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SUCH IS LIFE? Nothing but the Truth! \ ?WSY SAW ' VOOR mower' so our TUE SACK. WAV? CAN ucn voo tcuu Me i\\vaem sue \\)tLU BAevci The Household By LYDIA LE BARON WALKER THERE are two definite things which a home-maker hns to con sider In relation to good housekeep ing, namely: time and space. Eiich person has an equal amount of tlrfcie at her disposal. Kaeh .person has at her disposal a certain amount of space In her dwelling which may be a spa clous house or a small apartment. The apportionment of space is unequal. sometimes by pref erence, since there are persons who delight In small quarters, as well as those who revel In large houses. Rut. whether a dwelling Is large or small, there still exists the relatlon-of time and space In re spect to the care of articles contained in It. The Issue sim mers down to whether the things In the home are worth the time re quired for their care. In this con sideration the ne cessities are sim ilar. and the proper care of them Is lm p e r n t 1 v e If the woman is a corn potent home-mak er. For example, there must be chairs and tables, din ing room furniture, chamber suites or their equivalents, kitchen equipments, etc., to fill the requirements of the size of the family. So let us eliminate these furnishings and center attention on the extras, which, by this very catologuing, cannot be Included under present necessities. Wasted 8pac*. For example, let us peep Into the closets and note whether the articles on the shelves are worth the space they occupy and the time required to keep them moth-proof or otherwise In good condition. Probably the ribbon box Is brimful of odds and ends, with occasional handsome ribbons In with them. The lace box also is probably filled with an assortment of cheap and good leri^ih of lace, some real laces among them. By weeding out these boxes, material for little gifts may be found, the quantities so reduced that ?mailer containers will be sufficient, and the over-crowded shelf afford ?pace for more needed things. There nre few things so wasteful of time as going over articles stored away, yet this must be done repeat edly to see that the things are kept In good condition. It cultivates dis crimination to do this, for one learns what Is valuable enough to warrant ?pending this time and energy on, and what things are worth the space they occupy. To discard valuable things Is as much an error as to keep worthless ones. To be determined to spare one's self the time lost In looking over arti cles, and to clear wanted space, such discrimination should be learned. It promotes good housekeeping. Mlrrort In Decoration. Mirrors as adjuncts to decoration are enjoying a revival. It Is true that mirrors, In themselves, have always been used. Their fashion waxes and wanes, but the looking glass Is never entirely out-dated as a decorative ele ment. It Is equally true that period ically the reflectors amount to signifi cance In other ways than a? framed mirrors, and necessities of the bou doir. ^ Klectrlc celling llghtAre now fitted with mirrors to contffhute to their ornamentation. Incidentally the re flections Intensify the power of the bulbs. Therefore they do more than lend ornament, but as this has always been true, It will be found that It Is because of the vogue of looking glasses that such lighting fixtures are featured. The fronch side lights In sconce style are bringing back the old time beauty of reflections by having electric bulbs substituted for candle light Here we again flnd that It Is a renaissance rather than an entirely novel Idea. ?. 1933, Boll Syndicate. ? WNU Service. She's AU-American Miss Agnes Macauley Rogers, in structor of physical education at George Washington university, has the distinction of helng the only girl selected on the All-American hockey team. Like Women Announcer* Rome. ? Italy's most popular radio announcer Is a woman ? Slgnorlna Marin Lulsn Boncompagnl. Most of the Italian announcers are women. ODD THINGS AND NEW? By Lame Bode Rats HAtLEO OUT A PLAOOe Of RATS IN NORTH0AN iNOt A WAS KKCfNTIV STOPPID OVA OftlAT MAHSTOffM WHICH t?tTgOWmo??AWPf, Diving 4oo miles per hour/ y Because op propfller RESISTANCE WHEN DIVING POR MAXIMUM SPEED, THE RECORD OP OVER 400 MILES PER HOUR V%0VS OBTAINED WITH MOTOR SMUT OPT. High gas Gasolene IN Prance is taxed POUffTEEN CENT'S PER , GALLON., WNU ??rvlo? Watche* Imports With the advent of prohibition re peal It. E. Joyce has an Important Job. He Is the new permit supervisor of the federal alcohol control administration and dccldes, with the aid of the board, the quantities of liquor that may be Imported Into the United States front the various foreign countries. Mr. Joyce formerly was supervisor of per mits for the Cincinnati district. "MINORITIES" By LEONARD A. BARRETT The accepted theory Is that the ma jority rules. The legality of a vote depends upon the ballot If the ma jority votes yes, the