'JMJmhd about
Tombstone Inscriptions.
PHOENIX, ARIZ.—Agentle
man took me sightseeing
through a cemetery that
abounded in proud mauso
leums and stately shafts.
I figured he wanted to show me
that rich folks continue te enjoy the
atmost luxury even
after becoming de
ceased.
How futile and
tear vain are most
tombstone inscrip
tions They give the
dates of birth and
death — events in
■either of which the
departed had any
aay-so — unless he
committed suicide.
And just as the av
erage graveside eu
Irvin S.'Cobb
toffy is a belated plea for the defense,
offered after the evidence is all in,
so an epitaph is an advertisement
lor a line of goods which perma
nently has been discontinued.
Somehow this burying ground
stuff reminds me of hired critics of
other men’s efforts. The difference j
between professional book review
ers and the other obituarinns is that
the latter do their work after you
pass on, but the reviewers can’t
wait until you’re dead to write your
literary death notice for you.
Maybe critics are to authors what
Peas were to David Harum’s dog; ]
they keep authors from brooding on .
being authors.
n n n
Catching itarracuda.
M EO CAR1LLO is quite a yachts
Woman when not acting for the
screen or leading parades. He's our
champion parade leader. It's got
•o they don't dare let a colored fu
neral go past his house for fear he'll ,
rush right out and head the proces
sion.
On one of those days when there
wasn't a parade, he took Victor
Moore and me out on his boat. We
caught a mess of slim, yet fragrant
Bsh. Leo called them barracuda,
but, with their low retreating fore
heads and greedy jaws, they looked
more like shyster lawyers to me
ttle kind who chase ambulances and
eventually get disbarred.
• 0 •
Glad, IVlad Artists.
Heretofore, the glad, mad
geniuses, who produce master
pieces of sculpture and painting
which resemble nothing on heaven,
earth or in the waters below except
possibly some bad dream which
tticse parties had once while feel
ing pretty bilious, have depended
■pon the ultra-ults among the intelli
gentsia for support.
But now one hears divers million
aires may endow for them an aca
demy or a gallery—or possibly it’s
an asylum for the more violent
cases. Anyhow, there's money be
hind the cult, and when money gets
behind a thing in this country, it
■sually flourishes, provided the
money doesn’t get too far behind,
as happened in 1929, when the rest
mt the country was trying to figure
•ut what had become of the deposits
and investments, which we, of the
sucker class, had entrusted to our
leading financial wizards.
Still, we of that same ignorant
mass-group do not have to buy ex
amples of this new school. We don't
•ven have to look at them unless
we're in Germany and are escorted
to the dlTlcia! state-run display by a
regiment of Nazi storm-troopers.
And, aside from their ideas of
what constitutes art, it's said that
some of the artists themselves are
not really dangerous, merely annoy
ing in an itchy sort of way. In
•ther words, they’re all right if you
don’t get one of ’em on you.
• I I
Pugilistic Authors.
I’M ALWAYS missing something.
On the occasion of one really his
toric battle between a brace of dis
tinguished writers, 1 yawningly left
fee scene before Messrs. Sinclair
Lewis and Tiieodore Drieser quit
swapping hard words and started
swapping soft blows.
And it was just my luck to be out
Here recently when Ernest Heming
way threw a book—or maybe it was
a publisher; anyhow some such
Lard, knobby object—at Mr. Max
Eastman and Mr. Eastman retort
ad with a tremendous push which
damaged Mr. Hemingway not at all.
The typical writer, no matter how
red-blooded his style may be, packs
all his wallops in his pen and never
in bis flst. There have been excep
tions. Once Rex Beach cleaned out
a night club all by himself, but his
•pponents were hoodlums, not fel
low-writers. He had something sub
stantial to work on.
Some of my belligerent brethren
m the writing game never lose an
argument, but, on the other hand,
none of them ever won a fight,
■either did their literary opponents.
In tact, next to the average profes
sional pugilist, 1 can think of no one
who, in the heat of combat, equals
• writer for showing such magnifl
aent self-control wtien it comes ei
feer to inflicting personal injury or
sustaining same.
IRVIN S. COBB.
C9—WNU Service.
Silks Most Sumptuous This Kail
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
T'HE tourth annual silk parade is
^ on in country-wide pageantry
and during this time your favorite
stores will have an unusually wide
selection of silk merchandise and
the smartest new silk fabrics. Plan
to do your shopping for your fall
wardrobe at that time when the
highlights of the season will be
available.
For the important evening wrap,
silk and metal brocades in quaint
ly beautiful colorings or exotic tones
are in high favor. These are often
elaborate in texture and include self
and metal faconne as well as ex
quisitely colorful metal brocaded
flowers. For a floating full-skirted
frock, silk and metal marquisette
that reminds of oriental sheers that
veiled harem beauties, is new this
season.
