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Evening star., 1934-09-12
Natures Children
By LILLIAN COX ATHEY.

tree Is spoken Of rs the barrel cactus.
In rainy weather II is Ike O green
sponge, drinking all the water It pos
sibly can.
One would think that q flower moth
er that produces over thousand seeds
in q single flower would have millions
Of children gathered about her or sent
on their way over the desert. The
Indians and birds gather the seeds.
Few escape them to germinate. Ones
started they are tenacious little fel.
lows who are determined to grow up.
A fully grown tree will be IS to 80 feet
high, live to be zoo years old and
weigh 6 or Z tons. This Is q youthful
one pictured here.
In death the cactus Is valuable for
its rods. The dead trunk falls and the
outside dries and shrinks away, leaving
the slender rods. The pre- historic
cliff dwellers found out how valuabls
these rods were for reinforcing their
mud walls.
It would be very interesting to study
the various lodging houses that have
been built into the trunk of an ancient
cactus. Besides the woodpeckers who
tunnel deep into the soft wood, tine
flycatchers and other birds use the
round doored homes Of the wood
peckers, and here you may fnd the
pigmy owls occupying the results Of
another's labor. When the tree ID
dead, these homes. looking like empty
vases or bowls, may be picked out.
Evening star., 1934-09-12
Who Are You?
The Romance of your Name
~ RuBY HAsxrNs ELLIS.

who accompanied william the Cun-
Queror TO England In 1905.
Z Members OF the Marshall families
have occupied positions Of the highest
order. both IN England and In America.
Among the notable Marshalls. perhaps
the foremost one was John Mar
shall Of Virginia, who was Chief
Justice Of the Supreme Court In the
United States. 1t Is thought that he
was descendant of the same branch
Is the Pennsylvania Marshalls who
bear the coat Of arms above shown.
One of the first of the Marshalls
TO settle In Pennsylvania was Abra-
ham, who hailed from Derhyshire,
England. He was the son OF Hum
phrey and Hannah Turner Marshall,
who were strict adherents to the
Church Of England. Abraham de-
cided to assert his own ideas and in
dependence, and broke away from
the faith of his fathers and allied
himself with the Society of Friends.
He became interested In the adven-
lures of William Penn and his colony
across the sea, and about the year
100 set sail for America. Penn was
so impressed by him that he granted
him q tract of land on the River
Brandywine, in Pennsylvania, to the
amount of 400 acres.
Descendants of this ancestor are
now scattered into many other States.
(copyrisht. 1e34)
Evening star., 1934-09-12
Uncle Ray
The. Story Of Schools.
YIII-Education Of Women.

NAx-EUOC8thOn "a w VuAChs
NNETY-FIvE out Of every hundred
persons over the age Of 10 in
Canada can read the written word.
This is q good record, and 1t would be
even better If it were not that many
Indians and some foreign-born resi-
dents have not gone to school. OF
English-speaking citizens of the same
is not able to read and write.
The figures for the United States
are about the same. Four out OF each
hundred persons 40 years old or
over" are not able to read or write.
The record would be better If it were
not that Negroes lag behind the whites
in number who 60 to school.
In Europe there are several coun-
tries where 90 out of every 100 per-
sons Of school age and over can read
and write. These countries include
Germany, Holland and Great Britain.
Such facts show something Of the
great advance in spreading knowledge
among the people. A century or two
ago, in the same lands, only q very
small part Of the women and hardly
half of the men could write their own
names. Today we have free schools,
and girls as well as boys must attend
them.
It was q long, hard struggle to bring
people to see that girls and women
should attend school. Some of the
laws passed . century and half ago
sound quaint to US. A New England
town voted that q committee should
have power to agree with the school
master ito instruct girls two hours
in a day after the boys are dismissed" !"
In another place it was agreed that
two hours, or a part of that time, be
devoted to the instruction of females,
as they are tender and interesting
branch Of the community, and have
been much neglected by the public
schools Of this town."
However strange those words may
seem, they were bold and brave for
the time. Most other sections did not
Evening star., 1934-09-12
Everyday Psychology
By DIR. JESSE W. sPRowLs.

