r 10 CROOK COUNTY JOTONAL ZA SU PITTS Last Night's Dreams -What They Mean TUSSCAT AND THE HOOK MKS. ri'SSCAT was roaming over tlie house one day with her two kittens, when all the family were out, when she happened to find a picture book. "Now, why should I not teach my children from a book Just as people do!" she thought "Here are A, B, Cs and pleuty of pictures of cats, too." Sa she called her children to her and began .their first lesson, but the kittens did not wish to learn their A, B, Cs. They wanted to look at the pictures. First, there was a picture of two kittens drawing another In a basket 1 , ...ll"iiH T5' Y-V III "Oh, let ns play like that!" mewed the kittens Tom and Tim. I want to drive," mewed Tom. "No, I want to drive," mewed Tim, "and use a whip like the kitten In the picture." Quickly Mrs. Pusscat turned the page and showed another picture to quiet them. This picture showed five kittens on a fence snowballing a big black cat w ho was all dressed op and Tom and Tim began to laugh. "We'll do that to old Black Tom the first snow that comes," said Tom. "No, you must not be bad kittens," fJWiM) TOLL! (Copyright.) PREPAREDNESS. Little Willie Eezymarque's parents said to him: "Don't you go to scrapping now with Up- halet and Jim! Tel) them that your pa and ma won't let you fight a lick Don't you dare resist 'em It they hit you with a brick!" Little Willie Eezymarque gumshoed down the street, Telling every kid he met what his par ents sweet Had impressed upon his mind all the kids got next Licked poor Willie black and blue! Wil lie's (oiks were vexed. Little Tommy Foxyguy's people told him: 'Kid. Don't you go to fighting now scars can not be hid! If those bad boys tackle you, turn the other cheek. Let 'em know your parents' wish is you should be meek." Little Tommy Foxyguy, quite too smart for that, O'er one eye in hostile style set his little hat. Kept his fists clenched as he went 'mid the hoi pollol Tough kids said: "Look out for him he's no sissy-boy!" Little Tommy Foxyguy mixed in fewer scraps Than little Willie Eezymarque, with the roughneck chaps! Lesson of this jingle is: "If we'd not be scared. Better keep the fighting off by showing we're prepared." Earthquake Prices. . LOTS FOR SALE. Two good resl- , dence lots near the park In Wakonda at prices that will move them. Wakonda (S. D.) Monitor. HIS BITTER DEFINITION Paw, what is a co-operative bank? It is one, my son, in which the stockholders and the bankers have each their work to do in running the concern. The stock holders attend to the assess ments, and the bankers to the dividends. ALL HE WAS FIT FOR. There was once a lazy young gopher Who was an incorrigible lopher. Said his mother: "My child, You're driving me wild! Go hire out somewhere as a shopher!" Explained. "Paw, why do you call the doctor that brings the baby n stork?" "Because, my son, of the size of his bill." O What the Sphinx Says By Newton Newklrk. "The re sumption of business pros perity is mere ly the opening of canned confidence." v no 1 - Ml said their mother, quickly turning to another picture. "But why ts the picture there If It Is bad?" asked Tim. Toor Mrs. Pusscat did not know, so she showed them the next picture of a little kitten being taken Into the water to bathe by Its mother. "Oh, oh." mewed both Tom and Tim, "that Isn't true, either, Is It mother?" Now Mrs. Pusscat did not like the water and she could not think any Mother Cat would do such a terrible thing, so she turned over to another picture, but this time the picture was that of five naughty little kittens sit ting at a table. One was crying, another was pulling the cloth to get something it wanted instead of asking for it, as a well-behaved kitten should. Another spilled the cream, and an other was eating too fnst and spilling the food from Its spoon, while another put Its foot on the table. Tim and Tom began to laugh and their mother told them those little kittens were ail very bad and she hoped their mother put them all In bed without their supper. "But what are books good for If all the pictures are not true?" asked Tim. In despair Mrs. Pusscat turned to the last picture, hoping that would be one of a well-behaved cat. It. was called the Lazy Pussy, and there sat a big kitty with mice run ning over her back nnd a bird perched on her head, while two little mice held tip her long tall. Mrs. Pusscat stared and then she closed the book with a bang. "There Is nothing true In books," she told the kittens. "You come with me out to the barn and learn to catch