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PETER FORGETS ABOUT THE
STRANGE TRACKS
Kick your heels and Jump and dance!
Hop and skip and gayly prance!
Sister South Wind's come to stay,
And Mistress Spring Is on the way!
EVERYBODY said that Peter
Rabbit and Jumper the Hare
had gone crazy. Of course, it wasn't
true. They weren’t really crazy,
even if they did act so. People al
ways say that Jumper the Hare is
mad at this time of the year, but
it isn’t so unless trying to show how
happy and full of Joy you feel is
madness. That was the trouble with
Jumper end Peter this time. They
They Hopped and Skipped and
Jumped and Did All Sorts of Fool
ish Things.
were so full of Joy that they Just had
to do something, and because they
couldn’t sing and shout—for you
know they have no voices for sing
ing and shouting—they just had to
do something to show how glad and
happy they were, and so, in the
moonlight, when they thought no
one saw them, they hopped and
•kipped and Jumped and danced,
and did all sorts of foolish things.
But other people did see them.
Jimmy Skunk saw them and said,
"How silly!” Bobby Coon, poking
his head out of his hollow tree to
see if the last bit of snow had dis
appeared. yawned sleepily and said,
"How foolish!”
But Peter and Jumper didn’t
know this, and they wouldn’t have
cared much anyway. They didn’t
have room for anything but the joy
that filled their hearts, and that Joy
was because they knew that Mis
tress Spring was on the way, and
she always brings the glad time, the
happy time, the merry time, when
the very air is full of Joy and love,
and it is, oh, so good to be alive!
They knew that she was on the way
because Sister South Wind had ar
rived and told them so, for Sister
South Wind had come to prepare the
way for her, to melt the snow and
ice, and to whisper to all the trees
which had slept the long winter
through that it was time to wake.
Very Summery
Bright field flowers are primly
arranged around the dull blue vel
vet crown of this attractive Breton
sailor. The brim is of natural col
ored straw braid. Matching velvet
streamers tie over the back of the
hair.
So they forgot everything else in the
joy of this good news. Peter forgot
all his trouble because his friends
and neighbors wouldn't believe the
story he had told them of the
strange great tracks he had found
deep in the Green Forest. In fact,
he forgot all about those tracks him
self. There was too much else to
think about. The Green Forest and
the Green Meadows, and the Laugh
ing Brook and the Smiling Pool
would soon be waking up, and Peter
just had to be on hand to greet each
of the sleepers, who had spent the
long, hard, cold winter warmly
tucked in bed, and knowing nothing
about Jack Frost, or rough Brother
North Wind, or how hard It had
been sometimes to get something to
eat.
So Peter hopped and skipped and*
danced in the moonlight with Jump
er the Hare, and was happy. "No
more days of hunting and hunting
to find something to eat!" he cried,
as he foolishly tried to jump over
his own shadow. "No more racing
around to keep from freezing to
death!" And then, just because he
didn't have to, Peter raced faster
and harder than ever. You know.
It is a lot easier to do things when
you don't have to. It is fun then.
"Just the same," added Peter, "I
wouldn't sleep all winter the way
Johnny Chuck does, and Grandfath
er Frog and Striped Chipmunk and
a lot of others for anything. Think
of what they miss! It's worth it
even if we do have hard times once
in a while. And it’s going to be
such fun to see all the sleepers wake
up! Yes, sir. I’m glad I don’t sleep
Neiv Jersey Becomes Goat Conscious
In an effort to make th.- state forget cows, prominent New Jersej
clubwomen have taken the erstwhile lowly goat under their collective
wing at Pine Brook and are grooming the can-loving animals to replace
the bovine as state milk-producers. Here you see Mrs. Channing Gilson
at one of the founts of supply.
through the winter, but I'm gladder
still that Mistress Spring is on the
way.
’Hlppity-hoppity, sklpplty-skopplty,
I couldn't keep still If I would I
Sk Ipplty-skopptty, hlppity-hoppity.
I'm glad there's no reason I should."
© T. W Burgess.—WNU Service.
First Aid toger B. Whitman I
to the Ailing House
01)1) JOBS ON FURNITURE
THE usual varnish finish of a ta
ble top turns white under a hot
dish when alcohol or other liquids
are spilled on it. These white marks
are damage to the varnish. If the
varnish is damaged through the
wood, the only remedy is to scrape
it out and to reflnish. But more
usually a white mark is only on the
surface. The treatment for taking
it out depends somewhat on the kind
of varnish used in the finish; but
one or another of the following will
probably succeed—a little of a liq
uid being applied lightly with a
cloth; turpentine; linseed oil; spirits
of camphor. Another method is to
rub lightly with finely powdered
pumicestone and any light oil, ap
plied with the finger-tip. Cigar ash
can be used in place of the pumice
stone.
