New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1929, Page 8

Is Afoot, and Madge ts Worrted “We've been watching for you for hours,” Carolyn Brixton exclaimed explogively, stressing almost every other word in schoolgirl fashion. “I thought you never would come. 1 didn't dare go over to the achool— new girls aren’t expected until to- morrow, you know—but I thought maybe when you came, you'd let me get just a peek at things.” “Of course,” Marion said capably, “and—1 don’t know—maybe Mrs.| Barnes — just wait — I have a scheme, oh, hello! Ronald! You here, too?" She held out her hand to Caro- lyn's brother nonchalantly, and I mentally applauded the poise. That her eves had apied him on the hotel veranda before we stopped the car, I was quite sure, but there was no hint of such knowledge in her face or voice. She was growing up fast, our little Marion. Helena Brixton came down the steps with the slow languid grace always investing her, and greeted us warmly. “How pleasant it is to be here to- gether!" she said. *I'm sorry Sam and Charles can't be herc. But they want to explore the country round about here. Sam has some idea about developing & summer resort, | I believe, So they took the small| car and went away almost as soon | as we reached here. They won't back until tomorrow afternoon. you stay until then?" “I'm afraid not,” Lillian told her. | “You see Marion will be settled at| school tonight, so there won't be| any vital reason for our staying. It's too far to drive back again to- night, though. We'll start sometime | tomorrow forenoon. | “Then you won't see Sam,” Mrs. be 50 nice to have you that long, anyway." “Helena Brixton 1Is the sweetest soul allve,” Lillian taid the first | time we were by ourselves, “but sho | is also the most easily duped. She's really sincere in thinking that S: and T would regret not secing each other. T supposs he's told her that the old quarrel was all made up, and she hasn't the slightest idea that this summer r1esort develop- ment is colossal camouflage on 8am’s part.” “ wondered at her telling about it so openly and artleasly,” I com- mented. “There were other people within hearin “Of course,” Lillian returned, “if S8am Brixton were contemplating the buying of land for a summer resort, he wouldn't let a word of it Le breathed, and I'm very sure Helena would be the last person he would tell, for she has the indiscre- tion of a woman to whom all busi- ness is a cryptogram. No, he told her purposely, hoping that some of the natives would hear her spilling it to us. He's the canniest thing go- ing that way. He has some object in exploring this country, you may be sure, but it isn't a real estate de- velopment. However, T should fret! T was dreading having to meet him again. Now 1 can relaxetaoinshrdl again. Now 1 can settle down, re- lax, and really enjoy the next twen- ty-four hours.” The last pa-t of her anticipation may have heen realized, but there was neither settling down nor re- laxing for either of us during the remainder of the day. Lillian vetoed going over to the school until we had had luncheon, and Marlon, from whom she expected violent ob- jections, was surprisingly complais- ant when she .discovered that the Brixtons had waited luncheon hop- ing for our arrival. T had noticed Marion and Ronald talking earnest- ly together just before luncheon, and T was not surprised when after luncheon, Marion came into the room where Lillian and T were put- ting on our hats for our trip to the school, and spoke ] esitantly. may T ask you some- thing? T moved promptly toward door, but Marion threw out a pro- testing hand. “No, no, Auntie Mad said. “T want you to stay There was a distinet appeal in the glance she threw me, and T guessed that she was counting on my aid. (Continued Monday) Copyright, 1929, Newspaper Feature Service, Tnc. she The Urknown Neighbor By Thornton W, Burgess 01 Mother Nature doth arrange Some folks' affairs in wayq most strange. —Peter Rabbit For a long time Peter and Mrs. Feter Yat side by side, asleep. They were & little way down the hall of the old home which once had been the home of Johnny Chuck's grand- father, fn the