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HILIP CROSS cared nothing for
girls,
“Selfish pigs, always calling
every fellow ‘Gimme! Gimme!’
But they aren't going to call me that!"
Philip Cross could well have an-
swered their calling and never missed
a gift or so. His income tax had to
be filed on a large-sized blank by an
auditing firm that made a speciality
of this type of work. Philip Cross
paid but scant attention to the income
tax business or any other business for
that matter,
A tall, spare young fellow, Philip
was the epitome of a red-blooded he-
man, a lover of the great out-of-doors.
He was all of that. More, he was a
shy lover of romance. And romance
bad never come to him. Nothing had
ever come his way, as he himself sald,
except gimme girls. Oh, they were
quite, quite delicate about it! Yes,
indeed! But people, especially of the
feminine persuasion, cannot talk for
any great length of time without re-
vealing their inmost souls and person-
alities. And Philip had found only
greedy souls,
that completely and successfully hid
his disappointment. He wanted a
home of his own, a wife who watched
for his coming, a rose hedge, a dog or
two with faithful eyes and maybe—
who could tell—little ones running
with outstretched arms to meet him.
And so far he had had only dreams
that were growing fainter and fainter
with the passing of the years.
“But what you care, anyhow?”
asked his best friend, Ralph Donald-
son. “You've plenty of money. You
can afford to give and give and give
and still never notice that there's any-
thing gone.”
Jut Philip Cross shook his head
stubbornly. He would have what he
wanted or nothing at all,
do
Then one day he read in a magazine
article about a8 woman who, far from
the center of civilization, had started
a library. At the start she had only
her own newspapers, magazines and a
very few volumes of books. The neigh-
bors had felt free to borrow
In time tourists who passed and paused
sent a few volumes to her upon thelr
return home. The volumes grew so
numerous that a little one-room shack
was erected by the neighbors across
the road from her house, It was no
thing of beauty but it was certainly
destined to be a joy forever out in
that prairie country. Boys rode fif-
teen and eighteen miles on horseback
over the rough roads to borrow a book
for a grandparent or some one who
was ill. She had never, so the article
said, bought a book, so Philip de-
cided cynically that she was getting no
any sort from publishers
or book stores,
these,
ake-off of
“I've nothing to do for a month”
Philip told Ralph, “so I'm going to
drive out there and take the old lady
a couple of hundred volumes of science
and economics and heavier stuff. I
suppose the major part is light fic.
tion. Anyhow, I'll like to look over
the library shack and see what they
have.”
“How old is this old lady?’ asked
alph curiously.
Philip shrugged. “How should 1
know? Miss Lavinia Hill is her name.
Lavinia! She must be eighty or
ninety from the name alone. And
people don't get so big-hearted until
they're well on the shady side of life,
If she were sixty or seventy years
younger she'd certainly be the girl
of my dreams.”
“Why under the light of the sun
don't you express the books instead of
driving 'way out there on rutty roads?”
asked Ralph.
Again Philip shrugged. “I've a
fancy to see the place—and the old
lady, too. Besides, who can tell? 1
might happen to meet the girl I've
dreamed about, Ralph. Maybe they
make em that way out there.”
Within a hundred miles of his goal
Philip very nearly decided to return.
The roads were far worse than any
he had ever encountered. Indeed, in
some places there was no road except
where horses’ hoofs had beaten down
the long grasses so slightly that he
could hardly discern any path at all.
He kept going along, mile after mile,
until a boy came out of an unpainted
shack to talk, Phillp genially stopped
the motor and leaned back for a chat.
“So you're going to see Lavinia
Hill?" the boy said. Then he sighed.
He would not explain that sigh to
Philip in spite of repeated coaxings,
and so Philip went on after a few
moments, wondering why the boy had
sighed,
He came upon the shack with Its
sign “Public Library” much sooner
than he had expected to, It wag
wholly unlike the grand city libraries.
A girl dressed in fluffy pink clothes
was going In the door and with keen
masculine interest Philip jumped out
to follow her. She had evidently not
heard the quiet purr of the motor, for
she was humming a gay little tune
when he entered. Philip's lips curled;
he was used to foibles like this on the
part of girls. But her look was one
of genuine surprise when she turned.
