DAD'S GETTING~ OLD
I never noticed, nettlll now.
But Dad is getting old. somehow.
He doesn’t have the pop and go
110 used to have.
Hitl’llo,
in younger years.
while.
Although
ji’tlx’t‘t-‘,
lt now all lil‘C’ll’lEi for olheiwfolks.
Yes, if the truth were really told,
Dad's getting old.
Dad‘s gellan old. I really doubt
if he himself has figured out
Just when or why or what it is.
llut he talks less of what in his
And buying bond-s.
things ‘
For other summers. other springs,
And does his work. and does it well;
And yet I've noticed, truth to tell,
He likes the sun. he feels the cold-
lilad's getting old.
We've had a rather easy time,
worst. .
i never thought of that at first,
I- thought that life was just for Joy;
For that‘s the way to be a boy,
But not the way to be a. map.
For there is something more to plan
Than pleasure now. It’s time to take
A larger view for father's sake,
it's time for me to take a. hold-
Dad’s getting old.
Ills shoulders stoop, his step is slow.
He smiles the
it isn't though the smile that came
Behind the shine
’i‘liero enema some sadness all the
ho tells us yarns end
And speaks of things that will be curl.
And yet he keeps on sowing flow’ra.
and planting
“’0 children hove—few hills to climb,
Because our Dad had climbed the
THE THIEF on FAITH
' A thief a house has entered, one
Who came by day and not by night.
Marouding is not always done
With creeping stop and shaded
light.
Someone has robbed a house today
And taken someonc's faith away.
The silver is untouched, the\ purse
- Has not a penny missing. yet
Another thief, another worse
Than any thief who came to get
Its gold, has entered someone's mind.
And now God's peace is hard to find.
There is a burglary that breaks
inside the heart. and robs it of
The thing that healed it of its aches.
Tho thing that made it rich with love.
The faith that men so sorely need
ls gone, and someone poor indeed.
Who steals men's gold God may
forgive,
Who steals their faith—I do not
know:
But men in poverty can live.
The poor are those who try to so
The road of life from day to day
Without the faith i‘ools take away.
If you yourself have learned to
doubt,
I pray you do'not prowl about
And rob your neighbors of their
faith. _ '
I doubt if God forgives the thief
Who steals another man's belief.
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Nook Ribbons sro Wodnlnu their
Way Into Fashion Again.
fashions of tho first decade of
this century need be told of the
neck ribbon as it was known at that
time. .’Nock ribbons women were
forever buying. What between wo—
men’s neck ribbons and little girl's
hair ribbons the ribbon counters
were kept pretty busy. First they
NO woman who can remember the
right against the neck. Then there
were little tabs that were sewed on
the ribbons at the place where they
touched the neck. The ribbon was
then brought around to the front
and tied in the sort of how that at
the moment was considered smurf-
csi. After that ruching came into
fashion and we wont to great pains
to sew ruching into our neck rib-
bons. Always of course the ribbon
was pinned securely down in front
and in order to keep it in perfect
trim it had to be pinned at the back.
We wore ihcse’
after it was tied.
ribbons in: a. sort of finish to the
shirt waist which was every we—
man’s every-day dress of those. days.
Now we have neck ribbons sneak-
ing lint-k into fashion twain, and
there are little flappere who haven't
the slightest recollection of neck
ribbons us their mothers once wore.
them who are actually wearing
them.
A. favorite rontrivance is to have,
the neck ribbon to match the rib-
bon that simply irlins a simple hat,
and to its this around the neck with
small loops and long ends. This is
considered quite a clever way to
top off the smart little tailored suit
that slender young American girls
’ can wear so well.
The problem of providing cover or
decoration for the neck is one that
leads to a large number of the fads
of fashion. The furrlers rather
hoped that every woman who wore
a tailored unit. this spring or an en-
semble suit would buy a little fur
tin-try to go with it. in: this did
not happen. Sometimes we wear
nothing about. the neck. Sometimes
we knot a bit. of a printed silk
handkerchiio jauntily about the
neck. reviving the fashion of two
seasons ago. And sometimes we
follow the lead of the girl shown in
the sketch and solve the whole
question simply and not cxpenslv.
cly by means of a couple of yards
of ribbon. ’ ‘
,wisi-z .AN’D .
