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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C,
FICTION
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BEST LOOKING GIRL IN TOWN
By THYRA SAMTER WINSLOW
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F ROM the time she was thirteen
Rilla Mabry had been ashamed
of her appearance. It was then that
she started shooting up higher than
the other girls. She was awkward
as well as tall and she was too thin.
By the time she was twenty she
was fully convinced that her ap
pearance was really something ter
rible. All of the other girls seemed
little and cute and attractive. No
matter what Rilla wore it seemed
wrong. There was too much of her
to wear tailored clothes. And thin
dresses hung around her in folds.
All of the boys and girls in the
crowd liked Rilla. She was a fine girl
—if you could for
get the way she
looked. Even her
hair was wrong—
sort of stringy—but
she had a pleasant
and rather attrac
tive face.
In spite of her
looks Rilla had a
boy friend. He was
Patrick Redding and his father kept
a grocery store. Pat wasn’t any
great catch—but then you really j
couldn't expect Rilla, with her
looks, to do any better. Folks felt
that Rilla ought to be well satisfied.
Pat was a nice looking boy, and he
certainly wasn’t to be sneezed at.
Rilla didn’t sneeze at Pat. She
was grateful to him for being nice
to her. She was as jolly and as
friendly as she could be. As a mat
ter of fact she liked Pat a lot. He
was fun to be with. She’d have been
perfectly satisfied except for the
fact that she was in love with Shane
Tennant. Which did her a lot of
good—for Shane was the catch of
the town. Shane’s father was a
banker—and rich. His mother was
the social leader of the town. Shane
was tall—much taller than Rilla—
and handsome, besides.
Pat went into the grocery with
his father. Shane went into the
bank. That’s the way sons do in
small towns unless they have defi
nite ideals about law or one of the
other professions. Rilla didn’t do
anything. Her folks had just enough
money so she didn’t have to work.
She went to parties with Patrick—
and admired Shane from a dis
tance. The town folks felt that she
would marry Pat, that he’d take
over his father's grocery store and
that they’d settle down.
That might have happened if it
hadn’t been for Leslie Durant. Les
lie Durant was—and still is—a well
known illustrator. And he came to
Morriville to visit an aunt. And got
taken to all of the parties, of
course. The social lion of the sea
son. He stayed in town three days—
but that was long enough for a lot
to happen.
He saw Rilla Mabry! Rilla was
standing near the door—and she
was looking at Shane Tennant. She
never knew how much her face
showed what she was thinking
about. No one else noticed—but
Durant, being new, took in the sit
uation. He saw Rilla, standing not
quite straight because she didn’t
feel quite as tall that way, in a
badly fitted dress and her hair not
quite smooth—and he saw Shane,
perfectly groomed—for Morriville—
self-confident, good looking. And
then Pat came to ask Rilla to
dance.
On the second day of his visit
Durant made his remarkable state
ment. He declared, to anyone who
would listen to him, that Rilla Ma
bry was by far and away the best
looking girl in town. One of the best
looking girls he’d ever seen.
Rilla had never had a compli
ment about her looks before. She
had always been shy, self-conscious
and often miserable about her ap
pearance. And here, the first au
thority on beauty who had ever
been in town, acclaimed her as the
prize.
When Durant, himself, told her
what he thought of her she was
filled with confusion. She managed
to stammer her thanks. And later,
very shyly, she went up to him.
"I do wish you’d tell me how I
can look better,” she said.
“I’m not suited for the task of
lily-gilding,” he told her, “but may
be if we got together—”
They got together the next morn
ing. Durant came to Rilla's house,
and, with Rilla’s mother acting as
helper, they did things to Rilla and
Rilla’s clothes. Durant made her
stand up straight. And rearranged
her hair. And told her what was
wrong with the clothes she wore.
That night there was a dance for
Durant—his last evening in town.
And, as he had thought when he
started things, Rilla was, for the
first time in her life, the belle of the
ball. Toward the end of the eve
ning Durant had the satisfaction of
seeing Shane Tennant dancing at
tention. Shane Tennant, whom Rilla
had looked at with longing eyes—
and who had paid no attention to
her.
Durant went back to his home in
New York. And forgot all about the
whole thing. And years passed. And
the sequel happened just the other
day.
Durant was lunehing alone at a
restaurant when an attractive, tall
woman, past her first youth, came
up to him.
"You don’t remember me,” she
said.
Durant didn’t remember her.
“I’m Rilla Tennant—I was Rilla
Mabry when you knew me. You
came to my home town and—and
sort of made my life over. Remem
ber now?”
“Of course I do,” said Durant. “I
remember very well.”
“You did a wonderful job!” said
Rilla. There was a curious note in
her voice he didn’t understand.
