Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1933, Page 11

MAGAZ INE PAGE. Conquering Contract By P. HAL SIM ¢! Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the greatest living contract and auction player. He was captain of the renowned “Four Horsemen” team and has won 24 national championships since 1924, i .+ Three Different Slam Contracts. | N a tournament, this hand produced three different slam bids. East and West were vulnerable, and therefore did not risk any psychic barricade bids. North was dealer. One pair, using the Vanderbilt Club, bid and made six diamonds; the con- tracting was as follows: One club by North, three no trumps, four dia- ‘monds, six dia- monds. A poor re- sult in a mx'i(l:h- point contest. Un- der the Sims sy tem it is a near thing whether to bid or pass with North's hand. WNeither decision ican be blamed, nd the right dec- ration —six no rumps—should be ached in both . If North ids a diamond, th has a per- P. Hal Sims. ect three no rump slam-trying response North, | ith honors in every suit and a five- eard suit to work with, bids four no trumps, .to which South replies with no trumps, wondering only whether e may be a grand slam in the play. N passes South bids a heart, orth forces with threz diamonds, | th proclaims slam expectations by g four clubs, North bids four rts, showing better support for that | it than for clubs and, by implication, high honor in it. Four no trumps South, showing a spade stopper lndi kind of a fit in diamonds, with| ce_to contract for a slam in| Now North, with reserve | in his spade honors and club | bids six no trumps. I personally the North hand. It so happens | t the bidding procedure is more and delicate (also more in- ' One pair of “Sim#® J»hyeru got _into | ’Mh:ul:l‘mmnfn .‘lehboptued, ) idding went as given above uj gmflouth‘l bid of four clubs. At thgt :otnt, North decided to do his part- | er’s’ thinking- for him and bid six MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Grapefruit. Oatmeal with Cream. Scrambied Eggs. Bacon. Rice Muffins. Coilee, DINNER. Clear Soup. Roast Lamb Brown Gravy. Mint and Pineapple Jelly. Mashed Potatoes. Baked Squash. Romaine, French Dressing. Orange Meringue Pie. Coffee. SUPPER. Creamed Lobster with Peas. Parker House Rolls, Lime Gelatin. Macaroons. Tea. RICE MUFFINS. Stir 2 cups cold bolled rice and 2 S{gx of warm milk until sm , add 1 tablespoon melted butter and the well-beaten yolks of 3 eggs. Mix and sift 2 cups of flour, 1 .tablespoon sugar, 1l ns baking powder and 14 jpoon salt. Add to the rice and milk and beat until smooth and firm. Heat muffin pans hissing hot. Fold the stiffly-beaten Whites of the eggs into’ the bat- ter. Turn at once into the pans ‘lxl':d' bake in a hot oven 15 min- ORANGE MERINGUE PIE. One cup orange juice, 1 cup water, 1 tablespoon cornstarch, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, pinch of salt. Put the water on to boil, add the cornstarch, sugar and salt, mixed with a little cold water; boil 3 minutes. Separate the eggs, beat the yolks until right and add the orange and lemon juice, then add the boiling cornstarch. Pour in- to ple crust that has been baked a nice brown. Beat the whites of the eggs until dry, add 2 table- spoons sugar and spread over top of pie; rough top with fork and dust lberally with powdered sugar, Place in cool oven to dry. Any good pie crust may be used for the shell. CREAMED LOBSTER. Cook 2 tablespoons of butter and the same of flour to a cream. Add 1 cup rich milk, salt and paprika, and teaspoon of lemon Juice. Beat until foamy, then add 115 cups lobster meat, coarsely chopped. Cover and cook for 4 hearts. West -wisely contract was set two tricks.. 5 bid is inexcusable—assuring the part- ner that the hearts are under complete control, although South has never rebid that suit. In a rubber game South would have no choice but to pass this| declaration, but in this match point| contest I think South should have | | taken the bid to six no trumps in view ! of the higher trick score and the infer- ence that North's first force indicates | either A K Q of diamonds or, if the| diamonds are not solid, the king or| queen, jack of spades. | Observe further inference that Sims| | players will get if North ongm.uy{‘ | passes, South bids a heart, and North forces with three diamonds. North shows & hand which most systems would never pass in any position. South | can really know that inasmuch as North has neither black ace nor any part of a club trick, he must have either comfleuly solid diamonds with a spade trick or sure spade re-entry. or else, more probably, the king of hearts with two or more small ones to make a real fit. If ‘North's dia- monds are not solid, it is certain th: he has a clear trick outside the dia. mond suit, and this must be in one or | both major suits. Actually North held | & trifile more, as the king of hearts is | rightly assumed to be a sure trick and re-entry card when the partner has bid hearts, and the Q J x of spades is distinctly a