Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1929, Page 93

THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €, APRIL 28 1929—PART 7. STOR IES SPORTS GAMES Pitcher Who Wasn’t Needed A Base Ball Story BY W. BOYCE MORGAN. in Five Installments. FRANKIE LOST ALL OF HIS CONTROL. Baseball practice has been going on for two weeks at Warmington High School when Frankie Lum appears one afternoon and Tty that he wants to pitch kie is a rather humorous uniform, but he has nd control. but no him pitch and learnis hitter, the coach offers outfield, and a curved ball. Warmington High School al- ready has two good regular pitchers, all that the team needs. INSTALLMENT IL From the day that Tom made. his generous offer, noon lunches were a very hasty affair for Frankie. As soon as he had eaten the sandwiches that his mother had packed for him in the morning, he met Tom at the door of the school cafeteria, and they went at once to the ball field. They could have tossed the ball back and forth some- ‘where else had it not been for the fact that Tom soon discovered that some sort of backstop was needed if he was not to run his legs off chasing Frankie's | Dpitches. For throwing a curve seemed, strangely enough, an impossible task for the country boy. He had taught him- self to throw by hurling rocks, and his whole object had been to throw as hard and as accurately as possible. Now when Tom shoved him how to wrap his long fingers about the base ball in a certain way. and how to get just the right wrist movement into the pitch, Frankie lost all of his control. Occa- sionally the ball found Tom's mitt, but Just as often it went over his head or a yard to either side. Hence a backstop was a necessity for the catcher. “I don’t know what's the matter with that darn ball,” walled Frankie to E"'m. “I just can’t do “Well, you'll just have to ki 'y ing,” Tom. And ? s trying was Prankic’s nature. Tom was good enough to catch him every noon, and the would-be pitcher But weeks went by and the results were | said far from encouraging. Tom refused to let Frankie become | disheartened. “It will come to you all of a sudden | some day.” he said. “You'l. get the knaek of it and then you'll have it. I never saw a case just like yours, though. It must be the result of the thousands of dornicks you've heaved out in the hayfields.” Prankie grinned ruefully. “I guess that's it.” he admitted. “I'm one of | :hme old dogs that you can't teach new | Meantime the baste ball season of | ‘Warmington High School had opened auspiciously with two victories, Haggerty rejoiced that he had found a ; | the pitcher’s box watching the motions and accuracy, Frankie could take the longest hits on the field and hold the batter to two or three bases, and in the first game of the season he nailed |a runner at the plate when the hit, | handled by any other fielder, would | have gone for a home run. But while he stood in the outfield, shading his eyes against the afternoon sun, Frankie kept his gaze riveted on | of Waite Roberts or Jack Sharp, which- | ever _happened to be on mound duty for Warmington that day. Even from that distance, he got so he could detect | the break of Waite's wide, sweeping outcurve, and he couid see the batters “breaking their back” trying to get Jack's tantalizing slow ball. At such times Frankie would h:ave a sigh of longing. Being a good center fielder was all right, but wouldn’t he ever be a pitcher? And sometimes in the midst of one of these reveries, there would be the sharp crack of ash on horsehide, and Frankie would recover his senses with a start to see a fly. soaring toward| him, or a sharp grounder stinging his| b , who was pitch- fielders in before was far away, traveling itching fame, when sud- heard the fair, smart crack ball well hit. Hurriedly to see a short Texas in his direction. Had it would have been a u too far back to reach he would, the ball drop- second base, and the bag scored. 'was retired a moment later, and as Prankie trotted in to the bench, handle the ball, but | ¢, Yhe BOYS and GIRLS PAGE Romance Found in Arctic AGLE WAS CAUGHT AND, CRUSHED LIK Regions CRAFTS JOKES; PUZZLES BY DALE R. MATCH-WOOD AS THE CAPTAIN AND TWO MEN LEAPED TO THE ICE. ‘The author of this series of articles went to the Arctic on business. As counsel and general manager of a trading company, with headquarters in Tacoma, Wash., he wanted to know why trade was falling off. He discovered it was almost a miracle that any trade existed. The com- pany’s schooner, the Iskum, was a sturdy little ice-breaker, but, once the seas of the Siberian Arctic were reached, she was most of the time imprisoned by walls of ice. off the southeastern end of Kaluchin Island, and I decided to make the attempt to walk across the intervening ice and to work my way along the shore to our station at ths BY JAMES M. ASHTON. ORTUNATELY, when the fce closed in on us for this second imprisonment, we were not far northern end of Kaluchin Bay. I was fortunate in having Koiingo, a | half-breed Chukchi, to act as guide, and the mate, W. W. Putta—who was also navigating officer—came along with us. Putta was a giant in strength, and his good nature was as great as his powers of endurance. He happened to be the only one of the party wearing high rub- ber boots, and he picked Kolingo up and arried him across the worst lagoons, on his_shoulders. While I was able to walk through the shailow lagoons and streams, I could not, with muckluks, wade the really deep places, Coach Haggerty met him with a frown. “I hope you enjoyed your nap, Lum, the “coach sarcastically. “Why didn't you come in when Art signaled? | You should have had that hit easily.”