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Show 1937 January pEroTiiKniE story gg TflORNTON W. DURGESS mrE aep S .' me awake nights by their i squealing and racing about through the wails. Theyre getting so bold that Im actually afraid of them. So the farmer set all his traps. He set traps in the attic and tn the pantry and it, the woodshed. He put poisoned fooa where he was sure the rats would dnd it. But it was ah in vam. Those rats had learned all about traps, and the gray old leader" of them had earned to be suspicious of food left where it was eas to get. He warned the other rats not to touch this food. The farmer blocked up the holes in the pantry walls, but as, fastas he blocked them up the rats gnawed new ones. ' V So it was that the farmer a::d his wffe were in lespair. Do what they would, they Wouldnt get rid of those rats. The rati got into the celTar and stole vegetables. It got so that the farmers wife didn't dare go Daitaro, a hippopotaTOuTaT the Ueno zoo in Tpkyo. Japan, who is down to the cellat. She was afraid ery popular with the children, shown as his long canine teefti, which oi being bitten by a" rat, and you had troubled him. were shortened recently. It took twenty minutes to know the bite of a rat is often coax the hippo into position with his mouth open and forty-fivm unites to saw off part of the two teeth; this poisonous. while the including attend delays C T. W. Barren WND Service. ants fed him cabbage, his favorite dish, to increase his patience ',,eci:spa,r bo owned . ?ere the (Si -- the big rati had lived days be a wasnl that there After a few oarn. He toe fjebig moved to the all bad iti bad They had been ffjes they had Uved in the so but they were ever He house. his in rf,e living did not move like ! &. '; SJBust have been driven bau and who or what ! driven them out was the fanner could guess. jjj ue had tried to get rid fJitj there and hadn't been Now suddenly they had the big bain and taken tj joa of bis house: said the farmer, 4 wM "I what drove those rats Then perhaps I could Kre. se tame means to out drivem 'fill (ft ' iltSj house. you could," e replied his 1 dont know what were go do. Those rats are getting G that they dont pay eny at-They run to me at alL in broad floor the y pantry The only way I can keep from them Is in tin cans C SS'tj Piyn 0 ite tbj crop thera tor; :h to npred OBjk the rej. dc COOK BOOK I Jars with covers and tire managed even to get the off some of, these. They get dour barrel They have Id the milk; they have stolen (jjj; in fact, there isnt anyinto. havent They got they GOOD THINGS TO EAT IPA KIMOWS 'as minutes. Cut into strips and roll in powdered sugar nhfle hot 30 1 of sweet apple cider, add seven and one-ha- lf cupfuls of sugar, stir and bring to a boiL Add one cupful of pectin, bring to a boil and boil hard flat; lew ot ( d for one minute. Remove and let stand one minute, skim and pour into Jelly glasses. Cover the hot Jelly with a thir layer of paraffin, then when cold cover with another layer, and there will be no air spaces to spoil the Jelly. This recipe makes about eleven glasses of prot. mat; tr t.th, tary lev er a r Jelly. cess; at one-ha- lf ltd a t t MO D Inev to e one-ha- Til, what is "filched C homespun? trousers. let S radicate. Smart WNU Service. for Evening ). I didn't, anyway. same amount of each. Add your favorite dressing and place a small sweet pickle on top of each. This is particularly good with stcVk or fowl. Pineapple is most delicious with all kinds of meats. Vyith chicken breasts with currant jelly and butter it not only makes a garnish but a most delightful sauce as well. Use the pineapple juice in the gravy and add a bit of the fruit, too, to the brown gravy. I used to bur-o- w here and there In search of that or this, But now it isn't anywhere, And that is what 1 mi1 used to lave to hunt for stuff, - A little time it took; As if that werent bad enough, Now there's no place to look. And yet already things begin To clutter as before. And ev'ry time. the mail comes in It adds a Little more. Ive found m glasses, not the case, Ive lost my fountain pen, It wont be long before the place Will seem like home again. WNU Service. Dixie Cake. and one Take cupfuls of sugar, cupful granulated of shortening, cream together, then add one cupfu, of fresh coconut milk and grated coconut Add three cupfuls of flour sifted with three teaspoonfuls of baking powder and lf one teaspoonful of salt add teaspoonful of grated lemon peel and two teaspoonfuls of lemon juice. Fold In the stiffly beaten cites of four eggs and bake in a well oiled lopf pan. hit j ' posi'j it ha a string, While I was out of town, And now I cannot find a thing , 'The place 1 put it down Appetising Salad. A pile of this, a pile of that. ' On a bed of crisp fresh waterI meant to do some dav, cress or lettuce lay three slices of But now 1 don't know where tlu'j'ie ERE are several recipes that it will pay you to try out Sweet Cider Jelly. Before the sweet cider has growm tomato. Sprinkle this generously sour prepare a few