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favors. A large bunch of Spring flowers
or Towering potted plant or group of
plants, such as tulips or jonquils. is the
sort of prize to present.
Tiny May baskets filled with bright
colored small candies are just the
things for table decorations, especially
if the eenterpiece of flowers takes the
form of a flower basket. Make all the
baskets by pasting row after row OF
crimped fringed tissue paper about
ordinary small or large boxes. The
small ones are for candy, the large ones
for the centerpiece. The small baskets
can have the candies covered with wee
flowers, the stems of which are thrust
between candies to hold them upright.
The large centerpiece basket can be
a May basket form of Jack Horner pie
and contain favors for every one. Tie
the favors to the stems of the flowers
and have each guest pluck one flower
from the basket when it is passed
around after the meal or after refresh
mentS.
A novel twist to the hunt for May
flowers can be given by having the
roots or bulbs edible. To make the
roots or bulbs, wrap a sailed Brazil nut
in square of green tissue paper lined
with enough parafflne paer to cover
the nut. Twist the paper tightly to
hold the nut securely. Into the twist
of green, twist also a piece of gay COL
ored tissue paper with the edges cut
petal shape. The points of green will
supply foliage for these simulated
flowers. Strew these flowers all about
the rooms in seen and hidden places,
and offer a prize for the one who
gathers" the most.
(CopyriEht, 1927
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Sense and Science.

When Josh Billings said, "Tain't what
men don't know that makes Trouble in
the world: it's what they know for
sartain that amt So" he was stating the
plain fact about the value of common
sense.
There was time when common sense
convinced every one that the earth was
fiat. Science began to question the
validity of that common sense deduc-
ton. Little by little it was discovered
that what the people know for Sartain'
wasn't true.
There was time when common sense
held that psychology was an account of
how men think they think" That
seemed so "sartain' that it even kept
the scientific students of psychology in
the dark for long time. Science. after
a while, questioned that deduction. In
due time 1t was proved that what men
think about what they think constitutes
only a few of the facts about psychology.
There was a time when common
sense concluded that an undressing jaw,
low hair line. etc, were "sartain"
signs of criminal tendencies. Science
has proved that such deductions are not
facts but opinions.
There was time when common sense
said that the person who was slow to
the person who was quick to learn.
Science has proved that the exact OPP
poSite is the truth.
If person were to take up, item by
Item, the present-day common sense no
lions of psychology he would find that
science has consigned a good many of
them to the scrap-heap of exploded
theories. And the end is not yet. Scienti-
fic psychology has only just begun to get
rid of the hasty conclusions that have
so long befuddled our knowledge of the
nature of human nature.
Look where you will in the archives of
science, you find the same situation: a
general case against common sense.
Despite all this, we owe a lot to COM
mon sense. Every science began with
common sense. Every science is nothing
other than refined common sense. But
that refinement of observation has re-
vealed different world for us all, and
thereby directed our activities along as
many different lines as it has changed
the ways we think about what we think.
Copyright 1921
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BY J. p. GLASS.

One of the best attested cases of an
| apparition at time of death was that
| III which the Baroness de Boisleve a
woman of the highest social circles in
Paris, figured.
| On a Marc hevening the baroness
! gave dinner to a number of distin-
| guiShed persons. Her guests included
| M. Devienne, first president of the
| Supreme Court of Appeals: M. Deles-
vauX. president of the Civil Tribunal OF
the Seine, and Gen. Fleury, equerry in
ordinary to Napoleon III. 1t was 1863,
| the year after France had sent a mill
tary expedition to Mexico.
Now the baroness son, Honore de
| Bois.eve, a lieutenant of light cavalry
| had gene out to Mexico with the ex-
| petition. She had not heard from him
| in some time. If one guest interested
| her more than another, you may be
sure this was Gen. Fleury, because he
might have heard of late dispatches
| from across the Atlantic which would
| give her news of her son.
| He had scarcely entered before she
made inquiries. But he had heard
nothing
mo news-good news" says Flam-
| marion, the French scientist who later
chronicled the evenings adventure
| Nine. de Boisleve and her guests
dined pleasantly, remaining at table in
| interested conversation until o'clock
| There was no thought of disaster.
| At the baroness left the table and
entered the salon to serve coffee. She
had scarcely passed through the door
| when an agonized cry was heard.
| Her guests pushed back from the
table in alarm and rushed into the
| salon. On the floor, lying in a dead
| faint, was their hostess.
Two of the men lifted her and put
her on a couch. Some one brought
restoratives. She recovered conscious
ness and told an amazing story.
las I crossed the threshold" she said
| 81 saw Honore standing in his uniform,
| but without arms and without cape.
| His face was deadly pale, he had ap-
parently been shot through the left eye.
| and blood was trickling down his cheek
| and upon the embroidery of his coat
| collar"
The guests listened in establishment
| and perhaps a little relief. They has
| tened to reassure her.
You are the victim of a hallucina-
| ton" they said
The shock, however was so great
| that the baroness thought herself dying.
It was deemed necessary to summon
the family physician, DR.. Auguste Nela-
ton, very famous surgeon of his day.
He treated her, with the result that she
was physically normal the next day.
But she could not shake off gloomy
foreboding Every day she went to
the War Office for news.
A week later, she was informed Off
cially that at 10 minutes past 3 in
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ATTRACTIVE SUITABLE

