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MAGAZINE PAGE NING STAR, WASHINGTON Stunning Frock for Daytime How It Started BY BARBARA BELL. HE new collections of daytime | clothes show a delightful as- sortment of variety in type, color scheme and fabric. One smart frock follows another in an unending chain of Spring and Summer fashions. Daytime frocks look equally important, whether they are cut in one or two pieces. The lat- ter type takes more time dressing, so imitations of it have sprung up in one-plece models with hipline seam- A stunning frock is shown today. It is made in one piece, along tailored lines, tempered by softness in the knotted tie at the throat. For Sum- mer sports and general wear this is & perfect model and one that is within . easy reach of all. Dropped shoulders eliminate the setting in of sleeves and are used to give a smooth, unbro¥en line through the shoulders. A front-panel treat- ‘ment produces slender lines of height, and kick-pleats, back and front, make provision for free action. The new fabrics are inspiringly beautiful. Yowll see a myriad of prints, checks, stripes and polka dots in all the Spring and Summer ma- terials—ocottons as well as silks. Taf- feta is here to stay, and for your day- time frock nothing is smarter than the new figured ones, patterned in tailored designs. A new vogue, and one expected to last, is the taffeta shirtwaist dress of this type. The ma- terial stands up well without much attention and is lightweight enough to wear comfortably in warm weather. Barbara Bell pattern No. 1617-B is designed in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 40 and 42, Corresponding measures, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 (34) re- quires about 33 yards of 39-inch material. Every Barbara Bell pattern includes an illustrated instruction guide which is easy to understand. BARBARA BELL ‘Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents in coins for pattern No. 1617-B. Size...... Name AdAress ..vvssisscccccnsisanen (Wrap coins securely in paper.) (Copyright, 1835.) Who Are You? Romanee of Your Name BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS. is & name which holds a place % in the front ranks of the first families of Maryland. Nature's The coat of | arms reproduced is that borne by John Contee, & member of the Coun- cil of State of 1707 and of the Colonial militia in the province. John Contee left no children to in- herit his large estate and it was divided among the children of his first wife and his relatives. He gave his lands to his brother, Peter Contee. Alexan- der Contee, the son of Peter, married Jane Brooke, the great-granddaughter of Robert Brooke, Lord of de la Brooke Manor. Their six sons and four daugh- ters founded a race, which produced many eminent men and women in the Btate. Col. Thomas Contee, one of the sons of Alexander, served in the Assembly and in high military offices; was commissioned major of troops at the beginning of the revolution. At its close he was elected a member of the State Leglislature. (Copyright. 1935.) Children 3 BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Blaok, White Salamander. EING extremely timid, the sala- > manders or newts are most anxious to keep out of your way. In the Spring, most of them seek the brooks, streams, pools and ponds. Here they find their inates, After the mother has fastened her sirange little eggs to some leaf or plant, she hurries back to her old haunts among the logs or leaves in the woods. Here she finds tiny insects upon which 10 feast, and it is likely you have seen these small salamanders rushing over the leaves when you disturbed their hiding place. There are all sorts of legends and stories told about these little creatures. Don’t believe them, for these small in- sect hunters are perfectly harmless, and in their way are our {riends. Look for the eggs in shallow water. Bome species lay pea-shaped eggs. You may mistake them for those laid by the toad or frog. However, repeat your rule: Toads' eggs are in long black, beadlike strings, frogs’ in jelly masses, salamanders’ singly or few together on a stem or leaf. If the weather is warm, the eggs hatch in a few days. They look like tadpoles, but soon transform into four- legged, long-tailed creatures. During their infancy they have strange-look- ing gills, lying like a soft, velvety fringe along their necks. These enable the little taddies to breathe in oxygen while they are dwelling in the water. Many changes take place, one after the other, with the baby salamander before it is ready to take up its resi- dence