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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1935)
Congress Keeps the Printing Presses Busy El’ll congressmen are a loqua cious lot, and their speeches, delivered on the floor and "extend ed" in the Record, together with the thousands of hills they Introduce, keep the great government printing otflce exceedingly busy. The men In this picture are working on the Con gressional Record, and ns Ihe ses sion proceeds their labor grows heavier. BEDTIME STORY By THORNTON W.BURGESS FARMER BROWN FOOLS PETER RABBIT I1KN the snow is deep Peter llabbit really has to work for a living. Perhaps this is a good thing. If he didn’t he might grow too fat to keep out of the way of Reddy Fox. There are times when Peter has to eat whatever he can. and very often there Isn’t much of any thing for him but the hark of young trees. It Is at such times that Pe ter gets Into mischief, for there Is no bark he likes better than that of young fruit trees. Now you know what happens when the bark Is tnken off all the All Around the Trunk of That Young Tree Was Wlra Netting. way around the trunk of a tree. That tree dies. It dies for the sim ple reason that It Is up the Inner layer of bark thnt the Hfe-glvlng sap travels In the spring and sum mer. Of course when a strip of bark has been taken off all the way around near the base of s tree the sap cannot go up and the tree must die. Not far from the Old Orchard Farmer Brown had set out a young orchard. I’eter knew all about that young orchard, for he had visited It many times In summer. Then there had been plenty of green clover and other green things to eat, and Pe ter had never been so much ns tempted to sample the bark of these young trees. But now things were very different, and It wns seldom that Peter knew what It wns to have a full stomach, lie kept think ing of thnt young, orchard. lie knew that If he were wise he would keep away from there. But the 'more he thought of It the more It seemed to him that he Just must have some of that tender young hark. So Just at dusk one evening Peter started for the young or chard. He got there In surety and Ills eyes sparkled as he hopped over to the nearest young tree. Hut when lie reached it Peter had a dreadful dis appointment. All around the trunk of that young tree was wire net ting. Peter couldn't get even a nibble of that bark. He tried the next tree with no better results. Then he hurried from tree to tree, but not a taste of hark could he gel. - You see. Farmer Hrown knew all about Peter’s liking for Hip bark of young trees, and he had been wise enough to protect his young fruit trees. Peter didn't give up until he had visited every tree. Then, too dis appointed for words, he turned and hopped Ilpperty-llpperty-llp over to the Old Orchard, As he passed a certain big apple tree he was star tled by a voice. •'What's the matter, Peter.” said the voice. “You don’t look happy." © T. W. Burgess.—WNU Service. Use of Hydrogen Iji 1700 an eccentric Knglish mil lionaire named llenr.v Cavendish poured some acid on a piece of Iron. A gas bubbled olT, which he gave the name hydrogen, says the Chicago Tribune. Cavendish might Justifiably bate felt rather pleased with himself at this accomplish ment, especially had lie been able to foresee the delightful uses to which industrial chemists and engi neers nre putting his discovery. HIS MOTHER By ANNE CAMPBELL ONCE, Just hs If she knew the years ran fast. Ills mother took his bah.v hand In hers. And In the attic way, where paint was fresh, She laid his hand. . , . Now, steal ing through the firs The vagrant sunbeams come, and on the wall They trace that print, of childhood llrst of all. lie Is a man. and seldom does he go Back to the home his father’s fa ther planned; But once he told me. In a quiet way, Of that remembered Imprint of his hand. "To think It Is still there, and moth er dend ! And yet her love surrounds me still.” he said. Copvrtsht.—WNU Servlff c.Through JEAN NEWTON A WOMAN’S EYES “TO BE OR NOT TO BE" THESE words With which Ham let spoke aloud were pointed to recently by l’rof. William Lyon Phelps ns among the most Impor tant words in nil literature: “To be or not to he"—they mean to lie really alive, or merely a hu man machine; to be living fully and richly with satisfaction, or to be just not dead; they point to the dif ference between life and existence. I remember during the terrible post-war period In England when the poorest working man was sub ject to heavy taxes, discussing with DANCE FROCK A long separate scarf which ties in a bow adds charm to this clas sical dance frock. The waistline, high in front, slopes to the back where a Jeweled clip accents the fansbaped fullness of the skirt. American beauty chiffon is the ma terial. Question box ^ ED WYNN, "he Perfect Fool I Dear Mr. Wynn: 1 have been going with a young girl for about one year. We were always together until she gradu ated from high school about six * MOTHER’S * COOK BOOK HOME-MADE CANDIES Al’IECE of home-made randy la always a welcome addition to any meal. Date Nut Roll. Boll one cupful of evaporated milk with two and one half cups of sugar to the soft ball stage. Add one package of dates sliced and stir well Into the mixture, cooking for a few minutes; now add two cups of nuts chopped. Cool, turn out on a buttered platter ami knead until creamy and stiff. Shape neat ly Into a roll, wrap in a damp cloth, place In a covered container and keep cold until ready to slice. Maple Fudge. Boil together one cup of granu lated sugar and maple sugar, one tablespoon of corn sirup, a few Star Salesman ) CAN SELL ANYTHINu YOU WANT FOR LE 55 ANO MAKE rT BFTTFR FOR YOUR HONORABLE BUS IM ESS- j Ma£ID » » c»>^ grains of salt, one-half