Opening of the Highest Hut in the Alps SCENE during the religious cere roony above the clouds that narked the openlug of the ltousse Refuge on Mt. Blanc, the highest hut in the Alps. Two hundred climbers and a detachment of the Chasseurs Alplns attended the cere monies. BEDTIME STORY By THORNTON VV. BURGESS I A GREAT COMMOTION A GREAT commotion hud broken out In the Old Orchard. In stantly Skimmer the Swallow tlew over to see what It was all about and Peter Rabbit followed, llpperty Up, as fast ns his legs could take him. He was Just In time to see Chatterer the Red Squirrel dodging around the trunk of u tree, first on one side, then on the other, to avoid the sharp bills of the angry feath ered folk who had discovered hint trying to rob a nest of Its young. Peter chuckled. "Chatterer Is get ting Just what Is due him,” he mut tered. "It reminds me of a time 1 got Into a Yellow Jackets’ nest. My. but those birds nre mad!” Chatterer continued to dodge rrom side to side of the tree while the birds darted down at him, all screaming at the top of their voices. Finally Chatterer saw hls chance to run for the old stone wall. Only one bird was quick enough to catch up with him, and that one was such a tiny fellow that he seemed hardly bigger than a big Insect. It was Hummer, the Hummingbird. Hummer followed Chatterer clonr to the old stone wall. A moment later Peter heard a humming noise Just over hls hend and looked up to see Hummer alight on a twig, where h>» squeaked excitedly for a few minutes, for hls voice Is nothing but a little squeak. Often Peter had seen Hummer darting from flower to flower and holding himself still | You Know— That the first regular base ball game was played at Ho boken, N. J., June 19, 1846, between the Knickerbocker club of New York and the New York club (a picked team). Only four innings were played, as under the rules then existing, a game was won when either team made 21 aces (runs) or over on even innings. ©. by McClure Newspaper Syndicate WNII service. 'in midair as lie thrust his long hill Into the heart of a flower to get the liny Insects there and the sweet Juices he Is so fond of. But this was the first time I’eter had ever seen him sitting still, lie was such a mite of a thing that P was hard to realize he was a bird. Ills back was a bright shining green. Ills wings and tall were brownish with It Was Their No«t. a purplish tinge. Underneath lie was whitish. Hut It was Ills throat on which I’eter fixed his eyes. It was a wonderful ruby red which glistened and shone In the sun like a Jewel. llujmner lifted one wing nnd with his long needle-like bill smoothed the feathers under It. Then tie darted out Into the air, his wings moving so fast that i’eter couldn’t see them at all. Hut if he couldn’t see them be could hear them. You see, they moved so last that they made u sound very likt the hum ming of Humble the H«s It Is be cause of this thnt he Is cnlled the Hummingbird. In a few minutes he wns back IIPA PA KNOWS-1 "Pop, what It meditation?" "Court platter.” « Ball Syndicate — WNU Service Reconnoitering \ HMtf A LOT OF HAMMtdNO/OH i SEE, TUty'RE RPIH6 A U?T Of- ORBING a?WN TVfegE J again, and almost at once was Joined by Mrs. Hummer. She was dressed very much like him but did not have the beautiful ruby throat. She Mopped only Tor a minute or two nmi then darted over to what looked for all the world like a tiny cup of moss, ft was their nest. ©. T W Burs**".—WNU Service. THROUGH A Womans Eyes By JEAN NEWTON THE BEAUTIFUL BUT DUMB TilK worst wife tn the world is Lhe one who Is beautiful but dumb. 80 suys Chicago’s famous "Di vorce Judge,” Joseph Sabath. He acquired his name by divorcing 38,000 couples. And out of all that experience he concludet. that a man’s worst bet is the girl who is beautiful but dumb. That Is so contrary to the taste displayed by many men In seeking wives that It makes a challenging statement. Of course we know there are men who think of marriage as a permanent and serious undertak ing. who seek a girl with whom they have tastes in common and whose intelligence they can respect With both having that viewpoint, the man is very likely to tind him self with u life partner who will he a real helpmate, with a companion ship that will grow rather than di rnlnish with the years. Hut what's one man’s meat, as they say, Is another man’s poison. Not every man wants to respect his wile’s Intelligence. Some men think the