Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1935, Page 30

Nature’s White Oak (Quercus Alba). BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. HILE we crown the stately elm as the queen among trees, the diadem of king- ship goes to the lordly white oak, whose dignified bearing, strength and independence proclaim to his devoted subjects his right to reign. ‘We are especially rich in oak trees, having 50 kinds. Our English cousins pour all their love on their one native species. In spite of our abundance of wonderfully beautiful oak trees, we select the white oak as the chief- tain of them all. We know the tree by its handsome broad head, towering up from the pale gray trunk, its many branches covered with fingerlobed leaves in the Summer, its rounded buds in the Spring, its bountiful crop of large, sweet acorns in the Autumn, and its sturdy outlines of limb, branch and trunk in the Winter. It produces for its human neighbors the finest of lumber. Its bark tans our leather goods; its wood is in our Navy and our homes inside and out. Our sturdy furniture is constructed of it; our agricultural implements are fashioned from it; we go on long journeys over railroad ties of oak, and we keep our homes warm and fragrant with its logs. All that the vast army of white oaks | - asks is a favorable situation through- out most of the eastern half of our country from central Maine to North- ern Florida and west through South- ern Ontario. In rich soil, well drained, it reaches @ height of 150 feet, and some have a trunk 6 to 8 feet in diameter. White oaks attain their most magnificent size in the valleys and coves of the western slopes of the Allegheny Moun- Bedtime Mrs. Quack Envies Her Cousin. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. ERHAPS you remember that | Mrs. Quack the Mallard Duck had the eggs in her first nest stolen by Blacky the Crow, | and afterward tried again, building a | new nest and hiding it with the great- est care. In the first nest there had | been eight eggs. In the second nest she had but four. Of course, she was late, and it was a week or two after Mrs. Wood Duck had carried her babies from the hollow tree in which | they had been hatched to Paddy's| Pond that Mrs. Quack appeared with her little brood of four. i At the time Mrs. Quack led the four babies into the water Mrs. Wood Children tains, also in the rich bottom lands of the lower Ohio basin, some individuals living to be 800 years old. Growing in crowded woods, the tree’s crown is narrow. It has been pruned by its neighbors as it reached up for its bit of life-giving sunshine. The bark on the old trees is often |- two inches deep. Round and smooth, clustered at the twigs’ tips are the buds. In early Spring they begin to swell, and by May the rosy-pink baby leaves unfurl. They are about one- third their size, when the fringed catkins of the staminate (male) flow- ers with their great abundance of pol- len appear, and the pistillate flowers (female) in tiny, tight-fitting clusters stand close by, to have their faces dusted with the golden powder. The acorns mature during the early Fall. They have nestled in the deep green of glossy leaves all Summer. The shiny brown nut has about one-fourth of its'depth set in the shallow saucer, and is eagerly harvested by squirrels, birds and other outdoor creatures who know its sweetness. The early colo- nists soon learned the Indians’ method of boiling them for food, so not many of the white oak's seed children have an opportunity to grow. (Copyright. 1935.) Stories “Have you only four? Did some- | thing happen to any of them.” asked | Mrs. Wood Duck. “Four is all I have.” replied Mrs. Quack. “You remember that this was my second nesting.” “I had forgotten that, my dear,” replied Mrs. Wood Duck. “I really had. You may not think so, but you are lucky.” “How am I lucky?” demanded Mrs. Quack. “You are lucky in having only four to worry about,” replied Mrs. Wood Duck. “I love a big family, but I'm | beginning to realize the more children | the more worries.” “Where are your children?” asked Mrs. Quack. “Follow me,” said Mrs. Wood Duck, T HE Woman's Dress, 515 EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1935. TOMORROW! —~Second great day of Jelleff’s Fall Sales! Already this exciting event is the talk of Washington! Come now and SAVE on the suits, coats, furs, dresses, accessories you need for Fall! We've remembered everybody—juniors, misses, women, little women, larger women! We've brought you clothes for every occasion from morn. /- Micses® Drevs, 315 ing till night—everything from sports to formal costumes! We'll look for you tomorrow! $16.95 to $19.75 Fall Dresses raes Stirring Fall Sales Feature! Styles for School, Business, Sports, Formal Wear! For Misses, Women, Little Women, Larger Women, Juniors! Women’s, Little Women's Dresses, $15 @—New fabrics—Laces, celebrity crepes, velvets, brocaded velvets! ~—Re «~Evening ensembles and tunic fashions! Daytime styles! sance details and vivid jewelry trims! ~—Military touches! Unique buttons! Metal trims! Fagoting! —Sizes 36 to 44 for women! 