“ ig Urdermend § Diba dt i 4 1 BES ai rat et found her the other day In Thicago, Chieago real estate broker, lartiesville, Okla. Charles Rankin, wife of a 5 “Though other purses be more fat, Why should we pine or grieve at that? tang sorrow! Care will kill a eat. And therefore let's be merry” T THIS season of the year may prepare cakes and which will keep as well as mince meni and plum puddings. Ice Box Cookies. Take one cupful each sugar, granulated sugar, butter, aml nutmeats. One teaspoonful of va ailla, two eggs, one teaspoonful of sult, one teaspoonful of soda, alt teuspoonfal of almond extract and feur and one-fourth cupfuls ot sifted flour. Mix well, add or pecans, uring a few for decorating the top when ready for the pan. Roll up Into small round long rolls and set away over night in a place to become hard. In the norning cu! into thin slices; decorate with the puts and bake in a hot oven. one cookies of brown one nlmonds cold Fruit Gelatin Salad. Dissolve a packuge of lemon gela tin In a pint of boiling water. While it is cooling prepare diced pineapple malaga grapes—removing the seeds and skins—uand small sections of orange. Mix the fruit, fill individual molds with the mixture when the ge! atin is beginning to thicken. Let harden and serve on a bed of lettuce Cover with mayonnaise dressing thinned with whipped cream. Grandmother's Date Cake, Put half a cupful of butter softened slightly into a mixing bowl, add iwo and two-thirds capfuls of brown sugar, four one cupful of milk three nnd one-half copfuls of fonr four teaspoonfuls of bakmg powder, ane teaspoonful each of cinnamon and beaten exgs nutmeg and one pound of dates, stoned and finely cut. Rake In a tube pan. Baked Bananas each banunu strip off the stringy skin the fruit each one-hal! the ekin portion From and scrape leaving the around Sprinkle over banana teaspoonful of lemon juice and a tea FOR THE GOOSE AND GANDER FU AAAS, $m paninial By VIOLA BROTHERS SHORE FOR THE GOOSE— BADERSHIP is easier to foller than tut advice Is easier to give than to foller, Suppose the cuckoos In all the cuckoo clocks in the country was to strike for an eight-hour day? give, FOR THE GANDER— Don't expeck a woman to enjoy a practical joke. If it's on scmebody else she'll be tvo tender hearted. And if it's on herself she'll be too vain There's three traits you can always count on discoverin’ in hack of every thing a woman does. The first Is van ity. So Is the other two, Copyright) UREAT many people run down studiousness, on the score that it has po bearing on the practical side of life, and io the end brings but Httle reward In 8 monetary sense, and in spe cinl cases this may be true, but if you will wateh the studious young men and women, follow them in and out among their pursuits, you will find that the majority of those given te study and close application altimatels tommand fhe highest salaries and write their names among the respect ed and renowned, The great Inventions which we use dally, with seldom a thought of their value to mankind, had thelr birth In the mind of the studious. ' 4 (@® oy MeClure Newspaper Syndicate.) The sewing machine, the typewriter the intricate electrical appliances and the automobile, with which we all are more or less familiar, resulted from contemplative study, coupled with tire some days of intensive work. Our life would be beggaurly, indeed without the helpful assistance of bruiln workers, who, notwithstanding the asperity of Inconsiderate critics are the real world builders, It is the thoughtful who make life brighter and sweeter for the thought less, who habitually run down studi ousness like Hi-humored courtiers The vacant mind wastes lis years in ignorance of things which would fill It to repletion and give It value. Turn where you muy, you will find the full, thinking intellect atop of the world driving it to its goal Ever pondering, ever reaching out and seeking new methods to subst) tute for old. the reasoning men and women are easing the burdens of life performing herole deeds and doing work which imsures a livelihood for thousands, Move slong with them, Train your mind each day to open the door into some new cealm of thought. Try this for ao. month and pote in the thirty dings the lmprovement in your mental alertness . Although It may be ditlicult In the neginning, the effort required to over come the difficulty will make you strong, generous, great-bearted, self reliant and fH you to climb the diz ziest elevation in less thine than is given now to grambling and bemoan ing your lot, (@ by MeClure Newspaper Syndicate.) : ss [I'S not every creature,” sald Miss Julin Jumping Mouse, “who has a tail which Is longer than the body But such is true of the Jumping Mice family. We have short Illitle bodies, thin and dainty, and we have