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WOMAN'S PAGE. Combinations in Smart Valances BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. SISE= N k) Y . NATION ) WI VALANCES IN COME Yariety in windo'. treatment can be obtained through the hanging of val- ances alone. There are formal and in- formal styles. Some make the win- dows appear to be higher than they really others lower. Combinations of materials can be used. The design on a patterned fabric may suggest how it should be handled attractively. | Broadening effects can be had or n: rowing ones. It is well to know some of the methods and to study your win- dows to find out which suits them Lest. \Some of the fancy styles that sug- gest formal room treatment are found in combining two ways of hanging the material. Gathering (or shirring) and pleating are used alternately. Either may come next the frame. When it is the shirring with a central pleated motif narrowness is accented with a tendency to exaggerate height. So if Yyour ceilings are lower than desired, this would be one of the advisable ways. A broad shirred portion with pleated sections at each end would suggest width and tend to make the ceiling lower, so this way would be good for a room with too high a ceil- ing. As the end-pleated sections would fall over the hangings them- selves, no extra height would be sug- gested. Pleats and Shirring. An interesting combination is made by having the central box pleat longer than the pleats each side, which to- gether form a double or a triple box pleat. The material must be cut so that when pleated the edges are clearly defined’ in '¢otiSecutive” lengths graduating from the central pleat. Shirr the crosswise sections and con- ceal the edges under pleated portion, and again under the hangings at each SFFEC DOW TREATME S 3 ANG TS DECORATIVE NOTES |side, giving only a middle valance actually between hangings. If the hangings are lald in pleats the effect of continuing the valance across the entire window is enhanced. Also this adds to the effect of height, and, in- cidentally, saves material. Narrow Pleated Motifs. When a window is wide, the pleated portions may need to be increased in number, though not in width, The shirred portions should fall in grace- ful curves. If the material is light. weight from which the straight width is cut for gathering, it may have to be quite wide and be tightly shirred at each end. But if a heavy fabric is used, the width should not be great. Allowing a fourth for gathers may be sufficient. The curves should not fall down much, just a few inches, A straight width of material may have two or more vertical gatherings, as well as end shirrings. Across the gathers a length of heavy cord may fall, tasseled at the end, which gives a finish that is somewhat *‘different.” Materials. These distinctive ways of hanging valances are beautiful when the mate- rial is some soft silk or fine texture. They are dainty for bedrooms as well as for the main rooms of a house. Velvets of soft weaves are good for Winter decorative treatments, and some cretonnes and hand-blocked linens lend themselves admirably. The straight, slightly gathered val- ance is now so usual that it should be used sparingly in 1l but unimportant rooms. Shaped valances without any fullness are more ornamental and are preferable for formal rooms, while the | gathered ones stress informal window | treatment. Th;a Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1927. - Land near water. . Steeple. - A symbol. 2. Residences. . Babylonian Dance step. Pronoun. - Carries on the person. ) Church governing body. Devoured. . Lumps of earth. Becomes weary. International Long for. Three-toed sloth, . Fear. 2. Siamese coin, . Concise, Be in accord. delty. nguage. 2. Japanese general. Answer to Yesterday’s Puzzle. 4. Prefix; again. 5. Finished. 6. English county. 7 Italian river. 8. Lesser demon. 9. English novelist. 10. City in Germany. 36. Tree-like. 17. Kind of cloth. 21. Packing box. 22, Not 8o high. ‘ut, urnish refreshments. nsumer, Localities. . Make a mistake. Constellation. . Thus. . ddess of earth. “Pecan Loaf Cake. Cream one cupful of butter or half butter, and half any preferred shorten- ing, with two cupfuls of powdered r. Stir in slowly one cupful of sweet milk. With three cupfuls of flour sift two heaping teaspoontuls of | baking powder. Mix in dry flour one cupful of broken pecan meats, stir this gradually into the milk, butter, 2nd sugar mixture, adding last the beaten whites of four eggs. avor to taste. Pour into a cake pan and drop the pan two or three times from a few inches above to the kitchen table as prevention agalnst the cake ling while baking. When baked, rost with a plain white frosting well sprinkled with finely broken nut meats. Almonds, English walnuts, or black walnuts may be used instead of pecans, —_— The water conservation project of the Lachl: River will cost $6,750,000 and will irrigate 1,250,000 acres, THE Your Baby and Mine BY MVYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. It ie quite natural for every mother to want a hand in making the outfit ! for the new baby, and because she has long months In which to provide it she prepares more clothes than one baby