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Evening star., 1933-12-05
N A T u r E. S
C. HI IL d r E N
BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY,

Silkworm.
THE silkworm and the honey bee are
i the only insects in the worli do
mesticated by man. Both are
made to toll and spin for him, and all
they get is food and shelter. In the
case of the silkworm, its food is raised
for it, while the honey bee must work
from daylight until dark during the
honeyhow season.
During the early days Of Americs
the pioneers thought there VAS Won
derful opportunity to raise silkworms, as
they found an abundance OF native
mulberry trees. Alas. they were red
mulberries and the Silkworm demands
white paper mulberry leaves. China
has domesticated the silkworm for CEN
turies.
The silkworm is willing to be handled
and is, therefore, raised successfully in
captivity. The cost of labor is too great
in America to make the silk industry
pay and so most OF our silk is imported.
In America We have some very hand
some silkworms, and pOrtly ones at that.
The cecropia is one Of the most common
to be seen flying about. The exquisite
luna, with her jade green wings flies
only at night. The polyhemus and the
promethea, the giant walnut moth.
whose offspring is known by the name
of hickory horn devil has been writ
ten about for you in this column
All Silkworm parents are night-nyerS.
They make very little noise with their
great wings. as they 60 from leaf to
leaf. leaving behind them hundreds of
eggs.
The cecropia is the largest of our
giant silkworms. Her wings are 6
inches across from tip to tip. You may
see the lovely lady from the Atlantic
Coast to the Rocky Mountains
The silkwprm is black or dark gray,
a spiny fellow with a huge appetite.
He was Matched from cream -colored
egg. along with 300 or 400 sisters and
brothers The mother is little con-
cerned where she lays her eggs. This,
of course. is great convenience to
silkgrowers, who supply the egg layers
with foundations ON which to lay them.
Fresh mulberry leaves are fed to the
hungry hnrdes who feast and shed
tight coats until they can hold no more.
Then they fast for day or two before
they begin spinning their silk coats.
At first, few silken threads are spun.
Gradually you lose sight of the spinner.
and at the end Of three days he is COW
cred entirely. The thread is often a
continuous one. 1000 feet long. If not
disturbed, the little fellow will cut his
way out of the lovely silken casket.
The strong threads will be moistened
with a fluid he secretes. which makes
it easy TO push out one end OF the
cocoon.
The grower of silk never lets this
happen. As soon as the COCOON Is COM
pleted the little worker is dropped into
SILK WORM 4
Evening star., 1933-12-05
Everyday Psychology
BY DIR. JESSE W. sPROwLs.
Dreams.

