Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1925, Page 26

FEATURES Women Who Desigh Own Clothes. BY MARY Some women look forward with eagerness to the time when their ship comes in, so that they can follow the fashion more closely. More money o spend on dress with them means closer following of the assemblage of new fads and fashions that we call WELL DRESSED WOMAN WHO DESIGNS HER CLOTHES AC- CORDING TO HER OWN TASTE RATHER THAN TO THE LATEST FASHION HAS DRAPED DIN- NER FROCK WITH SLEEVE AND LONG SKIRT MADE UP I} BLACK AND DIFFERENT COL- ORS. the latest style. Other women look forward to an increase of income as an opportunity to become more inde- pendent of these fads and fancies—a chance to steer their course in dress off the crowded channels. Strange as it may seem, the promi- nent French dressmakers to whom we look for new developments are often the very ones who advise women to dress less in the accepted style and more to their own style. One needs to take this advice about dressing to one's own style with a grain of salt, however. There is always danger of making oneself conspicuous or dowdy BEDTIME STORIES Mrs, Jimmy’s Call. Be nrlirhhurlfl Thlm s what I say. Misunderstanding clears away. e X Mrs. Skunk. Mrs. Skunk, having made her home under Farmer Brown's henhouse, wasted no time in getting thoroughly acquainted with the neighborhood. “One should know all there is to know about one’s surroundings,” said Mrs. Skunk, talking to herself for lack of any one else to talk to. “It is neces- sary in case something unexpected happens. I cannot think of anything happening to me, but something might. It always is possible.” So every night Mrs. Skunk explored all about Farmer Brown's barn and SKUN STANDING IN MIDDLE OF THE KITCHE: IFFING INQUIRINGLY TO- ARD THOSE COOKIES. dooryard. & went where she pleased, for though Bowser the Hound met her the very first night he was most polite—that is to say, he got out of her way and made no attempt to interfere with her. He growled a bit, but he was too old and knew too much to bother her. He had never forgotten a lesson in his youth and since then had taken pains not to dis- turb a member of the Skunk family. kunk soon knew all about the he had been under it and in it, fon she had found a door open one evening. She knew all about the door- yard. She even had poked her head the little house of Bowser the Hound. There was just one place she didn’t know about and wanted to know about and that was Farmer Brown's house. At times there were delicious odors which her nose told her came from that house. But though on more than one night she went all around that house she could find no way in. Now Mrs. Skunk likes twilight and moonlight best, but it really doesn't make much difference to her whether it be day or night. So if she happens to feel like it she takes a stroll in the middle of the day. It wasn't long be- fore she discoverad that it was in day- time that she most often smelled those * delicious odors from Farmer Brown's house. Of course, she also found out that it was 0 in daylight that those two-legged creatures were most often abeut. But she was so independent that she cared nothing for them. So one morning she decided that she would make a call. She would go up to_that house and make a call. Mrs. Brown was very busy that morning. For one thing she was bak- ing cookies. It was warm and she had left the outer door open. She had just peeped in the oven to see how those cookies were baking when she happened to glance toward Black Pussy’s saucer on the floor. A rather good looking person dressed in black and white was finishing that milk. Mrs. Brown caught her breath quickly and opened her mouth to scream. Then she wisely did nothing of the MARSHALL, the mode. It requires either the co- operation and advice of a master of dress or very rare, good judgment of oneself. The sketck shows a dinner frock worn by a well dressed American woman who designs her own clothes according to her own taste rather than in slavish following of the latest fashion. There are draped long sleeves and the skirt is made of black chiffon draped over chiffon of different colors. The woman who shows a bit of in- dependence in her clothes is quite apt to select a mode that she likes and that is becoming and have it repeated in different colors. Thus some women this Spring are having a number of linen frocks all alike save the color of the linen from which they are made, and one woman has selected a becoming model for a simple geor- gette dinner or afternoon frock and has had this