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MAGAZINE PAGE. Matron’s Coat-Dress THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1935. Bedtime Stories | BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. @lutton Yields. The smartest sometimes must retreat And doing 50 admit defeat. —Old Mother Nature. G intentionally. A great many of the good turns done in this world are not done intentionally, more is the pity. But the result is just the same so far as the favored ones are concerned. Glutton wasn't even aware that he had done any one & good turn. You see he had dis- covered that he had done himself an ill turn and that was all he could think about. He had been too smart LUTTON the Wolverine had done his neighbors a good turn. He had not done it |for his own good. He had driven a trapper to take up all his traps and leave that section. He had done it by cleverly stealing the bait from unsprung traps and springing the traps so as to make them harmless, end by robbing traps of the fur folk that had been caught. You see Glut- ton was too cunning and smart to get caught himself. He knew all about traps and he rather scorned his less suspicious neighbors who didn’t. So by driving away the trapper he had done his neighbors a good turn, for he had put an end to a terrible danger. At the same time he had Modes of the Moment affets and printed crepe oFfer a stunning,s *study in black and DAILY Nature's Children BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. White Willow. Salix Alba. ERE is a willow from Europe we have planted extensively. Though we have 80 or more species of our own, this tree grows to be 80 feet high. Quite an achievement for a willow, as the trees are inclined to be shrubby in most of the species. There is no climate or sofl without its native willow. All of them have family traits by which you can identify them. It would be very in- teresting to see how many willows you have growing in your own State. The white willow is a short- trunked, wide-spreading tree. Its flexible twigs are greenish-yellow, sometimes reddish. The alternate leaves are from two to four inches long, about one-fourth of an inch wide and have a silver white lining. All willows make good citizens. They keep the streams and ditches to their banks. Green posts planted soon grow into ornamental rows of flourishing trees. They are such cheerful citizens, too. With hardly any effort on your part to give them a start in life, they go to work at once to grow. Plant a twig in a moist place and in a few weeks it will have little roots establishing themselves in the soll. Even if there are no human hands to lend this aid, a fallen twig You she was Jate to the office _once more Miss Baker would fire her, she knew. Luckily she caught it. She dropped down into the only {vacant seat, flushed and breafhless. “Well, well, if it isn't little Peggy Flaxen!” Peggy turned quickly to view the speaker reated be- hind her. “Why, Norwood Black! I haven't seen you since we graduated from high school!” “No. I get around, you know.” He gave her his movie-ster look. So sophisticated. Be- tween his teeth was a straight-stemmed pipe. Even in ey WOMEN’S FEATURES. What Were His Interests? s A-9.-. SHORT STORY NG WORLDING Peggy Thought to Attract Sophisticated " Norwood's Attention by Acting Highbrow Herself. BY MARJORIE ERICKSEN. man like that. She didn’t, but there wasn't any sense L agreed. Perhaps it would be as well to forget Mr. Cant- well. “I didn't know you went to State v “For a year or £0, We had some greas times. But it be- came rather tire- some, so I left." He forget to add that it was at the dean’s special Invies tation he did so. Now it was his turn to change the subs* den,’' explained Peggy and cast: around for some more brilliant comment. Suddenly put an end to an easy way of getting will manage to stick out a timid little | o8 © O CCF 1 e'd smoked a pipe. Truly | she remembered a line seen in the BARBARA BELL. 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Which- | pateria) or 3% yards of Sd-inch. ever way is decided on gives @ sil-| “'gyery ‘Barbara Bell pattern includes houette that is universally flattering | o jijustrated instruction guide which to the heavier type of figure. & i | is easy to follow. ‘Wrap-arounds are front-rank fash-| = e elend fons and the newest of them make a | ¢ M ongay—Slenderizing house dress point of lapping generously so that| "y, ‘his they hang with smart tailored lines oncg tfig;rn mp&t“t:r;ml:;. 