Mary Todd Lincoln Home May Become a Museum
MR. BEAR’S TRICK
R. BEAR had been bothered a
great deal by having his vege
tables and fruits that he bad
preserved stolen from his pantry
while he slept
He felt quite sure It was Mr. Pos
sum and Mr. Coon that helped them
selves, but he had never been able to
keep awake and catch them.
Often he had tried, but every time
he had fallen asleep, and when he
awoke they had been there and taken
with them some of his stores.
Mr. Bear wns a good-natured fel
low and he disliked to harm anyone,
so he set to work to think of a plan
by which he could punish them and
stop them from taking his preserves
without catching them himself.
But, think as he would, there was
only one plan that came to his mind,
and, while It was dangerous for Mr.
Possum and Mr. Coon If they did not
get away, he decided to risk It, or
rather, let them take the risk.
One night Mr. Bear awoke, hearing
some one running, and up he jumped
from his hiding place, where he had
again fallen asleep, and ran off In the
direction he had heard the noise.
But Instead of catching anyone he
stumbled over a big bag of goodies
which Mr. Possum and Mr. Coon had
M
Mr. Bear had one paw on Mr. Dog
AVE no tears for other years.
and his teeth were not the sort Mr.
For no other days;
Dog wished to test as to their sharp
In the east the sun appears
ness, so he meekly asked what It was
With Its morning rays.
that Mr. Bear wished him to do and
said he was always willing to oblige Turn your back upon the west.
' Start again upon life's quest
a friend.
With the rising sun I—
“I want you to do something that
Yesterday Is done.
will give you a great deal of sport
as well as help me, If you follow my
plan,” said Mr. Bear, as he walked , Do not weep tor years that sleep
In the fading past
away with Mr. Dog tucked under one
While the years before you sweep
arm.
Like an ocean vast.
All day he kept Mr. Dog In his
There await your untried seas
house, but he was so polite and gave
Of new opportunities.
him such nice things to eat that Mr.
Lands unvlslted—
Dog was glad he had carried him
off.
Shape your course ahead!
When it was dark Mr. Bear took Do not live In years that give
Mr. Dog to the place In the woods
Only old regret;
where Mr. Coon and Mr. Possum had Fortune is a fugitive—•
dropped the bag and put him Inside
You must seek her yet.
with some stones which he had Time has closed the old year’s door.
wrapped well, so Mr. Dog would not But the New Year lies before—
be hurt.
There your fortune lies.
“Now, do not move or bark until
There awaits the prize!
they untie the bag,” cautioned Mr.
Bear, “and If you do not see two as You will find no hope behind,
tonished faces when you jump out
Only falling night;
my name Is not Johnnie Bear.”
But the east Is glad and kind
Mr. Bear trotted off home and pret
With the morning light.
ty soon along come Mr. Possum and Turn your eyes to New Year's east.
Mr. Coon looking for the bag. “If he Every hour the dawn Increased—
did not find It,” said Mr. Possum, “It
Put the night away,
will be along here somewhere."
Yours I s now the Dayl
(C op yright)
“Here It is,” said Mr. Coon, spying
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the bag, and, picking it np, he tossed
It over one shoulder and off they ran.
“Did you catch either of them?”
asked Mr. Bear the next day when
Mr. Dog went around to tell him I
about IL
A little thing, a sunny sm ile.
“No, I laughed so long that when And all day long the day shone bright;
The
of Ilfs were m ade more light
I stopped they were both gone,” said And cares
the sw eetest hopes were born.
Mr. Dog. “Mr. Coon’s mouth flew open
with surprise and he tumbled over I
FOOD FOR THE FAMILY,
backward as I jumped out when he !
untied the bag. Mr. Possum almost
HERE Is no other article of food
forgot to play dead. He just stood
which la as frequently placed on
still and stared, but In a Jiffy down he i
the table and takes as prominent
tumbled on the floor.
place In the diet as bread. In some
"We were In Mr. Coon’s house when form It Is served at every meal.
they opened the bag, but he did not
Bread because of Its prominent
atop. Out of the door he flew, and place as food, should be well made
when I stopped laughing Mr. Possum and well baked.
was gone also. But I don’t care; It was
The Ideal loaf of bread is dome
the funniest sight I ever saw, and I shaped, attractive In appearance, crust
was well paid. And any time you jvant smooth, of a rich brown color, the
any help, Mr. Bear, I shall be glad to crumb spongy, tender and of a dellc
oblige you.”
lous flavor of the wheat.