A May day party is so full of the
spirit of Spring that it can be one of
the dainties of all the year. There is
also spirit of merriment about Nav
Gay affair that is conducive to a good
time. These elements of Springtime
beauty and of revelry for May day cele-
brations have come down to us through
the ages, and give the reason for the
type of party that is suited to the
month. In the party outlined today,
the beauty of Spring win be apparent
in the decorations, favorS and prizes,
while the merriment will be supplied
by game Of rustic simplicity.
Flowers there should be in as much
quantity as the garden can supply or the
purse reasonably afford It does not
matter what the flowers are, provided
they are of the garden variety. An early
Spring makes the variety and the pro-
fusion satisfactorily large.
The centerpiece for the table should
be flowers, and single flower, or a
bunch Of May flowers or other small
flowers is the choicest sort Of a favor
These may be at the places if the party
entertainment takes the form of a
luncheon or dinner, or they may be
given guests when they arrive. Be sure
to supply pins with colored glass heads
to the women so the flowers can be worn
Immediately, and plain black pins to the
men to secure the flowers in the button
holes of coats.
A garland of flowers to wear in the
hair is delightful for the girls at a
young folks party. Such garlands are
typical OF the old historic eras of May
day celebrations. These can be of
natural flowers, paper or may be any
kind of artificial blossoms, the natural
being incest of course. These make fine
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LITTLE BENNY
By LEE PAPE.

After suppir ma sed to pop, Willyum,
the parrit has lernt new werd, you'll
just die when you hear it.
I don't doubt it, he's got me prac-
tically ded alreddy. pop sed. 1t was
bad enough to have him Sqwawking all
mite last mite without having you make
me get up 3 times to look for berglars,
he sed. and ma sed, Now Willyun1, Sher-
lock never sqwawks without good rea-
son, he proberly herd somebody trying
the windows or something. Anyway,
Willyum. you'll be delighted with his
new Werd, she sed.
And she went over to Sherlocks cage
and started to tawk to him. saying,
Come on. Sherlock, tell mama who
we've been tawking about all day.
Why force more verbs into him? pop
sed. He alreddy abuses the few he
knows. I'm thinking of presenting him
to an institution for the def, he sed,
and ma sed. He's been saying the werd
all day. he's just tempermental like all
crate tawkers and singers. Come on,
Sherlock, whose the most important
person in this house? she sed.
Willyum, Sherlock sed loud as any
thing, and por Sed, Well the little son
Of gun. what do you know about that.
knew you'd be pleased, ma sed.
Come on. Sherlock, tell mama whose
the greatest most wonderful man in
the werld, she sed, and Sherlock sed,
Willyum
BY gollies that's prittv cute. pop sed.
And he went over to the cage. SAYING,
Your all rite, Sherlock, what's my name
what do you say when you think of me?
Bulloney, Sherlock yelled.
Being his other main werd, and pop
went back and got behind the sporting
page agen. saving, Pride goeth before a
fall. never liked that berd and never
expect to-.
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nent and the story Of his vaIor win
echo down the ages.
There is a note or two of modernity
in the old attic. The photograph of
that small boy awakens memories. AS
a young man he lost his life. It was
on September day in 1918. He rests
in France. Piled in another corner
is an old chair, once used by an older
generation. 1t was sent to the attic to
make room for the new overstuffed.
The bric-a-brac cabinet over in the
shadows has been replaced by stylish
looking radio. Sooner or later the
future generations will move the present
treasures to the attic-if the attic re-
main, which is doubtful.
X X X x
An ideal time to see washington is
Sunday morning at 9 o'clock. The
streets are deserted save for a few
tourists. Parking space is abundant
and one will gain clearer apprecia-
ton of the beauty of the city. There
is repose and tranquility on Sunday
morning which Is conducive to a finer
sharpening OF our senses.
X x X
Two men met downtown. They were
from rival cities and began to boast
about the respective merits of their
communities.
Take our fire department" said the
first one. THE other day a fire broke
out in our burg and in less than three
minutes the engine dashed up, but ii
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all wrapped like torpedoes. fruits and
small packages of hard candies like
lemon drops. We had some small
marble cakes. Our cutlery was of heavy
pressed fiber. The napkins were of
small patterned fine crepe paper with
scalloped edges. These baskets were
taken out to the picnic table. In the
center was large basket filled with
flowers. Along the table were ranged
the May baskets in orderly array Cups
and saucers we're provided and into
these was served the coffee which we
made on the picnic grounds. The whole
affair was heap of fun. And most ap-
propriate for May day"
Write to Nancy Page. care Of this paper
enclosing a stamped. eli-addressed envslope
salad leaflet No. 2.
Downright 1929
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The Sidewalks of Washington
- z
By THORNTON FISHER.

