Evening Star Newspaper, July 8, 1933, Page 19

MAGAZINE PAGE, Conquering Contract By P. HAL SIM§$—m —— i Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the | greatest living contract amd auctior | player. 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- | most emphatically not a slam try. !js a means of “taking the strain off |'the opening bidder,” so that he may | ers was the first to employ and develop. Rebidding Procedure of Opening, No-Trump Bidder. i HERE are still a few rebidding situations to discuss in connec- tion with the normal short- suited no-trump hands, though naturally this class of no-trump- er has fewer ramifications because its right to take a definite initiative in making or accept- \ ing slam tries is greatly restricted by its natural limita- tions in developing playing facilities, ‘The long - suited hand can make tricks, whereas the short-suited hand can only take them. It the responding hand can supply the suit length which will render the 26 cards of the partnership aggres- sive in function, then, and only then, should optimism be entertained as regards slams Though I have actually covered most of the situations in earlier articles deal- | ing with the responding hand's proce- dure, I will give a brief summary of the | opening bicder's duties with a short- suited hand. ar in mind that I have finished with the conceal now. and that we are dealing only opening no trump hands containing no suit of five or more cards. ‘When Partner's Respense Trumps. Our machinery does not provide for stopping short of game, over this re- sponse, unless the opening no-trump bid was made third or fourth hand. In that event, it is permissible to pass this response and play the hand for two no trumps. This, however, should only be done wh:n the opening bid was shaded to three primary tricks with scant pro- tection in the form of lower hcnors or P. Hal Sims, Is Two No termine that Iikely and would be 2 pe unless your partner's hand is_within half a prima °k of an opening first or second hand bid. In other words, if vou need two and a half primary t Plus some secondary values or uted protective intermediates, ir short-suited responding hand, you may | hands have as a whole shown & loss— | it must be because you are cutting cor- | ners in your opening no-trump bids—’ lin a suit. pass and play the hand for the partial | score. It was your partner's duty, after his original pass, to raise you immedi- ately to three no trumps if his hand measured up to the standard just de- scribed. After passing, the jump raise to three no trumps is, as you kuo;vt, be permitted to shade his opening bid | slightly with safety in third or founh! position. [ When There Is No Stopping Short of | Game. | Having bid a no trump as dealer or! second hand, and having received the! raise to two no trumps, you may not1 pass. You must bid three no trumps. On occasions you will be set a trick, but you will almost always be justified in | attributing the set to hard luck in losing several finesses or in finding each suit | in which you try to sct up a thirteenth ! card hopelessly massed against you. On | ! balance you will score heavily by bid- | ! ding for game under these circum- ! stances. If you find that you are losing | by it—for instance, if a dozen such | bidding no trumps when you should bid a suit or pass—or because your partner has been raising you to two no trumps | when he should have passed or bid two Possibly both may have been at fault. It is easy to sce that the re-, sponding hand's function is especiaily important when his holdings are weak, for it is up to him alone to suggest a suit contract or refrain from doing so. | The opening no-trump bidder may not, as you know, mention a four-card suit, except as part of & slam try after three no trumps (or game in a suit) has been bid. So with a short-suited no-trumper, | vyou are irrevocably committed to no trumps unless your partner veers into a suit. Only if you have enough reserve strength to make or accept a.slam try ill you be able to show a four-card suit of your own choosing. With Sp. AK 10 x DL AJ His K Jxx CLK iox your right bid is a mno-trump. You are not going to play this hand in a major suit unless your partner bids it; nor will you at any time bid spades unless he makes a slam try in a form which makes it advisable for you to show spade control. Tha bidding of four-card suits at late stages will be dis- cussed in forthcoming articles. The point I am making today is that the Sims theory of no-trump bidding de- liberately eliminates the possibility of | unnecessary approach bidding for game | purpeses subsequent to the no-trump opening bid. H (Copyrizht. 