New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 19, 1929, Page 14

horse he riding. vont read dot note he axy he DO gif to nobody only you?” “Oh! I'm sure hs didn't think that Katie,” I returned sopthingly. “I know vot he tink,” my little maid insisted stubbornly as shs turped toward my ~mother-in-law’s room. When she was safely inside the, door, I voiced the woi thought on my' mind. “I suppose this ushers in a new Ticer feud. Katle really likes the Ticers. Why is it that every 80 often she feels that one of them has offended her dignity and starts reprisala” “Jealousy,” _ Lillian - responded sapiently. “Katle regards herselt as the guardian. mentor and manager of this family, and considers that all outsiders should transact any busness or send any messages threugh her. Jerry dared to tell her thit he must deliver that note only to you. Ergo, the fat's in the fire, also the frying pan.” “I suppose you're right,” I ad- mitted, “but I wish Jerry hadn’t been so punctilious. I wonder who sent him. I'm afraid it's the Prin. cess Olina.” “Why afraid?” Liflllan asked. “Because,” I said warlly, with the'fegr of betraying Mary's confl- dence before me, “I do not wish to see her, especially to talk to her forit day ‘or two.” “Youlll find out that Mrs. Ticer hag sent that note,* Lilllan sald n.:zfomnlly. “Probably wants to borréw some soap. Bt may I hint that you'll not find out by lingering here, much as I love to have you with me." “I'm going—gone,” T retorted, and went directly to the kitchen where Jerry Ticer, with downcast face and sullen eyes, awaited me. Jerry Complains “That Katie thinks she's too darn smart,” he told me as soon as 1 entered the kitchen. “She blew me sky high because I wouldn't let her take this note up to you, but how @uld T when Mr. Veritzen told me T'mustn’t let anybody see it but u?* “Mr. Veritzen!" I returned faint- 1y, but with quick resentment against my employer for sending such & message through so gossipy a channel as honest but garrulous Jerry Ticer, “I didn’t know he had The Mouse Family Is Broken Up ; By Thornton W. Burgess. ' Change you'll find & law of life PMM about by endless strife. —Danny Meadow Mouse. “Did you ever see anything like < the way those children grow?” said Nanny Meadow Mouse to Danny. “I never did,” replied Danny. *Why, they're only a month old and are nearly as big as we are now. There is no doing anything with them. knew. Ouly this evening 1 found one of them sitting on top of the sngw out-beyod tHe haystack. It 1s & wonder that 8pooky the Screech Owl “hadn’t been along. But T The hay was on & wagos om runners | 15, couldn’t tell him anything. No, sir, 1 couldn’t tell him anything. He knew it all. He told me he was quite capable of taking care of him- pelf.” “T know,” said Nanny. *Most folks think babies are a great care, but I think half-grown children are a greater care. And I don't know but they are more trouble still when they are quite grown. It scems to me they are very different from ‘what they were when you and 1 were young, Danny.” Danny nodded his head in agree- ment. “They certainly are,” said he. “They have lost all respect for their elders. They don't know what obe- dience is and you cannot tell them anything at all. Well, I suppose times are changing.” Nanny had just opened her mouth \to_Teply when somcthing happened. fere was a great nolse outside. The fraystack began to rock above their | “heélids, Danny and Nanny forgot about the children. They crept into their home and crowded close to- gether while they listened. They knew what the sounds were. The sounds were the voices of those two- legged creatures called men. But what could be happening they ‘touldn’t imagine. No, sir, they eouldn’t imagine what could be hap- pening. there little world were coming to an end. Suddenly they felt themselves be- ing picked up. Their whole home Was being picked up. They could do nothing but cling to each other. It ‘was very upsetting, to say the least. And yet there was something famil- far about the experience. Danny groped about in his mind trying to think what it was. Finally it came to him. By this time things had be- come quiet again, but they had the feeling that the whole world was moving. “Do you remember the time we built our home in the corn shock?" whispered Danny. “Yes replied Nanny, “what of it?" Do you remember how Farmer Brown's Boy came down and got the corn and our home with it and car ried us oft up to the bjg barn?” continued Danny. e Na “Yes” replicd Nanny. “Well, don’t you have something ot the samc focling new?” demand- Somehow, it scemed as if|. returned. 