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DAY, FEBRUARY 11. 1937
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Avoid Unhealthy Dry Air—Keep
J
Radiator Humidifier Pans
Filled With Water.
AAANY winter colds are caused
by hot, dry air in the home
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while the season for burning the
furnace is on. Heat, of course.
absorbs the moisture in the air.
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This hot air also dries out and
damages furniture.
You can easily and inexpensively
provide for air-moisture by keep-
ing a “pan humidifier/' or hot
water pan, filled with water in
each room of your home. Designed
to hang out of sight on the backs
of radiators, these pans furnish
water that can be evaporated by
the radiator heat and provide mois
ture for the air in the rooms. This
prevents the air from becoming
too dry and lessens the chance of
catching or spreading colds.
Warm air heating plants are
equipped with humidifier pans. All
you have to do is to keep them
filled with fresh water.
Copyricht.—WNU Servlc*.
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WATERY HEAD COLDS
Because of their “Lalanced
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Evil of Self-Pity
No subtler habit of evil is there
in the world than that of self-pity.
—Bright.
Don't Sleep
When Gas
Presses Heart
If you want to really GET RID OP
QAS and terrible bloating, don't expect
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due to old poisonous matter In the
constipated bowels that are loaded
with ill-causing bacteria.
If your constipation Is of long stand*
Ing, enormous quantities of dangerous
bacteria accumulate. Then your di
gestion is upset. GAS often presses
heart and lungs, making life miserable.
You can’t eat or sleep. Your head
aches. Your back aches. Your com.
plexion is sallow and pimply. You#
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wretched, unhappy person. YOUR
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Thousands of sufferers have found In
Adlerika the quick, scientific way ts
rid their systems of harmful bacteria.
Adlerika rids you of gas and cleans
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Books Speak Plain
Books will speak plain, when
counsellors blanch. — Francis
Bacon.
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Help Them Cleanse the Blood
of Harmful Body Waste
Your kidneys are constantly filtering
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Door of Death'
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
T IME and again I’ve told you boys and girls yarns that—well
—sort of proved that adventures happen to you most often,
not when you go to some special place or on some special sort
of trip, but in the familiar, workaday places that you’re ac
customed to visit every day of your lives.
It’s a tale of subway adventure that we’re going to hear today—a
story told to me by Matthew Creegan of Jamaica, N. Y. Matt left
his home and went down into the Lexington avenue subway one day
in 1921—Tuesday, November 13, to be exact about it—and before he
got out of it, he had the most hair-raising experience his life has had to
offer, either before or since.
Mat started to pay a visit to some friends of his who
lived on Staten Island. He went down to the subway platform,
and, when the right train came along, he got in the first car. He
stayed on the train until it reached South Ferry, and then he
started to get off.
His Foot Was Caught in the Door.
Matt was the last passenger to get off that car. The door was
closing as he went through it. As he stepped onto the platform with
his right foot, the door closed in on his left foot and held it tight.
It was the sort of accident that happens once in a million years.
You know how those subway doors are built and how they operate. The
train can’t start until every door is fully closed and automatically
locked in place. But in order to save people from being hurt by the
doors as they slide shut, they’ve put a big soft cushion covered by a
rubber flap on the side of each one. That cushion has three or four
inches of play in it. That three or four inches was just enough to catch
a firm hold on Matt’s foot, and shut and lock at the same time.
Matt twisted around and tried to pull his foot loose, but it
wouldn't come out. Then, suddenly, Matt’s heart froze as a jar
shook the whole train. IT WAS STARTING! The closed locked
doors had been the motorman’s signal to go ahead!
Matt let out a yell. There was a guard standing between two cars
just twenty or thirty feet away, but he didn’t hear. The train began to
pull out of the station. Matt looked around frantically for something
to grab hold of. If he could get a good grip on a post or a handle
of some sort, he might wrench his fo6t loose. He might hurt that foot
pretty badly, it’s true. But even breaking it clean off would be better
than being dragged and taking a chance under the wheels of the car.
Dragged Along, Head Downwards.
But there was nothing to catch hold of. Matt fell to the platform
and was dragged along. The train moved on, picking up speed as it
went. Matt let out one last yell as the end of the platform came moving
up to meet him, but no one heard that yell, either. And then his body was
falling—over the platform’s edge—down toward the tracks. In a split
second he was HANGING HEAD DOWNWARD from that subway door,
while the train bowled along toward the next station.
Matt is short of stature, and for the first time in his life he was glad
of it, for his head did not quite reach the tracks. Had he been just a
few inches taUer, the top of his cranium, dragged over that concrete
floor studded with hard wooden railroad ties, would have been battered
to a pulp before the train had gone half a block. As it was, that head of
Matt’s was in danger, from the various obstacles and projections that
lined the side of the track.
Matt remembers trying to hold himself tight op against the
side of the train to avoid those projections, as well as the
pillars that went flashing by. The train was going full speed now.
It was an express train, and Matt also remembers being glad the
accident had happened to him downtown, where the express trains
stopped at every station.
The next station was Bowling Green, for the train had swung around
the loop at South Ferry, and now was on its uptown trip. Would he still
be alive when he got there? Matt wondered about that.
