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The Growth of an Error

Since Charles M. Schwab fell from
grace and became a semi-professional
after-dinner speaker, he has been re-
failing across banquet tables an in
cident which he claims figured in a
personal experience. Still, it Is well
to view with suspicion the alleged
"reminiscences of any after-dinner
speaker. 1t may be that the thing
didn't happen to him at all. Perhaps
he only heard 1t somewhere.
Be that as 1t may, Mr.. Schwab
states that during one of his trips to
Europe he met gentleman whose
breast was almost entirely covered
with decorations bestowed by various
Continental governments.
"Tell me, sir" said Mr.. Schwab,
"the story of the heroisms or the
achievements, as the case may be. for
which you were awarded this extraor-
binary number of honors?"
II shall be perfectly frank with
you," stated the other man. This
large medal here-the one containing
the pigeon-blood ruby in the fringe of
amethysts-was the first to be be-
slowed upon me. l received all the
others as i result of having received
that one."
And for what were you given the
first one?' inquired Schwab
oh said the European. shat one
was given to me by mistake"
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CHE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
THE GOLDENRoD
BY H. IRVING KING

TN NEW ENGLAND, and perhaps In
other parts of the country, a gall
from the stem of goldenrod Caused
by the sting of an insect) is called a
''rheumaty-bud." Each gall contains
a small white grub and the belief Is
that as long as the grub remains alive
one who carries The gall in his pocket
will be free from rheumatism.
The efficacy of this cure-or rather
preventive-is based upon the fact
that the flower of the plant from which
the gall Is picked is of bright gold
en- color-the color Of the sun and
therefore connected with the sun-god,
Apollo. Apollo did not exactly repre-
sent the sun itself but rather the light
and life-giving influences of the sun.
And also he was a great protector"
The part which the grub in the gall
plays in this piece of folk-medicine
is based upon an idea of primitive man
concerning the grubs and maggots
which appeared in the gals of trees
and plants and in decaying animal
matter. They were supposed to be In
peculiar manner an embodiment of
the spirit of the substance In which
they were engendered-to have sprung
from and been created by the vital es-
sence of that substance. In the GUS
toms of many savage tribes today this
primitive idea is found surviving in
full force with regard to the worms
found in dead bodies and gives rise
to disgusting rites by which the iiv-
ing seek to acquire the courage, or
other desirable qualities of the dead.
"a by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
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PENELOPE

FOREMOST among the names which
I literature has made immortal is
Penelope 1t means weaver and its
history is one of the most interesting
in feminine nomenclature.
There are numerous explanations of
its origin. Some etymOlogists claim
that it came originally from the Irish
Finnghuala (white shoulders) which,
though softened to Fenella. was later
translated into Penelope. 1t Is to this
that we owe the numerous Penelopes
Of England, beginning with the Irish
Penelope Devereux with whom is con-
nected the one shade on Sidney's char
acter.
The more common explanation of
Penelope connects her with Ulysses
faithful queen who sat day after day
before her loom while the hero Of the
odyssey" wandered the seven seas
This explanation makes Penelope a
claims that she had been exposed as
an infant and owed her life to a
kind of duck whom the Greeks called
penelops.
The carnelian is Penelope's tails
manic stone. 1t is the gem of faithful
ness and of trusting. loving heart
1t is said that no love doubts will
come to her when she wears this
stone. Tuesday is her lucky day and
8 her lucky number.
20 by Wheeler Syndicate. Inc)
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stepped into the opening and walked
down flight of steps.
AS she walked she noticed that she
seemed TO carry with her bright
yellow light like sunshine, and by the
time she reached the last step, which
brought her to big lake in cave,
the whole place was filed with sun
shine.
The cave was yellow and so was the
lake and even the little men in the
red clothes took on yellow cast.
Lislette had a bundle of clothes I'M
der her arm and this she noticed
looked like a lump of gold, but she
knew it was only the light, for 1t was
not bit heavier than when she came
in.
Just then across the yellow lake Lis
lette saw a flock of yellow birds flying
above the water and tied around the
leg of each bird was a slender gold
chain. These were guided by page
standing in the bow of gold boat.
The page was dressed in red of the
SAME cOlOT DIS the little man WHO ndO
brought Lislette into the cave.
Behind the page in the boat there
was resting on a bed of roses a beau
tiful lady dressed in a gown of gold
colored satin, and on each side of her
stood page dressed the same as the
page who held the golden chains.
These pages held over their mistress
beautiful big red roses, which they
swung back and forth, filling the air
with sweet perfume.
"Ho, slaves, our queenw called the
little man in red, who now spoke for
the first time, and from all around the
cave came dozens of little men dressed
in red who, when they saw the boat,
fell on their knees by the lake. crying
out, "Queen Red Rose, your slaves
await you"
Isslette knew now this was some
sort of an enchanted place and she
wondered what the queen would say
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In Accordance With the Ritual

