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m . ? ' !? line Uiited Statei Girls, Here's a Husband? If Yon Can Milk 14 Cows GRAHTSBURG, WIS.?Arthu New Year's resolution to get mai careful which woman he picks, help milk 14 cows, among the 01 find to do on a farm. The mating matter began last year when Birnstengel, a husky 44 year-old farmer, found he was too busy operating his 610-acre farm to go courting. So he wrote his con Rep. Ahrin E. O'Konski was short on wives but long on advice. "Be sure she's honest," he replied. Art ful Arthur advertised. "You must be honest," he said in his ad. v It waa a relief, he said, to dis cover that there are 1,600 honest women in the world. They answered from Mew York to Chicago, from Georgia to Alaska He isnt fussy. All he asks of a wife is that she must: 1. Be between 30 and 42 years old. 2. Nat weigh more than his 195 3. Be between five feet and five feet, eight inches tall. 4. Be truthful. (His congressman said so.) 5. Not smoke or drink. ?. Be healthy. 7. Be friendly. 8. Nat be a gold-digger. 9. Have a sense of humor. 10. Be willing to take good care of Araie. his sis-yea r-old son by a former marriage. 11. Be willing to help milk 14 cows. r KEfTS IN BUSINESS ' ru. km mm, .Miring in Iceland, ! Ximnrfb FirioMii o/ Pittsburgh decided he'd go holiness for himself when he got Ml ?jf dbc ?rmy. He bought an old tchmal hms fiirnprf if info ? jfore, dbi'db It adka directly to his customers. FiDiag Station Rotted 2S Times; A Vorii Record BELATR, MD.-The most bur glarized aeishx station in the world ?IS Mies since Pearl Harbor?may 1 get m of the rut after all. That's the hope, at least, of Wil liam H. Holmes who operates it at Stepney, two miles south of Aber deen, reports the Harford Gazette. All of the robberies have occurred between the hours of midnight and nine o'clock in the morning when the stathnfVas closed. Now that the war la over. Holmes has hired Floyd Pitts, a returned serviceman, to op erate the station during those fate ful hours. Altogether, according to Holmes, about $3,900 in money and goods has been taken. Some 14 arrests have been made by police during that time, with 10 convictions and about $1,000 in property*restored. Holmes says people stop by to put air io a tire or (ill a radiator late at night, and see the unt*nded statiotf. i It has been a relatively easy place to pilfer?almost an invitation to burglary. The Milt -headache of ail has bean that Halmas couldn't get bur glary hmireuM after the first rob bery. Since that time he has to stand all the loss himself. One Language far All Declaring "the language barrier is a severe one to international peace," lira. Wleannr Roosevelt has proposed one Internationally understood lan guage to be taught in the schools of r Birnstengel, a farmer, made a rried in 1940, but he's going to be He insists that she be willing to ther small chores a woman will Grandpa Bags Deer With Pocketknife DETROIT LAKES, MINN ?John S. ("Grandpa") Pretta, who got two deer last fall with only a pocket knife as a weapon, tops the list of hunters this season, according to L. Benshoof, editor of the Detroit Lakes Record. Grandpa Pretts' feat happened this way: He was working inside his house one afternoon when he glanced out and saw three deer strolling leisure ly between the house and the barn. Pretts grabbed his shotgun and went after them, but in the mean time the dog had started out after the animals and they broke into a gallop. He fired four shots', but failed to halt them. A neighbor boy, who had been hunting, got on his bicycle and aided by the dog chased the deer onto the glare ice of the lake. The animals fell down and the ice was so slifk they could not get up. Seeing their predicament, Grandpa went after them with his trusty jackknife. artistically cut their throats' right there on the ice. Pan Gold from Mud on Helena's Main Street HELENA, MONT ?"Gold!" The magic word which gave Helena a 16-million dollar boom in the last century rang through the streets again when contractors were exca vating for a building. Hopeful spec tators lined up three and four deep,, but a boom was averted. Henry Kasman, a placer miner, poked out some of the dirt with his pick and panned it in icy water while Mayor John J. Haytin and others looked on silently. Pretty soon Kasman straightened up, holding in his hand a tiny bit of black sand. "By gosh! It's gold all right," exclaimed the mayor. And everybody agreed?a dozen small pieces of the precious stuff. A dredgemaster estimated the gold would run $1.75 per square yard. But even for that much you don't rip up the main street of a state capital. Everybody soon went home, except for contractors who went back to work pouring cement over Helena's new gold strike. [More War Casualties: Oil-Soaked Sea Birds Perished by Millions Oil and waterfowl don't mix, either. The