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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1936)
- FAMOUS ' HEADLINE HUNTER II bodj J “Raps to the Rescue" By FLOYI) GIBBONS \T OU know, boys and girls, sometimes I wonder if dogs haven’t got as many brains as most humans, and this is one of the days I feel that way about it. It’s an adventure story that called the question to my mind—a yarn from Mary Sorg of Bronx, N. Y. Mary has a collie named Rags, and. if Rags isn’t the Einstein of the dog world. I'll eat his leash and muzzle raw and without catsup. The adventure happened to Mary In the summer of 1934, but the beginning of the story goes back a lot farther than that. It goes back several years, to a farm out on Long Island near Jericho, where Mary’s uncle raises collie dogs. Mary was out there one spring when one of the dogs had a litter of pups. They were fine, healthy pup3—all but one of them. That one odd puppy was streaked and spotted with just about all the colors you’re ever likely to find on a dog. “He looked like something the cat brought in,’’ says Mary, “and my uncle was going to have it destroyed. But I begged him to give it to me instead, and he did." Ugly Pup Goes a-Strolling With His Benefactor. So Mary saved that pup's life and she lived to be mighty darned glad of it. For the pup grew up and one day he returned the compliment. One day. in the summer of 1934, Mary went back to her uncle’s farm in Jericho for a visit. She took Rags along with her—and that turned out to be not such a bad idea either. It was just a few days after she had arrived at the farm that Mary set out on a fateful walk across the fields. She was go ing to call on another girl who lived on a nearby farm and she took Rags along for company on the way. Mary crossed one field and came to another that was surrounded by a barbed wire fence. She climbed through the fence and Rags scuttled through beneath it. He ran on ahead while Mary continued to make her way slowly across the meadow. Sht had gone maybe twenty feet and Rags was way over on the other side of the field, when suddenly she heard a grumbling, snorting sound behind her. Mary turned, let out a loud scream. Behind her— just a few feet away-*-was a huge bull pawing the ground and getting ready to charge. ^ Maddened Bull Gores Defenseless Girl. Mary had on a red blouse and a red cloth cap that day. Some folks gay that anything red makes a bull mad. Others say he can get just as Rags Was Drawing the Bull Away From His Mistress. mad at green or any other bright color. Anyway, the bull was coming after Mary, and Mary lost her head. She started to run for the fence, though she knew she’d never make it. Pounding hoofs thundered along behind her. She could feel the beast's hot breath on her back and she screamed again. One of her flying feet stumbled over something on the ground. Sho tripped and fell headlong. In a split second the bull was on her. Mary could feel sharp horns digging into her sides. The bull rolled her over and gored her in the chest. She screamed with pain and waited for the end. It would only be a second or two before those pointed horns came down again! Canine Toreodor Begins to Torment the Bull. But that moment never came. As Mary waited with tight shut eyes for the death blow she heard the big brute’s hoofs pounding away down the field. Wondering, she opened her eyes on the strangest sight anyone ever saw. Half way to the other end of the field were the bull—and Rags. Rags had Mary's red cap in his mouth and, like a canine matador, was drawing the bull away from his mistress. Each time the bull lunged at him Rags would leap nimbly to one side. That happened twice—thrice—and then Rags, dropping the cap. snapped at the huge beast and caught him by the nose. With a toss of his head the bull shook Rags oft. Meanwhile, Mary was getting to her feet. “My chest ached so that I could hardly move,” she says. “I started to run toward the fence, but the minute the bull saw me moving he turned and made for me again. Rags bit him on the flank to take his attention from me.” Rags’ Strategy Succeeds in Saving Mary’s Life. How long that strange battle went on Mary doesn’t know. She sort of went out of her mind about that time, what with the pain and the anxiety. The next thing she remembers is reaching the fence and climbing over it to safety just os her uncle and another man came run ning to her rescue. Then she thought of Rags again and turned to see how he was faring. Rags wasn’t doing so well. He was crawling across the field, Just barely able to move. He dragged himself up to the fence and collapsed in a heap while the bull, bleeding at the nose and blind from rage, snorted and pawed at the ground a dozen yards away. Tenderly, Mary’s uncle lifted Rags over the fence and car ried him home in his arms. They had the doctors in for both Rags and Mary. The bull had broken three of Mary’s ribs and Rags had a broken leg and a nasty wound in his side where a slashing horn had caught it and tore it open. But they set Rags’ leg and patched up his side and now Mary says he’s as good a dog as he was before. ©—WNC Service. Human Hair Strains Oil; Other Kinds Also Useful Human hair, able to with stand a pressure of six tons per square inch, has an important place in American industry, declares a writer in the Washington Star. Practically all the cottonseed oil used for culinary purposes is strained through