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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1934)
PAGE FOR THE FAMILY £Magazine Section of Special Interest to Women and Children Raders , , j-t.t-j- ...j.. Modern Cave Dwellers En Route to Meeting THESE members of the Cavemen ami Cavewomen, only organiza tlon of Its kind In the world, ure on the way to the Oregon eaves where they hold fnelr meetings. They are always ready to greet eastern tour ists and Initiate them with weird ritual. BEDTIME STORY By THORNTON W. BURGESS Yank yank explains some THINGS HEN Yank Yank the Nuthatch asked Peter Rabbit If there was anything else he wanted to know, Peter wns quite rendy for him. "Yes," he retorted promptly, “I want to know how It Is that you can walk head first down the trunk •of a tree without losing your bal ance and tumbling off.’* Yank Y'ank chuckled happily. “I discovered a long time ago," he re “I Should Say Not,” Exclaimed Yank Yank. plied, “that the people who get on beet in this world are those who make the most of what they have and waste no time wishing they had what other people have. I suppose you have noticed that all the Wood pecker family have stiff tall tenth err and use them to hrnce them selves when they are climbing «• tree. They hnve become so depend ent upon them that they don't dare move about on the trunk of a tree without using them. If they want to come down a tree they have to back down. “Now, Old Mother Nature didn't give me a stiff tall but she gave me * very good pair of feet with three toes in front and one behind and when I was a very little fellow 1 learned to make the most of those feet Each toe has a sharp claw. When I go up a tree the three front claws on each foot hook into the bark. When I come down a tree I simply twist one foot around so that the thbr>e front claws of this foot keep me from falling. It Is Just as easy for me to go down a tree us to go up, aud I cun go right around the trunk quite as easily and comfortably.” Suiting action to the word, Ynnk Yank ran around the trunk of the apple tree Just above Peter's head. When he re appeared Peter hud another ques tion reudy. “Do you live altogether on Insects un. worms and grubs and their eggs?" he asked. “f should say not,” exclaimed Ynnk Yank. “I like acorns and beech nuts and certain kinds of seeds." “I don’t see how such a little fel low as you cnn eat such hard thlngR ns acorns and beech nuts,” protest ed Peter a little doubtfully. Ynnk Yank laughed right out. “Sometime when I see you over In the Green Forest Pll show you.” said he. “When 1 find a fat beech nut I take It to a little crack in a tree which will Just hold It. Then with this stout bill of mine I crack the shell. It really Is quite easy when you know how. Cracking a nut open that way Is sometimes called hatching, and that Is how 1 came by the name of nuthatch." O, T. W. RurKftiM—WNtI Srrvlc# GWGl&S' I I "No one ever heard of the girls who hobble out to make the team,” aaya coed Cora, "hiring a high priced coach and spending weeks In training." VVNU Bsrvlcn Civility and Politeness The basis of civility and polite ness Is respect for others and re spect for ourselves. When the Self Starter Fails , i IN MEMORY OF GEORGIA By ANNE CAMPBELL ALWAYS I will remember her strong hands l’olsed like white birds on the piano keys, Bringing our spirits to enchanted lands, Winding us 'round with heaven’s harmonies. Not only with her music did she touch Our hearts with beauty, but her life was such That art and character were Joined, and she Was music—an eternal melody. It Is ns If an uncompleted chord Of music stopped when she set forth to find Celestial harmonies as a reward For all the loveliness she left be hind. This world held charms for her . . . but how much more Will she discover on fhnt golden shore, When she begins that last triumph ant strain Commemorating her release from pain! Copyright.—WNU Serrlio. —= -- ' ' ■- -- 'J I iUESTION BOX ty ED WYNN, The Perfect Fool I Dear Air. Wynn: Can you tell me the origin of the custom of hanging paintings on walls? Yours truly, ART STUDENT. Answer: In 612 B. C. there ruled In Egypt a very vain king. Fie heard of an artist who could paint Ills picture on canvas. The king, wishing to leave behind him his , likeness, ordered the artist to paint j Ills picture. When It was com ! pleted the king did not like the painting. He sent his soldiers out to catch the artist, but they couldn’t find him, so the king hung the paint ing. Dear Mr. Wynn: I have a very dear friend who has been acting strangely ever since his wife ran away with an engineer of a railroad train. Now, every time he hears a train whistle he gets nervous and runs away and hides himself. What do you think is wrong with him? Sincerely, G. WHIZ. Answer: It Is only natural that he should run away. An engineer stole his wife and ran away on a train with her and now when he Through a