FINEST OF ALL LOVE'S MISSIVES
A baby beauty, and flowers, and love? THAT makes a Valentine.
Fine
Old
Saint
By
mary graham bonner
f"K had been qu|te H)
When she was getting a lit
frt. ?e"er SOme of her
Wends, conscience smitten
*ald each unto herself:
**1 must go nod call on Sally
and ask her what I can do
'or her. She's all by herspif i
io andTrt"'" ,he nnly "^nt fhlnT o
-;?u " bought r. .^r'up
r a?d -^rsrv,? rz
known you were 111 before T
*r/r ubie *? br,n,: y?u ?????" C
f ?n ?7e up ,od"? ?"<? <*e wha,
can do for you. <3ood by dear i
am so relieved you're a little belter
Now don't do too much |
?on-, bear o. It. Oood-by - 'mP"
And this Is what they did:
~r2r<&svz~
*nd " ,he* 'eft. at different times
?? ,?ld ,|)Pr0I'mately the snmc ?
eoBldn" '
? you got renllv in
Too re looking so mnchK ^ ??? '?
Oh-do,,., boll,er lhank me It was
? pleasure to do what I could -
Ufe^nTedt ?*
Pr<>i>osition sordid
=~is?=:3rcsrs
a sign i? ,he window:
?.T' fufn'sh the license free to any.
??ch an advertisement.
sr 5?
=tive husband suggest ^
Now- Valentine's day was an. I
Preaching, and once more .he fenew
?*?? would have no flowers to wm7
W^"e *!' other friends had them."
taT mw T" h"d n""'8a and D?tb
tww to back ber od <?hp ?
touely and young ,, was wort X
2srrst0r"" ^D??"r'?]ked'r"
fat are together? bat tbey were
\ery yoang and GeolTri>? k a
-way that nex, had
n?*d t?i *>meti"?8 ** laving 'ba"
JSt, '2? ^ 1
Suddenly ber mind Was .rou^,
from thought, b, . ring
Was She dreaming? Oould u --
*?
"Such a questiou." he laughed.
And then ? but why pry Into those
precious moments of hers?
He had come back 1 In real life,
too. und clad in the armor of romance.
And tomorrow ? St. Valentine's day ?
they were to be married. He had had
a dreadful time setting back for that
special day !
And why hadn i he written? Why j
hadn't she? Kacb had thought the *
other of course now cared for some
one else when letters were not an- j
swered at first ? letters which were i
never received? It was only natural j
to think that. Rut he had heard, only
two months before, when he had been
down In South America, from some one
who had seen her. She was not mar
ried. She wasn't supposed to be en
gaged.
And he had come ? all the way ? to
get her. Nothing would do but that.
Ob yes, there still was romance.
And St. Valentine was a mighty fine
saint !
by Western Newspaper Union.)
All Hearts Bow to
Good Saint Valentine
j Modern Maid Is No Different
From Grandmother.
OVEUS beware 1 A wealth
of cheery little red hearts
and rampant cuplds are
Haunting their charms from
shop windows to lure even
the wary into the endearing
ways of St. Valentine.
And Just what chance have young
men and their sweethearts 1 There's
no telling when one of these paper ar
rows may reach home or a plaintive
verse, as Bweet as a sugar plum, suc
ceed In entwining itself around a lose
tendril of a wistful heart.
It is safe to announce that there is
many a girl who laughs at the loving
tricks of her grandmother's day. That
would be the kind of honor with ft
bunch of flowers, a bar pin or a dainty
locket. But while girls shorten their
dresses and cut their Lair and while
fashions in valentines come and go. the
heart of the maid is generally as sus
ceptible to valentines and their verses
as that of the hoop-skirted lady gen
erations ago.
Little Old Lace
By WILLIAM HERSCHELL
HviUfi at Auld Lug Sjroo,
You Ktvt Mcnti. old u cold;
O tW dad bours Youxh hu ipn
Drta?k| la your oontirncnt!
BOY *UU loafi to m* IMT loot
A* W allpo you to Girl', kouk;
WmtU to to. tlx (tod Mvpriao
An Im unw lo toot to kauo
Nom tot U. could pIwm tor
JAPANESE ARMY GETS
VENGEANCE FOR DEAD
Hundreds of Chinese Troops
Slain in Retaliation.