press cloth made of hair. In the cottonseed oil mills a meas ured quantity of cooked cottonseed is wrapper in a strip of hair cloth and placed in a machine, called a “cake former,” where it is slightly compressed to make a compact mass. The cake, still covered with the cloth, is then removed to an hydraulic press, which squeezes the oil through the cloth. The product is piped into a settling tank and sent to a refinery. The use of hair cloth for wrapping materials from which oil is to be extracted by pressure comes down from olden times. For many years, long-flbered goat hair and wool were used. Afterward, European manufacturers learned that the Asiatic camel hair was better on account of its length and stretching qualities and adapted it. The camel's • hair cloth was the first press cloth used in the United States. In 1906 the Boxer Rebellion in China almost cut off the supply of raw material, and manufacturers were compelled to resort to goat hair, llama hair, cow tails, horse tails, cotton, and. finally, human hair. The Oriental disturbances which cut off the supply of camel hair provided a source of almost un limited supply of raw material for the manufacture of the new type of press cloth. After overthrowing the Manchu dynasty, the Chinamen pro claimed their new-found liberty by cutting off their queues. BRISBANE THIS WEEK World’s Chemists Busy The New Hell-Broth Our Huge Gold File The great fighters in Asia and Europe in the days of Frederick the Great and Napo leon had little idea of war’s fu ture. But marvel | ous things, some i of the greatest, j Napoleon espe ! cially, might have done with t o d a y’s inven tions. Frederick the G r e a t’s father selected the tall j est men he could find for his guard, probably Arlhnr Brl.bnn. kept lhem away from the firing line. In battle they would have been killed first, hit by the bullets that go over the heads of shorter men. The wholesale killers of the old days prepared their killings by marching men up and down, drill ing them, encouraging them with titles, brass bands to lead them, fancy uniforms. All that means little now. About 100 miles from Berlin there is a station called Leuna. There most useful work is done, in theory and through study of the manufac ture of synthetic petroleum; and there most important, learned men with big heads, spectacles and an amount of education that would make you dizzy if you could imag ine it, concentrate their brains on the preparation of better, more ef ficient poison gases and high ex plosives. Every country has its similar death laboratory; men perhaps as efficient as those of Germany, though Germany is the kingdom of chemistry, the teacher of other na tions. Henry Irving, on the stage of his theater in London, prepared an im pressive presentation of the witches in “Macbeth,” old, toothless hags, preparing their hell-broth, with power to summon spirits from the dead and make them foretell the future. Far more efficient are those sol emn German chemists, physicists and other professors, preparing the real hell-broth of poison gas, upon which the future of civilization and the domination of the earth may depend for many centuries. We had our periods of universal barbarism and cannibalism, our ages of flint, bronze and iron, our many interesting forms of ruler ship, planned to give one or a few control over all the others. We had the age of military feudalism, and many think that we are now seeing the end of “industrial feudalism.” There may be in the centuries ahead of us a period of airplane poison gas rule, which will make the peoples of the world a~ com pletely subject to a single dictator ship as were the ancient galley slaves, swinging their oars under the lash. There are a good many things we haven't seen and many to which we devote too little thought, includ ing perhaps the fact that it is dan gerous to be too rich if you are not prepared to defend yourself against burglars. Those thousands of millions In gold that we are hiding away in a hole in the ground, as ingeniously as any squirrel hiding his hickory nuts, may bring us trouble some day. The thought of those ten thou sand millions' worth of gold bars and dollars, hidden not very far be low the surface, might cause some ingenious Asiatic or European to say to himself: “For one or two billions I could prepare the necessary machinery, flying ships and poison gas includ ed, to conquer the necessary areas of the United States and frighten the others into submission. Having laid down my layer of gas, I would descend and take the ten thousand millions and go home with a clean profit of eight billions in gold.” Mussolini races his big Italian built automobile, the engine burn ing alcohol, made of Italian farm products—no gasoline. Some law makers in America suggest com pelling the use of 10 per cent alco hol in all fuel for American auto mobiles. Fuel alcohol can be made from corn, and the law, it is said, would give work to 2,000,000 men on 30,000,000 acres of farm land. It seems impossible to believe the hideous accounts of the maltreat ment and cruel deaths inflicted upon women in the civil war now raging in Spain. That men should fight and mur der each oiner is to be expected, since they are at best “half tiger, half monkey,” and often the mon key gives way to the tiger. But that they should inflict shameful il' treatment and hideous d-'th on dr fenseless women seems utterly uj believable, even when you kn>> what men are, in a mob. iQ King Feature* Syndic*'# Inc WNU Servic*. “Go-to-School” Knits and Prints - ' ■ - By CHERIE NICHOLAS DING-DONG goes the bell that sounds the knell of vacation as it rings in ‘‘first day of school.” And again doting mothers are con fronted with the problem of plan ning practical and as attractive as practical school wardrobes for the children of the household, for as every mother knows much of the poise and happiness of little girls in the classroom depends upon the feeling of self confidence which a pretty frock inspires. To help in this matter of apparel ling little daughter to a nicety here are two suggestions we have to offer—knits and prints. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say crochets as well as knits for as much crocheting is being done these days as knitting. Simply a matter of choice. To emphasize the vogue for crochets and prints we are showing three as cunning classroom outfits as ever a fond mother might hope to include in a little girl’s clothes collection. See little Miss Twelve posing to the left in the picture arrayed in an ensemble that couldn’t be pret tier if it tried. It is crocheted in two shades of blue knit-cro-sheen. For the encouragement of would-be crocheters who feel the urge to copy this most attractive outfit we are telling you that the stitch is very simple and goes like light ning when once you get started. The skirt has gores of the lighter blue and the blouse hidden by the scarf is in matching light blue. It has a stylish high neck that closes with a drawstring. There are crochet but tons to add glamor to the occasion. The cutey-cute bag, the scarf and the hat are crocheted to match. In a many-piece crocheted outfit as just described, the practical side of the question is self-evident. Th« blouse, the skirt and the jacket may be worn separately, which means that any number of changes are possible, being just what is a most needful virtue for school togs. The simplicity and practicality of the blouse-and-skirt two-piece to the left is a big argument in its favor. This crocheted suit for the grammar school Miss is a real find when it comes to appropriate dress for play or for classroom. The blouse contrasts the daik skirt which is in keeping with ihe pres style trend to bring out striking color effects. The wide sailor collar provides a nautical touch. The gay tassel tie gives a final flourish to this most attractive back-to-school dress which is so easily crocheted of mercerized knitting and crochet cotton. We most forgot to mention the crowning glory of these crocheted garments — they wash perfectly and with as little trouble as a gingham, a pique or any wash fabric. Picture for yourself little daugh ter clad in a cunning print such as the little girl centered in the pic ture is wearing. The grand thing about dresses made of the new prints this season is that it is per fectly safe to buy the correct size for no longer does one ha :e to al low for shrinkage. That is, if the fabric is one of the newer prints that are sanforized shrunk. It means a great deal to know that little daughter’s gay print frock will not shrink out of fit in tubbing. In the washgoods sections one finds the cunningest classroom prints imaginable such as fashions the little girl's dress which is pic tured above. © Western Newspaper Union. SQUIRREL IN VOGUE Hr CHEK1E NICHOLAS A pleasing topic ot conversation among fur stylists and one that is creating no-end enthusiasm, is in regard to the revival of the ever beloved youthful-looking and won derfully flattering gray squirrel. When you go fur-coat shopping keep this in mind and look for the charming squirrel models that are making so welcome a re-appear ance. Perfect for sports ana for more formal wear also, is the stun ning double-duty coat pictured. It brings back squirrel worked in the striking new split skin fashion. ALIX SCULPTURES CLOTHES TO FIGURE Outstanding among silhouettes for fall are those drawn by Alix. Her dresses are fashioned to dis play every curve of a rounded, feminine form through masterly manipulation and drapery of soft, clinging fabric. This season, as last, her favorite is jersey, both silk and rayon. Some of her skirts are so full and flaring that they resemble lamp shades or parachutes, while others are caught under the hem like Turkish trousers. Fall coats are cut with a swirling flare. Evening clothes, particularly, would delight an ancient Greek sculptor. Fullness is concentrated in groups of folds or gathers di rectly in front or back, not obscur ing, but, rather emphasizing, love ly curving outlines. Borders of four or five bright colors emphasize the flare at the hem of many evening dresses. — Luxury and Elegance to Dominate Fall Costumes Elegance and luxury will domi nate the mode this autumn if the costumes already appearing are j any criterion. Magnificent fabrics, j beautifully cut on exquisite lines, is the recipe for late afternoon and in formal and formal evening clothes. Typical of this trend is a white din ner ensemble with a long slimeskirt of white and silver blistered crepe and a simple surplice bodice of plain silver metal cloth. The shoul ders, with double puffs and the tai lored lapel collar, are smart notes on the short jacket that is fitted in back and open in iront. Motorist’s Buttons Among the novelty buttons that have made their appearance are those that carry the various road | signs for