New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 10, 1928, Page 4

By Adele the Oppor- Harry By the time I had finished my lit- tle tirade about the impossibility of having Edith Fairfax as a week-end guest until after the Brixtons had come and gone, I realized that Dic- ky's gaze was no longer truculent, but quizzical. “You are mistaken," he said air- ily. “A charming woman guest nev- er could feel ‘crowded or uncomfort- able or neglected’ with me on the Jjob. I should devote my whole time to her. No, no, old dear, you'll have | to think up some other excuse. His eyes were dancing and there was something very like a smirk at the corner of his lips. the sign that | he was again salving his vanity with the idea that jealousy of Edith was prompting my reluctance to have | Rer come to us at the time he had | pamed. The sight of that tiny smirk sud- denly iced my jealousy and changed my anger into a frigid determination to discomfit Dicky. *“Oh! I.4didn't understand.” 1 said in my friendliest tones, “I thought you had planned to be absent when the Brixtons came. But if you're §0ing to be here, that makes all the | difference in the world. Il tele- phone her at once to save the sec- | ond week for us.” 1 rose and started for the door in- to the hall. But Dicky caught my arm and spun me around, laughing “Oh, you've won out.” he said. “You know I am not going to be at home when the Brixtons are here, nor when Ede comes either, prob- ably. She's not my guest. You in- vited, her, remember > “Oh course I did" 1 said, mag- nanimous in victory. “She hasn't been out for ages, and I don't want | her visit to be spoiled. And as for your not being here—that's non- | sense. You needn't be here for Brixtons, but I shall insist upon your coming home while Ede's| Rere.” | It took all the determination 1 the | * Garrison gesture of submission. “Whatever Your Majesty orders,” he said, but I paid no attention to his nonsense, but asked instead a question ‘which had been intriguing me. “Will Harry take his car to the city with lim if he's going in to stay with you?" “He won't be in there enough to call it staying,” Dicky said a bit crossly. “He said he'd come in and get me settled. No, he won't bring his car. I'll take him and he'll come out on the train. I suppose what you really want to know is who's going to run the car when Harry isn't here. Come on, Harry. tell her." “I didn't,” I protested, flushing he paid no attention to my pro- u “That's an easy one, Lady Fair," Harry Underwood said from the doorway. “You are, being the best driver I kncw of. And 1 count on you to get Lil over her dislike of driving and make her drive the new boat also.” 1 don’t know about the last task," 1 teld him, “but I shall be in the seventh heaven driving that ear. I broke the tenth commandment all the way out yesterday.” “You won't-have to break it any longer, for you probably will be driving it as much as anybody,” Mr. Underwood said. “When do you want to try it out?" 1 made an instantaneous decision | with the remembrance that I wished to talk to him concerning Marion. “Right now, if convenient to you,” I answered. “But, please, don’t take anybody else along this first time. I don't want any witnesses, except you, on my first attempt to drive it.” Mr. Underwood put his thumbs in the armholes of his coat and strut- ted a few steps. “I guess that sends you out en a twig, Dicky-bird,” . he said loftily. Come along, Lady Fair. 1 knew you were a good driver. I now real- ize that you also have more than | your share of common sense and rare discrimination.” had to achieve the casual familiar 'Ede,” but I managed it and Dicky | spread his hands in an Ma'g-r'n:d‘ (To Be Continued) Copyright 1528, Newspaper Feature Service, Inc. By Thornton W. Burgess Dissappointments come to all; Rich and poor and great and small. —Old Mother Nature. Yowler the Bobcat wasn't finding it easy these days to get enough to eat. That is to say, he had to hunt twice s hard as ever he had hunted before, You see, there was Mrs. Yowler also hunting, not only for herself, but for two growing Kittens, and two growing Kittens require a lot of food. So Yowler was hunting over a far wider range than he had ever been in the habit of hunting over. It seemed to him sometimes as if all the Wood Mice had left the Green Forest. It seemed to him as if all the Grouse had moved off somewhere. And s0 in his wanderings he came