tails which are still longer and still thinner.” “You speak the truth,” sald Miss Jennie Jumping Mouse, “though you doe express yourself In rather careless fashion. For, from the way you just spoke, one wouldn't be sure whether mice had more than one tall aplece” sald Miss Julia Jump Mouse, "no one would think we hdd thun one tall aplece, for | never heard of a eresture with two tails, and 1 don't believe others have, either.” “Ha, squealed Miss Jenule Jumping “That Is 8 good joke. What do sou care ahout a store of All you nhont Is your store of food which yon keep In your cheek pouches. whut you cure “And do Juila Jumping “1 think,” sald Mouse, “that “Nonsense,” ing nore ha,” Mouse, knowledge? cure Those ure shout.” you" Mouse, Miss we 80) answered Miss Jennie Jump te such fine Our suits are simple modest and quiet In appearance like to wear brownish yellowish Now it would he silly and io very had taste if we ndorned selves with purple and red and orange suits Much too gay. squeal, squeal.” “1 am glad” sald Miss Julia Jump ing suit and We suits BO makers our AX EHR ERR HRN RRRNR By NELLIE MAXWELL RVR FERRER spoonful each of butler and sugar Pince in a granite during cremmned together pan and hake, basting often fifteen minntes in a hot oven (2, 19318 Wentern Newspaper (‘onload GPP By LEONARD A BARRETT NFLUENCE many secure you a job but it is not likely + keep you at sour Joh. Whether or not you are tox big for your job or your job is ton big for you depends entirely upon yourself and not upor sour friends, Stenm in the holler of an engine will burst the boiler if It does not find an exit. The very day you become 100 big for your job a larger job wili be awaiting you. You wil: oot have to look for it. It will seek sou. The influence of friendship is a very important factor In one’s life, but the test of one's capacity to “ise in the economic world depends not apon capacity for friendship, but upon the ability to get things done. The final question which determines rewards Is not, “Who are you?” but, “What can you Jo? The quality of work done proves one's right to friendship. A friend may help yous go the first mile, the re mainder of the race you must run yourself. All anyone has the moral right to ask for Is the opportunity of a good start. Your first job may be secured for you by your friends, but the quality of your work will secure your seeand job, Stand upon your own merit and you will have plenty of friends, (© 1928. Western Newspaper Union.) Amber Known to Eskimos Amber is a fossilized vegeluble resin occurring In small quantities in the more recent geological formations in many parts of the American continent So far as known It was little used by the Indians, except the Eskimos of Alaska. who made small ornaments of amber. Ties obtained It chiefly from the alluvium of the Yukon delta. Ve Wr Ur We Ue Ue Ue Ve We Ue Ue Ue We He We By MARTHA MARTIN ing Mouse, “thut as a family we like all parts of the country. We're not narrow minded even If we have nar row bodies! How well | remember how my mother used to jump from her nest when anyone frightened her, and would carry us with her. And they tell me I take after her” “We all take after the Founder ot the Jumping Mice family,” sald Miss Jennie Jumping Mouse, “And who was he, pray tell?” “The first Jumping Mouse, of course, you silly mouse” sald Miss Jennie Jumping Mouse. “Yes, yes we're all good jumpers and our long hind legs help us tremendously, But I must talk to you any more. | have werk to do” “What Is your work?’ inquired Miss Julia Jumping Mouse, with a grin “I must dig a hole. When | my hole all ready |} will put some grass so It will be warm. not have into it “There is nothing like a blanket of grass. And near my bedroom | will ve 5 .* i " pH J y af - ‘ - ¥ —_ Sete § A Yes, We Are Good Jumpers” Said Jennie Jumping Mouse. “Yes, uve tittle holes or rooms where | will keep berries and nots which may come In handy, 100.” “You mean they mouthy,”™ sald Miss Mouse, “There is no such word as meuthy,” wrrected Miss Jennie Jumping Mouse “and | do wish, Miss Julia, you would not make up words when you're not in that business may Juiia come n Jumping “If anyone had asked you to ma.e up a dictionary with lots of words and thelr meaniugs there might be scine excuse, bul no one ever has Fancy anyone saying: ‘We're adding to Webster's dictionary, Miss Mouse, aud we would be pleased to have your assistance.” “Dear me,” sald Miss Julia, *1 can see quite plainly that you need 2 good sleep. You're getting a little bit cross, just a tittle bit! Instead of baving gotten out of your hole on the wrong side you need to go into your hole to get some pleasant sleep It's bedtime for the Jumping Mice family, Good-night, Miss Jennie” But Miss Jennie Jumping Mouse bad already left and had juinped off to bed. “It's high time for me to be geiting my Mouse beauty sleep, teo” ended Miss Julin te herself ag she rubbed her sleepy eyes, (Copyright) ———————— @otrdndnd SACs tron What We Need! OOO By DOUGLAS MALLOCH Gvprprpapa pal epaprpapape : HE rocks were rough, we felt the brambles tear: The sun beat down. wiped his brow, “We ought to make from now,” He sald, “for all there Is just some pray'r.