The Monmouth herald., January 04, 1924, Image 6

Som ething to
Think s i bout
Jean Arthur
by F. A WALKER
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THE HAND OF A CLERGYMAN
y o t l.l( HOUR feelln( I* shown by
fingers of conical shape, with Ion«
first Joints. This shows, also, great
power of intuition. A cross upon the
Mount of Afiollo, lying ut the base o f
Apollo, the ring linger. Is held to Indi­
cate deep religious feeling, hy some
writers on chiromancy.
Dignity Is, of course, absolutely es­
sential to the successful clergyman,
an<l this Is murked in the hand hy a
long and strong third or lowest phalanx
of the linger of Jupiter, the forellNger.
If the third phalanx of the linger of
Return, or middle linger. Is long and
strong. It Is an Indication of generosity
of nature.
The second or middle
«phalanx o f the third or ring linger
(the finger of Apollo) shows, If strong
and well developed, n love o f work,
and great energy In carrying out one’s
designs.
Of course, the clergyman, If he Is to
preach well, must lie possessed of elo­
quence, and this trait Is marked in
the hand h.v a strong tip of the little
linger, the Unger of Mercury.
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Has A n y o n e Laugh ed
A t You
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By E T IlE I. R
PEYSER
Because—
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You art a joiner?
Havon't you l>«‘»»n repeatedly
guy ml for twlonging to hi ninny
dub»? DoernTt every on»» »ay:
'H ow can you do any work,
when you hdoag to » « ninny iia-
ao< lationa?” Yet, If they’ll stop
to think, Joining mean* n lot of
Interest In life. If you belong
to one club it monn* a II iii IU m I
int'OTMt. You fci\e youmelf to
many causes Mild u*t»» If you be­
long to nmny assoclathma of
l>e<’ple. Sven the frivolous cluli
give* you a clianee to make
Del friends, which ia no mean
tiling, after all.
SO
Your gtt away here ia:
If you can pay your duea
"Joining" ia a good game.
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'T 'l I K very pleasurable ease with
which many of us break our high­
er purposes and turn aside In feverish
haste In the pursuit of some elualve
object, does not argue well for our
future content or prosperity.
The gray hairs that fringe our tem­
ples and the hard lines about our
mouihs bear Intimate relationship to
the pitiful Job we have made In hold­
ing steadfast to a fixed course.
We humans, at least some millions
of us, are fickle. Impetuous and Impa­
tient, Inclined upon the slightest
provocation to change our rninds over
night, at a sudden veer of the golden
weather-cock.
When we wake In the morning, we
are not quite sure whether we are
steering our cruft toward the north
star or heading It for the southern
er< >ss.
Hut we do know that the purpose
of yesterday Is gone.
We have a
new one which appeals directly to
our lofty ambition, so much so, In­
deed, that we draw In our chin, puff
out our breast and stride briskly
down the street, forgetting in our ela
tlon to acknowledge the smiling nods
and cheery good mornings of our
friends.
liy night our certitude has some­
what withered before the Intense
heat of cogitation, and we are filled
Unl*ss aome awei-tn.as at the bottom
i with doubt.
lies
For years and years we have gone
Who cares for all the crinkling of the
plea?
i around and around with the compass.
I lint on this occasion everything is
GOOD DESSERTS
different. We cannot move.
Our great project, for which we
( ’HOICK must he made as to des­ have been husbanding our strength.
serts where there ure little people Is hidden somewhere In the mist, our
who are to he considered. Too rich sight Is defective, our hands are un­
food, or food hard to digest, should steady and there Is a tug at the heart
never he given to young people.
that we cannot much longer endure.
Event has succeeded event, not ns
Cracker Plum Pudding.
we expected, hut as our solicitous
I ’ our four cupfuls of scalded milk friends have foretold. Our old smiling
over one and one quarter cupfuls of habit Is gone.
We are discouraged
rolled crackers and let stand until down in the depths.
cool; add one cupful of sugar, four
The world goes on merrily. There
eggs, beaten, one-half n grated nut­ Is no tenderness in Its heart. It cares
meg, one teaspoonful of salt, one-tlilrd not a whitling whether we sing or
of a cupful of melted butter. Parboil sigh, whether we are clothed In purple
one and one half cupfuls of raisins In or In tatters and rags.
uny canned fruit Juice to cover, until
And some of the merriest are car­
soft, then add to the pudding. Turn
rying n load In their souls, because
Into u buttered baking dish and hake they, too, have broken their purposes.
In n slow oven two and one-half hours, But they refuse to yield to discourage­
stirring occasionally.
