Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1927, Page 35

WOMAN'S PAGE [ e Evening Frocks There was a lot of talk a few sea ®ons ago about mannish dinner clothes for women , and tailored evening gowns, Some young-——or not so old woman of your acquaintance, perhaps. wventured to wear the mannish dinner oostumes and assured you and per- muaded herself that this was just the beginning of the end of the more femi mine, individualistic rt of evening dress for women. Before long dressing for dinner and the evening would be STITCHED BELT A TAILORED A STRAIGHT WITH ALMOST ASPECT APPEARS ON TIHS EVE.| NING FROCK OF MAUVE TR PARENT VELVET. THE RELT IS MADE OF THE VELVET AND IS FASTENED WITH A JEWELED BUCKLE. 4 for women he- standardi Some people actually as completely as for men. Jieved all this. But jndging from what 1 have seen #0 far weomen's evening fracks are more feminine, more individualistic BY MARY MARSHALL. More Feminine lthan ever bafore. They are actually fussy in some cases, and there has been a very persistent and so far suc- | cessful effort in Paris to bring about a greaer “elegance” and richness in women's evening modes. There is something intricate, not to say elabo. rate in all cases. ahout so many of the new frocks. And it isnt mere bar- I har'e 1t might better he | reeousness 1hat costume of the renaissan There are times, of ¢ quita simple eveninz frock appropriate: hut, as one of the | man dressmake! points out, the sim ple. unpretentious little georgette eve | ning frock is not suitable for r 1y important eccasions. Velvet is un-| doubtedly the most important evening | material of the season, and teo any woman whe asks advice concerning {he material of her new evening frock | I say by all means velvet | Save for most informal wear the| tailored evening frock seems to have heen banished, hut there is one little tailored detail that persists—this ie| tiie straiaht stitched belt that is scen | on =0 many of the new evening frocks It is chosen. no doubt, hrcause it is such an appropriate vehicle for the jeweled buckle, There was noth 1 hodge podge about the little frock I have in mind. It was. in fact, one of ihe most | charming 1 have seen this season. yet it was made from a short length of | one sort of material and a short lenath of anather of different color. The two materials were put together hy means of fagoting and it occurred fo me that this was an excellent thing to offer to readers who were facing the problem of 1 T up remnants or short | lengths or making over st season’s frocks. If vou are inter just | send me a_stamped. self-addressed en velope and T will send you a sketch of the dress with diagram and instrue tions for dainz the fagoting Lessons in English BY W. 1 RDON. | words often misused: Do not say “It us taks and use these teols.” Omit “take and.” Often mispron unced: Advertise. A cent the first syllable, Often misspelled: Grotto: two t's. Synonyms: Anger. Animosity, h tred, rage, temper, resentment, indiz nation, displeasure. Word study: “1'se times and it is yours crease our vocabulary by mastering | one word each day. Today's word:| Reflection: the act of heing thaughtful. | “It ie a problem that requires reflec "tion.” word three Let us in- | WORLD FAMOUS STORIE FIGHT WITH BOA CONSTRICTOR (Johann Rudolt Wy author, was horn in 1781 and died in 1830, ' His familiar work. “The Swisa Family Robinson.” is & household ciassic. It is_from that book that the present episode. complete in jtsell. fe selected he Robinsons have heen’ shipwrecked and are marooned on an _umnhabited coast. They salvage many articles, cloth- ing. hooks. etc. from the wreckage. et up 2 somewhat enviable habitation, find means of suhsistence 1n the wilds. The father 18 well versed in all the natural sciences as well as an excellent craftsman and amateur encineer. Hix _discourses on hotany. 700logy. etc.. are among the most interesting features of the work.) “I xes something so strange in the distance, fathe exclaimed Fritz. as we all sat chatting before our cave-| home, recently completed. “What in the world can it be? First it seems ' to be drawn in coils on the ground like a cable, then rises up like a little ! mast, then that sinks, and the coils move along again.” My wife took alarm at this descrip- famous Swise tion and, calling the other hoys, re- | 1 desired | treated into the cave, wh them to close up the entrances and keep watch with firearms at the upper windows. Fritz remained with me while 1 examined the object through my spyglass 1t is, s 1 feared, an enormous ser pent™ T cried. “It is coming this way, and may be attacked only with the greatest caution. Thank God, we have a safe retreat.” The reptile