Mukden. Manchuria. ? The Japanese
army has avenged its dead. Official
communiques said that hundreds of
Chinese have been killed in a series
of offensives undertaken in retaliation
for the Chinese victories of the pre
vious week, in which the Japanese cas
ualties were heavy.
Supported by heavy artillery air
planes, the ave^ng columns of Japan
killed at least 220 Chinese in engage
ments at Yentai and Tungliao. the com
muniques said, and near Yingkow.
where a force of 500 Chinese was en
countered, "a considerable number** of
casualties was inflicted.
These were the three major engage
ments. but there were many others.
Larger units were employed than in
previous activities of this sort, and
more Imposing auxiliary arms.
While the Japanese pressed on with
their work of revenge, new croups of
Chinese war lords arrived in Mukden
to take part in negotiations looking
toward the establishment of a new
Manchurlan state, wholly free of Chi
nese control.
Gen. Shlgeru llonjo, Japanese high
commander, explained the fierceness
of his new offensives by saying it was
necessary to rid South Manchuria of
?'the curse of banditry'* in order to
permit the Chinese farmers to sow
their spring crops "in assurance of
safety and peace."
In the battle at Yentai. a coal min
ing center 25 miles south of Mukden,
a Japanese infantry battalion, equipped
with machine guns and backed by air
planes and artillery, fought forty min
utes with about 500 Chinese. A com
munique said the Chinese were "al
most completely annihilated.'* The
battalion returned to Mukden and a
gang of coolies was hired to dispose
of the bodies on the battlefield. Nu
merous enemy wounded were taken to
Japanese hospitals.
A Japanese column was sent to the
Tungliao district after reports had
been received that 1.000 Chinese were
looting a nearby village. The Chinese
lost 22 prisoners In addition to 00 dead
in this battle, headquarters announced.
A brigade sent to the Chinsi district
to smash irregular Chinese troops re
turned to Its Chlnchow base, reporting
its mission accomplished.
Among the war lords arriving In
Mukden for the negotiations about the
establishment of a new government for
Manchuria was Chang Hai-peng. who
failed In an attempt to oust Gen. Ma
Chan-shan from Tsitsihar before Cen.
Jlro Tamon accomplished that task In
November.
Nat Postoffice Robber
With Guns, Explosives
Boston.? "Pa wtucket Johnny" Con
ley, alias "The Parson." notorious post
office robber and safe blower, was ar
rested 1n Pawtucket when police found
two loaded .45 automatic pistols and a
bottle of nitroglycerin In the back seat
of a car In which he was sitting. Con
ley was crouched down in the front
sent of the car, which was parked with
out lights. A companion, who said he
was Elmer S. Thurber, was also ar
rested.
Father, 89, Slays Son;
He Pleads Self-Defense
Bethany. Mo. ? Wounded by his fa
ther, an eighty-nlne-year-old veteran of
the Civil war, Alexander Smothers,
forty-seven. Is dead. The father.
Joshua Smothers, pleaded self-defense
and has not been arrested. The shoot
ing occurred at the home of the father.
The home was In a state of siege for
thirty minutes before the father flred.
Inside the home. Mrs. Smothers sat In
an Invalid's chair and heard the
threats of her son.
Roosevelt Indorsed
by South Dakotans
Huron, S. D. ? South Dakota Demo
crats, meeting here, unanimously In
dorsed Franklin D. Roosevelt, governor
of New York, for the Democratic Pres
idential nomination.
A slate of delegates, headed by Sen
ator W. J. Rulow as delegate at large,
was Instructed to support Roosevelt as
long as his name Is presented to the
national convention as a Presidential
candidate.
Urbana Business Is
Halted for One Week
Urbana. 111. ? A business moratorium
UDder which stores, shops and plants,
except essential services, were closed
for one week, was proclaimed by May
or Reginald flarmon as a method of
calming the fears of the people after
the closing of two banks in Champaign
and one here.
Cold Insurance
He carrics it with him, ready for just such times. That
little box of Bayer Aspirin. If he catches cold, what of it?
Bayer Aspirin will stop it. If his throat feels sore, he will
end the soreness with one good gargle made from these
tablets.
Dangerous complications can follow the neglect of "a
common cold!" Every case of tonsilitis began with "just
a sore throat P* It's a wise plan to take aspirin after any
undue exposure to bad weather, or whenever there is any
chancc that you've caught cold. If it's genuine aspirin it
can't possibly hurt you; and how it docs banish the aches
and pains caused by colds, neuralgia, neuritis, lumbago,
and even rheumatism.
