Illinois’ Largest Land Owner Busy on His Farm
TT ARPER SIBI.EY, head of the U. S. Chamber of
A* Commerce, owns a 4,000 acre ranch In California
and a 350-acre farm In New York. His corn farm at
Sibley, 111., is the largest In the world. He Is shown
here at work on that farm.
£| BEDTIME STORY &
I By THORNTON W. BURGESS |||
DANNY’S HOME-COMING
WHEN the first Jolly Sunbeams
came stealing through the
Green Forest, Danny Meadow
Mouse began to be unensy. He
was thoroughly rested and the dan
gers of the dreadful night were
already forgotten. Perhaps I
should not say that they were for
gotten, for, of course, that Isn’t
quite true. But Danny hnd quite
put them out of his mind. That Is
the way with the little people of
the Green Forest and the Green
Meadows. Dangers that are past
are not worth thinking about.
They must keep their minds clear
“Oh, Danny, I’m So Glad! I'm So
Glad!*’
for possible dangers to come. So
Danny’s thoughts were not of what
he had been through, but were
wholly of getting home.
He thanked his cousin, Whltefoot,
for all the latter had done for him
and then climbed out of the hollow
stump and once more started for
the Green Meadows and home. As
long as he was In the Green Forest
he was anxious, lie didn’t feel at
home there. He didn’t know what
to expect. He Imagined all sorts
of dangers. But the Instant he
reached the edge of the Green
Meadows his heart became light.
Ipapa knows-i
“Pop, what is outatrlp7’*
"Win by a noaa.”
‘ C Bell Syndicate. — WNU Service.
He still had a long way to go and
many things might happen before
he reached that snug little home
and Nanny Meadow Mouse and the
babies. But Dunny’s heart was
light, for on the Green Meadows
he knew just what to do and where
to go. He could see Bedtall the
Hawk sailing round and round, high
In the blue, blue sky. He knew
that Bedtall was watching with
those wonderful eyes of his for a
fnt Meadow Mouse, but that didn't
worry Danny In the least. You see,
he knew just how to keep out of
sight.
After a while he reached one of
his own private little paths. The
brown grass hung over It making a
regular little tunnel of It. Danny
scampered along us fust ns his short
legs would take him and so pres
ently he reached his snug, safely
hidden little home. The half
grown children raced out to meet
A Bumper Crop
him to see If he had brought them
something. Inside, the babies were
having an after dinner nap. Of
Nanny Meadow Mouse there was
no sign. Y'ou see, Nanny was out
getting her own dinner. It wus
while he waited for her that Danny
began to wonder how ever he would
be able to explain his long absence.
Me suspected tlint Nanny would he
very cross, very cross, Indeed. He
suspected that he was due for a
scolding, such a scolding as only
Nanny’s sharp tongue could give.
Me knew that he deserved It. He
was glad, ever so glad, to be home,
but he felt most uncomfortable.
By and by, os he snt Just outside
his snug little home, he heard foot
steps hurrying along one of the pri
vate little paths. It was Nanny
hurrying home to her ha hies. When
she saw Danny she stopped short
and stared at him as If she thought
her eyes were playing her tricks.
Then. Instead of the sharp words
he expected and knew he richly de
served, Nanny rushed to him cry
ing, “Oh, Danny, I’m so glnd! I’m
so glad I I thought you were dead I"
And Danny Meadow Mouse knew
then how great Is love.
©. T W. IturKeH*.—WNU 8ervlce.
Question box
b, ED WYNN, The Perfect Fool I
Dear Air. Wynn:
1 have read a grent deal lately
about bigamy and bigamists. Am
I not right when I say “If n man
has one wife too many he Is a big
amist?"
Yours truly,
DELLA WARE.
Answer: You are not right. 1
know u man who has only one wife,
nnd only the other day he told me
that although he Is married to one
woman he has one wife too many;
yet, you can see, he has not com
mltted bigamy.