made up in four frocks, pervenche, orchid, green and mauve. Some women display the same fond- ness for individuality in the selection of their shoes. They choose a type of shoe that #s comfortable and becom- ing and have it repeated in different combinations of leather. (Copyright, 1925.) Menu for a Day. BREAKFAST Grapefruit Dry Cereal with Cream Scrambled Eggs Doughnuts Coffee LUNCHEON Broiled Honeycomb Tripe Delmonico Potatoes Date and Apple Salad Mgcha Pie Coffee L] DINNER Baked Pork Chops Parsley Potatoes Creamed Onions Sliced Cucumbers Bavarian Cream Coffee DOUGHNUTS One cupful of sugar, one egg and just stir together (do not beat it), one cupful of milk, a little salt, one tablespoonful of the lard from the kettle, a little nutmeg and flour to handle. Have the fat hot and fry as quickly as possible. MOCHA PIE One egg, butter the size of an egg, three-quarters cupful of sugar, three-quarters cup- ful of milk, half teaspoonful of soda in the milk, one teaspoon- ful of cream of tartar. Filling—One cupful of confec- tioners’ sugar, two teaspoontuls of cocoa, two tablespoonfuls of hot coffee, one teaspoonful of vanilla, butter the size of an egg. BAKED PORK CHOPS COLOR CUT-OUT LITTLE UGLY BOY. or freakish in this failure to dress in‘ An Indian Lad. The old Indian grandmothers used to tell the little Indian boys this story of “Ugly Boy.” Perhaps old Nokomis told this very story to young Hia- watha. Here is a picture of “Ugly Boy” himself. He was a little Indian boy who lived with his grandmother in a wigwam deep in the woods. His face was so very ugly that none of the other little” Indian boys wished to play with him. Ugly Boy's clothes were made of the skins of animals which he him- self had caught. He wore feathers in his long black hair. Color his suit tan with green and orange trimming. Make his feathers bright colors, too. His skin should be a coppery red. After you have colored Ugly Boy, mount him on light-weight cardboard and cut him out. . (Copyright, 1925:) What TomorrowMeans to You BY MARY BLAKE. Taurus. Tomorrow’s planetary aspects indi- cate that the day will not pass with- Fry the chops a light brown in a frying pan, then remove to a greased baking pan. Now make a dressing as for turkey and spread it over the chops, then sprinkle with salt and pep- per. Put a small strip of bacon on each chop. Pour water in the pan and bake about an hour, basting frequently, so the dressing will not get dry. Don't use fat chops. When done, re- move the chops and dressing and use the liquid in the pan to make gravy. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS kind, but kept perfectly still. She re- membered that Farmer Brown often had said that a Skunk will never offend if not offended, and the surest way of not offending is to keep still. Mrs. Skunk finished the milk in Black Pussy’s saucer and then very calmly, quite as if she were used to houses of this kind, began a thor- ough inspection of that kitchen. Mrs. Brown squatted in front of the oven, hardly daring to breathe, until sud- denly she smelled something burning. “My graclous!” she exclaime throwing open the oven door and has- tily pulling out the pan of cookies. Only two or three of them were burned. When she had made sure of this she remembered her caller and hastily looked for her. Mrs. Skunk was standing in the middle of the kitchen, sniffling inquiringly toward those cookies. Suddenly Mrs. Brown recalled that always she had rather prided herself on her hospitality. She broke off a piece of cooky and Then she forgot all but those cnok!e;d out some untoward events. It seems that it will be a difficult day on which to avoid some mistake, some error or something that will cause regreat. This fear, however, can be minimized, if not completely “obliterated, by exercising that care and deliberation which such a condition demands. In the evening especially there will be a tendency in the home .circle to create an atmos- phere which will not favor peace or contentment, owing to the lack of re- straint that usually prevails in all such places. In order to avold a dis- cord, a disagreement and lack of har- mony, it will be necessary to restrain yourself from acting on any foolish or regrettable impulse. A child born tomorrow will possess great physical strength and will cause no Worry to its parents as a re- sult of sickness or allments. Never- theless, as much care should be exer- cised over the bringing up of this child as shown in that of the weak- ling or the sick ome. Its disposition will be a happy one, and it will be jovial and