in the woods. At last, it is time to leave the water and make its way during the night to some place of safety. As you will soon learn, these © have little regard for the rights of others. Further, they do not hesitate to feast upon a weaker brother. If you are planning to bring some of them back with you from the brook, you must place them in separate con- fainers, or you will be greeted with the ¢ satisfled oountenance of one overly salamander upon reaching home. All salamanders are scaleless. Liz- ards in any form possess scales. These creatures form a special family, and some members are found in many parts of the world. We have several species in America, The aquatic kinds are called newts or tritons. They begin life in the water, later seeking quarters under stones, logs and leaves. The little, red- backed ones are the most familiar. Look in your scrap book for the life story. You will want to check up on it this Spring and Summer. (Copyright. 1835.) My Neighbor Says: Spraying the foliage of ferns on cloudy days gometimes turns the tips of the ferns black. Ink spots en the fingers may be instantly removed with a lit- Rinse the hands vented from cracking by adding one teaspoonful of cream to each unbeaten egg. Stir all together, then add sugar until the icing is as stiff as desired. Set your alarm clock to notify you when baking period is com- pleted. You may then continue your work in-the other part of the house without worry. (Copyright. 1835.) BY JEAN NEWTON. Sea Dogs. SEA DOG 1s nautical parlance for sailor. This synonym for seaman is reminiscent of & colorful chapter in English history, In the early days of Elizabeth the Huguenots licensed privateers, whose lawful occupation it was to prey on French commerce. These piratical carriers became known as sea dogs because, in effect, they were actually set upon foreign vessels. In the course of time sea dog lost this unsavory connotation and came to be used interchangeably with old salt and other terms to designate a man of the sea. (Copyright. 1935.) Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Mental Handicaps. SOME persons go through life with a rather systematized set of false beliefs. Such systems are known to the psychological profession as delu- sions. These are easily acquired. They have their orgin in the simple commonplace mechanism of being suspicious. We all have to learn to be suspicious, in order to adjust ourselves comfortably in this world of disorder. From this simple beginning, our doubts sometimes become systematized anc magnified into persistent false beliefs. - Closely related to delusions are the so-called “ideas of reference.” Some people get the idea that everything the preacher says refers to them per- sonally. Some imagine that every un- intentional oversight on the part of neighbors should be interpreted as a personal slight. There are those who feel uneasy when they see the boss talking privately with one of their fel- low-workers. Criminals suffer a lot from ideas of reterence. Even though no one knows of their crime they get the idea of reference going and some- times actually act in such a way as to lead to suspicion and even conviction. Ideas of reference lead to suspicion in another direction also. ‘The suf- ferer, in trying to shake them off, often attempts to transfer his difficul- ties to some other person. Nearly all the gossipers in any neighborhood are those who painfully feel the weight of their own shortcomings. Foot Balance BY JAMES W. BARTON, M. D. ITH feet that are weak or pain- ful or both, you are not only unable to do many of the common jobs in life, but the distress causes a dark outlook on life itself. the Health writers discuss feet often, and try to pass along the lat- est opinions and findings of our orthopedic physicians and surgeons. But as Dr. Rex L. Diveley of Kansas City, Mo., points out, the amount of foot disorders due to foot imbalance is steadily mounting, and unfortu- nately physicians are allowing the management of these cases to fall into the hands of shoe salesmen and the manufacturers of various forms of arch supports. There are two basic forms of foot imbalance: (1) The so-called flat foot, with the bones on the inner side of the foot right down instead of being held up in the form of the arch, and (2) the high arched foot with the “ball” of the foot very prominent in- stead of being in the form of an arch. The ordinary flat foot, as you know, has the toes turned outward from the middle line, instead of straight for- ward or even inward, The first symptoms are a tired feeling and pain in the calf of the