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MAGAZINE PAGE. AMAZE A MINUTE SCIENTIFACTS—BY ARNOLD. (cATTLE, SHEEP, DEER. CAMELS, GIRAFFES ) RISE HIND PART HonG Kong -}b Hong Kone 1S NOT A ciTy IN CHINA, BUT AN ISLAND AT MOUTH oF CANTON RIVER. ONLY o MAN OUT 200 I M THAN SIX TALL. 200/ RISING WAYS — ALL MEMBERS OF THE CUD-CHEWING FAMILY OTHER LARGE FOUR- FOOTED ANI- . MALS GET uP | FRONT LEGS Y FIRST. NE OF ORE FEET Gy 1338 by GUOOD TASTE TODAY BY Famous Author; Marriages. EAR MRS. POST: I am to be married to a gir: who knows much more about manners than I do. o I don't want ‘D than neccssary on our wedding trip. Is it right to leave my bride in the car when I go into a hotel to register? And how do I register?” Answer: If you have engaged your rocm in advance, you stop your car short of the door, or drive it just be- yond, where it caa be perked for a few minutes. If there is no parking mace within a short distance, you l((’n, at the door to let ¢ your wife alight. And tell the bell bor, who invariably runs out to meet you, to stand on the running board until you find parking space. ries your bags back to the hotel. You and your wife go into the lobby. You g> to the desk and register, “Mr. and Mrs. John Smith,” or else “John Smith on one line and “Mrs. John Smith” on the line below. If you have not en- gaged accommodations, you stop near (but not blocking) the front door. Your wife sits in the car (and does not let the cager bell boy take the bags) while you go to the desk to see about a room. If this is all right, you resigster and then you go out to the car and get your wife. The bell boy carries in the bags and shows you to your room. (If ac- commodations are not satisfactory you get into the car and drive to another hotel—perhaps to another town.) Hav- ing been shown into your room, you tip the bell boy a quarter for a medium amount of luggage or 25 cents apiece if tuggage requires two boys. You then go down and take your car to the garage or, if you and she intend to drive around town, leave it parked until you want to use it. “My dear Mrs. Post: You say that when a boy and girl break their engage- ment, any gifts that the girl received at shower parties, or those given to her as engagement gifts, ought to be returned to the people who gave them. Does this held good in my own case—I was mar- ried and a short time later the marriage was annulled?” Answer: You would keep the pres- ents. Of course, all rules have excep- tions. If you deserted your husband immediately, vou might return presents to make any more mistakes | Emily Post, sent you by his family. but only if they i were very important presents. MENU FOR A DAY. Grapefruit. Oatmeal with Cream Omelet. Bacon Cornmeal Muffins Coffee DINNER Cream of Celery Soup Roast Pork, Brown Gravy Pickled Watermelon Rind Mashed Potatozs, Cream Turnips, Tomato Sz2l2d, Mayonnaise SUPPER Escalloped Oysters, Mixed Pickles Parker House Rolls Orange Bavarian Cream Silver Cake Tea OMELET. One teaspoon of water to each egg. Four io six eges make a good omelet. Beat yolks light, add a little salt. Put one tablespoon butter in spider; when melted pour in mixture. When it be- gins to set pour beaten whites on top. Run bread knife —under omelet to allow butter to run under. When set all over, fold and serve at once. STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE. Sift together one pint flour, one teaspoon salt, four teaspoons baking powder (level), chop in two tablespoons butter. Wet with milk for a soft dough. about one-half cup usually). Bake 12 minutes. Split and butter and put the following between and on top: One cup crushed straw- berries, one cup suger, one beaten egg white. Beat all to- gether until firm. Trim the top of cake with whole berries cr some cut in halves. ORANGE CREAM. Soften one-half box of gelatin in one-half cup cold water, then place over boiling water until dissolved. Beat the yolks of two , add one cup sugar, one- fourth teaspoon salt and one cup hot milk, and cook in a double boiler until the custard coats the spoon. Remove from the fire, add the dissolved gelatin and the grated rind of two-oranges; let stand five minutes and strainc Chill, add the juice of four oranges and one cup of heavy cream beaten until stiff; turn into a wet mold and place on ice until firm. (Copyright, 1933.) EMILY He then | POST. ity on Etiquette. Hestess, Guest, Mistress. (¢ Y DEAR MRS. POST: My husband would like to in- vite a former college