Hammond Times, Volume 16, Number 84, Hammond, Lake County, 26 September 1922 — Page 9

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LITTLE PRINCESS

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would think It wonderful fun to live m a castle and to be a cousin to a princess but Geraldine sometimes grew very tired of it. To be sure she didn't mind there being: no nice white bath rooms with hot and cold water and pretty, shining faucets (castles never had bath rooms you know), because Geraldlna had never seen or heard of such things in all the eight years of her' life. She didn't mind that there were no elevators and that she had to laboriously climb up the long, long flights of steep stairs that led to her own little room up In the tower. Geraldine had never heard of elevators because there were none In those days so why should she think of them? And she didn't mind always staying at home and never having the fun nf trin heranse nrineesses al

ways liad stayed at home and anyway, little girls didn't look well, or folks thought they didn't, riding big horses and horse back was the cnly way folks traveled in those far off days. But the thing that made Geraldine tired of being a princess was having to stay In the castle all the time and having to be so very, very particular about her manners. Manners, especially a girl's manners were very Important when Geraldine was a little .girl. She couldn't run. little girls didn't run and anyway, their dresses were so long It's doubtful whether they could run even If they had been allowed to. They couldn't speak unless spoken to and then only "Yes. madam." and "No. madam." or the like which you can see would soon get very stupid. But don't think Geraldine never had a good time. Oh. but she did. Only she got tired of staying In so much and of being so proper Just as any little girl would. ' One of her very favorite amusements was feedins the birds. The one window in her room had a wide stone window sill and on that sill every single morning. Geraldine spread crumbs for the birds. The birds knew the breakfast was for them and they came, in great numbers. They ate and chattered and chattered and ate and Geraldine became well acquainted with each one. "Here, you great black one!" she would say. sternly, "don't you see you have had three bites while this little fellow has had but one? Walt your turn now rtid let others have a chance!" And she would put out her hand and hold the blackbird gently till the littler birds got a bite or two. He didn't seem to mind for he had been coming to that window sill for his breakfast for so many weeks tht he knew perfectly well there woud be enough for all even though he did

have to wait when the little lady held him back. After the birds were fed. Geraldine had lessons. Not Interesting geography and nature study and all the things folks study In school today. Dear me no! She studied reading out of the Bible which was interesting enough, but not the least like reading today. For 6he didn't have a book, the verses were read to her and she had to commit them and then say them back, verse after verse and every word Just right. But her principle lesson was embroidery. For It was thought very, very necessary that a cousin to a princess should know how to do beautiful embroidery. The sewing was fastened In a small wooden frame and was held on a rack in front of the little glrL And for long hours at

"Your father has had a report of you each week and he has seen how diligent and Industrious you have been." Geraldine blushed a rosy red. Praise was very unusual and never had she had such words said to her before. Down In a corner of her heart she felt a bl uncomfortable. Did her mother know that many times when her fingers had been working hard and welt her thought had been out of doors? Did her mother suspect that many times when she was feeding the birds, like a cousin to the princess should, she had been wishing that she was free to fly about as they were? Should she tell? Her mother had been a little girl once, maybe she knew how it felt; maybe But Geraldine's mother was talking. "Your birthday comes next week

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"Oh," She Exclaimed Happily As She Spread Out Her Arms In The Sunshine

time she sewed, making birds and flowers and houses and hills with her needle and bright colored yarns. She could embroider most beautifully. One day In May, Geraldine's mother sent for her one morning and called her from her work. "You have been doing so well all this year." said her mother, proudly.

and we want to give you something you want very much. We want you to have one day to do Just as you wish. How would you like to spend it dear? Do you want a party? Or to make a new gown? Or what shall we plan for you?" Geraldine didn't have to think a minute to know what she wanted to

do on her ninth birthday. She wanted to get out on the grass and play! But

would a cousin to a princess be allowed to do that? "Oh, I know what I should like above all things!" she cried In the formal sounding words little girls used then. "I should love to walk on the trass outside the castle and to play and pick the flowers In the meadow." "But. Geraldine!" exclaimed her mother in surprise, "you daily walk on the garden paths and the flowers in the meadow bloom wild would a

princess' cousin care to bother with those?" "Oh, Mother." answered the little girl. "I see them from my window and they are so blue and so yellow. I love them. And the grass outside the castle is so green and fresh." "Then you shall have your wish," said her mother. "On your birthday you shall put away your embroidery and all day long you shall play where you like outside the castle. Only some one must be near you to see that no harm befalls you." Every day of that whole week till her birthday, Geraldin? thought of what she would do when the day came. And she could hardly wait till the next Thursday rolled around. Bright and early she was up feeding her blrd3 at the window. Not once was she to see her embroidery that had all been carefully put out of sight the evening before. , After breakfast her mother sent for her and together they walked out to the meadow that sloped down from the great castle. While her mother 1 and the maids who came with her eat i under a tree, Geraldine raa out into the warm June sunshine. "Oh!" she exclaimed happily as she spread out her arms in the sunshine, "I love you all! i iove you all! Flowers, birds, clouds!" Then she set to work picking the daisies and buttercups and bluebelU she had seen from her tower room. And though as Geraldine grew up she had many happy birthdays, celebrated with gorgeous parties and great balls, she always said that none were half as much fun as the one spent exploring the meadow and walking, for the first time In her life. In the open. Doesn't it seem funny when we remember how easy it is for us to go on picnics, that years ago, walking out of doors was such an unusual thing for a little princess' cousin?