reserve value under thesc optimistic conditions though it con- stitutes no slam ingredient until South bids no trumps as part of a slam try. (Copyright, 1033.) Uncommon Sense The War on Time. BY JOHN BLAKE. ROF. PICCARD prophesies that in rather a short time it will be possible to climb into a plane in New York at 12 o'clock noon and arrive in London for dinner at the Londoners’ usual dinner time, which is around 8 o’clock. It took the Pilgrim Fathers rather longer when they crossed in the May- flower and they, didn’t get a very sumptuous dinner when they arrived here. 5 I do not know whether Prof. Piccart is right or wrong, but certainly man will soon reduce the time element to a minimum in his air voyages over the face of the globe. * K Xk Man discovered many years that life could be lengthened, not ex- tending its term, but by packing it more full of experience. The three or* four months required for a Western pioneer to cross the American continent in a covered wagon has been cut down to four days by rail or two and a half days by plane. So the regular traveler is now able to save the better part of three months. To get the value of that, he has, of course, to do something profitable with the time he thus salvages. t doesn't seem to me that we are getting as much value out of this saved time as we might. ‘We appear to be able to find some new way to squander every hour that we are enuble‘d to mfi:’; up because of modern inventive 3 The ihn':ntraveler who alights in San Francisco 2 months 27% days to the good—as compared with his pioneer grandfather—seems io be just as much in a hurry to start back home again as he was to start forth on his trip. And as long as one is constantly urged on by the idea that he must be rushing all the time, he cannot get much en- joyment out of the extra years—time measurement—that he gains. * ok ok * ‘We get about three-quarters of our enjoyment out of our work, and the other quarter out of our fun. Why not, now that faster trains, faster ships, faster planes give us the opportunity—why not use the saved hours for some of the things we are ac- customed to say we haven't the time to_do? ‘Why not find out more about the beauties of the world and of life? ‘Why not widen our circles of ac- quaintances, read moye, observe more, learn more? Our forefathers, who worked from dawn to dark clearing away forests, planting crops and fighting Indians, managed to read and to think and to plan much more than most of us do now. It is no compliment to us to know that we—with many times as much leisure at our disposal—are still in a hurry, and still complaining because there isn't time enough. (Copyright. 1933.) My Neighbor Says: Presh rhubarb sauce with sponge or angel food cake makes a good Spring dessert. Don't neglect little scratches and cuts because they are not im- portant looking. A pin prick has caused death through in- fection. If you keep a wound clean, you are doing all that is humanly possible to guard against blood poisoning. The use of too much sugar will prevent ice cream from freezing quickly. To remove scorch marks from linen, cut an onion in halves, rub scorched part of linen with half of the onion, then soak linen in cold water. If linen is not badly scorched, the marks will soon’ disappear. (Copyright. 1933.) minutes. (Copyright. 1933.) SCREEN ODDITIES BY CAPT. ROSCOE FAWCETT. ALEXANDER KIRKLAND'S FIRST STAGE ROLE WAS THAT OF A ROBOT IN A NEW YORK THEATRE PATHER OF THE- BARRYMORES, TO SPECIALIZE IN THE COMEDY PORTRAVALS THAT WON HER FAME. \ APROPERTY MAN MAD THE NOVEL DISANCTION OF BEING CUSTODIAN OF A COCKROACH WHICH HE CARRIED IN ASPECIAL CAGE , FOR USE (N \TODAY WE UIVE- JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in Etiquette. BY JOS. J. FRISCH. THE TASTE OF AN ONION CAN BE | | GREATLY IMPROVED BY ADDING A | POUND OF STEAX TO IT. | — ) N. E. 8—The well bred person eats slowly, even though he may feel half- starved. Besides, well chewed food is more easily digested than food that is bolted down. Of course, the mouth must be kept closed while chewing. An open mouth full of half-chewed food is not a pleasant sight for those across the table. NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Dogwood. Cornus florida. most unusual, thing about the dogwood in the Winter is the alligator-skin appearance of the bark, which identifies this tree at once in the woodlands. And in the Spring, who does not know the glorious, white, flaring bracts of the flowering dogwood? Most people think that the Lracts are the blossoms. As a matter of fact, they are not a part of the flower, although they are the white banners that call attention to the tree. The true flowers unfold from the con- spicuous, round, grayish, Winter flower buds, which are to be seen all Winter. They are small, greenish yellow, ar- ranged in dense heads, and they are surrounded by the large, white, petal- like bracts! From March until May, you find the dogwood blooming among the tall forest tress, along the roadside or in lawns. The time for