THE DUCK FAMILY #() UACK, quack,” sald Mrs, Duck, < “Quack, quack,” said Sir David Duck. ‘Quack, quack,” sald the little Duck- (ngs “Now you know how you must sleep, don’t you, precious ducklings?" asked Mrs. Duck. “Yes, Mother Duck,” {ittle ducklings. “Yes, we know, “And we will show you, Mother Duck, so you will see that we know." “That Is right, quack, quack,” sald Mother Duck. “That is right, quack, Sir David Duck. So the little ducklings showed Mrs. Duck and Sir David Duck and all the answered the quack, quack, quack,” sald "Quack, quack,” sald Mother Duck, “you all know your lessen well, and It delights Mother Duck's heart." “You do, Indeed, know your lesson well,” said Sir David Duck. “You are good, bright ducks. No one could com- plain of you” “I should Duck, “No lived. “Every time I see you wabble I think of how beautiful you are, “Ah, yes, you're mother's beautiful Mother ever say not,” sald brighter ducklings you're not beautiful, I think you are.” And Mother Duck looked very proud and happy. Sometimes she was called Mother Duck and sometimes Mrs Duck. Of course Mrs. Duck was what she had been called but she quacked so proudly about the beauty and the brightness of her children that of the barnyard creatures, as well as her own ducklings, Mother Duck, “Grunt, grunt,” sald Sammy Sausage, “you think very bright and a very good mother, most 100, may you're children, but [ think all of you absurd.” “Quack, quack, or the barnyard, do ¥ Mrs. Duck. “1 cannot moment can what in the it. Not for a understand your strange understand | “Well, 1 suppose | It for a | to understand too,” said Sammy jl do not if you fl woul n d be longer time, ment monent it i vou for a to however, think you're explain you, brig v1 { ) think you're a good mo “lI Think All Grunted Sammy Sausage, older ducks how they would be able to sleep In the water, which was what Mother Duck wanted know, They showed her they hold one foot up the other they would position in the wate: That Is, would that one foot to would with keep thelr same how * ] - " mnder them and they with pad le as they t even slept-—It a short time and the same place that on the farm they 3ut it was well lessons, for If sleeping in the open— of water—then know this lesson, they wot course could, go far. to learn all ever they should in a large body way. not be As Told by Irvin S. Cobb KIND WORDS FOR YANKS ERE are two widely different Yankee valor: compliments from sources, sey’'s Magazine, was visiting G. K. Chesterton, the English writer, at the | latter's near London, wis home “You astonish me, Mr. Davis,” sald Chesterton. “I didn’t know an Amer- fcan ever turned his back to fire.” In Paris a column of marched under the Are de Triomphe in the parade in honor of the French “unknown soldier.” At the conclusion of the ceremony, the commanding offi- cer approached Marshal Foch for in- structions. our we came?’ he asked. “It's a one-way arch” With a smile the great Frenchman made answer: “No, sir, the American army never goes back!” «Copyright by the McNaught Syndicate, Ine.) wll Psssnsssmmsins FOR THE GOOSE-— By Viola Brothers Shore T'S HARD for a woman to be ob- stinate with a man she really cares about, just for the principle of the thing. Listen to what everybody's got to say, but figure it out for yourself. A lotta dames would like to be de- pignin’ millinery that don't know enough to put a nin’ In a hat, FOR THE GANDER-— Before marriage you can get away with what you do. After, you do what you can get away with, Don't make friends with your cll ents or enemies with your lawyer, A torch has got the right idea. Zven when It's turned upside down, it keeps Its flame shootin’ upwards. (Copyright.) do I lidren, i think that the most importan world Is food and the thing a creature can they can. “And If the children bright, nor think they're i good ch should the br is to gral were hrigh their own accord would be tn - > ticing such they instead of the ! lessons surd one jght them.” “Quack, quack,” sa Mother Duck “Tl that | do teach my children to be pig I teach | they are, “You poor are,” grunted Sammy have you not them I'm thankful duck, how foolish to say that § | —it leaves more food about (Coprrizht.) | How It Started By JEAN NEWTON N ALL modern Tn iangu 8 ges there dicated by their sound le which in rhetorical parlance | onomatopea, Is exemplified In like buss, hiss, slap, boom; also in the words funeral, funereal, sound agrees with their sentiment that we naturally assume that thelr stymol- | ogy