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Two young officers, about to
he sent overseas, go to spend
brief furloughs with their fam-
ilies. BRIAN CHALMERS goes to
a palatial home where he sees
Ibis beautiful wife, GWEN, and his
;2 -year-old child, Elaine. GEORGE
WOODSON goes to a modest lit.
tie home for a last brief visit
with kis adoring wire, ELEANOR,
and his baby, RUTH. Each man
snakes the wish that his little
daughter will have "whatever it
takes to make her happy."
Eighteen years later Ruth, now
an orphan, is living with her ocu--
ins, the LAWRENCES, in Brook-
lyn. She is looking for work in
New York. Though lacking lunch
money, she refuses an invitation
to lunch with a wealthy strang-
er. Before going home she buys
narcissus bulbs for COUSIN BES -
SIE LAWRENCE'S birthday.
CHAPTER III
When Ruth reached home she
found her cousins, the Lawrence
young people, engaged in one of
their major battles, Letty was try-
ing to wrest from her brother a
-dollar bill which he had found
on their mother's desk. Being
large and well-developed for her
18 years, the girl was more than
a match for the slim 16 -year-old
youth who was holding out against
her.
"Help, Ruth!" Cecil yelled, bit-
ing at his sister's exposed arm,
They were struggling on an anti-
que Jennie Lind daybed and it
gvae signs of falling apart at any
moment.
Ruth Iooked at them helplessly,
"I don't know who's right," she
yelled back above the tumult,
"Well, you know who's getting
beaten!" Cecil. retorted between
gasps.
Letty.said, "If she comes near,
I'lI slap both your faces, ,and I
mean it. Give the the dollar, pig!
You got the last one we found.
You know how I need stockings!"
With a final twist she pried open
her brother's hand, snatched the
damp, crumpled bill and fled with
it to her bedroom.
Cecil lay groaning and rubbing
his chest, where his sister's knee
had pressed. Ruth said, "If you
wouldn't smoke so many cigarets,
Cecil, you might beat her now and
than." She had no admiration and
very little liking for. this high
school junior who took his moth-
er's hard-earned money as his
just due and pampered himself
extravagantly..
Face Like A Doll
Letty came back into the room
With her hair smoothed and her
'lace carefully made up. She had
round, pretty face with wide,.
sky-blue eyes, fringed with dark
lashes, and light brown hair. She
looked much like a Christmas doll,
In fact, she had once played that
role in a school play, standing
against the wall in a huge box,
clothed in a crisp, knee-Iength
dress, and holding out her arms
invitingly while she smiled a
blank, dimpled smile, Ruth knew,
however, that Letty was not as
blank and forceless as she ap-
peared.
One when Cousin Bessie, Letty's
mother, was bemoaning the fact
that the girl could not go to col-
lege, Ruth had said to her, "I
don't think Letty would like col-
lege, Cousin Bessie. She's not a
bookworm like you at all, I think
Letty ought to marry young." It
was true, She was a voluptuous
rosebud that had formed early
and needed to blossom early. Mar-
riage would be the perfect blos-
soming.
Chicken For Mother`s Birthday
Letty sat down and crossed her
pretty legs. "Any luck in town to-
day, Ruth?"
Ruth answered, "No,. Lefty"
help you with dinner?"
and wished that she might: never
hear that question again, "Can I
help you wiht dinner?"
"It's almost ready," Lefty re-
plied,. brightening, She genuinely
loved to plan and cook a meal.
"On account of it being Mother's
birthday I've cooked a thicket,,
There's rice to go with it, and
head lettuce salad land home-made
roils. I've made a. cake, too. C.
cit -1" she exclaimed, turning to
her lolling brother, "go cCeari
yourself up before Mother get:,
i home."
Cecil sat up, yawning, ''A.)1
sight, If the •doorbell, rings while
I'm washing'," he said, "it'll be
.Tack Willer, Let him in. 1 a v'rarde
rohne radio books' I've got,"
"VII let him in, of courie," Let.
• t.1'' /said She was )bolting intently'
at her finger nails. She got up.
and went into the kitchen and
put on a ruffled organdie apron.
tuth followed her, "What can
l: do, Lefty?" she a.slted earneat
ly, wanting to .help "Or lead you
. ranter r 'stayed out of your way
now glad washed •:l,e ilirh!s,; af!:er.
