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Evening star., 1925-04-17
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Jimmy Has q Shock.
By THORNTON w. BURGESS.
Obey the lady of the house,
If chance it be she is your spouse.

Obey the lady OF the house.
If chance il be she is your spouse
Jimmy Skunk.
Jimmy has learned by experience.
There is no teacher like experience.
So when Jimmy discovers that Mrs.
Jimmy has made up her mind to a
certain thing he doesn't argue. He
knows that that would be just a
waste of breath. So it came about
that when Mrs. Jimmy told Jimmy she
had moved from their old home where
they had spent the Winter together.
sharing 1t with several of their grown
children, up to this new home under
Farmer Browns henhouse, Jimmy
didn't try to get her to go back to the
old home. 1t was a perfectly good
home, was that old one. Jimmy was
satisfied with it. But If Mrs. Jimmy
had made up her mind to leave II,
that was all there was to II.
Well" said Jimmy, when he had
recovered a bit from his surprise at
discovering Mrs. Jimmy at the en-
trance to that hole under the hen
house, Il guess that perhaps you are
right, my dear, and we do need a
change. Suppose you step aside so
that l yuag so in and see what our
new home looks like
1T isn't our home-at least it isn't
just now. 1t is my new home" said
Mrs. Jimmy.
'D-d-d-do YOU m-m-m- mean that
am not to live here:" suffered jim
my in shocked surprise.
Not at present, anyway" declared
Mrs. Jimmy. This is my home, and
you are TO keep out of it and away
from it. 1 don't want you around.
The old home will do nicely for you
If you feel that you must have a home
So trot along now and don't bother
me any longer" Mrs. Jimmy turned
and disappeared under the henhouse.
Jimmy stared rather foolishly at the
hole where she had disappeared. 1t
was a shock to discover that he was
not to share that new home, that he
wasn't wanted around Yet, had he
stopped to really think about it, it
wouldn't have been such shock, for
he had had that experience before. II
wasn't the first time he had found
that his room was desired more than
his company. But the whole thing
was so unexpected that he didn't stop
to think. Besides, he did want TO see
what it was like under that henhouse.
So Jimmy hung around. He didn't
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bered that something very like this
had happened before, and so he had
quite recovered from the shock II
was Spring, and he hadn't a worry in
the world. SO he thought, anyway
until 1t popped into his head that il
Farmer Brown should discover that
Mrs. Jimmy was living under his hen
house there might be trouble for her
She ought to have known better
than to dig under that henhouse. :
thought Jimmy. Yes, sir. she ought
to have known better If anything
happens to any of Farmer Browns
chickens she'll be blamed for il. II
she had to have new home I wish
she had made II somewhere else. II
is useless for me to say anything
about it to her. She will have her
own way. She always has had It, and
she always will have it" Jimmy
sighed. Two minutes later he was
fast asleep.
Copyright, 1925 BY r. W. Burgess)
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quite dare venture inside, but he hoped
Mrs. Jimmy would have a change of
mind and invite him in.
But Mrs. Jimmy didn't and at last
Jimmy slowly ambled away. He was
first grieved, and then he was angry.
He would show Mrs. Jimmy that it
didn't matter to him in the least If
she didn't want him about. He would
go off and have a good time and for
get all about her. You see, Jimmy
was very like some folks you and
know.
But by the time Jimmy got back to
his old home the next morning he
was his usual happy self. By that time
he had remembered. He had remem-
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Spice Pudding.

Four cups scalded milk, one scant
cup molasses, one-half teaspoon mixed
spice, two full cups bread crusts, one
saltspoon salt, one cup raisins. Com
bine all materials in baking dish and
bake in a moderate oven for about an
hour. The beating should be very oc-
casional while baking.
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7Copyright, 193.)
Rhubarb Frappe .

Combine one pint of rich pink
rhubarb juice with the juice Of one
lemon. the juice OF two oranges, one
cupfuI of water and one cupful of
sugar. Bring the mixture to a boil.
Cool and then freeze
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NEAI, CHOPS

Take six or seven finely cut
chops, season and lay in melted
butter. When nicely soaked dip
them in beaten egg and then
bread crumbs and lay in a pan
or u broiler and cook over a
moderate fire.
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Twenty-Ninth Day.

PUNO, Peru, February 23.-I am
writing this on the train leaving
Cuzco for Puno. on Lake Titicaca.
I wish that l might have stayed
longer, for Cuzco, believe me, is one
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CHOCOLATE CAKE.

