New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 26, 1928, Page 24

Hatie’s Buiging Suitase Opent, Re- Clathes 4As Xatle, carrying the bulging suitcase, saw me standing in the kitchom, she made & quick dodging movement toward the door behind But the big suitcase was too 1t caught on the ook, Jerked opan, and thers tum- Bled out, atmost at my feet, a curi- ous collection of articles. 1 had time te note oniy a large black hat with » erepe veil pinned around it, a long ®lack coat which I never had seen Wefore, a black dress and & pair of Black shoes before she was upon the scattered things with the intent fury of a terrier after a rat, and was stuffing them back into the suitcase. “Me, I'm going to funeral,” she stammered as she rose, her face crimson, her eyes looking in every direction except the place where I It was the only pomible explana- tion, and yet something in her man- mer told me that it was far from being the correct one. Besides, the sbon garments which had tumbled eut of the sultcase were to outre even for tie's flamboyant ideas voncerning the eorrect garb for mourning. But, I told mywelf grimly, it was distinctly net my cue to doubt her By even an inflection, s0 1 mur- mured a perfunctory: “Oh, I'm sorry, Katie,” and, turn- ing away pretended interest in a wgse of autumn flowers which stood upon the kitchen cabinet, until 1 ‘was sure that she had safely secur- od the treacherous suitcase. “Yeh eet too bad,” she eaid at last with an attempt at doler which al- most upset my risibles. But 7 fought ‘back my amused grin and said casually: “Madam Graham is not coming down to luncheon. Will you leave ‘her servings of your hot dishes over hot water on the stove, so that Mrs. Rickett may get them for her when she wishes to eat”” “Aha!” Katie's utterancs of the efaculation was impudently dra- matic. ‘T tink me old vomans no ke shange loonch hour; so she keeck oop row. Al right. ¥ feex Ma-dam Graham oop some loonch, leave hot.” “Katie!"] began sternly, but with the realization of how futile and stereotyped my reproof had become during the years of my littie maid's faithful service. “You must met speak of Mr. Graham's mother in that manner and you must not pro- nounce her name that way.' The last puart of my protest was unintentional, for years ago I gave up the struggle to teach Katie to say “Madam Graham” in any other manner than that of her own choice which makes it sound ludicrously like a profane expletive. With the feeling that I was making a distinct sacrifice of dignity, I turned away ax I uttered my reproof and left the kitchen. But though I pretend. od that 1 did not hear it, T was pain- fuliy aware of Katie's impudent com ment upon my mandate, whieh, however, she ahd the grace to mut- ter almost inaudibly: “Vot you vant me call her, lestle kid, or new style flapper?” I knew that she did not intend me to hear the impertinence, but it roused my anger, nevertheless, and not for the first time in my relations with the little maid T almost yielded to the impulse to back and dis- charge her summarily. But it was only “almost.” The re- membrance of Katie's loyalty and efficiency joined in pleading fer her with the prudent, if cowardly, re- flection that anyone in her place might be just as impertinent, and certainly would not be nearly =» valuable to me as my tempestuous little maid, who was so used to my ways, and go devoted te our house- hold But the httle incident annoyed me inordinately, probably because my nerves were raw from my en- counter with my mother-in-law, and when late in the afternoon Katie re- turned from her drive looking as if she were near the hursting point with excitement, 1 took particular pains to keep out of her way, for Y felt in mo mood to tixten to her chatter (Continued Tomerrow) Copyright 1928, Newspaper Feature Service, Inc. vet Serry YMwkvat Goes Back to Work By Thornton W. Burgess Work, I 40 not mind confessing. s to me life's greatest blessing ~—Jerry Muskrat. ‘While Jimmy B8kunk had been; baving his adventures, Jerry and Mrs. Nuskrat bad been waiting for the water to go down, 50 that they uld pet back to their