This Started With An Old Car Seat By RUTH WYETH SPEARS WE KNOW what becomes of old automobiles for their graveyards are all too obvious. But how about that backseat cush ion with springs almost as good as new? The sketch shows what became of one such seat. It was padded out at the ends to make the back the same length as the front. Extra padding was • also used on the top to make it smooth. A simple base with a back and wings was made of one inch boards, to fit the seat. Next, came the cretonne slip-cover for MAKE BAS6J SEAT* ADD \ wings; THEN BACK, J COTTON 1 BATTING hr\ the spring seat, with a box pleated ruffle around the front and along the sides up to the wings. A bright peacock blue tone in the cretonne was used for seam cord ings and was matched in paint for the wings and back of the seat. NOTE: Sewing Book 1 contains 32 pages of directions for making slip-covers and curtains; books 2 and 3 give directions for the em broidered pictures over the man tel. The knitted rag rug and pil lows in this sketch are in Book 4. Books are 10 cents each; if you enclose 40 cents with your order for four books (Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4) you will receive a FREE set of quilt block patterns of Mrs. Spears’ Favorite Early American quilt designs. Send your order to: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS Drawer 10 Bedford HUli New York Enclose 10 cents for one book, or 40 cents for four books and set of quilt block patterns. Name. Address . Strange Facts 1 Continuous Growth I Versatile Products * Mail Must Go On! * Although most creatures have s definite growth limit, others con tinue to increase in size as long as they live, among them being trees, fish, oysters, clams, shrimps, crabs and lobsters. Products of the farm have more than 400 nonfood uses in industry. 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Wisdom Is Sought Wealth may seek us; but wis- [ dom must be sought.—Young. L.liWJf, H A i W • K MB g Va "C«p-Bru>h"Applictor I DASH IN riATHiRsTS^0 MUCH fA,THtl1 ^ Good Merchandise Can Be CONSISTENTLY Advertised % BUY ADVERTISED POOPS > THE GIFT WIFE... O RUPERT HUGHES—WNU SERVICE By RUPERT HUGHES CHAPTER VII—Continued “But let’s not talk Turkish poli tics. I hear nothing else all day. Let’s go to a cafe chantant,” sug gested Banbury. "Anything to get my mind off my troubles,” replied Jebb. The admission was only two pi astres or ten cents apiece. The price seemed small till the musicians be gan, then it seemed excessive. Banbury chose a table and the waiter brought them coffee. Ban bury rejected it with horror and ordered Scotch and soda, in which Jebb begged to be excused from joining him. At a table in front of him. Jebb noticed a fat neck and short, bristly poll of distinctly French extraction. Eventually their owner turned his face, glanced at Jebb, stared, turned away, turned back, looked uneasy, angry, pugnacious, puzzled. Jebb wondered what ailed the man. He was sure he had never seen him before. At length the stranger rose and left the hall, and Jebb gave his soul to the Miserere from ‘‘II Trovatore." He was absorbed so deeply in the music that he failed to notice at first the arrival of a police officer who spoke deferentially to Banbury. Banbury was melting sympathet ically under the influence of Scotch and Verdi, but he was instant with an Englishman’s rage at any inva sion of his privacy. Jebb turned in surprise and found the Turkish officer regarding him with a piercing scrutiny, which Jebb answered with the clear-eyed inno cence of Ignorance. He caught a word here and there and gleaned that the conversation had to do with a French hotelkeeper named Moosoo Carolet, some other person named Pierpont, and an unpaid bill. Banbury grew more and more fu rious as he thundered Turkish with a curious British intonation. The of ficer grew more and more humble and finally withdrew in confusion with much apology and many a sa laam. When he had gone, Banbury said. “This is the most ghastly country In God’s world. What do you sup pose that jackass of a policeman wanted? It would be no end funny if it weren’t so disgustingly imperti nent It seems that some silly ass of a French hotelkeeper here had a guest who lived very royally for a few days then skipped without stop ping to pay the shot. This jacka napes sees you and thinks you are Pierpont. He goes to the police and orders your arrest. The officer came to me with apologies for throwing a friend of mine into a dungeon as a common thief, but I sent him about his business." “That’s mighty nice of you.” “Don’t think any more about it. Have another cigar and a cup of coffee, and let us hope that soprano is really not so unhappy as she sounds.” "By the way, what was the name of the hotel?” “The Grand Hotel de—something or other. I don’t remember. Don’t think of it again, I beg you.” But Jebb thought of it without rest. At length Banbury rose impatiently. The Scotch had made him drowsy, but he blamed the Italian music. “I can’t stand any more of this caterwaul, can you? What do you say to our getting out? I’ll drop you at your hotel, eh?” “Thank you, I think I’ll see it through.” "Very well, I’ll wait if you want to.” “Please don’t let me keep you.” It took much delicate manage ment, but Banbury was very, very sleepy and at last permitted Jebb to bid him good-night. As soon as he was out of the building, Jebb rose and searched for the policeman. He yf/as greeted with profound courtesy. Jebb had been mulling the affair