Evening Star Newspaper, July 22, 1932, Page 22

MAGAZINE PAGE. Equilibrium in BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. HE smooth running of family household affairs is s orisingly influenced by the manner in which members arrange their personal belongirgs. 1f _one member has constantly to be searching through the things of another in order to find what she wants, tempers will get ruffied. It may be the fauit of the one whose article is lost. She may have ANOTHER MEM- HOLD. leit it be the to carelessly Or it may in the wrong place. It of the person with her things : place. But the things ions follow g is. Often olved in such exists for o ot somehow and are mixed 1 some way Discuss! so that rooms two persons at the atte h f bath hours ) ocean nd amicably ar vance. To find some or bath at just the time ¥ planning to do the same thing, and ITY pro atin This trouble can be cut out by co-operation of the members of a family. It may seem like an in- 1 t thing, but it isn't evening's pleasure can be m hasty ! during th hour, prior to what was time When housing quarters are limited and rooms and appointments have to be dressing to be a joll the Household shared, the imperative necessity of care- | ful divisions of spaces in closets, of ap- | portionment of bureau drawers, desk space. etc., should be recognized. With- out an equitable division, dissatisfac- | tion results, and this is the keynote to disputes and heartaches. | In families where love is deeply rooted | 1ittle annoyances over material things | | are often the cause for most of the| | angry words spoken or discordant atti- | tudes that exist, even momentarily. And in families where natures are so widely different that it takes but small | things to stir up trouble, material things | | can be mountains of hostility. Without | rminimmng the importance of material things in the attitude of members of | |a family toward each other, it is well |to “remember * that annoyances fre-| quently center about them. | | " “Harsh words, spoken at such times | | of difference, are aimed as much at the articles as at the persons. They are| | angry at thines rather than the people | whom they really love. It is worth a| | great deal to eliminate sources and oc- | | casions of trouble. Careful attention to material things and to well kept | schedules have their part in preserving | family happiness. | (Copyright, THAT BODY | 1932) BY JAMES W. BARTON, M. D. Your Body Needs Lime. HEN you think of the solid bones of the bedy, how they suppert your entire weight, and give attachment to the muscles, it may never occur to you that, although they look so hard and solid, nevertheless they contain 99 per cent of the lime in the body and | they are giving up lime to the body all | the time. | I have often | spoken about lime | and its great value in helping to build | up the eells of the [ body, how it helps |to ward off in: tion. increases the healing_ power of |the tissues and | helps coagulate the blood. | As far mineral the bodv cerned, lime stands first. Thus ¥ health depends 2 great extent upon getting a sufficient amount of lime into the body every day It is just here that these hard. solid bones are so helpful. Should you be without the foods containing lime for e the bones will give up some ime and thus prevent the body g or Becoming ~run down." house for lime and the blood can go there for its supply when the need arises. Where the individual is without foods containing lime for a long time, so much lime can be withdrawn from'the bones, especiallv the teeth, that serious results may follow. Lime is found in many of the every- day foods we eat, but, unfortunately, there is a fondness with a great many people for foods poor in lime, such as cereals, fish, root vegetables and meats. These are good foods and all of them necessary foods. but other foods are richer in lime and must be eaten. As you have been taught now for many vears, milk is very rich in lime ard vou can readily sce how important it is that_young children and growing children should drink a pint or a quart of milk daily. Hence, during the war | | as the needs of are con- Dr. Barton GOOD TASTE TODAY ‘ BY EMILY POST. Famous Authority on Etiquette. Miscellaneous. Y Dear Mrs. Post: In to- day's column you give the suffix ‘younger' as proper for a woman. I am won- dering when such a dis- tinguishing mark can be necessary? Since daughter is Miss Mary Jon as vou have more than once expl good taste exacts that the mother be Mrs. John Jones. Even if she were a professional _ and therefore allowed the taboo of Mrs prefix to her own name, she would be Mrs. Mary Jones—so why the ‘younge! i Answer: One actual case is that of niece an maiden_aunt. be Miss Virgi Jones, both I in the same lage. Another case would be that of mother daughter authors ers, neith whom