Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1925, Page 30

30 [T TLE STORIES rBflm&& BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. An Aching Neck. Enowledge is. we must confess, Often but a lucky euess. —0ld Mother Nature. Two and two make four. that. You also know that this is only another way of saying that two known facts added are sure to give u certain result. Peter Rabbitt may not know ny arithmetic, but he does know the wbove truth. So when Peter discovered that OI' Mistah Buzzard had brought ©Ol' Mrs. Buzzard up from the Sunny | OF OL' MRS, PLIED PETER. Bouth with him that Spring, and when a little later he saw OI' Mrs. Buzzard only now and then, he put two and two together, as the saying is. “Those Buzzards have a n clared Peter. “That is why I see little of OI' Mrs. Buzzard. All the feathered people have nests now or are getting ready to have nests. Of course, that is what OI' Mrs. Bu came way up here for. Ol' Mis Buzzard must have told her what a fine place it is up here, so she left the Sunny South to make her home he! with him. I wonder where that nest 48? I would like to see it. It must be & great big nest. Yes, sir, it must be a great big nest! Any one as big as O' Mrs. Buzzard would need a big nest. I wouldn't be a bit surprised 1t it s as big as the nest of Plunger the Osprey. Anvway, it must be big as the nest of Redtail the Haw So Peter began to spend a great deal of time looking for that nest. He had thought he would find it very easil He couldn’t imagine how such a big nest as he was sure that must be could possibly be hidden. Of course, he thought it was near that favorite tall dead tree on which OI' Mistah and Mrs. Buzzard delighted to sit. So Peter went about all around there with his head tipped back looking for a great big nest. He looked in every tree for a considerable distance around. Failure to find that nest made him only the more eager to find {t. His neck ached. Tt did so. He had tipped his head back so much that he had made his neck ache. But he hadn’t found that nest nor any sign of that nest. Early one morning he met his cousin, Jumper the Hare. As usual, Peter was hopping along with his head tipped back. He almost bumped into Jumper before he saw him. “It seems to me, Cousin Peter, you are carrying your head very high in the air,” said Jumpe: Peter grinned. something,” said he. have seen {t?” “Perhaps so. Perhaps not. tell you when I know what it are looking for,” replied Jumper. “I am looking for the nest of OI' Mrs. Buzzard,” replied Peter. “Oh!" exclaimed Jumper. ‘‘Has she & nest? I didn't know it.’ “Of course she has a nes Peter, rather testily. “Isn't middle of the nesting season? What do you think she came way up here from the Sunny South for if it wasn't to build a nest and raise a family? Why does she disappear for ever long at a time unl is sitting on e Of course, a nest. But thoush I have looked until my neck aches I haven't been able to find it. She and Mistah Bu zard are such wonderful fiyers that it must be that they have built their nest a long way from here. I wonder if it can be up on the Big Mountain?" “Why don’t you w see if they fly over there? to be replied practical Jumper. “It's a good idea. Ill try it,” re. plied Peter. (Covsright. 1925.) HOME NOTES BY JENNY WREN BUZZARD,” RE- looking for ‘I wonder if You replied it the The flat-top card table was a favor- of Sheraton, the famous English cabinetmaker who flourished in the eighteenth It is re- produced today in ntial num- bers and is procu many of the better shops. Like the originals, it 18 almost always of mahogany, with inlays of satin wood. These tables make distinguished little side tables for hall, living room or dining room. The flap opens back against the wall and furnishes a richly toned background for the fine old silver candelabra shown here. Re- cently we saw one of these tables used to display a little Chinese goddess of rare white porcelain, and the con- trast was strikingly beautiful. Or one might be used effectively to hold a small collection of quaint wares, such as old glass, bits of pewter or brass candlesticks. (Covsright. 1025.) Spice Cake. Bift two cups of flour with a tea- speon each of soda and cinnamon and half a teaspoon of sait and cloves. Cream one-third cup of butter and one cup of brown sugar and add a half-cup of molasses and two well beaten eggs. Mix part of the flour with a cup of fruit (raisins, currants and eftron together), and add to bat- ter; also half a cup of strong coffee and balance of flour. Bake in loaf pan in moderate oven about an hour. Lemon Rolls. Make a rich biscult dough. Roll thin, spread butter over the whole surface and sprinkle with sugar. Be- ginning at the edge, roll the dough together, Cut the roll half in two and place in a pan. Cover with water and sugar to make a thin sirup. Slice two large lemons thin. Bake