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Thursday, June 17, 1937 THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON BRIGHT STAR Beguiling Silk Sheets This Summer n........... .................................................. By CHERIE NICHOLAS the porch. Dorrie (fame running up the stairs. C opyright by Macrae Sm ith Ca. Her hair was blown a little; her W NU Service blue scarf trailed over one shoul der. “ I must say that was a queer thing to do—go off without saying C H A P T E R V I— Continued a word.” she said, angry excite Hugh stood still. He was con ment in her eyes. “ What was the scious of something different in m atter?” Her voice had a raw Joan. An unwilling response tin edge, unlike her usual tone. gled through him. “Shall I crack When he did not answer, she went Ihe ice now?” he asked calmly. to the dresser and picked up a Sunday Joan was standing close comb, ran it through her hair. beside him, dangerously close. “Even if you were sick—Joan said “Hugh.” you were—why did you go off with He laughed nervously. “What’s the car? How do you suppose I got into you, Jonny?” He kissed felt before Joan?” her lightly on the cheek; his arm She was thinking he was the went around her with a little same person as before dinner—go squeeze. Then he pushed her away. ing to carry it off as if she were She came back with the swift the offended one. Now—even now. light movement of a bird. Her That was what she had been do smoky eyes burned with tender ing right along, making him feel at ness. “ Would I be so hard to love?” fault, because she was so horribly “Of course not.” at fault herself. He was beginning “Then why-----?” to understand. Everything that had “Lots of reasons, Jonny. You puzzled him . . . And the under know them as well as I do. Be a standing poisoned his soul. good girl—step back to the table. She must have seen his white Dish out the crackers—do some face in the mirror for she turned thing.” She stood still and very close to suddenly. She saw the suitcases, him. She said in a small distinct the open drawers, the expression voice, “There are no good rea on his face. Arrested, she scarce ly breathed as she stared at him. sons.” He stared at her. A hollow some Comprehension blanched her face. thing beat in his brain like the blow “What—does this mean?” When he did not speak, she said of a mallet. One . . . two . . . three . . . crack. One . . . two in quivering low voice, “Hugh?” . . . three . . . He wet his lips She caught the dresser behind ARDS and yards and yards or with demure square neckline In and was suddenly conscious of the her with both hands. Her tone entrancing silk sheers will go front and cunning short puff sleeves. taste of brass in his mouth. curled and lashed. Presently she floating and billowing through the Not that all party dresses are full “ Explain.” said, “ You were spying on us!” skirted, but the fragile sheers and evening mode this summer. Airy- “Don’t you know?” He gave a laugh that was like a fairy, vaporous, frothy and trans gay silk prints certainly do make He turned his heavy gaze on her. sob. “Do you call it that?” parent tulles, nets, organzas, chif up beautifully in full-skirted ver “I don’t know---- ” He paused stu fons, marquisettes, mousseline de sions. “ Well, now you know, what of pidly . The gown to the right and to the soies and other as filmy fabrics She went to the kitchen cup it?” she flung out. "What of it? have an importance this season left in the picture demonstrates the . . . . Am I any worse than a board, and with trembling hands effectiveness of sheer material for hundred women you can name?” such as they have not achieved in the began to set out some glasses. evening mode. The lovely sum years. A hundred women. She was im He followed her, seized her arm. mery redingote model shows up the plying there was no such thing as The vast yardage that goes into exquisiteness “ What do you mean? You’ll have of transparent mate virtue—fidelity. All their friends the making of the new romantic full- rials to tell me.” to a nicety. It is designed of skirted dance frocks is almost un two tones in the same treacherous business. chiffon—green over yel She fell back from him. “No, I Flimsy defense. believable. Certain Paris dressmak low, with of ties at the neckline and won’t tell you.” ers are using as much as forty “And you—what about you?” She back waistline. A brown orchid cor His eyes held hers and in their was scornfully. “ You can’t yards for a single gown—the type sage adds the final accent to an shining fearful depths, he read the make smiling me believe you’re as lily (slim bodice and voluminous skirt artful color study. destroying truth. white as you’re painted! . . . What over stiff petticoats) that “us mod there is one type of dress that He pushed open the swinging about that stenographer you’ve had erns” regarded as belonging to is If running away with the honors quaint century-past scenes, but door to the hall. The soft thenille so long? . . . And you and Joan more so than the redingote styles it rug gave no sound of his footsteps. getting clubby? . . . And that El scarcely expected to see revived in is the bolero costume. Not only are He felt as if