Archie Gum, the artist, is Scot
who was educated in England and
who still has great love for the
national game of the British isles, to
wit: cricket. Will Kirk, the verse
writer, is a product of Wisconsin and
until one day when his friend Gum
took him over on Staten island had
never seen a game of cricket.
Teams made up of English resi-
dents were playing for the Greater
New York championship. The spec
tators, almost exclusively, were their
fellow-cOuntrymen. Kirk stationed
himself in a front seat alongside
Gum and prepared to give to the
sport his undivided attention.
A batsman dealt the ball a power
full wallop.
"Well hit, old chap" cried Gum
And swell hit! Well hitr' echoed
others in the crowd
An opposing player made hard
run to catch the ball as it descended
into his territory. He almost got
under it-almost but not quite. 1t
just ellded his clutching fingers.
swell tried, old chap! Well tried!"
called out Gum, all enthusiasm.
Kirk decided that this sort of
thing must be in accordance with the
proper ritualism of the game. He
decided that, to show his approval,
he would at the next opportunity
speak up, too.
Presently the opportunity came.
Once more the batsman smote the
ball with emphasis. 1t rose high in
the air. A fielder for the rival club
ran to catch it. His toe caught in
clod of upturned turf and he
tumbled forward on his face and the
ball, dropping, hit him squarely on
the top Of his head
Kinks yell rose high and clear
above all lesser sounds.
"Well fell, old chap!" he shouted.
well fell, by gum"
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THE "cooTY"

PARASITES are present everywhere
= in vegetable life, like the mistle-
toe upon the oak and the beautiful
orchid, but not all are so attractive as
these
They are equally prevalent in ami
NAL life-in fact it seems to be ma
lures plan to give every animal and
plant some kind of an enemy to fur
nish a good excuse for the struggle for
existence and the maintenance Of the
species.
In man there are twice as many
varieties of parasites as in any other
animal.
OF the parasites in human beings
there are more than fifty varieties,
some living on the outside Of the body,
others in the intestines. muscles. eyes,
liver and elsewhere.
Three-quarters of the human para
sites are on The skin or in the intes-
tines.
The "cooty," or body louise, is of
very great Importance, not only be-
cause of the annoyance he gives his
hosts, but because he may carry the
germ of spotted or typhus fever.
This disease was widespread and
deadly in the early part of the war !;
and when Serbian soldiers were cap
tured by Germans, the first thing done
for them was TO round them up and
entlauesen, that Is, un-lice, them.
Lice live and propagate in the hairy
parts of the particularly on the
hair of the scalp, but also on the eye
brows eyelashes, beard, armpits and
elsewhere.
They seem to prefer the hair on the
back of the head. One variety makes
it's home In the seams of the clothing,
but migrates to the skin when hungry.
The eggs, or nits, attach themselves
to hairs, and it is very difficult to dis
lodge them.
They are small, white, globular
bodies near the root of the hair or at
any point along its shaft.
In the careless and neglected. they
are found in the midst Of dirty and
matted hair, mingled with pus, scabs
and other evidences of inflammation
The sexes of lice are distinct, and
there are separate varieties for diff
ferent parts of the body
They fasten themselves to the skin
with their booklets. and when feeding
thrust their nose into the skin, like
the mosquito, and withdraw blood.
The female lays so to 60 eggs which
she CLUES to the hair with a very
tenacious secretion from her body.
The itching and scratching they ex-
cite cause Inflammation and suppura-
ton. and the pus in the neglected
cases produces the mating of the hair
and general filrhiness.
An eruption like eczema may be pro-
duced and there may be swelling and
soreness in the glands of the armpit,
groin and neck.
| The parasites and their eggs may be
| destroyed by a soap, or lotion. or bath
containing sulphur, tobacco or mer-
curry. Crude petroleum or kerosene,
alone or mixed with sweet oil or bal
sam Of Peru Ito destroy the odor), is
effective, as also is an infusion of the
| flowers of larkspur or the fluid extract
of the seeds.
1t Is often desirable to destroy the
eggs by themselves after the lice have
been destroyed; and for this purpose
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THRIFT AND BEAUTY
BY THOMAS ARKLE CLARK

