Evening Star Newspaper, May 13, 1933, Page 17

A INE PAGE Conquering Contract By P. H »r. Sime is unive~sally acclaimed the great by contre ani aiction player. He : u8 captain of the rernowns “Four Horsemen” teara and has won 2: national championships since 1924. These articles are based on the Sims system, which includes the ome-over- one principle which the Sims group of players was the first to employ and develop. When You Have Already Passed. The possession of a five-card suit. or two of them, does not make it any less desirable for you to relieve your partner of doubt or strain when he has bid a no trump in third or _fourth position. If your strength is distrib- uted over three suits, and your hand is such that a three no-trump contract cannot well be in doubt, whether you hold an absolute two- suiter or not, make the decision your- self and raise im- mediately to three no trumps. Such hand as . Kx Hts. x Responses to One No Trump. HAVE two further observations to make regarding the responses dis- cussed so far, and then we will proceed to examine forcing take- outs. P. Hal Sims. ®p. K x His. Qx though far short of an original bid, plainly require no safety refuge. Why bid your suits? No trumps is the most desirable game contract, SO Jead the way to it without giving the enemy any information for leading. Should the opener have a powerful hand, he can say, “Four no trumps.” as a modest slam try, and then you can bid your suits and ascertain the declaration in which a slam should be played. The first of the above hands pleads for a minor suit slam, the sec- ond one for big business in no trumps, if the opener can invite it in view of your original pass. ‘When You Have Partial Score. Under these conditions, you will nat- uraliy bid your five-card suits in prefer- | ence to immediate raises in no trumps, | though I would not favor minor suit bidding unless the partial score were 40 | BEDTIME ST A Friend, Indeed. When most you need a helpful friend | d May fortune such a helper s Mrs. Creaker. | REAKER THE GRACKLE and Mrs. Creaker were near neigh- bors of Mr. and Mrs. Plunger the Ospreys, the closest of neighbors. In a manner of speakine, they were occupying the same nest. You see, the nest of the Ospreys was & huge affair, and in an opening among the sticks of the lower part the Creakers had built their nest. Their friends had thought it & bold thing to do, and in a way it was. But the Creakers and the Ospreys understood each other, and the latter were quite lling that their smaller friends should make their home there. So presently, while there were three big. buffy eggs, marked with rich choco- late, in the upper story, eggs of which Mrs., Plunger was extremely proud, there were four very much smaller eges, greenish, and covered with curious markings in the nest of the Grackles; and Mrs. Creaker was quite as proud of these as Mrs. Plunger was of hers. | Nothing happened to disturb the sit- ting birds, for the Plungers were so big and had their great curved claws and big hooked bills that they commanded the respect of all their neighbors, and no one dreamed of disturbing them. Then, one day there was great excite-| ment in the home of Mr. and Mrs. | Creaker. There were four homely lit- tle babies there, although Mrs. Creaker would have been most indignant hfld‘ you told her that they were homely. To her they were the most beautiful bables in all the great world. Then began busy hours from daylight to dark for mother and father. Such a lot of food as those hungry youngsters had to have! And all that food had to be hunted for. It meant that often| both father and mother would be away at the same time hunting for food, but they did not worry, for they felt sure that no one would dare visit that nest, | with Mrs. Plunger sitting on her eggs sbove or Plunger on guard in a tree wear at hand. Now, this was the time Chatterer the | Red Squirrel had been waiting for. H had kept watch, and he knew the very day those eggs hatched. And as he watched he had learned the ways of the Plungers. He had discovered that often Plunger was gone for a long time when off fishing. “Tll wait until Plunger is out of| sight,” plotted Chatterer. “Then I'll| take the first opportunity, when both Mr, and Mrs. Creaker are off after food, | and Il climb up to their nest. Mrs. Plunger can't see over the ends of her rest, and if I am careful to make no notse she won't know aything about it.” | Bo early in the morning Chatterer | was on hand. He saw Plunger sail away toward the Big River in quest of | AMAZE A MINUTE SCIENTIFACTS—BY ARNOLD. ALL THE WORLD IN ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD STANDING UPRIGHT TOGETHER WOULD THE ISLAND OF BERMUDA. COMET - THE FAMOUS Pons-WINNECKE COMET HAS REAPPEARED. IN 1908 IT