Dear Air. Wynn:
I hear so many Jokes about mat
GIPUG KGS'
“Doggone, even the worst crim
inals have their good points,” says
observing Olivia. “What a happy
world this would be If the hubby's
relatives did as little talking.”
WNU Service
rlrnony that J often wonder If any
of the things 1 heard have any
truth behind them. For instance,
are all married people unhappy?
Sincerely,
I. KISH.
Answer: No, only the men.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
We are getting up a raffle for a
poor man In our neighborhood, and
I have been asked to write to you
to nsk if you won't buy some
chances.
Truly yours,
BENNY FACTOR.
Answer: 1 don’t want any
chnnces, ns I wouldn’t know what
to do with a poor man If I won one.
© Associated Newspapers.
WNU Service.
THE COUNTY
FAIR
By ANNE CAMPBELL
THE apple that bung on the
gnarled brown bough
And dreamed of perfection the
summer through,
Is wearing a blue satin ribbon now;
Our Grandfather's peaches won
first prize, too.
The biggest of pumpkins, the grand
est squash
Have taken their place in the
rustic square;
And Granddad may tease and de
clare It's bosh,
But Grandmother's Jam won first
prize at the fair.
There are quilts with patterns bo
lutrieate,
You would scarcely believe a
woman’s hands
Could fashion a comforter delicate
As the varied tints of a rain
bow's bands.
There’s embroidery fine as a cob
web spuu
On u rainy day In a spider's lulr;
And many u task that was bravely
done
l-ast year Is now at the county
fair.
The pickles and pies and the cakes
and Jell,
Examples of home and the kind
ly art
ut women who, doing a small thing
well.
Learn to tackle life with a Joy
ous heart 1
And deeper tliun you and 1 see dis
played
Goes the evidence of their loving
care . . .
The aymnols of beauty In homes
they’ve made
Are plainly In view at the county
fair.
Copyright—WNU Servlet
«■ MOTHER’S *
COOK BOOK
TAPIOCA ICE CREAM
NOW that the mechanical refrlg
erator has become such an
every day affair, we are learning
new ways of economy In foods as
well as energy. The use of quick
cooking tapioca has become com
mon In the preparation of soups,
omelets, berry pies and meat
loaves, but now comes the thrilling
discovery of what this versatile In
gredient can do for ice cream. With
the use of tapioca, a velvety smooth
cream can be made without the
bother of cranking the freezer. Tet
no more cream Is required than for
the mixture wiileh must he stirred.
Simply prepare the mixture, set
the control for freezing desserts
and forget all about It until the
freezing is complete. For those who
have no mechanical refrigerator,
turn the mixture Into a mold, pack
1 Jo You Know—
That Easter probably'derives
its name from Eastre, a Sax
on goddess? In the ancient
church, the celebration of
Easter lasted an octave (8
days). During that time alms
were dispensed to the poor—
slaves received their freedom
and the people gave them
selves up to enjoyment.
® McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.
Gay Plaids
•
Gay plaid seersucker, In red,
green and yellow over white, fash
ions a lovely little summer outfit
which is worn above, by Maureen
O’Sullivan. The dress Is backless.
A white linen purse with red, green
and yellow banding, and white ac
cessories complete the ensemble.
In ice and salt and let stand for
four or five hours.
Formerly recipes of the mousse
type, with a large proportion of
cream have to be used in order to
get satisfactory results in the tex
ture without stirring. All cream
desserts are too rich ns well as
costly to serve for the average
housewife, also are too rich for the
children and adults after a heavy
dinner.
Chocolate ice Cream.
Take two squares of unsweet
ened chocolate cut into pieces, add
to two cupfuls of milk In a double
boiler and heat. When the choco
late is melted beat with a rotary
beater until well blended, add three
tablespoonfuls of quick cooling tapi
oca, one-fourth teaspoonful of salt
and cook until clear and thickened,
stirring frequently. Add one-half
cupful of sugar and four table
spoonfuls of light corn sirup; cook
until all are well blended, then cool.
