Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1928, Page 45

WOMA o N'S PAGE.S Fashiens In Neckline and. Color BY MARY The wide U neckline is well establish- ed by this time, but is still one of the fashions that may be called new. I do mnot know whether Chanel of Paris was the first to use it in its present form, but nowadays when one speaks of it one usually thinks of this French dress- maker famous for her smart youthful frocks. Sometimes the wide U neckline is fairly shallow at the front and deep- | THE DEEP U-LINE OF THIS VEL- VET FROCK IS FILLED WITH METAL LACE. er at the backi and sometimes it 1s quite deep at the front, extending al- most to what usad b2 the normal waistline, and then the lower part of the U is filled in with lace of some sort Red shades are en larity as Winter go: . both for ev ning and afternoon wear. When Miss Bina Deneen. daughter of Senator De- neen of Illinois, was presented to Wash- ington society the other day she wore a velvet gown of a deep red—like the darker shades of a red apple. Flamme is the name of one of the new evening g much popu- BEDTIME STORIE Reddy Schemes and Plans. *Tie only those who 7 who ever realize half long time,” thought Red have seen Peter Rabbit. I guess sticking pretty close to the dear Old Briar-patch these days. Probably Mrs. Peter won't allow him to leave it. he’s there now.” So_when Reddy reached the edge of the Old Pasture he paused. Very care- fully, in order that he might not bs seen, he poked that black nose of his between the bushes and looked over | toward the dear Old Briar-patch. Red- ds's_eyes suddenly opened very wide. | Do I or don't 12" muttered Reddy. and | Tubbed his eyes again. What Reddy THEN T DIDN'T SEEM TO BE GOING ANY- | WHERE IN PARTICULAR. meant was that he couldn't really be- lieve that he was seeing what he thought he saw. What he thought he saw was Peter Rabbit just leaving the dear Old Briar-patch and heading up toward the Old Orchard. if my chance is coming at | 1 wonder last” thought Reddy. “Many timcs I kave nearly caught Peter and each time he been lucky. But k doesn’t last forever. Some day I'm going o gt that fellow. Perhaps this 15 the dzy, who knows?” Reddy smacked his Iips as he thought bow good a rabbit dinner would be. You WHY WE DO BY MEHEAN K. Shirking Mental T: Once upon a time a king captured the opposing leader In battle and turned him over v one of his men to €. “If the prisoner es- caper you will have o answer for it with your Lfe” When the battle was came % elaim his prize cap guard was very much confused and trembling king: “While 1 was there, O K P s big Hairs U He represents our own at Umes. When we have a SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY ¥ Cony “1 ppe s @eard o y e 1 ricks when T'se loyin Wit 11 3 1| take a look over that way and see if | ppose. | T could run away around and get over addressed the | o | ply it b THE FEVENING STAR, MARSHALL. shades of red, and firefly is a bright red | that is frequently seen. | Mrs. Coolidge sometimes chooses n | pale blue shade for the evening, and at | the New Year day reception at the | White House she wore an afternoon | gown combining a silver lame top and a | velvet skirt. Mrs. Longworth is apparently still loval to the color that she made popu- lar, when as eldest daughter of Presi- dent Roosevelt she gave world-wide fame to “Alice blue” For at the New | Year day reccption she wore a printed | velvet gown showing pastel tones on a background of soft blue—not quite Alice blue. but still reminiscent of her once favorite color. Parrot shades is the name given to a variety of clear bright tones that are used as trimming for some of the new French hats. There is a vivid green, a clear light red and a lovely clear orarge. | It is not too soon to speak of yellow as by far the most popular color at Southern resorts. It is used for daytime as well as for evening. There is nothing smarter than the triangle. It provides the trimming for a number of the newest French frocl and if you will send me a stamped, sel adaressed envelope I will gladly send you sketches showing how the triangles are vsed in some of the new frocks with diagram pattern and directions for using. 1Convright. 