The Wateree messenger. (Camden, S.C.) 1884-1942, July 26, 1933, Image 6
SUCH IS LIFE? The Hero!
Photography Is Hobby
of Monarch of Siam
? ? _ _? a. _______
Operates a Movie Camera
With Skill of Expert.
Washington. ? Exotic, remote Bang
kok, capital of Slam, where, for the
second time In a year, a military coup
without casualties has given the king
an entirely new governmental person -
nel, continues Its march toward west
ernization. One of the latest Innova
Hons Is a palatial cinema hall which
incorporates all the details of an up
to-date American motion-picture thea- I
ter, says a bulletin from the National
Geographic society.
King Prajadhlpok Is responsible for
this new $75,000 building In the capi
tal city, having secured pnrt of the In
spiration for Its construction during
his visit to motion-picture companies
when he was In the United States two
years ago.
"This theater, one of the most mod
ern In the Far East," continues the
bulletin, "Is a welcome improvement to
Bangkok residents who are Interested
In celluloid drama. All of the older
cinema houses have been hopelessly
Inadequate since the advent of sound
pictures, because most of them are
barn-like structures, built largely of
corrugated Irpn and possessing exceed
ingly poor acoustics.
"Besides directing the affairs of
state in the country of nearly 12,000. ?
000 people, the king finds time to oper
ute several American-made amateur
motion-picture cameras with almost
professional skill. Even the queen,
Bambalburnl, as well as many other
members of the royal family and per- |
What Milady, Is Wearing
Jewelry which repeats the colors of
the costume ts smartly exemplified In
the simulated ruby and rhlnestone en
aemhle worn with a white and red
crepe evening dress.
8oijs In oftlclal circles, are enthusiastic
pl#r?t?grapher8 In both still and motion
pictures.
Filmed by Royalty.
"Every year at Its exhibition of
t paintings and photographs, the Slatn
Art club, which' enjoys the patronage
of the klny, usually has a number of
entries In superb monochrome ami col
or work produced by one of the king's
half-brothers. An amateur motion
| picture club, of which the king Is a
member, was organized about four
years ago. And on several occasions
the club members have been Invited
to the royal palace to witness the
showing of 'movies' made by their
majesties.
"Slam is one of the best tields In
the world for persons with the bobby
of making pictured. The architectural
features and the wealth of color In
Bangkok's several hundred temples
present Inexhaustible opportunities for
the artist, whatever his medium of ex
pression may be. Here, certainly, the
word 'unique' has significance, for no
where else In the world does one find
such a variety of mosaics in pearl,
tile, ana bits of glass; multiple roofs
with dragon heads terminating their
corners ; or such llower-bedecked pra
chedis (or votive spires) as In Slam.
Fascinating Subjects.
"The many canals teeming with boat
trafllc, the fields where the country
grows rice that places her third among
rice-ex porting nations, and the north
ern hills In which the valuable teak
trees are cut and then hauled by ele
phants to streams to be floated to
Bangkok, are fascinating subjects for
a camera lens.
"Slam's religious ceremonies and
state processions are many and varied,
possessing the chromatic splendor of
rich oriental costumes. Recently one
of the princes' gave a striking private
showing of thousands of feet of amateur
natural color film that he had made of
the royal barge procession of the hun
dreds of fantastic boats used In bear
ing the king and his followers on a
I visit to present gifts to the Buddhist
temples ; the state processions by pa
lanquin ; and the annual round of an
cient ceremonies. Not oply had the
pictures been taken by the prince, but
the films wp-<- processed in his own
laboratory "
Owner Defleas Dogs
With Vacuum Cleaner
Monroe, La. ? B. I). Swayze, city
commissioner, was troubled half to
death with lleas ? on bis dog, Peggy,
and her pups.
