Evening Star Newspaper, June 24, 1933, Page 19

MAGAZINE PAGE. Conquering Contract By P. HAL SIMS Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the grectest living contract amd auction piayer. He is captain of the renowned “Four Horsemen” team, and has won 24 national championships since 1924. These articles are based on the Sims system, which includes the one-over-one principle which the Sims group of play ers was the first to employ and develop. After Having Originally Bid a No Trump With a Concealed concealed suit, if not shaded as to tops. should be bid immedi- cause it is of lower rank than the take- out, suit. One Ace. 3. In_ the ex- and in my discus- sion of the subject held two aces. Let us examine the Rebidding Over a Forcing Takeout Long Suit. ESTERDAY T cxplained how t Y ately over the takeout, even if you have to bid four in it be- When Opening Bidder Has Only ample hand there were two aces, 1 assumed that the original bidder situation when he has_only one ace: is the weakest hand on_ which to open with a no-trump on one ace. The time factor is not for you when you m have to force out three aces and give the enemy three chances to plug at your weak spot. With cither of the above queens changed to a jack, I would bid a club and hope that I might get to P. Hal Sims | he shows two aces. Then you sky- | rocket to slam. You are, therefore,| | solid, in conjunction with his bid, eX-l | cept for the missing ace. If he heldI also that ace, he could bid seven since | | you plunged to six expecting to lose| it. If partner has no second ace to show, sign off as soon as you can after game has been bid. | | *"The lowest contract in no trumps at which he will let you play the hand is' your best spot. By invariably reverting | to no trumps, if he rebids hearts after | | failing to show & second ace, you will be | | telling him to sign off. Even at five | no trumps the hand must be safe. With | | only one ace in his hand your partner| | would be without any excuse for taking you any further, or even as far, in view of your repeated sign-offs. | | With Three Aces in Opener’s Hand. | 4. With three aces and an unshaded concealed suit the slam is hardly in| doubt if your partner can make a jump | take-out. Now all four aces are located, | and each of you has a presumably solid suit of five or more cards to play out. 1If the suits break, this counts up to 12 tricks. The outside values justifying the jump take-out account for at least another trick. Thus a grand slam is in | doubt only if your suits do not break. Therefore, you must direct your bidding | to finding out whether any trick must| be lost in either of your long suits. The | time factor is completely under control, your concern now is whether you may | be upset by a guarded queen or Jack.‘\ Your first bid, over the forcing take-out, | is a jump take-out in your concealed | suit. - The fact that you immediately bid a suit tells your partner that it is !AKQxxorAKXxxXxXx The fact | that you jump the bid includes the in- | formation that you have three ace: With three aces and no suit to shov | you would bid four no trumps over three hearts, would you not? By bid- ding, say. four spades over three hearts, or five clubs over three of any u(hc‘r' suit, you definitely announce both an | unshaded concealed long suit and three ’admu he has rather a benign expres- THE EVENING STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, NATURE’S CHILDREN Lynx. L. canadensis. BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. HIS handsome cat with his fear- some whiskers and sideburns is “not up a tree”; rather he is on his watch tower scanning the countryside. This is our most handsome cat and he is a very clever one. Despite his reputation for slyness and clever hunting, you must sion, a sort of grandfathery look. Father and mother lynx are clothed alike; their Winter coats are a bit paler than their Summer ones. Both are gray, sprinkled well with brown; the hair is darker on the head. The throat and underparts are grayish white; their ear tufts are a brownish black and about one and a half inches long. the corners of the mouth there are black spots and black bars on the ruff at the side of the head. The lynx is about the size of a full-grown cocker spaniel. Father lynx is slightly larger han his spouse. In the Summer the lynx mother se- lects a cavern or hollow tree well pro- tected by thickets and low growth for the birthplace of her twins. Quite early in life, in fact, from the very start, they are ill-natured and quar- relsome. They are soon taught to hunt for grubs and insects and at a tender age are made to fend for themselves. They can be tamed and made into lovable pets if taken young enough, but upon the slightest provocation and when they catch sight of the favorite food of their ancestors chey revert to their wild habits. Lynx bound over the ground easily and silently because of their great padded feet. With back A O OF THE MOMENT DIETS R e put o aecompanisd 4 a.