| “I know,” said Frankle, He realized ! that the fault was his, and his face | burned with shame at the coach’s| words. And even when, in the eighth inning, he hit a scorching double that , he could not forget that lapse out in the center field. He resolved to confine his dreaming to the evening hours in the future, But the noon practice sessions with Tem went on as before, and in addi- | tion, Frankie began to get up earlier in the morning, and for a half hour | before he started for the city school Kolingo over, he patiently and cheerfully returned, and carried me. I am not a ight load by any means, but the man nly grunted a bit as he swung me up to his ler, much as if I had been a trunk and he an extra-burly express- man. Of course, after plunging through the water, back and forth several times, he was thoroughly wet, as it came in places well above even his hip boots. By the time we had covered about three: quarters of the distance to the station, decided that something must be done. Accordingly, the three of us sat down, Kolingo and I removed our muckluks and the deer socks underneath, letting our legs and feet dry in the clear, cold air. We pulled off the mate’s rubber boots and I put my fairly dry socks on him. Kolingo's socks and muckluks were natural slugger in Frankie and placed | in the rickety car he drove, he practiced | still almcstdry—thanks to Putta's strong him third on the batting list. The fourth, or clean-up position, was held by | Captain Art Belden, who was one of | those batters who combined a real punch with consistency. Frankie didn't hit quite as often as Art did, but when he connected the ball was scheduled for | a long trip. Frankie was given center field to guard, after had demonstrated to Lh'] coach that he could handle a fly all. “That’s where that throwing arm of vours will 'do the most good,” he said, and he coached the boy in returning the ball to all the bases. With his speed pitching. He had marked off an oblong on the rear wall of the barn to corre- | spond to the width of the plate and the | distance between a batter's knees and shoulGers, and toward this target he | hurled a couple of old baseballs, run- ning to retrieve them and try again. Holding the ball as Tom had shown | him, he tried and tried to throw an outcurve and a drop. But the ball | either took its old and accustomed “natural” break inward, or went far wild on the target. Success scemed as ! far away as ever. ‘To Be Continued Next Sunday. FUN WITH ROCK RACQUET. You will have a lot of fun with| this rock racquet because s stone hit with it will go much farther than you | can throw it. The racquet is used | just like a tennis racquet except that you use any kind of a amooth stone instead of the tennis hall. ‘To make the racquet, get a tough- grained board 10 inches wide and 28 | inches long and cut it down to form & handle at one end. The other end is shaped 1o & nice oval, as shown, and the center cut out to give a rim 2 inches wide all the way around. Then cut out from two or three ply wood, another oval to exactly one in the handle Get 8 sheet of live rubber from an old inner tube and stretch it over the hole in the handle. ply wood top all the way around with screws spaced 3 inches apart. The screws should be outside of the Tubber, but since they compress the two pleces of wood upon the rubber the rubber will be held quite rigid even though the holes made by the screws have & ten- Geney to tear it fit over the | ‘Then fasten the | ‘The heavier the rubber used, the bet- ter will be the results. You can soon | tell the best weight of stone to use. | With a little practice you will become very accurate with this racquet. The Kitchenette BY "A;'N;’ III:I:}'NA Honey pop-corn balls! Doesn’t the very name make your mouth water? And this recipe came to me all the way from Honolulu, Hawali, which makes it doubly welcome. Irene Yap sends it. HONEY POP CORN. | cup strained honey. | cup light corn syrup. tablespoon butter, teaspoon vinegar. quarts pop corn. 1 teaspoon salt. | Cook the honey, syrup and vinegar | together in a_ saucepan until a_little dropped in cold water becomes brittle | (275 degrees Fahrenheit). Stir ocea- sionally to prevent burning, stirring al- | most constantly during the latter part of the cooking. When done, add butter and stir only enough to mix. Pour the cooked syrup slowly over the salted | pop corn and mix