Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1925, Page 24

FE ATURES. A “Safe and Sane” Celebration BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. WHEN THEY Children should 1 celebrating the Fourt safe and sane way to be one of special joy for since they were permitted to make all the noise they wanted to. Clatter and explosions were the order of the day, and_anxious par rejoiced when a Fourth passed and no child of theirs was on the list of casualties. tunately this sort of celebrating _has practically disap peared in the District of Columbia But the day should lose none of its glamour for the little folk if we can help it. One feature can be accented to zood effect, and that is the parade. I children have one of their own they will be fascinated. The children of a neighborhood will bubble over excitement at the idea, which is not taxing for adults to carry out Head Parade With Drum Invite the children to come at some definite hour to vour house and when they have gathered on the lav them in line, the little tots fi graduate them according to Get some one among the children who can beat a drum to head the pr slon. If you can get one two persons who play wind instrumen: to help out in the music, much the better. Regalia and Flags. ‘The children should be requested to come in regalia. They can so easil be made from crepe paper or som patriotic touches be given ordinar clothes by means of emblems, sashes or scarfs, which can be of crepe paper also. Tricorne hats can be folded from gay paper, or even from new papers. It is well for the person get- ting up the parade to have some extra insignia for children who forget to ve jolly of July Ay times in a used them by BEDTIME STORIES The Greedy Babies. Who gobbles more than he may need A farr example 1s of grecd 0l Nother Nature. There was a lot of talk in the Old Orchard. Yes, sir, there was a lot of talk. You see, by this time all the feathered folk in the Old Orchard knew that little Mrs. Chippy the Chip- ping Sparrow was bringing up one of the children of Sally Sly the Cowbird, und that Mrs. Sunshine the Yellow Warbler was bringing up another of s children. What they didn't know was that a_third of those Cow. bird Labies was in the nest of Little %é% *IT IS A SHAM EXCL. GOLDIE THE ORIOLE Friend the Song Sparrow down by the Emiling Pool. Had they known that their tongues would have wagged even faster than they did. In the nest of Mr. and Mrs. Chippy were four of their own babies hesides Eally Sly’s great big baby. The latter was so much bigger than the others that in spite of all Chippy and Mrs. Chippy could do he managed to get more than his fair share of the food He would snatch it out of their bills | as they w of the othe re trying to give it to one s. Having more food than the others, he grew faster, faster he grew the easier it was for him to grab more than his share of food. So Mr. and Mrs. Chippy were working themselves to skin and feath ers trying to supply enough food for their big family. The same thing was happening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sunshine the Yellow Warble “It is a shame!" exclaimed Goldie the Oriole. “It rageous. If I were Little Mrs. Chippy I'd let that greedy Cowbird starve. [ wouldn't give it a mouthful of food.” n that case you would let your own bables starve,” declared bright- eyed Kitty the Catbird. *Mr. and Mrs. Chippy can't help themselves, and that's all_there is to it. I've watched them, and I've seen that greedy young rascal snatch worms from their bills in spite of all they could do. They never should have hatched that egg out. It would have been better to have left their nest and eggs and built 2 new nest somewhere else.” Mra. Goldie tossed her head. “Jell,” she declared, “if I couldn’t Mrs. the | with | and the | simply out- | IN PAR PECIALLY ARRY wear any an not to have |are impor who may be very sorry v decorations. Flags and whether in costume or not ezch child should curry one to e a patriotic aspect to the proces | sion Parents Interested. s vou have promoted these little neighborhood Fourth of {July parades you have no idea what a merr 1 exciting time the little B¢ have ¥ parents will be almost s the children, for they, too, should be asked to come and see | the lines form. Some will follow the | parade—in . most of them are apt to—and all will be back to give a final round of ause to the marchers they break lines Refreshments for AllL | The hostess should have refresh- 'n\nr\{.