New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 28, 1929, Page 8

Love’s Awakening fln!anfluy WW—.- By Adele Garrisen Dicky, Gibed by Harey About the Jowelry Yara, Be- comes & Bit Flustered Y a4 pot expect Dicky's plausible explanation of the maga- ine story which was the reason for the cunningly simulated jewels he had given first to Edith Fairfax at the studio, and then to the rest of us at the farmhouse. For an instant 1 had no words to answer his query as to the “niftiness” of the ornaments lying in my lap. Then, almost without my volition, T heard my volce saying banally, “Yes, in- ed, they are exquisite.” The next instant Harry Underwood's drawl providentially rescued me from the necessity of further reply. “It isn't a bad yarn, lad,” he sald judicially. “I've heard less convinc- ing ones in my time. We'll consider that you've put it over this once, and won't call in the police to in- vestigate. But take the advice of an old-timer, and don't pull stunt oftener than once in ten years or 80." Dicky laughed and T fancled ‘hat there was uneasiness in his mirth. it T were not mistaken, Harry Un- derwood’s lazy hadinage concealed a caution not to tax my credulity too far. “I'm not apt to,” he said a bit ruefully. “These things, even at cost, aren't exactly ‘five and cent’ you know.” , T suppose not.” Mr. Under- wood said fn a severely appraising tone th-t hrought laughter from all of v it remained for Lillian to st effectually the in- tlai v of Dicky's com- o the success of his ex- “Why in the world dldn't you walt for Christmas or birthdays for these things, Dicky ly gorgeous gifts But I'll be mag- nanimous. T hereby release you from anything further on those days. This is my birthday gift, and thank you very kindly.” Dicky is rarely nonplused, but at Lilllan's apparently innocent query, his face for a moment was a study in embarrassment. *“That's what I"— he stammered. then finished composedly—"thought of at first, but they were so darned | attractive 1 couldn't' wait."” *You mean Edith couldn't.,” T said Eitterly to myself, but I was care- ful to let no hint of my feeling show In my face, and forced myselt to hold up my gifts and look at direct -uflunuvhumnnhlocbh the same | ird?” she ask- | ed. “They would have made perfect- | them with the admiration the other women were bestowing upon theirs. For I had no beliet in his in. genious story. He simply had made the best of a very embarrassing situation with a quickness of thought that did credit to his re- sourcefulness if ot to his financial judgment. If we had not come into the office at that particular mo- ment. I never would have known that he had given Edith the beauti- ful baubles, and there would have been no reason for this “wholesale junk shop” exhibit. I repeated Harry Underwood's mocking words to myself with morbid zest, even llhouxh I knew that fhe gifts had | not the remotest connection with the term Mr. Underwood had gib- ingly used. They were rarely beau- tiful and more valuable than many imitation gems because of their ex- | quisite settings. Dicky did not give Lillian or any- one else a chance to comment upon his lame answer to her query com- cerning gifts. No sooner had he uttered the last word than he turn- ed to Junior. “Come, son,” he said, “don’t let these here wimmen cheat us out ot Once Overs our nightly vaudeville with their gibble-gabble. I'm Crayo, the Coy- ote, this evening, and it's my night to howl. By the beard of the Pro- phet, you're growing, lad. I won't be able to do this much longer. Youw'll be carrying me.” He swept the delighted youngster to his shoulder and carried him off in triumph. We heard Junior's ex- cited voice travel up the stairs and die away in the upper corridor. I felt my throat constrict as I heard it, and unconsciously my eyes were fixed wistfully upon the door through which the two had gone. How many times had I walkel through it with Dicky, Junior lean- ing down from his father's shoulder to clasp my hand tightly. Ot | course it was not always possible for me to go Wwith them, so that Junior did not demand my pres- cnce as he should have done had it been my invariable custom to ac- (‘(lmpnny them. But T had been a member of that little procession often enough to choke me with ten- | der memories, and subconsciously to | soften my judgment of my hueband. | Surely so wonderful a father could | not be so indifferent a husbard as lthp episode of the imitation jewels | bad indicated. (Continued Tomorrow) Copyright, 1929, Newspaper Feature Service, Inc. By Thornton W. Burgess The wisest sometimes make mh- takes; | The shrewdest are deceived by fakes. —B8pooky the Screech Owl Spooky the Bcreech Owl had been having a very good living in Farm- er Brown'’s barn. Mice and Rats had been very plentiful there