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THE BEAUTIES
OF LIFE
Py DOUGLAS MALLOCH
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GuEki grass here,
And green grass there,
And blue sky nearly
Everywhere,
And vet we sit,
We sit and sigh,
Don’t see a bit
Of grass or sky.
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Fine folks east,
And fine folks west,
Doctor and priest.
And host and guest,
Fine folks met
Joth near and
Yet folks forget
How fine they
far,
are.
Grand old earth,
And grand old life,
And well, well worth
The toil and strife.
We talk of “me”
And “mine” and “his”
And Just don't see
How fine life is!
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expedition, photographed at
his fifteen-yenr-old son Otto.
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OPPO G PPI
NY NEW idea ever comes into this
yorid peacefully. [Its advent
always attended by bitter opposition
From the very beginning idea
combats other, older ideas
have had the to become authoritative
and powerful. And these older
and the people who believe in
do woot intend to pushed
without a struggle
One example of a new
Christianity. Not mly Its
but thousands of other ariyrs
sacrificed in the struggle
this new conception prevail
Its coming threatened other,
religiops, And the backers of
religions” were not willing
idiy by and see their ideas
away.
1 new
which
ideas
be
idea
were
10 make
older
these
stand
swept
to
in our own time evolution has
stirred up about as much opposition
oN
SOME BELIEFS ABOUT INITIALS
AND RICHES
By H. Irving King
ANPP
TIS a very comumon saying that if
the initialg of a persofi’s name spell
u word, the fact sigaities per
son aforesaid will become rich. This
superstition is a survival of"a ver)
old form of divination—one which
was lo much favor
mans. It is a form
urt of divination by
muncy; and pomancy Is based
that conception of primitive
which regarded a close intimacy as
existing between a man and Lis name
It exists today among most tribes iy
ing in a primitive state. An
case of this divining by the initials ot
a name is that of the
sayer Jambliaus who predicted tha:
the Emperor Valens would be suc
ceeded by a man whose name began
with T. Valens put to death a suspect.
ed rival whose name began with T
but was, nevertheless, succeeded by
Theodosiua. When the Homans erect
ed nomancy into a “science”
tablished many arbitraary
govern It. It is undoubledly
formity with one of those now forgot
ten rules that modern superstition
says that when man's initials spell a
word he will accumulate riches,
that the
ong Lio
among Lhe
of that
name call
pncient
ed no
upon
man
historic
toman gooth
they
rialea
in
es
to
con
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By
John Bluke
idea. Kk
any other
bitterly
us new theory or
by auiny per
its coming may destroy
or beliefs,
examples of ideas of unl
versal influence, Every
birth of thonsands
paratively
is opposed
their own
These are
conceptions
day sew the
of
countless Com
insignificant ones
Let the
their
Suppose
clerk
and
if same rule ids
1s sw
in Cl se,
you
in an
better
for exam
oflice
tle
jie,
are =a
devise oH
and
of
file
new
cards.
You tell your idea to your employer
and stand be for his immediate ap
proval. If he Is like the averag
ployer you will stand by for »
siderable time,
He Is very
may be all rig
way filing data
ie em
con
idea
the
skeptical. The
ht, but after all,
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Deter roo
pe rrr
cards have been lled a certain way
in the past and that way has been sat.
Why change it? Won't
inviting trouble?
an even bet that
oppose yon even though
of you cannot
harm him or ‘eopurdize any of bis ma
jor conceptions,
of thing Is called
inherent tendency to continue
in the old way. And
inertia always antagonis
isfactory
that be
it is
will
the fellow
the
possibly
suc
Ces8 device
This sort Inertia
it is an
same
is
innovation,
tic to
If a new idea is good enough ang
if it is pushed hard enough it will
usually triumph over inertia. jut the
triumph is usually hard won
Anticipating inertia Is half the bat
tle. If you expect to have people op
pose your best ideas you will sol be.
its commander, with
shows liself.
fight all the harder,
Just remembe. that if neither Chris
tlanity or evolution could make thel
way in the worid without a battle,
your own little pet idea could hardly
expect to be more fortunate.
