U ncom m on Sense *\ . Misunderstanding T 3 y“ Uncommon Sense By G RACE E. H A L L JOHN BIAKT J O H N BLAKE E fur aw ay \ r OU’R dearie, dearie. tonight, my Mousle, “ so I will tell you what w* T EL LI NG VO L K BOSS THE CIIU11CH MOUSE The sunshine has been mocking me will do. You will live In the cupboard wmwww all d a y; ■"P HE man who hires you thinks he T IT T L E MISS MOUSIE lived nil at the back of the church where the a hpnk president than you cun go to I've strained my eyes ’til they are knows how to run bis business. He A-r a]one In one corner o f the big books are kept for a week and then I $ft LEA ItX TO A O ! weary, weary. me Chicago without knowing how to get may be wrong, but thut Is what he church, that Is, she did until one day will give you my answer." Longing to see you passing by this )HK the soldier I* |>em)ltted there. Mr. Mouse did not mind in tbe least she spied Mr. Tim Mouse wandering Emerson's advice to hitch your ihoot Ills rifle he Is taught te doing this. What be wunted wus to wlty • . . . Also k* believes he knows what he about the church. aim it. Over uni] over again he must wagon to a star Is excellent advice, Within my heart a pain Is growing, wants you to do. Again he may be In “ How did you get In here?" asked make his home in the church, so he practice ho'dlng Ids weapon, ond hut It would have been of more prae- growing, „ . error, but such, notwithstanding, la his Miss Mousle. “ This Is my church and run Into the cupboard and that wus The truth Insists that I shall heed | tlcat value If he had added a few de- sighting it. the lust he suw o f Miss Mousle for a no other mouse has ever lived here.’’ and know it is dlse<>uraging work. With the ! tails as to how It U to he accom- week. It may be easy for you to tell the Then Mr. Mouse told a flb. “ I came That further still you're ever going, j boss where he is mistaken In many |target before him the recruit natural- • pllshed. But Miss Mousle saw him every day In to call on you. Miss Mousle," he going. ly wants to try to hit It. I>o not begrudge the months or the and at the end of the week she had de­ I things, but don't do It. replied. And oh, I love you dearie, love you Hut to permit hill! to Are too soon j weeks nr the years that you spend It may hurt hla feelings In the first Mr. Mouse had come In through a cided that he would not do at all for so I would lie fatal to his efficiency. He 1 In learning how to aim. You’ll get far piece, and it may hurt hla opinion of hole he found under the church steps the husband o f so retlued a creature will never shoot well unless lie first j more hits If you put In hard work at , you in the second place. and after . wandering about In the as a church mouse. , learns to shoot correctly. training than you will If you fire be- The world u very cold, my dearie, j Kor m08t men who have ri8en "Such manners and such taste," said church had decided that It wus a very And the long drill In holding the | fore you have learned to hold your , , . position which enables them to hire nice place to live, no traps, no pussies Miss Mousle to herself as she ran rifle. Outside the magic circle of your othtr men hav# a very strong h<,Uef ¡rifle properly, and aiming it properly about eutlng the crumbs and making and plenty o f space to run about. arms Genius can sometimes Are at sight, I Is never wasted. the place tidy every day when Mr. arms; themselves. And they naturally will "How trim and sranrt you look In wlth These rules are as necessary in life | hut even genius often misses unless My heart Is pleading to be cheery. ,Jllak mor. of meil who ^ your gray clothes," said the clever Mr. Mouse ran out for a while. "No, ha cheery. It learns how to Are. And genius suc- [ns they are on the rifle range. them than of men who differ. Mouse. "Your eyes look brighter than won't do at all and I will wait und tell Safe locked against your breast from ... _ ___ . _ , It is easy enough to aim high, but | coeds more often than does ordi­ n i . '* o sometimes hear young men In those of the pantry mice and your fig­ him so this very day." nary ability because it Is great enough ¡It Is not easy to reach your target. a l a arms; fits of anger “ telling the boss where he ure Is much more graceful. I’ retty soon Mr. Mouse returned o ff.. ulthoui!h not „ often aa w. Itefore you actually set out to ac­ to recognise the vnlue of hard work. The tears persist tonight In falling, fall- ^ carrying a piece o f cheese which he "Now what do you say, Mtss Mousle, No one worked harder than did Mi­ complish your ambition you must lng. hear them say thut this Is what they If we get married and I come here to dropped when he saw Miss Mousle The breezes whimper o f an unknown learn how to accomplish It. This chael Angelo or Keats or any o f the do. live with you, for I know of no other primly seated by the