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1 . i-f i ggT""' - Th New Okeoon Statesman. Salem, Oregon, Friday, Morning NcvetnberVp19t& ......... L -ll sbMsssssssbbsssjsSI 'MHMMal : HEXTJ HINT . ' ' Chicken en Casserole Com Fritters Mashed Potatoes r-Pineapple and Cheese Salad ; v Lemon Meringue- Pie , Coffee This menu might be used for , a Thanksgiving dinner it you are, jj for Tarious reasons, dispensing 'i With the time honored turkey. Chicken en casserole ls" well cooked and tender and Is a most appetizing dish. Chicken a la .king may be prepared and served -from the casserole. S ! Today's Recipe - t i Lemon Meringue Pie Measure ; fire tablespoons cornstarch into a saucepan and blend with one , ; ;fourth cup cold water. Pour in one and one-half cups boiling ; water, stirring constantly until , :the mixture thickens. Add the !; yolks of three eggs, beaten light j with 'one and one-fourth cups ' : sugar, half teaspoon salt, one ; tablenpoon melted buter. Juice of : two and one-half lemons and the , jrlnd of one. Boll a minute or ;two and pour Into the pie crust 1; shell. Heap with a meringue t j made by beating the three egg whites stiff with a few drops of . lemon JnUe and three tablespoons powdered sugar. Brown in the oven. , Suggestions ' Firm and Steady A small piece of sandpaper kept with the food chopper comes In handy when we want to screw It tightly to a slippery table. Elide the sandpaper under the chopper and screw down on it. It .will prevent its skidding while in use. Old Furniture Beautified Tn this day of lovely paints, old furniture is an asset because you can do such interesting things with It. A housewife had an odd asortment of cheap pieces of furniture, which she made for her guest room. She 'used a gloss paint la a soft lavender. She 8be painted the bed, an old dres ser and an arm chair the same oft lavender. The color was del icate, bat this paint Is washable. She upholstered the chair In a black and lavender cretonne and put hangings at the window to match. The accessories in the room carried out the same color scheme. Let's Live BY MILDRED LAMB 188, Central Press Ass'n Inc. HEAD TBIS FIRST: A tender and thrilling romance ooj covt n into the marriage of Bxjrd Hamilton and Larry Browning. They pent the night at the Blackstone, tn Cincinnati, where Larry's friend were giving a party in their honor. Larry a friends, who had seemed so distln fuishid a few hours before, had lost some of their glamour. Byrd felt a deep sympathy for Margy Duncan, who had struggled along in poverty, rais ing her three little children, without her husband's love or co-operatiov. Chet Sverson, a friendly sort of per son, tried to help Byrd through a dif ficult evening, while he wondered how the spoed-loving Larry happened to marrt this little puritan. NOW UO ON WITH THE STORY) CHAPTER V THE racket was increasing. A plane was playing some where, and a victrola and a radio had combined to drown it out. The result was a cacophony of discord that rent the air like music suddenly gone mad. A musician's nightmans! And ev- gettlng mors driafcs. - Suddenly -j Byrd found herself alone."-. Sfca'i- realised there . cer tainly, was' a deficiency, a certain la ck, tn her : behavior, for every man drifted away from her la search! of more exciting fields f entertainment. It was all perfectly horrible, and she decided to look up Larry andT tell him that she wouldn't stand it another moment. A half doten people w-hom she hadn't met at all were tearing through the length or the apart ments, playing some sort of game. As far as she could understand the meaning of It, they were try ing to catch a little brunette with the idea of removing part of her clothing. "You said yon couldn't dance In skirts, so you'll have to take 'em off!" shouted a young, silly- looking man, racing pell-mell into one room and out of another. He motioned Byrd to join the chase In another group, a girl had reached the stage of the "crying Jag" and was weeping on every and all shoulders that would stop long enough to sustain her woe. In one hand sue was car rylng one shoe, hobbling along on the stockinged foot "I can't find it anywhere," she blubbered. "Someone's thrown It into the rubbish." "What have you lost?" asked Ttvrd kindlv. thinking that It would help her. "Why I've los m' shoe an' no