middle of the déar 0ld Briar-patch. Outside a great | storm raged and howled. It was| still raging when Peter awoke. He | hopped up into the entrance to 100k | ou:. but he was soon glad to re-| tr@e. Little Mrs. Poter awoke. | “My,” said she, “the storm is get- | ting worse, isn’t 1t?" Peter agreed that it was. “Let's| %0 down into Old Mr. Chuck’s bed- room,” sald he. “We may as well make up our minds that we shall have to stay inside for some time, There is more room down there.” Little Mrs. Peter accepted this suggestion and followed Peter down to Old Mr. Chu#k’s hedroom—seo far down that Jack Frost never could pinch them there. It was a good, comfortable room. Peter was the first one in. It was dark down there. As is his way, he at once began to inspect that little room. Suddenly he put his foot, or rather his front feet, on something dome-shaped and hard and fairly smooth. He knew instantly it wasn't a ' stone. He| jumped back. for he was startled, and when he did this he bumped inio little Mrs. Peter. “What 1s the matter with you, Peter? Why don't you look where you're going?” she demanded a lit- tle hit crossly. | Excuse me, my dear! Please do excuse me! You sce, T was startled,” | said Peter. “T stepped on something | “What was it?" asked little Mrs. Pote “That fs just what T want to know,” replied Peter, cdging for- ward a little. Mrs. Peter joined him, and to- gether they examined the curious thing Teter had stepped on. “It's the shell of a turtle.” declared Pe- ter after a while '« the shell of | a Box Turtle. Tt is shut up tightly. Now T wonder how that came down in here. T wonder who could have left it here and what they did it for.” Timi4 little Mrs. Peter scratched her long ear with a long hind foot Then she seratched the other long A= with the Jong hind foot. “I've *t theught of something,” =said “T mean, I've just remembered | " demanded Pefer. | . S'owpoke the Box Tortoisc | = over here in the dear Ol T _ratch for soveral days late in | 0 fall* =aid she. “I saw him coting mushrooms one day. Do vou enpnose he could have come down in here and Afed? Tell me Peter, s thnt shell empty?” TBut this was something Peter couldn’t tell her. The bottom shell was clesely shut against the top shell at each end. There was no way of telling whether that shell was empty. At least, there was no way for Peter Rabbit to tell. But Peter was doing some thinking. He had remembered something. He had | remembered that the members | of the Turtle fin —1like the mem- | Lers of the Snake family and the frog family and the Lizard family — hiharnate. That is, they sleep winter. “My dear,” @id he, “do you know what T believe?™ “TWhat 40 von helieve?” asked | little Mrs. Peter. I 17 =3 | “It’s the shell of a turtle,” declared Peter after a while “I believe,” replied Peter, “that (his is Slowpoke himself, and that he is right jnside this funny little house of his, fast asleep, but just as much alive as you and I are. In- stead of digging a hole for himself, he saved himselt the trouble by coming down in here. T wish he would wake up, so that we could ask him. Well, we don't mind hav- ing him for a neighbor.” Peter was right. 1t was Slowpoke the Box Tortoise, and he had gone down in there to sleep for the win- ter. Tt wasn’t the first time he had made use of such a comforable un- derground house. Copyright, 1929, by T. W. Burgess The next story: “Reddy Fox Loses a Toe.” SUNSHINE SOCIETY NEEDS The Sunshine society has had a call for a folding screen or window ventilator The appeal was made by a mother of six children, one of whom has been left with a weak- | ened heart as the result of much ill- ness and is compelled to sit be- fore an open window every day, making the ven or a necessary requisite in keeping the child free |ag from catching cold. The family ha: no means of purchasing the screen. | 45 Anyone interested in the asked to of Berlin. Fashion Pia:;ue l The newest ers are worn tucked inte skirts. This one is of | cashmere in fan and brown in mod- ernistic desizn. A tweed scarf matches the warmish tweed skirt. case 18 | 43 communicate with Mrs. | ¢ Georg~ Corbin or Mrs. John Tinches | 45, 40, A glance