%umww' weh T het f white - Wm nateh the veet MILADY BEAUTIFUL JUNE 24, 1933. LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. The Weakly News. Weather: Al rite if you like it. SISSIETY PAGE Mr. Shorty Judge swapped Mr. Skin- ney Martin a watch cristal for a crayon writing red at one end and blue at the other, and Mr. Skinny Martin has been making his frends laugh by putting the watch cristal in one eye and wawking around tawking like a Englishman, making Mr. Shorty Judge sorry he didn’'t keep the watch cristal and think of it himself. Mr. Puds Simkinses many frends will be intristed to learn that he is recover- ing from a bad cold and catching an- | WOMEN'S FEATURES. Too Much and Too Little Furniture BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. other one. SPORTING PAGE ‘The men fixing the hole in the street spred a lot of tar Sattiday afternoon and Sid Hunt and Glasses Magee the famous explorers wawked part ways across it to see if any would stick to their shoes, which a lot did and also to the floors when they got home, being the saddest part of the story. CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN FAMOUS PEOPLE Lady going passed. “Hello Sammy, how’s your mother?” Cross. “Fine thanks.” “Why I heard she's been sick in bed for a week.” Sam. “G, that’s rite, she's still in bed thanks.” INTRISTING FAKS ABOUT INTRISTING PEOPLE Artie Alixander is going to be a docter when he grows up and even now he is good at taking splinters out of people. Puds Simkins has a generous disposi- tion and likes to hand apple cores to THIS OVER-FURNISHED ROOM LOOKS CLUTTERED! horses, but on the other hand he leeves such little bits of cores its almost a waist of time for the horse, O preserve the balance between |over furnishing is detrimental to good scantily furnished and over- | decoration, there are instances when furnished rooms is one of the both are entirely excusable. The 1o trumps by way of a one-over-one in problems of the home decorator. | newly weds, who underfurnish during hearts from my partner, or some other bidding which would locate an ace or two in his hand. However, hand as given I approve a no-trump opening bid. Partner bids three hearts. That still only places one ace in his hand. I would now bid three no trumps, an immediate sign-off. I would not bid four clubs. If he now bids four no trumps, this by convention shows two aces. I would now bid six no trumps as & slam is certain. 3 ‘We have an ace to lose, but that is ell. Either I can chuck my losers on his hearts or he can chuck his on my clubs. Partners should read this bid- | g ding clearly. You are despondent until BEDTIME STORIES 7 The Twitching Tail. The thing unknown most oft bewitches— A wiggling ear; a tail that twitches. HEN disobedient Betty Bear first poked her head out from under the windfall that had been her home since she was born, and outside of which she never had really looked, she sat down, and for a few minutes did noth- | ing but blink. It was her first experi- ence with light, and she didn't know what to make of it. eyes grew accustomed to it she began to see things for the first time. Round eyed she stared at the big frees tower- ing high above her and at the little trees not much higher than her head when she stood up, and the green things pushing up through the brown carpet of dead leaves. She heard nothing and | emelled nothing, for just then she was| BHE GOT A GLIMPSE OF A BIG SHADOWY FORM THAT MOVED AS SILENTLY AS A SHADOW. all eyes. She could only sit and stare and wonder what all these strange things were and why Mother Bear had never taken her out to see them. *And how she did want to agk questions! After awhile her small ears bcgan to pick up strange new sounds, the sough- ing of the Merry Little Breezes through the pine trees, the cawing of Blacky the Crow, the drumming of Thunderer the Grouse, all strange, and because of this a little frightening. Last of all, she began to smell things. Hither- to the smell of Mother Bear was about the only smell she had known. She 1 MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Melons. Wheat Cereal with Cream. Baked Eggs. Bacon. Oatmeal Muffins. CofTee. DINNER. Fruit Cup. Blanquette of Chicken, Diced Potatoes. Asparagus Butter_Sauce Lettuce and Tomato Salad. French Dressing. Orange Sherbert. Coffee. SUPPER. Cheese Club Sandwiches, Pineapple Gelatin. Whipped Cream. Ice E-n Cookies. Tea OATMEAL MUFFINS. Two cups flour sifted with four level teaspoons baking powder, le salt, one egg beaten in mix- g bowl with little sugar. Beat one cup cold oatmeal into egg, add flour and one cup sweet milk Beat hard till all is mixed, add three teaspoops bacon fat or other ¢ orwn.ng Any cooked cereal is good in place of oat- meal. Bake in hot oven BLANQUETTE OF CHICKEN. Melt three tablespoons butter, blend