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The Alamance Gleaner '] VOL. LVII. GRAHAM, IS, C., THURSDAY DECEMBER 24, 1931. NO. 47. ANYWAY be has some queer wnys. That It what I'eter ltabblt thinks, and Peter ongbt to know. But as to that It is <iulte probable that Buster thinks some of Peter's ways queer. It Is the way of the world to think other folks queer, and Buster thinks some of Peter's ways queer, and I am quite sure that both think your ways and mine very queer Indeed. To Peter's way of thinking one of Buster Bear's queerest habits Is that of sleeping away most of the winter. Since bis talk with Prickly Porky the Porcupine, Peter had begun to under stand why Johnny Chuck and some of the others went to sleep as soon as cold weather came, to stay asleep until Mistress Spring should arrive. They Peggy Saved Four This is Peggy, of Los Angeles, who saved four persons from probable death by carbon monoxide poisoning. Al though violently sick from the deadly fumes, the faithful dog, sensing some thing was wrong, barked a warning to arouse the household after she had failed to awaken a boy made uncon scious by the gas. i Gl&LtGAGJ0 "The difference between a regular widow and a golf widow it simple," says knowing Nora. "The husband of the one lies under the sod and that of the other lies over it." (WNU Service.) TASTY TORTES FOU the cake par excellence, the torte Is one of the daintiest. Our German cooks excel In this kind of a cake combination. Tortes are rich with nuts, chopped or rolled fine, plenty of eggs and crumbs, with spices. The baking Is another Important point, hs slow, careful baking Is necessary for a Ught and tender torte. Date Torte. Rub sixteen dates to a smooth paste with two tablespoonfuls of lemon Juice. Beat two whole eggs, add seven yolks, add one^and three-fourths cupfuls of | KITTY McKAY f 2 Dy Nina Wilcox Putnam j TIm girl-friead says *h? almost bought a carry-all for taking thlnga to tho baaeh, tha other day, and only Just romomborsd In tlmo that har husband would bo eh sapor. lb Ml MlnM t-SNT ????!? 1 OUR BEDTIME STORY ! ;; By THORNTON W. BURGESS ;; had to sleep or starve, for there was none of the food the; need, and wouldn't be so long as winter lasted. But somehow Peter couldn't seem to make the reason tit the case to Bus ter Bear. Buster didn't seem to want to go to sleep for the winter. He hnd prowled around until after the snow had come to sta;, and then, and not until then, he had stretched out on his bed of leaves under the shelvlpg rock deep In the Green Forest, where he had slept away the last winter, and Peter knew that they would see no more of him until spring. " Now, why should he go to sleep for weeks at a time that way? Peter puzzled and puzzled over It ai he turned It over In his mind. Johnny Chuck lives on tender green things, and In winter there are no tender green things. Old Mr. Toad lives on worms and bugs. At least there are none where Old Mr. Toad can get them. But with Buster Bear It was different. Why shouldn't he keep awake all winter Just as Iteddy Fox and Old Man Coyote do? It seemed to Peter very absurd that sucb a great big fellow as Buster Bear, of whom everybody else was afraid and who bad such a great warm fur coat, should hide away and sleep Just because It was winter. Finally he went back to Prickly Porky to try to satisfy bis I curiosity. I "Buster Bear Is smart," said Peter. "He Is one of the smartest of all the people In the Green Forest. Every body says that. And If he Is so smart why can't he catch enough to eat In the winter Just as tteddy Fox and Old Man Coyote do? They don't waste their time sleeping, and they dont starve to death. They may go hungry some of the time. Most of us do that In bad weather. But they catch enough to live on. Why doesn't Bus ter Bear?" "Huh!" grunted Prickly Porky. "You don't know much about Buster Bear. What do you think he Uvea on, anyway?" "Why, on any of us little people he can catch," replied Peter promptly. "Everybody knows that I" "Then everybody knows something that everybody doesn't know at alL That Is the trouble with a lot of peo pie?they think they know when they don't know. Now take the queer case of Buster Bear. Every one seems to think that because he eats a mouse or a rabbit or some other of the little forest people silly enough not to keep out of his reach, that he Uvea on them altogether, Juqt as Old Man Coyote does. That shows how little some folks know about their neighbors. I( Old Man Coyote should catch you, Peter, which