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Th« Bamwell P»ople-S—UneU Brwwll. S. fL Thareday, April 1, 1937
SUCH IS LIFE—Obliging
By Charles Sughroe
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Massachusetts Boasts
Oldest Church in U. S.
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Old Ship Meeting House Is
Still in Use.
Hingham, Mass. — The oldest
building in the United States that
has been used continuously for pub
lic worship is the Old Ship Meeting
House here, writes a correspondent
of the Kansas City Star. The tradi
tion is that it was built by ship’s
carpenters. That they did their
work well is proved by the fact
the frame structure they erected
has withstood the suns and snows
of more than two centuries and a
half. It was put up in 1681.
This quaint wooden structure has
a hipped root in the form of a trun
cated pyramid, surmounted by a
belfry and lookout station. It is
the “lookout” station which has giv
en the church its nautical name.
Surmounting the belfry is a weath
er eane, and the bell rope dangles
down in the center aisle to the floor
A DRAMATIC CAPE
—
A dramatic cape of fog blue an
gora woolen is buttoned high at the
throat and invisibly belted in the
back to outline the figure. The but
tons snd belt buckle sre moulded
silver metal. The intricately cut
gown is in a matching blue and
white silk print with small pieces
of silver lame worked into a self
applique on the bodice and at the
waist.
of the church. Fourteen feet were
added to the north side of the orig
inal building in 1730, and a quarter
of a century later another fourteen
feet were added to the south side.
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Used for Town Meetings.
The first meeting was held in this
church January 5, 1682, and for
more than a century Old Ship
church was used for all town meet
ings and village gatherings. Week
days the congregation met to dis
cuss ways and means of prevent
ing Indian depredations. Sundays it
came to, hear Rev. Peter Hobart
preach for two hours on the sin of
hoop skirts and foppish millinery.
It was a minister of Hingham
who, while sitting in his room above
stairs, heard hearty laughter below.
He went down with a stem visage.
“Cousins,” he remarked sadly, “I
wonder how you can be so merry
unless you are sure of your salva
tion.”
Tradition has it that the Hingham
church was the last among the Puri
tans to permit the solemnization of
marriage by the clergy. For in
those days, although St. Paul had
said it was better to marry than
to bum, marriage was considered
too worldly a thing for the clergy
to stamp with its official approval.
At one time Peter Hobart is said
to have been taken to task for
transgressing this ethic of the pro
fession by going to Boston to sol
emnize the marriage of a member
of his parish. “We were not will
ing,” said Governor Winthrop, "to
bring in the English custom of min
isters performing it.”
Of Quaint Design.
The severe style of architecture
of Old Ship Meeting House is typical
of the taste of the New England
colonists. There is little that is at
tractive about , the building, but its
quaint design is interesting. The in
terior was plain. The congregation
worshiped under bare rafters and
there were no heating arrange
ments. The seats were hand-hewn
wooden benches without backs.
Stoves later superseded the old foot
wsrmers and comfortable seats
were put in about 1817.
In 1809, when It became neces
sary to replace the floor timbers,
modem seats were put in. The pul
pit. built in 1755, is a massive struc
ture reached by a stairway on each
side snd there is an oddly designed
canopy serving as a sounding board.
In the early days separate pews
were assigned to the elders, deacons
and the widow of the flrst pastor;
and. in 1763, to “persons skilled in
musick."
The church was built by direct
taxation on the 103 members of the
congregation and cost 430 pounds.
A wall tablet contains the informa
tion that for a period of 152 years
there were only three ministers,
one preacher being on the job for
sixty-five years. A two-hour sermon
was preached every Sabbath day
through more than a half century
of stoveless New England winters.
AMAZE A MINUTE
SCIENTIFACTS BY ARNOLD
Antelope saved/
The fast disappearing
antelope has been saved by
raising, in Alberta, a herd
NOW GROWN TO 500.
Hotel child-
Berlin has a
children’s hotel
WHERE PARENTS
MAY LEAVE
'CHILDREN
OVER
NIGHT.
Home op the grape.
More native species
OF GRAPES ARE FOUND
IN U.S. THAN IN ALL
OTHER COUNTRIES.
