Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1927, Page 35

» ' WOMAN'S PAGE. and Length of the Hair BY MARY MARSHALL. Skirts ‘What has become of the somuch- fonger skirt that we were all predict- ing a few months ago. Where is the bouffant skirt, or even RAINCOAT LINED WITH PLAID VELVET IS OF ROSEWOOD-COL~ ORED LEATHER, WHICH IS NOW CHOSEN BY MANY WELL DRESSED WOMEN."” the moderately full skirt that seemed already to be in fashion? These are questions hard to answer. Who can tell whether these new fash- OUR CHILDREN By Angelo Patri Which School ? When a child fails in one school the parents immediately seek another school. “We'll try him somewhere else.” The search for a good school begins. A school is good or bad according as it meets the desires of the pupil, leaving the parents out of the ques- tion. The young man or woman of 12 of 13 has decided tastes about what he or she wants in the matter + of schools. “I wouldn’t go to that place. They haven't a decent swimming pool on the place.” *“Oh, you going there? How can you bury yourself? I hear they haven't more than two good dances a year. Imagine. And never out on the street without a teacher! Nothing doing.” “I'm going to the finest school in the country. Don went there and he says the fellows are real class. That for me.” Father and mother listen wearily. s fons have simply been deliberate in coming—whether they are still per- sistently on their way, or whether they have blown over entirely. It is a fact, however, that in Paris day clothes are every bit as short and as scant as they have been. We would rather not admit it—because for a while we were led to hope that a real variety of costume would come by Wi of longer skirts, Evening gowns and here and there an after- noon gown of the more picturesque sort have longer skirts—but for every- day outdoors skirts really are short— short and scant. Don't imagine, then, when your young friends here in this country persist in wearing their short skirts, that they are simply showing their in- difference to, and ignorance of, French fashions. Don’t they know— haven't they heard—that skirts are going to be longer? But are they longer? is the question which they might ask by way of a rejoinder. Sad but true—short hair is growing shorter—ever so_much shorter, and hairdressers in Paris seem to have conspired to see which one can best succeed in making women's ears con- spicuoys. Behind the ears there is a patch so short as to seem almost bare, and across the back of the head the hair is cut quite close—this de- spite the fact that a few months ago hair seemed to be worn longer at the back of the head. It is no longer necessary to line raincoats with the usual rainproof fabrics. For now there is rain- proofed velvet. And some of the smartest of the new rainy-day coats are gorgeously, softly, brilliantly vel- vet lined. Fashions in handkerchiefs come and go, but never were dainty fine hand- kerchiefs more important in a wom- an’s wardrobe than at present. Some smart women are following the fad of holding a fine lace-trimmed handker- chief in the hand in the evening. Some- times arey are knotted around the wrist. If you would like to have di- rections and diagram for making, send me a stamped, self-addressed envelope and I will sent it to you at once. (Covyright, 1927.) WHO REMEMBERS? DICK MANSFIELD. Registered. U, S. Patent Offics When the old naphtha street lamps were used, and how the lamplighter, with his_blow-torch, had a struggle to light them every evening? LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Sundey afternoon my cuzzen Artie was around and me and him had a fearse argewment about wich has the most intelligents, munkeys or dogs, me saying munkeys and Artie saying dogs, and Artie sed, All rite, lets ask your father, he's always reeding diff- rent books, he awt to know. All rite, come on and ask him, T sed. Wich we did, pop being in the liv- ing room reeding diffrent parts of the Sundey paper, me saying, Hay pop, me and Artle had a argewment about wich is the most intelligent, munkeys or dogs, wich is, pop? Munkeys, aint they? I sed. Dogs, aint they, Unkle Will? Artie sed, and pop sed, Well, there is ap- parently mutch to be sed on both sides, and as an impartial judge I the grave responsibility of directing the children toward their best de- velopment. Theirs has to be an au- thorative and a respected word. I would suggest that instead of studying the equipment and the cur- riculum of a school first and last, that it would be well to study the teacher who was the directing force of the school. By that teacher the school -stands or falls, the children grow or fail to grow. The finest equipment in the world, the most modern and comprehensive curriculum imaginable, will not serve to keep & school alive unless there is a great spirit leading the group. Find your headmaster or mistress and you have found your school. ‘When the spirit of the school is right, and the spirit