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Gems off Thought It is almost impossible to play cards on a boat If some one is sitting on the deck. • • • If yon want a hot plate for your kitchen, strike a match ander your false teeth. • • * A blond is superior to a cat. a cat can only dye nine times + Small Scare-Crow Turns In the Slightest Breeze A New Garden Feature ■pHIS ANIMATED scare-crow is ^ only 18 inches high, and turns in the slightest breeze, making an interesting feature foi the garden. Paint him' in bright colors as shown on pattern 307, which also gives directions for making and finishing. WOK of pattc KSHOP PATTERN SERVICE Drawer 10 Bedford Hill*. New Tork Each With Your Own Initial! 4'SigMhi/e'Sli/ef^ait Tisspoons 0nly7S4 with white-star end from KELLOGG’S VARIETY PACKAGE • Lovely silverware with your own script initial. Old Company Plate made and guaranteed by Wm. RogersMfg.Co.,Meriden, ou Conn. With spoons, vc get prices on complete eervice—offered by ... 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Only Van Camp's ..originator of canned pork and .beans... gives yon so much good eating at such little cost of money and effort. : VIRGIL By Len Kleis SUNNYSIDE by dork 1 Hoot egg&aoof?/ rrs alright tor vou to complain You've ONLY GOT ONE ; I'VE GOT UUNOOeDS OP TWG OARN THINGS £ THE OLD GAFFER By Clay Hunter BOUFORD By MELLORS MUTT AND JEFF TRAIN LEAVING FOR SKWEEZBORO, LASSING, MIDDLETOE, BINKCRICK, ANKLEHOOF, SKWEEDUNK. BATTLESWCt CONDONllN, SODAPOR SWAMPgURG MARSHLAND. TENEFLVAN chick-alagoose BOROUGH on TRACK FIVE/ 6EG FA ROOM, 4/HAT DID you SAV ? T TRAIN LEAVING FOR SKWEEZBORO LASSING, MIOOLETOE. ©NKCRICK. ANKLEHOOF, SKWEEDUNK. BATTLES WO CONDON..'!, SOQAPOR SWAMPBURG, MARSHLAND, TEHEFLVAND CHICKALAG00SE BOROUGH ON track five/^ m By Bud Fisher OH, l TWQUGHT VOU SAID JITTER By Arthur Pointer WYLDE AND WOOLY By Bert Thomas “THAT CAT Of= JULIA'S IS ALWAYS GSTTIMG HSR IN TROUBLE. YESTERDAY IT CHEWED OP HER REPORT CARD, AMD SHE HAD THE lUtft HIGHEST MARKS IM THE CLASS' * * P NO, ALVIN, EMMY LOU'S MOT HERE. SHE LEFT WITH A HANDSOME SOY IN A CREAM- COLORED CONVERTIBLE... * Black and White Lesson for July 2, 1950 Dr. Foreman r ? ? ? ? ? ? (W (V. (W (W <W (k. (k. . SCRIPTUHE: Genesis 25:27-34 ; 27-29; 32:1-33:16 ; 35:1-15; 37:29-36; 46:1. 29-34; 47: 1-10. DEVOTIONAL, READING: Psalm 91. A GROCER In Minneapolis re ceived a letter from a former customer who had left the city owing a large grocery bill. “I have been converted in a revival here,” the letter said, “and I want to make every thing right in my life that has been wrong.” Enclosed there was a certi fied check for the old bill. The gro cer wired back: “W h o was the evangelist who converted you? We need him in Minne apolis.” Conversion is God’s operation on the heart. No one can actually see the heart, but if the operation is successful, the symptoms of dis ease will disappear and the symp toms of health can be seen by any one. The patient is a new man. • • • Jacob Blqck P ERHAPS the most notable case of conversion In the Bible, aside from tlvs Apostle Paul, is the man named Jacob. His life is a study in black and white; up to a certain point hardly anything good could be said of him, but after that point he can hardly be accused of anything bad. All his younger days he was principally noted for giving trouble to other people and “doing them out of” something he wanted for himself. First he tricked his older brother into selling him ^he family birth right, for the ridiculous price of a bowl of soup (pottage). You would not think any one would sell his birthright; but Jacob caught Esau when he was dog- hungry . . i Then we see him out smarting his brother again by birthright; Jacob was by that time a shameless liar and thief. It be came so hot for him at home that he had to leave town. v ^ .. We have a glimpse of him on his journey, dreaming about a ladder to heaven. Evidently his conscience did not trouble him. Indeed, he proceeds to bargain even with God; If God will prosper him, he says, he will see that God gets ten per cent. God did indeed prosper him; but he grew no better for It. The rest of his life, for the next twenty years, is one piece of trick ery after another, he and his uncle Laban taking turns trying to out smart each other, with Jacob uj- usually coming out ahead. • • • Jacob White T HINGS came to a climax on the night when Jacob, fearing death st Esau’s hands, arranged his family to go ahead of him, keep ing himself in the safest place in the rear . . . and there at last he came face to face with God. The story of his all-night strug gle at the brook Jabbok is a strange one; but one thing is cer tain. After that night even his name was changed, for the man himself was a new man. He is patient in trouble, no longer resentful. He is not only a good man himself, he does his best to help others. He con ducts what can only be called a family revival; he persuades one and all to give up the idols they had been worshipping and turn to the one true God. He offers sacrifices, like his fath ers before him. He goes down into Egypt at lasx, a humble man, no longer the con ceited young crook he had been when he went to Padan-Aram. He depends now on God and not on himself. • * • The God of Jacob A FAMILIAR Psalm carries this refrain: “The God of Jacob is our refuge.” Why the God of Jacob, not Abraham nor Isaac? Well, if it were only the God of Abraham, most of us might as well give up. For Abraham was a great genius, a man such as appears scarcely once in a century. Or if he were the God of Isaac only, we would be led to think of him as caring especially for the weak-minded, the lame and the lazy. But Jacob- just a plain man full of meanness? Yes; the same God who changed him can change the meanest of us. The real test of religion is not what support it can give to noble souls, or what comfort it gives to the weak. The real test of religion is: Can God turn black into white? Can God take an ordinary, con ceited, slippery customer and make a good man of him? The God of Jacob can do this; and he is the God most of us need. (Copyright by the International Coun cil of Reugious Education on behalf of 40 Protestant denomina iiooa. by WNU Features.) ASK ME ? A quiz with answers offering | ANOTHER. information on various subjects | 1 5 Name the author of "Trea* The Questions 1. What is a kibitzer? 