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Mi fXB • m m • •>««• <••>•>£ m « ! A Word Out of ! By MARTHA M. WILLIAMS ..I'W mm-mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I t 1 a • a a •it lmz, by McClvr* Newspaper 8ynjlc«.t«.) Ettare's name was the puzzle of i; finish Creek neighborhood. Why bad I * girl baby been afflicted with anything so affected as that final "e"? Why »• hadn't she been christened Rosetta or Murriette or even Clairette, ail of which studded the pages of history 4&d fiction, especially the best seller 8»rt? Even Mrs. Conyers, the godmother, did not know; she had simply found the name upon a printed •crap, repeated it, giving "e" final full Volume, then bestowing it upon the helpless brother's orphan baby--In K- . Suit here was Ettare Brent. 7 :• a quicksilver girl, elusive as sun- : Hg&t, always smiling, unless she frowned or pouted. No middle ways - f*>r her--things were thus and so or not thus and so. As poor young Richard Franklin was to learn to his con- ? fusion and dismay. To say that he was he* abject slave does not in any - Way distinguish him. Brush Creek's * ^ ypung men, even its outland visitors. Suffered chronically that condition. How could that be helped when Ettare had such a way with her? A witch . Way, said Mme. Franklin. Richard had been abnormally sensible--gallant 1 * enough on the surface, but holding , aloof from captivity, until he came, nw and was conquered. At first he ' Iras nearly as angry a* his mother *Vv «ver the fact of his captivity. It Was ridiculous--a country-bred girl, with freckles plain to view, who 'hi-., hadn't a single accomplishment save tiding like a Centaur and dancing like the wind that shook the barley. Cook- ', . tDg, of course, was no accomplishment --rather an Integral part of the feminine curriculum. But In some fashion |7 aflie not only caught but so held his i?1 Jiancy he forgot her Irregular profile And quite failed to see the freckles. A Externals no longer mattered. His day began with the thought of her, ' night lowered when, aS sometimes '»« happened, she shut herself willfully J"' -away from his consciousness, p " Brush Creek said he "had it mighty iji. frad," rather chuckling over the situa- \ Still--it did not willfully con- «pir« agafnst him. That lies at the P <ioor of Tony Gray--plus opportunity. 3&v,'.%onjr had a sister, Ellen, of whom he Mt '* flreatly desired to be rid. Now Ellen *hose to peak and pine for Richard, «'*. With no more justification than valen- ^ lines, Christmas books and orchids When she came to the Junior prom. tA lie had given her a whirl there with W " the best will in the world, but with •. BO thought of anything to follow. $* ,'* Since the Grays had a Brent cross It Was natural enough to pay a long visit jify > , to Ettare's father. Tony had aforey time singed his wings in the flame of i' |2ttare--and recovered. But he had Br;. Hot lost appreciation for her very -J - handsome Inheritance. It was her mother's money--none of the later *•-, , J>rood could claim a share In it. Tony, 'i '.Who loved getting money only a little If•:£?tess than spending It, thought It a pv clear providence that it should be so. Fran Halloween to Lent Bush Creek |£ . went the pace--and so breathless It ^ jfw,s <NBt everybody gasping. The Brent i*y fiouse, of course, wds the storm center-- with two gay girls In residence, KC 4ind a dozen eligible males circling \ Baoth-like about them. Tony played I'* the game beautifully--took on himself : *the burden of keeping things going. 5 , Jiotor rides and dances that ran to $: ..Stfayligbt, private theatricals and trips :to real playhouses in the nearest city Ip. tame hot on the heels of one another, i.;, "The Christmas dance outdid anything It--Dick and Nell have and are going to live happy ever after. They quarreled last year--had been engaged only a little while--npw they've come to their senses--and I'm saying in my soul 'Bless you, my children !'" then with a deep sigh: "Real love is so rare and precious it would have been tragedy If they had been stiff-necked and ruined two lives." "Solomon never said anything truer," Ettare countered, dropping his arm and curtsying deeply. "Shall I go offer my felicitations T I " "No, no! They are--so--sensitive that would spoil everything," Tony protested. Ettare Smiled oddly. "Thank yon for the warning," she said, "I will not speak the word out of time that might upset beautiful things." She was no coquette, but all through the whirl she had rather held aloof from her faithful Richard. But after New Year he felt a fine subtle change in her--she was not kinder, nor more hospitable--that would have been impossible ; rather more receptive-- things did not slide off her consciousness as they had seemed to do. So he gathered courage--all he had lost and njore, and set manfully to a stronger wooing, but one that somehow was masked rather than open. He did not rieglect Ellen---perhaps because