cupboard door. woe, * means long and often uninteresting geniuses whose names will endure The smell o f the cheese d I most But we never saw one who gained | place that would make so nice a And 'cross the silence I am calling, toll, hut without It all your aiming at forever. any advantage by It. caused Miss Mousle to change her home." Aim as high ns you can, always. But calling— the target will he useless. If you are right about a thing, and j Miss Mousle was very much pleased mind, but she remembered that she Come back to me, I love you, love There can he no success without always learn how to aim liefore you know you are right, It Is very well to j by all these compliments, so she hung was an aristocratic church mouse and fire. training, severe and continuous. prove It—provided It will do the busi­ her head and pawed with one tiny foot above being tempted by such things as by J o h n Risks.) < © b y D o d d , M e a d A C o m p a n y .) You can no more become n hank ness any good. mere food. president without learning how to be But unless you can save your em- I "W ell, when shall wc get married?” ployer a lot of money by showing him asked Mr. Mouse, never dreaming that that he Is wrong, you'd better refrain j Miss Mousle could refuse to marry from doing so. him, he was so plump and handsome. Men don't like to be put In the | " I deeply appreciate the honor, Mr. wrong, and they like still less to be Mouse, but I cannot marry you,” said proved In the wrong. And bosses, like Miss Mousie. “ I find you are not fitted the rest o f us, are only men, after all, to become a church mouse. with men's weaknesses and fallings. “ In the first place, you do not seem I f you're hired as a consultant, you | to care for nibbling books and old By F. A. WALKER - are selling your opinion, and can give paste, hut run to the pantry every day [ It with Immunity. But If jou are hired and bring back all sorts of queer as an assistant, charged with carrying things, making the place most untidy. MENTAL EXPLOSIONS out orders, it will do you no harm to " I f It had not been for me, the sex­ T K BY any chance you should fall Into carry out orders exactly as given—no ton would have had you In a trap long A the lamentable habit of becoming harm at all. ago, for you were easy to track by the truculent, peevish, ill-humored and Carry them out as well as you can, crumbs you dropped about. No, Mr. 'sharp-tongued in moments of trial, take [ asking only such questions us are nec­ Mouse, we must part and at once." a new tack and head straight for the essary, and believing that to carry Mr. Mouse wus so surprised that he ‘What Do You Say, Miss Mousie, if delectable port of good-will. them out Is Just at that time the most forgot to pick up his piece o f cheese, We Get Married?" 1 Nothing Is more detrimental to the Important thing In the world. or perhaps the sexton, who saw him Individual happiness and success than I f you w ill do that repeatedly the at the soft carpet, but If she was silly ond threw his broom, made him leave mental hysterics, whether they he o f a boss will have to promote you, enough to be flattered she also had a It. Anyway, he ran Into the hole and ¡mild or severe form. Often, in spite of whether he wants to or not, because If wise little head and In a second she out of the church and never returned. ¡himself, the victim of passionate out­ he doesn't somebody else will find out realized It and looked at Mr. Mouse. Miss Mousle, when all was still bursts Is plunged Into a sea of trouble "You have never lived In a church, again, crept out from under a pew and about you and hire you. from which he cannot extricate hitn- With hundreds of people hunting for have you?" she asked. nibbled at tbe cheese. “ I must say," ¡self without loss of friends and self- Mr. Mouse had to confess he never she murmured, "the food of those com­ exceptionally competent men nobody resjiect. can hide you. But If you begin by had and Miss Mousle told him there mon pantry mice Is rather nice; but Men and women have fallen from showing the boss how much better you were many things that had to he lived I am sure I should soon lose my trim high estates by allowing a hurst of ran run the business than he can, you up to In a church thut did not matter figure If I ate It all the time. A church ¡anger to sweep them off their mental will never have a chance to prove your at all In a pantry. mouse has much to live up to and balance and been taught a very tren­ “ You may not do at all for the hus­ many sacrifices to make." confidence, for you never will be given chant principle for future Judgment band o f a church mouse," said Miss (1?. 