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Walls of Small Halls and Rooms
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BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER
AN INTERESTING WALL TREATMENT OF A SMALL HALL.
WALL decorations for small
halls and tiny rooms should
be those which do not re
quire space to make them
showr off to advantage. They
should be those which can be scrutinized
at close range and stand the test. They
need not necessarily be little and they
certainly should not be insignificant.
The important thing is that they com
bine decoration and that desire to study
them which makes their close prox
imity welcome.
The wall decorations which are par
ticularly felicitous in cramped quarters
comprise textiles, embroidered wall
hangings, fine etchings hundreds of dif
ferent artists and engravers and print
ers' works and wood cuts allied with
these prints.
Wall shelves also come under the
classification of suitable wall decorations
for small quarters. Shelves come in
endless variety. They may be of wood
or metal. Wrought iron and wood in
straight lines of solid colors or in
tricately carved Chinese designs are fa
vored. In short, the variety of things
well adapted to these wall decorations
is innumerable. To pick out the kind
best for the particular wall requires the
home decorator's careful consideration.
Color may or may not be needed in
the small hall. If not. etchings and
black and white prints and uncolored
woodcuts are recommended. Choose
small-framed pictures and group them
if needed to ornament a large blank
wall space. There may be more than
one group required. If so, have each
group separate and distinct from an
other.
A mirror, carefully chosen to suit the
THE STAR’S
DAILY PATTERN
SERVICE
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For the small boy of the family
here's a fetching little model In a
tubbable suit.
It is navy blue cotton broadcloth.
The collar and vestee front are French
blue, a splendid combination that is
thoroughly practical.
And it’s so entirely simple to fash
ion it.
Style No. 2597 comes in sizes 2, 4
and 6 years. Size 4 requires 1'2 yards
35-incli with J2 yard 35-inch con
trasting
It also makes up splendidly in wool
Jersey. It's cute in brown with beige
contrast.
For a pattern of this style send 15
cents in stamps or coin directly to The
Washington Star's New York Fashion
Bureau Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth
street. New York,
Don't envy the woman who dresses
well and keeps her children well
dressed. Just send for your copy of
our Winter Fashion Magazine.
It shows the best styles of the com
ing season; also charming suggestions
in lingerie, pajamas and modem em
broidery for the home.
You will save SI0 by spending a few
cents for this book. So it would pay
you to send for your copy now. Address
Fashion Department. Price of book, 10
cents. Price of pattern, 15 cents.
DAILY DIET RECIPE
BROCCOLI SALAD.
Broccoli, 4 portions; French
dressing, 1 cup; tomato catsup, 2
tablespoons; table sauce, 1 tea
spoon.
SERVES 4 PORTIONS.
Left-over cold broccoli can be
used. Soak the cooked broccoli
in the salad dressing, which has
been made by combining the other
ingredients. Chill well. Serve
arranged on individual salad
plates garnished v.ith the dress
ing in which broccoli scaked.
DIET NOTE.
Recipe furnishes fiber, rich in
lime, iron, vitamins A and B.
Can i>e eaten by normal adults of
average or under weight. Could
be eaten by those wishing to re
duce if non-fattening' French
dressing were used. >
shape of the wall space, will lend bright
ness without accenting any special
color, or it can be so hung that it re
flects a colorful hanging or ornament
opposite it, or maybe placed above on
a shelf or stand.
When color is lacking, there can be
the right type of wall decoraiton. A
gay hanging can give it, but the textile
or embroidery should not be so im
pressive that it calls for wider vistas.
The distribution of color should be
lather even in the wall hanging, there
by courting study of detail instead of
being imposing.
Colored prints and water colors and
oil paintings that are done in detail
and which are small, including the
frames, supply color in most pleasing
way. A bracket wall shelf against a
plain textile wall hanging offers an op
portunity for notes of color in orna
ments put upon the shelves, as well as
in the textile itself.
(Copyright, 1932.)
Handwriting
What It May Reveal.
BY MILDRED MOCKABEE.
I
THIS writing is so even that an
entire page of it gives almost
the same impression as print.
This regularity is probably re
flected in the life of the writer,
making of her a very exact and de
pendable person. The only conflicting
indication is the t-bar which indicates
a certain degree of impatience and
hurry. This does not appear pro
nounced enough, however, to overcome
the former characteristic.