You spend at least one-third of your
lifetime in the classical land OF
dreams" base my calculation on the
fact that, you are sleeping eight hours
out of every four and twenty, and also
upon the theory that you are dreaming
all the while you are sleeping. You
will notice that this calculation Is
sort of combination shot," as they
say in pool and billiards. plain fact
hitched up with probability. You
may measure the hours, days, months
and years you spend in sleep. You
cannot be sure, however, that you are
dreaming all this time. Psychologists
disagree on this point. as they disagree
on almost everything else about dreams
However. I am persuaded that you are
dreaming all the time You are in the
arms Of Morpheus" Even If I am
wrong about Morpheus and the land Of
dreams, still have reason TO believe
that you dream away one-third of your
life span.
In the first place, you have your
day-dreams. as we'll as your night
dreams. Much of your waking time is
spent in day y-dreaming. Now and then
you catch yourself in one of these day
dreams.
Sometimes I wonder if We are ever
really wide awake. You come into this
world dreaming. It's your first mental
food, your first mamma from Heaven
your first retreat from the harsh real
tiles of a complicated life. Every COM
pleXity, every bafflement every unful-
filled wish. every untheught-ou prob
lem, every inequality between ambition
and attainment, every attempt to COM
pensate for feelings of inferiority. in
short, every flight of the imagination
leads you to the portals of the land of
dreams.
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my problem II he has A J x or A @ K
in that particular suit and tell me so
by raise. On the contrary, should I
first bid diamonds that would be with
the object OF locating the king queen.
How can my partner know this? If he
has say K in diamonds he may think
I am trying to locate the ace and there
fore take particular care not to raise
In diamonds, he would rightly be will
ing to show this king only by bid of
no trumps.
Two Dummy Hands and Their Re-
sp0nses.
II my partners hand Is
Sp. AJx Di. Xxx
Hts. Jxxx Cl NIX
and I, with the declarer's hand, as given
above, reply TO his three-heart response
with four clubs. he will bid five clubs;
five diamonds by me, five no trumps by
him. showing at least one high card in
every off suit: seven hearts by me, in
ferring that at worst il will depend on
a finesse. Had my partner had nothing
for me in diamonds, he should bid five
hearts over five diamonds, an emphatic
sign-off. Had bid four diamonds over
three hearts, my partner would be up
against hard guess-whether to bid
four no trumps. five clubs or five dia-
monds. Do l need to know whether a
diamond will be lost lin which case his
holdings is all l need) or do l want to
know whether my diamond suit is filled
out by him to an extent permitting one
or more losing black cards to be dis
carded from his hand Gin which event
his diamond holding will not fill the
BILL? Remember that your partner
will rightly be far more ready to raise
your second suit on the ace something
than If he cannot hold its ace; also, in
this case, by bidding the lower ranking
suit first you save a round of bidding
later II your partner can give you the
raise.
If the dummy hand we're
A Different Case.
Sp j D K OK
Hts xxx c.! AK
he would over your four club rebid. bid
four no trumps Now you bid five dia-
monds. With the X @ he absolutely
knows you have the ace and arc looking
ok diamonds by him, six
hearts by you, seven hears by him. be-
cause you were willing to 60 six while
still expecting to lose club trick. He
could we'll have given the same bidding
as far as a small slam with only Q x
in clubs and A @ X in spades. Surely
his ace of clubs should give you the play
you need-if not laydown spread-for
the grand slam. After your two con-
structive rebids his hand appears 10
eliminate all the losers.
tCopyright. 1889
Mr. Sims Will answer all inquiries on
contract that are addressed to this news
paper with self-addressed, stamped envelope.
Evening star., 1933-12-05
WINTERTIME
BY d. c. PEATTIE
Trees in Winter.

7 HAVE asked so often for more and
better nature portraits, for books
and articles on trees and shrubs of
i Washington in Winter. that l have
been dared by reader to take up
my own challenge. If it is true that
in Winter all trees look alike to the I'M
initiated, am I capable of bettering our
| uninspired and tedious manuals with
descriptive portraits that even the ver-
lest beginner could not fail to recognize?
Let me try, then. with what is, sup
pose our commonest tree all around
Washington. and one that is even fire.
qusnt in cultivation in the Capital itself.
To recognize tulip poplar or tulip tree
| from afar, look for one with remarkably
straight and arrowy central trunk, with
out any big forking or doubling. the
trunk shooting right up almost to the
crown of the tree as central LEAD or
| system.
| The branches are numerous but slen-
der in proportion to that central trunk.
They spring out at slight angle OF
ascent then soon droop gracefully, but
not deeply, in a long gentle sweep; the
| tips, again, are joyfully upturned, and
| the whole branch describes curve like
letter IS" lying on its side and rather
fattened out. Almost all Winter long
the tulip tree twigs are touched at the
| tip with the empty husks OF the
cones; these look like candle sockets
on the tip of almost every branch, CIV
| ing the tree. even in Winter, an appear
ance Of festivity, as If it were partly
trimmed for Christmas cheer. .t
When you come closer you will see
! that the bark is like that of the white
ash very light in color. handsomely but
not deeply furroved or fluted, and the
| twigs are slender to somewhat stoutish,
reddish brown, smooth and shining with
more or less conspicuous "bloom" or
cast on them.
Now approach the tree closely. and
break q bit of the twig bark and you
will. il the tree is a tulip poplar, catch
| a delightful aromatic odor. Take taste
| Of the inner bark and you will find it
less delightful. 1t Is bitter as worm
wood. The leaf scars on the twigs
would be numerous. large, elevated, CIR
cular or slightly fiattened at the top,
| while the buds are dark reddish brown,
blunt. fiattish. white-dotted and Gov.
cred with q bleem and the scaies that
| cover the buds are absolutely unmistak-
able, being spoon shaped, smooth, oc-
curing In large pairs. fitted together
| like the two valves OF clam.
These are but few Of the earnarks
and hallmarks of this superb uniquely
American tree. 1t is the tallest In the
Eastern United States. and the syca-
more is the thickest of trunk. the bur
oak the most sweeping of branch. Lum.
| bermen and country folk often call 1t
simply poplar" or sometimes white
wood, This wild . tree &c OF = our: Is yno ino
regard It is very "exotiQue" and . de-
| lishtful curiosity; It has become immor-
| tsi in literature as the tree that fsgures
in Poe's tale, "The Gold Bug" The
| finest specimens I've ever seen were
| those on the old Carter estate at Nomini
Hall, Virginia.
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Various Canapes as Appetizers
BY LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER.