contented at all times. Its character will be rather stubborn, but, on the other hand, it will always be considerate of others’ feelings and will never intentionally do anything to hurt anybody else. It will be perse- vering and to a certain extent ambi- tious, but it will not set out for itself any task which could not be accom- plished by a person of normal intelli- gen¥e. 1If tomorrow is your birthday,anni- versary, you are not very practical, but theoretical, and you care more for culture and refinement than you do for the ordinary, every-day rewards of life. You will obtain a moderate de- gree of success in any of the fine arts if you would only devote your time and attention to them. You are not only kind-hearted, but tractable and generous as well. Your convictions are well rooted, but if you should be rebuffed at the plans you have in your mind designed you will be dis- tossed it to Mrs. Skunk. The latter tried it and approved it. And so it was that when Farmer Brown’s boy came whistling into the house he nearly lost his breath at the sight of his mother entertaining a morning caller. (Copyright, 1925, by T. W. Burgess.) My Neighbor Says: The pockets of kitchen aprons are continually catching on door handles, nails, etc. Try putting the pocket in the center of the apron. The poéket can be reached by either hand and can- not catch on anything and tear. ‘When making up a cushion spread a thick sheet of wadding over it just under the outer cover, tacking it down wita a stitch at the corners and in the middle of the sides. The cushion feels softer than it otherwise would. The wadding also shows up the work and makes even a plain cover look well. A little cornstarch added to the salt in the salt cellar will preventshardening. Proportions are half a teaspoonful of corn- starch to two tablespoonfuls of salt. Should milk burn, remove it posed to take, regardiess of your feel- ings, the next one that offers, and thereby you may be creating for your- self a world of unhappiness and misery. ‘Weil - known persons born on this date are Henry W. Shaw (“Josh Bfll- ings”), humorist; James R. Kendrick, clergyman and educator; John Muir, naturalist; Charles S. Bull, physician; John R. Spears, journalist and author, and Henry K. Bush-Brown, sculptor. (Copyright, 1925.) i s i ot e A . Footstools are back in vogue and strongly so. A few years ago they were frowned upon along with rock- from the fire, place the sauce- pan immediately in a bowl of cold water and throw into the milk a pinch of salt. Stir with a spoon and the burnt taste will entirely disappear. When cooking by gas always place a small pan of water in the oven. A bowl of vinegar and water placed beside the stove will prevent the smell of cooking from spreading through the house. ' Sardines or Herrings. Take the sardines out of their cans and drain them on soft paper or cloth. Place them in a small dish, sprinkle them with salt and pepper, pour over a little salad oil and garnish with sprigs of parsley and chopped capers. Small fillets of salted or smoked her- rings or kippers may be used in the same way after washing, soaking and cooking them, or they can be bought ready prepared in bottle: Beet Jelly. Soften one-fourth of a package of }granulated gelatin in one-fourth cup- ful of cold water and three-fourths cupful of bolling water, one-fourth cupful of lemon juice or vinegar, half a_ teaspoonful each of salt and pap- rika, and one cupful and a half of cooked beets sliced or chopped. Mix thoroughly and turn into a mold. ing chairs, fancy lace curtains and figured wall paper, for at that time our homes had become so hopelessly frumpy and -overcrowded that the decorative vogue suddenly went to the opposite extreme of conventlike severity. Now that we have learned to appreciate the beauty of simplicity, we can afford. to let these old friends reassert their claim on our affections. Today’s sketch shows three of these newly fashionable and coveted footstools. The oblong stool (top), with carved mahogany frame, is used with eighteenth century English fur- niture. The round one (middle) is a little French aristocrat, its graceful frame of pale walnut and brocaded upholstery suggesting Louis XV fur- niture. And the sturdy little maple stool (bottom) fits into the early American interior. C., MONDAY, APRIL' 20 Focuses Bearchlight on Overworked Husbands The T. B. M. at Home IDorothyDix Problem of Tired Business Man’s Irritability Can Be Sclved by Less Temper on Husband’s Side and More Salve on Wife’s Part MAN wants to know if I don't think his wife is very wrong and foolish to be hurt and offended because he is often irritable and cross at home. He says she knows that he adores her, and that he is a model of all the standardized domestic virtues, but that he works all day under a terrific strain, and by the time night comes his nerves are worn to a frazzle. He thinks that his wife should appreciate this, and that instead of further rasping them with argumentation, she should use a soothing process. 