can possibly wear out. In fact, baby clothes are seldom worn out. The baby simply proceeds to lengthen out and grow to such proportions that long hefore the dainty layet has out- lived its first freshness it is time to buy new clothes. it is sensible for the mother to pro- vide only such garments as are neces- sary in order to keep the baby clean and comfortable. The meney spent for an outfit will go quickly enough and it is better to spend the bulk of the money on the knitted garments which must be bought, on plenty of diapering, and on bedding which will get {ts full allotment of wear, than on lace-trimmed and tucked dresses which never re; the time spent upon them and add nothing to the happiness of the baby. Tailored garments are just as fash- jonable for the baby as they are for the mother. That means fine and dellcate materials, but few tucks and practically no trimmings. Since It is not advisable for the prospective mother to use a sewing machine for any length of time, she will find it possible to make these simple gar- ments all by hand, or she can buy fine, plain garments all finished and then add touches of dainty handwork to them. A recent copy of a fashionable magazine carried the portrait of a society matron and her two small children. The manner in which they were dressed should be a lesson to those who think that wealth rheans elaborate clothing. The wee baby had a dress of organdy or mull with a simple finish of narrow valenclennes lace and two rows of insertion. No tucks or other trimming. The dress was without sleev: and the shoul- ders tied together with a how of rib bon. Any one could duplicate the dress without a pattern and the whole thing could be ironed flat in five minutes. Incidentally the baby looked adorable in it. When we run through the family album and see the wee Willies with kilted skirts and stiff collars and long curls and bow ties, and the llkewise wee Susans with ruffles and puffs and bows and whatnot, we have to admit that we have gone a long way for- ward toward simplicity and sanity in children’s clothes. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “Sallle needn’t put on airs before me if she is rich. I knowed her when her family couldn’t get along without a fine tooth comb.” (Covyricht. 1927.) Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. October 22, 1841.—Horatio Gree- nough's famous statue of George Washington reached the city this Au- tumn, and today there appeared in the old National Intelligencer an ac- count of the manner in which it was transported from the water front to the Capitol. The statue had been ordered by Congress nine years before, during the celebration of the contennial anniversary of Washing- ton's birth. It was about 12 feet high and represented Washington sitting in a massive chair and nude to the walst, with one arm and the lower part of the body draped in the manner of the ancient Romans. It was greatly admired in the early days when it stood in the rotunda of the Capitol. After a time it was placed in the center of the East Plaza, where it remained for many years and gradually became the sub- ject of much joking comment and un- favorable criticism, until it was finally removed. The huge statue was brought by boat up the Eastern Branch to the mouth of the city canal and thence along that waterway to Maryland avenue, where it was placed upon a platform and drawn by means of capstans to the Capitol. October 22, 1861:—All Washington, and especlally Congress, was filled with excitement and indignation to- lay when word came of the disastrous defeat the day before of a Union force under Senator Edward D. Baker of Oregon in a battle at Balls Bluff, Va., on the Potomac River, about 35 miles above Washington. Baker was killed and it was charged in a congressional investigation that the higher com- mand had permitted him and his men to walk into a Confederate trap. Senator Baker had only recently been made a colonel in the Army. LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Pop was leening agenst the ralil watching the waves and looking kind of sad, and I sed, Wats a matter, pop, are you getting seasick? 1 shouldent of eaten that lobster for luntch, if y:e‘:l“ pardon an evasive anser, E V\'ell‘;o:te some and nuthing dident happen to me, I sed. How’s that? I sed, and he sed, That's how, ask me another one. . Proving he dident feel mutch lke conversation, and jest then a man came up and leened agenst the rail next to him, being a man with long hair and a big bow tle like a gerls, saying Wat a day, wat a sky, wat air, its perfeck, perfeck. Do you think so? pop sed, looking werse insted of better, and the man sed, Why yes, of corse, show me the man so dull of sole that he wouldent feel like shouting for joy like the berds of the air in weather like this. Did you try lobster at lunch? pop sed, and the man sed, Dont speek of food for the stummick with a spiritual repast for the eyes spred before na- ture, that ocean, that long swelling ocean, he sed. Yes, thats the trubble, pop sed. And he wawked around to the other side of the boat and leened against that rail, and after a wile I went around, saying, Do you think that man is a artist or something, pop? I think he’'s a