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. MAGAZINE PAGE. Conquering Contract By P. HAL SIMS——— Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the greatest living contract and auction player. He was captain of the rencwn- P. Hal Sims ¢4 “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 rlayers was the first to employ and de- velop. Play of Yesterday's Grand-Slam Hend. HE problem obviously is for South | to get rid of his two losing hearts and of one losing dia- mond. Two of these losers can be discarded on the ace and king of the spades, but how to get rid of the third one? The diamond finesse can be attempted—but there is no indication as to the location of that queen, and this play would involve an absolute gamble on that card. Fur- ther, with the powerful dummy exposed, there is little chance of a pseudo squeeze. West must hold Q J x of spades and also the queen of diamonds for the squeeze to be actual. Selecting Probable Line of Play. I think the right analysis is as fol- lows: All the suits except diamonds are very unevenly held. It is more iikely that the six diamonds held by the opponents are divided three- three, with the added chance that | if they are four-two the queen is| part of the doubleton holding, than | ability than that the diamond finesse | will win. At any rate it is better| technique, in my opinion, to play for a three-three split in diamonds than to risk the finesse. Declarer should draw trumps at trick two; this is effect- ed in two rounds. Leaving a high tiump in dummy, he should lead a diamond, win it in dummy and then | take in the two spades, discarding from | his hand a heart and a diamond. Now the other high diamond is led, and | then a low diamond. This fetches the | queen out of East’s hand—the finésse | would have lost, but this play wins. | Declarer trumps. He now gets to| dummy with a third trump lead and | discards the other heart on the jack | of diamonds. Win or lose, this is the | ¥ight technique, as you are beaten only | if the queen is held together with three small ones. If the holding is Q x x, this play wins whichever opponent holds the queen. The Treachery of Cards. al ¥ 0-10-1-1-1 (253 & Q-Jrx Yz o0 AKD310x L 451 & b-Frererer- 4 hr1x (r k-1 South dealt and naturally bid a spade. Pass by West, one no trump or, preferably, two hearts by North, pass by East, two spades by South, which “closes the bidding. Even in a rubber game South should rebid his spades, and in match-point play the! honors made this rebid obligatory. ¢ No- body can blame this bidding, yet South went down three tricks and could not hand. "I think every system would a rive at a contract of at least two spades, and Sims’ players on this hand suf- fered with the others. West opens with | the king of diamonds. declarer wins | and leads a trump honor. West goes in with his ace and plays two diamonds East plays high-low in hearts, so West gives him the ruff. Laying down the ace of clubs, East sees he can put West in again with a club ruff, and thereby he makes his third trump by ruffing| another heart. South still has to lose | another diamond. An Undeserved Catastrophe. This is one of the most unfortunate hands I have ever seen: I suppose they are sent along from time to time to humble us and remind us that the cards cannot be conquered, and that they conspire at times to withhold their message and trap us even when we have shown them every respect in our bidding. One no trump can be made, but who would refrain from rebidding the spades unless he knew the exact contents of each hand? (Copyright. 1933.) Sims will answer all inquiries on Mr. contract that are addressed to this newa- Dpaper with self-addressed stamped envelope. GOOD TASTE TODAY BY EMILY POST. Famous Authority on Etiquette. A Supplement. EAR MRS. POST: Sometime ago you printed sample wed- ding invitations and announce- ments, but you did not say whether it would be proper to send wedding invitations to friends and relatives living at too great a distance to possibly attend the ceremony? Or most announcements be sent to any such persons in- stead of the invi- tation, which after all would be an empty gesture, in- asmuch as thev know that I know it would be impos- sible for them to be here Answer—An in- vitation sent to a friend at a dis- tance means: “I would want you at my wedding, were [ you here” In short, it is an ex- pression of friend- ship and of inten- tional hospitality. An annourcement means: “A wedding has taken place, to which you were not invited.” Furthermore, it implies that you would not have been invited had you been here. In short, it is nothing whatscever except an announcement that you, who were Mary Smith, are now Mrs. John Jones. Do you see? * x K X MY DEAR MRS. POST: You said in your column that “Pardon me"” had been vulgarized the same as the expression “Pleased to meet you.” (1) ‘What should one say? (2) We are never vulgar when courteous, are we? (3) What should a child be taught in place of these expressions which, you say, are tabu? Answer—(1) “Excuse me,” for pass- 8ng in front of some one or any other ainavoidable breach of deportment 'm sorry,” for a slight awkwardness. “I beg your pardon,” for serious awkward- ness. (2) Yes—we might be. Courtesy mmeans kind consideration of others; vulgarity means a lack of refinement. ‘We might be utterly vulgar and vet %ind. We might have extreme refine- ment and yet not be kind. (3) “How Emily Post. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Oatmeal with Cream. Scrambled Eggs. Bacon. Melons. Popovers. Coffee. DINNER. Fruit Cocktail. Roast Duck, Brown Gravy. Apple Sauce. Asparagus. Butter Sauce. Mashed Potatoes. Tomato and Lettuce Salad. Mayonnaise Dressing. Lemon Milk Sherbet. Coffee. SUPPER. Toasted Cheese Sandwich. Pickles. Olives. Orange Cream Pie. Tea. POPOVERS. One cupful flour, 7 cupful milk, 1 teaspoonful salt, 2 eggs, 1, teaspoonful melted butter. Mix salt and flour, add milk gradually in order to obtain a light smooth batter. Add eggs beaten until light and butter. Beat two minutes. Turn into hissing hot buttered iron gem pans and bake 30 to 35 minutes in a hot oven. LEMON MILK SHERBET. Two cupfuls sugar, 4 lemons, squeezed, 1 quart milk. Mix sugar and strained lemon juice; stir the milk slowly into the mix- ture. Put into freezer can, cover and freeze. Use equal parts chopped ice and rock salt. ORANGE CREAM PIE. Three eggs, 1 cupful sugar, 2% level tablespoonfuls cornstarch, greted rind of 2 oranges, juice of 1 orange, 1% cupfuls milk. Separate whites from yolks of eggs and beat yolks with half the sugar until light. Mix corn- starch smooth with 4 cupful of the milk and scald remainder in double boiler. When almost boiling stir in cornstarch and cook until thick. Add yolks of eggs, sugar, orange rind and juice. Cool slightly and pour into previously baked crust. Beat whites of eggs stiff, add re- mainder of sugar, and flavor if liked, with a little orange juice or grated rind. Pile on top of pie, put in a moderate oven to set and brown slightly. (Copsright, 1933.) | do you do” or else merely bow o= curtsy (neither too pronounced). | x % ox x | EAR MRS. POST: You did not | include in your column on the | business woman ~whether it is better | to say Elsie Blank or Miss Blank when applying for a position? Answer—Sign a letter this way: | (Miss) Elsie Blank. Send in a card with Miss on it. Telephone, “This is Miss Blank.” ,If asked by an executive | to repeat your name, say, “Elsie Blank.” f (Copyright. 1933.) A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. Good Conscience. | “Our rejoicing is this, | mony of our consclence."—II Corinth- | fans, 112. i “You may write my life on the skies; | I have nothing to conceal.” So replied | Spurgeon, the great preacher, when some one threatened to reveal some- thing dark in his life. It is worth everything to a man to be able to face | the threats of false accusers with such assurance of conscience. | “with no_thought of boasting of his | moral attainments, when Samuel was |old and gray-headed he called Israel | to witness tnat, though he had walked | before ‘uem since childhood, no one | could accuse him of oppressing the | poor, or defrauding any one, or ac- cepting a bribe. How many men | today can claim for themselves such a stainless record? |~ When the apostle Paul was accused of defiling the temple by taking a gentile within its sacred precincts, he | replied that he was innocent of the | charge, and that he “exercised himself |to have always a conscience void of offense toward God and toward man.” | To_the Corinthians he wrote: “Our | rejoicing is this, the testimony of gur | conscience, that in simplicity and | godly sincerity, not with fleshly wis- | dom, but by the grace of God, we |have had our conversation in the | world, and more abundantly to you- | ward.” The testimony of a good conscience gives courage as well as comfort. Some one relates the following inci- dent of a group of boys discussing another boy who had been found guilty of stealing. The boys were ex- pressing opinions freely. “Besides ste: ing. he lied. He was always & cOWAr said one. “He was all the time afraid somebody would find out and tell on him. I know a fellow he gave 10 cents not to tell where he had seen him.” Then one brown-eyed little boy |in the group threw his head back | proudly and said: “Well, I'm glad of one thing: there can't anybody find out and tell anything on me, and I wouldn't pay anybody 10 cents, for | there's nothing to find out that every- | body doesn't know.” And as this boy | spoke there was a fine challenge in | his face and a manly courage shone out in his eyes. The greatest and best of men have had their traducers. We are all liable to be falsely accused. Happy is the man who can meet his adversaries with the consciousness that he has nothing of which to be ashamed. A man with a conscience void of offense can face the world and se- renely and without fear of anybody. He has something that more than countervails all the defeats and mis- fortunes he may suffer. What a pity so many fail to see that evil lers no gain that can compensate one for ‘the testimony of a good conscience. How It Started BY JEAN NEWTON. “As Easy as Lying.” ‘We have an inquiry for the origin of this phrase in modern speech. Its sig- nificance needs no interpreting. This is another modern phrase whose