Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1925, Page 30

WOMAN’S Towels of Many PAGE. Different Kinds BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. I A Y G B Aot SR THE SELVE CROSS NEW ICH OR DONE IN Towels can now be had in so many different kinds and colorings that they are fascinating. Because of their di Jortance that women should know how 1ke select They should know when a small s is correct, when a large one should realize when strength particularly an asset as well as fineness should be 1d appreciate that softness are two stics each with distinct vir. tues acc to their specific use They will see t if harmony with de s towels lend another element to pleas ing decoration. And we could g0 through with an almost endless category of features to be considered when selecting towels. Some of these points deserve special consideration. An element that is of prime impor- tance is the material from which tow- els are m There are all-linen tow- els and all-cotton ones, these two there are several grades of combinatic linen and cotton. Prices vary according to just this one element, linen or the percentage in “union” toweling belng a criterion. Some housewives insist that only linen ones are to their fancy because of the absorbent nature of flax and the com- parative ease with which the linen towels are laundered. Dirt seems to oling less to linen than to cotton. Linen, Cotton or “Union. There are other housewives who be- lleve, with the present treatment of cotton in manufacture, that it is satis. actory, especially when the lower price "is taken into consideration. There certainly is a_wonderful linen ish that now can be had in cotton but does it make the cotton as absorbent as linen? This must be another gauge as well as the feel of the texture and the ease in Whether all-linen is pref- erable or a combination of cotton and linen in towels is a matter of each homemaker to determine for her own household, after weighing the argu- ment in favor of each. Strong Bath Towels. There is one kind of towel that every one will appreciate should be strong, and that is a bath towel. It is such a satisfaction to grip one end of a large Turkish towel in each hand and pull it back and forth across the back to bring a glow of reaction after a cold plunge. Men are especially pronounced in their opinion that bath towels should be strong—and that they sh be large. Now that the season has come for sea bathing or ns. 26 ‘hey is when character colors are of roon s0 of INITIALS DESIGNED ¥ ADMIRABLY TO USE ON TOW" “HOOKED' | the and between | dips in rivers and lakes, suggestions IN THE GARDEN )R READERS LEND THEM- S. THEY CAN BE IN FILET, WORK for bath towels are timely. Absorb- ent, rough towels of good size are the right sort, Guest Towels. There is a fad for having guest size Turkish towels that is a bit amusing. | Why, indeed, should guests have min- iature bath towels? It {s easy to un derstand why hand or face guest towels should be small, for these are ‘expected to be used by visitors who might be callers merely rathen than by house gue The latter should | be supplied with regulation sized tow- els. both face and bath towels. The only sensible idea in providing rough guest towels 1s that occasionally there are persons who never willingly use any ex pt rough towels, whether for drying hands and face or for drying body after a plunge. In this light, the rough towels in miniature size may well be included among guest towels, but why call them bath towels? Value of Right Size. The size, as will be seen, plays an important part in the selection of towels. Besides the large, and some- times even enormous, bath towels, and the wee guest towels, there are end less sizes from which to choose Sometimes a medium size hand towel has qualities that make it especially picked out instead of the more ample size, former! considered correct for regular For example, when fresh towels are expected once or twice a day for each member of : family, it is easy to see that they do not need to be as large as when one towel is expected to do duty for two or three days. It takes a shorter time to launder the smaller towels which g0 daily into the wash. Here is an xcellent reason for choosing some- what smaller towels, apart entirely from the lower price. Color and Initials. When it comes to color in towels, it would take a whole article to give it the consideration it deserves. So let us save that subject for another day. But I cannot close without men. tioning the fact that the filet