OUR BASIC
NEEDS
By
LEONARD A. BARRETT
One of the lessons we have
learned from the recent depression
is that our basic
,needs are very
simple and not
difficult to sup
ply. A careful
analysis of our
personal budgets
may disclose the
startling fact that
the larger part of
our expenditures
are not for these
basic needs but
rather for luxu
ries, some of
which we might
do without very
profitably. One of the difficult prob
lems which resulted from the last
period of prosperity was that we
accustomed ourselves to privileges
and possessions never before en
joyed. When these were denied us,
we felt that the resulting economic
condition was both unreasonable
and unjust. Of course, many people
did suffer unjustly and paid dearly
for the errors of others, but the
HE PREFERS MUSIC
T/ouj'c/To/y n^fints
y ' By BETTY WELLS y '
“W E BARELY had a nest e g*
left after the depression,”
writes one of the multitude of home
buyers who lost their property in
the crash. “But now we’re on our
feet again and having a grand time
getting settled in a newiold house.
“We bought a run down suburban
place which sold for a $700 mort
gage. The woodwork is dark in col
or and banged and marred with
years of living. The floors are pine
but in fair condition, only too dark
wwn
Archie San Romani of Kansas
State Teachers' college, who turned
the 1936 “mile of the century" into
an upsetting affair by defeating Jack
Lovelock and Glenn Cunningham at
the Princeton invitation, Princeton,
N. J., looks upon track only as a
hobby and prefers the comet with
which he is shown. When he re
ceives a degree in music this
spring he plans to teach it.
larger group did not want for the
basic necessities of life.
An interesting question arises.
Suppose we were left destitute
somewhere beyond the reach of civ
ilization, without possessions, except
an ax, a gun, and plenty of ammuni
tion. Would we be able to build
an adobe from the uncut trees
of the forest and maintain life by
the use of the gun? If not, why not?
Our forefathers did. What has mod
em civilization taken from us that
our forefathers possessed? We are
not arguing for a return to the so-
called rugged days of pioneering.
We are simply challenging a self-ex
amination ^>f our inner rugged re
sources of physical strength and en
thusiastic determination to let no
external condition defeat us. Per
haps there are ahead of us many ex
periences in our modem civilization
that will require fortitude of life
beyond that expressed in. the cov-)
ered wagon period.
Let us briefly recall the three
basic human needs: bread, water,
and light, If we eliminate a single
one of these needs, we die. All
three are essential to life regard
less of our social or financial status.
These are simple needs but they are
necessary, and at least two of them
are given without price. We may
have all the water and sunlight we
desire. Bread, the staff of life,
must be earned. Our failure to ap
preciate basic needs dwarfs our
evaluation of possessions that may
come slowly or rapidly. Basic needs
have more to do witfi courage than
with comfort of the individual. A
basic need which is the first to be
distributed and the last to be de
nied. has a way of developing like
spiritual qualities in t)}e life of one
who appreciates the but^need.
Comfort may be g«io with the
wind, but coursee is a great rock
iu a weary laud.
We pieod for a return to a better
appraisal and a deeper appreciation
“We’re having a grand time
getting settled.”
with many coats of old stain and
varnish. I intend to scrape and wax
the floors.
“The living and dining rooms ad
join with a cased arch between. I
thought I’d like this woodwork in
gray, and perhaps gray wall paper.
Would this be too much gray? Then
perhaps blue rugs with dusty pink
draperies for winter and .spring,
and for summer green draperies.
My overstuffed furniture is a tobac
co brown mohair. My things are all
misfit and nothing looks right. I'd
appreciate your suggestions or crit
icisms of these ideas of mine.”
Well, we think you've embarked
on a very grand adventure. Any
way, there's nothing that wheta our
ambition more than the prospect of
making something out of nothing in
the way of a house.
But we’d be careful about those
grays. If these two rooms are very
light, then that’s a good color and
very smart. Only use plain gray
enamel rather than the stippling.
Rather a pale, fray and a gray pa
per with white flower sprays in it
maybe. Then why not a gray rug
too. And perhaps plain yellow drap
eries ... I believt I'd like this col
or better here than dusty pink, al
though the latter would be quite all
right. Now your brown mohair
furniture could stay aa it is, or
you could slip-cover it.
Now then, if you’d prefer to keep
to your idea of dusty pink, use dark
er brown slip covers on the sofa
snd chair, pink for one chair and
figured pink and brown for another.
For summer windows I’d be in
clined to advise sheer curtains rath
er than green draperies as your
grays are enough cool color even
summer, I think.
• • •
Restoring an Old Home.
“I’m deep in the business of re
creating our old home place built by
my great-grandfather in 1823-25,”
writes Mrs. Lansing A. Dickson.
