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Fox and spoil his trip across the pond
that night. and before 1t was time for
Mr. Coon 10 be at the pine tree by the
pond the Fox brothers had thought
of plan To pay Mr.. Fox for taking
their chicken.
Ii was not n moonlight night. and
so when Mr.. Fox and Mr.. Coon met
they did not see any one behind the
tail bushes and socks by the fir tree
Mr.. Fox was leaning against the
rock. with Ills back To the bushes. and
when be felt something on his back
be looked around quickly. bur the
wind WAS blowing. swaying the bushes
and he thought that was what he felt
but il wasn't: il was something far
different.
Nov. YOU understand. you are to
place your paws against my back as
SIT on the sled." said Mr.. Fox TO Mr.
Coon: 'push hard. and away l win go
across ihe frozen pond. and when l
come back | viii give you good
breakfast 70 pay you for helping me-"
Mr.. Coon said he understood per-
fectly. and Mr. Fox took his seat on
the sled. Now, when 1 say three"
said Mr. Fox. run a step or two with
your paws pushing on my back. One,
two. threel'
But instead of skimming across the
pond on the sled. the sled went skim
ming, and Mr.. Fox sat on the ground,
with Mr.. Coon fiat on his stomach be-
hind him. his paws still fast to Mr..
Fox's back.
what do you mean by pulling me
of that sled?" asked Mr.. Fox, very
angry. LET got of me! You are pull
ing me over"
Mr.. Coon tried TO get up, but every
time he moved he pulled Mr.. Fox
ever backward, and soon they were
scrambling and kicking like two
jumpingJacks, while the little Fox
brothers. with a paw over their
mouths, ran as fast as they could I'M
I'll they were out Of the hearing of
MIR. Fox and Mr.. Coon. Then they
rolled over. laughing, on the ground
at the funny sight they had left by
the pond.
That glue was very elingihg stuff"
said Reddy, sitting up on the ground.
Mr.. Fox is very smart fellow. but
he was fooled when I put that glue
on his back. He thought it was the
wind blowing the bushes"
"Yes, that glue will keep them close
together for while, said Rey Fox.
"but reckon they won't be very fast
friends after they get apart"
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Something to
Think bOut
LOOKING BACKWARD
By F. II. WALKER

THE old year is drifting out to the
- unseen sea, where in little while
ii will be lost, no more part of our
joys and sorrows, nor portion of our
existence.
Let us take retrospective view OF
the days that have gone, consider how
we have spent them, whether we have
played our part wisely or foolishly, or
whether we have moved ahead or
Jagged behind.
As we stand upon the hilltop, or in
the vale, what are the thoughts that
crowd in upon us? Do they bring us
pleasure or regret: Go they cheer the
heart or deprsss it?
We are disposed at the end of every
twelfth-month TO pause while and
reflect, to make new promises for our
betterment. to seek a new star for our
future guidance and to flatter our
selves that whatever failings we made
in our little Journey were due to no
laxity of ours, but to stroke of Fate
We refuse to rub our velyety skin
with coarse sand-paper Cor the very
good reason that ii hurts. Nor do we
in looking backward like to rub our
conscience, for that pains, too. and
causes us to vince, when we would
sit in our easy chair and administer
TO our moral self stupefying dose of
chloroform that we may for the time
being become insensible to the smarts
and aches, which otherwise might
drive US to repentance.
We lack the courage to stand up and
face the music, or, to look truth in the
face. a prevailing form of cowardice
frequently preferred by most of us to
bravery.
Event follows event agreeably or
annoyingly when we awake to the
realization that we have run through
the vicissifudes. mutations and inno-
vations of another year. breaking as
we proceeded on our way the laws OF
the Modes and Persians, to say moth.
ing OF the laws of our own.
Whatever opinion we may have re-
enrding our conduct. we hide it with
utmost care beside the skeleton in the
family closet.
Then with sublime devotion TO
duty, which sometimes lasts two whole
days, we take peep backward. swear
sclemnly beneath our breath that wen
be good. true and faithful. which we
usually are until the next cog slips
and then away we go again. tripping
along the primrose path. oblivious To
everything but our selfish content.
&C. 1921. by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate,
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Uncommon
Sense s sSii7 BLAKE
LEARN HOW TO FORGET

