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A THE PEOPLE, BARNWELL. 8, C. The Custard Cup By ice Bingham Livingston o^rickt hr o»—— *• Cwpmt CHAPTER XVTt^—Continued. Lettle bad never had anything ( to do with stores. This was the first time In her life that she had ever bqpght any thing. The bustle, the glitter, the end less array,. wrought havoc with her Imagination, filled her with a frenzy of Intoxication. Little cars with wheels that turned; dime banks that looked like the most blooming peaches on Mrs. Pen field’s wall; games, books, toya! Marbles—imagine, twenty-four round pieces of baked terra firma for the ridiculous sum of five cents! How happy Crlnk would be! How Thad’s soft eyes would bulge! It was more than could be borne. don’t care!” Lettle burst Into frantic sobs that carried over a wide circle. “I don’t care! Do ydu hear? I don’t care!” Tears streamed down her face. She stamped her foot ana swung her free arm with a violence •nd latitude that first grazed several astonished shoppers and then led to a somewhat freer space around the child. •’Lettle, dear." expostulated Mrs. Penfleld hurriedly, "remember where you are." * "I do." shrieked Lettle. "Thst’s what’s the matter. I don't care Rome day HI have thlags—oonma and heap* and oodles of thing* mlltlnos more^ti He*" T trd * W# Ms “Lettle, ’tend to your blots,’’ put In Mrs. Penfleld flrmly._ ,^ . “Yes’ra.” Lettle subsided, but. with the vague feeling that her geniality, had not been received In spirit. the right CHAPTER XVIII * • — Christmas in the Custard Cup. "I’m going to invite Bonnie Geral dine to the tree," caroled Lettle bn the final morning of the Christmas prepa rations. It was the climax of her hospitality, and was so considered by the family. Mrs.- Penfleld had agreed to men, wom en, children and dogs; but when It came to hens, her enthusiasm waned. Her formal objection was based on Bonnie Geraldine's timid nature and the temperamental anguish which she might endure If forced to meet society In the mass, but Lettie proposed to ease the sensibilities of the young Plymouth Rock by bringing her In a box. tethered to remain therein. The matter was discussed, but left to cir cumstances for final decision. Lorene and Dick Chase had returned from their honeymoon and had accept ed their lavltatldkt. "Well ask her to alng." decided Crlak. who had a wary eye ont for • he entertainment at the gneets whom Lettle was tealonaly amrmbllng. “Oh. Uocle Jerry," protested Mm Penfleld. "I got ev’rytblng planned. We’re going to have—" "Tou wait till I get back Teen yon plan,’’ Interrupted Unele Jerry, and ho went out so quickly that Mrs. Peh- fleld'S expostulations fell on the empty air. * . Repeated countings failed to shako the conclusion that Plain Mixed had yielded only forty-eight candles. Three were apportioned to each tiny net bag of popcorn, since only the younger guests were to receive thla particular treat. Early In the afternoon Mrs. Sanders rang the bell at Number 47 and brought three parcels tied with *ed ribbons. “They’re for the children,’’ she smiled'. “Oh, my dear,” said Mrs. Penfleld, overwhelmed. "Why, It wasn’t right for you to bother 'bout—” “Don’t say that,”' Interrupted Mrs. Sanders. “It’s been the best thing for me that ever happened. Mind how I haln’t called you over for one of those —those attacks lately? Well, when I’ve fett one coming on. I’ve.gone to work on these things—hard." She pointed to the gifts. “They’ve been what’s saved me—hat I thought meb- be the children eoOld use ^em: That’i what started me making ’em. but I I got more good out of ’em than anybody else will.” “You're a dear friend." acknowledged Mrs. Penfleld warmly. ’T hope you— jHu’ll have a brighter Sew Tear." -I m plant »» thing at log to do dlfTrunt; that’a re. ni tall jam about It M - mSSING K i%e GUktftN CALENDAR® in* FIND? ALMOST All THE WOULD KEEPING THE SAME TIME '7s >r calculated that fit* earth revolve* about the ran la 38 aeronda leaa tbaa the measure in the Gregorian calendar. This ‘.would put the calendar out of step with the ion one day in every three thouaand years. 