La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, May 16, 1945, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text; I . . h.ri ' .. . I mt i i 1 1 .11 ' ' ' 1 1 i i i ii i . ii. - rue XIX . tARIY Iri April, we. stjlj owed the tank $180; , Our business had bean picking, up witti spring, but Uie money hod gone, out as fast as It had come In. The. roof had to be repaired. : The tank had to- hove a. new lining. 'We had all stopped talking about go ing home, ...v. My futhor worked very hard arid even sent out monthly , bll'i. My mother's smile grew more and mof-e determined Though' they were very polite and very kind to ech other,' we sensed for the first time In our lives, a barrier be tween therfl, : TJhat barrier concerned Mr. Cut ter. Right after my mother had fouhd the oil stove empty, her at titude toward him ' h,ad changed visibly. She became quite sharp. "Srhe spittoons, Mr. Cutter. You've forgotten to clean them." "These chairs look very dutty," ' '.'The telephone! Didn't you hear It?" ' . .' ;-'. ,' When there was pdmplhtf to be done, she herself went to get him. What was more, she. stayed right In the kitchen wh"o, With' each hand wrapped in a handkerchief, be Swayed listlessly backward and forward, hardly moving the han dle. . : : One day she noticed that th Inkwell had disappeared from the desk In the office. ' At first she thought that one bf us girls had, taken it and neglected' to put it back. We hadn't. We couldn't Im agine. We would, look. We searched everywhere, "A thing like that hasn't Just dropped from sight," she said, when we made our report, ; "The paperweight did, Mama," I reminded her. She began to' look, too. We followed her from place to place. "'Tlsn't there." . . . '"Tisn't A Pretty Apron! By MRS. ANNE CABOT It's a sort of glorified npron enn't you just sec It mode In white muslin with the uppliqucd tulips and U'nves done in pale pink and rose-pink cross-burred muslin?- And of course It will make a nice kitchen upron If you do it in unbleached muslin and use bright scraps of ginghum or checked materials for the tulips. A good kitchen shower gift, inci dentally! To obtain complete apron and applique puttern for the tulip ap ron (pattern No. 5BDG) sizes small, medium nnd large, send 15 cents in coin, plus 1 cent postage, your Crooner's Wife HORIZONTAL 1 Pictured former film actress, 63 Compass point 54 Brown bread by heal 55 mtcrsect VERTICAL 1 Challenges 2 Olven to irony 3 That one 4 Division of , geological time 5 Shake sperean king 6 Doves' calls 7 Hastened 8 Either 8 Prohibited 10 Warble 15 Fork prong 11 Area measure 12 Pedal digit ' 13 Boat paddla 14 Army order (b.) 1 5 Decoy , 17 Country 20 Conclude I 21 Wife of Geraint in , Arthurian legend 23 Rodents 4 Sea engle , . 25 Tendon 1 27 Measure 28 Bay window 29 Goddess 31 Wandered 133 Interest (ab.) ;S4 Greek letter :3SOne who j scatters 137 Heating I devices 140 Carries (coll.) 41 Caterpillar I ' hairs 43 Flower i44 "Drunkards 45 Diminutive ' uf Benjamin 48 Tvfctnl fastener 48 Symbol for erbium 50 Within . 