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Practical
“Would you like to go and heal
father preaching on ‘Love one an
other,’ Jack, dear?”
“No, darling! Let’s stay at
home and practice what father’s
preaching!”
When some girls get soft soaped
they babble over.
IN REVERSE
O
Rich Dad—If you marry this
fellow what do you expect to live
on?
Daughter—Live on what we ex
pect!
Oswald (to prospective stepfath
er)—“What are you like at home-
work?”
Life’s See-Saw
Willie—Daddy, what do they
mean when they talk about the
ups and downs of life?
Daddy—The giving ups and the
paying downs.
Tommy Is Right
Teacher—What does the letter
“Z” stand for?
Tommy—’Cos it would be letter
“N” if it lay down!
HOW LONG CAN A
THREE-QUARTER WIFE
HOLD HER HUSBAND?
Y OU have to work at marriage
to make a success of it. Men
may be selfish, unsympathetic,
but that’s the way they're made
and you might as well realize it.
When your back aches and your
nerves scream, don’t take it out
on your husband. He can't possibly
know how you feeL
For three generations one woman
has told another how to go ‘‘smil
ing through” with Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound. It
helps Nature tone up the system,
thus lessening the discomforts from
the functional disorders which
women must endure in the three
ordeals of life: 1. Turning from
girlhood to womanhood. 2. Pre
paring for motherhood. 3. Ap
proaching “middle age.”
Don't be a three-quarter wife,
take LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND and
Go “Smiling Through.”
Faith and Logic
Faith is as much a normal func
tion of the human mind as is
logic.—William W. Keen.
A Good Laxative
The bad feelings and dullness
often attending constipation take
the joy out of life. Try a dose of
Black-Draught at the first sign of
constipation and see how much bet
ter It Is to check the trouble before
it gets a hold on you. Black-
Draught Is purely vegetable and is
so prompt and reliable. Get re
freshing relief from constipation by
taking purely vegetable
BLACK-DRAUGHT
Wasted Treasures
Many a beautiful library is only
looked at and pointed at by the
owner.
"Z-DROP” TREATMENT
FOR HEAD GOLD RELIEF
Just put 2 drops of Penetro Nose
Drops in each nostril and get relief
from the discomfort of miserable
head colds and sinus congestion.
Penetro Nose Drops contain ephe-
drine (openlng-up action) and other
“balanced medication.’’ They help
to shrink swollen membranes,
soothe the inflamed area, make
breathing easier. 25c, 50c, $1 bottles
at druggists. Convenient purse size,
10c. Demand Penetro Nose Drops.
WNU—7
47—37
MAGIC CARPET
It doesn’t matter what you’re thinking of buy
ing—a bar-pin or a baby grand, a new suit
for Junior or a set of dining-room furniture-^
the best place to start your shopping tour is
in an easy-chair. with an open newspaper.
The turn of a page will carry you as swiftly
•s the magic carpet of the Arabian Nights,
from one end of the shopping district to the
other. You can rely on modern advertising
as a guide to good values, you can compare
prices and styles,fabrics and finishes, just as
though you were standing in a store.
Make a habit of reading the advertisements
in this paper every week. They can save you
time, energy and money.
ADVENTURERS’ CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI
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“The Terror-Stricken Hermit"
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
H ello, everybody:
Green eyes of a wildcat in the dark, a pitch-black road
covered with snakes, a fear-struck hermit and a loaded shotgun
comprise the bill-of-fare dished up today by Casper Stupin of
Hoboken, N. J. Casper, an ex-Civilian Conservation corps worker
who was eighteen at the time, encloses his discharge, which
reads:
“By this all will know Casper Stupin served his country well as a
member of the Civilian Conservation Corps, that magnificent army of
youth and peace that puts into action the awakening of the people to
the facts of conservation and recreation; and that with all honors he
completed his tour of duty at Company 262, CCC Camp, Fla. SP-3, Se-
bring, Florida, on March 26, 1935.”
Road Full of Sleeping Snakes.
On this fateful night, October 20, 1934, Casper missed the last truck
back to camp, which left at 10:30 p. m. sharp. He would have wel
comed a lift from a coal wagon rather than walk. Here’s why:
To begin with, the camp was four and a half miles from town.
Four and a half miles is a constitutional, but when you have to do it in
pitch dark, alone, not so good. And that’s not all.
Because the roads stay warm at night from the hot Florida
son, snakes are fond of lying in them at night and sleeping. Do you
begin to get the picture? Four and a half miles, in the dark, ex
pecting any minute to tread on a sleeping snake. And still not all.