of a school is but another term for the spirit of the head of the school, the children will grow well. When that spirit is wrong, when it is searching for money, for an impressive plant, for ‘A.struggle. For a time they struggle. They offer |a list of patrons that will lend an this catalogue and they sing the|air of success—financial, of course— praises of yon school. It is a losing [the school isn't a school. * “Why send me where I'm| Again and again I see that it is certain to fail?” is the slogan that| not the subject-matte of the day's wins the day. Along about the mid-|work that matters. It is the attitude dle of Oetober the letters begin to|of the pupHl toward the task, and come home. The pupil complains|the flow of sympathetic understand- about tMe school and the teachers|ing, of spiritual communion between are in doubt about the real progress |the teacher and the pupil. of the pupil and the parents have| You can get an education out of another conference and another head- | very simple things. It is the spiritual ache.' ® B quality of the learning that supplies It is hard not to be guided by the | growth in a'child. Look for a teach- olever children. They have two words |er and you will find the school. The of protest for each ome of advice | most troublesome child will cease from from the parents and teachers, but|troubling under that influence. with the parents and teachers rests (Covyright, 1927.) Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. ‘The . world apparently must be amused. Parents must be amused. And children seem to fill the bill as } the universal plaything. Some of the following situations are undoubtedly familiar to you in some form or other. These are mere- ly illustrative and aim at no one. y are commonplace everywhere there are children and merely en- deavor to accentuate the idea that the happiness and the health of chil- dren are often lost sight of in the sel- fish objectives of parents. Mother knows that baby should be in bed at 6 or 7 o'clock. But father arrives home from work at that hour and he demurs. What is a baby for it his dad can’'t see him? Forever stuck away in bed when he wants to . play with him. He is being cheated “¥of his rightful amusement. So mother to please father keeps the baby up until after dinner and lets father en- joy himself. Grandmother having long held to the principle the baby can’t be happy without something in his mouth in- sists on making him a cracker and sugar “teat,” which to all appearances WINTER BY D. C. PEATTIE. Those who think of cats as tame fireside animals know the cat in only one of his guises, or one might =ay, disguises—for the cat acts all roles be- hind a mask. Turn a cow or horse, a chicken or duck, or most of our do- mestic ereatures out of doors and abandon them and .their fate is cer- tain. Even the dog who cannot pass through a thicket without hunting down every smell that comes to his nose, or resist chasing every rabbit, squirrel and bird, is really largely bluff as a hunter. Without man and gun, or a whole pack to aid him, he scarce- ly catches enough to live. One rarely learns of a dog gone off to the wilds to live. Stray dogs get their living round back doors and in dubious alleys. No, the dog is too big and clumsy, too fond of man, too essen- tially honest. Not so grimalkin; he reverts to jungle with the greatest ease if left| upon his own. A cat may come beg- | «, ging for warmth in cold weather, but | ' even well-cared-for cats prefer to.do some of their hunting outdoors. Every day I see my neighbors’ cats—black cats with white socks, brindled gray cats, carot-colored and tortoise-shell cats—they all come cricket-hunting on my terrace. ‘A Frenchman said, “God made the the baby enjoys hugely. Mother points out that after this injudicious feast the baby always spits up sour water and is uncomfortable, but grandmother gets such pleasure out of being the purveyor of this tid-bit ;)ut mother hasn’t the heart to deny er. Mothers aren’t entirely blameless in this matter of exploiting the chil- dren, nor are teachers. Mothers, to please their own vanity, may en- courage frail Betty to assume school leaderships and active church wark for which she is not strong enough. Teachers may allow an influential citizen or organization to dictate how a school campaign will help them put over some pet project. And who hasn’t known of the armies of school children who have been brought long distances and made to stand for hours in hot suns or drizzly rains in order that for five minutes they may as- sume the outlines of a living flag for the casual glance of some world hero. Such _situations exist evervwhere. What does not exist is the public’'s frown of disapproval. People say feebly: “But children enjoy this.” Of course they do. They like excitement. But at what frightful cost to them- selves. We don’t need to stimulate children, just living is stimulation enough for them. We do need to guard them from overstimulation and until we do, and until we stop figuring what will please us, and how a grati- fication of that pleasure is going to affect the child, we are still far from taking our responsibilities as seriously enough. iy e Everyday Law Cases May_Partner Be Convicted’ Embezzling o, ) U1 Partnership nds? BY THE COUNSELLOR. Robinson and Campbell had been partners for a number of years, Of the two, Robinson was much more active in the affairs of the business, It was he who assumed control of the management of the company's r 0rds and attended to the firm's collec. ion: When the partnership business be- Ean to slump, Campbell set himsclf to collect some of the firm's delin. quent accounts. To his surprise, he found ll!