Rat Shoots Self and Records Fatal Event THIS is the "ltube tioldberg” contraption rigged up jy Ueorg IV. Kenner ot Syracuse, N. V., a photog rapher, whereby a rat killed Itself as It took halt tliut llred a gun, at the same time photographing the event. At one end of the novel trap the bnlt was suspended from a wire. Pulling the halt released a catch which dropped a hammer operated by a spring. This tripped the trigger of the revolver. The shot not only killed the rat hut cut n piece of string, releasing a spring, which set olT the flashlight. A watch close to the revolver showed the time of the death of the rat and the taking of the picture. I III • % in in JENNY WREN TELLS WHO THE STRANGER IS THE longer I'eter llabblt stored at the stranger In the Old Or chard, the more he realized how mistaken he had been In thinking that he was dresed all In black. Now that I'eter was so nenr he could see that the stranger was speckled all over with tiny light spots. Under nenth he was dark brownish gray. His wings and tall were the same "He It Sprecklet the Starling and He Itn't Really an American at | All," color, with little touches of buff Ilia rather large bill was yellow. Peter hurried bock to Jenny Wren, and. It must be confessed, he looked sheepish. "You were right, Jenny Wren, lie Isn’t blnck at all,’’ confessed Peter. “Of course 1 was right. I usually am," retorted Jenny. “He Isn’t black, he Isn’t even relnted to the Blackbird family, and he hasn’t nny business In this country, anywny. He’s n foreigner. That’s what he Is. a foreigner.” "Hut you haven't told me who he Is,' protested I’eter. "He Is Spreckles the Starling and lie Isn’t really an American at all.” replied Jenny. ‘‘He comes from across the ocean the same as Bully the English Sparrow. Thank good ness he hasn’t such a quarrelsome disposition as Bully. Just the same, the rest of us would he hetter sat isfied If he were not here. He has taken possession of one of the old houses of Yellow Wing the Flicker, and that means one less house for birds who really belong here If his family Increases at the rate Bully's family does, I’m afraid some of us will he crowded out of the Old Orchard. Did you notice that yellow bill of his?’’ I’eter nodded. ”1 certainly did,” he said. “I couldn't very well help noticing It.” “Well, there’s a funny thing about that hill,” replied Jenny. “In win ter It turns almost black. Most of us wear a different colored suit In winter, but our hills remain the same." “He seems to he pretty well Used here, and I don’t see but what the thing for the rest of the birds to do Is to make the best of the matter,” said I’eter. "What I want to know Is, whether or not he Is of any use?” "1 guess he must he of some good.” admitted Jenny Wren rather grudgingly. “I’ve seen him pick ing up worms and grubs, but he likes grain, nnd I have a suspicion that If Ids family becomes very nu merous, and I suspect It will, they will eat more of Farmer Brown's grain than they will pay for by the worms and hugs they destroy, Hello! There’s Handy I he Waxwtng and Ills friends." ©, T W Oursaan.—WNU Sarvlcs, I You Know— That our common house cat is probably a descendant of the North-African “gloved” or “Caffre” cat still found wild in the Nile valley and which was made a domestic animal by the Egyptians about Thirteen centuries B. C. From the earliest ages cats have been the objects of superstition and in Egypt they are held in the highest reverence. ©. by McClar* Newepaper Syndicate WNXI Barrie*. I GIDlOSAfl “At the pace we are going," saya observing Olivia, “marriage wil nevei more be a success until w< can make the license clerk’s otfici and the divorce court In the sama 1 trip." WNU Service. Just Charge It THVr WOULD Bt K\CE. OH ONE Of WV BUREAU* A Hole in the Hedge By ANNE CAMPBELL f \ UK hedge was so lovely a few years ugo, Unbroken and straight, with Its clipped edge just so. But now It Is not so precise to the view. There's a hole in the hedge where our baby runs through! There’s n gap In the green made by small eager hands. Like a small open door with a we I come It stands. And I like our hedge better than when It was new. Since it spreads a green path where our hahy runs through! Convrl*ht — WNT1 Service * MOTHER’S * COOK BOOK SAUCES FOR FISH AND MEATS A N APPROPRIATE snuce to ac ** company any dish of whatever nature makes often a most ordinary one unusual. The common practice of using tomato in everything, good as It Is, should not be over done. A good tomato sauce used on a meat loaf or a dish of iish is al ways enjoyed; however, there are any number of equally good sauces which are seldom used. Perhaps It is a form of laziness, this too common tomato sauce, for one may open a can of tomato soup, hent It, add a dnsh of this and that, and have a good snuce. As one travels over the country, meals become more and more ufTlicted with tomato In the salad. In the soup, in the sandwich, ns a sauce on Iish and meat, all good, but why overdo a good thing until we fils like the sound of the name? The two sauces which are always en Joyed and may be varied Indefinite ly are white and brown sauce—we even use these In the preparation of ubiquitous tomato snuce. Brown Sauce. When preparing a brown sauce which with Its flavor and color adds much to most meat dishes, the flour Is browned; it will be necessary to add more of It for thickening, ns browning destroys a part of the thickening property, by dextrlnlzlng tho starch—that is, changing It to a form of sugar. Add liquid de sired—a cupful to the usual two tablespoonfuls of flour and the sumo of butter, makes n fairly thick sauce; when browned Hour