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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 9, 1937)
)j6u Thornton W Burgess SAMMY JAY TELLS PETEK RABBIT IIE IS SORRY When you've done a thing that's wrong Just go and say you're sorry. Don l let an untruth drag along — Just go and sav you're sorry There's nothing else will clear the way And brighter make the passing day When voo have done or said or thought A thing more unkind than you ought Than tust I> say you're sorry yul) remember now Peter Habbit * could And no one to believe him when he told about the great, strange tracks which he had found In the snow deep in the Green For est at the very end of winter Of course you do. And you remember Ihow Sammy Jay had made fun of "They’II Just think That We All Three Are Crazy." Peter and teased Him until Peter would hardly put his head outside of the dear Old Briar Patch. Now Sammy was learning just how Peter had felt. To oe sure, it was nothing new to Sammy to have people doubt what he said. Usually he wouldn't have minded in the least. But now he had such wonderful news—news of a big. black stranger who had come to live in the Green Forest— and it was dreadful to have every body smile and whisper to one an other, "He's crazy." It was just as bad when Blacky the Crow saw the stranger and tried to tell about him. for no one be lieved Blacj^y, and every one thought him crazy, too. But all of a sudden Peter Rabbit remembered those great tracks he had tried so hard to forget, and right away he was as excited as Sammy Jay and Blacky the Crow When Sammy told about the great claws Peter fairly shouted “It's the stranger who made those tracks, just as sure as I'm alive!" he cried. “Now, perhaps you still think I had bad dreams, Sammy Jay. when 1 told you about those strange tracks!" Sammy looked at Peter and hung Moire Dance Frock This adaptation of Schiaparelli's dance frock with its shorter-in-front skirt is made of jacquard moire in a lovely peach skin shade. The draped and shirred bodice and putt sleeves are good fashion points for the youthful figure. A rhinestone or nament is centered on the corded decollete. ms head for just a minute. "I’m ' sorry. Paler,” said he, “for all the mean things i said and for not be lievtng your story. I truly am. I know just how you felt when you had great news and no one would believe it. No one but my cousin. Blacky the Crow, believes me now unless it is you Do you. Peter?" “Of course. I do!" replied Peter promptly "Didn't 1 see the tr*rks? Do you believe that now, Sammy Jay?" Sammy nodded. "Yes," he re plied "I believe it. But nobody else will excepting Blacky. They just think we all three are crazy." “But who is the stranger?" per j sisted Peter. “Don't know," replied Sammy i "Never have seen any one like him. j Why don't you go ask him where 1 he comes from and who he is. 1 Peter?” “Oh!" cried Peter. “1 don't dare. Sammy? You can fly and I can't. | You haven’t anything to be afraid of. If I could fly I’d go.” ©T W Burgess —WNU Service MANNERS OF THE MOMENT By JEAN _O My The AenorUted Newspapers \I7E FEEL that there are too ** many bathed and forlorn look ing husbands waiting at department store entrances for wives who never appear. You’ve seen them. Those faithful husbands who have been told to “Meet me at 5:30 at the entrance to Taylor and Crocketts.” Faith fully they wait, until the doors have oeen locked and the “Store Closed" sign hung out And even then, they continue to wait, peering hopefully through the ^lass pane of the door, expecting, no doubt, to see a wife emerge from a bolt of cretonne in the foyer. Now. of course, it they were at their ordinary best, they'd realize that no woman is going to hang around a department store after the salesgirls have left They'd see that there was no sense to waiting, and go off and have a sandwich. But somehow men never seem to be their brightest in department store foyers. So we think that probably the only thing for them to do is to give up ALUMINUM PAINT Aluminum paint is coming into very general use as a priming coat on bare wood, to be finished with any kind of oil paint or of enamel The liquid part of alumi num paint is varnish, which for sat isfaction. should be of high quality; for outside work, spar varnish should be used. The aluminum is in the form of flakes of a fineness that is suited to the work Alumi num paint should be mixed as it is used, and to make this possible, manufacturers supply it in a double can, the lower and larger part of the can containing the varnish, and the upper and smaller can, the dry aluminum powder. Thu