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april e5capade by kathleen norris what new york is wearing by annabelle vorthington chapter i th dinner symphony in the ohara kitchen began on a particular march afternoon at about four oclock it began at some minute between four and five on every separate day of every years three hundred and sixty- five days teresa elizabeth deanc ohara fortyfive years old hand some resolute adequate knew its every chord and organpoint and oc cupied permanently the position of conductor b cen the hours of three and eight oclock every day she thought in terms of cookery mentally she ranged her forces about her she cou 1 talk confidentially or even forcefully to any one of her six children and still have going on quite uninterrupt edly in her mind active computations regarding raisins lard the cracked yellow bowl the teapot the cold bis cuits or the necessary trip to the cor ner grocery feeding the children had been her job since the man had died on her some seven years earlier confronted by all the problems of pennile s wi dowhood with a posthumous infant upon his way and almost eight thou sand meals per annum to be provided from absolutely nothing teresa o hara had been conscious cf no par ticular consternatioii hers was the marvelous viewpoint of the child jr the philosopher there was never more than one meal about which to worry from teresa oharas point of view and that was the next her sublime faith in a protecting fatherly power rose superior to all circum stance if difficulties arose teresa told the children calmly that they were privileged to help the lord carry his cross a sign of friendship and favor and when the clouds broke the commented sfnipty sure what have we ever done that god would 1 car our prayers this way the lord mary kate who was teresas oldest daughter used to supi- rarize it simply has mother coming and going breakfast was usually a scrambled and hurried meal in the ohara house and most of the children had their luncheon away from home but rupper as mrs ohara called the evening meal was always an event she loved the cooking of it dom estic slavery was an eternal delight to her her kitchen a kingdom rather than a prison shj would come in tired and laden from a trip to the market and per- haps sit in the kitchen a minute hat ted coated panting her round kind pleasant face damp with summer heat but after a trip to her adjoining bed- room she always returned fresh and expectant her hat gone her street dress changed for a stiff faded ging ham her hair slicked comfortably hack from her white innocent fore head her big hands bare and free ready for labor and then began the happy familiar routine that never really became rou tine even after years grocery pack ages to open things to carry into the big pantry things to bring forth the faucets in the sink would roar spoons tinkle pans clatter there was a round shallow wooden bowl in which to chop apples or cold meat there was a little blunt axe with which to split ptove wood or hack a heavy squash to pieces there were worn eggbeaters dingy muffin tins iron frying pans black and heavy wire strainers loos ened in little loops from their frames teresa ohara knew them all as an artist knows his brushes she never would use a dishmop she liked a limp old soft gray rag full of fine holes but jlniy kate demand ed a riop and kept it safe up behind the alarm clock on the sink shelf and with a pair of rubber gloves from the fiveandten her mother regarded these niceties with outward scorn oc casionally being heard to observe that it was a pity so many people thought more of the preservation of their hands than oftheir immortal souls made of pure mater ials in modem sunlit factories no expense spared to have it clean wholesome and full flavored wrigley u wrapped and scaled to keep it as good as when it leaves the factory wtuglevs is bound to be the best that men and machines and money can make the delicious peppermint flavorfreshens the mouth and aids digeition issue no 3230 but it was to be observed that she never permitted one of the younger members of the family to touch the said gloves or mop or to interfere in any way with the safety of these and other refinements introduced by her oldest daughter the kitchen was roomy as any apartment where seven persons have most of their meals may well be it was one of the seven rooms in an old- fashioned wooden house hideously- typical of a hideous architectural era the house was steep narrow shabby its paint worn away and its wooden steps and railings splintering even the presence of the seven oharas their humanness their enthusiasms their youth and beauty could no make the stiff upstairs bedrooms the baywindowed parlor the dark un used dining room attractive but the kitchen was homelike ami indeed the oharas thought the whole place wonderful the house had once belonged to uncle miles and after papa had died hadnt uncle miles in vited the whole crowd of them to come from a crowded dark sunless lair in brookyn tenement and make their home with him in the free sunshiny california this miracle of brotherly generosity still gilded the