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Evening star., 1926-04-10
Fear of Comets.

Biela's comet that appeared in 1926
was calculated by astronomers to be
pursuing a course that would cause
it to pass through the earth's orbit.
The announcement gave rise to a
panic. People thought that the comet
and the earth would collide and every
one would be killed. They prepared
themselves for the next life, and
some were even persuaded by craftier
persons to part with their worldly
possessions. People did not stop to
inquire through what part of the
earth's orbit the comet was to pass.
The French astronomer, Arago,
calmed fears by showing that at the
time the comet crossed our orbit the
earth would be $4,000, 900 miles away
from that spot.
Now what do you know about that?
Answers to Yesterdays Questions.
/. Franklin is noted for his expert
ments with electricity.
2. Newton Is famed for the forma-
ton OF the law of gravitation.
8. Euclid perfected the science OF
geometry.
4. Archimedcs was n great en-.
gineer.
s. Copcrnlcus discovered that the
earth rotates around the sun.
q. Llnnngus was tho nrHt nat.
uraliat 10 devise a scientific oIaasla
cation and nomenclature for plants
and animals.
,eopyrish, is.ss
Evening star., 1926-04-10
DOROTHY DK'S LETTER BOX
The Repentant Wife Who Allowed Her Family to
Break Up Her Home-The Beau Who Speaks
of Love But Not of Marriage.

YEAR whenever family
MY husband worshped and did everything for my
had fine home good and pretty clothes now pt tb
faes % aee Tng na1 gohnS Sp my mother @ OWN My brother ana SISTER
think nze h wnat IA fool was to eaye my home and NI
Answer: certainly should put ashes
going s before stepped into
enough although between wife and
and egg her on leave him. they give her very cold welcome
vast s ased P The ne y w @ nr @ to pity
else yet again.
The who finds that and that
her husband pinhered human
pampered darling that she M grihood
Then she of everything
young lady of the family
But when
chagn that she occupies different status failure
Father
the children and the children openly
that she has jumped out of the frying into
fed up with nv
family and that hencefoh their visits would be few
nEAR MISS DIX am widow years and keeping
marrying
his intentions? WIDOW.
Answer 1t doesn't any daughter
The gentleman has intention Whatever OF
company admiration
his evenings but
cns his liberty by getting married and budenins himself with
short of popping the question
marrying And surprised that widow isn't wise
~ y ~ ~
Evening star., 1926-04-10
The Quetxal Of the Republic OF Guatemala

swords and the branches of laurel
tied with ribbon. September Is, 1921,
Is the date of Guatemala declara.
ton of independence from Spain.
According to the Pan-American
Bulletin, the republic has had many
different flags in the succeeding cen
tury For a few months she adopted
the Mexican flag. In 1923 Guatemala,
with the other provinces of Central
America, declared independence from
Spain and Mexico and from any other
nation, whether of the old or of the
new world" The flag chosen by the
united provinces had three horizontal
stripes of blue, white and blue. The
same colors in the pennants were used
as vertical stripes. April II, 1899,
Guatemala became an independent re-
public with n national flag of seven
| stripes and four colors, blue, white,
red and yellow.
The present flag was adopted under
the regime of President Garcia
Granados in 1871, who restored the
blue and white. and the number of
stripes was fixed by the National AS.
semby of 1923. IT was President
Granados who also decreed that Sep
tember Is was the only truly national
anniversary, because other dates
which had been celebrated com
| memorated revolutions which were
either political or fratricidal.
Another national holiday unique in
Guatemala and known as the "Fes-
| tfval of Minerva" was origined in 1899.
when decree was issued that one
day In October of each year should
| be set aside for the worthy celebra-
ton of a national holiday dedicated
! to the promotion of education"
Evening star., 1926-04-10
BEDTIME STORIES BY Y THGSSS9' s"SsTSs