advanced with writhing and undulatory movements, from time to time rearing its head to a height of 15 or 20 reet, and slowly turning it about as though on the lookout fc prey. We joined the others upstairs, barricading everything helow, and, ourselves unseen, awaited with heat- ing hearts the further advance of the foe. Its movements appeared 1o be- come uneerain, as though it was puz- zled by the trace of human habita- tion: it turned in different directions, coiling and uncoiling. and frequently | rearing its head, but keeping about the middie ot the space in front of our cave. Nuddenly, as though un- able to resist doing 0. one after an- other the boys fired. The shois toak not the slightest effect beyond star tling the monster, whose movements ware accelerated. The monster, pass ing on with a gliding motion, entered resdy marsh 1o the left and entirely disappearea. 1 had recognized the serpent as the boa constrictor, socalied because it kille its prex by pressure, or striction.” It was a vast specimen that we had seen, heing upward of 30 feet in iength. Although the im- mediate 02 had passea, we wers kept within doors for three whole days, fearful lest venturing abrord might attract the monster and bring on an attack We were delivered from prisonment by none other £00d old simple-hearted donkey, Grizzle nd by sheer stupidity We had’ released the animals, hay and fodder having run low, guiding them across the river. Grizzie, fresh and frolicsome after the long rest, i away and capered straight for the marsh, In vain we called him b name. He went close 10 the thickei and with cold shudders of horror we bheheld the snake rear itseif from its lair—poor Grizzle's fate was sealed Becoming aware oan a sudden of his danger out all four piteous and discordant hray that ever ung echo from rocks. Swift and atraight as a fencer's thrust, the de oyer was upon him. wound round entangled. enfolded, compressed him, all the while cunningly avolding the convulsive kie) of the agonized mel. A ery of horror arose from #pectators of this awful trageds Theare was no use tn shoot, for our poor animal wak surely lost “Surely the snake won't him.” said Jack “Snakes have nn grinders. but only fangs.” 1 said. “Therefore they must swallow their food whole. The snake is not poisonous. hut anly fearfullx strong and feracious. It has no need 10 tear the flesh from the bones, swallows skin, hair. bones, and all and digests everything in its stomach See how it erushes the hody to a pulp to knead the ass intn a shapeless mass. The monster will so begin to ®orge his prev. and slowly but surels the carcass will disapperr down that distended maw ! T expected that the hoa, hefore mwallowing his prev. would cover it with saliva, 1o 2id in the operation although it struek me that its very slender forked tangue was ahout the worst possible implement for such a purpose. 1t was evident tn ns, how. ever, that this popular idea w erronenns The act of Inhricating the mass must have faken place during the process of swallowing This won derfyl performance lasted from 7 in onr im n our amed swallow Grizzie stopped short, spread | gs. and set up the most | T | them w; the morning until noon. When the | awkward morsel was entirely swal- lowed, the serpent lay =tiff, distorted. |and apparently insensible along the edge of the marsh. I felt that now or | never was the moment for attack. Calling to my sons to maintain | their courage and presence of mind {1 left our retreat with a feeling of joyous emotion quite new tn me, and | approached with rapid steps and lev jeled zun the outstretched form of {the serpent. Fritz followed me close. |1y, Jack a little way behind, and Ernest stond where he was. The monster's hodv was stiff and motionless. which made its rolling and fiery eves. and the slow €pasmodic undulations of its tail more fearful by | contrast. We fired together and both | balls entered the skull: the light of the | eve was extinguished and the only | movement was in the further extrem- ity of the hody. which rolled, writhed. | coiled, and lashed from side to sid | Advancing closer, we fired our pistols directly into its head. A convulsiv ! quiver rang through the mighty trame and the boa constrictor lay dead. “What's to he done with him now?" asked Jack. “Let us | Fritz, “and | get him stuffed.” said set him up in our museum | alonz with our shells and corals.’ | This was azreed. We then had {dinner, and afterward set to work with the serpent. The first operation was to recover | the mangled remains of the | which being effected, he was in the soft marshy ground close by and the hole filled up with fragments | ot rocl Then we voked two sturdy donkeys |10 the serpent. and dragged it to a | | convenient distance from our cave. | { The process of skinning. stuffing and sewinz up again afforded occupation for the hovs for several days. i e took great pains fo eoil our | r this huge hoa constrictor, | round a pole in the museum, arrang- inz 1he head with the jaws wide apen. {® as to look as alarming as possible, and contriving to make the eves and | tongue sufficiently well to represent | natore. In fact, our dogs never passed the monster, dead thongh he was, without growling. Probabh thev wondered at our taste in keeping such a strange pet! . Ernest. heing the literary one of the family, set to work and composed an epitaph for poor Grizzle in rhvmed verse. 1 commended him highly on hie effort. Taking a large red pencil T nsed for marking wood, the lines were forthwith inscribed on a great | flat stone. They were, T told the boy. | the very hest poetry that had ever heen written on our coast. i On the entrance leading 1o the mu- ceum were inscribed thess words:| {“No Admittance for Asses nce {the museum was also our library. the double meaning of this pleased us all {immensely | After [ to the City THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DorothyDix) WEDNESDAY. Diagnosea House- ife-itis” and Prescribes Remedy Keeping @ Wite Contented Though Married SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY V. CORY. teresting to Think About—"Trv Taking Her to Places of Amusement and Watch Magic Cure. | "[HE trouble with women is that they have ton much time to think and not | enough interesting things o think about. This is especially the case with | the domestic woman. and it explains why the average wife and mother is far more given to fretfulness and whining and complaining and morbidness than is her business or professional sistes The one has something 1o occupy her mind. the ather has not | thing different ix happening o the one every mintite of the day ing fresh faces getting a new slant on her work. The other works mostiv alane, with nobody even to talk to, doing the same monotonous tasks over | and over and over again. The one has to keep herself alert and pepped up o hold her joh. The other slumps hecause she couldn't lose her job it she | tried to. Ca il | L | For it is the curse of honsework that, while it exhausts a woman's hody | it dosen’t oceupy her mind. She dosen’t need to use more than one lohe of | her brain to sweep a floor or wash dishes, and it’s the thoughts that women think while they are sewing long seams or darning stockings that send them to madhouses or out on the sireets in search of adventure or that makes e half-way back. hut T aint | them nag the life out of their hushands v vet! Not by no means! CY PAGE “ashioned Candy Pull omes Into Tts Own, out b da B The average honsewife has very little forms automatically the same round of mech, after week, year after year. Her children ar ions o her or else they are out with Youngsters of their own age. She isn't hookish and has few resources within herself. Her generally considers that he has done his full duty when he has suppli with bread and meat. He never thinks of feeding her mind and soul. §© the poor woman, with endless leisure in which tn think and with nofhing Y new or thrilling or amusing to think about. enlv toa often drifte into an un healthy line of thought. Cenerally she begins by sympathizing with herself and dramatizing her woes to hegself. There is nothing really wrong with her lot. She has a gond hushand. a good home, nice children. and if she has to work and make sacrifices and hear disappointments, why, that is the common fate of us all, iety in her existence. She per tical tasks day after da v either too little t | hushand her BY FLORENCE LA GANKE, in the ed “With the renewed interest home has come hack the nld-fash ides of entertaining in the home. The pendulum is swinging slowly back.” These were the concluding words of a lecturer at ane of Nancy's clubs, She talked it over with Peter that evening. Nancy spoke of a request from one of her niec “She wanted to know whether 1 had ever gone ta a taffy pull. and when I told her 1 had she asked me what it was like. Just - Rut in the long hours in which a woman dopes herself up on self-pity she zels to see herself az a martyr, sacrificed on the family altar, and comes 1o believe that no one ever hore such burdens or endured such ing she does. Recause her husband and childven do not make a acclaim over evervthing she does sine hecomes ohsessed with the idea that they do not love her or appreciate her, and she sheds bharrels of tears over the sorrows that are the portion of the wife and mother. Half of the melancholy ladies who weep