SUCH IS —-— By Charles Sughroe ro® Oe Whirlpool That Spins Out- ward Latest Oddity Washington.—Discovery of an out- ward spinning whirlpool in the Atlan tic ocean is reported by a vessel of the coast and geodetic survey. While charting the Georges banks, 150 miles enst Cape Cod, the survey ves sel Hydrographer encountered the strange whirlpool, which was strong enough to throw the vessel off its course, The cause of the phenomenon is unknown, but further investigation will be made. If differs from other whirlpools known to navigators in that it spins outward instead of toward its center. “An outward spinning whirlpool Is another oddity added to the long list SFPPPIEHPEII999 PIPPI TIIPS Ambition and Talent By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, University of Illinois. +P PIPPI VIPIPPIIPOIPIYY Ambition and persistence will carry us a long way in the ordinary affairs of life, and In most of the fessions for pro- that not artis matter, in matter tic be combined these other qual- i {race of talent, it is said that Mat thew Arnold learned to be a through hard work, and that Stevenson 80 learned the art of literature, but there was talent combined with other very necessary qualities which these ren had. it was Saxton’s ambition to be a writer from the time, when he was a boy, he had been thrilled by the tales of Scott and Cooper, Adventure, the romantic, appealed t im in the strongest way. He labored at his compositions In school and college with the greatest persistence and the most swelling ambition. Try as he would he could never get higher than a “B” and that only rarely. That was twenty years ago or more, He Is dubbing along today on a small salary as a newspaper reporter, still trying to write, but never getting any- where, Possibly he might have n a business man: maybe he could have been a lawyer or a physician, or he might have taught other people how to write—it often does not seem essential that one should know how to do a thing himself in order to teach others—but he could not write himself, He had no talent for It, though he had immeasurable ambition. I saw In a great art center some time ago scores of men and women whose feverish ambition was to be great painters. Some of them were young and healthy looking, but the thing that seemed to me the saddest about it all was the fact that many of them were old, gray, pale-faced, who were possessed of this high ambition to do something outstanding, and yet who had grown old doing only the commonplace, Jacobs has just asked my advice as to his taking up music as a profes. sion. “Learn all you can for your own pleasure and the pleasure of your friends, You'll need to make a living, 80 I'd sell gasoline or automobiles.” (@®. 1931, Weostern Newspaper Union.) ities some poet the ade even “Young Tommy” Opao “Young Tommy” Fernando Opao, the new Fllipino flyweight boxer whose sensational battles since his debut less than two years ago, have led his own countrymen to call him a successor to that other great Filipine boxer, the late Pancho Villa, world flyweight champion, has arrived In the United States. He came by way of the Ha- walian islands, where he stopped long enough to defeat all comers, of unexplained mysteries of the sea,” says a bulletin from the National Geographic society. “It is half In jest and half In awe that old tars refer to the bounding main as ‘that old devil sea,’ In olden days the sea was be- lieved to be peopled with strange mon- sters which devoured both ships and men, Even today, with all the safe- guards and comforts of modern travel, a ship voyage is not without its haz- ards. Mother ocean constantly plays new and unexpected tricks because man's knowledge of the sea, for all his centuries of study and experience, is extremely meager. “Explorers and geographers who Weds Real Prince Aleene McFarland, daughter of Charles McFa % Weatherford, Mrs, & hecome i Irie Zu Lichter Ha ¥ {ory Yes ber of the reigning b vealed, ha Johann von cipality of Lichtens mony was performed at Our Lady of Assumption The couple will come to States for an the indefinite stay. FOR A 9 have been sighing for new lands to conquer may find thelr best fleld, par- adoxically, In the sea. When It Is real- ized that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe consists of water, it is rather remarkable how little we know of the vast surface of the solid sphere which lles under this screen of liquid. “Little wonder, then that man mar vels at how much has been learned about the seas, the while he realizes that what he knows Is much less than the proverblal drop in the bucket ns compared with what remains a mys- tery, “The most Impressive thing sbout the sea is its shallowness as compared with the gize of the earth, and its depth as compared with the height of the land. If one were to take a globe six feet In diameter and excavate the | deepest trench of the ocean thereon, it would be a bare pin-scratch deep-- about onetwentieth of an inch. “Among the sea's unexplained mys teries are the origin and actions of storm waves, commonest of nautical phenomena. Often storm waves travel much faster than the storm Itself, meaning the storm as a whole, and sometimes they break with great force on a short-line where conditions oth- wise are very quiet and serene, “There Is a curious varying in various parts of superstition, the world, that every seventh, or every ninth, or every tenth that take advantage of th ported by scientist larger than the wave Is it. Writers CHnes pricede Lt. often is belief, not te periods ' a man's od opinion of him. if never Curry cota 1 gels too ind with heavy for him t« him, arot 2 BAPTIST OSPEL CHAPEL § church” mounted on the chassis of discloses a pulpit i for a great it possible audience to 22 feet long, 8 feel wide, Earnings for 184 44.0 per cavalry units were reviewed ing his famous shako, Monument Cleaning Begun Again in Rome tome, Italy.