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Giraffe Clothes Tree Attracts All Children ft RATION Covnec JOHNNY WAS WRONG By DONALD HUNTER CHILDREN frequently become ^ deeplyi attached to one of their playtime toys and will spend countless hours talking over im aginary trips and adventures. Be cause this Giraffe Clothes Tree seems to understand almost ev erything a child says, he quickly takes first place in the heart of every little child who sees him. Anyone can build this delightful piece whimsy by following the full size pat- fc rn offered below. All materials needed Ran be purchased at your local lumber /ard at small cost. The pattern tells you what to buy and where to use each piece. No special tools, skill or decorating ability Is needed. Merely trace the pattern on the wood, saw and assemble. Step by step directions are written In language everyone can understand. To simplify decorating and to insure painting the giraffe exactly as illustrated, full size outlines of the nose, eyes, mouth, etc,, are printed on the pattern. These are traced on the wood and painted with the colors the pattern specifies. • * • Send 25 cents for Joe Giraffe Pattern No. 34 to Easi-Bild Pattern Company, Dept. W, Pleasantville, N. Y. IF YOUR COlDxs TMTERm ACHY.: 2 drops in each nostri} check watery flow, sniffles, y I sneezes. You / L-( breathe easier quickly. Ask for— PENETRO o«?41 I Just rub! _ I Penetro onj-^^j I chest, back. V Biases muscle' aches, coughs and [ chest tightness. White, stainless. IPENETROSRUB Read the Ads *jfwiip>0 C0MPO0NI THE ELECTION IS OVER XtlsnptoustodoaD w» can to uphold tbs EFFORTS of OUR GOVERNMENT to establish a LASTING PEACE, help feed cho Do Not pers to Rain roar BMoe Use CHAMBERS ANTI-SKIPPER COMPOUND N.J. BODDIB The Ham Insonaco Man Durham. N. C. SLEEP How You May' Tomorrow Night —without being awakened If you’re forced up nightly because of urges, d» this: Start takine FOLEY PILLS for SMiggish Kidneys. They purge kidneys of smites; they soothe those irritations causing those urges. Also allay backaches, leg pains, painful passages from kidney inaction. Unless you sleep all night tomorrow night DOUBLB YOUR MONEY BACK. At your druggist. Ml MUM Ulll Ml Mill M RHEUMATISM NEURITIS-LUMBAGO He had placed his teacher up on a pedestal because she was "differ ent" than all her predecessors. All his dreams for the future were crushed however, when she proved that she was just run-of-the-mill. love ties to his mother had been broken off one by one by her ab sent-minded attention to her flower garden, and by his own speech im pediment. They’d hung dangling and loose about him, waiting for some other object to come along and attract them. And Mrs. Momer had drawn Johnny’s loose ends, like steel cables to an electro-magnet! He had to know how she felt. But he couldn't ask. He could feel that lump in his throat, and the steady pressure in his stomach. He heard the rumble of departing children die lower in the outer hall, and he thought that pressure had burst in him when three laughing girls ran into the room. She laid her papers aside to smile at their giggling, excited chatter. Maybe he had been wrong, he hoped. Maybe she didn’t think he was bad. But he felt the depression of the distance separating him from them. He was not one of them— until he heard their talk. About flowers! He knew about flowers, too! His mother’s flower beds—her constant talk about them. Sure he did. And that was the price of admission up T OHNNY was as quiet as an empty *-* cloakroom in Mrs. Morner’s class, but he wasn’t listening to the talk abqpt Vasco da Gama and Hernando De Soto. They were only a launching point for his dreams out the classroom window. If he could discover a country, or ex plore—or capture kidnapers like he read about in the paper—or ban dits! Suppose a bandit should walk into the school room, he dreamed, just suppose! With his mask and gun and rough voice and sharp orders, and he, Johnny, should rise—and —and maybe get shot, but save her? He ended the scene each time with Mrs. Morner’s grateful tears as she bent over his hospital bed. That would be it. That would be something. It wouldn’t be making a fool of himself like some of the other kids did, by bringing her an apple in the morning, or a flower from his mother's garden or offer ing to clean the boards. It would have to be something bigger than that, something no one else could do! If he could risk his life for her —and not die — then she’d know But when she finally spoke his name. It was so softly that he turned around to see who else was named Johnny. MCNEILS MAGIC REMEDY BRINGS- BLESSED RELIEF L.rt* Bottle,! » CAITIII n m tm im BcICIl MM HIGH-SCHOOL GRADUATES! NURSING IS A PROUD PROFESSION! — men, opportunities for graduate, in fine