Summer Vacations—DM2 Si\le
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tinns, vacation
mintlerl America
this year is fashion
ing a new vacation
pattern. Caieties
popular at the turn
of the century uill
he the onler of the
tiny for millions of
Americans. Here are
some of the notion's
1<H2 vacation styles.
Left: Ctrlb'ge girls
become haymakers.
Shotcn above is off happy solution to easoline rations—sipht
mnt in the Tradition of the Mauve decade. Yes, the horse and
mggy days are fast around the corner.
Meanwhile, as good Americans, many summer vacationists may
have to say. “After you. soldier,'' while Uncle Sam's armed forces
go Pullman. For example, in the period from December 7, 1941,
through April, 1942, nearly 2,000,000 fighting men were trans
portin Pullman cars to all sections of the country.
Happily for all concerned,
there are no Axis submarines in
these blue waters. So, with old
time abandon we take to sailing.
“Ham and’ cooki'd in this fash
ion, will make up many a vacation
menu this year. Doesn't it remind
you of the "good old days"?
| If you ixint go cruis
I ing on a luxury liner, the
“ river steamboats trill do.
And if you haven t had a tnp on a river st(‘amboat you ve
missed something!
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DOWN at the Alton Club the
other day we were talking
about pacts. The conversa
tion and opinions were be
coming rather tiresome when Emer
son Libby interrupted Rus Flint as
Rus paused for breath.
“That reminds me,” Emerson
said, “of a pact I entered into with
two others, once when I was young.
This pact was a strange sort of
thing It was a pact against women.
Emerson chuckled at the memory
and settled more comfortably in his
chair.
This pact (Emerson W’ent on) was
drawn up in a barn on my father's
farm. I was sixteen then. Ray
Sawyer was a year older and Dun
can Talbot somewhere in between.
Ray had had on affair of the heart
one of those childish, puppy-love
things—and his failure to win the
girl had an ill effect. He took de
feat hard, as a youth of 17 is apt to
do, and Duncan and I worried a good
deal about what might happen to
him.
However, six months later the girl
—Christine Benson her name was—
moved away with her folks and Ray
began returning to normal. Com
plete recovery came rapidly and
with it came a determination on
Ray’s part to protect himself against
the possibility of a similar experi
“But tell us," said one of the men.
“Who finally married Eileen Hus
ton?"
ence in the future, and to protect
his closest friends, too.
It was Ray who called the meeting
in the barn. There were three of us
present: Ray. Duncan and I. And
because Ray was the oldest and had
suffered by experience, he did the
talking. And because Duncan and I
possessed the gullibility of youth
and a fondness for Ray. we listened
open-mouthed and believing, while
he expounded for a half hour on
the pitfalls and dangers of women.
By the time he had finished we
were convinced that no worse fate
could befall us than to be ensnared
by some gorgeous vampire.
Ray proposed an agreement,
or pact, to be drawn up and
signed by the three of ns, de
nouncing all unmarried females
and promising never to let one
of them share the feeling of
comradeship which we agreed
should be kept for each other.
The remaining terms of the
agreement were pretty harsh.
We were never to marry. No
woman was to be trusted. Our
association with them was to be
platonic, aloof, contemptuous.
Duncan and I were only too will
ing to sign. We had witnessed the
grave effects of Ray's affair with
Christine Benson, and this looked
like a good opportunity to safeguard
our futures.
Hence we signed, and felt pretty
important about it, too. because Ray
wrote out an impressive-sounding
document and struck a lawyer seal
on the bottom near our signatures.
He also recited a sort of oath which
we all repeated together and then
shook hands, making the pact bind
ing.
Thereafter me three of us felt
comparatively safe. We met, of
course, and associated with the girls
with whom we were already ac
quainted, but our attitude toward
them was different We made no ef
fort whatever to attract their atten
tion or win their admiration. W’e
remained aloof and haughty. And
because our pact was secret, we ex
perienced a certain satisfaction and
importance through its existence,
often meeting in the old bam and
congratulating each other on our
success.
Things went on like this for a
year or two, all three of us adher
ing to the terms of the pact, chiefly
because there weren’t any girls in
the town in whom we would have
been interested anyhow.
Then one day the Hustons
moved to town. The Hustons had
a daughter, Eileen. Eileen was
17 years old at the time. She
had ash blonde hair and blue
eyes. Her features were per
fectly molded and her skin the
most delicate texture imagina
ble. She was wholly unassum
ing, lovable in every respect.
Folks liked Eileen Huston for no
better reason than because she
was Eileen Hnston.
*
t tell you It was hard. During
the neat two years Ray amt Dunran
and t held meetings in the old ham
about every oilier day. Their pur
pose was to read carefully the terms
of our pact and to bolster up esrh
other's courage and to pass Judg
ment.
It was necessary to pas* Judgment
quite frequently, for one or another
of us would occasionally be seen
walking home with Eileen Huston, or
sitting in the hammock on her
porch, or meeting her at the post
office During these judgment-pass
ing interludes ft was sometimes dif
ficult for the guilty party to con
vince the other two pact members
that his interests-were nothing more
than platonic.