less women, and particularly their wives, know, the better! They may not consider tnstes In common and a companionship of the mind necessary In married life. There are men who will find it easier to he "the boss," to remain n hero In the eyes of the wife who Is. in the words ot the Judge "dumb ' A ’dumb' woman has tier requirements ot course, nut tisti ally It these are satisfied she will he easy to please, easy to Impress The '‘dumb" woman will not he her husband’s "severest critic.” And while there are men who do not resent that ability within hounds the lack of It certainly goes for smoother sailing! No, I should not agree with the divorcing ludge that the beautiful hut dunth always make the worst wives. They may have their points It nil depends on what a man wants In a wlfp I (ft Hell Syndicate—WNtl Service Question Box By ED WYNN Tho Perfect Fool Dear Mr. Wynn: t Just received a letter from m.v nephew who lives in England, lie writes me that his wife Is suffering with “water on the brain.” Can you tell me what that means? Sincerely, U. TKLLMEE. Answer: When a woman has “water on the brain” It simply means she has a notion (an ocean) In her head. Dear Mr. Wynn: I live In a boarding house. i pay $‘.’0 a week, but the food they serve is not tit for a pig to eat What shall 1 do7 Truly yours, I. BETTI KNOWS. Answer: If the food Is really not fit for a pig. Just sleep there and get your meals some other place. Dear Mr. Wynn: My wife returns home next Sat* urday from the hospital bringing with her our triplets Just five weeks old. I am surprising my wife, as 1 have Just had a nursery fitted out for our new habit's, it la a beautiful room and I would like to have a suitable name painted on the door instead of “Nursery,’ What do you suggest? Yours truly, POP. PAII. Answer: Three habies, five weeks old. In one room? If 1 were ycu 1 would call It the “Bawl-room.” Dear Mr. Wynn: I got a Joh Iasi Monday in a de partment store In the shoe depart ment. At the end of the first week I was discharged, ('an you fell me why? I swear to you I didn't do anything. Sincerely, 1 STALL. Answer: That’s why you were dls charged. Dear Mr. Wynn: My birthday was January 4. My girl sent me a pair of gloves for n present, but they are too large for me. What shall 1 do? Truly yours. A. B. SEEDER. Answer: Just pour about a halt ounce of Scotch whisky on them. If It’s the kind of Scotch they’re selling now, a half ounce will make them tight. O. the Aeeor'ated Newspaper*. WNU Service. Fresh From Paris This tmt designed by June Blan ehot of Paris is of green taupe, trimmed with a steel chain and wooden buckles. SEASONABLE DISHES THE bride of today with all her equipment In culinary knowl edge has no fear of failures In cook ery. Up-to-date cook books with clear directions for preparing even the simplest foods give assurance to the most inexperienced. Here is one which any bride will like to try: Fancy Biscuits. Take two cups of flour, four tea spoons of baking powder, one-half teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon ot sugar, two tablespoons of shorten ing, one egg and two-thirds of a cup of ntlik, one-third cup of sliced dates, four tablespoons of peanut butter and one egg yolk. Sift the dry Ingredients, work In the short ening with a fork until well blended, add milk and well beaten egg to form a soft dough. Roll out on a floured board and cut small rounds. Spread with peanut but ter. place one or two slices of dates and cover with another round. Press the edges together to enclose the butter and dates. Brush with egg diluted with a little milk or water and bake In a hot oven. It preferred cut the round larger and put the butter nnd date on one-half and fold over, pinching the edge? together. Coffee Ice Cream. Scald one and one-half cups ot milk with one-third of a cupful of finely ground cotlee, strain through a doub'e cheesecloth, add one cup of sugar, the beaten yolks of four eggs, one-fourth teaspoon of salt: cook over water until thick, adding Fcr a Gold Star Mother By ANNE CAMPBELL THE first point ot the star is Memory. . . i'iie recollection of his baby ways. Upon the road to yesterday we see The shining candor of his Infant gaze; The touch of velvet cheek, the cling ing- hands, The cunning accent making sweet demands. Service to him, the next point of the star. . . . The days and nights were busy Id his care. There is no rest where little babies are For mothers who