author is Shakespeare. We find its origin in the second scene of act three of the “Tragedy of Hamlet,” when Ham- let asks Guildens! ay upon a tern to pl pipe. = “Guildenstern: My lord, I cannot. “Hamlet: I pray you. “Guildenstern: Believe me, I can- not. “Hamlet: I do beseech you. “Guildenstern: I know no touch of it, my lord. “Hamlet: It is as easy as lying; | govern these ventages with your fingers |and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will discourse most elo- quent music.” . It is his mother’s ]yl:?. and her be- trayal of his father, with which the prince is obsessed, to which he mak velled reference in comparing lying music. (Copyright, 1933.) the testi- | es wmmh ING_STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1933. WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD: Registered U. 8. Patent Office. When Stilson McCathran was the' big attraction in the boat races on the Eastern Branch? NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Common Shrew. Sorex Personatus. HE threws belong to a very large | group, the genus Sorex, with 42 species and sub-species. All dress very much alike and their habits are the same as they roam over North America from New England to Alaska, south to Tennessee and North Carolina in the Alleghenies. You will not find them in the South- eastern Rocky Mountains and in the Cascade-Sierra systems. Considering the fact that these ani- mals are so abundant, it seems strange that they are not known by their right name. They are smaller than moles. They have feet like mice, but not the sharp pointed nose or the large eyes, and their fur is much more siky. Though furnished with sharp claws, they never walk tip-toe, but place the soles of their feet flat on the ground. They carry offensive guns and use them with the least provocation, but COMMON SHREW= especially do they train them on their hated enemiss, the owls, weasels, hawks, minks and foxes. Though our own tab- by cat kills them, the odor is too much for her pampered stomach. In Winter the soft, silky, dull gray coat is exchenged for the pretty sepia brown or chestnut one of Summer days. Well protected from the cold, these ani- mals do not need to hibernate, but seek shelter in greennouses or other build- ings, and in hollow trees or bird homes in tree-trunk hollows. They are not provident like the chipmunk and pocket gopher, but in all sorts of weather, day or night, must_seek food. Grubs, mice and insects are routed down from their hiding places in order to satisfy the shrew’s great appetite. | Their disposition leaves much to be desired. They are pugnacious and greedy. When ancther has a tidbit they covet, they stand by and keep up & sing-song chatter that expresses plainly, hate, malice and greed. The face has a fiendish look upon it as they show their sharp teeth and snarl. Every once in a while they let out low, plercing screams, and a mouse which hears it is thrown into abject terror, and rightly so. It is said that wedding days for shrews are w:thout any regard to season. | As a rule, the babies are born from May to August. There are several litters a year and from five to eignt in each group. The life span of the shrew is about fifteen months. They are friends of ours, not foes, and we should think more kindly of them. When deeply wrapped in slumber for their half-hour nap—they are short sleepers—they rest their heads be- tween the forepaws and twitch a good deal as though disturbed by unpleasant | dreams. | They are agile and do everything at break-neck speed. Sometimes they oc- cupy the burrows of moles and mice, and if they meet face to face in the hallway, with equal fighting ability, no combat ensues, but there are strained relations as they keep their distance. (Copyright. 1933.) Pleasing the Man BY CHLOE JAMISON. 'HE first succulent sweet corn, the first fresh limas—ah, how the man does adore them in combina- tion, served with his evening chop and fried new potatoes! You will make no mistake in planning to have them at least twice a week. . Cooks vary in their preparation of | succotash, although all known recipes are very simple. A pint of lima beans will be just about right to use with a half dozen ears of green corn. Cook the limas in salted water until they are thoroughly tender. Add the corn. which has been cut from the cob and scraped, and cook for 15 minutes long- er. Then add a little cream, plenty of butter and additional seasoning. Some persons cook the cut corn in milk, and cook the limas separately in water, then combine the two, adding a generous lump of butter and more seasoning. It is said that the corn is a little finer for this milk treatment during the cooking process. A varia- tion of the basic recipe suggests the use of a little finely-chopped pimiento for additional flavoring, put in when the corn and beans are combined for the final cooking. Or a tablespoonful of minced N (pepper may be used instead of the pimiento. Left-over corn and cooked beans may be combined in the same way with the cream or milk and season- ing. and heated to the bolling point before serving. For an elaboration of the left-over succotash, try adding one- half cup of diced cooked ham to one and one-half cups of the succotash. Lima beans, corn and left-over stewed tomatoes or diced fresh toma- toes are also very nice; for this dish, however, omit the milk or cream. ——— For the Porch. 