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Show CACHE AMERICAN, LOGAN, UTAH BOX QUESTION ED WYNN, in mmmmmmmmmm iviumpim HOW TO; m The Perfect Fool tomers some enjoyment while ? Dear Mr. Wynn: A friend of mlno whom I havent Yours truly, seen for three years came Into my E. TING PLACE. Answer: Serve them some waffles office yesterday. I always thought he was tall, but yesterday he looked tnd alphabet soup and they can short to me. He told mo ho had make up their own cross-wor- d pusCould that sies. Just gotten married. tb Amorlated have anything to do with him look6, Newspaper. WNU bervic. ing shorter than before? Sincerely, din-Id- rC" vf WxiCI a ' i'-S lv 7 ' i- . iV'v iWA -- :WV: rii'ftrW- 'V m J. WALKER, former major of New York, living the life of a country gentleman In England. Our Illustration show a The Thatch," In Surrey, built by Mrs. Walker's mother, where he and bis wife reside; and Jimmy himself with Jock, his pet Scotty, JAMES - Bedtime storV BURGESS7 THORNTON W. A WONDERFUL SWIMMER the bank of moonlight INtheTHE lilg River I'eter Rabbit sat on gossiping with Honker the Goose. Suddenly they were Interrupted by a wild, strange cry from the middle of the Rig River. It was like crazy Ieter Jumped at the laughter sound, but Honker merely chuckled Its Dippy the Loon," said Honker. He spends the summer in the Far North not far from us and started south just before we did. I wish he would come In here so that I could get a good look at him and make bis acquaintance, said Ieter. He may, but I doubt it," replied You know Dippy pracHonker. tically lives on the water and rareHe's about the ly comes ashore. most awkward fellow on land of know of." anyone Why should he be any more awkward on land than you? asked Peter. Because," replied Honker, Old Mother Nature has given him very short legs and has placed them so far back on his body that he can't keep his balance to walk and has to use bis wings and bill to help him over the ground On shore he Is about the most helpless thing you ever have seen. On water he Is altogether another fellow. He's just as much at home under water as on top My, how that fellow can dive! When he sees the flash of a gun he will get under water before the shot can reach him. Thats where he has the advantage of us geese. You know, we cant dive. 1 llo You Know That reindeer meat is now being served in dining cars on trains in parts of the northwest. Scarcely a generation ago, the reindeer was imported into Alaska. Now that territory has 350,000 animals descendants from the original herd. bjr McClure Newspaper Syndicate WNU Service. The Nurse and He could swim clear across this river If he wanted to. And he can swim so fast under water that he can catch fish It Is because bis legs have been placed so far back that he can swim so fast His feet are nothing but big paddles. Another funny thing is that be can sink right down in the water when he wants to, with nothing but his head out 1 envy him that It would be a lot easier for us geese to escape the hunters If we could sink down that way," Has he got a bill like yours? asked Peter Innocently. How do you suppose he would hold on to a slippery hsb if he had a bill like mine? demanded Honker. His bill Is stout, straight and He Is pretty nearly as big as I and his back, wings, tail and neck are black, with bluish or greenish appearance In the sun. His back and wings are spotted with white and there are streaks of white on his throat and on the sides of his neck. On his breast and below he is all white You certainly ought to get acquainted with Dippy, Peter." Id like to," replied Peter, "but I guess Ill have to be content to know him just by his voice. It's about as crazy sounding as the voice of Old Man Coyote and that Is saying a great deal Seeing that Honker was very tired, Peter bade him good night and left him in peace on the sandy bar In the Big River. sharp-pointe- THE DAYS THAT USED TO BE Dear Mr. Wynn: I have Just been convicted and sentenced to Jail for twenty years. I understand a prisoner has his choice of Jobs when he Is sent to prison. Twenty years Is a long time. Can yon tell me what position I should pick out? Yours truly, A. ITZTUFF. Answer: When the warden asks you what you want to do tell him you want to be a sailor. Dear Mr. Wynn: Can you tell me why a giraffes neck Is so long? Yours truly, days that used to be THE happy ARCH OLOGIST. green paths of allure. The little home that sheltered me Answer: My dear chap, the reaA nest warm and secure son a giraffe's neck is so long Is Sends up Its smoke against the sky merely because its head is so far Of memory. . . Once more away from Its body. I see the golden sun climb high Above my cottage door. Dear Mr. Wynn: I am troubled with insomnia. I There never were such dawns as