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BROOKLYN LIFE Harry was so interested that it was very late before he could be coaxed away. At last a tired man and a little boy again reached home. As the man removed the little boy's coat, Harry said: "Now, grandpa, let's play horse." M. J. KELLY, LEHRENKRAUSS TRAVEL MANAGER, GAINING FIRST-HAND CONTACTS ABROAD M.

J. Kelly, manager of the Universal Tours owned and operated by the Lehren-krauss Travel Agency, sailed for Europe on the Bremen, leaving the 23rd of August. Lehrenkrauss business has increased to a point at which it was considered best to make more immediate contact with the situation abroad. Mr. Kelly will pay flying visits to the important points of travel interest, with longer stops in Berlin and Paris.

While in Europe he will be able to make personal contact with the foreign associates, through whom Lehrenkrauss has been arranging details for its clients for years. He will devote particular attention to the hotel situation, so that his descriptions and recommendations in future will have firsthand value. There are excellent accommodations in the chief European points of interest for all classes of travelers and Mr. Kelly will make it his business to find them out. Through his own contacts and the advice of Lehrenkrauss' foreign associates, Mr.

Kelly will be able to give explanations of the various side trips that are included in the tourist's itinerary. He plans to see some of the tourists whom Lehrenkrauss has helped abroad this summer. And, of course, sandwiched in somewhere this busy man expects to find the real pleasures of traveling in interesting countries. taking his bag home, he "let the cat out of the bag." If he did not look into his bag, he made the discovery that he had "bought a pig in a poke." Hence the origin of these two sayings. "Free a cat" in polite language means to steal a muff.

The word cat occurs more often about machinery or around a ship than anywhere else. Cat is the name of a tackle, also of housing ropes, with cat fall, cat head, cat holes and cat's paw indicating certain parts of a ship or its machinery. Cat's meat, cat-thyme, cat-nip and cat's foot are the names of herbs cat's head is an apple cat silver is a fossil cat tail is a popular growth for decorative purposes and who has not been annoyed at the theatre by catcalls? The Chinese make the claim that they can look into a cat's eyes and tell the time of day; the playfulness of a cat is considered the warning of a storm. When a cat washes his face on the front steps it is supposed that company is coming; if does so on the back steps undesirable company is expected. A May kitten is said to make a dirty cat.

A French writer once declared that only three creatures waste time over their toilets flies, cats and women. Once upon a time a cat caught a sparrow. "A gentleman," the sparrow observed, "washes before he eats." The cat, feeling the rebuke, let go thu bird in order to wash his face, so the story goes, whereupon the bird flew away. Since that day the cat, though one of the neatest of creatures, eats his meal and washes afterward. find one that has escaped limbo by being turned to other uses.

In a resort village on Cape Ann, for example, a popular lunch and dinner retreat has established itself in a great old cavernous place where horses once received their periodical hoof treatment and wagon wheels were mended. It is called Ye Old Blacksmith Shop (how it missed being a shoppe is one of those miracles that defy explanation). The old forge- is still there, and meats are grilled over its coals. Quite a ceremony is made of starting the fire each day, and the pungent wood smoke that ascends in clouds to the rafters is in the nature of incense burned to the god of picturesqueness. Also it tempers a little the even more pungent aroma of horses that still clings to the antique cob-webbed walls.

On the walls, and particularly up among the rafters, are still to be seen faded advertisements of various spavin cures and other pertinent matters. The place is lighted at night by means of wagon wheels hung like chandeliers, set with candles of orange and blue, which drip their colorful tallow in approved bohemian style. The only defect in atmosphere is" that created by the tables and chairs, which belong rather in a drug store soda room or in a cafeteria. By scouring the countryside the proprietors of this tea room could probably have dug up enough old "kicking boards" to make tables one never would forget. As it is, they are to be congratulated upon having found so savory a mod ern use for ye forge of olden times.

AN ADVENTURE AMONG CULINARY MASTERPIECES Visitors from foreign shores are frequently annoyed by the cooking situation in America. It has sometimes been suggested that the food of the future will consist of a few bouillon cubes, calculated to supply essential nourishment. Fastidious foreigners commonly insist that the sooner this takes place the better, since there is no longer enjoyment in eating the inferior, tasteless food of New York. Prohibition, usually given as the principal cause by those who enjoy dining, probably ranks third as a contributing factor to our culinary downfall. The small apartment and the furnished room, associated with emancipation of women from wifely tasks, is the chief cause.

Popularization, making it possible for those of little taste to buy things they are unfitted to choose, is the second. A few restaurants remain, heroically surviving against the spirit of the times. Selma's tea shop at 6 Court Square continues to entertain the group from the Borough Hall and shopping district who appreciate cooking and comfort. If you have not visited Selma, you will be surprised at the relief from the drab exteriors of Court Square. JUST STARTING Little Harry was left in the charge of his grandmother.

By noon she was worn outk He took his wagon and rounded up some playmates. By 4 o'clock they were compelled to have some rest. At 6 o'clock the pup lay panting under the trees near the house. Then grandfather came home and took up the burden of entertainment. He took his grandson to a picture show, where VILLAGE SMITHY SELLS LUNCHES FROM FORGE A man who motored for several days recently through New England reported that he saw a total of eight horses on the road during his travels.

With the horse has largely disappeared, of course, the ancient smithy, replaced by garages and filling stations. But here and there you AGAIN THE POOR SCOTCHMAN "You are charged with being intoxicated," said the judge to a man before him. "What is your name?" "My name is Angus McPherson Mac-Nabb," replied the prisoner. "And who bought you the whiskey?" asked the judge. THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG In early days it occasionally happened that the farmer who took a sucking pig to market took also, in another bag, a cat, and when the unsuspecting purchaser had paid the price he discovered on reaching home that his bag contained a cat.

If, being suspicious, he investigated before THE BROOKYN SAVINGS BANK FOUNDED 1827 Corner of Pierrepont and Clinton Streets Oldest Savings Bank in Brooklyn and on Long Island A FRIEND in HEED JTT- JUT' RESOURCES, $108,000,000 Your savings account can be a true friend when you need money. Build it up when you don't need it, so that you will have it when you do. DEPOSITS ACCEPTED BY MAIU The DIME SAVINGS BANK OF BROOKLYN DE KALB AVENUE FULTON STREET ESTABLISHED 1859-RESOURCES OVER $159,000,000 LATEST DIVIDEND 4W0 Ul Wl AT THF. RATF. OF PfcK ANNUM Interest Start First of Each Month Compounded Quarterly Officers David H.

Lanman President Crowell Hadden Chairman of the Board T7- -j Lloyd F. Byrn Cashier Daniel J. George L. Charles C. Putnam.

Vice-President Comptroller Howard C. Peck Comptroller Gilbert C. sst. Cashier.