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1 iV INDEPENDENT s' a i-j SIX EASY LESSONS You loo can learn to eat lee cream coneg like a veteran executing any or all of the intricate ttroket illut-trateil at the right by Eddie Colling appearing in Irving tterlin'g Alexander 9g Ragtime Hand99 Simply follow the imtructiong and you'll emerge from the leigon quite experienced and quite megged up S' ft -jt lV'J' iP' iliil: are For The favorite and easiest ice cream stroke Is pulling the tongue In an upstroke movement over the cone lpIng up much like a dog laps milk But don't pull np too fast or slap Ice cream all over jRiur face! The first two movements nice but they get tiresome full enjoyment and variety the cone should be shoved against the tongue (and face) occasionally This aids in pushing the Ice cream to the bottom of the cone for a later trick The downward pull method trated above is quite similar to the upstroke movement the only difference being that the cone Is pulled down whereas In the first movement the cone was held stationary and the tongue pulled up Listen You Brides! Herds the Secret Of Staging Parties By BETTY WELLS a fine art to this busl- ness of being a hostess And for the sake of brides just starting out on their careers here are some of the rules: Yourself first of alL No use to try to put a party over unless you are looking like a million So have a festive dress all ready to slip into at the witching hour and a schedule that permits a last minute primping after got everything finished in the kitchen The Whether to be a company dinner coffee and cake on the porch or iced punch in state have one interesting touch Something unexpected in homemade cake sandwich filling that will enchant the men a salad that is as beautiful to see as it is good to eat If you have one high point you can get by with staples for the rest That makes even a big occasion easy to put over The Have all the dishes and all the glassware going to need sparkling on trays ready to bring forth to set the table whether for buffet supper formal dinner or tea on the porch It will save no end of flutter or dish washing during your party The ideal way is to settle on the kind of entertaining you can do best then buy enough china or glass to serve as many people as likely to have at once The Decorations Flowers arranged where they do most good and in colors that do things for the house From the garden if possible but when there just the right thing available for the picking hesitate to balance the budget to include some blooms The House try to refix the whole place the day before company comes If you start too many ambitious plans for changes just before the party get all involved and probably not finish only make a wreck of yourself Just clean up enough to be presentable Be sure a place for coats and hats and a good mirror for the ladies The Invite as few as possible just because you think you should By Betty WNU Service A Another cute trick is biting the ice cream This Is fun but hard on the teeth as our instructor Indicates with his expression This Is all part of the game however and the successful Ice cream cone eater must grin and bear it For the lazy man veteran Ice 99 cream eaters recommend the circular stroke attained by twirling the cone In the hand Meanwhile the tongue is pushed forward gingerly This Is a cleanup stroke removing the drippings from your cone fa what been waiting for the climax of all this business As a final gesture the experienced ice cream cone eater can bite off the bottom and suck his refreshment downward But you must be good to do this! UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY chool Lesson By HAROLD LUNDQUIST Daaa of Tba Moody lilbla loaUtuto WaatonuSwapapoa Union Lesion for August 14 THE RELATION OF TEMPERANCE TO CHARACTER LESSON Proverbr I Thao-akmlana GOLDEN Wlnt Is a mocker atraaf drink is raging: and whoaoavar la daedvac thereby la not Proverba 30:1 PRIMARY What a Wlaa Maa Said JUNIOR A Wlaa Man'a Way INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR How the Una of Liquor AiTecta Character YOUNO PEOPLE AND ADULT Bow the Uaa of Liquor AH acta Chiraetar Childhood remembrances aye commonly sweet and but come of them are vivid on the pages of memory because they relate to dangerous and distressing things Among the things decent people avoided like the pestilence when the writer was a boy was the saloon To be seen entering such places was to mark character and to be a frequenter of them was to be lost to all that was good and holy High sounding and very pious were the assurances that when prohibition was repealed we would never see the return of the saloon but we have them in multiplied num-er and with a shameless appeal to women as well as men to our 'rowing girls and boys as well aa adults Clever advertising has sought to make it to drink and to be able to iquor It is for that reason that it a of the utmost importance that wa develop strong and intelligent character in our boys and so that they may not only appraise the vicious for what really is but also have the strength of character to fight it not only for themselves but for their weaker brother They should know and proclaim that the saloon whether it be called an or is always a A bar to Heaven a door to Hell Whoever named it named it welL" Developing Strength of Character (Prov Solomon the writer of many of le Proverbs constantly stressed le importance of gaining wisdom man may be a perfect encyclopedia of information and yet may lack the wisdom to apply that knowledge to life Dr Hight Moore in Points for Emphasis provides a most helpful outline of this portion of Proverbs 4 which will assist the reader and teacher He suggests that we must (1) the challenge of a worthy goal by listening as a son to a father to the words which shall give us a long and happy life Then we must (2) the way of wisdom