\‘ ready to serve every one. 1 knowuof one family who have a great bag of peanuts, a peck or more, and | children (and parents, too) can | erous supplies of the nuts. person is given a paper bag for 0 the grounds are not littered. Lemonade is ready to quench thirst. Parents of those marching may club and the light refreshment Imay include ice cream and cake ol The ices may be served in o dishes are required | By making the refr | of the occasion | cream be: | Fourth of | Homemade one of shments a feature serving cakes and ice des ‘the lemonade July festivity is cakes are the n to nd the ice cream may be home- Dividing the it makes each family pay an insignificant sum, |and neighborly sociability is promoted. | Sitting in the shade chatting and eat ing ice cream after marching certainly ’ aling to adults as well as children. » celebration becomes a real party BY THORNTON W. BURGES keep him from getting food I would Jjust throw him out of the nest. That" | Wwhat I'd do!" She even went to M Chippy with this suggestion. Little Mrs. shook her rus- set-capped , vou wouldn’ said she. “You wouldn’t treat a help- less, innocent baby like that. It isn't that baby's fault. It isn't right to blame the baby for what its mothe: did. T can't let the poor thing starve “No danger!” exclaimed Mrs. Goldie as the greedy little Cowbird snatched a worm from the bill of little Mrs. Chippy, a2 worm she was tryving to give to one of her own babies. “You are too tender-hearted. You and Chippy are altogeths too tender-hearted Little Mrs. Chippy sighed. “It is all very well for you to talk, Mrs. Goldie,” said she, “but if you were in my place vou would do just what I am doing. If he didn’t have such an ap petite it wouldn’t be so hard. But he is growing so fast that perhaps he will soon be able to leave the nest and look out for himself. Then Chippy and I can give all our care to our own babies “You'll be lucky if you have any babies left alive by that time,” re- torted Mrs. Goldie. “‘Never in my life have 1 seen such a greedy, ugly youngster, excepting the one over in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sunshine. | They are just as silly as you and Mr. Chippy. Their own yvoungsters look half starved, while the little impostor- of Sally Sly's is fo fat that he's actu- ally beginning to crowd the others. ver in my life have I seen such greedy youngsters as those little Cow birds.” (Copyright, 1925, by T. W. Burgess.) Parking With Peggy “Often a girl who can't swim achieves a wonderful stroke just by buying herself a new one-piece sull g THE EVEN The parrit pop bawt ma for her berthday hasent started to tawk yet, not even beginning to look as if it even felt like tawking, and last nite ma sed to pop, Willvum, no wonder that parrit hasent tawked vet, we havent even had the common decency to give him a name he can call his own, and how do you ixpect a parrit to tawk wen it hasent eny self respect, and how do you ixpect it to have eny self respect without a name? Now wats a good appropriate name for him? she sed Yee gods, the ony appropriate name I can think of for that berd is Mutt, pop sed. He's a Brazilian parrit, so if he had a good Brazilian name it mite incour. age him, how is Cocoa, izzent that a produck of Brazil? me sed. Do you wunt to drive him to drink? Call him Stupid, that awt to make him feel naturel, pop sed. Now Willyum, T dont wunt to heer another suggestion that reflects on his caracter, ma sed. Wat he needs is a name that will stir his ambitions and start him tawking. How about Alix- ander? she sed. Do vou think he looks like a rag- time band? pop sed. Certeny not, I was thinking of Alix- ander the Grate, ma sed. Help aid sucker, pop sed, and ma sed, No, Napoleon would be still bet- ter, because Napoleon was a silent man who jest stood erround with his arms crossed and dident tadk till he had something to say. and this parrit seems to have the same kind of a dis- position, I cant think of enything be ter than Napoleon, can you Willyum? Yes, Indian Club, pop sed. Wats the sents to that? ma sed, and pop sed, Well, I dont dare come rite out and say Dumbell. Willyum, that parrits name is Na- poleon, me sed. Wich it is. COLOR CUT-OUT LITTLE BOY BLUE. | Here's Little Boy Blue. “How do you do!" says Little Boy Blue. “I'm very glad to meet you." And we are pretty sure that you are glad to meet Litle Boy Blue, too. He has come to play with you and Little Bo-Peep, who 1s very special friend of his. Little Boy Blue has brown eyes and hair. Color his suit blue, of course. That is the reason that every one calls him “Little Boy Blue''—because he almost always wears blue. We hope you didn't think it was because his disposition was blue, for Boy Blue's