of Ettare's imperative suggestions. But in between he found occasion for delicate attentions, more delicate service to the lady of his heart. Also and further he obeyed her tacit injunctions of veiling rivalry toward Tony--provided he felt It. At first that was desperately hard, but gradually he caught a merry drift In things and was a picture of hearty and overflowing good fellowship. Thus matters came to the edge of Lent. Tony Insisted upon a carnival of sports, and as usual prevailed. Again the hall was dressed In greens, again music sounded, feasting and full-throated laughter were In order everywhere. But there was no dancing --instead, games, some such as children play, others more sedate. The night went so slowly--so slowly-- Ettare had promised to give him a definite answer to his wooing before midnight sounded. As the hall flock chimed the quarter he looked about for her In vain. Then the door to the library swung back. Inside, hand clasped In hand, he saw Ettare and Richard, with the minister in front of them holding his book to the light. Through the Instant hush came the solemn marriage service. At the last word the clock chimed twelve times clearly. Be sure there was then riotous rejoicing--both had so many friends who had watched the winter's byplay with bated breath. VOLSA VILLAGE IN New York Community Might In Iff as* Have Been Transported Bodily twto Thia Country. Except for Its .one telephone wink and two automobiles, Little York, N. Yn might be a Volga peasant village transplanted bodily from Russia to the United States. It has neither gas nor electricity; neither bathtubs nor sewers; no water supply except a spring. In fact, Little York Isn't even on the map or In the post office guide. None the less it is a place to know about, if not to live in, writes Eula McClary in the New York World. It is a village of pistachio and chocolate eclair houses, slyltering 50 peasant families with a total population of 500. Modern inventions are luxuries beyond the purse of most of the inhabitants, and the desire of the rest. Covering less than a square mile of fertile meadow and farm land. Little York.lies at the foot of Mount Adam and Mount Eve, beautiful hills of the lower Catskills. The Inhabitants, Russian-German Lutherano from the Volga river valley, are descendants of those who followed Catherine II from Prussia into Russia T hen the German princess became the wife of the future czar. They have brought with them to Little York the traditions and customs as well as the language and religion of their ancestors. Unlike American farmers, the peasants live In communities and work their Individual plots of land. The village is situated on the hillside and overlooks the fertile meadow land, divided into varlou »«lzed "farms," according to the affluence of the owner. The largest farm baa tea acres and the gmallwt, one. ' ' ROMANS BELIEVED IN Pumiee Stone. PWnlce ts an effusive igneous rock, having a spongy texture and composed largely of glass In fine particles. Because of the latter, the stone Is especially fine for polishing wood, metals, ivory and other articled. Pumice stone frequently Is made up of parallel fibers or threads with Intervening spaces to form a delicate structure. It is produced by the expansion of the occluded moisture of lavas when they reach the surface of the earth, and is most abundantly developed In lavas of rhyolitlc composition. It may, however, be exceptionally produced In connection with any effusive rock, and 1s hence classified in respect to Its chemical composition Into rhyollte. pumice, trachyte pumice, and the like. Most of the commercial product comes from the Liparl islands, north of Sicily. All Kinds, of "Signs," Good !and Ba<l Had Direct Influence on Their Actions. 4 The ancient Romans were great believers in signs and seldom cared to undertake an enterprise without consulting them. Some persons looked at birds flying overhead. Others cut up animals, to see what "signs" were Inside. Perhaps most interesting of all was the custom of keeping certain chickens and calling them sacred. If some one wanted to know if a plan would succeed, he tried to feed the chickens. 'If they ate heartily. It was a good sign. If they refused to eat, the plan was probably given up. When a Roman died, food and drink were placed beside his body in the tomb. Animala were sacrificed, and milk or wine was thrown on the ground. This was repeated every year. If the relatives forgot, the soul was supposed to become evil and to bring bad luck. Animals were sacrificed in honor of the gods, as well as for the spirits of men. Pigs, oxen and sheep were th4 creatures most often killed. Flour and salt were sprinkled over each animal, its head was covered with cloths, and then the priest raised a large knife or an ax for the death-dealing blow. Prayers were said by those looking on. The bones and fat were placed on the altar and burned. f ^ , «ver known in