"You married the boy you were
in love with, I see. His name was
Tennant, wasn’t it?”
“Why, yes,” said Rilla. "But how
did you remember the name? And
how did you know I was in love
with him?”
“I’m good at names. And I saw
you looking at him. Simplicity it
self! And to think that I was the
cause!” He preened a little.
“Yes, you were,” said Rilla. "It
was very funny, now, when you
look back on it. There I was, going
with Pat Redding and in love with
Shane. And terribly ill at ease and
awkward. And you came down and
said I was a beauty—so automati
cally I became a beauty. And the
boys all rushed me. And I married
Shane.”
“Wonderful!” said Durant. And
he beamed. “How are you getting
along, now?” he asked, as an after
thought.
“That’s the catch,” said Rilla.
“You shouldn’t have asked.
“Shane and I married—and didn’t
get along any too well. Though I
was awfully happy in the beginning.
The Tennants lost all of their
money in the depression—and my
family had its money in the Ten
nant bank by that time, so our
money went, too. Then Shane fell in
love with a chorus girl. I got a di
vorce, of course. I’ve been teaching
in a girl's school for the past three
years.”
“That’s too bad!” said Durant,
and began to feel inflated. “But
maybe that was better than marry
ing that other boy whom you didn’t
love.”
“Maybe,” said Rilla. "You can
never tell. Love goes . . . Patrick
Redding took over his father’s gro
cery store—and married the cutest
girl in town. They have three chil
dren and are very happy. And, oh
yes, he developed * an ambitious
streak and started a chain of gro
cery stores. Now he’s the richest
and most important man in town."
Alchemists Knew Zinc
"Nix Alba” was the name by
which zinc oxide, now widely used
as a paint pigment, was known to
skilled alchemists, who also called
it "philosophers’ wool.” It was first
suggested for use in paint by the
French chemist. Guidon de Mor-
veau, in the late 10th century.
Early in the 19th century, the pig
ment became cofnmercially avail
able, and at about that time a
French naval vessel was painted
with zinc oxide paint. Today, zinc
oxide is produced by two processes,
the American and the French. The
American process produces the ox
ide direct from zinc ore, while in
the French process it is produced
by vaporization and oxidation of
metallic zinc in an open fire
place and collection of the oxide
in a series of chambers. The
bulk of the zinc oxide pigment now
is produced by the American
process.
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beverage
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37 Former Chief
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40 Bearing
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dealings
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This
Week's
Best
Fiction
For Real Vitality, Try a Good Breakfast
(See recipes below.)
Morning Meals
Don’t try to argue your family
into eating a whopper of a break
fast! Make it so
good and inter
esting that they
just can’t refuse
it! You may have
found that coax
ing helps your
family to eat luncheon and dinner,
but as you may know, it just won’t
work for breakfast.
The things that do work are vari
ety, downright good food, gay,
cheerful dishes and linens, and
pleasant attitudes. Of course the
time element is important, and this
may need a bit of working on if
your folks are in the habit of sleep
ing until the last minute and then
trying to dash off some fruit juice
and coffee.
When you sit down to think about
it, those five minutes extra sleep
really don’t make you any more
rested, so get the family up early
enough to eat breakfast properly.
Mother can help this along by get
ting up and starting breakfast. The
smell of pancakes or bacon plus the
aroma of coffee really does help
in getting the family started on their
way out of bed.
Breakfast should start off with
fruit or fruit juice. This not only
is refreshing, but also is a good way
to get started off on those vitamins
and minerals for the day. Follow
the fruit with cereal, prepared or
cooked, and vary this from day to
day. If the cereal looks a bit un
interesting, plan to serve fruit with
it to add a touch of color and flavor.
Eggs are recommended for break
fast whether you have to watch your
calories or boost them. But, do
serve them in different ways so they
always remain interesting. Then,
too, you can use eggs in waffles
and pancakes when real variety is
desired.
Interesting breakfast breads do a
lot toward making the meal one to
anticipate with
delight. Try a
brand new coffee
cake or toast
some of the
homemade
breads for real
deliciousness.
'Health Bread.
1 cup sifted white flour
2 cups graham flour
1 teaspoon salt
H cup sugar
1 teaspoon soda
Hi cups soured milk
% cup molasses
Mix together the dry ingredients.
Dissolve soda in soured milk and
add the molasses. Add liquids to
dry ingredients and mix thoroughly.
Pour into two greased pans and
bake slowly in a slow (325-degree)
oven for 1% hours. If desired, rai
sins and/or dates also may be add
ed to the dry ingredients when a
!ruit bread is desired. This is de-
icious as toast or sandwiches.
Orange Coffee Cake.