thing he did was to look UP the Big
River He saw two dark specks lit.
tie way above the surface of the Big
River and they were moving very
fast. Nearer they came and nearer.
They We're Mr.. and Mrs. Quack.
My" exclaimed Peter. MY, my.
how fast those Quacks can move. ]
don't believe there is anybody else
who can fly quite as fast as they. [
guess they don't have to worry much
about getting caught.
Just then Peter noticed another
dark speck above and behind Mr. and
Mrs. Quack. At first he didn't pay
any attention to it,. Then he realized
that it was moving even faster than
Mr.. and Mrs. Quack 1t was a mem.
Der of the Hawk family. Peter stared
very hard. 1t was stranger to him.
Suddenly it came to him that the
stranger was after Mr.. and Mrs
QuaCii, and that at the rate he was go.
ing he would soon catch ,one of them.
With a little shiver of fear 1t came to
him who this stra nger was. 1T must
be Killer rhe Duckhawk," he exclaim
ed under his breath. Peter had heard
dreadful tales of Killer. He had
heard, but he hadn't believed, that
Killer could fly so fast that he could
C1Lcn "A DUCK IN tralRhtaWay race.
Until now he hadn't believed this, but
here before his very eyes the thing
was happening. My, how that Hawk
was movingi Peter wondered if Mr.
and Mrs. Quack knew that they were
being chased. If they didn't. Killer
the Duckhawk would be sure to catch
them. SO far as Peter was concerned,
1t looked as If it were a sure thing,
anyway.
Peter began to dance with excite
ment. He came out of his hiding
place and danced up and down on the
bank: Fly. Mr.. Quack. Fly, Mrs.
Quack!' he cried, just Is if they could
hear him. 1t seemed as IL they did.
for they moved faster than ever. But
Killer the Duckhawk is not one to be
easily fooled. He knew that he could
go faster still, and so he began to
quicken the pace little Peter shook
all over with excitement Would he
catch one of themf Which one would
1t be? And under his breath all the
time Peter was crying, just as If they
could understand him. Ely, Mr.
Quack! Fly, Mrs. Quack. Fly! Fly
F'il.'
Copyright. 1920
Evening star., 1926-04-10
Our Children-By Angelo Patri

testing 1t. TOO hot" she murmurs.
II do hope the grocer's boy doesn't go
to sleep on the way. He's the
worst
The eager child sees his audience
slipping from him and he grasps anx-
iously at it. He tugs at his mothers
dress and stammers, "A-a-a big, big,
big goddie."
Don't pull on me so. see him.
Don't talk so fast and you won't
stutter SO. Now go and play. Get
your toys or something and play with
them. You see I'm busy. That's a
good boy. Now run
A child's story Is short He rarely
puts sentence together and more
rarely gets two in sequence. He has
to acquire language power and there
is no other way for him to get it
than by talking, talking. talking, end
being listened to and talked to in re-
turn.
Give him the sense Of having all
the time there is in which to tell his
story. Look at him as he tells it and
be intelligent about it. "A big
doggie? Well, we'll I wonder what
his name is. He looks like kind
doggie, doesn't he?"
The delighted youngster will talk
some more and some more. and his
auditor will listen patiently and in.
telligently until the subject is ex-
hausted, which will be the sooner he
has an opportunity to talk 1t out.
Give the stammering child all the
time he wants and lend him your vel.
coming ear.
Mr.. Patr will give personal attention to
inquiries from parents or school teachers on
the caro- and DEVELOPMENT of children. Write
addressed. stamped envelope for reply.
(Copyright. 1026)
Evening star., 1926-04-10
CHAPTER XLII.

Hot words rushed to Martha'S lips,
but, in spite of her eaSerness to tell
John what was in her heart, she real
lied the necessity for calmnass. She
must not be hysterical. she must put
her case before him as lucidly as she
could. He despised an argument that
was illogical. She must be careful or
she would get nowhere at all.
Il don't want you to think that l
am trying to excuse anything that l
have done. john" she began very
slowly, but I'd like if possible TO
make you see my side of it. l wonder
if you realize that for several years
have been lonely. You have been good
to me. BY that l mean you have given
me everything that l needed or want
ed-everything but yourself. 1t WASH I
so bad while the children were
younger. / was interested in their af-
fairs then, but the time came when
they began to put me out of their
lives, when they resented my interfer-
ence. l made an effort to hold them,
but I saw the same thing going on in
every family, and after a time l let
them drift away from me because
there didn't seem anything else to do"
She paused for moment wondering
what effect her words were having.
John gave no sign OF What was In his
thoughts. His expression was in
scrutabie. nor did he make it easier
for her by making a comment of any
kind. He sat there silent and aloof,
and after a time Martha went on
speaking:
II suppose that sounds like a weak
excuse to you, but, as 1 said, I'm not
justifying myself. I want you to
know the truth, that's all. Well. it
seemed that after the children had
Evening star., 1926-04-10
Your Baby and Mine
Ry MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED.

