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(g), 1922, by M cClure Newspaper Syndicale.
times with that wonderful Richard
Grieg.”
The change from the paint-laden air
to the summer, flower-scented breeze
and the recreation o f / the successful
evening d id , Irene worlds of good.
Moreover, her ideas had freshened
and she went to work with a steady
hand. As she sketched in the outlines
for a new cover her lips curved hap
pily.:- After all, it was a pleasant thing
to be a girl and wear pretty clothes.
She worked steadily until noon and
then went for a walk before luncheon.
At three o’clock she had finished her
sketch, which she had done in water-
colors to get the first effect.
A week later she was waiting In the
hall for Daisy, who was trying the ef
fect of a new hat that Irene had, with
her new interest in clothes, designed
for her sister, when the postman rang.
Irene sat reading the short note
from the art editor, her eyes round
’Vvith Surprise. ■ “ He says, Daisy, that
this sketch is the first thing that I’ve
-sent»in that had any promise, and
that if I keep on doing everyday
sketcues I may send him something
he can accept.”
' Daisy giggled: “ Art Is very nice;
you sure designed a peachy hat for
me, sis, but If I had a chance at a
man like Richard Grieg, who,” she
had caught a glimpse of a gray over
coat outside the hall door, “ is coming
up this very minute, I’d never waste a
second on art.”
“ The girl in red showed me a girl
I had never known before,” teased
Richard later when he had read the
wonderful ’letter from the art editor,
•'and the sketch of the vivid red gown
with the daring blue feather fan evi
dently made a hit. I don’t know,
however, that I can spare any of my
wife’s time for art, though,” he added
with the masterful air that Irene
adored.
Something to Egypt of Today
Think yibout
Is Little Know n
BARS OWN INVENTION
By F. A. WALKER
THE REASON W H Y
World at Large More Familiar ls ^
earnest places in which
I man lived an ordered life and left
With Civilization of the Days records of his activities.
“ After the long reign of the Phar
of the Pharaohs.
aohs Egypt had its Grecian and
In past years when Irene had fin
TN EVERYDAY contact with such
ished a picture she had used to rush
-*■ lems as regularly come up for
downstairs and face her family eager
solution in the home or the office,
eyed, but as she grew older she had
Roman regimes which brought but few
adopt a process o f reasoning them out
changes. Then in 641 A. D. came the
learned to dread the laughter that
in your own way.
sometimes greetèd her. Irene loved
invasion of the Saracens, from which
You will find if you steadfastly per
color. Flaming tints, bizarre arrange
time began Egypt’s Mohammedan
sist in such a course that you will
ments of color combinations that no
history. For a time the country was
soon reach a higher stage of think
one else had * dared, fascinated her.
ing, necessary always to a higher state Peasant of Today Might Have Stepped a province of the Arabian Caliphs;
She had been* submitting'cover-designs
From Ancient Carving— Now
later it was independent, though still
of efficiency.
to the magazines for years, but, as
Mohammedan, under the Mamelukes;
Has First King Since the
Accepting some one’» say-so with
her brothers gibingly Informed her,
and finally, in 1516, it became a
Ptolemaic Regime.
out giving serious thought to the
she had yet to make ' a ' single Sale.'
province of Turkey, which controlled
answer or inquiring as to the reason
Her paints were exceedingly costly,
Washington, D. C.—King Fuad suc it first through a governor and later
why, is an unwise thing to do.
for the colors she used were invariably
through a sort of hereditary viceroy
In spite of whatever Innate clever ceeds Cleopatra.
the most expensive *
“ When Great Britain abandoned its or khedive.
ness you may have, if this dependence
“ If you’d spend your allowance on
K hedive-S ultan-K ing.
on some one else is continued, there protectorate over Egypt, and the Sul
your clothes instead of paints., you’d
“ For the third time Europe took a
will never come to you an opportunity tan of the Nile country changed his
look a lot better]” observed Fred, star
to show this ability.. •
title to king, he became the first king hand in the affairs of Egypt in 1798
ing at the palnt-staitled' frock and un
You will form the liarmipl habit o f Egypt since the Ptolemaic regime,” when Napoleon won his battle of the
tidy hair.
