Favorite Recipe of the Week ~ For Washington's Birthday. EBRUARY 22 would not be completely celebrated if cher- ries were not featured in some way during the day. It is true that the story of the cherry tree and George Washington is more closely connected in the memory of many of us than his great prowess as the Father of our Coun- try. We seem to take for granted his ability as a leader and talk about the cherry tree episode of his youth. This recipe for cherry pie is made to use the entire contents of a No. 2 can of cherries, which holds 2% cupfuls. Cherry Pie. 1 No. 2 can Pitted 2 tablespoons corn- Red Sour Cherries starch 8 tablespoons sugar 15 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon butter Line an 8-inch pie pan with pastry. Drain the cherries from the juice and place them in the pastry shell. Mix together sugar, cornstarch and salt and sprinkle over the cherries. Pour on the juice; dot with butter and cover with a thin top crust or with strips of pastry. 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Try “Rub-My-Tism™~ World's Best Lintment FHoyd Gi ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! “The Creek Bed Horror” By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter ELLO EVERYBODY: You know, boys and girls, I've often said you can get into more adventures in your own back yard than you can in the whole of darkest Africa. And here comes Houston Norris of Yonkers, N. Y., with a story that backs up my theory. Houston's back yard was a pretty big one, though. It was a farm in Sussex county, Virginia, where he lived when he was a kid. This happened back in 1920, when Houston was just thirteen years old. On a hot August day, he set out to change the cows from one grazing ground to another where they would be in the shade for the afternoon. He had a shotgun—as a lot of kids do in the country—and he took that off the rack. He carried that gun most everywhere he went, on the chance he'd get a shot at a crow, or a chicken hawk. There was a state bounty on those birds and that just about kept him in ammunition. And incidentally, it's a doggone good thing he did take that gun along with him, For, although he didn't know it, he was heading straight for an adventure, and that shootin’ iron was des- tined to come in mighty handy. Caught in the Fox Trap. lay a brook, the bed of which was dry during That creek bed was always full of snakes that hid in so Houston started to cross on He noticed, as he Ahead of him summer months, the brush which grew along the bottom, been playing and left it there, But that was the big mistake of his life. Houston stepped on the log—and something snapped. He felt a sharp pain in his leg, and knew how foolish he had been. That moss hadn’t been put there by the neighboring farmer's kids. It had been put there by the farmer himself to conceal a fox trap—and Houston had stepped right ins it. The chain on that trap was only six inches long, and Houston He lost his balance—fell forward. 's step His gun fell to the He Had Stepped Right Into the Trap. ground and then, as he landed, he heard another click—felt another stab of pain—this time in his left hand. There had been two fox traps on that had fallen into both of them. The pain in his hand and leg made him wince, teeth. He was caught fast—unable to get himself out. But getting out of those traps didn't worry Houston so much. He was only a short dis- tance from home. A few shouts would bring someone to his assistance. Then Came the Rattler. He drew a deep breath—was all ready to let out a yell for help—when something stopped him. To his ears came a peculiar buzzing sound and a familiar rustling of leaves directly under the log on which he lay. His eyes dropped to the spot, and the hair began rising on the top of his head. A HUGE RATTLE- SNAKE was crawling out from beneath the log! “lI was frightened then for the first time.” he “And for the first time in all my life I felt completely helpless gun was four feet away from the log, and I didn't dare call for help lest I anger the snake and cause him to strike at me. “I hoped—as I never hoped before—that that snake would crawl away and leave me alone. But that hope vanished when it brought its huge body into a coil and settled down by the log to watch me “My trapped hand and foot began to pain me terribly. My back was cramped and began to ache, but I had to keep it tense for fear that I would roll off the log and fall on top of the snake. I wondered what would happen when I got too tired to hold that position any longer. Then, suddenly, something happened that brought the situation to a quick climax." and he gritted his Says. My Got the Gun Just in Time. What happened was this. Three shotgun shell selves loose from their holder at Houston's belt. They rolled from the log and lit, almost simultaneously on the back and head of the rattler. In an instant the snake threw its head up to the level of the log. Its beady eyes glittered as it looked Houston over carefully. The reptile seemed to sense that it had him