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at the window.
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ster. producing a handful of nuts,
• would you hold these while I go
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A Mean Eye
Little Joan was learning to sew,
and had been trying for several
minutes to thread her needle. At
length, losing patience, she said
crossly: “I do believe\he nasty
eye isn’t looking for the dfctfton.”—
Windsor Sthr.
Resourceful: The man who
promised his wife a circular tour
--and took her on a merry-go-
round.
Wrong Darling
“Is that you, darling? M-may I
bring three friends home to sup
per?” *
“Why, certainly, dear.”
“I say, did you hear what I
said?”
“Of course, dear: you asked if
you could bring home three
friends!”
“Then I’m sorry, madam, I’ve
got the wrong number!”
LEADING MAN
Through a Tropic Holocaust
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
H ello everybody:
Well, sir, fellow adventurers, people have all kinds
of troubles in this bothersome old world of ours. You have
your troubles and I have mine. Maybe the old spinning ball
would be just TOO nice a place to live on if we didn’t have
our share of adversity to make the sweet seem sweeter and
the bright seem brighter still. Anyhow, I have a letter here
from Alberta L. Hitchins of New York City, who has had
her troubles—plenty of ’em—but who doesn’t let them bother
her very much. No, sir. Because every time she begins to
think her troubles are too much for her, she looks back on
that horrible day in Kingston, Jamaica, in January, 1907,
and realizes that what looks like troubles to her now don’t
really deserve the name of trouble at all.
On that fateful day Mrs. Hitchins was sitting in the office of J.
Eustace Burke A Brothers, the firm for which she worked. She wasn't
Mrs. Hitchins then—just Alberta, the assistant cashier. With her in the
office was her boss, her sister—one or two other women who worked
there, too. Outside, it was a clear, tropical sunshiny day. From over
head came the nimbi* of machinery in a bottling plant on the floor above
When the Earthquake Struck.
At 3:3* in the afternoon, a distant, ominous, rumbling sound
startled all Kingston. In the office where Alberta worked, how
ever, nobody paid any attention to these sounds. The bottling
plant on the floor above was always noisy. Rumblings wer*
nothing new to the employees of Burke & Brothers. The first
Intimation that Alberta had that anything was wrong was wkea
* she happened to look up from her work and saw that the wall la
front of her desk SEEMED TO BE BENDING OVER!
At the same time, she felt herself suddenly—inexplicably—slipping
from her chair. She Jumped to her feet. From overhead a shower of
pluster fell Uttering her desk. All at once, things seemed to be flying
in aU directions. Then, in a moment. aU was quiet again.
In the office, there was a moment of tense silence. Then Alberta
beard the voice of her boss saying: "My God! An earthquake! San
Francisco aU over again!** Alberta took a quick look around the of-
A Tottering Wall FeU With a Crash.
There were five people in It Miraculously, not one of them was
injured. Alberts heaved a sigh at relief—too toon. At that moment the
trembling started aU over again.
Frem outside came the so and at a piercing shriek. A wemaa
In the nest building' Alberta started teward the door—felt some
one grab her by the arm. It waa her sister. "Don’t ge eat
there.** her slater cried. A Uttering wall fell with a crash. The
wsmaa's voice waa stilled.
Terrible Scenes in the Streets.
The boss started to gather up the company's books and put them
la the safe. The girls turned to and helped. When that was finished.
Alberta and her sister made their way out to the street and started to
head for home, down by the waterfront
The town was a shambles. Buildings were down everywhere. Walls
were down—streets a mass of wreckage—debris strewn everywhere.
Men. women, children—even animals—were stretched out on the pave
ment. dead or frightfully injured. Everywhere, cries for help. People
pinned under falling buildings—half buried in the wreckage—shouted
pathetic appeals for aid that almost drove ..Iberta and her sister mad
with pity.
And to add to the horror. Are broke out—everywhere—and many who
could otherwise have been saved had to be abandoned by the rescuers
to a living death in the flames.
It was the most harrowing sight two girls had ever seen. They
struggled home to find their mother and younger sister alive, but
frightfully injured. They had just been dug out r.om under the
wreckage of what had been their home.
Earthquake shocks were still coming at interva... Alberta and
her sister cast about for medical aid for their mother and the little
girl. The hospital was miles away—and in ruins. The cnly safe place
left was the sea. They took them aboard a vessel anchor.d in the har
bor and put them in care of the ship's doctor.
There were hundreds of other people on that boat—..undreds of
refugees from the stricken city. All afternoon they straggbd aboard.
Doctors—volunteer nurses came from the town. They turned that boat
into a hospital ship for the care of the injured.
Tragedies in a Night of Horrors.
Night came—a night that transformed the city into a red ~ifemo
rimmed by the cosmic blackness. Fire flamed up anew in a hundred
different quarters. Buildings tottered. Walls crumbled. The shrieks
of the victims continued all through the night. Dogs howled in the stree •.
Fanatics sang wildly. People went insane for no other reason than t...(
which they had seen—and heard.
