The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, October 06, 1922, Page THREE, Image 3
helped out mother nature
Venetian Women Went to Some
Pains to Acquire Hair of Tir.t
Greatly Admired.
Some ungallant bookworm has du^r
up a scandal mat sappno was oaiu.
There are not wanting grounds for
the suspicion that Queen Elizabeth's
red wig concealed a nude scalp.
As for the thrice lovely Mary Queer,
of Scots, she actually wore a wig when
she went to have her head cut oil*,
and she left a suspiciously, large col
lection of wigs behind her.
The lovely and naughty Queen Mar
got, wife of Henry IV, kept a train
of pages with yellow hair for the re
plenishment of her wigs.
How much trouble the Venetian
women took to acquire the reddish
hirsute tint that is admired in the >
pictures of Titian may be judged from j
this account written by an Italian j
chronicler in J5S9:
"The houses of Venice are coir^on- |
ly crowned with little constructions \
in wood, resembling a turret without ;
a roof. At the base these lodges or
boxes are formed of masonry and cov
ered with a cement of sand and .lime''
to protect them from the rain. It is !
in these that the Venetian women may 1
be seen as often as, and indeed often- ;
er than, in their chambers; it is there i
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full ardor of the sun, during whole
days they strain every nerve to aug
ment their charms.
"Seated there, they keep on wetting
their hair with a sponge dipped in .
some elixir of youth. They wear on j
their heads a straw hat without a j
crown so that the hair, drawn through j
the opening, may be spread upon the
borders; this hat doing double duty as !
a drying line for the hair and a para?
sol to protect the head and face.'' > j
And consider the Roman .matrons j
who used to blondine their "crowning j
glory" with a mess of decomposed j
leeches.
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The Rural Appeal^
To be out of doors is the normal
condition of the natural man. At;
some period of our ancestral life, so .
dim in our thought but - so po- j
tential in our temper, disposition !
and physique, we have all lived, so to J
apeak, in the open air; and although;
city-born and city-bred we turn to the'
country with an instinctive feeliDg;
that we belong there. There are a |
few cockneys to whom the sound of j
.Bow Bells is sweeter than the note of j
lilt! DllifUil'U, tHC invuaui ^iuitvu .
chanticleer or the far-off bleating of
sheep; but to the immense majority i
of men these noises are like sounds
that were familiar in cjaildhood. I
have sometimes thought that the deep- j
est charm of the -country lies in the i
fact that it was the home and play-j
ground of the childhood of the race, i
and, however' long some of us have
been departed from it, it stirs within
us rare memories and associations j
which are imperishable. The" lowing j
of the cattle coming home at mght-!
fall: the bleating of sheen on the hill-!
side pastures; the crowing of the- cock.!
are older than any human speech
which ?now exists. They were ancient
sounds before our oldest histories were;
written. I know of nothing sweeter '
to the man who comes out of the heat i
and noise and dust of the city in mid-;
'summer.?H. W. Mabie.
C red u I och em ist ry.
Of all the "scientific" titbits dished :
up by our newspaper chefs, none en-:
joys more perennial popularity than j
the discovery of the "lost art" of hard- j
ening copper. Ohly fately our fore- j
most journals were devoting columns j
to the World war veteran who, finding :
in an asbcan some leaves of an old en-;
cyclopedia dealing with an ancient
metallurgist anji his success in hard
ening copper, fell to experimenting on
bis own account, with the result that I
his process was bought by Judge Gary j
for $1,000,000 in cash plus 2 cents per j
pound royalty. A modest and retiring j
denial subsequently appeared. For j
such newspaper crookery Chemical and,
Metallurgical Engineering suggests tne j
apt name of credulochemistry, while!
the Engineering and Mining Journal I
intimates that the press might vary its;
menu by creating unbreakable glass;
for" milk bottles and petrified ood for;
construction purposes. Certainly these i
would prove no less digestible than!
copper?even hardened copper.?Scieu-.
tific American.
Had Gocd Reason for Smile.
John E. Milligan, chief clerk of the;
PUOIIC Ulimits cuiiiJLui^aivn, Ui tcz.ru i
into his office Monday in high spirits. <
A broad smile adorned his face and
he. went about his work with the alac-;
rity of a man who has just inherited a
fortune.
