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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1941)
Anyway, It's a Living! It’s true that one half the world doesn’t know how tht other half lives. Yes, in this world there are some very strange profes sions, and this series of photographs shows you a few of them. The surprising thing is tfiat the people en pM in Un usual professions fail to ago. anything pt all unusual about them. Lfift: Ugh! We shtfuld imagine that there/ are better and tqtorfl pleasant ways of testing soap than tasting it. Yet Joseph Strohl of Los Angeles prefers this method. Again, ugh! But it’s a living! j HSIWERMIST . . . That’s uhat Mrs. Charles Parker of Santa Catalina Islarul, Calif., calls herself. With hammer, nails, paint and stuffing, she mounts the big ones that didn’t get away. Samuel Wardlatv, special in vestigator for Los Angles public library. keeps down book muti lation by observing main read ing room with binoculars / * 1 I ilU' ■ If U Miss Billie Lampio of Los An geles, only woman in America uho makes a living as eye spe cialist for birds and animals. : Here she is fitting ayes to n dove. > httrio.ik:rnn'j'u, A i.-.v ...ij ..rniid!.. 1 WOODEN POVLTRY FARMER ... San Francisco's Frank Mackay makes his living by raising wooden ducks for decoys. She listens to records all day long, for a phonograph company. j'i. '-•’or.- ':V ■! I f i . ------ j f "'ROM the moment that young | 3—< Kendall Bacon stepped into I l the cluttered editorial office of the Lansdowne Weekly Ga *^tte, he knew he had tackled a uan-sized Job. The atmosphere of .hp lj>lacj» fairly recked with listless A middle-aged man in shirt sleeves sat at a desk piled high with clippings and books and booties of paste and pencil stubs. Th6 man was reading galley proofs. He looked up as Kendall approached. "I'm Kendall Bacon. Knight sent me down." Kendall spoke crisply. I'Oh." The man laid down his proof sheets. ,He, looked at Kendall as iquch as to.say, “$o you’re the bird the old map sent dqwn to stir things up?" Aloud he said, oxtend ihg'Hls hand, "Hello; Bacon. I’m Jules Allen, managing editor here. Hava a chair.” Kendall didn’t accept. His eyea rpvpd about the royrp, finally return ing tp Allen’s face. •'Well, we might as well get start ed. Sorr<y to be so abrupt, but you know Why I'rh here.” Aflen looked at him ruefully. ,,The old man's letter said we weren't piodvcjpg, said he was sending a mjm down to take over and build up the sheet." "Right. I'm the man. Now, to begin with I want this office cleaned up. Right away. Everyone will work better in a clean atmosphere.” Allen was Immediately resentful. "Remember this is a newspaper of fice. young fellow.” "Which is no excuse for it looking like a pig pen. That’s story book stuff, and it's wroog!" Alleh started to speak, but Ken dall moved away from him, or dered the stenographer, who had been listening, open-mouthed, to find ‘•From now on, Allen, I’m boss. An.l get that hostile look off your face or you'll (lnd yourself looking for a job.” a man and a broom at once. Then he turned back to Alien. “From now on, Allen. I'm boss. And get that hostile look off your face or you'll find yourself looking for a job." He paused, and presently sat down. "First I want to run through your .files. No, don’t go into a long ex planation of what’s wrong. I know. Your linage is dropping off because your advertisers aren’t getting re sults, and your advertisers aren’t getting resblts because your circu lation is dropping off. Your circula tion is dropping off because you're not getting news, and tbpt's your fault!'' "Say!" Allen’s face was red. “Listen, youngster, I've been In the rjeWS garfie twenty years. You can’t tell me how to ttkn a papet. You qan’t Write news whew—’’ , "I know. I know/'ISqhdaM inter rupte<f brigtyly, "Tlje town’s dead! Thpre isji’t any news. Competition from the dailies. Sujrfe, suhe. Satne old story. I heat it everywhere. .Cftrt't tell dld-tlmets ■ like ^yourself'• anything." .. r , , Allen was mad. No one had ever talked to him like that and got away with -iti. And yet, despite the youth’s insolence; the managing editor somehow liked him. Something .abouf the boy's sure-fire attitudq.in spired confidencp. Old Man Knight rarely made a mistake in his men. Kendall had picked up a proof sheet and was reading aloud. “ ‘Miss Agatha Drake visitpd in Saysbrook recently!’ . . . ‘Caleb Rollins, is having hjs house painted’ . . 4The Saysbrook bank robbers have not as yet been appre hended.’ *’ Allen snorted. “Don’t say it. Sure, it's gossip. But gossipy items like that are thrf backbone of every country newspaper. That’s why folks buy ’em." "You’re right on that point, Al len," Kendall agreed. "But you’ve got to dig farther than gossip if you’re going to put a weekly across these days. Got to get behind the gossip." "Meaning?” "Meaning that there’s a lot more news in this town than you fellows are getting. You’ve got to keep your eyes open. Beat the dailies. Give your readers something to read." "Sounds easy. You show me." “That’s what I’m here for. When do your forms close for this week’s issue?" ‘Tomorrow noon.” "Good. I’ll have a live-wire story for you by then.” Kendall picked up his hat. “If I cm do it. you can do it. Yos’re known hereabouts. That fair enough?" , "Seeing’s believing, young fel low.” Kendall went out. At 9:30 the next morning he was back. Allen, who had been a little worried, looked up anxiously. “Got your story?" “Sure. And I’ve got your bank robber.” "What b^nk