Is Covered N SOME sections of the country #t is customary when a death has ec- curred in the family to cover the mir rors and to keep them shrouded while the body remains in the house. Gen- erally, however, it Is only a mirror which happen® to be in the room where the body lies which is veiled. This custom is traced by Professor Frazer to the belief of primitive man— of which belief we still see vestiges remaining—that the ghost, the soul, of its late tenement. A man’s reflected image was considered to be a part of himself, possibly his “exterior soul”— and concerning the bellef in “ex- terior souls” the professor accumu. lated a vast amount of data. The idea in veiling the mirror was to ebviate the chance of the lingering soul of the deceased taking away with it the “exterior soul” of any person these reflected image appeared in the glass, Mirrors are very anclent and befere mirrors were introduced there were pleces of bright metal In which an image might be reflected and which were covered upon occasions of death, a custom still observed by some sav- age tribes. Whether the “exterior soul” idea ap- plies here, as the professor thinks, er not, it is certain that primitive man like the savage who is the primitive man of today regarded his reflection as something vitally pertaining to hls personality, and it was oatural that be should protect it against any pos sibility of contact with a lingering spirit by preventing its existence. And what was begun a® a precaution is practiced today because of an atavism which makes the superstitions feel it might be “unlucky” not to do it (©) by McClure Newspaper Syndicates MEANING OF “MALL” By JEAN NEWTON NE of the most famous “malls” in O the country is that in Central park in New York city. But the term is commonly used all over the country for a public promenade and names usually the broadest and most beauti- ful walk in a park. “Mall” is derived from the Latin “malleus,” meaning a mallet, and our use of the word in the modern sense goes back te the old English game of pall-mall, which literally meant “bail and mael,” It was from the circum stance that the open space where the game was played was called in London a “pall-mall alley,” then just a “pall mall,” which, abbreviated, became “mall,” that the word came to be ap- plied to any open walk and later to the most popular promenade of a city or the broadest walk im a park, (Copyright) ““ LITTLE boy, a very little boy, was crying, for his balloon bad blown away from him and was caught up in an oak tree,” said the Sand- man, “Before long, though, the little boy dried his tears and he was given an- other balloon. “But up in the tree the balloon and the oak leaf were talking. “1 suppose 1 was very naughty, gaid the balloon, ‘but 1 did want to fly away. I just couldn't resist the temptation of taking a little trip with Mr. Wind. “‘It's rather hard at times not to do ns Mr. Wind tells you to do. | know that, sdid the oak leaf. “*“Tell me about yourself,’ said the balloon. ‘Why are you and some few other oak leaves still clinging to the “Yes, | Will Telli You My Story Right Away” tree when all the leaves are off the other trees? “ ‘Oh,’ sald the oak leaf, ‘'] tell you about that, for it all from an old, old reason ““Then there is a reason for RY asked the balloon. ‘When Mr. Wind brought me up here 1 was wonder ing why there were some leaves upon this tree and not upon the others, “And so there is a reason,’ the balloon repeated; ‘well, I am giad to hear that. Do tell me the reason now, for 1 may not stay long. “Mr. Wind might decide to blow me away from here. You can’t tell “‘l can't tell at any rate’ “ ‘Neither can 1 tell’ said the oak leaf, ‘Yes, 1 will tell you my story right away. must comes By MARTHA MARTIN “There are oaks that are always with their green leaves, sald the oak leaf. «uch trees could not stand such a chilly climate as this is, but there are many of these trees where it is warmer. “Jur ancestors wore green all the time—ever green were frocks. “and as I've told you many of the family still do so who live in warm- er pinces “But we cannot do that. Still, we have a feeling about our leaves, leaves thein ways—just a little bit, so a few of us stay on the tree, and do not even fet the storms take us away. “We've frocks to and then changed from our green red or brownish frocks— we stay on, with quiet brown winter coloring as our little way of showing that we remember what the old ways of the oak family have been, “It is the oak tree's memory. It fs a very good memory that the oak trees have. ue say It the balloon, ‘and I've hear your story. How reason !’ “ah 1d was,' remarked been glad to interesting a shou rastling birds sit- onk all telegraph wire loos leaf, those the at sald ‘look ing at the apartment houses that are along there, “1 wonder what they are ing about. 