in inally Saw
the Point
By H. IRVING KING
13
(Copyright)
OSEPH SCARBOROUGH was rath-
or of the opinion that Minerva
Fairbanks had “thrown him down,”
but he was not quite sure. He had
known her, it seemed to him, for al-
ways; and for some time he had been
taking it for granted that he should
some day ask her to be his wife—and
she would accept. But then came that
dashing Martin Van Beekman around
and Joe began to think that he had
taken too much for granted.
Whatever a "man of the
Van Beekman was that
most engaging personality, talked flu-
ently and dressed perfectly. Joe, on
the other hand, while refreshingly
wholesome, was not much of a con-
versationalist, and sartorially left
much to be desired. Van Beekman
He had a
Fairbanks home, and the giris—
Minerva and ber younger sister Susan
—found him, as Sue expressed It, “‘per-
fectly fascinating.” When Joe hap-
pened to be calling at the same time
Van Beekman was, it was as much
as he could do to get In a word
edgeways; and when he did, his best
a damper on the company. Minnie,
after one of these attempts of Joe's,
would look at him doubtfully for a
of “wit, wisdom and allegory” with
Van Beekman,
Sue that Van Beekman admired. But
Minnie appeared to be much fonder
of Van Beekman's soclety than her
gister. Joe ventured to expostulate,
in a blundering way, with Minerva;
only to be told that she did not know
trol her actions,
Joe,
engaged.”
ending with: “Why,
did not seize it, and it was two hours
after that he thought of what he
ought to have sald. When he did
think of it he resolved to go to Min-
nie and have a “straight-out talk” with
her. But when he arrived at the
Fairbanks home that everlasting Van
Jeekman was there, and went
away leaving unsald what had
come to say. He would keep away
from the Fairbanks house and “let "em
go it,” he thought. “Who knew any-
thing about that Van Beekman fellow?
He was an adventurer—Joe was will-
ing to bet on it—esd was trying to
capture an heiress.”
Joe kept his resolution of
stention for a whole week, and then
called upon “the Fairbanks girls” with
the usual unsatisfactory results. Sasan
talked to him and tried to cheer him
up, but Minerva kept chatting away
with Van Beekman, only giving Joe a
curious look now and then, which he
could not in the least understand the
import of, and
why don’t you talk?
ter with you lately?”
“Nothing,” said
took his leave.
he
he
ab-
fo
once i
WW ha it's the mas at-
Joe, and presently
Now Minerva and Susan Fairb
were orphans. They had no nes
lations and their father had left
both very well off. Joe felt like
ing to Van Beekman: “If it's
a fortune you are after, why
take and let
But it wouldn't make any difference if
I did, thought Joe. Minnie ig so much
the prettier. As a matter of fact she
was nowhere near as good looking as
Susan—but in Joe's eyes she was far
superior.
Things dragged along in this man-
ner for some time. Joe began to lose
weight. “He don’t eat enough to keep
a canary alive,” his fond mother de-
clared, Then one day,
surprise, Van Beekman called upon
Joe at the office of the little yarn mill
which Joe had inherited from his fa-
ther and the business of which he was
rapidly extending. Quite an Iimpor-
tant person was Joe in the community
~financially. He received Van Beek-
man rather coldly amd asked what he
could do for him,
“You probably have noticed,” sald
the suave Van Beekman, “my atten-
tions to the beautiful Miss Fairbanks.”
“1 have,” glowered Joe, “I have, and
allow me to tell you that I have not
seen them with pleasure, Who are
anks
ir re-
them
say-
ne rely
don’ t vou
Sue my Minnie alone?
tiest girl in town?
credentials?”
What are your
you,” replied Van Beekman. “You
may look me up in Bradstreet’s, and
here are letters, documents and ref.
erences which I think will satisfy
you.”
Joe looked at the documents and
he looked at Bradstreet's. “Humph,”
sald he, “seems to be all right. But
what have I got to do with it?
“Why,” returned Van Beekman,
“when I told Mids Fairbanks that her
sister Susan and myself had come to
an understanding, and requested her
consent to our marriage, as head of
the family, she said that she and you
had been long engaged and were soon
to be married and, therefore, as her
husband, you would be the real head
of the family, and were the one to be
consulted.”
“Oh, 1 see, yes, certainly, of course,”
gasped Joe. “Your credentinls are
perfectly satisfactory, sir, I congratu-
late you.”
