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"The Totem Pole"
Harrisburg, April 8—The two of them were sitting contentedly on
a bench in Capitol Park, basking in the late afternoon sun and munch-
ing peanuts along with the scampering gray squirrels that twitched
and chuffed about their feet.
Grampaw Pettibone and Throckmorton P. Twillingforde.
The pair made a comfortable
picture to the hurrying passerby.|
Grampaw Pettibone had his big feet
outstretched and crossed in front
of him. His battered felt hat was
pulled low over his eyes to shut
off the rays of the skidding sun.
Throckmorton’s feet. were nerv-
ously crossed under the green
bench, his somewhat-battered black
derby perched atop his egg-shaped
head. Throckmorton shucked a few
more peanuts, testily tossing them
to a nervous squirrel, saying:
“What about the women, Petti-
bone ?”
Grampaw Pettibone roused him-
self from his thoughts long enough
to ask, after a moment:
“Well, what about the women?
Did someone stumble and fall?”
“No, no—what about the women
in connection with these elections
coming up?” Throckmorton testily
informed the old political sage.
“Oh—I see. Well, speak up son.
Don’t sit there with your jaws rat-
tling and nothing constructive
happening,” Grampaw Pettibone
growled. “Be more specific. Say
what you mean. Hummpf”.
He sat there on the park bench
pondering the question for a mom-
ent before answering, and then
pushing his hat back from his aged
forehead and squinting hard at the
departing sun, said:
“Why it seems to me that the
women are becoming more and
more a factor to be considered—
‘good afternoon, Governor’—in our
various and sundry activities these
days. Ever since woman sufferage
came into being, they've been push-
ing some of our big boys pretty
hard.”
He pondered this for a moment,
meanwhile chomping briskly on a
mouthful of peanuts (much to the
dismay of the tail-twitching gray
squirrels at his feet), before ob-
serving:
“Almost everybody is taking the
woman a little more seriously today
than ever before—including hus-
bands. They're beginning to have
a voice in important matters and
the politicians know that their
vote is an ever-present threat to
a happy and well-oiled political
machine.
As a result, today you'll find
many a political leader going out
of his way to woo the female sup-
port and vote. But perhaps more
important, the women themselves
are stepping into the administrative
picture.”
He paused long enough to nod
a “good afternoon, General” to
Lieutenant Governor Daniel B.
Strickler as he strolled down the
park sidewalk. Then briskly brush-
ing a load of peanut shells from his
lap, turned to Throckmorton say-
ing:
“Son, the women can’t be over-
looked these days. It’s too danger-
ous a thing to do. Why do you
realize that there are at the present
time, 15 female candidates for the
State House of Representatives—
four Republicans and 11 Democrats ?
There's your answer.”
Hu
STATE POLICE SAY:
You boys and girls who are
thinking about bicycling again
—now that warmer days are
ahead—remember to check up
on the mechanical condition’ of
your vehicle before you start
riding. Brush up on your
safety rules. Keep in mind
that you are subject to the
traffic laws just as much as
drivers of automobiles. Keep
to the right of the road. Yield
to pedestrians at intersections.
Stop for all stop signs. Give
hand signals for turning. Let's
| keep 1948 safe.
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Made Notary Public
(Special to The Dallas Post)
Harrisburg, April 8—(PNS)—
The appointment of Howard Isaacs
of Trucksville, Kingston Township,
as a Notary Public, has been made
by Governor Duff.
THE POST, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1943
The following is known as “sweet
talk”.
It has to do with sugar, a recogni-
zed indispensable ingredient in med-
icine long before it became an im-
portant food.
The ancient Egyptians, three
thousand years B.C., mentioned the
use of bee’s honey as a laxative and |
for healing wounds. =
Hippocrates, The Father of Medi-
cine, referred to ‘‘the sweet as the
healthiest” and the Chinese medical
men used sugar in their concoctions
for centuries.
The common expression ‘sugar
coated” owes its origin to the well-
known use of sugar in making pills. |
Sugar is classified with alcohol
and glycerine as a pharmaceutical |
necessity.
It appears in preparations as a
preservative, solvent, stabilizer, de-
mulcent, and food.
It is used to give consistency or
body, to mask bitter or unpleasant
tasting drugs, as a replacement for
glycerine, and as a binder for
tablets.
Thus does sugar find its way into
hundreds of prescriptions listed in
the United States Pharmacoepia and
the National Formulary, including
elixirs, trochies, tinctures, emulsions,
mixtures, syrups, pills, powders, and
tablets.
Chemical words ending in -ose
refer to the more than 300 sugars
that have been found in nature or
in the laboratory, such as sucrose,
lactose, dextri-maltose, and xylose.
