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A RIDE IN THE DARK
T HE headlights of the blue coupe
flashed on in the driveway.
Joyce, who had been watching from
*n upstairs window, reached hur
riedly for the coat lying on her bed.
As she slipped into it she made a
last quick survey of the room to
see that she had not forgotten any
thing. By the door her neatly packed
suitcase stood ready, and even now
the room had that deserted,, imper
sonal atmosphere a room acquires
when its occupant goes away.
Her heightened emotions threw
an unnatural clarity over the famil
iar scene. Little things she had not
noticed for weeks sprang suddenly
into focus. A silly little horn hanging
on the dresser was a reminder of
a dance Terry had taken her to
while they were still in college. He
had kissed her that night for the
first time. The photograph stuck
in the edge of the mirror: Terry
with a horrible grimace pretending
to clutch her throat as she knelt in
supplication in the sand. That had
been taken the day the gang drove
out to Three Tree Point for a picnic.
“How young we were'” she
thought wistfully. “How terribly,
carelessly young! And we’ll never
be young like that again!”
She shivered and drew her coat
closer around her shoulders. For
tonight was the end of her girlhood,
the end of the careless, silly years.
After tonight nothing would ever be
quite the same again. Better, per
haps. Oh yes—far, far better! But
not the same, ever again.
She caught her breath in a
sudden panic, and for one hor
rible, despairing moment she
thought, “I don’t want to go
through with it! I’m afraid!”
Then with a laughing sigh at her
absurdity, she shook the mood from
her and hurrie 1 out of the room
without looking back.
Safely in the car with her suit
case tucked under her feet, she
relaxed comfortably against the
shoulder of the young man behind
the steering wheel.
“Look, Terry, there’s a new moon
tonight. Is that a good omen, do
you suppose?”
“I hope so, darling.” He looked
tenderly down at the delicate oval
of her face, childish mop of brown
curls and the small hands folded
carefully in her lap.
“Oh, Joyce,” he exclaimed abrupt
ly, "don’t you think we , should
have told your mother after all?
Are you sure that you want to do
it this way?”
“Hush, Terry.” She patted his
knee. “Let’s not go into that
again. It’s too late, anyway. You
know Mother, she thinks I’m still
a baby! She wanted us to wait at
least another year.”
“She might be right at that,”
Terry replied uncertainly. “Maybe
you are too young.”
“Nonsense!” She shook her curls
emphatically. “A girl ' nows when
she’s ready. Wasn’t it lucky
Mother decided to go to California
when she did? Everything worked
out beautifully. Now she needn't
know a thing about it until it’s all
over.
“Darling,” her voice grew pen
sive. “Why do you suppose it >s
that middle-aged people can’t seem
to remember what it’s like to be
young and in love? Don’t they
remember the beauty and the re
lentless urgency? Don’t they know
that there has to come a time when
you’ve got to have it all and even
everything is not enough?” Her
voice faltered, and in the silence
between them the words were like
dark wings beating.
Terry reached down and took her
hand in a hard grip.
By LOUISE BERGSTROM
“Joyce, dearest!” he whispered.
They were silent then, and the
moon-bathed landscape sped past
as his foot pressed hard on the gas
pedaL It was early spring, and the
cool night air blowing in through
the car window had the restless,
exciting smell of new growth.
At last they were out of the
country, coming into the suburbs
of a town, where street lights
dimmed the moon and houses stood
in dark huddled rows.
Terry slowed the car, then sud
denly pulled up to the curb and
turned to the girl beside him. His
arms went around her and his head
bent down to hers.
“I love you, Joyce,” he said
against her soft hair. “Are you
afraid of tonight?”
She thought fleetingly of the
moment in her room when she
said goodbye to her girlhood, but
that moment was passed, swept
away by the tide of new emotions.
“As long as you love me, Terry,”
she replied simply, “I’m not afraid
of tonight or afterwards.” It was
quite true; she felt strong now, and
confident, ready for anything the fu
ture might hold.
He kissed her gently and the car
moved forward again, slowly now
as though the future had become
too precious for any risk. bright
ly lighted building loomed before
them, and Terry stopped again at
the foot of a flight of stone steps.
He picked up her suitcase and
stepped out of the car, then turned
to take her arm.
Joyce looked up eagerly at the
words cut over the entrance to the
building:
“LAKEWOOD MATERNITY HOS-
PITAL.”
She smiled at her husband grave
ly, reassuringly, and together they
started up the steps toward the
welcoming lights.
“How young we were!” she
carelesly young! And we’ll never
thought wistfully. “How terribly,
be young like that again.”
LET’S TALK
ABOUT you.