train robber with a record of six jail sentences, go and amuse yourself, pop sed. Wich I did, going up to the jim- inasium. — Hal Ludlow, the English artist, has just finished a portrait of his mother, who recently celebrated her one- hundredth birthday. v TAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, WORD GOLF—Everybody’s Playing It BY JOHN KNOX. Put a NOTE in the BANK. vears ago. Go from BOOM to BUST—and didn't (t? Go from BOWL to SOUP—but that was the difficult smoke cleared off. ‘They were all doing it down there a few part after the PRINT your ‘“steps” here: Solutions on this page in today's Star. (Copyright 1027.) DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Why a Girl Should Listen to Her Heart Instead of Her Mother’s Ambition—Business Man or Housewife, Which Works Harder? AR MISS DIX: Iam a business girl making a good salary and I am in lové with a fine young man who makes $300 a month und has good prospects for the future. I have also a chance to marry a very wealthy man, and my mother insists upon my marrying him, although 1 do not love him and My mother says that she is older and wiser than I am and that T should be guided by her advice. She says that romance soon dies after marriagze and then the only thing that counts is money. I cannot see it that way ‘Which one of us is right? DISTRESSED DAUGHTER. Answer' You are right. A thousand times you are right. Your mother is altogether wrong, and if you listen to her evil counsel you will wreck your life. Love Is the only thing in the world that counts in marriage. Tt is the only thing that makes it worth while. It is the only thing that takes the sting out of the sacrifices that marriage inevitably entails. No matter how rich may be the man you marry, you must adjust yourself to him. You will have to give up a thousand of your own tastes and desires and inclinations to him. You will have to bear with his little peculiarities and idiosyncrasies and mannerisms. You will have to put up with his disposition. You will have to endure his daily conversation and nearness. 1If you love the man, all of this is as nothing. It is part of the happiness of being married for a woman to sink her individuality and personality into that of the man she loves. It is a joy to her to serve him, to do the little things that make him more comfortable. His very faults endear him to her. and she never wearles of his society. But if she is bound to a man she doesn't love, she begrudges every sacrifice she has to make for him. She regards as a tyranny his every effort to enforce his will. Everything he does or says gets on her nerves and his society bores her to tears. And no money in the world can pay a woman for that. T would strongly advise any girl not to marry a man who can't support her in modest comfort, because, for one thing, there can be no happiness in a household where the wolf is always howling at the door, and because, for another thing, any man who is industrious and intelligent can make enough to support a family if he is willing to work. But beyond that, in choosing a husband never consider what a man has. Concentrate your attention upon what he is and how much you care for him. A great many mothers influence their daughters to marry men they don't sare for because the men are rich and they are ambitious and want to see thelr girls splurging around in fine cars and living in fine houses. But such marriages have a curse upon them even in a financial way, for time and again by the time the rich youth is middle-aged he has lost all the money he inherited and the poor young man the mother woufd not let her daughter marry has made a fortune. ‘The greatest thing that the emancipation of women has done for them has been to make it so that no girl need marry now for anything except love. She can make her own living, and when she marries, marry for love, not money, She can make a career and not a profession of matrimony. DOROTHY DIX. EAR DOROTHY DIX: Who leads the easier daily life, the present-day business man, who attends to business every working day, or his wife at home? SAMUEL. Answer: It depends upon the individual case. The poor woman who has half a dozen children and who has to do all of her cooking and washing and cleaning and scrubbing and baby-tending works harder than any other human being on earth. Her hours begin before her husband’s, because she has to get up and get him his breakfast, and they end long after his, because she is patching and sewing and mending after the rest of the family are in bed. And, in addition, she never has a night’s unbroken sleep, because she is up and down covering restless little sleepers, giving drinks to thirsty little lips, answering the eternal cry for ‘‘M-o-t-h- Holidays and Sundays, that bring rest and relaxation to the man, make added work for her, because they are the famlily feast days. There are no union hours for her, no strikes, no lay-offs. After supper the husband sits down with his pipe and paper.or he draws his chair up to the radio or he steps around to the poolroom for a game or two, but his wife has the dishes to wgsh and the supper things to clean up and the children to put to bed and all the million things to pick up and straighten