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Show Thursday, April 24, THE MURRAY EAGLE J Electrically Heated Homes Make Possible Lower Cost Dwellings Kathleen Norris Says: Which Door (Bell Syndicate h WNU Yours? Service Thornton W Burgess by ! STRIPED CIIII'MI NK HAS SECRET JOKE A and ALL he little meadow OFforest people none is , brighter-cyed- merrier, or more beloved than Striped Chipmunk. He likes best the edge of the Green Forest where the ok! stone wall separates it from the Green Meadows, and there the Merry Litlly Breezes of Old Mother West Wind go to piny with him every day. He dearly loves the sunshine, and it seems as if he must have some secret way of taking it riyht into his small self, for he is that he brightens so even the gloomiest day. No one ' i. sunny-hearte- i ! i ; i Striped Chipmunk laughed harder than ever. Ann went to him, "W hy, George, shame on you! If e'U move right into the city, I'll have my baby for nothing, in a ward, we'll cut expenses and we'll pay that all ofl in five years," By KATHLEEN NORRIS TWO men, both in the thirties, were go- ing home in the subway last night. It was a dreary night, streets dark and slippery with and the underground bleak were slush train was filled with weary home-goerwho occupied seats or on hung straps with the tired expressions of men and women whose day had been dull s, and hard. One man was Tom Smith, who rents four rooms in the Bronx for $32 a month. A parlor and kitchen on the street; two bedrooms on Bathroom, some heat, hot water included. The Smiths have one little girl, Eileen, who is 8. air-shaft- s. Jean Smith is pretty, nervous, dissatisfied. She Is tired of cooking for Tom, caring for him and Eileen, and doing without furs, trips, down town meals, theaters. She lives by a jealous and minute comparison of her affairs with those of her friends; she has no code and no standards of her own. If some woman friend and most of them are some years older than she, and all of them in better circumstances if some friend has a new blouse, a new hair-do- . new dining tabic or car, Jean is wretched. Cold Reception. When Tom gels home she Is often lying down reading. Or perhaps the house is cluttered from a bridge afternoon; the air this k with cigarette smoke, the women fiimhing the laM rubber. A daintily wrapped prize goes to somebody, the guests depart with many kisses and thanks, and Jean wearily begins to straighten up the room. Tom has cold mutton. beets, sandwiches and eclairs for supper, a good enough meal if Jean ha J any appetite tr any Interest in It To his kindly inquiries iie vaguely; she isn't disagreeable, but she sin,; !y doesn't care what Tom eats or feels or says or wants any more. Half the time her answer to his rematks is "What?" If things are uncomfortable for Tom he accepts them In silence Any criticism rouses Jean to an angry summary rT the situation. She has given Tom Smith the best years of her life! She has drudged along in this rotten little place, when Ktln I has moved into those new flats and Glad and Hilly ore buying a house This can go on for a lung time. Tom and subdued ttle V.tlvvn have learned not to invite it S Tom reconciles himself to a damp disorderly bathroom, sits cheerfully rcad.ng the paper In the Cold dusty parlor when meals arc late, trots down to the delicatessen for forgot ten butter, or Coffee, takes Jean to movies night after night. Tom doesn't complain, but rne day he revealed more than he knew of the situation to his friend George 11 row n, when he said hesitatingly, "You see. I have to sort of think out the effect f what t say to Jean sometimes. I have to kind of feel my way." ttrtmns Arc Happy. George Drown, the other home-goinman. lives in the same crowded block with the Smiths He and Ann pay the same rent for the same pare. Hut there the similarity the two families Ceases. Ann 1 g W KONG WAY? Does cooking for your husband bore you? Are you angry became Tom says you can't afford a new fur emit? Are you tired of constantly hai ing to make the pennies Then you should read Kathleen Sorris' an ut eri to wives uho are going the wrong way. has a girl and a boy; and she and their father rejoice in them and love them and they know it. George is the head of the house; he comes home to warmth, light, welcome, comfort If there is good news. Ann loves to tell it She has a pleasant little custom of bringing him a cup of hot soup as he reads before dinner. If there's worrisome news, either from his end of the partnership or hers. Ann has a great way of minimizing it. A sick child is either always better, or "Just reaching the peak. George, it's got to go up to go down!" Ann has a dozen amusing anecdotes of her day to relate; if she is tired, it is just being "comfortably