PLE tl
ernt Balchin, Ted Soreuson
Floyd Dennet, three members of
BEE EES eee
SEEN
se JUACK, quack,” sald Mrs,
“Quack, quack,” sald
vid Duck,
“Quack,
Ducklings.
“Now you know
sleep, don't you,
asked Mrs. Duck,
“Yes, Mother Duck”
tittle duckling “Yes,
we Lnow, “
“And we will show you, Mother
Duck, so you will see that we know.’
“That is right, quack, quack,” sald
Mother Duck.
“That 1s right, quack, quack,”
Sir David Duck.
So the little ducklings showed Mrs,
Duck and Sir David Duck and all the
older ducks how they would be able
to sleep in the water, which was
what Mother Duck wanted to know,
“Quack, quack,” sald Mother Duck,
“vou all know your lesson well, and
it delights Mother Duck's heart.”
“Yon do, indeed, know your lesson
well,” sald Sir David Duck, *“You are
bright ducks. one could
complain of you"
“1 should say
Duck “No brig
lived,
Duck
Sir Da.
quack,” sald the little
5
how yon must
precious ducklings?”
answered the
quack, quack,
said
good, No
not,”
thier
sald Mother
ducklings ever
N= tong ago I listened to a com
versation between a young man |
who wanted a job on a newspaper and
the editor to whom he applied Tor It
“1 don't think you want this
said the editor,
“Bat 1} certain 1 do, sir.
tive,” returned the applicant
“De you know anything
paper work?
“Not much.”
“Do you know that it means longer
hours and more intensive
than any other kind of
“1 didn't, but even
still"
“Do you
penditure
fn many
job.”
am posi
about news
application
work?”
if it does |
the
and
will
unless
know that
of intelligence
other professions
you greater returns—that
have unusual good fortu
on 8 newspaper, w a
and probably smal . ali
life?”
“No sir,
“Do
there
ox
energy
bring
same
you
ne you must
salary —
your
but
you kn
big
are opportu
The Country Road
By Douglas Malloch
’ fhe country
hills
And
To the left
wills
To right the
The country raad is cool wit
And calm with rural joys,
Unsuliied by the shouts of ir
Untouched by city .
rad cunt
ambles down the
You hear
nightingales
bh shade
ade,
noise,
's how it used to be,
This sweet and peaceful land,
But now beneath the maple
They've built a hotdog stand.
filling station lifts its head
Above the verdant grass,
And where the spreading
spread
The air is full of gas,
At least that
tree
A
The roadside of another day
Is now another kind,
For pienickers have passed this
And teft a, mess behind.
The roadside that was strewn
flowers
Is strewn with empty
Though nature made the
ers,
The other marks are man's
with
Cans,
lovely
A Sunday paper blows around,
Some cake 1s drawing flies.
It looks more like a battleground
Where Mother Nature dies.
And, if 1 sought some tidy spot
To bulld me an abode,
Yd samk it up an alley, not
Upon a country road,
(£5 192% Malloch.)
SAWS
3y Viola Brothers Shore
Douglas
FOR THE GOOSE-
HAT
kickin’?
live, ain't we?
Cleopatra's got.
right has any of us got
We got our lives to
And that's more than
Try to make friends with a snob
bish woman and she'll step on you
Step on a snobbish woman and she'll
try to make friends with you.
EE
FOR THE GANDER
Hard things to Aide is love and
chicken pox,
There's fire in a match, but it don't.
show till you strike it,
Lots of times a man fatters him.
self that he's give up a vice when it's
‘veally the vice that's give him ap.
< (Copyright)
*
By JOHN BLAKE
of
merchants,
sands lawyers and doctors and
there are only of
onportunities for Journal
“Are vou trying to discourage me?
“yes
“Then
dozens
big ists?”
you have no position for
me.”
that, Come back
tell me if
didn't say
a week, and
want a job”
here
you stil
* * »
has k tie
Which
want fo
The boy not come had
probably will not
proves that he really
be a Journalist,
Had he bal the real desire,
no man
nothing
come
back,
did uot
without
nobody
digcouraged
which
and
him,
could succeed,
could have
There
tor
are some who horn
know it by
men
and
instinct.
can't get
door
if
are
some jobs, they
some sort
If they
front
w, and
of
fobs
the
into th
they will irs
|
8 because tt
or the fobs
A
And what counts still more is thelr
determination,
"8
There is the great driving force
that counts more than anything else
{t is almost an axiow that the
rermined must win,
They can even win over bet
ter qualified who lack determination
For the qualified are
tempernmental and easy
nge, and that Is ways a
ity.