1928) Stuffed Turnips. Mix two-thirds cupful of tomato | juice into one-half a cupful of peanut butter, add one teaspoonful of baking powder, one teaspoonful of salt, a pinch sage, one tablespoonful of lemon | ‘uice and one-fourth™ teaspoonful of | Pepper to one and one-half cupfuls of oread crumbs and combine the mixtures. Fill turnip cups, which have been pre- pared as follows: Allow one turnip to a portion, pare and boil” whole in salt er until partly done. Remove from the fire and drain, then cut a slice from the bottom. so that the turnip will stand evenly. With a teaspoon | hollow out the turnip, being careful not to break through: fill with the | mixture, place in a baking pan and dust the top with grated cheese. Baste with one-half cupful of water and one | tablespoonful of butter and cook until | tender and brown. of BY THORNTON W. BURGESS sce, in the Winter Reddy seldom knows what it is to be filled up. There is vcry little of the time that he isn't hungry. | Just now he was particularly hungary. | At once Reddy began to plan. If only e could know just where Peter was going he might be able to give him a | surprise party. an unpleasant surprise party. He knew how likely Peter is to change his mind. He was headed toward the Old Orchard now, but at any minute he might change his mind and start over toward the Green Forest. He might even turn back into the dear Old Briar-patch. So Reddy decided that the thing for him to do was to re- d;l’lslr‘l‘ right there and watch. So he Peter seemed to be in no hurry. He hopped along in a most leisurely way. To see him you would have thoughi that he had nothing whatever on his mind. He would hop along a few ctcps and then sit down. Then he vould hop along a few steps farther. Some- times he turned off to one side and sometimes he turned off to tie other, which was one thing that made it so uncertain where he was bound for. Finally, when, as Reddy expressed it, “he was nowhere,” he sat down very much as if he intended to stay there. He was right out in the open. There was no place for Reddy to approach him without being seen. “I su thought Reddy, “that to the Old Orchard and wajt for him there. But if I should do that it would be just like him to turn around and come over here.” | B0 for a while Reddy remained where he was. Then he discovered that Peter didn't seem to be going anywhere in particular. He remained right out where he was, in plain sight, without any shelter or place of safety that one could see. ‘If I could get near enough,” thought Reddy, “I might be able to walk that fellow down. The whole thing is to | get near enough before he discovers me. | Now, 1f T only had Mrs. Reddy to work with me I believe we could do it. Mrs. |Reddy would show herself and while | Peter was watching her I would have a | chance to get fairly near. Ha!' Peter sees something and now is my chance!” | _Sure enough, Peter was sitting up | with his back toward Reddy and look- {ing very intently over toward the Green Forest. Presently Reddy made out o flat spot moving along the edge of the Green Forest. It was Black Pussy the | Cat. Peter with his usual curiosity was watching her. 1Conyright. 1928.) WHAT WE DO THOMSON, Ph. D, | difficult task to face we waste time by becoming terribly busy on trifies. We are afrald to start on the real job before us. Extreme physical activity is often a sign of mental laziness. We hustle around and find a lot of things to do 10 convince oursclves that we are very busy, when all the while we know right well that we are shirking some hard bit of mental work Take the case of writing letters, You set apart @ certain time for this important task, but when the time ar- rives you suddenly remember that there is some odd job around the house that cannot walt another minute. The leak- ing faucet must be mended, the auto- mobile needs o be olled and greased, the broken chalr must be fixed, you must get w the bank before it closes, “w Your conscience or self-respect il Dot permit you o loaf, 80 you get | terribly mctive, physically We are inclined 1w be physically ac- | tve and mentally lazy because mental vrind s harder work than physical ac- tvity I requires concentration, pa- tience, per nee 1o a greater de- eree. Al real thinking s difficult. It requires the expenditure of u great | deal of energy, hence we almost never | i Many personsl - problems | st we know should be carefully | vorked oul are left L the merey of | chanice, which ut best §5 a haphazard affair. When the verdict fs against | amie 3t sl on our bad luck in- ead of our own mental sluggishness We do not see that it s our fault be- we huve been busy