Duncan Talbot and I, secretly
(this was revealed later) didn't
blame Ray when he announced one
day, while under an emotional
strain, that he didn't care two hoots
about anything—he was going to take
Eileen Huston to a dance.
Duncan and I shook our heads
sadly, but waited until after the
dance to pass judgment.
The meeting was held the morn
ing following the dance. Duncan
read the pact aloud, and his voice
sounded very impressive in the si
lence of the barn's carriage room.
After he finished and had restored
the document to its secret hiding
place, we turned toward Ray with
condemnation and accusation in our
faces.
We reminded him that it was ne
who had suggested the pact. We
warned him against what might hap
pen if he allowed his association
with Eileen to become anything
more than platonic. He had been
blinded by a pretty face once be
fore, we told him; and if he suc
cumbed he could expect no pity from
us.
Ray listened with bowed head.
And when we had finished he looked
at us and we knew he could see the
light. He stood up and shook our
hands and thanked us for warning
him In time. He would, he prom
ised, adhere strictly to the terms of
our agreement It was the best
way. The only way. Thank heaven
we had all had the foresight to
draw up such a pact It was at such
times as these that it served a use
ful purpose. We had saved him
from a cruel fate. He was grateful.
From this time forth he would re
gard Eileen Huston as he regarded
all other unmarried females.
Emerson paused, chuckling to
himself over the memory. •’That”
he said, “was a pact that was a
pact.”
"It served its purpose then?”
someone asked. “It proved a suc
cessful venture?”
"That depends,” said Emerson,
“on how you look at it”
“I suppose," said the ques
tioner. "it does. But tell us,
who finally married Eileen Hus
ton? It doesn’t seem likely that
a girl as beautiful and good as
she would continue long unmar
ried."
Emerson shifted in his seat “As a
matter of fact," he said, “she didn’t
The next week Duncan Talbot pro
posed to her.” He grinned boyishly,
"but she married me. Ray was
best man at our wedding and Dun
can head usher."
Noted Artists ‘Pull’
Many ‘Boners’ in Art
Errors or rather "boners” have
occasionally crept into the works
of the most famous designers
and engravers throughout history.
Whether it is due to ignorance or
careless impatience, it is true that
many of the greatest writers and
painters of history have been guilty
of the most surprising mistakes.
Thus. Shakespeare introduces can
non into his play “Hamlet,” and in
"Julius Caesar,” he refers to the
striking of the clock, though such
timepieces were not invented until
1,400 years after Caesar's death.
Schiller, in his "Picollomini” refers
to lightning conductors—at least
150 years before they were invented.
Instances of these boners might be
added almost indefinitely.
A famous painting shows Nero
fiddling while Rome burned, hun
dreds of years before the violin was
invented. Another well-known can
vas portrays George Washington
crossing the ice-jammed Delaware
on Christmas to attack the British
with Old Glory fluttering from the
bow of the boat. But this was six
months before the Stars and Stripes
were adopted.
Tintoreto, the Italian artist, in a
picture of the Children of Israel
gathering manna, has taken the pre
caution to arm them with the mod
ern invention of guns.
In a picture by Verrio of Christ
healing the sick, the onlookers are
represented with periwigs on their
heads. To match, or rather to ex
ceed this ludicrous representation,
Durer has painted the expulsion of
Adam and Eve from the Garden of
Eden by an angel in a dress fash
ionably trimmed with flounces
Another artist, a Flemish picture
of Abraham offering up his son in
sacrifice, instead of the patriarch’s
“stretching forth his hand and tak
ing the knife,” as the Scriptures in
form us. he is represented as using
a more effective and modem in
strument. He is pointing a blunder
buss at Isaac’s head. The painter
Berlin depicts in a mural the Virgin
and Child listening to a very mod
ern-looking violin and in another
work he has drawn King David
playing the harp at the spiritual
marriage of Christ and St Cather
ine. King David lived 1,000 years
before Christ
Sick Soils Have
Effect on Animals
Earth Should Be
‘Factorie*,’ Not Mines
By l>R. WILLIAM A. ALBRECHT
fDepartment ol Seila. College ot Agricul
ture. ttnieerarre of Missouri )
That sick soils will not build
healthy animals any more than they
will produce sturdy field crops is
significant in view of our national
tendency to combat soil erosion by
allowing much of the fertility-de
pleted soil to go back to grass.
In place of giving attention to sod
fertility measures that feed growihg
plants, we have too often adopted
the practice of “crop hunting" in the
mistaken belief that when'one crop j
starves another can be found that
will thrive on the same depleted
land. But we can't breed crops
against starvation any more than a
sterile parent can transmit the char
acter of sterility.
Evidences of declining soil fertili
ty are seen in the greater number
of deficiency diseases among our
farm animals. Veterinarians are
constanUy faced with increasing
cases of strange animal ailments for
which no specific body weakness
or visible physiological canse can
be fonnd. Eye ailments, a tendency
to blindness, bad gaits, rounded
back lines, inferior condition, poor
feeding progress, and even debility
and death can be traced to deficien
cies in animals' nutrition.
