HHO TC GOOD
WO or three winters ago | spent
a day with a country doctor,
He found his office filled with
tients as soon as he had finished
breakfast.
He listened
out the few who
services, told them
sent them away.
The others he
By, assuring them
the matter with
pa-
his
to al! of them, picked
really needed
what fo do,
his
and
treated considerate
there wus nothing
them, and almost
pleading with: them to go back to
aeir work or their household duties,
and not to imagine they were sick.
Then we started out together in his
tittle car, through a blinding snow-
storm.
There was a boy's broken bone to
set In the first house, five miles awany ;
a child to give antitoxin to in an-
other house a little farther along; an
old lady with rheumatism to be made
able In another place, and a
dog—yes, a dog—to he dosed for dis
at of a well-to-do
comfort
temper the house
farmer.
There were
neighborhood.
mun and beast.
- » ®
tittle
to spend
in that
treated
no veterinaries
The doctor
At another
doctor nad
treated a child with
York city was shot ang
hild's father.
family's home the
an hour explain.
serum in New
d killed by the
By H.
0 HOO
BELIEF
lingering
fined for the mast part to tl
brought the belief with ti
their former European or
It is said,
infrequently found an
of the South
met with in country
i in varions parts of the
ted States, There are also mans
of a
are employed
while not ‘believing
ly, or perhaps not at all,
the practices of thelr ancestors
attribute to them magic efli
cacy. Such are the customs of put
ting a hot poker into a batch of home
made soap make it harden;
in witches, though s=til
among us, Is now con
08Se who
have in
from ASI
to he
ong the
atic homes however
not
Negroes and 8 occa
ionally remote
customs superstitious nature
by
in
which people who
witches exact
continue
some
to
oes
FLYING OVER ;
By Douglas Malloch
HE are always flying
To pay a visit to the clover,
And in the town In wintry weather
Fhe houses stand close together,
The one and its little brother,
The houses seem to warm each other
hees over
hig
'
The hills run down to meet the val
leys,
The streets run up to touch then
From tree to tree the birds
ing
And set the
The things
labors,
And yet they seem the best of neigh.
bors.
Heys
go wing
other birds to singing.
outdoors all bave their
The waves run up and kiss the beaches,
And for the roof the ivy reaches,
The oak tree shades the church's
steeple
I wish It were that way with people.
The sunshine smiles on all the
And only folks stick up their noses
TOSes,
The girl next door won't play with
Sister,
The men downtown call Daddy
ter,”
And people pass, and people let them.
Jecause we never really met them.
The bees are visiting the clover—
I wish that folks would just fly over!
192% Douglas Malloch.) ¥
“Mis
“wn
|
By JOHN BLAKE
To oe fede ferlods de
fedfesle es
He had been enlled too lmte. The
child died. The ignorant father be-
lieved the Injection of the serum had
killed it.
Such
tuke.
Yet,
risks doctors must frequently
as a rule they take them cheer.
fully, employ tact among their pa-
tients, and are always cheery and
comforting, and work like slaves,
* » *»
One
profession
ing that
wonders why men choose a
which 18 so arduous, even
the diphtheria serum would
not harm the children, and that they
onght to take it becnuse of an epi
demic which was raging.
He was a medienl officer as well as
a doctor, and could. If he had
have brought along a policeman
enforce his word.
But he preferred the softer method
and he at last was successful,
We made forty-two visits that day
and the returned exhausted, to
dinner and go out
of an accident on
zat to hed a little
morning.
chosen
to
doctor
hasty
on a report
the highway. He
three in the
sunteh a
agnin
after
had
spe
a doctor who
become
Very recently
though the
reap
doctars who
wards,
Have men
and muny of
without ever
clalists rich re
Ye
prof
this
grow
enter
them
getting
devoted
gray any
3
3
COOOL
into
toy
red-hot horseshoe
rn when the b
throwing n
the chu utter ref
which will b found
1804
Colne customs
in many iocalities a ver Cannda
and the United
A publication of
States
the American
ore society says that as recently
hot {
rural New Eng
purpose of
ITN Upoll soap
hed
feved that
hurned,
witching
years ago
f ears ago this woiker act
in
avowed
ns performed
cointer of
wis supposed to be hewite
confidently bel
wis
viteh would be too."
AS re
the
people in Vermont
horseshoes into
openly stating that the
hewitched and would aot
to hutter, Ar stated
practices still continue, though
rarely now that the worker of
the counter charm will mit that he
witeh,
thirty-five
states,
cently as
ion
thew red-hot refrac
Cream was
otherwige turn
t ia
it is
is really seeking to baflle a
heen
feared nd
evil
Iron has from ancient times
considered as something
hated and spirits
There appears to be some dispute in
Folklore as whether cold or hot
fie the
by witches
io
against
The Scots are all
iron but the advocates
iron say that it has the dou
fron Is most acious
owers of evil
cold
or of
advantage of undoing the witch's |
& !
k and of burning the witch at the |
by sympathetic magic.