uses title on the title pages of books or in signing pictures—or that Mme. Jenny ; h or Emily Post. . Lind. and so on “De Post 1rs ‘We. my husband aining a group of e, and would at a dance in rere both ad- ickets are charged. for my husband to ing some to each tickets ould it be prop floor ¢ we supply? admittance ticke! y? As it ary visitors to use their cars, uld we supply fuel, and CREEN ODDITIES BY CAPT. ROSCOE FAWCETT. IS NEVER PERMITTED TO Kantore SPEAKS CHINESE. HE LEARNED THE INTRICATE TONGUE WHILE GROWING COTTON WAS TRANS— PLANTED IN A HOLLYWOOD STUDIO R * THE CABIN IN THE COTTON" STUDYING FOR A CONSULAR POST. TO( 'En .:--au--.l-u , in what manner should we offer Answer: Since the young people are your guests, your husband should supply each boy with enough tickets | to dance throughout the evening. It s not necessary. nor even to be thought of, that vou supply gasoline. Question: “On what occasions should a woman 25 years old rise when in- troductions are being made?” Answer: When introduced to a lady who is standing near, and who offers her hand. If the introduction is made at a distance, she would not rise ex- cept perhaps for a_guest of honor who is elderly, and whom she should go forward to greet (Cep like a I and ght, 1932 eafler the Li sen amped, ressed nvelope with vo reques to Mrs. Post, care of this pape { G e o | Baking Powder Biscuits. | Two cups flour, three teaspoons bak- ing powder, four tablespoons fat, one- half to three-fourths cup milk or water, three-fourths teaspoon salt. Mix and sift the dry ingredients and rub in the fat. Add liquid to make a soft dough. Roll one inch thick. Cut into rounds and bake 10 to 12 minutes in a hot oven, 450 degrees Fahrenheit. | -— | Baked Pea Pnre;. [ One and one-half cups milk, one sliced onicn, one and one-half cups bread crumbs, one and one-half cups peas rubbed through a sieve, salt and | pepper. one egg slightly beaten. Scald the milk, add the onion, bread crumbs, peas and egg: season to taste. Bake in | a greased baking dish or small molds i a moderate oven, 350 degrees Fahr- enheit, until firm (about 20 minutes). 7-22 | family are exchanging an old garment | private chair, and I said, Hay pop, do | be a good present for a lady, I said. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, T SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Nuffin’ to this sprinklin’ job if a fel- ler uses his head (Copyright, 1932.) OF YOURS all the nations did their best to see that an adequate supply of milk was avail- able for children and mothers. However, ycu may not like milk or | vou'd like ‘a change from it. Can you | get lime in other foods besides milk? Yes, lime is found in cheese, vegetables, especially leafy vegetables, and egg yolk. Lime is sometimes given in its natural forms—the lactate in_half-teaspoonful doses and the gluconate in teaspoonful doses—before meals or four hours after meals. (Copyright, 1932) NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. ROCK CRAB. (Cancer Irronatus.) EEPING from rock crevic beneath sand cr gravel low pools, thousénds of th crabs spend their time. On rocky and sandy shores of the | New England Coast they are a fam sight to many children. Being pug nacious fighters they are well known from Labrador to South Carolina. and ¢ in ecvidence between t | are yellowish. thickly sprir with brown' spots. The eyes. short stalks, peer at you from deep cirer holes. Small teeth are set be- tween the es and T blunt ones on each side of the edge cf shell are easily Bing a crawling crab, his claws are sharp and powerful. The swir crabs, as you know, have efficient p dles on their front ciaws. They are as in s een D. C., FRIDAY, — SYNOPSIS FOR PRECEDING INSTALL- MENTX, Antoinette Brookes, Tony to family and friends. was 18 vears old when her father and mother. were killed in an automobile ac- Cident ‘in’ Centerville, her home town. ° She had intended to g0 to_ art school. but her down to $12 when she got & Simone’s dress shop in New as so frank in advising women d not wear that she lost im- Their fallure to ged Lee and she became & taxi” dancer at El Tango, where she met Adam Leonard. whom she called Uncle Lenny. He was a kindly logking man between 50 nd 60. He loaded Lee with bags of deli- catessen food and she and Tony broke their semi-fast. While Lee was dancing one night, Tom St a voung engineer, went to Mrs. Higgins' to see ser. Tony could not receive him there and they talked as they walked. Tony was thrilled merely to be with Tom. After Tony got a job at the Modern Art Galleries. Lee insisted that she go out for ke evening with Uncle Lenny and &n out-of-town friend of his, Donald Kemp. As they were leaving a night club. Leonard's wife discovered them and made a scene that Lee might keep an engagement with Tom. Tony finally agreed to take her place for night at El