. wand`!"
"Yea," answered f .;tty, "that
would he better," ;qhs g•)t ol2t, faur
. •sa. ate! I+lattefit a.n(l,thcsn titnl2l;•ht.J`ulig
vrent• and got. tnYthotr, "I`ll :esti;
DOOR
p less NEA Service. enc.
Jack to stay," she saki. '
fun." She turned her back
began to hum,
Ruth went to the coat el
and Bung up her hat and cont.
thought, "Letty doesn't want
around. She dislikes me more
the time." t was a problem
Ruth had tried a thousand ti
to solve. She was dependent
the Imwreuces until shr could
tablish herself. She knew that
crowded there. .Even before
came it mast have been hard
the three of them to move ab
the five small 'gems, filled as t
were with Bessie Lawrence's
tique furniture end brass cant
sticks and samovars and In
prints. IVIr; . Lawrence had toll
ed these things in her happy yo
married days and she would
more have parted with thein tl
with one of her children,
After Ruth's arrival they let
sleep on the daybed in the 1iv
-room, and keep her clothes in o
side of the coat chest. Ruth
deeply grateful and, felt hers
fortunate, (An orphan who t
lived in the crowded homes of d
tint relatives does not grow
expecting a great deal of lif
She only wished .that Letty
not feel this antipathy toward it
"Not that I blame her," Ru
thought reasonably. "Here I a
taking up room, oonsuming pa
of the family income and contr
uting nothing but a little work
Boring Company
The doorbell rang :and Ru
went, absent-mindedely, to a
swer it. The house was a dupl
and the Lawrences lived on t
first floor. When Ruth opened tl
door she saw a young man stan
ing on the porch. It was. Jack Wi
ler.
"Hello!" s h e said politel
"Come in, Jack. Cecil's expectin
you." She showed him where
nut his hat and took hila into th
living room. She sat down on til.
little Victorian settee and bega
to make polite conversation
while he strode around the roost
picking up things and laying the
clown in the restless way commmo
to young men. He was 22 or 2'
years old and was -handsome in
curly-haired, movie hero way
Ruth had always found him rathe
boring. She once said to Letty
•'If you'd remove the slang from
Jack's conversation, alt you'd have
left would be a stack of prepssi
tions and a 'cuss word'. or two."
Lefty had disagreed. "1 thin); he'
awfully clever and in.•teresting,'
she had said.
Ruth noticed that Jack Willer
was looking at her queerly. He
said, in an accusing voice, "I've
been talking to you for five min-
utes and you haven't even been
listening."
Ruth replied in confusion, "The
idea, Jack! I always listen to you.
I simply hang on your words!" In
her remorse for his injured feel-
ing she made her voice more warm
and cordial than she intended.
In an instant he was on the
little sulfa beside her, his arm
around her shoulders anS. his
sparkling eyes looking into her
surprised ones. "Why have you
always avoided me, Ruth?" he
asked. "Why aren't you always
nice to me like this?"
Ruth- jumped to her feet, net
knowing what to do or say, She
felt positively relieved to see Let-
ty star/dieing g in the door. That is,
until Lett.: coldly, "Ara I in-
terrupting eentethirg?"
"No," replied Ruth t.. embar-
rassment. "Oh, no. I']1 go end call
Cecil." As she passed Let-; +:heir
eyes met and the hatred h.; :hose
sky-blue eyes gave Ruth the ails -
war to the question she had been
asking herseIf for weeks. Letty
was in Iove with Jack Wilier and
regarded Ruth as her rival,
Ruth wished bitterly that there
were some spotin the house whet e
site alight go and be alone., some
little sanctuary where she might
go now with her problems and her
mistakes, and try to think them
gut. Well, there time the street --
She went to the coat closet and
got e e 'sat anti tioat and put them
on., slipped mit of the kitch-
en doer.
