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ADVENTURERS’ CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI _
“Monster From the Swamps'’
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
H“ ELLO EVERYBODY:
Well, sir, if I seem to be continually harping on the
fact that adventures are things you meet up with most fre
quently at home, you can put it down to the fact that I am
continually being reminded of it. Just the other day, while
looking through a sheaf of letters I came to a story by a
woman who had an adventure on a farm. Well—of course,
there’s nothing unusual in that. The funny part of it was
that the farm was in this country, and the adventure was
of a sort you’d only expect to run into in the jungles of
Africa or South America, or to read about in some account
of the grim battles between men and animals that the an
cient Romans used to stage in their gladiatorial arenas.
The woman is Lottie Hawco—Mrs. John Hawco, of New York city.
And the animal she fought with was a wild boar. I'll bet a lot of people—
including me—didn’t know there were wild boars in this country. But there
are, as any South Carolina farmer can tell you. How they got here is
an interesting story. ,
You see, the ordinary barnyard breed of pig is nothing in the
world but a descendant of the wild boars you read about in tales
of old-time Merrie England. Those boars were tamed and fat
tened and domesticated until, over the space of six or eight hun
dred years they became the fat, lazy, gluttonous animals you
see In hog pens the country over.
How Pigs Get Wild and Dangerous.
But a pig will stay fat, and tame, and lazy only so long as he’s kept
in captivity and stuffed with chop suey from that well known galva
nized iron can out on the back porch. Once he gets loose and goes back
to the woods again and has to rustle for his own food—well—then he
gets thin and tough and rangy. His tusks grow out, and in a generation
or twm he becomes a boariagain—Just as wild and as dangerous an ani
mal as ever he was when he roamed the marshes and forests of old
England in the days of Robin Hood.v
There are plenty of those backsliding wild hogs in the back country
of South Carolina, and the farmers hunt them down and round them up
because they destroy the nests of the wild turkeys in the neighborhood.
The Roar Viciously Attacked Lottie’s Mother.
And that brings us to Lottie Howco who. on February 16, 1931, was
visiting with her mother and her sister, Inez, on a farm near Osborn,
S. C., where a wild boar hunt was in progress.
A bunch of men from the neighborhood had been out all day, comb
ing the marshes with packs of dogs, roping boars and herding them—
alive—into a big high-sided farm wagon. They had just returned home
with six or seven boars—big, vicious fellows, waisthigh to a man
and weighing three or four hundred pounds—animals that could break a
man's leg with their huge, crunching jaws and which frequently did dis
embowel the fierce dogs that hunted them with one sweeping blow
of their long, protruding tusks.
The men backed the wagon up to a strong enclosure and were
untying the boars one by one and cautiously prodding them into
the pen. Lottie, her mother and sister were standing nejr by,
watching the proceedings—and then—suddenly—a terrible thing
happened.
Attack by a Savage Hoar.
The men had unloosed the largest boar and were prodding it toward
the pen when it turned, squeezed between the wagon and the enclosure,
and rushed out into the open, gnashing its great teeth and foaming at
the mouth. It headed straight for Lottie’s mother, who was standing near
est the pen, and before she could turn to run, it was on her, throwing
her in a heap to the ground, biting at her savagely.
It was the most terrible sight Lottie ever beheld in her life. Charlie,
the foreman, stood with his mouth agape, too surprised for a moment to
even move. Sister Inez, paralysed with fright, clapped her hands over
her ears and began to scream. Lottie herself was numb with terror,
and for precious seconds—seconds that seemed like a lifetime—she stood
rooted to the spot. All.the rest of the men were on the other side of the
pen, or on the wagon, too far away to reach the spot in time to do any good.
Then, all of a sudden, Lottie came to life. She can’t explain
what happened, but it seemed as if a spring inside her had sud
denly been released. She sprang forward, threw herself on *!.e
snarling, screaming, rolling jumble of woman and beast, singled
out the boar and began beating and mauling and scratching it
with insane freniy.
Surprised Him, So He Fled.
The boar could have killed Lottie with one thrust of its sharp, pointed
tusk. Lottie’s mother had been saved from death thus far only by her
long skirts and thick clothing. But taken by surprise, the boar couldn’t
quite figure out this wild new menace that came beating and kicking at
his flanks—tearing and scratching at his eyes. It was a thing of fury.
It didn't seem one whit afraid of the boar. And an animal will often
reason that if you are not afraid of him. then he must have good cause
to be afraid of you.
This one did just that Snarling and grunting, he turned to flee from
this inexplicable new attack. He got about three steps, and then he
found himself tangled up in the ropes of the men who, by this time,
had Come around from the other side of the pen to deal with him.
