for Bedi Thornfon W/ / Burgess THE PLUNGERS MAKE HOME IN GREEN FOREST T WAS very hard for Peter Rabbit to believe what Jerry Muskrat had toi@ him about the harmlessness of Plunger the Osprey, hetter known as Plunger the Fish Hawk. Peter wouldn't have believed it if he hadnt seen for himself how Jerry had no fear whatever of Plunger. You see, it was very, very hard indeed to believe that there could be any member of the Hawk family, at least any large mem- ber like Plunger, who was not to be feared by nll of the little people of the Green Meadows and the Green Forest. But Peter remembered the mistake that had been made in regard to OI’ Mistah Buzzard, how for a long time he had been needlessly feared. and this made it a little easier to think that possibly Jerry Muskrat might be right in regard to Plunger the Fish Hawk. Of course, Peter hurried to tell Dan- sy Meadow Mouse and ali his other friends what he had learned at the Smiling Pool. Each was as doubtful as Peter had been, but each hoped #} Think It is Quite an Affair,” Said He, (hat it was true. After this they all watched Plunger whenever they had & chance, and not once did anyone sce him try to catch any of the little meadow and forest people. In fact, be never Seemed to notice them at 41. He always flew straight from the Green Forest across the Green Mead- ows to the Big River and back. Often whén he was returning from the Big River they would see something shin MWg in his great claws. Tt was a fish, So it eame about that after a while do one feared Plunger the Fish Hawk save the fish In the Smiling Pool and the Big River. Presently, from where Ho one knew, appeared Mrs. Plunger, and it soon became very clear that they had decided to make their home fn thé Green Forest, They made no pecret about it. They didn’t seem to BEAR ARRRARARRRRRRRRRR. YOUR HOME and YOU By BETSY CALLISTER SORTING THE WASH SORTING clothes after they come up from the laundry is often a bug. lear to the housewife. The task can ie robbed of something of its annoy- nee by a little forethought, If there re virious, wewbers of + the , family rhose stockings and other undercloth- og have similar appearance they hould be plainly marked, either with he name written indelibly in some in- onspicuous place or by an initial that sill make identity sure, It is a good dea to have stockings lettered or num- ered so that at a glance you can tell eatssssne Hesnsssnsus “Little Stori ow to sort them in pairs, The va- lous members of the family can also ave a certain color to use In making few stitches on the hem of a stock- tg. In this way you can tell that all he stockings marked in blue bélong to fine, all the green are Alice's and tioke in yellow are Betty's. It is a good plan to have individu lity In washcloths, so that if several ersons use the same lavatory or bath- oom there is no chance of their wash- loths becoming confused. It is pos- | i | | i ible to buy washcloths with large in- | {als Tn the center. Sometimes there te Ibdividuhl preferences In wash- foths. ‘Then it fs easy to know that nose of one sort are Jane's, while aose of another sort are Alice's and ll others are Betty's, There Is also dgdom In Waving bath dnd hand tow- {s marked f{bdividually. Then there + no danger of using the wrong towel ven when It is placed on the wrong ywel rack. It is possible to get both and towels and bath towels with a slored line in the border that will | nswer this purpose. Some housewives find it a good plan ) have special sheets for every bed ) the house. In fact, in some families 1eets are regarded in the light of In- ividual property, and are marked ith the Initlals of the person on ‘hose bed they are to be used. Then 1eets are always returned to the room ‘om which they came, and place is ade for them on a closet shelf or In bureau drawer, so that there is never ay necessity for a linen closet for irplus bedding. (®, 1932, M Clure Newspaper 8 (WNU Service) S5gleniay ; g i { . | | care who knew where it was, Peter saw them carrying sticks and once or | twice flying from the Big River with | water weeds, Peter knew what that | meant. It meant that they were building a nest. Right away Peter's curiosity got the best of him. He | wanted