over to FFarmer Brown's little sugar- house among the sugar maples, He had been there before, but not often. For a long time he lay hidden in the Black Shadows' watching that sugar- Rouse. He is always suspicious of anything with which man has to de. He is distrustful of everything per- | taining to man. But he knew that Mice are not this way. He knew that | Mice often lived very close to man and that they are often to be found around the buildings of man. He knew, too, that Trader the Wood | Kat liked just such a place. | “My, my, but I would like to| catch Trader!” thought Yowler, as ke stared at that little sugar-house. “I wonder if he is living here. 1 don’t believe there will be any dan- ger in just emelling around there a little.” 8o Yowler very cautiously ap- proached the little sugar-house. You may be sure that he was making the best use of his eyes, his ears and his nose. Every few steps he would stop to look and listen and smelt. But there was no sign of man around that little sugar-house. He walked in a circle all around it at a rafe distance. Then gradually he drew nearer and nearer. Pretty soon he picked up a scent which made his eyes gleam. It was the scent of Mouse. He had come across the place where Whitefoot and Mrs. ‘Whitefoot had been. “Ah!" exclaimed Yowler his breath. “I thought There are Mice around here. hope they are outside and not side that little house." Yowler has a good nose, a most excellent nose, The Mouse smell was very iaint, but he could follow it And so at last he came to the little hole through which Whitefoot and | Mrs. Whitefoot had passed in and | out of the sugar-house. Yowler | smelled long and caref “There are Mice said he to himself. are M:ice in t Lobbed tail L S0 Youler under 1 only in- ly. inside “Yes, sir. or 1 have Perhaps they'l there,” there | n't come ere crouched close to the ground within easy jumping dis- | tance of that little hole. He crouch- ed Pussy crouches be- side a mouse hole. And there he Kept pertectly <l for the longest time. Yowler hus patience—a gr deal of paticnce He needed it now But even patience will hold out in- detinitely Yowler, didn’t know it, of course he gave up just the wrong fime Whitefoot and Mrs, Whitefoot were just preparing | to come out Had he waited five | minutes longer | wonld e caught them. But he didn't wait. He jumped up on the roof fo if | there might not he a way of zetling inte that sugar-hou That was when he made a mi e for Whate toot and Mrs Whitefoot heard him He prowled ahbout all over that roof. Nowhere was there an open ing that he could get in. He jumped | i Tho |in the little sug: “There are mice inside there,” said he to himself. to the ground and went all around the sugar-house again. There were little cracks through which he could get the tantalizing scent of Mice, but there was no way of getting in there. Finally, in his disappointment, lie screeched as only a Bobcat can screech. Then he bounded away to Lunt elscwhere. Whitefoot and Mrs, Whitefoot, huddled together in their nest in the firebox of the evaporator r-house, heard that screech and it seemed to them as if their hearts stopped beating and would never beat again, (Copyright 1928, T. W. Burgess) The next story: “The Sugar-House Has Another Visitor.’ She’s Prcttleat NEA Los Angeles Bureau wer 47 contenders, prefty 19-year- ! Dorothy Collier was chosen the t beautiful girl at the Pacific- 1thwest Exposition at Long Beach, Here she is with the cup she won. Cat. A.SPAYDE THE CAST ° FLLEN SrmBRocH SIDNEY RS DIANTHA PATTISCN WermeenE Dl “We got it, of course, but poor mother was absolutely in- genue about it.” You will annihilate a great deal of the trouble connected with to- day's puzsle when you get the defini- tion of “annihilate,”” for lengthy verticle No. 6. Oddly enough, the word for the last verticle is also most appropriate as an ending. Horizontal 1. Headgear. 4. Roman athletic field. Habit, . Constellation. . Becurely fastened. . 'To hew superfluous branches. . To decay. . Carried. One plus one. Foreboding. To scatter hay. Brought up. . Frenzy. . Flame. . To quaver. . Beraglio. . A leaven. . Smell. . Black bird of the cuckoo . Bketched. . At the present time, . Shovel. Before. . Period of time, . Made of oatmeal Years of life. . Monetary unit of Japan . A staple food . Guided. tamily. Vertical . Type of billiard shot . Fragrant smell . Thin metal plate . Astern. A tumult. . To annihilate . 