department of the inte rior reports that "thousands of auks, murres, puffins, sea gulls and lucks" perished during the war. The auks, murres and others were victims of oil on the sea "whicn penetrates the feathers and ruins , them as waterproof coverings." STILL JOHN BULL ... Still look lag like an animated picture el tke eartooolst's "John Boll," termer Prime Minister Winston ChnrehUI posed for pboterraphers while he was vacationing in Florida. He smoked cigars, painted, rested and otherwise enjoyed himself. ?POCKET POOCH* Walter Ward, Philadelphia, who calls himself the vagabond poet, makes a hobby of picking np stray animals and gives thorn a homo until such time as ho ean Sad tho owner. The dog oho a a Is Poo-Woe. one of the seven Owned by Ward, who often travels la the overcoat pocket of the vagabond poet. Once a Joint owner of a boiler factory la Now Orleans, Ward says ho prodoes Wo Mo of n peddler to thai of s BEATING THE HOUSING SHORTAGE . . . Frank Smith, Harold McLaii and Harry Newcomb, left to right, show how they beat the Los Angela housing shortage. They pitched their canvas atop a bus depot garage Their traveling job took them to Los Angeles for three weeks, and unabl? to secure hotel reservations they brought their own tent from San Franeiseo, GRAND CHAMPION BRAHMAN BULL . . . Blue Director, a Florida bred Brahman owned by Norris Cattle company, Ocala, Fla., which wai judged grand champion at the recem Second Annual Registered Brahmai show held at Ocala. The show brought Increased interest in Brahmani and proved that the breed is not as rare as many peopde are inclined to believe. REVERSE LEND-LEASE WITH ENGLAND . . . Hundreds of British wai brides and their babies are arriving la the United States to Join their husbands and fathers. Immediately upon arrival -of ships in New Yorh City they are be ins rushed by special trains to all parts of tbe United States. First arrivals announced their pleasnre of the clothing and food conditions in America, bat refused to discuss politics. ?4-?ri ~ rssi ?" ? I FIREWOOD fOB OPERA TICKETS . . . Behrt yea earn bay * ticket lei the of?n fit.KM, Gefaaaay, yea have to yet ton a yaaad at Itmrt to atoll I am to Ike yriee at tha daaat. The wilt la aaad to heat the beild toe tottof the yerfarmaace. The Getmaa sailer to aatfena. at left, h warhtocJ^KM lac the RrWah aawy. Plaaas at aaneeaaaa* raeciwe m WINNIE'S DAUGHTER* . . . Mrs. Sarah Churchill Oliver, eldest daughter of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, is shown as she arrived by air at New York City, en route to Miami to Cuba to Join her parents. HOT COSSACK . . . Dlmitri Mat vienko, Kuban, Russia, has spent the past seven years showing New Yorkers the art of dagger dancing in which he uses eight biasing dag gers. He also does a flame-swallow ing act. PRINCE TO MARRY IN U. 8. . . . Prince Carl Johan, grandson of King Gnstaf of Sweden, has arrived in the U. S. to marry Swedish news paper woman, Mrs. Kerstin Wij mark, for whom he forfeited his royal rights. ; HIZZONER CLEANS CP . . . Major ' I BUI Cade. Lakeland, Fla.. did not' I let the labor shortage interfere with keeping the eltj clean. FIRST POSTWAB CHAMP ... Ike r bit champion to he crowned in the I poetwar world. Marty Serre, M, at ? Schenectady, N. Y., wen the welter i weight chempimchlp at the world ? bona "Bed" Cochrane. Marty la an Kathleen Norris Says: To Work or Not to Work Bell Syndicate.?WNU Feature*. 44Coxy meals, over which you fuss, plan with him and Patsy for picnics and amuse ments, intimate talks about him, will do much to mitigate his dissatisfaction." By KATHLEEN NORRIS WHEN Billy Sears went to war, Patricia, his wife, went to work. Their daughter, Patsy, was 8 years old, there wasn't too much money, and the pay fo'r women in canning'plants was good. Patricia didn't like work, and her letters to Billy were inclined to be a little grim. She got tired and dirty and she hated the long hours and the fatigue of it. She rented three of her rooms to a navy wife who paid part of her rent in care for Patsy; it wasn't an ideal arrangement, but it worked well enough. But the pay was good, and Patricia was a good worker. She was promoted; she was raised. She was presently made a department superintendent on a salary of $60 a week. Then Bill came home. This is part of her letter: ? "Through the hardest and the dullest days," writes Patricia, "I tried to send Bill cheerful letters. I didn't always like what he' said in reply. He said more than once that he was glad I was working, it would keep me out of mischief and not give me any chance to waste money. Well, I wasn't ever in any danger of getting into mischief, and as for money ? I make more now j than Bill does. I like my work; I like my business associates. He never especially liked his job as salesman in a wholesale mattress company, and I don't think he likes