to see that nest. He wondered | if it was like Redtail's. The first | chance he got he went Over lo see, He had watched Plunger and Mrs. Plunger so often that he knew just about where to look for their nest. He found it quite as easily as he had expected to, for it was only a lit- tle way in from the edge of the Green Ferest, beside the Laughing Brook as it makes its laughing way to the Sil ing Pool. It was in a partly dead tree, a mass of sticks, and weeds and dead rushes, not at all neat. Indeed, Peter thought it was a very clumsy affair, though he didn’t say so when Plunger spied him and asked him what he thought of their new home, Peter was very polite, «I think It is quite an affair.” sala he. “It isn't as big as I had thought it might be, but 1 don't doubt it Is very comfortable” “This is only the beginning” chuck. led Plunger. “It is good enough for this year, but next year we will make it bigger, and the year after that we will make it still bigger.” Peter opened his eyes wide, “Oh, you mean that you will use this same nest year after year?" he asked. “Certainly,” replied Plunger. “Why not?" “I don't know any reason why yo. shouldn't,” confessed Peter. “I've al- ways wondered why most birds seem to prefer a new house every year. I never could see why an old house, re- paired if necessary, isn’t just as good as a new one” “It is better when It Is treated as we treat it,” declared Plunger. “We just make It bigger and more com- fortable each year. You see, Mrs, | Plunger and I are great lovers of ! home, Where do you live?” “Over in the dear Old Brier Patch” | replied Peter. “Kver intend to move?’ asked Plunger, “Certainly not!” replied Peter. “Iu is the best place in all the Great World." Plunger chuckled. “You've got the | right idea, Peter Rabbit,” said he. “Mrs, Plunger and I feel the same way about our home, We've found a place we like and we have -begun- house. I keeping in a small way. As long as | no one bothers us we'll keep right on | living here year after year and mak- | ing our home bigger and better. Can you guess why?" “Why?” asked Peter, “Because it is howe, and in all the Great World there Is no place like home,” replied Plunger. (©, 1932, by T. W. Burgess. )—WNU Service, Spring Trench Coat i The military motif, prominent ib this spring's styles, is seen in this trench coat. It is of the new light- | welght black velvéteen, with [lapels and cuffs of stitched suede flaring in | attractive manner. { “It is human nature for women to | hide thelr imperfections,” Saye tatty Katrinka, “but it ish't the style” (©, 1932, Bell Byndicate.)—WNU Service. HILLS AND VALLEYS By Douglas Malloch, Alp BPO PIPL PIdL Pde Te Orie in There's sorrow and rejoicin’, our losses and our gains, | ture. Federal forest service investi- | gators find that a heavy litter is capa- world is hills and valleys, and | I never knew a country that didn’t have the two— A little hit of valley you had to travel through, But pow and then a mountain that you could climb and see The river far below you, up where you want to be, 1 never knew a lifetime that hadn't Joy and care, But had its hills and valley, about an even share, The shadows in the valleys, I've walked 'em like the rest, But I have seen the mountains, the mountains at their best, The sun was on the summits, the stars were bright and clear, And earth was far below me, and heaven almost here. The time she said she loved me I stood upon the height, The time she up and left me I walked the vales of night. I know I'll never journey as high as that again, Or walk the sort of valley I had to travel then, And so I have my sorrow, but some- times I rejoice; Pm up upon a mountain, and then I hear her voice, There's gladness on the hilltop, there's sorrow down below, life Is hills and valleys, women make It so. But sometimes 1 imagine, and lots of times I pray, She yet will come returnin’, the way she went away, And I shall take her to me, forget about the past, And we shall live forever among the hills, at last. (©. 1932, Douglas Malloch.)