1 agree with the gentleman that it is always the part of prudence for a wife to give the soft answer that turneth away wrath, instead of retorting with a snappy comeback when her husband makes a nasty crack at her. It certainly doesn’t add to the peace and harmony of a home for a wife to be ready to jump into her fighting clothes every time her husband makes & pass at her. Nothing comes of family rows but bitterness, and anger, and disillusion. Nor does any love long survive them. I alsg ag with the gentleman that any woman who has cut her wisdom teeth on matrimony should be able to assay her husband's temper and tell how much of it is due to raw nerves and how much to pure cussedness, and 50 know when to spread the salve and when to hand him a solar-plexus blow. Furthermore, I opine that a wife who starts anything with her husband of an evening until after he is fed and rested_and has had his smoke and his paper unmolested deserves to be put in the Home for the Incurably Feeble- Minded for the balance of her natural life or else bound over by the courts to keep the peace. For she is either lacking in brains or just loves a fight for the fight's sake. « .. T is the greatest possible pity that women haven’t more sense of humor than they have, for if they did thez would be able to laugh at many things their husbands do over which they shed scalding tears. It would enable them to see how really funny it is for a big man to get into a babyish tantrum over nothing and how much easier it is to kid him out of it than it is to make a scene over it. Unhappily, however, few women have a funny bone, and fewer still can see the joke when it is on them, and so husbands and wives meet temper with temper and irritabllity with irritability, and the domestic war goes merrily on. Certainly, the woman who is marrled to a nervous, overworked man might well do a little mental balancing temper, and impatience, and unreason, of accounts and check off a lot of and fault finding against the finery her husband gives her, and the success he has achieved of which she is so proud and which he has literally bought with his life’s blood. She might well forgive his faults and deal leniently with them, since they are the direct result of his struggle to lap her in luxury. She is, belleve me, a discerning and a tender wife who answers her husband" all right,’ side of the question. frascible speeches with a pat on the head as she would a sick and fretful child. Now for the husband's. and a “there, there, it's So much for the wife's Business furnishes no alibi for surliness, and grouchiness, and general disagreeableness. No man has a right to come home at night and dump down on his own hearthstone all the nerves, and temper, has kept bottled up in him all day. and irritability he ‘Because a woman has the misfortune to be a man’s wife is no reason he should insult her and say to her things that he would not say to any other woman who had an able-bodied brother, or that he would dream of saying to dhy woman who had $10 to spend across his counter, or who was his client, or his patient. JF @ man can control his temper and his tongue in dealing with world, he can control it still at home. he can make the like a bear when she asks him a simple "And if he has any sense of honor, he will be the more caréful of and flattering to other women, his wife instead of growling question. what he says to his wife than he is to the others, nothing to them, but his wife's whole happiness treats her. Nor does the fact that .. . the outside If he can be polite and courteous same gracious speeches to because his attitude means is dependent on the way he he over\;vorkn excuse a man’s irritabllity at home. Nine wives out of ten would rather have a little more amiability in their husbands and less money, if they had to choose between the two. The beloved husbands and wives are not those who work themsel ves into a state of nervous irritability for their families. They are those who keep themselves calm, and good natured, and pleasant to live with. To expect other people to overlook our temper and forgive the cross and