well. Form into balls | with hands. t z | Needed Color. i | It was dusk as she stopped at the | rondside garage “I want aid. The man gasped and hesitated “Give me & quart of red ofl, peated “A q-quart of r-r-red ofl?" “Certainly.” she said. “The tail light on my machine has gone outi’ a quart of red ofl,” Shcj re | arms—and 1 donned my muckluks minus the socks. We were all a bit lame and stumbling from fatigue and bruises when we finally tolled within sight of the station, after more than 10 strenuous hours of steady walking. i 'ARL JOHNSON, our trader at Kalu- chin, had married a Russian girl whom he had rescued in quite a roman- | tic—not to say melodramatic—manner from the Bolshevists. She was a young woman belonging to & family of cul- ture and breeding in Petrograd and had, in one week of massacre and horror, lost mother, father and two brothers, as well as a quite considerable inheri- tance. Threatened by starvation, cap- tivity and worse, this plucky grl, brought up tenderly and in the midst of plenty, had managed to elude her enemies and made her escape alone northward from Petrograd. One hesitates even to imagine her physical sufferings. Her mental an- guish of f and fear can of course never be known to any ohe save her- | self, but the privations, fatigue and hunger she endured in that long flight northward to the little Chukchi village where Johnson found and fell in love | with her, would, to my thinking, make | as tremendous an epic as has ever yet been written. A story, not, alas, for my practical pen to attempt! Johnson was aboard the Iskum at the time, on his way to his new post at Kaluchin, It must have been a quick wooing, for when the schooner sailed three days later, they took the girl with 1 them; put to sea beyond the three-mile | limit; hoisted the Stars and Stripes; | and the captain married Johnson to his Russian bride. Knowing the story, we were naturally all most anxious to meet Mrs. Johnson. We planned to stock the station with | the best we had on board in the way of food, stores, medical supplies, clothing, ete, in order to render her situation up there in that lonely and desolate post as comfortable as possible. Upon our arrival at the station that evening we found that a small, exceed- ingly red-faced and chubby son and heir to the house of Johnson had pre- ceded us by 15 days. Both the baby and the young Russian mother were doing well, having been capably taken care of by a wise old toothless Ghukchi woman who had in her day ushe: a_good many native babies into this world. As far as we could learn, little Carl junior had the honor to be the first white child born in the Siberian Arctic, but at that period of his career he cared less. He was a fine, healthy, little chap and while the old Chukchi woman and his she | mother had done their best for him [him. Even this was not vei with what they had on hand, the latter was gieatly distressed by the lack of proper clothing for her baby. She missed those small comforts and dainty s0 after the mate had carried | accessories ¥ith which the bables of her old friends in Russia had been care- fully surrounded. She seemed to_ tink nothing at all of her own total lack of the most ordinary comforts and care, but she did want them for her little son. She and her husband had hoped that the schooner would take them %o Chaun Bay or Kolyma, when we arrived at Kaluchin, where they could put in the Winter by taking charge of one of the company stations at those points. The natives at Kaluchin, unlike most of those along that coast, were noisy | and inclined to be actually dangerous |8t times. They had been taught to | make a very heady “home brew” the | year before, probably by some Russian | prisoners from the penal colonies or salt mines of Siberia. When under the influence of this stimulant they re- verted to a very savage and primitive slate; constant brawls and debauches went on within the igloos in the neigh- borhood. Johnson, naturally, was worried over keeping his wife and baby there under such conditions, particularly as he had often to be absent from home for days at a time when making his rounds of the traps or to trade with igloo villages | of Deermen farther inland. * o % % HE schooner being long overdue on account of our ice troubles, the | Johnsons had given us up for that year {and were preparing as best they could {to spend another long, hard Winter where they were. They gave us a welcome in which re- | lief, delight, relaxation—and on the part | of Mrs. Johnson a suspicion of tears not far off—were very touchingly blended. We could imagine what the past Winter must have been like from the earnest- ness of their greeting. We recalled our | sensations when the schooner was fast in the ice-pack for so long and there chance in favor of her remaining there Indefinitely. Indeed, we experienced a warm fellow feeling of understanding for our Russian hostess, who had been through so much 80 bravely. I have said that the Far & weakling, That applies, evidently, to women as well. Mrs. Johnson