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MeCORMICR MFSSFNHFR MnPORlVifrK G r TWITRSFIAV MARPH 17. IMS TIPS ,o (jardeners Care in Planting P LANTING and planting prelim inaries demand care as the first step toward a successful garden. The ground should be worked deeply and the top three or four inches should be made as fine and loose as possible. A primary cnsideration in planting is to have the soil favor ably moist—damp but not wet. If circumstances demand that you plant when the ground is dry, moisten trenches before dropping the seed. Use enough water to wet soil, but not enough to cake. To retain moisture after plant ing, cover seeds with fine earth and press down firmly. Generally, a temperature be tween 65 and 75 degrees when planting is most favorable. Depth of planting is important, and it varies, of course, with dif ferent seeds. Generally, seeds ap proximately the size of turnip seed should be covered not more than half an inch. Larger seeds, such as peas, beans* and com may be planted one to two and one-half inches deep. 2-WAY RELIEF FOR THE MISERY OF COLDS The speed with which Bayer tab lets act in relieving the distressing symptoms of colds and accompany ing sore throat is utterly amazing . . . and the treatment is simple and pleasant. This is all you do. Crush and dissolve three genuine Bayer Aspirin, tablets in one-third glass of water. Then gaigle with this mixture twice, holding your head well back. This medicinal gargle will act almost like a local anesthetic on the sore, irritated membrane of your throat. Pain eases promptly; rawness is relieved. You will say it is remarkable. And the few cents it costs effects a big saving over expensive “throat gargles’* and strong medicines. And when you buy, see that you get genuine BAYER ASPIRIN. S PULL DOZEN Virtually 1 cent a tablet The Wellsprings Ideas are the wellsprings of all the joy and sorrow of our moral life.—Augusta Evans. Loosen Phlegm In Chest Colds Here’s what Penetro does— melts fast as you rub it in—caus ing counter-irritant action—in creasing blood flow. Helps re lieve local congestion—eases tightness and loosens phlegm due to chest colds. Stainless Penetro is sold on a money-back guarantee. 35c jar contains twice 25c size. There s even greater economy in the larger sizes. Sold by all dealers every where. Be sure to demand Penetro, Wisdom Comes After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser.—Frank lin. GS BUCK LEAF 40" Keeps Dogs Away from Evergreens, Shrubs etc. 1(M Um IttTeaspooiiM I psr Call on mt Spray. I ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★A* ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ STAR ©USX ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Af.ovie • Radio $ ★ ★ ★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★ T HE millions who have read and loved “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” will rejoice that it has been brought to the screen almost intact. A few memorable scenes of the clas sic of boyhood had to be skipped, but the important ones are all there, the whitewashing of the fence, Muff Potter under suspicion of murder, Tom’s startling appearance at his own funeral. Filmed in Technicolor, the tones are subdued and pleasant, making the town and all its inhabitants of some sixty years ago look entire ly natural. There was a great to-do a year or so ago over David Selznick’s country-wide search for just the right boy to play Tom. Finally, Tommy Kelly, son of a WPA work er, was found in New York. Every one who sees the picture will surely be glad that Selznick passed up the precocious actors of Hollywood and waited until he found Tommy. For Tommy Kelly fits perfectly the character of Tom Sawyer. All Hollywood is talking about the great change in Katharine Hepburn. The roustabout comedy that she in dulges in for her new picture, “Bringing Up Baby,” has affected her manner in private life. No long er is she aloof and haughty. No longer does she scurry away as if frightened, or very bored, when co workers approach. —*— Lawrence Tibbett will come back to the screen if Warner Brothers have anything to say about it. They want him for “The Desert Song” and he will have time to make a •t-.v.