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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08

Repairers say that a large portion
of preventable car trouble can be
traced to Inadequate exercise of car
parts. This may seem impossible to
the man who pictures MS poor, over.
worked bus straining every muscle in
it's daily exercise but the truth is that
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SEE SHORTAGE OF
CHINCHILLA WRAPS

Sad news for women who have their
hearts set on the acquisition of chin
chilla wraps is that the chinchilla Is
in danger of extinction. Already the
price of chinchilla fur is almost pro-
hibitive.' In few more years, unless
the rodent of the barren Andes is given
adequate protection, his fur will bring
the equivalent Of a kings ransom
However, with the decrease in the
number of the little animals, the hunt
for them becomes more determined.
In the early days of the Spanish con-
quest of Peru and Bolivia chinchillas
were found In the lowlands and on the
plateaus. They were as common as
rats along the few rivers in these
two countries. The wives of the Span
ish viceroys discovered the beauty of
the fur and the hunt of the animals
began. Old records show that in 1884
a GermaR furrier In Chile exported
100000 skins valued at 250,000 gold
marks (about $50, 500. In 1900 north
ern Chile shipped over 100000 pelts.
Such Wholesale killing caused the
chinchilla practically to disappear
from its old Chilean haunts and great
~ reduced the number In Peru and
Bolivia.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-02-26

"yKTHo hooked your marbles,
Wv KellyY' asked the Hotel
Stenographer.
Il got trouble at home" answered
the House Detective gloomily. 81
haven't had kind word from my
wife for week. / should get a
divorce"
Don't divorce her, Kelly advised
the girl. XIII her. That's the fash
ionable way Of getting rid of wives
in these days.
'It ought to be easy for you, too.
All you got to do Is to go round to
the florist and buy her a bunch of
flowers and send 'em to her. Be sure
and put in your card, Kelly, for If
you do not she will be afraid to show
them to you. When she opens the
box and sees the flowers with your
name on them she will drop dead and
yeu can use the flowers at her funeral
service.
"Or send her a box of candy. If
she opens box of candy and finds
your card In 1t she will be so sur
prised her Jaw will drop down and
she will swallow the first piece with
out chewing it. 1t will choke her and
then you will have a well sweetened
dead wife.
kelly. like every other married
man, you are so tight that If you
wink your toe wiggles. Why don't you
try bit of kindness on her and spend
bit of change? If the shock does
not kill her the atmosphere will
change instantly. It pleases woman
ridfculously to know that while her
man is downtown he actually remem-
bers her even II there isn't a button
off the back of his pants or hole in
the toe of his sock.
IF you treated your wife to that
Peacock Alley smile and from the
hips-bow you use on the women
around this hotel she would actually
like you, Kelly, instead Of enduring
you with sigh like you were sore
tooth or wash bill.
kelly, IL a man treated his sweet
heart like he treats his wife matri-
mony would disappear from our fair
land. If he treated his wife as he
does his sweetheart, divorce lawyers
would have to start working for a liv-
ing.
Copyright by tho McNausht Syndicate. Inc.)
~
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ing holidays, for they think, "we
shall have plenty of work later on
why rush into it now If we do not
have to-"
1t Is the old who most need some
thing to do. For them there Is no
earthly future They weary, no
doubt, of living over the past. Only
the present Is theirs, and though this
should not be an exhausting present,
1t should be an active one. 1t is~a
mistake to take away all responsible
ity, and all work, and all active inter-
ests from the aged. If they are to
be happy they must be busy in doing
things that are really worth doing.
''Old age" Rose Macaulay says, sis
far too sad ON this earth to do MOTH
ing in"
If we are to make old age con-
tented, 1t can be done only by keep
ing 1t busy and by making it appear
of some use. There is nothing so de-
pressing as to be made to feel that
one doesn't count any more.
20. 1895. Western Newspaper Union.)
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OLD ACE AND IDLENESS
BY THOMAS ARKLE CLARK

