n (Favors saves the busy me by the ease with wade. No long pro- t desserts. Simply and let stand to nickly. package—seven de Color and flavoring rs can supply you. PDUCTS CO. er, Pa. (10) Cilkeary our stay in SURGH elike atmosphere art of Pittsburgh’s weatrical district, that congenial re at home le, $3—$4—85 1 in every room. Pittsburgh, Pa. EARY, Prop. ’s Day ther's car when it r a tank of gas. At ole family owns ft. or xarden ccoli 1» Sprouting 30c; 14 oz. 90c » Catalog ) & BULB CO. ,» Pittsburgh, Pa. G ving Iniimn er Long Good Hotels — Tourist s=Gorgeous Mountain esert resortof the West © & Chaffroy pp rim ORNIA Fr R E E C A X A L o Zz eR C0 0777 UR breeders are bred for high ex production. White. Brown and Leghorns, Barred and White Rocks. Reds Anconas, Black Minorcas, Orpingtons, White Wyandottes 12¢ up 100% live delivery guarantesd. te today for FREE CHICK BOOK HWEGLER'S HATCHERY NORTHAMPTON. BUFFALO. N ¥ of your life get the 1a] trainer and puzzle rice 60¢, or 3 for $1 SERVICE Los Angeles, Calif. 42 YRS. al owner cetir ring 1 ‘rice details furnished File O-1904. NY 8. Undey LE COMP / 3ldg., Detroit for stainle ; no investment sample and infor oreland St., Phila.F 1g Spade, Thousand iinated by simple dis- ‘tunity for gardeners nents, Tug-0-Wheel schenectady, N. Y, K RUN DOWN s. Helen Sailor, fer her personal wish to retain their WE Hatched) Rocks, Reds other breeds; satisfaction able, considering quality, Hatchery. Brookvill -.Pa HICKS 10¢ up. Circular free, DERRY, PA. CR § 4 J 3 work better. an TRANSFORM GIRLS’ ROOM INTO COZY NEST View of Ruby Bing’s Room and Dressing Table. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) In “Own Your Own Room” clubs, 4-H girls learn how to plan a simple- attractive room, how to overcome draw- backs and eliminate undesirable fur- nishings, how to arrange to best ad- vantage what they already have, how to spend money wisely for new fur- nishings, and how to care for their rooms. Very often it happens that when a girl has succeeded, with the help and advice of the extension agent, in making her own room attrac- tive, the family becomes interested and soon the whole house is trans- formed. Ruby Bing of Albemarle county, Virginia, wanted a pretty bedroom of her own. The only place in the house that she could have exclusively for herself was a little room over the kitchen which her two brothers had more or less wrecked with “rough- housing.” There were seven shot holes in the walls where they had tried out their air rifles. The plaster was cracked in many places; the pa- per was streaked and faded, and none of the furniture was in usuable condi- tion. Ruby had almost no money to spend for improvement, She decided to invest what little she had in paint —white paint for the furniture and woodwork, rose water color for the walls. She filled up the cracks and shot holes with putty, and then gave the walls and ceiling two covering coats. After the frame of the window and the doors were painted she var- nished the floors. In the course of her club-work she had made several ar- ticles of unbleached muslin, trimmed with a butterfly motif—a c8&unter pane and pillow sham, runner for the dressing table, window curtains with a valance, and covers for the seats and backs of her two chairs. These accessories made a big differ- ence in the freshened appearance of her room. She found an old mirror in the attic and painted that white, too. The result was so pretty, especially after she put a basket of flowers un- der the window and a braided rug, which she had made, on the tloor, that her family gave her a white toilet set for her dressing table to complete the improvement. HOUSEHOLD SOAP FOR LAUNDERING Much Depends on Fabrics Intended to Be Washed. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) The kind of soap used for house- hold laundering depends on the fab- rics that have to be washed, how much they are soiled, whether the washing is done by hand or machine, and whether the water is hard or soft, Silks and woolens are most sensi- tive to alkalis, and strong soaps which may contain uncombined alka- lis should never be used on them, says the bureau of home economics of the United States Department of Agriculture. A mild, neutral soap of known purity should also be used on cotton materials that show a tendency to fade, and on all delicate fabrics. On the other hand, it is not econom- jcal to use an expensive soap on or- dinary cotton fabrics where a medi- um-priced soap would be satisfactory, or on very heavy, dirty materials which would be more easily cleaned with a stronger soap. Many women ignore this and are either wasteful of good soaps or spoil their more del- jcate garments with poor ones. Chipped