-Xvivi Uf d «| i INSIST ON GENUINE NUJOL Cast. 1M7. Lawrence Tibbett. picture soon, for Grace Moore is go ing to replace him on his radio hour. Joan Crawford was quite startled recently when she heard an early- morning news broadcast announc ing that she had left her husband, Franchot Tone, and would soon in stitute divorce proceedings. She glanced across the breakfast table, and there was Franchot as usual. “Never mind, honey,” he coun selled, “they have been trying to separate us for three years, and I don’febelieve they can do it ever.” Hollywood casting directors de serve a vote of thanks. They have put back to work three popular ac tresses who have been playing hookey from the screen too long. Zasu Pitts was dragged out of her kitchen, where she has been busily writ ing a cookbook, to play opposite Victor Moore in “Strictly Accidental” for R. K. O. Joan Bennett, just returned from a stage tour and very happy to be settling down in her new house in Beverly Hills, was persuaded to go to Texas to film “The Texan” with Randolph Scott and several hun dred long-horned cattle in support. And Claire Trevor, so well liked in her radio serial with Edward G. Robinson, was cast opposite him in a Warner Brothers picture. —-k— ODDS AND ENDS—"Bad Man of Brim- stone” revived Wallace Beery's career which has been under a cloud of so-so pictures lately. He will follow that up with a sequel “Bad Man From Arizona” . . . Peter Van Steeden received congratu latory telegrams from several New York university professors on the fourteenth anniversary of his radio debut. It seems that in 1924 they excused him from his classes one day so he could audition for a radio program. He has been on the air ever since . . . Martha Tilton who sings with Benny Goodmans Tuesday night swing school did the song numbers that Joyce Compton appeared to be singing in the film “The Awful Truth” . . . When you see the “Goldwyn Follies” you may think that Andrea Leeds is singing, but your old friend Virginia V err ill of the radio really recorded those song numbers. €> Western Newspaper Union. Zasu Pitts Tfoyd ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! « Accident Saves a Life By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter H ello everybody: Choke down those careening carburetors, boys and girls! One accident is all right in its place, but don’t tempt Fate too often. Thomas W. Yates, of Wallington, N. J., pulled one of those taxi crashes at the right moment, but he doesn’t recommend them as a regular diet. Boy, oh, boy! How Tom wanted that accident—and he got it. Well, it just saved his life and that’s according to the facts he wrote down in his report to me on the biggest adventure of his whole taxi-driving career. Tough Customer in a Bad Neighborhood. Well, sir, Tom was breezing the old bus around the long streets of Cleveland, Ohio. Just off the public square a man hailed him and climbed into the cab. That tough-looking customer gave an address in a hard-boiled sector and Tom stepped him there in record time. The address Tom had was an unlighted house. And then—the fare says, “Bnddy, I forgot to bring my dough along. Come in and I’ll get the old bankroll.” Tom stumbled into that dark hallway. He hadn’t gone ten feet until he felt a gun jammed against his vest buttons. And that pas senger was saying, “Gimme that dough.” Tom had just been paid and business had been good and he had about eighty dollars in the old jeans. And there was nothing to do but to fork it over. Then the passenger said, “Now that I’m heeled, we’ll be going places. And see that you don’t stop and talk to any cops.” Well, Tom sat there at the wheel with that gun in his back, wheel ing to the toughest speakeasies in the city. Each time they stopped that passenger would herd Tom inside at the point of the gun and make him take a drink. The fare was getting more and more soused at every stop—and also more and more reckless with that gat. Music and Another Ride. The mugg prodded Tom into another dive out behind the haymarket. Tom was leaning over the bar, trying to think up some scheme of getting rid of that passenger and reporting him to the police. He had just The Taxi Turned a Complete Somersault. about given up trying to think when that dingy, stuffy barroom roared. The yegg stood there with his gun still smoking. “Let’s have some music,” he yelled. And a colored banjo player who had been dozing jumped two feet off his bullet-splin tered chair, and how he did play! Tom groaned as the gunman ordered him back into the car for another ride to a different section, where Tom knew the toughest gang sters in Cleveland hung out. It was a long drive and when Tom got be hind that old wheel and out into the air his brain began working normally. He had an idea. Yes, sir, by golly, he’d do some of the fanciest speeding on record and if a Cleveland cop didn’t stop him within a block or two— well, it would be different from his ordinary run of luck. But Tom’s luck hadn’t begun to break for him. It was after 2 o’clock and all the motorcycle cops had gone home. All Tom could hope for was that some traffic cop might be left on duty and anxious to make a pinch. Collision Solved His Problem. Well, sir, Tom opened that old bus up wide. He cut out the muffler and roared through the deserted streets like a rocket. Not a cop was in sight. He drove on the wrong side of the street, he passed traffic lights. He did everything that had cost him threats from the law in the past. But no blue-coat lifted a* finger. And all the time there was that gun wobbling