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M EN YOU M AY M ARRY
By E. R. Peyser.
The true end of American education is the
knowledge and practice of democracy, what­
ever other personal ends an education may
serve.—Dallas Lore Sharp.
Has a Man Like This Proposed
to You?
Symptoms: Long of limb, dark-
light hair, that glints in the sun,
beaming white teeth; you see
them glitter before you see him ;
wears soft clothes I Get it? Soft
everything. Looks soft, yet ath­
letic; wears slouch hats, slouch
suits, (Norfolks and Knickers),
slouch shoes, never gloves. He
likes you because you don’t
mind going to a fancy show
with him in sloityfli clothes or
going into a big restaurant to
dine with him in slouch attire.
IN F A C T
All his slouch i$ in his clothes
and you know it.
He is really quite smart!
Prescription to His Bride:
T> Teach your mother that he
^
is all right and then all
will be well and your life will
be happy.
Absorb This:
Know Where to Slouch! There
All the Smartness Lies!
S E A S O N A B LE GOODi T H IN G S
A NICE oyster dish a little out of
the ordinary and one which may
be used for luncheon or Sunday night
supper is
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Escalioped Oysters and Celery.
Allow two dozen oysters to serve
four or five persons, one cupful of
diced celery parboiled for fifteen min­
utes in a very little water and the
water used with the oyster liquor in
the escalioped dish. Drain the oy­
sters and place a layer in a buttered
baking dish, cover with celery, a few
crushed cracker crumbs and pepper
and salt to taste, dotting each layer
with bits of butter. Repeat, using but
two layers of oysters, finish with cel­
ery, crumbs and the oyster and cel­
ery liquor, mixed with one-quarter of
a cupful of cream. Finish with but­
tered crumbs and bake long enough
to brown the crumbs. More than two
layers of oysters in a baking dish
is not advisable as the top and bot­
tom layers will be overcooked before
¿he inner layer is1 cooked.
Dark Fruit Pudding;.
Sift together two cupfuls of whole­
wheat flour, one-half teaspoonful each
o f salt and soda, one teaspoonful of
mixed spices, one-half cupful each of
finely minced beef suet, molasses and
sour milk, one cupful of fruit—using
currants, citron and raisins. Turn
into a greased mold and steam for
two and one-quarter hours. »Serve
with a foamy sauce.
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Uncommon
Sense JOHN BLAKE
By ....■■■■
LET’S NOT DESPAIR
/T 'A K E N generally this world is
Date and Apple Fluff.
about what may be expected of it,
Peel, quarter and core two apples,
wash and seed three-quarters of a considering the sort of people who are
cupful of dates. Put both through In it.
Mourning fo r the dead, dead days
the meat grinder, mix with a stiffly
beaten white o f an egg and serve in o f long ago has a sentimental value,
glasses lined with lady fingers. Fine but otherwise Is pretty useless.
Man was not born to become per­
for a children’s dessert*
A half cupful of finely minced dates fect in a hurry. He isn’t perfect now,
added to a custard pie or cup cus­ even after some millions of years of
tards makes a most nourishing dish. opportunity for development.
But he is more nearly perfect than
he was two thousand years ago, or
Squash Souffle.
Mix two
cupfuls of steamed, for that matter, a hundred years ago.
mashed squash with one and one-half In other words, he’s progressing.
He isn’t war-proof yet. He hasn’t
cupfuls of milk and two egg yolks
mixed well and the stiffly beaten found any means of settling his big­
whites folded in. Season with salt gest quarrels except by taking up
and pepper and a ’half teaspoonful of arms.
But he doesn’t burn witches any
brown sugar. Put into a buttered
baking dish and place in a pan of longer, and he accords his fellows
hot Water. Bake in a moderate oven more right to their opinions than he
used to.
pntil firm.
Incidentally his morals are better
than they were in the time o f Rome,
Quick Squash Biscuits.
Mix and sift two cupfuls. o f flour and he has done considerable to add
with one teaspoonful o f salt and three to his comforts and to his education.
We have better means of under­
teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Rub
in two 'tablespoonfuls o f shortening standing each other than we used to.
and the yolk of an egg, one-half cup­ We know what is going on in Sydney
ful of cooked riced squash and cold and Nome and Tokyo, and can go to
milk to make a mixture to roll. Cut the movies and see pictures of ele­
All
and bake as the ordinary biscuits. De­ phants a pilin’ teak in India.
this makes for education, and as H.
licious with butter and hbney.
