| ———————————————————————————————————— Franklin Saw Day ot Woman in Business Although desiring a quiet life in his older years, Franklin could not retire. One political office after another gought him out. He tried his best to avert the Revolution, and his exami- Ration before the house of commons fa February, 1768, marks the zenith o” his intellectual powers. In September, 1776, Franklin was appointed envoy to France and salled soon afterward. Despite his seventy years, no other American could have accomplished the things he did. His reputation had preceded him to France. Great ladies sought his com- pany; shopkeepers hung his portrait on their walls and the rabble wor- shiped him. Under Franklin's influ- ence, money was loaned the strug- gling colonies. He won from France recognition of the United States and then the treaty of alliance. This was bis last and most important work. Biographers maintain that Franklin more than any other great American possessed the woman’s viewpoint. Some even maintain that his great suc- cesses were achieved because of this quality ; that the great French treaty might not have been brought about were it not for the homage paid the first civilized American by the gres* dames of Paris. Certain it is that he was the means of starting the first American woman in business, and he was first in a movement that has changed the pres- ent-day life of 110,000,000 Americans Old Man in Picture Rather Qut of Place A landscape artist sold a picture to 8 wealthy woman. The latter soon became tired of it, because, she de- clared, it lacked animation. So she sent for another artist and asked him to paint a man or woman on the road that ran through the middle of the painting. The artist did so, and when he me. the man who had painted the original work he told him what he had done. “I had the temerity to alter a land scape of yours the other day,” he said. “It was one you sold to Mrs. Jones. She wanted a figure painted in, so I added an old man walking down the road?” “Road? What road? There's ne road in that picture!” “Why, yes, there is,” said the other. “A road runs through the middle of the canvas.” “Why,” cried the first artist, indig: nantly, “that’s not a road! That's a river!” Wife’s Faith in Columbus if it be true that there is a woman in the background of every notable achievement, there seems to be justifi- cation in calling Dona Felipa, the wife of - Christopher Columbus, that influ ence in the life of the man who was later to discover the Western world. When Columbus talked to her about his exploration enthusiasms, she was sympathetic and his ambitions appear to have found grateful nurture at their fireside. There is a tale of how Dona Isabella, Columbus’ mother-in- law, produced an old box containing maps and logs—piously-kept relics of ber husband's. It may be that some- thing found in this box prompted in Columbus the conception, later to be- come a flaming article of faith, of a lard beyond the horizon.—New York Times Magazine. Royal Ear Wiggler Empress Marie Louise, second wife of Napoleon I, used to shake her ears through seme nervous effort, be- lieving the practice would drive away wrinkles and make her beautiful. ‘One of the greatest pleasures o1 «ne Imperial evenings is to watch the empress turn her ears,” wrote Mme. d’Abrantes, one of her ladies of honor. “This faculty is very extraor- dinary and I believe she is the only person who possesses it.” idarie Louise often shook her ears .0 amuse her friends, but Napoleon disliked the practice and it is said he slapped his imperial spouse sev- eral times for doing it. Rich Soil Two farmers were arguing about the fertility of the soil of their respective states, *Why, the soil is so rich in my) <tate,” said one, “that a man with a peg leg daren’t stand still for five minutes. The wooden leg will grow roots.” “That's nothing,” the other farme cesponded. “Back where I came from the land is so rich that all the peg- legged men carry hatchets so they can chop off the twigs that keep sprouting on account of all the nutritious dust in the air.,”—Exchange. China Once “Cathay” Jathay was the name for China which Marco Polo brought back with him from his travels in the Orient. It is supposed to have been derived by him from the Khitah or Khitan, a tribe of medieval conquerors of north- ern China, The term was long ap- plied by Europeans to the Far Bast in general. The only language In which it survives as the customary name for China is the Russian, where it has the form Khital. Audrey’s Opinion {Attle Audrey gazed in rapt fascl nation at g contortionist in a vaude- ville show. “Mamma,” she laughingly said to her mother, “That man has no more bones than a plate of ice cream.” CURSO RR TIA, ARMY BUCK PRIVATE RADIO CORPS HEAD How Love of Horses and Travel Brought Success, Washington. — That a native of Boone county, Kentucky, should be a horse lover and also have a desire to travel is natural. That his twin de- sires should make him the glass of fashion and mold of form among the radio lightning Jerkers of Uncle Sam’s army and give him claim to title as “first over and last back” buddy of the A. E. F. is not so obvious. Yet it was love of horses and the desire “for to behold this world so wide” that brought Master Sergt. Robert E. Williamson, signal corps, U. 8S. A, to his present job. He is section chief of the Washington nerve center of the army radio net that straddles the country, has feelers on the frosty northern rim