initials that are being deslgned for readers of this paper make delightful inserts for towels. They can be done in filet or embroidered in cross stitch or they can be hooked into bath towels, to correspond with the stitch in Turk- ish towel weave. Would you like to know how this “hooking” is dpne? If so, please write and tell me so, directing to thls paper. I shall be glad to describe this work to inter- ested needlewomen and homemakers. Duck Pattern Ready. The duck design in filet has proven so popular that directions for crochet- ing have been prepared. The same pattern can be used for crossstitch embroidery if worked over canvas. A copy of the directions will be sent any reader who accompanlies the re- quest with a self-addressed and stamped envelope. Direct letters to me, care of this paper. WITH BURBANK As Reported by FElizabeth Urquhart and Edited by Luthur Burbank. More Garden Favorites. “In this next bed, Mr. Burbank, we have 2 border of marigolds with | nasturtiums bevond, and at the back, | young cosmos just beginning life. I » all three of these have pass- - your hands and will be all understood and lked for that reason “The marigold.” said Mr. Burbank, been through quite a process of tratning and education, and in some species has perhaps reached its lmit of variation, if such a state is pos- sible, but some interesting forms have been developed. “Are there wild marigolds as well?” | I asked. “Yes, there is a species from Ari- zona which grows as a shrub and bears in the Autumn single yellow flowers. This I have crossed with African marigolds and the smaller French marigolds and also with a new Bpecies from Chile which has pale, yellow flowers and a delightful fra- grance and flavor, very unlike its| garden cous! “Some of the hybrids were single| and some were double, with fringed petals symmetrically arranged like shingles on a _roof and composing a very striking flower. “Next comes gosmos, although not wet in bloom,” T said. “Yes, and cosmos belongs to the composite family and is becoming popular, although so late in blooming. This is probably because it is a sub- tropical plant and has brought its blooming habits with it.” “Has the habit been trained out of it yet?” T asked “Yes,” answered Mr. Bu’anl\. “varieties have been produced that bloom in Midsummer. They are a great addition to the garden as a background for lower growing plants, If care Is taken to make the right tolor combinations.” “Did it take long to sét the bloom- ing time ahead?" {and, if large, cut them in slices. “No, the plant was modified in a few generations, comparatively speak- ing, and this shows that it is both pliable and variable and proves it to <4 be a good menter. “New shades of color, as well as larger and finer flowers, have aiso been produced, with wider petals, and. in some cases, twisted petals, and the plant has not by any means been developed to the first limits of variation.” Have among bank too?"" “They are from Peru and Chile and there are at least 40 species of them, One of them, ‘tropaeoleum tuberosum,’ has spicy roots used as food, and the eds of the common garden variety are often used for pickles and salads, so they are useful as well as beau- tiful. “Some of them are very sensitive to cold and frost, but they stand heat and dryness well; indeed, they pro- duce more and better flowers if given little water and grown in poor soil. “My experiments have been’with South American species and some of these had bulbs that remained dor- subject for the experi- nasturtiums, -too, been improved plants, Mr. Bur- And are they from the tropics, | mant for two or three years before sprouting. “The common nasturtium has been crossed so much and cultivated so long that the flowers vary greatly, as well as the follage. The amateur ex- perimenter cannot do better than to undertake the crossing and selection of this plant. The colors are hard to ‘ix’ (that is, to come true from seed), but this difficulty should only in- crease the interest and enthusiasm.” Savory Carrots. Scrape as many carrots as requh;fdA ut in boiling, salted water, cook until tender, then drain. Put 2 ounces of butter in a saucepan, stir in 2 dessert- spoonfuls of flour and make a brown sauce. Then add a tablespoonful of minced parsely, Season to taste with pepper and salt. Thin down with a little stock and simmer for five min- utes. Add a few drops of lemon juice, put the carrots in this, heat through, then serve. ING What TomorrowMeans to You BY MARY BLAKE. Gemini. . Although you will feel’ full of