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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
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"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!
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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."
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What the Sphinx Says
By Newton Newklrk.
"The re
sumption of
business pros
perity is mere
ly the opening
of canned confidence."
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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."
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.)
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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.
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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.) .
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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.
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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.
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