Mr. Bear thanked him, and when
he went to sleep that night he said
8ponge Method.
to himself: “I guess Mr. Coon and Mr.
Take one quart of luke warm liquid
Possum have had a lesson that will less one-half cupful If potato Is used;
last them awhile and a fellow can four teaspoonfuls of salt, one-half
sleep In peace, even If he has a pan cupful of yeast, one cupful of mashed
try filled with preserves."
potato and three to four quarts of
(C opyright)
sifted flour. Mix and beat well then
add one-half the flour and set to rise
in a warm place over night. In thi
morning add two tablespoonfuls eacl
of sugar and shortening and knead
DO OUR TEETH CHATTER WHEN until the dough feels elastic and n<
WE RE COLD?
longer sticks to the hands or board
Cover and let rise to double Its bulk
HE little muscles which close the then mold Into loaves. By cutting th<
Jaw are acted on by the cold In dough down with a knife once 01
sucli a way that they pull the Jaw twice before molding, the texture of
up and then let it fall by Its own the bread Is Improved. Divide Into
weight. This, repeated many times, equal portions, stretching the outsld«
very rapidly, causes the teeth to click of the loaf and pinching It togethe’
together and produce what we know underneath. Place In well greased
as "chattering." We think of It In warm pans, cover and set to rise unti
connection with our teeth because It la It Is two and one-half to three time
the teeth which make the sound, but Its original volume, depending upon
the cause lies In the same muscles the kind of flour used. Spring or hard
which we use In chewing or In open winter wheat should take three times
ing our mouth when we speak.
the original volume. Soft winter
The chattering occurs tn spite of wheat two and one-half times.
the will or the brain. We have very
Bread that Is fully risen should be
little control over It and can atop It put into a hot oven to kill the yeast
only by clenching the teeth. It Is and check further rising. If the bread
really a mild variety of spasm caused Is not fully risen a slower oven m»i
by the cold, which acta on the Jaw be used. A five minute oven Is the
muscles in much the same way that test for bread ready to be baked. Pu’
some poisons produce muscular spasms a tesspoonful of flour In a small tin
which caunot be controlled.
In the oven; If It browns In five
(C op yright)
minutes It Is ready for the bread.
H
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Up He Jumped and Ran Off.
dropped when they heard him com
ing, and then it was that Mr. Bear
made up his mind to try his scheme.
He went out of the woods and over
to the farm not far away, and there
he hid under some bushes and waited
for Mr. Dog to come that way.
“Mr. Dog," he said, when he came
along, “I have never harmed you and
I shall not now, but you must do
something for me tonight or I shall
be very cross."
“What’s in a Name?”
By MILDRED MARSHALL
Fact« about yaur name: Ittblatory: mean-
mgj wncncc it waa derived; •ignlficancej
your lucky day and lucky Jewel.
OLIVE
W H Y —
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LIVE), the sign of peace and joy.
Is one of the few feminine names
which has no early Greek or
Latin origin. It first appears In Italy,
the land of the olive tree, whose
branches have come to be the symbol
of peace and harmony. Etymologists
claim that, though It Is closely asso
ciated with the Italian Ollvlero, It
would never have achieved popularity
as a name but for the Teutonic Olaf
(forefather’s relic).
Ollvlero, the paladin of Charle
magne, was most frequently In use
among all those of the circle of pala
dins, and gave rise to the saying which
has since become a proverb, "giving a
Rowland for an Oliver.” English
knights of high, chivalrous repute fre
quently bore the name of Oliver until
the eminence of the Protector made
“Old Noll” a word of hate among the
cavaliers.
