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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-03

taken to close a scalp wound. He
was released from the hospital.
A search for the sluggers proved
fruitless.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-03
Staples Elected

D. L. otaRtte WhH thc'fh PIT
dent Of Daffodii aerie. Fraternal
Order OF Eagles. 1T the annual
election wednesday night at Elk,
temple. He succeeds NJ. +. Combs
Other new officers are Lloyd
Smith, vice president: Vance
Combs, chaplain: Floyd Fifield
conductor: Wilbur Betters. inside
guard: Kenneth Simmonds. out
side guard: II. i. Ryan, secre-
tary: Don Wentworth, treasurer;
A. B. Yahn, trustee for three
years; Walter Stout. trustee for
two years. and Or. Carl scheyer,
physician Delegates to the state
convention at Everett June 1916
are n. y. Combs. II. y. Ryan, d.
IL. vanMeter and Lloyd Smith,
with william Shade, Floyd Tur-
ner, B. L. Staples and Earl Bent
ley. alternatss.
Next wsdnesday night =
Mothers' Day program win be
presented.
Tho aeris auxiliary 1t Red
Mems hall "wednesday night elect
- Mrs. Avis Combs president;
Mrs. Hennis Thorn. vice president;
Mrs. Lizzie Loughlin. chaplain;
Mrs. Bernics Nunssll, secretary;
Mamie Combs, treasurer; Mrs.
Frances Carrot, inside guard: Mrs.
May Stout. outside gusrd. and Mrs.
Cora Lee staples, conductress.
Joint installation win be held on
Juns 8.
In . proclamation Wednesday
Mayor william P. Loughlin urged
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-03
CLUE MEETS THURSDAY

Mckinley Hin Improvement club
meets Thursday night at the school.
Matters Of general interest to the
community will be discussed.
Choice cactus. Hinz, Florist.
adx,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-03
Fr. LEMIs cIRt PICKED

Nancy Lancaster Of Fort Lewis,
University Of Washington coed,
has been elected secretary Of the
"Antidote club new campus or
ganization for girls in pharmacy
The group hopes to affiliate with
the national women's pharmacy
sorority. lambda Kappa sigma
next year.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-03

II you're not using II. sell II with
q Fast Action Times Want Ad
Phone Main Sl51.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-03

high school band and orchestra
and musical organizations OF the
grade schools. al under the direc-
ton Of Miss Ruth Clark. win give
their annual complimentary spring
concert in the high school audi
forum.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-03
Core Of the News
DINNER AND FILMS

The Fern Hill Townsend club
will sponsor a dinner and motion
picture show Friday evening. May
3. in the clubs hall, So. sSd st. and
Yakima ave.
Butter down again, at Cow But
ter store. adv.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-03

In = proclamation Wednesday
Mayor william p. Loughlin urged
Evening star., 1940-02-16
Don't Take NV
Word for X
BY FRANK COLBY.
The Word Your Aqoin

From New York: Recently you
published the dictum that your and
you're should never be pronounced
'yore' to rhyme with core, bore. I
do not agree with you, for how do
you account for the fact that the
pronunciation 'yore' Is used by the
cream Of American announcers?
r. E. L."
Answer: My only explanation is,
the cream must have soured. 1t is
human to err. Perfection is found
only In the dictionaries, never on
the radio, nor in this column.
The pronunciation "yore" is dia-
lectal; no dictionary to my knowl-
edge sanctions or even lists it. II
any reader can find "yore" author
lied by an accepted modern Amer
lean or British dictionary, send the
page to me and I will publicly eat
1t, without cream and sugar, next
morning on the courthouse square.
Attention singers, speakers, ac-
tors and broadcasters: The only per-
missible pronunciation for your"
and you're" rhymes with cure, sure,
pure. boor, moor, poor. Anything
else Is vulgarism. ...
Correct pronunciation: Yoor.
For . personal answer to your
questions about words, send =
stamped (3-cent), self addressed
envelope to Frank Colby, care
The Evening Star.
Evening star., 1940-02-16
Bedtime Stories
By THORNTON W. BURGESS.