'To require, . To total Fanatical er extreme . One who plants . The after song. . Bugar sand. . To emit as blood Upper human limb, . To soar. . Nectar of flowers . To love excessively 28. Mountain ash . Pertaining to the area Twilled woolen fabric. Soft, two-toned woolen material. . Three-banded armadillo . Mental picture. To cry convulsively . The conclusion CLEANING DRAIN BOARD Rub the drain board with the in- side of lemon peels, sprinkle with a cleansing powder and let stand a while before scrubbing clean. The result is a dazzling whiteness. MAPLE SAUCE Nothing makes 4 more delicious sauce for cup custard or bread or rice pudding than hot maple syrup. Tet it boil a Nittle and serve as piping hot as possible. | tions related to climate and T TR dMENEE dEE dEl’ JEEEE 7z a1 [PIAIsIsIe R IO T TVITTN]¢] [LJolelMIAlL TSI ] [R] IN[OJRIMERVIATTIR I [cTe] B03 [BERER 330 DA BE0D DDM B[O 0 30 @ 0B o [RIAI RO TATO NI ]L] [SIAITHIOTRIATL RIMIATP] [A[REERIEIM[O]vVIAlL I R]A] jLielvIlRTeTL]: [clla[0]N] uONDEH RENEEL Health Hints By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hy- geia, the Health Magazine In an exceedingly valuable and up-to-date manual for the tubercu- lous called “Rules for Recovery from Tuberculosis,” Dr. Lawrason Brown considers the various ques- fresh air, The fresh air treatment for tu- berculosis was developed in the last half of the nineteenth century. It is | mow being realized that the fresh air is taken not primarily for the lungs, but for its general effect on the | whole body. Keeping Outdoors Doctor Brown is not convinced that slceping outdoors materially liastens recovery, provided eight to 10 hours a day, preferably during the daylight, are spent in the open air and the night passed in a well ventilated room. On the other hand, when a per- son works all day indoors, sleeping outdoors at night may be considered as a necessity. A man outdoors gets 190 times more fresh air than he could get in the best ventilated room in any given period of time During the summer, windows are Kept open, fresh air is everywhere and patients with all sorts of dis- eascs do well. With the first breath of autumn, houses are closed, ex- cept for brief daily airings. The patients do fairly well until about Christmas when confinement indoors begins to tell. By the follow- ing spring, patients with tuberculo- sis particularly begin 1o break down. Many Devices All sorts of window fents, sleep- ing chairs and similar apparatus have been devised 10 cnable the per- son wio requires much fresh air to get it easily Because of the associated climatic conditions, the fresh air treatment, tike any other, is best taken under the advice of some one who has giv- Menus of the Family MY SISTER MARY Breakfast — Orange juice, cereal, cream, puffy omelet, blueberry muf- fins, milk, coffee. Luncheon — Toasted ham sand- wich, shredded cabbage salad, jellled prunes, milk, tea. Dinner — Broiled halibut steaks with egg sauce, steamed potatoes in parsley butter, stewed okra, black- berry bread pudding, milk, coffee. Stewed Okra One quart okra, 2 cups diced cel- ery, 1 green pepper, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon minced onion, 4 table- spoons butter, 3 medium sized to- matoee. Wash okra well and cut off stems. Cut pods in slices, crosswise, about % Inch ghick. Remove seeds and pith from pepper and mince flesh. Melt butter in sauce pan, add okra, minced onion and pepper, and celery and stmmer closely covered untii vegetables begin to soften. Add peel- ed and chopped tomatoes and salt and cook slowly about 1 hour, until okra 18 tender. (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) HIGH NECKs Many street frocks have high- low necks that can be worn either way. Dut many new night gowns have high necks, dainty little stand- ing collars of lace and silk. HIGH-LOW HEEL Autumn shoes, in new shades of catawbs, dark green and plum leather in calf and fancy boroso Modem Hygiene | ~ Aids Growth Control of Environment Uvercoming Handicaps. Baltimors, Sept. 7 M—Man's in- telligent control of his environmeat through housing, sanitation and hy- glene apparently has enabled Lim to overcome handicaps placed up- on his respiratory system in the un- equal evolutionary development. of his organa, Dr. Raymond Pearl, di- rector of the Institute of Biologicas Research of Johas Hopkins Univer- sity, has found. In a comparative study of causes of