he were a soldier go len Pendleton whom you kiss each our own day and generation. Yet the redingote and the bolero im ing to meet a destined bullet. The time you see her at your moth here they are dancing before your portant daytime features but they very eyes into the current style pic are just as significant throughout lights were dim in the living-room; er’s? And-----” ture. the card table was vacated. He the evening mode. Here, to the left “ You’re lying, and you know it.” stood in the door for a moment, The skirts of these picturesque in the picture, is a lovely bolero She looked sullen. She began then went back very quietly. again, heaping blame upon him. gowns vary, from floor-touching to dress for summer night, moonlight He leaned up against the wall of “Even if you haven’t met anyone the very new ballerino type. Noth dancing under the stars. White silk the kitchen. His face was swept you care for, I should think you’d ing in the way of a dance frock marquisette is the chosen medium the world of fashion this for this pretty ensemble. Large with agony. be understanding and sorry for me so startled as the appearance of the floral appliques on the bolero and It burned like acid, and it froze if I have! . . . Do you think we season which Schiaparelli the skirt add color glory to the like ice. He had seen it with his could help it? Don’t you suppose waltz frock forth. Now that we are scene. own eyes. If someone had told him, we struggled against it? Tried brought getting used to the idea, this sou- Silk sheers featured for evening he would have explained it away 'not to see each other, hoping we’d brette silhouette which caused such gowns are also suggested in dark to meet the desirous need of his get over it? . . . And didn’t I a sensation at the openings is de soul to believe in her. But he had try to make you leave this town? veloping into a big vogue among colors, the latest being bold and plaid transparencies or seen it—Dorrie and Cun were lov But you wouldn’t go!” the younger dancing set. The frock glamorous if you prefer. Triple sheers ers. “So you care for him,” Hugh re centered in the group illustrated stripes are also shown in luscious plain col Joan looked at him compassion peated dully. plays up the new favorite. It is ors or in exotic prints. Some of the ately. “ Poor Hugh,” she mur made of white mousseline de soie Her long green eyes looked at silk marquisettes are flock-dotted or mured. him with cruelty and contempt. exquisitely detailed with tiny tucks embroidered. It came upon him in black waves She back her head with a on the waist and wee buttons that Clever and ornate trimmings that that this knowledge was the thing little threw gesture, the words came fasten at the back. accent the width of swirling hem he had been fleeing from. He had out with a and Some of the more informal waltz lines include bands of contrasting passionate ringing turned his face away; denied the stress; “ Care for frocks are often of printed silk with possibility to his soul. A secret him—love him l” him? . . . I love perhaps shirred fullness at the waist colors, full stiff ruchings, borders of delicate lace, sprays of natural voice had whispered that her cold A sword ran through him . . . line like a girdle or with flaring looking flowers positioned effective ness had a reason . . . He had re two pleats in the peasant skirt. The swords—with the agonizing ly, also scalloped or picoted edges. fused to listen. C Western Newspaper Union. knife thrust of her repeated words. bodice is neat and slim at the waist Finally he said in a croaking, She loved Cun—not him. Love. The foggy voice, “ You knew it that word was hideous. night at Freeland Farms.” He put his arm weakly across GRADUATES SHOULD “ When I cried? Yes, I was so his eyes. “Please—no more—just COSTUME ACCENTS sorry for us both. I hoped when now.” B y C H E R IE NICHOLAS THINK OF GLOVES he was working, things would be But Dorrie was not finished. She different---- " went on in a tangential torrent of By CHERIE NICHOLAS “ How long?” reproach. “ I’m sick of all your “ I don't know. It must have relatives and thousand cousins tell Gloves have always been a mark started early last winter—Janu ing me what a prize I’ve won in of sophistication. If this year’s crop ary, perhaps. I wasn't sure who it you, their fair-haired boy!—as if I of sweet girl graduates realized was until that week—the day'or two were nothing! And you’ve humiliat that, there would be a rush for before Freelands. But I thought ed me—yes, you havel . . . It’s the glove counter. Most of the time, you must know by this time . . . your fault—yours only I I meant to we are so concerned over the big they’re so very . . . they don’t be a good wife to you—intended to items, like the dress, that we forget care any more.” about the things that go-with, those be—but all you think of is that old little tell-tale touches. She had known about it, yet had business! . . . You never under been able to entertain them—at stood-----” Most schools require a simple, youthful white dress. The majority Cun's insistence, probably—come “Shut up!” he thundered sudden of these are the short-sleeved, gar to their house, act a part . . . “ liv