Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1933, Page 9

MAGAZINE PAGE. Conquering Contract By P. HAL SIMS Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the greatest living contract and auc- player. He was caplain of the renowned “Four Horsemen” team, and has won 24 national champion- ships since 1924. These articles are Dased on the Sims system, which in- cludes the ome-over-one principle that the Sims group of players was the first to employ and develop. Fourth Hand Opening. T is my contention that the bidding may be opened after thres passes on a relatively weak holding. Cer- tainly the fourth hand need not be as powerful as for a first-hand opening, for twoe reasons: (1) A pass by the first three hands | indicates a fairly even _distribution of the high cards. (2) You are no longer concerned with the defensive factor. If you pass, no loss can be in- curred. The point is, can you obtaln a plus instead of & zero? I generally pre- fer to play for the plus score, for the encouragement de- rived from the failure of the two opponents to bid out- welghs any pessimism induced by my rtner’s pass. l’.'l'he rofiowmz considerations influ- ence my judgment to bid or pass: (1) Does my hand contain safe rebid values if the opponents enter the bid- ding? If so, I will bid. (2) Does my hand contain reliable defensive values if my opponents play the hand? If so, I will bid. Should the hand contain neither of these requirements, I will pass. unless, (3) My hand contains enough strength in the major suits so that an over call of one can be made only in no-; trumps or in one, not in both, of the major suits. If it lacks the major- sult strength, I will pass, unless I have enough defensive elements to de- feat a game declaration in the majors or such distribution as to bid mgh‘ enough against the opponents for a small penalty, if my partner is unable to assist me. “Signing Off” for Safety. ] ‘When using our method of bidding, the response of one no-trump to an A WASHINGTO! opening bid is a negative, - sl':;n and is known as “sign wise the rebid of the also considered 85 & mi wum rebid. With this understanding, a vital aafety factor is established. Penalties are thus avoided when opening with hands that are in first or second positions a pass. I propose to furnish a few examples from which it will be seen that we open, in fact, advise openings in the fourth- hand position with as low as one and a half primary tricks, such as the ag- gressive type of hand with its strength in the majors. SPADES—A J X x X XDIAMONDS—x HEARTS—K 10 x x x CLUBS—x One spade should be bid, the longer suit. Over an adverse bid the hearts can be bid with safety at two, and a small risk taken in showing them at three. With this hand the spade K and heart Q J alone in your partner's hand would probably produce a game. (2) It is essential that when the minimum type of hand has its strength in a minor suit, adequate protection should be held in both majors. SPADES—K 10 x x DIAMONDS—A Q 10xx HEARTS—J x X CLUBS—x One diamond should be bid. Suppose your pertmer passed. SPADES—A J x x DIAMONDS—K x HEARTS-Q x X CLUBS—x X X X He would respond with one spade; and a game can be made if the dia- monds break and the spade finesse is taken correctly. (3) Another two-tricker. Only made because the strength is in spades, and with strength in your partner’s hand, the opponents would have to bid too high in hearts or in the minor suits to make their contract. SPADES—K Q 10 xx DIAMONDS-Q x X HFEARTS-A Xx CLUBS—J x X Should be bid 1 space. (4) This hand contains three primary tricks, but is generally considered a ass fourth hand. ADES—-K x x DIAMONDS -A X X ARTS—A Q x x x CLUBS—x X Should be bid 1 heart. With the following hand, which your partner would have passed. 5 od can be made in spades or hearts, pro- viding these two suits are distributed evenly in your opponents’ hands: SPADES—A Q X X x DIAMONDS—x x X HEARTS—K x CLUBS—x X X (Copyright. 1933.) Mr. Sims will answer all inguiries on con- tract that are addressed to this newspaper with a self-addressed, stamped envelope. DAYBOOK suit is BY HERBERT PLUMMER. THOSE who watch the House in| action from day to day have no-| ticed a word battle which has been | carried on on the floor—at times rather | sharply --by two | Alabamans. Redistricting of the State forced the two to run against each other for the same seat last year. Their clashes on the floor seem to be an aftermath of that struggle. The two are Miles Allgood and . La Fayette Patter- * son, and to fur- ther complicate the situation, both come from Glads- den. Allgood de- feated Patterson in the primary last year. | That defeat came as a severe blow | to Patterson. His seat in Congress | meant more to him, perhaps, than it | does to the