1l harmonize with your porch. R TR Creamed Cabbage. As a variation of creamed cabbage, DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Candidate for Meanest Person’s Medal—Shall Friend Tell of Husband’s Philandering. EAR MISS DIX—We are a (lmild all married. Our financial con our mother became seriously of twd sons and two daughters, itions are all on a par. Recently ill, necessitating doctors, nurses and the other expenses of sickness. At that time at my sister's sug- estion we all agreed that the four of us should divid e the B expenses equally 50 that the burden would not rest on just one's shoulders. Well, the sisters have contributed but a very small part and there remains quite a bit of expense yet to be taken care of and they refuse to pay their share. Say it is the duty of the sons to take care of such an emergency, yet they are quite as well lblito pay as we are. Is it the sons’ duty to bear the entire burden?—R. C. ANEW!R.—-éenAlnly not. Your mother is quite as much the daughters’ mother as she is the sons’, and it is just as much their duty to help take care of her as it is yours. I do not know of anything that shows up the innate selfishness of human as does the nature so vividly and so_hideously way in which in almost every family some members of it duck their responsibility to their parents and throw the whole burden of it on the shoulders of some brother or sister who has more heart or conscience than the others. Generally it is the daughters in a family who are made the goats. The sons, if single, have a grand alibi for not taking poor old father or mother to live with them in not having any houses. 1If they are married, they hide behind their wives' petticoats and say, of course, they would love to have father or mother come and live with them, but with the children they just haven't a spare room, or they are sure that mother or father wouldn't be happy with Mary and Sally. OP course, mother will feel so much more at home with her own daugh- ters and be so much happier with them, and so mother is wished on Fanny, who has a husband who is no more pleased at having to live with his mother-in-law than the sons’ wives would “be. , Fanny's house is smaller than the brothers’ and the children more numerous, but nobody considers that. They are so busy ducking trouble for themselves that they never give a thought to any one else's happiness or comfort. All of us have seen this happen a hundred times. We have seen the poorest member of the family and the hardest worked have to as- sume the responsibility and the labor of carin for a querulous and cranky old man or woman, who was a semi-invalid, and we have seen the other children refuse to lighten the load by even inviting father or mother for a month's visit, and so give poor Fanny a little rest and respite from her constant care. Worse still, we have seen the well-to-do sons and daughters even refuse to contribute a dollar. OHN can't pay anything on mother’s doctor’s bill, because he is buying & new automobile. Tom can’t pay for the new dress mother just had to have because his young daughter has to have an imported ;ball gown. Mary can't contribute a cent because she is going to Europe and Sally is so sorry she can't help, but she has promised to send her children to a Summer camp and the best ones are so expensive. So they leave Fanny with the bag to/hold, and they would be perfectly outraged if Fanny should also refu to bear her share of responsibility for mother and send her to an old ladies’ home. My candidate for the meanest person’s medal has always been the son or daughter who passed the buck to some one else when it came to providing for the parents who are just as much his or her parents as they are sisters’ and brothers’. For, if all the children would do their part, not only financially, but in having father and mother divide their time with them, the burden would fall heavily on no one. * % EAR MISS DIX: society I enjoy greatly. DOROTHY DIX. * * T have a friend of whom I am very fond and whose During the last two years I have frequently come across the husband of this friend at various places of amusement in the company of a girl, and I have reason to know that he is unfaith- ful to his wife. my knowledge from her that lately I have never told her, but I feel so disloyal in keeping I have avoided going out with her and I miss her very much. Am I doing right in keeping silence about that which will cause & break between her and her husband if I told her? I hate to see her treated so badly. Answer—T think you are doing right in keeping silence. WORRIED FRIEND. “The bearer of unwelcome news hath but a losing office.” said wise old Shake- speare, and you will find that no one will ever forgive you if you tell persons anything they do not wish to hear about their husbands or their wives or their children. There is no surer way of making an enemy out of a friend than to open the eyes of a wife who hump)urpmely blinded herself