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/ V- ll m*0'x S*:*-- T HESE memben of tho Caremen and Carewomen, the only organisation of Its kind In the world, are on the way to the Oregon cares where they hold their meetings. They are always ready to greet eastern tourists and initiate them with weird ritual. • ••• v-v.vXSSms* ? IMF" : : : £# b IIP mm frj | « Bedtime ^tory for Children By THORNTON W. BURGESS YANK YANK EXPLAINS SOME THINGS W HEN Tank Tank the Nuthatch asked Peter Rabbit If there was anything else he wanted to know, Peter was quite ready for him. “Tes,” he retorted promptly, “I want to know how It Is that you can walk head first down the trunk of a tree without los- ing your balance and tuuibllpg olt."— Tank Tank chuckled happily. “I discovered a long time ngo.’V he. re; plied, “that the people who get on best In this world are those who make the most of what they have and waste no time wishing they had what other people have. I suppose you have no ticed that all the Woodpecker family have stiff tall feathers and use them to brace themselves when they are climbing a tree: They have become so dependent upon them that they don’t dare move about on the trunk of a tree without using them. If they want to come down a tree they have go back down. “Now, Old Mother Nature didn’t give me a stiff tali’ but she gave me a very good pair of feet with three toes In front and one behind and when I was a very little fellow I learned to make the most of those feet. Each foot hooks Into the bark. When I come down a tree I simply twist one foot around so that the three front claws of this foot keep me from falling. It toe has a sharp claw. When I go up a tree the three front claws on each M l Should Say Not,” Exclaimed Yank Yank. Is Just as easy for me to go down a tree as to go up and 1 can go right around the trunk quite as easily and comfortably." Suiting actjon to the tvord, Yank Tank ran around the trunk of the apple tree Just above Peter’s head. When he reappeared Peter bad another question ready. “Do you live altogether on Insects and worms and grubs and their eggs?” he asked. “I should say not," exclaimed Tank Tank. “I like acorns and beech nuts and certain kinds of seeds" “I don’t see bow such a little fellow 1 as you can eat such hard things as acorns and beech nuts," protested Peter a little doubtfully. Tank |Tank laughed right out “Some time when I see you over In the Green Forest I’ll show you,” said be. “When I find a fat beech nut I take It to a lit tle crack In a tree which will Just hold it. Then with this stout bill of mine I crack the shelL~lt' rtftlly ts quite easy when you know how. Cracking a nut open that way Is' sometimes calle<f hatching and that is how come by the name of Nuthatch." ©. T. W. Burgeas.—WNU Servlc*. Probabilities Never Wrong 1 The quotation from Aristotle to the effect that probabilities are never .wrong is a translation of the Greek which Is practically as follows: “In regard to the confirmation of evidence and the law of probabilities, when man has no witnesses he can say that the decision should be given In ac cordance with probabilities and that this is the meaning of the oath ac cording to the best of one’s Judgment. For;:. .,. probabilities cannot be bribed to deceive and neither can they be convicted of bearing false witness." IN MEMORY OF GEORGIA By ANNB CAMPBELL ’V • Introduction of Table ork Aid to Cookery A LWAYS I will remember her strong bauds , Poised like white birds on the piano keys, Bringing our spirits to enchanted . lands. Winding us 'round with heaven's har monies. Not only with her music did she touch Our hearts with beauty, but her life was such That art and character were Joined, and she Was music—an Vernal melody. It Is as If an uncompleted chord Of music stopped when she sel forth to find — - Celestial harmonies as a reward For all the loveliness she left behind This world held charms for her . . . buf how much more Will she discover on that golden shore, When she begins that last triumphant strain Commemorating her release from pain 1 Copyright.