Howe About:
Good Man’s Reward
The Case of Kruger
Not a Real Philosopher
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By ED HOWE
THAT a good man !s better than
a bad one, and entitled to more
comfort, la the only statement that
has never been disputed by any- ■
body. Even the best behaved con- I
vlct Is rewarded by being made a
trusty: frequently his stripes are
removed, and he Is sent downtown
by the warden on errands, where
he may experience the Joy of ming
ling again with respectable people:
again see sunlight, women and chil
dren. and avoid for a time the fetid
air of the prison the worse behaved
prisoners endure.
So far as I know there has been
no greater exhibition of bad con
duct than that displayed In Rus
sia during the past dozen years, but i
even there the better behaved men
are rewarded. The worse behave*!
receive only a dollar a day. while
the best behaved receive up to
thirty dollars a day. If specially
efficient.
This spread of 1-30 between thp
well and Ill-behaved is admitted to
be Justice even In Russia. Their
main complaint against ns Is that
their dollar a day men get only thir
ty cents here, while their thirty dol
lar a day men get thirty thousand
dollars a day In the Cnlted States.
Still, even the Russians do not 1
dispute the principle that a good
man Is entitled to more than a bad
one: they only dispute the greater
American rewards for decency and
steadiness.
I call attention to the history of
Ivar Kruger again. So long as he
was an honest, industrious, efficient
and polite man, he had no trouble
making a good living, or attracting
the helpful respect and friendship
of those with whom he associated.
Indeed, while so ordering his life,
he became noted not only in his
own country, but abroad. For year
the policy of honesty for Its owr,
sake. Industry for its own sake,
combined with efficiency and polite
ness, not only earned Ivar Kruger
a good living, but made him well
to-do; even rich. It earned him
the respect and confidence of the
best people everywhere. And the
distinction he enjoyed enabled him
to be a useful man; In his various
weil-mannged organizations, he gave
employment and good training to
thousands.
It was only when he became dls
honest that his troubles began.
I do not know how It happens
when any man getting along well In
the practice of a successful life,
throws It all away In becoming a
drunkard, wanton or thief, but such
a thing happened to Ivar Kruger.
Ha left a record as a great scoun
drel when he might have easier left
a record as an honest, successful
and useful man.
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Another man called a philosopher
has been found. He Is eighty years
old, very poor, and lives In the on
save-1 part of a big town. One day
a citizen called on him. and asked
“Have you any friends?”
“Bid you ever know a poor man
to have friends?" was his reply:
"no: I have only acquaintances.”
The visitor discovered that the
philosopher was quite comfortable
and that the owner of the house If
which he lived charged him no rent:
had. In fact, spent some money in
making it more to the liking of his
tenant.
The candidate for the laurels of a
philosopher also confessed that
young men working in a filling sta
tion nearby had been good to him
for months: had regularly supplied i
him with food, fuel, clothing, news I
papers. Another man had given him
a stove: others had given him !
money. Once when the philosopher 1
was ill. a doctor called, and made
no charge.
This man. I fear, will not finally
qualify as a philosopher. His state- i
inent that he has no friends: that
no poor man has. Is not only un
true, but ungrateful. And no true
philosopher tells falsehoods, or Is ■
ungrateful. The man’s own story ;
shows he has friends, and that this
Is a friendly world; that everywhere
acquaintances easily develop into
friends, if one behaves reasonably
well
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If there Is any virtue that works
out well in practice, it is the thrift
and stinginess of the Scotch. Amer
icans are so liberal they use jokes
on the Scotch in their propaganda
to help everybody. Harry Lauder
once asked a friend: “When can
you go to breakfast with me?” The
friend replied quickly and greedily: i
“Any time.” “All right," Mr. Lauder
said, “tomorrow morning, at * your;
house."
You will recall that the great
breakfast to the Belgians, French.
English, Germans, citizens of the
Congo, etc., was at our house, and
that the foreign guests are still
here.
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.Vo other man in America can
make as good a "cab wit" speech as
I am able to make. . . . (Note:
“Cab wit" Is a free translation from
the French, and refers to a man
who, returning home in a cab from
a club meeting where he made a
rotten speech, ts thinking of the
brilliant things he might have said.)
Even the Tots Enjoy Winter Golf in Florida
I it1NTEB golf in Florida is by no means monopolized by grownup folks. This photograph, taken during a
VV juvenile tournament on the Bayshore course at Miami Beach, shows Bobbie Little shooting one out of a
sand trap as an enthusiastic gallery looks on.
