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Evening star., 1933-12-20

HAVE Written so mucn ABOUT the
giving Of presents and sending
cards at Christmas that by now
i there Is little need for me to re-
peat any further. The following
questions, however. came in this morn
ing's mail:
"Dear Mrs. Post: Father and I are
in mourning for my mother, who passed
away during the Summer. May we
send greeting cards to our friends this
year? We don't feel that there Is any
reason to impress our sorrow on others
by changing a family custom now"
Answer: This Is entirely q question
to be decided by your own feelings. II
you would like to wish happiness to
others, there Is no reason why you may
not-but you would naturally choose
cards that express sentiments OF friend
ship and good wishes rather than the
merry aspect of the season.
Dear Mrs. Post: want to send a
Christmas greeting card to my flances
family, which consists of his father and
his two sisters, who all live together.
How should address the envelope to
include every one. If and family is In
disgrace among those who care any
thing about best practice?"
Answer: "And family" is merely un-
fashionable from the standpoint OF et1-
quette: there is no deeper objection to
sfolks!.s1so E a eoesh mot faahiona61e. NAB In othsr
words, If you want to be fashionable
and Vorldly.vise, then don't write and
family" But II they would say
-Howdy" or "folks," :" then "and family"
would be suitable. Were I in your place,
should send q different card to each,
chosen to express q personal message.
Il Is really amazing how the very thing
YOU would like to say TO almost any one
under almost every circumstance can
be found with . little searching among
the cards at almost any stationer's.
Dear Mrs. Post: Every year each
person In our office gets . card rom
The boss family, engraved simply "ine
John Browns" ] would like to SEND q
card to the Browns. but as I've never
! met Mrs. Brown, would she perhaps
think I were presumingP"
Answer: It Is always proper to seno
q card to Mr.. and Mrs., no matter
whether it be MIR. or Mrs. whom you
Copyright. 1881
Evening star., 1933-12-20
Conquering Contract
BY P. HAL SIMS

Mr.. Sims Is universally acclaimed
the greatest luin0 contract and auction
player. He tods captain OF the renowned
-Four Horsemen" team, noU diSbdnded,
and has Don "a national championships
since 1924. These articles are based on
the Sims system, Which includes the
one-oUer-one principle Which the Sims
group OF players Oas the first to employ
and develop.
More About Minor Suit Bidding.
TN THE last two articles we examined
/ responding hands with which in
response to Q diamond opening bid
/ by the partner. we bid either one
In q higher suit or two no trumps
or two diamonds. All these hands
had powerful diamond support and If
the diamond and spade holdings had
been interchanged, and opener had bid
q spade, our bid would have been In
most cases three spades. Since a minor
suit was bid, we avoided the jump raise.
Our immediate objective was to feel
out the no trump situation rather than
give an immediate option between gamc
in no trumps and game in the suit.
At Last We Come to 1t.
When should one give q jump raise
In a minor suit? All our preliminary
"don'ts" have been leading up to this
question. My answer Is this: Give the
Jump minor-suit raise when your dis
tribution is such that you feel the hand
will be reasonably safe at five In the
minor, but that you will be nervous
about letting your partner play in three
no trumps unless he can actually bid
the suit you are afraid of.
Almost necessarily this means that
your hand must have a singleton or
worthless doubleton, and that In high
cards 1t must be about q trick stronger
than hand with which you would give
jump raise in a major suit. With
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or
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I would raise Immediately to three
diamonds. With the first hand, ! would
not stand for three no trumps unless
my partner could bid spades second
arily Over three spades I would bid
three no trumps, but I would avidly
hope that my partner could make some
further constructive rebid, relying on
my jump raise, as slam Is almost
hand. Opener might have A Z j
xxx in diamonds and K @ In
spades, in which event we should get to
five diamonds but no further. II he
has two aces, we should not have much
trouble in getting to six, since my first
bid told him that was perfectly ready
to get to i've diamonds even II his bid
was a minimum Of It's kind, with pri-
mary values shaded below three pri-
Evening star., 1933-12-20
John Bascom's Christmas.
"six More Minutes"
ASTTR Horace. fasterl"

~" ASTER, Horace, 1aSterT
- So shouted the young rider
as he galloped along the high
way toward the Dempsey farm.
With less than an hour LETT
to save the train, John was filled with
excitement and alarm.
Onward he went, and snow new from
the hoofs of his horse.
At last the farmhouse came In sight.
Reaching the doorway, John did not
wait for his knock to be answered be-
fore he turned the knob.
There's danger" he gasped when
he saw Mrs. Dempsey, mother OF the
three brothers. There's danger to the
New Century Limited-a telegraph pole
lying right across the tracks! I came
to get the boys"
ed and Howard have gone to town,
Evening star., 1933-12-20
UNCLE RAYS CORNER