upon vour hreast and tell vou how they are neglected and how their hushands have ceased to love them simply ot that way hy thinkmg it. There is nothing to it in reality, and the poor, devoted hushands who are working themselves to death to support them would be surprised to death if they knew that their wives had ever doubted their affection. If the woman is of the romantic type. in her hours of soul communion while she is patching little Johnny's trousers or turning the sheets she he. romances of which she is invaribly the heroine and in which shelives in a silken-lined world where she dines on nightingale’s tongues and i wooed hy an impassioned lover who showers ropes of pearls and diamonds and motor cars upon her. Too Much Time to Think and Nothing In- OCTOBER _19. 1927. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “I'm glad Pa don’t how when he meets strangers at a party. | sewed that rip in his pants just temporary an’ 1 was scared it would bust.” (Consright. 19271 HOME NOTES RY JENNY WREN, be compan- | When one has the pleasure of liv ing in a really old hov to the ho as we!l furnish it with oldtime furnitur O1d furniture is charming in any set ting. but never more so than in setting for which it was originally i tepded. Richiy conceived wondwork, e, one owes it s to herself to Or else. havinz nothing more entertaininz to do. the woman spends her | time vivisecting her heart, and decides that her hushand, after ail, does not come up to her ideal: that she has misked her true affinity and that she would have heen happier if she had married some old sweetheart of her girlhond that she didn't faney at all at the fime, or that she would find her real soul- mate in some man she might possibly meet in the future. LI of this scems silly enough come 1o griefl trying to er faney, being a yvoung and popular girl and not rowing about that favorite pastime of our vouth—a taffy pull. | S0 I am giving one for hei Bully for vou,” said Peter, The evening started with the mak ing of the taffy. Then came the pull ing until it was pale gold and satiny. that the strips were cut intn pieces and what was left of s taken home. In making the taffy Naney meas ured 2 cups suzar, 2 cups molasses. < tahlespoons vinezar, 2 tablespoons butter and 1, teaspoon soda. Put all | Say. but it ig what makes thousands of women sh into their castles in Spain and it is what makes thousands of other women discontented, dissatisfied with their hus- hands and homes. They can't feel that it is worth while to come down to ecarth and get a zood dinner for their families after having spent most the day in the rarified atmosphere of burning romance. | And it is hecause wives have so few outside interests that they nag. They lose all sense of proportion. They make mountains out of molchills. They let a tiny writation grow into a grievance. -They harp forever on the same string, hecause that is the only string they have. They tell you the same thing over a million times, hecause they have nothing new to sav. The remedy for thiz staie of affaire iz plainly indicated, as the doctors It is to give a woman something interesting to think ahout small Fill her mind with new taining to mull over as she rubs up the silver. Don't | geroue. ideas. Give her something amusinz and enter- shelis the peas and fixes the haby's hottle and ave her to her own thoughts; they are too dan- intelligence whatever fn hear on the home prop- | osition—which they mostiy don't—their wives would not have tn entreat | them to take them out twn or three timee a week to places nf amusement. { They would dn it as a matter of self-protection. for they would know that the wife wha iz Iookinz forward to a pleasant evening's diversion, or whn | is reeallinz the amusing things she saw and Adid the evening hefore, isn't | spending her time dwelling upon her hushand's shorteomings or indulzing in morhid imaginings ahout herself, DOROTHY DIX. (Conyrizht 1f hushands brougzht any 192 - MILADY BEAUTIFUL ingredients except soda in saucepan. BY LOIs cook slowly to 234 dezrees Fahrenhe't, R stirring oceasionally. Just before re. | moving from fire add soda. Pour into | niled pans. When cool enough to handle, hutter the hands lightly and | pull until light and firm. Investing in Personality. The other day T was reading article ahout a plan to ave mon through building and loan associa- tions. The writer explained just how | £20 a month conservatively invested could in 33 years build up an estate that would provide a steady income | of $140 a month When reading this plan the idea came to me that people are usually more careful to plan definitely for financial security in the sunset years than for other