The feminine form, Olive, which wns
Invented In Italy, was brought to Eng
land by the Influx of Italian literature
In the Tudor reign. Its form was then
Olivia, and as such It still has great
vogue, especially In literature and po
etry. Goldsmith calls the unfortunate
daughter of his Inimitable “Vicar of
Wakefield" Olivia, and many other
heroines of that literary period bore
the same name.
It Is only of recent years that Olive
gained preference over Olivia. The
change came about In England, but
was not long In reaching this country,
O
and now Olive Is a popular and fash
ionable name here.
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The fire opal Is the gem assigned
A LINE O’ CHEER
to her.
Its glowing, ever-changing
heart promises good fortune to her
By John Kendrick Bang*.
for whom It Is Intended as an orna
ment and a talisman. The chrysan
themum is her flower. Wednesday la
THE NEW START
her lucky day and three her lucky
number,
O
(C bpyrlght)
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NOT MUCH.
When a woman
s u g g e a ts a
short trip to
the store.
Just to shop
six ty m in u te s
about It;
Do you look for
her back la
an hour or
more?
W e ll, maybe
you do, but
w e doubt It
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YOUR HAND
I
How to Read Your Characteristics
and Tendencies— the Capabilities or
Weaknesses That Make for Success
or Failure as Shown In Your Palm.
THE CLERGYMAN’S HAND
’ THE line of the heart begins In
a fork at the base of the forefinger
(the finger of Jupiter), near the
finger of Saturn, one Vnay read therein
thorough trustworthiness and kind
ness of heart, two qualities so essen
tlal to the successful clergyman. Next
In order, perhaps, comes tact, which
la shown by a concave shape of the
Inside of the thumb, from the joint to
the juncture of the thumb and the
hand.
Reason and logic, of course, the min
Ister must have, and these are indi
ON'T worry If your hop«« aro
cated by a large, well-developed lower
wracked
half of the thumb. If this Is joined
By
m atter« past
com
to a large first joint of the thumb. It
manding.
means great will power, and often
For man w as mad« to walk «roc*.
And lak e hla trouM«« atandtng.
times great generosity.
Rememtwr that th« world 1« full
Love of children and of animals Is
Of prix»« worth th« winning.
seen In a well-developed mount of Jupi
And «very day *tls poaalbla
To m ake a naw beginning.
ter. at the base of the finger of the
(C opyright)
same name, the forefinger. The head
line of the minister should be strong
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as Indicating good brain power and
Sont« Mon Not Worth Two Conta.
common sense, but theee traits are. of
A rake of yeast la superior to some course, not confined to the men of the
moo—It ran always raise the dough doth.
—Boston Transcript.
(Cowrrtshu
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The old Todd home at 574 West Main street, Lexington, Ky„ where Mary Todd Uved from her early childhood
until her marriage to Abraham Lincoln, Is on the market for the first time In years, and the site is sought for busi
ness purposes. But a group of public-spirited citizens of Lexington is planning to purchase the old structure and
use It as a museum for Lincoln relics owned In Lexington.
The illustration shows the Todd home and an old por
trait of Mary Todd Lincoln.
Europe Home
of White
Race
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Habitat 5,000 Years Ago Was in
Lithuania, Declares Profes
sor Bender of Princeton.
HONEY BEE SEEN AS FACTOR
Indo-European Language Indicates An
cient Home In Common Word for
Insect—Traced Through Com
parative Philology.
Princeton.—Where would your home
be If you had lived 5,000 years ago?
The search by ethnologists and other
scientists to find Just where the first
white peoples lived, before splitting
up into what are modern nations. Is
described by Prof. Harold H. Bender
of Princeton university, who declares
that our ancestors of the cave man
period lived In what Is modern Lithu
ania.
As a student of languages and pro
fessor of Indo-Germanlc philology at
Princeton Professor Bender’s Investi
gations have led him back to the or
igin of all white races, before the dawn
of history. His conclusions, together
with a description of the methods by
which he came to them, are embodied
in “The Aryan Question, Did the Lan
guages of Europe Come From Asia?”
a lecture published by Princeton.
The Indo-European race, which flour
ished almost 5,000 years ago. Is the
founder of all the present peoples of
Europe, save the Hungarians, Greeks,
Romans, Anglo-Saxons and other Ger
mans, Celts, all these people are de
scendants of the one-time race, which
Professor Bender believes lived In that
section of Europe between the Baltic
and Black seas, or modern Poland and
Lithuania.