over in his head, and he was able to ask in intelligible if inelegant Turk ish: "Will you please tell me the name of the hotel kept by Musu Carolet?” “The Grand Hotel de 1’Europe, ef fendim. He is a dog of a fool to have suspected you.” Jebb bowed and murmured: "Good-night,” and the official an swered, "You are welcome." Jebb sauntered carelessly out of the cafe and, calling an araba, said: "Grand Hotel de 1’Europe." Arriving there he told the arabaji to wait. He found the office alight and M. Carolet talking excitedly to a lady who was presumably Mme. Carolet. Jebb had rehearsed his French in the cab, and he began smoothly: "Monsieur thought I had rested at his hotel, Is it not?" "I was sure of it, monsieur. You look most like that miserable pig dog of a Pierpont. I see now that you are not the man—he was much thinner and not at all like you. I apologize humbly." "When was Mr. Pierpont here?” "It was two weeks, monsieur. He arrives in state. He seems to have a little too much of the gin or the wiskee, but we others always ex pect that from the English and Americans. He orders the best room in the house, the best food, and he drinks much of the wiskee. Then one day—his room is empty. He does not come back." ‘‘How much was his bill?” "Five pounds Turkish." "Is it that he left of the baggage?" "No, monsieur. He brought noth ing with him. He said he expected his yacht to come for him. He bought fresh linen here in the shops and threw the old away." Jebb smiled sadlv. The portrait sounded familiar. "Did Mr. Pierpont register?” "Yes, monsieur.” "May I see the signature?” “But yes, monsieur." Mme. Carolet whisked the little book from a drawer and Jebb recog nized his own writing with a conflict of relief and shame. The name was Vanderbilt Pierpont, but the hand was the hand of Jebb. "One more question. Is it that Mr. Pierpont had a child with him— a little girl?” "No, monsieur, not one.” "From what city was he come?" “That he did not say, monsieur, and he had not of the baggage, mon And so be set forth on his 24 hour journey to Constantinople. sieur. He talked very little and his tongue was a little thick.” "I will pay his bill.” "Nom de Dieu, you will pay the bill! But why should monsieur pay the bill of that gentleman?” “It is my whim. He was an Amer ican. I am an American. For the honor of the country—but if you would prefer not, I will not pay the bill.” ‘‘Oh, monsieur, I do not question you. I thank you.” He paid the bill and went back to the cab. He had found a clew to himself at last. So the devil in him had taken the name of Vander bilt Pierpont, and talked large and lived high. But having found his alias, how was he to retrace his route? Long after midnight he sat in his room pounding his forehead with his fist to beat out an idea, and finally one came like a spark from a smitten anvil. “The teskere!” He could hardly endure the delay till morning, and he was waiting at the station when the fat recorder of passports waddled in and squeezed into his chair. And at length after much delay he unearthed the document. “Yes, effendim, here is the per mission for V. Pierpont Effendi to travel from Constantinople into the interior. It carries the visa of Salon ica in the writing of my assistant. I was absent that day.” “May I ask the date, and the name of the man who issued the teskere.” The recorder held it out for him to see, and Jebb wrote down the name of the official and his address in Constantinople He could hardly control his excitement as he said: “One more question, effendim, when is the next train to Constanti nople? Shall I have time to go back to my hotel before it leaves?" “I think so, effendim.” smiled the Turk, shaking like a vat of jelly: “the train to Constantinople runs three times every week, and the next train leaves tomorrow." Another twenty-four hours of inac tion! It seemed that he could not tolerate the delay. He was finished with Salonica, so impatient to be quit of it that he was tempted to set out for Constantinople on foot. He actually climbed the steep hillside, through the Turkish quarter. Young girls hung about the foun tains filling their jugs, and a dozen times Jebb saw some profile, some little form that suggested Cynthia, But he was all too well assured that she was not in Salonica. He kept walking and late in the afternoon he reached the southern limits of the city, where houses were few and fields broad. In the dis tance he saw a splendid palace in a great garden surrounded by a high wall. He skirted the edges and con tinued on his way till it began to grow dark. Seeing that the sunset was purpling Mt. Olympus and that night would soon be upon him. he turned back. He was startled by distant cries. He kaw people running here and there. Suddenly a little veiled fig ure came out of the twilight and the shrubbery close to him. Jebb thought that some poor Turkish wife was fleeing from murder or perse cution. He determined to offer her his protection. He ran towards her shouting in English. As he came up the little veiled figure drew two re volvers and fired at him. The bullets whirred past his ears. He would have been glad to retreat but his impetus carried him for ward, and it was momentum rather than any foolhardy bravery that led him to leap at the murderous lady and wrestle with her for her revolv ers, which continued to spit fire in a very feminine way and fortunately with feminine aim. In the highly indecorous wrestle for life, the fugitive’s thick yash mak was tom loose, and