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The Liking Is Vital
A child learns good manners by
seeing good manners and liking
them when he sees them.
The panoply of modern warfare
does not include honor or human
ity.
It is in regarding a woman’s
*‘no” lightly that men often make
themselves ridiculous.
Want to Be Themselves
Few envy another man; they
envy his circumstances.
People who insist on ^living
their own life/* are likely to im
pose on the lives of others.
Education lessens crime, be
cause it opens the eyes of the
tempted to its foolishness.
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DORIS DEDE'S
column
Second Heart Break
for Maid Who Forgives
Unreliable Suitor.
1T\EAR MISS DENE: I am twenty-
seven and the man I love is
thirty-one. He is well-educated and
good looking and many other things
which make him a desirable hus
band. Two years ago we were en
gaged and very happy. Then he
decided that he didn’t care for me.
He went out with other girls and
finally became engaged to someone
else without telling me about it. He
lied to me and even ridiculed me
for believing in him. When it all
came out my heart nearly broke.
It took me months to get over his
desertion. Well, his engagement to
the other girl lasted six months and
then he began to treat her as he
treated me. Now after all this time
he wants to come back and as I
have not forgotten him nor been
able to get over him, I want to take
him back. Yet I am so afraid of
letting him hurt me. I am so anx
ious to see him. I know that his ly
ing habits could break my heart all
over again but he swears he will
reform for my sake. What is the
right thing to do?—MUly.
ANSWER—It seems to me that
you are inviting a second dose of
disillusionment and disappointment
if you take back a man who has hurt
you cruelly and who seems tem
peramentally unfitted to be true to
any one woman. Don’t misunder
stand me. I’m ’ not saying that a
man can’t live down one mistake.
I’m not saying that it doesn't take
courage on his part to admit that he
has been wrong and to ask forgive
ness of the girl he has treated
abominably.
Many a young boy has jilted the
girl who loved him—has tried to
find happiness with another charm
er and has lived to repent of his
hasty action. When his old love
has granted him forgiveness he has
proved to her and to the world at
large that his repentance was sin
cere and lasting.
But when a man of thirty uses unfair
and dishonorable methods in breaking
off with the damsel who has trusted him
then it’s time to wonder whether he could
ever be anything but a gay philanderer
and an unprincipled liar. It is one thing
for a man to discover an error in judg
ment and to go frankly to his fiancee with
the news that he no longer cares for her.
It is quite another story for the disillu
sioned suitor to sneak away with another
girl—to mock his former sweetheart—
and to cover up his traces until detection
is inevitable. All that smacks of habitual
deceit.
I consider, Milly that you’ve given
this man his chance already. You
played fair with him and in return
for that he gave you lies and deceit.
Now he’s tired of his new conquest
and it is quite natural that he
should think tenderly of your devo
tion and kindness. But if you’re
fair to yourself you won’t let him
come back to torment you all over
again.
F)EAR DORIS DENE: I am a
boy of nineteen and have lived
at home all my life. My mother is
a very strong character and has
managed me successfully. I am
now in love and want to marry. My
mother has put her foot down and
refuses to consider my marriage.
She offers to give a college educa
tion—which she refused to do until
she heard I was in love. I want to
get a job but unless I can live at
home I cannot hope to support a
wife right away. I like your advice
and will be grateful for any you
give me.—C. G.
ANSWER—Your mother’s strong
character will be of value to you
now my boy even though you are
not in the mood to appreciate it. If
she were indulgent and weak enough
to agree to your marriage at the
present moment, she’d be doing you
an injustice for which you might
never forgive her.
Any boy who ties himself up in
matrimonial chains at the age of
nineteen—with nothing to depend on
but his mother’s income, is virtually
throwing away his life’s happiness.
His wife is placed under a severe handi
cap—living on the bounty of her mother-
in-law. He, himself, is under such obliga
tion to his mother that he must take her
word as law and let her run his life
whether he wishes it or not. At nineteen
he cannot hope to have attained the ma
ture judgment which fits him for matri
mony. He may not even be sufficiently
in love to make the venture a success.
All the cards are stacked against him
from the word “go."
Take my advice, C. G., and ac
cept the offer of a college education.
