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Cavewomen, the only organization of
to
the Oregon caves where they hold
to
greet eastern tourists and initiate
YANK YANK EXPLAINS SOME
THINGS
HEN Yank Yank the Nuthatch
asked Peter Rabbit If there was
anything else he wanted te know,
Peter was quite ready for him. “Yes,”
he retorted promptly, “I want to know
how it is that you can walk head first
down the trunk of a tree without los-
ing your balance and tumbling oft.”
Yank Yank chuckled happily.
discovefed a long time ago,” he re-
plied, “that the people who get on
best in this world are those who make
the most of what they have and waste
no time wishing they had what other
people have. I suppose you have no-
ticed that all the Woodpecker family
have stiff tall feathers and use them
to brace themselves when they are
climbing a tree. They have become
so dependent upon them that they
don't dare move about on the trunk
of a tree without using them. If they
want to come down a tree they have
to back down,
“Now, Old Mother Nature didn't
give me a stiff tall but she gave me a
very good pair of feet with three toes |
fu front and one behind and when I
was a very little fellow 1 learned to
make the most of those feet, Each
'
wy
foot hooks into the bark. When I come
down a tree I simply twist one foot
around so that the three front claws
of this foot keep me from falling. It
toe has a sharp claw. When I go up a
tree the three front claws on each
Yank,
is just as easy for me to go down a
tree as to go up and I can go right
around the trunk quite as easily and
comfortably.” Sulting action to the
word, Yank Yank ran around the
of the apple tree just above
Peter's head. When he reappeared
Peter had another question ready.
“Do you live altogether on insects
and worms and grubs and thelr eggs?”
he asked,
“1 should say not,” exclaimed Yank
Yank. “I like acorns and beech nuts
and certain kinds of seeds.”
“I don't see how such a little fellow
as you can eat such hard things as
acorns and beech nuts,” protested
Peter a little doubtfully.
Yank Yank laughed right out. “Some
time when 1 see you over In the Green
Forest I'll show you,” sald he. “When
I find a fat beech nut 1 take it to a lit-
tle erack in a tree which will just hold
it. Then with this stout bill of mine
I crack the shell. It really is quite
easy when you know how. Cracking
R nut that way is sometimes
called hatching and that is how 1
come by the name of Nuthateh™
eT.Ww
trunk
open
Burgess —WNU Service
Probabilities Never Wrong
The quotation from Aristotle to the
effect that ies are never
wrong Is a transiation of the Greek
which is actically as “In
regard to the confirmation of evidence
and the daw of probabilities, when a
man has no withesses he can say that
the should given In ar
cordance with probabilities and that
this is the meaning oath ae
cording to the best of one's judgment.
For , . . probabilities cannot be bribed
to deceive and neither ean they be
convicted of bearing witness.”
probabil
pr follows:
decision he
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the
of
alse
IN MEMORY OF
GEORGIA
By ANNE CAMPBELL
A LWAYS I will remember her strong
hands
Polsed like white birds on the plano
keys,
Bringing our
lands,
Winding us ‘round with heaven's har-
monles,
Not only with her music did she touch
Our hearts with beauty, but her life
was such
art and character were joined,
and she
Was music—an eternal melody.
spirits to enchanted
That
It is as if an uncompleted chord
Of music stopped when she se: forth
to find
Celestial harmonies as a reward
For all the loveliness she left behind,
This world held charms for her , . .
but how much more
Will she discover on that golden shore,
When she begins that last triumphant
strain
Commemorating her release from pain!
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Tweed Cape Suit
Especially adapted to winter travel
is this cape suit of tweed. The plaid
is gray with three shades of blue and
a line of The
biouse and band knit
light bine.
rose linen
are
shantung
wool scarf
Dear Mr. Wynn: i
Can you tell me the origin of the |
custom of hanging paintings on walls? |
Yours truly,
ART STUDENT,
Answer: In 612 B. CC. there ruled
in Egypt n very vain king. He heard
of an artist who could paint his ple
ture canvas, The king wishing to |
leave behind him, his likeness, ordered |
the artist to paint his picture, When i
it was completed the King did not like
the painting. He sent his soldiers out
to catch artist but couldn't
find him so the king hung the paint-
ing.
on
the they
Dear Mr. Wynn:
1 have my laundry work done nt a
Chinese laundry. | went there yester.
day and was talking to one of the
laundry men about his native country
He told me of the earthquakes and
floods they have there. He sald that
after ti*2 last earthquake in China the
city of Hong-Kong looked just like
“h—L" Do you believe that?