‘
The British drove the
of leaning on others instead of stand says a bulletin issued from the Wash Pyramids.
Irene looked from the startling pic
ing alone in your own strength and ington, D. C., headquarters of the French out in 1801 and turned the
ture In her hand’-to her brother’s
country back to Turkey. In 1869 came
trusting unreservedly in self.
National Geographic society.
Photograph of Alexander Graham
face. “ Don’t you like it a 'b it 7 " 'she
Those upon whom you rely for ad
“The old Egypt of millenniums ago the building of the Suez canal by De Bell, taken at Miami, Fla., where her*
Inquired, a somewhat beaten expres
vice will keep ahead o f you ins^aa is in many ways more familiar to the Lesseps, which has given Europe an
celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday
sion creeping into her eyes.
»
long as you court their company i» d world at large than the Egypt of to ever-growing interest in Egyptian af
recently at the residence of his, daugh
Fred’s taunting air dropped from
fairs.
To
protect
European
bond
assistance.
day,”
continues
the
bulletin.
“
Pictures
II
ter, Mrs. David Fairchild of Coeoanut
A t o . This was the first time Irene
By pursuing such a course you |<i* of its great pyramids and sphinxes, its holders France and Great Britain
Grove. Mrs. Fairchild recently, said
ever looked as though she thought
mlt incompetence and lack of foixe, columned temples and rock-hewn made a joint intervention in 1879 and
in a public address that the famous
« H a t a probability. “ I’ll tèli you,
which disqualify you for leadership tombs fill histories and encyclopedias; for a while controlled finances. The
inventor fiever would have a tele
Irene,” he began- crisjjly, “ you are'too
and advertise to your employers tnat and inevitably the reader’s attention uprising o f 1882 against the khedive
phone near his study and hence there
one-sided. No one can slave at' one
you are a second-grade man or woman, is centered, not on the problems of was suppressed by the British alone,
is no telephone in the Fairchild home.
thing the way you do and do the best
incapable of forming judgment without today, but rather on the evidences of and after that they controlled finances
work. If you devoted even’ five hours
help from others.
without assistance. The government
; a dead- civilization.
a day to your painting and the. rest
Bellboys' Tips Bought Farm.
To observe, reflect and apply ought
“ But aside from the fact that mum was in effect Egyptian with British as
to recreation, getting fresh viewpoints
Joplin, Mo.—Bert B. Cols,: bellboy at
to be the high purpose of every man my hunting was for many years one sistance and with the nominal suzer
and becoming rested, you would do a
and woman in the stem battle of life. of the leading private industries of ainty of Turkey acknowledged.
a hotel here, purchased with the tips
lot better. I think you have talent,
Observe as a chila and keep observ the country; and that now convicts,
“ When the World war began Great he has saved in . the last eleven years
but I don’t believe you’ll ever in this NESTING HABITS OF PENGUIN ing until you find the reason why.
instead o f building roads, excavate Britain established a protectorate, a farm lying in a fertile .Valley south
world make good the way you’re rush
I f you will reflect, sift out the chaff
bs and temples for the govern- abolished Turkey’s suzerainty, deposed of Joplin, paying $8,000 f oi it. He
ing at It. You have to be’ à bit all- Both Male and Female Care for Eggs, from the wheat, you will in a short
nt,
the old monuments are merely the Germanophile khedive, and ap intends to grow fruit and berries and
around to get the best out of life, you
Hatched in Nest That Is Slip
time be qualified to judge the good
background
for a life hard enough pointed another prince o f the family to raise chickens on it.
'know.”
