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New Britain herald., 1928-06-11
The Heart Story
 of 8 Steadfast Woman
Loves Awakening
By Adele Garrison

today isn't a propitious time. You're in no mood to listen, and I do not feel adequate to the recital Now suppose We go back to that secret you wish 10 tell me, and the thing you want me to keep for you. Is it something which would he wrong for your mother not to knovo"
 T don't know,' Lillian's daugh- ter said. adding surprisingly: 'Its a secret I've kept from her ever since my grandmother died-it's hers really-and I'm sure there's no harm in it. My grandmother told me to tell anybody. and I've obeycd her. But now that I'm going off to school and he is in the house. I'm for him to find. And l cant take it to school If he weren't around I'd disohey my grandmother's wish and tell my mother, for of course l can't go on always without telling some body. l might get sick or die. And you're next to my mother. Auntie Madge, so I've come to you"
 I debated my course swiftly. 1n- stinctively my loyalty to Lillian for tade my sharing a secret with Ma rion from which she was excluded. on the other hand. Marion was in a state of mind where if I refused to keep her secret, she might share it with someone less loyal or less dis erect than I. And no doubt it was only some Nagary of her grand mothers mind. knew that Tom Morton's mother for whom Lillian had tenderly cared in her last days had lacked the possession of her full faculties for weeks before her death.
 "All right, my dear" I said at last, Il won't fail you. Tell me what you wish me to do. and I will say nothing about it until you give me permission"
 She threw her arms about my neck and kissed me warmly. You're such darling, Auntie Madge," she said eXplosively, and then she went to the door and lock- cd 1t, investing the act with meIo- dramatic little air of mystery which amused me in spite of my very real qualms as to the wisdom of letting her confide in me.
 Copyright, 1928, Newspaper Feature Service, Inc.
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11
Art Decorator
 Gives Advice
Do Not Abuse Modernistic
 Tendencies.

(By HEA ser,ice)
 Don't go modern" through the whole house, just because it is the style, unless you have tried it out and decided that it is the proper setting for your personality.
 So says Mehetable Thankful Ans dell, interior decorator, lecturer and former magazine editor.
 If you are interested in modern in teriors, begin on the sunroom, !" she advised. "The finest and most complete modern effects can be ob- tained there. For sun rooms, be- ing contemporary additions to the home, lend themselves we'll to mod crn furnishings.
 "Modern art is not developed enough at present for us to see it in the proper perspective to give 1t judgment.
 Prom a mans point Of view, modernistic interiors are distinctly masculine. There is masculine hardness about them. Perhaps flap pers would be absolutely at home in modern rooms. But for the woman bred and cultured in the subtleties of another age. modern rooms lack sraciousncss and leave her gasplnE for breath.
 "A weakness Of modernlstic in tcrior decoration is it's lack of har- mony with older things we have ac- quired over a long period. Great taste is needed in blending the two or the ideal of new and bcautliu art era of which artists dream, will be retarded tremendously"
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11
First Woman Diplomat
 In Women Voters Work

Chicago. June II Hl-Mrs. George Morris Curtis, who as Lucille Atch- erson became the first woman ap- pointed to United States diplomatic post, has become active in tn" work Of the National League Of Women Voters She is director of the fourth region.
 Mrs. Curtis, whose husband is as- sociate professor of surgery at the University of Chicago. has settled in Chicago. She served long Tn ad- ministra1ive posts in France during and after the war and was decor atcd three times by the French gov crnmcnt. In the United States dlp- lomatic service she was in the state department and subsequently, at tachod to the legations at Berne. Switzerland and at Panama.
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11

are i'll.
 Typhoid is another of the import ant dised dses which tend to increase during the summer and fall. AL though il becomes quite widespread, public health officials are convinced that il can he prevented by strict attention 10 the maintenance of cleanliness in food, milk and water supplies and protection against flies. Vaccination also is recommended.
 Among the common communica ble diseases measles is most likely to give trouble during the warm months.
 Even more definitely identified with he conditions and recrcalions aSsociatod with the spring and sum- mor arc tho seasonal increase in lock liaw, automobile accidents, ivy poisoning, drowning and rabies. Ivy poisoning. health authorities warn, can he moi merely q painful and dis abing condition. but an even more serlous matter if allowed 10 get out of control.
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11
Here IS How
 Germs Operate
They Certainly Play Havoc
 in Bodies.
RN DIR. MORRIS ElSHBElN Editor Journal of the American, Medical Association and of Hygcia,
 the Health MaSazine.