things that are quite as important to happiness, like health, friendship and a cultivated personal- jty. By the lastnamed element 1 [ mean personal charm _ that lasts through the years, a mind enriched hy rearing and observation: in short, all that goes to make the difference he )lwsnn a person who is shunned or dutifully tolerated and one who is loved and appreciated more sincerely as the years go hy When a person | this tendency is noticeabl€. The signs | of prematura fading, the result of un- hygienic habits, drive many girls of the latter age to heauty parlors to buy scalp treatments for lusterless, falling hair and facial treatments for sallow skin and wrinkles. Many. too, find that they have lost the adaptability of zirlhond and are “set” in their ways: they have stopped learning and growing mentally. The foresighted girl will an to Everyday Law Cases Are Students in College Eligible ta Vote Town Election? — not only BY THE COUNSELOR. The outcome of the impending elec- tion in Mid-City was important to Mid-City College. The students took an active part in the eampaign, urging the election of their candidates On election day A large hody of graduate students who had been at school for a few years marched down Hall for the purpose of voting. The election judges refused to permit them to vote, claiming that they were not qualified voters, as they were in the town anly temporarily for | the purpose of attending the school After the defeat the students sought the aid of court 1o set aside the elec- tion on the ground that they had not been permitted fo t hallots. To nrove their residence. they festified that they had no intention of estab shing themselves in their parental homes The statinz: “The mere presence of students at | the college town is not sufficient to | entitle them to vote there. Their .-,slvi | invests time and money in health and friendship he | need not wait for vears to enjov his | dividends hecause they enrich his life day hy day Sometimes it is just as hard ta find time to take dai'y exercise | or do a friendly act as it i% 10 pay {pac her nd 1ns nes one’s monthly installment in the huild mnmn’m'. but she will 2mlnienmd»:ar ing and 1oan society. hut somehow ane | time hudzet regular periods for culti- feels impelled to ‘meet the financial | ¢ating health apd for broadening her | obligation regularly, while one’s duty | mind- and she will live np to this [to <elf and friends is made to wait And when these personal considera- tions have heen put off time and again for vears, one finds with dismay that | can make is in self-cultivation. Banks health is zone, old friendships have | 1,4 saving societies may fail, hut fl{ml:_d and one has lost the talent for | what we make on i making new ones. < 3 {mind is a permanent acquisition be Many women in middle life find | cayge it is yl)art of our ;w?snnalinu themselves in just this predicament L el X They have not invested the health bbb | they had to make better health nor MOTHERS have they made a conscious effort to AND THFEIR CHILDREN, court upheld the election cial obligations. | After all. the safest investment one dence must be hona fide, with no intention to return to their parental homes. The question of residence is largely nne of intention, but testimony as to intention is not conclusive. “To permit such students to vote | would give the student hody the power to control local elections and governmental questions where large | widen their interests, ven in the educational institutions are located.” decade from 18 to 28 years of age. WHEN A FELLER NEED! S'10ES GooT HORACE: To- MoRROW 15 SUNDAY Yo S A FRIEND. Playing Square. One mother say: It is safe to say that a child never {asks a question until he is old enough o hear the answer. It is a mistake tto say, “I will tell you when you are Lolder.”” Tt vou do. he will ask some one else. I answe. as honestly as 1 Tean ev question my voung son asks me, encouraging him to come to | me with his problems. i i i Aw Shucks., | CAN'T HAVE MO FUN NOR NUTHIN EVER try unproved methods in skin care. Not when simple proved rules exist that beauty ex- perts agree on. Today a nightly habit of thou- sands of women is responsible for complexions more beautiful than any other country boasts. One week’s test yourseli will prove its results. It ie the way that millions have ac- quired that schoolgirl complexion. Just do _this before you go to bed at night. Wash the fice gently with Palmolive. Massage its balmy olive and palm oil lather into the skin. " Rinse with warm water; then with of | i schedule as faithfully as to her finan- | elves in hody and | FollowThis Rule To keep the charm of “That Schoolgirl Complexion” By NORMA