft horn part of the head. Then Jim would lean Over farther and start on the other HOM: 3 Jim would take out a stick he had Padded. with cloth, daub it into his tar can and swab it on the spurting horns. Little by little the blood an institution of the Croy farm. shbors would gather after dinner ss the weights ill it mean of the steers. would stop. supper?” don’t think so. I think all you count on is dinner.” | n Ma would say, “Jim always ehicken. I’ll have Homer a chicken.” run sday morning we’d be up early the chores taken care of horses turned out to pasture, / wouldn’t need them today. we'd all go out on the front to wait. Pretty soon we would one of the neighbors coming the field and Pa would say, and wave, Homer,” and I go out to the fence and wave t. In a moment, ck. ‘Right Harve would Stop bleeding. “I always wait till they The teache x looked capable, I’ll say that for her. “You can’t tell by talkin g to ’em,’”’ Pa would say. “That’s a fact. Let him go.” Harve would raise the heavy U-shaped board and the calf would stumble out, shaking his head and bellowing. “The best thing is to ask for their recommendations. Even then you’ve got to take a chance,” Jim would Say. “Still she was a nice lookin’ ‘ girl.” “That don’t mean she would be a good teacher.”’ “It sure don’t,” Jim would say and give another shove on the saw. All morning it would. go on, the number of calves in the pen grow- here.’’ ‘would talk neighborhood news The would say, ‘‘How is your wife along with her grapes?’’ and would say, ‘‘She’s got bags ’ from everywhere. what Sunday ie she’s goin’ Lord will would say. Lord. F overlook Ma that,” was strong for uldn’t be uld come with long over his chute ling along on its two wheels. would be standing in the front the chute, his head not much ‘than the boards. = would go out to meet him, all Ma, because she didn’t like ik what the dehorning chute or. I didn’t either, but on a | certain things have to be done. would open up his toolbox and ut his blood-stained jumper ‘brass buttons on the sleeves. | he would get out his saw which 8 steel frame, and a long thin, us-looking blade. Then he Knock down the mud-daubers nests. ing smaller and the number in the barn lot growing bigger. Finally Pa would pull out his watch by its leather strap and say, ‘‘Well, I expect we’d better go to the house and see if there’s anything on the table.” Jim would put down his saw. “‘T’H go to the tank first.’’, hand would would go into the box come a file and he Say as he sighted along the “It was that wind of July of the chute with his saw, d Harve and I would start the calves in closer and ‘They’d throw up their heads ll their eyes, because they There was a series of each side through which uld be pushed. We’d round calves closer and closer, ies one calf ahead, some- nother. ‘‘Huey!”’ Pa wave his hands and would a calf would be watching his d take the big heavy ped like the letter U, and Own over the calf’s neck so L ‘wouldn’t move. There the ould stand, kicking and bawlS sides thumping in and out. . him quiet down,”’ Jim would always a good idea to st one quiet down. . Gives. rs confidence.” Tean against the chute quiet down. girl was around he school,’ Jim to see would and me say. Jim would go to the galvanized iron tank by the windmill and get off the worst. Then we would all walk to the house over the corncobs, and Pa would bring out a pan of hot water and put it on the wash bench in the yard. Jim would pick up the soap and scrub himself, leaning over so the water would drip on the ground. When he finished he would go to the roller towel on the back porch, dry himself, and give the towel a pull to show how polite he was. We would all go in and sit down at the table. Pa always asked company to say the blessing, but that was on Sundays; this was a workday. If th?fs had been Sunday and Jim had had on his good clothes, he could have asked the blessing. So Pa bent over his plate and thanked the Lord for what we were about to receive. By the time he finished, Jim would be looking over the table. “Homer was a big help to us this morning,’’ Jim would say as he reached for the fried chicken. ’“T guess he’ll be a help now,” Pa would say and they’d all laugh a little. “Tall like his mother, ain’t he?’ Ma would straighten up a little. Then’ say, “How are, your boys, Jim?” “Shuckin’ today.” “You’ve got a nice pair of boys there, Jim,” Pa would say. ‘‘Good workers.” — “1 guess they’ll do,”” Jim would say modestly. Pa would mention some of the told neighborhood news that J im had us, and Jim, to. be obliging, would Ma would get the things tell more. off the range as quietly as she could so as not to miss anything. nose till I get started, Grab his nostrils.” oe “My wife’s tryin’ out a new broodae would say. ‘‘I told her she but you needn’t do so much work, know how women are. sit “J know,” Ma would say, then down, d give his sleeves a hitch, ver the top of the chute. he would say, ‘Well, you got your money’s worth,” : Ma would eome to the door and say, “Is your wife coming to the chapel Sunday?” She’s a great hand “I expect so. go to church.” “Tl get to see her, then,’”’ Ma would say and go into the kitchen. At last Pa would say, “I expect we’d better go back,” and we would all get up and start, me a little in the rear. It wouldn’t be long till the saw was again going grh-grh-grh. After a while the calves would all be on the same side of the fence, walking around and shaking their to and heads and now then giving with a drop the last few Jim would Oe tik end of the’meal, ck and we ‘get out his quill toothpi more easily oil sit there talking than at the beginning. froat Pa would say, “Come in the » NE att <‘ wisn ’ "s WIAs yo " Ne4 ‘} Bs < SS a s bellow. “How Amos?”’ long you goin’ Jim would-ask.” to.. feed, ‘ “I'll hold them a year at least. I don't believe in turning light stock.” “That’s~ just the way I-see it,” Jim would say and’ wipe off his saw and go to the tank. “I'll get the rest off at home.” “You want would ask. “If you your check wouldn’t now?” mind,’ ; Jim would say politely and Pa would send me to the house for his indelible pencil. ‘lesson’? I can remember: “Chickens are just like people. They have ways of grading each other just as we have. They look up to some hens and they look down on others. ._The hen that keeps her feathers. oiled and makes the best impression is the one they respect most. She’s the one that gets the tidbits and she’s the one that gets the last peck. “People are like that. The ones that put up the best appearance in the way of money, or home, or position, get the most respect. Every henyard is run that way and every human group is run that way. Now you watch, as you go through life, and see if it don’t work out!’’ It was such a whimsical idea, I could hardly believe it; but my mother pointed out a hen that was the leader, and it was exactly as my mother said. This was not only true with the» hens, but also with the roosters. .We had a sort of head rooster who was really cock of the walk. Something had happened to his voice; there was a hoarse note. Early of a morning his voice would ' be the first one to go off; then the other roosters-crowed in exact turn. We had a vivid illustration. A hen, that was ’a leader and got the last peck, was caught by a hog and her feathers were torn out so that she presented a lugubrious appearance. That hen lost her leadership and never got it back. Homely and simple as it was, my mother’s bit of philosophy made a deep impression on me. In March my father would say, “Homer, it’s time to clean out the smokehouse,’’ and my heart would hit the floor. Work. I would have to move all the loose odds and ends out, knock down the mud-dauber nests, tighten the tin can lids that had been nailed‘over the knotholes, and sweep. The stove, from one season to another, was kept in a corner, and now I would have to haul it out and set it in the middle of the floor. When everything was ready, Pa would say, ‘‘All right now, we'll rub.’? More work. He would fill a candy bucket a third full of brine, and sit down on a little bench outside the smokehouse and slosh the ham up and down; then he would pull the ham up on the*bench and rub in ‘salt and brown sugar so the ham would not develop “‘skippers.””.The meat had been salted down in January, after we had butchered, but he always gave it this extra rubbing just to be ‘‘sure.” He would take a butcher knife, which had been worn down to a point, and make a hole in the shank end of the ham, run a piece of heavy wire through and bend it into the form of an S-hook. f (TO BE CONTINUED) Gay Disheloth red and white USE The two young women have apparentl y been having a dances, theaters, movies and night clubs with various admirers.pretty good By KATHLEEN ARMY lieutenant, 37 years old, writes me from Wales, where he has been stationed for a year, to ask if he should forgive his wife for admitted infidelity. The wife, Blanche, is 29; they have been married for 10 years and have one child, a girl of seven. Blanche lives in Chicago, keeping house with another army wife, who also has a little daughter. The two young women have apparently been having a pretty good time at dances; theaters, movies, night-clubs, with various admirers. Now. she writes her husband, Clark, that in this one instance her affection for one of these men has gone too far; the man has left Chicago for the South Seas now, and has gone out of ‘her life, but for a few weeks before he went away he and Blanehe were lovers. “He is a married man,” Clark writes me, ‘and Blanche swears that she never will see him again, nor write to him, and that she is ashamed of the whole affair. A week after I had her letter, which