cant seem to sleep at night It those worries me very much. What remSo fragrant and so clean; The dew that sparkled on the rose, edy do you suggest to stop me worSincerely, rying? The morning sliver sheen. IKE ANTSLEEP. Shed over all of us the grace Of the beginning day . . . Answer: Jump on a train and go It was the early morning face to Virginia, get some of that corn Of God that turned our way. whisky they make down there, take three drinks of It and you wont So simple were the hours we spent, care a rap If you sleep or not So tranquil were our days. It Is small wonder that content Dear Mr. Wynn: Adorned our humble ways. I own a cafe which only does a And something of that beauty clings small business. I cant afford a cabTo bless us still, and bind aret and do not know how to enterThe present to the happy Springs tain my customers. Can you sugThat we have left behini gest any way of me giving my cus- WNU Service. By ANNE CAMPBELL Copyright iiiimmmiiimmiiiiiiiiiimmimiiitiiimmimiiiimiiiiimiiiiiiimminimmiii Through A WOMANS EYES Miimiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiimimmiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiimiitiiii VANITY, THY NAME IS 7 scTTANITY, thy name Is woman!" V There are men the author of WNU Barries. , T. W Burges. that quotation did not know. One of them, a motion picture actor, Mix-U- p Lei Is killed himself the other day because The Hawaiian lei Is usually made he had got too old to play romantic of flowers, feathers, paper, seeds or parts. but shells, occasionally pods, corks, There were other circumstances vegetables, match boxes, candy, etc., contributing to his despondency, of are employed. course. There had been Illness and financial loss. But the mans best friend at the time of his death said WITTY KITTY It was the prospect of playing bit" Br NINA WILCOX PUTNAM parts with others In the romantic roles that was the real cause of bis giving up. Hls chief pride, It was said, "was his unswerving faith In himself as the perfect lover" and when he could no longer be that he did not care to live. It Is a tragedy that we used to connect with women, that desperate battle with the years, that Inability to grow old gracefully. Particularly women on the stage, whose survival In their profession was thought to depend on their physical charms were assumed to live In dread of the creeping np of Inevitable time. And yet today we see more and more popular actresses outwitting that eDemy. They do It by the simple process of going along with time. Instead of trying to fight It Mary PIckford gives up sweet sixThe girl chum says If people teen parts and grows np In pictures; feared exposure to the sun as they such a still glamorously beautiful do exposure to ridicule, there would actress as Judith Anderson plays the modern mother of a grown son. be no cases of sunburn. Even on the stage a woman can be WNU Service. forty five and still beautiful; she can be sixty and still Interesting; but she cannot, as a former generaNursery of Europe tion allowed Sarah Bernhardt, play acceptably a part that Is half her age. And she has discovered that HSjOSSlI Velvet Wrap L GLASS. Answer: That Is the whole story In a nutshell. Me used to be tall, but since he married he probably settled down. her alternative need not be oblivion. It may be the modern demand for realism that has led actresses as well as women In private life to adapt themselves more frankly to the dictates of the years, to try to use them for whatever their advantages, rather than be defeated by them. Whatever the reason, It is uncommon today to find a woman who does not know when to leave the Ingenue role for ones In character. So we are spared many of the ghastly exhibitions that were familiar when women thought they had to remain young or die. And If these were tragic on the part of women, how much more pitiable to find a man who tries to hang on to youth and physical glamour, how much more at the risk of In Inexcusable sounding hard every day life, of course, most of us find It distasteful for a man to put much weight on his physical atAnd on the stage tractiveness. there are so many character parts that a man can play, it should be far easier thaD for a woman to make the transition from romantic roles before he fiods himself dropped, with Upholstery fringe In a smoky beige tone forms the flattering collar on this matching wrap of velvet Full sleeves, held In at the wrist accentuate the fitted line of the wrap. that Is missed more than any other shot In hunting is the fast flying oterhead shot coming in directly over you. This is the shot that the dm k hunter encounters frequently, although it does not present Itself very often When such a In upland hunting. chance does present itself, however, what do you do to score a