ITO BE thrifty during the late war
i was popular In fact, it was
rather disgraceful than otherwise not
to be. We saved the nickels and
bought thrift stamps, and we devised
all sorts of economies to reduce ex-
penses until we were in danger Of be-
coming tight, and it is almost as bad
to be tight as to be thriftless
One of the pet schemes for promot-
ing thrift and adding to the food sup
ply was the home garden. The news
papers were full Of the proper cloth
ing to wear while engaged in this
alluring sport of gardening, and one
saw published daily list of the proper
seeds to plant and where to buy them.
l am not inexperienced in garden
ing; know full we'll that the home
garden is often a better physical than
economic investment. 1t only occa-
sionally helps out the bank account,
but is more likely to increase ones
muscle than his money, especially if
one does not do his gardening by
proxy. In that case it Is sure to be a
poor financial investment.
But / have fallen again for the home
garden scheme. l am sure that this
before, 1 can make it pay. My mouth
waters at the thought of the tender
head lettuce that l shall grow, Of the
melting green peas which / shall cul-
tivate, and the toothsome, juicy sweet
corn. My table is covered with highly
Illustrated seed catalogues, which /
pore over for hours at time trying
to determine which Of two varieties
of certain vegetable is best suited to
my needs, deciding finally, usually,
that in order to be absolutely safe /
might better order both.
The fly in the ointment-or / should
say f1ies-is the rather appalling cost
of seeds and of the few necessary
tools that one must have for even the
simple little garden that I have been
planning, for one cannot start a gar
den without seeds nor cultivate it with
out tools, and seed peas cost 40 cents
a pound and simple wheel hoe-and
one cannot manage real garden with
out a wheel hoe-sets one back sew
enteen dollars. l hope my garden
does not prove to be an illustration of
the proverb, "It isn't the original cost
but the upkeep," etc.
My neighbor, Watkins, and l have
planned to do our gardening together,
and we are determined to make it an
experiment of thrift. He is more en-
thusiastic even than l am, perhaps be-
cause he is less experienced. / know
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into deep Scotch kettle with
tablespoonful or two of water; let
steam tightly covered for few min
utes, adding a little fat if needed
Cook until tender, well covered, add
ing teaspoonful of water when
needed. Season we'll when partly
cooked and cook until well-browned.
Cooked this way chicken will be tender
and juicy. Long, slow cooking brings
out the flavor.
Pour no. coffee from the breakfast
pot into the saucers of the geranium
plants once or twice week. The
coffee cools before it reaches the roots
and wealth of beautiful blossoms
will reward the effort.
Coffee grounds worked into the soil
around ferns and other plants will
tighten the soil.
Rinse and save all pieces of paraffin
taken from jelly glasses. Keep in an
old coffee pot and when ready to use,
melt and pour over the glasses.
When food is burnt on in a granite
or aluminium dish, dust a thick coat
ing of soda over the bottom, cover
with water and let stand for a few
hours, then remove all deposit with
steel wool. If this does not remove
the spots add little I've and let stand
a few minutes: this will usually clean
the most obstinate deposits.
A few drops of muriatic acid added
to water to wash brasses will remove
all stains. Rinse well and rub with
oil; polish with chamois skin
Asparagus, peas. beans, if left from
dinner, may be rinsed with cold water
and added to the salad for luncheon
the next day.
Make a practice of using a card in
dex. Housekeeping is business and
should be carried on in business
like way.
When aluminium pans and dishes
become discolored, boil up a few ap-
pie Feelings or leaves of rhubarb In
them The acid will dissolve the de-
post.
To remove cork that has beer
pushed into bottle. tie small but.
ton to cord and drop into the bot
tie, pull up the string and the cork
and button will come out.
II mayonnaise curdles in the max
ing, start all over again, beating a
fresh egg and add the curdled mixture
a few drops at a time until all is we'll
blended.
Having a list OF boxes and their
contents will save much rummaging
for things. In case of illness in the
family those unfamiliar will be allie
to locate needed things.
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there is lot of hard work attached
to 1T, and that there are whole regi-
ments of insect enemies to be subdued,
but I'm game. I'm going to keep a
strict account of all my expenditures,
charge the "missus" for all the fresh
vegetables I furnish-she'll never pay,
of course-and see how we come out.
If there is deficit I'll charge it up
to exercise.
IF there is one thing we learned
from the war;" Watkins said to me as
he sat with seed catalogue in his lap,
''it's to be thrifty. Now I should never
have thought of having garden if it
hadn't been for the war"
well, we need it," / assented
did you ever see the gardens in
England, France and Italy?" he asked.
Every foot of ground utilized"
had seen the gardens of those coun-
tries, and they had made the strongest
impressions upon me. Every cottage
has one, every plot of ground, no mat
ter how small, in country or in village
is utilized, and is full of fruit trees,
and vines and bushes and the tender
est vegetables 1 have ever eaten.
But it is not the thrift which these
gardens suggest which impressed me
most when l saw them (and the own
ers are thrifty, but the beauty. Every
where among the vegetables the Eng
lish and the continental gardener finds
place for flowers. There are vio-
lets and daffodils and erocuses in the
early spring, and all through the sum-
mer and early autumn there is sue
cession of bloom that is glorious. I
have never seen such roses anywhere
as in England and France, and l have
never seen such a riot of flowers as
in Italy. The poorest peasant has them
to give away. SO it is beauty quite
as much as thrift that the foreign
garden suggests to me, and wish that
in all the gardens that spring up over
this country we should find a place
for flowers, and learn from our allies
not only the lesson of thrift, but the
lesson of beauty.
Watkins and I have already begun
to pick out our flower seeds. We shall
have a row of scarlet runner beans;
we shall plant an edging OF Warigolds
about our lettuce bed, and bordering
our potato patch there will be holly
hooks and cosmos and sweet peas. We
shall proclaim beauty while we learn
thrift.
20. 1925. Western Newspaper Union)
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WITH THE FAIRIES