1 fancy they must thinking that they would not like in- door apartments and houses such as people have! “1 know 1 would not want to live indoors. “ ‘Fancy an oak tree inside a house, Dear me, that would be too terrible a thought. We need the rain and the air and the beautiful earth? “Then the great red sun began to think of going to bed and as he did so he, too, shone upon the window panes of the apartment houses, and think- he (© by MeClure Newspaper Syndicate.) | French troops carrying cofling containing can be seen In distance, Thou What Editors Have to Stand Editor (considering article)—You say here, “seems to advance, but real- ly is as unprogressive as a clock,” 1 don’t get that, Writer—Why, you see, a running all day and yet winds up at the same place, clock 1s it always The average persor in the United States eats almost 14 pounds of com- i mercially prepared candy in a year. he chatted with the city’s tall build Ings and he sald: “You may heights but up to me, be built to reach great you don’t begin No, you can't do that, For you're only made by men, mere men! “And Mr. Sun nicest smile as he sank behind the hill for his sleep and the oak leaf whispered to Mr, Wind: bulldings smiled down “Ite a very interesting world after ail." (Copyright) Both Ways “Can you serve company?” the mistress, “Yes, both ways, mum,” replied the pew maid. “Both wass? “Yes, mum. So they'll come again or so they'll stay away.” asked , Snubbed His Predecessor British “looks the opposite way” to his prede on British This been observed si restora. of Charles II, Each succeeding sovereign cessor the coinage. the who expressed a the has nee tion desire not fo look sane way as Oliver Cromwell, FAV Take comes many pleasant every that sour good thing WARY. There are =o little outings that would send you home rested and with a different viewpoint, but you think up some excuse for work that must be done and do not go F YOUR family has never been edu cated to eat clabbered milk, they may refuse to eat one of the most de lightful as well as henithful Put a quurt of whole milk into a deep dish and set away to thicken. Chill cover with a sprinkling of hrown sug- | ar, cinnamon or nutmeg ard dishes BOVE, Hints for the Goose ly VIOLA BROTHERS SHORE FOR THE GOOSE— | HE woman that ! T == alone better alone, tao. i There'd be better broug! { dren in the world ff it was the | | that got the lickin's. The kiss meet is practically manship as the one you give him when he leaves, But oh, how different It feels! you work FOR THE GANDER You can lose your heart to a woman as mnch as you like, keep your bead. as long as you Never lose your temper with ¢ an. But sometimes pretend to. Don't be afraid of spoil f.eave her have unythil goat, (Copyright) MODE & 1 GW, are S UST how old is a person? Ie he as old as the number of summers and winters that have passed since he was porn? Are the years he lived the measure of his age? If so, then some persons are very old at thirty; others are very young at seventy. Robert Brdwning in his “Last Ride Together,” writes: Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, “A whole 1 planned, Youth shows but half; trust Ged: zee all, nor be afraid!” Arst If this Is true, and it doubtless is, HAVE AN APPOINTMENT By LEONARD A. BARRETT then old age is a matter of something else than number of summers and win. ters, 1s a person as old a® his arteries are hard? Perhaps so. The hardness of the arteries is a sure sign of ap proaching senility. No person can be very much alive with sluggish blood flowing through his veins, The blood pressure is a tell-tale of what is com: ing unless we profit by what the phy- giclan’s instrument tells us, The virllity of life hae a physical basie. An active mind and a sluggish liver sel dom are good companions, But age 's not dependent upon any. thing, In the final analysis, except SOGOU OOOOT With a little make a bread and butter, this wholesome mend, Orange Layer Cake. Take one-third of a cupful of but ror Fe latter alternately with one cupfuls of well sifted with one cupful of milk, three-fourths flour three bake oven and moderate Spread with with orange extract layers in a minutes, eam, flavored gra rind or with a well heater Se One PEE of one-half cupfuol until smooth spoonful of butter, the of an flour : one hal sugar and ater; cook ge and ke for Billing vith julce oral when cold on the ca ton may he covered i ir v Bie Fruit Punch. minutes wo cuplols of » nd of one eman ie hot, add one set on her for ten E best, ready to serve add the » jomons, five oranges, one | of cherries and shredded pine- Pour into a punch bowl, add and a pint of charged water, 3 t 5 at a time, to give it sparkle. » water Coronado Bavarian Cream. Soak two ounces of gelatin in cover, Take one qual and 1 sugar crush strawberries, EL 1" » pound of fered hree ou ‘ stiff and stir until with the and 10 and shapely herries Wes i'r tern Newenl per fn.Y o 2 G SOOO OODODTOVRLLOT HELPFUL THINGS GHOOLOLO OOOO OTORVILCLOTO By DOUGLAS MALLOCH 2 JOVOOOLVOLHOSLOBDODLLOO000 Te things like this: The good wife's arms, the husband's Kiss, The comrade hall, the fireside glow Whatever fortune men may know, However much their fame esteem, Whatever else the world mas These are the things that really aid SeQOOOOoROU that help are things Seem, The things that help are little thing We think that genius fortune brings And yet a song, a