The next thing Lottie knew, she was back on the porch of the farm
house with her mother, looking over herself for injuries. She doesn't
even remember helping her mother to the porch, and to this day she
can’t figure out how she came out of that fight without a scratch on her
body.
Copyright.—WNU Service.
Barratry in Shipping
Barratry in shipping and naviga
tion includes every wrongful act
committed by the master or crew
to the prejudice of the shipowner.
The master must have deliberate
ly violated his duty to his employer
and acted against his better judg
ment. says Tit-Bits Magazine. Dev
iating from the ship's course to
engage in smuggling is barratry.
No act of negligence, inadvertence,
or mistake amounts to barratry.
Name Percival Is Greek
The name Percival is of Greek
origin and means "courteous.” Sir
Perceval was a knight of King Ar
thur’s found table. Percival Lowell
(1855-1916) Boston astronomer,
wrote books and made important
discoveries in astronomy, also es
tablished the Lowell observatory.
Cheerfulness Has Huai Value
Cheerfulness has a dual value In
life. First, it helps you—then it
helps you to help others—and it
keeps on spreading out Into the
great throng of humanity, stirring
the hearts of men as the gentle
breeze stirs the leaves of the for
est-returning to you in its endless
course and all the while making the
heavy load lighter and the dark
road brighter for all.
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Oldest Lighthouse in America
The oldest lighthouse in America
is Boston light station. Built in
1716, it was knocked down during
the Revolution, rebuilt in 1783. It
was then 69 feet high, lit by four
whale oil lamps. The tower, 90 feet
high, contains the original stones, in
use more than 222 years, plus addi
tions.
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEW YORK.—Mrs. Joseph P. |
Kennedy has been an effective
social and political ally of both her
father, former mayor of Boston, and
her husband, am- |
Mrs. Kennedy bassador to the
Aida Father Court of St.
and Husband James ®ut
news that, in ac
cordance with her husband’s deci
sion, she presented only seven
American women at court is one of
her rare appearances in the head
lines.
The 11 engaging Kennedys have
been viewed more or less en bloc in
the news and Mrs. Kennedy has
never been in a very sharp lens
focus.
She was one of the prettiest
of Boston debutantes, 30 years
ago, a rollicking girl with black
hair and eyes of Irish blue.
Back home from her convent
training, she taught her father
"Sweet Adeline.”
He was John F. (Honey Fitz) Fitz
gerald, and in his campaigns he
sang his way to memorable political
fame—riding like a surfboard the
long, lingering "swipes” of the song
taught him by his daughter—"the
flower of his heart.”
Joseph P. Kennedy, her childhood
playmate, was twenty-five years old
when they were
Fortune and married in 1914.
Family Grew We borrowed $2,
Up Together 000 fort a dot7
^ ° payment on a $6,
500 house. Their fortunes grew as
their family, with Mr. Kennedy
president of a bank, in a year or two
after their marriage.
Mrs. Kennedy once told a Boston
drygoods clerk that she bought 200
suits and dresses a year. It takes
a heap of shopping to make a home,
like the Kennedys’, and she became
known among her friends as a para
gon of household efficiency com
parable to the one in Solomon’s off
hand apostrophe to such skills and
virtues.
Now she Is mistress of the
"castle” which was once J.
Pier punt Morgan’s home; also
of a beautiful mansion In Bronx
vllle, N. Y., a huge summer es
tate at Hyannisport, Cape Cod,
and a villa at Palm Beach, built
by one of the Wanamakers.
She Is slender and girlish, comely
and vivacious, weighs 115 pounds
and takes size 14
Has Diamond in dresses. Vion
a Potentate net makes her
Might Envy gownsA a"d shfu is
envied by other
women for her magnificent jewels—
notable among them being a ruby
and diamond bracelet which, it is
said, is matched only by the one
the Aga Khan gave his princess.
But she never lets the children
run to unseemly display, hold
ing them to restraint in regime
and dre.ss. Even without all
these adventitious fixings, say
her friends, she would be an ad
mirable ambassador’s wife, with
her own quite adequate equip
ment of tact, charm and intelli
gence.
• • •
\/f AN and boy, this Journeyman
•l’-* has helped process a lot of
explorers’ and adventurers’ copy
through the news mill. If it was
ghost-written, it had only slick and
synthetic excitement, like Ersatz
pastry, and if it wasn’t it was usu
ally dull. Happily in contrast are
the doubtlessly authentic and per
sonally written yarns of W. H. Til
man, leader of the British Mount
Everest expedition, now getting un
der way.
These stories from the Tibetan
base camp have a professional ease
and fluency, along
Yarns From with a ring of in
Mt. Everest tegrity which
Rine True gives assurance
* that Mr. Tilman is
really writing them. There is no
' ghost on the job here.