Sometimes germs settle in the tonsils. the throat, at the roots of the teeth. in the intestines. or else where in the body.
 Having established themselves. they begin to give off their poison- ous products. Roth these poisons and'the germs themselves are pick
 cd lip by the blood and carried to other places in the body.
 The germs when carried to the
 joints, to the heart, or to the kid nrys, for example, will estab blish themselves anew and begin new
 spots of infection. The original
 spot is called the primary focus of infection; all of the spots that fol-
 tow are known as secondary foci. Modern medicine is inclined to
 tho view that foci of infection, par ticularly when the germs involved include that dangerous group known
 as streptococcus, are primarily re-
 sponsihlc for many of the diseases that attack people throughout life. For example, heart disease is in tho majority Of instances brought
 about by such infections carried in most instances from the throat and teeth
 Rheumatism. st. Nitus' dance. and general innammations of the joints are also usually due 10 such secon- dary infections. the original spots being in the teeth, the gums. the tonsils, the sinuses and the ears. Not exceptionally also infections of the appendix and the gallbladder are secondary to primary infections
 in the throat,
 When such infections are discov- cred, either primary or secondary,
 the physician attempts to control the secondary infection by building up
 the resistance of the body through
 proper dict. exercise and sleep, and sometimes by using biological meth ods which arc directed specifically at the infection.
 It is. of course, desirable to re-
 move the primary focus of infection entirely once it is discovered. This may be done by surgical removal Of the tonsils, the adenoids and by the proper dental attention to infected teeth.
 Practically every physician can now cite the records of numerous cases in which such methods have
 brought about complete relief.
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11
Marion Morton Shows Bitter Re-
 ssntment Against Her stepfather

Into Marion Morton's tear-swol- len eyes flashed startled. incredu- lous joy at my assurance that she came first with her mother and that her stepfather held only second place in Lillian's heart For mo- ment her eyes held mine, then they suddenly were averted from my face.
 I'm a selfish beast I knoN,' she said shamefacedly. but do you know that isn't enough for me? l don't want him to have even second place. I want him to go away and never come back. l hate him."
 There was temper in her last words and I made no answer to them whatever. I knew her strong sense of justice. her heritage from her mother. and I waited for the retracuon which I was sure would come.
 "Of course. don't mean that last exactly" she said after little. He has tried to be nice to me. l know. aud he hasn't tried to make me obey him yet in anything. He'd better not, either" she added darkly. and l saw that she was indulging her self in the age-old prejudice against etep-parents.
 T fancy he will leave all your disciplining to your mother. my dear" I said. keeping my face straight with difficulty,
 Marion's lips quirked into a re- luctant grin.
 "Oh. I'm not afraid that he's go- ing to beat me, or lock me up on bread and water," she said. but it doesn't stand to reason that he's never going to interfere with me. He's 2 man, you know. and they just naturally can't help bossing. But that isn't what's ailing me-" she finished. honestly. Its just that l want my mother all to myself as we used to be. and I cant have her that way any more.'
 Some day" I sad slowly, ''we're going to thrash this question all out. I'm going to tell you some things about your mothers life which will make you understand more clearly why she has become reconciled to your stepfather. But
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11