was no weakling. That night we remained at the station with the Johnsons, as Carl and I had planned to begin our check-up of the ing morning. This had to be done as expeditiously as possible, so that all as soon as the schooner succeeded in Jarring locse from the ice and working her way through ds to the north end of Kaluchin B Accordingly the whole household rose betimes; the mate returning across the ice to the schooner, and Johnsons and 1 beginning our work the minute break- fast was out of the way. By the middle of the morning the news of our arrival had spread through all the nearby Chukchi villages, by some mysterious means such news has of traveling up there, and the station was promptly besieged by crowds of natives. They not only came to call; they settled down for a friendly all- day visit, prepared to drink tea cere- moniously with us, hear any news of the outside world we cared to tell and make a profitable deal or two in the way of barter. We were' far too busy to stop and pay much attention to their wants, but they accepted that placidly. Some sat down in rows to watch our activities, while curfous children, getting in our and each others way and generally manag- ing to be under foot most of the day. The following day we finished our work at the Kaluchin Station, finding everything in excellent shape, much to Johnson's delight. By midday the schooner had succeeded in working through ice-leads around to the north- ern end of the bay, and arrived off the station early in the afternoon. Mrs. Johnson, Carl and the baby were moved aboard, and, at Mrs. John- on's request, we found room for a little native boy named Attua, who was of either Chuvane or Yukaghire stock, and | who acted as nurse to the small Carl, jr. Attua’s parents and all his near rela- tives had been killed in some affray | after the Russian revolution, when the | reindeer herds of their tribe had been | driven off by Bolshevik agents. Some- | how the youngster had drifted down to | our Kaluchin Staticn, where—finding { him willing and gentle—Mrs, Johnson had pressed him into service as a sort of “mother’s helper.” From that time—so Johnson told me ~—Attua was the envy of all the Chuk- chi children for miles around. The na- tives there had never seen a white child before, and they had been coming, by whole families, from long distances, ever since Iittle Carl's birth, just to get a | knew nothing about such honors and | look at the white trader's baby. Most | of them wanted to hold him, and when this was not permitted they would beg earnestly to be allowed just to tbuch Ty practi- cable or pleasing to the mother, so she effected & comprcmise by holding up her son to be viewed by the curious from & respectful distange. seemed a most uncomfortably strong | North makes a strong man, and breaks | foods and barter on hand early the fol- | low! would be in readiness for our departure | others roamed about the station like | ‘This part of her many duties she eventually delegated to Attua, who worked at it overtime, much to the de- | light of the natives and the aggran- dizement of Attua himself, Even the baby, who might have reasonably ex- pected to protest at so much handling, seemed to enjoy it, and Attua was al- ways able to quiet his crying when even | his mother failed. | . Naturally, Attua’s nursing relicved | Mrs. Johnson of a great deal of work, and she begged to be allowed to take | the boy on the schooner for the trip to | | Chaun Bay and Kolyma. In addition to caring for the baby, he undertook to act as cabin boy and to make himself | generally useful, so we added him to the crew. "JHE Iskum left the Kaluchin Station | at 7 in the evening, headed for Cape Nord. The following day the ice began coming in again—great floating | cakes of it, which soon collected so thickly about us they threatened an- other impassable blockade. By 3 that afternoon it was raining, end skies and seas alike were gray and | gloomy. The ice continued to grow heavier, and the spirits of all on board * Kk ok and bustle of our departure from Kalu- chin, to a sort of wordless depression. The schooner hammered at the ice all | through that night and the following | morning, making headway very slowly. By evening she had reached a point | where we could proceed no farther. Ac- | cordingly, we put a line on a berg, and | tied up for the night. Our old friends {In distress, the American schooners, Blue Sea and Eagle, had followed us on | our journey westward, and we saw them not far off, blocked like ourselves. They, too, had tied up to the ice and were waiting for another day. It was faintly consoling to know that they had | not beaten us yet in the race to Kolyma. In the morning we could see open water showing to the north and east, far ahead of us. We were desperately anxious to break through to it if pos- sible. If we could find leads to that | open stretch of sea, we might be able to work back on our course by making a wide detour that would carry us past the western end of Wrangell Island. Our earlier