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The Saunders Family Is a Pushing Bunch
HOW HE HELPED
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
If a bicycle built for two is considered unique in this day and age, just what would you say about this
one built for five? It is the chariot of the family of Mr. and Mrs. S. Saunders of Norfleet, England. The
bicycle proper is twelve feet long; motive power, three pairs of legs, owned by papa, mama and ten-year-
old Victor. The sidecar is occupied by Patricia, six, and Michael, three. Cost of operation is about one
shilling (25 cents) a week.
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THE FARMER SEES A STRANGE
SIGHT
'T'HE farmer who had made
friends with Billy Mink had
watched Billy disappear through the
hole beneath the shed of the farm
house. He had chuckled as he saw
the tip of Billy's tail disappear. You
see, it was to get Billy over to the
house that he had made friends
with Billy.
You remember that for days the
farmer had placed food for Billy
close to the woodpile under which
Billy was living. On this particular
morning he had tied a big piece
of fish to a string and then had
dragged it from the place where
he usually left Billy's meals over
to the hole under the shed. There he
had left the piece of fish. When
Billy had come out from under the
KNOW THYSELF
by Dr. Groryte D. Greer
DO GREAT PIANISTS MAKE THE
BEST PIANO TEACHERS?
I N AN article entitled "Facts and
Fallacies in Pianism," M. Cock-
ran points out that "skill in playing
the piano does not imply skill in
teaching the piano," and discusses
the fact that many great pianists
have been miserably poor piano
teachers because they did not know
the fundamentals of teaching or
the psychology of the pupil. Some
of the world’s great piano teachers
have been obscure pianists who nev
er became known as great artists
themselves, but they trained many
pianists. Great musicians often are
unable to come down to the level
of students, and thus are unable to
lead them. The result is that they
sometimes discourage the pupil
rather than heln him.
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New Fashion Twist
woodpile for his breakfast, there had
been no breakfast there. But it
hadn't taken him long to find the
trail of that piece of fish where it
had been dragged over ihe ground,
and with his wonderful nose he had
followed the trail straight over to
the hole under the shed.
Now you know the farmer’s house
was overrun with rats, the rats Billy
Mink had driven out of the barn.
The farmer hoped that if he could
get Billy over to the house he would
follow those rats and drive them out
just as he had driven them out of
the bam. That is why the farmer
chuckled when he saw Billy Mink
disappear through that hole under
the floor of the shed.
For a long time the farmer kept
watch, but he was disappointed.
Nothing happened. You sec, Billy
Mink, having eaten a hearty break
fast, had curled up for a nap under
the floor of the shed. The farmer
didn’t know this, and so at last he
concluded that somehow Billy Mink
had slipped out unseen. "I did hope
that little brown rascal w’ould drive
those rats out," muttered the farmer
as he went about his work.
It was some time later in the
day that the farmer went to the
bam door and glanced over toward
the house. Then it was that he saw
a strange sight, a very strange
sight, indeed. Out from that hole
through which Billy Mink had en
tered came a crowd of rats. There
were big rats, little rats and middle-
"People who pash themselves,"
says soliloquising Elizabeth, "don't
have to depend on friends with a
pull."
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sized rats. There were gray old
grand-father rats, and sleek young
rats. Never had the farmer seen so
many rats at one time.
And it was plain to see that those
rats were in a terrible fright. They
were squeaking and squealing with
fear, and every one of them was
running as fast as he could. They
scattered in all directions. Some
made for the big bam, some made
for the woodpile, some made for
the henhouse, and others started
off straight toward the next farm,
in spite of the snow on the ground.
The farmer shouted aloud for joy.
He knew that there wouldn’t be one
rat left in that house by the time
Billy Mink came out.
• T. W. Burgos.—WNU Servtcs.
H IS father bought a sugar bush
Back in the days when land
was cheap. j
Of course, 'twas wrong of him to
push
Himself above his neighbors,
keep
An eye upon a rainy day,
And worst of all to put away
A little for his youngster, too,
When times get bad, as times will
do.
And yet he did, and then he died
leift- the maples' to his son,
And past, the place I often ride.
(It’s out on Rural Number One.)
That sugar bush his father bought
Turned out about the way he
thought,
Has been enough, with what ha
had,
To keep the youngster of that dad.
I realize it’s wrong to save,
The newer name for thrift is
greed,
And that old farmer in his grave
Should b e condemned, c o n -
demned indeed.
And yet I rather hesitate
To do it—I have thought of late
That when that sugar bush was
grown
He saved for others than his own.
Upon the poor-list you will find
No mention of that son of his.
Though other farmers feel the
grind
Of taxes for some man who is.
He saved a little for his son,
But he was not the only one.
He served his neighborhood the
best
By loading no one on the rest.
