American Agriculturist, May 3, 1924 
Do “White Lies” Pay? 
Some Amusing- Cat Stories for the Children 
«jyJAMA, please give me a peach,’ 
said the little daughter of a friend 
0 f mine one day when I was visiting their 
home. 
“You ate the last of your peaches a 
little while ago, Ilene,” said her mother. 
1 “But I want another now.” 
I “They’re all gone, dear. We’ll have 
Daddy get some more for you,” was the 
mother’s reply. 
I “No,” insisted the youngster, “I want 
another peach now. Mama.” 
With variations this dialog kept up for 
perhaps five minutes longer, then the 
mother arose and laid down her work. 
“Wait just a minute, Ilene, and I’ll go 
out to the store-room and get some 
peaches for you.” Which she did, after 
telling Ilene that the peaches Were all 
gone! 
Ilene is a pretty child, with a clever 
little brain for a three-year-old, but they 
have lied to her so often simply as an 
excuse for refusing her something, or to 
keep her from teasing, that she knows 
very well just what to do to have her own 
way, and in truth, I doubt if the child 
believes anything she is told. 
Such a course is extremely doubtful 
kindness. They deliberately tell a lie to 
a little child a dozen or more times a day, 
setting her an example of untruth which 
she will be certain to follow when she gets 
older. If'any one else among the people 
they know ever speaks of spanking or 
punishing a child for naughtiness, the cry 
of “cruel, mean,” goes up from those 
parents, yet can anything be more cruel 
than to teach, by example, such a lax code 
of morals as Ilene is absorbing every day? 
-Mabelle Robert. 
A Different Flavor for Apples 
A DELIGHTFUL new flavor may 
d easily be obtained when cooking 
apples if a few small red cinnamon can¬ 
dies are added. Not only does this add a 
pleasant, spicy flavor but it colors the 
apples a beautiful deep red. 
Tart apples, pared and cored and 
steamed partly done, if placed in a baking- 
dish and liberally basted with a heavy 
sjTup in which a half-dozen of the small 
red candies have been dissolved, will be as 
delightful to the eye as they are to the 
palate.—A lice Margaret Ashton. 
Long-Lived Curtains 
M AKE the new curtains for bedrooms, 
bathroom and any other room 
where simplicity abounds, exactly alike 
at both ends, with hems that will go over 
the curtain rods or poles used at the win¬ 
dows. 
Sunshine and dust rot the fabric of the 
curtains and this always occurs at the 
lower half where shades and windows are 
habitually raised. When this occurs, 
launder the curtains and reverse them, 
bringing the best portion below and the 
thin part at the top where it will not show 
among the folds over the rod. In this 
"'ay, curtains give almost twice the usual 
wear.—A lice Margaret Ashton. 
Two Amusing Cat Stories 
Ben Harrison” and “ Levi Morton” were two very intelli - 
M cats in the family of Mrs. Ida A. Brown, who has 
Mtoral times written of her pets for young American Aghi- 
wltcrist readers. Boys and girls who have ever had their 
Sl*l> will appreciate this story which Mrs. Brown calls 
the Astonishing Intelligence of Levi.” 
ABOUT the time brother was given 
. Ben Harrison, sister was presented 
with a beautiful yellow tiger kitten. As 
brother’s kitty was Ben Harrison, sister 
called hers Levi P. Morton, and they both 
hved up to their illustrious names. 
Levi was very dignified and deliberate. 
Be neyer climbed on tables or did annoy- 
! n S things. He was a great hunter and 
jumper; he would jump in the air as high 
35 a man’s head and catch an English 
s Parrow on the wing. He brought rats, 
^ce, rabbits, to the house for us to praise 
^d admire him for being so faithful. 
One day we had threshers and mother 
was very busy over an awfully hot fire 
getting dinner. Levi came proudly in and 
laid something at mother’s feet. She 
looked down and there was quite a large 
snake wriggling around. Mother caught 
up the tongs and popped the snake into 
the stove, and clapped on the cover. 
Levi looked perfectly astonished. The 
hearth to the stove was swung half open 
to increase the draft and Levi quickly 
put his fore feet on the hearth and peered 
long and anxiously up under the fire pot, 
for the snake to come down, through and 
out, but I can state positively that he 
never came. 
Levi Understood Commands 
After Ben and Levi had grown up and 
Levi at that time weighed 14 pounds and 
looked very much like a small tiger, he 
adopted a small maltese kitten named 
“Muggins.” One day as mother 
was 
A VERY dignified cat is this, posing for his 
picture on the porch rail in the sun, but 
that torn ear shows he isn’t always so peaceful! 
churning at the back door, Levi came 
from the barn with a small mouse in his 
mouth. He stopped six or eight feet from 
the porch and commenced to call Mug¬ 
gins “meow! meow!” in a smothered way 
because of the mouse he was holding. 
Muggins jumped from his little basket 
and ran to the screen door and Mother 
let him out. As he was coming, Levi 
dropped the mouse and it ran into a bunch 
of grass growing in the open space. 
Muggins looked and looked and stood up 
on his little hind legs and smelled of 
Levi’s mouth. Then he looked around 
some more. Finally, Mother said, “Levi, 
Muggins doesn’t see the mouse. Put 
your paw on his head and push it down 
so he can smell it.” 
Levi looked at mother interestedly for 
a minute and mother said again “Levi, 
put your paw on his head.” 
Levi did it and Muggins caught the 
mouse instantly. 
Such intelligence in a cat is astonishing 
for even dogs do not usually do things 
like that at one bidding, but have to be 
taught by repeating a trick over and 
over.— Ida A. Brown. 
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tablespoons butter. Add 1 cup 
sweet milk, 2 teaspoons baking powder 
and 2 cups sifted flour. Flavor to taste 
and bake in 3 layers. To the yolks of 2 
eggs add 2 tablespoons water, beat till 
light, mix thick with confectioner’s sugar 
and spread between layers and on top 
and sides of cake, while cake is warm.— 
Mrs. E. A. Anderson. 
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