1 thought he was still in the West.” “Oh, 1 don't mean the old man’ Jerry said quickly — to Jerry as to most young people, anybody over thirty-tive is aged—"I mean young Mr. Noel, He met me this after- noon, when I was coming away from work over at Mis' Jacksons. Tt looked as though he’'d been awaiting for me, and he give me this note and he says, ‘Jerry.’ says he, ‘this is very important, and T want you to take ft to Mis' Graham right away, but don’t let a soul see it but her,’ he says. ‘And when she’s read it, ask her pleage to send the answer back right away' he says. But I don't want to wait around here,” Jorry finished, looking as- kance at .the kitchen door. “That there Katle sure is one sassy pieca. T don't want nothin’ to do- with her. “But Jim isn't” 1 offered with eager haste. “Suppose you go on out to the barn and see Jim whils I read this and write an nswer ‘o it. T'll come out there to find assented, beaming. “Jim, he's an awful good feller when that Katie isn't around.” Ha lumbered off to the barn, and T scudded back upstairs to Lillian's room. “This may be something I can't show you,” I told her, “but I think not, as T may want your advice in answering.” “Who wrota 1t?” she asked. “Noel Veritzen,” 1 answered. nearly as T can gather from Jerry's story he waited by the side of the road until Jerry started home from work, gave him the note, and s waliting for an answer.” “He must be in extremis,” she ocemmented with a little laugh as 7 tore open the envelope and took out the sheet of masculine notepaper it contained. “Dear Mrs. Graham,” the note be- gan. “Something bewildering’ has happened to me, and I am so pus zled and distraught that I do not know what to do. I have no one in all the world of whom I can ask ad- vice about this particular thing ex- cept you. I do not want to come to the house—for reasons — but I am wondering if you wounld meet me at the Bridgehampton station an hour from now and let me take you somewhere for dinner where we could talk uninterruptedly. I know I am asking an unwarrantable fa. vor, but I really am in desperate need of advice. Jerry Ticer will bring back your answer to me. “Yours very sincerely, “NOEL VERITZEN,” (Continued Tomorrow) Copyright, 1929, Newspaper Weature Bervice, Inc. They know all there is to ed Danny. | Nanny gave a startled little squeak. “‘Oh, my goodness, it's !true as vou live!” she exclaimed. “You don’t suppose we are being carried off, do you?” | “I don't know,” replied Danny. {*“Time will tell. Anyway, I guess we've seen the last of the children, I guess the family is broken up. It's probably a good thing for them and a better thing for us. It's the way of the world. I do wish I knew where iwe were, but somehow I don’t dare go_out. Now, Danny wasn’t 80 very wrong in his guess. The haystack had dis- appeared. The hay was on a wagon on runners and Farmer Brown's Boy was taking it up to the barn. It was hay that was going to be used for bedding. ' Copyright, 1929, by T. W. Burgess The next story: “Where Danny’s Family Had Gone.” Diet would be a good thing for jpeople who are always full of ’tnemselvu. Junior—*The world is too full of fools.” Senior—"But, my dear boy, there is even one m A SPANISH PUZZLE ASANEA/ AANAAd ANE7ANANE7ANR SNE SNEEE ARN T T % | [ I%==i%%%flll%l , (amummnm. NN/ AN 7 i A | ' 7, | 4 anm Z | | | HIEEEE” Do you know Spain? - If your an. swer is affirmative, you'll have no trouble with the questions in t)uu| HORIZONTAL ‘To resist or contradict. By what name was the Spanish peninsula formerly known? Falsehood. 12. 8 3 14. The eye socket. Roadside hotel. 16. Adjusted as a clock. 17. Feather scarf. 18. The flesh of & calf used for food. 20. Lowbred, presuming fellow. 21. Force. 