SHEARER walls of papered, small-paned windows — all these contribufe as much to the heauty of the furniture as the furni ture contributes to the beauty of the | room. Here a nice, old mahogany buffet shares honors with a convex mirror {in gilded frame and a most excellent |early American chair. The chair is interesting in itz color treatment, being black and zold and upholstered in antique red satin. (Convrizht | | | 1927.) THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Thursday, October 20. Again unfavorable planetary aspects will rule through the busy hours of | the day, according to the readings of | astrolog: | " Early in the morninz heads of busi- ness organizations shoula benefit by influences making for smooth mechan: ical operation. There is a sway passably promising for all who seek emplovment in the first hours of the busy day | " Specially trained men and women [ should benefit from this direction of | the stars, which is auspicious for ex- | perts. Railroads_are subiect to faivly tunate conditions, and again an mense volume of Winier travel | forecast. Intrizue and deception are helisved to be encouraged by this day's posit- ing of the stars, which makes truth leven more than usually dificult to maintain. It is not an auspicious sway for | workers, who may mistake their own best interests. Trouble regardinz fuel is foretold | for the Winter, which will bring un- | told suffering to the poor im many | | citi | | for- im hildren will command *he atten- tion of the Federal Government, the | seers prophesy, for their value to the | | Nation will be stressed by statesmen. | | An epidemic of serious character | may prevail among the voung, and | | warning is given to parents to watch their children’s health. New fashions in dress and music |are foretold by London astrologers, | a= well as hy American seers. | " Many singers will gain recognition |in the United States this year, if the | stars are rightly read. Persons whose birth date it is have | | the augury of financial security in the | | coming year. which may bring certain | domestic anxieties. | | Children bhorn on this day may he ! exceadinzly temperamental and diffi- | cult to manage. but they are likely to | possess talents (Convrizht. AILY DIET RECIPE Baked Alaska. Brick ice cream, 1 quart. Sponge cake, 1 oblong. Ezg whites, 4. Powdered sugar, 4 tahlespoons. SERVES 8 PORTIONS. | | Make a meringue by heating the | egg whites stiff and adding the sugar. | | Cover a small bread board (a tin or |aluminum pan will not do, as it con ducts heat too quickly) with paper. { Lay oblong of cake on paper and place ice eream on cake which should extend 1, inch heyond cream. Cover imme- diately with the meringue spread on | smoothly. Br. an quickly in a very | hot oven. Slip Alaska on platter by means of paper. Cut in slices and | serve, 1027 | | | | DIET NOTE. Recipe contains protein, starch sugar, lime and vitamins A and B. 1< | | of very high fuel value. Sheuld not he eaten hy nne wishing fn reduce. cold. That is all—it's nature’s rule for keeping that schoolgirl complexion. If your skin is inclined to be natu- rally dry, apply a little good cold cream. Do that regularly, and particu- larly at night. Note how much better your skin in even one week. GET REAL PALMOLIVE Costs but 10c a cake. Use no other on your face. But be sure you get GENUINE Palmeolive. Crude imi- tations, represented to be of olive and palm oils, are not the same ar Palmolive. - Remember that and TAKE CARE. The Palmolive-Peet Co,, g0, U. S, A, plain plaster or quaintly | FEATURES. BEDTIME STORIES “If it fsn't tee much trouble.” re. plied Mr. Rlackenake. “You mustn't ask me tc do anything that is much | trouble.” | “Oh. it won't he any trouble at all." replied Peter. “If vou happen to go over 1o the dear Old Briar-patch 1 he obliged 10 von if ven just sort of look around and it ‘Mre, Peter seems all_rizht “Why don’ out for Yo Blacksnake. el 33 BY THORNTON W. BURGESS Mr. Blacksnake. Nover lat anothar When the reason they vou —= Peter Rabbit had just watehed Mr. Rlacksnake change his old suit for a new It had heen very interest. Peens wlicic e sabiha cbtanee one. A ing. one ane side of the old log the old suit of Mr. Rlacksnake Thera wasn't a hole in i “If this wera not the I know who would like that old uit.”” said Peter. “Who?" demanded Mr. Crosty the ‘Cresty and fin Mr 1epi vou go hack reelf>” demand It was complete et eyeing ma of vear replied Peter must he toid. Mrs. Peter said that was never to come back ag think perhaps I'd better not gn right away Oh,” said “if the truth I 1 it is Rlacksnake, Flveateher,” replied Pet never thinks that his nest iz complete unless it hos a pisce of