Bill pulled out his watch and re-
Piled, 'It's exactly 11:54."
"Just six more minutes and the train
will be here" moaned John.
(To be continued.)
The Surprise Leaflet" will be mailed
without charge to readers who sent me
a stamped, return envelope. This leaf
let contains riddles and tells how to
perform magic tricks. UNCLE RAY.
(Copyright, 1850
Evening star., 1933-12-20
LITTLE BENNY
By LEE PAPE.
Thawts on Life.

I started to keep a diary
As faithful as could be
But I gave it up when I realized
It was all stale news to me.
love to watch fish in a fish bowl
With their movements smooth or jerky
But a boiled or a baked or a fried one
Makes me sigh for a chickin or terkey
I've heard riddles by the bushel
And funny stories by the peck
But when somebody suddenly asks me
one,
My mind is a empty blank wreck.
4
The aggervatingest thing about people
Who make you mad by being late.
Is that genrelly personly they themselfs
Always seem to be feeling CRATE.
When you look down from q high
bilding
At people like ants black and small,
You should feel modest and not su-
perior,
Because THEY cant see YOU at ALL
Evening star., 1933-12-20
THEN BEGAN A DESPERATE GAME
OF DODGE AROUND THE TREE
TRUNK.

no desire to feel them again Hooty
had made no sound, but now as he sat
glaring at where Happy Jack clung be-
meath that big branch he snapped his
bill and Happy Jack shivered at the
sound. So did Chatterer despite the
fact that inside that box he was safe
and he knew he was safe.
Hosty few down and alighted on the
branch to which Happy Jack was cling
ing. He leaned over and struck at
Happy Jack with one foot. Happy Jack
sprang for the trunk of the tree and
instantly lodged around to the opposite
side. Then began a desperate game Of
dodge around that tree trunk. Hooty
swooping for his breakfast and Happy
Jack docging for his life. Somehow he
always managed to keep the trunk Of
that tree between them although more
than once he was barely in time.
Chatterer. peeping out from his hid
grey cousin with whom he had been so
bitterly quarreling only few minutes
before. He ached to shout encourage
ment but didn't dare. Hooty would
have periods of sitting perfectly still.
Happy Jack would keep just as still.
Peeping around the trunk Of the tree
he never for an instant took his big,
watchful eyes from the big feathered
hunter. He was not to be caught nap
ping.
At last Hooty gave up in disgust. He
few over to the roof of the henhouse
and perched on the end where he could
look down into the yard. The hens
had not been let out In the yard for
the day. You see 1t was still early in
the morning. Presently from under the
house gray old Rat peered out. Hooty
sat as still as II carved from wood. Tho
way seemed clear. The gray old Rat
ran out. A moment later Hooty started
back to the Green Forest and In his
great claws was clutched his break
fast. The old gray Rat had stolen
his last egg and killed his last chicken.
And over in the Old Orchard Happy
Jack Squirrel drew long breath. Then
he and Chatterer started back to the
Green Forest, neither saying q word.
(oopyright, 1889
Evening star., 1933-12-20
BEDTIME STORIES B. S Tss,.,e" s',...,

the danger was or whence 1t was COM
ing Like a flash Chatterer turned and
darted into the food-box on the shelf
Of which he was sitting Happy Jack
had no box to dart into. He lodged
around to the under side of the big limb
on which he had been fairly dancing
with rage. He wasn't a second too soon
Had he waited to locate the danger he
would have been caught.
Hooty checked his fight and alightet
In the next tree. Black Pussy the Cat
who also had been stealthily stalking
those foolish Squirrels, fled for the barn
and how she ranl Once she had felt
the great claws Of Hooty, and she hac
Evening star., 1933-12-20
Talkies in 4 Suit Case.

Talkies In the home are now possible
with the introduction in London Of
equipment small enough to 1T into .
suitcase. An English company plans to
make 10000 suitcase talkie" sets.
These sets weigh 26 pounds and project
q clear picture 8 feet long and Z feet
wide. II can be connected to an electric
light socket, Is foolproof and will sell
for about $e76.
Evening star., 1933-12-20
Emancipated.

