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 ^FICTION (xww ‘ 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. r»„ . 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 Horizontal 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 1 Silkworm promptly relieve cough* off it is so valuable. 2 1 J 5 4 6 4 Colloquial: 7 8 9 10 When you compliment a person, it father shows that you are interested in him 6 Long-legged 11 12 13 14 and want to please him. In you that bird 11 Pertaining to person secs a reflection of his own IS 16 17 ?18 sight desires. And that’s what makes us 13 To vex like others—a reflection of the things \ 19 20 15 P rinter’s 21 22 23 we like most in ourselves. measure Of course I am not recommending 16 One under the 24 25 26 27 28 flattery. When a compliment degen­ care of erates, it becomes mere flattery; it another 29 30 31 18 101 is not a boon but a handicap to 32 33 19 To depart friendship. You can’t trust flattery. 21 G irl’ s name 34 35 We feel we can trust compliments. 36 37 22 Shakespeare, This salesman I am telling you the Bard of— 38 39 40 about never makes the mistake of 41 42 43 44 24 Valorous flattering his customers. person ' ?<- 47 26 Scandinavian 4S 46 “ What I try to do with every man 48 49 literary work is find out what he wants to hear 28 Unit of 50 51 H about himself,” he explained. " I 52 53 54 energy never compliment him upon things 29 To rub out that are obvious—that others com­ 55 56 57 1 31 Compass 58 59 60 pliment him upon. About those point 1 things he gets tired of hearing. But 33 Symbol for 61 62 63 64 tellurium all of u; yearn to have somebody 34 Infirm tell us about some other excellence AC “5-Star Quality” Oil Filter 65 36 To check 56 of ours—one that isn’t quite so ob­ 57 Elements have an exclusive safe­ 38 Hebrew vious." month guard in the Collector Tube Trap. That is a shrewd observation on 40 Small brook It ’s made of acidproof glass cloth, No. 41 human nature. I remember reading 42 Sim ilar which can’t rot and thus allow how bored John D. Rockefeller was 45 Also p o llu tio n of 3 Exists 38 Garret 47 To rend when complimented upon his busi­ < 1 Norwegian the engine oil. 4 To peel 39 Covered stalls 49 Cloth capital ness success. He wanted to hear Don’t take a 5 Unaccom­ 41 Haunt 53 To put a measure (pi.) something else. The thing he want­ panied 43 Horn chance on dirty 50 Former burden on ed to hear was praise about his 6 Smooth-tex­ 44 Plural o il. Buy AC 57 B y Japanese household economies. And Andrew tured cheese ending admiral 58 Symbol for and be sure. Carnegie wasn't nearly so proud of 7 Tatter 46 King of 52 Small vessel nickel 8 Plane surface having given away so many m il­ Bashan 60 W rath for liquids 48 South 9 Symbol for lions of dollars as he was of his 62 B y 54 Babylonian BUY WHERE YOU SEE THIS SIGN sodium American 64 P a rt ol deity ability as a public speaker. rodent 10 To convoy 55 Pronoun infinitivc The point I am making is that if 56 Rigorous 12 Above you want your compliments to do A n s w e r ta P a s ila N u m b e r 411 59 Eleven 14 To burn the most good you have to ferret out 61 Swiss cottage S t A superficially A 3 ? 8 0 ¡ ü T d little things which the other person 63 Head of a T R U A N T 17 To surge HI S p i D would like to hear somebody say publication A M A NA 20 Aloud 1 A 3 I about him. 65 Shop I E R A L 23 Brother of A A L The next thing my salesman friend 66 French Odin Q N US S. 1 T E 7 T E article does is to make his compliments ,.n. your "4O’«” I Doe* thle F E H A L 3U E 3 T 24 Pronoun far mlddl«-ase' period pecul- D 67 Unit ring true. 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