And remember, too, that the
way you can make your Idea prevail
is by pushing it and fighting for
(Copyrizht)
Water Power Wasted
Alto Parana river, wi
Paraguay from Argenting
jrazil, and ts many rit
conld make Paraguay an porte
industrinl center, The power
these waters Is practically unkn
but Is estimated as having, In !
places, 8 fall of 2% feet, and a
force of 10000 horse power. The
Igunzu falls are regarded rs eveo
more powerful than Niagara. «
Rather, {1 will make you
only
it
The
vides
Mitar
of
Hard to Tell the Happy
There are no greater wretches In
he world than many of thore whom
people In geoeral (ake fo be happy. —
Ser.ecn.
ILLIE
er Nature
porcupine and
of the _
her to
BROWNIE had asked Moth
if be could call on a
hear something of the
porcupine family. He
ive hin the power thal
Ways
usked
And Mother Nature agreed
to the
a por
So Billie Brownie went forth
dark womds and there he met
“Are you all alone? asked
Brownlie
“All alone.” guid the porcupine, “Il
about by myself. I'm
None of us are,
wander
not so very
know.”
sociable
you
“I'm pot really sure whether 1 know
that or said Blilie Brownie. “I
don’t much about porcupines., |
may tite truthful and ad
mit my ignorance.”
“I'm not surprised at
porcupine,
But the
self after n
“I is
you are
not. |
wis sdom
‘But there are few who know my
about porcupines,
“Now and again we squeal a bit or
growl, but mostly we believe in being
silent,
not.”
know
as well be qu
it,” said the
porcupine explained hi
moment,
not,” he said,
L
nk
for 1 do
fied with
“because 1 thi
an ignorant creature,
feel sure sou are
ich
“Our
‘Hash’ to us
ture. And
each other
mothers never have to say
We are 50 quiet by na
our mothers don’t meet
and chatter about the ways
“I Like to Wander About by Myself
I'm Not Very Sociable.”
their children. They, too 80
qu ot
“We sometimes wander where there
are camps. We are a little more so
ciable then and we rather like to see
people camping out in the great woods.
are
By NELLIE MAXWELL
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1
We like to eat vegetables and bits of
bark and twige® and fruit and oh, dear,
how we love galt!
“Everything #hould be fla
salt, and
self or
flavor or taste.
do
like
that ju
we even
things
“Sometimes
of
We
then as
we stay
* LOD ft ree, especi
’
cold, keep to the
people will
was one of four little
it was not so very%Mong bef
from home
We are independent crea
not Hitle and
porcupines an
ore | #tart
io look out for
myself,
and are
we are born.
“No, are quite
nnd we are born with all our splendid
quilis, 1 you know
correctly quilis and what
can do have been spoken about?”
dose when
hel;
we
good-sized then
bow in
they
suppose
these
“1 thing ! know what you are going
to say,” nodded, “but § would
like to you tell me again jus!
how it is you act with those quills of
dillie
have
youre.”
“We swing our great
about and strike at the
quills stick into them,
throw our quills. We have to touch
the creature with them. So many think
we throw our quills, and that is in
correct.”
spiny talls
enemy and the
x or ¢ 3
ut we do not
“That is about the only thing 1 have
known about your family,” said Billie
drownlie.
“Well,” said the porcupine, “the oth
er day 1 was pretty mad. one
sald, "Of what good are porcupines?
“That was enough to make anyone
angry, 1 think.
“Of course our flesh has been eaten
and that has been considered good,
Some
ar
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SAWS FOR GOOSE
AND GANDER |
9 By VIOLA BROTHERS SHORE ®
ROO COC COO COC EOC OO
FOR THE COOSE-
N EXT to havin’ a calm disposition
- the best luck is bein’ able to hide
that you ain't
Lots
motives
but
of
in
vunity
noblest
nothin’
the truth
there's the
of a lie and
k of tellin
times
back
in bac
There's nothin’
better thun a
some people enjoy
good scrap next door,
FOR THE GANDER
Scared
dogs makes the most noise,
One ounce
dumbest
the best
of temperl make the
man a lawyer; but it'll wake
lawyer a dumb mun
You're never as lucky or as unlucky
a8 you think.