those rural precincts-- g v Tony had got a band from the city and Wonderful things for the tree. It was •et up In the big Brent hall with a ftack-log glowing In the huge fireplace and pine, holly and mistletoe wherftver a spray could hang. Dancing <|it there was out of the question--with fhe night outside balmy as In May. But nobody could ask a better ball- 4-v yoom than the attic schoolroom, bare- ^ K .floored, many-windowed and lit by ^winging lanterns high overhead. The dancers had paired by lot for the rest fe? of the evening--chance bad given fe,? Ettare to Tony, but there had been ' management In the matching up of | .Richard and Ellen. But nobody mind- | «d--riotous fun prevailed. Around^ .jweond chicken row there was some- "thing of a lull--Josy Green Improved jthe stilling hour to say, smiling at «.^TTony: "Never was such a party-- £ sand we may thank you for It. Say-- -when Shall we have It over again?" |j|V " "it's nothing to what you'll see when 3 marry Ettare," Tony answered, k, C jsmlllng back lazily, adding: "Right O! P^y;,;l^Then you'll see little pigs flying with angel wings--and broomsticks hunting themselves witch partners." Hn Everybody laughed--but Tony said tinder cover of the laughing, glancing •••" across at Richard sad Ellen, "There's a happy sight! My heart sings to see The True Difference. The poet and the historian differ not by writing In verse or prose. The work of Herodotus might be put Into verse, and It would still be a species of history, with meter no less than without it. The true difference Is that one relates what has happened, the other what may happen. Poetry, therefore. Is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history; for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular. By the universal I mean how a person of a certain type wil^/on occasion speak or act,•according to the law of probability or necessity, and it is this universality at which poetry alms In the names she attaches to the personages. The particular is--for example-- what Alcibiades did or •offered.-- Aristotle. That's Different. Were hard and bill collectors came nearly every day to see Ole. This annoyed him very much. ^ Every time a collector came he threw up his hands, shook his head and talked Norwegian. One day a mowing-machine collector called and found another collector ahead of him, also trying to get money from Ole. "I've been working on him for nearly an hour, but the poor fellow can't understand a word of English," said the first collector, "so there's no use of wasting any more time on him." "That's too bad," returned the other. "I wanted to tell him that as I was coming up the road one of his cows broke through the fence and is--" Before he could say another word, Ole jumped three feet from the ground and shouted. "By ylmlny jumpup, var she go?" and disappeared down the rood In a cl.oad pf dust.---f orbes M»$- Hftspitallty as a Right In the Near East hospitality has ever be^n regarded as a sacred duty, and the "Inn," which Is a contraction of the word "within," was at first erected for poor pilgrims at the expense of the benevolent. The pilgrim traveler sought hospitality as a tight, and It was because the routes became crowded that the earliest "Inns" were established, those in or near the towns called Khans and in the waste spaces named caravanserais. As far as can be determined, the first hotel of the western world was Kriger's tavern, erected at the lower end of Manhattan lslan^ in 1642. CH! WHICH School Children at Lunch--Waiting for the Hot Dish. (fnptnj by tha United StatM DepartnMnt of Agriculture.) If the children are Interested in their own school lunches and are taught how to pack them properly, they will not only take this task off the mother's hands, but help to suggest foods which give the necessary variety for a well-balanced diet. Children should be taught to preparesandwiches well and to pack them neatly in waxed paper so they will neither fall to pieces nor dry out before they are to be eaten. An occasional discussion of foods suitable for the school lunch will lead to surprisingly good suggestions from the children themselves, as to what they like to have or what other children bring. When hot cocoa, mHk, or soup can be obtained at school the children are better off. Efforts should be made by groups of parents to establish the serving of at least one hot dish with the school lunch. Sandwiches Most Substantial. Sandwiches, because of their convenience, are usually the substantial part of the basket lunch. By varying the bread occasionally, using whole wheat, graham, Boston brown bread, raisin, date or nut bread, or spilt buttered rolls or biscuit, cinnamon or other buns, the lunches will not seem so monotonous. In addition to sliced roast or boiled meat, bacon, chicken or rabbit may be used. Chopped meat or ground meats of any kind, chopped hard-boiled eggs, moistened with salad dressing, cottage-cheese, peanut