We have Just descended from the
cherished precincts of an old family
attic. Modern architecture has relegated
the unfinished, catch-all floor to the
limbo Of forgotten things. Which is
just too bad, for, if ever there was
fascinating place to explore, it was the
woody old attic. 1t has been replaced
now by clean servants rooms, includ-
ing bath.
What place the old attic was IN
which TO turn person loose. The
STIFFNESS of It, the aroma of moth balls,
hair-covered trunks, boxes, barrels, old
clothes, screens, pictures, Autographs
and what-have-you created an atmos-
phere that will linger long in memory.
1t was an excellent place for the kids
to play on rainy days. Brown and
brittle with age and decay, grand
mothers love letters were exposed to
the scrutiny of prying and irreverent
eyes. Over there among the cobwebs
was gran6fathers wedding hat, high
one and classy mode of its generation.
An Anticipated talking machine, of
the vintage of 1908, stands mute on the
floor back of a store box. The luster-
less brass horn, dented and bent. re-
calls the melodies that once sounded
from its metal throat. Some of the old
ASCOAuo are lUSS6u III q GUIliuSeu Ilcdp
and a casual search reveals the pieces
that delighted those of the pre- jazz
age. Here are "Bugle Calls of the U. s.
Army" Tell Me, Pretty Maiden"
"BedeIia," ST Guess I'll Have to Tele-
graph My Baby" Won't You Come
Home. Mill Bailey?" adm dozens of
others.
Strewn about and in piles are Alice
books and Boy Wonder volumes. The
tiny fingers that once turned their
pages and scrawled unintelIigible marks
across the margins are now busy in the
narts and professions and engaged in
raising children of their own.
Mothers wedding gown reposes in one
Of the trunks. This trunk here was
broken open by burglars during the
Civil War and Confederate money
stolen. There are the marks made by
the robbers instruments.
How We save things. In another box
may be found some of fathers crude
toys, among them a knife with which
he Whitfield and carved initials in proud
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is an old family group. There is mother
in her pantalettes and other funny
Goodies of the day. Uncle Henry is
standing at the end with one hand
poked into his coat Uncle Henry has
been dead these many years.
If you pick up that musty volume
lying on the floor you will see inscribed
in il. in grandfather's handwriting, ITO
Mary, from john" Crushed flowers be-
tween the leaves were plucked one day
in June long before the horseless car
riages coughed their uncertain progress
over the country roads. There is side
saddle, too. Grandmother used to dash
about in it and the tales of her daring
Workmanship are still told on the &C.
casion Of family reunions.
over in the corner is a small crib,
crudely fashioned by an amateur cabi-
netmaker, and next to it an unopened
box containing the toys of the cribs
one-time occupant. The toys have
never been touched since little Robbie
died.
Here is an album. Well, sir, there's
fathers father in uniform. 1t was
taken shortly before the Battle of the
Wilderness. Grandfather led q xegi-
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erected a long table. which they COW
cred with plain crepe paper, scalloped
but otherwise left unadorned.
Earlier in the week the art class had
painted as many little baskets as there
are class members. They used the
everyday splint basket with handle.
When these were dry and odorless they
were lined with paper in the class color
"Tt was the work of the home eco
Monies class to fill the baskets. We put
in salad in paper cups, sandwiches
wrapped in parafine paper, deviled eggs
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MENU FOR A DAY.

