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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.
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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.
Ranch raised pelts bring the highest
returns because of their large size.
Trappers now average about $2 a
pelt as compared to only 20 cents a
few years ago. Many areas of marsh
and lowlands in the center of thriv-
ing agricultural communities in the
prairie provinces are being devoted to
muskrats, 5
pany wagons except in zones of actual |
west of Quesnel, B. C., into the larg- |
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An important change-
The McFadden Bank Bill, which
has been pending in Congress for almost
three years, is now the law.
It makes important changes in the
powers of National Banks.
We are better prepared than ever
before to properly transact any banking
including fiduciary work.
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