homes—Mrs. rat to that hole in the bank end Jerry to his new house. The very 4ay after their adventure with Red- 4y Fox tm the carrot-patch the ‘Wwater hed dropped enough for Jerry % sit on the top af his house once mere. Perhaps you can guess how | eaxiously Jerry inspected that house. s dived and swam around it. He went inst@e, dut the water still tilled room fnside, so he couldn't stay | there. When at last he once more | teturned to the roof it was with a | fosling of great relief, “It fsn’t hurt & bit,” said Jerry. ®lking to Bimself. ‘I didn't know Dot that part of it would be swept away. It's all here and all T've got # do is to finish it up. I said it was | geoing to be the biggest house I have | ever built, and ko it is. My, T hope | s water will go down fast now. Tl have to go over and sleep in the house in the bank tonight.” 80 Jerry swam over to where Mrs Muskrat was already established in the hole in the bank. It was still Pretty wet inside, for the water had Been clear uwp to their bedroom Their bed was all wet. But Jerry and Mrs. Muskrat didn't mind. Yon see, they have waterproof coats. o they weren't damp, and not being damp, they were not cold. The next morning Jerry discover- 4 that the water had fallen very much. He could hardly wait to eat Breakfast before going over to his | #ew house in the Smiling Pool. When | 2 got there he found that he could | ®OW get inside without being in the | water. This was a great relief and | Jerry at once resumed work. He be- | #an on the roof. The flood had Brought down a great deal of trash. There were branches and bush slong the bank that had been wash- | o4 down from up above. Jerry got | sme of these and used them to | bulld up his roof. Then he filled them in with grass and rushes and a Mttle bit of mud. After he had work- | ed at this a while he went back in- | sde. There he found that all the new #uff he had put on his roof had | erushed his roof in and there wasn't room enough to sit upright. There wasn't even room to squat com- fortably. 8o then Jerry went to work with those sharp teeth of his. He cut away and cut away and cut a n- #de until finally he once more had & nice big room. 1t was about this time that Mrs, Muskrat arrived e inspected all the work Jerry had done. He hoped she would y some nice things about it, but she didn’t. But neither did she say any bad things about it. 8he sniffed a little here and snitfed a little there and turned up her nose at this and turned up her nose at that. But Jerry noticed that she memed in no hurry to go hack to the hole in the bank. By and by Jerry g0t ready to go to work on the roof outside again. Mrs. Muskrat remain- | 4 fnside. Jerry became so busy that | he forgot all ahout Mrs. Muskrat He brought material to pile on the ™of and tucked it into place and worked as only Jerry Muskrat can work. He forgot all about Mrs Muzkrat. Finally Jerry went inside, expecting to haie to cut awar some more. Much to his surprise, he found that the room was quite all right. | | | a knockout hlow. “Did you say ‘we’ my dear?” fin- quired Jerry. The roof hadn't settled a bit. You see, Mrs. Muskrat had been busy. She had vsed her sharp teeth to cut it away as fast as the roof settied. “We'll have a very nice house here,” said Mrs, Muskrat. “I think we'll spend one of the best winters | we have ever experienced.” “Did you say ‘we,’ my dear?” in- quired Jerry, “Certainly, T said ‘we" was Mrs. Muskrat's prompt response. “Ten't this our house”" “Certainly. Of course” replied Jerry somewhat hastily, and there was a funny expression on his face and he hastened off to get another load of material Health Hints BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Metdical Association and of Hy- geia, the Health Magaxine. Pugilists know the condition that results in the prize ring in which the recipient of the mauling sud- denly finds himself unable to move his legs, dizzy, or as it is commonly expressed, “out on his feet.” Dr. Harrison 8§ Martland recently read before the Pathologic Society of New York a discussion of th condition called “punch drunk,” which the fighters themselves all charatcerize