leg. Later, the pain is felt in the bones of the foot, which form the arch. In the higher-arch type, with the prominent “ball” of the foot, the big bone at the beginning of the big toe stands out and the big toe is turned outward from the middle line. ‘There is often a “bunion” on this big bone, hammer toe (no movement in the joint of the toe itself), and callous or hard spots on the ball of the foot. ‘The pain is usually in the ball of the foot. The treatment of foot imbalance consists of the wearing of proper shoes which would be: (1) Straight line on innser side instead of curving outward at the toes, and plenty of room at the ball of the shoe; (2) the heel should extend a little farther forward on the inner side; (3) there should be a built-in support from the heel to the bend of the sole at the toes. After the proper shoe is fitted, sup- ports made of sponge rubber are ?ped to the foot and fitted into the 0e. Pinally, exercise such as gripping & marble with the toes, and walking on the outer sides of the feet should be taken, to pull up the arches and hold them up. It may be a slow process for pa- tient and physician, but the feet are as necessary as the head in making a living. (Copyright, 1935.) _— Little Bcnny BY LEE PAPE. ME AND pop was taking a wawk before supper and pop said, By gollies I bleeve this is the bilding Dr. Tweed has his office in. I've been told he's an exter good dentist and it's time my teeth were looked over, I think Tl look him up, I'm sure this is the bilding. Meening & red bilding with a col- ored man outside rolling barrils of ashes, and pop said to him, Are you the janiter here? I does superintending around here, I's the superintendent, the colored man said. Being a little round colored man with shoes looking as if they was proberly bigger than his feet, and pop sald, Okay, supe, does Dr. Tweed have an office here? It seem to me there was & Dr. Tweed what done move before I all come to work here, the colored man said, and pop said, Suppose I ask the elevator boy? You means the elevator operator? Sure, he mite know, the colored man said, and pop said, Well I'll ask the titled gentleman. I thawt this Dr. Tweed was a dentist but now I think vator boy and pritty soon the colored man came running in saying to pop, You're the man was asking for Dr. 2 No, T'm the homo sapiens Who pro- pounded the sald query, pop said, and the colored man said, Well anyways if you still wants Dr. Tweed I recol- Ject now he done move to the bilding just across the street. ‘Thank you, supre, pop said. And we went over and found Dr. Tweed'’s office, being gold letters on Dr. &dch:enu Dorothy Dix Say: “Old Maid” May Be “Our Competent Miss Smith” in Business Office, but Just a Moron to Her Family. greatest objection to being an old maid is that it auto- the other day. [ | matically makes you the family goat,” said a spinster to me “Why this should be so, I do not know. It just is. Logically, it would seem that her parents and her married sisters and brothers, with their husbands and wives and homes and children and their fuller lives, would be filled with sympathy for her lonely estate and cherish her, but that is not the case. She is always the one who is offered up as a sacrifice on the family altar and expected to do all the chores. “Curious as it may seem in this day of feminine emancipation and competent business women, the old maid is without standing and without honor in her own home and among her own people. In some Dbig business office she may be ‘our competent Miss Smith,’ who daily handles affairs involving hundreds of thousands of dollars, but becauss she isn't married her mother regards her as a moron who hasn't enough sense to make a sponge cake, and who is so lacking in judg- ment that she has to be told to put on her rubbers if it is raining and when to go to bed. “ A S LONG as a woman is single, her parents treat her as a child, even if she is 50 years old, and, like Lady Kew's daughter, knows all there is to tell. They still feel they have a right to boss her, to supervise her conduct, to pick out her friends, to read her letters and listen in on the telephene. But they wouldn’t dream of trying to exer= cise such authority over theii married daughters. “They treat her opinions as if they had emanated from a 6-year- old child, who wasn't very bright at that: but they listen with awe to the views of any silly, hen-brained daughter if she has acquired a husband. Apparently they consider there is some magic in the mar- riage ceremony that endows a girl with wisdom the spinster never has. “I IER family never concedes the