glasses of this with sour pickle, celery chopped delightful Jelly: Measure one quart hearts and sweet peppers, using the t 11 'T'HEY cleaned my desk, straight I wiwn to By DOlGLAS MALLOt 1 two al TIDIED UP MOTHER'S THE LANGUAGE lf OF YOUR HAND C Douala By Leicester K. Davis llalloch. WNU Her. I, Double Guitar C Public Ledger, lac. one-ha- Date Bars. Put one cupful of stoned dates and nut meats through ttie food chopper. Add one cupful of powdered sugar and two beaten eggs; mix welL Add one tablespoonful o melted butter, two tablespoonfuls of lemon Juice, four tablespoonfuls of a teaspoonful of flour, jor nail Joint of the THE first,indicates, of salt Blend well and spread as preceding shaldeep In a greased the kind and have lessons shown, low pan. Bake in a moderate oven of its oWner's will While an accurate index of this quality of is essential to a cor-o- f character through hand, the amount of logic indicated must also be determined. The Thnmbeas an Index ef Logic. The second, or middle, joint ot the thumb nay be relied upon to ted us of this important complement of character. This element will clearly Indicate its owners love and powers of meditation, concentration and ability to think things bk-'- ' one-fourt- .ivh c The ordinary guitar with one neck was too simple for Gene Mack, of Quincy, Mass., so he Invented this two - necked instrument which he proudly displays. Mack plays with Lee Shelleys orchestra. So far as is known he is the only man in the world who can play his novel KNOW THYSELF t, It all happened on December 17, 1031. when Jimmy was woiklng for a drug manufacturing concern in Lons Island City. Jimmy was clerk, and one of his duties was to cheek ovt'r the shipments of whlvky and alcohol as they came in, and store the stuff in a big, 200 foot squaie, ateel lined, burglar proof vault.- That vault was the danger spot of the whole plant. In It were stored all the explosive and inflammable chemicals In the place. There were tons of such stuff as chlorate of potash, and gallons of collodion, naphtha, ether and the like. In addition to hundreds of And 1 was responsible for this ateel drumi full of alcohol. "Besldea stock, aaya Jimmy. myself, only the bos had the combination that would open (he massive door. Jus( a Pencil Started the Trouble On that fateful Dcccmbe .7 that were going to hear about. Jimmy was finding Uiat responsibility pretty heavy. A shipment of foreign whisky had arrived just an hour before quilling time, and Jimmy couldnt go home until it wai all stowed away. He and his helper hurriedly wheeled the cases into the rear of the vault and started to open them and unwrap the bottle from the straw In which Uiey were packed. They worked rapidly for half an hour, but "Doesnt aomething always happen when youre In a hurry? Jimmy wants to know. And Ive got to agree with Jimmy. Something always docs. This time It was a pencil the only one they had. It dropped to the floor and rolled into a dark corner between two stacks of cases. They didnt want to go back to the office to get another one, ao Uiey did aomething that was strictly agalntt Uie rules. Jimmys helper lit a match to look for it That match was hardly lit when footsteps sounded outside the door. Could It be the boss? If he ever saw that lighted match In that vault full of explosives well somebody would get fired. Quickly, Jimmys helper threw the lighted match Into what looked like a puddle of water. Then, In an instant, that "water had Lnrst Into flame. The water was a puddle of highly Inflammable collod'on that bad leaked out of a faulty drum. j Flames Crept Toward the Explosives says Jimmy, the flames caught In some of the loose "Instantly, straw we had taken from the whisky cases. Tongues of fire began to lick out toward the leaky drum the collodion had come from. For a second I was scared stiff. There was enough explosives in the vault to blow the place to biti, and on the upper floora there were more than 300 people getting ready to go home. "I leaped for a rack of sand pails, grabbed two of them and yelled to my helper to get the others. The flame was creeping up the aide of the drum less than an inch from the plug hole when 1 threw the land over it Grabbing the other two pails from my helper I yelled to him to run outside, ring the alarm and hurry back with an extinguisher. Then I threw the rest of the sand. It barely sufficed to put out the collodion still burning at the base of the drum, but now the straw was burning furiously, setting Are to the wooden whisky cases. It looked bad for Jimmy, but In another moment It waa worse, a loud slam glanced at the door and hla heart almost beard lie stopped. In running out, hla helper had kicked away the atlck used to keep the heavy door open. It had banged ahut. Jimmy waa TRAPPED IN A BURNING VAULT full of explosive and the only olher peraon who had the combination waa the boss, WIIO USUALLY t LEFT TIIE FACTORY EARLY! rapidly spreading fire. There was a bare chance and I Jumped for It Like a maniac, I rolled the steel drums away frqm the flames. With