my success?for in a modest way it is success. J "I want him to hold his job, and for me to hold mine with someone coming in in the afternoons to keep an eye on Patsy until we get home. It means we can save money, which we never have done. It means that I don't sink into the drudgery of dishes and dusting, but have some thing to say at the dinner table. "It does, of course mean more careful managing and ordering; I have to spend every moment I have at home meeting the various de mands of kitchen, bedrooms, laun dry, Patsy's clothes, her school work. I like to do it, I'm strong and well; I've got everything organized. Beds aired at seven and breakfast started, beds and dishes finished, my bath and dressing for the day, Patsy and her lunch, off for school ?it works like a charm. Or it would, if Bill would co-operate. "But he simply and flatly won't," the letter finishes, "and the result is a very strained atmosphere in the house and an ugly feeling grow ing between us. He says he likes to come home and find his wife dainty t and rested, waiting for him with his v child and his tempting dinner, and t I say that's sentimental nonsense, c I say that we have to get ahead, 1 and that I'm as capable of succeed ing in business as any man; I have E a real commercial value and mean f to cash in on it. Sometimes I am t a little later than he in getting ] home, sometimes I need the car t for a short business trip ? never t overnight. So what? Has he any i real right to make scenes about it, i and threaten to divorce me? I very c much want your opinion." a Patricia, my opinion is that you r are right and Bill is wrong. I'm t almost sorry to say so. I know so > well the value of those domestic c mini THAT EXTRA INCOME During the war Patricia, like to many other wives of servicemen, got a job. It was in a canning plant. Patricia didn't like it at first, but she buckled down and eventually became a superintend ent at 160 a week. Now her husband, Billy, has re turned. He has gone back to his work as a salesman, an occupa tion he does not particularly like. He doesn't earn as much as his wife at present. Patricia has con tinued working; She has come to enjoy the freedom from domestic drudgery, for she can hire some help. The luxuries her added in come brings, and the bank ac count that is piling up, all seem to Patricia valid reasons for her to keep her job. They have one little girl, who is now in school. It is possible for Patricia to hire someone to look after the child from the time school is out until one parent comes home. Billy doesn't like this arrange ment at all. He wants his wife to stay home, to do the household chores, to care for their little daughter. Especially he wants his wife to look and act feminine when he comes home. The situa tion is getting tense, and a threat of divorce is in the offing. deals that Bill has brought home rom lonely years in the service. But times have changed, and we :an't go back. You will never be atisfled with the lessened income, md the daily routine of pans and luddings and beds and' school unches again. You will never again >e content to ask him for money ind to do without personal luxuries. Yor is there any reason why you jhould. Marriage, by long custom, loes mean dependence and house iold drudgery for women, but many in old custom has been split as "any ways as the atom itself, and here is nothing essentially unwife y in mutual jobs and separate in :omes. I do advise you to strive, as good laturedly and affectionately as you an, to preserve what Bill loves n a home. I presume you have Sat irday afternoons and Sundays, and 'ou can do much in that free time o keep him happy. Cozy meals. iver which you fuss enthusiastical ly plan with him and Patsy for pic 8[>d amusements, intimate alks about what you hope to do v'th your money, about your job J1frn and everything that com :erna him will do much to mitigate us dissatisfaction. If the worst comes to the worst, uggest that he try living elsewhere or a while, try a club or boarding " he gets anything J*e the domestic comfort there hat he has with you. Keep even empered, sympathetic, understati ng. A part of this attitude of Bill's s, of course, inate jealousy ? leal *?? he.docsn,t recognize him fJL 10Wn Erupted busi less life builds up a little more, nuch of it will disappear. Wait for hat tune, and meanwhile keep as ?an*' *nd comPanionable as you homemade polish The simple mixture of two parte ?nt? UnS?tL?U ""d ??e part tur lentme makes an excellent polish or furniture. The oil "feeds" the rood, and the turpentine loosens dirt j ? ?n penetrate the rood. This polish removes the dull o?y appearance that furnitur^ <ften acquires, and helps conceal Ine cracks or checks in the nm.t. ipply the mixture with a soft cloth. "ft*? " dT doth rub off exl J-WJj. -0 IU ~
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