NI1OCOLAI I Z OAhL.
One cup sugar, one-third cup
lard. one cup sour milk, one
teaspoon soda, one tablespoon
cocoa, one teaspoon cinnamon,
two cups -four. Sift the dry
ingredients, cream in the lard
and then add the milk.
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Furniture Covers.

When making loose covers for fur
niture the most important thing is to
allow enough material for tucking in
around the seats of chairs and
couches. At least six inches should
be allowed. This will save the cover
from tearing on account of being too
tight, and by careful smoothing and
tucking in it can be made to At per
fectly. The edges of loose covers are
best corded, but almost as good an ef-
feet can be obtained by placing a fold
of material cut on the bias in the
seam. When making ruff1es for the
covers allow twice the length Of the
ruffle required and divide each side of
the cover into halves and quarters, as
well as the ruffle before 1t is gathered.
Lynn Doyle, author of "Persevering
Pat" produced on a London stage, is
in, ha MT
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Bedroom Slippers.

Cut the tops from discarded hosiery
into strips one inch wide, cutting
round and round. Sew the strips TO.
gether until you have a pound ball,
then knit or crochet into tops for
bedroom slippers. A pair of these
placed on a good heavy sole will be
useful for father or mother. The
tops of silk hosiery make very pretty
as well as useful slippers sor men,
women or children.
Bedroom slippers may also be made
of twine, the common kind that mer.
chants use, and are as attractive in
appearance and as durable in wear as
those made of almost any kind of
hard-twist thread. They are also as
warm as those made of yarn. Made
IN any pretty design and color and
tied with matching ribbons. it is hard
TO tell them from those made of other
thread, and the expense of a pair is
cut just about half
y pretty slipper is made as follows:
Cut into smooth strips some bright
colored silk scraps and tack them to-
Gether as you would carpet rags when
making a rug. Use a coarse crochet
hook and crochet in the same way
that slippers are crocheted when
using knitting wool. Sew to the soles
and finish with rosette or silk orna-
ment on the toe. The effect is pretty
and the slippers will harmonic well
with gay-colored kimonos.
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Menu for a Day.

Menu for a Day.
BREAKFAST.
Grapefruit.
Oatmeal with Cream.
Cinnamon Toast. Marmalade.
Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Creamed Salmon.
Rye Bread.
Chocolate Cake. Tea.
DINNER.
Cream of Carrot Soup.
Dreaded Veal Chops.
Riced Potatoes.
Sliced Tomatoes and Cucumbers.
Strawberry Shortcake.
Coffee.
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CINNAMON TOAST.

CINNAMON TOAST.
Remove crusts from white
bread, cut in bars, spread with
butter, sprinkle with sugar and
cinnamon and put in oven until
light brown.
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other article, can be made from plain
or flowered ribbon. The foundation is
wooden button mold IA inches in
diameter, over which is drawn q
circle of lowered ribbon or silk with
the flower placed in the center of the
button. If you use plain silk, you can
embroider a tiny flower or other de-
sign in the center. The button is
edged by putting of ribbon. For this
you will need one-eighth of a yard of
plain satin ribbon l Il inches wide
First fold the ribbon and sew the ends
together to form a continuous piece.
Turn under one edge of the ribbon
for 3-16 inch and run a gathering
thread. Pun it tight to have a half
inch opening for the fioWered or en-
broidered ribbon in the center Run
gathering thread along the other
edge of the ribbon. Place the satin
puff thus formed over the edge of the
button mold, with the turned-under
edge on the face of the button. Pull
the drawing thread, fasten off and dis
tribute the gathers evenly
Children's Hats.
\ handmade chain of daises is
very charming for a child's hat. The
wreath is built up on a band of rib.
bon. little over a quarter of an inch
IN width. matching in color the wool
or silk chosen for the daisies. Ordi-
nary white darninG wool from a card
or ball may be used. with a little vel.
low wool for the center of the flowers
or heavy white silk could be used in
stead.
Begin the work by cutting out a
cardboard disk with a circumference
measuring that of a thimble. A post
card will be of the right thickness re-
qulred. Then cut a hole through the
center one-third the diameter of the
disk. Thread a double needleful of
wool or silk and hold the disk in place
on the center of the ribbon with the
lett thumb until a stitch in each
direction secures IL in position. It
VIII be noticed that in working the
stitches running parallel with the rib
Don the needle passes between the
cardboard and the ribbon and, picking
up small piece of the ribbon show.
ing through the center hole, comes
out through the center. When two
layers of stitches are completed all
round, cover the center with short
stitches in yellow wool. This will
Keep the petals from slipping when
cut. Finally, cut the petals with a
pair of sharp scissors round the edge
and remove the cardboard.
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No Smart" Criminals

