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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1934)
Indians Had Nothing on This Family Tilt; tamous tamily ot Hiawatha could have tteen no more adept with the bow and arrow than the eight members of the family of Mr. and .Mrs. Leonard Howe of Melrose, Mass. Every one of them has won prizes In nrehery and Mrs. Howe Is the present women's state cham pion. Frank, fourth from the left, holds the Itmlor title. “Little Stories I a /or Bedtim by Thorn c/ Burgess PETER FINDS HE IS MISTAKEN Butcher the shrike was not the only newcomer In the Old Orchard. There wn* another stranger, and It did not take Peter Rabbit long'to discover that he was looked on with suspicion by nil the other birds. The first time Peter saw him he was walking on the ground some distance off lie didn’t hop, but walked, and at that dis tance looked all black. The way he carrlpd himself and Ids move ments as he walked, made Peter think of Creaker the Crackle. In fact, Peter mistook him for Creaker. That was because he didn’t really look at him. If he hud he would have seen at once that the stranger was smaller than Creaker. Presently the stranger flew up In a tree, and at once Peter saw that his tall was little more than half as long ns that of Creaker. At once It came over Peter that this was a stranger to him. Of course Ids cu riosity was aroused at once. Any thing like that Is sure to arouse Pe ter's curiosity. He didn't have any doubt whatever that this was a member of the Blackbird family, but which one It could be he hadn't the least Idea. "Jenny Wren will know,” thought Peter, and scampered off to hunt her up. “Who Is that now member of the Know That a silver half-dollar, spent at the Centennial ex position in Philadelphia in 1876, has returned — after fifty years of wandering—to its former owner, H. B. Curl of Jamestown, N. Y. He says that he recognized the coin because he marked it H. B. C., Clarion, Pa. by McClure Newspaper Syndicate. WNTT Service Blackbird family who has come to live in the Old Orchard?" I’eter naked ns soon ns tie found Jenny Wren. Jenny’s sharp little eyes snapped and she twitched her funny little tail as only she can. "What's that?” she cried. “Who Is thnt new member of the Blackbird family who hns come to The First Time Peter Saw Him He Was Walking on the Ground. live In the Old Orchard?” repeated l'eter. "There Isn’t any new member of the Blackbird family living In the Old Orchard." retorted Jenny Wren tartly. "There Is. too," contradicted Pe ter. "I saw him with m.v own eyes. 1 can see him now. lie’s sitting In that tree over yonder this very min ute. He's all black, so of course he must he a member of the Black bird family." "Tut, tut, tut, tut. tut." scolded Jenny Wren. "Tut, tut, tut. tut, tut, tut! That fellow Isn't a member of the blackbird family at all, and what's more, he Isn’t black. Go over there and take a good look at him and then come back und tell me If you still think he Is black.” Jenny turned her back on Peter and went on hunting worms. There being nothing else to do, Peter hopped over where lie could get a good look at the stranger. The sun wns shining full on him. and he wasn't black at all. For the most part he was very dark green. At least, that was what Peter thought at first glance. Then, as the stranger moved, he seemed to be a rich pur ple In places. In short, be changed color. Ills feathers were like those of Creaker the Grackle—Iridescent. ©, T. W Uurgiaa.—WNU Sorvlcs. “T.rribU Lisard” The word dinosaur means ,,ter | rible lizard.” A New Accessory ■A£THlN6 NEW.' i IN, iTWlll >TAUlN6,dAMV EF** THE MOTOR! —m--t&sA Question Box By ED WYNN The Perfect Fool Dour .Mr. Wynn: I Just beard of a man who kept company with a woman for sixty years and at last he married her when he was one hundred and nine years old. Do you believe this? If so, how do you account for a man marrying at one hundred and nine years of age, after going with a woman for sixty years? Sincerely, B. W1LDERED. Answer: He probably couldn’t hold out any longer. Dear Mr. Wynn: My son, who is in Bridgeport, Conn., has gotten Into some sort of trouble and has been arrested. I hnve been advised to get a crim inal lawyer for him. Are there any criminal Inwyers In Bridgeport? Yours truly, E. LIZABETH. Answer: There probably are sev eral, but you'll have a hard time proving It. Dear Mr. Wynn: 1 just visited the city of Wash ington nnd went to the government buildings. I was particularly Inter ested In the senate chamber. 