proportion is about two pounds of the powder to the gallon of varnish. When aluminum paint is applied, the metal flakes float to the top of the film of varnish After harden ing, the varnish is thus covered with a thin sheet of metal, and it is this that gives aluminum paint its use fulness as an undercoat The life of paint depends on the firmness with which the undercoat Is at tached to the surface to which it is applied. The loosening of paint is due to the breaking of this bond The ultra violet rays of the sun are destructive to the oils in paint, and are one of the causes of paint fan ure. With the first coat of varnish protected by its surface of alum inum, the bond is given a much longer life than when it is exposed to the destructive violet rays Aluminum being opaque, this paint is excellent for a first coat ! when a surface that is dark in color I Love, Honor and Obey OKJ 2 A J*o .| mi ' I! n W'T ' JtJ TW old hammock ov a HOT SUKJDOU AFTEHMOOAJ AH-WHAT COULD SE SWEETEC-t Even Winchell Would Be Foiled Miss Bobbe Joyce is seen demonstrating the futility of trying to see through a peepless keyhole and key guard, one of the 500 gadgets which went on public view during the annual convention of the National Inventors' congress in New York The ingenious device, which serves as‘a key lock as well as blocking the opening, operates on the simple principle that you can t see through something when there is nothing through whiclj you can see. the practice entirely A husband should always meet his wife in a place where the atmosphere tends Clo>c<l Picture of a Husband Looking for His Wire. to sharpen his mental processes Then maybe he U be able to figure out by himself what to do if his wife doesn't show up. WNl) Service FIRST-AID TO AILING HOUSE •y ROGER B. WHITMAN is to be repainted a lighter color, or white. The aluminum will hide the dark tone, and one coat of paint on top of it may be sufficient to give the desired results With ordi nary paint, at least three coats will usually be needed to hide the dark color underneath. There is a great difference in aluminum paints, and it is always well worth while to get a high grade In manufacture, aluminum flakes acquire a fine coating of grease, which if not removed will prevent their close bonding with the varnish The color will then be gray In high grades of aluminum flakes or powder, the grease has been re moved. and the final color then re mains brilliant. I had an experience that showed the difference. A ceil ing was finished with aluminum paint, with the idea that it would re flect the light; but to my regret, the tone, instead of having the bril liancy that 1 expected, was gray Later, when the ceiling was re paired. I finished the new part with a top quality aluminum paint. This finish was brilliant, and has re mained so. In aluminum paint as in almost everything else, high qual ity is well worth an additional price © Bv Roger B Whitman WNU Service |-TIIK j RIGHT WORD s By W. Curtis Nicholson ■HMw O The Aanofiatfd Newapaprr* mmm COMPOUNDING WORDS □ANY people have, or should have, dictionaries, but not ev ery one has an unabridged diction ary. In the "Introductory” part ol Funk and Wagnalls “New Standard Dictionary of the English Lan guage” is a section that begins with tHe title "Method of Compounding Words.” This is in the unabridged edition. Those who have this edi tion may have overlooked reading this section; those who do not have the edition probably have not seen it. Therefore, "The Right Word” has decided to place before its read ers some of the suggestions relative to the compounding of words. First, let us consider one princi pie laid <iown by the dictionary This is to the effect that “abnormal association of words generally indi cates unification in sense, and hence compounding in form " We are told that when two words are used to gether as one name they become one word, if the first is not function ing as an adjective. Thus, in "brick house.” "brick" is an adjective, so to speak, and tells us of what the house is made But in "brick-yard.” we are speaking of a yard where bricks are made. Here, we do not have a yard made of bricks, but we do have an entirely new name. Compounding is necessary when THE DRY AND THE WET By DOUGLAS MALLOCH I RECKON the sun never shines for * no one * Not ever the whole of the year. There must be some rainin’. But why the complainin’ Because a few troubles appear? 1 reckon there never was anyone yet But hadn’t seen some of the dry and the wet I reckon the rose knows the weath er, and knows It needs just a little of both. The sun in its season, The rain for some reason, If roses would git any growth. 