BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
The Souls of Oysters
In the Coffin, He Pays
Polly Has a Tombstone
Suicide Is Folly
Mr. Kokichi Mikimoto, able Jap
anese gentleman, once a peddler of
Arthur llrlahnnr
noodles, is now
gigantically rich,
thanks to his oys
ter pearl idea.
He makes real
pearls by forcing
the oyster to
work at peart
production. In
stead of diving
for oysters, hop
ing to find one
with a pearl in it.
he puts little, ir
ritating grains of
sand inside the
shells of millions
of oysters, and
eacn oyster proceeds to deposit the
pearly substance on the sand to
escape its irritating scratching.
These pearls are "real.” Al
though experts can tell the differ
ence. they annoy jewelers and
have hurt the value of the other
accidental pearls, but they make
it unnecessary for the unfortunate
pearl diver to "go all naked to the
hungry shark,” as the poet has it.
Mr. Mikimoto has been obliged to
kill hundreds of millions of oysters,
which is serious: his Buddhist re
ligion teaches that each has its little
separate soul—in fact, the soul of
his great-grandmother might have
resided in one of the oysters.
An American who recently died
left a fortune of between twenty
five and thirty million dollars, chief
ly in tax-exempt securities on which
the owner, while he lived, paid no
income tax. Now that he is dead,
inheritance taxes will take about
two-thirds of the many millions.
The lack of a "dead or-alive" tax
exempt securities offers opportunity
to some able lawyer. If the govern
ment has no constitutional right to
take any income from tax-exempt
bonds, how can it legally take half
merely because the owner is in his
coffin?
A green parrot, with red tipped
wings, buried in a respectable
grave, will have a granite head
stone with "Here lies Polly Cod
dington, sixty-eight years old," en
graved on it. Exactly how old Polly
was, no one knows. Born in Brazil,
she was presented to the grand
mother of Mrs. Joseph E. Hunt,
sixty-eight years ago. Parrots, like
eagles, elephants and other intel
ligent creatures that eat wisely,
often pass one hundred.
A higher race thinks up foolish
things for itself.
Gruesome details which no one
seems to have put into a movie or
a horror story are published in
connection with a recent suicide.
The unfortunate victim, convinced
that life was not worth while,
hanged himself, and then, still
conscious, found he was mistaken
and made desperate unsuccessful
efforts to cut the rope.
Those that think of suicide
should remember that they must
leave the world soon in any case,
and might as well remain to see
what will happen. While there is
life, there is hope.
Chiang Kai-Shek, dictator of the
Nanking government, warns China,
“No nation can ruin us unless we
first ruin ourselves,” emphasizing
the fact that the short road to na
tional ruin is neglect of preparation
for war. Some patriotic American
“radio sponsor” might arrange to
broadcast that talk in Washington,
D. C. We need it here almost as
much as China needs i*.
England fears that quarrels
among union men may cause strikes
in airplane factories and delay
Britain's effort to get ready for her
next war. Such strikes would prob
ably bring welcome orders for
planes to American factories; never
theless. it is only fair to remind
British workers, quarreling among
themselves, that when foreign
bombs begin dropping on their fam
ilies, any strike against national
safety will seem to have been fool
ish, in retrospect. And those words,
“chiefly women and children,"
should be remembered.
Borrowed money is cheaper, and
it ought to be. since the dollar is
only worth 59 cents. A cheap
house or cheap dollar should bring
a cheap rent. Even so. it surprises
you to learn that Mayor LaGuardia
borrowed from J. P. Morgan & Co.
thirty million dollars for the city,
spread over a five-year period, for
one and one-tenth per cent interest.
Here, Myron C. Taylor, head of
“Big Steel,” greatest steel company
in the world, announces increases
in wages, also resumption of full
dividend payments on the preferred
United States Steel stock, also earn
ings in three months of more than
thirteen million dollars, biggest in
six years. Thirteen million dollars
in three months may not be “big
money,” but “it is better than be
ing hit on the head with a sharp
stone.”
© Kins Feature* Syndicate, luo,
WNU Service.
It's Big Season for Gay Wool Plaids
R» CHERIE NICHOLAS
STOP, look, listen. Can't
you fancy you hear the
bagpipes playing as the
great autumr and winter
style parade wends its spectacular
way, for it's gayest o’ gay Scotch
plaidies the lassies o’ fashion ha’
taken to wearin’ these crisp cool
days.