Issue Involved Is declared consti tutional. Public of ficials are elected by a majority vote of the electors. The power to create bond Issues and en act municipal laws depends upon the will of the ma jority. In the final anal ysis, however, does the majority rule? Only a cursory re view of the power of a minority con vinces one that the majority may dele Rate by vote a certain power, but it is Impossible for the majority to control that power. For Instance, who con trols the affairs of a municipality? A small minority every time. The will of a corrupt minority Is a menace to nny community. Who controls the management of a large corporation? The number of stockholders in many cases numbering thousands of persons, have little or nothing to say. Thnt power rests In the hands of a small minority of directors, and their de cisions are binding upon the stock holders who really own the corpor ation. In any social group, especially If or ganized Into an association, club, or society, a minority can become the cen ter of a disturbing interest which may not only cause serious trouble, but re sult In wrecking the organization. In Germany, Hitler and his crowd, very small at first, were a decided minority. No one will deny the powor of his lead ership In Germany today. When Mus solini began Invading Italy with his political philosophy, he represented n small minority. Today he Is the domi nant power In Italian national life. While the balance of power rests In the hands of a majority, the minority exercises that power as long as the majority is content to delegate It. There Is sufficient moral power In the majority of cltlr.ens to rid any city of corruption. So long ns the majority Is unconcerned about the moral life of Its community, the minority re tnlns the right of wny. Who, then, possesses the greater powor? The majority, who by Its vote delegates the power, or the minority who exercises It? Which has the great er Influence In a nntion, city, or so clety? ?, W?*t??cn N?w?t>ap?r t.'nlon "Old Ironside#" Fulfilled Woman's Great Ambition Med ford, Ore. ? Mrs. Alice Hull Welch, eighty two, fulfilled a lifelong ambition when the frigate "Old Iron sides" anchored in Portland harbor. ICscorted by members of the Daughters of 1812, she stood on the bridge of the old ship where her great-grandfather, Capt Isaac Hull, stood as he com manded the Constitution during the battle with the Oudrrlero. With her were her great-grand nephews, Donald Hull Hauer, eight, and George W. Hull, fourteon. Camel Test in 1856 Recalled in Texas Daughters of Confederacy Mark Site With Plaque. San Antonio, Texas. ? In a remote and still sparsely settled section of Kerr county, Texas, stands an old stone ranch house, In the shadow of which a simple ceremony recently re vived an almost forgotten chapter In the military and economic history of the United States. The old ranch house was not always such. Once It was the ofilcers' head quarters building at Camp Verde, an Important military post on the Texas frontier. Reputedly laid out by Rob ert E. Lee, later commander In chief of the Confederate army, but then a United States colonel of cavalry In Texas, Camp Verde became famous as the home of the government camel herd Imported from the Levant during the administration of Jefferson Davis as United States secretary of war. Crumbling ruins of the camel "khan," or pen, part of whose 'dobe walls were sixteen feet high, remain near the ranch house as evidence of the experimental use of humped beasts from the Near East In Amerlonn mili tary and commercial transport. Dedicate Plaque. In the recent ceremony the United Daughters of the Confederacy, di vision of Texas, dedicated a bronze marker commemorating what Is left of Camp Verde, whose hallowed walls are linked with the past presence of such men as the illustrious Lee and Albert Sidney Johnston. History records that Camp Verde, or Fort Verde, as it also was called, was established as a military post on July 8, 1850. It is sixty-five miles north west of San Antonio. The old fort was captured by Con federate troops on February 28, 1801. As quoted In "Texas Camel Tales," written by Chris Emmett of San An tonio, Lieutenant Hill of the Con federate forces reported that among other things captured at the post were "eighty camels and two Egyptian drivers." Jefferson Davis, when secre tary of war in 1855, obtained a $30,000 congressional appropriation for the camels, and MaJ. Henry Constantino Wayne, who went to the Levant for the animals, brought the first ship load via old Powder Horn (Indlanola), Texas. ? . 