PASSED SO NEAR, THE NIGHT SKY BECAME LUMINOU ENOUGH TO ENABLE A NEWSPAPER | Her screams brought Creaker hurrying AL SIM: or more. Two no trumps will almost 'alwavs be easler to make than four in} U mivor_suit, whereas three in the minor might be a better contru n two no trumps. In later articles I will deal thor- | oughly with the partial score angle; for | the moment, you will need only remem- | ber that possession of partial score should not affect opening bids in any way, and while it does affect responses by making the minor suits far more prominent, it should on no account interfere with slam tries, even the | mildest kind that have to he dtopprd] | at an early stage. You must not bid | any hand in a more optimistic manner | than you weuld if you needed 100 points for game. Differently, perhaps, | but not misleadingly. | The Bidding of 2 10 x x x x Suit Is to| Be Avoided If Possible. In a team of four match last month, | the South hand, dealer, held, Sp. 10R 785 DLA102 His. AQ96 CL A and when he bid a spade, as many did, the bidding went as follows between the partners, the opponents always passing: One spade, two diamonds, two hearts, two spades. Can you blame | South for hoping to make a game? | Does it not look as if he could lose two spade tricks and the heart finesse and throw two hearts on his partner’s long diamonds? Those who bid the hand in this manner and reasoned accord- ingly, next bid three spades, which 1 tha NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1933 Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Animal Psychology. It is still true that the “proper study of mankind is man.” But the fact is that man is an animal. When that fict was finnlly cccepted by the stu- denis of human nature, the psycholo- gists did the ouly logical thing they could do. They began to study man in the making. That's the reason for animal psychology today. As we now look back over the ad- vancement of psychology oyer some 2,000 years, we find that relatively little was known about the human mind until thirty years ago. Of course, & lot of things had been said, a lot of guesses had been made. A bundle of disagree- ments called psychology was the result. When the psychologists began to study mind in its beginnings—the amoeba, the earthworm, the white rat, and other carriers of mind, they found themselves agreeing upon fundamentals. In this way psychology as a science went forward with leaps and bounds. Let the animal psychologists stick to their task. In time they will give us a chart of the human mind. When that chart is constructed, we will know what | sort of creature man is. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. partner took to four. His hand was Sp. Q9 4 DLKQJSS Hts. 10 3 2 cl10 7 and the contract was set a trick, as there were four spades in one hand and opener could not clear up the trumps, as she could not stand the re- | peated forces from club leads. | I prefer a heart bid on South’s cards. This should result in two diamonds, two spades, three diamonds, pass—or, two diamonds, two spades three hearts | (showing a feeble preference), three spades, pass. 1 Note that if South’s spades had been | J 10 8 x x, four spades could have | been made, as the opponents could | only get in twice with spades to lead clubs. Declarer holds off the second club lead, discarding a heart, and makes game by winning the heart finesse, conceding a club and two spades. Lacking the fack of spades,| the timing factor is against him and | he cannot control the play of the hand, | being thus prevented from using{ dummy'’s diamond suit to shed his losing hearts. (Copyright, 1933.) Mr. Sims will answer all inquiries on con- tract that sfe addressed to this newspaper wit self-addressed stamped envelope. fish. He saw Mr. and Mrs, Creaker start out to hunt for food for those hungry babies. Hardly were their backs turned when he was at the foot of that great pole on the top of which was the big nest. He looked up. He could see only the bottom of the great nest and he knew that Mrs. Plunger couldnt; possibly see him. He hesitated a mo- ment and then started up. He hurried. | You see, he was more afraid that he would admit to himsel?. He was in such a hurry that he didn't | pause to look back or around, and so he didn't see Mrs. Creaker returning. She had found a grub only a short dis- tance from home and at once returned | back with it. She saw Chatterer half- | way up that pole and knew what he was after. She dropped the grub, and with screams of anger dashed at him. By Thornton W. Burgess. WAIT UNTIL PLUNGER IS| SIGHT,” PLOTTED | “I'LL OUT __OF CHATTERER. back, and he, too, dashed at Chatterer. | ‘Then began a lively and exciting ' game of dodge on the part of Chat- terer, who was doing his best