ly. A vein was livid across his tem den-party variety. In the prep and ing for the day.” Her courage was ple. high schools, they are almost infor beyond him. He took out his hand She stared at him. Then threw mal evening dresses. Such formal kerchief to wipe his dripping fore herself into a chair and began to ity with no gloves? Your hands will head. His hand trembled. He cry, long, tearing sobs that set his look much prettier when accepting slumped into a kitchen chair. A raw nerves quivering. your diploma if they are well gloved groan escaped him. Grimly he emptied the drawers, in snow-white glace kid. There is Joan poured something in a throwing things to the floor, then such a variety of little short formal glass. “ Here, drink this. It will crowding them into the cases. He gloves in the shops that you should do you good. You're so white.” shopped them shut, lfted them and have fun choosing the pair that He lifted it to his lips and the started out. odor of the liquor sent a violent It’s a daisy, she is a daisy—get particularly suits your dress. She flew to the door, barred it And don’t forget gloves for the and uncontrollable nausea shudder with her outspread arms. “Hugh— ting our pronouns somewhat con fused—but perhaps it would be bet spring proms. It’s not so much ing through him. He rose and don’t go.” the basic costume as the finishing plunged toward the back door. “Stand away," he ordered impa ter to study this picture of a modish that makes a well-dressed woman. young miss and figure it out for “Sick, Joan . . . sick . . going tiently. Gloves are indispensable to even out." “Not tonight. Hugh—don't go. yourself. The soft white petals with the most divine evening dress. Nude fluffy yellow gold centers of the In a few minutes she heard his Tomorrow . . . " most American of flowers, form the hands are fast fading out of the car drive away. “I’m going." crown a charming hat by Jean picture. You must look feminine and He looked at her with set face. King. of A rough natural straw braid romantic these days. And don’t you C H A P T E R V II “There is no place for me in this of circular weave is the brim, and feel a lot more dressed up when house—haven’t you told me?” the hat is worn tilted slightly over you wear gloves? You can indulge Hugh fumbled through the fog to “ 1 said wild things . . . " one A Victorian scroll mono your taste for long ones or very the street and climbed into his car. “That have been in your mind. craft eye. pin beautifully wrought in short ones as both are correct. He drove automatically, stopped at Waiting to be said.” gold, tunes to the glinting gold high through streets, shifted gears, "I didn't realize-----" lights in the straw of the hat as it Smart Coats rolled into his own driveway and “ You talk about understanding— clasps feminine jabot The fitted, slightly flared coat is garage. He shut off the engine, well, I didn't. I thought of you as made of a the sweetly daintiest of dainty val ace-high in chic and will be seen in sat humped over the wheel, his something special, rare, and en The secret that the young numbers. Redingotes are a fashion head on his arms. If death would chanting. My life revolved around edging. pictured would tell you is favorite. Short coats have come to come now . . . suddenly . . . end you—you knew it—I told you. I woman that carefully selected flattering ac town, too, pruned from last year’s this chaotic desolation! The agony never saw you as you really are— cessories play a big part in the fine full swagger lines to a straighter was more terrific than any physical common, vulgar and selfish. When art of dress. box cut. pain. you said things that disturbed me, He went into the house, dragged I thought it was caprice. I worked Overalls Go Wading Colorful Corset two suitcases from a closet. He hard to make more money to give Summer overalls have cuffs that The color contagion has spread reeled as he deposited them or the it to you, because I loved you. No bedroom floor. He sat down on the one could have made me believe to corsets and there is a youthful can be turned up for wading in the bed, shaking with weakness. Pres this thing it I hadn’t seen you in corselette available in all the better surf. The newest adaptation of last ently he got up, opened a drawer of his arms, seen your filthy caresses stores which may be ordered dyed year’s popular fashion barely the chiffonier, lifted a pile of shirts. ." He choked, turned his head in any one of a dozen colors to reaches the knee, and is very bag match your evening gown or your gy. The characteristic overall A car stopped in front of the aside. “ Now let me go!” straps remain the same. new suit house; he heard light footsteps on (TO BK CONTINUED) By M ary S ch um ann Y ? AROUND .he HOUSE milk or cream, flour blended with butter and salt. Cook for three oi four minutes, stirring constantly. • • • Keeping Flowers Fresh—A cou pie tablespoons of sulfurous (not sulphuric) acid added to each pint of water encourages buds of cut flowers to continue growing and leaves and stems remain greener. • • • For Blacking Stoves—An old shoe polish dauber is an excellent « « • stoves. 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