mice." "I should like to know," she said to herself, "who could have made those silly pictures? There were never kit tens or cats like those in that book, I know. I would be ashamed to be a cat if there were." , (Copyright) EVERYBODY' deesa country ees leeva too high now. Before da prohiblsh ees go to work steady Job could somatime dreenk leetle bit for feela good. But now when ees alia dry up only ting can do ees eat too mooch. I tink een few year all da ceetzen een Uniteda State ees getta pain een da belle and dunno wot's matter. Everyting go lika devil too fast and fiva, seexa time every day people enta somatlng. One guy een da - restaurant other day aska for stuck of wheat. But mebbe he tlnks he was threshing ma chine, I dunno. I feegure anybody wot eat stack of wheat no leeve ver long. And een da park ees one place where sella hot dogs for ten cents, Now wot you tlnk for anyone eata hot dog, huh? Ees.-no wonder mosta time we no feela good. We gotta hard time reada program een da restaurant. Een mosta place ees made weeth leetle French, leetle Italia, leetle Uniteda State language Jusa for maka you tink gonna getta square meal. I was een one restaurant where was so moocha music no could heara any one eat And lot of place serva dance weeth da meal, too. Plenta people eat leetle bit dance leetle bit and den come back and eata some more. Dat same people say would no enta hash, But after one trot foxy or sheemmle dance da whola works ees hash jusa same. I tink tree, four yard of gooda spaghett every day would maka feel better. Wot you tlnk? 0 CROSBY'S KIDS in. r w t a MI6HT HAS A THOUSAND 6Y -me pay guT one 5 Za Su Pitts, who stands high In the estimation of the patrons of the silent drama, Is among the best known "movie" stars. She was born In Par sons, Kan., and was educated In Santa Cruz. - She has bean seen In some of the best pictures that have been shown. 0 Beauty Chats By EDNA KENT FORBES FOR YOUNG C.IKLS IN OUR grandmother's day young girls were taught a rigid simplicity of manner and dress quite different from the artificiality of mature society then, and certainly quite different from the manners and modes of the present moment. The young girl of today cur ries a wise little head on her shoul ders. She can earn her own way If she must and take care of herself un der all circumstances. She doesn't faint at the slightest excitement, and she doesn't become a nervous wreck ut the least strain on her energies. Yet she Is In danger of becoming too sophisticated In her outward maimer, and too blase In her Ideas. 1 ran tell from my own correspondence with girls of fourteen and up, how, first they want to do up their lialr, then they want to use cold cream, and pow der, and to know about rouge and eye brow pencils. Such things are the Im plements of grownup womanhood to them, and they cannot wait to get their fingers on the new set of toys. Yet their chief otiarra Is their sim plicity. Simplicity and youth are al most synonymous. The woman who wants to seem younger enn best gain her point by dressing simply. The young girl should cling to simplicity Simplicity la the Greatest Beauty for Young Girls. In dress and manner as long as possi ble, for her greatest charm will al ways be her youth. To be sure this doesn't mean that she should avoid the use of all beauty helps, for at this age, personal care counts much for later beauty. The most common trou ble with young girls Is a poor com plexion, due partly to their develop ment, partly to the fact thnt the re stricting parental hand is removed and they can indulge In candy and sweets to their heart's content. Pimples and blackheads and a coarse-grained skin are the inevitable penalties. The hair Is growing fast at this age, too, and needs extra good care and, frequently, a tonic. The growing body requires so much strength that little enough lo left for the hair, and a healthy growth is assured If care Is taken at this axe. (Copyright.) O Ferocious Fi'r-Bearlng Animals. The mink, the sable, the otter, the marten, the ermine and the fox are all destroyers of the animal life about them. So are the seals, at sen. Skunks are not so ferocious, but they are like raccoons In eating a good many birds' eggs and thereby cutting down the crop of birds, and frequently they raid poultry yards, a thing rac coons also do, now and then. 