owe About- — By ED HOWE ©, Bell Syndicate, WNU Service. Men have long contended that they are groping in the dark; this is one of their most common mumblings. The light of thousands of years really illuminates their way. The great truth is that men are not well behaved, and that those who be- have best get along with most com- fort and ease. In every phase of life, from feeding to learning, from manners to mouey, here is the sermon preached by deity, bishop and layman; it is a fact so universally known that, before engag- ing in stealing, a thief preaches honesty. To prosper as well as we may, to complete our lives as comfortably and easily as possible, it is only necessary for man to accept his own preaching. NR A book recently sent me contains a picture of a grinning skull, and un- | “What's the use?” | der it the words: A foolish picture and question. If a bear after you, why run? If you break a leg, why have it set? The What's the Use philosophy is only dismal and foolish, We are here, and should take as good care of our- selves as is possible as long as is possible. takes Years ago there was general indig- nation because a certain Doctor Os- ler said all human beings were old at forty, and should be chloroformed to get them out of the way of those still able to carry on. A very ridiculous statement, of course; many are useful at forty and far beyond. | self. but she’s about But it would have been sensible had | Doctor Osler suggested that certain worthless people be selected, and chloroformed at any age. The shift- less and idle, the criminal, the hope- lessly foolish who do nothing but muke trouble for those more worthy. | Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote a health rule that has been quoted so often I may be condemned for printing it again. It is to get an incurable disease, take care of your- self, and live forever. It was his way of emphasizing the important fact that wonders may be accomplished, easily and pleasantly, by ‘taking care of yourself.” I never pay much attention to what a poet says. 1 do not know what he is talking about; and I have heard of much everything of real im- in the world. RRR Many a woman who needs only a short fast. and more suitable food thereafter, is easily persuaded that a surgical operation will cure her. Most of the poor men 1 know complain of debts they owe doctors for opera- tions. pretty portance a XR One often hears of the great fight being made by Capital, and the infer- ence is usually given that Capital is fighting for robbery, spoils. The truth is, the great fight of Cap- ital is for the sacredness of obliga- tion, for industry. Capital i® a thing that cannot prosper in a country where there is only rioting and idle- ness. Capital is not heard of among sav- ages; it is an instrument of civilized and progressive peoples. RRR A surgeon lately told me a woman called on him and wanted her gall bladder removed. He asked where she got the notion. She replied that a neighbor woman told her that she had heard of a woman who did not feel well, had her gall bladder removed, and thereafter enjoyed health. “No one appreciates, said the surgeon, “how many operations we refuse to perform.” RRR There are so many indiscreet memoirs in print of late that many are inquir- ing: “Shall they be suppressed?’ And just as you are thinking of writ- ing yours! and women do The quarrel is money. A woman never seems fo care much because her husband isn't as much of a lover as when they were first enguged. She doesn’t. expect it; and realizes she has cooled off. too. We have learned that these things are natural, but men are still shocked at not get along mainly about Men well. the extravagance of women, and wom en are still shocked at the stinginess of men. Is there any way of coming to a better understanding on this sub- ject of money? I like five-thousand-a-year men. Nearly all of them are in line for promotion to ten-thousand-a-year jobs. And when they reach that goal they may reasonably hope for twenty thou- \ fifty thousand a year. Nearly five-thousand-dollar-a-year man sand, every | her | is a comer, and has ability and char- | acter. Among the thousand-dollar-a- vear men, one finds many who are not worth the pay they are getting, but the five-thousand-dollar men are worth more, and will get it. A twen- ty-dollar-a-week man finds it difficult to get a job, but there is clamor among employers for the five-thou- sand-dollar men. ® R #¥ There is only one reason men like women, although the women believe there are several hundred. | six, as I recall, the youngest a I SUCH IS LIFE - THE PATTON COURIER - Just Like Pop and Mom ‘DD | & © ©Western Newspaper Union NA ET By >. \ WHAT SHALL WE ///| Pot DRESS LP? 97 2 —-—r SET ry NO = LETS JUST ALL RIGHT= THERE GOES MAE JONES: AINT SHE A PIP! —, MY DEAR, SHE WiLL : NEVER SEE } NN 3 The Parting Guest By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, University of lilinois. ACHEL has been on her vacation visiting her relatives. She is £0- ing back to take up the household du- ties which have been carried on by some one else during her absence, but those whom she is leaving, as is com- mon in such are urging her to stay longer. A host cun scarcely do anything else in such a cuse. She's had a good time, she admits to her talked out, and, anyway, it's better when making a visit to leave behind a little grief than a lot of relief. Years ago—so many, in fact, that I cases should have forgotten the circum: stances wholly—a distant relative of father’s who lived in the city was in \ited to spend the week with us. We were living on a farm, there was mueh work to be dene daily. and the house was small. The woman came with her three children, the oldest