Is In accordance with the meaning they convey, But we find the last have a curious This princi words where i 80 out its relation to their use today. The Romans, pagans that they were, { buried their dead at night—by the | light of the moon when they could jut as there was moonlight for only a short period In the year, they used | torches, which were the lighting sys tem of the day. The Latin word for | torch is funis, from which they had | funeralls, a torchlight procession.” And i not from “corpse” or “death” or | “mourn” comes the word funeral, but | from “torchlight procession.” (Copyright) (@ by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) 0 Think It Over! A woman portrait painter is the pro- vocative heroine of a short story read last evening. She explains her bo for a good portrait. She puts three questioms to the sitter before she be- ging, They are: What do you think you look like? What do you wish you looked like? What do you fear you look like? J J J Jd 2 de Norma Talmadge felreferfonfefenfefefeefesefecfeetenferfenfeoopefefofefod This is the latest picture of the ever popular Norma Taimadge, the “movie” {) Jhe Hotel § 9 Roe Fulkerson. O00 Hotel get morn yawned the “] dint o'clock this Stenographer, dome 1 ill a couple ‘I 3 fryer Dancing?’ asked the House De- tective, : No. . her m went hand over yawn, “I Dew The girl put he outh to hide another automobile riding with a sweetie, cold! Closed car so we were not “Dangerous business riding around with some one you do ot know very well," the ouse Detective with “are you the danger the man was danger [ ran? ww generally ex ou along al loesn’'t you don't 1 kiss you u under proper girl, childlike vanity right is The got to do Is mak ou are a perfectly in his simple and thinks you cannot Imagine there because anythisg RYOruge understand any girl n if she Is willing are all Are Hil the refusal. can't ot kiss him, at all “A kiss is anything from an insult wal of Men $0 stupid they cannot understand why to knock t and again for falling Barriage, are etimes wants helr % for kissing her, does off all over kiss her at another time “Most who to be sent kiss women ne back Friday men ought away to ox anyhow." nsked night Friday night?" it amateur If 1 didn't any kissing than AVOrage I would get some woman to give me a lesson. Many a kiss has been ruined the poor boob didn't know bow to do It without tangling up the buttons on the back of his coat sleeve in a girl's hair net” (Copyright by the MoNaught Eyndioate, Ine.) ay Kelly. is every- where, know more about the pan, because CTHE WHY of SUPERSTITIONS By H. IRVING KING UPSETTING PINS F YOU should accidentally upset a box, a cup or other receptacle con taining pins; and if all the pins spill out, be prepared for quarreling with your friends or family, perhaps los ing your job. But should the pins not all spill out--should even one pin remain In the receptacle—then you may be assured of continuous paying employment-you need not fear ing your job quarreling. This com. mon superstition is one of several re; lating to pins, and Is as old as pins themselves. In fact it is older, for It is but a variation of the “binding” idea and must have attached itself to whatever our ancestors used for pin ning purposes—thorns maybe, Its basis Is that confounding of facts and ideas which was the weakness of primitive man’s reasoning and which Is the vice of many of his de scendants to this day :—notable so. ciologists and doctrinaires, Pins are used to attach one “some thing” to another “something.” You are “pinned” to your job, You spill the pins and, by sympathetic magile, los is "unpinned” from you. But If one pin remain unsgpilled that holds you and your job together. “What Is as sociated In thought Is associated In fact”—theory of the anclents. The idea that if all the pins are spilled you will have quarrels has a like basis The bonds of friendship and amity are "“unpinned” and, of course, you quarrel, (& by MeClure Newspaper Byndicata) QOCO0OO0000OOOOCOOO0OO0000 HOW TO KEEP WELL Editor of “HEALTH” OO0000 nion,) Western Nowspaper 1 VERYBODY In the country knows —- what milk sickness is, It is an who have eaten mllk, cream or butter from cows which have the “trembles.” It has known In this country over a hundred years. It is found in many of our agricultural states, es pecially North Carolina, Tennessee, Ohlo, Indiana, Illinois, Mlssourl and Mississippl. In 1925 six deaths from this cause were reported from lilinols alone and many others