yinsgar. Cover with minced grilled or
sauted bacon. Sprinkle with minced
parsley.
Cheese Canapes, No. 1.-'foast fancy
shaped bread slices, spread with grated
Parmesian cheese of a sharp American
cheese mixed with creamed butter.
Sprinkle with paprika.
Cheese CanapeS, No. 2.-Spread
circles of toasted bread with French
mustard then with cottage cheese.
Sprinkle with powdered yolk of hard
boiled egg. Rim with thin strips Of
the egg white. On top of center
sprinkle chopped olives.
Tomato Canapes.-Cut bread IN
circles one-half inch thick. On top Of
each toasted circle sprinkle minced cell
cry. Lay q circle Of fried tomato On
celery and season tomato well with salt
and pepper. In center Of tomato put
q circle Of cut olive.
Fish Canapes.-Salmon. tuna fish,
crabmeat or lobster canapes are made
by putting some of the cooked fish
fakes or a strip of the fish on a strip
of bread previously buttered and
Drowned in the oven. Lay fine strip
of pimento on each side OF the fish and
sprinkle with few drops of French
dressing just before serving. After the
fish is on the bread, keep in the oven
until time to serve. Then dress with
the pinento and French dressing and
stick q wee sprig of parsley on top OF
the fish. The canapes should be made
as near time Of serving as possible SO
they will not dry in the oven.
(Copyright, 1033D
Evening star., 1933-12-05
LITTLE BENNY
~ LEE PAPE.

Us fellows wawked around to the
empty lot TO have some fun kicking
Puds 6imkinses foot ball. and who was
around there but I men measuring the
lot with surveying machine and long
tape measures, Puds saying, Good mite
what's you know about that, they're 60
ing to 60 and bild something on our
empty lot SOS we cant play here any
more.
And We started to have . mad meet
ing Bid Hunt saying Hpley smokes
that's Q heck Of . note. there's lots of
other empty lots without. having to
come around and take ours and We
avtnt to stand for it.
Sure. who do they think they are
anyways? l said. Good mite We been
playing on this lot all our life and
what rite are they got to come around
and take it away who do they think
they are, Bleeye me whoever they
think they are they're mistaken. / said
Gosh shang it they're not going to
get away with that, no sir. Leroy Shoo-
ster said. My fathers lawyer and
they'll soon find cut if they can take
our lot or not gosh the nerve Of them.
@ wizzickers why can't they 10 some
where's elts? he said
And We tawked about it madder and
madder. me saying. Well darn it all
think We awt to tell them about it rite
now, that's what / think
The other fellows saying they thawt
too. and We all went up to the man
looking through the surveying thing,
saying, Hay mister, G, gosh mister, and
Just then a man with a long green
overeoat and short white Whiskers
came up saying. What's happening.
some construction werk? and the man
with the surveying thing saying. No
sir. just q little measuringS the assess
ment people are checking up on taxes
Making lis fellows feel better instead
Of verse. me saying Well it's a good
thing that's all's going on. and Sid
HUNT saying, Sure. it's a darn good
thing for them all rite. and Leroy
Shooster saying nobody needn't think
they can come and take away our emp
ty lot as long as my fathers lawyer.
And We compromised by waiting till
they went away before we started to
kick the foot ball
Evening star., 1933-12-05