G. Wells tells us, education eventual­
ly means perfect civilization.
I t may not be the best of all possi­
((g), 1922, Western Newspaper Union.)
& ble worlds, but it is the best world
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that people now living have experi­
enced. And we think it is getting
better.
Anyway, just because women wear
short skirts, and crowds go to pri^e
fights, let’s not despair. We’re im­
proving, slowly but surely, and by and
by we can work out our own salva­
tion. And a time like this, when there
is more going on than there ever has
been before, is surely a good time in
which to be living.
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Things Seem to Be Looking Up in Russia
ism
(Copyright by John Blake.)
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SUSPICION.
Is your son
studying the vio­
lin?
Yes.
W h a t ’ s the
tune he’s playing?
I don’t know
whether he is
playing a tune or
a practical joke.
The second biennial conference of
scout executives held at Blue Ridge,
N. C., in September, proved to be the
largest meeting of professional lead­
ers of boys ever held in the world.
Over 400 executives from all parts of
the country, devoting their full time
to the work of scouting, and a group
of experts in executive management,
leadership, education, recreation, out-
of-doors activities, camp and wood­
craft, Indian lore and boy psychology,
met for the purpose of training and
discussion. These executives are re­
garded as the key-pins, so to speak,
of this great movement numbering
550,000 boys and men. On them rests
the responsibility of maintaining stand­
ards and keeping the work efficient
and progressive, and of bringing with­
in the reach of every boy in this coun­
try, regardless of birth, creed or na­
tionality the advantages of the scOift
movement—namely, character building
and citizenship training through a pro­
gram of work and play in the out-of-
doors.
The earliest morning hour each day
of the conference was devoted to a
training course for new executives.
This was under the leadership of
Lome W. Barclay, national director of
education, B. S. o f A. Among the
speakers were James E. West, chief
scout executive; A. A. Shuck, execu­
tive of Reading, P a.; George E. Ehler,
national director of records; E. B. De
Groot, executive of Los Angeles;
James M. Brockway, executive of Port­
land, Ore., and Dr. George J. Fisher,
deputy chief scout executive, and E.
St. Elmo Lewis of New York, Detroit
and Chicago, who delivered a powerful
series on salesmanship, finances arid
budgets, advertising and publicity, rec­
ords and accounting, the executive
and the community.
Then came ¿a good morning sing,-
followed by inspirational talks on
|‘Service,” gij&n by Franklin
Mathiews, c h i « scout librarian; PrtfL
H. H. Horne, professor of history of
education ariot philosophy at New*
York university; Rev. John F. White,
educational dii^btor of boy scout ex-'
tension, hatiotf&l Catholic Welfare
council, and ot|pi*s. '
’ •
Each afternoon the conference hikeft }
in true scout fashion to the woods o f
the Blue Ridgfe hills, to learn froin
some of this country’s greatest recre-i
ation experts the activities in the open
that boys love. , The men built pan­
tos of branches^J^mroviSed^^^
balsam bougii^iearne* f o u ^ l
mond hitch, light camp fires without
matches—even wheik ¿dampness pre­
vails-—that would fiiif-ari uninitiated
with total dismay; they learned how
to blaze newjptfrails^ and more than
one method of giidihg their way when
lost in'¿the'
National
Commissioner Dpn
Beard, actual
neer of many years’!
experience, d
gave demonstration
of campcriltl
yvoodcraft. Comijao-
dore W. E.
j}ow, noted swimmer
and official o f
American Red Croiss,
gave instructs
lifesaving by land
and by water.
New ga
ooded boy gamris
that call for
attitude,
that develop str^igth and clear think­
ing and are filled with the joy of ad­
venture, were demonstrated by Charts
¡if Smith, in charge of the Scoutmas­
ters* Training school at Columbia uni­
versity, and by Dr. E. K. Fretwell, also-
of Columbia, both of whom are au-,
thorities on the subject of recreation.