in two tablespoons flour, add slowly one cup chicken stock and stir until perfectly smooth. Season with pepper and salt, add one teaspoon lemon juice and one cup cream, bring to boiling point and add two cups cold cooked chicken torn into shreds. Cook over boiling water for 10 min- utes, add yolks four eggs beaten with one-quarter cup milk or cream, cook minute longer and serve with border of rice cro- quettes or plain boiled rice CHEESE CLUB SANDWICH Buttey toasted bread while hot Spread piece of toast with a layer of hard cheese, on this place two erisp lettuce leaves. Cover this with thin slices of breast of chicken and then cover with the other slice of toast. (Copyrisht, 1933.) with the | Gradually as her | windfall. |out what it was that had moved. | aces. Responder’s Immediate Duty. | Responder must now step on th:| | platform. He must tell you (a) whether | his suit is solidified by the ace or king | | and a small card, which is the weakest | support you will provide; (b) ‘whether he has a holding that will solidify your suit: @ x X (in case you have six to| A K) or J X X or X X X X. TOmorrow | we will make up some example hands | | and discuss how they should be bid. (Copyright, 1933.) | Mr. Sims will answer all inquiries on con- | tract that are addressed to this newspaper T fose & ‘self-nddressed stamped en- | velope. Thornton . Burgess. | dwellers. hadn't really known just what that wonderful little nose of hers was for. | Now strange smells tickled it, and they | were good. | By this time she had wholly forgot- ten that she was disobeying Mother | Bear. There was so much to see and | So much to hear and so much to smell |all else was forgotten. She ventured a few steps away from the entrance to the den, and then the strangeness of her surroundings filled her with sud- den fright, and she schampered back to the friendly darkness of the great But two minutes later she was outside again, and this time she ventured a few steps farther, only to | turn and rush back headlong when the | rat-a-tat-tat of Drummer the Wood- pecker sounded from a dead limb high H above her head. | Finding that nothing hurt her, she become bolder, and every minute her curiosity increased. So when presently | a slight movement in a thicket a short distance away caught her attention she didn’t run. Instead she stared very hard at that thicket, trying to make Presently she made out a pair of star- ing, greenish-yellow eyes and they gave her a queer feeling. But even then it | was more curiosity than fear. She “dldn‘t know that they were eyes. She was almost tempted to go over and| see what they were, glowing there amid | | the shadows of the young hemlocks, but | |t was a little too far. i | Then the eyes disappeared, and she | | got a glimpse of a big, shadowy form | | that moved as silently as a shadow. | Then she saw the eyes again. Once| more they disappeared, and again she| saw that shadowy form move a little | nearer. And then she saw something | | that she couldn't take her eyes from. | {It was sometiing that kept twijtching back and forth, back and forth. Some- | | times it would disappear for a moment. | and then she would see it again, twitch- | ing back and forth, back and forth. It | was the end of a long tail, but Betty | Bear didn’t know this. She didn't know anything about tails, for Mother Bear didn't have enough of a tail to call it one, and of course she herself was like Mother Bear. 1t was the end of that long tail that kept twitching. Back and forth, back and forth it twitched. It seemed to be inviting Betty Bear to come and play with it. What fun it would be to pounce on it and try to hold it still! Without really knowing it, Betty Bear advenced & step or two, her eyes fixed on shat provoking, tantalizing, twitch- ing tail. | _The owner of that tail? It was | Puma_ the Panther, or Mountain Lion, | who is also called Cougar. His eyes | glowed with eagerness and hunger as little by little he crept nearer to Betty ar, (Copyright, 1933.) GOOD TAS arched, tail practically indiscernible, ear tufts held perkily aloft, to say nothing of the business-like looking whiskers, he is a laughable sight indeed. Unlike the bobcat, they do not haunt farmyards, but prefer the silence of the woods. They do not hibernate, neither are they thrifty like the chipmunk, gopher and squirrel. They are clever in unearthing the fine store houses of the cougar, which are well stocked with deer, pigs and sheep. _During the long ‘Winter these cats suffer from lack of food and at this time they seek what has been left behind by other forest It is claimed that the flesh of the lynx is palatable. They are rarely hunted systematically, as are other game animals, blé§ tra‘;')‘spel’s seek them for heir valuable : ; ¢ This lynx is ‘f)gund from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. My Neighbor Says: ‘When buying fish see that the eyes are not sunken