BAKING CAKES
HER PROBLEM
Auburn, Cal. —(UP)— Except
once over a distant neighbor’s ra
dio, California’s champion mother,
never has heard of the present
economic stringency.
Wife cf a woodcutter and farm
er. Mrs A. JJ. Kistle goes about her
house’nold duties in her modest
little home 30 miles from here,
and the day never passes when
she doesn’t bake a cake.
“Cake still is an important item
In the dally diet of the children
who still are living with us,’’ she
said. "I never have let anything
but Illness prevent the baking of a
cake every day since we were mar
ried.’*
Her longest journey from home
was a trip to Sacramento, 60 miles
nwnr. The pleasant little mother
of 19 children admits she once
longed to see Ran Francisco, but
has reconciled herself to the fact
she perhaps never will.
Her greatest envy, she confesses,
Is her daughter, Mrs. Stephen
Rule, of Nevada City. Mrs. Rule
has twins.
Mrs. Klstle has had no twins
and believes “it would have been
fun to have a pair around the
house to play with the other chil
dren."
Three years ago the entire fam
ily was entered in the State Fair
competition to determine Califor
nia’s largest family. There were
four girls and 14 bovs then. An*
other boy has arrived since.
Eat-All-Y ou-Want
Idea Failed for Boys
Marblehead, Mass. — (UP) —
The dollar dinner, eat-all-you
want idea didn’t work so well at
the Eastern Yacht club, so far as
two small boys were concerned.
The boys, John Mc.Beath, 11,
and John Sitnonds, 14, sons of
members, turned themselves loose
at a dollar apiece and consumed
the following:
Two cups cold tomato soup, two
tall glasses of iced cofflre, six
orders of relish, four rolls, one
cinnamon roll, one potato salad,
two capons, two slices of meat
loaf, two slices of turkey, one slice
of chictSen, one slice of ham, one
order of cole-slaw, two lobsters a
la Uewburgh, one brownie, two
slices of cake, and two wedges of
blueberry pie with ice cream.
Wanderer Finds Brother
While Hunting Job
Cleveland —(UP)— Henry Mor
ris, 23, was a wayfarer and
“broke.” He arrived in Cleveland
on a freight train, hungry.
He sought work unsuccefully.
Finally, he entered the offices of
the Circular Distributing Co. and
asked for a bill-passer’s Job. The
manager glancing briefly at the
applicant’s ragged appearance
shook his head and Morris started
out the door.
The manager looked a second
time at the youth, then gasped:
“I know you. You’re my brother.
Where have you been for the
last seven years?”
The two brothers, Henry and
Lester, were united. Now Henry
has a steady Job.
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Depression Fails to Halt
French Music Lover*
Paris —(UP)— Despite hard times
and depression, people still love
music and are willing to spend
money for tickets.
Official statistics show that
Paris gave 2,400 concerts this sea
son over 1,106 for New York. The
French total was 82 less than f >r
the same period last year. Of this
total, 948 were operas and oper
ettas, 405 symphony orchestras,
144 piano recitals, 74 song recitals,
37 violin concerts, 20 for the harp,
violoncello and organ, 63 chamber
music, 26 choral and 683 Joint re
citals, dance and miscellaneous
music.
WAIT TILL G. O. P. TELLS IT
With every bit of storage room
Filled up with hogs that met their
doom
At two or three cents on the pound,
Our packers looked one day and
found
The price of hogs was much too
low—
And cried, "What shame that this
is sol”
*Twas late in June, and farmers
then
Had nary porker in the pen;
And so the packers said, said they.
"Well boost the price that we
would pay
For hogs, if there were hogs to
buy—
And send our storage stuff sky
high.”
And so they put the plan In play.
And every paper every day
Reported how, with prices up.
The farmer’s battered, leaky cup
Was filled to overflowing now,
Through Mr. Boar and Mrs. Sow.
And now the G. O. P. will rave.