~The municipality of Rome has started the customary ane nual cleaning of the monuments and antiquities of the city from the plague of weeds which infests them. Weeds grow with extraordinary fertility in the cracks and crannies of the obel- isks, statues and church facades here. As soon as the wind deposits a little dust into a likely crevice of some an- cient monument, weeds begin to grow, The work of keeping the monuments clean from these growths costs the municipality many thousand lire a year, Carried a Souvenir of 1899 Tornado Tulsa, Okla.—~For thirty-two years Pat Malloy unknowingly carried a souvenir of a tornado that swept Towa back In 1500, Malloy, then a fourteen-year-old youth, escaped from the Salix (flown) tornado with a fractured collar bone and two snall scars on his back, He had forgotten the scars until e of them became sore and a small ump formed on it. Physicians opened the lump and found a wedge of plate glass between the ribs, “A relative may be a cousin or a- wife once removed.” (WNU Service.) Red Shades Are Favored for Late Summer Wear Red increases in popularity as the summer advances, Red jackets, red straw or embroid- ered linen hats, red pocketbooks and shoes provide a gay dash at garden parties and even on the street. It comes out strongly, too, in evening cos- tumes, A yellow chiffon dress has a red- beaded jacket reaching to the waist. line. A great red flower splashed on the skirt and red satin slippers still further brighten it. SHH HEE RHEE POTPOURRI FRR IRR Origin of Tuning Fork The tuning fork is the inven. tion of John Shore, trumpeter for George I of England. lis pitch varles according to the thickness and length of its two steel prongs, The usual instru. ment sounds only one note, mid. dle Cor the A below it, although the German model has a slide on each prong which regulates the piteh, (@. 1931, Western Newspaper Union.) the church can now go to region of northern Indi “trav g seven-passenger car. The motor- a bell. The roof, thrown back, radio equipment make church is ity for 12 persons. service, The ACCPSRGTIeR per cent), cement (063 per {(TL7 per cent), steel ar per petroleum and copper (with a 1353 chinery (88.2 cent), cent) for § ive companies). Dress and Jacket Condes sleeved A short Jacket ig a uniform that women up y & woman of slik dress, pius a silk and call any age look well ny-sided, many-temperatured perfect tact. We may have neglected to say that It is smart, but we have so many times extolled the smartness of jack- me you will take eh 1 we Ha Tire blessed, or an) can fail to in It fits Into our n life with els, we ns granted. Slot Typewriters Are Used in Berlin Cafes Berlin-—-If you wish to type a lets ter in Berlin just drop Into a eafe, deposit a coin In a slot, and use a typewriter. Public machines are be. ing installed in public places of the German capital. For the eqaival.nt of 2 cents one may type 1,000 letters or spaces, then another coin must be ine serted for further service. Watching the Game wm For spectator sportswear, this neat little jacket of pressed caracul, topped with charming bicorne boasting an in. dividual flower trim, Is worn by Lily Damita, Radio Plctures star. A mans nish scarf, purse, belt and gloves of black, give the final touch. ERR ERR N NW He We Ve He He Ye Ve He We ofa 4 Tickets, Please! — to Happy Days By M. AMES NHN NNN HAI jure Newspater 8ynd {WED Berry YLVIA drove her smart little road. ster through the elm lined streets at a fearful rate. Past the store, past the post office and the Grange “hall, How well she remembered the road, even after five years “Nothing has changed, but me.” Two white teeth bit into a rounded lower Hp. “But I'll anchange, I'll get back to the girl 1 was five years ago, with gingham dresses, washings to hang on Monday, chickens to feed, a garden to tend.” The blue eyes misted, Turn right bere, She swung the light car to the turn suddenly, suddenly, The brakes ground. Crash ! Splinters were flying, Class shattering. “I'm sorry,” said a surprisingly fa. miliar voice from the vicinity of the gutter, “but you made out giznalling, toreycle, and 1 think arm. Would you hand you a ticket? pocket?” * Ae Se ee Ye We We Ve We We Ye Vr He Fe He He HH {& by Met oe.) 100 the turn with- you've smashed my mo- ve broken my Out of the car jun do not such thing.” ing her foot, haven't a ticks here. Dor Sylvia the roadsid Bomehow the nu glide her, enshions, rolled was Good, like coffee up here or do t t mre awake, mj Oa good bi “A big been sleeping a long tim “No less than three nights and twe You must yr." “I'l be right down, honey, and do the door open. I can smell the breakfast, and I swear some one's been smoking a pipe in the house ™ “Don't you accuse me, ray dear, I've lived seventy year without tobacco, and a guess I can up with- out it* Syivia glanced kitchen, lovingly. grew wide Her “Whose hat Is that™ Only one hat like that In all the world. A dark stain, almost red, was on the rim, “Why, that's the boarder's, Sylvia. You don’t mind, I took a poor young man in for a week or so to rest. do you? “Of course not, Gran, it's very nice of you, but I think maybe I'll go back to bed. I'm still so tired.” Somehow Sylvia lived through the afternoon, She heard Gran retire early. Only the boarder was left downstairs to prowl about with his pipe. “How Gran trusts her boarder,” Syl via murmured. “Does she know about his arm? His poor, poor arm?” A wave of pity swept over her, “What a coward I am” she thought “to hide away from him, the silly darling, throwing away his chance for all that money. What a man! Slowly Sylvia crept down lured by a subdued whistle, straight into the haven of one good arm, a one black sling, “Oh, my darling, are yo# sure?” she breathed, “So sure, so sure, my very dear, that even before I came to find you, I put it in the paper that you and I were honeymooning. Do you mind too much dear?” And later, quite a long while later, “if you'll look, sweetheart, in my up- per coat pocket, where [ told you that first time, you'll find your ticket. little ring, dear, which, please God, will be our ticket to Happy Days.” breakfast, plea be hungry 1 a} finish about the homey Suddenly her eyes voice wavered.
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