Various remedies for extermina
tion were tried, with negative re
sults. Then the commissioner got
a brilliant Idea. lie g r'm out the
family vacuum cleaner, gnve the
dogs the once over, and In five min
utes every flea had been c^vn'led
for extermination.
Swayze wants jjJ1 dog owners to
know of inVmeFfiod.
ODD THINGS AND NEW? By Lame Bode
Boped By WORK"
Boredom is
SHOWN BY RESEARCH
TO CAUSE MORE J.OS3
OF TIME FROM WORK
THAN ALL THE INDUS*
TRIAL DISEASES
TOGETHER. DUE TO
M0D6RN MECHANIZATION.
Oil by air
Australia, now without
OIL, IS TO BE RROSPECT6D POR OIL
? BY AIRPLANE.
Watermelons lose weight- '
Wat gRME LOWS SHRINK in transit
ii *!liJpOUL8^ IN ??Vt*Al DAYS'
WNt) |tnrl?t
New Track Star
Here's Jesse Owens of Cleveland,
Ohio, Kust Technical high school track
star, finishing a spin in much the
same manner as he finished the 12H0
yards In the record time of 20.7 at the
recent twentieth annual University of
Chicago interscholastie track and field
championship meet at Soldier field,
Chicago. Owens also set a new rec
ord of 24 feet 0% Inches for the broad
Jump, and equaled the world record of
9.4 seconds In the 100-yard dash.
A Mountain Top
Grave
By
LEONARD A. BARRETT
Mount Mitchell In North Carolina Is
the highest point east of the Itocky
mountains. At the
^?ery top of this
mountain la a grave
enclosed In an Iron
railing. Upon the
grave Is a brass
plate which bears
the following In
scription : "H ere
lies, In the hope of
the Messed Resur
rection, the body
of Ileverend K.
Mitchell, D. D.,
who, nfter being
for 30 years n Pro
fessor In the Unl
versity of North Carolina, lost his life
In the scientific exploration of this
mountain In the (VJth year of his age,
June 27th. 1857."
The consecration to service whether
as minister, professor or explorer, evi
dently made a profound Impression
upon the people of his day. Dedica
tion of self to service in a chosen field
has won .recognition expressed In va
rious forms. Many institutions hear
the name of I'usteur, whose cure for
hydrophobia brought f ;,*reat blessing
to humanity. The nati"' of Lister, an
English surgeon, has >een signally
honored for his discovery of antisep
tics in surgery. The world owes n
great debt of gratitude to Wilfred T.
(Jrenfell, the medlcnl missionary, for
his wonderful work in Labrador. The
self-sacrificing service of men and
women who gave their lives for a
great cause Is today memorialized by
chairs In universities and colleges all
over our land. To many others vari
ous types of memorials have been
erected.
A Journey to the top of Mount
Mitchell convinces one of the difficult
task t ho early explorers must have
bad before the trails were made which
now serve as a safe guide to the In
terested mountain climber. It Is a
long Journey to the top, about 18 miles
from the base. Ascent Is permitted
only up to the noon hour and descent
Is allowed after 2:30 p. in. The one
way road Is thus kept reasonably safe
for travel. From the top of the moun
tain one can view for miles the beau
tk!s of North Carolina. (The writer
had this privilege, wearing an over
coat, while elsewhere It was the hot
test days In June.)
It Is said that when natives could
no longer carry the body of Doctor
Mitchell by wagon up the steep moun
tain side, they transported the body
by hand to the last resting place at the
mountain summit:
"So when a good man dies, for years
beyond his ken,
The good he leaves behind him lies,
i Upon the paths of men."
?. DSt, W?*t?rn NnwwpiMw Union.
The Household
e
By LYDIA LE BARON WAI.KER
The hometnaker does not have to he
penurious to practice little economies
which meun pennies In the purse. She
merely extends her purchasing power
to other fields of necessity or pleasure.
To the competent housewife, the thrift
Iness which brings about this deslr
able state of afTairs is, in Itself, a sat
isfaction. One source of such saving
is .found In careful management of
household linens.
