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MAGAZI NE PAGE. - Conquering Contract By P. HAL SIMS Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the | greatest living contract and auctum‘ player. He was caplain of the re- | nowned “Four Horsemen” team, and | has won 24 national championships | since 1924. Two No Trump Response. pONTINUlNG yesterday’s article, | quirements for the response of two no trumps over an opening 1. Two primary tricks on the same | valuations as are applied to opening| one-half trick. ¢ | 2. The three suits not bid by your| y_double stoppers. 3. These protective elements which they will develop tricks easily in no trump play. They must consist of se- | aggressive in character for the play of the hand. They must appear able not ning the suit off against you after get- ting in for two or three leads, but also of the hand 4. You should hold at least two cards cluding at least a low honor, to en- able you to make a finessing lead of the Jook for additional solidity in the rest | of the hand. two no trump responses to one spade: | I suggest the following re- e suit bid of one: bids, but allowing q j X the value of ner must be stopped, two of them stop the suits must be so grouped that quences or low honor tenaces that are only to stop the opponents from run- | able to win tricks as factors in the play in your partner’s suit, preferably in- suit out of your own hand. Failing this, Here are some examples of minimum K39 | Spades—J x Hearts Diamonds—K J x x ub: Spades—Q x Diamonds—Q J 10 x Spades—x x Diamonds—K 10 x x Spades—x Diamonds—K J 10 x He R Clubs—A Hearts—K Clubs—A J Hearts—K Q x x Clubs—A 10 9 x 10 Jox x The holding of one or more tenaces is implied in these conditions. That is why the last example above should be bid two no trump rather than two hearts, a shaded four-card take-out justified by the general strength and distribution of the hand, but inad- | | contract with self-addressed. stamped visable here because it is likely to throw the no trump declaration into the wrong hand. This factor must never be over- looked, maneuvering the no trump bid decides so many games. Sometimes a strong responding hand has a perfectly sound one-over-one re- sponse, but it is desirable that the opening lead be made up to his hand. Should he make his normal suit re- sponse the probabilities are that his partner would bid a no trump to sign off. In this event he would be placing the contract in the wrong hand. So fnstead of making the one-over-one he responds with two no trumps. Now his partner can rebid his suit and the re- sponder will then show his four-card | suit at 3 and the opener will have the choice of contracting for game in no trumps, in the original suit, or in the | belatedly shown suit. Suppose your partner has opened the bidding with one heart. Here is your holding: Spades—A Q 9 Hearts—J 4 Diamonds—K J Clubs—Q 10 4 3 Instead of bidding one spade, bid two no trumps. If your partner bids three hearts, bid three spades. With this hand surely you are better off to have the lead come up to you instead of through you. Your partner will realize that you are strong in tenace positions and that your suit is only a four carder. He knows that you hold two hearts (a vir- tual necessity of the response) and he will thus have a perfect picture of your |hand. His decision should prove un- erring. Occasionally some smart players (not necessarily good ones, though) think that with a long solid suit in a minor and nothing in the other suits, a two no trump response is in order. All I can say is that this is the most inex- cusable abuse of partnership that I know of, as probably the only player round the tables likely to be deceived is the partner of the responder. Bid your minors as minors and leave the rest to your partner. If the hand should be played in no trumps, you'll get there. Mr. Sims will answer all inquiries on en- velope. (Copyright, 1933.) GOOD TASTE TODAY BY EMILY POST. Famous Authority on Etiquette. Letters. 4 EAR MRS. POST: I want to| give a fermal dance to my classmates, but I do not | know their boy friends. How shall I send out the invitations?” Answer: There is no conventional rule concerning this, but you might write notes such as: “Dear Kay—Will you come to a dance I am giving next Saturday at half Elst 9 o'clock, and ring a man with you? Affecticn= ately, Isabel.” I am a young girl a formal dance, and would like to know what kind of corsage it s best to send. (2) ‘The dance is to be given at the fash- donable hotel— would it be im- proper to let her ‘wait for me alone in the lobby of the hotel while“I park the car, and while I get it afterward? The girl is the smartest and most pop- ular girl in town and I don't want to do the wrong thing.” Answer: (1) Send her gardenias, loose. 