His fellow-workers began to confer,
with one another as to the prob- >
able cause of the chief clerk "s ju-:
bilation. j
* 1*11 bet he just got a ton of coal,"
suggested one young statistician.
"Maybe he struck a gold mine out
in his Maryland farm," another said,
r.nter in the dav the truth leaked
out. Milligan had become the papa
of an eight-pound baby s?oy.?Wash
ington Star.
Lifeboats on Rails.
Lifeboats arranged oil deck on rails,
so that they can be run to that part of
the ship from which launching is pos
sible, are features of the new steam
ship Meekleuburg, claimed to be t.he
last word in safety ships, which
just made iier initial trip Between
Folkestone end Flushing.
In many cases of disaster at s^a it
has been found impossible to hunch
all of the boats on :: ship because of
the list. By this new device this dif
gcult? is said tft be oiercome, .
BOYS DON'T WANT THRILLERS
Tales of Wild Adventure Seemingly
Only Interest the Midfle-Aged
Man of Tcday.
No longer do the tale^ of "Little
Sure Snot," "Deadwocd Dick" and
other old-time terrors of the prairies
interest the youth of the rising genera
tion, observes the New York World.
This has been demonstrated since the
collection of Beadle's dime novels was
placed in the public library. It had
lippn fhnt thorp would bp fl
rush of young people to see the old .
tbrillers, and at ieast one society that
takes upon i^clf the care and supervi- I
sion of public morals was moved to 1
rise in protest against debauching the j
mind of youth. However. In the month j
in which these hooks have been on I
show, less than 10 per cent of the vis- j
itors has been under the age of six- j
teen.
Attendants keep a tally, and during
the time the Beadle books have been 1
displayed there have been 1.427 per
sons in to see them. While the tally as :
to ages is not kept, it is rlu> consensus
of attendants that hartlly more than
100 have- beon minors. Tn the next
room, however, where the baseball
collection has been displayed, more
than half the visitors are childrei^ >
During July there were 9.043 who vis- :
ited the display.
The Beadie collection has been at-1
tractive chiefly to the middle aged, j
Men of dignified- bearing, often in i
pairs, have gone the rounds of the |
showcases, chuckling over the titles.
"It's .like renewing youth," is a fre-!
qnent comment. . ;
PERSECUTION OF NO AVAIL!
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Oldtimer Tells of Efforts to Extermi
nate Sparrows. Which Were
Worse Than Useless.
Watching an. elderly man scattering
cracked corn to City Hall park spar
rows the other day stirred a reminis- j
cent vein in one of the bench occu
pants.
"They treat sparrows differently
than they did twenty-five years aero.''
he said; "(juess tney.aiscoverea imy ,
couldn't get rid of them and decide d
to make them comfortable.
"A quarter of a century ago many
communities made determined effort
to kill off sparrows. State and county
authorities offered bounties of one
cent a head for the birds. Boys made
considerable pocket money shooting
the creatures and in places men made
a business of trapping them. They'd
spread great nets over the roofs of
barns and then rout the birds from
their roosts.
"But it was no use. Organized war
fare on the birds made inroads only
In the county treasuries and the
bounty was declared off. Now they *
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change."?New York Sun.
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Buttermilk "Spree" Is New.
The buttermilk spree Is a late spoift. i
There ar? several places downtown.
where a person can drink buttermilk;
to repletion upon payment of a nickel,;
a perfectly safe venture for the ven-j
dor so far as the writer is concerned,1
by the way. This has been the im-:
pulse for a daring wager during the;
last few weeks.
Two neighbor ladies recently en-1
gaged !n a sewing match, each con-;
cocting a shirt for her husband, the i
last to fnish her task to buy the but-,
termilk for both. J
Truly these be degenerate days, j
when resectable matroils can dissi-j
pate like that, unnoticed and unre-^
proved. But, of course, the innocent;
husbands have to suffer the real pen-;'
alty. They have to wear the shirts.?'
Portland Oregon!an.
Land Reclaimed From Lake.
Montenegro will gain a navigable}
outlet to the sea and nearly 30,<Xfc;
acres of rich new land, by negotiations j
pending between Jugo-Slavia and Al
bania, which have as their objective;
the lowering to sea level of the ancient j
lake of Scutari.
The project involves a cost of;
$2,000,000 and will lower the level of J
Scutari lafce Dy eignt xeei mrougn ine:
deepening of the River Bojana, from
Scutari to the Adriatic.
