Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1932, Page 21

THE EVENING 8 'AR, WASHINGTON, D. (., SATURDAY, Walls of Small Halls and Rooms BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. AN INTERESTING WALL TREATMEN ALL decorations for halls and tiny rooms should be those which do not re- quire space to make them show off to advantage. Thev should be those which can be scrutinized at close range and stand the test. They need not necessarily be little and they certainly should not be insignificant. The important thing is that they com- bine decoration and that desire to study them which makes imity welcome. The wall decorations which are par- ticularly felicitous in cramped quarters comprise _textiles, embroidered wall hangings, fine etchings hundreds of dif- ferent artists and engravers and print- their close prox- | NT OF A SMALL HALL. small |shape of the wall space, will lend bright- | ness without accenting any special color, or it can be so hung that it re- flects a colorful hanging or ornament opposite it, or maybe placed above on a shelf or stand. When color is lacking, there can be the right type of wall decoraiton. gay hanging can give it, but the textile or embroidery should not be so im- pressive that it calls for wider vistas. The distribution of color should be 1ather even in the wall hanging, there- by courting study of detail instead of being imposing. Colored prints and water colors and oil paintings that are done in detail and which are small, including the ers’ works and wood cuts allied with |frames, supply color in most pleasing these prints way. A bracket wall shelf against a Wall shelves also come under the |plain textile wall hanging offers an op- classification of suitable wall decorations for_small quarters endless variety. They may be of wood or metal. Wrought iron and wood in straight lines of solid colors or in- tricately carved Chinese designs are fa- vored. In short, the variety of things well adapted to these wall decorations is innumerable. To pick out the kind best for the particular wall requires the home decorator’s careful consideration. Color may or may not be needed in the small hall. If not, etchings and black and white prints and uncolored woodcuts are rezommended. Choose small-framed pictures and group them if needed to ornament a large blank wall space. There may be more than one group required. If so, have each group separate and distinct from an- other. A mirror, carefully chosen to sult the THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE portunity for notes of color in orna- Shelves come in | ments put upon the shelves, as well as in the textile itself (Copyright, 1 32.) Handwriting What It May Reveal. BY MILDRED b L, MOCKABEE. HIS writing is so even that an entire page of it gives almost the same impression as print. This regularity is probably re- flected in the life of the writer, making of her a very exact and de- pendable person. The only conflicting indication is the t-bar which indicates a certain degree of impatience and hurry. This does not appear pro- nounced enough, however, to overcome | the former characteristic. The very heavy i-dot is worthy of notice as it usually denotes a very forceful and positive character. She probably has very definite ideas about things. This may at times antagonize her acquaintances, but, as they know her better, they will, perhaps, realize that she has no intention of hurtirg them. The very rounded, curved letter forms perience. As she grows older and be- comes more accustomed to dealing with people, she will probably learn how to handle individuals, to sway them to her ! j hard | sr side rather than to create feelings. The almost printed is an indication of iousness. She possibly gives thought to her choice of clothes any form of the ‘s” lture and fastid- much being Al LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. The Weakly News. Weather: Swell. SISSIETY PAGE. Mr. Artie Alixander had a berthday last week, reporting that he receeved a lot of stuff to wear but nothing use- ful, BIZZNESS AND FINANCIAL. Last Sattiday Shorty Judge and Glasses Magee bet each other a cent that their mother could make the best doughnutts, but when they each asked their mothr to decide the bet by mak- ing some they said thanks for the com- | pliment but they was too bizzy. TODAYS MENU. Suggested by Puds Simkins. Chinee chop sooey with English muf- | fins, French fry potatoes with Russian | dressing. Welsh rabbit with Chili | sauce, Alaskan seal with Spanish om- |lctte. Dizzert, lime drops, cawfl drops, {lickerish drops and lemon drops. | PERSONAL. | Maud Jonson is very