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Evening star., 1923-11-13
Pests.

Why in the world must We suffer
pests? Why can't things run along
smoothly as we planned them? They
never do.
You plant a garden and coax the
seeds up out of the ground, and a
million weeds spring up to challenge
them. The plants are few inches
high and your heart lightens-when
out comes the woodchuck and nips off
their heads. You set trap for him.
and as you adjust II grimIy before his
castle door loo o you cnss Spy f. scattering ;an Of
The cutworm has ascended from the
depths and sawed of his m orning
meal.
Growing a garden is a thrilling bat
tie with the pests. You count your
them at the close OF the siege.
Bring up children-it's just the
same. You get them so they can rest
their wobbly heads against the pill
low and smile at you and along comes
a tooth. Why tooth should make a
pest of its coming Is beyond compre-
hension, but 1t does.
The teeth settle down to a grinding
calm, and along come the whoops and
the measles and the chicken pox to
keep you alert and active. One pest
after another!
Yet get the youngster along to the
place where no gets to school and
heave a sigh OF relief. You needn't.
The one infantile disorder that es-
capped him he catches now, and you
must remain on guard against the
epid amics of the schools.
The day comes when he seems to
have passed the contagious disease
stage. His teeth are all in, his dir
gestive. apparatus Is in good work
| ing order. Too good-it digests any
thing he puts up to it, or down to 1t.
as is his practice. You heave an
other sign and think, "At last"
You needn't. Down appears upon
his face, pimples poke out their dis
/ agreeable heads, nerves are cranky
| and moods are frequent. He has en-
tered the adolescent stage,
Clothes and manners and girls are
upon you and must be handled diplo-
matically and leisurely calm. No
| traps will answer here.
Why? Why can't children grow
| along smoothly as we planned to
have them do? Why fresh set of
| difficulties every stage of the way?
It's the law. that's all. You shall
| earn your way. you know.
And what would one be doing In all
| the leisure time left by the detection
OF the pests? Probably something
Evening star., 1923-11-13

Me and Mary Watkins was wawk-
ing home from skool together on ac-
count Of me having saw her ahed of
mo and quick catching up with her
axsidently on perpose, and ! started
to tell her how CRATE I was going
to be wen / grow up, saying. Do
you know wat I'm going to be. I'm
going to be q CRATE engineer and
bid the biggest bridges across the
biggest rivers in the werid. When
ever a river Is too wide for enybody
elts to bild a bridge across 1t why
they'll Jest come and ask me to do
1t because I'm going to be special
ist. / sed.
you're wonderful. Mary Watkins sed.
Wy don't you change your mind and
be a crate doctor insted? she sed.
Maybe will. 1 sed. Yes. believe
! will. Ill be a CRATE doctor and Ill
take peoples stummicks out and shine
before they even know they was
interrupted, / sed, and Mary Watkins
sed, How perfeckly ideal. / love doc
tors. Wy don't you change your mind
and be crate lawyer? she sed.
Well, I've thawt Of being lawyer.
sed. Yes. 1 bleeve will. Ill be a
CRATE lawyer and tell the judges wat
to say and different things like that,
l sed, and Mary Watkins sed,. o my.
wont that be perfeckly perfeck. And
she came to her house without having
time to ask me agen wy dident
change my mind. and / went home
and my sister Gladdis was reeding
q book with a red cover in her room,
me, saying. Hay Gladdis. I'm going
to be a CRATE engineer and If I'm not
Ill be a CRATE doctor insted or elts
maybe III be a crate lawyer.
You'll be a CRATE big greese spot If
you don't get out of my lite and let
me reed, Gladdis sed.
Proving sisters are different.
Evening star., 1923-11-13
Distorp Of pour Same
BY PHILIP FRANCIS NOwLAN.
CALDWELL.
VARlATlONs-caIweII, CALDWELL.
RACIAL oRiGiN-Ensiish.
S0uRCE-A i0H afftv