Then he put on his hat and went
right up to see Minerva, What he
suid to her neither of them ever told,
But they were married a month be.
fore Susan and Van Beekman were,
KITCHEN TABLE
IS PRIZE WINNER
Hard Work and Ingenuity
Used in Building Device.
(Prepared by the United Htates Department
of Agriculture.)
with three small chil
the kitchen
Virginia,
Left a widow,
dren, a mother entered
contest in Albemarle county,
All
only $3.70, most of which was spent
One of the best things she
was to construct this kitchen
table, with a very little help
a carpenter, out of old lumber
found around the place.
The rack for tins of supplies Is set
way from the
leaving a suffi
the free end,
the high stool is placed, for
cakes and preparing other
The remainder of the table be-
used for giving the
in the same way
alcove Is used. Hanging
is a rack for such
utensils as the egg beater,
canning tongs, and so on,
elent work space at
is
Albemarle County (Virginia)
Table in Farm Kitchen,
i
i
a country store. The table, stool and
tins were all painted white, The pho-
tograph was taken by the United
Btates Department Agriculture.
of
Economical Meat Dishes
Recommended for Table
Here
dishes
States
Ham
steak,
and carrots;
tables, chuck romst,
and apples, swissed
Many people do
are some economical
by the
of Agriculture:
sauerkraut,
peas,
recommended
Department
and
lamb stew
beef
pot
hocks
with
shank with vege
pork
round
know
not that fore.
mals are usually much cheaper and
far more palatable than hindquarter
uts from animals of inferior breeding.
nr which have not been well fattened
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| Recipe for Preparing
Cream of sploach soup Is
from either spinach cooked for this
purpose or from left-over spinach,
u quart of milk to heat in the double
boller with a slice of onion
From half to one cupful of cooked
spinach will be enough to combine
with this amount of milk,
Whether the
previously
the soup,
saved and used with it. Some of the
valuable mineral constituents of the
spinach are dissolved In this liquor.
Wash the spinach thoroughly, chop It
and put it in a saucepan with one or
two tablespoonfuls of hot water— just
enough to keep It from scorching until
the leaves are wilted and the spinach
liquor develops. Salt It lightly. In
about 10 minutes the spinach will be
done. Mince it very fine or press it
through a strainer and add It to the
hot milk. Melt two tabiespoonfuls of
butter und blend with two tablespoon-
fuls of flour. Pour a little of the
hot mixture on the flour and but
ter and add gradually to the soup
Season to taste, remove the slice of
onion, and serve. If you prefer more
onion flavor, mince the onion and cook
it in the melted butter belore adding
the flour, then add the hot milk with
the spinach.
spinach
or at the
was prepared
time of making
Lifting Laundry Water
Makes Wash Day Hardest
Lifting laundry water in and out of
portable tubs makes wash day the
hardest of all In many rural homes,
The latest publication on home laun
dering issued by the United States De
partment of Agriculture contains a
hint for reducing this task to a minl-
mum. Pipe the water to the tubs by
means of a flexible rubber if
possible, and by all means siphon off
the waste water with a hose when
ready empty the tubs, To make
such a siphon, fill a short length of the
hose with water, close the ends and Io
vert it, placing one end under the sur
face of the water and the other at a
lower level, Open without removing
the shorter end from under the surface
of the water. A faucet into
the end of the wash boiler facilitates
hose,
to
soldered
Curing and Fermentation
Applied to Vegetable:
is a distinction between
“fermentation”
treated
There
ing” and
vegetables
“cur
as applied te
brine. Curing
vegetables
in
changes which
undergo in brine
by which brine
of the
ing
as a result of osmosis
largely takes the
vegetable with result
in cellular structure
relates to the action of
in changing the sugai
vegetable Jjuiees Inte
products, In 2
bae
hited and the proce
fermentation In ¢
strong brine (10 per cent)
piace
inives,
changes
on
teria
the
ba
of
acids and other
weak brine (5
terin are not inn
Is Inrgeliy no
certain
content
end
per cent or less)
Lit]
moderately
both prox
In a strong brine (15 per cent or over)
bacteria inhibited
entirely
esses go on abont equally
ure and the proc
ess Is almost a salt curing
of Agriculture.)
This is a sweet potato year. The
United States Department of Agricul.
