Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1923, Page 28

TREES OF WASHINGTON BY R. A.EMMONS. Me and Mary Watkins was wawk- !ing home from skool together on ac- count of me having saw her ahed of me and quick catching up with her axsidently on perpose, and I started {to tell her how grate I was going ito be wen I grow up. saying, Do you know wat Im going to be, Im going to be grate engineer and i bild the biggest bridges across the biggest rivers in the werld. When- ‘ever a river is too wide for enybody elts to bild a bridge across it why they'll jest come and ask me to do it because Im going to be a special- ist, I sed. I think O, wont that be lovely, iyoure wonderflll, Mary Watkins sed. { Wy dont you change your mind and {be a grate doctor insted? she sed. | “Maybe I will, I sed. Yes, I beleeve '1 will, Il be a grate doctor and Il { take ithem up ! sed, How perfeck ja BUR OAK—QUERCUS MACROCARPA. The bur oak, or mossy-cup oak as 1t 1s also called, is one of the tallest of our oaks. It is easlly recognized, for its leaves are peculiarly distinc- tive, as are also its acorns, and its branches often exhibit corky ridges slong their sides. The following interesting para- graph is quoted from Harrict Keeler's “Our Native Trees”: *“The bur oak ranges from Manitoba to Texas and dcom the foothills of the Rocky mountains to the Atlantic coast. poes farther to the northwest any other of our eastern oaki varies In size from a shrub in Man- itoba, to & magnificant tree 160 feet bigh in southern Illinois. It is the most abundant oak of Kansas and of Nebraska, and forms the scattered | forests known as ‘the oak openings' of Minnesota." It is not found east of the Alleghanies in this part of the country, and the few in the District were planted by the hand of man. 1t is a large, picturesque, ragged- looking tree with spreading branches and a broad, round-topped head. The bark {s ashen gray to gray brown and is deeply fissured into irregular. scally plates. The braches often bear corky ridges. The leaves are three to six inches long, two to three inches wide, distinctively unique in form, for on each side near the mid- dle deep rounded sinuses reach nearly to the midrib, this seeming to di- vide the leaf into two parts, the upper part being the larger and hav- ing squarish lobes, the basal part more nearly triangular lobes. The base s tapering, the apex more or | 1ess rounded. The acorns ripen the first year. | They are varlable in size and shape. The nut Is usually oval, one-half to two inches in length, and is nearly inclosed in a curious mossy cup which is composed of comparatively large scales and with a fringe-like border. &he wood is commerclally not. distinguished from that of the | white oak. | ~‘The tree illustrated is situated at the corner of Louisiana and Pennsyl- vania avenues northwest. Our Birds in Verse By Henry Oldys ~ : OVEN BIRD. I mind a dark and secret dell, eples stummicks out and shine nd put them back agen before they even know they was Interrupted, I sed, and Mary Watkins iy ideal, I love doc- ors. Wy dont you change your mind nd be & grate lawyer? she sed, Well, Ive thawt of being a lawyer, 1 sed. Yes, I bleeve I will, 11l be a { grate lawyer and tell the judges wat to say and different things like that, I sed, and Mary Watkins sed, O my, wont that be perfeckly perfeck. And she came to her house without having time to ask me agen wy I dident change my mind, and I went home and my sister Gladdis was reeding & book with a red cover In her room, {me saying, Hay Gladdis, Im going {to be a grate engineer and if Im not Il be a grate doctor insted or elts maybe Ill be a grate lawyer. Youll be a grate big greese spot if you dont get out of my lite and let me reed, Gladdis sed. Proving sisters are different. COLOR CUT-OUT Buying Play Costumes. The Husband Who Was Too Kind—Shall She Choose the High-Tempered Younger Man or Marry the Placid Elder Suitor?—The Man Whose Wife Won’t Let Him DFEAR MI ness? DOROTHY DIX. | | | way to it. to behave themselves. upon them. with thelr husbands. | of women. for-nothing husband. | marry a man of my own age, jexceptional woman's heart? displeasing him or of his leaving fickle-minded, while with the ust as it Is possible to be too good to a husband. 