Unconscious, But Saved.
Something caught Matt’s coat—ripped it from his back. A few
yards farther on, his vest went the same way. His shirt was being
torn to ribbons. The roar of the wheels—terrifyingly close to his
head—filled his heart with horror. That upside-down position was caus
ing the blood to rush to his head. He felt weak from the shock of it all.
Suddenly, HIS HEAD HIT SOMETHING. A great light flashed before
Matt’s eyes—and then he was unconscious. .
The train was slowing down now—though Matt didn’t know it. It
was rolling into the Bowling Green station. If the guard opened the
door of the car, Matt’s foot would be released and he would fall to
the track. But the guard didn’t open the door. There were no pas
sengers waiting to get on up at that far end of the platform. Doors
of other cars opened and slid shut again. But the one that imprisoned
Matt’s foot remained closed.
The train was ready to roll on to the next station—and there's
no telling what would have happened to Matt then—when a
watchman, standing on the platform, saw the foot thrust through
the door. He took a flashlight from his pocket and looked down
into the crack between the train and the platform. There was
Matt—DANGLING—SENSELESS.
The watchman notified the guard. The guard opened the door,
and Matt’s body fell to the track. The motorman blew the emergency
whistle, and some men working near the station came and dragged
Matt out. He woke up in the Broad Street hospital.
Matt pulled out of it all right—and if there’s one thing he’s thank
ful for it’s that he’s a small enough man to fit in the space between a
subway door and the ground without dragging. The big guys can have
their six feet if they want it. “The bigger you are/’ says Matt, “the
more things you knock your head against.”
©—WNU Service.
Famous War Horses
In olden times, war horses pulled
wagons, chariots and catapults. La
ter the Arabs bred fine, fleet horses
on which they overran most of the
Mediterranean world. European
knights developed powerful horses
capable of carrying a man in full
armor. These were the ancestors of
our modern draft horses. One of the
most famous war horses was Buce
phalus, owned by Alexander t h e
Great. Nobody else could ride him.
Another, says a writer in the Wash
ington Post, was Marengo, a gentle
white Arabian that carried Napoleon
through many campaigns. He need
ed to be gentle, for Napoleon was
such a poor rider he frequently
tumbled off.
No Textbooks; No Exams
Sarah Lawrence college at Bronx-
ville, N. Y., has no examinations,
no required courses, no marks and
uses no textbooks. The college is
said to be the first to pledge alle
giance to experimentation. Accept
ance for admission is based on a
general intelligence test. The stu
dent’s progress in her course is re
corded by three reports, one by
the instructor, one kept by the stu
dent’s don and one made by her
self.
Witch Hazel
Witch hazel is not merely a some
what smelly, mildly alcoholic skin
wash in a bottle. That is extract
of witch hazel. The witch hazel
bush, from which the extract is
made, grows in our moister wood
lands. You would not be lik^’y to
notice it in summer, says Science
Service, but if you go on a winter
hike through the timber it may
startle you. It is the only fairly com
mon shrub that blossoms in the win
ter. To be sure, its flowers aren’t
in the peony or dahlia class; they
ere just straggly stars of stringy
yellow petals. But they are real
flowers and their regular blossom
time is from late November to
March.
King Had Baptismal Custom
In the year 1387 a Polish king
required all of his subjects to be
baptized, and the men were divid
ed for this purpose into two com
panies or divisions. Those in the
first classification were named
Peter, and those in the second were
named Paul. Similarly, the women
were divided into two classifications,
the first all being christened with
the name of Catherine and those
in the second with the name of
Margaret.
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
S UNDAY I
chool Lesson
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDU.UIST,
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for February 14
JESUS THE GOOD SHEPHERD
LESSON TEXT—John 10:1-18.
GOLDEN TEXT—I am the good shep
herd: the good shepherd glvetb his life foe
the sheep. John 10:11.
PRIMARY TOPIC—A Good Shepherd.
JUNIOR TOPIC—The Good Shepherd.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
Ho-.v Jesus Is Like a Shepherd.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
Jesus Our Good Shepherd.
The blind man who had been
healed had been cast out of the
synagogue because he had given the
glory for his healing to Jesus Christ,
(see ch. 9). The door to that which
stood for all that was sacred to
him had been closed. Whither
should he turn? Lookl here comes
someone seeking him. It is Jesus,
who now declares that the door
which men had closed was no true
door at all, for he says, “I am the
door of the sheep.” Those who pro
fessed to be shepherding the flocks
and who had cast this poor man out
were but hirelings. Now he speaks
to the One who says, “I am the
good Shepherd.”
Someone has suggested that the
parable of the good shepherd pre
sents the whole day in the life of
the shepherd and his flock, morning,
noon, and night, and typifies the
ministry of Christ on our behalf in
the varying circumstances of life.
I. In the Morning (John 10:1-6).
Flocks were sometimes kept in
the field at night, as was the case
on the night when Jesus was born
in Bethlehem. But ordinarily they
were brought into a sheepfold where
many flocks gathered for protec
tion. Thieves would climb the wall
to steal sheep, but the shepherd,
when he came in the merning to
lead forth his flock, entered in by
the door. He called out his flock
by name and they knew his voice.
