THE ALAMANCE IILEANER.
VOL. LII
Varied Ideas About
Money and Its Uses
Probably more has been said and
—jtten about moey than any other
■object under the sun. Fielding, who
oke with the authority of a magis
trate, once commented that "money la
the fruit of evil as often as the root
. (t " Doctor Johnson said, "Money,
in whatever hands, will confer power."
jnrtThe Way of All Flesh," Samuel
Butler wrote that "money is like a
reputation for ability—more easily
made than kept." His modern disci
ple G. Bernard Shaw, goes farther
and says, "Any fool can save money;
It takes a wise man to spend it." Ba
ton wrote, "Money is like manure; of
little use unless it be spread. A
Quotation from Horace reads, "Money
amassed either serves or rules us."
John Stuart Mill, in his monumental
work, "The Principles of Political
Economy," points out that furs, cow
rie shells and even cubes of com
pressed tea have been used In various
places as money. He goes on to say
that "money is a commodity and Its
value Is determined, like other com
modities, temporarily by demand and
supply, permanently and on the aver
age by cost of production."
No article about money would be
complete without quoting an Ameri
can. It seems typical of the American
mind always to couple money with
work— they rarely refer to the one
without the other. Thus John D.
Rockefeller: "I determined that, in
addition to working for money, I would
make money work for me."—John o'
London's Weekly.
Authors Who Evinced
Interest in Cookery
If the stories of Brlllat-Savarin
which It Is proposed to publish In com
memoration of his centenary reveal
their author to the world as a success
ful writer of Action as well as a gas
tronomer, he may perhaps be regarded
is repaying the interest which some
noted novel lst%have taken in matters
of the table, Balzac took a keen In
terest in cookery, as befitted a man of
gigantic appetite. So also did George
Sand, whose cookery must have been
pretty good, since it was reputed to be
as exciting as her romances. Joseph
Conrad, as he admitted in connection
with a cook book written by Mrs. Oon
rad, gave a high place In his esteem
to the culinary arts, while George
Meredith left a book of cookery re
ceipts In his own handwriting which
Dgured In a book seller's catalogue
lome years ago and may possibly yet
ippear In print.
Food and Hibernation
Hibernating animals enter the state
#f hibernation more quickly and re
main In It much longer when they do
not get much to eat and 'When their
*lr supply Is limited. This fact seems
to have been established by eiperi-"*
Bents performed by Dr. George John
•on. He found that ground squirrels
on limited rations retired to winter
quarters earlier and woke up less
often than those given ample food,
Animals when In a state of hiberna
tion, he found, have a body tempera
toe much lower than that in ordi
nary gleep. The results were similar
some of the squirrels were
Placed In cans where the air supply
*as limited. Strangely enough, vari
*tion In light and darkness seemed
to have no effect whatever upon the
totes of hibernation.—Pathfinder Mag
azine.
Modern Dyestuffs
Modern dyestuffs can be Just as fast
11111 give Just as beautiful colors as
uwd in past times, says the United
at«> Department of Agriculture. It
Mnllment chiefly that makes us
* f to the idea that the natural dyes
Ined from plants and animals are
Hi'. °' them are lovely colors,
in F ? e ' ana tlle tlnje that has passed
wi the cloth was dipped In the dye
' km as ln man y cases mellowed the
i y ea and made them even lovelier.
I of the s °-ealled artificial dyes
i are exac tly the same from
F Will— 1 " standpoint as those from
an(l bark and other natural
| tr, K, t ; o In 80 me cases the new dyes
 Kinn* the old. The modern
er of dyestuffs knows ex
■ i,. a ,n them, and for that rea
[ >• «urer of results.
- ■ ' '
> Time and Old Age
t erroneou s» pernicious, but wide
f || ~ Eviction that "time" makes
*ttl that age automatically
m n umber of years behind
v_ ntes a deadly assault upon
Hk, f*? f amlly. Time does not
, Ith a,„ Tlme haa nothing to do
?' me 18 an hoar glass—a
tia |„ e device— not a force. Time
disease or health no
a yards tlck can Influence
I a borße race - A « e 18 th «
at! tl*n. nges brought about ln our
•f Hfe r.' llr( " | S h all our own habits
** e»n h , the llm 'ts of variation
Ota a , as those changes or check
e will ~ F rom "The Science
8 Yoqd &" by Alfred W. Mo
Corned Beef Heroes
in American History
Corned beef and cabbage was re
sponsible for the Titan race of New
Engl and era that dominated art, com
merce and literature until It was dis
covered that blond Nordics were, after
all, very Inferior and that the real
vintage manhood came from southern
Italy and Ukralnla. Then they sort of
faded away.
