Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1928, Page 38

WOMAN’S PAGE. Game and Menu for New Year BY LYDIA LE Time is usually featured in ore way ¢ It may be in singing when the New Year enters, by snapping bonbons, or some such thing that accents the minute when the date changes one figure, this year from 8 to 9. Or bells may be the or another at a New Year party. ‘THE SANDWICHES ARE CUT BELL- SHAPED, AS SEEN IN THE DISH. special feature, since it is the playing of chimes and the pealing of bells that send out the tidings that the New Year has arrived. Whatever else is featured, the idea of something new is always present. And so for the game we suggest & quiz. For the re- freshments the menu will include bells, some of which will not ring, but they ;{élwlook attractive and appeal to the Players are supplied with pencils and cards or paper, on which the ques- tions are written and numbered. The hostess gives a signal when the guess- ing must cease, and then no one can write another word. A prize is given the person guessing the most answers that are correct. A calendar is sug- gested. The questions are given today, the answers will follow tomorrow. The word “new” is used in each word of answer. Although it may not be spell- ed with the three usual letters, it will be pronounced the same. For instance, “pneumatic” is pronounced ‘“new- BARON WALKER. tions, although it is judged solely on he last. The Puszling News. 1. Who discovered the law of grav- itation? 2. What city is famous for its coal? 3. Name a kind of molasses. 4. A variety of macaroni that gives name to a soup. 5. Where are the Yale-Harvard boat races held? 6. A variety of salamander. 7. An antelope of South Africa. 8 A disease of the nerves. A gender found in many lan- s. . The post of a winding stairway. A pulmonary disease. 12. The largest city of America. New Year's Menu. A Salad—New Year's Chimes. Salted Nuts. Bell Sandwiches. Hot_Chocolate. Stuffed Olives. Ice Cream. Bell Cookies. Bonbons. Recipes. Any meat salad can be used. From pimento cut wee bell shapes and one irregular long sliver. Lay this on top of the salad (individual serving) and where the low curves come place bells. Have them at angles, as if pealing. Cut buttered sandwiches of brown and of white bread into bell-shape (see illustration) and arrange alternately on a platter. The bell cakes are cup cakes frosted, each having a bell out- lined on the top, using candy “mites” or other colored frosting. (Copyright, 1928.) Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Unconscious Pictures. Suppose you possessed the ability to look down into your unconscious! What would you see? As Edgar Allen Poe | puts it, you would see “vast forms that move fantastically.” All sorts of pic- tures, all sorts of psychic combinations of past experiences. You do have this strange ability—at times, at nighttime. When you sleep the veil of consciousness loses its deep coloration so that shadows of the un- conscious pictures show through. If you were to rely entirely on your dreams for information about the un- conscious “movies,” you would not know the whole truth. Fortunately, about one person out of fourteen is able to take a seat in this picture gallery with- out having to go to sleep. Now what do they see? One of these fortunate self-observers tells me that the figures from 1 to 100 are stretched out in a long row just as you would write them on & big blackboard. But the multiples of 10 appear to be written in bold type: 1, 23456789, — 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, —, 21, etc. Another reports that all the numbers up to 36 are bunched close together, while those beyond 36 are scattered wide apart. Another discloses that the days of the week ‘always appear to be arranged as follows: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. Some people have colored pictures of the months of the year. One reports that the 12 months are grouped ac- cording to the four seasons as follows: January, February, March are a long gray line. April, May, June are a pink square. July, August, September are a green circle. October, November, De- cember are a triangle, one corner yel- low (October), one blug (November), one black (December). If you have any such pictures, please write out an account and mail it to the author through this paper. T i S e The hlfhesl price ever paid at public auction for a piece of furni- ture was $9,000 for a “Savery” lowboy. It was acquired in New York a couple matic.” The quiz is a test of pronun- ciation and spelling as well as defini- of years ago by an anonymous pur- chaser. o “Have you ever noticed how a snow- ball always seems to go which way you're gonna duck?” Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. December 27, 1858.—Many persons in Washington are disturbed on this Monday over the unfortunate after- math of Christmas, which was cele- brated Saturday by a large number of men and women in Washing in such a riotous manner that the jails and workhouses are still crowded with them. Many are chary or have been convicted of serious offenses resulting from their celebration of Christmas by The Daily Cross Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1928.) 5. Turkie. 10. Store pit. 14. Approached. 15. To wrong. 16. Goad. 117. Dash. 18. A language. 19. Scarce. 20. Periodicals, 22, Parsons, 24, On the sheltered side. 25. Level. 26. Small dish for holding a condiment. 29. Those who give permission, 33, Plant used as salad, 34, Narrow opening. 35. A blow. 36. Period of time, 37. I will. 38. Japanese statesman. 39. Part of the face, 41. Ebb and flow, 42. Rawer. 44. Cherished article. 46, Upright, ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE . Island in River Nile: . Ogles. . Thin plate cut out for marking. . Fashion differently. . Strong affection. . SBounded from & musical pipe. . Wharf. . Saucy. . Religious denominations. . Restrain, Down. . Expert airmen. . Wan. . Famous Perslan., . Contradictions. 5. More lofty. . To humble. . Exclamation of contempt. . Meteoric stone containing no iron. . Make new. . Runs at full speed. . Persia. . Learning. . Lyric poems. . Beverages. . Chinese pieces. . Let. . Move smoothly. . Slur over. . Estimates, . Diversion. . Purposeful, 42. Deer, 43. Throws overboard. 45. Peudal lord's power ° 48. Wolf-like carnivora. imbibing too heavily of Christmas spirits. The rioting and general disorder in ‘Washington at this Christmas season seemed to be worse than usual. Many of the men and women who imbibed too freely at the pot houses and low grog shops on Christmas day were merely mischievous in their pranks, even though they did disturb many peace-loving individuals. Others, how- ever, so seriously disturbed the com- munity that they and the city offi- cials will not soon forget this Christ- mas of 1858. Bloody heads are the result in many cases, and these and other injuries made the ddy memor- able to not a few. The cause of temperance in this city is generally believed to have gained greater impetus as a result of what the police, and editors of -the local newspapers refer to as the “disgraceful” Christmas occurences here this year. The chief of police took every pre- caution, ordering out his entire force Christmas eve. They were kept on active service all night and the next day. The magistrate of the guard- house, Justice Donn, shared the serv- ice with Capt. Goddard and also Lieuts. McHenry and Thomas. They remained at the station all night and the next day, disposing of cases which rapidly appeared. Scarcely 10 minutes elapsed at any time when they .were not registering or trying a case. A short visit to the trial room show- ed that the office of a policeman, es- pecially at this season of the year, is no sinecure. The place was thronged with “spirits” of every race and nation- ality. Men and women—young and old —made up the disorderly erowd. While the physical results of their Christmas exurberance will not soon be forgotten, the most lasting im- pression made upon many of these Christmas celebrators will doubtless be the fines and costs which are their only ransoms from the workhouse. “Young men and old should learn to enjoy the holiday season reasonably,” says The Evening Star today in its account of these occurences. fiot Slaw. Melt two tablesnoonfuls of butter and add two_tablespoonfuls of chopped onfon. Cook for three minutes, then add one head of sliced cabbage. Cook slowly for five minutes. Add about one inch of water in a stewing kettle and let simmer until tender. Add salt and pepper. Add one cupful of cream to which has been added one well beaten egg and one-third cupful of vinegar. Bring to the boiling point. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN, 48. Upright, 40. spill. 50. Sound. 