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frr the party. The natives must * alipped something in my cofâ€" L so to speak, \When I woke the boat was gone. Business as usual, except some of the women Muh‘mudinm;buda.pr scrapping over a few yards ofâ€"gau» dy calico. I took a‘ hand in that â€"â€"]I can,use a new sarong. Sometimes ‘I wonder if 1 shall ever be reseued. Probably not. Unâ€" til yesterday no steamer has ever made this stop â€"~and that was blown off its course. I wasn‘t here Six hundred days ago, that was â€"â€"Or is it years? That is, unless some of these childlike aborigines have been monkeying withk the jar of pebbles I call my calendar. The shock of the impact must have thrown me clear of the wreck, for when my eyes focused much later the plane was a charred mases, and all around me were grinning browh faces. That was when I cracked. Withâ€" out even stopping to weigh the conâ€" setuences I made for that distant A: blue patch opened below me and down I swooped. I don‘t know what I expected to find . . . the long smokeâ€"plume® of a steamer, perâ€" haps. Nothing but blue. 1 snatched my glasses and searched the horiâ€" zon. Then I almost dropped them. No isiands were charted for this part of the Pacific, but that distant blur could mean nothing else . . . I studied my compass. I glanced wildly at the sun. One was lying. It must be the compass. 1 found. myself mentally shrieking that this couldn‘t be happer ‘ng to me! But it was. There was no doubt about it â€" I was lost. : What a difference! _ Suddenly I wasn‘t an eagle any more. I was a speck, a dot, an atom â€" hurtiing through space. No heaven, no earth . .. no Henry! Abflptlyi felt I must make contact with the rest of the world. f you speak to : dio went dead. At first there wére glimpses of the ocean. Then the fog closed in, and 1 was sailing ialong between two white blanke Hour after hour of that. that eternal whiteness, monotorous and unreâ€" lieved, probably had a great deal to do with what happened. I heard Henry‘s) voice, with a note of panic: "Brénda, why don‘t After the first grueling anxiety of the takeâ€"off it was glorious. I climbed rapidly upstairs, soaring high above the clouds for safety. How 1 reveled in that divine sense of freedom! I was a bird â€" a lone eagle . . . no ties, no fetters . . . ‘s face, and that kept mfl me, anxious and <_ 1. spoke â€"to him â€" occasionally through my little mike, and kept the radio mm:i:‘ to a powerâ€" ful broadcasting ‘{station from which, by previous arrangement, Henry was allowed to interpolate a word to me between matinee dance numbers. I% a way it was pleasant to think of him sitting there, waiting ... | I did make one compromise with Henry. This would be‘my last solo flight. I can still see this face â€" worried and {waxy, as he dogtrotâ€" ted alongside my plane that day I took off. Remindirig me, by panâ€" tomime, to keep i ntouch with him by radio. Well, I did, until s . . It was when J took up solo flyâ€" ing that things really started in earnest. "Suppose," Henry would jitter "that â€" something _ went wrong. â€" Airplane innards can‘t be fixed with a broomstick â€" or a hairpin." That was the final insult. I set my jaw and determined then and there to fly the Pacific â€" alone. He would mutter something about a woman‘s place being in the home. Imagine!. A bromide like that. He probably had had some wild notion that a platinum circle, third finger, left hand, would alâ€" ter the whole pattern of my existâ€" ence. Oh, we both tried. But it inâ€" furiated Henry to have me thumb my nose af convention â€" and I never could abide a stuffed shirt! ‘"Henry," I used to say, "matriâ€" mony is a partnership, not a dicâ€" tatorship. Y.ou knew when you marâ€" ried me that I‘m ‘nuts about flyâ€" ing !" * 1 Well, I suppate in a way it‘s my own fault. Henry was a good husâ€" band, according to his ideas. Kind, but prosaicâ€"always talking about his golf score, telling the same old chestnuts. But the thing that got under my skin was that suffocatâ€" ing possessiveness. â€" By ROSS BARGEY ° ; If anybody‘d told mé, two years ago, that I‘d be living on an unâ€" charted island ‘somewhere in the Pacific, dressed in a sarong, dodgâ€" ing King Tut ;.. Thursday, Dec. 7, 1944 O, Henry Ending SHALLOWS to me?" Then the raâ€" Wisconsin Irma, after making the Line (Chicago Tribune, Dec. 