ofarrell street house in san francisco with glory they never forgot it the warm loving richness of the oharas young pray ers were ltill poured over the memory of hard little tight little shrewd lit tle old uncle miles a quarrelsome dyspeptic suspicious character throughoul all the fiftyseven years of selfish lonely life uncle miles blos somed after death into a loved and admirable if slightly eccentric family tradition and his anniversaries were kept as faithfully as papas own the children usually appeared in the pleasant afternoon kitchen in the order of their ages this n a certain wet march afternoon brought seven- yearold pat home first pat who was blond and silent and mysteriously sweet and adored by them all pat st at the end of the kitchen table and vouchsafed to his mother occa sional shy cryptic comments upon school companions ind life in gen eral while pat was eating his bread and honey tess and regina usually came in flushed and jaded and a little cross from the walk home from the sisters school regina waj pale browneyed slim and proud tess dark vivid and emotional like her mother they were always sent upstairs to wash their faces and change their dresses and they usually waddled and protested but in the end hey came down serene and comfortable and while regina the younger always made a great stir about study to evade domestic duties tess entered eagerly into dinner pre parations tess would be heard beg ging her mother in an aside to repeat the formula for gingerbread sour milk mother and is that enough butter mother then tom soventcen filthy irre sponsible too big for his clothes a born tease a bad student would come lumbering home with toms arrival the symphony began to accelerate and deepen voices were raised now the sounds of running faucets singing kettle slamming oven doors egg- beaters and meatchoppers formed an undertone to the laughter protest whining shouting of the young o haras tern was the family heartscald somtines his mother was too sharp with him sometimes she spoiled him it appeared to be impossible to be merely just to tom he sprawled all over everything he disorganized and demoralized everything he pinched regina even while he was comforting pat for having tripped him up 11 was a potential criminal he was a po tential saint and in her secret heart his mother loved him feared for him puzzled over him and prayed for him more than she did all the other five together tom at seventeen was finishing high after tom martin came in mary kate nineteen should have been next for martin was almost twentytwo the oldest and the mainstay of the whole slipshod crazy joyois brood he was a little smaller than tom and as handsome as his father had been with the irish beauty of a clean white skin stained pure red on the high cheek bone blue eyes in circles of soot a broad forehead truly expressing can dor innocence intelligence and a finelyshaped head covered with rich black waves of heavy satiny hair mart was everything to them all father brother son confidante con fessor idol they were all proud of him his integrity his wisdom his record at school and in business mrs ohara was said my mart in every thing she did he was full of fun he liked the girls he was popularitys self but his mother ilways came first with mart and after her the needs and claims of the children reserved little straightbacked re gina got into his lap tonight when he took tho kitchen rocker and while he talked to his mother he brushed the childs contented fair head occasion ally with his lips to be continued illustrated lhfssmukng lesson fvr- vishfd with every pattern spends ten months on cannibal isle woman anthropologist visits savage tribe alone an intriguing little frock with youthful basque bodice and snugly fitted hips it is tub silk in flattering waterygreen coloring the cnpelet collar is of plain crepe silk in match ing tone youll find it very simple to make style no 2543 is designed in sizes 12 14 16 18 and 20 years the 10- year size takes but 2 yards of 39- inch material with yard of 35inch contrasting buddha yellow shantung is smart aquamarine blue linen with collar of sheet linen with edge finished with picot is very feminine and chic printed pique printed dimity print ed handkerchief lawn and mens strip ed cotton shirting are practical and smart how to order patterns write your name and address plain ly giving number and size of such patterns as you went enclose 20c in stamps or coin coin preferred wrap it carefully for each number and address your order to wilson pattern service 73 west adelaide st toronto little eyes and little ears little eyes that seem to see everything thats round about littlo mind that seems to bo bound to ferret wisdom out little ears that seem to hold every curious word we say for a child just eight years old youve a most surprising way must you carry all youve heard back and forth whereer you go does an unfamiliar word start tho wish in you to know am about it that yon pry into hidden meanings deep do you never shut an eye only when you fall asleep you astound us now and then by the things you do and say and we often wonder when fell such wisdom in your