— BY CHARLES B. ROTH
The Secret o£ Good Habits
Because you have been warned so
many times against breaking habits,
you may have jumped to the con
clusion that all habits are bad. But
they aren’t. I think the number of
good habits is greater than the
number of bad habits.
You may be astonished when I
tell you that being more effective
and successful in your life is largely
a matter of habit. What I mean
is that clever and successful people
have formed helpful habits of think
ing and doing, while neurotic and
unsuccessful people have the wrong
kind of habits. That is the chief
difference between them.
Look at a habit in this way and
you will see what I mean. What is
habit except doing—or thinking—
the same thing often enough until
doing or thinking it becomes auto
matic, and you do every customary
act in the same way. Such action
is called "habitual action.” When
you think the same thoughts often
enough until they have become
thoughts that come and go without
your bidding, really without your
control, you are doing habitual or
habituated thinking.
Now, the secret of winning the
right kind of personality and place
in life is simply to determine a
pattern of thoughts that you want
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today
' I would bring you comfort if I
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If there be any word that I might say
* To ease your aching heart, dear friend,
I would
l Be glad tb speak that word, be glad to
bring
Its magic solace for your comforting.
But well I know that silence is a part
Of sympathy—so great a part, indeed.
That in this first dark moment when
your heart
Is tom with shock, silence still meet
your need
Better than words... but let me clasp
your hand,
And by that touch say, “Friend, I
understand.”
to have, and then to think those
thoughts and keep on thinking
them long enough until thinking
them becomes a habit.
Let’s say that at the present
time you are willy-nilly about every
thing you do. You can’t make up
your mind. You waver. You post
pone. You can’t make decisions.
Those things are a sign of faulty
thought habits.
Decide that for one week you will
act decisively, even if wrongly, in
little things. During that week act,
live, carry yourself like a person
of resolute habits.
Maybe one week’s experiment
isn’t going to be long enough to
overthrow the faulty thought habits
of a lifetime, but it will help. It
will be long enough to put you on
the road to right thinking and to
right habits.
Dig deeply enough into the way
the person you admire the most
lives, and you probably will find
that he is controlled by a series
of habits—right habits. The' sum
total of those habits is what gives
him his personality, his attractive
ness. The sum total of good habits
in your life will do just as much
for you.
New Army Technique
Aids Plane Survivors
GOOSE BAY, LABRADOR. — A
new technique for rescuing survivors
of plane crashes in the frozen Labra
dor wastelands by pin-pointing dog-
sled teams by parachute has been
developed by the air transport com
mand.
The newly developed operation
“dogsled” will save precious hours
for plane crash survivors exposed to
the bitter cold and possibly suffer
ing from injuries received when
their craft plunged earthward.
Conceived by Sgt. George E. Ab
bott, Norfolk, Va., the unusual res
cue operation is especially valuable
because some areas of the woody
terrain in Labrador are so dense that
helicopters cannot land.
Huskies, sleds and para-doctors
jump from C-47’s via the silk chute
route and gather together at a focal
point where the dog teams are as
sembled. Then the unit proceeds tc
the scene of the crash where it ad
ministers first aid, evacuates the
seriously wounded and provides
food.
The entire procedure lasts only a
few minutes, contrasting sharply
with the hours and days that it has
taken overland rescue teams to
reach some crash scenes in the past.
Twins Are Identical,
Even to Toothaches
Six-year-old Janice and Jeanette
Washburn of Mattapoisett, Mass.,
are identical twins—painfully iden
tical.
When they reported to the school
dentist. Dr. George M. Teasdale,
with toothaches in corresponding
molars. Dr. Teasdale insisted he
never before had heard of such a
coincidence.
To their mother, however, it was
an old story. The twins lost the
same corresponding first baby teeth
on the same day. Similar circum
stances also surrounded the loss ol
their second teeth.
SCRIPTURE-. Nehemfah 1—7.
DEVOTIONAL READING: Paalma 122:
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Nehemiah Rebuilds Jerusalem
Lesson for May Z, 1948
Dr. Newton
B ORN and reared in Persia,
Nehemiah appears in the open
ing scene of his prophecy as cup
bearer to King Artaxerxes in the
royal palace at
Shushan. He was
a favorite at court,
due, no doubt, to
his personality
and training, plus
a keen desire to
serve his people.
He obtained a
royal order from
Artaxerxes, grant
ing him passage to
Jerusalem. It was
a long and danger
ous journey, but
Nehemiah travelled not only with
letters from the king, but assur
ance in his heart that he was on
the Lord’s mission. He was given
authority to seek help from other
nations. Just how much help he
received fronj other nations is not
definitely certified, but we do
know that he achieved the high
purpose which God had put in his
heart. He governed the city wisely
for a dozen years, and wrought
many notable reforms. Read the
first seven chapters of Nehemiah
for the complete story. Read also
Psalms 122:1-9.