and flaked soaps go into so- lution very easily and have many uses for special fabrics. Some of these soaps are useful for the wash- ing machine, but if heavy or much soiled articles are being washed, a solution made by dissolving a strong- er soap in boiling water will do the The ingredients of most washing powders are cheaper and more satisfactory when bought sep- arately. Water softeners are sometimes add- ed to soaps but their price is usually greater than their value. It is cheap- er to buy them separately. There are other objections to their presence in soaps. Common salt and other inert and sometimes insoluble materials are often ad®d to increase the weight of the bar or to give scouring proper- ties. Materials that will not dissolve and make suds, such as pumice and sand, are only valuable as scouring agents and should not be present in laundry soaps. A good laundry soap should also be free from excessive water, which makes a moist, but wasteful bar of soap. No one wishes to pay for soap and receive a large proportion of wa- ter. Almost all yellow laundry soaps contain rosin, It will lather and make suds, therefore it has some cleans- ing value, but if there is too much rosin the soap will have a disagree- able odor, give a sticky feeling, and possibly yellow the clothes, Cotton for Graduation Almost Always Chosen Simplicity is, or should be, the key- note in graduation exercises, and con- sequently in many schools and col- leges there is a definite effort to en- courage very simple and inexpensive types of graduation frocks. For this reason, and because of the advent of warm weather in June, white cotton fabrics are almost universally chosen for the “sweet girl graduate.” In many instances the girls are interest- ed in making their own graduation dresses. They can put into practice some of the training they have re- ceived in sewing, and also save money. Sometimes a contest is started with a set limit as to how much may be spent for materials. One of the ob- jects of these friendly contests is to level any possible differences in ex- penditure that might be evident when some of the students are able to pay more for their clothes than others. For the tailored or sports type of graduation dress generally worn at morning graduation exercises, broad- cloth, poplin, suiting, and pique are good materials to use, the bureau of home economics suggests. Where frills and flounces are permitted, as at an afternoon or evening gradua- tion, soft, sheer materials are liked. Batiste, lawn, dotted net, and dotted swiss, are all appropriate and sure to be popular with the girls who choose them, since dresses made of these fab- ries will do for parties throughout the summer. Organdie, which is somewhat stiffer and crisper than the other white cotton suggested, is nevertheless charming for use when a scalloped hemline, a basque waist, or a pin- tucked effect is considered. Casserole of Rabbit Rabbit can be used in any of the many ways in which chicken is used. Those who do not like the strong gamey flavor of wild rabbit may par- boil it in water containing soda. To make a casserole of rabbit dress and cut up the rabbit, brown the pieces in bacon fat and then place them in a baking dish. Make a gravy by stirring flour into the fat, add sea- soning and two cups of hot water. Stir this mixture until it thickens, pour the gravy over the meat, cover the baking dish and bake until the meat is tender. Milkless Cake Put one cupful water in a basin, add one cupful sugar, one tablespoon- ful compound, two cupfuls raisins, one teaspoonful cinnamon or nutmeg, boil three minutes, cool and add pinch of | salt, one teaspoonful soda, dissolved in two tablespoonfuls warm water, two cupfuls flour and half teaspoonful baking powder. “BEAU GESTE” IS PARALLELED BY ENGLISH BOYS Living in Real Life Film De- picting Life in French Foreign Legion. Leicester, England. — Almost as though they had stepped down from the screen, three young brothers of Leicester are living in real life the film “Beau Geste,” depicting life in the French Foreign legion. The heroes in this remarkable ad- venture are John, twenty-two, and Harry and Sidney Travers, nineteen- year-old twins, stepsons of a retired business man. Because John was dismissed from his work for an offense of which he was innocent he fled to France, where he enlisted in the Foreign legion. When it became known where he had gone the twin brothers followed after him, leaving only a note behind say- ing: Found to Be Innocent. “We can’t let John go alone. We have gone off to find him in the le- gion. Don’t worry about us, We shall be all right.” John was employed as a clerk in a London office, A question was raised There Was a