of Alaska and outposts in the sun-drenched, equa- torial southern Philippines, Panama and Porto Rico, and does some 800 messages a day in government busi- uess., A friend told this Kentucky youth that the signal corps used quite a passel of horses and mules; and, back in 1914, he set out to Investigate. Presently Buck Private Williamson was in a signal outfit on Bedloe’s fis- land. Assignment to a field radio de- tachment sent him to the Texas bor- der, where the road to two-striper pro- motion lay through learning what all the squeaky noises heing pushed into and pulled out of the air were about. By 1917 Corporal Williamson had found out. He went to France with the First division, stuck with it until after the armistice, and then went to Paris to help shuffle radio and tele- graph traffic at the American embas- sy. He was among the last men of the A. E. F. to come home in 1923. By that time the signal school at Fort Monmouth, N. J., was trying ‘o standarize army radio technique. A survey picked Master Sergeant Wil- famson as an almost perfect code send- er. His style was duly thumb-printed on phonograph records, which are now the main guide and instruction for army radio key pounders. A vear ago he was ordered to the Washington radio-dispatching office. However far he may have wandered from the horse-wrangler dreams of his youth, he is officially rated as about the toppest tophand of the armv st a radio key. German Government Saves Woman From Slave Block Berlin.—In order to save a German woman from heing sold in the open markets as a slave, the German min- ister stationed at Cabu! was obliged to purchase her in the name of his government, setting a new precedent the New York Times learned. Several years ago a native of Af- ghanistan, Abdullah Khan, who was tiving in Berlin, married a Berlin girl. When inflation came on he, with his wife and children, returned to Cabul, | where the family lived happily ana | nrasperous. Nix months ago Khan died. When his wife applied to the courts for pos- session of his property she was in- formed that her late hushand belonged to a mountain clan in Alfrided and as | siueh was not subject either to the English or Afghanistan laws, : The clan, however, holds the old custom that the brother of the de- ceased gets all property, including the wife, which he is allowed to marry or sell. The brother offered marriage, which was rejected. He thereupon ised the clan prerogative of bringing rhe wife to the auction block. The German minister refused to dis- close the purchase price, but it is said to he the highest ever paid in a Cabu’ slave market. A Little Rough sthaca, N. Y.—George W. Lloyd of Philadelphia, a junior at Cornell uni- versity, must serve ten days in jail for slapping the face of a co-ed who canceled a dinner engagement with fin, Wrong Eagle Washington.—The Mexican eagle, rather than the American eagle, is on the face of American school textbooks, if Lieut. Col. Thomas J. Dickson, re- tired army chaplain, is correct. At 81, Seeks Justice Job He Had 46 Years Detroit.—Felix A. Lemkie is to be a candidate for justice of the peace, He made the announcement on his eighty-first birthday, and as 1 to his qualifications he offers to the voters of Detroit his record of 46 years of service in that po- sition, i That 46 years of service came to a close in the spring of 1923 when he was defeated at the polls for the first time. Friends brought beautiful flowers - and pald oral tribute to the record he had established. They told him what a remarkable old man he was, and then the curtain was lowered—it was belleved forever —on the political activities and public service of Felix A. 5 Lemkie, “I've got to have something to & do, ‘I am going: to get old If 1 continue sitting around like this. I'll Hve longer and keep vounger if T get back Into the harness.” | ly lower their arches. HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE When the correct letters are placed in the white spaces this puszle will spell words both vertically and horizontally, The first letter in each word is indicated by a number, which refers to the definition listed below the puzzle. hus No. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” defines a word which will fll the white spaces up to the first black square to the right, and a number under “vertical” defines a word which will fill the white squares te the mext black one below. No letters go in the tionary words, except proper names. black spaces. All words used are dic- Abbreviations, slang, initials, technical terms and obsolete forms are indicated in the definitions. CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 2. (©), 1926, Western Newspaper Union.) Horizontal. l--Wall coating T-A salad plant 12—Volcano in Sicily 13—Employ 15—Where marriages are annulled 16—Fondle 17—An heir 20—Demure 22—Peak 24—Loyal 26—Roman emperor 28—First sign of Zodiac 81—Sweetheart 33—Circular note (abbr.) 34—To pacify 37—New Norfolk (abbr.) 38—Spear shaped 40—Causing to sit 42—Personal pronoun 42~—Point 44—Greek letter 45—Not in any place 48—Tailless 52—Evangelical union (abbr.) 58—Taxing 56—Behold! b6—A written law 58—Flat plates 69—Girl 61—Denoting passage (simp. spell.) 