jobber?” "'1‘he guy v/no robbed the Says brook bank. I caw a news item on your galley proof yesterday.” Allen looked incredulous, ‘‘Mean to say yoy capture^ him?" "That’s right. And the story’s all yours. So hop to it on that type writer. And run off a thousand ex tras this week You'll sell ’em alt” Allen swallowed. Things were happening a little too fast. "Listen.” paid Kendall patiently. "Yesterday when 1 drove into town I SaW a man pa billing a house. The house looked as if it hadn’t been painted for half a century. Then I saw your n«ws item about it. How could a ii)an afford to have his house painted after 50 years, if he couldn’t before then? Especially In these times? Well, the bank had been robbed at Saysbrook, hadn’t it? I began thinking. I looked up this Caleb Rollinp guy. Sure enough, be wasn’t any particular credit to the town. I talked With bim. He seemed to have plenty of moneyi but no particular intelligence. I accused him of the robbery and he wilted. Thafs tpe whole story. The local constable promised to keep it quiet until we got the paper out.” Allen’s Jaw Sagged. He couldn’t believe it until Constable Layton hove into the office and verified the tale wjth shining eyes. Then he wrote the story. Kendall went through the books. By the time the press was running he had jotted down a list of sugges tions for Allen to refer to at such times as business was slack. Then he picked up hjs bat. "Well, so long, Allen. I’m leav ing.” He glabced about the office. It had been swept clean and had an ordered look. ‘‘Going? Going where?” Allen had risen. j , “Home. No need of me here. Showed you how, didn't I?” “Yes, but—” "Never mind the 'buts,' Allen. Just dig in behind the gossipy items and you’ll find news. And when your next report comes through you’ll be out of the red.” Ha turned and stepped into the street, started briskly away toward the railroad station. Behind him Alien stood and watched the re treating figure. He caught himself wondering just what had taken place in his office during the past 24 hours. He had a feeling that whatever it was, it was for the best. But it wasn’t until after the Gazette was on the street and two thousand extra copies had been sold that he was ready to admty his twenty years of experience was something to forget rather than remember. Man Answers Question Why He Married Susie? Here is a man's idea of why it is so often a shock to meet the wife of a likable, intelligent, and highly successful npan—the kind of man that other men both like and ad ipire. “A man, when he is 20 or 25, (alls In love with Susie. Susie is pretty. She is even a nice, sweet girl. The man marries her* never, of course, stopping to wonder what Susie will be like at 40. “The guy is smart, and so even though it didn't lodk at the time as though Susie1 was making much of a marrjiage—she was. Her hpsband clim,bs ste^ity by, hif own brgins and ability. “As he climbs he fnoves to higher and higher social levels. He lunches, plays golf, does business with men who are mute and ,mpre success ful. ; - 7>fl Tnsi . TT “He belonfei to the group1 by right of what he is and what he has made of hia opportunities. ) , “Susift naturally, is lifted right along tfitb her husband. Buf she doesn’t belong. “If her husband had remained pretty far down the ladder—where ha was When be married her—she would be adequate. t “But tbtough luck, and none of her own doing, she Is in a crowd that is way beyond her. It is just luck she married the man ihe did. If she hadb’t married at all, and her advancement in life had depend ed on her own brains and effort, she probably would be supporting herself on a 12-dollar-a-week salary and living in one room. "But here she is—dumb little Susie—married to a highly success ful man, the head of an impres sive establishment, thrown with people who are really out of her class. “It is not Susie’s fault. It isn't even her husband's fault. If he had married a girl who could keep up, it would have been mostly luck. For young men of 20 don’t choose wives who will be suitable com panions when they are 40. "They want a pretty girl—and never mind the brains. And that is what they get for Ufa “Hence the common remark about the successful man: ‘I wonder why in the world he married HER.’ ” Military Influence Predominant In Juvenile Clothes for Spring r'V R " P ll By CHERIE NICHOLAS HATS new in children’s fash ions? To tell the story would require endless recital, for design ers of juvenile modes have found at command so many contributing gourdes of ideas that they have been inspired to do and to dare this sea son. Perhaps most exciting of all is the rush of patriotic themes preva lent in all the apparel for the young er generation. Erpbla»oped stars, eagles with wide-spread wings, flags unfurled, ships, anctyprs pnd other nautical insignia, braidings, epau lets, sailor collars, officers’ capes and brass-buttoned coats, colors red, white and blue in the true American way hold endless fascination for youngsters, especially whep they adorn their very own coats and dresses and stylish cape outfits as they do this season. What could be more attractive, we ask, in the way of new spring ensembles for school-faring sisters than the cunning two-sister cape models shown in the illustration herewith? To fully sense the charm of these clever cape outfits, one must visualize them in their own original bright colorings (matching red wool capes, hats, and skirts witty navy jackets) as displayed at a pre view of American-designed fashions presented in