—WNU Service. BACCO reese For and i KITTY McKAY : : By Nina Wilcox Putnam : PSR RR RR KE EK RR EEX XXX | pine-vuk forest at the Bent Creek ex- chosen in accordance with the fashion | they give in eventually. why fellers wear these loud golf hose, | unless they think it's a sort of sox. appeal. (®, 1452, Bell Syndicate.) —~WNU Service, APPETIZING DISHES IE French masters of the culinary TH have applied thelr skill to all | tae simple fooas with results taat ae- | light the epicure. Thése may help the housewife to introduce variety into Ler menu, using just the everyday © things. Scrambled Eggs Taruffe. Simmer two cupfuls of canned to- matoes to which two teaspoonfuls of sugar bas been added. Fry a slice of onion in four tablespoonfuls of butter. Remove the onion, season the toma- toes with salt and pepper, and add six eggs lightly beaten. Cook until the eggs are creamy. Omelette Pont Neuf. Beat separately the yolks and whites of three eggs, 8dd three tablespoonfuls of milk, one-half teaspoonful of va- nilla, one tabléspoonful of powdered and a little salt. Put one-half tablespoonful of butfer in an omelette pan and when melted pour in the | mixture; cook, fold and serve on a | hot platter. Roquefort Dressing. This is a delightful departure from :he ordinary and Is delicious on firm head lettuce, quartered or cut into eighths. Mix six tablespoonfuls of olive oil, two tablespoonfuls of vin- | egar, one teaspoonful of salt, one | fourth teaspoonful of pepper, a dash | of cayenne and sugar and one-fourth | cupful of crumbled Roquefort cheese. | Beat until smooth, Chill and serve. Spicy Salad Dressing. Mix together one-half cupful of vin- | Jigar (get the grapefruit vinegar if pos- | sible), add two tablespoonfuls of olive oil, one-half cupful of sugar, one tea- spoonful of salt, a dash of paprika, one feaspoonful of minced onion, two tubléspoonfuls of minced celery and two tablespoonfuls of minced sweet pepper. Chill for several hours, then peat thoroughly and serve with lettuce In a bowl that Nas been rubbed with a clove of garlic. (©. 1932, Western Newspapey Union.) | i : ork tl littl The girl friend says she can't see | turn. elsewhere to. Work off their little ater Held in Fi LANDSCAPE MEETING and this (Friday) morning, at 9 o'clock, the shrubbery will be Leaves Stops Erosion | AT FOREST TANNERS planted. A meeting will be held at The blanket of leaves from one | ee The agricultural extension service, | this time, at which anyone interest- cooperation with Forest Tanner | ed in planting of shrubbery or care will conduct a landscape demonstra- | of lawns is cordially invited to at- tion at his home, corner of Alle- tend. Prof. Rasmussen will gheny and Howard streets, during | various types of shrubbery planted, 5 more than a ton an acre, says the | Urited States Department of Agricul- ble of holdiug vast amounts of water the year. Plans for the landscaping | best methods of planting and care and slowing up the run-off which with- of the home have been prepared by | of same. out the protecting blanket would Prof. A. O. Rasmussen, i vickly erode the soil. ornamental horticulturist of State | — Subscribe for the Watchman. In studying the protective value of - To RE teaf litter and the result of ils re- r hs TT TE TT moval by fire or other agency, investi | —— reer — A gators found that the 1930 fall of dry waves, githered up on a half acre of Looking Ahead perimental forest near Asheville, N. C., weighed 1300 pounds, oven dry weight. Accumulated dry leaves and litter on the tract previous to the first clean-up weighed five and one-half tons to the acre, dry weight. From two to three vears are required for decomposition of the litter, and a heavy blanket of leaves is thus nor mally present on the area. As a con- sequence of removal of the ground cover for this study, erosion set in on the area, although the rainfall was unusually slight, pring is here, but the "Big Spring Drive,” prom- ised from Washington, has not materialized. The Promised Land is not in sight. But acute and experienced observers like Colonel Ayers, of Cleveland, are hopeful, and the scientific analysis of conditions made by the Stand- ard Statistics Company indicate that the present slug- gishness means only a futher postponement of busi- ness revival. Modern Maiden’s Hands Larger Than Ancestors’ The hands of the women of today | .