Shadow the Weasel was in a bad temper. He was in very bad temper. Shadow is very quick-tcm- pered anyway. and 1t doesn't take much to upset him. But this time he felt that he had more than he could stand. With that wonderful rose of his. he had been trailing young Woodcock. It had been a fresh trail. Why. he could almost taste those young Woodcock. More than once his mouth had watered as he had put his keen little nose to the ground.
 And then one of those great two-legged giants called men had interfered Shadow ground his teeth as he thought Of it. It was Farmer Browns Boy who had inter- fered. Yes. sir, it was Farmer Browns Boy who had interfered. He had frightened all those Wood- cock 50 that they had taken to their wings. Not satisfied with this, he had tramped about until he had frightened them again and again. Every time Shadow had heard the whistle Of their wings as they took to the air, he had snarled and his eyes had eloWed rcd with anger. You see, he knew well enough then that his hunt for the Woodcock was over. There was small likelihood that he would get them now. Still, he hunted around while longer. just on the chance that he might accidentally find one there.
 When he finally gave up and started back for the Green Forest. he was in bad mood. was Shadow the Weasel lie was ready 10 fight anybody or anything. Presently he heard some body coming toward him through the brush Shadow didn't dodge out Of sight. as is his usual way. He just stood where he was. arched his back, and pre- pared to tell this newcomer just what his feelings were. Al first. he thought t was Farmer Brown $ Boy who was coming. He was so angry that f 't had been Farmer Browns Boy he would have stood his ground just the same. But it wasn't Farmer Browns Boy. II Naa Cuhhy Bear. That is who il vas Cubby Pear
 Now you know that Cubby Bears eyes were not aS sharp as the eyes Of some Of his neighhors. \ Brar never depends as much on hre eye. as he does on his noes. So a- flfa Cuhhy didn't sec Shadow at all He came shufflins along in hls happy go-lucky Hav, and i' looked for 3 minute es if he would step right on Shadow. Shador's 's eyes crc~ rcd and more rcd. With single qultk bound he do1ged to one side II was then that euhhy spied Shad oW. Now it vas the first time that tuhhy had ever s"on Shadow the Weasel You know Shadow is a very small person--a very small slim. trim person. tuhhy vas Ussd 'o Inc various members of tHe Mouse family. He had hunted for aud caught many Of them. IT." had 4r'u Strlp'd tHlpHluHh alh idh 'Il'I It catch him. Shadow looked to hln 10 be quite as helpless as thr mem hers of the Mouse family, or th, Chipmunk family.
 "Ha," exclaimed Culhy. "I Wat just wishing l had a lunch. This fellow will suit me first rate" and he sprang right at Shadow.
 You certainly would have laughed if YOU could have seen the eNpree. sion on Cubby's face when his fore paws landed on the very spot "horf Shadow should have been. Sha1o" wasn't there' He had moved s' quickly that Cubby hadn't seen hin go A sharp pain in the heel Of one
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11

hind foot caused Cubby to yelp right out and whirl about. There sat this impudent small person. snarling and splitting at him. He had bitten Cubby's heel. It was then that Cubby began 10 see red. He would show this fellow! Yes. indeed. he would show this fellow that he couldn't take any liberties with him.. Copyright, 1928, by T. w. Burgess)
 The next story: Shadow Tor ments CuDby."
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11
WOMAN "I}OOkIt." ADVANCES

London. June Ii P)-Mrs. Helen Nernet. England's only woman book maker. who long ago ast toniShed her friends by taking her stand by the race track and shouting the odds in tn approved manner, has been elected director Of Ladbroke's. an important firm Of commission agents whose clientele is representative Of the great families of England.
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11
New Beach Costume Has
 \ Striking Pirate NOte

Paris. June II P-Bathing and beach suits with long trousers Of black. bolted with gay ha ndkerchiefs that match the bathing turbans. which are also handkcrchiefs, are offered by dreSsmakor here. The suits give a piratical effect and had an almost instantaneous success on tn Riviera.
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11

Number 43 horizontal Is an herb related 10 the chicory family. It's leaves are blanched and used as a winter salad.
 Horizontal. 1. Label. 4. Competitor. 2. Fashion. 12. Reverential fear. 13. Poplar tree. A. Devoured. Ia. Constant companion, l6. Dug ore. IT. To decay. IS. Flag lily. 20. To observe. ol. Pest. % A type of fertilization. 24. Helper. e5 Asks with authority, 2S. Tatter. 31. Carried. g. To marry. 33. Round. bulging pot. 37. To rent. 3S. To listen to. 3o Flew. 41. To march wcarily. 43 Salad herb. A. Sudden thrusts as with a
 sword. 45 Sowing device used in planting. 4s. Comes in.
 Vertical. 1. Nocturnal animal, ?. Conscious. 3. Frozen. 4. Battering machine. 5. Wading bird. 6. To respect. '. Opposite of awcather. S. Guided.
 9. The practical unit of electrical
 capacity. 10. To cNpiatc. II. To turn aside. 19 Sorrowful. 9l. Twice. 23. Mesh Of lace. a. To total. 2G. One who makes f7'Hls 10 cast
 metal. o7. To irritate. as. June flowers. 20. Solitary. 30. Cleared space in forest, B. Device used i'll splitting. 33. lmpetuOus. 34. Garment. 3S. Dry. 3S. To seek. A. Night preceding 2 holiday 4- To hasten.
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11
DETACHABLE CGlIAES

White flannel coats have dctach- able collars and cuffs of fur and ar" a new note. They snap on and can be removed easily Whc'l the coat is cleaned.
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11
NEW HAWKES.

