Japanese Children Learn About Farm Labor
JAPANESE youngsters, spending
their summer vncation on farms
in Shizuoka prefecture, furnish their
own motive power as they haul
wheat from the fields beneath a
blistering sun. The children are
sent to the fnrms annually In keep
ing with a movement Inaugurated
a few years ago to school the chil
dren In farming.
BEDTIME STORY
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
SAMMY JAY BRINGS
L1GHTF00T WORD
SAMMY Jay Is one of those who
believe In the wisdom of the old
saying, “Early to bed and early to
rise.” Sammy needs no alarm clock
to get him up early In the morning.
He Is awake as soon as It Is light
enough to see and wastes no time
wishing he could sleep a little long
er. Ills stomach wouldn't let him
If he wanted to. Sammy always
wakes up hungry. In this he Is no
different from all his feathered
neighbors.
So the minute Sammy gets his
eyes open he makes his toilet, for
“He's Coming!” Cried Sammy.
Sammy Is very neat, and starts out
to hunt for his breakfast. Long ago
Sammy discovered that there Is no
safer time of day to visit the door
yards of those two-legged creatures
called men, than very early in the
morning. On this particular morn
ing he had planned to fly over to
Farmer Brown’s dooryard, but at
the last minute he changed his mind.
Instead he flew over to the dooryard
of another farm. It was so very
early In the morning that Sammy
didn’t expect to find anybody stir
ring so you can guess how surprised
he was when just as he came In
sight of the dooryard he saw the
door of the farm house open and a
man step out
Sammy stopped In the top of the
nearest tree. “Now what Is that
man dolDg up as early as this?”
muttered Sammy. Then he caught
eight of something under the man’s
arm. lie didn't have to look twice
to know what It was. It was a
gun. Yes, sir, It was a gun; a ter
rible gun.
“Hal" exclaimed Sammy, and
quite forgot that his stomach was
empty. “Now, who can that fellow
be after so early In the morning?
I wonder If he Is going over to the
Big River after Mr. and Mrs. Quack,
or If he is going to the dear Old
Brier-patch to look for Peter Rab
bit, or If he Is going to the Old Pas
ture In search of Reddy Fox, or if It
Is Mr. and Mrs. Grouse he hopes to
kill. I think I’ll sit right here and
watch.”
So Sammy sat In the top of the
tree and watched the hunter with
the terrible gun. He saw him head
straight for the Green Forest. “It’s
Mr. and Mrs. Grouse after all, I
guess,” thought Sammy. "If I knew
just where they were I'd go over
and warn them.”
But Sammy didn't know Just
where they were and he knew that
It might take him a long time to
find them so he once more began
to think of breakfast; and then,
right then, another thought popped
into his head. He thought of Light
foot the Deer.
Sammy watched the hunter enter
the Green Forest, then silently fol
lowed him. From the way the
hunter moved Sammy decided thnt
he wasn’t thinking of Mr. and Mrs.
Grouse. ‘‘It's Lightfoot the Deer,
sure ns I live!” muttered Sammy.
“He ought to be warned. He cer
tainly ought to be warned. I know
right where he Is. I believe I’ll warn
him myself.”
Sammy found Lightfoot right
where he had expected to. “He's
coming!” cried Sammy. “A hunter
with a terrible gun Is coming!”
© T. W. Burgess.—WNU Service.
Best French Worker
Albert Parrot, a bricklayer, has
been named the best workman In
France and has received the Le
gion of Honor decoration In recogni
tion of his ability. The award fol
lowed a competition which takes
place every three or four years In
which workers In all trades take
part.
“Longitude Harrison**
John Harrison (1603-1776), an
English Inventor, became celebrated
as “Longitude Harrison." When the
British government offered prizes
for the discovery of a method for
determining the longitude at sea
within 60, 40 and 30 geographical
miles, he made four chronometers,
now In the Greenwich royal observ
atory, each with a compensation
curb to the balance wheel. All
qualified for the first prize.
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THERE In a book where It bad
long been spread,
I found Grandmother's recipe for
bread,
Written by her dear hand, and
placed inside
A cook-book long ago, for me, a
bride,
I had not tried It for a dozen years,
And gazed upon It now with falling
tears.
for I could see her silver head once
more,
Bent to a little child beside her
door.
I smelled the home-made bread she
baked for me,
And churned for Grandmother In
memory.
The buttery door stood open, for no
bar
Kept me from Grandmother's tall
cooky jar.
The curtains blew In the October
air,
Her bird sang, telling me the world
was fair.
The carpets made of rags, the tidies’
fold
Upon the Morris chair, like her,
grown old.
Are memories of precious years,
long sped.
Caught in recipe for making bread.
Copyright—WNU Service.