Is used add an extra tablespoonful. Broths of all kinds, especially chicken, make most delightful sauces. Sauce Piquant. To one cupful of brown sauce prepared with any good beef stock add one-half tablespoonful of chopped onion, one tablespoonful each of chopped caper and pickle with a dash of cayenne and a table spoonful of vinegar. The varieties of sauces depend entirely upon the resources of the cook, they may be three or four, or legion. . Western Newspaper Union. WITTY KITTY By NINA WILCOX PUTNAM Tha girl chum aaya an optimist It a parson who raachaa for hia hat whan a speaker aaya “In conclu •Ion." wnvj a«rvi«« Gown* of Presidents’ Wi**i The Smithsonian Inatllutinn hat a collection of historic gowns wort by the First Ladles of the l.anti from the Washington ndmlnlstra tlon down to the Hoosetelt term. Question box ED WYNN, The Perfect Fool I Dear Mr. Wynn: Why do so many people buy their milk from a milkman? Why don't they get it directly from the cow? The milkman puts water In It, while a cow gives pure milk. Yours truly, CAR It IE PALE. Answer: It Is true that a cow gives pure milk, but the difference between a cow and a milkman Is that a cow doesn't give credit. Dear Mr. Wynn: 1 have been keeping company with a young man for over two years. I’ve done everything to get him to propose to me. Last night he called at my home and during the conversation I came right out and asked him If he ever thought of getting married. He said: "The girl I marry must be able to raise a family, take care of a house, cook and so on.” 1 am willing to take care of his house, raise a family, and I’ll cook, too, hut what does he mean by saying so on? Truly yours, I. WANTHIM. Answer: When he says you must be nble to take care of the house, cook and so on, he simply means you must he able to sew on buttons. Dear Mr. Wynn: 1 am a young man just twenty years old. I have a good position and earn good wages. I want to get married, hut I am nfraid of having trouble because I’d rather play golf than eat. Is It possible to find a wife who will stand for that? Truly yours, N, THERUFF. Answer: A man who would rath er play golf than eat should marry a girl who would rather play bridge than cook. Dear Mr. Wynn: 1 am twenty-seven years of age and a traveling salesman, I am madly In love with a girl who lives In Harrisburg, and feel the same about a girl who lives in Albany. Can a man love two girls? Yours truly, ISE1.L KETCHUP. Answer: Sure, as they live In different cities you're perfectly safe. Dear Mr. Wynn: I am giving a luncheon and the honored guest is to be the gov ernor of our state. When at the table, being the hostess, should I sit on the governor’s right hand? Truly yours, MRS. DICK SHONARY. Answer: By no means do that The governor probably eats with his right hand. Sit on a chair. Dear Mr. Wynn: I have read a great deal about vaccination. Some folks sny It will always save a person’s life while others say just the opposite, 1 think It will save life, don’t you? Sincerely, C. RUM. Answer: I can’t see how they can guarantee It will always save life. For lustance, I know a boy eight years old who got vaccinated aim four days later lie was run over by an automobile and killed. ©. the Associated Newspapers. WNU Service. For Cool Weather Hand knitted angora wool In rust and bright yellow makes a set con sisting of old-fnshloned tam-o’-shan ter, scarf and tiny muff. Sunday Crime Costly Sunday was so sacred in medi eval England that even crime com mitted on Sunday was more expen sive and a Sunday burglary would be fined twice that of one commit ted on a week day. "THROUGH a [WOMAN'S I EYES * NEWTON COME OUT OF THE HEN COOP! A MAN lu Camden, N. J., is suing ** Ills wife to let him out of u hen coop! Or that Is what it amounts to. What he is actually suing for is the return of the title l to his home, since it is his signing that over to her which resulted In Ills having to live with the chick ens. No sooner had he transferred the house to her, he says, than she put him out of It and made him live in the hen coop. liow, you might ask, can any woman make any man live in a hen coop? We forgot to state that the husband in question is a seventy eight-year-old preacher, and the woman he married thirty-five. In cidentally, a younger man is in volved whom he is suing for allena lion of nffectlons. t _ _ But even at seventy-eight, you will insist, a inan can come out of a hen coop and assert his rights to his own house. “And a man who at that age had ambition enough to marry a young wife." said the first woman to whom 1 put this unique case, "you’d think he’d have spunk enough to see that no one put him out of his own house. If he was so helpless ns that, what he want ed v as a nurse, and not a wife. Why didn’t he hire one instead of marrying her? Then she couldn’t have put him out J” History would indicate that old men before have had the “ambi tion” to marry young wives, and while they have not all landed in the lien coop, frequently that has seemed to be the end of their “am bition.” Whatever the merits of the ac cusation of this elderly minister that his young wife made him live in the hen coop, there is something in the thought of my friend that for a man who remains helpless in such a situation it would be more rational to hire a nurse than to take unto himself a young wife. ©. Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. Ice-Cold Milk for Byrd Expedition Oafc. oi ilie several exclusive pictures to arrive lu America shortly ' before the end of the Antarctic winter near the South pole Is this amusing ism of two of the cows taken south by dear Admiral Itlctiunt B. dyr