Strain the mixture by stirring, not
rubbing through a fine sieve. Chill.
Add two tablespoonfuls of sugar to
two beaten egg whites and fold into
the mixture. Add one cupful of
cream whipped and two teaspoon
fuls of vanilla. Turn into the freez
ing tray and freeze as rapidly as
possible. Three to four hours are
required. Lacking the refrigera
tor, pack in ice and salt for several
hours.
® Western Newspaper Union.
THROUGH A
Womans Eyes
By JEAN NEWTON
ONE WAY OF CURING NERV
OUS EXHAUSTION
<(tWAS nervously exhausted,”
1 writes one of our reader
friends, “so much so that I couldn’t
sleep all night. I tossed and tossed,
actually in pain. All as a result of
nervous excitement And the next
morning I was headachy and jumpy.
I knew It would be a lost day—and
I had a good deal of work to do.
‘‘Under theclrcumstances It seemed
I shouldn’t be able to accomplish
anything, so I might as well rest
And 1 tried to rest—and got more
and more nervous and jumpy.
“Finally I thought I might as well
try to get something done, so I
started on the hardest job I had—a
report to be gotten out for the next
meeting of the club.
“The report required complete
concentration, and before I knew
it I was deep Into it. I finished the
Job, looked at the clock and found
the afternoon had passed. And,
strange to say, I had lost my head
ache, and the jumpy, achy feeling
that had made me so restless had
left me. In other words, I felt quite
myself again—cured by a job of
work! This experience may help
some other reader."
Cured of nervous exhaustion by
a Job of work! That seems strange
only to those who have never had
the experience. For it is a fact
that there Is nothing so good for
that feeling that you Just can’t do
anything—when It Is nerves—than
to start something that requires
concentration. You’re quite likely
to finish the job feeling ready to do
anything.
And the beneficent work to do
is not limited to curing “nerves."
It has been well known for some
time—work within reason, of course
—Is a good thing to prevent nerves.
Exhibit A: The truly busiest peo
ple In the world—those who do the
most—are not often those with
“nerves.”
© Bell Syndicate— WNU Service.
•_
Modern Betsy Ross Makes a Flag
MISS BETSY BOSS, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Ross, a*
work on an American flag for the colonial village which is being built
at Upper Lake Mohawk, N. J.
I BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Why So Many Men?
Bitterness in Berlin
Frank H. Hitchcock Dead
The Snake Has Rights
Why does Mussolini need so many
men for little Abyssinia? If he at
tacks, he will go
through the air
with bombs, poi
son gas or both.
He certainly
will not march
hundreds of
thousands of
men through
swamps, and
over hot sand.
He now has
925.000 men un
der arms, with
340.000 Fascist
militia ready to
be called, plus
Arthur Brisbane 200,000 Others,
born two years before the big war
started. Is something else present
or expected, back or all this man
power? Even If Japan should come
In, that would only mean a more
complicated air war.
Berlin reports Increased bitterness
In the war against the Catholic
church, with official posters, eight
feet high, printed in red, scattered
through the city, attacking alleged
Catholic opposition to Nazi rule.
The posters speak of the “graft
ing Center (Catholic) party, work
ing hand In hand with Bolshevism,”
and declare that Catholics, ‘‘the
eternal enemies of the relch, wish
to destroy the unity of Germany.”
The posters are believed to indicate
new and more bitter attacks on
Catholic organizations.
Many Americans will learn with
sincere regret of the death of Frank
H. Hitchcock, postmaster general In
President Taft’s cabinet and at the
time of his death publisher of the
Tucson Dally Citizen.
Frank Hitchcock, typical, intelli
gent American, will be remembered
as first to appreciate the airplane’s
importance in connection with dis
tribution of mail. Twenty-four years
ago, when flying was new, he flew,
taking a pouch of mail with him,
and advocated immediate use of
planes over “impassable stretches
of country.”
