Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1923, Page 55

' THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, DECEMBER ‘Things of Interest to STORIES, Girlsand T CONDUCTED BY BLEN HAYES. one of the most delightful of the flapper set of ‘actresses on the ' profes- sional stage, is a Washing- ton girl. She used to go to high school .here and to local dancing schools, where she was known as Melen Hayes Brown. Shé showed marked dramatic talent, even as a very little girl, and is old to the ways of the pro- fessional stage. ale though she is stili very young in vears. Helen is the sec- ond Washington girl among those who have achieved marked success on the stage to ap- pear in Washing- RELEN MayEs, 'on during the 1wliday season. Mary Eaton. the dainty dancer and actress of Ziegfeld productions. was here last week Kid Boots.” The role that Helen Hayes portray artistically in “We Moderns” is most appropriate at this time of youth's pleading for free§om and self-ex- pression 5 “I like this role ever so much.” as a co-star in smiled the sweet little actress Wed- | nesday she paused for a bre: between acts one and two at the mat- inee performance. “This.is the near- as est of any characters 1 have recently played to the role I had as the dream | Brutus,' | daughter in Barrie's ‘Dear that was so successful. 1 like type of modern girl 1 portray believe that the fappers of real life. that are so much like her, will wake up. just as she did, and have happy endings to their stories, too.” Helen's mother. who always travels with her. was full of alertness the of costume and all the other * things that only a mother can see and Willingly do for her own child. She seems to live for Helen, yet she has not spoiled her daughter, is just as sweet und simple off stage as ' her role. married cousin. for whom journeyed to Washington re- cently to & bridesmaid. and an aunt completed the admiring little coterie of friends in the tiny star's A newly Helen dressing room. They were discussing | the new play and Helen admitted she was still a bit nervous and not vet | ready to settle into the habits of waits between the cues for her own appearances in the play. She also aamitted that she was glad to go back to the ingenue roles, as her little attempt to be “grown-up" fn “To the Ladies,” proved that the public wanted her still for a while to g0 back and be “just a child again.” She is particularly fond of her love 1y frocks and hats for “We Modern: and showed the skilltully ~made French gowns with girlish satisfac- tion, Helen's mother told how much they both enjoved the recent trip abroad and Helen added that Washington was her “home town" to come back here. . “You know, it just seems so good to get back here ever so often,” said Helen. “There's something about Washington—when you are away from it and busy, you,don’t have much time to think about it, friends and one's relatives here for you. I love Washingto although it is too hot here to come for the summer monthe after a hard | year of work, I get down just as often as possible.” { When asked about how &he liked her chosen profession now, after a per- spective of several vears, gave her another side to the work, Helen ad-, she was ambitious mitted that, if fll’lythh\g{ more enfHusiastic _and about it than ever. “It's the kind of work that just grows on you,” she said with her ini- mitable, slow drawl and Yyoutaful smile. T just like it better all the © time.” Ruth Colman in Play ground Work. JRUTH COLMAX and Mrs. Harry 5604 14th street northwest, is another of the growing group of Washington young girls who are interested in working and playing with children and have: become valuable assistants under the banper of Mrs, Susie Root Rhodes, cuperintendent of the play- | &round department of the District of Columbia. Mrs. Rhodes has probably done more than any other one person in the interest of the little folks of the bistrict. She has worked val- iantly and eontinuously with hardly 2 moment's breathing spell in the de- velopment of the present splendid system of playgrounds in Washin, ton. More recently she has empha- sized effort to secure leaders among the young people of the city to help her in this important work among the impressionable and lovable chil- dren of the city. -During spring and summer vacations from colleges and universities many boys and girls have helped and during the other months of the year local girls and boys who are not in school are among Mrs, Rhodes aides. ‘ Ruth Colman, who was born in Washington and attended . local #chools, being graduated from Central High School in February, 1920, has not followed any definite plans for professional life since her high school | work, but has found that the general trend of her interests RIWays centers about children. For two years she did substitute work 6r teachers in the public schools in.