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Zurich Herald, 1949-12-01, Page 6Write to; PAULINE HARVEY sox 6400, Montreal, P.Q. Awr'Rno aY x rue, 6,14, Lades, now'$ the thee that eaila for extra -special baking' knew -how, If Christman baking is Important to you, why not send today for your gifts copy of my new recipe booklet It's free, and it will help you bake finer, tastier Plum Puddings, Christmas Cakes and other delightful Holiday fora this year. FIVE ROSES FLOUR to for all-purpose baking SPECIAL Trat f Rosa x - .-. A LittIe Knowledge By Jim Kjelgaard NOBODY IN the Stannigy ever gets sick. Every time I've been there I've delivered a baby, or set a broken leg, or patched up some young hellion who thought he could ride an outlaw horse, or dug bullets out of somebody else. It's a wild country settled by wild people. Some times [ get so mad at those cattle men that I wish they'd all shoot each other. And then at other tines . , In spite of their hair-trigger tem- pers, and their tendency to express those tempers with a gun, they lave their good qualities. I've known everybody in the Stannigy for forty years. I guess I've de- livered half of then. On this trip I pulled up in front of old Jeb Cressfield's ranch house. The house is built on top of a hill, and there are folks who say Jeb built it there so he could look all ways for those who'd come gun- ning for him, Jeb himself, as as strong, gnarled, and as talkative, as any tree that grows on the Stanningy ridges, awaited me on the porch, "Come in, Doc," he said. I WENT in through the kitchen, and if there was one person wait- ing there, there must have been thirty. The women were either talking or crying in one part of the room, and the men weren't saying anything at all in another part, Every family in the Stannigy was represented. Tight-lipped 13 sped as turtles, seven of the eight Cross- field boys sat in seven chairs that they had tilted against the wall. When those boys were the prop- er age-allout six -they each got a. six-shooter . Now they could knock the centre out of a silver dollar at fifty yards. It seemed sort pf ominous to me because young Bud Cressfield was missing. Odoor- way d Jeb ducked that led under l ed to the next room, and I found out why Bud wasn't with his brothers. He lay on a cot with /his trousers still on and his shirt A lem rl tM Complete Story off, and 1 didn't have to look twke at the blood-stained patch of guaze on his chest to know what had, happened. This was an old, old story, one that, off and on, I'd been reading in the Stannigy for forty years. Bud Cressfield had been some- where. Maybe it was a dance, may- be any place at all. Anyhow, he'd got into an argument with some other hothead and the'd settled it with guns. The story from now on bad to follow a familiar pattern, Bud's seyen brothers, and old Jeb, would find out who'd shot Bud. Then, naturally, .one of them would go pick him off. His male relatives would feel obliged to shoot a few Cressfields. Before the thing was settled five or six men could die. It was enough to snake anybody mad, and sick too. 1 took the bandage off and looked at the bullet hole. It was harmless -looking, not half as hie as the end of my finger. Well, the size of the hole makes no difference. 1 found it, and got up, mad. "This," and I raised my voice so the people in the other room could hear, "is what you call mur- der!" Because I know the people of the Stannigy, I know how olci Jeb Cressfield's insides must have twisted when I said that. He loved his sons, but when I told him Budy 5v blink.as Hisedams going to he die apple worked a couple of times, and that's all except that his voice might have been a little strained when he said, "Is there anything at all you can do for him, Doc?" "Nothing!" "IJh, Of course you know the caliber bullet you took out of him?" "Yes!" and 1 was still shouting. "I know!" "Well, doc?" "Look," 1 said, "I've been corn ing into this district and patching you damn cowmen up when you tried to kill each other off, for forty years! ['m damned good and sick of it!! One of two ren shot Bud and I could give you their names. I know the guns you hot- heads use! ['m not going to tell! Pin going to the police with this bullet and with what I