% Dns SGSS1 we 81 E1SW6ce
INSURANCE policies Of all sorta
= came In when belief In fate went
out. We live in q world that In rap
idly being organized around proba~
bflities.
Deny chance and you aflirm knowi-
edge. Men never gamble In the face
Of knowledge Certainty rules chance
out Of the picture.
Luck Is chances nearest relative. but
there Is something less offensive In Its
makeup. There Is scarcely any ond
who refuses to believe In luck. The
base ball player who disagrees with
the umpire II usually the veteran who
knows something about the way luck
hardens into chance. Absolute ignor-
ance Of cause is the thing that gives
luck . prominent place In human psy.
chology.
It II possible to classify people &C.
cording to their attitude toward Ger.
tainty, chance and luck.
Those who buy mutuel tickets at
the race tracks believe In chance
that Is, some knowledge plus some
luck. Those who try to ring o cans
ut q county fair believe In luck. The
man Of experience passes them both
up. He has experimental and knows
that the laws Of nature are proba.
bilities. He wants to reduce chance to
the minimum. He takes no stock
whatever In luck.
Down through the ages men have
tried to solve their problems Of ifs
on these three bases. Primitive man
was an ignorant fatalist. Modern man
Is o scientist-one who reduces proba4
bilities to certainties.
Evening star., 1934-09-12

he didn't mind. The next morning he
had breakfast of cereal, with milk
and sugar, and all the milk he could
drink. Then he was taken out in
the yard. Mother Brown came out
to look at him, and when at last she
started over to q flower bed to pick
some flowers, Little Jimmy started
after her, following her with his nose
to the ground, like q dog, and trying
to gallop when she got too far ahead.
FIN the garden he lost her and, turn
ing about, took the back trial, follow
ing every twist and turn to the
starting place, and all the time scold-
ing as fast as his tongue could 60
because he had lost her.
That settled the matter Of where
Little Jimmy was to stay. He is
going to stay in the house as long as
he behaves himself" declared Mother
Brown. He is the cutest little rascal
I've seen in a month of Sundays. II
any one had told me that would ever
have skunk for q house pet would
have said they were crazy, but Little
Jimmy was born to be petted." She
picked him up and began to stroke
him, and he plainly showed that he
liked it.
That evening he was taken from his
box and allowed to run about the
house. He explored every nook and
corner, but it wasn't long before he
was back where the family sat, and
he finally curled up beside Farmer
proup'S fo0t No horse- horn kitten
contented.
Copyright. 1e34)
Evening star., 1934-09-12
Giant Cactus.
Carnegia Giantes.

RIZONA chose this unusual
n flower for her floral emblem.
"A It Is q true American and most
4 4 unusual, too. There are not
many of these columnar tree
like cacti In the United States. There
are many of them across the border in
Baja California and on the mainland
of Mexico, where the famous forests of
Carbon are found. But in the United
States their chosen areas are in South
eastern California and Southern Art-
zona.
The giant cactus Is better known by
its native name of Sahuaro or Saguaro.
It has q most interesting story. In its
youth, like all cacti, 1t Is slow In grow
ing up. why hurry, Is their attitude.
We live to be over 400 years old any
way"
The Indians hold this cactus in high
esteem and would not destory 1t for
any consideration. The destruction
or death Of one Of them by any but
normal conditions is regarded by them
as . great calamity.
As q rule you viii find the Saguaro
growing on stony hillsides, with their
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roots extending laterally for so feet.
On these bare, gravelly places they
anchor themselves by their wonderful
root system.
In these trees you viii ind the CHA
or Sahuaro woodpeckers. Their ex-
cavations soon heal over and the nests
are soon callous places that do not
Affect the health Of the tree In any
way. =
While these trees offer . home site
for the woodpeckers and other deni-
zens Of the desert, their greatest I'm
portance is TO the traveller caught IN
the desert without water.
To the Indian 1t meant far more
than we could imagine. They supply
him with rods for building his home,
rafters for his adobe structures, bows.
and arrows and for many other build
ing purposes. The wood Is light, soft
and solid. It Is capable Of taking
beautiful polish. and 1t Is indestruct-
ible In contact with soil. It Is Of great
value for fence posts.
Even its value here Is exceeded by
the importance of the tree In its food
supply. You will find the flowers of
the tree at the very top or the tip end
Of the branches They are o lovely
waxy-white. A rather compact flower
with many stamens. When the fruit
II ripe 1t Is red. The fruits split when
they ripen, and from Q distance or to
the stranger they look like large
flowers.
In June or July, when the fruit Is
ripe, the Indians hold fiesta. Their
year dates from the date Of the harvest.
The first fruits are made into . deli
cious wine that Is used only for sacred
occasions. It Is q most intoxicating
drink. After the rites are over the
harvest is gathered.
The long rods Of the trunk are re-
moved from the tree and used to
garner the fruit, which Is located on
the topmost branches. The fruit may
be eaten raw, made into preserves or
dried for use later on.
The seeds when ground produce an
oily substance that Is used as q sub
stitute for butter, and with the sirup
made from the fruit makes delectable
combination on pancakes.
The water content Of the cactus
varies with the season. The amount
1t can store Is unbelievable. The beau
tiful huted columns are 30 constructed
they store this water, and it is why the
Evening star., 1934-09-12
Pretending
BIZ ANGELO PATRI.
DEAR BOYS AND GIRLS:

i lEAH BOYS AND GIHLSs
Pretending Is q good game II
you play 1t right. BY that I mean
play honestly by carrying out the
idea in your conduct. You pretend
to be brave and bright and strong.
Fine. But Just saying so, just telling
the world how fine you are, doesn't
get you anywhere. You must pretend
In earnest. You must pretend that
you are somebody big and brave and
bright and strong and behave like
him. Pick out hero and play him
all day, all week, as long as you like.
I know q boy who used to do that.
One whole month he was Abraham
Lincoln. He studied hard, got fine
marks, wrote good compositions and
went around looking tall and thought
ful, stroking his chin where his
whiskers ought to be. He enjoyed
being Lincoln and 1t did him o world
Of good.
There was Q girl one time who used
to be famous women in history. Not
at the same time, Of course. One at
. time. She was Queen Elizabeth,
Cleopatra. Florence NIGHTINGALE,
Susan b. Anthony, many others, in
turn, according to the place and the
time and her mood. BY pretending to
be f1ne, earnest and strong. q leader
Of q great cause, she caught some
thing Of the spirit Of these great
women. It did her good In every way.
There is the cheap kind of pre-
tending that does no good and In
vttes trouble. II you pretend that
you have gifts that you know you
have not: II you say you can dance
when you cannot: II you say you are
the best scientist In the school and
you are nothing of the sort; IL YOU
deny your father and mother, your
race or your creed or your country,
you are out. That kind Of pretending
does not lift you up. II weighs you
down. Pretend to be noble and keep
at It long enough and you win feel
nobility growing In your soul. That's
the right kind Of pretending.
Suppose you are going for gram
mar lesson or algebra lesson. You
have 1t. Your feet drag like lead
weights. Play you like grammar or
sAA@s yoo dOFC t4lC tc4CQef
Pretend hard. Suppose you find
company in the house, the persons
you like least Of all among the family
friends. Pretend hard that you like
them. Smile at them. Say some-
thing cheerful. Pretend hard. Sup
pose you feel afraid. Don't give in to
It but pretend that you feel like q
lion. Keep pretending until you feel
courage rising In your heart.
This pretending can help you . lot
II you know how to use it. # you
have . bad fault pretend you are
cured. If you have been telling lies
pretend you are truthful and live 1t
out all day. If you have been rude
and tll-mannered pretend that YOU
are the. Prince Of Wales, President
Roosevelt, Mrs. Emily Post. Once q
very wise man said, Assume . vir-
tue If you have It not and it shall be-
come thine own" That's the right
way to use this pretend game. Pre-
tend you are good. keep pretending 1t
until it catches hold. It Is easier
than you think. Yours, A. p.
Copyright. 193k.)
Evening star., 1934-09-12
A House Dress for the Larger Woman
Here's One Far Above. the
Usual Work-a-Day Type Of
Garment.

