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Show PAGE TWO fV "Laughing Jackasses" of Australia. (Prepared by th National Oeoftraphle Society, WaahtnstoD, D. C) AUSTRALIA, possessor of to many features unfamiliar to the rest of the world, might be catalogued by a nature lover by her trees and her birds. One readily read-ily understands why the Australian loves bis trees. The groves of giant eucalyptus form pictures never forgotten, for-gotten, and the scent of the wattle brings a homesick feeling like the smell of the sage to a Westerner. The flora Is not only beautiful, 11 Is unique, without counterpart In other lands. Of the 10,000 species of plants most of them are purely Australian, and are unknown even In New Zealand. Zea-land. The general Impression one gets of Australian forests is their total unllkeness to anything seen elsewhere. else-where. The great forests of timber trees are not damp and shaded and all of one species, but are well lighted and filled with other forests of shorter short-er trees; in places the woods consist of large widely spaced trees surrounded surround-ed only by bunch grass, and even in areas where water is not to be found on the surface for hundreds of square mites true forests of low trees are present. Forms which may be recognized as tulip, lily, honeysuckle and fern tit ke on a surprising aspect. They are not garden (lowers, but trees, and the landscape of which they form a part reminds one of the hypothetical representations rep-resentations In books of science of a landscape of Mesozoic time, a period antedating our own by millions of yeurs. The trees are indeed those of a bygone by-gone age. In America- and Europe shadowy forms of fossil leaves of strange plant species are gathered from the rock and studied with Interest; In-terest; la Australia many of these ancient trees are living. The Impression Impres-sion that one Is looking at a landscape land-scape which has forever disappeared from other parts of be world Is so vivid that the elms and maples and oaks in some of the city streets strike a Jarring note. The transition from Jurassic to modern times Is painfully pain-fully abrupt 1 With a flora of such great interest. It occasions no surprise to find that Australia Is the home of many eminent emi-nent botanists, and that geologic history his-tory Is a common subject of study in schools. Eucalyptus ths National Tres. Australia is the home of the wonderful won-derful eueulyptus, a tree about which a fair-sized library of books and pamphlets has been written, without exhausting the subject For geological ages the eucalypta have remained undisturbed un-disturbed in this "biological backwater," backwa-ter," and, spreading over the continent, con-tinent, have adapted themselves to many varieties of soil and climate and elevation. About 300 species bave already al-ready been discovered in the small part of the continent explored by botunists. It Is a hopeless task for the tourist to gain an acquaintance with this national na-tional tree. As he passes through woods and open spaces, seeing trees of widely different aspect different in form and method of branchlug, different dif-ferent Id color and kind of bark, different dif-ferent In shape and size and color of leaf, some oozing gum, others clean and dry it Is disconcerting to be quietly told by his botanist-guide that this surprising array of trees "Includes "In-cludes only varieties of the genus eucalyptus." The Australian is likewise euilmr-assed euilmr-assed by these prolific variations of eucalyptus. The trees in general are "gums" white gums, red gums, blue gums, spotted gums, cabbage gums or lroubnrk, stringy bark, woolly bark, smooth bark; and when distinctions are necessary we get such combina tions as narrow-leaved-red-ironbark, or broad-leaved-yellow-strlngy-bark. iiants That Crow Rapidly. The eucalypts Include some of the tallest trees In the world. The Victorian Vic-torian forests department records trees which measure 329, 333 and 342 feet, and states that there are "scores of trees about 300 feet In height." The surveyor of the Dandenng ranges made cotes of the tallest trees felled dories an e!jht-jear period and Pi , M JVyjUPWr WW) i J f reports that "all those measured were over 300 feet In length." Eucalyptus trees reproduce themselves them-selves readily and grow about seven times more rapidly than oak or hickory. hick-ory. From a ton of bark of the gimlet tree was obtained by analysis 410 pounds of tannin extract and 308 pounds of oxalic acid. From the gum and leaves