51, At any time. 53. Entrance to a mine. 64. Urgent entreaty, 55. Weird. “I don't believe in speakin’ evil of the dead; but the way that preacher talked about Jane, I wou 'L of WA it was far tuneami it Ta ooms o Sngrossisdt DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Paragon of Husbands Gives Rules for Happy Marriage—A Slovenly Wife. DEA.R MISS DIX: I am a man who is happy though married. Out of my experience I have evolved the following rules for making marriage a success, which I pass on for the benefit of your readers: First. Plan your family at once. Second. expenses, give your wife all of it. small amounts than you are. If your salary just about reaches the limit of your living She is a better bargainer and investor of Third. Forget the bills. Your wife will attend to them. The blond cashier in your employer's office is efficient. So is your domestic partner. Foyrth. Shoot square. bureau drawer. Take only what you need each day from the The average extra spending money buys nothing of value. Fifth. Be hard with yourself. Deny yourself. There is an absolute thrill in going back home at night with the extra dollar saved. Show it to your wife and enjoy her reaction. Women get tired of doing all the scrimping. Sixth. Give your wife a bit of sincere praise now and then. Take home an occasional surprise package that all the family can enjoy. Sacrifice your own time and wishes for the family now and then, and do it whole-heartediy instead of grudgingly. Seventh. Get familiar with the broom and dishpan. Ten minutes of this in emergencies may add a year to your wife's life when her nerves are at the breaking point. Eighth. - Analyze your family problems from the basis of cause. A thinker never files into a rage. you do speak, say gs that solve, The unspoken harsh word never starts a quarrel. ¢When not involve. : Ninth. Recognize marriage as a mutual arrangement. Audit your personal relations accounts often and see where you are not making good. Cut out the items that are costing the firm of Love & Co. happiness. If you pray, pray for wisdom. manners and habits. Add profitable Tenth., When other women tempt, ask yourself if you are on their pay roll. Every charm, ability and passion they Eleventh. Even though wedded ;xluus, your wife possesses, plus fidelity. o r years, remember the courting days. You were smooth enough then. Don't let your wife think that you were faking and that Twelfth, u induced her to marry you on false premises. Find in your wife the multitude of women you have dreamed about instead of trying to fit your ideal to every woman you meet. Thirteenth. Try to make yourself worthy of the devotion that evflry v’ood[ W wife gives & husband who treats her tenderly and considerately. Answer: A Solomon! A second Solomon! No better rules could be laid | down for a happy marriage, and I congratulate the woman who has suth a husband and commend his philosophy to other married men. Whenever husbands decide to make matrimony a 50-50 proposition and to do their part toward being little rays of sunshine in the home we shall have no more disgruntled, peevish wives and the divorce courts will shut up shop. 1t is because men so often feel that when they feed and clothe their wives and give them a home to live in they have done all that is required of them as husbands that marriage is so often a failure. They forget that it takes two— a man and € woman working together—to make a happy home and bring up a family properly. No woman can do all of the smiling or all of the jollying or all of the adapting, not even thau&h she grins like a Cheshire cat and is a champion salve-spreader and as pl ble as a bit of India rubber, ‘There has to be reciprocity. The wife has to have somebody to laugh with her and she likes to have her fur rubbed the right way, too, sometimes, and to have her husband dodge the angles in her disposition as a change from her having always to gumshoe aroun 8o all honor to N. W., who has worked out a scheme for getting alon his wife and giving her a square den.l. ):ny‘ ms_ tribe increase. DOROTHY his peculiarities, with IX, DEAR DOROTHY DIX: Three years ago I married a very intelligent, good- looking girl who held an important position and was admired by every one who knew her. Now that she is married and does not go to business she slumped. Seldom reads a book. Pays no attention to her personal appearance and is so dull and unattractive that I am about to leave her and forget that I was ever married. We have no children and I don’t want that .sorcA of a wife, What shall I do? Answer: T should think that she would brace up and get busf' make herself attractive if you could make her realize that you really trying to mean to leave her unless she begins cutting bait once more. 1f she refuses to do this, I think you will be perfectly justified in calling the marridge off before thete are any children. Nothin lazy, frowzy, dirty woman, and no man is called upon to is so disgusting as a ve with one, ntly your wife cares very little for you if she does not try to make herself attractive (Copyright, 1028.) MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE MERRICK. to you. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., December 27— When King Vidor said he wanted to make an all-negro picture he provided himself with the most interesting cinema opportunity Hollywood affords. ‘When he let me come in on the stage where these children of emotion were registering a story for the fearful micro- phones to pick up he gave me a treat. And to give a columnist in Hollywood a treat is not so easy. e Several- of these players are well known to the theatergoing public. None of them had ever appeared before the cameras. Yet an intensely dra- matic scene had two short rehearsals, then was made in sound. Hammering went on all about us in the great soundstage. During the re- hearsal there was a continuous back- ground of metal ringing out on metal, the buzeing of saws, the whine of the plane. 'The stages are being operated night and day, so carpentry cannot be left for an off moment. There just isn’t any. When the actual scene is to be made King Vidor, cries out, “Quiet, please!” Ald the grinning carpenters lay down their tools and light cigarettes. It's their idea of a soft snap. 1 saw a scene of the interior of a box car with a negro mammy beating the young siren who had lured the woman’s son from the ways of religion. You heard the clackety-clack of the train, the singing of the negro mammy before she opened the door, her hoarse cry of wrath, the ominous swish of the blacksnake that descended to curl about the body of the girl, the girl's sharp cries of pain, the son's pleading, “Mammy, mammy, please don’t!” the flerce invective of the furious old woman. Here was emotion; here was a release of actuality that the silent screen can- not afford. Seeing it, even the most hardened disbellever sound effects and talkies realizes that something must come of a medium which can give you 50 much atmosphere in picture making. “No near-beer now!” orles Vidor, “Give Y » 2 them- “fuls of milk and then DOROTHY DIX. selves into the scene with a fury which makes the first rendering seem pallid. ‘When the last bit of the sequence is done there is a general run for the room where the run-off of the sound is made. The players hear the dialogue of the work they have just made, They judge where their voices need more sharpness, Wwhere a level tone would be of value. The director goes into conference, and coming out into the great felt-lined barn the work goes on again. < It is a thousand miles from the old process in point of interest and in point of result. It is a whole world and years of experiment removed from picture making as it used to be. William De Mille said mh.pl the most interesting thing about talkies when he explained that “talkies are like a deaf and dumb child—you have noth- ing but love and pity for the child it ou are certain it will never talk. But et it once start in and you'll never be satisflied with it unless it talks, and talks well.” Several of the older members of the industry are openly st talkies. ‘The majority of the of the indus- try are for them. Harold Lioyd is one of the few young men not sol on the idea. An analysis in which Harold Lloyd's greatest circu- lation lies proves them to be small centers where theaters are not yet wired to talking pictures. ight, 1038, by North o o e Spanish Cheese. Melt one tablespoonful of butter in & saucepan and add one tablespoonful of grated onion and one tablespoonful of minced red pepper or a*dash of cayenne and seasoning. Cook for five minutes, then add one cupful of tomato pulp or tomato soup. Mix well and when bub- bling stir in one Pmmd of American cheese cut in small pieces. Cook over a slow fire, stirring constantly. Beat two eggs and add one and one-half cup- to the mix- ture. Cook for # utes. onge on m-c% Poached Eggs on Toast Broiled Mushrooms Graham Biscuits ‘Washington Ple Tea DINNER Cream of Onion Soup Baked Stuffed Haddock Egg Sauce Bolled | Potatoes Buttered Beets Endive Salad Lemon Meringue Ple Coffee CREAMED FINNAN HADDIE ‘WITH POTATOES Cut