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page fourteen 'THE ECfit) February, Just Little Hunks Of Real Stuff!! A man weighing 140 pounds contains enough fat for seven cakes of soap, carbon for 9000 pen- -cils, phosphorus to make 2200 match heads, -magnesium for one dose of salts, iron to make one •medium-sized nail, sufficient lime to whitewash a chicken coop, enough sulphur to rid one dog of fleas and water to fill a 10-gallon barrel . . . The golf beginner swung three times at the ball on the first tee,: and missed. Undis couraged, he looked up at the crowd on the clubhouse porch and observed: “Tough course.” . Just in case you’ve ever wondered about such things, the most re markable echo known today is created by the “Eagle’s Nest” in the mountains surrounding the Lakes of Killarney, Ireland. It will repeat a bugle note at least 100 times. Life is cruel to men. When they’re born, their mothers get compliments and flowers; when they get married the bride gets presents and publicity; and when they die, their wives get the insur ance and the winters in Florida. Ever wonder where the military salute got its start? It all happened when Admiral Drake invited Queen Elizabeth to award prizes to the victorious British seamen after the defeat of the Spanish Ar mada in 1588. “On account of the dazzling loveliness of Her Majesty, all seamen, upon receiving their prizes, should shield their eyes with the right hand,” the Admiral ordered; and thus the salute was born. Women have undergone un known tortures to simply make themselves more beautiful ac cording to the style of the times. In fact, practically no part of the body has escaped some kind of fantastic beauty treatment. In 16th. century Russia, women even dyed black the whites of their eyes . . . Lord Chesterfield said it: “Have a real reserve with everybody and a seeming reserve with almost no body; for it is very disagreeable to seem reserved, but dangerous not to be so.” Another difference between a married man and a bachelor is that when a bachelor walks the floor with a baby, he is dancing. If you think that modern poli tics are corrupt, note what went on in 18th century England. Men wishing to buy government posi tions and office-holders having them for sak; advertised in the newspapers. Prices ran as high $15,000 ... As the little birdies well know, many a love nest is built on no stronger foundation than a cute little limb ... In the United States one infant under a year of age dies from an unavoid able accident on an average of ev ery four hours. Smothering by bed clothing is the chief cause of such deaths . . . Red Square in Moscow was not named for the “red” revolution in 1917 or for the etnblem of the Communist party, but rather it is from the Russian word Krasnya which means both red and beautiful. Religious notice jn Southern newspaper 100 years ago: “The ■Reverend Mr. Blaney will preach next Sunday in Dempsey’s Grove at 10 o’clock a. m., and at 4 o’clock p. m. Providence permitting. Be tween sermons, the preacher will run his sorrel mare, Julia, against any nag that can be trotted out in this region for a purse of $100” . . . Not that our country is coin- "'we're WEARIN6 BASKETBALL SHOES, AIM'T WE?* conscious, but the following places may be found in the U. S.: Cash Corner, North Carolina; Lucre, Mississippi; Money, Mississippi; Check, Virginia; Deposit, New York; and Dividend, Utah . . . Pa risian divorcees now wear plain rings on the little finger of the right hand so that it may be known they are back in circulation. The House of Commons in Lon don will not seat all of the repre sentatives elected to this body. However, it was so planned by far sighted architects who correctly reasoned that all the represent atives would never be there at once . . . Many a man looks down at the heel, but simply because there’? a trim ankle just above it ... In many South American mov ie houses, when patrons do not like a picture, the film is stopped at once and another started. When patrons want to see a scene again, it is run over and over until they are satisfied . . . Although an ex pert cannot tell the difference be tween the taste of pink salmon and white salmon, people expect canned salmon to be pink. Some years ago, when pink salmon in the Columbia River were late in arriving, a canner successfully took his chances on selling the white. On each can he placed a label: “This salmon is guaranteed not to turn pink in any climate.” Have You Moved Recently? MUST BE CRAZY A new patient at a sanitarium for the mildly deranged com plained to the attending physician: “What’s the idea of sticking me in a room with that crazy guy over there?” “Well, I’ll tell you,” said the doctor placatingly, “It’s the only room we have available just now. Is your roommate troublesome?” “Why, the guy’s crazy! He keeps looking around and saying, ‘No lions, no tigers, no elephants’— and all the time the room’s full of ’em!” The Personnel Departmcint is anxious to keep their record up to date. To do this they are ask ing that each and every one of us keep them notified of his or her present address. If you have changed your address since you last notified the Employment of fice, kindly notify your foreman or stop by the Personnel De partment and have someone there correct your records. QUOTATIONS “We are a rich nation and can afford many things. But ill health which can be prevented or cured is one thing we cannot afford.”— President Truman. “The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.”— Wilde. “We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now com mit it to life.”—Edwin Markham. “If you would be loved, love and be lovable.”—Franklin. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.” —Helen Keller. “Miracle” SuH> Sulfa drugs were often the “miracle” drugs in Wm'j II but they are far from “cure-alls” and can cause trouble if they are not take”^ a doctor’s prescription or' structions are ignored wliil* ing them. Sulfa produces strange on many people. It slows time, for example, and cao driving a car extremely During the war, pilot* grounded for a period of four days after they bad ' sulfa. Sulfa also reduces a P® gen “ceiling.” OrdinarW'j would require oxygen feet, but with sulfa still system, he would need oxygen at 10,000 teet—sotP'M even less. Never take a drink have been dosed with not mix with liquor, and bination could be disastrous individual. p If your skin is exposed t violet or X-rays or even sunlight while your are fa, you might develop * rash. ^ Self-doctoring is always ‘ gerous practice, and this is yj ularly true in the use • drugs. There are many types of sulfa, aftd no ^ could be expected to would be effective for ^ ular needs. Take sulfa doctor orders it—but leave it alone! Carelessness Five billion dollars a amount would be enough to service the j»j debt. But instead, Ameri*^*^ chosen to cast this if* yearly in property loss cidents. Nor is this the Accidents in less than this country cost more The little moron wouldn’t buy a hand mirror because all he want ed to see was his face. Joe: "Why don’t you get busy and find a job? At your age I was working in a store for $3,00 week, and five years later I owned the business.” Moe: “You can’t do that nowa days—they have cash registers.” “To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.”—Hare. “Good humor is goodness and wisdom combined.”—Owen Mere dith. “The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.”—Henry Van Dyke. “A pair of good ears will drain dry a hundred tongues.”—Benja min Franklin. “Things are seldom what they seem. Skim milk often masque rades as cream.”—W. S. Gilbert. “Laughter is the joyous, univer sal evergreen of life.”—Lincoln. “There’s a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time were lost by both sides i" tie of the Belgian bulge- j.j Now that the war is things are becoming again, what will happ^’*jili' annual loss? Will care o® become the watchword the “pressures of war” jpr lilted? Unfortunately, , is no. As a matter of pujij the end of hostilities of deaths due to traffi*^ has soared 40 per cent ame period one year No, now more than ® quate, conscientious apP*^.;iili available safety factors exercised if the losses ^ avoidable accidents are from becoming appalling- ties say that the end has caused a psycholo? j,fii ity which, along with J. equipment and relaxed strictions, provide unusu^ / tunities for carelessness nate in death. And part of all is the fact in life and money could cally eliminated if exls^^" ^ edge of safety measur® heeded. i for great things, and ® small things.”—Cerevant®’" .1)1' “Silence is the unbea*'® artee.”—G. K. Chesterto®' “Trust men and they true to you; treat them 6^ t they will show themsel'’® —Emerson.
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