New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 31, 1928, Page 4

Love’s Awakening By Adele Katle Comfomes to Madge that She Played Detective t0 Learu Mary's Katle was confessing only what 1 had strongly suspected when she ad- | mitted that she had told me a false- | hood, Upon the day of her request | for an early luncheon, she had not gone to the funeral invented when her suitcase fell open, displaying he fantastie mourning gard. But I let no hint of that suspicion appear in | the interested face I turned toward her, “I make oop my mlnd to tufl\ Mary,” she went on, “ves I hear her telephone dot Meester Jackson | to take her Easthampton match em- broidery silk. 8he no embrolder tings—her needle roosting in tree. four pieces already vunce.” She spoke only the truth. I knew that Dicky's young niece had not touched a piece of embroidery for | months, “Sumtings go tinkle inside me,” | Katie grew eloquent, “und I say, ‘Katle, now your time find out some- tings." So I ask you haf looncheon carly and T fix my disguise in suit- case all ready.” I had hard work to keep from laughing despite my suspense as I remembered the fantastic mourning “disguise” which had tumbled out of Katie's suitcass upon that memor- able afternoon. But I had no tims for mirth, inward or outward. My | little maid’s words were fairly tum- | bling out, so absorbed was she in her story. | | | She Dons Disguise “I no believe Mary going by East- hampton,” she said, “any more dan I go by Quogue, as I tell you. But | I tink pretty sure maybe I find her at Southampton, vere dot ‘Janet Rawdon’ lives. S0 T go dere straight from farm. I stop in woods on vay und put dot mourning dress on ofer my oder tings, und pnt on my hat| und veil. Southampton, Mar: “Pretty soon I see dem drive oop Den I go valking around vatching for dot und I get close as 1 dare. I gee dey | near post office, s0o I go in dere, pretend to be making oudt money order blank. Den Mary she coom in, | mit letters in her hand, und she drfip dem in letter slot, den she fltu\d #till, und she look at me und she look all around post office, und she look outside, und she see dot Meester Jackson standing by window, looking in and laughing at her. I think he laughing at me, I look so qveer. “Den dat Mary, she shroog he. shoulders, so,"—Katie gave a real- istic imitation of Mary's gesture— “‘und she go oudt of post office, und she climb in dot Meester Jacksen's car, und she say, ‘Let's go, George, und dey drive avay und I coom home, for I know she not coom back because dot Meester Jackson he looking in dot vindow. Her Plans Upset “You know vot I tink dot day?” Katie invested her question with much dramatic intensity. “I tink Mary she expect see dot Janet Raw- don in post office und snatch a vord mit her, eef dot Meester Jackson stay in car. But ven he look in vindow she no dare stay. I leok around, try ses voman look like shc call herselt Janet Rawdon, but I see nobody. “I coom home, und I try tell you somethings, but you terrible high hat, und I feel bad und my goat he get untied, und I shut my mouth tight und I say nodings. I sorry now I act so by you. Missis Gra- My little maid’s tone was properly remorseful, but I did not believe very strongly in her contrition. 8he ‘was enjoying herself too hugely for sorrow. But I gave her prompt ab- solution. “That is all right, Katie,” I sald. “I haven't thought about it. Go on with your story. I am sure you have something more to tell me.” “You bet your boots, I got some- tings more,” she exulted. “Vot you tink ven I tell you I saw dot ‘Janet Rawdon’ today?" My composure was not proof against this last revelation of Katie's 1 repeated her words excitedly. “You say you saw this ‘Janet Raw- don’? Did she know who you were? 1s she on her guard, or can you find her again?” My little maid ‘smiled, & lofty. sccretive smile which I would have found ludicrous as well as vastly ir- ritating it I had not felt under such obligations to her for solving the mystery of “Janet Rawdon,” the woman who we were sure was black- mailing Mary. “Yah, T saw her but she not know me. Und she tink nodings. T can find her venefer 1 vant. I know vere she 1if, everyting about her. T shoost