At Thomasville, N. C., Rev. Camp
bell Holmes, “Holy Roller” preacher,
allowed a rattlesnake to bite him as
he preached, “Just to show you that
God will take care of me.” There
was excitement and admiration in
the congregation. Next day his arm
was badly swollen, he was violently
111, death threatened, but the “Holy
Roller” preacher refused medical at
tention. The reverend gentleman
perhaps forgot that the same great
Power that gave him his beautiful
faith also gave the rattlesnake Its
powerful poison. Each creature has
its gifts, not safely ignored.
Did you buy bonds in the big war
excitement, when little ladies, seat
ed on elephants, sang patriotic songs
and begged you to give “till it
hurts”?
One hundred and elghty-flve mil
lion dollars' worth of government
bonds are mislaid somewhere, per
haps hidden in old trunks, In desks,
safe-deposit boxes, by those now
dead. The government would like
to get these past-due bonds and pay
for them.
One out of every three married
couples in the United States is
childless, news not complimentary
to the childless families. Excep
tions are cases in which nature re
fuses to send children.
You would not value a chain of
steel with every third link broken,
or a chain of heredity with every
third link missing. The “childless
family” news should make this
country revise stupid laws against
Immigration, shutting out men and
women willing to have children, and
work for them.
Madame Evelyn, who reads the
stars, the future, the crystal globe
and the lines in your hand on the
New Jersey beach, read the "lines”
for a 200-pound customer, then
sighed and said: “I see only trouble
ahead of you.”
The client also sighed, and he,
says Madame Evelyn, stood up and
said, "‘You are an excellent fortune
teller, and here’s the beginning of
the trouble,’ and socked me on the
juw, knocking me out of my chair.”
Americans Interested in cotton
production and wondering how long
our export figures will stand up will
want to know that Japanese cotton
buyers have "folded up,” as one
Texas cotton grower put It; have
moved out of Texas, apparently giv
ing up all idea of buying cotton
there.
The late Nathan Straus used to
say “If a German loses one of bis
relatives, he feels badly. If be loses
money, he goes to bed sick.”
German trade and Industry will
"go to bed sick” if it persists In
its present attitude toward those
that promote business and prosper
ity In every country where Jews are
treated fairly.
& King Feature* Syndicate, loo.
WNU Service.
QUILTMAKERS FAVOR
OLD-TIME PATTERNS
Patchwork quilt making Is still in
the limelight and the old patterns
seem to be most in demand.
Here are the names of the blocks
shown above. Most of them are very
old designs—“Log Cabin"—“Rare Old
Tulip"—“Poinsettla"—“Pineapple” —
“Butterfly”—“Pussy in the Corner”
—“Pin Wheel”—“Sunbonnet Babies.”
When making the next quilt watch
the seams, one seam sewed wrong
ruins the whole block. Here are a
few suggestions for making perfect
quilts. Press all material before
cutting. Use blotting paper for pat
terns, thus avoiding pinning. Cut each
piece exactly like pattern. Match
all edges perfectly when sewing to
gether. Lay the patches and blocks
out for best color combinations be
fore sewing together.
Patchwork Quilt Book No. 21 con
tains 37 old and new quilt designs
with illustrations, Instructions and
cutting charts for the patches. The
above 10 quilts are Included. Send
15c to our quilt department and re
ceive this book by mnil.
Address, HOME CRAFT COM
PANY, DEPARTMENT D, Nineteenth
and St Louis avenue, St Louis, Mo.
Inclose a stamped addressed en
velope for reply when writing for
any information.
Poisoned by Animals
Mysterious cases of ivy poison
ing, when no contact with plants
can be recalled, may he due to
drops of the poisonous oil on cattle ^
or other animals touched by the
susceptible person.
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Coleman Mantles are always Nesh; guar
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Chafing and
Itching Rash
easily soothed by the
bland medication of
Resinol
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you suffer backache, dizziness,
burning, scanty or too frequent urina
tion, getting up at night, swollen feet
and ankles,- feel upset and miserable
... use Doan’s Pills.
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mended by users the country over.
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