16 to 22V; for little women! —Black, brown, russet, green, Italian wine, stained glass colors! —— Velvets! Woolens! ¥ Lame and Velvet! Rough Silks! Alpaca Crepes! Metallics! Crepes Villon! Bramble Knits! Lace and Velvet Combinations! Embroidered Wools! Matelasse Crepes! Misses’ Daytime, Evening Dresses, $15 ~—Daytime velvets with crystal buttons! Lame tea gowns! —Woolen spectator frocks with fluting trims! —Taffeta-trimmed alpacas! Velvet-trimmed crepes! —Grecian evening gowns with jewel braid trims! —AIl sizes, 14 to 20, in 1 and 2 piece styles! s — —Fall colors—Blue-green, Kent green, russet, Dubonnet, Autumn _/, /. brown, black with white or flesh! ) Moderate Price Dress Shops—*“Through the Arch”—Second Floor Juniors’ $19.75 New Fall Dresses, $15 ~—Every important fashion—Renaissance, military, casubl! ~—10 different styles for college wardrobes! ~—Velvets—flecked crepes—diagonal matelasses—woolens! ~Tunic dresses! crepes! Fur-trimmed woolens! Nubby and jacquard —Back, brown, green, rust, ginger, blue, plum. Sizes 11 to 17. Junior Deb Shop—Fourth Floor Larger Women's Fall Dresses, =S new Fall styles for sizes 407 to 5075! ~—Higher treatments in smart surplice necklines! —Low-flared fullness—stitchings—pleats! —Velvets—flecked crepes—diagonal matelasse—woolens! ~Black, brown, wine, green, blue or grapetone! Special Size Shop—Second Floor $16.95—$19.75 Sports Clothes, $15 —One, two three piece knits and wools! and turned back behind Paddy's house. Mrs. Quack, with her babies keep- ing close to her, followed. As she“ went around behind the house it —Jacquard skirts with jersey tops! —Jersey and chenille with monograms! —Hand-fashioned bramble knits! 3.piece frill boucles! —New colors! Oxford, Oriental oxblood, amethyst, pottery, rust, spinner red and black! —For misses and women—12 to 40! Extra sizes, too, up to 44! = e e A “MY DEAR,” SHE CRIED TO MRS.| QUACK, “HOW GLAD I AM TO SEE YOU!” Duck and her big brood were behind | the house of Paddy the Beaver. You| know, Paddy's house is a big house. Mrs. Quack had glanced that way two or three times, but she had seen nothing of her cousin, Mrs. Wood| Duck, and she wondered if the latter| ‘was in Paddy’s lower pond, or if per-| chance she might be in Paddy's upper; pond. You know, Paddy has two ponds, connected by the Laughlng‘ Brook. She swam slowly toward | Paddy’s house, the four babies keep- | ing close to her in bright-eyed won- | der at what, to them, was the Great | World. As she approached Paddy’s house Avho should swim out from behind it put trim, pretty little Mrs. Wood Duck. “My dear,” she cried to Mrs. Quack, “how glad I am to see you! I had begun to worry a little about you. I see you have some of your children with you.” “I have all of them,” replied Mrs. Quack. ] W ho Are You? 2 #The Romance of Your Name. { BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS. o~ 4 Jomphins :I‘HXS surname is one of the varia- tions of the Welsh personal name i‘humu—wmch became a suriame of considerable importance in that and ‘pther countries. It developed as a ame for the reason that Thomas so many kinsmen that it became to designate some of them simply as “Tomp-kins.” This coat of arms is described in heraldic terms: “Azure, on a chev- Yon between three cock pheasants tlose, or as many cross crosslets sable. Crest—a unicorn’s head, erased, per fess, argent and or, armed and maned eounterchanged, gorged with a chap- et of laurel vert.” 3 + These armorial bearings are borne by many of the Tompkins now living in the United States. They were borne by Gov. Tompkins, the one-time vice president of the United States, but ho is no doubt best remembered in tory as the Governor of the State ©f New York during the War of 1812 The arms are those of the Tompkins Mornington, County Hereford, Eng- d. They may be seen sculptured in the large, open court of the e.pxml 5'. Albany, N, Y., & memorial to Gov. b seemed to her as if the water was simply covered with baby Ducks. Of | course, it wasn't, but there were so many of them swimming this way and | that way that it gave the effect of more than really were there. “My goodness!” gasped Mrs. Quack, “where did all those youngsters come | from?” | “They all came from my nest in the hollow