with our whie e should have exer- sur b s T New Balloon Stays in Air. A balloon that will stay in the wir for weeks at 8 time has been iuvented by A Lucien Boden of Prance, Bodin 1978 ) Clatms that his new device precludes the | ty of having to release all the vas from the big bag in order o regu- late its wititude. Besides the balloon’s ordinary was bag filled with hydrogen 1ot quite suffcient Lo support it lone e proposed craft will carry an auxili- wry comparunent filled with sir W sup- buoyancy, ‘The pilot can regulats \ing big stars insted of big werds, now | think so, to judge by the frequency LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. I dident know wat to do this after- noon so I started to reed the diction- erry, thinking, G, I wonder how it would feel to be able to say eny werd you wunted to no matter how long of a werd it was. Being a ideer, and I started to write some long onc down ap a pecce of paper, and ma calied up, Benny, come down heer I wunt you. Me calling down, Yes mam, Im ex- cogitating up heer, Ill be down in a pericardium. Wat did you say, come down im- meeditly, I need you rite away, ma called up, and I called down, G wizz, ma, concatenation flucroscope tittillate Tugosity. Wat, I cant make out a werd you say, have you got a mouthfull of mush or wats a matter with you, are you coming down or must I get up after you? ma sed. Im incinerating rite down, ma, heer I co:lne quick as-a invidious gyroscope. I sed. And I quick slid down the bannisters taking the list of werds with me, ma saying, How many times have 1 told you thats no way to come down stairs? Me quick looking at the list and say- ing, Well G, ma, bilaterally, at ieest its not a pecuniary sitpulation. Wat kind of crazy tawk is that, no wonder I thawt I was taking leeve of my. heering, ma sed. I wunt you 10 go rite up to the cobblers and get my brown shoes, ma sed. Do you mean exotically or parenthe- tick, ma? I sed, and she sed, I meen Il give you sutch a slap youll be see- hurry up without one more werd of eny dimension. Wich I did. not being eny more down on the list enyways. WINTER BY D. C. PEATTIE. Many people, even many nature lov- ers, wonder of what use or interest! can be an herbarium—a collection of pressed plants. Well, in the first place, there are herbaria and herbaria. A bulgy scrapbook of pretty blossoms that | grandmother collected when she was 16 may be a parlor ornament, but it is not an herbarium, although many mnust with which such collections are proudly offered to botanical museums. It is like offering a boy's stamp book to a great philatelist or a handful of flawed opals to Tiffany. The collections of great institutions like the Smithsonian include hundreds of thousands of sheets of specimens, professionally prepared and identified and sorted into dustproof, insectproof cases. As to what practical value such col- lections may have I shall not attempt the feeble task of trying to estimate a financial value. Pure science is its own excuse, like art. But if you ask of what possible interest an” herbarium may be, you ask a more reasonable qQuestion. To many the plants shelved away in the Smithsonian are but dried weeds, yet to the nature lover who is scleutific | as well as esthetic there comes a thrill as he lifts up a sheet bearing a plant gathered, perhaps, by the hand of Asa Gray, Nuttall, the eccentric Rofinssque or the romantic Michaux. The very labels have an aroma of the far-awa “cold mountain streams, Colorado”; “bleak shores, Hudson's Bay”: “rain forest, jungles of Siam"”; “lava flows, Island of Ternate.” MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Let Them Paint! Children love to paint. My 2-and 3 year old boy and girl use old paint- brushes and water on their kiddy kars, express wagons or simply cardboard cartoons. They enjoy the sensation of painting without all the attendant havoc which usually follows in the “rain of allowing such small children to daub in real paint. Covyrieht. 