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“W hite Prairie Death”
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
H ELLO EVERYBODY:
You know, boys and girls, this Adventurers’ Club of ours
shows signs of spreading all over the cockeyed world. Just a
few weeks ago we enrolled a native boy from Java, and today
here comes one from Sweetwater, way up in British Columbia.
Bill Simpson is his name, and he is a homesteader in a country where
farmhouses are few and far between. But in 1908 Bill was doing his
homesteading in Saskatchewan, and up there, at that time you were luck
if you saw a farmhouse in ten miles of travel.
That's the section Bill is going to tell us about today. He's
going to tell us the story of the horse that knew more than a
man. And Bill has the genuine eye-witness lowdown on that
story, too. You see, Bill was the man.
It was just a few days before Christmas. Bill and his closest neigh-
bor—a fellow named Barney-—had driven into town, a distance of forty
miles, to lay in a supply of groceries. It's hard to imagine a place that's
forty miles away from the nearest grocery store.
theless. And Bill and Barney drove that forty miles, not over roads, but
on a rough trail over the virgin prairie—a winding route picked out by
the horse himself, as he skirted around wet places and alkali spots,
trying to find where the going was easiest,
Caught in a Prairie Blizzard.
It was over that sort of a road that Bill and Barney started back for
home. They planned to drive twenty miles, spend the night at the home-
stead of a man they knew along the way, and drive the other twenty miles
on the following day. They had covered sixteen of those first twenty
miles when a blizzard broke over their heads.
The snow comes pelting
down with such force that it is impossible te face and travel against it.
You've just got to travel the direction in which the wind is blowing.
The snbw comes down so thick that you can hardly see two feet ahead
of you. And that's the sort of storm that Bill and Barney were up against.
“The temperature dropped,” says Bill, “until the sleigh run-
ners screamed as they passed over the cold snow. The wind rose,
driving snow particles at us with stinging force. The cold pene-
trated our bodies, and before we had gone balf a mile we were
performing the craziest-looking acrobatics you ever saw in an ef-
fort to keep warm.
“For a mile or so after the storm broke we were able to keep the horse
headed along the trail. But every vestige of the trail was soon obliterated
and we had to trust to luck as we headed for our destination. It began to
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The Horse Stopped at a Huge Mound of Snow,
dawn on us then that, though it was only a few more miles to the home-
stead of our friend, we would probably never find it in blizzard
that we would drive on and on until we froze to death.
“Even then we were not far from freezing. Barney, who was super-
stitious, kept crying agai ‘Oh, me poor
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After one of those sleepy attacks of his
found peacefully asleep in the
d to beat him yercifully with a black-
snake whip before he could get | awake again. "And as I beat him,"
he says, ‘‘the exertion brought w it a feeling of warmth that may have
saved my own life.”
By that time Bill had lost his bearings
He gave the horse
to beat his
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and even his sense of direc-
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The by that time, was falling in such a dense curtain
that it was impossible to see even as far as the horse's head. There isn't
a man in world who wouldn't have been lost in such a storm. But
the horse showed no hesitancy. He plodded on.
Then, all at once he began to slow down. A few paces farther on he
came to a stop before what looked like a huge mound of snow. Had he,
too, lost his sense of direction? Bill shouted, "Get up’ at him. The horse
didn’t budge. Bill was about to take the ship when the thought came to
him to investigate that mound of snow.
Luckily the Horse Kept His Bearings.
He climbed down from the wagon. The mound was round and
strangely shaped-—for a snow-pile. Bill thrust his hand into it—and then
realized that the horse knew things that he didn’t. That mound was a
snow-covered pile of straw that had been left there by threshers in
the fall.
“I pulled the wagon up into the shelter of the pile,” says Bill,
“and was preparing to pull out some of the straw to make a
fire, when I saw what looked like a star off toward the horizon.
But I knew there was no possibility of seeing a star through such
a storm and realized to my unbounded joy that it must be a
light gleaming in the house of our friend with whom we planned
to spend the night.”
Bill headed the horse toward that light and drove him on. It was
the house all right, but they were coming up to it from the opposite di-
rection from which they should have approached it. “We had almost
passed it,” says Bill, “and if we had, we would have gone on to our
deaths in the howling wind and deepening snow. The only thing that
saved us from doing so was—the horse.”
Bill and Barney spent the night at that homestead, and went on home
the next morning after the storm was over. In later years, Bill never
passed that place without remembering his battle with the elements—
and the horse that kept his bearings when Bill and Barney had both
lost theirs.