Note on His Dresser. about some petty cash of which he had charge, and he was summarily dismissed. Subsequently it was dis- covered that a mistake had been made and that he was innocent. “John came home from London, but refused to tell me what the trouble was about,” said the stepfather in an interview. “He seemed very unhappy. Two days after his arrival we awoke to find that he was missing. There was a note on his dresser saying that he had gone to Paris to try to join the Foreign legion. Parent Is Not Worrying. “He took some money of his own and a suitcase containing some clothes. The three boys had always been keen on joining the legion and frequently discussed joining it in their conversations with each other.” Within three days of the disappear- ance of John, Harry and Sidney were also found to be missing, and the note saying they had gone to join John was the only clew to their disappearance. “I'm not trying to bring them back,” said their stepfather. “All three are good boys, and I believe they will make good in the legion. I am con- fident that the stories of hardships in the legion are greatly exaggerated, so I am not worrying.” Weakness for “Pop” Solves Store Robbery Benton Harbor, Mich.—A youth's penchant for chocolate “pop” led to a rapid solution of a robbery in Fair- plain, and brought George Altizer, seventeen, and his chum, Alvin Spears, nineteen, to court. A grocery store was broken into and a small amount of money taken. Officers were puzzled until Chief Dep- uty Sheriff Ray Hall got a hunch— and followed it. The grocer told the deputy that the boys got nothing but the small change and a quantity of chocolate pop. “Have you any good chocolate pop customers? 7’ Hall asked. The victim thought a moment and then answered: “Yes, there's George Altizer, a young fellow who buys a lot of it.” Hall confronted Altizer with a charge of theft and the youth soon confessed, implicating his companion. Asks Police to Read His Letter; He's in Jail | East St. Louis, Ill.—Inability of Licious Davis, twenty-two-year-oid Elerson (Ark.) negro, to read got him into trouble here. Walking up to two detectives, Da- vis requested them to read for him a letter from his wife. “Baby, I can’t sleep for dreaming about you,” the detectives read. Davis appeared satisfied. The de- tectives read on. “I would tell you to come down here, baby, but the law is laying for | you.” Davis is held for Arkansas authori- ties. Suicide Notifies Editor New York.—After sending a letter to a newspaper editor announcing that he was tired of living, Morris J. Sis- selman killed himself by cutting his | throat. | to any THE PATTON COURIER Toll TY 0 FEMININE TOUCH (© by D. J. Walsh.) TIT iT I I I HE old yellow house stood, the last one on Carrol street, like a pot of gold at the foot of the rainbow. That was what his Uncle James had told Jimmie years before when he had come to live with him. And many other queer sounding things he had said, which made Jim- mie ponder. Sentimental—old Bethie, the housekeeper called him. But Uncle James believed himself anything but that detestable word. Hard-boiled was the word that would nave pleased him, Tyrannical. (Said tyranny resulting from the fact that Jimmie's mother, being engaged to James Boyd, had played the age-old trick of marrying his best friend in- stead, much to her undoing, and upon her death had left the child Jimmie to the jilted lover's care.) And now Jimmie was bringing a bride to the old “pot of gold”’—which other bride than Roberta would look more like a pot of soap, ruined in the making. But Roberta's bliss knew no bounds, in spite of the fact that underneath Jimmie’s golden layer of happiness there had fluttered a fear that hard-boiled uncles and di- lapidated houses and brides would make no pleasant mixture. “It's my first chance of ever being anybody,” she had said, when he, swept madly from his heretofore well- balanced feet, had commanded her to marry him. “You just give me a chance, Jimmie, and I'll show you that I can be a real lady!” (There were things about Roberta’s family which Jimmie never wanted Uncle James to know.) To Jimmie’s surprise everything sailed along smoothly enough. Except for Jimmie’s worries—which he kept to himself. The added expense of a wife. He had sneezed at it to Uncle James! But how was he to know women’s clothes cost so much? He had told Roberta the truth—that he wanted her to have the best. Sure— maybe all the other fellows wanted their wives to have the best, too; but they'd probably learned to keep it to themselves! Well—! by now she sure- ly had everything bought up that she would need for years to come, so there was no use to hurt by putting the lid on. But here Jimmie found