Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1927, Page 20

WOMA N'S PAGE. THE EVENING STAR.- WASHI TON, DO, SATURDAY. DE CEMBER 10, 1927. FEATURES:. Old Furniture in New Homes BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. TANEY [HE FOUR-POSTER BEDSTEADS T BRASS ARE Ni It is safe to say that any one who lives in an old home where there is an attic has had many occasions to visit it during the past year new eyes on what, not £o many years ago, looked Jike the most hopeless furniture imaginable hecause of its style heing out of date. Lucky the ones who had such a store place in which to put things. v they were put there less as to be brought out at a later r because the attic was con- sidered hut the first step toward the dump heap er second-hand man—and then somehow the task of getti them further than the attic became neglecied Among the many who discarded such outdated furniture there may have been an occasional one who, firzering the wood on an old finely made hedstead, said to herself that the workmanship, the wood or the “'style were too inherently fine to be ted with. Realizing how once they had been held in hizh esteem, she thought to herself, though vaguely, that again might come the time when they would be, To entertain such a feeling for the household goods and to couple it with ryjsome slight knowledge of inherent imlues is to co-operate with Father Time when he reverts the style in their favor. Such pieces as are of 2001 material and well made are to be prized. no matter how out of date, as many have learned to their sorrow al er parting with pieces which later came into vogue. Among people of this sort were those who, when the vogue for brass and BEDTIME STORIES . Farmer Brown's Boy Reads Signs. For those who understand aright Are signs that can he read at sizht. —Old Mother Nature. That is a very true saying. To those ‘with eyes that see, the little people of the Green Meadows and the Green Forest leave signs that can be read as clearly as a printed page. Farmer Brown's Boy is one of those with eyes that see. When he had rushed out of the house at the squawking of the hens and had found the feathers of ne of them on the snow and the foot- prints of Reddy Fox mear by he had simply jumped to conclusions—which means that he had decided in his own HLaoy HE SAW THE LINE OF FOX FOOT- PRINTS COMING FROM THE OLD PASTURE OVER TO THE BARN. 1d without re: ying 1o read s Now, as he cam t barn and watched Reddy ming merely a red speck ove rd the Old Pasture, he was not so sure as he had been that Reddy the loss of that plump hen. So. goon as Reddy was out of sight, mer Brown's ys that were left in the snow. IFirst he went ba to follow footprints of the hens, He saw wher three hens had come down from the Renyard toward the back of-the barn. He saw where two of these thr run at top specd back again. where other ha be down. athers still luy the now. Very carcfully v studied that spot for the footprints of Rey nearest footprints were se from that spot. He could Reddy had crouched in the snow: the snow also showed that Reddy had not_jumped Then carefully m 1y looking about and thie n Brown's Boy the snow “nrmer studied very I spend my days in yearning For things I might be earning — 1 dream so much 2bout them I heve to do without them! b daaid nd Jook with | out from under the | to blame for | 1s Boy began reading the the e had | He saw | struck | e in the but | right HAT ON OW COVE iron bedsteads came in, were improvi- | dent enough to part with the fine old { four-poster ones when huying the new. Those who had a more canny sense | y and_a realization of the | ashions found some | the then less-favored How thankful they have sion to be that they did not them beyond recall. For since time they have become more favored than ever. Styles in furniture are now under- going a change, so it is well to re- member that they are likely to do so n. as surely they will, and not part permanently with what may at some later period, perhaps, alued s an heirloom. How grateful we are to the members of our ily who stubbornly refused to give away that | “hideous ‘old thing” which looks ex- ceedingly smart today: s E a_hanging shelf of mid-Victorian de- sign—a table, bureau or hedroom set of that period. The wood employed at that epoch of furniture making was generally good, though the.time fol- lowed when the accepted black walnut of that era was despised. Today it is not, and in some pieces the design is not as hideous as it was reputed to be, Those city dwellers who revel in having all modern conveniences may well envy the country dweller her at- tic or woodshed which has space suf- ficient to accommodate good pieces of furniture not needed at the moment, Such a harbor for furniture out of favor may in time