...nth did not know how far she
n°:31 walked, or how long, She
found herself elf the fringe of a
busy str:et aectionm She saw a
great bite ehngging before a- eta -
tion. Across its sides, .. neat
painted lettere, Were the words,
"CtLt VI I ANi�a, ,BUFF*uALO,t RO-
CI'F;A:ST a t. SYRACUSE, SCRAN-
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.ghts were lighted
and a flea penile le were filing in,
))'it th dri re,. w e net, :r. eight.
. '1;t. ert't %? vine, for a •al�itiie,'''
Ruth said /loud eo .'t) ,tree in par-
t:tent,er.
Next deer there 'ova.; .,:a pawn
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'. '�3t3 three glided bells lunging
.ehn,ve the �f•nor,
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The man who- carne to sdr- t1 her
waa elderly.. He ;r.,,rr, a ,Aerate cal)
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Dog Leads Blind
Girl in Traffic
"Seeing Eye" Guard Accomp-
anies Toronto Girl Through
Busy Streets, Sightless for
20 Years
The greatest thrill that. can
come to a person .who has been
sightless for 20 years is the day
when 5120 can .pick her way
through city traffic and winding
streets isinput mishap.
At least that's the opinion of
Miss Ethel Squair, switchboard
operator at the Canadian Nation-.
al Institute for the Blind on Bev-
erley street, Toronto. The other •
day, fot the first time in 20 years,
Miss Squair left her home on
Trunby aenne, north of lllr•or
street, off Avei},ue road, and with-
out the usual escort provided ley
the institute, found her way a
dozen Mocks safely to the hui]d-
ing on Beverley street.
l'cir now 1diss Squair has two
youthful eyes to find the way for
her through crowded streets. They
are the bright, alert brown eyes
of "Goldie," the - seeing -eye dog
she has just returned with from
the famed "Seeing -Eye" training'
centre in Morristown, New Jer-
sey.
For her new eyes Miss Squair
has few commands. There is a
sharp "forward" and to the left
or to the right and when either ms
confused the simple "fooey"
seems to straighten everything
out. "We use that expression be-
cause it is sharp and seems to con-
vey to the dog that a mistake has
been made." Miss Squair explain-
ed.
That first morning the- dog .hes-
itated but once: "I knew the
lights had changed )iy listening
to the traffic," said Miss Squair,.
"but the dog could not distinguish
the change in lights and we were
stranded temporarily in the, middle
of the street until the cars went
by; but Goldie won't take -me into
the path of the•car so I don't have
to worry about being run down,"
Miss Squair laughed.
Schoolroom For
The P'uincesses
Buckingham Palace Room Is
Simply Furnished— Two
Writing -tables -- Freshly-
Cut Flowers
The Queen gave a great deal of
thought to the planning and equip-
• n.ellt of the Princesses' school-
room in Buckingham Palace, which
is designed to admit as much sun-
light as possible, and to eliminate
- nooks incl corners where dust
might accumlate, It ds simply fur-
nished. There is a large writing -
'
table for the Princess Elizabeth;
a rather smaller one for, her sis-
ter; both are cf oak, and are of
plain design. They are so placed
'that the maximum of light falls
021 thein, A feature of the room
is that, at' all tines of the •year,
it always contains some freshly -
cut flowers:
Maximum of Light
Botany is a favorite subject
with the Princess Margaret, who
has formed a good collection of
carefully preserved and pressed
flowers, leaves and grasses. She
has collected these in the past two
or three years, and she can read-
ily distinguish thein and recall
where they grew.
Censor Re -writes
Lover's Letter
Opening an envelope from Eng-
land addressed in her 'fiance's
handwriting, a Danish girl found
inside the foliewing note from a
British censor:
"1n this envelope was a letter
from your fiance, Mr. . He
was too talkative and wrote of
things which did not concern him,
and for this reason we were ob-
liged to destroy his letter.
"All the same, we wish to as-
' sure you that hr is quite well and
sends his laying greeting and
many kisses.
'Tb -Day's Popular Design
By Carol Aimes
THE OLD HOMESTEAD
5�n
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650
OLD HOMESTEAD SAMPLER AND CUSHION
When we were very young a panel and cushion top similar to these 'grace
ed one of our living rooms. That is why we had no difficulty visualiz-
ing what you meant when you wrote asking us for a "cross stitch living
room ensemble with a real old-time flavor." Worked in bright threads
or all black this set is something to cherish through the year.