The queenly figure descending the
stairs to the right in the picture is
gowned in one of the opulent new
silks. It is a black satin with self
and metal faconne in a leaf pat
tern. Here is a perfect demonstra
tion of the new trend toward styling
the gown with that utmost sim
plicity that ignores any suggestion
of trimming in order the more to
play up the superbness of the fab
ric. It is interesting to note the
gloves milady wears in that the
culls are finished with bands of glit
toring sequins to match the gown.
For evening there is nothing more
breath taking than the colorful lac
quer-printed silk satins. These fea
ture flowers, geometries, Indian and
Persian designs, and they are very
new and important. See to the left
in the picture how dramatically
printed satin of the glamorous type
drapes to the figure.
Describing the swatches of hand
some silks shown in the insets be
low, the one to the left is a multi
color stamp printed silk satin for
evening. It will prove charming for
a short-skirted young dance frock.
It is also the type of silk that makes
a fetching deep girdle for a black
velvet dress—which is one thing
about these more elegant silks: if
your allowance does not permit buy
ing yards and yards just a mere
dash of them used in a trimming
way on a monotone frock will give it
an aristocratic air.
To the right is a black silk satin
with self and metal faconne richly
interwoven into a leaf pattern.
It ranks high among silks that are
done in a grand manner.
Centered in the trio of insets is a
black faille with silver metal band-1
ings, suitable for trimmings,
blouses, dinner gown or evening
jackets.
ffi Western Newspaper Union.
LEATHER TIE-BELT
ll» CIIKKIK NICHOLAS
This very good looking fall coal
in bold herringbone patterned soft
| wool In natural beige has a notched
collar of beaver and a wide crush
i belt of brown leather with fringed
ends, each of which is a distinctive
feature. The collaring of cloth coats
with handsome fur is one of fash
ion's most notable styling features
this fall, while the use of leather in
numberless trimming ways, es
pecially for smart girdles, is one ol
the highest highlights of the mode
this season. You can vision for your
self the swank that a leather tie
girdle as pictured will give to coats
1 made of cloth The broad shoulders
are also good points in the styling
j ol the coat pictured.
SMART FROCKS USE
LAVISH EMBROIDERY
By CHERIR NICHOLAS
A craze for embroidery is on.
Some of the smartest newest wool
ens for daytime frocks and for the
stylish little separate jackets and bo
leros and for waistcoats and blouses j
are embroidered with an allover
scattering of tiny motifs or perhaps
with florals arranged in the popular
striped effects.
Knitted fashions also reflect the
flair for embroidery in that they
carry flowers and designs done in
bright yarns showing peasant influ
ence.
The black dress that has a gor
geous bouquet embroidered like a
corsage at either the waistline or
shoulder is a winsome number. Any
woman who can embroider could be
the happy possessor of a fetching
dress like this for to "embroider
your own' requires but little effort.
Evening fashions fairly scintillate
with dazzling embroideries. Short
sleeves, allover sequin-embroidered,
enrich black velvet dinner gowns.
Embroidery is done on lace on
tulle, on velvet ribbons that girdle
the waist and so on and so on the
story of embroidery is endless this
season. Even the simplest linen,
cotton or wool day dress is apt to
yield to the present urge for hand
stitchery of some fanciful sort.
Leather Cutouts impart
New Touch to Fail Suits
Leather cutouts appliqued on
cloth are a smart trimming feature
this season. The scroll pattern is
especially favored. Many dresses
are collared and cuffed with leather
Leather-covered buttons imparl
the style touch to coats, dresses
and suits. Another fashion fancy is
the crushed leather girdle either
buckled or with leather fringed
ends. Considerable lacing done with
leather cording is also noted while
leather piping finishes edges.
Short Hobs lor Kail
Foremost of the style features
which the American Hair Design
institute will inaugurate in theii
coiffures for fall will be a move
ment towards shorter hair This
trend the director ascribes in pari
to interest in shorter skirts.
Fruit of the
Years
By MYRA C. WINGATE
© McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.
ATE ARDMORE, strolling
—* around from the front veranda
to announce through the dining
room window that father was com
ing. and that it was time to put the
biscuits in the oven, caught mother
unawares.
Mother’s gentle face was strained
with weariness. She leaned in the
dining room doorway, one hand
pressed hard to her throbbing head.
“Dear Lord," said mother. “I'm
so tired!”
Kate heard, though it was hardly
more than a whisper, and her heart
contracted sharply
Philip Carsley, to whom this
young daughter of the house was en- i
gaged, was talking, on the piazza,
with the visiting cousins. Mother
smiled deprecatingly at him.
