NEW YEAR on WHEELS By Helen Morton “J UST one more mountain range to cross,” Mac said to his sister, Josephine, as they got into their car one clear bright morning. They had been traveling forever, it seemed to her. They wanted to reach California and re- store Mac to health, “If we can start the New Year on the coast, everything will be all right,” Josephine had told her broth- er, and she really seemed to have a superstitious feeling that if Mac was to get well, they must accom- plish their trip by that time. “Stiff wind blowing through here,”” Mac exclaimed, drawing his scarf more closely about his throat as they approached a grade. “Mountain Springs grade,”” Jose- phine told him. “I hope the wind doesn’t mean a storm. This is the last day of the old year.” They hadn't climbed far, howev- er, before they knew they were in for it. Josephine, at the wheel while Mac rested from his morning of driving, had to grip the wheel with fierce intensity. The car was climbing with difficulty. The snow was blur- ring the windshield. “We've got to make the coast,” Josephine was muttering to herself, when she realized that Mac had ““Here’s luck,” she said. “A house ~the first I've seen in an hour.” wakened from his restless sleep. Abruptly she became animated, alert. ‘It's lovely and woodsey around here,” she exclaimed. “Awfully narrow road,” Mac re- joined. ‘‘Are you sure you're on the highway?" “I'm not sure of anything,” Jose- ‘phine replied. ‘Do you think we'd better stop and inquire?” “I sure do,” Mac agreed emphati- cally. *““Youf* gasoline gauge isn’t any too encouraging. We don’t want to be stalled in this blizzard.” “You're getting tired, too, I know, I didn’t count on this storm when I suggested stopping early yesterday. Here's luck,” she interrupted her- self. “A house right here, the first I've seen in an hour. I'll pop in.” She was back in a few moments, with a uniformed figure in a big slouch hat and high leather boots. “Mac, I'm miles off the highway. I've been following the trail of Mr. Boseman's car. Oh, this is Mr. Boseman, a border patrolman, and this is my brother, Mac Silver. Mr. Boseman lives in this house here. He wants us to stop with him until plained, looking troubled. ty of room, trying to make the nearest town in this storm. you back to the highway and on to the coast.” was very much in earnest. wandered from Mac to His eyes Josephine. There really was no choice. Noth- ing ever tasted so good as the beef stew that was simmering on the back of the wood stove. It was hard sledding next morn- ing, getting through the drifts to the highway. But from then on it was only a matter of a few hours until they were descending the mountain. It was after a hearty lunch to- gether in a rustic tearoom that Jer- ry Boseman got up to leave them. “No, not good-by. I don’t mean to let this be the end of our acquaint- ance. It's only the beginning,’ he indisted, looking at Josephine. “Here's hoping thiz New Year will mean a lot to you.” “New Year! Sure enough, and 1 forgot all about it,” Josephine ex- claimed. “And we are in California for it. Thanks to you, Mr. Bose- man. Here's wishing you all the happiness in the world!” “l know where that is to be found,” he said, as he looked into her eyes. ©—WNU Service. —A WARNING Here's a graphic warning about your New Year's Eve celebration. Congenial drinks have a habit of following each other in insidious sue- cession. Disaster stalks the highways each life by driving after drinking, but liguor don’t mix! New Year's Eve because of drinking If you musi Anyway ! He Tries, re EE WASHINGTON.—Each year since 1911 J. W. Hunefeld has donned his hands with the President. He was | The | next year President Roosevelt aban- | altogether and Hunefeld hasn't seen Here he is shown barred by the | White House gates, still hoping that | President Roosevelt wili change his | mind. New Year's Eve Revelry Dates Back to Romans Who Really Celebrated! New Year's eve may be a Roman holiday to Americans but it's noth- ing like the celebration tendered the new year by Romans them- selves in the days of Caesar. Long before the wassail bowl be- came an English institution and $5 floor show seals were invented, the hardy Romans of a past age were forced to pay even higher stakes to watch the old man with the scythe | go into retirement. It started as a celebration of the winter solstice. In old Rome it was Saturnalia, even as now. Then Cae- sar changed the calendar and de- layed the opening of the new year a few days until the first of the month honoring Janus. He was a two-faced god who looked