TT WAS one of the lower windows of
Farmer Browns house to the sill
of which Farmer Browns Boy had
fastened broad shelf, on which TO
feed his feathered friends. but even
so. it was too high for Happy Jack
Squirrel to Jump up 10. He had tried
twice and failed. while Sammy Jay
jeered at him Those two jumps had
shown Happy Jack that II was useless
to try to get to that shelf that way. So,
from the nearest tree he studied that
shelf and the surroundings. paying no
attention to Sammy Jay.
Sammy was nothing If not greedy.
Al least. that is what Happy Jack
thought. for Sammy was not satisfied
to take one peanut at a time. He would
| pick taAs saRaaafteE. another. until he had
fstdffed f15E-thfoat. full. You see. those
pc snuts were not in the shell. and so he
could carry a number at once. Then
off he would fly. only to return in few
minutes for more Perhaps 1t wasn't
altogether greed that prompted him.
He was taking those peanuts away and
hiding them, and this seems to me to be
quite as much thrift ON his part as is
Happy Jacks habit of hiding nuts and
acerns for future use.
No sooner would Sammy Jay leave
that shelf than Tommy Tit the Chick
adee or Yank Yanx tie Nuthateh would
be- on that shelf 1t was q busy place
and Happy Jack was anything but
happy as he watched He wanted a
share of those good things. and it
seemed to him most unfair that he
shouldn't have it. There must be
some way of getting to that shelf, and
II there was, he intended to find it.
There was a blind on each side of
that window. Over to one side was a
| tree. More than once had Happy Jack
jumped to the roof from that tree. But
on the roof he would be no better off
than he now was, unless he could md
some way to get down to the top OF
that blind.
I'm 60 over there and have a look.
anyway" he decided
Making sure that Black Pussy was
not too near and that Flip the Terrier
was not about. Happv Jack raced over
! to that tree and UP it. He ran out
along limb that almost overhung the
roof. From the tip he made flying
leap and landed on the roof. Then he
ran along this and peered over the
edge He looked right down on that
shelf, He could see peanuts and yellow
| corn and seeds and piece of suet. But,
oh, dear. what long way down it was |!
IL was provokingly tantalizing to look
down and see all those goodies and his
feathered neighbors feasting on them,
yet be unable to get share himself.
Sammy Jay looked up at him. Go
grow some wings!" jeered Sammy.
Happy Jack said nothing. He was
studying things. The top of one of
thosc blinds wasn't so vely far below
him. but the roof overh,nR it just
enough to make it impossible for him
to drop down on it, If only he could
get to that blind, the feat would be
easy. Then he noticed something that
sent him scurrying back down the roof
to the point where he had landed on it.
A flying Jump and he caught the tip
of the limb by which he had come. Back
along this to the trunk, then out on
another limb. This reached out toward
| the house a little above that blind. but
was short of it by several feet. 1t would
be long Jump, and the slender twigs
on the end of the limb were a most in
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Has. A x q x x
Dl. A 10 o X
CT. X 10 X K


what de-you most urgently need to know
for slam purposes? Surely you need
TO know what he can do for you in the
club suit. How much of his primary
values are in spades? Thank goodness
he did not bid a spade one-over- -one-
the duplication is not the worst possible.
There is, therefore, a good chance that
his next bid will not be in spades. With
this hand l would bid four clubs over
three hearts. II he bids five clubs we
are now down to diamond losers, for !
would now trust him for @ or at
worst A ] in clubs and the ace of
spades. now need TO know about the
diamonds for grand-slam purposes-I
intend to reach a small slam anyhow,
now that / have a finesse to lese no
clubs. Over five clubs 1 bid five dia-
monds. If he now bids six diamonds
/ bid seven hearts. Over any other rebid
at this stage, six hearts is our spot.
Why BID the Clubs First?
My first object is to locate the club
ace. My partner will easily understand
Evening star., 1933-12-05