It was Philip’s last evening. His
bag was already at the station.
“When. Kate, when?” he urged.
“We needn’t wait any longer now.
This fall?"
“Not so soon,” said Kate, shak
ing her head. “I've decided I must
stay a year with mother. She’s very |
tired and I have reached the place
now where I can give her a rest.
A year from tonight, Phil.”
i’That’s too long, Kate. Don’t keep
me waiting.”
“You told me we might have to
wait two or three years, at first,”
she reminded him. “This is only
one. Honestly, Phil, I must do this.
Wait for me. I would wait for you.
You could come for week-ends.”
“I shan't have time for that this
winter," he said, convinced that a
little firmness would change her.
“Your mother looks well to me. I
love you, want you, need you.”
“I, too,” she said softly. “But I
must do this, Phil Please.”
“No,” he said, firmly. “Take it
or leave it, Kate.’’
“Good-by, Phil,’’ she said softly.
He whirled on his heel and walked
away up the beach.
All that a daughter’s devotion
could do was not enough to bring
back the light of health to mother’s
tired eyes. Before the year had
passed Kate and father were alone.
Then, with the added shock of
business reverses, father’s health
failed, so that Kate must be both
home-keeper and wage-earner for
the family, for the other brothers
and sisters were hampered by grow
ing families.
She turned her hand to many a
task, in the effort to make ends
meet, before she discovered that
there was a market for her chil
dren’s stories and gay little jingles.
Slowly she increased her output un
til with economy it supported them.
Time lapsed swiftly, and in the
course of its lapse Philip Carsley
journeyed through the lake town
where he had parted with Kate Ard
more so long ago.
A lady came down the car, evi
dently returning to the chair next
to Philip’s. He knew her instantly.
She was slight and straight, her face
still youthful and sweet, though the
hair was touched with gray. If
Philip had not known by token of
his own fifty-two years that she was
fifty—
He was on his feet and his voice
was a bit husky.
“Kate Ardmore!” he said.
At her puzzled look, he explained
“It's Philip Carsley, Kate. Have
I changed so much?"
"I should have known you in a
moment more,” she said, pleasant
SHORT
SHORT
STORY
ly. “You were so
thin, in the old days,
Philip. The years
have been good to
you, I hear. I am
glad."
“And you, Kate?
Your father and
motner.' It is still Kate Ardmore?
“Mother did not stay the year
with us,” she told him, steadily
“Father has been gone some years j
Yes, it is still Kate Ardmore. The
family responsibilities fell on me.” -
“Then you are alone.” he said,
pityingly.
“Scarcely that,” she smiled. “A
young niece and nephew are with i
me during the school year. Then
there are frequent calls here or
Were. You have a family, Phil?"
"Wife, son and daughter,” be said
briefly. "Have you never regretted.
Kate?”
“We all have dreams that fail ol
fulfillment,” she returned, looking
her surprise. “But while there is
work to be done, while there are
pleasures to enjoy, people to help,
life can be very full.”
“You are prosperous. Kate?" he
half questioned, conscious that he
went too far, but determined to pre
vail.
She laughed.
“Phil, my bank balance is a
joke,” she returned. "My station.
Good-by."
He watched from We window, the
gay, tousle-haired boy who waved a
salute to Kate and then shouldered
his way toward her. What was
that thing? "He that loveth his
life—” He shook his head in irrita
tion. About Wat bond issue, now
He must think that out.
Yet he knew, as the train bore
him away, that he should never
think of this meeting wiWout a
sense of something rare that he had
missed, of something fine Wat he
had lost.
AROUND
.he HOUSE
Items of Interest
to the Housewife
Raspberry Shrub. — To three
quarts of red raspberries and one
quart of sugar add one cup of
vinegar. Cook slowly for half an
hour and strain through cheese
cloth. Pour into sterilized bottles
and seal. Serve over ice cubes
diluted with water to taste.
• • •
For Basting Roasts.—Leftover
fruit juices, especially those from
spiced fruits, make excellent bast
ing liquid for roasts, chops and
ham dishes.
* * *
Dainty Shoulder Straps.—When
making your undies try using nar
row velvet ribbon for the shoulder
straps. The velvet side next to
the skin acts as a grip, while the
satin on top looks dainty. You
will find that ribbon-velvet straps
will outlast any garment.
* * •
Devilled Cheese.—One dessert
spoon grated cheese, one teaspoon
milk, one pinch celery salt, (op
tional), cayenne, one-half tea
spoon made mustard. Mix all in
gredients to smooth paste. Spread
on any unsweetened biscuit
(cream crackers). Place under a
red-hot grill to brown. Serve im
mediately.
