Virginians Rally to Call cf Hunting Horn
Members of old and prominent Virginia families, whose names have been famous in social life in ihe Old Domin
ion for several centuries, rally to the rail of the hunting horn on one of the One old estates in the Blue Ridge foot
hills for the tirst spring meet.
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II TO THE EDITOR |
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i By Fred Barton. +
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IT MUST be difficult to be bright.
A very literary lady In another
towu has just written me a letter all
full of splutter.
"I'm cross about these suburban
women who form study groups and
then can't be self-supporting mental
ly." she writes. "I've been coaxed
into prepsirin^ another paper, which
means 1 11 stand up and do their
thinking for them. Why don't they
all stay at home and read a book to
themselves if they're such culture
bounds ?'*
I suppose every town has folks who
spend t^pusands for limousines but
never buy a hook. And yet books are
the world's surest and cheapest amuse
ment.
(Copyright.)
Perpetual Fear
A baby, it is ;ahi, has only two
fears ? loud noise and loss of support.
He recovers usually from the former
but rarely ever fro 11 the latter. ? Hav
erhill Evening Gazette.
WHY PEOPLE SNEEZE
By M. K. THOMSON. Ph. D.
SNi;i:Z!N<; is one of the coinm??n
reflexes. Other rellexes are wink
ing. hiccoughing, yawning. gaping,
sobbing, smiling. squirming. trem
bling. shivering, shuddering. wincing.
gnispiiiK. etc.
The reflex is the simplest type of
action capable for a creature ?nd<?wed
with a nervous system, it Is an in
born reaction. The act is definite,
quick and automatic.
The chief function ?>f a relies Is to
protect the organism from immediate
harm. Winking protects the eye.
couching protects the lungs in yetting
rid of foreign substances and mucus
that accumulates in colds and con
gest ions. C rasping protects from a
fall due to sudden losing of hulance.
The same is true of all definite re
llexes. They are ready-made acts for
ready-made situations.
Among the most useful true relieves
is sneezing which protects the nasal
passage from foreign objects and from
anything that i? likely to poison or In
jure the person.
The stimulus for this reflex is not
Problems of the Girl Students
By JEAN NEWTON
COMBS word from a college that
has recently become coed, that
i he fjirl students have been forbidden
to talk to the men!
On the face of it, the ruling Is al
most unbelievable in its suggestion of
the antediluvian.
One reason for coeducation is the
innocousness of the familiar. In
other words, it is the very intimacy
of the daily association of the two
sexes which it Is hoped will wear off
self-consciousness, cultivate the habit
of working side by side without being
discontented by each other, supply
that familiarity which forearms for
necessary associations when school
days are over and when poise in the
presence of the other sex may be a
matter of success or failure of an im
portant transaction.
People who do not believe In that
theory will not approve, of course, of
coed institutions. Hut to estubllsh an
institution as coed, and then make a
I ruling that the women students must
not speak to the men ? well, incon- |
slstency, to my mind, is a mild term
for it.
The fact of the matter is that at
the college in question there are two
thousand male students and fifty co
eds ! In the light of which there is
special interest to this remark of the
dean on the ban on girls talking to
the men :
"It would not have been so bud It
they had only talked to one boy at a
time, but when they stopped to talk
to one, they were soon chatting with
seveu or eight I"
Small wonder, we are impelled to
say. when the ratio is one to forty?
And for remedy they threaten to
expel any girl who hesitates, even
for an instant, ou the campus walks
or in the corridors of the college
buildings to exchange words with a
male student To cure a girl of talk
ing to eight boys at once they forbid
her to speak to even one To cure
boys of flocking around the girls.
I eight to one, they forbid a word with
a girl. Short-sighted would he a mild
word.
The logical remedy, of course, for
such a complaint as eight boys flock
ing around a girl, is more girls In the
college ? so many girls that the boys
| will become used to them and hence
I lie same for all people. A woman of
my acquaintance says that she cannot
take a lump of sugar without sneezing.
Pepper ami snuff and other irritants
almost universally induce sneezing.
Another peculiarity of sneezing as
compared with other reflexes is that
the response is also varied from per
son to person. Thus some people al
ways sneeze three times if they sneeze
at all. Others have a different num
ber as high as twelve or more. This
may he primarily a matter of habit
and the factor of anticipation.
Sneezing, like most of the reflexes,
is a protective mechanism. Taken to
gether the reflexes are the emergency
kit of the physoph.vslcal organism.
<!c) by McCMure Newspaper Syndicate.)
Mlf the next war is fought in the
air," says Practical Polly, "it Is go
ing to be a sad blow to the battle
field-guide profession."
more or less indifferent. And for the
girls the remedy is to let them talk to
the boys untii the novelty wears off,
when they will get down to business,
oblivious to the hoy world. Isn't that
the way it usually works out?
<{?) by the Hell Syndicate. Inc.)
GlftUGAGvP
Good Things Worth Trying jj
By NELLIE MAXWELL S
GRAPEFRUIT Is coining more and
more to be appreciated ; as a
breakfast fruit it has long held ttrst
place, bur a grapefruit cake or pie or
pudding is rather new.
