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BOOKSELLING
meat), one-half cupful of cider vine
gar, one cupful of canned tomatoes,
NE of the best known and most one cupful of boiling water. Put all
successful retail sellers of books Into a kettle and cook tightly covered ;
In this country went on record recent when nearly done, salt to taste. Strain
ly, In a speech made before the Wom the gravy and thicken with flour ; cook
en's National Bookselling association, until smooth. Serve around the meat.
as believing that an era of great ex
pansion for the small bookshop Is at
Spaghetti With Hamburg.
hand, and he added that he thought
A cupful of chopped fresh meat add
women were particularly suited to ed to a dish of cooked sphagetti or
take a large part in this expansion.
macaroni will make a good main dish.
"I think that many women who have Put the meat In layers with chopped
worked as librarians would make first- onion or a bit of garlic. Into a baking
class booksellers, and I think that a dish, add salt and pepper and bake
good business woman could not do for an hour or more until the spa
better than put her money into a ghetti is well seasoned.
small book shop In any of the thou
sands of towns throughout America
where there Is no such shop at pres
ent.” He added that there was al
(©. 1921, Western Newspaper Union.)
ways a better chance of succeeding
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with a bookstore in a town that had
a public library, than in one where
there was no such Institution.
Yet It is possible for a clever woman
to so arrange things that her little
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
store will become an attraction even
In a neighborhood that has not yet hand------------------------------------------ and
acquired a taste for reading. Special
BACK ON THE JOB.
programs and lectures could be ar
ranged for In the shop; there should
HIS Is the time of the bust-up,
be a carefully thought out plan by
This Is the end of the trail;
which to attract the children ; there
might be poster displays that would Though your Icin’ you do,
strike the popular fancy. The thing Still the ground will come through
An’ your Icin’ an' cussin’ will fall.
to do Is to get people to come to the
store In the first place, by any means The eaves are a-drlppln' at midnight
An' out of the south comes a sob;
that will seem effective. The actual
buying of books would come later, but You kin talk about loss
All you like. Mister Boss,
It would come.
But Spring has got back on the job.
"Let the women get In now,” said
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the speaker, “for we are at the begin You kin rave all you like of the timber
ning of an Important and Interesting
Thet lays In the woods at the stump,
expansion of retail bookselling. The You kin swear you will haul
more bookstores there are, the better
Kv’ry stick of It all
ench will do, for book buying Is a
To the road an' the bank 'an the
progressive disease. Once you catch
dump.
It, you cnn never shake It off. The But she's got all creation ag'ln you.
field Is tremendous, and there Isn’t a
The sun sn' the wind an' all that.
more Interesting profession In the An' she'll bust ev’ry road
world."
An’ she'll stand ev’ry load
The line forms at the right—don't
An’ your timber will stay where
crowd, please.
It's at
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Book
Plain food is quite enough for me;
Three courses are as good as tan;
If nature can subsist on three.
Thank heaven for three.
Ameni
I always thought cold victuals nice;
My choice would be vanilla ice.
—O. W. Holmes.
EVERYDAY FOODS.
NICE way to cook pork chops
for a busy day Is to place them
over a pan of thinly sliced potatoes,
seasoning well with salt and pepper,
bake until the chops are well done,
and serve from the baking dish. The
moisture In the potatoes and the fat
in the pork will be sufficient to make
the diali of the right consistency.
Even a small family may enjoy a
dish of sauerkraut by covering a
quart of kraut with a slice of nice
pork steak; usually there Is very lit
tle salt needed ; bake until the steak
and kreut are well cooked. Long, slow
cooking of at least three hours makes
a fine well seasoned dish.
Another
way of cooking kreut la to roll a nice
spare rib around It and bake long and
sowly, adding salt if needed, and
pepper to taste.
Swits Steak.
Have two pounds of round steak
cut one Inch thick, lay it on a meat
board, and with the edge of a saucer
pound Into it a cupful of flour or more,
turning and pounding it well.
Have
a tablespoonful of suet fat In a hot
frying pan. lay In the steak and brown,
watching closely not to let even a bit
scorch ; then cover with boiling water
and simmer over low beat for two or
three hours, add the seasoning after
You
ought to know somethin' of
woman—•
You’ve seen her both single an’ wed;
You know you can't stir
Any notion In her
When once It gits into her head.
But, of all of the contrary women,
Miss Spring is the worst of the lot;
When you want her to freeze
She will thaw, if you please.