butter, nut meats, or cooked fish are good filling for sandwiches and also supply small amounts of protein for the midday meal; lettuce, tomatoes, and other salad materials with dressing make palatable moist sandwiches and Introduce some vegetables into the lunch; while sweets may be supplied by a jam, Jelly, or fruit butter sandwich, honey, brown sugar or maple sugar filling, or by cookies, cakes, dates, raisins, figs, sweet chocolate, or other Sweets easily carried^ Fruit should be included as often as possible. Children sometimes have a prejudice against salads. This may be because the first s&iad tasted was not Just right. If they have been accustomed at home from an early age to salads with dressings containing very little vinegar or acid, and made with good oil in perfect condition, they will cultivate a liking for them and enable the mother to provide both salad vegetables and salad oQ, two valuable foods In their diet. Prepare Lunch Carefully. Repacking the lunch basket every precaution should be taken to keep the foods clean and In good condition. Foods that spoil easily should be avoided In warm weather. Paper napkins or towels and thin waxed or parchment wrapping paper are inexpensive, especially If bought in large quantities. These not only protect the lunch but the children's clothing. Washable napkins may be used instead, but they are more troublesome and are likely to be lost. Sandwiches, sweet foods and fruits should be wrapped separately and the heaviest things pot at the bottom of the lunch box. Cup custards, apple sauce, jelly and other soft foods can be carried In paper cups or cartons, In small screw-top Jars or covered jelly glasses.. Milk from home is desirable whenever it can be carried, if no provision can be made for serving It at school. Declaration Made That No Two Por« eons Can See the 8ame Display In the Same Way. . - Misconceptions concerning the rato^ how are many, according to Prof. W. J. Humphreys, Ph. D., of Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. Close observations have shown that not even the colors are always the same. Neither •Is the band of any color of constant engular width, nor Is the total breadth of the several colors uniform. But perhaps the most interesting feature which Professor Humphreys brings out Is the fact that no two persons see the same rainbgw; there are as many rainbows as there are persons looking at them, It seems. Theory teaches and ordinary experience shows as the observer remains stationary or moves, so also, other things being equal, does his rainbow. If then, two observers initially close together should move In opposite directions, each would find his rainbow responding in the same sense as his shadow, and presently the two positions, and, therefore, the identity of the two bows, would become unquestionably different, from which it follows that, as the eyes of the two observers must always be separated by a greater or less distance, their bows must also be correspondingly separated and different positions are produced by different raindrops. In short, since the rainbow Is a special distribution of colors (produced In a particular way) with reference to a definite point--the eye oil the observer-- and as no single dlsnribution (other than uniform and infinite) can be the same for two separate points, It follows that two observers cannot see the same rainbow.--Rehoboth Sunday Herald. GREAT LAKES THINGS APART RECIPE FOR MAKING PURE PORK SAUSAGE Suggestions Made by Department of Agriculture. • i i > i iiitt "ftfMi •H'ujiii. ,m ' * *' "* " ' • • • ' ' y, .. ' Typhoid In Rural Districts. Typhoid fever Is almost twlc? as prevalent in the rural districts of this eotlntry as in the cities. This has been definitely shown by the figures gathered in the registration district of the United States, where the death rate in the rural localities was 9.ft per 100,000 persons, while In the cities It was 5.5. There are states, however, which show that an excess of rural population need not carry with It a high typhoid fever death rate. Wisconsin is a conspicuous example. This state, with more than half its population rural, had a typhoid fever rate of 2.5 per 100,000, which is identical to that of Massachusetts, which Is almost entirely urban. APOLLO A POPULAR GREEK GOD To M f»«Uftde of Freah, L*on Moat Add 35 Pounds of Fat--Spices Should Be Mixed and Added Before Meat la Ground. <li*ytr«d br tha United States Department of Agriculture.) Good pork sausage is always In demand. The following recipes for making It are recommended by the United States Department of Agriculture: Take 65 pounds of fresh, lean meat and 85 pounds of fat Add to this \\ pounds salt, 2 ounces fine sage, 1 ounce ground nutmeg, and 4 ounces black pepper. The spices should be mixed together and added to the meat before it goes through the grinder. Cut the meat into small pieces and put through the grinder, using the small plate. After It is well ground, mix thoroughly, to be sure that it is uniformly seasoned. No water should be added If the sausage Is to be stored away In bulk. If It is to be stuffed in casings, a little water may be neeessary to soften the meat, so that It will slip easily into tfao casings. . , 8moked 8ausago. The following Ingredients are used In making smoked or country sausage r pounds lean 4 ounces red peppork. per. IS pounds barf. 1 ounce sweet mar»« m to] pound* salt. Joram. 