A wild orgy of plaids it is indeed
into which fashion is plunging us
and, what's more, we are growing
very clannish about it. An astonish
ing lovely array of beautiful designs
and colorings in plaids is the proud
record of fabric designers this sea
son, keyed to exacting and versatile
fashion demands. Many are of au
thentic clan origin, featuring rich,
deep colors and historic patterns.
So wide is the range of weaves, tex-j
tures and patterings, it's almost a
certainty you can get any type of
plaid you set out to get.
And so it's plaids that are being
used for jackets, for skirts, dresses,
suits (nothing smarter than a pertly
tailored jacket suit of plaid), for
ensembles, for blouses and waist
coats, accessories, including hats,
bags, scarfs, belts and gloves. Nor
must lining* and trimming accents
be forgotten in the list. Even mack
inaws, traditionally fashioned i n
plaids, have ugain stepped into the
spotlight of fashion for active and
spectator sports. These are present
ed in soft thick fleecy woolens and
in striking color combinations and
designs. Wool plaid blouses and
shirts for wear with ski clothes and
monotone tweed suits are also of
outstanding importance.
In addition to the regulation
plaids there is a wide variety of
modern interpretations in both wo
ven and knitted fabrics from sheer
six ounce shirting type to the
heavy fleeces for topcoats in sub
dued tones, monotones and multi
color overplaids Also hairy and
nubbed surface plaids are shown
in flannels, hard worsted types, soft
rabbit novelties, smooth surface fab
rics and the soft thick coating
fabrics.
The fall and winter season lends
itself admirably to plaids which are
particularly smart in the new boxy
jackets and coats, also in tunic
dresses in which the plaid tunic
highlights the voguish flared mono
tone skirts. They also style perfect
ly in casual coats for sports and
travel and for street coat-dresses
and in dashing cape modes. In fact
for back-to-school fashions, for snow
suits, fbr everything from children's
wear to cocktail ensembles, wool j
p'.aids are style leaders.
See the fashions pictured. They are
an index to the handsome plaid ap
parel being turned out by enthusi
astic designers. The smiling lassie
centered in the group wears Scotch j
wool plaid culottes in rich dark tones |
of blue and gray accented by white 1
with a navy wool fitted jacket and
dashing little plaid cap with quill—
a fashion—first for fall.
The new plaid hats now shown are ,
the pride of the milliners creating
them. Quite the rage are "Scotty”
caps and iams. See the tam-o-shant
er pictured in the inset. I*, is made ;
of multi-colored plaid woolen. A long
pheasant feather is stuck through at j
a rakish angle.
An interesting hairy woolen with |
nubby overplaid in clear bright tones
fashions the tailored daytime dress
to the left in the picture. A chamois
vestee with self colored buttons and
chamois trimmed belt are fetching
accents.
The beautifully tailored sports
jacket to the right is styled in color
ful wool plaid and milady carries
a bag of the same plaid. The collar
less neckline is very chic. The edges
of the jacket are hound with self
plaid, which together with large
patch pockets and bone buttons gives
this mode high "tone.”
® Western Newspaper Union.
LEI OF GARDENIAS
Hr CHRIUK NICHOLAS
Now that the pretty custom of
wearing flowers, or trimming with
1 flowers, has been revived i n
! fashion’s realm, it is interesting to
note the novel interpretations de
signers are giving to this theme.
Pictured is a lei of white gardenias
clipped around the neck of a black
J satin evening ensemble. The flowers
may be clipped to the shoulders of
the dress when the cape is removed.
Huge roses used in the same manner
on a raisin colored velvet wrap
would be equally as effective. Roses,
by the way, are smartly in vogue,
so reports from Paris tell us and
will be greatly in evidence this win
ter as costume decoration.
VELVET SUITS FOR
DAY WEAR POPULAR
Those new velvet daytime suits
may not appeal to the business girl
but they have a lot to offer to the
social butterfly.
No more elegant fashions have ap
peared in our time than those hand
some velvet ensembles. The smart
est ones are black, unrelieved by
color except for the flash of a blouse,
but there are rich tones such as
dark green, wine and plum to con
sider if you don’t like black. Furs
match the tone of the costume and
usually are of dhe long-haired va
riety to frame the face and flatter a
figure.