experience in that vicin- ity had shown us that there was a large field of ice to the west of Wrangell, which apparently extended as far south as Cape Nord, and on to the west from the cape itself. However, there might be leads through it; and it seemed our one chance of getting through. | A promising lead being discovered | from the crow’s nest in the direction we wished, we decided to take the risk, | and, leaving the other schooners fast | in the ice behind us, battered our way | through the strip of intervening ice | and entered the lead. | We had not proceeded half a mile along this narrow waterway, when we | observed to our dismay that the head | of the lead was closing up rapidly. We just _got out—but it was a close call. We had to back the schooner a large | part of the way as the lead was too narrow to turn her about. This little episode left us all rather chastened for hours afterward. * ok ok ok 1 JUST how dangerous our situation had been was demonstrated later when | we learned that the other schooners | l then marooned near us, the Eagle and | Blue Sea, had decided to work through ;a new lead that opened near them. The Eagle entered first, but had not ! gone far before the lead closed up so | suddenly she was unable to back out. | Equally helpless in the grip of the {ice, the Blue Sea had to stand by and | | watch the other schooner caught and | ! crushed to matchwood before her crew’s eyes. In a case of this kind, the inter- | val between the crushing of the ship iand her actual sinking, is almost nil, {as the heavy machinery in the engine | room will sink her like a plummet. ‘The crew of the Eagle were fortunate | jenough to save their lives by leaping | | overside to the solid ice of the field. | | But there was no time to save food, | {extra clothing or stores of any kind. | | Naturally, the crew of the Blue Sea | | did what they could to relieve the situ- ation for the shipwrecked men, giving them provisions, blankets and such | { heavy garments as they could spare. | i _The crew of the Eagle comprised | Capt. Hansen, master and owner, and | two men. One of them lost a large | {sum in currency that was in his wallet, not more than 15 feet from him when the crash came. He had no time even | to reach for it. Such is the speed with which disaster can arrive in the Arctic! ‘The point at which the Iskum was | now so hopelessly blocked again was, we | calculated, about five miles to the east | { of Cape Nord. This proved to be a mis- | taken estimate, for the real distance was somewhere between 12 and 14 miles. At the time, we belleved, opti- mistically, that the cape was but a short tramp over the ice. However, long or short journey as it might be, here was the schooner once more fast in the pack f{n spite of our constant and heart-breaking work fighting the ice for the past 24 hours; and here experienced a slump from the gayety | PO { fce-pack soon released us. sl‘mlnppeued likely to remain indefi- nitely. It was very discouraging, as so much ice was bound materially to delay our return home, and the arctic Winter was drawing nearer every day. To add to our troubles, we discovered that our steering gear was out . of order, the a\‘xadranb leg having been bent during e previous night. It was decided that we should try to communicate with a Russian trader at Cepe Nord with whom we had business. Early that morning Carl Johnson and a sailor took the dory and worked their way over the ice close to shore, and then through narrow leads and breaks in the ice, to the shore itself. Here they were fortunate in encountering a group of Deermen who were bringing their reindeer herds down from the interior to feed near the shore south and west of Cape Nord. With them Carl was able to converse by means of his knowled and some- to the ever sign language. 'y informed him great positiveness ghat there was no possible hope of schooner getting beyond the cape, and that we were finally and completely blocked at this int. As some of these Deermen were g to the , we asked them to tell the Russion that we would follow them on foot later that same day; and at 2 o'clock Carl, Dave and I started on an- other of those tedious and exhausting hikes over the shore and the hum- mocks of ice. * K kX AFK‘ER five hours of the hardest sort of walking, over ice, sand and gravel, we discovered our mistake about the distance involved, but eventually reached VeLeadgumer’s place—he being the trader at Cape Nord for the Rus- slan, Karieff. There we were revived with strong, hot coffee and blubber. In the Arctic there is nothing quite 80 indispensable in the way of either food or drink as blubber. n one’s vitality is lowered by exposure and the intense cold, a few mouthfuls of this oily, slippery, jelly-like substance will start a grateful glow throughout the en- tire body, sending the sluggish blood coursing actively through the veins once more, and causing a new energy to take possession of jaded nerves and muscles. Probably at home, with well cooked meals of recognized familiar