Mr. Tilman is thirty-nine years
old, a keen-faced, hard-muscled
Britisher of medium stature, who
has been exploring ever since he
j left college.
He has climbed mountains in the
i Alps and in Africa, including Mounts
| Kenya, Kilimanjaro and Ruvenzori.
This is his fifth expedition to the
Himalayas. The entrants in this
high hurdle event are not young
sters N. E. Odell is forty-seven,
F. S. Smythre is thirty-seven and
the others are all over thirty.
(0 Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
Rats Drink Ink at Night
Rats have been drinking black ink
at night in the Swellendam, South
Africa, city hall. Possibly they were
blondes who wish to become bru
nettes, is one suggestion. P. Heyns,
the municipal foreman, says he fre
quently has found his ink well,
which he kept in a locked room,
empty. Before leaving the office
one afternoon he poured the ink into
a saucer. Next morning it was
empty.
Wash Weaves Gain in Style Favor
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
THERL Is grerter high
style appeal in wash ma
terials this season than ever.
The acceptance of glamor
ous, gorgeous linens (plain
or printed) and spun rayons (new
star shining bright in the fabric
firmament) as “dress-up" materials
is one of the outstanding milestones
that marks the progress of fashion.
If you would see piques and cotton
voiles and rippled or varied-type
cloque cottons, organdies, seersuck
ers (sheer or sturdy) and gay
stripes or plaid ginghams or the
new corded cottons, likewise cotton
nets and laces “show off" in all
their glory, tuning to every phase of
fashion from simplest houstdress,
housecoat or swim suit, to most
exquisite wedding ensembles, eve
ning formals or party frocks, get
yourself invited to the spectacular
event presented each year in ven
ous style centers—the Cotton ball
that pays homage to “King Cotton."
However, sans the Cotton ball, you
will not lose out in seeing this sea
son such pageantry of cotton ma
terials and other smart washables
as you’ve never seen before, for
all the stores are these days making
a countrywide display of the love
liest wash weaves fancy might pic
ture.
It is really a very intriguing
thought to know you can go to the
most "highbrow” affair and be
classed among the best dressed,
gowned in a simple wash voile or a
pin-tucked batiste laden with val
lace edgings, or a tailored gingham
that is fashioned decollete, with a
full skirt and bolero.
Not that we are losing sight of the
style element and the practicality
that wash materials ever maintain
for sportswear and general utility
wear. That side of the question is
a subject so exhaustless we will
not attempt to touch upon it in these
few paragraphs.
There is, however, this conclu
sive argument in favor of modern
wash fabrics whether they be for
mal or utilitarian to the effect that
if you are careful to buy the right
sort of washables they carry with
them the guarantee of being both
non-shrinkable and non-crushable. It
is indeed a comfort to the woman
who is her own seamstress to know
that from now on with these latest
improvements in tub fabrics she can
buy her patterns exactly the right
size without having to allow for pos
sible shrinkage.
In the picture we are showing
three “reasons why” dresses of
handsome wash materials are out
standing in the spring and summer
style scene—charming enough to
wear most anywhere in the day’s
social swirl, you’ll agree. Fine hand
blocked linen glowing with colorful
naturalistic rose and bud motif (a
glorious fabric for the more dressy
type of “onlooker” dress) fashions
the center model. Miracle of mir
acles, such a "dressy” sport frock
is exactly as practical a3 its more
mundane sisters, for being pre
shrunk, its “lines” and its colors are
permanent, regardless of numerous
tubbings. And the same may be
said for the gowns that complete the
group.
For the dress to the right soft
tailoring brings out the beauty of a
most likable spun rayon fabric that
you can rely upon to go through
tubbings victoriously and that will
capture your heart with its color
ings and striking patternings. A
Mexican motif on the print pattern
ing, gay buttons, a bright raffia belt,
carry out the blithe mood of the
gay caballero linen print that tailors
to perfection in the youthful dress
to the left. Any young woman would
do well to tuck such a frock away in
her vacation trunk. It will insure
conquests for her.
© Western Newspaper Union.
CHOOSE POLKA DOT
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
Dots. dots, doia are repeating and
repeating in the newer silks. Here
pictured is a very up-to-the-moment
young fashionable wearing a direc
toire double breasted daytime dress
styled of smart polka dotted silk.
You have the Paris angle of a lead
ing summer style trend when you
choose dotted patternings. Note the
oval-shape bib of gathered white
net and a tie of white pique. The
white pique directoire bonnet she
wears is the “last word’’ in milli
nery showings.