"
shod Affair.
from the worthless and pick out the
“ Hard to save the money?” said
center local thoughts n^ostly on be sultan. The British protectorate
“ Then you don’t think this’’ good 7’
best every time you are called upon
is now being withdrawn, but Instead Cox. “ Why, n o; it was; a compara
ily
bread-winning.
nervously she pushed back a . wisp of
During nesting time the penguins, to make a decision.
Superficially Egypt seems a large of the former Turkish interest being tively easy matter. Of course, you
curly black hair, and her hand left a on the frozen ice fields of the South
With this newly acquired abhlnfc untry. The eye sees its color spread restored, Egypt is set up as an inde have to get the saving habit. Once
smear of violet blue paint near her pole, live in big colonies, not far from you will know unerringly how ’§
that Is done, your pile will grow.”
jver a considerable part of the north pendent kingdom.”
left eye which failed to Improve her the water. The nest is an untidy choose the right course and follow
eastern
quarter
of
the
map
of
Africa,
appearance.
.affair, . consisting of pebbles laid to with strength and assurance.
nd statistics credit it with an area
Annoyed by her -unkempt look and form a hollow, and is carefully built
Instead of being a weak dependen]
f more than 350,000 square miles. But
trembling mouth,' Fred scowled: “ No, by both Mr. and Mrs. Penguin. There wavering, uncertain and timid, yoiina
he real Egypt—the habitable part—is
' It looks as though a crazy person hail are two eggs, and both birds care for grow steadily into a strong, bold lei sc]
¡ike a cord with a frayed end: the.nar-
created it. I suppose you are not go them.
capable of shouldering great respi
ow valley and flaring delta of the
ing to honor us by attending the dance
When Miss Penguin wishes to take bilitles.
lie. Except a few scattered oases,
at the Country club?”
a husband, she signifies the fact by
Keep your eyes open, use the n
Irene stared down at her picture sitting .on one of! last year’s nests, given you by the Creator, figure j- aost of the rest of the nominal Egypt
and then rushed from the room. “ No an d. waiting for her admirers to pay value of everything that has a diis ™ h parched desert sand, gravel and
rocky hills. Of its more than a third
body cares," she'w ept when'she had her court. This is done by approach bearing on your work, apply the use(
of a million square ^miles of territory,
reached her room, that was redolent of ing her with an offering of a peb- and you will encounter no real dlffitf
about 12,000 are estimated to be ca Ahead of France and Most Other planes for business and pleasure pur
ancient paints.
: Me, the sign of the new home. The ties in finding the reason why, orF
poses in France, England, Germany
Daisy tapped at tpe door and.then , pebbles ;sbe accepts for her new home piercing the bull’s eye of success vsW] pable of cultivation, and considerable
European Countries in Com
and other places in Europe.
part of this has not yet been tilled.
pushed It open. She carried a*'cüp of all* belong to one bird, and this bird an arrow of your own making.
Make Daily Trips.
Peasant
Like
Figure
From
Carvings.
tea, and the very sight of the frail blue . is her mate. Often there are bitter
mercial Aviation.
(Copyright.)
Airplanes are running regularly be
“ In comparing the Egypt of today
china and the tiny ’ sandwiches' ' re discussions as to the right of suitors,
tween Paris, London and other Con
| . Lwith that of the dawn o f history one
freshed Irene. “ Say, Irene,” remarked and much whirling of flappers and
tinental points, it is emphasized, mak
k 1,f is divided between wonder at the
the younger sister sensibly, “ drink this sometimes nasty beak bites.
ing trips daily on schedule like rail
marked changes on the surface and
and slip into an evening -frock and ■ ’ It is remarkable the part that a
t ie lack of ; change in some funda-
come with us. I believe Fred is right, ■ pebble, plays in the lives of these1
road. trains. Much is made of the fact
sitais. y u o E g y p tian o f today does
that large numbers o f passengers are
although he-is such a crab; if'ÿ ô u go birds—and no incident could be more,
A s It liten u p -I a a day
vStates on Top in Mileage and transported as well as baggage.
spealf his old tofigflWTmt' uisteate,
—... -opr—in e r f i-ormi o¿
about a bit and eat properly frou’d go interesting than iM t? o f the bird'
Carries 1,279,000 More Pounçfs in
S itting in tile p leasan t
SF&bic; his old gods are forgotten,
ing from London to Paris for,' luncijr^f
which,' finding a siuth pole explorer
back to work feeling more-fit."!