average “lame duck.” It | represented a goal for which he had! }:%en striving the greater pert of his ife. Talk with him—this man with thick- growing white hair, soit speech, shy and with friendly, smiling eyes and | - you'll soon realize that. “I set my plow in the corner of the . fence and began running for Congress,” he will tell you. He was the son of a rent-share farmer in Alabama, yet when he was just a boy his father predicted that he would be in Congress before he was 40. And he was. He didn't finish his high school work until he was 33, yet at his present age of 44 he holds a master's degree from Stanford University. That Stanford degree was for only one purpose—to equip him for Con- gress. He set out from Alabama for California in an old car with his wife and four children, $100 in borrowed money and $7.000 in debts. They arrived at Palo Alto with three pennies in capital. That was in 1926. One year later they drove back to Alabama with the degree and a determination to run for Congress. By 1928 he had won his seat. Although defeated now, he says he is far from through. He's started already. running for the next time. mThere's no such word as “quit” for m. Oyster Turnover. Prepare some flaky pastry and chill in the refrigerator. Roll thin and cut into about three-inch squares. Season 12 medium-sized oysters. Place an oyster on each square of pastry. Fold over the edges to form a triangle. Press the edges firmly together. Bake in a hot oven for about 15 minutes. Serve lwith cream sauce made from the oyster liquor. Colors Used in Decoration BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. WINDOW SEAT WITH UNUSUAL CURTAINING ARRANGEMENT. consider the effect of time on| pigments, papers and textiles. | Much has been written on suit- | ing colors to exposures of rooms so | that sunlight effects can be introduced | into northern rooms or those which get very little sunshine and a cool quality | be instilled into rooms flooded with sunlight. Little, however, has been sald about the influence of time and wear on the things employed in the dec- oration. | Blue is perhaps the most hazardous . eolor to use. A grayness creeps into the | color which makes it lose its charm,| sometimes giving a solled appearance to perfectly clean things. For instance, I remember net curtains with occasional | threads of blue in the smart but con-| servative weave. In the store the ma- | terlal was exquisite. Be it said to its| credit that it wore like the proverbial | fron. But the sun drew the yellow from the cream threads, and the blue | was changed to gray, with the result that the net had a murky grayness long before the ¢ ‘wore out. Blue hangings and blue sheets will acquire & gray pallor with laundering unless one really sunproof textiles. So egink twice before introducing & blue E home decorator is wise when | deciding upon color schemes, to | scheme into & room unless the decora- tions can be changed frequently. Pink is a satisfactory color so far as changing tones are concerned. The hue merely gets fainter and fainter without altering its general color, and a deiicate pink is as attractive in its way as is a deeper tone. Pink sheets, for instance, may be but tinted finally, but there remains an attractiveness just the same, even though frequent wash- ing and ironing have dimmed the shace. Green is fickle. It may acquire s yellower tint and lose its beauty of bluish toning. or it may alter by getting a brownish tint. Sometimes it grows bluish. Usually this tends to beautify the shade, although it may cause it to clash with other greens in decoration. In selecting black in textiles used in decoration see that it is a blue-black. This will not deteriorate into a or green black, either of which does not lend charm to black. In these days of sunproof dyes; changes of color ere not expected, but nevertheless they occur too frequently from some special causes, or because the textiles are not sunproof. It is wise to realize what may happen. and avold annoying changes, if ps:dbw. (Copyright, 1933.) brown ' THE EVENING STAR, NATURE’S CHILDREN during Yang Ti of the Sung dynasty. A great canal 1,000 I (Chinese miles) was constructed. The emperor must have known the value of willow planted along a water course, for it is recorded that he offered to each one who planted a willow, & roll of silk. The trees were named for the emperor and called “Yang-liu.” What 2 sight this canal must have been & few years later when the beautiful wil- lows cast theit shadows in the waters at_thelir feet. Branches of willow formed the origl- nal jetties used in keeping the channel of the ippl open for. navigation. In Holland and other countries the value of & horder of willows along the rivers, streams and canals is recog- nized. Standing