WOMAN'S EYES * NEWTON THE CHILD'S MIND AND OURS THE chilli s mind Is as complex as the adult’s. That pronouncement came out at the recent meeting of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene. Dr. James S. I’lant, director of the New ark (N. J.) Juvenile Clinic, told the assembled doctors psychiatry has just lcurned that the child mind Is no simpler to understand than the adult mind, and that their failure to renlize this may be responsible for the appalling number of delin quent and maladjusted children. Well—we shouldn’t be surprised. Only, what a pity that the experts In this Held didn’t long ago consult a few ordinary mothers, or some teachers who knew their Jobs. Had they even paged enough Imagine ♦ MOTHER’S ♦ COOK BOOK A FEW FROSTINGS WHEN a frosting Is desired which may be used In a pastry tube, the following Is especially good: Butter Frosting. Blend two tablespoonfuls of creamed butter very gradually with two cupfuls of confectioner's sugar, adding one to two tablespoonfuls of boiling milk or water, a very little nt a time, to make It of the proper consistency to force through the pastry tube or bag. Add flavoring and coloring to taste. Nougat Ice Cream. Mix one quart of thin cream, three cupfuls of heavy crenm and one cupful of milk. Boll one ~ - : WITTY KITTY B? NINA WILCOX PUTNAM L ' The girl chum says some one asked her mentally sketchy friend if she was not In stitches over a re cent film comedy and got the an swer that she never took her sew ing to the movies. VVNTJ Service. and one-half cupfuls of sugar and one-half cupful of water two min utes, cool and add to the cream. Add one-fourth teaspoonful of salt, one and one-half teaspoonfuls of va nilla and one-half teaspoonful of al mond extract. Mix one-half capful each of chopped walnuts or hickory nuts with blanched almonds, add to the .-nlxture and freeze. Pack three or four hours to ripen. Chocolate Rice Pudding. Soak four tablespoonfuls of rice In one pint of milk one-half hour, add one teaspoonful of salt, and cook In a double boiler until the rice Is tender. Mix two tablespoon hears a whistle he hides. Very sim ple. He’s afraid the engineer Is bringing his wife back. Dear Mr. Wynn: I have been 111 for several months and my physician wants to send me to the milk cure In Afghanistan. Please tell me, “Is the milk good there?" Sincerely, HOPE SOH. Answer: Is the milk good In Af ghanistan? Why, CREAM isn’t in It. <©. the Associated Newspapers. WNU Service. tion to recall their own childhood, they need not have been so late In discovering what to all who under stand children is an obvious fact The child mind as complex rs the adult’s—? It would be safer to call it more complex. In many lanes of knowledge and thought that are fa miliar and well charted to the grown-up, the child moves In a con stant fog. He has hardly catalogued a thing In his mind when something happens to upset his theory and leave him In the dark about what It is all about Scarcely have doubts on an Important principle of life re solved themselves Into definite knowledge, than an adult contra diction In action or speech, an adult hint or patronizing smile, sends him floundering again. A child has so many ideals, so many hopes, so many wonders and questions on which he forms con clusions which bring disappoint ments and doubts and disillusion, that he is In a constant labyrinth of thought, up one alley and down the next—usually, it must be said, after some adult who doesn’t know where he is going, but doesn’t care so much as the child! For the child’s very world depends on the answer to these thoughts. The adult’s world is formed—and how ever well or badly he may be adjust ed to it, he at least knows what he is up against. Far be it from me to paint adults as sure of life or ourselves. But there are many things we know, about which the child can only won der and guess. And about the things that leave us as floundering and helpless as the child, we at least know that we cannot know! And we have two weapons which he still lacks, to keep us on our feet In the maze. They are philosophy and a sense of humor. ©. Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. fula of butter with two-thirds of a cupful of sugar, two squares of melted chocolate, one-half cupful of seeded raisins cut fine, one tea spoonful of vanilla and the rich mixture, one-balf cupful of heavy cream whipped and the stiffly beat en whites of two eggs. Turn into a buttered baking dish and bake fifteen minutes in a moderate oven. Spread with a meringue and brown In the oven. Serve with a hard sauce. Frosting for Cake. Boil one-half cupful of sugar with three tablespoonfuls of water and one teaspoonful of vinegar until the sirup spins a thread. Pour hot over the stiffly beaten white of an egg. add a few grains of salt and a half teaspoonful of vanilla. Spread over the cake and sprinkle with coconut. ©. Wftntarri Nawap&per