prove as magic in its way as in another was Pandora’s box. So do not be hasty in parting with what cannot be reclaimed except at a high cost later. place to put | wooden beds. | had oc discar BY THORNTON W. BURGESS around those telltale feathers. Al most at once he saw a peculiar mark in the snow, as if it had been brushed with something. “Ha, ha!” said Farm- er Brown’s Boy, “ a big wing touched the snow right there., That chicken was taken by a hawk or an owl, and my guess is that it was a hawk. Hooty the Owl would not be over here at this hour of the day. I do believe that Terror the Goshawk has come back from 'way up North. If that is the case, T shall have to get out my gun. I cannot have him stealing my chick- ens. Now I'll look around a bit more and see all that happened So Farmer Brown's Boy looked around a_bit more, and this time he looked with understanding eyes. He saw the line of fox footprints coming from the Old Pasture over to the barn, Iie saw the print of Reddy's body i the snow, where Reddy had flattened himself behind the corner of the He saw the footprints leading under the barn. When he had seen all these things Farmer Brown's Boy closed his eyes and in his mind was a picture of all that had happened. “Reddy didn't steal that chicken,” said he, “but he meant to. He came over here and discovered that the hens were out of the henyard. He lay down back of the corner of the barn and watched. He saw three of those sil hens come right down toward him. Just as one was near enough and he was all ready to jump Terror the Goshawk swooped down and took tha hen right from under Reddy’s nose, The other hens ran and squawked and Reddy heard me coming, so he ran under the barn. There's the whole stor And_there was the whole story, as vou and I know. It was all written in the snow, and Farmer Brown's Boy had eyes to see. Iver so many stories* are written in the snow for | those with understanding eyes. It is great fun to go out in Winter and | try to find these stories in the snow. THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Sunday, December 11. Tenefic aspects dominate tomorrow, to which finds favorable for intellectual accor 0log the pur ng sway uits. The cler a most of and is subject to the stimulating and helpful ion the st the seers announ they will be much in the public prints. Men as well as women will in | turn to spiritual consolation, after de- “ votion to material interests, it is prog- nosticated. The o hould be falrly eood for the ion of fricnds and | even for courtship, althoush both men and women m; pear het- and wise 3 Music is subject to the hest ences, and artists should creatly through new demands them. Inventions are marvelously well gov- erned by the planets, and the radio as well as aviation will profit by them. Hospitals now come under a rule making for great demands on them, and they may expect large benefac- influ henetit on hould he an auspiclous day for ppeals for charities or philon- Much oratorv in Congress and other | tegislative hodies is indicated. Persons whose birth date it is have | the augury of gain through trusts or syndicates, . Children horn on that day have the forecast of unusual success. Many public men and successful women are lbvrn under this sign. (Covyrizht, 1027.) Your Baby and Mine VRTLE MEVER ¥l a large family is often made us for the wother by the pro of the older children to tease . Every chiid has ex imented and experienced the kind f which comes from b # e It scems to herent in our make-up that we want | to stiv things up. The placid, mind- | his-own-business child or adalt is fair A for he ins $ eVery holder h the most fiendish desire to prod into animation. ‘The hiby p 1y with his blocks lures m hroth to see what will h pen he run WAy wit And how many W boys have {itched toy the bair of | the uned girl in the seat ahe jof him? The te o and he tory their futil to s1y, he en appor ng helpless be in- w him | chiev G it m [ unmussed ensc ives him, teasi s good as he This does not exactly solve : for the mother, and it ean't e ed all in a moment. 