SIX EASY
LESSONS
You, too. can learn to eat
ice cream cones like a vet
eran, executing any or all
of the intricate strokes illus
trated at the right by Eddie
Collins, appearing in Irving
Berlin's “Alexander's Rag
time BandSimply folloic
the instructions and you'll
emerge from the lesson
quite experienced, and quite
messed up.
Listen, You Brides!
Here's the Secret
Of Staging Parties
By BETTY WELLS
TpHERE’S a fine art to this busi
* ness of being a hostess. And for
the sake of brides just starting out
on their careers, here are some of
the rules:
Yourself, first of all. No use to
try to put a party over unless you
are looking like a million. So have
a festive dress all ready to slip into
at the witching hour, and a sched
ule that permits a last minute
primping after you’ve got everything
finished in the kitchen.
The Menu—Whether It’s to be a
company dinner, coffee and cake on
the porch, or iced punch in state,
have one interesting touch. Some
thing unexpected in homemade
cake; sandwich Ailing that will en
chant the men; a salad that is as
beautiful to see as it is good to eat.
If you have one high point, you can
get by with staples for the rest. That
makes even a big occasion easy to
put over.
The Appointments—Have all the
dishes and all the glassware you're
going to need sparkling on trays
ready to bring forth to set the ta
ble whether it’s for buffet supper,
formal dinner or tea on the porch
It will save no end of flutter or dish
washing during your party. The
ideal way is to settle on the kind of
entertaining you can do best, then
buy enough china or glass to
serve as many people as you're like
ly to have at once.
| The favorite, and easiest Ice
J cream stroke is pulling the
tongue in an upstroke movement
over the cone, lapping it up much
like a dog laps milk. Rut don't pull
up too fast or you'll slap Ice cream
all over your face!
.} The downward pull method Ulus
tratcd above is quite similar to
the upstroke movement, the only
difference being that the cone is
pulled down, whereas in the first
movement the cone was held sta
tionary and the tongue pulled up.
*> The first two movements are
nice, but they get tiresome. For
full enjoyment and variety, the
cone should be shoved against the
tongue (and face) occasionally. This
aids in pushing the ice cream to the
bottom of Ihe cone for a later trick.
| Another cute trick is biting the
■ ice cream. This is fun but it’s
hard on the teeth as our Instructor
indicates with his expression. This
is all part of the game, however,
and the successful ice cream cone
eater must grin and bear it.
I
” For the lasty man, veteran Ice
'' cream eaters recommend the
circular stroke, attained by twirling
the cone In the hand. Meanwhile the
tongue is pushed forward gingerly.
This is a cleanup stroke, removing
the drippings from your cone.
4 Here’s what we’ve been waiting
for . . . the climax of all this
business. As a final gesture the ex
perienced ice cream cone eater can
bite off the bottom and suck his re
freshment downward. But you must
be good to do this!
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The Decorations — r lowers ar
ranged where they do most good
and in colors that do things for the
house. From the garden if possible,
but when there isn’t just the right
thing available for the picking, don't
hesitate to balance the budget to in
clude some "boughten" blooms.
The House Itself—Don’t try tr re
flx the whole place the day before
company comes. If you start too
many ambitious plans for changes
Just before the party, you’ll get all
involved and probably not finish
anyway—only make a wreck of
yourself. Just clean up enough to
be presentable. Be sure there’s a
place for coats and hats and a good
mirror for the ladies.
The Guests—Invite as few as pos
sible Just because you think you
should.
e Bv Betty Welle.—WNU Service.
BEDTIME STORY FOR THE YOUNGSTERS
By THORNTON W. BURGESS i
Twas just a sudden odd surprise
Made Farmer Brown’s boy’s hair
to rise.
'T'HAT’S a funny thing for hair
* to div-rise up all of a sudden—
Isn’t it? But that is just what the
hair on Farmer Brown's Boy’s head
did the day he went fishing in the
Laughing Brook and had no luck at
all. There are just two things that
make hair rise—anger and fear.
Anger sometimes makes the hair
on the back and neck of Bowser
the Hound and of some other little
people bristle and stand up, and you
know the hair on the tail of Black
Pussy stands on end until her
For Lustrous Eyelashes
Jean Chatburn of the movies believes every girl should take precau
tions early rather than wait until age creeps up to destroy her beauty.