out that must be done to keep a house comfortable. ‘Why, taking care of the children for one Sunday afternoon will reduce an able-bodied man to a frazzle, but his wife does that all day long every day just as a sideline to her regular labor. But among. rich people the reverse of this is true, and undoubtedly the prosperous man works harder than his wife does. Indeed, the more successful a man is and the bigger his business grows, generally the harder he works and the closer he is tied down to it. 1t is his wife who can spend her mornings shopping and her afternoons playing bridge and her Winters in Florida and her Summers in Europe. The husband is bound to his job and cannot leave it. There are many milllonaires x;:ho are slaves and many millionaires’ wives whose hardest work is killing time. Among people of moderate income it s a 50-50 proposition. The wife works as hard in her home as the husband does at his business and the difference between them is this, that the husband’s work is more interesting and there is more varlety to it than in the wife's. He works out in the world where he meets people continually, where he sees fresh faces and has soclal contacts, but the wife's labor is performed within the four walls of her home, where she is generally alone and where she does over and over again, day after day, the same things. Also, the husband has the stimulus of getting t! reward of his work in his pay envelope every week, while the wife gets nothing but her board and clothes. 8o whether you or your wife works the harder, Samuel, depends upon your status in life. DOROTHY DIX. e s 00 JEAR DOROTHY DIX: I am a gir] at that awful age, 17, when you begin to feel independent and self-sufficient. Now, I have an older brother who thinks he has a right to interfere and say what boys I shall go with. Has he? . SUE. Answer: Well, of course, he hasn't any real right, Sue. Your parents are the only ones who have the privilege of bossing you; but, all the same, it I were you, I'd listen to what my brother said. A brother is a mighty good friend to have and a wise adviser, because, you see, he goes around among the boys and knows them as you can’t possibly know them, and you won't go far wrong if you take his tip about the ones who are gentlemen and safe for a young girl to go with and the ones who are cads whom she will be wise to pass u DOROTHY DIX. (Copyhht, 1047, OLD SONGS (“MOTHER MACHREE”). GAWP BLESS -SHoo AND HEE = PEW-wrw OCTOBER 22, 1927. WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICR MANSFIELD. Rexistered. U. 8 Patent Office ‘When Barnum & Pailey’s Circus put up its tents at North Capitol and | the big spec- Rome." NANCY PAGE Street and Office Wear Call for Quiet Clothes BY FLOKI LA GANKE. Days when Lois did not hear from Roger were days when she was in the depths. Nancy caught her on a Saturday afternoon when Lois was feeling biuer than indigo, and in- sisted on a shopping tour. othing \ AN, N Ml cheers a woman like buying a new dress or hat, and you are so far down, young lady, that we will get both.” The scheme worked, too, for Lois was another creature after the clothes were purchased, First came an office dress of dark blue crepe with beige georgette vestee. Tiny horizontal tucks trim- med the low waisted blouse. A leather belt with metal trimming was an important part of the dress. She chose a beige felt hat, cut close fitting to the head. The hat showed the left eyebrow. This was accom- plished by the cut of the felt, not by the angle at which it was worn. For a hat of this type worn even slightly tipped looks rakish and ‘“‘common.” A blue velvet hat embroidered in silver was lovely, but Lois knew it was too ornate and flamboyant for g;r life, her clothes and her pocket- AUTUMN BY D. C. PEATTIE. Autumn Crocus. From the DMediterranean lands, where Summer is a season of dor- mancy, not of growth, and the comings of Autumn is iike a second sort of Spring, come the Autumn crocuses, in some ways the strangest little flowers of the Autumn garden. These are not, botanically, true crocuses, but belong to the genus Colchicum, and a very deadly drug, indeed, is that which comes from the root of the Autumn crocus. Colchicum figured once in the trial of a crafty murderess, a nurse who gave colchicum to her patients and, by what craft we hardly know, collecter the insurance on her victims’ lives! Since reading of that monster in feminine form, I have never been able to think of the Autumn crocus as something purely innocent and child- like, as the Spring crocus, which ylelds the lovely old dye -called saffron, assuredly is. The common sort of Autumn crocus s generally purple, or sometimes white, but the most lovely of all has pure pink, violet or white flowers of amazing size, and there is one that is almost unbearably beautiful—its petals cut into fine divisions, like the parts of a tassel. Says the old herbalist, Parkinson, in his “Paradisus Terres- tris” of 1629: “This most beautiful saf- fron flower riseth up with hig flowers in the Autumne, as others before specified doe, although not so large a size, yet farre more pleasant and delightful.” —By BRIGGS. FEATURES:. WORLD FAMOUS STORIES BY CATU (Catulle Mer n poet, story-writer and dramatist Probably | his ‘best “known work is “Brisels. His storles are often coaracterized by the light- ness of touch rid by a delightfnliy suntie | irony. The caprices of otion often captivated his fancy.) . 