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Buttons on Men's Coats
Buttons on the sleeves of men's
coats are a matter of style. But
how the style originated isn’t
known. Tradition puts the respon-
sibility on Frederick the Great. This
Prussian king was very particular
about the appearance of the uni-
forms of his soldiers, and he had a
Sense of Humor
Dr. A. A. Roback, psychologist, of
Harvard university, after much
study of the sense of humor, says:
“Certainly the sense of humor is not
to be gauged by the intensity or
frequency of laughter. In fact, from
observation one might come to the
conclusion that he who laughs loud-
row of buttons put on the upper
side of their coat sleeves to break
them of the habit of using their coat
sleeves to wipe the perspiration
from their faces, which gave the
uniforms an untidy appearance. The
buttons were generally adopted and
became the accepted style of coats,
and as the styles varied, the posi-
tion of the buttons shifted until they
were finally put on the lower side
of the sleeve.
est and oftenest has a sense of hu-
mor not unlike that of the laughin
hyena or braying ass.” Dr. Robac
says intelligence is an important
factor in humor, and that the sense
of humor is an ability to perceive
possible incongruities in situations,
even where we ourselves are in-
volved. He says subjective people
have less humor than objective peo-
ple, who are more able to laugh
even at themselves,
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FASHION STRESSES
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
Fabrics play a most important
part this year, and by their rich-
ness explain the apparent simplicity
of the styles which are the great-
est challenge to the dressmaker.
Velvets, lames, brocades, laces,
tulles are all in the picture.
Lace becomes a happy medium
for day dresses, almost severe in
their simplicity. These may be re-
lieved by rich belts, patent trim-
mings, etc. Lighter laces in silk or
rayon are combined with a colored
fabric lining for day dresses or two
tones used in combination as Worth
has done. Lelong takes a heavy
white wool lace for a hip-length
top of a dress which ends in a sim-
ple black velvet skirt, with four
rows of the velvet used at the side
front from the high waistline to the
hip. Patou offers rosepoint collars,
cuff or bodice trim with severe
dresses—but real rose point. Schiap-
arelli makes lace of gold cord for
three huge medallions on the top-
per of a two-piece effect black maro-
cain. While dresses are simple in
effect, fantasy goes into the head-
gear.
Style Sobriety Stressed
for Chic Daytime Costume
At the height of the vogue for ro-
mantic fashions, mutinous mur-
murs are echoing from the ranks of
style leaders who favor simple gar-
ments for wear before the sun goes
down.
“Sobriety of the best quality” is
the formula advanced by a leading
French couturiere as the prime reqg-
uisite of daytime chic. .
“Wear tailored suits and little
sweaters,” she advises, "but have
them fitted by a good tailor and
made of the finest wool. See that
each accessory is equally first
grade, for one inappropriate gadget
can spoil the entire costume.”
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BE PENCIL-SLIM
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
This afternoon frock of purple silk
jacquard was worn in a fashion pre-
view for the silk parade held in
New York which presented out-
standing advance fashions created
by the foremost designers of the
world. To be right up to the mark
your new frock must feature the
pencil-slim silhouette that fashion
demands this season, such as this
gown so correctly defines. The hand-
some firm silks of quality kind that
are so characteristically a product
of this season's looms have been
found ideal for achieving the new
pencil-slim styling.
‘Way Back When
By JEANNE
WRITER
our family and it was necessary
My father
repeated so often, “Children are to
be seen and not heard’ or ‘‘Silence
old adages brings back the echo of
his voice. 1 can’t agree with the
principle of those sayings. Chil-
dren who are encouraged to join in
the conversation are likely tc have
more self-confidence and to be more
social minded. In some cases, their
very talkativeness may be golden.
Take Jimmy Walker for instance:
James John Walker, who later be-
was one of the most popular men
ever to hold that office, was born
in New York's Greenwich Village
in 1881. When still a very small
boy, he was nick-named “Jimmy
Talker’ because he could not be
INVENTOR RAN BICYCLE
REPAIR SHOP
I HE seed of success is ambition,
and rville Wright was ambi-
boyhood.
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A highly respectable
sstern family, the father was
of the United Brethren
church and later publisher of a re-
ligious newspaper; but the family
never had a lot of money. Or-
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paper with a toy printing press. Lat-
er he made a press of his own and
Wilbur improved it. Next he invent-
father's print shop. He quit school
in the third year of high school and,
with Wilbur, started a weekly news.
paper which lasted only three
months. They then turned to job
printing and later started a bicycle
repair shop.
At about this time, they became
interested in aviation and
to construct the first heavier than
air machine large enough to carry
a man. As in their previous activi
ties, Orville was the creative gen.
jus, Wilbur the perfecter. Their
first successful flight was at Kitty
Hawk, N. C,, in 1903, and the suc
cess of aviation was assured when
Orville made 2 flight lasting 62 min.
tes and 15 seconds, in 1908
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8 Questions
To Soften Sugar.—When brown
sugar becomes hard or lumpy,
place it in a shallow pan in the
oven for a few minutes,
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Shiny Windows.—A few drops y
kerosene added to the water when
washing windows will make them
shine brightly.
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For Baking Cakes.—The center
of the oven usually has the most
even heat and is therefore best
for cake baking.
Discouraging Ants. — Prompt
disposal of garbage and other
waste materials around the home
will aid in the control
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Cleaning Black Frocks.—Black
frocks which have become marked
with powder may be cleaned quite
easily by being rubbed with
crumbed, dry, stale bread.
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stitching materials, like
khaki, duck or canvas, rub hard
soap over and seams.
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