1If she is very chic, she will wear only two. But you can't very well send her less than four. And if she is prac- tical as well as chic, she will put the others in the ice box and wear two at a time next day. (2) It is quite all right to let her wait in the lobby while you park the car and get it later. “My dear Mrs. Post: When several married couples and several single | foned couples go to a hotel grill to dance, is there’ any best seating arrangement at the table?” Answer: Do not put husbands next to their own wives. Otherwise, seat them as you think they'd like to sit. “Dear Mrs. Post: (1) You say men remove their street gloves to shake hands with a lady. (2) Do men remove these gloves to shake hands with an- other man?” Answer: (1) This is a fixed old-fash- rule, which punctilious men observe, but to which young modern men pay little attention. (2) Never. “Dear Mrs. Post: A girl friend and myself often spend the week end with two boy friends in a cottage in the mountains. We are all over 25. I have been severely criticized for doing this. Should we have a chaperon?” Answer: Most decidedly, yes. (Copyright, 1933.) My Neighbor Says: Roast pork served with either sour apple sauce or cranberry sauc> is delicious. Never let woolen garments freeze after launcering, as it is likely to cause shrinking. ‘When making toast, it improves .it both in taste and digestibility if the slices of bread are laid in the open oven for a little while before toasting them. They will toast better and more evenly for this advance treatment. When dates are added to cake or cooky mixture, they are better if covered with warm water and cooked slowly five minutes. They soften and blend better with other ingredients. (Copyright, 1933.) Antique and Modern Glass BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. =, 311% LD glass has a rare charm for | many collectors who delight in the delicate shapes and colors and slender beauty of Venetian glass, the wonderful steely O blue color of rare Waterford and the | rather sturdy patterns of Early Ame: can_glass, with its quaint names, such as Rose in the Snow, which is a fa- vorite design of the writers. Even the crudity of the old glassblowers' work has its interesting significance. One who is not initiated into the types and distinguishing features ,of vare can still find pleasure (n and good de- be far from unusual, Such a_person may be of a practical turn of mind and like to put pieces to good use. Some utilitarian Purposes are suggested today which may help lessen expenditures for house- hold accessories without robbing them ©f ornament. Well chosen bottles can be tran formed into candlesticks just as large bottles are often used for electric lamp bases. The bottles put to the lamp base use were once used as regular bottles to contain liquids. The cancle- sticks may be selected because antigue, but commercial bottles are today also made in graceful shapes and of clear glass. They do noi have to it for the passage of time to date them as entique before they are consider:d worthy to be candlesticks or lamp bases. Among my purchases during the past Summer were ofl, vinegar, sirup, etc. Each came in such an attractive bottle that to throw it away seemed to be insulting its graceful dignity. And so I stowed them on the closet shelf or |in a windowsill, where they lent dec- | oration, while I was considering their | best uses. Perhaps it may be suggestive to note their present uses. One pair of charm- ing pitcher-bottles now serves as can- dlesticks on a rare old mahogany dressing table. They suit well this | period of furniture, especially when the | flickering torchlike flames give illumi- mination each side of the mirror and reflect in wavering brightness therein. | No streams of liquid wax are allowed | to remain on the glass candlesticks for | this sort of ornameniation savors too | much of carelessness. Four bulbous-shaped, vaselike bottles ltn which oil came are used as table candlesticks for the Summer Cape Cod farmhouse, with its furniture appro- | priate to Its age. One large pitcher- | bottle, with its long, swanlike, although | straight, neck, is kept filled with water | constantly | spring from which the Puritan fore- bears quenched their thirst. pattern is reminiscent of the Rose in the Snow design, previously referred to. | It is a jug <o delight the heart of a | collector—if only the jug were antique! : (Copyright, 1934.) renewed from the same | Its frosted A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. LAB’I' Summer when the cnly woman in the United States Senate—the soft-spoken, black-gowned Mrs. Cara- way of Arkansas—was seeking re-elec- tion, she made a statement read with considerable interest in Wash- ington. 