1841-1000, was a Frenc human One upon a time a very cruel fair pretty as the flowers but wicked a the serpents, avenged hers-if for fancied wrong by casting a curse upon all the people of a great country.| Anything at all was in her power, but her vengeance was simplicity and thief preci lejsure us jewel memory of men and women divine words: “I love you. At first the men and women only haif realized the wrong inflicted upon | them. They felt that some lacking, but did not know Sweethearts who met in the light; married couples who tal timately to each other in pri suddenly interrupted _themselves, blankly, and embraced. They felt a desfre to utter a certain customa phrase, but they had no idea of what it w They were uneasy, but they what. moon know what question to ask! found melanchol In vain did adore each other, in vain did the; each other by tender names. It was not enough—ir ctively they felt the need of saying and hearing an- other word, more exquisite than other words; and with the bittar mem- ory of the ecstacy contained in that one word came .he anguish of rever being able to ak or to hear it. Quarrels followed on the heels of this distress. Lovers believed their beloveds unfaithful; they icmanded what none knew now to give and what they did not know they wished. Sweethearts ceased to meet In the moonlight; married couples abandoned their intimate taiks. The country could have been no more desolate or mournful had the fairy's vengeance been some plague or pestilence, Now there lived in this country a poet who was in even worse plight than his countrymen. It so hap- pened that he had begun a poem the day before the fairy had cast her terrible curse on his land, and he had this poem completely planned in his mind. The last words were to be: * love you.” It was impossible to end the poem in any other way. And yet, the day following his ;nspiration, the poet could not think of the words of love. He struck his brow, he took his head between his hands, and he ask- ed himself in despair: “Have I gone mad?” The poet even had the rhyme to go with the concluding words-~and yet he could not think of them. He had forgotten the indispensable fatal phrase—he could not even recall that he had ever known it. Surely there was some mystery in 'his, the poet mused, as he sat at the cdge of the forest mear tha limpid fountains where fairles were used to dance of a Summer evening by the light of the stars. As the poet sat one morning vnder the shading branches of a friendly tree, the wicked and vengefal fairy chanced along and saw him there. No sooner had she glimpsed the hand- lsl:me poet than she fell in love “vith him, ‘What did she do? Why, one is not a fairy for nothing, you know. A | fairy has no need to stand on cere- mony or to be coy and shy. Swifter than a butterfly wings to the petals of a fragrant rose this fairy put her lips on the lips of the poet and kissed him. The poet, although he was still trying to think of the concluding words for his poem, could Mrs. Peter Has Regrets. Pity one who has let fall ‘The hasty word bevond recall. —Mrs, Peter Rabbit. Now all the time that Peter Rabbit was working himself into a jealous rage up in the Old Pasture little Mrs. Peter was living quietly in the Dear Old Briar-patch and doing a lot of TOMMY TIT THE CHICKADEE HAD BROUGHT BACK WORD THAT PETER WAS LIVING UP IN THE OLD PASTURE. \ thinking. She missed happy-go-lucky Peter. She had known she would miss hum, but she missed him even more than she had thought she would. At first she tried to make herself believe she didn't care. “If Peter didn’t care enough for me to stay, when he knew that I just couldn‘t leave the dear Old Briar- patch, T am glad he went. I am so! He is too selfish for anything. I am glad I told him that if he chose to go he needn’t come back. I don’t want him back. No, sir, I don’t want him back.” But right down inside little Mrs. Peter knew this wasn't true. She was simply trying to make herself think that way. She knew she did want Peter back and she was hoping and hoping that Peter would come back. She hoped he would think that she didn’t really mean what she had said. Sc as one day after another passed she spent more and more time on that side of the dear Old Briar-patch near- est to the Old Pasture. She was watch- ing. That 1s what she was doing— watching. She was watching for Peter. ‘Whenever any visitors came to the dear Old Briar-patch little Mrs. Peter pretended to be happy, and certainly she looked well. You see, she wasn't losing her appetite. She believed in keeping herself looking well, no mat- ter if Peter wasn't there. So it was that it was quite true that she looked well and seemed happy, which was the word that had been carried to Peter. She had heard about Peter once or twice, Tommy Tit the Chickadee had brought back word that Peter was liv- ing up in the Old Pasture. Tommy had told her that Peter didn’t seem to be taking god care of himself and this worried her. Then, too, Tommy had said that Peter seemed a little