by the terms *‘cuckoo,” “goofy,” ‘“cutting paper dolls,” or ‘slug nutty.” He points out that the condition usually affects fighters of the slug- ging type who are usually poor box- ers and who take considerabl head punishment, secking only to return Mental Confusion Tt nsually takes the fighter one or tvo hours to recover from a severe blow on the head or jaw. If he has| been “punch drunk,” he may notic later a f of one foot or leg | in walking A sometimes Vn"n'dl‘ confusion lasting several days. Dr. Martland is convinced tha the condition called “punch drunk” | g results from a finite brain injurg due single or repeated blows ad or jaw which cause <mall_hemorrhages in the parts of the hrain, Resembles Palsy late stages, therefore, the g the condition king paisy or Parkin- to a on the i mnltiple de In the disease r known as = son's diseae, He bas presented microscopie studies of the hrains of persons who have developed this condition. &how- ing the pathologic changes which occnrred in the hram and which substantiate his point of view Furthermore, he presents names of 2 fighters ho have punch their the heen | drunk.” a condition indicates the of the physical changes present | permanence . Witty sayings. . Type of beetle, . Ethics. . A kettle arum. 20. Males. . Aperture fer coins. . Ireland. . Laid as a street. . 8Sprcad of am arch If you epen from the top. out without breaking more attractive unbroken, er used in £alad or creamed A hight right brim than left teira cotta colors join in a back “Just my luck, Clarence, I left my powder behind in the plane.” Menus of the Family | By LOUISE BENNETT WEAVER Six squares are cut from this de. sign and four letters are umkeyed. The combination helps to make it an interesting puzzle. Horizontal One who decreases or stops a nuisance (law). CRCcIRIVE DI IR[ETCITISAE [A] To replace. Z To perch. Campartment switchboard. of an electric Allots. Form of carbon. Buitabdle Covered with glazed clay blocks. . Wrath Batirical . §earch for provisions. . Incentive. . Honked. . To abhor. . To join. Vertical . Capable of spontansous move- ment. . A public speaker. . Small flap. . To strike with the palm. 6. Grammatical mark. . White poplar trecs. . To knock. . Tiny particies. Os. . Bulk. . To bang. . To fracture. Principal stair post . Point. . Call for help at sea. . Indigenous. | A narcotic. . Anything that is firéd at . To mutilate. . Moral faults. . Dexterous. . To require. . To goud. . To carry. . Destiny. 3. Egg of louse. . Hind. Paris, Oct. 16 (A—Went tea- dancing the other day and saw a lot of the laiest models tangoing to the latest band. né Lecom- te's Black crépe satin dress with the circular skirt and bias tions of dnll satin was one of the Aresges moticed there. 1t was worn by a fall blond who added a crys- tal choker. Her hat was black silk velonr a feather hrush which teuched her right shoulder. Nearly all the women black and their hats were close fitting draped turbans. STALKS canned asparagus *he stalke will lip It i much wheth- UNBROKEN Ger encrusta- ZAG MODETL cloche hat, with wider has one sid brown. The zig-zag line from 7 with were in the other to front. RITA. Hallows'es Apple Salad Hallowe'en Ple Funny Face Sandwiches Coffes WALDORF SALAD, SERVING EIGHT (Served tn Apple Cases) 8 red apples, 2 cups diced peeled apples, 2 cups diced celery, 1.4 tea- spoon salt, 8 tablespeens lemen juice, % cup broken English wal- nuts, 2-3 cup salad dressing. ‘Wash the apples, core apd re- move part of the contents. Keep covesed in cold water until ready for serving. Chill the rest of the ingredients before combining. When ready to serve, mix haif the salad dressing with the rest of the ingred. fents. Carefully @Il the apple cases and place them in nests of lettuce leaves. Top with the rest of the salad dressing and stick little black cats on the top. Paper cats may be cut eut from black paper, fastened on timy sticks nd stuck in the vapious feods erved, or they may be purchased already cut out. FUNNY FACE SANDWICHES (Msde from Boston Brown Bread 3 16 rounds of bread, 3 inches in diameter, 1-4 cup butter 1-4 cup pi- miento cheese, 1-8 