BOLD BROWN
to look after himself he was so
Pown that he would come to grief
in early age.
He spun webs in the most danger-
ss places, and matter what
ened to the Brown Spider was
sure to esca
another
place.
“You will be
warmed all the
‘or there were many spiders living In
the attic where Spider
ut he only laughed at
and kept on with his reckless doings,
One day came the attic
annting for mice, and
mder a chair where
no
Ww eh
nnd
dangerous
utiharmed
in a
pe
home more
killed day,’
neighbarhiocod spiders,
some
Brown
{io
when
Brown
Puss
t
the web and Brown Spider, too,
an her
Everyone thought that was the end
of him, hut
aing across the attic floor
ew web under a
window.
“]
Hime,”
rome high in a
“1 guess I
Brown Spider. “I
ride; that was all,
Jownstairs on her and then
humped off. It was great sport. Why
don’t you try it
It was no use;
te was beaten or scared; but one day
back.
and began a
low shelf by the
that
safe
scared
her
guess you were
said one spider {rom
corner,
wasn't scared,” boasted
wanted a
I went part way
just
back
some day?
THEN SHE
LIFTED HER
A PAW AKY
Q WJ
y N,
» ~~
'w
something hag ned that the
ers
he did not plan a
ened
Puss came
honting
under the
had a web.
touched th
fore
went
old spid-
to own
have
nd was really fright.
felt sure would
into the attie and
around she fell asleep right
shelf Brown
He let
$
i
tin of ner
wWiiere
be
he
and
up
Nose
could her
to his
she open eyes
weh,
fter a while he
jut ao
How Itotarted
NUMBERS,
grew
ed with the Hindus, passed from
the Arabs, and were intro
Europe by leonardo of
1200 A. DD. The use of
very old, nearly 3,600
the
till the
century.
iiivance
them
duced
Pisa about
fractions
gears: Lut
Jot come
teenth
greatest
to
into
is
decimal system
Sixteenth
Logarithms, the
in mathematical
or
i614.
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CY CUM TAY
| TB
(IAS TNA
CWEKEM
- el] Pressman
Warning to Wireless Fiends,
Radio amateurs should never fall to
close the ground switeh when leaving
thelr apparatus. For an aerial at-
tracts lightning and a thugderstorm
may come up when the operator is ab-
sent, [If it does, and the lightning Is
led into the house, the amateur will
find all his apparatus out of business,
wrecked beyond repair, to say nothing
ing set op fire.
| He touched her nose, and then instead
of running home he swung back and
{ forth in front of her face hanging to
his thread.
Fuss is very quick
She seldom
i wishes to strike.
and looked
and then
and struck,
The next
membered
i high
He
| they
he knew every
at him.
her paw,
she
opened her
Spider a
her
with
anything
She
Brown
lifted
misses
eves ant
second she
Spider re
of a
Brown
thing i
the top
he
old bureau.
tried all of
were suale ar
was on
his
i then
found
for
and
he said,
legs
{
ler in
“That
Spit
the
you are in a
ret up here and
f of Puss to
looking is
way to travel,
thurry. I wanted
so 1 just dangled in
get her to give me a if”
No one sald a word.
when
to
ront
They
the of the buresu
made his web this me
floor by the
frightened,
climbed over edge
| and
the
had
let
He
“But }
those old fellows know it,” he sal
(Copy
window,
heen won't
rigne.)
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be
HAIR DRESSER'S TIPS
OMETIMES my lair dresser grown
i »
mie
iN
useful
S
all sorts
then she tel
and
things ba
and
interesting
i things the halr,
{ on her wide and personal experience,
to be lost In the
she wields a brush
talkative,
of
about sed
{ things too valuable
| tiny
and
i tall bottles of sweet
“The
{ with her hair”
| day.
| ously,
room where
a vibrator and where she juggles
smelling oils
too harsh
the
brushes it
average woman is
she sald other
“Either she
or she doesn’t brush it
either she slicks over when
ing or she washes the life from it"
“Not
| though
rsh, I use
scalps can stand tag
all n
is a d soap.
$ coconut oll,
is mild and cleansing
dandrufl
the
for all colors
there Is
then 1
cause it
is a
will not
I use it
where
irishing ; It
pre
most
ni
| ventive, and It hurt
sensitive scalp.
{t of hair,
too much
excent
natural
CHSes
oil, and
| Take Care of the Hair in Youth and
| It Will Stay Good All Your Life.
in its makeup.
run short
oll or castile soap.
If fer any reason I
Use a very lather, 1 can tell
from the
light
HOW DO YOU SAY IT?
By C. N. Lurie
Common Errors in English and
How to Avoid Them
“OFF OF"
HE use of the phrase which heads
geen to be ludicrous,
For example, one wiil hear
the question: “Where did you buy
that steuk?’ The answer comes: “I
got it off of the
corner,”
butcher might suit a cannibal very well,
but the very idea would shock any.
one else. In proper usage, omit the
“off ;" say: "I got it of (or from) the
butcher around the corner.”
