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Show tmi n mini hi mTi " i N MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH FSCJSOW RAS'BRIES ftRfl By SETH BABITS I HP Co fnet L-- --- .- .- .. .rJJLL way. He was thick shouldered, and muscles like Idaho potatoes bulged his arms, laden at the moment with two big pape bags. Spence glanced at the girl. Be-neath her coolness, he thought he detected an undercurrent of excite-ment. She said courteously, "Did you get everything?" The man shrugged his shoulders and laid the bags on the counter. "Yeah" he grunted. "Exceptin' powdered sugar." His tone was grufl. He tore the bag down the center. Spence stared. There, tucked In between two packages lay a jar of i blouse pocket. "I've got two new quarters," she offered. "Swell," he glowed with delight. He placed a fifty cent piece on the counter. "I just need about six more," he said as she rang up the money, "and I'll have enough for the kid's birthday. Thanks a lot, Miss Topley." Spence was up. He was past the threshold and Into the street. A de-taining hand touched his shoulder. He brushed it off. "Pu-leez,- " and a slim figure twist-ed around and blocked his passage. "What's the big idea," he de-manded. "I couldn't help It. Once you got Wh0 tit M ' I :4 i F-CA-- ;' A tall man loomed in the doorway. He was thick shouldered, and muscles like Idaho potatoes bulged bis arms, laden at the moment with two big paper bags. U - AMONG the million-od- d things wanted to do was visit Topley's. He'd had a yen for Top- - ley's back there on the desert wastes. He craved it as a cat would catnip or a homesick Eskimo, an Iceberg, i! And now, as he hurried his chunky form up the narrow street, the blue neon above Topley's win-- dow blazed welcome In letters two feet high. li Spence slid Into a seat. He ,1 breathed, "Razzberry soda, please. i Topley special." He closed his eyes and envisioned ii a monument of pink and white. ' A girl's voice, clear and soft, reached him. "Ras-br- y soda," she Informed. "Without , He raised his head. Her eyes were warm and gray. An amused smile bowed her hps. "Without " he faltered. Her manner humored his confu- - 'i; sion. But Spence didn't see that. It . ' struck him she was part of the soda. ) That the dream also took her in. ; He watched her scoop out a gob of ( drop it into a tall glass, squirt in a crimson syrup and heard the harsh gurgle of carbonated wa-- ter. The glass was placed before him. , He placed his lips to the straw 'jij and pulled. Coldness luxuriously j,' flowed over his tongue, daubed his I1' palate, trickled down his throat and touched of! revelations of delicious- - ness he'd almost forgotten. It evoked ,j Imagery. Lying face' upward In a j shallow mountain lake . . . elastic i stars shimmering on waters above li ... night winds whispering of giant ,' pines . . . drifting . . . drifting in a j1' rowboat . . . and a girl beside him ... gray-eye- d and pretty ... a girl I; like . . . and he looked up. He felt ;' the impact of her presence. J She said, "You enjoyed that?" Enjoyed! He'd known the price- - i lessness of a cold glass of water. He I; grinned. " "Hit the spot like a letter from home." Spence expected a smile, but she i merely picked up his empty glass j and erased the moist ring beneath ! with an efficient stroke of a damp j ; cloth. He felt he'd missed the tar- - get, but wide. He rose awkwardly and plunged a hand into his pocket. j ; His coin vibrated on the counter. A I i frustrated ring. f The cash register d dis- - i missal. Spence to go. ; j ' In turning, his eye caught the tab, ( NO SALE! The girl's hand swept to j i her blouse pocket. The clink of ; i metal told him his coin had joined j ( j others. jt i It was none of his concern, yet the .' ii"- - act had been so brazen. He heard i !' himself saying, "Don't they treat '5 you right, here?" l' Spence couldn't make out her ex- - j J j pression. "They do," she answered ; succinctly. i 4 "I saw you pocket that money." , i i "So what?" her coolness irritated i him. ( "If the owner caught you" i "There's nothing he could do j about it," she began to straighten a !j ! row of glasses before her. The ges- - ture tokened disinterest in his opin- - ' ' ions. More, it Infuriated him. j "I wouldn't have believed it," he l managed. ' ( Instantly he was sorry for her. He ! ; noticed that dark lashes rested on ' I her cheeks. He realized also his heart was thumping and there was a quaver in his voice that he ': - couldn't control, : ' "Why don't you ask for a raise?" 