with their toes in the water, the willows in Summer or Win- ter appeal to every one. They have long, narrow, tooth-edged leaves with silver linings. In the Spring the sile ver is frosted with fairy down. The long, flexible twigs often break off with the wind and are miles away. ‘When they strike sofl they beg! send down roots and in this wa willow plants itself al ‘The tree does develop been found more satisfactory twigs. These do not gro but they are beautiful in youth and handsome in old age. They live to be old and fall victim to few diseases and xnfiu. every soll and climate there are native willows. All of them with the exception of one or two of the 70 spe- cies prefer moist places in which %o abide. ‘There are.father and mother trees and they provide the vast army of pole len fiyers the first food in the Spring. ld | The interesting thing about the flowers is that the nectar is in & besutiful lit- “WEEPING WILLOW- industry. Tannin is made from the bitter bark. Campers along the edge of water courses have found that the wood makes the quickest hot fire de- sirable. Pussy willows are the favorite with children and the long, slender twigs are in great demand with florists. A marshy place would not only be a lovesome place if planted to them, but the marsh otherwise worthless could be made to yield a handsome income. Isaiah, being a naturalist, spoke of their r:g.ldity of growth when he said: “They 11 spring up among the grass, as willows by the water courses.” , (Copyright. 1933.) o £ Oyster-Celery Scallop. Grease a glass baking dish seven inches in diameter and three inches deep. Cover the bottom with two cup- fuls of bread and cracker crumbs mixed in equal parts. Add s layer of cooked and diced celery, then s layer of oysters. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and dot with butter. Repeat, having the crumbs and butter on top. Moisten with cream or milk and bake in a hot oven for about 30 minutes. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Grapefruit Oatmeal with Cream Sausage Cakes Hot Corn Muffins Coffee DINNER. Fruit Cocktail Celery Olives Pried Chicken, Cranberry Sauce Mashed Potatoes Boiled Squash Apple Fritters, Lemon Sauce Strawberry Shortcake, Whlpg:dfi Cream e BUPPER. Creamed Oysters on Toast Preserved cher;eus Silver Cake a HOT CORN MUFFINS. One cup flour, three-fourths cup of canned corn, chopped fine; two of baking powder, four teaspoons Of sugar, one- fourth cup of milk, two eggs, one teaspoon of salt. Mix and bake as any muffin. APPLE FRITTERS. Wipe, core and pare four sound apples, make a thick batter with two tablespoons flour, one-half teaspoon salt, one teaspocn baking powder, half cup milk. Sift flour, baking powder and salt together, add milk byeiegrees, heat till free from lumps, cut apples into rings, one-half inch thick, dip each ring in, then into batter, fry in hot fat till golden brown and apple is soft, and drain on soft paper. SILVER CAKE. Cream one-half- cup butter, add one and one-half cups sugar slowly, then three-fourths tea- spoon vanilla. Beat four egg whites stiff and add to first mix- ture. Then add alternately two- thirds cup milk and two and one- fourth cups pastry flour sifted with three teaspoons baking powder and ont hth teaspoon salt. Bake 45 utes at 360 degrees Fahrenheit. (Copyright, 1933 SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY ¥ CORY. How did my clothes ober here on the cbair? xmlwwdwu‘mml (Copyright, 1033.) 1 DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Sage Advice to Man Whose Fiance Won'’t Let Him Break Engagement—When Is a Man Really in Love? or why, because I don't love her and don't want to marry her and 1 realize that she would not make me a companionable wife at all. Besides, I don't want to marry and I'm not in a position to marry if I did want to. I have told the girl this and she threatens to take some very drastic steps if I break the engagement. Can you suggest anything to do? M. H. D. Answer: A girl who is 0 determined to marry is certainly a formid- able proposition and she will get you if you don't watch out. However, I think the woman who threatens to sue a man for breach of promise if he doesn't marry her isn't half so0 dangerous as the one who weeps over the lover who has lost his taste for her and tells him how it will break her heart if he leaves her. For the woman who holds the club of the law over a man’s head rouses his fighting blood, whereas the one who turns on the weeps simply melts down his backbone and softens his sales resistance. DMR MISS DIX—I have got engaged to & girl. I don't know how ‘There are few things in the world more powerful than hydraulic pressure and when this is brought to bear on & man’s resolution not to marry it nearly always gives way. Thousands