slowly until done. You know ! : s it is because she | she has | ch_them and | That ought | WOMAN’S PAGE. | My Neighbor Says: The cooler eggs are, the sooner they will whisk up to stiffness; so always beat them in the coolest possible place, and throw in a pinch of salt, which will facilitate matters. Rusty steel ornaments, irons and the like, may be cleaned by rubbing them well with sweet oil, enough of the oil being allowed to remain on the article to soak in for some time. Equal parts of boiling water and strong vinegar, used with a sponge to wash calcimined walls, will cut the calcimine and prepare the wall for papering. Use a funnel for filling hot- water bags if you would save the rubber. There are many simple pol- ishes for patent leather shoes. The old-fashioned plan of using cream and milk is not very ef- fectual. Furniture cream gives a splendid polish, even to old leather, or equal quantities of sweet oil and turpentine. This gives a brilliant polish, even to quite old leather. The only way to prevent crackers and cookies from ab- sorbing_ molsture and becoming S0ggYy is to keep them in air- tight boxes, wrapped in paraffin paper. To make window glass bright, dissolve a lump of starch in the vater with which they are washed. COLOR CUT-OU " LITTLE TWO EYES. fire- The Sisters’ Envy. Then the sisters became very en- vious. “So she is better off than we are,” they complained and, unable to jcontrol their jealousy, they brought | a large knife and kilied the goat. When Little Two Eves saw this she was full of grief. She seated herself on a hillock and wept and wept. All at once the little, old woman stood be- fore her again. “Little Two Eves, why do you cry?"” she asked. “Because my goat has been killed,” wept little Two Eyes, “and now I must suffer hunger and thirst again.” This dress of Little Three Eyes' should be pink with a hat to match. (Copyright. 1925.) “Puzzlicks” Puzsle-Limericks They tell of an old man of —1— Who caressed his spouse with a She said, Your manner But, then, I suppose you're a 1. Seaport in Southwestern Arabia. . Instrument used for stirring up a fire 3. Terms of endearment.s 1 4. Peculiar. 5. One who plays pranks. (Note: Put the right words, indi- cated by the numbers, into the cor- responding spaces, and you'll have a complete limerick telling of the un- usual habit of the old Arabian. The answer and another “Puzzlick” will appear tomorrow.) Yesterday’s “Puzzlick.” | There was a young fellow who sat Quite thoughtiessly down on his hat.- He remained there a while And so altered its style, That he uses it now for a mat. (Covyright. 1825.) {of desiccated Restore Original Color to your Finery e e S G e beused for Fall. Restore their faded color with Tintes;.oc give them a new, fashionable color, if you wish. Takes but a minute, too. Just “tint as you rinse”—no boili 3 For laca-trimmed silks—(cints the silk—lace oiad T e Tintex in the Grey Boa: 15¢ at drug and dept. stores Jinte TINTS AS YOU RINSE Tints. & Dyes ANYTHING THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Can a 60-Year-Old Bachelor Find Happiness in Marrying for Friendship Only >—The Tragedy of Grafting Children. JDEAR DOROTHY DIX: .1 am a bachelor in the sixties, financially well off. Until my mother’s death a vear or two ago, I had a comfortable and happy home, but now that she is gone I am very lonely and forlorn, a home- less wanderer from hotel {6 hotel, and club to club. In my case the grand passion was of many years ago, and is now a thing of the past. Would it he safe and advisable for me to marry my greatest lady friend on the basis of Platonic friendship? She is well past the frivolous age, I8 an admirable housekeeper, and would, I think, make a congenial companion. PERPLEXED BACHELOR. Answer: I think that such a match is highly advisable, and has every chance of being very happy. It is huzardous for the young to marry without a great deal of love, because in youth we are all sloshing over with romance, and if we do not find it at home we are very apt to look for it elsewhare, 3 But when we are older this danger has passed. tooth, and prefer roast beef me R with and t d We have lost our sweet ium fo pink ice cream. We are no longer We have outgrown palpitation of the husband oy a wife is a good, steady yokemate, at We are pursuing over hill and dale.’ Moreover, no matter how wildly and passionately a man and woman were in love when they were swect-and-twenty, by the time they are fifty-odd-and- practical their affection has settled down into a Platonic friendship. So if you marry this woman who has been your friend for many years you start out about where you would have been if you had married her in your youth, and your marriage had been a succes: . Certainly the man who IS striking the first lap of the downward trail is wise to marry if he can find a woman who will make him a sultable wife—a woman who is more or less in his own age class, who is humorous and kindly and intelligent, and interested {n the things that he is. He needs a companion. He needs a home, somebody to listen to his grumbles and complaints, and to remind him when to take off and put on his Winter underwear. There are many widows and old maids, also lonesome and rather purposel in the world, who would like to have a good home and a husband to fuss over, and to feel that somebody needed them. And it is a good thing when these unattached men and women can get together and make o twosome. DOROTHY DIX. EAR MISS DIX: I married a widower with children, all of whom ar strong, healthy, grown-up men and women, but they keep us im- poverished by their constant demands upon their father. One son-n-law is too temperamental to work regularly, so when he gets out of a job he sends his wife and children to sponge on us for months at a time, and the children drive us wild with their noise. The other children are always borrowing money that they never repay, or coming to their father with hard-luck stories when they want something, and he cannot refuse it to them, but gives them his last cent. My husband has only his sala that he has never been able to People’s Home looms before us i stopped. What can we do? His children have kept him strapped <o wve a cent for our old age, and the Ol a few years unless this grafting can ! MRS. A. M. L. Answer: The only possible remedy for the situation is for your husba to put a Yale lock on his pocketbook and refuse to be held up any longer b his selfish and greedy children, and I fear this requires more backbone thun he possesses Possibly it might do some good for you to lay the situation before the children and tell them that there is only a little time longer in which thei: father can be a money-carner, and that unless vou can save some money now you are doomed to the most unhappy of all fates: That of being old anc dependent. Possibly you might frizhten the children into sparing thei: father’s lean purse by reminding them that they will have to support you both when you are old unless they permit you to save something agains that rainy day. Selfish children are selfish tc an get out of father as they g ay somehow welch on ever repaying him However, 1 have little faith in that pl the bone. They will wring every cent they along and trust to luck that they n the debt they owe him. I have known many cases in which greedy children could not wait for their fathers and mothers to die to get their hands ou their property, so they induced father to turn over the business to them, or mother to give them the home, with many protestations of how they would love. and honor, and cherish the old people. And I have also seen mother and father neglected, scorned, made to feel in the way in the very homes out of which they had been cheated by the sons and daughters they loved and trusted. Human meanness can go no further than for a strong. healthy, able- bodied young man or woman to graft on a poor old father and mother, to let their poor old hands work for them, to take advantage of the love and tenderness that cannot say “no,” that is willing to go hungry that they may fe: 0 walk that they may ride in limousines. Compared to that, robbing a blind baby is a meritorious act. Shame upon all such miserable spongers: ADOROTHY DIX. JDEAR MISS DIX: My husband and I are a very young married couple. We love each other very much, but our respective mothers had a quarrel over the wedding, and because of that my husband will not go to my mother's house and I do not g0 to his mother’s house. I go to see my mother during the day. My husband goes to see his mother every night, and I have to stay alone. Now, what I want you to tell me is if my husband is doing right BLUE EYES. Answer: Both you.and your husband are acting perfectly idiotically, and if you don't face about and do differently you are going to land in the divorce court. For no matter how much you care for each other, no love is strong enough to stand the strain of a family quarrel, wherein each of you is the partisan of a mother. The thing to do is to try to make up the quarrel between the two old ladies. Tell them that they are jeopardizing your happlness and your marriage by their foolishness, and that they should love you enough to bury the hatchet. If they don’t do this, tell them that you are not going to be a party to the feud, and that you forbid them to mention it in your presence. Then you go with your husband to see his mother, and take your husband with you to see your mother. Don’t let a silly quarrel ruin your life. (Copyright, 1925.) DOROTHY DIX. Cocoanut Cake. Two eggs, their weight in butter, sugar and flour; three tablespoons cocoanut, one table- spoon of baking power. Mix flour, sugar and baking powder together. Warm the butter and