EDDY had a birthday party and

invited Susia May. little Mary and Susie's two dolls Dolly and Cherry.

Susie wore a PINK dress dotted all over with YELLOW embroidered dots. Her sash was YELLOW and she had a PINK ribbon tying her YELLOW curls. Little Mary wore a light BLUE dress with PINK ribbons about the neck and for a sash, also tied on her

THE JUNIOR COOK

JIOOXS A LA MODE

Chill, firm, ripe cantaloupes or nutmeg melons providing one-half as many as there are to be persons served. Have ready plain vanilla ice cream. One quart will serve six to eight portions. When ready for desert cut melons in half and scoop out the seeds with

a dull edged spoon. Be sure you remove all seeds but none of the good pulp. Put a spoonful of ice cream Into each half and serve at once on individual plates. This is a very delicious hot weather desert and Is very simple because no cake or wafers are needed.

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piump little wrists. She had ELLIS socks with a little bow of riNK. at the top. "Mary's hair is Just like mine.' said Teddy, nodding his BROWN locks. "But Dolly's ia like yours. Susie." "And Cherry's is BLACK as every one can see," said Mary. "Hasn't she a pretty BLUE dress on. Her sash and the bands about her dress are PINK, so are the flowers in her hair and on her dress." "Dolly's dress is pretty, too," said Susie .May. ' That's a PURPLE feather in her YELLOW hat. It matches her PURPLE and GREEN striped dress. Her sash is YELLOW and her socks are PURPLE with YELLOW ribbons and shoes." "She's lovely!", -cried Teddy, admiringly. "How do you like Fido's dress?" "Ha! Ha! Ha! He's all dressed up In a GREEN ribbon!" cried Mary, gleefully. "But look at Ted3y's suit. It's GREEN, too. but he has a RED

lie and a WrHITE collar and buttons." "Look at my birthday cake," said Teddy. "Oh! Oh I Oh! It has RED, BLUE and YELLOW candles on it with Jittle colored rosettes to match cried Susie. "And YELLOW sugar plumbs." added Mary. "The flames on the candles are RED with YELLOW tips." said Teddy. It was a most magnificent cake Indeed and Teddy's Mamma had fixed it up on a large BLUE plate with white lace paper under it. She spread a little yellow table, too. with a beautiful white cloth that had a BLUE design all around the edge of it. The room had YELLOW wallpaper and there were dark BLUE curtains with light YELLOW lacey curtains under them at the window. The carnet was light EROWN. Everybody had PINK cheeks, of course, and Fido's tongue was RED. The border can' be colored light GREEN and the lettering PURPLE.

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case this cabinet should be a welcome addition to any household not already pro

vided. Select clear, straight grained material of which to make the cabinet. Work both ends together to be sure they are exactfy alike, and square upon the top and bottom edges, or the case will not be square which will cause trouble in fitting the door. Make rabbet at d to receive back. If shelf c is to be grooved in, the groove should be made now. also the M" holes k for the screw eyes which are to support the shelves as they cannot be done so easily after the case is fastened together. The partition or shelf c may be grooved in if the best is desired but it will do quite as well if it is cut square and nailed in place. If it is grooved a shoulder should be cut at the Joint aa indicated In the section A by dotted lines. Be careful in setting the case up that it is exactly equal distance between the sides at top and bottom so that the drawer and door may be fitted easily. Nail the top and bottom in place, push the partition in from the back if it is grooved in and nail the back in place to hold the cabinet square. Make the drawer, fitting the front corners as indicated in section of drawer and cutting back between the

sides which must be grooved near the bottom edge to receive the bottom as at e. In fitting the drawer be sure it is not made too small for that is the greatest danger. In making the door cut the stiles 1" longer and H" wider than needed. The rails should be cut the exact length but " wider, and placed so the glass opening of the door will be the required size. By doing this the outside of the door will be enough larger than the space it Is to fill to allow it to be fitted, for like the -drawer, the danger In making a door of this sort is that it will be too small If made by working each piece to given size separately: Instead th

door must be considered as one piece and made with allowance for fitting as one piece. Cut "the hinges n into the door and hang it, placing the door stops at o. The shelves h may be cut to slide easily but not loosely from top to bottom. A hole may be bored a little way into the bottom of each shelf to fit over the screw eye as at m which will prevent slipping. The case may be finished by staining, varnishing or enameling with two or three coats of flat white, sandpapered between coats and covered with a light varnish. Put braato knob on drawer and cupboard catch on door after case is finished.