of women have got their man in this way. So, son, be thankful that your fiance is merely going after you with a lawsuit or a shotgun and not tear ducts. But, anyway, stand irm. Don't let her bulldoze you into marrying her if you don't want u:, ‘;b:uusetmmyma is no picnic, even at its best, and it is a hell on earth a worst. CERTAINL‘I its worst phase is when a man is shanghaied into it against ‘his will by a woman who evider@ly regards him as merely a meal ticket. Because no woman of any delicacy of feeling would be willing to mary & man against his will or drag an unwilling bridegroom to the I should say in your case the best thing for you to do would be to play a waiting game and simply wear her out. You do not need formally to break the engagement, but you can make it so uninteresting to her and 50 hopeless of any results that you can make her break it. As long as you are not married to her she has no jurisdiction over you, so you can run around with other girls &s much as you please. Nor has she any power by which she can compel you to make dates with her, 5o if you just quit cold t and never go to see her any more, what can she do about it? Always you have the perfectly valid excuse that ot finan- cially able to marry and are in no position to support ylm;-:fiyn m’fl- pression ought to be good for something. Perhaps it will be your salva- tion. AT DOROTHY DIX. DEAR MISS DIX—Is the kind of love when one can't eat. sleep and so forth absolutely necessary to make marriage a success? In most marriages don't you think that love is stronger on one side than the other? Can a marriage be a success if the girl's love is stronger than that of the young man? He loves her very much, but cannot say he loves her des- Perately. Would it be taking a chance for her to marry him? A READER. Answer: If no one got married ex those whose sbility to sleep were affected by the tender wp-uton. there would be a termife slump in the matrimonial market. It is only in novels that people M love cease to take an interest in food and sit up all night star-gazing, thinking upon the beloved one and have palpitations of the heart at the sound of a footstep. In real life men and women get just as hungry when they are in love as they do out of it and are just as much interested in going to places of amusement and in their business and getting pretty clothes and the ordinary affairs of life as they were before they discov- ered the Great and Only and become engaged. In is & pity that the poets and fictionists have set up these impossible and neurotic standards for young people to check their love by, because it makes many level-headed and common-sense young people doubt the state of their affections. They know that nothing has happened to their appetites or their ability to put in eight hours of sound sleep at night it they get the chance and that they are not just one prolonged thrill in the other's greunce. They are perfectly aware that they would not die of & broken heart if they lost the other and so they doubt the good honest love that would take itself out in trying to be a good husband or wife. Of course, in every love affair one cares more than e, one 15 capable of a Geaper affection than the otber. We Kot mt ey tae same emotional capacity and we are no more to be blamed for that than we are for not all being the same stature or having the same amount of intelligence. There is nothing truer than the old French saying that in love one kisses and permits oneself to be kissed. But, fortunatelv, love is gmdbmieé J‘c is ;’ gift Innd ‘1&! is literally true that in love it is more an to receive we get more ki we ever do out of being loved. i o it TISPECIALLY is this true of women, and 8o it is rather fo ., rtunate than Aunfortunate when the wife is more romantically in love with her hus- band than he is with her. Because marriage is harder on a woman than it is on a man. She has to make more sacrifices than he does, and it can only be worth while to her if she cares so much for him that just to be E:g him suffices her and everything she does for him is a joy and a de- When wives care little for their husbands, - satisfied and fault-finding and find domesticity dlg;e{n.dn. ?ovrlem‘ggtdtj!:e wife who is wildly in love with her husband is alyays on her dpm try- ing to please him and marriage to her is a great adventure. e DOROTHY DIX. EAR MISS DIX—Do you believe a man of 30 has any chance of curb- D ing a bad temper? I have a friend who has iery fine quality except that he has a violent temper and if any one crosses him he goes into rages and says and does the most terrible things, He is enmesofn 8 sweet and gentle girl whom I fear he will make very unhappy fust be- cause of his temper. Is there any way he can be warned? BILL. Answer: I have never known any one who had 10 ever learned to control it. Instead of regarding it as : ?