to her husband’s sidestepping. (Copyright, ROTHY DIX. 1933.) ODE OF THE MOMENT Q. ned and Wfite il gogen ok plain. Gasns a cont make a cagual 5 OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRIL Against the Grain. “WHAT are you doing, Hal?” “Making a boat.” “You don't want to make a boat. What could you do with a boat?” “0, I just thought I'd like to make one. Maybe I could use it. Maybe I'll be going to grandpa’s this Summer. Maybe I could sell it if I didn't use it myself.” “Don't be silly. That is a waste of good material. Make a table. You can always use a table.” A “What do I want of a table? T'd rather have a boat. I don't want to make a table anyway. I like boats.” “Never mind. You make a table and ‘never mind the boat. The teacher will give you the same credit and I'm sure he will mk:]k‘: “y;:u n: {nm’e sensible for doing some useful.” So Hal made a table for his home project. He wasn't careful about plan- ing, 0 the surface was not what it might have been. He was careless about the | seams on the top and they showed openly. The joints were poorly made and the legs wobbled unevenly. “Not much of a job, my boy. Why did | you make it if you didn't want to? I| told you to make anything you liked. It's plain as the nose on your face that | you didn't like this table.” | 1t won’t do to force anybody to fol- low & plan not his own. A 'mind divided against itself is wrecked as far as the idea under discussion goes. The whole mind must indorse a plan, must go cheerfully and heartily along with it or the plan falls through. “How are you rn!:u tfi) nved%lxl‘l‘lldxi;n from making mistakes it you e terfere with them?” somebody rises to ask. You can’t keep them from making tried forever. One of the most serious mistakes you can make, though, is to put your scheme in place of theirs without obtaining their whole- hearted consent. Many people in authority make this mistake. keenly. Those under their charge must make no mistakes. How far in the scheme of life will one intelligence put alternate layers of boiled cabbage with white sauce in a casserole, cover with buttered crumbs “;td in & | be in comparison reach? Isn't it rather presumptuous of even the to feel that it is best to make their ideas the only ideas in circulation? It might be that the idea of another worker, feeble though it They feel the responsibility | with that of the su- mr{:g.w:avwmdmgfifi!u gap in the line ot defense against igno- rance. It has happened that a man fol- lowing his own scheme has succeeded in doing better work than when he fol- lowed the scheme of his superior officer. “A poor thing, my lord, but mine own.” I am not saying that children must have their own way. I am saying, though, that before one says they may not have their own way that one ought to consider well the reason for saying | o; so. Unless the child is in danger of making a costly error, let him alone to work out his own salvation. If he is going the long way round he is more than likely to find it out for himself very soon and look for a short cut. 1f everybody had allowed his superiors to decide what it were best for him to do there would be few airplanes today. (Copyright, 1933.) JOLLY POLLY A Little Chat on Etiquette. BY JOS. J. FRISCH. 1 DON'T LIKE TO WRITE LETYERS. | HAVE WRITTEN ONE THREE WEEKS AGD TO MY COUSIN IN ALASKA. B HE SPENDS HIS WINTERS (N CALVFORN! IMA DUDD THINKS HE'S A FUGITIVE| %S B. B—Every one likes to receive let-, ters, but few like to write them. The best letters are written while the writer is in a happy frame of mind. One au- thority says: “If you want to write some one and tell him exactly what I think—by all means write the letter. It will relieve and satisfy you. But do not mail it. Keep it until the next day, read it—and more likely than not you will destroy it* SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Baby say if the world is round like a ball, an’ turns ober every day, why don’t we fall off. And I told her grav- elation stuck us on—an’ her say, “Where are it? I want to see it.” (Copyright, 1933.) SUMMERTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. is a special charm in hunting up and chasing down those creatures — butterfly and bird and weed—that have come to dwell with us from afar. Some were brougu here under the supposi- tion that they would be useful, like the accursed house sparrow, which was in- troduced into the District in 1871; oth- ers, like the Japanese beetle and the Norwegian brown rat have come willy- nilly, and to our sorrow; and others still are here we know not how or why, and few indeed even realize that they are foreign, like gorse bushes and the orange clover butterfly. I leave out of account those garden plants that are scarcely established in the wild, | and domestic animals that would hardly survive & year without the pro- tection of man’s favor. In the days of my earliest studies I was an ardent patriot; when I dis- covered that a plant or an animal was foreign I had no further interest in it; it was an intruder, a waif, an inferior, and always to be suspected of doing ac- tual harm to our native wild life. Time has brought a little wisdom, and with it came tolerance and