192 ). b y M c C lu re N e w s p a p e r S y n d ic a t e ) anything Important to do. and action. In most cases, however, ((g) b y Jo h n B la k e ) -------- O-------- too late to he of any use to them. If you will look about you, you will How to Road Y our see them among the sad faced and F r « . Toom x?pe({_ forlorn, eking out a bare existence In C h a ra c te ris tic s M oves in *> a lowly station from which they are l i r t l l L f and T andancia. - the SUrorve*. Won£__, SfofBL R. PBYSBft unable to rise because of their ungov­ By M ILD RED M A R S H A L L Capabilities or Weak- ernable spirit. Bastas That Make fo r Sacceas or You are ashamed to ride In a When an automobile has been M r M m e; l i t h i » t o t y { Fallara at Showa ia’ Your Palm cheap car? To the man or woman who can <-on- "wrecked by a careless driver It serves e i e « « I we* J r r t o m J ; This laughter may or may not [as a warning to others, hut It falls to trol his or her action In the vital mo­ i; gear Irretir Joy be well deserved. I f you are .restore the car. ment the world Is wtiling to yield Its THE FINGER NAILS mod JocG/ewW ashamed o f the car you should Just so do foolish persons who have riches. ETHEL t . get the laugh. I f you are ¡ruined their life prospects through The eyes of employers ever watch­ ■RING ER nails that are unusually P B YSBB ashamed that you cannot earn HmiM-tuous Impulse serve as warnings ing such men and women, taking note ^ broad and long, show a disposition FREDERICA money enough to have a better to the observing and thoughtful. of their worthiness. You are fussy about the way that Is uncertain and Inconsistent, and car, you are not quite ao culpa­ And yet the world goes on. a large folk handle booke! Such persons do not have to beg for subject to bodily ailments. It Is also "CMIEDERICA la the feminine coun- ble. I f you are ashamed that ll>nrt of It unmindful of what Is taking opportunity or advancement. "Don't be an old fuss!" This held by some authorities that the pos­ K terpart o f the popular masculine jjilsee under Its very eyes. you cannot make your mother Is what the unbookish and some­ sessors of such nails are In danger of In matters of art, Intellect and self- name Frederick. It signifies "peace The true conclusion Is obvious: If more comfortable than having times the bookish hurl at you. being Influenced too greatly by the I restraint they are always at home, ruler" and comes originally from the [you will apply the experience- of | sure of themselves In every field of her weak back ache In too long Never mind I You really love a opposite sex. old Freyr of Teutonic mythology. (other* to yourself, profit by their fol­ automobile parties, then you are book and you can't atand being ; human endeavor, confident that they I f the nails are long, but not too Freyr meant “ free", which la loosely lies and hold your spirit In check I can "mg ke good," even when opposing a bit less blameworthy. How­ a witness to Its mutilations. long, and properly proportioned, they (when It Is about to hurst forth Into translated to “ love o f peace". The ever, some folk have no cars at Books mean something to you— | winds beat hardest against them In are an Indication o f a well-balanced M violent quake, you will have notnlug ' their darkest night Idea was personified Into a god o f very all. You should he glad that you probably the laughers couldn’t nature. O f course, this Indication (to fear. high rank, who later was disintegrated can have any car—after all, they (<£. I l l l , by M c C lu r * N e w s p a p e r S y n d i c s ! * .) stand seeing you hurt their field must be read In conjunction with other Into a brother and sister, called Freyr til carry you about and make glasses, or their tennis rackets, signs In the hand. But, speaking gen­ and Freya. you Independent of trolleya and etc, A book Is a marvelously- erally, the possession of such nails Freyr named the sixth day of the Jitneys I contrived thing, going through means a nature that Is affable, agree­ week and presided over love and mar­ 80 hundreds of processes between able, trustful, but not too confiding. riage and drove over battlefields In a Your get-away here Is: the brain of the writer and store "These people will from youth under­ chariot drawn by panthers to conduct T o get away with It the beet counter. You, owning It, appre­ stand deceitful purposes," says one the slain to their appointed places In way you can, If you can’t get ciate It, and appreciation Is authority. Valhalla. While Freyr was progressing away with another kind. Small, crooked nails, or nails that are Jealous always of depreciation. *by direct route Into Frederick, the (<£) by M c C l u r « N e w s p a p e r S y n d i c a t e . ) Books are one of the greatest of bent at the point or apex, show ambi­ I feminine form was slower In becoming tion, courage and high spirit. Natural­ a - nish's possessions and as such JC v«ry task w r o u g h t out tn p a tie n c e Frederica. There are records of such For canapes olives arc Indispens­ ly, such natures