'm ‘when the wearer is in repose. | of its popularity we are repeating it Vestees of lingerie are among the dainty detalls that give ultra feminine | ‘0F eAders who did not see it. charm to Spring clothes. In a two-| way frock of this kind one can have | an assortment of them to put a fin- ishing touch to the front when the revers are worn opened. Gay silk scarfs, too, are a last-word accessory. | ‘You use triangles of silk and tie them | at the back—tucking the surplus edges | underneath the opening of the waist to get that trim look. This way of | wearing your scarf will be seen re-| peatedly this season in open-front dresses. ‘ BARBARA BELL, Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents in “coins for Pattern No. 1516-B. Size... Name Address . (Wrap coins securely in paper.) (Copyright. 1935.) Conquering Contract BY P. HAL SIMS. Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the | cannot understand his continuing with preatest living contract and auctionythe ace of spades after he sees the player. He was captain of the renowned | dummy. One team was quietly per- “Four Horsemen” team, now disbanded, | mitted to make six hearts, however, and has won 24 mational champion- | and that must have been the defense. 8ships since 1924. These articles are | This particular hero, North, how- based on the Sims system, which |ever, decided that spades were com- includes the one-over-one principle, | which the Sims group of players was the first to employ and develop. The Strange Hand of Mr. X. HE power of distribution is a strange, unfathomable thing. East and West certainly have | the preponderance of high- card strength in today’s hand, yet it is purely dependent on the open- ing lead whether or not they make 8ix hearts. areer S Ta o e> The worst result for vulnerable East and West was six hearts, doubled and redoubled. Presumably some other teams got doubled and also redoubled, only to have South timidly run out into six spades, - With the opening lead—the brilliant opening lead—of the ten clubs, six spades cannot be defeated. At any rate these Machiavellian opponents refused to be cowed by the double. We can understand North's opening the king of spades, but we The Debunker pletely useless. He got off to the king of clubs. West happily covered with | the ace and South ruffed. South had come to the same conclusion about spades as had his partner, so_he played back a diamond. North ruffed. The contract was now defeated, but that didn't content North. After all, his partner had bid spades. Why shouldn’t he have the queen? North underled the ace and king. The de- clarer ducked in the dummy, and South put up the five spot, which was sufficiently high to hold the trick. South pleasantly gave North another diamond ruff. Thus the first four tricks wese taken by the deuce, trey and four of hearts and the five of spades. “That for your aces and kings!” chorused North and South, snapping their fingers. Tomorrow’s Hand. A A-Q-9-8 v Q-6 ¢ A-K-J Q- 53 N 4432 W E VK-J-10 s ¢ 10-5-4 & J-10-9-8 K-J-5 -9-5-4-3 4 10-7-6 v 8-7-2 4 9-8-6-3-2 &> T-4 T -K-2 age. There is always some sort of play for six no trumps, and it's 8 squeeze, (Copyright, 1935.) Mr. 8ims will answer all inguiries on con- tract that e e SRl PRt BY JOHN HARVEY FURBAY, Ph. D. ' underlying the bone. It is also juicy and of excellent flavor. s EE B85t gs ?.Egg ‘When the Civil War started in the United States, Gen. Lee, the Con- federate leader, was not a slaveholder. According to his biographers, he was, at heart, an abolitionist and had freed all of his own slaves some time before this. Nevertheless, some people will continue to say that Gen. Lee fought to maintain slavery. (Copyright. 