Goodnight, Hooty," cried one of
the Merry Little Breezes, hurrying
through the Green Forest.
Goodnight" grumbled Hooty the
Owl, and blinked his big, round
eyes. Then he blinked them again
and shook out his feathers and
yawned.
Don't see what everybody goes
to bed just at the best part of the
day for" said Hooty to himself, for
you know Hooty the Owl sleeps
when the sun shines and flies abroad
when the shadows creep out from
the Purple Hills.
Way over on the other side Of
the Green Forest Blacky the Grow
croaked sleepily as he tucked his
head under his wing. Blacky was
very tired, for he had had very,
very busy day. He had pulled up
q whole row Of Farmer Browns
young corn. He had had Z whole
hour Of fun tormsnting Hooty the
Evening star., 1940-02-16
By Fronk Beck
By willard
By Edqor Rice Burrouohs
By Mormon Morsh
By Bud Fisher

Blacky had given him that morning.
When Hooty had grown tired Of
teasing Blacky the Grow he fluttered
back and forth, back and forth,
through the Green Forest, until he
found Sammy Jay. Then Hooty
tormented Sammy Jay just as he
had Blacky the Crow, until he had
frightened him most to death. And
just as the first faint light of morn
ing came stealing across the Green
Meadows Hooty the Owl flew to the,
thickest part Of the Green Forest
to settle down for the day.
MY, but ] have had . good time,"
said Hooty the Owl, with . chuckle.
Evening star., 1940-02-16
Blacky fluttered back to his perch

Blacky fluttered back to his perch,
humping his head as he went,
for 1t was so dark he couldn't see.
Hardly had he comfortably settled
himself once more and begun to
doze, then of he went just as before.
He was so frightened that he didn't
know what to do, but, just as before,
he f1uttered back up to his perch.
Not the tiniest sound was to be
heard. Blacky first turned his head
this way and turned his head that
way, and watched and listened and
shivered and shook, but not thing
could he hear: and yet, Just as soon
- he closed his eyes something
Evening star., 1940-02-16
But Hooty saw, for his eyes are
ia for caASvny %ka lorL

But Hooty saw, for his eyes are
made for seeing in the dark.
Back and forth, as lightly as q
feather, and as silently, Hooty sailed
over the big pine until he was sure
that Blacky was sound asleep. Then
something happened. Oh, my, yes,
something certainly did happen!
Blacky the Grow was knocked of
his perch and fell halfway to the
ground before he could catch him.
self.
"C-a-a-W, c.a-a-w, c-a-a.w!"
screamed Blacky In great fright.
"Oh, dearl Oh, dearl What was
that?" be cried.
Evening star., 1940-02-16

Owl when the latter was so sleepy
and blinded by sunlight that he
could do nothing but hiss and snap
his bill. It had been great fun for
Blacky and for his cousin, Sammy
Jay. Blacky chuckled as he thought
Of 1t. Then he closed hts eyes and
in two minutes was fast asleep. :.
Now, some one else heard that
chuckle and chuckled In reply, but
very softly. It was Hooty the Owl.
His big yellow eyes grew bigger
and brighter as he new over the
big pine where Blacky was sleeping.
No one but Hooty could have seen
the black rascal In his snug retreat.
Evening star., 1940-02-16
brushed him OIL his perch and trm

brushed him OIL his perch and tum-
bled him down. At first he had
thought that he had had a bad
dream, but now he realized that
some mysterious thing was coming
out Of the darkness and tormenting
him. After while he heard q
voice from the top Of the next tree.
1t was q very deep voice.
How do you like 1t, Blacky?"
asked the voice.
At first Blacky didn't recognize it.
Then all Of q sudden it came to
him that this was Hooty the Owl
and that Hooty the Owl was having
his revenge for the teasing which
Evening star., 1940-02-16
By Bruno
BY Fontuine Fox

letter
called column column opposite
the removed 1t correctly
its cabin.
to Yesterdays IETTER-OUT
Co GIANCES-GLEANS (gathers).
CID HAALET-METAL (object minng).
Cd MAILED-LAMED (crippled).
TALLlED-DETAIII natter,
CD DECADES-CEASED
Evening star., 1940-02-16
Wonderbirds Hike Sunduv

The Wanderbirds Hiking Club
VIII make q 7-mile hike Sunday,
leaving at 8 am. from the National
Theater. The trail will start at
Sandy Spring, following Sandy
Spring Branch Of Northwest Branch
to Old Northwest MIL,
Evening star., 1940-02-16
!. Berlin to Speak

American Labor and Peace" will
be the subject Of the next lecture
In the winter series being conducted
by the Washington Section Of the
Socialist Labor Party, at the
Raleigh Hotel, at 3 pm. Sunday, j.
Berlin will be the speaker.
Evening star., 1940-02-16
'Indiu and War Topic

Nine. Kamaladevi, a member of
the All-1ndia National Congress
Committee, will discuss india and
the War" at $3.50 o'clock tonight at
the Book Shop, 916 Seventeenth
street NV.
Evening star., 1940-02-16

constructions we have mo one likes
gfapefruits better than I do" or
than I like them" From this
We can see that the use Of me for
would not make sense, since we
cannot say mo one likes them bet
ter than me do"
Evening star., 1940-02-16
Points for Purents

BY EDYTH THOMAS WALLACE.
II mother is to serpe both home
and club Effectively, she needs the
thoughtful consideration OF her
| tellO1D club members.
Evening star., 1940-02-16
jolly Polly
A Little Chat on English
BY JOS. J, FRISCH.