In the old days, and It Is perhaps so
i n °w, you took a piece of case-hardened
beef from the most durable part of
the ox. You soaked It over the winter
in salt brine. This destroyed the taste
and perfected the vulcanizing. Then
you took the big Iron pot off the hook
In the woodshed, filled It half full of
water, and put in the meat. You also
put ln potatoes, carrots, a cabbage,
onions, turnips, rutabagas, or what
have you, and set the pot on the back
of the stove and went on about your
business. When it was dinner time,
you took the pot into the depth of the
back yard and poured out the water.
Then you ran back, because that wa
ter, if approached too intimately,
would destroy one's taste for any kind
of dinner. Then you served the re
maining material on one big dish. The
corned beef tasted like carrots; the
potatoes tasted like cabbage; /they all
tasted like onions. If you have ever
eaten It you will get the general Idea.
The path breakers, the empire build
ers, that passed westward along the
Oneida trail and the Mohawk valley In
the forties, were corned beef and cab
bage-eating Americans. They went to
Ohio and grew up and became presi
dents, just as others stayed in Boston
and ate cod, and still others went to
Vermont and perfected the savory fire
harvest of the succulent bean. These
comestibles are food for heroes and
prophets. They are the just and
proper stimulants for dwellers on "a
stern and rock-bound coast." Roger
Williams, and Old Trapper Blackstone,
and Betsy Stark and Col. Izzy Putnam
ate them. "Don't give up the ship,"
cried Lawrence in the thick of battle.
Certainly not. They hadn't any cab
bage, but the hold was full of corned
beef. There is still a lot of corned beef
In our national institutions, and well
It Is for us. —F. M. K., In McNaught's
Monthly.
Ingenious Machines
At a recent German motor show
there was exhibited a tank-plow. A
caterpillar tractor working like aa
army tank drew a plow.
An automatic potato digger has been
designed that the inventor says will
prove a wonderful labor-saving ma
i chine on the farm. It not only digs up
the potatoes, but discharges them ln
windrows for pickers.
Looking like a huge mosquito, a new
machine Is said to be able to bore a
hole three feet deep and nine inches In
diameter In half a minute. The ma
chine looks like a small engine on four
wheels, and carries a huge corkscrew
like drill ln front of It at the end of
two braces. A pull on a lever is suffi
cient to start the drill downward. An
other pull stops It at the desired depth
and brings it back to the starting
point The inventor built his original
model from 23 pieces of farm ma
chinery.
Compromised Position
Transit Commissioner 'John F.
I O'Ryan of New York was condemning
! the proposal to do away with .all sur
| face and elevated cars ln favor of
I busses.
"It can't be done," General O'Ryan
I said, "and any man who says he can
1 do it Is in exactly the same ridiculous
! position as Mr. Rake.
"Mr. Rake got home one morning
at dawn. His wife listened to his ex
' planatory words for a few seconds,
I and then she barked:
j "'Sitting up with a sick friend, ehT
Bah, go brush the rouge and powder
out of your mustache I'"
■
Sounded Like "Dime"
I was attending a Sunday school fes
tival in church. When it was time for
the collection to he taken, a strange
, woman who was sitting back of me
I sa id what I thought was, "Have you
got a dime?" Much surprised, I hand
; ed her one.
You can Imagine how I felt when
she replied, "Not a dime. Have you
got the timer*— Chicago Tribune.
Orchards Need Repairs
In every fruit region there are or
chards that need to be rejuvenated,
' „ade over, or repaired. These are no
: always old orchards. Some have nol
r«iched their prime, and some hav«
'• never born* 0 barrel ot fruit In
' Eel. orebard. b.ve not bad . cbim«
' through neglect, and others have suf
I Jmd ttt the hands of Ignorant owner.
I j Sweet Clover Helps
* Sweet clover prepares land for al
» falfa. This Is especially true on an]
r poorer o «
» l« desired to grow alfalfa. The largi
> roots of the sweet clover
i op the subsoil and the p
s late soil with the
- Follow the sweet clorw^itl
la cultivated crop.