de
thoge
sometimes
discoyr
fata
to
al I quat
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GIRLIGAG.?
mpi, be The Bel Bonde and
“A smooth tongue,”
Meg, “is more to be
rough-neck
WALKER .e
HERE is one
not buy from
f
chant in the world.
thing that you can-
the mer:
A minute of time,
as unpurchasable as the
greatest
One second is
of eternity.
thousands
fife
whole
Yet of men women
through wasteful only of
their own precious moments, but whol.
iy reg of other
r
pe
and
go not
ardless of the value
ople’'s time,
The great trouble with too many is
at they put no value at all on time.
They watch the hands of the clock go
round with as rod regard for the
fleeigg hour as fora passing wind.
For a spent dollar another may be
earned to take its place. For the lost
friend another may be gained. But
for the Rour that is gone, for the min-
ute that is wasted, there is no sup-
plying a substitute, no replacement
it is gone forever.
It was TIME, pot guns nor generals,
that won and lost at Waterloo. And
Napoleon was not alone among the
great generals who were defeated by
the clock.
“Give ue time,” said a great scien
tist, “and we can solve every problem
the worl offers us.”
We can heap up wealth, We cannot
store away one moment.
We ean gain power and assemble
armies. We eannot go one second
back or forward from the present.
Yesterday is as if It never existed,
Tomorrow Is as useless today as if it
were a century away.
Frederick the Great had a maxim
which he borrowed from the wisdom
of Seneca: “Time is the only treasure
of which it Is proper to he avaricious.”
Fvery man and woman should be
stingy of every moment. And they
should recognize the value of every
other person's time.
Life is composed of only two things:
Time and effort. One is useless with.
out the other, Both should be as
nearly 100 per cent productive as we
ure able to make them.
Try as best we may, the end of life
will find us with many things undone.
No man ever wholly completed the
tnsk allotted to him. There Is a rea:
sonable excuse if into our use of time
no waste creeps.
For the man
time or steal
or excuse
who
& another's,
wanties his own
is neith-
He has
there
nor valid rea
wantonly destroyed what neither man
nor the Creator Himself « restore
or replace,
BON.
an
Put a ilove on every minute. Be
as anxious and as certain to get that
value as you are to gain the worth of
sour dimes and your dollars.
lemember that once a mifite
passed by it Is gone FOREVER.
(EE by MeC
has
lure Newspaper 8yndicate.)
msm { P soe
But Memory Lingers
Oh. if In belng forgotten, we could
only forget l—Lew Wallace,
“Every time waddle |
think of how beautiful you are
“Ah, yes, you're meiber's beautiful
ducklings. And though sore may say
you're not beautiful, | think you are.
“And that is all that I care about.
What do 1 care what some other crea-
tures think? 1 don’t have to earry
their thoughts about with me.
“l bave my own thoughts,
own thoughts tell me that
beautiful,
“And these thoughts of mine are
what | keep with me. Yes, quack
quack, my ducklings are very benu
tiful,
“You are smart, too. I'm Indeed
proud to think how you have learned
1 see you
and my
you ure
“You All Know Your Lesson
Said Mother Duck.
Well,"
the lesson of sleeping In the water so
as to keep in the same place even us
you sleep,
“1 am proud to think of how very
very quickly yon bave learned
lesson.”
And Mother Duck looked very
preud and happy, Sometimes she was
called Mother Duck and sometimes
Mrs. Duck. Of course Mrs. Duck was
what she had been called but she
quacked so proudly about the beauty
and the brightness of her children
that most of the barnyard creatures
as well as her own ducklings. began
calling her Mother Duck, too,
this
Sng
trees
bright and 8 very mother, and
that your children are very bright and
very god children, but 1 think all of
you are absurd.”
"Quack, quack, what In the world,
or the barnyard, do you mean?” asked
Mrs. Duck,
“1 cannot understand it. Not for a
momént can 1 understand your strange
speech.” ’
“Well, 1 suppose If you understood
it for u« woment you would he able to
understand it for a longer time, too”
sild Sammy
“I will explain to yon,
do not think
not think
good
however, |
you're bright and 1 do
youre a gos mother,
Neither do | think your children are
bright, nor do | think they're such
good children
“1 should
that the
world
thiuk you'd
niost haportant thing
food and that the
thing a creature ean do 1s to. gr
they can
“And if the
their own accord they would be prac.
ticing such lessons instead of the ab
surd one you've just taught them”
“Quack, quack.” sald Mother Duck
“1 know, Sammy. that |
do children to be pigs
be ducks. and ducks
thankful to say.”
duck,
grunted Samy
them
in
brightest
ab ali
teach
in
hive vou
not teach my
theg
I'm
poor
I teach
they
“You
are,’
to
ure
foolish
ut |
how you
am
food nbout! for those
of it appreciatively.”