way but tho mother says to me it is plain beyond a doubt wo must very careful bo when that busy minds about oh theres much in life to learn little eyes and littlo ears time shall teach you in your turn all the reasons for our fears and for you 1 make this prayer through the years which arc- to bo that but lovely things and fair will jou ever hear and sec edgar a guest minards liniment for neuralgia new york a simple civilization where divorces are granted merely by a refund of the dowry where women have already gained equality with through magic spells and where no be- nien where courting is accomplished liet in any sort of a deity exists was described by dr hortense powder- maker who hay just returned to this country after a tenmouths stay among the formerly cannibalistic mel- anesiaus dr powdermaker a graduate of goucher college and a phd from the university of london singlehanded constituted the first anthropological expedition to study the people on the island of new ireland a long narrow strip of land off australia in the man dated territory of new guinea and a part of the bismarck archipelago cannibalism has completely died out among the melanesians dr powder- maker discovered as a result of the discontinuance of tribal warfare or dered by white officials of the terri tory the middleaged and the old can still remember the cannibalistic days however and still smack their lips when recalling the dear old days when human flesh was a delicacy never to be forgotten the natives never ate anyone except their enemies dr powdermaker said explaining that she became so friendly with them after she had picked up a few words of their language that she is quite certain the thought of de vouring her never entered their heads paint hair white dr powdermaker landed in the little village in the south of new ireland in april 1929 being met at the landing by the entire village population of 270 inhabitants they stared at her con stantly and the only way she at first made friends was by fondling the babies a thatchedroof tworoom house with a floor off the ground a melanesian luxury of no small proportions was built for her and there with the aid of two servants and a 50 supply of to bacco with which she regaled the na tives she maintained one of the most important establishments of the sur rounding territory a simple wash dress of bright red and white made her the cynosure of all eyes at the high feasts a native woman casually announced one day that she had adopted her and sent her a gift the women paint their coal black hair white for ordinary wear but on special occasions change it to blue and red a young gallant about town will paint a yellow ring around his left eye and the women will gladly wear de corations in their hair but not on their bodies a simple loincloth consti tutes their only wearing apparel there ate any number of taboos one of the most interesting being that no man is allowed by tribal tradition to speak to his motherinlaw mention her name in public or enter a room which she occupies if he does so even inadvertently ho loses his social prestigo and is disgraced for life both polygamy and polyandry are practiced in the same village and tribe but not in the same family while the old men of the village have the supreme say in political affairs society is matrilineal and matrllcal the lover asks tho mother of his sweetheart for the hand of her daugh ter and pays her for his wife he al so goes to her house rather than bringing the bride to his the wife obtains a divorce by paying back the money currency a mystery the local currency is one of tho is lands mysteries it consists of disc shaped shells strung on a special cord a yard long five of tho units will buy a wife the currency is made on another island and has been in circu lation for about 1000 years how it first started no one knows the only culture ol the people consists of carv ing and dancing their music is also very melodious although their instru ments arc- primitive they worship no god or goddess and do not bow down before moon sun or fire they believe in tho ghosts and spirits of the departed however but say no prayers for them if they have a religion dr powdermaker said it is their magic their morality does not coincide with ours but they keep theirs with more strictness you can he confident that its quality never varies tea c from tfee gardens pilot to be guided by artificial sky when flying in foggy weather an instrument to restore the sky when it is hidden by darkness fog or rain has been developed by captain william c ocker of the us army air corps the flight integrator as the apparatus is known was designed to overcome the tendency of pilots to rely upon their flight instinct rather than upon instruments in blind flying earthquakes still mystify mankind mighty toll is taken by quakes science still bafbied the latesta earthquake disaster in southern italy has once more focused the worlds attention on a still un tamed little understood natural phen omenon terrible in its result ominous in its implications the earthquake is still one of natures completely wild wholly uncontrolled forces against which