4 ounces MEfek pep- 1 ounc* mace. p«r. Cut the meat Into small pieces and sprinkle seasoning over It, then run It through the grinder, using the small plate. Put it away in a cool pluce for 24 to 86 hours, then add a little water, and stuff Into hog casings and smoke in a very cool snr<fl£e until a dark mahogany color Is obtained. Mythological Character Was Prophet, Archer and Protected the Fields. Apollo was the sun god of the ancient Greeks. He was the most popular of all the Greek gods and was a famous archer. He protected the fields and was a great musician. He was supposed to know the future and, therefore, at his shrine (Delphi) be told Inquirers what was In store for them. The Greeks attributed to their gods all their own human passions such as love, hate and Jealousy, says the Detroit News. Zeus was the ancient Greek god of gods. He lived at the top of Mount Olympus and controlled the lightning. Athena was the greatest goddess of • the ancient Greeks. She was a war goddess and was usually represented Poseidon ruled the sea; Demeter was the earth-moth that brought forth the produce of the soil; Dionysus produced the grapes and the wine; Hermes was the messenger of the gods and the god of trade and commerce. Aphrodite waa the goddess of love. Ultra Microbes. The ultra microbe is the latest scientific discovery. . It is. even later than relativity. As map^ has his microbes--of typhoid fever or of consumption, say-- which slay him with cunsumption or typhoid, so these microbes are In turn slain by microbes of their own--inflnl- (tesiinally small things called ultra microbes. Its uses will be numberless. Suppose, for Instance, a water supply Fixing Radio Aeriais. Tba radio aerial repairman is hero. Not to be outdone by those reaping the shekels In this golden age of radio, the lineman has merged a new job with his former remote occupation of repairing clotheslines In backyards. For a small sum he repairs your radio aerial which may ' have uowned during a storm. "In gome blocks I make more money fixing aerials than repairing wash lines," he said. "The work is simple compared to climbing line poles and much safer. And you don't have to know a lot about science to fix the wires."--New York Sun. RIGHT'CREAM FOR WHIPPING Should Be From 24 to 48 Hours Old and Contain at Least 90 Per V Cent of Buttsrrat. The best cream to whip Is good, rich cream, from 24 to 48 hours old, says the United States Department of Agriculture. It should contain at least 30 per cent butterfat to produce Ideal results, and be kept very cool. Pasteurization tends to lower the whipping quality of the cream, and homogenizatlon Is very harmful to It. Combined they practically destroy the value of cream for whipping,.. < v? v for Breadcrum|g^ !-!' Breadcrumbs may be used instead of flour in many dishes, the United States Department suggests. Bakers often use stale bread and dried, finely^ ground cake In place of part of the flour in making fancy breads, cakes, and cookies, and the housekeeper can often avoid waste by using them in this way in griddlecfekea, cakes, cookies, flngerbread, brown bread, etc. Washington Oilcloth. Wash oilcloth with warm water and milk. Use one cupful of skim milk to one gallon of water. Wipe dry with a clean cloth. „ Writer Complains, With Reason, That Wonderful Bodies of Water tap i Not Appreciated, """i ^ Statistics can never make people understand the Great Lakes. That it is 800 miles down Lake Michigan from Chicago to Manistique means little; that 600 feet of water Is not an unusual depth; that the tonnage which goes through the locks at Sault Ste. Marie makes the annual tonnage of the Suez canal seem Insignificant-- these things mean little in themselves. Try another: No equal area Of water that rolls floats as much shlpt ping In a year as does the Detroit river. That falls flat, too. The beauty of the Great Lakes cannot be compared to that of any other water in the world and carry meaning, Harold Titos writes in Everybody's. They are things apart, an Influence, a background for important cultural factors that are beyond statistics. There Is no locality more American In America than the Great Lakes. The romance of exploration Is largely forgotten !»y America as a whole; the Island communities, once so picturesque, are thinning out, railroads have driven the trading hooker off this fresh water; fishing, for- the most part, is today as efficient and commonplace as most forms of business; the great