rcom- mate of his for the week end, but insists that I must find out from you whether ‘fussing’ too much over guests is not in bad ta: I contend that I must look after | every nezd of a guest, but he says this | is overdone in our house.” | Answer: I can’t answer definitely | about your individual situation. But, | having provided the best accommoda- | tion and food and entertainment you can, you really must not fuss, or g:t into an agitated state of mind. Above | all, don’t imagine that your guest is ! not having a good time unless during every moment of his stay he is.being | ruzhed, tourist fashion, from this oc- | cupation to that. If he is silent for a fev; minutcs, do not think he is bored and wonder what ycu can do to divert him. If he prefers to read. don't in- terrupt every half pege to ask whether he would rather do something else. One of the most appealing qualities a | guest can possibly find is restfulness. Remember that! “Dear Mrs. Post: When I am an | overnight _guest and know that before ;th? bed I slept in is remade, all the ‘linen will be changed and the room | cleaned, is it in this instance necessary | to turn’ the covers back over the foot of the bed, or how should they be left?” | _Answer: Leave them any way you | choose. It does not matter to any one | but you. “My Dear Mrs. Post: I have two young ladies boarding with m:. When | they have their friends come in and I | am’ present in the living room, is it proper for me to rise or keep my seat?” Answer: If they are younger than | you, keep your seat. This is because, 1h!th0ugh you own the house, your | boarders are hostesses to their own | guests. | “Dear Mrs. Post: Within a short | time I expect to marry a man vho | lives out of town and has a large hc. | and many servants. When I reach my |new home and the servants are in line for presentation to me, will you | please tell me what I say.” | Answer: I can't imagine that they'll | be in line, but if they are, you smile, | say, “How do you do,” and then say, {“I hope you will be very happy with me.” Or if you see them individually | say, “How do you do, Ellen (or James). I'm very glad to see you.” | “Dear Mrs. Post: My husband and I want to join a neighboring golf club, but as we do not know any of the mem- | bers well enough to ask them to pro- | pose our names, we don't know how to proceed. Can you tell us? Answer: I wish I knew how to ad- | vise you. The real question is how to | meet the necessary number of mem- bers and how to make them like you enough to want to put you up for membership! Or it is posaible that the club you have in mind is open to every one who lives in the neighbor- hood. Can’t you find this out? If there is no other way of finding out, you might write to the sccretary of the club and ask whether there is any way trangers may be given the privilege of playing on the course. (Copyright Salad a la Russe. One-half cupful each of diced and cooked roast beef. tongue, chicken and ham, six anchovy fillets, two table- spocnfuls minced pickles, one table- spoonful minced onion, one tablespoon- ful minced olive, one cupful mayon- naise, one head lettuce. Make separate piles of diced meat, roast beef, tongue, chicken and ham upon a salad platter. Split anchovies and arrange around the meat. Mix pickles, onion and olives with mayon- naise and pile in center. Shred lettuce and place around the edge of platter. 1933.) WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. YCAN HAROLY SEE Foe ‘THAT BALD HEADED MAN ashington movie theaters displayed the sign, “Ladies Will Please Remove Their Hats,” before the start of each performance? 1 ering how to make hints effective. NING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1933. . NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. WHITE-TAILED RABBIT. Lepus Campestris. " JACK RABBITS, so called, are really hares. Their home grounds cover many States and at one time a bounty was on every head. From the great plains of Alberta, Saskatchewan end Manitoba, south to Montana, from Wyoming to the Da- kotas, Minnesota, Towa, Nebraska and the northern half of Kansas, he be- came a pest. Even in high altitudes he flourish. _ Swifter than a greyhound and far more clever, he covered much ground and his food bill was high. The prairie hare, as he is often called, is a big fellow. He is 2 feet long and weighs 7 pounds. His fa- vorite position is squatting on the; ground with one ear cocked east and the other west. His hearing is