disposition is bright golden in color and just as sunny as one's could possibly be. Make Boy Blue's shoes and stock- ings and little bow tie tan. Mount him on a piece of heavy paper—a magazine cover will do—cut him out and save him till tomorrow, when the story will begin, with a pretty suit for him to wear. MODE MINIATURES A bright-colored scarf and bag strike up a happy alliance, and who could resist the idea? For in Summer a can play so conspicuous part. Its burst of brilliance adds the zest and dash that we enjoy in outdoor tog- gery. And the subtle barmony intr duced by a matching purse few women fail to appreciate. The scarf is most often of crepe de chine, double, fairly narrow and per- haps of the new vivid pansy shade. The bag, beautifully made of morecco leather, is very apt to be the flat un- der-arm type, still considered smart. NARGETTE. e Currant Sherbet. Boil together two cups of water and two cups of sugar for 10 minutes. skim, cool and add three cups of cur- rant juice and one heaping teaspoonful of powdered gelatin dissolved in one gill of boiling water. Turn into a freezer, and when half frozen add the stifly beaten white of three eggs, with three tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar. Continue freezing until very firm, remove the dasher, pack and set aside for two hours before serving. AT A Huckleberry Pudding. For huckleberry pudding, sift ene pint of flour with one and a half tea- spoonfuls of baking powder and a lit- tle salt. Add half a cup of sugar and beat in one tablespoonful of butter. Stir in enough milk to'make a batter that will drop from a spoon, then in- corporate quickly one pint of washed, dried and well floured huckleberries. Pour the batter into a well buttered pudding mold, cover with buttered pa- per and steam ‘for one hour. Serve the pudding hot with hard or liquid sweet suce. I l The Tragedy of Rubber- Stamp Children Begs Parents to Concede Individuality to Offspring DorothyDix Many a Girl Would Be Saved From a Foolish Marriage and Many a Boy Would Never Be a Failure if Parents Would Only Stop Trying to Make Their Children Replicas of Themselves. INOT long ago a pretty and attractive young girl whom T know, the only child of wealthy and doting parents, ran away from home and married a very ordinary young man of the near-Bohemian type. When asked why she did such a foolish thing, she replied “1 did it to escape straightening up closets.”” And then she added by way of explanation: “You know, my mother is a model housekeeper. Her idea of a perfect day fs one that you spend cleaning up the attic, and in which you go §hroush all the trunks and boxes of old, musty. mildewed, moth- eaten clothesdthat belonged to grandmother and grandfather and Aunt Sally and Uncle Tom, and Cousin Jerusha, and brush them and fold them and put them back again exactly in the same place in which they have been for the last 25 or 30 vears. You emerge from the ordeal weary and worn and covered with cobwebs and dirt, but thrilled with the knowledge that if you were suddenly to drop dead your attic would do you proud. “Whenever mother would arise in the morning with a glad light in' her eve T knew she was Roing on these orgies of cleaning, and that as soon as breakfast was over she would say, ‘Come on, daughter, we are going to straighten out the linen closet,’ or ‘We are going to put away the blankets,’ or ‘We are going to turn out the china cupboards,’” and finally I got to the place where I couldn't stand it any longer and I bolted. And 1 picked out Ernesto for a husband because he is trying to be an artist, and is as poor as a church mouse, and he will probably never be able to have a house, or an attic, or a linen closet, and that will leave us free to do the things we want to do, instead of working ourselves to death taking care of a lot of useless plunder. “ s e $I\JOW. I am not criticising my mother. I love her. 1 admire her, but it Just happens that we don't like the same things or enjoy doing the same things. Her very soul revels in embroidered doilies and monogrammed table linen, and the knowledge that her piles of sheets and napkins were not absolutely mathematically straight would keep her awake at night. “These things mean nothing to me. Housework bores me to tears, so why should I spend my life doing what I loathe and despise when the world is full of congenial work that I enjoy doing? Mother is shocked and hurt with me now. and I am sorry I had to wound her, but I had to get away from those closets or perish.” There are thousands of other girls like this one, who marry to get away