ra Rgl-l hd 284 84 bos le hg BA GO Tt A TUT) \C R Has Broad Views Bditor-——What do you mean by the expression “as forgiving as a giraffe" Flip Writer— He overlooks a lot, Roston Transcript. Alabastine is suitable for all interior surfaces — plaster, wall board, brick, cement or canvas. It'sapplied with an ordinary wall brush. It's a powder in white and tints, ready for use by mix- ing with cold or warm water. Full directions on every [oe Proper! appli it won't rub o Ask your dealer for color card today or write Miss Joby Brandon, the Ala- ine Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. Don't take something “just as good.” Mig mi” Paid in Full Junior "Betty beauty.” Senior she slapped me twice” striking is is sure fn “She certainly Learn to say “No.” It's better than Rrip, Mur sou] & Co. | Prtnblighed 8853 | CHICAGO - PITTSBURGH BOSTON « NEW YORK COFFEE os TNE ca i i CHINA DOG AND JOHNNIE T dog WAS a funny little white with yellow ears and tall and vellow spots on lis sides. [It stood on the mantel In Grandma's parlor in the farmhouse, Johnnie looked ut It with longing eyes but he had been told not to rouch anything in that room cloth sofa was so slippery and cool to sit upon so Johnnie curled up on It und tooked at the china “It wouldn't hurt if I just took ft down carefully,” he thought with his eves fustened upon the doz. “1 would be very careful not break It." And then a queer thing happened Johinnie found himself running theongh dog. {to Saw Little China Dog Chasing Rabbit in the Wbods. the woods beliind the china dog, which Johnnie had thought he would lke to dog. He was so interested in catching the rabbit that he quite forgot the dog was chioa und might be broken on the stones For though "it seemed Johnnie saw he smooth fo its always shone, Under a stone wall the woods the rabbit wall went the at the edge of ran and over china dog and. LTT i “Oh dear, gan to ery. whut shall 1 do” he be- “Grandma will be sure to mantel” began to pick up the pleces of the little china dog. when he felt one gently shaking him by the shoul der. “What are you crying about, “I didn't take him down,” sald Johnnle, “He must have jumped off the mantel and followed me and he nlmost puught that rabbit, too.” “What are you tulking about, dear? asked Grandma. “I guess you have been asleep and dreaming.” Johnnie looked nt the mantel, There was little china dog just as he always had been not broken at all Johnnle looked a! his grandmother, “I thought he was all broken.” he said, “but 1 didn't touch him or anything in here. 1 just looked nt the pretty china dog. that was all.” “1 know you didn't touch anything" sald Grandma, “and because you have been such a good little boy 1 um go- with It to father when he was a little boy.” Johnnie's grew bright. hugged the dog close In home you belonged eves china Ramon Novarro In Filmdom’s directory, where each | player stands for something different, it is Ramon Novarro who stands for Romance-—because he is handsome, be- cause he typifies the tender lover, be- cause he seems unsophisticated and human—a Prince Charming of the screen. He has been seen to advan. tage in some splendid pictures. with Grandma “I shan't take him hunting.” he sald. “He inust be a hunter, though,” Grandma with smile. “for he best little boy 1 know.” u found he had the china dog from the mantel. Little china dog stood on the book knew he the china dog. something he Johnnie loked at fixed upon him, and remembered what his Grandma had sald, and temptation just as he had in the farm boy. (by McClure Newspaper Syndicate ) mm CONDITION, NOT A THEORY ONNIE'S name was not, as most of her friends supposed, an abbrevi- ation but of an im provised form of “Confucius” to who, the ti of Connie's arrival, her ’ » of “Constance me Connle was grown, wother hud run the gamut of the Isms, then herself began. She broke iy the the Connie because sl had arrived at the stag if for Women.' Then via ‘Le theory of supply and demand, she into the old furniture busi of the world, she reasoned, we “Careers ness. Part t) that of 4 anoti mind same time the frame new, furniture; for who estab fished Me clearing house for these two fortune er for part i the person wants, Connie never knew where the hitch her supply list of her demand was fiat, At mar her. Then Connie threw all being a What a her energles model. modern mother George tion. Jerry and were to be independent ; and they were to S80 Connie told them that generation to wash their own hands before going to school their wills must not be broken was to be its own punishment: apples from her neighbor's trees, and oes her neighbor asked rather tartly. - Then one day Jerry in his free way decided that at thirteen he wanted to see the world, of which mother talked so much; and, with George and James in his wake, he down the station: and, with those unhampered imaginutions that Connie felt she had produced. they hid themselves aboard a freight car. sturted to Fortunately a yard man knew them and hpled them home by the collars. just the office Connie's emotions complex of relief and pride were a : but Jim, with his coarse, masculine nature. was single-minded. Silent and serious. he took the three to their own room. and presently there issued forth sounds of no dublous nature. When, later in the evening. Connle demurred on the score of instilling fear into her sons’ natures, Jim sald. “Aly dear, in the words of a great Ameri can statesman, ‘It is a condition, not a Thereafter Connie's habit of theorizing labored under some constraint, HAVE YOU THIS HABIT? (© by Metropolitan Newspaper Service ) w— § Adams Not Superstitious John Quincy Adams the first was Superstitions By H IRVING KING QUEEN OF THE MAY i HERE Is survival and pleasing in Its modérn aspect { or derived from a more gruesome an | cestry than that of choosing a Ma) | queen, a custom now gradually dis | appearing but 880, WAS a of May day { recent t | also, a king of the May antiquaries have gin of this | traced It Was annua of the spirit of no popular village ceremony And until comparatively mes there used written upon the ori and clearly the days when custom have § " 8 CHOSeNn a vas afterwards sacrificed for In some of man representative otis sentative the hen Crops these primitive rites only a chosen as the of corn-spirit; In representing the ” { Zeneration othérs a woman as tale forces not space of the at femnle o The re is here to En 2 ori ~ ” ne™ Aging goal ie, 8 the subject | was sacrificed harvest cus of its reintion tive tion | general prion spirit of vegeta conception in human affairs and queen of the May were originally sacrifices after hay- ing “strutted little hour the stage.” Mr. Britton Austen, In an ar ticle on “She Cave Man In Ourselves,’ published In Collier's some tifie ago says: “For long after the actuai killing of the May king and queen had there persisted of offered as human their ages dropped Into disuse tradition of ill treatment tiring pair-—a on the re execution symbolle | gary to impose a heavy fine upon any | one who should refuse thé office of to such positions tom of their “symabwiic execution” had (EE by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) BY \vLDRED meaning; MARSHALL ng whence it Was derived; signifi- MARCELLA MOST popular French name which has gained great togue in thi country is Marcellin It Is a name with un distieguished origin and his tory. !t comes from ancient Rome di- rectly, though its earliest origin found in the Greek word meaning soff* or tender, yet by curioys iwist this word signiltes “of Mars” and hence should be regurded us a term denoting strength or ap Ironlike quality. belonging to a noble gens of Sabine origin which gave a king to Rome and later named the high-spirited Mar. clus Corlolunus. The daughters of this gens were called Marcia or Mar. sprang Martina, under the Emperor Declus, the Romans, French namesake called Marcel feminine counterpart, Marcella, made plous widow whose friendship vith | St. Jerome French, | the other spelling and Marcella is extremely popular in England and Ireland, : The topaz is suid to be Marcella's tallsmani It will protect her i from evil influence and guard her from worry. Sunday is her lucky day and { 3 her lucky number. (D by Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.) sms J took the fancy of is used by sem. 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