of these trees come also the highly valuable eucalyptus oils, from which no less than twenty-seven constituents have been distilled for pharmaceutical purposes and for the separation of metals by the flotation process. The eucalyptus is the great Umber tree of the continent. Of sixty varieties vari-eties in Victoria, twenty have high commercial value and are finding an ever-increasing market .The Tas-manian Tas-manian blue gum is one of the strong est, densest, and most durable woods In the world. Timbers 2 feet square, exceeding 100 feet In length, are readily obtained, and, when used for piling,' need not be weighted, for the density of the wood .s such that It sinks In water. Their strength Is twice that of English oak, and they are practically immune from attack by the teredo, which plays such havor with ordinary timbers. The Jtirrah, a eucalyptus of west AusUalia, is another famous tree. It is one of the few woods of the world which' successfully resist the ravages of white ants; it Is practically Immune Im-mune from the attacks of marine bor ers, and, like the iron-bark of Victoria Vic-toria and New South Wales, has been kaown to withstand fire better than Iron girders. Many Beautiful Birds. Australia Is stocked with beautiful birds, many of them of unusual aspect. as-pect. The man who originated th popular saying that "Australian birds have plumage, but no song," most have lived.. In a sound-proof box Among the 775 species are Included some of the most brilliantly colored, sweetest voiced and most unusual birds in the world. Along the northeast coast Is the bower bird, which adorns Its nest and decorates its playing ground with shells, seeds, and other bright objects, ob-jects, not despising brass buttons and cartridge cases. The lyre bird, famous for Its plumage, plum-age, is the rival of the mockingbird of the South in sweetness of tone ami skill as a mimic. The crow-shrikes ("magpies"), the brown flycatchei ("Jacky winter"), the bush warbler, the rock warbler, the reed warbler, the bush lurk, the cuckoos, the honey eaters, and the "willy wagtail," constitute con-stitute parts of a bird chorus difficult to surpass. Cockatoos are as common com-mon In Australia as crows In the Central West; even In the desert flocks are frequently seen. Some of them are excellent talkers, most of them gorgeously dressed. A most surprising bird is the koo-kooburra, koo-kooburra, or laughing Jackass. All at once in the quiet bush come loud peals of uproarious, mocking laughter. One is cot Inclined to Join in the merriment it all seems as foolish and weird as If an Idiot boy were disturbing disturb-ing a congregation In church. When the source of the laughter is located it turns out to be a silly-looking bird with clumsy, square body and open mouth, sitting unconcernedly on a stump. The ibis occurs by thousands, and the gigantic bkick-necked stork, or Jablru, standing 5 feet high, inhabits the swamps of the iiortliern coast, while the graceful black swan frequents fre-quents the estuaries and lakes. The tuallee ben and the brush turkey build mounds of sticks, leaves, and earth 3 to 10 feet high. The eggs are laid in burrows excavated In the mound and N are left to be hatched by the heat resulting from decomposing vegetable vege-table matter a homemade community incubator. The cassowary of the forests of Queensland and Papua and the emu, which is found throughout the continent con-tinent are unknown outside the Australian Aus-tralian region. The emu is the national na-tional bird and shares with the kangaroo kan-garoo the task of upholding the shield on the commonwealth cent of arms. It is a powerful bird and can run at the rate of 15 to 20 miles ao honr. "ST - an THE LEHI SUN, THE KITCHEN Bl oCABINlT (). 1121. Weetern Newapaptr ITnlon.t Every step mankind has taken has been Spirit led. Every new discovery has been God's revelation revela-tion of Hlmeelf. With every new blaze of light man conies nearer to the central power over the world Anon. ECONOMICAL DISHES As nwat Is our most expensive Item In the dinner menu, we like .to serve as wholesome ana appetizing food as possible within the limit of our budget for food. Here is a good dish worth trying: try-ing: Shepherd's . 