1t she whips teaser, she simply reverses po tions and makes herself the mist by her strength. Her method step the homie feasing, but it the whipped boy out to anoth tim whose mother isn't at hand to de fond hun Help the stand tht want to hurt him « difference I weapon, because to: person when his ts the pro child or only his property. hter s t's no fun at who doesn't se to under- pretends to In D all to m to your the te, Build up in the wdmiration for tho: teet the weak. D older, theushtless person tick!l all haby, or your work is wel ne. parate the two chil play together in peace. Put the child in a room where he can ~ no part of the family 1l soon learn to play in a makes for contentment * has two tasks to per ent the younger whining “tat 1WAy runnivg to his mother and svmpathy, and teach him how hest to hold his own. She must help the older one to a is not admirable to take of an opponent who is too weak to cht his own battles, She’ll have to ke this lesson home to herself, or may 1t exactly the oppo: moral. a 1 who pro- re: n who can not olde th manner So the 1t ivantage tal she GE Christmas Packages Wear New Wrappings Who has not thrilled to the rustle of tissue paper and the click of scis- sors as one red ribbon bow after another has heen tied on a Chris mas package? Naney felt that she had thrilled to it long enough. She decided that she would put her pac ort of holiday dress. > went to the stationer's and pur- ed tissue r in soft shades of blue and yellow and Chinese red. She bought siars and discs paper in'blue and red and silver. She brought home some imported papers with futuristic patterns all over them. Then she set to work. The box was wrapped in silver per. It had blue stars in assorted es pasted on its surface and gummed blue paper ribbon held the wrapping taut. Another package was s in a new apped in white tissue with silver and silver ribbon. A third a jar of jelly wrapped in soft yellow tissue with small red dots of paper pasted on to look like eliow and red calico. Red ribbon formed the how She used blue paper for a fourth gift. The n; the recipient was put on with small red dots of gummed paper. The package was tied with silver ribhon. O14-fashioned N Page’'s di a stamped. self- for her beve ldressed envelope, and ask > teaflet., (Copyright, 1927.) Smothered- Sausages. You may use either fresh or cured sausages, If you use the cured ones, remember to prick them hefore you place them in the pan. '1f you use fresh saugage meat, mold it into small, flat cakes and place these in the bot: tom of a greased baking pan. Add a layver of asoned mashed potatoes. Then cover all with two well heaten eggs, dust with fine bread or cracker crumbs, and bake in a moderate oven for half an hou SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. 1 heard my daddy say, “Give him the air,” an’ I bet he's Folll' to gib me & radio fer Christmas! | tio | tiona t V't let him see some | ah ion that | of gummed | _ Take your muscle, WORD (_:'()LF—Ever;hody’s Pfaying It ime s to change one word to another worl | by a series of “strokes.” Rule Only one letter can he changed in eac “stroke.”” Rule 3 Each “stroke” must result in a new word which can he found in n current dictionary or in another tense or the plural of a dic- y word If yvou ean hvat “par” one stroke vou score a “birdie.” T you are un- nsually good and knock two strokes off Old Man Par, credit yourself with an | o Some wise word golfer may some day erack out three strokes less than “par" This is the word golfer's heaven and he hands himself a “pter- tv1” the rarest of all hirds A word golfer who ean score a “pterodacty]” is entitled to start his mouth going and let it rave for days while the galler: wppliuds Get out your pencils word golfers, and assault Old Man Par. | Rule 1. The object of this Go from HEEAD to WOOD in four shots, that much afffer Ga from LOV T in four shots, Go from STAR to CAST in nine shots, shoot each other, Sometimes it is hard to find even They are usually quite will t PRINT your “strokes™ her HEAD LOVE (Conyrigh 1927.) Worried Business Woman Finds Domestic Ca- reer as Fascinating as Office Position. When Modern Girl Imitates Men. IZAR MISS DIX: Women are always complaining about the monotony and drudgery of the life of the average wife and mother and comparing | it with the interesting life of the business woman. I have tried hoth and I | find plenty of interest in running my home. 1am an equal partner With my husband in this business of establishing and maintaining a home. His task | is outside. mine within, We have two children. My business is to give them | the best advantages that I can, to be a pal to my husband, to take my pl socially, to keep well read, to give my family good food and a comfortable home 1o live in. I find that to manage a house intellizently, hildren | properly, and to give my husband companionship is as sting_ an | occupation as any woman can folioy MRS. B. | ood for you. Mrs. 1! Would that all women had enough | ins and heart to sce that the making of a home is the finest career that any woman can follow, and the one that pays the highest rewards. We get out of everything just what we put into it, and whether a woman is hored or thrilled by making a_heme and rearing a family depends ltogether upon herself and the spirit in which she goes about it. Answer: A woman's house can be a prison to her that she hates and loathes. Or it can be the dearest spot on earth to her, the place to which