MENU FOR A DAY.
BREAKFAST.
Stewed Prunes.
Farina with Cream.
Sausage Cakes.
Oatmeal Gems.
Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Clam Bouillon.
Spaghetti with Tomato.
Baking Powder Biscuits.
Tapioca Cream.
Tea.
DINNER.
Tomato Soup.
Hamburg Steak, Onion Sauce.
Glazed Sweet Potatoes.
Dreamed Carrots and Peas.
Red Cabbage Salad, French
Dressing.
Butterscotch Pie.
Coffee.
OATMEAL GEMS.
Three-quarters cup scalded
milk, Il cup sugar, 4 teaspoon
salt, IA yeast cake dissolved in
Il cup lukewarm milk, cup cold
cooked oatmeal, 212 cups -four.
Add sugar and salt to scalded
milk. When lukewarm add dis
solved yeast cake. Work oatmeal
into -four with tips of fingers and
add to first mixture. Beat
thoroughly, cover and let rise
over night. In morning fill but
tered iron gem pans two-thirdS
full, let rise OH back of range, that
pan may gradually heat and mix
ture rise to fill pan. Bake i'll
moderate oven IS to 80 minutes.
TAPIOCA CREAM.
Three tablespoons pearl tapioca,
soaked in cold water over night.
Put / quart milk in double boiler,
add tapioca after draining off
water in which 1t was soaked,
cook until tapioca Is perfectly
clear, but not broken. Add yolks
8 eggs. Scant cup sugar and pinch
salt, beaten until light. Cook
until 1t thickens. Turn into dish
and frost with whites 3 eggs
beaten to stiff froth with 2 tea
spoons granulated sugar. Sprinkle
sugar over top and set in oven
to brown.
GLAZED SWEET POTATOES.
Wash and pare medium-Sized
potatoes. Cook 10 minutes in
boiling sailed water Drain, cut
in halves lengthwise and put in
buttered pan. Make sirup of y
cup brown sugar and a cup
water; add butter. Brush
potatoes with strip and bake IS
minutes, basting twice with re-
manning sirup.
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the afternoon Of March IT. Honore de
BoiSleve had been killed while taking
part in the storming of Puebla, Mexi-
can bullet having entered his left eye
and passed through his head.
1t was on March II, that Baroness de
BoiSleve had had her vision. Allowing
for the difference in time between Paris
and Mexico. her sons apparition must
have appeared to her just following his
death.
(Copyright, 1921
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Cookies.

Mix two-thirds cupful of butter and
lard with one cupful of sugar. two
thirds teaspoonful Of baking soda dis
solved In two tablespoonful of warm
water, two-thirds cupful of raisins and
currants. half a teaspoonful of CHINA
mon, two eggs, half teaspoonful OF
salt. two-thirds cupful OF nut meats
and about two cupfuls of -four. Drop
the cookies and bake in medium oven
for about 10 minutes.
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NANCY PAGE
May Day Baskets for a May
Day Picnic
BY FLORENCE LA GANKE

Peters niece, who was attending
school in California, wrote to the family
telling all the festivities planned for
graduating time. I'VE are graduating
early so we are planning May day
luncheon in the woods as our opening
event.
Some of the members of the class
went out early in the morning and
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A@INA1 - Nh~A@f N%NA ~
at the old photo
graphs, will you'll
Hot dogl That old
crayon portrait of
Grandfather Petty
is a wow. See his
militant sideburnS
and smooth upper
lip. He was said
to be heavens gift
in the old days
when he was a
young blade. He
looks ii. Grand
mother Petty was
said TO be q beau
tiful girl and the
old crayon picture
testifles to the truth
- A.. J,er,,~4 TIln1
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was going so fast
that the driver
couldn't stop until
he was a mile past
the burning build
ing"
The second man
sneeIed. 1T h a It's
nothing, /" he said.
"One day two men
were working on a
church steeple in
my city, and sud-
denly one of them
slipped. He would
have suffered a ter
rible death, but a
spectator had the
presence of mind
to call the Fire De-
partment on the
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Seventy five-year Samuel Ha-
maker of Mannheim. Pa. IS the proud
possessor of beard feet l inch in
length. 1t is claimed to be the longest
chin-queue in the world.
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| CAUGHT Alkt IN a