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ft leaves more
who think
“Grunt, grunt,” sald Sammy
gage, “you may think you're vers
By NELLIE
fike a blow with t : |
while
10 prepare
ly put
Betsy's Pudding
Take one cupful each of suet
sugar, ral currants or «
grated
Beers
ae
brown
sins, hopped
prunes, carrot, grate potato
i
and one-half cupful of ground
peel, lemon one-half
spoonful of grated nutmeg,
spoonful each of cinnamon and «
Mix and steam three
-m
orange
one tea
peel,
ane tea
loves
well hours,
Bread Crumb Pudding
Take two and one-half cupfuls
breaderumbs, one cupful of sour milk,
one-half cupful of shortening, one egg
one teaspoonful of soda, one yful
of raisins, one cupful of any Kind of
preserves, one cupful of sugar, cinna
mon and nutmeg to faste., Steam (wo
and one-half hours, Serve with ang
desired pudding sauce,
When making lemon ple,
not to add the lemon juice antil the
cornstarch and egg have becn well
cooked, as the acld with the heat has
a tendency to thin the mixture,
Almond Delight.
Make a rich pastry, line a pie plate
of
Cu
remember
and fill with the following: Bianch
MAXWEL
siful
Raisin Rie.
package of seeded ralsins
i one-half cupfuls of boil
g water for five minutes; pour
is one cupful of sugar that h:
ended with
in ne sng
ing
th
well bl
cornstarch, Cook
thick, rem from
tablespoonfuls
one tablespoonful
rind, the of
tablespoonful of the orange rind
grated, cupful of walnut meats
nuts may be omitted if desired
Bake between two crusts
1928
oye tal
nti
He
of
of
espoonfuls
smooth and
fire add
juice
lemon
and a
of
ove and
two lemon
grated
nice an orange
one
he
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Western Newspaper Union.»
toll ws
Fatal Defects
Many a man gets “cold feet” be
fore he has gone very far with his on-
dertaking, and, strange though It may
seem, he finds himself In “hot water.”
Usopally he has failed to “count the
cost," --Grit.
|
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sot the standard I you paid
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Beasts of the Jungle
African wild buffale, according
is one of the most
dangerous customers on the trall—"a
from the word go. The
is silly and stupid, “a first-class
rowqy, * The leop ig a killer, “the
an of the forest” The girafle
“the creature that God for-
“the Cone, up
citizenry of the
oreros is “alwaye
nlways loek-
The
ard
he
culls
The elephants are
The
1 olor yg ry tine
I i : ! LINE,
Jungle.” rhin
fight
trouble.”
believe the rhine
od in the world, even among
~-Dietroit News
average
Grim Relic Now « a 2 Font
the Fifi village
“King Cakobau
to
of Suva where
he
Queen Vie
good will,
as heart-shaped
warriors In
ys smashed out
brain of their captives in war.
on in
reformed
reigned
gave his island empire
before
toria us ai pression of
i= »
stone
their
the
ores
ag a 4
48 8 Qe
the used by the
natives ag n ipiismal font,
Switzerland’s “White Coal”
the United States is proad
it are
homes more
of
a fact
most other
that 42
homes of the nation
served with
the world
umption of
50
electricity.
in per
electricity,
many water
138
y ari 8}
cause, with
ny republic, there Is
ck vard. so to speak,
Needs
i the
“How Much Water,
Get?
“Dy Ruth Brittain
nowadays,
first six months, babies
fluid per
An eight-
needs twen-
fluid. Later on the
ouncez of fluid per pound
welght., The amount of fluid
a breast-fed baby ie best
determined by weighing him before
and after feeding for the whole day;
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Giving baby sufficient water often
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For these and other ills of babies and
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Just a word of caution. Look for
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contain thirty ive does,
Liss
Bab Spex ¥
the
agree
that during
must have three
pound of body weight daily
pound baby, for
ty-four ounce
rule is
of body
absorbed by
ounces of
instance,
of
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