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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1937 votlte M ' . -t % ACeci/ae , / > Louisa Homar Cheese Toast Butter nicely brown toast. Slice over it hard-boiled eggs, boiled at least ten minutes. Pour over this cheese sauce and serve very hot. Make the cheese sauce by put ting 1 tablespoonful of butter in a pan; add 1 tablespoonful of flour, then 1 cupful of milk, pepper and salt. Beat well and add 1 cupful grated American cheese. C*P7rl*ht.—WNU Serrlc*. Owl Dumb, But Useful The owl’s reputation for great wisdom is quite unmerited. Sci entists have known for a long time that the owl is one of the ‘‘dumbest” of all things in feath- • ers; though a recent announce ment of that commonplace fact got considerable press notice. But though he isn’t wise. Old Hooty is nevertheless very useful. He feeds mostly on mice and other small rodents, and helps to keep their numbers below the proportions of an absolute pest.—Science Serv ice. • Steps in Life Think well over your important steps in life; and, having made up your mind, never look behind. —Thomas Hughes. DISCOVERED Way to Relieve Coughs By FLOYD GIBBONS-^ Famous Headline Hunter A ND here’s Russell Nelson of Dorchester, with a tale of • adventure to tell. It was right in the middle of the depres sion, and Russ had been out of work a while. But one day in December he met an old boss of his on the street. The boss said he had a job for Russ, and if he’d show up at the plant the next day he could start right in working. It felt great to be back at work again, but maybe Russ wouldn’t have felt so swell about it if he’d known what plenty of industrial in surance men could have told him—namely that an unusual number of accidents happen to men on their first day at work after a long lay-off. Somehow or other men forget little things during a lay-off that they’d ordinarily remember. They slip up on something, and then, first thing you know, they’re in a jam. * Russ’ job was in the mill room, or wood-working shop of the plant. That’s where they turn out such finished parts of houses as the window sashes, the doors, and the newel posts they put in stair railings. He Was Operating a Band Saw. All during that day Russ was busy, running one machine after an other. He and the boss were alone in that room, but along toward the end of the afternoon, the boss went out to do a special job and Russ was left alone. At that time Russ was operating a band saw. "A band saw,” he says, ‘‘is a large machine about six feet tall. It has two wheels about three feet in diameter, placed one above the other. Around these wheels runs a flexible saw blade, narrow, but about 18 feet long, the ends welded together to make it in the form of a belt. ‘‘This machine is used for cutting scrolls and for making fancy- work of various patterns.” That’s the sort of contraption Russ was working with. The saw was humming away, driven by another wheel from which a leather belt ran to the main power shaft. ..As Russ worked, the machine began to give out rapid clicks, of a sort that he had never noticed before. And ordinarily, Russ would have stopped to find out what those clicks meant. BUT REMEMBER WHAT I SAID A WHILE AGO ABOUT A MAN’S FIRST DAY AT WORK AFTER A LONG LAY-OFF! Wrapped Up in a Saw-Blade. Russ hadn’t worked in a long time. And his mind wasn’t working so well for that very reason. , Russ heard those clicks, but he paid no attention to them. THEN, ALL OF A SUDDEN THINGS HAPPENED, AND RUSS WAS RIGHT IN THE THICK OF IT! That long, flexible saw-blade SNAPPED—snapped at the crack that had caused all those clicks. IT LEAPED FROM THE MACHINE, TWISTING AND SQUIRMING LIKE AN ANGRY SNAKE. Eighteen feet of sharp, saw-toothed steel shot out and waapped 1 itself around Russ—around his body—and his arms—and arqund his neck. > And the ends of that blade were wrapped up in a lot of whirling machinery. Russ just stood there holding his breath, while his heart stopped and his legs seemed to freeze. Still, Russ didn’t dare to move. Russ Didn’t Dare to Move. One end of that blade was rattling against the spokes of the lower wheel. If the wheel ever picked it up he was a gone chicken. And the slightest move on his part might send that blade into the wheel and start it SAWING AWAY AT HIS BODY AND NECK. Russ didn’t dare move—and at the same time he didn’t dare stand still and do nothing. *‘I couldn’t stand there and wait for the boss to come back,” he says, ‘‘for the end of the saw looked as if it might catch in the wheel at any moment. “I looked at the switch that shut off the motor. It was way over on the other side of the room. “I looked all around me, thinking that there MUST be something I could do to help myself.” And there was. QUICKLY IT'S BT reUerin* both the irritated tiasuea of th« throat and bronchial tube*. One aet of incre- diento in FOLEY'S HONEY & TAB quickly relieves tinkling, hacking, coughing 2 l . coats and soothes irritated throat linings to keep you from soughing. Another set actually enters tbs blood, reaches the affected bronchial tubes, loosens phlegm, helps break up cough and speed* recovery. Check a cough due to a cold before it gets worse, before others catch it.. Cheek it with FOLEY’S HONEY A TAB. tt gives quick relief and speeded-up recovery. Unqualified for Discussion He that is not open to convic tion, is not qualified for discus- lion.