Question box
by ED WYNN, The Perfect Fool
Dear Mr. Wynn:
A friend of mine always tells me
he can't afford to run an automo
bile. Yet I know he owns one. What
do you make of that?
Truly yours,
P. ANNO.
Answer: That’s why he knows he
can’t afford to run one.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
What does It mean when It Is said
a man Is in the ‘‘cream of society?"
Sincerely
N. V. DSS.
Answer: That simply means be
Is thick.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I stopped to look In the window
of a drug store today and I saw
the window filled with red rubber
gloves. I suppose you’ll think I’m
dumb, but I just must ask you.
What In the world are rubber gloves
used for?
Yours truly,
JIMMY NEEWHISKEHS.
Answer: Rubber gloves, my boy,
Jo You Know—
That the first clock was the
clepsydra or water-clock, in
troduced at Rome about 158
B. C, by Scipio Nasica? The
earliest complete clock of
which there is certain record,
was made by a Saracen me
chanic in the Thirteenth cen
cury.
| ® McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.
‘Through JEAN NEWTON
A WOMAN’S EYES]
ON THE WOMAN WHO CRAVES
PRESTIGE
ATEVKK may be her virtues
...Kl her graces, there is one
type of woman who can never be
successful in marriage, a noted au
thor tells us. And that Is the wom
an with a sex inferiority complex.
Though she may he a perfect angel,
such a woman is unfit to tie a wife.
Tlie trouble with her, we are told,
is that her first Interest is always
maintaining her prestige. With a
feminine Inferiority complex she Is
not confident of herself and her nbll
D1SHES BY FAMOUS COOKS
A S MACARONI, spaghetti and
** noodles are all such popular
foods and take the place in a meal
of other starchy foods such as pota
toes, we enjoy a few new ways of
preparing such dishes.
Rector's Spaghetti and Chicken
Salad.
Take one-half pound of elbow
spaghetti, two cupfuls of diced chick
en, one cupful of chopped celery,
one tablespoonful of onion, one tea
spoonful of salt, one-lialf cupful of
mayonnaise, two tabelspoonfuls of
chopped green pepper, one table
spoonful of plmiento or minced red
pepper, one tablespoonful of capers,
lettuce or watercress. Cook the
spaghetti until tender. Drain and
chill. Add the remaining ingredi
ents and mix lightly. Serve on let
tuce or cress with goldenrod sauce,
which Is made by rubbing several
hard-cooked eggs through a sieve.
Salmon or tuna may be used in
place of chicken.
Liver With Noodles.
Take five ounces of noodles, cook
until tender In boiling salted water.
Drain. Line a casserole with them
and set aside to become firm. Cut a
pound of liver In slices and scald
In a cupful of boiling water. Drain
and cut fine. Fry a carrot and on
ion in three tablespoonfuls of bacon
fat, using one-halt' cupful of onion
and one-fourth of a cupful of
chopped cooked carrot. Add three
tablespoonfuls of flour, when brown
add one and one-half cupfuls of soup
stock and the liver. Season well,
cook until thick, pour into the cas
serole, cover with crumbs and
brown.
© Western Newspaper Union.
are worn by people who wnnt to
wash their hands without getting
them wet.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I advertised In the papers for a
servant anJ today my ad was an
swered by a man who said he just
left your employment. In answer
ing my question about why he left
you, he said that he absolutely left
you without any angry words. Is
this true?
Sincerely,
I. N. GAGEDHIM.
Answer: It Is true. I was In the
bath and he just locked the door,
packed his things and went away
as quiet as possible.
©Associated Newspaper*.
WNU Service.
itles, and therefore needs constant
nflirniatlon of her worth In the opin.
Ion of others. That disqualifies her
entirely for the role of a wife.
It seems to me that the impor
tance of tills point lies not in fol
lowing to Its conclusion the question
of how the desire for personal pres
tige interferes with the mpilre
nients for a woman’s success In
marriage, We a know that. It
would seem ore to the point to
consider that a craving for atten
tion, a desire for prestige Is very
likely to disqualify a woman—or
for Hint matter a man—for success
in anything.
There is nothing In the world
that so Interfere; with accomplish
ment and with enjoyment of life ns
having one eye on what other peo
ple will say or think. There is
nothing so distracting ns to he pre
occupied In gaining ttie good will or
good opinion of others. There is no
surer short-cut .0 failure than the
effort to shine.
People who have creative work,
distinguished achievement, to their
credit, have succeeded because they
did their work for Its win sake.
People who are most highly regard
ed by the world are those who hnvo
cared little for the world's acclaim.
People who have the greatest expe
rience of happiness are those who
pursue the even tenor of their way,
dying their best according to their
lights, playing the game for the sake
of the game, without thought to an
other’s opinion, or to admiration or
applause.