RACIAL oRiGiN-EnsIIsh.
soURcE-A locality.
One theory as to the origin of this
family name ascribes 1t to the COM
bination OF the words "col," meaning
the hazel, and "wold" or wood, MAX
ing the meaning of the family name
"Hazlewood." 1t Is an exclamation
by no means unreasonable, and In
some instances it may very well ac-
count for the existence of the name.
probability, however. points in an
other direction for the majority of
people who bear this name. And this
time 1t Is the obvious one. a COM
bination Of the two words cold" and
well" This is supported by the fact
that Ill some OF the old records the
original form of the surname is found
with the de la" cot the") prefixed.
At the period when these words were
prefixed, the name must have been
Indicative of the locality in which
the person, lived. and -cold-well"
'hazel-wood."
The form of Caldwell Is. Of course,
but a more modern variation In SPELL
ing, developed at a period when SPELL
ing was not so standardized as today,
but after the period when such family
names continued to have a descrip-
tive meaning.
developed by the elimination of the
a. But there is a village in Wales
called Caldwell. and the chances are
that in many cases this form of the
name has come from that source.
Copyright, 1921
Evening star., 1923-11-13
Danny Meadow Mouse Sees
Strange Siqhts.
Pray do not fail to take command.
When opportunity's at hand,
Danny Meadow Mouse

Danny Meadow Mouse
1t was several days before Danny
Meadow Mouse went up In the air
again. Meanwhile he and the aviator
who had caught him had become
friends. The aviator visited him sew
e!al times every day and he never
failed to bring some tid-bit to tempt
Danny's appetite. And he talked to
him. He talked in low, gentle voice.
1t wasn't long before Danny didn't
hesitate to take food from his friends
fingers.
Then came a morning when Danny
knew something was going to happen.
His friend, the aviator, was very busy
about the airpiane. which Danny al
ways thought OF as q man bird. Other
deal of noise and confusion, which
frightened Danny SO that he kept in
side the little box in his cage, Then
his friend climbed into the man bird
and almost at once there was the ter
ribie noise which is always made
A few minutes later Danny felt him
self going up and UP and up. He
knew he was flying once more.
Now, that aviator had made q place
for Danny'E little cage up whore he
could look out and down. He had
fixed 1t 30 that Danny would be pro-
tected from the wind. It was q long
time before Danny ventured to come
out Of his little box. But after he
had grown used to the noise Danny
ventured to poke his nose out. Then
he poked his head out. Then he came
out altogether.
For the first time Danny knew what
it was really like to fly. He could
look down and see all the Great
World spread before him. Never be-
fore had q Meadow Mouse seen such
strange sights as Danny now saw.
looked very smooth. Really they
were fields aAd meadows, though
Evening star., 1923-11-13
BY II. A. EN11 ONS.

and broad. round-topped head. The
bark is ashen gray to gray brown
and Is deeply fissured into irregular,
scally plates. The braches often
bear corky ridges. The leaves are
three to six inches long, two to three
inches wide, distinctively unique in
form, for on each side near the mid
die deep rounded sinuses reach nearly
to the midrib, this seeming to di-
vide the leaf into two parts, the
upper part being the larger and hav-
ing sQuarish lobes. the basal part
more nearly triangular lobes. The
base Is tapering, the apex more or
less rounded.
The acorns ripen the first year.
They are variable in size and shape.
The nut Is usually oval, one-half to
two inches in length. and Is nearly
| inclosed in curious messy cup
! which is composed of comparatively
large scales and with a fringe-like
border. Fhe wood Is commercially
not distinguished from that of the
, white oak.
The tree illustrated Is situated at
the corner of Louisiana and Pennsyl-
yania avenues northwest
Evening star., 1923-11-13

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Evening star., 1923-11-13
Our Birds in Verse
By Henry OLdys
OVEN-BIRD.