acute and his long, quivering ears moving about, act as an aerial and pick up every sound. The large eyes scan the prairies and the feet are so placed on the ground that the owner can get a fiying start. Efficiency is the watchword with these animals. They bound over the plains like balloons and can keep straight course. Their cousin, the rab- bit, has a zigzag way of running. He adopted this way of outwitting his en- cmies. Two suits a year, which match his sur- roundings, also give him an advantage. In the Winter, with the exception of black-tipped ears and tail, he is unseen on the snow fields. In the Summer, the fur coat is one of a plece with the dead grass and the sand dunes. The home of these rabbits is called a “form” and is not in the ground, but above it. Nearly always it is among the great brown clumps of dead grass. Here, in the heat of the day, the here will be found, stretched out +nd sound asleep. The least movement finds him sitting up and ready to flee across the plains, Company seems unnecessary to them WHITE-TAILED RABBIT ] and rarely do you sce them together. In June or July they seck their mates. The nursery will have a fresh clean lin- ing of gr The babies, four to six 1of them, are fully clothed in fur as soft as fluff and their lafge eyes are wide open. In a few @ays you will see the downy little balls, as light as balloons, playing about their front door. Even at this early time of their life, they are alert, clever at hiding, and can make a respectable leap—for a baby. This famous leap is not only to give them a start, but also a view of the surround- ings. At this age they are amusing lit- e zigzaggers and to catch one of them is extremely difficult. Of course, the hare has many ene- mies besides man. The wolves, wild- cats, eagles, coyotes and other animals lie in wait for him. They use stealth and cunning. and when one of them outwits the hare, he has used every known trick in his bag. Unless in terror or pain, the white- tailed rabbit is a quiet fellow. His wail of anguish is almost human and at times amounts to a shriek. At one time the favorite sport on the flat open fields was a race between trained greyhounds and the white-tailed rabbit. It was pretty exciting. The greyhounds lost most of the time. (Copyright. 1933.) OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRL Suggestion. F_teacher and parents on] how strong the influence %bf their suggestions to children is, they would spend less time and energy on commands and more on discov- knew There is truth in is as good as a kick.’ Hints are not always expressed in words. They are far too subtle in their nature for such crude exprescion. A sigh, a smile, a wink, a gesture, and the thing is done. There has been regis- tered in the mind of the child an idea for future use. “Why, Simon, I thought you were go- ing to stay for tea with grandma this evening.” “I was, but she didn't want me.” “Nonsense. Don't talk that way about your grandmother. Of course, she want- ed you.” “I'm not talking that way, ma, Gram was all right. She just didn't want me to stay tonight, so I said good-by and | came along home.” “Did she say che didn't want you! “Goodness I'm not so dumb that she has to put me out of the house. No, of course not. I knew she didn’t want me and I came home. There's nothing to make a fuss about. She has a right n}t’at’to want me to stay to tea, hasn't she?” “What I'd like to know is why you say your grandmother did not want you to stay to tea when you admit that she did not say so. I think your tmagina- tion must be working overtime. Or maybe you didn't want to stay.” “T'd have stayed if Gram had wanted me to, but she didn’t. I know when I'm not wanted and it's quite all right with me.” . Mother couldn't let it go at that so she called Gram on the telephone. “He's right. I sent him home because Jessie is coming for tea tonight and she dislikes boys_and he would have been miscrable. I didn’t think it was / to tell him so. I just let him said mother. e adage “A hint P “I just won- dered.” Boys and girls have a trick of listen- ing to what you think rather than to what you say. They know when you like them and when you don't. They knew when you agree with them and when you do not. Thev are quick to feel that you are troubled, doubtful, afraid, and they respond to vour feel- iings as the needle to the pole. . They watch what you do and record it and when they are placed in a like situation they do as you did. Not that you said anything. Your manner. your behavior, vour whole attitude suggested an idea and it caught. Most of the teaching we do. the trulv effective teaching. is done indirectly and by suggestion. The toncs of cur voices. the quality of them, the exvression of our faces, the movements of our body speak loudly though we remain un- conscious of their influence. 