small slice fat salt pork into dice, cook until fat is ex- tracted and drain. Put 3 table- spoons pork fat in saucepan, add 3 tablespoons flour, stir well, then pour in slowly, while stirring constantly, 1’2 cups milk. When perfectly smooth, add 134 cups flaked cooked finnan haddie, 1% cups diced cooked potatoes, the pork scraps and pepper and salt to taste. Stir well,"cook 15 min- utes over boiling water, add beaten yolks 2 eggs, cook minute longer and serve with garnish of toast points. BROILED MUSHROOMS Large mushrooms are best for broiling. Wash and peel, arrange in dripping pan. Remove stalks for bmuing. In center of each put piece butter size of walnut, little salt and pepper; place under moderate gas blaze, cook about 15 minutes. Long cooking tough- ens mushrooms. Arrange around steak on platter. Pour over all any juice which may be in pan. CREAM OF ONION PUREE Put 2 or 3 large onions through food chopper and cook juice and pulp in 2 tablespoons butter until golden brown. Add pinch of soda dissolved in tablespoon water Have ready 1 quart milk scalded and cook until creamy. Season with salt, Pep&n' and paprika, and thicken with cracker crumbs. Sprinkle grated cheese over the top when served. Send buttered toast bars to table with this soup. NANCY PAGE Gift Certificates Are Trans- lated in Presents BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Among Nancy’s Christmas gifts were two gift certificates. And fortunate person that she was, they came from two different kinds of shops. With her first certificate she chose a little table of the kind she always had wanted. It was a butterfly table, so called because the two luJ)Yoru which held up the lit- tle rounded leaves resemble the wings of a butterfly. These tables date back to early American days and Nancy had wanted one ever since she had read about them in club. She chose one in walnut, although most of them are made in maple or pine. The table made has | the nicest kind of low and informal reading stand. It held her lamp and work. At tea or lunch time she put up the other leaf and: ate leisurely in front of the fireplace in her living room. The second gift was a delightfully “different” Pullman robe. She and Peter were contemplating a trip within the next few weeks and her traveling things were quite out of date. She really had used them but little since she and Peter returned from their honeymoon two years before. She chose a robe in black and n satin. The collar-revers were faced with green, as were the wide, capelike sleeves, The big button which held the robe in place was black. S8he could have bought this robe in other combinations of color, but she thought this one*was inconspicuous and still rich in color. And it was quite different from the usual Pullman robe. When one plans to travel one scans the “advancement” heading in one's buds are interested in bug write to Nancy in care of this inclosing & ped, self-addresses ., asking fof aflet, “Budgets Are Fun. (Copyright. 1928.) You can see today, 500 miles inland, sand dunes that were originally on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico. The lowor Mmluiprl Valley is slowly being tipped upward like a washboard. WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. How to Play Contract Bridge BY MRS. FORTESQUE The scoring of contract bridge is complicated than in auction. s chiefly on account of the added feature—being vulnerable. The side that wins the first game becomes vulnerable—that is, their losses are more than doubled. When both sides have a game, both are vulnerable. This was added in order to prevent the side winning the first game from taking losses sooner than allow the opponents to also score a game. It is always preferable to sustain a small loss sooner than to allow the opponents to make a game. Realizing this, the early players of contract took loss after loss and, their losses being small, they could well afford to do so. Today the additional penalties for losses when vulnerable have prohibited this strategy. For ex- ample, when I was playing yesterday afternoon I was vulnerable. My part- ner and I had won the first game and were well on our way to rubber. Un- fortunately, on my next bid—three no trumps—our hands did not fit. We were doubled and instead of making the three odd bid, we made but one over our book--down two. Doubled and vulnerable—600 points for the op- posing side. But my partner was an optimist. “Lucky we weren't down three, that would have given them 1,000 points.” Next hand we defeated our oppo- nents—doubled they also went down two tricks. But as they had not al- ready made a game, they were not vul- nerable, and their loss of two tricks only cost them 200 points.. One point in which contract is simplier than auction is that there are no honors scored uniess four or five in one hand. This eliminated the ever- recurring question, “What honors, part- ner?” That man who always claimed the 10 and thereby made mythical hundreds is out of luck in contract. Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. ‘Words often misused: Do not say, “There is left exactly five pieces.” Say, “There are left.” Often mispronounced: Incense. Ac- cent the noun (perfume) on first syl- lable, the verb (to madden) on last syllable. - Often misspelled: Sapphire; note the double p and the h. Synonyms: Decency, decorum, dig- nity, seemliness, fitness, propriety. Word study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: Indulgent; compliant; yielding. “One must be in- TONTRACT CARD NO. 4. Contract Bridge Score, Trick I;’“lg‘ No trumps, 35; spades and | clube, | ;x;nm, 30; diamonds and Game. A game is won when one side makes a trick-score of 100 or| more points. Of the tricks made, | only those contracted for arej scored in the trick score. All; extra tricks (tricks made over/ and above those contracted for) | are scored in the honor-score. ‘Vulnerable. After a side wins one game h‘ becomes “Vulnerable.” Until a, side wins a game it is “not vul-; nerable.” ¢ Honors. 4 in one hand count 100. 5 honors in one hand, 150. 4 aces in one hand, 150. Final game of rubber (if two- game rubber), 700, Final game of rubber (if & three-game rubber), 500. Making Contract. If undoubled, nothing. If doubled (when not vulner- able), 50. 1031 doubled (when vulnerable), Extra Trick, Per Trick. If undoubled (when vulner- able or not vulnerable), 50. If doubled (when not vulner- able), 100. 20‘1’1 doubled (when vulnerable), Slams, Bid - s Little slam: When fot vulner.’ . ‘When vulnerable, 750. Grand slam: When not vulnerable, 1,000. ‘When vulnerable, 1,500. Penalties (Under Tricks). If undoubled (not vulnerable), each trick, 50. If undoubled (when vulner- able) First trick, 100. . Each subsequent trick, 200. If doubled (not vulnerable): First and second tricks, each, 100. 2m’)rhird and fourth tricks, each, Subsequent tricks, each, 400. If doubled (when vulnerable): First trick, 200. Each subsequent, 400. Revoke. Loss of two tricks for first re- voke; 100 points for each ad- ditional. dulgent under the circumstances.” The Sidewalks BY THORNT! Over in the corner the Christmas tree sparkled. Beneath its ornamented branches lay every conceivable gift cal- culated to fire the heart of a small boy or girl. Diminutive automobile, fire apparatus, electric stove, moving pie- ture projector, railroad train and scores of other elaborate reproductions of ob- jects that fairly dlz!-‘)efl the eye. Mod- ern boyhood sophistication con- demned the jack-on-a-stick to oblivion if not utter extinction. The head of the house (well, anyway he was the husband) sat in a large arm- chair and waited the assault on the presents. He was & man of generous girth and rse. He had enough money to afford a chauffeur. He had stocks and bonds, owned a few first trusts ana several pleces of real estate, 50 you can quite understand that aside from an occasional bilious attack he had little to fret about. From the sel cnd floor there came the sound of ’l":e tering feet and juvenile squealing. into the room there burst three or four grandchildren. Each instinctively dashed toward his own gifts as if he or she knew just what St. Nick had left. The man in the armchair heaved a deep sigh and murmured, “L wish I was a kid like that again.” A middle-aged member of the family replied, “I wonder if {m really do. Your parents had not the money nor manufacturers the ingenuity to provide such cumrlg‘uons when you were young. Even had you been so fortunate wouldeyou like to live your life over again? Every age has its compensating woes and pleasures. “Knowing what you do of life, would you deliberately choose to retrace your footsteps? Would you actually do dif- ferently than you did in your struggle to make the grade? I don't believe it. The course you plotted may not have been like that of others on the road to ma- terfal success, but you accomplished your design. Dur- ing the past 50 years you have oc- cupied & grand- stand seat before which