teaspdon salt. Cream the butter and cheest. Add the salt and carefully spréad on 8 of the rounds of bread. . On the other 8 cut out Yaclal feédtures. Place the cut dut rdunds on top the buttered ones and arrange flat on a serving tray or platter. A thimble may be used to makc the eyes and a sharp Knifé for the nose and mouth. Various comical features may be made with little effort. HAILOWE'EN PIES (Filling for eight individual Pumpkin Ples) 2 cups pumpkin cedked and mashed, © eggs, 2-3 cup light brown ‘sugar, }; teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, !; teaspoon ginger, % teaspoon nutmeg, 1% cups milk. Mix the pumpkin. eggs and sugar. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well. Pour inte pie dough ceses which have been fitted into deep muffin pans. Bake in a moderite oven for 25 minutes. Cool in the pans and the pies may be easily slipped out with the aid of & ula. ‘When ready to serve, mark features on the top of each pie with bits of whipped cream. ‘When making the dough, break off small pieces 113 inches in diameter from the main piece of dough. Roll out thin and fit into the muffin pans, taking care to fit the corners well into the corners of the pans. Have an edge of dough stand up 1.8 inch above the edges of the pans. When baked these little edges will facili- tate reméval of the filled pies from the pans. Canned pumpkin may be used or fresh pumpkin may be cut in quar- ters and after the pulp has been re- n:oved ,steamed until soft and tén. der. Press through a seive or co- lander and the pumpkin is ready for use. To cut even edges on fresh cake, use a sharp knife, dip it in warm water and cut toward you. ening gloves, {in delicate off- white and #0ft greys and cream beautifully m; with etitching. They are fancy ons. GODE; EVERYWHERE The godet theme never was emarter. New dance gets feature godets In the little panties. A smart new Ninon night gown for 2 troussean has a moulded hodice with lace and Ninon godets in the skirt part. NEW BRITAIN .DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1928, Parent-Teacher |Civilization's Jingle? Blonde Head Advises] Beauty Much Prefers the Jungle Declares Home Training|Flees Domesticity As Should Continue. By INA CADDELL MARRS (President, Nationa! Cengress of Parents and Teachers) Washiagten, Oct. 36 UM — Amer- fen’s greatest oencerm teday is the odycation of the youth. The- most important oducationsl institution is the American home. The mest Te- sponsible tescher 15 the American parent. 'We no longer think of the school a8 the place where the child begins. his oducation. But we are realizing more and more that learning begins with birth. It is during the esrly and most impressionable years in which he s under the care and guldance of his parent teachers that the child's his ideals eet up that will ‘whele attitude toward foundation of all education is laid in the heme. No matter how early a child goes to school, he goes as an individual who has already done an immense amount of learning. That parents are recognising their responsibility in the educa- tion of their children, and the need of moeeting this responsidility intel- ligently is & most significant and encoursging fact. Today parents like teachers are preparing them. selves for this important task. To- day the thinking, intelligent parent wishes to send his child to achool physically, mentally, and socially equipped to meet successfully the new environments and conditions in which he finds himsell. Parents have learned that their obligations to the educstion of their chiulren does net ceass when they have provided funds for 00d school bdulldings and equipment and trained teachers. They know that good homes and well-trained parents must share in their respon- sibility of educating the citizens of tomeo w. ';h:"mmm Congress of Pat- ents and Teachers, an organization of 1,275,000 men and women, par- ents and teschers, has a definite program Which aims to prepare parents for their responsibility as educators. The National Education associatidon i tremendously inter- ested in this pregram of parenthood education and 18 lending