PA. [ Ye: ars End and SEE Its B« ginning Calling on New i ——_——— Year’s Morning Wir should sha by San invented sles gurceasze fr of the day for the stru year's er and a forg redder 1 #1 come the ever fresh soul an that future, The old 3 like the sien one by silently time, of pleaza pallid tin misfortunes som and and Irrepa i of dreams jut, at the birth of anotl Time brings to the han¢ us a fresh bud from the secrets of whose age no ean penet ture of wisdom its depths we and | that breast, of hidden Joys th promises of full Dlossoming, of deeds to be done for ns and by us, of the bless good will and prosperity agnin made possible for us and of the gardens of whose gates are swinging for us. Always in the cycle of human at fairs the Spring of Hope follows the Winter of Discontent. And New Year's day 1s the symbol of hum: renovation—spiritual as well as ian tarian—and of the clearing process of the soul's past accumulations, making ready for the building of its “more stately mansions” It may be Fate that guides the hand of Time in plac- ing in our grasp the new bud of prom- ise, but each of us may do much to further its proper blossoming, to keep fresh its fragrance, to shape into full fruition the enjoyment of the unfold- ing. month by month, and day by day, of the flower of the year whose un- opened months lie before us.—Kansas City Star. ove Tact nab 8; Tri good ings of peace, opportunity wide open “Dear, your fortune tells that the New Year will bring you lots of hap- piness.” “Oh, then you won't be around any more.” The Happy Day. in on the afternoon of the day itself with all one's neighbors dropping in to share it with one” “Well, let's revive the custom.” sug. gested her lord idly, through his pipe. “Let's send out a general alarm that we'll hold open house all afternoon. I'd like that” “All right,” agreed the young matron enthusiastically, “I'll have a big bowl of that wonderful orange Ice punch on tap and Mary can make some of her amusing little Swedish decorated cookies to go with it. You know she makes snappy little wafers on which she puts lighted candies, evergreen trees and crimson winter berries, all done in colored icing. You can have a table of cigars and cigarettes in one corner of the sun room, for the men who want to smoke, “We'll invite the entire neighbor. hood, all by telephone, of course, and Just have a regular old-fashioned New Year's "at home. We can start the custom this year and then perhaps keep it up every year, and possibly some of the others will follow suit. I think It is too bad to lose sight of those charming old-time traditions. We have revived the custom of hav. Ing our children dress up as ‘waits’ and sing Christmas carols through the snowy streets on Christmas eve, and we all go out and cul down our own Christmas trees now. Why not add the pleasant old fashion of calling on New Year's day?” (@ Metropolitan Newspaner Service.) (WNU Bervien.) Future Is Ours Amid all the welter of talk about the New Year, one great fact remains, What is past is past, beyond our al terntion; but the future in always just ahead, and It Is ours. Collier's Weekly, and Taking On customer noment, ‘or como ti losed, the Ig as into the New Year re ution pple which tips many a man toward an im- * ' ¢ onston ‘Ss course wroved Jrogram of i It may be aring off” i i he no Iota feels mre ot table to him, or It may be the taking on of others which he believes will develop his mental, moral, spiritual and physical capacities, and gain for him greater respect, if not admiration, among those whose regard he would like to keep, A comparatively small part of our population avails itself of the superb facilities of the public library in as sociating with the best minds of all ages and gleaning the treasures of his. tory, biography, philosophy, poetry, re ligion and the sciences to be found there; the opportunities for physical improvement afforded by municipal golf courts, baseball grounds: fre quent lectures, concerts and occasional operatic performances: the priceless capability of constructive thinking. If you are standing at equilibriom, New Year's day is a good time to bite into the apple. he “sw ' C.F. W, (@ 1931. Western Newspaper Union.) TWO RESOLUTIONS He—1 just made a resolution to marry you this year, She—Funny! I just made one not to marre yon. HRN Py IIIA R She Was in the 5 Marrying Mood i - X Ey M. AMES PH We Ke Wee We Ye Wee Ue Fe He 2 Ho He 26 9 90 He Hd (€ by McClure Newspay per Syndicate.) {WHNU Bervice.) PDora closed the door of her tiny apartment with a bang. Not that there inside to care whether the door closed gently with a #oft swish, or whether it slammed lustily with a spattering of plaster, “But it certainly makes me feel bet- AXRERTREN WHS anyone Dora had the self, grace to grin to her and all be. in the week “I know I'm In a temper cause it's the only Sunday to do, and I hate spring and I hate the city and I wish I were out in our inst ut home looking for Ma yilowe. Bell, so there!” ths before Dora Bennett upstate home and come fortune in the city, she had given Mr, Cooper