On learning that 1t Is possible TO have
,ne's coat and trousers wrinkles planned
with q disnayed and sorrowing sign
NV wardrobe I have scanned;
II win not do; find that I
Must have my wrinkles planned.
I view nv trousers with despair;
NV searching glance divulges
That all my street and evening wear
Are marred with dreadful bulges.
The creases In the shoulder hne
VIII never serve at all,
A bit more loosely down my spine
NV dinner coat should fan.
Evening star., 1933-12-20
sayory Planned Oysters.

Four tAblespooufuls butter, / table:
spoonful minced onion, l teaspoonful
salt, pepper, psprika, 8 cups raw oysters,
/ tablespoonful minced parsley, cup top
milk. 6 slices butter toast. Melt butter
in irving pan and add onion and sea-
soninr. Simmer until onion is tender.
Add oysters and heat until the edges
curl. Add parsley and cream, heat well
and serve Immediately on buttered
tnaet
Evening star., 1933-12-20
How 1t Started
"A GodA.N
N nAN NEWTON.

Tho last thing In the world that
would occur to Us - o description OF 2
"code" would be "the stem OF . tree."
Yet that Il how It startedl
The nrst idea the word code" brings
to mind, Of course, ts . secret code.
Then there Is . code Of laws. and the
derivative ito codify," to reduce to .
system. All these meanings meet IN .
system of the principles or rules relat-
ing to q subject-a code.
And the connection with "the stem
Of q tree" which is the meaning OF the
words Latin source, "codex, Is Iouno
in the fact that from "the stem Of q
tree" come o board smeared with wax
to write on, . primitive form Of book.
The extension Of this name TO the thing
that was written On It for permanent
keeping gave us our "code!"
(Copyyight, 1o33.)
Evening star., 1933-12-20
Books in 40 Languages.

To accommodate Jews and foreieners
In the district, books In nearly 20
languages have been placed in an annex
Of library In the 0orbals district Of
Glasgow, Scotland, which WAS opened
recently. The building was dedicated by
Lord Provost A. q. Swan vigorously
ringing . bell bearing the date 1747
and said to have been used by Gorbals
bellmen Of olden days.
Evening star., 1933-12-20
Ny Neighbor Says:
II q slice Of stale bread Is ?

II q slice Of stale bread u put
In with pea soup when cooking,
it will prevent the peas sinking
to the bottom OF the pot and
burning.
Fruit stains may b removed
from table linen by rubbing them
with camphor. Do this before
wetting the stain with water.
When mixing starch the ad-
dition Of Q few drops Of turpen-
tine will give q fine gloss to col
lars and cuffs.
When the sun Is shining on
your veranda, wiring your mop
out dry and commence on the
lower step and 60 backward, 50
as not to leave footprints. II
you do that every morning you
will be surprised to see how beau-
tfully shiny your veranda will
keep.
toopyrisht 1881
Evening star., 1933-12-20
Chess Match Held in Prison.

The "Gentlemen OF Parkhurst,'' seven
inmates Of Parkhurst Prison, England
recently met the seven best players In
the Isle Of Wight at chess. The match
was played In parkhurst Prison. The
prisoners were defeated, Q games to g.
but proved themselves skillful players
one being an expert. The visiting team
included an attorney, q bank manager
q doctor, an ironmonger and q tailor.
Evening star., 1933-12-20

shows through where the cut-out was
removed. OF course, the outside piece
must be unbroken at the edges. That is
to say, the scissors or knife must just
follow the simple outline, and not make
a cash through to the edge in begin
ming to, cut.
Some of the gifts which can be made
from little motifs are blotters, calendars,
pen-wipers and needle-bookS. For the
blotters sheet of blotting paper can be
cut out into rectangular pieces, and
Evening star., 1933-12-20
Modern Dick Turpins Fail.

Just as in the days of Dick Turpin,
the bandit. two youths held I'D the
horse-drawn mail wagon which runs be-
tween Farranfore to Castle Island, Irish
Free State. Both were masked and one
carried an old revolver. They told the
driver they were searching for old age
pension money and after rifitno the
mail bags left without taking anything.
Evening star., 1933-12-20
MENU FOR A DAY.