z LIEN had been very kind to her
IL mother and very watchful over
her as Mrs. Gentry got a little less
vigorous and little more lottery on
her feet Mrs. Gentry had lived very
active life, and even though now she
was eighty she still longed for GER
tain amount of activity, for something
definite to do. She hated being con-
tinually idle. 1t made her realize
more keenly that she was an old lady
"a very old lady.
Ellen was always saying, Don't do
that, mother; you'll tire yourself. Let
me do It." Ellen was forever eau
tioning her against draughts or over
eating or stumbling on the polished
floors, so she usually sat quietly and
did nothing.
Sometimes, however, when Ellen
left her alone for a short time she did
what she wanted to do and risked the
consequences.
whats happened to the fern?" FL
len asked on coming home one day
after an absence from her mother for
the afternoon. The fern was huge
plant that made a load even for the
man of all work who sometimes car
ried 1t about when the house was be-
ing cleaned.
"It's been needing reporting for
some time" Mrs. Gentry said smiling.
$50 carried 1t out into the garden and
had beautiful afternoon, fixing 1t up.
You'll be surprised to see how soon it
will improve"
"Oh, mother!" was all that Ellen
could say. you might have fallen. or
sprained your back, or done something
terrible"
81 had a good time," was all Mrs.
Gentry said.
After Ellen lost her mother she
used sometimes to think over these
days and wonder If she had not been
too careful, If she had not done too
many things for her mother and given
her too little of the pleasure and COM
fort that comes from work.
'If l had her back" Ellen said, 'rd
let her do more. even If there were
danger In it. / can see how lonely
she got for something to do"
The young can play and be happy
doing nothing. They can take unend-
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qZzo TALE oNA
KDDIE MTYDD Il
92Arthur Scott Daley YEwp

paper as tell old Mr.. Grow about it."
"Ahl That's just the pointl" cried
Freddie. "Mr. Crow is a newspaper.
Perhaps you didn't know 1t; but every
Saturday he flies over Blue mountain
to the pond where Brownie Beaver
lives and tells Brownie all the news
of the past week"
''Then for PHYS sake, don't let him
hear of thisl" Kiddie begged.
But nothing could have stopped
Freddie Firefly.
you're too modest" he said. TITS
a shame to be able to make music the
way you do and not let the neighbors
know 1t. Why, the first thing you
know you'll be one of the most famous
people In this whole valley"
"But / don't want to bel" Riddle
Katydid cried "I'm not like you.
You go dancing about every night.
flashing your light so everyone can
see you. But stay among the trees
and shrubs. And even wear green
suit-which matches the color OF the
leaves-so people won't notice me. OF
course" Riddle added, IT don't mind
If the public hears my music. But l
don't care to be seen, as rule. And
/ don't like callers a bit!''
'sYou don't eh?" remarked Freddie
Firefly. "Then it's time for me to be
moving along. For I never stay
where I'm not welcome" And he fit
ted away, feeling somewhat peevish-
and all the more determined to get
the news of the discovered secret to
Mr.. Crow at the earliest possible mo-
ment.
How he was going to do that he
didn't quite know.
There was little chance of his see
ing Mr.. Crow, for the old gentleman
only walked up at the time Freddie
Firefy was ready to go to bed-about
dawn.
He was bordering over his difficulty,
which bothered him not a little, when
terrific croaking from the direction
of the swamp reached his ears. II
was the final chorus of the Frog fam
ily's nightly singing party. And 1t
promptly put an idea into Freddie
Firefy's head.
"I'll hurry right over there and
speak to Mr.. Frog, the well-known
tailor" he said to himself. HE
knows old Mr.. Crow He sees him al
most every day. And he'll be glad to
give the old gentleman message"
(@ by Grosset & Duniap)
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SHIELA

-HE Irish, to whom Shiela un-
i doubtedly belongs, prefer to spell
the graceful name, Sheelah. Either
form is correct and the fortunate
bearer Of the name. growing weary of
one version, may turn to the other
without fear of affectation. Shiela
means blind" 1t comes from the old
Roman and is popular in Italy In mod
ern times In the guise Of Ziiia or
Celia.
It's earliest origin was among the
Coelian gems, founded by the Etruscan
general Ceoles vienna, who also
named the Coelian hill. The wives in
Venice adopted Zilia in honor of this
war hero and the name spread to
Naples where 1t appeared as Liliola.
Just why it should have appealed to
the Irish is not clearly understood.
unless they, like the French, believed
that It had some connection with the
heavens, OF sky, whose Latin term is
"coelum." Thus a blue-eyed Irish
girl might easily have been called
Sile or Sheelah under the romantic
Kettle idea that the sky was reflected
In her lovely orbs.
Curiously enough, Shiela spread
throughout England. 1t Is very popu-
lar there today, but 1t is rarely spelled
Sheelah.
The turquoise Is Shiela's talismanic
gem. 1t Is believed to bring her true
love and happy marriage. Monday
is her lucky day and her lucky num-
Der.
20 by Wheeler syndicate.)
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CHE WHY of
SUGGESTIONS
THREE BROTHERS
By H. IRVING KING