at the But her real motive was to forget In the hubbub of new surroundings a certain Harry Bell had considers her I nake her That's the reason store, vhom for many years she d “her property. had suddenly the new become ine sehod teacher, enid 1d her ean t—Jjong after had e found light corner thy a familiar nea sigh of relief, 1 and entered the snug haven inging violently ill breathless from her mad run, she picked up the receiver, “Hello, hello,” she answered pant. ingly. Faintly from jumble of wires, Yoice, afar off, through a came a dear familiar “Dora, darling, I can't stand it a minute longer, 1 thought you wanted to go to the city and 1 wouldn't try to But three months is long Won't you please stop you. enough home?" “What tered the Dora. “Don’t you know, dear, I was only frying to get you to pay some atten tion to me? And you had to run away. Honest, 1 haven't seen her since you left. lense come home tomorrow, and let's get married the day after™ Dora clung weakly to the receiver, but her volce was steady. “You're a silly boy, darling, and maybe it's a silly thing to be doing, but I can't help saying yes In great big letters, because I feel exactly in the mood” about eternal feminine that was Pacific Salmon Unlike the Atlantic coast salmon which spawn several times, the Ia. cific salmon spawn but once and die immediately thereafter at the river spawning ground, All the five varl etles of Pacific salmon are members of the one family (Oncorhynchus) but show interesting differences in length of natural life span. The pink lives only two years; the coho, three: the chum, four; the sockeye, four to five and the spring, six or seven. (Prepare HE orn Y. ff fore jlture there ims the free-swimming which it accomplishes by other “clutch™ to which the “spat™ can attach, or by col- lecting the young on tiles or brush ralsed al bottom or suspended between surface and bottom have been und der culture longer than any other shellfish and, in deed, than any other water creature, A simple type of cultivation, with the formation of artificial beds, flourished in China at a very remote period and probably antedated by some centuries the Inception of oyster culture in Italy, about the year 100 B. C, W conserve sowing cl oyster shells wave the Oysters vith the ad- vance of civilization and the Inerease in pop oysiers were in greater demand and of necessity came ufider cultivation in all the important mari- time countries of Europe, where, at the present time, fully 90 per cent of the output represents oysters that have undergone some kind of culture. In other parts of the Old world the grow. ing of oysters by artificial means has become an important industry, while in the western hemisphere oyster farming has progressed to such a point that the annual crop now exceeds the total product of the rest of the world, Oysters are thus become the most extensively cultivated of all aquatic animals, and the yearly product of the oyster farms is many times more vale uable than that of all other aquicultur al operations combined. Has Hordes of Enemies. The cultivation of oysters is made necessary by the exhausting of the nat. ural beds; it is made possible by private ownership or control of oysterproduc Ing bottoms; and it Is greatly facili tated by the pecidiiar susceptibility of oysters to increase and improvement by artificial means, The human animal Is not the only ulation, the Oyster. Great Industry in Amer on of appre and given to oys iugmentat reased resources increased end ter culture The this time are Rhode nd, New Jersey, Mars sisgippl and Joulgiana in which the produ million bushels upwards, the ranking state, The rank early ed Biates in due to the seven leading veter states at New York, Bina, Mis- each of from a Maryland Is tion ranges attained by the Us dustry was area of the oyster beds; but the maintenance of that rank depends on the general adoption of oyster culture as the only certain means of insuring a yearly increasing crop that will keep pace with the in. creasing demand. Of the oyster markets last year, 50 per cent came from private or cultl vated grounds. Owing, however, to the improvement in the quality and shape of oysters by cultivation, the product of the private beds represent ed 70 per cont of the total value of the yield of market oysters. While the quantity of oysters taken from cultivated. grounds in the United States Is larger than in all the re mainder of the world, yet the propor tion of such oysters to the tolal out put Is much smaller than in any other important oyster-producing country, Wherever the fishery Is active and the demand great, the necessity for artificial measures to maintain the supply sooner or later becomes mani fest, Bome of the states long since ceased to place reliance on natural beds as sources of supply, and encour aged oyster culture by leasing or sells ing all available grounds to prospec tive oyster farmers, and each year other states are falling in line for pro- gressive methods, the oyster in eo great
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