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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1919)
| Kiddies' Korner I j£ By MA DREE PE,IN a._ DADDY3EV *G C3 FAIRY TA EER 6y MARY GRAHAM BONNER l ^ s tw«. AOTrtO*t ' THE HIPPOPOTAMUS. “There are lots of us in the zooa, tots of us,” said the hippopotamus, “but that does not make us any the less interesting.” “Of course not," said Mrs. Hippopot amus, “for we will always be inter esting. We are queer looking, very queer looking, and children like queer looking objects. "They don’t like everyone to be alike. There was a time when I didn’t like to be,thought queer look ing," continued Mr. Hippopotamus. “I wanted to say to the children who looked at us: “‘See here, young creatures, we may seem queer looking to you, hut don't you see how queer looking you are to us? ‘“You have two silly legs and two silly feet apiece, and you go walking around in such a hurry instead of splashing and resting. “‘You have funny short hair, boys, and you girls have most peculiar long hair which you tie with ribbons. “Whoever saw a hippopotamus with hair ribbons or with long dangling hair, braided, or any way at all? “Braids seem silly, curls seem silly, straight hair seems a little bit more sensible. “ ‘Oh, boys and girls, when you look at us and think our big heads and I i.I "II M r " m, ‘‘Don't You See We Think You Are Funny?" bodies ure funny, don't you see that we think you are funny with your lit tle bodies, your little faces and your small heads? “‘Don’t you see that, hoys and girls? I am sure you will see what I mean If you stop to think. “‘You aren’t used to us. so you think we’re funny and we’re not used to you. so we think you’re funny.’” “Just the way I used to think,” said Sir. Hippopotamus. “But 1 like children so much that I don’t mind it if they do think I’m queer.” said Mr. Hippopotamus. “1 like to have them look at me and en joy me.” "Yes," agreed Mrs. Hippopotamus. “I too, like to lie in the zoo where I am sometimes worth seeing. It's like be ing a beautiful picture In a picture gallery to be an animal in a zoo, but It's even more interesting, for an ani mal Is alive, and does things, and a pic ture can only stay the same way (un less some one else moves it). And a picture has to always look Just the same way. “I feel sure children will always want to look gt us.” said Mr. Hippo potamus. “Yes," said Mrs. Hippopotamus, “and I like the zoo so well that I like , to have beautiful hippopotamus ehll dren come to the zoo. “My handsome son. over yonder, was seven years old the other day. He weighs a good deal, n<»t too much, hut about (lie right amount. He's a good, healthy hippopotamus lad." “About how much does he weigh?” asked Mr. Hippopotamus. “Oh, about four thousand pounds, I think," said Mrs. Hippopotamus. “Yes, he’s a healthy lad." said Mr. Hippopotamus. “There are a number of the family still living In Africa, aren't there?" asked Mrs. Hippopotamus. “Yes,” replied Mr. Hippopotamus, “there are. In fart I think the world, the zoo, Africa, ail places where there are any of the hippopotamus family, are most fortunate." “I think the same.” said Mrs. Hip popotamus. “I'm a lazy sort of creature," said Mr. Hippopotamus, “and I'm nice and pleasant as a rub'—that Is I don’t bother to he cross. I tike to he quiet and not do too much. But if I am made angry I can bite hard, and I can do a great deal of harm. “But I seldom get angry, seldom, only once or twice perhaps in a life time. Ah, the hippopotamus Is a fine beast, a fine beast," he ended. And Mrs. Hippopotamus splashed and said: “T agree.” MS THE O KITCHEN ^CABINET If you were busy being true To what you know you ought to do. You’d be so busy you’d forget The blunders of tile folks you've met. —Rebecca Foresman. HELPFUL HINTS. When baking a cake, set the alarm clock, so that no matter how busy, the Httenlion will he called to the kitchen. «Hd stocking leg- -lipped over the sleeves will keep a gown fresh, when working In the kitchen, A slocking leg slipped over an old whisk broom makes a tine brush for the stove. Obstinate stains of almost any kind may he removed by using soap with peroxide, then placing the stain in the sun. Sometimes several applications of the peroxide will he necessary. Iron rust is easily removed by a solution of salts of lemon In water applied to the spots, and then the bright sunlight to act upon it. Candles for use on the table v(ll burn clearer and longer if kept on l~e for a day before using. A ring of salt put around the wick will give a soft, steady flame and will burn all night. Cracks and splits in furniture may he filled with melted beeswax and then varnished, so that they will hardly show, Swiss chard and Chinese cabbage are two vegetables which should tie found In every garden. The chard may be canned for winter use, making a most at ci ptable addition to the vegetables for winter. Moisten the brush of the carpet sweeper—it will do much better work. C!ean soiled plumes in alcohol. Shake, and they will lie as fresh