_ “You've quite a library here,” sald
Philip, feeling awkward before her,
Her eyes regarded him seriously.
“Yes,” she sald briefly,
“I'm looking for Miss Hill—Lavinia
Hill," he sald. *“I have a box of
books for her.
Immediately her expression changed.
Dimples appeared in her soft cheeks,
Sparkling-eyed, she sald eagerly, “Oh,
have you? Let's open them up-—
please |”
“But they're for Miss Lavinia ITilL"
he said.
“I'm Lavinia HIIL" she told him.
“I'm the librarian and the district
schoo! teacher and they've even asked
me to perform marriages when the
traveling preacher was too long In
coming!"
“And what's your—honorarium for
all this work?" he asked brusquely.
She laughed. “It's more ‘honor
than honorarium as you probably
think of money,” she said. “I'm sup-
posed to get $35 a month, but in the
four years I've been here I haven't
had too many salary checks. But they
like me,” she defended when he re-
mained silent,
“I should think they would,”
said shortly.
He was scowling as he brought in
the box of books, but the seowl was
only on his face to keep his feet from
dancing and his eyes. from telling her
too much at once. He knew now why
that fellow back on the road had
sighed. Lavinia Hill wasn't going to
be there much longer if Philip Cross
could help it!
he
Eccentric Daughter of
Famous Concord Divine
Miss Mary Moody Emerson, Ralph
Waldo Emerson's eccentric aunt, lived
in her shroud, says Van Wyck Brooks
in Scribner's Magazine, She had
stitched it all herself and when death
refused to come she had put it on as
a nightgown, then as a daygown, She
was even seen on horseback once, in
Concord, cantering through the village
street, attired for the grave, with a
scarlet shawl thrown about her shoul
ders,
Miss Emerson was the daughter of
the former minister of Concord, who
had died in the Revolution. She was a
dwarf, four feet three Inches tall, with
a bold pinkish face, a bine flash in her
eyes and yellow hair cropped closa un.
der a mobeap. She was short and
erect as an adder about to strike,
She could not sit, she couid
sleep; a demon drove her pen.
she had survived, a witness of
lofty and terrible religion of John
Calvin, to rebuke what she regarded
as the poor, pale, unpoetical humani.
tarianism of the new day. Her voice
was the voice of a sibyl, issuing from
the caves of the past,
She was queerer than Dick's
band. She was thought to have
power of disagreeable
things In than
other person living. kept
with nobody; had
said, the fatal gift of penetration, and
her mission was to undermine the
vanity of the shallow.
Was some high matter broached In
Did some rash suppli-
invite Miss Emerson's opinion?
“Mrs. Brown” the sibyl replied,
“how's your cat? Was some lady
praised too warmly in her presence?
She pricked the panegyric: “Is it a
colored woman of hom you are
speaking?" “Give us peace In our
boarders,” she wrote on one occasion,
and, when shown the misspelling, she
said it would do as it was,
not
For
the
hat.
the
uttering more
utes
She
twenty any
pace
she
she received,
conversation?
t
ant
Magellan Really First
to Circumnavigate Globe
It is often sald that Ferdinand
Magellan did not really c¢ircumnavi-
gate the globe because he was killed in
earth belongs to Juan Sebantian del
Vittorio with 31
the expedition.
April 27, 1521, In a battle with the
natives on Mactan island, which |
124 degrees east longitude,
however, while Magellan
subject of Portugal, he salled as far
as Banda Island, about 130 degrees
longitude east of Greenwich,
fore he, and not his subordinate Del
globe. —Pathfinder Magazine,
Rich Rejoinder
ting on airs when he met any of his
friends, One night
arrive very late for a dance to which
he had been invited.
“I'm most terribly sorry,
to his hostess. “I was
detained.
dismissing my second footman”
“Really 7" broke In an acquaintance,
who was standing near them. “Now,
isn't that curlous? [I've just heen dis-
missing my fifth parlor maid.”
A look of incredulity spread over
Winthrop's face.
“Your fifth parlor maid?" he re.
peated.