en- ergy and activity tomorrow. the signs denote that there will exist an atmos- phere of uncertainty, which will re- strain you from attempting to many things which, under other con- ditions, you would carry Qut unhesi- tatingly. Such are the planetary as- pects, and they indicate that no great success can be anticipated from any new plan or project initiated. It is one of those days when it is not only necessary and essential 1o “look be- fore you leap,” but if practicable, it were better not to leap at all. De liberative thought and conservative action should guide you, as the signs are very adverse to all that is radical or that savo necessary r Children doubtedly, K. born tomorrow will, suffer much during in fancy from ailments of various do- scriptions. These, with proper care and correct nutrition, will quickly re- £pond to treatment, and there is noth- ing that indicates that they will not attain physical maturity. Their dispo- sitions will be retiring and unob- trusive. Their characters, although they will all possess very active con- science, will be lacking in courage— both physical and moral. Any stern, disciplinary measures adopted to cor: rect this fault will only accentuate it. Rather must these children be re- warded for the good things they do than punished for the foolish offenses they may commit. Only in this way can they be influenced to acquire strength of character, and made to see the advantage of right over wrong . Is tomorrow your birthday you are a creature of imy and rarely, if ever, give a thought to the consequence of either ill.considered speech, or ill-advised action, untll it is 100 late to remedy the unfortunate re- s caused thereby. You have never been able to sit down quietly and ana- lyze a situation, weighing with care the “pros” and *cons.” Rather do wu rely on intuition. Success at tained by intuition alded as a proof of its infallibi F as a result of intuition, is rarely em- phasized The signs indlcate that you possess considerable lterary ability, and {f you could train your mind to be analytical, you could, undoubtedly, write enter- tainingly and well. Well known persens born on this date are: Philip Kearney, major gen- eral; John G. Saxe, poet; George H. Corlies, inventor; Willard Saulsbury, statesman; George L. Curry, governor of Oregon; George W. Smaliey, journal- ist. un. (Copyright, 1925.) A cheering note in the newer deco rating schemes is the use of much red. Armchairs of the type shown and the more massive lounge chairs are seen everywhere with red leather up- holsteries—morocco, horsehide and goatskin. There are occasional pleces in red Chinese lacquer, such as hang- ing bookshelves. nests of tables, coffee tables and small secretary desk Among the accessories there are red parchment lamp shades and much red crystal in colonial design. There are drapery fabrics patterned with red flowers, dots and checks, and plain red chintz is often used. But in using red remember that it is disturbing in large quantities; that touches of red are better than masses and that only one kind of red should be used in any one room. (Copyright, 1926.) "MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. One mother says: Better than sandwiches our boys like meat biscuits for long hikes. Either thoroughly cooked sausage or hamburger cakes are used. Molding my bread dough into biscuits, I fold one of these meat cakes in the center of each before they are set for their last rising. Baked in the biscuit they give the bread a deliclous flavor. No butter is needed. (Copsright, 1923.) HOW IT STARTED BY JEAN NEWTON. Make Hay While Sun Shines. To show foresight, taking advan- tage of the opportunity when it ap- pears, one of the most commonly used sayings in our language is ‘‘making hay while the sun shines.” In the use of the phrase today “hay" is figurative for money or place or love or health or any other matter in which it is desirable to improve the shinning hours. But in its origin ‘making hay while the sun shines” had a literal application. It goes back to the time of Henry VIII in England, when it became the substance of a legal statute! At the time great damage resulted from the practice of careless farmers who left their hay in the fields indefinitely after it was cut and frequently saw it ruined by rainstorms before they had it under shelter. To guard against such waste, the law was passed re- quiring farmers to take in their hay as soon as it was ready. It was from this statute that the expression “mak- ing hay while the sun shines” gained popularity in common speech. (Copyright. 