limb of the big tree I told you about,” said Mrs. Wood Duck proudly. “What?” gasped Mrs. Quack. “Do you mean that all those youngsters are yours?” Mrs™ Wood Duck nodded her trim head. “Yes,” she sald, “they are all | mine. There are 12 of them. Now perhaps you understand why I said | that you are lucky to have only four.” | “No, I don't,” declared Mrs. Quack. | “I shoud think you would be proud of a family like that.” | “I am.” sighed little Mrs. Wood | Duck. “Of course, I am, but the little dears are a dreadful care. It is bad | enough to try to keep watch of five | or six, but when you have a dozen | to keep track of it is enough to drive you almost crazy.” Mrs. Quack sighed. She looked at her own little brood, and then she | looked at her cousin's big brood and | her heart was filled with envy. “What wouldn't I give to be able to lead a family like that down to the Sunny South in the Fall,” she cried. Psychology ' BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. PHOBABLY‘ the greatest quest among human longings is that | which has to do with controlling the emotions. So long ss mankind has talked about humanity, the story has been the same: Find some way to control your emotional head. The strange thing about your emo- tions is this: They reside in you, but they are not a part of you. Not a part of you In the sense that you are ac- quainted with them. They are im- personal. They originated in the.race. Their history is hoary with age. They stretch back through what amounts to endless cycles of years. They have their mechanisms hidden away in muscles, glands and bones. Your heart, lungs, kidneys, house some of them. Perhaps each bodily cell is hooked up in some way with your emotional mechanism. The brein has very little to do with them. That's why your control over your emotions is so feeble. Do you have much to say about when you will become frightened? ‘When you become angry, and to what extent? You may cover up the signs of an emotional stirring, but you have practically nothing to do with how it started, or when it will subside. Sonnysayings I would get up quicker than what T does, but each move I make I am more comfortable than I was, Little Woman’s Dress, $15 Larger, Woman's, Dress, $15 Fall Sale Extraordinary! New $3 to $5 Gloves 9 smart colors! ITailored or dressy gloves for every type of costume! Stunning button trims—appliques—contrasting stitching—new side flares —fine tuckings—they're new, they're interesting—and they're rare values at $2.65! 6, 8, 12, 16 button length mousqueta ! 10-button teatime gloves! 6-button ruffle-top gloves! 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Pa handles—intricate diagonal stitchings—metal chain handles—metal touches—initial types! Black, brown, green, wine, grey, mavy, so you can save on a style for any color costume! Get yours EARLY'! Antelope suede—smooth or mat calf — Waldorf grain calf—genuine pigskin— wine buffalo! Choice— Handbags—Street Floor Highlighted in These Great Store-wide $12.95 DRESSES FOR JUNIORS, $11—Double-duty frocks, tunic dresses, fur-trimmed woolens, velveteens, crepe, jacket dresses, and formals. ?lnck, brown green rust, blue plum. Sizes 11 to 17.—Junior Deb Shop—Fourth Floor. $49.75 FALL SUITS, $39—Tweeds, monotones with raccoon or wolf! 2 and 3 piece styles. Green, brown, rust, grey, black. Sizes 12 to 38.—Suit Shop—Fourth Floor. $69.75 FALL SUITS, $59—Lynx, raccoon on tweeds and monoton;a. Full lapin-dyed coney swaggers, with wool skirts! Indian red, greenm, rust, brown. Sizes 12 to 20.—Suit Shop—Fourth Floor. $10.95 to $12.95 SPORTS DRESSES, SUITS, $9—1, 2 and 3 piece wools, knits, combinations! Browns, rusts, wines, greens, blues. Sizes 12 to 40.— Better Sport Shop—Third Floor. $200 and $225 FUR COATS, $185—Hudson seal dyed muskrat, caracul lamb in black or brown, processed lamb (known as American broadtail) in grey, with fox collar, natural squirrel. Milges', women'’s sizes—Third Floor. $3 SATIN SLIPS, $1.95—Pure silk and pure dye—laboratory tests prove they’ll wash and wear splendidly. Imported laces. Tearose, white. Sizes 32 to 4.—Grey Shops—Second Floor. $1 AND $1.39 GLOVE SILK MILANESE, AND BEMBERG UNDIES, 79c—Bloomers, briefs, panties, vests, stepins. Run-proof bemberg! Regu- lar weight milanese! Chiffon weight milanese! Tearose, blue. Sizes 4 to 9.—Street Floor. - $5 to $6.50 DOROTHY BICKUM GIRDLES, $3.65—Side-hook style, semi- stepin hook, semi-stepin talon-fastened. Novelty brocades, batistes! Hand- loom webbing or tissue lastex panels!—Grey Shops—Second Floor, R Fall Sales! $10 CHANELLE FOUNDATIONS, $6.65—For the medium or large fig- ure. 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