the blossoms to ap) is regulated by the climatic conditions. They always flower before the leaves appear, and are so much earlier than their neighbors that they are doubly ‘welcome. The leaves are opposite, simple, and from 3 to 5 inches long, bright green above and grayish white beneath. In the Autumn they are a wonderful darg red, and with the bright red fruit they are our most ornamental native road- side tree. ‘The fruit is a bright scarlet “berry,” about one-half an inch long and cov- ered with a tasty skin, which hides two seeds, The birds love the bitter twang of the diupe, and depend upon the dogwood berries as a food supply through the Winter. The “berries” are scattered over a vast territory through the agency of the birds. ‘The flowering dogwood does not grow wild in any other country but ours, and there was likelihood of its being ex- terminated in many places until steps were taken to protect it. Until you have really studied the tree you do not realize how many in- teresting habits it has. First, it crouches under larger trees in the woods, then leans out to catch the sun- shine. The fiowers are the most in- teresting, as they have evolved a pian to attract the mining bees to come to their assistance. No bee would see the little, inconspjcuous, huddled bunch of true flowers. In the Winter the four bracts mother them, and in the Spring these petal-like scales grow so fast that only the tips are too dry to expand. These are he peculiar little notches at the apex when the bract finally lets go and exposes the true flowers. The bracts are merely leaves changed for the special purpose of attracting the wee little bee 5o necessary to the dog- wood. Madam Andrena and her friends come after the nectar. They creep into the tubes, sip the nectar and take away the pollen. The white bracts come early and say late, and this is why we seem to have dogwood blos- soms so long. ‘The wood is heavy and strong, very close grained, brown, and sometimes red in color. It is in great demand for cotton-mill machinery, turneri handles and forms. The persimmon has wood that is quite similar. From ancient days this tree has been planted for decorative purposes. Dyes, drugs and inks have been made from its bark. The name is derived from the fact that certain species of bark was used to make a wash for mangy dogs! Hence, dogwood. (Copyright. 1933.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. My puppy Junior wasn't feeling very good yestidday, and after supper ma said to pop, Willyum, that poor little puppy doesn’t want to eat or sleep or pufi things apart, in other werds he's not himself. I'm afraid we have a she said. Yee gods, I said from the very ferst that we awtn't to take a dog into the house before it's finished its education, pop said. Meening & puppy, and ma said, Well now Willyum, ycu mite as well say the same thing about young childern, such as_bables. When did you ever catch me taking & baby into the house if it wasn't prop- erly stamped and addressed? pop said. Meening his own, and ma said, But Willyum, personel opinion aside, we have the little fellow now and we're responsible for his little health, dont you feel that way, Willyum? 1 guess so, give him the run of the medecin chest, it’s all rite with me, was thinking of a vetternary, a sick Hews was telling me of a very good vetternary who doesn't charge any more for his visits than a ordnerry docter that comes to see people. Very public spirited of him, yee gods, at that rate 5 or 6 visits would hardly ome to more than & months rent, pop What the dooce ales the dog, what's he complain of? he said, and ma said, Well it’s most likely what he’s been eating, Well what's he been eating for Peet sake? pop said, and ma said, Well, it seems he found your shaving brush behind the bathtub where it drcpped and you were in too much of a hurry to rescue it, and he licked all the lather off and chewed off half the brissles and proberly swallowed them because I cant find them high or low, and that must of left an unj t taist in his mouth cause he ditly went and de- voured half of the 5 doller bill that you carel- sly left for me on the edge of a chair (is morning. Yee gods i've done enough for him, let nature take its course, pop said. Wich we did, and this morning Jun- ior was even than usual Step Out With Your DOROTHY' DIX’S LETTER BOX Middle-Aged Husband. Wife Who Divorced Husband Now Wants Him to Forget Second Wife for Her. EAR MISS DIX—My husband and I married very young and are member of the family on the sick list, | now past middle age. Our five chiidren are married. We have always lived happily together, but now a break has come in our lives because my husband wants to go with a fast set and has been going on wild parties. He begs me to go with him and says he does nothing that I cannot do. He says that we married so young we didn't have any fun when we were a girl and boy and now that we haven't very long to live we should ge. the most of our lives. He is hurt and worried when I refuse to