A dent in wood is actually the
crushing of the wood fibers. To take
out a dent, cover with several sheets
of blotting paper wet with water,
and pi ess with a fairly hot iron; the
steam will swell the fibers and bring
them back to their original posi
tions A nick or a break caused by
the chipping off or gouging out of
some of the wood can be filled with
shellac in stick form, which can be
"A dirt Is something for only
those to worry about,” says solilo
quizing Elizabeth, “who have mon
ey to buy more food than is good
for them."
C Bell Syndicate. — WNU Service.
Love, Honor and Obey
-JoE
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had in all cf the various wood col
ors and shades. Stick shellac looks
like scaling wax. To apply it, a
screwdriver blade is heated hot
enough to melt oft some of the shel
lac, which is then pressed into the
break in the wood. When it has
hardened, it can be cut off and
made level with a razor blade or
by rubbing with fine sandpaper.
Loose chair rungs can be made
tight through the use of thin and
small slips of steel made for the
purpose, and usuall> to be had at a
hardware store. The loose end of
the rung is pulled out, a slip of
steel of the right size is placed
against it, and the two are forced
back into the hole. Having fine
teeth, the slip binds the rung tightly
into place.
When a chair has loosened all
over, dud to exposure to dry air, it
is best to take it completely apart
and to put it together again with
plenty of glue. The parts should
then be tightly bound with heavy
cord until the glue is thoroughly
dry.
Squeaks in a wood bedstead are
due to the loosening of the glued
Joints. To cure the squeaks, the
joints should be taken apart and re
g’ued.
A split in a table top, also caused
by drying out, can be brought to
gether by exposure to damp air;
sometimes by laying damp cloths
on both sides of the split. When a
split has closed, small pieces of flat
metal, to be had at a hardware
store, should be screwed on the un
der side, to prevent the split from
reopening.
C By Roger B. Whitman
WNU Service.
MANNERS OF
THE MOMENT
By JEAN
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SEVEN O'CLOCK CAIJLER
COME people have a knack for
^ dropping in to say hello just as
you’re ready to have dinner. It
might be very nice if you were still
living on the farm, where all you
had to do when someone dropped in
was to go out and slaughter another
chicken. But when you’ve got just
two chops for two people, pot luck
is hardly luck any more.
Personally we’d like to see the
modern hostess develop a more flex
ible nature. It wouldn’t hurt to put
the chops in the icebox and serve
up an omelette. But most modern
hostesses don’t think of that. And
anyhow, sometimes they don’t even
have eggs.
In that case there are only two
ways to handle the seven o’clock
caller. One is to sit him out. And
the other Is to tell him the truth.
We can’t see why It would hurt any
1 one's feelings if you said to him.
‘ Sorry, old top, but I have only two
chops tonight, so I can't ask you to
stay. But how about eating with us
tomorrow night?” If that procedure
tyakes you feel like a cad, then
turn off the fires on your stove and
sit the caller out. It's the only pos
sible way of keeping the chops in
the family.
WNU Service.
Envy Turns to Hatred
“We desire to be envied," said Hi
Ho, the sage of Chinatown. “Yel
envy easily turns to hatred, and wc
should not be surprised if success
brings more foes than friends.”
THE GREAT
PHILOSOPHERS
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
THE great philosophers may
think
They stand on rostrums, write with
ink,
And lead mankind with theories—
And yet I greatly doubt if these
Are great philosophers at all.
They are too great, they are too tall
A truth to fashion or to find
Simple enough to serve mankind.
The sphere they live in is as far
From where we live as star from
star.
They move in orbits, often we
In circles they can never see.
They understand the human race,
But not the people of a place.
They never hear, so far apart,
The beating of a single heart.
The great philosophers indeed
Are not the ones who write and read
But rather those who think and
pray,
Man near, and God not far away.
They stand beside the bier of grief,
Have less of learning, more belief.
And do not "think” a thing is so—
Know what they live, live what they
know.
© Douglas Malloch.—WNU Barrie*.
THE LANGUAGE
OF YOUR HAND
By Leicester K. Davis
© Public Ledger. Inc
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\ The Melancholy
yin^er 0( Saturn
MOST of us have "the blues” at
times. But the normal mind
soon clears them away. This is not
true, however, of some unfortu
nates, who seem always and quite
unaccountably depressed. In a
world that is filled with so much
about which to be cheerful and hap
py, these mournful souls see only
that which should not be.