(© by MeClure Newspaper Syndicate
wor
same time
SeabeadialonSouuaduaBondudsde
ny,
-
.
HE prune is always In the market,
and can be prepared in 30 many
appetizing ways.
Prune Pudding.
Remove the stones from one pound
of cooked prunes. Add one-half cup
ful of butter creamed with one cupful
of sugar, three well-beaten eggs, one
fourth cupful of molasses, one-half
teaspoonful each of soda, cloves and
cinnamon. Dissolve the soda in one
tablespoonful of milk, Mix all the
ingredients with one pint of bréad
crumbs and steam three hours. Serve
with:
Foamy Sauce.
in Beat the Whites of two esas to a
=
CHI
thing but a livelihood, although they
may be men of real ability,
I never hear people speak slight-
ingly of the profession but that |
think of the ride I took with my friend
in the country.
He died not long ago, broken down
fifty, Afterward a man who had
been at medical school with him said
he would have made a fortuce in the
city, But 1 think he did good
working in obscurity.
i "ODYTIKNL. ¥
more
“Hints Tr Coos ©
and Gander
By Viola Brothers Shore
vr
a a
3
ales,
eid
rp pr pp pr rin
FOR THE COOSE~—
A STUDENT—an artist and a moth
é er—their work is never done.
It a
lot,
in iL
bein’
to
untruth,
thing Is
there's bound
And a lotta
talked about a
be a little truth
Just because
the truth, don't
ing to fool you.
people
mean
are tellin’ yon
they ain't try-
FOR THE GANDER
The feller that's w
out the
atchin’® could al
was ‘a’ worked game,
Some artists wanna
fo be able to Hye well
paint
And
igh
enough
others
wanna live end
well,
again just
to he able to paint
for
nobody
ns bad
of trustin
ervhody.
(Copyright y
and trunks
roOGing In
Sultcases
way baggage
slat
or
and
¢
dozens of vari
red to
In
ferry fon
port
wild
delive OW REers
woolly, the pie
had n
; Queen
and.
about it,
the Fairies
all | saw some
i us
sou saw.”
“First of
nske
lovels
had all
were
along a
come out in
great avenue They
full, and they
ing over and meeting
ter, and talking to
“It seemed that
telling other
ear
high .in the om
her
bad
springtime
closer toget
had
each ot
they
i re?
ittie
start
each
and had
and together as
tened to each other,
“Soe pow the lovely
and made a beautiful
all down the avenue
“All winter long they had looked at
{ the road
secrets, gone hier
closer tt ey iis
branches met
free archway
on either side o
had sald
spring
way and
* “When
gome talks!”
“Then 1 peeped In at a birthday
party. A little girl oamed Lucy was
nine years old,
“She had some other children at her
party, and they played all kinds of
they
comes we'll
iid
stiff froth, add one cupful of powdered
gugar, then the yoiks of the eggs well
beaten, a pinch of salt and one-half
teaspoonful of vanilla. Just before
serving add one-half cupful of boiling
milk.
spiced Prunes,
Soak a pound of prunes over night
in water to cover, after washing them
well, In the morning simmer in the
same water until tender, ada 10
cloves, the rind of a lemon with its
juice. When tender, drain and add one
cupful of honey, one-half cupfui of
vinegar and simmer the prunes In
this for half an hour. Chill and
serve,
Spiced Prune Marmalade.
Take one pdund of prunes, sonk and
simmer in the water In which they
were soaked over night. When ten
der remove the stones and cut the
prunes into small pieces. Return to
the heat with the liquid. Add one
cupful of mild vinegar, one and one.
half copfuls of sugar, one-half tea
spoonful each of cinnamon and cloves,
Simmer until thick. Serve with
ments; very nice with roast pork.
CE 1928, Western Newspaper Unlon. )
(@® by MeClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
gutnes, Puss
favor ie
and to mal
she was glartea oo
ade of cl
was
key
“The one who got nearest in
ting
“Then
large hirthday
on the tall correctly won 8 prize
they had
enke with Luc
ite cream amd a
pr ge —
er .
“1 Saw Some Dear Little Pink Leaves
Coming Out"
and age printed in pink letters
the white frosting.
