The Barnwell people-sentinel. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1925-current, December 08, 1927, Image 2
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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
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' 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.
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