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$4 x M LIKE all g eat creatures,” sald
Mother Ocean. “1 have my friends
and | also have many enemies.”
Billie Bsownle smiled to himself,
and vet no one in the world covld
help but say that Mother Ocean wus
certninly great.
“You see. there 1s a lot to me,” said
Mother Ocean. “Now, when there is
a lot to a person it means that that
person has character and brains and
all that sort of thing.
“But when * say that there is a ot
to me | mean nt only such things |
mean there is n great deal of size to
nie
“Perhaps | shouldn't say It in just
that fashion. But I'm not fussy about
Row | spenk. [I am too powerful to
mind
“Why, | have had people traveling
wpon me and they bave talked most
bemtifully They have used fine
words and they have talked really
very grandly
“But that didn’t bother me 1 let
them know that | was superior te that
So | have tossed and rocked and have
told the Wave children have ®s
rough a purty as they wished and then
It was more than the fine tnlkers could
do to keep up such grand talk
“They didn’t say anything,
cept :
“Yh, dear,
“And there
about that.
“Well, as |
friends and my enemies.
chilidlren are my family, so
speaking of them
“They love me! Just think what It
means to have a mother who lets yoo
be just as rough as ever you wish
Ha, ha. that's something!
“Of course, some might
so, but | do!
“1 want to tell you about my friends
now. though
“A little girl was going sailing with
ber hrother in one of my hays She
"
Ho
just ex
but | feel poorly.
is nothing very brainy
was saying. | have my
My Wave
I'm not
not think
was talking to an old, old naval gen
tleman
“1 hope it doesn't get rough,
she sald. ‘But 1 also hope it doesn't
get too enlm,
“1 don't care to be heenlmed and «it
out doing nothing on the water for
hours at a time,’
“1 suppose not, the old naval gen
tleman sald, "hut do you know | have
Hved nlmost all of my long life at sen
too
Am Too Powertui to Mind,” Said
Mother Ocean,
and I have never been bored with the
for a moment?
‘I've always loved It
anything #ise In the
how It is.
“Now, that
Brownlie, |
friends.”
“And
Prownie
“Then,” continued Mother Ocean.
must tell you of the men
at a little seaport town some
days ago.
“They nad
ocean journey.
the Far Kast
Sen
better than
world-—no matter
old gentleman, Billie
consider one of
well you might,” sald Billie
=i
who arrived
few
been on a long,
They had come from
tong
Some Food
Suggestions
homes the price of
mother
really
a MANY
milk keeps the poor
what her children
foods during infancy
milk 1s necessary
tant food. Strong
depend
combination
*ir chief min
ies t
is found in
cereals, the
and
goo
from
need
may Ds
roa
buying
Other
ups
with plu
era
hese con
the
value of whale
corn In the
Caleium
of
wheat,
menu.
Another invaluable food Is found In
vegetables, They furnish iron in larg
proportions as well as other mis
and valuable vitamines.
outer
hence
ontmeal
eras
Pear Bavarian Cream.
Drain the sirup from a can eof
pears. Soften one-third of a puckage
of gelati In one-fourth cupful of cold
water, then add to one cupful of heat
ed pear Juice. Add the Julce of one
lemon and one-third of a cupful
sugar. Turn half of this mixture Inte
an oval mold of one quart size, set on
fee to chill Set the rest of the mix
ture to harden.
Cut thin from the halved
pears and line the mold. Do not put
these in place until the jelly becomes
firm. Put the remainder of the pears
through a sieve. Soften one-third of
a package of gelntin in a little cold
water and let It dissolve over ho! wa
ter. Add the pear pulp, the juice of
a lemon and the grated rind, one-third
of a cupful of sugar, stir over ice wn
ter unti! get. then fold In one cupful
of whipped cream When stiff enough
to hold ape finish Alling
mold gerving unmold on 9
platter and garnish with of
whipped eream and bright
colored jell
of
slices
its sh the
When
roses
of
cubes
—
Filling for Pumpkin Pie.
To one and one-half cupfuls of sift
nmpkin
r of salt
a few
le of th
inge
a lin
or
urths
Peach Betty,
the soft
ie loaf
Use
ter of
of the
crumbs from
Mix
ith one-hal!