-are they larger than the hands of | their grandmothers? There is no ex- position of old-style costume, says the Matin of Paris, which does not reveal, at least by the diminutive gloves, the exquisite smallness of our femi- nine predecessors, both living and ex- | tinct. Few women of this generation, moreover, are able to wear the wed- ding rings, the other rings or brace- 1 f thei t ! ore fer ils. certainly, | THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK | ‘hat these souvenirs of the past were Yi BELLEFONTE, PA. Great corporations are preparing for this revival in the face of the current depression. They look ahead. ————————————— and requirement, and not merely curi- ous legacies left to us as something | most precious and most rare. L sho bo Sie goa It would be only honesty, rather, to | —————————————————— avow that the activity of modern | i LI " —————— women has done away with much of ‘EEE VeuELELELE EL ErerEvcye Ls UEUEUECIClCUCUCE EEE the delicate slenderness of former Zi SASS ToS AS ASA) AS SAS 2 lel le bE s. The hand which controls the SA time he h 2] WE FIT THE FEET COMFORT GUARANTEED bE flying machine and which wields the racket and the oar cannot, of course, | remain as small and graceful as the one which had but to hold a handker- ' 2f] chief of lace. Ue Baney’s Shoe Store A Spoil-Sports Es WILBUR H. BANEY, Proprietor oh You will find them wherever you go. | Ug 80 years in the Business =i fhere Is no escaping them, "They re- | fe A Joice in their unpleasantness, They | =f BUSH ARCADE BLOCK Ue cannot enjoy what is geing on, and | they won't let anyone else have any | enjoyment if they can help it. What is one to do with such impos sible people? Sending them to Coveniry is a ver) goodiwway, but these -unpleasant indi- | vidugls have a knack of being imper: vious to snubs and cold shoulders. | Turn your back upon them, and round i they come on the other side. i I am Inclined to think that the bes. | method is to ignore them. If you keep it up loug enough, and prevent these spoil-sports geiting their way, In the long & And they | ; BELLEFONTE, PA. = Our Windows run, they cannot stand it. nuisances, It is a pity these people cannot se. how objectionable they are.—Lendon Answers. Birds That Cannot Walk Humming birds, swifts, swallows and wmartins cannot walk or hop on a horizontal surface, says Pathfinder | Magazine, Of these the humming birds aré the most helpless on the ground. | | Swifts, swallows and martins have small, weak feet, which are adapted | only to parching and to clinging to Hy perpendicular surfaces. These birds § pass much of their time on the wing, | and it has been suggested that some of the swifts may pass the entire night on the wing at great heights, They seldom, if ever, alight on the ground and they capture insects na | | food, scoop water from ponds and lakes for drink, and pluck twigs from trees and gather other material for | thelr nests, all while on the wing. | | Korean Bills of Fare i Rigs fs the chlet starchy food used fn Korea. Bread is unknown on Korean bills of fare, but unlike China, potatoes dre eaten to a small extent gs a #ide dish. Tea and rice water gre thé chief beverages. Coffee and ¢hocelate are never uscd and it Is only within the last few years that milk has been consumed. Pork, beef, and chicken are impor | tiiit meats and fish is one of the most fmportant articles of diet. Seaweed 18 also a staple and this with the abun- dant fish provided, prevents the Ko- rean from ever being a& victim of gole ter. Come in and let us show | you the Greatest Suit Bar- fi} gains you have ever seen. All sold the Fauble way, your money back if they are not satisfactory. One Saving Grace | The mistress was looking over the new maid's references before engag- ing her. “Do you think you will settle down | bere? she asked, after a while, “Re- | member, you've left a good many sit- uations.” The girl smiled confidently. “Yes, ma'am,” she replied. “Bat 1 didn't leave any of them voluntarily.” —London Tit-Bits, nr —— Spinstérs Never Aged A phitinthropist las endowed liome for aged Spinsters. The idea worthy, but where could one find spinster willing to admit such a siny a is a affliction as age?—Fort Wayne News Beatinel. | AF th o i