1928 —— Prunes in Sweet Potatoes. Pare and parboll sweet potatoes of oval shape. Core with an apple corer | and fill the cavity of each potato with | two or more grunea previously stoned. | Insert the ends of the potatoes, halves of the cores, making of these plugs to retain the juices Bake on the grate | of the oven with the pan beneath to catch the drippings. For six or eight | potatoes, place in a pan two cupfuls of sugar with two cupfuls of water and allow to remain until the potatoes are Remove these to a hot dish, | place in a warming oven, and boil down the syrup to the feather stage. Pour this ever the sweet potatoes. | WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, T Fashionable Folk by Twchrthar, , %m fea, W“de MiNsaght Syndieata, Ine., N. Y. The Sidewalks dJulia Boyd O Brien of W ashington BY THORNTON FISHER. The traditional, rugged old skipper of the seas is rapidly succumbing to the merciless process of extinction. The romantic vision of song and story, sub- duing mutiny on the one hand and bucking the elements on the other, who shouted through the buffeting gales, “Heave ho, my brave hearties,” is be- coming a mere phantom of the imagi- nation. A jolly old rover, cursing his way over the seven seas, drinking, fighting, sail- ing and sometimes robbing, he fur- nished countless themes for those who delighted to dramatize his deeds. Therefore he served his purpose in a large way. From his ashes there has risen, dur- ing recent years, a new, & modern mas- ter of ocean craft. In character an appearance he differs astonishingly from his predecessors who went down 1o the sea in shipr. He is apt to be youthful looking, resembling the man of business rather than the com- mander of a ves- | sel L In addition to | his professional ac- complishments, ne | 1s required to ob- serve the amenities, social gers and function as general man- ager of his floating tavern. Of all his pre- scribed duties, his social demands are probably the most irksome. The recently resigned skip- per, Herbert Hartley, can testify to the truth of this. Herbert Hartley was a sailor in every inch of his slender frame. He witnessed during his 35 years at sea an amazing transition in the sailing industry. He never left port without receiving letters from “in- fiuential people” asking that special courtesies be extended to certain pas- sengers. The war found Capt. Hartley in com- mand of the St. Louis, one of the first ships to convey ammunition to France. On one of his trips he did not leave the bridge for 56 hours. Hartley was as popular in England as he was on this side. He once told the writer of an amazing incident which may be worth repeating. Capt. Hartley's headquarters in England were in the Savoy Hotel, London. Shortly after his appointment as master of the Leviathan the captain engaged his rooms at the hotel. During a succeeding visit he called at the manager's office and expressed his pleasure at the arrange- ments made for his comfort between voyages. “Everything was done,” sald Capt. Hartley, “to make my stay pleasant, and in a jocular fashion I said to the man- ager, ‘Well, it's a wonder that you didn’t put a grand piano in my suite.’ “Upon my next arrival I was dum- L — | €¢ what you Jéet for10¢ -a new trill “FJAM and Eggs"— that most justly renowned of American breakfast dishes— give it a new mouth-watering flavor by using Underwood Deviled Ham. On rounds of crispy toast, or split English Muffins, spread the contents of a 10c can of Underwood Deviled Ham and place a poached egg on top. Try Underwood's wherever a recipe calls for ham, q Send for FREE Cook Book . The STYLE POST is the marker on the road to beng smart. 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After an unavalling search she became obsessed with the terrifying thought that her baby might have swallowed it. Young mothers are like that. All day long the distraught lady imagined the worst. When her husband returned from business that evening. she asked him for his auto key, a duplicate of the missing one. Going upstairs she placed the key in her mouth and attempted to Unable to do so, she de- cided that the key was not in her baby's tummy and her fears were dispelled. - * % % Lieut. Robert Nowland, operations officer at Bolling Field, was the only officer who saved his flying equipment | | fastened with a trick combination pad- lock, and it is expected that the lock is due for considerable publicity. *x x The Dutch Treat Club of New York is an organization composed of editors, writers and artists. Many of its mem- bers are famous in their respective professions. Every ‘Tuesday the club has a luncheon at which interesting folks speak. This week, perhaps, an English lord will address the diners. Next week a song- and-dance man or Sir Harry Lauder or a cabinet mem- ber or the latest sensation in litera- wre or art. ‘The late Houdini