himself all wrong. Bob bought a coat. It was a beautiful coat, and she looked—well, it made Jimmie Boyd forget the things he didn’t want Uncle James to know when she pivoted before him in that coat! A real lady—and then some! He wanted to ask her the price of it, but he couldn’t. Because he thought that she didn't want him to—espe- cially before Uncle James. And then one afternoon at the end of the week when he returned from work she kissed him more tenderly than was her wont—which was very, very tender, indeed! “You're the queerest man!” she accused mys- teriously—and Jimmie was too happy to wonder at her assertion. The next week Roberta bought new curtains—draperies, she called them. And the week following she took a sudden pillow craze. There were red pillows, blue ones, yellow and mottled ones wherever he went in the old house. And the next week the worn- old lounge and the battered chairs bloomed out. Chintzes, she called it— and there were lamp-shades, rose hued and warm. Everything looked a hun- dred per cent better. 3ut still Jimmie was worried about the bills—after the staggering blow her check for the coat had dealt his little bank-roll. At the end of the month, however, in spite of all her fol- de-rols, from kitchen knives to porch- mats, Jimmie failed to find a check of Roberta’s nor did any bills come in. The young husband was puzzled. And once again an imprisoned fear flut- tered underneath his golden layer of happiness. Her mother had been forced by a trifling husband to do her neighbors’ family washings — some- thing Uncle James must never know— but surely Roberta would not attempt a thing like that! His own mother had been forced to do the same, he dimly remembered. 3ut now that Uncle James had given Jimmie his perfectly good Boyd name, Jimmie’s wife must never drag it down. Heavens! Roberta boasted of her buxom strength. Could it be that she was “working out” during his and Uncle James’ absence through the day? Jimmie rose resolutely the next morning and went to the Kitchen where Roberta in a bewitching apron was preparing breakfast. For a mo- ment his heart wavered; then he de- termined to have it out with her. The scene ended with Roberta, at white heat, accusing Jimmie of a frame-up to rid himself of her. And she ran blindly from the room, snatched on her hat and coat, and went back to the folks who had “never taught her how to be anybody.” After a while Uncle James came in to breakfast—it being Sunday. But there was none ready. Jimmie knew he would be only too glad to cook #t himself to be rid of a woman in the house, for he had dismissed old Bethie as soon as Jimmie could well exist without feminine care, But the old man’s eyes failed to gleam with satisfaction when he was informed that Roberta had gone. (No need for Jimmie to lie about it.) “Why in the world did she leave you, Jimmie?” he demanded. “She had no reason, Uncle.James! Merely a squabble over money. I asked her where she'd been getting the money for all these new fixings, and she accused me of framing-up on her to get rid of her—because, she de- clared I'd been leaving the money on the cook table for her every week!” “But, Jimmie,” gasped Uncle James, “I left the money there for her!” “You? Why should you do it, Uncle James?” “There were debts—of which you dldn’t know.” “Rot!” retorted Jimmie, grabbing his hat. Then he dashed out the door. After an interminable time he re- turned with Roberta. “You told me,” roared Uncle James tyrannically, “that the price of the coat was twice as much as the check. I thought—" “It was—but I got it at half-price sale,” said Roberta. “I told you that to stagger you—Jimmie said you hate women so!” “And you said some women got nice coats and paid for them on the week- ly installment plan. I knew Jimmie thought yours was paid for—and you acted like you didn't want him to know—" “I didn’t want him to know I was aggravating you,” put in Roberta. “As for the money I found on the cook table every week, I thought it was Jimmie’s queer way of giving me an allowance—as he never seemed to want to talk money matters with me.” Uncle James’ roar was growing into a harmless murmur. “You looked so pert. The coat was so becoming that I thought it shouldn’t go back—so I left all I could spare on the table to help pay for it.” “And now I've got to pay you back all that money—serves me right for fibbing to you!” said Roberta. “No, you don’t!” objected Uncle James. “You've made this old sow’s nest into a real home! I don't see how you did it with so little.” “It wasn't the amount of money spent, Uncle James,” gloated Jim- "m mie; “it was the feminine touch! “Looks reasonable!” said Uncle James, turning away in the face of their kisses. Unable