1035.) it a living for himself. Ever since he had found that trap-line he had been free of worry as to where the next meal was to come from. He had only to follow that trap-line and rob the traps of their catches or their bait. Had he been satisfied to take only what he needed that trap-line would still be there. He wasn't. He took what he didn’t need and couldn't eat at the time, just out of pure greed or to annoy that trapper. Not con- tent with this he made a business of meddling with those traps and when he could of stealing and hiding them. Since the trapper had gone Glutton had no longer an easy living. In fact he had been, like most of his neigh- bors, hungry much of the time. So he was forced to hunt far and wide. It being his boast that he feared no one, he did not hesitate to rob others much bigger than himself when he had the chance. “I take what I want when I want it from anybody,” was the boast, and making good that boast he had been known to drive away Tufty the Lynx from a kill he had made. So Glutton had come to have an exceedingly good opinion of himself and to expect the respect and fear of all his neighbors. Hunting had been poor and Glut- ton was hungry, very hungry indeed, too hungry to be in the least fussy or particular about his food. He was in an ugly mood. And feeling thus he came upon a Porcupine, a big fellow. Here was a feast. Glutton's first impulse was ‘to spring on the prickly fellow regardless of those needle-pointed little spears that pointed in all directions. But, des- perate as he was, he still had sense. ol -~ ZowaS - el HE WALKED AROUND AND AROUND THAT PORCUPINE, BUT NOWHERE COULD HE FIND AN OPENING UNPROTECTED BY THOSE LITTLE SPEARS. He walked around and around that Porcupine, but nowhere could he find an opening unprotected by those little spears. Several times that swinging ;nlgl of Porky's just missed hitting Glutton sighed. Then he yielded to the fact that here was some one he feared to touch. He turned and went away. There was a dinner, but he was not smart enough to get it without too great risk. He, who was so smart and cunning in other ways, had to yield to such a stupid fellow as a Porcupine, And it didn’t make him feel any better to return that way later and find that some one had been smart enough to dine on that Porcupine. It was his cousin, Pekan the Fisher. Pekan might not be as smart about traps, but he was smarter about Por- cupines, and dined well where Glut- ton went hungry. So Glutton was forced to respect Pekan in this matter and Pekan on his part scorned Glut- ton for his inability to get the best of a Porcupine. 8o it is that even the smart and the mighty have their weaknesses. Pekan the Fisher could dine where his bolder, smarter cousin, Glutton the Wolverine, was forced to go hungry. (Copyright. 1935.) e Everyday Psycholody BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Phototropism. Everything responds to light. Phototropism is the scentific name for that tendency. When something turns toward the light, it is said to be postively phototropic; when it turns away, it is sald to be negatively phototropic. Tennyson marveled and moralized -| about it in one of his best-known poems. He surmised that if he could only understand it, he would “know what God and man is." Sclentists have philosophized about it ever since the days of Rene Descartes. The regularity of the tendency of all liv- ing things to respond one way or the other has had a great deal to do with the assumption that all living things are machines and nothing more. The Dorothy Dix Says Here’s One Way to Make a Man Propose ’ to You—What Is a Husband’s Most Dangerous Hour? D much in love and who I was sure loved me, virtually camped on my doorstep. He would refer vaguely to “when we were married,” but never went any farther. Finally one day I said to him: “Give me $2, I am going to buy you something with it.” He did, and 1 bought & marriage license When I showed it to him, he said: “Why did you do that? You know that's a man’s job.” “Well, darling” 1 said in my sweetest tone, “I know the only reason you haven't got one 1s because you have been too busy, so I thought I would save you that trouble.” He laughed and thought it was a good joke on him, and we stepped around the corner to the parson’s and got married and have been happy ever since. MRS. JAMES K. EAR MISS DIX—A correspondent asks how she can make a man that she feels sure is in love with her propose to her. I'll tell you how I did. A very fine man, with whom I was Answer—Evidently God helps those who helps themselves, as the old proverb says. Especially when they are women and desire a hus- band, and I have no doubt your experience will be a lamp to guide the feet of many a sister who is afflicted with one of these dilatory suitors whose wooing drags on and on without ever reaching the altar. The man whose attentions are without intentions is a cad, but a woman can generally rid herself of him by beginning to talk about get- ting