mind dark and secret dell,
Which breeze and sunbeam never know,
Where twaybade and aplectrum dwell
And snowy orchis loves to blow.
fan would seek this quiet nook,
All the demands of care deferred,
Hear the soft tinkling Of the brook
And listen to the oven-bird
That beating note beginning low,
But louder growing, louder STILL
. Until at last it seems though
The leaves must tremblc with its thrill
1t ceases and the woods around
More hushed by far than seem,
AS darkness vastly more profound
Follows at night the lightnings gleam
And when TIL insistent note no more
Invades the channels of my ear
Down on the yet autumna floor
see the vocalist appear;
Yet with no hopping, sparrow gait
He moves about the leaf-strewn EARTH
But treads sedate ".
That tenderness is filled with mirth
An urchin at his fathers side
VIII seek to catch the longer stride,
A trick that to complacent eyes
Amuses while it gratifes.
And SO when you, my tiny friend,
Strut with unlooked-for dignity
smile, but with my smile doth blend
A kindness born of sympathy.
And now, as evening draws anear,
hear a burst of melody.
And in the golden atmosphere
- Above the trees form see.
lis he again. the oven-bird,
49, Winging and singing through the air,
Fingng to earth his goodnight word
In accents light and debonair
Goodnight to thee, thou minstrel dear;
! thank thee for these moments bright
God keep thee free from every fear
And SO. my friend, goodnight, good-nig
Evening star., 1923-11-13
Let It Alone.

The wild animal sustains wounds
and gets them healed very well with
something that approaches scientific
neglect. The domestic dog or cat
practices a let-alone policy with re-
markable success in the healing of
wounds.
We're 1t not for flies and other in
sect posts. dust and the accidental
contact OF various objects. the ideal
management for any wound or sore
would be exposure to the air Indeed,
such management is found most sue
cessful In the treatment of large
burns and other ulcers in institutions
where 1t 10 applicable. Ordinarily
some covering must be used to pro-
tect the wound. The paraffin wax
treatment SO much used for burns and
large ulcers since the great war is a
valuable one in the hands of a sur
geon. For the layman applying first
aid or attempting the management
of q wound or sore at any time. a
covering Of some neutral. clean. non
Evening star., 1923-11-13
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D.,
Noted Physician and author.

adherent material Is best, such az a.
coating Of petrolatum petroleum
jelly) which has been freshly boiled
to sterilize 1t, or an impervious cover
ing OF flexible coIiodion if the wound
surface is drY+enough for the colio-
dion to stick upon the edges. or a
few overlapping strips OF unhandled
adhesive plaster.
In all treatment Of cuts, wounds
burns, sores or ulcers which do not
demand the care OF a surgeon the
more rarely redressing is done the
better for healing. If a wound or
burn Is clean and asepucally mot
antiseptically) dressed, II is usually
best not to remove the dressing with
in a week. or, IL possible. not until
ten days. Following aseptio or clean
operations, II Is the general practice
of surgeons nowadays not to change
the dressing within a week or more
after the operation.
Nature takes care Of the healing.
all right, If no impediment Is place.
in the way If II Is clean, surgical
clean, let II alone.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star., 1923-11-13

not nearly as worthwhile as helping
a child grow up. You know the pest
US. We are inclined to think the nm
pleasantness all our own. 1t isn't.
Most OF 1t is visited upon the Children
The plant hates to have it's head
nipped on by the chuck, and the
cniio is terribly uneasy under a visi-
tation OF the chickenpox. What couid
one DO with more profit to his own
soul than to fight the pests of child.
hood? When you can't see why they
should come. why just think Of that
and grin and bear with them. Espe-
cially the grin.
(Copyfight 10o31
Evening star., 1923-11-13

