r a FICTION cœv£/? My fattier was one of the men wne took Skippy's little body out of the water that night. My mother sat NEEDLEW ORK PATTERNS with Mrs. Furraday when they brought him home. Dora Farraday didn't come home at all. She sent a telegram. It arrived Just as they were bringing Skippy’s body Into To obtain com plete crocheting In itru c - the house. Dora had left Skippy Ilona, allteh Illustration« and hill d lie c - thins tor crocheted pin up pincushion alone by the lake to elope to New (I'.itt r r ii No. 0702) send 20 ernt» In coin, York with her new beuu. your tia m t, addre»»« and pattern num ber. Ellen continued at school; she had always been very quiet. And after 'T 'llE Pacific Coast league believes . f . KS .,N P < 'K ‘ I K N F K Ill.F W O R K Ml««lon HI., Han Frani l.r u , «'»Ilf. awhile. Mrs. Farraday went about, ..........«no snouui it is a major league and should Kncloss 20 cents for psttern tho town again, holding her head bt' recognized. Purt of this belief Nn very high, smiling her fixed, gay will ""— come *— true * In a day not too fur Neme smile. Only Mr Farraday seem ed! ■ way. At least, no Addreee . » changed. He aged visibly that year. one can deny that Nobody was surprised when the Erank Lefty O’Doul cold he caught Just before Christ­ of San Francisco mas turned into pneumonia. The and Casey Stengel doctors said that he Just hadn’t the of Oakland are big will to live. league managers, Dora came home when her father slightly better than died. Mrs. Farraday sent her the the average brand. money. Dora's husband had left her Casey believes the and Dora had been working in New Pacific Coast should York, clerking in a store. People be set up as un in- thought that perhaps she'd stay d e p e n d e n t big league. STENGEL “Where do most of the stars come from?" he nsks. "Joe DiMaggio, Dorn DiMaggio. Ted Williams. Ralph Kiner, Ewell Blackwell, Joe Gordon, Johnny Pesky—I could keep on all day. Why I is the Coast league surrounded by J^say many aid folks big league scouts? They are thicker . than ballplayers.” I asked Casey who were the best about good tasting i men coming up this next spring. SCOTT'S EMULSION “You can keep your eye on two,” | he said. "Chesnes and Fitzgerald, Thousand« o f happ y i both with Pittsburgh. Chesnes can folk« know th io l Good- | pitch, play the infield and outfield ta a tln v Scott*« Em ulsion and hit plenty good. He is one of help« you w a rd o f f e o ld s -h s lp s you ERE’S the cleverest thing you • w e ll f a s t e r —a n d help« you keep the most valuable all-around ball­ f f o l n f a t r o n r w h e n y o u r d ie t need« ever saw . . . a dainty butter­ players I ever saw. The only hitch m ore n a tu ra l A A D V it a m in . 1 Rrott*« la is that he finished last season with fly pincushion crocheted in the a H IG H E N E R G Y F O O D T O N I C — a sore arm. That won’t hurt him in pineapple motif. The four ‘cush­ ric h In nnfM raf A A R V ita m in « and e n e rry .b u ild in g n a tu ra l the infield or outfleld. ions' are mode in pink and blue oil. T r y I t l See how w ell yen I itzgerald is a fine young cotton, the body or center is in yel­ R • I h'aey to ta ke and digeat. catcher who will improve and soon low with the thimble pocket in Econom ical. Duy today a t yo jy drug store I be a star. These two players cost white to match the wing edges. Pittsburgh plenty. I believe Chesnes MORI than just a tonic — and Fitzgerald, under Meyers, will it'/powerful nourithmeall be two valuable men. Crocheted Butterfly Pincushion. KNEW the Farraday family be- I had always thought Aunt Abbey dis- ___ A t___ llU.J __ all _«« A t. . . . remarks * fore it happened. I T knew them liked 1 her; those unkind first when I was nine and Ellen she used to make. But now she was Farraday was eight and in my class grateful for the rug and meant to at school. keep It. There were two other Farraday Since the narrow living room at children: Skippy, the baby, who the Farradays was too small for the was five, and Dora, seventeen, just rug, Mr. Farraday was persuaded entering business school. Dora was to sell the home and rent a house engaged to marry Danny Wright, with larger rooms. Their old stuff w’ho ran the service-station in town. looked pretty shabby against the Mr. Farraday was branch manager rug. so with the money from the of our local bank. “Such a nice, sale of the home they bought new quiet man,” people said. “If only , furniture. And after awhile, because that wife of his were not such a of the friends they acquired in the fool.” new surroundings, the Farradays I didn't think Mrs. Farraday was bought a new car, too. a fool. I liked her. The sprawling I saw less of Ellen now. except at old Farraday house, with its sag­ school. Gradually my visits to the ging porch, was always in need of repair, the shabby living-room would be cluttered and dishes un­ washed, but Mrs. Farraday was never too busy to plan games for rainy afternoons or picnics in sum­ mer in their rickety old car. She was little and quick and dark, with rather kittenish