around against the back of his neck and jabbing into him at every bump in the road. Tom was desperate. And—just then, ahead of him loomed the lights of another car. It swung across the roadway in a left turn. Tom had been wishing for a little accident that would at tract the cops, but nothing like that. He swerved sharply and the front of the cab missed the rear of the other car, but something ripped into the center of Tom’s cab. That old taxi with Tom and the yegg turned a complete somersault. Well, that crash brought out the crowds—and plenty of cops. They pulled Tom out of the wreckage in a daze and carried him into a res taurant. A pitcher of water splashed into Tom’s face and he began to realize what it was all about. One of his first thoughts was that at last he was rid of that gunman. Then he opened his eyes and there was that bird, standing right beside him, all mussed up but unhurt. But there were also cops and Tom was just trying to get his voice back when the holdup man leaned over him and handed him a roll of bills. The yegg said, “Take this, kid, and keep your trap shut.” Then he slipped into the washroom and disappeared. Tom came out of it after a few minutes and explained everything to the police. Then he counted that roll of bills and he was only $3 short, including a $14 bill on the taxi meter. And, by golly, his commission on that bill was just three bucks, so he was even on that night of wild adven ture. Copyright.—WNU Service. A Story of Thermopylae In that epic story of Thermopylae, where the little band of Greeks withstood the entire Persian army until all had perished, one Spartan only lived to return, and he only because he was so sick that he had remained behind the fighting lines. Carried back to Sparta, this Aris- todemus lived there scorned and avoided by all until a year later, recovered, he fell valiantly fighting in battle. Even then they denied him the honors customarily paid the brave dead. So hard a race was the Spartan. Many Tribes of Indians It was estimated that there were about 330 Indian tribes in this coun try when it was first discovered by the white race, but through war fare many of them have been ex terminated. Sinking Creek in Kentucky Sinking creek, in Breckinridge county, Kentucky, suddenly disap pears and traverses an underground course for several miles, reappear ing ay a large spring flowing under a hill. American Vermilion American vermilion is a different color from English, French and Chi nese vermilions, which are made of sulphur and mercury. Those colors are found naturally in large quan tities as the mineral cinnabar. The natural cinnabar is not brilliant enough in color, however. Most of the English vermilion is made by chemical process. American ver milion is a basic chromate of lead and is used mostly in the commer cial arts, while English, French and Chinese vermilions are used in the fine arts and are more expensive. Pansy, Flower of Trinity Pansy is called the flower of trin ity because it prayed that the trinity would take away its odor. It orig inated from the French word Pense meaning a thought. It is some times called heart’s ease, cuddle me, jump up and kiss me. Pomegranates Grow Wild Pomegranates grow wild in Af ghanistan and northwest India and districts south and southwest of the Caspian sea. They have a refresh ing acid juice. DORIS DEnrS column If Sweetheart Keeps Post porting W edding. She's Probably Fickle. p)EAR DORIS DENE: I have been engaged—or almost en gaged to a girl for two years. At first we couldn’t make it public be cause of my family’s objections but I talked them out of their attitude and they accepted my fiancee. How ever she refuses to let me announce the engagement even now. She keeps postponing the day of the wedding and if I hint to any of our friends that we are really engaged she flies into a temper. She won’t wear the ring I gave her and she claims the right to have other boy friends and says I may have other girl friends. Through it all, she says she loves me and I believe her. But what is the meaning of her refusal to make the fact of our relationship known?—B. R. F. ANSWER—There is nothing more distasteful than having to enlighten a nice young chap as to the nature of his fickle sweetheart. And cer tainly if your long letter, B. R. F., had given me a glimmer of hope for your case, I’d have stressed the hope for all it was worth. But the facts look uncompromis ingly clear. Here is a girl who presumably likes steady devotion as much as any other normally vain woman. She enjoys that sense of security in duced by the knowledge that there is a man on hand waiting to do her bidding—ready to be her escort— anxious to prove his undying love for her. This she is not willing to give up. But on the other hand she has a sneaking suspicion that her steady beau is not the hero she’s dreamed of. Perhaps if she waited a