How once again It came to save
The farmer from starvation’s fate,
And killed the wolf right at his
gate—
And this, my dears, despite the
feet.
Twas packers’ greed put on the
act.
—Sam Page.
Twins Set New Record
For School Attendance
Vassar, Mich. —(UP)— Dorothy
and Walter Boesnecker celebrated
their 19th birthday anniversary,
June 8, by graduating from high
school here together.
The twins, children of a teacher
In the high school, started to
school when they were seven, ’n
12 years, neither has been t*.uy.
Dorothy has not missed a day of
class work.
Walter, however, missed 12 days
in the 12 years.
V
DEVICES TEST
RADIO ACTIVITY
Pasadena. Cal. —(UP)— An
amazing array of devices have
been evolved at the California In
stitute of Technology here to test
the radio-activity of the earth.
Dr. Robert D Evans seeks to
determine with them the amount
of radium in rocks in order to
discover how much of this activity
must be discounted in studying the
action of the cosmic ray. discov
ered by Dr. Robert A. Millikin.
head of Caltech.
Included in Dr. Evans' equip
ment Is a furnace that will make
granite boil like water, scales that
will weigh one million-millionth
of a grain, or one thousand-mil
lionth of pound of radium, and
an appartus so delicate as to
chase atom3 of radium through a
definite channel In order that
scientists maj count them.
Dr. Evans pulverizes a granite
boulder, heats it to a temperature
of 3.700 degrees Fahrenheit, and
the rock boils like water. The
temperature is measured by an
electric device affected by light
rays lrom the lava.
The heat forces out of the gasses
formed the negative electron.
When the electrons are permitted
to unite with the gasses, they
pass into delicate scales, where the
radium atoms knock negative
electrons from the atoms of air
which are within the tube-like
scales.
Ey watching the electromer, the
scientist knows from its reading
how many atoms are passing
through.
She’s in the Pink
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College life is not all brain-wraca
ing study of abstruse subjects.
There’s a brighter side to it. and
here it ia. The young student se
obviously enjoying herself is Anna
Jolan of Brooklyn, N. Y., who is
demonstrating the method she used
in winning the watermelon-eating
contest at the campus frolic at New
York University.
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Baby Deer Raised
On Canned Milk
Boulder, Colo —(UP)— Virginia
and Allen Smothers have a pet
that is the envy of the youngsters
of the neighborhood.
A few days ago, their parents
discovered a five-day old deer in
Gore canyon near Kremling. The
tiny deer was barely alive, and
the Smothers believed its mother
had been killed.
They put it in their automobile
and took it home. Virginia and
Allen are raising the little fellow
on canned milk.
Girls Robbed Homes
To Fill Hope Chest
Sunbury. Pa. —(UP)-North
umberland county has "hope
chest” burglars.
Two girls, accused of robbing
summer homes in the Elysburg
section, took silverware, linens,
clothing, and an electric clock.
They admitted taking tlie
household articles to fill the "hope
chest” of one of the girls who
planned to be married within a
short time, police said.
FOOT PRINTS.
Those finger prints?Thcy're old
stuff now.
And ready for the can,
hough they’ve been used by every
sleuth.
Including Charley Chan.
It's foot prints now that get the
play.
And are the present vogue;
They tell a smart young sleuth a
lot,
May prove a man a rogue.
Though “foot prints on the sands oX
time,”
Pull every crook may read.
Unto the lessons that they teach,
He never does give heed.
Sam Page.
State Furnishes Remedy
For Snake Bites
Harrisburg, Pa. — (UP) — The
Stat« Department of Health pro
vides snake-bite medicine to all
who require it
The state does not deal in the
most familiar remedy for snake
bite—a drink of liquor—but has a
concentrated antivenom serum
that is more effective and cer
tainly more lawful.