tcll you how eect v Katie vent on. “I vatch dot Mary all times, but ve all so busy she no haf time go by Southampton again until today ven Brixtons dey g0 avay. So ven you say loonch early, after I hear Mary say she go driving mit Aot Meester Jackson, 1 tink Southampton again. I tell y by memorial, but dot fake same funeral. I go by voods, ¢ me mine clothes again, und 1 go by Southampton post office, und I go in und T get me stamps und envel- opes and money order blanks and ef- eryting, und T stay by desk and pre- tend write mooch tings. Strange Actions “Pretty soon dot Meester coom in he und Ma heem. T vateh close from insi ven Meester Jackson get to coom help her down—you know he %o polite—T see her reac board in front, vatching all time. und pull at sometis she get oudt ven &he kson ar mit ondt ear oonder clos Den un mnd get in ear fool, dot she no coom in post office at all. But no run goof. =0 dey talk und she get ondt und go in storr und Meester 1y 1 kuow he go by marage fo grt feexed and he haf to go aroun] corner from street post offic on. He shoost oudt sight ven coom in post office. She go qreec to post office boxes mit locks, und #he take key und open lock. und pull oudt letter, und shut box again.” und go in store, coom ondt I tink 11 again, car finally again drive car Jackson he v { more muunsu-y SWchl Garrisen I could only stare at her in aston- ishment. Yet, after all, Mary's rent- ing & post office box in Southamp- tnn was logical. 8he would be afraid of having any letters from “Janet Rawdon” come to the farmhouse. “I bend me close over my money orders,” Katle went on, her voice rising with excitement, “und Mary he coom by desk near me, und she open letter und she take out som | ting. I no dare look oop shoost dem | to see vat. But I look me out of cor- | ner of my eyes and I see her croosh fear, cause she tink she safe in strange post office. Nobody around but old crazy womans in mourning. Mary Is Nervous “Den she open pocket book und | look und she say under her breat’, 'Damn! I put in blanks instead of envelope all oop in hands und drop eet in vaste basket. You see she no vun filled oudt.” “Und den she take someting and put in on desk und take pen und start to write. But she nervous, und she blot eet, und she croomple eet und trow in vaste basket und take anoder ting und write on dot. I no see mooch, but I see awful foony ting. She write dose tings mit her left hand.” T had no breath left for axclama- tions, even if I had wanted to make them. But Katie rushed on dramat cally. “Den she hurry oudt of post office, und I not know vot to do, I vant follow her, see vere she but dan dot I vant see vat she {drop in vaste basket. You tink dot | right 7" She pasued slyly for the approval she patently expected. I gave it promptly. “Of course, Katie, that was the thing you should have done. But how ever did yon manage to get these things out of the waste basket without semeone in the post office noticing you?" (Continued Tomorrow) Cnmngm 1928, Newspaper Feature Service, Ine. Guiding Your 'R Chid @ THE CHILD'S SUNDAY BY MRS. AGNES LYNE Many mothers testify that Monday a bad day. The nursery school teacher records it as her experience that on Mondays the children are more difficult to handle than any other day. They are more likely to be cross, disobedient, fussy about their food, quarrelsome and generally to give evidence of being under tens ston. The reason for blue Monday fs that Sunday has usually been a day of special strain and excitement and of broken routine. On Sunday the men of the family are home. There is more conversa. tion and friction of personalities than on other days. The radio and phono- graph are played in the morning hours. Breakfast¥s later than usual. There is perhaps the rush of getting to church or Sunday school. Occa- sionally even a four year old is made to sit still through a whole chureh service. When he {s sent to a Sunday school class his experience is frequently un. wholesome. The atmosphere of re- straint, the matters discussed may be highly unsuitable and unduly im- pressive to the little child. The only proper sort of Sunday school is one conducted by a trained Kindergart- ner. The