Tango. A private detectt ile dancing with her. questioned her about Leonard. When Tony returned home Lee told her she had wired Kémp. who was a lawver, to come and handle the Leonard tangle. Lee and INSTALLMENT VIIL 'LL get supper,” said Tony, whisk- ing into a smock. “You'll get freshened up and ready to answer the bell w'a Tom Stewart calls.” ged on her stockings. “I've got to get back to the dance mill and I don’t want to leave Tom dangling. I've told him I'd be busy tonight with some work and 4 determined to keep out of sight as the rock crab is unconcerned whether you see him or not. Few rock crabs find | their way to the markets, although they are just as edible as the blue ones The mother trusts not her fami the sand, rocks or her te. She car- ries her eggs tucked under her body and there they are secure from harm and enemies until the wee crablet is hatched. The spiny little lzrvae soon are disporting themselves at the surface of the water. As they cast cff their tight garments for more loose and com- fortable ones, they drop off their spines and look more and more like their par- ents. They keep their “tummies” pro- jected straight out in a line with their shell. instead of being modestly tucked under, until they put on their adult suit of armor. Bits of food and dead matter all about them supply their needs. re scavengers, and b; their untiring zeal the water is kept free from cdor and unwholesomeness. o fathers and brcthers, assuming | no family cares, spend most of their time sparring and fighting. On a slip- pery rock, where there is barely room for one, a deadly battle is waged. In their mad desire to win they fall over the edge into the water below. Hostili: ties cease only long enough for the com- batants to climb the rocks to their first scene of strife. Strong claws are soon snapping viciously at each other. Off goes & front one and drops in the water below. A swimming creature finds the member and takes with delight the gifts the gods have sent, while above on the rocks the foes are still wounding each other. In the desperate struggle for supremacy one only will survive, and sometimes the victor is so far gone he socn succumbs to exhaustion. When the older members of the for a new one, they creep deep into the rock crevices, where, as far from their enemies as they can safely go, the tight armor is shed. The sluggishness and mild temper lasts but a short time and as soon as the owner is feeling fit he is ready to defend his place in the sun. (Copyright, LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. 1932) Pop was smoking and thinking in his you know ma’'s berthday is next week? By gollles, 80 it is, pop said, and I said, I was going to save up my money to buy her a present, but it's too late now. ‘Would it be too grate a blow to your pride if I gave you a dollar to buy her a present with? pop said. No sir, I said. and pop said. And do you think you could select & nice pres- ent, something showing originality of thawt and at the same time a sense of fitness? Yes sir, G, I said. I saw a swell lit- tle alarm clock in the jeweler store window and it was just exactly a doller, I said. But why the dooce would she want an alarm clock? pop said, and I said, It would save her a lot of trouble after school starts again. I could keep it up in my room and wake myself up at a certain time every morning, so she'd never haff to bother calling me or com- m’gd up and shaking me or anything, I said. ‘The plezzure would be less than half hers, I'm sure, pop said. Meening more than half mine, and I said, Well then how about & Chinese gong to let people know when dinner is reddy instead of a bell or just calling upstairs I know where I can get one of those for a dol- ler and I bet I could lern to play little tunes on it and everything, that would It would be a still better one for her scheeming son, pop sald. Mecning me, and I said, Well G, then how about a half duzzen lady handker- chiffs? Now youre tawking like a man of the werld and a diplomat, pop said. Meen- ing that sounded better. And he gave me the dollgp, | mi Lee drag- | baboon father crazy with drink, cursing and cuffing because he didn't squeeze out & few pennies for more bum hootch. “After mother—ha, I foxed him. Hid away at the other end of the city, changed my name and gave him the No more kid pay envelopes for ntil I met Tom, I didn't care much what happened. Then I got that job at Simone’s. I found out that women, plenty of them, no smarter, no better looking than me, eat honey-dew melon every morning for breakfast. When they want to step out, they call their maid | to bring the latest Simone model from a closet full of 'em, tell the butler to | order the chauffeur to fetch the car, pin on the orchids, and that's living. That’s the life I want to taste, the life I've got to taste, before I settle down to ham and cabbage. Maybe Tom can | provide a few orchids later, but he can't now for a regular diet. And I'm not taking any chances. 