curi- osity, until now I positively research the foreign weed, the immigrant ani- mal, eager to find how it has fared, and amusing myself by imagining what it must look like in its native home. Summer is the time to look for most of these forms. and though a few are so common, like the starling, the po- tato bectle, the dandelion and clover, as to hold no charm of novelity and| none of the excitement of rarity, there | are many around Washington WellE Plain but Flavorfdl. worth looking for, if you have any de- sire for the new and strange. The beautiful velvet grass is one of these; and the orange day lily, from Japan, another. ‘The orchid, Serapias, which has been found in the woods near Soldiers’ Home, is a quaint old European medicinal plant, around which much superstition clusters, that has somehow established itself, just in that one spot. Along some of the railroad embankments the odd little umbrellawort, native of the Great Plains, has become well established. It is the only member of the tropical Four O'Clock family found wild here- about. The orach is a strange plant of the salty deserts of North Africa that has become quite common in the streets of Alexandria, but nowhere else. The skeleton weed, a queer wiry member of the dandelion family, has now es- tablished itself from Europe in many Maryland fields around the city, but so far it has never spread far except into Virginia: it seems to like the neighbor- hood of the Capital better than any place in America—and so do I! ‘There are many more of these, like white campion at Chevy Chase. cow herb at Rosslyn; one may feel free to pick all one nts, and the business man or the busy woman find these city waifs easily accessible “after hours.” LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. 'ONITE after supper pop sneezed twice in a row, saying, Blast the ' blinking blazes I'm catching another cold. Now Willyum, you cant expect to catch a cold every time you sneeze, be reasonable, ma said. and pop said. I can expect to catch a cold any time and I'm never disappointed. The ony way to nip a cold in the bud is to keep | well covered up at home where you wont be exposed to sudden changes of temperture and by gollies that's what I'm going to do. You better call up the Hews and tell them it's all off for tonite, he said. Now Willyum this is nothing but a big underground plot to get out of playing bridge again, you'rs as trans- parent as an open book, I think that's awful, we cant call off an ingagement at the last minnit, ma said. Sure we can, that's one of the few real charms of the telefone, pép said, and ma said, O well, have it your own way, I suppose if I made you go out and by some miracle you really did catch a cold I'd never hear the begin ning or the end of the last of it. O well, if it's really genuine Bourbon priceless whiskey I sippose Yewstace will save it for another occasion, so perhaps all is not dest, she said. What's this, what's that? pop said, and ma said, Didn't I tell you, it seems Yewstace has unearthed a bottle of real old before the war a hunderd per cent goodness knows what, and he was very keen to have you try it tonite. O well, I sippose you'll have another chance, tonite’s not the end of the werld, she id. 1t certainly is, I mean it would seem like it if I thawt I was missing a treet like that, I mean it's a well known fact that good pure whiskey is nature’s best safeguard against colds, pop said. And he went to get reddy and ma quick called up Mrs. Hews on the tele- fone, saying, Listen, Maud, has Yew- stace any good whiskey? O that's splendid, how old is it? O, if he made it himself it's naturally not very old, but listen, Maud, will you pore it out in a decanter to make its age look indefinite, and tell Yewstace to be very misterious about it, I'll explain later— good by. And she hung up just in time and went downstairs in front of pop with a innicent expression. The Old Gardener Says: Many plants can be started from cuttings or slips made at this season when the wood is half ripened. Most shrubs can® be started readily if slips are made, the cutting always be- ing done just below a joint. Even evergreens can be started in this way, although the growth will be slow. The cuttings should be about six inches long and lanted two-thirds of their in light sandy soil. It is ful to place a fruit jar over cutting, the jars being pressed tightly into the ground. The jars keep the cuttings from drying out until they have made roots. It is well to take off the jars on cloudy days and when rainfall. ly started Spring ‘or Pt ‘Some_climbing or L e roses, like Dorothy Perkins, root wherever the branches touch the (Copyright, 1933.) Cove, and that this library is Enchanted Island. WOMEN’S FEATURES.' BEDTIME STORIES 7 Betty Bear Has a Fall. Prom falls and bumps there's much to gain. For knowledge often comes with pain. —Mother Bear. deriul time. She was learning to climb and it was great fun. It was a hemlock tree she was in, and not a very big one, for Mother Bear had picked that tree out for her to climb. You see, it was Betty Bear's very first climb. Until now & Bm BEAR was having a won- tree had been just something to avold | ang bumping