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/^LARK GABLE was Uttl« dUTcr-
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boy. Born in Cadlx. Ohio, in 1900,
•nd later living in Hopedale, Ohio,
population 800, Clark Gable was a
regular American boy, fond of the
outdoors and all sports. Mother*
less from the time he was seven
months old, be was raised by his
grandparents until his father re*
married. He held a deep love and
respect for his stepmother.
Like any other normal American
boy, Clark Gable was not sure what
position he would like to hold in
life. He thought for awhile that he
might be an architect, and later
he studied medicine at night school.
Ambitious but poor, he had to work
from the time he was seventeen
years old, and his jobs were as va*
ned as his opportunities. He was
timekeeper in a rubber factory,
call boy in a theater, an oil driller,
a telephone linesman, a surveyor's
assistant and a lumber jack Clark
Gable might have been anything but
a motion picture actor.
He became a star by traveling
the hard rood of theatrical stock
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Prep*red by National Geographic Society,
Washington. D. C.—WNU Service.
T HE peninsula of Yucatan
projects northward between
the Caribbean sea and the
Gulf of Mexico like the thumb
of a giant hand. Located in its
northern half are the states of Yu
catan and Campeche and the terri
tory of Quintana Roo, in the Repub
lic of Mexico.
It is almost as flat as the prover
bial pancake, though, as one travels
from north to south, a few low
ranges, little more than foothills,
are encountered, few exceeding 500
feet above the sea. The country is
a limestone plain of recent geologic
formation, covered with a dense,
rather low forest which increases
in height from north to south as the
soil grows deeper.
Yucatan has no surface water, no
rivers or streams, and relatively
few lakes, but everywhere are to
be found large natural wells called
cenotet. which made life poeaibio tti
ancient times In the formation of
these, the surface coralline Ume-
of water,
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broad-arched cloisters with tiled
floors surround the patios on all
four sides, and in more modest ones
on one or two sides.
The patio itself usually is a riot
of brilliantly colored tropical flow
ers, many of which distill rare per
fumes.
Today, with its well-lighted, clean
streets, its many parks, its movies,
electric signs, autobusses and mill
ing newsboys, bootblackswith their
little portable boxes, and sweetmeat
venders, Merida is a city of the
Twentieth century.
But with Maya Indians in their
picturesque native costumes rub
bing shoulders with Mexicans in
the more familiar habiliments of
tha modern world, even with Amer
ican visitors in plus fours strolling
beneath the medieval dignity of tha
cathedral towers, a thousand years
of human history unfold before the
eye.
The story of man's earliest occu
pation of Europe has been recov
ered Bum the cams ef
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Lesson for June 20
JOSEPH’S KINDNESS TO HIS
KINDRED
LESSON TEXT—GoMfta «44. H-30; S*
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GOLDEN TEXT—And bs ys kind one Is
another, tenderhearted, forgiving one an
other, even as God for Christ's sake balk
forgiven you. Ephesians 4: SI.
PRIMARY TOPIC—When Joseph Saw His
Father Again.
JUNIOR TOPIC—Joseph Honoring His ra
ther.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC-
Kindness in the Family.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
Mutual Helpfulness In the Family.
A happy ending—yesl Modern
writers may look with disfavor on
it (and perhaps rightly so, for most
of them write about life apart from
fellowship with God) but to those
who trust God and who seek his
will, the story of life has a bright
and joyful conclusion.
But someone may object that tha
lesson for today closes with the last
words of the book of Genesis, which
are “a coffin in Egypt.” la that a
happy ending? It Is, because even
that forbidding emblem of death
pointed in faith toward the day when
God was to keep his promise and
bring his people into tha promised
land.
Our lesson centers around the last
of our patriarchs, Joseph, and his
kindness to his father and his fami
ly. Tha highest official in tha tend
of Egypt (save for Pharaoh him
self) proves his
by forgetting
except as they enable him to be a
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of its acidity. But this can be
considerably reduced If tha fruit
la cove rad* with cold water,
brought to the boil and then
strained before being stewed In
tha ordinary way. This method
is only recommended to anybody
who dislikes ordinary stewed rhu
barb, aa tha healthful salts era
lost when the fruit is cooked twice,
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Brightening Piano Keys—Dis
colored piano keys can be bright
ened by rubbing with a soft cloth
dampened with alcohol.
