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VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON 4 My “Mother Ann” By By c+J By GERTRUDE SCHALK Give Table "First Place" © McClure Newspaper Syndicate. WNU Service. Dress up your table, when com pany's expected, with this stun ning lace cloth. Crochet either ’ I 'HE blue candles burned low on touched her plain face and gave it identical squares, or companion squares—they’re easy fun, and the tiny desk. Mary Larew slow beauty of a pensive sort. Mary either way makes a handsome de- ly moved the plume of her pen back stared. Ann Harding Actress Chicken Salad. 1 quart cold chicken 1 pint finely cut celery 3 hard-boiled eggs 2 cupfuls mayonnaise Small bottle of olives Salt to taste Paprika and forth in the flickering light. The “Let me tell you a little story. . . line between the cloudy gray eyes of a girl and a boy. They were in grew deeper. love, very much in love. He was “Dearest Tony. . .“ No. . . “Dear kind. . . she was sweet, but selfish. "‘My Dear Tony. . But he loved her. They became Joint the dressed chicken and' Tony. boil until tender. Allow it to cool, “Oh, it is so hard.” Tears of vexa engaged, and everything was love then cut into small pieces until the tion gathered unwillingly in the cor ly. One day he told her that they would have to live with his mother required amount is obtained. Use ners of her eyes. only the whitest celery, and nonei “What is so hard, Mary?” The for a short time. . . That was the with coarse strings. Cut two of) quiet voice came from the big com end. She broke the engagement.” A log fell apart and showered the eggs, not too fine. Mix chick fy chair near the flreplace. Mary sparks on the tile hearth. en, celery, eggs and seasoning.1 was startled for a moment; she had “He grew bitter, for he had cared Allow the mixture to stand with) forgotten her roommate Ellen’s ex very much. After she had sent him a little French dressing for an istence. away she repented, but it was too hour or more in a cool place.) Mary started to speak and hesi late. His love was dead. Both To serve, the mayonnaise may be tated. Finally, with obvious reluc lives were ruined. And six months mixed with the chicken or served tance, she turned to her friend. later his mother died. . .’’ as a top dressing, according to I “Well, I suppose I may as well A little break in the even voice tell you now as later. I am not taste. and the room was quiet. going to marry Tony. . . don ’ t say Serve on fresh lettuce leaves. Mary sobbed in a jerky fashion. Garnish with slices of the third anything,” as Ellen opened her To think that this tragedy has hap mouth in incredulous amazement. egg and stuffed olives. Sprinkle j pened to plain, easy-going Ellen. “I have made up my mind.” with paprika. “Oh, Ellen----- ” Copyright.—WNU Service. She paced restlessly up and down There was a knock on the door. I the flrelit room, her slim boyish Both girls jumped. [ figure swaying with a grace pecu Mirror of Happiness “Don’t turn on the light, my face Happiness is reflective like the liarly her own. Ellen, startled out is a sight.” Mary wiped her nose of her usual placidity, gazed at her light of Heaven; and every coun and opened the door. tenance bright with smiles, and . in surprise. Tony stood there beaming down glowing with innocent enjoyment, “Mae! . . . What has Tony done?” on her from his six-feet-one of is a mirror transmitting to others “Nothing!” snapped Mary, as she young manhood. the rays of a supreme and ever dodged a table and kicked a cush “Hello, sweetheart! Hello, Ellen. ion out of her way. “But, I feel it Listen, Sweets, I promised ‘Mother shining benevolence.—Irving. coming!” Ann’ I’d bring you around, tonight. “Fee! what coming?” muttered You know, Ellen, ‘Mother Ann’ is Ellen in bewilderment “You’ve my old nurse—she thinks the world been engaged only a week.” of her child, and she wants to be “I know it. And I also know that sure he gets a nice little girl.” He in about two more weeks he’ll be chuckled and looked down on gin to murmur sweetly in my ear Mary’s bent head. “Think she’ll ‘How nice it would be to live with do?” If you want to really GET RID OF GAS and terrible bloating, don’t expect Mother Ann!’ ‘Mother Ann’ . . . Ellen looked at Mary; Mary to do it by Just doctoring your stomach ‘Mother Ann’ . . . I’m so sick of looked at Ellen. with harsh, irritating alkalies and “gas tablets.” Most GAS is lodged in the her name I could scream; Morning, “Yes, I think she'll do, Tony,” stomach and upper intestine and is due to old poisonous matter in the noon and night; breakfast, dinner, murmured Ellen. constipated bowels that are loaded supper—‘Mother Ann’ ... I won’t “I know she will. Come on dear, with ill-causing bacteria. do it! I won’t live with any mother- let’s go. 'Night Ellen.” If your constipation is of long stand ing, enormous quantities of dangerous in-law!” The door closed behind them. El bacteria accumulate. Then your di Ellen scratched her left eyebrow, len sighed dolorously as she picked gestion is upset. GAS often presses heart and lungs, making life miserable. a sure sign of unusual mental ac up her damp handkerchief. You can’t eat or sleep. Your head “And I wasted that perfectly good tivity. At last she spoke. aches. Your back aches. Your com- Elexion is sallow and pimply. Your “I wouldn’t be too precipitous, if sob stuff on nothing. Oh, well. . reath is foul. You are a sick, grouchy, I were you, Mary. You . . .” wretched unhappy person. YOUR SYSTEM IS POISONED. “For goodness sake, don’t Thousands of sufferers have found In preach!” broke in Mary. Inwardly Bag of Plunder Smokes, Adlerika the quick, scientific way to rid their systems of harmful bacteria. she added, “Anyway, what do you Bandits Drop Everything Adlerika rids you of gas and cleans know about such affairs? You’ve foul poisons out of BOTH upper and Harrison, N. J.—The bravado of lower bowels. Give your bowels a never had a fellow.” Even the best two bandits armed with sawed-off REAL cleansing with Adlerika. Get of friends are sometimes catty. rid of GAS. Adlerika does not gripe shotguns was turned into panic —is not habit forming. At all Leading “As I was saying, you love Tony recently by a simple smoke bomb Druggists. and he loves you. Would you throw device enclosed in a money bag. away a good man's love just be The bandits got the bag containing Origin of Wickedness cause he wanted to unite the two $2,700 and the pay roll clerk’s car. All wickedness comes of weak dearest possessions he has—his When they tried to open the bag ness.—Rousseau. mother and his wife?” yellow fumes poured out of it. They Mary paused in her swift walk; tossed it into a vacant lot and a few she had never heard that note in yards farther abandoned the car Ellen’s voice before. The firelight and their guns. Don’t Sleep When Gas Presses Heart of all stitches used; material re quirements. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York, N. Y. _______________ Most Northerly City How would you like to live (and work) in a city where the sun sets in mid-November and does not rise again until the final days of January; where Old Sol stays in sight from the middle of May until the last of July? Hammer fest, Norway, lying nearly 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle in about the same latitude as the northern tip of Alaska is such a city. 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