“Yes,” sald the other; “my fifth
since July."—London Answers,
he sald,
Vociferous Motor
Driver of Antique Car--Isn't she
purring along beautifully?
Friend (loudly)—What?
Driver — Isn't she purring along
beautifully?
Friend (yelling)—-What?
Driver—Isn't she purring along
beautifully?
Friend (screeching)-1 can't hear a
word you say for the nolge of the
bally engine,
Accessories Part
of Print Costume
Hats and Bags of Neutral
Shades Are Smart With
Patterned Frocks.
Assembling accessories for the
printed costume is a fine art. Too
much accent Is worse than none at
all, and the wrong shoe, hut or bag
may change a really delectable frock
into “just another print,” observes a
fashion authority in the New York
Times.
The essential is simplicity, for the
pattern of the fabric itself gives suf-
ficient life and varlety to the en-
semble. Formerly it was held as a
trulsm that only plain colored ac-
cessories might be worn with the cos-
tume of print, bat this rule is nov
honored in the breach as well as in
the observing, Just as Paris now fre-
quently shows tweed hat and bag to
match the suit, so some of the fine-
patterned prints designed for daytime
wear in the South have exactly match-
ing accessories, As a general thing,
however, accessories are planned not
to distract the eye from the effect of
the costume as a whole, and above all
printed design must
never be worn.
Because many of the new
prints striking in col
pattern, there is a great for
sets of accessories In neutral tints.
Pumps or strapped sandals in natural
linen, shantungs or vorn
with matching bags and wid
of natural stras. One
a plcture hat of
southern
are wring and
yogue
crepes
hats
consists of
a light cy
ribbon about
with a narrow
crown and a
cluster ¢* roses at one side—all in the
natural straw color,
With this were shown opera pumps
of matching crepe de chine, 10-button
gloves 'n pale biscuit-colored
and a bag of the new finely
straw piped with
weave,
the small
suede
woven
kid In a
slightly
Printed Black and White Crepe Popu
lar at Southern Resorts,
darker tone of beige. The one high
light of the accessories was the clasp
on the bag, of red enamel and mar.
casite. This set was shown with an
afternoon frock printed in beige, white
and red, but it might do service with
several frocks, either of print or plain
color,
Another set of accessories was
plann.d for a printed frock of char
treuse, ivory and rose, These re.
peated the background color of the
print. The hat, big and floppy and
of sheer straw, was in a lovely shade
of chartreuse and was trimmed with
Opera
pumps of chartreuse crepe de chine
were shown with a small pouch bag
of the same material piped with sil.
Stockings of a delicate tropieal
were worn with this costume,
tan
the
and the necklace of white jade re
flected the chartreuse tint, f
With New Jersey Blouse
A tricky new bloase of lightweight
may be norn inside the
Which
the end of a slip-over
type. Very charming colors sre shown
in these trim Jersey blouses, namely
Interesting shades of blee, gold, green
and rosy red as well" as the two per
ennials, eggshell and beige.
Tunic Plays New Role
in Fashions of Season
The tunic dress seems to be cast
for a new role. It Is astonishing with
what alacrity it Is adapting itself to
the requirements of the season's style
drama.
With the Increasing popularity of
the knee-length coat, the tunic of the
same length Is admirably fitted to ap
pear over a skirt that flares to frills
and fullness at this point.
It Is pot unusual to see a tunle of
gue color and a skirt of a contrasting
ne,
ON REARING
CHILDREN from
CRIB TO COLLEGE
Ci the Editors of
THE PARENTS’ MAGAZINE
Now that It is known beyond all
doubt that the most Important years
in the life of the individun! are the
first years, and since the child does
not come under the jurisdiction of the
school until hundreds of habits have
been formed, It will certninly be with.
in the province of the school to reach
out and make avaliable to the parents
of the nation’s children any Informa.
tion that may be of value to them In
the proper guldance of children, eNpe
cially through the first yenrs of thelr
lives,
The National Film Estimate Service,
Chlengo, has announced, after making
an Intensive study of motion pletures,
that In thelr opinion the average child
under ten should not be allowed to at-
tend the usual commercial motion ple-
ture show,
The giver a sick child
should be adapted to the child's spe
cial Interests and thus pass
the long hours of convalescence with
the least possible wear and tear— but
it may be, and should be,
more taan a simple amusement.
occupation
help to
a good deal
Un-
less the child has some special handi-
eraft to which he Is wedded and which
he greatly wishes to continue in bed.