She is seen here applying tasteless and odorless castor oil to her eye
lashes, which keeps them soft and lustrous and promotes their growth.
tail looks twice as big as it really 1
is. Both anger and fear make it do
that. But there is only one thing
that can make the hair on the head
of Farmer Brown’s Boy rise, and
as it isn’t anger, of course it must
be the other thing, fear.
It never happened before. You
see. there isn’t much of anything
that Farmer Brown’s Boy is really
afraid of. Perhaps it wouldn’t have
happened this time if it hadn’t
been for the surprise of what he
found. You see. he had patiently
fished down the Laughing Brook
through the Green Forest without
getting so much as a nibble, and
this seemed very, very queer to him,
for it had never happened before.
Then he had found the heads of
some trout on the bank, and this
had seemed very queer, too, be
cause they had been bitten oil and
not cut off with a knife. He knew
right away that some one else had
been fishing and that was why he
couldn’t catch any, but the only fish
erman he could think of who might
bite off the heads of the trout was
Billy Mink, and he had never known
Billy to do it before and leave
them lying around that way. Be
sides. it didn't seem possible that
little Billy Mink could have eaten
all those trout. He didn’t once think
of Little Joe Otter, and so he was
very, very much puzzled.
He was turning it all over in his
mind and studying what it could
mean, when he came to a little
muddy place on the bank of the
Laughing Brook, and there he saw
something that made his eyes look
as if they’d pop right out of his head.
It was right then that he felt his
hair rise. Anyway, that is what
he said when he told about it after
ward. What was it he saw? What
do you think? Why, it was a foot
print in the soft mud. Yes. sir.
that's what it was and all it was.
But it was the biggest footprint
Farmer Brown’s Boy ever had seen,
and it looked as if it had been made
only a few minutes before. It
was the footprint of Buster Bear.
Now, Farmer Brown's Boy didn’t
Know that Buster Bear had come
down to the Green Forest to live.
He never had heard of a bear be
ing in the Green Forest. And he
was so surprised that he had hard
work to believe his own eyes, and
he had a queer feeling all over, a
1 little chilly feeling, although it was
1 a warm day.
Somehow he didn’t feel like meet
ing Buster Bear. The very thought
made his hair rise. If he had had
his terrible gun with him it might
have been different. But he didn’t,
and so he suddenly made up his
mind that he didn’t want to fish any
more that day. He had a funny
feeling that he was being watched,
although he couldn’t see any one.
He was being watehed. Little Joe
Otter and Buster Bear were watch
It was right then that he felt his
hair rise.
ing him and taking the greatest
care to keep out of his sight.
Ail the way home through the
Green Forest Farmer Brown’s Boy
kept looking behind him, and he
didn’t draw a long breath until he
reached the edge of the Green For
est. He hadn’t run, but he had
wanted to.
"Huh!” said Buster Bear to Little
Joe Otter, "I believe he was
afraid!”
And Buster Bear was just exactly
right.
® T. W. Burgess.—WNU Service.
4Living5 Ancestors
Studied by Science
CHICAGO.—Our n-th degree an
cestors, or something very near
them, still live on this earth, and
two specimens of them have been
brought to the Field Museum of Nat
ural History, here, for study. One is
a skeleton, the other is preserved
in a bottle. They are pigmy tree
shrews of the East Indies, known to
scientists as Dendrogale. They very
closely resemble the earliest mam
mals whose fossil remains have
been found in ancient rocks.
Old Covered Bridge
At Historic Village
DETROIT.—Here is the Ackley
covered bridge, brought to Henry
Ford's Greenfield village from West
Alexander, Pa., near the home of
Dr. William Holmes McGufTey. The
bridge was dedicated recently In
connection with the third annual
convention of the Federation of
McGufTey Societies. More than 600
men and women attended.
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Australian cowboys “mustering” cattle.
Stock Ranches of the 'Down Under'
Continent Measured in Square Miles
Prepared by National Geographic Society,
Washington. D. C.-WNU Service.
UT in the more remote
regions of Queensland,
Northern Territory and
Western Australia, and in the
arid center of Australia, cat
tle properties are still meas
ured in square miles, not
acres.