at the Herald Classified 42 Ads will convince you. Ky Once Overs | | %I%i An unusual number of six-letter words feature this question puzzle. | None of the words are longer than the seven-letters in Nos. vertical, and 19 and 32 horizontal. e T and A 33 N o L “Marge, I could dance with you forever.” “No, no, Dearie, the dogs wouldn’t last.” i 7 | 7 7 /iy dnanaE AN/ AEEN T T 16 and 17 HORIZONTAL The manufacture of what type of goods forms the chief in- ustry in Rhode Island? What mineral product stands next to copper in industrial | importance in the state of Utah? A hodgepodge. To be ill. Infant. Nothing. | Employed. | Digit of the foot. Musical. What parrot in New Zealand Kills sheep whén hungry? To drink dog fashion. Metrical literature. ¥ormal drill of troops. Affirmative. Two fives. Transmitted by To stitch. Ruilding lots. Metal cover for a tube Melody Snake-like fish. Comfort The mannfacture of what goods forms the chief indus- v in South C‘arolina? inheritance. What manufaciured product forms the chief industry in the state of Washington? . VERTICAL | Was victorions, | Strong, disagreeable smell To Inbricate. Rehold Snike. Vehicle on runners What is the abhreviation Vm" “pound”? Tanner's vessel Plack. | Dark grain flour. What is the chief manufactur- ing industry in Alabama? Funeral vehicles. Inflates, Apnortioned Felt concern Emissary. T.owest note of a scale Cooking utensil Not ma - | container - Aemihranens bhag Hamor aversd part of a locomotive, P'reposition of place. Standard of type measure. |8 { esistored U. 8. Patent Oftios A 7 n/dEe A 1 | | BuUDE GEL Y08E ANNE - BRN BUER [T[R[V[cflio[a[e PARIAIR]E] [EEN EEE NEER UARElR/Ng (AW E N1 |P] [CIAJORMIUIRTATL REATVIE] ggg (AJDJOIR[E RN TIETN] Menus for the Family BY LOUISE BENNETT WEAVER Menu for Dinner Escalloped rice and cheese, but- tered beets, date biscyit, butter, head lettuce, French dressing, choc- (Leftover trom. ricc. pudding used) cups eooked rice, 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion: 2 table. spoons choppel celary, 3 table- spoons hutter, 4 tablespoons flour, 1 cup milk, 1 cup vice stock, (wa- ter in which rice was cooked), 1 aspoon salt, 1-4 teaspoon paprika, cup pimiento cheese, Melt the butter and add the flour. Rland and add the itk and rice stock. salt and paprika. Mix thoroughly, cook slowly and stir trequently, untii a creamy sauce formes. Add the cheese and stir until it has melted. Add the rest of the ingredionts and pour into a <hallow. well buttered haking dish. Cover with the erumbs Crumbh Mixture 2.3 cup rolled dried bread | cracker crumhs, 2 tablcspoo ter, melted Mix the ingredients and sprinkle aver the top of the rice mixture. Bake in a mode-ate oven for 20 minutes, 8erve in the dish in which haked. Date Biscuit 2 cups flour, 4 teaspoons haking powder., 1-2 feaspoon sak, 3 fable- werve hot. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HEflLD. SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1929, Batchelor| | Date 1ee Box Cookies, Seven Dosen | | (These may be kept for weeks in | the ice box) 1 1-2 cups fat (lard and butter [ mixed), 2 cups dark brows sugar, 3 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 1 {caspoon nutmeg. 1 teaspoon sclt, 1 1 oon vanilla, 1-4 cup sour milk, 1 1-2 cups chopped dates, ¢ 1-2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon soda. Cream the fat and sugar. Add the eggs, spices, salt, vanilla and sour milk and beat for 2 minutes. Add the rest of the ingredients and .press into 2 rolls, 1 1-2 inches in diame- ter. Roll in waxed paper and store in the ice box over night. Use a-thin knife and cut off thin slices and bake 2 inches apart on well greased baking shects. Just a few cookies at a time need be baked and the rest of the dough stored in the ice hox until future use. Avold tin cooking utensils for outdoor or camp cooking as they rust easily. Aluminum or iron are suitable. YOUR HEALTH BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the Amcrican Medical Association and of Hy- gein, the Health Magazine Primitive man in tropical coun- trics uses clothes primarily for dis- vl He is not concerned with keeping himself warm. He does not have to protect himself against the clements, and he soon becomes ac- customed to the bites of insects. People differ in their ability to stand exposure. The swimmers of the Tnglish Channel spend 24 hours in the cold sea protected only by a wool bathing suit and & coat of grease, but they are con- tinuously moving. A man who works at a desk fin New York or Chicago may wear a thick woolen shirt, a woolen- lined waistcoat, a tweed suit and Q.