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LIFE & ENERGY
LAST LOVER
8Y "hcLn 7hullix
When Julia McFarlaae’i husband,
Richard, disappeared In World War I,
she and her father-in-law, John I. Me-
Farlane, raised her two children to-
gether. Twenty-five years have elapsed
and Rle, now 27, Is In the army of
World War II, while Jill, 26, has be-
come Interested in Lieut Spang Gordon.
Julia is worried about Rie who has
shown tendencies of Inheriting his fa-
ther's recklessness and Jill, who she Is
afraid might marry Spang, thus be-
coming an army wife, subject to the
same grief she has endured. 6he con-
fides these worries to Dave Patterson,
a family friend who secretly loves her.
Jill and Spang go to a dance and there
Jill discovers she Is in love.
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She greeted all the people she
knew with sparkling brightness. She
led Spang around the room, intro-
ducing him to all the dowagers, try-
ing not to look too terribly proud,
too triumphant.
So they danced. "This Is the
Army,” and "Manhattan Sere-
nade,” and then when they passed
the band stand the leader caught
the glint of Spang’s wings, and the
music swung into the Air Corps
song, and Spang stopped dead, and
Jill sang it with him. tilting her head
back, tears burning her eyelids
because it was so gallant and so
beautiful!
"OIT we go, into the wild blue
yonder—
Flying high into the sun!”
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”1 can’t bear it,” Jill was think-
ing, when the high moment sank
and somebody cut in, leaving Spang
a little bewildered till some man
came up, dragging a girl in dahlia-
colored chiffon. ”1 can’t bear hav-
ing it all go by me,” Jill was mourn-
ing to herself. "Like a parade
marching past with flags flying,
leaving me standing on the curb
with the chewing-gum papers and
the banana peels and all the stupid
lefl-out people! Oh, can't he see?
Can’t-he see?”
But though they danced till the
band-leader's collar was wilted and
the trumpet player's weary lip
broke, and all the older people had
gone home, though they romped
downstairs with the rest to eat
slightly curling sandwiches and
drink punch that tasted flatly of the
lump of ice that had melted in the
bowl, though Spang gathered her
close whenever he had the chance
and said. “Now, let’s finish this
one!” there was no supreme and
wonderful moment.
They never did finish one. There
was always some man barging up
with some girl in tow, and Spang
smiled politely and surrendered Jill,
who drifted o(T chewing hate be-
tween her teeth.
But at last they were tramping
back through the wet grass to the
station-wagon, and Spang was help-
ing her in and tucking her skirt
around her. He climbed up beside
her and loosened his tie. "Never
saw so many Four F’s and Three
A’s at a party in my life,” he re-
marked. ”We never did get a
chance to try a rumba.”
“I know,” Jill sighed, surrepti-
tiously sliding off a shoe. "But that
was your fault. You were the glam-
our boy. All their dates wanted a
whirl with the air corps, so I had
to stumble around smelling fourteen
different kinds of shaving lotion and
hearing a hundred versions of the
same alibi, how like the devil they
all wished they could get into the
big middle of this fight. I'm starv-
ing, and I know a Greek who makes
the best hamburgers in the world.
Let’s get some, shall we?”
“Swell idea. You navigate, and
I’ll fly the heap. Gosh, all' those
women are going to hate me. Every
darn one gave me some message
to deliver to some fellow at camp,
and there isn't a chance that I’ll
ever see one of those men. Can’t
they realize that we've got forty
thousand men down there and that
you never have any time to look up
a man who isn’t in your squadron?”
“They don’t know a thing abouf
the army except what they read
and hear on the radio. I’ve heard
my mother tell that when my father
was leaving for the port of embark-
ation some old lady gave him a
spice cake to deliver to her son,
and all she knew was that he was
somewhere In France.”
like this had ever happened to her
before, nothing so sweet, nothing so
urgent. She was so changed within
herself. She was not the Jill Mc-
Farlane she had been at all, not
the girl who had come home from
college with ne definite objective,
only a few half-baked Ideas about
getting into some kind of service,
preferably some branch with a keen
uniform. Now she felt dedicated
somehow, and everything that had
been was trivial and not even worth
considering any more.