3 darling. I don't | know why I haven't told it to you be- fore. Maybe because I was afraid you | wouldn't care to go on—the way we are. You're the only human I've ever | cared 'a hoot about, outside of my | mother, and Tom.” | Tony pressed the bright head close to her cheek. “I'm glad you told me, Lee™” she said huskily. “I'll go with Tom. and T'll take care he doesn't—dangle.” * x % x Adam Leonard’s wife was willing to “forget it all” for a price. The price was her freedom and a substantial sum i of money, which would permit her to live as she had been living. Indul- “What's the matter with Tom?" she demanded.. “Isn't he up to your class?” he could treat you to a square meal. He took it ltke a lamb.” “Lee, you don't understand. . . . I'm not going to supper. or any place with Tom Stewart.” Tony sat down on the edge of her bed. Planted herself there firmly. Lee left off examining what would shortly be a crack in her black satin slippers to regard Tony with offended eyi ‘What's the matter with Tom?” she demanded. “Isn't he up to vour class?” “Lee, Tom Stewart is—he's fine” If Tony had said adorable she could not have kept the truth out of her voice. It's simply—well—I'd rather you nake engagements for me. T'm d, and—after I rest up—I want to k et my drawings. You wait here and meet Tom. Don't go back to El Tango. That woman, Mrs. Leonard, might come there, or the detective.” “If they do, all they'll have for their snooping is the trouble it takes them to dit it. Don Kemp said. ‘Business as usual’ He said to go right on back and if Uncle Lenny turns up dance with him like nothing's happened. No use acting guilty when I'm not.” Now, Tony must tell Lee! I think I Tom Stewart! I'm sure I do. I t not see him again because he be- longs to you. It would be better for us to part now, Lee: to go our separate ways while our friendship is warm and clean. I'm sorry, so desperatel I have no one but you, dear frie like you, need you. But I am not to be trusted—not with him. If his eyes plead that message again I shall answer d “Gosh,” Lee's arms were around Tony, her head snuggling on Tony’s shoulder. | “I don't know what I'd do without you, pal. Where have you been all my life? I'm a lone wolf, you know, except for my dad, and I'd be better off without him. He's a lou—anyhow, he’s out. He finished my mother. He'd have fin- ished me, too, if I wasn't smart enough to keep out of his reach. “My brother ran away when he was a kid, hardly old enough to peddle papers. We never knew what became of him. We never had enough to eat Charity food, charity clothes and a How Much Money Needed D Or Ot For Marriage? gently. Carelessly. With enough to the bizarre in her daily portion to keep focused on her those eyes she desired most to arrest. “Uncle Lenny came through” Lee awakened Tony to tell her the mnews “He was waiting for me at El Tanj He bought off the management for evening and went where we could talk it out over a bite and a nip. Clera wants a divorce, She's wanted it fo a long time, but on her cwn terms.| There's a chee-iid or something and Uncle Lenny couldn't see her mucking him up as a parent. And she wouldn't go where they hand out the papers while you wait. Now he's reached th breaking point. He don't care what she gets or where, so long as she gets it. Lockee what I drew!” Lee held out a purse, satiny black suede mounted with gold and onyx. Her laugh was & good bit like the coo of & contented young pigeon “He didn't have time to get the mono- gram. I'm to get it myself with some of this” She snapped open the bag and drew out a packet of bills neatly caught in a gold clip. “Oh, Lee, you shouldn't have allowed him to do it.” Tony stroked the velvet leather You know they've been following you.” “Ye-ah, just suppcse.” Lee watched her arms above her head. “What a ¥ going to do about it? There's no law against a friend giving you a pres- ent, is there? Uncle Lenny told me not to open the pocketbock until I got home I didn't know what was in it myself until this minute. Let's take a count. Not 50 bad. Not bad at all. Five hun- dred raspberries. A fair night's work. And Il tell the cock-eyed world that Clara Leonard can bawl me out seven nights in the week at $500 a bawl.” Tony put down the purse, placed her hands on Lee's syncopating shoulders. “You've got to give it back,” she said. “If you want to keep the bag. I don’t suppose it would matter so much. But the money—how are you going to spend it?” “Pal, Clothes, surprised. an apart- oh, pal, good-by hyDix| you'd be Higgins, Finds Good Income Happiness Insurance OW much money a man should have to marry on is a question that is asked me continually. The answer is: Enough. And what