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First Aid ea S
to the Ailing House
EXPOSED WOOD PORCHES
The newest style quirk to hit Hol
lywood is demonstrated here b y
Anita Colby. She wears twisted
ropes of pearls at her throat and
around her black velvet hat. The
pearl straigs are fastened with vel
vet ribbon.
A PART of a house that sooner or
later is almost certain to give
trouble is an open wood porch. As
porches are usually built, even the
best of floor paint will not last for
more than a year or two, and wood
steps and their supports are likely
to rot where they rest on the earth.
Water soaking into cracks between
floor boards and under the edges of
a porch also leads to rotting.
In building a new porch or in mak
ing repairs, this damage can be
largely offset through the use of
proper materials and methods.
Some kinds of wood are much more
resistant to rotting than others. Two
of these rot-resistant woods are red
wood and cypress. One or the other
should be used for the steps and
other parts that are in contact with
the earth. Heavy painting with cre
osote will protect any kind of wood
from rotting.
All of the wood used in building an
open porch should be "back-
painted"; that is, all parts, backs
and edges, should be given a coat
of paint as a protection against mois
ture. Any kind of good paint can
be used; aluminum paint is excel
lent, and so is white lead thinned
with linseed oil to the consistency
of thick paint.
In laying the floor, which is usually
made of tongue-and-groove strips,
the strips should be driven tightly
together. As the joints are filled with
paint, they will be closely bound,
and cracks between boards are not
likely to develop. Built in this way,
floor paint will last for several sea-
_ sons instead of but one or two. The
failure of paint on the floor of an
open porch is due to the soaking of
water into cracks between boards.
The wood absorbs the moisture,
which on dry and hot days is drawn
out through the top surface of the
boards. It is this that loosens floor
paint. With the joints closed with
paint, and the board prevented
from shrinking, this effect cannot
take place. • '
Tha bottoms of porch columns
should b£ so finished that water
cannot collect under them. They can
be bedded in white lead, and further
protected by strips of quarter-round
or other molding, also laid in white
lead.
The joints between the ends of
porch railings and the columns or
other parts that support them
should be treated in the same way.
Very commonly these joints open,
and there will be rotting as water
soaks in. Should these open joints
appear, they should be packed with
white lead, calking compound, or
something similar. With such pre
cautions, repairs to a porch can
be averted almost indefinitely.
c By Roger B. Whitman
WNU Service.
Basic Fmftr
Chofoclgrtslics *
UNCOMMON
AMERICANS
By Elmo
Scott Watson
• Western
Newspaper
Union
'T'HE fingers, like the thumb, hold
* many a startling revelation of
the inner self. These become clear
as the printed pages of a book to
those who learn to read them right
ly. Each finger has its own signif
icance which must be studied as a
separate element, much as you have
determined the indications given by
the thumb.
What the Fingers Signify.
Finger analysis begins with the
phases of personality represented
by each, as shown by the accom
panying Illustration.
The general rules governing an
alysis of the thumb apply. When
analyzing a finger, have thoroughly
fixed in mind the qualities of tem
perament it stands for. Next de
termine its type from form and
length and flexibility. Examine the
contour of the finger as a whole,
noting whether it is of square or
tapered type, whether smooth or ir
regular,* whether bony or well
fleshed. And particularly note the
length in relation to the lengths of
the other Angers, as well as the
relative lengths of the finger and
that of the palm upon which it is
set.
Memorize the meaning of each
finger: The first, or index, finger
represents power, purpose, prog
ress. The second, the quality ami
kind of thought. The third, bril
liancy and fame. The fourth, the
psychic and idealistic qualities of
the mind.
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Rulers of Semipro Baseball
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Pathfinder of the Seas
r_T E NEVER took part in a battle
* 1 but his name deserves rank
with those other American naval he
roes — Jones, Decatur, Lawrence,
Perry, Farragut and Dewey. His
career was a perfect example of
the saying that "peace hath its
war." For Matthew FontLine Maury
was one of the greatest benefactors
of all those who sailed the seas in
his day and mariners still honor
his name today.
Born in Virginia in 1806, Maury
joined the navy as a midshipman
at the age of nineteen. During his
long voyages he became impressed
with the scanty information that
was available about prevailing winds
and ocean currents. Strangely
enough, an accident on land gave
him his opportunity to do something
about it He was in a stagecoach
smash-up in Ohio which made hin^
a cripple for life.
As a result, he was placed in
charge of the depot of charts and
instruments in /^Washington out of
which developei) the hydrographic
office and the naval observatory.
Here he started collecting all avail
able information on the meteorolo
gy of the ocean which he com
piled from a great number of old
log books 6f naval vessels. The re
sult was his first Wind and Current
Chart, issued in 1847.
About 5,000 of these charts were
distributed to shipmasters, who
found them amazingly useful, shoiV
ening voyages by days and weeks.
