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PAQR TWO HOI BABNWELL PB0PLB-8BNTINBU BABKWKLL. SOUTH CAROLINA Chair Too VeduabU to Conngn to Attic The nat down In a comfortable- looking rocking chair, bqt Immediate-, Ir hia fteet flbm Jm JAflSe A&r'-«*Takw- an6TKer chair, take tide one,” urged hla hosteaa, "That chair is very un comfortable." "Why In the world do yottlceep'fhnt chair In this room?” growled KiMeird- Husband. “Xonone can alt In It with eaae.' Why don’t you put It In the at- tic?” “Because no one can sit In If with eaae,” replied Friend Wife. ■‘You’ve given U>e reason ,yourself* It’s for those guests, callers, whom I don’t wish to be at ease. I engineer It so they’ll sit there and their calls .ire much shortened thereby. If anyone I like happens to get Into that chair, it is an easy matter for me to Insist that he or she change for a comfort able chair. Oh, my, yes, that uncom fortable chair has saved me many hours of boring, talk.”—Springfield Union. < Mammoth-Cave Welders Both (Jreen and Nolih rivers,Yin the Mammoth cave, are points of Interest for the fisherman, the swimmer, the ca noeist, the motorboat fan, and for any other to whom the flow of clean, limpid waters Is a lure.’ Green river is said to be the deepest river for its ii*e In the world; at some points, in t^r-fact, It is said to have a depth of 80 feet. Into It flow the underground streams, such us Kcho river and the River Styx, from the great caverns. Both streams, through the ages, have cut gorges of exquisite beauty, rival ing. in fact, anything of the sort to be found In the world. Nolih j-her In one spot has cut Its way through cliffs raid to he more impressive than the palisades oMhe Hudson river. These are but a few of the ..natural phe nomena and scenic beauties to be found hi the area. A Source of Hair Net Material. T Freedom Bringe Light There Is only one cure for evils which newly acquired freedom pro* prnxrei , 8lvc „, P , r Houthero broth- duces, and that cure Is freedom. The + blaze of truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become hqlf blind lu the hou^e of bondage. But let them gaze on, and they will soon be able to bear It. TWftf-The'extreme violence of opinions subsides.' The scattered elements of truth cease to contend and begin to coalesce. And at length a system of Justice and order Is educed yut of the chaos.—Macaulay. Originated in Error An explanation of the origin of the word “hoodlum" has been given In the following tale: Out In San Francisco a great many years ago there was a man named Muldoon, who was the leader of h baud of boy ruffians. A re|M>rter who had been assigned to a story of this gang attempted to coin a name for them and transposed the name Muldoon. calling the gang aoodluma. Tim typesetter mistook the letter "n" for “h" and made tfie word “hoodlum." It passed the proof-1 reader and became a recognized word, (PrepariM by the National «Je<mraphlc Society. Wai hlrston. V. C.) HK people of China are, and have-been for centuries, primar ily farmers. Their chief es sentials of .life—food fuel, and clothing—are mostly of home produc tion* Even In North Chinn, where tile' winters are cold, clothing ?omes prin cipally from cofton raised _by the northern farmers, and fuel still con-' sists largely of the grain stalks from the fields that provide the food. The people require but little from the out side world and produce little that they do not consume themselves. , But the old order has been changing. Although the northern people are less ers, even among them modern Indus tries have been springing up despite civil strife of recent years. Perhaps .tone of these Infant Industries has had a more phenomenal growth ihan iltti Ancient Wedding Gowns Most of the PlantHgenct and Tudor queen* were married In that vivid hue which Is still popular In parts of Brittany, where the hrlde Is usually drei-sed In crimson brocade. It was Mary Stuart who first changed the color of the bridal garments At her marriage with Francis II of France In 15o8, which took place not before the altar hut before the great doors of Notre Dame, she was gowned In wbHe brocade, with a train of pale blue Persian velvet six yards In length. Seemed Too Much for One i,£klwr*lM mother, a woman of very .. stlght build. Presently an extremely stout woman boarded the car, and sat down oppo site the little