NNE day little girl named Lislette
~ was walking along road in a far
of country wondering where she
would go; for her father was dead
and her stepmother had turned her
out of doors because she was too poor
TO keep her.
Lislette was so deep in thought that
she did not notice she was in a place
she had never seen before until some
thing moved by the side of the road
which made her lift her eyes from the
ground.
AT big gate stood little man
dressed in a suit of deep red. He
bowed low TO Lislette and with back
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MY FAVORITE
STORIES
By IRWIN S. COBB
The Curse of an Active Mind

The Curse Of an Active Mind
My father, for the greater part of
his life, was in the steamboat bust
ness. he was an official of a COM
pany operating packets on the lower
Ohio river. The headquarters of the
line was the gathering place OF
pilots, captains, mates, clerks and
engineers "a collection of quaint
types and homely philosophers. One
OF the regular visitors was grizZled
master who had as quick wit and
as gorgeous an inventive faculty as
any man l ever saw. His fictions
and fables, told with an air Of sin.
certify, were local classics.
l was small boy but I still re-
member it as though 1t were yester-
day. when on a summer afternoon
the talk drifted to the subject of
opinion that the mule was a stupid
animal.
Instantly our champion romancer
spoke up:
Don't you believe it," he said.
"The average mule has got more
sense than the average horse has got.
What's more, every mule has got
something that no horse ever had
and that's Imagination. Why,
know of an instance when a mule
was killed by the power of his
imagination.
ut happened forty years ago when
was young shaver, on my uncle's
farm up the Tennessee river. My
uncle owned an old gray mule. He
had the mule on pasture in ten
acre lot. In the middle of the lot
was long crib full of popcorn.
Along about the middle of July
came the most terrific hot spell that
ever occurred in this country. The
thermometer went to 11S in the
shade and stayed right there day and
night tor three weeks. At the end
of the third week, on the hottest day
of all, the sun set fire to the roof Of
that corncrib and it burned to the
ground. Naturally, the heat popped
all the corn and it fell three inches
deep, all over that ten-acre lot. The
mule thought it was snow and laid
down in its tracks and froze to
DEATH
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Q]our Health y 5::5;:;: 4 !: ..

strong preparations of soda, vinegar,
borax or alcohol may be used.
They must be applied literally and
thoroughly, in order to dissolve the
material which fastens the egg to the
hair.
AS the clothing of those who have
vermin upon the body is also infested,
In very many cases, it is well to SUBJ
NIT it for sufficient length of time To
the vapor of formaldehyde, or to live
steam.
20 by George Matthew Adams.)
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Enormous Loss BY Rust