There are cases of the inisuse of
the phrase “off of” that are not lo
dicrous, as in the Instance already
cited, but in which the “of” is not
needed and instead of saying, “He
Jumped off of the car,” say, “He
Jumped off the ear.” A man who ex-
pects to open a store says: “Wil you
buy something off of me?" He should
say: “WII you buy something from
me?"
that are
analyzed,
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A AAR A aN ny
The face and form of irene Mar.
one of the “movie” beauties,
are said tc be known to more than
50,000,000 people in the United States,
as she has been reproduced on the
200 magazines
by some of the most noted artists.
She is herself a talented sculptress.
26
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na
SeSese
c
Daddys Evening
* Vas ex)
2) 116
Al 3
MARY GRAHAM BONNER
COrynonT IY wESTLEN NEVI APIA
MRS, GNOME'S SUPPER.
“lI haven't yet told you about the
supper that the girl and the boy who
were looking for
adventures had
they visited
Gnome,
when
Mrg
whey were
AR very quecr
couple and un
lation to the
er Enomes
Gnome wa
beenuse he wo
lazy aj
Gnome
tall and
“Pm
blam
Gnome lold
rl, ‘and
boy and gi
s0 is she
swarted right
whenever
and
Caught the Fish. ah
we
now
think we may try to get back to the
nd too idle to
i
care to go on where the traveling Is
one use
enough, I would mas
if 1 could give the time to it,
cannot, 1 use a
sage
but
wring
from
warm air
:
aiways massage the scalp
towel to
superfluous
d then use
moisture
the
poo and use the electrie
his brings the
f the
E wy frien he pret:
t. Hee
everytime
ia rig!
tuevil
he sone t
) : i i
He lika he vife
he lika da dreenk somatime,
da
from da home, and
But
dreenk
shot he
LOO
olda lady she no lika de
taka leetle
gotta trouble een da f
When he treata hees
she keesa heem
amily
wife alla right
day. 1 think
after tomorrow
he been
every
Pas
day
hit,
Lasa week when he come home hees
run up
weel be tree geence
leetle
she
wanta keesa
You know my frien he feela bad for
He tink tough when
He
wana
ees preety
wot's matter she
She say, “1 never keesa
you taka da
tella her
keesa heem?
no
My frién say he no can do dot any-
He say he no ean taka Ada
and keesa hees wife sama
time. So he her ees alla right
eef he usa da kees for da chaser.
Dat maka hoes wife preety mad.
51
feelin
she no Kkeesa heem for one
He wanta da kees and he wanta «da
dreenk, so he feegure out way for get-
me da year, 1
say
how many week een
feefaty-two and he
stuff. But he
goo! when he gotta
He putta hees clothes cen
trow heemself on da chair,
hees wife show up he aska her for da
kees, She say every dreenk he taka
ees no kees for one week. But he ony
Rure
home
no
dat night
hed
he taka da first dreenk,
wanta da kees so he take feefatytwo
dreenk for every week een da yeer
and dat putta heem righta back
where he start. 1 tink he preety
Wot you tink?
smal Psion
SE
A LINE 0’ CHEER
By John Kendrick Bangs.
TO FEBRUARY.
a
Folks don't like you, February
For your ways extraordinary,
Pendulous "twixt Joy and Borrow,
Le today and thaw tomorrow, 3
ut despite Your manners wiy war
Bince your days all lead us May.
wa s
1 shall still your praises sing
As the Highway unto Spring.
Copyright.)
vii 13
Mrs hey
And I began by le
ahsolutely
“von Gnome
spoiling me,
myself
BOO,
become
started fairly
But it has
ave
should hi:
helping the other,
one-sided instead.
“50 I've smaller
er and she has grow
She 1 grown
Erown
n taller
fasn't beautiful, as
think,
no,
because of her unselfish
she
she sllowed
to
on the
That
grow
Ness ° contrary, is quite
a sight, is because
to small allowed
me me
“She, from the
nearby
first, caught the fish
and captured
and gathered
the
the hrook,
chickens,
from
the the vege
tables farm she
Then she
he
from
the edge of the woods fried
the fish
hotled
“ ay
and ronstedd chickens and
shonld
ifter the
farm
Then she
“Just
norms
her 1
After
nen
that put the
of leaves potnred of
A spring | shell. like
“Pray ent she sald
“But won't
girl ‘And
“ “Talk to
‘T haven't
can
vou eat to
won't vou talk te
aid Mr
It is Mr. Gr
alk. It's
you,' s
tine
he gays
the ©
When ft
anket of
eateh
myself!
with a bil warm
his head T hold an
have made of toadstools
“He
my fault,
him,
But
over
never has to do
as 1
spoilt him
what ean 1
It Is too late’
moment Mrs
cry and
didn’t
because
spollt
grow
now ;
“And at
again
do about
pink!
that
began
Gnome smiled
in the least
Gnome's tears.
