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ADVENTURERS* CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF!
“Monster Out of Hand
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
Hello everybody:
John J. Boner of Chicago has been firing a locomo
tive since 1906. He says that in that time he has had many
a thrill—as what railroad man from engineer right along to
conductor hasn't? But the biggest thrill in all John Boner’s
railroading career came to him on September 10, 1910, when
he was firing an engine on the Milwaukee.
John was working west out of Perry, Iowa, and early in the morning
he was called to Are on a double-header coal train. John was on the
lead engine, and John Cunningham was the engineer. The train. John
says, consisted of forty carloads of coal behind two Baldwin com
pound engines.
The train pulled out of Perry in some of the finest weather
John had ever seen In his life. "The beauty of the day,” he says,
“seemed to impart something of its lest to our engines, and we
made the wheels sing on those forty ears as we pushed the big
loeomotives along. From Perry to Council BlulTs, the road was
all single track and water grades."
Up and Down the Water Grades.
For the benefit of us lubbers who don’t know what a water grade
Is. John explains it to us. Those water grades get their name from the
fact that a water tower is always set on the top of a hill whenever pos
sible, so a train, after stopping to take on water, can get up momentum
again by coasting downgrade. Water grades were just a series of ups
and downs in the track, and witlva heavy train you go as fast as you can
turn a wheel down one hill in order to get up the next.
They cleared half a dozen of those grades, and everything was going
fine. The train topped a hill east of Manning. Iowa, and John Cunning
ham opened the throttle and thg train roared downgrade through a series
of curves, gathering momentum for the next climb.
They were rounding the last curve, a mile east of Manning, when it
happened. John was tossing n few scoopfuls of coal into the firebox,
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The Lead Kngine Took a Nose Dive.
When all of a sudden he saw John Cunningham go Into action. “He was
grabbing for the whistle—grabbing for the brake valve—grabbing for J
reverse lever,” says John, "and it seemed to me as if he was grabbing
lor all of them at the same time.
Off the Track at Full Speed.
"1 jumped to the left eab window. I was just in time to see a
section gang scattering to the Helds—and In time to get u shower of
ballast full in the face. We had struck a hand-ear loaded with
iron rails."
John reeled back under the force of the blow he had received. For
a second or two the big engine seemed to be riding the rails. Then John I
telt the wheels bump oil onto the ties. “The emergency brake,” he says,
"was almost useless. We had been tearing downhill and around those
curves with the throttle as wide open as it was safe to have it on that par
ticular stretch of track. Our speed was almost forty-five miles an
hour at the time, and behind us were another locomotive and forty heavy
carloads of coal, shoving us along with the momentum they had gathered
In that downhill run."
There was no hope of stopping that train, and John says that then
wasn't any possibility of jumping, either. The big engine was rockin
and swaying so badly that neither John nor Cunningham could stan
long enough to jump. “All we could do," he says, “was to grab what
ever we could get hold of in the cab and hang onto it.”
All that happened in just a couple of seconds, and things were
happening so fast that John didn't even have time to think.
But afterwards he could recall vividly sensations that he wasn't even
aware of at the time. “Was I scared?” he says. "I don't know. Things
were coming so fast that I don’t think I had time to be frightened. For
snore than forty feet we rode the ties, and then bumped out on a trestle
bridge. We ran sixty more feet out on that, and then the lead engine—
the one I was in—took a nose dive to the right, keeled over on her side
and began sliding down a thirty-foot bank.”
He Got Out Just in Time.
John and John Cunningham were still in the cab—still fighting for
equilibrium—for a foothold that would give them a chance to jump. The
engine slid down the bank and efime to rest in a hog wallow beyond the
right-of-way fence. The minute it stopped, John was at the window and
on his way out. with John Cunningham crowding behind him.
They were out the window so fast that it seemed as if both of them
had gone through together. But at that, they weren't a second too soon.
Just as they cleared the cab, a steam tube let go—burst with a roar that
cleared the cab out as clean as dynamite could have cleaned it, and
two hundred pounds of steam pressure flooded the spot they had just
left with hot, scalding death. Only a ..econd's delay and both John and
Cunningham would have died back there in the engine cab—cooked to
death in an instant by the jet of live steam.
