The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 24, 1932, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3
Cabbage In High Plnnr
Throughout tho World
0 Henry and Lewi* Carroll have
toui their heat to make ua think of
^bbaxes and kings In tho samo
Laih. Hut the fttCt ream'n* cab*
btge Is a thorough commoner, out of
oisce lu auoh company. Not thut U
Luld enjoy the narrow circle of royI,,
tii>vway, considering that It has
always enjoyed wide popularity In the
true sense of the word.
As proof of this popularity, hardly
a people hut has paid tho cubbuge a
tribute In the fashion nearest Its
heart. Frenchmen have Included "my
pule cahhage" amonj their most
prized terms of endearment, Britons
have dignified tho callage as the very
source "f the conquering race in one
(,f their most frequently recounted
fairy stories.
Germans have made cAhbugc in
pickled form the utost famous dish In
[heir cuisine. Americans have linked
cabbage with corned beef as fare most
suited to the man. of action. Even
Russians and I'oles have contrived tq
agree over cabbage: it hibernates
. efficiently and goes equally well with
black bread or game and wine, which,
ever the times offer.?Chicago Tribune.
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Satisfied Himself as
to Identity of Corpse
Kentucky mountaineers would seem
to have something the same psychology
?s tho Chinese. They desire to
be burled In their native soil, and the (
worst thing that cuiv happen Is to be
burled north of tho Mai|on-pixon lino. ,
The story Is told, of a young moun- I
talneer who,, in order to maintain this
tradition, brought back from Ohio tho
body of a mere acquaintance, and although
he was , poor, he dug Into his
sock for a Kentucky funeral. ,
Right In the middle of the service
tho congregation was surprised to see
this man walk down the aisle, peer
into the coffin and then resume his
neat. At the close of tho service they
asked why he. dl<l It,
"Wal. It was thlsawny," replied the
mountaineer. "The preacher said that
Pete wasn't thar; that he'd left us an'
gone yonder .somewhar. Wal, now, I
paid right smart money to g*t Pete,
down here to Kentncky . an' If he
wasn't here I was goln' to tho railroad
an' make 'em give me my money back. j
"But I'ete was here all right, so that
thar parson Is either blind or a liar." (
?Los Angeles Times.
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Seven Centuries Old
When Normandy was part of England
and' the minnesingers and trou- <
badours were In Europe, there was
founded In old Russia, but In what Is
now Latvia, the city of Riga. It is
?even hundred and thirty-one yearsu
old, and you may wander In Its flpe ol<1 1
cathedral, or_through streepr^of an- j
dent buildings, whose age^none dare ,
compute, und regale yqjfr mind with ,
any medieval vision y<u? care to enjoy, (
as these may suggest, Walltf-atong the
Halt u I el a. the street bf thc-most fash- j
lonable stores* pr stroll some evening
witli the promenaders on the Brlvlpas
boulcvurde, and It will be hard to believe
that the folk about you and the
gables of the houses, so old, so quaint, j
belong to the same city.?Exchange.
Knew What She Wanted
Mrs. MoGoolty, wljo lives over the '
back road, rushed into the milliner's |
at Blue#Springs greatly excited. I
"My new hat hn,s been trimmed on
the wrong side," she said, "and It has
to be altered."
"The trimming Is on the left side
where It should be this season," replied
the- milliner.
"It makes no difference where it
ought to be," continued Mrs. McGoolty,
"I must have It on the church
tide." '
"Church side?" asked the milliner.
"Ye?, church side. I sit next to the
left wall, and I'm not going to pay for
a lot of trimmings-that cau't be seen.
K want It on the other side where
til my friends In the congregation
can see It."?Farmer's Wife.
Pruue Industry Grows
The prune Industry was started In
the eastern United States in 1854, but
failed because the climatic conditions
were not favorable for the production
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the Industry started In California and 1
grew rapidly. In 1910 the annual out- j
put was ir>0,000,000 pounds, of which
near'v half was exported. Before the
Industry grew In California France I
was iVf. chief producing nation of the
*'orM. Oregon. Washington and Idaho
nls<> -row- good prunes, as do Serbia,
i, Germany, Spain, Australia aftd
s,"J'.li Africa. ? ?-?
With Humble Apologias
An Insurance company wrotq out a
*1,00o nfe policy In the name of one
Samuel Johnson". Premiums were paid
Promptly for'a few years, but suddenly
stopped. After sending a few delinquent
notes, the company received
this reply;
"Dear Sirs: Please excuse us as we
?*n't pay any more premiums on Sam.
Be died last May. Yours truly, Mrs.
& Johnson."?Christian Register.
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Double. Checked
A slow-pay customer sent the follow
Inr note to his garage mechanic:
lleaso send carj If O. K? will send
ekerk.1* ? ? .