SOME HIGH POINTS
IN LATE FASHIONS
Dresses and coats alike have a
tendency to pull fullness to the rear
or the side with draping, plaits and
panels. Long sleeves are by no
means out, but many designers, like
Lucile Paray, show elbow sleeves
for everything, including coats.
Equally as popular as the skirt
and-jacket ensemble for sport and
daytime wear is the dress with its
own jacket or full-length coat. Jack
ets are moulded to the waist and
unbelted; generally single-breasted,
simple in line, but feminine in ap
pearance. Down to the hips is the
usual length, but Mainbocher shows
them tunic length, and Chanel likes
waist-length jackets and boleros,
many with little bustle-like peplums.
Smartest Spring Dresses
Are Seen Featuring Lace
Some of the smartest street and
tailored dresses seen this spring are
of lace. And not only the solid,
fabric-like laces which have been
and still are so popular, but the
sheerer types which have hereto
fore been associated only with eve
ning wear. These are seen in the
simple one and two-piece versions
of the classic day dresses. Some
times they are all lace, and as often
you see them in combinations of
lace and fabric.
Popular Trimming
Pique for sports and informal
wear; lace for dress-up occasions;
organdie good the clock around—
that's the way the fashion world di
vides the honors in trimming this
season.
Evening Mode
Both the wide skirt and the
straight line are popular for eve
ning gowns.
-cm* sew
Lif— Ruth Wyeth Spears
'T'HE charm of a rag baby de
pends upon her figure. She
may be molded with your fingers
if the cotton stuffing is pushed into
place very tightly a little at a
time with the blunt end of a pen
cil. An extra bit of cotton may
even stretch the fabric considera
bly to give chin and chest a shape
ly contour. Leave the opening for
stuffing under one arm. Stuff the
legs up to the knees, then sew
across. Stuff up to the hips and
then sew through the body again,
as shown, before the upper part is
stuffed. This makes the doll joint
ed at knees and hips.
To make a pattern for the doll,
rule an eight by fourteen inch
piece of paper into one-inch
squares. Number the squares, as
shown, then outline the doll so
that the lines cross the squares
exactly as they do here in the di
agram. Back and front are cut
alike. The dotted line around the
doll in the diagram indicates the
seam allowance. Eyes, nose and
mouth are embroidered, yarn is
used for the hair, and the dress
is made of straight pieces.
NOTE: Mrs. Spears’ latest sew
ing book contains three pages of
doll clothes; 90 embroidery
stitches; fabric repairing; table
settings; gifts; many useful arti
cles to make for the house, your-'
self and the children. Price 25
cents postpaid, coins preferred.
Just ask for Book No. 2, and ad
dress Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Des
i plaines, St., Chicago, 111.
For Early Summer Days
MAKE yourself something very
pretty and smart to wear
as soon as the bland summer days
are here. These are so easy—
each is a diagram frock, which
means the pattern is amazingly
easy to work with.
Slenderizing Lines.
Everything about this dress is
flattering to large women—the v
neckline, the short, rippling
1504
1502.
sleeves, the smooth shoulders,
front fullness, and waistline,
snugged in by darts. You’ll want
to wear it all the time, when you
see how becoming it is. In
georgette, chiffon, voile, or thin
silk print.
Frock With Slim, Crisp Lines.
Cleverly fitted in to minimize
the waistline, puffed high and
wide as to sleeves, full at the
skirt and with a demure round
neckline, this is one of the most
charming new dresses you could
choose. A bit of ricrac braid and
two little bows are all the trim
It’s a Change With
a Bit of Company
The rural postman was describ
ing his job to a visitor. “Yes,
sir,” he said, “being a postman on
a round like this means a lot o’
leggin’ about. Twelve and four
teen mile a day very often. But
there, I mustn’t complain. My va
cation is due soon and that’ll put
me on my legs again.”
“And where do you propose to
spend your vacation?” asked the
visitor.
“Well, sir, it be like this,” said
the postman. “They generally
sends a young feller from the head
office, and as he’s a nice sort of
chap as a rule, I go around with
’im just for a talk.”
ming it needs, the lines are so
perfect. Make it up in silk print,
dimity, dotted Swiss.
The Patterns.
1504 is designed for sizes 36, 38,
40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52. Size
38 requires 514 yards of 39-inch
material; collar in contrast (if de
sired) takes % yard.
1502 is designed for sizes 14, 16,
18, 20, 40 and 42. Size 16 requires
4 yards of 39-inch material. 1%
yards of ricrac to trim.
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, ac
curately cut and easy to follow.
Each pattern includes a sew-chart
which enables even a beginner to
cut 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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Skill Wins
It is not strength, but art, ob
tains the prize, and to be swift is
less than to be wise.—Homer.
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The best part of one’s life is the
performance of his daily duties.—
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