fleets af freighters go up and down, up «nd down, hardly noticed, rarely thought of, except by those directly Interested In shipping. And yet the Great Lakes have their place in our civilization, and in time that place will be recognized and talked about and respected and the lakes themselves will be studied and appreciated and understood. Of WEST 10 K HOUSfWtFE is contaminated with typhoid germs, with arms as the protector of Greek j A regiment of typhoid ultra microbes cities. She was said to have been born j will be put in the water, and In a In the brain of her father Zeus and! to short time the supply will bo purr have sprung forth full armed. ] again. Cause of Astonishment. "Won't you come and make a four at bridge, sir." "I am exceedingly sorry, old man, but I don't play bridge." "You don't play bridge? Then what on earth did you Join a golf du|> Corn Meal Mush With Pork. 1 pound lean pork. 1 teaspoonful salt, part meat and part % te&apoonful powbone. dered sage. 1 oup cora meaL Water. Cook the pork In water until the meat can be removed easily from the bone. Remove the meat, cool the broth, and remove the fat. Reduce the broth to about a quart, or add water enough to bring It up to this amount* and cook the corn meal In It. Add the meat finely chopped and the seasonings. Pack in granite bread tins. Cut Into slices -'and fry. " Beef maj be used in the same way, the United States Department of Agriculture suggesta. • - -;•** tolling a Cracked Eg|^'/'•; Ah egg that Is cracked may stftt boiled without danger of Its running out of the shell. Turn the egg over and lightly tap It on the other side, so as to make another crack opposite the original one. It can then be put safely into boiling water for forces are equalteed. i iii.iH il chicken Is delicious served with currant jelly sauce. Bury the yeast cake In s^t If wish to keep It a while. Folding wardrobes made offrgMntsor cretonnp can be secured ready made, but any woman can make one for herself. ' • • • Children who are Inclined to be constipated should be allowed to eat five or six figs a day. This helps a great deal. • rT • If plain clothes" are folded Immediately after being taken front the line, they can be Ironed twice -as quickly and need little spi^nkllng. * • * Clotheslines should never be loft out of doors when not In use; they should be carefully dried and put away, otherwise they will soil and mark the linen * » • Woolen stockings that are past repair can be put to many uses. Cut off the feet, draw one stocking over the other, fold and sew up one end. and you have an excellent glove for polishing anything. ' • When using the food ehopper thOM is likelihood of bits ot food being spilled on the floor. If a newspaper is spread out under the table, to which the chopper Is screwed, the floor saved. Odd. "Oar statesmen are not equal to those of the old days." "I believe you are right. No statesman has taken the credit for liberty bond* going up." It Is wise economy to grind coffee as It is needed, as ground coffee quick' ly loses Its flavor and requ' es more in the making. Hence, ground coffee Appetizing Hamburg Steak. Hamburg steak Is more appetizing when formed Into one large, compact, I should never be bought In large quan- "llattened cake, and broiled, than wBdb I titles. All coffee should be kept In fried in small cakes. i I well covered containers. Surely Inalienable Right. AUspst any alibi will do In a plncb. Old John Smithers of Richmond, in the days of long ago, was one of those shlfless" Individuals, too trifling fot words and of no value to himself or anybody else. His wife kept a rail* road boarding house and tolerated him about the place as a sort of safety valve for her temper and used him as an errand boy to run to the grocery. One afternoon, when It was about time to start the cooking for the evening meal, she could not find either him or the hired girl. At last she discovered them In the woodshed hugging and pissing to beat the band. The girl fled and left him to face the music alone. Here you are," cried his indignant wife, "mooning and spooning around with that young hussy, and me working the skin off my fingers to keep your worthless body and soul together! Now, ain't you ashamed of yourself?" Humph," retorted- old John, "I guess a man's got a right to some privilege In his own home, ain't he?' ~Hta4ianapoll8 News. ^ < Loaderlsss Orchestras. ,a , ' There must be no despotism of leadership, not even In art, is the decre< of the sovlets. So In Moscow they have concerts given by orchestras without conductors. The soviet papers insist that the performances were Just as good; and, what is more, the dignity of the performed was safeguarded by the absence of the conductor, with hla baton, a symbol of tyranny, Intolerable to free men. The soviet press adds that these performances constitute the musical as well as the political Ideal. UNION MORE ZOO BIRDS e> "The birds in the too," said Daddy, "found