“The second engine.” says John, “bumped into our tender and turned
off to the left, but the crew escaped injury in almost the same miracu
lous manner that we did. None of the coal cars piled up on top of
cither engine, as they usually do in such accidents, and that was almost
another miracle. Since that time I’ve had many a spill and been in many
a wreck. In some of them I’ve sustained injuries. But none of those
close calls ever gave me anything like the thrill 1 got out of this one
In which I wasn't even scratched.”
Copyright.—WNU Service.
Drawings for the White House
Hoban's original drawings for the
White House contemplated a build
ing with wings. The central part
®nly was erected. The design is
said to have been suggested by the
residence of the duke of Leinster
in Dublin, but the resemblance is
slight.
Caribbean Days of Week
Days of the week in the Spanish
speaking countries of the Caribbean
are: Sunday, Domingo; Monday,
Lunes; Tuesday, Martes; Wednes
day. Miercoles; Thursday. Jueves;
Friday, Viernes; Saturday, Sabado.
Invented Banjo Clock
The banjo clock was invented in
1801 by Simon Willard and so called
because of its shape. It was an
eight-day. non-striking pendulum
clock. Willard obtf ined a patent
lor it in 1802.
Home of Scientific Nursing
Great Britain is the home of sci
entific nursing, opening the first
training school in 1860. It was the
home of Florence Nightingale,
noted nurse. Though an age-old
profession, nursing fared little bet
ter in the United States. Our first
school began classes in 1903.
First to Say “1 Came," Etc.
Julius Caesar in a letter t<
Amantius, announcing his victor;
over Pharnaces at Zela in Pontus
47 B. C., was the first to say "
came, I saw, I conquered." In Latii
it was “Veni, Vidi. Vici.”
First Oil Fainter
St. Bavon's cathedral in Ghent
Belgium, has one of the world's si
greatest pictures, ‘‘The Adoratio
of the Lamb." by the brothers Va
Dyck, one of whom is said to hav
invented oil painting.
Print Frocks Have Pleated Skirts
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* ’ y CHERIE NICHOLAS
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pLEATED skirts are here, there
® and everywhere in the style pic
ture. Judging from the signs, life
from a fashion viewpoint is destined
to be Just one pleated skirt after
another. Not that the slim, form
fitting skirt has been cast into dis
card, not at all. Nevertheless, the
urge of the pleated skirt is tre
mendous for spring and summer
and seeing how flattering, how
youthful, how “new” it is (espe
cially the idea of pleating gay silk
prints! a true follower of fashion
can do no other than to fall into
step of the mode, by including at
least one or more frocks in her col
lection that are very much pleated
It's quite a revelation to see what
pleating can do in the way of adding
charm and variety to a gay silk
print Under the magic of artful
printing an already attractive print
oecomes even more attractive, and
one has only to glimpse the new
style collections to realize with what
unbounded enthusiasm designers
are playing up the pleated theme
The big idea in current styling is
the dress of silk print that has been
pleated and pleated to the limit. Es
pecially featured is the print frock
with an all-round pleated skirt, aft
er the manner of the models pic
hired The pleating may be knife
pleated stitched flat below the hips
as the dress to the left is styled or it
may be sunburst pleated as is the
youthful frock to the right.
Stripes are the rage this season,
and one of the most successful ges
lures in fashion's realm at the pres
erit moment is the pleating o!
striped prints It you like stripes
and if you like prints just try the
two together and see what a lively
duet they will play. The smart gown
on the seated figure is typical of the
new pleat-stripe vogue. Here you
see a highly significant fashion in
the handling of a bayadere silk print
in narrow stripes of multi-color flow
erettes. The slip-on top is styled
with an artful play on the stripes.
The patch pockets are voguish ac
cents, also the tie bow. The hat is
of blue leather. Which calls to mind
that accessories of colorful suede
are tres chic with your spring cos
tume or suit.
The other winsome frock is a
junior model of black and white
shepherd check taffeta with swing
pleated skirt. The pert little bolero
is of black taffeta. It has a box
pleated back. The blouse has a
red ruching trim, red heart-shaped
buttons together with white pique
.collar and cuffs.