hit? For years, as a boy, I wasted shell after shell trying to connect with fast flying ducks coming In dl rectly overhead. Sometimes they would not be any more than thirty Invariably I would yards high. score a miss on them coming in. Not a few of the times 1 would then turn around and drop the bird going away. I couldn't undei stand why I was missing the Incomers. Older heads than mine were bothered by the same puzzling shot One old duck hunter and a very successful hunter he was, too once told me that It was useless trying to kill a duck coming In on this kind of shot. Hls explanation was that the shot simply would not penetrate to the bird's vitals shoot Ing crosswise through the ducks Let em heavy breast feathers. pass, he counseled me, and shoot Into 'em from behind, the way their feathers lay, and youll kill em every shot' This didn't sound reasonable to me. I had a very wholesome respect for the speed and penetrating power of shotgun pellets at 80 to 45 yard range. One day, sitting In a cornshock blind I had rigged up for myself In came a flock of about a dozen teaL They were coming straight over me at about 35 yards high, and they were coming fast My concealment was so constructed that I knew I would never be able to get out of It In time to shoot at them going away behind me. As they whirred Into me I pulled up on the leader, gave him wha t I thought was the proper lead, and fired. What happened so amazed me that I forgot to shoot the 6ee ond barrel. I had shot at the lead er and killed the last bird In the flock! Which meant that I had shot behind the bird I pulled on and missed It by a good six feet When I examined the dead bird I found Its breast right where Its feathering was the heaviest was neatly punctured by four 4s. So I reasoned my old advisor was And If No. 4s would kill wrong. through the breast feathers of a teal, they would do the same thing to a mallard, or even a goose. And the whole trouhle was that I wasnt leading my overhead Incoming shots enough. I couldnt figure out why such a big lead was necessary on this type of shot All I knew was that you had to double your lead and that whenever you did It this I had proved It. way you scored That waa enough. But It wasnt until some years later that I ar rived at the correct explanation. Here It la: On the overhead Incoming shoot you of course cant see your target at the Instant you pull the trigger You bury" the target, as the say Ing goes. But the Instant your eyes lose sight of the target your bands and arms unconsciously stop the swing of your gun. The result Is that, instead of shooting ahead of the target with the proper kill Ing lead, yon actually shoot almost at the target, and by the time the shot charge gets up there the duck has already passed the danger point and the charge tears large hole In the air behind him. A good rule to follow on this type of shot Is to pul) dead on the in coming duck and then, just at the Instant of firing, swiftly Jump the muzzle up over the target so that It will seem to be shooting at a point about twice as far In front of the target as would seem necessary. In other words, try to "double a very good rough es your lead tlmate of what It seems you are do Ing when yon do It correctly Try thtls see how readily It solves the puzzle THE Is a meat which nearly likes and we serve It every are often as the purse will allow. For variety: CHICKEN Chicken Alabama. Arrange the pieces of chicken In a baking pan as for fricassee. Add water and a little butter and cook In a moderate oven, basting every fifteen minutes for an hour. Add a tablespoonful of chopped onion, a teaspoonful of salt and pepper to Cook another half hoar, taste. basting often. Serve with hominy and sweet potato croquettes. Entree of Giblets. Cook thoroughly the hearts, livers and gizzards of several chickens; chop fine and thicken the broth, add seasonings, onion Juice, lemon Put Juice, some tabasco sauce. into ramekins and cover with bat- tered crumbs; bake ten tulnntes and serve when the crumbs are brown. Veal may be added to extend the quantity of this dish without losing any of Its attractiveness. Shrimp Tardo. Take one can of shrimps, one cupful each of cooked rice and thick cream, one tablespoonful each of melted butter and grated onion, of a tablespoonful of Worcestershire sauce and of a cupful of tomato catsup. Melt the butter, fry the onion, add the shrimps, rice, sauce and catsup. Bake twenty minutes. three-fourt- one-thir- d Western Newspaper Union. no recourse but the poor bits" which fail to the lot of a has been. If Vanitys name Is woman. It U becoming hyphenated with Common Sense. And men who are going to adopt It bad better follow suit with the latter, too. , Bell Syndicate. WNU Servlo. Highest Priced Beef of the Year 1 6. WMtrn Newspaper