was once & guest. Some of the speakers compete with Tennyson's brook, which con- tinued indefinitely. Other less voluble or more considerate speakers limit thetr remarks. Lella Warren, a Washington girl, who is rapidly achleving a place in the sisterhood of accomplished writers, was a guest of the Dutch Treaters not long ago, and was Invited to address the members, most of whom are world-wise fellows who have gone | ":ces and done things. When the welcoming applause had subsided, Miss Warren arose and sald, “Little children should be seen and not heard." Then she sat down. In one brief sentence, this tactful young lady knocked a popular fallacy for a loop, namely that her sex never xluesuw an opportunity of talking to any who will listen. this delicious cereal will tem THE QUICK-COOKING W 0197, 7.Co., the. Recently a Washington young mother | during the recent fire. His locker was | . ANUARY 31, 1928. TEATURES.” Today in Washington History BY DONALD A .CRAIG, January 31, 1804.—The Columbian Library of Georgetown was made a body corporate by an act of Congress approved today, and thus becomes the first chartered library in the District of Columbia. The incorporators are Stephen B. Balch, Joseph Nourse, Charles D. Green, John Craven, Francis Lowndes, jr., and George French. January 31, 1865.—Amid scenes of unusual enthusiasm the House of Repre- sentatives today adopted by a two-thirds majority with a few votes to spare, the | resolution to submit to the States an |amendment to the Constitution forever | abolishing slavery in the United States. | The great crowd in the galleries, de- | fying all precedent, broke into a great | demonstration of joy, which will doubt- | less long be remembered by those who witnessed the event. This is the amendment indorsed by the Republican national convention when Mr. Lincoln was renominated for | President last Summer. It is known | that Lincoln used his influence to have |the amendment approved by the con- | vention. He urged it vigorously upon Congress in his recent annual message. The resolution was passed in the Sen- ate without difficulty, but its fate in the House has been doubtful. It was believed until within a few hours of | the vote today that it would be close | enough to be decided by the “toss of a | copper.” It was known, of course, that a majority favored the resolution, but | there was a question about the two- thirds vote necessary to submit a con- stitutional amendment to the States. |1t was on that account that the result | of the vote today was received with ex- | ceptional enthusiasm by the President’s | supporters. There have been many vigorous ef- forts in the last few days to win doubt- ful votes for the amendment, in which the President has helped. SUB ROSA BY MIM| The Slave Driver. Vivian, with piquant face, pouting lips and straight black hair doesn't in the least resemble that delightful old boy Simon Legree, who used to give the slaves such a bad time—that is she doesn't look like him. But she has her points of similarity to the grisly old ruffian himself. These modern girls often handle their innocent vicims with as scant courtesy and as much brutality as old Simon used to display in his treatment of the slaves. Of cours#, Vivian has victims by the dozen. She’s just the type. Dark and sleek and disdainful—given to wearing reds and burnt oranges, and tawny col- ors. A dangerous piece, if there ever was one. She has a few singularly bad ideas. One of them is that a man who's had the misfortune to fall in love with her | deserves no courtesy. He is never asked | to _perform a service for her. He is | commanded. “John, put down that window,” she | drawls lazily to the swain at her feet. “John get me my wrap—not that one, stupid; the purple one. | Heaven's sake, hurry!" | Later the unfortunate John is heard ‘pllying the piano. “Stop that hideous jnoise.” she calls. “You're making th air simply vile with those sounds.” | sleek siren. And so are the other slaves who | crawl about at Vi's bidding. She just |has that way of making men cringe. %llsound.s attractive, but it looks dread- | ful. You see V1 can't possibly win. She |can only keep that sort of thing up for a certain length of time. She kept it up with John for a year. Then one day when they were away over-played her hand. John didn't want to play bridge. Vi thought he must to oblige her. “Come on." she ordered him. “You're the fourth in this