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Evening star., 1926-04-07
CHAPTER XX\I\.
Where Arthur Was.

Hardly aware of where he walked
or ate or slept, Arthur had been
wandering about the city for two
DAYS. The events leading up TO his
disa ppearance had been highly dra-
matte. Arthur had borrowed enough
money to buy Mimi the coveted slip
per buckles, and fortified with the
gift he had gone up to Minis apart
ment late in the afternoon to present
them TO her.
He had climbed the two flights Of
stairs leading to the apartment with
hope high In his heart. Mimi would
smile upon him. she would he her old
self again and he would be reassured
because she would tell him over and
over that she loved him. In her soft
ened mood. he might even bring up
the subject of marriage. and taiE
time she might listen. Afterward he
would stop drinking and be a man
because everything would he all right
and he would have no more reason to
worry.
At the door of the apartment he
stopped and listened. There were
voices inside, and light laughter which
he knew was Minis. With a smile
on his lips he pressed the electric bell
and waited for the door to be opened.
His ringing of the bell was followed
Immediately by a dead silence inside
the apartment. The silence was some
how ominous. Arthur could almost
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PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
BY WILLIAM BRADY, NJ. ID.

| and the lambs that grew no wool to
| speak of, | rubbed my own coco pen.
sively and wished somebody had told
me 30 years ago TO take a little nip
of iodin once a week or so. l pos
| lively decline to give the slightest in.
timation or assurance that any poor
gink can bring back his hair by taking
! iodin, but on the other hand l can
assert with the most rigid scientific
| &C 'racy that an adequate iodin ra-
ton essential for the normal growt h
OF the hair. and one of the dread
hypothyroidism symptoms ] am so
reluctant to admit here is a ''lifeless"
state of the hair; it grows poorly, falls
out excessively, loses its luster and
| tends to turn gray or fade before the
victim has attained mature age.
| have just taken 2 miles of oxy.
gen on the hoof trying to figure out a
way of describing ypothyroidism in
the few lines left. and | have returned
to my desk healthier but not wiser.
In fact, | may as well knock off and
call ii a day. The end of perfect
| day for me. In other words. a day
without work. notice that is the way
the mason, carpenter. interior decora-
tor and other honest workers do.
What's an hour or two between
friends?
Keep your hair on as we'll as YOU
can until an early issue I'm going
to explain this thing if it takes a
whole page-in easy installments.
Better make sure your subscription
is paid up for at least a month ahead
The glad tidings in one of my little
talks may prove of unestimable value
to you. Testimonial: A Baltimore
man who thought he was laid up with
inf1ammatory rheumatism was de.
lighted to read in my column recently
that there is no such condition.
Copyright. 1920
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LITTLE BENNY
BY LEE FAPE.

After suppir l was studying my
home werk and wishing ] wasent and
the fellows started to wissle for me
outside and I looked at pop and he
was smoking and thinking. and j sed
Hay pop, can / go out with the fei'
lows a vile, they ixpect me.
Have you finished your home werk?
pop sed.
Yes sir. ] sed.
Wich | had, partly. and pop sed,
Very well, Ill heer you your lessins.
Me thinking, G. And | sed, All rite.
heer me my histry.
Histry being the ony thing ] knew.
and pop sed, I'm the manager Of this
Office. Ill heer you your joggriffy, lets
have your list of questions.
Wich l gave them to him and he
sed. Ware is Japan?
Sir? | sed.
No. Japan, pop sed, and sed, In
the eastern hemispheer.
In other werds. its still ware 1t was.
pop sed. Wat are it's boundaries, that's
wat l wunt to know. he sed.
Do you meen the boundaries Of
Japan? sed, and pop sed, II bleeve
so, but If you'll jest have a sect Ill
wire the main Office and make sure.
Meening certeny the boundaries of
Japan. and Il sed, Well in the ferst
place its not a island SO 1t cant be in
tirely serrounded by water.
And in the End place It's not a prof.
bition country SO it cant be intirely
serrounded by ticker. pop sed. Now
study your lessins and Study them
rite. he sed.
Wich l did, being little easier after
the fellows stopped wisseling.
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Hypothyroidism.