Destiny, for some unfathomable
reason, seems to have singled them
out for unhappiness, brooding and
gloom which they hardly deserve.
And destiny has marked them with
the finger of Saturn now to be de
scribed.
The Melancholy Finger of Saturn.
Fortunately you will not come
upon many second fingers of this
type. But when you do, you will
recognize its peculiarities at a
glance. The outstanding character
istic is the twisted and distorted
appearance of the finger from root
to nail tip. This and excessive
length and leanness, which add em
phasis to the large and knotty
knuckles.
The first joint usually inclines
sharply toward the forefinger, the
second joint just as sharply away
from it, while the nail tip turns
again toward the forefinger. The
nail is long, narrow, often convexed
and deeply ridged and rather deep
ly set.
Individuals with this unusual type
of second finger are rarely under
stood, even by those with whom
they are most closely associated.
They crave sympathy, which they
deserve but which is too often with
held. If encouraged, the real abili
ties so often lying latent within
them may be loosed in surprising
accomplishments despite the handi
cap which destiny has imposed.
WNU Service.
I
Poor Lo’s Revival.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF.
—Despite the blessings of
civilization which we have
bestowed upon them, includ
ing diseases, whisky, soda
pop, and $2 overalls, the
American Indians are in
creasing.
This should give our red brothers
for worry. SuDDOse they got |
so numerous that
we gave this coun
try back to them?
Already we are in
debted to these orig
inal Inhabitants for
quinine, cocaine,
cotton, chocolate,
tobacco, corn,
beans, squashes,
pumpkins, grape
fruit, huckleberries
and hundreds of oth
er remedial drugs
or foodstuffs. More
Irvin S. Cobb
over, an eminent authority says the
curative methods of the old medi
cine man had values which in many
respects excelled that the white
man has produced and suggests our
scientists might well adopt certain
aspects of the aborigine's plan.
What if we did that very thing and
then, by the way of exchange, invit
ed the tribesmen to take over such
trifling problems as an unbalanced
budget, our European debts, sit
down strikes and the younger gen
eration?
• • •
Cleaning Up the Stage.
HAVING lost their licenses, four
teen burlesque houses in New
York won’t ever get them back if
the officials keep their word about
it.
With this example to go by, au
thorities might next try the idea of
cleaning up the legitimate stage
there — the spawning - place and
breeding ground of shows in which
filthy lines and filthier scenes are
freely offered to pop-eyed audiences
recruited from what we call our
best families. Poisoning the moral
atmosphere of the theater appears
to be the favorite sport of a new
school of dramatists who, when they
were little boys, had their mouths
washed out with soap for using dirty
words, yet never got over the habit.
• • •
The Fate of Beauty Queens.
JUST as the weather gets warm so
the contestants won’t catch any
thing worse than sunburn, that out
break of annual monotony known as
the beauty contest will stir the popu
lace to heights of the utmost indif
ference. There will be no dress re
hearsals beforehand. With beauty
contests, it’s the other way around.
And then when Miss Cherokee
Stripp or Miss Clear View has been
hailed as America’s prize package
of loveliness, she will, if she runs
true to form, put her clothes back
on and catch the next train for Cali
fornia with the intention of starring
in the movies.
On arrival, she will be pained to
note that none of the studio heads
is waiting at the station to sign her
up; also that practically all the star
ring jobs are being held by young
ladies who, in addition to good looks,
have that desirable little thing
called personality. And next fall
she’ll be dealing ’em off the arm in
a Hollywood hashery.
• • •
International Slickers.
RUMORS persist that the United
States, Great Britain and
France are preparing for eventual
agreements on monetary stabiliza
tion. tariff and trade adjustments,
price-fixing of essential commodi
ties—and, believe it or not, brethren
and sistren—a settlement of the de
faulted foreign debts owed to us.
Maybe it’s significant—or, if you
want to be broadminded and char
itable about it, merely a coincidence
—that every dispatch from Euro
pean sources on this matter lists the
debts last. And, verily I say unto
you, that's exactly when and where
they will come—last.
I seem to see the big three gath
; ered at the council table for the
j final session and La Belle France
moving that, everything else having
be.en arranged to the satisfaction of
| the majority present and the hour
; being late, the detail of those debti
be put over to some future date.
John Bull seconds the motion. Mo
tion carried by a vote of 2 to 1, Uncle
: Sam being feebly recorded in the
j negative.
• • •
A Sense of Humor.
DAMON RUNYON, who being
wise, should know better, re
opens the issue of whether many
people have a sense of humor. This
provokes somebody to inquire what
is humor, anyhow?