Casper had started walking and had done his first mile in darkness
so intense he could see only a few feet ahead, when behind him he
heard a soft, scratching noise, “as if someone was following me,” he
says. He turned to look. Nobody. He hastened his steps. Presently
the sound came again. Casper stopped short, turned; thinking, perhaps,
it was another CCC boy hoofing it to camp. In answer to his shout he
got a soft, steady “Meow-w-w.”
“That,” Casper says, “was enough. Then I really did get fright
ened.” You see, they have wildcats in those parts.
Wildcat Was Ready to Spring.
Fearfully Casper looked in the direction the sound had come
from. Sure enough, two gleaming red-and-green eyes glared
straight at him. Casper’s heart just about stopped beating. Less
than fifteen feet away was a wildcat, ready to spring.
There was just one thing to do—run. Casper ran. In fact, he took
to his heels in practically a blind panic.
The nearest farmhouse was a quarter of a mile away. The road to
his farmhouse was fairly infested with- snakes. That didn’t bother
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He Raced Along a Snake-Infested Road.
Casper now—he had bigger worries. For that matter, if he did step on
a sleeping snake, he was traveling so fast by this time he’d be out of
sight before the snake woke up enough to do anything about it.
Casper did the quarter mile to the farmhouse in time Jessie Owens
wouldn’t have sneered at. He had just one idea—to get away from that
wildcat. Perhaps that’s why he was almost on top of the house before
he gave a thought to his destination. To most people it might have
seemed cheerful. To Casper it was a reminder that suddenly brought
him to!
The farmhouse was occupied by a queer old hermit!
But—there were the gleaming eyes behind him, and Casper had no
choice. A second later, panting and shouting, he was pounding madly on
the shack’s door.
Closer, closer came the red-and-green eyes. Casper redoubled
his pounding, his frantic shouting. The door shivered, the knob
rattled, the door swung back. It framed the figure of the queer
old hermit. But what made Casper halt on the threshold,
frozen with terror, was the shotgun in the hands of the fear-struck
man. For its twin barrels, like the eyes of a death’s head, were
trained on Casper’s heart. And its twin triggers were controlled,
Casper knew, by fingers that took their bidding from a terror-
stricken, unpredictable mind.
Saved by Frightened Hermit.
On came the wildcat. Light from the shack door reflected from his
blazing eyes. It was this light that probably saved Casper’s life. For an
instant it blinded the oncoming wildcat, slowing it up. And in this in
stant the terror-struck hermit caught sight of the blazing eyes beyond,
and sized up the situation. He swung the shotgun away from Casper in
the nick of time, drew bead on the wildcat’s eyes and let go with the load.
The roar of the shotgun was too much for Casper’s frayed nerves.
The wildcat was finished, but he didn’t stop to think about that. In fact,
Casper was well down the road before he realized he hadn’t even
thanked the man for saving his life.
With the wildcat and the shotgun and its strange owner behind him,
Casper still had a mile and a quarter of snake-infested, pitch-black road
ahead of him. Worse still, there was nothing to stop a second wildcat
from taking up the trail.
So when Casper’s overwrought nerves heard again the same scratch
ing sound that had signalled the wildcat before, he didn’t waste too much
time looking. He just bolted—as fast as he could, trying to put as much
distance between himself and this second pair of gleaming eyes as
possible.
He didn’t get far. Two powerful headlamps appeared in the distance,
lit up the road, came closer, and drew up. And in their welcome glow
Casper saw that what he had mistaken for eyes of a wildcat were in
stead the eyes of a police dog,“Trooper,” belonging to one of the CCC
Lieutenants. “And,” Casper says, “was I happy!”
The Lieutenant—for it was his car—drove Casper back to camp
safely.
©—WNU Service.
Shoe-Tossing Old Custom
Shoe-tossing is older than either
confetti or rice throwing. Ancient
Israelites started it. When a piece
of land was purchased, the buyer
tossed a sandal on it. That gesture
symbolized change of ownership.
Later, Anglo-Saxons carried it into
the marriage ceremony. The father
would remove one of his daughter’s
shoes and pass it to the bridegroom.
The latter would touch the maiden’s
forehead lightly with the shoe, in
dicating authority had passed from
papa to the new husband. A tap be
came a toss with passing years.
Parents would hurl shoes at a newly
married couple to convey the infor
mation they no longer were respon
sible for the young lady.
Practical, Practicable
Practical means that which is
adapted to actual conditions; that
which experience has proved to be
useful. While the others were won
dering what to do, Jones took prac
tical steps to stop the leak in the
boat. Evangeline was a dreamer,
Joan a practical kind of girl. Prac
ticable denotes that which may be
practiced, used, or followed with
good results. Some solutions to ma
terial problems are all right in the
ory, but are not practicable in ac
tual practice; in other words they
cannot be carried out. To leave a
room all you need do is to go out by
the door—but if the door is locked
on the outside that method of leav
ing is impracticable.