W h ic h a g rov e o f myrtleB
1921 Than Did France— Forked
and he has—with the exception of a
--¡yIrene pushed back her hair aj second . on • its beach, and believing he must
and an afternoon in the shops is said .
-Barnfieli
Stop Mastered.
small minority—adopted the religion
time, and Daisy began to laugh» às.thè. be- some' new dweller of the frozen
to be an everyday occurrence in r
o f Mohammed. But in spite of numer
scarlet decorated the tired-face, y jl am ¡shore, carried a pebble and dropped
Europe. Wide publicity is given to thf
SEASONABLE GOOD THING
Washington,—The United States is numerous air trips taken by Premier
ous invasions, the blood of the .Treat
too tired to dress—” she began,'but it at, the man’s feet evidently as a
leading
France
and
most
other
Euro
majority of the population lias been
her sister interrupted her.
Lloyd George and other government
sign of friendliness,
O K IM MILK will prove a boon
altered hardly at all. Practically the pean countries in the practice of com officials.
, “Drink this tea and take your time iyE qu ally human is the action o f a
many housewives who have
In dressing. We’re not going: until flock of penguins in endeavoring to gotten that it may be used in neirly fellaheen, or peasants, might h: -e mercial aviation, it is shown in re
American flying men, calling atten
half-past eight o’clock and you’ll haVe -stop-.a fight between two rival birds. all dishes instead of whole milk, j qd stepped from the ancient carvings: ports to the Commerce department tion to these reports, lament that the
plenty of time.” 1
•■'i
‘The peacemakers do not enter into can be bought in many places for#ery they are but a fresh generation of throughout America.
flying machine, although invented and
Fred stared as he ;saw Irene coming .the quarrel in any way, but push little. In cream soups, adding a*ttle the men wfio dragged the great blocks
More than 1,713,000 miles were developed in this country, is not being
down the wide black oak stairway.’ themselves between the fighters and more butter, the skim milk is especial of stone into place to build the arti flown in the United States in 1921 by developed for practical purposes. ’
ficial mountains of the Pharaohs.
She certainly looked like, a diffèrent .part them.
air mail planes, which rank as com
The development of practical flying
ly good.
girl.
Her tears had left no '-tra'ces
“ Egypt’s resources are almost wholly mercial planes. Mail carried totaled >is taking place in the tJnited States at
save a flush on either cheek tha£$yas.
Japanese Arp Good “Shots.”
agricultural, and in the agricultural 1,166,000 pounds. The record for a greater rate than elsewhere. The
Nut Wafers.
becoming. Her black halr waaf'canght
■ “The Japanese guns may certainly
Take three tablespoonfuls of butter, scheme the millions of fellaheen are France, just received by the Commerce carrying of mail is distinctly a com
up in a curly knot on the to p -ôf- her never shoot, but there is one kind of add five tablespoonfuls of pulverized the ultimate units. They ¡^work lqng department, is as follows : Miles flown, mercial practice and one for which
head and she had secured it., with ’ an shooting fhat; won’t cease so long as a sugar. When the sugar and butter are hours scratching the soil with crude slightly more than 1,300,000 ; mail car the airplane is more properly fitted at
old carved black comb’ Vfith 'a-'high yen remains in Japanese pockets over creamy, add three tablespoonfuls of Implements, or tediously raising water ried, 21,000 pounds.-
present than for the carrying of pas
top: Her frock was an old one—Irene here,” writes a correspondent at Wash milk, drop by drop, stirring constantly; In skin buckets attached to pivoted
In mileage the American planes lead sengers.
wasted little time on shopping—but ington. “ I .refer to ,‘crapshooting.’