-the sections of ‘Washington where the schools were attended by little_ children of many | nationalities. Ruth found the study of the dif- s fegent types fascinafing and ‘enjoyed thie work -immensely. Then, last summer, she was among the group 1hat- answered -Mrs.. Rhodes' urgent® £all for educated young folk Wwho 1 GAMES, h{ for ! every detail in her daughter's change , little who | and she loved | | but—it is-so nice to come back here and find old | daughter of Mr.| Atwood Colman. | heir Affairs HELEN FETTER. liked children to come and work on ithe playgrounds. Since that time Ruth Colman has been assistant di- rector of the playground at Chevy i Chase. 3 ! “I find the children on this play- iground so different from those in the {schools where I substituted” said Ruth the other day. ‘These Chevy | Chase children are from wealthy fam- ilies and take quite as a matter of | course the efforts on our part for their entertainment. On other play- grounds, among the poorer and the foreign chlldren, the same efforts on our part aroused ecstasies of delight. !These richer children, however, are jvery gencrous, and they greatly en- joved filling baskets for less fortu- nate children for Christmas. i Tomorroy the playgrounds of the District will ¢lose for two, months and Ruth Is thimking of taking a course of study in child psychology 110 hel} her with the playground work inext summer. This Is a line of work which it seems should have appeal to |many girls who really like children and enjoy being wfth them. Adults with analytical minds are frequently |astounded at the knowledge they can lacquire from association with little | children, to say nothing of the pleas: ure derived from the sincere and | ready response on the part of the I children to every effort made in their { benalr. { Y. W. C. A. Party for Children. and | |[ORENE E. KREIDER, Ora May i Mon and Myrtle Bender of the | Blizabeth Somers Y. W. C. A. in Washington, were in charge of a party that was intensely appreciated by the diiminu- tive guests last Wednesday eve- ning. It was a short party witn sarly hours, be- cause of the youthfulness of ed, but certainly and was had by all” Miss Kreider, who was in gen- eral charges of the affair, is a Penn- aylvania girl liv- ing at the Y. W. C. A., who has been in Washington about six years. She has a secretarfal position with the United States Chamber of Commerce, but hec hobby outside of business hours is story-telling for children, and she enjoyed especially her purt in the direction of this party There were twenty-five little folks from the Bruen Home for Children Dpresent at the party and they played games, marched to music and listen- ed in rapt delight to a story told by |Lillian Krause. Then there were candy, ice cream cones, fruit and nuts to eat. Best of all there was a glit- tering big Christmas tree with plenty of gifts for everybody—so many gifts {that many small arms spiiled them jover and there was much strenuous stooping to gather in Santa's boun- tiful supply. By 9 o'clock the big bus, donated for the ocoasion by the { Royal Blue Line Company, had pack- ed the little folk and their Christmas | bounty back into its spacious depth !and rolled off toward the home again At the suyddenly quiet association rooms, the girls smiled and agreed that it was “the best kind of a party it enjoyed LORENE KREIDER, NAMESFOR GIRLS And What They Mean DORA s @ quaint, old-fashioned name that seems to be of Greek origin, although it is hsed primarily Ly the Anglo-Saxons as a_name for girls. The name is the feminine for Dorus, the sen Helen, from whom, ac- cording to legend, the Dorian race, one of tHe four great branches of the Greek nation, descended. The Dorians were in-many ways the reverse of the lonians, and the Dorie columns as compared with the Ionic type sym- bolize the difference in the two peo- ples, the former being simple, broad and solid in appearance, the latter much more delicate and slender. Dora has for her sentiment “stead- fastness of purpose” and her flower is the sturdy hollyhock. Dora is & name with numerous liter- {ary associations. Perhaps the most f; miliar of these is the fictitious heroine, {the first wife of David Copperfield, in Dickens' novel of that title. Dora {Spenlow is a simple, rather childish &irl Another fictitious heroine named |Dora was the subject of a poetical {1dy1l by Alfred Tennyson. It is said that the poem was based upon a story in Miss Milford's “Our Village. Elena Ghika, 2 Rumanian author- ess, chose Dora d'Istria as a nome de plume when she began to write, She was the wife of the Russian prince Kolsow-Massalsky. Her first work was “Monastic Life in the Eastern Church.” 