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“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
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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.
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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.
Censoriousness
Censorious people are like the
bees that kill themselves in sting
ing others.
Don't Sleep
on Left Side,,
Affects Heart
If you . toss in bed and can’t^Vse
relieves^stomacdi GAS pressing on Heart
so you sleep soundly all night.
ssai»{. 5 a-ssta
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Wa^rSsoJabadF1I could not eat or deep.
Even my heart hurt. The n eat
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stomach and give necessary
elimination. Each wafer
equals 4 teaspoonfuls of milk
of magnesia. 20c, 35c & 60c.
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frequent urination and getting up at
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