Shortage of iodin in the feed or
water of sows sometimes accounts for
hairless pigs. Michigan farmers failed
in wool growing until they learned TO
provide an adequate iodin ration for
the sheep. Salmon and trout raised in
fish hatcheries. fed liver. kept in
crowded tanks or pools, suffer greatly
from goiter. The goiter is prevented
by the regular addition of minute
traces of iodin lin the form of an iodid
usually to the water the fish live in,
or by feeding them regularly hashed
sea fish. Lake Erie pike and bass are
often found to have goiter.
Goiter is notably common among
children and adolescents in the Great
Lakes region, in the upper Missouri,
and Yellowstone Valleys, and in east
ern Oregon and Washington State.
In some cities in these goitrous re-
gions most of the school girls present
signs of goiter. 1t is due to iodin
deficiency The food, water, air or
medicine fails to provide the essential
amount of iodin for normal growth
and health. All the iodin in the world
came originally from the sea. scien-
lists assure us; it is all going back to
the sea, apparently. People suffer.
ing from iodin deficiency disease had
better hurry up and get their 1odin
before it is all gone from the soil.
water, vegetable and animal food
stuffs Even now 1t is poor picking
in Spokane, Grand Rapids and Akron.
Frankly / am just stalling along,
wondering how I'm going to tell about
hypothyroidism without infringing
upon the quack and nostrum business,
which is largely providing people with
symptoms. But 1 promised, so here
goes.
When | mentioned the hairless pigs
Evening star., 1926-04-07
School Streets.

The streets through which the chill
dren pass to and from school become
a part of the educational system,
whether you will or not. 1t Is time a
bit of attention be paid to them.
Many of them are dirty. piled with
rubbish, unswept, muddy or dusty &C.
cording to the weather. Many OF them
are ugly, ash cans sit about broken
boxes and old tin cans litter them,
flags flap from wires or poles or the
branches of trees. Many of them are
unattractive. the store windows are
dirty and the stock faded and un.
changed from year to year, the paint
has worn off to the fraying boards
beneath. ugly as can be, the whole
procession.
Nor is all the instruction Of the
street negative. There is sure to be
a billboard or two with pictures of
shootings, captured maidens, bloody
battles and agoniZinE deaths and a
hold.up or so scattered between out
rageous beauties 1t Is from these
that many a child learns to read. The
dramatics and the color stimulate him
to desire to know what Is going on
and he reads.
The corners of the busy districts
are decorated with young men who
ought to be working at something
useful, cleaning up the streets and
putting on a coat of paint here and
there for instance. burning up the
rubbish heaps and planting vacant
lots. Their energy ought to be di-
rected and there is big field here
with few laborers.
Motor cars have made the streets
dangerous to life and limb. Nobody
walks and everybody rides except the
school children below high school age
and some of them are forced still to
use their legs. The police do their
best, a very good best In the big cities,
but strained to the vanishing point in
the smaller towns, where the budget
does not permit the assignment of
men to keep the streets safe for chill
dren.
Women can vote. Their vote, how
ever, is something that ought to begin
a. whole year or two or four before it
is delivered. at the polls. 1t won't
count unless it is cast for a construc-
tive program which Is synbolized by
the candidate for office, the man or
woman trained and informed as to
the needs of the situation they are to
meet.
1t seems to me that streets are a
department of civic life peculiarly
close to housekeeping, and therefore a
place where the women ought to func.
ton Immediately and nicely. All it
needs Is a standard of cleanliness, an
orga nization under intelligent leader
ship, a working budget and desire
| to make the streets one of the great
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Fine and Sheer.