enough is depends upon the tastes and habits of the man, and more particularly upon the tastes and habits of the girl he is marrying and the scale of life to which they have been accus- tomed. Affluence and penury are relative terms, and what would seem riches to one is unendurable pove 0 erty to another, A successful marriage is not something that is sold over the counter as are white-water diamonds and high-powered cars. happy marriage with money. Just goes on and two-by-four flats. Just as man paupers find that they are incompati I penthouses and limousines, but You can't buy a as much bickering and quarreling between husbands and wives in palaces as in cheap bungalows y millionaire husbands and wives as ible and have missed their soulmates. T isn't necessary for any young couple to start out in marriage with it is necessary to have a roof that doesn't leak over their heads and a cupboard stocked with an adequate supply of bread and meat. For we are about 10 per cent spiritual and 90 per cent animal, and unless the animal is fed and comfortable the spiritual ceases to function. Hence ‘while a man need not wait until he can afford to offer the woman he loves luxuries before he asks her to journey to the altar with him, he should wait until he has family. has t upon love’s young dream, O some settled way of supporting a Otherwise the marriage is doomed to failure, for even romance be financed in a practical wi orld where there is a price-tag even F course, boys and girls enamored of each other scorn any such sordid consideration. They are sure that love is enough, and that having each other they will want nothing else. They are also certain that they can live on bread and cheese and kisses and find such fare nectar and ambrosia, But to their amazement they discover after marriage that they cannot subsist on this ethereal food of the gods. They find that’ love Isn't all. It is just the meringue on the lemon pie of life and they can't make a full meal upon it. Their appetites still call for beefsteak and onions. They take just the same interest in the new clothes in the shop win- dows as of yore, and are just as eager to step out of an evening and go places and see things as they ever were. I beings into romantic heroes, and N a word, marriage hasn't changed them from being regular human 50 unless they are able to have at least the ordinary comforts and pleasures of life they are very likely to consider that they paid ico high a price for their wedding rings and that they are not worth what they cost, ‘There is truth in the old adage that says that when poverty comes in at the door love flies out the window, ‘because we are not senti- mental when we are cold and hungry and ragged and torn with anxiety ;g;:xgn ::’hére uche tn:;r‘t meutl 1;{ to comeh:mm and what the landlord is 0 about the rent. Nature, alas, construc with three or four times more stomach than heart. ichios wist (Copyright. 1932.) JULY uppose you were watched. | 22, 1932. | ment with elevator and doorman— I there, it's all spent.” “You've forgotten Tom Stewart. How are you going to account to him for this sudden fortune?” Lee tossed her head. “Why should I account to Tom? It's none of his business. Did he—ask you things?" suspiciously. “No. Of course not. But he will ask you—it there’s an_understanding be- tween you.” Why had she added that if? Because she wanted to know. She must know if there was a definite promise between Lee and Tom. Not that it mattered, ever could matter again. Tom's eyes would never carry the tocsin torch, the age-old sig- nal fire of mate to mate, for her. Last night, when she went with him to sup- per, she had extinguished any remotest hope that such a light might be kin- dled. She had been frivilous. She had been disgustingly light-minded and dishonest. She had prattied of “parties,” of “speakies,” of “my heavy suitor from the West.” That meant Donald Kemp. Donald Kemp was not her suitor. He was scarcely an ac- quaintance. How had she endured, almost en- joved the pain that had come into Tom Stewart’s eyes with her revelations of a self that was as foreign to her as plumes are to Plymouth Rock hens? | Maybe she wasn't a Plymouth Rock hen —exactly—but neither was- she & pea- cock nor & bird of paradise as she had | vaunted. Oh, well. the song was ended. And if the melody lingered on it would die out, as the light had died, the torch had flickered to swimming darkness in | Tom Stewart's eyes. One didn't go on suffering indefinitely Pain is its an- tidote. It kills itself with its own poignancy. Tony remembered that Lee had not risen to the bait of that “if.” Lee had not said whether or not there was an understanding between her and Tom. Heart be still. Stop leaping. Lee sim- ply does not think the implied ques- tion worth answering. She takes it for granted you know she