Comparison of Languages.
Living before recorded history, In
what Is often referred to as cave man
times, tills ancient people from whom
are descended all of the modern Eur
opean races left us little with which
we might learn of their culture and
dally life. All that we have Is a meth
od of comparative language study by
which we find their own language, and
hence much about their civilization.
Philologists have discovered that the
languages of a quarter of a billion peo
ple In Asia and most of the Inhabi
tants of Europe, North and South
America and other regions of the
earth colonized by Europeans are fun
damentally alike. That Is, Latin, Ger
man. Russian and Greek are at the
bottom of same, having all descended
from the same parent language. Pro
fessor Bender says: “Language Is the
best evidence of community, of life
and culture, and we can at least as
sume that at some time and In some
more or less definite territory there
dwelt a people, or group of peoples
racially pure or racially mixed, who
lived to a large extent a common life,
and who spoke a tongue which was
the common ancestor of the languages
now spoken by the majority of the
civilised peoples of the earth.
"With the beginnings of the science
of comparative philology early In the
Nineteenth century came the knowl
edge that Sanscrit was the oldest of
the Indo-European languages—If not
the mother of them all, at least their
Town Elected Six Mayors,
Each Serving Two Months
Political lenders of Pressburg.
a d ty of 80,000, In Csechoalo-
vakla, found that party feuda
would make It Impossible to
elect a mayor or burgomaster.
They got together and agreed
the d ty shall have six burgo
masters. one to be elected by
each party, each mayor to bold
office foe two months, succeed
ing one another. All parties are
now satisfied.
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j Given 2 4 Hours to
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;
Meditate and Pray 5
J
Syracuse, N. Y.—Two girls, ’
< arrested for shop-lifting, were J
J sentenced to “24 hours of medl- «
* tation and prayer” by Police J
J Court Justice Shove.
<
elder sister. Philologists concluded *
“Spend 24 hours In medlta- J
that the home cf the Hindus must al ! tlon and prayer,” said the judge. *
so have been the home of the Indo-
* “Search your conscience and t
Europeans, and this common home
t bare your faults before your #
they visualized on the banks of In
dia’s most sacred stream, the Ganges. J eyes. Then let me know you «
The study of the Veda soon showed, t are sorry—not that you were J
however, that the Vedic people did not J caught, but because you stole.” t
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know the Ganges, but lived In north t
west India; so the primitive home of
the Indo-Europeans was moved once
more, this time Into the Iranian re which would approximate the dura
tion of the Indo-European period, so
gion east of the Caspian sea.”
Professor Bender goes on to show far as It is known. There Is probably
how phllologlans and theologians met no other part of Indo-European terri
on a common ground for different rea tory for which there Is so much evi
sons and decided that the location was dence against autochthonous, non-In
southwestern Asia. He presents the do-European predecessors.”
arguments in support of this hypo
thesis and shows how most of them
have been disproved and presents the POLICE DOG IS SHIP’S HERO
method whereby modern philologists
have arrived at this new conclusion. Saves Little Girl From Death in Sea
During Violent Storm on the
Honey Bee le Factor.
Atlantic.
On account of the fact that almost
every Indo-European language shares
New York.—Thyras, a shaggy police
with Its cognates a common word for
honey, or for an Intoxicating drink dog from Poland, is a hero, acclaimed
made from honey, It Is made clear that by the sixteen passengers of the steam
the primitive home of the Indo-Eur ship Gdansk, which docked In Brook
opeans must have been a land where lyn recently after buffeting its way
the honey bee abounded. But not one across the Atlantic through storms
of the Astatic sites that have been that more than once threatened to car
seriously considered by modem philol ry youthful members of the ship’s com
ogists as the possible borne of these pany over the rail and into the sea.
peoples, falls within the bee belt. In
Capt. A. H. Peterson, who said It
Europe, on the other hand, the bee was the roughest voyage of hls life
Is Indigenous almost everywhere.