5 When a_child’s behavior troubles you it might be well to search for the sug- gestion that is at work in his environ- ment and attend to that rather than to the action itself. which is usually but the symntom of the underlying condi- tion. A hint is a powerful force, though it be expressed by so slight a thing as a glance. (Copyright, 1933.) Cream of Mushroom Soup. Three-fourth ushrooms, 1 lespoon juice, 2 teaspoons salt, 4 tablespoons buttcr, 4 tablespoons flour, 3 cups milk, 1 cup cream. Peel and grind mush- rocms. Cook in double boiler with the water, lemon juice and salt for 10 minutes. Make ¢ white sauce of the zan_mr. flour and 4 e mix- DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Can Man Who Is. Prince Abroad and Pauper at Home Be Changed?—Must Man Support His Sister-in-Law? EAR MISS DIX: !lmmarfledw-mwhu}l prince abroad everything band, but never a cent in my pocketbook that I can do with as I will. I even have to turn over to him every month the income that I get on some property that I own myself. Worse than this, when we are in company my husband is everything that is gallant and courteous to me, but when we are in the privacy of the home he curses and abuses or else will not speak to me sometimes for three months at a time. He sends his children to college, but never gives them any money so that they may have the things that their schoolmates have. Both the children and myself live in terror of him. What can you do with a like that? MRS, ANSW!R: Nothing, I am afraid, because men like that o not change their natures. It is only in fairy tales that a miracle happens that alters a man’s entire character so that the bully becomes gentle and u;{glly, the tightwad becomes open-handed and the grouch turns into a lyanna. Only once have I known this transformation to take place in re: life. I knew one man who had literally killed two gentle, delicate, refin ‘women whose hearts he broke by his cruelty and tyranny and abusive treatment. Then this brute married a third woman, a red-headed virago, ‘who could get 50 much madder than he could, and who could talk so much more quickly, and say so many more bitter and scathing things to him than he could think of, and who could make such tempestuous les that she simply cowed him and had him so frightened of her that h& became as meek and mild as Mary’s little l]amb and treated her with the greatest ’ courtesy and consideration. OP‘ COURSE, either one of the first wives could have done that, too, for a bully, and particularly the yellow bully who rides roughshod over his own family, is always a coward and would give in to any woman ‘who had spunk enough to really fight him. But not many women have the nerve to do that, and the more of a lady a wife is, the less is she fitted to deal with the brutal type of husband. So there is nothing left for these poor souls but to endure their unhappy lots with what fortitude can summon up, or else to get divorces. And divorce is out of the fon when there are children whose welfare must be considered first. ‘What pleasure & man gets out of terrorizing his family and making his home unhappy, nobody knows. Perhaps he is taking a secret and subtle revenge on his wife and children for his suppressed desire for freedom, his chafing at the bonds of domesticity, his longing to have his money to spend on himself instead of its going to buy groceries and clothes and pay schooling and household bills. PE’R.HAPS his family furnishes the escape vent for all the meanness in his nature and he blows off on them the temper and surliness that he dares not show the outside world. Perhaps his family furnishes him the only opportunity he has to exercise his tyrannical bent and ride rough- shod over some one weaker than he is. they quest} Anyhow it is, nothing could show up the littleness of a man’s soul 80 vividly as for him to make his family the scapegoats on whom to wreak his ill-nature. For it is 50 pitiably easy to tyrannize over women and children. It is so safe to insult them because they cannot strike back or defend themselves. They are so absolutely helpless in the