cruel speeches that we flash out at t (Copyright, 1925.) too much of human nature. IN THE GARDEN hem without provocation is expecting DOROTHY DIX. WITH BURBANK As Reported by Elizabeth Urquhart and Edited by Luther Burbank. it S Adding Kernels to Cob. aving learned something of how !o}fio it the amateur who seemed to be doing nothing but asking questions was now eager to hedr of Mr. Bur- bank’s experiments with corn, both useful and ornamental. “My first experiments with corn were in 1870 and 1872, about the time of the creation of the Burbank po- tato,” he sald one morning. “On raising corn for the market I soon realized the value of an early variety from a commercial point of view, and so I soon devised a method of forcing corn which I continued profitably for several years. The method was simple enough and consisted in ger- minating the corn before planting, after making careful selection of the earllest ripening ears and saving them year after year. “The corn was planted in leaf mold, was kept in the right condition of heat and moisture and soon sprouted. When the roots were from twe to-six or eight inches long and the tips an inch high, the corn was planted in drills, by dropping it in without re- gard to the position of the roots.” “On their heads or their heels? And upside down? Did they grow just the same?” “Just the same. They were covered with a half-inch layer of loose soft soll, and the next day some of them had already sprouted through the sofl. The ears of this forced corn ripened a full week earlier than any other corn, and reached market long before any other variety. “The growth of the corn was also stimulated by bone meal or by some fertilizer containing nitrogen and phosphates cultivated into the soil about the roots. . “This was, of course, a result of selection and special sprouting, but in the case of the “Burbank” corn and the Rainbow corn, the sameprin- principal of selection was pursued. The Rainbow corn was the result of careful selection carried through many generations and with many plants. The parent form was itself a varfation from the common green- leaved dwarf corn, a Japanese variety known as Zea mais variegata. *“The parent form was brought from Germany in 1908, and was known as Japanese maize corm, but among the plants raised the first season were only two stalks that were really striped in new colors, the other plants having green and white leaves, like the ancestors. The first satisfactory plant which appeared after rejecting many thousand in- ferior ones was increased by cut- tings or suckers, a new process with corn, and from these other cuttings were taken, and were all, after root- ing, planted with the original plant. “Corn must be planted together in companies as it is reproduced by the pollen from the tassel reaching the | silken threads leading to each kernel of corn in the ear, and the winds of heaven are called into play in this process. Hence the great need of planting only good varieties of corn in the same patch; if seed is to be saved, nowhere else do evil communi- cation corrupt good manners so essen- tial In well bred corn! “The seeds from this original plant and these produced by selection were planted after selecting the one best plant, and from them about six hun- dred plants were raised. The next step in the experiment was raising a crop of corn -from the suckers of this new plant, and from these plants was produced, after several genera- tions, a race of corn with beautifully striped leaves of many striking and vivid colors.” Mr. Burbank, therefore, has given us a new decorative plant which is an ornament to any garden, and which is as easily grown as ordinary corn. It has found a welcome from Canada to Australia, and its unusual coloring well merits the name it bears. (Copright. 1925.) PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. Noted Physician and Author. Massage of Ear Drum. Considerable benefit is often derived from massage of the tympanic mem- brane—the ear drum—in cases of an- noying head noises (tinnitus), verti- go, faintness, and deafness. Impres- sive apparatus Is frequently used for this purpose, the psychological ef- fect being perhaps of some value in the cases of persons who like to try novel treatments. But the actual physical effects of the massage may | be obtained nearly if not quite as well by the use of on own hands as by the use of apparatus. Self massage by hand is more likely to be applied regularly. It can scarcely do any harm. One method is this: Insert the pulp of the middle finger in the opening of the