{lt many of the accounts had been paid to his partner and had ap- parently not been credited on the { books. “Campbell made an immediate demand upon Robinson to make the items good. The latter, however, was unable to do so and, being pressed by other creditors, filed a petition n cat in order to give to man the pleas- ure of caressing the tiger.” One might add: for the pleasure of watch- ing the tiger stalk his prey. A cat moving by stealth amid. the Winter weeds is to the lesser creatures even as a tiger in the delta grasses of the Ganges. At the rustle of a leaf he stops, one paw alert, his wild eves yolling. At the faintest stiv of a , cricket, he is coiled to spring, his muscles quivering. It is not to be supposed that cats find crickets very nourishing or de- licious. Salmon out of a can would please grimalkin more. But think of the zest of the hunt, the tang of the raw meat of the captured prey! Small wonder that bird lovers object to cats, since the cats catch birds from sheer wantonness quite as often as in ungeks e e bankruptey. In a final effort to collect the firm’s im_nm-_v, Campbell threatened to have his former partner arrested and !qhnrf:od with embezzlement of the irm’s money. Robin: el son ignored the | When Campbell pressed the crim- { Inal action he was informed that the i charge could not be made, the prose- { cuting attorney explaining to him the { following rule: ! “While a partnership is in exist- ence there can be mo conviction of | embezzlement by one member of the money or other property of the firm.” (Copyright. 1927.) St Twenty-seven students of the Illi- nois State Normal University of Nor- mal, IIl, are on a 20-day motor-bus tour of Eastern United States. think I awt to heer jest wat has bin sed béfore I hand down a decision that may have grate influents on the com- parative relation of munkeys and dogs to human sissiety. Meening he wunted to heer some of our argewments, wich I told him, say- ‘ing, Well ferst'l sed a’munkey is the most intelligent because wen a mun- key has fleez he tries to catch them but a dog jest chases them around useliss -with ‘his hine leg, and then Artie conterdicted me and sed that Jest proves a dog is the most intelli- gent because he has’ sents enuff to know that as long as a flee is being chased he hasent got time to stop and bite and a dog is so good hearted he don’t care if theres fleez on him or not as long as they dont bite, and then I sed munkeys are the most in- telligent because men descend from them and if dogs was the most in- telligent why dident men pick them out to desend from, and then Artie conderdicted me and sed if munkeys was intelligent they would of ternsd into men themselfs insted of staying munkeys and waiting for men to de- send from them, and dogs have enuff branes to jest leeve- other dogs de- send from them so there cant be eny argewment, and do you wunt to heer epy more of our argewments, pop? Pop saying that was enuff to show that the debate was a tie and proved that the horse is mans best frend. HOME NOTES Lacquered furniture is deserVedly popular just now and helps to bring to our homes the color and vivacity which the modern feeling in decora- tion demands. Shown here is a walnut and lac- quered cupboard of the Willlam and Mary period. This is a very old piece, but fairly inexpensive reproductions of cupboards of this general type -are quite easily procurable. This one is lacquered in & blue- green shade, which melts into the rich walnut shades of the wood. The decorations are frankly of an English character and mark the work as prob- ably a specimen of the japanning done in England since the beginning of the eighteenth century. (Copyright. 1927.) Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. December 5, 1804.