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ice tO you.
Mounting Pile of Books
Civilized man Is in more
increasing libraries. The
pile up, while publishers seek to call
plece and librarians
to do with the accumulation,
world’s libraries hold
that are no longer read.
storehouses, some, of course, still use-
ful. But what should be done with
those that have not been looked Into
for years, and won't be? The cynical,
who are all for an Alexandrian fire,
are opposed by the cautious, who think
that records are made to be kept, says
the New York Times. Meantime, we
have with us still the ladies who or-
der books to match thelr schemes of
interfor decoration, and the men, like
match
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The
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Nature in First Rank
Enos Mills records this strange tale
of a mirage in western Utah:
“As 1 looked, a bighorn ram raised
his head like a periscope through the
silvery surface of the lake. The re
submerged In the water, For a few
seconds his head also went out of
sight, then reappaared. “There was
| a blur, and the next scene showed a
ram, three lambs and two ewes, all
kneg-deep In the shallow water of the
| lake,
“Shallow, short-lived lakes are com-
{ mon in the Great Basin. But how, a
| moment before, had the ram showed
| only his head, and where had been
{ the others of the flock which now
| stood by him?
| "The ram walked forward a fow
| steps, stopped and turned his head.
i “After a few minutes the lake van-
: ished, but not the sheep. There on
| the desert, correct for distance and
i
}
| direction, stood the six sheep—a ram,
three lambs and two ewes—that had
i been In the mirage scene.
Mortal magicians kindly make way
for Dame Nature, who is after all the
real first-hand illusionist,
the
tion,
our urban population, there has been
graduates to practice in the cities”
says Dr. W. C. John, specialist In edu-
cation. “The result is that the rural
towns and country districts are ex
periencing a shortage of physicians,
partifularly of the general practitioner
type. Furthermore, the greatly In.
creased cost of medical education has
tended to debar students from the
rural districts, There Is a tendency
on the part of the medical schools to
be recruited from the young men of
the city whose Interests do not nat
urally lean toward rural practice.”
The bureau of education holds that
one of the big rural life problems is
to devise a method whereby the peo
ple of the open country may have ade
quate medical service,
Escapes a K
There is a ten-year-old boy visiting
In Wayne who may some day work ns
hard for a kiss from a red-haired girl
as he worked to escape one, When the
girl charged at him with her lips
pursed he fled across the ice of a
creek, and a dozen playmates saw him
break through the ice into the water
walst-deep. The girl stopped at the
edge of the hole and jeered. He ran
to the house shivering but pure.~—De
troit News,
nian .
Blue a Sacred Color
Blue has been considered favorably
by almost all Kinde of people. Blue
| was worn by the Gr ek gods, especial
i ly by Juno, wha ruled the heavens:
the Jewish priests wore blue to signi!
fy contemplation; the Persian asso
éiated it with alr and vastness; for
the Mongol It means authority and
power; it is believed by some that
angels wenr bjue to give an Impres
sion of faith and fidelity, and It 1s
said that the “Virgin Mary" wore it
as a sign of modesty; In heraldry It
stood for chastity, loyalty, fidelity and
good reputation. Early Christian art
ists used blue as a symbol of divine
eternity and human mortaMty, and
so it came to be considered a mor
tuary color and was utilized as a cov.
ering for roffins
Birth of the Ego
It Is easy to see that great economic
advantage accrued to the Individual,
and hence to the race, through the ac
quisition of self-consclousness. It en:
abled each. man to economize enor
mously his expenditure of energy by
concentrating upon definite desirable
accomplishments. Instinctite impulses
and urges now had something to an.
chor and control them, Instead of be.
ing switched about by every new and
passing sense impression, Man had
n oS
Irascible Strong,” by
Smyth,
Chastised in Public
John Adams, son and private secre
of a nosepulling and face-slapping
able today, and this cohduct made him
aopopular,
Russell Jarvis, then editor of the
Washington Telegraph, had supported
Andrew Jackson in the campaign that
ended with Adams’ election. Not long
after Adams took office, Jarvis, his
wife and a party of friends attended
a reception at the White House. John
made an losulting remark about Jarvis
in a tone that the Jarvis party could
lear plainly. They immediately paid
their respects to Mrs. Adams and left.