1t is well, for instance, now that
long sleeves are in high faVof, anu
the materials used in the making are
often delicate and periShable, 10 urea
them gently. IL sleeves are run ana
of stuff that crushes readily, aVold
resting them heavily on a hard sur
face such as a table or wooden chalr
arm. When so doing there is tend
ency to STRAIN the lace or Hlmsy
fabric at the elbow. Or II coat Is
of Summer fur or has deep cuffs OF
fur the pressure will crush IL ana
the marks will remain a long time.
How Creases Come.
Be careful in the way You sit down:
Many frock begins to look m1ssed
after having been on but a little
while, Just because the wearer sits
down on series of tiny folds in the
fabric. Creases result which seldom
come out entirely until the dress is
pressed. Unless one remembers when
sitting down to lift the coat of sum-
mer fur which is extremely soft, the
fur will not only fiatten down badly,
but il will wear out more quickly
than it would otherwise.
BE Careful Of Scarf.
Scarfs this season are more dl-
apha nous than ever. and while TINS
characteristic makes them peculiarly
attractive, it also makes them more
perishable. They will not stay put
as heavier ones will. nor will they
stand the same amount of cleaning.
Therefore. avoid letting them get on
the floor or ground if YOU stoop over.
Holding them up to prevent this can
be made an attractive gesture not at
all suggesting that precaution Is the
motive.
I.aces and Frilis.
AS for frills of lace, net or chiffon
that fall from the wrists OF many
new style sleeves, 1t certainly is worth
some thought to keep them from get
ting soiled or mussed. BY holding
the arm a little higher than usual and
curving the hand down from the wrist
when taking food from dish, for
example. the frill is protected in a
graceful way. When putting on
coat or wrap. n the frill is caught
lightly with the tips of the fingers
and thumb it can be drawn through
the sleeve without injury and perhaps
without even crushing. Strive either
to care for garments at the time of
wearing so inconspicuously that 1t is
not noticeable. or else do II so grace
fully that il is attractive.
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BEDTIME STORIES BY =. 1H0saTe" s"sc1s9

go back to the barn and get some
corn
So Farmer Browns Boy trudged
back to the barn and got some corn.
This he took over to the Smiling Pool
and put in the water where the wear
before Mr.. and Mrs. Quack used to
feed.
Probably they'll think I'm trying
to bait them the way some of those
hunters do said Farmer Browns
Boy. Il really don't see how we have
any ducks. No, sir. | don't. Men talk
about being fair minded, and then will
put out food for ducks day after day
until the ducks get into the habit of
coming to that particular place. That
is batting them. Then some day,
when the ducks think that they are
perfectly safe and come flying in to
get their usual meal, they are met by
those terrible guns in the hands of
the hunters. That isn't my idea of
hunting at all. / don't know how
any one can call it sport. And it's
just as bad when the hunters use live
ducks to call the wild ones in. That
is treachery."
He carefully hid and then possessed
himself in patience. Now, patience
he saw Mr. and Mrs. Quack coming in
from the Big River. They flew high,
and they circled round and round,
still flying high. 1t was some time
before they ventured to drop lower
Farmer Browns Boy knew that If he
| lifted so much as finger they would
be away again. That was because
| they were so suspicious. 1t meant
that they had learned that 1t Is never
| safe for duck to feel sure that
! things are as they look. 1t meant that
| hoon a M
| they trusted nothing. not even the
dear old Smiling Pool, where they so
often had been fed.
And when at last they did drop
down and alight in the Smiling Pool
they were still suspicious. They had
discovered the corn, but it was a long
time before they ventured near enough
to pick up any of it. Farmer Browns
Boy knew exactly how they felt, and
! he didn't blame them in the least.
Its unfair-it's dreadfully unfair"
muttered Farmer Browns Boy.
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Clues to Character
Temper Like April Weather.
BY ]. O. ARERNETHY.

Social temperament is indicative by
the prominence and activity of the
organs of nutrition and life force.
The heart, lungs, stomach. liver and
bowels, when strong, give depth.
breadth and width to the body.
The chest is large and full, showing
powerful lung capacity and large.
headedness." The abdomen Is rounded.
the limbs are plump and .tapering and
the hands and feet are small in pro-
portion to the body. The neck is
short and full, the shoulders are broad
ened and round. The cheeks and lower
part of the face are well filled out, the
forehead square and broad rather
than high; the expression easy, frank,
good-natured or self-satisfied.
Persons of this temperament are
fond Of good things to eat and drink,
and are extremely sociable. 1t is not
the temperament of hard work or
close application. Others may work
or think, but the social type will
gather the fruits and have joy In this
life, though often he pays the penalty
of excess.
In temper he Is variable, like April
weather-provoked and easily pleased
instantly. This type is noted for prac-
tical common sense. You will find he
is generally happy, has a keen sense
of humor, is easy.going, optimistic,
sympathetic and strives to make the
best of everything.
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Speaks His Mind.

