THE BROWNIE BROTHERS
ILLIE BROW NIE and his brother
Bennie were all ready for adven-
tures. A boy and a girl who had wan-
dered into Dreamland that evening
had come to pay them a visit. And of
course Billle and his brother were
particularly anxious to entertain thelr
guests as best they could.
And they were as ready for adven-
tures as were their guests, They had
been busy of late and had not had
so much time for play and they were
quite ready to begin playing at once,
Now the boy and the girl had never
had many adventures. They had lived
rather lonely lives, though it is true
they had made a number of anhnal
friends.
“Well,” sald
Billie Brownle
are a fat pair,
Jolly."
“How nlce of you to say so,’
Brownie brothers replied,
as he
brother
you do look so
the hoy,
and his
but oh,
* the two
and as they
“i /rens
So Jolly.”
did so they hugged each other and
fell over on the ground.
“Not hurt, I trust,” said the girl,
“Not a bit of It,” sald the
brothers together, as they
themselves up
» '
sald
“I do belleve you're Brownies,”
the boy.
“You
“My
yrewnle,
are right,” sald Billie
he added, “is
this is my brother.”
iis
name,”
and
He pointed with his left hand to
Bennie for his right arm was around
Bennle and his right hand was strok-
ing Bennie's shoulder,
“I'm very happy, too,” said the boy.
“And I am also,” said the girl
“So am 1,” sald Billie, “which makes
four of us happy.”
“And now for our adventures!
friend, Knight of the Mist, Is on
way now, Ah, here he comes!”
And then the girl and the boy met
Knight of the Mist. He was the great,
great, great, great, great grandson, Bil.
He Brownle explained, of the greatest
old Knight of olden days, who always
Wore armor.
This Knight wore mist as his armor
for he was the brave knight of the alr,
“1 am ready,” sald Knight of the
Mist. “I hope you ape!"
Oh, yes, they were
followed Knight of the Mist, He
them into his very enormous
it was simply huge and looked
on a train.
After they had started they stopped
and one of the
hens from the farm and the girl's pet
cat and the boy's dog. Also a rooster
to go along, too, So they
quite a party i you
Imagine
Then they adventured
clouds and about the cloud
a vis't upon His Royal I
Skyscraper, wiio was to be
hig city. found
bumptious fellow w
“"
Our
his
ready, so they
helped
airship ;
’
one of the cows
WHS euger
made can
up in the
Th ey pai ud
Sir
found io a
him
ith a fine
himself and ambitions fi
than he
realy t«
could realize, for |
est amount of ren
went along
way--yet still
sky terr
The
nged to all these moder
itory,
cow tried
which she was now
not
the
natural to
day had
tall at for
she sw ite
flies,
ever
flies weren't
and she could
tail at flies,
her tail
After they had
ning the Knight brought them
and they left their friends and
land. But ever after
boy and the girl that the animal
had gone adventu:
lost thelr heads over
for often
green eyes of
of the
her Skyscra
’
adventured alli eve
back
Dream
it seemed to the
: who
somewhat
Hing
they saw a look Ir
the
3
i
ont 3d
1 showes
mild whiel
they
eves COW,
were dreaming
By H. IRVING KING
WHEN I WAS
TWENTY-ONE
a A ingil
AMBER
F THE many mystie
pertain to amber its potency as a
charmi against rheumatism appears to
be about the only one which survives
in popular superstition. But a belief
in this quality persists with remark-
able vitality and is defended by per-
sons whom one would least suspect of
such credulity. Henry Ward Beecher
‘niways carried about with him a
string of amber beads to cure or to
ward off his rheumatic attacks; and
amber set as jewelry is still sold In
London for the cure of this malady
Only a few years ago amber had a
much more prominent place in thera-
peutics. In 1865 Rev, C. W, King, In
his “Natural History of Precious
Stones” wrote: “That the wearing of
an amber necklace will keep off an
attack of erysipelas has been proved
by experiments beyond the possibility
a doubt.” Oil of amber still has a
place In the United States dispensa-
tory and perhaps there still exist some
old-time doctors who use it medicinally.
The ancients, who attached mystic
aunlities to all sorts of precious and
semi-precious stones, were not likely
to neglect amber; that strange sub-
stance born of the sea and of the color
of yellow sunlight, The Romans used
to place In their mortuary urns pieces
of amber and jet, the Jet symbolizing
the darkness of death and the amber
the light of immortality, Possibly the
black stone was an offering to Pluto
and the yellow substance an offering
to the sun-god. In the medicine of
the Middle ages, which was largely
folk-medicine, amber played an Im-
portant part, and, as has been sald,
has continued to play a medicinal role
down to our own times. The rever-
ance with which the ancients regarded
amber was increased by the discovery
of its electrical properties. Doctor
Kunz says: “The lectriec property of
amber was remarked as early as 600
B. C. by the lonie philosopher, Thales,
and from this observation may be
dated the study of electric phenomena.”