dishes, one could not force oneself to swallow raw blubber, much less actually relish it. But I do know that in the Far North I came to crave it, not only as a neces- sity to comfort and well being, but be- cause the taste (what little flavor it can be said to possess) began to seem distinctly pleasant. We spent the night at the station, re- turning to the schooner about noon of the following day. VeLeadgumer came back with us. We reached the schooner at 7:30, having covered more than 15 miles since morning. While exceedingly weary at the end of it, the walk itself was not without its compensations. The country we cov- ered was fascinating. Cape Nord was literally carpeted with small white and pink flowers (of which I do not yet know the name), just peeping out of the moss and tundra, and sp hardily through crevices in the bl and inhospitable-looking rocks. Carl picked a nosegay for his wife, and the realization of how many miles separated me from doing the same for mine, gave me a quick, acute pang of homesickness. It was not pl!”l‘;lg to contemplate the possibility that we might be in for all Winter unless the Though we were perfectly aware of this conting- ency, nobody talked about it. Our real perils lay ahead of us. (Copyright, 1029.) Posers. ‘This week's posers will test your knowledge of animals. Below is a list of 10 animals, and opposite are the noises they make. See if you can as- sociate each call or sound with -the animal that utters it. 1. Lion Barks . Elephant Growls . Pig Neighs . Wolf Brays . Hyena Roars . Dog Moos . Donkey Howls . Horse Laughs Cow Grunts Bear Trumpets Answers. 5 A lion roars, an elephant trumpets, a pig_grunts, a wolf howls, a hyena laughs, a dog barks, a donkey brays, a horse neighs, a cow moos and a bear growls. 10. Free Quarantine. TEN of the Northern counties of New York State have been placed under 2 quarantine because of Woodgate rust, a dangerous disease which attacks Smhcr:gtne and other hard pines. The area affected includes Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Hamilton, Herkimer, Jeffer- son, Lewis. Madison, Oneida and St. Lawrence Counties, of Chukchl, | Space here does not permit a very de- tailed account of the things that you can make and sell, but they are many. Much, of course, depends upon the skill with which pieces are assembled and finished. Book ends, perhaps, offer as wide a variety as any simple article and they are not hard’ to make. In the illus- tration are shown two types. The type at the top consists of a wooden block ior the end piece proper, to the bottom of which is fastened a piece of rather heavy gauge sheet iron. The book end just below has for the background, & single sheet of iron (galvanized) with one right-angle bend. The whole strij should measure about 6 inches in wid and 9 inches in length the bend a little one side of center. This tin is then covered with any suitable paper drawn tight and coated with first quality glue on one side. The paper should be tinted. Face both sides and turn the outside piece over the edges all around, notching where nec- essary to produce a smooth Jap. For the front design you can cut out in silhouette fashion, any appropriate pattern such as shrubbery, a well bal- anced tree, or hills. Or, by using paper of two or three tints and colors you can build up a blocky scene from these col- ors, using purple paper for distant hills, blue for the sky, green for foreground grass and ’k_or brown for nearby trees and deep biue for water. When these have been glued on, ther give the whole book end (except the bettom) a coat of stain or shel "his deepen the colors slightly and render the result really charming. Green felt 1s then glued to the bottom to prevent marring. The wood book end requires only the finish of the wood. This can be done to the shape shown and then giving a finish by burning, carving or merely cutting | from Studio Profits for Girls VAN HORN. Abtrnactive_ lomp Shacke of 2-ply ber of ways to make lamp shades. One type consists of cretonne with white cloth backing, the two pieces being fastened together by covering the white cloth with paste and pressing it to the cretonne with a hot iron. This mate- rial is then cut to form & tube and the erges are stitched together. Two pieces of stiff cardboard are cut out in per- fect circles and pasted together, then these are cut to fit inside the tube at the top. A hole is made in the card- board just large enough to put the end of the little bulb through. This is then inserted and screwed into the socket. Another kind is shown in the {llustra- tion. This consists of four sides, taper- ed, cut from 2 or 3 ply wood. The panels can be cut out with a ecroll or Jig saw. The corners are carefully glued together, then the inside is cov- ered with green, yellow, red or paper of some other color. A small wire ring with four short wires soldered to it is held in the top to rest upon the top of the light bulb. All sorts of novelty things can be made from felt. One girl has a num- er of calls for party favors