1 saw n minister sitting nest to the vice president of the United Stntes. Tell me why Is the minister there? Does he pray for the senators? Sincerely. A. SITESEER. Answer: No! No! No! The min ister does not pray for the senators. The minister takes a look nt the senators nnd then prays for the counrry. Dear Mr. Wynn: 1 met n young lady last week nnd am very fond of her. We were dis cussing “kissing" last night nnd she said that kisses were like a bottle of olives. Whnt did she mean by that? Sincerely, OS. Q. LATION. Answer: Very simple. She means that after you get the first one, the rest come easy, Denr Mr. Wynn: 1 have traveled nil over the world. Everything Is hustle and hustle There seems to be no sentiment left In the world. Is there one plnce In the world I can find "happiness’’ and •’contentment"? Tours truly. PHILOSOPHER. Answer: There sure is. You can find them both In the dictionary. <65. th* AAHoclatud N*»w»nanera. WNU Service I PA PA KNOWS-1 ••Pop, what it an operation?" "Indoor eport." A Bril Syndicate- W NU Servlr* Many Primitive Musician* Mure than 2.<»*i musical instru mcnf* tniule by primitive tribes are in n collection or the Smithsonian i Institute. Washing on. One* City of Rubber Para, ltrar.ll, which has the most wonderful museum on the western hemisphere, at one time promised to become the rubber center of the world MOTHER—THE GOLFER By ANNE CAMPBELL oUE would be a bette. golfer C5 If she had a keener eye For the ball. Instead of gazing At the woodland and the sky. She ran never think It better To keep looking at the ball, Thau to watch the baby robins, And to hear their mother call. She would be a better golfer If she could be taught to know It’s the g.ame that Is Important, Not where four-leaf clovers grow; For she stops the most strategic Play and lets a foursome pass. Just to pick a four-leaf clover That is hiding In the grass. She would be a better golfer— She might get a decent score— If she kept her mind on golfing And think manfully of “Fore!” But a golf game means to mother Nothing but ,a chance to laze Through a green field that reminds her Of her happy rural days. Convrlffht. — WNU Service THROUGH A W>mans Eyes By JEAN NEWTON THE MATING SEASON HAVE you ever beard of the “Door of Hope" in Nanking, China—and its “mating season”? Last month the Door of Hope held Us “mating season," which may sound like something for birds, but it is for girls; girls who want to get married. The “Door of Hope” Is an institu tion in Nanking which shelters and educates former slave girls. From six months to a year, these girls are kept there for domestic train ing. And periodically the Institu tion announces that Its “mating season” is open. For n week then, photographs of the graduates are hung on the walls of a room where the prospective bridegrooms may look them over. When a man decides to become an applicant for a certain photo graph, or for the young woman rep resented by it, he in turn submits to the management his photograph with the answers to a question naire which covers his age. occupa tion, income, habits and references. If he is found to be a satisfactory applicant, he Is permitted to call upon the young lady. And, given her consent, the marriage is ar ranged without loss of time. During the last mating season there were 151 applicants, from whom 11) girls took their choice. And while an open door mating sea son of this kind hardly fits in with our viewpoint of mating and mar riage, who can say It doesn't have Its advantages? One hundred and fifty-one to nineteen, all qualifica tions submitted before the girl con sents to a meeting. Thar “has it” WITTY KITTY By NINA WILCOX PUTNAM The girl chum saya people who live In glass houses never have bills for aun-ray treatments. WNU Service. In some ways on the familiar spec tacle of unattached young women patiently waiting while they look hopefully upon a supercilious stag line of young men who sometimes have nothing more to recommend them than the law of supply and demand. A “Door of Hope” mating season ! for ns? No. Hut it would be nice If the eastern and western Idea couid be modified Into a combina tion of the best elements of both. ©. Bell Syndicate.