THE
ABOUT THE COLD WAVE
NOTHER cold wave was due to
arrive, and this time It came. It
came hurrying In from the west to
the east, having a fine chilly trip along
the way,
The trees swayed and creaked, the
shadows played with the snowdrifts,
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Snowflakes Came Along and Waved
Their Hands to Their Friends.
and rivers and lakes all smilingly let
the ice them
Snowflakes came along and waved
their hands to their friends.
Others sald:
“What is this!”
cover over.
CTHE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
By H. IRVING KING
And snowflakes sald to them-
selves:
“Don’t they recognize a snowstorm
when they see one, or do they forget
our faces ns they do people's faces
and remember that we look familiar
but don't know just who we are!”
Anyone could tell it was really win-
ter outside by the way everything and
every one looked and felt.
But it was splendidly cold, and the
cold wave, breezing along as it dig,
was enjoying itself hugely,
Sea gulls were seeking
the coves,
They sat on pieces of ice and drift
ed along with the river tide, but then
they, too, disappeared,
Then the began
over the the
ments would be quite dry as the snow
swirled and landed drifted
somewhere else—and then SNOW
came around,
The swirling snow had to hurry-—
it had a number of engagements to
keep and it was necting much excited
about them, not being settle
down In any place, thinking of
numbers of places still to be visited,
Oh, it was most interesting weather,
And then at last the cold wave grew
tired of all the land and it went out—
blew right out where it joi
the cold waters of the ocean and
air and wind that blew
so that storms raged over the sea an
the weather was very, very cold.
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shelter In
flying
Snowstorm
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pavements-—then
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Why We Do
What We Do
by M. K. THOMSON, Ph. D.
MOVING THE CAT
EB MOST parts of this co
Canada
it is considered bad
1 a fam ly
But while
this superstition appears to be nearly
universal yet, according to the
cations of the American Folk-Lore 80-
ciety, it is regarded in some p
extremely bad luck not to
cat. Superstitions
strange I rs
rom age to age and land te land,
that “not” in
eral belief regarding the
the family cat may have
cident. Or it
based
from
to take the cat along wher
moves to another house.
publi-
arts as
move
many times
distortions In their t
And
the variant of the
movin
got in by
upon an
that of the
The general
kinship with 3
stitions deriving from the relationship
of the cat to Isis and the moon. It
prevails among Anglo-Saxons and
origin must be looked for the way the
cat was regarded in Britain in an-
cient days where she was looked upon
a8 a mystic animal intimately connect-
ed with witcheraft. The
ally the black cat because she
more weird looking than others—was
thought to be a favorite form for a
witch to take when she wished to
transform herself into an animal and
also to be frequently the abode of a
witch's “familiar spirit.”
the many cat super-
its
cat eID i-
Was
Pussy 1s a weird creature anyway:
especially when she pauses In her ab-
lutions suddenly and looks at you wit
eves of hers that
reading your past and future, search-
Ing your very soul, No wonder she
was looked upon by our simple ances.
tors with suspicion. Now of the
cat’s most uncanny and inexplicable
powers is that of finding her way back
from a long distance to her former
home. She dislikes a change of abode
—and shows it. And it is not well to
offend a cat by moving her. For who
knows what Is at the bottom of that
weird power by which she negotiates
her return?
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GABBY GERTIE
“A scif-made man must frequently
eubmit to alterations and repairs aft.
er marriage.”
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WHY WE WANT TO GO TO
HEAVEN
BELIEVE in he
of getting wh
life, Hence, 1
xaclly
Ww:
us t!
heaven,
The hur
morning
with
RO at or
f itiful
It is su posed
and self-<denials
to be offset by
later on in
ence
orty he
iit the restric tion
of the moral life need
some sort of rewards
some other form of exist.
Belief In heaven serves to steady
the purpose of living a good and un-
selfish
Heaven a pl
was especially
1i
Hie,
ace of eternal rest
people
thy
IATL i
for them
ali tive to
Years ago because life
not bed of roses
had to struggle for bare
ties of life and were always careworn
and weary. Rest and plenty of it
what they demanded
The belief in heaven and the desire
1180 prompted by the
The love of life
is strong in We want
to keep on living somewhere even aft-
er we die. Heaven Is that “beautiful
land of somewhere.”
The desire not as
gtrong a motive as it As
life becomes more attractive there Is
less demand for a place where unful-
filled desires are realized
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was
Thes
nieces].
altogether a
the
was
most.
of going there is
hope of immortality.
human beings,
for heaven lis
used to he,
Dear Editor:
OUNG as I am-—don't
still can see that life Is
what we make it.
For instance, recently a young fel.
low told me he's underpaid and he
wants a new job. I told him, what is
true, that he is getting excellent train.
ing where he is, that a dozen men
envy him his chance, and that he's on
his way to success right now,
He answered with a growl.