1925.) | do of speculation or un- | 1f 0, | The Wisdom of Being a Selfish Mother Bays Mothers Who Give All Get Nothing lDorothyDix Mothers, If You Would Be Beloved by Your Children, Keep Your Own Interests, Your Own Individuality and Your Own Income. W 1K mother wishes to hand herself a large and gorgeous bouquet she says: “I simply exist for my children. I have no life outside of them. 1 used to go out in soclety a great deal, but 1 mever go anywhere now. 1 used to read a lot, but I have given that up. My bables take all of my time. I used to be very fond of dress, but it takes so much money to buy the things the children need that T have nothing left to spend on myself. I bave given up everything for my children.” Whereupon you murmur, hypocritically: “What @ wenderful mother you are’” when what you would say to her if you spoke the truth is: “What a fool mother you are!" I'or no mother makes a greater mistake in rearing her children than the one who sacrifices herself completely to them, who lets them absorb her, body and soul, until she has no separate entity, but has her life so merged in theirs that she hasn’t an interest, a thought, or hope, or a desire of her ow | It is a nearly alw double-barreled mistake, for in the end these selfless mothers become monsters of selfishness, who devour their children's happiness. 'As a matter of fact, it takes a lot of intelligent selfishness to make u woman a good mother, and the more she preserves of her own individuality the better it is for her and her children. ¥or one thing, it 15 no kindness to a child to inflate its ego and instill in its youthful mind the idea that it is a little tin god before which every one’s peace, and comfort, and well-being must be offered up. Mother may | put Iittle Johnny and Susie on a pedestal, and burn {ncense before them, and | humbly lay the best of everything at their feet, but when they go cut into a cold and hard-boiled world they find that no one recognizes their godship and that if they get anything they have to fight for it, even as you and I R ANY a man is a failure because his mother has bred in him the belief that he is a darling of the gods, to whom success will be offered on a silver And so when the time comes when he has to work for it, he lacks ge and grit to do it. Many a4 woman gives up a perfectly good home and rushes off to the divorce court for no other reason than because her husband did not give her the blind adulation to which her mother had accustomed her and refused to | make of himself a doormat for her to walk on, as her mother had done. You cannot soft-pad life for your children. You cannot always stand between them and hardship and danger, and the good mother is the one who teaches her young ones to have grit and courage and gives them weapons to fight with, instead of babying them and trying to keep them tied to her | apron | Another mistake the unselfish mother makes is when she gives eve thing she has to her children. When they are bables she wears her las year's hat so that they can have bonnets trimmed with real lace and fur. When they are growing girls and boys ehe goes shabby, that they may have the latest things in clothes. And when they are married she turns over all her property to them, certain that they will be as generous to her as she has been to them. | But they never are. No child is ever as submerged in mother as mother is in the child. No child ever has the love for the mother that the mother has for the child, which is, of couree, perfectly natural, for the young are | absorbed in their own affairs, in their own lives, in their own children. So only too often, after a woman has impoverished herself so that her finds herself an unwelcome guest in the very house that she has given her son or daughter and is made to feel that the bread sbe is really payingggor is the bitter bread of dependence. ETWEEN mother with her own pocketbook and mother who has given away everything, and from whom rio more gain is to be hoped for, there {1s a wide gulf, and wise is the woman who has sense enough to realize that, after her children are human beings swayed by human avarice and greed, and who holds on to her own income as long as she lives. | Gratitude has been defined as a lively sense of favors to come. This is | true of one’s own children as well as other people’s children, and the surest way for even a mother to retain her children’s attention and solicitude is for her to make it pay them