Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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R ECORLKBREAKINU rains In the piountalns of central Italy recently caused the yellow Tiber to overflow its banks, tbe river reaching Its highest point In many years. This view was taken at Rome during the flood, which caused naucn ulstcCTS. r—•— ^ ■ 7 ST Beatime Story for Children By THORNTON W. BURGESS HORN^ THAT ARE REALLY ' r NOT HORNS M I F YOU are so fond of the cold, I don’t s^e what you leave the Far North at all: for,” said Peter Rabbit to Snowflake tbe Snow Bunting, “Because, I^eter,” replied Snowflake, twltterlng’i ^merrily, “like everybody else ’Ivhfve to .eat In order to live. When yod see me down here you may know that the snow up North Is so deep that It has covered all the seeds. I hope I will noil have to go any farther south than this, but if some morning It Was Wanderer the Horned Lark. you wake up and And the snow so deep that all the weeds are burled, don’t ex pect to find me.” ‘‘That’s what I’d call good, sound common sense," said another voice, and a bird very near Snowflake’s size, and who at first glance seemed to be dressed almost wholly In soft choco late brown, alighted on the snow and began to run around In search of seeds. It was ;Wanderer the Horned Lark. Peter had known him ever since his first winter, yet did not feel really ac quainted, for Wanderer seldom Stayed long enough for a reel acquaintance. Now, as Wanderer reached up to pick seeds from a weed top, Peter had a good look at him. The first thing he noticed was what looked like two little horns above and behind the eyes. It If fifom these that Wanderer gets the name of Horned Lark. Of course, they are not really horns at all, but little tufts of black feathers. His fore head, a line over each eye, and his throat were yellow. There was a black iqprk from each corner of his bill curv ing downward and almost joining a black crescent shaped band across the breast Beneath this he was solid white with dusty spots showing here and there. His back was brown In places, having almost a pinkish tinge. His tall was black, showing a Mlttle white along the edges when he frew.- Altogether he was a handsome little fellow. “Do .all your family have those fun ny little horns?” asked Peter. “No,” replied. Wanderer promptly, “Mrs. Lark does not have them.” *T think they are very becoming," said Peter, politely. “Thank yon,” replied Wanderer, “I am inclined to agree with you.” Just then Peter discovered some- thlng^that he hadn’t noticed before. “My goodness,” he exclaimed, "what a long claw you have on each bind toel” It waa true. Each hind claw was about twice as long as any other claw. Peter couldn’t see any special use for these, and was just about to ask more about them when Wanderer suddenly spied a flock of his relatives some dis tance away and flew over to join them. Probably this saved him some embar rassment, for It was doubtful If he himself knew why Old Mother Nature had given him those long hind claws. e. T. W. Burfeaa.—WNU Service. ’ _ iiiiiimiimiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiiiiimimimimiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiimiiHimjijiuii JEAN NEWTON® A WOMAN’S EYES MORE EMPHASIS ON FACE DECAUSE' he shared responsibility ^ for the emperor’s party taking a wrong turn in their trip through-a etty- which received a royal visit, a police inspector in Japan attempted to com mit suicide. Death was preferable to the, dis grace that would descend upon the un fortunate blunderer and his family and all his relatives. For by his mistake this man had “lost face." And In Japan to lose face is a far worse thing than to lose material posseptons. Dear Mi Wynn: I am a girl nineteen years of age. There Is a young man who seems to be madly in* love with me, hut I am not sure I love him; he has proposed to me. He swears that if I marry him he will treat me like an "angel." What shall I do? Yours truly, I. M. KICKIDE. ~ Answer: Always beware of the man who- calls you an “angel," or the man who says be will treat yo’i like an “angel” Go to any art gallery and look at a painting of an “angel.” Yon will Immediately see all the clothes he intends buying you. Dear Mr. Wynn: I live In an apartment house and there Is a rumor about a married cou ple, in the same building. The rumor Is that the husband beats his wife up ev ery morning. Do you believe this? Yours truly, I. WONDER. Answer: I know the people you refer to and It Is a fact that the husband beats his wife up every morning. He gets up at 6:00 a. m. and she doesn’t get up till 7:00., % That the slash in men’s coat sleeves is a relic of the days when men settled their dif ferences with fhe sword. To prevent melord’s elaborate sleeve from being in*he way on such occasions his cuffs were originally slashed to that /they could be turned n " WNU Scrrloc. Dear Mr. Wynn: 1 am a scientist At present I am ex perimenting with “flies” I am trying to solve the big problem of the cen tury; that Is: “Should Flies Marry?” This Is my sixth year on the subject, and my greatest difficulty is to keep the flies over the winter