A few days later, when John was de
livering some documents to the capitol
for his father Jarvis met him in the
rotunda, boxed his ears in hearty, old
Ishment by tweaking the secretarial
.
Founder of Textile
Industry in America
Spinning as an Industry in America
was born in Pawtucket, R. 1, Decem-
ber 20, 1700, when a young English
man, Samuel Slater, completed the
building ef machines from plans he
in his memory to this
were offering prizes for inventions to
improve the textile industry.
He bulit the machines for one Mo-
Ameri.
ning successfully at the first trial.
ity snd Ioventiveness, but proved
counter,
that resulted satisfactorily to every.
Yme except John, no punishinent being
meted out to Jarvis,
Astor’s Business Projects
John Jacob Astor, who became one
country, had only £75 when he arrived
in Amenica. He wheeled his own skins
to market, says Maude Stewart Welch
in her book, "Vrouw Knickerbocker.”
There were few musical instruments
in the colonles and later Astor became
a dealer in pianos, the Astors in Lon-
don being engaged In the manufacture
of these instruments. Through his
connection with the fur and trapping
industry, Astor founded the first white
settlement In Nebraska, and also the
town of Astoria in Oregon,
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Strength Tests
Tests of strength have been made,
and the following are given as the
avernge figures for the white race:
The “lifting powers” of a youth of
seventeen Is 280 pounds: In his twen-
selves.—Kansas City Times,
Archibald’s Premise
Little Archibald is of an inquiring
When he comes across any-
thing he does not understand he Is
geldom slow In asking for informa-
tion. So when he was told to enter.
tain a visitor for ten minutes, he came
straight to the point that had inter
ested him from the moment the man
“Mr. Jones” he asked, “why Is it
you've got no hair on your head?”
“Well,” was the reply, “1 work so
hard with my head that my halr
doesn’t get a chance to grow; my
brains are too busy.”
upon him, “so that's why mother
doesn't grow a mustache.”
Surely Not Overworked
The doctor had called at the Jones
her. She got up this mornin’ and had
breakfast for me and the hands at
| Hold Church: Services
! in Old Waiting Room
Porters and clerks at Denmark Hil
railway station, South London, often
work to the accompaniment of hymna
sung lustily by a8 congregation In n
disused walting room oext to the
booking office, says the Washington
Star. The Mystical Church of the
Comforter is one of London's most cue
rious churches. Bables are baptized
In a room that was once only used by
impatient travelers waiting for their
trains; funeral services are read In it
end a marriage his been solemnized.
about six years
One end of the former walting room
has been transformed by an altar
painted white and surrounded by the
seven colors of the ralnbow. Seven
steps lead to the altar, and at the
side sre two pillars representing
beauty and strength. Everything Is
done by symbols In this remarkable
church and the badge worn by mem-
bers Is a dove standing In a circle
with a seven-leafed branch In {ts beak,
The leader and founder of the church
was a woman named Mrs Elizabeth
Mary Eagle Skinner, with the official
title of “messenger.”
Division of Time in
Daily Round of Life
As a rule, the hours of sleep should
about balance the hours of work, and
it Is estimated that a man who has
and worked 6500 hours; but as he
began to sleep as soon as he was born,
and did not begin te work until he
show at least an hour a day more
work than sleep,
ably have spent 800 Jays in simply
walking from place to place, or, at
| any rate, In using his legs, and If we
allow three miles an hour, 8a moderate
allowance, it gives a mileage of 57,000,
or a little over three miles a day.