“It’s really going to be interesting
when it’s finished. The great living
room is being papered with o 1 d
maps that I’ve collected. And the
dining-room walls will be covered
with pages from an old county at
las which shows pictures of county
homes and towns in 1860. And of
course I’m accumulating as many
things as I can that belong all
through the Nineteenth century,
when this house was in its heyday.
(It’s made of brick, molded and
burned right on the farm near the
house.)
“So far the floor coverings are
hand braided, crocheted or hooked
rugs and I'm trying to keep the
other furnishings in the mood of
the house. I wish you could drive
up to see it sometime.”
Wouldn’t we like to, thought And
if ever we are in Mrs. Dickson's
neighborhood we certainly will.
We re thinking how charming some
of the old Victorian things would
be in that house—a Brussels car
pet, for instance! And lace curtains
. . . and wax flowers under glass,
Victorias colors
gest fsscissUag I
decors ting.
of those things that are basic needs.
Possessions are perishable, but not
so, peace of mind. Tolstoy relates
that a wandering minstrel sang in
front of a noted hotel in Lucerne.
The people applauded, but met the
minstrel’s request for simple neces
sities with respectful silence. Na
ture is more generous. Shall we be
more wise?
C Western Newspaper Union.
My Neighbor
Says:=
Parafin makes an excellent filling
for cracks in old floors. Scrape off
all surplus parafin after it has
cooled.
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Salt should not be added to the
water in which delicate green vege
tables are cooked until they are al
most done. To preserve color,
greens should be cooked in an un
covered pan. - _
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As soon as frost is out of
the .ground plant bare spots on lawn
with grass seed. April is a good
time to sow grass seeds as it makes
a more satisfactory growth while
the weather is cool.
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If colored butters are desired for
sandwiches, use pimiento combined
with butter .for red or pink, while
watercress chopped fine will give
the desired green and orange or
lemon rind blended with butter
gives the yellow color.
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An excellent polish fbr mahog
any if a tablespoon of olive oil
mixed with a teaspoon of vinegar.
Apply the fluid with a soft flannel,
after the wood has been dusted.
Then polish thoroughly with a soft,
clean duster. *
c Associated Newspapers — WNU Service
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Largest of all birds is tha ostrich,
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Biltta Burks
Actress
English Mock Cheese Cake
Ilk cupfuls flbur
tea spoonful salt
V« cupful bollinf water
% cupful butt*r
V« cupful butter
% cupful sugar
1 cupful fresh-grated coconut
3 eggs
2 teaspoonfuls cream
1 teaspoonful vanilla
Make a rich pie paste of the
flour, salt, three-quarters cupful of
butter and the boiling water. RoD
out, cut in rounds, and line muffin
tins with it.
Make a filling of the quarter
cupful of butter, well creamed;
add the sugar and well-beaten eggs,
cream and vanilla. Fold in the
coconut, fill the lined tins, and
bake in a moderate oven until a
delicate brown, and they are set.
These may be topped with
whipped cream when they ara
cool.
Copyright—WNU Senric*.
Foreign Words
and Phrases
fabrics sa
far today’s
and
Robert Wadlow of Alton, 111., who
has just passed his nineteenth birthr
day, is 8 feet, 7 inches tall and
weighs 450 pounds. He is shown
here in the living room of his par
ents. Robert’s blond hair just about
touches the ceiling, and when he
goes from room to room, it's “low
bridge ' at the doorways.
Sine qua non. (L.) Without
which not; an indispensable con
dition.
Absque hoc. (L.) Without this.
Ex parte. (L.) Of or from one
side only.
Non est inventus. (L.) He has
not been found.
Pax vobiscum! (L.) Peace ba
with you!
Statu quo ante bellum. (L.) As
it was before the war.
Sur le tapis. (F.) On the carpet;
under consideration.
Vinculum matrimonii. (L.) Tha
bond of matrimony.
Tabula rasa. (L.) A blank tab
let.
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a horsehair sofa, a what-not
a velvet bound family album.
Remember that tha Victorian pa
rted in decoration had its own
charm and much very beautiful fur
niture was made during that time.
We treasure in our own home soma
marble top tables, several roaewood
carved chairs and a love seat, aloof
with an old bureau.
Victorian colors and fabrics sug
gest fascinating ideas for today’s
decorating, too. There is an abund
ant heartiness about them that we
enjoy.
• By Betty Well* —WNU Senric*.
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