from home because their wothers try to make replicas of themselves out of their daughters instead of recognizing that their daughters have & right to their own individuality. And when this happens you never know whether you are sorrier for the mother or for the girl. Because it is a blighting disappointment to a mother not to find in her daughter the companion she expected. Ever since the doctor laid the little squirming mite In her arms and sald, “It's a fine girl, madan..” she has dreamed of the time when her daughter would be grown, when they would be pals who would enjoy every- thing together and when she would live over her life again in her girl's life, and perhaps do the things, and have the adventures vicariously that she did not have in her own youth. If the mother is & domestic woman, she has thought of how nice it will be when she and Sally can cook, and jell. and sew together. If she is an ambitious woman, she is glowed with triumph as she has thought of Marion’s taking honors at college or being a successful writer or a great singer. If she was u belle and beauty in her day, she has looked forward to sharing in Maud's social glories and tasting on her lips the flavor of her daughter's romances. And here is Sally, who hates the kitchen and can't sew on a button straight. And here is Marlon, who is nothing but a pretty flapper without two {deas under her bob. And here is Maud, who is a highbrow from whom men flee, who loathes parties and balls and pretty clothes, and who is a predestined and foreordained girl bachelor. JT s hard on mother to have all her plans and hopes and dreams wrecked, and it is hard on the girls whose mother nags and frets at them as she vainly tries to fit round pegs into square holes. But the fault is nature's, who doesn't always deliver the kind of a baby that the parents: have ordered And the same thing happens with fathers and sons. They, too, are often made of different clay. They, oo, often have not one thought nor impulse nor talent in common, and there is tragedy in this. For many a man breaks his heart when his son refuses to go into the business that he has spent his life building up for him, and many a son is broken on the wheel of life because his father forces him into some profession or occupation for which he has no aptitude because the father was determined that the boy should follow in his footsteps. When parents say that thev are disappointed in their children they nearly always mean that their children are different from themselves Instead of being merely rubber stamps. They don't want to do the same things that mother and father do, or eat the things that mother and father like, or clean out the closets, or be green grocers, and so mother and father think them all wrong. If mothers and fathers could only make up their minds to concede to their children the right to their own individuality, it would save many a girl from making a foolish match and many a boy from failure. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1925.) The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copsright. 1925.) Kind of tree. Slightly warm. Steps over a fence. Become. Cruel man. Regular. Horrible. Certain card. ‘Worn out. Chance. Light refreshment. Seatter. Hayloft. Steering apparatus. Free access. Sodium carbonate. Otherwise. Even (contracted). Selt-centered one. Regretful. Joint. Surrender of rights. Sea anemone. Goddess of love. ‘Wonderment. Uncanny. Man's name. Purity. K Tag. Manifests. Furze. Produce & copy of, Ship of Jason. Hawalian food. Wicked. Kind of vegetable. Poorly. Name of a tyrant. Female sheep. Kind of snake. Gain. Answers to Yesterday’s Puzzles. Down. That particular. Kind of fish (plural). In addition. Certain playing cards. Be sorry for. Boredom. Philippine tribe. Supreme Norse deity. Be shaken tq and fro. Clemency. ‘Backbone. Is regretful. Something new. Interval. Rise up. Sacred poem. Kind of bird. Shelter. Seize (colloquial). Employ. [AIMOIUIN[TTS] [eiNT]) iclE JNIOIR] [TINIT] wiiiT] A A[OTO I} |7 EE]EK] ING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1925. SUMMERTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. Butterfly Weed. What sight in June is so rare.as the butterfly weed, that orange flame upon the hills of Maryland and Virginia this week. Not a flower in the Dis- trict makes so gaudy a show, with its splash of brilliant orange lining even the dustiest, weedlest roadsides. Tt 1s one of those flowers which you are welcome to pick: there is plenty for all. But it has a predilection for hot places, and rumor will have it that chiggers abide on