Yours truly,
N. QUISITIVE.
Answer: Well, some Chinamen have
been in a lot of places
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I have a very dear friend who has
been acting strangely ever since his
wife ran away with an engineer of a
raliroad train. Now, every time he
hears a train whistie he gets nervous
and runs away and hides himself.
What do you think is wrong with him?
Sincerely,
GC. WHIZ
Answer: It Is only natural that he
should run away. An engineer stole
is wife and ran away on a train with
her and now when he hears a whistle
He's afraid the |
engineer is bringing his wife back.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
Can you tell me what Is meant when
people say a certain married couple
are “unspeakably happy"?
Yours,
0. HIGHO.
Answer: When a married couple are
referred to as being “unspeakably
happy” it means that they are teaf
and dumb,
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I have been {ll for several months
and my physician wants to send me to
the milk cure In Afghanistan. Please
tell me, “Is the milk good there?”
Sincerely,
HOPE SOH.
Answer: Is the milk good In Afghan
istan? Why, CREAM isn't In It
©. the Awnslated Newspapers.
WNU Service.
WITTY KITTY
By NINA WILCOX PUTNAM
Vial’
CRLIINTE A
LY
The girl chum says some one asked
her mentally sketchy friend If she was
not In stitches over a recent film com.
ody and got the answer that she never
took her sewing to the movies.
WNU Service.
THROUGH A
Womans Eyes
By JEAN NEWTON
THE CHILD'S MIND AND OURS
HE child's mind Is as complex as
the adult's,
That pronouncement came out at the
recent meeting of the National Com
mittee for Mental Hygiene, Dr. James
8. Plant, director of the Newark (N. J.)
Juvenile Clinic told the assembled doe
tors psychiatry has just learned that
the child mind is no simpler to under.
stand than the adult mind, and that
their failure to realize this may be ie-
sponsible for the appalling number of
delinquent and maladjusted children,
Well—we shouldn't be surprised.
Only, what a pity that the experts
this field didn't long ago consult a
have been so late in discovering what
to all who understand children Is an
obvious fact.
The child mind as complex as the
adult's—? It would safer to call
it more complex. In many lanes of
knowledge and thought that are fa
miliar and well charted to the grown
up, the child moves in a constant fog.
He has hardly catalogued a thing In
his mind when something happens to
upset his theory and leave him in the
dark about what it is all about. Scarce.
ly have doubts on an important prin-
ciple of resolved themselves into
definite knowledge, than an adult con
tradiction in action or speech, an adult
hint or patronizing smile, sends him
floundering again.
A child has so many ideals, so many
#0 many wonders and ques
on which he forms conclusions
which bring disappointments and
doubt and disillusion, that he {8 in a
constant labyrinth of thought, up one
alley and down the next-—usually, it
must be sald, after some adult who
doesn't know where he is going but
doesn’t care so much as the child!
For the child's very world depends
on the answer to these thoughts The
adult's world is formed-—and however
well or badly he may be adjusted to
it, he at least knows what he is up
against,
Far be it from me to paint adults
as sure of life or ourselves, But there
are many things we know, about which
the child ean only wonder and guess
And about the things that leave us as
be
ife
Lopes,
floundering and helpless as the ehild,
we at least know that we cannot know!
And we have two weapons which he
still lacks, to keep us on our feet in
the maze. They are philosophy and
a sense of humor,
©. Bell Syndicate —WNU Service
Do YOU Know—
A -
That “greenbacks,” as a nick-
name for paper money, had
its origin during the Civil
war. Under pressure of ter-
rific expense the Federal gov-
ernment issued paper money
bank notes and currency of
various denominations and
because of their color these
bills were known as “green-
backs.”
© by MeDlure Newspaper Syndicate
WKNU Serviea
Really, They Don’t
Want You to Smoke
.