married and showing that she means business. She calls his bluff, and as the last of his intentions is to burden himself with a wife, he beats it for some lady whose fireside is just as warm, whose cooking is just as good and who is just as pleasant a companion, but who has less nerve and will suffer herself to be imposed upon. But the man who really does mean to marry, but who isn't in any hurry about it, is an equally aggravating proposition for a woman to deal with. She knows that in God's own good time, maybe after she is 50 old she will have to wear an autophone to hear him, he will get to the proposing point. But he wears out her patience with his seven- year courting plan. That isn't what she wants. She wants an impatient lover, not one who apparently dreads his wedding day. She wants to eat her wedding cake hot off the griddle, not when it has been on the shelf so long it has got stale. She would like to flout him and give him the air. Only he is too good to lose. There are a lot of men who are more in love with domesticity than they are with any woman. They desire comfort, not thrills, They want a home, good food, a chair by the fire, a wife who is a good manager and who will look after their little wants and make things bright and cheerful around the house for them. And when they find before mar- riage a woman who runs that kind of home and makes them welcome in it, they are content to just settle down into the role of pseudo- lover. It is all they want of marriage and costs them nothing but an occasional ticket to the theater. They dangle a wedding ring in front of a woman's eyes, but they never get it near enough for her to grab it, unless she makes a bold leap for it, as my correspondert has. Bashful men have to be handled in the same way. They simply can't screw their courage up to uttering the fateful words, and the women who get them have to push them over the brink. I knew one woman who did this by just assuming that the man had proposed and announcing the wedding day. Of course, inventing a mythical rival is an old dodge that has hurried up many a slow suitor, but it still works. And many a clever woman has made a man realize that she was necessary to his hap- piness by going off to Europe for a long stay and letting him find out that he had nowhere to go of an evening and nobody to entertain him. But how a woman brings a man to the proposing point is her own trade secret that few ever reveal. DOROTHY DIX. . P Dear Dorothy Dix—You say that the breakfast hour is the most dangerous hour of all for the wife and the one when she most needs to watch her step. What is the dangerous hour for the husband if he wants to keep his wife in love with him and glad she married him? t BRIDEGROOM-TO-BE. Answer—Well, son, the breakfast hour is just as perilous for the husband as it is for the wife, because the picture he leaves of himself in his wife’s mind is the one she is going to carry with her all day. You see, the trouble with domestic work is that it doesn’t use more than one lobe of a woman’s brain and that leaves her all the balance to think with. So whether she goes singing about her dishwashing and sweeping and cleaning and mending, etc., and thinking what a darling hubby is and how lucky she was to get him, or whether she is dis- gruntled and grouchy and spends the day picking flaws in him and wondering whatever made her marry him, depends altogether on the way he left her in the morning, and whether he told her she was the loveliest thing in the world and looked like a rose in that pink bungalow apron and that the coffee was the nectar of the gods, or whether he gulped down his food without looking at her and raised ructions when she asked for the market money. So whatever else you do, be a little ray of sunshine in the house at breakfast. It will be money in your pocket, for many & woman goes downtown and buys something extravagant to get even with her hus- band for what he said to her at breakfast, and it will assure you of a dinner worth coming home to, because no woman is going to bother about making a burnt offering of herself on the kitchen stove for a husband she has felt like poisoning all day. DOROTHY DIX, Who Are You? The Romance of Your Name BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS. word “avery,” meaning a granary, but the best authorities hold to the former theory. toe or two that eventually