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Evening star., 1933-07-01
LITTLE BENNY
BY LEE PAPE.

TONITE after supper pop sneezed
L twice in row, saying, Blast the
blinking blazes I'm catching another
cold
Now Willyum, you cant expect to
catch a cold every time you sneeze,
be reasonable, ma said, and pop said.
can expect to catch a cold any time
and I'm never disappointed. The ony
way to nip cold in the bud is to keep
well covered up at home where you
wont be exposed to sudden changes of
temperture and by gollies that's what
I'm going to do. You better call up
the Hews and tell them it's all of for
tonite, he said.
Now Willyum this is nothing but
big underground plot to get out of
playing bridge again, you're as trans
parent as an open book, think that's
awful, we cant call off an Engagement
at the last minnit. ma said.
Sure we can, that's one of the few
real charms Of the telefone, pop said,
and ma said, o we'll, have it your own
way, suppose If I made you go out
catch a cold I'd never hear the begin
ming or the end of the last of it. o
well, if it's really genuine Bourbon
priceless whiskey sippose Yewstace
will save it for another occasion, so
perhaps all is not lost, she said.
What's this. what's that? pop said,
and ma said, Didn't tell you, it seems
Yewstace has unearthed bottle of real
old before the war hunderd per cent
goodness knows what, and he was very
keen to have you try it tonite. o well,
1 sippose you'll have another chance,
tonite's not the end of the werld, she
said.
It certainly is, I mean 1t would seem
like it if thawt was missing treet
like that, I mean it's a well known
fact that good pure whiskey is natures
best safeguard against colds, pop said.
And he went to get reddy and ma
quick called up Mrs. Hews on the tele-
fone, saying, Listen. Maud, has Yew-
STAGE any good whiskey? o that's
splendid, how old is it? o, If he made
it himself it's naturally not very old.
but listen, Maud, will you pore it out
in a decanter to make its age look
indefinite, and tell Yewstace to be very
MYSTERIOUS about 1t, I'll explain later
good by.
And she hung up just in time and
went downstairs in front of pop with
q innicent expression.
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DILL l. lN1G O1O1OAA1O ". Burgess.

sat for a while. Chatterer continued
to make fun Of her. She thought
things over.
Il ought to have backed instead Of
trying to turn around" thought Betty
Bear. Anyway, I guess I had no busi-
ness to try to 60 way out there" You
see, she was learning. She had made
a mistake and she wouldn't make that
same mistake second time.
After time her courage returned
and she began to climb higher, while
Chatterer raced about in a neighbor-
ing tree, making fun of her, scolding,
and even threatening. Finally he ac-
tually came into the tree in which the
little cub was, and from above her
teased and taunted her until she could
stand it no longer and started to climb
up after him.
Presently she made a discovery. The
higher she got the smaller became the
trunk and the smaller became the
branches of that tree. Chatterer con-
tinued his impudence until finally she
was so near that he was forced to
run out on a branch and leap over
to the next tree. This Betty Bear
felt was victory for her, and in her
turn she had a chance to call him
fraidy.
Then she discovered that it wasn't
easy to cling up there where there
was so little to cling to. The ground
seemed terrible distance away. The
more she looked down at it the farther
away it seemed. ,She began to be
frightened. 1t was easy to climb up.
but how did one climb down? She
didn't dare try. Presently she began
to whimper. Then how Chatterer did
make fun of her. His tongue fairly
few.
She was still up there whimpering
and afraid to try to climb down when
Mother Bear returned Mother Bear
saw at once what the trouble was and
there was twinkle in her eyes which
Betty Bear couldn't see.
Come down at once" ordered
Mother Bear.
Il can't whimpered Betty Bear.
I'm afraid"
II told you to come down" said
Mother Bear in her deepest, most rum
bly,. GRUMPY voice, the voice that Betty
Bear had learned it was best to obey
Whimpering and whining Betty
Bear started to back down. stretching
down first one little hind foot and
then the other for a branch to get
hold OF. The lower she got the bigger
the branches became and the more her
confidence returned. Then she grew
careless. She slipped, lost her hold
and, with a scream of fright, fell.
Now, the branches of hemlock tree
are broad and springy. Betty Bear
rolled from one to another. each one
breaking her fall a little, until finally
she bounced right off of one and
landed on the ground with a thump
that knocked the breath out of her,
(Copyright. 1880
Evening star., 1933-07-01
Pleasing the Man
BY CHLOE JAMISON.