1 reckon a rose in that garden’d die That hadn’t seen some of the wet and the dry. I reckon that man has some sort of a plan For growin’, the same as a flow’r. Some day with its sorrow. Some pleasure tomorrow, To help him to grow ev'ry hour. I reckon no rose and no man I have met Who hadn’t seen some of the dry and the wet. e Douglas Malloch — WNU Service To Fight Frost Ten acres ot orchard can be pro tected from frost with use of this improved hot air heater, developed by a Los Angeles inventor, G. W. Grable. The machine, standing 30 feet high, has a rotating blower unit mounted on a central standard, sur rounded by a Hue leading from a smokeless oil burning boiler. Oscil lating to cover any desired orchard area, the device keeps the air in motion. “two adjectives, a noun and an ad jective. or any two or more parts of speech are abnormally associated” to function as one adjective. The dictionary gives these examples: down-stairs room; dark-brown hair; well-known man; knee-deep snow; free-trade doctrines. WNU Service. m.««• i i — ■ nam »»hi. / YOO-WOO- ' l MOPSY-YOU'RE THE MOST > BEAUTIFUL J GIRL IM THE/ $ VWORLD/Xd WNU Service. tlbumhd about Cures for Communism. SANTA MONICA, CALIF.— A certain rich man out here — rich but indulgent — got a letter from his heir, a I sophomore at one of the big eastern colleges. The lad announced he had been converted to communism and was contributing to the cause. So what about it? The old man wrote back: “Son, you have a perfect right to fol low the dictates of your conscience. But as a consistent communist you nat urally would not continue to live on the ill-gotten gains ,rvin S- Cobb of a wicked money grabber. Today I am cutting off your somewhat generous allowance. You will also vacate the luxurious apartment you now occupy because I’m not paying the rent of same any longer. So go ahead, my boy, and commune freely—with my bless ings! But from date that’ll be about all from this end of the line.” Exactly four hours after the ar rival by air mail of this ultimatum, the hard-hearted parent got back a rush telegram stating that the young man had been thinking things over and had decided not to take up the new doctrine. 0 0 0 The Art of Listening. WE HAD a party at which there appeared what I may call the dumb poets—Sam Hoffenstein and Ogden Nash. At the studios where they’re both turning out epics, there’s/a rule that neither shall burst forth into poetry while he’s under contract—no thumbing of the harp, no sounding of the lute. Cine ma’s gain is creation’s loss. Maybe that explains why they made such good listeners the other night. And isn’t a good listener a boon! I don’t mind being interrupt ed, provided the interrupter chooses the right subject. Mute and rapt, I can harken for hours on hours if someone is talking about me, say, or even reading from my published works. But these two minnesingers only broke in to ask that the pickled shrimp be passed or gently to sug gest that another little drink or two wouldn’t do any harm. Ogden Nash has attained the high est peak of distinction attainable for a writer. His chief imitator has an imitator who is bringing up his old est boy to be an imitator. 0 0 0 Resurrecting Old Words. WHEN a word gets fashionable —especially a new word which some wordsmith thought up right out of his head—it gets too dog gone fashionable. The same applies to old words which have been dis interred from their forgotten tombs in the dictionary. I seem to see grave robbers prowling through the unabridged, starting in at "aard-vark,” which is an animal formerly common only to Africa but now frequently found in cross-word puzzles;1 and working on through to “zythum,” a very strong beer drunk by ancient tribes. I guess those old-timers imbibed co piously of the brew and then namec^ it. It doesn’t sound like the sort of word a dead sober party deliberate ly would make up. Do you remember the run "in trigued” had? I never got so sick of a word in my life. And then along came "provocative,” and it turned out to be a pest. People went around just looking for a chance to work “provocative” into the conver sation. The only way to lick ’em was to pretend to be deaf and dumb. And now the reigning favorite is "allergic.” Folks spout it every where, wifether they know what it means or not. I don't mind saying I’m getting awfully allergic to "al lergic.” There must be many others like me. * ♦ • C Campaign Books. ET us not cavil too much be- | cause high pressure salesmen, | working on commission, have been unloading upon the faithful, at