into. At first she was very careful, hang- ing on for dear life. Every time she moved up a little higher she had a new thrill, a funny little thrill of ex- citement that seemed to run all over her clear to the ends of her toes. Gradually she got more and more con- fidence and ceased hugging that tree THERE SHE SAT FOR A WHILE, ' CHATTERER __CONTINUING TO MAKE FUN OF HER. | 50 hard. There were plenty of branches | to hold on to. The lower branches were of good size. Betty had seen Chatterer the Red Squirrel run out| almost to the tip of a branch, so she tried walking out on one. Of| course, the farther out she got the smaller became the branch, and it began to bend. This frightened her and she tried to turn around. She slipped. “Oh! Oh!" cried Betty Bear. “Oh! Oh!” mimicked Chatterer the Red Squirred, who was watching from | the next tree. “Fraidy! Fraidy! Go back on the ground, where you belong. Who told you you can climb?” i Betty Bear hung on, her hind feet | kicking helplessly while Chatterer shrieked in glee. Then she managed | to pull herself back up and make her | way back to the trunk. There she | seemed a. Thornton . Burgess. sat for a while. Chatterer continued to make fun of her. She thought things over. “I ought to have backed instead of trying to turn around,” thought Betty Bear. “Anyway, I guess I had no busi- ness to try to go way out there.” You see, she was learning. She had made a mistake and she wouldn’t make that same mistake a second time. sAfter a time her courage returned and she began to climb higher, while Chatterer raced about in a neighbor- ing tree, making fun of her, scolding, even threatening. Finally he ac- tually came into the tree in which the little cub was, and from above her and taunted her until she could stand it no longer and started to climb up after him. Presently she made a discovery. The higher she got the smaller became the trunk and the smaller became the branches of that tree. Chatterer con- tinued his impudence until finally she was s0 near that he was forced to run out on a branch and leap over to the next tree. This Betty Bear felt was a victory for her, and in her turn she had a chance to call him a fraidy. Then she discovered that it wasn't easy to cling up there where there was so little to cling to. The ground rrible distance away. The more she ldoked down at it the farther away it seemed. \She began to be frightened. It was easy to climb up, but how did one climb down? She didn’'t dare try. Presently she began to whimper. Then how Chatterer did gmke fun of her. His tongue fairly lew. She was still up there whimpering and afraid to try to climb down when Mother Bear returned. Mother Bear saw at once what the trouble was and | there was a twinkle in her eyes which Betty Bear couldn't see. “Come down at once” Mother Bear. “I can't “I'm afraid.” “I told you to come down,” said Mother Bear in her deepest, most rum- bly, grumply voice, the voice that Betty Bear had learned it was best to obey. Whimpering and whining, Betty Bear started to back down, stretching down first one little hind foot and then the other for a branch to get ordered whimpered Betty Bear. | hold of. The lower she got the bigger | the branches became and the more her confidence returned. careless. She slipped, Then she grew lost her hold | and, with a scream of fright, fell. Now, the branches of a hemlock tree are broad and springy. Betty Bear rolled from one to another, each one breaking her fall a little, until finally she bounced right off of one and landed on the ground with a thump that knocked the breath out of her. (Copyright. 1933.) NANCY PAGE Summer Meals Are Simple, | BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. i Summer days were out-of-door days for all the Page and Miller children.| Their mothers had learned certain | things, however. There is such a thing | as too much sunshine burning into young and tender skins. The chudr:n! all wore sun suits during part of the | day. But eyes and backs of necks were protected. Large hats did that. Then the sand box in the play 'd was shaded with a large umbre! ‘The new sand box which Ann possessed had one desirable feature. The sun | shade by day slipped down over the box by night and became a protective covering. The sand was not used by | cats and dogs who happened to be in | the neighborhood. Ann used to climb right into the sand box and sit contentedly on the gritty sand while she made mud pies, dug tunnels and built marvelous cas- tles. Lois found that stories she had read to Ann during the Winter were dramatized in sand during the Sum- mer. The children often ate their noon- day lunch together. This was the sub- stantial meal of the day. Even Joan | enjoyed the simple food which - | | peared with unfailing regularity on z: There was a cream soup. usually. | tables. This was served®with crisp croutons, | well toasted. Then came a sandwich or two of lettuce shredded to ribbons and seasoned with nothing but a lit- tle salt. The bread was well buttered. but no rich salad dressing was added. The sandwiches might be eaten with soft cooked eggs or with a dish ofl spinach or string beans. ~ For the youngest children, Susan