oe- the which was not recognized in human ings with in county. In a recent Issue of the Journal of the American Medical Assoclation, Dr, W. E. Walsh of Morris, Ill, reports 44 cases which he has seen himself and 60 which he has of Indl rectly, It has that milk of known as belongs been doubtless cause of Nine cases deaths be no occurred one learned now been definitely sickness Is due to polsoning from eating a wild plant white snake root. This plant family as the common garden aster, It Is also called pole root and squaw weed, It feet high and to Louisiana It shady proven COWS to the sume boneset, grows from one to fs found from Minnesota four rich also grows generally In 1d} but It will shade on hillsides or on open In article Doctor scribes some typleal seen, In a farmer's familly three per sons had with floss of appetite, k deep woods, grow In the ground Walsh causes he his de has been {ll several weeks al 1 tT «hy pain In the stomach and general weakness, The hired man who had been complalr He and back into town bed us ently recovered wiulked went to on and four miles his became dled next Another patient, a child eight years old, had been {ll for vomiting, palin in the stomach and great weakness, Si recovered and But on ine retura, unconscio the any two weeks with legs, b parently went back school her return from school } 18 wit bel id led It few hours inter she hecn neonscion pulse and smpersture days k with the overed Two ther became sl but rev d that er supply district same Walsh foun getting Its butt symptoms tor 1} sickness This hles in is called trem 1 such cows is danger. YYWR nuse sickness and death allowed to pas root grows AUTOMOBILE EXHAUST POISONING y In an article on or reves oxide man has In a American pears an article on Carbon Monoxide shows that the gerous gas In some city streets often where it is a real risk. Henderson and Haggard In 1028 had already shown that this gas could be found in recognizable quantities In air In taln crowded New York streets at times greatest automobile traffle This proved that there was carbon monoxide in the alr but it did net prove how much of It was absorbed In the normal person, the red blood corpuscies in going through the lungs take up oxygen from the air breathed into the lungs and glve It the tissues all over the body car- bon monoxide is breathed the lungs, it Is also taken up by the red blood corpuscles, but instead of being given off again It forms what chemists call a “stable compound” that is, one which It ia hard to break, #0 that the which have taken up carbon monoxide cling to It very tenaciously and cannot absorb any oxygen. These corpuscles are like carts which are heavily loaded with stones that they have no room left to carry food If third of these corpuscles are loaded with car- bon monoxide then the subject is only getting two-thirds of the oxygen he should get. If the load goes over 30 per cent then the subject is In danger of developing carbon monoxide pol. soning. . This is one of the dangers of ordl nary illuminating gas. Once the pa- consumpti arrived, issue of the varnal Medical Association “Street From already of ip recent the Risk Poisoning.” which of dan- congested point amount this of our reaches = the cer of ont When into to easily corpuscles 80 one either by aceldent or with sul cidal intent, It Is very hard to revive him no matter what methods are used, as the blood cannot take up enough | oxygen to keep him alive. The danger line Is considered to be 30 per cent | of gas In the blood. In preparing this | paper, 14 trafic police on duty eight | hours a day at the crowded ferry en- [trance In Philadelphia showed, by { blood tests, the presence of carbon | monoxide In the blood from 0 to 80 | per cent, gix of them showing over 20 | per cent. These six all complained | of kymptoms of gas poisoning after a | day's work. Garage workers, men in gas-supply stations and others are equally exposed to gas poisoning. gas, LOUISE LOUTHAN ROUTE 2, CHARLESTON, ILLINOIS From the days of the polonaise to the days of the radio, mothers have given this dependable medicine to their daughters, School girls are often careless, ‘hey get wet feet They overstudy or they tire them. selves with many dances and parties. They get run down Many an active girl of today, like T 106 Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Come. pound, and it did her a wonderful lot of good. S8he had been out of school for four months, 1 read the advertisements of the Vegetable Compound, and since ghe has taken it she has improved and has gone back to school again. I recommend the Vegetable Compound to other mothers with girls who are not as strong as they should be."