The serum is provided at mod
erate cost through the biological
division of the health department
l
i Kicking at the Clouds
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High up on the roof of one of New York’s skyscraper hotels, Fay Marbe,
noted international stage and screen star, executes the world’s highest
kick with legs famed for their beauty and which carry a small fortune in
insurance. Fay didn't say what she was kicking about, but in common
with the rest of humanity maybe it was the heat.
First Airplane Flight
Nearly Ends in Disaster
Mansfield, England — (UP) —
Having waited 102 years before
going up in an airplane, A Mrs.
Stansall had a narrow escape
from disaster on her first flight
here recently.
Shortly after her 102 birthday,
Mis. Stansall wrote to Sir Alan
Ccbham, who was holding an avi
ation exhibition in Mansfield,
asking him to take her aloft.
What was more, she asked to
loop-the-loop.
A flight was arranged for a
party of 17, including the Mayor
and Mayoress of the city, but on
landing the plane lost two wheels,
and, with a wing dragging the
ground, narrowly averted disaster.
Alighting from the plane, the
old lady primly rearranged her
hat and declared that the flight
had been “grand."
Dispells Mystery of Old
Days in Mormon Colony
Fort Worth, Tex. — (UP) —
Mystery cast around the Mormon
life of yesteryears was entirely the
brainchild of fiction writers, Rud
ger Clawson, Salt Laxe City, once
an associate of Brigham Young,
told members of his faith here.
Clawson, who was born in Salt
Lake City in 1857, ten years after
its founding by the famous Mor
mon leader, Is president of the
Council of Twelve of the Mormon
church. He experienced the bit
ter struggle between Mormonlsm
and the United States Government
over the practice of polygmy.
The stories, some of them now
famous books, telling of kidnap
ings, robberies and merciless
treatment of women by church
elders are purely fiction, he said.
He described Brigham Young as
the greatest organizer, financier
and preacher of the modern age.
Burnt Bones Whiten
Sugar for Table Use
Washington — (UP) — Burnt
bones make table sugar white.
The Department of Labor re
veals that In 21 sugar refineries
775 persons are employed In
handling the skeletons of animals
— hogs, sheep and cows — that
they may be charred and used in
filtering sugar, thereby whitening
It.
The animal tbones come from
large U. S. slaughter houses and
occasionally from the Argentine
pampas. They are stripped,
scraped, shredded. boiled, and
charred for their use in the
whitening, process.
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Role of Cat Mother
Changes Hen Into Potpie
Manning, Cal. —(UP)— A lone
some, chick-less hen was Mrs. J.
Ostler's Rhode Island Red, Agnes.
She had no chicks of her own so
she decided to adopt a litter of
kittens.
Followed a royal battle between
the mother cat and Agnes. Biddy
won.
Hour after hour the mother cat
sat dejectedly near her offspring,
Maine Changes Diet
For Its Lake Trout
Augusta, Me. —(UP)— To im
prove the flavor of the trout
caught In Maine's lakes and
streams, state authorities have put
the fish on a milk diet.
The liver diet formerly fed the
trout in state hatcheries gave them
an unpleasant flavor, which per
sisted even though the fish had
long flings at liberty before being
landed.
So a milk food was produced,
conrtfUng of ordinary cow's milk
I
lor Pool or Beach
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For • cooling dip im the pool, Anltm
Page, charming screen actress, fa
vors this chic striped suit. It is a
one-piece model, designed for real
swimming rather than beach loung
ing' The suit is strapped over the
shoulders and set off with a match
ing bag.
for each time she approached she
was ferociously attacked by the
hen. Only with the help of Mrs.
Ostler was she permitted to feed
her young.
But after two weeks of trying
to teach the hen she could not
mother the kittens, Mrs. Ostler
changed Agnes into pot pie.
Dobbin Brings Higher
Price Than for Years
Mercer, Pa —(UP)— It may be
the machine era but Mercer
! county farmers are going to be
hard to convince.