Perhaps you have been reading Chapman called the
"arch criminal He is held up mistakenly, a Of
superior intellect great courage, wonderful ability and in
genuity.
There nothing to all that In all the world you could
not find complete failure than this Chapman
And the is true Of other criminals Here and there
Chapman has made rat slips out Of trap He
has lived the life Of rat hunted miserable frightened His
face and expression are those Of a rat
You see with pity poor creature thin face
and weak the result of boyhood Of starvation and
misery and early association with criminals when he lived
criminal cells for long years Of his life.
Crime does not PAY, it never HAS paid snybOdy The
criminal lives forever in fear Of hand CIapped his
shoulder, and the words II want you"
The apparent cash profits Of the criminal small and
they vanish You viii not find criminal has
died rich This Of does not include the financial
criminals, the ONLY intelligent criminal class.
y know how to commit their crimes INSIDE of the law
The criminal understand crime is miserable fearful
driven human being He usually takes drugs quiet
nerves, thus making his misery greater.
He has friend that he trust NOT ONE He knows
that the police work through stoo pigeons business
tt is to betray their criminal friends
And the criminal well knows that there more honor
among thieves than there among gamblers Thievng and
gambling alike destroy the sense Of honor.
criminal usually timid always failure in the end
happy and far from smart Instead of calling Chap
the arch criminal they might better call the arch
tOoL" CRIME DOES NOT PAY.
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would stick the sink would choke the would leak
So she d ask Albert in her pretty hesitatng way he
wouldn't step just minute and help So Albert stepped
in for just inmate, many many times and the minute
heightened while he slice of cheese cake and drank
cup Of coffee. Then morning, at m she knocked
all in futter at his door and told him Dreadful Man
trying get in through the fire escape No. there
wasn't dreadful when Albert looked But the next
night there Arch Atmosphere at the dinner table
and gradually dawned AlbertUhat he supposed
to be ENGAGED And he's married.
There also the of Herb Herb studying for
the law and digging like the dickens. 1t mighty
to forget it in while and drop in at Elias for
ming. To dance with Ella-and dine with Ela-and pet
Ella little in while And then night cud-
died into his and told him how happy they going
to be together and how he needn't wait until hed passed
the bar exams because she told Dad all about and Dad
said he stake them unti-Herb's married now
Dons married, too. He thought it was only passing
thrtaton but she began to weep night and told him
how her folks were abusing her." Don's married
And his mOther-in-law lives with them
Read the evidence for yourself Boys your foot
accordingly.
Am Mean Cat to spill all this Inside Stuff my own
sexf Yes girls But honest goodness some of our
stuff is TOO CRUDE!
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YIDE across the Southern
" sky, In the early Novem-
w be evenings, stretches
the huge imaginary form Of the
celestial whale, Cetus. Aratus
thus pictured him In the third
century before Christ:
"And yonder, distant from her
covering form,
The oncou1ing monster ecareS
she in the blasts Of Thracian
IL stationed, while the south
wind brings her foes
The Whale"
whatever the ancients may
have seen about 1t to awake
thoughts Of dread and terror,
this large constellation during
the past three centuries has been
famous for the extraordinary
conduct of one OF its stars, the
wonderful Mira" which at times
has been seen shining with 900
times its average minimum
brightness. Quite ordinarily it's
brightness increases from q hun
dred to two hundred and fifty
fold in the course Of some five
months.
when brightest, Il q conspicu.
GUS to the naked eye; when
fainteSt, 1t IL only visible with q
telescope. It's light goes up and
down like that Of q lighthouse,
suddenly flaring out OF the dense
surrounding darkness, like q
cleaning point swelling brighter
and larger until 1t throws a
steady guiding ray across the
deep, and then fading again
until 1t disappears, swallowed
up in the night. The whole
period Of change, which has now
been watched by astronomers for
324 years Though 1t has probably
been going on from time Inn
memoriaD is about 3S1 days, but
is irregularly variable to the ex.
tent Of a week or two.
$4,000, 900 Times Sums Size.
When brightest, Mira is Of q
rich golden white color; when
faintest, and only visible with
telescopes, its color is deep red.
A perishing sun, said astronomers,
almost at the last gasp Of solar
life! That view Of Mira, which
I have done my modest share
in spreading, seemed a very
probable one until recently. But
now 1t looks rather as If the
wonder Of the Whale" were
a young stellar giant instead Of
q decrepit wreck Of q star,
shrunken and dwarfed in its
agony.
It has just been assigned to
a place beside the celebrated
Betelgeuse in Orion, one Of the
largest and most extraordinary
members of the class Of the
"red giants. Mr.. Pease, of
the Mount Wilson Observatory,
announces that measurements Of
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DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
RY DOCTOR FRANK CRAM.
Greatest KnOIO1I Force