—Management of the public schools is intrusted to a board of 13 trustees by an ordinance of the city council approved by Mayor Robert Brent today. Seven of the trustees are to be appointed by the council and six are to be chosen by those who contribute to the school fund which is to supplement the amount allowed by the city govern- ment from taxes. A committee of three members will be appointed to receive subscriptions. It is understood the members of this committee will make a personal canvass of the city for_mone; The taxes which are to be used for school purposes are those on slaves, dogs, licenses for carriages and hacks, for ordinaries and taverns, for retail- ing wines and spirituous liquors, for billiard tables, for theatrical and other public amusements, and for hawkers and peddlers. It is stipulated that the total amount to be paid for school purposes from these taxes shall not exceed $1,500 annually. . Funds contributed by individuals are to be used in building school- houses. The municipal money will be used to pay the tuition of pupils un- able to meet the expense and to pro- vide school furniture and also paper, pens and Ink for the poor pupils. The city ordinance refers to the new system of schools, which is to be es- tablished In the Federal City, as “the permanent institution for the educa- tion of youth in the City of Washing- to It is understood that the mayor will be made a member of the board of trustees, and that Thomas Jeffer- son, President of the United States, will become president of the board, How Much Money Brings Happiness in Marriage? Thinks Moderate Income Ideal. DorothyDix' “Give Me Neither Poverty Nor Riches,” is Wisest Rule—Dire Poverty Starves Love. A YOUNG woman who s getting a divorce from her husband lays the failure of her marriage to the lack of money. “Jack and I were wildly, passionately, thrillingly in love with each other when we got married,” she says, “but he made only a moderate salary, just enough for us to live economically on, and I had to do my housework and pinch and economize to make the ends meet. If he had made more money, so that I could have had lovely clothes and servants and we could have entertained and gone about to places of amusement, we wouldn't have gotten on each other’s nerves so and quarreled until we made life unendurable for each other, and there was nothing to do but to part.” I don't think that it was lack of money which wrecked this marriage. It was selfishness, the desire for self-indulgence, the lack of self-control and the yellow streak in a man and woman that makes them turn quitters when they strike the hard sledding instead of their having the grit to carry on to the end, no matter how many difficulties and disillusions lie in the way, But this young woman's excuse raises the very interesting question of what part money plays in making or marring a marriage, Does Cupid need to shoot with a golden arrow in order to inflict a lasting awound? Does romance peter out unless it is lavishly financed? Has the girl who marries a rich man a better chance at happiness than the one who marries a poor man? Does love thrive better on lobster Newburgh than it does on a diet of bread and cheese and kisses? Are.wealthy husbands and wives more devoted to each other, and do they live more harmoniously together than impecunious ones? Just how much money does one need to make one happy though married? = i F course, it goes without saying that you can't buy love, and romance, and sympathy, and understanding, and all the other desirable attributes of the ideal life partner. They are not for sale over the counter. Otherwise the millionaires would monopolize all the soulmates and have a corner on connublal bliss instead of being engaged, as they so often are, in swapping off the husbands and wives they have for new ones. The rich woman can go out and buy her a string of matched pearls. The rich man can purchase the latest model in automobiles. But no woman has money enough to insure her getting a_husband whose disposition and temperament will be congenial to her. Nor can any man put up enough collateral to underwrite his marriage and make it a success and assure him that his wife will always ravish his fancy and go his gait. Good husbands and wives are among the unpurchasable luxuries. So is domestic peace. Nevertheless, money does play an important part in determining the success or failure of every marriage. The old proverb which says that when poverty comes in at the door love flies out at the window is not true in all cases, but it takes a stronger affection and more heroism than most men and women possess to be able to love on an empty stomach and with the bill collectors’ knocks forever in her ears. People who are desperately poor, who are shabby and underfed, who live in eternal anxiety about where the next meal is to come from, who see their children pinched with want, have no time to give to sentiment. They are preoccupied with the struggle for existence, not with the state of their hearts. So in this way poverty does kill love, for it is onl he: comfortable that we are concerned with our emotions. b But if dire poverty starves love to death, wealth often smothers it to death, as is evidenced by divorce being more common Ve than it'is among the very poor. e et S .o THE very fact that the wealthy husband and wife are not dependent upon each other for everything, that they are not called upon to make