And then 1 noticed that the lad need
ed a shave, No wonder, 1 thought,
that he's sour on the world. No won-
der he feels neglected! This Internal
chemistry of ours Is so delicate that
a man doesn’t need much to upset his
vision entirely.
Anything can look wrong to a man
who doesn't shave every morning, —-
Fred Barton,
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comes Ponies
Brief and to the Point
A boy was sent by his loving par.
ents, who had coddled him a good
deal at home, to a big public school.
He had been strictly enjoined to
write home regularly and tell them
all about himself and his new life,
At the end of a week his first lot.
ter arrived. It consisted only of a
single tine:
“There are 370 boys nere,” he wrote,
“I wish there were 300.”
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By LEONARD A. BARRETT
COO OO OOOO NOOO DOOD
OPPORTUNITIES IN
AMERICA
father
Barrett. . dn
isier to the Court
sm III) he began his career as
» 5 red ;
i Once
from our schools he
a literary career and
untii he becam edi
He also
arti-
Perhaps his important
“The Americanization of
Edward Bok.” published in
3 in tor
dies’ Home Journal.
and many magazine
most
wins
19220,
addition to his
both as a writer and publish
of, he will be remembered for
distinguished
two out.
standing acts, His gift of £100.000
as 1 ize for the best treatise on the
estab!
the
ishment of international peace ;
was the erection of the
Florida. He was a
iutiful and this tower
expression of the
iat lived within his own soul,
Mr. Bok died recently and his re
mains rest at the base of the Singing
Tower he built.
Here was a man who saw opportu-
nides for service to his fellow man.
He achieved a remarkable success
from a very humble beginning. He
will aiways be remembered as a self.
made man, Opportunities like those
which came to Mr, Bok are all around
us today. Whether we seize them or
even see them depends not so much
upon outward conditions as Inner Im-
pulses,
What we earnestly desire
determines what we are,
(2, 1920, Western Newspaper Union y
awl Possommsensnns
other
Singing Tower ir
lover of the bes
will remain
beauty t
an
to see
(@ by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
sss Pla
Beauty
Beauty ‘Is a great thing, but beauty
of garment, house and furniture fre
tawdry ornaments compared with do-
mestic love, All the elegance In the
world will not make a home, and 1
would give more for a spoonful of
real hearty love than for whole ship.
loads of furniture and all the gor
geousness the world can gather,—Ob
iver Wendell Holmes,
FUR COAT IDEAL
FOR OUR WINTERS
——
Pelts From a Variety of Ani-
mals Are Being Marketed.
the Unites
of Ag ture.)
American women wear fur
than these of any other country, es-
pecially in the northern states, where
the winter climate requires plenty of
protection from the cold. It is prac.
tically a national characteristic to
like to be comfortable wherever we
are, and so, while we heat our houses
sufliclently warm to go lightly clad
Indoors, out-of-doors we want to be
warmly dressed, The fur coat has
proved Ideal for our wiiter needs.
If our coats are not made entirely of
fur they are usually trimmed with It,
particularly having fur and
cuffs,
(Prepared by Bintes Departmont
more
collars
The demand for fur
furtrimmed garments greatly
stimulated the production of fur-bear-
Ing on “farms” as
the hunting and trapping of wild fur-
the proper seasons. Pelts
from a great variety of animals are
being marketed, so that there are fur
bought the
means of almost every one. The skins
are and prepared
the requirements for less ex-
fur garments that look lke
furs. A
any
garments or
has
animals well as
within
dressed
npaign against mis-
representation as to what a fur reaily
carried on by reputable
and if a !
woman
T
been
who |
deals only
cont
trimming 1s genvine. Such a cont
would be warm and would look well
Its length of life would depend on the
wear given It. Rabbit sheared sud
dyed to look like seal appears under
many trade names: Near #enl, Bay
seal, Baltic seal, American seal, and
Polar seal. “French ermine” “Coney-
male," “Coney leopard,” “Kit-coney”
and “Lapin” are other names for
plain rabbit. “Genet fur” Is cat fur;
“Isabella fox" i= an Improper name
for domestie dyed and curled.
There are a great many other names
one is likely to encounter when trying
to select a fur garment,
dog,
Long experience and a highly spe-
clalized knowledge of all furs are
therefore necessary to a discriminat-
ing selection. The average woman
has no way to acquire this knowledge,
and her safest course, In the opinion
of the biological survey, Is to buy
from a reliable firm. Among other
things, a trustworthy dealer will sug-
gest the best sort of fur for ar ¥ given
use, Suppose one wants an sat
fur wrap for all
can be subjected to hard, long
tory OCC
Depending on how much ea
and to some
build of the wearer, a chol
likely be made
Otter, beaver,
rat,
slan
from the red sable,
For the automobile or for sport
the selection will doubtless |
extent on the age
» will m
follow
raccoon,
among the
mink,
Persian lamb, Alaska seal
sable, or Kolinsky, whic]
or Siber
mn
raccoon, Opossum,
leopard, pony,
Evening wraps for dress are
made of ermine, squirrel, mar
chilla, broadtall, and mole.