A SIX any man totally ignorant Of his
a ancestry for any distance back,
and the chances are ten to one he will
tell you: There were three brothers
came over, one settled in such place"
and then he gives the place of settle
ment Of the three. Ninety-nine times
out of a hundred this is not true and
moreover the man has no actual rea-
son to suppose 1t so. But he firmly be-
lieves 1t. The three brothers an
cestry Is In fact a superstition which
seems to be thoroughly ingrained In
the human race-for what reason 1t
is hard to say probably its source lies
In the old magic of arithmancy. Ma
tons as well as individuals and fam
lilies look to the ''three brothers" as
the source Of their existence and have
done so as far back as history and
tradition can take US.
Perhaps the Biblical story Of the
three brothers, sons of Noah, who con-
tinued the human race after the flood,
may account In some measure for the
persistence of the three brothers leg
end today. But 1t must be observed
that Hesiod speaks Of three brothers,
the offspring of the union of earth and
heaven, from whom the human race Is
descended; and the ancient Germans
declared that their various tribes were
all descended from three brothers.
And so on illustrations might be multi
piled. In fact from most ancient
times men and nations when of I'M
traced origin have been accustomed
to begin the legend of their genesis
with the words: "There were three
brothers"
In hsr McCIuE> n1ar.aa.A- c.z.a.~
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Has Versatile Talent

One winner of a safety-first slogan
contest, held by London paper, sub
mitted the phrase. Life is short.
Don't make it shorter" Contest man
ayers found that the winner had been
a captain in the navy during the war.
He was awarded the Victoria cross for
exceptional heroism in the Zeebrugge
engagements, and had risked his life
scores of times. His record showed
numerous citations for placing him.
lelf in personal risk.
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pour into hot, smooth frying pan in
which tablespoonful of butter has
been melted, and cook slowly, loosen
ing the edges with a knife occasional
~ until done. Slash the opposite side
and fold over on to a hot platter.
Serve at once. If the top of the
omelet does not seem to be well
cooked, set In hot oven for a few
minutes before folding.
Quick Tea cakes.-Cream two ia.
blespoonfuls of butter with one cup
full of sugar, add two-thirds of a cup
ful of sour cream, one-fourth teaspoon
full of soda, two beaten eggs, one tea
spoonful of vanilla, and one and one
half cupfuls of flour sifted with one
teaspoonful of baking powder. Beat
well; add few raisins or one on top
Of each; bake In gem pans or irons
and serve warm.
Prune and Date Jam.-Cook one
pound of prunes until soft In a small
amount OF water Remove the stones
and add one pound of stoned chopped
dates which have been cooked In
small amount of water. Add the juice
of half a lemon with half cupful of
honey. Cook the mixture until thick
Prune Cake.-Mix together and boil
five minutes, the following: Two cup
fuls each of brown sugar and boiling
water, three cupfuls of soaked pitted
prunes, stoned and chopped, one tea
spoonful each of salt and cinnamon,
one-half teaspoonful each Of cloves
and nutmeg. Dissolve teaspoonful
of soda In two tablespoonful of warm
water, and add four tablespoonfuls Of
fat. Sift two cupfuls Of -four with
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder
and add the first mixture with cup
full of chopped nut meats. Bake In a
tube cake pan for one hour.
Oyster Soup Supreme.-Take one
quart of veal or chicken stock, two
tablespoonfuls of flour, two of butter,
two-thirds of a cupful Of minced
chicken, one pint Of oysters, one tea
spoonful of onion juice, one cupful of
thin cream, salt and pepper to season,
and little minced parsley. Prepare
as usual, adding the oysters and chick
en- just long enough to curl the oys'
tiers, and heat the chicken. Sprinkle
each bowl or cup with finely minced
parsley and serve.
Good Things to Eat.
For change from the everyday
muffin here is a good one to try:
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three teaspoonfuls of baking powder I;
add one cupful of boiled rice and five
tablespoonfuls of melted butter. Stir
lightly and bake in muffin pans.
Asparagus Cream SaIad.-Dissolve
two tablespoonful of gelatin in one
half eupful of cold water, add one cup
full of boiling water and cool. Rub
one can of asparagus through very
coarse sieve, or cut 1t into small
pieces. When the gelatin has dis
solved and cooled add the asparagus,
one cupful of pecans, one cupful OF
grated cheese and few dashes OF
cayenne. Whip one cupful of heavy
cream until thick and fold into the
mixture. Let it harden in molds. Serve
on lettuce with mayonnaise.
Stuffed Egg saIad.-Cut six hard
cooked eggs into halves lengthwis.
and remove the yolks. Cream four
tablespoonful of butter and mix with
the egg yolks; add six skinned and
boned sardines to the egg yolks and
stuff the whites with the mixture.
Serve on head lettuce with a mayon-
naise dressing.
Pimento Butter Sandwiches.-Cut
white bread into one-fourth inch slices.
Spread generously with pimento but
ter; spread lettuce leaves with mayon-
naise and place between each pair of
slices. Press edges lightly and cut
into triangles. To prepare the pr
mento butter, cream one-half cupful
of butter. Drain the liquor from a
can of pimentoes, rinse with cold wa
ter and dry. Rub the peppers through
sieve and gradually work the pulp
into the butter; season with salt. If
the pimentoes are small, use four
Popular Salad.-Soak one table
spoonful of gelatin in one-fourth cup
full Of cold water, then add one and
one-half cupfuls of boiling water and
stir until the gelatin Is dissolved. Add
one-fourth cupful of lemon juice, two
tabiespoonfuls of sugar, the grated
lind of lemon. then two cupfuls Of
chopped cabbage, one pimento chopped
fine, two cupfuls of sliced, diced pine
apple and one cupful of nut meats.
Mold and serve on lettuce leaves with
mayonnaise dressing.
n,, W. wee
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FREDDIE WANTS TO TELL

