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Leather Gloves Easy to Wash; Directions Given Most gloves today, even the fine leather ones, are washable, and it Is easy to give them a tubbing. Do not attempt to wash gloves that have already been to the dry cleaner or that have been treated at home with a cleaning fluid or powder. Don't wait until gloves look dirty before washing them. If they have been worn a few times, they are dirty, whether they appear to be or not. Repeated tubbings won't hurt the leather, but rubbing away at accumulated grime will cause holes or will injure the finish and dye. Use mild, pure soap flakes or powder, and lukewarm but never hot water. Wash dark leather gloves quickly, light ones may be safely soaked, if so desired. Use a very soft brush and rich suds on any badly soiled or grimy spots. When finished with sudsing, roll gloves from wrist. Never strain seams by pulling finger tips. Wash inside to remove hand soil. Rinse in clear, luke-warm water. Vinegar or lemon juice in the rinse water will help to overcome fading and streaking of color. Squeeze as dry as possible, but do not wring. Remove excess moisture by rolling in towel. Blow into gloves to puff them ,into shape. Lay flat to dry, away from radiators and all excessive heat, but in an air current. If cuffs or stitching is of another color, put tissue paper in gloves. Phonograph Records Are Mess of Contradictions Tha record you buy is, actually, the great-great grandchild of the recording made by, we'll say, the New York philharmonic-symphony under John Barbiplli, or perhaps Bruno Walter. This was probably played in Liederkranz hall on iiast Fiftysixth street In New York, but actually put on the lacquer disk on Seventh avenue, two miles away. You use all mechanical aid possible?bufc-yCftTwork mostly by handpower. Then the disk was shipped (with every care) to Bridgeport. A quiet, dark-haired young man takes it after inspection, and immerses it in a plating bath. The silver film deposited _-is very thin; it has to be thickened, after a few complicated monkey-shines, in a 16-hour copper plating bath. There are hundreds of these, and the disks are swung to and fro by a set of wooden walking arms which work in unison like stolid ranks of unattractive rockettes. Finished, the grooves are the reverse of the ones on the recording. Once again the process is reversed to .produce the "mother" record. From the "mother," which now corresponds exactly to the original record, the sampers are made. These are again in reverse, and go into m gigantic library from which, with the labels to match, they are issued to the ranks of men who work the waffle-irons. $250 Saved Hawthorne Such immortal classics as The House of the Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter?so beloved by generations of Americans?might never have been written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, had not a friend come to his aid. It seems that Hawthorne's hopes for a literary career were being crushed to the ground because of the repeated refusals of a publisher to accept his work. Being close to despair, he was about ready to give up when a friend, Horatio Bridge, came to his rescue. Bridge secretly advanced $250 as a guarantee toward the publication of Twice Told Tales, a collection of Hawthorne's stories. But for the immediate success of that volume and its heartening effect on him, Hawthorne may never have written his other immortal classics. His spark of genius burst- into flame after the friend staked $250 on his. future at a critical time. ?????? 1 Comet of IMS Few are living who can remember the great comet of 1858?Donati'a Comet?but the following is a description by one who watched it, and wrote about it to the Rural Raw Yorker: "I never saw the comet rise, but I have watched it evening after evening, as it would set in the northwestern horizon. I have stood with my back toward the nucleus of the comet as it approached the horizon, and watched the spread of that magnificent tail from north to sduth, and but little above the horizon in the east." Previous to 1858, Donati's Comet appeared to 1556, when i\ frightened Charles V of Germany into giving away his crowns and retiring to a monastery. , And more than 200 years will pass before mortal eyes will see it again. Brings His Own Bed Making freshmen happy and satr isfled with their surroundings is one of the first duties of the collegiate year at the University of Kansas. But Valories Harlan, a freshman from Eureka, just couldn't seem to get comfortable. He was assigned to live at Templin hall, one of the new self-governing men's dormitories, too. Valories had a hankering for his bed back home. He