hands of the man at the head of the house, and it is 50 dastardly a thing in him to use his power to grind them down and rob their lives of all happiness. BUT in the end there is kismet. In the end justice is done and the man reaps as he has sown He has killed his wife's affection for him. He has mede his childrgn fear him instead of love him. He has deprived himself of all the sweetness and tenderness that he might have had in home life, and at the last he is left a lonely, unloved old man. I have heard many old men complain of the ingratitude of their children and say that their children cared nothing for them, but I have never known a case in which the man was not himself to blame. He had done nothing to make his children love him and there was no reason why they should. DOROTHY DIX. DEAR MISS DIX—I am the father of five children, with a salary under $100 a month. Some time ago my wife’s sister left her husband and came uninvited to live with us. Apparently she has settled down on us for life. Spends her time running around with men instead of looking for work. I cannot afford to support her in addition to my family. Should my wife tell her sister that she must leave, or should I tecll her myself? I am so tired of fighting in-laws. She has been with us for seven months. FED UP. Answer: You are the head of the house and you should tell her to leave. She is evidently a grafter, because she kngws well enough that she is taking the bread out your children's mout%s. and she will stay on until you force her to leave. There is no reason why you should deprive your family to support an able-bodied woman. If she cannot get work, let her go to some charity. It will be much more able to support her than you are. DOROTHY DIX. * k x % (Cepyright. 1933.) UNCLE RAY’S CORNER A Little Saturday Talk. HE last time I was in Stratford- on-Aven, England, I invited a group of boys and girls to go with me on a picnic. We visited a pleasant park, and had much fun playing cricket and eating the ice cream and other refreshments. For every child, a “prize” was pro- vided—at least, that was my plan. /As it turned out, there were more at the picnic_than we had expected. What | could I do? Among the children was a dark-eyed 12-year-old girl named Dorothie Smith, and she knew that she was to receive a pretty Japanese parasol as a gift; but she whispered to me, “Uncle Ray, please give the parasol to someone. else.” I smiled and said “All right,” but back in my mind was the thought that some day I would send her another present to take the place of what she was so thoughtfully giving up. thus—once more—she placed among those who try to help and the beautiful. Would you like to join our 1933 Scra) Club? It is not too late, and we shall welcome you as a member. In- close a stamped return envelope, and ask for a leaflet telling how to make a Corner scrapbook. UNCLE RAY. ‘Therself the good Use this coupon to join our new 1933 Scrapbook Club! TO UNCLE RAY, Care of The Evening Star, ‘Washington, D. C. Dear Uncle Ray: I want to join the 1933 Uncle Ray Scrapbook Club, and I inclose a stamped en- velope carefully addressed to my- self. Please send me a Member- ship Certificate, a leafiet telling how to make a Corner scrapbook of my own, and a printed design to paste on the cover of my scrapbook. Name Street or R.F.D. containing $2 and asking her something for herself to take the place of the %Icnlc P On the very morning of the day I am writing their Saturday Talk I re- cel;ed a letter from Dorothie containing paragraph: “I received the dollars very gratefully. I spent the money on giving my friends, some of whom you know, a river picnic. Mother made little jellies with State or Province. That is interesting; but most like what this young es, lddmm:}:kd wh:tlll JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in Etiquette. BY JOS. J. FRISCH. /£ GEORGIE PESTE F. E. G—Another “cutting in" rule is that a man, after cutting in on another man, must not, if he can pos- sibly avoid it, continue to cut in on the same man when he dances with other partners. Continual interruptions like this r:m'k a man as {ll-bred as well a pest. That Body of Yours BY JAMES W. BARTON, M. D, . Your Family History. UR humorists do not poke fun at physicians for blaming so many ailments on infected teeth, beci.use practically every family, lncludgu that of the humorist, has had definite proof of the damage done by infected and gums. Another joke that is - ->idly