snakeskin in it. By the way. Mr Blacksnake, I never saw you look so handsome.” ‘Then you haven't used vour eves, Peter Rab replied My Black snake. “I always look handsome when I've got a new suit Bv the wa { what are vou doing here in the 0Old Pasture?” “Oh."” replied Peter, up here to live." “What's the matter old Bri pateh? demanded Blacksnake, e ng Peter sharply, “Nothing. thing at all."" replied Pe “I wanted a change at's all Where is Mre, Mr. Blacksnake. “Oh."” replied Peter stay there in the dear a while. pen to Mr. up I've just come | with the dear Mr. Peter?” demanded he decided to Old Briar-patch Ry the wav, vou don't hap. | be going down that way, do * replied Mr. Rlacksnake. I conld find some mice down there I certainly would go. I'm | hungry. I can't rememher when I was ever hungrier. Mrs. Poter doesn't happen to hava any newly-horn babies down there, does she?" “No." replied Peter, ind don't get cross, Peter, don't get | eros r cksnake. “I ask | ed just out of curiosity. T helieve I'll run down there on the chanece that I may find a nest of mice in there some- where." “You may." replied Peter. “T've known of such things. By tha way, | will ¥ou do something for me?” EYES PLI PETER ) MR. BLAC RABBIT," that's the way 'l ook around when I'm but I won't e that back ta the Old Pasture. “I think you will." looking very knowing “Why do you think =o?" ke. 1se it is getting cool and 1 have an idea yvou'll pass the Winter up here in the Old Pasture some- where,” repiied Peter. it promi antly replied Peter, asked Mr. WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO BY DR. MEHRAN K. THOMSON. (Convrizht ) | We want to live again because wesings, “Not for just a day | SO id of |2 year. but alwavs.” love life, and hecause we are afraid of |2 Year, hut A b death. We shudder at the thought of | aceionately orave a hieser and bettor passing forever from the scene of ac- | life, tion. Thomas Huxley, the close of his life, wrote to his friend Morley that 1| o | find my dislike to the thought of ex-| Y5 | tinetion increasing as T get older and | near the goal. It flashes across me at | all sorts of times, and with a sort of | horror that in 1900 T shall probably | know no more of what is going on | than T did in 1200. T had seoner be in hell a great deal—at any rate, in one ! {of the upper circles where the climate | and company are not too trvinz.” Many find the present life immense- | Others endure life. | They are few, indeed, who actually desira extinction. We often talk flip pantly of death. but when it comes to a show.down we are glad to be alive, | | Self-preservation is the first law of life. | Life here and now s a matter of | | beginnings. We start many projects | | which we cannot complete in the brief | {epan of vears that falls to us. Our| | fourscore years and 10 are like fhe| | Instantaneous flash of the camera as compared with the life of tha stars: A man's life is not only short. It is also narrow and thin. We want to live | | again because we crave a fuller, richer | {lifa_than the one that now The pursuit of happiness in this life leaves | lus out of breath as it tantalizi |eludes our grasp. Cruel oppression and rank injustice mock our ideal The poor. half-starved Indian wha | found the wolf too frequently near his ! hut, literally as well as figuratively dreamed and Jonged for a happy hunt ing ground. We want to live again be- cause we believe that the other life | will give ns what we now lack. We | ara all looking for the happy hunting | ground of our unfulfilled desires. “If this life is all” many would argue, “and all my fond dreams go with me to the eoffin and sink into | the sea of oblivion, what difference | does it make how I live? Let us eat, | drink and be merry, for tomorrow we | je.” Rut somehow we cannot help | feeling that there is a better way to live, that what is gond and valuable is | permanently conserved. We helieve that love is endies The true lover not for just Towaid (Convrizht “It is a eurious thing Best Way to Loosen i Stubborn Cough | This home-made remedy is a wonder | for quick results. Easily and it cheaply made. Here it a home-made syrup which millions of people bave found to be the most dependable '| means of breaking up stubborn '| coughs. It is cheap and simple, ') but very prompt in actioa. Under | its healing, soothing influence, chest | <oreness goes, phlegm loosens, oreathing becomes easier, tickling in throat smlps and you ’fef a good | night's restful sleep. 'he usual | throat and chest colds are con-s quered by it in 24 hours or less. | Nothing ~ better for bronchi hoarseness, throat tickle, or bron- chial asthma. 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