DE ASSURED that you will some
- times be wronged; often hated.
Unless you have far more luck than
most men, others will injure you, and
despitefully use you.
The more successful you are, the
more you will suffer from the dislike
and the envy of others.
But if you resent every injury and
nurse every spite, you will have little
time for anything else.
Revenge may be sweet, but 1t Is
too expensive TO be INDUCED.
/, The man who makes up his mind TO
"get even" with every one who has
harmed or insulted-him maps out a
difficult life for himself.
Hatred is a passion which destroys
the judgment as well as the soul. And
Judgment is too difficult to acquire to
be frittered away In fruitless brawls.
Learn TO forget injuries and griev-
ances. They will harm you but little
if you dismiss them from your mind.
II you cherish their memory and brood
over them they will harm you even
more than the enemy who inflicted
them ever believed it possible to harm
you.
Give men no reason to injure you.
Then, il they insist upon doing so, de.
prive them of any satisfaction In the
injury by not allowing it to trouble
you.
Peace of mind anG serenity OF spirit
are worth great deal in this world.
Go about with chip on your
shoulder and before very long some
one will knock it or. And your at
tention will be distracted from what
ever you are doing by your effort to
punish him for it,
| But when you are wantonly insulted,
or when Your feelings are hurt re-
member that the person who offers
the alfront is not w0TN hating. DO
not fiatter him by nursing your wrath
against him.
Irritations disturb the smooth work
ing Of your brain and cut into your
sleep. Forget them and you will be
happier and better able TO attend to
your own job, which is getting all out
of your brain that was put there by its
Creator.
Copyright by. John Biake)
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-23
FOX BROTHERS. TRICK

TT WAS long way around the pond
and long way across. so which
ever way he went IL meant a long walk
for Mr.. Fox, and he was in a hurry TO
get 10 the farm on the hin on the
other side Of the pond.
IF could only slide across
Thought he. land could, for have
an old sled If only / had some one
10 push me and give me good start
Coming home could take my time
The more he thought the better IL
seemed to him, and so Mr.. Fox trot-
ted Off 10 Mr. Coon's house to ask
him 10 push the sled.
IL Mr.. Fox had not been unklnd TO
little Reddy Fox and his brother Rey
he would very likely have had long
Slide across the pond and arrived
early az the farm
But Mr.. Fox had met the little Fox
brothers one morning very early when
they had been out hunting and taken
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-23
"charIes Eobert craddock."

Miss Mary Noailles Murfree, who
died at sevenfy-two. was better known
to the reading public by her pen name
of Charles Egbert Craddock, A Grip
pie from childhood. she sought to re-
pair the family fortunes. impaired by
the Civil war. through writing tales of
her own region Of the Cumberlands
and for more than generation she
was eminently successful The col
lection of her short stories, published
in 1884, under the title sIn the Ten
nessee Mountains was enough TO
make her fame lasting. She con-
tinued to write, publishing novels I'M
til 1914. All We're set in the scenes
with which she was familiar. the
land in which her great-grandfasher
Murfree, settled early in the Nine
teenth century. Miss Murfree was
one of the really important regional
novelists Of America.--New York
Herald.
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-23
THE RIGHT THING
at the
RIGHT TIME
By MARY MARSHALL DUFFEE
WHEN You CORRECT