'i ' "I can't" ,; ,: , "Then quit. Get another job." . i A tall man loomed In the door- - started I couldn't stop you. How about having a super special with me?" Spence visioned maraschino cher-ries floating on a rose pond above submerged raspberries. He also dis-covered lights in her eyes, flashes of radiant promise. He placed her arm in his. The action seemed most natural. "I'm glad you've re-formed," he grinned. They went back into the store. raspberries. Atop the pile glistened another of cherries, bright, red, full, exciting and prophetic of de-light. Vaguely, he could hear the man counting. Meaningless numbers. He'd have to have a Topley special first, then take care of the girl. Spence regarded her expression. In-jury dominated her fair face and a pensive smile hovered about her hps. It rebuked him. With sinking heart and forward thrust of lean jaw, Spence gulped and announced: "Sir, I want to talk to you." "What's botherin' you, son?" Spence' cleared his throat. "You look like a regular guy," he began. "Now, supposin' you had a con-scientious employe. You'd want to keep her, huh?" "You said it," the man nodded vigorously. "Now, if you had a person like that and you felt she was compe-tent to take care of the store," Spence took a deep breath and plunged, "would you give her a raise If she was to ask you. Would you?" "Guess so," the man acknowl-edged. "How much?" "Well," the man's thick shoulders heaved. "Maybe ten," he said at last. "You heard him," Spence turned triumphantly toward the girl, "I'm a witness." She nodded. Her eyes were glow-ing. "If you'll excuse me, son," the man was saying, "I'm kind of busy. I got a lot of deliveries to make." He handed a paper to the girl. "Here's the bill," he remarked. "Thanks. I'll file it. Oh, yes," Spence saw her reach Into her ; U !;J &S6 ifjCynn CainfehS Pass the Savory Chicken Pie. (See recipe below.) Chicken Favorites When you want to put variety In the menu, or combine interesting flavors or stretch the meat nicely, the thing to do is to serve chicken. You'll find chicken prices doing a favor to your budgets these days, and what's even nicer, chicken can be combined with so many foods LYNN CHAMBERS' MENU Diced Pineapple In Grapefruit Juice Chicken Chow Meln Salad of Assorted Vegetables Hard Rolls Butter Lemon Sherbet Cookies Beverage Recipe given. Chicken Tetrazzini. (Serves 6) 4 tablespoons fat 4 tablespoons flour teaspoon salt teaspoon white pepper teaspoon celery salt 2 cups milk Vz cup sliced mushrooms 1 tablespoon fat 2 cups cooked, diced chicken 1 cup cooked spaghetti, cut Into pieces 1 cup grated cheese 2 tablespoons melted butter cup crumbs Prepare white sauce from first six ingredients. Remove from that give you nice substantial meals so ideal for cooler weather. Why not try chicken with dumplings for an sa-vory favorite? Or, a tender cms-- heat. Saute mush-room- s in one tablespoon of fat Add with chicken and spaghetti to white sauce. Pour Into a greased casserole and sprinkle top with ty pie with pieces of chicken and vegetables in nice rich gravy. You'll find the bits of leftover chicken go nicely into tarts, chow mein or tetrazzini chicken. All these will keep menu interest at a high pitch and help supply valuable pro-tein, minerals and vitamins to the diet. Chicken Pie. (Serves 6) 1 chicken for stewing 1 onion 4 carrots 3 or 4 celery leaves 3 or 4 sprigs parsley cup sliced, cooked mushrooms lib cups peas, cooked 2 tablespoons chopped pimicnto 6 boiled potatoes, cut into quarters 2 egg yolks cup chicken stock 2 cups flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 6 tablespoons shortening Cut up chicken and stew in enough salted water to cover, with the on-ion, carrots, celery leaves and pars-ley. When ten- - der, remove skin "vO from pieces of Ciy chicken and fSi place in a baking dish with cut-u- p V .' C carrots, peas, J mushrooms, pi- - ejg miento and pota-- to. Strain and thicken the gravy, using all the stock. Cover ingredi-ents in the casserole with it. Sift flour with baking powder and salt, and cut in the shortening. Combine egg yolks with the stock and add to dry ingredients. Mix lightly with a fork. Knead gently for a few sec-onds, then roll out to fit top of cas-serole. Cut vents in crust. Wet edges of casserole and attach crust to it. Brush top with milk. Bake in a hot (400 degree) oven 30 to 35 minutes. Chicken Chow Meln (Serves 6) 1 cup diced celery 1 small onion, sliced 1 medium green pepper, sliced t cups chicken stock 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons soy sauce cup sliced mushrooms 2 cups shredded, cooked chicken cup water 3 tablespoons cornstarch Steamed white rice 1 No. 2V can Chinese Noodles Combine celery, onion and green pepper with stock In sauce pan. Cook until the mixture steams, then simmer for 20 minutes. Add salt, soy sauce, mushrooms and chicken. Combine