Golden West Cake.
Cream one-half cupf il of butter with
one cupful of sugar, add the well
beaten yolks of two eggs. Sift one uud
three-fourths cupfuls cf flour with two
and one-half teaspoo tfuls of baking
powder, one- fourth t*-aspoonful each
of salt and soda, add to the creamed
mixture, alternating with oue-half
cupful of grapefruit juice and pulp,
freed from membrane. Fold In the
stiffly beaten egg whites and bake In
two layers. Put together with a lemon
filling and cover the top with an Icing
of powdered sugar, butter and grated
rind of grapefruit with Juice to moist
en. ?
Corn Bread With Coconut.
Take one cupful of corn meal, one
cupful of flour, one-fourth cupful of
sugar, five teaspoonfuls of baking pow
der. one-half teaspoonful of salt, one
cupful of milk, one well beaten egg,
two tablespoonfuls of fat* Mix as
usual and add one-half cupful of
shredded coconut at the last. Hake in
a shallow pan for thirty minutes.
<(?). 19S0. Western Newipapur Union.)
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Wind Indicator for Use at Airports <
A novel wind Indicator board desiRned by the weather bureau for tuse at
airports. When one or more of the four tiny bulbs light np they Indicate tbe
direction of the wind and an electric buzzer tell* how fust the wind la blow
lac. Paul A. Miller, Junior meteorologist, la shown In the picture
The Children's Corner A ?Mi.JSr?V?.5?s
A COLOR CUT-OUT
When yon have colored the b?rd* ac
? ordlnp to your knowledge, cut them
out and Insert them as you choose. In
the slits on the base of the bird douho.
These are tbe birds shown: No. 1 Hone
BrMctcd <;ro?brak| No. 2 BlueJ*jrj No.
5 Baltimore Orlolei No. 4 Dloeblrdt No.
6 ilrowa Tkraaheri No. 6 Cardinal
Bird i No. 7 Scarlet Tana*er j No. 8
MockJac Bird.
? Margaret Wheeler Rosa.
THE BIRD
I used to think it a very strange thing
That a bird in a cage didn't care to
sin* ;
That It fluttered about from perch to
tray
And chirped with a note that was sad
all day.
But a bird in a tree that I chanced to
climb
Told me the reason without any rhyme.
lie hopped on the branches and sang
to me
Of the great, glad, joy of being free.
He sang of the sea and the whole
wide earth;
Of the trees and the space and a wee
bird's blrtli.
He flew straight up where the clouds
float by
And freshed his wings In the soft,
blue sky.
And I knew when I saw him a speck
In the blue.
And heard all the joy that he sang of,
too.
That he'd told me the secret without
any word ;
A cage, oh, a cage ? hasn't room for a
bird!
A PATRIOTIC CROSS WORD
PUZZLE
AN AUTOMOBILE TO MAKE
A box from the florists is best but
any box as big and the same shape
will do. Look at figure one, which Is
the top of the box, and cut about where
the dotted line is shown. This will
divide your box Into two parts, one
a bit longer than the other. The short
piece which we will call A, is to be the
radiator. Now take the other part of
your box, the Inside, and cut off about
two inches from one end as shown In
figure 2. Now slip A down over the end
of this part of the box which we will
call C. Now pick up the longer piece
of the first half of the box again,
(this we will call B) and at the open
end, cat a strip two inches wide up
to the top, but not across the top as
we want to leave a piece to shade the
driver's eyes. In B, cut out windows
on each side and then slip B down
over C about one Inch and paste se
curely.
Cardboard wheels, made from round
cereal boxes, milk bottle tops, or laun
dry Inserts may now be attached by
brads or paper fasteners. Be sure to
put a "spare" one on behind. A strip
of cardboard pasted across the front
makes a good bumper, a small spool
glued on top of the radiator, makes a
good radiator cap, and two milk bottle
tops stuck oi< In front will serve as
headlights. Paste inside, straight strips
of cardbourd, bent at the edges for
seats. A large carton such as groceries
come in from the store, will make a
splendid garage for all the cars you
care to make.
Horizontal:
1. Weapons used by Indians.
2. Opposite of yes.
4. A watering place.
f. A place where drinking water to
found.
t. First half of the word entangle.
7. A kind of automobile.
t. A boy's nickname.
9. What Lindbergh is.
11. To send money.
12. Certain kind of birds.
15. Something you do In the water.
17. A message.
19. The first part of a giggle.
21. The first nsme of a famous movln#
picture actor.
22. The abrevlatlon of senior.
24. The first note of the scale.
Vertical:
2. Replied.
10. Abbreviation for railroad.
12. Opposite of closed.
12. To act.
14. A color in our flag.
15. A low voice.
17. What sleepy heads do
IS. I^cave out.
20. Fifth note in singing scale.
21. What you feel for Mother.
22. Those who make homes for hus
bands.
24. Feels great devotion for.
26. A young bull
Si. What Abe Lincoln was.