1933.) | Mr. Sims will answer all inquiries on | contract that are addressed to this news- paper with self-addressed, stamped envelope. | A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. WHEN President, Roosevelt convened | Cong n special session within & few days his_inauguration one of the things which interested political observers greatly was the part that Jack Garner would play in the work- ing out of the ad- ministration's leg- jslative program. Indications were that the ruddy- cheeked Vice Prest dent might have more to say about v such things than < | had his predeces- sors. President Hard: ing was the first o chief executive to invite the vice president to par- ticipate in cabinet ’ discussions. And while Coolidge sat in, there was no particular evidence to ip- dicale that the political functions of the Vice Prosident were materially widened. held true when Coolidge csident and continued this relationship with Dawes. However, Coolidge was_fresh from Capitol Hill and perhaps had contacts of his own. | 1 President Hoover, on the face of things, seemed to have the best contact of them all in Charles Curtis. Curtis was in an ic to keep things running smooth ween the White House and Congress. He had been in the Senate years, was rated a power in party| councils and & strategist in Senate| precedents and, what was of greater ortance, enjoyed wide popularity on oth sides of the chamber. Yet President Hoover seemed to fare worse at the hands of the Senate than any of his predecessors since Woodrow | Wilson. | Garner got off to an impressive start | with the President. Mr. Roosevelt had | summoned him ces while he was en route President-elect. At quest, Garner called in ail the party | stalwarts for ons of policy dur- | ing his stay in Washington. | These surface indications, added to the fact that Garner had 30 years of legislative experience behind him, caused political observers to predict that the Vice President was destined | for a role in the administration quile! outside that of a previous one. To what extent this prediction has | been borne out, of course, no one but | Jack Garner himself and the President knows. But certain of his activities are known. | AMAZE A te some 15 SCIENTIFACTS—BY ARNOLD PLATING WITHOUT POISON - DEADLY CYANIDE POISON USED IN COPPER PLATING j‘/ . 7 Y% dacate, A NEWLY DISCOVERED COMPLEX SALT, DISODIUM DIAQUODIOXALATOCUPRIATE, TAKES THE PLACE OF THE 4 ) He attended cabinet meetings re- ligiously and report has it that he was active in discussions there. He was a habitue of the Democratic | cloak room during Senate sessions, where questions of strategy are worked out ahead of time by party leaders. Joe Robinson, the Democratic lead- ! er, invited him to be present at his first press conference, believed to be the first time such a thing was ever done. And much of the directness that characterized his decisions as Speaker he introduced as presiding officer of the Senate, a fact that is credited with speeding up legislative action in that body. | | MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Fresh Strawberries. Dry Cereal with Cream. Jelly Omelet. Hot Corn Cake. Coffce. | DINNER. Fruit Cup. | Roast Chicken, Brown Gravy. | Celery, Cranberry Sauce. Potato Croquettes. Green Beans. | Hearts of Lettuce, Russian Dressing Orange Sherbet. Coffee. SUPPER. | Lobster Salad. | Baking Powder Biscuits. | Raspberry Bavarian Cream. Cookies. Tea. FISH CAKES. Let a package of boned salted codfish soak in fresh water over night. In the morning renew water and let soak until ready to use. Change water again and place on range and let boil until soft. Remove, cool and then shred. Add to this not quite twice the amount of cold mashed po- tatoes. Mix well. Now add one egg, well beaten, and mix again. Ferm into flat, round pieces, dip lightly into flour and fry in hot fat. They should be a delicate | brown if the fat is not too hot. | ORANGE SHERBET. Whites of two eggs, beaten, and one pint of sugar. Add to this one-half pint of cream, also one and one-half quarts of milk, juice of one lemon and three oranges the last thing before freezing. | (Copyright, 1933.) i MINUTE | | | > {LOCOMOTIVE METAL - MoDERN LOCOMOTIVE SPECI- |} | FICATIONS CALL FOR 55 DIFFERENT METALS. SLOW THINKERS THE SLOW THINKER 1S NOT NECESSARILY DULL, TESTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF )CAu:onmA SHOW. 7 Inc | not be rendered. |in hot weather THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. Making the Useless Useful. “] Dbeseech thee for my son Onesimus, who I have begotten in in my bonds: which in time past was to thee unmprofitable, but now profitable.”—Philemon, 10-:1. HE man who can make the use- less useful, or the useful mor: useful, is a much-wanted man he is the man who keeps the wheels of progress moving; wherever he appears he is hailed as a benefactor. A man walked through the New England woods, found a very undesir: able grape, and took it and worked with 4 until, it has become the deliciou: Concord grape of today. Mr. Burbank took many fruits of little or no value and gave them *-iv~ as a food. a great service to turn an unprofitable thing into something profitable. They are real benefactors who render such service. Such service in the realm of things is most worth while. It is something more worth while still to take un- profitable human beings and make them profitable. That is what Paul did with