5 “You may see me yet,” she said in discussing her campaign, “flailing my arms around and shouting.” That there was a lot of that sort of thing done in_her campeign, what with Huey Long and his band- wagons touring Arkansas in her behalf, is certain. At any rate, in view of the colorful campaign thai resulted in_her being sent back to the Senate, and her state- ment about “flailing” and “shouting,” many observers watched upon her re- turn to see whether any change could be detected in “the little woman from Arkansas.” Now with the Seventy-second Con- gress in the “home stretch” it is about agreed that to all outward appearances there hasn't been much change. She has yet to inject herself into debate, preferring to remain silent in her seat and listen. In the discharge of her other duties it is much the same. Those Who watched her in hearings before thé Senate committee on the proposed farm relief bill noted that she sat by quietly, intently listening to the testimony of various witnesses. But it is when she is away from the Senate and, as they say “on the Hill,” talking “off the record” that she re- veals herself as she really is. Then she speaks her mind freely. She delights in telling anecdotes about her recent and turbulent campaign. She even recites little poems illustra- ting some of her experiences in that drive with Huey Long that resulted in making her the first woman ever elected for a full term to the Senate. ‘Those who have been in on some of these informal conversations say that it's a vastly different woman from the one who sits daily on the Senate floor, still looking perhaps a bit bewildered and hesifant to jump-in the fray. Perhaps, after all, she’ll never bring herself the point of “fiailing” her arms a “shouting” on the Senate floor. erhaps she remembers the promise she once made her constituents: “I may not talk like a statesman, but I hope to convince you that I vote like one.” LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Tast nite I was sippose to be doing my hcmewerk ony it was hard to do on account of me still thinking about the little white dog with spots an the window at the berd and animal store, me having wawked passed several times today and he looked as if he thawt he reckonized me each time, and I thawt, I wonder if this would be a good time to ask pop? Meening if he would buy him for me, and I said, Hay pop, do you think it's true that horses and dogs are the best frends of man? I regard the virtues of both species as very much overestimated, pop said. Perhaps there was something to be sald for the horse in former times when he left his oats on the table to drag a heavy fire engine to a fire in wich he had no personel intrist, but there are no more firc horses and the modern craze for education has ruined all the other horses’ morals. The other day I read of a race horse so highly trained that he was cawt whis- pering with his jockey in a plot to throw the race in retern for 2 ounces of gin in his next drink of horse lini- ment. Besides, the horse is naturelly a cowerdly animal. Many a time I've seen a big strong horse pretend to look strate ahead in an absent minded man- ner and then suddenly strike a poor little trusting fly with his tail, pop said. But G, pop, that's not dogs, I said, :ndpopwd.lwujmeommsw logs. They chase burgulers, dont they? I said, and pop said, Theoretically, but axually they cant even chase a flea, excepting to another part of their anatomy, unless they have human aid, and in my opinion an animal takes its place in the social scale according to its ability to get rid of its own para- sites, But why these questions pertain- ing to the animal kingdom? he said. O, no special reason, I said. And I kept on doing my homewerk feeling lucky I hadn’t axually asked him yet. MENTU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Grapefruit, Oatmeal with Cream Fish a la Creme Bacon Orange Marmalade Coffee. DINNER. Pruit_Cup Chicken Fricassee Mashed Potatoes Broccoli, Lemon and Butter Sauce Tomato Salad, Mayonnaise Rhubarb Pie Cheese Coffee. SUPPER. Escalloped Oysters Pickles, Olives Parker House Rolls Strawberry Tar? ‘Whipped Cream ‘ea. FISH A LA CREME. One and three-quarter cups of cold flaked fish (cod, halibut, haddock or cusk), one cup of white sauce, bay leaf, sprig of parsley, one-half slice of onion, salt, pepper, one-half cup of but- tered cracker crumbs. Scald milk for the white sauce, with bay leaf, parsley and onion. Cover bottom of small buttered platter with one-half of fish, sprinkled with salt_and pepper, and pour over one-half the sauce. Repeat. Cover with crumbs and bake in hot oven until crumbs are brown. RHUBARB PIE. Line plate with paste and fill with rhubarb cut into one-half inch pieces. Mix one tablespoon flour with one cup sugar and one egg beaten together. Turn this over rhubarb and dot over with a little butter. Cover with paste. STRAWBERRY TARTS. Two cups mashed strawberries, one tablespoon granulated gela- tin, one-half cup powdered sugar, one-half cup cold water, one cup whipped cream. Sift flour, bak- ing powder and salt into