attractive to germs and has had hooping cawfl twice fand everything elts once, including a {serious operation for a mole on her | chin SPORTING PAGE. Shorty Judge still has a paneful shin on account of saying Does your moth- er know youre out to a thin strange kid in a white sailer suit last Satti- day morning. LOST AND FOUND. “BONERS” Humorous Tid-Bits From School Papers. | Darwin spent a great many years at | sea studying all kinds of plants and animals. He was & German Scientist | and made his theory of evolution about 1915. Plot is what you thicken a story | with; description is used to fill up the holes. | The iron hand of the city Govern- ment has put its foot down. | Veterans' hospitals were built for the soldiers who had been decapitated in the war. Plymouth Colony was founded by the Puritans who_had been executed for | their religion in England. A martyr is something like a bach- | elor. (Copyright. 1932.) 1 Is a Well Baby Be- cause Well Cared For. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Susan Page was just a wee bit over 2 months old. She had slept most of her life away so far, but was beginning to show signs of becoming an indi- vidual. She cocked an eye at her Lrother Peter, kicked a fat leg when having her bath and blinked at the shaded light in_the nursery. Nancy and the doctor had checked ker carefully every two weeks. She had made normal gain in weight, about 4 pounds. She had weighed 8 pounds when born and now weighed almost 12. The doctor had advised Nancy to give her a spoonful of strained orange juice, starting in the sixth week. He suggested that the juice be made | lukewarm, since that was the tempera- ture of all the milk and water she had received thus far. He said that babies developed food dislikes occasionally because of the dif- ference in temperature between the nor- mal food and additional liquids given. Because she was a Winter baby, he advised the addition of a few drops of cod liver ofl daily. Nancy gave this while the baby was having her bath and thus avoided cod liver oil spots on | dresses, shirts or kimonos. Any stray drops were washed away in the water. | Susan was getting about eight drops lof oil a day. Nancy was careful to | | wipe off the neck of the bottle before | inserting stopper. This prevented the oil | isugxest that she, perhaps, lacks ex-|left on neck of bottle from getting ran- | cid. ry day, rain or shine, Susan slept | out of doors in her pram. She was put sleeping bag of wool, which was lown under covers in the car- he was just as warm as toast. > not been, Nancy would have ted the outdoor sleeping. A nild cannot be a healthy one. at all times immaculately and tastefully | gowned. reflect this natural disposition, show- ing clever arrangement of well selected furnishings. She should be very careful about her choice of occupation. Routine work might prove deadly to her, stifling her natural expression and giving no op- portunity for her to further her own ideas. Her seemingly fertile brain should be allowed every chance to func- boy of the little model family in a small fetching For the here's a tubbable It is The colla blue cotton broadcloth. 1d vestee front are French did combination that is p al > entirely navy simple to fash- comes in sizes 2, 4 4 requires 1'; yards > yard 35-inch ~con- kes up splendidly in wool cute in brown with beige 1 of this style send 15 or coin directly to The s New York Fashion 1ue and Twenty-ninth who dresses well of woman her children for your copy Magazine t styles of the com- dressed nd our Winter It shows t ing season in lingerie, pajam broidery for the You will save $10 b cents for this book you to send for yc Fashion Department. I cents. Price of patt and modern em- spending a few it would pay now. Address ice of book, 10 15 cents. DAILY DIET RECIPE BRCCTOLI SALAD. Broccoli, 4 portions; French dressing, 1 cup; tomato catsup, 2 tablespoons; table sauce, 1 tea- spoon. SERVES 4 PORTIONS. Left-over cold broccoli can be used. Soak the cooked broccoli in the salad dressing, which has been made by combining the other ingredients. Chill well. Serve arranged on individual salad plates garnished vith the dress- ing in which broccoli scaked. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes fiber, rich in lime, “iron, vitamins A and B. Can Be eaten by normal adults of average or under weight. Could be eaten by those wishing to re- duce_ if non-fattening: French dressing were used. / rming suggestions | tion in a way that should perhaps be- w glory and fame upon her. Note—Analysis of handuwriting is mot have your writing e to Miss Mocka- tar, along with a stamp. It will e either inter- in this column or vou will receire a_handwriting analysis chart which you will find an interesting study. Whole-Wheat Bread. Add one cake of crumbled compressed yeast to one pint of lukewarm water or milk which has been heated to scalding and then cooled to lukewarm. Stir until dissolved. Add two table- spoonfuls of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of shortening, one teaspoonful of salt, and about three cupfuls of bread flour to make a spoon batter. Beat smooth and cover. Let stand m a pan lined with whole wheat flour or about four cupfuls and mix until stiff but pliable and tender. Knead smooth and place in a greased bowl. Cover and store in a warm place until double in size. Knead again and make into a loaf. Place in a greased loaf pan and let rise again until double in size. Bake in a mod- erate oven for about 60 minutes. Re- move from the pan and brush with melted butter. This recipe makes one large loaf or two small loaves. If used for sandwiches, it is best if it is a day old On Winter days when little chills Send shivers up and down my form, I long to go to all these lands They, vemnan?m._. chopped nuts over the Her home, also, will probably | A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN, “Keep the Home Fires Burning.” “There was a fire on the hearth.”— | Jeremia 0i.22, | A pr offered some while ago by an English magazine for the best definition of “home,” and from the | thousands submitted, five were selected | as deser special mention. They were: “Home—a world of strife shut | out and a world of love shut in”;| “home—the place where the great are | small and the small are great”; “home —the place where we grumble the are treated the best”; “home place where the faults and failings of the sweet r ; “home— (the father's kingdom, the mother's | world, the children’s paradise.” ' | ., These definitions are very sugges- tive as tc at the home ought to be and ougt to be; and they might ed by American Teaders. object of the English magazine was to stimulate a revival of interest in the home and home life. We need something to stimulate such a revival in America. We hear from many quar- ters lamentations over the decline of the American home. In some instances these lamentat may picture the situation worse than it is; but I think we all realize that changing conditions usly affecting the home life Certainly there is great ing of the home, and nasis upon its place in | relation to our physical, social, educa- tional and spiritual life. n the past the home has been re- | garded as ml« very heart of our Ameri- | Zation as the Nation's chief hope. When Mr. | Henty W. Grady was 'seriously. con- | cerned about the reconstruction of the | South, in turn he went to the legisla- tive bodles of the State and Nation, | to the schools of the land and to the Sunday schools, looking for the safe- guard of the future. But he found 1t In Scuth Georgia, when he spent the night with a piney-woods farmer. Be- fore retiring the mother read from the family Bible, the sacred page illumi- nated by the flames of the pine knots on the open hearth. The father knelt and prayed for his family, calling each | of his five children by name, asking God to make his sons pure and manly, gfiflgn\égmefi rréodcst and womanly. | 3 r. Grady, Thiece 4 ady, is the hope of “There was a fire on the hearth.” Let us never permit that, fireew go out. Many things we may do to safeguard the future of our country, but the most importart thing of all 1s'to “Keep the Home Fires Burning " need for a rev for a new e Pineapple-Cabbage Salad. Shred some cabba pleces cut from broken Sees of P‘g‘e‘: apple drained from the juice and salad dressing. Serve on leaf Jettupe with top, . . 9 DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX EAR MISS DIX—My mother, 84 years old and very frail, fell and broke her hip, The first thing she said to the doctor was: “Don’t send for my son; he hunts all of Novembet and I don’t want to spoil his vacation.” When I heard about this, I thought there is nothing greater in this world than having a mother like that. She raises up the sort of sons who make men. The one plece of advice that I give my boys is this: Remember, it is up to you to give your chil- dren the right kind of mother.