unmarried daughter the right to lead her own life in her own way and enjoy some independence. Fauther and mother are delighted to have Mary go with some strange man they scarcely know by sight and set up housckeeping with him, but if Sally, who has a woman's natural inborn craving for her own home, where she can exp: ss her own taste and have her own things and do as she pleases, wants to take a little apartment, they regard it as nothing less than a scandal and, along with her brothers and sisters, fight it tooth and nail. “Of course, the old maid just naturally falls heir to mother and father when they get old and cranky. ‘There is never any argument about whose duty it is to take care of them. It is always the unmarried daughter’s. are filled with their own children. Mother IS peculiar, and she and Julia wives’ and husbands’ nerves. don't hit it off. The married children have a perfect alibi. Join and father never could agree. Their houses Mother and father get on their And so it is far better for an old maid sister to give up her job and go back home to minister to the dear old people and bear the burdens that the remainder of them have ducked. "NOBDDY in the family dreams of such a thing as being just to the old maid. Nobody reflects that she does not enjoy listening to senile babblings and reminiscences and querulous complaints any more than they do. “Nobody considers that givi g up her job is giving up her oppor- tunity in life to establish herself; that it is taking away from her the work she loves, which is 8 never-failing source of interest to her and compensates her for the husband and children and home she has missed. Or that it.prevents her from providing for her old age so that she may not be dependent in her last days. Oh, no. because sister jsn't married she isn't supposed to have any nataural human impulses, It is just assumed that she has the martyr complex and gets a kick out of suffering. “INJOR does the old maid get the poor reward of appreciation from her parents for sacrificing herself to them. Somehow they regard her &s a failure for not having married. Mother will brag about the married daughters and their children and their houses, and then she will say, apologetically. that she d psn't know why it was that poor Sally never married. She was always a good girl, but she guesses she was never attractive to men. She will say this even when she knows that Sally has given up marriage to a fine man in order to take care of her and father. «And mother will make more ado over John's sending her a $30 check at Christmas than she will over Sally’s supporting her the whole vear. She will be forever talking about how attentive her married chil- dren are who pay her occasional week end visits, but she will appar- ently never observe the devotion of the daughter who has made a slave of herself to her. « A ND money. You have to be married to have a right to your own pocketbook. If you are single, it belongs to the family. The mar- ried sisters and brothers don't ask each other for loans or for money to pay bills or buy & he has for himself. or any child need to waat to go to college, “So it is no cinch to be an old maid. You and you might just as well go along and marry you own.” new car. They recognize that each needs all that But et any member of the family get in trouble, have its teeth straightened, or any boy gnd girl and they hold up the old maid for the price, are the family victim and have troubles of DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright. 1035.) Bedtime Stories BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Reddy Makes Good. i —JohnnyChuck. OHNNY CHUCK had proved that he could climb. He had proved that he could climb high in a tree if he had to. Of course, that made him feel pretty good, for Peter Rabbit and Happy Jack Squirrel had been there to see him do it. But when he had started down he had wished that Happy Jack had been somewhere else, for getting down was harder than getting up and Happy Jack had made fun of him. He had had enough of being up in a tree, where he didn't belong, and it cer- tainly would seem good to have the solid ground under his feet once more. But before he could get there he saw Reddy Fox headed that way and he changed his mind. On the ground there was no place of safety near., He would just stay up in that tree until Reddy had passed along to a safe dis- tance. He would keep perfectly still and perhaps Reddy would not see him, for certainly Reddy wouldn’t be look- ing for him in a tree, And then Happy Jack Squirrel did an unkind thing. Yes, sir, he did so. He