“" opy right.)
“His Nib
By Jean Newton
nu
IS NIBS” is
fof “himself —
less sarcastic
ertion “the
It Is traced
word
the
ally the
and later
“ nnmitignied slang
in more
the
man himself.”
back to the old Eng
for face which came
* nehb™
tstuily
vein with impli
great
“neb™
An Saxon
hedk of a bird
extended, in na
to signify
ie
the sin
ful
iN
from glo Orig
or toriovise
somewhat
BOSe the fae
With
nd it
the
made
HE [SS
is casily compreh
contempt
this
early recorded
HOLS Dun
“iis
of
Your
today, Is
from
ive
use
hough in & gentler
popuinr gfag
following excerpt
cago Herald:
“When the President's ar
rives in front of the church, Albert
Hawking on ihe box, wearing a big
bearskin cape as black as his face
and driving the two big lumbering
‘seal browns’, there is gathered about
the doors of the sanciuary a crowd
carriage
iting the
of
1
the gentleman whom 71
of New York Immortali
tn
zed
} bs."
isn
(Copyright
GRUGAGS
nN 2
Bota. 4 ty he Bh pein. Sp
trouble
with
tire
the American
Matilda, "is
that meow
says Mat
then
oO
bables in and
the I'd speak of
of an) good,
and gentle
of great good
way
as being
say, ‘La
miyveelf
*1 would
Porcupines
- get
nse they are Ih
jdies
are
is the simple
are not
is
3 AS we
talkers do not
and as we don’t ak much
don't to think much, and that is
as satisfactory an ro as |
have thought for all you.’ ™
“Well,” said Billie Brownie, “I think
that is a good one. [It satisfies me at
any rate. And now, that the night is
almost over, | must be off, for 1 have
an engagement at dawn”
“Good-by,” sald the porcupine
‘Your engagement! at dawn doesn't
sound so interesting, as we _porcupines
jove the night time best of all”
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oan
great we use many
words, we
have
up of
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SEASONABLE DISHES
ET us have a change for the or
« dinary method of cooking chick-
en and (ry this:
Chicken Gumbo.
Cook one medium sized onion finely
chopped with four tablespoonfuls of
butter, stirring constantly. Add one
quart of chicken stock to which has
, been added one-half of a ean of okra,
* two teaspoonfuls of salt, one-fourth
tablespoonful of pepper, and ope-half
a green pepper chopped, Pring to the
boiling point and simmer forty min
utes.
Tomato Soup.
Cook one can of tomatoes with two
cupfuls of water, two slices of onion,
twelve peppercorns, four cloves, a bit
sugar, twenty minutes. Force through
a puree strainer and add one ten
spoonful of salt and one-eighth ten
spoonful of soda. Melt three table
spoonfuls of butter, add three table
spoonfuls of flour and stir antil well
blended, then pour on gradually the
hot tomato, stirring constantly. Sim
mer for five minutes then strain
Potatoes Au Gratin,
Take small sized new potatoes;
there should be two cupfuls cooked,
Mix one-third of a cupful of grated
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cheese with one and one-half
fuls of rich
cup
white sauce and stir in
the potatoes. Put Into a well buttered
baking dish, season well and cover
with buttered crumbs, at least a half
inch covering, Serve when the crumbs
are well browned.
Fruit Cream,
Soak one tablespoonful of gelatin
in one-fourth a cup of cold water,
dissolve In one-fourth of a cupful of
scalded milk and add one-half cupful
of suggr and one teaspoonful of lemon
juice. Strain and se! In a pan of
ice water, stir constantly and when
the mixture begins to thicken, add
the whites of two eggs and one-balf
pint of heavy cream beaten stiff, one
third of a cupful of stewed prunes
cut in pleces, three figs finely chopped
and two tablespoonfuls of blanched
and chopped almonds. Molstén and
chill,
(E) 1928. Western Newspaper Union.)
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