22. Sheltered place. 24. Formal flower pot. 25. Who is the king of Spain? 27. To question. 28. Tree genus. Ulmus. 81. The length of a step in walk- ing. 33. Part of the verb to be. 36. Tardy. . 38. Residue left when burning chemical products. ! 39. Common fleshy-leaved century plant. 41. Nothing. 42. To observe. 43. More modern. 44. To msecure. . 45. Which city is the capital of Spain? 46. 'Who is the premier of the gov- ernment of Spain? Vertical In the production of what fruit is Spain a leading producer? To languish. Pertaining to punishment. Perched. A type of narrative poetry. Frosted as cake. Cot. A red-breasted bird. To press. To subside. Eucharist vessel. Rental contract. Laughable. Targe deer. | To employ. { Paroxysm. Patned. Disease of sheep sometimes | called scab. | Alluvial tract of land &t the mouth of a river, Toward sea. Matured as wine. Uncooked. Always. One of a mseries of rows. Blackbird of the cuckoo fam- ily. 8ilk worm. L Semnamms Some soils held water much | spoons - sugar, [OIAIM[EPeui0 BR O] [1]o]o]L} EE Menas for the Family (By Mrs. Alexander George) A Dinner Menu Bhepherd’'s Chicken Ple Cabbage Balad Corn Muffing Fruit Gelatin Dessert Cream Coffee Shepherd’s Chicken Pie, For Four (Using leftovers) One cup diced cooked chicken, 1-2 cup diced cooked celery, 1-2 cup diced cooked carrots, 1-2 teaspoon salt, 1 cup gravy, 1 cup mashed po- tatoes, 3 tablespoons hot milk. Mix the hot milk with the pota- toes and stir until soft. Spread over the rest of the ingredients, which have been poured into a shallow, buttered baking dish. Bake in a moderate oven for 20 minutes, or until the potatoes have browned. Serve in the dish in which baked. Milk may be substituted for the gravy. Any leftover fish or meat may be used in place of the chicken. Peas, green beans or onions can be used instead of the carrots. Corn MufTins, Twelve (Using sour or buttermilk) 1 cup yellow corn meal, 1 cup flour, 1-4 teaspoon salt, 3 table- 1 teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 egg, 1 cup sour milk, 2 tablespoons fat, melted. Mix the ingredients and beat for 2 minutes. Half fill well greased muffin pans and bake in a moder- ately slow oven for 20 minutes. Any leftover may be served cold with milk for luncheon for the chil- dren. Butter Menu For a Luncheon Tuna Cocktail Balted Wafers Olives Breaded Veal Steak, Browned Mashed Potatoes Grean Beans Buttered Hot Biscuit Peach Preserves Bliced Pineapple Salad ore than you've counted.” WINTER AFTERNOONS Dy Alice Judson Peale Many an afternoon visit is spoiled by noisy children who romp in the living room, interrupt the conversa- tion of adults, quarrel with each other and make appeals to mother for justice and intervention, The mother, patient at first, tries | cheertully to talk above the racket, to answer {1l timed questions, and to arbitrate disputes. Then at once her patience is at an end and the surprised youngsters are angrily banished from the room. Meanwhile grown up soclability has not been a success, and adults and children alike come to the end of the day with frayed tempers and nerves on edge. Buch sitautions should never be allowed to develop. Ideally of dourse children should have a large play room of their own where they can shout and play and carry on as they please. Often, however, there is no such play room and in bad weather the children are forced to spend their afternoons in the family living quarters. ‘Then is the time when mother's ingenuity comes into play. If she ‘s wise she will have stored away, on a particular shelf, toys and play- things reserved for just such hours as these. Bhe will bring out play- things which will keep the children busy and quiet for hours together— scissors, bright-colored papers, old magazines (from which to cut pie- tures) paste, scrap books, paints, crayons, puzzles, odds and ends of clothes and materials for *“dressing up.” Buch things may be played with over and over'again, NEW SOURCE OF PAPER ‘Washington, Feb. 19 (—=South- eastern Alaska is regarded by gov- ernment foresters as a permanent source of pulpwood for paper m#nu- facturd, with water power resources, tidewater transportation and a cli- mate