jumped from one branch to another just over Johnny’s head so as te attract the at- tention of Reddy Fox. Reddy looked up. Then he grinned. “I see you have company,” said he to Happy Jack. “Yes,” barked Happy Jack. “He thinks he can climb. The next thing we know he will be thinking he can fly. If you ask me, I say that every one should know his place and keep it.” “Nobody has asked you,” snapped Johnny Chuck. Reddy sat down just under Johnny and grinned up at him. “It is a long time since I last saw you, Johnny,” said he. “Let me see, it must have BY JOHN HARVEY FURBAY, Ph.D. ‘HE uses of poisonous gases in bat- tles and sieges is as old as organ- ized warfare itself. The Greeks com- monly used poison gases in battle. ‘Thucydides, the ancient historian, tells of two instances when burning sulphur and pitch were used for gas attacks in the Peloponnesian War. (Copyright, 10850 .o, - ‘What would Johnny do now? 4" (Copyrisht. 1685 been some time last Fall. My, my. my, what a difference in your appearance: Then you were so fat that I expected to see your coat burst some day. Now you are positively thin. “I don’t like to see you so thin, Johnny. You don't look half so tempting as when you are fat. I am sorry I wasn't around when you first came out. However, it is quite the fashion to be thin at this time of year. I'm thin myself, a lot thinner than I like to be. “Thin as you are, you can help m overcome that difficulty. To be very frank, Johnny, I'm hungry and, while a thin Chuck will not be as tasty as a fat one would be, any Chuck at all “COME JOHNNY CHUCK. will help. So come on down and save me the trouble of coming up after you.” A “Go on off somewhere and chase Mice or play with your tail. You can't scare me that way, Reddy Fox. You can'’t climb up here and you know it,” growled Johnny Chuck. “Who says I can’t?” snapped Reddy. He was no longer grinning. “I do,” retorted Johnny Chuck. “So do I” snickered Happy Jack Squirrel just to tease Reddy on. He had nothing to fear, even if Reddy should manage to climb up where Johnny was. He resented Johnny's being up in that tree and wanted to make matters uncomfortable for him. People sometimes are like that. “Is that so?” retorted Reddy, and his voice had an ugly sound. “Think you are smart because you have climbed up there, don't you, Johnny Chuck? Well, I'll have you know that I can climb myself, and unless you come down here to me, I'll go up there to you. - I've waited a long time to get you, Johnny Chuck, but now I have you where I want you.” “Come on up,” taunted Johnny Chuck. Now there was one branch of that tree only a few feet above the ground. Moreover, the tree leaned a little—not much, but a little. Reddy had noticed these things. He suddenly sprang up- weard and after struggling a bit man- aged to get a paw over that lowest limb and presently pulled himself up on it. He had made good his threat. - N ] \\YHAT is the first flower of Spring? DAY, MARCH 20, 1935, Jolly Polly * Little Chat on Etiquette BY JOS. J. FRISCH. THERE ARE SUCH THINGS AS PERFECT HUSBANDS AND WIVES, BUT THEY ARE NOT MARRIED ACH OTHER T. W. A—When golng out to the lobby of a theater for a smoke dur- ing intermission, & man does not wear his hat even if he be totally bald. He leaves it under his seat until the end of the performance. A woman, however, may put on her hat, if she thinks she looks better with it on. . First Flower BY D. C. PEATTIE. The answer, here in the Dis- trict, depends more or less on what you call a flower. Silver maples, with their pared-down floral structures, hazels, with their catkins, are flowers to a botanist; to the man in the street these are scarcely flowers. But if you admit them to this category, then they are certainly the first, for they and the junipers or field cedars begin to shed their pollen in January, or | February at the latest. | To many, of course, wildflowers are | not flowers, but weeds. Such folk ad- | mit only garden flowers to their con- | sciousness, and in that case crocus, snowdrop and pasque flower will cer- | tainly carry off the laurels. But even the wildflower enthusfasts | belong to several categories. In my | experience, the first “wildflower’— | that is, flowers growing without cul- | tivation, and excluding the early | blooms on trees (which have neither | sepals nor petals)—are the dandelion, gill-over-the-ground, speedwell, chick- weed and early cress. These are all tiny lawns weeds, waifs from the old world. either definitely a nuisance like dandelion, or tiny, low-growing inconspicuous weedings. If you exclude even these. then the firsthonors go to