A s SOON as Kiddie Katydid men,
toned the word music, Freddie
Firefy began to dance and shout.
'aThere!" he cried. you've just the
same as told me that I was right. If
you sang your Katy did, Katy did;
she did, she did," you would call it
singing. But since you make that
ditty by rubbing your wing covers to-
gether, 1t Is music. And you just re-
ferred to 1t as suchi"
Well, Riddle Katydid couldn't say
q single word. Freddie Firefly was
right. They both knew It And the
secret was hopelessly "out-" In fact,
1t was secret no longer-unless Kid
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-02-26

Even Il cross, feverish, bilious, con.
stipated or full of cold children love
the pleasant taste Of California Fig
Syrup" A teaspoonful never fails to
gently clean the liver and bowels and
sweeten the stomach.
Ask your druggist for genuine "Cali-
fornia Fig Syrup" which has directions
for babies and children Of all ages
printed on bottle. Motherl You must
say california" or you may get an
imitation fig syrup.
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WHEN / WAS
TWENTY-ONE
BY JOSEPH KAYE
At 21:-Edgar Rice Burroughs Was
an Army Cavalry Man.

an Army Cavalry Man.
ssNFY POSITION in life on my
~ twenty-first birthday was that
of a private In Troop B, Seventh
United States cavalry, stationed in
Arizona.
my ambition at that time was to
become an officer in the cavalry
branch Of the service, as / had re-
Gently failed In my entrance examina-
lions at West Point and enlisted for
the purpose of obtaining a commits
sion by working my way up through
the ranks.
II had many other ambitions In
youth, ranging from ownership Of a
candy store to heavyweight cham
pionship of the world, none of which
I achieved and none of which, I now
realize, would have been as salts
factory as my present vocation
Edgar Rice Burroughs
TODAY.-Edgar Rice Burroughs Is
the famous creator of books which
have brought him a great reputation
and no small share of the worlds
shekels.
"a bv Mcclure N4wspaper syndicste.1
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Horizontal.
Fit of temperament
5-Nourfshed
7-Excellent I'm quality
11-POssesser
ia hut other rude dwelling place
IA mans nickname
15-COndition of the atmosphere
1S-WhiIe
ia resting place
21-To have visions while sleeping
22-Part of the verb ssto be"
23-Part of the foot
25-Came together
26-Belonging to 1t
2s-A city I'm Germany
3O--An insect
ga hare
$50 temper or tougher
84-A small child (slang)
36-An Affirmative
37-Not many
3S-A meadow
40-Rights (abbr.)
"a bar of wood or metal
43-A sheet of paper folded once
45-To soak up
E-Either
4SLCOnsiders
50-Iowa (abbr.)
51--A large body Of water
53-Distributed
55-A portable lodging
E6-TO employ
57-Sagacious
Vertical
IA land east of the Dead sea (Bib-
ncaD
"A young wise bird
@Up0n
: -Condensed moisture from the air
Ito regard with respect
7-Because
S-Four (Roman numerals)
9-ApprOaches
10-Otherwiss
PA color
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Excluding MoterioIisn,