in and dull. A fresh fish has clear eyes and the flesh is firm to the touch. Do not let hardwood floors get badly worn before having them polished. A little polish on the worn places each week keeps floors always looking well. Sour milk be2ten into mayon- naise dressing gives it a delicious flavor. Panama straw hats should be washed in a warm castile soap lather to which a few drops of BY LOIS LEEDS. Exercise for Flabby Muscles. DEAR MISS LEEDS—I am a woman 38 years of age. My flesh is be- coming flabby. Will exercise harden it again? Please give some real good ex- ercises for me. Would gymnasium help me? DAILY READER. Answer—Yes, you can harden your muscles by regular exercise, but it will take time. The flabby condition has been slowly developing for a number of years so that it cannot be overcome overnight. Exercise at a gymnasium would probably be more interesting and therefore more beneficial to you than home exercuse, but you will obtain quicker results if you do both. Spend 10 minutes both night and morning on |ing, trunk twisting and leg raising. My free leafict on “Beauty Exercises” de- scribes many exercises that would help you and I shall gladly mail you a copy if you will write for it and inclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope with your request. In addition to indoor ex- | ercises, you should make a point of walking three or more miles a day out- doors. Engage in outdoor sports if you can. Swimming would be very helpful to you. Do not let yourself become overweight by overeating and lack of exercise. LOIS LEEDS. Large Pimples. Dear Miss Leeds—I have not had oc- casion to use your column until my face broke out. Iam not run down, but am in good condition. I am a boxer. The pimples on my face are very large, | sometimes as big as a 5-cent plece. My | skin 5 blotchy where some have healed wp. Sometimes my complexion is clear, | |but it does not stay that way long. RAYMOND. Answer—Your wisest course is to con- sult a skin specialist to find the under- | lying cause of the trouble. Serum treat- | ! ment may be required. Mild sunbwn |is often helpful in such cases on ac- | | count of the drying and sterilizing ef- | fects of the sun. | with ‘warm water and soap. Rinse well and rub on a little massage alcohol, which may be diluted with water if it causes too much smarting of the skin. Be sure to include plenty of citrus fruits, raw vegetables and cooked suc- If_your skin is very | |oily you should wash it twice a day | | In the first instance, although | the furniture may be adequate, the | rooms have a bare appearance, which | robs them of the needed cozy welcom- |ing character. There is a curious 1!]00!!’10“ about the pieces in a scantily furnished room which 1s sapping to | cordiality. It indicates either lack of |funds to buy wanted articles, or an | institutional trend in the nature of the | { home decorator. The woman may nfll; When Nancy told her club members | peorms hetray 1" (cndency, but the how to slip one piece of carpet of TUg | There is the desire to rob the rooms | material through a slit in another | of extra care which things require, and | plece she had had many communica- | };flsl h;‘toae olf éhe !glk!nz _r!helmm tions regarding rug making. e e e Some women said they never fastened | poance jormore Warmth about scanty their rag strip ends, but just braided | oo pamore on than gt them in. That seemed rather dan- parlors, or institutional waiting | gerous to Nancy, for there is a great NANCY PAGE The Machine Sews the Rag Rug Strips BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. rooms. | | On the other hand, rooms which are | | overfurnished have a cluttered look | | £ | which gives a tiresome effect, suggest- | r |ing the energy needed to keep them clean and dustless. They are either ! the result of living in small quarters | e after large ones, and a hesitancy to part with pieces which may be wanted later. Or they are the result of over- | buying. There are homemakers who | delight in beautiful furniture to such |an extent that they often yield to the | temptation to purchase, even though | they realize they have little space in | | which to house the articles. While either extreme of under and the period of selecting at leisure and as the purse permits them to get just what they want, are right in so doing. They are wise. The families who are obliged to move into small quarters during a period of monetary stress, and who hesitate to add to cost of living by storing their pieces, and so stow them into their rooms as best they can, temporarily, are doing the best they can. They put up with the crowded rooms, knowing the circum- stances and thaf they will require the things when they move into larger quarters. Collectors of furniture often find themselves crowded out of hitherto sufficiently large houses, just because of the furniture. It needs to have the right setting. Sometimes