—Whateley. Saved by Lucky Accident. On the bench in front of him were some large pieces of wood. If he could only reach one of them. ‘ Russ found he could move one arm without moving the saw blade. He stretched that arm toward the nearest piece of board. His arm was just half an inch too short. He’d have to take a chance and move his body a little. Holding his breath he bent ever so slightly and picked up the wooden stick. The wheel spun around, perilously close to the saw blade—but the blade didn’t catch. Russ was bringing his arm back with the stick in it when he dropped it. It fell to the ground with a clatter, and again he held his breath. BUT DROPPING THAT STICK WAS THE LUCKIEST THING HE EVER DID IN HIS LIFE. For the stick fell on the leather belt that ran the machine. It jammed in between the belt and the pulley it ran on—AND THREW THE BELT OFF TH^T PULLEY. The machine, with no power to drive it, slowed down and came to a Miss REE LEEF says: *CAPUDINE relieves HEADACHE quicker because its liquid... ahuufy diMcCired AFTER YOU EAT? After you finish a meal can you be sure of regular, successful elimination? Get rid of waste material that causes g#s, acidity, headaches. Take Milnesia Wa' for quick, pleasant elimination. # E wafer equals 4 teaspoonfuls of milk of magnesia. 20c, 35c & 60c at drug stores. stop. “Boy,” says Russ, “I got out from under that blade in a hurry, and it was a few hours before I was able to work again. I hope you think this is an adventure, but whether you do or not—I still do!” ©—WNU Service. “Commodity Dollar” Was Invented Many Years Ago The “commodity dollar” was ac tually in use in Hingham a century ago, states a writer in the Boston Globe. Manuscripts uncovered in the Watertown Public Library by the Federal Historical Sources Survey show that Hingham paid its min ister on a commodity dollar basis in 1803. The minister was Rev. Henry Ware, afterward the first Hqllis professor of divinity at Har vard. Rev. Henry Ware went to Hing ham in 1787 and the inference is that his salary was $500 a year, enough and plenty in a period of low prices. But during the late sev enteen-nineties there had been a “very great demand and high prices for all the necessaries of life” and the minister was at his wits’ end to make both ends meet, for his salary remained stationary. The remedy adopted by the par ish was to adjust his pay on the basis of the average prices of the great staples between 1787 and 1803, and this settlement of the problem was accepted by the min ister. Kings, Other Commanders Participated in Battles In the days of the old-style field battles, especially at critical mo ments, kings and chief command ers themselves went into action. Reclining on the crossed pikes of six grenadiers, Charles XII of Sweden, sorely wounded, had him self carried into the thick of the slaughter. Gustavus Adolphus died while leading his horsemen. In the meantime his adversary, the great Duke of Friedland, rode through the Austrian ranks “encouraging the bold, terrifying the timid with the glare of his baleful eye.” At Kolin the great Frederick, gathering up a few shattered remnants, led them against an enemy battery. Aged seventy-three, Field Mar shal Count Schwerin fell at Prague. Snatching the colors from the hands of a wounded ensign, the old gentleman steadied a wavering regiment and led the way. Pipe in mouth and saber in fist, Seydlitz and Blucher rode with their men. At Munda, 46 B. C., Imperial Cae sar himself fought as a common soldier. His body, enfeebled by dis sipation, his intrepid soul carried nn 'Twas This Way By LYLE SPENCER ® Western Newspaper Union. Origin of the Black Maria A S EVERY criminal knows, the underworld name for a police patrol wagon is “Black Maria.” A common colloquialism in pool hall hangouts and disreputable dives is “Black Maria backed up to the joint and got him.” The name Black Maria is much older than most underworld jargon. It originated in some tough sailors’ boarding houses in Boston in the early part of the Nineteenth cen tury. In one of these, a big, strap ping, negro woman called Maria Lee, but familiarly known as “Black Maria,” was housekeeper. She