and Ann, the vegetable was put through a sieve and served as a puree. Then there was milk to drink. It was cool, but not icy nor luke warm. The dessert was a fruit sauce or well- ripened banana pulp or plain ice cream with small cookies. And occasionally there was surprise in the form of a stuffed date. (Copyright, 1933.) Meat Sauce. Put three tablespoonfuls of butter into a saucepan with a sprig of parsley | chopped fine, the juice and rind of one small lemon, and four good-sized to-| matoes which have been skinned and | nearly all the seeds removed. Season | with salt and pepper. Add a quarter of | a pint of water and set the mixture| over the fire. Bring to the boiling point. | Serve with roast meats. A Little Saturday Talk. are going to make a trip to Chicago's “‘Century of > during July I hope that I shall have the pleasure of meeting you! During one of my visits to the Enchanted Island I talked with the director and obtained permission to | use the Story Cove (which is also | called the International Library for | Children) as a meeting place for mem- bers of the Corner family on four after- noons during July. The dates are July 6, 13, 20, and 27, and the hours will be between 2 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon. An easy way to remember will be “any Thursday afternoon during July, between 3 p.m and 4 pm. I am planning to have a big book in which those who visit me can write their names and addresses; and I also plan to have on hand a set of Corner scrapbooks going back to the beginning. If you are a member of the Scrapbook Club, we can talk together about in- your scrapbook, and of how to form a branch Scrapbook Club in your neigh- shall have the latest Cor- nds. Remember that the meetings will be in the little library called the Story on the As T zaid in the s £ That Body of Yours BY JAMES W. BARTON, M. D. ‘Warm Weather. LTHOUGH the popular time to get a complete examination by your family physician is at the beginning of the year, or on your birthday, any time of the year is good, and perhaps the very best time is during the warm weather, If the examination is made during the cold weather, there may be condi- tions found that Tequire operation— infected teeth, in- fected tonsils, sinus inflammation, gall infection or other troubles that should be cor- Tected. During the cool or cold weather, there is not the same opportunity for the outdoors after the operation. There is less warmth and sun- light in the Win- ter and Spring months, with great- er chance of colds, bronchitis or even pneumonia. With warm, bright weather, no complications Shopdld arise and recovery should be rapid. Of course, if the condition is such as to require operation, it should be done regardless of the weather, but where choice can be made, the warm weather is the best time. Very often a little holiday is needed after an operation, however slight, and the warm weather is the time when most benefit can be obtained. Where parents have been advised to have youngsters’ tonsils or infected teeth re- moved, they should wait a few days after school closes for the Summer va- cation, and the youngster has got over the annual school examinations. before having the Operation done. Thus the youngster has all the warm, bright weather of Summer in which to get built up before school opens again in September. If you think you have something that is not just right in that body of yours, or even if you think you sre all right, let your doctor check you over at this time. There are a great many people who feel well. There are a great many more people who do not feel so well—feel tired and lazy—but continue their work. There are others who are suffering with pains and aches that they know are due to bad teeth, bad tonsils, sluggish liver, or constipa- tion, but hesitate to go to a doctor because it may mean removal of the teeth and tonsils, or & change in diet or_other daily habits. ‘Whether you feel well or not, there may be some condition in the body that is slowly gathering force, and by the time you feel an ache or a pain, con- siderable damage has been done to that body of yours. Don't wait for this ache or pain to warn you, but get your doctor to check you over at least once a year. Dr. Barton. (Copsright, 1933.) e Lays Two-Color Eggs. A Black Minorca hen owned by Mrs. Laura Hill Ortega of Lompoc, Calif., lays two-color eggs, half of which are white and half brown. UNCLE RAY’S CORNER story last Thursday, there is no charge to enter the library. Adults must pay a dime to visit the Enchanted Island; but if any of the grown folk who follow the Corner should wander there, I shall be glad w meet them. The latest riddle leaflet, by the way, contains 55 riddles (with answers). You may obtain it by mail if you will send me a stamped return envelope. Address your letter to me in care e this newspaper. 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 join the 1933 Uncle Ray Scrapbook Club, and I inclose a stamped en- velope carefully addressed to my- self. 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. & Street or R.F.D..ovvvecnnnnnnene CItY cevevireiieirrcaccrnsannnne State or Province. . (OgPIEishi, 1033 % . e {