months. Last winter I put a fly In a cuckoo clock jto rest, but It woke the fly up every hour and the poor thing died from the lack of sleep. \ Can you tell me the best place to keep a fly so It can rest peacefully? Yours truly\ WILL U. HELPilEB. Answer: Nothing In the world, ex cepting the discovery of the Notth pole, will be of greater benefit to humanity than the ; solution of the problem, ‘Should Files Marry?” I find that the Importance of Alee is • subject to think, about Some folks like flies, others don’t I know one man who owns a candy store and he likes Alee so much that he has just engaged s blacksmith for his store. This blacksmith t« sup posed to “shoo tbe files.” On the other bend, I hesr, every dsy, of s msn named Babe Roth who doesn’t like files. At least It appears so. as be keeps hitting over the fence. Now 1 ~l ’ . , * In China, too, It is a not uncommon oc currence for people to take their own lives for reasons of far less importance than causing the car of the emperor to take a wrong turn. However, they are- mistakes which cause the person to lose face—that is the Important thing. To lose face ~ts tn-tose-dlgnlty -and^-the respect of others. And what then, say these sons of an ancient culture, la there left? - “A good bank account,” would be the rejoinder of some American politicians —"and everything that will buy, which includes about all one wants.” It seems to me that the onus there Is not alone on the man or woman who exemplifies that philosophy—as for Instance a well known New York mayor who with honor and reputatlon : besmirched still haft a very good time on the surviving bank account—that the onus Is on the viewpoint of the vast numbers of people who make possible that good time. For no one can enjoy llfb who is ostracized by his fellows. And in China and Japan would like very much to help you, so after years of research Qyork I find the best place to keep a fly, If you do not want It disturbed at all, is, In a Scotch man's pocketbook. C. the AMoclated Newspaper*. wnu ssrvnse. When off to school the happy children go, The house sinks in a sleep as deep as Death, An4 does not wake till the returning breath. Of children make its staring windows glow. And down onr street a dozen houses shout. And wake to happiness when school ^ls out! >~ CoDTfUht.—WNU Berrlca. Jersey and Lace gave me many a night filled with clammy chills at No. 59 Washington Square,” related Will Irwin, who is known to be such a shrewd and canny and skeptical reporter that he was asked to Investigate and expose the seances of Signora Euspla Paladlno, the notorious psychic. “I might have attributed my nights of horror at No. 59 to a disordered digestion,” coritln-. ued Mr. Irwin, “had It not been that everyone who occupied ri^apartment had a similar ghostly experience. “One morning at three o'clock I-was awakened out of a sound sleep by a consciousness of some one bending over me. Three mornings In succes sion—always at the same hour and always without sound or \lght of anyone, I was thus awakened. My nerves became unstrung. I moved to a hotel Then, ashamed at my submis sion, I moved back to my flat But I slept with every gas jet burnlqg. The t^ienomenon recurred, but each time with less intensity. "During an absence from New York Malnbocber’s most exciting contri butions to the spring mode are his lace-trimmed daytime frocks. Here if one of grege Jersey and navy blue lace. It looks like a two-piece, but is in reality a one-piece dress. a man or *tlon, honor, dignity, would be ostra cized, regardless of how much of the world’s goods remaiued with them. The western slogan that “money is power,” and the penchant for winking an eye where ah offender has that power, Is important not only in such matters as discredited offlclals-and the absconding rich. It is signifleant all thq way down the line to the daily actions of average people. There Is that enpqvhasis on getting what one wants, without:too much thought ea how one gets it. In social as well as business matters, women are guilty of little tricks to attain their ends, so they undoubtedly “lose face," but they seem Indifferent to this as lopg as tbelr end Is attained. I am not promoting the Idea of sui cide for lost dignity. But I believe our standards of life would be very much Improved by placing more value on what In the East Is called “face” and less oh getting the things we want. ©, Ball Syndicate.—WNU Rerrtoe. I turned over my apartment to James Hopper. Mr.' Hopper was wrathful, rather than grateful, for the shelter of my apartment. He had been made uncomfortable by the same visitation that I had experienced there: * More over, he had bravely, in the dark, dared the ghost to an open encounter. The challenge had not been accepted. _ \ “Samuel, Hopkins Adams heard the story of my weird experience and he wanted to investigate matters under my troubled roof..