people
That Is the picture we have of
Johannes Brahms at the age of 26.
At so the outward appearance of this
famous German musician held no more,
perhaps even less. to please the eyes
of those who looked upon him. He
had grown stout and his clothes were
shabby A flowing beard covered much
of the lower part OF his face.
1t is a mistake. however, to Judge
man entirely by his outward appear
Rnce.
The fellowship Of the great includes
men and women of all types-those
who are tall and those who are short.
those who are handsome and those who
are homely. Fine clothing, in some
cases. is more the proof of selfishness
than the mark of one who deserves to
rank high in the opinion Of his COM
Yades.
Beneath the shaggy. unkempt ex-
terror" of Brahms there beat q kindly
heart. For a time he was SO poor that
he found it hard to buy paper on which
10 write his music, but when money
came to him freely during a later period
he gave it freely away. Though he did
not marry. the place OF the child in
his life was filled by the children of
ObiiCAo DOyo dkiu 6h 40 "ClC lbAGhoo
and at Christmas time he would send
presents to as many of them as pos
sible.
Born In 1888, just q century ago.
Brahms was the son Of, an underpaid
orchestra player. In an effort to add
to the family income. his mother kept
\ little shop in which she sold cotton
Goods, needles and the like.
Johannes Brahms started to take
,ousic lessons when he was Q years
Ala and was fortunate enough to have
teachers who cared for his future. BY
fhe Nme he was - tbs bog began to
conposa music of his ewn, and teaS
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husband differ
and Just much home he
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privilege
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make for the happiness OF either when maryr himself
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DOROTHY K.
EAR DOROTHY DIX have daughter of 8 who left high
before finishing her second greatly hasTin thought
that also She does nothing sit the all
anything
for her mother What do about it? A FATHER.
thing competent
and have thorough examination made Of
study work but they have plenty about amusing themselves
the fact that daughter
would indicate that there physical for her
asstude But if she don't what
could
can't such q
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toopyisht 1933)
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WHO ARE YOU?
The Romance of Your Name
BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS.
BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS.

or crook. Consequently, this term came
to mean the confluence of two or more
streams. 1t was also used to signify 2
gulf or a whirlpool
One of the first American settlers o,
this name was James Abercrombie, who
came to South Carolina and was at
torney general for the State in 1882
He was born in Scotland
Abercrombies have been prominent ir
public affairs in the Southern, States
and elsewhere since the earliest times
1t is a name that is esteemed for the
lives of usefulness of its members in
every phase of endeavor.
(Copyright, 1887
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.sILKWoRM

hot water or placed in hot oven. The
soft silk thread is then removed. A very
intricate little reel is used The end
of the silk thread is fastened in it, and
many times the thread, unbroken, Is
wound upon the reel, revealing the wee
dead occupant who has toiled SO long
to fashion his silken cell. These reels
are sent to the silk factory.
The Chinese knew the secret Of silk
production 1000 years before 1t was
known in Europe 1t Is said that two
monks, in 555, went into China as spies.
They were able to get some silkWorm
eggs and take them back to CONSTANT
nopie. In China it was crime, pun
ishable by death, to have these eggs in
your possession. The silkwprm moth
that lays the golden egg is little known
in America.
Copyright. 1887
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How 1t Started
Word Bankrupt"
BIZ JEAN NEWTON.

In the word bankrupt" We may find
legitimate language origin for our
popular term broke" everybody's slang
way of saying they have no money.
For the word bankrupt" means lit
orally broken bench" or Ito break the
bench" and, accordingly. a broken
bank!
We have the word from the Italian
banca plus rotta. bank Gnd broken!
This had a literal significance in the
old days in Florence, when q money
changer who failed in business and
could not meet his obligations had his
money bench" that Is, his money
table, broken
(Copyright 1q33)
Evening star., 1933-12-05
Fried Apple Rings.

Wash and core some tart apples, then
slice them into rings about three
fourths inch thick. Dip the rings in
powdered sugar mixed with cinnamon
Melt an even amount Of butter and
lard, cool slightly and pour into q fry
ing pan; before placing the frying par
over the fire put the apple slices In tht
melted fat and cover the pan; Try slow.
ly until q golden brown. Small friee
marx saueaees ca toast may Be seEvof
With the a3ple rings. -- ,s--..-,g.... =.