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U. 5. Patent Office
The first patent letters issmed by
the United States patent office in
Washington were to Samuel Hopkins,
Tuly 81, 1700, for a process of manu
tacturing potash and pearlash, Since
that time the patent office has granted
@ore than 1,000000 licenses.
of
AT 21-—Brander Matthews Had His
Manuscripts Rejected With Unfailing
Regularity,
$6 WAS only
twenty-one
attendance at
ended at last, I manag
answer the questions put to me, After
I passed the examination, and before
the commencement at which 1 was to
receive my degree I married and left
almost immediately for a honeymoon
in Europe,
“While I was still at law school my
contributions to the magazines were
rejected with exemplary speed. In
“The Critle’ Sheridan tells us that
‘When they do agree on the stage their
unanimity is wonderful,’ and equally
wonderful to me was the unanimity
of editors. No matter how. laboriously
I might feather my essays they were
homing pigeons; and I could always
count on another swift return. With
the modest confidence of youth 1 was
but little discouraged: and while one
article was vainly paying its round of
vigits I was already engaged upon an-
other. Brander Matthews,”
TODAY-—The receipt of a Brander
Matthews In an editorial office is
hailed with respect and pleasure and
a check ig made out even before it is
read, for Mr. Matthews Is among the
most famous of all American critics
and writers on the theater, besides
being a notable figure in the other
branches of Iterature. Perhaps It
might be sald that Matthews is the
(George Brandes of this country, a
comparison with which even his
name is in harmony.
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we than
two
two months me
when my years
a Law school
Colum?
ed] somehow
ps -—
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Ricardo Cortez
This popular “movie” actor who won
great favor with the critics by his
work in “The Sorrows of Satan” has
an important part in “New York," a
story of an East side musical genius
| who rises to fame as a composer and
marries an heiress,
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WHAT THE GRACIOUS
HOSTESS SAYS:
By DELLA THOMPSON LUDES
[AH 4 NHR R RAN
aa
A BEREAKFAST PARTY
one
that
There is a
and
served
brunch” er
of
i
cufled
now in tearooms
+ shops of calling the meal
to noon, *
h—a combination
t and lunch,
cioth for the
“brunch”
breakfast or
us you
Colored linens made into runners
and embroids
Indian head or th
ecru art crash
party may be as gay
like,
red, or not | place mats of
textiles
stitch em
yellow and
tablecloths
fast cloth, runners,
§
134 ale
ins; pale
ee ever-fast
in cross
broldery : old-fashioned
aud white
{10 Dresik
and n
Jath
i 1711 fecorated
white or blue
Cut over in
Or mats naps yellow oil
with stencil painting
musiin with
of crot
uinbe i Tas
unbleached applique de-
ign or border onne-—there nre
ing cloths with
he
however, hh
taal
0 dress the table ong
white dinner as neo
0
ew hs , ¢ hin
place on th renkfast table If
refectorsy
the
should be
i left bare, with, possil place
: Is used it
mals or
Fhe refectory
nd narrow and very slim
inhovation io
, but is rapidly coming
popular Its covering
wi, showing the wood of the table
The ded be
with a of the valley
with runners of
PUSEY-W
i ple [ line) is ms the
American |
into usage
{i Of
orations should slinple,
blue cloth; lillies
green checked ging
of
th a
heavy
ham, Hows with runners
own basket of fruit wi
hed
igued |
orchid; a br
cloth of unbiea
ecru linen
muslin or
1 fruit design; a
npote owing with
grapes on a blue-and-white or yellow
a glass basket in the cetiter,
ler glass baskets (all alike)
at each of the four corners.
Dresden are als and the grass
and reed baskets that some of us are
sufficiently accompiished to make our
selves, make very charming decora-
tions when filled with flowers, fruit or
candy.
If baskets, compotiers or other orna-
mental holders are used, however, they
must be all alike.
If the table is small or narrow It is
not best to use too many decorative
articles, but where it is large, addi
tional flower holders, bowls, compotiers
or figures may be used. You must,
however, guard against getting too
many different kinds of decorative ar-
ticles on the table, For instance, you
might use an old-fashioned high-
standard compotier or “sauce-dish” of
pressed glass—such as belonged to
your grandmother--for a centerpiece.
With this you could use four small sil-
ver or glass baskets or compotiers, or
four colored bird-figures at the corners
of the table for eandy, but these four
must be all alike. Your table would
am
high glass cor
£ loth; or
with smal
laskets of
o lovely,
ment store If each of the four baskets
was different.
{Copyight, by The Eastment
I
History of Poplin
Poplin came from Avignon, and the
reason for its name is not hinmediately
apparent until we remember that, until
1791. Avignon was a papal town, and
Syndicate.)
was called by the Italians papalino,
and by the French papelin, #0 that
when it was introduced into England
automatically became poplin,
popular,
recall the delightful
“Emma”: "1 have
ting such a trimming as this to my
white and silver poplin—Exchange.
i ssi, Y
confession In
seat in solid silver.’