The very heavy i-dot is worthy of
notice as it usually denotes a very
forceful and positive character. She
probably has very definite ideas about
things. This may at times antagonize
her acquaintances, but, as they know
her better, they will, perhaps, realize
that she has no intention of hurting
them.
The very rounded, curved letter forms
suggest that she, perhaps, lacks ex
perience. As she grows older and be
comes more accustomed to dealing with
people, she will probably learn how to
handle individuals, to sway them to her
side rather than to create any hard
feelings.
The almost printed form of the “s"
is an indication of culture and fastid
iousness. She possibly gives much
thought to her choice of clothes, being
at all times immaculately and tastefully
gowned. Her home, also, will probably
reflect this natural disposition, show
ing clever arrangement of well selected
furnishings.
She should be very careful about her
choice of occupation. Routine work
might prove deadly to her, stifling her
natural expression and giving no op
portunity for her to further her own
ideas. Her seemingly fertile brain
should be allowed every chance to func
tion in a way that should perhaps be
stow glory and fame upon her.
note—Analysis of handwriting is not
an exact science, according to world in
i estigators. but all agree it is interesting
and lots of fun. The Star presents the
above feature in that spirit.
If you wish to have your writing
analyzed, send a sample to Miss Mocka
'ee. care of The Star, along with a
2-cent stamp. It will be either inter
preted in this column or you will receive
a handwriting analysis chart which you
will find an interesting study.
Whole-Wheat Bread.
Add one cake of crumbled compressed
yeast to one pint of lukewarm water
or milk which has been heated to
scalding and then cooled to lukewarm.
Stir until dissolved. Add two table
spoonfuls of sugar, two tablespoonfuls
of shortening, one teaspoonful of salt,
and about three cupfuls of bread flour
to make a spoon batter. Beat smooth
and cover. Let stand in a pan lined
with whole wheat flour or about four
cupfuls and mix until stiff but pliable
and tender. Knead smooth and place in
a greased bowl. Cover and store In a
warm place until double In size. Knead
again and make into a loaf. Place in
a greased loaf pan and let rise again
1 until double in size. Bake in a mod
I erate oven for about 60 minutes. Re
move from the pan and brush with
melted butter. This recipe makes one
| large loaf or two small loaves. If used
for sandwiches, it is best If it is a day
old.
Alec the Great
On Winter days when little chills
Send shivers up and down my form,
I long to go to all these lands
They advertise as belnj; warm, _
(littlebenny
BY LEE PAPE.
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The Weakly News.
Weather: Swell.
SISSIETY PAGE.
Mr. Artie Alixander had a berthday
last week, reporting that he receeved
a lot of stuff to wear but nothing use
ful.
BIZZNESS AND FINANCIAL.
Last Sattiday Shorty Judge and
Glasses Magee bet each other a cent
that their mother could make the best
doughnutts, but when they each asked
their mother to decide the bet by mak
ing some they said thanks for the com
pliment but they was too bizzy.
TODAYS MENU.
Suggested by Puds Simkins.
Chinee chop sooey with English muf
fin1. French fry potatoes with Russian
dressing. Welsh rabbit with Chili
sauce. Alaskan seal with Spanish om
lette. Dizzert. lime drops, cawff drops,
lickerish drops and lemon drops.
PERSONAL.
<Maud Jonson is very attractive to
germs and has had hooping cawff twice
I and everything elts once, including a
serious operation for a mole on her
chin.
SPORTING PAGE.
Shorty Judge still has a paneful shin
on account of saying Does your moth
er know youre out to a thin strange
kid in a white sailer suit last Satti
day morning.
LOST AND FOUND.
Nothing.
“BONERS”
Humorous Tid-Bits From
School Papers.
Darwin spent a great many years at
sea studying all kinds of plants and
animals. He was a German Scientist
and made his theory of evolution about
1915. _
Plot is what you thicken a story
with: description is used to fill up the
holes. _
The iron hand of the city Govern
ment has put its foot down.
Veterans' hospitals were built for the
soldiers who had been decapitated in
the war. _
Plymouth Colony was founded by the
Puritans who had been executed for
their religion in England.
A martyr is something like a bach
elor.
icopvriaht. 1932. i
NANCY PAGE
Susan Is a Well Bahv Be
cause Well Cared For.