ways; always thinking up something new and "ex­ citing"—like the dress she designed for Dora that won the prize in the Easter parade. There was nothing I loved more than going over to the Farraday house whenever I had the chance. Saturday mornings they always had pancakes; Sundays they had sau­ sages and Boston baked beans and applesauce in a blue glass dish. And they had laughter. A great deal of laughter—except when Aunt Abbey came to call. Aunt Abbey was Mr. Farraday’s aunt, a very rich, very unpleasant old lady who lived in an imposing granite house at the end of town. It I was no secret that she disapproved bitterly of the entire Farraday fam­ ily. Why she visited them nobody Prospects for Season knew’, unless it was because, of all “The new owners in Pittsburgh her relatives, they refused to be im­ »V/ÖAf F M R & y T O N IC are out to get a winning team and pressed by her money or upset by given a little time I know they'll her caustic tongue. They merely accepted her, all but Mrs. F arra­ She’d taken Skippy to the picnic, arrive. It probably won’t happen Save yourself breadboard wash­ day. who seemed to like having hadn t she. She should not have this year, with the Dodgers, Braves, ing by covering the board with a Aunt Abbey around. Curiously gone off with that beau of hers, Cardinals and Giants in the way. “I'll give you a team that can win sheet of waxed paper. Then flour enough, it was of Mrs. Farraday leaving the child alone by the lake. that National league pennant,” and roll the dough. When fin­ herself that Aunt Abbey most bit­ Casey said. “I mean the Cardinals. ished, discard the paper. terly disapproved. If they get only fair pitching this “My nephew’s wife isn't fooling home now, since her mother needed season, they still have the best ball me,” she'd say. “Always pretend­ Take care of your feet now and her, but nobody really expected she club in their league. They can also ing to be so gay. What's she got to you won’t be bothered with foot would. Danny Wright was married use one more good catcher. Their be happy about. I’d like to know? If problems when you're older. now, to one of Dora's former class­ pitching wrecked them a year ago my nephew had married a sensible Wear comfortable shoes of the mates, a plain little girl with ador­ when Pollet and Dickson blew so woman, he’d have amounted to ing eyes. They came to Mr. F a rra ­ badly. They’ll have a better staff right size. Medium heels are best something by now.” day’s funeral, sitting closely to­ this season and will be hard to beat. for teens. "I declare,” my mother said, “it gether in the church. The week gives me the creeps, the way that “Another club that will cause a after the funeral Dora went back to lot of trouble will be Cincinnati. Farradays had ceased, partly be­ Take time out this winter to „ old lady looks at Mrs. Farraday. I cause my mother disapproved of her job in New York, and the day Blackwell alone can upset a pen­ teach your pre-schooler the mean­ The juice of a lemon in a glass of believe she really hates her.” after she left Mrs. Farraday came water, when taken first thing on aris­ “She hates them all," my father Dora Farraday’s new friends. Dora nant race, even if he can't quite win ing of traffic lights, how to use a ing, is all that most people need to to see my father about selling her on»« This Cincinnati team isn't bad handkerchief, and how to put on, said, “because they’ve got what she had always been a sweet, docile rug insure prompt, normal elimination. to pay her bills. never had. The Farradays have little thing, ambitious to get along. at all. Neither is Boston with Spahn fasten up, and take off his outdoor No m o re k i n k le a o t lv e i that irritate My father did his best; but this and Sain around. They were great clothing. This will make him o contentment. All Aunt Abbey has is Now she had given up business the digestive tract and impair nutri­ money, and when she's gone they’ll school. She had even broken off her was a depression year—and nobody pitchers when I was managing the more confident school child and be tion! Iximon in water is good for you! engagement to Danny Wright. Dora had money now for Oriental rugs. Braves. They are even better now. of inestimable help to his teacher. have that, too.” O o n o ra lio n , o f A m t r lt a m have taken Only they didn’t. Because when had a new beau now; one she'd met The five thousand dollars he finally The race in the National should be —• — lemons for health —and generations Aunt Abbey died the year Ellen through her “crowd.” Nobody liked got from a dealer barely paid for one of the best in many years.” of doctors have recommended them. To keep the pages of the cook- Mr. Farraday’s funeral and for him, but he was rich and he gave They are rich in vitamin C; supply Farraday was nine, she left them no Stengel is quite happy on the valuable amounts of Bt and P. They money at all. Her entire estate went Dora a good time. He had a weak, Mrs. Farraday’s debts. Mrs. F arra­ coast, and his Jousts with Lefty book open at a