THE PATTON COURIER College Head at Curling Dr. Frank Parker Day, new presi: dent of Union college, at Schenectady, IN. Y,, with curling stone on his hand, and W. L. R. Emmet, consulting engi- neer of the General Electric Co. and president of the Schenectady Curling club, in a practice match preparatory to the Gorden Championship Medal match, Lor roitedosimtetotododootedo dodo doors & @ { DOING THE a ow $¥ DULLTHING i i. i > . % By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK & 3 & & Dean of Men, University of & : Illinois. 5 3 3 Creole Sonia lonledonteodonimnireloodootesteoionients “How much easier it is,” | heard a man say the sther day, “to do a dull thing from choice than from neces- sity.” > There is a mis- conception in the minds of youth that some day if one accomplishes the tasks set by teachers und par- ents and people in charge of things, there will come a time when one can do as he pleases, when everything that comes into the day's work will be interesting and pleasant and easy, or if there are tasks which do not have these char- acteristics, they may be sidetracked and shunted off for some one else to do. The theory is quite false, and one might much better learn early in life to do the dull uninteresting thing and to learn to do it cheerfully from choice. When | was teaching English com- position one of the rules of the game was that no papers were to be in late without a penalty of reduction of grade. There were very few members of the class who did not at one time or another drop a late theme on my desk with apologies at times, of course, and explanations, but the task of writ- ting something daily had grown dull, and so had been delayed and accom- plished only at the last moment from necessity. Stanley never had a late theme, so far as I recalled and I one day re- marked to him something of his reg- ularity and promptuess. t “I don’t like writing.” he confessed, “and I don’t find it easy. My brain seems to atrophy when 1 face the task of putting thoughts down upon paper. For that reason I get at the work when I am freshest. I choose to do the «dull thing first. If I did not, possibly I would never get it done, or at least I should do it with less enthusiasm and success if 1 pushed it into the last minute and did it hurriedly.” He had the right philosophy. Doing the dull thing from choice, it finally lost its dullness, for he became inter- ested in writing, he took it up as a profession, and today he is making a fiving from scribbling his ideas upon paper. Things are dull, people are dull, often because we are ourselves unin- terested or unipteresting. “Now I want you te be pleasant to Mrs. Crane tonight,” Nancy says to me when we are’ going out for the RARE — LS Net eT i AS ert e————————— —— ————— ——— Men Safest Drivers Waushington.—The perennial family argument as to whether man or wom- an drivers get into more automobile accidents can at last be backed up with some facts and figures that indi- cate sex differences. Records of man and woman taxi- cab drivers in a Pennsylvania city have been watched for an entire year by Dr. Morris Viteles and Helen M. Gardner of the University of Penn- sylvania, The resul(s, reported in the Person- nel Journal, show that the woman taxi drivers were responsible for three times as many accidents as men, though, judging by claims following accidents, the women were more suc- cessful in keeping out of serious trouble, ' These men and women operated the same kind of car and all equipment was regularly overhauled. Both drove in stormy weather and in the same traffic conditions. The men, however, were more ex- perienced, on the whole, than the women, for some of the women were not experienced drivers when hired, but were given a thorough course of training and immediately placed on cabs. "This would seem to be an im- portant psychological factor, but the taxicab company records could not be kept in such detail as to show whether the new driver offsets inex- perience with excessive caution or whether this caution oversteps the mark and leads to an excessive num- ber of cases of collisions. About 2,000 men drivers were on the employment rolls at a time and about forty women. The men drove 28,431,719 miles in the year and had 7,311 accidents. The women drove 348,979 miles and had 268 accidents. In terms of