1) retires to the background and veils her modest cheeks. ~She is not too proud, she says, of the litâ€" erary merit of her brain child. But certainly a light so quizzically whizzical should not ‘be hid. 80 come out from under your bushel, Irma, and take a bow. Wherever You Are! Good heavens â€" the creature actually means it! Look here, you brown ape â€"‘don‘t be that way ., . Oh ... HENRY!) * (Courtesy of MeClure‘s Newspaâ€" per Syn.) m < What‘s that? He says I am to thing nothing of it â€"â€" he himself Mn?ourwimund\himen chilâ€" dren . Here he comes now jabbering|Italy.. He will report ioN;v;fl;lk: and gesticulating. I wonder what|Na., at the expiration of his leave, he wants . . . Ab, I am flattered â€" he is asking my hand in marriage. Why, you big baboon, I have a husâ€" Sometimes I go almost insaneâ€" forever‘ looking at these grinning brown facesâ€"all so alike. Except King Tut, as I call him. And he‘s the most glike of. any of them. Teeth. Ard he has the middleâ€"age spread. Iâ€"don‘tâ€"likeâ€"the way that bird eyes me! / She always did go for Henryâ€" that Blaine person! Oh, I reckon she‘ll make him a good enough wife. The sort Henry wanted me to be. Bridge . .. fireside chats . .. kids . .. messy! So soon. Well, I suppose a man does get lonesome . . . # Miss Elizabeth Lowe, of New York City, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Low, 241 Laureel, is expected home for the Christmas holidays. Also home for the holiâ€" days is her brother, ‘.‘zill," seaman 2/c, USNR, who wi@s graduated from St. John‘s Military academy, Delafield, Wis., in June. Seaman Bill is assigned to the fleet postâ€" office in Chicago, where he is reâ€" ceiving his training. . ors. It â€" it has my name in it! So . . . Given up for lost . . . Deâ€" clared legally dead. And Henry‘s name, too â€" coupled with that of Valaria Blainei Hello, what‘s this? An old newsâ€" paper, by all that‘s holy! Left Behind, probably by one of the sailâ€" In addition to her scholastic at.| Ihe Program will be announced tainments, Miss Dorick has been |latet _ _ prominent on the campus in extraâ€" e repan margen curricular activities. She was ediâ€" | Information Center To tor last year of the "Gale," college se + | yearbook, and this fall was chosen Be Dedicated To*y | as one of the nine representative| <‘Prominent city, state, military students on ‘the campus whose|and government officials particiâ€" name will be carried in the 1945 | pated in dedicating the Vete‘nm' edition of "Who‘s Who in Ameriâ€"| Information center to the service can Colleges and Universities." She | of the vet.ehn in ceremonies atâ€" is a member of the Women‘s Athâ€"| tending the opening of the center letic association, of Mortar board,| in its permanent headquarters at honorary senior women‘s society,| 10;:30 © a.m., today ('l‘hnpd&y) and Pi Beta Phi, national social "‘three years after the Jap sneak atâ€" gorority. â€"â€" /:_/* > /ss s« oo (Â¥gck on Pearl Haurbor. . .:; . HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS _: Miss Dorick is the â€"daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Dorick, 381 North avenue. Among the four Knox college (Galesburg) seniors to whom memâ€" bership in Pi Beta Kappa, nationâ€" al honorary scholastic fraternity, was extended this week was Alice Dorick. Elections to this group are made on the basis of excellent scholarship, breadth of culture and general promise. Mrs. Richards is a most interâ€" esting speaker, and it is hoped that all chapter members will be able to attend the meeting. ALICE DORICK JOINS HONORARY FRATERNITY Mrs. Richards received a most significant letter from Lt. J. C. Johnston of Aurora, in command of the L.C.1., No. §06, the landâ€" craft to which the Illinois chapter members have been sending gifts, letters and recreation equipment. Lt. Johnston expressed to her his appreciation and that of ‘his crew. Mrs. Richards is active in the work of the American Red Cross, and : under her able guidance as state regent, the Illinoisâ€"chapter, D.A.R. has been successful in carâ€" rying out the various war projâ€" ects. The 7,500 members in IIliâ€" nois donated $21,500 to last year‘s war projectâ€"blood plasma equipâ€" ment for the Red Cross. _ The D.A.R. will continue to repair and replace this equipment. Mrs. J. De Forest Richards, Iliâ€" nois state regent of the D.A.R., will