The new silk prints are so perfect
ly fascinating it is scarcely possi
ble to describe them. In addition
to stripes in endless interpretations,
there are floral crossbar pattern
ings that have the coveted “new”
look, and paisley effects that per
sonify color glory, and silk prints
Dial have a chintz patterning. None
lovelier prints have been brought
out this season than are the ex
quisite landscape designs that add
to their lure in that they feature
delectable pastel colorings.
There are dramatic black and
white prints in the advance silk
showings, the scroll patternings be
ing especially smart. Huge scat
tered prints in gorgeous, colors are
leading for formal night wear, the
black silk chiffons especially em
phasizing distinguished large floral
print motifs.
f) Western Newspaper Union.
SMART SILK PRINT
Hr CHI IIIK NICHOLAS
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This dress rettned and lovely and
springlike in its colorings is made of
a floral crossbar silk print which
makes pink its key color, for pink
you must know is queen among col
I ors for this season. It is featured
( | especially in accessory ways. The
, I new little pastel pink veils capture
your fancy at first glance. Then there
[ 1 are the smart silk prints with pink
1 on black backgrounds with which
you art supposed to wear pink cos
tume Jewelry. An important styl
ing point registers in the gown pic
* ! lured in that both bodice and
i i sleeves are laid in solid pleats
1 I The belt is cunningly devised com
t ' billing black patent leather with the
silk print. The pink feathers on the
black beret match the print
SPOTLIGHT IS ON
SUEDE FOR SPRING
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
If you keep step with fashion you
are bound to wear suede this spring
II may be a coat you will choose or
a jacket or perhaps an entire suit;
even a dress for that matter for
suede soft and simple as it now is,
yields to dressmaker treatment
beautifully. Then, too, the fact that
suede comes in such luscious color
ings adds to its lure, not only for the
costume entire but for accessories
as well.
Vou can get swank suede items
that enhance one's costume as only
suede can do. For instance the call
is wide at present for bolero and
sash "sets" of suede. As to the
leather hat it is being made an
outstanding fashion feature for
spring. There are clever collar
and girdle twosomes of suede in
the neckwear showings that will
enhance your costume with a strik
ing dash of color. Just look into
tnis matter of suede. It’s worth
following up.
Durbar Inspiration Seen
in Silk Prints for Spring
The Indian influence, inspired by
the coming Durbar is apparent in
silk prints Actual Oriental patterns
such as Persian and Paisley de
signs Cashmere patterns, already
well established are new looking in
pale colorings or in monotones.
These are varied with modernized
versions of Oriental patterns which
are larger and more open and often
use a single classic Oriental motif,
enlarged and spaced. Not Indian,
but partaking of the interest, large
outlines or the plaque idea in Moroc
can and Algerian patterns use the
elaborate fretwork patterns seen in
North African mosques and allover.
Renaissance medallions.
Fashionable Trims
Cutout designs, transparent chif
fon yokes and open work in verti
cal bands are trim for afternoon
frocks.
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEW YORK.—Many years ago,
in South America, this writer
was always hearing somebody mut
ter “Perros!” (dogs), as he passed
by. It expressed
Propaganda dislike of all North
Trick Hurt Americans. Upton
U. S. Trade Sinclair’s book,
“The Jungle,”
about the Chicago packing houses,
had been carefully mistranslated, in
a widely circulated version, which
made multitudes of South Ameri
cans believe all North Americans
ate dogs. Even in remote jungle
towns, I found European trade
scouts and salesmen making dili
gent use of the book. It was the
neatest trade propaganda trick of
me century.
The one-sided battle has contin
ued through the decades. Late re
ports are that South American ra
dio stations are belting Uncle Sam
with everything at hand, and, to
the same degree, apostrophizing It
aly, Germany and Japan.
For this reason, there appear.s
to be more than meets the eye
in the printed story of our new
airwave rearmament, and the
assignment of a new short-wave
channel for broadcasts to South
America.
With Secretary Hull, Dr. L. S.