When a baby Is from to months
of age hs arrives at the period when
almost any strange phenomenon Is at
tril,11ted to teeth. If he has cold or
couph the mother says: Babes al
vays cough when they are teething.
If he wakes up at night and cries, IL
is again because he is teething.
Now the fact is that a baby is
teething from the time he Is born. AT
the age of 5 months a tooth may be
ready. to erupt and II the child IL
nervous, if he is badly fed, ne may
have a fever, he will be off his bottle
and show other marked signs OF dis
turbance. This condition will last per
haps three days and then the tooth
will come through and he will be over
it,
Concerning Teeth.
IT is q, mistake to put all baby all
rents at the door of teeth because
then one lazily refrains from hunting
ont the real cause, which most likely
Is bad feeding or bad habits in gen
eral.
The healthy baby, who has been
well fed from BIRTH suffers very little
discomfort from teeth. other than per
haps a slight loss of appetite. Some
edge Of tooth and the mother has been
entirely unaware Of it's coming. The
poorer the child's physical condition
the more violently will he react to
every natural atlment, and for this
child convulsions, high fevers, com
plete loss of appetite, ETC., are not un
common.
Look to Diet.
If the child is extremely late in get.
ting his first two teeth, don't try to
put the blame on his ancestors: or
his father, who also got his teeth late
but look to his diet. Rickety babies
teeth very slate. Children who have
failed to gain properly in weight will
also fail to show signs of teeth at the
normal period
When the child arrives at one year
of age and has no teeth there Is some
thing wrong and that wrong should be
righted. When the child is fussy and
cross; fails to sleep and gnaws his
fists; don't just say IT'S his teeth
and let it go at that. Remember teeth
come in with little trouble for the
healthy baby, and go about making
your baby healthy rather than slough
ing off worry about his condition ant
| calling it teeth
Evening star., 1926-04-10
What Tomorrow Means to You
BY MARY BLAKE.
Aries.

Tomorrow's planetary aspects. al
though benign are not actively
favorable and while they would not
augur well for any radical changes
or new undertakings, they are par
ticularly suitable for Sunday. Be-
tween the hourse of noon and
pm. there are indications that
nervous restlessness will be sensed,
and unless this is counteracted there
VIII probably arise some degree OF
friction, which might lead to re-
grettable results. On the whole.
however, the day promises a great
fund Of quiet enjoyment and happy
association.
A boy born tomorrow will be nor
! mally healthy during infancy and
only at the period of adolescence is
he destined, according to the signs. to
suffer from any serious ailment. This
may cause anxiety but need not give
rise to alarm. A girl will be sub
ioCted to many infantile ailments,
but she will successfully outgrow
these and attain normal Girlhood and
| womanhood. In character and dis
position both boy and girl promise
to possess great courage, mental
and physical They will have very
decided convictions combined with
keer sense of Justice. AL all times
! thew will be amenable to suggestion,
| hut will never do anything that Is
opposed to The principles in which
| they believe and to which they Will
| adhere through thick and thin.
! If tomorrow is your birthday YOU
| take serious matters lightly and
| rarely, If ever stop to weigh the
| consequences of either speech or
! action. In the former you are some"
| what flippant. In the latter. indif :
! ferent. You show this same tend
| ency in your affections, and are ap-
! parently incapable of great anu
! enduring passion. You are naturally
firtatious, and while you believe in
| YOUR own sincerity others doubt IT.
! Your knowledge Is superhclal ana
hv no means profound. You are not
| n student but rather trust In order
to 'eet by" to a somewhat spec
tacular manner of treating subjects
| than to any intimate knowledge:
| You possess certain degree OF
! charm and capitalize this to the nth
| degree. &c
! In your home life your mate. II
| horn in January or March. is rathef
! daZzIed by your surface brlilancY.
| and this makes for a great deai Oh
happiness, although ii would be oet-
| ter for your own development, II the
| truth were hammered into you mat
"au that glitters Is not gold.
Evening star., 1926-04-10
New Fashion From Medici Period
By MARY MARSHALL.

ent from that of the short tunic
that was such a popular feature OF
the fashions of about 1912. Only the
source is different.
or all the new fashions from Paris
few have received more widespread
sponsoring than this page-boy sill
houette from Martial ct Armand.
Apparently in the estimation OF the
importers and buyers from this
country It is especially suited to the
taste and figure of the American
woman.
Some of the new jumpers show
the new tendency-with short
circular fiounce let in at the lower
edge-giving a straight, slender line
from shoulder to lower edge OF the
skirt, save for a very short founce
lust below the hips. In some OF the
original page.boy designs the SKIRT
is now straight and scant but re-
peats the fare that occurs in the
short peplum 1t will undoubtedly
be the page boy Jacket with straight
short. scant skirt that will gain a
definite place in American fashions
for Spring.
Now that we have had page-boy
frocks and page-boy suits, be pre-
nared for a showering of page boy
things in general. The page-boy nat
has appeared-page-bo collars, shoes
belts, blouses and jewelry will prob
ably follow,
Evening star., 1926-04-10
SPRINCTIME
BY n. c. PEATTIE.
Naples.