to Convince Jurors of “Frog Rain” A larceny trial supposed to be unique in the annals of criminology, resulting in conviction by a jury of five recently, grew out of a series of thefts of preserved frogs from a bio- logical supply company in New Or- leans by two former collectors of the company. The interesting feature of the trial, says Percy Viosca, Jr, in a communication to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, was virtually a clash between modern mythology on the cone hand and the sciences of ecology and taxo- nomy on the other. A single charge was filed, covering only one theft, that of 462 preserved frogs, consisting of five species, four of local and one of northern distribu- tion. The defendants, pleading not guilty, set forth the plea, through their attorney, that it is a well-known fact that evaporation draws frogs and fish up into the clouds and the rain showers them again onto the land. It Indiana and Wisconsin, was collected in St. Bernard parish, in sqQutheast Louisiana, by the collectors, who sold them to a competitor and to a local university. “The employees of the company,” says Mr. Viosca, “described and iden- tified the five species in the barrel from which the frogs were stolen, these including a large percentage of rana pipiens, which had been im- ported from the two northern states in the shortage resulting from the unprecedented droughts of 1924 and cumstantial evidence was ing as state’s witnesses. “Percy Viosca, Jr, Chase, Jr., of the biological company, were qualified as experts in taxonomy and ecology of the order of animals to which frogs belong, and it was nec- essary for living and preserved frogs to take the stand as exhibits in order to prove he story of the defendants untrue. “A surprise of the trial was the presentation by the ae fendants of liv- ing specimens of rana pipiens which they claim they caught in St. Bernard parish the night before the trial in a typical rana sphenocephala several hundred miles from the near- est approach of the range of pipiens. The defense attorney then attempted from book study, but it was proved otherwise. “The verdict was in a sense a viec- tory for science in that the results of scientific study seemed to make a better impression upon a jury of New Orleans citizens than the fables and ney.”—New York Times. Betty’s Hallucination the newly married couple along very well to “You say aren't getting gether?” “Unfortunately it's true.” “Let’s see, it was a case of love at first sight with Betty, wasn’t it?” “yes, and now she's beginning to think she ought to have her eyes test- ed.”—Boston Manuscript. The Present Need “The magician was great, pa, He changed water into wine.” “He's no good. What we a fellow who can change ice want is into coal.” 1925. Every detall.in the chain of e¢ir- | presented { by the state, even the purchasers act- | and Henry B.| habitat, | to prove that the defendants had ob- | | | | | was therefore easily explained how | the race .f rana pipiens, indigenous to | | | | | tained their knowledge of frogs | through experience, whereas the state’s experts had obtained theirs argumentations of the defense attor- | | marry KAKRIS, 64 adiola 18 - gels the best thats on the air Lasy to use. Most popular type of Radiola ever designed. Faithful, realistic repro- duction over a wide range. Inexpen- sive operation from house current. 95 for alternating current (less Kadiotrons) Ask the nearest RCA Radiola Dealer to demonstrate the “18” for you and tell you about the RCA Time Payment Plan. RCA RADIOLA BY THE MAKERS OF MADE Rte ACLU DYE a dress or coat... Neither pretty pictures nor colorful adjectives will dye a dress or coat. It takes real dyes to do the work; dyes made from true anilines. they are better dyes. THE RADIOTRON Next time you have dyeing to do, try Diamond Dyes. See hows easy it is to use them. Then compare the results. Your dealer will refund your money if you don’t agree You get none of that re-dyed look from Diamond Dyes; no streaking or spotting. Just fresh, crisp, bright new color. And watch the way they keep their brilli through wear and washing. They are better dyes because samedi. they contain plenty of real anilines—from three to five times more than other dyes. The white package of Diamond Dyes # the original “all-purpose” dye for any and every kind of material, It will dye or tint silk, wool, cotton, linen, rayon or any mixture of materials, The blue package is a special dye, for silk or wool only. With it you can dye your valuable articles of silk or wool with results equal to the finest professional work. When yoy buy—remember this. The blue package dyes silk or wool only. 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