Despite the widespread use of
trucks, tractors and automobiles,
•'Old Dobbin” commands a higher
price than lie has lor years, deal
ers report.
With farm end dairy products
bringing the lowest prices in 50
! years. Auctioneer J. S. Wilson said
thv* market for draft horses was
I the best he has known.
mixed with certain chemicals com
pounds, the result being a grain
| like preparation.
George J. Stobie. state fish and
| game commissioner, said some
i trout hatched at Gray were fed
on the milk diet and grew 12 to
| 14 inches in 12 months.
The Right Time.
From Hummel, Hamburg,
i "I have only 10 minutes and 1
hardly know where to begin," said
the speaker.
•‘Begin at the ninth minute,”
1 shouted a bored man in the back
of the audience.
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The Great Need—Faith in Men
By M. E. Tracy in New York World-Telegram. |
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Bring on your athletes; let them run, jump and throw
things; give the winners plenty of honor, but no cash, and
declare a truce while the contest lasts. It will promote
health by stimulating interest in bodily exercise, and
peace by creating a spirit of friendly competition.
So argued the Greeks 2,500 years ago, and with all
our boasted superiority, we can think of nothing to add.
We are glad to pick up the program that made Olympia
a symbol of hope for 12 centuries; glad to admit that it
may help the modern world to dote less on war.
Who says that civilization is bound up with a few
creature comforts, or that wisdom came into being with
mechanical power?
We have airplanes that can go five miles a minute,
but still get a kick out of seeing men go a mile in little less
than five minutes. Human power still appeals to us, no
matter how weak it may be compared with mechanical
power. The thought of producing stronger, healthier hu
man beings, even in a physical sense, is still uppermost in
our minds. That is why we like sport, why our educational
system tolerates so much of it, why we have resurrected
the Olympiad.
The old boys felt much as we do, in spite of their ig
norance about machinery. They, too, had faith in men,
rather than in the creation of men.
We are just harking back to fundamentals which we
had forgotten in our excitement over some new play
things.
After all, the great problem in life is not what men
can do by means of some device, or system, but what they
ought to do by and for each other. It all goes back to the
gradual refinement of human character. Anything that
helps that is worth while, and most such things are very
old in principle.
Henry Ford says that we would get along if we obeyed
10 or a dozen old rules. The trouble is w’e don't obey them.
We haven't time to study them in a sense of practical ap
plication. We are too busy learning thousands of new rules,
which are not rules at all but merely learning recipes.
We have made wonderful progress in the development
of tools, instruments and engines, but the World war
shows how little we understood them and what hopeless
' slaves of them we had become.
Man’s only hope of salvation, even in its narrowest
sense, is to remain master of his faculties and of all means
by which those faculties are expressed. The only way he
can do that is to keep clearly in mind that he is in the
greatest need of improvement, and that if he fails to grow
in knowledge and wisdom all other improvements will be
of no avail.
The great danger of this machine age is that it di
verts man’s attention from himself, that it causes him to
have too much faith in purely artificial methods.
Those who find fault with sport and the part it has
come to play in life are careless thinkers. It represents a
subconscious reaction to modern man’s outstanding weak
ness. He is becoming too rational for his own good, too
pitilessly intelligent.
The affliction is not new. The Greeks and Romans
both suffered from it, and experimented with remedies.
The Greeks succeeded far better with their mild sports
than the Romans with their gladiatorial games. Both,
however, went down before races that were stronger, not
because of what they knew but because of what they were..
Your
Children
By Olive Roberts Barton
<PI?52 &Y NEA SfePViCE INC
CHILDBIRTH AT HOME RE
QUIRES CAREFUL PREP
ARATION
I think it desirable for expect
ant mothers to have their babies
in hospitals.
It wold be more than foolish
not to realize that equipment to
day for childbirth has reached a
stage that no home can ever ap
proach for surety of health and
life.
lut tlyuc are conditions exist
ing today that make it lmpossibl;
in some eases to expect hospitali
zation. In some Y the smaller
towns and even in the laige cities
on account of lack of funds, nospi
tals have had to close «*nd many
of those operating have had to re
duce expenses and therefore their
work of mercy.