to keep that pole between himself and the| angry Creakers. And all the time he ept climbing. He was sure that if he ould once reach the great nest above him he could hide among the big) sticks of the foundation. But, though | he successfully dodged the angry| Creakers, he couldn’t stop their angry | screams. Of course Mrs. Plunger heard them, and at once knew that something | was wrong. She stood on the edge or her nest and looked down. She saw Chatterer and anger blazed in her eyes. With a harsh scream she left the nest, turned, and dashed at Chatterer. Creaker withdrew to a tree close by, | where he could watch, and Mrs. Creaker flew to her precious bables. Here was a friend indeed! Chatterer would be lucky if he escaped with his life. (Copyright, 1933.) NOT QUITE COVER | which young mothers are given is to| | ofyoverfeeding rather than underfeed- IN GREENLAND'S GREAT GLACIAL INTERIOR THE TEMPERATURE Daddy an’ Drandpa isn't quite so brave as I thought they was. Muvver | just give 'em both a searchin’ look an’| Drandpa tock his boots off the couch an’ Daddy sent me flyin' for the broom | an’ he swept up his ashes hisself! | (Copyright. 1933.) ‘, | Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Isolated Cases. One of the faulty conclusions to | condemn modern methods of baby care | and feeding which do not seem to work successfully for them. The only way we can come to an accurate conclusion about any methods is to note their re- sults not in one or two or a few cases, but in thousands. It was commonplace years ago for babies to be fed by “maternal instinct.” But because half the babies died under | such inexpert care, scientists were shocked into the necessity of giving in- telligent consideration to feeding the young infant, so that he had Betier than a 50 per cent chance to live until one year of age. One young mother bases her conclu- sions on the evidence of two infants. “Perhaps you can explain this, Mrs. Eldred. My baby, aged 1 year, weighs 26 pounds, has six teeth, and is full of pep. has been hanging onto things and walking about since 7 months of age, but does not walk alone. The baby has always had the proper diet, and I adhered to the best prernatal care, eat- ing the right foods and‘takmg cod liver 1 v sister's baby, tyo weeks young- er. weighs 18 pounds, valks alone, and has 10 teeth. My siste} eats very little and only recently has the baby had cereal and vegetables. Yet her baby seems farther advanced than mine. My baby is healthier to look at. but doesn’t early teething and walking indicate that her baby is stronger?” One would hardly expect a 26-pound child to walk as early as an 18-pound one. It is normal to have six teeth at one year and rather exceptional to have 10. The point is that your baby is nor- mal in every way. How could you ex- pect more? He is rather fatter than usual, 50 you may be erring on the side ing. Your sister's baby is about three pounds under average weight. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Grapefrut, Oatmeal with Cream. Ham Omelet. Hot Corn Cake. CofTee. DINNER. Cream of Asparagus Soup. Roast Beef. Brown Gravy. Mashed Potatoes. . String Beans. ‘Tomato and Lettuce Salad. French Dressing. Strawberry Bavarian Cream. CofTee. SUPPER. Chicken a la King. Pickles. Olives. Parker House Rolls. Sponge Cake. Fudge Frosting. Coffee. HAM OMELET. Beat four eggs very light; whites to stiff froth, yolks to stiff batter; add to yolks four table- spoons milk, pepper and salt and one-half cup cooked chopped ham. Add whites last. Put piece butter, half size of egg in fry- ing pan, be careful not to scorch, and when it is sizzling turn in egg and cook on back of stove until done. Fold over and serve. STRAWBERRY CREAM. Beat the yolks of two eggs and three-fourths of a cup of sugar and a dash of salt, pour in slowly one pint hot milk, add one tablespoon granulated gelatin softened in one-half " cup cold water and cook in a double Foler until the mixture coats the spoon. Strain, cool, add the stiffly-Leaten whites of two eges, one cup crcam beaten until stiff =nd finally fold in one cup mashed strawberries. Turn into molds, chill and serve either with or without whipped cream. CHICKEN A LA KING. ‘Two cups diced chicken; serve with following sauce: One quart milk, one-half pound butter, three rounded tablespoons flour, one and one-half teaspoons salt, two tablespoons finely chopped green peppers, two hard-boiled eggs. Put butter into saucepan when melted remove from fire add flour and stir until smooth. Return to slow fire and add cold milk very slowly, stirring con- stantly so it will be smooth and creamy. Boil five minutes, then put in top of double boiler of chafing dish. Rub yolks of eggs through wire strainer and add to sauce. Then add chicken, pep- per and scasoning to sauce. Keep over hot water 15 minutes before serving. Serve on toast and sprinkle with paprika. (Capyright. 