man with all his proud scientific achievements is as com pletely helpless and powerless today as was tho man who dwelt in caves in fact civilized men with their de- velopment of large areas of congested population havo been compelled to yield a much greater toll to the rav ages of this force than were the men of earlier areas of scattered settle- ments and small cities rober mallet one of the first mod- learning to fly in clear skies the whirled six times in eighteen seconds through the employment of the artifi cial clouds as degree markers for every fifteen degrees of a turn a cloud j comes into sight on tho screen for the instruction of pilots during e scientific seismologists who tat early training the whirling chair or i en he term seismology lvt orientator will bo used in conjunction 1s5s was tlle first t0 make a earhl with tho ocker invention a blind- quake map of the world according to folded pilot seated in the chair is his map earthquakes occur in bands of from five to fifteen degrees in pilot conies to depend on the sky and then the chair is stopped suddenly the horizon to give him a check on his observation has shown that the sub- flight position in relation to his course ject experiences a reflex sensation of and to the earth instinctively he de- being turned in the opposite direction pends more on the sky line and tho when the chair is stopped and this horizon than he does on objects on the feeling continues for sixteen seconds ground when a condition arises in performing this experiment with where he must fly blind according to the flight integrator the subject is in- captain ocker he prefers to believe closed in a hood but by being able to that he knows by flight instinct where compare his position with moving ob- the horizon is rather than to follow jects in tho instrument is able to tell i tho readings of his instruments 1 in which direction the chair is being j eludes the western coasts of north captain ockers device consists of a whirled moving screen depicting a sky dotted such conditions lasts only five see- by clouds which is actuated by an onds electrically driven gyroscope in front i it is in humpy voather where even of the screen horizon is a miniature the best pilots suddenly may lose airplane which banks in the same their relation to the horizon that the width these bands follow as a rule the lines of elevation that divide thet great oceanic or continental areas ots the earth and so lie along the lines of mountains or volcanic vents the areas of least disturbance being along tho centre of great oceanic and continent al areas or on large islands in shallow- seas the american zone one of the main seismic zones in- the reflex sensation under and south america with their moun tain ranges and precipitous shoro manner as the ship in which the in strument is installed this enables the pilot to compare his position with relation to sky and earth when the plane skids in mak ing a bank or turn the screen moves the same as the sky would appear to move were it visible the device dif fers from other instruments of its kind such as the sperry horizon flight integrator is expected to be of the greatest value except in bumpy weather it is easy for an experienced pilot to keep a level flight position there is no trick in flying straight and level it is a common thing for an army flyer to put his head under the cowling and attempt to keep his ship in position without looking at either the sky or the ground the world is too much with us the world is too much with us late and soon getting and spending we lay waste our powers little we see in nature that is ours we have given our hearts away a sordid boon wakefield stops speedboat racing due to segraves death lord wakefield withdraws backing london owing to grief over the this sea that bares her bosom to the death of sir henry segrave last month lord wakefield owner of the moon speedboat in which the speed king the w nat wi be hown at a was killed and backer of many other ours recordseeking ventures on land and are pshcred now like sleep in the air has decided never again ing flowers to sponsor an attempt to break speed for tnis for w thio we are out records ot tlne lord wakefield was owner of the miss england ii in which segrave it moves us notgreat god idrath- and p v c halliwell mechanic er de were killed sir henry was lord a pa suckled in a creed outworn wakefields personal friend and at s mi h standing on this pleasant the launching of the boat on lake lea windermere shortly before thej glimpses that would make me tragedy the owner of the boat was forlorn present that being the first time he have sight of proteus rising from the had ever personally assisted at the sea launching of any craft with his or hear old triton blow his wreathed money when the craft was raised and found suitable for further use lord wakefield decided to keep the boat idle for twelve months out of respect for segraves memory at the end of that time it is to be turned over to any pilot chosen by tho marine motoring association but without lord wakefields hacking in addition to financing the se grave speed trials both here and in