Learning How a Janitor Should Push a Broom
CENTRAL Teachers’ college, at Mt. Pleasant, Mich., has brought forth something new—a Janitors’ Institute.
The first one is being held this summer nnd the pupils are taught, by example nnd lecture, all the duties of
the Janitor. The photograph shows a class being instructed In the proper use of the broom.
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H By THORNTON W. BURGESS |||
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LIGHTFOOT WATCHES AND
WAITS
THERE had been a grent change
In Llghtfoot the Deer. I’eter
Rabbit had noticed It Sammy Jay
had noticed It. So had Blacky the
Crow. All three of them understood
It. They understood It perfectly.
They knew that Llghtfoot was
watching and waiting for the day
which would bring Into the Green
Forest the hunters with terrible
guns seeking to kill him.
As long as the leaves had re
mained green Llghtfoot had wan
Peter Rabbit Had Noticed It
dered about where he pleased, care
less of who saw him. He had eveD
visited Farmer Brown’s garden In
broad daylight. Me had Joined
Farmer Brown’s cows In the Old
Pasture and grazed with them con
tentedly. He had been free of fear.
But now Llghtfoot was like an
other creature. He didn't seem at
all the same animal. It was rarely
that be moved about much until
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That Amsterdam, Holland,
is the only city in the world
which has satisfactorily
solved the housing problem?
It has no slums, all the tene
ments having been razed and
modern apartment houses
erected in their stead, with
apartments which rent for as
low as $10 a month.
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after the Black Shadows had crept
out from the Purple Hills. It was
then that ne fed nnd visited his fa
vorite drinking place at the Laugh
ing Brook. But from the time the
first Jolly Little Sunbeam came
creeping through the Green For
est at the beginning of day until
the Black Shadows chased them
out at the beginning of night. Light
foot remained hidden In thickets
or behind tangles of fallen trees In
the depths of the Green Forest.
Sometimes he would lie for hours
In his hiding place. Sometimes he
would stand motionless for the
longest time, his big ears cocked
forward to catch every little sound,
his great, soft eyes watching for
the least little movement nmong the
trees, his delicate nose testing every
Merry Little Breeze that came his
way for the dreaded scent of man.
When he moved about he took
the greatest care to move silently.
Every few steps he stopped to
look, listen and test the air. The
snapping of a twig would set him
to trembling with fear and suspi
cion.
Lightfoot was watching and wait
ing for the coming of the most
dreadful thing that can come Into
the lives of the people of the Green
forest, the coming of the hunters
with terrible guns. Sometimes he
wished they would come. It would
be easier to know what to do. Noth
ing, you know, Is harder than
watching and waiting as Lightfoot
was doing. He lost Ills appetite.
He could no longer sleep peacefully,
but continually awoke with fright.
Each day he became more anxious.
No sooner was one day ended than
he would begin to dread the coming
of another day. It was very beau
tiful In the Green Forest, but Light
foot saw none of the beauty. Fear
destroyed all beauty for Lightfoot.
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Question box
by ED WYNN, The Perfect Fool
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I have a little son who was
eight years of age last Wednes
day. I asked him what he would
like for a birthday present. He
asked for a Bible and 1 gave him
one. Since that time he has pes
tered me with one question till
I’m nearly frantic. He keeps ask
ing me to show him what a miracle
Is. What can I do to demonstrate
fully, to him, just what a miracle Is?
Ifours truly,
G. KUSELEM.
Answer: As he Is so annoying
with his persistency the best thing
to do Is this: The next time he asks
you what a miracle Is, ask him to
turn around. The minute he does,
give him a swift kick, then ask
him If he felt the kick. When he
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“It’s Just like one of those kind
of wives,” says soliloquizing Eliza
beth, “to know the answers to all
the questions but never what’s
trumps."
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Cornin’ to Town
10 lam
so (HAD To ,
see you/
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says yes, say to lilin: “Well If you
hadn’t, that would have been a mir
acle.’’
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I am a boy ten years old. I have
a rich unde, but he Is very stingy
with his money. My birthday Is next
December, and I asked him to get
me a bicycle for a birthday present,
and he said It would cost too much
money. Then I asked him to buy
me a tricycle and he said that would
cost too much money, too; then he
said I should leave the present to
him. What do you think he will get
me?
Tours iruly,
G. HEEESTITE.
Answer: In-ns-much ns he says a
bicycle or a tricycle will cost too
much, I guess he Intends waiting
till December and get you an Icicle.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I live ten miles away frum the
nearest sity to my farm. My wife
Is sick and I gess I’ll hafto drive
to the slty for a doktor. 1 don't
know as ther Is one in the whole
town, but If tber Is do you think 1
will And a Fizzlcian in the drag
store?