sacrifices :)01'l e}:;ch o‘th(;‘r, ;rfl:ol render each other little personal services, that they do ave to find their amusement and entertainment i each other's society, tends to separate them. b G His wife is not necessary to the rich man’'s comfort as is the poor man's wife. Servants prepare his food and keep his clothes in order. If his wife is away, his whole world is not upset as is that of the man whose wife ministers to him with her own hands. Nor is her husband the center of the universe to the rich woman as he is to the poor woman. She may loge him dearly, but his comings and goings do not make up all of life to her. She does not spend her days in an effort to please him and make him comfortable. She has a thousand interests of her own that he does not toueh at all, a thousand amusements and pleasures in which he does not share. Besides, the world of business for him, the world of soclety for her, come between them. So T should say that the ideal state for any married couple would be to have just enough money to make them reasonably comfortable and to save them from torturing anxiety about bills, and not enough money to make them independent of each other, and especially not enough money to make the husband a target for the gold-diggers. 7 The happiest®couples are those wh the ladder and who are climbing up to sharing in each other’s hopes and plans and a “Give me neither poverty nor riches’ 0 have their feet on the first rung of gether, working shoulder to shoulder, mbitions. " is the wisest prayer that was ever uttered, and one that every married couple might well offer up every night on their knees. (Copyright, 1927.) The Sidewalks BY THORNTY DOROTHY DIX. of Washington N FISHER. There are certain places in this| that we are a material, dollar-chasing . wide world where if one stands long | 1ot of folks. There were 365 letters a | AUNT HET BT ROBERT QUILLEN. “Us women are kind o' queer. When we ain't got time to clean up the house, we're mighty glad the man folks don’t notice it. But when we break our backs cleanin’ up, we feel abused if they don't notice it and pay us compliments.” MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Short Woman’s Coiffure. The effort to escape from the stereo- typed bobbed coiffure has led to many attractive variations, most of them re- quiring hair that is at least shoulder length unwaved. This length permits a number of different hair arrange- ments to suit milady’s mood. Two coiffures that I am describing for you today are especially becoming to short women. As a rule the woman who i8 below the average stature has a head that is too long and broad for PO QR i) £ her height, so that her coiffure must be dressed fairly close in order not to emphasize this defect. The per- fectly proportioned little woman is rare. coming ‘to a small face with refined features, high forehead ‘and well | formed chin. The nose may be long | ov short, but delicately <hiseled. Part | the hair low on the left side and put |in wide flat waves with a horseshoe effect. Put a shght wave in the long bang and curl the ends under just above the eyebrow line. Let the hair | wave backward from each temple and then come forward in a large wave at the cheekbones and over the ears. If the back hair is long enough it may be tied close to the head and | then turned upward in a fan-shaped bun. If the hair is too short for this treatment it may be made into a French twist or covered with a small switch. | Another pretty coiffure for petite | women has a short center part. The hair marcelled and arranged in deep waves over forehead and ears. The back hair is divided int and lawer secti upper | section _ai and pinned flat- - A coiffure with long bangs is be- | enough he will be sure to meet friend. Fourteenth street and the| Avenue is an unusually strategic point, and it was there that your cor- | respondent ran across an old acquaint ance looking for trouble. That is, | didn’t precisely desire to wield lis fists or start an argument with a pe- destrian. Nevertheless, he was in a warlike mood, and has been 8o for the | past 10 years. | It is unfortunate that he must re- | main anonymous, for his remarks: concerning the annoying tranquility | of this country do not coincide with the rank and file of our citizenry. | As you may have guessed he is a | soldler of fortune. Sometimes mis- | fortune. 