the inten- tion is deliberate, for they wish to have enough pieces before moving to amply furnish the home they intend to buy or build when this time comes. ‘The well furnished house must be carefully considered, for it should have in it every needed thing, and as many labor-saving devices as can be af- forded. It should not be so full that it suggests work to keep it clean, nor should it be so lacking in furniture that it has a bare appearance. It should suggest comfort, restfulness and that home attribute of coziness which is instilled by having loved things about. (Copyright, 1933.) jamount of wear and tear on a rug. The ends need to be fastened some way, but what is the quickest and UNCLE RAY’S CORNER A Little Saturday Talk. easiest method? ‘ A CORNER reader named Lily Hill culent vegetables in your diet. LOIS simple setting-up exercises that include | LEEDS. deep breathing, stretching, trunk bend- | (Copyright, 1933.) ammonia have been added. Rinse well in tepid water, using a soft nail brush and rub with a soft rag. (Copyright, 1933.) SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. I'm walkin’ out on ’em today—I been squirtin’ faithful all week an’ all I got was blame 'cause a few of the - DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX I EAR MISS DIX—My husband and I are very happy together; that is, we would be if it were nct for the financial question. For the last six months he has not had steady employment and I was forced to go back to work. It is either do this or live with his parents or mine. My work is not hard, but I have to be away from my baby girl, who is 9 months old. Do you think I did right by going to back to work and supporting the family? My husband does all the housewcrk and cares for the baby. He also does all the public work that he can get to do. My relatives think that my husband will never try to get steady work again because I have taken over the financial re- sponsibility, but I know this is not true. He will be glad to work when he can get a job. Should I be thankful for being qualified to find & posi- tion or take my relatives’ viewpoint about it? THE BREAD-WINNER. Answer—You should thank Heaven on your knees for having qualified yourself to be a real helpmeet to your husband in time of need, and you should add a special prayer for enlightenment of your narrow-minded and meddling relatives with their cbsclete opinions. SURELY your father and mother cannot realize what a cruel thing they are doing in adding to your troubles by predicting that you will turn your husband into a parasite by becoming the bread-winner in this time of stress when the ordinary conditions of life have been upset. It is hard encugh on you to have to leave your little baby and go back to your job without their filling your mind with fears ard suspicions. ’I‘HIS depressicn has been a time that has tried men and women out and shown what they were made of, and there is no one for whom I have greater respect and admiration than the young couples, like you and your husband, who have met the situaticn bravely and sanely. And that has not been an easy thing to do when the roles of husbands and wife have re- versed and the wife has gone back, as she has in so many cases, into the office she left when she married, and the man has put on an apron and gone into the kitchen. ‘This has been particularly hard on the men, but I know of many professional men and women who were high salaried before the panic who are baking the bread while their wives earn the dough, and who are doing it cheerfully and humorcusly, and that takes grit and courage and the stuff of which real men are made. wrong things got wet. (Copyright, TE TODAY 1933.) BY EMILY POST. Famous Authoril All-White Weddings. Y dear Mrs. Post: Some time ago, in answering some one in the column who asked whether an all-white wedding was in good taste, you said you thought that attendants dressed in’all white were likely to detract from the importance of the bride. I would like an all-white wedding in our garden during the Sum- mer. Do you think that my plans would make you change your set opinion as to the good taste of my idea? I would like to wear white chif- fon and a tulle veil, and carry ma- donna lilies. Iwant to have my attend- ants wear white organdy and carry bouquets of bright- colored garden flowers. Don't you think this change in the materials of our dresses and the ! difference in the flowers would be suffi- | cient to give me the “bride’s dues, | would you suggest that the girls wear | colored organdy hats and shoes to match? Or can you suggest another | color note? | Answer: T am sorry that my opinion sounded “set”’ As a matter of fact, I | thought I made it quite clear that an | all-white wedding picture would be in very best taste, and more than likely would be unusually beautiful. I assure you that when I said that half a dozen bridal attendants