ear canal (one or both ears), drawing the tragus (that little tab in front of the opening) forward and pressing the finger as deeply into the canal as possible without discomfort. The idea is to get the pulp of the finger firmly seated in the opening of the ear canal. Now by very slight vibration or pumping movements in and out you furnish a massage which influences the ear drum chliefly by suction. The movements may be car- ried on as slowly as one in a second or as rapidly as elght or ten in a sec- ond, and for a period of one to two minutes, regularly two or three times daily. Another method not quite so effec- tive, though easier to use, is this Place the flat of the hand over the ear as you would if you were trying to shut out all sound, and alternately press the hand against the ear and release the pressure with a pump- ing movement. If the palm is in contact in just the right way this will influence the ear drum, chiefly by air compression. % These methods of massaging the ear drum are not likely to work any miracle and I suggest them only for the use of persons subject to chronic vertigo, or head noises due to_ear trouble. - (Copyright, 1925.) HOW IT STARTED BY JEAN NEWTON. “Crisscross.” This word, used today to describe writing or markings which cross each other, owes its beginning to an inter- esting circumstance. “Crisscross” is a corruption of “Christcross,” the reference being to the old English 'school system of teaching little children their letters. In the “A B C Horn Book,” as one of the earliest primer text books was called, the letters of the alphabet were arranged in the form of a cross. This was “Christcross.” Later, when the letters formed lines, a cross was placed at the beginning to remind the pupils of their sacred guidance. In a poem called “The Hornbook,” by the old English poet, Tickell, we the following: ‘—— mortals never shall know more than contained of the old in 1925 MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Adjusting Hats. One Mother Say: I sometimes find that my chil- dren’s hats slip down on the head too far. This may be quickly and easily remedied by sewing a small tuck in the lining all the way around, or just in back or front, as required to make a right adjustment on the head. (Copyright, 19: . ittle Be Ma got another letter from my Ant Fanny about my little n Herbit today, saying in it, Deerest Pawleen my husband and I were all reddy 1: week to make up our minds to decide to have little Herbit follow the pro- fession of medicine, or in other werds to make a doctor of him. We have allways noticed that wen our cat duzzent feel very well Herbit takes an exceptional intrist in him and pulls him this way and that like a confirmed osteopath or something, but one day last week he went even a step ferther, apparently, and we were sure he had a natural leening tords a doctors life. It happened this way. One of the naybers children, Bobby Russell by name, came in to see Herbit and brawt a hole box of chocklits with him that somebody gave him for his berthday or some sutch reason. Well envway, the 2 of them got off together in one corner of the house and gorged themselfs with these chocklits like a cupple of cannibals until suddinly but naturally Bobbys sistem could stand no more and he was taken violently fll. Well, we put him to bed and tele foned his mother and she rushed in with a doctor, but the strange part was we couldent keep little Herbit out of the room by fair meens or fowl. Of corse he wasent reely in the way and only got under the doctors feet 2 or 3 times, but the doctor seemed to be a naturally clumsy man | Enyway, Herbit kepp following the docters every move with the greatest attention, and my husband and I kepp nudging each other, and finally Her- bit sed, Do you think he will get bet- ter, doctor? Tmagine that, jest as serious as the grave, the docter sed, “Yes, but he must be careful of his diet for a week at leest.”” and Herbit sed, “Well the candy would be stale by that time.” And he rushed out to hide the rest of it, and that ahowed us our mistake and ‘my husband thinks his leenings may be more political than medical after all. Write soon your loving sis- ter Fanny. Bistory of Pour Name BY PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAN. PEPPER RACIAL ORIGIN—English. SOURCE-—An occupation. Many terms which were in common use ig medieval days are either un- common or obsolete today, and many words and terms which are usual today had not come into gen- eral use at the period when family names were being formed. ‘Why have we no