63—Lobster pots 66—Meadow 67—E=thusiastic reception 70—Pussessive pronoun 7¢2—Exclamation of sorrow 74--United States steamship (abbr.) 75—8hip’s company 77--8tate of aridity 78—Supervise Vertical, 2—Side protected from the wind 3—Perfume from rose petals 4—Chem. symbol for tin 5—Short story 6—Floor covering T—Allow 8—A'woody plant 9—Topographical engineer (abbr.) 10—A near relative 11—Call of a pigeon 14—8ilk fabric 18—Precise 16—Squeeze 19—Girl’s name 21—Not old 23—Harbor 26—To encourage 27—To charm 29—A small European deer 30—Rapture 32—Yearly publications 36—Relieves 36—Jacob’'s father-in-law 39—To stitch 41—A central state (abbr.) 4¢5—Post at the foot of a stairway ¢6—Has (old form) 47—Five consecutive letters of the alphabet . 49—A lake herring 50—Repulsive 61—One who fails to win 64—Seasons 67—Southern European country 60— What remains after burning 62—A flower 64—Formerly 66—Auricle organ 68—European country (abbr.) 69—Preflx meaning equal 71-—Female sheep 783—Indefinite article 76—Railroad (abbr.) Solution will appear in next issme Millions Walk on Broken Down Feet. At least one person out of every five or six in this country is defi- nitely suffering from weak or painful feet—in round numbers, between 20,- 000,000 and 25,000,000. When America went to war the med- ical examiners found that one man in every eight. passed upon had fal- len arches. And the young male population of the draft constituted the strongest class of men, physically, in the nation. Older men are far more likely- to have fallen arches or other foot troubles than young men. Among i women defective feet ave still more coinimon; women are even prouder than men, of having feet that are small and painful. Undue strain is one of the chief causes of bhroken-down arches says John Amid in Popular Science Month- ly. The average man, conscious of his strength and good general health, thinks he can walk when and where he likes without bad effects. As a matter of fact, a single long walk, after months of comparative inactiv- ity, can Jo serious damage to ycur feet through breaking down arch mus- cles unaccustomed to such protracted strain. Business men who play golf often fall victim to this danger. They feel that no harm will come from 18, or even 36 holes of their favorite game on one day a week they get a chance to play it. As a result, instead of lowering their scores, they frequent- A golf profes- sionalist who once over taxed his feet in this way had to play three years in specially made kid shoes, with rigidly | built arches as a penalty. The 10 leading causes of foot trou- ble are listed by Mr. Amid as fol- lows: Sudden breakdown of foot muscles, due to unaccusto ned use after long inactivity. General aversion to walking. Long hours of standing, as in the case of teachers, policemen and clerks. Overloading—fat people seem often cursed with small feet. High heels persistently worn. Any illness that leaves the body in a weakened condition. Local injuries that cause bad foot habits, such as turning the foot to ease a hurt toe. Shoe salespeople who don’t know how to fit the feet of their customers correctly. - Incorrect walking—*“toeing in.” Vanity—which compels at least half of us to buy shoes that are too short and tight, to create the illusion that we have small feet. State Employment Office Places 80,- 395 Applicants. During 1926 State employment of- fices received 140,789 applications from persons desiring work and 97,3567 applications from employers seeking help, the bureau of employment of the department of labor and industry announced recently. There were 94,- 978 persons sent to positions and 80,- 395 placements reported. Men who applied for positions num- bered 97,104 and women 43,685. Of the total placement 59,693 were men. ————— pe e——————— —Subseribe for the Watchman. Solution to Last Week’s Puzzle. B|I|N L FEE OIN E )ISPEH, Als|I|DIEEC ABG|O ESITOPET YL |Y A 1 A BEB ADAGE! HI BAD OlTE[R A/NH s|U| NE EIN|AICITIME|N|T ALE G President Lifts Army Ration to 50 Cents a Day. Washington,—Both figuratively and literally a lot of weight was lifted to- day from the broad back of the Amer- ican doughboy. Not only did Presi- dent Coolidge increase the army ra- tion from 36 to 50 cents a day and a House conunittee put out a bill for better army housing in many sections of the country, but on top of it the War Department issued new regula- tions reducing by twenty-eight pounds the “full pack” equipment carried by the infantry on the march. Instead of adding their irksome avoirdupois to the load that is sad- dled on the soldier’s back, such im- pedimenta as trench helmets, over- coats and reserve rations and ammuni- tion will be carried hereafter in com- i combat. The reduced pack will weigh fifty-one pounds. The German infan- tryman carries eighty-three pounds, the French and Japanese sixty-four, the British fifty-five and the Italian fifty-two. Additional army quarters in a score of military establishments throughout the country, to cost $8,491,000, was asked in a bill by Acting Chairman James, of the House Military Commit- | Lee. Muskrat Farms Become Popular in the Northwest. Fencing of 7,000 acres of swamp land at’ Swan Lake, 40 miles north- est muskrat farm in the world has been completed, according to J. E. McFarland, representative of a fur company in Vancouver. Qutput from the muskrat ranch will eventually total 50,000 pelts, it is estimated. The farm consists of i low-lying meadows and streams al- ready heavily’ populated with musk- rat and beaver. Weekly disburse- ments to neighboring trappers for re- stocking amount to $1,000. Muskrat farming is growing in popularity in Western Canada on ac- count of the profitable trade in skins. 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