The draining of the lake shores will
increase Montenegro's territory 29.G5C:
acres of rich land. This addition will
make Montenegro self-supporting for
the first time in its history.
Dates From Fifteenth Century.
Interesting discoveries have been
made at "Ye Olde Griffin" hotel, Am-j
ersham, England, a coaching house uat-j
ing bnc-k to the Fifteenth century. Tiiej
digging out of a leaking water pipe j
has brought to light a perfect example,
of an early Georgian fireplace. It has!
wide seats on either side and an im-j
mense hearthstone in the center, with.
an old-fashioned spit above it. On the!
hearth were some old coins, one with'
the date 16S7. High up in the chim-j
ney is a recess which tradition says,
was used as a hiding place during th f
political persecutions ol iwo nuuurt.'i;
years ago?Montreal Family Herald.
Harsh Criticism.
An unusually caustic critic was be
ing shown through one of the Paris
art salons by an enthusiastic friend.
They stopped before some of the most
modern of modern art.
It was the handiwork of a woman,
and might have been a lifelike portrait,
of anything from a sandstorm to a
steam roller.
4'S? ? must be wedded to her art,'1,
the ( iilmsiast declared, enraptured.
"Yes, and every picture she has
painted is sufficient reason for a dl
arprce," was the reply. ,
KNOW LITTLE ABOUT AMERICA
Traveler Tells of Odd Beliefs That
Are Prevalent Among Even Well
Educated Europeans.
Austin Stack, minister of home af
fairs In the former cabinet of Eamonn
de Valera. rolls of some of the euriona
impressions regarding life in the
United States still prevailing among
Europeans. "Among other curious
beliefs is that every one who lives in
America, particularly in the Western
states, must he a cowboy. I find that
many people habitually refer to resi- j
dents of the Far West as 'cowboys' in j
a figurative sense, and I suppose that j
accounts for part of the notions that j
are circulated."
Mr. Stack recounted a story told to j
him by a friend from Butte, Mont.,
who was entertaining a visitor from
Europe. The visitor expected to see
the streets of Butte built and peopled
along the lines shown in the erstwhile
popular western movie, and his l?st
noticed that he seemed to be con
stantly on the lookout for some one
or something.
"Finally," Mr. Stack said, "the vis
itor turned to his host and asked:
But where are all the cowboys?'
"'Oh, they are never seen*in the
daytime,' the other replied. 'They
are very shy. TWey only come out at
nights, like the fairies."'
And tha vicjfr.r hollered It. Mr.
Stack claims.
WHY PEOPLE ''BREAK DOWN".
Burden as a General Thing Was Not
TSo Heavy, but the Load Was
Put on Wrong Place.
People are breaking down in health
all the time. And as the business man.
the housewife and the student fall by
the roadside the public dolefflllv ex
claims: 'The load was too hedvy!"
As a matter of fact people break
down, not because the load they are
carrying is too great, for in nine cases
out of ten they could carry more than
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don't know how to get the load on.
Dr. Joel E. Goldthwait writes in the
Designer. They put the pack on in
the wrong place and then the human
machine is used in such a way that
a great deal of their energy is re
quired to overcome what would
mechanically be called friction.
When the nation's young men and
women have been taught to use their
bodies correctly and are standing up
straight many of the p" eins facing
the country today will have been
solved. There will be fewer instances
of break-down in the mill and the
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rl-eir loads easily. The development
their bodies will make It possible
for them to know the fullest joy that
life can give.
The Hated Profiteer.
"Everybody tintes a profiteer," said
Secretary Hoover at a Washington
banquet, "and everybody knows where
the profiteer will go to when he dies.
"A millionaire profiteer was carried
off by indigestion, and his employees
attended the funeral in a body. By
the terms of the will the profiteer was
buried in a strange manner. I-Ie wore
his newest frock cop1-, liis largest dia
mond ring and his ccstliest platinum
watch. Furthermore his best cane
was buried with him, and in his mouth
was liis newest set of teeth, the set
with the gold, plates.
? 44 41 understand all this business,'
said one of the dead profiteers em
ployees. 'It's for show. But I cgn't
understand about the false teeth.
What's the sense of it?'
44 'The sense of it,' said another em
ployee, 'is easy to see. How would the
boss feel when he got to the weepin'
and wailin7 and gnasnnr snop 11 ne
hadn't a fine set of teeth?'"