1t is much easier TO be critical than to
be correct--Benjamin Disraoii.
OCCASIONALLY. no doubt. perfect
~ well-bred husbands and wives
do quarrel. if they are Incompatible,
hut they do not quarrel in public.
Neither does well-bred woman "call
down her children before outsiders.
or correct servant any more than is
necessary. If you have a complaint
To make in store or shop. do not
make II in a conspicuous way.
The wise manager of employees does
not berate them before outsiders.
Sometimes. Of course, the inconsider-
ate mdnaeer win seek TO lay the blame
for something for which his store man
agement IS TO blame on subordinate.
lie may help himself for the time be-
ing out of an embarrassing situation.
but he is surely laying up trouble for
himself later on.
Some young women really enjoy
having little quarrels with the young
men who are counting them, and some
tAAhNS my stAC " III
dulge in such moods In an ostentatious
way in public places. Thus the young
woman who is annoyed, or who pre-
tends to be annoyed, puts her escort
to great embarrassment by refusing to
speak to him in a public conveyance
Or she may wait until they are in their
seats at the theater and then mar her
own and her escorts enjoyment of the
play by INDUCING in her quarrelsome
mood. She may actually enjoy the
embarrassment that he endures. Or
she may wait until they are with their
friends at dance and then refuse to
dance with him just for the satisfac-
ton of having others see how miser-
able she can make the poor man in
question. There are girls who do this
sort of thing, but they are truly not
well bred. The really well-bred wom-
an. If she must quarrel with the man
who is devoted to her, waits until they
are alone.
90. 1923. by Mcclure Newspaper syndicats.)
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The Friendly Path
s ~rs- &.a -- es. t
By WALTER /. ROBINSON
THE FUTURE

7 EARN to stand on your own feet.
IL A few make Roadway by depend
Ing on others, but the majority must
hoe their own path. Unless one, there
fore, has confidence in himself and is
able to cause others To trust and be-
lieve in him as he deserves, he is not
likely TO make much Roadway and his
pathway will in all probability, be
hedged With thorny briars. Day after
day, rs he lplods onward toward his
uncertain goal, his life is likely to be
disturbed and his happiness destroyed
by tile thorn pricks every time he halts
to reflect ON the best way to gain his
desires.
In the social world introductions are
necessary. Those who push themselves
into the midst of formal party unan-
noulieed could expect nothing else but
icy stares and an unpleasant depar-
ture through rear door. But in the
world of business, industry and finance
iutroductions are not essential to sue
cess. Those who bemoan their mis-
fortunes in not being able to have
some one of high standing help shove
them ahead are themselves their own
worst handicaps.
A vice president of the United States
Chamber of Commerce, still actively
managing a big manufacturing bust
ness. though he is up in the eighties,
recently declared that he didn't con-
slider introductions of much value to
those seeking business or Industrial
success. He tells story to illustrate
his reason for confidence that big men
trust others just as quickly without in
Productions as with them, providing
those seeking recognition believe In
themselves and have the proper sort
of personality. He declared that when
banks in his own city were too small
to extend to his business sufficient
credit, he went to New York, without
introduction and. by statingI his situa-
ton frankly, obtained the line Of credit
he required for his shops.
Greater frankness would lessen bust.
ness worries today.
&c by the Wheeler Syndicate. Ine.)
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-23


A LICE. curiously enough, Is a
"A mans name. not a woman's.
Originally il was given TO the sons
Of the family, and is. without doubt,
derived from the Anglo-Saxon Abel
gis. of which the feminine form was
Adelglsa. 1t means noble. in both
its masculine and feminine forms.
1t Is clear that Alice represents
Adelgis and not Adelgisa, and that
the proper feminine form would be
Aliza. Some believe that Eliza, gen
orally thought TO be deriyative of
Elizabeth, Is this missing form. For
proof of AliZa as the representative
of Adelgiza, the Libcr Vitae of Dur
ham>records the changes in Adelgiza
from the first noble lady of that name
who laid her gifts upon the altar BY
contraction IL became by steps Ade-
liza. Aaliza, and Aliza.
Aaliza is still given to daughters
of noble families IN Europe. Adaliz,
Adliz and finally Ais, are other con-
fractions. Alicia is derivation
which represents an effort at euphony
lacking in Allsa, but Alison is not so
derived as is popularity supposed. but
has completely different origin.
Alice is purely English with slight
Teutonic flavor, since another ex-
PLANTATION of its origin is that the
name is derived from the feminine
Adalbert or Adelchen, signifying
daughter" in FARMLAND. Alix or
Alisa in Lombardy was naturalized in
England when Alix la Belle married
Henry l.
Alexandria is the talismanic stone of
Alice. 1t is found in the emerald
mines of Russia and its splendid
green, which changes pulsatlngly to
columbine red, makes it representa-
tive of the Russian national colors
and therefore honored as a national
stone. The Russians believe that II
brings great fortune. 1t denotes hope
and. when dreamed OF. indicates much
I TO look forward to. Monday is Alice's
lucky day, and her lucky number
Her flower is the white hawthorne
which means hope.
Alice has been additionally sur
rounded by all the virtues and sim,
plicity which man is supposed to de
sire in woman. Indeed, the name is
POLITICALLY synonymous with 'true
blue" 1t has been immortalized in
the old song. ''Ben Bolt:
Oh. do YOU remember Sweet Alice. Der
Bolt:
Sweet Alice with hair so brown:
Who thrilled with delight when YOU gave
her smile,
Ard uembled with fear at you,
frowns
&c by the Wheeler Syndicate. Inc)
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-23
Peach Pudding.