Diced Pineapple
Wheat Cereal with Cream
French Toast, with Bacon
Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Spaghetti with Cheese and
Tomatoes
Whole Wheat Biscuits
Preserved Pears
Marble Cake
Tea
DINNER.
Cream Of Potato Soup
Broiled Steak
Baked Stuffed Potatoes
Boiled Onions
Cabbage and Pineapple Salad
Mince Pie
Cheese
Coffee
FRENCH TOAST, BACON.
Fry slices bacon until slightly
brown, but not crisp. Remove to
platter. Make batter of ! egg, !
tablespoon sugar, 2 rounding ta-
blespoons flour, teaspoon salt
and u cup milk. Beat well with
egg beater. Cut 4 slices of bread
In half, dip in batter and fry In
bacon fat until nicely Drowned.
Serve hot with butter or sirup.
WHOLE WHEAT BISCUITS.
Sift two or three times 2 cups
whole wheat flour, Il cup white
-four, rounding teaspoons baking
powder, u teaspoon salt. Work
in 2 tablespoons of butter or
lard, "a cup milk or more. Make
Q soft dough. Roll out about "a
Of an inch thick and bake like
ordinary biscuits.
MINCE PIE.
Use AZ pounds Of meat, I peck
Of apples, 2 pounds Of suet.
Spices, salt and sugar to taste,
sweet cider to moisten, or take
the parings and cores after being
carefully looked over, cover with
water and boil, strain and use
2 lemons, 2 oranges, II cider Is
not used. This rule Is "a more
apples than meat. Cook all day
on the back of the stove. Fill
pie, then put In bits Of butter, q
little sugar, raisins and small
pieces Of citron.
(Copyrieht, 1e38)
Evening star., 1933-12-20
$4,000, Paid Jobless.

Subsidies totaling more than $4,000
600 have been paid by Csechoslovake
to unemployed glass workers In the Last
three years.
Evening star., 1933-12-20

The cut-outs, outlining small pine
trees, Christmas bells and other motifs,
can be used In a two-fold way. Either
the piece cut out in The shape of the
chosen pattern, is used as an ornament,
or the remaining piece, which has a
hole in it the shape of the pattern, is
placed against colored blotter or other
contrasting background. The pattern
% the colored blotter portion which
Evening star., 1933-12-20
CHASE

6HIS surname Is of Norman
French origin and was first spelled
La Chassie. The ancestral home
L OF the English family from whom
Americans are descended was at
Chesham, Buckinghamshire.
One of the first of the Chase pioneers
to this country was Aquilla Chase, q
mariner, son of Richard of Chesham
Evening star., 1933-12-20
N A Il u r E. S
&c IL ID II E n
By LILLIAN cox ATHEY.
Potato Beetle.
Leptinotarsa Decemlineata.

Potato Beetle.
Leptinotarsa Decemlineata.
s5 e !; =: {; Il: :: IS :$ :::: e;
can get of a growing crop and
stored grain. They do not
hesitate to take the whole crop, being
rather satisfied to clean up as they
80 and not sample other crops nearby.
Other insect immigrants are harder to
please and they devote themselves to
special crops and only these will they
have.
The worst enemies among the insect
clan swarmed In vast numbers on
us from their citadel In the region
Evening star., 1933-12-20
Hooty Gets a Breakfast.

Zen for those accounted smart
Chance at times doth play pat.
old Mother Nature.
Evening star., 1933-12-20
Good Taste Today
BY EMILY POST.
Famous Authority on Etiquette.
With Christmas Coming

I HAVE written so much about the
giving Of presents and sending
cards at Christmas that by now
there Is little need for me to re-
Evening star., 1933-12-20

use for the cut-out
- Christmas silhouettes are de-
scribed today in their applica-
L ton to gifts which children can
r,nnlra and ak alnnnst m eYnRnSR
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The M. A. Hanna Co.
Inland Steel Co.
Interstate Iron Co.
Mace Iron Mining Co.
/ WHAT OTHERS SAY !
Aid For The Timid.

Voters will be staggered at the next
election by what Is known as a blanket
ballot" the latest child of our pro-
gressive legislature. There will be nc
more separate ballots, all the tickets are
to be printed on one ballot. There is
a catch in it, however, for in marking
the ballot, the voter cannot Jump
around from one party to another.
If he starts out with cross mark after
the candidate for party nomination
to head the ticket, he must go on
down the line and vote for candidates
of that particular party. If he switches,
he loses his vote. This brilliant scheme
was figured out and advanced under the
plea that in some precincts a man has
been afraid to ask for the ballot of a
particular party. The blanket will ease
his fright because there being only one
ballot, no one will know for what party
he is going to vote. We presume it was
necessary to take some action to pro-
tect these timid souls.-Long Prairie
Leader.
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Steel Coming Back.

The steel industry is pulling itself
out of the tail spin in which it has
been hanging for many months and is
now adding men at the mills and con-
Stunning more raw material. This is of
especial interest here in the Lake SUI
perior district which furnishes most Of
the iron ore which is required by the
industry Steel is always one of the
first to get out of depression, and it
is one of the first to make improvement
at this time. 1t is necessity; it must
be employed by the railroads, the auto
motive industry and the building trades.
1t is good to know that steel is climb
ing. for we of this part of the country
viii be directly benefited-Ishpeming
Iron Ore
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Politicians Did 1t.