Onesimus. Onesimus was a thief who had pilfered the property of his master. He had run away and was adrift in the city of Rome. Paul met him and led him to be a Christian, which brought about a complete refor- { mation and changed outlook on life. After that Paul used his good offices to reinstate him in the home and serv- {ice of his Christian master, Philemon Surely a nobler form of service could He took one who was a moral liability and made him a useful member of society. Carlyle said: “Humanity's greatest duty is to give an account of itself and to vindicate itself under heaven!” Yet the world is full of failures, full of men and women who are not giv- ing an adequate account of themselves. who are not vindicating their existence; so far as we can see they are worth- less and useless. But these who have missed the way and failed can be re- deemed and made valuable to society. It is a high privilege to share in this work of restoration. Indeed, this work is the chie! businecs of life. It was the supreme business of the Son of God as He moved among men. He was con- tinuously making the unprofitable prof- itable and the useful more useful. This is the great business to which the church is called. If we would succeed in this, we must give ourselves to the | task with great earnestness and unfal- tering faith. We must have faith in the saving power of Christ's gospel We must have faith in humanity; we must believe in the people with whom we work. We must have assured con- | fidence in the possibility of making the useless useful. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Changes in Diet. NCREASING or changing the baby's diet in hot weather should be un- dertaken with extreme caution. The whole body machinery is disturbed by heat, and we have the baby's best interests at heart when we hesi- tate to make any drastic changes that may add even one mite to this dis- turbance. Here is a breast-fed baby who weighed 8', pounds at birth and now at 6 months weighs 16. Nine pounds is the average gain in six months, and baby should now weigh 17',. The baby has had nothing so far but breast feeding and orange juice. The mother, Mrs. J. M. G., wants a diet for the baby. In doing this, I reiterate the warning not to increase nourishment drastically Add the new foods slowly, in teaspoonful amounts. Con- tinue this very limited portion for two or three days and then add another spocnful. In this way the baby becomes accustomed to the new food, and the gradvally increased amounts do not upset him. At six months, the well-fed baby has cereal twice daily, along with the 10 am. and 6 p.m. nursing. With the 2 p.m. feeding, sieved vegetables may be served either by themeselves or in beef or lamb soup. It seems sensible to sug- gest that they be cooked in a good meat broth, particularly if the child is unaccustomed to them. Cool the broth, strain it and remove all fat from it. Reheat at serving time and serve two or three ounces. In this way the baby gets the valuable minerals present in the vegetables, without being subjected to any digestive strain. Until September the diet will consist of the juice of one orange daily, any cooked cereal such as farina, or sieved, ripe, raw banana, the sieved vegetables |in soup, and four or five breast feedings. Thinly buttered dry toast or zweiback may be part of the 2 p.m. meal, if the baby eats it with relish. Any reader who is interested in my leaflet, “Feeding From Two to Nine Honths,” may have | it by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope with her reqhest for it, to me, in care of this newspaper. How It Started BY JEAN NEWTON. “Even a Single Hair Casts Its Shadow.” A reader asks, “Can you tell me the source of that old saying, ‘Even & sin- gle hair casts its shadow?’” ‘This is one of those sayings that you feel, without actually knowing anything about it, to have the “smell” of immor- tality. And if a scant 2,000 years have any significance, it is entitled so to be classed. For the author of “Even a single hair casts its shadow” was the Roman writer of mimes, Publius (spelled ~Publilius” by Pliny) Syrus, who lived in the first century B. C. This was one of his fa- mous “maxims,” which, in the order in which they have been translated and preserved for posterity, is No. 228. (Copyright, 1933.) Lunch Box. ‘The little screw-top jars that come filled with salad dressings, cold creams and sandwich fillings are very useful for the children’s lunch boxes. They may be used for jelly, preserves, cus- tards and other foods used in small quantities. —_— Horseradish Sandwiches. Mix two tablespoonfuls of grated horseradish with the same quantity of Roquefort cheese, and soften with whipped cream to a nice consistency to spread. Cut whole wheat bread into | inch strips and spread with the mix- ture. My Neighbor Says: If you add flour to your blue- berry pies, shake in a little salt with the flour. It will improve the flavor, as blueberries are nat- urally flat in taste. Make a funnel out of a piece of wrapping paper for pouring sugar, tea, coffee and cereals into their proper receptacles. These funnels prevent waste. When preparing parsley for garnishing, chop it very fine, screw it up in the corner of & clean cloth, hold it for a few seconds under the cold-water faucet, and squeeze it as tightly as possible. Then shake it out of the cloth and it will fall like a green powder. Unless it is done in this way, the parsley gather in little lumps. For indigestion mix one-half mpo&:‘ bnklngdr;od‘lm and ‘om- poon ger in s ;u{o! hot water and drink while o (Copyright. 