OTHERWISE- ‘
were worn without any protection, -
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, 1’"
Wide ribbon matching ribbon 10"
hot is worn around neck with suit.
pers worn with matching silk stock-
ings seem to be worn by well-dressed
women both here and abroad. I’uttY‘
colored kid slippers are gaining in
favor on the other side. All sorts
of odd leathers are still well liked—-
lizard. snake and crocodile being
frequently used. Then there are
elaborately painted satin shoes.
which are even worn outdoors by
the Pad-tonne. Rather plain shoes
with eccentric heels are considered»
smart and even on the street in
Paris one sees heels of‘ gold. silver
and tortoiseshell.. Sometimes with
black or brown slippers one sees
heels of green. blue or red.
WHAT GINGHAM M EANS
. The word gingham, so widely used
nowadays, is derived» from the
'French guingan. which in' ,« turn
came from th'o Italian glngano. All
these words can be traced back to
the Malay word ginggang moaning
striped. The Dutch traders brought
the fabric together with the name
to‘ the rest of Europe, calling it in
their own tongues“. stum- .
THOSE FREAKISH SHOES
'1‘ first consideration you might
A think that mpidly changing
styles in footwear would be
beneficial to the shoe merchant. If
styles in shoes change before the
shoes are worn out it would seem as
if people would have to buy more
shoes. But, as a matter of fact.
these rapidly changing styles some-
tiines‘are quite hard on the shoe
dealer. ' ' ‘
There is this difficulty that the?
shoe dealer has to contend with. He
must have on hand many different
sizes of each sort of shoe he carries.
A milllner usually is content with ‘11
very few different sizes at bats and
in women's frocks or costs there are
for fewer sizes to consider than with
slices. ‘ "
In Paris shoe styles change more
supidly than anywhere else. And
there 'some dealers complain that
.faehlnns change so rapidly that
‘. sometimes by the time a certain
orderfor a. new sort of shoe has
been delivered the demand for that
fashion will have vanished. 1
Just at present blonds satin slip-
sy‘mwnso ‘mnosimf
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,
llE ruby is both’ today's’f‘alls-
T manic gem and natal stone.
. The ancients ‘beli'wedthat it
preserved the bodily health. and
mental strength of lts»wearer, kept
him safe from diseaso,‘~and made
him indifferent to sejnthncnt.
Set in a ring, bracelehorbrooel},
and worn on the left‘nldc. it inn
protection from accident or misfor-
tune. It is especially lucky for those
engaged in legal disputes.
The Orientalsibelloved that black
should be worn today.,=and.tilat. it
brought its wearer courase'an'd the
bravery to stand pain. i '
Think heaven fiction, Godnwraith.
of folding tests quite llmlltl'fl)
those conducted .o. yosr entire
ago by s. group of American uno-
THE French have begun o series,
,tours in cooperation with the Bureau
of Standards. . .
Signals will be sent out on s. rogu-
lar schedule from tbs broadcasting
station of the School of mu. Tols-
[raphs - and Telemann, in Paris. . A
number of listeners in all ports of
Franco.will listen for these signals
snd will. record-tho exact strength
from instant to instant, as well as
any phenomena that occur at the
some time and that may be of inter.
est. u. for example, the comes
of the sky, the occurrence of rain or
lightning. etc.
‘ i—u—u-
Meanwhile Hofoosor Morocroft,
the wolloknown radio export of Col-
umbia University. in his department
in. Radio Broadcast. makes an inter-
esting suggestion concerning fading
of the short,wavos.
Every listener whose lot will tune
down to the waves in the neighbor-
hood of 100 meters knows that thoro
is usually very .littlo’ fading or
“swinging".on these wavelengths. In
the trans-Atlantic tests with these
short waves fading and other diill-
eultlos of transmission were found to
be much less than with the more
familiar long waves.
Professor Morecroft suggests. in
, effect, that this apparent, absence of
fading may be only apparent. There
may be a. fading. he thinks, that is
characterised by very short. time
intervals.
In the ordinary kind of fading the
signal is strong for a considerable
fraction of a' second. perhaps for
several seconds. Then it begins
gradually to fade. remains very faint
for a short period and then swells
again to its original strength.
Now if all this happened very
rapidly; so that the fading, the
period of weak signal and the No
covery all happened within a, tenth
of a second or even within a. bun-
dredth of a second, we would not
hear the fading at all. The changes
' s curioui alteration out!!!
s.
[of intensity ”would be too rapid!"
the car to follow them. ”
"thou your shorti‘wsvo's suffers from
itynwhteh
nut Profogsor' uni-cored sinus .