75 Were Imported. The first cargo of thirty-four camels ? seventy-five were imported In two shipments ? was unloaded on May 18, 1850, at Indlanola, the Texas port which long ago was swept away by a gulf storm. Although employment of the army camels actually Included use In the pursuit of Indians, their outstanding uses were In Lieut. W. H. Echols' reconnaissance of the Texas Rig Rend section (near the Rio Grande) with a camel train in 1800 and, prior to that, Lieut. E. F. Reale's camel ex pedition to California in 1857 to sur vey the "Great Wagon Road" over a southern route. Incidentally, the Southern Pacific railroad later was built practically along that route, and the advance of the steam locomotive was one of the developments that dis couraged continuance and extension of camel transport. But during the Civil war camels carried Coul'ederate cotton ? two bales to the camel ? to the Mexican border at Brownsville, re "turning with salt from salt lnkes near the Gulf coast. After the war private owners ac quired the government camels, Bethel Coopwood buying sixty-six at $31 a head at San Antonio In 1SGC. Use of the animals In private transportation enterprises, however, did not prove profitable. Eventually many of the camels found their way to circuses; others strayed off or were turned loose. Latest Parisian Hat One of the latest Parisian fashion creations is this beige felt hat with navy and red grosgruln trimming. Curfew in Thuringia ' Berlin. ? The minister of education In the state of Thuringia has decreed that boys and girls under the age of fourteen must not be permitted on the Btreets after 8:45 p. m. In summer and 0:45 p. m. In winter. Burglar Alarm Turns on Electric Light Lepzlg, Germany. ? No wires, electrical current or alarm bells are used In the latest form of burg lar alarm. The movement of a human body Is recorded by an extremely sensi tive arrangement of lenses, which In turn give an alarm signal by turning on an electric light. The device may be placed at the side of a doorway, where It will be quite Invisible, and the alarm cnn be transmitted any distance. The device, which was demon strated at the Leipzig fair, may be put to a great variety of uses. It is placed before shop windows, so that when any one approaches at night the llglits In the show window Instantly are turned on and remain alight until the person has passed. Great Editor's Dream Comes True The dream of th? Into Ool. W. It. Ntlxon, founder, publisher and editor of the KniiHUH City gtar, wa? to give to Karmaa City a flne nrt gallery. His dream him been realized, for th? William Kockhlll Nelson gallery of art bna Just been dedicated and opened to the public. (Lionel Nelson's gifts for tho building and exhibits were about $lfi,000,()00. The collection Includes mnny foreign and American masterpiece*. A part of tbo building houses the Atkins museum, In wlilcb In the library of Colonel Nelson. SEEKS ALEXANDER'S TOMB Enthusiastic over his proposed ex pedition to find the body of Alexan der the Great, Howard Carter, discov erer of the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen has arrived In Alexandria, Egypt, to raise the necessary $240,000 for the venture. Should Alexander's tomb be discovered, he said, It would be the most Important acheologlcal find ever made In Egypt, even more Im portant than the Tut-Ankh-Amen dis covery. The contents of Alexander the Great's tomb, he believes, would crmslst chiefly of metal, whose In trinsic value would not be as jcreat as the Tut-Ankh-Amen relics. There Is the possibility, he added, that Al exander's tomb has been covered by the sea. The system he would use In searching for the tomb he de scribed as "sondnge," or sinking of pipes. WW SHE TOLD WORN-OUT HUSBAND "TUMS" <tlon! heartburn. Only l8cT IIKIIHY OEOH'KRS I Plant kosmo berry. Larger better quality, neller, ylelder and nhJppor or home lnR^ket. Writ? for Infor mation. P. >V. Meredith, Oregon City, Ore. STOPPED- UP 1 NOSTRILS J Open the nostril* and ' permit free breathing toy using Mcntholatum night and morning. Tormented for Five Years with Dandruff Healed by Cuticura "For nearly five years I was tor mented with dandruff. My scalp Itched and burned and became very sore and red from scratching. My hair became thin and dry and fells out in handfuls, and the dandruff scaled off and could be seen on my clothing. "I had lost all hope of ever being healed. A friend told me about Cuti cura Soap and Ointment and I sent for a free sample. The first applica tion stopped the Itching so I bought more, and I used only one cake of Cuticura Soap with two boxes of Cuticura Ointment and I was healed." (Signed) Mrs. M. L. Carruthers, Je tersvllle, Va., Aug. 23, 1933. Soap 25c. Ointment 25 and 50c. Talcum 25c. Proprietors: Potter Drug 8c Chemical Corp., Maiden, Mass. ? Adv. I WOULDNT^JSE ^ ANYTHING BUT CcuoUcJul Coke cundL [ Biscuit FJotuc! CAD1CX MILLING CO., GRANDVIEW, IND. DO YOU SUFFER PAIN? Mra. C. T*. Copelaqd C A 2708 Norwich St, Bnin*wlrk, Oa., aalai "My nervea wera bad, I ( alto Differed with pain* " In my ilrlea, my app? tlta wit poor and X lo?t wflalit and (trenKfh. After taking T)r. I'lerorg Favorite Preacrlptlon I completely regained n?? hwHh." 8old by drUf?l?t? evefywhrre. Writ* Dr. Plerca't Clinic, Buffalo, N. 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