T. M. L.-"No one likes grape
fruits better than I" is the correct
form, not better than me-" BY
completing the thought in such
Evening star., 1940-02-16

Mother: If I accept the presi-
dency of the club, I'm going to ask
your help in number of ways. One
is that you do not phone me at meal
time or in the evening"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-06-29
Rose Diseases Must
Be Quickly Checked

AS hot weather approaches and
the soil dries out more quickly than
earlier in the season, the gardener
does extra watering. Most gar
deners also find their roses being
troubled with blackspot or pow
derry mildew. While it cannot be
said that both are due to improper
watering, it is nevertheless true that
this factor tends to aggravate the
situation. Black spot is a destruc-
tive fungus which gradually de-
stroys the life of leaf in the same
way that powdery mildew, which
covers the leaves with white film,
also destroys them.
Common control measures are
busting with 40 parts wettable dust
ing sulphur, four parts paris green
and one part copper sulphate In
tervals between busting may extend
from 7 to IA days.
Hand picking of leaves that show
either of these pests is recon-
mended in addition to the use of
the dust just mentioned. A good
spray also helps. Obviously the
infested leaves should be burned
and never placed where they may
cause an epidemic.
The use of these sprays in COM
bination with late afternoon water
ing is not recommended. Watering
should be confined to the early
hours of the morning and even the
water should be applied directly to
the soil, thus keeping the foliage
dry. Laying the hose on the soil
generally accomplishes this.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-06-29
True English
Lavender
Is Sweet
Other Varieties Are
= Useful and Pretty;
Easily Grown
BY LOUISE HENDEY.

Sweet lavender Gavandula Of
ficinalis of l.. vera is the true Eng
hsh lavender which many of us have
never seen growing, although we are
all familiar with it's delightful fra
GRANGE. 1t was part of all early
gardens and should be found in
every new one.
Sweet lavender prefers a light,
sweet soil and full sun. 1t will
do best if protected from cold winds.
Although a perennial, it is inclined
to become straggly in three or four
years, so that it is best to grow new
plants to replace the old every year
or so. Because in the average small
garden only two .or three plants
can be used, it is better to buy
them than to bother with seed I'M
less low hedge is desired. This
variety makes lovely hedge about
IL to feet high.
The blossoms of this variety. which
bloom from June until late summer.
are pale blue and very fragrant. 1t
should be pruned whenever you
need the sprays for bouquet or
sachets. I can't remember a more
beautiful bouquet than one I had
given to me years ago made of Cecil
Drummer rosebuds and old English
lavender.
Varieties of sweet lavender O..
offcianalis) of interest are Bowles
Early, sturdy variety which win
tiers well, and Munstead Dwarf,
another strong grower which has
dark blue flowers and grows only
about II inches high. There are
a number of other lavenders. The
dwarf French lavender Gavandula
atropurpurea) is midsummer
bloomer with short racemes of lovely
blue flowers. There is a tender
greenhouse plant q. dentata).
There are others-a spike lavender
which blooms later than the sweet
lavender, another which is tender
and rarely grown that has white
blossoms. and yet another which
has large purple flowers. There is
even one with disagreeble odor!
So, as beginning, let us choose
the old-fashioned sweet lavender
which grew in our grandmothers'
gardens, and later, if space allows,
let us add one or more of the
other varieties to lengthen the sea-
son of bloom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-06-29
Use Care in Planting
Strawberries for
Final Success