BV FLORENCE LA GANKE.
Susan Page was just a wee bit over
2 months old. She had slept most of
her life away so far, but was beginning
to show signs of becoming an indi
vidual. She cocked an eye at her
brother Peter, kicked a fat leg when
having her bath and blinked at the
shaded light in the nursery.
Nancy and the doctor had checked
her carefully every two weeks. She had
made' normal gain in weight, about 4
pounds. She had weighed 8 pounds
when born and now weighed almost 12.
The doctor had advised Nancy to give
her a spoonful of strained orange juice,
starting in the sixth week.
He suggested that the juice be made
lukewarm, since that was the tempera
ture of all the milk and water she had
received thus far.
He said that babies developed food
dislikes occasionally because of the dif
ference in temperature between the nor
mal food and additional liquids given.
Because she was a Winter baby, he
advised the addition of a few drops of
cod liver oil daily. Nancy gave this
while the baby was having her bath and
thus avoided cod liver oil spots on
dresses, shirts or kimonos. Any stray
drops were washed away in the water.
Susan was getting about eight drops
of oil a day. Nancy was careful to
wipe off the neck of the bottle before
inserting stopper. This prevented the oil
left on neck of bottle from getting ran
cid
Every7 day, rain or shine. Susan slept
out of doors in her pram. She was put
into a sleeping bag of wool, which was
snuggled down under covers in the car
riage. She was just as warm as toast.
Had she not been. Nancy w7ould have
discontinued the outdoor sleeping. A
chilled child cannot be a healthy one.
A Sermon for Today
BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN.
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‘ Keep the Home Fires Burning.”
“There was a fire on the hearth.”—
Jeremiah, xxxvi.22.
A prize was offered some while ago
by an English magazine for the best
definition of "home,” and from the
thousands submitted, five were selected
as deserving special mention. They
were: Home—a world of strife shut
out and a world of love shut in”;
"home—the place where the great are
small and the small are great"; “home
—the place where we grumble the
most and are treated the best”; “home
—the only place where the faults and
failings of humanity are covered with
the sweet mantle of charity”; “home—
the father’s kingdom, the mother’s
world, the children’s paradise.”
These definitions are very sugges
tive as to what the home ought to be
and ought not to be; and they might
well be pondered by American readers.
The object of the English magazine
was to stimulate a revival of interest
in the home and home life. We need
something to stimulate such a revival in
America. We hear from many quar
ters lamentations over the decline of
the American home. In some instances
these lamentations may picture the
situation worse than it is; but I think
we all realize that changing conditions
are seriously affecting the home life
of the Nation, Certainly there is great
need for a revaluing of the home, and
for a new' emphasis upon its place in
relation to our physical, social, educa
tional and spiritual life.
In the past the home has been re
garded as the very heart of our Ameri
can civilization: it has been looked to
as the Nation’s chief hope. When Mr.
Henry w Grady was seriously con
cerned about the reconstruction of the
South, in turn he went to the legisla
tive bodies of the State and Nation,
to ti e schools of the land and to the
Sunday schools, looking for the safe
guard of the future. But he found
It in South Georgia, when he spent the
night with a piney-woods farmer. Be
fore retiring the mother read from the
family Bible, the sacred page illumi
nated by the flames of the pine knots
on the open hearth The father knelt
and prayed for his family, calling each
of his five children by name, asking
God to make his sons pure and manly,
his daughters modest and womanly.
Ttiere, said Mr. Grady, is the hope of
the land.
"There was a fire on the hearth.”
Let us never permit that fire to go out.
J£an7 ,thm8s we may do to safeguard
the future of our country, but the most
important thing of all is to "Keep the
Home Fil es Burning ”
Pineapple-Cabbage Salad.
Shred some cabbage and mix with
pieces cut from broken slices of pine
apple drained from the juice and salad
dressing. Serve on leaf lettuct with
chopped nuts oyer the top,
DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX
DEAR MISS DIX—My mother, 84 years old and very frail, fell and
broke her hip. The first thing she said to the doctor was^ "Don t
send for my son; he hunts all of November and I don’t want to
spoil his vacation.” When I heard about this. I thought there
is nothing greater in this world than having a mother like that.