It is said that only a sick sheep
will follow a stranger, which may
explain why so many false isms of
our day appeal to the sick and lead
them away from the Good Shep
herd.
Do you know his voice? Have you
responded to his call? Will you fol
low him? Decide now.
II. In the Heat of the Day (w.
7-10).
Perhaps the sheep need to enter
the fold to rest, if so he is the
door. But they may wish to go out
to the pasture—again he is the door.
Belonging to Christ is not bondage.
If any man enter in by Christ, the
Door, he is free to go in and out, to
find pasture, to live for and to
serve him.
“The Door.” What a striking fig
ure! It is a means of entry, the
only way in. Every door has two
sides and the side we are on de
termines whether we are inside or
outside—saved or lost. Children
used to sing, and still do:
One Door and only one.
And yet its sides are two—
Inside and outside.
On which side are you?
HI. When Night Comes (w. 11-
16).
The wolves come out as the shad
ows gather. They come to kill and
to scatter. Where is the shepherd?
If he is only a hireling, serving
for what may “be in it” for him,
he will flee. How perfectly this pic
tures religious leaders who, in spite
of their swelling words and ingra
tiating manners, desert the flock in
the hour of adversity. Fair weather
friends are they, who disappear
when darkness and danger appear.
In the darkest hour Jesus is near
est at hand. He never fails. He
has no fear, for has he not tasted
the bitter death of Calvary’s tree
for you and for me? He is the
good shepherd. He giveth his life
for the sheep. Those who have put
their trust in him shall never be
put to shame.
Because he has given his life for
the sheep we must not forget nor
neglect the truth found in verse 16.
There are “other sheep” that have
not yet been brought into the fold.
They must be brought in, and we,
on His behalf, must bring them, that
there may “be one fold and one
shepherd.”
Simplicity That Intrigues
npHIS is the problem: Sister
* wants to entertain the Girl
Scouts, it’s Jule’s turn to have the
Bid-or-Bi club and Rose insists
she can’t put off the Laff-a-Lots
a minute longer. And each o f
them has just finished a new dress
and is anxious to wear it for the
occasion.
Sister’s Choice.
Sister’s bit of intrigue is, as
you can see, a dress worth want
ing to show off (Pattern 1223).
It is made of velveteen. The smart
collar, flattering flared skirt and
puff sleeves are good reasons for
this frock’s popularity. It comes
in sizes 6 to 14 years. Size 8 re
quires 2% yards of 39 inch ma-
teriaL
Jule’s Entertaining Dress.
Jule knows a neat trick when
she sees one whether on the table
or in a page of fashions, and she
didn’t miscue in choosing Pattern
1998. It will look more trig
and lovely after each washing.
The diagram shows why a few
hours is all that’s needed to seiv
this grand number. You may have
it in sizes 34 to 46. Size 36 requires
4% yards of 35 inch material.
With long sleeves 4% yards.
It Was Easy, Says Rose.
They didn’t believe Rose when
she said she made this startlingly
pretty dress (Pattern 1224). She
did though, even the buttonholes 1
However, the same stunning effect
can be had by sewing the buttons
on for trimming only. The ele
gance of the princess-like lines,
the eclat of the heart shaped
sleeves and withal its ease of
construction make the question
read “How can I help but make
this dress?” It is available in
sizes 12 to 20 (30 to 40 bust).
Size 14 requires 4% yards of 39
inch material, plus % yard con
trasting. With long sleeves 4%
yards required.
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© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
Calotabs Help Nature
To Throw Off a Cold
Millions have found in Calotabs a
most valuable aid in the treatment
of colds. They take one or two tab
lets the first night and repeat the
third or fourth night if needed.
How do Calotabs help Nature
throw off a cold? First, Calotabs
are one of the most thorough and
dependable of all intestinal elimi-
nants, thus cleansing the intestinal
tract of the germ-laden mucus and
toxines. Second, Calotabs are diu
retic to the kidneys, promoting the
elimination of cold poisons from
the blood. Thus Calotabs serve
the double purpose of a purgative
and diuretic, both of which are
needed in the treatment of colds.
Calotabs are quite economical;
only twenty-five cents for the fam
ily package, ten cents for the trial
package. (Adv.).
PLEASE ACCEPT
THIS Maa/arttevfT
Penitence and Mercy
Man must not disclaim his
brotherhood, even with the guilti
est, sinco though his hand be clean
his heart has surely been polluted
by the flitting phantoms of iniquity.
He must feel that when he shall
knock at the gate of Heaven no
semblance of an unspotted life can
entitle him to an entrance there.
Penitence must kneel and Mercy
come from the footstool of the
Throne, or that golden gate will
never open.—Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The Power of Prayer
The greatest thing anyone can do
for God and for man is to pray.
When one understands about pray
er, and puts prayer in its right
place, one finds that it is the doing
that grows out of praying that is
mightiest in touching human
hearts.—S. D. Gordon.
The March of Life
In the march of life don’t heed
the order of “right about” when you
know you are about right.—O. W.
Holmes.
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