is promised to Tom. “Listen to this, Lee rolled her hair and pinned it in “squews” as a precaution against the morrow when she would release ash-blonde curls to an admiring world. “I'm taking up correspondence. I'm going to be the correspondent in Uncle Lenny’s di- | vorct Tony dropped the plate she was carrying to the washery behind the| screen “Yol—you mean—you— Exactly. Pull yourself together, my ! dear. It isn't anything like it sounds. | Just nice undercover stuff and swell | pay for doing nothing except be m ! self. I'm not Lee Moran at all” Lee burlesqued her idea of a court scene 1 have me wrong. judge. Im Miss X, the unknown quantity. I'm the I who was found with that sterling citizen and patron of the arts, Mr. Adam Leonard. ‘You don't tell me. Miss X?' Well, Mr. Leonard, what have you to say about this? Nothing, vour honor. I admit all. ‘Very well, sir, 1 shall award your noble wife, ! Clara, a divorce, a lump sum and so many hundred dollars a_week while you both shall live. Next victim, Dlease “But you're not guilty of anything.” | Tony protested. “I shouldn't think Mr. Leonard would ask a girl to place h a stigma on herself.” “He 1 elf. In fact, I insisted. There had to be some one, | so why not me? Uncle Lenny bucked like & mule. I gave him to understand | I cared t0o much for him to have any | other woman messed up_in his life. | he weakened. He'll give me I think is right for helping | I'm shooting for angel.” 1, Lee" reproachful “You { would sell vour right to look the whole | world in the face for $5.000 | he world isn't going to know. You forget I'm Miss X, the lady of something should have to be a perj nded one.” | “I'll take the chance.” defiantly, “for $5.000 1 Tony thought: Now I must play | my tru card. Now she .will realize | how impossible it is to go on. “What ! about Tom? Do you think it fair to | irn over to him a woman who has been branded in the divorce c Lee sat for a while, hand: ly | ped over knees. eves space. Her deflance was giving way to | something furtive, sinister. Tony held her breath for Lee's answer (To be continued.) ppen rer or | [ NANCY PAGE Red Raspberry and Currant Jam Easy to Make. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Lois went to market early and found —not the proverbial worm—bus $ar- | gains. Fresh raspberries and currants | that had been picked so recently they |still looked dewy were more than she | could resist. So back home she came | with her day's work laid out for her. | She sat herself on the porch where | there was a breeze, and just enough sun to give Ann her sun bath. | Ann played with her doll and her | books, keeping a watchful eye on her I mother. She hoped somehow that a red currant or two would roll down her way. She thought she never had seen such pretty little balls. Lois decided to make some red rasp- | berry and currant jam. She used the | proportion of three-quarters as much sugar by weight as she had fruit. That is, for every pound of fruit she used three-quarters of a pound of sugar. | She put a layer of fruit in the bot- |tom of the preserving kettle, sprinkled | generously with sugar, mashed the fruit and then added a second laver of fruit and sugar. By mashing these two lay- ers she had enough juice to start the cooking with no danger of burning the jam. The rest of fruit and sugar was now added and the mixture cooked until a teaspoonful of the mixture, cooled quickly, was of a thick or jam- like_consistency. She might have washed currants, cooked them separately and then ex- tracted juice, measured that, added red raspberries and required sugar and cooked the mixture. Or she might have cooked the currant juice and com- plete amount of sugar almost to a jelly degree and then put in the ad- ditional raspberries, cooking them for 10 minutes. This would have given her a clear jelly with whole raspberries floating in it. Muddy Skins Tade Away’ PP ; |l B Dull... drab complexions.... blem- ishes and those annoying defects.. Disappear...as your skin assumes a smooth, delicate appearance of exquisite Beauty. This new charm is yours NOW .... start to-day. | friends WOMEN'’S FEATURES. Thornton BEDTIME STORIES % %o Grunty Is Envious, HAT seems to be the way it is with most people. You envy your neighbor and your neighbor envies you, Each has something the other wants or thinks he wants, and each forgets his own hless- ings. It was just that way with the three little people in the Green Forest starting out to make places for them- selves in the Great World. Inky, the ung == o =N =SS “AH WOULDN'T WANT TO HAVE TO STAY ON THE GROUNDS ALL THE TIME,” THOUGHT GRUNTY. Porcuplne, his coat of little spears: Quilly envied Inky his little scent gun and Grunty, the young Possum, envied both of them. However, both Inky and Quilly were ‘ fairly well satisfied with what Mother Nature had given