bowl; add shortening and rub in very lightly with tips of fingers; add just enough cold water to hoid to- gether. Roll out on floured board and cut into pieces to fit six muf= fin tins and bake 10 minutes in hot oven. When cold fill with strawberries which have been crushed and sweetened to taste. Top with whi) cream or marshmallow w)'q’p and place a whole strawberry, dipped in pow- dered sugar, on top. | (Copyrisht, 1933.) MODES OF THE MOMENT DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX EAR MISS DIX—A short time ago I lost a wonderful wife. She digd at the birth of a baby girl, leaving me with her and-a 3-year- old\son. Before the baby arrived I neglected my wife shamefully, left “her alone night after night. She tried to make things as pleasant as possible for me the few times I did stay at home. Now that she is gone I have only a housekeeper to take care of us. I can see only too plainly the difference in my home and children. My wife always had things neat and clean and hot and tempting meals for me, whereas my housekeeper is sloppy and slovenly and a miserable cook and the babies are not getting the care they need and my little boy cries daily for his mother. I am quite sure that my wife grieved herself to death over my neglect. I would give anything on earth to be able to live the last four years of my life over. Why do we not appreciate things until it is too late? A REPENTANT HUSBAND. ANswm: Because we are stupid and selfish and take our blessings for granted and think they are not half what we deserve. Gratitude and appreciation are the rarest of all the virtues, and that is why many a woman lets her husband work himself to death to support her in idleness and luxury without so much as giving him a casual “thank you.” That is why so many a husband lets his wife make herself a doormat for him to trample on without even perceiving that she is doing it. The woman sees nothing fine and heroic and chivalrous in her hus- band toiling like a galley slave to give her a fine house and a car and good clothes. Nothing noble and self-abnegating in his giving her the. vacations and travel and going to Winter' and Summer resorts that he never takes himself. On the contrary, she more often is complaining and discontented because she cannot, live as some richer woman does. A MAN sees nothing beautiful and unselfishfin his wife spending her days cooking and cleaning and scrubbing to make him comfortable. Nothing to be grateful for in her going shabby that he may have the clothes to cut a figure in the world. Nothing wonderful in her being to stay in with fretful babies while he steps out at night. On the con- trary, he probably complains of his food and knocks her for not pinching the pennies harder and thinks that a woman's place is in the home and she should never want any amusement outside of it. Then death comes and the woman gets some realization of what the love has been that has kept her safe and warm through the years, some vision of how often a tired man must have driven himself on to give her another gewgaw. And the man sees for the first time the devotion that offered itself up on the altar of his comfort and in his own loneliness in his empty house he visions the many dreary evenings he left her to spend alone. It is notable that second husbands and second wives are almost invariably treated better than first ones are, and into this consideration and understanding and appreciation goes a lot of atonement to those who are beyond the reach of repentance. DOROTHY DIX. LR Dmh MIss PDfiEWe are tlwo girls who do not drink or smoke, but Who go out with some nice girls and boys, always to respectab places. Sometimes to the theater, sometimes “y)' a d.ng,el at the churcl; hall. But our problem is how late should we stay out. As I work I cannot leave before 9 o'clock and as dad insists on our being home at 12 o'clock it breaks up the evening's fun. Dad asked us to write to you to settle the time definitely, and what you say goes. Do you think 1 or 2 o'clock is too late for Saturday night? TWO SISTERS. Answer: Certainly not for Saturday night, because can slee) the next day, but too late for a week night if you havyemlw get do‘pmh:: work early in the morning. Tell your father that parties begin at later hours than they did when he and I were young. Then it was all right for us to be Cinderellas who lost our glass slippers if we stayed up later than 12. But nowadays the fun 1or2. Itisa pity, doesn’t lndulgmbwflndhermryl’flncel‘;: because both boys and girls need gxin. much before that time to stay up until at least sleep and would their be the better for being in bed by midnight, but we can't change customs. (Copyright, 1933.) g OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATEL Clearing Up. . I GET along with Betty first rate until it is time to clear away the playthings. Then the trou- ble