revenue the women had three and one-half times as many ac- cidents per thousand dollars as the men. A special study of accident costs in one representative month showed that there were 191 claims in the accidents Janet Is Popular Hore is the most popular young lady in Washington. Pretty Miss Janet Coon was recently voted by over 20,000 residents of the Capitol city to be its most popular maiden and receives as a reward a trip to the movie wonderland of Hollywood, with all expenses paid by a local news- paper. of man drivers and four claims in cases involving woman drivers. The claims indicate that women got into less serious mixups than the men, for the total cost of claims against men was $14,605, as compared with $75 against woman drivers. The psychologists conclude that the figures from the study “favor the point of view that the present gen- eration of woman drivers is more sus- ceptible to accidents than the present generation of man drivers.” They also state: “The extent to which this is the result of relative inexperience in driving or of a sex: determined difference in susceptibil- ity to accidents in traffic cannot be finally determined from an examina- tion of the present data. The fact. however, that a sampling of women suffer more accidents when driving under the same conditions as a some- what similar sampling of men is clearly established.” Hats Latest in ornamental pins are seen as trimming A scarf the costume. : | Raquel Torres wearing a black soleil | hat with a turn-down brim in from | which joins the crown at the side. Twa | handkerchief gives color to Lives Without Stomach Bde drietsisdedreadidedretvodmdmtededsodeesteoteed FHP bbb & $ % Big Wildcat Fights 3 -» + Four Dogs and Man 3 % Luray, Va.—“Big Foot,” a ¢ & giant catamount hunted for § & weeks in the fastness of the 2 & Blue Ridge mountains by hunt- 8 ® ers and dogs, was killed recent- + ly by “Kip” Atkins, living on & % top of the ridge, after one of » ow the most thrilling nalf-hour @ % battles between dogs and wild- +4 cat ever staged in these parts. & % The battle took place in a 3 % deep ravine in the mountains % | & when Atkins and his four dogs, @ 5 chasing the animal, came upon 3 & him and the dogs were attacked. & % For a half hour the fight be- 3 & tween the dogs and the wildcat & % raged, with the dogs getting % the cat down. Atkins circled + & the pack repeatedly, hoping to % 2 strike the cat a fatal blow with + | & a club. : > Suddenly he sank his fangs * & into the neck of one of the dogs. o > killing it; another dog wus se- 4 | riously wounded, while the oth- Pa & er two, with their owner, were % [% badly scratched and lacerated. P | & Atkins finally struck the eat a 2 & blow, stunning him. A second @ ¥ blow was necessary to kill. 3 3 . i Dd too TELLS HUSBAND London.—A man can live and thrive without a stomach, provided that not too many of the pancreatic glands are cut away, This has been proved by an operation of removing the stomach and stitching the upper part of the small intestine to the gullet, performed in the Batley hospital in Leeds and now reported in the British Medical Journal. I The man on whom the operation was carried out was in such a condition NICKEL FOR A BAG OF MOTHER, WILL Y' GIVE ME A PEANUTS, SO | CAN GO TO “THE ZOO AND HAVE FUN WITH THE NOUNG FELLER, WHEN | WAS YOUR AGE, | GOULD HAVE PLENTY OF FUN WITH A BAG OF PEANUTS, WITHOUT DRAGGING IN ANY ARLES | church-goers. fe <$ GARE eveninz. “l know she’s dull, but she can't be neglected entirely.” I give my attention to Mrs. Crane. I make an effort to bring her out, and I do it with some enthusiasm and in- terest as I might take up a new game. She is, in fact, not so dull as 1 had supposed. Occasionally she almost scintillates, and before the evening is over I find her actually entertaining. “Mrs. Crane is really a very bright woman at times,” I confess to Nancy as we are coming home. I had done the dull thing from choice and had found it interesting. (©). 1929, Western Newspaper Union) Asserts All Creatures Create Cosmic Waves Paris.