certain recipe, alkalinize, aid digestion. to charity, with one exception. She handsome face and a loud scoffing day got a job at the hotel. Her O'Doul have lured in many a cus­ snap a rubber band over the page left Mrs. Farraday a rug. It was an laugh. I’d see them together as I salary included room and board, so tomer. “All we need at Oakland." and the back of the book length­ Not too thorp or tour, lemon in water has a refreshing tang —clears the Oriental rug, exceptionally large walked home from school, dashing that Ellen could live with her, too. Casey said, “is a ball park about wise. It was storming hard the day they mouth, wakes you un. I t ’s not a and lovely; golden in color, satiny around town in his rakish car or twice or three times as big. We’d going into Van’s Place for drinks. purgative — simply helps your sys­ moved down there. We left them No Woman as Y et Has fill it.” to the touch, starred with dusty People felt sorry for Danny Wright. tem regulate iteelf. Try it 10 day». alone and drove home through the pink flowers. He’d been so crazy about Dora, and Set Foot on A ntarctica U SI CA IO O KNIA SUN KISt U M O N l "It’s a shame,” people said, always so glad to have Skippy and snow-covered town, passing the old Farraday house on the way. No­ f alue of Concentration “when those children need money Ellen around. The long cavalcade of golfers, so. But of course they can sell the FLORA'S new beau didn’t like chil- body lived in it now. Tears crowded Although Antarctica was discov­ behind my lids as we drove slowly which started from Los Angeles^ ered 127 years ago and has since rug. It's valuable and Orientals are Get Well dren. He objected to Skippy trail­ by. will cover terrain from the Pacific been visited by several thousand in vogue.” Then a dealer offered ing her about. Skippy was six now, “They were happy in that house," to the Atlantic — across Arizona, men on polar expeditions, no wom­ Mrs. Farraday $25,000 for her rug. very spoiled and rather a nuisance; The town rejoiced for the F arra­ but it seemed hardly fair to blame my father said. "A great pity they Texas, Louisiana into Florida—then an has yet set foot on this con­ F rom F o u r Cougg Ouo to o C o M days. This meant college for the Dora entirely for what happened at ever moved out of it. If Aunt Abbey up the coast through the Carolinas tinent whose 5,000,000 square knew what she was doing when she children and money to fix up the old the Elks’ picnic that year. Everyone and finally to the Masters' tourna­ miles constitute 9 per cent of the Cough C o « p o « ,d house. But, to the amazement of Elks’ picnic that year. Everyone made that will, then she must be ment in Georgia. world's land area. everyone, Mrs. Farraday stubborn­ said, though, that it was Dora’s laughing now in her grave.” It’s a long, long hike and a tough My mother spoke suddenly. way to make a living — especially ly refused to sell. She had always fault. She’d taken Skippy to the pic­ “That’s it!” she exclaimed. “She for 80 per cent of the parade who admired that rug, she said. She’d nic, hadn’t she? She should not have m o th e r , m o t h e r , been as surprised as anyone when gone off with that beau of hers, did know what she was doing. And must pay their own way and don’t k BAKE THE CLABBER GIRL WHAT'5 yoUR SECRET, t Aunt Abbey had left it to her. She leaving the child alone by the lake. I’m surprised that I never thought cut Into the money any too often. of it before.” WAV, MV DEAR, WITH WHAT MAKES ALL 1 Every shot can be worth from $100 “What do you mean?” My father C L A B B E R G IR L . „ , . - ------- ' $1,000. Those with a chanm tn YOUR CAKES SO- stared at her. Her voice had sound- Win know it. I B a k in g powder FINE, TELL ME, ed- cLrani5C i “The toughest part of the trip is to w on t you, HOW | d o in ^ ’kneW exa‘;fly what she was keep on concentrating,” one of the' doing! my mother said. “And ieaders said. . Man«rum, Dutch Harrl- 1948 includes pay increases of 8 5 “T ’ Snead- *urgol Palmer, these per cent for municipal employeesI 3",d fn?ny ° lh3rs whw suddenly can earning less than $5,000 a year, plus I ? ? hOt -and- burn up thin«s ~ a"d raises averaging $300 a year for later cool off. "This concentration hits you hard­ higher paid employees. est on the short side,” „nc veteran In Omaha, all city employees have been given a flat $15 per campaigner said. “On short pitches and putts you need touch and month wage boost. The increase will chips ®*"ps an? pu,ls J'0“ affect approximately 1,260 workers, i ™ *’ i “ . controt ,f you are • New York City boosted the sal-! 5 J?rky you are «®nc Full aries of 42 top city officials. The !’h°ts d°n ‘ b<,‘hcr us too much. It’s action added $86,000 to this year’i those short ones that demand smoothness and touch. n n v ro ll 9 T*r CLABBER GIRL Jfhatta job for Karo?'and ..the mentholatum Qfflcfc MENTHOLATUM w re5£ andn5orl ingna no8trila have your.nose twins thoV.two famou", fnat-acting in- gredienta that help thin out thick mucus, reduce swelling, aootlio cold-inflamed membranes. Don’t