YVHE greatest force known among men is the force o.
himself
II It is the sheer dominancy of his spirit over IN
toward things .
When one sick and invaded by the hosts OF pain his
prospects for brightest ne has plenty OF re-
serves of spirit The determination not to die mas Kept
many man from dying
When Floyd Collins imprisoned in the Kentucky cave
the thing that kept him alive long his indomitabe
spirit his will not to give in It was this that supported
him and his resouers.
The most amazing thing in that most amazing trip to
Nome with the supply Of anttoxn for dphhera was not
the dog the dphthera antoxn ITSELF but it was fAe
men -
Man after all the wonderful animal in the world
than any other animal simply because
is spirit and has all the Of spiritual power
When George Mallory, whose life was recently lost In 40
up Mt Everest, returned from his first tp up
mountain his wife greeted him with the remark Of course
you will 60 again" When asked why he devoted his
energies to trying climb Mt Everest he answered the
question by saying, Because it is there"
If understand that reply we shall understand the
magnificent spirit that has made England what she is
1t is the disposition to what seems nsuperape
obstacles that makes great It being willing TO
throw ones self against opposition that seemed nsuprabe
that renders the history Of the British people glorious
There constantly being enacted all about us the tragedy
Of pain The hospitals full of sufferers and there
many at home who suffering It would be well Tor
them all to realize that it is not the doctors medicine nor
the that is the chief factor in anyone getting
we'll but it is ones ndomitable spirit, the pluck and
energy with which attacks the difficulties that confront
him.
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fell in love with Not only that but she says
gagged Now took this Bozo much less proposed
to her. and yet she tells folks 1--WE practically engaged
Of course, I've had onesded training-Im studious,
hard nodded business man, and my prospects the cats
My experience brings me to you. Am engaged mott
Doesn't fellow know anything about it, when he sH Who's
goofy anyhow? I'm healthy and everything and perfectly
happy don't remember having done anything deserve
such punishment
This gals old mans got jack. He is holding his
in the bootleg industry. heard she liked look into
peoples private roomsand when she gets caught she
she trying to do mothering" Is this girl slob
privileged booteggers daughteri Aren't such things
COMMON2 Her dads clientele and some professional
panderes in deep sympathy with her ignorance and
shabby morals and insist that ought marry her
way What is your advice to me, sweet woman2
GUS
What you dot Take your foot in your hand and fit
the horizon pal And keep right running till you
throw them off the scent For believe Pal that species
has Eliza s blood hounds beaten fifty ways
And now having Gus his nervous way let's stop
grnnng and think about that letter. It's funny letter.
the problem behind it isn't funny and every week
brings Of similar letters that don't pretend to
be joke.
Is this situation generals
Yes, my dear, it AM.
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the angular diameter Of Mira
made with Michelsorl's interfer-
ometer attached to the great
1OO.i1ch telescope. show that u
il even larger than Betelseuee,
being at least 100000, 900 miles
In diameter.
The diameter OF Bstelgeuse
at first was calculated at a sim
liar figure. when the earliest
measurements were made in 1890,
but later estimates have placed
II at about $4,000, 600 miles.
The diameter Of the sun is
only about $1,000 miles, SO that
Mira must exceed the sun ~
times In diameter, and 80 900
times in the area OF its DISK.
Think of facing q sun or that
size! In bulk 1t must be about
23,OOO,O zoo times greater than the
sun, But the edge or these
startling statements may be 9
little dulled by the fact that
sirnilar ones were made some
vears ago when the other giant,
RateIeeuee. was measured.
There is one other red star
Antares in the Constellation ScoF'
pio, which will be seen sieamlns
above the Southern horizon next
summer-whose diameter far ex-
ceeds even that Of Mira, amount
ing, according to- the best cal
culations, to no. less than 4VV.s
OOO,000 miles.
Giant Suns Are Of Gas.
Now what kind Of suns are
these extraordinary red giants
any one of which would be
capable Of swallowing millions OF
dwarf orbs like our own sun!
AS already remarked they are
youthful in the order Of evolu.S
ton. Their immense size, as
we'll as other peculiaFities, m
dicate that their density II ox-
ceedingly slight. like that OF IN
attenuated gas in an electric
vacuum tube" remarks Doctor
George e. Hale.
In a recent article, ! showed
In popular form how according
to the now prevailing theory Of
stellar development, stars begin
as vastly expanded giants" Of
red color, then pass through
successive stages Of contraction
and increase Of temperature,
until they reach a maximum OF
temperature in the case Of the
blue-white stars, Of the ''B class"
after which they continue to con-
tract, with fall Of temperature,
running backward through the
6prmer stages, and ending In the
state Of dense, contracted, cooled
off "dwarfs," recalling the lean
and slippered pantaloon" Of
ShGkespeare's Seven Ages"
verging to that last scene of
all :. sans teeth, sans eyes,
sans taste, sans everything"
Now Mira is ''sighing like q fur.
mace" in the ballad age, so that
what we had taken for struggles
against extinction, are in reality
outbreaks Of youthful vigor.
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ONCE-OVERS
TIME TO COME OUT OF WINTER SHELL.