institution of the family Sun- day automobile ride is another harm- ful experience for a child less than five years old. The hours of sitting still and of watching the swittly passing scene are exhausting to him. His afternoon nap is interferred | with. If he does go to sleep for a few minutes, his slumbers, cramped | on the car seat, can hardly be of | the refreshing, relaxed variety his body needs. | The young child should be left at | home even if this means that some | grownup must sacrifice his after- | noon's diversion. He should be given Lis nap at the usual time, under the usual conditions, and should spend | the rest of the afternoon out uH' doors with his own familiar touw away from extra sociability. 1f there are guests for supper the | 5 child should have his meal alone. 0 | 4" that he may eat quietly before going | 4o’ 1o bed at an hour which may be it| 43’ anything a little earlicr than the usu- al one. Wi 1, CUFF BUTTO! A daytime frock of green and | striped esperic has its collar made | very femininely, with a tie and ends, | and then uses mannish cuffs with cuff buttons of silver, set in semi- | precious green ston, Fashlon Plaque ar expediti ot this costume 18 influence new 1 winter ~|vr;rl<‘ It is fashioned of Worum- bo blizzard cloth with a monk's hood bordered with fur. The trimming is of bands of woven fabric. 6. {1 12, 14. 15. |16. 44, 45, 4. | Sugar Cookies THE MOVING FINGER WRITES, AND HAVING WRIT, MOVES ON',NOR ALL YOUR PIETY NOR WIT SHALL LURE T BACK TO CANCEL HALF A LINE, NOR ALL YOUR TEARS WASH QUT A WORD 06 R R 'III%'II%IIII . / / %%/%%flll%//%% QRS aS Badultga HI===%/WIIIII For the last day of the old year e present a very light task to our puzzle fans. There are but four un- keyed letters. Happy New Year! HORIZONTAL Uproar. To journey. Fluid volcanic rock. Bird similar to an ostrich. To talk wildly. One in cards (pl.). Male. A hint in the mystery. saucy. ‘Wayside hotel. Flock, Born. Concocted. A hoisting apparatus. Flat. Trained attendant of the sick. Subsided. Long, narrow pieces of cloth. Mire. Box made of wooden slats. Exclamation of disgust. To piece out. £mall wax candle, To rent. Writing table. Diamond. Bailor's meal on hoard ship. VERTICAL To applaud. Decorative mesh, To assert. Spar on a vessel. To cause to remember. Bubway. Mischievous. Glade. Always. Dissolute. Tongz. heavy hair on a horse's ne Censured. A reprimand. Avoids, Moist. To choose by hallot. To bury. Hairy coat of an animal. A thing of little importance. Discerns. Changes a jewel sefting. To pull alorz hy main ferce. Stalk To imitate, solution of & Menus for the Family BY LOUISE BEANETT WEAVER Menus for a Day BREAK ST Grapefriit Racon and Eegs Mutfins Coffce 1.1 HEON Soup Crackers Dill Pickles Fruit Gelatin Beran [AISK] EBEE NEB o]V INZZolo]LIEDF BUI “nmmflgalam// % DINNER Sliced Roast Pork Hashed Browned Sweet Potatoes Creamed Celery Cranberry Sauce Russian Dressing Cookies Bread Head Lettuce | Fruit Cookies Oatmeal Covkies, Four Dozen cup fat cups dark brown sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon cloves 1-2 teaspoen nutmeg 1-2 teaspoon salt 1-3 cup sour milk 1 cup chopped dates 1 cup chopped nuts 1 1-2 cups oatmeal flakes 2 1-2 cups flour 1 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon baking powder Cream the fat and sugar thorough- ly. Add the eggs, vanilla, spices, salt (and milk and beat for three minutes. Add the rest of the imgredients & break off small pieces of the dough and flatten down, three inches apart 1 moderate oven for 12 minutes. To give a better flavor to oatmeal | used in cookies, sprinkle it over a {ahallow pan and brown in & moder- ate oven. To insure the oatmeal be- ing mixed. the milk may be placed on the oatmeal and allowed fo stand for five minutes hefore heing added to the rest of the ingredients Cocoanut Divinity cups sugar S i ey fyrup cup water teagpoon salt 2 egg whites, stiffly beaten 1 cup cocoannt 1 teaspoon vanilla Mix the sugar, corn syrup, water and salt. Blend theroughly. ook over a moderate fire without stirring, until a small amount of syrup when poured in cold water “clicks” and forms & very hard hall. Pour into |the egg whites and beat until thick. | €014 