—What is tic? A.—Tic is a habit spasm in- volving the making of certain | movements at intervals. woolen-lined motor coat. Riding home in his motor car he covers kimself with a robe and com- plains of the cold. Degrees of Exposure Woman's dress has changed greatly in recent years and has given much concern to the physioiogists, Prof. Leonard Hill, |the noted T.ondon physiologist, points out that a civilized man, when naked and quiet, finds ex- posure to still air at 95 to 98 de- | grees F. not unbearably warm, 76 | to 86 pleasant, 60 cold, and 40 to 50 very cold. For sedentary occupations he wants the atmosphere under his clothes to he 95, and only ahout 20 per cent of the hody's surface is exposed to the air. On the other hand, people used to heing out- doors can stand much colder tem- | peratures. Children are sometimes dressed in thin garments with bare knees; {in foreign districts not infre- quently they wear as many as 14 different garments, some of these sewed on for the winter. Many Overclothed | Tn the majority of cases chil- dren are being overclothed, and | ar a result do not develop any re- | sistance to exposure. Insufficient clothing for the child, however, may lead to overexposure Wwith numerous illnesses during in- YOUNG b Cleverly costumed for winter play are (left to right): Mitsie Mitchell, Julis Monigomery, Edith Roed dnd John Kermochan \ BY BETSY SCHUYLER Tuxedo Park, N. ¥, Jan. 13 — Winter was so very long getting back this year that, like the prodi- g2l son, it has heen welconted with open arms. In New York, the young of the species known as Boclal Regis- are more or less neither seen nor heard, since their sched ules somewhat parallel Mother's and Father's. Here for holidays and week- ends the whole family turns out en masse for ice sports and it's a moot question whether adults or youngsters have the best time. Skating reigns supreme, since snow to date is & missing quantity. Tiny tots are pulled about on sleds by skating mothers and fathers. Fashionadle Youngsters! TYoungsters are no less smartly garbed than their elders, with style galore as well as warmth and comfort in their togs. Little Alice Murray looked like a little red-bird in her long leggings and beret of flaming worsted that che wore when her mother, Mrs. Fran- ces Wisner Murray, Jr., pulled her on a sled. T Berets are the most popular headgear, with stocking caps in gaudy tones on many & young masculine head. The youngest wear legging outfits of either leather or knitted worsted and prefer bright greens, red or blue. Madeline Butt, skating with her brother, Tawrence, wore a lovely suede heret with modernistic fig- ures worked out in bright tones. Little Bruce Fellowes Gorden looked like a cute butterball in a suit of slipover aweater, leggings, sock cap, mittens and sash of dull blue. A very cuite little eouple doing fancy tricks on skates were Bar- bara and Frances Blagden, dress- ed in smart togs — circular Scotch plaid short skirts over bare knees, with pullover sweaters of bright green, green worsted socks and bercts of gold color. Ensembles for boys' accessories are quite the thing. John Ker- nochan had a warm-looking set of sweater, sock cap, gauntiets and socks of tan, red and brown fig- ured wool. Incidentally, when he gets to playing hockey he goes She Named the “Question Mark” A gy like such a streak that his figured togs look solid color! A short circular skirt over knickers was chosen by Julia Montgomery's mamma for ‘Julia to skate in. They. were topped & & suede windbreaker and match- ing felt hat of a green that was lovely with her fair curls. She’s Blue Girl A little leather suit of high- collared jacket and long leggings in a smart bright blue