baby in arms. They entailed a good deal of extra work, but mother did not mind that for a time. But the one week stretched out into two, and the two into four, and the four into six, and still there was no indication that our guests were contemplating kissing us geod-by. Finally mother had to Miami 0000000000000 0000000000000 Q C Built to Accommodate Family Elks, in preparation for the national Graven Initials Mark Old Trysting Place Kan. — The tokens of many a Nineteenth-century romance are graven in stone at the crest of Burnett’s mound tallest hill in the vicinity of To- peka. Initials, always in pairs and accompanied by figures repre senting dates, are carved by the score in the big bowlders until room scarcely remains for more inscriptions. Dozens of indicate between ¢ian ne Topeka, initials and dates blos 1900 which ana foun+ bearing 1910. Modern lovers apparently do not take time to g oO Q walk from the base of Burnett's 3 o romances somed 1880 but few dates since mound up its steep sides to the summit, or if they do they do not record their trysts in stone. -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0C-000-0-0-0-0-0-000- | 3 ©0-0-00-000000000 000000000000 the truth—that she longer delay a promised my sister, who lived some from us and who was ill There was no grief. but considerable relief when our visitor left You might suppose «that they would never have come back again, but they did They liked it, 1 guess. It isn't an easy matter to when best to end a call or a say—and it could no visit to distance wis us. know visit. meeting of the order in their city pext year. are getting together, some big things, Including this “biggest chair in the world.” occupied in the photograph by the executive council and a few others balf a ton. and is nine feet high, No Surplus Weight 2% To keep it down get a job as a official. Wal ter Eckersall, who helped run the re. cent Army-Notre Dame game, told a friend: “You'll be surprised. but my reduce weight or football weight 18 exactly the same as when | and played foothall, that’s 144 pounds stripped.” If fortune’s wheel doesn’t turn to suit you, put your shoul- der to the wheel and give it another whirl, It is wade entirely of wicker, holds 22, weighs Ex-Kaiser Buys Island London.—A Geneva dispatch to the Daily Express says that the former German kaiser has bought two small islands in Lake Maggiore, facing Lo- carno, Switzerland. One island is to he rechristened “Island of the World's Peace.” It is reported that the ex- kaiser intends to build a winter res. idence there The purchase for £14.000 (roughly $70.000) was effect. ed by the ex-kaiser's business man- ager, Baron Von der Rheidt. It is a good deal like making a speech, I think. One should stop talkiag just when the audience is interested and alert and wishing you would go on It is fatal to talk until they begin to wonder when you are going to stop. Hilda was one of the most satis- factory guests we ever had in our house. She never made us a visit unless she was invited, and when she came she was so much a part of the wusehold that it seemed as if she had always been with us “I'm going to stay just a she would say. “lI know you have other ns to he carried out, and I've had guests enough in our house to realize what a comfort it is, no matter how ouch you like them, to know when they're going. You can get ready to kiss me good-by a week from today.” We were always sorry to see her but we were never able to per- suade her to stay beyond the an- nounced time. “l want to come back some time, and I want you to be glad to see me rather than wondering how long I'm going to stay this time.” If only all guests would learn when to go! (© week,” must Zo. 1927. Western Newspaper Union.) Wewoka, Okla.—Mrs. Alice B. Davis, first woman chief of an Indian the seventy-five-year-old friend” of she tribe, now guide, philosopher 3.100 Seminole tribesmen, whom ruled for two brief periods in 1¢ She frequently appears in the Dis trict court Lere as an interpreter in litigation involving the oil lands of the Seminoles Her father, John F. Brown, a Scotch physician and graduate of the Uni- versity of Edinburgh, had come to the United States as a surgeon during the and Civil war. At that time he married Lucy Red Beard, a Seminole. A son became chiet of the tribe and won the title of “Governor” Brown. After the latter’s death, his sister Alice was appointed by President Harding to serve as chief for one day in order to complete business which her brother had left unfinished. A Woman Chief of Seminoles month later she was reappointed in order to sign authoritatively a deed in behalf of the Seminole ration, The deed called for the transfer of Ema- haka mission to a private individual. A school for Seminole girls, the mission had been condemned and abandoned and the federal govern- ment wished to dispose of it. Mrs, Davis refused to sign the deed. She contended that the land had been sold without the consent ot the tribe and that the Indians received no part of the purchase price. For her refusal she was immediately ‘‘separated” from her position as chief of the tribe. Her retirement to private life by no means lessened her activities, She keeps a record of births, deaths and marriages among her people and is always prepared to supply®informa- tion to a fellow Seminole ho wishes to prove his claim to oil rights. Was Giant Tusker Omaha, Neb.