seemed to crack the actual ground under my feet, I had a note from the man’s wife, informing me of the affair, and that seemed te me to take away a good deal of the honesty of my wife’s admission. Letters from a good many people hint of it, and she may have suspected that I would hear about it. “For the child’s sake she asks me to forgive and forget, and I confess that that is my inclination, for I love my wife, adore my child, and have lived all these months in the thought of returning te our happy little home again. But can a man ever trust a woman after an affair like this? Will she do it again? If anyone else had told me that my sensible, loving, lovely wife was capable of this sort of thing I would not have believed it on oath. He Erred, Too. “One other thing,”’ the letter concludes, ‘‘which perhaps may in fluence your decision. When we had been married about three years, when Yvonne was a tiny baby, I had an affair with a divorced woman who worked in my office. It went on for more than a year, when Blanche discovered it through the accident of my addressing her and talking to her on the telephone one day, believing it was the other woman. I ended the affair, she forgave me, and we never made further allusion to it. Should her generosity then affect me now? I feel it unfair to consider a woman’s offense in this matter more serious than a man’s, but I do feel so. Do you?” s * in all and has “‘shoulderstraps” to hang by your sink. They make gay and unusual gifts. time at NORRIS TRUST N & Yes, Clark, I do. Especially in this. case, where the woman knew well what she was deing. It isn’t fair that rules should be different for women and for men, and in a strictly moral sense they are not. But by society they are differently regarded and differently punished, and women from the beginning of time have had to accept the situation. It is generally recognized that women have more self-control in matters of sex than men do, are finer in their feelings, and wise enough to know that for this sort of weakness they pay the bill. So DESTROYED The gnawing fear of so many married soldiers —that their wives may be unfaithful during the long separation—has become an ugly reality for this army lieutenant. He is 37, and has been married for 10 years to Blanche, who is 29. They have a 7-year-old daughter. Blanche, who is now living with another officer’s wife, has admitted an affair with a married man. She says she is over her foolishness now, however, and is asking for forgiveness. While the lientenant has had at least one fling during his married life, he regards his wife’s infidelity as something more serious. He is wondering whether he can ever return to the old status after the war, now that his trust has been destroyed. that while a wise man may easily be snared by a woman into a loveaffair, a wise woman is much better fitted to avoid the danger. However that may be, your only course is to forgive Blanche, -and the matter as completely |. wipe from your mind and your memory as you can. Should any of these dear friends who have turned informer ever allude to it, it - will be enough for you to say briefly that you understand the whole situation and that it concerns you and Blanche alone. Wait Till Yeu Come Home. Whether you two can make a success of a marriage in which eonfidence has been destroyed on both sides is a question, but apparently harmony was _ reestablished after your infidelity a few years ago, and it may be restored again. At all events, it seems to me the wise thing is to wait until the war is over, or until you are home again, and then see how you s Warm easily crocheted bedsocks that are all in one piece: with no difficult heel to crochet—and fit any size foot! They’re pretty in soft pastels You will probably find your wife onee again “lovely and loving,” your home and your small daughter everything to.which a man wants to eome back. Surely it is more sensible te make this attempt at a fresh start than to return embittered, lonely, with no place to go and ne ties to resume. You will not be the only man who will have to make this sort of when he comes home. In hundreds of eases there will be mistakes to forgive, stupidities to overlook. In all eases there will be a deep chasm to cross —~ the ehasm between the old erderly way ef living and the new conditions, whieh none of us can foresee. The dreadful chasm of war, which carries our boys away from home and all the home influences, accustoms their young eyes to sights no eyes ever ought to see, hurries them inte hasty marriages, hasty divorces, hasty decisions. They are going to need all that we have of courage and® stability and code and love to bring them back. It is for you and Blanche to contribute te this effort, rather than to increase’ the world’s burden. 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