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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.
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Unqualified for Discussion
He that is not open to convic
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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
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“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
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'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
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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.
Write plainly your name, ad
dress and pattern number.
Devouring the Deed
He that is proud eats up him
self; pride is his own glass, his
own trumpet, his own chronicle;
and whatever praises itself but
in the deed, devours the deed in
the praise.—Shakespeare.
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