Tours truly,
CT DERREN KRACKERS.
Answer: T,he way you spell Fizzl
cian, I guess you’ll And him lri the
soda fountain.
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MINUTE MAKE-UPS
One of the best benutlflers for
your face Is a simple glycerin and
rosewater mixture, which, patted
on at night In the so-called “hol
lows” directly under your eyes
and on your eyelids, will smooth
the skin and scare away the wrin
kles.
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Growth of Lin pah Tree
. Records show the average growth
of a Uye oak In a seven-year period
la 17.3 Inches In circumference.
♦ MOTHER’S ♦
COOK BOOK
DESSERTS AND THINGS
A DESSERT does not need to be
either elaborate in Its prepara
tion or expensive In cost to be ap
petizing. Many of the simplest of
desserts are the most popular.
Two-Two Dessert.
Take the juice of two lemons, the
finely mashed pulp of two bananas
and two cupfuls of sugar. Add a
quart of thlu cream, u pinch of salt
aud freeze.
Duchess Cream.
Tills delightful dessert serves fif
teen, so it may be cut Into half for
the ordinary family. Cook six ta
blespoonfuls of tapioca in boiling
Plulded with dark green, the nat
ural cashmere of this costume Is
cut effectively with a wedge-shaped
panel In the front of the skirt, us
ing the plaid on the diagonal. The
scarf Is dark green and all the but
tons are wood and crystal-clear
composition.
THROUGH A
W>mans Eyes
By JEAN NEWTON
THE “OFF TIMES” IN MAR
RIAGE ARE DANGEROUS
TIMES
««TT.L bet she's sorry she made
1 those statements!"
The remark was In reference to
a sensational Incident In an already
sensational murder trial that for
some time held first page space In
newspapers all over the country,
A woman's husband was on trial
for murder and she was on the wit
ness stand. His attorneys had tried
through her testimony to prove that
they were very happily married and
now she was being cross-examined.
Suddenly the prosecutor whipped
out a piece of paper which con
tained statements furnishing un
questionable evidence of “marital
rift.” They were statements that
she did not wish to hack up, with
which she did not agree, and which
w*ere damaging to her and f^er hus
water until clear, cool, add a little
salt, one cupful of sugar, the Juice
from a can of pineapple, the Juice
of two oranges and two lemons.
Cook until thick. Cool, then add the
pineapple, one cupful of finely
broken nuts and a pint of whipping
cream beaten stiff.
Dainty Dessert.
Cut, with scissors dipped Info
cold water, one pound of marsh
mallows, add one cupful of cut pe
can ments, or almonds If preferred;
add enough whipped cream to make
a mixture to stand up well. Serve
In sherbet glasses with a spoonful
or two of orange nnd pineapple
Juice poured over each. Top with a
maraschino cherry.
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band. And It was suggested by an
observer that they were probably
made during one of those "off" pe;
riods which take place between the
most happily married.
The matter Is Interesting to all
married women for the thought
It brings up about those "off times.'1
They are times that are fraught
with danger. And the danger li
not only In writing down somethin*
that will he damaging long aftej
It Is regretted, but the danger ot
saying something that will he re
membered by others long after It
Is forgotten by the husband or wife
Involved. It Is a fnult more com
mon to women than men to speak
Impulsively at such a time, to ex
press the dissatisfaction of the mo
ment without thought to the fact
that It makes a permanent Impres
sion.
My advice to the woman who
finds herself Irresistibly tempted to
such unwisdom Is to have a special
lock for the door of her most Inac
cessible room, to which she can go
at such dangerous times until the
agitation of the Incident and Its ra
impulses have safely passed.
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THE FAMILY
REUNION
By ANNE CAMPBELL
THE family reunion will be held
again this year.
Once more we will renew the mel
low friendships, tried and dear.
Almost u hundred years ago, this
homestead was a dream,
A plan told In the candleglow that
made young glances gleam.
If these brick walls could speak,
they’d tell a tale of love
grown old;
A cycle of warm hearts that blessed
its hospitable fold.
A hundred years, a hundred souls
that gather once again
To testify to far-flung goals, and
happy wives and men.
The family reunion! [leaven throws
blue skies above!
The day Is touched with gold that
is so wound nhnut with love,
And for each guest assembled here
there are too many more
That are go far and yet so near,
upon a trackless shore.