It is a way that has been tested by those who have preceded us and they have found it to be the right way This will enable us to (3) the way of the wicked Note the dreadful picture of those who not only do wickedness but delight ha leading others into their evil paths in fact they cannot sleep unless they have misled some poor souL Shun that path and (4) "irradiate the path to the larger life 18 The way to life is a light path "that shineth more and The way of the wicked is stumbling and darkness The devil and his followers are trying to make young people believe just the opposite Let us teach them the truth that they may (5) every syllable of all the words of God 20-23 (five attention to Word listen to it read it keep it hidden in your heart The heart in Scripture stands for the very center cf spiritual being out of which are all the issues of life Evil thoughts unholy desires and ambitions hidden there will ultimately revealed in overt acts of ungodliness Even so the Word of God hidden there will bring forth life in all its abundant beauty and strength The young man or woman who is bus taught Word in the home and the church will have an impregnable defense against the wiles and temptations of the world the flesh and the deviL IL Exhibiting Strength of Character (I Thess The Lord is coming again! Paul was constantly looking forward to the day of His coming It was not his lot to live until the Lord came but he was not mistaken In looking for Him The Lord has tarried why only He knows but it is the judgment of many excellent Bible expositors that the next great event -to take place in divine history is His return What a glorious hopel But while we await His coming we ere not to sleep as those round about us Watchfulness sobriety of life these become the Christian BEDTIME STORY FOR THE YOUNGSTERS ing Buster Bear The very thought made his hair rise If he had had his terrible gun with him it might have been different But he and so he suddenly made up his mind that he want to fish any more that day He had a funny feeling that he was being watched although he see any one He was being watched Little Joe Otter and Buster Bear were watch- By THORNTON BURGESS Twi Just a Hidden odd surprise Made Farmer Brown's boy's hair to rise 'T' a funny thing for hair to do rise up all of a sudden it? But that is just what the hair on Farmer head did the day he went fishing in the Laughing Brook and had no luck at all There are just two things that make hair rise anger and fear Anger sometimes makes the hair on the back and neck of Bowser the Hound and of some other little people bristle and stand up and you know the hair on the tail of Black Pussy stands on end until her For Lustrous Eyelashes tail looks twice as big as it really is Both anger and fear make it do that But there is only one thing that can make the hair on the head of Farmer Boy rise and as it anger of course it must be the other thing fear It never happened before You see there much of anything that Farmer Boy i really afraid of Perhaps it have happened this time if it been for the surprise of what he found You see he had patiently fished down the Laughing Brook through the Green Forest without getting so much as a nibble and this seemed very very queer to him for it had never happened before Then he had found the heads of some trout on the bank and this had seemed very queer too because they had been bitten off and not cut off with a knife He knew right away that some one else had been fishing and that was why he catch any but the only fisherman he could think of who might bite off the heads of the trout was Billy Mink and he had never known Billy to do it before and leave them lying around that way Besides it seem possible that little Billy Mink could have eaten all those trout He once think of Little Joe Otter and so he was very very much puzzled He was turning it all over in his mind and studying what it could mean when he came to a little muddy place on the bank of the Laughing Brook and there he saw something that made his eyes look as if pop right out of his head It was right then that he felt his hair rise Anyway that is what he said when he told about it afterward What was it he saw? What do you think? Why it was a footprint in the soft mud Yes sir what it was and aU it was But it was the biggest footprint Farmer Brown's Boy ever had seen and it looked as if it had been made only a few minutes before It was the footprint of Buster Bear I I It was right then that he felt Lis hair rise ing him and taking the greatest care to keep out of his sight All the way home through the Green Forest Farmer Boy kept looking behind him and he draw a long breath until he reached the edge of the Green Forest He run but he had wanted to said Buster Bear to Little Joe Otter "I believe he was And Buster Bear was just exactly right WNU Service Ancestors Studied by Science Our n-th degree ancestors or something very near Now Farmer Boy I them still live on this earth and know that Buster Bear had come down to the Green Forest to live He never had heard of a bear being in the Green Forest And he was so surprised that he had hard two specimens of them have been brought to the Field Museum of Natural History here for study One is a skeleton the other is preserved in a bottle They are pigmy tree work to believe his own eyes and I shrews of the East Indies known to he had a queer feeling all over a I scientists as Dendrogale Thev nn little chilly feeling although it was closely resemble the earliest mam-a warm day I male whose fossil remains ham Somehow ho didn't fool lika aeeV bean found in rocks Jeaa Chatham of the movies believes every girl should take precaa-tfoas early rather than wait until ago ereeps np to destroy her beaaty She is seea here appljiag tasteless and odorless castor oil to her eyelashes which keeps them soft and lustrous and promotes their growth.