its best, efforts to its accomplishment. It realizes the fundamental {mportance of home and school cooperation ll\ji of interesting all parents every- where in the great problem of edu- cation. Blondes Are In Fashion Hairdressers Say the Light Headed Ones Popular. Oct. 26 M = Dressmakers ll:l'l‘l.fl responsibility for the fash- ion for blond hair that is sweeping Parts, Dut eolffeurs attribute the aet that their customers &re “§0- ing bl " to the delicate colors for avening dictated by winter fash- ”“A‘ph blonds and medmem auburns vogue of this wintér. ".I(:nne'qlmu with pale blond hair are in growing demand at dress houses to display evening frocks of delicate shades ct pink, blue, jade green and straw color. ‘White and black alse are effective on the blond mannequing and nearly ev- ery house i taking on light haired girls and weeding out the brunets. An American, shopping ata houss with a notable collection of blond mannequins, remarked audi- bly: “You might as well be dead it you're not blond.” Another development of hair tyles 18 curlp. They are worn by blonds end brunets alike, but the golden haired girls seem more ad- dicted 16 nests of eurls at the dack of the neck than their darker sis- ters. At one famous hairdressing shop artists of the comb and dye brush report general use of heana and bleadhing preparations to tone drown halp to ayburn shades. Au- burn hair is considered especially smart with the wine red costumes of the sbasen. Tiny braids whieh are worn in a Greek arrangement weund aroun. the head and coiled at the back of the neck for evening., are a halr fashiém several coiffeurs are pre- moting. ‘The draids, almost with. out exception, are pinned on. Par- is calls thess additiona by the old- fashioned name of *‘pl COVERLET REVIVAL Patch-work ¢overlets and afghans are i style again. The older and 4uathter the better. Those made by “grandmother” should be treasured. | FLAPPER FANNY 8AYS:' S s usetom. ©1520. av wea savicr. me A girl dosn’'t need experience to dcteet the engagément ring in a man’s voice. BY HORTENEE SAUNDERS New York, Oct. 3¢ — Mrs. J. Tossi Calveo, knows Parls, Berlin, New York, Rio de Janeire, and the fungle equally well, and she prefers —the jungie! 80 Mrs. Valvao, who is youns. dlonde, and delightfully feminine, is going back to the jungle, the oaly woman in & party of eight natural- ists, botanists, geographers and srcheologists. The eight compose the Brasilian-American scientific ex- pedition headed by Mrs. Calvao's husband. They are leaving for hitherto un. explored territory in central Brasil along the Aripuana river—some- where between the “River of Doubt,” discovered by Roosevelt, and the Tapajos. Honeymoon Converted Her Calvao, & nativa Bravilian, aad Mrs. Calvao, who is German, mest in New York city and were married here a few years ago. Mrs, Calvao never had seen & jungle or been away from the comforts of civiliza- tion until she went on her honey- moon trip to the Amazon country. “It has completely- ruined me for domesticity,” she said. “Houss- keeping, cooking, and fancy teas have no lure or me new. [ like to ride ,tramp in the woods, make friends with the animals—and I can shoot if I have to. “J actually have eonquered my fear of snakes and expect to have a pet snake again as soon as we get pettled in the jungle. Substitute for Watch Daog. “Down there,you have a pet snake instead of a watch dog. The right kind is harmless, very affec. tionate, and keeps away the poison- ous sort The expedition will map the Arf. puana river district with a view te opening up the country commer. clally. It is rich in oil. valuable ‘woods, metals, and precious stones, they say. Calvao also is interested in lo- cating an ancient city on the north- western slope of the Sierra del Norte mountains, about which In- tribes have told him. The city is belfeved to have been bullt cen. turies ago by the Phoniclans. 