Farmer Browns Boy keeps watch.
full eye on the Smiling Pool. He has
many friends there and he likes to
know what is going on. Little happens
at the Smiling Pool that Farmer
Browns Boy doesn't find out about
SO the day after the arrival of Mr..
and Mrs. Quack, the Mallard Ducks,
Farmer Browns Boy paid them visit.
Now the Quacks and Farmer Browns
Boy had been the best of friends the
year before. Yes, sir. they had been
the best of friends. Farmer Browns
Boy had fed the Quacks every day,
and the Quacks had never thought OF
flying when they saw him coming.
But now il WAS all different Mr..
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BROWNS BOY.
and Mrs. Quack took to their wings
long before Farmer Browns Boy was
anywhere near the Smiling Pool Their
eyes are keen. They had seen him
coming across the Green Meadows.
Farmer Browns Boy saw them jump
into the air and watched them fly
swiftly over the Big River.
My, but they are scary" exclaimed
Farmer Browns Boy. 1T means that
they have been shot at so much that
they are afraid to allow a man any
where near. 1 suppose I've got to tame
them all over again. 1t is a shame.
Yes. sir, it is a shame. l suppose 1t
is all right to have a shooting season,
but when Ducks have been SO hunted
that weeks and weeks after the close
of the hunting season they are as wild
as ever something is all wrong. /
understand that in some places the law
allows a man to kill twenty-five ducks,
and do it day after day for more than
three months. That sort of thing may
have been all very well when Ducks
were shot for market. but now that
they cannot be lawfully sold there is
no excuse whatever for killing SO
many. / don't know how anybody can
call it sport. Sport lies in giving the
other party fair chance. I'd like 10
know what chance Duck has when a
hunter can fire six shots at him with
out reloading his gun. The more
see of hunting the less l see of sport
It's O wonder to me that Mr.. and Mrs
Quack have lived to get back here
troEn tha Sunny South. l think III
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DAUGHTERS OF TODAY
BY HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR

Martha Dennison Mt ~ faces the
fact that her husband has drittcd
array from her. rs trcH as her tno
children, arthur and Natalie. she
meets an dttrdCtite bachelor. Perry
Macdonald. and accepts his attentions
without realizing the danger in such
an attachment. Arthur is infdtu-
ated rcith Mimi. q dancer, and Ndtdhe
halt in lore ,Cith Lucien Bartlett.
m married. man Mimi is dcceiring Ar
thur, 1Uho is 0ro1cin0 suspicious OF
her. and Perry, Who frst becomes
interested in Natalie through n desire
10 protect her. ends by falling in lore
,cith her. He realizes that the SitU-
alton is embarrassing because Of the
attention he has paid TO Martha and
he goes to her and tells her the truth.
Martha is naturally stunned 6y me
neUs, and in the meantime J0hn
Dennison, Uho in the past has PAD
little or no attention to his tdmity,
hears ners that disturbs him.
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1t would seem at first that 1t should
be easy to tell the difference between
plants and animals. Are not animals
things that think, and have blood,
and move about, while plants are
rooted in one spot. have sap and green
coloring matter, but no sensations?
But there are animals like corals that
are always rooted in one spot; only
the higher animals have blood, and as
for thinking. the lowest animals have
no brains to think with but merely
respond feebly to stimuli. and there
are plants that do as much. Many
plants can swim actively around, not
merely drifting but actually oscillating
forward. and not all plants are green;
the mushroom is such an example. In
short. a difference is not discoverable
except that animals never breathe
off oxygen and plants do. There are
even certain organisms known as
slimemolds which by all definitions ap-
pear to be plants part OF the time
and animals part of the time.
Now what do you know about that?
Answers to Yesterdays Questions.
1. Diamond is the hardest gem.
2. Carbon Is the hardest chemical
element.
8. Tin is.the softest Of the common
metals.
4. The lead" Of pencils is really
gra phite.
5. Sand will scratch glass but a pin
will not.
6. Platinum is harder than silver.
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feel it pressing on his eardrums. and
after moment or two he rang the
bell again.
Footsteps at last, light footsteps that
he knew were Minis. And then the
door was opened little way, and
Mimi herself was peering out at him.
She gasped little, drew hack, and
then still holding the door only little
a jar. she forced a smile to her face.
20. Arthur. I'm sorry, but | can't
let you in just now. I'm not dressed.
and I'm just about TO jump into the
tub
Arthur's thoughts. which a moment
before had been serenely confident,
teemed suddenly with suspicion.
Are you alone?" he asked thickly.
Yes. indeed" Mimi returned glibly.
IF F'rancine were here. I'd let you
come in and watt
A hot fury suddenly possessed
Arthur, and yielding to impulse he
pushed forward. forcing Mimi 10 let
him into the small hallway. His one
realization was that she had lied to
him. He knew that she was not alone
| in the Apartment. Some one was with
her. they had laughed and talked to
gether. and Arthur was determined To
see who It was.
| Mimi made a Frightened little gesture
as though to prevent him from going
! into the living room, but almost
roughly he pushed her aside. The
/ next moment he was standing at the
! living room door.
| \ man, who had been sitting al
small table. rose slowly 10 his feet.
and stared inquiringly at Arthur. On
| the table were the remnants of tea.
| some cups and Saucers. a plate ~
cakes. Mimi had followed Arthur into
| the room. md although quite obvious
| Iy frightened was trying to make the
! hest of the situation. She attempted
casual introduction. but even as she
did this she glanced at Arthur won.
dering what he would do next. He
| had been drinking as usual and wher
he had been drinking he was apt to
he ugly. Mimi did not want To give
her new admirer the idea that Arthur
had any kind of hold over her.
She forced a laugh that sounded
rather shrill. and at that moment
Arthur turned and looked at her. His
eyes were blazing, his mouth drawn
back from his teeth. Instinctively
Mimi drew back from him. She was
suddenly terrified.
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Continued in tomorrow's start
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Our Children By Angelo Patri