hospitals, public health, etc. — leads to R. N. — a well-prepared nurse need nerer be without a job or en income. — open to girls under 35, high-school graduates and college girls. -ask for more informatioa the hospital where joe would like to enter nursing. what he thought of her. She was the kind of lady the knights of King Arthur used to risk their lives for —she was the greatest lady of them all! She made him feel good and warm inside. Of course, he couldn’t tell her in words—not with his halt ing speech. But that way she’d know! Mrs. Momer was big, strong, and firm, and Johnny had been afraid of her at first—dreading the time when she would call on him, ar J he’d reveal his stuttering. Then in turn she’d appear surprised, pa tient, urgent, and finally—harsh! He’d have to stare at her in stoney silence then—his only defense against an adult world. Then of course, she would de cide, as all the others had, that he was bad. She probably had some very solid ideas about discipline, about punishment and reward, and about boys she thought were bad. But when she finally spoke his name, it was so softiy that he turned around to see who else was named Johnny. He couldn’t believe that easy, gentle tone was meant tor him, until he looked up and saw her eyes, smiling directly at him. It was just like she knew him; like he was a real person. She didn’t try to hurry his speech, didn’t excite him—and he could an swer her almost without a halt. But just thinking of her sometimes was enough to bring that choking tump to his throat which broke up all his words into jumbled, mean ingless sounds. When she caught him like that, she didn’t raise a fuss. She simply nodded — and passed on to the next boy. Of all his teachers, she was the one who didn’t decide he was bad —the one he would do anything at all for—the one he loved. He came out of his dream, with a sharp voice in his ear. “Johnny!” It was her voice. He felt his stomach jerk up in a tight knot beneath his chest—pressing— pressing — so he could hardly breathe. Somewhere, there was a question with it — vaguely — he hadn’t heard! “You'll stay after school tonight, young man!” she said. She hadn’t even called him John ny! The empty room that night gave his mind space to wonder. He tried to force his eyes and attention to his history book, but only his eyes were there. He sneaked a glance at her desk where she was busy with her own papers. Was it such bad thing he’d done? Were Vasco da Gama and Hernando De Soto so important? Did she really think he was bad? Not that, please, his mind almost cried in his book. Not her—the only one! johnny’s father was dead, and the there. They were all talking about flowers. He plunged desperately toward his answer, without thinking. He knew thought brought fear. If he didn’t do it right away, he’d be tightened up beyond any possible sound from his throat. He was on his feet. "Da—Dah—Dahlias,” he began, “and—and zin—sinnias—” H IS voice was cracked, sharp. It scared him in the sudden si lence of the room. Four pairs of eyes were on him, questioning, wait ing—then glancing at each other. One girl’s smile faded to sympathy. “My—my mother says they—” He stopped. His throat was closed. There was not a pin-point of welcome. Not even a hopeful face up there. There was only sur prise in several degrees, and not a hint of help. And there was her blank stare! “That will do for you, young man!" Her voice was hard, but ho longer strange. He’d heard it that way before. “You’re not in this. These girls are not here as you are. You’re here for punishment— not reward!” “Punishment, not reward!—Pun ishment, not reward!—Punishment, not reward!” The words settled from bright lightning flashes to a dull rumbling like thunder rolling about his ears. He knew even be fore their meaning came clear to him through the shock. He had failed! Even the girls felt it, and ex cused themselves quietly, leaving the room so he didn't hear. Ha could feel himself preparing to stare at her in stoney silence. But he was bad. And he was wrong. He didn’t need any defense now. Those love ties were broken all at once now; but they weren't hanging loose and dangling, wait ing for some other object to come along and attract them. A bitter « cid was loose in him, burning them ft at the roots. The only thing tight in him now was a new fear some thing. There was a faint stir of his old, dying feelings. How could he tell her how he felt about her? He wondered how she’d feel if he could let her know—really know—how he really felt about her now? He al most smiled, but he caught him self. He was wrong! “That’s all, Johnny,” she said at three-thirty. “You may go now. And don’t let it happen again!” ‘‘Don’t worry!” he said. He did smile at her soft tones. He won dered if the pleasant