—WNU Sorvloo. Tweed Cape Suit _ We are told that net only fingers bat knives and spoons.were made before forks. While the use of the knife dates far back ‘into It was not until the early ith century that forks ap- upon the tables of the nobil ity of Italy. The story goes that a woman of very dainty tastes, the wife of the doge of Q[enlce, who would not soil her finger^ with meat but conveyed bits of food to her mouth with a golden two-pronged fork of her own Invention, was responsible for the first fork known to history. From Italy forks were then intro duced Into England by a gentleman, Thomas Coryate, who had been fa vorably Impressed by the Italian use of forks while on a visit to that country. The English, however, did not at first take kindly to the Innova tion, but looked on forks as an af fectation of superiority. And there came a saying: “Who would make hay of his food and pitch It into his mouth with a fork?" But finally its very usefulness won for it a per manent place at the table. Surely the fork has done a Ivance the ark . ... - great deeMe simplify and adi of cookery by encouraging the taste for Solid foods and natural flavors. It has-also made possible the serving of delicate slices of meat, and fur thermore Jt promotes cleanliness at the table in contrast to the days when finger bowls were a dire neces sity. It has also encouraged the use of finer table linens. Some of the very first forks were really works of art The three which Queen Elizabeth kept as curios were described as “one of crystal gar nished with gold and sparks of garnets—another of coral slightly garnished with gold—and a third of gold, garnished with two little ru bies, two pearl pendants and a coral" History tells us that the first forks to be made in America were made by John Noyes of Boston, about 170ft. These forks, which have silver han dles and steel prongs, are now in the Boston museum. From these have evolved the common table forks which we today consider practically Indispensable. ’17 USTEN IN SATURDAY j2—5 p.m. B.S.T.I ‘ 4 p. m. C. S.T.J METROPOLITAN GRAND OPERA Direct from its New York stage announced by Ben Farrar. Complete Operas... three houn^. all NBC Stations. LISTERINE FOR SORE THROAT Chew for Beauty, Models Advised Especially adapted to winter travel la this cape suit of tweed. The plaid la gray with three shades of blue and a line of rose. The shantung linen blouse and band knit wool scarf are light blue. lUESTION BOX i, ED WYNN, The Perfect Fool Dear Mr. Wynn: *" Can you tell me the origin of the custom of hanging paintings on walla? Tours truly, ART STUDENT. Answer: In ttl2 B. C., there ruled In Egypt n very vain king. He heard of an artlsljwho could paint his pic ture on canvas. The king wishing to leave behind him, his likeness, ordered the artist to paint his picture. „When It was completed the king did not like the painting. He sent his soldiers out to catch the artist but they couldn’t find him so the king hung the paint ing. Dear Mr. Wynn: I have my laundry work done at a Chinese laundry. I went there yester day and waa talking to one of the laundry men about his native country. He told me of the earthquakes and floods they have there. He said that after the last earthquake in China the city of Hong-Kong looked Jllst like “h—l” Do you believe that? Toura-truly, N. QUISmVE. 1, some Chinamen have tell i places. Dear Mv. Wynn: I have a very dear friend who has been acting strangely ever since his WITTY KITTY Br NINA WILCOX PUTNAM wife ran away with an engineer of a railroad train. Now," every time he hears a train whistle he gets nervous and runs away and hides himself. What do you think la wrong with him? Sincerely, G. WHIZ. Answer: It Is on|y natural that he should run .away. An engineer stole his wife and ran away on a train with her and now when he hears a whistle be hides. Very simple He’s afraid the engineer la bringing his wife back. Dear Mr. Wynn: Can yon tell me what la meant when people say a certain married couple are “unspeakably happy"? Tours, O. HIGHO. Answer: When s married couple are. referred to as being * “unspeakably happy" It means that they are deaf and dumb. -it Dear Mr. Wynn I have been ill for several months and my physician wants to send me to the milk enre in Afghanistan. Please met. "I» the milk good there ?*• Sincerely, C TWE^fcft. O-AI JT- ~ ~ / ~ Answer: Is the milk good in Afghan- fatanT^W3!Zr€RBAM Istft In it A, th« A—nHatwH Newspaper*. WNU Service. THROUGH A By JEAN NEWTON THE CHILD’S MIND AND OURS IE CH T HE child’s mind Is ss complex as the adult's. That pronouncement came ont at the recent meeting of the National Com mittee for Mental Hygiene. Dr. James S. Riant, director of the Newark (N. J.) Just simple bled doc- ed that to under- and that girl chum < mentally sketchy friend If In stitchee over a recent Him. and fot tho drawer that ehe « k her eewflng to tho osovIoa Juvenile Clinic told the tqrs psychiatry has the child mind is no stand than the adnlt mind, their failure t6r sponsible