and some of them are so innocent looking that they would fool a crow. They talk about this being a free, law-abiding country! Why, if we happen to build a nest in the flap of an awning, away up out of everybody's way. they are liable any minute to let it down, spilling nest, babies and all right down on the pavement. They think no more of killing us than they would a mosquito, and a whole family of us may be murdered in cold blood, whatever that is. and the next morning there won't be a line in the papers about it. And then, we can work a whole week bringing rags, grass and feathers, and make a lovely nest in a gutter, or in the fancywork over a window, and fill ichuck full of eggs or little squashy babies, and along will come a man with a pole or a broom handle and push It out, breaking the eggs or killing the babies, even after we tell them over and over again that we made it, and it belongs to us. Some seasons we have so many nests destroyed that we don't succeedTn" raising more than a dozen or so children, when by rights, we should be able to show thirty-five or forty., My wife gets so j discouraged sometimes that she says I

she feels like flying down in the street and letting one of those car wheels with chains on it run over her, and end it all. And that's enough to keep me worried all the time, knowing how she feels about it. They actually try to prevent us from getting anything to eat. and if we venture in a yard where chickens are being fed they shoo us away, and throw stones, clods and old shoes at us. In the schools the children are taught that they must be kind to the birds, and must never harm any of the "dear little feathered folks" except English sparrows! You know what boys are anyhow, and you can Imagine how they treat us. when their teachers tell them it is all right to kill and maim the English sparrows. Even the other birds have a spite against our folks, and many la the time an old bluejay has given me a peck that hurt for days. But most of them don't fight us; they do what is worse. They turn up their bills, as they have to separate their nose to elevate, when we try to be sociable, and fly away, as much as to say. "We don't care to .cultivate your acquaintance, Mr. Sparrow." The

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WHAT ARE THEIR NAMES ?

THIS LITTLE PIG WENT TO MARKET

The Troubles of Mr. English Sparrow

HIS is what comes from being

a sparrow all covered with feathers, and with no place rough enough for a fellow to

strike a match. I might strike It on one of my feet, but who ever heard of striking a match on a foot? Yes, I smoke, and who wouldn't when the pavement is simply littered with perfectly good "ducks," and all I have to do is to pick up a stub, and then hustle for a match. And I notice that all the other fellows smoke, and why shouldn't I? Goodness knows. I ought to have some pleas

ure, for I certainly have more than my share of trouble. To begin with, if I have a friend in the world. I'd like some one to show him to me. I'm dodging sling-shot bullets, side-stepping car wheels, getting out of the way of something or other, and leaving part of my tall feathers in some cat's claws, from morning until night, and it's the same thing over and over again every day. If l find something to eat. I'm actually afraid to pick It up for fear It has poison in it; and there must be a new kind of trap Invented every day.

. ... d n,uuuic, urn uuumons are in oro.cr. see li you can make out the name or the clrl and also the name or the boy. Start at No. J ; draw a straight line to No. 2. another one from 2 to 3, etc., and you will hare the names or each. What are they?

high and mighty airs the mockingbird puts on make me sick, aad the way the robin brushes past when I sidle up with a pleasant "Good morning" ia the limit. But with all my troubles I manage to have a pretty good time and many-a fine dinner I pick up in the gutter and many a good bath I have in the dusty streets. And if these bis humans think they can stop me from hanging rags from the eaves and stuffing straw behind the shutters they are mistaken.

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HE greetings over, Peter." said the cousin, "If you're bound

For home you've got to travel over pretty rugged ground ;

Your basket s heavy, too, 1 know -I think I 11 go along

And help you with your load and see that nothing else goes wrong. Pete thought his troubles ended now without a single doubt; " They hung the basket on a stick and gaily. started out; And it is very pleasant To relate that nothing more Befell the market pig before he reached his cottage dcor.

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I'm Dodging From Morn To Night

WORD SQUARE My first is where we go in summer. , My second is a place of rest. ,My third is public My fourth is a combination of r's and e's. .My fifth is to go In. -STAR PUZZLE 8 12 7 9 S 6 6 4 The central letter is E and there are five letters in each word. 1 to 9. A fish. 2 to 9. One of the U. S. A. 8 to 9. A bird.4 to 9. A fruit. 9 to-5. An animal. 9 to 6. A boy's name. 9 to 7. A girl's name. 9 to 8. A number. AKSWERS STAR rVZZLE 1 -9. Whale. 2-9. Maine. 3r9. Eagle. 4-9. Grape. 9-5. Eland. 9-6. Edgar. 9-7. Emily. 9 8. Eight. WORD SQUARS SHORE HAVEN OVERT R E R R E ENTER WHAT ARE THEIR XAllESr ALICE and JOHN

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