—Claim of discovery of a new group of waves, or “cosmic rays,” generated and sent out by humans and all other livingscreatures, is made by Georges Lakhovsky, protege of Prof. Arsene d’Arsonval of the Acad- emy of Medicine. His theory is that the waves may be likened to electric currents, con- trolling health and sickness in plants and man ; On the Job NICARAGUAN CANAL docation and the ground marks that that the removal of the stomach gave him his only chance of life. The doc- tors decided to give him that chance. and cut away the stomach bit by bit antil it was completely removed. As some of the pancreatic glands could be saved, the patient was not without digestive juices and soon could take nourishment. hours he took some water, and the quantities were gradually increased. Then milk and tea were added and at the end of 10 days he could have as much food as he asked for. Solid food was taken at the end of a fort: night, After a month the man was out of bed and eating ordinary food, though in small quantities and often. An X- | ray examination after five months showed that the operation was entire: ly successful, and at present the pa- tient appears to be in good health and able to do a reasonable amount of work. He enjoys his food. The oper- ation is regarded as a surgical mar- | vel, Englishman Bequeaths Money to “Good People” Tingewick, England.—Virtue real ized a material reward in the will of Corbett Charles Barrett, a owner of Buckinghamshire. Mr. Barrett bequeathed to any old person or persons, inhabitants of Finsmere, “who have worked hard and lived good lives,” his three cot- tages in Finsmere, a neighboring. vil- lage. These livers of good lives, says the unusual testament, preferably will be The choice of those who will benefit by this legacy is left to the discretion of the rector and church wardens of Finsmere. Relies on Indian Map Lexington, Ky.—Six barrels full of precious silver and coins valued at about $400,000 is the objective of J. D. Stamper, who has taken a lease on land in Carter county, about 80 miles from Lexington, where the treasure is reported to be. Mr. Stamper said: “I feel confident the treasure is there and that I will find it. I am the only man that has ever found all the earthmarks noted on the map and that actually came across a cave such as described in my treasure map.” The treasure is said to have been buried by Indians who left Kentucky after the arrival of the white man. Silver was plentiful with the redskins, and when they made their hasty exit they buried the treasure ip a cave in Carter county. They drew a map ofl the cave, its distinguished it, and in 1§11 one Robert King, a fugitive from Europe, came upon a band of Indians camped in Kentucky. King made himself at home with the tribe. Long Way Back Quesnel, B. C.—Pete IPavich, fur dealer of Prince George, recently drove his car here, 82 miles. The fast- est method of return home necessi- tated a trip of 1,000 miles. Snow blocked the highway. Except from unnatural causes as starvation, too much ete, microbes and other one-cell creatures do not die. Instead, at a certain stage in their life they divide and two microbes result, each growing to normal size. These two follow J the same process and so they continue to multiply. such heat, Microbes Do Not Die ; TT TTT eoleeoetoceetectosteetentz toeteetoo ee touterteutaatue en tou ant uctoctont ot. + (©). 1929. Western Newspaper Union) J ee tt tt LetetecteoeofecforTestoctesfootent forded ii TTT TTT eer King had no intention of leaving Kentucky with the Indians, and when the tribe left they gave him the buck- skin treasure map as a farewell gift. | King searched for the treasure. but | was forced to give up, due to lack of aid. When he died in that vicinity he gave the map to an Indian by the | name of Robert Tinder. Tinder was unable to find the cave, and when he felt the approath of death called an | old friend, J. A. Rhoden, now living near Nevada, Ohio, to his bedside and gave him the map. Rhoden who is a native of Carter county and familiar with the land in the section where the cave is located. Hoover-Curtis Headgear Miss Ellen Mcintyre, of the Hoover-Curtis club wore at Harold Phillips and samples of the picturesque western headgear that 1.000 New York members tlie inauguration Miss Hazel Cook wearing on March 4. The hats were made popular during the campaign as an allusion to Senator Curtis’ western origin. After 24 | property [ gave the map to Stamper, | Unusual Sacrifice of Invalid Comes to Light. Senatobia, Miss.