1033 It is| ODE OF THE MOMENT DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Can Contract Drawn Up-<Before Marriage + Insure Success to Husband and Wife? Fights Over Height of Shades. D marriage contract which would be equally fair to the husband and wife and place equal respcnsibility for the success of their marriage on both parties? Is it legally possible to make a marriage con- tract? A young man and myself are anxiously awaiting your answer, ENGAGED. EAR MISS DIX—Would there not be more and happier marriages if the marriage contract was altered in such a way as not to throw all responsibility on the man? What would be an ideal Answer: You can make a legal marriage contract that will cover the money question, what part each shall contribute to the support of the home, what interest each should have in the other’'s estate, etc. But, of course, you cannot make a contract that could be enforced that would cover the intangible things that really make marriage a success. THERE would be no way by which Mary could make John put some pep in his kisses and pay her a few compliments. Nor could John get out any injunction against Mary’s throwing up to him for the mil- lionth time about that money he lent an old school friend that was never repaid, or prevent her from telling him at every meal how bad the things he liked to eat were for his stomach. Still and all, even though a marriage contract could not be enforced, I am sure that it would be a fine thing for every young couple to have lawyers draw up one in due form so that they could see set forth in black and white just what responsibilities they were undertaking and what each covenanted to do in the marriage relationship. As things are now, marriages are gentlemen'’s and ladies’ agreements, so to speak, which we all know to be the easiest bargain on earth to welch on, because it is built on nothing but vague promises and hot air. T is one thing for a man to say, for instance. “with all my worldly goods I thee endow,” and another for him to agree to give his wife & definite allowance to run the house on and for her own personal use. It is one thing for a woman to promise to love and cherish a man, and an- other for her to agree to get up and get breakfast every morning for him. So I think it would promote peace and harmony in the home if, before marriage, a young couple had a definite agreement drawn up in which they would settle some of the major problems of matrimony. As to whether the wife should continue with her job after marriage or not, and, if so, what proportion of her salary she should contribute to the family exchequer, and how much of the housework the husband should do if the wife helped earn the living. What proportion of the family income the wife was entitled to. How much and how long visits from the in-laws there should be. How many nights cut the husband should have. How many clubs the wife shouid belong to. How often the husband should take the wife out to places of amusement. DOROTHY DIX. * kX % DEAR MISS DIX—I have been married 10 years and my husband and I are very much in love with each other, but there is one thing that we can't agree on and that we fight over continually. I like the window shades to be down at least halfway, and he wants them up nearly to the top. When he enters the room he immediately raises the shades and then the argument starts. What would you advise me to do? I feel that it is simply stubbornness on his part. How can I break him of his silly notion? S. N. C. Answer: It is stubbornness on your husband’s part in wanting the shades up to the top of the window, but, of courss, it is not stubbornness on your part in wanting them halfway down. It is a silly notion of his to like plenty of light, and it is not a silly notion of yours to prefer semi- darkness. CAN'I' you see yourself how ridiculously unreasonable you are and how fcolish to quarrel over a little thing like the height of a window shade, especially when the difficulty is to easy to settle. Why not let your husband run the shades up while he is at home and when he is gone let them down as low as you please? And at that you will have the best of the bargain, because you are in the house and master of the shades far more than he fis. It seems incredible that any woman would be so foolhardy as to run the risk of alienating her husband’s affection for her by quarreling with him over the height of the window shades. And consider this: Your hus- band makes the money that supports the house and pays for the