—A. P. B Answer—Right you are, Mr, A. P. B., and, considering that the most important thing in the world to every man who has children is the way they turn out, it is amazing how little thought and consideration men give to the kind of mother a girl will make. MMIEN know that as the mother is, the children are, ninety-nine_times IVI704t of a hundred, for in her hands lies the molding of their charac- ters. The behaviorists tell us that by the time a child is 3 years old its life pattern is set and that not a great deal can be done after that to change it. Certainly our own experience bears this out, for every one of us know that in the crisis of our lives we are not guided by our reason or our philosophy or by the logic of the situation. We are motivated by the things that we learned at our mother's knees and by the principles she instilled in us in our cradles. All through life we stand or fall according to whether she bred strength or weakness in us. We choose the right or the wrong as she taught us honor and honesty or lax principles. We are masters of our passions, or we yield to them, as she formed in us the habit of self-control or self-indulgence. We are industrious or loafers. We shut our teeth and carry on or throw up our hands and quit when the sledding becomes hard, according to whether she gave us the grit to enable us to stand punish- ment or the yellow streak that makes us slackers, IT 1S significant that every great man has had a great mother, a mother of fine mentality. of strong character and of indomitable will. I can- not now recall a single man who has ever made his mark in the world who had a weak, silly, frivolous mother, Doubtless children inherit no more from their mothers than they do from their fathers, but it is far more important what kind of mother they have than what kind of father they have. For their mothers are with them far more in their plastic years than their fathers are, and it is the mother who lights the fires of ambition in their souls, who inspires them to do and dare. It is the mother who keeps them cheered up when their hope fails, who braces up their weak spine with her own backbone and whose ambitions for them and belief in them actually forces them to make good. All men know these things, but, strangely enough, when a man picks out a wife he doesn’t consider whether he is bringing a blessing or a curse down on his children’s heads. He selects a wife because she is pretty, because she somehow makes an appeal to him, because she is a ood dancer or a good cook or a good talker, but he doesn't consider what Sort of inheritance she is going to give his children, what sort of brains is going to bestow upon them or what sort of prinicples she is going to teach them. He doesn’t consider what qualifications she has for motherhood, yet that is the most important thing he could consider. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyrignt. 1932.) JANUARY MODES OF THE MOMENT — e e — ponk a pmant color Contrast. > 3‘ u(fg!, 4 ,:@l,”’uu,l’;[ / Pecan Cake. Quick Turnip Soup. | $100 Beat one cupful of cream very stiff | and spread one-fourth of an inch thick on each cooky. Stack the cookies to- gether and lay on the platter. Let| chill in the refrigerator for 24 hours Four hours before serving, whip the other cupful of cream. flavor with half a teaspoonful of almond extract and use to form the entire loaf. Chill again in the refrigerator. Cut into diagonal slices acrcss the loaf and serve with fruit sherbet. Heat one quart of milk in a double boiler with one onion cut in halves, add one tablespoonful of flour and two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, which have been well blended, then two cup- fuls of grated raw turnip and one ea- spoonful of salt. Cook until the tur- nip is tender, or for about 10 minutes, then remove the onion. Sprinkle some chopped parsley over the soup just be- fore serving. Auto Show Contest PUZZLE NO. 8. The radiator design furnishes the key to the name of a make of automobile. you need to form the required name. Name of car. it has been looked to gtudy it from the proper angle and you will discover that it has the -letters Above is the eighth puzzle in the contest now being conducted by the ‘Washington Automotive Trade Association in co-operation with The Star. Bolve it and fill in the correct name of the automobile in the line provided under the drawing. Keep them until the other 17 appear. When you have satisfled your- Self that you have the correct answers mail them in all together with a reason, Tot to exceed 25 words, “Why the automobile show should be held annually in Washington,” to the Washington Automotive Trade Assoclation, suite 1002 Chandler Building, 1427 I street. No reply received after 10 am. Tuesday, Feb- ruary 2, will be considered. Remember, Jjudges are spectively, ‘Howard, automobile editor of The Star. the first prize is $50 and six tickets to the show. in cash will be awarded and 100 tickets. You may be the lucky one. The Fred L. Haller and Joe B. Trew. president and vice president, re- of the Washingtcn Automotive Trade Association, and G. Adams Altogether Following 1s the list of cars to be in the show. One of these is the correct answer to today’s puzzle. Auburn Buick Cadillac Chevrolet Chrysler Cord De Soto Dodge Essex Tt is not necessal contest. Answers to ail solutions may Files of at nigbty Ford Lincoln Hudson Hupmobile La Salle Marmon The Star may be examined at any time during the day and up to 1 Nash Oldsmobile Packard Pierce-Arrow Plymouth Pontiac Studebaker Willys. ry to purchase copies of this paper to compete in the be written on ordinary writing ug% *| sation 16, 1932. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. | Don't you tell me not to cryl (Copyright, 1932.) NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. THE COTTON PLANT. Nlustrations by Mary Foley. HE Egyptians traded with India for cotton about 150 B.C. There must have been trouble about the cotton, even in those days, and in India there was a law concerning it in 800 B.C. In the Bible and many writings there are nu- merous references to cotton and also to fine raiment made of the cotton. After the Civil War, when our cot- ton flelds were laid bare, cotton was bought from Egypt and from that time on the exporting of cotton became very important to Egypt. In 1666 the first report was made about cotton by the American Colonies. Mexicans have long known the value of it as an in- dustry. In 1793 El Whitney invented the cotton gin and from that time on cot- ton was placed on a profitable basis. Many slaves were used to plant and gather the crop and soon the bare flelds were snowy white “’'way down South in the land of cotton.” Today, as you go through the South, you can still hear the song of the pickers. And the great bales in the flelds are seen as you ride through the cotton belt. The plant has a taproot which reaches deep into the soil for moisture, cotton | OR =4 a3 ’m%_ N the branches spread and are irregular, the bark is reddish brown and the wood white. The leaves are alternate with long stalk stems (petioles) and the upper ones are deeply cut, having from three to nine lobes. A most un- usual thing about the cotton leaves is that they have tiny pits along the ribs and these are nectar glands. At first it was thought that the nectar was for bees, ants and wasps, which, in return for the delectable drin would consume or take away the d mined little_caterpillars or the boll- vil eggs. This has not proven true, The plants as buds are rolled tight like an umbrella, When they open up they have five large petals. They time their debut for the early morning, dressed in creamy white or pale yel- low, with a purplish base. By noon they have changed to a dainty pink, the next day a deep purplish red. The nectar glands are at the base of the calyx and only the long-tongued bees, butterflies and moths can thrust their suctionlike tubes between the bases to reach the sweet. When the blossoms are two days old they drop. The_young cotton bolls are covered with fringed bracts, which remain at- tached to the ripened pod. The boll becomes long, oval-shaped and pointed, | a pretty green on the outside covered !with tiny pin-point pits. From the, tips of the boll are five creases and | this indicates where the boll will open. The seeds are fastened by their points| to the edge of the inner partition and are wrapped in the young cotton, which | is now a soft, stringy mass. When the boll opens the cotton puffs out: it is very fluffy, easily torn from the boll and scattered by the wind. The boll, when ripe, is brown and shriveled on the_outside. The boll weevil is the only insect to have a monument erected in his honor and yet be alive to enjoy the distinc- tion.~ The whole crop was totally de- stroyed by the boll weevil and the farmers got together and grew another type of crop, which was so abundant that they were delighted. The bills were paid and a fitting reminder was erected to commemorate the event. (Copyright, 1832.) Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Adjustment. What does adjustment mean? In ! the first place it means the abllity to sense—i. e, to see, hear, feel, taste and smell what is going on. This in psychological terms is called sensation. It's the first big component of the world of mind. The next big step is the development of ways and means for conserving sen- for future use. Psychologists call this memory. Just how memory may be accounted for is something of & problem yet. But memory is a fact; at least it is & logical name for something | that gets resuits. ) The third and most important step in the scheme of making adjustments came in when living things began to work their memories over into new forms, when they began to prepare for situations before they appeared. Psy-| chologists call this creative ability imagination. Sensation, memory and imagination. These are the three big things in the world of mind. Man, it appears, has made more progress in this respect than any other living thing, although there are some scientists who hold that man can still go to the ant and the bee for valuable instruction in the art of “ad- Justing.” (Copyright, 1932.) Préssedi Cheese SEd. To one cupful of grated cheese add half a cupful of chopped nuts, half a cupful of chopped pimento, half a cupful of chopped ripe olives, half a cupful of seedless raisins which have een washed, drained, and cut, one- gounh teaspoonful each of salt and paprika, and a dash of Tabasco sauce. To the above add half a cupful of cream and’ two tablespoonfuls of may- onnaise. If the cheese is dry, more cream will be required. If desired, more cheese and lecs of the other in- gredients may be used. Press into individual molds, or into an ice box cooky mold. Chill for two hours in the refrigerator, then un- mold, or slip out of the cooky mold, and slice. On & bed of lettuce, place some sliced tomatoes, with a slice of pressed cheese on each, then a rosette of may- forced through & pastry tube. = FEATURES. Treatment of Woolen Dresses BY MARY MARSHALL. HE housewife who makes out her menus and plans her work ahead of time always manages to have more time to herself than the one who worries along in a sort of hand-to-mouth fashion— never having much of an idea of what she is going to do until the time comes to do it. And so any woman—whether she stays at home or goes to work in an office—always manages to look a lot better dressed if she has a well-formed plan of what she is going to wear made out some time in advance. It's a very good plan to take tinfe once a week to see that you have things enough in good condition to last for the next six or seven days. If you are a busy business woman, you will prob- ably find it most convenient to do this | some time between Saturday closing time and Monday morning. See that you are prepared for vari- | ous sorts of weather. See that you have clean blouses to wear with your suit, a silk dress in spotless condition | to wear under your coat on a day that is not very cold and a wool dress look- ing as fresh as the day it was brand- new to wear if the day is very cold. It ought not to be too difficult to keeF your woolen dresses in ship-shape as long as the Winter lasts. There are so many good cleaning liquids that you may use to take out chance spots, and pressing a dress with a hot iron over a damp cloth takes only a short time. And then to add that final touch of freshness be sure that you have enough collars and cuffs or simple accessory collars to make it possible to wear a fresh one every day or two. If you have a woolen dress that lacks such accessories, by all means make some. The shops are full of charming collars either with or without cuffs made from lace, washable satin, silk or cotton pique or all-over embroidery. BEDTIME STORIES Yowler Takes a Chance. He foolish is who doth refuse To take a chance with naught to lose. —Yowler the Bobcat. Yowler the Bobcat was desperate. Yes, sir, he was desperate. The deep snow had made hunting as hard for him as for Reddy Fox. It had made it even harder, for Reddy could hunt Mice on the Green Meadows and prowl along the Big River for what he might pick up there, while Yowler did not dare leave the Green Forest and the Old Pasture. As long as the snow remained soft he could do no hunting. He simply had to remain at home and grow hun- grier and hungrier. At last there was a crust that would bear his weight, and by day as well as night Yowler stole softly like living shadow through the Green Forest and among the bushes of the Old Pasture, thankful for a careless Mouse now and then, but still with a gnawing hunger making him more and more desperate. Several times he stole over to the yard of Lightfoot the Deer, and hidden under snow-weighted hemlock boughs, with fierce, hungry eyes, watched Light- foot and Mrs. Lightfoot, and thought what a splendid feast one of them would make for him, and wished they MENU FOR A DAY, BREAKFAST. Grapefruit. Wheat_Cereal Withr Cream. Pried_Scrapple. Hot Corn Cake. Coflee. DINNER. Vegetable Soup. Roast Beef, Brown Gravy. Celery. Pickled Watermelon Rind. Creamed Caulifiower. Mashed Potatoes. Deep Dish Apple Pudding, Cheese. Coffee. SUPPER. Chicken Salad. Potato Chips. Baking Powder Biscuits. Ribbon