ALE is the February sky, And brief the midday's sunny hours; The windswept forest seems to sigh For the sweet time of leaves and flowers. Yet has no month a prouder day, Not even when the summer broods O'er meadows in their fresh array, Or autumn tints the glowing woods, For this chill season now again Brings, in its annual round, the mora When, greatest of the sons of men, Our glorious Washington was born, Lo, where beneath an icy shield, Calmly the mighty Hudson flows! By snowclad fell and frozen field, Broadening, the lordly river goes. The wildest storm that sweeps through space And rends the oak with sudden force, Can raise no ripple on his face, Or slacken his majestic course. Thus, ‘mid the wreck of thrones shall live Unmarred, undimmed, our hero's fame, And years succeading years shall give Increase of honors to his name. Williams Cullen Bryant. WASHINGTON MONUMENT and grand, the wonderful erected In Washington, D. C, by a grateful nation in recognl- tion of the services of Gen. George Washington, attracts thousands of vis- ftors who annually throng the Na- tion's Capital. The monument is of white marble, 555 feet, height, and. 55 feet, 114 Inches square at the base. The cornerstone was laid July 4, 1848. The United States gov- ernment, under an act of congress, took over the monument in 1876. An elevator accommodates 35 passengers }, ora: shaft Washington, Adams Both Late for Inauguration WHEN Washington was Inaugu- rated the old Federal hall was the Capitol of the United States. At that time Capital of the nation, notes the Wash- ington Star, The first President was inducted In- to office on April 30, rather than March gress had set the first Wednesday In March, which fell on the fourth of the month, as the date for “commencing the proceedings under the sald Constl- tution,” but when March 4 came neith- er the senate nor the house could mus ter a quorum and so could not orga- nize. Only 13 members of the house answered to thelr names, Two summons were sent out to mem- bers, but it was not until April 1 that the house finally managed to count a quorum. The senate obtained a quor- um April 6, more than a month after the appointed day. On the same day a Joint session of the two houses was held in the senate chamber. When the electoral votes were opened and counted, it was found Washington was elected President, and John Ad ams Vice President. Washington and Adams were for mally notified and this, together with their journey to New York, delayed the Inauguration until the thirtieth. George Washington One of Signers of Constitution I¥ MAY, 1787, a constitutional con- vention met at Philadelphia, then the National Capital, George Wash- ington was president of the conven tion, which was attended by 55 dele gates from the states, A constitution was drawn up after about four months and was adopted by 30 of the dele gates on September 17, 1787: 18 de ¢lined or falled to sign. Ten dele gates appointed by the states did not attend the convention, Some of the best known names among the signers were George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Robert Morris, Roger Sher: man, Charles C. Pinckney, James Wil son. Delaware was the first stote to ratify, followed In order by Pennsyl- vania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecti cut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Is land, It was declared to be In effect in March, 1780, Right Plates or Dishes for Soup Fashion’s Decrees Will Be Observed by Wise Hostess. With the return to style of soup plates it is important for the home- maker to be acquainted with the dif- ferent kinds of soups best sulted to being served in them, and in bouillon cups, also called soup cups, The very name, bouillon, Indicstes the kind of soup originaly intended to be served In these cups. The word is French for a clear soup or a beef broth. Fashion decreed for some time that all varieties of soup should be served in these bouillon cups, but now there is a return to the more proper method, of suiting the soup to the dishes. The chief distinction in sultabllity of soups to serve in cups or in plates is their density. Clear soups, even though they may not be strained as is bouillon or consomme, but have gome solid pleces of ingredients In them, are the sort to be served In cups. Cream soups and heavy soups such as chowders, oyster and other stew soups, etc., should be served in soup plates. When soup is in cups, there is the inference that they may be sipped as well as taken with spoons. Heavy soups cannot be %o sipped, and there should be no hint in the way it Is served that such an inconsistency is considered. a {aux pas. when glass plates Clear soup showed off the beauty of the glass most advantageously, was served in it. Therefore young homemaker need not both cups and soup plates, but with propriety, all