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B ECAUSE he had a problem on his mind that morning Louie didn’t give much attention to the man who got in his cab except to notice that he had an old, tired lace and looked as though he might have money, and when he heard his pas senger say, "Grand Central,” he pulled out from the curb in a hurry and swung down a side street to Fourth avenue. He hadn’t had a decent fare that morning and his time would be up at noon. Grand Central, he knew, would meter about seventy-ftve cents, and if his fare was in the hurry he seemed to be and he got him there on time he might get a quarter extra, making it a dollar. At Twelfth street, seeing some kind of a demonstration ahead of him, Louie tried to go down a side street to avoid be ing held up, but the street was filled with trucks and he had no choice but to fall in line behind the stalled uptown traf fic. His mouth drew down at the comers and his hands tightened on the steering wheel as he read the signs and banners a group of demonstra tors were carrying. "Dam fools,” he said. “Ain’t we got troubles enough right here with out people worryin’ about what goes on in Spain and China and them other foreign countries?” A faint smile played over his pas senger’s grim, sagging face. He had made a large donation to foreign relief himself, he remembered, about three months ago. He could make good use of that money, now. “You don’t believe,” he asked, “in charity?” “Not that kind!” Louie exhibited his strong, troubled profile. “Not when there’s people in this country needing it just as much as they do This Week's. Best Fiction CROSSWORD PUZZLE Horizontal Solution in Next lesne. 1 Female servant 5 To discon tinue 9 Golf club 11 Dawn 13 SkiU 14 “The magic city” 16 Prefix: not 17 Note of chromatic scale 18 He defeated Jack Johnson in 1915 20 French for “I” 21 Military cap 23 Powerful deity 24 Sum 26 Unaccom panied 28 Two ems 30 Weathercock 31 Public writer 34 Framing in which panes of glass are set 36 Note of scale 37 Group of eight 40 To genuflect 42 Alas! 44 Bones 45 Nook 46 Remote 49 110 50 Ram 52 Cubic meter 53 Pronoun 54 Flimsy 56 Tidier 58 CoUoquial: dispute 59 To come out even Vertical 1 Girl’s name 2 Siamese coin 3 Indefinite nominative 4 Prefix: half 5 Riding whip 6 City in Chaldea 7 Electrified particle 8 One who shows endurance 9 Cold-weather garment 10 Colloquial: to vex 11 Chalice 12 Archaic: to anoint 15 To mitigate 18 Hoisted 19 House for pigeons 22 Armed band 25 Small pies 27 Comparative suffix 29 Pronoun 32 Exists 33 Negative 34 Parodies 35 Cancels 38 To shun No. 12 39 One who, levies imposts 41 Hungarian composer 43 Colloquial: fanciful story 47 Pen for pigs 48 To require 51 Slang: initiative 53 Music: as written 55 Molten lava 57 Land measure Answer to Puzzle Number II Is] fTTcT r D : ' A *p1 ■, irpr 7 . Y R u T AJ r A 9 I ■ h E E p 1 Tj R 0 A c H H 0 N E r~ A N L A ' E m B E D 'E c K G F. E s~ E ■ p E R 1 i R I L E S ■ 0 : L i A R A L 0 D ■ ■ A w N i L V E W Y V E N ■ F A _ S E £ A L I 1 & V: N 0 R P A E A D ' T. R F 'nj L s [e1 ii 0 D E A 1 E [w] £ iJ [lJ Series H-47 over there.” T HE MAN gazed admiringly at Louie’s thick, lustrous hair, the healthy color of his neck and cheek. “You,” he said, “look strong and healthy." “I’d be in a pickle,” Louie told him, “if I wasn’t.” “In what way?’ Louie shrugged. “You can’t sup port a family on part time in the cab business.” And then, his body seemed to grow rigid between his shoulders, “I’m a blood donor.” For a few moments the man was silent; his eyes were reflective. “That’s interesting,” he said finally. “I’m sure it’s appreciated.” “You might think so." Louie gave a short laugh. “The last guy I gave my blood to threw me out of his apartment. He was practically dead. If I’d refused to make the transfusion he would have died. They wouldn’t have had time to get anybody else. And yet because I couldn’t pay him g, month and a half’s back rent I owed him he had me thrown out in the street—furni ture, wife and kids—everything.” “That seems. . . unfair.” “Unfair!” Louie’s hand tightened over the steering wheel. “How would you feel if the guy that cracked down on you was walking around the streets with your blood in him? And this guy’s rich! He didn’t need the money. He’d given five thousand bucks to the Red Cross a couple of months before. He’s got more real estate in New York than he knows what to do with.” Louie put his cab in gear. The parade had moved on. Traffic was beginning to thin out ahead. “I’m just praying that some day I’ll meet that guy. There’s some things I’d like to tell him.” “You’d recognize him—this man, if you saw him?” “Only by his picture in the news papers. They had him all covered up when I gave him the transfusion. Only his arm was sticking out.’