* * *
Picnic Lemonade. — One cup
sugar, one cup water, one cup
strong tea infusion, six lemons,
one cup crushed pineapple, three
quarts water. Cook the sugar and
water to a thin syrup; add the
tea, lemon juice, pineapple, and
water. Serve iced. Sixteen to
eighteen servings. Excellent to
quench thirst. Juices from canned
peaches, apricots, pears or cher
ries can be utilized for some of
the water.
* * *
A Mended Cloth.—If a small
hole is burnt or worn in an other
wise good white tablecloth, it can
be “mended” most effectively by
stitching a motif in fine crochet
over it and cutting away the
spoiled fabric underneath. Add
one or two more motifs so that
the necessary one does not look
odd. This is certainly more dec
orative than an obvious darn!
♦ * *
Save the Curtains.—A finger cut
from an old glove and slipped over
the end of a curtain rod enables
it to be pushed through the cur
tain hems of the finest net with
out catching anu tearing the fab
ric.
• • •
A Combination Dish. — Two
parts of tomatoes simmered with
one part of celery makes a good
combination dish.
WNU Service.
768 Miles a Day by Ship
The record for the longest dia
tance ever traveled by a ship in j
24 hours is not held by either the *
Queen Mary or the Normandie
but by the United States Airplane
Carrier Lexington. During a run
between San Francisco and Hono
lulu in 1928, this 33,000-ton ves
sel, whose maximum speed is 33
34 knots, traveled 768 miles in one
day.—Collier’s Weekly.
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I'll love you as long
as a quart of °
Quaker Stat#
/Vrr\ Jlasts!”
'What
more
could
a girl
ask!”
GO E4RTHEK.
BEFORE YOU NEED A QUART
\
How long should a quart of oil last?
No one can answer that question
specifically because driving habits
differ. But there is one thing certain
.. . you will go farther with Quaker
State because it gives you "an extra
quart of lubrication in every gallon."
You can easily prove the economy
of Quaker State by making the “First
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ing your motor the safest lubrica
tion. Quaker State Oil Refin
ing Corporation, Oil City, Pa.
Retail price .. . 35i a quart
WHERE'S JUNIOR■? /veaw— i
I CAME HOME EARLY V HE A V WELL/ J
SO WE COULD / ( Looks } / WE'LL 1
FINISH THAT /Y/ i TOO FIX f J
BOAT „<Y^5v V HAPPY ; } THAT/ J
WE'RE rTo SUIT I
mailing! Jvy-^A, & me/ ( i|
k GLOOM jn
IHere he comes now— and, why,
I HE'S CRYING.'* WHAT'S 7HE MATTER.,
Sonny? why the -tears ?
' AW, I HAD TO
' STAY AFTER SCHOOL
' ASA/Ni -teacher made
me 6R'M<S home a
NOTE, Too!
THE NOTE >7\
SAYS JUNIOR IS \ / IF YOU'D \
LISTLESS AND \ / PUNISH HIM A
INATTBNTI \JB ] / TI ME OR. TWO,
7HAT H/S I'LL BET HE'D
SCHOOL WORK /\ PAY MORE
Qets Poorer. / \ attention
ALL THE TIME./ \TO H/S WORK//
m
BUT, JOHN—HE DOES^7^Y^\/^WELl/iF^s
TO STUDY— BUT'YOU KNOW \ 'THAT'S THE
ME'S NOT FEELING WELL. \ CASE, WHY
HE'S NERVOUS AND RUN-DOWN. ) NOT HAVE THE
HE DOESN'T SLEEP / DOCTOR LOOK.
SOUNDLV AND HAS NO VV HIM? y
APPETITE! ^
AND You SAV HE'S BEEN DRINKING
COFFEE? CHILDREN SHOULD NEVER >
DR/NK. COFFEE! I SUGGEST VOU
7RV GIVING HIM POSTUM-MADE-WITH’
HOT- MILK INSTEAD.
ALL RIGHT, 6EAT (T, ;
DOCTOR—/F VOU GLOOMS.
THINK IT WILL THAT LICKS r
30 da/s S he's been a d/fferent¥vou
LATER C gov Since he switchedw said
T-'- "^v/70 POSTIIM-MADE-JfIT.' HO
THERE VoZJ ARE, WITH-HOT- MORE
Son —THAT'S FOR- MILK! jr NERVOUSNESS
Getting the Best r 1-and he's as
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CLASS TW/S / \ lENERCETIC
MONTH !\>ASCAN6E.'
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But many others—and all children
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coffee disagrees with you ... try Postum s 30-day test. Buy
• can of Postum and drink it instead of coffee for a full month.
If ... after 30 days ... you do not feel better, return the
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