such English fam- ily name as “‘Carpetmaker”? Because virtually the only floor covering used in those days consisted of rushes or hay. Why is there no such family name as “Physician”? Because in those days they were known rather ap “leeches,” and we have the fam- ily name of Leeche or Leach. We have no trade today which cor- responds exactly to that from which the family name of Pepper was taken. Jt we were forming the name today from the name of the trade, we would have to call it Spicer or Spicegrinder. though the “spicer” of the Middle Ages corresponded to our modern grocer. “Pepperer” is really the older form of the family name. The pepperers were the grinders and the sellers of pepper, specialists in that one article of trade. The repetition of the “er” syllable, however, became clumsy on the tongue, and the natural tendency was to shorten it to Pepper, though the reference was still to the trade and not to the article. N Strawberry Pudding. Beat one-third cupful of butter to a cream. Gradually beat in one cupful of sugar, one well beaten egg and alternately half a cupful of milk and one cupful and three-fourths of flour sifted with two slightly rounded tea- spoonfuls of baking powder. Bake in a shallow pan for about half an hour. Cut in squares and serve with a bas. ket of strawberries, washed and drained, then crushed with a cupful and a half of granulated sugar or two generous cupfuls of powdered sugar. Cream may also be served if liked. Answers to Yesterday’s Puzzles. OIS T RRRDATE] N AL [T]1[ONI [EIMINJAINITIS IAE] [RINE GIRANNAL L [PREISITIO| Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter in a pan. Add one cupful of cold mashed baked beans, then beat thoroughly. Add ome-half a cupful of hot milk, mix well, then add one scant cupful of soft American cheese cut fine, and one teaspoonful of Wor- cestershire sauce. S{ir until the cheese is melted. Pouf over toasted or crisp crackers. NVERSHEISIEN ElF U] lba | woula WOMAN’S Ramble Around South America BY RIFEEY. Thirty-First Day. TIAHUANACO, Bolivia, February 26—The tra!n goes clattering along over the roof of South America. The | Altaplanici of Bolivia, the Republic of the Clouds, is the -oof of the New World, as Tibet is tht of the Old. A region of 66,000 square miles raised over 12,000 feet above the level of the sea. A little world alone. Xere nothing seems new, and all is different—life, scenery, below. The west side of this lofty tableland tumbles down abruptly to a rainless coast. The other side slopes down into unmeasured miles of tropical forest and jungle—the heart of South America. South America, not Africa, is the Dark Continent. The largest unex- plored and unoccupled fertile space on the earth’s surface lies in its center. A “Lost World” indeed! But here we are in tumbled-down Tiahuanaco—13,000 feet above the sea. Anclent monuments of a_mysteri- ous past rise up out of the broad plateau and scattered about are broken remnants of a pre-Incaic civili- zation that flourished here at the time when King Tut was building his tomb in faraway Egypt. No doubt one day a great earth- quake brought down these immense walls, which are supposed, when erected. to have been on the shore of Lake Titicaca, now 12 miles distant A few Kundred yards away is a great terraced mound of earth, sup- ported by stone walls, which occupies an area 620 by 450 feet, and is 50 feet high. Once upon a time this was a palace of some prehistoric king, who no doubt took himself serious! little thinking that he and all of his people would soon vanish from the earth and leave but a few stones to tell their tale. Truly, all vanity—time the only lasting thing. All' about me are immense walls with doorways and archways still i tact; human figures and animal carved from solid rock; doorways and archways covered with carved images, figures and designs, the significance of which no one has been able to dis- cover. One such archway, which is near the raflway station, is used by the boys of the pueblo as a target for rifle practice The size and extent of these ruins and the immense size of many of the stones make all conjecture as to their origin futile, as there are no known quarries of similar rock with in many miles and it is beyond the possibilities that such immense stones climate. | The tropics can be seen 10,000 feet | tumbled | were ever moved long distances and placed in position by mere man-power It is said that in the building of this railway hundreds of carloads of | these priceless ruins of an unknown | civilization were broken up and used in the grading