Every home gardener sooner or
later tries Strawberries with sur
prising results. If the plants are
everblooming and properly planted
they will produce excellent results
the first year-from warm weather
to late fall. Next season the yield,
despite extra fertilization. is a dis
appointment. The reason is that
strawberries deteriorate from year
to year unless new beds, with new
plants, are made each season.
Select runners from the most pro-
life producers for continued sue
cess.
Take runners when the fruit is
ripening or has just fruited. The
most successful amateur method of
taking runners is to bury four-inch
pots near the parent plants so that
the runners can cross them. Anchor
the runners over the soil-filled pots
with clods of dirt and in six weeks
the pots will be full of roots. sepa-
rate the runner from the parent,
and set the new plants aside in
frame until early fall, when the
strawberry bed may be remade with
the new plants, which always bear
heaviest during their first year after
setting out.
If you do not use the pot method
for obtaining runners and depend
on straight cutting and transplant
ing, use extreme care in setting the
new plants in their permanent
homes. Too shallow planting causes
the roots to dry out; If planted
so that the crown is covered, the
crown rots. Plant with the crown
at the soil surface for sure-fire
results.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-06-29
Local Garden Clubs
Continue Active
In MANY WAYS

The regular meeting of the Gar
den Club of Chevy Chase, Nd, will
be held on wednesday, July 3, at the
home of Mrs. Jennings Bailey, jr., in
Taneytown, Md. Mrs. Bailey will
serve luncheon, and will exhibit her
garden to club members. There will
be a short business meeting, but no
prearranged order. Members will
leave by automobile in the morning.
At the June meeting elections
were held, and the old officers were
reelected They are: Mrs. Robert
Ash. president; Mrs. Chester Wells,
first vice president; Mrs. James w.
Murphy. second vice president; Mrs.
Frederick W. Connolly. recording Sec
rotary; Mrs Joseph Coy Green,
corresponding secretary and Miss
Beatrice S. Goodwin, treasurer.
Maj. R. S. Hudgins presided at the
regular monthly meeting of the
Garrett Park Garden Club. which
was neld Tuesday evening. June Is,
at the residence of Mrs. Collins.
Plans for the flower show to be held
September 81 were discussed. and it
was decided to omit the July and
August meetings. The next meeting
of the club will be held on Septem-
Der 10.
A feature of the Tuesday gather
ing was an address and demonstra-
ton on Flower Arrangement" by
Mr.. Charles Pritchard of George c.
Shaffer, Inc, local florist Arrange
ments in vases and in large and
small baskets were shown, and Mr..
Shaffer presented three large bas-
kets of flowers to the club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-06-29
Quick rowing Grass
Will Produce Good
Temporary Lawn

Although July is most unfayor-
able month for planting permanent
lawns, there is no reason why bare
or damaged areas need remain I'M
covered during the summer. A very
creditable temporary lawn may be
produced in two to three weeks
time with quick growing grasses.
This temporary lawn may be moved
and watered as in the case of a
permanent sod, and the general sp-
pearance will be very similar to an
established lawn.
The procedure consists of tilling
the soil and Incorporating moderate
amounts of lime and a complete
commercial fertilizer. Perennial rye
grass Is then seeded at the rate of
10 to 20 pounds per 1000 square
feet Of surface. Lighter seedlings
may be used, but the seed is cheap,
and the heavier seeding will pro-
duce dense turf more rapidly.
Domestic rye grass may also be used,
although the seed of this grass
makes coarser sod than perennial
rye grass. The perennial rye will
make reasonably coed sod for two
years If necessary, whereas the do
nestle rye grass is satisfactory for
one season only.
The seed should be we'll covered
and the planting kept moderately
moist by watering when necessary.
The moving height should be kept
at IL inches for most rapid de-
velopment of the grass. Shorter
moving may be practiced, however,
If there is need for a flne-textured
turf. Such closely cut turf will re-
quire more careful management
than that moved at ~ inches.
There will be nearly as much
benefit from turning under a tenn
porary lawn of rye grass in early
fall as from turning under a green
manure crop that might be grown
especially for the purpose of add
ing organic matter to the soil. The
rye grass should be turned under
two to three weeks before the per-
manent lawn is to be planted in
fall to allow sufficient time for the
sod to decay and produce a mellow
seed bed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-06-29
Conditions Abroad May
Curtail Bulb Imports;
Cherish Ours Here
Spring.Flowering Varieties
Require Especial Care if
We Want Them to Thrive
BY EDWIN C. POWELL.