Less Charity Today
It must be remembered that no
case is free. Although a patient
may not pay, somebody pays.
Those who have kept up these
"free’ wards and operating and
delivery rooms have had incomes
reduced terribly. By reduced divi
dends and heavy taxation of in
comes their benevolence in many
cases have ceased.
Another view of the situation is
this. Many of those who formerly
could pay their way cannot pay
now. It is a tragic problem for
the woman who faces motherhood
and knows that she may not ex
pect the sanctuary of a house of
healing.
I had all my babies at home.
And only once did I have a trained
nurse. This, of course, was some
time ago, before the country be
came hospital-conscious. I had
no prejudice, as so many had at
that time, against hospitals. I
simply could not afford one. And
I belonged to those people who
were expected to pay.
So what did I do?
Careful Preparations
I began months ahead of the
event to prepare. I made my own
hospital. I went to a doctor, and
also a friend, a nurse, and got
minute directions for making an
Preacher, 86, Ends
Seventh Summer School
Durham, N. C. —(UP)— An ex
ceptional record as a consistent
student has been established by
R. E. Sentelle, 86, Haywood
county resident, who recently
completed his seventh consecu
tive summer school term at Lake
Junaluska where an affiliated
Duke University school is op
erated.
Sentelle enrolled in the first
session at the Junaluska summer
school seven years ago, and has
tiseptic pads, gauze and mattress
protectors. I made every stitch of
baby clothes but shirts. I steril
ized (baked) ^very sheet and
gown and bit of muslin that came
into contact with either myself or
the baby.
Ihe room was stripped, scrub
bed and sunned, and not a germ
was left in it. The wall paper was
cleaned and then wiped again
with a cloth.
This same thing can be done by
a careiul woman, competent to
handle dangerous germicides her
self. I even made my own bichlor
ide gauze, and kept it in damp*
rolls in jars. But I should ad
vise buying that at the drugstore
now.
Still a Good Plan
My nurse was a competent wo
man and my doctor always had
my confidence.
By spreading my preparations
over months, the money came
easier, or at least was not so
greatly missed.
It can be done by a novice to*
day just as it was then, but only
under the guidance of one who
knows.
Not a chance must be taken,
for life depends on it. But it can
be done and may help and com
fort the coming mother who can
see no other way out, to know
that it can be done.
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Garden Hose Brought
Forth Queer Beetle
Phoenix, Ariz. — (UP) — Mrs.
Earl K. Cone knows what its like
to see things.
Mrs. Cone wes in he’- garden
and noticed a hoie which she
supposed to be t tarantula’s nest.
She got the garden hose and
trained a stream of water into the
hole, to drown the supposed tar
antula. When out popped a beetle
aud what a beetle!
A long ho.n curved out of its
head. It was two inches long. It
seemed to wear a beard.
With a scream Mrs. Cone dis
appeared Into the house.
Fhe learned later that it was
quite harmle.es. It was a Central
American insect, known as the
Elephant beetle.
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Not His Lack.
Prom Fliegende Blatter.
“Your name is Kuwatsch, is it?
Are vou. by any chance, the Ku
watsch who absconded with $250,
000 and was never caught?”
"Unfortunately, no.”
been a regular and deeply- inter
ested student each summer since.
He has had a successful carter a
superintendent of Haywood coun
ty schools, a teacher, preacher,
and legislator.
The Big Loser.
From the Humorist.
A minister discovered two cf his
flock playing cards on Sunday—
and for money.
"Rastus.” he said, “don’t you
know it’s wrong to play cards on
the Sabbath?”
“Yes, parson,” replied the sinner,
ruefully, “an’ believe me, Ah’s pay.
in’ for mah sins.”