them and neither would have exchanged with the other. Each would have liked to have what the other had in addition to what he him- self_had. “l1f I had a coat like Quilly's I wouldn't fear even Hooty the Owl” thought Inky. “If I had a scent gun like Inky's I wouldn't fear to face anybody: I never would have to hide my head to protect it,” muttered Quilly. But it was Grunty who was the most envious. The more he saw of his two the more envious he became. “It must be wonderful to be s0 inde- pendent,” he would say to himsell. “Ah wonder what it would seem lik» not to be afraid of anybody. Ah reckon Ol' Mother Nature done fo'get we-uns when she was giving out her favors Yes. suh. Ah reckon she done fo'get we-uns. What can a po’ 1t'1 Possum do? Nothin'. Just lie still and wonder what done goin’ to happen next. Just shake and shake with fright inside and take care not to shake outside. Yes, suh, all & po’ 1i']l Possum can do when he is caught is just nothin'” - How surprised Grunty would have been could he have known how many there were among his neighbors who envied him his ability to do just this He could do nothing so perfectly that he didn't appear to be alive, and this ability to appear dead would save his life many times and get him out of many tight places. He didn't know and so he didn't realize that this s one of the flavors that Old Mother Nature had given the Possum family. Just which one of his two friends Grunty envied most he wasn't sure for some time. Sometimes it was Inky and sometimes it was Quilly. It had been Inky when the latter put Yowler the Bobcat_to flight. It had been Quilly when Hooty the Owl alighted in the same tree with him and he merely clattered his teeth and paid no other attention to Hooty. It was Inky when they met Old Man Coyote and the latter merely grinned at them and went his war. Grunty was sure then that it was Inky whom he most envied. But he wasn't s0 sure of this when he discovered that Ink: couldn't climb a tree. Quilly could climb trees. In fact he spent much of his time in_trees. “Ah wouldn't want to have to sta- on the ground all the time.” thought Grunty. “No. suh. Ah wouldn't like that. Ah would lke to have a little scent gun to make others respect me. | up climbing. No, suh, Ah wouldn't want to give that up. Quilly can climb. | He is terribly slow about it, but he can | climb. He does a lot of fretting for any one who has so little to fret about. His tastes are so simple that he never has any trouble finding plenty to eat. but he doesn’t get around much. Ah wouldn's | like that. Those little 3 rs of his just keep others from touching him: they don't make people really afraid of him But they are afraid of Inky. They are both well armed and fo' a fact Ah don’ | know which Ah envy most. (Copyright, 1932) Uncle Ray’s Corner Adventure of the Sea. R. BARSTOW was a kindly man When, in the afternoon, the old captain offered to spend the last dollar of his savings on costs of the voyage, the di- rector of the museum said | “No, you must not do that. With the | prospect of obtaining such valuable ex- hibits, we feel justified in risking our funds. We do not have enough money to charter a steamer, but if your boat is seaworthy we are willing to pay the expenses. 1f we get nothing, we lose the money thus spent and you lose | your time and the rental on your ship, | but you must not lose your savings. 1f, | on the other hand . . “You'll find the boat dollar,” brcke in the captain old and she's not very fast sound.” “I am glad of that,” said Dr. Barstow “We must look after safety. I was go- ing to say that if. on the other hand, we should obtain the valuable specimens which appear to be on this island, we shell give you as a kind of reward the difference between the cost of the voy- age and the amount of our appropria tion. As we have roughly figured the costs of the trip here, the difference should be somewhere around $5.000." “Five th captain well, that w Cape. Thompson had been on the point of saving that such a sum would be the “nest egg” he felt was needed to e that Al i Roberta could did not speak the d and did not t personal needs before & iendly and kind the as sound as & She's but she's vords. to put stranger, howes Barstow, “is that you take with you on the voyage two or three of the men from the museum. We must be on the field so that we can handle the skele- tons and make sure that they are nearly complete as possible." 1o captain readily agreed condition. After leaving the he took the first train to Newport and hurried home to tell the glad news. He was in the midst of his story when there was a knock on the door. Mrs. e kitchen. so Roberta he knock. Two satlors to this ) before her We have come to see your grand- father.” said one of them «To be continued Monday.) 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