knows The man who shot Bud will hang by the neck ,until he's dead! Maybe that will make you fools think twice before you start any more of your cursed shooting frays!" I looked up to see the seven Cressfield boys, one behind the other, staring at me with hungry eyes. Old Jeb's edam's apple bob bed a couple of more times. "That's mighty strong talk, Doc!' "Maybe you think you can do something about it!" I wouldn't have dared talk that way if every- body in the Stannigy hadn't thought God and I were fairly close relatives "Maybe you'd like to try to stop me going to the police." Old Jeb said hoarsely, "Do what you can for Bud," ' I did what 1 could. Then got my hat. • "I'll be back in a few hours," 1 said. "Keep him quiet .and," I raised my . voice again, "before I come- back the police will be in to get the man who shot Bud," IF YOU want to kill a Stannigy cowboy, you'd better shoot him right through the heart. Of course' 'I'd known front the first that Bud had at- least a fighting chance, and that's all a Cressfield needs. When I got back Bud was -out of danger. "He must be strong as a horse," I told old Jeb.. "He'll live. In a couple of months he can •chi 'his own shooting." "No," Old Jeb's eyes were very thoughtful. "i don't' reckon he will. • Doc. Did you know .young Tom Rainse has took and lit out? Did you know that no police came here?" . "They must have forgotten" I avoided Jeb's eyes. But I figured I'd done a pretty good job. There had been some- body from every family in the Stannigy waiting to see how Bud would make out and I'd raised my voice, and... , Now that the Cresstields- knew definitely who had shot Bud they'd be looking only for hini.: He'd certainly have more sense --than to come back. There just couldn't be trouble in the Stannigy, When A Feller Needs A Friend Improved and extended re• - search facilities at the new .Hospital for Sick Children will help doctors and 'nurses to 'speed the efective treatment of injured children, like this boy -all adding up to "Operation Happy, Healthy Kids"- for Ontario and,. Canada. Well, we have Book Week, Edit. cation Week, Health Week, Fire Prevention Week, and plenty 'more that I can't recall at the motnent. so to be 'really up-to-date, 1 though: we might as well, have a special week at home. With that in mind 1 made last week "Window Week" ' at Ginger Farm, Yes, indeed -and .did • I know it! From 'Tuesday to 'Friday iiiclusive I was either clean- ing windows • inside and out, or painting storm windows -and then scraping off. the paint daubs and cleaning them afterwards. Let's see now, how many windows are there in this house? I never have counted thein, but there's no time like the present, so here goes. We'll start at the cellar and work up. Down cellar there are five, nor counting the two that are blocked up. Three of them have storm sash so that makes eight. On the first floor there. are sixteen windows, storm windows on eight, so that makes another twenty-four. Up - ANa HIRST ault ;-, j ® Gh "Dear Anne Hirst. 1 heee $teen married twice. I didn't stay:1.10ng with either husband. Then 1 start- ed drinking and going with, lots of young inen. My mother has warned me, but I had to see for myself just Trow wrong it was! "Now 1 have turned over a • r new leaf. Aird I've met a fine man who wants to marry me. I love him dearly. But people are talking about my past life, and I am afraid to tell him' the truth. He doesn't even know. I have ever been marrieds "I am going straight now. I've joined the church, and am'organist there. I have a few piano pupils, and am also a beautician. - This young man has joined the same church, and we are to be married there. He has never brolc- en a promise to me, and he has no bad habits. Please, please help me! Worried Girl, Tell The Truth-. * "Man's inhumanity to man, * etc." is heartbreaking, indeed. * When a wayward girl turns to * the right, people rise up on every * hand to make her way hard. In- ested.. " G�,ag; One • card of 35 -inch for the small size! Little more for the tether. As shown in diagram, this storon is one piece, plus ties and pockets, Whip ul! several for gifts! Pattern 4718 comes in size, 4ntall (14, 16) and medium (18, 20). Small size one yard 35 -inch, This pattern, easy to use, simple