both for- ward and back. In Rome during the empire the heads of the state exacted presents at New Year's. They got so greedy that Claudius finally set up a sched- ule to make it legal. Needn't Be Wild, Says Ex-Fighter New Year's eve may be a time for celebration, but take it from Jack Dempsey—it's not a time for debauchery. The former heavyweight cham- pion and now New York restaurant «s Operator sees no § reason for young men and women Bl to do a lot of iE heavy drinking just because ev- erybody else seems to be doing it. They gain nothing by it. “lots of our young women cus- tomers," says Dempsey, ‘never order anything but ginger ale, orangeade or horse's necks." A horse's neck, he explains, is made of ginger ale, ice and lemon. If made by people who know their business, it doesn’t have any liquor in it at all. The current season's New Year's eve celebrant will behave herself in the following fashion, says Mr. Dempsey: She will stick to her own party and won't attract attention to her- i self by a lot of raucous laughter or loud talk. She'll make noise, because that's what New Year's is for, but she won't become obnox- iously boisterous. * As for being kissed at midnight, Jack says it's not necessarily a sign of affectfon, so why not? Ea ena gen New Year's Is Big Event There's a big birthday party in day. Twelve thousand all other horses, become a year old- er. To old timers like Man o' War, celebrating his twenty-second birth- day in old Kentucky, the day doesn’t mean much. But to approximately 5,000 yearlings and at least half that many two-year-olds, it marks the turning point of their careers. Yearlings become eligible to ap- pear under colors for the first time, while the juvenile racers join the rich three-year-old ranks, ready for participation in such moneyed events as the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and the Belmont. WASSAIL BOWL! English made it from this recipe years ago—and it’s still a good one! Everybody's heard about the old English wassail bowl, but how many know how it's made? Here's a mel- lowed recipe, unchanged from the way its author prepared it years ago: “Simmer a small quantity of the following spices in a teacup of wa- (pounded) to four bottles, and set all on the fire in a clean bright sauce pan; meanwhile have yolks of 12 and whites of 6 eggs well whisked up in it. Then, when the spiced and sugared wine is a little warm, take Vanity Key to Both Health And Beauty By PATRICIA LINDSAY ffraene are the Grundys, male and female, who complain loud- about ‘‘vanity-case phobia.” Wherever you look, say they, you see a woman powdering her nose, rouging her cheeks or putting on fresh lipstick. These Grundys would like to have aids they are urging her to throw In nations Russia, For vanity is sanity! of crushing femi- A pride in your personal appear- Fresh lipstick gives your morale a boost. either mentally whipped—resigned slip by. Every Woman Shou Like to Look Well Take the case of a young girl whom | know. She suffered a col- lapse of nerves from ial re- verses and disappointment in a love affair. She was talented and well educated. During normal health she was fastidious, but once her nerves gave way, she let herself go. Her hair was unkempt, her skin blotchy, her clothes untidy. She became so despondent that she would stand for hours with her face turned toward a wall! Friends, and her physician failed to pull this girl back to health. At last a psychologist succeeded in winning her confidence. He insisted upon regular meals, daily duties, hours of sleep, and (this is where vanity enters) he insisted that each morning and night she sit before her mirror and go through a systematic beauty routine. He convinced her that happiness was in store for her if she would make the most of herself. He told her she possessed both beauty and charm. Gradually he made her live up to these compliments. In about three months that girl was cured. She is now happily mar- ried (to a new beau!) and is suc- cessfully coping with a prominent social position! What happened? Her normal pride in her personal appearance had been restored! So don't let a Grundy deprive you of your vanity case and what it rep- resents. Hold on to it tightly and depressed or to letting life 1 anand out of life than a drab, disheart- ened female! © Bell Syndicate. — WNU Service. HINT-OF-THE-DAY Face Powders The shade of your face powder, it can make or mar your makeup. A good powder should give your skin the flattering illusion of clarity. Your skin must look clean and powder in a shade that is compli- mentary, yet