game, and you're going to play with me." “I'd rather not, Vi” timidly. “Got & beastly headache. like it. Don can take my place.” | Vi stamped her foot. Two vertical | lines appeared between the attractively shaped eyebrows: “John. come here |instantly. Don't be ridiculous. Of | course. you'll plav. and vou'l play with me.” she was half laughing, triumphant in her knowledge of the power she exercised over the poor slave. John came. He was very quiet and rather dignified, but without another ;‘ofld he came and sat down opposite er. . Vi pretended not to notice that there had been anv fuss at all. She was has been nauehty and who has been taveht to mind. Well. after that bridge game. John that burned un the paper. telling her among other things that away to India or some such attractive nlnl']‘e without another word of fare- well. Great moral lesson, my dears. No. but honestly isn't it sillv for anv eirl to think she can pull that stuf® in_this day and age? Isn't it absurd to pose as a queen when sooner or later vou've got to marry one of vour slaves. and cook for him, or run his house for him? Never trv this slave-driving act eirls It's absurd. It can't last. 1If ¢ does prove the one exceution in a thoueand and survive after marriage. it wil result in a profoundly unhappy marriage. swer any {nauiries ided & stamped. Ad ot Also. she will Conversatior | | reamad envelone | I Elad 1o send Ho nd hen Junior goes on a hunger strike . . . whole wheat pt his appetite. o YOU KNOW OATMEAL - NOW TRY POST’S WHEAT MEAL HOLE WHEAT CEREAL Oh, for| John meekly obeys. Believe it or not, | | John is a young man of some spirit | | except when he’s dealing with the dark | on & house party for the week end. she | Don’t feel muci exactly like the mother whase child | packed his things, wrote Vi a note | the slave- | driving davs were over, and she ought | to get wise to that fact—then sailed | WORLD FAMOUS STORIES THE SCANDAL By ANTON CHEKHOV (Anton Chrkhov. 18601904, was one of the most famous w ing the author of many v. nating tales of human n the same the world over.) A teacher n a small college was| celebrating. the marriage of his daugh-| ter with an elaborate wedding feast. | Being the master of ceremonies, he took the liberty of going into the kitch- | en to make sure that all was ready for the supper. Fror:pefloor to ceiling the kitchen steamed with an aroma of geese, ducks and countless other appetizing dishes. Upon two tables could be seen, in ar- tistic disorder, the materials of a per- fectly magnificent banquet. And Marfa, the cook, a buxom woman of very large size, was busy about the table. “My dear woman, just let me look at the fish,” begged the teacher, chuck- ling with anti~ipation and rubb‘lng the palms of his hands together. ‘“Such l’ deliclous odor! It is enough to make one want to eat up the whole kitchen. Please let me look at the fish!” In response to this urgent request,| and since he was master anyway, Marfa | uncovered a platter on which reposed a gigantic whitefish, garnished with cap- ers, olives and vegetables. The little teacher looked at the fish and almost melted with rapture, His countenance beamed—his eyes seemed about to pop out of their sockets. Then, leaning for- ward, he made a sound with his lips expressing his entire approval of the de- licious looking fish. Then he snapped his fingers and smacked his lips again. “Aha!” said a voice. “I hear the sound of a kiss. *“Whom are you kissing there? Marfa?” It was Vanykin, a col- league of the pocr teacher’s. “I'm not kissing any one.” retorted the teacher, embarrassed. “Why, the idea! I was just smacking my lips — i delight as I saw this delicious fish. Vanykin laughed and disappeared. “The deuce!” thought the little teach- er, turning red. “Now he will tell every one he caught me kissing Marfa when it's no such thing. The rumor will spread through the whole city. Moving quietly into the hall, the teacher looked for Vanvkin. Sure enough, there he was talking to an el- derly woman l"lim was smiling at the story he was telling. "Tos about me.” thought the teacher, | “devil take the rascal! And she is be-| lieving him and laughing at me. I} must do something —I cannot allow such a lie to get about. Tl tell every one the facts of the incident and fore- stall Vanykin.” So the teacher walked over to one of the guests to tell the story as it actually happened. “I was just in the kitchen to see | about the supper.” he said. “and a | funny thing happened. I was looking | |at a delicious whitefish, ready to be! | eaten—ah. delicious!