Equip yourself to face the world—
and to hold down a job. Prepare
to be an independent citizen—not a
dependent son for the rest of your
life.
And don’t forget this; that the
more you learn and the more you
study, the more able you’ll be to re
sist your mother’s strong influence.
You have lived at home so long
that the maternal protection has be
come a habit with you. Get away
from that sheltered area and learn
how to be a man among men.
Then when you’ve reached a more
suitable age and when you have ac
quired the stamina to stand by your
self, you’ll have no cause to worry
about mother’s interference when
matrimony occurs to you again.
And if the girl is sincere in her
love for you she’ll wait till you have
fitted yourself to become a real
wage-earner able to offer her a
home of her own.
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
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OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF!
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“The Creek Bed Horror
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
H ello everybody:
You know, boys and girls, I’ve often said you can get
into more adventures in your own back yard than you can in the
whole of darkest Africa. And here comes Houston Norris of
Yonkers, N. Y., with a story that backs up my theory. Houston’s
back yard was a pretty big one, though. It was a farm in Sussex
county, Virginia, where he lived when he was a kid.
This happened back in 1920, when Houston was just thirteen years
old. On a hot August day, he set out to change the cows from one
grazing ground to another where they would be in the shade for the
afternoon. He had a shotgun—as a lot of kids do in the country—and he
took that off the rack. He carried that gun most everywhere he went,
on the chance he’d get a shot at a crow, or a chicken hawk. There was a
state bounty on those birds and that just about kept him in ammunition,
And incidentally, it’s a doggone good thing he did take that
gun along with him. For, although he didn’t know it, he was
heading straight for an adventure, and that shootin’ iron was des
tined to come in mighty handy.
Caught in the Fox Trap.
Ahead of him lay a brook, the bed of which was dry during
summer months. That creek bed was always full of snakes that hid in
the brush which grew along the bottom, so Houston started to cross on
a log put there to afford a passage in wet weather. He noticed, as he
stepped on the log, that it was covered over with heaps of tree moss, but
he—well—he thought maybe the kids of the neighboring farmer had
been playing and left it there. But that was the big mistake of his life.
Houston stepped on the log—and something snapped. He felt a sharp
pain in his leg, and knew how foolish he had been. That moss hadn’t been
put there by the neighboring farmer’s kids. It had been put there by
the farmer himself to conceal a fox trap—and Houston had stepped
right into it.
The chain on that trap was only six inches long, and Houston’s step
was cut short. He lost his balance—fell forward. His gun fell to the
- He Had Stepped Right Into the Trap.
ground and then, as he landed, he heard another click—felt another stab
of pain—this time in his left hand. There had been two fox traps on that
log, and he had fallen into both of them.
The pain in his hand and leg made him wince, and he gritted his
teeth. He was caught fast—imable to get himself out. But getting out of
those traps didn’t worry Houston so much. He was only a short dis
tance from home. A few shouts would bring someone to his assistance,
Then Came the Rattler.
He drew a deep breath—was all ready to let out a yell for
help—when something stopped him. To his ears came a peculiar
buzzing sound and a familiar rustling of leaves directly under
the log on which he lay. His eyes dropped to the spot, and the
hair began rising on the top of his head. A HUGE RATTLE
SNAKE was crawling out from beneath the log! ,
“I was frightened then for the first time,” he says. “And for the
first time in all my life I felt completely helpless. My gun was four
feet away from the log, and I didn’t dare call for help lest I anger the
snake and cause him to strike at me.
“I hoped—as I never hoped before—that that snake would crawl
away and leave me alone. But that hope vanished when it brought its
huge body into a coil and settled down by the log to watch me.
“My trapped hand and foot began to pain me terribly. My back
was cramped and began to ache, but I had to keep it tense for fear that
I would roll off the log and fall on top of the snake. I wondered what
would happen when I got too tired to hold that position any longer. Then,
suddenly, something happened that brought the situation to a quick
climax.”
Got the Gun Just in Time.
What happened was this. Three shotgun shells had worked them
selves loose from their holder at Houston’s belt. They rolled from the
log and lit, almost simultaneously on the back and head of the rattler.