1933.) MODES OF THE MOMENT Bag of Bones—How Long Should an En- gagement Last? EAR MISS DIX—T've got to get this off my chest. Here is what is bothering me and a lot of other chaps: Why all this crazy mania girls nave about dieting? It is sickening. Where do women get the phoney idea, anyway, that men admire a bean pole? I, for one, pick them healthy. It is pitiful to see the line-up of girls at a dance—skinny-looking, hungry-looking giris affecting a Crawford or Garbo pose. I have talked it over with my buddies and, believe me, we don't want a living skeleton for a wife. What man wants to take a chance on a lifetime of doctors’ bills and a bigger chance on his children? Anyway, it is much more pleasant to hold or to dance with a girl who feels human and is an armful. Maybe the styles of today are slenderizing, but, take it from me, the majority of men like to see the frocks filled. I had a long leanie pushed off on me at a frat dance, and I took her to a supper later and watched her figure up her calories. She feasted on a leaf of lettuce and sat envying me my healthy meal, with a hungry ex- pression all over her. Furthermore, I am wondering what these underfed- looking gals are going to look like when they are 40 and 60. I was think- ing about being a doctor some day, but I lose all ambition for the pro- fession when I think I will have to take care of all these undernourished women. SO LONG. ANSWER: If you are going to be a doctor, son, you should not knock the dieting fad among girls. On the contrary, you should give it the glad hand because all of these anemic, half-starved little flappers in 10 years from now are going to make the doctors millionaires. Especially those who specialize in tuberculosis and stomach disorders and anemia and kindred ailments. And they are going to bring a lot of little. sickly weak bables into the world, so child specialists are going to have their innings, too. Of course, it is going to be terribly hard on the poor husbands who will have to put up with neurotic, semi-invalid wives and spend their lives slaving to pay doctors’ bills and sanatorium bills and nurses’ bills, but it is going to be grand for the doctors. So think twice before you give up the medical profession which is abeut to enter upon its boom era. Just consider every little starved girl who thinks an olive a full meal and lives on cigarettes as a prospect. Thar's gold in them thar ribs. BUT three cheers and a tiger for you for having enough good sense and good taste to prefer a healthy, wholesome, well-fed-looking girl to one who looks like a starved cat. How the living skeleton ever got accepted as a type of feminine beauty, goodness only knows. To the untutored eye there is nothing alluring in the knobs and bumps of a girl's vertebrae, nor is there anything to ravish the senses in a bundle of bones. Yet that is the ideal of pulchritude for which every girl yearns and strives nowadays, and to achieve which she goes through all the agonies of semi-starvation and risks her life. The heroism that these poor misguided girls show in wrecking their health is beyond belief. Many a man has been decorated on the field of battle for an act requiring less courage than it takes for a girl, with hunger gnawing at her vitals, to sit down at a table groaning with food and pass up the juicy steaks and luscious potatoes and the mayonnaise and whipped cream for a nibble of spinach and a sip of dishwater soup. ALL of this martyrdom girls undergo because they think that boys are enamored of girls with stringbean figures. So it Wwill be glad tidings of great joy to them to learn that the masculine taste has shifted and that curves are coming into fashion. Let us trust that this is true, for girls strive to please, and they are fat or thin, blonde or brunette, as men want them. And you are right, son, in choosing a girl who has plenty of honest flesh on her bones. Not only will she be healthier and stronger, but she will be more amiable. There is nothing that makes people so cross and irritable as dieting. It is counting their calories that is responsible for the mounting divorce rate. % DOROTHY DIX. . EAR MISS DIX—How long should a boy and girl go together before they get married? A. AND B. Answer: The ideal length of time is long enough for them to get well acquainted with each other and not so long that they get tired of each other. Before a girl and boy get married they should be engaged long enough to find out what sort of disposition each has, whether he or she is selfish and overbearing and tyrannical, and whether he or she would be hard to get along with. They should find out whether he