She raises up the sort of sons who make men. The one piece of advice
that I give my boys is this: Remember, it is up to you to give your chil
dren the right kind of mother.—A. P. B
Answer—Right you are. Mr. A. P. B., and. considering that the most
important thing in the world to every man who has children is the way
they turn out, it is amazing how little thought and Consideration men
give to the kind of mother a girl will make.
\/f EN know that as the mother is, the children are, ninety-nine times
iVl out of a hundred, for in her hands lies the molding of their charac
ters. The behaviorists tell us that by the time a child is 3 years old its
life pattern is set and that not a great deal can be done after that to
change it Certainly our own experience bears this out, for every one of
us know that in the crisis of our lives we are not guided by our reason or
our philosophy or by the logic of the situation. We are motivated by the
things that we learned at our mother’s knees and by the principles she
instilled in us in our cradles.
All through life we stand or fall according to whether she bred
strength or weakness in us. We choose the right or the wrong as she
taught us honor and honesty or lax principles. We are masters of our
passions, or we yield to them, as she formed in us the habit of self-control
or self-indulgence. We are industrious or loafers. We shut our teeth and
carry on or throw up our hands and quit when the sledding becomes hard,
according to whether she gave us the grit to enable us to stand punish
ment or the yellow streak that makes us slackers.
—
IT IS significant that every great man has had a great mother, a mother
of fine mentality, of strong character and of indomitable will. I can
not now recall a single man who has ever made his mark in the world
who had a weak, silly, frivolous mother.
Doubtless children inherit no more from their mothers than they do
from their fathers, but it is far more important what kind of mother they
have than what kind of father they have. For their mothers are with
them far more in their plastic years than their fathers are, and it is the
mother who lights the fires of ambition in their souls, who inspires them
to do and dare. It is the mother who keeps them cheered up when their
hope fails who braces up their weak spine wdth her own backbone and
whose ambitions for them and belief in them actually forces them to
make good.
All men know these things, but, strangely enough, when a man
picks out a wife he doesn’t consider whether he is bringing a blessing or a
curse down on his children’s heads. He selects a wife because she Is
pretty, because she somehow makes an appeal to him, because she is a
good dancer or a good cook or a good talker, but he doesn’t consider what
sort of inheritance she is going to give his children, what sort of brains
is going to bestow' upon them or w'hat sort of prlnicples she is going to
teach them.
He doesn't consider what qualifications she has for motherhood, yet
that is the most important thing he could consider. DOROTHY DIX.
(Copyright. 1932*
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Pecan Cake.
Beat one cupful of cream very stiff
and spread one-fourth of an inch thick
on each cooky. Stack the cookies to
gether and lay on the platter. Let
chill in the refrigerator for 24 hours.
Pour hours before serving, whip the
other cupful of cream, flavor wdth half
a teaspoonful of almond extract and
use to form the entire loaf. Chill again
in the refrigerator. Cut into diagonal
: slices across the loaf and serve with
fruit sherbet.
Quick Turnip Soup.
Heat one quart of milk in a double
boiler with one onion cut in halves,
add one tablespoonful of flour and two
tablespoonfuls of melted butter, which
have been well blended, then two cup
fuls of grated raw turnip and one lea
spoonful of salt. Cook until the tur
nip is tender, or for about 10 minutes,
then remove the onion. Sprinkle some
chopped parsley over the soup just be
fore serving.
Auto Show Contest
PUZZLE NO. 8.
The radiator design furnishes the key to the name of a make of automobile.
Study it from the proper angle and you will discover that it has the -letter*
’ you need to form the required name.
Name of car...
Above is the eighth puzzle in the contest now being conducted by the
Washington Automotive Trade Association in co-operation with The Star, Solve
it and fill in the correct name of the automobile in the line provided under the
drawing. Keep them until the other 17 appear. When you have satisfied your
self that you have the correct answers mail them in all together with a reason,
not to exceed 25 words, ‘ Why the automobile show should be held annually in
Washington,” to the Washington Automotive Trade Association, suite 1002
Chandler Building, 1427 I street. No reply received after 10 a.m. Tuesday, Feb
ruary 2 will be considered.
Remember, the first prize is $50 and six tickets to the show. Altogether
i t10o in cash will be awarded and 100 tickets. You may be the lucky one. The
iudees are Fred L. Haller and Joe B. Trew. president and vice president, re
i snectively, of the Washington Automotive Trade Association, and G. Adams
1 Howard automobile editor of The Star.
i Foilowing is the list of cars to be in the show. One of these is the correct
answer to today’s puzzle.