passing or ol use is that re arding the ques- ticns the physician asks about your family history. Just what forms of illness vour parcnts, uncles, aunts and grand- parents suffered with, or died from, seemed so ridicu- lous that it becam~ standard Every thinking | individual n o w| knows that he or she resembles one or both sides of the family;: knows the tendency toward high biood pressure, low blood pressure, stroke, cpilepsy, apoplexy or paralytic stroke, tuberculesis, rheumatism, asth- ma, stomach and intestinal ulcer. even cancer itself, that runs through the family. ‘They have scen one side of the family. slender individual:, have a history cf tuberculosis, ulcer of stomach, a “dropped” stomach, and the other side, stout individuals, afflicted with heart. kidney, gall biadder and blood-vessel ailments. One of the things that used to amaze | me was the striking resemblance of al child to one cr other of its parents. As I thought the matter over. however, my | amazement was that they did not look even more like the parents. So your doctor or the insurance doctor is naturally anxious about your his- { tory: your family doctor. because he may help you to avoid various ailments, !and the insurance doctor, because he deesn't want to take too many chances Dr. Barfon. | took note of little things. in recommending to the company that | you be given insurance. As you know, ! the value of your insurance policy de- | pends upon the care taken by the in- surance doctors when you are exsamined. Your chances cf living to a reascnable age are all figured out not only by the | examination, but also by the medical | hictory of your family. This doesn't mean that you must necessarily suffer from these family ail- ments and be frce from those from which they were free. It does mean, however, that you are more likely to have the same family history. And the knowledge of this family hictory should help you to live sanely. (Copyrizht, 1933.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. My ant Fanny sent me a book on account of thinking it would do me good to read it. Making me feel like reading something elts instead, and last | nite after supper, I said to ma G, ma gosh, do I hafl to finish this darmn ‘book? It's no darn book, it’s intristing and it's educational and it will improve you to read it, ma said, and I said, Well G, ma, I don't feel like being improved, I feel all rite. V/hat book's all this? pop seid, and ma ceid, It's the Life of James B. Kunkle and tells all about how he rose ; from being the lowly son of a poor farmer to the president of the famous Kunkle Can Company, it's a very in- spirational thing for a boy to read. Well aw G, pop, I was rite at the most intristing part of Paul Peppy Among the Bush Rangers, cant I stop this till I finish Paul y? 1 said, Absilutely not, pop said. There’s no future among the bush rangers for any- body except perhaps young Mr. Peppy, while on the other hand a careful study of the career of a grate self-made man like James B. Kunkle may c your entire outlook on life. James E. Kun- kle himself was no doubt spurred on in his boyhood by reeding of the deeds of other grate men and there’s no rea- son why you cant be so inspired by the story ‘of his life that you will be werth /having a book written about you some day, wich in tern will instill the boys of the future with the germs of _ambition, he said. Well G, maybe that's rite, pop, I think it’s beginning to inspire me al- ready, I said. It says here that he never did anything but stick to bizz- ness, and even when he was a boy my age he helped his father pay the mor- gage by raising rabbits. So gosh, pop. maybe I can help you that way. If you leave me get a few rabbits up at the berd and animal store there’s plen- ty of room down our celler. G. pop. that's a swell ideer, I've got a lot of germs of ambition about it, can I, pop. I said. . Yee gods. I dont happen to have a morgage, thanks, pop said. On 2nd thawts maybe you better read Paul WOMEN'S FEATURES. BEDTIME STORIES *; Jumper Is Disturbed. There are no trifies, you will find; The mighty atom keep in mind. —Old Mother Nature. HINGS may appear to be mere trifiez, but in the long run they are quite likely to bring about results of great importance. So only the foolish, the heedless and the ignorant regard little things as unimportant. Jumper the Hare, like his small cousin, Peter Rabbit, is often regarded a5 having little wit; as a happy-go- lucky fellow, heedless