cup of wa ter and when the mixture is a thick sirup add one-half cup of evaporated milk. Stir and cook un til it tests for the soft ball. Let stand to cool. When the candy is cool enough to hold the hand on the bottom of the pan It is ready to stir. At the tlrst sign of stiffening turn into a buttered pan; it will he smooth nnd glossy; when cool enough cut into squares. Chocolate Filling. Melt four squares of chocolate, odd to two well beaten yolks of eggs and one-half cup of sugar, one half cup of milk and one tablespoon of butter. Cook, stirring constantly and boll for one minute, remove from tiie tire, add the melted choco late and a teaspoon of vnnila; beat until thick. Add chopped, seedless raisins and nuts if desired. This makes an Icing which will remain soft and tins a beautiful gloss. Pralines. Boll together one-hnlf cup of cream, one and seven-eighths cups of powdered sugar and one cup of maple sirup. When tried in cold wafer and n soit hall Is formed re move and beat until creamy, adding two cup* of pecan meats and drop from a teaspoon on a buttered pa per or pour Into small gem pans. €>. Weitern SewnniPfr Tnlon. Where Copper Is Produced Copper, In metallic form, occurs either alone or In connection with chemical combinations of the same metal, in many parts of the world, notably in I’eru, Chile, Alaska, parts of southern Australia, Siberia, Corn wall, Germany, and most In the United States, says a writer In the Philadelphia Inquirer. Native cop per is found crystallized In cubes and In modi that Ions of this form. Sometimes it forms a nucleus with first a layer of red oxide and men a second layer of carbonate of cop per around It. The Butte district of Montana Is the largest copper producing region In the world. months ago and secured a position. Now she passes me right by. If I talk to her she won’t answer me. What can the answer be? Sincerely, G. OGRAPHT. Answer: You say she was all right when you went to school to gether but now that she Is work ing she won't answer you. Quite simple. She must be employed as a telegraph operator. Dear Mr. Wynn: I am a young man, but am al ways in ill health. It may be the climate here in New York. I will go to any town you may suggest that Is very healthful. Y’ottrs truly. I). I'ltESSED. Answer: The healthiest town 1 know of Is Drum City, Wyo. This town is so healthy they had to kill two people last week, just to start a cemetery. Dear Mr. Wynn: 1 am a young man eighteen years of age. Because of my health l have to quit work a great deal, thereby losing a lot of money. 1 am out of employment at present a mill worker the question of wages and the cost of living. These peo ple were getting along on so little compared to the same kind of work ers In America, that I gasped at what he told me of his earnings. “Ilow can you support a family." 1 asked; “how can you live that way?" “Well, ma’am." came the smiling, cheerful response, "you wouldn’t call it living, exactly; It’s more like lingerin’; but we've got to help the country now!" That mnn was subsequently pro moted to a position which provided him and his family with a better life. But he stood there, smiling, cheerful, uncomplaining, patriotic In his poverty, 1 felt that in spite of what he said, here was a man who was living. He was fighting great odds, he knew what he was fighting for—he was “helping the country.” So the test of whether people are living or merely existing is not nec essarily In the worldly success or in the comfort or luxury they en joy. In fact It Is perhaps among women of the “luxury class” that we should find the largest number who would not like to apply to themselves the question, “Am I really living?" To be really living we must have that feeling of something coming of our life to make it worthwhile, that feeling of a gardener who sees the flowers bloom under his hands —of the mother who sees her chil dren growing up, of every person whose living means something to somebody else. There are people about whom we think first not so much of how they do or produce, ns how they enjoy. They cannot help being of use In the world, for happiness radiates, and like the sun, sheds Its light on others. When we get Into the rut of rou tine so that we are too busy to appreciate life, when we get so pre occupied with the details of living and forget even to enjoy, that Is the time when we need to ask our selves, “Am I really living?" ©. Bell Syndicate.—WNO Servlca. WITTY KITTY By NINA WILCOX PUTNAM fill* I » 1 i |(Q 1»3I, >y B»ll By»dk»U| The girl chum says that, as far as she can find out, no woman has ever made a practice of reading herself to sleep with a cook book. XVXU Servlc*. but have two positions offered to me. One job Is for $12 a week and one for $17.50 a week. Which job shnll I take? Tours truly, P. KULIER. Answer: By all means take the job for $12.00 a week because when you are sick and have to quit your job you will not be losing as much money as you would If you were getting $17.50 a week. ©, the Associated Newspaper*. WNU Service. Here's a Record Shipment From Japan TUB Shohle Maru from Yokohama arrived at San Francisco the other day with a record shipment of two hundred tubs of goldfish from Japan, designated for distribution to cities all over the United States. On the trip across the Pacific the temperature of the water In the tubs had to be maintained at a uniform degree. BRISBANE THIS WEEK A Baby Grows Up Senate’s Good News Five Little Girls $4,880,000,000 Fifty-three years ago a good American mother, weak but happy, received in her arms a small baby, with pink face and little hair. That baby now lives In the White House, face bronzed by ocean air, hair thick at fifty-three years of age. The baby has grown to be Frank