8> the congreaa Inaista that there must be no February 2D when the year 2000 comes around. Archbishop YatlMoa, metropolitan of Methymala, who recently called cm President Coolldge, Is a Greek church man type. "Everybody out of step except fa ther,’’ say the Ruthenl&n Cathollca, known In Europe as the Unlates. It appears that these people of the Rus sian Ukraine and adjacent Ruthenla do not love their neighbors and do not take kindly to their religions, so they object to celebrating the feast days at their church simultaneously with these same neighbors. There are some eight millions of these Unlates, it Is esti mated, including half a million In tha United States. With the omission of February 29 In the year 2000, the Gregorian cal endar may keep good time, for all the average man knows—or Indeed any body hut the astronomers and nth ; degree mathematicians. But the aver* age man knows that the calendar con)<> be made more convenient. There’* Easter, for example, coming around any time between March 22 and April / CLU> CFtrHZXKAC Sr a ^ 1 11 ■ ■ r JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN I it go oat Sava to ha tha 1 ■rvraife suo of a aavaMh i IhHf i- f ► ^ * * mNB IMHI# tMMp #Bw*s*b SMMP %mmm |§ ejftprtef fef eft* ftl 4ftfft f l^fti ftftft si ftnft*ft ft fMtetftftfft \ BftRftMMft IftMMMfti ^ ftftfti ftftf R* kft RM*ft (ft* ft«Wft ftf i *tf Iftftft Yftffft tft* Iriftftftftft ftf IMfttafli ftftft ft^ sms ftm ftft 1 Bftpw r* MftRftiRt ftftRftftMHHi ftf mmmm iftftftBftft i» ftfti tfftftMflfeft fttfftfti ML ftft| \ HHftftftftftl i I ■ s Rft • ■ * ,• t« r< .At I* •at. I will" It was long pa at lunch time when Crlnk returned with the tree, and he tried many hours before lie accom plished a base that would support It In a corner of the living room. But no •ooner was the fragrairt flr In place than every little Penfleld felt that Christmas was an assured fact. Lettiy meantime was making picture puzzles- mounting Illustrations from Weatherstone magazines on paste board from old boxes and cutting them into fantastic shapes. Each puzzle was put In an envelope and Inscribed with the name of a Custard Cup ten ant Who would be a guest at the party. By the following, evening the prep*^ arations had taken a different turn. Everybody gathered about the table In the living room to make blots. The tablet paper was cut Into uniform pleces./ Lettle’s ink bottles had’been brought out; and a few* drops of ink, oth black and red, were shaken from pen on each paper, which was then olded once add smoothed flat. The re- ultlng blots took varied. Interesting orms, some of which were touched up lightly Into clearer outline. Uncle Jerry wgs the umpire inter- ireter of these blot pictures. Pefen- ilal True, tha only neighbor Invited to he ceremony—and that because of ler artistic abilities—thereupon com posed a couplet embodying the Idea nd wrote It In beautiful letters be- leath the blot. The reet of the mantla ore lopes wer* used to Inclose theae Ifta. . hat the penr>sof »wt omposing led to whtai oco* sod Stock looftMee hared vtth the fhotlty - W ' rCV* • i Mmm ever, am •we Mm Ska’ MM» ■e<ws t • gOMk amt gflal t w**v wooog "eadthsaet ■ha «NMa ‘his» ttnae Mai; gggpRsad fMmawKli a gsw amni MhHF wh » • * * • * Tha Oifts Wees Drawn Forth. tiihutl Into the pan of fragrant popped corn and guided the “old maids” Into a .cup. Turning, he looked down on the three solemn youngster?* with a twinkle in his merry eyes. “See Ing as you're going In for parties, there’s n few* rules you’ll have to leant First one is :'There’s two things you ain’t never to talk 'bout ’fore outsid ers. One’s your soul, nnd the other’s your toothbrush. They’re your own private property, and nobody else cares a hang.” “Huh!" scoffed Lettle., “If that's nl! there Is to it. I got It learned a’ready.” " ’Tain’t all there is. to It. Lettle.’ laughed Mrs. Penfleld. “If It’s rjiles you want, I’ll give you one that’ll b< simple to remember, and It’ll cover the whole ground, too. If you want* folks to have a good Time In your house, all you got to do is to forget yourself and feel friendly. If you’ll keep those two things working In your heart, you won’t go far wrong In any entertain ing." “Car’llne," commented Jerry Win ston, with mock reproof, “you can sure be depended on for taking the short cut*." “I shouldn’t wonder," she returned, good-naturedly. "I Ilka the easy way 'cause It’s bo much easier. Resides, I ■ever heard that you got any more blackberries ’cause you was scratched let ef ft t*uu ...... •... m <***«e U wss a wonderful evealng Hie >rec young. Pen fields went through It ■ In a happy dream. They could ne more hejleve In Its resllty than tba ••nged ftfrd ran believe In sudden free dom. Here was not merely a gimd time, hut the climax of bliss, the eh scncc of things long hoped for. Thl •dr was full of.the pungency of flr houghs. And there waa the tree Itself in u comer of the living-room. Its branches hung with tinsel. Lettie’s three yards of this ethereal trimming had been separated Into running lengths and disposed with an appear ance of abundance. And candles! They could not he denied. Six of them ! There were four strings of pop corn In a graduated terrace; walnut