Union. Really, They Don’t Want You to Smoke THIS Sign in ~~ languages stands at the entrance ot the Long Hell Lumber company plant at Longview, Wash. All 22 tines say the same warning to workers, executives and visitors. Spnnlsh, Filipino, Russian, Greek, Hebrew, French, German, Portuguese, Polish. Norwegian, Swedish, Italian. Dutch, Arable. Japanese, and six other foreign tongues and at the bottom “NO SMOKING” In English. Just 3 »vy MISLEADIING MELODY “You can learn a great deal from old songs.” remarked the light heart ed statesman. “They may be misleading,” an swered Senator Sorghum. “When posterity revives ‘We Have No Ba nanas’ a large number of persons may be led to infer that with all our crop failures the most we have lmd a contend with was a scarcity of tropical fruit.”—Washington Star. Promising Mr. and Mrs. I’enley were honest, hard-working farmer folks. By self denial they had managed to send their son to Harvard. One day a letter arrived. “I know you will be pleased,” wrote the son, “to learn that I have won the squash cham pionship.” "Well, well!” beamed Father Pen ley. “We’ll make a farmer out of that boy yet, mother.” Why the Old One It Comfy “What would your wife say if you bought a new car?” “‘Look out for that traffic light! Be careful now! Don't hit that truck! Why don’t you watch where you’re going? Will you never learn?’ And a lot more like that.”—Boston Evening Transcript. She Wat Willing Curate (admiring a bowl of bulbs) —How lovely to think It will soon be opening time, Mrs. Bird. Mrs. Binks—Well, now, and who ever would have thought of you say in’ a thing like that! But I’m game to pop out for a quick one if you feel like it.—London Tit-Bits. Busy Caller—I would like to see the Judge, please. Secretary—I’m sorry, sir, but he Is at dinner. Caller—But, my man, my errand Is Important. Secretary—It can’t be helped, sir. His Honor Is at steak.—Pearson’s Magazine. SHE KNEW "It costs me $40 a month Just to keep my hair In shape.” "Yes—petting musses one’s hair terribly." Cate of Necessity “What was the Inspiration for your success?” the rich man was asked. “Well, frankly,” he grinned, "It was the meals my wife cooked when we were first married. I renllzed right off I’d have to earn enough to hire a cook if I didn’t want to die of indigestion.” Lofty Assumptions "You have been gett'ng some bad advice In business.” “I have,” answered Mr. Dustin Stax. "I had a highbrow group of advisers. But highbrows are always suspected of high-hat inclinations. Instead of a brain trust I got merely a brain crust.” Youthful Assumption “How is your son getting on In his . new position?" “First rate," answered Farmer Corntossel. "lie knows more about the business now titan the boss does. All he has to do is convince the boss.” Did He Get the Job? Employer—I’ersonnl appearance Is a helpful factor In business success. Employee—Yes, and business suc cess is a helpful factor In personal appearance. W ill Please for Play or School PATTERN 9168 What could be more cunning than this square little dress for a round little girl? And by the way, square* are “just the thing” this year. The yokes, back and front, give the Im pression of buttoning down over the top of the box pleats. The neck and sleeves are trimmed with demure little collar and cuffs of contrasting material This model inclndes a pattern for matching bloomers. Made in a bright gay woolen for eoldqr* weather—either plaids or checks are very smart—or In a pretty gingham, 9166 TfiT for warmer days, it will appeal to the heart of the most clothes-con sclous young miss. Pattern 0168 may be ordered only In sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10. Size 4 re quires 2 yards 36 inch fabric and % yard contrasting. Send FIFTEEN CENTS in coins k or stamps (coins preferred) for tills 1 pattern. Be sure to write plainly i your NAME, ADDRESS, the STYLE NUMBER and SIZE. Complete, diagrammed sew chart Included. Send your order to Sewing Circle Pattern Department, 232 West Eight eenth Street, New York, N. Y. NO JOKE “Well,” the recent bride was asked, J “what have you learned since youq became a man’s meal getter?” “That the.e are a lot of things about It besides onion to bring tears to the eyes,” she sighed. Hm-m! “That certainly is a freak pub licity stunt of Judge Bart's!” "What’s that?” “Well, the paper states that he wouldn’t sit again for a month.” Equality for All Friend—How’s the hoy since he came back from college? Man—Fine! Still treats us as equals. Dumb-Bell He—I’ve just been reading some statistics. Do you know that every time my watch ticks, a man dies. She—For goodness sake, let It run down.—Royal Arcanum Bulletin. HIS SWINGING GAIT i i » -h “When he walks he sways back and forth as if he had a hinge in hla back.” ‘‘Oh, that's only his swinging gait." 'Twai Ever Thu* “You look worried. What’s the matter?" “Ding it, my doctor just told roe I've got to quit worrying or else.”