The pattern includes transfers of the design, color suggestions, mater-
ial requirements and all instructions for finishing•,
To order this design, write your name and address on a piece of paper
and send with 15 cents in coin or stamps to Carol Aimes, Rooni 421,
73 West Adelaide St., Toronto.
to sell, It belonged to my mother,
and to my grandmother before
that. I think it even belonged to
lay grandmother's mother," She
unpinned it from her collar and
showed it to him, "What will you
give Inc for it?" she asked.
The old man took the pin in his
slender, sensitive hands. He said,
"You must need honey badly to
part with this thing of your pee -
pie," His voice held a sort of re-
proof, the reproof of a proud race
that respects a heritage.
"1 do need money badly," Ruth
answered. "I need to catch the bus
out there that's about to leave."
The old mats raised his eyes
from the pin and looked at her.
Then he said, "I am a sentiment-
al man. 1 do not need any more
money than I have. I can do what
I like to do." He seemed to bei
explaining these things to himself,
rather than to the Waiting girl,
"I will give you 820 for the IittIe
pin, and I will put it away until
you come again to get it. it pleas-
es me to do this,"
"You are good," Ruth said, as
he counted out the bills. "I think
God sent me here."
The old mall shook his head in
negation. "We can never bo sure
of those things," he said.
(To Ile Contiaucde
U. S. Ports Store
Canadian Wheat
United States Atlantic Coast
grain elevators hold more than
15,000,000' bushels of Canadian
wheat, the :most of which prob-
ably will be shipped to the Unit-
ed Kingdoms.
The Dominion Bureau of Sta-
tistics visible supply figures for
the week ended December 1 show-
ed
howed there were 6,033,000 bushels
of Canadian wheat in store at'
New York, , 5,386,000 'bushels at
Baltimore, 2,862,000 bushels at
Philadelphia and 1,935,000 bush-
els at Boston. It is believed these
figures have increased since Dec-
ember 1 with the movement of
more wheat to seaboard,
GOOSE AND DUCK
FEATHERS WANTED.
Ifighest Priors i'uld.
1uinrediuu tten,titiini•e
CANADA 1;071.1.•„ Itrtfm taw.
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7301 1)nn,h,s St. 1.:. -- 'Toronto
"It DOES taste good in a pipe!"
HANDY SEAL.TIGHi POUCH , 15¢
1/2-L &. "1.0K -TOP" T!N . .600
also packed in Pocket Tins ..
Canada's Army
Eats 8 Tons
Beef Daily
Soldiers of One Division Con-
sume Equal Quantities of
Bread and.Potatoes
Eight• tons each of beef, bread
and pote`oes, one ton of jam, an-
other of butter — these are toe
major items in the daily issue tor
a Canadian army division of 16,000
men, as outlined in the sixth radio
talk by a defence department
spokesman..
talk showed the amount of
work involved in organizing a di-
vision for war. Living accommoda-
tion; clotl`ing, food, and war
equipment have to be provided on
Short notice, the spokesmau said,
and this has proved a hinge task,
because in Canada no unit was
maintained at war strength in
peacetime.
Clothing, Equipment
Clothing and equipping the
troops has been an "intricate and
highly technical matter," said the
spokesman. The many changes that
have taken place since the last war
including the mechanization of the
equipment and instruction of new
types of armament, ammunition,
technical equipment, clothing, have
increased.
Women hi Army
Make It Costly
Britain Finds Out How Expen-
sive It Is to Supply Them
With Clothing and Footwear
Wemcn are an expensive pro-
position even if they're in the
army.
Lord Woolton, director general
of equipment stores at, the British
ministry of supply, disclosed re-
centle that footwear requirements
for women in the army aro great-
er than that cf the whole army
in peacetime.
Lord. Woolton 'announced some
astronomical clothing figures.
Great Britain last month deliv-
ered 1,250,000 yards of cloth for
army overcoats, compared with the
annual peacetime production of
000,000 yards.