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DO YOU KNOW?
It is reported that before the last
World War Americans consumed an
average of 117 pounds of sugar per
year, until rationing cut this down
to 73 pounds.
Lost Articles at Theatre
A number of articles of clothing
including caps, scarves, gloves,
sweaters have been left during the
past several weeks at Himmler
Theatre. Owners may have same
by calling at the Theatre and identi-
fying.
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FRIED MUSH
It is possible, of course, that if
radio announcers did not wax so
vehemently enthusiastic over their
wares and if hall closets were or-
ganized so Father could find his
rubbers without pawing through a
gargantuan heap of miscellaneous
materials the day would start on
a reasonably even keel. There are
perspicacious citizens who believe
they could face the goings-on in
Washington with more equanimity
if they could have a breakfast that
gave due recognition to the heart-
warming qualities of fried mush.
It is difficult to say which product
of the tall grass with its long cobs
of kernels is the best. Boiled mush
with plenty of heavy cream and a
dash of maple syrup is wonderfully
tasty. Crisp-crusted Johnnycake
with plenty of butter and wild
grape jelly hits the spot. Indian
Pudding, if made correctly—not so
granular it resembles baked saw-
dust nor so watery it’s a first cousin
to jiggly custard—is excellent eat-
ness, nothing yet devised quite ap-
proaches the superbly satisfying
chewiness of correctly-concocted
fried mush.
It must be cooked the evening
previous. Let is simmer contentedly
on the second cover of the kitchen
range over an ash and white oak
At bedtime the mush should
be poured into bread pans and al-
lowed to solidify over night. In
the morning it is moderately firm
and easy to handle. The slices
should be exactly five-sixteenths of
an inch thick and fried in an old
fashioned iron spider. Nothing
equals bacon grease as a frying
medium. The first few minutes
the heat should be low. Just before
it’s time for the countryman to
come in from morning chores, in-
crease the heat so the outside of
the slices will be a crisp, chewy,
crunchy golden-brown. The inside
should be soft, mellow, and piping
hot. A half dozen or more slices
of fried mush with plenty of mo-
lasses, corn syrup or maple syrup
gives a man renewed faith in the
ultimate future of the human race.
fire.
Wesleyan Service Guild
To Have Annual Dinner
Annual dinner meeting of the
Wesleyan Service Guild of Wyoming
Conference of the Methodist Church
will be held at Central Methodist
Church, Wilkes-Barre at 6:30 P.M,
April 8.
Two new service guilds made up
of business and professional women,
are in this area at Trucksville and
Courtdale. The Guild is a part of
the Women’s Division of the WSCS.
Speaker at the dinner will be
Mrs. Charles W. Mead of Omaha,
Neb., chairman of the standing com-
mittee of the Guild. She will ad-
dress the ministers of the Confer-
ence at 9:30 AM. and the WSCS
annual meeting in the afternoon of
the same day.
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A Barnyard Notes
Myra sent a check to CARE, Inc, and said as she sealed the
envelope, “Now I can sleep better.” Whether it is hungry children
in Europe, a sick chicken, a stray dog, or Golden Tom, battered
aiter an all-night bout with a better cat, Myra is happiest when
she is binding the wounds of the weakest of the flock. It’s an .in-
stinct born in women that every mother’s son appreciates.
One of our best little White Leghorns has come down with the
misery. Her beautiful red comb is dull and listless and the frail
little hen mopes on the roost. There's nothing much anybody can
do for a sick chicken as we learned during the war when we raised
5,000 of them; but Myra never gives up. She tries all of the home
remedies from vinegar in the drinking water to sulphur in the feed,
segregates them from the flock and nurses them under a potato
crate—but they die. There's a simpler cure for broken wings, legs
and backs. They're the ones we usually get in pot-pie.
The illness of one of Myra’s twelve White Leghorns is a blow.
All winter they have been laying a daily dozen to pay for the feed
for an aging rooster and twenty-five fat old hens going through the
menopause.
Myra gathered her up, put her under the potato crate in the
sunshine where she can nibble the green grass and runs over to
see if she is improving hourly. The chicken woman has no patience
with our resigned, “She'll die anyway,” and retorts hotly, “I'll do
all I can; then if she dies, I won't feel bad.” It wasn’t sleep Myra
was thinking about when she sent that check to CARE. It was the
hungry kids, and the sick White Leghorn and the conscience that
won’t let her stop until she’s “done something about it.”
WHO CAN SLEEP?
Now with spring here, the fellow in the bed next to ours, crawls
from under the covers at 6 AM. How can anybody sleep when the
birds make such a racket in the crab apple tree ?