america lord wakefield backed or assisted in the backing of many other famous ventures among them the schneider trophy sir alan cobhams air cruises and miss amy johnson australian flight the newspapers call him the godfather of british aviation it was largely owing to the assistance given by him to motor ing and aviation that be was raised to the peerage recently horn william wordsworth for blisters minards liniment when theres a lot of kick about dancing it never comes from tbo bald- headed row out of his element a wealthy irishman was proud of tho opportunity to show off on the occasion of a visit to london of one of his compatriots to dazzle him ho invited him to dine at a fashion able restaurant now mc bhoy he said just you follow my lead and ill order every thing of the best seated at tablo the jiost led off with waiter a couple of cocktails his friend gavo himself away how ever when ho whispered audibly waiter it ye dont molnd id rather have a wing do you ever have to hurry to catch your morning train mr ballantyne well its fairly even you know either im standing on tho platform when the train puffs in or i puff in while the train stands at the plat form summer co knavery cunning leads to knavery but it is but a step from ono to another and that very slippery lying only makes the difference add that to cunning and it is knavery locke almost everybody knows how aspirin tablets break tip a cold but why not prevent it take a tablet or two when you first feci the cold coming on sparc yourself the discomfort of a summer cold read the proven directions in every package for headaches pain etc 1 j e lines this zone joins on the north with another great zone which ex tends from southeastern asia across the japanese archipelago the kurilo islands and tho aleutian chain to the alaska mainland a third has an eastwest trend through the mediter ranean the azores the west indies central america hawaii the east in dies the himalayan range persia and asia minor the eastern coast of north america and the western part of europe are comparatively free from such disturbances there are coun tries such as switzezrland in which earthquakes are numerous but seldom cause damage while in countries like brazil egypt or the centre of russia they occur very seldom and then only in weak form counting only those earthquakes which devastated cities the record shows thirtynine of these in china twentytwo in japan twentyone in the philippines nineteen in greece sixteen in italy eleven in chile eight in peru and one in the united states the number of persons killed in des tructive earthquakes is greater than any destructive force known to man the number was 50000 dead in the libson earthquake in 1755 70483 dead and 93470 wounded in the mes sina disaster in 190s 1s0000 in the- chinese earthquake of 1920 200000 in tho japan earthquake of 1703 and 300000 the largest figure known in tho indian earthquake of 1737 the japanese earthquake in 1923 resulted in 99331 dead 103733 wounded and 43476 missing the causes of quakes it is generally recognized that two principal causes aro concerned in earthquakes one being styled tec tonic refers to crustal dislocations particularly the differential move ments along fissures known as faults from time to timo stresses accumu late in the strata to a point where tho elastic limit is exceeded resulting in a rupture or a slip which once again restores tho equilibrium tho tectonic earthquakes are the most numerous and probably account for nearly ali disasters of seismic or igin the volcanic earthquakes are traceable to concussions within tho volcanic conduit produced probably by the gases in their progress toward the surface most of the imprisoned energy of course finds release in tho eruption a further cause of earthquakes generally regarded however as not very important is found in tho jars produced by the collapse of caverns that have been hollowed out by under ground waters in their circulation through soluble rock materials hko limestone gypsum and rock salt lis the ideal food for the bottlefed baby because it is clean uniform in compos tionnutritious most easily digested of nil artificial foods and always ready for instant use when diluted with plain boiled water itlsuscdmoreoftcn than nil other artificial foods combined the borden co limited 140 st paul w montreal send ft to baby book to nam the truth will out fiveyearold betty perched on her fathers knee in the very crowded tramcar peered hard at the stout very gaudily dressed individual as sho bustled and edged herself into the only available seat betty continued to stare and then after a while she turned to her moth er mummy she said in loud tones its a lady ssh dear scolded the parent angrily we know it is the small child looked hurt but mummy she said yon just said to daddy whats this object coming in answers costly neglect it costs more to neglect our duties than to accomplish them it costs more to take care of the idle poor tho able pauper than to so that they are trained in somo wise to work and the means of selfsupport put before them it costs more to cure than to prevent ten times over anna dickinson