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Minot, N. D.—An unusual experi
ment in eugenics in which two neigh-
boring families in this county swapped
wives, husbands, children and homes
three years ago has proved so suc-
cessful in the three-year “try-out
that both women and their husbands
are more than pleased and satisfied
with the result, while neighbors who
prophesied failure for the experiment
have agreed they were mistaken. Wel-
fare workers say it is the most un-
usual case in their experience, being
absolutely unique.
The Knights and the Rikensruds
are the families involved. Two hus
bands, two wives, and seven children
were included in the mixup and the
realignment which followed.
While the Knights had five children
before the realignment, and the Rik-
ensruds but two, under the new ar-
rangements the Knights found them-
selves with but four children, while
the Rikensruds had their family in
creased from two children to three.
The two families were great friends
before the experiment was tried and
they remain just as good friends to-
day. The children attended the same
school, the parents went to the same
church, and often the four parents
would plle into the same automobile
and go to the same “movie” show,
They secured thelr divorces together
and had a double marriage the next
day. Then they all came back to
their new homes,
Nelther the Knights nor the Rik.
ensruds were among the "newly weds”
when they decided to exchange fam-
flies. There was no “sudden im.
pulse,” The Knights had been mar
ried 17 years and the Rikensruds for
11 years when the readjustment was
undertaken,
is William
heads
The head of one family
Knight, Lawrence Rikensrud
the other, The Knights were from
Minneota, Minn, originally, while the
Rikensruds were married at Bottl-
neau, N. D.
In time, the two
themselves living on adjacent farms
near Minot. “Here they were
friends for several years, the children
growing up together and the parents
being about as Intimate as the usual
farm families,
families found
close
Four or five years ago a change
was gradually coming over the two
families, Instead of husbands and
wives pairing off together when the
two families came to Minot on a dou-
ble shopping expedition, or to attend
a pleture show, Knight and Mrs, Rik-
ensrud often sat together, while Rik-
ensrud and Mrs, Knight coupled seats
alongside the other couple, Thelr
friends got to teasing all four, It
seemed a good joke,
But there was more to the affair
than just a joke. One day in March,
1920, both women filed suits for dl.
vorce, alleging cruelty. The same
lawyer acted for both. The two hus.
bands were In the courtroom when
the decrees were handed down by the
Judge.
The following morning Rikensrud
married Mrs. Knight and Knight mar-
ried Mrs. Rikensrud, with a double
ceremony.
The
gether
honeymoons were spent to-
Salmon Jumps Into Boat
Grants Pass, Ore.—A large Chinook
salmon actually leaped into the row-
boat of J. Schwartz, of Klamath Falis,
ns he rowed down the Rogue river,
near here. Schwartz leaped astride
the fish and subdued it after taking
& good thumping
I was thirteen when the narrow-
gauge railroad between West Lebanon,
Ind, and Havana,
fll, was built. 1
gay Havana, Iii,
though the
struction was
er completed
ther than
believe.
project
to revolutionize ag-
rieniture In Th
part of the state in
which 1 lived, and
all us chil-
dren a thrill
We travele
in those days.
it gave
little
When we did go it was afoot or horse.
back, or in a farm wagon. [I had nev-
er seen Inside a rallway coach when
1 was thi but I had ambitions to
do 80. Ed Balley and Taylor (
and I used to climb to the roof of the
barn and watch the train, a little more
than a mile away, creeping along the
marrow track, or pufiing up the grade
which took it over the glacial morain
toward the East" and out of sight.
That train spelled romance to ua! We
vere not going to be farmers dragging
our feet behind a plow or a harrow,
mot we! We were going to be engl
+
rteen,
urtis
neers
or 20 miles an
1 ran onto Billy a few days ago as
I was coming home at noontime. Bilily
ad been our neig few years
fore and then had | out of our
tie life for i Now here
was again,
rteen
“Where do 3
and he told me.
“Are you going to s« hool ™
in the seventh grade, as a norms
of his age should have
J flunki
for promotion
4 03 vy or " toning
racing our rains
hour,
been, and
ng or passing hi
were about
going to college,” he
confided
“No? 1} said in an
tone of voice.
“I'm to an aviation school. It
isn't any more dangerous flying now
than it is running an automobile,
“It's awful good pay.
I remembered that an engineer got
one hundred dollars a month when 1
contemplated taking up that profes.
gion. It seemed a lot of money.
I didn’t try to dissuade Billy. What
is education as compared with the
romance and the thrill of sailing
through the air at a hundred miles an
hour or more? The romance of youth!
(©, 1932, Waatern Newspaper Union.)
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GCHOOL mirecior
IN SUNN COUNTY,
PENN.
1.0. APPLEYARD
erows GRAPES
IN FLORIDA.
A shirtmager rrock in cotton shirt-
ing is a cool choice for summer hours
on the golf course.
All Around
Zhe House
A pinch of salt added to fruit sher.
bet will improve the flavor.
. - »
Clean discolored knife handles with
a slice of cut lemon dipped in salt.
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To clean and polish patent leather
rub well with a cloth dipped In egg
white.
Little molasses eakes and coffee
make the delightful lunch to serve to
afternoon guests on a cool day,
- - .
Kerosene rubbed over window
screens will remove any rust that may
have accumulated during the winter.