that It was a Very good plan for them to each t^ll a little about themselves so they would be better acquainted. "Then, too, thai keeper told the visitors their stories bo that mora and more tire pee- : pie who came to see the wonderful birds knew about them and their ways. "The birds had a lovely big place in the zoo, some of them Were all together and sc had their own clal homes, "Started the Meeting," MSk for Hours," iu & these homes were very good-sized very nice, and the birds were cheery and gay and happy. "The Parrot was the one who start* ed the meeting again, and the end of the meeting was supposed to come when the last speaker wivtit ft i though to say: » ""Enough, enough!' , \ " "Well, the Black Manucode started the talk this time. 'I am from New Guinea,' he said* 'And my colors are black and blue. I simply wear these handsome color* Just like my neighbor, the Mexican Rice Grackle. • I do not mean that I have been bruised and liave become black and blue through a fall or 'a bump, or anything like that. "'They are simply the colors in my feathers. I am more black than I aa blue, and so--my name, you see, " 'I belong to the Bird of Paradise family, but I do not wear such bright colors as my cousins do. In fact, I dress more quietly than do any. bers of the family. ' 'I look something like a crow, been told. N 'Now as I speak and show myself off, you will notice that I draw my body np very straight, and that the sound I make as I blow out my breath Is a thin piping kind of nollse.' "I am the Black Bulbul bird,' Mid fhe next bird neighbor. , "I have a blackish head and neck. I wear a gray brown suit and a white waistcoat. My tall Is tipped with white, which I consider very handsome. ' 'In India from where I come, I and my family are cage birds or pot birds such as canaries are here. •* Tou will see that I am not very big, nor am I very tiny. I hope you will admire by crested head, for I am quite fond of my personal appearance. 'We always like to look our beot and 'as stylish as possible.' " *1 am the Northern Blue Tanager,' said the next bird. When I am flreo travel from Mexico to' Panama, X live in the hot low countries. " That is to say, my family do, and these are the family ways of which I am speaking. ' 'There, we feed on fruit Too will notice that I am not any larger than a sparrow, and that isn't so large. No, I don't care about being so big. "If I were enormous, I fancy Td get weary taking myself around and always having to move so much! "'People often admire me because of the beautiful silver gray colors that I wear and the blue wings that we, as a family, always have. "'I look rather soft and lovely, rVo been told. I'm not conceited. I'm only telling you the facts, and I do not consider It is to my credit but to Jthe credit of the flrct Northern Blue Tanager of all.* " *1 am the Venezuelan Motmot,' said the' next bird. •We strip off part of the web of our main tall feathers, so that we have one funnylooking taU hanging down. " 'Our beads are bluish greenish, and we have tannlsh brownish brea •• 'We have touches of green biack on our wings. Some of us blue, green tall feather* and wo halt black feathers. u 'We can sit for hours on the bars of our cage and never make a sound, and I'm telling you how we look so you'll know us, and we can keep quiet for many more hours' now. • »*We like to sit on dry leaves, in caves or dark places. We are naturally very quiet,' he ended." n " :.Sr-r'4i MM • -.irfcjft * "fey. •s ' '>•' Qas Consumption Soars. daily average consumption of gasoline In. the United States has Increased 69 per cent In five years. During thfr first quarter of 1818 the average dally consumption was 7.088,- X)0 gallons. During the first quarter ot 1922 it was 11,883,000 gallon* A Oreen Fisherman. ; "What are you going to do wHto tfcat mouse?" "Use it for bait." "For bait I" "Yes; I'm going after catfish."-- Boston Evening Transcript. s ; Inclined to Mercy. Mrs. Plainmug--I'd like to for my portrait. Think you'll do Justice to my features? Psmear, the Artist--Oh, lady! How 'could you think mm to Stern anC hard ss that? - , vVv Dad Got Special Haircut* Little John was sent to the barter shop for a haircut. The barber in Joking way asked him what kind of a' haircut he wanted. "Do you want one like this man la getting?" he asked, pointing to t^e man in the chair. "No, sir," replied John, after look* lng the man over thoughtfully. "If you have to cut It like somebody else's Just cut it like my dad's, with a In the middle." Willing to Walk. Xtittle Dorothy had accompanied iiar mother on a shopping tour. When they were about to return home her mother asked: "Shall we walk or take a car, Dorothy?" "Oh 1 answered the little miss, ruz^jy: walk if 'oo will tarry m*f Prepar Test of Bo«|k. !>» noft believe that a boblt Is If in reading It thoq dost not more contented with thy existence. If it does not arouse in thae most gewpf ous fe Hings.--Lavater.