^ BEDTIME STORY J
HI By THORNTON W. BURGESS |||
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THE BEECH NUT PICNIC
VER In a certain part of the
Green Forest grow silver-barked
beeches, the trees that Peter Rabbit
thinks are the most beautiful of all
trees that in winter are bare of
leaves. Already they were partly
bare, nnd the leaves which still
clung to them were crisp and yel
low. The beech trees, like Johnny
Chuck, were about ready to go to
sleep for the winter. You see. their
“My, But This Is Going to Be Some
Picnic!"
summer work was about finished,
tn fact. It was quite finished,
(or beneath them hiding among the
crisp fallen leaves were ever and
ever so many ripe, brown, three
sided little nuts, the sweetest little
nuts in the world. That is what
Buster Bear says, anyway, but
perhaps he isn't a fair judge.
Those brown three-sided little
outs were the gift of the silver
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"Pop, what ia compromize?"
"Freezing appendix."
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barked beech trees, for the Joy and
well-being of some of their feath
ered and furred neighbors. All sum
mer long those little nuts had been
growing in little prickly husks on
the beautiful beech trees. At first. I
they bad been green, but with the
coming of fall they had turned
brown. Now had come Jack Frost
of a still October night and opened
the prickly little busks. Merry Lit- j
tie Breezes bad shaken out the
little brown nuts and they had rat-!
tied merrily down through the |
branches to the ground and rolled
this way and rolled that way under
the crisp fallen leaves.
Now, many sharp eyes had been
watching those little husks on the
beech trees and waiting for the
coming of Jack Frost to open them.
The owners of those sharp eyes
knew when Jack Frost did come.
Of course. He always makes his
arrival known by going about and
' slyly pinching all whom he may
find. Just by way of greeting. So
; very early in the morning after
Jack Frost had opened the little
prickly husks, many feet turned
j toward that part of the Green For
est w here grow the beautiful beech
trees, and some wings were turned
in that direction, too. It was the
day of the annual beech-nut picnic.
Chatterer, the Red Squirrel, and
his big cousin. Happy Jack, the
I Gray Squirrel, started just as soon
j as it was light enough to see, but
early as they were, they found Mrs.
j Grouse and family there before
I them. Hardly had they arrived
when Sammy Jay appeared and. I
am sorry to say, he and Chatterer
at once began to call each other
names. Then came Redhead, a
i cousin of Drummer, the Woodpeck
er. who is very fond of beech nuts
Big Tom, the Gobbler, and Mrs.
Gobbler, and their whole family of
I young Gobblers, now nearly as big
as their parents, were the next to ar
rive. and Chatterer greeted them
with a perfect storm of abuse, to
which they didn't pay the least at
tention. Chatterer simply wasted
his breath.
Presently there was a rustle of
leaves, and who should appear
but Lightfoot, the Deer. L’nc' Billy
and Mrs. Possum arrived a few
minutes later, their sharp eyes
twinkling greedily. Whitefoot, the
Wood Mouse, was there, though he
took pains to keep out of sight. Of
course. Peter Rabbit was there. Not
that Peter was at all interested In
those sweet, brown nuts. Peter
doesn't eat nuts, you know. He
was there Just because he couldn't
stay away. He wanted to see what
was going on.
Last of all, shuffling along with
funny grunts and whines of eager
Team Work
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WITTY KI TTY
By NINA WILCOX PUTNAM
The Girl-Friend says necking
used to be a great deal safer when
she was a girl, because the old par
lor sofa didn’t run Into a tree when
you took your hand off It for a
moment.
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ness, came Buster Bear. Buster
Bear Is very fond of beech nuts,
and he hail been counting on these
to help make him fat for the long
winter sleep ahead of him.
“My, but this is going to be some
picnic!” murmured Peter Rabbit
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ftONERS
Instinct is when a man marries a
woman, and habit is when he hangs
his hat on the same peg every night
when he comes home.
BONERS are actual humorous
tid-bits found in examination pa
pers, essays, etc., by teachers.
An author is a person who has j
lost both father and mother.
• • •
A rhombus is a figure having four
parallel sides.
• • •
Caesar received no particular re
ward for the things he had accom
plished, so uniting with Pompey he
held a grand triumvirate
• • • •
A mask is a kind of literature
that starts in the middle of a story
and ends with some one dying.
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“The honeymoon Is over," says
Reno Ritzl, “when hubby dear stops
patting you on the back and starts
slapping your family.”
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When Babies Take
Their Naps
By ANNE CAMPBELL
OUIl neighborhood, when after
noon
Flings down Its golden banner,
Is quiet as a day in June,
Quite in the rustic manner!