death, classified according to the anatomical location of the pringipal organic breakdowns involved, he has learned that “broadly the dis- tribution of mortality to organ &¥3- tems runs parallel in the three or- ders of lower animals'to the condi- tion found in man.” The investigation was bapd & findings of post-mortem exumina- tions of animals in a London z00 and human moktality data from England, Wales and Sao Paulo, Lra~ zil. Although he regards the data a8 having many scientific shortcom- ings, he describes the results as “suggestive” in the Quarterlyy Re- view of Biology, of which he is edi- tor. “In reptiles, birds and mammals, just as in man,” he says, “the two mortality chargeable to them are organ systems having the largest the respiratory and the alimentary systems, with the circulatery sys- tem atanding third. The other or- gan systems, which have a low mor- tality chargeable to them in man, also are concerned in a low mort: ity in the reptiles, birds and mam- mals.” There “appears to be a clear evo- lutionary progression” in the mor- tality attributable to breakdown of the respiratory system, he asserts, his figures disclosifig that the death rate “steadily and regularly in- creases proportionately as we pass from reptiles, through birds, to mammals.” These organs in the mammal group appear to be ‘“less effectively adapted for coping with the environment stresses and “strains” put upon them than they are in reptiles, but “when we come to man this progression is broken.” Because man h learned in some degree how to protect him- selt from respiratory infections and to treat them so that they do not so often lead on to death his actual observed respiratory mortality falls somewhat below that of the lower vertebrate orders, Dr. Pearl ex- plans. “The proportionate mortality from diseases finding their seat in the alimentary tract and its associ. ated organs (concerned in the coy bustion of food) is highest in the reptiles, lower in the birds, lower still in the mammals and finally lowest in man living under supe- ior conditions of prelent day civiliz- ation." He also observed *“a regular pro- gression of increasing mortality chargeable to the nervous system" as we o up the evolutionary scale.” HELPS PIE CRUST A teaspoonful of vinegar added to the pie crust you mix it will make it light and flakey. TO CLEAN BRASS There is no finer cleaning agent for brass than salt and lemon juice, or salt and vinegar. BROWN HOSIERY Brown .hosiery promises many attractive dark shades. Tawnee and chaldee are two new sombre browns and russet and acajou are browns with a lot of life to them. Miss America Is Oil kid feature the comfortable high- low heel. APPLIQUED LINGERIE Paris, (M—Much of the lingerie for fall {s trimmed with appliques of satin to contrast with the crepe de chine. A deeper pink on fiesh crepe dechine is much shown. WATERMELON SALAD Cut watermelon in cubes and pile on a nest of lettuce leaves. Serve with French dressing to which a little grated Roquefort cheese has been added. Man’s Bride Paris, (A—Tweed forms the ba- sis of informal daytime clothes for autumn. Doeuillet-Doucet shows & heavy gray tweed coat with fancy pockets formed by incrustations of the material. Incrustations trim the sleeves, also, and there are deep pointed cuffs and a generous straight collar of dark brown curly en special study to the matter, lambskin, NEA Tulsa Bureau Atter a month’s honeymoon in a private camp at Big Bear Lodge. near Jackson, Wyo. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gilcrease will return to the Gilcrease mansion in Tulsa, Okla., and the domestic lifte of Norma Smaliwood, the bride, will begin. | &lss. Gilcrease won the title of Miss America in 1926 in the beauty pageant at Atlantic City. Gilcrease, 38, went to the oil fields 20 years ago a8 a laborer and now ia president of Red Health Fight Into the nipa shack villages of nurses are carrying their message of Above is & nurse making one of her thl}lzton. Sept. 8 (P—Croco- diles and microbes versus a plucky little band of Filipino women will be the lineup of a $5,000 health campaign which the American Red Cross has undertaken in the Philip- pine Islands. The money will be used to em- ploy additional nurses and dentists to go into the far outlying island provinces where health conditions are reported as deplorable. The Red Cross sends the money to match a like sum collected by the Junior Red