‘Ag}’t 'f.flp:'.?m weakness to lack self-control, they seem proud of it and to think that it shows that they are high-spirited or something. And they always seem to think that everybody should overlook and forgive their insults and real- ize that they didn’t mean them and be ready to kiss and make up as soon as they are in a good humor. A girl had better marry a or a gambler than a man with a high temper. She would have more chance of happiness. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1933.) i EVERYDAY - PSYCHOLOGY BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Stuttering. ‘The cause or causes of stuttering are not entirely agreed upon by those who | sociated have made & specialty of speech defects. This much is known: There are about | l- million _stutterers in the United |18 trem States. Some defect or de- formity such as cleft 3 mouth arch, or irregular jaws, is’ as- sociated with something like 15 per cent of all these cases. These defects are said by some to be the cause of all stut- tering. Most students, however, dis- agree with this pronouncement. I be- lieve a fair statement of our knowledge | of the cause of stuttering may be put s | . follows: “ggme:w 58 !]lll;lctlon-il mun afll- sonality defici ., Wl usually gets its jur- Copyrigh hildhood. By functional I mean L reney the stutterer is a stutterer on'ac- FITVT —’—‘_“ weapon of war but than because of some physical maif old increased its range tion of the speech organs. The fact that ! precision. [2 ut a uymnwn;. of some deep-lying per- _WASHINGTON, D. C., BATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1933, R BY D. O. PEATTIE. Snow and Temperature. old adage that it is too cold snow holds good, though it light. The “low,” blanketing-in the warm ere. During the next day the sky kens tly, the clouds pack to- gether, ‘west becomes inky black at times. The temperature now drops, | ing’ but 1t is still not bitter at all. begins to fall, at first in large, This is the pretty part of s snowstorm; the snow has not yet become bothersome: it drifts down on our hats and coat-collars, and for s minute we can examine even with the naked eye the exquisite six-fold symmetry of the individual crystals. In the country we can, as Robert Prost has s0 exquisitely put it, “stop a while to watch the woods fill up with snow.” In the city we find ,that ordinary streets, even ugly spots, have suddenly turned beautiful. The crowds move, laughing and jaunty, through the streets, stamping off the snow and shaking it from hat and sleeve. If the cyclone is destined to be a severe one, it now goes into the bliz- | Red, zerd . A keen wind rises; the flakes fall faster, are small and sting: ing, and have lost their airy and merry too, have the harassed | v quality. So, folk who have to struggle around icy corners and drive through sleeted streets. The sky remains dark, the day very short, and the great plough trains begin to struggle with the city’s streets and the incoming network of railroad ways. Chills settle on chests; doctors are kept busy visiting sneezes; and generally are short. At last, when the blizsard is over and cars are frozen up in their garages or abandoned in deep drifts, and all trains are hours late and country tele- graph wires are down, and the city finds it hasn't money to employ the unemployed moving the tons of snow, the weather blows off clear and cold; colds that didn't get well turn to pneu- monia_or grippe; people break their hips slipping on the ice; children ar- rive at school crying with frost-nipped fingers, toes and ears; the $un glitters on the ice-encased trees; there is skat- ing on the ponds, and coasting on the hills, and we are ready for one of our January thaws, with the beginning of another weather cycle. Star I Patterns [ New Neckline. Here is the 'younger generation’s in- terpretation of fashion's strong enthusi- asm for stripes. It is sufficiently sophisticated to ap- peal to the junior girl's desire to ap- r “grown-up” and still retains that air of youthfulness that pleases mother. The ~ simple seaming_employs the stripes in a strikingly effective manner. The jaunty bow and brief simulated bolero contribute just the right amount of dash. This frock would be very smart in any of the new striped or plain silks that are popular this season. It is No.