its stems. But pretty a cut flower though it is, you will never cease to regret it if you put it in your garden unless it has a lot to itself, for the color screams at everything else—blue, red and ma- Jenta, and above all phlox-purple. Yet nature does not hesitate to put phlox and butterfly weed side by side at times. In a strictly wild setting with plenty of neutral green the effect is endurable—or just barely so. The butterfly weed is a milkweed. botanically viewed, though it has no milky juice and only minuter beauties of the symetrical floral structure would reveal the kinship. Pleurisy root is another name for butterfly weed, but obsolete virtues of the root attributed to it by old country doctors gave it this name, the men of our times have forgotten, with so much more of plant lore. HOW IT STARTED BY JEAN NEWTON. “Jack‘Robinson.” Opinion differs as to the proper duration of a social call. “Anywhere from 10 minutes to a haif hour,” says the woman who has a social secretary and whose daily job is “calling,” to the tune of tea and wafers. “All afternoon,” sayvs the bourgeoisie, who takes along her knitting and sit down to coffee and cake. “And then say some, “it all depends upon the call. On some occasions and with different people we stay longer than others.” But Jack Robinson. was a man whose calls never varied. He never stayed long enough to wear out his welcome. In fact, hardly had he been announced, hardly had the servant who admitted him spoken aloud his name than he was gone. So, as you see, “before you can say Jack Robinson” has no reference to the time it takes to say it. “As long as you can see Jack Robinson” would be more in order with its origin and HOME NOTES BY JENNY WREN. These French peasant chalrs of rich brown walnut are representative of a type that is coming into popular favor along with other furnishings of cottage like simplicity. The Normandy armchair at the left is particularly noteworthy because of its squab cushions, which are made trom Provence peasants’ quilted petti coats, a material known as ‘“touye.” They are extremely gay and quaint in effect. The chair at the right is typical of the old chairs found in the chateau country. It has a woven seat of mel- low-toned rushes. These pileces have a pleasant grace and simplicity which ullow them to be suitably combined with our well- belgved early American furniture or with the quiety elegant eighteenth century English styles—particularly those showing Sheraton and Heppel- white influences. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. A Laundry Aid. One mother says: I save myself stooping by having a small enamel pail for the little things I wash for baby. This takes the place of a clothes basket, as I fasten it to the line with a large blanket pin and slide it along as I hang things up. My Neighbor Says: Oatmeal will remove smoke stains from a wall. Before applying polish to a chair or table the furniture should be well wiped over with a cloth wrung out of lukewarm water tp which a little vinegar has been added. This cleans the wood, and a clean serface will take a much more brilliant pol- ish than a dirty one. Eggs that are to be kept should be stood on the small end and not the broad end. . ‘To remove brown marks from china put the articles in a saucepan with cold water and a lump of soda. Put the pan on the stove and let it boil for 15 minutes. Then rinse the china well. amd you will find that the marks have disappeared. ‘White materials that are yel- low with age may be restored by soaking them in butermilk. if only slightly yellowed, a few days are sufficient to render the material perfectly white, but in severe cases more time is re- quired. Change the milk occa- sionally. Stale cheese is never pala- table. Try wrapping it up in a cloth steeped in vinegar for a couple of hours or so. lamp pthoughts flying ahead. WOMAN’S PAGE. The New “Paquin Silhouette” BY MARY MARSHALL. Prolonged and intense heat in early June, to which most Americans were treated, seems to have sent our Having gone through the sort of hot spell that does not usually strike us until August has put us in an August frame of mind—we have worn our thinnest frocks, discarded wraps, worn lightest we could discover have been carrying parasols and it it COAT OF BLACK SATIN, SHOWING NEW JAQUIN SILHOUETTE were nearly harvest time. So it is no wonder that our thoughts shoot ahead to the question of early Autumn clothes. Whether or not the intensely warm weather early in the ®eason is respon sible for this, the fact is that people are already talking about styles for next