At present, plans call for the commissing of Lieutenant Thaw as a major, with present members of the squadron being named as captains and lieutenants, to take charge of American aviators who will shortly join Pershing's troops in France.

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HANDICRAFT FOR GIRLS
By DOROTHY PERKINS
(Copyright, by A. Neely Hall.)
CORK TOYS.
If you will save the cork from every empty bottle before it is thrown out or disposed of to the ragman, you will soon have enough shapes and sizes to provide an afternoon's fun of toymaking. If you do not want to wait until enough corks have accumulated by this means, you can get what you will need at a drug store. In addition to corks, you must have some cardboard, some worsted, beads, toothpicks, burnt matches, pins and glue. For cutting the corks use a very sharp knife.
The horse (Fig. 1) has a body made of two tapered corks, with the small ends glued together. Use the pattern in Fig. 2 for the head, and glue this in a slot cut across the end of the body. The legs may be toothpicks or matches; glue them into holes in the cork body. The tail is made of several strands of worsted tied to the cork body. The tail is made of several strands of worsted tied to the cork body.  Pin (Pig. 3), which is stuck into the body.
The funny little porcupine (Fig. 4) has a tapered cork body (Pig. 5), toothpick legs, a cardboard head (Fig. 6), and toothpick quills. 