Terrible scenes were enacted in those grim hoars. A father
and son were trapped between two walls of a fallen building
Rescuers were striving to get to them. They were almost free,
when flame shot through the building, driving the rescuers back.
The trapped man's business partner had just time to pass his
hand through a hole In the wall—give his friend a last handshake
before the flames were upon him and he had to dash back, the
cries of his associate and the boy still ringing in his ears.
In the hearti*ending scenes that went on through that terrible night,
Alberta almost lost her mind. Long before it was over, she was a wom
an moving in a daze. Somehow she lived through it—somehow kept
her sanity. And now—
Now Alberta is married. As the mother of three children she has
responsibilities—sometimes troubles. But when she has troubles, she
looks back at that awful January day in Kingston and wonders what
the people who. bled and died in that holocaust would think of her
feeble little woes.
e—WNU Service.
Pepper Once Coveted by Kings
Pepper once was coveted by kings
and explorers laid down their lives
to get the precious seasoning. When
the Eastern Roman Empire fell
Alaric the Goth exacted 3,000
pounds of pepper as part of the
tribute. The Pepperers’ guild ol
London, organized in 1180, was for
many centuries the most powerful
of the trade guilds. Portugal sent
Vasco de Gama to find a water route
to India so that the pepper supply
might be more abundant A pound
of the seasoning once paid for a
year’s rent of land or a house in
England.
Canton Island
Canton island is the chief spot of
land among the tiny dots which
make up the Phoenix group, 2,700
miles north of New Zealand. The
importance of this archipelago,
which lies Just south of the equator,
is readily seen on any map of the
South Pacific. The Phoenix group
lies almost on a line between New
Zealand and Honolulu, practically
half way between the two. Canton
island covers about eight and a half
square miles, nourishes shrub veg
etation and provides a salt-water
lagoon navigable tq boats which
draw up to S feet
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r ri* r y of State Cordell Hull. 2—Frank McNinch, President Roosevelt’s new "trouble shooter,** is sworn in as
chairman of the federal communications commission. 3—Announcing that he and his bride wlU soon visit the
United States, the duke of Windsor accompanies his wife to a Parisian modiste.
Try a scoop ol vanilla lc« cream
topped with a spoonful at rich
brown apple butter.
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Lattice-Topped Pies.—Fruit end
berry pies with lattice-style tope
require less baking time than the
regular full-crust toppers.
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A Delight for the Children,—
Next time your children want a
party, cook a cornstarch custard
and fill cones. Alternate every
spoonful or so with currant jelly
and finish with jelly on top.
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Orange Fritters.—Separate two
large navel dranges into sections.
Dip sections in batter and fry In
deep fat. Serve as accompaniment
to roast lamb or braised pork
chops.
To Wash Curtains.—Lace cur
tains before being washed for the
first time should be soaked for an
hour or two in cold water to which
two tablespoons of table salt have
been added. This removes dress
ing in curtains and makes them
much easier to launder.
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Ambassador Goes Fishing
STARFISH PRINCESS
William C. Bullitt, United States ambassador to France, enjoys some
fishing in a stream near Chantilly, France, as he and his daughter spend
a holiday at the castle of Bois St. Flrmin.
She’ll star In aquatic events at
Long Beach, Calif. No pun Intended,
but Miss Aileen Znlswnick has
selected as the "Stsrflsh Princess”
to preside in fall and winter events
nt the famous sonthern California
beach resort. She Is shewn In her
stsrflsh costume.
ROSE IN HER HAIR
New U. S. Cruiser Commissioned
A rose by any other name—even
"chapeau”—is still a beautiful thing
to look at. Particularly is this true
when it* wearer is as chic as Miss
Lucy Saunders, society girl of Bel
mont Park, N. Y., who is pictured
here, modeling something different
in hats. It is made of robin’s-egg-
blue crepe, draped to resemble a
rose perched on top of her head.
A general view of the 10,000-ton cruiser Philadelphia, the fifth and
largest vessel to bear that name, at the Philadelphia navy yards, where
she was launched recently. The $14,750,000 vessel is commanded by Capt.
Jules James, formerly attached to the United States Naval academy.
The construction of this cruiser was part of the administration’s pro
gram to strengthen the nation’s naval forces. The program included the
construction of a number of other fighting ships
President Pays Call on a Cardinal
President Roosevelt is pictured as he chatted with George Cardinal Mundelein in the prelate’s Chicago
home, where the President was n luncheon guest on the occasion at his recent visit to Chicago. The President
and Cardinal Mundelein have been close friends for n number of years.
Beware Coughs
froa COflUMIB colds
That Hang On
,you<
No matter bow many
you have tried for;
cold, or bronchial i
get relief now with
Serious trouble may be
you cannot afford to take *
with any remedy len
Creomulxlon. which goee right to
the east of the trouble and aids na
ture to soothe and heal the inflamed
mucous membranes and to kona
nwd expel the germ-laden phlegm.
Even If other remedies have faded,
don't be discouraged, try Creocnul-
aton. Your druggist Is authorised to
refund your money If you are not
thoroughly sal
fits obtained
If you a
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from the
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