God bless the family 1 Make strong
Its deep, abiding ties.
Love that Is tended keeps the
warmth and beauty that we
prize;
And even sunset skies are red with
cheer In winter weather,
When good friends gather, com
forted, around a fire together!
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Most Constant Unit of Time
The rotation of the earth is the)
most constant unit of time that
man has discovered.
lie Kills Lions for a Living
JAY BRUCE of California, official lion hunter for the state and the only
man In the world who kills Hons for a living, recently put the five hun
dredth notch on his trusty gun. He figures that he has walked every bll
of 40,000 miles while trailing varmints for the state fish and game com
mission since 1919. Here Bruce Is seen bringing In his live huodredt*
varmint to Placervllle.
The Ananda, a Temple of Pagan.
Prepared by National Geoi?ranhlc Society,
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AGAN, Burma's Sncred City,
is solemnity and mystery;
about it is enchantment. Here,
90 miles southwest of Mandalay,
the traveler finds himself In the
midst of a veritable forest of tem
ples and pagodas, large and small,
nearly perfect or almost unrecog
nizable because of decay. Before
their vast bulks the traveler be
comes painfully conscious of his
littleness and Insignificance. His
mere presence seems an imperti
nence. The crumbling walls, the fall
en pinnacles and the desolation are
eloquent of the vanity of fame, the
hollowness of glory, and the futil
ity of human effort.
Of the 5,000 or more temples that
are still to be seen, the Ananda,
the Thatbyinnyu, and Gawdawpalin,
standing all three within a circle
of a quarter of a mile radius, are
surpassingly beautiful and majestic.
The Ananda rises like n struc
ture of foain. On its summit, like
tiie flattie upon some altar, a slen
der, golden spire gathers tiie radi
ance of tiie sun and ilings it forth
again to every quarter. It is the
first of all the temples to com
mand the traveler's attention ; it Is
the last upon which he gazes as
the swift steamer hears him away.
The Thatbyinnyu has suffered
more from time and neglect titan
Itas the Ananda. Its wails are
blackened and much of the del all
of its ornamentation lias fallen
away. It Is hardly beautiful; It is
majestic. About it is a suggestion
of enormous solidity and a noble
loftiness of conception.
The third temple lias neither the
exquisite beauty of the Annndii nor
the sublimity of the Thathylnnyii;
1 yet in the perfect harmony of its
■ proportions, the refinement of every
■ detail, it lias a charm of its own.
It contributes with the others to
the spell which I'ugan casts over
even the most careless visitor.
Lovely View From Circuit House.
Past the Oawiiawpalin the path
leads on to the circuit house. At
every step is revealed some new
grouping of effects, some new liar
monies of proportion or felicities
of detail, and from tho spacious
veranda of the resthouse the view
is one never to he forgotten. West
ward the river and the hills, silver
and gold and blue I'm the sunset;
near at hand the Gnwdawpalin,
with orange light and soft purple
shadows mingling and shifting over
its huge battlements; farther away
the Annnda and the Thntbyinnyu,
now indistinct in the twilight; and
all around, the half-seen outlines
of pagodas.
Heroic achievements, the basest
villainy, successful subtlety—all
these are mingled in the history of
tliis ruined city.
The greatness of Pagan, ami with
it reliable Burmese history, dates
from the accession of Anawrata,
about A. D. 1017. This truly re
markable monarch won by the
sword a splendid empire ami es
tablished a dynasty that continued
in power for more than 200 years.
At the beginning of his reign he de
voted himself to the moral and re
ligious uplift of his people. A cor
rupt and degrading "Naga worship,”
or obedience to devils, in the form
of serpents, had come through As
sam from northern India.
Anawrata's Great Reform.
Soon after Annwrata ascended
the throne Buddhist missionaries
arrived at Pagan from the country
of the Talaings, a people dwelling
to the south and. as a result of the
frequent nnd easy communication
with India by sen, highly civilized.
These Tabling missionaries found
the king a zealous convert. He ex
pelled the priests of the abomin
able cult that for so many years
had debauched Ids people, strict
ly proscribed the Nagn worship, and
did everything In his power to furth
er the efforts of the preachers.
His fervor had, however, one la
mentable result. Hearing that there
were in Tlinton, the Tabling capi
tal, copies of the Buddhist Sacred
Books and several precious relics,
he sent a noble envoy to beg for
such portions as might he spared.
Ills reasonable request was refused
In a singularly insolent manner.