are happiest to share The beating ot their hearts with their small sons. They concentrate their lives on these dear ones. Love Is the third point of the star of gold. In blest affection, all the stars con verge. Only a mother knows how hearts can hold So much of love; It is her life’s chief urge. Her love will follow him across the world, And past the gates where his lone (lag is furled. The fourth point of the star Is sor row . . . See! The star is falling . . . Shadowed is Its light. Only a mother’s faith holds val iantly Against the coming of the final night. No. hurtling into space the gold star goes. , its cargo all the heartbreak mother knows. Only the fifth point keeps the star from wheeling Forever lost in midnight’s empty ^pace; But still upon the sky a faint light stealing Shows it upheld within its lawful place. Serene u|>on the heavens see it ride, A gold star swinging by its fifth point—PRIDE! C KM.lt.vL view during the dedication of the Dafoe hospital at Cal 1 lamler, Ont, where the Dlonno quintuplets are now cared for bjr | three nurse* under the charge of Dr. A. K. Dafoe, the attending physician at their birth. BRISBANE THIS WEEK Another Royal Murder Mr. Rockefeller Starts Propaganda Work Mussolini Winks King Alexander of Jugoslavia, landing at Marseilles, beginning of a "good will” tour of France, was killed by an assassin, and Louis Barthou, foreign minister of France, who had gone to Marseilles to meet the king, was shot down at the same moment and died later from loss of blood. Their car was “spat tered with hulletd. ’ Louis Barthou, seventy-two years old, "one of the ablest of > french statesmen, had looked forward to the visit of the Jugoslavian king as the beginning of an era of peace in Europe. As a result of the king’s assassi nation on foreign soil it might have been feared that another war would be precipitated. The great war started with the murder of the Aus trian archduke. Vienna published rumors that the Jugoslavian govern ment had ordered mobilization of Its army on the Italian and Hun garian frontiers. It happens, however, that the murderer in this case is a certain Petrus Kaleman, thlrty-flve-year-old Jugoslav, one of King Alexander’s own subjects, so that no internation al complication Is suggested. Kaleman, captured after firing the shots which killed Barthou and Alexander, attempted suicide by shooting himself in the mouth, but was cut down by police sabers and died from the deep gashes inflicted and from police bullet wounds. John D. Rockefeller, not delaying this year, has started for Florida accompanied by his son, John D., Jr. There Is longer life in sunshine. Some day swift air transportation will make it possible for millions of old men and women and young children that now tight cold and colds in the northern winter to spend that winter somewhere in the United States’ sun parlor, that stretches from Florida, on the east, west along the gulf coast, and north along the Pacific ocean. Los Angeles reports industrious “reds" trying to corrupt sailors of the United States navy. One plan seeks out young, attractive univer sity girls that have not been elect ed to sororities. They take advan tage of their hurt state of feelings to make Communists of them and send them to make Communists of sailors. Propaganda work is also done in high schools by Commu nists. One newspaper urges negro students to “rise and demand col ored teachers in the high schools.” Special attention is paid to young college graduates lacking jobs that have enlisted in the navy. Their feelings also were hurt and they are expected to respond to the song, “Arise, Ye Prisoners of Starvation," although men in the navy are well fed. Mussolini, talking with "ampli fiers” to 500,000 Italians In the Ca thedral Square of Milan, remarked, "Relations between Italy and France are notably improved,” and winked as he said It. The huge Italian crowd roared with laughter. Mussolini srf^s the corpse of dis armament can never be resurrected, which means that European nations will continue arming against each other more and more extravagantly. Trouble continues In Spain, with troops guarding the parliament and Inconceivably savage outrages re ported In the war against religion. A priest and two civil guards are said to have been burned alive and a Catholic orphanage dynamited in an outburst of terrorism and re ligious hatred in northern Spain. The Associated Press reports many