8o far, white men hate explored only about 200 miles of the Aripu- ana river valley. The Salvaos hope t6 cover 600 miles of it. They will travel by oxen, saddle mules and collapaidle boats. Mrs. Calvao will make notes and sketches, and also will assist Dr. Norman Taylor of the Brooklyn PBotanical Garden, who expects to bring back unusual flort. “Life really differs only in ex. ternals”” said Mrs. Calvao, con- eluding her story of the forthcom. ing trip. “Everywhere woman blossoms out for the man she loves. Two Kinds of Rouge “The American or European woman buys heér rouge in a shop; thé squaw in the Amazon country plucks a few seceds from a certain h and has & carmine tint as good she could get from a five-dollar Parts lipstick. ¢ “There are no swank florist shops in the jungle, but orchids are so plentiful you can have a fresh cor- sage ten times aday without ever asking your husband tor a dime, “There are no electric lights, but 4 queer little parasitic plant some- thing like a camelia has a phosphor- epcent quality and gives light endugh to read fine print on the darkest night “On the whole, the fungle is fa more interesting than civilization's Jungle.” MEDIUM HEELS Btrest shoes are favoring heels than summer #andals ahow. ed. The medium heel of Yair pro. portions, is & great and sensible favorite. 8kill in shoecraft makes this heel very smart now. lower GALYAR TOUCH A &velt black felt hat from Paris has little side flaps of galyak that step down in modernistic manner over the ears to form a long back line on thé neck. POCKET SCARF A grey tweed coat has a scarf collar with oar-shaped end that rounds the neck and hangs slight- Iy below the waist. Its oar-shap- ed end has a round pocket that buttons shut. GREEN-BLACK A black satin frock with circu. 1ar fullnéss has a swathed hip-line girdle in English green crépe and & yoke bodice yoke of the same that ties ih & large bow at its V. front. AGE REMAINS SECRET London, Oct. 24. —NMore than five million women in the British Isle will be saved the embarrassment of a possible fib when they register for thetr first vote. The form they will fill in merély requires them to “State whether aged 21 years or over—yes or no."” Fashion Plaque &mall pin points make & new open work chiffon stocking Yrom Paris. Member of An Expedition Into Wilds of Brazilian Forests. : T 4RSS i § b, Mrs. Calvao and Her Husband Are Going Back to the Jungle . Foreign Legion Used By Woman She Found Safety Within Its Camp. Witton, England, Oct. 26 (P—An Englith society hostess has béen told that she was the first woman to spend a night in the desert under the flag of ths French Foreign Je- gion. Ehe 18 Lady Chaytor, wife of Sir Edmund Chaytor of Witton Castle, county Durham. The adventure occurred during a hazardous fourney she made by motorcar across the BSyrian desert to Aleppo. Her only companions were two Arabs, who knew oply & few English words. i For five days the party ploughed 1t way across the desert. During the first stage of the journey to Aleppd & cold wind was blowing and it eommenced to rain in tor- rents. “The whole detert became 2 sea of mud, tnto Wwhich our éar sank deeper and deéeper, until we were buried up to the axles,” said Lady Chaytor. & “Night had fallen by the time we arrived at the encampment of the Foreign Legion. I crept out of the car, wet through, and made my way inté a wooden hit in' the mid- dle of which stood a stove with a brightly burning fire. Soldiers of the legion were seated round drink- ing and listening to the straing of an anciet gramophone. “Everybody was most hospita- ble, and 1 was given & room in which to sleep. Though it con- tained only a straw bed and & straw pillow. I gpent a most com- fortable night. “I sald godd-bye to the com- mandant and to the Dania} officer, who as he shook hands remarked: ‘You are the first woman to be en- tertained by the Féreign Legion.' " . ICE BALLS New metal dalls are on the mar- ket which can be made icy cold and used instead of ice in bever- ages. NEA Dallas Bureau. Ellen Lanham of Dallas, Tex., was €hosen All-College Queen from among representafives of 14 colleges And universities from all over the country, at the annual All-College Bell during the Texas State Fair at Dallas. Miss Lanham was princess from the Ogontz School For Girls in Philadelphia. She s aleo a former student of the University ot Tezas.