2hoi1’s hushand or wite ae 1€ Js5ts apotl & baby. and they react the. same They get peevish, and fretful, and howl for the moon, naa n»;a just as badly to be taken over somebody's knee, and spanked, and made | A great many domestic tragedies would be avoided if, instead of | }lr)’im; to save their wives from all hardships, men would make thelr wives | carry their fair share of the domestic burden. | frivolous wives could be steadied if their husbands would put responsibilities Men think they are being kind to theéir wives when they work them- selves to death so that their wives may be ldle. {It is work that keeps women out of mischief, that keeps them from getting neurotic, that keeps them healthy and sane—also, that keeps them in love | Because no woman ever cares long for a man who lets her run over him and put things over on him. Furthermore, a man should require some sacrifice at his wife's hands, | because we love the best people that we help; and this is particularly true 1t is not the man who gives most to women that they love most. It is the men who demand most of them. in the circles in which the wife has to take In washing to support a good- And there are several morals in th Smoke in the Ho‘use. SS DIX: Is there such a thing as showing a wife too much kind- I am a prosperous business man and have been married- for several years. Iloved my wife dearly and have showered everything on her. I gave her a beautiful home, a car| of her own, jewels—everything that ! was in my power to bestow upon her. | She never showed me any regard or; consideration. It was all a take roposition on her part. ps’k;a has now left me and started divorce proceedings, and begs me not | to contest the case. 1 know there i8| no other man in the case. She just thinks she wants freedom, and she | is sacrificing me. as she has sacrificed everybody and everything, to her own desires all of her life. What do you think I should do under the cir- cumstances? LEONARD. Answer: I do not think that & woman who 1s so selfish and self- centered will ever make any man happy. and that the sooner he puts| her out of his life the better. That type of weman never lvoes any one but herself, and the pity of it is that, by some freak of nature, she. seems able to inspire a deeper love in men than any good woman ever gets. I certainly do think that it s possible to he too good to a woman, It is just as easy to A great many silly and This is a great mistake. You don’t hear of many divorces t. DOROTHY DIX. | EAR DOROTHY DHIX—Can you tell me which is the safest gamble, to who Is jealous, grouchy, conceited and | v quick-tempered, or to choose for my life partner a man fifteen | years older than 1 am—I am twenty-three—who is humorous. kind, gentle, | loving and thoughtful, and who pays me all thé little attentions dear to a I admit that the first man infatuates me, but I am in constant fear of | me for some other woman, econd man I-feel content and saf for he is , knowlng | that whatever I do or say will be right in his eyes. i forget my first love Answer—It Is tragical that temperamental ‘people, tuous ones, have a fatal lure about them; but to marry one of them is to bring_down certain misery on one’s head. petual storm center in which th a man who Is jealous and grouch days walking on for a wife. You will always go in fear and tremblin, You will live You will always be hiding things and keeping things that crouches within him. bursts of temper. under cover that might vex him There Isn't any gamble, as you say, about marrying a high-tempereq. | terials Such a man’s wife always jealous, grouchy man. never ending unhappiness. 1s fifteen yvears too great a difference in age between a man and ! woman when our pleasures and friends are the same? en I am married to the second? Do you think I will ! NEW YORKER. i | stormy, tempes It s electing to live In a per- 0 peace or rest. If you marry Is q you® will spend the balance of your | eggs, which gets to be a mighty tiresome promenade | g. dreading to rouse the devil | in terror of his maniacal Uu(-‘ loses out. Her lot is} Chinese Embroidery. h | The makers of hats have found in- spiration for their delightful cre- ations in little bits of Chinese em- broidery. This embroidery, rich In colors, ‘brilllant, and hand worked— and sometimes really antique—Iis apsolutely delightful on a small cloche or poke. Here is a shape with brim edged in strip of bright hues. In front of the crown is a plece of embroidery that represents gold rays of 'the sun touching rosy clouds in a purple sky, with glints of green here and there. Another strip like that on the brim, edges this embroidered sunrise. The crown Is a deep indigo velvet. i 8! FEATURES. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D, Noted Physician and Author. Let It Alone. The wild animal sustalne wounds and gets them healed very well with something that approaches scientific neglect. The domestic dog or cat practices a let-alone policy with re- markable success in the healing of ‘wounds. Were it not for fites and other in- Bect pests, dust and the Mcldtnlll‘ contact of various objects, the ideal management for any wound or sore would be exposure to the air. Indeed, such management is found most suc- cessful in the treatment of large | burns and other ulcers in Inutllnlona‘ where It is applicable. Ordinarily | some covering must be used to pro- | tect the wound. The parafin wax treatment 80 much used for burne and | large ulcers since the greut war is o valuable one in the hands of a mur- oon. For the layman applying first | aid or attempting the managemen of a_wound O Sore &t any time. & covering of some neutral, clean, non-* adhérent material is best, such as o coating of petrolatum (petroleum