The mechanic, however, was not dofiny
business on siieh Hi*/ Terms,
?o he wrote. back: * Send check; If
K. will sehd car.** i
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Evidently No Set Rule
for Pursuers of Feme
I' nine l? not controlled, apparently,
! ?>y any fixed luwa. She cannot be
wooed successfully and she dlstrlbItttsa
her favors to the most unlikely.
Lewis Hodgson was a learned, mlddie
class Englishman with a turn for
mathematics, a subject on which he
I lectured at Christ Church college, Oxford,
from 1855 to 1881. Notice the
titles of some of his publications which
he doubtless considered of Importance,
compared with his casual "Alice" writ* '
ten for the entertainment of his small
friend, Alice Lydell, and bringing to
her and to her favorite author somo*
thing very like immortality. They are:
"Euclid and Ills Modern ltlvuls,"
"Syllabus of Plane Algebraical Geometry
and? An Elementary Troatlso
on Determinants." Few readers are
kept from their mighty repose to
peruse these formidable treatises.
Hut "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland,
v 1805, and "Through the Look*
lug Glass," 1871, have become e)usslcs.
Muny of their strange words have
found a sure place in the language.
Fame must. Indeed, chortle as she
considers this stranfce paradox.
No c.ne was more astonished at the
remarkable results of the thing he
had casually done than Dodgson himself.
Doubtless he regarded the matter
quizzically, until fame and fortune
began knocking at his door. It
Is all a confirmation of that ancient
saying, "You never" can tell I"
Island Group Hey Long
Been Diplomatic "Nut"
^he word Dodecanese means "12
Islands." They are In the Agoan sea
near the coast of Asia Minor, and although
long an obstacle to' Grneco*
Italian friendship, have been confirmed
by the treaties of Sevres and
Lausanne In Italian sovereignty.
They are Rhodes, where the Colossus
of Rhodes, one.pf the wonders of the
ancient world, stood; Gos, Kalymnos,
.Leros, Nlsvros. Telos, S.vme, Khnlke.
Astypnlnl.o Karpnthos, Gnsos. Pntmos
and Pipsos. They 'figure In classic
Greek history and also In Greek mythology.
The Islands were under rule
of the Turkish firmans from 1052 to
18.15, paying annual tribute. In the
war between Italy and Turkey In 190W
Italy occupied the Islands, obtaining
the aid of the Islanders through a
promise to make them autonomous.
An assembly on Patmos actually proclaimed
the State of the Agean and
adopted a flag, but Italy would not
release her hold. Greece has t made
several attempts to have the Islands
ceded to her. The population, about
lOOtOQQ, is_ almost wholly of Greek
race. The Islands are unimportant
economically, sponge fishing being the~
only industry, but they are regarded
as -strategically important from a
"nav?l viewpoint. Italy has fortified
Leros.
Schools in History
Schools may be said to date from
the Macedonian period of Greek history."
There were professional teachers
of three kinds who taught rending,
writing nnd arithmetic, music and
gymnastics.' According to Suetonius
literary teaching began In Rome with
Livlus Andronlcus. a Greek brought to
Rome as a slave. In 272 II. C.' The
Roman school was very much like the
modern school. Education was carried
on to a certain extent .among the
ancient Jews. The synagogues were
the chief seats of learning. Elementary
schools were common among the
Hebrews from about 04 A. D.
Coin Merely Curiosity
The so-called "peace" dollar was
placed In circulation in January, 1922.
*Tfee coin was made in commemoration
of the arms conference at Washington.
! It has a new and very youthful head
of Liberty on one side, and on the reverse
a dove upon a mountain top,
clutching an olive branch, struck by
J the rays of the sun, with the word
"peace" beneath. This coin was not
a regular Issue and has been gathered
In by collectors and by persona who
wanted It as a keepsake.
Important Smell Tilings
Little failures and little successes,
little faults and little virtues, a few
kind words here, a few sharp words
there, helping or hindering more than
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things. We can live only day bv day.
The truly great events are, few and
the trifles many, and It Is out of the
seemingly unimportant that we must
build our character, our human
existence nnd our eternnl record.?
Exchange.
Buffalo Tongue a Delicacy ?
"A few days since we received as a
present from the North American Fur
company, a few bufTnlo tongues with
'directions for cooking them." acknowledged
the editor of a New York paper
100 years ago. "On trial they have
proved a most delicate article and far
preferable to the common tongue. The
mode of curing them adds much to
their fineness - of flavor."?Detroit
News.
Naandsrtkal Man
' About 50 Neanderthal skeletons have
been found, scattered over central Europe
and Asia Minor. The first remains
of a child of thls*ace. however,
pis found at La Qulna, In France, j
during the World .war, and the second
irSbriTtaf in The face b*
came extinct approximately 50.000_
"yetri ago, probably* with the advent
lntd Europe of homo sapiens, the ancestor
of the present human race.