• • •
WHEN FRIENDS WORK
TOGETHER
U PON arrival in Jerusalem,
Nehemiah made a tour of the
city by night. He was shocked and
amazed at the ruins. He called up
on the people to come and help re
build the walls. And they were im
pressed with the earnestness and
sincerity and courage of his call.
“So built we the wall; and all the
wall was joined together unto the
half thereof; for the people had a
mind to work,” Nehemiah 4:6.
There is work for everyone who
is of a willing mind. There is work
In the home. Boys and girls who
pitch in and share in the everyday
work of the home make glad the
hearts of their parents, and at the
same time they are learning how to
care for their own homes when they
grow up.
* • •
STRENGTH AND ENCOURAGE
MENT
N EHEMIAH set the people to
gether in families, with tools
for work and weapons for defense
against the enemy. And in this
union of numbers there was both
strength and courage. We need to
day to learn anew this lesson of
working together. So often we wit
ness evidence of people pulling
against one another. We see it in
the home and in the school and in
the wider areas of life—in politics
and in the clash between capital
and labor.
* * *
THOSE WHO OPPOSED
NEHEMIAH
O UR lesson describes not only
the courage and wisdom of
Nehemiah in getting the Jews to
work and work together, but it
tells us about those who opposed
the rebuilding of Jerusalem. San-
ballat was the governor of Samaria,
and when he heard that Nehemiah
was rebuilding Jerusalem, he put
in to defeat him by many schemes
of sabotage.
He began with ridicule. “What
do these feeble Jews?” he scof-
fingly asked. Ridicule is always
one of the weapons of those who
would tear down and destroy.
Young people will do well to guard
themselves against the snare of
cynicism. It is a dangerous thing.
Sanballat and his cohorts, Tobiah,
and certain Arabians and Am
monites and Ashdodites, conspired
to hinder Nehemiah in many devi
ous attacks; but the people worked
and fought, in the name of the
Lord.
* * •
WHAT MAKES A REAL LEADER?
T HIS is the question which will
inevitably arise as we study
this lesson. How could one man
inspire people to undertake the im
possible? First, Nehemiah relied
implicitly upon God’s help. Second,
he threw himself into the task,
fearlessly and intelligently. Third,
be possessed the quality of inspir
ing faith and hope in others These
are the qualities that make a real
leader, anywhere, any time.
How we do need such leaders to
day! And the Bible speaks to us,
in the story of Nehemiah. remind
ing us how real leaders are pro
duced. Read the 122nd Psalm. Here
is the secret of it all—“They shall
prosper that love thee.” Every
difficulty confronting the home, the
community, the nation, the world,
can be met and mastered, provided
we tackle it in the name of the
Lord, relying upon his wisdom, his
strength, his poise.
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It’s Easy to Make Strawberry Shortcake
(See recipes below)
Strawberry Time
For those of you who like straw
berries, the stfeson is too short! But
we aim to do our best by them this
season, so let’s have them several
times each week as long as we can.
Perfect strawberries are just plain
good served au naturel. And if you
like them sweeter, dip each in a
mound of powdered sugar, before
tasting its deliciousness. Some like
them for breakfast with a sprinkling
of sugar and a quaint pitcher of thick
country cream.
Strawberries in shortcake make a
dream of a dessert. Some prefer
old fashioned biscuit type of short
cake, split and covered with sweet
ened crushed berries and • cream.
Others prefer a more cake-like type
of accompaniment to the berries.
•Strawberry Shortcake
(Serves 6)
2 cups sifted flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
5 tablespoons shortening
1 egg, well beaten
1/2 cup milk
2 teaspoons grated orange peel
1 tablespoon soft butter
1 quart strawberries, sliced and
sugared
Sift flour, baking powder, salt and
sugar together; cut shortening into
mixture with two knives or pastry
blender until mixture is the consist
ency of corn meal.
Combine egg and milk; add to dry
ingredients, mixing quickly to form
a soft dough.
Drop the dough by spoonfuls into
a well greased two quart heat re
sistant glass utility dish. Sprinkle
each biscuit with grated orange peel.
Bake in a hot (450 degree) oven
for 12 minutes. Split hot biscuits
and spread with soft butter. Place
the sweetened strawberries between
and on top of each biscuit. Serve
a pitcher of cream with the short
cake if desired.
Fresh Strawberry Pie'
1 baked 9-inch pie shell
1 quart strawberries
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch or flour
Sweetened whipped cream
Crush half the berries and bring
to boiling point. Stir in sugar com
bined with flour or cornstarch and
salt. Cook, stirring constantly, until
thickened and well cooked. Spread
other half of berries (whole) 'in
baked pie shell. Pour hot cooked
filling over top. cool, top with sweet
ened whipped cream and serve.