and in construction of THE MAN MoNoL'TH culverts; thus does age progre: The train moves on across the | broad plateau at almost an even grade, rising only about 1,000 feet in the 40 miles Suddenly we seemed to come to the edge of the horizon. A jumping-off place! The whole world before us fell away and tumbled down into : huge chasm. At the bottom—1,200 feet down—lay the colorful city of La Pa It was as thougl had picked up dropped it 1 of the Colorado. Rising in awesome majesty behind was the hoary head of mighty Ilii mani, reaching 24500 feet into the clouds Altogether the most startling sight I have ever seen! this commereial some giant hand Reno, Ne the Grand Car Our Chfldi‘en—By Angelo Patri Going Away. It sometimes happens that a child is set wrong during the first ears of his life. He may have been or some one in the house was ill, or there was some one in the family who made it impossible to train him properly. Whatever the cause, he is what is usually termed “spoiled.” A spoiled child has been known to break up a whole family. He gets on one's nerves. People have to work hard these days to keep afloat, and there is not much nerve energy to spare at the close of the day. Home should be a restful, happy place. It be if it were not for this spoiled child. Everybody realizes now that he is a great burden to himself and«he others, but what can be done? One of the best things to do, if it is at_all possible—and it is worth a sacrifice—is to send him to a good boarding school for a time. Here he meets children of his own social age. He will get more training from the children than he ever will get from the best-intentioned adult in the world. The routine of the school sets the stage for a certain, definite action, and unless he tries very, very hard he cannot but follow the order of the He is surrounded by people who are intelligently interested in his best and they s v to check At home he and his concerns must take their turn, but in the right kind of school he and his concerns come first and are attended to without flour- five | ish or drums. He is always in the | center of things, but because the | whole hool is set for that he is ur | conscious of i iin his group | pwadays there e S0 ma: | schools that are prepared to take cara | of the special child that it would seern | too bad that parents or children should | suffer from each other's shortcomings | It is not the children’s fault, at tha | This is an adult’s world, and there has been little thought taken for the chi dren in it The houses are built for | the grown.ups, the furniture is made for them, the food is cooked for them, and all the parties in the house are for them Once in a_while t children have a party, but the grow ups usually dominate that, too. In a good school the world for the children. Everything that goes on there is intended for them, from the furniture to the dessert There are es for play and pl for rest. There are things to do in one’s leisure time and lots of com panions to enjoy them with. The peo- ple here are children, and that makes a world of difference to the child who has been spoiled in a world of adults So it happens now and then that there is a child who would be better off in a good school than in his home. In the Summertime the camp offers an opportunity for this readjustment between children and home. Ther are many fine ones, and they are scat tered all over the country, so that no one need too field in 1 search. nd goes along ‘The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copsright, Fear. Goddess of the chase. Gtherwise. Stone-cutter. Era. Mark of a wound. Kind of terrier. Spanish definite article. Employs. Trade. Prickly shrubs. Possessive pronoun Senior (abbr.). Girls’ name. High, broad tableland. Lines from center to cricumfer- ence. 32. , Musical instrument. 33.” To roam. 34, To wander. 35. To put in position again. Down. 1. Ladies. Literary composition. Lairs. Solid-horned ruminant. Bitter cathartic. One of the three Musketeers. Shades of red. Places of sacrifice. Bird. Diminishes. She-bear (used in names of con- stellations). Divisible by two without re- mainder. French unit of square measure. Comparative suffix. Employs. One being carried. 19230 Approaches. Around. Swampy. One who imitates. Prices realized on Swift & Company sales of carcass beef in Washington, D. ( for week ending Saturday, April 18, 19 on shipments sold out, ranged from 11.50 Gents to 18.00 cents et pound and averaged 15.69 cents per pound.-—Advertisement y life is Full I make 2 sort of virtue of &dm;tling n;‘] mistakes.