fancy prices, the gift book put out by Washington headquarters to pay off campaign debts. In fact, 15 cents’ worth would cover practical ly all the cavil I personally have used up in this connection. The result tends to prove the grat ifying fact that, while more Demo crats may not necessarily have learned how to read and write, ob- j viously more of us have got money i than formerly was the case when the Republicans were in power. Besides, think of what the strain would have been upon the poor post man if the national committee had been stuck with all this bulk litera i ture and congressmen had started franking copies out to their constitu ents with Uncle Sam paying the freight. To give you a further idea about this franking privilege, I may i state that it was named for Frank, Jesse's brother—and you'll remem ber how careless those James boys were with the United States mails! IRVIN S. COBB. ®—WNU Service. Three Maids A-Sewing Go , 1376, I3H-7 ( 1258 I ITTLE lady, it’s time to say adieu, so long, good-by to that flimsy but faithful friend—your summer wardrobe. But don’t fret, Milady, Sew-Your-Own is right on the job with sparkling new fash ions for you; fashions that will make you forget the past and be remembered in the future. So let’s not tarry: let’s choose the style that’s got the most sock for our particular figure and join this group that’s going a-sewing! Stadium Model. Picture yourself in the trim waisted little model at the left, if you would have an optimistic viewpoint and a head start on style this season. There’s nothing younger than this topper with its dainty collar and cuffs, its snappy row of buttons and fetching pep lum. The way it takes to the weightier fall fabrics is news, and equally intriguing is this fact: it’s easy to sew! Young ’n’ Pretty. Long slender lines of the prin cess variety make this the lucky number for your first autumn days. Of course you see it’s a style to cut in at least two fab rics because it boasts utility plus beauty. If you’re going to Echool you’ll want it in acetate jersey or light-weight wool. Neat con Unde Phil Closely Related Belief and conduct act and re act upon each other. People with pleasant disposi tions ought to “speak their minds” oftener. A glad-eye a day keeps the el derly gay. When you wonder how some people get by, it may be because they do not care whether they do or not. And Often It Burns Everyone rakes the embers un der his Own cake. As the marvels of life increase, fewer people seem capable of wonder. Celebrations resemble each oth er too much. This is why they wear out with the older people. Those who knew a man back in the old home town wonder how he succeeded in the big city. They think he’s changed. He is changed. The city changes everyone. trast is here, too, if you wish, in the collar, pocket flaps and but tons. (This is a simple eight-piece pattern.) A Lift for You. There’s much ado about bodices this fall and unless you have a frock that carries a stylish one you won’t feel right. Sew-Your Own caters to this vogue in its t new creation at the right. It is pencil slim and carefully styled to give you that chic young sil houette that distinguishes the lady of fashion. Make this handsome model of silk crepe, sheer wool or jersey and be fit for business or pleasure in town or country. rne Patterns. Pattern 1376 is designed for sizes 12 to 20 (30 to 40 bust). Size 14 requires 414 yards of 35-inch material. Pattern 1347 is designed for sizes 14 to 20 (32 to 42 bust). Size 16 requires 4% yards of 35 or 39 inch material. With long sleeves 5*4 yards plus % yard contrasting. Pattern 1258 is designed for sizes 12 to 20 (30 to 38 bust). Size 14 requires 4 yards of 39-inch ma terial, with long sleeves, plus 4*4 yards of braid to finish as pic tured. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. Conceited Beau Brummell Beau Brummell (1778-1840), the master dandy of all time, was so idolized by the aristocracy of Lon don as an arbiter of dress and manners that, eventually, he be came unbearably conceited. One night he even ordered a duchess out of his house, during a recep tion, because her “dress was cut too low in the back.” The gentle man’s taste was so offended that he had to cover his eyes while she humbly backed out of the ballroom.—Collier’s Weekly. LIQUID, TABLETS SALVE, NOSE DROPS checks COLDS and FEVER first day Headache, 30 minutes. Try “Rob-My-Tism”-World's Best Mnlmeot ■ w LIFE’S LIKE THAT By F,ed Neher TWFJEJtF^ \ 4 oocrm , -A <?laBAUW I «C«*p» i liriit IF* I »t Kud N«*Hrr “Hey, Doc, I’m sendin' ya a customer ... I just dropped my wrench!’*