motorists. TAILED ABOOT Underweight Versus Youth. I WRITE so often about the danger to health and physi cal fitness of overweight that it is possible that some may be of the opinion that overweight is harmful at any age. As a matter of fact your physi cian and life insurance companies would rather have you overweight than un de rw eight in childhood, youth, and in the young adult (under 30) age. This is be cause their experi ence and the re corded results with insurance com panies show that overweights are Dr. Barton. generally stronger than underweights, better able to ward off ailments, and fight them better when at tacked. I have mentioned before the state ment of Dr. H. A. Tredgold in An nals of Tropical Medicine who says that efficiency in air men is the ability to endure severe mental and physical stress together with a high resistance to disease. As regards heart and vitality generally, his conclusions are that the person who is underweight is usually of poor physique, is not as a rule efficient in athletics, tends to have a small heart, a more rapid pulse and a smaller lung capacity. However a young adult, although underweight, may be physically efficient, but he usually has a normal pulse rate, good chest expansion, and a good family history. Fat Persons Efficient. “The relationship between the body build and the strength and ability of the body to do its work shows that the more efficient men are found amongst those that are overweight in comparison with the average for the age and height. That this is true is shown by the figures of those discharged from the air service due to illness, which is common amongst underweight individuals. Underweight always carries a greater tendency to in fectious disease, and for this rea son, more illness.” We can thus see that while over weight is a liability in those past thirty years of age, so also is un derweight a liability before thirty. And just as overweights should re duce weight because of the ten dency to diabetes, the danger dur ing an operation, the tendency to high blood pressure, and poor re sistance to disease, so should the underweight try to attain average weight at least for the above men tioned reasons. While there are some thin in dividuals—the strong, wiry type— who seem able to do their part as well as those of average weight or overweight the average underweight has a poor build or physique, round shoulders, narrow chest, soft muscles, protruding abdomen and tires easily. Some of the causes of the under weight are poor food, rapid eating, faulty position standing or sitting thus interfering with action of heart, lungs and digestion, infected teeth or tonsils which sap energy, not enough sleep, eating between meals, eating food with low fuel or food value. The thought then in trying to build up a youngster,/ youth, or young adult is not to think of nour ishing food only but of all the above or other causes for the underweight. | Cultivate Health Habits. A thorough examination by doctor and dentist, the establishing of good habits of rest, sleep and intestinal habit, outdoor exercise to develop a natural appetite, must all be con sidered in the treatment. Naturally as the amount cr kind of food that has been eaten has not been sufficient to build up the body even to an average weight, rich nourishing foods must now be eaten. The amount of increase should be a' least one-quarter to one-third more than at present. This may and often does mean eating more food than the individual feels he can eat, but must be eaten even if it gives him a feeling of being overfull. The type or kind of food to eat must be of high fuel or food value such as eggs, meats, cream, salads, btead, potatoes, butter, cheese, jam, cocoa, sugar, peas, beans, custards, puddings, chocolate, hon ey, salmon, sardines, nuts, dried fruits (dates, figs, currants), bana nas, oranges. Naturally any of the above foods which the individual dislikes should be left out of the diet to avoid in digestion and also the dislike for any increased amount of food. Foods that he likes such as butter, cream, or salad, might be taken in extra amounts or double por tions. C—WNU Servlca. Paired She (coming out on the piazza) —What! Only you here? Where have all the nice boys gone? He (bitingly)—They’ve gone of? strolling with all the nice girls. “No” Means— He — When a woman says “NoV she is always ready to be coJJ." vinced. She—Yes; and when a man says “No,” he only wants a little per suading to make him say “I don’t care if I do.” Sightless Love Lester—When did you first re alize that you were in love with me? Lulu—When I discovered that it made me mad to hear people call you ugly and brainless. Reward Wifey: Why do you always bathe with the hotel help? Hubby: I may get a chance to rescue a cook to take home with us. Equalizing Equilibrium “Nature,” said the philosopher, “always makes compensations. It one eye loses sight the other be comes stronger. If one loses the hearing of one ear the other be comes more acute.” “I believe you’re right,” said an Irishman. “I’ve always noticed that when a man has one short leg the other is longer.” BOYS AND GIRLS The large Post Toasties advertise ment in another column of this pa per offers all sorts of free prizes and tells you what to do to have Melvin Purvis send you free his official Junior G-Man Badge find his big book. Be sure to see ^his offer.—Adv. 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