window shades. Don't you think that that gives him some right in the matter that even a wife should respect? THY DIX. (Copyright, 1933.) OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRL that she finds too much for her. When she manufactures a success for herself you can know that she needed Maintaining the Balance. MARY told her mother an out and out lle. “She, out of a clear blue sky, came into this room and told me that she had won the prize for the best composition. I was delighted, of course, for she is not good in lessons and I told her I would buy her a new dress to wear when she recelved the prize. She let me buy the dress, let me tell everybody about it until the whole neighborhood was excited. When I finally reached the stage of talking to the teacher about it I nearly col- lapsed. Imagine being told that there was no prize, that Mary would not have won it if there had been because she is very poor in composition, and that Mary is likely to be left back. What can you do with such a child as_that?” ‘You can help her out of a difficulty SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. suffering became well-nigh unbearable and she had to do something about it to find relief. You can set about discovering a way to help her to suc- ceed in her own right when she will not need to lie to justify herself in her own eyes and in yours. A great many of the mistakes chil- dren make are made in an effort to right themselves with those about them. They feel inadequate. They grope about to find some way of piecing themselves out to the right size for comfortable living. Sometimes they steal to buy a plat among their fel- lows. Buying one’s way is an_ easy road to popularity in the schoolyard. | It is often tried out. Talking oneself into the center of the stage is another way of placing oneself effectively. “Lately Peter has talked a blue streak. The moment he comes into the room he begins talking and he doesn’t stop until he is sent out again. Just talks and talks end- };sslv about nothing or next to noth- g.” | Peter had lately been dispossessed of first place in the family group. He had been the only child, the lone lamb until & baby brother came. In an effort to hold the attention of the family Peter had talked overtime. It was his neglected self-calling, “Look at me. Here I am. Can’t you see me? I'm Peter, the child you used to love. Look at me.” When a child offends your sense of rightness don't begin a hunt for the right sort of punishment, begin a search for the cause of his mistake, Find out where he feels himself in- adequate, why he feels that way, and if you can, find a way to let him work out his own salvation through personal o success. It will not do for you to say, “Now don’t you worry. You are all right. Just go ahead and be a good child.” It takes more tham that to maintain the balance in a child's troubled mind. It takes personal effort and personal success to weight him sufficlently to restore his importance, to himself. Every child can succeed in some par- ticular. Accent that power, give it a chance to show, and the child will use it for support in his hour of distress. A mistake is usually a signel for help. AprTisht, 19008 azamaem b XpyTiEhL 10838 There’s this much to be said fer bein’ a fish—they don't hab to watch they | lagr— one badly. You can know that she has been suffering defeat until the| JULY 8, 1933. NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Sewellel. Aplodontia Rufa, HE sewellel cbas no tail at al,, but he gets there just the same.” 1In 1804-5 the members of the Lewis and Clark expedi- tion came across these strange litile tailless creatures. The Indians of the Columbia River exhibited handsome robes made from the skins of the sewellels, but they called the animals “showt'ls.” Today they are to be found in a narrow beit along the coast of Northern California, in Oregon and ‘Washington, but not east of the Cas- cade-Sierra Nevada series of mountains. | In appearance, the sewellel is not Unlike the squirrel and is about the size of & prairie dog. The body is stout. | The head is broad and blunt, the neck short and thick. The hair is rather coarse, a rich dark brown in color, with a shorter coat of underfur of light chestnut color. The legs are short and the claws long. | These creatures are among the most | primitive types of living mammals to- | day. They are of a retiring nature, and while they &re pot strictly noc- | turnal, they are rarely seen in the day- time. | ‘Their runways are made in loose soil, and the piles of earth thrown out from the burrows indicate that the busy engineer is constructing another tunnel ‘These long hallways lead to the vegeta- | tion growing close to the burrows. The | lan is rather simple. One long hall | s an opening at the surface. The constructor pushes the loosened dirt ahead of hmi wth his broad, blunt head, which acts as a shovel. | Showt'ls are & quarrelsome lot. They | fight at the sight of each other and will bite aggressively at objects in their | way. ‘Their powerful incisors