she turns | as to a temple of refuge. She can love every hoard in it. She can almost | burst with pride over owning it, even if it is no more than a ¢heap bungalow She may find a never-ending interest in beautifying it, and gloat over ever chair and pot and pan and find utter happiness in keeping it xplc-flmlvsp:l\n. Or a woman may pity herself for being a drudge because she has to do her own housework. She may be bored to tears by the eternal sameness of cooking and cleaning and sewing and doing all of the things that have to be done over and over again every day to keep a family comfortabie. Or she may ‘bring the same Intelligence to bear upon her housework as she would upon her job in any office. She may keep herself keenly interested in devising labor and timesaving ways of performing her task She may realize that cooking is one of the fine arts, and get just as much kick out of preparing a perfectly balanced meal as she would out of painting a picture, or writing a clever story. A woman may regard her husband and children as burdens because she has to work for-them, and look upon them as nuisances because they interfere with her freedom to do as she pleases. She may feel herself a_martyr to have to stay with the baby when she wants to go to the movies. The chatter of her youngsters may get on her nerves and make her cross and irritable. Or she may get a greater thrill out of having a baby's head on her breast than she could out of watching any film actress’ hectic passion. She may find watching a little child’s mind unfold the most interesting and fascinating thing on earth. Tt is all in the point of view. Our jobs are just what we make them, and the wife and mother job is not different from the rest. It is work or play, misery or pleasure, boring or interesting, monotonous or varied, just as the individual woman makes it, And when you come to monotony, all work that you do day after day is monotonous. We have to manufacture our own, thrills and make our own kicks. N DOROTHY DIX, DE‘\R MISS DIX: Why do girls talk so much about the death of chivalry? And if it is dead, who Killed it? How can a cigarette-smoking, gin- absorbing, cursing, swearing, petting, modern girl expect chivalry? The modern girl tries to be like a man and act like one. Then why shouldn’t she be treated that way? If girls would act like ladies, they would have a right to he treated like ladies, but when they act like men they should not object to being treated like men. . ‘What do you sa I am one of a club where this subject has been discussed over and over again, 0. F. W. Answer: Your logic is unanswerable, O. F. W., and I fully agree with vou that when girls make themselves into imitation men they have no right to resent men treating them as they would other men. It would be a graceful gesture, for instance, for a man to yleld his heat in a street car to a woman dressed in dainty chiffons, but absurd for him to give it up to a short-haired woman in masculine garb. The girl who is discreet and dignified has a right to demand that men shall treat her with respect, but the girl who necks and pets and drinks with men has no right to resent their attitude. There is nothing so eternally true as that we cannot have our cake and eat it, too, and that has always been a hard fact for women to swallow. They want to cast away their femininity and yet have the perquisites it brought them. They want to throw away their skirts and yet hide behind them. They want the license and the liberties of men and still to demand from men the chivalry that they accord to ladies. And it can’t be done. A woman can't carouse with men and have thém revere her, She can’t descend to their level and have them place her on a PR DOROTHY DIX. pedestal, JDPAR MISS DIX: Iam a pleasurc-seeking girl and I love to go out and have a good time, but my mother won't let me go unless she knows the life history of the fellows I go out with, and where I am going, and what I am going to do. The result of this is that my friends don't ask me to go out nearly as.much as they used to, and I am absolutely going crazy if something doesn’t happen. Please advise me what to do. L. R. Answer: My earnest advice to you is to listen to your mother and obey her. She is t ietly the right position on the subject and is trying to protect you from your own folly. No mother daughter go out with boys unless she knows all about them, what sort of families they come from, and whether they are clean, decent Jads or not. And certainly she should know where her daughter goes, and that she does not frequent questionable places. Of course, you want to have a good time and you are entitled to just much innocent pleasure as you can get, but let it be the right sort of fun and the kind that won't leave you sick and sorry. DOROTHY DIX. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M, D. Data on Specific Gravity. In a handbook on “Swimming and Water Safety” published by the Boy Scouts of America, a copy of which nt to me by Director Fred C. 1 find an interesting article on specific gravity of the human body, from *Swimming,” by Sinclair and Henry. some data from this article u v be (AY value to my readers. Any- way. they will lend substance to some things I want to tell reade Specific gravity is the io of the weight of a.body to the weight of the water the body will displace. 1 lh_? body weighs more than the water it displaces, it will sink in water; if it weighs less than the water displaced it will float. Suppose you were to fill the bathtub brimming full of wat 0 that not another drop could be added without w, then (makes me shudder to think of it) you climbed into the tub and firmly hut gently eased yourself down into the dread depths so that the water just covered the tip of vour nose and no part of your body were above water, Then suppose you had a parcel of servants to cateh all the overflow and weigh it. Then sup- pose you had a mathematician who could by a process of lightning calcu- lation, determine the ratio of your welght to the weight of the ton or so of water you've spilled out of the tub The grand total subtrahend. or what- ever they call the rétult of such fig- uri would represent your specifi~ | have any about your person—if you will just dip a hunk of your muscle in water it will displace rather less than its weight of water, so that if you don't keep a tight grip on it the muscle will sink. Likewise you would find, probably, that bits of your brain would sink in water though not so fast muscle, for doubtless your in is rather lighter than your ' I nfact. there is only one por- tion of the body that is lighter than water and will readily float, and that is, not the lungs, but the body fat wherever it may be stored. Lung will sink the instant the air is removeq from it. Bone has the highest specific gravity of all portions of the hody but as a man has only 10% pounds of bone in him and a woman only- 9 pounds, one may safely venture in for a_swim if moderately padded with fat to huoy up the bones, brains and uscles, child’s hones h; was s Mill ve a lower spe- ic gravi than an adult’s, also lighter brain and lighter muscles A child more readily floats in the water and swims with relatively less effort than does an adult. A woman the edge on a man in floating and wimming, as her specific gravity is i Iy lower than a man’s. Plump ally fat persons remain afloat and learn to swim more easily than skinny folk do. Chest eapacit is. the amount of air the lungs will hold—is. of course, an important fac- | tor of buoyancy. A moderately fat per- son who 'has good control dver his hreathing and a fair chest capacity may float indefinitely in quiet water. With a kind of periscopic breathing tube e: tending a foot or two above the sur- face, so that he wouldn't mind when his mouth and nose bobbed just under the gurface, any indjvidual might float day it necessary, But at that, some portions of you have a specific gravity greater than other portions, and. curiously enough. other portions have a lower specific gravity than some portions. WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFI ed U 8 1D, Patent Office L1 CAN {TuRn A SOMERSALLT IFIWANA b (-3 When every boy was the proud pos- sor of a pair of stilts, and the unts fhat were performed on the tall sticks? MOTHER AND THEIR I 0 “Talking Back.” I'd_rather my children would back” to me than to run the risk of punishing them for things of which they are not guilty. thinks he . him to_ex tuation. to get his viewpoint of it, even though I am unable to change my own. An explanation does not need to be a dis- greeable argument between parent nd child. When I don’t know all the circumstances I expect my child to tell me the truth ahout it, but I check up on his statements occasionally to make sure I am not misplacing my confidence. (Copyright. 1027.) AUNT HET BY ROBERT OUILLE: 1 allow “I ain't uever doubted Pa’s love since the day we was married, but I know enough concerning the nature of men folks to thank God I'm a good cook."” (Covyri LITTLE BENNY BY LEF PAPE. ht. 1927.) Sattiday afternoon ma sed to pop, Willyum heers a circular I found under the door saying Senator Finny is going to speek this afternoon at the | Opera louse, you always think he's so marvellis why dont you go and heer him? I will, I never miss Senator Finny, and I believe Ill take Benny with me, I remember how .impressed I was by heering grate orators wen I was a boy, and I think he awt to heer Sena- tor Finny, pop sed. Well G, pop, wat Is it, jest a man tawking? 