all in white would | perhaps detract from the bride, I had | no_other criticism in mind. ‘ 1 think your idea of bright flowers for |the bridesmaids very attractive, and I {think white hats and slippers much | smarter than colored ones would be. | Whether very carefully considered rib- | bon. of whichever color is in harmony with, or is complimentarv to the hou- Emily Post. ty on Etiquette. | hats would be prettier than hats that |are entirely all white, is a question | would pest be decided by trying samples of white and of colored ribbon at the final fitting, when dresses and hats are tried on together. PR MY dear Mrs. Post: Iam having an all-white evening wedding in Au- gust. As the weather will be very hot, the boys irsist that they will not be able to bear the discomfort suits. May they in good taste wear the Britich linen mess coats? If yes, will you describe accessories? Answer: Yes—white lmen mess jacket with black worsted trousers, black tie, black pumps and a white linen waist- coat would look extremely well A of dark | AND nobody need be afraid that those men, who ate doing the very best they can in the circumstances in which they find themselves, will not g0 back to heir jobs when they can get them again. They will never make the loafer husbands who sit back and wait for their wives to support them. Every woman who is a real woman desires above all else to be a real help to her husband, a real mate, a real partner. If she can do this better by earning money outside of the home than by working in it, she should be proud and glad that she has the intelligence and skill to assist him in the most effectual way. And, anyway, what she dces is a matter between her and her husband, and her family should keep their fingers out of the pie. DOROTHY DIX. EAR DOROTHY DIX—I am & girl 19 years old. Three years ago I came to the city from a small town and got a job in a department A short time afterward the big boss called me into his office and talked to me. Found out I had little education and urged me to go to night school and improve myself. Which I did. He is old enough to be my father and, as God is my judge, has treated me as a father might a daughter. Made it possible for me to get an education. Got me to join the Sunday school and church. Gave me advice, which I realize meant the difference between being a good girl and a bad one. He has absolutely been all that a Christian gentleman should be to me, but his wife has become very jealous of me, has convinced herself that things are not straight between us and makes things very unpleasant at home for him. T feel that I should leave the city so that there will be no further strain on their already badly strained relations, but he begs me not to. Says I have been a ray of sunshine in his life and that if we pray earnestly store white waistcoat is preferable to a sash called a kummerbund. [ jorry poLLY A Little Chat on Etiquette. BY JOS. J. FRISCH IMA DUDD THINKS THAT A POTATO for his wife to change and see things as they are everything will be all right. I want to obey his wishes because he has been so good to me, but I never want to be a party to breaking up a hcme, even if I am not guilty of any wrongdoing. What must I do? FUL. Answer—Go. And at once. It is the only way that you can repay the kindness of your benefactor and save him frcm the scandal of a divorce and the anguish of a broken-up home HAT you are both entirely innocent of any wrongdoing does not affect the wisdom of this move. The world does not see the heart of the individual. It cnly observes its actions and it smiles cynically and puts the worst possible interpretation on old gentlemen who take a paternal interest in a pretty young girl employe. Nor will all the prayers in the world cure the jealousy of a wife who sees her husband spending his meney and taking delight in the companionship of a girl who is half her weight and age. No doubt all of this will seem hard and unjust to you. No doubt it is unreasonable for a wife to be jealous of her husband’s employes just because they are young and pretty and attractive. No doubt many a man does feel just a fatherly interest in some bright, talented, ambitious girl, who is the sort of girl he would have liked his own girls to be, and there “is nothing in their relationship that isn't fine and hcnorable and to the credit of both. But this is a suspicious world filled with jealous wives and scandal- mongers, and we have to meet it on its own low plane. We cannot change it. And it isn't enough to be good, we have to look good and avoid even the suspicion of evil. And that is why no young girl can have a platonic | P. B—Boiled potatoes are usually | served in individual dishes. When the potatoes are peeled the skins are left | en the dishes and the potatoes placed on the plates on which the meat course quets, on very broad-brupmed WRlig,ly serveds affair even with a man old enough to be her father. 