make | decp, painful wounds, and after an encounter with an enemy, the figh!er‘ is given wide berth. | It is easy to make pets of them, as they are trustful ittle creatures, and | take kindly to your proffers of friend- ship and food. The animal loves a drink of fresh water, sticking his nose into it and not lapping it up. As a swimmer, he uses this mode of travel- | ing when necessary, and when leaving the water gives himself a vigorous shake. He likes to be well groomed, and is -SEWELLEL 1 careful about making his toilet. He washes his face and neck, reaching back with his forepaws to give his neck and shoulders a good scrubbing, and using quick dabs to accomplish his purpose. As a grown-up, his disposition is touchy. and when angry, he twitches | his whiskers, giving deep, husky grunts with each twitch. He is very swift, and has a Jot of curiosity. His eyes are very bright when he is interested. becoming dull when the fun is over ‘The “mountain beaver” has a strong odor_of musk which clings versistently to the pelts and reminds one of the | muskrat odor. (Copyrizht, 1933.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. The Weakley News. Weather: Different. SPORTING PAGE Announcements Maud Johnson's grandmother an- nounces she's ony going to take Maud to the swimming pool 3 more times and if she cant teach her the crawl by that | time she's going to give her up for a bad job and leave her home when she goes to take her swim. Persey Weever announces his mussels are getting so big they are pritty neer mussel bound as a result of dumb-bell | exercizes twice a day, and certain ene- mies of his had better look out. Reddy Merfy announces he is willing to box all comers with his left hand behind his back for a perse of 5 cents. Challengers are requested to see either him or his manager Skinny Martin. BIZZNESS AND FINANCIAL Puds, Simkins reeeeved a iron bank for his berthday about 2 months ago but hasn't seemed able to make up his mind to put anything in it vet, so he is thinking of going into the banking bizzness instead and keeping other fel- lows money for them at a small charge of nothing when you put any in and | one cent every time you want to take some out. |‘ FREE MEDICAL ADVICE | By Docter B. Potts eskwire | Deer doc, I have trubble waking up | in the morning, what do you advize? | Anser. Smear a little jelly on your | nose and ears before yqu go to sleep} and the flies will be glad9 to do the rest. UBURBAN HEIGHTS BUT THEY SPELL WHEN his voice was even deeper and more WOMEN'’S FEATURES. BEDTIME STORIES 7% Betty Bear’s Fright. For disobedience we must pay. "Tis right that it should be that way. other West Wind. EVER in the Green Forest was there g more scared little cub than wee Betty Bear when Thornton . Burgess. rumbly, grumbly than Mother Eear's. “Come dcwn here or I will coms up ard get you." At that Betty Bear tried her best to climb a little higher, but couldn’t. Then she began to bawl. I don't blame her, do you? ]Buster Bear growled and - it was an ugly-sounding growl. Betty n:;]: rhe-.l:iughm?h he Ereat Bear | Bear BT heard Mother Heax giow, Mt never like tha Bear was a stranger, cne whom she | £ = v had never seen before and didn't want 0D yournotee tSevowled Buater 0 ever see again. As soon as she had 2 - discovered her mistake she had climbed ];‘f:f;d l’;::tvs B:l:s b“;lgd r’éz;l der.jm the nearest tree, and she had gone UD | anger. . He ehook that G, "wos, ir just as high as she could. When she | he chook i e ol T o e e han Taosng | D shook that tree and wee Betty Bear down and there was that dresdful great | had no breath to bawl, for she had all o i e ae At oAl oreat | she could do to hang on. When Buster Tt was then that she discovered that | Loor 5t0PPed shaking she began to cry she had made another mistake. Any- | igtsi: 'sfigdm::i'lr“as’n:x‘irzrrllgg{‘d“gfi;u? way she thought she had. In her| Bear. The fact is it made him uneasy, He knew that little cubs as small as Betty seldcm were left for long by their mothers. He was vjeasy. Betty was teco frightened to know this, but he knew it. He kept looking this way | 2nd that way. He put his head up and sniffed. He was testing the air for the scent of Mother Bear. He stood still listening. | Then once more he began to shake that tree and once more Betty Bear had to hold on for dear life. Then Buster Bear got hold of that little trce and settled back to pull. He w ing to pull that tree over. Bet Ibegnn to bawl again. She was calling | for her mother. The more she bawled the angrier Buster Bear became. He | tried to pull that tree over. He tried | to push it over. You know he is big and very strong. And between pulling | and pushing he would shake and shake | it until poor little Beity Bear felt as BUSTER BEAR STOPPED SHAKING | if her teeth were being shaken cut. THAT TREE AND STOOD LIS-| Al the time Buster Bear was pulling TENING. land pushing and shaking that little |tree he was growling, and it was a hurry to get up a tree she had climbed ' dreadful sound to Ifi‘ar How Betty the nearest and it