Large squares in filmy Noilcs, now make sports handkcrchiefs. Light centers with vivid borders are best.
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11
TWEED SILK

Soft purples and rich greens can be had now in tweed silks which make the most satisfactory of sum- mor suits. White pique is a good material for hlouses.
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11

toys, a child's chances are reduced. But, if parents give children toys that will satisfy all their interests, young imaginations can be famed, habits of concentration can be form cd, humor can be developed and social sense strengthened.
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11
Menus of the Family
BY SISTER MARY

Breakfast Cantaloupe. cereal cream, potato omclct with tomato sauce, crisp toast. milk, coffee.
 Luncheon ---- Asparagus timbalc with Hollandaisc sauce, whole wheat rolls, head lettuce with French dressing, strawberries with cream. crisp cookies, milk, tea.
 Dinncr-Broilcd fish, cucumber sauce, rice croqucttcs, green bears. pineapple sherbct, plain cake, milk, coffee.
 Any fresh caught small fish arc delicious broi'od. Smelts and other equally small fish are broled with out splitting flat. Somewhat larger fish arc split down the back and broii"d first on flesh side and then on skin side.
 Asparagus Timbalc Two punches asparagus. 1 T. cups
 fin" dried bread crumbs, F cup milk. 1-4 cup melted butter 1 scanf teaspoon sale, IA teaspoon pepper,
 3 eggs.
 Wash and scale asparaslls. Cut | off tough ends and save for a soup. Cut tender stalks into inch lengths. Dry stale bread in a slow oven let ting bread brown slightly Roll and -if1 crumbs. Heat milk and add to crumbs, using enough milk to m olSten. If the crumbs arc not brown they will absorb more milk but the brown crumbs taste better.
 N!1 melted butter, salt and pepper. | R"at eggs until very light and add 10 crumb mixture with aspara gus. Turn into well hnttorod mold, 1 filling mold about tVo-thirds full. Cover closely and steam A. minutes. nnold and serve garnjshcd wit h parsley. Serve fIollandaiSc sauce | paratcly in sauce boat l tCopyriGht. 1928. Nt,t Service. Inc.
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11
fiOl Sii lROtNS.

Cool house frocks will tighten inc sumner work appreciably. Green, soft blue and lavender are the cool est colors for hot days.
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11
s; NNER SUNLIGHT.

Summer sun fades things so ef- iicaciously that it. is a good plan to put away all delicate drapos. Inex- ponsiNe cretonne can replace them.
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11

Paris, June II p-Prints and ruftles afr aG emphatic not" in sum- mer fashions. A sInlll navy bllic print on T haiE" background from l'atou has three fiors oi rifiles on fb" blolls" and a skirt V hich is com posed solely of rufflee extended into inc back of tho dress, The ruffles 3to emphasized by q plain blro binding
New Britain herald., 1928-06-11
Cubby Spies Shadow
By Thornton W. Burgess

Temper, 1t is very plain, Results in loss. and never again.
 Old Mother Nature
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02

! show was not very refined, but It was
clean, frank, and did not put too great
a strain either upon the intelligence or
the imagination.
Lincoln's seemingly inexhaustible
fund of stories came from his power
of adaptation. He got the idea Of
story from something he read, and
when he came to relate it the incident
was told as Of "a man knew in Indi-
ana" or "a woman who lived down in
Egypt" that Is, Southern Illinois. His
locations were far enough from home
to avoid unpleasant personalities and
perhaps, also, too careful inquiries into
his accuracy. But there could be little
difficulty in the matter of veracity when
| he spoke of his own love of praise as
akin to fondness for ginger bread Of
a man he knew in Indiana, who said
| he "reckoned he liked It better and
got less of 1t than anybody else in the
world"
That Lincoln cared much for Nasty
we are assured by Charles Sumner. to
| whom Lincoln read a number Of his
| sketches, and it would have been worth
the price of admission to have heard
Lincoln reading one of those compost
tions, whose humor depended so large
| ly on its atrocious spelling, to that dig
nif1ed Massachusetts Senator. That he
enjoyed Artemus Ward, and his plan to
relieve Lincoln from the pest Of Office
] seekers by turning his "boy-c onstrictor"
| in among them and filling the cabinet
with shoWmeu-"Al shoWmen are hon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02
His Various Moods.