Ralph Hubbard, expert plainsman, stu­
dent for many years in Indian cere­
monials, interpreted Indian lore and
exhibited his collection of Indian -re­
galia. Mr. James A. Wilder, artist,
author, boy expert and chief sea scout,
Boy Scouts of America, came to the
conference from Hawaii. L. L. Mc­
Donald, national director of camping,
shared with his colleagues the knowl­
edge and experience he had gained
from study and inspection of scout
camps throughout the country; safety
measures, programs for camps, camp
sanitation and real cooking were fea­
tures Mr. McDonald emphasizes. Prof.
J. C. Elsom, director o f scout courses of
the University of Wisconsin, and Prof.
E. Laurence Palmer, assistant professor
of rural education of Cornell univer­
sity, contributed special id ^ s on out-
of-door work and play. Also one of
the national council officers, George D.
Pratt, treasurer, who for many years
has been a member of the Camp Fire
Club of America, took part in the out-
of-door instruction.
T H E P IO N EER SC O U T
A pioneer scout is a scout who, be­
cause of distance or other reasons, can­
not associate himself with a troop, and
hence carries on his scouting alone,
after the manner of the great early
pioneers.
SC O U TS T O L A Y T R A IL
Boy scouts of the Bronx, New York,
are laying a trail which will completely
encircle the Kanawauke Lake camps,
and will measure 40 level miles, which
will be extended from 25 to 50 per
cent when all the hills and valleys are
included. Portions of this trail have
already been marked, but many of the
•markers have disappeared. The trail
follows a path of remarkable scenic
beauty and the scouts’ work as trail
layers will be a real good turn to all
who enjoy hiking.
These photographs, just received from Russia, indicate that conditions there are gradually improving and that the
people are better fed and garbed than they have been for some time. Above is a typical crowd at a railway* station.
Below, part of a throng of 75,000 young communists gathered to listen to speeches by soviet officials.
Gives Up Riches
to Welfare W ork
Quakeress Devotes Income of
$1,000,000 Inheritance to -
Aiding Workers.
HER HUSBAND IS IN POVERTY
Defies Government of Holland Which
Seized Her Furniture for Taxes—
Declares All Government Is
Based Upon Force.
The Hague. — Both Holland and
England are speculating on the Tol-
stoyian ideas of the7 Quakeress, Beat­
rice Cadbury Boeke, head of the Cad­
bury Cocoa works, who made oved to
the workers of Bournemouth village
he income of 28,00^ of the shares in
the cocoa corporation which she in­
herited from her father, Richard Cad-
S i^ a n d ls also speculating with
profound interest upon Mrs. Boeke’s
conflict with th^ Dutch government,
which she h a p p e n conducting for
several years irijlie effort to enforce
her Tolystoyian.Relief that all gov­
ernment is bri^R upon fqrce and
should not be btjpred.
Mrs. Boeke haff devoted the income
of her $ 1 , 000,000 bequest to help the
workers to rise above the limitations
of organized government, which she
denounces as a tyranny and a bar to
human progress. y
Her hrisbarid, fCornelius Boeke, a
sturdy Dutchman, believes precisely
as she does. He Ihas no regret at the
action of his w ife in donating the in­
come of her 28,000 shares in the Cad­
bury works to erpble the workers to
work out their destinies on the lines
which she has adopted. •
She could not give more than the
income, for under the terms o f her
father’s will the fortune of more than
$1,000,000 is hers only for life. Upon
her death the property descends to
her children.
Workers Don't Grasp Ideal.
The workers of Bournemouth, how­
ever, do not quite grasp the ideal of
rising above the limitations of organ­
ized government which Mrs. Boeke
cherishes and for which she has suf­
fered and probably will continue to
suffer as long as her conflict with the
Dutch government continues.
A deputation of these workers made
a trip across the channel to the Neth­
erlands to thank their benefactress
for her generosity. In their testi­
monial to her they expressed no scin­
tilla of a desire to follow her in the
thorny path of conflict with organized
government in which she is energet­
ically engaged.
The indications are that the workers
whom she has endowed for her life­
time will continue to pay their taxes
like honest, industrious English vil­
lagers; that they will obey the king
and respect the law as their fore­
fathers have done for all past gen­
erations.
In her letter to the workers an­
nouncing the gift, Mrs. Boeke thanks
them “for the many privileges the un­
earned income resulting from your
united work has enabled me to en­
joy.”
She enjoins them to administer the
shares “ for social, industrial and phil­
anthropic purposes.”