'ft wW- "if'M -rVf Wv-.'Wl DID YOU DREAM OF FLOATING? DRRAMS of floating are closely al lied to dreams of dying, though probably not so common. Investiga tors wlio seek for physical cause for dreams expluln them a they do dreams of fulling by tho skin becom ing so highly Insensitive that all Im pression of the support of the bed Is lost. But falling and Doming are cnsatlous so diametrically opposite that the explanation Is not convinc ing. Nearly all the sclent lllc Investi gators regard dreams of flouting as purely menial, or psychic. In their origin and Greenwood says: "Kvery physiologist who, to the beat of his ability, murks out the sent of mind and traces the various communica tions of the senses with the cerebro spinal center, knows at every moment thnt when he has completed his exposi tion he will have thrown no light on the mental faculties themselves, nor have followed them a single step Into the fields they work In." And further: "If credulity stifles tho mind, skepti cism Is a kind of cramp ; nor can there be much doubt thnt It is felt by muuy who bonst of It as a high sort of freedom." The mystic Interpretation of a dream of floating In the air is that It Is a favorable omen, unless you sud denly lose your buoyancy- In which case there Is unexpected trouble ahead of you. If you should dream that you are floating In water It Is also a sign of good business and much comfort awaiting you provided the wn'ter Is clear. If It Is muddy look out for .hidden enemies and pre pare for a struggle. The "occult" fol lowers of the tenrhlng of Madam Blnvatsky regurd this (Iron in as an evidence of the existence of the "as tral body." But, according to Ellis, Caesar de Vesme, who edits the French "Annals of Psychical He search," after an elaborate Investiga tion, declares It to be, like the flying dream, "a purely psychological phe nomenon and no evidence of the as tral body's existence." In this case the mystics would appear to be about as satisfying as, nnd much more definite than, the scientists. (Copyright.) rfotrgBook "Babes are not all born free and equal; some come Into the world buoyed up with the menial and physical trails that they nave Inherited from moral, healthy an. cestcrs: others weighted down by the de grading predilections and physical deform ities transmitted by weak and sinful pro genitors." All children should be born free and equal, but the sad fact remains that they are not. Simple Economical Dishes. When not too rich, a pudding Is wholesome and takes the place of pastry or cake more difficult to make ns well as digest. Creamy Rice Pudding. Take one-half cupful of well washed rice, one quart of sweet milk, one-half cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of raisins, a pinch of salt. Bake slowly until the ride is done and It Is of a creamy consistency. Flavor with nut meg or any preferred flavor nnd serve hot with hard suuee. Spice Pudding. Take one-half cupful of good molas ses, one-quarter cupful of shortening, one-hnlf cupful of sour, milk, one-half teaspoonful of soda, salt and spice, one and one-half cupfuls of flour, one-half cupful of seeded raisins;, place in a pudding dish In a steamer and steam two hours. Serve with any kind of fa vorite sauce. Suet Pudding. Take one cupful of chopped suet, one cupful of sweet milk, one cupful of molasses, one cupful of chopped raisins, three cunfuls of flour, one teaspoonful of soda j steam two and one-half hours; serve- with an egg sauce. Pudding Sauce. Jake one-half cupful of sugar, one cupful of water, two teaspoonfuls of cornstarch and a pinch of snlt; mix and cook until well done. Add a little butter, nutmeg or any flavoring extract and a tublespoonful of vinegar. Brown Betty. This may be made of any fruit, but chopped apple Is tpe one most com monly used. Put a layer of buttered bread crumbs Id a buttered baking dish, next a layer of apples, then a sprinkling of sugar, with a dusting of nutmeg or cinnamon; repeat until the dish is full. Add one-hnlf cupful of water; bake In a moderate oven; serve with a sauce or cream and sugur. Chicken Tamale. ' Take one cupful of cornmeal, scald with one cupful of boiling water, add one tablespoonful of butter or bacon fat, one tablespoonful of onion Juice, one cupful of tonmrn, three tuble spoonfuls of oil, one rimful of cooked chicken chopped fire, .me cupful of chopped stoned olives, mr tnhlcspnoii fuls of catsup, cnyenre pepper ni'il salt to taste. Put In n buttered link ing dish and bake half an hour. (Copyright, 1920, Western Newspaptr Unloa.) SCHOOL DAYS I bounJeJ on ilia " .Jl I, kouaa e Xa T,oht j r --r ?u on fw.t i ! 