unobtrusive. It should never be in a tone lighter than the shade of your skin. When you choose your powder, let it be the best. It should be downy, yet clinging so that it will not break into patches an hour after you put it on. A good powder will also retain its delightful fragrance as long as the powder lasts. Many cheap powders change fragrance after a week or two; the original scent becomes oily and sickening. One of the leading cosmetic mak- ers has brought out a fine powder in several exquisite shades. One is called apricot, a lovely, warm shade that does things for your skin un- der night lights. For daytime there is a cream shade that is excellent for the average clear complexion, and an ivory that is flattering for FIRST Two men got a job to clean some very high windows, “Mike,” said Tom, ‘“‘get a plank “I'll sit on the plank inside, and you sit outside." “I've let my window leather fall!" “All right,” replied Tom. “Stop Away went Tom down the stairs. On reaching the street he ex- “Be jabbers, Mike, you're Just Ruined “Why won't you advertise?” ask way of business. “Because I'm against advertis- “But why?" “It don’t leave a man no time,” was the reply. “I advertised once last year and the consequence was I was so busy I didn't have time to go fishing the whole summer.’ Evidence The little typist was very cheery on the way home, and her compan- ion questioned her about the reason for her good spirits. “Oh,"” she jubilantly answered, “I thought I was the worst typist in the office; but today while 1 hunted some papers on another girl's desk, I found her eraser and it was worn completely down.” — Indianapolis News. PREPAREDNESS “Aren't you terribly interested in sport?” “Terribly; my outfit of sport clothes is practically complete.” No Halving The young man stood before the grizzled mountaineer. “Mr. Burbridge,” he stammered, “I've—I've come to ask you for your daughter's hand.” The mountaineer knocked the ashes out of his pipe. “Can't allow no such thing,” he drawled. “You takes the whole gal or nothin'!" Atlanta Constitution. Both Wrong The stout man accused the small boy of stealing his handkerchief. Then, when he found the missing handkerchief in another pocket, he apologized profusely. “Forget it,” advised the lad terse- ly. “You thought 1 was a crook—I thought you were a gentleman. We were both wrong.” Mixed Up “Have we got any 4-volt 2-watt bulbs, George?” “For what?” “No-—two." “Two what?" "yes." Not Serious daughter hasn't told you she was engaged to me?” “Yes, I told her not to bother me ed to get married.” —Philadelphia Bulletin. Sentimentality marked the mutual friend. “yes, WHATD'YE ENOW ABOUT THAT? Hubby—How do you dress a chicken? Wifie—What do you want to know how to dress a chicken for? They All Saw Mabel] saw your husband last night, dear, out with another wom- an. Flo—Did you, darling? Your hus band and I saw him, too.~San Fran- cisco Chronicle. Hayton—Just one more question, Uncle Biff. Uncle Biff What is it this time? Hayton—If a boy is a lad and he has a stepfather, is the boy a stepladder? Jiffy Knit Jacket and overlet for the Baby Pattern 6188, Something different—something baby-—this jiffy-knit jacket and coverlet., Done on large needles the jacket is in one piece—all straight edges — with just side seams. Both it and the coverlet are lined with soft georgette! Pat- tern 6188 contains instructions fo r making the jacket lustrations of them and c hp stitches: als needed; photograph of pattern To ob Gents in coins to The Sewing Household Arts Dept., 2 14th St., New York, N. ¥. Please your name, and cover: materi stitch tain this pattern, send 15 Cir- 59 W . Ask Me Another @® A General Quiz Questions The the te rritory OW CX 1 Unit- ed State 5. hat three men lived their dency? 6. Has the ope do,”” ever been pan? 7. How long has the Vatican state been so called? to see sons elected to the presi- “The uced Mika- in Ja- ra, prod The Answers 1. Equality opportunity all nations, for of 2. “That come 3. The senat lected back shorn.” ate who 10T sen- or from a st is the sen me last elected is was first e ator and the ¢ junior. 4. Great Britain, and France 5. John Ad S Joh uincy ms; Dr. Ge Harding, of W Harding; John Coolidge, Calvin Coolidge. 6. It has not for the reason that the emperor of Japan ered a deity and the public orge arren G. father of father is consid- would rilege. 7. The name was created for the territory in Rome belonging to the Holy See by the Lateran trea- representative of the king of Italy, 1929. LOST YOUR PEP? 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