could hold her own with any man in a rough-and-tumble fight, and she was so strong and fearless that she frequently helped hard- pressed policemen to subdue drunk en or obstreperous sailors and pack them off to the hoosegow. Her prow ess became so well known that whenever trouble broke out in the neighborhood it soon became the custom to call for “Black Maria.” She eventually became such a fa miliar figure at brawls and street fights that her nickname became attached to the black patrol wagon in which the officers carried the of fenders away. Tradition has it that Maria Lee finally became involved in one fight too many and got knifed in the back by a Chinese sailor. When the police department’s “Black Maria” came to call for her, the next stop it made was the morgue. The First Bathtub npHE first honest - to - goodness -*• bathtub was'installed in an Am erican home less than a hundred years ago. Its proud owner was Adam Thompson of Cincinnati, Ohio, a wealthy cotton and grain dealer, who had a passion both for cleanliness and publicity. The tub he ordered was a custom built job. It was encased in Nicarag uan mahogany and lined with sheet metal. It was seven feet long, four feet wide, and weighed over 1,750 pounds. The water was pumped into it. / On the very night the tub was installed, December 2 0, 1842, Thompson gav.i a large party at his home as a sort of dedication ceremony. His guests were invited to try the bathtub, and several of them availed themselves of the op portunity. High lights of the party were fully described in the local newspaper next day, and aroused a storm of protest in the community which quickly spread throughout the coun try. Politicians and doctors were especially wrathful. The doctors thought it was unsanitary. Politi cians said in their speeches that wash tubs on the kitchen floor on Saturday nights had been good enough for their grandfathers, and that washtubs were still good enough for them. The Virginia legis lature even laid a $30 tax on bath tubs and increased the water rates. Despite all the opposition, bath tubs gradually became a fixture in American homes. ^ Moving Pictures AN you remember back to the time when every movie villain wore a black, handle-bar mustache and a silk opera hat? Those were the days when the cinema was in its infancy, when a movie theater was called a nickelodeon, and nice people did not discuss movies in public. The first public showing of a mo tion picture on a screen was in 1895. During the early years, the stand ard picture length was about 1,000 feet and took ten minutes to show, because exhibitors thought that was all the audiences could stand. When D. W. Griffith put out the first two- reeler, they wanted to run it in two parts, like a serial. The first film with a real plot, made in 1903, was “The Great Train Robbery,”a blood - and - thunder thriller. Acting technique was a far cry from what we are accustomed to today. There were no close-ups, until Griffith introduced them to show emotional reactions on the faces of the actors. Actors in the legitimate theater looked down upon the lowly movie stars, and refused to accept movie contracts while they could get parts in the smallest stock company. But times change, and the introduction of talking pictures about 1926 killed most of what was left of the old theater. Inventors say that the three dimension movie is the next step. When that comes, it will probably make the talkie appear as old-fash ioned as the silent picture seems to us now. Painted Furniture Historic Painted fnrniture has been notable since the days of the Pharaohs and beautiful painted pieces from that period have been found. Because of its combination of beauty and prac ticality it will undoubtedly always continue in popular use. It has a charm and decorative loveliness dis tinctly its own. The old French, English, Dutch and Chinese masters and cabinet makers for hundreds of years contributed their skill to this ancient art. Charming Way to Use Cross Stitch Even amateurs will have no dif ficulty in turning out this finished looking chair or buffet set—with this easy-to-do pattern. And what compliments they’ll get on this cross-stitched peacock done in all Pattern 5740 the glory of its natural coloring or in two shades of a color for a more subdued effect.' The crosses are 10 to-the-inch—the col ors are clearly given in a color chart. With two patterns a hand some scarf could be made. In pattern 5740 you will find a trans fer pattern of a large motif 13 by 16 inches, and two smaller ones 4% by 6 inches; material requite- ments; color chart and key; illus trations of all stitches used. To obtain this pattern, send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y. 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