In an instant the snake threw its head up to the level of the log. Its
beady eyes glittered as it looked Houston over carefully.
The reptile seemed to sense that it had him at its mercy—that
there was no need for haste. Slowly it drew back its head to strike.
“Then,” says Houston, “I had to do something. In desperation
I started to reach for my gun. I rolled,my free foot over the ground,
making a desperate and painful effort to make my step as wide and
as far from the log and the snake as possible. Then I dropped my right
knee and struggled with my right hand to get at the gun.
“My fingers could barely touch the gun’s muzzle, but by stretching
the chains of the traps that held me, I managed to get a grip on it and
pull it my way. Desperately, I drew it alongside my body with its muzzle
pointing toward the center of the log, until my trembling fingers could
reach the trigger.
“The rattler was moving forward—angered by the movements I had
made. Its head was a bare three inches from my left leg. Then I
drew back the hammer and pulled the trigger. There was a roar—and
when the smoke cleared away, that once deadly snake was scattered in
bits along the creek bed.”
And after that, it was just a matter of a few good lusty yells, and
help came and Houston was out of his traps.
Copyright.—WNU Service.
Trout Favored by Fishermen
Great strength and a fighting
heart in a small body make the
trout a favorite of fishermen. No
fish as small fights so long when
hooked. It protects itself by chang
ing color to blend with that of the
bottom of a stream. It is some
thing of a weather prophet, too.
Eight or nine hours before a fresh
et, caused by rains miles away,
floods its home stream, a trout stops
feeding.
Cacti in Coat of Arms
Cacti are used in the coat of arms
in Mexico. Wise men in the early
Fourteenth century told the Aztecs
to build their cities where they would
find the cacti, the eagle and the
snake. In 1312 the Aztecs reached a
point where Mexico City is now lo
cated. One of the myths of the pe
riod was, that, if an image of a per
son who was to be punished was
made of clay and jabbed with cacti
needles by the tribal voodoo doctor,
that person would be afflicted with
serious illness or wouid die.
Lobsters Are Scavengers
Lobsters eat anything they find,
either fresh or stale. They are
scavengers, but not to the exclusion
of fresh food, which they prefer and
makes up the bulk of their diet.
They devour many slow-moving
creatures that habitate the ocean
floor, and can crack mussel shells
with their powerful mandibles. The
young, spidery lobsters exist mostly
on plankton, minute floating organ
isms.
Pol, Native Hawaiian Dish
Hawaiians, in their native dish or
poi, discovered the real source of
good teeth and bones long before
modern science. Research into the
dental superiority of Hawaiians re
veals that poi, which has long been
a leading native dish in the islands,
contains an unusually large quantity
of calcium and phosphorus. This
coupled with the sunshine of the is
lands, which furnished the neces
sary vitamin D element, resulted in
the fine teeth and bones of the island
race.
Historic
Hoaxes
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
© Western Newspaper Union.
The Cardiff Giant
IN THE late sixties a Chicago to-
A bacco dealer named George Hull
heard a clergyman express the be
lief that men of gigantic stature once
lived on earth. It gave him an idea.
Out of a 12-foot block of stone he
carved the figure of a man. It was
a hard job to simulate pores in the
skin but he managed to do it and
after giving the stone man a bath in
sulphuric acid and ink, he shipped it
to the farm of his relative, William
C. Newell, near Cardiff, N. Y. There
it was buried for a year to “age”
it properly.
Next Newell hired some of his
neighbors to dig a well for him
and behold! the well-diggers “dis
covered” the giant. Four doctors,
called from town, examined it and
agreed that it was the petrified re
mains of a prehistoric man. A Syr
acuse antiquarian declared it was a
statue “probably made by early
Jesuit missionaries” at least 300
years ago and offered Newell $10,-
000 for it. A professor of natural
science at Rochester university ex
amined it and wrote that “although
not dating back to the Stone age, it
is nevertheless deserving the atten
tion of archeologists.”
Within a short time the “Cardiff
Giant” was one of the wonders of
the modern world. Newell began
charging people 50 cents each to see
it, and business was so good that a
group of Syracuse business men
bought a three-quarters interest in
it for $30,000. But such good fortune
couldn’t last always. A Yale pro
fessor examined it carefully, found
tool marks on it and other evidence
that it had not been buried long.