I Auburn Ford Nash
Buiclc Frcnklin Oldsmobile
Cadillac Graham Packard
Chevrolet Hudson Pierce-Arrow
Chrysler Hupmobile Plymouth
C0rci La Salle Pontiac
De Soto Lincoln Studebaker
D(Kjge Marmon Willys.
Essex
It is not necessary to purchase copies of this paper to compete in the
contest Answers to all solutions may be written on ordinary writing paper.
Files of The Star may be examined at any time during tha day and up to lOrjO
at night, _.... ... —• --*-.—
SONNYSAYINGS
BT FANNI F. COBT.
Don't you tell me not to cry!
(Copyright, 1932 )
nature’s!
CHILDREN
BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY.
Illustrations by Mary Foley.
THE COTTON PLANT.
THE Egyptians traded with India
for cotton about 150 B.C.
There must have been trouble
about the cotton, even in those
days, and in India there was a
law’ concerning it in 800 B.C. In the
Bible and many writings there are nu
merous references to cotton and also to
fine raiment made of the cotton.
After the Civil War, when our cot
ton fields were laid bare, cotton was
bought from Egypt and from that time
on the exporting of cotton became very
important to Egypt. In 1666 the first
report w’as made about cotton by the
American Colonies. Mexicans have
long known the value of it as an in
dustry.
In 1793 Eli Whitney invented the
cotton gin and from that time on cot
ton was placed on a profitable basis.
Many slaves were used to plant and
gather the crop and soon the bare
fields were snowy white “ ’way down
South in the land of cotton.” Today,
as you go through the South, you can
still hear the song of the pickers. And
the great bales in the fields are seen
as you ride through the cotton belt.
The plant has a taproot which
reaches deep into the soil for moisture.
cotton
PLANT
the branches spread and are irregular,
the bark is reddish brown and the
wood white. The leaves are alternate
with long stalk stems (petioles) and
the upper ones are deeply cut, having
from three to nine lobes. A most un
usual thing about the cotton leaves is
that they have tiny pits along the
ribs and these are nectar glands. At
first it was thought that the nectar
was for bees, ants and wasps, which,
in return for the delectable drinlj,
would consume or take away the de
termined little caterpillars or the boll
weevil eggs. This has not proven true,
however.
The plants as buds are rolled tight
like an umbrella. When they open up
they have five large petals. They time
their debut for the early morning,
dressed in creamy white or pale yel
low'. with a purplish base. By noon
they have changed to a dainty pink,
the next day a deep purplish red. The
nectar glands are at the base of the
calyx and only the long-tongued bees,
butterflies and moths can thrust their
suctionlike tubes between the bases to
reach the sweet. When the blossoms
are two davs old they drop.
The young cotton bolls are covered
with fringed bracts, which remain at
tached to the ripened pod. The boll
becomes long, oval-shaped and pointed,
a pretty green on the outside covered
with tiny pin-point pits. Prom the
tips of the boll are five creases and
this indicates where the boll will open.
The seeds are fastened by their points
to the edge of the inner partition and
are wrapped in the young cotton, which
is now a soft, stringy mass. When the
boll opens the cotton puffs out; it is
very fluffv, easily torn from the boll
and scattered by the wind. The boll,
when ripe, is brown and shriveled on
the outside.
The boll weevil is the only insect to
have a monument erected in his honor
and yet be alive to enjoy the distinc
tion. The whole crop was totally de
stroyed by the boll weevil and the
farmers got together and grew another
type of crop, which was so abundant
that they were delighted. The bills
were paid and a fitting reminder was
erected to commemorate the event.
(Copyright. 1932.)
Everyday Psychology
BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS.
Adjustment.
What does adjustment mean? In
the first place it means the ability to
sense—i. e., to see, hear, feel, taste
and smell what is going on. This in
psychological terms is called sensation.
It's the first big component of the world
of mind.
The next big step is the development
of ways and means for conserving sen
sation for future use. Psychologists
call this memory. Just how memory
may be accounted for is something of
a problem yet. But memory is a fact; at
least it is a logical name for something
that gets results.
The third and most important step
in the scheme of making adjustments
came in when living things began to
work their memories over into new
forms, when they began to prepare for
situations before they appeared. Psy
chologists call this creative ability
imagination.