There are no eager, laughing girls.
No lusty little chaps
To tease them and to pull their
curls,
When babies take their naps.
All morning they run up and
down
Our happy neighborhood,
And many of the mothers frown.
And wish they would be good!
They run and run. and never rest.
Till mother's voice sounds “Taps !'
And brings the time we like the
best.
When babies take their naps!
There Is no neighborhood so gay
As this, where children run.
We love to see them as they play.
Their bright heads In the sun.
But still It is a pleasant lull.
When in their mothers' laps
They're sung to sleep . . . It’s
wonderful
When babies take their naps!
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THROUGH A
VOfcmans Eyes
By JEAN NEWTON
“THE GOLDEN FROM
THE GILDED"
I WAS waiting my turn with a
number of others having some
special business at the bank.
As I sat there my attention was
occupied with the attractive young
girl seated at a desk nearby. I was
not the only one who noticed her.
There was a man sitting next to me
The girl was entirely oblivious to
our attention, however. Decorative
as she was, she was undoubtedly
useful, too, for she was busy as a
bee making records In a card tile
As I looked at her I commented
to myself how foolish were the sug
gestions occasionally heard for a
routine type of dress for business
girls, how much life and color was
added to this drab bank office by
the heliotrope woolen in which
this girl was so becomingly dressed.
She was the china doll type of
blonde, petite, blue eyes, small fea
tured. Not only was she attractive
of feature and coloring, but how
beautifully she was groomed! Not
a blonde strand was out of place, no
Ink or carbon paper spots marked
her well-manicured hands. An or
nament, I thought, to any office.
And then her telephone rang, and
a shock Jangled its way right
through me. Out of those beautifully
modeled lips came a harsh, rasping
“Hello!" And then, outshocking the
shock, the same voice, no less
rasping, but almost masculine in
Its hardness: “Well, what 'm I
goln’ to do with the papers?”
What price marcelles and mani
cures and color schemes! Who
was It who said, not long ago: “It
is the voice which distinguishes the
golden from the gilded?"
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HOW TO COOK EGGS
THE secret of egg cookery lies
In the simple principle, which is
a rule with all protein foods, never
to cook them at a high temperature,
as heat toughens and hardens pro
tein foods. Eggs, being the most
delicate of these foods, should have ■
especial care in cooking. When we
speak of eggs as boiled hard or soft,
we do not mean boiled at ail. Eggs
will cook hard at 170 to 180 degrees,
depending upon the length of time
to which they have been subjected
to the heat. Eggs to be cooked in the
Quilted Jacket
Glazed drapery chintz In creole
red and orange makes this gay
quilted evening Jacket, worn with
a ribbed crepe frock with neck line
very high at front
shell.if desired hard, should be placed
In a saucepan, using one pint of
boiling water for each egg that Is of
room temperature when put Into
the water; If taken from the Ice
chest, more boiling water will be
needed to cook the egg. Cover
closely and let stand on the back of
the range or In a warm place for
30 minutps. The egg Is then hard
cooked, bm the white will be tender
and easily digested. If a soft
cooked egg of various softness Is
desired, remove at six. ten or twelve
minutes. Once the principle Is
learned for cooking eggs In the
shell it Is learned for other forms.
Low temperature, below the boiling
point, is used for poached eggs
When cooking foods with eggs, place
the dish In water, especially In the
oven cooking. A successful meringue
is one that expands by long slow
cooking in the oven for 20 minutes
In an oven of 230 to 300 degrees.
Ragout of Eggs.
Cook two cupfuls of mushrooms
In three tablespoonfuls of butter,
moisten a tnblespoonftil of flour
1th a little from a half-cupful of
milk, add to the mushrooms, season
with salt and paprika, add the re
mainder of the milk, a little grated
onion. Cut six hard-cooked eggs
into halves, removing the yolks.
Place the whites on a hot platter
hollow-side up. Fill the centers
with the mushroom mixture, pour
the remainder around the eggs. Put
the yolks through a sieve and
sprinkle over the mixture. Garnish
with parsley.
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|jo You Know—
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'r- sorting drico V
-‘1 ClLK COCOONS1. W
That a death penalty for
any person revealing the
methods of the silk worm
industry enabled the Chi
nese to keep them secret
for 2000 years. The culture
extends 5000 years into
the past, although the date
assigned to its beginning by
the Chinese' is the reign of
Emperor Huang-Ti. 2356
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Variety of 2c Stamps
The United States has issued 111
different 2-cent stamps nnd 100 of
these can still be used to pay post
age.