It is best to chorse for him somet
At
same time the work should appeal as
8
he has never done before, the
worth doing for the result—which may
be a new belt to wear to school
he I18 well, a new «¢
when
made
up and scarf,
by herself, or a new leather pocket
hook with a pocket for various treas
ures,
In adolescence,
suffer from
giris
condi.
if neg-
lected. It may be much Improved by
a careful regulation and
starches In the diet, local applications
of healing hur
ulous cleanliness.
most boys and
skin eruptions, a
tion which may become chronic
of sugars
. 1s i »
sul] lotion, and scrup-
requests for
about playgrounds have
by the C
United States
handbook on
of local che
been received
nher of
that It
the ubject for the
commerce
Commerce of the
'
1
and
they may
value of playgrounds
methods by which ne.
quired, equi;
The bill and
sped,
the |
municipa
ground and Recreation
America
hy ginte
as suggestions for enactment
and los,
ne
The tates hins 35
30 of
United
one clinic to which }
dren may
analyzed
States
parents
their
The
go to have
and
Children's
adjusted.
hurenn
this
able
avail
lacality
country, thus showing the
resources in any given
Windbreaker Jacket Is
he long-familiar windbreaker type
of Jacket has influenced the sports
mode In suits. Many of the jackets
are cut In this style, and blouses as
well are put on a narrow band so that
they may blouse slightly to suggest
the tuck-in. Printed blouses add zest
to plain-colored crepella suits,
Little jackets with belts are seen
in crepella, jersey, striped woolens
and novelty knitted tweed effects for
sults. One model of sheer wool has
a Jacket lined with yellow star-printed
crepe and matching blouse of a twin
print in a smaller size.
Mesh sports blouses are shown witn
sults and frequently are made with
short sleeves,
Smart Tailored Outfit,
Offering From London
London offers this charming three.
piece novelty constituting a travel and
afternoon kit in one. Beneath the
tweed Jacket and skirt ls a stunning
red crepe de chine afternoon frock.
(The Kitchen
Cabinet
(6), 1930, Western Newspaper Union.)
I would not have every part of
a man cultivated, any more than 1
would have every acre of earth cul-
tivated: part will be tillage, but
the greater part will be meadow
and forest: not only serving an Ime
mediante use, but preparing the
world against a distant future, by
the annual decay of the vegetation
viiich It supports.~Thoreau.
TASTY FOODS
A most appetizing stuffed egg may
oe served, using the left-over cooked
bacon: crush It
and mix with the
hard-cooked egg
yolks, then sea-
son well and put
back into the egg
white,
Mince Tarts —
Line fluted pas-
pastry that has
Erush with egg
yolks beaten with cold milk. Fill with
mincement and bake 15 minutes.
When cold decorzte with a ring of
meringue, put on tube.
with
a rich
chilled,
try tins with
heen well
with y
Brown delicately, fill
whipped creas
cher
Pepperpot With Boiled Rice —Ta
Pr ‘
four-pound shin of heef,
ry.
cover wit:
n
illon of wat one tables
the and pepper reduced
to half quantity of liquor,
add the remaining
three hours longer.
hot bolled rice for
the then
ingredients, cook
Serve with a slice
of lemon and sch
and
ninte
plate,
Family Stew.—Take one and
half pounds of the
round, ci incl
u inch
with flour
, and brown In a h«
beef
one
the
dredge
bottom of
t into pieces,
season and
it kettle with
well with salt
while
$Y wyed
BUrring
4 pur
IE olien
uet,
Add two carrots, on
ane two
butter
inplings or crackers
Fresh Fish
chowder Is
Chowder Frosh
IVS 1
Prepare
well
Aad
IL #
1 well
1
Ons anc
or lightly yel
8, cover with Ix
slice
iter and
small
Cook un
well
and pep
ip with a
a cupful
ie fresh fish, J into
pieces and careful
are
t with crackers.