'Gun smoke is to him! what the scent of a rabbit is to| a dog. The rattle of rifles and salvo | of artillery is a symphony to his ears. He_penetrated the Mexican hills with Pershing and was wounded in J'rance. The end of the war found him in Paris, broke but optimistic. A careful scrutiny failed to disclose a single hostile cloud on the horizon. And he | rave excitement, i Nothing stirring, he returned to America, showed the folks his deco- rations, got into a fist fight and took the next boat to France. We ran| into him in Mo- | rocco during the RIft trouble. Abd El-Krim was threatening the peace and security | of that mysterious | country between | Ouidja, on the| frontier of Algeria, | and Fez, the Holy City. A block from the writer's inn, an officer of the French high com- | mand had been! shot in the street., Over to the north { “in the purple hills | sporadic puffs of smoke marked the line of Krim's sharpshooters. A per-) forated twig fell or a dusty donkey | slipped to his knee: ‘There seemed : to be no sense to it. Certainly no, glory. | Taza, Morocco, was a small place inhabited largely by soldiers. A flying fleld was located there. One day this | American soldier of fortune drove his | bomber high over the sinister hills. Something went wrong and he crash-| ed into the side of a small house. He was badly injured and eventuflly re- turned to France. Following his recovery, he looked around again, though vainly, for othe worlds to conquer. But the “breaks’ were against him, so he sailed home, He ‘doesn’t want a job, because some- thing might happen and he would have to leave. What he seeks is trouble, and plenty of ‘it. | * k% % ' Ann Hathaway's boy friend, Will' Shakespeare, once Indited the lines, “The evil that men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones.” So frequently is it true . that many ‘“hard eggs” pass on with- out leaving a_record of their benevo- lence. Sometimes this may not be computed In terms of dollars and| cen A man may contribute time| bevond fellow. Six years ago, a Washingtonian left the city in search of health. The fight against the dread malady with which he is afflicted has been discouraging, ' and but for cheering messages from : his friends, he might have stryggled less successfully. We are informed upon reliable authority that one of these friends, commonly regarded a: “hard-boiled,” has written & letter every day during the past six years to the invalid. Think of that evaluation to helping the other . ‘fi!!. who dclare. of year for six years. Just such discoy- eries as these restore our afith in old John Public. * k% % The opening of Congress today re minds one something of the beginning of a school term. Those beginning time are not un- like new pupils entering a strange new classroom. Having achieved the distinction of election to the National Legisla- ture, they come to ‘Washington to dis- cover that they are a little less con- spicuous among their fellows than they - were at home. This is a bit disconcerting to many of them. Wives of new members share their bewilderment at finding themselves in a strange en. vironment and their lives in the Capt- tal circumscribed by certain tradi- tional rules and reguiations, It iy not difficult to spot the new ones. Again, like beginners in school, they remain for a while in the back- ground, watching the older boys. Slowly but surely they eventually blend into the picture themselvs, and in a few months acquire the confidence ind poise of the old timers, * ok K % Conventions are profitable, whether political, social, - commercial or pro- fessional. For two hours Saturday, your correspondent listened and learn- ed more about Kansas City and its virtues than might have been discov- ered by a personal tour. Naturally our informant was a citi- zen of Kansas City. He had scarcely concluded his stranger approached & hurriedly and greeted the booster with, “Why, :Iell you old blanket blank blooey op! ¢ ‘Well, for the love of Pete,” was the response, “it it isn't you, you dashed blank zoofe!” After a brief exchange of pleasant- ries, the third man left. hat fellow,” said the booster, *is rom home. I just met him this morn- ¥ Boy, that's the way fellers from ‘ansas City are. If a guy is regular | swa call him names and it he isn't we | mply call him ‘Mister”.’ WHAT, WHY AND WHERE 1. What is tapa cloth? 2. What.is the coinage of the Is. land of Yap? ‘Who are the Bagabos? . Who are the Dyaks? 5. What is a kris? wers 1. A primitive fabric made from bark, often in beautiful designs, by Pacific islanders, i Lens-shaped wheels of limestone, ‘rom 1 inch to 12 inches in diameter, which were quarried and brought in noes from the Palaos Islands, 400 miles to the south. 3. A tribe of southern Mindanao, advanced in weaving and woodcarving and skilled in metal work. 4. A light brown, black haired, very agile people, with an average height of 5 feet 3 inches. who inhabit a large territory in Southeastern Asia, They n-: mimber-lo! the Malayan race, . curious serpentine dagger carried by the ¥ (Exhibits all these articles and peoples can seen in the Division Ethnology, New National Museum.) discourse when a J L Put one or two “wide lower ' séction an@ curl_the ends | ringlets, then’givg, it a twist ag it across the back of the hs the free curled ends clustg the right ear. from the upper lay | their congressional duties for the first | COme just above the waved lower | bang of hair made from the lower | section. The natural curve of the skull be- hind in the profile view is preserved by pinning the hair close