Haughty Stare Cowed Leopard.
A planter in Tanganyika Territory,
South Africa, walking along ax foot
path, fell into a big game pit in which
a leopard had been trapped. Neither
the beast nor. the man could get out
again, so the planter was "up against
it," but remembering what he had
heard of the power of the human eye,
he fixed the leopard with a haughty
stare.
' "By this means and by making
strange noises, I kept the animal at I
bay until a friend appeared and shot
it," he said.
Others who heard of the affair, and
who know the planter very well, point
out that he is a lean and slender man.
not likely ro attract a leopard unless
the latter was indeed hungry to a
desperate point.
Economy.
Longlocks had just received a check
for S10 for one of his poems.
"Now, dearie," said his wife, ''let's
deposit that check in the savings ac
count and imagine we haven't got it."
"Where will I deposit this bill for
the new hat you got last week and
imagine I haven't got it?"?From
JudLre.
Loud-Speaking Reproducer.
A new dictaphone reproducer has
been invented which is claimed to
be far superior to present instruments
of its class. The volume of sound can
be altered by shifting a small lever,
and increased to such a degree, it is
claimed, that head receivers are not
necessary.?Popular Mechanics Maga-i.
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Great Stuffy "V 1
"Gonna" put Hamlet ia*the films?";!
?'Can get soma grga.t effects .with!:
the ghost." ... ,.. !
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$1.50 Bed Sheets
Chapman X Bed Sheets,-72x90 of extra quality, a
limited number, only 93c
on _ IV11
CI.?
ozrc rmow oups
Good quality 42x3G Chapman X, a wonderful value
matches sheets 25c
New Shipment Coats Thread
Coats' Thread, all sizes, 50 yard spool 4c
New Shipment Ladies And Misses
Kimonas
Beautiful Japanese, flowered crepe and flannelette
Kimonas designed with most artistic taste 98c, $1.49
and : $1.95
Misses Coats
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50 odd and end Misses' and.Children's Coats thrown
in on our -special close-out sale. Values up to $7.50,
others up to $6.95 98c
Come In And Look At These
$25.00 Dresses
In Poiret Twill .and Tricotine, beautifully designed
by the market's most artistic makers. Just 50 in this
lot and they will go quickly at ! $12,85
Shirts !
Newest patterns, excellent qualities, cheapest pric
es. The whole story told in few words. Come in, fel
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lows and look at the new patterns'just arrived ....95c,
$1.25 and $1.45
Men's Hats
1,000 Men's Felt. Hats have been marked and re
duced to unbelievable proportions. We are over
stocked and they must go. Another 50 per cent reduc
tion on top of our last cut. See them at 69c, 95c, $1.45
and $1.95
A Mere Few Drops In An Ocear
Purchasers Of Cope]
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Men's Underwear
75c to $2.00 fine ribbed or fleece two-piece gar
ments including- Chalmers, Mayo, Hanes and others
at 49c, 75c, and 95c
$1.50 Sweaters
Good cotton Sweaters with two pockets, others up
to $4.95 98c
New Shipment Men's Fine Dress
Pants
At very low prices. Serges, Worsteds and fine
Cr,3hm:re in young Men's and conservative Pants
at $2.95 to $5.95
Boy's Suits
Never before has any one in Newberry been able to
exhibit such a vast variety of high class Boys' Suits and
best of all at such prices. Suits for the little tot as well
as sizes up to 20 for the big boy $1.95 to $7.95
Children's Shoes
Just arrived over 1.000 pairs of Babies', Children's
and Misses7 Shoes to fill in our already immense stock
of little folks' Footwear in newest styles.' The most
complete Children's Shoe department in the state. Mr.
Bobbins, one of the Youth's best shoe men, who is in
charge will insure a perfect lit (a most important item)
and best of service, and at a saving of 25 to 50 per
cent on every pair ' 95c and up
i A New Supply of %
Men's And Boy's Tennis Shoes
The extra heavy ones with reenforced rubber tops.
The regulation basketball Shoe.
Shoe Polish
All 15(? Polish 10c
Walk-Over Shoes
For Men and Women at a saving of 35 to 45 per
cent. .$7.00 to $11.00 Shoes $3.95 to $6.95
i Of Bargains At This Big Store.
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land Brothers Stock
argain Distributors.