1If you leave vour kind -old friend, he will miss you for a while, but that will Eass and his name and his home will be saved. If you stay, you will wreck him as well as yourself. So go. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1933.) ! sewed together they were wound into Some women wrote in to say that they always took an afternoon or two | to sew carpet rags. They put a pile of pleces on the floor beside them. Then, armed with stout thread and strong needle, they pieced ends togeth- er. They did this with a slight amount of overlapping. There were many,| many piecings to be made. Each one | called for a separate knot and sepa-i rate fastening. After the pleces were & ball. | Then Mrs. Garrett of Northfield, ©Ohio, sent her method. She says, “have your lap full of car- pet strips as you sit at the sewing machine. Lap two ends and sew. Lap the free end of one of these strips with an end of a new strip. Sew. Continue in an unending strip. Let the machine sew an inch of stitches in between. Then when you have quite a lot sewed, cut the stitches, leaving a half inch on each side. One can sew loads of strips in a short time. And that half inch of sewed thread stitches keeps the pieces from pulling apart.” Nancy wondered whether this method ‘was one more triumph for technocracy! has sent me a letter containing questions about astronomy. “Of what use are the planets?” she asks. “They are t0o near or too far from the sun for life. Of what use are the millions of suns (or stars)? They are immense balls of fire unfit for life.” It is true that some planets are too hot or too cold to support life as we The Old Gardener Say: The planting of irises should take place within a short time after the flowering season is over. The bearded or so-called German firises are particularly easy to handle. They can be divided to almost any extent and are sure to live wherever they may be planted. They prefer, however, an open sunn; situation in somewhat light soil. In a shaded place and in heavy soil they are likely to rot after a time. These irises like lime, which may be dusted over the roots when they are planted. Care must be taken not to put them into the ground too deeply, a common mistake. The crowns should be almost level with the ground because the roots like to travel along the surface of the soil. These bearded irises are so easy to grow and are to be found in such great variety that they are among the most useful of all perennials. The garden maker, however, should not be satisfled with the old-fashioned kinds, but increase his pleasure by adding a few of the new varieties each year. Many of them are not expensive and are wonderfully handsome. (Copyright, 1933.) MINUTE THAT SEEMS A YEAR know it. Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are so far from the sun that they are too cold to serve as the homes of people. The little planet called Mercury is so close to the sun that it may b: too hot for human life. Mars and Venus, however, may have | the proper amount of heat to sustain animal life as well as plant life, The distant suns called “stars” are “unfit for life,” but that does not prove them to be without use. It is likely that planets revolve around a large pro- | portion of the stars, just as the earth, Mars and Venus revolve around our sun. If a person on a planet revolving around the great sun called Arcturus should turn a telescope on the solar system, he would be able to see our sun (appearing like a star to him); but he could not sce the earth—unless he had a better telescope than men on earth have made so far. ‘There may be millions of planets, scattered far and wide through space, with people living on them. In some cases the people may be far ahead of us in knowledge, and if one of them should visit us, he might shake his head and say, “Alas! The people of the earth are still in the Dark Ages—they have not yet learned the art of making life & happy adventure for every one.” Planets and suns may be of good use, but it is a mistake to suppose that everything in nature must be useful. Look around you and see how nature wastes many things. A maple tree roduces and drops hundreds of seeds, ut the greater part of them will not grow into trees. If all the eggs laid by fish should hatch, and if all the little fish should grow to full size, the waters of lakes and seas would be overrun before many years passed by. Would you like to join our 1933 Scrapbook Club? It is not too late, and we shall welcome you as a member, Inclose a stamped, return envelope and ask for a leaflet telling how to make a Corner scrapbook. UNCLE RAY. (Copyright, 1933.) —By Gluyas Williams WAriNG FOR THE FAMILY WEATHER, BUREAU TO ISSUE IS REPORT AS TO WHETHER THOSE THREATENING CLOUDS WILL NOT AMOUNT T0 ANYTHING OR WHETHER THE PICNIC TO THE BEACH HAD BETTER BE CALLED OFF (Copyright. 1333, by The Bell Syndiexte, Inc.)