Sonja Henie
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★★★By VIRGINIA VALE★★★
W \X7’HEN motion picture pro-
▼ V ducers wander away from
their office desks, they get the
most promising ideas for pic
tures. For instance, it might
never have occurred to the head
man of the 20th Century-Fox
studios to cast Shirley Temple
and Sonja Henie in a film to
gether if he hadn’t happened to
pass the ice rink where Miss
Henie practices.
At first he was horror-stricken to
find the company’s precious child
risking her neck try
ing to learn Sonja’s
whirlwind capers,
but when he saw
that she learned
them as easily, and
safely, as she does
tap - dancing rou
tines, he decided
that she must do a
skating picture with
her teacher.
At Paramount, the
big boss heard
shrieks of hilarity
coming from the portrait photog
rapher’s studio, and on investigat
ing found W. C. Fields and John
Barrymore clowning around as Ro
meo and Juliet. Right away he was
inspired to cast them together in a
loony story called “Things Begin to
Happen.”
——
Grown-ups may well envy the
school children of today who learn
their history lessons through such
an exciting medium as the R. K.
O. motion picture, “Victoria the
Great;” Filmed in England with
Anna Neagle in the role of the
queen, this picture was made with
the hearty eo-operation of govern
ment officials, so all the glory of
real castles and authentic royal set
tings make it a feast for the eyes.
Sixty years of her life are cov
ered in this story, so it is a series
of dramatic high spots. And so
skillfully has the story been told,
it is just the story of a woman’s
heart, a woman who was willful
and pathetic—with all her regal
splendor.
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Lanny Ross was all ready to sign
a contract to make pictures for
M-G-M, when it occurred to him
that with Nelson Eddy and Allan
Jones already signing on that lot,
there wasn’t much room for another
singer. So, the shrewd Lanny hus
tled over to Columbia Pictures’ stu
dios and arranged to make pictures
for them instead. There he will be
sure to get all the good singing
roles.
Those folks you hear on Gabriel
Heatter’s “We, the People” pro
gram certainly enjoy the evening of
that broadcast. After the first
broadcast, Heatter takes the whole
troupe of visitors across the street
to dinner. Afterward, they return
to the studio for the repeat western
broadcast.
All the youngsters who were
thrilled over Dick Merrill’s ocean
flights will want to arrive for the
first showing and stay all day when
“Atlantic Flight,” starring Dick
Merrill himself comes to their local
theater. In the picture he is the
same engaging, modest, casual
young man that he was in the news
reels. And the picture boasts some
hair-raising stunt flying.
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All three of the Lane sisters are
now working for Warner Brothers.
Priscilla, who with her. sister Rose
mary, provided many bright mo
ments in Waring’s “Varsity Show,”
will do the same for the next “Gold
Diggers” in support of Dick Powell.
And Lola, who has been in pictures
much longer than her sisters, will
be seen in “Hollywood Hotel.”
Turning down several coast-to-
coast radio programs offered him,
Henry Hull, the dis
tinguished stage ac
tor, is going to try
motion pictures
again. He will play
a prominent role in
M-G-M’s “Marie An
toinette” in support
of Norma Shearer.
About the time that
picture is ready for
the screen, another
Marie Antoinette
Norma Shearer will be competing
for attention. Dean
na Durbin is going to play the role
in a story written around her more
tender years.
—•¥■—
ODDS AND ENDS—Helen Menken,
long-suffering “Second Wife" of the radio
serial is going to make a motion picture
for Warners . . . Clark Gable, weary of
being a swaggering, wise-cracking hero
wants to play in a tense drama about the
fight against yellmv fever in the tropics
. . . Carole Lombard is wearing a black
wig in "Food for Scandal" and she is not
sure it is a good idea. Her best friends
don’t recognize her . . . Bob Hope, radio
comedian, is such a hit in his first Para
mount picture that he has signed to do
more.
© Western Newspaper Union.
OP?. SEW
Ruth Wyeth Spears
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Silk Shades Give a Soft Glow
SPHERE is subtility in the light
that glows through a silk
shade, and many decorators are
using them for the room that
needs the softness of plaited folds
and the mellowness obtained by
placing two tones of fabric one
over the other.
Two tones of China silk, one to
be used for a plain lining and
the other for a gathered outside
covering will make an attractive
shade. Before you buy the ma
terial it is best to experiment
with samples one over the other
trying them both in daylight and
over an artificial light. You will
also need a roll of silk binding
tape matching the top color of the
shade. This tape is to wrap the
wire frame. And fancy braid ei
ther in gold, silver or a harmoniz
ing tone of silk is used to bind the
top and bottom of the shade. Use
cotton thread to match the out
side tone of the silk.