est; for particulars, see small bills
we know from John Hays account of
Lincoln parading the White House in
his shirt to share a funny page with
those who were still up after he had
gone to bed. We know it also from the
diaries of Salmon P. Chase and Gideon
Welles, who were present at the cabinet
meeting where Lincoln read for the
second time his emancipation procla-
mation-read of the Showman's hard ex-
perience in Utica, where the righteous
populace would not permit him to show
his "wax-f1ggers" because he had Judas
Iscariot present among the Twelve
Apostles.
ITO LINCOLN there was no incongru-
= ity In coming to cabinet meeting
with the manuscript of the emancipa-
ton proclamation In one hand, to be
carried through whether the cabinet
approved or not, because Lincoln had
promised his God to do it, and in the
other hand bringing, and reading first,
a piece of nonsense. do not wonder
that some members of the cabinet
were offended; know more good people
who would have been offended than
equally good people who would have
approved.
There Is no one question I am asked
more frequently than: Did Lincoln
ever tell vulgar stories? Many men
who knew him have assured me that
they never heard him tell any improper
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02

Lincoln's personal attorney after her
husbands death. From his Life of
Lincoln, which was a reflection of his
own character, as well as that OF Lin
coin, we may be sure that he would
have admitted only stories Of high
grade. And SO would 7, If were
making a collection for publication;
but Mr.. Arnold knew Of the other
kind.
~ \ X ...
ONE story, not original with Lin
coin, and too well known to
require his telling. served as the back
ground for one of his most pet alEu-
sions in the Lincoln Douglas debates.
Douglas, as chairman Of the Senate's
committee on Territories and chief ex-
ponent Of the "squatter sovereignty
idea, protested against the manner In
which pro-slavery constitution had
been forced upon Kansas, and had
won the approval Of the administration.
For his stand on this question Douglas
deserves the appreciation Of history, and
there Is no good reason to accuse him
Of insincerity in this matter, whatever
may be said about some other positions
Of that accomplished politician. But
to Lincoln the quarrel was not a mat
ter whose merits he needed to discuss.
That split in the Democratic party in
the senatorship in 1883. That same
split, made national in 1860, was all
that made Lincoln's election TO the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02

story, and others equally truthful tell
me of stories which Lincoln told which
were certainly indicate. Lincoln's
taste in stories was level with the taste
of the bench and bar of his time; how
could it have been otherwise? That
taste was rude, coarse, and honest.
Blunt. Saxon names were used, and
spades were called spades. Certainly
some of Lincoln's stories were not very
ladylike. But their coarSenesS was that
of the backwoods, and II 1t lacked the
refinement which we suppose to belong
to modern humor, 1t lacked also the
nastiness of 1t. The whole range o.
life, as the pioneer knew 1t, came into
his stories-business, religion, politics,
marriage, birth, and death. The Jokes
were rude, yes.
Col. Alexander K. Mcclure Of Phila-
delphia complied a volume Of stories
alleged to have been told by Lincoln,
and he was in position to judge with
reasonable accuracy as to what stories
were authentic. for he was often in
the White House. I own Isaac N.
Arnold's copy of McClure's book. In
it Arnold has written that about half
the stories are genuine, but not very
well told wish he had recorded
which ones he believed authentic. He
did not do so. His would have been a
conservative list. He was called "the
first gentleman in Chicago" was an
associate of Lincoln's at the bar; was
one Of the most stanch Of Lincoln's
supporters In Congress. and was Mrs.
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all over the room, trying to start some
thing. She worries the hindlegs of the
stately chow, Tiny Tim, tries to lure
Ruby or King Kole into a rough-house
Born Diana of Wildwood, one glance
at her Is enough to assure you that she
will never live up to the high sounding
title. She is whitish except for q few
places where she Is brownish or tan
nish. Her legs go out sideways when
she runs and her head turns on her
body like a child's wooden toy, in the
most comical way. Yet there is remi-
niscence of grace about her as If she
had been born In Landseer picture.
She arrived one day in an airplane,
so covered with grease that it was diff
ficult to discover which was dog and