# Despite the fact that he was forewarned and that he |s such an alert observer, he could only sear Incoherent witness to the visita- vilon. “Later, while I was on a holiday, two elderly ladles who were former neigh bors of mine In New England, asked to us& my apartjnent during their two weeks* visit to New York. A friend of mine was to call for them early the second day of their visit to show them about town. He found them standing on the doorstep, with vaUpes In hand. They wouldn’t stay another minute In Mr. Irwin’s noisy', fearful apartment! “I could see only one thing to do. I would glvj^ up tfb. 59 Washington Square. It only estranged me- from myself and ray friends. “I freed mypelf of the apartment and heard no further reports of It until one day a friend of mice who keeps a shop on the south side of the square told me that an old gentleman who wandered Into her place had become Steamship* Since 1784 Steamships practically date from 1784, although Fulton Is credited with the first recognized navigation In 1807, or 23 years later. The actual Inven tor of the steamboat was John Fitch, who put a boat on the Delaware river. Woman Becomes an Air Mail Pilot flR?y JsS’ Jgy Smr V wJf sss-i gpM Ippl BigS Washington Square had b<»en the Pot ter’s field and when the gallows had 'wood upon the place of the present arch. — "Then dolefully pointing to my form- er abode. No. 59, he remtfrked, ‘and that used to be the morgue.”’ .* • • By IGNACE PADEREWSKI ' Pianist «T VERY seldom play any gambling * games. I have not the time, nei ther have I the inclination to gamble, said the great pianist with a graceful and sweeping flourish of his hand. “But one.day in Monte ,Carlo t awoke with an irresistible impulse to- play roulette and a premonition that luck was running my way. Always, my work has been based oh exactitude and study. For once I wanted to play with a premonition. “I went to the roulette table and won seventeen times In succession. The next morning 1 awoke with the same Impelling hunch. 1 returned to the ta bles, and'Won-.thlrty-elght times. Con firmed gamblers tore tbelr hair because I would not place more than the small 5-franc note. "The third day my hunch was Still strong. Again I went to the tables and won thirty-four times. The Casino was in an uproar. The gamblers de cided that Paderewski had a system. The musiciau with bis knowledge of intricate mathematics had evdlved a ^. (system 1 Of course, I had no such sys- rem. They crowded to my side, and they wanted to place their money on my numbers, but I always waited until the last moment to place my note, so no one would know what number I was going to play. "The fourth day I awoke with a dis tinct presentment that my luck had run out 1 wanted to test the validity of this presentiment, so I strolled to the Casino and placed a few franca. I lost 1 played a few rounds and then stopped.” i Becoming Garden Spot Cranberra, Australia made-to-ordar ‘Capital, la rapidly becoming one of the garden dtlps of tho world. Throe mil lion dross and shrubs, 40 miles of hedges and 20,000 roses have been planted- Every tree and flower have been placed like s piece of mosaic ac cording to a preconceived pish. co-pilot of gratulattons RITCHEY Is the first woman to win tho right to pUi Undo mall wings on her left cent pocket atad has begun work ns end passenger plane. She is sadT fieri toeelttng tho eon- WUliam W. .r > - r>^ - »- cfkfi 20&r The housewife who tal^es pride la her kitchen usually takes great inters est In a goodly supply of chic aprons, and where could you find two love lier models than those shown today. Both are Included In the one pattern and both have slenderizing front panels and that fashionable half-belt ed waistline. The upper design give# fine opportunty for using rick-rack braid to set off the lines of Its smart V . neck and spacious pockets. Tfia lower sketch boasts a youthfully rounded neckline and jaunty capelflro shoulders, and would be as pretty as can be made up In a dainty dotted swiss, edged with embroidery. Pattern 2060 is available in sizes small, medium and large. Medium size, each apron takes one and a half yards 36-inch fabric. Illustrated step- by-step sewing instructions included. SEND FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this pattern. Write plainly NAME, ADDRESS and STYLE NUMBER. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Sewing Clrclo Pattern department, 243 West Seven teenth street, New York City. @S1 eS READ CAREFULLY “The time-table says that thia train will arrive at nine-ten and it’a half an hour late now,’’ xomplained the traveler at the small-town rall- voad atatlop, , "Well, ’taint ten yet .Is It?" tha agent countered.—Portland Express. Patting Her Wise OonuXoaington—My fiance, bleaa bis squl, has confessed all his past love affairs to me. Polly Pickles—He wasn’t confes-, sing. He was boasting. Only On as Jones—So you don’t advise ms to go there for my vacation. They ad vertise good meals. --a Smith—Yehl You are them—for the mosquitoes around thereT A Good Reason Robson—What prompted yon to ask Miss Frlwell to be your wife? Hobson—I think Miss FrlvveU prompted me move than anything else. Growth of Mushrooms Mushrooms develop from spores, which are equivalent to tho seeds'Of higher plants. The spore produces nyoellum, or the vegetative pert ef he phint, which works In the sod er ther medium. IV mushroom to the rnltlng body.