Airplanes carry mall now every day ,
then add nine tablespoonfuls of flour poles that the thin stream may save France by nearly 25 per cent. In the
it was vastly beCOtnffig, â vivid féd
“ The Japanese learned the game and a few drops o f vanilla. Brush a their plants from parching. Taxes mall record American planes carried from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast
chiffon that brought out the soft black while they were playing another down pan with fat, drop by spoonfuls and are heavy, and it is the lowly fella 55 times as much weight.
at less cost than mail can be trans
o f her velvety ejfcçs. “ Gee, sis, you at the Pan-American building, and they sprinkle each with chopped nuts. Dust heen who keep the treasury supplied.
It is customary for aviation enthu ported on the railroads, but In Europe
look like somebody now,” declared have the average craps maniac beaten with cinnamon -and bake in a slow
“ There is little cause to marvel at siasts to berate the development of the commercial airplane companies
Fred. “ You know how to dress your before’ he starts.
..
oven.
Egypt’s checkered hlstoiw. A simple commercial aviation in the United have been unable to compete with
self if you can’t dress your impossible
“O ne. may watch a handful of the
reason is that she begaif early. Here States in comparison with the use of the railroads to any extent in the mat
slant-eyed maidens. You,” he screwed little men -from Nippon throwing dol
ter of passenger fares unless there is
Spicy Fruit Cake.
his eyes up as though Inspecting a lars on the taljle for all the world
taken Into consideration the greater
Take one-half cupful of New Orleans
• picture, • “ lack something, . though, like a multimillionaire playing rouge molasses, one cupful of brown sugar,
speed of an air journey.
h a v e n ’t you a black fan?”
et noire at Monte Carlo.
cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg to taste,
One Problem. Mastered. ,
Irene, refreshed by the delicious tea,
“ They are beautifully consistent and one egg beaten well; add one cupful
Making careful observations of air
giggled. “ Nothing so banal ; any one lose their dollars with a smile just as Of sour cream, a teaspoonful of soda
conditions, not in one-section, but clear
would think • of a black fan because they win them. They clear a British and three cupfuls of flour. Mix well
across the continent; the Post Office
my eyes are dark. See !” and she diplomat out of all < his money, and .and add one-half cupful of nuts' with
department is learning continually
brought her left hand, which had been then offer to lend him. taxi fare back raisins, figs and dates chopped and.
what must be known to make com
behind her, out with a flourish.
mixed to make one-half cupful. Bake
to' his hotel.”—Detroit News.
mercial flying more. and more prac
The huge feather fan of brilliant;
in a loaf in a slow oven.
tical. The problem of the forced stop
blue gave a touch of the bizarre to her'
Old-Time Automobiles.
has been almost completely mastered
costume that' was; exquisite.
Fred
Anise Seed Cookies.
One 'hundred years ago, or, more ex
by the postal flying department. Des
hated to be effusive, but he really ad actly, on-December 8, 1821, the Journal
Take one-half cupful of shortening,
pite storms and all. kinds of adverse
mired his sister at fhat moment. She des Debats published the following one cupful of sugar, two eggs, two ta
weather conditions, the mail goes
looked so tender and feminine, with itemV " -
blespoonfuls of milk, four tablespoon
through on schedule in the post office
her cloudy, curly hair about her face.