Thickly butter n melon mod
sprinkle the bottom and sides
chopped nut meats and shredls
ron. Fill tile mold loosely WITH !
pieces of sponge cake and s-s
drained peaches. Prepare a %
from pint Of milk. a pinch 81
one-third of a cupful of sugar aA
lightly beaten eggs. Pour tAsl
the init and cake, cover VITA
tered paper and set the mold 10 =
OF hot water. Cook in a neT
oven until set. A mixture 70
unmolded must be firm enough o.
its shape. Serve with fruit J
from the canned peaches.
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NumeraI Lines.

How many OF. our readers have
heard the following curious nonsense
rhymes? The lines We're very well
known some fifty years ago:
: One ole OK opening oysters.
Two toads totally tired trying TO
trot to Tedbury.
Three tigers taking tea.
-Four fat friars tanning fainting
fieas.
Five Frenchmen fricasseeing frogs
Six sportsmen shooting snipe.
Seven Severn salmon swallowing
shrimps.
Eight educated Englishmen examin-
ing Europe.
Nine nice neat nimble noblemen
nibbling Lonpareils.
Zen tailors twisting Irvine.
Eleven Egyptian elephants eating
English cells.
Twelve twittering tomtits twininc
twisting. twirling twixt the tender
twigs.
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-23
NEW YEAR
GREETING
By WILL. M. MAUPIN

I WISH happy prosperous year
= To all my good friends, far and
near;
From California cross TO Maine.
From lakes TO gulf. and back again:
From north TO south. from east to
west.
] wish for each OF yon the best 6
The New Year has within its store
All This / wish for you-and more.
] wish n year OF joy and peace;
From sorrow and from pain release;
For friends about on every side.
And Loves door ever opened wide:
Hopes fun fruition day by day,
And sunshine all along your way.
And harhor safe when tcmpests roar
All this | wish for you-and more.
For you ! wish, instead of gold,
That you may gracefully grow old;
That each days slowly setting sun
WIN see some duty nobly done.
| wish that home ties stronger grow,
That for you flowers bloom and blow,
That Gods rich blessings ON you
pour
All this / wish for you-and more.
The best that's old, the best that's
new
All, ell of these. wish for you.
60 by VIII NJ. Maupln)
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Spanish Chicken.

Make a sauce OF one tablesTSs
of butter, two tablespoonful 81
and two cupfuls of water with |
teaspoonful of beef extract add
it. Add one cupful OF cold q
chicken cut fine. one small Onla|
into slices and parbolled. one pig
cut into bits, and two tabespOi
Of cooked peas. Heat well and 4
hot on toast.
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from them fat chicken which they
were carrying home for breakfast
which was very wrong as we'll as I'M
kind. because the strong should never
take advantage of the weak.
The llttlo brother Foxes did not for
get this, and when Mr.. Fox called on
Mr.. Coon to ask his help the little
Fox brothers happened to be passing
and heard what he said.
All the way home they were think
Ing what they could do to plague Mr..
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-23
Never-FaiI Cake.