"mi tho tron-cussion cameo . 4 14
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may i diocto. no Mine-(someone! ,
very pid Miami». ,,
This would noths'vo” been Queue.
so for“ I s, swaro,‘ by our ofithc
scientific investigations of fadin-
thot have been Mod out. not new
that the Professor has tin-emitv the
idea into the ring we may be sure
that someone will devise apparatus
and methods to test it.
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Ono Dsliy hot for Liston".
A Fixed Cmtsl,_is a crystal do-
toetor that is supposed to remain in
adiustmont for an indefinite period.
instead of requiring to be rosdlustsd
from time to time so as to be aim
on a "sensitive spot." ‘ ~
There on two general tml .01
fixed crystal detectors. One type
makes use of certain natural crystals
or othor- substances which. when
pressed together in pairs. have s
more or loss perfect detecting power
without needing to be adjusted “st.
all for a sensitive spot.
The second kind of fixed .ch l1
detector is made up, really. of I ,t
of ordinary crystals all put in t6-
gothor. For example, a copper wire
is run down into a bottle filled with
a coarse powder mode by breaking
up some galona crystals. ‘
The theory is that if you have I,
great many small crystals all in con-
tact with tho terminal of the wire
from the radio set. that‘at least a
few of those many crystals will be
always in such condition that s.
sensitive spot will be touching '
against the terminal wire.
While many varieties of those two
types of fixed crystal detectors are
oaths market and while some of
these work very woll‘at times, most
real dyed-in-tho-wcoi crystal fans
prefer to use t‘u‘s old-fashioned sid-
iuotsblc crystal detector.
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.WHAT’S IN A NAME? 2
Facts about your name: its history; Its mnnlnu whence it was «in
rlvsd; its significance; your lucky day and lucky jewel.
5 sAnsAnA
ARMRA, moaning stranger. has
B s. strongly Roman Catholic sig-
nificance and, in that church. is
representative of artistic devotion.
The original Barbara was said to be
a maiden of Holiopolln. who became
a. Christian. and insisted upon hav-
ing three windows in her chamber
instead of one in honor of the creed.
ller Grecian father beheaded her
with his own hands and was
straightway destroyed with thunder
and lightning: Si. Barbara became
the patroness of sacred architecture
and a protectress from thunder and
its imitation-—nrttllery. For this
latter reason her name was very fro-
qucnt among daughters of soldiers.
Indeed, Barbara is. regarded by
some countries as' a protectress of
soldiers. and while her name is all-
gcntle and filled with piety.'lt.ranks
with the good old warrior names that
stir the bloodflof men of many races
to battle. finaland named a village
St. Barbe. and it seemed that nearly
every family in that quaintly pretty
community had 9. Barbara at some
time. or other in honor of'tho home
town. In this way, use of the name
spread throughout England.
The Greeks passed it on by a dif-
ferent route. The legend' of' the
maiden turned Christianity natur-
ally not specially popular? But the
name of Barbara was the feminine
for the Greek word for stronger. s
term applied to all who did not speak
their tan g. Curiously enough.
their cont tion of syllables. in-
dicative of complete and impatient
non-understanding. closely rosem-
bled our own careless slang expres-
sion "blah-blah." which We employ
today to express our opinion of what
we consider complete iwaddle. It is
an interesting fact that tho adiec‘
tlvo "barbarous" thus meant ignor--
tint. at "am, and only ashamed its
significance of wild cruelty. as a.
later and corrupted translation.
Barbara's jewel is the pearl, so
indicative of maidenhood'. It prom-
ises her purity, popularity and gentle
charm. T9 dream of it means faith-
ful friends. Monday is her lucky
day and 5 her lucky number. ‘
eooo PLAIN- assess-re
Groom Tspioos
Soak three tablespoons of tapioca
in water for three hours. put it into
one quart of boiling milk, and boil
fifteen minutes. Beat the yolks of
four eggs and one cup of granulated
sugar together, stir into the other
mixture. and let it bell five minutes.
flavor with vanilla. Beat the whites
ofoour eggs to a froth with three
tablespoons of sugar put this over
thcipudding, and stand m the even
five minutes. ‘ ,. _ ‘
Insh-ond~luttor Pudding
‘ Butter 0. deep bakingvdlsh and fill
with thin slices of buttered broad.
sprinkling thickly with sugar and
chopped fresh or preserved fruit: or
berries and s. .littlonspios lf,doslrod.
Sprinkle with a tablespoon of flour
and a little salt. pour over a pint of
milk mixed with two well-beaten
eggs. and let stand for an hour.