Are you allowing yourself to sag?
During the cold winter days you hudded your head in
your overcoat collar dropped it close down in
muffler until your shoulders have become stopped
It is now time for you get out of your shell.
Raise your head throw back shoulders and breathe
you should
If YOU want realize just how much have allowed
yourself to soop fill your lungs with all the air they will
hold exhae in the position your body must maintain
when the lungs are full
Now isn't it surprising how such long deep breath
straightCns you up?
correct position you will feel better, fit and
better able tackle any proposition which COnfronts yon
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Does the modern female often go out gun

Does the modern female often 60 out gun
ming for a mate!
She DO-and the woods are full OF her.
"The men have it coming to them," snick-
err Mary and Ellen and Kate. "They fooled
us long enough and now they're getting
theirs!''
Yes, now they're getting theirs-and if
you re bloodthirsty it funny sight. But
if you re strong for fair play, regardless Of
sex, it isn't such comedy.
There's the case Of Albert. Albert was
married last week and is going to repent it
for the next forty years. Didn't Albert love
his DorotheaH He did NOT. But she was
such lonely, helpless little divorcee who
lived across the hall in the same boarding
house. And something always happening
that poor, helpless, frail little woman
couldn't possibly remedy. The window
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The clothing of minds certainly ought be re-
garded before that of our bodies-Steele
The noblest mind the best contentment has-Spenser
This is our rock of strength; in every i'll,
Sorrow, oppression, pain and agony,
The spirit of the good is unsubdued
And suffer they may they triumph stll--SOuthey.
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He eer is crowned with Immortality who fears to follow
where airy voices lead-Keats.
wise man is less alone than when he is alone
Dean Swift.
There not words enough in all the language
the erest fraction OF mans experience in hour
Stevenson.
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YORLD, meet Gus.
Y Gus is an engaging scamp, If ever

" Gus is an engaging scamp, il ever
F" there was one. That's just his
trouble, he's too doggoned ENGAGING. /.
But s. help me Patrick, didn't know /
lid it, says Gus.
Here he's practically at the foot Of the
marriage altar and he doesn't yet know how
ne got there.
"a lot of young unmarried gentlemen, and
! few older ones, who have been benedicts
'or, 10, these many years, are going to clamp
light onto Gus's letter and read every word
with sobs of sympathy.
Dear Miss Robinson:
Believe me, Pal, know of the good help
you have given those who came to you with
heir love problems. Gosh, but my trouble is
different. I was minding my own business
and ALONG oouo a nor+lv dame who cave che
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GARRETT P. SERVISS TELLS OF
GIANT WONDER STAR

Vast Mira, 100000 Times Sun in Size, Battles
Observers by Waxing and Waning. s