dressed up little Mitsie Mitchell, trickily. Such a sweet looking miss doesn't have to know how to skate to cut a cute figure on ice. 8he wore & beret and mittens of tan. One little white bird stood out among the rest, when Mrs, Charles A. Reed skated with her little daughter, Edith, Edith was the most feminine lookihg miss In Tuxedo, with & sweet Jittle déu- ble-breasted coat, long leggings and little cap of white elderdown, The little cap tled with a little bow under her chin, in & most stylish way. Incidentally, her mother wore a white pullover sweater and white kerchiet band- ed in color. Guiding Your R Chid @ The law does not allow an effead- er to be punished more than eace for the same crime, . yot children are frequently punished agaia and again for & single misdesd. Janet at the age of six took & quarter from her mother's purse and bought candy. Both the buying of candy and the taking of money had been strictly forbidden. The candy made her sick. She was whipped and put to bed, and for six whole weeks was allowed candy whatsoever. Her offense was mentioned again and again whenever she @id some little thing which @ispleased her mother, It was evident that she was regarded as & potential thief. The child’s first concern ever her transgression soon turned to resent- ment. She became gullen, morose, and {ll tempered. Most mothers would have been willing to accept Janet's iliness as sutficient punishment. Some of us NEA Washington Bureau “Call it the ‘Question Mark’” sug- Mrs. Ira 8. Eaker, pictured above—and thus the army's record- ita name. of the Question Mark's | command. Captain Eaker, and she in epoons fat. 1-2 cup chopped dates, | fancy 2-3 cup mill Perhaps the question will never Mix the flour, Vaking powder and | be settled until human beings " Cut in the fat h a knife. | have standardized eclothing as they AA4 the Aates and <lowly add the |now stzndardize most other af- milk, miving with ife. When fairs in human Jife, a soft dongh forms ce 1t upon | TLEER flonred hread hoard or paper and | AWL VOGUF pat out wntil it is 1.2 fneh thick. | Diaphanons lace, chiffon. sequin- Gt ant with a biceait cutter and ned and embroidered net shawls are ! place the W te he gide on v iish for evening wear for con- | wrensed haking shoct. Rake in servatives who reject the cocktail nderate oven for 15 minutes. facket and vet like some appropriate (scarf novelly, ington, where she followed the new of the historic flight. The red that is called “wine dre [time than the brighter shades. Saw | breaking endurance plane came into | Maine Lecomte's. It iy made on tailored lines with a flare in the oentee | ent plans of dressmakers, satin, stll are going strong. fnay think that the child deserved to be whipped as well, but no o can doubt that the added penalti ware unfair and actually harmful. To know thut a grudge was held against her was fe foster & sense of injury, to feel that the black marke on her name were Jneradicable wi to discourage further efforts to. ward good behaviop and to unders mine her self respect. ‘When the child is punished phy- sically or otherwise there should be no aftermath of disapproval, ner any withholding of parental love, The punishment should be immedie ate, short and effective; that is suf- ficiently unpleasant to act as a bar- rier to the repetition of the act. It should wipe out all scores. The lite tle child should feel that each da each hour, represents: a fresh chance for achievement and &p- proval. MEXICAN Mexico City, —TFernande Gonzalezs Roa, Mexk delegate 1o the Pan-American arbitration ‘con- ference at Washingtont, has becn, appeinted the Mexican reprosent: tive on the Bolivian-Farsguayan conciliation committee, INTE. - ey Bodant M & he gets heme too late. PARIS. The christener is the wife | front of the skirt. The material ia crepe morocain which probably will second in | be popular for many months to come mince it iends itsclf easily to pres- Other materials much in evidence are w |shown here at their home in Wash- | Keorgette crepe, silk faille and foulards. Classic crepe satin, and RITA. " in France is worn more for days pretty deep red coat dress at Gere