science has paraded its stuff. You have wit- nessed the evolu- tion of man's most important com- modities and have seen the genesis of hundreds of others. Perhaps some day a genius may com- municate with Mars, but I doubt if that will provide a greater thrill than the sight of the first motor car, the flight of the ploneer plane or the sound of your first radio. This is the age of sophistication. To a certain exten the small boy has oul’mwn his desire to have & dozen marbles given to him for) ristmas. Ch}‘{.:m is too familiar with the family automobile and other expensive pos- sessions of his father and mother. He doesn't have to carry wood afid coal from the cellar to the base burner in the dining room. He does not, in a manner of speaking, earn his found any longer, You were inculcated with the theory that all play and no work was inimical to soundness of character and_thrift was a quality to be devel- oped. Today you are rich in the sense that you possess a comforting philoso~ phy, & broad outlook, fine discrimina- tion and the ability to evaluate those things that we say make life. Let these kids enjoy their high-priced toys. You have no re%reu. Your_generation struggled that they might have them. And the giving is always more pleasur- able than the receiving.” * X kK i is it that a little female wil nm to her rag doll even though she receives a glorious yellow-haired crea- ture in the laclest of attire? A few days after Christmas many youngsters whose eyes glowed at the sight of fres presents seek their old toys. On Christ- ‘mas day, when new bicycles were being propelled through the streets by their you owners, we saw_ small boys dashing alongside them in battered and worn fuven le vehicles, Perha it we do not like to think that they had no better ones. * ok k% There is something intensely friendly about the lighted trees on the lawns during the holiday week. The custom has become exceedingly popular in the t few years. A sparkling tree on mel lawn seems to announce to the world that its owners wish you well and that within is warm hospitality. * * 2 x space of 30 minutes we saw damaged cars in :? streets. had been turll). over on a fire In the of Washington 'ON FISHER. mas had been disturbed. No day can be perfect. 2% G We are never so mute as when in the presence of age. An “old fogy” knows so much more than we do. He or she may not be as familiar with “wisecracks” as we are. They may not know the snappiest night club in town or what the latest dance fashion is, but aside from absurd non- essentials they are informative, living volumes. Age greet- ed us twice on Christmas day. One was an old lady of about 83 years. The other Wwas a man near- ing fourscore. They both knew Washington when —yes, when Six- teenth street was a ‘mud road and farms and orchards occupied the sites on which imposing structures now stand; when knighthood flowered in the city and carriages and sleighs pro- vided luxurious transportation about the young town. We also learned that it required eight days by coach to maks the journey between Boston and Wash- ington. And just the other day we heard a man complain that his train was a few minutes late arriving from New York, a trip which tekes about five hours to make. Age is under- standing and uncomplaining. BRAIN TESTS This is a Yes—No test which re- quires a careful discrimination. Im- agine that you have a lump of sugar from which you have cut away a small part. Now allowing yourself two min- utes answer yes or no to the following questions regarding the remaining part of the sugar lump. (1) Is the remainder less heavy than the original lump? ( .) (2) Is the remainder less white than than the original lump? ( .) (3) Is the remainder less real than than the original lump? ( .) 4) the remainder less in size than the original lump? ( .) (5) Is the remainder less sweet than the original lump? ( .) (6) Is the remainder less alive than the original lump? ( . ( the remainder less massive than the original lump? ( .) (8) Is the remainder less dense than the original lump? ( ) . (9) Is the remainder less soluble than the original lump? ) (10) Is the remainder less shiny than the original lump? ( .) (1) Yes, (6) No. (2) No. (7) Yes. (3) No. (8) No. (4) Yes. (9) No. (5) No. (10) No. i e L In experimenting with the speed of light, Prof. Michelson, University of Chicago, has estimated that it travels at approximately 186,284 miles a second. 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