Rowe, director general of the Pan
American union, pleads for ‘‘strong
er cultural ties” in the first broad
cast. Spanish translations follow
the English version.
While all this is in the name of
"peace and good-will,” and official
announcements carry no hint of a
defensive propa
Radio Aids ganda war, it ap
fn Fighting pears to be the an
U. S. Smear swer-perhaps the
only possible re
ply—to the widespread smearing
campaign against the U. S. A. in
Latin American countries.
The sixty-six-year-old Dr. Rowe
is a happy choice to head Ameri
ca’s "cultural,” if not propaganda,
outreach in this direction. He has
become widely known and decidedly
persona grata in South America in
his 32 years of pleading and prose
lyting for solidarity, friendship and
understanding in the Americas.
He has fraternized with South
Americans more than any other
northerner, lecturing, writing,
evangelizing and expounding his
doctrines of friendly co-opera
tion—always on the high plane
of cultural and intellectual inter
course. He has been head of the
Pan-American union since 1920,
succeeding John Barrett.
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LIFE begins at forty for Gracie
Fields. English Music Hall ac
tress, who curtsies to the king and
becomes a commander of the Order
of the British Em
Jane Alger pire. It is another
Career of Jane Alger story,
Stage Star this tale of the
Lancashire mill
girl who became the highest-paid
entertainer in the world.
Her earnings from her 5,000.000
gramophone records, and from the
stage and cinema have reached
$750,000 a year. Her film, “Mr.
Tower of London,” ran seven years.
She lives simply with her
mother, who manages her af
fairs, and never has anything
more than pocket money. Ev
ery so often she visits Rochdale,
the mill town where she sang
for pennie.s at the age of seven,
and has a rollicking time, sing
ing for her old friends.
She was a “half-timer” in the
cotton mills, half the day in school
and half at work.
In 1930, she made a brief appear
ance at the Palace theater in New
York. It wasn’t
Act Spoiled much of a suc
by Fear of cess. She ex
Gum-Chewers Pained afterward
that she had been
warned in England that entire audi
ences in America chewed gum to
gether and in time, with dreadful
facial contortions. This frightened
her and spoiled her act, although,
she admitted, there was only one
observable gum-chewer.
She was glad to land safely in
England, where she is widely be
loved and known as “Good Old Gra
; cie.”
Just a few days before her forti
eth birthday, she returned home
from a party at four o’clock in the
I morning. The milkman, the police
man on the beat and a street
sweeper ceremoniously handed her
a morning paper with her name in
the king's honor list. She is tall,
blonde and merry.
© Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
Smallest Book Claimed.
What is claimed to be the small
| est book in the world has been
i written by a war veteran suffering
from shell shock at Munich, Ger
many. It is half the size of an or
dinary postage stamp, three-quar
ters of inch thick and contains 96
pages. The tiny volume has 10,989
letters, each one-fifteenth of an
inch in height.
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Fashions Bloom in Spring
EXCEPTIONALLY smart new
things for yourself and your
daughter, that you’ll enjoy mak
ing right now, and wearing on
into the summer. Yes, even if
you’ve never done much sewing,
you’ll enjoy working from our
simple, easy-to-follow patterns,
each accompanied by a complete
and detailed sew chart. Hundreds
of beginners are saving money,
and creating really individual
clothes, by making their own this
season.
The Charming Basque.
Here’s a perfect design for slim,
youthful figures. The snug basque
top, above a full, rippling skirt, is
dramatized by little puff sleeves.
Think how delightful it will look,
made up in a plain or printed ma
terial, either one, but choose
something colorful, because it’s
such a gay, young little dress.
Little Girl’s Dress, With Doll.
Yes, this pattern brings you di
rections for making the little girl’s
dress, the doll, and a dress for the
doll just like her small mama’s.
Just think how all that newness
will make your little daughter
dance with joy. The child’s dress
is a darling, with its full skirt,
pockets, puff sleeves and round
collar. Make it up in printed per
cale or gingham. Old-fashioned
rickrack braid would be pretty to
trim it.
The Classic Shirtwaist.