.’ Louie crossed Fourteenth street and swung into the outside lane to make up for the lost time. “But I’ll meet him some day,” he said. For some time the man behind him gazed directly through the windshield. He seemed to be un aware of the fact that his face was in full view of the rear-vision mir ror. He looked very old, and very tired. “I see what you mean,” he said finally, and Louie could just barely hear him above the noise of traffic. “I suppose we do pay too much at tention to what’s going on in other countries and overlook sometimes what’s going on right under our noses. But we mean all right. It’s easier for us to give to an organiza tion that’s rigged up to help groups of people than it is to look around yourself for people who need help. <( TF YOU were to meet the man L you gave your blood to and didn’t know him you might think him a pretty decent kind of a fellow. A man isn’t generally thoughtless or bad just because he’s rich. Suppose he was caught in a jam himself and needed every dollar he could lay his hands on. Suppose a group of banks were going to foreclose on him and he’d lose everything he had in the world if they did? A fellow like you—young and healthy, why, you could afford to lose a million dollars. You could make it back again if you wanted to; and if you didn’t want to you could do some thing else. “But when a man gets along in life and then loses everything he’s been working for for forty or fifty years it’s apt to be quite as big a shock to him as it was to you to be turned out of your apartment. In fact, some very good men aren’t able to survive such shocks. “For all you know, that man may be dead. You may never see or even hear of him again.” With a strange feeling in his throat, Louie turned his cab into Forty-second street and drew up be fore Grand Central station. The guy seemed to know what he was talking about, he thought. And suppose this man had died—after he’d given him his blood. Died with his blood in his veins. He’d never thought of that before. And he didn’t like it, some how. “I guess you’re right,” he said, his head lowered as he tore the slip from his meter and handed it back. “After all, he didn’t know me from Adam. I guess we all make mis takes.” A strange smile lighted the man’s face. His hand trembled as he drew from his wallet his last hundred dollar bill and pressed it, folded, into Louie’s hand. “It’s never too late,” he said, “to try to rectify those mistakes.” Ten Rules for Happiness You’ve read, you’ve thought, you’ve heard a good deal about hap piness. You’ve seen people seek it, most of them unsuccessfully. You wonder whether there is really any way to guarantee yourself as much happiness as you think everyone has a right to expect Maybe these ten rules from the Cleveland Academy of Medicine will help. A learned committee from this academy studied the matter. What it sought was a formula for happier living. The rules are: Have a hobby. A hobby is a ref uge, a* storm cellar into which you can duck when stress and storms on the surface of your life buffet you about too much. Develop a philosophy of life. That simply means to have a guide by which to live. A life without one is a helter-skelter existence without plan, without goal, without the com fort of ideals or truth. Share your thoughts. Companion ship is essential to personality and to mental health. If anyone lives too long with his own thoughts they can generate explosive qualities that destroy. Confess, confide, consult someone you like. Face your fears and have it out. The world is filled with people run ning away from fears, but