Slip the binding tape off the roll
and wrap a rubber band around
it as shown here at A. Working
from the inside end of the tape
wrap the frame as shown at B.
The outside layer of silk is put on
next. This is gathered both top
and bottom and pinned to the wire
covering as at C and D so that it
is stretched quite tight. Joinings
in the outside covering need not
be sewed but may be hidden un
der the folds. This material is
sewed in place as at E.
Next, cut a straight strip for the
lining and fit it around the out
side of the frame as shown here
at F. Trim the joining allowing a
seam as shown at G. Sew to the
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Uncle PhUO
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The Old Boy Knows It
When your dog rests his muzzle
on your knee and looks up at you
sidewise, that is one of his innum
erable appeals you can’t resist.
Good cooks in the home get
mountains of praise—and that’s
their chief recompense.
Experience is profitable, but it
frequently leaves scars.
Don’t mention your friend’s first
gray hairs unless your friend
does.
We do not want any more things
that are a trouble to look after—
and a steam yacht is one of them.
Ideals Are Our Rudders
“A rudder,” explained the boy
who knew his boats, “is a stern
necessity.”
People with short tempers have
to go through life “being for
given.”
Fond mothers scarcely ever
want their sons to be President.
They want them to be what they
are best able to be.
His Inspiration
We prefer, perhaps, our imagi
nary picture of our friend, rather
than the real one. He, in his af
fectation, tries to live up to it.
“Protecting” wild animals
merely to slaughter them doesn’t
seem to be the ideal ideal.
It doesn’t matter so much if a
very young man loses his heart
and his head at the same time. It
is expected of him.
frame at the bottom as at H. Trim
quite close at the bottom.
Turn lining to inside as at I.
Slip stitch the joining. Turn
in raw edges at top and whip
around top of frame. Pin the
binding around and then sew it
with stitches buried in the mesh
of the braid.
Every Homemaker should have
a copy of Mrs. Spears’ new book,
SEWING. Forty-eight pages of
step-by-step directions for making
slipcovers and dressing tables;
restoring and upholstering chairs,
couches; making curtains for ev
ery type of room and purpose
Making ^lampshades, rugs, otto
mans and other useful articles
for the home. Readers wishing a
copy should send name and ad
dress, enclosing 25 cents, to Mrs.
Spears, 210 South Desplaines St.,
Chicago, Illinois.
Don’t Neglect
Your Child’s Cold
Don’t let chest colds or croupy
coughs go untreated. Rub Children’s
Musterole on child’s throat and chest
at once. This milder form of regular
Musterole penetrates, warms, and
stimulates local circulation. Floods
the bronchial tubes with its soothing,
relieving vapors. Musterole brings re
lief naturally because it’s a “counter-
irritant”—NOT just a salve. Recom
mended by many doctors and nurses.
Three strengths: Regular, Children’s
(mild), and Extra Strong.
Anger Is Like Rain
Anger is like rain which breaks
itself whereupon it falls.—Seneca.
Constipated?
Don't Let Gas,
Nerve Pressure
Keep You
Miserable
When you are constipated two things hap
pen. FIRST: Wastes swell up the bowels and
press on nerves in the digestive tract. This
nerve pressure causes headaches, a dull, laiy
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feeling, bilious spells, loss of appetite and dis-
ainess. SECOND: Partly digested food starts
to decay forming GAS, bringing on sour
stomach (add indigestion), and neartburn,
bloat i eg you up until you sometimes gasp for
Then you spend many miserable days. You
can’t eat. You can’t sleep. Your stomach is
sour. You feel tired out, grouchy and miser-
•hlo- . ... .
To get the complete relief you seek you
must do TWO things. 1. You must relieve
‘the GAS. 2. You must clear the bowels and
GET THAT PRESSURE OFF THE
NERVES. As soon as offending wastes are
washed out you feel marvelously refreshed,
blues vanish, the world looks bright again.
There is only one product on the market
that gives you the DOUBLE ACTION you
need. It is ADLERIKA. This efficient car
minative cathartio relieves that awful GAS
at once. It often removes bowel congeetion in
half an hour. No waiting for overnight relief.
Adlcrika acts on the stomach and both bowels.
Ordinary laxatives act on the lower bowel only.
Adienka has been recommended by many
doctors and druggists for 35 years. No grip
ing, no after effects. Just QUICK results.
Try Adienka today. You'll say you have
never used such an efficient intestinal cleanser.
Sit in Your Chair ^
at Home ... and Shbpo
The things you want to buy •• • at the time
you want to buy them •.« at the price you
want to pay. You can find these right in the
paper. Your newspaper advertisements make
it possible to do your “looking around 99 right
at home • • • and then go downtown to do
your buying • • • saving you time and energy.
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