Her renunciation is a step in her
struggle to bring about a better state
of society. And h.er conception of the
way in which a better state of society
can be brought about is indicated by
her long struggle with the (Dutch gov­
ernment.
•
She refuses to recognize the author­
ity of that government when it comes,
for instance, to the important govern­
mental function of collecting taxes.
She and her husband do not consider
the Dutch government— or any other
government, for all governments in
Find Dead Pigs, Frogs, Etc .,
In Kentucky “ Breweries”
Prohibition agents, raiding ten
distilleries in Breathitt county,
Ky., found a strange assortment
of animals in the fermenters.
The stills had been made from
iron gasoline tanks, and this
alone would have made the
product poisonous, officers said,
but they found, when pouring
out the beer, dead frogs, lizards,
snakes, a dead pig, and a num­
ber of other animals and rep­
tiles..
The agents destroyed
3.500 gallons of still béer in 95
fermenters.
their conception are “based upon
force”—has a right to levy upon them
their legitimate share in the upkeep
of the state. •
So they decline to pay. And the
Dutch government has twice applied
to them the processes designed for
the coercion of taxpayers who will not
or cannot pay.
Their : Home in the Wood.
Their modest home at Boschhuis
(the House in the Wood), near
Utrecht, has been made furnitureless
because of Mrs. Boeke’s opposition to state from taking away her simple
“government based upon force.” And furniture once more.
the end is not yet, because Mrs.
But the state has not ended Its
Boeke still persistently refuses to pay struggle with her. Once more a cred­
taxes.
itor, the state has declared her and
Mrs. Beatrice Boeke was found by her husband bankrupts. A solicitor
a representative of the New York * has been appointed for them by a
World in her small house, “Bosch­ judge. But the Boekes refuse to have
huis,” at Biilhoven. Prepared though anything to do with him because he
the visitor was to meet an unusual too represents a “ coercive state.” ,
personality, he was totally unprepared
The outcome of this unusual duel
to find a devout Quakeress whose between one small family and the en­
conscientious sçruplés have pitted tire state Is still in doubt, but it is
her in an amazing struggle with the attracting wide public attention.
state along uncompromising and ex­
treme Tolstoylân lines.
GOATS M AK E W OM AN RICH
What George Cadbury’s widow said
of her husband, that his practical “ de­
votion to the needs of the world was California Clubwoman Invests $500
and Turns Furs Into a
inspired by| his Interprétation of the
Profit of $20,000.
will of God,” might equally be said
of his niece, now the penniless wife
Los Angeles, Gal.—Here’s the finan­
of Cornelius Boeke, who Is working
cial autobiography o f Mrs. Grace Coe
as a carpenter at Biilhoven.
But whereas Sir George saw, the Goucher, prominent clubwoman and
world as a millionaire and a practical divorce seeker, as she told it upon the
man, his niece and her husband have witness stand In the Superior court:
“ Sewed in my corset I carried
evolved a code which makes it revolt­
ing and impossible for them to obey around $500 a year. Then I got an
idea—I started to breed blooded dogs.
the laws of the Netherlands.
Once already her furniture has been I sold out and went into the goat busi­
sold, as she and her husband refused ness. ;
“ The goats went to go into furs and
to pay taxes to a state “ built upon
my fur trade netted me $20,000. After
fqrce.”
| ,
A second time an unknown friend that I speculated in real estate, and
saved Mrs. Boeke from à similar ca­ today I have $64,000.” She charges
lamity by paying her taxes without her husband with cruelty. The main
her consent, and thus prevented the fight is over property.
Discovers Secret of Cold Light
Cold light, for which scientists have been searching for centuries, has
been produced at last by Max A. Ritterrath of Los Angeles. Ritterratih has
Invented a device which instantly cools light and brings the most intense rays
of arc lamps and other powerful lights down to foom temperature. This is
accomplished by diverting the infra-red rays, which ’ are the “ heat rays” of
all white light, into a spiral stream of water which carries them—and the
beat—away. In recent tests seven arc lamps were concentrated upon a piece
of motion-picture film, the light passing through Ritterrath’s device. Ordi­
narily any one of the seven would have^ ignited the Aim In two seconds. In
an hour, using the new cold-light device, the whole seven had not succeeded
in warming the film above the temperature of the room.