or she is jealous and suspicious or not. They should get a line on each other’s tastes and habits and find cut whether they like the same things and enjoy the same pleasures, for that would tell them whether they could get along together as husband and wife. And they should find out whether each could stand unlimited periods of the other’s society or got bored after a few hours’ association. UT romance can wear out, and if an engagement lasts too long, all of its flavor wears off and often those who once thought themselves so much in love and were so eager to marry discover fhat they have grown tired of each other and don’t want to marry at all. For a long engagement puts a man and woman in an unnatural rela- tionship. They are neither bond nor free. They have neither the security of marriage to bind them together and make their interests one nor the liberty to go about with other girls and boys and make other friends and seek other pleasures. Hence a long engagement is almost always full of jealousy and suspicion and unrest. But just now the length of an engage- ment depends more upon financial conditions than it does upon the wish of sweethearts. e DOROTHY DIX. . . DEAR DOROTHY DIX—My sweetheart’s father has not worked for the last year and her small salary has been the only support for her parents and a minor. We are planning to be married very soon, but I wonder if I would be obliged to have her family live with us and if the 1aw would force me to support them. She lives a very unhappy life at home and the more she does for her family, the more they expect. Answer: The law would not compel you to support your wife's family, but a moral law would. You could not see them starve, and that is appar- ently what would happen if all they have to live on is the girl's small earnings and that is taken away from them. It is a common thing for men and women to say that when they marry they do not marry their husband’s or their wife’s people. But they do. And you had best accept that as a fact before you go on with the wedding. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1933.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. smoking to himself in his| doesn’t know when he's licked can was e never be licked, he said. private chair and I was trylng to | sharpen my yellow pencil with my pen- cil sharpener, Saying, Aw heck, what's a use, every time I get a point the lead falls out, this pencil cant be sharpened and that's all there is to it. Come come, is that the fillosophy of a live wire or & dim bulb? pop said. What grate bizzness man ever became the president of & big lumber company if he couldn’t master one thin pencil in his boyhood? Let me have that pencil, I'll show you how to sharpen it in the good oid fashion way with good old fashion man power, he said. Meening with his penknife, and he started to try to sharpen it and just when he was getting a nice t the lead fell out just like it had for me, pop saying, What the dooce, this knife must be losing its edge. fresh start, the life of 9 out of 10 suc- cessful men is just a story of fresh starts. In other werds, And he sharpened it again, aiming the shavings at the ash tray but most of them going on the floor, and I said, G, pop, there she goes again. Meening the lead, and pop said, Well what ot it, you dont see me giving up, do you? And he sharpened it 2 more times and the lead fell out again both times, and he was starting again with a mad expression and I said, Well I guess it just grovu you cant drop & pencil out of the 3rd story window and still have the lead stay whole inside. So that's the kind of pencil you asked me to shapen, is it? pop said, and I said, G, pop, I didn't ask :cu to, it was your ideer. Wich just then ma came in saying, Well of all things look at that mass of shavings on my clean rug, and pop said, There's nothing to worry about, Benny is going to pick up every single solitary fragment. Wich I did, proving people are libel to make others pay for their mistakes ‘posaible. the man who | when l NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Juniper. J. VIRGINIANA. HOEVER heard of writing with a juniper pencil or put- ting flannels in a juniper chest? That is what we do and call this tree a red cedar. The tree has the wanderlust and is found in all sorts of out-of-way places. It is just as py in a fence row with company as it is in a meadow or on & farm. The happy vagabond grows from Nova Scotia to Georgia and is just as much at home on the ridges as in the foothills of the Rocky Moun- tains. In Tennessee it has a hard time of it, covering the limestone plateaus, but when it finds itself in the fertile valley of the lower Mississippi it grows to a great height, with luxuriant leaves and & portly waist line. Its