blistered hands I pushed and Jerked away heavy cases of potash until I managed to clear a small space around the flames. Every few seconds I bad to stop to stamp out flying sparks that threatened to set off some stored explosive, but in the end I had cleared the space and pushed ell the burning straw and wood to the center of the fire. Then, with fear inspired strength, I dragged up heavy steel plates, used as a runway lor hand trucks, and set them like partitions around the blaze. "None too soon. In another minute hell popped. Cases of whisky in of the blaze began falling apart. Bottles went off In a series of center the shattering explosions. Thanks to the steel plates, none of the scattering glass and flame struck me, but I bad a busy time stamping out the flying sparks and burning splinters of wood. For a full IS minutes, Jimmy fonght that blase. Then, overcame by heat and amoke, ha waa beating a reluctant retreat when tba door opened and mea came running In with sand and fire extinguishers. ."With my hair singed, bands scorched and my face as black as coal" says Jimmy, 1 must have mad a sorry figura. But boy, did that air leel good? And was I glad that my helper had enough presence of mind to run and catch the boss JUST AS 1IE WAS LEAVING TIU5T BUILDING? Barvtc. DR. GEORGE D. GREER Length and symmetry and the itself of the knuckle prominence will make .our conclusions reliable on this fciolnL The length of the Home-Mad- e Glasses Used middle' joint in its relation to that of the first, or nail joint should When Eyesight Grew Dim be carefully cjmpared. If both are Not for a moment must we beof even length there is every Indicalieve that all of our ancestors eyes tion that the will is well controlled were so perfect that some eye help say aoliloqnixing by sound judgment If with this, Dignity, was not needed, for many old specElisabeth, is something we try to the knuckle Is unusually knotty or tacles testify that the tinkerer at stand npon when we have ne ether otherwise prominent we have the least tinkered himself spectacles support. man or woman who painstakingly when the letters grew dim. Window WNU Service. and with greater than average glass was often the only lens availamount of research studies every frames and able for the home-ns- d move in the game of life. did not come Into existence until the 1800s. If a man had Coupled with a firm nail joint this analytical and a forge be could hammer out a pair combination is one of the surest of Iron frames, or twist some of signs ot the man or woman whose DOES "MAKE UP HELP A GI&L pewter and. maka himself specs decisions and actions seldom call MAKE A HIT WITH HEB which could b "belred for several forth I told you sos. EMPLOYES? generations, says a writer In the WNU Sortie. New York Sun. But there were difficulties. Well maule gives th Chrysanthemum Held Sacred in her guidebook enough, said the old tinkerer, to fix In China the chrysanthemum U a contraption to bold two pieces of revered as a sacred thing, and pil- to working girls, (entitled "She but bow to make em sUck? glass, grimages are made yearly to the Strives to Conquer): "Crimson A leather strap was one answer; River Kal where natives drink' of fingernails maka you look snappy, two short sUcks for "temples runn Yes. But waters in the hope young, the was another; under the hair do the persons you are really con- ning up of gaining long life. The type of bow with rings In the the straight chrysanthemum which grows there cerned with Impressing in the office end bolding strings for tying beis a tiny plant or bush, with blos- really like them? Personally, I hind. another; then came bows soms little larger than a "bachelor have never talked with an employwhich slid upon themselves; and button. It is called chrysanthemum er, a personnel director or an embow which was the there finally, indicum and is a far cry from the ployment manager who did not curved enough to fit th head and giant ostrich feather types we grow regard them as probably tba final cling, without thong or string. ' in the United States. Whereas .we and outstanding mark of bad taste. There ' was a time in die 1700s wear our flowers and decorate our Miss Maule advises working girls when lenses were extremely small d to stick to conservative make-u-p homes with them, the ancients not for but for giving the apreeing them. In Japan a yearly 12 they want to make the boss think of learning. In the 1830s pearance tn at held their is honor, worth festival something to we had gone back to these they r really which time a festive drink Is made his business. They like attractive lenses, oblong, hexagonal and ocfrom the petals. The imperial employees, but they want then to tagonal Then some one thought of of Japan represents a six- look natursL a frame which supported the lower teen petaled chrysanthemum. C WNU Sorrle. blue makes this smart eve-oaThe simplicity ot the bod.ee and full sweep of the mhance the beauty of the fab- t- eye-char- clear-thinkin- ts g Frances petal-strew- wor-thipe- Inch-lon- era-ble- m g half of the glass and left the upper part free, and wjgjvera on our way Another to the rimlesi specs. and they thought up were worn In shining steel frames; and some other made specs with fine wire which crisscrossed to form the nosepiece. green-glasse- but is easier and quicker to do. Ken a beginner will find this pattern simple to follow. Pattern 1300 contains detailed directions for making the edgings shown; lllus-t- t alums of them and of all stitches used; material requirements. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins prefetied) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle, Needlecraft Dept , 82 Eighth Ave , New York, N. Y. ' e-W- NU (M?lslery brocade in two shades col-l- u p "I waa stunned, says Jimmy. "For a moment I stared blankly at that locked door, but the acrid smoke brought my attention back to the ee out - Jimmy Made a Gallant Fight h de-gr- always the little things that cause the most trouble. (n'li'i fully d.unty cdi'inf1?, the PczalanoYif Maspcth, L. I., cat tell you that. It I.u icM ot- bolder, can roll oil was a pencil that brought him the big adventure of his life. jour rochet hook if jou h,nt patcroc hot nn inAnd while plenty of people have got into trouble for being tern .1300. You an dfoss-ufor of bit too handy with their pens, I dont think they went through expensive f mid cuff set, lingerie, hankies, half as much grief as that little stick of wood and graphite towels, sheets, cases and napkins. The top edging simulates tatting brought to Jimmy. ITS (Viite plainly pattern murder, your name and nddiess. The Road of Truth There may exist different conceptions of beauty; everyone has his own personal opinion, but there can be no question about the truth of the feeling of beauty. That is i cal and palpable. There can be no two truths, and from this I recognized that there is only one road that leads to the attainment of beauty. That road is Feodor Chaliapin, in Truth. "Man and Mask." EMINENT DOCTORS WROTE THIS OPINION! acid condition of the body . . . they prescribe various alkalies- - excerpt from medical JournaLTh ALKALINE FACTOR In LUDEN'S MENTHOL COUCH Age ef the Sphinx The exact sg of the Sphinx Is unknown. It has been standing for more than 6. 000 years. It Is 70 feet high and 130 feet long, ex eluding the paws. A few pieces of stone have been added from time to time, but tn general the statue is carved from living rock. Until the end of the Nineteenth century there remained traces of the original coloring of the face. . DROPS5y YOUR HUPS BUILDUP ALKALINE RESERVE THElTHERHOMAfrUVES JUST AROUND THE CORKER unrMonbl. bu mm nutnol umixratand by a woman who ! tumidly happy and Invlnx ahnuld hava rwcurrln Miods wImmi Imt whole character mi chattKixl. J I cannot appreciate the dudrrwa, tlia dlmonuTort that all w onion moot endure. II (lore not know what It Is to do itoiiM'work with an aching bock IT may orrm Ail he (lore ml falling cnrryjr. Imore now la tlia cheerful hr Are you aucu conipartnon. a three-quart- Wife? Don't let the ordeals that all women face Cause you avoidable diaoomfort or endanure your home. Do aa eo many wine women have try Lydia K. 1lnkhain Vegetable Compound. For three generations one woman has told another how to go "mllln through with Lydia K. rinkhoin'e V rentable Compound. eye-teIt bell Nature tone tip the tbue Ireaenlng the dlaoom-fnr- U from the functional disorder which women must endure In the three ordeals of UfS: 1. Turning from girlhood to womanhood. S. 1'reparing for motherhood. X Approaching "middle age. wdfh: Don't he a take LYDIA JC. PlNK HAM'S VKOETAULK COM POUND and Go " binding Through. m, three-quart- er Destroying Fear Refuse to acknowledge handicaps and you destroy fear; destroy fear and you will eliminate handicaps. Dr. Tutt. mmimi wrr s Seventeenth Century Mode Virginia ladles of th Seventeenth' century differed little from the English In their costumes,, except that, being richer, they were better able to gratify their desire to shine and outshine. As they manufactured nothing in the South, all their finery was fresh from England. A Virginia lady, Mrs. Pritchard, In I860, owned an olive colored silk petticoat, another of silk tabby, one of flowered tabby, on of velvet, and one o! whit striped dimity. Her printed calico gown was lined with blue silk. There were also a pair ol scarlet sleeve and another of ruffled holland; also a pair of green stockings. f ...colds result from DENVER MUD Voids the Danger in Winter Colds !. ft Cheet eoM. eeepretfoa aad toes-he yivea pmpt ckial faritodone relief by applying Denver Mud. Doctor hve heea weiwg thia redly to apply remedy lor fitty ywem ' y ' wot only for eolda. hat for home, hruiaea and akin kitfalioM. tu r ' AT ALL DRUG STORES S0 Practical Sian, SS family Si. WNU W 2- -3 FOUR TEASFOOUFUtS OFAAIIKOFMAGNSr 1 t 4 take r.:u:::iAS Milnesia, the original milk of magnesia la wafer form, neutralizes stomach add. Each wafer equals 4 tesspooniuls of milk of magnesia. Tlia, crunchy, mint-flavo- r, tasty, 20c, iSc & We at dreg stores. , ks 1 |