Untes f1 Mans Organic Make-U- p Is Likened to an Army Pomparlng the Ilf of man to a military maneuver. Dr Ales Hrdllc ka, of the Smithsonian Institution believes each organ and each part of the body has Its own growth curve. This deduction. It was said, arises from extensive studies of living ma terial and great accumulations of human skeletal material by the In stltutlons division of physical an thropology. Doctor Hrdllokas findings re veaied that each bone, each feature the brain, and all other organs progress from birth to death with a regular cure. and that each curve Is specific for a certain part priced beef In the United States this year is the THE highest steer which is pictured ahoie. It is the grand champion of the or organ. Ak Sar Ben Live Stock show, worlds largest Thus. It was explained, life for baby beef show, conducted at Omaha. At the auction sale which followed the Ak Sar Ben such a complex organism as man Is Hereford, sold for $1 03 a pound, bringing roughly analogous to a highly com show, this steer, a white-faceIts proud owner, Mervin Aegerter of Seward, Neb, the remarkable price plicated colony of social Insects, or A person who turns to the paof $1,143. The purchaser, George Brandeis, Is a prominent merchant of to a military maneuver where per for the weather report, says Omaha and made the top bid after spirited bidding against Edward Cud thousands of different movements ironic Irene, cant have much faith In one general ahy, Jr., of Chicago, president of the Cudahy packing company. Aegerter must be In their corns. la shown In the picture with Mr, Brandela. movement at all times, althongb WNU Ssrrlo. each soldier retains a certai amount of Individuality. 1 d r 4 a? khot blue-win- g SEASONABLE GOOD THINGS I I By Bob Nichols Shooting Editor, Field and Stream I I Wedding Procession In Rural Rumania. Prepared by National Geojrraphle Boelety, Washington, D C WNU 8ervlce RUMANIA, East and West are Interwoven that It Is difficult to determine where one leaves off and the other begins. Some historians attribute the strange blending of the Orient and IN the Occident within the Rumanian borders to countless Invasions. Each Invader, whether Roman, Hun, or Turk, left hls strong Imprint on the nature of the people. Though Paris may be France, Bucharest Is hardly Rumania. This capital has almost nothing In common with the country. It Is a gay, cosmopolitan city, often, If not aptly, culled the Little Paris of the Balkans. Its streets are crowded with smartly dressed women, officers resplendent In their colorful uniforms and gold braid, and men and women of the foreign colonies, who contrast strikingly with peasants In native dresses and gypsies In rags and tatters. Its restaurants and coffee houses, always famous for good food, are abuzz w 1th the latest political rumors and gossip. The opening, In the autumn, of parliament by the king is a brilliant event. For several blocksand for hours the palace guards In their bright uniforms, high patent leather jack boots, shining helmets with white horsehair plumes, stand smartly at attention until the members of parliament, the diplomatic corps the army generals, and the king have passed. The great moments are the arrival and the departure of the king, In an open landau. Footmen In satin breeches, long coats of brohats, and cade, and a ferocious coachman cracking hls whip at six milk white or coal black stallions, on whose barks ride pos tlllons In bright red hunting costumes, add to the striking medieval picture. Sleighrlde in Bucharest It Is fun In winter to hire an open Blelgh drawn by horses bedecked with bells and red ribbons, and driven by a coachman in a high fur caciuia (cachouia), a tall astrakhnn cap, long velvet coat, and wide girdle of metal. There are still a few coachmen living In Bucharest who belong to a eurlous alien sect called Scopltt now almost extinct The men were allowed to marry, but at the birth of the first child they were made sterile. One sees them often driving open carriages. They are fat and their skin Is like yellow parch-- three-cornere- d ment the top of the Carpathian pass, on the boundary line between the Old and Transylvania. Dur-inKingdom their holidays they have manf opportunities to observe the ancient methods of work followed by the peasants. One is partlcnlarly impressed with the native manner of . washing clothes. The laundress builds s fire In the yard beneath a large Iron pot. In which she puts the clothes to boil. Then, in a large wooden trough hewn from a log, she rubs and washes the garments with her hands, without even the aid of a washboard. Next, she wrings out the heavy linen with her own hands. Back breaking work It Is, but the clothes emerge spotlessly white. Politically, Rumania traveled toward the left