When it seemed that the hoax was
about to be exposed, the giant was
shipped to New York. But P. T.
Barnum, who had failed in his ef
forts to buy it for his museum,
suspecting that the giant was a
hoax, had one of his own made and
began exhibiting it. This led - to
public suspicion that Newell’s dis
covery was also a fake and the Yale
professor confirmed that belief. So
the “Cardiff Giant” soon became
just another “forgotten man.”
• • •
The Drake Estate
fpOR more than half a century the
" “Drake estate” legend has been
used to defraud Americans of mil
lions of dollars but so long as the
“get rich quick” desire persists, it
will probably continue to harvest
its crop of gold for swindlers.
The story they tell is that Sir
Francis Drake, naval hero and free
booter of Queen Elizabeth’s day,
left an estate which, held in trust
by the British government, is' now
estimated at 10 billion to 25 bil
lion dollars. They claim that they
have discovered a “lost heir” to
this fortune and offer persons bear
ing the name Drake or descended
from persons of that name an op
portunity to contribute to a fund
which will be used in establishing
the “lost heir’s” title. Once that is
established, they promise that ev
eryone who has contributed to the
fund will be repaid a thousandfold.
The fact is that Drake was never
married, so he did not leave any
heirs. Moreover, when he died
aboard his ship in 1595 his estate
was a very small one and that was
settled long, long ago. Yet despite
these well-known facts and despite
repeated warnings by both the Brit
ish and the American governments
against anyone investing in such a
scheme, thousands of gullible per
sons have been victimized in the
past and it’s only a question of time
until the hoary old legend will be
revived and other suckers will be
taken in by it.
• • •
Flight' Over the Atlantic
N EARLY three-quarters of a cen
tury before Charles A. Lind
bergh thrilled the whole world by
flying across the Atlantic, that feat
was accomplished—in the imagina
tion of an American newspaper
man. His name was Edgar Allen
Poe (later famous as a poet) and
in 1835 he had printed the first in
stallment of a fanciful tale about
a trip to the moon. However, Rich
ard Adams Locke’s “moon hoax” in
the New York Sun had monppolized
public attention, so Poe tore up the
second installment of his story.
But in 1844 when he wrote an ac
count of the crossing of the Atlantic
by a group of men in three days in
a balloon or flying machine called
the Victoria, he found that the pub
lic was just as gullible as it had
been nine years earlier. His yarn,
also published in the New York Sun,
captured the imagination of the pub
lic and there was a great demand
for copies of that paper.
Even when Poe explained that his
tale was imaginary, many people
insisted upon belffeving it was true.
Later Poe said, “If the Victoria
did not absolutely accomplish the
voyage recorded, it will be difficult
to assign a reason why she should
not have accomplished it.” In view
of developments in aviation which
were to come within the next 75
years, Poe was not such a bad
prophet!
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Locate Crops Logically
F * YOU have a choice of location
for your garden, select a place
where there is plenty of sun,
away from trees. Tree roots take
nourishment from the ground and
the foliage shades the garden
from the sun.
If you have had little experi
ence, your gardening will prove
more satisfactory if you grow sev
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grow classification. In this group,
according to Harold Coulter, veg
etable expert, are radishes, beets,
Swiss chard and turnips. If your
garden is fairly large, spinach,
peas, beans and corn can be sown.
Where the garden is small and
you wish to get a good volume
yield from a limited space, the
vegetables to be grown should
again be selected carefully. Rad
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peas and beans are quick growing
items which should prove satis
factory.
Before planting, work soil deep
ly, make the top four inches fine
and loose, t’lant seeds according
to directions on seed packet.
As the Olive
Mark how fleeting and paltry is
the estate of man—yesterday in
embryo, tomorrow a mummy or
ashes. So for the hair’s breadth
of time assigned to thee live ra
tionally, and part with life cheer
fully, as drops the ripe olive ex
tolling the season that bore it and
the tree that matured it.—Marcus
Aurelius.
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Children like them. Buy now!—Adv.
Shadows
Every flower, even the fairest,
has its shadow beneath it as it
swings in the sunlight.—Anon.
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