reaches | the soil. Beavers knew all about the willows growing ability. Look at the dams they have built with the twigs that later grew into a fine fringe about the pond. Willow seeds mature very early. Godmother Sun and God- father Wind are most busy in the Spring. They transport willow seed babies to get an early start in life. Further, if you will investigate a willow seed in late April you will see that each one has on a cork life belt! It is fully equipped to go gayly down the stream, and when it is swept by the current to & bank it gets busy and establishes itself. Though the wood of all willows is weak and light, it has commercial value, for it makes excellent charcoal for gunpowder. It is very good for fuel and some species are cultivated exclusively for the making of wicker- ware. Of course, you know that it was willow twigs that formed the original jetties that kept open the channel of the Mississippi. Country boys know the willow tree. and help | !a man of the world. All through her | junior and senior years she had wor- | shiped him from afar. Hopeless, of | course. It would take them 45 minutes to get downtown. Three-quarters of an { hour. Oh, Lord, she prayed don't let me muff this opportunity! What were his interests? worked on the school paper. “You know, Norwood,” she confided, {“I was so surprised that you weren't made editor of the high Bugle that last year.” “Were you?” He smiled tolerantly with a whimsical lift to his eyebrows. He took the pipe from his mouth and held it in his hand—just as they did in Hollywood! “I could have had the job had I cared for it. Miss Winston | almost begged me to take it. But I really didn’t want the responsibility.” | What Misg Winston actually said was he might have been editor if he { hadn’t been so lazy and irresponsible. But wasn't this & much better way of putting it? “Oh, of course,” replied Peggy. How could she have thought he'd be both- He'd high Bugle. | else. “What are you doing now?” She must try something “Now? Dabbling in insurance. And you?” | “Just an office job." How could she make him ask for a date? Perhaps if she mentioned her spare time— | “I do a lot of reading in my spare time.” She indicated a book under |ered with anything so trivial as the | | newspaper. | “Rose is a rose is a rose,” she said, | Norwood chuckled delightedly. “Ger- trude Stein,” he cried. | Peggy glanced quickly around to see if they had taken on a new passenger, | whom he recognized, but there was no one looking at all like a Gertrude, Stein. She let his ejaculation pass. | “Say,” said Norwood, “what did you | think of the ‘Autoblography of Alicg | B. Toklas'?” What on earth was he talking, | about? Peggy gulped, then plunged. “Well, what can one think!” - “Exactly!” said Norwood. Evidently her answer hadn’t been so bad. “Here’s. where I get off,” he continued, settling his pipe securely in his mouth and | starting to rise. i “Oh!” gasped Peggy, “don’t you go |all the way downtown?"” i “No—so congested down there, you know. Well—pehaps we'll meet again’ some time. Good-by.” “Good-by,” echoed Peggy weakly. | Well, it had all come to nothing. { How foolish of her to think she could” interest him! Perhaps if she'd only known something about Alice B. | What's-Her-Name! | How could she enjoy going out with Henry this evening? Henry, who talked abeut the Dean brothers and smoked cigarettes! Norwood Black hurried into the office of the Fireside Insurance Co.: | Hang the luck, anyhow. Mr. Beggs was there ahead of him. “Black!” he roared, “what's the idea of drifting in at this time? Young man, if you intend to keep your job you'll have to do better than this. Now They supply wonderful material for her arm. the making of whistles. All you need | “May I see?” he took the book from 115 a branch with the “sap coming | her. up” and a good jackknife and the 1t was a book of Cantwell's poems. |knack. If you need a lesson, ask | iy Baker had sent her to the library | father. If he did not have the thrill | 10 4+ Miss Baker had read it. Miss of making a willow whistle, grand- | b f E father surely did and will be delighted | Dongra ot e e e paopody to try his skill once more. there was some connection. If reading B e g poems that didn’t even rhyme got one into a private office, Peggy would read them even if she wasn't quite sure what they were about. It seemed she had awakened Nor- At T wood’s interest. (Continued Prom Eighth Page.) “Cantwell, eh? How do you like him?” “I—oh, fine!