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Tinting Milk—When small chil
dren refuse to drink their daily
milk requirements, try tinting the
milk with vegetable coloring.
a a •
v Keeping Flowers Fresh—A cou
ple tablespoons of sulfurous (not
sulphuric) acid added to each pint
of water encourages buds of cut
flowers to continue growing and
leaves and stems remain greener.
a a a
Storing Tea and Coffee—Home
supplies of tea and coffee will
keep their flavor longer if stored
in stone jars.
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Custard Sauce—One and one-
half cups scalded milk, one-eighth
teaspoon salt, one-quarter cup su
gar, one-half teaspoon vanilla.
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Cabbage Cooked wtth Mflk—
Two cups milk, six cups shredded
cabbage, one-third cup milk or
cream, two tablespoons melted
butter, two tablespoons flour, half
teaspoon salt. Heat milk and cook
cabbage in it two minutes. Add
milk or cream, flour blended with
butter and salt. Cook for throe or
four minutes, stirring constantly,
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For lUadriag Stoves—An old
shoe polish dauber is an excellent
tool for blacking stoves.
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Determination Has Inning
Hanging on to a forlorn hops re
sults in success aa often as it re
sults in failure.
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mid-western hotels, a harvest hand
in the Kansas wheat fields, and a
carpenter’s helper.
Carl Sandburg was learning the
painter’s trade when the Spanish-
American war broke out, and he
enlisted. A comrade persuaded him
to go to Lombard college and he
worked his way through as a bell
ringer, gym janitor and college cor
respondent for the Galesburg Daily
Mail. In college his literary ability
developed and he became editor of
the school publications. After grad
uation he supported himself as ad
vertising manager of a department
store and sales manager of a busi
ness machines firm.
He entered politics, became a re
porter. and in 1917, Carl Sandburg
tha staff of tha Chicago Daily
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Because of its almost complete
Isolation, the peninsula was select
ed by the Carnegie Institution of
Washington more than two decades
ago, as a center for the intensive
study of American aboriginal civi
lizations. Foreign influence having
been reduced to a minimum, Yuca
tan is an excellent ’’laboratory
case” for such a study.
This subtropical paradise is not
difficult of access from the United*
States. Merida, the capital, is only
nine hours by air from Miami and
less than six and a half from Mex
ico City. There are regular steam
ship sailings from New York and
from New Orleans to Progreso, port
of Yucatan. There is every facility
for convenient touring about the
peninsula, even the modern Maya-
land lodge in the venerable ruins
of Chichen Itza.
Merida, with about 110,000 people,
must be one of the cleanest cities
of its size in the world. All the
streets are paved. Ninety per cent
of the bouses ere rough maeonry
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Although the Maya to their
edge to tee
to the heavenly
moon. Venue, and probably other
planets as well—far excelled both
the ancient Egyptians and Baby
lonians, their greatest intellectual
achievement was the invention of a
chronology, exact to the day within
a period of 374,400 years, which is
as accurate as our own Gregorian
calendar. For the first time in hu
man history, their mathematical
system to keep account of this
chronology made use of a positional
system of writing numbers involv
ing the conception of the abstract
mathematical quantity of zero, one
of the outstanding achievements of
all time.
While our own numerical system
is decimal, increasing by tens from
right to left of the decimal point,
the ancient Maya system was viges
imal, increasing by twenties from
bottom to top. But all the essential
elements of our modern arithmetic,
including numeration by position
and use of a symbol to represent
zero, bad been devised by the an
cient Mays 2.000 year* ago. and at
We ara net all
tow wing our affect
wo would not plead for more to that
aham public expression to affection
which ie eo distasteful to right-think
ing people. But may we not suggest
that there is room for improvement
in our loving consideration for our
kindred. Let us ask ourselves how
long it is since we did something
to show that we really love our
mother, our father, or a faithful
wife, son, or daughter? How long
is it since you wrote home to moth
er, or went home to visit?
IV. Imparted by Faith (50:24-26).
Jacob had been gathered to his
fathers; time had gone on its re
lentless way, and Joseph is about to
die. What shall be the heritage to
his family? Money, property, posi
tion? No; he leaves them something
infinitely more valuable—a forward-
looking faith that will keep alive in
their hearts the expectation that
God will in due season bring them
into their own land. Joseph had
spent most of hit years in Egypt,
he had attained high position and
great honor, but he never lost his
vision to the promised tend. He
imparts to them by faith that hope
to tou
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