With characteristic energy Ana
wrata assembled an army and a
Meet and moved against Tlinton. He
was completely successful, and as
the spoils of victory tie carried back
to Pagan not only the books nnd
the priceless relics but the king
and queen of the fallen city, to
gether with principal nobles, rich
treasure, 32 white elephants, and a
iiost of 30,000 nrtitlcers and schol
ars.
Tills signal success only fanned
the flume of Anawrata’s zeal. A
fresh field for enterprise was found
In Ceylon. There wns in that Island
a most sacred relic, nothing less
than a tooth of Gautama. Such a
trophy was beyond price and its
possession hy Pagan would sancti
fy and ennoble the king's name. Ac
cordingly, with four trusty captains,
mounted on matchless steeds, Ann
wrata hastened to the seashore and
embarked for Ceylon at nightfall.
But unseen hands svere fighting
on the side of the sovereign of Cey
lon anil sacred tooth. The ship sped
swiftly on through the night. Yet
when the travelers awoke it was
to find themselves anchored a little
below Pagan!
Baffled but not defeated. Ana
wrata sent an envoy to Snngabodbl,
the king, an envoy who bore many
costly presents and who wns In
structed to demand the tooth of
Guatama in return.
Gautama Supplied Teeth.
Sangahodhl, unwilling to surren
der his most precious possession,
yet fearful of arousing tlie ire of
so dreadful a monarch as the king
of Pagan, was In sore straits. In
his distress lie expressed the wish
that tie might have two such teeth.
No sooner had he given utterance
to this desire than tlie tooth pro
duced a fellow exactly resembling
Itself! In fact, tlie two were in
distinguishable until tlie original
declared itself by rising Into the
air and performing miracles.
Tlie duplicate was placed in a
casket of gold and delivered to the
envoy who carried it back with
great pomp to Pagan.
To solve the difficulty of choos
ing a site for the enshrinement of
tho prize, tlie casket was placed on
the back of a white elephant, and
it was announced that wherever the
animal halted there should be the
resting place of the tooth.
Much to the disappointment of
all, tlie elephant bearing his pre
cious burden crossed the river and
knelt down near (lie Tangyi hills.
This was very far from tlie palace,
and tiie king expressed his regret
that lie also hud not two sacred
teeth. Here again tlie wish was
father to tlie miracle. Immediate
ly there were two teeth instead of
one! The duplicate was placed on
tlie elephant's back and tlie beast
was hidden to move on.
I-'ive times the elephant halted be
fore reaching tlie neighborhood of
tlie palace, and at each place the
tooth was miraculously multiplied,
until at last the site of the Loknn
andn was reached and the king pro
fessed himself satistieil. At each
stop a shrine was built, and at the
last was reared the pile which still
remains ns one of the monuments
to Anawrata's greatness.
Conquered by the Chinese.
Fur more than two centuries the
successors of Annwrata more or
less worthily maintained the dignity
and prestige of Pagan. P>ut In the
north was developing n power that
was soon to engulf not I’agan only,
hut almost the entire continent of
Asia. Kublai Khan in 1254 con
quered what Is now Yunnan, and
the Chinese were thus brought Into
contact with Burma. To the result
ing conflict there could he but one
issue. In 12S0 Pagan fell before
Invaders from the north, never
again to attain historical signific
ance. Of tlie great battle between
the two armies on the plain of
Voeiara, Marco Polo gives a graph
ic and spirited account.
Though under the circumstances,
the fall of 1'agnn was Inevitable,
tlie last k'ng of that unfortunate
capital stands in pitiful contrast to
tlie great Anawrata. Known to his
tory as Tayokpyemin, the King Who
Kan Away From the Chinese, lie
was utterly unworthy of his noble
oltice. In the Mingalazedl Is an in
scription which commemorates his
achievements at the table. Here it
is recorded that he never dined oft
fewer than three hundred dishes!
While the Chinese host was yet
u long way from tlie city, the cow
ardly king fled down the river to
Hussein. When the cooks whom he
had taken with iiim were able to
produce only 150 dishes, the full
horror of his position dawned upon
tlie unhappy monarch. He burst In
to childish tears and exclaimed,
"Now I am poor indeed!”
When the invaders had taken
their toll of Pagan and retired, he
thought of returning. At Prome,
however, he was met by one of his
sons, who offered him poisoned
food. For a time the weakling hesi
tated. At last, convinced that It was
better to die so than by the sword,
he yielded and met a fate that, as
few writers have avoided the temp
tation to remark, was singularly ap
propriate to Ills character.
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