to sew, is tested for fit. Has com- plete illustrated instructions. Send twenty-five cents (25c) in coins (stamps cannot be accepted) :for this pattern, Print plainly size, 'name, address, style number. Send order to Box 1, 123 Eigh- teenth Street, New Toronto, Ont. ISSif.JI 49 1949 - !, ralleornie. mountain 310. In ' tPUZZdisagreement �el. it Work unit Bridge pert ACit�OSS 2. Gone by 20. Puma, 1. Cake Si. Bushes 2. glow less ares. 22. Large 4. Pat lamb 28. Planet 8, Bustle a3, city In Nebraska 4. Not any 22, Remo nnit T. Woods' plasm at Sun god 8. Attack 24, Ampttibiaa 4. Part of a poem 9. Plant 12. Pipoeh l3. Decorate H. Colour 'i6. Kind or sword 26. Property 1A, 13e2ore IC Loofa pi. Siam 2.s. Parent It4.Private teacher Decay. Rave Not eustermoui , Abraharattl birth's/atc� ER. Pasteboati bosses e , Like . Pray the band 4$rete,* .he g 3 . Rabin 4 . Minn', niokaarco 48. Accom53 - men t 48. Perium 45. lSquall 40. 'First Sltuaty king 48. rylindricci 51. Cuckoo 22 Style of trp 54. At once 55. Vegetall 66 Vlolentiv 57. Optic T)O w;/ 1. Du tai 32. Greek island 33. Southwestet'a State (ab.) 32. Asiatic eotnntry 88• Peaceful 40. Groove 42. emote 4'4. Partticie r+,caw 45. Flight quart. 42. :Knock 4�9's. Unity Playt 0. Sheep 3. Greek lector teeleiles fiSS: c') ,+ i II Answer elsewhere on this page. *.,stead- of -honorrug h'er for courage * and will power', they tear' -her ' name to pieces, and throw bar- * dies in her .path that can sap her strength immeasurably. * Vet you will keep on as yon s` have started anew, secure in your * determination to overcome the * difficulties that obsess you. 4' But you must first clear your conscience. Tell your fiance the * truth. If he is as fine as you say, * he will understand, and respect you for your honesty. * It is not likely that he can * long remain in ignorance, and the ' truth must come from you' Then * he will know your reform e complete; he will stand b is * through all this gossip, y you p, .protecting " the woman who is to be his wife. * And after you marry, he wilt do s' everything he can to help you * forget the 'past. * For you, this is the only * course Get it over with, and * relax. . „ y, 4. To "L.J.": You have brought this situation on yourself. By de- ceiving your parents and meeting this boy secretly, you have run a risk which no sensible girl would ' think of .taking. t£ you value your own integrity, you will right -about. face, and today! Any boy who encourages a girt of 15 to meet hint away from her hothe is a boy of no character: if you were honest and told him. that your parents do not allow you to date anyone, he should have said, "I understand, and I'll be around in a year or so, when you can in- troduce me to them." That be took advantage, of your wayward. ness shows him up for what he is. „You cannot grow up to be a girl whole , nice boys want to know utnless you make peace with your- self. You must scorn treachery of any kind, and keep yourself above suspicion. Unless you are honest with your father and mother, you cannot expect them, to think you can be trusted to go out with boys at all, And besides, what do you think a boy really things of a girl who is a pick-up? Your parent* have been trying to protect yotta against just suet troubler aatr yon, are in now. Trust therm, and obey tinnier It Al Lha only decent way. Do as they gay ,frond, now on, and as you put aside your present low standards, you will win their confidence. a+ y Ten your troubles to Anne Hirst. No matter how they might shock others, She will understand, and help you turn to the tight. Address her at Box 1, 123 E'ghteertth St., 1 New Toroe o. Ont. stairs five windows, storm windows on three, .bringing the grand' total to • forty. That ' number should surely be enough to lighten our darkness --and it's no wonder right arm ached. I'll bet you don't know, any ; more than I did, how many windows you have in your house. But if you have more than we have I'd advise you not to have a Window Week or you might have a Rest Week right after it. Maybe 1 ivouldn't have been so enthusiastic if it hadn't been for our wonderful,Indian Summer. 