Serve with a
ment.
sauce made from the fruit Juice, thick­
They have resolved to try again,
ened with n tahlespoonful each of but­
and to keep on trying ns fast as ever
ter and flour cooked together.
they fall, trusting not In themselves
for sustaining strength, hut in the
Compote of Rice With Pears.
higher power—being prodigals seek­
Steam one-half cupful of rice until
ing their father’s house!
tender In half milk and water, cooking
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In a double boiler. When the rice Is
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soft, add three tahlespoonfuls of sugar,
the yolks of two eggs, slightly beaten.
Mound on a flat dish In a cone shape
and place halves of canned or baked
pears around the rice. Sprinkle with
By GRACE E. H ALL
chopped Canton ginger and serve with
cream and sugar.
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MOTHER
Raisin Puff, Cream Sauce.
Cream one half cupful o f butter;
add two tahlespoonfuls o f sugar, two
eggs, well beaten: then add one cupful
of milk alternately with two cupfuls
of flour, mixed and sifted with one-
half tpaspoonful of salt and two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder.
Chop
one cupful of rnlslns, dredge w ith one-
qunrter cupful of flour and add to the
mixture. Turn Into a buttered mold
and stenm one and one-half hours.
Serve with whipped cream, sweetened
and flavored with nutmeg.
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Now, looking hack across the years.
Our hearts are wrung with pain.
Remembering the price she paid
That we—her own—might gain;
She placed no price upon her deeds.
Love prompted every one;
We simply knew she filled our needs—
Until her work was done.
Those
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THE ROMANCE OF WORDS 1
“ TRIBU LATIO N”
g lady acroas the wsy asys
■ got to he •uhi.dliel hr
nenf any more she’s glad
h shipping Interrats, and
II burn« owner», w hose bur
•avy enough already.
T T SEEMS we scarcely knew her
In her many years on yarth,
Nor realized, ’til she had gone.
Her wondrous woman’s w orth;
To much she gave, too freely tolled
For others, all the while.
Too much we blindly let her give—
Forgetting thanks or smile.
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PURPO SES
T V HIS little essay on the
poetry which may he found
lurking even In single words,
Archbishop Trench calls atten-
tlon to a quotation from Col­
eridge: "In order to get the full
sense of a word we should first
present to our minds the visual
Image that forma Its primary
meaning"—a course which la
particularly necessary In con­
sidering the word "tribulation."
We all know In a general way
that the term means sorrow or
anguish, hut that this Is a pure­
ly metaphorical meaning Is ap­
parent from a consideration of
the Katin "trlbnlum." the thresh-
Ing Instrument or roller by
which the Roman farmers sep­
arated the corn from the huska.
In
Its primary significance,
“ trlhulatlo" was the act of this
separation,
but
some early
writer of the church approprl-
ated the word and the Image
which It brought to mind, and
used It In the figurative sense—
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or adversity
being the appointed means for
the separating In men of what-
• ■ver in tl • • » « » light. trNlal
or poor, from the solid and
true, their chaff from their
wheat
He therefore called
thoae sorrows and trials 'trtb-
ulations." or threshings of the
Inner spiritual man. without
which the rhurrh taught there
could be no fitting him for the
heavenly harvest.
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toll-worn hands had never
meant
So much to us, until
Upon her quiet breast they lay.
So white and cohl and s till;
What service they had done for us
Wo never paused to say.
Until we missed their ministry—
When she had gone away.
The thin gray hair upon her brow
Was like a hnlo-llght.
Rut we had never known It—
T i l she went away that night;
We longed to tell our love at iHSt,
And how wo held her dear,
But oh, the hour had glided past—
Our words she could not hear!
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Heart-breaking tears! At last we saw
With vision clear and bright.
The beantles of that noble soul
Who went away that night;
With aching hearts we knew, too late.
There never was another
-to fine and true the whole way
through
As she whom we called— Mother.
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M R. PO SSU M 'S E S C A P E
night Mr. Possum was going
O NE through
the woods trying to make
up his mind whether he would go over
to a farm he knew of some distance
away or stay In the woods and hunt
for something to eat nearer home.
While he was trying to decide this
question he came to Mr. Fox’s home,
and as there was no light to be seen
under the door or at the window Mr.
Possum decided that Mr. Fox was not
at home and that possibly he might
find something to eat without going
farther.
He tiptoed around to the hack of
the house to the pantry window and
carefully raised it and slipped inside.
No, Mr. Fox was not at home, so
Mr. Possum began to look along the
pantry shelves for something to eat.
But they wqre pretty hare; only a
few bones and a piece of dry bread
did he find.