—One of the most unusul cases of romance and sacri- | fice that ever came to light in. this | section was revealed here when Inez | Sneed, an invalid and former school teacher, filed a claim for a wife's share in the estate or Charles T. Bow- { den, who shot and killed himself re- | cently. Attached to Miss Sneed's | claim was a marriage certificate show- ing that she had wed Bowden more { than a year ago. According to the former teacher, | she and Bowden were married while i she was teaching and they agreed to | keep the union a secret until the | school term was ended. Shortly after- i wards she was thrown from a horse | and was severely injured. | Jowden, she said, obtained the med- ical aid for her, but to no avail and all the doctors told her she would re- | main an invalid for the rest of her | life. | Meantime Bowden had met and | loved another girl. He told his wife | of this infatuation and she acquiesced in his plans to marry again. “I agreed,” Miss Sneed said. “I told | him the doctors told me I would never recover. 1 told him that our dead romance could be buried forever as far as I was concerned and that he was at liberty to find happiness wher- ever he could.” Three days before Bowden's second | marriage was to take place he fired a bullet through his head while seated on a ereek bank which runs through his estate. His latest love knew noth- ing of the former marriage. | Bowden had brooded for weeks over | his predicament and finally decided to | end his own life» Miss Sneed’s parents were ignorant of their daughter's marriage until she filed the claim for a share in Bow- | den’'s estate. | Uses God and Bible to Keep Son Out of School New York.—God agreed with ber | that her children should not go to school, Mrs. Christine Walling of Port | Monmouth, N. J. told Judge Jacob | Steinback recently, but the truant of- | ficer won. The judge found Mrs. Walling guil- | ty of neglecting her chidlren in fail- | ing to provide for their | but deferred sentence temporarily in | the hope that Mrs. Walling could set- tle with her God and have her sons, | James, fourteen, and Frank, eleven, sent back to school, Mrs. Walling, with her Bible in i hand, told the court why she had not allowed her children to go back this term. Light had come to her and she realized that studying the subjects was evil. Drawing was a sin because the Bible says, “Thou shalt not make unto thy- self any graven image,” Mrs. Walling Because the pages of his- tory are “splattered with blood and God forbids taking human life,” his- tory also was an evil subject, she said. Reading, writing and arithmetic Mrs. Walling said she taught in her own home, Geography she taught from a book of 1868. Mrs, Walling is one of a group of religious men and women of Port Mon- mouth who have broken from the or- ganized church on the basis that they can interpret the Bible. GE ee contended. | Plane Propeller Cuts Tail Off Cow in Field Pana, Ill.—Richard Lemon, flying instructor at the Pana airport, in | + 3 3 ; making a landing with two Pana busi- ness men in a ten-acre field north of Nokomis, six miles west of Pana, cut off a cow’s tail with the airplane pro- peller, which he brought back to Pana as evidence of his unusual experience, The propeller was wrecked. Bossie was lying down in the field and became frightened at the machine skimming along the ground, and ran directly in front of it. Aside from ; the loss of her tail, she was unin- Jured. education, | 5 Makes Life Sweeter a coated tongue, breath, or acrid £“in gives evidence of sour stomach—try Phillips Milk of Magnesia ! Get acquainted with this perfect ane Next time fetld ti-acid that helps the system keep sound and sweet. That every stomach needs at times. Take it whenever a hearty meal brings any discomfort, Phillips Milk of Magnesia has won medical endorsement. And convinced millions of men and women they didn't have “indigestion.” Don't diet, and ; don’t suffer; just remember Phillips. Pleasant to take, and always effective, The name Phillips is important; it dentifies the genuine product. “Milk of Magnesia” has been the U. 8. regis- tered trade mark of the Charles MH. decessor Charles H. Phillips since 1875. I Milk | of Magnesia. BABY CHICKS (Smith Hatched) Rocks, Reds, Wyandottes, Leghorn and other breeds ; satisfaction | HE CAN REMARRY | Phillips Chemical Co. and its .pre- | | uaranteed: prices reasonable, considering quality. Jircular FREE. Brookville Hatchery Brookville. Pa. DON’T LET WORMS TORTURE CHILDREN Children who have worms have not a chance of being healthy. Watch for the symp- toms. Gritting the teeth, pick- ing the nostrils, disordered stomach. 