Once more, with the ever-return.
ing miracle of Spring, the naples have
bloomed, spreading their glory up and
down city streets as impartia1ly as
in the country lanes. Lovely things,
| the maple flowers-some red, some
yellow, some soft shades of vermilion
At a distance one hardly realizes that
they are flowers and not merely the
| rising of sap into the reddening twigs,
so soft, so subtle haze of color are
the clusters of flowers high in the
tree tops.
People often think that because
one maple tree blooms now and
another beside 1t comes out two weeks,
even three weeks, later, they must be
different species of maple. But this
is not true, or not necessarily. No one
has explained why it is that two
naples OF one kind. under the same
conditions, will vary so in their time
of Towering. A difference of color in
the flowers is often noticed, too, but
there seems to be nothing important
in this variation, either.
more maple. European trees often
planted in our streets, have not
bloomed yet. nor will they till the
warm days come. But our own we'll
loved native trees, the red maple and
the rock maple, are now in full tide
Of bloom, first trumpeters of Spring,
blowing on horns that sound, indeed
a delicate note, but an enhancing one.
Listen, and you will hear the promise
of Springs full orchestration.
Evening star., 1926-04-10
DAUGHTERS OF TODAY
BY HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR
Copyright. 1920

practically gone our Of m, life ] need
ed you more than ever. turned to
you, but your business claimed you.
You were as intent or putting the OUT
of your life as the children had been.
and ] began 10 grow miserable l
wonder il you realize hoH much alone
you have left me. and now fe~ PAGES
we have been together. ! don't SAY
this TO excuse myself, and Yet III s
way l believe il does excuse lac 10
certain extent
"All this is beside the point Jonu
began testify, but Martha Interrupted
him quickly.
Il don't think that's fair.
1T is fair. If you're trying to Justify
your friendship with Emily Westcott =
brother you don't have to tell me al
this as a preamble; it isn't necessary
But it is necessary. l must tell YOU
to make you understand things.
Please, John. listen To me. I haven't
asked you for a great deal of sym
pathy in the past, but / want you .J.
listen to me now"
John ignored this. a peculiar smile
on his face
Are you so much in love with the
man? Is that why you're so eager to
tell me all this? II ST. why don yua
come to the point What it is thar
YOU want me to 11-divOrCe YOU SO
that you can marry him?'
Martha felt her throat constrict, and
the not tears sting her eyelids How
little he understood of what was in
her heart, how little sympathy he was
willing To give her even now when she
had brought herself 10 be humble be.
fore him.
Tim not in love with him" she
brought out the words jerkily. But
l was in love with something that he
| gave me, something that YOU We're un-
willing to give. I was in love with the
fact that he liked TO be with me: thai
he saw something in me that was
worth while. II colored my whole life:
it gave me back romance. It made me
| feel young"
"All very pretty" John interposed
sneeringly. but it sounds very much
as if You liked him more than you
realize
Martha shook her head YEARLY.
"Oh, no." she said after q moment.
II don't--and If 1 did ii wouldn't do
any good. He has fallen in love with
Natalier'
Copyright, 1926l
Continued in Mondays Starr
Evening star., 1926-04-10
SUB ROSA
Looking for an Excuse

Don't like to put q disagreeable
idea in your heads. girls. but some
Of your letters lately make me think
you all need a bit of warning.
F. T. writes this morning: II said
something rather catty to him
although l didn't mean it In the least
and passed it off laughingly. But he
flew up in a perfect rage about it
and left me right then and there.
Well, Mimi, I knew l was in the
wrong, so I wrote him a nice notel
apologized wholeheartedly, explained
that l hadn't meant 81 thing and
wanted to be friends again. Since
then he's been to see me once or
twice ard we're on the best of terms.
But he doesn't seem to be In love
with me any more. / don't seem TO
interest him the way l used to. Isn't
it ridiculous for him to act this way,
just over a silly slip on my part!
What shall I do?"
+. T. is only one of a hundred.
Every day some poor girl Is amazed
to discover that her man has drifted
away over some perfectly trivial IN
cident, which didn't amount to any
thing. And every girl, thus deserted
feels that if only the unfortunate IN
for all would be rosy.
Take a tip from those who know.
The boy who won't accept an apol'
ogy and come back on the old terms
doesn't want to come back.
If a boy Is really crazy about his
girl, his hurt pride won't keep him
from her very long-especially II she
handsomely asks his forgiveness.
If your man stalls and hesitates
and comes back with a different air
make up your mind to the cruel
hard truth--he was tickled to death
for the excuse to leave you.
And he's not ready to forgive you
simply because that would necessi
tate renewing old relations with you
which he's anxious to break of.
Don't misunderstood me. The most
sincere lovers in the world get peevec
now and then when we women hanC
them a raZZ Of some sort. They pick
up their toys and go home and re
fuse to speak to us again. But 9
little softsoap, a tender note, a plead
ing telephone call, brings them back
forgiving and forgetting +
they want to come back.
The kind of boy who goes away
mad and stays mad In spite of al
endeavors to appease his wrath
either has a cast iron, nasty dispo
sition or is grateful for a reason no.
to see you any more.
In either case, you don't want him
So don't fall all over yourself apol
ogizlng for something that happened
two or three months ago.
Make your little speech once ol
twice, and If he doesn't respond dom
try to. any more.
You can't take him back If HI
doesn't want to come back.
II the girls who wrote to me on the above
subject will sent stamped. addressed eD
yelope I'll answer personally
(Copyright. 1929
Evening star., 1926-04-10
Stammering.