and creamy. Add the rest of the | ingredicnts and pour on to a but- 1- -4 OF IT tered plate. When “set,” cut in bars | or squares. Divinity candies require much | | beating, stirring and mixing, so do | not become discouraged if the candy does not stiffen quickly. Fruit Paste 1 cup chopped dates 1 cup chopped raisins 1 cup chopped figs 1 cup chopped nuts 1-4 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla 3 tablespoons cream 1-2 cup powdered sugar Mix the fruits, nuts, salt, vanilla and cream. Form into a square shape. Sprinkle with the powdered sugar and roll up in waxed paper. Chill When ready to use, cut m thin YOUR HEALTH BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hy- , the Health Magazine It has been emphasized in a pre- vious article in this scries that there is no one best climate for tubercu- |losis, and that many factors enter in- to the choice of the place to which the patient with this disease 18 to be sent, it he is to leave home at all Certainly he should not travel into a new community without suf- ficlent funds to take care of him !for at least a year, to provide him with good food and lodging, and to !makc sure that he will have compe: |tent medical attention. Mecntal Attitude The satisfaction of the patient's mind is of the utmost importance. A mother will not get well if she is constantly worried about the con- dition of the children that she has left at home, A business man will not recover as well in a strange climate as at home if he is constantly worricd | _about his business. It is for this | |reason that man institutions have |grown up moar all of the large | cities in our country. The routine of treatment in such |instances is of greater advantage |than any possible advantages to be | derived from climate. The biggest advantage of an institution is the fact that the patient can be educated |in the proper routine of life lcading to recovery. The second reason for treating a patient in an institution rather than at home is the advantage of a change. As pointed out by Dr. James | danger. He saw him start up the Long Lane. see | {ed—to By Thornton W. Burgess The best of plans will sometim fail And prove to be of no avail. —Reddy Fox. Reddy ought to know. He has seen his plans bring naught but failure time and time again. But just the same he goes on making plans and he is right in this, too. Most good things in this life are obtained only thrqugh careful planning. Reddy Fox had very carefully worked out a plan to catch Peter Rabbit. He couldn’t see anything wrong anywhere with that plan. To begin with, he had tormented Pe- ter by telling him of good things to be found up in Farmer Brown's dooryard. He knew Peter so well that he knew Peter never, never could resist the temptation to go up and get some cf those goodies at the first opportunity. When Red- dy had left Peter he had gone in quite the opposite direction from Farmer Brown's dooryard. But now he was hiding behind . Farmer Brown's henhoure, where he could look down across the Green Mea- dows, toward the dear Old Briar- patch. It was a beautiful winter night. Everything was white with snow. Lovely soft silvery light. As a mat- ter of fact, it was almost as light as midday. Reddy had patiently waited a long time behind that hen- house. But at last he was rewarded. He saw a little black speck out on the snow of Green Meadows. Tt seemed to bob up and down. Reddy chuckled. “Here he qomes!” said he to him- self. “That is Peter Rabbit or I'm no Fox. He's coming up to Farm- er Brown's dooryard. 1 do hope Mrs. cabbage leaves. It Peter once finds some cabbage leaves he'll becomce so busy filling that big stomach of his that he will forget everything else. Tt will be no trouble at all to steal up and catch him. Even {f there are no cabbage leaves, it ought to be an easy matter to catch him. He’ll poke around the barn and he’s almost sure to come over| here by the henhouse.” Meanwhile Peter was bobbing along across the snow-covered Green Meadows lipperty-lipperty- lip. He was in a hurry to get up to Farmer Brown's dooryard. Yes, sir, he was in a very great hurry. He knew that onece he got up there he could find places to at least hide