are apt to be self- deserve * little more than casual It rin g a n blonainif to th e d o e r ; queer deviations as Frlthswlth, Fridl- able. Cut eight rounds of bread and J ot cornea to the w n i t t n * w o r k e r . Marriage Register of the Abbey. willed and Impatient of contradiction care, especially by book lovers But eludes the a w l f t pursuer. | spread with softened butter. The The marriage register of the abbey wld and FYethesanta In the Eighth or opposition. and collectors! rounds should he about two Inches In ( ® by W h e e l e r Syndicate. I n o ) I — the Collegiate church of St. Peter at century. GOOD THINGS FOR OCCASIONS 80 --------o -------- The saintly daughter of the lord of I diameter. Tosst them lightly before Westminster— wulch the duke of York Your get-away here Is: Prepare n and his bride signed on their wedding Oxford bore the name of Frlthswlth * p ? I K olive ♦» la auch an appetiser and ! spreading with buffer. At the worst—you are over- day Is a record of curious and unex­ and lived In a little cell at Tliornbury, adds to in neh resi and flavor to 1 i»B*te, using six shrimps chopped fine MEN YOU MAY MARRY “ fueay" ovsr something worth tunny dmhm that It should slwa ys he and then mashed with three table- pected contrasts. It contains, of and had curious adventures which are being "fussy" about. ! spoonfuls of mayonnaise. Have ready found un th«* shelf. course, many names of the famous and portrayed In a window of the cathedral <© by M cC lu r* N rw *psp«-r Synd icate.) By F R PEYSER the great, but has almost equally nu- at Oxford. She was also patroness of For garnishing dl she* on«* ma;y cut one-fourth of a cupful of atnffed olives. The Into n queen olive with a *harp knife I chopped with eight capers, liver the I *-~ i merous signatures of those of humbler the university nnd cathedral. Has any one like this pro­ cumbersome name of Frethesantha nnd kiorplng close to th»* Jttone. pure toasted rounds spread the shrimp tab spoonfuls of ------------------------- ; sort This is due largely to the fact cream and one of j; posed to you? that not only members of the body was borne by the wife of Geoffrey I.ut- In a »iplra fa shinn. This will leave paste, then the chopped otlvt mlx- » fi­ ned butter. Symptom«: The sweetest lit­ Seaaon well wlt(i ; the ollive stlIII siUIppljT WlItliout: the 1 lure. Garnish with n slice of stuffed I *' nali. j collegiate but their servants can claim terell In the Fourteenth century. tle mustache you ever saw. cayenne, and add right large olive and serve at once. Frederica Is purely an English Inven­ »tone. the right to an abbey wedding. As the I oll» - s, pltted and chopped, one pl- Seems to be the most obvious tion, though Portugal and Italy had privilege of an abbey ceremony Is not men » rubbed to n amooth paste and thing about his little figure (ex­ Zwieback. one that Is too readily accorded. It adapted It Intact. The French call U cept maybe his condensed trous­ Zwieback Is often not obtainable one üblespooaful of parsley chopped. may easily arise that a peer falls to Frederigue and the Oerman Frldrike. j Add a pln. h of thyme nnd mix all j ers turned up a little above two nnd a recl|>e for It will be cherished Onyx Is Frederica's talismanic stone. secure i t while the hsndmalden of one togr her. l’ resa lnto a wet mold and feet). Every one wonders, who h.v many. It will guard her from lovers' quarrels of the collegiate clergy and her bride­ has any Imagination at all, how Take a yeast cake softened In one- Chill thoroughly. Serve unmolded on groom may have no difficulty in ar­ and assures her o f a sweet. lovable na­ he can twirl the wee, downy half cupful o f warm wafer, two r*ti>l<' I a bei) o f letMice or sliced as an Indi­ ranging their nuptials in the central ture. Thursday Is her lucky day and 1 thing, nnttl you look at his su- f sugar, and mix well. Add vidual serving. church of the empire.— London Times. her lucky number. pcrsensltlve hands, lovely hands flour to make a thin hatter, about half • t>T W b w l i r Syndic*!«. Inc ) — wasted on a mere Man (?). -------- O-------- i cupful. Sot aside to rise In a warm He adores golf, knows all the place, covering well with s cloth. An ' ' H l L L i . l polo players—by name. Would when bubbles form on top. 1 « I t s * . W * * t » m N * w * t > » p * r C n ton ) A LINE 0* CHEER love to Join the cavalry troop, >re taMvxjxronfuls of sugar, but, really, dancing and his Job Canada's National Flag. oonfuls of melted lard, two By John Kendrick Bangs. take all hla time. Go to war? eggs, cinnamon and salt The national flag ra ard mash to a paste with two t and public building* lO W C fV . *T bt : Something to Think s i bout YOURf: Has Anyone Laughed j A t Y ou ! Because — ‘What’s in a Name?’ Has Anyone Laughed A t You Because — moth er’s CooL Book 0 N (t IS milCH 'y y i^ v r U Q . I