——
THEIR
WAYSIDE
FRIENDS
(® by D. J. Walsh,
€C OME one has taken the little
white house, Ted. I could
hardly pass this morning for
the moving van In front of it,
and the children! There must be n
dozen, or else they are the here-and-
there kind that multiply themselves!
And there was a dog that tried to
chase my car off the street. Oh, Ches-
ter street will be lively enough now.
I'm glad they don't live next door, Two
blocks off is as close as I want that
dog.”
Lora Minton added an extra spoon
of whipped cream to Ted's lump-o’-Joy
pudding. She saw a teasing laugh
threatening from the twinkle of his
eye. He knew her criticisms of old
and she knew his delight in them.
“But 1 don't care, Ted,” she went
on. “That is the dearest little house
and arranged so wonderfully Inside,
To have a family of harum-scarum
youngsters tear it up, and after my
dearest friend lived there, and was
so happy so short a while, I wish some
one lovable had come.”
“Lovable? Aren't children that? I
noticed as I came home tonight that
they adore their father, at least. About
five were meeting him at the corner
and hanging on him wherever they
could, all the way into the house.”
“Healthy youngsters,
a bit taggyv-looking.
what our bunch were like when mother
Maybe—"
Lora grew thoughtful.
seen anyone who could be Identified as
“mother” in the three
she had passed the house that
on marketing or shopping bent.
interest in the pl itself could
excused,
Anne Saxton, had too
the house as home before
death.
would there who
measure replace Anne,
brood! And only a stout woman with
“maid” stamped all her
evidence to rule the young mob.
haps there wasn't anyone elise?
ace
too,
briefly
come
over
Any-
thers!
fully
house.”
surveying the “little
The girl's brown
until
swinging on the gate,
hair was pulled back
seemed drawn upward,
was clean.
The boy's blouse lacked a
he had on one brown and one black
shoe. Another child of indeterminate
day before. A last fleet]
the dwelling showed no two
raised to the same height—sure prosf
in charge.
“Even the day after one
shades are evened, if nothing e
those poor children!
ise. And
“I wonder who they are,
Maybe some of us can do something.”
jut no one seemed able to find out
what the children
excursions about the neighborhood.
These were enough, Lora would say.
after the new dog had chased her pet
cat “Mistah™ so far up the porch that
persuade kitty that earth was safe for
felines,
“Ted! Can't you speak to that gen-
tleman about those awful children?
The twins—Milly and Billy—broke the
cellar window with their ball yester-
day. And that little one, Bunny, they
call her, came In with Mrs. Adams
when she ealled here this afternoon,
and Mrs. Adems thought she was some
child 1 had adopted. She told Mrs,
Adams she was going to live here, if
you please. And I don't think Mrs.
said the little imp just played around
our gate as if It were her own, al-
though she lived two blocks down the
street. I think Mrs. Adams thought
I was ashamed of the child—some poor
relation or something,
“Ted! Isn't there anything to do?
And that housekeeper they have is so
simple! Milly says ‘daddy has to take
what the agency sends ‘cause nobody
stays long at their Kitchen.” 1 believe
that!”
Lora looked hopefully at her hus-
band. He could, sometimes, think of
perfectly wonderful ways out of difi-
culties, And he just must do so now,
The family in the “little white house”
bade fair to disrupt the neighborhood.
Mrs. Neville mourned the loss of her
best ferns, trampled by Milly and
Billy and their older and younger
brothers and sister.
Mr. Parsons, who raised cholce
roses, vowed he would tan the hides
of the little devils who destroyed a
whole row of his best peas. Every-
body had some grievance. And oddly
enough, the worst day of the week
for the “Terrors” was Sunday. Lora
giggled that it was because thelr name
was Holliday. But Ted walked home
from the station with Mr. Holliday a
time or two, and after that always had
a word of pity for the man.
“His wife's been dead two years,
Lora. And he hasn't a relative to help
him out. And hired malds—what are
4hey? He says the kids are worse
with him anyway, because he hates to
make them think him a bear—when
they've nobody else,
“Let's pile them into the car nex |
Sunday—all we can, and take then |
out to Aunt Meda's for the day. She's |
Brought up five boys of her own, and
on that big farm they can’t hurt much
I think they need a chance to Jusi|
break loose, if you ask me, The city's |
no place for a live kid. Gosh! Lora-
what would I have done when I was |
ten if I'd had to play up and down & |
street—no swimming hole, no or |
chard" |
Lora remembered that about the or |
chard the next Sunday when they had |
safely deposited five scrambling Hol
lidays In Aunt Meda's back yard, That |
good lady did not seem alarmed at |
the avalanche, but Lora trembled. She
hoped apple trees, peach trees, the |
barn itself, would be standing when |
night came,
the older lady's cheerful acceptance of |
Billy's falling from his first apple tree |
and Milly's decoration with a couple |
of bee stings. And the dinner the chil
dren ate would certainly kill them. {
Yet night came, and all were well |
and dirty. Mr. Holliday even had ¢ |
relieved alr and looked rested after
a long talk with Aunt Meda the |
grape arbor.