shells, decorated with whatever paint had offered: eggshells also, with bright pictures affixed! And what matter H the contents of these letter had gone "to the nourishment of other tenants In ThKTustard Cup? The decorative pos sibilities had been saved for the Pen* field treeX r- And then the presents.! For every child: a pictorial fggshell, a picture puzzle, a net hag of prtbeom. nnd can dy; for every adult, rn appropriate blot and verse, and h nature puzzle! (TO BE OONTTNUED.) I—«**4 at m • i n x*. ifht ti »ry. first king of Rome And Caesar made the mistake of not doing the Job him self. Instead, be turned It over to Jioalgenes of Alexandria, a Greek as tronomer and mathematician. And Sosigenes slightly bungled the job, for the sun and his calendar didn't exactly I Jibe, ahd by 1582 the sun was ten days ahead. It was In that year that Ugo Buon- i compagno. known to fume as Pope j Gregory XIII, took the Julian calen dar. in hand for another doctoring. And Pope Gregory did not do the Job himself, either. He set to work Luigi Ullo Ghiraldi, an astronomer and phy sician of Naples. He”got sun and cal endar working together, or nearly so. He died anfi anotfTer mathematician, one Claras, worked oat the necessary pnlcntnttnns fr>F ftve yprlflmflon Tbo calculations were published in 1603 in a volume of 800 pages, authorized by Pope Gregory. And that Is the Gre gorian calendar In use today, t The Gregorian calendar, however, was not adopted by all the world all at once. October 5 became October T5 In Spalfty - Portugal, add France. The Roman Catholic states of Ger many adopted It the next year, but In i other German states and the Scandi- ] navtan countries It was not accepted Between George WashtngT snd the World war only two of Importance adopted the reformed calendar. Japan and China, the latter changing over from Its lunar calendar of 354 days In 1011, upon the organiza tion of the republic. Incidentally, the Gregorian year of 1924 corresponds with the year 2584 (ft the Japanese era nnd with the year 4621 of tlie Chinese era. Turkey* adopted the "New Style" in 1017. The Soviet government In Russia soon followed and Rumania made the change In 1910. But the Balkans have proved a hard nut to crack. It took a gathering of the Eastern Orthodox Christians from •*!«**•• day. may be Hopping a Me te keep accord the wind away. Pope Gregory XIII But the passed te his reward severs 1 rentorten that for ago. Besides the world hns changed datus la somewhat since their day. There will be ao reform of the Gregorian calendar o’b time by decree. The change. If there Is one. •ouatriee | must come abo«M through public opinion. Tinkering with the raieodar bgp been a well-known sad Justly popular sport ever since the dawn of eirUlxatloo. The savage, when he saw the daya lengthen and the sun grow wanner after a hard winter knew that the re current miracle of the spring was at hand. He rejoiced—and let It go at that. *: - But In Egypt, when civilization dawned so many yeans ago that to fix the date! is largely guesswork, the cal endar soon took a prominent place in the business of getting dally bread. all over eastern Europe last spring In ! Egypt was peculiarly Interested In tha a Pan-Orthodox congress to bring bread question because in ancient times about the change. These Eastern It fed the world and fo** that reason Orthodox Christians form what is often was Mlstrbss of the World. Every called the Greek church. They them-1 hour of every day bad to be utilized selves use the Same "Holy Oriental Orthodox Catholic Apostolic church.” Its members number about 10f>,000?bdo. They do not acknowledge the su premacy of the pope. The spilt be tween the Latin and Greek churches occurred at the division of the Roman enTfHTg; And even then the Eastern Orthodox Christians accepted the Gregorian cal endar with “reservations." Professor |Trpkovlc. a Serbian astronomer, lisa In the growing of crops on the fertile lands Irrigated by the annual Inunda tion of the Nile. Therefore the spring time planting had to be on schedule time. So the wise men of the day first planted n pole and measured the length of its shadow when the sun crossed — tKe S^aran: “Ahrocrt~o7~{W 'g^T poles grew the boildtng of the pyra mids. each aa Improvement over Hie lest In accuracy as a nun dial—000 years ago. . 4 ' Seems Carrying th# Cess Up. > The>®inert lawyer •wme back from court la *.'iu»"h!ng «f • half Tber* • ms ■■bserved to plant for a long rime AflfAr?F~lirft 'PflHUJV ShT TWfT FT turee* •Mb a strange Vsp4 te bis eve •» s fvtfM essMe Mm a A ■"111« rr^ NEW YEAR’S EVE felt i« • ett in ,. 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