Sensation, memory and imagination.
These are the three big things in the
world of mind. Man, it appears, has
made more progress in this respect than
any other living thing, although there
are some scientists who hold that man
can still go to the ant and the bee for
valuable instruction in the art of "ad
justing.”
(Copyright. 1932.)
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Pressed Cheese Salad.
To one cupful of grated cheese add
half a cupful of chopped nuts, half
a cupful of chopped pimento, half a
cupful of chopped ripe olives, half a
cupful of seedless raisins which have
gecn washed, drained, and cut, one
fourth teaspoonful each of salt and
paprika, and a dash of Tabasco sauce.
To the above add half a cupful of
cream and two tablespoonfuls of may
onnaise. If the cheese Is dry, more
cream will be required. If desired,
more cheese and less of the other in
gredients may be used.
Press into individual molds, or into
an ice box cooky mold. Chill for two
hours In the refrigerator, then un
mold, or slip out of the cooky mold, and
slice. On a bed of lettuce, place some
sliced tomatoes, with a slice of pressed
cheese on each, then a rosette of may
onnaise forced through a pastry tube.
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Treatment of Woolen Dresses
BY MARY MARSHALL.
THE housewife who makes out
her menus and plans her work
ahead of time always manages
to have more time to herself
than the one who worries along
in a sort of hand-to-mouth fashion—
never having much of an idea of what
she is going to do until the time comes
to do it. And so any woman—whether
she stays at home or goes to work in
an office—always manages to look a lot
better dressed if she has a well-formed
plan of what she is going to wear made
out some time in advance.
It’s a very good plan to take time
once a week to see that you have things
enough in good condition to last for
the next six or seven days. If you are
a busy business woman, you will prob
ably find it most convenient to do this
>ome time between Saturday closing
time and Monday morning.
See that you are prepared for vari
ous sorts of weather. See that you
have clean blouses to wear with your
suit, a silk dress in spotless condition
to wear under your coat on a day that
Is not very cold and a wool dress look
ing as fresh as the day it was brand
new to wear if the day is very cold.
It ought not to be too difficult to
Iceep your woolen dresses in ship-shape
as long as the Winter lasts. There are
so many good cleaning liquids that you
may use to take out chance spots, and
pressing a dress with a hot iron over a
damp cloth takes only a short time.
And then to add that final touch of
freshness be sure that you have enough
collars and cuffs or simple accessory
collars to make it possible to wear a
fresh one every day or two. If you
have a woolen dress that lacks such
accessories, by all means make some.
The shops are full of charming collars
either with or without cuffs made from
lace, washable satin, silk or cotton
pique or all-over embroidery.
/
Today’s sketch shows one that you
will have no trouble in copying. It is
a bias band of material about 2 inches
wide that goes around the neck. One
end spreads out into a decorative little
tab that is pulled through a slit at the
front of the dress.
BEDTIME STORIES W. Burgess.
Yowler Takes a Chance.
He foolish is who doth refuse
To take a chance with nauaht to lose.
—Yowler the Bobcat.
Yowler the Bobcat was desperate.
Yes, sir, he was desperate. The deep
snow had made hunting as hard for him
as for Reddy Fox. It had made it even
harder, for Reddy could hunt Mice on
the Green Meadows and prowl along
the Big River for what he might pick
up there, while Yowler did not dare
leave the Green Forest and the Old
Pasture. As long as the snow remained
soft he could do no hunting. He simply
had to remain at home and grow hun
grier and hungrier.
At last there was a crust that would
bear his weight, and by day as well as
night Yowler stole softly like living
shadow through the Green Forest and
among the bushes of the Old Pasture,
thankful for a careless Mouse now and
then, but still with a gnawing hunger
making him more and more desperate.
Several times he stole over to the
yard of Lightfoot the Deer, and hidden
under snow-weighted hemlock boughs,
with fierce, hungry eyes, watched Light
foot and Mrs. Lightfoot, and thought
what a splendid feast one of them
would make for him, and wished they
MENU FOR A DAY.
BREAKFAST.
Grapefruit.
Wheat Cereal With Cream.
Fried Scrapple.
Hot Corn Cake.
Coffee.
DINNER.
Vegetable Soup.
Roast Beef. Brown Gravy.