1t was followed by “Ger- |man Switzerland.” “Women in the East” and “Women, by a Woman.” 1She also wrote many essays for Ger- {man, Italian, French and Greek peri- odicals. It is claimed that her studies on Albanian poetry gave rise to a nationalistic and literary movement tamong Albantans, ; “Dora” was also the title of & play by Sardou, produced in 1877, and played in English under the title of Diplomacy.” Dora is & short nameé with only one possible nickname, Dorry.” Dera has a dignity in ite sound and ths beauty of brevity. s ; One Every Two Hours. Mistress—Did the mustard plaster de you any good, Bridget? Maid—Yes; but, ma'am, it de bite the tongue. o the guests involv- was | ‘a good time | NEWS OF SCOUTS, o 7 ) © Written and Illustrated BY EDWARD McCANDLISH, ROTHER JACK RABBIT spent the Christmas holidays with Tommy Turtle. Ma Turtle had baked up some nice, fut cakes and pies and things, and Tommy and Brother Jack Rabbit ate a great many plum puddings and apple ples on Christmas day. Mu Turtle kept saying: “Don't eat toa much of dat plum pudding!” “Don’t you worry about me, Old Woman,” Tommy replied, as he gulp- ed down a cup of hot chickweed cof- tee and helped himself to another slice of hot apple ple. “Don’t you go a-worryin’ about me. 1 got the stom- ach of @ ostrich, an' T can eat any- thing. Brother Jack, kindly pass dem sweet ‘taters again. Thank you So Ma Turtle’s wgrnings went un- heeded, and along toward midnight Tommy woke Brother Jack Rabbit !up and told him he had a queer sen- sation somewhere in the neighbor- hood of his “abundum.” Where at is yo' ‘wbundum’ situat- asked Brother Jack ain't strong on my geography,” ed exactly said he. Tommy indicated the exact location of the sensation. “Don’t go wakin’ up d° whole fam- 1ly," he told Brother Jack. *'T ain't like as if T had a pain in my stomack, now.,” said he. “T jus' feels a little bit nervous. dat’s all.” How 'bout a good asked Brother Jack. “Dat's Ma Rabbit give me d' time I et up a peck of green apples,” said ine i i mustard plas- ter fwhat “T reckon a musta’d plastah might do d' wuck.” replied Tommy Turtle. “Hurry up an’ get it on me, cause dis nervousness is beginnin’ to creep up my spine.” And he rolled his eyeballs around in a way that made Brother Jack Rabbit thing that Tom- my must be feeling ver Jus in- | i Farmer Brown—I've.gut a new and 1 named him Ink Neighbor—What's the idea? Is he ck? Farmer B—No, but he's always ge! ting out of the pen and running all over. l " A Word Record. I EACH year thére are more and more girls who have been grad- uated from Business and other high schools in Washington who look for- ward to business careers. They have prepared themselves in high school or in gome special business school for filling stenographic and clerical po- sitions, and now the problem before them is to be able to sell their knowledge and willingness to secure experience to employers who have such positions open to them. Perhaps they will be interested to know that a Massachusetts woman, who +is a court stenographer, has figured out that her notes taken dur- ing ten years of service amount to 30,000,000 words. 1f printed in an ordinary newspaper it would make 25,000 columns of printing. Allowing = twenty-four inehes to the column, there would be at least twelve miles of reading. matter. Girl Reserve Program The Girl Reserve program this week will be: Wednesday morning, 9 o'clock, meeting of Central fresh- man GIfl Reserves at 1100 M sfreet. and 3:30, meeting of Loyal Blue Girl Reserves, 614 E street; - Thursday, 2:30, meeting of Business High School clubs at Business High, and 6:30, meetig of Young Girls' Busi- ness Institute at 614 E street; Fri- day, .2:30, meeting of Eastern High School olubs at the ‘Eastern High, and 2:15, meeting of Bon Secour Girl Remerves at 1100 M street. The Girl Reserves' Christmas serv- ice work was unusually fine this year. The Friendship Club of Business High School gave Christmas dinnérs for two .needy families. The Bon Secour Club of Central High held a party on ¥riday .afternoon at Girl Reserve - clubropms, 1100 M strest, for cHlldren from Washington™ City Orphanage. Santa Claus was pres- ent and had a gift for each child. This club is also suppiying a family, which has & baby, with one quart, of milk daily for six months, The Freshman Club at Central High furnished dinners far two needy families, éne family