Two pairs of purple finches arrived at our feeding station dur-
ing the week and a pair of downy woodpeckers stop now and then
to feast on suet while excavating a home in a hollow limb in our
Baldwin tree; but the Chickadees still rule the roost and hammer
the daylights out of the sunflower seed. This year’s crop of robins
is the fattest we've ever seen. The earthworms must be abundant,
for they never touch the sunflower seed.
Wednesday afternoon a crane winged over Paul Shaver’s house,
on its way from Huntsville Dam to Goeringer’'s pond, no doubt.
ROSES, DELPHINIUM and ROSES
Friday morning we raked the straw mulch off the roses and
found a hundred. hyacinths we'd planted there last fall popping
through the ground.
Most of the roses froze back further than we had expected
under their heavy blanket of winter snow. We had to trim them
severely to find an outside bud on live wood.
In the bed at the edge of the chicken yard, delphinium
are growing faster than the red-tipped rhubarb. The seedlings we
raised ourselves two years ago are doing better and are stronger
than most of the nursery stock. They like soil composed mostly
of ash. Howard Ide told us how to grow the fine ones we had last
summer, We used a crowbar and poked four holes around each
plant, then filled the holes with bone meal. The ashes protect the
plants from crown rot and the bone meal starts the spire toward
heaven. :
A delphinium has always seemed to us to be a man’s flower.
Their four and five-foot spikes in all shades of blue are doubly
beautiful when ruby-throated humming birds work on them by the
hour during the warm days of June.
Out along the line where neighbor Murray Scureman ponders
whether to build a terrace or rebuild his sump, the lupins have put
forth their first starry, reddish-green leaves. This is their year.
If they bloom, they will be the first we have ever had. Many of
them we started from seeds two years ago. Others came from Way-
side Gardens at plenty pex, plant. a a : -
John Spiel first introduced us to the beauty of lupins several
years ago in Tom Kehoe’s back yard at Shrine View. They were
breath-taking in their array of multi-colered pea-like blossoms. John
proudly told how he had helped the Mannings plant them there.
Several days later we saw Tom after he had ridden horseback
over the hills to Harvey's Lake. “My, those are beautiful lupins in
your yard,” we remarked by way of making conversation. “Hell,
what are lupins?” Tom asked. His mind was on horses and aero-
planes. “Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.”
All around our yard, under the apple trees and crowding the
barberry hedge are the daffodils Myra and I planted last spring in
the rain. “You're crazy, paddling around in' the mud. To think I
worked to put a daughter through Smith only to have her look like
a coal picker,” stormed Granny. “You'll die of pneumonia!” But
neither Myra nor the daffodils have died.
The grape hyacinths are sprouting once again under the Spy
tree in the lower part of the orchard. They were the gift several
years ago of a gentle, cultured woman whose full life found room
for wild flowers, birds and poetry—Dr. Sara Wyckoff. Early every
spring with her aging mother she came to Center Hill to see how
the birds were and to enjoy the ageless marvel of rebirth coming
over the land. The grape hyacinths are awake, while she sleeps—
I wonder—in Woodlawn Cemetery.
One busy morning she left the bulbs on my desk while I was
out, and a few days later I found a check in the mail for $50 from
her and her mother to help start the library. Hyacinths, and a
library—what costly monument of granite could mark better the
character of such a noble woman ?
VIRGINIA CORNED-BEEF HASH
Buck, the wire-haired “terror”, has lost his appetite for Pard.
His stomach rumbles and he is restless. We took him to Dr. Flack,
the new veterinarian at Trucksville, for a check-up. The doctor
looked him over. “He's still a good dog for all his eleven years,”
was the verdict. Myra was relieved.
When we got home, Bucky got a cooked dinner of Old Virginia
corned beef hash ayer Granny's protests. “Buck can eat what we
eat,” said Myra, firmly.
“Why, when the war was on and you couldn’t buy meat or sal-
mon, Mike Rood got sick and wouldn't eat. Mrs. Rood tempted
him with special dishes; but the setter was indifferent and walked
away from his plate.” ;
“Then Arlene and Mother Rood got their heads together. They
had saved a can of choice red salmon for some special occasion.
Ralph was called in for a family consultation. They opened the
can, dumped it on the plate, and Mike ate with gusto.
“That's what some folks think of a dog,” said Myra triumphantly.
Now, Buck eats cold cuts and Old Virginia corned beef hash;
and will, we guess as long as Ord Trumbower continues to stock it.
A BIG JOB
The more we see of the bees, the birds, and the butterflies in
the spring—the more we're convinced that the artificial insemination
boys in Tunkhannock have an uphill pull on their hands.
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