smile was a part of her punishment and reward —sort of reward for punishment, maybe! “But you’re wrong, Johnnj* ” he told himself as he closed the school room door behind him and gazed down the empty *hall. “You’re wrong, Johnny!” His heels punched sharp, ominous sounds in the empty vastness as he walked down the hall. “You’re wrong, Johnny!” he told himself again. And all the rest ol his life he kept telling himself he was wrong, as he kept walking in emptyness. And all his life he was wrong. As wrong as two left shoes —as everybody knew, when they called him Public Enemy Number One! m NANCY PEPPER TEEN QUEENS How many queens have crowned in your high school you this ovxr Obteo “ \ I / season? In Okla homa high schools every society and organization and ev ery important so cial event has its individual queen, elected by an elaborate system of nominations and voting. This years’ Oklahoma high school queens com peted for the Queen of Queens title in a mammoth statewide contest conducted by an Oklahoma city disc jockey. Contest Announced—A popular Oklahoma city disc jockey) con ceived the idea of choosing the state Queen of Queens by high schdbl stu dent vote. Any girl who had been queen of something or other in her high school this season was eligible. He announced the contest 6ver his radio program and the race was on! mm mm lnt«m«t>on*l Unions Sunday School L—on» ;Bi D8. XtHHETH J. FOIIEIfiM SCRIPTURE: Matthew 1:13—2:12 Mark 1:M1: Luke 2:1*20. DEVOTIONAL. READING: Isalab '9 2-7. The Best News Lesson for December 19, 1948 W HAT kind of news is good? ( the News,” means, call it lutions’ Ideas” Christians always have called heart of their religion “Good for that is what We do not ‘Good Reso- or “Good or even “Gospel” “Good Ideals.” Just Good News. But what is good about it? It is a fair ques tion to ask at Christ mas time, for the story that Christ mas brings is the beginning of the Gospel. Dr. Foreman c7&£ ^membLe. (feuit Grace Noll Crowell A FTER the Storm there will remain The brightest fruit on the bough: The peaceable fruit for your hands to pluck Whatever your sorrow now. Whatever your suffering, O my friend. Whatever the load you bear. After the Storm the golden fruit Of the land will be waiting there. Lift up your hands, make Straight the paths, Though dark the way may seem. Ahead are the orchards bright in the sun ■Where the golden apples gieam. Let no bitterness trouble your heart. For after the night is paSt, The gold and the scarlet, rain-washed fruit Of peace will be yours at laso. News of Peace O NE of the best kinds of news there is is to learn that someone we thought was an enemy, is actu ally a friend. The end of misunder standing, of estrangement—what a rush of warmth to t$>e heart it brings! That is the news of the first Christ mas—that God is our friend. Christ did not come to assure men that there is a God. That was well known, indeed few doubted it. He did not even come to announce that there is but one God. for that was already known to the wiser sort of men. Neither did his coming un veil the God of justice. The Greeks and Romans, as well as the Jews, knew such a God only too well. No wonder a Roman poet, looking about on the religions of his time, concluded that fear is the great god-maker. His notion was a mis take; but it was a natural one. For all the religions of the ancient world, even the religion of the Jew. were attempts to ward off the anger of offended gods. The coming of Christ was to put an end to all that. This was more than a friendly gesture, it was an act of love. Those who have discovered God in Christ have found that God is not only our Maker but our- heavenly Father and Friend. There is no better newts! • mm News of a Gift IT IS good news also when we hear ^ of a legacy or gift of some sort, especially when it is something we could not have expected. And the story of Christmas is the news about God personally entering the life of man. It is God giving us him self. True, the world is full of the gifts of God. In the Child of Bethlehem, in the Man be was to become, in the work he was to do, there was a new thing—the self-giv ing of God. That is one reason why Christmas means infinitely more to a Christian than to any one else. For the non-Christian, the story of Christmas, for all its charm, is only another story of a child born to poverty, doomed to pain—an other chapter in the long agony of man. For the Christian, the story of Christmas is the Good News of how God gives himself, for our sake. • * • News of Rescue M ANY Americans, caught in the war, starving behind electric fences for years on end, caught their first news of victory from see ing American planes roaring high overhead. No words were needed. It was news, good neyvs, the news of rescue, of freedom. So