™ “Mm. He came and spoke to us once when 1 was at State U.” Just imagine! He even knew men that wrote books! “Did you like his talk?” “Well—you know—a man like that—"" he broke off as though she must surely understand all about a in New Orleans, La., and Biloxi, Miss. While away they will visit Mrs. Clark’s old home in Kosciusko, Miss. Dr. Valeria H. Parker of New York, field executive of the American Social Hygiene Association, passed the early part of the week at Falkland Manor, { Silver Spring, Md., where she was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Thomas E. Bracken. get that mail opened and dust off | those desks before the others get here.” | “Yes, sir.” “And another thing—throw out that | dratted pipe. I don't want to see it |again. You look imbecile enough | without that stuck in your face. You hear me?” “Yes, sir.” ‘The day had begun. As he sorted | the mail he thought about Peggy. Nice | girl if she wasn't so highbrow. She'd actually read the “Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.” So far as he was concerned it was just a title he'd seen in a window. Perhaps tonight he'd take Vivian | Wells to a movie. She wouldn't ex- pect to hear about anything more in- | tellectual than the marvelous record of the Dean brothers. (Copyright. 1935.) ! Tomorrow: “Fool Proof,” by Beryl Paschall, deals with a man whose un- scrupulous plans to rid himself of his | wife went awry. Mr. and Mrs. Duncan D. Chaplin of New York City are at the Dodge for a stay of several weeks. Mr. Evan Burris left yesterday for his home in Houston, Tex., after pass- ing a week In Blair, Md, as the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Lioyd Y. Beers. Famous Waterways. IV—THE WELLAND CANAL. OW can a vessel pass from Lake Erie to Lake On- tario?” Mount Airy Wedding Today Interests Washington Residents. A wecuing of local interest was per- formed by the Rev. Leon B. F. Vau- 14 : thier, pastor of St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church, Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Norman Hood of Mount Airy, Md., when their daughter, Miss Char- lotte Warfield Hood, became the bride of Thomas Brune NefT, jr,, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Neff, Washington. A quiet ceremony was arranged, with only relatives and friends of the couple present. Immediately after the wedding Mr. and Mrs. Neff left for a short trip. They will make their home in Wash- ington. ‘The bride is a graduate of Mount Alry High School and the University of Maryland, class of 1934. After re- ceiving her bachelor of arts degree at Maryland she accepted a scholarship in the School of Retailing at New York University. The bride was prom- inently identified with social and scholastic activities at the University i of Maryland and was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, honorary scholastic fraternity, and ! during her senior year was cheer ! leader. | __Mr. Neff received his degree at the University of Maryland in 1932 and is now associated with the Press Intel- | ligence Division of N. R. A. in Wash- | ington. Mrs. Llewellyn Tharp, who makes her home with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Laning, in Lyon Village, Va., has gone to Alaska to visit her son, Capt. L. D. Tharp, U. 8. A, at the Chilkoot Bar- racks. She will return in the late g. Mr. and Mrs. Laning are entertain- ing as a house guest Mr. Will Sanelius of Chicago, who will remain for a month or six weeks. ! The -artists of the Round Table Tmsu-summt.hw;mwu derived from the Latin word The founder of the Avery family in Club were entertained on Wednesday , the New England colony was Chris- at the home of Mrs. Garner Phillips | topher, a weaver, who was born in Orme, 1631 Massachusetts avenue. England about 1590. It is believed Mrs. W. H. McGehee, the president, that he came over with John Win- | presided and gave an interesting talk throp on the ship Arabella, which on the technique of voice culture, docked at Salem, Mass., in 1630. Chris- | tone, voice development and proper topher came from & family of Averys breathing. seated in Cornwall, England. In his! Mrs. Orme recited an original poem, adopted country he became a select- | “Youth,” brief and spicy. man in Gloucester, Mass, in 1654,| Miss Mary Phillbrook expected to nn-rm ‘“k;nl.u taken the freeman’s oath Other settlers of this name in New 3 England were: Willlam Avery, physi- A X clan, born in England, came over from | Floyd Moore, was read by Mrs. Harry Berkshire about 1650; Thomas, & |Moore Payne. blacksmith, made a freeman at Salem,! Refreshments were served before a Mass,, in 1643; afterward moved to cheerful open fire. Portsmouth, N, H.; John, at Dorches- | ter in 1642; later moved to Boston., ruary 13 at 8:15 p.m. at the residence The Rev. Joseph came from Wiltshire, 'of Mrs. Harry Moore Payne, 2440 Six- England, and in 1635 was drowned off teenth street. Marblehead, Mass. Mr. and 2 [ (Copyright. 