S ou th ern O regon M iner, T h u rsd ay, Ju n e 14, 1945
Buttons Give Dramatic Accent
To Dresses, Bags, Belts, Gloves
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
A Bell
JoH n H erseu
Adanol
And the Major said quickly to
Captain Purvis in English. "Arrest
him. Purvis, show this gang that
you're arresting him .”
This was the kind of thing Cup-
tain Purvis enjoyed, and as he
clapped his hand heavily on Mayor
Nasta's shoulder he shouted: " I
wish I understood Eyetaliun. This
is wonderful.”
The crowd broke up slowly, mum­
bling its protests at being deprived
of revenge.
Purvis suid: “ Who is this little
squirt, anyway? They sure hute
him, don't they?"
Major Joppolo suid: “ He's the
one
who used to be M ayor."
CHAPTER X
“ Oh. he is. Is he? Well, according
At each meal there were also to what Berth says, they've got plen­
some idlers in the place, but they ty of reason to hute him ." And the
just came in to listen to the noon Captain kicked Mayor Nasta in the
and six-thirty broadcasts from seat of the pants simply because
he didn't know the Italian for:
Rome.
On the day that Mayor Nasta "You're a little squirt.”
came down from the hills. Major
Mayor Nasta whimpered in Ita l­
Joppolo and Captain Purvis had just ian: "What
are you going to do
finished their pasta and were talk­ with me? If you ure going to k ill
ing about the stuffy Navy fellow. me, please
tell me first. Don’t
Livingston, when they hard an un­ shoot me from behind.”
usual noise out in the street. There
What Major Joppolo did with May­
were shouts of anger, and whistles.
or Nasta wag to take him up to his
But the noise outside grew, and office. Everyone, even little Zito
seemed to be coming up the street. who had once worked for Mayor
And soon several of the idlers who Nasta, even D'Arpa, the weasel-like
had been listening to the radio in vice mayor who had once worked
the restaurant ran out. As the noise, with him, everyone made faces of
grew still louder the two women disgust when they saw Mayor Nus-
picked up handfuls of fru it and ran ta, and some made obscene remarks
out. pursued by their guests. Then within his hearing.
the owner of the place and his wife
When word passed around the Pa­
and son ran out with their mouths lazzo that Mayor Nasta was back.
full of pasta and eggplant.
Finally
Major Joppolo said:
"Let's go see what it is.” So he
and Captain Purvis ran out too,
with their napkins in their hands.
This is what they saw:
Up the center of the street a for­
lorn looking man walked. He was
very short, and rather heavy-set.
His clothes were dirty and torn. His
shoes were covered with dust. His
face was very sad, and he walked
slowly, hanging his head. There
was only one proud touch to his
whole figure, and that was a pair of
pince-nez spectacles balanced on his
big nose.
Behind the man, keeping a safe
distance as if there still might be
some dynamite in him, a large
crowd walked, shouting and whis­
tling its derision. The derision was >
ten times louder than it would other- ,
wise have been because this was ,
the first lim e the people of AAino
had ever been able to express their
feelings toward this man. Even be­
hind their own closed doors they
had held their tongues about Mayor
Nasta in the past, because he
seemed to have ears in every house,
and his eyes peeked in every win--
dow, and his punishments were
sadistic.
But now they shouted what they
thought.
“ Fascist Pig,” they shouted. This
was what they shouted most.
But they also shouted: "The mur­
derer always goes back to the scene
of his crim e!”
Captain Purvis pulled his pistol
They also shouted: "Where is
out of his pocket.
Mayor Nasta's whip now?”
Curiously the two women shout­ many people stuck their heads In
ed, and there was a kind of pride in the door at the end of the Major's
the way they shouted.
office, which had once been the May­
There was a priest in the crowd, or's office, to have a look at him in
his disheveled condition, and to
and he shouted: "Blasphemer!”
There were some children in the laugh at him to his face.
Major Joppolo said to Zito and
crowd, and they ran along shout­
Giuseppe: " I want to have a talk
ing: "P ig ! Pig! P ig!”
The anger of the mob bordered with Mayor Nasta alone. Go and
on violence. When the unhappy tell the people in the other offices
Mayor got opposite the Albergo dei that I do not want to be disturbed,
Pescatori one of the women raised not even by a cracking open of that
her arm and threw a plum at him. door. I do not even want to be dis­
It missed him and splashed in the turbed by the brushing of ears on
the keyhole.”
street.
"Yes, Mister M ajor,” Zito said.
A boy of twelve threw a stone.
"No, Mister M ajor,” Giuseppe
Then several brickbats flew, and
the shouts of long repressed hatred said.
