Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1932, Page 40

MAGAZINE PAGE. UNCLE RAY’S CORNER Interesting Trees. IV—Sequoias. ALIFORNIA and Southern Ore- gon are the homes of some of the world's largest trees. I am thinking of the sequoias, which reach heights nothing Jess than amazing. One kind of sequoia is known as the #big tree,” another as the “redwood.” In the King's River grove there 4s a big tree 276 feet high. An- other tree, in the Caleveras grove, es 325 feet above the ground. v s | ages ago—trees of this type grew in| | many part of North America; but now | THE EVEN ING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. thickness of the trunk. The meas- uring is dene at the base of the tree. Higher up the trunk is not so wide, but it is wide enough. I have before me as I write a photograph of & Im{ge 3\115, lgad:: with passengers passing roug! opening cut in the trunk of & dead uoia. se%. W. Elam, a forest engineer, tells of measuring a tree 308 feet high (as tall as a 25-story building). This tree has bark 11 inches thick. Careful study and figuring indicate that this tree contains_enough lumber to build 22_six-room houses! Big trees and redwoods grow in high places, usually a mile or more above sea level. Once upon a time—vast they are limited to California and| Oregon. | What stories these trees might tell| if they had brains and could speak! Some of those living today are believed to be more than 3,000 years old. They were growing when Rome was started as a little village. The winds were blowing through their branches when the Norsemen and Columbus were making their famous voyages A&cross the Atlantic. The big trees were not near the the scenes where those events of his- tory took place; but it is quite pos- sible that they were alive when tribes | | from Asla came to the Pacific coast. (This story may be placed in “Nature” section of your scrapbook).| UNCLE RAY. GIANT SEQUOIA TREES. FIND THE MEN ON HORSEBACK. | | Perhaps the tallest sequoia is dead, but it is still standing. Its height is 365 feol Uncle Ray's new FUNMAKER leaflet is ready. Magic and fun galore in it. It is a second sur- prise leaflet. Write Uncle Ray and ask for it. Be sure to en- close a stamped return envelepe. ness of the trunks of big trees is just as amazing as the height. | One of them—known as the Gen. Sherman tree—has a trunk 37 feet 4 inches wide. Another—the Gen. Grant tree—measures 40 feet in (Copyright, 1932.) GOOD TASTE TODAY BY EMILY POST, Famous Authority on Etiquette. ACATION time must be getting|you ring the bell inside your berth and near, because every day thereare | ask the porter for the stepladder. many letters, similar to this one,| On a long journey the dressing room in my mail: Dear Miss Post: |is somewhat more available as people | I am soon to spend my first|get up at different hours, but when a night on a train. Please tell me what a | train arrives in the early morning it| sleeping car will be like, so T will know | is best to bathe &nd redress at the something of V\'l\lal to expect. R hotel. Answer: Whether you have a drawing : . room, & section or & berth, you ring for | Dear h{"s' Post: }\{y lmother doesn’t the porter to make ’u:\nt to let me travel alone this Sum- ‘up your berth when | mer to visit relatives in the West. She SRl says I am too young (I am 16) and my e e father says I'am old enough to take IF A " arawing care of myself. Please, Mrs. Post, tell inve ! 2 us what they think, because my mother will very likely listen to you. Answer: In America the youngest girl can go across all our thousands L without the slightest risk, s dignified and r d. I am it for granted that you are L liant and not likely to take traveling strangers into your confidence. In fact, you would better be very chary | of making acquaintances, and do not tell any one anything about yourself | If you need advice, ask the conductor or go to the information desk ,at a station. Do not on any account al- low the kindness of any one to per- suade you to go anywhere with them. (Copyright, 1932.) SCREEN ODDITIES BY CAPT. ROSCOE FAWCETT. WALTER BYRON'S BROKEN NOSE CHANGED WS APPEARANCE SO MARKEDLY THAT HE WAS SWITCHED FROM STRAIGHT ROLES TO VILLAIN TYPES. BARBARA STANWYCK LEARNS HER LINES BY WRITING THEM OVER AND OVER and go to bed however, you have upper first finish night in the sing roor you won'c get down aga and then ask the porter to bring you a stepladder. In mommgh}'ou dress as much as you can in your berth, Eally Fat because there is no privacy in the dres- | sing room, and very little space, then JEAN HERSHOLT > 1S A LEADING STAMP COLLECTOR AND HAS WRITTEN THREE AUTHORITATIVE BOOKS O THE SUBJECT - Walter Byron's real name is Butler and he came from a theatrical family well known on the London stage. A recent automobile accident was responsi- ble for the broken nose which re