and fpooky had grown fat on them. He could always go outside when he| felt like it, and he did go outside He | for a change cnce in a while. went out by the way he had come in—through one of the little door- ‘ways that had been made for pig- cons when Farmer Brown's Boy kept them in the barn. But if it had been fine for Spooky, it had been a terrible time for Nibbler the Mouse and his relatives, and for the young Rats. 8pooky, like his big cousin, Hooty the Great Horned Owl, depends on his ears and his eyes. He can hear the faintest of sounds. big eyes of his he can see the small- est of movements. So when he hears a faint squeak, or the rustle of lcaves or grass, he instantly looks in that direction and the instant he sces the least movement of anything over there, he is ready to swoop. He does not always wait to see just what it is. He has learned that it is mometimes wisest to strike first and look afterward, especlally when trying to catch mice. For several days the hunting in Y¥armer Brown's barn had not been so good. Spooky had been out- side hunting for two or three nights, On this particular night, had been out all night. In fact, he returned te the barn just at day- light. Having been out all night, he was eleepy, and by the time FFarmer Brown’s Boy came out to do his morning chores, Spooky was fast asleep on one of the rafters high up In the roof. Spooky slept until the middle of the afternoon. When he it was almost dark there inside the Parn. The light was dim, just the Kind of light that all members of the Owl family love to hunt in They can see perfectly, while the n they are hunting can- 10t see them so well. Spooky open- i his eyes, shook out his feathers, stretehed a bit and then leaned over looked down. All was still in barn, Neither Farmer Brown vor Farmer Brown's Boy was there 1t was just the time for venture- some young Rats or Mice to be abroad. Almost at once he caught 2ht of something moving at a cor- ver of the grain hin. He conld just riake out something small and black moving just at the corner of that grain b Spooky never wastes time. What could be moving down there but Mouse or a young Rat? It must b thout ¢ s 1y he B louies down meisl a shadow. That is went down then. His ~d on that little black every anad t as soon 2s ha was ponneed Thines ¥ Two Ot that now appened right then and there. people were very, very ‘With those | he | awakened, | 7| re fix- | Havag been out all uight, he was sleepy much surprised. It is which was the most surprised. You sce, the thing that 8pooky had | pounced on was the end of Black Pussy’s tail. It he could have look- ed around the corner of that grain | Ein he wouldn't have made any such mistake. Black Pussy was crouch- ing be'iind the end of that bin, watching for a Mouse. The end of her tail stuck out beyond the corner | of the bin, and it was the twitching | . of the end of this tail that had| caught Spooky’s attention. Now, when Spooky struck, one o(‘ his sharp little claws pricked that|* tail. Tt brought a yowl of both pain | A and fright from Black Pussy as sl whirled to see what it all meant. That yowl frightened Spooky almost | as much as he had frightened Black ! He didn’t stop to say “excuse | He just sailed right on up| into the shadowy top of the barn, leaving Black Pussy a sorely puzzled Cat. She hadn’t even caught a a question |} L 7l - There are only four unkeyed let ters in this puszle, and you'll find them in the four vertical border words. HORIZONTAL To sneer. Kind. Exclamation ot sorrow To leer. Hastened. Carbonated water. Young horse. Hail! Halit. Compartment in a stable, To bandage. Tale or myth. State of profound Insensibility. Female horse. ‘To hinder. ‘To revolve. Series of rallway cars. To make a long deep incision. Conjunction. A stroke with a whip. Reglon, Pin. Opposite of aweather. To guide. Female sheep. Moose. VERTICAL Not general or widespread. Self. Measure of cloth. glimpse of him and she didn’t know what had happened to the end of | her tail, Copyright, 1929 by T. W. Burgess | The next story: a Prisoner.” Fashion . Plaque | “Spooky Becomes | . To rot flax by exposure. { 5. Angry. | Fluid rock. A death signal. { 8. Almost a donkey. | 9. Quantity. | Stir. Posseasing flavor. To commence. ' A citric fruit. Frozen water. Secured. Euacharist vessel. Channel between sand banks. Age. Tennis fence. Kingly. To arrange cloth gracefully. Range of mountains. The clear sky. Afresh. Part of verb to be. The deep. Possessed. Boy. Beer, To chser\‘? \Memn for the Famrb By Mrs. Alaxander George Menu for a Day A fringed glove silk cuff of pale vellow lends a summery air to the | smart white glace glove for southern 'rL%OX! wear. Breakfast—Grapefruit, wheat ce- real and cream, poached eggs Luttered toast, coffee. Luncheon—Egg salad. graham hread, apple sauce, fashioned cup cakes, tea. steamed old | Sharper than a serpent’s tooth. NOTED COMPOSER T ZI 17T .