Major Joppolo sat at the desk and
became shrieks of revenge.
Captain Purvis looked at Major said brusquely: “ Sit down.”
Mayor Nasta sat in one of the
Joppolo and M ajor Joppolo s?id:
chairs in front of the desk.
“ We’ve got to put a stop to this.”
“ Well, what is it that you wish?”
Captain Purvis was not a subtle
American, but he was a brave one. M ajor Joppolo said.
Mayor Nasta brushed his hand
He ran out in the street between
Mayor Nasta and the crowd. He along the wood of the desk patheti­
held up his hand and shouted: cally, and he said: " I t seems
"Stop! Stop,” you ignorant fools.” strange to be sitting on the wrong
The crowd kept coming. A stone side of this desk.”
Major Joppolo said: " I t may seem
flew past Captain Purvis toward
stranger to sit on the wrong side of
Mayor Na3ta.
Captain Purvis pulled his pistol the bars of your municipal jail. What
out of his pocket. That was enough. do you want?”
Mayor Nasta rearranged the
The ones in front held back the oth­
ers, and the mob halted in the pince-nez on his nose, but he did not
street. Captain Purvis went back look Major Joppolo in the eye as he
said: “ I just want a chance. Mister
to the sidewalk.
Mayor Nasta, seeing that he was M ajor."
“ You want a chance!” Major Jop­
saved, ran over to his deliverers,
and he stood in the gutter blubber­ polo spoke angrily. "To whom did
ing his thanks. “ Americans! Oh, you ever give a chance?”
“ I have thought it over,” Mayor
my friends. Thank you for saving
me from these ungrateful people. Nasta said. " I have been all alone
I have served them for years and for days. It was awful at night. I
see how they behave. I am all have thought It over, Mister Major.
alone, Americans. I have been in I want to help If I can.”
“ How many years were you in
the hills all alone for days. No one
would stay with me. All the others office?”
“ Nine, Mister M ajor.”
gave themselves up. I have thought
“ After nine years in office, you
everything over. I wish to help you
if 1 can. . .
And he rattled on, have thought It all over, have you?
After nine years of graft and steal­
his voice going higher and higher.
Someone in the mob shouted: ing and keeping these people down,
“ Mister Major, if you help that man you’ ve thought it over, you want to
help, do you?”
you are not our friend.”
“ You have other Fascists in office
M ajor Joppolo acted quickly to
save the situation. He walked into here. I saw the face of D'Arpa a
the street and held up his hand O r minute ago. I saw Tagliavla who
silence; he was careful to make it was my Maresciallo of Finance. I
his left hand, so that it would not saw Gargano of the Carabinieri. If
you could use these, why not Nas­
be mistaken for a Fascist salute.
'Go home, people. I w ill take ta, the Mayor?”
" I 4iave a new Mevor, and a bet­
care of this man as he deserves. He
ter one.”
ts under arrest.”
This hurt. “ Who Is this Mayor?"
"Bellanca the Noturlo, an honest
man. much more honest than U*e
former Mayor.”
And the former Muyor said: "Yes,
Bellanca is honest. But surely you
have something for Nasta to do? 1
would accept something less than
Mayor." Nasta rubbed the wood of
the desk wistfully. “ There is not
much left of the old Nasta." he said.
" I would accept something less thun
Mayor."
Mujor Joppolo's eyes grew an­
gry. He stood up abruptly. “ Oh,
you would, would you? Yes. 1 huve
something for you to do. You are
to report every morning to Ser­
geant Borth of the American Army.
You w ill And him in the Fusclo.
That is all you have to do each
day. But see that you do It. Nus-
ta, or you w ill be put In ja il.“
“ You mean that Nasta has be­
come a common probationer?"
“ Oh, so Nasta Is fam iliar with the
practice of putting people on proba­
tion? That is very genteel of you,
Nasta. I thought all your punish­
ments were more Ingenious thun
that."
“ Please be generous with me."
Nasta said. “ Please give me some
work to do.”
“ Generous? Nasta. what do you
cxjiect? For the crimes you hove
committed against the people of
Adano. you deserve to be shot out­
right. without a trial. You certain­
ly never would give a fuir trial, un­
less It brought you some kind of
profit. I am being more than gen­
erous. I am putting youRin proba­
tion. See that you behave, you Fas­
cist.”
Mayor Nusta was obsequious now.
“ Yes, Mister M ajor," he said.
“ What did you say was the name
of the American officer to whom 1
must report?”
"H is name is Borth, and he is
not an officer. He is a sergeant.
You are not worth an officer, Nas­
ta."
"Yes. Mister Major.”