didn't care for the nice, new double-deckera. When his owd bed arrived, Valories settled down for his first comfortable-night away from hams. He's 6 feefT and those new beds just weren't long enough for him. Leaky Faucet IP iris Fame for Engineer Research Into Waste Turns Up Mass of Figures. WAUKESHA, WIS.?A leuky faucet brought fame to Arthur P. Kuranz, superintendent of the Waukesha water department. Kuranz was attracted one day by the trickle of water from a worn faucet. Scientifically minded, he brought out his slide rule and a stop watch and did some calculating with the result that he became a pioneer in the field of counting drops of water. flis study of the subject with a view to preventing waste has resulted in state and national recognition* Winner of the national Fuller award, presented for achievement in the water industry in the state last year. Some amazing v figures on the amount of water lost through a leaky faucet were turned up by Kuranz's calculations. For instance, a tap leaking at the rate of 120 drops a minute adds up to 172,000 drops lost daily. Taking Kuranz's estimate of 63,000 drops to a gallon, that means a waste of almost three gallons from the single faucet, Add to this total from other warn faucets in the building and, in the case of a hot water tap, the cost of heating the water (about 85 cents a month in Waukesha for one tap) and Kuranz's seemingly insignificant job of counting water drops becomes something significant. Th6' problem grows in importance when a community has a limited water supply. One of the difficulties encountered by Kuranz has been to determine the number of drops of water in a gallon. The National Water Meter institute at Washington admitted that the problem has not yet been studied "in anything approaching a scientific way"' and solicited its members for suggestions. ( A 4 ? Tifghway of Silver' Runs Through Utah Community PARK CITY, UTAH.?There is no record of any one ever having seen the mythical "street of gold," but in northern Utah there is a "highway of silver." It also contains deposits of lead and zinc. The highway, which runs through Park City's main business section, has been surfaced with talings from the nearby Consolidated Mining company containing silver, lead and zinc. Although the material is not valur* * b enough to ship to smelters, it s contain metals from small fissures crossed by miners in running exploration drifts, raises or crosscuts. The ores, although rich, wera found in too small a quantity to be saved. The white piles of debris have provided a new and interesting pastime for Park City youngsters. Many small boys are equipped with toy outfits for melting and molding metal soldiers. They search the waste piles, removing chunks of ore containing lead, silver and zinc. The pieces are then cleaned, melted, and cast into toy soldiers. Tommies Avoid Girls in Khaki?and Give Reason LONDON.?Complaints that their uniform is a hindrance to romance and scares soldiers away are made by some of the auxiliary territorial service in a big northern command training center. "Soldiers seem to think that the A. T. S. is either the old maid's last hope or else that to be seen out with one of us indicates that a soldier has been unable to get a girl outside the barracks," said one of the girls. What do the soldiers say 7 "We want girls who are not in khaki," said one of them. "We see too much uniform. The A. T. S. is a part of the army just as much as the officers and clerical staff are part of it, and we treat thfcm accordingly. "Just as few men fall in love with the girl who works in the same ofHce as themselves, so the soldier wants to get his girl friends from a different atmosphere from that in which he spends his working day." U. S. Army Gets the Most For Its Clothing Dollar WASHINGTON. ? The army is making sure Uncle Sam gets full value for his soldiers-uniform dollar. The quartermaster depot at Philadelphia has established a "house of magic" which tests all army clothing materials for strength, wear, warmth and water repeHency. Machines there can detect the tiniest hole in s raincoat, crush buttons to see how much stress they can stand, and create artificial rainstorms and windstorms to test waterproof qualities of the cloth. % . Snake Plays Trick on ' Experienced Trapper PRESCOTT, ARIZ.?A rattlesnake played a mean trick on Al? bert Rhodes. . : An experienced trapper, Rhodes had heard in case of snakebite if one should clamp the- teeth ' round the wound and suck ouj the P*Bhodee was bitten the d^y after he'd had all hie teeth pulled. "TxTT""~"7?Vv. > *. ~ Million Added I For Food Campaign Three quartern of a million dollars has been added In less than three months to