1 1 Pie. Take any bits of leftover meat, lamb, beef, pork or mutton, cut Into neat pieces. Fry one onion, chopped fine, In butter, add some pepper finely minced for flavor, season with salt and pepper and cook live minutes. Cover with broth and simmer fifteen minutes; add a little French mustard, put the hast Into a deep dish and cover with mashed potato, set in the oven, brown lightly and serve. Cataline hamburger. Take one pound of chopped beef, seasoned and formed into cakes. Fry In butter and when cooked remove to a hot platter. Put one chopped onion in the saucepan, sauce-pan, two chopped green peppers and let them fry in the fat, add ane tomato to-mato chopped, cook five minutes and stir in a little French mustard; pour over the steak3 and serve. The cheaper cuts of meat, If properly proper-ly cooked, are more flavorful and nutritious nu-tritious than chops, steaks or legs of lamb. Doctor McCoilum says there is no more reason for buying steaks, chops and ham than there Is for Investing In-vesting In summer furs. In both cases we do it because it 13 the custom. A small amount of meat, such as a good cut from the shoulder, will, If browned and cooked with vegetables, moke a most satisfactory meat It is well known that the coarser and cheaper cuts of meat are more rich in extractives than those of muscle not so much used, such as chops, steaks and tenderloins. Long slow cooking will soften the tough fiber of meat and result in a good-flavored dish. First of all the housewife should acquaint herself on food values, then exercise her great American right of independence and buy such food ns she can afford to feed her family In the best possible way. Of all classes of people the housemother and cook should use wisdom In her food selection selec-tion and .not buy something which cooks quickly or food that is too expensive ex-pensive for her purse. If less money wore paid for expensive expen-sive cuts of meat there would be more to buy milk, fruits and fresh vegetables. vege-tables. In many cases the use of steaks and chops are found in families where little thought is given to the food; it Is easier to cook a steak than to get a pot roast ready and see that It Is properly cooked. Here Are a Few Cakes. At times when eggs are not plentiful plen-tiful one likes a cake that does not call for them; the follow ing Is one you will like: Novelty Cake. Take one-half cupful of shortening, short-ening, cream it with one cupful of sugar. Mix and sift two cupfuls of flour with four teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one-half one-half teasnoonful of unit one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one-half one-half teaspoonful of cloves, add the dry mixture alternately with one cupful of water, beat well and add one cupful of floured raisins. Bake in a well-greased well-greased loaf pan for an hour. White Cake. Cream one-half cupful f shortening and one and one liulf cupfuls of sugar. Mix and sift two and one-half cupfuls of flour with Three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, add the flour mixture alternately with one-half cupful of milk to the creamed butter and sugar. Beat the whites of Ms eggs until stiff, adding a fourth of a teaspoonful of cream of tartar, flavor with almond and fold into the cake mixture. Bake forty five minutes la a hot oven. Goldetv Cake. Cream one-halt cupful cup-ful of shortening and one cupful of sugar together, add five beatn egg yolks. Mix and sift one and three-fourths three-fourths cupfuls of flour with three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one-fourth one-fourth teaspoonful of salt and oe half teaspoonful of mace, add to the first mixture alternately with one-half cupful of milk. Beat well and hake In a square tin In a hot oven for fifteen fif-teen minutes, then bake slower for thirty minutes longer. Coffee Cake. Cream one-half cupful of lihortening and one cupful of sugar until well blended, add two beaten eggs. Mix and sift one and three-fourths three-fourths cupfuls of flour with two teaspoonfuls tea-spoonfuls of baking powder. ne fourth teaspoonful of salt and add alternately to the butter and sugar one-half cupful of coffee infusion, hnt well and add one-half cupful of floured raisins cut Into smail pttKvs or one-half cupful of nuts. A delicious filling or frosting for any cake Is one cupful of sour cream, one cupful each of sugar and finely broken nut meats. Boll until waxy, beat until cool before putting on cake. p1 dJCBk LEIII. UTAH r:;... i awct RAYON WEAVES MUCH IN FAVOR 4 Y DEAU, would you believe it, iVi Just a simple little felt, the only thing I could find. A pin ornament orna-ment o:i It and not another particle or trimming, and vhat do you suppose I had to pay for itl" Words which are merelj an echo of the past Women are not being tempted to utter such protests this season, no Indeed I Hats