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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1937)
Yanks Leave “While Leaving's Good” Shanghai.—Americans are fleeing Shanghai as Sino-Japanese war terrors mount. This is a scene on Shang hai customs jetty as 353 American women and children were about to board a tender to take them to the liner President Jefferson, Manila bound following evacuation orders. Aha! Maybe This Is Where Hiteh-Hikers Caught Up the Idea Paris.—It’s not often that a cam eraman has such luck in picturing a leaping marsupial of the gray kan garoo family with her youngster in ars »-e.. •rciaswi'f • :xT-' . • ■ • • ■ its pouch. All the more reason for the novelty of this picture of the youngest hitch-hiker in the Paris coo. Less Than 200 Answer G. A. R. Call Madison, Wis,—First thought of the fewer than 200 Civil War veterans in the annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic was for the comrades who have gone before them. Shown at the memorial serv ices are Alice Cary Risley, eighty-three, of Columbia, Mo., only surviving nurse, and Capt. Eugene Merrick, of Los Angeles. One Killed, 12 Hurt in Railroad Wreck New Haven, Ind.—The engineer was killed and a dozen other persons injured as this passenger train, bound from Detroit to St. Louis, plunged from the tracks. The locomotive almost buried itself in the ground at the force of the impact, the cause of which was not immediately determined. That Southern Charm Again Miami, Fla.—Reminder that it’s still warm in the South, though chill football breezes whip the North, is the radiant smile of pretty Sarah Hall, taking It easy after a swim in a Miami pool. < COLOSSAL COD Catalina Island, Calif. — Little | Charles Thompson says now he can understand that story about Jonah and the whale. He’s looking into the mouth of a 17-pound rock cod caught in the deep Pacific ocean waters near here. This fish ordinarily “weighs in” at about one-half poun to two pounds. I Scenes and Persons in the Current News 1—Insurgent troops, led by a single brass horn, triumphantly take over Santander, last important Spanish government post on northern coast. 2—Maybe Max Selimeling is whispering to Mike Jaeobs. promoter, what he’ll do to Joe Louis In the bout next June for which Mike signed him. 3—Out of breath, but not run ning from the Chinese is little I’rineess Yori-No-Miya, fourth daughter of the emperor and empress or Japan, seen in sports at a Tokyo school. Battle Infantile Paralysis Wave V . ... • v i - - — ■> >• •+ ■ Preston Springs, Ont.—One of the most serious infantile paralysis epidemics in years has struck the United States and Canada. Science is testing the efficiency of zinc sulphate nose sprays as a preventive among S,000 children in this Canadian town, where there was a dangerous out break. Dr. John llauch of the Hagmeier clinic is shown treating one of the district children. Hero Swims 2f» Hours for Help Mobile, Ala. — Addley llaker, twenty-flve-y oar-old seaman pic tured here, swam n raging sea for more than 25 hours to secure rescue for the crew of the sinking freighter Tarpon, off Panama City, Fla. His heroic work made it possible for a coast guard cutler to save eleven men and recover the body of Capt. W. G. Barrow, who went down with the ship. The crew had life pre servers and clung to wreckage, awaiting {taker’s return. HITLER HALF-BROTH ER Berlin, Germany.—This rare pho tograph of Alois Hitler, oldest half brother of the Nazi dictator, was taken over Alois’ indignant protest. He does not permit himself to be photographed if he can he'n it. He keeps a small inn in Berlin and shuns the limelight. First “Trailer Widow” Seeks Lift Revere, MarR.—Mrs. Sadie Hahn, fifty-six, believes she is the nation’s first "trailer widow.” She married Paul Hahn, fifty-five, last year in a Dalworth, Texas, trailer eamp, and spent their honeymoon in a trailer. Rcconlly he deserted her here, taking the car, but leaving her the trailer in order, perhaps, that she might pick up a "lift” home. Roars Louder Than British Lion Nothe Fort, England.—A gun crew goes into action as it wards off an imaginary enemy during recent ma neuvers at this post which guards Portland harbor. The soldiers are from the Dorset Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army. GOOD TASTE $ TODAY <! f * Lemily post< World’* Foremost Authority on Etiquette © Emily Post. School Is Tra'ning Ground lor Manners DEAR Mrs. Post: Will you please tell me whether my son, who Is fourteen, ought to continue to give up hfs seat on the school bus to girls going back and forth from high school? He complained the other day that if he has to continue this practice he will have to stand aU spring since the hus Is too small to provide seats foi everyone. Answer: Since a school bus can hardly he rated as a public convey ance, I am afraid that as long as the seating is inadequate to take care of everyone, the boys will aD have to give up their seats to the girls standing near them—and espe cially is this true if they know the girls. This seems very unfair, I know, but it would really be de moralizing to his social training were he to do otherwise. Even in a public bus a man who is a gentle man would not think of remaining seated if the woman standing in front of him were someone he knew. • • • Real Epicure Insists on Mixing Own Salad DEAR Mrs. Post: In a certain restaurant at which 1 eat my lunch every day, when 1 order n salad bowl of greens they bring the dressing in a separate pitcher. Is it proper to mix the salad in the bowl or to put a little salad on one's plate at a time and poor the dressing over It? People seem to do both and I wonder why the bowl and wooden implementa are pro vided if one is not supposed to mix It (irst. Answer: Genuine salad lovers all mix salad thoroughly beforehand, but others would be more inclined to pour the dressing on a portion at a time. In other words, you do as you choose. • • • Decorative Covers Only. DEAR Mrs. Post: Is it incorrect to keep dust covers on books when these are displayed in open book shelves? I have kept on the covers because they were more decorative than the books them selves and thought they would add color to the living room. My daugh ter now comes home from college and says they must come off be cause in bad taste. Where did she get this idea? Answer: If you mean they have tlieir own paper jackets on them. I think these look too much like a store. But if they are uniform cov ers, which you have put on for dec orative color, then leave them on by all means. Depends on Circumstances DEAR Mrs. Post: Socially I know it is proper for a young man to rise when women enter the room, but does this apply equally when a woman teacher enters the class room? Answer: If the class is very small the boys (or young men) would nat urally rise for a woman teacher, and strictly speaking, also for a man. But in a very big class where the pupils are practically the audi ence and the teacher is a lecturer who takes her (or his) place on a platform, the students would re main seated. • • • Adopting a Child. DEAR Mrs. Post: We are ex pecting a young boy from an orphanage very soon, having been able to get him through a local poli tician who recommended us highly and used his influence. Is there anything we could do to show our appreciation to him? 1 do not know his wife. Answer: I think it would be better to wait until the child has become thoroughly established in your family and then write the poli tician a letter and tell him how happy Johnny has made you. Say What You Mean. DEAR Mrs. Post: Even weddings in our community are not rare and at a great many of them people wear full evening regalia. 1 am go ing to have a small evening wedding at home only because this is the time that seems best suited to oar plans. How can we make it clear to the guests that this will not be a dress occasion. Otherwise some will come in evening clothes and others will not. and some mi'ht feel I uncomfortable. Answer: At the end of the invita tions write “Not evening dress.” • • • ' Don't Dirty a Doily. DEAR Mrs. Post: When the fin ger bowl is brought to the table on the desseit plate, on which is a lace doily, how docs one remove the finger bowl to the table, and viiere is it put? Is the doily re moved with it or is dessert put on the doily? Answer: The doily should be lifted off with the finger bowl and both put down at your place wherever there is room. On no account put anything eatable on top of a lace doily. WNU Service.