She said, “If you get ptomaine,
I'll make you a mustard plaster.
I'm very special on mustard plas-
ters.”
She said, "What will you do when
they finish this war business,
Spang? Keep on flying?"
“I don't know." Spang wiped
mustard from his fingers with a
very clean handkerchief. "All these
kids will be in it then. It will be
the world's most crowded profes-
sion. Maybe I’ll go back to the
farm. That place of yours is pretty
"What I'm thinking about is the
millions of women stuck borne.”
swell, and a farmer Is darned inde-
pendent.”
"Don’t mention that to Mother—
especially if she has just had a row
with the county agent."
"She's done pretty well, In spite
of her handicaps.”
"She had to." Jill was loyal. "She
had Ric and me and Grandfather
and not any money to speak of.
Grandfather had some, but Dooley
was terribly proud, she was deter-
mined to make her own way.”
“We won't any of us have any
money after the war, not for years.
This will be a complete democ-
racy then, every man equal, because
every man will be broke.”
Was he giving her a gentle brush-
off, telling her without words that
life was earnest, that when the war
was over he was going to need some
broad-hipped woman with a placid
capacity for work and no more tem-
perament than a cow? No band
music or parades, no daughter of
the regiment? Jill wondered as
she lay that night wide-awake in her
bed.
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Daughter of
The Regiment
“A war would be a dam sight
easier on the army if it wasn’t
for the civilians," said Spang. •
They parked at the little lunch
wagon and ate two hamburgers
apiece and drank tall bottles of pop,
laughing a great deal over nothing.
“I’m being silly,” Jill thought du-
biously. "I'm pressing the issue,
and in a little while if I’m not care-
ful he’ll know how I feel, and may-
be he’ll be sorry for me, or dis-
gusted.”
Spang would not take advantage,
that she knew. There was a quiet
and fastidious reserve about him
that could be trusted.
So she forced herself into a cool
airiness, though a small ache was
growing bigger and tighter in her
breast. If Spang went away with
nothing spoken, with only the com-
monplaces Of friendship between
them, a casual good-by, that pain,
(he knew, would last forever.
It had to be love because nothing
Spang and Jill
Compare Futures
But.he’s here, she comforted her-
self, sharply aware of him beyond
the wall. He needn’t have come,
he could have spent his leave some-
where else. But he did come, and
somehow I have to be what he
wants.
She got up early, so early that
Julia, having her coffee on the
screened porch, looked at her
daughter in surprise.
"On Sunday?” She wrinkled her
brow. “Or haven’t you been in bed
at all?"
"Of course I've been in bed, beau-
tiful," Jill nibbled a piece of toast
from Julia’s plate. “Spang says
you look like my sister, though I
shouldn’t tell you because you're
terribly vain already.”
“Don't be disturbed, because 1
feel like your grandmother this
morning. We lost a thousand-dollar
brood animal last night, and your
grandfather has gone into deep
mounting. Did you have fun last
night?”
"I guess so. Dooley, I’ve been
thinking. It's time I started help-
ing you a little. You’d better put me
to work."
'‘So be admires milkmaids, does
he?” ,
“I didn’t ask him. It’s just a sug-
gestion, of course."
“Don’t bristle, sweet. Red hair
la so darned explosive. The dahlias
are beginning to bloom. You could
freshen up the bouse a little."