soups. The any longer of boul Clear soups must be of sufficl strength to make the full flavored. Meat Is the recog essence to be imparted, Chic lamb, and beef broth and delicious The is covered with water boil and then all the water hag hecome sOUp use soup plates fo game cannot be sal lon cups, watery are del when proper iy fresh ment, of whiche owed to 8m rich In flavor from the meat juices. Salt and pen per are an onion in the particles should remain in Also all is enoked water the soup when served. fat should skimmed off, Consomme from combination of men Hh as chick en and a ham bone, Kn kie of veal and beef soup meat, ote, With the as enn he made ta sud meat are balled an mmered vege tables, such as celery, carrnts, tar nip: and the condiments of salt and igmented with a one hiade pepper may be at very little mace and elo onee YOR, of mace or teaspnoninl and four for four ments and ter, he clarified cloth. ©. Dell Syndicate —WNU Sorc! are sufficient the fo six cloves pounds of four quarts o is strained and mas combined f eonld wa Consomme © y —r +% by straining through a Ancient “Hoarders™ All sorts of anc resemble an eye, of old cities of treasured by distr jent beads eut to found on the sites Mesopotamia, are modern natives of the riet as charms against every sick- ness and evil spell, It is difficult to obtain these charms, even at consid. able price, says a returned traveler, Banded, precious such as agate and sardonyx, are prized as the most powerful. Natives of this region have been antique since ancient times, semi stones, hoarders To keep clean and healthy take Dr. Pleree's Pleasant Pellets, They regulate liver, bowels and stomach.—Adv. In His Line “How'd she happen to cateh that baseball pitcher?” “Oh, 1 suppose he curves.” admired EHAMY, AHA ts N Te KLIS 2S Mind Works Hard in Split Second Right Perspective May Be Developed in Face of Death. Four employees of a large bullding in New York recently dropped in a defective elevator from the four teenth floor to the basement, They were fortunate enough to come through alive, That was an experience learning something about. So the newspapers sent reporters to ask these people how it felt to take such a drop, to know you were dropping, and not be able to do anything but walt for the inevitable crash and probable mutilation or death, “The whole thing seemed to take only a split second,” sald one of the survivors. “And,” he added confiden- tially, *it was funny, but a lot of things seemed to shoot through my mind!" We can Imagine what those things were that shot through this man’s mind In just a split second of time. Perhaps he had left home that morn ing without kissing his wife good-by. He might have been harsh with his boy. Or perhaps it was the word of appreciation that was well but which a perverse (Impulse pre vented his giving that ran through his mind in that split second. There can be no doubt that his ex worth perience In the elevator sent that | man home a better husband and fa | ther—for un while, anyway, It raised | him for a moment, a split moment to be sure, out of the treadmill of daily | rotitine which shuts off our from all but the road we are trying to “cover.” It gave him for that split second perspective and a sense of values, the realization. that what counts most in life Is what Is be- tween us and those we love, and that the most precious moments are those in which we give something of our selves to their happiness. Lucky the person who could have that “split second” of revelation— and live to snct on It. © Bell Syndicate. ~WNU Service. Insect Conversation Ferret out your insect pests with a radio microphone! It can be done, according to an Oslo (Norway) pro fessor, who has devised a special microphone that will make Insect noises audible to the human ear by amplification through a loud speaker. Insects “converse” In potes so high that the human ear cannot them, but the super-sensitive elec. troni¢ tube can do so and them to audibility, in some quarters that bees actually “broadcast” to one another on short amplify waves even beyond the ultras, thus for the fact that recon bees are shortly followed ling” toward a noitering source of honey by far out of sight of ordinary hearing GENUINE ASPIRIN When you go to buy aspirin, just remember this: Every tablet of real aspirin of Bayer manufacture is stamped with this cross. No tablet without this cross is GENUINE Bayer Aspirin. Manufacture Remember this for your own protection. Tell your friends about it for their protection. Demand and &) get Genuine BayerAspirin. MEMBER NW, A, Naturally Many a man has son ing worth Precious Volume i A cook book i balmed records of endless del contains “Kept after school!” And it isn’t the child's fault, or the teacher's. His mother is to blame. 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