Picture a single cattle station
larger than Massachusetts and Con
necticut. Look at it also as a band
five miles wide extending all the
way from New York to San Fran
cisco; or, fantastic thought, a land
path more than a mile wide all the
way from the farthest side of Aus
tralia to Maine! For it is 13,000
square miles!
One cattle man, whose station lies
on the Queensland-Northern Terri
tory border, tells you quite casually
that it is a 125-mile horseback jour
ney from his back porch to the
back line of his property.
Like many of the older holdings,
none of his land is fenced, so the
cattle often stray far afield.
During the summer months they
move southward into the prevailing
winds to rid themselves of the my
riad flies that pester them. Conse
quently, the station hands often
have the task of riding 250 miles to
get their stock back to their own
property. The herds also may wan
der 40 or 50 miles in the direction
of storms if they lack water.
Early one morning a Geographic
staff writer flew out to a cattle sta
tion, 300 miles into the Queensland
interior, landed in a field near the
house, and taxied up to the gateway.
What One Station Is Like.
The station was not large as many
of the inland stations run, but it was
a goodly block of land—1,200 square
miles—pasturing 25,000 head of
stock!
As he rode its ranges, he saw one
herd of 1,500 steers that had just
arrived from a four months’ trek
of a thousand miles down from the
gulf country. From the fattening
paddock where they grazed to mar
ket was still another 200-mile over
land journey.
Upon food and water hinges suc
cess or failure. How many times
tragedy has stalked beside dried
up water holes and parched pas
tures! Whole herds have perished
in rigorous seasons and the stren
uous labor of cattlemen has come
to dramatic nought.
As shearing is the big event on
sheep stations, so mustering for
branding and sorting is the chief
activity on cattle ranches.
Herds on this property are han
dled from 15 mustering camps and
it usually takes four to six months
to complete the work.
Here, where life is attuned to the
ceaseless moan and bellow of cattle
about water holes and in branding
corrals, the American Wild West is
reflected in ten-gallon Stetson hats
that have come into fashion in the
last few years.
But the swaggering cowhand
with a handy lariat and a pair of
six-shooters strapped on his thighs
is unknown. Australian cattlemen,
instead of roping their beasts for
branding, in most cases pen them
and hold them in a system of
gates.
Why “Dulling” Is Rare.
“Do you have any cattle rustling?”
I you ask.
“We call it ‘duffing’ here,” replies
the manager. “But it’s very rare.
Distances are too great; it doesn’t
pay.”
One story that you hear stands
out as an excellent example.
It seems that two men desired
j to increase their stock, so when
rains had filled water holes along
the way, they rode 250 miles to a
station and drove off about 300 cat
! tie. The ranch owners and police
tracked the animals down and
brought them back, together with
j the culprits.
The men were then committed to
! stand trial in Darwin, nearly a thou
sand miles away. Eventually one
j man pleaded guilty and was sen
i tenced to five years’ imprisonment.
For lack of evidence the other man
was released. But by the time he
got home again he had traveled
nearly 3,000 miles!
Far out in the interior, remote
from railways and easy means of
transport, station homes have few
er amenities. There are no electric
i
lights, no refrigerators. Water in
canvas sacks ?s cooled by evapo
ration on the shady verandas.
Yet life is pleasant, and afternoon
tea is an established custom. The
radio, magic destroyer of dis
tances, brings the world’s news and
music to the family living room.
Across the vast region, popularly
dubbed the "back of beyond,” ether
waves crackle in the evening with
friendly chatter between neighbors
perhaps 50 or 100 miles apart, for
many stations are equipped with
hand-operated radio sending sets.
Doctors from many times that dis
tance prescribe remedies to patients
when these radios relay to them the
symptoms of a case.
Out here the airplane has likewise
proved its worth, for flying doctors
now race hundreds of miles on their
errands of mercy. Now and then,
too, a flying parson may drop in on
a station to hold a service.
Stock Routes Well Maintained.
The government maintains a sys
tem of stock routes and tends them
with religious care, for they are
the arteries of a far-reaching enter
prise. Across dry areas they wind
and twist to touch every available
spring, stream, and billabong.