beat it to a cream. Beat the two eggs. Now adrl’ Dainty Toast. Try this for a convalescent whose appetite needs coaxing. Toast a slice of bread and dip it into a small quan- tity of hot water to which has been added a generous plece of butter. Re- move from the water and pile on top of the toast the beaten white of an egx, placing the yolk syuarely in the center. Salt slightly. Set in a hot oven until the egg is firm, but not hard. butter and eggs alternately to the flour, and beat well each time. Pour into a greased tin and bake in mod- erate oven for one hour. KE POUND NE ThiGk Seal Brand Tea is of the same high quality Ve \7atched It Glow Red Hot But the Lle...ent Did Not Burn Out! THIS was one of the tests to which the won- derful CHROMALOX element was subjected. Picture it, if you can—an iron red hot and yet the element was not destroyed even after hours of testing. This element will never burn out. That is one of the reasons why a Franklin Iron costs $4.75, but a Franklin Iron will last a life- time. Ask for a booklet on the Fsanklin Iron. James B. Lambie Co., Tnt. .| 1415 New York Ave. e T} Franklin Tron D. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. 22, 1925. drafts and high altitude. Either shivering or some other form of mus- cular activity aids a favorable reac- tion to these conditions. Heat is dissipated from the hody mainly by radiation and conduction from the skin, but also by evapora. ton of sweat, by vaporization of water from the lungs, by warming the air expired from the lungs, and by warming the excreta which are at the temperature of the body when expelled. Taking the average daily loss of heat in an adult at rest as 2,470 | calorles, the relative quantities of heat lost through the various chan- nels mentioned are, found by physi- ologists to be about as follows: By radiation and conduction from the skin, 1,792 calorles; by evaporation of sweat, 364 calorles; by vaporization of water from the lungs, 182 calories: by warming the expired air, 84 cal- ories; by warming urine, feces and any saliva expectorated, 48 calorles. People who take seriously the ab- surd assertions that the loss of heat through the lungs or the breathing passages is an {mportant part of the heat regulating machinery of the/ body should note the physiological truth and bid the imaginative ex- ponents of the “catching cold” delu- slon to guess again. (Copyright. 1925.) How We Manage to Keep Cool. Man is an internal combustion en- gine that, llke a gasoline engine, functions best when at an optimum temperature. You know how well your automobile engine works after it has warmed up to that optimum and you know what happens if it gets overheated. In man heat is produced entirely by oxidation of fuel—food or tissue substance—and practically not at all by friction, although everybody as- sumed, up to the time Washington croased the Delaware, that the heat of the body was produced by friction of the circulating blood and by the move- ments of the heart and blood vessels. The oxidation or combustion of this fuel takes place in all the tis- sues or organs of the body as they function, the oxygen being transport- ed from the alr in the lungs to the cells of all the tissues and organs for this purpose. The optimum tem- porature of the body is maintained at approximately 98.5 degrees Fahren- helt in man by a complex but eff- ‘lent automatic control of heat pro- duction and heat loss or dissipation. In man the body temperature is prac- sically Independent of or uninfluenced by the surrounding air temperature, not #o in certain lower animals, the reptiles; amphibia and fishes having body temperature which is low when the surrounding air or water is cold and higher when the environ- ‘nent is warm@r. Many of the lower animals lack nenns of disslpating or losing exces- sive heat, which man iz endowed with. Chase a snake around for a while in hot weather and watch it wnt; or play hard with your dog and vatch him pant; not because he is ut of breath, but because consider- ible heat can be dissipated through the evaporation of a greater amount f water from the lungs. With a lowering of the temperature »f the surrounding air there is an in- reased production of heat in man, from an increased metabolism (oxida- fon or combustion process), and vari- ous other conditions than cold veather will produce such an in- ‘rease in metabolism and increased ieat production in the body, for ex- mple, cold baths (air or water), pro- fided an agreeable reaction is ob nined, exposure to cold winds or! The clamor of the city Seemed harsh and lovd and strong Till I heara it from a distance And it rede 2 sort of song’. WHEN the great oven doors are opened, and from the endless chain of slowly-moving pans the new loaves tumble out—crisp and hot—to be rushed to your grocer. . . . 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