He had about made up Ills mind
to jump out of the window and go
Only a fsw months ago, handsome
Jean Arthur, the ‘‘movie’’ star, was
earning her way through a New York
college. Today she shares feminine
lead honors in a prominent produc­
tion. Five feet three, of slender bru­
nette loveliness, at the age of seven­
teen, Mies Arthur finds herself a
screen personality of importance.
Starting as a model for fashion pho­
tographers, she soon attracted the at­
tention of a prominent producer. Her
rise from minor roles to leads quickly
followed.
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What’s in a Name?
By MILDRED MARSHALL
Facts « b o a t jrsur l u m i ; its history j
m e a n in g; w h e n c e it w as d e r iv e d ; sig-
m fic a n c * . you r lu cky d a y . lu cky je w e l
RUTH
/""\\E of the loveliest names In the
feminine category is Ruth.
It
comes to us shrouded in mystery and
bearing the tragic sweetness of Bibli­
cal story. The origis o f the name has
never l>een satisfactorily determined.
Some say that it comes from a Hebrew
word meaning "trembling" ; others thnt
Its origin lies In a word from the
sume language meaning "Joined to­
gether," but all agree that It must
have some connection with the word
“ reuth” signifying beauty.
As an English common noun. Ruth
has come to mean sorrow, pity, com­
passion.
That It receives this in
terpretatlon from the story of the gen­
tle nnd faithful Ruth of Rlhllral his­
tory, Is open to belief. Certainly the
most famous Ruth of the ages was the
lovely daughter In-law of Naomi, w ho
followed her Into her ow-n far coun­
try and gleaned the grain from the
fields thnt they two might be fra)
Artists have Immortalized Ruth, the
gleaner, stnndlng In the fields, su|n>rh
In her full-blown Hebrew beauty with
the sheaves o f grain clasped to her
breast.
It was Ruth who voiced that ex­
quisite promise which is synonymous
with devotion In the world's famous
utterances:
“ Whither thou goest. I will go; and
where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy
people shall be my people; and thy
God my God."
According to the Biblical story,
Ruth became the wife o f R«>nz.
No nickname has ever been evolved
for Ruth. The name preserved Its
dignity
and
pathetic
sweetness
throughout Its history. It has been
adopted, in a popular sense, only by
the English language. In accordance
with Its significance, the pearl has
been assigned Ruth as her tallsmanie
stone. Though the pearl, in this in­
stance. probably means tears. It will
undoubtedly produce the opposite ef­
fect upon the wearer. Just as the opal
ceases to be unlucky for those whose
birth month is October. Pearls, worn
hy Ruth, will counteract her heritage
to sorrow.
Thomas Hood expresses the poet's
Ideal of Ruth:
She stands breast blah among tb* corn
Clasped by tb* golden light of morn.
Like tb* aweetheart of the sun
Who many a glowing kisa ha* won.
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A LINE 0* CHEER
fin in '
By John Kendrick Bangs.
Mr. Fox Was Dragging a Bag.
to the farm when he heard a noise
that made him stand very still and
listen.
It was someone opening the door
to the kitchen, probably Mr. Fox him­
self. And what he would do to him
If he caught him In his house Mr.
Possum dreaded to find out.
Mr. Possum had come out of the
pantry to the kitchen nnd was look­
ing on the table hoping Mr. Fox had
left something there. But It, too, was
bare, like the pantry, and here he was
caught and no food to pay for the
risk.
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He did not have long to think what
to do and the chimney seemed to be
the quickest way o f escape, for he
would have to pass the door which Mr.
Fox was ut that second opening to
reach the pantry.
Up the chimney went Mr. Possum *
and bump went his head, , r >T Mr. Kex
hud nailed a board over his chimney
to keep out the snow,« and robbers as
well, for It was very easy to get down
when be did not have a fire.
Poor Mr. Possum! He almost lost
bis bold and tumbled when Ids bead
struck the board. He would have if
he had not been such an expert
climber and clinger as well.
A piece of rough stone sticking out
was all that saved him, and here he
clung trembling while be listened to
Mr. Fox shuttling Into the room below.
Mr. Fox was dragging a bag, for he
had been very lucky that evening. I f
it had not been for the bag scraping
along the floor he would have heard
Mr. Possum in the chimney. As It
was, he did see the soot which Mr.
1 Possum knocked loose iu his efforts to
save himself.
Mr. Fox pushed aside the soot and
laid sticks and hark for Ids fire. Then
he swung the long Iron arm out from
the chimney side and hung on the pot
of water.
Mr. Possum trembled
harder.
Mr. Fox then lighted a match. Mr.