1 sed, and pop sed, Certeny not, its a grate orator, its Senator Fin- ny with his famous golden voice and his matehliss flow of impassioned ideers, thats more than jest a man tawking, izzent it? Well how is it? I sed, and pop sed, Yee gods, Im jest a man tawking but Senator Finny has a voice that brings teers to the eves and chills to the spine, he can make a mitey audients bend 'to his will and laff or cry as he desires, the very sound of his volce alone makes strong men weep and weak wimmin bawll, now do you wunt to_go to heer him? Well G wizz, dont he do enything execept tawk and wave his hands? 1 sed, and pop sed, For Peet sake does this boy deserve to be a son of mine? Meening me, and ma sed, The circu- lar also says there will be a trombone player on the program. O, G, 1ll go, pop. T sed. A trombone being my favorite insterment to watch, and pop sed, All rite, put your coat on, but yee gods, does a low trombone appeal to you' more than a mitey intellect? Yes sir, T sed. Wich if does. Solutions of Today’s Word Golf Problems. HEAD, HELD, HOLD, HOOD, WoobD. LOVE, LOSE, N LOST, LEST, STAB, SPOT, SLAB, SLAT, STAR, PA SOOT, COOT, s Answer to Yesterday's Puzzle. [AlA PR ARENER s [olo] [o]o[L[olDlE| [E[n[D}P[ojo[L]E[S]S] e | dience So when a child | I want | 'he Sidewalks BY THORN The late Thomas Murshall once re- marked eloquently, “What this coun t needs is a good five-cent eciga | which at the time was unanimously indorsed by all the smoking frate nity. What tl yoiith of the cou eds today is jonal taste old - fashioned melodrama, such as was adminis- tered at the old Academy of Musie on Ninth street or 30 years ago. The writer be- lieves that in men- tioning the anti- quated playhouse he will recall stirring memories to those reader who, like your cor- respondent, seethed with excitement at the machinations of the o tached villain and trembled w he and the hero fought it out at the cdgge of a yawning precipice 10 feet above the stage floor. As adequate as the movies a never will supplant the speaking mel- odrama in the hearts of our older youth. The drummer didnt pound a rum to convey the impression of zunfire. No customer of melodrama would have stood for that ho: What he demanded and got was the r article, a 45-caliber shooting iron, belching smoke, flame and noise. Don’t some of you remember the scene of a play whose name has long since been forgotten, in which seve Spanish _conspirators sat in a dark tower of Morro Castle and, gazing | through a turreted aperture, watched | the battleship Maine riding at in the harbor? A tropical F night. The mellow notes of a N tumpet off-stage sounding taps. Then | a silence so te that, if one had | shouted “Boo” you would have fallen rom your ch: Perhaps you re- member, too, that although the fiends were safe from observation and sur- [rounded by their own troops, they | pussy-footed about as if central office iting to seize them. ish-American War was still fresh in the minds of the people, and it wasn’t surprising that the au- hissed the archvillains. The fact that the Spaniards spoke English with a New York accent did not in the least disturb the illusion. After sustaining the suspense suf- flciently long to make nervous wrecks out of the patrons, one of the wretches pressed a button. A blind- ing flash followed, and in the distance the Maine could he discerned settling below the waters. Oh, it was great stuff. | Another hair-raiser that appeared at the Academy was entitled “The White Heather.” One of the scenes depicted two divers (the hero and the villain) or life at the bottom of the sca. Each desperately attempted to | sever the other’s air line. Of course, the lending man dispatched his foe. To add to the realism, some stage craftsman contrived to produce the fl- lusion of fish life in the murky depths. One of these performances a week furnished all the excitement neces. ry. Modern youth craves sensation. Why not give it to them in melodrama, pills? 2 , they * X % * Judging by the adult throngs mill- Astounding Jane. Jane is a plump little thing given to chuckles and gay friendships. She trotted into the room where Aunt Mi- randa sat talking to mother. Aunt Miranda thinks chuckles and friendly gestures toward grown-ups are a liber- ty when plump little things of three years or more offer them. “Hello, auntie. How you do?” “Very well, thank you, Jane. Po- lita little girls always say good morn- ing or good afternoon or good day. Never hull Jane looked interested and a light of decision shone in her eye. Mother looked troubled. \ “Good day, auntfe. I got a story to say to you. You must say, “Just like me’ every tfine I tell you. Let’s begin. “I went upstairs. Say, ‘Just like me. " Aunt Miranda obeyed primly. All through the story from the first flight of stairs, agross the attic, up a tree, down again, on the porch rail, at the end of each phrase, Aunt Mi- randa said, “Just_like me. And there I saw a monkey.” Just like me,” said Aunt Miranda. Ia, ha,” laughed Jane. “You said a monkey was just like you. You must be a monkey, a monkey, a monkey Vhen I was a little girl my mother told] me never to play that story with oldér people—even with younger peo- ple. I think nice little girls would not" do so.” o Across. 