Most of the tulip hyacnt and small bulbs
growers doubtful bulbs
this important
satisfactory blooms
spring
spring bulbs snowdrops snowfakes
winter acon sca chnodox and DO better
disturbed tulips hyacnth produce
replaned Likewise the
ses better be taken three
Daods left for
depending rapidly they increase.
few and small indicates that there bulbs
bud 1t Is then that they should be
found number
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-06-29
Every Insect That
Visits Garden Not
Always Enemy

Every insect which inhabits the
garden is not your enemy. Some
feed on the real garden enemies and
are thus worth their weight in gold
when compared with economies
made in spray materials and time
saved for the gardener-who always
insists he is overworked. Learn to
know some of the friendly insects.
The ladybugs are outstanding ex-
amples. Being carnivorous, they
feed on aphids and scale insects,
generally playing havoc with them
under the leaves where our eyes
seldom gaze. Even in the larval
stage they are heavy foragers on
garden enemies.
The praying mantis becomes
more popular garden favorite each
year, especially on the Atlantic
coast, where it is becoming fairly
well established and recognized
Noxious insects are its meat and
seldom does a praying mantis at
TACK W0rtn-Wnlle fONage.
Lace wing flies, not lace bugs, de-
YOUR any and all chewing or suck
ing insects in a garden and should
be encouraged to stay.
The best enemy of caterpillars
is the tachnia fly. 1t bears a close
resemblance to the blue bottle fly.
The tachnia fly eggs are laid on a
caterpillar's back. They hatch into
maggotlike forms that penetrate
to the caterpillar interior, where
they feed in its vital organs. Few
caterpillars serving as hosts to
tachria fly babies ever live to re-
produce their own kind.
The digger wasps, wheel bugs and
ever so many other insects which
are friendly should be studied by
gardeners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-06-29

OUTER SiIldIl UulDS. lie llbW COIEn
forms on top of the old one so that in
a few years they will be found close
to the surface. 1t is then time to
dig and replant them. They also
reproduce freely from side buds
so that where one bulb was planted
dozen or more may be dug.
Use the Proper
Implements.
A spading fork or a concave ditch
ing spade is the best implement for
lifting bulbs in the garden, but a
strong trowel may be used for those
that are not too deep. Most bulbs
that have been down for a few years
will be several inches below the sur
face. hence the need for a tool that
can be pushed below them without
100 much effort TO bring up the
clump entire.
After the bulbs have been lifted
which may be done as soon as the
foliage ripens, dry them carefully
by spreading them thinly in an
airy, shady place. A few hours
exposure to a hot sun may ruin
tulip bulbs: it is not beneficial to
any The basement or garage floor
or the space beneath a porch is
about the best place for drying
bulbs, but any shady place may be
utilized for a few days. A week of
good weather is sufficient for drying
most bulbs so that they may be
placed in boxes or baskets for
storage. 1t is necessary to get rid
of the moisture in the roots, tops,
If any, and adhering soil to prevent
molding and rotting.
Tulip bulbs need the most careful
attention to bring them successfully
through the summer season. 1t is
important to keep intact the brown
coat that covers each bulb, hence
the necessity of preventing direct
exposure to the sun and to strong
light. Each variety properly la
beled should be placed in q basket
or tray, stacked one upon another
to exclude light and yet allow for
free circulation of air around them.
If put away before they are we'll
dried, placed in deep boxes or in a
poorly ventilated place, they may
mold or rot during the summer.
Cool, Ventilated
Place Required.
Other bulbs may be handled as
directed for tulips, although exclu-
sion of strong light is not quite so
essential. 1t is advisable to keep
all bulbs in a cool, well-ventilated
place and to examine them occa-
sionally to see that they are in
good order. The dried tops, roots
and adhering soil may be removed
at any convenient time after the
bulbs are dry. 1t makes for easier
planting to get rid of this trash.
Replanting may be done at any
time when convenient. 1t is often
best to do it Immediately after dig
ging while the positions that the
bulbs occupied are fresh in mind.
Storage problems are thus disposed
of. Do not, however, plant other
varieties of the same kind in the
places where the bulbs were dug, as
it is almost impossible to lift every
bulb and mixture of varieties will
thus occur. Rotate tulips with
hyacinths and then with daffodils.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-06-29
Many Gardeners Are Favorng Summer uches Retain Moisture
Also Found to Be Useful
In Keeping Down Weeds
And Promoting Bloom
Choice of Materials Largely
Matter of Utilizing Those
That Are Most Available
BY w. H. YOUNGMAN.

Each year we find more and more gardeners employing
uches moisture
garden in which the stopped growing
causing the much liberal
produced scarcely results before following muchng
protected the soil and the roots from the
able to function normally.
This last gardeners considering
the ACCESSIBILITY of muches
the
Should lilies rhododendrons
suffer greatly during the heat of the
given protection Others like
that thrive in hot dry places, do not need
The choice of mllching materials
available
bale
peas as