Astronomical Figures
Last month the army received
500,000 battle 'dress outfits against
the normal annual production of
175,000. The Yorkshire woollen
mills are producing more. than
200,000- army blankets weekly.
More than 130,000 pair of army
boots are being turned out week-
ly, an increase of .10;000 pair
over the annual pre-war demand.
Since June more than 2,500,000
gross of buttons for uniforms
were Manufactured.
Why Does Dog
Wag His "tail ?
Not Because He's Happy —
Explanation Not Yet Found
My little old Irish terrier, chas-
ed a rat into a crevice of a stone
wail, a few minutes ago, .writes
Albert Payson Terhune, expert on
dogs. She is standing crouched in
eager quest in front of the hole.
Her stumpy tail is wagging viol-
ently. Why is her tail wagging?
.She is not happy. Indeed, she was
chagrined that the rat should have•
reached the hole before she could
kill it.
I have seen a dog, furiously ea•
gaged in a death -battle with an-
other and larger dog, and with his
tail wagging just as hard, 'the 'dog
was in pain. He was facing death.
So why did he wag his tail? I don't,
know. Do YOU?
Wags When Happy
Twice, I have seen fine dogs
beaten by their /nesters; and stand.
ing staulelike under the punish-
ment, with their plumed tails
awag. I saw one of my dogs lying
with his left foreleg broken in
two places, by a car. As I ran up
t i l
0 W''o
a e ai
is.aa l e d It t
We have been' toed since ouna
childhood that the wagging of a
dog's tail is a sign he is happy.
Yet I have seen unhappy and bad-
ly injured dogs do that salve
thing. What did any of them have
to be happy about? Nothing.
Food takes 83 cents otit of the
typical city worker's dollar in the
United States, while' housing and
fuel take almost 26 rents.
Monastic Mode
Invades Fashion
Paris Is Showing Air -Raid
Clothing Topped by Hoods
and Girdled at Waistline
PARIS—Air-raid swank now
calls for clothes patterned oil
monks' costumes. Hoods ten them
and heavy cords girdle them in
true monastic fashion.
More. than one cord ties knots
around models in Lanvin's new
collection, 'One descent -to -cellar
suit has dark green flannnel trous-
ers and a hooded blouse of green •
and yellow plaid belted with a
thick green cord.
The mechanician one-piece suit
with tight -ankle trousers still is
the favorite garb •for possible gas
encounters: New ones are cf -honey
colored flannel with a gold fast-
ener.
Blouse And Trousers
Capes and :coats are often hood-
ed. Belted coats suggest army of-
ficers. Small pillbox hats are
flanked at sides with fringed "ep-
aulets:"
Greys, hydrangea blue, dark
browns and almond and .vivid
greens are most, popular shades.
Shaved lamb dyed vivid green
makes a fitted coat and forms
yoke and lower sleeves for an aft-
ernoon coat of the same . color.
Red frequently accents black arid
a cape ensemble combines point
blue With legion red.
Soviet Girls
Fty idorbers
. More Than 500 Women Pilots
In Russian Air Force, Many
of Them "Suicide 'Squad"
Parachutists
Soviet women pilots arc believ-
ed to have participated in the
bombing of Finnish cities.
(A dispatch -from Helsinki said
that a woman aviator had been
captured there after being .shot
down by Finnish anti-aircraft
guns.).
Women pilote form. an integral
part of the Soviet air force. They
live in special sections of the
regular men's barracks and range
in age from 1ti to 30. Aside from
a skirt and a beret, they weal'
the same unitorm as clo •the men
--a brown tunic, a Sant Browne
belt and a grey greatcoat. The
majority have bobbed hair, which
they frequently marvel.
The exact number of military
women fliers was not available,
but it was estimated that the
are more than 500, including some
"suicide stjuad' parachutists who
are trained to tirop behind enemy -
lines, blow up bridges. and do gen-
eral reconnoitering work.
The women are spread through.
all branches of • tine:+air force and
several have a .rank equalling that
of a general.
Only A Candle
if 1•had ;a ship .
I would sail upbn the sea;
If I had a gun
Then a soldier, 1 might be;
If I had a. horse
I'd go hunting; but instead,
As I've only.got a candle,
I am going up to beci.
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