Possum saw 1dm light the bark and
twigs, and shook. Up came the smoke
iu his face and eyes and then down It
went and came out In Mr. Fox’s face
and eyes.
Mr. Possum choked and coughed but
Mr. Fox did not hear him, for at that
second he remembered the hoard over
the chimney top and be opened the
door and ran out to get a ladder.
There was no time to do thinking
now. The smoke was too thick aad
down dropped Mr. I’oTsum among the
ashes and soot and smoke.
Mr. Possum never expected to reach
his home, for he was sure Mr. Fox
was after him, but he did, and up to
the tipper-most-top did he climb, and
there he stayed until the next night.
Then he erept down the tree and
went hunting for his supper. But not
In the pantry o f any of the wood
folk.
Mr. Possum wanted a good
square meal and he did not wish to
take the chance of finding hare shelves
again.
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YOUR ENEMY’S PICTURE
TD KSEARCHES of the American
* * Folk-Lore society show that com­
paratively recently there have been
cases where a person sought to injure
his enemy by drawing that enemy's
picture on a board and shooting at It
with a rifle or pistol. It was believed
that the one sought to be Injured
would feel great pain in that part of
his person represented h.v the part of
the picture pierced hy the bullet nnd
that no one hut the person who did
the shooting could give him relief.
Kindred superstitions are now and
then met with In various sections of
this country and In rural England
they are most common.
Again we have merely a survival of
sympathetic magic handed down from
primitive man. Injure the man’s pic­
ture and you Injure the man. This
sort of vicarious vengeance was prac­
ticed hy all the ancients.
Amid
the ruins of Thebes was found a
small clay figure of a man tied to a
papyrus scroll "evidently to compass
the destruction of the person de­
nounced In the script.”
Jnst what
process the clay figure had been sub­
jected to In order to sympathetically
affect the man It represented does not
appear.
The superstition has come
down unaltered through the ages and
Is much more common today than
most people have any Idea of. I f the
stories o f Catherine de Medici are
true one of her favorite modes of
‘‘getting square” with her enemies
was to have waxen figures made of
them and set the figures to melt be­
fore a fire, or for a quicker rfsult
pierce the heart of the figure with a
pin. This superstition, ss Frazer put«
It, Is that “ the man feels the Injury
done to his Image as If It were done
to Ms own body," and El worthy adds:
"The Idea Is as old as the hills and
Is practiced today." The reason we
do not hear more about this particular
superstition Is because those who
practice It naturally do so In secret
and do not talk about it.
MEN YOU MAY MARRY
By E. R. PEYSER
Has a Galoot Like This Pro-
posed to You?
Symptoms: Not a bit stylish
— In fact bo pooh-poohs tho lat­
est fashions as senseless. Knows
the
latest
publications
and
books and is awfully hlgh-hrow.
He likes the self-supporting
woman only. Can't stand the
girl who always must take hoc
formal mamma to the show with
them, lie always keeps a well-
paid Job with growing prospects.
Nothing worries him except
wasting time nt a bad play er
with n poor book. He Is a bit
bookish, but not so bookish that
the fond parents do not worry
when be nnd daughters go out
for an all-day pienlc. Mothers
fear but think him a catch.
Daughters
love
but
cannot
fathom him.
IN FACT
He is the most delightful
mixture to Himself.
Prescription for His Bride:
T A ^'*’1 next to some good books
i y — not for their bindings,
but because of their insides.
Absorb This:
He who reads;
And works by day,
Is just the man
For whom maids pray,
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Pickings for Some Lawyer.
The lawyer hnd been reading for an
hour or so nnd the Insurance agent
who rented desk room ventured an hi-
qulry as to what the volume might b«
about.
“ Just a life o f Henry V III."
" I aee little to adtnlre In the life of
that Individual," remarked the ether,
with a snort.
"Doubtless yon are right," the
lawyer replied.
"But I would have
liked to have had his divorce business
Just the same.”
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THE TEST
had my periods o^ Doubt
That cam* to put my Faith lo
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rout.
TOO BRAVE.
Walter— What’s the matter with
the omelet?
Customer— The egg* didn’t know
when they ware beaten.
And glad am T
That they rame by.
For ’tls the simple fact that when
Those questionings arose twas
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I found the test
That proved Faith heat.
And through those trying hours
of Doubt
The eurety of Truth rame out
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FIG U RIN G IT
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Candidate:
Isn’t fifteen thou­
sand dollars for a
seat In ths city
council a pretty
big expense?
Committeeman:
With
all
these
franchise q u e s-
tlons coming up It
Isn't an expense.
It’s an Invest­
ment.
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