be the speaker at the Decemâ€" ber meeting of the North Shore chapter of the D.A.R. The meetâ€" ing will be held at the home of Mrs. Harry B. Roberts, 330 Elm place, on Tuesday, Dec. 12, at 2 p.m. _ Assisting hostesses will be Mrs. W. F. Mayer, Mrs. W. P, Hammond, Mrs. Marc Law and Mrs. George O. Strecker. The board of directors will entertain Mrs. Richards at, luncheon precedâ€" ing the meeting. ais fegors Will R.B.0:, 46 hn _: Mrs, Ware‘s matron â€" of © honor during the ceremony was her daughterâ€"inâ€"law, Mrs. Thomas Ware, whose husband is an ensign in the navy. Also sent at the launching were Hn;’:;:‘a. Baylor, viceâ€"president of International Minerais & Chemicals Corp., and a number of Prominent Savannah inâ€" dustrialists. 5is ‘_ After two years‘ service in the European and â€" Mediterannean areas, Gordon Clavey, Yeoman 1 /c, USN, is home on leave for the first time in 28 months.. He has done base duty in Oran, Africa, and latâ€" er served on board an LST staff ship, landing troops in France and Italy.. He will report to Norfolk, WINNETKA WOMAN CHRISTENS LIBERTY Mrs. Louis Ware of Winnetka, wife of the president of Internaâ€" tional Minerals & Chemicals Corp., christened the Liberty Ship James H. Price in a launching ceremony at the Savannah, Ga., shipyards of the Southeastern Shipbuilding Corp., Tuesday, Dec. 5. P »The Veterans‘ ‘Informgftioncenâ€" ter of metropolitan, cago is loâ€" cated in Room 230, Banker‘s buildâ€" ing, 105 W. Adams, and‘its execuâ€" tive ditector is C. Edward Thorney, 1525 Westview, Highland Park. THUR., FRI., SAT., Doe. 14â€"16 A colorful program prededed an official \inspection of the center, held in the Marquette Building auâ€" ditorium at 140 S. Dearborn street, which included brief addresses by Gov. Dwight H. Green and others. (~â€"*The Seventh Cross" Coming: Dragon Seed," "Gas On the night of Dee. 21, SGO, the Senior Girls‘ organization, will have a party. Plans are in charge of group 4, led by Torrie Turner. The program will be announced later. GLENCOE Van Johnson, Gloria DeHaven The Pi Deita dinner and party is at 6:30, Wednesday, Dec, 13. Dickâ€" ens Christmas Carol will be read, and there will be music directed by Mrs. Robert Roeber. . A party for their members and children will be given by the Satâ€" urday Evening club on Wednesday, Dec. 20. Mrs. J. R. Steacy and Mrs. Jack Preck are in charge. The Mothers club party is to be on Tuesday, Dec. 12, at 8 p.m. Mrs. Paul Downing and Mrs. Robert Breakwell wll furnish music for the carols, _ Mrs, John Faye will give a reading. _ a THEATRE . 630 Vernon Ave, Highland .Park 605 ‘ FRL & SAT. Dec. 8â€"9 Don Ameche, Chas. Rickford . Within the next two weeks, sevâ€" eral clubs connected with the Y plan~to hold their Christmas parâ€" ties. _ The Friendship club‘s dinâ€" ner and party, on Thursday, Dec. 7, at 6 p.m., is the first. Included in the program are readings ‘by Judy Livingston, Christmas music, and games. â€" Groups Hold Christmas Parties at Y. W. C. A. Mr. and Mrs. Williams and famiâ€" ly of Wisconsin will occupy the Raâ€" vinia residence during Mrs. Haessâ€" ler‘s absence. s + In New York they hope to be joined by Lt. (j.g.) Eric Haessier, who has been stationed in the Medâ€" iterranean area since last May. He is the engineering officer of a large LCI, assigned to special duty in that area. if Mrs. Mildred Haessler of Ravinâ€" iais planning to spend the holidays in New York with her daughter, Luise, who will be graduating from Vassar Dec. 17. Mrs. Hacssler, herself a Vassar alumnus, will be a guest on the campus during the commencement week. LCs 1 Luise Haessler to Graduate from Vassar Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso "Wing and a Prayer" "Two Girls and a Dec. 10â€"11â€"12â€"13 t THE PRESS Mrs, Michae!l McNulty will preâ€" side at the meeting. SIXTH WAR LQAN Bo.