Autumn. There seem to be great curiosity—more so than usual— and any one who could give peeps ahead to the coming fashion at 10 cents a peep would make a fortune, the | because almost every woman would like to get a glimpse. There is much talk of a revival of back fullness. At the same time wa hear enough praise of Paquin's new silhouette to realize that all the smart clothes of the Autumn are mot going to show a backward fullness. Some of them are going to show that curious fan-shaped front flare which is associ ated now with the name of Paquin ‘We have, in fact, an entire silhou ette that goes by the name of this distinguished French maker of clothes om a glance at the sketch you may derive an impression of this new con tour much more quickly and clear than you would from words. Y might liken it to the graceful outline of the cuckoo's or bluejay’s body with tail outspread—only the spreading ta appears at the front. The coat shown in the sketch is of black satin, with light fur at the front—a Summer coat, to be sure, but of a fashion that most women wiil not attempt until Autumn. What Tomorrow Means to You BY MARY BLAKE. Cancer. The slight improvement that was noticed in today's planetary as pects toward the latter part of the evening continues, even in great force, tomorrow until at about noon and for the rest of the day they be come distinctly favorable. It were well, under such conditions, to devote the morning to research, deliberation and preparatory work, that full ad vantage can be taken of the influence later on to embark in any enterprise or undertaking you may have in mind. A spirit of confidence and op timism will animate vou. and, as the vibrations are stimulating, it will a good opportunity for affection approachment and the plighting of troths A child born tomorrow, although practically immune from sickness during infancy, will in all probabtlit: suffer from serfous fliness befors reaching the period of adolescence. The way in which it will respond to treat ment will very largely depend on the nutrition it receives and the environ ment with which it is surrounded in its early days. It will have a strong determined character, and, at times prove to be obstinate and stubborn It will possess a violent temper, and the advantages of self-control should | be impressed upon it—even in infancy. | It will be eager to succeed and will ing to “pay the price.” | You have no very great love for ! the monotonous and practical side of | life, if tomorrow is your birthday | Rather are vou addicted to art and its | pursuits, combined with {ts pleasant | surroundings. You rarely, if ever seek advice from others, and are self sufficient and self-reliant, while abso luately indfferent to the opinions or ideas of others—although thess others may only have vour welfare at heart |in tendering vou their views. Very | frequently you display an independ ence of character and a disregard for conventionality, that is trying to those who really care for and appre ciate vou. You have very quick per | ceptions _and absorb information and | learn quickly. You also possess the happy knack of imparting the in. telligence you have acquired to others. Your nature is loving and affectionate. especially if it meets with that re- sponse which it deserves. (Copyright. 1925.) s0 l BEAUTY CHATS sy epv4 ket Forses, Mour Hands. With hands, as with eyes, their great beauty lies in expression. It never seems to occur to some women to wonder whether their hands are ex- | pressive or not. They think a beauti- ful hand must be white and quite u lessly small and fragile. Once, it is true, that was the ideal of beauty. The standard is changing. We no longer admire the helpless type of femininity. Your hands must look well cared for, but that is an easy matter in these days of labor-saving devices and scien- tifically prepared beauty lotions. We won't talk manicures today. We'll assume you know all about manicur- ing: that you do everything in vour power to have the skin of the hands smooth and white, the nails pink and perfectly polished. The next point of consideration is, how do you use your hands? An actress has groceful hands be. cause she knows how to use them You also can learn 1o use yours. Hands should express something when you talk or they should lie still, as much out of sight as possible. They should at least suggest repose, for N THE GARDEN the worst thing in the world is to see restless, fidgeting hands whose move. ments mean nothing. I think the best thing to do is to watch your own hands until you are conscious of their good and bad points. If they