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-
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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
. „ ,
.
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$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. .<You J , „
™
you DO IT, SO |. '
wherever she is — she probably is onlv
so Iono
,/a ;
CAN BE PROUD
laughing! Aunt Abbey knew that
° S »
“ methmgL
OF MINE.
I Mrs. Farraday would never be able shot that calls forP jZ °U
3 aome t0 3
' to resist living up to that rug!”
1
’ f°r 3 No’ 3 or 8 No
Iron. You are not certain which.
The right thing to do is to say this
needs a three iron or a four iron—
Cities Grant Pay Increases
Atk Mother, She Know» , , .
and forget the rest of it. But the
Clobber Girl I, the baking powder
odds
are
you’ll
be
undecided
when
To Help Meet Rising Costs
with the balanced double action , . .
Scores of cities are granting pay y°U b*1 ?be ‘sbot niaybe trying to
Helps keep me
on my feet/
H
SCOn'S EMULSION
//arsA ¿exert/yes
are
necessary
far m osfpeop/e
QUICKER
FOLFY’Ç
' ULtI
.1
.
.
.
Right, in tho mixing bowl; Light, from
tho oven.
•
help them meet increased living
,
costs. In Cleveland the mayor
~be Pressure ¡s terrific," Locke
agreed to grant pay raises to muni-
muni added- “Recently I had two 70s
cipal employees which will cost the -four under par for the first two
city $2,100,000 this year. Fire and rounds. That isn’t bad golf. There is
police personnel received a $240 a nothing wicked about it.
-- Yet
— . I was
year increase, plus six new holi-
strokes back of the leader,
days to be added to annual fur-1 wbo
then was 12 strokes under j
loughs.
i Par< There are times when you get
White collar employees of Cleve- a ^eebng of hopelessness—of ‘what’s
land will get a $180 annual raise if the use?'—four under par yourself
they make less than $3,000 a year. , and ci8ht strokes from the top.”
The.r increase will be «5 P erce« Too Many Good One,
if they make more than
•
n , I There are few golfers
In this pack
nually.
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Pittsburgh councilmen earmarked
'of”
consist'
$1,200,000 for municipal pay raises. I h ( d
r ’ ♦ (h8<?n 3nd Si,raznn
Biggest pay boosts went to em -' b ghd 7 L f \ there are any num-
ployees receiving $2,000 a year or 1 bC W ° suddenly can turn and rip
less.
a course to P ie ce s-B e n Hogan,
Chicago’s record city budget for Dcniaret> 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
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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