This is how it happened that May­
or Nasta reported once every morn­
ing to Sergeant Borth at the Fas-
cio. Because four or five people
followed the Mayor everywhere he
went out of curiosity and hatred,
there was a small audience on hand
the next morning when he reported
to Sergeant Borth for the first time.
The audience enjoyed what it saw
and heard, for this kind of situation
was meat for Sergeant Borth, who
thought the whole war was a joke.
The tattered Nasta stepped into
one of the M P. offices, rearranged
his pince-nez. and said: “ Where w ill
I find the Sergeant Borth?"
“ I am Borth.”
“ I am Nasta.”
“ Oho," roared Sergeant Borth He
stood up. rubbing his hands. "So
you are the Mayor. I understand
that you have come to Adano to re­
pent your sins. Is that right, noble
Mayor?"
“ 1 was told that I was to report
here each morning. I was to re­
port, not be humiliated, Sergeant.”
"You w ill call me Mister Ser­
geant."
Mayor Nasta snorted, from his
long habit of snorting.
Borth said sharply: “ Listen, Nas­
ta, I know more about you than you
know about yourself You be care­
ful how you behave here. Now, an­
swer my questions civilly. Is it cor­
rect that you came to Adano to
repent your sins?"
Mayor Nasta was white with an­
ger, but he said: “ I suppose you
might say so."
“ Thank you," Borth said with ex­
aggerated politeness. “ In that case
you w ill repent one sin each morn­
ing when you report to Sergeant
Borth. Would you like to choose
your own sins, or would you like
Sergeant Borth to choose them for
you?”
Mayor Nasta couldn’t keep him­
self from snorting.
” 1 see," said Borth, with his over­
politeness, "you would like Borth to
choose. Very well, let’s see. This
morning we w ill discuss the sin of
your disgraceful running away from
your post In the face of the Ameri­
can invasion. What is this sin called,
Mayor Nasta?”
“ What do you mean, what is It
called?”
“ You are at a loss for words?
Very well, Borth w ill answer his
own question. It is called the sin
ol cowardice.”
Mayor Nasta snorted.
"No matter what side you were
on, no matter if you were on the
side of the crooks, it was a sin to
run away, was It not, Mayor?”
Mayor Nasta rearranged his
pince-nez with a trembling hand.
“ Answer my question: did you or
did you not give rifles to the Cara­
binieri and grenades to the Finance
Guards, make them a beautiful
speech about fighting to the last
man, and then run to the hills?”
Mayor Nasta said with a trem ­
bling voice: "You tell me, clever
Sergeant.”
Sergeant Borth shouted: “ Answer
me, probationer.”
Mayor Nasta said quietly: “ I did,
Sergeant.”
"M ister Sergeant!”
" I did, Mister Sergeant.”
"Are you sorry for this disgrace­
ful sin, Nasta?”
Mayor Nasta could hear the peo­
ple snickering behind him.
He said meekly: “ I am. Mis'et
Sergeant."
T H E S T O R Y T H U S F A R : T h e A m e r i­
c a * tro o p s a r r iv e d a t A d a n o , « l i b M a jo r
J o p p o lo , tb e A m g o t o B te e r la r h a r g e .
S e rg e a n t B o r tit w a s la c-barga o f aocturi-
ty .
T h e M a jo r w a a d e te r m to e d Io r e ­
p la c e th e to w n b e ll H o le a h y th e N a a la ,
a n d In o th e r w a y s to b o lld c o n fid e n c e
a m o n g tb e p e o p le .
H e w a n te d to a t a r i
th e B s h e rm e n o u t a tta in a n d a r r a n g e d
w ith L ie u t . L iv in g s to n , s e n io r n a v a l oflt
c o r , to o p e n th e w a le r a to th e ir b o a ta . H e
a llo w e d (h e c a r ls to e n te r th e c it y w ith
food a n d w a t e r , d e s p ite o r d e r s fr o m G e n ­
e r a l M a r v in (h a t th e c a r ta be k e p t out o l
th e c it y . C a p t. P a r v is r e p o r te d to h e a d ­
q u a r t e r s th e c a r t o r d e r s g iv e n by the
M a jo r , by s en din g off the d e la y e d le t t e r
to h e a d q u a r te r s .
UTTON drama takes the spot­
light in the summer showings of
B
America's leading designers. But­
tons of every size and description
are giving dramatic accent to the
smartest hats, bags, belts and
gloves in addition to providing
glamour trimmings for every type
of dress from sports to form al eve­
ning gowns. More highly important
news about buttons is that they have
become the latest inspiration to cos­
tume jewelry designers.