having ten children, the other three. Cloth: ing and toys were also givéen the ____GIRLS ACTIVITIES, NewVears Dav av sue Bie Posy N == R | Brother Jack Rabbit lit a candle | and began fishing about among the clothes closets to find some rags. to | make the plaster with. But the only rags he could find were some scraps of lace curtain, with' designs of morn- |ing glories and fleur-da-1ys on them. Walking about softly, &0 as not to wake the rest of the family. Brother | Jack Rabbit located the kitchen pan-| try, and there he found a bottle of | mustard and water mixed up in a | kind of paste. Brother Jack Rab- | bit took a knife and spread a half-| inch layer of the raw mustard on the | lace curtain. Then he hurried back and aPplied the plaster, mustard-side down, on Tommy's chest. By this time Tommy was feeling more ner- vous than ever, and when the plaster hit him it came as an offsetter to his other’ pains. Tommy 1 ith his closed for a while, and then he began stirring about in an uneasy way. “What kind of mustard is dat you put on my chest, Brothah Jack”™ Tommy asked. “Good, fresh, wholesome must'ad,” replied Brother Jack Rabbit. ‘“Clean an’ sanitary. Right off of d' shelf.” Tommy lay quiet for a little while |after that, and then he said: “Put yo' hand on my stomach, | Brother Jack Rabbit. an' see if dat plastah ain’t done slip down.” Brother Jack did as directed, and sure enough the plaster had slipped down off Tommy's chest. After about four or five minutes had passed. Tommy roused Brother Jack Rabbit again. “Brothah Jack,” said he, “I believe I can dispense wid dat little plastah I done read a epigram soms- Of two i | Compositipn. WHATS wrong with Figure 17 The men are well drawn, yet there's a certain stiffness about the picture that is displeasing. Now no- tice Figure 2. The same men, but how much better the picture looks! Here is the secret: Figure 2 has com- position and Figure 1 has mot! If you were to draw a line through the middle of Figure 1, each half would be the same—just a man standing there in about the same attitude— but Figure 2.is more interesting. The three most important forms of Friendship Club collected clothing und toys for children in the Beall | Home, and the Friendship Club ot Eastern High packed iwo barrels them to the mountains in North Carolina. Miss Stockett, faculty ad- viser, gave a very interesting talk on comditions among these people, where she has spent some time doing work with them. % The Girl Reserve Club at Hyatts- ville, Md., prepared baskets contain- ing Christmas dinners fof needy familie L vae Columbia Junior High School Club made tarlton stockings and filled them with ® gifts for children at Friendship House, and on. Saturdey | trimmed a Christmas tre and gave party to the children. | Girl Reserves at Friendship Haouse collected fruit to be sent to some aged people. ! The B Street Club of Girl Reserves made scrap books' and gave the books, with some candy, to children in an orphanage. . The Thursday Evening group oon- tributed a basket of fruit, which was sent, with other gifts, to the Aswo- clated Charities s, N The Pemecha Club, Peck Memorial Chapel, Georgetown, collected fruit, which was sent to the Home for Aged Women, on Wisconsin avenue. He Sure Was. “My friend,” asked the missionary, ‘afe you traveling thé straight and narrow path?” 3 '1n silence. the man handed over his H e with toys and clothing and sent composition are oval, circular and triangular. Figure 3 shows a car- toon involving oval composition. Note how the entire picture follows the general direction and space of an oval. Figure 4 illustrates circu- lar composition, and Figure 5, tri- angular. If you show several figures in one picture, have one of them sit, or lean forward or backward. Show one of them front view,~and another from the rear. All this goes to break up the monotony ‘of a drawing and good composition: Optic Camera. When you look through a magni- fying glass or a_telescope you must tocts it by moving it around in some way. This is done 50 that the lens in the instrument will give a-clear, dis- tinct image. The most wonderful lens in, the world, the lens of the human. eye, hi a different method of conveying the sharp images to you. This lens, in; stead of moving back and forth, gets fatter and slimmer in order to make the image clear. When the lens catches the image it 1s flashed through to'a sort of screen in the retina of the eye/and it touches a'lot of nerve énds, The lens in the eye actually turns the picture of ob- jects upside down when it throws them on the screen of the retina. The image is also very tiny. The brain turns things right