The suit which has a tunic length
coat is one of the most dignified
of the velvet types on exhibition.
It has the fitted waistline that is
unbelted.
“Fifty-Fifty” Costumes to
Lead Winter Collections
“Fifty fifty” costumes play an im
portant part in the fall and winter
dress collections. These are dresses,
suits or coats with the back and
front made of two contrasting col
ors. Black is frequently combined
with bottle green or a brilliant,
deep purple to make these queer
costumes. The same two-color tones
are usually carried out in the hat
and gloves that accompany the cos
tume. In the gloves, the two colors
are combined in a zigzag seam
which runs down the palm and the
back of the hand.
For Daytime Wear
Black, brown and bottle green are
being shown more than other colors
for daytime wear.
HOfcJC^RE
t/ouj&m
/ DR. JAMES w. BARTON
Ttllcs About ®
The Heart and Overweight.
fANY persons nowadays are
overweight. If one gets reli
able advice and is advised to reduce
one should do so. It is not a simple
matter but weight reduction can be
carried out successfully by anyone
who will take it seriously. Fat peo
ple usually claim to be small eaters.
This is sometimes true; more often
it is not although they may be hon
Or. Barton
est in thinking so
In any case as long
as a healthy person
is putting on weight
he is eating more
than he needs; and
an excess weight of
20, 40. 60 or more
pounds simply
means that the
heart has to put
forth much more en
ergy than would oth
erwise be neces
sary. This is all
waste energy and a iai person puis
a burden on the heart which in
the course of years is bound to
j have an undesirable effect.
‘‘Moderate overweight before the
age of forty is not of serious conse
quence if the heart is normal, but
after that age continued overweight
does lessen one’s expectation of life.
Life insurance companies realize
this and consider persons who are
overweight as undesirable risks. An
individual who is overweight and
becomes breathless on effort will
usually find after reducing his
weight 10 to 20 pounds that breath
lessness will disappear."
There is nothing in the above quo
tation that overweights have not al
ready read, but when it comes from
an outstanding heart specialist. Dr.
Frank T Fulton of Fordham uni
versity, in an article ‘‘Budgeting
the Reserve Strength of the Heart"
in Hygeia, it is very much worth
our consideration.
Exercise May Do Harm.
One of the natural mistakes some
fat individuals make is their effort
to reduce weight by violent exer
cise. Notwithstanding the fact that
they have taken no regular exercise
for ten years and have in that
time put on 30 to 40 pounds of ex
cess fat, they seek out some very
strenuous exercise or game such
as tennis, basketball, or badminton
in the worthy effort to rid them
selves of this fat. And they try to
get it off in a few days or a few
weeks.
Where no exercise lias been taken
for a long time this violent effort
may rid the body of a few pounds
but it may have lessened or eaten
up some of the reserve power of
th- heart, which may mean weeks
of resting in bed to get this reserve
back. Practically every physician
has met one or more of these cases.
The first thought in all cases of
overweight should be an examina
tion by the family physician with
special care regarding heart and
blood pressure. Thus the effort of
50 steps or less of a stationary run
shows the effect upon the heart
beat and the length of time it takes
the heart to get back to its normal
rate after the exercise. If the heart
doesn't get back to its normal rate
in the usual or normal time—for
the weight of the individual and the
speed at which he runs—and there
is more breathlessness than there
should be for this amount of exer
i cise, then the physician will sug
gest that nothing in the way of ex
ercise should be taken for a few
weeks and that the weight be re
i duced entirely by eating less food.
A practical and simple method of
j treating overweights whose hearts
j are beginning to show some loss of
power is to have them cut down by
25 per cent on the two fat storing
foods—starches and fats—and cut
i down by about 50 per cent on liq
uids because of the tendency of fat
tissue to hold extra water thus pro
ducing extra weight. When there is
i any tendency to kidney stones, plen
t' of liquids must be taken.
* W W
Gland Extracts.
When Drs. Minot and Murphy of
Boston were able to prove that eat
ing calf's liver would cure and pre
vent pernicious anaemia it marked
another great step in medicine be
cause before this pernicious anae
mia was considered incurable.