Cover and bake slowly for forty-five
minutes, then remove the coverand
brown. Serve with any preferred
saute. \ Apples, rhubarb, peaches,
blackberries, and cherries are capo-6‘
ciully good used in this way.
Rico Jolly
Boll four tablespoons of rice until
soft in a great deal of water, drain.
and dry. Whip a. pint of cream
solid, sod ten-thirds cup of pow-
dered sugar. s. teaspoon of vanilla. “
and the rice. Strain in half, a
package of gelatino which has been
soaked in lemon juice. Stir until'
the sugar issdissolved, strain into a
mould, and chill.~ .
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As watchman to my heart.” .
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‘P'UzZLE m GRAMMAR '
RITING to the New York
W Tribune. a correspondent asks
a question which it is difficult
to answer. lie asks, "Should one
883'. 'They went at each other‘s
thi‘oat‘ or 'They went at each other's
throcto'? Singular or plural? The
first form is correct. in my opinion."
Diligent search in several standard
books on grammar and the correct
use of English fails to cost much
light on this question. One authority
tells us that the word “each” is
never constructed with the plural of
the pronoun or the verb. and this
would seem to bear out the prefer-
ence'fo'r the singular form. ”They
went at each other‘s throat". If we
alter the possessive form and say.
“They went at the throat of each
other." it reads somewhat more
smoothly.
Ono writer. commenting on this
question. says: "'They went at
each other's throat' is the correct
form. as it is equivalent to ‘earh
went at the. other's throat." Each
did not go at two throats."
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Expensive Wit
The possession of wit often
serves as an entree into coveted
social circles. often it brings popu-
larity to the one who possesses it.
Tho young man in college who
possesses real wit and is not afraid
to make use of it needs uo'lnfluen-
tlsl friends to introduce him or ‘to‘
recommend him to dosimble‘or luv
ilueutisl upper olessmen. But the
trouble with wit is that while it ’
slinost always wins friends and st.
toution it sometimes loses them
for the owner of the witty tongue.
Wit of this sort is expensive. It
you got off your witty speeches at
the ospeusoof others. as the say--
in: is, you will find that you win
be the One to pay ultimate costs.
Take Mr. Brown. for instance.
He has a keen intelligencosnd a
facile tongue.
moat prevents him from accepting
invitations to dinner. to card par-
ties. or dances. He liotonslutontly
to the conversation of those round
sbouthlm, he never attempts to
monopolize,raconversation. never
bores by long stories. or expres-
sibn of his personal opinions. But
when any (main the company is
unfortunate enough to motto s
hetlsiis. gauche or’silly speech he
Juan-fails to think of some witty
ro‘tol'tto bring the laugh bsckou
th ;' no who ,misspoko. .Heiseems
fo'knowevery one'o folbles‘zénd lio‘
”armies to make than the
butt ”of‘hls witty comments:
The 'miiileadlng part of tho
sltusti n‘ is 'thst these remarks
never: all to bring a laugh. 350nm-
tlmos'liis hearers. are con sod
with‘lsughtor. while the unfortu-'
into victim of his w’lttyllttleirs-
mark tries valiantly notto show
embarrassment. or chagrin.
"But “this laughter. is ,_ by no‘
mom‘s-a criterion .9! Hr. Brown's
- success ss~"a wit. ‘You yourself
only have sluivn your amusement.
over some of fdr.‘ Brown’s allies,
" and sitter you timezone home and,
thought the situation over, and ro-
os'ilod ,tlio‘ill oonooslod‘ ombsnsss- ;
moat .‘ofi‘tho victim, of the witty
special: you nor have” felt: edu-
m.nrm ‘ . and charity.
goodywiligtforytho poi-sou»
who-o carnation um laughing.
, And-new. every once in s while,
some“, one" gives s . party said r.‘
Brown does not appear amonst o
guests.- tor. Mam-own is beginning.
He likes society.
Nothing save a previous engage- ’
‘ mouth-hill guamowmwio
“wELL, if you don't go with
Jim, how in the world
are you going to get to
the dance?" said Dora. who, at
twenty-four. felt herself quite the
sensible, old married woman.
Her sister Julie. sitting beside
her before the spacious fireplace
pouted by way of answer. *
"Do I have to so?” she asked
7 atleugth. ' -.
"Certainly," was the elder sis-
ter’s decision. “Jim Manes will
be there, and everyone will say
you didn't come because you did-
n't have anyOne to come with. If-
llort weren’t going to work all the
evening, I'd get him to go with
you." '
“As if I'd 'go with a brother-in-
law," scorned Julie: “I’ll go by
myself—«in Bart's runabout. if
you don't mind. I'll get there
early so no one will especially no-
tice thatl have come alone, and
there are always loads of the men
‘who come stag and before the
dancing has begun I'll have my
dances ail promised—«and I won’t
give one to Jim."