Bayer Aspirin will insure your comfort through the
worst cold season. The more susceptible you are to colds,
the more you need it. Docs not depress the heart.
Tractor Statistics
In number of tractors per 100,000
acres of crop land, California leads
all states with 523. New York is
second, with 402. Illinois has the
most tractors on farms, Kansas
comes second, and California is sev
enth on the list. In value of all
farm machinery equipment, Iowa is
at the head of the list, Texas is sec
ond and California is tenth. These
figures are drawn from the govern
ment census report of 1980.
NIP CHEST COLDS,
QUICK WITH HEAT
OF RED PEPPERS
Relieves Almost Instantly
To break up congestion, to kestore free
circulation and stop chest colds ... to
alleviate the circulatory pains and
aches of rheumatism, neuritis, lumbago
? ? . Nature has stored up in red pep
pers a marvelous therapeutic heat that
penetrates deeply into the skin without
blistering or burning and swiftly brings
relief. Now this genuine red peppers"
heat is contained in an ointment.
Rowles Red Pepper Rub. As you
rub it on youll feel better. And in 3
minutes relief comes. Drug stores sell
RowJes Red Pepper Rub. Try it.
Porcupines Destroy Trees
San J[uan national forest officials
have discovered a new enemy of
trees? porcupines. The animals rub
trees with their sharp quills, strliv
plng a ring around them and causing
them to "spike top," or die at the
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to sell at biR profit. Particulars free. Bn
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at home- Complete countf Sir., Send for
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the PpitIpw \Vlnd?>w Sorocn H anger. New
patent, durable, economical. Basv to In
stall. A child car. operate Screen remov
able from Inside or out Kvcrv home will
buy this hnnjjcr. 'Viunlv rights free to
ap> nts, who qualify. Splendid opportunity.
Write IVrrlew Window Screen Hunger,
Northern Ave.. Indlnnnpoliw. Indiana.
Anto Owner*!(*learvlF.lon In heaviest storm;
u'las* clear of raindrops, steam. front. mint,
bv applying Cluroeit. I.arfte sl*e for wind
shield*. etc.. $1 and $1.50 Pencil form for
ey ok lasses, fine postpaid. Cyril Tolcon. 4Sf
Shorn I>ane. KoxborotiRh. Philadelphia. Pa.
Prinluctlve Constat I-'urm l4?mW, cheap.
Mobile Co. .where peaf??od is plentiful. 20 a
$200 ;$fi down IB ino.Yeend Bros.. Mobile. Ala
Cush for Old Rnv?4npos Will Stamps used
during, before and Just after Civil War.
Stamp collections and accumulations also.
Walter K. Kmerson, B36 Cornelia, Chicago.
Sunshine^*
? All Winter Long
At the Foremost Desert Retort
of the Welt ? marvelous dimaie ? warm tunny
i days ? clear starlit nights ? dry invigorating
air ? splendid roads ? gorgeous mountain
scenes ? finest hotels ? the ideal winter home.
Wrlto Cro# A C Hmttmy
PALM SPRINGS
Caiifnrnta
top first. Forest Supervisor Andrew
1 1 nt i on estimated porcupines have
caused as much damage to the tim
ber during the last few years as that
caused by lire. A campaign against
them, he said, would be made.
CORRECT GROWTH
for Children
You can help your children gain sturdy bones and strong
teeth by giving them Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil
daily. (It's the Vitamin D content that docs it.) But there's
also a wealth of Vitamin A present that builds resistance
? in parents as well as children ? to such common illnesses
as winter colds. It's the pleasant, easy way to take cod liver
oil. Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield, N. J. Sales Representative,
Harold F. Ritchie & Co., Inc., New York.
Listen to the Scott s Bowne radio program "Adventuring with
Count i >on Luckntr " on Sunday night at 9.30 p.m. (?. S. T.) over the
Columbia Coast-to-Court Network.
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Such Stories!
Kitty ? My husband says he mar
ried for beauty and brains.
Catty ? Oh, then you're not his first
wife. ? Pathfinder Magazine.
Still Wanting
Peck ? My wife keeps telling me
that I should have a mission in life.
Heek ? Then apparently your sab
mission does not satisfy her.
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in preventing and relieving cold congestions
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