one'll hel' m fin' it," she wailed. Just then Chet came up, and Byrd and he joined in the gener al laughter. "She's lost her mind, too, I'm thinking," he said to Byrd. "And perhaps her happy home. Her husband's furious with her. Told her if she didn't sober up 'imme jately he'd divorce her. Isn't that last like a man drunk to the gills Itimself?" What did she say to man asked Byrd. "She said she d never lorgive him as long as he lived, unless he apologized far an' wide an 'andsome.' " Byrd couldn t heip Joining Chet in laughter. "Aren't they a scream when they're like that?" he asked, wip ing his eyes. "Not at all!" said Byrd, with a hard little edge to her voice. "They're terrible! And they start quarrels which I suppose takes weeks to make up and all about nothing." "Yen, sometimes. That's my experience, too.- But most of the time they're Just funny, and try ing so bard to have the time of their lives," he said, charitably. "You'd have a little more fun, too, if you drank along with us. Just a little to help take off the blue glasses and substitute the rose-colored ones." "I don't think I ever can," said Byrd. Byrd decided to change the subject. Here was the first man she had been able to talk to sensibly. Are you In Larry's office too?" she asked. "I'm working in a bank. First National. Five years and I'm not president yet!" He grinned at Byrd amiably. "I Just love banking myself. You see. I worked two summers In my father's bank in Jackson ville. Father thinks I'm a born accountant." Suddenly she heard low laugh ter and Larry's voice, pleading, tense, magnetic, at fier elbow. The window had been opened wide to relieve the fetid, tired air, streaked with clgaret smoke, and the mixed aroma of human beings and heavy perfumes which twined like ribbons of gauze through the atmosphere. From behind the heavy, brocaded hang-i ings at the window came the low hum of voices., now cajoling, now teasing, now debating. India and Larry were" perched knees to chins on the wlndowsill, which was wide enough to make quite comfortable but very dan gerous seats. Somehow the idea of Larry sit ting there, where one little, un BRITISH GlattSBEAt A1V1EIUCANS Sr I . .w i3 v vy ,, stems s-x-xi.-it---? pi:. ft 2 Lte'jf . .Vj1 X'A J Ss V tigs? m Z V " - -- ' 1 ': s r r , . capiaia oz an AU-Knglush team bow tour- Ins; the United State, shakes bands with Annie Townsend, riht, C!P.v "w " A,1-Amerie" team, jnst before a game of field hockey t the Menon. Pa., Cricket dab in which the fair invaders trounced the home girls, 9 to 1. him headlong, paralyzed Byrd. She must warn him. On some pretext, she must get him out of there. I'm going to take your ad vice. Chet." She brought out his name hesitatingly. "Is it terrible for a married woman to call a young man whom she has Just met by his first name?" "Sounds wonderful to me, Byrd " he laughed. "Well, I've changed my mind, and I'll take a highball. Will you get it for me?" Byrd smiled at him, archly, but all the time her thoughts were behind those curtains. Yes, indeed, she'd be a good sport, even at the risk of bring ing Larry's anger down her head, but not to please Larry, was she being one. "A good sport " she mused to herself. The voices behind the hang ings had suddenly stopped. Then India's nervous words jangled against her ears. "That little wife of yours, oil can, may not smoke or vamp or even chew tobacco but you're wrong about her not drinking. I just beard her ask for a high ball." Suddenly, without warning, Byrd slipped, inside the curtains. India looked up at her. blankly, then her face assumed a slightly mocking expression. She con tinued that low, rather remark- strange, musical quality of an oboe in it, with beautiful, minor nuances runnlne up and down like the chromatic scales Byrd saw her for the first time as a very attractive creature, one of those slim. Cleopatra-like fig ures, intensely alive and mobile, with smoldering eyes that gave nroof of the fire - which was banked underneath the embers. Her nose spread eager nostrils over a red i mouth. And they called her "Wildcat." It suited I her. Vivacious, stormy, listless, scornful, a hun dred moods to tantalize her vic tims. Byrd found herself star ing at her openly. She was so beautiful and so terrible. ! Byrd suddenly realized that she was ; standing there, white, stricken, tongue-tied, unable to tell them why she had entered this way.i A Jealous wife they were thinking. Her head was whirling, and she was petrified at the temerity, at her "nerve" in rushing in upon them. There was contempt and pity in India's eyes. Oh Larry!" Byrd suddenly found her voice. She seized his hands In hers. "I really wasn't watching you, but I heard your voices, and suddenly realized how dangerous It was for ydi to sit on this ledge with the window open." 