starts. She sits on the floo: and cries, ‘I can't, I can' Of course, I tell her she must. Then there is a scene that ends in a spank- ing and the whole evening is spoiled.” Betty is 2 going on 3. She plays herself ragged so that when clearing up time comes she is weary. Clearing up is harder than taking out. The game is over and it is the old story of paying for a dead horse. Still, Betty must learn to pay her way. ‘Three years and under is a bit young for hard work, and to a little child this is hard work. We have to think ahead and prevent the trouble. First keep an eye on what is brought out. It is a mistake to allow a child to empty a toy closet on the floor. He can never get it back again. Limit the amount that is brought out at a time. If one top is put aside it must be at once returned to its place. The second one is not to be brought out until that first one is in place. 'This helps a lot. ‘Then stop the play in time for clear- ing up. Let the child stop, take a drink, relax a minute. Then send him to put away his things. If he has only a piece or two he will have no difficulty. If there is a whole set of blocks scattered about he needs help. Cut the job to the ability of the child and remember that he is not as energetic at the close of the game as he was at the start. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. - N After all I been through I comes back an’ dinner ain't ready! (Copygkeht, 1933.) =2 The older child who leayes his room in a whirl in the morning, who never hangs up his hat and coat, never knows where: his things are, needs to be trained again. Teach him to his bed, open his window wide, up his d robe away before Once you establish that routine you have made a long stride toward teach- ing him order and co-operation. The next step will be easler. Of course, he has a hook and a shelf for his clothes and his books. A lookout when he comes in from schoo! will keep him up to the hook and the shelf. It takes that sharp lookout morning and noon and night to instill this habit of order. That sounds hard, but it really takes but a few minutes daily once the idea has been set. When children get the idea of neatness, of putting things they have used in their places promptly, home is very much more peaceful. Disorder is tiresome. Order makes the atmosphere restful and brings seren- ity of spirit. That spirit is worth work- ing for and its effect on the character of the children is well worth the steady, persistent effort it costs. (Copyright, 1933.) Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Just Plain Talk. Perhaps you have wondered why we all begin to talk about the weather every time we meet an acquaintance on the street. “It's a nice day,” “It's a hot day,” “Looks like we might have a shower.” And so on with seemingly meaningless remarks about the obvious | atmospheric conditions. Elbert Hubbard, I believe, pointed out that weather talk was a common human | frailty. Something of a mental dis- ease which he called verbomania. But there is something else to all this | weather talk and its relatives such as | war talk, prohibition talk, political talk, depression talk and all the other talks. We, of course, have no intention of doing anything about these obvious, ab- stract and impossible subjects of con- versation. In fact we choose just such subjects because we are not likely to be called upon to defend a given posi- tion, after all the “ifs” and “ands” have been taken into consideration. Wemxthueumrort.hznm;g:e of doing something with them. it something is the obvious, useful business of keeping on speaking terms with our social surroundings. The man who re- fuses to talk, even though he has noth- to say, is something of a self-con- ceited introvert who derives his greatest Eleuul;emchhmmhynlhn(w (Copyright, 1933.) NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. WHITE PINE. ! P. Strobus. | AVE you ever noticed how much | trees are like people? There are the weepy ones, those who scatter their possessions all The oaks are sturdy and the pines up- . _You always know what a pine tree will do. They are lovable and will g0 to a desolate lool ce, where all the trees have burned down or been cut away, and pretty soon you will see a fine filly party of white pine trees. They e fine nurses for less sturdy e et 3 Tk Tt and g green dress. Pines do - shed clothes. They are so modest about it and so very particular, too, that you are unaware of the fact. ‘The pines are among our most ancient trees. The lumber has many uses and is made into many things from a tall mast for a ship to tooth- picks and matches. At one time great quantities were shipped all over the United States for the making of furni- ture, boats and too many things to enumerate. Like all things, there comes a time when they must be renewed, and today we are faced with the fact that we used our favorite