\'nsl poultry. . These a | flaked saimon or BUY THEM ... KEEP THEM!) colorful vegetable Hostesses at the Tuesday meetâ€" ing will be Mrs. Fred Albrecht, Mrs. . Wm. Dillon, Mrs. Fred Hubsch and Mrs. Wm. Schildgen. Mrs. Jas. Enright is hduse chairâ€" man, â€" Mrs. Albert Woll, chairman of war activities, assisted by Mrs. Irâ€" win Porter, Mrs. Joseph Theis, Mrs. Warren Marshall and Mrs. B. W, Coltman, gave a<party for servicemen at the Highwood Cathâ€" olie USO on Nov. 29. Donations have been given to the Waukegan USO and on Jan. 31 a party will be given at the Highwood USO. Christmas carols will be sung by the boys‘ choir of Sacred Heart church with their teacher and acâ€" companist, Sister Laurelle. From the ranks of the junior auxiliary talent is being utilized to present the play "On the Air," in one act. Participating are Mrs. John Sullivan, Mrs. Bernard Townâ€" send, Miss Jeanette Trudeau and Mrs. Edward Kirckberg, Miss Conâ€" ni¢ Alanzi. _ Mrs. L. W. Hayes is directing. Props are Mrs. Hamâ€" ilton Ferguson and Mrs. W. Metzâ€" Dec. 12, at the Community House in Winnetka. The subject of his dino?m will be "The (Divine Life.‘ & Msgr. Hillenbrand, Spiritual. diâ€" rector of the N. 8. Catholic Womâ€" an‘s league, and pastor of Sacred Heart church, Hubbard Woods, will talk to members of the league and guests at the monthly meeting, on North Shore Catholic Women‘s League hi t en ren en e e en When the Mercury Goes Down ... # & !1 GARNETT‘S ‘. . . everyone ‘starts to think of an extra KENWOOD |"FAMOUS" BLANKET. That‘s the blanket with the marvelous long\fieece that‘s arithored deep down in the \sturdy weave so it just never pulls out. _ Makes it sb cosy warm! And ‘without adding a pound of extra weight! Yo\u"ll find just the color to match your,bedâ€" room â€" really charming shades of Peach, Green, Blue and Rose. Rayon satin bound, to match. It‘s big enbugh to tuck in at tlfc bottom and pull up around your shoulders â€" 72 x©84 inches. The price?> _ _ .. Add 2 teaspoons poultry seasonâ€" ing to the dry ingredients of a baâ€" sic waffle batter for a tasty waffle which‘ is a perfect foundation for turkey or chicken a la king. These fragrant waffles solve the leftâ€" over problem of bits of cooked poultry. â€" These also go well with flaked saimon or tuna ffiin a colorful vegetable cream Wauce. Several hours after the initial landing, the Coast Guardsman‘s barge was beached on the flat sand waiting a new load. A group of trionzi.t young.Filipinos gathered around \the barge waiting the men curiously, Timid at first, they soon grew bolder and began pointing and smiling at the Coast Guardsâ€" men and then back at themselves. The men offered them a breaker of fresh cool water. It was accepted enthusiastically, but the pointing continued. They held up a carton of Kâ€"rations, The Filipinos reached for it eagerly, but continued to point. The Coast Guardsmen were completely stymied until finally one of the older boys took off his ragged, tattered blouse and held it up as he gestured at the men‘s waists. Now they knew. The native youngsters were fascinated with their shirts of bright blue dungaâ€" ree. That afternoon the boat ‘crew returned to their transport stripâ€" ped to the waist . . . but with the firm conviction that they had ofâ€" fered the ultimate in American friendship. ' *wugs CGIVE * +hA TO FILIPINO m: 4 oN THE BEACHHEAD AT LEYTE ISLAND.â€"A boat crew of a Coast Guard landing barge which put ashore traops and supplies on the island of Leyte literally gave their new Fiilpino comrades the shirts off their backs! 1 A TASTY WAFFLE eE m @f CCCE C it e fime 3 +1 day find That carefree boy , Who was within me has with joy _ . f While 1 remain to trudge The same dull rut and some Miss Jean Perrigo, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Perrigo, 278 Cary avenue, has been elected secretary of the freshman class at Stephens college, n!nmbia, Mo. ‘‘ Officers are elected in campusâ€" wide elections after a period of campaigning. _ All class officers are members of the Council of Class Officers which works for uniâ€" ty in the class events and plans for the school year at Stephens college for women. grown old Y I wonder if it was so sad you died. REQUIEM _ s Now you are gone Foréver young <and filled ® JEAN PERRIGO HONORED BY CLASSMATES AT STEPHENS l ye thinker, speaker, writer, &nlt an and philosopher, will make sixteenth appearance at the Sunâ€" day Evening club in Chicago, Dec. 10, at 8 p.m. Internationally faâ€" mous, DPr. Niebuhr lectured at the University of Edinburgh in 1941, one of the four Americans to be so honored in 54 years. He also conâ€" ferred with the late Archbishop Temple in England in 1948. Many of his enthusiastic followers term themseives "Niebubrians." Dr. Niebuhr to Speak At Sunday Eve. Club Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, Christian LT. JOHNX BERGLAND hss aplet! Page 3