I hope he won't, you would make blm a good meal. But you wouldn't be more than a mouth ful for Buster Bear. Two or three fat mice would do Reddy Fox for a whole day, but they wouldn't more than tickle Buster Bear's stomach. Buster eats meat when It happens to fall In bis way, but what he lives on mostly are roots and berries and nuts and bugs and fish and frogs, and he has to have a lot of them. Where, pray tell, would he flod.theni at this time of the year? He Is just like Johnny Chuck and Bobby Coon and the other sleep ers?he'd starve If he didn't sleep." "Thank you. Prickly Porky," said Peter politely. "I've learned a lot. Yet even now I cannot help feeling that It Is very queer that such a big, strong fellow like Buster Bear should sleep all winter. Anyway, I hope be has pleasant dreams." ?SI bv J Q Llosd.l?WOT Service. THE SHEPHERD'S! STAR | i * ????? X ;; By DOUGLAS MALLOCH i i ? y IT IS not strange that shepherds were The Brat,to note the new-lit skies. Self-love Is no philosopher. But fenders of the sheep are wise. It Is the generous, the kind. Who are the first the Christ to find. And those who gain the gift of heaven Are always those who first have given. Now in our arms we-take the earth. Even as shepherds take the sheep. Give strangers cheer, and children mirth. And comfort to the ones who weep. It Is not strange that those who love First feel the radiance from above. As shepherds, some poor lamb en folding. Were first the Shepherd's star be holding. (A. 1111. Dousleo Henoch.)?WNU Service. China Likes Odd Shaped Bridges HEltE Is an oddly shaped bridge recently constructed over a small lake at Shanghai, China. It provides a way to one of tbe well known tea houses where tourists find entertainment and refreshments. sugar, beat well, add the dates, three tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate and one teaspoonful each of cinnamon, all spice, and a capful of cracker crumbs. Stir well and fold In the stiffly beaten whites of seven eggs. Bnke In a large spring form forty minutes. Schaum Tort*. Bent three egg whites until stiff but not dry, add one cupful of sugar very lightly and gradually, not to lose the lightness, a pinch of salt, one-half table spoonful of vinegar and one-half tea spoonful of vanilla. Bake In two deep layer tins for one hour. But together ,w!th whipped cream, or add nuts and chopped pineapple with tbj cream. Walnut Torte. Beat the yolks of six eggs with one capful of sugar, add one-fourth pound of walnuts and six lad; Angers grated, two tablespoonfuls of Aour and one teaspoonfu! of baking powder. Add Juice and rind of a lemon and when all the iLgredlents are well mixed, add the stiffly beaten egg whites to which a pinch of salt has been added. Bake In layers In a moderate oven and use the following: Filling. To one beaten egg yolk add two tablespoonfuls of sugar, and three fourths of a cupful of milk. Cook, stirring constantly utltll the mixture coats the spoon, add one and one-half cupfuls of grated walnut meats with a flavoring of almond and vanilla. Use between the layers and tee the top of the torte. (0. 1931. Western Newepaper Union.) | How Railey and Lake Will Explore the Lusitania ;; | SrMow I/akx^s Stccv Divuxa Staikvay S. S. IvsrctiMiA. | THE British board of trade baa (lira to tha Lake-Italley expedition official permission to explore tbe wreck of the I.usltanla. which waa annk by a German eubmartne off the aouihweat coast of Ireland on klaj 7, 191.1. and the work It la belle*ed will now go ahead wltb tbe devices Invented by Simon lake, the American developer of underwater craft. Captain Ralley. leader of the expedition, anys there will be no attempt to raise the l.oxltanla or to aalrare much of the cargo, though aome of tbe latter, It la hoped, will be brought to the surface by the lake submarine salvaging tube. Undersea photography at depths never before achieved will be an Important objective of tbe expedition. The Illustration shows bow this la to be carried on. ' ^flowjce <^y6xr\9 mw > CC^")OB PAltSEI.L, home from / V college for Uie holidays, en \ || 1 tered one of the rear pews I j of the great cathedral and Hsettled himself with a satis ed air of expectancy. Bob had always wanted to attend one of these mld night serrlcea and at last he ha^maae It possible?forced the Issue as It were. Bob looked about him. There was Mary, the Uother of Jesus, bending over the babe. Not far ?way was Joseph, the father. Mary's expression made him think of his own mother, when she and dad started off In