never quite escaping them. Face yours. Overcome them boldly. Balance fantasy in your life with fact. Dream, for all normal beings must, but balance your dreams with acts. Don’t fall into the habit of dreaming your life away. Beware of alluring escapes from your troubles but face them realis tically and work out a reasonable answer. Exercise moderately in order that you may have physical as well as mental health. Love wisely, for life without love is life without light. Don’t worry. Trust in time and be patient There you have the ten rules for happiness. They seem almost too simple to be effective. But they are the rules based upon eternal truths of human nature and psychology, and if you will adopt and follow them they will do some interesting things to your own life. ’’We got troubles enough right here,” said Louie. THE NEWBERRY S NEWBERRY, S. C. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ / maostMoiD WtmM • *§ Make the Most of Your Strawberries! (See recipes below.) Strawberry Favorites Those luscious ripe red berries of which we are so fond have a mighty short season, but today’s recipes should help you make the most of them. Eat what you can get now, but put up the red ripe strawberries so you can enjoy them next winter. If you want to have fresh straw berries all the year around for very special occasions, you may want to freeze them, if you are for tunate enough to have a freezing unit. Otherwise, can them whole, or put them up as marmalade. Jam or jelly. If the berries seem a bit expen sive, you can stretch them by us ing fruits that go well with them in jams, such as pineapple or rhubarb. Budget your canning sugar now, too, so you’ll have enough for all your needs of the season. Strawberry Marmalade. (Makes 12 6-ounce glasses) 2 oranges 2 lemons % cup water % teaspoon soda 1 quart strawberries 7 cups sugar % bottle fruit pectin Remove rind from oranges and lemons. Cut off white membrane. Force rinds through food chopper. Add water and soda, and bring to boiling point. Cover and simmer 10 minutes. Add orange and lemon pulp with juice. Simmer for 20 min utes. Add crushed strawberries. Measure 4 cups of prepared fruit; add sugar. Bring to boiling and boil 5 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in fruit pectin. Let stand 5 min utes. Skim and seal in hot, ster ile glasses. Another straw berry favorite for the season is jel ly, but hi Uiis recipe the precious fruit is extended with young, strawberry-pink rhu barb. Strawberry-Rhubarb Jelly. (Makes 12 6-ounce glasses) 4 cups juice 8 cups granulated sugar 8 ounces liquid pectin To prepare fruit, cut about 1 pound of fully ripe rhubarb into one- inch pieces and put through food chopper. Crush thoroughly and force through the food chopper 1 quart of strawberries. Combine fruit and place in jelly bag to extract the juice. Measure sugar and fruit juice into saucepan and mix. Bring to a boil over high heat and add liquid pectin at once, stirring constantly. Bring to a full, rolling boil and boil hard % minute. Remove from heat and skim. Pour into sterile glasses and cover with paraffin at once. Strawberry Jam is an old favor ite with hot biscuits on every spe cial occasion. If you can spare the three pounds of sugar necessary to make 10 glasses of this delicacy, then here are the directions: Strawberry Jam. (Makes 10 6-ounce glasses) 4 cups prepared berries 3 pounds (7 cups) sugar 14 of an 8-ounce bottle liquid pectin To prepare fruit, place 2 quarts of fully ripe berries through a food chopper; or, crush completely, one layer at a time. Measure sugar and fruit into saucepan, mix well and bring to a full rolling boil Stir con- stantiy before and while boiling. Boil hard 1 minute. Remove from LYNN SAYS: Run Home Smoothly With These Tips To dry lettuce after it has been washed, place in a small cloth bag and shake it thoroughly. The bag will absorb the water but the shak ing will not bruise the lettuce leaves. To assure even browning of pan cakes on the griddle, rub the griddle tath a small bag of salt. This elim inates smoking and simplifles clean ing as well. LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU Creamed Chicken and Mush rooms in