“You won't have so many passen |
gers going home,” smiled Aunt Meda |
as Lora began to hunt for her motor |
coat,
“The two older boys and the twins |
will stay with me for a while. It was |
pitiful, Lora, to see how hungry they |
were for the things that are everyday |
here on the farm. Little Milly had a |
great bunch of weeds gathered to take
home ; sald they were lonesome |
‘lowers In the fence corner,
That's what she Is, Lora. A flower In
a fence corner, and she'll turn Inte a
in
she
to think, the weeds, as we
were flowers until they were
cared for
“Come
so neglected-—until
them,
“Trouble? Mercy!
for, child?”
Lora thought
nobody
What are wa
here
hard about that last
speech of Aunt Meda's. Thought all
the way home, while the baby “Bun
ny,” slept In her lap. And when Ted
stopped at the “little white house” tc
let Mr, Holliday alight with “Bunny.’
Lora sald with a bit of a catch in her
voice:
“Teddy, dear—the baby Is
we'd better take her
us. And—and—I wish you'd le!
borrow her a lot, Mr. Holliday
She's too little to have noboby care
We could care a lot for her—Ted
and L"
And Ted heartily agreed, with »
glow at his heart for the Kindness o
his Lord for even a stray blossom,
Swallow Has No Peer
as Master of Flight
The swallows and swifts may be
sald to be the only small birds in the
gull division ; and they have gifts very
ar to themselves, The
body and skeleton have been light.
ened by an elaborate apparatus of
air sacs, as if nature were striving to
produce a craft lighter than alr, a tiny
airship.
This form of adaptation, common in
some degree to many birds, has
its highest development in
the swallows, and, accompanied by a
so sound
asleep, on home
with
pecull
it gives
them an ease and grace quite their
own.
They can glide so low as just to dip
their wings In the cool water. They
can turn and twist with a smoothness
that hides the sharpness of the angle. |
The upper air or lower air Is all the
same to them. They are so conscious
of their mastery that, tender though
they are in beak and body and claw,
they will chase and mob any enemy.
I have many times watched them
compel the retreat of a cat by driving |
at him so close as, you would swenr,
to touch his ears. The cat did not so |
much as attempt to strike, and soon |
retired utterly cowed. We have all |
seen them mobbing birds of prey and
curvetting round them, in repeated
arcs, having no trouble to keep pace,
though they travel many times the dis |
tance,
The point has been made by Oliver |
Wendell Holmes in a charming, If |
rather elaborate, metaphor, in which |
he compared their excursions with the |
thoughts of a nimble-witted listener |
to a slow preacher. He could wander |
pleasantly in this direction and that,
yet be sure of keeping the thread of |
the preacher's Journey when he might |
wish to return.—Sir W, Beach Thomas |
in the Atlantic Monthly.
Records Earth’s Movement
The apparatus in the Academy of
Sciences In Washington that {llustrates
the movement of the earth Is a Fou
cault pendulum. Foucault, a French
scientist, explained the fact of the
rotation of the earth by hanging a
heavy ball by a fine wire from the
dome of the Pantheon in Paris. This
pendulum was set swinging In a cer
tain direction, but gradually the direc
tion of the swing appeared to change,
as indicated by marks made upon the
floor. As no force whatever had acted
upon the pendulum, it was evident
that the whole earth was turning
around.
Phases of Life
As the Ice upon the mountain, when
the warm breath of the summer's sun
breathes upon It, melts, and divides
into drops, each of which reflects an
image of the sun, so life, in the smile
of God's love, divides itself into sep
arate forms, each bearing in It and re
flecting an Image of God's love
Longfellow,
(@. 1927, Western Newspaper Union.)
The helghts by great men reached
and kept
Were not attained
flight:
But they, while thelr companions
slept,
Were toiling
night.
by sudden
upward in the
~fong fellow.
WHOLESOME GOOD THINGS
Now that fresh eggs are plentiful,
may be
them.
prepared from
Eggs.— Roast
fresh green
one
peppers,
then boll
water
and chop,
very little
tender;
butter,
und
until
Beat six
the peppers
CEES
and
Spanish Meat Dish.—Arrange a lay-
baking dish, add a thinly
cold roast beef, stenk or hamburger,
tomato and place In the oven to bake;
when ready to serve garnish with two
or three tablespoonfuls of cooked peas
over the top.