to be deferential to her. The chief argument, however, against mothers submerging themselves entirely in their children {s that by maintaining their own individuality they can avold becoming parasites upon their children. Lvery one knows that the presence of the mother-in-law in the house is almost always undesired. Sometimes it is a tragedy Often. of course, it is a financial necess her children because she has no other me: and the mother must live with s of support. In thousands of cases the mother is amply able to have her own home ppiness because she has lived so long for John or Susie that she has no without them. She has no friends of her own, no resources of her own. She is not | willing to go anywhere alone and so she becomes an old woman of the sea upon their backs that they have to carry around with them wherever they go. So it is that the unselfish mothers are often their own undoing and that of their children. DOROTHY DIX. fe (Copsright, . 1925.) The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright. 1925.) Having eolor. Badly. Defending one's country Monetary penalty. Instance. Rough bed. Long distance. Behold. Wither. Slight deviation Myself. Entirely. Foundations. Been stretched out. Plural of “thou.” Fixes. Flutters. Toothed tool Employ. Operatic air. Combustion. TRoughened. Accumulation. Ball of yarn. Skein of yarn. Definite artiele. Country in Europe In the direction of. Exude moisture. Finish. Equality. It is (contraction). Down. Great in quantity. Residue. Kind of fruit (plural). Concocts. Assistance. Southern State (abbr.). Tine fabric. Part of “to be.” Ourselves. Imitate. Tinlander. Answer to a charge Canceled. Initial advantages. Small boat, Double. Equal. Soa Deslst. Express gratitude Works industrious! Shoshonean Indian. Belonging to that thing. A measure. Part of a boat's equipment, Loaded. Age between 12 and 20. 11l humer. Hobbies. Give forth. Method. Rent, Measure of cloth. Exist. Three-toed sloth. Answers to Yesterday’s Puzzles. one. BRI GHT T[T B[T[O] SIEEREYOIMAR] Prices realiged on Swift & Com, e Srida ey 30688 o &y 3 e Sents sold out, ranged from hi) Rt S U ouu @ oo EMAN|TIE QAN (O] CkEEePEDPREPIO] children may enjoy her money without walting for her.death to get it, she | or live in a hotel, but she inflicts herself on her children and eopardizes their | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C; MONDAY, JUNE 1, Me and Puds 8imkins had a fite on his frunt steps this afternoon, being @ tung fite and not a fist fite, and we valled each other diffrent names sutch a8 ple face mutt and dried up shrimp and dumbell sap, and Puds sed, Well all rite, bleeve me, wen my unkel leeves me about a million dollers you'll wish you had more respeck for me, bleeve me. Aw go on, if you ever had a unkle with a million dollers you'd think it was Crissmas, T sed. Well thats all you know, because my unkel manufactures Lastiong chewing gum in his factory and he's the presi dent, Puds sed. Well wat of it, wen I get my in- vention pattented your ufikle ‘will be sorry he ever manufacktured chewing gum all rite, bleeve me, I se Aw go on, wat invention? sed. A invention to keep the taist in chewing gum without having to buy eny more, thats wat invention, I sed. gea0u cant do it, its impossible, Puds Puds Thats wat peeple sed about machines, 1 sed. ‘Well then how can you do you know 5o mutch? Puds sed. Well Ill tell you how, just carry erround some sugar and cinnamin mixed in a bag, and every time you cant talst eny more taist in your chewing gum you jest put some sugar and cinnamin in" your mouth and bring the taist back, and you can keep on doing that with one peece of chewing gum for weeks and weeks, as long as you remember ware you put the chewing gum, O boy jest wait till T get that ideer pattented, I sed. Aw rats, it would cost more for all that sugar and cinnamin than wat ft would for a hole pound of chewing gum. Puds eed, and I sed, No it wouldent, elther, it woul® 1t cost eny thing because all you haff to do is to take the sugar and cinnamin out of the house And T quick got up and wawked away before he hud time to think of another anser. fiying it, it Color Cut-Out ALADDIN'S LAMP. In distant once lived a Aladdin. He lived alone mother, who was a widow. As Alad. din’s father had died when he was still very young he had never known what {t was to have a father’s care. He and his mother were very, very poor. Here is Aladdin. the queer-looking with little Chinese lad who had all the won. | derful adventures you will read about. Color Aladdin’s suit orange, trim- med with black around the cuffs and the bottom of the coat. Make his shoes and stockings black also. Be- fore cutting him out mount him on a plece of heavy paper. The cover of a magazine will do very nicely (Copyright, 1925.) Poroupine Pudding. Boil half a pound of rice in a quart of new milk, adding one ounce of but- ter. When tender, put it to cool, then add sugar to taste, and four well beaten eggs. Mix the whole well to- gether, put it into a mold and boll for an hour. ' Stick slit almonds all over it. Serve with custard poured around it. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST Fresh Strawberries Dry Cereal with Cream Creamed Dried Beef Toast Coffes LUNCHEON Corn Chowder Crackers Baked Rice Pudding Tea DINNER Tomato Bisque Hamburg Steak Duchess Potatoes. Boiled Spinach Plain Lettuce, French Dressing Rhubarb Pie Cheese Coffee TOAST MAKING The well done or entirely dry toast is considered the more healthful. To make it, the bread should be cut in thin slices and held in the toaster sufficiently far from the fire to dry the bread before the outside is browned. TH have the toast soft inside, cut the slices medi- um thiek and teast over bright coals quickly. Toast should be buttered while hot, CORN CHOWDER One can of corn, 1 grated onion, three potatoes cut in slices, a small piece of butter, salt and pepper. After the po- tatoes are cooked, add milk un- til it is as thick as you want it. Some prefer it thickened. DUCHESS POTATOES To two cups of potatoes add one teaspoon of melted butter. Beat until light and smooth, then add six tablespoons of milk or cream and the yolks of two eggs well beaten. When well mixed and seasoned with salt and pepper, add the beaten whites. Fill hot gem pans and brown. FEATURES. Stripes Are in V BY MARY There is something in the very a pearance of striped fabri th suggests the sports frock. For after- noon and evening and rather elaborate street wear women now choose the figure-printed chiffons, but for sports wear they choose stripes The rule has always been at STRIPED FROCK, TS AT { BLUE AND WHITE | WASH SILK TWO-PIEC! WITH INVERTED PL EACH SIDE OF SKIRT stripes worn up and down were suit. jable o for women who nelther tall nor thin, but fashion now- adays seen ignore the plump woman entirely. If up and down stripes make the slender girl appear an: . then up and stripes she 1 have So it {= that a large number of the striped silk frocks are made with the stripes running Iy up and d though occasionally the stripes used in a horizontal ma by way of trimming. The sk of the favorite wa of striped wash silk s u odice, is ! verted bo The jt straight, with in at the sides. ver is opened part way Antiseptic Powder Puffs. A long time ago we did away with | such germ carriers as the public roll- er towel and the public drinking cup, to the great benefit of the communit There should be a campaign against having powder and roug for common use in the dressing |of hotels and dancing places. sure, it is not as serious a danger as the drinking !was compelled to use, but serious danger nevertheless Many hotels provide individual pu jof absorbent cotton, but as abs, icotton does mnot spread powd {well they are not often used watch ou will find number women rub skins with a powder puff t have been used by at least 50 people before them, use rouge the same way and even utilize the lipstick and oth articles of makeup that nart hotel spread in profusion over the dressing tables. now puffs oon ver If you surprising over their at m Robin Left Alone. & it is and queer How many folks are ruled by fear —Old Mother Nature My, such a lot of gossip as there was in the Old Orchard over that white baby in the nest of Welcome and Mrs. Robin! Everybody had something to say about it. Of course everybody came to look at it. Wel come and Mrs. Robin had all kinds of advice. You would have thought it was a disgrace to have a baby with a white coat could you have heard some of those feathered folk talk. Of course the little white Robin VT 1o HE WAS ALONE IN THE MIDST OF MAN knew nothing of all this, for he couldn’'t understand. He just went right on eating and growing as a healthy young Robin should. Wel- come and Mrs. Robin did their best by the little fellow. They took great care that he should have his full share of food. In fact, Mrs. Robin often picked out the biggest and fattest worms for him. You see, she had a feeling in her bones that when this young Robin started out in the Great World he wouldn't have an easy time. So