are rest |less, learn to keep them still; or if | they must have something to plav with, give them something useful During the war hands were graceful because they were busy. Women who | were knitting were sure to have grace- ful-looking hands You can't always be knitting, but your hands can always be occupled. hey had better play with a daint: ndbag or a fan during evening par- ties than to fuss or fidget with the | hair or some useless dress ornament Practice letting them lie idle and | gracetully relaxed when you are talk | ing. Miss E. L. §—Bleach the hair on | your arms by using peroxide sever: | times a week, after bathing and while | the hair Il damp. A long period of such bleaching will often weaken the hair so that it thins out or dles altogether. If you use a depilatory, you will coarsen the hair just as you did by cutting it. WITH BURBANK As Reported by Elizabeth Urquhart and Edited by Luther Burbank. (Copyright. by C. C. Transforming Wild Plants. “The keynote ow your work, Mr. Burbank, seems to have been not only the improvement of existing cultivated plants, but the making of wild fruits and flowers into useful and valued members of soclety,” I re- marked as we were busy in the vege- table garden. “You must remember,” he an- swered, “that all our best fruits and cereals and almost all our flowering plants were once wild plants with unprotected lives at the mercy of birds and beasts and that they devel- oped along the lines of self-protection and reproduction rather than of service to man.” “So I suppose that just as in- sects introduced color and fragrance into the floral world, so man has in-| troduced sweetness and flavor into wild fruits and berries,” I said. “Yes, and cereals and roots and bulbs as well. To illustrate with a transformation of recent date—the tomato, which is a tropical plant and has been introduced into this country within the last centur In its wild state it had a small ill-shaped red fruit about the size of a large English walnut, and was at first regarded as an ornamental plant, the tomatoes being known as love apples, and generally supposed to be Doisonous. “By accident it was discovered to be edible, the best tomatoes were saved | continued wild fruit and cultivated and long selectlon transformed th into a vegetable delicacy. The tomato belongs to the Salonum family, which has produced such widely different members as the potato, the tomato, the tobacco plant, the egg plant and the garden petunia. “These different members of the family acquired characteristics in adapting themselves to new surround- ings and the process probably co ered many thousand years, for Na- ture works slowly when producing her best results. But man in less than half a century has transformed the wild tomato into a large and delicious edible vegetabl “And there are doubtless many r such instances!” 1 remarked. ““Yes, the list is long, and includes the fruits as well as vegetables. The pear for one, which was originally— say 2,000 years ago—a wild tree growing in Asia, with a fruit probably not much larger than the seed pod of a rose, but when it was discovered to De edible, it began its transformations. “In.the course of the centuries i ot Powsll. 1925 All property rights reserved ) followed man to Europe and America and it gradually was developed through birds and bees and man into our luscious Bartlett pear. The branch that went eastward into Chira and Japan. however, never progressed beyond the hard. juicy Vi ty. suitable only for cooking and pickling. So the two varleties were produced by man according to his needs and likings.” nd our corn came from a wild too, did it not?” T inquired 'S, we owe corn to the native Indians who ‘long ago set apart and cultivated, in the lightly-scratched soil, the wild maize known as teosinte. and although not very far advanced at the time of Columbus was evan then an edible and valuable food plant. “The original teosinte had four loose rows of kernels like barley But taken out of the wilderness where . it had been starved for air and sun light, choked by weeds and destroy=. by animals, it found in man a pro- tector and it responded to its new environment by bearing more and larger seeds on a central axis or cob.” plant . Prices realized on Swift & Company sales of carcass beef in Washington, C for week ending Saturday. June . 1928, on shipments sold out, ranged from 11.00 cents to 1800 cents per pound and averaged 15.80 | cents per pound.—Advertisement. One time I climbed a mountain tall And stood beneath = waterfall OF icy water blue and clear — I wish | had that mountain here.