1 knew it 'could not last indefinitely and it always seems a good idea to me to make one's work fit the weather -not that 1 always do it _but I think it is a splendid theory. T hate to think those windows would have been like all winter - on the outside -had it turned cold all of a sudden- So far it hasn't been cold -just wet, rough and disagreeable, with an east wind blowing that reaches right to the marrow of your bones. Yes, it is _rotten weatlier to be out in but quite comfortable if you stay home and forget it. It would be better still if only we were back on standard time -but it won't be long now, ,thank good ness. I.clon't like getting up in the Middle of the night-, and getting breakfast before dayljghtt Daylight saving time certainly does nothing to save hydro . in the country= rather the reverse, 1 would say. Oh dear, my nerves! Partner just about made me jump out of my chair. He swatted a fly behind me without my knowing he was going to do it. Wouldn't you • think a man would let you know each time he intended swatting a fly? We don't need to ask now, "where do the files go in winter?" We know. because quite a few of them stay right here. They belong to the species that have built up- a re- sistance to DDT. Every sa often they disappear completely, then when the rooms get nice and warm and comfortable, out they come again and buzz .around. the lights until they have us just about crazy. Anyway, something is i'making my head spin. If it isn't the fifes then it must be the McGrego, Report which 1. have just been reading in the Finan 'al Post. Of course you have heard about it - the report .of an investigation that accuses the milling industry of price. fixing. I don't • pretend to understand what it is all about but it reads as if there is a nigger in the woodpile somewhere --fanners who buy millfeed will be quite willing • to believe that, By the ivay, isn't it -tine we had . some sort of , dictionary to keep us Up-to-date on present day ah- breviations? We get groups of letters, or initials, representing this and that organization, or special committee, with which we are' sup - Posed to be conversant, but yet 1 venture to say that very Pew of us know what half the letters really stand for. We 'just take a guess and go on reading. But gvouldn't - we be on the spot in a. Quizz pro-. gramme? The worst teasers are of government origin. 1 wonder does the government have ,a Special Department 'for Inventing Connplf- cated Headings for other special committees. That, yon see, would be just another -411e e SDTCH! 'I am pretty sure 6f my ground when 1 read about the WCTU, WI, .IODE, WMS, CCF and so. on- -but after I have to do a loot of guessing. Here are a couple of samples picked at random from 'All g , today's right, paper. don tTFPA and OPOS, worry -;f didn't know them either. 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Let stand .10 minutes, THEN stir welt. Scald 34 cup milk and stir in X, cup granulated sugar, 34 teaspoon salt, 3 tablespoons shortening; cool to lukewarm. Beat' :in 1 cup once -sifted bread flour. Add yeast mixture and 1 beaten egg; beat well. Work in 234 cups onde-sifted bread flour. Knead lightly; place in greased bowl and brush top with melted butter or shortening. Cover and set in warm place, free from draught. Let rise until doubled in bulk. Punch down dough and divide into 2 equal portions; form into smooth balls, Roll each piece into an oblong and fit into. greased pans about 7" z 11". Grease tops, cover and let rise until doubled in bulk. Peel, core and cut 8 apples into thin wedges. Sprinkle risen dough with 34 cup granulated sugar and lightly press apple wedges into cake tops, sharp edges down and close together. Mix i cup granulated sugar and 134 teaspoons cinnamon; sprinkle over apples. Cover and let rise oven,about rate 5b , about ur. ke in 1 hour.'Serve hot, with butter. New Fast�.Acting+�s� v y ,pr e f`I.�, nary �etlrt 4''•`. ' � ?. a, ��,llrl t Needs NO Rofrigeration! t R y Mays fresh and full-strength o4n 11441 ,sIv`" dourpantryshelf forweeks!Here'sall youdo;cr5 ,Inasmallamount(usually specie ja„oil sr +T ;11;11: fled) oflukewarm water, dissolve�� MFRE$, oroughly 1 teaspoon sugar forIfeach envelope of yeast, Sprinkle with di,y yeast, Let stand 10 minutes. l'rFHI Y stir well. (The water used with the yeast counts as.emet of the total liquid called for in your recipe.) 4