THE first succulent sweet corn, the
L first fresh limas ah, how the
man does adore them in combina-
ton, served with his evening chop and
fried new potatoes! You will make no
mistake in planning to have them at
least twice a week.
Cooks vary in their preparation of
succotash, although all known recipes
are very simple. pint of lima beans
will be just about right to use with
a half dozen ears of green corn. Cook
the limaS in salted water until they
are thoroughly tender. Add the corn,
which has been cut from the cob and
scraped, and cook for Is minutes long
butter and additional seasoning.
Some persons cook the cut corn in
milk, and cook the Imas separately in
water, then combine the two, adding a
generous lump of butter and more
seasoning. It is said that the corn Is
a little finer for this milk treatment
during the cooking process. A varia-
ton of the basic recipe suggests the
use of a little finely-chopped pimiento
for additional flavoring, put in when
the corn and beans are combined for
the final cooking. Or tablespoonful
of minced green spepper may be used
instead of the pimiento.
Leftover corn and cooked beans
may be combined in the same way
with the cream or milk and season.
ing. and heated to the boiling point
before serving. For an elaboration of
the leftover succotash, try adding one
half cup of diced cooked ham to one
and one-half cups of the succotash.
Lima beans, corn and leftover
stewed tomatoes or diced fresh toma-
toes are also very nice; for this dish,
however, omit the milk or cream.
Evening star., 1933-07-01
A Sermon for Today
Good Conscience.
BY REV. JOHN r. GUM.

Our rejoicing is this, the testi-
mony of our conscience IL Corinth-
ians, i12
You may write my life on the skies;
I have nothing to conceal" So replied
Spurgeon, the great preacher, when
some one threatened to reveal some
thing dark in his life. 1t is worth
everything to man to be able to face
the threats of false accusers with such
assurance Of conscience.
With no thought of boasting Of his
moral attainments, when Samuel was
old and gray-headed he called Israel
to witness mat, though he had walked
before ..iem since childhood, no one
could accuse him Of depressing the
poor, or defrauding any one, or ac-
cepting q bribe How many men
today can claim for themselves such
a stainless record?
When the apostle Paul was accused
of defilng the temple by taking a
gentle within its sacred precincts, he
replied that he was innocent of the
charge, and that he exercised himself
to have always a conscience void Of
offense toward God and toward man"
To the Corinthians he wrote: Our
rejoicing is this. the testimony of our
conscience, that in simplicity and
godly sincerity, not with fleshly wis
dom, but by the grace of God, We
have had our conversation in the
world, and more abundantly to you
ward"
The testimony of a good conscience
gives courage as well as comfort.
Some one relates the following Incl
dent of a group of boys discussing
another boy who had been found
guilty of stealing. The boys were ex-
pressing opinions freely. Besides steal
ing he lied. He was always e coward"
said one He was all the time afraid
somebody would find out and tell on
him. I know a fellow he gave 10
cents not to tell where he had seen
in the group threw his head back
proudly and said: well, I'm glad of
one thing; there can't anybody find
out and tell anything on me. and I
wouldn't pay anybody 10 cents, for
there's nothing to find out that every
body doesn't know" And as this boy
spoke there was a fine challenge in
his face and a manly courage shone
out in his eyes.
The greatest and best of men have
had their traducers. We are all liable
to be falsely accused. Happy is the
man who can meet his adversaries
with the consciousness that he has
nothing of which to be ashamed. A
man with a conscience void of odense
can face the world calmly and Sc
renely and without fear Of anybody.
He has something that more than
countervails all the defeats and mis-
fortunes he may suffer. What a pity
so many fail to see that evil offers
no gain that can compensate one for
the testimony of a good conscience.
Evening star., 1933-07-01