behind if there should be any Reddy Fox watched him, Then for a while he couldn't him. So Reddy watched the upper |end of the Long Lane where it en- ll‘rr‘d Farmer Brown's dooryard. Presently Peter appeared. The mouth of Reddy Fox began to w ter. He was tempte sorely tempt- rush out right then. He was sure that he could catch Peter before Peter could find a place of safety. But to make doubly sure | he waited. Peter came into Farmer Brown's dooryard and hopped over toward the house. ing this way and looking that way —not for danger, but for leaves. There were none out. Reddy Fox hegan to steal around the henhouse, it in the Black Shadows. tongue was actually hanging out of his mouth with eagerness. Peter Rabbit s as good as caught,” mut- tered he to himgelf. “This time there will be no escape for Peter. He has laughed at me for the last time."” Just at that very | nt uddenly bounded sidewise and as quickly bounded in another direc- tion. Reddy stopped short. | Alexander Miller in his complete consideration of the subject in the | | American Iteview of Tuberculosis, healthy people. when tired, enee a tremendous improvement in their general physical and mental tone by a comple vironment. experi. | change of en- | | | | | This is all the more {rue of those | lapartments or hetter merely camp near the country. Oxyzen and Rest The advantages of open-air life and open-air slecping are now rec- ognized by common experience. These increase the general tone of | the body. quiet the nervous system | | and favor relaxation and leep. Dr. Miller made a complete sur- ¥ of varions resorts for the care of the tuberculous in this country, as a result of which e has drawn up certain definite conclusions rela- tive 1o the importance of climate in this dise These conclusions are tenement houses do by transfr to a day seashore or in the <o significant that they will be given | in full in a suhsequent article. General for the TOMORROW follow in caring ‘mflar rules to tuber- \ READ mALIJ (‘LA SIHED ADS on greased baking shects. Bake in @ with tuberculosis. People who live in | | | evening wra | sleevs are | of cach. Junoesque or very tall woman. downs at Lenief's, . a rich blue lame, Brown threw out some more | | shoulders and back of | standing on was what looked like a Black Shadow following every move that Peter made. Peter dodged agatm. Then, running as only Peter can run when he is badly frightened, he made etraight for Farmer Brown's barn. That shadow was right &t his heels, only it was in the air. Reddy Fox ground his teeth with rage. He knew that Black Shadow could be none other than Hooty the Owl. Then he grinned again. He remembered that Farmer Brown’s barn was closed, If Peter kept on he would come straight to where Reddy was crouching. The barn shut Reddy’s view off, but he ‘was untroubled. He expected Peter to bob into sight any . minute and when he did he would be near enough to catch in a few bounds. But Peter didn't appear. Some- thing had gone wrong. Could it be that Hooty had caught him? “Here he comes!" said he to himself Two Disappointed Hunters By Thomton W. Burgess Somse folks cannot stand a loss, Disappointment makes them cross. —Peter Rabbit Reddy Fox was waiting, tense and cager, to sce Peter Rabbit come bobbing around the corner of Farmer Brown's barn in the moon- light. He was all ready to spring in- stantly. But Peter didn't come. Reddy waited only & moment or two. Could it be that Hooty the Owl had caught Peter after all? Hur- riedly, Reddy turned the corner of the barn. There, perched on the top of the little house of Bowser the Hound, was a big bird. It was Hooty the Owl, But nowhere could Reddy see any sign of Peter Rab- bit. It couldn’t be that Hooty had | swallowed Peter whole, Perhaps h¢ | had caught Peter and had dropped him on the other side of the little house of Bowser the Hound. With all the hair along the the neck end, Reddy stalked stiffly forward until he was very near the little house of Bowser the Hound. He glared angrily up at Hooty the Owl. “Well,” demanded Reddy, “did you get him?” “What business is it of whether or not I got him?" yours hissed | Hooty the Owl. He was look- | cabbage | keeping very