Jebb saw to his infinite amazement that the little lady wore a heavy beard, and was a little old man. The captive kept uttering violent things in a violent way; then he be gan to plead shrilly. But Jebb had lost his Turkish along with his breath and his patience; and he sim ply held his prisoner fast, till the pursuers arrived. They gazed with awe at the scene, pouring forth hor rified sentences in which Jebb caught the word "Padishah!” He nearly swooned as it came over him that the little old gentleman in the disheveled ferije and veil was no less—and no more—than Abdul Hamid I. Each of the breathless pursuers laid hold on the royal captive, till he looked as many-limbed as the spider he had been always called. Turning to Jebb, the Turks, with such hands as were free, lifted the imaginary dust of homage to their breasts and brows. Then in a cloud of real dust a mounted officer thundered up. He insisted that he was the dust under Jebb’s feet, and introduced himself as Raouf Bey, a cavalry colonel or Miralay detailed as the guardian of the Sultan. When the Allatini villa was reached and the Sultan snugly re stored to his nest, Raouf invited Jebb to enter the carriage with him. and returned him to his hotel in state. That night he was the guest at dinner of a group of Young Turkish leaders. The dinner was given in the home, the selamlik, of the wealthy Chekub Pasha. It was a stately affair—a procession of lux uries. At Jebb’s request Cranford Ban bury was asked to attend as inter preter, though there was little need of him in this respect, since all of the Young Turks spoke French and German and some of them English. After a long and flowery speech by a white-bearded Young Turk, who had spent part of his years in pris on and part in exile, Jebb turned to Banbury with an anxious whisper: "I didn’t quite understand what he said last.” Banbury whispered back: ‘‘They want you to name some reward for your wonderful et cetera, et cetera. What would you like most, my boy? —the diamond star of the order of Nishani Osmanee, or a silver medal for saving life?—or will you have it in cash?" Jebb did not hesitate about his an- I swer: “Tell them about the lost child and ask them if they can give me any help.” Banbury drawled forth a long story, which seemed to touch the guests deeply, for when he fin ished they all spoke at once, and Cranford explained: “They promise you the aid of the whole nation, and say that nobody In Turkey shall feel himself too high or too busy to join in the search." At the station, the next day, the Young Turk leaders gathered to wave him good luck, and as the train pulled out he heard them cry ing: “Jebb EfTendi, chok yasha! Jebb EfTendi chok yasha!" And some who knew he understood French cried: “Vive le Monsieur Jebb.” And so he set forth on his 24-hour journey to Constantinople and puffed at his cigar with his first genuine contentment, for he shuffled in his hands a sheaf of buyuruldus, let ters of commendation to some of the chief personages of the empire. CHAPTER VIII The train was only six hours late, so that instead of arriving in the early morning light Jebb came In the full glow of the afternoon. What chiefly overwhelmed Jebb as he rode through the streets in an araba, was the hugeness of the city —as large as ten Salonlcas or fifty Uskubs—as large as if Boston, San Francisco, and St. Louis faced each other in one mass. There were European hats enough in the crowd, but they were worn by foreigners. Some of the hats were so American that Jebb looked under them, counting on finding a face he knew. It seemed impossible that such a melee should not include some acquaintance of his. A derby hat unmistakably Ameri can caught his eye and he turned to stare at it. At the same instant he heard a voice behind him, almost at his elbow. “Hello, old man!—how’s electrici ty?" Jebb whirled so quickly that he nearly sprained his neck. He caught an over-the-shoulder grin and heard a Yankee chuckle. He could not re call the face or the voice, but the race was plainly his own. The fellow-countryman moved on through the crowd. Jebb stood up to identify him, but saw only a glimpse of red hair. He was tempt ed to leap out and go in search. But a hamal carrying two huge barrels on his shoulders drifted between, and hid the wayfarer from sight. Jebb sank back in the araba, cudg eling his memory. Why did he mention electricity? The next morning Jebb visited the American Consulate. But when he reached the consulate it was desert ed. He was tempted to forswear his allegiance and become another Man Without a Country. But there was a gorgeous kavass at the door, who explained that the whole staff was away for a holiday. With splendid condescension, the kavass observed: “Thees afternoon comes back one of the officers, Meester Rosen Ef fendi. He has some work to be did. If you are here again three— four o’clock you find him I theenk.” To kill time Jebb went on along the Grande Rue de Pera to Janni’s restaurant, dawdled through his luncheon, and strolled about its gar dens. Dismounting before the consulate at three o’clock, Jebb was greeted by the kavass with the deference of expectancy and with palm open for baksheesh. Mr. Rosen was at his desk, preparing some trade re ports, but he consented to see Jebb. (TO BE CONTINUED) Britain’s Little Owl Is Not in Criminal Class About 40 years ago a number of little owls were liberated in this country, writes Oliver G. Pike, F. Z. S., in London Tit-Bits Maga zine. Before this