—and I smacked my lips loudly. Just then in popped | {that bed cheep, Vanykin, and says:| |‘Aha! Caught in the act! You're kiss-| ing Marfa. the cook.’ Such a fool!| Imagine my kissing Marfa—why, she looks as if—ugh. to kiss a thing like her. Such a dub!™ “Who's a dub?” asked some one else, just hearing the last. “Vanykin!” said the teacher. “You see, when I went into the kitchen™ {and he told the story of Marfa and the | fish all over again. i “Think of it! Why. I'd just as soon | kiss a cow as kiss Marfa.” Then, the| teacher, turning round. saw another | friend. “We were just speaking of | Vanykin." he said. “Such an idiot! Pops into the kitchen, sees me near Marfa the cook and at once makes up a story about my kissing her. I said I'd as soon kiss a turkey as kiss Marfa— |and I reminded him that I was a mar- ried man. Think of how silly his notion is! Ridiculous!™ H “What's ridiculous?” asked the rec- | tor, chancing near. “That chap, Vanykin” said the teacher, and he told the story of Marfa | and the fish again. In half an hour! nearly all the guests were fully informed ; about the fish and its consequences. “Now let Vanykin tell as many peo- ple as he wishes.” thought the teacher. | with great gatisfaction. “Just let him try it! T have posted every one in ad- | vance and they won't believe him.™ By the next morning. indeed. the teacher had completely forgotten the| incident of the fish. He had eaten so | much of so many good things that he slept like a log and felt like a new man | when he awoke. | But the evil tangue had accomplished its work. and all of the teacher's cun- | ning in posting every one seemad to | have been in vain. It was just a week | later that, on a Wednesday, when the teacher was standing in the classroom the director of the college came in and | | i called him to one side. My dear sir” sald the directar| solemnly. “you must pardon me—it's| really none of my business, but it is my duty, my official duty. I must speak to | you about—ahem!—your little affair with your cook. Of course. if you kiss | your cook it's no one's business but | Your own—but herealfter, I beg of you do not be so public about it' Remember vour high calling and be discreet.” A cold shiver ran down the teach- ers spme and he lost his self-com- posure. He flew home as though he had been stung by a huge swarm of | | bees or scalded by a caldron of bolling water. On the way he fancied the whale city was staring at him as it Mo were tarred and feathered. “Why dont you eat?” asked his wife At dinner. “What are you dreaming about? Are you yearning for your love. |Marfa? You pagan, you! I know HAT caffein beverage you take with your meals—it seems to “pick you up"—to make you feel better. Don'tbefooled!It'sthewarmth of the drink that brings an im- mediate sense of comfort. The caffin gets in its full effect hours later, when you want to relax and rest or sleep. Then this artificial stimulant lashes your nerves—drives sleep away —keeps your brain pounding when you long for rest. Try this test! Make this simple change in diet: Give up caffein—try Postum in- stead ! Postum's friendly warmth © 1 PO, e everything—my eyes have been opened! You barbarian!” The poor little teacher rose from the table a3 though under a spell. Waiting for neither hat nor coat went to see Vanykin. He found the man at home. “You slanderer!” eried the teacher. “Why have you ruined my reputation " “Why, what do you mean?” asked Vanykin, in surprise. “If you didn't do it, who told the story about my kissing Marfa, the cook?” demanded the teacher. Vanykin blinked, and he was con- vulsed. “I swear to you,” he sald, “that I never repeated a word of the story. Never!” There was no doubting Vanykin's sincerity. It was clear that the gossip had not come from his lips. “But who did, then?" the teacher kept asking himself. “Who could pos- sibly have done t2” It never occurred to him, indeed, that his own telling of the story led people to infer his guilt more surely than they could have done if Vanykin | had spread the tale. AUNT HET BY ROBEKT QUILLEN. “It makes me boilin’ mad to have a clerk tell me I look good in a hat an’ think I'm idiot enough to believe her when I know good an’ well it makes me look awful.” (Conyright. 1928.) 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