The bur oak. or mossy-cup oak as
1t Is also called, is one Of the tallest
of our oaks. 1t is easily recognized.
for it's leaves are peculiarly distinc-
tive, as are also its acorns, and its
branches often exhibit corky ridges
along their sides.
The following interesting para
graph is quoted from Harriet Keelers
Our Native Trees: "The bur oak
ranges from Manitoba to Texas and
lruIn the foothills of the Rocky
mountains to the Atlantic coast. 1t
goes farther to the northwest than
any other of our eastern oaks. 1t
varies In size from shrub in Man.
itoba, to a magnificent tree 160 feet
high in southern Illinois. 1t is the
most abundant oak Of Kansas and
of Nebraska, and forms the scattered
forests known as the oak openings
of Minnesota" 1t is not found east
of the Alleghanies in this part of the
country, and the few in the District
were planted by the hand of man.
1t is a large, picturesque. ragged
looking tree with spreading branches
Evening star., 1923-11-13

The wise mother will see that she
has several pairs of comfortable
nighties on hand. made of warm ma
terials that will be a protection
against draughts, for as she knows,
no doubt. wee boys and girls are for
ever kicking the bed covers off. often
times endangering the tender young
bodies. The pattern for this little
one-piece sleeping garment cuts in
sizes 2, 4, 6, 8. 10 and ~ years, and
for the eight-year size requires 25s
yards of 36-inch material.
Price OF pattern. Is cents. in pos
tage stamps only. Orders should be
addressed to The Warrington Star
Pattern Bureau. - East 18th street,
New York city. Please write name
and address clearly.
Evening star., 1923-11-13

began to grow smaller and smaller
and smaller again. That was when
the man-bird had swooped down
toward the earth and then climbed
up again. Once he could see nothing
but great, soft mass below him.
1t was a cloud. Danny was above
the clouds, but of course he didn't
know this. It was all so wonderful
that Danny forgot to eat. He was
almost sorry when at last that great
man-bird came down, down, down and
the noise Of the engine stopped.
:: tcesyrixht. 1873, by I: ". Burgess,
Evening star., 1923-11-13
Carrot Pie.

Mash one and one-third cups of
cooked carrots and press them
through a colander. Add two thirds
of teaspoonful Of cinnamon. the
same amount of ginger. and ore table,
spoonful of -four. Mix and add one
An egg may be used in place of the
-four and less milk used, but most
persons prefer it without the eggA
Enough for two pies.
Evening star., 1923-11-13
BEDTIME STORIES y: Ts:::::s s:::::.'

Danny didn't know this. He saw
rougher green. patches, and these
were groves and green forests. He
saw shining. silvery stretches and
silvery threads. These were ponds
and lakes and rivers. He saw queer
looking little houses, which seemed
all crowded together. These were
Evening star., 1923-11-13

1t was agreed Polly Mount should
choose the material for the costumes
she and the neighbor children were
going to wear in the Thanksgiving
play. AS her father drove her to
town behind the brown bays she
checked off the items of her shop
ping list on the fingers inside her
muff.
Twenty yards OF cambric, a pack
age of needles, two boxes OF beads
and four spools of thread" Before
long she was saying crafty, Twenty
packages OF needles a yard OF cam
brio. four boxes Of thread and a spool
Of beads"
But in the store she got her tongue
Strengthened out enough to buy the
right things. She was in such hur-
ry to get home and begin cutting
that she wouldn't even let her father
stop at the corner candy shop to buy
her an ice cream soda
Polly's little green coat and hat sst o6
beautifully her ooppery red hair. Tho mum
and fur are brown and 50 are her shoes. hsse
and plaid skirt.
Copyright. 1897
Evening star., 1923-11-13

towns and villages. He saw little
houses all by themselves In the mid
die of green and brown patches.
They looked as II they must have
been made for folks no bigger than
himself. Really they were farm
houses.
Once he looked down right on the
back Of King Eagle. who was fiyinS
below him. He didn't know It was
King Eagle. for he never had seen
King Eagle close to. But that is
who it was, for his head was snowy
white. Once all those things below
ing. They grew bigger and bigger
and bigger % fast that Danny didn't
know what to make Of It. Then they
Evening star., 1923-11-13