for the appalling delinquent and maladjusted Well-r-we shouldn't be Only, what a pity that the experts thte field didn't long ago consult a ordinary mothers, or who knew their John. Had they paged enough imagination to recoil their ewa utve been a» late In discovering what to all who understaad children la an obvious fact The child mind as complex as the adult's—? It would be safer to call It more complex. In many lanes of knowledge and thought that are fa- S lar and well charted to the grown- the child moves In a constant fog. He has hardly catalogued a thing In his mind when something happens to upset his theory and leave him In the dark about what It Is all about Scarce ly have doubts on an Important prin ciple of lile resolved themselves Into definite knowledge, than an adult con tradiction In action or speech, an adult hint or patronizing smile, sends him floundering again. A child has so many Ideals, so many hopes, so many wonders and ques tions on which he forms conclusions which bring disappointments ..and doubt and disillusion, that he Is In a constant labyrinth of thought up one alley and. down the next—usually, it must be said, after some adult who doesn’t know/whert he la going, bat doesn’t canr so much as the child I For the ca lid’s very world depends on the answer to these thoughts The adult's world Is formed—and however well or badly he may be adjusted to It he at least knows what be Is op against Far be It from me to paint adults as sure of life or ourselves. But there are many things we know, about which the child can only winder and gness. And about the 'things that leave us floundering and-helpless aa the child, we at least know that we cannot know I And we have two weapons which he still lacks, to keep us on oar feet In the maze. They are philosophy and a sense of hnmor. e. Ball Syndic*!*.—WNU Barrio*. d°Y0U Know— Fatalities Brought on by Perfume of Roses Incredible though It may appear, the sight or smell of roses has been the pet aversion of many famous people. Francis Bacon, besides be ing affected by an eclipse of the moon, was Indisposed by the sight of a rose. One of the ladles-ln-waltlng to Queen Elizabeth paled at. the sight of a rose, and Cardinal Don Henrlque de Cardona was invariably taken 1U If he entered a room con taining rosea. Another cardinal, Ollverius Carassa, had such a horror of these flowers that he forbade anyone to Introduce them Into his palace, while it Is related that a cer tain Bohemian bishop died, potsened by the smell of a red rose. Ancient chroniclers record that the perfume of roses was fatal to every member V.. That "greenbacks,** as a nick name for paper money, had its origin during the Civil war. Under pressure of ter rific expense the Federal gov ernment issued paper money bank notes and currency of various denominations and because of their , color these bills were known as "green backs.** ■— O. by McClure Newapapar Syndic*!* WNU Barrie* Rythmic chewing, combined with* exercises of the head and neck, was revealed recently at New Tork to 2,000 models, members of the Models’ Guild, as the newest beauty formula. The advice came from a well-known specialist In response to a request from the guild for Information re garding the system. [v A dozen exercises are Included in the complete routine. The Instruc tions for the one lllnstrated: “Start with chewing gum—one or two sticks. After a few. seconds, begin the exercise by tossing the head from side to side. Then open yonr month as wide as you can. Close it gradual#- and all the while endeavor to chew your gum.” This exercise Is designed to tone the muscles of the chin and lower jaw. Others promote a 'fine neck line and beautiful cheeks. of a well-known Venetian family named Baxbartgi- They were obliged to remain In their home the whole time roses were in bloom. Adam and Eve were not the only people to whom an apple was a source of trouble; ▲ courtier of' Francois I of France was so upset by the smell of an apple that he was obliged to stop up hie nostrils with little wads of breadcrumbs while ap ples were being eaten at the table. It Is said that his nose began to bleed violently If on apple wad placed within a few inches of It Leg end has It that several kings of Po land were affected in the same way. PLATES By Man SILK SlftflO M V Rest la Peace "I specialize in aleeping tablets." “Oh, so you’re a druggist?" “No, a tombstone maker" HAIR BALSAM You take your own impression in plaster the tame asm, dentist does. 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