connection with a se ries of breakfast style clinics held in the great Merchandise Mart of Chicago. Pace-making fashion events are these clinics which thou sands of merchants and buyers at tend each season in search of de pendable authoritative forecasts which these style shows present. The two coats in the picture shared applause with the cape suits. Their message is buttons. Rows and rows of ’em! Bright metal ones a la militaire are favorites. ■Iti •■trull • ••II -i : 3 . >, >1.1 v Children adore buttons, and three rows of them as used on the new aqua Shetland w6ol coat pictured to the right is enough to triple any lit tle girl’s joy. The pretty eyelet em broidered collar tftelps make this coat an important spring fashion, for white collared coats are featured for both adults and little folks. The nautical influence cah be seen in the coat pictured in the inset. Navy Shetland with a red and white trimmed sailor collar and two rows of glittering silver buttons is the formula adopted by the designer of this smart and attractive model. The pendulum has swung back to sailor dresses. Both children and grown-ups will wear huge white lin gerie sailor collars with their new spring frocks. The top color for spring is navy in coats, dresses and capes. / 1 Amusing it is to see the way chil dren’s fashions this year copy those of their eiders. An adult fashion that repeats in miniature for little daughters of the household is the print-with-plain costume. Cunning versions for tots are pleated-skirt print dresses tipped with capes (na vy or pastel wodls) lined throughout with the print of the dress. Influences other than the navy or the army that make for versatility in styling are South American trends that bring vivid color into play. Dude ranch fashions also delight tots. There are lariat ties, cowboy fringe trims and studded leather belts. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Smart Hats \HivJ &d UlW If you are fashion-alert and have a yen for exploring "U>e latest,” you will choose to wear with your spring suit or ensemble a coolie hat as pic tured above, for Chinese influence is noted throughout qostume design this season. This baku coolie is in bachelor blue, a color slated for spring success. In this Instance there Is a side cluster of tiny gros graln bows and an under-chin loop. Colors as varied as a kaleidoscope give to the other hat a definite this season aspect, for current fashion fairly shouts color, color, color! This dashing beret is made of black, pale and (Jeep rose, purple, green and yellow grosgrain ribbon stitched to gether In a pinwheel treatment. I Footwear Features Colors, Low Heels Glamorized by style designers, low hfeeled shoes will lead (he fash ion.* parade this spring. Newest mod-, els have bpen given flippant touches to ip,alte them more attractive. The gfeat (ernphasis. oji, color is perhaps their most outstanding fea ture: the more coW the nierrier. Sandals br step-in Oxfords in a glow ing tan, pale blond ©r smart wine ired shade will enliven even the so berest black or navy bluet suit. Tan tqpes are slightly favored over other colors. *They range from the grayed1 twig tans, soft cbcoa knd tortoise, tb khaki. This Ifest color is especially smart in combination with black patent leather, with khaki gabardine used through the center of the shoe. Wedges are renamed “lifts” and are recommended for country and sports wbar. 1 Soft cocoa-colored suede is used for one of the dressier shoe styles known as a Capri sqndaL Something a little different is even done to the navy blue oxford. Here the navy influence is definitely mak ing itself felt. One oxford of navy blue calf and gabardine has three narrow folds of white calf across the toe. Similar bands of white cross the back of the heel. For the final touch, the shoelaces have flat leather ends with a small white star design in the center. Hand-Crocheted Hats Inexpensive to Make Sailors, turbans, brimmed hats all done in hand crochet—here s news that is news. Ask your milliner to show you some of the new crochets. If hats are not all-crochet, then the crochet idea is interpreted through trimming, such as crochet applique, yarn pompons, and huge twists of bright wool yarn. 'NEW IDEAS P\EAR MRS. SPEARS: I have made a pair of spool shelves like those you give directions for in your Sewing Book No. 3. They are painted watermelon pink to match the flowers in my bedroom curtains, and they are very pretty hung at each side of the windows. I would like to make some end tables of spools for the living room, but I can’t think of a way to FOR A TABLE 26" HIGH t " USE 3BOARDS WITH HOLES , BORED IN , THE .CORNERS usT^^ai SMALL SPOOLS AND I ONES--' JUSE 4 BRASS , CURTAIN RODS RUN THROUGH SPOOLS 'D BC E GLUE BETWEEN SPOOLS make them rigid. Have you any suggestions as to how this may be done? B. P.” Curtain rods are used through the spools to make the legs. Bet ter take along a srooI to try when you shop for the rods; and get the type that has one piece fitting inside the other. If the spools are a little loose on the rod, it won’t make any difference for they must be glued between each spool, and also between the spools and the table shelves. I have shown in the sketch everything else you need to know to make this table. Good luck to you! » * * NOTE: If you have an iron bed or a rocking chair you would like to modernize, be sure to send for my Book No. 3. It contains 32 fascinating ideas of things to make for your home. 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