| The pattern is designed in sizes 10| to 18. Size 14 requires 3 yards of 36- inch fabric. ‘To get a pattern of this model send 15 cents in coins or stamps. Please write your ‘name and address very plainly; also style number and size of each pattern ordered, and mail to The Evening Star Pattern Department, | Washington, D. C. Several days are re- | quired to fill orders and patterns will | be mailed as quickly as possible. ‘THE EVENING STAR PATTERN DEPARTMENT. Pattern No. 4008. Size Name (Please print). City and State.......ccoe0nnenee My Neighbor Says: If a strong solution of salt and water is thrown over the coals, less soot will collect in the flues and chimneys. The fire, too, will o, tablespoonfus of ‘g lespoon! grape Jjuice, added to a grapefruit after it has been cut, give a delicious flavor and a pretty color. Bake white drop cakes in muffin and cover some with chocolate frosting and 5 with chopped nuts. Cover others with white frosting and top with coconut and chopped red cherries. To remove a stopper from a glass jar, pour warmp water into a pan and invert jar in it, grad- ually warmer water until it is quite hot, but not so hot as to break jar. Leave in water for some time, occasionally stopper to see if it is loose. 5 (Copyright, 1833) WOMEN'’S FE BEDTIME STORIES Mrs. Reddy Agrees to Go. ner Nature. first 1aw of life is self-preser- vation. No one can live with- out food, and the time somc- times does come when hunger overthrows all laws and leads to deeds that otherwise had not been thought of. ‘When Reddy Fox dropped two mice at the feet of Mrs. Reddy her eyes glis- tened and she snapped them up al- most before they had touched the snow. Reddy grinned happily. “You must hh:ve bad poor hunting, my dear,” said “One Mouse since went away,” replied Mrs. Reddy. * is the worst time I ever have known. But where have you been? I was sure that some- thing had happened to you. You must have had better hunting than I have *“I caught “Wha ried Mrs. Reddy. “You caught a fat hen and ate all of it your- nlt’):rhen you knew that I was starv- Reddy nodded. “I had to, my dear,” he explained. “I had to. It was so far from here that I couldn’t bring it home. And I simply had to have it to give me strength enough to get back home. I was starving, too, you know.” re&ued Mrs. Reddy, “an after all, you did bring me those two mice. But a fat hen! I'm glad you had it. Of course I am. But I almost wish you hadn’t told me of it. Where did you get it? Are there more there?” ‘Then Reddy told her of the long journey he had made to a section he never had visited before. “So instead of staying there to hunt I came back for you, my dear,” he continued. “Do you mean you want me to g back there with you?” asked Mrs dy. Reddy nodded. “That is it.” said he. T believe we will fare better if we go there to live until these hard times are “But that will mean leaving home,” protested Mrs. Reddy. “Here we know every tree and bush and rock, every hiding place, every path, every way of fooling dogs and hunters, everything we should know for safety. We know where to hunt and when it is best to hunt. We know where to watch for enemies and when. We can't leave home.” “We' can stay and starve to death or we can go and perhaps live” retorted Reddy. “My dear, it isn't as if w couldn’t come back any time we want to. Listen. There are no other Foxes there.” e “We are the only ones around here,” interrupted Mrs. Reddy. “True,” replied Reddy patiently, “but we have been hunting around here for a long. long time. Then there are Old Man Coyote and Mrs. Coyote. not to mention others, all hunting for a liv- ing.” “How do you know there are no other Foxes there?” demanded Mrs. Reddy. “T don't really know it for a fact.” replied Reddy honestly. “But if other Foxes were hunting in that section that farmer would never have let his hens out the way he did. Besides, I roamed about quite a bit and not once did I find sign of another Fox.” “I wish vou wouldn't keep mention- ing those hens,” declared Mrs. Reddy, a bit crossly. Reddy grinned. “If none of the farms in that section have been visited by Foxes for a long time the hens and the ducks are not likely to be so_care- fully shut up as they are around here,” he continued. “We might get several good dinners. dinners, before it would be suspected chicken dnners, duck | ATURES. By Thornton™ W. Burgess;” Q “I HAVE" REPLIED REDDY. “L CAUGHT A FAT HEN.” v that we were living around there. What | do you say. my dear?” “I say no!” replied Mr8. Reddy. “That | I8 I—" She hesitated. . 