after the war, as have In a degree most of the countries of the Near East The large landholdings were expropriated and the acres sold to the peasants on easy terms, the result of which was to place the peasant In a more advanced position than he bad ever known. It was not the Intention to subject the landholding gentry to confiscation, although the results now present that appearance. The land was appraised on a basis of reasonable value, and the gentry given Rumanian bonds In compensation for the land. When subsequently the nation went oft the gold standard and her money depreciated, these bonds became almost worthless. Since 1926, however, her enrrency has been among the most valuable. Gypsies Are Numerous. In the Danube Delta country, during the spring and summer, many gypsy camps are found. The gypsies carve out of wood huge water troughs, all variety and manner of cooking utensils, washing equipment, etc. With their wild animal eyes, scraggly black locks. Wretchedly dirty, and clad In rags, gypsies are a proof of the disillusionment I of reality. Who has not conjured up soma gay, romantic picture of gypsy life from afar? Yet how distressing when one meets It at close quarters! But gypsy music Is beautiful. Almost at every street corner In Bucharest one enconnters an urchin with hls violin, ready to play for a few lei. Winters Id Bucharest are bitterly cold. Often one Is distressed to see gypsy boys, half naked and shivering, begging at the street corners. Since time Immemorial gypsies busihave gone Into the ness. Very often yon see several gypsies, with an equal Bnmber of bears, making them dance for a delighted crowd of onlookers. Or falling a bear, gypsies are and blacksmiths, and their beautiful grilles are famous everywhere. On many great bonscs In Bucharest are foond fine examples of gypsy Ironwork, Valcov Is Interesting. Valcov, Rumania, Is more Rnsslao than Russia, The men all wear full beards and are dressed In long velvet coats bnttoned very smartly up the front, while the women Is their full skirts and heads covered with bright scarfs, make a gay Children are everywhere picture. chewing sunflower seeds, the substitute for gum and g The wide avenue leading up to the Arc de Triomphe, past a pretty little race course, and a golf links of the Country club, is a miniature suggestion of the Champs Elysees In the French capital. Jinny stately palaces and homes line Its streets. Rumania has gone modern In her new bouses and apartments. There Is much music other than In the cafes. Bucharest boasts of rather good opera during the winter and a really fine symphony orchestra plays modern music. The national temple Is well patronized and plays by Rumanian and foreign authors are given. Once ornate, the building Is now shabby, although an air of faded elegance still pervades the place. The parliament buildings and the Rumanian Orthodox church stand on the summit of the only hill In Bucharest Bucharest Is a c'ty of From everywhere can be churches. seen rising the rounded domes of the Valcov Is like a tiny Venice, with Rumanian Orthodox church. Its canals serving as main thoroughfares through the town. Both In Among th Peasants. Around Bucharest the country Is the fishermens houses and In the not unlike the agricultural state of market places, the traveler always Kansas. Here is a tremendous wheat finds at least one lovely Ikon. and corn region. Visitors enjoy goEntering first an Immense storage building, one seea where the ing through the villages In this ferfish are cleaned, sorted, packed in tile district. Crazy little Rube GoldIce for shipment to Bucharest berg houses, whose whitewashed walls are painted In soft pastel and other consuming centers, and Bliades and decorated with borders smoked or Baited for export There of flowers or animals, present an Is a great variety of salt fish, Including some strange amusingly shaky aspect along the At the back ol streets. Rumania Is one of the few Danublan species. countries now left In Europe whose the storage honse Is a deep crvi peasants usually dress In native cos- topped by an earthen mound, where hundreds of tons of Ice, cut from tume. The Rumanian peasant Is lovable. the rier and canals In winter, are Always gracious, courteous, and stored against the summer heat Crossing the main canal by an good natured, he Is Industrious, yet He works arched wooden bridge, which r somewhat Inefficient hard In hls fields and forests, but al calls the Rialto, the traveler arrive ways In a primitive manner, nsing at the large open market Here the fishermen bring their dally the crude tools of hls forefathers. of Bucharest catch to be sold under the super Many residents lpDd their rammers In Predeal, at vision of the state fisheries bear-tamin- g hand-wroug- Rue-sla- n pen-nut- s. |