the car for the hnndred-mlle drive to his nnmarrted aunt's home at Wakefield. Dad had said: "Too bad your holiday Job keeps you from driving with us, Bob. But Til meet you at the station In the morning." And mother, understanding ber son ? little better than father, had said: "You won't miss the midnight train, will you. Bob? It would spoil Christ mas not to have you with us, you know." And he. Bob, had said: "AU right," not knowing himself Just what he meant by It. And he felt sure mother didn't either. But after they bad gone be became more and more positive he was not going to Wakefield. Christmas was meant to be a happy time and he had been away from home all the year and besides he wanted to go to the tea dance Christmas afternoon with Mar garet. Of course he knew mother would have had the Christmas at home If she had been able, but she hadn't gotten over that operation yet and father Insisted upon considering his sisters and accepting their urgent Invitation. The manager of the store had told Bob to go but Bob seised upon the ex cuse to work until the store closed at eleven. He was going to do as be pleased. Christmas was the time to be happy. But when he called Margaret she ?was going away with her parents for Christmas. That in itself was disap pointing but he would see what the midnight service was like anyway. But he wasn't a bit comfortable. Mary looking at that Christ child the way she did began to annoy him. It was too much like mother's look?and mother wasn't welL "Ob, hang It all P Bob muttered. "Why can't a fellow do what he wants and be happy?" Ha seized his coat and dashed out There was just time to catch the twelve-flfteen. No use taking a sleeper. Bob entered the coach with Its nod ding occupants. But who were those wide-awake people a few seats dcwwV "Margaret I For Pete's sake! Where're you going?" Bob's exclama tion roused several of the sleepers. "Why, we're going to tfakefield. Dad's people live there and we go there occasionally for Christmas. This happens to be one of the occasions" "Well, I'm more lncky than I de serve," Bob laughed a little awkward "Will, I'm Mora Lucky Than I Da ta rva." ly. "That's where I'm going. Do yon auppoae there'll be any kind of a danceT' "I know there la I was wondering who I'd go with, but now I know." "Yea, yon can know that for sure," Bob grinned. Bob waa philosophizing to himself as he dressed for breakfast: "I tare would have been a cad to have atayed at home. Dad at the train to meet me and mother np waiting,, so relieved and happy when I arrived. And a data with Margaret for good measure. Geet Wouldn't I have been tore at niysdlf at home? Christmas happiness means thinking of others be sides ourselves, I'm convinced." ?igg 1931 ggi? ltli. W*Un NcwiMMr u?loa.i ? ? ' HE poinsetta, a ajaM at f ?*\ the Christmu hum on the V^. J ) Pacific coast aad which has ntl become generally accepted " mch 111 Eastern atataa ?3WPS also, derives Its peculiar -Jfcjg name from Ita discoverer. ~**r Joel Boberts Poinsett (1TI? 1831). who fooad It la Mexico early la the Nlneteeeath century aad brought to the attention of the botaalcal world. Doctor Poinsett (tor as a young man he studied medicine abroad) was quite a fellow la various ways. He was appointed special minister to Mexico In 1822, after be bad tietul ru ior ura |vm? meat an Important previous mlaaloB to Chile and other Sooth Americas countries; and la teraal dllBcnltlee prevailing la tee or two of the coun tries below the Isthmus at the time of his visit, his leadership was rec ognised and made use of In restoring order. Iron 1825 to 1829 he adminis tered the regular portfolio of minte ter to Mexico, and published two vol umes of his experiences and observa tions In that country. Doctor Poinsett also was a member , of the South Carolina legislature, a congressman from that state for four ' years, and was secretary of war ha President Van Buren's cabinet from 1837 to 1841. Probably one of the world's greatest outdoor displays of the polnsettla Is that maintained by the city of San Diego In Balboa park, site of the 19U exposition. The planting occupies an area approximating two acres, and as some of the stalks reach a height of fourteen feet and a diameter of more than three Inches a foot above the ? ground, the garden Impresses one as ? '? young forest of green with a brilliant red top. Full effect Is attained about 4 December 10 and continues several '* weeks. I HI. Western Nswsnsotr Union.) Vfl
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