educative forces in the lives of our
children, the clean. lovely, useful
avenues OF life they ought to be.
If the women of the town do not
want to undertake the task they ca n
prod the men who have undertaken it
into action SO that they will clean up,
gather In the stray cats and dogs, the
idlers who infest the corners and the
lonely places, sweep and wash and
plant and sweet n the streets through
which children must pass on their way
to school. And that. of course. Is
every street in the town where you
happen to live.
Mr.. Patri will give personal attention to
INQUIRIES from parents or school teachers on
him in care of this paper ipclosing self
addressed stamped envelope for reply.
tCopyrigbt 1922
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HOME NOTES
BY JENNY WREN.

Just how much a small pool can be
made to add to a garden plot If it Is
properly Handicapped is we'll demon
strated here.
This very tiny mirror of nature had
it's humble origin in an old barrel,
which was sawed in half and set into
the ground The water in it is stag
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known as the "follies set" The vest
is likewise short and slashed up each
side.
Won't the younger generation adore
them, and with warmer weather they
will be comfortable as we'll as mod
ish, and that's always a happy com.
bination.
They are made of glove silk and
because they are cut so very short
the price OF each garment is CORE
spondingly cut. NARCOTIC.
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What Do You Know
About 1t?
Daily Science Six.

l. Was Darwin the first evo-
lutionist
2. What theories OF evolution
have been advanced since Oar
wins time?
3. Did Darwin say Men are
descended from monkeys?"
4. What plants are supposed
by evolutionists to be highest in
the scale of evolution?
5. Are animals supposed by
evolutionists to have arisen
from plants?
s. Who was a co-discoverer of
Darwin's ideas with Darwin?
Answers to these questions in
tomorrow Star.
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obliged to be particular. This gives
an impression that the garment is
. either so new that one is conscious
of its newness while wearing it, or
else that it's cost is rather high for
ones purse, and consequently the
article must be made to last as long
as possible in good condition. Not
withsta nding these things, one should
al least appear to be unaware of ones
clothes. Reasonable precautions can
he taken in way that seems so
casual as not to be noticeable
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nant, of course, being replaced only
as it evaporates, but a family of gold
fish keeps it from becoming a mo-
squito incubator.
The edge Of the barrel Is covered by
a rim of concrete and around that is
a circle of red bricks. All around the
bricks there is bed of impudent
pansies, and the garden walk proper,
also of red bricks, completely enclr.
cles all.
Simple, isn't it, and yet it gives the
garden a touch of originality and
beauty that is most enjoyable.
Copyright, 1926l
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MODE MINIATURES

Shorter shingles-shorter skirts
and now shorter boomers. Brief at.
fairs such as professional dancers
wear-these are now being shown and
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In social intelligence women are
claiming to be far superior TO men.
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How to Keep Clothes Looking New
By LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER.

Care in the wearing of ones clothes
can be exercised without any sug-
gestion of fear that they will get hurt.
1t is a mistake to act as il one were
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1t is considered q sin among Mo
hammedan women to cut their hair.
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Continued in tomorrow's Start
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nothing that she do to bring apou,
have falling love with the me
them instead of he whom