2. Of what bodies does the Con gress of the United States con sist? 3. Who is responsible for the fol lowing expression: “1 would rath er be right than president"? 4. Give the plural of chateau. Useful 'Pest' Found ' By Nutrition Expert ATLANTIC CITY - Better un derstanding of human and ani mal nutrition may be found through study of the mealworm, a many-jointed, brown insect lar val discovered in granaries and corn cribs. This pept may in turn join the rat in being an aid to study of nu trition. Prof. G. S. Fraenkel, Universi ty of Illinois, told the Institute of Nutrition here that mealworms have already led him to discover a new growth vitamin, designated “B-T." Mealworms are only about an inch long and eat far less than rats. A half pound of food a month takes care of 10,000 worms. This gives the advantage pf large numbers of experimental sub jects and the need of only small amounts of expensive and highly purified food chemicals. Mealworms are close relatives of weevils which infest flour at times* But they are large enough to dissect, weigh and observe. ure Island. « The Answers 1. An onlooker at a card who advises the players. 2. The Senate and the House of Representatives. 3. Henry Clay. 4. Chateaux. 5. Robert L. Stevenson. RESET LOOSE HANDLES On electric fans, lawn mower* ViOe roller skates S'iM-'ONE Oil 1 KATHLEEN NORRIS Generation Has Dangers "W HAT ABOUT my teen-age daughters?” women from Maine to Monterey have been asking me, during the last puzzling years. “What about dates, and night clubs, and going steady?” “Yes, what’s happened to the kids?” demands India Roberts of Denver, CoL “Are the 14-year-olds in your town talking beaux' and dates and who is going with whom? My husband and I are nearly fran tic,” the letter goes on. “Our Phyl lis is 13, Frances two years older. They are lovely girls, good students, helpful at home, gay, and they are all our world. But ever since school started last fall we have been flood ed with girl-boy talk; long-legged young creatures infest our down stairs playroom; and every week end presents a problem. “Fran has ‘gone steady* with a boy for months; little Phil is rapidly following suit They only want to do ‘what the other girls mothers let them do,' but isn’t that a lot mdre than girls so young ought to be allowed to do? Movies, in parties of four or six; school dances; house parties. And they all pair off as na turally as if they had been mar ried for years. Dangers and Advantages “Now isn't this very unhealthy? Doesn’t it stimulate desires and emotions that belong to much later years? Doesn't it take the bloom .. with girl-boy Udh * off our girls? You've been asked this question thousands of times; what is your solution?” Well, India, in the first place, this situation,isn’t all wrong. Like every other custom of every other genera tion, it has its dangers, and its ad vantages. There are good things in this sudden leap from childhood into understanding—understanding on this question of sex, if back of the girl and the boy there is a sane, affectionate family as a rock of se curity to which they may anchor their dancing craft. Girls 100 years ago were simper ing, ignorant, romantic misses, so protected, so sheltered, so kept in the dark that iharriage to them was often a serious disillusionment and a shock. Managing mammas in veigled the groom jnto proposing, and pompous papas arranged the dowry. Without that dowry European girls could not hope for xnarriago at alL We who were school girls 50 yearf- ago didn’t ha vs the managing mam ma*. and dots and doweries were never ' American institutions. But we did have all the awkwardness* shyness, ignorance that made social events agonies for youngsters of both sexes. And believe me, we took just as poignant and obsessive an interest in the subject at sex as do girls of today; only we knew nothing about it, and were not al lowed to question. For us it was all suspicion, tittering, surmise and mystery. Dances were miserable uncertainties until one’s caird was full. I recommend Rosamund Leh man’s delightful novel “Invitation To The Waltz” as a perfect picture of what a dance meant then to a shy. unpopular girl. “Going Steady” Now, strangely enough, today’s teen-agers have accomplished what chaperons and mothers and patron esses have vainly tried to achieve for whole generations. “Going steady” merely meahs, in the life of a protected, dignified small girl, that she has a sure partner txfc movie companionship, at school dances, on all-day parties. She likes him with all the honesty she shows her girl friendships; they save each other endless uncertainties, endless chances to establish an inferiority complex, an unpopularity complex* for all the years of their lives. Victorian girls never talked to men at all, except when in the presence of their elders. Giyls o* my generation confined themselves to endless friendships with their own sex, but became muscle booed, affected and nervous when meat came around. Today’s custom does away with both these unnatural conditions. But like all other new things ws have to see in it a challenge to a new moral. / Like the rules we make for our children concerning radio, movies* motors, planes, we have met this juvenile development with an ia crease of dignity, self-control, duty. Girls know more than they did, know everything; there is much less behind-door whispering and giggling and guessing than there used to be. Even the most conservative school* now treat the subject qf sex openly and honestly. ? BeleMeS Sr WNU FeeUreo