™ The old guide it m an hour we need to land us cussin® and a lot of I laughed nt that, § hadn't heard Thur pray’r and “eussing” mixed so very well ; And so | thought tell fellow ahsurd, my duty was to The that his language was And spenk about the Ward religion, and That's Bireels Where spiders lure many a light, Where man's » brute by night, the nw, and hinmes the inw he cheats, Makes gold his god snd Babylon re peats, long ago. | walk the city the young with man by day and And chents Yet men shall hear, the hardest hourts must cure My mind bheholds sirewn path May we have strength to speak our faith, and wrath, For now we need what once we needed another rock there A Hitle cussing snd a let of prag'e. te 192%. Douglas Maillot. » Napoleon of Average Height Napoleon Bonaparte, commonly spo ken of as an abnormally shart man nctually was of aboul average height On his deathbed his physician, Antem marchl, found his measurement to be five feet six and one-half inches In his prime he was probably taller. His dwarfed appearance was ascribed to his unusually short legs. — Mentor Magazine SHARK is very unlovely and =n very dangerous creature. He looks almost as bad as he is and jus to look at him is calculated to give one “the shivers.” A sailor Is ant urally Inclined to be superstitious, as are most men who wrest a living by combat with the tremendous forces of nature. Lonely midnight seas surg ing under the blows of howling tempest, weird maritime phenomena the thin division between life and death, the insignificance of ship and crew in the vast expanse of sea and sky all help to promote a supersti tious turn of mind. So, when, day after day, a wicked fish-fiend of » shark with its evil eye follows a ship sallors can bardly be blamed for see ing in that sinister following an omen of death. Death Is oaturaily asso clated with a shark anyway. If = sullor should fall overboard he knows that the shark would get him Of course what the shark really fol wows the ship for is the pleasure of feeding on the gurbage the cook throws overboard-—or if he is lucky » sailor knocked overboard by a slat ting sall. Bui mo such presale expla nation as that will satisfy a sailor. No the shark scents a death on board =» is true tha! thousands of ships have sailed thousands of miles and man deaths have occurred ob board of them and no shark has followed them Ye! sometimes, naturally, when a8 shark follows a ship a death does occur among the crew. And #t tnkes ver little to keep a superstition alive I'ruth crushed te earth will rise again but its resilience Is nothing compared to that of superstitions, Copyright ) vation, and food control i i QUALITY FOOD PRODUCTS eet the standard. If you paid a dollar a pound you could not buy better food products than those you find packed under the Monarch label. Raid, Murdoch & Co. Established 1853 On the Critics Harold Bell Wright, the popular wovelist, attended a Tucson reception not long since and Inspected, with half a dozen other guests, his host's library. It was a large and splendid library nll the books were de luxe editions and all the pages were uncut, T discovery caused a good deal of mock ing laughter, but Mr. Wright held up bis hand and said: “Hold on, friends, host. For all b we kn eritie.”"— Exchange, Don't blame onr ow, he may Ix Tabasco Diet 10 him likes 3 it The way fire-eater is to mule words and see how be ching bis innards, Farm and Fireside, When a boy's le thinks smoking = more 80, voice becomes bass, cigar makes It End Stop acold before it stops you. Take BILL'S Cascara. Bromide - Quinine. Stops the cold, checks the fever, opens the bowels, tones the system. Insist HILL'S. Red box, 30c. All druggists. HILL'S Cascara - Bremide « Quinine Garfield Tea Was Your Grandmother's Remedy For every stomach and iotestinal {il This good old-fach- foned herb home remedy for consti pation, stomach [ils and other derange- ® ments of the sys temsso prevalent these days Is In even greater favor as a family medicine than in your grandmother's day. Have Musterole handy when a cold starts. It has all of the advantages of grandmother's mustard er the burn. You feel a warm ti as the Robust Health depends upon proper : f Calo ls | assimilation. Keep the digestive pro cesses active with 4 A 4 EEL , Wrights 22:5 Pills WE Ce THE TONIC PASTOR KOENIGS NERVINE i} 1 i Epilepsy Nervousness ¢ Sleeplessness