Croustade Cases Slivered Green Beans Potato Chips Avocado-Grapefruit Salad Beverage •Strawberry Sherbet •Recipe given. heat and stir in liquid pectin. Stir and skim fruit by turns for 5 min utes. Pour into sterile glasses and cover at once with paraffin, o Strawberry-Pineapple Jam. Combine equal parts of strawber ries and shredded pineapple with sugar equal in weight to the fruit. Boil until thick and clear, as fo. jam. Pour into sterile jars ii and seal at once. If your taste I turns to cool, re- | freshing desserts I that make use of ~ strawberries im mediately, then you’ll want to hang onto these two which take it easy on the sugar supply. Both of these may be made easily in an automatic refrigerator tray. Strawberry Ice. (Serves 4) H cup granulated sugar H cup light corn syrup 1 cup cold water 1 quart washed, hulled strawberries Cook sugar, com syrup and water until mixture spins a thread, or un til thermometer registers 228 de grees. Mash strawberries, and add to syrup; mix well and chill. Turn into freezing tray and let freeze un til firm, stirring the mixture once or twice with a fork. •Strawberry Sherbet. (Serves 4) VA cups strawberries 2 tablespoons lemon juice % cup canned sweetened condensed milk 2 egg whites, stiffly beaten Press measured berries through a sieve. Add milk and lemon juice, then chilL Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Turn into freezing tray and chill in automatic refrigerator until frozen around the edges. Turn mixture into bowl and beat thor oughly with egg beater. Return to tray and freeze until firm. If you are lucky enough to have one of the crank freezers, then you’ll want to make a share of straw berry ice cream for the week-end. Truly there is nothing more tasty and delicious than the pale pink ice cream made with crushed, fully ripe berries. Serve it plain in all its splendor and you won’t need a thing to go with it. Do be sure to have enough for seconds, because there’s nothing better than home made, crank freezer type, straw berry ice cream. Strawberry Ice Cream. (Makes 1% quarts) 1% cups milk, scalded 2 eggs, slightiy beaten M teaspoons vanilla extract Dash of salt 6 tablespoons granulated sugar % cup corn syrup (light) 1)4 cups heavy cream 1 quart washed, hulled strawberries % cup sugar Stir milk into eggs in top of dou ble boiler. Cook until mixture coats the spoon. Stir in vanilla, salt, 6 tablespoons sugar and com syrup; Cool, then add cream. Mash straw berries and add to them Vt cup sug ar. Fold in custard mixture. Freeze in a two quart freezer, using 8 parts of crushed ice to one part of salt Released b; Western Newspaper Union. Never cook soups with herbs for a long period of time, as the herbs lose their delicate flavors. Sprinkle the herbs in the soup just a few min utes before serving to get the most out of them. To save heat and keep the kitchen clean, use pots and pans that fit neat ly over burners so that all heat will be utilized. Do not attempt to remove grease in its liquid form from floors. Pour ice water on the spots, then scrape tha fat n«T with a knife. Prevent Cannibalism By Good Management Keeping Chicks Active Real Secret of Success By W. J. DRYDEN Chicks will seldom be cannibalis tic if provided with proper brooder and range space, correct tempera ture and air control and a balanced ration, properly fed. They must be kept alert and active. Only the mis treated, sluggish chick will turn to cannibalism. While the chicks must be comfort able, the temperature should be re duced gradually. Use a good starting mash. There is no substitute for the bast for start- Baby chicks must be managed right to prevent cannibalism. ing baby chicks. Give them all they will eat at all times and provide plenty of eating troughs. When the chicks are four to five weeks old they may be given grain, and made to scratch for it. A good range and shelter should be provided. Pasture such as blue- grass, alfalfa or lespedeza will low er the feed cost and make the chick ens take on economical gain. Swiss chard, kale, Chinese cabbage or rape may be planted and the leaves pulled and fed to the chicks. Alfalfa, clover or other grasses may be chopped and fed fresh, or alfalfa leaf