side up again and gives them their true size, which we say we see. If either the eye or the brain gets diseased, people sée many strange objects which actually do not exist. The whole eye is bullt very much like a damera, only it is & better plece of machinery than the finest camera ever mad — First Student—Is that the belle of the school? ‘SBecond Student—Yeah, in a gym- | | nasiourn sense. Teacher (exasperatéd)—ien't there anyibing you can SCIENCE, ) patil Lt : choose d' lesser’ An' “as a conse- quence of dat plastah of yo's I pre- fer to go back to d' shootin’ pains,” said he. So Brother Jack Rabbit lit the can- dle again and removed the plaster. While Brother Rabbit was busy with the candlé Tommy took a look at his own chest. “Brothah Jack,” he asked. “what did you say was'd' name of dat mus- ta'd? It must be some special brand. It done burned a delicate design on my stomach an’ chest.” Brother Rabbit brought the candle closer and sure enough Tommy's whole front was liberally decorated with a flowered design of morning glories and fleur-de-lys, burned in with sharp outlines in white and red. On the following morning Tommy Turtle was a well man, but he moved about rather’ carefully and seemed unwilling to assume any position that would cause him to bend. “Brother Jack" said he, a couple of days afterward, “next time I gets you to make me a plastah I aims to have you burn in my monogram, my ini- tials an’ @' family crest.” When New Year eve rolled around Tommy was so much improved that he loaded a musket to fire off and usher In the coming year in a proper way. The shotgun kicked backward and blew Tommy Turtle through the glass of & cucumber frame. Doctor Rob Muskrat dropped in to dress Tommy up in a few splints. “I hear tell, Tommy,” said Docto Bob, “as how you ushered in d' new vear with a bang.” ! Tommy laughed. | “Dat ole muzale-loadah kicks worse |'n a yellow mule” said he. “Blew | me through d' middle of a cucumber | frame. I been feelin’ very much cut up ever since,” said he. Doctor Bob gave a last wrap to Tommy’s bandage and patted him on the back. : “Never mind, Tommy,” said he. “A happy New Year to you—and we'll let it go at that!" Happy New Yea: How a Letter Travels. Here is the machine which can- cels the stamps on cards &nd let- ters, putting the waving lines across them at a speed of 25,000 letters per hour. Before going through this machine the letters must all be fixed 20 that the stamp is in the sime po- sition on each. - Large letters, fat letters, or letters with freak sized and shaped envel- opes ¢annot be sent through this m: chine and must be sorted and can- celled by hand. The Dog’s Grotto. The dog’s grotto was a famous spot where & scientific experiment, inter- esting to visitors but hard on the dog on whom it was tried repeatedly, used to be exhibited for-the benefit of tour- ists In Italy some years ago. It took place at_a carbonic gas spring near Naples., Those of you who are familiar with chemistry kgow that carbonic acid #as is 3 Combination of carbon, a sub- stance fonnd in abundance in plant: oxygen, . property. of the Wir we breathe, and water. A flame fowered into the gas Will-immediatély go ofit or it a-person attempts to breaths this poisonous gas he will die in » few mjnutes; . 4 There are céctain places wheré thie ®as escapeés from the earth. At the particular spot at Pozzuoli,Italy, the ocarbonic. aold “gas, spring was in a huge cavity of ros : was earthly, damp and warm. Little bubbles of gas rose’trom ‘the floor of the cavern, but, since it Was heavier than the air, remained close to.the ground. A person standing in-the cave did not suffer from the fumes, ‘which rose no higher than-the kneei but the deadly influence of the gas was shown by the dog experiment the keeper performed. X ; The dog’s Jegs were tied together to keep him from’ funning awky, then the keeper carried him to the mouth |- ‘of the cave where We would have to ‘breathe the gas as it escaped. In a ‘moment the dog was writhing, chok- ing and ujtering terrible groan ‘When it seemed that death must soon bring to ‘an end’ its suffering the keeper wduld carry it to the 2ir out- side, cut the ropes, set the dog free, and it would go bounding away, still under the effects of the gas, but happy to be allowed once more to breathe thie pure air. Or Mittens. Teacher (after giving the class a lesson on snow)—And should we go out on & Wwinter’s day and 16ok aboyt ws, whit' might we see on every < ‘The air inside] JOKES, | Dr. Paul Bartsch is to give a series of talks to Boy Scouts of Washing- ton at the New National Museum be- £inning with a mesting this week on Friday evening, when