Boiling Point as W€ll
as Freezing.
“One of the things that all motor:
ists are surprised to tind In winter Is
pverhenting. They Imagine this Is a
‘Bays a
bulletin Isued by the mechanical first
nid department of the Chicago Motor
club. “The truth of the matter Is
that the antl-freezes motorists have
been accustomed to using lower the
boiling point as well as the freezing
An engine that bolls over, un
is not as hot
as one that bolls over with only water
cooling system, but steam in
the circulating system causes unequal
and Is likely to retard circu
at vital spots. overheating
the motorist
and a high boll
is thus satisfac
ing point and more
alcohol,
owners who
tight gaskets and hose
and the water pump must
Also, and this applies to the
any anti-freeze, the level the
Ing solution
use glycerin must have |
not leak
of cont
should never be
three Inches from the top of the radi
ator, Make the minimum four
for’ ears using the thermo-syphon sys
tem
inches
Dampness Cause of Trouble,
“Damg of
trouble In the ig
ness causes a lot
connection with
ne of the comn
the
just
system won aliments
is that that
all
ongine will not start
because the high ten
fumiping
porcelains
at
sion
current is
of
Qr
goeross the ontside
the of the
anding
have collected na
This sho
Instead of
in the open the c«
little
condensation
rent passing
the the high
gets across on the outside
points ten
ses t }
path
engine cranks well eo
ing
the
and Is he
of flooding
dry the spark
Burn Out Bearings,
“If the winter Is at all
ear owners stend an excellent
of burning out bearings
eylinders with
make long trips
they will
of the
kind, These n
hood and find the ofl level guuge
iatering
the
not choked to the
motorist should
plug externals with a rag
apen
ane se
nn
and burn
ran into lahrication
nnderston
opportunity
in
the
trout
wi imp le “ut
vet least
ft 4
wtorists wi iif
full Then they step om
burn off
was ofl in
because there Is
{1 In the eng
they
sped
rind
the
1
gas rnsod ine
thought vo crank
fee
come to grief
enough real o
ply all the
“Don’t
in winter
miles, and
triy
quently
working parts
trust the ofl level
Change ofl
after starting on a w
leok at the indicator more
#0 as t 1 ready with
on in
oir.”
tional oil the crani
ase starts to born
Clean Out Copper Gauze
Strainer in Crankcase
Clean the fine copper gnuze strainer
in the crankcase, If the solid par
ticles mre not removed from the
strainer its meshes may be stopped
up so completely that the oil
cannot be pumped through and lubri
ation will cease with
sults. The oll gmuge usually warns
of this condition by showing reduced
or no pressure, Use a brush and gas
oline to clean the strainer, and caro
fine
gauze, as this will spoil it. In putting
back the strainer be sure it is prop
tae]?
disastrous re
an ofl leak, and in replacing the oll
pan take care that its gasket is pot
damaged and that it fits ofitight.
Wisconsin Police
Teaches Drivers
Chief of Police W. E. O'Con-
nor of Juneau, Wis, has de-
vised a scheme ail his own to
impress upon motorists the im-
portance of arterial stop signs,
He compels offending drivers to
take another try at the arterial,
making a complete stop in ac
cordance with the traflic rules.
The plan is said to be effective,
and the first day the chief had
numerous tourists and local
drivers taking the same romte
twice through the city's main
street. No arrests were made.
: ats
Safely Blocks Hold Car
It Is rather a serious matter if any
of the cars fitted with disk or wire
wheels run off the jack when chang-
Ing wheels, To prevent this, it Is a
good plan to carry a pair of half.
round wooden blocks about
elght Inches, as shown in the drawing.
The
placed with
High | in Cold Weather
The belle f ny
motorists that
3
gutomobile en-
extreme or
proven wrong
31d
ii
s
of
hot suiL-
nthe
nutes
and
May In wrists
led,
the
in fre
n and
fore
wwotection 18 nex
after
1
’
tha mes Lon
Wear
SOOT
auto Is hased results
#8
quent visits to the service static
Wig in {i ithe 1 nin ong
obtained.
adequate mileage
Reduce Loss of Life
To reduce the i loss of
tremendous
i *n mrt a » “hh
f ang operty. «
i jefa of
Hoh gt the United States are prac.
tically unanimous favoring a unl
form law requiring that automobiles
he constructed in such a manner that
the maximum capacity be no
than 35 miles an hour. They
also suggest that all drivers of cars
found in an intoxicated condition
fined heavily and sent
as have their driver's license revoked.
poli ©
in
speed
.
A “nippy” day and ro-
uish youngsters out
or fun. Sliding, slip-
ping, laughing at play
on icy walks. When
they rush in with glow-
ing cheeks and “so
hungry, mother,” — it’s
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