time as a skipper, told the story of
By continuing this process of com Thyras* exploit In saving Zeata Za-
parative philology and by the processes borowskl, youngest daughter of a fam
of elimination the conclusion above ily of five children on their way from
mentioned Is reached. “We have left, Danzig to join relatives in the United
finally,” says Professor Bender, “the States.
great plain of central and southeast
“Zeata dropped her doll over the
ern Europe, which embraces roughly rail and It caught on a nail on the side
the present Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine of the ship,” he said. “A heavy sea
and Russia south and west of the Vol waa running, but Zeata, who Is seven
ga. Almost every condition Is satis years old, started to climb after the
fied by the conception of the Indo- doll. Just as she was going over the
Europeans as Inhabiting some part of side up dashed Thyras, who seized her
this plain as late as 3,000 or 2,500 B. dress and hung on. The girl screamed
C. Geographically this central Euro and the purser ran up and dragged
pean plain lies In the very heart of them both to safety. After that Thyras
Indo-European territory as we now and hls two companions, Tolf and
know I t ”
Nellie, were masters at arms and
In support of his theory Professor practically took care of the children.
Bender states In the closing paragraph
of hls lecture: “Nor can we Ignore
Mad Bull Has Fit.
the notable fact that right here we find
Poplar Bluffs, Mo.—William Daniels
the Lithuanian, which has preserved
Into modem living speech more of the admits that he Is as much opposed to
Indo-European past than any other Hereford bulls as Ireland is to John
language on earth. Not a scintilla of ny’s “bull.” And William Is In favor
evidence, historic or linguistic, has of “fits.” Because an angered Here
been produced to Indicate that the ford threw a fit Daniel's two small
Lithuanians have ever stirred from sons are alive. The two boys, ten and
their present dwelling place since they twelve, were attacked by an Irate bull.
separated from the other Indo-Euro With the youths lying on the ground,
the Infuriated animal was preparing
pean speaking peoples.
"Indeed, It has been made very prob to gore them to death when he sud
able on the grounds of linguistics, denly was seized with a fit. Frothing
natural science and history that the at the mouth the bull was slain by a
Lithuanian stock has dwelt tn Its pres veterinary surgeon, who declared the
ent location for at least 5,000 years. animal had hydrophobia.
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LOVE OF MOTHER STAYS JUSTICE
Woman Assumes Blame for Son’s he had grown up,” she told the court.
Shortcomings to Save Him From
“I, not he, am to blame. I should pay
8lxty-Day Sentence.
the penalty. Let him go home with
me and I'll keep him there, try to cure
Detroit, Mich.—A mother agreed to him, and report regularly In hls stead.
go on a year's probation and to suffer If I fall to do so you can give me the
the penalty to report personally regu
sentence you were about to Impose oa
larly that her son might not reeve a him,"
00-day sentence in the Detroit house of
Judge Faust accepted the offer.
correction.
She is Mrs. Charles H. Slating, wife
Kills Big Bear.
of a prominent Flint (Mich.) banker.
She waa given the “sentence” when
Saranac Lake, N. Y —Charles Riv
she appeared before Judge John Fanst ers of Glen Valley, while deer hunting
in Recorder’s court, to ask leniency for tn the Black Brook section, had a
her son, Charles Reynolds, twenty-six. thrilling experience when he killed the
Reynolds was about to be sentenced largest bear on record In that section
for the third time in two years for of the Adirondacks since the days of
larceny. Hla latest offense was the the pioneers. When creeping along a
theft of women's silk boss from a low ledge In the wilderness, the hunt
downtown store. He was found guilty, er suddenly came upon the bear. Ha
but sentence was deferred until the did not seriously Injure the beast with
court could confirm reports that Rey a hasty shot and was Instantly charged
nolds was a drug addict.
by I t In attempting to get a better
Mrs. Slating, accompanied by Rey shooting position, the hunter fell from
nolds’ stepfather, tearfully took the the ledge and dropped hls rifle. The
blame for Reynolds and volunteered bear scrambled down the ledge and
the penalty.
was almost upon hls foe, when Riv
“I spoiled h la as a child and after ers recovered hls rifle.
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