tired." Dishes take about ten minutes in the Brown house after supper; Davy clears the table and Nancy brushes the floor. George Comes into the kitchen to help not because she exacts it, but because he likes to share so much pleasant activity and chatter. Sometimes he and Davy work out arithmetical problems with beans on the kitchen table. Ddinesllc The Drowns go to the movies once a week and look forward to it as a treat. On Sundays they always picnic, in bad weather taking their sandwiches to a big museum or gallery and buying hot drinks In the can have a long face when Striped Chipmunk is about. Yes, sir, it must be that he has some secret way of taking in the sunshine. You know, he is very fond of secrets and has some of the very nicest ones. He kteps them, too. No one can keep a secret better than Striped Chipmunk. That is because he keeps it wholly to himself doesn't tell even so many as one, which is the only way to keep a secret. If you tell one and he tells one Your secret's known by three. But just one more will make it four; It can no secret be. Gn this particular morning Striped Chipmunk w as in the best of spirits. He whisked in and out between the stones of the old wall, raced along the top. chased his tail, and did other foolish things, just to show how happy he felt. Farmer Brown's Boy, WINDOWS Watch your windows when you build or remodel, for they lend personality indoors and out to any house. From the quaint old casement window to the modern sliding window, each sets up an atmosphere all its own to create architectural beauty. No wonder, then, that architects give a great deal of time and thought to the fenestration window layout of the buildings they plan. Let windows be small and numerous, and you get tin- effect of a miniature mansion. Let them be few and largo and your house begins to - f - ',. ; f- u throwing sticks up in the chestnut trees to knock down the nuts, stopped two or three times to laugh Farmer at him. and, though Brown's Boy didn't know it, Striped Chipmunk laughed back. Chatterer the Red Squirrel and Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel heard them both Yes, sir, laugh and they scowled. they scowled. Then they said things, unpleasant things, to Striped Chipmunk and Farmer Brown's Boy. They scolded as fast as their tongues could go. Boy didn't mind. he didn't know-tha- t were scolding him, and if Farmer Brown's fast place, In the Py d f J cjCW TT he had he wouldn't have cared, because he is so much bigger dan they taat the dreadful threats they made would only have tickled him if he could have understood them. And Striped Chipmunk didn't mind. Bless you, no! He only chuckled and laughed the more as he listened to his two angry cousins. "What are you laughing at and having such a good time about?" asked one of the Merry Little Breezes. "Tell us, so that we can laugh, too." "It's a joke, the best joke ever, but it's a secret joke," replied Striped Chipmunk. "Don't Chatterer and Happy Jack know it?" demanded the Merry Little Breezes. Striped Chipmunk laughed harder than ever. "They don't know it is a joke," said he. "They think it isn't, but it is. Really it is." The Merry Little Breezes laughed just because Striped Chipmunk did. They just had to. "Has Farmer Brown's Boy anything to do with that joke?" asked another Merry Little Breeze. Striped Chipmunk nodded as if he were trying to nod his head off. "He's all of it!" he cried. The Merry Little Breezes looked at Farmer Brown's Boy very hard, but they couldn't see any joke. He looked to thorn just as he always did. Then they gave it up. rumpled Striped Chipmunk's hair, and raced over to help Farmer Brown's Boy get the brown nuts by shaking the tops of the trees. And when they did that Striped Chipmunk laughed harder than ever and Chatterer the Red Squirrel and Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel scolded harder than ever. ACTIVITIES The President named Harrv Hopkins to supervise all Pu7 chases under the pro gram. The President annnUncJ that machinery for aiding Qhiis in existence and a list "(t China's needs are being studied Navy Secretary Kn;,x told his press conference the Navy giving Great Britain war rnatw ials "almost daily" ii.,ni jj supplies on hand. Ho also said British warships in nml ()f pair would be arriving in ..meri' can shipyards in increasing num" bcr. U. S. Maritime O.mmi-wioannounced transfer to tin Bri Lease-Len- In Knoxville, Tennessee, a contractor has developed a type of home heated by electricity which can be bought for 73 cents per day. He is Stuart Fonde, called the "Henry Ford" of the building industry who is constructing an entire subdivision of all electrically heated units. If the home is built for electric heat, cost