‘ure says that in many localities sweet
are cheaper to buy than
So this is a good season (o
pave sweet potatoes often on the
Have them baked, bolled, fried,
mashed or stuffed. Use them, If you
ike, in pfe, much as you use pumpkin
or squash. Here are several good
recipes to add to those you have:
Candied Sweet Potatoes.
Select six medium-sized sweet pota.
toes, uniform In size If possible. Par.
tially cook the unpeeled sweet pota-
toes In boiling water. Cool and skig.
Cut in halves lengthwise, or in three
pieces if the potatoes are large. Put
in a greased baking dish large enough
for just one layer, not packing too
closely. Make a sipup by boiling one
ecupful of corn sirup, one-quarter tea-
spoonful salt, two tablespoonfuls or
more of butter and one-half cupful of
brown sugar,
Sweet Potatoes With Apples.
f sweet potatoes, 3 tablespoons but.
or about a pound. ter
t apples. Cold water,
4% cup sugar.
into slices,
sugar over each layer, also dots o!
butter.
until the apples and potatoes are soft
Baked Stuffed Sweet Potatoes.
Bake six medium-sized sweet pota
wise. Scoop out the luside and seasor
it with salt, pepper and butter, and
moisten with milk or cream, Mast
and beat until light, Refill the skin
with the seasoned potatoes and browt
in the oven.
Sweet Potato Puff with Marshmallows
To two cupfuls of hot riced swee!
potatoes add three tablespoonfuls o
butter, one-half teaspoonful salt, pep
per nnd one-half cupful of hot milk
Beat well, Then beat two eggs sep
arately, add yolks to the potatoe mix
ture, cut and fold in the stiffly beater
whites. Place the mixture in a but
tered brking dish and place a layer
of marshuallows close together over
the top and brown In @ slow oven.
WHY CHANGE?
A friend of ours complains that
the coal he gets nowadays isn't what
it used to be or what it should be for
the cost. We are reminded of the
story of an Inventor who went to a
coal dealer and sald: "I ha
something that you'll want, something
new-——a substitute that you can
sel] at half price”
“Shucks!" returned the coal man
“Haven't we got one already that we
sell at full price? —Transeript,
REJECTED
ve
coal
Edward—Could
salary?
Mary
eat
we marry on
my
Just
next
nhout,
day.
but I'd want to
the
old Habits Cling
Husband-—Why
new ald never answers when
Irate
founded
is it that con
we ring the bel
His Wife (placidiy)-—-1
better be exacting at
Horace, The girl i
tell
be employed
don’t think
we'd 00 first,
sm
at a telephone
Case of the Docs!
First Pugllis I'm hard, 1
Second Pugill “Th,
1 investigate
boxing gloves
investigating
ber ones
am’
huh! After
y with my
our anatom
there'll be
your anatom
A Parist
“Sarah lac
course.”
“I you
nxked the
Ҥ bel
that.”
amimos
mean sal ammoniac?
druggist
someting
jeve it is
replied the lady stiffly
Improved With Age
Hewitt
il a lie
Well,
miy in its Infancy
George Washington
not te
Jowett statesmanship
in his time,
Not 7 hat Way
Peopl ¢ are saying
Not! ir
was that
He
me
Khe
fed
you mart
becan
The
no money
rea
son myself,
Real Courage
Maxine—You can say what you like
sbout Reggie! He's brave,
Velma-—-How so?
Maxine—He keeps a pet squirrel
ANYWAY
SUFFICIENT FOR HIM
“Son! You left
yesterday, How was it you said noth-
ing to me?”
“1 said good-by, sir!”
Mother's Tip
Friend--1 suppose you cook what
Young Bride-—No:; mother put me
that. 1
started housekeeping with the under
standing that he is to like what I cook,
A Skeptic
Murdock—What did Mr. Dubb
after missing his seventh putt?
Joyce-—~Took out hig tape measure
and measured the ball, then the diam-
eter of the hale.
A Liberal Parent:
“What did her father give her when
they were married?”
“He gave her permission to return
home after three quarrels and sepa.
rations, but stipulated that after more
than three they would have to arrange
thelr reconcilintions elsewhere.”
Quite the Reverse
Patlent—1 can’t afford to be sick.
Specialist--Is your business so prof.
Itable?