girl. The cur started off with a Jerk, and the little child contemplated the wom an opposite her for some minutes, then, turning to her mother, inquired In a loud voice: "Mother, Is that all one lady?” tt; Br*. ~ Anita Loos, author of “Gcntie- mgn Prefer Blondes," says she has ’Enough” and is going to stop jUrorking lo enjoy life. v«*s employment to thousands whn- nre providihg these articles for mil lions of women In America and Eu rope. * Although the Industry was Intro duced In China hv the Germans only twenty years ago, more than 140.1*111 I**) hairnets were shipped to America from a single Chinese city before ban dlts at home and bobbed hair In Amer ica curtailed the output. Even now the total annual exjmrts of this product are valued at more than X10.(**M*KV* With the wholesale .mhblng of Amer ican locks In recent years, the de mand for hairnets at flrst fell off; hut more recently the use of nets has agahi Increased. The nets are made by hand and the workers receive about one cent each for making them. The average person can hardly make ten n day Why It Btlongs to China. There are three Important factors (hat have made the hairnet Industry almost exclusive to North China: tlrst. a large supply of hair Is found there; second, cheap labor Is plenti ful. and third, the Industry requires no machinery and can.be carried on in the home. Where will you find more human hair than In North China? Before the rule of the Mam bus, the Chinese men let their hair grow rather long and tied It In a knot on t'»p of the head. When the Mnnchu* came, in the Seventeenth century, they wore thelt hair In long braids down- their, hacks, and.as an Indication of sub jection forced the Chinese tq. adopt Probably no other land has a more distinctive national peculiarity than the Chinese pigtail, and. like so many other social customs. It persists long after the..cause for which It stood. The revolutionists of Iflll tried to do away with it and ordered that all queues he cut off. Those who ob jected were In danger of losing head as well as pigtail, and the queues provided a handy means of suspending the heads along the city streets as an effective suggestion that the revolu tionists meant business In their at tempt to do away with the badge of the victorious’ Munrhus. In the south, and in large cities In general, (lie queues did 'disappear, to a great extent, and for a time there was a flood in the human hair market. But In North 'China the law forbid ding the wearing of-queues was not enforced, and they are >Un plenti fill In Peking and Tientsin, while In some country villages away from the- coast there are nearly as many hoys and men with queues as without. Perhaps one reason why queues have not disappeared more rapidly Is because of the many barbers, who depend on combing queues and shav ing heads for a living. Whatever hair they can corhh out belongs to them and becomes a source df Income; so naturally, they are not in favpr of a queueless country. Women Save All Combings. Chinese women do not patronize the barbers, hut comb their own hair at home. Nothing Is wasted, however; the combings arb saved from day to day and. when a sufficient quantity is collected. It Is sold or exchanged for small household articles. In some places Tender* travel from house to house, Calling out. “Needles, thread, and matches exchanged f’*r hair ccrzb leg*." V This raw hair is sold yeo cheaply, and, when girls are learning to make nets, Is used for pructicu purposes. Enough hair can he purchased for fifty cents to last a class of sixty or seventy-five girls a inonth. while they are learning to make nets. As soon as they are able to make salable nets, they use prepared hair, which costs as much as several dollars a pound, depending on length and other qualities. A pound of hair will make over 2,000 nets, for a whole gross of hairnets weighs only about one ounce. The processes of bleaching and dye ing the hair are the most difficult parts of the hairnet Industry. . The second factor In the success of the hairnet Industry in North China Is the almost unlimited supply Of cheap labor. Tell a curpenter’ ln this part of the world that his fel low Joui ijeynwq. in Amweiisr-Bet frtffh fWFftrfiS a laji find tie .wilt probably Inquire at once how much It costs to go to America. He gets 15 or 20 cent* a day In United States currency, and other