close to | His | Peter | There x “It's just this much my business’ retorted Reddy Peter Rabhit to come up here. “That doesn’t have anything to do with it,” retorted Hooty the Owl. “Peter Rabbit belongs to the one wio catches him.” Reddy ¥ox grinned n, tantalizing kind of “Then he doesn’'t belong to you,” he declarcd. “If you had ecaughe him you wouldn’t be sitting around waiting here.” Of course, this was true, and Hooty knew it was of no use to pretend it wasn't. as before, “it's no busincss of yours. If I didn’t get him this time I'l | get him some other time.” Meanwhile Reddy was grin. looking PARIS. H takes a Iot of lady to wear the hig siceves of one of Lenief's new with bands of black fox on it. ponch affairs with a vard of fur banding around the bottom The collar is a wide shawl, making a big. which is decidedly shorter in the center front. RITA. “It was I who got | and it was a | “Well,” said he | The senerous warp for a ¥ven coat hems have their ups and especially on formal wraps like the onc sketched. 15; EE#E! a 8, - of caught. Reddy suddenly sat down and began to grin. - “All right, Hooty,” said he. °*1 agree to that. Peter Rabbit certain. ly will be yours when you catch him. But you haven't caught Jhim and neither have 1. We ought te work together. Yes, sir, that's what we ought to do. We ought to help each other, so that one or the other of us will be sure to get him. I don’t mind telling you that I was sure of having Peter tonight. I was lying in wait for him and in & mo. ment or two I would have had him, had you not come along. After he ran toward the barn I couldn't see what became of him. When he didn’t appear from around the cor- ner of the barn I thought you had caught him. What became of him?* Hooty fixed his great, round, fierce yelidw oyes on Reddy Fox. “I know what became of him,” said he, “but I don't know why I should tell you.” “There’s no reason why yow should tell me, Brother Hooty,” de. clared Reddy in his pleasantest way. “There i3 no reason at Iam just naturally curious, that is all. I 'won. der if he could have popped inte that. 1f you don’t believe me, look in there yourself." ‘Did he dodge around the other side of the barn?” asked Reddy. 0, said Hooty, “he didn't de that.” “Well, then what did he do?” de- manded Reddy. “Ho just Hooty. (Copyright, 1928, by T. W. Burgess) ry: ‘“Reddy Bolves disappeared,” sald “Well,” demandod Reddy, “did yow get him?” TIRED OF TEACHING, NOW A HIGH FLIER Altitude Means More Than Three R’s to Louise Yon Thaden Wichita, Kas., Dec. 81 (P—Mrs. Louise McPhetridge van Thaden of ! Oakland, Cal., who belleves she has sct a new airplane altitude record {for women, learned to fly because {she was bored with teaching school. After graduation from the Uni. of Arkansas, Louise Mc. | Phetridge found school teaching in | Bentonville, Ark., dull work. B8he came to Wichita and joined the sales | force of a fuel company, and in the hope of making up for the lack of |excitement she suffered in her earlier ,“ork. she took flying lessons in |leasure hours. Her instructor, | Walter Beech, president of an air plane manufacturing company, sent her to California as a sales repre- sentative of his factory. Herbert von Thaden, an Oakland aviator, was attracted by the 23 year old girl's courage and skill in flying. They were married last July. Mrs. von Thaden's mother, Mrs. R. 8. McPhetridge of Wichita, is certain her daughter has set a new record. Tears of joy came to the mother’s eyes when she read how Louise, with an oxygen tank strap- ped to her flying suit, soared to an altitude of nearly five miles, in an effort to establish a better women's record than the mark of 24,900 feet reached by Lady Heath of England. One of the altimeters on Mrs, Thaden’s plane registered 25,400 feet and another 23,100 feet. A calibration of the barograph, \hlvh indicated 22,100 feet through it sealed opening, will be necessary to determine whether a new record has been achieved. | | versity BACK FLARE Jenny uses the new idea of hav- ing the skirt of a black satin frock circular in back, with much flare, and the front tiered, with charming gracefulness. When wifie gets a f:r, hubby gete it in the neck.