Cross in the Philip- pines for the work of a corps of dentiats. The 56 nurses now engaged in the work are under the direction of Miss Erna M. Kuhn, formerly a nursing fleld representative in the New England states, who has sent complete reports to the desk of Miss Elizabeth Fox, director of the nursing service at the Washington headquarters. “Transportation problems are al- most as great for us as disease and dangerous animals and insects,” writes Miss Kuhn. “The popula- tion of 11,000,000 is scattered through the more than 7,000 is- ‘Nurses ‘Wage mthePluhppina the Philippine Islands, Red Cross health to women and children. regular visits, We travel often by horse in to lands. back, by foot over mountains, cockleshell boats from island island, even on buffaloes. “All travel is greatly enhanced |also by the menace of crocodiles, cobras and severe typhoons. The nurses carry the precepts of modern health methods into the nipa shack villages t6 replace the voodoo medicine and superstitious practices of the natives who live “back beyond." Epldemics of cholera, malaria, ty- phoid, “yaws* a dread skin dis- ease, and trachoma, a prevalent disease of the eye, have to be con- stantly guarded against. In one province recently a clipic conduet- ed by physicians from the Philip- pine Health Service resulted in 993 operations in trachoma cases dur- |ing a period of two months. Last year they made 96,000 visits to children in class rooms and to individuals; 186,728 children were inspected and 130,395 were found to have defects of some kind or an- other. Even two per cent of the public school teathers, who were chiefly natives, were found to be suffering from tuberculosis. Coffee Drinker Inured to Drug Caffeine Does Not Affect Habitual User Much. Edmonton, Alberta, Sept. 7 (®— The belief of coffee and tea drinkers that they are less susceptible than abstainers to certain effects of caf- feine has found support in the re- sults of a series of experiments with human subjects in the department |of physlology and pharmacology of the University of Alberta. The experiments, Drs. Nathan B. Eddy and Ardrey W. Down, produced “distinct evi- dence’ 'that more caffeine, the drug obtained from coffee; theobromine, from chocolate, or theophylline, from tea, is required to produce given biological effects in habitual users of those beverages than in non-consumers. Incidental observations of the ac- | tion of the three closely related | drugs on the central nervous sys- | tem as indicated by measurements | of reaction time to sound, sight and touch showed that habituation to caffeine appeared to slow down the responses. The reaction time of habitual consumers, however, ~ap- parently was hastened by the ad- ministering of minimum effective doses of the drugs, while in ab- stainers it was retarded. Three individuals in normal health submitted to the tests. They | were required to puruse their usual routine of work and diet while hold- ing their daily consumption of cof- | ‘fee, tea, water and milk at fixed quantities. in different proportions for each, over a considerable period. They then abstained from coffee and tea for several months until the eftect of habituation had worn off. The effects were measured by giving them controlled doses of pure cafteine, theobromine and theophyl- line dissolved in water, increasing the amount until a distinct biologi- cal effect could be observed both during the period "of habituation and afterward. FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: S Us par. ory. ©1928. av wea. semwice. Inc. A secret is the shortest distance an ol corporation. He has two sons of school age by a former marriage. between two women, conducted by Yo Ho Ho! A New York City Bureau | A tiny ship, copied from the crulsers |of old that sent many a stout mer- chantman to Davy Jones’ locker, wa: |a feature float in the annual Baby Parade in Asbury Park, N. the other day. Eloise Morris, 3, was the commander. Here's Eloise with her 3 wicked cutlass. NEW COLOR Vanilla is the latest Parisian shade. Transparent velvet in this color makes a lovely evening gown that has a square necked bodice and a rippling, circular skirt with even edge. SHORT FUR COATS For fall, emphasis is being placed upon short fur coats in mink, squire rel, rabbit and the novelty furs. Fashion Plaque Very smart for afternoon wear fa this graceful navy kid slipper with ingeniously cut diagonal strap. 4