Let Our Motto Be
GOOD HEALTH
BY DR. LLOYD ARNOLD
Professor of Bacteriology snd Preventive
cine, University of llinois,
College of Medicine,
WINTER VACATIONS
From a health viewpoint the ideal
time for a vacation is during Feb-
~ ruary and March,
In the north tem-
perate states une
til the last 20 to
25 years, it used
to be that the sum-
mer months were
the period of great-
est health risk. We
had continual ty-
phold fever out-
breaks then, and
there were a multi-
i of
tude diarrhea
complaints
jut
more
due
sanitary to
of cattle and to pasteurization of m
to better understan
iding of quarantix
and to our greater knowledge of diet a
proper care of
foods
80 Inany summer
have much work to
summer diarrheas infants,
on the whole made great
headway in the prevention of food and
water borne diseases,
In the matter of such winter
nesses as colds, influenza, bronchitis,
and pneumonia; however, we are still
pretty much at bay. These now have
higher death rates than the strictly
summer diseases,
So that, so far as health is concerned,
the winter months are now our dis-
abling months, It is at this time, rath-
er than in summer, that we should
have our yearly periods of quest of sun-
shine and recreation and rest.
Our
HOw, 10
witter systems, inspection
we do not
We
do to correct
have
still
the
but
ilinesses,
among
we have
£11
iid
industrial life is so
though, that not many of us can leave
our jobs in February and March. And
if we can, what the chil-
dren? They need hours of sunshine.
too, and are
weeks In ier except
Christmas time,
the home,
But is it our
trial activities run at full speed d
the dark cold winter months, and
curtailed
months when the
the sunshine he
nfter office and factory hours and
Saturdays and Sundays?
habit has made it so,
tinue? Might it not be possible
spaced,
then about
there no school vacat!
wi at the festive
11 life centers In
that
DeCessary
output during the summe
get
before
Worker can
an
requires
Force
it need it
to revise our school schedules so t
there could be vacation periods in
winter Modern alr-condi.
tioning wild make it possible to have
hoth factories in the
hottest days without discomfort.
The questions may seem far-fetched,
but It is not outside the realm of proba-
bility that we may change our habits
of thought so that will make our
vacations correspond to our health
Deeds,
It is true that November and Decem-
her are usually dark months, but it is
also true that the peak of colds, sore
throats, bronchitis and pneumonia
comes in the late winter months This
means that the stored up sunshine
which we managed to accumulate dur-
ing the summer and fall months has
been sufficient to carry us through the
early winter. But by January our re
gistance to disease starts getting real
knocks, and the weak easily succumb.
Economically It need not any
more to take a winter vacation than a
summer vacation. If one wants to go
South, trains offer vacation rates
Fashionable hotels are high, but fash
fonable hotels sre alwars high, and
why be fashionable? It does not cost
any more to run the family automobile
on a winter trip through the South
than on a summer trip through the
North, and tourist camps are good and
cheap everywhere,
For those who do not want southern
sunshine there are many resorts in the
North now that offer winter sports and
roaring fireplaces to gather around.
The point is that in the late winter,
when we have used up our stock of
stored summer sunshine, and storms
and cold spells take toll of our vitality,
and we have had the strain of months
of full productive work, beginning be.
the
months?
and schools run
we
cost
dark in the short winter days, our
bodies have their period of greatest
physiological exhaustion. That is the
Also it is the time when human be-
In a packed factory or office or school
droplets from other people's noses. And
IS “SUN BONNET
By GRANDMOTHER CLARK
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to “put on
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would
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Mrs. Lei
in Good Housekee
ester Lancaster
ng Magazine,
To the Elderly, Anyway
A “rare musical treat” is usuall
something old.
Foolishness Eternal
Not even age frees one from mak-
ing a fool of himself
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Baltimore, Md.
CHERRY-GLYCERINE
COMPOUND
For Coughs due to Colds, Minor
Bronchial and Throat irritations
JAS. BAILY & BON, Baltimore, Ma.
fected with colds,
buys something more
than space and circu
lation in the columns
shine as you can. A research worker
in the University of Nlinols, Dr. Irwin
study of colds, says that every one, ex.
cept housebound invalids, should be
out in the open air at least an hour
every day, regardless of what the
weather is That changing from in
door temperature helps bulld resist.
ance against colds. It tones up the
system and it's a tonle within the reach
of every one,
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