while, Mr. Right would come along. And in the meantime nothing could be more convenient than to have Mr. Wrong on tap registering devotion in a big way. Believe me, B. R. F., there are hun dreds of heartless, selfish young things in the world who play this trick regularly on their unsuspecting admirer^. The wonder to me is the unfailing good-na ture with which these ardent swains ac cept excuses and postponements and alibis. It must become apparent after a while to even the most credulous youth that something is wrong with a situation in which a lady claims to love her hero yet continually refuses to make him her private and personal possession. It is pretty safe to say that when a gal is in love, she will move Heav en and earth to hasten the wedding date, not to postpone it. Unless there is a really grave reason for delay it is the female of the species who clamors for wedding bells. She wants her ring, and she wants her wedding, and she wants the world to know that Mr. Right belongs exclusively to her. She also wants to prevent any other woman from making even a temporary claim on her hero’s time and affection. So that when a fiancee shilly shal- lies and fakes excuses and urges freedom and independence for both parties to the contract she is dem onstrating fairly conclusively that she is not marriage-minded. She proves that she is holding on to a good sure thing with one hand and feeling around for a more exciting romance with the other. Be warned, B. R. F., and don’t waste your youth waiting for your girl to find someone she likes better than you. r\EAR DORIS DENE: My daugh- ter married a boy three years ago who is nice enough in his way but has proved a very bad provider. His salary at present does not en able him to support a wife and they have had to come to live with me. I am not rich and as my daughter is not good at housework, I am over worked. My son-in-law is still work ing but at a greatly reduced sal ary. I feel that I am being made to pay for my daughter’s matrimonial mistake but do not know how to get rid of the incubus. Is it my duty to tell the boy he must get out and fend for himself until he is able to support his wife?—Mrs. A. G. ANSWER—First of all, it might be a good idea to train your daughter to be useful around the house so that at least you would not be over worked. Presumably if she had her own home she’d have to learn to be a good housekeeper and it is cer tainly not right that she should be allowed to drift idly along depend ing on you to cook and clean and wait on her. In fact it looks as though your daughter’s problem were more se rious than your son-in-law’s. There is no evidence to prove that your son-in-law is anything but a well-meaning boy who believed that he was able to give your daugh ter a home. It is unfortunate for you that he has found himself to be in wrong but honestly you can’t blame him. You must regard the marriage as a partnership which has been temporarily rendered financially unsound. You must understand that under the circumstances it is up to your daughter to do all she can to help the man she's married. And surely her best means of helping is to be as efficient as possible in assisting you with housework. I venture to say that if you had a willing able helper with you in your home, doing her utmost to spare you all the toil and worry of the day, you would not be so seriously concerned with the present state of things. £> Bell Syndicate. WNU Servtea. For Your Scrapbook T HIS issue contains the sec ond of a series of articles entitled “What to Eat and Why,” written by the noted food authority, C. Houston Goudiss. In these articles, which ap pear weekly in this newspaper, Mr. Goudiss discusses in a clear, interesting and understandable manner the everyday problems of food as related to the building and maintaining of health in children, young people and adults, as well. Mr. Goudiss, author, lecturer and radio speaker, is known throughout the country as the man who knows food “from soil to serving, from table to tissue.” The homemaker will want to clip and save each one of these articles for the valuable infor mation tha’ is contained therein. .. SEEDS, SOIL and CLIMATE! The soil and climate of this part of the country are an open book to the seed experts who breed and select pedigreed Ferry’s Seeds. In their experimental gardens, they have perfected seed varieties that are at their best under these conditions. You’ll find these seed varie ties in the familiar red-and-sil- ver Ferry’s Seeds store display. The unique Ferry-Morse Seed- Breeding Institute has spent years to bring them to perfection. Select your seeds from the Ferry’s Seeds display—all have been tested this year for ger mination— and further tested for trueneee to type. 5c a packet and up. 1938 novelties too. Ferry-Mosse Seed Co., Detroit, San Francisco. 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