telephone, and they came just in time
to catch him in blanket"
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short patent flour. Only the
heart of the wheat berry is used.
We use double the usual
amount of milk.
We employ a special method
of baking. Slo-baking, it is
called. A method that seals in
the dietetic value of our ingredi-
ents and improves their favor.
Hence when you get Wonder
Bread you get the best. 1t knows
no rival. Millions have found
this to be so.
So please try it at once. Get
it from your grocer today.
Simply TO prove what it offers
you and yours. Note its dainty
flavor. See how evenly it toasts.
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Here's Delicious Bread to Try
Note What 1t Offers You and Your Family

BY ALICE ADAMS PROCTOR
NOW, Madam, comes a new
IN bread. A bread that utterly
different in many ways from any
other brand you can buy. Mil
lions, seeing this, today will buy
no other.
For toast it knows no equal.
And eaten plain it amazes with
its delicate flavor.
It's splendid. too, from the
housekeeper's point of view. 1t
slices without crumbling. And
keeps its freshness for days.
If eaten daily, it promotes fami-
ly health to a marked degree. 1t
restores burned-up energy and
fosters growth. This because of
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-04
GOOD MAN GONE WRONG "a

Not being politician it is difficult for us TO figure
out how the country is best served by turning per-
1ecty good ambassador representing the government
IN splendid fashion in trying post into one-ninety-
sixth of the United States senate
We refer to the present ambassador to Mexico
New Jersey early next year. after he assists in repre-
senting the United States at the Forthcoming naval
arms conference in London.
MT Morrow has been of distinct service to the United
States since he took the difficult post at Mexico CITY
and he has been tower of strength improving the
relations existing between this country and its neigh
Dor to the SOUTH we'll assisting Mexico to solve
some of its internal problems.
As senator from New Jersey Mr. Morrow will. of
course indirectly the United States but his first
duty will be to the state he represents and interests
he Will be Just one in group of 96 pulling and
hauling politicians, most of whom seem possessed of
sire to bask in the spotlight, with general interest only
in their own communities the greater part of their
term and with particular interest as it nears election
time.
Mr.. Morrow will succeed Walter Evans Edge who
has graduated from the senate the post of ambassa
dor to France, decidedly promotion for Mr.. Edge
and IN our opinion, demOton for Mr.. Morrow.
Comparing the past records of the two men there is
nothing outstanding about representative to
Paris. There is plenty to say in approval of his in
tended successor in the senate, who has been dis
mat and executive during his stay in Mexico and has
succeeded in becoming the father in law of the
worlds greatest flyer.
Mr.. Morrow may have political ambitions beyond
the United States senate and if the best of luck to
him. but cannot help but feel that for the present
his retirement from Mexico City is the countrys loss
and New Jerseys gain.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-04
Half OF Eastern
Grid Stars Named

HAMILTON, v. V, Dee. 1. W.P-
Eleven players who have been invit-
cd to play with the all eastern foot
ball team which will engage pick
cd team of western stars for charity
at San Francisco New Years day,
were announced last night b- C"ach
Andy Kerr of Colgate, who with
Dick Hapicy OF Northwestern has
directed the all eastern team for he
last four years.
Those invited are Sicgrist, W. and
j., Booma, Dartmouth, and Douchcss,
Pittsburgh, cnds; Montgomery,
Pittsburgh, and Magai, Pcnnsylvan'
ia, guards; Cox, Colgate, center; Ma
biloxi, Colgate, quarterback. Dowlcr,
Colgate, Harper, Harvard and Bra
zil, Detroit, halfbacks; and Parkin-
son, Pittsburgh, fullback.
The team is limited 10 men who
have completed collegiate football
competition and have not played in
previous east west games.
Hanlcy will pick an additional
eleven men from the middlewcst and
the entire squad will assemble a.
Evanston, Dee. l6, and proceed TO
Palo Alto, where it will practice on
the Stanford University field.