—VVNU Service. Velvet and Fox Worth of Paris is responsible for this charming afternoon ensemble. It is of brown velvet trimmed with fox, and the hat is of brown felt. PRESERVE SUGGESTIONS HOW many of our housewives know the deliciousness of pickled and preserved watermelon rind? Instead of throwing it away try some of the good methods of preparing It for winter. Preserved Watermelon Rind. Cut the red portion of the melon from the rind, remove the green skin and cut into neat uniform pieces. Soak in lime water for three hours, then rinse and stand in ice water for an hour. Drain and cook in boil ing water until tender. Make a sirup of two pounds of sugar and four quarts of water, drop the rind into it with one lemon, sliced thin, with a little ginger root, using two pounds of prepared melon rind. Cook until thick. Pack in jars and cover with the sirup. Seal. Preserved Pears. Take one pound each of pears and sugar, one pint of water and one lemon. The fruit may be preserved whole. In halves, or quartered. Boil the sugar and water five minutes. Cook the lemon in just water to cover, slicing thin ; when tender and transparent add water and all to the pears and sirup and cook un til the pears are clear and the sirup is thick. If the hard ptars are used cook them in the water until tender and use the water for the sirup. A few cloves and stick cinnamon may be added If desired, and pineapple Juice instead of water makes a most delightful flavor. <£). Western Newspaper Union. Honor Town’* Heroine Inhabitants of the French village of Beauvais have a special holiday each year to honor the memory of the town's heroine. Jeanne Hach ette, the local Joan of Arc. It was Jeanne who saved the small city centuries ago when It was be sieged. World War Veterans at Lourdes UJ AH naireUa were forgotten ua World war veterans troin noth the allied nations anil the central powers gathered together at the Ulalufl* shrine at t.oiintes. b’ranee More than tRJ.utJO cisoldlers took part In the huge pilgrimage at which mass was celebrated before the basilica by t ardlnal Llenart o( Lille, hliuselt a veteran. BRISBANE 1^3 WEEK _ Mr. Van Loon Says We Build Good Planes Ford Sees Light Why Pedro Jumped Mr. Van l.-oon, able writer, who Is "Dutch" and proud of it, doesn’t want anybody to call him a Nether lander, or anything but just a plain "Dutchman”—wishes this fact made clear. The two Dutchmen that followed so closely behind the British win ners of the 11,000-mile air race were really demonstrating serious flying. They did not fly any made-to-order racing machine. They piloted a regular commercial plane and they carried passengers, as airplanes should do. British aviators, interested in makiug flying pay for itself, say that the Dutch flyers’ American machine, a Douglas air liner, with Wright Cyclone motors, and the United States Boeing transport plane in which Itoscoe Turner and Clyde Bangborn were trailing for third place, are "straight stock commer cial planes." The British race winner is a dui let-like racer.” This doesn’t take away from the credit of the plucky Englishmen, or diminish in any way their marvel ous performance In cutting the fly ing time from London to Australia by 100 hours. They made the flight to Darwin in f>2 hours. But the race does show that private enter prise in the United States Is able to build useful commercial planes. Henry Ford, who even now pays out hundreds of millions a year, di rectly and Indirectly, for well paid labor, sees ‘‘light in the darkness,” and says our “Santa Claus meth ods” of handing out money have “made softies of many Americans.” But, in President Roosevelt’s ap parent determination to encourage independence nnd allow business men to run their own businesses, Mr. Ford sees great hope. He thinks we are crawling up over the top. % Here is a suicide story, brand new. Pedro Ciroelto, fisherman of the island of Cerralvo, found a pearl weighing 100 karats, thought it was worth $100,000. When, at l>a Paz, Lower California, dealers would give him only $1,000 for his pearl, Pedro