are different nowadays. They are flower-trimmed, ' beribboned, of lace and of exotic straws. No two .... LATEST HATS FOR SUMMER alike either! Huge brims, wee brims, medium brims, no brims at all, off the face, and face-framing, oh, there Is no . doubt about It, it is most assuredly given to woman to be becomingly hatted these summer months, for the newest chapeaux are adorable, growing grow-ing more so each day, tool They are prettily feminine, they are flattering, in fact they are just the sort you love to wear. Bonnet type? are very numerous in the present-moment millinery picture. The smartept ones are of lace or of thinnest hair braid which are smoothly smooth-ly covered with lace, the general ef feet being transparent That very lovely lace cloche which you see in this group in the little oval In the lower left corner, is typical of the new Ince millinery trend. The cunning model at the top of the picture is leghorn. The quilling of-rib bon about the brim edge gives a love ly touch of color, for it is is tones of rose, green and French blue, with In terweavlngs of silver. A handsome silk and velvet rose finds placement at one side of the crown. Straight from Paris, this chapeaul An Interesting thing about the off-the-face shape centered in the group is that it Is an openv-nrk lacy Tup- X W J. hfJ J t 0IESO 6H TWO HANDSOME ENSEMBLES an straw. Lace straw f this kind Is uiwimi jusi now. The flower ap jJique I? exquisite. Seen In the orlg tnal one Is Impresred with its delicate color blmdittgs. Flower bandeaux have made their appearance this season, and we are howlng In this picture one of the ntesi flower bandeau models. Silk, woolen, cotton, linen, and now enters another factor into the fabric fab-ric realm-rayon The world of fash-h.n fash-h.n Is Jutt teginnlng to wake up to tha hat MESSAGE : fact that the discovery or, rather, the Invention of rayon, is a real epoch-making epoch-making event In the history of textile art , . It did not take some of the tore-most tore-most couturiers of Paris long to recognize rec-ognize the merits of the new rayons, and the same may be said of leading American designers. So favorably do they look upon rayon textiles which include rayon georgette, rayon voile, rayon satin, taffeta, moire and a host of other rayon weaves, they are employing em-ploying them for - both sports and dressy apparel, with greatest enthusiasm. en-thusiasm. When apparel as handsome as the two ensembles in this picture reaches this country bearing the etamp of such distinguished French stylists as Lan-vln Lan-vln (ensemble to the right) and Jenny (costume to the left), and when one realizes that In each instance a rayon weave was chosen us medium for theif creation, then does the true style sig nificance of rayon become apparent For the exquisite ensemble to the left Jenny chooses to use rayon satin faille, daring to combine the colors of turquoise and rose for this delight fully feminine creation The two lovely love-ly shades are Interworked so as to produce an effect most unusual and most pleasing Colorful rayon braid on coat and belt offsets the simplicity of the Lan vin creation to the right For this stunning model the noted designer selects a rayon fabric in the soft tone of green, which she has already made famous 1 There is considerable talk ainonji style authorities ubout a coming vogue for rayon velvet, too. The fact that it has been so successfully launched bids-well bids-well for its future wide use in the fall Its high luster Is one of Its pleading qualities, and Its manufacture has been so perfected that In texture It is all that discriminating taste could wish for. Not waiting for the coming of an tumn to confirm the vncne for rawm velvet already there app,8 TeiqU,,S,,.e Ca,S " ",is n r ! ,ur-- -re entrancing, ncludmg deep rich wine and ereen the black rayon velvet summer wran Is a favorite. These coats are verl rtmply styled and usually hv. , w!!ar. They mabe the t.lenl dresu, wrap, especially worn over sheer mim mery dresses. JCLIA BuTTo.VI.F. -S , 1 ' ; ' Thursday. Juiv Is Thirty the ove Deadline! vywrv .. . v uraro u Nathan b well editor, author and critic. H Wayne. Ind, t, 1882. nitni fa elty. and . traduateq in 1904 ? 'Ui'"-b. 