Mexican Sauce.—Cook one onlon
finely chopped in two tablespoonfuls
of butter for five minutes. Add one
red and one green pepper, one clove
of garlic, each finely chopped: add
two tomatoes peeled and chopped.
Cook fifteen minutes, add one tea
spoonful of worcestershire sauce, u
few dashes of celery salt and salt te
taste,
For Sunday night supper a bowl of
popcorn and milk is delicious, It may
be ground if preferred
Popcorn Biscuit.—Sift four teaspoon
fuls of baking powder, teaspoon
ful of salt, tle same of sugar, one cup-
ful of wheat one-half cupful of
corn flour, four tablespoonfuls of
shortening and one cupful of freshly
ground corn, Add milk to
make a mixture to roll out. Cut into
rounds and bake on a hot griddle, turn-
ing when one side Is brown to brown
on the other, They may be baked in
the oven If preferred. his recipe
makes one dozen biscuits,
Popcorn Soup.~To one quart of milk
brought to the scalding point add two
tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour
well cooked together, Add cup
ful of finely ground popcorn and serve
garnished with a spoonful of freshly
popped whole kernels,
Stuffed Onions. Prepare as many
onions as there are persons (0 serve.
Parboil until tender but unbroken.
Drain, remove the centers and mix
with butter, chopped ham and season-
ing, a little cream and the yolk of an
egg. Fill the onions with this mixture
and place in deep dish and bake, bast
ing with cream during the baking.
Cook covered until nearly done, then
remove the cover and put a spoonful
of well buttered crumbs on the top to
brown.
one
lour,
enough
ane
Food We Like.
If the turkey is not at hand, any
fowl! may be used for the following
sandwiches :
Turkey Sand
wiches.— Chop fine
thtee heads of
crisp celery. Take
three cupfuls of
cold cooked turkey
from the breast,
or light meat,
Blanch and shred
one and one-half cupfuls of almonds
Mix all iightly together, season
with salt and pepper and moisten
with mayonnaise. Cut thin slices
of white bread and spread with pl
mento butté¥. Spread half the slices
with a thick layer of the mixture and
the remaining slices with crisp let
tuce, spread with mayonnaise. Put
Garnish
with stars cut from
At the point of the star
each sandwich
pimentoes,
Tea Sandwiches Spread thin un-
sweetened wafer crackers with quince,
orange marmalade, or any fruit jam.
with fruit and arrange In a daloty
Serve with tea, cocon
or chocolate,
Orange Meringue
three oranges
Pudding.
In a, pudding
Slice
one tablespoonful of cornstarch, one
fourth of a cupful of sugar, salt, va.
nills and one cupful of milk. Cook in
cooked, then cool and pour over the
oranges. Beat the whites of the eggs
untll stiff, add one tablespoonful of
orange juice and one tablespoonful of
sugar. Heap lightly on the pudding
and set Into the oven to brown the
meringue.
Banana Cream Ple.—~Bake a rich
pastry shell, place on a chop plate and
fill with sliced bananas; over this
spread sweetened and Anvored
whipped cream.
Rolled Jelly Cake —PDent thiee eggs
until light, add one cupful of sugar,
two tablespoonfuls of cold water, a
pinch of salt, stir In one cupful of
flour sifted with two teaspoonfuls of
baking powder, adding the flour grad.
ually. Bake In a dripping pan well
greased, Turn out on a cloth wrung
out of cold water, spread with jelly
and roll; sprinkle with powdered
sugar,
Posies to Adorn
Frocks and Suits
Feather and Fabric Flowers
Add Bright Touches to
the New Outfit.