Rust, which creates the fourth
mortgage" on "a house, costs the home
owners of the United States $575, OOO,-
600 year. or five times as much as
their loss through fire, according to a
recent report. Repairs to short-lived
roofs and their eventual replacement,
repairing and replacing rusted out
Hastings, downspouts and cutters have
their part in this cost.
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ishing and enjoyed by all.
Boiled Dressing. two eggs
light, without separating; add one
cupful of mild vinegar DILUTE with
water if the acid is very strong), add
one teaspoonful of salt, one-fourth
teaspoonful of pepper, one-half tea
spoonful of sugar, and one-fourth cup
full of butter, melted. Mix well and
put over hot water. Stir constantly
until the dressing is thickened; cool
and serve with an addition of whipped
cream or olive oil.
Fish Dinner.-Take two pounds Of
haddock, cod or halibut, tie in
Z cheesecloth and boil in sailed water
until tender. Cook cupfu of rice in
boiling sailed water. Chop ONE quart
of cooked spinach, season with but
ter, arrange with chopped beets in
small mounds around the fish. Serve
very hot.
bers and cut into quarters lengthwise,
remove the seeds if large, chop fine,
and squeeze dry. Season with salt,
paprika and vinegar and stir in one
half cupful of thick cream whipped
until stiff. A small grated onion may
be added if liked
Fried Green Tomatoe s.-Cut off
both ends of large green tomatoes, cut
into thin slices, roll in seasoned flour
and COOK in hot butter in a frying pan.
If onion flavor is liked a slice of onion
may be added when frying.
Wlted cucumbers.-For those who
find the juice of the cucumber dis
agrees with them, cover with strong
salt and water and let them soak for
two hours. Toss in salad bowl,
dress with sour cream and serve.
Tongue Scramble.-Take one cupful
of finely minced cooked tongue, add
six well-beaten eggs, season to taste
with grated onion and chopped green
pepper. Cook in butter and serve very
hot.
Household hints.
In cutting raisins or candied peel,
rub bit of butter over the chopping
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ward sweep of one hand he invited
her to enter, though he did not speak
q word.
Lislette stepped inside the gate, but
instead of the palace she had expect
ed to see she saw only big tree with
an opening like a door.
The little man in red nodded toward
the tree and waved his hand toward
1t. 'Shall go in?" asked Lislette.
The little man nodded his head
again though he did not speak, but
he smiled SO invitingly that Lislette
went to the tree and looked in.
She had heard of the. fairies, but
this queer little creature, she knew,
was not one of them and he could not
be a goblin, for they wore clothes of
red and green, not bit like the red
of which this strange little creatures
suit was made.
But she did not feel afraid, and she
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when she found mortal in the king
dom.
The queen did not seem to notice
her or her bundle. She motioned for
Lislette to be seated beside her on the
red roses.
Lislette noticed that she no longer
wore the patched dress and shoes and
that the bundle she brought with her
was now gold box set with red
stones.
And the fairies say that the happiest
little fairy in the queens kingdom is
the sunshine fairy who was once little
Lislette
20 by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
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Horizontal.
IA floor covering
O-An instrument used for moving
11-An uproar or tumult
12-DivisiOn of n play
14-Players on one side I'm a contest
ia poem 16-Boxes
1S-A lump knob
19-Civil engineer UnitiaIs)
20-A lawless fellow
22-TO perform
23-Franc (abbr.)
GA ribbed material
"a measure of area
PA Biblical word
30-Showers white fakes of ice
82-Severity or exactness
33-An Italian city
34-A kind of boat
36-An Office assistant
3S-TeIIurium (symbOD
30-A dance step
"A printers measure
42-A negative
44-Was skeptical
47-A proposition
4S-Without moisture
SOTO cook on live Goals
51-Aged 52-Dress
54-Before
55-A prison compartment
ga girls name
57-Scanty
Vertical.
IA spring flower
2-AsSistant
S-Eggs of fishes
"A measure (abbr.)
"a large South American animal
Ga strip of leather used for dogsinr
IA New England state (abbr.)
S-TO recognize
0-Praise
1O-To ornament with raised work
13-COnfined
16-Elder (abbr0
17-Tin (symbOD