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A Bathing Suit That Swims—If you are looking for a bathing
suit that is not only something to decorate the- beach with, but
also doesn't get in the waw if, as and when you get into the
water. try one like this. It is worn by Cyd Charisse who shows
it off to advantage in a new movie called "Fiesta."
taskosat try Coorolldole 1 No>•'s r<olor
"For a minute I thought he was going to pull my head off l"
Cn the Home Front
By C. Kessler
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All Set to Go to Work—Farmerette Gloria Carlson seems to be having no trouble operating
this new model 8N Ford tractor. New featu res include an improved hydraulic ,system for
implement control and four forward speeds.
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By
JAMES CROWLEY
He noticed it now as they walked
across the green grass that threw
back the sunlight like tiny, jutting
points of isinglass. And it hurt
him to notice it ---hurt him as if
it were a physical wound.
"Bea, it's foolish!" he said. He
asid it low, but his voice seemed
to possess a quality that carried It
far beyond the green hill.
"Maybe it is," she said. "1 can
feel it, too, when I'm home." She
gave a slight lift of her slendet
shoulders. "1 t seems that the at-
mosphere just closes around me.
Sometimes I've found myself
breathless, as if 1 were tired "
"Maybe if your father felt any
different,' he suggested.
"Yes," she said thougtfully.`
"Father could help. But when he's
not working, he sits by the window,
as he's sitting now, gazing out At
the trees and the birds and not
seeing them.. Yea; Father. ctiiild
help, all right
'll'ave you played any , tittisic."
since—"
.."No," and she looked up at him,
the sun painting a soft halo round
her coppery hair. "Neither of us
has touched anything since Mother
died." She looked away. • Eight
months. Yet it seems like, yesterday
when she used to sit at titc piano,
touching those ivory keys with
her white, slender fingers—"
Ile thought a moment • and he
wondered if this feeling could be
real, like stone is real, or if it could
be lifted, lake a film, and the un-
changed real shown beneath.
"Let's go back," he said. "1'm
going home, and you're going with
me.'
She looked at him. }ler bite eyes
shone sadly. "Earnie, I can't."
He took her hand gently. "Well
come back," he said. Don't wor-
ry."
He stopped the car in front of
his home. "I'll be right back," he
said.
He Went in, carne out with a
• large, curved, black case, and start-
ed back to her house.
In front of her house again, they
got out, and he took the big, black
case out of the car,' She led the
way to the door. He crossed slowly
through the kitchen, then stepped
into the living room, and stopped.
Front his chair across the rim, near
the wide window where he always
sat, Bea's father smiled.
"i brought my guitar," !Ernie
said,
The older man removed his pipe,
blew out smoke that formed a blue
filet before hint. As if to hide the
expression on his face, thought
Earnie.
"You did?" he said. "Ifs' been
a long time." "Yes," Earnics said.
"It has. You don't mind, do you?"
The older man shook his head. "No
I don't mint' Go ahead."
"Bea — the piano, will you,
please:" he said.
She struck the keys. A soft, re-
sonant sound splashed out, like cool
water that sprinkled around the
quiet room. He struck the knitar
strings. The smooth, whispering
notes blended with the piano's.
She started to play, and he leaped
in with the chords, and music, for
the first time in so long, drifted
in
sweet, lovely strains through the
house: atomizing the air with its
•
fragrance, air 'that had long been
stagnant and dry.
Earnie heard a soft sound behind
him and caught a glimpse of Bea's
father's hack as he strode slowly
out of the room. A tight knot sud-
denly formed inside him, and he
turned back and looked at Bea.
She didn't see his gaze. Her eyes,
her Hind, were absorbed in the mu-
sic.
rlttd then,, from the other room
came a 'Iriglt, thin sustairtirrt note.
The silvery, mellifluous strains of a
7liolin,
Th two near the piano turned,
and they watched him enter the
room, his 'elbow held high, pulling
the bow across the strings, while he
watched it with his eyes, as if mu-
sic was something you should sec
and he was seeing it—and smiling
at the sometime.
Useful Toad
If a toad decides to make his
home in your garden, by all means
be hospitable to him — which
means, mainly, just don't molest
him, or let anyone else do so.
He may look like a mere animat-
ed clod, gut his sticky tongue is
forked lightning to insects. He does
Why Not )'ecotrate
Dull Screen Dor?
We had painted the front -door
screen black (it's the kind with more
screen than wood), and it scented
to look so dull and was such a yawn-
ing expanse of black that we decided
to do something decorative about it.
writes I.E.M. in The Christian
Science Monitor. .
We thought tip the idea of decor
ating it with designs (recalling in
our childhood the painted screens in
the windows of Grandmother's
house), and set about it with the
materials at hand—several lubes of
oil paints, some turpentine, and two
small -size bristle hrnshei. With a
piece of chalk we sketched the design
on the screen (and one doesn't have
to be an artist to do this), copying
the design in the chintz used in the
Bring -room drapes.
* * ,'
We filled in the design with the
oil paints, mixing the color's with tc
small amount of turpentine. The Ef-
fect—a bunch of woodland flowers
—was so pleasing that neighbors
quickly copied our idea, and now
there are several. hand -decorated
screen doors on our street.
Some people have gone really
artistic in .their work, and haw.:
formal flower bouquets and bunches
of garden flowers—poppies, iris,
roses, and the like—all very gay and
attractive for summer. Decorating
screen doors in, this manner has the
added feature of lending a bit more
privacy to one's house, for it is pos-
sible to see out but not to see in so
easily.
%k * *
Another idea which we trial, after
the success of this one, was to paint
a fireplace screen in the same man-
ner, using a decoration of pine
houghs. and hemlock branches, and
this, too, added a decorative and new
note to the living room, perking up
the looks of an otherwise dull fire -
plate setting.
Window screens can be done in
the same way. And if the scene with-
out is none too pleasing, then paint
the design on the inside and the •
outside view won't bother you.
ail his work at ground level, look-
ing up at the underside of leaves
where insects lurk that even the
sharpest -eyed of birds fail to see.
He is one of the most valuable of
our allies in the endless insect war.
Miff SINK/ azzymezr
THE FIRE FIGHTER
Constantly alert, ever waiting to stamp out
the dread danger of flames, is the lire Fighter.
In every city, town and tillage of Canada he
is ever ready to pit his skill and energy and
very life against the mad heartbreak of lire.
Men like this, seine of Canada's finest, art)
in the public's service—at your service.
DAWES HACK NORSE BREWERY
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advertisements its tribrcte to those Ca,'zaelimz.r iti the service of the public
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