'You what?" asked Reddy softly. “I—I—I—Oh well, I guess I say yes,” replied Mrs. Reddy lamely. “When do we start?” “Late this afternoon.” replied Reddy, lnfldg‘l great contentment curled up. for 8 nap. . LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. After supper I was sippose to ‘give op my report card to sine and I |wanted to ask him a favor, ony the |Teport wasn't so very good so I thawt | I better ask him the favor ferst, saying, iay pop, there's going to be a speefal boy picture Sattiday afternoon at e Little Grand and all the feflows ymost of them are going to see it, they |ony charge fellows 15 cents Sattiday afternoons, can I go, pop? Jones is in it, I said. - e 15 cents is & lot of money these days, and still I wouldn't hesitate a moment spending it for your education, but X’ fale to see where there's any educa- tional value in a cowboy picture, even with Mr. Jones in it, pop said. and I |said, Sure there is, pop, Puds Simkins has saw the picture already and. he | says it's grate, T mean he says it's edu- cational as anything. | In what way. if you dont mind? pop said, and I said, Well Puds says there’s |ebout 50 wild horses in it, and they !run away and stampeded, and the cow- boys stop the stampeed and capsure the horses, so that will educate me how to stop a stampeed of wild horses in case I ever haff to. wont it? Well, yes, no doubt it will if you pay | strict attention, pop said, and I said, And then besides that there’s a horse thief gets hung for getting cawt steel- | ing horses, so that will educate me not to_steel horses, wont it? | "1t should teach you at least not to |get cawt, pop said. O well, there may | be more’ branches to education than I | sipposed, here’s your Sattiday's tuition fee, he said. | And he gave me 15 cents, me feeling glad to get it, and just before I had to go to bed I said. Here’s my report !card. pop, you haven't sined it yet. I haven't seen it yet, that's more to the point, pop said. And he started to | lcok at it and his expression changed from better to worse, and he said, Hand | back that 15 cents. | Well aw G, pop, gosh, you've gave it to me now, I said, and he said, It's | still yours, remind me to add it to your | college expenses when the time comes. Being a long way to look fallwards 'to for 15 cents. UNCLE RAY’S CORNER A Little Saturday Talk. OME day I think I shall write a book about the letters which have come to me. It will be a long task; for I have saved thousands of letters and I shall want to go through them all when I compose the volume. ‘The youngest child who ever wrote to | me was Esther Summersgill. She learned to print words at the age of | 4, and sent me a lotter with just three words in it, besides her name and my name. I am not sure who is the oldest person who has written to me, but at least two readers in their 90s have sent letters. Between those extremes, letters have come from readers at every stage of life—boys and girls in grammar school, high school pupils, university students, young mothers and fathers, men and women of middle age and readers who are in the sunset period of their lives but whose minds are fresh and eager with interest in our wide, wide world. These letters have given me much | enjoyment and have afforded glimpses of home life and school life which I value highly. When I speak. in Satur- day Talks, about “the Corner Family.” you will know that I am thinking of readers of all ages. I have said that it would be hard to buy shoes for so many nieces and nephews, but I should like to be able to do much more than @fdt. If, before I died, I should have" the | means to give helpful books to every | child in the land. it would add to my pleasure in being here in the world witly you. | During recent weeks I have received | many letters telling about scrapbooks which readers have kept. Mr. N. J. Werner says that he began clipping ar- | ticles from newspapers d magazines when he was 10 vears old and has kept it up for 64 years. He has 100 binders to hold the clippings (which include a few from the Corner) and they take up 19 feet of shelf room Dorothy Jean Fugitt forgets to give me her complete address, but sends this. interesting’ paragraph: “Whenever I am called on to make & recitation on a program about an-his- torian, a musician. a scientist or, an author, or tell anything else of inter- est, I always depend on my Uncle Ray Scrapbool provide me with matetial for a talk In an excellent letter, Josephine -Roe yon tells how she and her mother have. saved the Corner for a long timee ang adds, “These articles have been a great help to me and to some of my class- mates.” - I am glad thet Josephine has been | 8o thoughtful as to let her classmates ima.ke use of her scrapbook. % UNCLE RAY¥,; Use This Coupon to Join Our New 107 To Uncle Ray. €are of The Evening Star, Washington, D, C. Dear Uncle Ray: I want to join Club, and I inclose a_stamped e Please send me a membership ce: Corner scrapbook of my own and a of my scrapbock. Name Street or R. F. D.oovvvnnnnnnnnnns State the n elope c: ate, a L tell, i : | printed cesign to paste on the cover or Province......... SCREEN ODDITIES BY CAPT. ROSCOE FAWCETT. MOST PRIZED POSSESSIONS ARE A PAINTING OF JIMMY DURANTE AS°CYRANO DE BERGERAC” AND ONE OF BUSTER KEATON AS ‘' HAMLET. LOMBARDS GOWNS FOR*NO MAN WERE BEING MADE IN OF HER OWN* HOLLYWOOD