merry phrase, A sun that shines or wintry days, May help us more to climb the hill Than all our genius ever will Ah, friend, If you would help me climb Help keep me happy all the time! The things that help may matter more Than things that men may battle for. Though now they dream of doughty deeds, The heart more love than honor needs, The bearth more merriment than gold— The things that help perhaps may hold More treasure than the proudest hall-- May be our treasure, after all! (2) by MoClure Newspaper Syndicate y AGE THOUGHTS. A person is as old ss his thoughts make him. The most important secret of age Is not the story told by the physician's instru ment nor the calendars record, but what our thoughts have to reveal. A person is as old a» he feels, One's attitude toward life largely governs age~for: We lve In deeds, not thoughts, not breaths in feelings, not In figures on a dial We should count time by heart throbs. He mont lives Who thinks most, acts the Yeast, It matters not how long we live, int how, : (©. 1927, Western Newspaper Unlony yearn: in feels the noblest, he A Wife's Transformation The Story of the Comeback of s Woman Gone to Seed By Mary Culbertson Miller INSTALLMENT | T WASN'T anything so drastic as I a fumily explosion that awakened Helen Crane from her smugly satis. fied life—the security of permanence and the feeling that she and her hus- band were indivisibly death do them part, but it was equally as effective, When the nounced Bob wife, he said, concerned, the ject, take-everything-for-granted nial jog-trot. Nothing of the hair-shirt sort about Mrs. Robert Stone Crane, Just a negligible quantity—something of a vacuum. Her husband's in business made an easeful life possible, and in the process she bad grown fat and flabby. She had allowed every interest in life, except that of litera- ture, to atrophy. 3ob’'s roses were beginning to adorn other women's boudoirs. He sought other company with the air of a man in need of refreshment and rest Crane was that suvecessful looking American type. Dressed well, good brain, something fresh and vital about his admirable physigne. As full of the love of life as his wife was Joy- less and indifferent, From a in their charming room, where Crane's unerring instinct had installed the best things and the right things, Helen usually greeted ber husband his return home in the evenings. She would look up from the Inevitable book In the un- smiling way of one at- tention i# still held, Their two children and smoothly tum. to do but follo thus t of a wife, Perhay man's the nfter his wife's negli; 1 Mrs. Robert Crane that until One ry $ t ow sometiang clergyman had Helen, man far Helen word the pro- and was sub- into the matrimo- and as “an last Khe settled right down on RUCCLSS couch, on whose whole died thelr substantial home enough on So the she becaine under cut into her indifferenc Bob and His Secretary. It was the morning of the day Texas fhe {fo leave or on a his Crane was gix weeks’ trip. had wife at his fices about ten- thirty on a matter of In his office he ha wn going mail, dicta hour or more Boh in his chair, I . dl, asked {to be private his for he moment ai was cht. It his eflicient young busi wae iving and ffice routine, kept trend. he dict “In ac- your request of July n itemized —" broke into Bob's keen blue eves fastened on the shape- iy fingers Gieuze might have fash- joned, moving swiftly across the note- book. Miss Secretary wished that her employer would go on. Suddenly he pulled himself together—“statemept of your account, covering the balance of S008" As If hooks were drawing his eves, they lifted to the young woman's delicate profile. Just a shade of coloring noticeable on the oval cheek. The nutbrown, glossy air, Just right in soft waves across an extra white forehead, and above a who one could see y her ways of | ted ORINE an Concentration bits, character to her face. “Looks like a find!” be thought, Dressed so quietly, was Miss Secre- tary in the manner of the business It was a visualization diametrical- iy opposite that pried into Bob's thoughts: his wife's flabby, slouched and rough sallow un- skin, that told tales of sweets, indigestible foods and inac- Wife and Secretary. Dictation over. A door opened In from Bob's desk. “If Mrs. Crane is waiting, tell Her shoulders slumped from Helen. And the tragedy of it was that she had possessed good looks. From across his mahogany desk her husband's keen eyes pierced her like raplers. That look almost vivisected her—his half-smile seemed a mockery... He spoke quickly, brittle bright, in troduced his new secretary, indicated a chair, all were sandwiched Into some final instructions In process, to Migs Secretary who was standing nicely poised at the door giving ac cess to her own small domain. Miss Secretary smiled, and humor shone from dark eyes—that was all. But the reaction that Helen got from that \ smile was something quite dynamic. She might have sald to her, *T'm in fove with your husband-—-what are you going to do about ity" (® by the Bell Syndicate. Ina)
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