wood too lavishly. Fortunately, the tree grows fast. It is symmetrical and very handsome in its youth. The beautiful, clear, straight branches are clothed with 'delicate, lume-like tufts of blue-green leaves in undles of five. Around the center bud are five buds on the new twigs. The trunk and limbs send out whorls of five, and the Spring, when the tree is in bloom, is the time to get acquainted with it. In old age, the tree is pic- turesque and dignified. It often towers open, the lower branches stay with the parent tree. Birds, squirrels and small animals take shelter under them in the Winter and the seeds are carried far away by the guests. The number of needles in a whorl helps you to identify your pine. The white pine has bundies of five, the Austrian two and the pitch pine three. You will be surprised at the great dif- ference there is between pine leaves or needles. Some are rough, some smooth, others scratchy. Those of the white pine are soft and pliable and make the most wonderful chains. The sharp point of the leaf is inserted into the :thmnz. tough parchment sheath and singing trees, the happy disconsolate ones, all have a story to tell to those who will understand and listen to Surprise in Henyard. smiling needs defeat, one who beat. —Old Mother Nature. The good Admiring the ARLY. the morning after he had so carefully set a trap for Reddy Fox, the farmer whose hens Reddy and Mrs. Reddy had breakfasted on a few days before, . started for his henyard, confident that .| if these Foxes had returned he would find one of them there, fast in that cruel steel trap. It had been set. He was an old trapper, skilled in the setting of traps and wise in the ways of Foxes. He had taken special care in the setting of this trap and in his mind there wasn't a shadow of doubt that any Fox who came prowling around that yard would be caught. Before he reached the yard he could their | see that there was no Fox there. “Didn't come last night after all,” thought he. “Well, I won't let the hens out today and Il leave things just as they are and perhaps one of those Foxes will come back tonight.” A few steps more brought him near enough to get a good view of the yard, and he emitted a low whistle of surprise and chagrin. There, just inside the slightly open gate, lay the trap in plain sight, and it was upside down. Yes, sir, that is just the way it was, upside down! That way it was, of course, harmless. 1t had been dug up out of the snow and | neatly turned over. Now the story of all that had hap- pened had been clearly written in the soft snow for those who could read it, and the farmer could, for as I said be- fore, he was an old trapper. To him everything was as clear as if he had seen all that had happened. With grow- ing interest he ‘studied the tracks and marks in the light soft snow. “There were two Foxes, just as I thought,” said he. “Here is where they came along t the yard. There is where one of them sat down just to one side. Here is where the other sat right in front of the gate and studied things. He was suspicious. Probably the very fact that that gate was open a little way made him so. He has had experiences with traps, that fellow has. He didn’t know that there was a trap hidden just inside, but he suspected there was. So instead of walking in and stepping in that trap as I expected him to, he made a long leap clear over it. Over there is where he landed. Then he made straight for that little entrance to the henhouse, but being suspicious, he was careful how he ap- proached it. When he discovered that he couldn’t get in where the hens were he knew that his suspicions were well founded. “He didn't come straight back to this gate, but circled around next to the fence, until he was in back of this slightly open gate. His tracks show that. He noticed the little mound A Little Saturday Talk. HAVE before me a letter which them. Do not make the mistake of getting writ friendly with too many trees at first. Study one or two at a time. You will be surprised to learn how quickly your tree begins your education. They will teach you courage, patience, sturdiness and endurance. Try to adopt one tree a season. (Copyright, 1933.) WINTER Hawks. INTER is the time of year to watch for the Washington hawks and eagles. A few are absent in lowing the smaller birds, their prey, to the South, but they are amply replaced by others, which de- scend from regions locked in the long sleep of snow and ice, to pass the short days in our climate which, for them, must seem mild even in Fel 3 ‘The common Winter visitants in this class of birds are the red-tailed hawks, and bitterly the farmer hates them. Sometimes a hawk will venture right into a suburban poultry yard, when hunger drives him to it, and there he swoops down on hens chickens. If you have ever seen him do it, you will know what a crafty fellow he is. I remember