lin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States. One hundred and twenty-five mil lion Americans are grateful to his mother, who, happily, has lived to see her son move up, from the cra dle in which she first placed him, to the earth’s most important place among men. Congratulations and thnnks, first of all, to President Roosevelt’s mother; good wishes, congratula tions, and a long life to President Roosevelt. The people of the United States are to he congratulated that by the de cision of the senate they will not be pushed Into the back door of the League of Nations through the World court. Mr. Hull, secretary of state, want ed the United States to go into the World court and submit important matters affecting this country to for eign judges appointed by nations that have swindled this country out of ten thousand million dollars. Why, in heaven's name? Those marvelous Canadian babies, the Dionne quintuplets, eight months old, are healthy, happy, each one a separate little lady of intense in dividuality. All pretty, all intelli gent, with good foreheads, well shaped heads. What a wonderful family! It seems almost a pity that they cannot remain babies, now, and above, through all eternity. The house of representatives, 329 to 78, gives the President four thou sand eight hundred and eighty mil lion dollars, to be spent In accord ance with his best judgment to fight depression and unemployment. In early days the little, “small change" eighty million dollars, tacked on at the end of the large figure, would have astounded the country, for in those days millions were respectable units. Now our government unit is the billion—one thousand millions. When will the trillion start its career? The print ing press could bring it. Not content with being reduced from a great empire to a small "backyard” by the last Elapsburg, Austria thinks it wants another em peror and Prince Starhemberg will say when little Prince Otto shall mount the throne. That will mean unhappiness, eventually for the young prince, and a good actor spoiled for Hollywood. Gen. William Mitchell, commander of all our flying force in the big war. knows more about national de fense than anybody in this country. He writes to a friend seventy years old, as follows: "During your lifetime have come the electric telegraph and telephone, the gasoline engine with its accom paniment of automotive vehicles, the airplane and submarine. The world is now only one-sixth as large as when you appeared. If this de velopment goes on, it is difficult to say what may take place in the next seventy years. Will the bio logical supremacy of the yellow races dominate, or will the military supremacy, so far, of the white race be able to maintain our culture and standards? The world is growing so small and so increasingly popu lated that one or the other will un doubtedly become master.” Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, whose father collected pictures and other works of art, has decided to sell six pictures. The price asked is said to be $1,500,000. The older ,T. P. Morgan evidently bought good pic tures. Two of the six pictures, al* , ready sold to the Metropdlitan mu seum. are a portrait of "Anne of Austria," by Peter Paul Itubens and an altar piece by Filippo Lippi. Nobody knows how much was paid originally for either picture. A rare ten-dollar gold piece, that sold at auction for $5.10, might of fer a suggestion for government profit At that rate, our $8,000,000, 000 worth of gold could be changed Into $400,000,000,000 worth, nearly all profit. Who could contradict the government If It said that was the value? Col. Itoscoe Turner, who does all sorts of things with airplanes, plans a real flight around the earth. 25,000 miles, following the equator all the way, starting at Panama. This will be the first real "around the world'* flight, the others having been flights around the northern end of the world, a flight that grows smaller as you go farther north. Equatorial heat will not bother Colonel Turner. In a plane you can pick out the altitude and the temperature that you want ©. Kin* Feetui-ee Syndicate. Ioe. WVtf u« DESIGN HAS ALL THE BEST POINTS OF HOUSE DRESS PATTERN BOSS 9063 Believe it or not, there’s a four point plan of convenience and flat ter.v included in this neatly styled house dress. Let’s add them up. First: the bodice may be worn with the contrasting rever, as shown in the larger sketch, or it may button all the way up to a smart point. Second: the sleeves boast little in verted pleats, jaunty to look at and very comfortable when working. Third: the slenderizing line sweep ing down the middle front of the frock ends in another inverted pleat to give the slim skirt adequate full ness. And finally, the patch pockets with their important buttons are both useful and chic! Pattern 9083 may be ordered only in sizes 34, 36, 38. 40. 42. 44 and 46. Size 36 requires 4 yards 30 Inch fab ric and 94 yard contrasting. 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, N. Y. OH! OH! .Mother (from upstairs)—Please, Tommy, turn off the radio. That lady announcer with the rasping voice ought to he kept off the air! Tommy—But. Mother, It's Mrs, Tones to see you. Hard Boiled? Bingo—In Russia children are brought up by the state. Stingo—Well, it would take an act of congress to do anything with mine. Every Time Wife—Man is the stately ship; woman the little tugboat at its side. llublty—Sure; It’s the ship that al ways gets torpedoed, not the tug. Sausage, Too Teacher—Who can name the beast that supplies us with ham? All right, Freddy? Freddy—It’s the butcher. No Fair! Registrar—Have you been married before, madam? And, if so, to whom? Film Star—What.’s the big idea? Memory test?—London Humorist.