=%III¢IIII IIIII!%I! 1 7 HEA/d =///IIII 7)) /NN damn WnE @ //%II (4 A M1 ] iDlelWEgMIOIZIAIRIT] NEE . 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Unmold [and dry in a moderate oven for 20 minutes, | 01d Fashioned Cup Cakes, 16 Cakes | | (1, 2, 3, 4 ckes) |, 1 cup fat. 2 cups sugar, 4 eggs, |8 cups flour, 2 tcaspoons powder, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1-4 tea- spoon salt, 1 teaspoon nutmeg, 1 cup milk. Cream the fat and sugar. Add the rest of the ingredients and beat for 4 minutes. Half fill well ately slow oven for 20 minutes. This is a rich cake mixture with |a delicious flavor and texture, The cake must be beaten to as- eure its lightness. Sugar Mixture | 1-2 cup sugar, mon. 1-4 teaspoon clov | poon flour. Mix the ingredients over the top of the rolled out dough. | 1:2§ !cup diced celery, 1 tablespoon fine- | {1y chopped onion, 1-4 cup choépped lettuce | baking | | ! greased | muffin pans and bake in a moder- | | { | | 1 teaspoon cinna- | 1 table- | and sprinkle | Press it into the dough so i will | inot fall off during the baking. | PLATD HAT | A new beach hat is huge, floppy George M. Cohan's comely daughter | on |and made of plaid Sisol straw. Its Helen colors are green, row | coors. red and natural from a morning plung straw shade and it is banded in nar- |ers at Palm Beach. grosgrain ribhons in all lhreoixar winter Littie pitchers have big cars, and what they take in through them is of great importance. Children have a special faculty for hearing those conversations which were far better not recorded on their Impression- able young minds. 1t certainly does Lucy no good to learn that she is nervous like her aunt Louise. Thereafter Lucy is likely to make a feature of that rervousness. Nor is it wholesome for Tommy to sit in a corner and hear the marital difficulties of the Joneses threshed out over the tea cups. The distressing things he learns are ail the more disturbing because they are distorted by lack of understand - ing into something quite fearful und sad. If Bart at table hears acrimoni- cus discussions of a personal nature though he may say little, he will re- ceive a deep hurt from this too pat- ent lack of harmony between the people he loves. Conversational restraint is one of the prices of parenthood. The chfd should hear nothing which will make him self-conscious. He should not sense the complications of adult life before he has the emo- tional background which can deal with such matters properly. He should never, at least while he is little, suspect that there is lack of harmony between his parents. Par. ents who criticize each other in the child’s hearing, shatter the security of his world. If the child is sent abruptly from |the room when something unsuited |to his years is to be discussed, he will sense the reason for his exclu- sion and will be troubled by won- derings which may be just as harm- ful as the conversation would have been, ‘Mermaid “Whew! The ocean’s wet toda is shown as she emerg > in the break- She s a regu- resident of the Florid resort. Peking, Jan. 38 (UP)—"Compan- fonate marriages,” which made their first appearance in North China about two years 3go. have leaped into sudden popularity during the past few weeks, as several young couples of consilerable prominence have adopted this method for living together. The idea is entirely new in China, and obviously has been imported from the west. The decline of the old Chinese marriage systém, which has been gradual for many years past, is now making its fina¥ plunge with a fierce rush. Go-betweens are almost out of business, and even marriages for “love,” which were considered radical & year or two ago, are too conservative for the more ardent young people. In western countries, where mar- riages have been more or less infor- mal matters for generations, the tremendous changes in China dur- ing recent months, even weeks, can- not be appreciated. It has not been customary in China for young peo- ple to decide whom they shall mar- ry for themselves. THNis matter was arranged entirely by their parents and this has been true of poor peo- ple, ordinary workmen, as well as the children of prominent families. The professional go-between has been a feature of Chinese social life, this being &2 man or woman who devoted much time to making marriage matches, searching out husbands for giris and wives for boys, usually in return for a con- siderable fee. In the larger cities, this institution is disappearing very rapidly. But the very slow changes in the marriage system which preceded the rise of the Kuomintang have been replaced by a dizzy revolution. The Chinese marriage system is now not