An' she’ll freeze wheu you're wantin'
it hot
No use to dispute with a heifer
Er argue a case with a skirt;
If Spring wants to thaw.
Neither reason ner law
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Will keep her from doin' you dirt.
It's will er It's won't with a woman—
She says when she won’t er she will.
You kin talk till you're black
In the face, but the shack
Will be bossed by the petticoats still.
We
think we’re her lord an' her
master.
She swears she will love an’ obey,
Wo think we're the head
Of the house, as she said
Wo would be when we boro her
away.
But a month or so after the weddin’.
When honeymoon season la flown.
She quits sayin’ “dear”
An' she gits on her ear
An’ she kicks us plumb off of the
throne.
It's likewise up here In the timber;
We think we are runnin’ the thing;
We're falling the trees
An' we're makin* It freeze—
But all of a sudden It's Spring.
Then it's mix up a walk for the
swampers
An* can the whole mackinaw mob;
No use for the boss
Er the crew er the hoes—
Miss Spring has got back on the job.
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F YOU read the cable news you saw
a few days ago an item from Bom-
oay which said that the stock and ex
change markets of that city had been
closed and that a general religious
strike was In prospect because two
European boys had killed two pigeons
In the streets of the city.'
The natives considered the pigeons
sacred and the strike resulted because
the police did not take the action
which the natives thought should have
followed the destruction of the birds.
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From the beginning of history there
Is a record of animal worship by hu
man beings.
The carvings and crude paintings of
the earliest Egyptian periods, which
are the first picture record that we
have, show the esteem in which the
lower forms of life were held.
The cat was especially venerated by
the ancients and In the tombs of
Egyptian rulers and nobility are found
wonderful carvings of cat heads, some
times pictured as being on human
bodies.
The tops of funeral jars which were
placed In the tomb to contain either
food or toilet preparations for the use
of the dead had covers of cat heads
wonderfully true to nature.
The
Metropolitan Museum In New York
has numerous examples of these jars.
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The bull was a sacred animal for
centuries and some modern savage
populations still worship it and lead
it, gorgeously decorated, in all their
state ceremonials. Greek and Itoman
mythology and history are filled with
references to the sacredness of the
bull and It figures largely In both
painting and sculpture.
In India, no matter bow near to
starvation a man may be he will not
take food from a dog nor kill it to
eat, although dogs are recognized as
a staple article of food in the Philip
pines and other parts of the world.
To kill a dog In India would be al
most sacrilegious.
• • •
We cannot hold ourselves as wholly
immune from animal worship. To the
owl we ascribe a wisdom wholly ab
sent from that dull and witless bird.
His brain power is not to be compared
with that of the crow, one of the most
intelligent of the feathered tribes.
We ascribe great wisdom to the fox
whose achievements are not nearly
equal to those of the beaver, the most
interesting of all the animal kingdom.
The reason for the ancient venera
tion of the animals and the modern
regard In Bombay for the welfare of
pigeons is that the people believe that
they have some peculiar power of pro
tection from disaster or “bad luck.”
• • •
The human mind, when it does not
have any proven thing to believe, Is
always willing to substitute supersti
tion.
The sufferer from rheumatism after
he has found other remedies Inef
fective, will resort to carrying a horse
chestnut In his pocket. The gambler
puts his lucky coin on the table as
soon as fortune begins to run against
him. Half the baseball teams In the
country pay a salary to a mascot and
transport him about the country for
his presumable effect on the winning
of games.
If you spill the salt, you throw a
pinch of It over your shoulder to allay
the unhappy results which you half
believe may follow. You will not walk
under a ladder and if you go out of
the house and have to return for some
thing you think you must sit down
before you go out again.
• • •
UST before bedtime each night,
after playing and romping with
Juno, a nice old collie dog, Nancy and
Jack would climb up on Uncle Ben’s
knees and beg for a story. Uncle
Ben had been a lighthouse keeper for
nearly 30 years and always had an in
teresting story to tell about his ad
ventures.
“Tell us the most exciting thing
that ever happened on the lighthouse,”
demanded Jack, sitting up very
straight. “I am not at all sleepy to
night.”
So Uncle Ben, after peeping into
Nancy's bright eyes, began his tale.