“No. That’* the droopy act tbey
always pull in novels. Pretty girl
discovered in the garden with an
armful of flowers! I don’t want
anything as corny as that”
“Well, if you’d rather be discov-
ered feeding a catf, the buckets ere
in the well-house. But it might have
a slightly strained look, as Foster
and I fed them all long ago. Why
not just read the funnies and be
natural? Men have been known to
admire women who were content to
be themselves.” Julia’s face
changed a little, sobered. "Don’t
go off the deep end 'n this, please,
Jill. You’re still j Jng."
“But I’m not! I’m not young.
And there’s a war."
"I know.” Julia was gentle.
"I don’t want you to be hurt.”
"I’m hurt already. It's no good,
Dooley,” Jill said faintly. "Every-
thing you say is true, and yet it’s
all no good!”
It was a lovely Sunday, Jill de-
cided. if you liked lovely Sundays.
The August heat was tempered
by a cloudy sky, and all the hills
leaned lazily against the horizon,
with smoky haze masking their
drowsy indolence.
She walked up the lane with
Spang and through - the meadow
where the late crop of hay had been
cut, where elderberries shook their
purple heads over fences and quail
scampered through the clover stub-
ble, their bright eyes apprehensive.
At the top of the hill they found
John I. McFarlane. He was sitting
under the big persimmon tree, cut-
ting little twigs into lengths and pil-
ing them in neat piles at his feet.
He grumped a greeting, and Jill
said, "Sorry about your prize pig,
Grandfather.” But he only nodded
and went on with his whittling.
The woodland on the ridge was
cool and full of little wild whis-
perings, and paths cut by tiny hoofs
ran through it in every direction.
Spang staid, "Good timber,” and Jill
answered, "Awfully old, I think.”
And then they were at the rail fence
and the crest, and there below them
the lake shimmered, flat and quiet,
reflecting the lavender coloring of
the sky.
Spang asked, "How’s the fishing?”
And Jill said, "Ask Grandfather.
He’s the fisherman in the family.”
"Off to the east where the hills
sank, a raincrow began its sad
crying, and in a great oak over-
head a little bird whimpered and
shrieked sharply, voicing some
small heartbreak. A leaf fell and
struck the back of Jill’s hand, and
she looked at it and saw the yellow
of winter already in its heart,
a fading, a prescience, and she
shiyered a little.
“Dogwood,” Spang said, smooth-
ing the leaf between his fingers.
"They fall early.”
“Then it will be winter,” Jill
spoke numbly, "and how are we
going to bear it?”
He looked at her soberly. "The
Russians will bear It. And the
Greeks. There won’t be much to
eat in their towns and no place to
get warm, but they’ll fight through.
So will we.”
"I’m not thinking about things
like that. I’m not soft. I can take
it. Things like that, anyway. What
I’m thinking about Is millions of
women, stuck home alone. That’s
the ghastly prospect.”
"That's your battle,” Spang said.
"It’s tough, I agree. But we’re up
against the same kind of thing. Mil-
lions of men, stuck in the middle of
a war, alone. Every one alone, even
though there’s a mob around him.
Nobody to admire us, and nothing
nice to look at. Hairy legs in show-
ers and masculine table manners
uninhibited by feminine presence,
nothing soft to sit on, nothing soft
to look at. nothing but sweat and
men swearing, who’d like to cry
but can’t. Wet khaki dangling from
coat-hangers, and those awful fa-
tigue hats. Now it's your turn."
“I give up.” Jill managed a
smile. "At least we can tie our
hair back with ribbons and pretend
somebody cares how we look.”
“Do you tie your hair back with
ribbons?"
“Green ones—to match my dis-
position."
"How about some brown velvet to
match your eyes?”
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woman and the judge asked him.
why he did it.
“Well, sir,” the culprit replied,
“she got on,the bus and sat down,
opened her bag, took out her
purse, closed her bag, opened her-
purse, took out a penny, closed
her purse, opened her bag, put.
back the purse, and closed her
bag. Then she noticed the con-
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opened her bag, took out her
purse, closed her bag, opened her
purse, put in her penny, closed
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her purse, and closed her bag.