ted in his change in screen characterizations. A new screen for motion picture theaters has been perfected and is expected to revolutionize the projection of films. It is 31 feet by 43 feet in dimension and | and is said to be the largest in the world. A close-up on this screen will measure 30 fect from the chin to the top of the head. | When Pola Negri entered American fiims following the success of her foreign- made picture, “Passion.” producers insured her for $1,000.000 against matrimony. Endeavoring to ish her as an exotic siren, the studio executives felt she would lose much of her appeal should she marry and the insurance was obtained &s a protection for their investment in her. Do You Know That Lewis Stone has an overcoat and shoes to match for every change of style since 18992 | Ramon Novarro once worked in a grocery store for $4 per week? | Russell Gleason, who dislikes vegetables, takes two vegetable tablets be!orpl each meal? LOUISE: I check up on my soaps’ these days—see this list? | the same time. | kitchen. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. I hope poor Tommy don't feel too bad, seein’ me habin’ all this fun gettin® boxes t' build a clubhouse out ob. (Copyright, 1932.) NANCY PAGE BY FIORENCE LA GANKE. Clarissa was one of the modern wives who works and keeps house at Fortunately her hus- band was an understanding soul who helped set table, was not averse to carrying & parcel or two home and best of all was appreciative of the double job his wife was carrying. She tried to plan meals for a week in advance, always allowing for emergencies such as an unexpected guest or a dinner down town. Pad and pencil were handy in the She trained herself to list needed foods as soon as she emptied | a container or took down the last can of its kind. Armed with this list when she gave her weekly order she was less apt to forget that the match- es were all gone or that the sugar sack had been emptied. On her day home she usually cooked a roast and at least two vegetables. She washed enough lettuce for three days' salads and put it back in the vegetable pan in her mechanical refrigerator. She seldom baked cake, cookies or pastry, feeling that it was better to buy these as needed than it was to crowd their making into a day aiready vg she had just reached topped to get some 1en a telephone call and told her he was & home in just about from her | bringing a red cold sliced roast A SUGAR SHELF! Embark for Atlantie City! AND an ocean voyage on land. As you lie on the Ocean Deck at Chalfonte-Hazddon Hall, watching the sun play on the bril “miles out.” ., . Yet behind you are many lee comforts. Con- An un- nt ocean, you might be certs. Game rooms. usual cuisine. A cordial hospi- tality. Come for the week-end. Ride. Golf. Play squash. Rates are reasonable. Write or phone 4-0141. Special week-end rail- road tickets arailable. American and European Plans CHALFONTE- HADDON HALL ATLANTIC CITY Leeds and Lippincott Company NELL: My, it looks long—what is it? LOUISE: 570 pieces—lingerie and stockings and fine things— washed with 1 box of LUX!: LUX goes further than any other soap I ever used and it keeps my underthings and stockings new ever so much longer. Here’s my list: 48 pairs silk stockings 84 tea napkins 36 luncheon napkins 18 large chiffon handkerchiefs 84 pairs children’s socks 48 pairs men’s socks 18 chemises 12 step-ins 18 nightgowns 60 white handkerchiefs 84 suits children’s underwear 60 men’s handkerchiefs DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX EAR MISS DIX—Is there a human being who is absolutely self- sufficient? Is there a man or woman who is independent of every one in eve way? Makes his or her own living, depe: only upon if for recreation and society. Feels no need of com- panionship and has no desire for 3 Has s self-sufficlent person any understanding of others? Is such a one capable of any deep feeling? RUBBLES. Answer: 1s no such thing as s self-sufficient person, because no man lives unto himself alone. We are dependent upon others for our physical well being, for our prosperity, for our happiness, for our diversion. wx are dependent upon those who buy our wares or pay us for our serv- ices for the money on which we live. We are dependent on the cooks who prepare our food, the chambermaids who keep our houses clean, the tailors and dressmakers and factories that make our clothes. We are dependent upon the people who make motor cars and run theaters and organize sports for our amusements that make life gay and enter- taining. Left entirely to ourselves we would be poor, miserable creatures wandering around dinked out in a few fig leaves and gnawing on a few roots and bloody bones. ' And we are just as dependent on other people for all our happiness. We have to have others to share our joys and sorrows. Half the pleasure of taking a trip is to