and fasten- ing a cap-shaped net firmly over the whole. coiffure. THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Tuesday, December 6. Astrologers read tomorrow as an un- favorable day in planetary direction. Adverse aspects rule, - Under this direction of the stars it 1s well to avoid all gloomy forebodings. The seers declare that the United States is subject to the best possible sway where trade is concerned and foretell continued prosperity. A new year of phenomenal progress and supreme achievements is forecast for America, but there are to be sur- prising _international complication, it is_prophesied. Under the planetary rule educators may be greatly criticized and the meth- ods of public schools may be unjustly condemned. Increase of mervous disorders and of heart maladies of various sorts is again prognosticated. ‘Women now will find that beauty culture is a topic widely discussed in the periodicals, which uncover many perils for seekers of perpetual youth. In the new year feminine attention will focus on methods of improving the mind as well as the body, it is foretold. Advances in the cost of living may be expected in the new year, which will bring labor difficulties as well as farming problems. (Covyright. 1927.) “ || Eye Bath Sure | ~ Bezuty Aid If you want vour eyes to he clear and beautiful heed the advice of ‘twelve thousand oculists who recommend the eye bath. Once you have the knowledge of wash. ing your eyes you will realize why. Iris, America’s Eye Bath, has become an absolute essential with thousands of well groomed women, Iris fs % clear, harmless bath containing boric _acid, witch- hagel, menthol and other astrin- gent cleansers. It relieves tired, {inflamed eyes and gives luster and brightness to eyes to make them sparkle and look alive and dancing. I i Also in larger size at $1.00. We guarantee and cecommend Iris. Try it today. ‘3 PEOPLES DRUG ‘STORES BEDTIME STORIES Peter Rabbit Wonders. Give just a thought or two each day To friends who may be far away. —Peter Rabbit. It was Winter. Jack Frost and Rough Brother North Wind ruled in the Green Forest and over the Green Meadows. Everything was white with snow. Peter Rabbit sat in the dear 14 Briar Patch trying to make up his mind whether or not he liked it. He decided at last that he did like it. You see, Old Mother Nature has pre- pared Peter for such weather. It is very seldom that Rough Brother North Wind and Jack Frost can get under Peter's skin, as the saying is. He has a thoroughly good fur coat and he delights to scamper around enough to keep him warm. “The only fault I have to find with % _HCaov “DON'T YO UEVER MISS YOUR FRIENDS OF THE SUMMER?Y HE INQUIRED. said Peter to little Mrs. is that I do sometimes get a bit lonesome.” Little Mrs. Peter sniffed. know why you should,” said she “I know, my dear, I know,” replied Peter hastily. “Of course you are al- ways here, and I just couldn’t get along without you.” “Then what do you mean when you hat you get lonesome some- demanded Mrs. Peter sus- piciously. Peter scratched a long ear with a long hind foot. “Don’t you ever miss your friends of the Summer?” he in- quired. “Don’t you ever wonder where Welcome Robin and Winsome Bluebird and Little Friend the Song Sparrow and Scrapper the Kingbird | and Skimmer the Swallow and| Boomer the Nighthawk and all the other feathered neighbors of the Sumger are now? And what they are doing “No,” replied Mrs. Peter, quite "If only Ia known what I know today I wouldnt have acted so,” I say — And yet unless | hua acted so Id never have known what now I know. RACa BY THORNTON W. BURGESS frankly, “I have too much to attend to at home to waste any time won- dering about my. neighbors. What good does it do to wonder about them?"” Peter had to admit that it didn't do any good. “Just the same,” said he. “I think it is nice to think about vour friends who are-away. -1 hope they think of me sometimes. I hope they wonder what I am doing. just as 1 wonder what they are_doing.” Little Mrs. Peter sniffed again. “They don’t have to wonder what y are doing: they know.,” said she “How can they Kknow”" inquired Peter, looking very much surprised. “Because,” replied little Mrs. Peter “they know vou. Knowing vou, they now just what you are doing, which s simply nothing. Why don't you get busy and help me trim out these little paths through the dear Old Briar Patch?” “I was just thinking,” said Peter, “that T would run over to the Green Forest.” “Well, I'm_just thinking,” replied little Mrs. Peter, “that vou'll do nothing_of the sort. There goes Reddy Fox straight toward the Green Forest this ve minute."” Peter looked. Sure enough, there was Reddy. Peter sighed. “Oh, dear,” said he, “I suppose I'll have to stay at home.” “Which little Mrs. y vou'll sit around ing about vour far- away friends, instead of doing your share of the work here and in the dear old Briar Patch.” (Copvright. 1927.) 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