workmen get about the same While the American .’armer has ditfl culty In getting satisfactory help at *50 or 75 a month and keep. John Chinaman Is willing to dig In the fields for *5 a month, and to find hi* own keep. However, It Is not men. but young girls, whq^ make hairnets, and of course a girl’s wage Is much less than that of a man. In fact, there U very llttlg In North China that s girl ran do to earn money. Few have a chance to go to school, mid except during harvest season, when they help to bring the grain on to »he threshing floor* and thresh It, they find It hard to obtain work. Consequently, when a hairnet company enters a region and 'calls for girls, candidates are numerous. That is looking farther ahead than young people generally care to look. Life, marriage and other things may not be perfect, but the young think, hope and believe that they are. A n d THINK! M.G. -HQT^Tlnd grathwllv bund up what lx WOft?f^Whrie"Tn lile.~ Gcod Work for tho Girls. A single net require* the-tying of a thousand knot* or more, hut If a girl Is clever she can make as high ns twenty cop|iers a day. and, us she can live on much less than that, she often not only supports herself, hut helps other members of the family as well. Is It any wonder, then, that fathers rind mothers are glad to see the hair net Industry enter their villages? Their daughters, heretofore a burden are now beedming the breadwinners *of the family. - One iqtgtir naturally ask. “Why are rapidly In North China, If there Is such a supply of cheap labor?” Part of the answer Is that most Industries require considerable cap Ital, expensive machinery, and large factories, and, with political condi tions ns* they are In China today, capitalists are slow to take tliej.risks With the hairnet Industry there Is no such obstacle. The girls work In their ovyn homes, where they have always been secluded. The only tools needed are a small brass shuttle and a bamboo splInt.'On a nail driven Into n table or chair the flrst loop of the net Is fastened.’ The hair Is wound into the shuttle, like thread Into a bobbin, and ns ..each new loop Is tied it is slipped onto the bamboo splint like a stitch on a knitting needle. Thus, with shuttle In one hand and bamboo splint in the other, the maker adds knot to knot and loop to loop until the net is completed. Then the nets are tied together In Atunches of one gross each. For this a pie>e of board, Into which nails have been dnYen, Is provided, and the loops on the edge of The net are slipped over the nails until a >ile of 144 nets Is made. They are then tletlwith thread and are ready for the ngenf-xyhen he comes to collect, pay .for making,'ujid to leave more hair. Tying Into one-gross bunches, as well as tying the hair Into one long thread and putting It In the ^shuttle. Is often done by some member of the family who is not able to make the nets. Mothers whose fingers are no longer nimble or whose eyes have lost their keenness help with this part of the^wofk. Ttft>Tbe Industry fits In well with Chinese bqme life. It esn b« done at odd mcfTWWs by those who have other dutlesi, j>r It can furnish steady em ployment to Chose who would other wise be Idle. Negro Narrowly Escapes. ly Arthur Brisbane COMPANIONATE WEDLOCK. OUR WASHINGTON HOLDINGS - ONE SUP FOR WOMAN. UNDBERGH AND MARIL President Coolidge talked with William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, about soft coal labor troubles in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. Labor men charge that railroads are united “to. depress prices of c*al for fuel purposes.” wmutdn v Detu 3—BflE life at Greens Lumber and fcrate Company Tuesday—mfiming when his hand was caught betwetm cable and run while taking logs from the veneering pit. He was drawn info the machine-arid only the quick stop ping of the machine saved his life. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 8. 