2 cups sifted flour
% teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons baking powder
% cup corn syrup
H cup orange juice
2 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon grated orange rind
% cup melted butter or substitute
Topping:
2 tablespoons grated orange rind
H cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon melted butter
LYNN SAYS:
Tips to Make You
An Expert Cook
A quick sauce for members of the
green family—such as cabbage and
broccoli—is to mix % cup of lemon
juice with % cup of mayonnaise and
heat in the double boiler.
Experiment with herbs if you
Want savory foodstuffs. Try a little
mace in your baked squash or
squash souffle; nutmeg in chopped,
creamed spinach; pinch of thyme in
clam chowder.
LYNN CHAMBERS’ MEND
Creamed Dried Beef
on Baked Potato
Broiled Tomatoes Garden Salad
•Health Bread Beverage
Chocolate Cream Pie
•Recipe given.
Mix com syrup, orange juice
and melted shortening and combine
with sifted dry in
gredients. Mix in
beaten eggs, va
nilla and orange
rind. Pour into a
greased square
pan. Blend top
ping ingredients
and sprinkle over
top of batter.
Bake in a pre
heated fairly hot
(400-degree) oven for 30 minutes.
Oatmeal Griddle Cakes.
(Makes 12 to 15)
% cup flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1% cups quick-cooking oats
1 egg, well beaten
1 tablespoon melted shortening
1 teaspoon molasses
% cup water
% cup milk
Sift flour, measure and sift with
baking powder and salt. Add oats.
Combine egg, shortening, molasses,
water and milk. Add to dry ingre
dients and beat until smooth. Have
griddle very hot for first baking,
then reduce heat. Cook on one side
until puffed and full of bubbles.
Turn and cook on other side. Serve
with butter and syrup.
Baked Eggs in Toast Cups.
6 slices bread
6 eggs
Salt and pepper
Butter
Cut crusts from bread and gent
ly press the slices into greased
custard cups. The four comers will
extend to the tops of the custard
cups. Break an egg into each cup.
Season and dot with butter. Bake
for 15 minutes in a 400-degree oven.
Serve at once.
Two hearty dishes which are nice
to serve for breakfast are scrapple
and frizzled eggs. In the case of
the scrapple, make it the night be
fore and allow to chill before fry
ing.
Scrapple.
(Serves 6)
1 pound lean pork
1 cup corn meal
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon powdered sage
Simmer pork in water until meat
falls from bones. Remove meat
and bones. Chill broth and remove
fat. Measure 1 quart of broth, add
ing water, if necessary. Add com-
meal and cook, stirring frequently
until thick. Grind or chop meat fine
and add to cereal with salt and
sage. Pack in a loaf bread pan
and chill. Slice and fry.
Frizzled Eggs.
(Serves 6)
H pound chipped beef
2 tablespoons butter
6 eggs, beaten
K teaspoon pepper
H cup milk
Cook dried beef in butter until
slightly crisp. Combine eggs, pep
per and milk and mix well. Pour
over beef and cook as for scram
bled eggs. Serve garnished with
toast points and parsley.
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Mix your favorite jelly with honey
and spread over toast. This is
especially good on nut bread.
For a quick, tasty dessert, use
a prepared butterscotch pudding
and make it with half milk and half
leftover coffee. This is really some
thing in the way of a taste teaser.
If you tend to have leftover stuff
ing with your fowl, after the fowl
is gone, why don’t you try baking
the extra stuffing in a casserole and
serving it topped with eggs, baked
and seasoned?
NEEDLECRAFT PATTERNS
Smart, Colorful Towel Motifs
'T'HESE smart motifs are a must
in the trousseau of the bride-
to-be. They’re as decorative as
they are useful. Three different
designs.
310 Wives and Concubines
Sacrificed at Raja’s Death
The death of Raja Suchet Singh
in Lahore, India, in 1844, was fol
lowed by one of the last and great
est instances of suttee, the age-old
Hindu custom that required a wid
ow to be cremated with her hus
band. This ruling prince main
tained, in palaces in Lahore, Jam
mu and Ramnagar, a total of 10
wives and 300 concubines, all of
whom sacrificed themselves on
funeral pyres in their respective
cities.
Colorful, practical, easy to do. Pattern
7321 has transfer of 14 motifs 2 by 2 to
4 1 ,2 by 10y 4 inches.
Our improved pattern—visual with
easy-to-see charts and photos, and com
plete directions—makes needlework easy.
Send your order to:
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Frenchman Came Upon
Radioactivity by Accident
Radioactivity was discovered by
accident. Henri Becquerel, a
friend of Madame Curie, placed a
little uranium on a photographic
plate, covered it with some black
paper and left it overnight. The
next morning the plate was foggy.
Experiments proved that X-rays
had not fogged the plate. The
mystery intrigued him so, he kept
working away at it until he dis
covered the Becquerel ray or
radioactivity.
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