jelly) which has been freshly bofleq to sterilige it, or an impervious cover. ing of flexible collodion if the wound surface is dry.cnough for the oollo. dion to stick;upon the edges, or « few overlappihg strips of unhandl.d adhesive plaster, In all treatment of cuts, wounds burns, sores or ulcers which do not demand the care of a surgeon the more rarely redressing is done the' better for healing. If a wound or burn is clean and aseptcally (not antiseptically) dreseed, it is usually | best not to remove the dressing with- in a_week, or, If possible, not unti ten days. Following aseptio or ci-. operations, it is the general practi of surgeons nowadays not to char, e dressing within a week or r after the operation. Nature takes care of the healins all right, if no impediment is plu in the way. If it is clean, surgics clean, let it alone. (Copyright. 1023.) After One Trial to anticipate a delicious cup of dSh 10 n_‘S orecdast Y A53RSen Comfortable Nighties. ! | | | 1 ! 1 The wise mother will ses that she has several pairs of comfortable nighties on hand, made of warm ma- | that will be a protection against draughts, for as she knows, "SALAD T X A ORANGE PENOE BLEND is only natural. Have you tried it? For Comfort! ONSCIENCE BRAND MATTRESS - e Somaceonoaes® INTRERMATIONAL BIDDING CO . BALTIMORE AND RICHMOND Which Bicerze 858 sunbest. ueverioow. {no doubt. wee boys and girls are for- Where twayblade and aplectrum dwell And showy orchis ioves to blow. I fain would seek this quiet nook, All the demands of care deferred, Hear the soft tinkling of the brook And listen to the oven-bird. That beating note, beginning low, But louder growing, louder still, Untii at last it seems as though The leaves must tremble with its thrill. Tt ceases, and the woods around More hushed by far than ever seem, As darkness vastly more profound Follows at night the lightning’s gleam. And when th’ insistent note no more Invades the channe!s of my ear Down on the yet autumnal floor {ever kicking the bed covers off, often- On the other hand. if you marry the older man who is gentle, and kind. and considerate. ou will have everything that 2 rational wo an needs times endangering the tender Young bodl; The pattern for this’ little | to make her happy, for the fifteen vears of difference in your ages does not | one-piece sleeping garment cuts in matter when it is on the man's side. But here the complication comes in. So contradictory is the human heart that if you marry your high-tempera grouchy man you will hate him within six months, but if you don’t mar: him he will always remain a fisure of romence in your imagination th will make your quiet lover seem commonplace. ftself down to this: If y If you want an hour’s happiness anc one, E. D but, in so but my wife objec the house. storm. And the more she objects the more T want to smoke. it is about forbidden fruit. I don't stand why my wife can’t understand that when she d. my ease in my own home, and dri is’ariving me away frcm her. Answer—No, I ca: u want a peaceful, quiet life, mar . AR MISS DIX—I am a married man w ny homes, there is a little friction. s £0 much that I never smoke at home, If T should attempt to light a cigar, there would be & regular the balance misery, take the So ‘the question simmers ¢ the elder man, ounger DOROTHY DI. { ith the dearest wife In the world, I like to smoke, much less in | You know how and 1 can't under- oesn’t let me take smoke to excess, me out of it for my pleature, that she Can you? HANK. sizes 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years, and for the elght-year size requires 38 yards of 36-inch material. | Price of pattern, 15 cemts, in pos- | tage stamps only. Orders should be addressed to The Washington Star Pattern Bureau, 22 East 15th street, New York city. Please write name nd address clearly. —_— Carrot Pie. Mash one and one-third cups o cooked carrots and press them through a colander. Add two-thirds of a teaspoonful of cinnamon, th same amount of ginger, and ore table. spoonful of flour. Mix and add one and two-thirds cupfuls of rich milk. ! i An egg may be used in place of the ! flour and less milk used, but most| persons prefer it without the eg. Snough for two ples, d I sce the vocalist appear; Hank. I have never been able to underst Yet with no hopping, sparrow gait He moves about the leaf-strewn earth, But treads a measure so sedate That tenderness is filled with mirth. I d wh erwise intelligent women all knowledge Tof hu\z ‘Wives want to keep their husbands at home, and y of women who wouldn't give their husbands a| that he could call his own and in which he could God ‘denied #0 many oth; to deal with husbands® vet I have known plent single spot in the house It was agreed Polly Mount should |40 @8 he pleased. choose the material for the costumes jshe and the neighbor children were ! |going to wear in the Thanksgiving In this famous package Everything you need except water to make the finest pancakes you've ever tasted! Aunt Jemima