rcgularly. A friend or acquaintance may bz plan- ning a party. ‘The details of the eve- ning are planned, then the hostess ealls this girl and outlines the program. Per- haps she even suggests the favors. One kind consists of several pleces of felt of different colors made up to repre- sent & dog or cat or or some- thing else. The pieces are giued one on top of the other so that the finished job looks realistic from the top. Oil colers flnmbeuedlmmnnmflm!zuchu such as the eyes, nose, mouth, etec. Other items can, of course. be made P grot e patterns cnable vou to all of es without their showing. Large flat feet can be made cardboard so that mest of th~ ‘tems will stand of their own accord if you to. 3 ‘You can supplement this grcup of money-making ideas with ycur own Much, however, depends upon good workmanship and the ability to talk ean conflneh!lg when soliciting work. A WAY e prices is to dou- ble the cost of the materials. Some- times this is less than what the charge side to ‘You probably already know of a num- Perfume which we define as a sweet fragrance, was one of the most useful and interesting of ancient commodi- ties. It was used for innumerable things, but mostly for reli and medicinal purposes. ‘The Queen of Sheba is said to have given to King Solomon an abundance of spices and wood of which perfume was made. These were reported as being of very high value. In the ruins of Pompell were found | large, costly bottles of perfume. The Oriental ladies used great quantities of costly perfume to preserve their per- sonal charms. When the knights came home from the , they brought their sweethearts expensive bottles of perfume from the East. During the reign of Charles II, the “merry monarch,” hair powder was in- troduced and continued to be fashion- should always be to the under | should prevent mm the table top. be; sometimes more. Be sure you get paid a reasonable fee. but do not make the mistake cf overcharging. Ancients Used Perfume reign of Louis XV that a different per- fume was used each day in certain households. Perfumes were often msed «for rea- sons other than their sweet, fragran odor. Spicy perfumes were used by the ancient ' Hebrews for fumigating their beds and embalming dead bodies. People were executed on piles of burn- ing aromatic wood. In India per- fumes were used in_the form of cense. They were offered as sacrifices in their temples and upon their altars. It was the custom for priests to color their faces with ointment of saffron. The use of perfume for medicinal poses was very widely practiced. Rose- water formed the basis for many rem- edies, while during the plague perfume was used extensively as a preventive. The savage and barbarous nations, as well as the civilized and refined, used perfume extravagantly. African able for over 200 years. Perfume was so popular during the chiefs ancinted their bodies with it— perhaps as a sunburn protection. T RS 7 SR BT ) We show you today a picture of a book. But it is not an ordinary book, this volume which is reproduced this week. It is a pretty one, bound in fine green leather and stamped in gold, and its pages are made of the finest and most valuable paper. And as you open it, you will find that it contains but a few pages, printed in two columns. The left-hand column is in French; the right-hand column is in the Eng- lish language. And the last few pages of the volume contain certain signa- tures and many important looking seals in red wax which bind together a silk Lribbon running from page to page. If you could read both the French and the English lines printed on these miu you would note that they con- the same message; and it is this message with the various signatures that makes this book so important. The volume contains a treaty, and agreement, between various great n: tions of the world, to do away w war between themselves. It is an agree- ment to settle all future disagreemen’e that may arise, not by bloody warr, but by the peaceful means or arbitra- | tion and discussion. The representa- tives of these various nations agreed to all the terms of the agreement and gr;gx’\ signed it in Paris on August 27, The nations which signed this agree- ‘ukéhhmtofl A BOOK OF PEACE. T — A e A ment to renounce war are the follow- ing: Germany, the States, Great Britian, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, Czechoslovakis. .5 Riddles. Are we keeping you riddle fans busy enough? We hate to think that you were unhappy because of a lack of riddles to puzzle over! Here are a few that should cheer you up. 1. Why is a young colt like an egg? H.PWhnt word of 10 letters starts with gas! 3. What makes a pair of boots suc- cessfully and well? 4. Why do the people in Texas build their pig pens south of the house? swmhut'l;a,tmmnmut Answers. 1. Because it has to be broken to bz of any use. 2. Automobile. 3. Two boots. 4. To keep the pigs in. 5. The barber., A gun loaded with blasting powder has been invented for splitting logs into which it is driven before being fired with a fuse, ‘