1035.) Village, Va., have % latter’s mother and sister, Mrs. E. J. Gun Faotory Closed. Davis sand Miss Ethel Davis of Mar- | oA Bas ceused Hag- shall, Mo., who will spend some time . m-owmmum» The next meeting will be held Feb- | Mrs. That question came up more than a century ago, 'and was answered when the first Welland Canal was finished in 1833. Without a canal, there was no way to serve the purpose. The Niagara | River could not be used, since there | were no “jumping boats” to leap from | the brink of Niagara Falls to the rapids below. The Welland Canal runs through the City of Welland, and has been greatly improved since it first came into being. An important step in its history was marked in the Summer of 1932, the course having been windened and deepened. ‘The cost of the Welland Canal has { been greater than for any other canal on the North American continent, al- though not so great as for the Pan- j ama Canal or the Suez Canal. | The present Welland Canal is more than 300 feet wide at the water line, | and 200 feet wide at the bottom Seven large locks and a guard lock | bring about flow of water to lift ves- . sels which desire to pass from Lake Ontario to Lake Erfe. Vessels passing the other way, from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, must be dropped gently to lower levels, and the locks serve in this work as well. A boat is lowered more than 300 feet by the time it passes through the locks and reaches the water off the shore of Port Weller. The Welland Canal has proved a | great help to the commerce of Can- ada. Vessels with a length of more | Ohio, is spending a few days at the ' e. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hartney of | Hingham, Mass,, arrived yesterday to | spend the week end and are at the | | Wardman Park Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Mitchell of | Pampa, Tex., are at the Dodge for a | few days. Mrs. Charles Henderson was given a surprise bitrhday party Thursday evening at her home in Silver Spring, Md. At the close of the evening sup- per was served, with red roses and red tapers decorating the table. Among the guests were Mrs. Henderson's three sisters, Mrs. John Mayhew, Mrs. Earl Gordy and Mrs. Bernice Guyer, all of Altoona, Pa.,, who came for the affair and who are house guests of Mr, and Mrs. Henderson until tomor- row. Other guests were Mrs, Dorothy Henderson, Mrs. Eva Wilkinson and Mrs. David Mears, all of Silver Spring; . Bertha Mullins, Mrs. Ruth Turner, Mrs. Waldo Bacon and Miss Minnie Hartung of Washington. Mrs. Edward D. Davenport of Dallas, Tex., and Mrs. Herbert A. Wadsworth Fort Ga., at the 's Corner Uncle Ray than 60 feet can use it. The passage is rather slow (about eight hours for a distance of 25 miles), but this makes little difference for freight traffic. Millions of tons of grain, chiefly A VIEW OF WELLAND CANAL AT PORT COLBORNE, ONTARIO. | wheat, have been carried through’ | the Welland Canal. In a recent year it had more than one-third as much traffic as the Suez Canal, and almost half as much as the Panama Canal. ‘The Welland Canal is part of the St. Lawrence deep waterway project, of which we shall speak more fully in our next story. (For history section of your scrap- book.) If you would like the new lnfle& “Fifty-five Riddles and Answers,' send a .-cent stamped return ene velope to me in care of this newse paper. UNCLE RAY. My Neighbor Says: Squash may be easily peeled lthnntputmhmomm‘: thoroughly warmed. A plece of orange skin placed on top of the stove will take away the heavy odor of cooking from the kitchen and give out & pleas- ant fragrance. Sandpapering baby’s shoes be- fore they are worn prevents slip- ping and saves m a fall, (Copyright. 1634.) Helping millions to END COLDS