you went to sleep during the most
beautiful duet of the OPERA" said the
wife. Il was not asleep" protested
the husband. II was listening en-
raptured and did not want the effect
of the music spoiled by glimpses of
an overweight soprano and slightly
bowlegged tenor" Washington Star
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die Katydid could persuade Freddie
F1ref1y to keep the news to himself.
'You won't say anything about this
little matter, I hope" Kiddie began.
won't II" said Freddie Firefiy.
''Why, I Just couldn't help telling
people what I've learnedl It's the
biggest bit Of news that I've known
since I've lived In Pleasant Valley.
And I must get word Of 1t to old Mr..
Crow somehow"
"Why Mr.. Crown Riddle Katydid
inquired anxiously. He knew that the.
old gentleman was great gossip.
'You might as well put this In news
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HOW TO SOLVE CROSSWORD PUZZLE

are placed in thu whte evil
i'm u
y to ton zxle
will
hi
No usedare dictionary words
tproper obse
Ietef forms dictated In the
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nice munifiSs
To two well-beat-.
en- eggs add one
cupful of milk,
one teaspoonful
Of salt, one table
spoonful of sugar,
three cupfuls OF
flour sifted with
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the yolks and whites OF
four eggs separately,
Mix one-fourth of a tea.
spoonful of cornstarch
with one-half cupful OF
milk, then add to the
yolks and fold in the
beaten whites, add salt
ond roppor to tocta opd
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-02-26
A LINE o. CHEER
BY John kendrick Bangs
THE QUESTION

mo BE or not to bef That IL
no question.
Unless, perchance. you have
the Indigestion
Never to know the Joy OF love
and life7
Never to know the thrill of con-
quering strife?
Never to taste the bliss of mas
terry
over the things of earth. and air,
and sea?
Never to feel7 Never to know the
Spring?
Never to laugh, never to dance or
singf
Never to suffer pain for Others
sake?
Never to sleep and dream. never
to wake?
No question therei Whatever
mans distress
No being would he drop for
nothingness!
"a by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
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&c. 1879. Western Newspaper Union.)
Full many q gem of purest ray
serene,
The dark unfathomed caves of
ocean bear:
Full many q flower is born to
blush unseen,
And waste it's sweetness on the
desert air.
Thomas Gray.
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Outlets and CuIIibiIitv

Nobody ever choked to death trying to
swallow rumors. They slip down too
easily.-Toledo Blade.
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A FEW FAvoRITEs

Here are a few recipes that other
folks like, and they may appeal to you.
Bon-Ton OmeIet.-Beat
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1926-02-26
Grandmother Knew
There Was Nothing So Good for
Congestion and Colds as Mustard

AfsSFS pV&o kvOtfustS 40 NsO00 fOT
Congestion and Colds as Mustard
But the old-fashioned mustard
plaster burned and blistered. Get the
relief and help that mustard plasters
gave, without the plaster and without
the blister.
Musterole does it. 1t is clean,
white ointment, made with oil of mus
tard. Gently rub it in. See how quickly
the pain disappears.
Try Musteroie for sore throat, bron-
chitis, tonsillitis, Group, stiff neck,
asthma, neuralgia, headache, conges-
ton, pleurisy, rheumatism, lumbago,
pains and aches of the back or joints,
sprains, sore muscles, bruises, chill
blains, frosted feet, colds of the chest
tit may prevent pneumonia.
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13-The edge of a garment
16-Part of the body
IA head covering
20-Distrusted
22-Certfnes
A-Part of the arm
26-InteriOr
N-Human ingenuity
ga baseball Implement
3o-one. no matter what ONE
3l-Aged
35-Procrastinates
37-Power
ss-An unshaped piece of timber
| 38-Atmosphere
41-Makes dirty
42-Part of plant
43-A marsh; bog
44-Queer
46-Hsad
4S-A rodent
| 4e-To stitch
| ga printers measure
! 54-A three-toed sl0th
The solution will appear I'm next Issue
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What's in a Manner"
By MILDRED MARSHALL

Facts about your name; Its history;
meaning; whence II was derived; SO.
nifcance: your lucky day. lucky jewel
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SOLUTION OF LAST weeks Puzzle.
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