This vogue for button decor on
simple wartime fashions offers a par­
ticularly happy inspiration to home
dressmakers with a th rifty eye on
makeovers. With a wonderful array
of plastic buttons in jeweled, floral
and lacy effects available at the no­
tion counters of local sewing cen­
ters, along with a variety of decora­
tive ceramic button styles and love­
ly simulated metal buttons with
jeweled centers, it's easy for any
amateur
to
glamorize
simple
clothes and accessories with button
magic.
You can get buttons from thumb
to oversized and bulky types and
you can get expert advice at sew­
ing centers as to size, style and
color of buttons with relation to the
garment they w ill adorn, or the ac­
cessory they are to dramatize. For
instance, a simple black bareback
dress with a modish white cape as
shown in the illustration (right) can
be given unusual distinction by add­
ing a scalloped border of black
fabric to the cape fronts accenting
each scallop with a huge flower­
shaped aqua plastic button.
The
costume touch is achieved by using
buckles for the dress belt that match
the cape buttons.
The two-piece suit-dress of violet
featherweight flannel to the lett
shows what an amateur teen-ager
Styled for Summer
can- do in glamorizing her simple
clothes with button decor by taking
her cue from high-fashion. For in­
stance, new chic is given to
her classic felt beanie cap by scal­
loping the edges and sewing plas­
tic buttons on in pleasing array.
The accessorizing trick is repeated
in her matching drum-shaped hand­
bag with buttons ranged around the
top and bottom cuffs. B illiard green
braid trim m ing outlines the collar-
less bellhop jacket with weskit-like
fronts. The heart-shaped pocket with
button-made ornament perched high
on either side of the front opening
and the bracelet length sleeves are
chic details.
Possibilities for giving button
fillip to accessories are endless
Note centered above in the group il­
lustrated above how easily the popu­
lar wide headband can be glorified
with diagonal rows of white but­
tons, widely spaced across the sur­
face of the band.
If you want to dress up a pair of
plain gloves, look for those irresist­
ible ceramic buttons that are per
feet reproductions of fresh flowers
They can be anchored on the top of
the glove as shown at upper right
corner, in a twinkling with just a
few stitches. For a charming en­
semble repeat the buttons on a vel­
vet band worn about the throat.
One of the really smart ideas for
your velvet-banded snood is to stud
the mesh (shown circled below)
with tiny pink lacy buttons. You'll
find this idea plenty glamorous for
daytime or evening wear.
Buttons used in a jewelry way
present a most fascinating new
theme. They are fashioned into hat­
pins. earrings, cuff links, fobs,
brooches, hair ornaments, necklaces
and bracelets. Tiny flower buttons
can easily be transformed into ear­
rings by pasting the fastener gadget
from an old pair to the backs of the
buttons.
R e le a s e d by W e s te r n N e w s p a p e r U n io n .
Lovely White Frocks
Of Organdy, Piq ue
Those pretty-pretty black sheers
and those gay and lovely print
frocks that every woman loves
have a rival this summer. It’s the
simple white frock made of dainty
sheers, pique or eyeleted sheers.
These “ simple whites” bring with
them all the romance and feminine
charm of the yester years. There's
nothing prettier for a young girl
than a youthfully styled white-upon-
white shadow print organdy with
a subtle touch of exquisite lace here
and there. This is exactly what they
are showing this year for summer
dress-up wear. This seasons eye­
leted white fabrics are too lovely
for words and they are made up
in most intriguing ways, minus fuss
or furbelows, for the beautiful ma­
terial speaks for itself. Eyeleted
pique vies with the eyeleted sheers.
Handpainting on white organdy or
crepe is a feature being much ex­
ploited.
Flower ff reathx and Jahots
Meet one of fa ah.on'» prettiest pin­
up summer girls Here she is per­
fectly styled in a iw m n w jr all-white
ensemble save for a dash of color in
the contrast piping that finishes ,if
the short sleeves and breast pockets
The idea of color accent on white is
one designers are interpreting in
many ways. Contrast piping ¡" nne
way of doing it as here shown, also
colorful embroidery on white is very
much in evidence. The wide-brim
hat and the modish fishnet-trimmed
bag also make all-white their theme
The many new ways of wearing
flowers introduced this season be­
speak infinite glamour for the forth­
coming ‘‘summer g irl.” This year
it is the flower wreath she w ill
wear on her pretty head, matched
with flowers at her throat arranged
in the new jabot silhouette which is
perfectly charming.
Pan-American Colors
Vivid Pan-American colors enliven
-imart sportswear fashions. A m id­
r i f f play dress of black window pane
checks on blue cotton is trimmed
with a magenta cord at neckline and
,|*eves The magenta is repeated
on an embroidered hemline about
th* «kiri.
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