\dEHE Is special Charm IN
hunting up and chasing down
those creatures - butterfly and
i bird and weed-that have come
to dwell with us from afar. Some
we're brought here under the SUPPOSE
ton that they would be useful, like the
accurSed house sparrow, which was in
troduced into the District in 1871; 9TH
ers, like the Japanese beetle and the
Norwegian brown rat have come willy
nilly, and to our sorrow; and others
still are here we know not how or why,
and few indeed even realize that they
are foreign, like gorse bushes and the
orange clover butterfly. I leave out
of account those garden plants that
are scarcely established in the wild,
and domestic animals that would
hardly survive year without the pro-
lection Of mans favor.
In the days of my earliest studies
I was an ardent patriot; when I dis
covered that plant or an animal was
foreign I had no further interest in it;
it was an intruder, waif, an inferior,
and always to be suspected of doing ac-
tual harm to our native wild life.
Time has brought little wisdom,
and with it came tolerance and Curl
osity, until now I positively research
the foreign weed. the immigrant ami
NAL, eager to find how it has Jared,
and amusing myself by imagining what
it must look like in its native home.
Summer is the time to look for most
of these forms, and though few are
so common like the startling. the po-
tato beetle, the dandelion and clover,
as to hold no charm Of novelty and
none of the excitement of rarity, there
are many around Washington well
worth looking for. If you have any de-
sire for the new and strange. The
beautiful velvet grass is one Of these;
and the orange day lily, from Japan,
another.
The orchid, Serapias. which has been
found in the woods near Soldiers Home,
is a quaint old European medicinal
plant, around which much superstition
clusters, that has somehow established
itself, just in that one spot. Along some
of the railroad embankments the odd
little umbrellawort, native Of the Great
Plains. has become well established
1t is the only member of the tropical
Four O'Clock family found wild here
about. The orach is a strange plant
of the salty deserts of North Africa
that has become quite common in the
streets of Alexandria. but nowhere else.
The skeleton weed, queer wiry member
of the dandelion family, has now es-
tablished itself from Europe in many
Maryland fields around the city. but SO
far it has never spread far except into
Virginia: it seems to like the neighbor-
hood of the Capital better than any
place in America-and so do I!
There are many more Of these, like
white campion at Chevy Chase. COW
herb at Rosslyn; one may feel free to
pick all one wants. and the business
man or the busy woman find these
city waits easily accessible after
hours :"
Evening star., 1933-07-01
Against the Grain.
UVXHAT are you doing, Hal?"

w Making a boat"
"You don't want to make boat.
What could you do with boat?"
20, I just thought I'd like to make
one Maybe I could use 1t. Maybe III
be going to grandpa's this Summer.
Maybe could sell it if didn't use 1t
myself"
Don't be silly. That is waste OF
good material. Make table. You can
always use a table"
What do I want of table? ia
rather have a boat I don't want to
make a table anyway. like boats :,
Never mind. You make table and
never mind the boat. The teacher Will
give you the same credit and I'm sure
he will think you are more sensible lor
doing something useful"
So Hal made a table for his home
project. He wasn't careful about plan.
ing, so the surface was not what II mlgnt
have been. He was careless about the
seams on the top and they showed
openly. The joints were poorly made
and the legs wobbled unevenly.
Not much of job, my boy. why dlo
you make it If you didn't want TO-? l
told you to make anything you liked.
It's plain as the nose on your face tnat
you didn't like this table"
IL WOtl OO W iOlCC any ~ A
low a plan not his own. A mind DIVIDED
against itself is wrecked as far as the
idea under discussion goes. The whole
mind must indorse plan, must go
cheerfully and heartily along with 1t or
the plan falls through.
How are you going to save chlidren
from making mistakes if you don't IN
terfere with them?" somebody rises TO
ask.
You can't keep them from making
mistakes if you tried forever. One OF
the most serious mistakes you can make,
though, is to put your scheme in place
of theirs without obtaining their whole
hearted consent.
Many people in authority make this
mistake. They feel the responsibility
keenly. Those under their charge must
make no mistakes. How far IN the
scheme of life will one intelligence
reach? Isn't it rather presumptuous OF
even the best minds to feel that 1t is
best to make their ideas the only ideas
In circulation? 1t might be that the
idea of another worker, feeble though 1t
be in comparison with that Of the su-
perior mind, might now and then ~ q
Evening star., 1933-07-01
DOROTHY DIX'S LETTER. BOX
Candidate for Meanest Persons Medal-Shall
Friend Tell of Husbands Philandering.