was a small tree. As a matter of fact it was a fortunate mistake, for it was too small a tree for a big Bear to climb. But she didn't know this, and when great big Buster Bear stocd up and put his great paws against it she almost let go she was so frightened. Buster Bear, for that is who is was, Bear did wish and wish she hadn't disobeyed Mother Bear, but she re- mained up in that big tree she had | been told to do. Where was Mother? Why didn't she come? Betty Bear bawled louder than ever. Suddenly there was a crash in the b;lshda;h Bfu distance. Buster Bear ppet aking that tree stoo her own father, although she didn't | listening. He ggl’O\’.l(‘(‘L but E}r:d“?at:nfé know it and he didn't know it, glared a loud growl. He locked up at Betty up at ker hungrily. Dreadful as it may Bear and showed all his great teeth. seem that little Bear up in that tree There was another crash in the brush. meant nothing to him but & good din- Some one was coming and coming in ner, and he fully intended to have a hurry. Buster showed his teeth in that dinner if possible. that direction and then with hardly “Woof, woof!” said Buster Bear, and | a sound, big as he was, he left. (Copyright, UNCLE RAY’S CORNER A Little Saturday Talk. UR CORNER stories are mainly Yor boys and girls between the ages of 9 and 16, but I am pleased when I receive letters from those younger than 9 or older than 16. Here is one from a little boy: H “Dear Uncle Ray: I am not old enough to write a big letter, so mother ! is doing it for me. I am having lots of fun meking my scrapbook. I have one nearly full, and on the back we wrote . UNCLE RAY—VOLUME 1. Soon I will start another. When I am a big boy, I can look in them and find out many things. Please, Uncle Ray, don’t let the paper ever stop having the Corner in. | have freedom to frolic about ‘To care for a homeless bal squirrel is & kindly deed, but when it grows up the best thing to do is to set i+ free 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 Scrap- book Club, and I inclose a stamped envelope, carefully ad- dressed to myself. Please send me a Membership 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. “Yours truly, “CRANE BENNETT.” I think that parents who help a’ little boy or girl to keep a scrapbook are thoughtful persons. Our old world goes on and on. A story printed today is likely to be gone tomorrow—unless it is kept in a scrapbook. A faithful member of the Scrapbook Club, Eileen Goebel, offers suggestions for new Summer leaflets, and in her long letter, I find this paragraph: | ;m thetlulure, when you are too old | Mint Sauce. and gray to write stories for newspapers | z anymore I hope that some one will take | Take the leaves from a small bunch of mint, chop them, and add & table- your place. But this is too sad. I will pass on to something else.” | spoonful of sugar and only enough vinegar to make a thick sauce. Let 1, too, hope that some one will take my place when I pass from life and I |stand for several hours before serving. think that Eileen’s thought is a kindly JOLLY POLLY Street or R. F. D. ...ccc0veneeee State or Province.. one. However, with good fortune, I' expect to be able to write for a long time to come. I am having another birthday this month, but so far my hair has not started to turn gray. From another reader comes a tale of a squirrel: “Dear Uncle Ray: My brother brought home a deserted baby squirrel which he found in the middie of a street. It was such a tiny thing that I thought it was & mouse.” We fed him from a medicine dropper and he slept next to a hot-water bottle. “After some time he grew to be sleek and fat. We called him Sammy. We thought his teeth weren't very good be- cause he wanted us to shell all the nuts we gave him. Because he did not crack nuts his teeth grew tco long. One day he broke them off in a tumble. Our dentist was none too pleased with my brother’s questions and said that he A Little Chat on Etiquette. BY JOS. J. FRISCR BALOGNA 1S SOMETHING YOU PAY FOR, WHILE BALONEY IS SOMETHING YOU FALL FOR. .~ SR THAT WAS A SWELL | AND YOURE A | had never made plates for squirrels. However, we found in our natural his- tory that a squirrel’s teeth grow as they wear down, and before long nature supplied Sammy with a new set. Later we took the squirrel to a park and let him go free. He was glad. We often ‘wonder if he ever has a flash of mem- ory of us. Yours sincerely, “EUGENIE STARR.” I think it is quite possible that the S. M. P—At the end of a dance man says to his partner, “Thank you He may add “That was wonderful The girl replies with “Thank you, too!” or merely “Thank you.” with the ac- squirrel has “a flash of memory” ot‘tent on the “you.” If the dance was Eugenie and her brother; but it is no|a short one the girl need not ac- wonder that the animal was glad to!knowledge the man’s thanks. —By GLUYAS WILLI FRED PEREY'S NEIGHBORS LAUGHED AT HIM FOR REFUSING 10 DISCARD HIS LEAKY OLD HOSE, CHANEED THEIR TUNE DURING THE HOT THEY SRW HIM COMBINING THE TASK OF WATERING HIS 6ARDEN WITH A COOLING SHOWER BRTH