Then came the discovery that ex
tract of liver taken by mouth or
injected into the veins was just as
efTective, and this was certainly a
great boon to those who disliked the
taste of liver. Another discovery
quickly followed this, and that was
that extract of hog’s stomac' acted
just as well as liver in pernicious
anaemia—that is. increasing the
; number of red corpuscles and the
amount of iron in these red cor
| puseles
And now a Berlin research physi
cian, Dr. W. Schemensky. has dis
covered that the lining of the large
intestine in hogs has this same pow
er of enriching the blood and cur
ing pernicious anaemia. He pulver
ized or made into a powder the lin
ing of the large intestine and tried
it in 20 cases of pernicious anaemia
and while the results came a little
more slowly, the final results were
as good as with liver and hog’s
stomach. However the patients felt
the improvement in their general
health just as early as with liver
and hog’s stomach.
®—WNU Service.
Certain of Milady's Vote
1958
'T'HREE post-election candidates
for milady’s wardrobe, every
one a winner. Choose any one of
these clever patterns and the vote
will be unanimous that you have
done well by yourself. Every pat
tern is accompanied by an illus
trated instruction chart giving step
by step details for quick sewing
and perfect fit—the short cut to an
adequate wardrobe.
Pattern 1821, a comely morning
frock fashioned along princess
lines, is available in a wide range
of sizes, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50
and 52. The smooth fitting and
slenderizing hip line joins with the
scalloped collar and cuffs in con
trast to achieve a flattering effect,
and this design is so simply made
and so easy to wear, in swiss or
percale or lawn or pongee, it will
win instant favor. Size 38 requires
four and three-fourths yards of
39 inch material.
Pattern 1958, the blouse and
skirt combination, speaks for it
self. Versatility is the keynote of
this double duty pattern which
consists of just eight simple pieces
for both blouse and skirt The
wide and graceful revers conceal
those extra pounds above the
waist, and the panelled skirt is
of the sort that will go well with
any ensemble or tunic. Quickly
and inexpensively made, this com
bination will add new life to any
wardrobe with a minimum of ef
fort. The pattern is designed for
Ideas of Luxury
It is interesting to collect peo
ple’s ideas of Babylonian luxury.
One man’s notion is to afford to
eat only the heart of dead ripe
watermelons; another’s is to be
able to sleep calmly through a
night thunderstorn, leaving the
windows open to let in rain upon
whatever rugs and furniture are
exposed. Ours is to own a private
projection room with a sound pro
jector and a collection of all the
filmed exploits of Mickey Mouse,
Donald Duck and Pluto.— Kansas
City Star. I
sizes 14. 16, 18, 20; 32, 34, 36, 38,
40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 18 requires
two and three-fourths yards of 39
inch material for the blouse, two
and one - sixth 'yards for the
skirt. A grand pattern bargain.
Pattern 1843, the fitted slip, of
fers a choice of the strap or built
up shoulder and makes a perfect
foundation garment for a smooth
silhouette. Fashioned in silk or
taffeta or pongee, the pattern em
ploys just six pieces and goes to
gether like a charm. Send for it
today, in size 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42
or 44. Size 36 requires three and
one-fourth yards of 39 inch ma
terial.
Send for the Fall Pattern Book
containing Barbara Bell well
planned, easy - to - make patterns.
Exclusive fashions for children,
young women, and matrons. Send
15 cents (in coins) for your copy.
Send your order to The Sewing
Circle Pattern Dept., 367 W.
Adams St., Chicago, 111. Patterns,
15 cents (in coins) each.
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
Foreign Words ^
and Phrases w
Amour propre. (F.) Self-love;
self-esteem.
Billet doux. (F.) A love letter.
Dum spiro, spero. (L.) While
I live I hope. (Part of motto of
South Carolina.)
Pas a pas. (F.) Step by step.
Quelque chose. (F.) Something,
a trifle.
Flagrante delicto. (L.) While
committing the crime; caught in
the act. •
Gosse. (F.) Street slang for
“child,” “infant.” Compare
“kid,” “kiddie,” and the Irish
“gossoon.”
Multum in parvo. (L.) Much
in little.
En bon train. (F.) In a fair
way, on the road to success.
Non omnia possumus omnes.
(L.) We cannot all do all things
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Swift’s special blending of it with
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