hurled his pearl into the ocean, jumped in after it, was torn to pieces by sharks. Moralists would have convinced him that $100,000, if he had got the money, would have done him no good, lie did not wait. President Roosevelt possesses, among other agreeable and unusual qualities, that of giving full credit to others. Receiving an honorary degree of doctor of laws, and speaking at Wil liam and Mary college, where Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry. John Marshall, James Monroe nnd John Tyler were students in the old Virginia days, the President gave full and generous credit to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., for his patriotic work in restoring to its colonial condition Virginia's an cient city, Williamsburg, “the cradle of American liberty." Wherever there is trouble in the human body there is, not far away, some remedy for that trouble. Sur geons have always dreaded per itonitis, a widespread, dangerous in flammation that sometimes accom panies surgical operations. Now science has discovered that a certain “amniotic fluid,” always present in the child-bearing period in human beings and animals, sup plies a vaccine that prevents per itonitis. Doctors extract the nmniotie fluid from cows, use it on their pa tients, and have reduced from 50 per cent to 2 per cent the mortal ity caused by peritonitis following operations on the bowels. This dis covery will prevent many deaths from intestinal gunshot wounds and other typical American injuries. Patrick Mulligan, of New York, unemployed chauffeur, penniless, learned Just before midnight that his wife, Cecelia, aged twenty-five, had given birth to three boys and one girl In the Lincoln* hospital, first quadruplets born in that hos pital in more than 50 years. The four babies, total weight only ten pounds, lived only four hours. Perhaps that illustrates the difference between the life chance of babies born in the city and babies born In the country air, as were the still living Dionne Canadian quintuplets. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, back from Germany, where he saw llltler and Schachf. says that dis crimination ngainst the Jews Is diminishing In Germany, the atti tude of the Vn*l being considerably modified. The really surprising news, which [ might he IlstPd under "Irony of 1 Kate." is that Germany's export business is seriously crippled tn all e rections, except In <>ne country, ind that eonufrv -vmi would not Kuans It—la Palestine. Ok kins ¥■ n . las. WSU s»rvlca. Makes Impression PATTERN 9040 This frock has been designed upon the principle that one should always leave a good Impression behind one. Look at the little sketch of the lady walking away. Hasn't she saved 'a the prettiest part of her frock to F show us last? See how clearly the ends of the combination sleeves and yoke knot at the neck! And don’t you like the bow at the waistline? It is a divine little frock in plaid or flowered fabric, but the woman who never wears a fancy fabric can make ■fir9040v; It up in a plain one and be delighted with it. And the making is surpris ingly easy. Pattern 9040 may be ordered only in sizes 14. 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 40 and 42. Size 16 requires yards 36-inch fabric. Send FIFTEEN CENTS in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this pattern. Be sure to write plainly your NAME, ADDRESS, the STYLE NUMBER and SIZE. Complete, diagrammed sew chart Included. Send your order to Sewing Circle Pattern Department, 232 West Eight eenth street, New York. ======== FLUID INVESTMENT Brown—1 see Smith’s got a motor car. , Greene—Yes; rich uncle give it to him. Brown—Why, he told me he put all the money he had into It. Greene—So he did. He bought four gallons of petrol.—Grand Forks Sun. Be Fair! “I am going to publish a volume of my poems and do it under the name of John Smith.” “Well, that wouldn't be quite fair." “Why not?” "Just think of the thousands of In nocent men who will be suspected." Comparative Peace Husband (testifying in court)— Garrulous? Wiry, I have to go to football matches every Saturday to get a quiet afternoon.—Boston Tran script. Almost Filled Bill Horse Dealer—Did that horse I sold you do for you, sir? Customer — Nearly!—London An swers.