go and try to keep him from going. I have two reasons for not doing so. One is that I don't care for that kind of life. The other is that I am jealous of two women who go. He says my jealousy is without foundation. Other than this he is a perfect husband. However, th!s difference is growing greater every What should I do? Go with him or refuse to let him go? A WORRIED WIFE. ANSWERAH you have a grain of intelligence in your head ‘and want to 5 save your home, you will go down to a specialty shop and get you hase and have a facial and a perma- the best looking clothes you can while the invitation to go with him nent and step out with your husl is still good. Otherwise, you are going to find yourself one of the neglected wives who sit at home of an evening alone and think bitter thoughts while their husbands are out making whoopee. And, likely as not, you will end up in the divorce court because you are leaving the field open to the gold-diggers and they are hot on the trail of every man whose wife refuses to play with him. You have to keep up with your husband or else you lose him. ‘There is no fact in nature truer than that. As for forbidding your husband to go to places of amusement, don't be silly. How can you keep a middle-aged man from doing what he wants to do? True, you can quarrel with him about it. You can make scenes every time he leaves the house, but all the percentage you will get out of that will be to make him furious with you and resentful of your efforts to boes him and cause him to lie to you and tell you he is in con- ference with a man from Oshkosh when he is at a night club. I have seen many wives take your position and I have never seen one yet who didn’t lose out. Just now I am thinking of & woman I know who ‘was married to a man who was exceptionally good and kind and consid- erate and generous to her and who was very fond of her, but he was of gay, pleasure-loving nature and liked to dance and go to parties and the ters. Noth harmful or wrong, but he just liked the lights and people who laughed and were willing to go places and do Hmwflemnkemvsymuulnhnvlm. She thought & man -mmmynthmnnuhtmmlfimn%m She was :‘evga willing to step out. She cold-shouldered of Jolly ‘friends out The result was that inasmuch as she refused to go with her husband he went by himself. He rebelled against being curtain-lectured about everything he did and having to sneak out of his door like a criminal. And after a while he met another woman. The wife got a divorce and she accuses the other woman of stealing her husband, but I say that she handed her husband over to the other woman as a gift. ik )ROTHY DIX. b * * R DOROTHY DIX—Some years ago I married and had two chil- dren. I lost my job and had to take my family to live with my grand- parents while I looked for work elsewhere. During my absence, my wife went to live with relatives I had forbidden her to speak to, and I was so angry that I didn’t communicate with her for some years. Finally I for- gave her and asked her to come back to me and we would start all oyer again, but she filed suit for divorce and it was granted. Later on I married a young girl whom I loved dearly and with whom I have been very happy. Lately my wife has asked to be given another chance for the children’s sake, so that they can have a father with them all the time. The children are very dear, especially the little girl, but I haven't seen them since they were babies, until now. 1 don't care for my first wife and I love my second wife dearly. I know I can never be happy with my first wife, but it is the children I am think- ing of. I have talked this over with my present wife and we are both miserable. What should we do? A TROUBLED MAN. NSWER—You can’t unscramble eggs, brother. What has been done is done, and that’s all there is about it. You have to let it go at that. Your first wife divorced you of her own accord when you were anxious to make up with her and establish a home for her and the children. She has to abide by that decision, and it is preposterous for her to ask you to divorce your present wife and remarry her, just because she has changed her mind. ‘Moreover, nobody would be benefited by it if you sacrificed yourself and the good woman to whom you are now married and broke up igul‘ happy home. Your first wife does not love you or else she would not have treated you as she did. You don’t even like her and you would be always regretting having given up the woman you did love for a quixotic idea, and you would probably quarrel like a cat and dog. Nor would you be able to have any benign paternal influence over your children. You have been separated from them since their infancy, so there is no habit of affection between vou. Your paramount duty now is to your wife, whom you can make happy. The others you would only make miserable. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1933.) MODES OF THE MOMENT YOUR BABY AND MINE MRYTLE MEYER ELDRED. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. What does you fink? We all got somefin’ to do in the tourmagent—Tommy is in the 50-yard dash, Billy is wrastlin'—an’ I are the feller that carries the water bucket an’ sponge! SPRINGTIME BY D. C. PEATTIR. Mars S_there life uj the great ruby of Mars that, r such a hfi absence of the skies, has tp easy visibility for the man on the roof, gazing through his wife's opera gl ? Our neighbor in space is so similar in size t&mm:vahmu-euuymmd iere. Recently I reviewed the principal astro-biological facts concerning Mars. Here, then, are the conclusions that ery: A planet so far from the sun cannot pos- sibly receive as much heat as we do; and of what it does receive it can make much less use, for it has apparently little atmosphere left; and it is our at- mosphere that holds warmth. Any suburbanite knows that on cloudy, heavy nights frost never occurs, but only on clear nights when there is great loss of the day’s store of ab- sorbed heat into open space. Also the soil or rock surface of Mars, if latest theories are correct, can practically not retain heat at all. If our surface were as poor a heat-absorber, Autumn would last about one week, and from Summer we would jump to icy Winter soon after the September equinoxes. but not enough to make any seas, the old “seas” that the early astronomers saw being an optical illusion. (Cne saw so much more when telescopes were bad!) But just possibly there is no water; the polar snows may be carbon dioxide snow, a substance easily made out of air in earthly laboratories. 8o far the chances of life on Mars seem poorish, but not impossible. There might be easily be vegetation if there are water and carbon dioxide. Sofl bacteria could endure the cold of Mars (which they say is about as follows: On a Summer day on the Martian equator it would at noon be about as cold as Lon- don on a gray November afternoon, while in Winter the Martian equator would be as cold as our North Pole, but without the snow). What of the famous camels? Alas, nobody sees them any more since tel scopes got closer and brought the planet many times as near. There are a few places on the photographic maps of the dark streaks crossing each other at right angles, but they do not make the impression of camels on the mind of any one who is not wish-thinking. On_the whole, I don't see why the case for life on Venus is not much bet. ter; her temperature is far more con- genial; a young planet, she still has her atmosphere; indeed, she must stifie in a thick tropical blanket of it. Such conditions make one think more of our jungles, teeming with life, while all we know about conditions on Mars remind us of the Gobi Desert, terribly dry and in Winter, bitterly cold. Pleasing th'e Man BY CHLOE JAMISON, WATCH what the man orders for luncheon when he is alone with the menu card, and you will have some idea of the meats he would like to find most frequently at the home table. be baked ham in sll its variations— hot, cold and combined with other foods. But, you object ., . . baked ham is so expensive. It is, and it isn't, I reply. Here, for example, is a delicious recipe for a baked slice of ham which need trouble no budgeteer: In cold water, soak 2 slice of ham one-inch thick for one hour. Drain and wipe it dry; rub with a little sugar and place in thae bottom of a baking dish and add a layer of thinly sliced raw potatoes which have been slightly dredged with flour. Add a tablespoonful of minced onion and a teaspoonful of minced pop said, and ma said, But Willyum I| dog needs a vetternary, and Maud | Artificial Feedings. ERTAIN general rules regarding artificial feeding apply indis- | criminately to most babies. ‘The methods advised act as | safeguards against the dis- | turbances which otherwise might be ex- | pected to arise from the use of a food which is not the natural one for babies. One of these rules is to use a good grade of milk. Grade A pasteurized | certified milk is the best grade and every effort is employed to make it the “cleanest, - freshest, best milk ob- tamable. But if it comes from a repu- table dairy, which is inspected and ap- proved by alert health departments, grade A pasteurized milk is safe to use. Grade B milk is for cooking purposes and should not be used for infant feeding. ‘The next insurance against digestive upsets is to boil any milk, just a policy of security which is vitally important in Summer. Boiling the milk kills any harmful bacteria which might have developed after the milk leaves the dairy. It also makes the milk easier for the baby to digest since heat the protein element so that it is more e attacked by tive juices and assimilated system. In the majority of cases, the most ical, convenient and economical ormula consists of | le A milk to furnish baby from | 112 ounces to ounces for each .md of his weight. This means 15 to 20 ounces of milk daily for & ¢ milk is suitable to most babies, though | & o[ & 10-pound baby. The individual for- mula is reached by starting with the | minimum amount and noting baby's rate of gain on