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. APRIL 29, 1926.
WOMAN'S INTUITION
THING OVERRATED?
Writer Questions Idea Con- j
cerning Sixth Sense.
Only au arch-heretic would cast i
doubt on woman's intuition. I confess J
to heresy. Unquestionably this sixth j
sense exists, but I think that it is over- !
rated, Lydia Halg writes in the Wash- !
lngton Post.
If woman's intuition were so uncan- !
nily developed as It is commonly rep- j
resented to be, her advantage over ;
man would be Incalculable. In emer- I
gencies her decisions would be more j
prompt and wise than his, she would j
more readily detect false logic, she !
would judge character unerringly, and I
so be better protected against the de- !
signs of the unscrupulous. In reality, i
more women than men are victimized !
by suave impostors.
If women were so highly Intuitive ;
they would excel in the law courts. In- !
tuitSonal perception being a natural j
force, women would leap to swift but j
sound conclusions while trained and
experienced men were stumblingly en
deavoring to sift evidence.
As speculators they would achieve
riches, or by their advice enable men
to achieve them, yet In truth any
trader, man or woman, who bought ;
and sold by intuitlou without studying j
the mar&ets would he ruined.
Had women this divining gift no j
politician would make a move without j
consulting some accomplished woman, i
Many men have, indeed, acknowledged j
the iftid rendered by their wives and i
mothers, but always the women pos- j
sessed superior intelligence and they j
helped by the exercise of reason and j
judgjnent, not by mysterious short j
cuts.
t
In domestic and social life women's j
superior intuition Is seldom apparent, j
They do not secure more faithful
friends than men do, they are not more
successful In selecting servants, they
do not adjust themselves more hap
pily to the caprices and tempers of |
their associates, nor more quickly per- [
ceive the consequences of unwise ]
words. In all these things there are j
great Individual differences, but the
differences are a matter of tempera
ment, not sex.
In that crucial test, the selection of
a husband, women's mlstnkes ore fre
quent and lamentable. Men, who are
confessedly devoid of intuition, are
often fascinated by unworthy women,
but rarely are they so blind as a wom
an enamored of an unworthy man. In
whatever guise the deceiver comes she
cannot use the mask or detect the
character behind It.
I believe that to overestimate her
power of intuition does woman a grave |
Injury. It prevents her from cultivat- j
ing Judgment and relying on It. From ;
her youth she Is encouraged to believe
that she Is endowed with a special
talisman, that she possesses occult
methods of getting at facts, and as a
result she makes frequent and dis
astrous mistakes.
Arkansas Diamonds
The Arkansas diamond mine, in Pike
county, has produced several thousand
diamonds equal in color to the best
produced in other parts of the world
*nd 1 per cent harder than the hard
est from other parts of the world. In
the Arkansas diamond mines the gema
have been found "in place," as the
geologists put It, and nowhere else on '
this hemisphere have they been so
found. The Arkansas mines are be
ing worked only enough to pay oier
head, * the management has decided
that the per load recovery of dia
monds Is not sufficient to Justify the
operation of the mines at this time.
Christianity in China
It cannot be definitely stated who
was the first Christian missionary to
China, since a tablet found In 781 A. D.
Indicated that Nestorian missionaries
operated In China as early as 505 A. D.
There are, however, no definite rec
ords. The first definite record Is that
| of Friar John of Monte Corvlno, a
| Franciscan friar who went alone to
i China In 1295 shortly after the return
J of the Polo family to Europe, and he
' remained ln China for many years,
when his effort was reinforced by the
pope of Rome and he was consecrated
archbishop of Camballn (Peking).
Good fdr the Circulation
Cortlandt Bleecker said at the an
nual Parrot ball at the lUtz-Carlton ln
New York:
"The new fashions arc transparent.
1 Well, we're used to that. But have yon
remarked— l know you have, of course
—the return of the slashed skirt? The
short, very tight skirt with a long
slash at the left side has returned, and
it's—well, It's a revelation.
"A grand dame, got np In transpar
ent blouse and slashed skirt and all
the rest of It,-'stopped at my table in
' a restaurant the other day at luncheon
1 time and laughed and said:
1 "*l love these new fashions. They
| make me feel so girlish, Cortlandt
Every time a ma or looks at me I
1 blush."*
How Taximeter Records
Fare Passenger Pays
The principle upon which a tax*
imeter works is that for every con*
plete revolution of the cab's wheels a
certain distance has been covered
and, therefore, a certain amount of
fare is due.