The milking of
six single sheets
from four large
ones meuns a de
eided Raving with
out undue work.
Buy the widest
sheets, and remem
ber that the 108
Inch length gives
best satisfaction,
as there Is allow
ance for tucking In
at the foot of the
bed. Divide the
width of each sheet
Into thirds. Tenr
ofT one-third of
each sheet. On
each sheet of two
thirds the original
size, finish the one
raw edge with a
fine rolled hem.
You will have four
of these excellent
narrow sheets.
There will re
main four parts of
sheets of one-third
the desired width.
Make a rolled hem on all raw edges.
When this Is done lay two strips right
side together with top hems and selv- j
edges together and even. Pin the
pieces together at selvedges. Baste
and overcast the two selvedges with
fin? close stitches. From the four
strips two sheets are thus made. If
the selvedges are sewed close to the
edge there will be a scarcely percepti
ble seam, and one which will lie flat.
To make sheets which wear In the
mlddl^, continue to be usable without
patchlns, tear them through the cen
ter and take enough out to eliminate
holes and places so tender that they
will give out shortly. Then Pjam
selvedges as described and make rolled
hems along raw edges. Or use the
smallest hemmer attachment on thp
sewing mnchlne and hem the raw
edges. With old sheets the hemmed
raw edges afe satisfactory, but with
new sheets the edges should have very
narrow rolled edges. These are scarce
ly distinguished from heavy selvedges
after laundering.
Cleaning of Glassware.
However commonplace tasks may be,
there are always certain ways of doing
them, which hinder or help. One of
these tasks Is washing glasses, espo
clally stemware. It can be chipped and
snapped so easily, yet with certain
precautions this ordinary and routine
bit of housework can be simplified.
It Is assumed that the homemaker,
however young, Is aware that hot wa
ter should never be poured onto cold
glassware, nor should It be plunged
Into hot water. The glass can be par
tially Immersed, If correctly done.
Tumblers, goblets, glass bowls, and
dishes should bo put Into the water
sides down, but not more than one
third or one-half covered. Kxpanslon
must be allowed for, and this Is the
way In which the heat Is most evenly
distributed, consequently the expnn
slon most evenly tnken cnre />f.
Stemware must be washed nnd dried
with the dishcloth or dish 'towel held
lightly. There Is nothing much easier
than to snap the stems when the glass
Is held firmly and the towel, also held
firmly. Is twisted around top or base.
Circular articles are washed and dried
with a circular motion. Therefore If
the article 1b held so firmly that there
Is no "give" or "play" to It when
rubbed circularly, It breaks, since it Is
Inflexible. , Many n goblet, sherbet cup,
and vase is broken not because of care
lessness but lack of knowledge of this
simple fact. There must be a certain
amount of friction to wash the glass
clean and wipe It dry, but this friction
has to be given correctly and deftly.
When a metal drainer Is used to
put the articles In after washing, there
Is danger of chipping the edges of
glass, and catching the thin circular
bases between the metal bars. If n
dishcloth Is laid In the drainer this
danger Is averted.
? 1931 Ball Syndicate. ? WNl) Service.
May Go to Congress
Mrs. liollvtir Ivdward Kuiup may
succeed her late husband as represent
ative from the Sixth Louisiana district
In the United States congress. She
is prominent In the social life of the
national capital and would be a wel
come addition to the evergrowing
bloc of "ladles of congress."
Up-to-Date Pied Piper
Tells of Menace of Rats
San Francisco. ? The greatest wild
animal menace to the human race
practically Is Ignored because humans
generally do not realize the smartness
and danger of rats.
Authority for this statement is Theo
dore Pannier, modern "IMed I'lper,"
who has devoted his life to exterminat
ing the rodents, not through the use of
a bngpTpe, but by means of poisons
developed in his laboratory.