he will talk to all of the scouts of the northeast sec- tion of Washington. This is an un- usual privilege extended to the local scouts to hear one of the ablest speakers on the subject of nature study, and also to inspect a very in- teresting exhibit of the wild life in the vicinity of Washington which has recently been prepared. The fol- lowing troops only will be admitted this Friday evening: 9, 10, 12, 18, 19, 20, 23, 26, 27, 43, 54, 76, 82, 78, 97, 98, 103, 107, 114, 115, 117, 118, 108, 109, 130, 139, A'very enthusiastic troop of Boy Scouts has recently been organized among the Western Union messenger boys under the leadership of O. J. | Letterman, a member of the mletro- politan police force, and G. C. Gear- hold. H. M. Goldstein and J. D. El- dred as assistant scoutmasters. The officers of this troop celebrated Christmas in fine style, Mr. Letterman entering the ranks of benedicts and Mr. Gearhold receiving a present of a baby son. Troop 70, Ellis Middleton, scout- master, brought Christmas cheer to three less fortunate families by sup- plying them with a fine Christmas dinner. ‘Troop 59, George Chaillet, scoutmaster, and Troop 71, Allen B. Harralson, rendered similar good turns. Roquests come to scout headquar- ters from time to time for groups of scouts to render special good turns. In order to give every troop an op- portunity to share in these oppor- tunities a spectal service corps, to be composed of two representatives from cach troop, is to be organized. Each troop is requestéd to select two mem- bers and send to headquarters their names, addresses, telephone number, scout rank, together with a state- ment of their specialty, such as bugling, first aid, signaling, etc. ! In a newspaper Interview Thomas A. Edison is quoted as describingthe radlo as “one of the greatest things for young men ever brought oyt, be- cause it gets them to read scientific lterature, to experiment and to think.” adding, “and the more you do that the better." There are two statements that we as scout leaders can take under con- sideration, Perhaps the second. is the more Important—namely, “The more we get boys to reading scientific literature, experimenting and think- ing the better” Boys' Life is making a particular effort to supply scouts with thought and action pro- ducing literature of that character. ¢\ACHINERY and the art of skillful dyeing have produced more classes of seals than nature ever dreamed of,” says a furrier, in speaking of the deceptions practiced in former days in passing off other furs for the genuine seal sought Fur seal {s:the product of the animal of that hame found in Alaska and all the surrounding islands and territory -Seals sold by other names, as near seal, eleotric seal, Baltic and French seal are the furs of other animals, ‘dyed, sheared or made to undergo other changes to give them the qualities of the name Hudson seal, which is really muskrat, must now have such'a label, as must the other seal substitutes Before the practice of plucking put the stiff, bristly overhairs of the seal was known, the fur had no great beauty or value Nor was it exten- sively used But the year following the acquisition of Alaska by the United States in 1867 there w: sudden -realization of seal values, which resulted in a free-for-all rush to the region of their capture The supply was almost - exhausted in 2 True Fairy Tales. “Oh, it’s just a falry tale and isn't true at all,” is a thing boyvs and girls often say. The funny part about it is that the fairy tales are true, if you know how to translate them. Theése fairy-tales are .the oldestiand most| accurate records scientists have of how people used to live before therg were any books. Take, for example, “the story of “Puss in Boots,” You wonder. how that cdn be translated into real life? As = matter of fact, Puss.was nothing but'a mascot and he seempd to bring. such good ludk to ‘his’ por master that the story finally’ came to be told! that Puss did all the things-his master really did 3 And those glants—hdw. aré ‘we to figure them out? Edsy. As a matter ‘of fact they were glants only because they were big fellows, and as the tale was told time and- again’ they were told to be larger and. larger, for it was an old-unwritten rule that no folk taleor story should be cut in the telling—it imust alwa; Remember the- boots”? All the story means is a pair of real good boots, boots which will mst seven leagues (forty-two miles) without pinching the féet. Our shoes and boots today are better than even league boots because they can be made to wear for hundreds ::‘:‘uu instead of just forty-two. He Knew. i Teacher—And what was