Cake. Tea. FRIED SCRAPPLE. Cook one pound fresh pork un- til it drops from the bone. Pick the meat to pieces and strain the liquor, of which there should be a pint. Put the liquor and meat on to boil and thicken with In- dian meal until it will harden enough when cold to cut and fry in slices. Season the liquor with pepper and salt. APPLE PUDDING. Two cupfuls flour, half teaspoon- ful salt, two-thirds cupful lard, three tablespoonfuls cold water. Mix the flour and salt. Cut in the lard with knife, mixing with knife, slowly adding the cold water. When stiff dough forms break off two-thirds of it and fit into a deep ple dish or baking dish. Add apple mixture. Roll out remaining dough and fit over top. Prick with fork. Bake 30 minutes. Apple mixture—Three cupfuls sliced apples, one cupful water, one cupful sugar, two tablespoon- fuls flour, two tablespoonfuls butter, one teaspoonful salt. Mix the apples and water. Cover and cook flve minutes. Blend the sugar and flour. Add to apple mixture and cook one minute. Add rest of ingredients. Cool and place in dough case. (Copyright, 1932.) | Today's sketch shows one that you | will have no trouble in copying. It is a bias band of material about 2 inches wide that goes around the neck. One end spreads out into a decorative little tab that is pulled through a slit at the front of the dress. By Thornton W. Burgess. | were not so big. But each time he stole away as softly and stealthily as he had come. | "Now, Yowler the Bobcat is naturally a coward. He can fight and will fight when cornered, but he is sneak rather | than bold, and he seldom attacks any one who can put up a fight. So it was | not until he became desperate that he | even serlously_thought of attacking the Lightfoots. However, the time came ! when he made up his mind to take the | chance. “I have nothing to lose and a lot to | gain,” thought he. “I can always get away if I don’t succeed, and if I do suc- ceed I won't go hungry for a long time. | It is worth the chance, especially now that Lightfoot has lost his antlers.” So Yowler hid close by the yard of Lightfoot the Deer and watched and | waited until at last Mrs. Lightfoot came along alone. Lightfoot was nowhere in | sight. This was as Yowlee wanted it. | Watching his chance he_made a swift | leap for the shoulders of Mrs. Lightfoot. LIGHTFOOT WAS NOWHERE IN SIGHT. From there he could get at her throat. At the same instant Mrs. Lightfoot plunged forward. Perhaps she had heard some faint sound, or perhaps her keen nose had caught the scent of Yowler. The result was that Yowler landed far back. He dug his claws in to hold on as Mrs. Lightfoot, with a sharp whistle of fright, plunged this way and that. ‘There was an answering whistle and Lightfoot came plunging along one of the paths, his usually soft eyes blazing with anger. There was nothing timid in the appearance of lightfoot then, even if he did not have his antlers, Yowler lost his hold and dropped to the path and in an instant Lightfoot reared | and brought his sharp hoofs down. It was only a glancing blow, but it hurt. Yes, sir, it hurt. With a snarl of rage and pain Yowler turned to face Light- foot, ears laid back, short tail twitching, | teeth showing between lips drawn back, | his feet gathered under him for a spring | at Lightfoot's throat. Even as he jumped Lightfoot reared and struck, and again it hurt. Mean- while Mrs, Lightfoot came charging from the other direction. Two against one were odds he couldn’t face, and with a yell of rage and disappointment Yowler sprang out of the path, up on the crust and slunk away. Lightfoot made two plunges after him, but realiz- ing his helplessness in the deep snow, stopped, snorting and whistling, the hair on his back and neck standing erect, and his big eyes still blazing with anger. Yowler continued to slink away. Later he caught a Rabbit and this made him feel better. “If I hadn’t been almost crazy with hunger I would have known better than to take that chance” he muttered. “My, but those hoofs of Lightfoot's are sharp!” He licked the wounds made by those hoofs. Then he grinned rather sheepishly. “I hope,” thought he, “that no one saw me make | that mistake,” | (Copyright, 1932.) SCREEN ODDITIES BY CAPT. ROSCOE FAUCETT. "KA'“- pfilCE Lupe VELEZ HAS ENOUGH CLOTHES TO DRESS DIFFERENTLY, FROM HEAD TO FOOT, EVERY DAY FOR THREE MONTRS. A HORSE FELL OM HIM BROKE HIS LEG. » CHARACTER ACTRESS, WAS SERVED CORNED BEEF AND CABBAGE TWENTY TIMES INTWO HOURS WHILE WORKING IN A PICTURE . Copyright, 1 DID YOU RVING RECEIVES OUT IN A THALBERG, FILM EXECUTIVE 10,000 WEEKLY, STAS 1O AS A TWENTY- DOLLAR - A-WEEK STENOGRAPHER?. b