an air raid of this sort in North Carolina. There was already great commotion in the chicken yard at the hawk’s approach, but even so, his curious, sidling glide seemed to be tak- ing him along the fence, and when he saw_his moment he suddenly a chicken with a swift sideways snat of his talons. All the time he seemed bound somewhere else, to be in another direction. A perfect tecl for larceny! Country folk say that these hawks carry off squirrels—that must, indeed, be a battle of wits—but, of course, the open ground. er of farm; exc a Winter bird. ‘The red-tailed hawk is the real chicken snatcher among our hawks, and it is well to know him. He has a large wing spread and his length from head to tail is almost two feet. Seen from below (as we usually do see him) he appears whitish or tawny, with brown streaks, the tail gray, with a band of black near the end and t&:ped with ;httgiedhmbovey&ehh a dull brown, real or rusty red markings, the ufinchmnut. In Spring ;l: l;l:di often, ni-:‘;mtgellr nesting unds, keep up a ealing, as if somebody were inj t‘g‘e‘m. A much rarer Winter tant is the American goshawk; a few sharp-shinned hawks and marsh hawks remain every Winter; the wallow-tailed kite is ex- tremely rare; the duck hawk is prob- ably a regular Winter bird, but never common. However, many Winters a pair has taken up abode in the tower of the Post Office on Pennsylvania ave- nue, where, I presume, they are a lot safer from hunters than if they were ::hjodlg their brothers cn the Potomac nds. The people who hunt hawks are in a peculiar class. No hawk is good eating, so that they are not killed for the ex- cusable motives of real sportsmanship. The farmer does not hunt them sys- tematically; he merely blazes away at hawks if his rifie is handy and his poultry threatened. Hawk _shooting seems to be carried on by the some- what misguided, good citizens who be- i be their civic duty—the same, perhaps, who pull up ragweed and poison ivy and eradicate their own barberry and currant bushes. The re- sult is an increase of rats, mice andl rabbits, whose population hawks curtail. Prune-Banana Creme. Cover one pound of prunes with cold water, add the rind of half a lemon and three-fourths cupful of sugar, and cook until the prunes are soft. Cool, strain, reserving the juice. Remove the pits and cut the prunes in quarters. Mix two teaspoonfuls of constarch with three-Tourths cupful of prune juice. Let come to & boil. Remove from the fire. Mix one tablespoonful of gelatin with half a cupful of cold water and dissolve over hot water. Add to the prune juice, cool and combine with the quartered prunes. Lastly add one cupful of heavy cream whipped. Pour into a two-quart bowl lined with two medium-sized bananas and chill for several ‘hours. is & delicious dessert. me saying: “My -little son has had quite a time getting this letter and you will appreciate the fact that he ) certainly _intes For a few minutes over again the story | BEFORE HE REACHED THE YARD | HE COULD SEE THAT THERE | WAS NO FOX THERE. “Pooled me, he did” sald he. “I thought I was smart, but he was cmarter. And the other Fox watched |him do it and knows the trick now. | With a smart pair like that around | we'll have to keep a sharp eye on the | hens apd see that they are kept shut up. y won't bother us for awhile now, for the finding of this trap will | make them suspicious, but soomer or | later they'll come back. They got three of my hens, but I don't begrudge them their success. It is worth the price just to see the evidence of how smart one of those red rascals can be, Yes, sir, 1t is worth the price.” The farmer was a good sport. (Copyright. 1933.) Sprinkle them with white salt, and lay on a d{g Dear Uncle Ray: I want to join the new 1933 Uncle Club, and I inclose a stamped envelope carefully addr Please send me a Membership Certificate, a leaflet Corner scrapbook of my own, and a of my scrapbook. NamMe ......ccocoivecnnncrncsnnnns Street or R. F. D.. . printed design to paste on the (Copyright, 1933.) SCREEN ODDITIES BY CAPT. ROSCOE FAWCETT. Tyrone Power, at the age of 62, had come to Hollywood to enter pictures after "a successful career on the New York stage. Assigned to ‘‘The Miracle Man,” he accomplished a splendid bit of acting for the death-bed scene in that film in which he was required to scenes, whether on location or in ing parades for he has a * Hollywood. Made of light wood speak the line “I have not long to live.” next day he died suddenly from a heart attack and Hobart Bosworth him in the talkie. ‘The replaced chair,” the only one of its kind in and constructeq like a music stand, it can be folded up and carried in the pocket. Nearly 1,000,000 miles of film are used annually in producing pictures a$ Metro studios. Paramount makes more than 65,000 still each 8! photographs No other actress resembles hair is so distinctive in shade.