A stout
stout woman,
ocelot,
woman, especially
needs to choose
s husth
garment
fur and 3
these points be too mu
A
rail
well
the style
fis 8&8 ru
her
worn pu
girl or
hance
active
needs the more
Most Mildew Stains Are
Difficult to Eradicate
GOT fno8 g ir {
Rabbit Skin Coat Dyed and Marked to
imitate Leopard—The Trimmings
Are Red Fox,
shown her
plain its qualities ¥.
There is no objection, for Instance
to buying rabbit that loc
ermine, leopard, or any other fur, if you
know what
skin, under any name
wear rabbit
no worse, A white wrap
rabbit but ike
ill probably answer its pur-
well. The coat In the illus
made of rabbit skins
leopard. The red fox
ks like seal,
are getting tabbit
will
and
whatever,
skin, no better
evening
appearing
like
made of
ermine, w
pose very
tration is
to look like
dyed
elites
ew stains
milk, lemon
tassium permanganate,
acid are some of the bleaching :
Long sunning
part of some treatments
of applying any of these subs
described In a bulletin on stal
moval which may be had
application to the United States
partment of Agriculture. Most
these agents cannot be used on
or wool,
free upon
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| REFRIGERANT
Cec wmas
\
OVERHEAD
REFRIGERATING UNIT
OR ICE COMPARTMENT
REFRIGERATING UNIT
WITHOUT
BAFFLE
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture)
Whether cooled by ice or mechan.
Ical unit, some parts of the household
refrigerator are colder than others.
Locate and reserve these for meat,
milk and other exceptionally perish-
able foods, advises the bureau of home
economics of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture. Any spoil.
fnge In fruits and vegetables can usual.
ly be detected by changes In appear
ance or odor, but this is not always
the case with milk or meat. It is
therefore important to store these two
foods in the coldest part of the re-
frigerator, and let fruits, vegetables,
and other foods take second place.
The coldest place varies In different
types of refrigerator, as shown in
the accompanying diagrams.
You can find out where the coldest
section Is In your own refrigerator
by leaving a thermometer for an hour
or two at a time In each part of the
box, and recording the temperatures
for comparison. Keep the refrig
erator doors closed during this test
nnd if it Is an lce-cooled cabinet be
sure that there Is the same quantity
of ice in both cases. Also the room
temperature must be about the same
two thermometers and test two places
at once, for then you would surely
have comparable conditions,
Cold air descends, warm air rises
Hence, a current of cold alr moves
steadily downward from the ice cham.
ber or the refrigerating unit. As the
air passes on its course through the
refrigerator and takes up the heat
leaking Into the box and from the
various articles stored, the tempera
ture is raised. Consequently the cold
est spot is that reached first by the
fir as it leaves the refrigerating com
partment and is usually immediately
below it. Study the construction of
your own refrigerator, and look fot
the cold alr duct that guides the ciren
lation In many boxes. This will help
you to find the coldest place. Other
parts of your refrigerator may have
temperatures sufficiently low for ordl
nary food storage, but it is better te
be on the safe side with meat and
milk and put them In the part that
has been proved coldest.
TLBERT has a heart of gold. Will
no one tell him what's the matter
—why girls turn pale, and gracious
matrons freeze at his approach? Yes,
we will. This has gone far enough.
Get a new pipe, Wilbert, and break
it in gently, thoughtfully, with Sir
Walter Raleigh's favorite smoking mix-
ure. When the curling wisps of its
fragrance surround you, everything will
be changed, Wilbert.
f
How to Take Care of Your Pipe
NT
to heel, smoke 2// th
uke yous pipe sweet from tog
u bresk
few times
I sesanmssmasnm—
SIR WALTER
RALEIGH
Smoking Tobacco
The Ideal
Vacation Land
Sunshine All Winter Long
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vigorating air clear starlit nights e-
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Origin of “Shampoo”
The werd “shampoo” is derived
from the Hmdustani word “champna,”
which meanw to press or squeeze.
Girls, be Attractive to Men
Nature Intended You Should Be!
If your
stomach and
bowels do not
function
Properly,
the bloom of
youth rapid
ly disappears.
Doctor
Pierce's
Golden
Medical Discovery usually meets the
need. It invigorates the whole system,
corrects the irregularities of the di-
sostive organs and makes the blood
redder. You have pep, vigor and wvi-
tality. Your eyes sparkle — your com-
plexion clears up and the bloom of
youth is yours, All druggists.
Write to Dr. Pierce’s Clinic in Bufe
falo, N. Y,, for confidantial medical ad-
vice, There is no fee.
THAT
OUGH
the vale easy way before
worse troubles follow, Take
HALE'S HONEY
Garfield Tea
Was Your
Grandmother's Remedy
ments of the sys
tem so prevalent these days is In even
Rreater favor as a family
than in your grandmother's day,