51 From y Jv there." At the end. of 20 mln. ufes she was ready to give up. '"Never mind,". (he said shortly. "There's a bottle of Ink up In the parlor. Get that." A ITER that she gave up prod V ding Mr. Cutter and herself took over the work of the office, sweeping, dusting, ' winding . the clock. No matter .where she was When she heard it. she came run- Slng to. onswer ' the telophone. nee my father found her empty ing spittoons. He looked miser able, but. he didn't say anything. tie was just as Kind to Mr. cut ter. Just as considerate, Mr. Cutter's naps lengthened. His yawns became more frequent. Hi-Hp-Hum Hl-Ho-Hummf Some times, ooming out of a clear sky, they sounded fierce and fright ening, ' Now that ho one reminded him, ho never did a bit of pump ing. ' ' . ' '', W4 could feel the barrier be tween my father and my mother rising nigner ana nigner, Things were building up In the kitchen, too, Mrs. GupUH com plained constantly about Ada. "Some days that ktlrl don't even art'llkely," she declared. "She's about as much good as a last year's crow's nesfc" She fussed, too. about the stove. Benjamin hadn't been able to change It, for he was away all day, hauling gravel, for the "rood crew. Or.ce In a while She would claim that she could catch' the odor of kero sene, ' My mother never acknowledged this odor. All hpuses smelled of kerosene, she) said, and would smell of It, too, just as long as there were lamps, But every now and then W w6uld . catch her sniffing, Two or three times we came upon her in unexpected places. 1 "What are you doing, Mama?" ; "Oh, Just looking for some thing." We might have been more curi ous had not a really exciting event lain In the offing. City News In Brief Rev. Mark A. Tulney left to day for Dnyville, where he is to deliver the commencement ad dress ut the high school, and to morrow conduct a mission to teachers. He will return Friday. J, H. Peare, rullroad watch In spector, is up the branch line to duy on an official Inspection trip. Mrs. L. C. Lloyd of Lostine wus in La Grande today. Mis. Lucille Medina of Canyon City was In the city today on business. ' , C. C, Neill of Joplln, Mo., was arrested last evening by city po lice on charges of drunkenness And vagrancy. Carl C. Farlow of Monterey, Calif., for begging, Steven H. Cnsmay, transient, on a churgo of drunkenness. Official Records Water turned off, May 15: Homer Garrett, 811 Division Street; second hand store, 305 Fir street! C. Jermulouskc, 1410 Washington avenue; John Holt, 10(18. X avenue. . Water turned on: Mrs. L. D. Huston, 1012 Second street; John Strocker, 811 Divi sion street; H. S. Overpeck, 104 Greenwood avenue. , AUTOMOTIVE HINT New brake linings sometimes have a tendency to grab. This can be eliminated by driving the car for a block or two witlt the brakes applied. name, address and the pattern number to Anne Cubot, La Grande Evening Observer, 70S) Mission St., Sun Francisco, Calif. Antmrr to rrvvlnuti I'mif 18 Light knock 19 Roman rood 20 Great Lake 22 Ridicules 24 Type of fur (pl.) 26 Travels 28 Hops' kilns 38Solntc (ab.) 32 Open (poet.) 39 Bullfighter 36 Suffix 38 On top 39 Type of cloth (pl.) 40 Chinese dependency 42 Slaves 46 Emmet 47 Slnbod'l bird 50 She the wife of Blng Crosby 52 France (ab.) 10 an Tl'J'( illiii glNC? the beginning of the 7ear the' ! newspapers had been printing stories ; about corns' which would Appear In May.- '. As the time apprpached, the pa pers begone, to remjnd .. us that comets had , of ten portended mo mentous things. A comet had ap peared after the death of Caesar. One . had : sailed. . languid and heavy, through the skies before the London Plague; another, swift and furious, before the Oreat Fire. This comet was Halley's, king of them all.' It had whirled through the heavens before the birth . of Christ. . It had hung suspended pver ' Rome before the death of Agrlppa. It had flamed over the Battle cf Chalons, where Attlla; the Hun, bowed down before the Roman Actius. It had lighted the battlefield