Patient—No ; yours la,
do
1
1
secssmntiollissis, samen.
A Tonle for Sickly + Hours Plants.
This Superior Plant Food Is guar.
when used according to in
on each can to
vigorous growth on all
ferns, bulb plants,
lawns, vines and trees, A
contalng 600
and
dol-
treatments, a
12% gallons
sent postpaid
New Bruns
RR, New
Can
A5¢. Trial package
Department
Adv,
Spirit of Progress
Famed for its canals and gondo’as
Veulee Ix harkening to
call of progress, It is planned to unite
five munes with the city
hy which electric
If city officials
ill mean that the
actically the
for sight
nge-old ihe
other
bridge
be
thi
Fy om
over Ont
would operated,
approve plan it w
trolley will mm replace
recing
gondola, except g.
Cts and then
‘em as much as you please,
Get your fa first
an distort
Mark
you
Twain,
DON'T COUGH!
Huntington, W. Va.—"'Several years
ago | caught a severe cold that caused
me to have a chronic cough. 1 got so
terribly rundown everybody thought I
was going into a decline. 1 took Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
and my cough disappeared and | grew
strong and well,
“Ouite recently 1 developed another
cough, 1 also had some stomach trouble,
I took the ‘Golden Medical Discovery’
egain and it stopped my cough, relieved
me of the stomach distress, built up my
blood—in fact, built me up all over oe
made me strong.'"— Rachel Elkins,
1831 7th Ave.
All dealers. Large bottles, liquid $1.35;
Tablets $1.35 and 65¢.
Write Dr. Pierce,
Hotel in Buffalo, N. Y., for free medical
advice, Send 10¢ if you wish a trial
package of the tablets.
Mrs.
Pre. Invalids’
W. N. U, BALTIMORE, NO, 4.1927.
Many a man
fon has none,
who declares his opin-
At 85 Front Btreet, Old Town,
Maine, Mr. Morgan lives with his big
and happy family. Here in Old Town
he was born 58 years ago, and his 240
Ibs. of virile manhood typifies the
hardy stock of the Maine woods folk.
“What I went through for four
months.” he said, “] never want to
endure again. My stomach seemed
to go back on me altogether. First |
ol indigestion, sour stomach and
bad taste in my mouth. Then came
attacks of heartburn and dizzy spells,
I practically quitea ting, for the shght~
est morsel of food caused palpi! ation
of the heart and difficult breathing
“Walking became a painful ordeal
and 1 couldn't sleep at all. I had to
tighten in my belt and just cree
sround the house. As a result of all
these conditions | became cranky and
irritable; my nerves were jumpy and
1 had spells of deep depression
“1 tried ull kinds of remedies with-
out success. Even Tanlac at first
didn’t seem to help much. But after
the SOOO d Fae attle an arked
improvement Ali the distressing
conditions gradually disa peared i and
I began to recover my los weight
Now I'm 240 lbs and work bard
everyday, walking long distances
with ease. I'm a new man. What
Fm telling you about Tanlec is no
i noljoed
Particulars, Plcase
I'm a seif-made man
Are you boa
Dave
Raral
glzing?
sting or
Wise
other side
Ing at
ascertain what
of the |
men
irdie belor
conclusions
hearsay evidence; I say this from ex«
perience.”
Do vou wonder that over 52 milhon
bottles of this great natural tone
remedy have been sold? Thousands
of citizens in every state of the Union
have had experiences similar to that
of Mr. Morgan. If you're rundown
from overwork, worry or neglect,
start building your way back to
normaley today. Get a tnal bottle of
Tanlae fron ur druggist. It is
nat own re medy Jade from
herbs,
and barks, srding to
the fan
vo
ure's :
roots
yous Tanlac form 2
Sugar Raised in Alaska
Of under
Alaska railread
a refinery
Ar planted
Headache
Neuralgia
Colds
Pain
Lumbago
Rheumatism
Safe”
“Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets
A New One
Nursge—Have
{
Worse-~No, but I've driven most
every other kind of car.
MOTHER Fletcher s
Castoria is a pleasant, harm-
less Substitute for Castor Oil,
Paregoric, Teething Drops
and Soothing Syrups, espe-
| Sleeping Sickness Cure
| After injecting a specially prepared
| mixture containing gold and silver, a
| London doctor reports a cure of a se
av vere case of sleeping Slekness.