Take one cupful of New 0rlas
lasses. one teaspoonful Of sod
tablespoonful Of butter, or laH
teaspoonful of ginger, cinnanm
nutmeg, mixed, and little lemm'
one-half cupful of milk, n pinch III
two cupfuls of flour. or less, TO nd
soft batter. Dissolve the sOdn
tablespoonful Of hot water and Il
the molasses. Mix and bake IN 4
or in a shallow pan.
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Scotch Pies

Prepare a rich pastry; roll %,
too thin; cover with raIslns and
rants, chopped and mixed with e|
water or fruit juice to molsten, |
over this another layer Of pastu
bake in n hot oven for fifteen nh;
Cut in rectangles about two ID
square.
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.Au NlA4M
Ia 1927 rUan,.rn Naxnnapsr Is
interrupted.
@. ia22. Western NsW'O'7'F u

"Ah, darling" he sighed, on ~
Tor sofa. II could sit like Us
you forever"
'SYuh could. could yuh" e1.I
q paternal voice upstairs
yuh get her. young fellow !
yuh won't be sittin' nowhep
on your job wishin' there was : |.
days in a week !"-RichmonO
Dispatch.
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-23
A LINE O. CHEER
BY John kendrick Bangc.


TIME
MO MATTER what the wise
IN Nm says,
Time does not pass at all,
But ever right beside US stays
All ready for our call.
Our clocks may run. and age count
up 800
To, many ana many year,
But Time stands by with brimming
cup,
Still. calm and ever near.
At any hour OF day or night,
In lowlysplaee or. thigh.
In days OF trpuble or delight,
He's always standing by
With lavish gifts OF minutes fair
Ready for Us to use,
To waste or treat with proper care
According as we choose.
Copyright. by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
u
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-23

As evidence that he does not favor
secret diplomacy, President Harding
has appointed an Ohio woman as secre-
tary of an embassy.
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-23

A Harvard professor says nervous
prostration is luxury disease. The
poor must keep on working Colorado
Springs Telegraph.
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-23
THINGS TO EAT

DISHES which are inersl
- wholesome and not dlhr.
preparation. are the favOrltes 4
busy housewife and mother.
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nother5CoaoRB1
C@-

Thank God for test. where non, =
And none can make afraid
For Peace that sits as Plentys r..
Beneath the homestead SHADE,
~ q Wnhsl
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-23

Music radiophoned from America
has been heard in Europe; but to date
no European harmony has been heard
IN America. = Washington Post.
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-23

1t Is hard TO understand a sex that
is too proud to do homework at SIS a
week, but will marry and do it for
nothing -Brook5i{Ie Record.
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-23

Mrs. Meeks paid you very flatter-
ing compliment last night, my dear. :
What aid she sayg" She said thar
I did not look like married man"
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-23

Senator Pepper. OF Pennsylvania,
wants TO settle strikes by popular vote.
Amy vote would be popular that settled
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He held up to my foolish
Lies golden cup 10 ql' 80
And as | slaked my tnirs' n
He snatched il. with q 1873
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Has Anyone Laughed
/: At. You ay-s.l;

You are so easy to see through?
If you are, you have been up
against 1t lot, because when
you are easy to see through
your very honesty and kindness
are often taken the wrong way
and your frankness is often as
acting and people think you
are queer! You need comfort.
Keep ON being easy to under
stand; it means pretty much
your mind is clear, that you
think straight, that your heart
is in the right place. You will
waste less time, too, as it is
hard to be something you aren't.
so
Your Getaway here is:
Let them "see through you"
and don't worry, and If they
laugh be glad you can be anus
ing!
90 by Mcclure Newspaper syndlcatc.)
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-12-23

Winsone Jean Paige, the "movie"
star, Is farmers daughter. She spent
the greater part Of her life, before her
screen life was begun, on her fathers
model farm at Paris, III. Her work in
prominent productions has resulted in
her becoming one of the best-known OF
the many picture players. This is one
Of her latest pictures.