skunk cabbage. Like it or not, that native plant is the| first to break the bonds of Winter. | But the wildflower folk may be counted on to object heartily that they do not reckon such an “ugly, smelly old thing” as skunk cabbage. | They wish to find out which is the first pretty wildflower. Well, prettiness is a matier of taste. How pretty does a flower have to be before they will associate with it? But we all know what they mean, in a general way. They are talk- ing about Spring beauties, Douglas cress, bluets. The race between these would be 8 close one, and difficult to decide with precision. But any one can see that they are a long way from being the first flowers, what with half a dozen little lawn weeds, as many gar- den flowers, and primitive-flowered trees and shrubs getting into bloom long before them. Pretty and con- ventional wildflowers scarcely ever get a start before the Ides of March. What one needs to do is to edu- cate one’s own taste toward an ap- preciate of that in nature which is not necessarily “pretty,” to see in the wild and strange, the raw and un- couth, the beauty that is there. Then will Spring begin for you, even in the ragged tag-end of Winter., s Pointed paragrapHs. ‘The meaning of an epigram is con- cealed by the brilliant effect it pro- duces. Never judge a man's reputation for truthfulness by what he says when in love. Strange to say, the coming man is the one who has arrived. Being born great carries no assur- ance with it that a man will be great at the finish. As soon as & man is satisfied with himself the neighbors begin to feel sorry for his wife. The owner of a barking dog is al- ways the first to complain of the noise made by the neighbor's children. Often bric-a-brac is sold for junk, but more often junk is sold for bric- a-brac. There are still a few old-fashioned people in the world who really do not want a divorce. Of course, it's all right to be born a leader, but the man in the rear has a better opportunity to get away. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Stewed prunes Wheat cereal, top milk Shirred eggs Hot corn cakes Coffee LUNCHEON. Noodle and chicken soup Rolls Jellied fruit salad Cookies Tea DINNER, Tomato bisque Broiled lamb chops Potato cakes Boiled spinach Pear and cheese salad, Mayonnaise dressing Crackers Cheese Coffee SHIRRED EGGS. Cover the bottom of individual dishes with fresh bread crumbs; drop into each dish one fresh egg. Cover the top with crumbs, stand the dishes in a pan of water and cook in oven until set. Scatter a dusting of salt and pepper over each and send at once to the table. JELLIED FRUIT SALAD. Three cups lemon gelatin; let almost set, then fold in the fol- lowing: Two apples, peeled, cored and chopped; one cup grapefruit, one-quarter cup dates, stoned and cut small}- one-quarter chopped walnuts; two-thirds teaspoonful salt, one-quarter teaspoonful paprika. Chill in mold, then un- mold onto lettuce. Garnish with salad dressing and sprinkle with coconut. TOMATO BISQUE. Heat the contents of & can of tomato soup and an equal quan- tity of milk separately. Bring them to the boiling point, but do not let them boil. When ready to serve take them from over the fire and pour the hot soup into the hot milk, not the reverse. Remember that boiling curdles the milk. This does not hurt the flavor of the soup, but affects the smooth and pleasing appearance. (Copyright. 1935.) hepaticas and bloodroot and WOMEN'S FEATURES, “Cénqucring B—1I_ Contract BY P. HAL SIMS. Mr.Sims is universally acciaimed the greatest living contract and auction player. He was captain of the renowned | “Four Horsemen" team, now disbanded, and has won 24 mational champion=- ships since 1924. These articles are | based on the Sims system, which includes the ome-over-ome principle, | that the Sims group of players was | the first to employ and develop. Original One Bid. ETTING back to auction, such an excellent bidder as | ( ; Geoffrey Mott-Smith recom- | mended opening the bidding on as little as two primary tricks, or even less. Two and a half tricks, plus, was a power hause. The bidding usually died timidly at a low level anyway, so you had to stick your oar in early. The early auction-contract authori- ties saw no reason to change this method. And since you know that your partner would open the veriest mouse trap in first and second hand position, you had to be wary about opening third or fourth hand—so they | thought. Therefore, their rule was: The more passes, the higher the re- | quirements for opening the bidding. Beautiful in theory, there seemed | to be a fly in the practice