“You want it explained
suppose,’ he sald, ‘why 1 do
sad over the sight of Mrs
tears. It Is all becanse I'm so small
In every way. I have little or no syn
alas
snoge
Mr
to be
Mrs
to yet
seem
of
and
upset
to you, 1
not fol
have little or no mind left for think
became too easily spoilt,
shrunk and shrunk in my body,
mind—everything! And it all
from being too lazy and too fond of
i
Journey you must take. 1 can tell you
this much about it. You must leave
me, of course, leave me here on my
soft bed of moss where T am watched
hard work I cannot really appreciate,
“1 will stay here and slowly shrink
until there is nothing left of me at all
folks would say,
“Co 1 bid yon
Start
off, be ready to
take a long, long
journey. At the
end of it you will
at the
fi house with
many Foomes,
There you will
find the answer
to every question
yon ask.’
“But how will
we know the
way? asked the
boy. When It Rains,
“Al along the ‘
way there will be creatures who will
direct you,' sald the Gnome. ‘Some
of them will try to mislead you, but
if you do not fear adventures you
will always find the right road
again. That f= all 1 can tell you.
Good-hye.
“So they left the little creature whe
never grew any larger because he als
ways had to live in comfort and le on
fn mossy bed. Nor did they see his
wife who spoiit him and kept him from
amounting to something. And they
opm HO RA
{
Timm do
pr dba
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ED A
AA 1
'
RNR ANA AR NORA TR
pln A Bp AA
af of time,
kitchen is
are strug-
t all
placed one
One
strength, and
biggest savers
labor in the
the sink. Yet many
women
giong with none a or, at
poor and badly
The
1
following uggestions
1isehold
sig of
of Amn
‘nited Btates Depart-
The
and
more cony
Two
dishes nes
£11
other for
fire very convenlent,
No Cracks pr Square Corners,
ihe material should be the |
BYRiiahie no
¢
well as of
Crea se
A WO Your
an ane
moistur:
BOCLS,
with
0 u
Of
¢ the di
av advan-
nor
Unless
4 ser o1ipd
wing dir
liness
hy a8 stirir
¥ a rp
aprons of the
pro
an
of
wood, the dresses and
worker are likely to
wit}
A soapstone or a
ahle,
with
stained
become
slate sink is dur
but sometimes becomes uneven
wear, and if this happens much
and scrubbing are
the
brushing
to
required
remove sand and grease that
|
{
First Importance,
depressions when vege
washed,
show
the
cleaned, dishes
iron,
not
not,
they do
re clean or
d-froa
smooth,
may
Are
are
with careful use, and m
i but they §
iron Porcelain
to the enameled
an be ker
Sans ¢
Location of Drain Boards.
Farat
ere shou
places where It
neatly f{
he
down so as
ce for lonse,
rovide
lodging place for
If there is no place
breeding
the
} ing
dish
It
the
or wiping
or
iR cons
mop, towel the righ
enlent
ni
move {1 right to le
herefore to have
dist ft as they
and
and tray
and pro
the
the
18
to rinsing pan
to drainer
This should be kept in mind,
vizglon made for soiled dishes
for a
the sink.
at
drain board at
SUPERIOR QUALITIES
OF HOME-MADE BREAD
One Is Hungry.
Loaf Should Be Light in Weight Con.
sidering Itg Size, of Symmetrical
Form, With an Unbroken, Gold.
en.Brown Crust
Good home-anade bread is about the
most appetizing of foods avhen one is
home-made bread
is bad, and some indifferent.
s
Which
If you don't know,
of the
which are of about the same size
It is better for some rea
hardened or fixed in shape by means
This calls attention not only
A loaf of bread should be light in
have a symmetrical form and an un
The crust
to which the
term “bloom” bas been given.
The loaf as an whole, the crust and
the crumb, should be elastic. The
loaf, If pressed out of shape, as it
often is when slices are cut from it
should regain its form when the pres.
sure is removed, Bits of the crust,
If bent a little between the fingers,
bound, as should also the cut surface
of the loaf If pressed,
The crumb should be creamy white
in color and should have a “sheen.”
which may be compared with the
bloom of the crust. This sheen can
hest he seen by looking across a slice
eather thaw directly down into it. The
v
distribution of the holes, on the other
hand, and the thickness of the walls
be examined by cutting a
very thin slice and holding it up te
best
The flavor of the bread should be, as
developed or brought out by the use
of salt. This flavor is not easy to de
scribe, but is familiar to those who
-
=
KITCHEN IS WORKSHOP
The kitchen is the workshop
in most farm homes. In it the
housekeeper and her helpers
prepare the food for the fam.
ily, and from it as a center car
ry on most of the other honse.
work.
More and better work can be
done In a well-lighted shop ar
ranged for the comfort and con-
venience of the workers and
equipped with good tools than In
a dark shop where much time
must be spent in unnecessary
steps and energy wasted with
scattered equipment. Business
wen have found this a sound
principle, and it should be ap
plied to the farm kitchen so
that the housekeeper can do her
work more quickly and with the
least fatigue.
SE ———————y
ro
§
& HOUS
a rubber stopper
for its escape pipe may be used as »
dislipan.
-«- * »
With roast pork serve apple sauce.
mashed potatoes and green vegetable
~<pens, beans or spinach,
- * -
Celery, lettuce and other salad
plants, because eaten raw, must be
washed with the greatest care,
- » -
Sal soda in hot soap suds is splen.
did for removing grease from a gas
See that it is thoroughly dried
afterwards