452222. lM J ji Pi 5$ eft Be There P, GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS j C A It LOS MAHTYN In his biography of Wendell Phillips said this: "It Is not enough to be ready to go where duly calls; a man should stand around where he can heur the cull." Be There. A few years ago at ft great Ameri can political convention, one of those mysterious moments arrived, in which a great outburst broke In enthusiasm for one man. But the man was Not There; at thnt moment ho was enter taining friends In one of the city's hotels. Before he could be reached, a comparatively unknown man was called upon nnd, through life magnet ism of the moment, he was inspired Into one of the greatest effort of his life and It swept him Into the United Stntes senate, where he bus proved himself one of the great leaders of the country. Be There. When you make an appointment, Be There. When you agree to do a certain task. Be There. If you are looking townrd an Opportunity, Be There when the, Opportunity comes your way. The Lenders In the busi ness world, and In every other sphere of activity, are constantly nlert for men nnd women who can measure up to Chances thnt they IimIiI In the hol low of their hands. You, whoever you are, ami wherever you work, If you are conforming constantly to your Ideals of the bent, you need have no fear but that at the proper moment you will be the one who Is There. Be There. O Jujtf: Folks By EDGAR A. GUEST AT THE END OF THE WEEK. When I bnve paid for what I owe, The grocer and the coal man, too, ' The boy who shovels off the snow And given the milkman what is due, When I have paid the monthly rent, And squared the plumber for his pains, I And thnt all I have Is spent, I enn't go wrong on what remains. Let Folly beckon as she will, I tread the horizontal line, When I hnve paid my tailor's bill, I am not apt to purchase wine. When I bnve paid for hats and shoes, The tempter has to hike along; ' I am no customer for booze, On what Is left I can't go wrong. 1 never get my fingers burned By mining stocks that quickly fall, The Job with which I'm most con cerned Is buying clothes for children small. I henr men talk of surplus dough ( But none of it I've ever had. When I have paid up what I owe If I break even I am glad. (Copyright by Edgar A. Guest.) . 0 What Saving Means. Conservation and thrift extended to the little things makes amazing totals In big undertakings. In 1019 the Bal timore & Ohio rnllrond used one scoop ftil of mill Ichx for one nnd a half bil lion tlines, anil the result was thnt fhe great Haul's ro.il hill was $1,170,294 less llinii for ilie same work In 1918. O Ingenious Women In New York. New York women have patented more Inventions Chan the women of any other state. ' Rann-dom Reels By HOWARD U RANN LKOMDAS LljOMDAS was a Spartan hero who earned a large brunxo monument by holding the puss of Thermopylae with 31 KJ men and u shoestrlug, Sparta was a small, Irritable coun try about the size of a Florida town site, but It was never stepped on with any success. The Inhabitants lived ou cayenne pepper and red beefsteak nnd practiced shooting at a murk eight hours a day. One time Xerxes, king of Persia, decided to annex Sparta, and after rounding up a neat little nrmy of 2,(KX).00() men he heuded for the Grecian ' archipelago, which was about In the same place It Is now. Xerxes did not get far before he rnn Into the pass of Thermopylae, which was a short cut between the mountnlns wide eough to allow two JrAT JoxtT(, Defying the Persian Army In Soma of the Rudest Greek Adjectives Ever Used. thin men to pass without being tele scoped. Here Xerxes found lA'onldas drnwn up In linltle array, defying the whole Persian nrmy in some of the rudest Greek adjectives ever used. Xerxes took the effalr as a Joke un til Lconldus had spitted a few thou sand Persian husbands on his trusty sword, when he decided to surround Leonidns. When the Spartan hero discovered this, he delivered an elo quent address to his men and charged the entire Terslnn army, which filled him so full of arrows thnt he hud to be pln-fenthercd before being removed to the family residence. Leonidns' name at once became ft household word, and autographs and kodak pictures of the deceused were eagerly sought after. IIU death aroused so much Indignation that the Spartans rose up and threw Xerxes across the Hellespont with chagrin written all over his profile. Leonidns did not die In vain, as ho had fur nished the Impassioned high school graduate with some of the most livid eloquence nnd weird rhetoric ever un corked from an opera house stage. (Copyright.) 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