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girl and to know that he nfait-
dsloyal
knowledge from her that lately have avoided going out with her
keeping silence about
between her and her husband told
badly. WORRIED FRIEND.
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will tell
husbands
wife purpoey blinded
herseh husbands sdesepping. DOROTHY DIX
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Evening star., 1933-07-01

An announcement means: "a wedding
has taken place to which you were not
invited" Furthermore, it implies that
you would not have been invited had
you been here. In short, it is nothing
whatsoever except an announcement
that you, who were Mary Smith. are
now Mrs. John Jones. Do you see?
MY DEAR MRS. POST: You said in
ANA your column that Pardon me"
had been vulgarized the same as the
expression Pleased to meet you" %
What should one say? (2) We are
never vulgar when courteous, are We?
lt3) What should a child be taught in
place Of these expressions which, you
say. are tabu?
AnsWer-Q Excuse me-" for pass
ang in front of some one or any other
unavoidable breach of department, I'm
sorry" for slight awkwardness. Il
beg your pardon" for serious awkward
ness. (2) Yes-we might be. Courtesy
means kind consideration Of others;
vulgarity means a lack of refinement.
We might be utterly vulgar and yet
3ind. We might have extreme refine
ment and yet not be kind. go How
Evening star., 1933-07-01

er chance Of colds,
bronchitis or even pneumonia. With
warm. bright weather, no complications
should arise and recovery should be
rapid.
OF course, if the condition Is such
as to require operation, it should be
done regardless of the weather, but
where choice can be made, the warm
weather is the best time
Very often a little holiday Is needed
after an operation, however slight. and
the warm weather is the time when
most benefit can be obtained. Where
parents have been advised to have
youngsters tonsils or infected teeth re-
moved. they should wait few DAYS
after school closes for the Summer va
cation, and the youngster has got over
the annual school examinations. before
having the operation done. Thus the
youngster has all the warm, bright
weather Of Summer in which to get
built up before school opens again in
September.
If you think you have something
that is not just right in that body of
yours, or even if you think you are
all right. let your doctor check you
over at this time. There are a great
many people who feel we'll There are
a great many more people who do not
feel so well-feel tired and lazy-but
continue their work. There are others
who are suffering with pains and aches
that they know are due to bad teeth,
bad tonsils sluggish liver, or constipa-
ton, but hesitate to 60 to a doctor
because it may mean removal of the
teeth and tonsils, or a change in diet
or other daily habits.
Whether you feel well or not, there
may be some condition in the body that
is slowly gathering force, and by the
time you feel an ache or a pain. con-
siderable damage has been done to that
body of yours Don't wait for this
ache or pain to warn you, but get your
doctor to check you over at least once
year.
(Copyright, 1880
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South dealt and naturally bid a
spade. Pass by West, one no trump
or, preferably. two hearts by North.
pass by East, two spades by South,
which closes the bidding. Even in
a rubber game South should rebid his
spades, and in match-point play the
honors made this rebid obligatory. Z No
body can blame this bidding, yet South
went down three tricks and could not
possibly do better in spite of his flne
hand. 1 think every system would ar
rive at contract of at least two spades,
and Sims players on this hand suf-
fered with the others. West opens with
the king of diamonds, declarer wins
and leads a trump honor. West goes
in with his ace and plays two diamonds
East plays high-low in hearts, so West
gives him the ruff. Laying down the
ace of clubs, East sees he can put West
in again with a club ruff. and thereby
he makes his third trump by ruffing
another heart. South still has to lose
another diamond
An Undeserved Catastrophe.
This is one of the most unfortunate
hands I have ever seen: I suppose they
are sent along from time to time to
humble us and remind us that the cards
cannot be conquered, and that they
conSpire at times to withhold their
message and trap us even when we
have shown them every respect in our
bidding. One no trump can be made,
but who would refrain from rebidding
the spades unless he knew the exact
contents of each hand?
Copyright. 1933)
Mr. Sims will answer all inquiries on
contract that are addressed to this news
paper with self-addressed stamped anvelope.
Evening star., 1933-07-01
How 1t Started
Gas Easy as Lying"
BY JEAN NEWTON.