19?7. He underwent a minor operation and the mangledAhumh was uMnay«d~a*4~ Use Christmas seals ~Save humanlives. !!EN GETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT, BUICK WT-I. BUILD THEM y Government might in certain cases affecting public welfare fix prices of the produtt and the labor that produces it. There was no hesitation about fixing the wheat prices during the war, a fixing process, that cost the farmers abouU^^-on every bushel that they might have got and didn’t get on every bushel. The much discussed “compan ionate” marriage of a young man of twenty with the eighteen-year- old daughter of Mr. Haldeman- Julius is not as new as it seemed. After marriagr each will live at home to solve problems of<*house- keeping, while the bride continues her work in high school and then in college, and the young man con tinues studying at the University of Kansas. If the marriage doesn’t turn out to be perfect, the plan is to ar range for a divorce. ’ / Body by Falter Germany signs the League of Nations agreement “affording pro tection to women workers before and after childbirth." A woman would be allowed to quit work six weeks before the birth of a child and reinaifi away six weeks after ward, with pay and free medical attention. That sounds almost like civiliza tion—governments compelling em ployers to do for women what in telligent horse owners did for mares a thousand years ago. Driye Buick for 1928 over that bad road D RIVE a Buick for 1928 over the stretch of bad road you know best . . . Notice how Buick’s Cantilever Springs smooth away those aggravating ruts and bumps . . . Observe how Buick’s Lovejoy HydrAulic Shock Absorbers, front and rear, absorb road shocks and eliminate jolts and jars ... You cannot know Buick’s marvelous ncwinding com fort until you have tested it yourself. A car await* m : yoOTn our i ♦ V - or ’ ' COUPES #1195 to #1830 SPORT MODELS #1193 to #1323 ABfeint f. •. k Flmi, Mark, morermmenl In It be mdStd. The G.M.A.L fmnttmt pUm. the mtu dtlutble, BUICK>I928 Denmark Buick Co. Denmark, S. C. A tax assessor at Washington, D. C, valuer White House, build ing and gsounds, at (22.0tM),000; the Capitol, $53,000,000: State, War and Navy buildings, $13,500,000; Treasury Building, $23,000,000. Uncle Sam should get some fly ing machines to *projrct all that property. A dozen bombing enemy fliers could soon knock those buildings around the ears of men that live or work in them. A mother and father hid $60 in a bureau drawer, telling only their thirteen-year-old daughter, Chris- 4ina, where the money was. It disappeared. Three times the girl denied that she had stolen the me v, then drank carbolic acid and may die. Not all parents re alize a child’s intensity of feel ing.- Money to Lend SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS IN AMOUNTS OF $400.00 AND UP. APPLY TO Ninestein & Baxley BLACKVILLE. SOUTH CAROLINA. Judge Inch says “one slip" does not prove a woman immoral, or justify withholdings citizenship flUH~fier. ... .. andRind' of the slip. Poor Eve bit the apple and tha? slip cost not only licr citizenship but her actual residence in the Garden and the great privilege of bearing children without pain. Resides, the law, which allows each d<>g one bite before con demning him, might vecll allow a lady one slip. Ruth r.Jder, charming young lady, attracted attention and news- paners gave her at least $100,- 000,OuO worth of free advertising. L’ow t'e intelligent Loew Com pany y:Vts her $1,000 a day for ICO days to tell about it insvaude- vi'.le. or rion.oco intelligent 1- Mr. \ich >las M get".' the benefit of $100,000,000 worth of publicity. Madame Curie could .not get $100,200 for telling about radium. The people want action. LONG TERM MONEY to LEND ' 6 percei^.jnte/fist oi^ . .o .. % Private fuads BROWN & BUSH LAWYERS BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLINA. Student.; at Chicago’s North west.-rn University vote Lind bergh a: d Henry. Ford “the big- rest men of the year." Queen Marie ’ends the women. President Coolidre; Mussolini, the Prince of Wales, Mayor Thompson,. F.dison, Tunney, A1 Smith, Babe Ruth got vote*. EUMATISM While in France with the American Army I. obtained h-noted french pre*. scription for the treatment of Rheu matism and Neuritis. I Kirv^given this to thousands with wonde suits. The prescription cost me noth ing. I ask nothing for it. I will mail it if you will send me your address. A postal will bring it. Write today. - PAUL CASE, Dep*. M-2H, Brockton, M SAY “BAYER ASPIRIN” and INSIST! Unless you see the “Bayer Cross” on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians -24 years for Headache Neuralgia |v • • • Lumbago Rheumatism Acce£t only “Bayer” package which contains proven direction*. Handy “Barer*dx^es of It tablata-Alao bottle, of 24 and ICfr-DnArfa. t tt *