A few hours later Julie. is
charming little figure in pink
chiffon. paused to bid her sister
good night. .
“You’ll dodge a lot of tramc if
you go right down Madden Lane,”
Dora told her. _
' So J ulie started out. and as she
sat there .with her wee golden
allppered feet and gleaming white
hands regulating- the speed and
direction of her brother-in-law's
car she wondered to herself just,
why she had come. She feltvsu-
premely miserable. Jim and she
had been engaged for several
weeks. Then. when some rather
trivial question had come up
about the announcement of the
- engagement, Julie hadtaken of—
fense .and. without quite knowing
“‘h’ow it had happened, she told
Jim that she felt she could not
marry him. .
Devin Madden'Lane sped Julie
and her car. cautiously keeping to
the middle" of the‘road totsvoid
the soft sand at theedges which,
since a recent rain, was heavily
'watcr soaked. For a. short stretch
‘the road was. wide enough for
only a single car, but it was un—
frcquented. and Julie had little
. thought of meetingcraft looming
, in the opposite direction. Sud-
:. denly at a curve lathe lane Julie
heard
of approaching frame, and with-
out waltmg for further develop-
ments she swerved to the right.
As she did so she félt the wheels
softly skid in the sandii‘or a few
inches. Then she‘stopped, and
waited. l but she. had heard had
been only a remote railroad WlliS-g
tle.. Julie tried to go forward into
the firm part of the road. and then
she tried to make it by backing.
but whatever she did she seemed
to become hopelessly involved in‘
that‘soft, rain-soaked sand. Even
if she had some burlaps which she
hadn't. how could she get out and
remedy matters dressed“as she was?
.It‘ was while she was still'
“making such plans thbt she heard
sounds of an approaching car
coming from the. somewdiroetion
thst she had come. sud-ttlion‘sho
saw the car.‘ which stopped i at
sight of her plight. .
,"I’m stuckdn tho mowing '
said. hailing the stronger. than
when she saw the lone msiieuiino
figure one" wondered whether she
ought to ask him to-slve her a
lift, to the nearest-telephone. The
stranger proved to begin. who
seemed at first with 'ols‘t‘iid at her
predicament; Jim ssidgplio would
at she took to he sounds -
gturn about and go to the farm
house to tell them they were leav-
ing a car on the road and then
they could go on to the dance to-
gether. But Julie stoutly refused
to‘go with him. So Jim went a
little forward to make his turn.
stopped short. made a few false
starts and declared that. he. too
had stuck in the sandn
Whatohappenod seemed rather
should as «Julie reviewed it later.
Jim carried ‘Julle back in his
strong arms to the farm. There
she sat in the dimly lighted. stuffy
farmhouse “parlor."
quently went forth saying that he
would try to drag the cars out of _, :
the sand with the tractor. After 1
three-quarters of an hour in ‘which .
Jim and Julie out together quite
shyly, the farmer returned and
announced his inability to budge
either of the cars. ,Then Jim went
to another room to telephone for
help and shortly came back with
the information that the telephone
seemed to be out. of order. Julie
suggested that the farmer might
drive them to the dance and the
farmer informed them that the
tractor was the only motor con- ‘
veyance he possessed. His‘ son
would be back with a car along
toward midnight, he said.
So Jim and J ulie sat. in the little
parlor alone. and before midnight
came they‘ had. made up so satis-
factorily that J ulie forgot how the
spat had begun. Then Jim led the
way. not to the supposed car of
the farmer’s son. but back to his
own roadster. With a rope he had
brought from the farmer ‘ha tied
Julie’s car to his own and, side by
side. they drove home to Julie's
sister's in Jim’s car. . .
“My car was not. stalled, really,”
be announced, before they parted,
f'and yours could easily have been
got out. The farmer didn’t try
to get them out and he had a. car
in his garage all the time and the.
phone wasn’t out of order. But
I'll never lie to you again. Julie,
dear. I did it all because I. didn’t
want you to go to that dance, until
we had had time to make-up.”
THE vain [Eli liliigliiiiiii'
1'... coaxial m‘ any .
. bayou-{uncoflwm misgi'g,
m, preferring ti be known u‘duetitisns.
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while Jim .
talked to the farmer, who subso- ‘ »
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