churches burned, and fifty-two sol diers killed when a military truck was blown up. Urged on by the belief that Up ton Sinclair will be elected gov ernor of California and proceed to give every old nuin,a pension of $.">0 a mouth for the rest of his life, many $,V) and $25 second-hand auto mobiles, fully loaded, are said to be on the way to California. One well-informed says: “Everybody that can raise $25 or $50, anil buy a car that will run. Is l>ound for California to get some of that Up ton Sinclair money." Tills Is written to advise those gen tlemen to turn nround, go hack and enjoy their newly bought cars near er home. You cannot “give every body [mat slsty $50 a month” un less you have the $50 to give. And with the kindest feelings for Upton Sinclair, based on long acquaint ance, It Is only fair to say that If he Is elected governor of California and undertakes to carry out his Ideas there will he $50 n month for very few people (Hist slstv, nnd con siderable difficulty In getting money In California even by working for It. i ..I.-, ■ The bureau of agricultural eco nomics tells you to prepare for a change lit diet, It will be made necessary by the drouth for all but the “predatory rich” and the fairly well off. •> gins fMIurn avnStasta, to* WNU Sorvlc* Crocheted Rugs in Quilt Designs By GRANDMOTHER CLARK During the past years patchwork quilts have been “the big article of Interest to the home needleworker and now we have the crocheted rug In quilt designs. The beauty of these rugs can only be appreciated after you have seen one of them. Crocheted rugs have the best wearing proper ties. The rug above illustrated Is the "Flower Garden” rug, which you will recognize as having received Its name from the "Flower Garden” quilt. Size of rug is 150 Inches and made from 2 lbs. of rag strips. Kach block Is made separately and when the seven are finished they are slip stitched togethei. The colors to be used depends upon the material you may have on hand or can dye to col ors desired. Use contrasting colors for the different rows and the brighter the colors the more sunshine the rug brings to the home. Our book No. 24 on crocheted rag rugs in quilt designs contains 2U rugs shown in colors with instructions. Write our rug Dept, and send 15c for this book. Address Home Craft Co., Dept. C, 19th & St. Louis Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Beat Him to It “Did the palmist tell you the truth about yourself?” "Yes, but shucks! My wife has been doing that for years.”—Boston Transcript. Why the Sudden Change to Uquid Laxatives ? Doctors have always recognized the value of the laxative whose dose can be measured, and whose action can be thus regulated to suit individual need. The public, too, is fast returning to the use of liquid laxatives. People have learned that a properly pre pared liquid laxative brings a more natural movement without any dis comfort at the time, or after. The dose of a liquid laxative can be varied to suit the needs of the individual. The action can thus be regulated. It forms no habit; you need not take a “double dose” a day or two later. Nor will a mild liquid laxative irritate the kidneys. The wrong cathartic may often do more harm than good. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is a frescription, and is perfectly safe. ts laxative action is based on senna —a natural laxative. The bowels will not become dependent on this form of help. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is obtainable at all druggists. Juit So "I want a soaring intellect.” “Then study, lad. Even birds have to be taught to fly.” CUTICURA Works Wonders in the Care of Your Hair Before shampooing, anoint the scalp with Cutirura Ointment, then massage. Wash with a warm suds of Cuticura .Soap. Rinse and wash again, then rinse thoroughly. This will keep your scalp in a healthy con dition which is essential to good hair. Ointment 25c and 50c. Soap 25c. Proprietors: Potter Drug & chemical Corporation, Malden, Mass. PARKER’S HAIR BALSAM Kamovo* l > and niff - Stops Hair ftalllaff Imparts Color and Beauty to Gray and Faded Hair air and f 1 at l>ratrirt*t*. m.^« (W » >«. FLORESTON SHAMPOO - m.«i f,.r w m «mn*c» Ion with Parker'a Hair Balaam. Makra t ha hair aoft and fluffy. M emu by mail or at druir ■lata. Hiacox I'hcnkal Worka, Patthoirua. N. I. - ■■ . - WIftJ—U 42-34 —»1 ™ ■ . « BYERS BROS. & CO. Good Live Stock Com. Service Slock yard*-OMAHA