it is with man.' Caught in the long war between good and evil, a prisoner in the enemy’s country, behind the high fences of frustra tion, plodding heavily through the freezing mire of barren sins, man despairs of strength or freedom. To all mankind, to each one who will listen, the Christmas story is good news of rescue. A Child is born, but more . . . “a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord.” ' • V • * From a Far Country fT IS good news when from a far country, until now dark and un known, we learn that it is a land of friends who send us welcome across the miles. So the meaning of Christ mas is good news from a far land, the land beyond what we call death. ”Our Saviour Jesus Christ hath abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel” (II Tim. 1:10). As on the first Christmas, so ever since, the Gospel of God is not alone the good news of a God who loves and forgives and who brings ns the victory, it is the news of God who stands at the end of our dark Journey to welcome his children home. Good news! The world has none to equal the news of Christmas. (Coprrifbt by tbm lottrnatioatl Council ol Rmlitioun Education mm bmbalf ol 40 Protestant denominations. Released by WNU Features.) dyadic 3roch Witk Pep turn ^Jrio oCovely. ^droch in aCarc^er Sizes Detachable Peplums VT’OU’LL have a variety of smart costumes when you sew this charming basic frock. Three de tachable peplums are provided— scalloped sleeves add a dress-up note. • • • Pattern No. 8374 comes in sizes 12. 14. 18. 18 and 20. Size 14, 3Ve yards of 36 or 39-inch; circular peplum, Vs yard; draped peplum Vs yard; pocket peplum, >/a yard. FIRST AID to the m AILING HOUSE Afternoon Style E'OR the woman of slightly larg- 1 er figure, a ffattering afternoon style with softness at shoulder and hipline. Sleevfcs can be the regu lar short length, or three-quarter. Add a self bow at the neckline. Pattern No. 1741 is for sizes 34, 38, 38, 40. 42, 44, 46 and 48. Size 3$, short sleeve, 3% yards of 35 or 39-inch. Send for your copy of the Fall and Win ter FASHION—60 pages of style, color, easy-to-make frocks for all the family. Free pattern printed inside the book. 25 cents. like SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 530 South Wells St. Chicago 7, ill. Enclose 25 cents in coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No Size Name , - Address.- by Roger C. Whitman QUESTION; Is there any rem edy for crumbly brick? ANSWER: A partial remedy is to give the bricks two coats of a cement base paint, to be bought from a dealer in jnason supplies. This is a powder to mix with wa ter. This will protect the surface of the brick only; it will not hard en them throughout. Very poor bricks should be replaced with a harder burned variety. QUESTION: I intend to put in a flew cement walk in the gangway, and need to know the amount of sand, gravel and cement that I will need. ANSWER: There is much more do be said about laying a^sidewalk than the prefer mixture of ce ment, etc. For complete informa tion ori laying concrete walks as well as proportions and amount of necessary material, ask the Portland Cement association, 33 West Grand avenue, Chicago, to send you a copy of their booklet on this subject. QUESTION; We had planned to Use a creosote stain on a white cedar rustic fence, but understand that this would be injurious to the adjacent shrubbery. What type of paint would you recommend? ANSWER; As the cedar is re sistant to deterioration, it will hardly be necessary to apply any kind of Apish unless you have a special reason for doing so. A liquid wood preservative that can be brushed on could be used in stead of the Creosote, or else a good spar varnish. , K=or Joyful Cough Relief, Try This Home Mixture This splendid recipe is used by mil lions every year, because it make* such a dependable, effective medicine for coughs due to colds. It la so easy to mix—a child could do it. From any druggist, get 2% ouncea of Pinex, a special compound of prov en ingredients, in concentrated form, well-known for its soothing effect «»■ throat and bronchial irritations. Then make a syrup by stirring twe cups of granulated sugar and one cup of water a few moments, until dis solved. No cooking needed. Or you cant use com syrup or liquid honey, in stead of sugar syrup. ‘ Put the Pinex into a pint bottle ant fill up with your syrup. This gives yon a full pint of cough medicine, very effective and quick-acting, and you get about four times as much for your money. It never spoils, and is very pleasant—children love it. You’ll be surprised by the way It takes hold of coughs, giving quid; relief. It loosens the phlegm, soothai the irritated membranes, and helps clear the air passages. 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