it. Fifteen ounces may result in a good gain or perhaps 20 ounces will be essential to bring about an adequate increase in weight. Thirty- two ounces of milk daily is the maxi- mum amount for any age or weight. In addition to the milk, there will be from two to six tablespoonfuls of sugar daily, according to baby's age, welght and tolerance of it. e other ingredient in the formula is boiled water, which is added to di- lute the milk, make it more easily di- gestible, and furnish a sufficient amount of formula at each feeding to keep baby comfortable and satisfled. Full infor- mation may be obtained from my leaflet, “Sweet Milk Formulas.” Send your re- quest to this department with a self- addressed, stamped envelope, and your | copy will be mailed promptly. ST R S Pork and Carrot Fricassee. ‘Two cups cold roast pork (ch ) » one cup rice, two cuj un-nv:rp p;grk gravy, four 3 It. Scrape and cubs carrots and boil them until they are tender. Add three cups water to the rice and cook tender and flufly‘_‘ about 20 sufficient boiled | oughly, | serve. parsley and pepper to taste. Over all pour enough hot milk to cover, put the lid on and bake slowly for about an hour and a half, or until potatoes and ham are thoroughly cooked. More milk should be added if the potatoes require it. For the last 15 minutes of cooking, remove the lid so the potatoes will brown. Ham Rolls. With thin slices of boiled ham you can make deliclous ham rolls with a stuffing of mashed sweet potato whipped with butter, seasonings and a little hot milk; baked beans seasoned highly with chili sauce and a little table sauce also make good filling for the rolis. Spread the potatoes or beans over the ham and roll like a jelly roll. Tie or fasten with toothpicks, place in a shal- low pan, dot with butter and bake in a moderate oven for about 20 minutes. WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. There is probably water left on Mars, ; animals; there could | planet’s surface that look like straight g ‘Way up on the list would certainly! Billy Knows When to Go. 'Tis most Important one should know Just when to stay and when to go. Unc' Billy Possum. NC' BILLY POSSUM, on & rafter in the darkest corner of the shed of Farmer Brown's house, around an old partly L an inside chuckle. That is to say it was noiseless. Unc' Billy wasn’t making a sound, not a sound. He had been chuckling inside like that for some time, for he had been watching Farm- er Brown's boy and Mother Brown poking into every corner in that shed, looking behind and under all sorts of things kept there, and the former even pulling over the pile of wood. He knew what it was all about—they were look- ’ing for him. And so he chuckled, but made no sound. | After a while they gave up the search. Farmer Brown's boy went off to the barn to take back the cage he had brought to put Unc’ Billy in, and Mother Brown went into the house to get supper. Unc’ Billy remained rigat where he was. He didn't move. The way was clear for him to get out of that shed, but he had no intention of doing anything of the kind until after dark. So Unc’ Billy remained where he was and listened to all the strange sounds, so different from those he was used to in the Green Forest. There was the sound of opening and closing doors, heavy foosteps, the clatter of dishes in the kitchen and other un- familiar noises. Several times the kitchen door open- ed and some one entered or came out. Bowser the Hound and Flip the Ter- rier came out and sniffed about and Unc’ Billy felt like chuckling again as he thought of how surprised they would be if they knew that he was so near yet so wholly out of reach. Later they went back into the kitchen and all was quiet save for certain subdued noises the kitchen. Unc’ Billy climbed down from the rafter. He didn’t hurry. He took his time about it. He wasn't afraid. When | he was down he began to explore. Ana ‘ had been put out in the shed for Black Pussy, the cat. She had been called when it was put out there, but had not a) Of course Unc’ Billy didn't know who the milk was for and he didn’t care. It was his now. Anyway, he s0 regarded it. He settled down w0 lap it up. But had he started when Black Pussy appeared. She had just entered the shed, having just returned from hunting mice in the barn, and she was thirsty. She made straight for the | To a Stock Certificate. My joy and pride in days gone by, To wit: in 1929, I watched you soaring toward the sky And thrilled to think that you were mine, “I soon shall nave a tidy hoard,” Quoth I, “and I shall add to it, tly I can afford And then I learned, with deep concern, ‘That you, my erstwhile trusted friend, For one full year had ceased to earn Your customary dividend. Each day the market reached new lows, And,t though I searched the city hrough, I found that I could not dispose Of you. You still were crisp, and new and bright, And very lovely to behold, And as alluring, to the sight, As you had been in days of old. But, after weeks of wandering, A Little Saturday Talk. S