the bird had been rare, but those introduced thrived and spread to almost every English county. The little owl is now so well estab lished that it would be difficult to get rid of it, but for years a con troversy has raged around this bird, some saying it is harmful, others that it does more good than harm. The British Trust for Ornithology undertook the task of discovering the actual food on which the birds feed. Specimens were obtained from all over the country and their gizzards were examined, as well as cast-up pellets, and nest and larder remains. It is fairly easy to tell the kind of food birds of prey are collecting by examining the pellets of the undigested portions which are cast up through the beak. It was uncertain if the remains of very small chicks would show in the pellets, so several little owls in cap tivity were given chicks, and it was found that the beaks and down were very conspicuous. Problems to be solved were: Is the little owl a menace to our useful insecting-eating birds; is it a danger to game and poultry; does it kill birds and leave them to decay to attract carrion beetles? If the body of a bird or mammal is left on the ground in summer, the burying beetles soon discover it. All owls are fond of beetles and it has been suggested that these cunning small owls kill and hide animals to attract the beetles, but there is no evidence to support the theory. Among all the material col lected there were only the remains of 75 burying beetles. The inquiry showed that the birds eaten consisted of starlings, house sparrows, blackbirds and song thrushes; all the material collected yielded only one pheasant chick, and although there were poultry chicks, all were taken from one farm where dead chickens had been placed on the tops of poultry houses. Of 51 gizzards examined, 44 contained insects, 16 rodents, and only seven had traces of birds. Five species of insects were found in enormous quantities, including the daddy longlegs, earwig end cockchafer. Farm Topics GOOD DAIRY COW PAYS ITS ‘BOARD’ High Producing Animals Prove More Profitable. By ELMER J. MEADOWS One dairy cow that produces 545 pounds of butterfat a year will re turn as much money above feed cost as two cows that produce 350 pounds, or more than 13 cows that average 152 pounds of butterfat an nually. That’s what experiments at the Colorado State college indicate, says Elmer J. Meadows. One 545-pound cow will return $108 above feed cost during a year, ac cording to figures Meadows has compiled from actual experience. This figure is based on butterfat sell ing at 40 cents a pound. Two cows each producing 350 pounds of butterfat a year will re turn only $4 a year more above the feed cost than the 545-pound cow and will cost $168 to feed, compared to $110, the feed cost of the large producer. Thirteen 152-pound cows will return $101.40 above feed cost during a year, and it will cost $689 to feed them. If the extra labor required to milk and care for 13 cows producing 152 pounds of butterfat each compared to 2 producing 350 pounds each, is figured, it would further emphasize the necessity of keeping and breed ing only cows with the ability to produce large amounts of milk and butterfat. And so the question evolves— “Why not take a few cows that pro duce at least 350 pounds of fat a year rather than a whole corralful of the 152-pound group that produces only about 20 pounds less than the average dairy cow in the United States?" Skim Milk Used in Making of 4Wool9 It has long been a wonder to many that when a black cow ate green grass it gave yellow milk, but it’s even more of a wonder nowadays when a chemist takes the skim milk and makes wool out of it. The chemists extract the casein, soften it in water, and dissolve the result ant compound in a solution of caus tic alkali. It becomes a thick, sticky mass. After working into the proper con sistency by aging and adding other liquids the mixture is forced through a spinneret, hardened, and it is ready to be spun. The cost of the finished product will be about 50 cents a pound when put on a commercial basis. It may be used in preparing garments for persons allergic to natural wool and for other uses in which natural prod ucts have been undesirable. Population Is Shifting From Cities to Farms It has been apparent for some time that the population trend is away from the cities and toward the farm. Now the fact seems to be officially proved by the advance try out in the 1940 federal census. Two counties in Indiana were selected by the government for the prelim inary count. The first figures have been released, showing that while St. Joseph county has gained some what in its rural areas, the two principal cities, South Bend and Mishawaka, have decreased by a few thousand. The difference was slighter in the case of Marshall county and its county seat, Plym outh. The town gained a little, but the county gained more. These are only two small straws, of course, but they show which way the wind is blowing and the fact is significant after a long period when the "drift to the cities” was regarded as a se rious social problem. Farm Notes In blocking a gate against hogs, swinging the foot back and forth is more effective in keeping the ani mals back than waving the arms. • • • Corn and sorghum silage may both be successfully fed to sheep, but the quality must be good. Moldy or spoiled silage will often cause colic, scours and other digestive ailments. 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