“ There is now much talk in' Milan fuls of anise seed, five tablespoonfuls
planes, with such regularity that the
“ If you painted a picture of that stair-' of an invention from which the author, of baking powder and three to four
few delays are negligible.
case with à pretty girl coming, down a certain Gataneo, has just got a cupfuls of flour. Mix and add the
The figures quoted for the mileage;,
in that dress it might not be so bad," license from the emperor of Austria. seeds. Roll and cut in fancy shapes
of French airplanes include those
he said slowly.
fr
'
'• Several times already they have tried Bake in a hot oven.
flown in the carrying of passengers
All evening Fred’s words lingered In England and France to make a car
and baggage as well as mail. The
in the girl’s mind. He seldom praised riage move without horses, but every
Sticky Cinnamon Buns.
number of passengers transported
his sisters, and his words gave her an. time it was observed that the mechan
Take one quart of raised dough, add
throughout 1921 was only slightly in
idea. If she stopped trying so earnest ism gave rise to insuperable difficulties. one-half cupful of sugar, two well
excesq of 10,000. Transportation of
ly for something diffèrent, If she.paint Mr. Cataneo not only dispenses with beaten eggs, two tablespoonfuls of soft
passengers is the main business of the
ed what she knew, she might achieve the' team, but’ by means of his mech butter, one-half cupful of brown sugar
French commercial planes. This phase
something. She had been trying to anism; one single hppse keeps up and mix well and roll out. Spread with
o f commercial flying has been . more
do Ideals that no one understood, and' accelerates the movement to a point two tablespoonfuls of soft butter
fully developed in France than in any
no one had paused - to try to unravel at which he does easily the work of sprinkle with’ one-half cupful of brown
other country.
her meaning in the impossible jumbles, four, horses.”—New York Tribune.
sugar, mixed with two teaspoonfuls of
Much is made o f the French success
she had slaved upon.
cinnamon, one-half cupful each of cur
in carrying passengers on schedule
“ Who is that girl in red?” she over
Beheading a Palm.
rants and seeded raisins. Roll and cut
and with but few accidents. If the
heard a stranger ask.
, The big Brazilian eoconfit plam in in slices.' Brush a deep, heavy sheet-
same degree of passenger carrying
“ She is an artist, and I never knew the New . York Botanical garden ac iron pan with fat, sprinkle with brown
were developed in the United States
until tonight that she was a real girl,” quired^ the glass-breaking habit. Al sugar and set in the buns so that they
as exists in France, the total number
rejoined Richard Grieg, a man whom though the central dome of range 1 do not touch. Let rise until light. The
o f passengers carried would be only
Irene had known for years and secret in the conservatories is 90 feet high, buns should be five inches high when
about 50,000. The number of per
ly admired. He was a man who did the ambitious palm has several times baked. Cut the roll in two-and-one-
sons who travel by railroad in the
things in the business world—a suc poked its head through the top. Tak half-inch slices when put to rise. Place
United States each year ls many mil
cess.
ing into consideration the high cost of an asbestos mat under the pan and be
lions, and' the development of pas
Richard danced fotir times with the glass and labor*; this--expensive habit careful not to bake in too hot an
senger-carrying airplanes
in this
black-haired girl inured, and Daisy had to be checked, and the verdict oven.
Meeting in front of the State House in Boston—Terry McCloskey, who en country in the same degree of success
teased her gayly as they drove home was decapitation for' the tree. It had
listed at the age of fourteen in the One Huridred and First infantry, Twenty- as has been attained in France would
in the moonlight. ‘<Guess I made a previously outgrown'’ ' its quarters in
sixth division, for the World war, and Edwin F. Wyer of Woburn, Mass., nine provide for the transportation of less
mistake coaxing you to„, <?o to .the the Central- park greenhouses.— Scien
ty years old, the oldest G. A. R. member in the Bay state and probably the old . than one per cent of those who wish
dance,” she said. “ Fancy .dancing, four tific American. .. ’> < >\
est war veteran in the state.
Copyright, 19J2, W e»U rn Newspaper Union,
‘to traveL
PEOPLE ARE MUCH THE SAME
America Leads
in Air Traffic
DEVELOP PRACTICAL FLYING
Youngest and Oldest Veteran