“It was In the winter of 1883 that
it happened—one of the worst winters
that I ever spent on Stony Ledge
lighthouse. The ice had piled up and
piled up and pushed the big blocks
of Ice around the lighthouse just like
pebbles. This night, I remember, it
was sleeting very hard and I had to
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Very few people know that Eva
Novak, now starring In the “movies"
and Jane Novak’s younger sister, is a
pianist of no ordinary talent. She for
merly spent hours in practice at the
piano and could play whole sections
of grand operae from memory. She
declaree she likes classical music best
of all.
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OR lasa tree, four week I no feela
ver good every day. Seema like
I iosa somating eetle bit every morn
ing. I durino where ees go or how I
losa, but any way I no gotta so mooch
lika lasa mont.
I aska my boss wot’s matter I no
feela good and he say I jusa losa da
pep. I telia heem I never hava dat
stuff, but he say I am meestake. "Ev
erybody gotta pep somatime,” he say.
I aska where can iluda oof losa dat
stuff and mebbe jusa for joke be aska
me go telia da cop.
But dat cop laugha rights my face
and aska too moocha informash. He
aska me wot my pep looka like lasa
time I see. I say I dunno wot ees
looka like eef I meeta on da street
somatime.
Weeth dat cop and my boss I gotta
deesgust, so I aska doctor wot’s mat
ter I no feela good. He say. "Oh, you
no pay attensh weeth dat, Pietro, you
jusa gotta touch weeth spreenga fe-
ver.” I getta touch one time before
and losa my purse and mebbe spreenga
fever toucha me for da pep, too, I
dunno.
But dat doctor say I gotta wrong
idee wot ees da spreenga fever. But I am
smarts guy ilka heem, too. I say for
getta married ees one fee, getta dee-
vorce nother fee, usa da phone ees
other fee—een fact everyting gotta
fee too mooch.
Betta your life I know pientä good
wot ees da fee alia right. But so
longa I leeve I never feegure out wot’s
da fee for.
Wot you tinki
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You very likely thought. If you read
the Bombay Item, “What fools those
people are to make so much of a row
over the killing of a couple of pig-
eons." The gentleman In Bombay
would be equally amused If he knew
that you attached great power to the
breaking of a mirror to bring you bad
luck.
One superstition Is about as silly as
another and so long as we harbor be
liefs which have neither reason nor
logic to support them, we are not In
a position to criticize the people who
do not want their pet opinions inter
fered with by foreign unbelievers.
The best way to avoid tills kind of
trouble is to have no superstitions
ourselves but to respect the weak
nesses of those who persist in foolish
beliefs.
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THE CHEEKFUL CHERUB
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Ily Friends
hang on to the railing of the balcony
to keep from slipping off on the rocks
below as I made things shipshape for
the night It was good to shut the
door against the gale and see Aunt
Mary cooking the dinner in our cozy
little kitchen. I had to shout to make
her hear, the wind was howling so
loudly and with every gust the light
house would sway like a boat. The
harbor was so ice-blocked that not a
ship had passed for over a week, and
being so far from shore made me a
bit anxious. We ate supper rather
By MILDRED MARSHALL
Facts about your name; Its history; mean-
ing; whence it was derived; significance;
your lucky day and lucky jewel.
ARIE is perhaps the most preva
lent feminine name known to
etymologists. Its synonym, Mary, has
almost equal vogue, and Maria, its
other equivalent. Is enormously popu
lar. But though Marie Is originally the
French version of the name of the
Blessed Virgin, all countries have
adopted her and called her their own.
Originally, of course, the Hebrew word
marah, meaning bitter, is the root
from which all derivatives of Mary
are evolved.
Quite early in history. It became
customary to give the name of Marie
to girls, adding a middle name to
qualify the attributes of the first Mary,
the Blessed Virgin herself. In thia
way, several daughters of a family
could be called by the name of Marie
or Marla and yet they could be dis
tinguished by their second appellation.
The earliest of these names was that
of Maria Annunziata, very popular In
Spain, and later changed to Maria An-
nonciada. In France, one of the most
popular feminine names was Marie
Annonciade; another was Marie As
sunta.
France also had Marie des
Anges (Marie of the angels) and in
Spain, the votaress of the merciful
interceding patroness (the Blesed Vir
gin) Is Maria de Mercedes.
Marie de Dolores (Marie of Sor
rows) and Marie del Incarnacion are
other examples of the popular trend
which helped to spread the name of
Marie. Many young ladies in Spain
are still christened Maria de la Con
cepcion, but in Italy, this is contracted
to the one word Concetta. England
and America use Marie alone and also
favor Molly, the diminutive and en
dearment. Indeed, In England, Molly
is frequently given In baptism as a
proper name with no reference to Its
more dignified parent.