Then she saw the conductor com-
ing down the stairs, so she opened
hrer bag, took out her purse, closed
her bag, opened her purse, took.
out a penny, and closed her-”
“Stop!” cried the magistrate,
‘you’re driving me crazy.”
“That’s what happened to me,
sir,” said the man.
Use a two-jnch paint brush for
dusting grooves and corners in
furniture.
Protein foods, such as ham,
fish or eggs, lose their food
value when allowed to boil at high
tempeYatures. Simmer them.
Slip oil silk covers over the bot-
toms-'of hanging plant pots to pre-
vent weter from dripping out.
Before washing scrim curtains
fold each curtain down the cen-
ter and baste the edges together.
This will keep the edges straight.
Remove onion odor from a knife
by drawing the blade through »
raw carrot two or three times.
If a porcelain teakettle or coffee
pot becomes stained, rub the
stained portion with a cloth dipped
in baking soda until discoloration
is removed. Then wash thor-
oughly.
If your glass cutter does a
messy job on a pane the fault may
be found in a dirty, griUy surface.
The cutters work well only when
tne glass has been thoroughly
cleaned with a good solvent such
as dry cleaner, gasoline or kero-
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Brushes which have been used
for shellac should be cleaned with
denatured alcohol and not turpen-
tine.
Removing rust spots on refrig-
erator: Sandpaper until the'metal
is bright. Wipe with turpentine-
and apply coat of red lead paint.
When this is dry apply an under-
coat of enamel, then a good grade
of surface enamel.
Biographical Cyclopedia
Carried Hoax 33 Years
Seams can be ripped out more
easily if you use a pair of tweezers
and save your finger-nails. Tweez-
ers hold a firm grip on the long
threads and pick out small ones
easily.
If your small throw rugs wrinkle
up under the cleaning, try using
the vacuum crosswise instead of
lengthwise.
Slip a finger from that glove all
tattered and torn over your cur-
tain rod and the curtain will slip
on easily.
15th-18th Century Sundials
Were Elaborate Devices
With a Song
In Her Heart
Jill’s heart began to sing again.
But she held her eagerness grimly
in check. She wasn’t going to read
tenderness into his voice or his
eyes; after ah it might be .a line,
the old army line. But somehow
she knew that Spang was different.
Not the sort to give a girl complh
ments that had no meaning, not the
sort to smile and kiss, lightly per-
haps, and then ride on. Slow, Jill
McFarlane, warned the adult part
of her mind.
Aloud she said, "My eyes are
black. I hated them when I was
small. I wanted big blue eyes and
yellow curls down to my waist. But
I got eyes like Grandfather and hair
like Mother, and my father's rest-
lessness. Except that Mother saye
he hated Buzzard’s Hill, and though!
that Mother was crazy to want to
live here when her people died. But
I love the place."
Spang looked down the slope to
the red roofs and wandering white
fences, the softening green of the
great old trees. "It’s a nandsomq
place. Your mother told me tha
house was a hundred year* old
They built to last in those days."
The most elaborate sundials
ever made were the portable,
watch-sized instruments designed
in Europe between the 15th and
18th centuries, says Collier’s mag-
azine.
Besides a compass, which was
used for orientation, some con-
tained as many as 15 devices,
among them being, for example,
dials for determining the noctur-
nal hour by either the moon or
certain stars, an adjustment for
changes in latitude, a diagram
showing planetary positions and a
contrivance for ascertaining the
time when the sun and moon
would rise and set.
No hoax of its kind compares
with the one perpetrated on the
editors of the 1886 edition of Ap-
pleton’s Cyclopedia of American
Biography, says Collier’s. As they
accepted in good faith all mate-
rial received by mail, some un-
known person sent them the biog-
raphies of 84 fictitious people,
which were published.
Although these individuals,
their achievements and the books
credited to them were supposed
to be well known, the hoax was
not discovered for 33 years.
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