I stand by this definition: Humor
is tragedy standing on its head with
its pants torn.
Lots of folks think a sense of hu
mor is predicated on the ability to
laugh at other folks, which is wrong.
A real sense of humor is based on
our ability to laugh at ourselves, i
You have to say, not as Puck did,
i "What fools these mortals be,” but,
! "What fools we mortals be.”
That’s why few women have a true
sense of humor. Usually a woman,
even a witty woman, takes herself
so seriously, she can never regard
herself unseriously.
IRVIN S. COBB
C—WNU Service.
Dressed for the Occasion ,
1270
\
1304
“LJI THERE, Mrs. Astorbilt,
*• * where are you going in that
lovely summer gown?”
“Not very far, Miss Junior Deb,
just down to the store to buy ma
terial for a play suit like yours.”
“Well, Ma-mah, if you must copy
my style, you couldn’t find a bet
tef model because these shorts
really fit, and the whole thing is
a tailored job.”
A Stylist Speaks.
“May I as Susie Sew-Your-Own
interrupt you two with the latest
word from my class in dress de
sign? You, Sis, are a pre-vue
of Miss America in proper sports
wear while Ma-mah is modern to
the minute with her raised waist
line and fulled bodice. I, in this
morning frock, have what the
book calls classic simplicity. Be
that as it may, I couldn’t get
along without it, because it’s so
cool and comfortable.”
Everybody’s Happy.
“Thanks for the approval, Su
sie. Your clever dress would be
a bright spot in anybody’s kitchen,
and now that you’ve got the swing
of this sewing business there will
be no stopping you. But even so, I
must admit I’m a proud mother.
You can go just as far as you
like with this new hobby.”
“Gee, Ma-mah, isn’t it swell to
be on such friendly terms with
Fashion? I think good old Sew
Your-Own deserves most of the
credit for arranging the introduc
tion. Spring means so much more
when one’s clothes look the part.”
“You’re quite right, dear, but
now let’s run along. We have work
to do.”
The Patterns.
Pattern 1270 comes in sizes 14
to 20 (32 to 42 bust.) Size 16 re
quires 5% yards of 39 inch ma
terial.
Foreign Words ^
and Phrases ^
Nous engageames dans la val
lee. (F.) We entered into (pene
trated) the valley.
La dette n’est pas seulement un
inconvenient, mais elle est une
calamite. (F.) Debt is not only
an inconvenience, but it is a ca
lamity.
Bella donna. (It.) A pretty wom
an.
Alter ego. (L.) Another self.
Enoncer une pensee. (F.) To ex
press a thought.
Mon bonheur s’est enfui. (F.)
My happiness has fled.
* ★ ★ * *
DOUBLE-FRUIT
SHORTCAKE
Mrs. L. A. Norwood, Chase City, lia.
Mix and sift 2 cups flour, 4 tsps.
baking powder, tsp. salt, 1 tbsp.
sugar together. Cut in cup Jewel
Special-Blend Shortening. Add 1
egg. beaten, and X cup milk and
mix until soft dough is formed. Bake
in hot oven (450°F.) in two layers.
Fill and top with 3 cups strawber
ries, 1 cup crushed pineapple (or
sliced bananas), 1 cup sugar. Top
with whiDoed cream. Adv.
Pattern 1272 is designed for
sizes 14 to 20 (32 to 42 bust). Size
16 requires 4% yards of 39 inch
material. 216 yards of ribbon are
required for the tie belt.
Pattern 1304 is for sizes 34 to
46. Size 36 requires 3% yards of
35 inch material plus 16 yard con
trasting.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020,
211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111.
Price of patterns, 15 cents (in
coins) each.
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
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Ask Me Another
% A General Quiz
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
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1. How many different recog
nized religious sects or denomi
nations are there in this country?
2. Has Russia a dictator in the
sense that Hitler and Mussolini
rule?
3. What was the first steel ves
sel?
4. What did the World war cost
the United States in dead, wound
ed, and dollars?
5. How many motion picture
theaters in the world are equipped
for sound pictures?
6. In what manner may, foreign
debts to this country be paid?
Answers
1. This country has 213.
2. The situation is not the same.
Russia is not governed by a one
man dictatorship. When the chair
man of the political bureau dies
or resigns another is carefully
chosen. The stress is on the party
machine rather than on the man.
3. A Cunarder, the Servia, built
in 1881.
4. In dead, 126,000; in wounded,
234,000; and in money, $51,000,
000,000.
5. Of the 60,000, more than 41,
000 are so equipped, and 19,000 of
them are in the United States.
6. In only three ways—in gold,
goods, or services.
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