water with cornstarch; add to mixture, stirring until thickened. Serve on mounds of rice, sprinkled with Chinese noodles. cheese, melted butter and crumbs. Bake in a hot oven for 25 minutes. Chicken Stew With Dumplings. (Serves 6) 3 to 4 pound stewing hen 2 cups boiling water 2 teaspoons salt Yi teaspoon pepper 2 cups sliced carrots , 1 cup peas Yi cup flour 1 cup water 1 tablespoon chopped parsley Place disjointed chicken Into saucepan with water, salt and pep-per. Cover arid cook slowly until tender, from 2 to 3 hours. Remove chicken and skim fat from stock. Add carrots and peas and cook for 10 minutes. Mix flour with water to a smooth paste and stir into broth. Cook until clear and thickened. Add chicken, parsley and dumplings. Dumplings. 1 cup flour Vi teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 tablespoon chicken fat, melted 1 egg, beaten Ye cup milk Sift together dry ingredients, then combine with melted fat, egg and milk. Drop by spoonfuls on top of chicken. Cover closely. Cook for 15 minutes without lifting the cover. Chicken Turnovers. (Serves 6) Pastry 3 cups chopped, cooked chicken 1V4 cups gTavy 1 tablespoons chopped parsley 3 tablespoons chopped stuffed olives 1 teaspoon salt Make pastry from three cups flour, one cup lard and teaspoon salt with enough water to hold to-gether. Combine remaining ingre-dients to a smooth paste. Roll pastry Into six squares and place Vi cup filling on each square. Turn up corners and pinch pastry togeth-er. Bake on cookie sheet In hot (423 degree) oven SO minutes. Released by WNU Features. If you don't have quite enough meat to make hamburgers, you can extend what you have with mashed potato, thus making potato burgers. Juice left over from canned fruit can be saved and thickened with cornstarch to make a clear sauce for desserts. Leftover bacon or frankfurters can be used with hard-cooke- d eggs, chopped, and mixed with mayon-naise for sandwich spread. Leftover sausage is excellent for flavoring vegetables or soups. LYNN SAYS: Are You Smart About Leftovers? Yesterday's roast makes a wel-come casserole, quick stew or hash stuffed into green peppers. Don't let your bacon drippings get rancid. Refrigerate them and jse in place of butter for seasoning vegetables. Sweet cake and cookie crumbs iay be used for dessert If combined Into a souffle or mixed with Ice tream. Sewing Circle Patterns y vTillL I - . da IST 1 Don,t wa't send try-v- . fTf 1 day for a copy of the SpriTna II QOQOlL IJlUr FASHION, our complete V vJi zine. Free pattern printed ii. IW 12 20 -- L-"" ILiLy1, book, also free knitting directions. For Joyful Ccu;!i Relief, Try This Lrf This splendid recipe is usedb',- -1 It lions every year,, because it mJ such a dependable, effective me, for coughs due to colds. It Is sob i to mix a child could do it ' Prom any druggist, get 214 oc, l of Pinex, a special compound off:' r en ingredients, in concentrated f- t- V n for its soothing effect'; p throat and bronchial irritations. Then make a syrup by stirring p cups of granulated sugar and one r; of water a few moments, until l. solved. No cooking needed. OryosL: use com syrup or liquid hone;, stead of sugar syrup. Put the Pinex into a pint bottles:- -- fill up with your syrup. This gives?: a full pint of cough medicine, vr effective and quick-actin- and ; U get about four times as much :: J; your money. It never spoils, at! very pleasant children love it f You'll be surprised by the nr. . takes hold of coughs, giving c: V relief. It loosens the phlegm, soo1: , the irritated membranes, and t: ' clear the air passages. Moneyremn:-- : if it doesn't please you in every 15 II Pinex Saves Xou Monev! v Practical Daytimer AVERY wearable daytime dress your warm weather ac-tivities. Curving lines accent the bodice and hipline, sleeves can be brief cap or three-quart- er length. Try a bold plaid fabric and add gay novelty buttons. Pattern No. 8282 comes in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 14, cap sleeve, 3Vi yards of Simple Little Frock. THIS cute little party dress for is so simple to make that the beginner in sewing can turn it it out in no time. The shaped yoke is edged with dainty ruffling to match the skirt trim. Pattern No. 1697 is for sizes 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 years. Size 3, Vt yards of 35 or Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 530 South Wells St. - Chicago 7, 111. Enclose 25 cents in coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No Size Name Address I I 'Columbus Clocks' Found To Be but Fair Souvenirs At the Chicago World's fair (Co-lumbian exposition) in 1893, thou-sands of souvenir clocks were sold bearing a portrait of Columbus and the