meal utilized to aid in proper health and growth. BUILD FERTILITY Careless handling of manure causes serious losses of fertilizer and organic matter needed to help increase crop yields and rebuild soil structure. One hundred tons of manure con tains 25 tons of organic matter, 1,000 pounds of nitrogen, 200 pounds of phosphorus and. 800 pounds of potash, one-half of it in the liquid part Piled outside and exposed to rain and weather for several months, this 100 tons may shrirtk to 50 tons and lose half its fertility and organic matter. Losses may be reduced by us ing enough bedding to soak up all liquid manure, cleaning stalls fre quently and hauling manure directly to fields, or storing carefully. Baby Rides Tractor Those who have youngsters who like to ride the tractor will be in terested in this improvised baby seat designed by A. J. Matyus for the Lincoln foundation contest The seat consists of two auto leaf springs, pieces of one-inch round iron 24 inches lonf for stationary steering column and an obsolete steering wheel. The main leaves were bent in the forge and holes were punched to conform to the cul tivator fittings and to give shock ab sorbing effect. The footrest was welded to the spring leaves. All work was done with %-inch mild steel electrodes. Thick Stand Helps in Boosting Corn Yield Farmers who would boost their yields of corn should plant thicker stands than they ordinarily do, ad vises University of Kentucky. Im proved soil and the use of hybrid com seed makes it possible for most farmers to have thicker stands. About 10,000 stalks can be grown on better-than-average land, and 12,000 to 14,000 stalks on very fertile land with good moisture- SEWING CIRCLE PAHERNS Do- 'lljahe Dwo-piece Drock timer DJ^ai Dide-Dwept oCi ineS 8030 n-i.8 ■yOUTHFUL and completely cap- tivating frock in two parts. The wing-sleeved blouse ties in a soft bow in fropt—requires little fabric. The full dirndl skirt is a “must” in every junior wardrobe. * * • Pattern No 8030 is designed for sizes 11. 12. 13, 14. 16 and 18. Size 12. blouse. l 1 /^ yards of 35 or 39-inch; skirt, l 3 /i yards. ; ASK US l l ANOTHER I l ? ? ANOTHER \ A General Quiz ft. O-C-O-(t* <k. A* <1* (t. (t. 1. How much heavier than air is water? > 2. Can a member of congress be impeached? 3. What country is the birth place of the piano? 4. How does the size of India compare with that of the United States? 5. Was “Casey” of “Casey at the Bat” a real person? 6. Must the speaker of the house be an elected representative in congress? 7. What four states west of the Mississippi river meet at right angles? 8. How did Commodore Stephen Decatur meet his death? 9. An earlier name f<jr Columbia university was what? 10. From what song are the words “And where is that band who so vauntingly swore ’mid the havoc of war and the battle’s con fusion”? The Answers 1. Water is 775 times heavier than air. 2. No, but each house can with concurrence of two-thirds expel a member. 3. Italy. 4. One-half the size. 5. Yes. He was David M. Casey. He played with the National league Phillies. Ernest Thayer wrote the poem in 1888. 6. No. The house is empowered to choose their speakers and other- officers without restrictions. 7. Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. 8. In a duel with Commodore James Barron. 9. King’s college. 10. “The Star Spangled Banner.” Church Construction The greatest wave of church construction in history occurred in France in the 12th and 13th cen turies. Although having only 10,- 000,000 inhabitants, France, be tween 1170 and 1270 alone, built 80 cathedrals and nearly 500 cathe dral-class churches at a cost that today would be equivalent to about $3,000,000,000. 1620 12-42 With Diagonal Lines ~1 D IAGONAL, lines are smart and new on this handsome day time dress. It will be stunning made in a bold striped fabric, with stripes going this way and that. Finish with unusual novelty but tons. Pattern 1620 comes in sizes 12, 14, 18, 20; 40 and 42. Size 14, 3% yards 35-inch. SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 530 South Wells St. Chicago 7, DL Enclose 25 cents in coins for each pattern desired. 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