home is a matter connected with birds and ac- counts for its wide distribution. The trunks are columnar and ecor- rugated. They are untidy looking and have a habit of shedding their bark in stringy ribbons. ‘When the tree is young it is conical and compgct, but as it takes on added years it bel loose, cylindrical and unsightly. Food and climate mean a great deal to this tree. . Sometimes, a shrub that has lived for years and years on scant rations will never be over a few feet high, while nearby where the soll is richer. & youthful juniper will grow to be 100 feet tall. The flowers appear in April or May. They are found on the terminals on one side of the twigs. The staminate ones, of 4 to 6 scales each are provided with several pollen sacs, and the pistil- sM Man Prefers Girl Who Is Comfortable Armful to! | late ones are | uny and pale | and berry-like, paired. They are very blue. The fruit is blue about the size of a pea and ripens in its second year. The flesh is sweet and resinous and is in great favor with birds. The wood of this tree is used mostly for the making of pencils, cedar chests sills, interior fir oad ties and fence posts. It is soft, weak and close- | grained. Its fragrance makes it a fav- | orite wood. Junipers are easily distinguished from most other evergreens, because they are | not cone bearers. There are 35 species of juniper distributed over the North- | ern’ Hemisphere and their wood con- tributes to the wealth of the world. Our own red juniper has over 30 culti- vated varieties and they adapt them- selves to any s in which they find themselves. They bear transplanting, love the sun and wind and are valuable windbreaks against the sea breezes, covering the barre: xposed coasts. Copsr 1933.) How it Started BY JEAN NEWTON. To “Score.” We score so many points at bridge they score at base ball and at foot ball and the record of the points is called “the score.” Strange isn't it that lit- erally scoring meant ‘“cutting”? We have the word from the Anglo- Saxon “sceran,” to sear, or divide, and the kindred Icclandic “skor.” an in- cision. It was the cut made on the writing days, accounts of business transactions were kept, that was the original “score.” The transition in meaning from the name of the cut to the record which it represented, is easily comprehensible. (Copyright. 1933.) JOLLY POLLY A Little Chat on Etiquette. BY 0S. J FRISCH WHEN (MA DUDD WAS TOLD THAT EVERY FORTY-TWD SECONDS, SHE Exa.hmzu,‘monness? r?ow CAN HE STAND SULH PUNISHMENT?” | | H. S—Good breeding demands that |a man wear a hat on the street. And lon one ear nor on the back of the | neck. Neither must it cover the eye- | brows. Novelty headpieces should be always conservative. WOMEN’S FEATURE BY JAMES J. The Show-off. I used to brave belated snow And don my old galoshes, Convinced each year that I would grow Beans, peas, and corn and squashes. Moreover, I was sure that my | __Hard, unremitting labors ‘Would be observed and envied by My next door neighbors. old wooden tallies on which, in pre- | the hat must be worn on the head, not | avoided. The hats of a gentleman are I !And so they were for quite a spell; ‘The pumpkins blossomed early, The lettuce, in a sunny dell, | Grew green and crisp and curly. ‘The worms, though why, I had no guess Few cabbages devoured, The beans, within a month or less | Superbly flowered, But just with victory in sight, When prospects all seemed cheery, I found I could not sleep at night; My legs and arms were weary, And s0 I had to look around | __Through many a nearby village | Until a hireling I had found To do my tillage. But_now, although my garden thrives The while I wander through it, |1 find my neighbors and their wives _ Decline to come to view it | No_longer by the shaded wall | Do I observe them lurking— | I'm sure they only eame &t all To watch me workin Take Your Choice. Some wise dietitians declare | That people go down to defeat | Or rise to success through the fare | More Truth Than Poetry MONTAGUR ‘Which they are accustomed to eat. ‘The meat-nurtured person may d oheavy And always be fresh as a dalsy, But the ple-biting lad will be always in bad, For pie is the food of the lazy. But what of the fellows who feed On a diet consisting of bran, ‘Which slgne can provide what they neel ‘To nourish the innermost man? ,And what of the people who always Thal theyve found ey've found, pure reasor b That an apple a day keeps the doctor away, And they'll die in an appleless season? Dietitians but rarely agree | . ©On the food that is best to consume; | Some insist that the bean or the pea W1l steep us in Stygian gloom, | While others aver that plain crackers - ba{m cheese, 2 but sparingly they are partake; -Will give much more snap to the work- weary chap Than sausage or