"HE new back-to-town house
dresses have ever 90 many new
features that literally lift them
up from the customary work.
a-day type Of garment, and
put them into q refined category quite
by themselves. BY which Is meant that
among the designs for Fall we find
many models adorned with details OF
q style-right and feminine variety,
unlike the lower order Of house frocks.
The dress in the sketch goes in for
bit of ruffle trimming down the
front and on the sleeves. The ad-
dition of this appealing touch makes
all the difference in the world to
the wearer's feelings, and really does
not increase her laundry problems
very considerably. When q dress Is
made with an attempt at becoming
ness the results usually are attractive,
and 1t Is possible to wear 1t III one
is living informally to the family
dinner table without feeling too un-
suitably clad.
Dresses of this type are economical
and wonderfully comfortable. This
particular one Is made of one Of the
smooth finished cottons-the sort that
launders quickly and well. The white
contrast trimming it is of the same
weight as the dress, q detail which
is appreciated over and over again,
with each washing since the uni
formity Of weight maintains the ap-
pearance of its original freshness.
The cottons for Fall come in all
the modish colors. Some are strong
like the new woolens, others re-
strained after the fashion Of the
tie-silks. Percales lead as favorite,
followed by poplins, cotton broadcloth,
seersuckers and ginghams. For those
who enjoy sheer weights there are
printed lawns in q great variety Of
multi -colored effects.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1442-B
is designed in sizes "a to so. Size
SO requires 3k yeards Of 36-inch ma
terial: "a yard of 36-inch contrast.
Every Barbara Bell pattern includes
an illustrated instruction guide which
Is easy to follow.
Evening star., 1934-09-12
Dorothy Dix Says
81 Want Wife That's Easy on the Eyes,
Cries Young Man-"Who Can Keep
House, Talk Intelligently, and Accept My
Faults and Virtues With Equal Humor
and Tact"

youMo man was de describing his hi: ideal wife the other day IT
II eyes course, to
for She WOULD @ my 0 es
Rio the COOLING ssIos @
son @ my dinner or set @ to sarnns my oe would
good for human natures daily food. you know
my good clothes horse.
complexion generally good advertise
1s =. me nsr think to %
for at home for could stand sloppy wife could
sloppy secretary.
But wouldn't want her to be those
that above the fashions husbands slavery
at the altar to ighprced dress and hat shops.
would like to have wife who was good hosekeper have
palate that highly respect and would never be
happy with who fed out Of
nothing done time and the
always complaining about the Of domeiciy
tied down to a house.
ct my wife to feel that making home the greatest that
and that it just as much nanes s.ssy to
hold hold :. bank wife .S who run UNI the
when come home Of an evening with glad sweet smile and the
intelligent well educated.
interestingly things
md eSq what s fns o ON @ world 1o o @
conversational repertoire consisted the Of
next door are doing and an9w you were
But most of ALL would my head chuck
that would enable
developed rational
sane and easy "
should @ nsus I'd Nave % to 5 have x t. % d. s9s s s ens s
prudces gumshoe whom would not
handle automatically with nese One whom would
not have to'he
"T could Jim Jones in town and
with and
whoppe about mythical
business would like be able to tell wife that met old
friend and took her to lunch instead of having to sneak on
wit. my nS the x' nj. and m God w @
little annoy take and Ike It,
IT would like for wife to have sense Of humo I'd like her
that hung hairrgser. I'd like
hert
instead going Mysteries about
them" DOROTHY DIX.
Evening star., 1934-09-12
Nancy Page
BY FLORENCE La GANKE.

Mrs. Lacey and the children were
sweltering up in the attic. The last
years Winter clothes and the out
grown and outworn Summer clothes
were being given careful inspection.
Mrs. Lacey decided that she would be
q good member of her community If
she passed on all the clothes that she
could no longer use for her family.
Last Spring when she had put away
some of the woolen things she kept
them because she hoped that her
younger daughters could still wear
some Of the outgrown wraps Of the
older girls. Then, too, . few OF the
dresses and coats that Pam had been
wearing were certainly good enough
for more wear in the .Fall.
But Mrs. Lacey had not counted
on the way in which young things
shoot up in the Summer time.
Just the briefest of trials showed
that sleeves were too short, coats were
too narrow across the shoulders and
hens needed lengthening far beyond
their ability to be lowered.
Armed with all the clothes the girls
and their mother went to . cooler
dressing room. Claire and Judith be-
gan to rummage through dresser
drawers for stockings and gloves.
Pam went to the clothes closet and
took out shoes.
And from the array the girls and
Mrs. Lacey picked out q considerable
number that could be used by smaller
children.
These went to the right authorities
in the town at once. And because
they were badly needed by less fortu-
nate girls there was almost nothing
left stored on the welfare agencies
shelves.
1t would have done Mrs. Lacey and
her husband much good to have
known the load that was lifted In
many family where less fortunate
parents were wondering how they
could possibly clothe their girls for
the coming school year.
Evening star., 1934-09-12
NY Neighbor Says:

Let water come to o full rolling
boil when poaching eggs. Drop
eggs in. turn out the gas and the
eggs will finish cooking In the
boiling water.
Shoppers may be held securely
In bottles when travelling II q
piece of adhesive tape is placed
over them and around the neck
of the bottle.
A pinch of baking powder add
ed to pie crust makes 1t light and
fluffy.
Colored handkerchiefs should
be soaked for 10 minutes in .
basin Of cold water, to which .
tablespoon Of turpentine has been
added, before they are washed
the first time. This will set the
colors.
Copyright, 1s34)
Evening star., 1934-09-12

have public schools, or admit girls to
schools, until much later.
After the right was won for girls to
60 to the lower schools, there was q
new struggle to admit them to the
higher schools. This, too, was won.
Female academies" grew up, and
later came colleges for women. Vassar
College, started in 1861, is justly
famed as a pioneer in this field.
Still later, women were admitted to
colleges and universities where only
men had studied before. Today there
are millions of women who have won
college degrees, and the number Is
ever growing. Women have become
lawyers, doctors and scientists, and
have gone into other fields as well.
(For History section Of your scrap
book)
The Surprise Leafiet" win be
mailed without charge to readers who
send me a Scent stamped, return
envelope. This leafiet contains riddles,
and tells how to perform magic tricks.
UNCLE RAY.
Copyright 1934)
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Little Jimmy's New Home.

x-OR lands sake, what have
OL you there, another kitten?"
exclaimed Mother Brown
i Then, as she got good look
at Little Jimmy, she backed
away hastily. "Take him out of this
house this instantl" she commended.
II won't have any skunks In my
house." r
but he Is such little fellow. just
. baby, and he is worn out and half
starved" pleaded Farmer Browns Boy.
Baby or not, skunk is o skunk,
and the best thing you can do is to
take him back where you found him, |"
retorted Mother Brown.
But ! can't do thatl" cried Farmer
Browns Boy. He was lost, and he
isn't big enough to look out for him
self, even II he did blum Black Pussy.
And know he Is dreadfully hungry"
"Well, then. you can take him out
to the barn, but you can1 keep him
In here, and that's that" declared
Mother Brown. Meanwhile, she was
warming some milk. She fed It to
him from q spoon, and when she saw
how eagerly he Tapped 1t up her warm
heart softened. Hell need to be fed
again. before very long. SO you might
fix box for him over there in the
corner. I'll feed him again q little
later" said she.
Farmer Browns boy grinned rs he
fixed the box. but he took care that
his mother didn't see him do 1t. He
lined box with newspapers, and put
In q lot Of crumpled pieces, SO that
Little Jimmy might hide among them
II he wanted to. He was so tired and
worn out that he promptly curled up
and went to sleep. There he spent
the day. He was fed couple Of
times and between meals slept. When
night came Farmer Browns Boy
started to pick up the box.
What are you going to do with
that?" demanded Mother Brown.
Take 1t out to the barn, Of course" "
replied Farmer Browns Boy inno-
Gently.
you'll do nothing Of the kind!"
Evening star., 1934-09-12

declared Mother Brown Indignantly.
That little fellow IL too young to
be left out in that big barn all alone. /"
Farmer Browns Boy winked at his
father. ''He wouldn't be exactly alone, !"
he replied. THE horses and the cows
are there, you know"
"And they probably would frighten
him half TO death with their stamp
Ing" retorted his mother. you put
that box right back, and well keep
him there in the kitchen tonight. He
win have to be fed again before we
60 to bed. anyway"
80 Little Jimmy had AL the warm
milk he could drink and, although his
new home was : very strange place,
indeed, he was 80 comfortable that