at its merey—that there was no need for haste. Slowly it drew back its head to strike. “Then,” says Houston, “I had to do something. In desperation I started to reach for my gun. I rolled my free foot over the ground, | making a desperate and painful effort to make my step as wide and as far from the log and the snake as possible. Then I dropped my right knee and struggled with my right hand to get at the gun. “My fingers could barely touch the gun's muzzle, but by stretching the chains of the traps that held me, I managed to get a grip on it and pull it my way. Desperately, I drew it alongside my body with its muzzle pointing toward the center of the log, until my trembling fingers could reach the trigger. “The rattler was moving forward—angered by the movements I had made. Its head was a bare three inches from my left leg. Then I drew back the hammer and pulled the trigger. There was a roar—and when the smoke cleared away, that once deadly snake was scattered in bits along the creek bed.” And after that, it was just a matter of a few good lusty yells, and help came and Houston was out of his traps. Copyright. —-WNU Service. Is had worked them- Trout Favored by Fishermen Great strength and a fighting heart in a small body make the trout a favorite of fishermen. No fish as small fights so long when hooked. It protects itself by chang- ing color to blend with that of the bottom of a stream. It is some- thing of a weather prophet. too. Eight or nine hours before a fresh- et, caused by rains miles away, floods its home stream, a trout stops feeding. Lobsters Are Scavengers Lobsters eat anything they find, either fresh or stale. They are scavengers, but not to the exclusion of fresh food, which they prefer and makes up the bulk of their diet. They devour many slow-moving creatures that habitate the ocean floor, and can crack mussel shells with their powerful mandibles. The young, spidery lobsters exist mostly = plankton, minute floating organ- 8. Pol, Native Hawaiian Dish Hawaiians, in their native dish or poi, discovered the real source of good teeth and bones long before modern science. Research into the dental superiority of Hawaiians re- veals that poi, which has long been a leading native dish in the islands, A ais an unusually large quantity of calcium and phosphorus. This coupled with the sunshine of the is- lands, which furnished the neces gary vitamin D element, resulted in the fine teeth and bones of the island race. Cacti in Coat of Arms Cacti are used in the coat of arms in Mexico. Wise men in the early Fourteenth century told the Aztecs to build their cities where they would find the cacti, the eagle and the snake, In 1312 the Aztecs reached a point where Mexico City is now lo- cated. One of the myths of the pe- riod was, that, if an image of a per- son who was to be punished was made of clay and jabbed with cacti needles by the tribal voodoo doctor, that person would be afflicted with serious illness or would die. I I I I a I a a a es a oon RUTH NETH g [HOW «SEW ne An Interesting Border for a Braided Rag Rug. N OLD house sitting in the | pairs of scrolls are sewn together midst of old fields against a | and also to the edge of the rug as background of piney woods not so | indicated here at the lower right. far from where the Pilgrims land- This kind of rug has infinite pos- ed. The present occupant is just | sibilities for color schemes. One as interested in handwork and just | seen had a blue center, a band “ - "” uotations sims 5 War was the frequent, if not con. stant, occupation of the savage tribes. It seems no less constant among the so-called civilized races, —Dr, Eric F. MacKenzie, Every generation gets nurses its own private Stringfellow Barr. In these days sin is looked on by the world as a mere indiscretion, a trifling breach of social etiquette, — Rev. Theodore Stout. Universities are a gilt coach in which our brains take a short ride and then get out.—H. CG. Wells. When there is no authority, liberty develops into anarchy.—A. Maurois. fost and BEONY There is more real kindness in the world than selfishness.—Opie Read. of mixed color and then a wide band of red. The pairs of scrolls alternated red and blue. Full instructions for making the chair seat covers shown in this sketch are in the book offered herewith. Every homemaker should have a copy of Mrs. Spears’ new book SEWING. Forty-eight pages of step-by-step directions for making slipcovers and dressing tables; curtains for every type of room: lampshades, rugs, ottomans ad other useful articles for the home. Readers wishing a copy should send name and address, enclosing 25 cents (coins preferred) to Mrs, Spears, 210 South Desplaines St., Chicago. land ancestors who have preceded her there. She still makes braided | rag rugs from discarded gar- ments and they harmonize per- fectly with her lovely old furni- | ture. One that she showed me | was different than any ac ever | as thrifty as all of her New Eng- | AROUND Jame A or 11 : “ i seen ere are all the dimensions \ 1 ry as : an ! a :