I gave her a beautiful home. car
of her own, jewels-everything that
was in my power to bestow upon her.
She never showed me any regard or
consideration. 1t was all take
proposition on her part.
She has now left me and started
divorce proceedings, and begs me not
to contest the case. ! know there ts
no other man in the case. She just
thinks she wants freedom, and she
Is sacrificing me. as she has sacrificed
everybody and everything, to her own
desires all Of her life. What do you
think should do under the cir
cumstances? LEONARD.
Answer: ! do not think that
woman who is SO selfish and self
ceptered will ever make any man
happy. and that the sooner he puts
her out Of his life the better. That type
of woman never lvoes any one but
herself, and the pity of it is that, by
some freak Of nature, she. seems able
to inspire a deeper love in men than
any good woman ever gets.
certainly do think that it Is
,oaSihle tn he too good to woman,
Evening star., 1923-11-13
Dorothy Dix's Letter Box
The Husband Who Was Too Kind-Shall She
Choose the High Tempered Younger Man or
Marry the Placid Elder Suitor ?-The ~
Man Whose Wife Won't Let Him
Smoke in the House.

DEAR MISS DIX: Is there much kind
and
several loved wife dearly vryhing
Evening star., 1923-11-13
By Vyvyan.

The makers of hats have found in
spiration for their delightful cre-
ations in little bits of Chinese en-
broidery. This embroidery. rich in
colors, brilliant, and hand worked
and sometimes really antiques
absolutely delightful on small
cloche or poke.
Here Is a shape with brim edged
In strip OF bright huee. In front of
the crown is a piece OF embroidery
that represents gold rays of the
sun touching rosy clouds in a purple
sky, with glints Of green here and
brim, edges this embroidered sunrise.
The crown Is a deep indigo velvet.
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I'm no.
nor Y COnteStandO a
Una pregunta

Tn brillante escritor que ocupa lu-
ger ptominente en- nuestra republica Ii
teraria, eI sefior Sergio Romsnacce, me
hace merced de ocuparse de mi modesto
lbro en- unas documentadas ''Impresio-
hes vuela Plrma'', que publica en- la
ultima edici6n de Puerto Rico Illus
trado."
Agradezco, hondamente, las frase5
laudatorias que mi hbro y mi de-
dica Ell jovea literario, por venir elias
Gle quien vienen; y aun me causa -pla-
Ger mayor saber que hay un intellectual,
mas que comparte mis- conclusiones So
Ire la catastrofe del Maine.
Graciss, senior Romanacce.
Al final de Su juicio usted, afectuo-
aanente, me reprocha dc que la fotogra-
tia de. nunca bien llorado patricio Luis
11ufioz Rivera no figure sn mi nbro, y
snade:
Nos p5rece a noSotros que en- una
historic de aque:la epoca no debe fal-
tar nnca ell nombre del que fu6 Jefe
del Gabinete Autonomico, autor del pac
to sagsstino y fundador del dnico par
lido que tiene Ia mayoria en- la Isla. =
S Wow a conte3tar, con el mayor gus
to, la pregunta de mi estimado amigo
el seiior Romanacce; pero antes debo
lossr mi bondadoso critico que file
su atonci6n en- que mi hbro es una Gro
rica de Guerra, ajena todo suceso 0
actuaciones po.iticas y one solo puede y
debe comprender hechos relacionados
con Ia campaha militar que ella Sc
contrae. 81 marco, extrictamente mi
litar, en- que SO encierra mi cbra, me
veda tnvadir terrenos sesencialmente 20
liticos.
En- Ia pagina SO, capftulo v, de mi
(Continia en- Ia A. pag. }
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The New York Times y Rafael
Hernandez USera