Pancakes with the old-time Southern flavor! TETLEY'S Makes good TEA a certaint T have know women who wouldn't let their husban, hobb; t home, women who considered their husbands' treasured collec- Il.l')n messes, wives who wouldn't let their husbands eat what they wanted at home, who wouldn't let their husbands smoke in' the house, And yet these women wonder why they had wandering husbands. % y, It T were a man and wanted to smoke at home, I'a pays the freight has got some rights lhl{-)s}'!!ll a wife n‘:ngu’ld OTHY X. (Copyright, 1923.) D= An ‘urchin at his father’s side S irenmurea Corfee, Will seck to catch the longer stride, A trick that to complacent eyes Amuses while it gratifies. And so when you, my tiny friend, Strut with unlooked-for dignity I smile, but with my smile doth biend A kindness born of sympathy. play. As her father drove her to town behind the brown bays she checked off the items of her shop- {ping list on the fingers inside her muff. “Twenty yards of cambric, a pack- age of mneedles, two boxes of beads and four spools of thread. lung she was saying crazily, “Twenty ackages of needles a yard of cam= ric, four boxes of thread and a spool of beads." - But in the store she got her tongue straightened out enough to buy the right things. She in such a hur- ry to get home and begin ecutting that she wouldn't even let her father stop at the corner candy shop to buy her an ice cream soda. Polly's little cat and sot_off bouutifully har Soppery” red ‘hatr. muf? and fur are brown and so are her shoes, hase and plaid skirt, (Copyright, 1923.) Concretel. The man who respect. Make a Mock Cherry Pie Half CRANBERRIES Half Raisins Adelicious dessert Cranberry recipe folder sent free upon request. And now, as evening draws anear, I hear a burst of melody. And in the golden atmosphere _Above the trees a form I sce. *Tis he again, the oven-bird, Winging and singing through the air, Flinging to earth his good-night word In accents light and debonair. Good-night to thee, thou minstrel dear; I thank thee for these moments bright. God keep thee free from every fear, A flavor entirely different— And so. my friend, good-night, good-night. BEDTIME STORIES Danny Meadow Mouse Sees Strange Sights. Pray do not fail to take eommand. When opportunity’s at_hand, —Danay Meadow Mouse. It was several days before Danny Meadow Mouse went up in the air azaln. Meanwhile he and the aviator who had caught him had become friends. The aviator visited him sev- 1 times every day and he never fuiled to bring some tid-bit to tempt Danny’s appetite. And he talked to him. He talked in & low, gentle voice. It wasn't long before Danny didn hositate to take f0od from his friend fingers. Then came a morning when Danny knew something was going to happe His friend, the aviator, was very busy about the alrplane, which Dann; ways thought of as a man-bird. Other ple came and there was & great al of noise and confusion, which frightened Danny so that he kept in- de the little box in his cage, Then his friend climbed into the man-bird and almost at once there was the ter- rible noise which is always made when an airplane engine Is starte A few minutes later Danny felt him- sclf going up and’up and up. He knew he was flying once more. Now, thas aviator had made & place for Danny'¢ little cage up where h could see Danny and where D could look out and down. He had fixed it so that Danny would be pro- tected from the wind, It was a long ! time before Danny ventured to come out of his little box. But after he had grown used to the nolse Danny ventured to poke his nose out. Then he poked his head out. Then he came out altogether. For the first time Danny knew what it was really llke to fly. He could look down and see all the Great ‘World spread before him. Never be- fore had a Meadow Mouse n such strange sights as Danny now saw. He saw little green patches that looked very smooth. Really th were flelds @ad meadows, thougl » nny | By Thornton W. Burgess, Danny didn't know this. He rougher green. patches, and these were groves and green forests. He saw shining, silvery stretches and; silvery threads. These were ponds and lakes and rivers. He saw queer- looking 1little houses, which seemed all crowded together. Th were HCasy HE SAW LITTLE GREEN PATCHES Tkt onh UL AND MEADOWS. PR I8 towns and villages. He saw little houses all by themselves in the mid- dle of green and brown patches. They looked as if they mu. been -made_for folks no bigger than himself, Really they were farm- house: Once he looked down right on the back of King Eagle, who was fiying below him. He didn't know it was King Eagle, for he never had seen King Eagle close to.’ But that is who it was, for his head was snowy white. Once all those things below rlm g.llt’l':lonly lalm;ld to -u;t b‘;rvw- Ing. oy grew IgEer an er ln‘ big| 80 tas! it Danay didn‘t e ok - Then they Bistory of Hour Name .BY PHILIF FRANCIS NOWLAN, CALDWELL. VARIATIONS~—Calwell, Cadwell, RACIAL ORIGIN~Eng! SOURCE—A locality. One theory as to the origin of this family name ascribes it to the com- bination of the words “col,” meaning the hazel, and “wold” or wood, mak- Ing the meaning of the family name “Haglewood. It is an explanation by no means unreasonable, and In some Instances it may very well ac- count for the existence of the name. rrobability, however, points in an- other direction for the majority of people who bear this name. “And this time it is the obvious one, a com- bination of the two words “cold” and “well.” This {s supported by the fact that in some of the old records the original form of the surname is found with the “de 1a” (“of the") prefixed. At the period when these words were prefixed, the name must have been indicative of the locality in which the person lved, and “cold-well” would not have been confused with “hazel-wood.’ The form of Caldwell of course, but a more modern variation In spell- ing, developed at a period when spell- ing was not so standardized as today, but after the period when such family names continued to have a descrip- tive meaning. Sometimes Cadwell is a “variation loped by the eliminatlon of the But there is a village in Wales called Cadwell, and the chances are that in many cases this form of the name has come from that source. {Oopyright, 1028 . That was wh the man-bird had awooped down toward the earth and then climbed up again. Once he could sée nothing but a great, soft mass below him. It was a cloud. Danny was above the clouds, but of course he didn’t know_this. It was all so wonderful that Danny forgot to eat.' He was almost sorry when at last that great man-bird came down, down, down and the moise 0f the engine stopped. '+ (Copyright, 1923, by T W. Birgess.), L] Why in the world must we suffer pests? Why can’t things run along smoothly as we planned them? They never do. You plant a garden and coax the seeds up out of the ground, and a million weeds spring up to challenge them. The plants are a few inches high and your heart lightens—when out comes the woodchuck and nips oft their heads. You set a trap for him, and as you adjust it grimly before his castie door you spy a scattering of plants cut off close to the ground. The cutworm has ascended from the depths and sawed off his morning meal. Growing a garden s a thrilling bat- tle with the pests. You count your- self lucky to be one row ahead of them at the close of the siege, Bring up children—it's just the same. You get them 8o they can rest their wobblr heads against the pil- Tow and smile at you and along comes a tooth. Why a tooth should make a peet of its coming is beyond compre- hension, but it does. The teeth settle down to a grinding calm, and along come the whoops and the measles and the chicken pox to keep you alert and active. One pest after another! Yet get the youngster along to the lace where he gets to_school and genva a sigh of relief. You needn't. The one Infantile disorder that es- caped him he catches now, and you must remain on guard against the epidsmics of the schools. The day comes when he geems to have passed-the contaglous disease stage. His teeth are all in, his diy gestive apparatus is in good jwork- ing order. Too good—it digests any- thing he puts up to it, or down to it, as s his practice. ¥ other sign and think, * You needn’t. Down appears upon his face, pimples poke out their dls- agreeable heads, nerves are cranky and moods are frequent. Ho has en- tered the adolescent stage. Clothes and manners and girls are upon you and must be handled diplo- matically and lelsurely calm. No traps will answer her Why? Why can't children ow along smoothly as we planned to have them do? Why a fresh set of difficulties every stage of the way? It's the law, that' You shall earn your way, you e Jetaars, time Joft by e Gerastion 3 Proba) 1y something of the pests? | | | child is terribly uneasy under a visi- not nearly as worth-while as helpin; @ child grow up. You know the %os‘: bothers him much more than it does| us. We are inclined to think the un- | pleasantness all our own. It fsn't. Most of it is visited upon.the children, The plant hetes to have its head nipped off by the 'chuck, and the tation of the chickenpox. What could one do with more profit to his ow. soul than to fight the pests of child- hood? When you can't see why they should come, Why just think of that and grin and bear with them. Espe- cially the grin. l} « i 923.) DELICIOUS cup cakes— appetizing nl:xg:lfious—the kind the chil-. dren love. Bake it BESTwith, DAVIS BAKING POWDER 90 West Breadway, New York Comfort Baby’s Skin With Cuticura Svap 3200 Prize for Envelopes l, @ 364 other prizes & Yourdealer will give vou information. sootBing action. 80 tiem. poan pis, use. White Send 10¢ for Trial Sive TERD.T.BOPEINS& SON, New York Gouraud” Oriental Cream that you will remember and look forward to—that is the delightfulness of Tetley’s Orange Pekoe Tea. ADELICIOUS food con- fection, wholesome and appropriate at any season. 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