“The table had a paper table cloth
upon it with all kinds of pretty pic
tures of little Boy Blue blowing his
horn and of children with sand pails
and shovels at the seashore. The
napkins were like the tablecloth, too
“Then there were fences made of
cardboard with the same patterns
and these fences were put about. the
table, They were quite low,
“The Solgra were all blue and yel
upon
Hey wore a vell
ww socks
as
as they
fear little
I knew
3
family
¢
and
fe Oak
along
led upon a
who zed
knowr friends
tittle 3
to a litle
as Pine
fond of Dich
would sir
ton, belon
to his
was
very
Dicky
sted of Dicky, and o
i wigh low feathers
“Pine thought it
Dicky
his legs
“He that way,
he sings that way, he
that way,” Pine said,
“f saw many garden flowers
tulips, and white lilacs, snd
¥, and Johnny Jump
Ups. and Striped Grass and Flower
ing Almond bushes, and they all
wished me a polite good-day
“Flowers have such sweet manners
1 saw two dogs rub too, and
teil each other they were so glad
to «eet again,
“My journey was interesting to me
because 1 love to see all the different
creatures and flowers and people |
can.
“io
worth
vers
ended
wonderful
standing
wi
was
everything
he eats that
takes
sleeps
his
lay
such
NOSes,
me there Is so much that is
while to see, and it's all so
enjoyable,” the Fairy Queen
as she waved her wand hap
Cony Hkht, iy
By F. A
0 FACE your duty serenely, to
play your part courageously while
the clamor of the world beats all
about you, to hold the faith through
calamities and march bravely on, are
the things to do when sorely pressed,
Desperate captains run their ships
upon the rocks and sink into the sea;
cautious sailors find their way to
peaceful harbors.
The latter think
with discretion,
The difference between the rash
man and the man of prudence is but
a thinly drawn line, yet this little
variance makes a defeat or victory.
Even though your heart may be
burning as harrowing fears oppress,
press on resolved to win, and win
you surely will
Some wavering, weak-minded wa.
riable men: and women seeing you,
may at the eleventh hour screw up
their waning strength and reach the
solid ground, better and abler for the
exnmple you have unknowingly set
them, —
In whatever station in life you
may be compellled to cast your lot,
let no load of care retard your prog:
ress towards the tops of the peaks.
where the air is sweet, the sunshine
soberly and act
WALKER
is bright aitd kindly and
ence of the Omnipotent
inmost soul to rejoicing.
Lighten your burdens by various
deeds nnd exalted aspirations.
Think not of the weight upon your
shoulders, but rather of the strength
that is yours as compared with the
stragglers lagging behind,
In many cases your grievance, an.
noyance, vexation, discontent and
torment, are what you, yourself make,
or allowed circumstances to make for
you,
They rankle, gnaw and freeze your
blood because you stubbornly refuse
to follow the line of least resistance.
as have the failures who wilfully
turned from the right path ablaze
with signboards all along the way,
from the springtime of youth to the
winter of sere old age.
Ia the heydays of life, and until
the racing tide reaches its height
and begins to slacken, keep to the
right, and then as the waters turn
back to the great sea, they will leave
you unfettered and free, happy In
the thought that you have kept the
faith,
1@ by MeClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
the pres
stirs your
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those pains that Bayer Aspirin can
end in a hurry! Physicians prescribe
it, and approve its iree use, for it
does not affect the heart, Every drug-
gist has it, but don't fail to ask the
druggist for Boyer. And don't take
any but the box that says Bayer, with
the word genuine printed in red:
the trade mark of
Bayer Manufacture
of Monosceticacidester of Salicylicacid
Indubitably
Dont Make aToy
Out of Baby
| ~Babies Have Nerves-
By RUTH DRITTAIN
, crying and
an easily be
ith more consider
you just can't see
raking baby restiess or upset
him a few drope of pure
‘astoria. It's amazing to see
Ely it calms baby's perveg and
m to sleep: yet it contains
It is purely veg
he recipe is on the wrapper
physicians prescribe it for
cholera, diarrhea, constipation
stomach and bowels, feverish
loss of sleep and all other “up
of babyhood. Over 25 million
bottles used a year shows its over
whelming popularity.
With each bottle of Castoria, you get
a book on Motherhood worth its
weight in gold. Look for Chas. H.
Fletcher's signature on the package so
you'll get genuine Castoria. There are
many imitations
sleeple
en
what is nn
etable——t
Leading
colic,
gas on
Right Kind of Gambling
Carol—Does vour husband gamble?
Jo-—Not in an objectionable way.
He nearly always wins —Exchange
It was woman who invented all the
dishes she has to wash. Men pre
ferred to eat out of the pot.
CAN NOW D0
ANY WORK
Thanks to Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound
Denison, Texas. —*1 think there is
no tonic Su to Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Come
pation.
ean certainl
praiss Rn