Marie's talismanic stone is jasper,
the deep green gem which is proof
against evil spirits and bites of ven
omous creatures. If placed upon a
snake bite, it is said to draw the
poison from the wound. It will also
bring rain if prayers are made while
wearing the stone. Friday is Marie's
lucky day and one her lucky number.
M
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IN GOOD SHAPE
Mrs.
8 had:
Doctor, will I
over swim again,
this awful
Cod: Oh!
be up and
in a day or
I only find
nine hun
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Nothing se-
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“RISE UP," “FALL DOWN,"
“END UP."
MARIE
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after
fall?
Dr.
You’ll
about
two!
about
dred
ken!
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“What’s in a Name?”
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monopolize
silently, listening to the crashes of the
ice floes outside, and after another
look from the tower I told your Aunt
Mary to wrap up well, for now the
lighthouse was creaking and groaning
dangerously. She lost no time about
It, and It was well we were prepared,
for about an hour later the whole
lighthouse lurched over on Its side,
completely torn from its rocky founda
tions.”
“Oh!
Did yon get hurt?" asked
Nancy, breathlessly.
“Not the least bit," Uncle Ben re
assured her. “Only shaken up a lit
tle, for we fell on top of some coats
and sweaters which hung on the wall.
Things were sliding around every
where, but my lantern was still lit
and I crawled on my hands and knees
to the door and opened It. It nearly
blew me across the room, but I could
see that the lighthouse was jammed
between two piles of ie and would be
safe enough until morning, when we
could see to get ashore. I heard no
sound of an explosion from the light
tower, so guessed that it had been
put out In the fall, and we tried to
make ourselves as comfortable as pos-
sible for the rest of the night. We
did not sleep very much and we were
glad to see morning dawn. The wind
had gone down, so we decided to go
ashore. Just as I opened the door I
heard a ‘Hello, there,’ and on the Ice
below were two of our good neighbors
from ashore who had come out as
quickly as they could to our rescue.
We were delighted to see them and
soon were climbing over the Ice blocks
toward shore, safe and sound.
“And now, sir, that Is quite enough
for one night, so scamper off to bed,
both of you!”
"Please, Uncle Ben, tell us what
happened to the light tower?” pleaded
Jack, as he slid down from Uncle
Ben's knees.
"Why, the whole tower was knocked
right off and was found later quite a
long ways from the house.”
“I’m so glad It didn’t explode," said
Nancy, gravely, “and I think you and
Aunt Mary are the bravest ones I
know.”
HER PRIVILEGE
“If we get married will yoa prom-
toe never to get a divorce?"
“Sure, TU let you do that."
MOMENT’S reflection will show
the reader the absurdity of the
first two phrases printed above. Of
course, when a person rises there is
only one direction In which he can go,
and that direction is up or upward.
Therefore, do not “rise up” in the
morning or In the world—simply rise.
Likewise, when you fall do not “fall
down”—simply fall. There can be no
such thing as “falling up”; it would
be contrary to the law of gravitation,
which has not been repealed, Dr. Ein
stein’s theory of relatively to the con
trary notwithstanding.
A somewhat similar error is the use
of the preposition "up” after the verb
"end," as In “This ends up the af
fair.” Omit the “up”; the sense is
expressed by saying, “This ends the
affair.”
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How Itptarter
MOTORCYCLES
HORTLY after the introduction of
the bicycle an attempt was made
to propel two-wheeled vehicles by
power other than man. W. W. Austin
of Winthrop, Mass., In 1868, made the
first motorcycle—a crude machine,
propelled by steam. Others followed,
but it was not until 1895 that the first
gasoline cycle, constructed by E. J.
Pennington of Cleveland, was pro
duced.
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A LINE 0’ CHEER
By John Kendrick Bangs.
BLAMELESS.
SHALL not chide the Winter
blast.
Nor chilling clouds that overcast
The heavens high, nor icy drip
That holds me in Its arctic grip.
For these forsooth are Winter’s
ways.
And Winter must have wintry days.
And none hold any call to chide
The wintertide
That It hath not the smiling grace
We find on Spring or Summer’s
face.
No more than we should blame
the clod
That ho to no Olympian god.
And Spring and Summer to my
mind.
Are sweeter for the Winter's wind
So here’s to Winter and her snow.
And for her winds, why. let 'em
blow.
And thank our stars that Winter’s
true
Unto the took It has to de.
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