only being altered, but it is being shelved. In its place is ap- pearing, not the conservative mar- riage system of the west, but the most daring conceptions of the younger generation in America and Europe. This correspondent talked recent- ly with a young Chinese woman, perhaps thirty years of age. “I am an old fossil in China of today,” she admitted. “I have heard that ‘flap- pers’ in America often shock the older women. But our Chinesc ‘flappers’ shock women of twenty- five.” The system of marriage which is becoming most popular, apparently, is that of a simple announcement in the newspapers. This announce- ment, signed by the young men and young woman, {s considered :uffi- cient. It merely states that these two people love each other and therefore have decided to be mar- tied. There i& no ceremony, no gifts, no consultation of relatives, no | licenses. The newspaper announce- ment is sufficient. Until very recently, marriages were one of the chief expenses of Chinese social life. Even poor fam- ilies spent what they considered for- tunes. The Kuomintang (National- ist party) has urged repeatedly that marriage and funeral expenses be reduced. This advice has been ac- cepted 80 whole-heartedly by the more advanced young people that their marriages cost almost nothing. In the rural districts, however, this fermont is working slowly. Students carry the new ideas back from Peping and other university centers, but the older people are horrificd. These conservatives stiil insist upon arranging their chil- dren’s marriages. YOUR HEALTH BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Medical Association and of Hy- geia, the Health Magazine Styles in children's wearing ap- parel have changed as greatly m recent years as have those of thew mothers. Many women believe«it is of 1m- portance to have the child wens short socks in the winter 80 as o Larden it against the climate; others bundle the child In layer after layer of wrappings so that it can hardly evaporate any per- spiration from its body. Dr. Jullus Hess has cial consideration to this subjeer |in a recent f{ssue of Hygela. He roints out the following: ) | “Clothing should be comfort- ‘nNe to the child. not too tight es | too loose, and should not endan- |ger good posture by improper | fitting, Children should be active and their clothing should be such |that they are not consclous of fts interference. | To Maintain Comfort “In addition, the child should ihe clothed as an individual. Poor- |ly nourished children as a rule |nced warmer winter clothing. Children that are active need less {than those that are not as active. “Clothing is worn to maintain ;an even body temperature, to 1‘@\' as protection from tempera- tures lower than the normal body :l-‘mpernlun It should provide comfort and should not cause | overheating and perspiratior Many children arp overdresse which is not desirable and may | cause serious results. “Woel need not be used, al- |though it absorbs moisture read- |ily and provides extra warmth with decrcased weight and bulk. The average child living in the central states in the average home does not need undergarments that contain more than 30 per ~ent wool. “Underwear #iven spe- should have full length arms and legs in most |cases. Tong stockings, which | may be part wool. may keep the leps comfortably warm with knee- length underwear. Cotton outer clothing is all that is necessary. For the Little Fellow | “For outdoor wear, icggings }Yhf-' come to the waist are desir- He for the 2 or 3-year-old child. These may he knitted or ficecad The latter may be obtained with i for some time. 4 zipper fastenings, which are convenient. “The coat should be wool, knee- length,” with full length sleeves and should be one that may be fastened about the neck. It is wise to provide a size that will allow a | knitted sweater underneath on cold days. A cap fitting well down over the head *is best in cold weather. The ears should be cov- ered. A muffler may be used If the coat does not fit well about the neck. “Mittens than gloves. most are Shoes for small chll- dren have comparatively thin goles and in cold weather over- shoes should be worn to keep the feet warm.” LONGER SKIRTS New suit skirts have added an inch or even more to the length their predecessors had last year. Evening clothes have been longer ‘This lengthening of street clothes is indicative of the uni- versal trend. Blues for spring will group around the aquamarine tone more than navy blue. This lighter, bright- er blue is really a staple color now. It is becoming, can be worn without one’s tiring of it, and combines well Editor Journsl of the American With other tones, more desirable’ Elm wood is very durable under water. FLAPPER FANNY SAY: It's still leap year for girls whe would a-skilng go} 4