If newer legumes or non-legumes
grow more successfully on less fer
tile land, then such crops must be
taking less nutrient from the soil. ;
Thus these crops can offer the ani
mals that feed on them less of pro
tein and of ash which, for animals ;
the same as for plants, are the items
drawn from the soil
Animals Limited in Feeding.
Confined as they are, animals are ■
limited in their feeding by the soil j
fertility of the farm. Supplements
such as proteins contain too little of
the minerals needed. And when ani- ;
mals protest by rooting up the very j
earth or climbing the fence in search
of better forage, such actions are i
met by rings in the nose or cumber- i
some yokes about the neck. Human 1
serfs have been prohibited in this !
country for about 75 years, but ani- j
mal slaves can be seen on any trip j
i through the country. Too often they j
are almost in a state of starvation j
because their master, the farm own- j
er, neglects his soil fertility.
Our soils must become factories
| instead of continuing as mines from
| which the fertility is unendingly
drawn. Raw materials such as lime
stone, phosphorus, potash, and other
! fertilizing elements, organic matter
and other plant nutrients must go
j back into the soiL In our “soil
j factories" we must produce more
usable nutrients for plant service.
Such nutrients must not be hauled
off unless equal amounts are re
stored.
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Consumption of Fats, Oils
Recently the United States used ap
I proximately 6*^ billion pounds of fats
and oils in edible products: two bil- j
1 lion in soaps, one billion in paints.'
varnishes, printing inks and lino
leum products, and 0.5 billion was j
used for a variety of industrial pur
poses.
Cutting Costs
The department of agriculture
is strongly urging partnership in
use and purchase of equipment.
Two Floyd county. Texas, farm
ers have been showing their I
neighbors the
value of this
kind of joint
action. These
I Farm Securi
ty administra
tion borrowers
s first bought a
tractor outfit
together in 1940 Sharing the
$1,030 outlay and the operating
expenses proved to them the ad
vantages of partnership.
Their second enterprise was
buying a pure-bred Jersey bull,
which cost $150. Then they bought
a seven-foot power-take-off mow
er, a feed mill mounted for trans
port. and a ground-driven row
binder.
The two farmers say that the
machinery they joined in buying
saved their crops last fall. They
figure that what they did as a
common sense plan will have to
be done by others from sheer
necessity.
Urea for Growing Lambs
Farmers were told of tests in the
laboratories of a university's divi
sion of animal nutrition in which
the performance of growing lambs
fed urea was compared with that
of lambs fed diets containing such
protein sources as soybean oil meal,
casein, skim milk and corn gluten
feed. With rations of a 12 per cent
protein level, 50 per cent of the
nitrogen as urea is as satisfactory a
source of nitrogen as commonly
used protein concentrates.
SEWING CIRCLE
A FLOUNCING skirt, fitted “long
** torso” top and kimono sleeves
are the leading features of the
pretty pinafore frock for girls of
fered in Pattern No. 1602-B. It
buttons down the back—and at the
shoulders and is as cool and com
fortable to wear on a hot day as
a romper suit would be.
Run ric-rac edging around the
edges of the kimono sleeves, the
neckline and shoulders—and use
ric-rac in rows around the full,
flaring skirt—the result will be a
decorative frock which will call
forth ohs and ahs from all who
see it. There are panties to match,
too—which may also be edged with
ric-rac braid.
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l A General Quiz
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The Questions
1. In British slang, what is
meant by a limey?
2. The American bird, the chick
adee, is also called what?
3. The island of New Guinea is
sometimes called what?
4. How many lines has a poem
called a triolet?
5. Which is the Panhandle state?
6. What country leads the world
in amount of irrigated land?
The Answers
1. A sailor or soldier.
2. Titmouse.
3. Papua.
4. Eight.
5. West Virginia.
6. India.
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dress and pan ties require S’* yards 35
tnch material B yards ric-rac.
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Easy-to-po«l orongas
parfart as 'dassart'
Box lunches are tastier and
more healthful when yon
include oranges.
They’re delicious snJ the
best way to be sure of your
vitamin C! Few foods have
much. It's easily lost in
cooking. Yet needed dsiif,
since you do not ftam it.
Oranges also have vita
mins A. Bi and G; calcium,
and other minerals.
Those stamped “Sunkist"
are the finest from 14,500
growers. Ideal for juice and
recipes. Tbty kttf'
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/^Here’s a Gentler Way^
to Treat Constipation!
Do you think you have to take
harsh cathartics or purges every
time constipation makes you
miserable? You don't — If you
are one of those people with
normal Intestines who suffer
from constipation due to lack
of "bulk" in the diet. There is a
pleasanter and gentler way.
All you do is eat KELLOGG'S
ALL-BRAN regularly and drink
plenty of water. ALL-BRAN Is a
crisp, delicious cereal. It works
quite differently from many
medicinrl laxrlives. They work
by prodi irtg the intestines Into
action or by ('rawing moisture
into them from other pnrts of
the body. But ALL-BRAN acts
principally on the contents of
the colon, helping you to have
easy and normal elimination.
ALL-BRAN is made by Kellogg's
In Battle Creek. If your condi
tion is not helped by this simple
^treatment, see a doctor. j
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