o u th e r n O re g o n N ew s R e v ie w , T h u r s d a y , N o v e m b e r 20, 1947
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‘ THE BARGAIN’
Save needless hours of repair
By MRS. W. E. ABBOTT
work by catching sm all tea rs and
tiny rips prom ptly. Besides, if you
darn a sm all tear, the rep air job
Emma Haines wakened with d iffi aimin' to give you a piece of Umt
will be less conspicuous.
culty from her early rooming sleep. m eat."
“ Leave her be. I ’ ll be down.’*
A moment Inter he appeared In
the yard, his overalls drawn hastily
over his pajamas. He looked
sheepish.
It's all right, Em m a," he said.
"T hat’s our pig now."
“ O urs!" cried Emma. "Oh, no,
not th a t!"
Seth ran his hands nervously
through his hair. "You see, 1 just
couldn't bear seeing that hog look
ing the way she did, all run down
and thin and neglected. So I traded
one of our pigs to Slatterly for her.
That gave them meat, and I thought
I could maybe fatten her up."
Emma
stared ut him
open-
mouthed.
“ Although I gotta admit, she Is an
outlaw." suid Seth. "M ay have to
get rid of her after a ll."
“ May have to !" cried Emma.
“ May have to, indeed! What about
my watermelons? You certainly
w ill have to !"
Seth grinned and wiggled his toes
in the grass like a small boy.
"Whatever you say, Em m a." he
That noise! What was it? It was
Emma softened She walked in
lik * watei swirling rapidly down a side and looked at the m eat It
drain. Her brain cleared, and she
looked good. “ Watermelons must
heaved her great bulk out of bed.
make good hog feed.” muttered
Only one thing sounded like that!
Emma to herself.
The outlaw pig belonging to Ed
"M a ’am ?" said Ed Slatterly.
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.
Slatterly was raiding her garden
" I said that would be nice," re
D not let T u rkish towels be- again. Probably wanted more of her plied Emma. "We'd love having
’ because scrub- prize watermelons She'd show her! some fresh meat. It's very kind of
bing w ears them out.
Hastily she thrust her feet into slip you.”
pers, put a house dress over her
With the help of one of the boys,
nightgown, and started for the door. Ed took the pig down from the hook
There she was, the demon! She'd and cut off one of the hams for
know that bony, stubborn figure Emma.
‘“ That's too much,” she said
anywhere.
firm ly.
“ Get out of there, you ornery
"No, M a'am ," he said. “ I have a
creature!" Emma picked up the
lot
of young ’uns, and they eat
To g et quick and satisfying: relief nearest stone and threw it with all
from coughs due to colds, mix this her strength at the skinny sow. The hearty, but the weather is warm.
recipe in your kitchen. Once tried, pig grunted and ran toward the hole
you’ll never be without i t
F irs t make a syrup by stirring 3 under the garden fence, which she
cups granulated sugar and one cup of had prepared for herself. She
water a few moments, until dissolved. squeezed her gaunt frame under the
A child could do it. No cooking wire, grunting noisily. Emma threw
needed. Or you can use corn syrup or another stone, and the sow trotted
liquid honey, instead of sugar syrup.
Then get 2H ounces of Finex from off down the road toward home.
any druggist. This is a special com
Emma sputtered to Seth all dur
pound of proven ingredients, in con ing breakfast about the sow.
centrated form, well-known fo r its
‘She's against everything I’ ve
quick action on throat and bronchial
Irritations.
ever seen in nature,” complained
Put the Pinex in a pint bottle, and Emma. “ Eats watermelons, of all
fill up with your syrup. This makes a things! Of all the truck I have in
fu ll pint of splendid medicine and you
get about four times as much for my garden, those melons are the
your money. Never spoils. Tastes fine. things I prize most. And doesn't
And for quick, blessed relief, it is that cussed pig know that? She
surprising. You can feel it take hold makes for the melons every tim e.”
in a way that means business. I t
Seth ’didn't say much. After all,
loosens the phlegm, soothes the ir r i
tated membranes, and eases the sore he was more than ordinarily fond
ness. Thus it makes breathing easy, of pigs, all pigs. He loved to raise
and lets you sleep. Money refunded
them, see them grow large and con
if not pleased in every way.
tented
from good feeding. Anyone
P in e x l a S w if t A c tin g !
had only to look at his fifty fat hogs
to know Seth enjoyed caring for
them.
Emma sighed. “ I'd go over to see
“ Get out of there, you ornery creature!” Emma picked up the
Slatterly today, if I didn't have so
nearest stone and threw it with all her strength at the skinny sow.
much to do. I'll try to go tomorrow.
It's simply got to stop! Those trashy Meat won’ t keep too long. You take
said meekly. “ Whatever you say.
swamp folk w ill have to learn to it right along home."
my dear."
keep their stock to home!”