This is distinctly a woman’s
version of the indispensable shirt
waist dress, gracious, slenderizing
and dignified. The shoulders are
beautifully smooth and the skirt
has exactly the correctly tailored,
straight effect. It’s so easy to
make, and looks so smart, that
you’ll want it now in sheer wool
or light-weight flannel, and later
in tub silk or linen.
The Patterns.
1471 is designed for sizes 12 to
20 (30 to 38 bust). Size 14 (32)
requires 4Ms yards of 39-inch ma
terial, with % yard of contrast
for collar. Belt not included.
1411 is designed for sizes 2, 3,
4 and 5 years. Size 3 requires 1%
yards of 39-inch material, with V4
yard of contrast for collar, and
1% yards of Idging to trim. Doll’s
body is included in the pattern.
Sixteen-inch doll requires Vz yard
of 35-inch material, with % yard
for doll’s dress, and % yard of
edging.
1207 is designed for sizes 34 to
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7airotite Recipe
ofi the IVeek'^'
Pineapple Cream for Plain Cake.
\/I ANY times the dessert ques
*** tion is a difficult one to de
cide upon, and there are other
times when there is some pound
cake, gingerbread, or plain butter
cake left that needs to be made
interesting to tempt the family.
When these two situations meet,
you will find that pineapple cream
to serve over slices of any one of
j the kinds of cake will be just the
trick to produce a lovely dessert.
Pineapple Cream.
8 oz. can crushed pineapple
Va pint pastry cream
*,4 cup marmalade, jam or jelly
Drain the juice from the pine
apple and save it to use for some
thing else, or just drink it. Whip
, the cream until stiff. Blend the
cream with the drained pineapple
and the marmalade, jam or jelly.
! By varying the kind of jam used
the whole tone or flavor of the
j cream can be changed, and you
i will find any flavor blends well
| with the pineapple. Serve the pine
! apple cream over slices of the
j chosen cake.
This is a splendid dessert to
serve for a bridge party or a nice
luncheon as well as for the family.
MARJORIE H. BLACK.
50. Size 36 requires 4% yards of
39-inch material, with short
sleeves. With long sleeves, 4%
yards.
Spring-Summer Pattern Book.
Send 15 cents for the Barbara
Bell Spring and Summer Pattern
Book which is now ready. It con
tains 109 attractive, practical and
becoming designs. The Barbara
Bell patterns are well planned,
accurately cut and easy to follow.
Each pattern includes a sew-chart
which enables even a beginner ta
cuf and make her own clothes. *
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.
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HOUSEHOLD
QUESTIONSJ
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When Handling Hot Glass.—
Handle hot glass cooking utensils
with a dry cloth or pad; damp or
wet cloths are apt to cause them
to crack.
* * *
Prepare for Spring.—Now is a
good time to collect cigar boxes
or make flats for planting seeds
indoors. *
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Cleaning Kitchen Utensils.—To
remove the smudges from utensils
used over an open flame rub with
crumpled newspapers, then apply
a few drops of kerosene to the
paper and rub the kettle until it’s
clean. Wipe with more dry pa
pers. Do not let any of the kero
sene get inside the kettle.
* • •
Saving Sheets. — To salvage
sheets that have been torn down
the center, tear them completely
apart, sew the selvages together,
and hem the edges.
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Improving Cocoa.—The flavor
of hot cocoa or chocolate may be
improved by adding one-fourth
teaspoon of vanilla to each cup of
milk.
MEN LOVE GIRLS
WITH PEP
If you are peppy and full of fun, men will in
vite you to dances and parties. BUT, if you
are cross, lifeless and tired, men won t be
interested. Men don't like "quiet' girls.
For three generations one woman has told
another how to go "smiling through" with
Lydia E. 1’inkham'g Vegetable Compound. It
helps Nature tone up the system, thus lessen
ing the discomforts from the functional dis
orders which women must endure.
Make a note NOW to get a bottle of world
famous Pinkham’s Compound today WITH
OUT FAIL from your druggist—more than a
million women have written in letters re
porting benefit.
Why not try LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND?
Buoyant Youth
Youth, with buoyant hopes,
turns, like marigolds, toward the
sunny side.—Jean Ingelow.
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