reckless. This worried her still more. “It's a bad place for Peter up there in_the Old Pasture,” thought she, “Yes, sir, it's a bad place. Reddy and Mrs. Fox live up there. So do Old Man Coyote and Mrs. Coyote. If Peter Is going to live there he ought to be careful . He cannot afford to be reck- less. It is bad enough to be reckless, anyway, but to be reckless in a place like that is running altogether too great a risk. Peter is crazy!” Then little Mrs. Peter sat in her fa- thing was | to ta asked no questions for they did not | Every one became a victim of a pro- | vers | call | BEDTIME STORIE THE LOST WORDS OF LOVE. not help’ being aware of the nils caress to which he had Leen initiate No sooner, then, had the fairy thy won the poet's love than she soug here they might m nd blu toes of bright diamonds o) the very depths of the eart the eyes o A chariot of gold, drawn steeds, appeared magicz this the poet and the fai from the earth to the into each oth 1k amiably toge ‘This fairyland of their love was a wondrous land indeed. Ther queer gnomes dressed in ored satins and elves attired in a bhie | haze. These urchins of the unreal | worl K | the lovers, all to the music of unseen fairy orchestras. to them to eat, snow-white softne or bodies anywhere to be scen, brought them beautiful baskets decorated with costly and with 1. fruits that were transparent their cthereal unreality. Th indeed, were perfumed as daint 3. e the fairy whom ved, the poet would indulge in ttdns, striking the chords of a ! 1 instrument, and creating the | most beautitul verses his fancy could | the petals of w! Sometimes, to pleas she had never to this of being sung by a handsome young man who invented new s y day. And when he grew . and she felt him near her, she seemed to melt away in but nothing heir joy. Yet she had moments of gloom, when she would sit musi | with her cheek on her hand and her hair falling in “My love,” why is it that you are sad t more can you de- sire, seeing that we are so happy. in the midst of all these wonderful pleas- ures, you who are powerful, you who are so beautiful At first she made no ans when he insisted, she sighed, “Alas! one alw: ends by the evil one has inflicted on am sad because you have never told me the words ‘I love you."” The poet uttered a cry of joy at having found again the end of his poem. He did not repeat the words, but leaped up-to go. In vain the fairy tried to keep him in the blue and rose grottoes of diamonds, in the gardens of lilies as luminous as the stars, The poet returned to earth, and there completed and published his poem. In this poem the men and women of the poet’s country, so ter- ribly afflicted by the fairy's vengeance, found again the words of love they had forgotien. Now theré were meetings of lovers again in the moonlight, and once more happily married couples con- versed in endearments behind the closed doors and drawn blinds of their rooms, for all knew once more the three magical words, “I love you.” It is because of poetry, therefore, that kisses are sweet, and it is true that lovers can say nothing that the poets have not sung in their verses, BY THORNTON W. BURGESS and they were al about Peter. She remebered that it was up in the Old Pasture that they first met. It was up there she had been born and lived all her life until she met Peter, She re- membered when she first saw him and how handsome she had thought him. She had thought him the most wonder- ful person in all the great world. She remembered how her father, Old Jed Thumper, the big, gray old rabbit, who was then bigger and stronger than Peter, had hunted him all through the Old Pasture and tried to drive him out. She remembered how she and Peted had finally left the Old Pasture and come down to the dear 0ld Briar-patch, where they- had “‘ved ever since. And as she remembered all these things her thoughts grew very tender. She sighed deeply. “I shouldn't have sent Peter away like that,” she said regretfully. *“No, I should'nt. I'm sorry I did it. I just fcan’t get along without Peter. I did | think he would come back, but I guess he thought I meant what I said. If (he won't come back I'll have to go {after him.” MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Current Events. One mother says: The average youngster wants to “know about everything.” My young hopeful learned to read at an early age and seemed extremely fond of reading current news in the dai paper. I bought him a large ine: pensive scrap book, some kindergarten scissors and paste, and told him it would be a good idea to paste the items iIn the book for future refer- He numbered the pages and made a “list of contents” in the front of the book. He keeps track of such events as explorations, test trips, etc., and has acquired much valuable knowledge from his “scrap-book tionary.” (Covyright. 1927.) '\\'ork on the irrigation projects of Northeast Brazil are being concen- :)rsted on the dam and reservoir at ros. Solutions of Today’s Word Golf Problems. BANK, BANE, BONE, NONE, NOTE—four steps. BCOM, LOOM, LOOT, LOST, LUST, BUST—five steps. vorite form there in the dear old Briar- patch and began to dream. Her dreams werg day dreams, of course, BOWL, FOWL, FOUL, SOUL, SOUP—four steps.