Little children. in their eagerness
to tell their story, often stammer
Thev seem to lose their place, as ii
were, and repeat the same word un
til they find the story again. Mothers
are afraid they are acquiring a bad
speech habit or that they are stutter:
ing because of a speech defect. Any
one of these fears may be justified
but the chances are strongly In
favor of the normal cause, eagerness
to tell the story in the time allowed
A child learns soon in his career
that groWn.ups are In a hurry and
have little time to spare for listening
to stories. The little one feels he
must talk. You see 1t is his talking
time. He is growing his speech pow
or ana its quality and fiuency are de-
pendent upon its timely growth. A
delayed speech power is never quite
the same as that which developed at
its proper season. Talking demands
a. listening audience and, as / have
said, that audience is very limited
f;rown.,ips have so much to do.
The young talker discovers a dog
in the yard and forthwith Is pos
sessed with the desire to tell some
body about It, Mother Is beating ur
a cake and keeping an eye on the
heating oven and hoping the grocer
will come in with the sugar for the
icing. Sandwiched between are the
thoughts of mending, shopping for
Spring clothes, lots Of things the
baby needs; Aunt Hettie. who Is like.
ly to come in any day and the stun
not ready to sew; so much to do: 80
much crowding.
MON. momma. look. There's q big
goddie In the yard He's"
Eyes, dear. Say doggie."
"'Er's a g.goddio In the yard an
he's a big. n big. big. big"
Mother has remembered the oven
IN the mea nwhile and n absorbed In
Evening star., 1926-04-10

TIE PAGE-BOY SILHOUETTE AS
WORN BY AN AMERICAN
WOMAN, SHOWING A SMOOTH
LY FITTING CASQUE OF BLACK
TAFFETA WITH A FULL PEP
LUM. FASTENED WITH WHITE
CRYSTAL BUTTONS. IT Is
WORN WITH A BLACK TAF.
FETA SKIRT.
with short, flaring peplum looks the
part. There is something youthful
about the name and the fashion and
so we adopt them both without
further to do.
Still, the fashion ought to take on
new interest when you know that
the French designer who originated
It and named it derived it from the
costume worn by the page boys IN
the reign of Henry III and Catherine
de Medici in France-costumes with
which this designer became familiar
through studying old portraits in the
galleries When YOU know that this
Is in reality a revived fashion of the
sixteenth century-the age of high
adventure--then you ought TO find il
especially interesting.
OF course the time had to be ripe
for such a revival. AS a matter of
fact ii was. Doucet of Paris hal
previously shown close1itting jackets
with gudet peplumS, and several q.
the leading designers had shown
ruffes and frillS about the hips OF
frocks or suits The silhouette is
not. as a matter of fact. very differ-
Evening star., 1926-04-10
"Puxz7;cks "
-PuSsle-Liriericks.

Said a gentle old man Il
/ ought not to wear my best ,.
But what can | >?
/ have only 4
And these are no better than s.
l. Presume.
2. Attire.
3. Preform an act
4. A pair.
5. The others referred to.
Mote Under the circumstances
what was he to do? But you can't an
swer that until you've completed the
limerick by placing the right words
indicated by the numbers. in the CORE
spending spaces. The answer and al
other "Puzzlick" will appear on Mon
day.)
Yesterdays 'Puzzlick."
There was an old man of Madrid
Who ate siXty-five eggs for a quid.
When asked. Are you faint?"
He replied. mo. ! amt,
But ! don't feel as well as I did,"
Copyright. 1920