Celery.
Pickled Watermelon Rind.
Creamed Cauliflower.
Mashed Potatoes.
Deep Dish Apple Pudding, Cheese.
Coffee.
SUPPER.
Chicken Salad.
Potato Chips.
Baking Powder Biscuits.
Ribbon Cake.
. Tea.
FRIED SCRAPPLE.
Cook one pound fresh pork un
til it drops from the bone. Pick
the meat to pieces and strain the
liquor, of which there should be a
pint. Put the liquor and meat
on to boil and thicken with In
dian meal until it will harden
enough when cold to cut and fry
in slices. Season the liquor w'ith
pepper and salt.
APPLE PUDDING.
Two cupfuls flour, half teaspoon
ful salt, two-thirds cupful lard,
three tablespoonfuls cold water.
Mix the flour and salt. Cut in
the lard with knife, mixing with
knife, slowly adding the cold
water. When stiff dough forms
break off two-thirds of it and fit
into a deep pie dish or baking
dish. Add apple mixture. Roll
out remaining dough and fit over
top. Prick with fork. Bake 30
minutes.
Apple mixture—Three cupfuls
sliced apples, one cupful water,
one cupful sugar, two tablespoon
fuls flour, two tablespoonfuls
butter, one teaspoonful salt. Mix
the apples and water. Cover and
cook five minutes. Blend the
sugar and flour. Add to apple
mixture and cook one minute.
Add rest of ingredients. Cool
and place in dough case.
(Copyright, 1932.)
were not so big. But each time he stole
away as softly and stealthily as he had
come.
Now, Yowler the Bobcat is naturally
a coward. He can fight and will fight
when cornered, but he is sneak rather
than bold, and he seldom attacks any
one who can put up a fight. So it was
not until he became desperate that he
even seriously thought of attacking the
Lightfoots. However, the time came
when he made up his mind to take the
chance.
"I have nothing to lose and a lot to
gain,” thought he. "I can always get
away if I don’t succeed, and if I do suc
ceed I won’t go hungry for a long time.
It is w’orth the chance, especially now
that Lightfoot has lost his antlers.”
So Yowler hid close by’ the yard of
Lightfoot the Deer and watched and
waited until at last Mrs. Lightfoot came
along alone. Lightfoot was nowhere in
sight. This w’as as Yowler wanted it.
Watching his chance he made a swift
leap for the shoulders of Mrs. Lightfoot.
LIGHTFOOT WAS NOWHERE IN
SIGHT.
From there he could get at her throat.
At the same Instant Mrs. Lightfoot
plunged forward. Perhaps she had
heard some faint sound, or perhaps her
keen nose had caught the scent of
Yowler. The result was that Yowler
landed far back. He dug his claws in
to hold on as Mrs. Lightfoot, with a
sharp whistle of fright, plunged this
way and that.
There was an answering whistle and
Lightfoot came plunging along one of
the paths, his usually soft eyes blazing
with anger. There was nothing timid
in the appearance of lightfoot then,
even If he did not have his antlers.
Yowler lost his hold and dropped to the
path and in an instant Lightfoot reared
and brought his sharp hoofs down. It
was only a glancing blow, but it hurt.
Ye3, sir, it hurt. With a snarl of rage
and pain Yowler turned to face Light
foot, ears laid back, short tail twitching,
teeth showing between lips drawn back,
his feet gathered under him for a spring
at Lightfoot's throat.
Even as he jumped Lightfoot reared
and struck, and again it hurt. Mean
while Mrs. Lightfoot came charging
from the other direction. Two against
one were odds he couldn’t face, and
with a yell of rage and disappointment
Yowler sprang out of the path, up on
the crust and slunk away. Lightfoot
made two plunges after him, but realiz
ing his helplessness in the deep snow,
stopped, snorting and whistling, the
hair on his back and neck standing
erect, and his big eyes still blazing with
anger.
Yowler continued to slink away. Later
he caught a Rabbit and this made him
feel better. "If I hadn’t been almost
crazy with hunger I would have known
better than to take that chance," he
muttered. ‘‘My, but those hoofs of
Lightfoot’s are sharp!” He licked the
wounds made by those hoofs. Then he
grinned rather sheepishly. “I hope,"
thought he, ‘‘that no one saw me make
that mistake,”
(Copyright. 1932.)
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