the Income of families on the Farm Security Administration program in llegion V (Alabama, Georgia. South Carolina. Florida) as a result of the Department of Agriculture s "Food for Defense" campaign, i eports 11, P, DeLoache, FSA Supervisor for Kershaw couuty. This comes from marketing 1,800,000 broilers and fryers that have been raised ffom the Ave million baby chicks that were bought by these families in May in response to the national appeal to raise more food for defense. In Kershaw county, 16,000 baby chicks were bought, and of these 7,000 cockerels are ready to be sold in culling the new flocks to save the pullets for egg production. "But the additional 1^56,000 Income from sources which the small farmer never tapped before is part of the story, "said Supervisor DeLoache,) "That he was inspired to do tho Job, that he has been taught that it can be done over and over, and that his) outlook and capacity have been doubled?these are the big things. | "Nothing else in the long effort to Improve the outlook and productivity of the Southern small farm has ever matched In a similar length of time the record of the last two months and a half in stimulating more food for defense."., _ Mr. DeLoache pointed out that valuable lessons have been learned. For instance, it has been found out that with proper care and feeding chickens may be raised even when they are hatched in May and June.' In this county 86 per cent of the May chicks are being raised. In the entire region, at least ninety percent have lived and done well. Cotton Credit Slips Explained Because merchants . cannot give cash in Cotton Stamp transactions, and since all Cotton Stamps are printed in 25-cent denominations, how will retailers handle sales normally involving change? A. C. McKaip, chairman of the Kershaw county Cotton Industry Committee said that this situation was very effectively and simply handled by means of "Cotton Credit | Slips." ' To clarify the situation, he cited several examples. "Suppose", he said "a cotton stamp customer purchases 60 cents worth of cotton merchandise. An alert merchant would probably suggest 15 cents worth of additional cotton items that the customer could use to advantage. The customer did not wish to get more than his 60 cent purchase at the time, the merchant would accept either two 26 cent stamps and 10 cents in cash, or three 26 cent stamps?giving the customer 15 cent credit slip for the difference due him." "These Cotton Credit Slips" he added "are issued by the Individual stores and are good for the purchase of one hundred per cent cotton goods at the same store In the future. From the merchant's standpoint the use of these credit slips tends to bring the customer back to the stores from which the previous Cotton Stamp purchases were made. Accordingly, those merchants who, through aggressive merchandising and advertising, attract both Stamp customers and the general public, have an additional opportunity of gaining repeat business through the credit slips of their stamp customers. Wide-awake retailers will take advantage of this opportunity for Increased business while at the same time helping ourj country to solve a serious national problem Involving our number onp. crop?cotton. Hoisery Mills May 8hut Down Charlotte.?The crisis with Japan came close home Saturday with the freezing pf Japanese assets In this country by President Roosevelt and the later freezing of all stocks of raw silk by E. R. Stettinlus, Jr., defense director of priorities, bringing danger of an early shutdown of silk hosiery mills in the Carolina* and all over the nation. In Charlotte, such a step would mean from 3,000 to 4,000 persons engaged in making women's fullfashioned silk hose would be out of Jobs. In the South, the number would jump to many thousands, and iq the entire country, It would reach more than 100,000 men. and women. When President Roosevelt froze the assets of Japanese Interests, tedr developed that the mills would able to run only from 60 to 90 days hiQre unless something should happen to enable the manufacturers to continue to get raw silk from Japan. Saturday afternoon when qews came that Settlnfus' had clamped down on the silk stocks, the 10 to 90 dsys dwindled to.maybe two or three weeks, depending upon tho silk the mills have In their warehouses. ? rr' frwr? - r ' ? u>t? .1 fi? i>i " ?r? ^? -r ,1 " Have YOU Done Anything For Defense On Sale at Your Post Office or Banks What About Those Old Discarded Pieces . % A-L-U-M-l-N-U-M? Bring It In?Uncle Sam NEEDS ALL HE CAN GET This Ad contributed to the cause of National Defense * ? -S='"^S THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE taf.- *- . VT -? -L?~ >- > ;> \ + * .r i .*? A