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Kindly mention your local paper. “Because” is Eve's legacy to her daughters as an excuse for the inex- cusable. A boaster is a next-door neighbor to a liar. le DR. CALDWELL'S THREE RULES Dr. Catdwell watched the results of constipation for 47 years, and believed that no matter how careful people are of their health, diet and exercise, con- stipation will occur from time to time. Of next importance, then, is how to treat it when it comes. Dr. Caldwell always was in favor of getting as close to nature as possible, hence his remedy for consti- pation is a mild vegetable compound. It can not harm the most delicate system and is not habit forming. The Doctor never did approve of dras- tic physics antl purges. He did not believe they were good for human beings to put into their system. Use Syrup Pepsin for yourself and members of the family in constipation, biliousness, sour and erampy stomach, bad breath, no appetite, head- aches, and to break up fevers and colds. Get a bottle today, at any drugstore and observe these three rules of health: Keep the head cool, the feet warm, the bowels open. For a free trial bottle, just write “Syrup Pepsin,” Dept, BB, Monticello, Illinois, r SS .0,0000,0000000,C (© by D. J. UGH MUNSO He was mos statements t main a bacl ‘And that he bad of forty-three with would travel throug days unmarried, H free. . . do unexplored lands... go as his fancy wi want a better hon Who would want m the service obtained He scorned the tid; his: friends . . . the heads of thelr o put a definite dista self and their sticky want a house to b « + electric lgh furnace cleaners . ing . . . maids cough . . , {insur decorators. “* «4+ +. and ths declared decisively f a big chair in his s on the first evening a two years’ trip to —never—marry. Th I will spend here w trip for my publish off again, « 1 + «« -He:turnegd te ert Beveridge, who big chair near by. heir, Bobbie, my bo if you will get this head about going ir of taking up law wants you to do.” His nephew smile cigarette butt agains “You're a fine o Grandfather wanted ister—mother told m he was in favor of 1 at you—just a vaga ing road, except that money to buy railr tickets. I don’t wai but I'll compromise fossil! T'll make a that before six mol will be asking son you . . . to sha fortune. A new ro: pledge that I will fall and study law th six months you'll fa hard! You have b with civilization sg know what white wo just you—wait. Th mother?” Hugh Munson’s si gently, and noddet laughed. “All right, new roadster—any against your promise but I've won before marriage—bah! Res for me!” A maid came to t by a short, smiling an whose open coat linen uniform. “Hello, folks. I'm in the next block— out for a breath of . run in, Oh why, H old tramp! TI haver « « + let me see, Wl in high school toget many years ago . “And if it isn’t Ca or what is the nan recall Marion telling ago of your marriage “Listen, Hugh. year, you know. again . . «SO “And supporting ft ily of four childre How is Billie, and and Albert, Cara? Albert is getting so t “All fine,” answe smiling mother. “I porch yesterday and and Junie locks like baby cries for an hc time I leave her and his nickels at the outside of that, the) ful, every one of the Robert Beveridge table at his mother his eyes were troubl “Well, mother, gu against me. You'll I after all, I guess. yrummel brother of knockout in evening the girls are crazy says she has tried him—nothing doing! he calls her ‘child her! Kay says he is in New York to flirt dances with her all her she is pretty a kidnap her and all tl dle-aged men hand o Kay is getting tired I guess. We didn’t be so hard to win ov to have Estelle Ta jorie’s house party Estelle will bowl him a stunner, and just troduction the other Says Unk is her idea tinguished . . . a Estelle’s charms p Hugh Munson playe rode horseback with sang with Delicia E Kay Vandergrift a with Mary Manning. his favor. The hous sooner than was exp announced his inte back to New York a
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