she meant that he should at least have a good start. When it came time for the young Robin and his brother and sisters to leave the nest and try their wings out | in the Great World, all the sharp eyes in the Old Orchard were watching. The other young Robins were d-essed as young Robins should be dressed. They were properly speckled on thelr breasts, to show that they really be- longed to the Thrush family. But there were no speckles on the White Robin. His brothers and sisters seemed not to know just what to v were | \ BEAUTY CHATS To be | BEDTIME STORIES ogue for Sporls ARSHALIL |down the front. Often silk is made up in even si | ner, with a ight one-pi of unbroken line save the striped pler mar | | sleeves are still chosen by the woma who wishes to wear her spoct f for actual sports. These str are either of the silk shirtin: when the str I8 we of the crepe ¢ chine wher the stripe ed. The frock the sketch blue and white shir | slik. One of the spor a ome-plece frock silk a8 a regu made with buttons and down the fror | sash of th one side | the front ved silks varie! ver or are is pri hops offers f striped shirting ion golf frock. It opening—supplied il buttonhole—part way and a narrow strir which ties in loops # iscolored with fine flerward wash enamel emery n hot ware clot} water prevent add the size ¢ ter. When dren's mere. material will save muct if you press tucks, turning: moderate maki case, you rouble three-quar- o when is ters of a to make chocolate He waunts to eat vy pet camries. What different aims || we have in life— I and my strange contem; es. Rz Co BY EDNA KENT FORBES. If you use powdered rouge (as most women do these carry a | pact case containing it wherever you | go, s0 that if t retouch your ! - ri powde: ja me Ke 1 air b nbe: se a pow soiled. If you t led lamb’s wool p wash them by moment in hot wate They {or g0 { or skin erupt [ be washed i | be rinsed in stron, 80 you w by ‘using them. 1 su them in strong, hot bora boracic will dry into make the skin cool free. sq and should be washed ¢ soep ke skin trouble i not on hould s e skin good gest soaking cic water; the the puff and clean and germ BY THORNTON W. BURGESS in fact, they treated he were a nake of him ) very mu s strang His father and mother looked after him as best they could { but just as soon as he was big enough and had been out long enough to have {learned how to find his own food hey gave him little attention. In he was t fi one to really out by himself. didn’t take that young Robin ind out that he simply wasn't { wanted around by his neighbors 1f he flew over to join his own fam | they separated and left him alor ! Other birds moved off when he ca jnear. They were suspicious of him. | Yes, sir, they were suspicious of him [ You know people are very apt to be | suspicious of other people who are }a little different from themselves. It |is just the same with the little people {of ‘the Green Forest and the Gre: Meadorws. So, though this young Robin ncted just like other young Robins, anc felt just like other young Robins, and had @ voice just like other young Robins, and, in fact, did everything just as & young Robin should, he seemed to be |regarded as something queer and to be avoided, all because of his white coat, which of course was no fault of his. Old Mother Nature had given it to him, and he had had nothing to say about it Now, there is no loneliness like the loneliness of one who is alone among others. Here were other feathered folk all about, this White Robin { had no one to talk to, no one to make \friends with. He was alone in t midst of many. It seemed very hard Do you think it was unkind of the others to have nothing to do with him? Well, there was a reason. All of those other feathered foll were afraid of the White Robin Y El that is what was the trouble. They were not afraid of him personally, but they were afraid of danger that he might bring to them. You see, they knew that with that white coat he could easily be seen by enemies They knew it would be very difficult for him to keep out of sight. So didn’t want him around where thev were. So the young Robin soon found that he was not wanted in the Old Or chard and he left it. He didn't feel s0 very badly about it, because, al though he was lonesome, he didn't know how lonesome he was. You see, he had been alone all his short life. so he was used to it. He wasn't un happy. In fact, life was very good to the young White Robin. You see, he didn't know how handicapped he was. (Coprright. 1936, by T. W. Burgess.)