Washing-| ton’s tarewell. address? Bright Boy—Heaven, ma'am. Time to Beat It. . .Papserby—Let me ring that bell for you., You are too short.” Sonny—Now, Mister, we must both “wondertul | ung Folks § ADVENTURE, CARTOONS BOY SCOUTS As to scout participation in the radio excitement, & questionnalre sent out by Boys' Life this summer to 2 Hst of subscribers in a representa- tive number of towns and citfes in various. parts of the United States revealed the impressive fact that 94 per cent of those who answered are Interested in radio and 6 per cent are not; 75 per cent own radlo outfits, 25 Der cent do not; 40 per cent of the answers indicated that owners of sets ean receive up to several thousand miles, 52 per cent up to 50 miles; 67 per cent bought parts and built their own sets, 33 per cent bought complete units, Christmas time, is scout time. All over the country councls, troops and individuals have demonstrated thisby weeks of activity in the merry busi- ness of mending toys, filling steck- Ings and trimming trees for their less fortunate friends. Tireless boys in khaki have been tramping miles for Sreens to festoon homes, churches and halls. Baskets of goodies, topped with a spring of holly, have-found their way, on the arm of hearty mes- sengers, to cheerless homes For the energetic scout the days before Christmas are always crowded full of €00d hard work. A five-mile turn near Charleston, 8. C, was recently saved a death rec- ord through the intelligent and quick action of a boy scout. When two automobiles collided on the curve one of the chauffeurs was badly cut by a broken windshield An artery was severed. The man, half fainting, begged earnestly for assistance from the fifty people who had gathered, sympathetic but help- less, to save the ebbing life. At this critical moment Scout James Percival Petit, noticing the crowd, made his way to the front to discover the *rouble. Seeing the injured man’s predica- ment, the boy immediately started work. Taking his neckerchief and stick, he made a tourniquet. This he applied above the wound and stopped the flow of blood. Then, with the aid of an autolst, he took his patient to the Roper Hospital. The whole thing was done so quietly, states a local report, that scout head- quarters would never have heard of the rescue had not the following let- ter from a member of the hospital staff reached the scout executive a few days later: “I wish to congrdtulate the Boy Scouts on the efficient work done by one of your members, thereby saving the life of Gabe Green, who in an au- tomobile accident received a severe lacerated wound of the left hand, sev- ering one of the large arterfes. The first-ald treatment and the application of a tourniquet was done correctly and neatly and deserves high praise.” Stories of Furs and Fur Trapping—The Seal and His Imitators. short while, necessitating the mak- Ing of stringent laws to remedy the plunder Seals are caught early in the morn- ing by men who run along the beach shouting and frightening toward the interior. the bachelor seals thev wish to kill so that the others may not witness the slaughter and per- haps leave for more remote regions. The animals are struck in the head with a hammer-like weapon to kill them. When about fitty have been killed they are skinned and the pelts salted heavily. Seal is one of the skins that must be cured to insure keeping. Curing takes from ten to twenty days. % The first American dealers in seal skins dyed them a rich brown color. Europe introduced black dye later, and that has become the popular color for seal. The skins may not be dyed in a tub, as are most other furs, for this would make them stiff. The a|dye must be painted on with a brush, with ten or more coats, the number necessary makes them rich and deep lin color. Big Time. Mr. Jackson—What you all tete sech a big fatch fo'. Mr. Johnson—Cause I'se an im- portant man an'. my time is valua- ble. Dangerous World. “A rubber comb lifts up light things, A science teacher said; “Therefore take care— Don't comb your hair For fear you lose your hewd." Doing It Up Right. Mrs. Eskimo—Where have you been the last six months? MF. Eekhmo—T was sittiag up with & slck friend all night. . — Severe Case. “Mamrmpa! Mammal’ cried the little &Irl at the eircus, looking-at a leop- ard, “that doggie has the largest measles 1, eyer saw! High Finance. Teacher—Use’ the. word “Egypt® in a sentence, < *Pired’ ‘Business ' Man—Hello," Cen- tral. “Would you please suggest what number I might ask for to get Main 27057 Its Death Was Fatal. Boy (to stranded motorist)—How 4id you get the puncture? Autol over a chicken with pin feathers oh it. ¢