ointment. There was the little matter of the re- bid. Having bid one spade on'the following : 8 A-Qx-X His x-x DI A-Jx C x What would be your best bid over two hearts? The artificial responses that were devised to fit this situation will be discussed later, but let me just say this: If your partner bids three hearts, are you any better off? I decided that it was far better to run the slight risk of having the hand passed out than to take a large pen- alty through not being able to con- trol the bidding after I had opened on a hand I wished to forget. More- over, these authorities based most of their calculations on high-card tricks. A total of five to five and a half promised game. They made very lit- tle allowance for distribution. The above hand was just as good an open= ing bid as this: 8p. Q-x-x-%-x DL A-Y His. x Cl. Q-x-x-x Such premises were manifestly un- sound. I differentiated between ag- gressive (long-suited) hands and de« fensive (short-suited) hands. The above hand is definitely aggressive and warrants an opening bid by vir- tue of the fact that the six-card spade suit may be rebid at least once; but that short-suited ace, ace-queen should be passed without a moment’s hesitation in first and second hand positions. Mr. Sims will answer all inquiries on contract that are addressed to this news- paper with self-addressed. stamped en- velope Modes of the Moment annish knitted suits achieve chic by fine tailoring. Liana Morarins Uncle Ray's Corner Giant Statues. F THE great population of In- dia, hardly 1.200,000 are O members of the Jain religion. | Its members, in general, are people of wealth, and giant statues of Jain saints are wonders to travelers and native alike. Among the Jains are some who are | expected to lead a very holy life, and who are known as “Yatis.” A Yati| must not eat too much or talk too | much. He must carry with him a brush to sweep off any place he is go- | ing to use to seat himself. The idea | is to make sure that he will not hurt | any ant or other little living creature! | A Yati also wears a thin cloth over | his mouth. This, we are told, is to guard against any insect flying into his mouth; where it might get hurt. All Jains are asked to be kind, gen- | tle and pious. They try to be careful not to speak harsh words. They drink | water which has been “strained three times.” They must go to & temple (or church) every day. ‘The Jain religion s very old, dating back 2,500 years or more. Worship is | given to scores of gods, but most time is spent in honoring 24 great saints, or “Jinas." These rank among the higher gods. A golden bull stands for one of the | saints, and the name of another, Parshva, meanis “a blue snake.” Giant statues of the Jinas exist in India. Some were carved a thousand years ago, or more. The largest of all is the “colossus” of Mysore, in Southern India. It stands for the saint Gomata (also spelled Gomatesvara), and rises to the height of a five-story building. It was cut from solid granite, one of the very hard rocks. ‘The middle finger of each hand | of the colossus is a little more than 5 | Sonnysayings BY F. Y. CORY. I couldn't a played marbles in my good coat—this old sweater ob Tommy's is just the ticket. (Copyright, 1, like it, too. / In Washington at Btigsries8 . ©andy-Cod Compens. Baltimore, Md, feet long. Across the shoulders, the statue measures 26 feet. A man standing at the base finds that his face is ot much above the level of the ankle. There is a temple near the statue, and those in the courtyard can see HEAD AND SHOULDERS OF “CO- LOSSUS” ABOVE WALL IN TEM- PLE COURTYARD, only the head. neck and shoulders, but a view of the whole figure can be obtained by those who walk to the other side of the wall, From time to time the figure of Gomata is washed. Then faithful Jains gather from many parts, Not quite half a century ago, a washing was held with about 25000 persons present. They found that a great scaffold had been built, so that holy men could climb to a position above the head. Hundreds of clay jars were filled with water, milk, sugar, coffee seeds, curds, silver coins and other things. The jars were passed to the top, where they were emptied on the head of the statue. (For travel section of your scrap=- book.) “Rome and the Olden Romans” will | be mailed without charge to readers | who send me a 3-cent stamped return envelope. This leaflet contains pice tures and stories which will help his= tory students and Latin students. Your Family's HEALTH Wi rieh mix Yeam fro SEALED Wakefieid Buy from your Neighborhood Store and HOOD bottle. Wakefield ~_MILK _~/ L] N 50