as ever. Pineapple juice Is u good cure for in digestion. Pineapple with bananas arid an orange, all cut tine, makes a good cake filling. One can of shredded pine apple, three bananas and one orange siked very thin, will be enough filling for a large cake. Keep plenty of water in the boiling pots and pans on a damp, rainy day, for the atmosphere absorbs it rapidly. Iii cooking rice, use plenty of boiling water, and keep It boiling rapidly at first, so that the grains will be distinct. Apply soap and ammonia to burns from acid immediately, to allay the pain. Grated horseradish mixed with whip ped cream, salt and cayenne makes a good sauce to serve with fish. PROHIBITION TO BRING . COMMUNITY PLAYHOUSE Hazel MacKaye Advises Using Build ings as Centers for Drama, Com munity Sings and Enter tainments. Why not turn the corner saloon into a community playhouse when the law effects the closing of these gathering places, asks Miss Haze I MacKaye, di rector of the Department of Pageantry and Drama of the rational Young Wo men's Christian Association? “I went over on the West Side of New York one night recently to attend h community' drama meeting," Miss MacKaye says In explaining her theo ry, “and as I was riding along I noticed how many saloons there were—one on every corner and another in the mid dle of the block. It seemed, all Just blazing with lights. Those lights ought not to go out with prohibition. They ougiit to shine for something worth while to all of the people, and what belter than community drama and sings ?" Miss MacKaye feels that the war has given a great impetus to popular Interest in drama and that through pageantry and drama a great deal In the way of Americanization can he ef fected. Throttgh the community center, if it be In a district populated largely of one foreign nationality, these people could present pageants of the life in their mother countries, translating them Into English, so that Americans and also the younger English speaking members of their household could un derstand and appreciate their tradi tions. American art would be greatly enriched thus through the drama of all of the nations whose peoples have settled In this country. On the other hand American Ideals, American hls ; tory and American festivals, even laws | such as child labor and minimum wage, 1 could tie interpreted to these people by means of pageantry. "People have been learning not only to work together, hut to play togeth er," Miss MacKaye says, “particularly since the war. when the people stood together In drives and large patriotic community entertainments! The op portunity to build up n great commu nity organization Is now at hand, and the time is ripe for It. Why not utilize the corner saloon?" DEPARTMENT ADVISES ON PLUMBING AND CURTAINS New Bureau Opens in Y. W. C. A. Overseas Office. A new department of finance has been organized by the Y. W. C. A. for Its work in France. Miss Constance Clark of Pasadena. Cal., Is the execu tive. Miss Clark before her recent coming to France was director of the big Y. W. C. A. Hostess House at Camp Lewis, Washington. All contracts, lenses and rentals for new buildings will be handler! by Miss Edith Austin of New York City, nn rxpetienced architect and builder. • who wlli work thrnu>?h Oils neWly cre ated section. Plans for remodeling anil decorat ing rooms, clubs and hostess houses taken over by the Y. W. C. A. will he iii the hands of Miss Mary Buchanan, ari Interior decorator, who comes orig inally from Scotland, hut who lias been working in France for the American Y. VV, C. A since the beginning of Its war work there. In addition, the department Is com piling lists, suggestions and general shopping guides for all the buying of the Association in France, including nil kind* of building equipment from crdi tine curtains to plumbing sup plies. A cafeteria expert will have a plnee In the department to act os general ad visor on restaurant and cafeteria proj ects of the Association throughout France. In sbor' the department Is to he more than finnr. e e'otis It Is to he a Bob Cline of New York and Co lumbus. Ohio, who is entered in the big Auto Race meet which annually features the elaborate program of entertainment at the Nebraska State Fair on Labor Day. This ¥$k.J ^ ^ year Fred Horey. former world’* Champion, and Sig Haugdahl, pres ent Champion of the world, will meet in a match race as one of the Auto Race features of Nebraska's Victory State Fair. ALL DRESSED UP FOR THE FAiR « IIMMMM7 III .£_ - It is hard to tell which is the prouder of the two—the big horse in his go-to-meeting clothes, or the owner who is holding him. Ilorsee as good as this one are hard to find. There’ll be quite a number at Nebraska’s Victory State Fair, Lin coln, Aug. 31 to Sept. 5. “HOLD YOUR HEAD UP STRAIGHT!" |8^B "Just a mlnuta! There! No, hold on! There, now, grab it!"— and the Job was done. This big mtmmmsmmm &£Mguwvm ram will be exh'blterl at Nebrat" ka’a Victory Stare k’air. 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