-—Mns, Avice lovraax, Route 2, Charles ton, Illinois, “My daughter was out of school two terms, [| Have known about Lydia BE. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound ald my life and finally decided | that she should try it. Three bot. the next couple of years."—Mas. W, E. Gnierre, 986 E, 62nd Place, Los Angeles, Calis “1 have always been sickly, and until I was fourteen my father was very strict about my perfect attend. ance at grammar school I have gone to school through hard stor and often taken cold. When fourteen I took to my bed and did not get up for eighteen months, Everyone thought I could not live. Just four months ago I began tak- ing your wonderful medicine, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and 1 could notice a great change the demure maiden of the 1870's, has found that I. Pinkham's | Vegetable Compound is helping her | to find better health and energy { “l gave my fifteen-year-old gin Joyous Hours “Is Bernice happily marrd ¥ i “Yes, It 1 ’ most of the time. 1 jeed, almost at once, 1 like a new person h all girls would try Lydia E ikham's wonderful medicine”—Mnrs, CM, 3 MIT Unlon Village, Vermont, MOTHER :— Fletcher's Cas- toria is a pleasant, harmless Substitute for Castor Oil, P Syrups, specially prepared To avoid imitations, always look for th Proven directions on each package. — — — a PRCKALE. An irresist yearn to Stiles e signature of Za Tider ' Miss Natali + of the ila, Is Universit prising Recovery fro m Stomach Trouble If you are nearing the tragic moment when good health slips from you; if indigestion, nervousness, kidney dis- orders and ailments caused by a run- down condition torture you, benefit from the remarkable expenence of Wiliam Little who suffered untold agonies for many years only to later regain his health and strength. Bitting in his proves She home at 165 Glenwood Avenue, Rochester, N. Y., Mr. Little recently said: “My condition was unbearable. I watch myself slowly fade away. I suffered from stomach trouble and nervous- ness which caused splitting headaches that almost drove me mad. I had no appetite for food. And when I ate I paid a high price, suffering from indi- gestion and gas which made me belch and caused burning pains. For days ata time I could not even sit upin bed. “l looked underfed, weak and scrawny. I sought relief, trying this and that without success. Then Tan- lac came to the rescue. Now Mra. Little is delighted with my condition andsoam I. Am feel stronger and healthier. My re trouble has never returned. 1 eat everything without a thought of pain. This great tonic built up my strength and gave us happiness. Everyone should take it, regularly.” Mr. Little is only one of many fortunate men and women now en- joving the benefits of good health and vital strength, thanks to Tanlac, the safe, effective remedy made from ost, baria and herba. arn from their experience and good health and strength can be yours, too. The first bottle of Tanlao shows amazing resulta. Ask your druggist for Tanlac—today! More than 40 million bottles sold. You can be so distressed with gas and fullness and bloating that you think your heart is going to stop beating. Your stomach may be so distended that your breathing is short and gaspy. You think perhaps you are suf focating. You are dizzy and pray for quick relief—what's to be done? Just one tablespoonful of Dare's Mentha-Pepsin and in ten minutes the gas disappears, the pressing on the heart ceases and you can breathe deep and naturally, Oh! What blessed relief: but why not get rid of such attacks altogether? Why have chronie indigestion at all? With this wonderful medicine you catarrh of stomach or any abnormal condition that keeps the stomach in constant rebellion and one bottle will prove it, And how happy you will be when your stomach is as good as new for then dizziness, nervousness, sleepless ness, headache, dull eyes and other afl. ments caused by a disordered stomach will disappear and you will be your old happy, contented self again. Your local dealer and druggists everywhere guarantee one bottle of Dare's Men. tha-Pepsin to show the way to stomach comfort, Over 8.000 bottles sold In one ‘=mall ean Danish indigestion or dyspepsia, New Jersey tovrn last year—ask youn self why? \
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