The legislature has completed its
session, doing nothing to relieve the
iron ore tax situation. The iron in
dustry is so centralized that the state
as a whole fails to comprehend the
difficult situation the iron industry is
up against.
We still have faith in the integrity
of the people of Minnesota. We be-
lieve particularly that the farmers
desire for all a square deal, and will
stand back of one when once they
realize the unjustness of the present
condition. They have been misled by
politicians. This state has had too
much money for its own good; there
has been too much manipulation by
politicians, and its present position
is somewhat the heritage of the graft
that crept into politics during the ex-
ploitation of the lumber resources of
this state.
But that is now past. Minnesota Is
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great state, and Is not dependent
upon one industry. However, we on
the range are dependent upon one in
dustry, and to our shame, the range
has been the worst offender of all.
1t has come to the point where the
range must do something to save it
self.
No one has reaped any particular
good out of the extravaganza of the
range. and least of all the rank and
file of miners. Money that has come
easy has disappeared as easily as it
came. Nine out of ten who have
benefited by Prerequisites would be
better off today if the range had con-
Quoted itself in the same orderly
manner as has marked farming towns.
Some interested parties resent any
argument that would lead to reduc-
ton of range expenditures. AS rule,
they are the kind who do not have
anything to lose, and have everything
to gain by their greedinesS. But
majority on the range are not benefici-
aries by the ranges system Of extrava-
gance. They work for living, like
people in other sections of the country.
Why should they stand for a system
that jeopardizes their livelihood and
future?
The financial statistics that have
been published in this paper by the
principal mining companies cannot be
questioned. A few selfish exploiters
have taken our future into their hands.
The range is not, deliberately, all
graft. Much Of the expenditures going
on are well meant but nevertheless pure
extravaganza. Money has been free,
and it has been spent carelessly. One
village or community finds a new at
traction, which is copied by the others;
and it is so easy to spend money ex-
tracted from others. When the shoe
begins to pinch at home, 1t is different.
What the range wants now more than
high priced architecture is more work
a job for everybody.-Coleraine News.
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Ely in Track Meet
At Virginia Tomorrow

Having been rained out of the Eve
leth Relays last week, the local high
school track squad viii get It's first
competition of the season when they
engage In triangular meet with Vir-
ginia and Aurora high schools at Vir-
ginia tomorrow. Duluth, Virginia and
Ely Junior College track squads will
also be at the meet to compete in the
college events.
Coach Buckley has had no chance to
look over his material against outside
competition. Last weeks meet at Eve
leth would have given him a line on
his athletes and also a chance to look
over the other squads, but the weather
man put the damper to that. Aurora
also will be engaging in their first meet
this year, while Virginia will get it's
second taste of track. The Virginia
squad participated in triangular meet
with Duluth Denfeld and Coleraine two
weeks ago.
Ely win be represented at the meet
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from the champs in their recent series
Incidentally the four losses were thu
only ones suffered by the Yanks in thu
first three weeks of the campaign
Detroit registered against the New
Workers Tuesday.
"Dizzy" Bowers, who cavorted at
the shortstop position for Ely in
1927, Is one of the squad of players
trying out with the Fargo Moor
head entry In the Northern Base
ball League.
Dick Hanley, football coach at North
western University, has devised new
formation for the fall gridiron cam
paign which he calls the "Jig-Saw
Shift" If the new shift drives those
who try to solve it as "batty" as some
of the jig-saw puzzle fans that we
know, football teams are In for some
merry and highly entertaining after
moons when they stack up against
Northwestern this year.
Twin City sport scribes are laud-
ing the ability of the Minnesota
University football squad in spring
practice, but Bernie Bierman, the
coach, persists In singing the
blues" Bierman is a pessimist
when speaking of the prospects of
his team. Doctor Spears at Wis
consin Is also quite "blues" singer
when speaking of his team.
For the first time in IL years, the
Eveleth Relays, scheduled for last Sat-
urday at the Hilltop city. had to be
called off on account of inclement
weather. Being one of the biggest
track carnivals in this section, it is to
be regretted that the meet had to be
cancelled The coaches in these parts
were depending on the relays to help
in getting line on their material for
this season. About 200 athletes from
all parts of the Arrowhead were in
readiness to compete in the meet and
those that made the trip to the range
city had to return home.