permitting of year-round op- cration of paper plants and ship- ping. Pulpwood production is esti- mated at 1,600,000 cords yearly, enough for 1,000,000 tons of news-. print annually in perpetuity, or more than a quarter the present American consumption. Bethlehem is the center of the mother-of-pearl industry. Queen of Snow Dorothy Wright of West Orange, N. J., was chosen qucen of the Spone Cake Topped With Whipped | snows from the bevy of pretty girls longer than others because of -the .smaller soil particles, Cream and Red Cherries Coftee who attended the Dartmouth winter Salted Nuts |carnival at Hanover, N. H. CO-OPERATIVE CO-EDS KEEP HOUSE ON WHOLESALE PLAN By NEA Service Ames, Iowa, Feb, 19 — Co-oper- ative housekeeping is no longer just a dream of the future. It works. And it is lots of fun, according to the girls who do it, Bixty-five co-eds at the Jowa State college are making a successful ex- periment in community living, com- muhity working and community sharing of bills. They have entire charge of Barton hall. They cook, clean, mend, waah, iron and do everything else that the acientific housekeeper knows should be done, Then they turn around and take turns being hostess to each other to emphasize the social graces. The result is decreased cost and increased joy in their work, It's Not New Idea The co-operative plan, similar to the original idea of the college back in the 70's when every student was more or less poor and was supposed to work, was started four years ago on a small scale. This year, when Barton Hall opened, the walting list was 80 long that great care was used in selecting the girls for the large scale experiment. No girl was ac- cepted who could afford to pay the regulation board fee, which runs around $5. The co-operative plan re- ducca this to $2.60, The girls are under the ~ame rules as the girls in other dormi- tories. They pay the same room rent, but save on food, laundry and other extras. Eight committees, of about eight girls each, shift duties once & week. Two committees prepare breakfast and luncheon -and two prepare dinner in the evening, The other four committees keep the halls, stalrways, living room, bath- rooms and badrooms immaculate. They run their own work on schedule, cleaning 15 minutes be- fore classes each morning to etraighten up for the day. Even chores such as washing the dish cloths are divided around so each group does its bit. The house has a chaperon who buys the food the girls order when their classes prevent their market- ing. The girls who are breakfast makers for a given week must be up and at it by six a. m. For breakfast must be wserved, eaten and the dishes washed in time for an eight o'clock class. The lunch- con shift does much of its prepara- tion in the early morning. The dinner shift begins its prepara- tion by 4:30 for the dinner hour is six, leaving a long evening for study and recreation. Girls take turns being dinner hostess and profit by the experience. Working Groups Small It has been found that smaller groups work bétter than large, 8o the kitehen at RBarton Hall is per- fectly equipped in two sections. Two dining rooms lead from it. 8o the group 1is really divided into two large groups and then the small working committees, Two gas ranges at opposite ends of the kitchen and two cupboards, sinks nd everything else, permit of his arrangement. “One of the chief objections to housekeeping nas always been its lonesomeness,” one co-operative co-cd said. “This plan remedies that, It's great sport to work in groups and we have real competi- tions for good meals, clean vooms snowy laundry and the rest. More over, it is fun learning to know vour classmates when in harness. There's & certain informality about the girls who cook and sweep to- gether that the girls in other dor- mitories miss. T don’t think any of us would change places.” William Russell, Film Star, Dies Suddenly Los Angeles, Feb. 19.—(—Wil- llam Russell, well known motion picture abtor and husband of Helen Ferguson, also known on the stage and screen, died of pneumonia here yesterday. He had been {ll less than a week. . 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