and careless and lucky to live as long as he has. Now the supreme fact is that both Peter and Jumper have managed to keep out of the clutches of more hungry enemies than have any others save members of the Mouse family, and as no one is always lucky, it must be that some- thing more than luck is to account for | it. Well, if you would know the truth, | it is that Peter and Jumper are smarter than they are given credit for ng. . Peter likes best the deer old Briar- Patch and the Old Pasture. Jumper prefers the Green Forest, and there Thorrton . Burgess, |that. He found that someone had recently eaten bark from trees that he had not himself touched. “There is ancther Hare living ‘around here or my name isn't Jumper,” he muttered. “He has no business on my range and I won't have him '(l;hfl'c i}s_ plflzly of t{mm for him ? reen Forest outside my e. won't have him here nnrdu&tt Il’: there is to that!” But driving that strange Hare omt was another matter. Yes, indeed, # was quite another matter. You sge Jumper seldom could get & lnm the the stranger and when he did - be off of Jumper’s range where .n-:; would take to his long legs feels most at home. Having long legs that take him over the ground rapidly | Jumper is more of a traveler than Peter, | but as a rule he confines his wandering | to a comparatively small range. That | 1s to say he doesn't go on long 1our-i neys. Even when he is pursued by an | enemy, and this happens often, he | sticks to his home range. He knows | that there he has a better chance of escape. His reason for doing this he ex- plained to Peter. “You see, Cousin Peter,” sald he, “I know every tree, bush, stump, log, brush-pile and stick in my home range. Peter nodded. “I know,” said he. “It is just that way with me in the dear Old Briar-Patch.” “So when I have to run for my life T know just where to go to hide, or to dodge or to fool an enemy.” continued Jumper. “I don't have to guess at things; I know. There I am not going to dodge into a place that looks safe but may prove to be quite otherwise; I am going to know that it is safe.” Now it happened that along in the latter part of the Winter Jumper began to notice little things that disturbed him. They seemed like mere trifles, but Jumper learned long ago that there are no such things as mere trifles. Knowing his home range as he did he He noticed own, but he knew that he hadn't cut them. He found footprints in patches of snow. They were like his own but they were not his. He was positive of | | _#“YOU SEE, COUSIN PETER,” SAID | HE, “I KNOW EVERY TREE, BUSH, | STUMP, ' LOG, BRUSH - PILE AND | STICK IN MY HOME RANGE.” | aiant care to follow him. Time and | agaln Jumper hid and waited for the | stranger but somehow the latter al- ways seemed to know it and never came near. Laier Jumper would find that he had been quietly feeding in another part cf the range. So Jumper became more and more disturbed. He had no peace. for he could not keep that strange Hare out of his mind. The stranger was big, young and handsome and it was quite clear that he had a verv good opinion | of himself, a much better opiion than ! Jumper had of him. As time went on | he grew bolder and Jumper began to have the uneasy feeling that one of these days that stranger would be {some young twigs cut by teeth like his | claiming that home range as his own and try to drive Jumper out. And this thought was more disturbing than any | that had gone before. (Copyright, 1933.) Conquering Contract By P. HAL SIMS Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the greatest living contract and auction player. He was captain of the re- nowned “Four Horsemen” team of four, and has won 24 national championships since 1924. Reply to a Two-No-Trump Open- ing Bid. HE last two articles actually gave you the minimum holdings cn which partner should bid in re- sponse to an opening bid of two no trumps. When the Responding Hand Is Extremely Weak. 1 said that with a split hand—that is. 4-3-3-3 distribution—or when un- able to mention a suit, you may bid ;;ulee noltrum onu:“queen .m‘l l!)