Pannier has plenty of opportunity
to study rats, since San Francisco,
like nearly all seaport towns, has an
over abundance of them. He esti
mates there Is a rat for each resident
of the city.
"Rats are smart," he pointed out.
"It is our business to outsmart them.
If a rat has made his nest In the
moulding near the celling lie will not
touch poisoned food placed there. He
knows food Is kept on the table or
floor ? not on the wall or In Inacces
slble places."
Rode Rod? 1,000 Miles
Boston. ? Mr. and Mrs. Charles A.
Densmore and two small daughters,
the youngest only six months old. ar
rived at the home of relatives here
after riding more than 1,000 miles on j
freight cars and hitch-hiking the rest |
of the way from 101 I'aso, Texas.
Welsh People Give Princess a Cottage
Thl* !? the pretty thatched cottage preaented by the people of Wnlo*
to Princes* Elizabeth, daughter of the duke and ducheaa of York nrri ererted
at WIndftor, England. The little prlnceas la Rtandlng at the door pf hor minia
ture houae.
CHINA PAYS FOR
ERRORS OF PAST
Misery for Millions Price
of Deforestation.
? China affords the world's most de
pressing example of the price that a
nation must pay for deforestation.
Whole provinces In the North and
Northwest, where wide valleys once
yielded great agricultural wealth,
because they were well watered
from wooded hills, are now terrac J
and cultivated to the mountain tops,
but are drying up so rapidly that
migration Is the only practical relief
that can be offered to millions of
people. The denuded and dusty
province of Shensl, where much
American money lias been spent In
emergency relief, has had virtually
no rain for five years and has gone
into a state of chronic famine. Now
the Yangtse and Yellow rivers are
again in Hood, creating fresh mis
ery for other millions nearer the
coast, to remind the world of an
other aspect of the deforestation
evil.
The Yellow river's career of crime
is familiar to everyone. China's an
cient center of population was In
the upper Yellow river valley, and
it was there that the hills were first
stripped and left to erode until they
shed rainfall like tin roofs. Be
cause of this dikes have been essen
tial to the security of the north
China plain for many centuries.
twee>i the dikes silt from the defor
ested mountains of the Northwest
has raised the river bed until it la
in some places (X) feet above the
mean level of the adjacent country.
Tliis should make it easy to under
stand that a broken dike may mean
the conversion of several thousand
square miles of farmland Into an In
land sea. Such a break is now said
to be threatened at Kaifengfu, in
llonan, ."00 or GOO miles from the
river's mouth. This would mean
ruin to millions and an enormous
loss of life.
The Yangtse river has only re
cently begun to make the same kind
of trouble; but t lie cause is the
same, so the trouble Is cumulative.
Diking, which has been going on
briskly since ti.e floods of 15)31, is,
of course, doctoring t lie symptoms
and not the malady itself. The only
real cure for the misbehavior cf
either the Yellow or the Yangtse
river's malignancy is afforestation
on the hills, over areas so vast that
the magnitude of the job makes It
staggering to central and local Chi
nese governments. They employ for
eign forestry advisers, nod their
heads sadly as huge tree-plantinfc
enterprises are outlined to them,
and then pay their experts to keep
their stupefying figures to them
selves. The spectacle of China's
miseries b?cnuse of the sins ot her
fathers against her once magnificent
forests ought to be enough to make
every American a tree worshiper
and the forester his prophet. ? New
York Herald Tribune.
Intecti to Save Treea
Parasites have been commissioned
to save three sixty-year-old oak treea
in St. Mary's churchyard In New Ply
mouth, N. They have been attacked
by a pest known as the oak scale.
Scientists of Cawthorne Institute sup
plied the insects packed In a special
container, which has been fastened
to t lie trees, and the battle Is on.
Sr. Jo??ph As
pirin is always
fresh and fujly
?ffectivs becitiM
it'i wrapped in
moisture - proof
cellophane.
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