"It was as if a friendly wizard in
seven-league boots had suddenly
risen out of the waves to lead mer
chant vessels by the shortest and
quickest paths." So they were glad
to heed Maury’s request to send
him the results of their observations
of winds and Weather and he began
issuing more charts. Within a few
years 200,000 copies of Uie charts
were being used by mariners of all
nations and it was estimated that
the annual saving to the shipping
of one nation alone was 810,000.000.
The outbreak of the War Between
the States was a tragedy for Maury
in more Ways than one. Loyalty to
his native state forced him to re
sign when Virginia seceded but. due
mainly to the jealousy of a superior
officer, his usefulness to the Con
federacy was hampered and his ca
reer in its service was not a dis
tinguished one. After living for a
while in England, he returned to
America and to a professorship at
the Virginia Military institut. where
he wrote a geography series which
is still in use. He died in 1873,
"full of years and honorr" and one
of the finest monuments in Rich
mond today perpetuate^ the fame of
this "Pathfinder of the Seas."
Honus Wagner, left, greatest shortstop baseball ever knew, now
high commissioner of semipro baseball, chats with Raymond Dumont,
president of the National Semipro Baseball congress, at a meeting of
officers of that organization in Chicago.
Ask Me Another
# A General Quix
• B«n Sjnxflcate.—WNU SotIm.
1. What Revolutionary, leader
waa known as the "swamp foac"T
2. What is meant by "high Ger
man”?
3. To what do "great primer"
and "long primer” refer?
4. In what state was Abraham
Lincoln born?
5. In geography, what is meant
by a march?
6. What two great mountaJa
systems traverse the United
States?
7. By what church official is a
mitre worn?
* 8. What mountains separate
Europe from Asia?
9. What is meant by a "modi
cum’’?
10. In what ocean is the island
of St. Helena?
Answers
1. Francis Marion.
2. The language of Germany as
distinguished from that of the
Netherlands, etc.
3. Sizes of type.
4. Kentucky.
5. A boundary or the territory
adjacent.
6. The Appalachian in the East
and the Rocky in the West.
7. A bishop.
8. The Ural mountains.
9. A small account.
10. The Atlantic.
"President for •
of Kentucky who
"President for o Day"
A CITY in Kansas, a county in
-t* Missouri and part of tha name
of a great railway system bear his
name, but David R. Atchison is
best known in American history
as the man who, it has often been
asserted, was
day." A native
emigrated to Missouri in 1830,
Atchison was serving as a senator
from that state in 1848 when Zach
ary Taylor was elected President to
succeed James K. Polk.
On March 3, 1849, Vice President
George M. Dallas, presiding officer
of the senate, announced "the close
of my official term being near at
hand, I conform to an established
and convenient practice by with
drawing from the deliberations of
this body." On the motion of Sen
ator Benton of Missouri, Senator
Atchison was then appointed presi
dent pro tern of die senate for the
remainder of that session of the
national congress.
March 4, the traditional Inaugura
tion day, fell on a Sunday and the
President-elect not only had reli
gious scruples about being inaug
urated on the Sabbath but doubted
the legality of such a proceeding.
So the. inauguration ceremonies
were set for Monday, March 5.
Friends of Atchison claimed that,
since President Polk’s term ended
on March 3 and Taylor’s did not
begin until March 5, there was an
interim of one day in which the
senate was the only continuing gov
erning body. Since Atchison was
president pro tern of the senate and
thereby'acting vice president (Dal
las having resigned) he was also
acting President between the ad
ministrations of Polk and Taylor,
L e. "President for a day.”
Atchison himself never made any
such claim and declared that the of
fice of President was vacant from
noon Saturday to noon Monday.
Asked once how he enjoyed his
short term in office he replied that
he really did not know because he
slept through most of it after an
exhausting last day session of the
senate. Constitutional authorities
agree with Atchison in regard to the
vacancy existing in the office of the
President on March 4. 1849. but one
edition of the biographies) congres
sional directory credits Atchison
with being "President for a day"
and that legend still
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription Is a
tonic which has been helping womea
of all ages for nearly 70 years. Adv.
Their Wisdom
Angels do not "fear to tread"
anywhere; only, being angels,
they know better.
EMINENT DOCTORS MOTE
THIS OPINION!
"...colds result from
add condition of the
body.,. they prescribe
various alkalies”—ex
cerpt from medical Journal. The
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They are never alone who art
accompanied with noble thoughta.
—Sir P. Sidney.
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Leisure is time for doing i
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Cultivate Thought
Cultivate thought, for you have
to be alone with it so many times.
At Your Best!
Free From Constipation
Nothing beats s dean system for
health I
At the first sign of constipation,
take pnrely vegetable Blqck-Dranght
for prompt relief. '—
Draught brings such refreshing relief. Bv
its cleansing action, poisonous effects at
constipation gre driven out; rou aooB
faal better, more efSetaBt.
Black-Draught coats lass than bmS
other laxatives.
BUCK-DRAUGHT
A GOOD LAXATIVE
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