&c:i. o] ess ou are jus! e o a hand in which the only alternatives are to| pass or to raise the no-trump declara- tion. ‘With a five-card suit, you should bid it if headed by J, 10 or by the queen or_a higher honor. This feeble holding may be useful to the de- clarer in one of two ways: 1. If his hand is of the short-suited type, he may hold P. Hal Sims. ace, king, X or ace, queen, X or_ king, queen, x in that suit and be able to bring the whole suit in if the oppo- nents cannot hold off with their stop- ping card. In that case your hand will contribute four tricks. At other times your suit will play a negative but none | the less valuable role by furnishing safe leads for the declarer away from his hand, compeling the adversaries, to lead to tenaces in his hand. For instance, if you sre playing a three no trump contract holding Sp. A Qx Di.Axx Ht. K. Q 10 CLKJ®x and your partner bids diamonds, and holds jack, 10, X x x in that suit, and no other face card, it may be your sal- vation to lead a small diamond away from your ace, forcing a lead into & tenace. When in again, you can lead out the ace and the remaining dia- mond, and gain another trick on the next lead made against you, There is also the chance that the adverse hold- ings may be queen, x x and king Xx; the opponent holding the queen may feel impelled to win the first lead; then the | ace will take four tri less suit. 2. If his hand is of the type which contains a five-card suit to the ace, hni. the opener will need only one trick from you, and this may be ob- tained by leading your suit immediately and fcoling the opponents into holding off once with a high card, for fear that SCREEN the king and you will in that seemingly hope- | he may establish that suit in the | dummy. This must be done early, be- fore they get any kind of count on the | declarer’s hand or realize that he has | bid no trumps through holding & power- | ful suit of five or more cards. There |is also the possibility of any of the piays developing which I described in | the previous paragraph. Finally, your holding may be precisely the protec- | tion he needs to shelter the weak spot in his hand, preventing opponents from leading that suit and enabling his to | prepare the play of the hand before ihe kis sericusly menaced by their at- tac I have analyzed only the possibilities of the absolutely minimum holdings on which you will respond to this in- | vitation bid. Very seldom will you be called to bid with just a queen and a jack, or with only a jack. 10, X X X | holding. Usually you will have some- thing more in your hand, and in that | event the declarer will not have much | difficulty. The gamble will be present only when you have a very weak hand, and I have tried to show you the justi- fication for hoping that a game may be made under these, the least favorable, conditions. | You will have no difficulty with the large group of average Tesponding | hands on which you make the mini- | mum response of raising the two no | trumps to three, or bidding three in & suit. The opener’s rebid is automatic | in the latter case, and nearly all these hands will be played in three no | trumps. The exceptions are when the opener has a powerful concealed major | suit, bids it over a suit take-out by you, and you bid four in the major suit for him in preference to three no | trumps. (Copyright. 1933.} Mr. Sims will answer all inquiries on contract that addroised to this news- | peper with a self-addressed, stamped en- velope. Pointed Paragraphs Famous Surgean—I've been operating on men for 20 years and I've never heard a complaint. What does that | prove? Frosh—That dead men tell no tales, —The Carolinfan. He—Your husband looks like a bril- liant man. I suppose he knows every- thing. She—Don't fool yourself; he doesn't even suspect anything. —Panther. Tt Fish Au Gratin. Remove all skin and bone from some well-cooked fish and break it into flakes with a silver fork. Mix it with half jts measure of good white sauce, a little chopped parsley and grated nut- | meg. Season carefully and turn the | mixture into a greased baking dish. Sprinkle the top with bread crumbs and grated cheese in equal quantities, | 1ay on,a few small pieces of butter and ;::)uv'n in a quick oven or under the ODDITIES BY CAPT. ROSCOE FAV/CETT. Peppy a while, he said. Wich I did. My Neighbor Says: Yeliow, white or green candy mints can be used for garnishing :ahes. mflgb or desserts fi uring ring season, W] fancy foods are desired. Moss in lawns may be elimi- nated by providing Eoper drain- age, combing the lawn with a ake and dressing it with lime. The raked-out 3| should be. zeeded with a mixture heavy in white _clover. annually with acid phosphate. When roacting meat, turn it (Cooyright. 1933.) STILL CORRESPONDS| 3 WITH HER FIRSY — USED SMALL BLOCKS ON HER HEELS TO MAKE HER APPEAR TALLER FOR ™ SECRETS.