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You know that I was only think ing tbaf an accident might hap pen to both of you. I wasn't eavesdropping " Byrd was al most in tears. L Larry looked at her cooly. Why in thunder did she have to make such a damn fool of herself! In front of India T In front of (ev erybody? Byrd tried to clutch Larry's arm, but he shook her off. i She felt completely alone. I A blinding flash struck across the sky, from one end of the horizon to the other. Like a flashlight from ah enormous camera. Ithe world seemed to have gone un in smoke. It had been wiped out In a single blaze. 1 Then, after a century had pas sed, she seemed to float up to ithe light from the darkness below. She saw the room again, and Chet coming toward her with a high ball. Dated, she walked toward him. He jsaw her groping toward him. "Now, child," Chet admonished her, suspecting by her pallor iand the dead look Jn her eyes that something had happened, "don't let anything that happens tonight worry you. Particularly L4rry. Remember, this is his wedding day. and India's taking it rather hard." Byrd smiled weakly. "Not any harder than Larry." she said. "Brace up, old sport," said Larry, tucking her hand under his arm. "You've Just got to be a good sport." Byrd wanted to shriek. "111 murder. In cold blood, anybody who uses that expres sion in my presence again," said Byrd. almost savagely. As Chet appeared about to speak, she; put her fingers to her ears. "Tell me what you're going to say before I'll listen to you1 she said. ' "Tomorrow, I'm going to give that young man a good Id talk ing to." said Chet, in his hiost, yaicmiii manner. ; "If Larry hadn't been In that condition, he wouldn't have talk ed to me like that," said Byrd, al ready defending him. "Won't you help me get him down to our rooms?" "You bet I will. I'm going to et you another hiehball to steady your nerves." and was back immediately. "Look j at the mob around that bar. ' It's like a water-hole where alii the animals come to drink." "Come on. Byrd. drink : this down like a good well, j It'll make you sleep like a log." Their eyes wavered in the direction of the window. "Ill .end him down as soon as I can. and in u meantime, in keep a pro tecting eye on bins. Count on Conn Monte Crlatol" ' , Byrd flashed Chet a grateful smile.'.. ; 8he stood sipping the glass he had brought her until it was al most empty. The : room became a little indistinct, and she was feeling drowsy. The cool air of the corridor felt good en her hot temples. Chet unlocked her door and turned on the lights for her. She waved unsteadily toward one of the beds. "Sure you're all riaht?" he asked, kindly, and slightly Wor ried. "Shall I call a maid help. 70 dress?".'- "Oesh I undressed myself be fore.. Qeeh . I "e'u do "it " now; Byrd said, somewhat ; thickly. Chet said good night, and closed, the door, advising her to lock It. As Byrd crawled uncertainly into bed, laying her golden head upon the white pillow, she slip ped almost at once Into oblivion, and her last conscious thought was that somewhere a crowd was celebrating something, . an Im portant occasion. . . . But to her It had no meaning. (To Be Continued) 11 STYi Y q Fbr Huffier, better flavored pancakes. Easy to make. Ask your grocer. et Me Recommend - - - Doctors often begin a sentence that way and end it by men tioning the store of prompt ser vice, accurate efficiency, com plete stocks ' CAPITAL DRUG STORE J. H. WILLETT 405 State "Only the Best" Owl Agency Telephone 119 Our Prescription Service is the best service we render 111 I I Extra Special fciery Werkng i Mi A led for Satnrday s Sdpng TTV f T3fVD HP A TVTTT1 ear n mmc tnat these are not irregulars or sec AlVLJ. vJ X xVi,l X onds, neither are they inferiors made to sell at a price. 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