of Hastings. Now, on its twenty-eighth appearance, it would make a transit across the very face of the sun. 1 ' The superstitious began to npeji ulatfc as to what We might hove in store. The ciuntry was at peace. We1 had no princes to de- throne, no tyrants to vanquish Perhaps a great pestilence, some one suggested. ' ("What kind might it .e?" they asked my ta- ther. "Weak-mindedness," he told them tersely.) Perhaps it was in tended only as a warning, some said. . A warning against men who were trying to fly in machines. Or. against women, who were de manding a right to vote. Some thought it might be a warning against hobble skirts and bloom ers. , . ' The magazines, too, had a lot of comet talk. The scientific ones told us that Halley's cycle was approximately 75 years. It would be visible to the naked eye around May loth in the east, two hours befpre sunrise. . We could see it first at night on May 18th, when It would pass the sun's dlski Muntey'f assured us that there was not one chance In 8 million that any one of us would live to see this happen again. Even Methuselah, the Independent re minded us, had never witnessed what we would witness. We girls could hr.rdly wait until May. (To Be Continued)' Summer Outfit By SUE BURNETT The young daughter of an old schoolmate looked adorable play ing in a set like this. Eusy .is anything to make this week's ABC special. Pattern No. 88C0 is designed for sizes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 years. Size 2, dress requires Hi yards of 35 or 39 inch material; pant ies, "ft yard: bonnet, Ms yard. For this pattern, send 20 cents, in coins, your name, address, size desired nnd the pattern num ber to Sue Burnett, La Grande Evening Observer, 703 Mission St., Sun Francisco, Calif. Ready now the spring issue of Fashion. Just 15 cents. A com plete guide In planning wardrobe needs for all the family. GAVE HIS WIVES AWAY Mn Tl-T'nl, former military governor of Kiishgiir, China, re warded his soldiers for distin guished service by presenting '.hem with wives from his harem. He wus crucified In 1924. Hold Everything "I'll bel you miss your buddies lot, don't you?" Our Boarding House WELL, GRAVY-CHIN.LACTCALL MKte KfeNVJY IP IKON VW f,Woti F6R f BOO CfcSHf I'LL ACCEPT A POVOM MEKfT OF IOO KOPECK,. ! AN A MOTS FERTrAE rest- OTHeRuJise. ri,L IN6TRUCK MR. vJA6felESM TO CRAMKUPTK LEBAsL AA P XT- AD IMDCCL rTKTw- : r BUT NOT THE 3 1 Pi 11 n ' ' to Boots and Her Buddies VV HKst . AKi LKVefc VaVl VWOt N Freckles and His Friends Hector, did Hilda really U4UF A OATE WITU AM ARMY MAJOR. TONIGHT ? Red Ryder Alley Oop ' ' 'M she's Just 1 ' ( TRVIN' TO n I MAKE LARD Wash Tubbs By Leslie Tufniet Pf HAP TOO MAdiy STUBBORN PEOPLE FT AWELLJ 10QO T M06T OF PER TlPtV Pi1" 55 f&JBf.5! Llf22PJ' ? 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ATI .: Y T Ia Boo pie Out Our )7hree stars IS NOT A MAJOR. , HILDA ITS A LIEUTENANT- GENERAL"' r THEN WHAT A DUMB PLACE THIS MUST BE' WHO ARE VOU, AMY- W99 . : ''"t .v'.'r;.; r. 0J:?r: : By Edgar Ujcartin p WHV ARE VOU GIVING ME" ) YOU BETTER. PUT IT ON . iFYOutf? ! THAT HULA S)RT? , t f I GONNA HAVE TO WIGGLE OUT OP A ' 1 -7 ' V LIE, VOU MIGHT AS WELL BE . - "l AM THE GRAND WlZER, ) "J ( T ' , ' 7 Anu:ci -rrx uuz cf piva i f i niv-. x HISHNESS, THE -4i Tli'M 5AJ ) MONARCH OP fYyi iai'uatX1 ' the moovian v'WM.: V - A Hi D V. Merrill Blosser F.re HTtnca By V. T. Hamim DON'T SAY IT... Oft t'LL7 BE PORCEP TO PUT A l SPELL ON YOU, A '. i. R.E6ULA.R HEXYCALOO,' eiLiDeorm cbci i ta" , IWW.I .' !