Put a layer of
a haking dish
feed
with
the cen
a sin three
crumbs w
the
erumbs inte
them sl siches
each laver
grated orange peel
ferred
then remove or
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over sprinkling
add a hit of
any oy
whi
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or
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the ron
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“And they had arrived, at last, ‘on
land
“But, Billie
think they spent
rest-time 7"
Billie Brownlie shook his head
“They came down and watched me,
Mother Ocean suld “They wnlched
me by the hour as though they couldn't
see too much of me,
“They walked along
und they watched
morning and at nig
moment they could,
“They had
but the
1! cy
how do
holliday
Brownie,
their
yon
und
the beach
the early
und every
by
me In
htfall
been seeing practically
for weeks, und
were on lund the land
that affection in them
nothing ocenn
yet when
did not
that | did
0h, i
arouse
wis most
they loved me.
“And now, Billie
think ['l} tell you
like any
time
“1 feel too happy to do that
too happy, Billie Brownie”
And Billie Brownie
So with a wave of his cup he went
back to Brownleland and Falrylund te
tell them about Mother Ocean's friends
and great admirers
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What Fires Cost
American farms
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how
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NEWTON
By JEAN
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the
ordinate son. 1t
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of 8&8 generation
word “thrash”
for beating
thrashing.’
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and the wheatfleld The reference is
to the method of eating grain to
purify It of waste was called
thrashing” from which we have the
“threshing.”
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to the
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nodern
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when the
pened to
farmhand
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oh lect
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By JOHN BLAKE
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what yon have seen.
Then read. And remember that all
books are not alike
Some hooks
(thers are just about
anything except killing
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teach us
valueless for
time,
in the
that will tx
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select boos
as
will
interestin
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lemember that becanse a book Is
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unreadable. It must have something
to recommend It. A bad man may ac
quire lasting fame but not a bad book
Select the books that will teach
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words or anything,
I never made
It into
| never id
It any time
On any sort of Instrument,
I coulc 't tell you how |t
rice,
nyed
went,
But 1 can tell you how It came:
You calied me hy a dearer mame
And in heart
A little tune
That sewed a part
if skies and June
Began sing lke whip poor wills
At sunset hours fromm woeded kills
tn
And | have never quite forpet
hat song, rithough 1 know It not
You never near
Qur cottege door
But that 1 hear
That song once more.
When sunset bours your
bring
I have a little song | sing.
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footsteps
HE secret sorrow of a thousand
moderns homes is that the Elaloe
of the tower does not prove to be
capable of protecting the battiement
And this failing. you will find. if you
look into the matter without preju
dice, is the root of 8 growing evil
which is spreading its branches like a
noxious tree in every part of the world
As the boughs cast their shadows
where the sun ought to shine, there
comes the alarming conviction that
home life is losing its old-time charm;
that the newly married are turning te
boarding houses and hotels, afraid to
accept such responsibilities as their
fathers and mothers assumed with
every evidence of gladness
Thig trend of the new generation is
the meaning of the hue and cry
against Iandlords, extravagant rents,
pressure of hard times, discontent and
the ceaseless grinding of the mills In
the divorce courts,
Dan Cupld, with his quiver of ar
rows, standing at the crossroads, hid
ing In gardens of roses, or waiting at +
splashing fountains where moonbeams
silver the waters, I8 not the merry,
saucy and confident little imp that he
was a generation ago.
Flis lips have lost their smiling curl
and his chubby hands are a bit un
steady as he bends his bow and lets
fly an arrow,
And oftener than not, unless his
arrow be tipped with gold and stud
ded with gems, he misses his mark,
in the olden days, the love thm
scared and sang at the twang of the
bow, also busied Itself In bullding »
nest of Its own, and the beautiful lady
WALKER
of the tower could make the siries
trend and broil & steak te a tarn
proud of her accomplishments.
But those were the delectable days
of the Darbys and the Joans. when
the indy stood mmafrajd on the battle
ment! and belped her lord to win the
fray.
Love then was real and 1 lasted
from the springtime of orange blos
some to the sere and yellow leaves
of awtumn, down to the snows and
the Inst sigh of winter,
And all through their tives, In the
glorious jenrs and In the somber. the
married pairs held their troth and
sang from the Joy In thelr hearts:
Hand in hand when our life was May
Hand 'n hand when our hair Is gray
And here is the sentiment that
keeps love delicate, sweet and beaut)
ful through the eternal ages!
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Everybody has seen the acrobat dis
locate his joints. By means of flexions
and contortions that have been prac.
ticed from a very early age the spinal
cord has been converted inte what Is
to all intents and purposes a rubber
tube, He can throw his head low
enough to put his neck between his
lege and bend his back into a bow al
most as complete as that of the fire
side eat. A medical man has classified
these dislocations and says that the
digestion of such men Is akmost always
perfect, provided they do not carry
thelr exercises to excess. He thinks
the circulation 1a stimulated to a de
gree where the waste products of the
body are more easily eliminated
When the frost is on the pun~
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