Thus at fifty a man has walked twice
re. .
ably: also, the average man of
fifty has spent about 4,000 days in
amusement, and another 1.500 in eats
ing and drinking,
Wizard Takes a Chance
Trial by ordeal is commonly prac
though
(@). 1927, Western Newspaper Union)
Bave a little of thy income and
thy hidebound pocket will soon
begin to thrive and thou wilt never
ery again with an emply stomach,
neither will ereditors insult thes,
nor want oppress. nor hunger bite,
nor nakedness freee thee, The
whole hemisphere will shine bright-
er, and pleasure spring up in every
corner of thy heart.—Betjamin
Franklin
USEFUL HINTS
“A pint
around”
world
of our
is a pound the
for a8 good many
tuples,
The measuring sched
ule of weights and pro
portions us at
times and a 1able of the
most-used staples will be
helpful :
A pint of granulated
sugar equals a pound
A pint of brown sugar,
moist, equals 13 ounces,
A pint of maple sugar
puzrie
A pint of flour equals 8
Ounces,
A pint
ounces,
A pint of
OUNCes,
A pint of soft butter
ounces or one pound,
A pint of grated
graham
of wheat flour equals 8
corn meal equals 10
18
equals
bread crumbs
A pint of seeded raleins equals 9
Ounces,
A pint of dried currants equals 10
A pint of dried
Ounces,
The whites of 8 ordinary eggs will
fill one cup.
Nine large eggs (hens eggs) wil
weigh one pound
Two level tablespoonfuls of butter
equal an ounce,
Eight liquid ounces equal one cup.
Two tablespoonfuls of sale equal
an ounce.
Four level tablespoonfuls of flour
equel an ounce.
A pint of rice equals 15 ounces
An ounce of granulated sugar equals
two tablespoonfuls
Three tablespoonfuls of cornstarch
equal an ounce,
Three tablespoonfuls
choclate equal an ounce,
Four tablespoonfuls of coffee equal
an ounce,
Sosk mildewed linen in buttermilk;
after an hour, .prinkle with salt and
lay In the sun. Repeat until the spot
hominy equals 13
of grated
To clean white chamois or the un-
dressed kind, in fact any kind of kid
ort
=
line,
oves, use flour dampened with gaso-
the soiled
gioves on the hands
st as one does the hands.
wishi rilihing
Put the
end wash jo
Rinse in Crs
the line ous
Underwenr
of cdeasning and dust
r and
Sols
n flour and hang on
of doors to alr
kind
nice
, ay
sacks
the nest
cloths, A
» esd 1 or ; oy rod
h., soft and large enougl
makes
Gis]
be made from’ two small salt
sewed togeier,
Wash wi veg in naptha
in bluing water
shade to dry; they
ite silk le
sop al
send hang
will look lke new,
Make aprons hacks and
two of shirts, The
gmalier pieces can be used for pockets
anc holders,
When opening a can of pineapple
for salad, use a slice for cabbage
salad,
i water, rinse
in the
from the
fronts men’s
Everyday Foods.
When the warm days come, leaving
one languid, get out for a brisk walk,
filling the lungs
with good fresh
alr, cut down on
the protein foods,
and eat plentiful-
ily of fruits and
green vegetables,
That tired feeling
is nature's way
of telling us that our blood is clogged
with too much waste, which it is un-
able to dispose of. House cleaning
should begin on and in the body.
Stop stoking the furnace and clean
out the ashes.
Brown Nut Bread.—Take two cup-
wheat flour, one-half cupful of mo-
iasses, one tablespoonful of sugar, one
teaspoonful of soda, one-half teaspoon-
Scalloped Fish—Pick any leftover
add a slice of onion, a sprig of pars-
ley minced fine, two tablespoonfuls of
until smooth and well cooked.
Luculius Sauce. ~Beat one-half cup
three tablespoonfuls of mayonnaise
dressing, two tablespoonfuls each of
horseradish (grated), vinegar, one
teaspoonful of made mustard, one
half teaspoonful of sait and a bit of
cayenne, .
Tomato SaladIf. the tomatoes are
large, cut into thick silces; if small,
cut into halves, Om each slice or half,
cucumber; cul into fine pleces; add a
bit of minced onion and top with a
over the top a sprinkling of paprika