date 1492, says Collier's. Years later upon the death of the original purchasers, a large num-ber of 'these souvenirs came into the possession of descendants and others, many of whom, believing they owned "a clock brought over by Columbus," sought an estimate of its value from clock authorities and antique dealers, only to be disillusioned. .. ,, f, v i. ... X:vm L ' - , - - - s ' t v " 1 i 1 MARTIN H starof'Trw'oftb. I '"C t4'" I informed HcW po,.dM. 1 whouseCaloTot.oSi 1 McKesson 1 Bridgeport, Conn. 1 cftLOX METlif fC that makes folks niOtfd sleep all night! Thousands now Bleep undisturbed beeauB oi the news that their being awakened night after night mioht be from bladder irritation, not the kidneyt. Let's hope so! That's a condition Foley Pills usually allay within 24 hours. Since blad-der irritation is so prevalent and Foley Pills so potent, Foley Pills must benefit you within 24 hours or DOUBLE YOUR MONEY BACK. Make teat. Get Foley Pills from drug-gist. Full satisfaction or DOUBLE YOUK MONEY BACK. i Kub in Ben -- Gay for gently warming, soothing, i II' i speedy relief from cold discomfort! Ben-Ga- y contains j J UP to 2 V2 times more of those famous i ingredients known to every doctor-met- hyl salicylate I j - and menthol -t- han five other widely offered rub-in- Insist on genuine Ben-Ga- y, the original Baume W d Ana'gesique. It acts fasti I Also for Pain due to RHEUMATISM, MUSCLE ACHE, and STRAINS. j :, flsk ror Mid y for Children. I ' m. ,lw.l,,..,WWi nn- - j So You Think You Have Moods A young navy lieutenant, not too long out of the service, told me over the luncheon table the other day that he became very much discour-aged over himself. I pointed out he hadn't any reason to be. He has a good job. He's doing it well. "That's just the trouble," he said. "I'm not doing it well. I know I'm not. One day I feel sure that I have everything a man needs to be suc-cessful and happy. Then the next day I'm clear down In the dumps. It's my moods. Isn't there anything a person can do about moods?" I told him, as I am presently going to tell you, that of course there is something anyone can do about his moods. I told him further-more something he never heard of before, that having moods is per-fectly normal, perfectly natural, and a good rather than a bad thing. We know a good deal more about moods now than we did a few years ago, for now we know that at cer-tain times we are going to be happy, regardless of how things break for us, while at others we are going to feel depressed, also regard-less of how things break. Largely responsible for this In-formation is Dr. Rexford Hershey of the University of Pennsylvania, one of the first scientists to study our emotional curves. By his researches Dr. Hershey proved that we all have our ups and downs and these occur with regu-larity. We are elated, cheerful, pleasant, unpleasant, peevish, grouchy. That is one cycle. Then we become elated, cheerful, pleasant, and so forth, again. Our lives are a series of cycles emotional cycles. These cycles, moreover, appear with almost exact regularity. With some persons they appear every month; with others every two or three months. Highly emotional people go through their emotional cycles often in less than time, then start all over again; they are always in a dither. But long or short, each of us has his emotional curve. Maybe you are wondering what you can do to control this curve. You can't control it, but you can disguise it, so that regardless of how you really feel, you put your best foot forward where the rest of the world is concerned. And how do you do that? It's sim-ple. Just remember that we take our emotions from our actions, not our actions from our emotions. In other words, to feel cheerful, just act cheerful. The next time you reach the low point of your emo-tional curve, try that. Act cheerful, talk cheerful, and you will be cheer-ful. Xj-e-- J j kit- - A BOVfi the city street a church's spire Z- -- llr Is climbing its bright ladder to the sky. feyS j - """ ij The steeple's slates glow red, its dp is fire, i A single burning finger there, and high - - rvTv tifr--- - Above tlist peak a flying white dove swings, j Mpftif tj scarlet light upon its lifted wings. ' p I ; i "n"S Gd'' emblems' DAiatsSiV jjp !' i, iL Above the darkening shadows of the street, I Beckoning to them, bidding them hope again, Wf'M U?i-3&- ' B'ddmg them stay a moment their swift feet, W "iC-- i Ca'hig to them to lift their eyes, and there, ''"3 - ' ( In ' 23s Seeing that pointing finger, breathe a prayer. j I ' ill And the white bird flying heavenward bids t .lii ' ij'u ' t'iera cease J! c e ii rVlfl i I1" clamor of their hearts and find His peace. til B 1 |