We have an inquiry for the origin of
this phrase in modern speech. It's sig
nificance needs no interpreting.
This Is another modern phrase whose
author is Shakespeare. We find its
origin in the second scene of act three
of the Tragedy of Hamlet" when Ham
let asks Guildenstern to play upon q
pipe.
"Guildenstern: My lord, I cannot.
Hamlet: I pray you.
"Guildenstern: Believe me, can
not.
Hamlet: do beseech you.
"Guildenstern: I know no touch Of
it, my lord.
Hamlet: 1t is as easy as lying;
govern these ventages with your fingers
and thumb. give it breath with your
mouth, and it will discourse most elo-
quent music"
1t is his mothers lying. and her be-
trayal of his father, with which the
prince Is obsessed, to which he makes
| veiled reference in comparing lying to
music.
(copyright, 1933)
Evening star., 1933-07-01
NANCY PAGE
Summer Meals Are Simple,
Plain but Flavorfnl.
By FLORENCE LA GANKE.

Summer days were out-of-door days
for all the Page and Miller children.
Their mothers had learned certain
things, however. There is such thing
as too much sunshine burning into
young and tender skins. The children
all wore sun suits during part Of the
day. But eyes and backs of necks were
protected Large hats did that. Then
the sand box in the play yard was
shaded with large umbrella. The
new sand box which Ann possessed
had one desirable feature. The sun
shade by day slipped down over the
box by night and became protective
covering. The sand was not used by
cats and dogs who happened to be in
the neighborhood
Ann used to climb right into the
sand box and sit contentedly on the
gritty sand while she made mud pies
dug tunnels and built marvellous cas-
ties. Lois found that stories she had
read to Ann during the Winter were
dramatized in sand during the Sum-
mer
The children often ate their noon
day lunch together. This was the sub
stantial meal of the day. Even Joan
enjoyed the simple food which ap-
peared with unfailing regularity on the
tables
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Evening star., 1933-07-01

especially do they train them on their
hated enemies, the owls, weasels, hawks,
minks and foxes. Though our own tab
by cat kills them the odor is too much
for her pampered stomach.
In Winter the soft, silky. dull gray
coat is exchanged for the pretty sepia
brown or chestnut one of Summer days.
Well protected from the cold, these ami
mails do not need to hibernate. but seek
shelter in greenhouses or other build
ings. and in hollow trees or bird homes
in trunk hollows. They are not
provident like the chipmunk and pocket
gopher, but in all sorts of weather,
day or night. must seek food. Grubs,
mice and insects are routed down from
their hiding places in order to satisfy
the shrew's great appetite.
Their disposition leaves much to be
desired. They are pugnacious and
greedy. When another has a tidbit
they covet, they stand by and keep up
a sing-song chatter that expresses
plainly, hate, malice and greed. The
face has a fiendish look upon it as
they show their sharp teeth and snarl.
Every once in while they let out low.
piercing screams, and a mouse which
hears it is thrown into abject terror,
and rightly SO.
1t Is said tnat We0olng Gays LOT
shrews are without any regard to season.
AS rule, the babies are born from May
to August. There are several litters
a year and from five to eight in each
group. The life span of the shrew Is
about fifteen months. They are friends
of ours, not foes and we should think
more kindly of them.
When deeply wrapped in slumber for
their half-hOur nap-they are short
sleepers-they rest their heads be-
tween the forepaws and twitch a good
deal as though disturbed by unpleasant
dreams.
They are agile and do everything at
break-neck speed Sometimes they oc-
cupy the burrows of moles and mice.
and If they meet face to face in the
hallway, with equal fighting ability. no
combat ensues, but there are strained
relations as they keep their distance.
(Copyrisht. 1933)
Evening star., 1933-07-01

likely that the six diamonds held by
the opponents are divided three
three, with the added chance that
If they are four-two the queen is
part of the doubleton holding, Than
ability than that the diamond finesse
will win. At any rate it is better
technique, in my opinion, to play for
a three-three split in diamonds than
to risk the f1nesse Declarer should
draw trumps at trick two: this is effect
ed in two rounds. Leaving a high
trump in dummy, he should lead a
diamond, win it in dummy and then
take in the two spades, discarding from
his hand heart and a diamond. Now
the other high diamond is led. and
then low diamond. This fetches the
queen out of East's hand-the finesse
would have lost, but this play wins
Declarer trumps. He nov gets to
dummy with a third trump lead and
discards the other heart on the jack
of diamonds. Win or lose, this is the
right technique, as you are beaten only