If fashion predictions be true—and
usually are when they come
from Puarls—the flower boutonnlere
and sults, For every type of
All sorts of materials have been uti
carnations, floppy roses,
to the
due to thelr unusually success-
response to dyeing, the results
are delightfully realistic, Flowers are
both as to color
and contour, and the rich softness of
displayed by the
Field flowers
are grouped In twos and threes for
boutonnierss to adorn a tailored suit
or sports outfit, Gardenias In white
supply
the
of color
crepe or
with
the necessary touch
afternoon frock of
Large fluffy pompons
tralling stems natu-
With gay little printed dresses, either
as a shoulder or sash trimming, there
are bunches of field flowers,
with stem and buds,
pansies and ail the rest
flowers, the
of a belt,
frock to
waistline,
Umbrellas,
spring's tendencies in
striped borders
binations are
somber tones
days, are
the short handle Is no
sidered an but a great incon
venience, As a result, one
brought ont an umbrella with a fold-
Handle which
daisies,
or the front
suggestion
HCTORR
give the
too, appear to have the
colors. Plaids
and pay
taking the
seen during the
color
com
f 11
place of the
Sizes, too, changing, for
longer con
fuset
over
an extra metal
from becom detached
main rod. The handle is
several
unscrews but has
band that prevents It
from the
shown In
shapes,
besides being an
and an Ind
of a
Gloves, everyday
ication In many
woman's taste and
preferences in dress,
necessity
instances
lem. Despite
garding gray,
what has been sald re
the beige and tan tones
predominate, both from the standpoint
of sale and smartness
gloves and stockings It Is being whis-
pered that the determining factor is
what called skin tones,
especially with
are two
is now
sports clothes there
the slip-on and
with or without
model is
seams in a
one-clasp
darker shade,
Hardly a
moment
cuff. A smart slip
shown with hand-sewn
contrasting color,
with
on
glove binding In a
dregs Ix shown at
remember that French mod.
without some
suggestion In most
of the material, ne
quite frequently it is of different color
or material. It for those who
penchant making
modeling their frocks
glider the use different kinds
belts. Width not govern
for belts appear less than an
of a belt,
same
CARER
vertheless,
is well
for
own
of
does
fo
of
style,
This Handsome Outfit
Is Chic for Spring
The tailleur for spring wear 4
stronger this season than ever. Tal.
lored In masculine severity, many of
these new suits have vests to adorn
them in real mannish fashion. This
smart taillleur is worn by Pauline
Starke in “Women Love Diamonds,” her
latest production, It is of navy cloth,
with a double-breasted vest of white
broadcloth, A white fox scarf and a
black turban completa the outfit,
Charming Tennis Outfit
This beautiful tennis outfit which
May McAvoy, “movie” star, wears In
her latest production, “Matinee
Ladies,” consists of an accordian
plaited white crepe skirt with a green
border, a tailored white crepe blouse,
sleeveless jacket made of
Spring Ensemble Picture
With color
scheme and harmony
0 In role in the
designers are
les in
portant a fns-
sembling of accessories,
bringing out
for ha
new sha leathers
The
idence are ostrich and
the tints are
they blend in well with the nen
#8 of the original coloring of
skins
uibags two leathers most
it
lizard n
pastel preferred,
tral tor
the
Ostrich Is
rose,
dyed In
gray, red
the
tones of wood
green and dark
and brown tones
is used for frame.
handles and In similar
beige,
tan
in
work,
Ways.
The
strap
lizard bags are chiefly shown In
in preference to those
of large proportigns, and Include fiat
envelopes, melon-shaped pouches and
pouches that are almost square.
Shirred tops, plalted sides and over-
new detalls In
these lizard
self-covered
In all Instances
are mounted on
Color contrast Is
by having clasp In a
color to emphasize that of the bag.
The rose shades,
greens, blues, yellows, reds and
orange: and if these bags are carried
when a gay little printed frock is worn
with lizard shoes,
sign.
bags
often
achieved the
color tones Include
the color ensemble
is especially charming Gay colored
gilks line the bags in tones to har-
monize with the leather,
Honey Shade Flattering
to Blond and Brunette
At the openings of the haute cou-
tures of Paris it was evident that
seen and many printed silks In the
in men's neckwear,
chiffon and satin
equal ratio,
A charming fashion,
dently increase In popularity
season advances, Is
For evening both
are used in almost
that will evl.
as the
the wearing of
lined with the same silk
dotted prints are
Many
features in
gettes that make such successful
models,
The satin frock for evening is une
tant of the new spring modes, and its
in a number of instances it Is In the
pale color that is flattering to blond
and brunette alike.
and in several cases touches of honey
of black satin.
Soft Wools Are Used:
reflect In line, details and color the
salient points of the new mode. Ma-
terials In almost every Instance tend
toward the new soft wools, although a
number of the amartest coats are of
heavy satin In black or blond tones
and In ribbed silk. Much interest at-
taches to the use of furs that are a
bit different. Not that they are new-—
that would be quite Impossible—but
that by treatment and the use of dyes
they have been given a different
aspect,
Mzny of the smartest straight-line
silky monkey fur and deftly em-
broidered in metal threads in tiny con.
ventional motifs. Others follow the
new compose mode in using soutache
braid In varied shadings, that tones
with the shade of the materials
.
“To market, to market,
a gallop, a trot” —
and don’t forget the
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Teenie Weenie Pea-
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to treat the children
today.
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sovering a camiiete line of the world's finest food
8 Jot, Cocoa, Cataup, Pickles,
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Monarch is the only netionally sdvertised brand hw
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