Date Drop Cookies.—Take two cup-
fuls of flour, two teaspoonfuls of bak-
sift well
cupful of
ng powder,
one-half
mix well
together,
shortening
into the flour, add salt, one
beaten egg and two to four tablespoon-
fuls of mill Drop by spoonfuls
buttered sheet after adding
package of dates sliced, and
fourths of a cupful of sugar,
on a
three
This and That to Eat.
the
often
dish
the
and
be.
Serve
giblets in the cen
ter of a hot plat
ter
with well seasoned rice,
roasted or boiled served with
rice Is especially a great dainty,
cranberries,
cooking with water until nearly done,
then add the sugar to sweeten.
A pretty way to serve
of green pepper on top of the salad
Let each find his place.
Cinnamon Buns—Take one pint of
sweet milk, one cupful of hot water,
one tablespoonful of shortening, three
fourths of a cupful of sugar, one table
spoonful of salt, two eggs, one yeast
cake softened In one-fourth cupful of
warm water, six and three-fourths
cupfols of flour, two and one-half
cupfuls of brown sugar, one cupful of
raising, one teaspoonful of cinnamon.
Prepare, roil and cut as usual, using
one cupful of the sugar. Place one
and one-half cupfuls of sugar in the
well greased pan, adding nuts if de
sired; place the buns on top of the
sugar and bake. Turn upside down at
once after baking.
Luncheon Rice~~Take two cupfuls
of boiled rice, with every grain dis
linet and well cooked; add, mixing
with two forks, one cupful of mixed
nutmeats, one-half pound of mild
cheese, two beaten eggs, one table.
spoonful of melted butter, one tea.
spoonful of sugar and salt and pepper
to taste. Make holes in the rice, place
in a buttered pan and pour in one cup.
ful of milk, Drop bits of butter over
the top and bake one-half hour, Serve
Nerese
very hot from the dish.
Mothers... Watch
Children’s coLDsS
OMMON head colds often “settle”
in throat and chest where they may
become dangerous. Don’t take a
chance — ar the first snifle rub on
Children's Mustercle once every hour
Jor five hours.
Children’s Musterole is just good old
Musterole, you have known so long, in
milder form,
Working like the trained masseur, this
famous blend of oil of mustard, amphor,
menthol and other ingredients brings
relief naturally, It penetrates and stimu
lates blood circulation, helps to draw out
infection and pain,
Keep full strength Musterole on hand,
for adults and the milder — Children's
Musterole for little tots. All druggists,
CHILDREN'S
Garfield Tea
Was Your
Grandmother's Remedy
For every stomach
and intestinal {IL
This good old-fash-
loned herb home
remedy for consti.
pation, stomach {lls
and other derange-
ments of the sys-
tem so prevalent these days Is in even
greater favor as a family medicine
than in your grandmother's day,
Goose Dinner in Prospect
Yelich, of Detre
ed if
Don’t Be Bothered
With Rheumatism
to H. C
+ Pa, §
Mistress Yesterday
thing in the on
and it is still there.
Maid—Yes, ma'am. I said to myself,
“That must be some important note
nistress has —Die Muwskete
(Vienna).
I wrote
the
BOM
dust sideboard,
nade.”
ONE PRESCRIPTION
MADE FAMILY DOCYOR
FAMOUS
Seldom has any single act been
of greater benefit to mankind than
that of Dr, Caldwell in 1885, when
he wrote the prescription which
has carried his fame to the four
corners of the earth.
Over and over, Dr. Caldwell
wrote the prescription as he found
men, women and children sufferin
from those common symptoms o
constipation, such as coated tongue,
bad breath, headaches, gas, nausea,
biliousness, no energy, lack of
appetite, and similar things,
Demand for this prescription
grew so fast, because of the pleas-
ant, quick fay it elieved such
symptoms of constipation, that
1889. Dr, Caldwell ror forced 4
have it put up ready for use
Today, Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin,
as it is called, is always ready at
any drugstore.
NS AEN]
0) ie] 8] NB
CQUGHS. COLDS