beefsteak or bacon. Yet I notice that all sorts of men | . Who exist upon all kinds of food— | Whether flesh of the cow or the he: | _ Whether bolted or carefully che | Get auéni fairly well to the end of their a. Ignoring what doctors may tell ‘em |1t they just hav | %qud zofh;;mrflenough of the right Inside of the old cerebellum. (Copyright, 193 UNCLE RAY’S CORNER A Little Saturday Talk. ERE on my is a letter which a reader has sent to tell me of help received from ar- ticles which anneared in the Corner several weeks ago. It s in this wise Dear Uncle Ray: I am studying school. The giris have a gym teacher whose name is Miss Al- len and we have made notebooks on health. I handed my book in yester- day, and Miss Allen said it was one of the best books she had read. “She asked me where I got the sto- ries, and I told her from Uncle Ray asked me if I would write to you an k you if you have an: more information on health. If you X please cend it to my address as 1 thank you for all oon as you can. ur kindness. “JONANNE ELWELL." I am sorry that I do not have a flet on “Health,” but I shall Jook s to see whether I have te copies of the stories on 1th which I wrote a year or two ago. By the way, I am planning to issue two new leaflets to send cut this Spring and Summer—without cost except the well known “return envelope.” ~What subject would you like me to make the leaflets about? I should like you to help me decide. A leaflet on “Health” might be a gocd one. Health is dear to all of us. Among the other subjects I am thin g about are: “Hints for Camp- ers,” “Rules for Safety,” “Base Ball, Past and Present” and “Outdoor Games.” If you will send me your ideas about the best leaflets, I shall appreciate it. Here is a_letter from a reader who joined the Scrap Book Club not long “Dear Uncle Ray: I received the membership certificate, and was glad The 0ld Gardener Says: The question, “How shall I get the ants out of my lawn?" bobs up every season. Yet no better method cf exterminating these insects has becn discovered than the one which has been recom- mended for several seasons—the use of carbon bisulphide, which produces a poiscnous gas deadly to insects. The gassing of the ants is done by making holes in the ground with a crowbar or sharp stick wherever a nest can found. A tablespoonful of car- bon bisulphide is dropped into each hole and immediately cov- ered with soil. or. better still, with a piece of turf or a wet blanket. This covering should be left in place for abcut four hours, and two applications at intervals of several weeks may be neces- sary. It is important to keep in mind that carbon bisulphide is highly inflammable and that it should be stored as carefully as gasoline. The wise gardenmaker | | will also refrain from smoking while he is using this material. | (Copyright, 1933.) DIFFICULT DECISIONS. will try to be a faithful 1y school is named ‘Pros- There are 1 )’ saving your {to get it. I member. M began Noted Writers.” teacher would help me. Your new member, “DOROTHY SUTTER.” school lacks in size, up for in interest. It na;va l1'£‘mar able name. ould you like to join our 1 Book Club? It is Rt too lau?33 S":g shall welcome you as a member. In- lose a stamped return envel ard ask for a leaflet telling how to make a Corner scrapbook. UNCLE RAY. Use this coupon to join the Uncle Ray Scrapbook Club! TO UNCLE RAY, Care of The Evening Star, ‘Washington, D. C. Dear Uncle Ray: I want to the 1933 Uncle Ray scmpb’golf Club, and I inclose a stamped en- velope carefully addressed to my- self. Please send me a Member- ship Certificate, a leaflet telling how to make a Corner scrapbook of my own, and a printed design to paste on the cover of my scrapbook. Selected from School Papers The position of the frog's tongue when the mouth is closed is the ti] back toward the gulp. el Vacuum is very hard to get. It is nothing with the air sucked out of it |and put up in a bottle. Miss Wynne is the Titian of singers, |and sang with her clear notes reaching the circumference of the audible in the silence of attentive appreciation, and interspersing the program with the Glee Club, who sang with a roll of tone and precision of time that shows what can be done by high cultivation brought to bear on the melodies that have won | the reputation of melodious for all time. He was discharged by the judge with |a warning that his sentence the next | time would be twice as severe. |, xing Rupert of Bavaria was deposed | for insanity; he used to sit and listen to Wagner's music for hours on end. George Washington was n to serve a third term, but © for he wanted to live a civil | WONDERING, JUST AS THE ELEVATOR COMES, WHEMHER THAT TELEPHONE IS RINGING IN YOUR OFFICE OR SOMEBODY ELSE'S (Copyright, 1933, by The Bell Syndicate, Ina.)