Australia’s land map is sketched
with a number of these long snaky
paths which radiate out to railways
and seaboard cities. One begins up
in the tablelands of Northern Terri
tory and reaches out to the railheads
of Longreach, Winton and Charle
ville to serve Townsville and Bris
bane.
Another starts up in southwestern
Queensland, swerves through the
northeastern corner of South Aus
tralia, and follows down the west
ern boundary of New South Wales
until it contacts the railway at Cock
burn, to find eventual outlet at Ade
laide.
A third trail connects the Kimber
ley region of Western Australia with
Wyndham, whose meatworks op
erate during the winter months. In
Western Australia, too, another
seemingly endless meandering line
ties the railheads thrust out into the
in»?rior with the expanses of North
ern Territory.
On these tenuous channels, hun
dreds of miles in length, you see
streams of steers moving out to
ward the ports, eventually per
haps to provide chilled beef for the
London market or bully beef for
British Tommies or jack-tars.
Unlike Argentina, where wild
herds once roamed and men needed
only to round them up, the Aus
tralian cattle industry has been built
up gradually from small beginnings
of half a century ago. Frozen
meat contracts have provided the
impetus.
In recent years, however, Aus
tralia has seen new handwriting
on her economic wall. With im
proved refrigeration facilities and
fast ships, fresh chilled meat has
come to England from the Argen
tine. Against it frozen meat cannot
compete.
Learning to Chill the Meat.
So the commonwealth has turned
to its scientists to learn whether it,
too, can deliver chilled beef to the
London market, a distance handi
cap of 13,000 miles. ’ •
In the Brisbane abattoirs experts
have tackled the problem. With
test tubes and refrigeration cham
bers, and with bacterial, fungal and
yeast growths under their micro
scopes, they are learning the condi
tions necessary for meat to main
tain its full freshness and color dur
ing the month-and-a-half that it
must be on the high seas.
Romance is in their refrigerators,
which are controlled to fractions
of a degree, and their pipettes re
flect future profits, because these
quiet workers have been remark
ably successful in their experi
ments.
Several trial shiploads of meat,
sent in 1934, arrived in London
without deterioration. To this heart
ening assurance, the operators of
various meatworks quickly react
ed; plants are being altered to meet
the new requirements.
Less spectacular, perhaps, but
doubly more profitable than the
herds that roam the interior, is the
dairy stock pastured in the fertile
coastal belt, mainly in New South
Wales, Victoria, and Queensland. Ap
proximately a sixth of the country’s
cattle are bred for their milk prod
ucts.
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Attractive Jelly.—A rose, mint
or geranium leaf placed in the
jelly glass when it is being filled
adds flavor and looks attractive.
• * •
Vinegar on Greens.—A little
vinegar or lemon juice will add to
the piquancy of greens. It should
not be cooked into the greens, but
sprinkled over them just before
they are served.
* • •
The Wobbly Table.—Have you a
Wabbly table in your home which
has one leg a bit shorter than the
rest and it always has to be
propped a bit to stay pat? One
woman solved this problem by
tacking an ordinary rubber wash
er on the leg and her table is as
secure as can be now.
* * •
For Mud Stains.—Allow the
mud to get quite dry then brush
with a clean, really stiff brush. If
this doesn’t remove the stains, rub
them with a sliced raw potato,
which should do the trick.
* * *
Reversing Mother Goose.—Tues
day often makes a better wash
day than Monday, because Mon
day can then be used to pick up
about the house, sort clothes,
take care of stains and bad tears,
check laundry supplies and pre
pare food for wash day.
• * *
Sandwich Filler. — Chopped
olives, chopped chives, and cream
cheese make a delicious paste for
sandwiches.
• • •
Orderly Bathroom.—Don’t for
get to fold towels or hang straight
on racks after using. Nothing
looks so disorderly in a bathroom
as a lot of crumpled towels.
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Do you feel so nervous you want to scream?
Are you cross and irritable? Do you scold
those dearest to you?
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Your kidneys are constantly Altering
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kidneys sometimes lag in their work—do
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poison the system and upset the whole
body machinery.
Symptoms may be nagging backache,
persistent headache, attacks of dizziness,
getting up nights, swelling, puffiness
under the eyes—a feeling of nervous
anxiety and loes of pep and strength.
Other signs of kidney or bladder dis
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frequent urination.
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