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Maenroni and rice are best cooked
In rapidly bolling water, Cooked in
this way they will not stick to the
pan,
*® * -
When lettuce is being prepared for
the table it is always advisable to
break off the midrib, as that Is likely
to be better.
. * =
When sugaring doughnuts or ecrul
lers put them in a bag with the sugar
and shake well. This fs a saving In
sugar and covers the doughnuts or
erullers evenly.
London.—*1 want the new Bank of
England made so impregnable that no
one could even steal so much as half
a sovereign from its vaults, Even
the theft of that small sum would ruin
our prestige.”
That statement, made by Mantagu
Norman, governor of the Bank of
England, is responsible for the mighty
barricade of steel and cement being
built 60 feet below the streets of Lon-
don,
Norman's instructions are being car.
ried out to the letter and the new
vaults will withstand assault, fire
bombardment, dynamite and flood for
the next 500 years, If any intruder
even gets Inside, he must face the
dapger of being drowned, shot or cap-
tured.
The new safes are costing
and will be the main feature of
new Bank of England building, now
half finished. All work has been car
ried out behind high barricades
The outer doors « of the safes are de.
seribed as artillery The outer
shells are bronze "while Cores are
d blocks of 3-inch
All the “strong reom"” sys
on a threefoot bed of
forced with
covered with a yer of
glides of the
tected In hl
iin tha
ing would ey rinit access
£500 000
the
proof,
the
soll steel
tem rests
concrete rein.
and
The
fees are pro-
Architects
nt of tunnel-
from
hardened steel rods,
steel
Aare cert
or from
The oniy i
and vaul will be from above
massive grille gates and steel doors,
guarded, | 1CCesBnry, yy machine
below
to the saf
throu e
art 3 5
Marshmallow Mint Sauce
siiffly beaten
tap peppers
Cool sugar and water to thi
(230 degrees F.), not
spin a Add
Let stand two minutes,
maliows are dissolved, p
mallows under sirup.
slowly over egg
stantly until mixture is cool
permint extract
to make sauce a delicate green,
one, cupful of sauce,
thread.
sirap
beating cone
Add pep-
coloring
Makes
white,
nd enough
gunners, Inside these gates and doors
is a deep shaft, with elevators, lead-
ing down to the level of the vaults,
In emergencies this shaft can be
flooded, drowning intruders, with no
danger of the water penetrating the
strong rooms.
There are more strong grills at the
bottom of the shaft and the huge
safe door weighs 25 tons, Not even
the governor of the bank can open
the safe door. The combination code
of the lock is divided up, no one per-
son knowing all of it,
Even inside the safe door there are
innumerable steel doors to be opened
before a single bar of gold could be
removed from the which it
lies,
rack on
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ticket of the Lib
Li§ proposes con
Cat Mothers Rabbit 2 as
She Loses Two Kittens
Palmers, Calif. —Solace for the loss
of two of her kittens was found In
pew-born rabbit by a house cat here
recent T ’ owt ye Miss
“One word can cause & Scotchman
more grief than a sentence if the word
is ‘Fine'"
*
HE KNEW THE SERVICE
Harry rather fancied himself as a
mathematical expert.
One day he met his Cousin Jim.
“Think of a number, Jim,” he sald,
“and I'll tell you whether It's odd or
even”
“Right,” sald the other. *1
just called up my girl on the |
What's the numbe re
Harry looked thou
“Did you get her?"
“Yes” replied Jim.
“Right away?" inquls
“Yes,” answered
“That's odd,” finished Harry
don Answers.
FORETHOUGHT
have
NOLS
the other,
ON
“1 see that the bride |
groom's present, thi
“ always the ught
for a brid
“Perhaps that's
it made of ir
e¢ {0 wen
The Philistine
“Oh, Mr. Fl mn” she excla
iily, “have you ev ¢
of opp
imed,
a dim,
the
urden too
ippert
wuss vit iro
LN
with
Use Imagination's Wings
“Pilot,” sald the timid womar
jo if we are In
pas-
“what
the air and the
“Open par
“gy
“Tom's wife «
baby get g his t
“That's stry
ers can place
ity in a jiffy.”
Olfactory Offering
ydas—Too bad you couldn't take
flowers to Helnbuck in the hospital,
but be couldn't see them with his
eyes all bandaged up.
Yazge— Well, but
1 took him a gar
sandwich.
garuc
Nothing Impossible
Salesman--This steel cabinet
last forever.
Mr. Groucher—And after that?
Salesman--Why, by that time we
will be selling something that will last
even longer.
will
Mental Attitude
“1 wouldn't marry the best man ob
earth.” sald the irate young woman.
“And if you did,” said Miss Cayenne,
“you'd never believe IL"
Showing Hubby His Place
Husband — Where's the butcher
knife?
Wife—1 don’t know, Look for it
Husband--You ought to have a place
for everything.
Wife—Well, then, you'd better get
out of the kitchen. Exchange
Remembering the Mane
“Bat doesn’t your husband have any
hobby
“Oh, yes: he's always trying to comb
bis hair over the bald spot.”
Simply a Miracle
Reporter—] have a great plece of
pews. A truck driver got stuck in the
mud on the side of the road
Editor—DBut what's unusual about
that?
Reporter—He pulled over to allow
another car to pass.
Just Politeness
He~When you married me, you
promised to obey me,
She-Yes, only because | didnt want
a row when the minister was thove.