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Painful "Denfcue Fever"
It Traced fo Motquilo
Dengue fever, tbe extremely painful
tun seldom fatal malady that breaks
out In epidemics along the eastern
Mediterranean un<l In the East Iudlee,
Is spreud by the same mosquito that
carries yellow fever.
Dengue fever itself appears to establish
an Immunity against yellow fever
and may be a guard set up by nuture
across-the line by which the latter
might penetrate Europe and Asia,
These are tlndlngs from recent experiments
of the Dutch Institute of
Tropical Medicine at Amsterdam,
Fourteen volunteers allowed themselves
to he bitten by mosquitoes
which bad fed on Dengue patients. All
fell sick with the same malady,
Thep monkeys were infected with
Dfngufe fever. It Is much more fatal
umoiig them than among humans,
Those that recovered were given Injections
of ycllpw fever. Only 27 per
cent died. Ordinarily, yellow fever
causes a 00 per cent mortality rate
uutong monkeys. \
These experiments have greatly lessened
the fear of a yellow fever outbreak
In the Dutch East Indies, where
Dengue Is an almost universal experience.
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"Prodigal Son" Parable
? Marvelous Short Story
The short story has always existed,
though It was not until the Nineteenth
century that the urt of writing It was
consciously practiced. As Sophocles
said of Aeschylus, these early authors
of short stories did the right thing
without knowing why. It was only on
rare occasions, however, that thesehappy
accidents occurred. Thus Professor
Baldwin, after an exhaustive examination
of the 100 tales In Boccac
cto's "Decameron." decided that only
two of thorn are short stories In the
modern critical sense, while three others
approach the totality of Impression
which is the result of conscious
unity In expression. The New Testament
cop tains a short story which Is
a structural masterpiece. The parable
of the "Prodigal Son," which Is only
500 words long In the authorized version,
satisfies the modern definition,
securing the greatest emphasis possible
with a surprising economy of
means. In America the short story
had its beginning In the "Sketch
Book" of Washington Irving.
Naturally
In a lesson in parsing a sentence,
the word "courting" came to a ydung
miss of fourteen to parse. She commenced
hesitatingly, but got on well
enough untlFshe was to tell what It j
-agreed with. Here she stopped short
But the teacher said, "Very well; what
does courting agree with?" Ellen
blushed and held down" her head.
"Ellen, don't you know what courting
agrees with?"
"Ye-ye-yes, ma'am."
"Well, Ellen, why don't you parse
that word? What does It agree
with?"
. Blushing still more and stammering,
Ellen at last replied: "It agrees with
all the girls, ma'am."
Heroes of World War
The "Lost Battullon," is the name
given to the Three Hundred and
Eighth regiment, United States Infantry,
commanded by Lieut. Col. Charles
W. Whittlesey. Whittlesey was ordered
to advance through tlje densest
part of the great forests of the Argonne
during the World war in order
to take a certain polqt and hold It
Far In advance of the other troops,
he was soon surrounded by the enemy
and attacked for four days and nights.
More than 100 hours passed without
his men obtaining any food and only a
little wjtter. The majority of his command
was killed or wounded, but
Whittlesey refused to surrender. Hs
was eventually relieved.
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First Apple Dunapllng
It Is said to have been tieorge III
who asked how the apple got Inside
the dumpling. Here, then, is the true
story of its origin, as related In NorI
folk. It goes like this: Once upon s
| time there was a worthy Norfolk farmer
who had a pretty Norfolk wife. He
compared her cheeks with apples. He
asserted fondly that he would like
; to eat them. "So you shall," replied
j iiic r? i ic. "Wall UlllU IUIUOITOW. ALIO
[ when the morrow came she set before
him the father of all apple dumplings.
So the farmer Itfughed hugely and gave
the rosy rogue a groat with which to
buy ribbons at the next fair.
Banana aa a Food
The banana Is known to he an alkali-producing
food; it is a food
which has been fodnrled to be efficient
In reducing the acidity of the body.
The banana when fully ripe Is a most
valuable addition to tbe diet of young
children, particularly those for whom
a gain in weight Is desirable. It can
also be given to Infanta. This fruit
when unripe consists largely of starch
and is, therefore, difficult of digestion.
As the ripening process goes on
? large part of the starch is converted
into sugar.
Poor Drinking
He found his hair was leaving the
top of hit head and complained to
his barber that the two bottles of
hair tonic be had bought seemed to
make matters worse, if any. "If*
strange," said the barber, "I don't
understand it." "Well, took bars,"
said tie man,*'i don't mind dHnklng
another botttle, but this must be the
last." ?
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