En- su discussion sobre Espafia, los
Estados Unidos Y las Republics His
paDoamericanas, el autor Sr. Herman
dez Usera. que reside temporalmente
en- Madrid, declare:
f'El E1paEa csta, por ell espiritu,
ul,a5a la suerte de America, mas 10.
estan los norteamericanos, unidos a
aquel continente por Ell espiritu y por
el cuerpo.
Elsa conception radical absolute
que prescnta a Espana como mantene-
dora exclusive del ideal y los Es-
tados Unidos como dofensores de 10
material, es TN t6pico que solo admit
ten los que no quieren pensar nj es-
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Total
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GENERosA INIcIATIvA DE Don
RAMON LOPEZ RAMIREZ

Nuestro cstimado amigo el sefior RI
mon Lopez Ramirez, propietario dol
Cine Norma, de Santurce, esta organi-
ado una grandiosa function cincmato-
grafica que Sc levara cabo ell saba1o
proximo beneficio del infeliz mucha
cho portorriquefo Perfecto Correa que
Sc encuentra prcso en- la carceI de San
tiago de Cuba.
La generosa y noble idea del sefior
Lopez Ramirez esta sicndo admirable
mente secundada por un grupo de be-
Has sefioritas de santurcs, que han
querido asociarse al caritativo home
maize, patrocinando ell benefco acto, a
fin de que resulte mas brillante y con-
currido, 81 csbe.
Tenemcs entendido que los habitau-
teS de Santurce Sc disponen a acudir
Ell sabado pr6ximo al Cine Norma, q
fin de que la function benefcio de Co.
rrea sea un exponente elocuente de 10
que es Ia caridad y 81 sentimiento per
tcrrtuueAos.
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cuntsd Press, via All America caO.ea,

PARIS, febrero lie Jcarnal' I
informa que el Goberno ACADIA de di-
rigir una nota q Inglaterra ma1ifes-
taDdo que Francia no acepta ninguna
mediaci6n en- 10 que Sc relaciona con
Ia question del Ruhr v principalmente
81 osa mediacion proviene de uno de
Gus aliados.
4, Gobierno-dice Ia nota-esta re-
suo tamente docidido 4 no aceptar pro
posicionos de intervention de ninguna
idole. Ell unico arreglo que acepta
Francis -sigue diciendo la nots-ssra
cuanaO Alenania proceda pagar las
indennizaciones a Francia.
lie Journal agrega que la nota
fua enviada Ing1aterra como resul-
tado de las declarac1ones de lord Cur
ron en- la Camara de los JLores, qui9n
manifesto que Gran Bretafia probable
monte, actuara como nediadora en- Ell
ssurto del Ruhr,
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Los TRATADos DE LA CoNFEREE
cIA DE WASHINGTON SON oBJE-
TO DE CUIDADosA ATENCIoN EN-
FRANCIA

PARIs, febrerc 1s.-''Ee Matin
dice Que las discusiones references los
tratados aprobados en- la conferencia
del desarme celebrada en- Washington
seran discutidos en- ell Parlamento fran
c6s en- la primera quincena CORES
pondiente al mes de MARIO pr6ximo.
El Cennite de Relaetones Extericres
del senado stgns rsuntdo estudiandc
81 tszto de tcdos los ttatadcs.
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Jos BURGoMAESTREs ALFEtANEs
EIENCIADoS A TRES AMOS DE
PRISIoN

BERLIN, febrero 18-Informes de
Essen p1blicados por los peri aicos
de n manana de hoy dicen qle Ell BEr
gomac+tre de Oberhausen Herr haven
stein, ha sido sentenciado a +yc5 amos
lie n~'s'on: ell Burgomaestre 1e Essen,
scbaefer, fue asimismo sentenciado q
tres amos de carcel por haber rehusa-
do firmar las ordenes de requisici6n
francesas y condenado al pago de una
mu'ta de cinco millo.tos de marcos.
Busclrmann, director de los traDa-
jos electricos de Essen fue cond7na-
do al pago dc una multa DC cineo ri-
''o""s &c r'arcos ret haborse ncgado
c"'uplinentar 6r5cnes del Comandpn
IS Ccncral do Essen.