1. Turkish government. 1. 2 Continent (ab). Cut down. Writing instrument. . Collection of facts. . Comfor Donkey Brought to health. The dog: star. . Part‘of the foot. Direction, . Flow back. . Paddle, . Ocean. Corrgct. Nourish. Six (Roman). Fruit. . Book. Enmesh. _ Distributes. of Wushingidn ON FISHER. ing about the toy departments, it looks as though father. will let lttle Oscar ch his parent play with his trains aeroplanes and air | guns on Christmas | day. So often papa |buys playthings for himself in the name of a small I helpless offspring. | It is an interest- ling commentary {on the liber: the American pare ent that he is so free in dispensing Christmas cheer to 18,58 FIO6. e LITTLE OSCAR | ot e FATHER PLaY Ose: ago $10 dis y |spent would_clut- |ter up the dining | room or attic with enough stuft ungster a lifetime. Toda ar writes Santa Claus a le that resembles a mercantile order | blank filled to the-last line. e wanis | an automobile that runs and requ | District license tags. Raflroad trair that key-winders are plebeiar The wants a_regular railiosd | tr T+ | are wholesome signs, howeve: Moreover, father is compelled work harder to produce these ries, business is accelerated and vele is perfected. There is another type of toy on the market which fortunately is not fa. vored by sensible folks. We refor to the fake flower, in which a pin artfully concealed. The “fun” con. s in inviting a vietim to apply his nose to the pretty pink petals. Ha receives a scratch for his curioeity, Sometimes this trick s varied by squirting water in the victim’s Another “toy” is the fake bank roll, By the simple expedient of wrapp! a genuine bill around the bank roll vour friends will think you to be pros. perous. Another good Christmas joke may be enjoyed by handing a guillible friend a loaded cigar. When, after exhaling a few puffs, the “cigar” ex. plodes in his face, every one will laugh—except the smoker. We bit on one of these cigars liter. ally and figuratively many years ago and only the law against assault and battery saved the perpetrator from a merited licking. * K K K Another little story hot off our side. walks. Two colored men meet on F street. Savs the first one to his smaller cempanion, “Hennery, do you all recommember dat check foah five dollahs you give me las’ week?” “Uh huh, suah I recommember. What about it replies the second “What about it, you-all say! Well, vesterday I gets it back from de bank marked ‘Insufficient funds’ ” says the first. Aw. g0 on,” returns the second. “How come? Why, dat bank o’ mine has got printed right out on de win- dow, ‘Surplus, $1,000,000." " * % X b The saddest faced person in the world is an Army officer who, after completing a four-year tour in Wash. ington, is ordered to report to a post where trains arrive and depart Tues. days and Fridays and the Washington Evening Star is received three days after publication are child 1in with a board of directors. t OUR CHILDREN By Angelo Patri Jane eyed her cool relative coldly. Then she turned her back to her and fother, you say the story with no, Jane. ~Aunt Miranda doesn’t like it. Run along now and play with your doil and Mike. I think Mike needs a bone.” “No he doesn’t, mother. I just gave him one. Listen, mother. Only a lit tle times you say, ‘Just like m a little ~tim, Please.” mother rose to the occasion. After all Jane was Jane and Miranda was so hard on little children. went into the gardei ust like me.” “I looked into eaven.” “Just like me.” “I saw an angel.” “Just—now, Jane, run along like a dear child.” “Say it, mother, say it. You saw an angel, just like you,” and Jane gave mother a devastating hug and fled. “Astounding child,” murmured Aunt Miranda, but there was a gentle smile about her mouth and she nod- ded at mother as if she agreed with Jane. (Copyright. 1927.) . Plenty of Time. From the Boston Globe. Judge—What have you to say? Prisoner—Enough, if you give m® plenty of time! Judge—Six months. Next. The,_Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1927.) Nl dnN . Province of Italy. . Constellation. . Note of the scale. stract conception of being. . Son of Noah. Minced oath. . Toward. . Sea eagles. . Rests against. Those who are defeated. . Roam. Prepare for publication. Implements. Made of oak. . Slant. Dips out. Preposition. Unit. r 42. Mother. 3 e