A POSTSCRIPT to her letter, Shirley Rothberg writes: “I wish you would write in the paper the story of your life.” I should like to grant Shir- ley's request, but I hesitate to do so. If I tried to give a complete story, it have no room left for other things for months to come. However, there is a very brief story of my life in the leaflet which is mailed to readers who join the scrapbock club, also a small picture of your Uncle Ray. Sometimes boys and girls whom I meet for the first time say that they had supposed I must be a very aged man. I do not see why any one should think that an uncle must be so old. The fact is that I have not quite | reached “middle age”; but I am on the way, and happily on the way. Since I | have only one life to live, I am glad that I can spend it writing for boys | and girls. If I should write the complete story of my life to date, it would contain ac- counts of many adventures and experi- ences. When I was 15 years old, I| started a magazine called “The Typical In-Law Problems. EAR MRS. POST: I am a future sister-in-law. An in- timate friend of the bride- to-be promised to give her 5 a shower, but she had to go abroad unexpectedly, and, of course, will not be back in time to carry through her plans. There is no one els= to have a party for my brother's fiancee and I wondered if it would be in very bad taste for me to combine a shower with a party I am having for her. I have not invited the guests or made any of my plans, beyond telling her that I When the D. C. Legislature met at Sheank's Hall, 923-925 Pennsylvania avenue northwes!, hofore the commis- sion form of government? & your brother who are necessarily interested in his bride. “My dear Mrs. Post: My parents g:ng to announce my it papers as soon as you tell us we do about mentis flance’s parents, who are dive can this be worded?” Mrs. Post: My fiance i com- ing oa from another city to go to a sorority _dance with me. We haven' one inch of spare room in our ‘doll grow] had an ugly sound. Yes, had an ugly sound. She forward. She glared at was plain that she wan him as if he were a rat, was a bit uncertain. He bigger than a rat, and wh his lips and showed all those teeth they looked so dangerous that Black Pussy hesitated about - making Grive Sim way by (hreats Then acnutly ve him away to attack him. So she growled louder and spat more * viciously and gradually was and more noise. e % i SHE GLARED AT UNC' BILLY. = |at all. He understood perfectly that t she was more or less 80 it was he found a dish of milk that | sh the | straight for the nearest tree. ater Flip the Terrier Billy grinned. “Ah done get time,” he muttered. (Copyright, 1933.) Despondently I bowed my For I found out you would bring A red. & And now you're on the rd again; Once more I feel the old- thrill | To watch you rising now and then, Although, of course, by fractions still. Perhaps I haven't been so dumb; Though still my nerves are on the rack, I kind of think, old stock, you're com- + ing back. 2 Prophecy. } In the end the country will get every- 2 thing back but the money that was put 7 | into pee-wee golf courses. ‘What's the Use? ‘Thus far the Government hasn't per- mitted technocracy to reopen. b Greeting. Wie gehts, Herr Pilsener. Where have you been keeping yourself all these years? (Copyright. 1933.) head, not time 3 UNCLE RAY’S CORNER Boy,” and it was published for two years. There were 400 s to the magazine, and some of them were famous men. In the story there would be mentign of how I became an instructor at s i boys’ boarding school. During the short '+ | part of my life which I spent teaching .[ would take so much space that I might [5chool, T found that pupils were not 7 satisfied with the way their books were | written. That is one reascn I later be 1 came a writer for children—I wanted !to help them learn about our wondrous { world by writing things which they would understand any enjoy. a Yes, there would be many adventures > —my work as reporter and copy-reader } | for rewspapers, my first appointment as | children’s editor, my trips to Yellow- stone Park and Grand Canyon, myJ) journeys to Engiand, Ireland, Norway, Russia, Switzerland and other foreign countries would make material for l‘ long series. Not the least of my adventures are the visits I have made to schocls, where I have looked upon the bright and shin- _ ing faces of boys and girls who read the = “Corner” and think of themselves as my adopted nephews and nieces. * UNCLE RAY. GOOD TASTE TODAY BY EMILY POST. Famous Authority on Etiquette. o house’ and yet I feel that we should something about taking care of Whntc?mxaowlthmeham as this?” They would the room an would take br:{nnll W g “My dear Mrs. Post: voted to a yoi woman her mother lives i 88 5 g g5 college. engaged, but I feel do something for mother as they are newcomers. I want to stay within conventionality, so what Answer: Go to them to a lunch tea, or give it for Prupee to be sl see them or card them. (Copyright, 1933.) How It Started BY JEAN NEWTON.