'Ui'"-b. h.. been 00 th. .ditorW .L York Herald. . dr,ie J fer wu asMciated with Smart ZtZ s dramatic critic and editor u?,i b.m., with H. L. MKk ai".i iU ot the American Mercury. H. h t and publithed lntere,tif vlewt J" , thelrpUcetaO,. hne. new world. He U unmarried, By GEORGE JEAN NATHAN The result of years In browsing to . the philosophical pastures of piat( Socrates, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kant and Simon- and Schuster la plainly evident In the case of will Durant The poor fellow has become Infected with the philosophy coccus, or metaphysical meta-physical lead poisoning. He aDoarent. ly cannot now view anything UTe through philosophical whiskers. He would apply the principles of NIco-machean NIco-machean ethics to hay fever ana the transcendental dialectic to a Follies girL He would endorse a brand of cigarettes with a quotation from tie "Novum Organum." As an Instance of the pox which has seized him, we bave his recent animadversions on I'amour. Fondling bis beard, Professor Will bas generated a profound cerebration to the effect that no man, and by Inference In-ference no woman, is capable of falling fall-ing -In love after the age of .thirty. By love, the professor says, he means true devotion. Being a bachelor of long and reputable standing in the community, 1 am perhaps not the most appropriate party to enter Into a debate with the professor, yet It seems even to an outcast like me that he Is much more highly equipped to write the story of philosophy than to produce philosophy himself. . As a philosopher, he may be said to bave his weak points. In the first place, to argue that a man or a wwn-an wwn-an Is Incapable after thirty of succumbing suc-cumbing to what is called love Is to argue that only a man or a woman under thirty Is capable of self-delusion. More, that love and true devotion, devo-tion, as the professor phrases it, sre one and the same thing. Love and true devotion, unfortunately, are not always one and the same thing. A man or a woman falls In love much more often than he or she, if I may express It so, falls In true devotion. True devotion may be consequence of love, but It Is not love itself nor the propulsive power of love. Love, as , tleliogabalus meditated, Is the triumph tri-umph of Imagination over intelligence, intelli-gence, the delusion that one woman differs from another, the temporary conviction that there is nothing In the cocktail but genuine gin. It Is a lovely violin duet played by a boozy, bald-headed man and a slattern hidden hid-den from the enraptured hearers' eyes. It Is artfully charged cider In I Charles Heidslek 15 bottle It Is nonsense picking the edelweiss on lie peak of Olympus. It Is beautiful and It Is dumb. True devotion has no more place In It at least In Its first and most glamorous stages, than i harp has in a Strauss waltz or In "Papa Loves Mamma." To say that i man can't fall In love after thirty is to say that he can't enjoy music, liquor or any other such analogous sense stealing diversion after the same age. As a man gets older, til capacity for making a fool of himself him-self Increases, and so his aptitude for love Increases. True devotion, to revert to Professor Profes-sor Durant's phrase, Is hardly ?M at which youth excels. Surely the professor would not have us believe that the love of boys and girls l either founded upon or Inspired by any such phenomenon. This le no place to wax too concrete about so delicate a matter, but even the professor, pro-fessor, plied sufficiently with pemt-slve pemt-slve schnapps, would admit that what he calls. true devotion Is somewhat removed from the necking and petting pet-ting that the younger generation in turn calls love. If that Is true devotion, devo-tion, either Incipient or potentially permanent then I am ready to believe be-lieve that Casanova's name was Dante. It Is a platitude, grounded In statistics, sta-tistics, that marriages after thirty, are generally more successful than marriages contracted before thirty. While no Pollyanna, I have a feelln? that devotion. If not love, must have something to do with the prosperity and endurance of the past-Jnirty hitch. Love may keep lovers togpth-er. togpth-er. but love alone. In the accepted cano tho word, can't keep s mar ! ried couple together There must t something else and that some.u.u else, unless I am in error. tne peculiar hangover that goes W " name of devotion, respett. syini' understanding or what not -' 18 less purged of the havoc ot e'',", by the test of time and the tnal 'faith. A successful, marriage is ni - of a hargain between friends thai- l. tween lovers Love Is never ahs'.ite entire. In It. though it be as deep the deepest sea. there Is always bow-room for a hit of " some other mai or woman ' patriot may love only one "n: but the lover pretty general'. his uniform a touch of lb "" color. . , ( |