For the Class Room
Dark brown soutache is used ef,
fectively to trim this two-piece
dress of brown and white shepherd
cheek woolen, which Is designated
for classroom wear. The skirt is
pleated all around. The velvet as
cot scarf, leather belt and buttons
are dark brown.
Tar Bate of Many Product*
Tar, obtained during tfie maun,
facture of gas front coal. Is tbe
base of more than 2,000 byproducts,
including dyes, antiseptics, scents,
flavoring essences, aspirins, and
moth balls.
City of Leontopolis
The city of Leontopolis was an
ancient city In the Delta of Egypt.
The name Is also a later designa
tion for Nieephorium, a fortified
town of Mesopotamia, on the Eu
phrates.
Grave Oddly Marked
Over the ancient grave of an un
identified person In Wilmington, N.
O., stands a monument bearing
carved designs of snakes, a devil's
head and the head of an elephant.
They Believe in Being Prepared
CW. ROLIJNSON, left, and Ills brother, J. W. Rolllnson, thrifty resl
• dents of Oklahoma, believe In preparedness, so they have built, at
small expense, their own coffins. The caskets are nil ready, even to the
satin pillows, to receive the owners In fine style at the proper time.
PECULIAR
FOODS rt
Baking Cassava Cakes in Haiti.
Prepared by National fl ..r apt: .<•>, iely,
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OUT1I AFItICAN exporters are
bringing a new food to the
world's dining table which is
already replete with a generous
cross section of the living things
found on tlie earth and in the sea.
Grasshopper ragout the new ar
ticle is called. For many years the
Chinese and Arabs have relished
grasshoppers, which were once do
stroyed as they attempted ruination
of South African crops. Now great
masses of ttie insects are captured,
carefully cleaned, conserved and
stopped to the Orient and Asia
Minor ready to be eaten.
Strange foods are to be found on
tlie markets of all continents, tn
fact, one part of the world is rath
er Ignorant of what satisfies tlie
other part.
“He who would enjoy his food,
should not look over the kitchen
wall," the Korean proverb warns;
but there is much of interest to he
found by looking over the geo
graphical wall of space and regard
ing tlie food habits of other peo
ple. Itats and dog steaks in China
have regular market prices, and
thoroughly ripened eggs are deli
cacies. Our food is often looked
upon as queer and heathenish by
these same people. The Turk re
gards oysters ns we do some Afri
can and West Indian dishes. Hut
“all human history attests that hap
piness for man—the hungry sinner!
—since Eve ate apples, much de
pends on dinner.”
Russian borsch Is probably one
of the best known soups. The large
quantity of meat floating in a sea
of cabbage and sour cream is a
meal In itself, heavy and filling.
Chinese fish soups are known the
world over lor their delicate flavor,
as is Swedish bouillon, made of all
kinds of birds with elks' meat as
the piece de resistance of the soup.
In a Swedish home, the Christmas
porridge is an affair of great Im
portance, made in a gigantic copper
washtub, being stirred by several
women, who take turns stirring, two
at a time for no less than ten hours
on end. In this same home, cooks
are pensioned to prevent family
recipes from being given nway.
Some Queer Sea Foods.
By Andorrans and Polynesians,
landlubbers and seafaring folks,
seafood is held in high regard. In
Siberia, owing to climatic condi
tions, frozen sliced fish is the epi
CUrian's delight. Kukson. the local
fish of tlie salmon family, nearly
takes the place of bread. Frozen,
the skin removed, sliced, and eaten
with salt, it is a savory treat.
But the South Sea islanders,
far from the freezing point, hunt
their treasured pnlolos by the light
of the moon. The tiny worms which
come to the surface of the water
once each year are eaten raw “on
location” or taken home In pails.
In Spain, little, white, transparent
eels two Inches long, called angulas,
are attracted and caught with the
aid of oil lamps, fried in hatches in
popping olive oil, and served hot.
Australians hunt dugong (sea
cow), like a whale, but owing to
the thickness of the hide, their
spears are often turned aside or
broken. The flesh of this mammal
has a flavor akin to both beef and
pork, the meat being used like ba
con. A good sized specimen may
reach 12 feet in length and weigh
GOO pounds.
The river-dwellers of Jtrnzil and
other tropical South American coun
tries have remarkably large fish in
the jaearetinga, from which large
steaks are taken. Fried alligator
tall is also to be had there, as well
ns the lizardlike iguana. The flesh
of the female Iguana is supposed to
he ns delicate as a young chicken,
although occasionally experience lias
proved it to be as tough ns an old
hen. Iguanas are sold alive, tails
tied together to prevent escape.
Liberia Likes Dumboy.