‘ T h a t’s mighty fine of you, Ed
Seth hadn't been married thirty
I It was three days before Emma Slatterly," said Emma. Her con
years for nothing. He knew the
found time to visit the Slatterlys. It science was beginning to hurt.
value of silence. He knew with ce r-'
was two miles back to their shack
Emma carried the ham all the tainty that this was not the time to
at the edge of the swamp, but way home and put it in the refriger mention that he had promised the
Emma was a hearty fifty-year-old ator to cool. Meat was expensive, Slatterlys a dozen of Emma's prize
woman, and she loved the walk and the thought of a roast of fresh watermelons, as soon as they were
through the fields and wood lots. ham made her happy.
ripe, to complete the deaL
Several of the Slatterly children
She was at peace with the world
were playing around the cabin. when she went to bed that night.
They w’ere handsome children, in
Early the next morning she woke
WHEN CONSTIPATION makes you feel
spite of their dirty, unkempt ap up in confusion. That peculiar sound
punk as the dickens, brings on stomach
pearance.
so“r taste, gassy discomfort.
again. Water, going rapidly round
Dr. Caldwell’s famous medicine
“ Where's your Dad?” said Emma and round in a drain. No! It
to quickly pull the trigger on lazy “in
couldn’t be! She sat up. There
shortly to the oldest boy.
nards”, and help you feel bright and
chipper again.
wasn't another pig anywhere that
“ Paw !” yelled the boy.
DR. CALDWELL’S is the wonderful sen
sounded quite like that.
Ed Slatterly appeared at the door
na laxative contained in good old Syrup
She bounded out of bed and hit
Pepsin to make it so easy to take.
of a shed behind the house. He was
MANY DOCTORS use pepsin prepara
a small, wizened man. Emma had the floor with a thud. Slippers, the Don’t Forget to Compliment
house dress over her nightgown, the
Them
tions in prescriptions to make the medi
never seen him when he wasn’t flying trip to the garden. She rubbed
cine more palatable and agreeable to
One
of
the
most
effective salesmen
chewing
tobacco.
She
walked
to
take. So be sure your laxative is con
her eyes. It was Slatterly’s sow!
tained in Syrup Pepsin.
wards him. Over his shoulder she There couldn’t be two such pigs in I have ever known accomplishes his
looked inside the shed. There hung all the world.
near miracles in business, not by
INSIST ON DR. CALDWELL’S—the fa
vorite of millions for 50 years, and feel
a butchered pig.-
any
intellectual system, but by fol
Dazedly she picked up a stone to
that wholesome relief from constipa
lowing one of the simplest of all
“ Oh,” she said. “ That your pig throw at the creature.
tion. Even finicky children love i t
plans I know for impressing others
Ed?",
CAUTION : Use only as directed.
“ Emma.” Seth’s voice was call
“ Yes. Ma’am,” he replied. “ I was ing from the bedroom window. favorably.
He compliments his customers.
They like it so much they buy from
him. They also form an attachment
to him which makes it next to im
possible for a competitor to come
in and make sales.
A ll great leaders from the begin
ning of the world have found that
i f they can compliment others prop
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erly and judiciously they are em
S o la tio n In N e x t Is s u e .
ploying an aid which is beyond price
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promptly relieve cough* off
it is so valuable.
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When you compliment a person, it
father
shows that you are interested in him
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and want to please him. In you that
bird
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person secs a reflection of his own
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sight
desires. And that’s what makes us
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like others—a reflection of the things \
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we like most in ourselves.
measure
Of course I am not recommending
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flattery. When a compliment degen
care of
erates, it becomes mere flattery; it
another
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is not a boon but a handicap to
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friendship. You can’t trust flattery.
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We feel we can trust compliments.
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This salesman I am telling you
the Bard of—
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about never makes the mistake of
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flattering his customers.
person
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“ What I try to do with every man
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literary work
is find out what he wants to hear
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about himself,” he explained. " I
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energy
never
compliment him upon things
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that are obvious—that others com
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pliment him upon. About those
point
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things he gets tired of hearing. But
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all of u; yearn to have somebody
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tell us about some other excellence
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vious."
month
guard in the Collector Tube Trap.
That is a shrewd observation on
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It ’s made of acidproof glass cloth,
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human nature. I remember reading
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ilar
which can’t rot and thus allow
how bored John D. Rockefeller was
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p o llu tio n of
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when
complimented upon his busi
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the engine oil.
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capital
ness success. He wanted to hear
Don’t take a
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measure (pi.)
something else. The thing he want
panied
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chance on dirty
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burden on
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to hear was praise about his
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Japanese
household economies. And Andrew
tured cheese
ending
admiral
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and be sure.
Carnegie wasn't nearly so proud of
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nickel
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having given away so many m il
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for liquids
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lions of dollars as he was of his
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BUY WHERE YOU SEE THIS SIGN
sodium
American
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deity
ability as a public speaker.
rodent
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infinitivc
The point I am making is that if
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you
want your compliments to do
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the most good you have to ferret out
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superficially
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little things which the other person
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would like to hear somebody say
publication
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does is to make his compliments
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ring true. He isn't fulsome about
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