—They've found a new elephant out here in Nebraska. Dr: Henry Fairfield Osborn, famous pale- ontologist of New York, says it's a real discovery and that nothing like it has ever been found before. The new elephant is built along the lines of a steam shovel. Its great tusks extend straight out in front and the ends are shaped just like a shovel These tusks extend from the lower Jaw and from the joint they measure seven feet. The longth of the lower jawbones,of the largest mammoth ele- phants héretofore known is less than two feet. Dr. E. H. Barbour, head of the pa- leontological department of the Uni- versity of Nebraska, and curator of the university museum, says the ani- mal walked the earth some 1,000,000 or 2,000,000 years ago. Dug Up In Nebraska. type of elephant, “Amedelodon This particular which has been named ricki,” used to roam the Nebraska plains, The individual skeleton has just been- found in Frontier county, this state, and is now in the museum of the University of Nebraska. Only the lower jaw, the hug: tusks, tremen- dous teeth, still in place in the jaw bone, a rib and a toe bone have been found, but the expedition from the University of Nebraska is now search- ing Frontier county for other traces of the big fellow who carried a spade like a steam shovel out in front of him as he walked. The ends of the two tusks are set very close together, making praecti- ‘ally a broad, straight continucus line across the end where the “spade” comes in contact with the earth. The huge molars measure nine inches long and are still firmly set in the jawbone. These molars are in perfect condition, and the tusks have the density and other marks of true ivory. The specimen is perfect. It will be mounted in the Nebraska university “hall of the elephants,” which scien- tists say is the greatest collection of prehistoric elephants, mammoths and mastodons in all the world. Practi- cally all the specimens in this collec- | ue MAKE EDWIN [LET ME WORK Little Didingss in Modern Home DORIS —YOU COME AN WASH THESE DISHES AT ONCE — EDWIN YOU GET TH’ COAL/N_WO0O0D IN RIGHT tion, except several modern elephants, were discovered in Nebraska. The gigantic combination of steam shovel and animal just discovered tilled the Nebraska prairies and tarned the sod over with as perfect an ivory shovel and plow as can be imagined. In the days that the big fellow roamed the earth Nebraska was either the shores of an ocean or was a great inland sea. The “steam shovel” was used to turn the sod, dig up food such a8 seaweed from bencath the waters, or for excavating in mud or loose for food. Mystery About Tusks. the earth and sand in its search The end of jawbone proper into which the : tusks are set is a comparatively light bone, seem ing not nearly strong enough to stand the heavy strain which might be supposed to have been exerted in the heavy digging of which the shovel tusks would be capable. This pecul- iarity makes something of a mystery out of the use of the tusks. Doctor Jarbour hazards the guess that as the great mammoth dug, he wrapped his trunk around the “shovel” in the heaviest part and that this took most of the strain off the jawbone. “The shovel-mastodon,” says Doc- tor Barbour, “must kave carried his head high in order thLat the protrud- ing mandible could clear the ground when it walked, and not interfere with progression. Fortunately our specimen is perfect. The tusks have the whiteness and the density. as well as the decussating lines of ivory. The bones are white and firm and the mo- lars almost unblemished.” The shovel-tusks extend from the lower jawbones in this elephant, while in other elephants the tusks extend from the upper jaw. Doctor Barbour makes a guess that the upper tusks 0-00-00 0-0-0-000000000000000000000000000000 Invents New Lens to Take Colored Movies Pittsburgh, Pa.—Using only a special lens attachment for or- dinary cameras, a new motion picture optical color process was demonstrated here recently for the first time. The process was invented by Harold N. Cox of Pittsburgh, formerly connected with the Edison Research Laboratories. Cox said the new process calls into use “a simple lens attach ment which ean be placed on any camera.” The pictures taken he asserted. can be “developed in any laboratory fitted to turn out the ordinary; motion picture, printed on black and white stock, neither tinted no. toned or in any way artificially col ored, "with regular printing equipment, and projected on any projector or by again using sim- ilar lens attachment or shown on any screen.” The process according to fits Inventor can reproduce any color or shade that the eye can perceive. Cox claims that with his in- vention, color films can be pro duced with ne increase in cost over the present black and white method, 0-0-0-0-00000-00-0000000000000 000000000000 000000000000 0-0-0-0-00-00-00 00000000 may have been dwarfed or possibly aborted altogether in this new mam- moth, First indications of the presence of the fossil reriains ot the ‘shovel™ tusker were reported to the university L.: A. S. Keith of Freedom, Frontier county, and a expedition was sent to that county to search for other remains. [It was this expedition that gatherea the lower jaw, the tusks and molars, the ribs and the toe bone. It is hoped that additional remains will eventually be found of the “steam elephant. big * geological shovel” HHH HEHE HHH HHH CHIH HOC DIPPING INTO SCIENCE 5 5 BH CH CCH CHR EE ; THEE Horses Had Five Toes What we think of as the horse’s foot is really his toe. There were once five, but lack 3 of use, as he formed the habit of throwing his weight on the caused the others center toe, to gradually become smaller and finally disappear. The nail became hardened and later formed the hoof to protect the toe. Western Newspaper Union.) (©. 1927 CHO HIH HOH HH This Interesting sports ensemble, worn by Mary Astor, First National player, consists of a gray Angora sweater showing smartly striped ef- fects in gray and black. 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