Dumboy, the national disli of Li
beria, is prepared principally from
a sweet, non-polsonous-cassava root
—called cassada in Liberia. The
roots are peeled, boiled, and the
fibers from the center removed be
fore the process of pounding in a
mortar with a pestle is begun. This
process calls for considerable skill
and experience because the cassada
sticks to any dry tiling. The pestle
must be kept moist, but not so
moist ns to make the mass soggy.
Dried and fried dumboy becomes so
hard that it is used as shot in rlfiea.
To the north of Liberia, in Africa,
is found another standard, meal-In
itself dish, couscous. Mutton or
fowl, various vegetables, cooked
separately before mixing, and
served with steamed wheat dump
lings make n highly seasoned Arab
version of an Irish stew.
Climatic conditions play their
part in the formation of tastes in
the Marquesas Islands. Droughts
from which the Marquesas suffer
necessitate long storage of bread
fruit. The white, somewhat mushy
palp Is ground in wooden bowls and
allowed to rise like n mass of fer
menting dough. This polpoi has
to the foreigner an unpleasant odor
and an acrid, hitter flavor.
Without counting calories. Bolivia
supplies a novel way of preparing
the ubiquitous potato. To make
chuno, potatoes are frozen, tram
pled free of water, trampled again
and again, until they are little balls
of pore starch. The countries of
the Amazon basin, however, cling
to manioc or mandioca root. This
root is poisonous, hut the natives
know how to pull its fangs by
shredding, washing, and squeezing
until the remainder can he ground
into sawdust and eaten without
barm.
For green vegetables, the Pacific
islands present taro leaves, a sort
of spinach, which Is cultivated In
swampy ground by the women of
the islands. The roots may also he
eaten like potatoes, or cooked like
polpoi. Chili's greens come from
the sen. Ctichayuyu, or eoelia yuyu
to the Incas, means “garden truck
of the sea" and is a species of sea
weed.
Sarmale Pleases the Rumanian.
The Rumanian variety of n New
England helled dinner Is sarmale.
Soured cabbage leaves, a more deli
cate sauerkraut, rolled around a
meat ball. Is served with coarse
eornmeal mush called mamaliga. a
highly spiced sauce, and often ttiick
sour cream. Mamaliga Is also
served with eggs and other combi
nations. Practically the same dish
is to he found In Sweden—mince
meat of elk wrapped in cabbage
leaves.
As we like dumplings and frit
ters with our meals, so In Khoresm
doughnuts stuffed with rice and
eggs, known as plroclikl. and in
Chinn crullers of coarse flour fried
In vegetable oils, fill that place on
the menu. The Chinese proverb
says: "The stomach, not the palate
decides what shall he the food."
Bread in Afghanistan Is more
than mere bread; it is food, napkin,
and tablecloth, all in one. It de
rives its shape and uses from the
use of quick burning fuel and a
varying demand.
In Cuba, one may reaeli for a
sweet and find it In the barqulllo,
possibly the grandfather of the ice
cream cone in a panel, white loaves
made of egg wiiite and sugar,
which may he eaten separately hut
more often "dunked" in milk and
dissolved; or in the mango, a red
dish golf fruit. Even lollipops,
cotieshaped and wrapped In paper
on a stick, are to he found every
where. Afghanistan keeps step
with our "snowballs.” A plate is
first filled with snow over which a
tiny ladle of sirup is poured. Then
a handful of sweet paste cut into
strips like noodles is added, over
which tiny ladles of cream are
poured before the whole confection
is completed with a dash of rose
water. This Is un Afghan sundae.
Suggesting the taste of good Ice
cream Is the raw, frozen marrow
of reindeer bones popular in Si
beria. China prefers solid cream
for its desserts, but Khoresm, In
southern Russia, prepares pirog, t
pie tilled with mashed raisins.
Delicacies in Chile.
In Chile, the miel de palnta
honey of the palm, is extracted
from the felled tree, and served as
a sirup with "panqiieqties.” Melons
large and yellow, some weighing li
pounds, are grown in Chile, and ir
Darfur are one of the staffs of life
There the melons are broken oper
and scooped Inside, the rind throws
into the sand. When all the puli
has been extracted, it Is squeezed
to break up the tlher. In one ves
sel, it is placed on top of anofhei
vessel and the liquid In the undei
one percolates through straws Intt
the upper. The rir.d is then hrokei
Up and pounded in a vessel fash
lotted out of a tree trunk All pos
slide moisture is withdrawn on!
the residue becomes food and drlnl
for donkey, goat, and fowl.
Liquid refreshment varies ai
much in foreign lands as does thi
solid food. Ten, of one kind ant
another, Is the predominating drink
Ten, of course, In China, strninet
watermelon juice tea In Darfur, or
ange tea brewed from the wild or
ange tree in Tahiti, tea seasonal
with cardamon ginger in Afghanis
tan, and unappetizing butter tea it
southern China.
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