Meringue may be used instead of
whipped cream and pie browned in
a moderate (350 degree) oven.
Special Strawberry Shortcake
2 cups sifted all-purpose enriched
flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
4 tablespoons shortening
2 eggs
1/2 cup orange juice
1/4 teaspoon lemon extract
Sift flour, baking powder, salt and
sugar together. Cut in shortening.
Beat one whole egg and one egg
yolk, reserving one white for the
tops. Add orange juice and flavor
ing to beaten eggs, then add to dry
ingredients. Stir only enough to
make dough hold together. Turn
out on lightly floured board and
knead a half minute. Roll out 1/2
inch thick. Cut. Brush tops with
LYNN SAYS:
These Cookery Tips
Give Desired Results
If ham is to be stored for any
length of time, rub outside thorough
ly with fat so that mold will not
form on the lean part.
Place bacon in a cold pan and
use a low flame for cooking. Pour
off excess fat as it cooks.
For cutting meat or fish for salads,
use a scissors instead of a knife.
Marinate in French dressing before
mixing to give flavor.
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Cold Sliced Boiled Ham
Creamed Parsleyed Potatoes
Buttered Asparagus
Carrot Slivers Celery Curls
•Strawberry Shortcake
Beverage ,
♦Recipe Given
white of egg and sprinkle with su
gar. Bake on ungreased baking
sheet for 12 minutes in 425 degree
preheated oven. Split hot short
cakes, butter and fill with sliced
sweetened berries. Replace top and
pour berries over top. Serve with
cream if desired.
Strawberry Meringue Pie
1 pint fresh strawberries
3 egg whites
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup sugar
Few drops vanilla
Honey
Baked pie crust
Beat egg whites with salt until
stiff. Beat in sugar and flavor with
few drops of vanilla. Drain berries
carefully; sweeten with honey and
fold into meringue. Turn into pie
crust and brown in moderate (350
degree) oven about 30 minutes. Serve
as soon as cool. (Other fresh, care
fully drained fruits may be used.)
' Standish Pudding
(Makes 1 quart)
1 quart strawberries
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup water
Lemon juice
1/2 pint whipping cream
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2/3 cup rolled dried macaroons
Pick over strawberries, sprinkle
with sugar and let stand for two
hours. Mash, squeeze through a
double thickness of cheesecloth and
add water and lemon juice to taste.
Turn mixture into a one quart brick
mold or place in freezing tray. Beat
cream until stiff and add powdered
sugar, vanilla and rolled macaroons.
Pour over fruit mixture to overflow
mold. Cover with buttered paper
and freeze in a mixture of ice and
salt, or let freeze in refrigerator
compartment.
Raspberry or Strawberry Whip
(Serves 4)
1 1/4 cup berries
1 cup powdered sugar
1 egg white
Beat ingredients together with
wire whip or electric whip until stiff
enough to hold shape. Serve over
pieces of sponge or angel cake or
pile lightly in a dish, chill, surround
with lady fingers and serve with soft
custard sauce.
Luncheon Dish De Luxe
Scrambled eggs with shrimp make
a delicious and satisfying luncheon
dish. To prepare, saute one chopped
green onion and one slice mushroom
in two tablespoons margarine or but
ter. Let cook over a low heat three
or four minutes. Add one-half cup
shrimp which has been broken into
small pieces, and one canned toma
to. Again cook over a low heat one
or two minutes. Add four eggs which
have been beaten with two table
spoons cream, salt and pepper. Stir
slowly over a low heat until of de
sired doneness. Serve on toast or
crisp wafers. Sprinkle v/ith grated
spicy cheese.
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Here’s a filling combination, made
of all vegetables: Corn pudding,
creamed string beans with almonds,
French fried carrots and radishes.
Do you like mushrooms? Bake
them in cream, then serve along
with turnip souffle, buttered string
beans and sliced tomatoes.
Serve cottage cheese with assorted
fruits or assorted raw vegetables
like sliced tomatoes and cucumbers,
with olives at the side.
Fruit pies will be better flavored
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Ain’t It So
The more a person studies hu
man nature, the less he Is sur
prised at anything anybody does.
It’s a race now, whether we
or prices will break first.
A lot of people care more
about who writes their songs
than their laws.
Strange as It may seem, con
ditions in Europe will never
seem rosy as long as they are
predominantly red.
It’s too bad the guarantee of
free speech doesn’t include the
guarante that what is said will
be worth listening to.
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the heaviest period coming at dusk.
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to the channel and deep water. As
darkness sets in, the catfish tend to
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