be with congenial people and to be able to talk over the adventures with them. Nothing so dreary a§ even the finest house if the rooms are empty and there is no footfall in it except your own. ‘What's the good of thinking up a wisecrack if there is no one to tell it to? How flat a triumph if no one knows but yourself that you have pulled off & good thing and there is no one to praise you? STRANGI.'LY enough, no matter how conceited we are nor how much ‘we admire ourselves, we find ourselves dull company. We have to have somebody else to stimulate our minds to do their best work, some other wits to sharpen our own wit against. JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English. BY JOS. J. FRISCH. AS WE PROCEEDED ACROSS THE LAKE IN TOM'S YACHT AT THE RATE OF SIX KNOTS AN HOUR, 1IDA KLAIRE RETTING ON BOAI T. C. A—"At the rate of six knots,” or “at & six-knot speed,” is the cor- rect form, not “at the rate of six knots ," in this sense, of nautical miles an “an hour” are super- to ships, means “a speed hour,” the words This necessity for companionship is so great that the worst punish- ment that can be inflicted upon a criminal is to put him in solitary confinement. And ncbdy can live happily without love. The love of family, the love of brothers and sisters, the love of friends, the love of a husband or wife. No matter what else a man or woman haveslacking love they are miserable. THERE are egotists who think that they are self-sufficient, but they are mistaken. Even in their days of prosperity their self-complacency would collapse like a pricked balloon if there was nobody to admire them, nobody to applaud them. But it is when the days of trouble come that we realize how de- pendent we are one upon the other. Then it is we turn to others like fright- ened children in the dark, clinging together for help, for pity, for comfort. ‘Then it is we want to reach cut and touch a friendly hand and to know that we do not Weep alone and that our grief is shared by those who love us. Of all idle boasts the silllest is that one is self-sufficlent. Why, he would bore himself to death in a week if he had no other companionship, DOROTHY DIX. 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She opened a can of soup, 8 can of peas and one of pineapple. She hard- cooked three eggs. These she added to the lettuce salad, making it an egg salad. ' after the company was gone. TS NEW! ITS GLORIOUS | Grand new coreal! WOMEN’S FE ATIIRES. BY DR. JESSE As we grow older, we seem to change | old fears for new. The fears of chlld-] hood are -zparmtly different from those of lescence, maturity. and | senescence. As we grow older. we pro- gressively suffer less from fears. At least we should suffer less. OM age should find you conqueror of your fears. If not, you may put it down that you have failed to develop the proper philosophy of life. Children fegr supernatural powers mostly. ‘The fear of death and ever- | lasting punishment has ruined many a nervous system in the making. Chil- dren also suffer intensely from fear of pain and ridicule. If you want to ruin a child's outlook upon lLfe, poin him mineral salts. S — EVERYDAY PSYCHOLOGY W. SPROWLS. out as an object of ridicule. The is laid for an inferiority complex he may never overcome. Along about the 40's most people begjn to fear the pressure of public opinion. There is a monster called “they” that seems to be peering at them from every angle. That's why men who hold important social positions so often mistake slight things for enor- mous bugaboos. A different philosophy would save many a stampede. ‘There is one fear. however, that out- lasts all others. That is the fear of death. It is called thanataphobia. A few very cld persons have been known to acquire the philcsophy that con- quers it. PHILLIPS Delicious vegetables and soups are grown on the Eastern Shore of Maryl the hot suns add flavor and the rich soils add healthful land, where Tender, delicately flavored, savory, Phillips Delicio 3 Y us vasex'tble- show what sun ripening, urdfll seasoding and instant packing can do. Prepared in more than twenty varieties, they offer many excellent combina- tions for luncheon and dinner. 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Grape-Nuts Flakes, like Grape-Nuts, provides many essential food elements. A single dish, served with whole milk or cream, supplies more varied nourishment than many a hearty meal! Get the big, red, white and blue package from your grocer. Grape-Nuts Flakes, like Grape-Nuts, is a product of General Foods Corporation. Keep Both Grape-Nuts and Grape-Nuts Flakes on your pantry shelf Enjoy the Grape-Nuts flavor in this new FLAKES form. And keep on enjoying it in the familiar, nut-like kernels of GRAPE-NUTS itself—the crisp kernels so beneficial to teeth and gums. GRAPE-NUTS FLAKES GEE, MOM, LET'S HAVE THIS ALL THE TIME!