Ice Chapel Is Built by Students
STUDENTS or Lawrence college at Appleton, WIs., dare orecleU tills
^ handsome chapel on the campus, using more than 62 tons of Ice The
structure, which Is 18 feet high, is lighted st night bj 20000 watts of
white and colored lights. '
Good Taste Today
By EMILY POST
Author of
“ETIQUETTE," “THE BLUE
BOOK OF SOCIAL USAGE,” Etc.
YESTERDAY’S GENERATION
ASKS—
DEAR Mrs. Post: My eighteen
year-old daughter is very fond
of tennis and cannot understand
why 1 hold it Is not seemly for her
to ride off with three boys to play
tennis. I tell her she should sug
gest asking another girl to go with
them. She considers me hopelessly
"old-fashioned” and 1 have endeav
ored with little success to show
her what you have voiced In the
past: that conventions, though re
garded by the present generation as
Irksome, have most excellent rea
sons for their existence, and ob
servance of them would prevent re
grets. Will you please present your
opinion of my view?
Answer: Although, according to
the present point of view, there Is
not the slightest Impropriety in go
ing off now and then with three
boys to play tenths, I agree that It
would be a serious mistake should
she make going about alone with
boys a habit. This Is because a
girl, who is always with boys, and
never goes about with other girls,
puts herself in a very Insecure po
sition. Perhaps you might explain
to her that after all the word de
classee means a woman whom the
wives, mothers and sisters of her
men friends refuse to know.
Dear Mrs. Post: Wliat should I
teach my son, who is nine years old,
to reply to an Introduction? I want
him to say "ma'am” but I am told
this Is incorrect.
Answer: To a man, "How do you
do, sir”; to a woman “How do you
do, Mrs. Jones.” “Ma’am” has al
ways been a colloquialism—except
when replying to royalty. But why
“sir” is used when speaking to a
gentleman and why “ma'am” is said
to ladies In only a few localities is
Just one of those things that seem
to have little reason further than
that usage has made it so.
• • •
Dear Mrs. Post: Will you help
me plan a very small wedding In
church, because it has been a long
time since we’ve had a wedding in
our family? (1) Is it necessary for
the bride and groom to have any
attendants? (2) Is it permissible for
the bride’s mother to act as her
matron of honor? (3) And may
the bride's fifteen-year-old brother
give her away?
Answer: (1) The groom must
have a best man. All other attend
ants are optional. (2) Absolutely
no, so far as walking down the aisle
Is concerned. But she could stand
next to her and hold her bouquet.
(3) Yes.
INVITATIONS
DEAR Mrs. Post: The other day
we received this invitation:
“Dear Mrs. Jones—Will you and
Marie come in for tea on Monday,
October 2, at 4:30? Mrs. Blank is
staying with me and I have asked
a few friends in to meet her.” I
know that ordinarily an Invitation
to tea written on a visiting card, or
an engraved invitation, need not be
answered. But what about this one?
Answer: TIiIb one Is an espe
cially polite invitation to tea in the
form of a personal note. It should
be answered with a note saying,
“Mnrie and I will be delighted to
take tea with you on Monday, and
to meet Mrs. Blank.”
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My dear Mrs. Post: I am moving
very soon, and a few days after Pin
settled In my new apartment I
would like to have a cocktail pnrty.
Could I tell my friends that 1 have
moved to a new address and also
Invite them In the same Invitation1
Answer: Of course!
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Dear Mrs. Post: My sister received
a wedding Invitation for the cere
mony and reception of a very dear
friend of hers who lives out of town
and whom sister has not seen for
several years. She cannot go and
insteud of the usual third person ac
knowledgment to her friend’s par
ents, would It not be better for her
to write a personal note nnd explain
why she cannot be at the wedding?
Answer: Of course to this, too.
• • •
My dear Mrs. Post: We have in
vited out of town friends to come
stay with us for a week. I feel that
they will drive In their car, which
means that they will have their
chauffeur in town, too. Are we sup
posed to pay for gnrage rent and
also to find a place for their man
to stay, because we have no addi
tional sleeping rooms where we
could accommodate him?
Answer: No. Their car nnd their
chauffeur are their responsibilities.
If you have several servants and
It Is convenient to you to Invite
him to tnke his meals In your kitch
en, he may perhaps accept this In
vitation. Or he may even then pre
fer to eat at a restaurant of his
own choosing. At all events, the
responsibility to lodge and board
him would be yours only If you lived
In a big house far out In the coun
try
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