of heating can be as low as $36 per year, Mr. Fonde said, and an additional advantage is the absence of smoke. In the future it is anticipated that cities will have no smoke problem with all homes burning electricity. On a $3,000 home Mr. Fonde offered financing on a down payment of approximately $300 and about 73 cents a day thereafter, $21.60 per or approximately month. "But," he told customers, "here is where you save in low-co- iT3 LEASE-LEN- 194 d -l st i tisrr of four American ships, first to be loaned the Lease-Len- d Act. FREEDOM OF PRESS President Roosevelt told ation. The President said that so far as he was concerned free speech will remain in the undisputed possession of publishers and editors, of reporters, and Washin- 1941. "For the balance of 1941, your payment will be only about 63 cents a day. Taxes on the house will not be assessed until next January 1. This means your monthly payments for 1941 will be only about $18.90. "If you use 400 or more kilowatts of electric current for cooking, hot water, and other household uses, your heat bill will be about $36 per year. All heat costs are based on your domestic demand being 400 kw." gton correspondents, motion pictures, and "for that is where it The magazines, of the radio, belongs." Utile Hcrmils say: IT TOPS 'WALL Around lhe House for QualiUj, Flaror and Vulut!' HUNGRY BABY When baby wants to feed himself, it is well to spread a waterproof cloth on the floor, put clean paper napkins on his eating tray, a large bib on his chest and let him try it. Baby will enjoy this first step toward independence. FOR LIGHT ROOMS When you think of remodeling this spring look or painting-uover your interiors. Changing the color of paint on walls, or the color of woodwork in a room, may make a room three times as light as it was before. Cleaning them helps too, for dirty walls absorb light, bright ones reflect light and helps whatever type of lighting you have. p ilk SOFT WATER PREFERRED Water either naturally soft or (Assorl.itrd Ncwp. pcrs.l WNU Service. chemically softened is a better housekeeping helper than hard water. There's no rule to follow resemble a chapel. for the quantity of softener to Windows you might say, are use because water differs in evthe eyes of your house, letting ery locality. Softened water is easier on your hands; it makes in light and images. Their job is more comfortable baths possible and clothing comes out of the triple duty one. Besides admitting light they must permit free laundry cleaner and brighter. passage of air when they are .MORE .MUSIC opened, and still become rainwhen they proof and For that tired feeling, try muare closed. sic. Follow radio programs for For any home purpose there is the best musical programs and a window that is just right. There discover the relaxation that is no reason, financial, practical, comes from a fine piece of oror esthetic, why you need abuse chestration. They who listen to music find that something hapyour bouse with mediocrity, simply because you have chosen pens within them. There is an Better enrichment of feeling and of nondescript windows. Horn s and Gardens. 5L 1 cold-pro- r- I National Distillers Products Cw New York V -i ! i ; III Giant 675 cu. ft. IriwMmte til New i: . Inside and Out! newly itylcd, genuine Frigi vrr you'll we thnt it pays to buy the favorite. More than ; : "!'n FriRidairei have been built and olJ, thnt' why yua uch values bi this big beauty. Come in and see ill See this huge, . -- the American Society of iWwspap,.,. Editors, in a letter read at their annual meeting in Washington that there would bo no Government control of news, except that involving vital military inform- cafeteria. Because with all the pleasure of their lives the Drowns are solvent and sre saving. Seven yeais ago George's father died leaving him debts totalling more than $4,000, and Ann's mother, a helpless crii pie, came to live with them. house In Uie They had an eight-roosuburbs then. When he realized that their house of cards was coming down around his cars, George hated to go home and tell Ann. Her mother needed medical care and nursing, new baby was coming, and he was overwhelmed with a debt that represented his entire income for a year and a naif Ann went over to him, where he sat t!cpntu!ertly finishing his story and kin It down and put her arms about him an I said, "Why, George, shame on you! We'll move right into the city, I II have my baby for nothing, in a ward, we'll cut out fur nace and Commutation and taxi expenses and live right near the office, and we'll ay that all off in five years. We have each ether and the babies, and 1 CAN take care of Mother and that's the great blessing, so you at. 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