The actual meter consists of a nmn»
ber of clocklike wheels with indica
tors which show the fare due in terms
of dollars and cents. The lowering
of the "For Hire" flag brings Into
play a flexible shaft which connect*
the meter with the road wheel of the
car ami at the same time turns a
wheel which records the number of
times the cab has been hired in the
day.
By the different turns of keys on
the outside of the meter the driver
brings into play gear wheels which
record the extras, so giving the fare
in total, the whole machine, of coursev
ceasing to register when the cab
stops.
It Is, however, possible if the ve
hicle is hired at "time" Instead of
"distance" rates to disconnect the
meter from the road wheel and set
in operation a clfick which will re
cord the fare due for the hire by
time. —Cleveland Plain Dealer.
How Rice Is "Cultivated"
Rice is not "cultivated" in the sense
that corn Is. The seed is sown like
wheat or oats, after which the ground
is flooded until the seed germinates.
Then the water Is drawn off, but th«
ground Is Hooded again later to kill
the weeds and a third time when It
Is about to head. Generally speak
ing. the height of the rice plant de
pends on the depth of the water, for
the ear always grows above the sur
face. The grain is produced in heads
similar to oats. Shortly before the
grain Is ripe the water is drawn off
and the crop is cut with reapers and
threshed much like barley or wheat.
Most species of rice are grown on
marshy or Inundated land, but a few
species are grown on hither ground.
—Exchange.
How Shoe Sizes Are Named
There are three general systems for
measuring shoes: English, used In
England and the United States; Amen
lean and French. The French unit
length is the Paris point equaling 2-3
of a centimeter, or approximately
4-15 of an inch, 15 points or sizes be
ing about four inches. English and
American meas;n» is 1-3 of an Inch,
the former counted from the 4-Inch
mark, while the latter Is counted
from the 3 11-12 Inch mark. It haa
been suggested that the English meas
ure be universally used. In the Eng
lish measure the sizes run from 1 to
13 for children. For adults they con
tinue in a new serlfis. Size 18 is
therefore 8 1-3 Inches long, while an
adult size 4 Is ten Inches.
Old Superstition
Much quaint mythical superstition
centers around anclant Dover castle,
which overlooks the English channel
It is unique among English castles In
more respects thsn one. No other an
cient fortress In this country has
maintained Its practical usefulness so
long and no other has been accredited
to the industry of the devil. Accord
ing to the Bohemian Leo von Rotz
mltal, "it was built by evil spirits and
is so strong that In no other part of*
Christendom. can anything be found
like It." It Is easy to see the reason
for this ascription. Foreigners caating
covetous eyes on this gateway to th*
rich lands of England may well have
found something diabolical ln this
fortress frowning down on thenar—Lon
don Mall.
Aluminum Rivals Steel
Aluminum was sjerely a laboratory
curiosity a generaSoa ago, but today
It Is a,real rival to copper and steel
and the center of one of the largest
Individual Industries. Besides being
used In hundreds of household articles
it Is finely ground for making paints,
is necessary In airplane and dirigible'
construction and Is used as cables for
high tension transmission. The out
put of the Industry ln 20 years has
grown from nothing to hundred* *f
millions a year.
Suspicious of Columbus
Columbus had returned to Spain
bringing news of a wonderful new
land across the sea.
"How much shall I write on itl"
queried the maritime reporter of the
Cadiz Evening Bulletin.
"Don't write anything," replied the
city editor. "Let Columbus pay for
his advertising If he wants any. If*
probably a real estate promotion
scheme." — New York University Med
ley.
Hou> Sailors Keep Time
On shipboard "bells" mark the half
hour. Four, eight and twelve o'clock
are marked by eight bells; 4:30, 8:80
and 12:30 by one bell; 1, 5 and 9 by
two bells and so on until eight bells,
which marks the end of the ordinary
watch.
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HOME, DAD AND THE BOY
A .By FRANK I(. CHELEY
J Mr*- i i l i The Let-Mother-Do-It Dad
T,T TAKES two people to bring
J A up a boy.
* You get three guesses as to who
they are.
4 He Is the man who always speaks
* ■ . 0 f the b o y a 8 "big Mother's son."
B* -!—U Even In matters of sex eduea-
I— 1 tlon he leaves It to Mother.
He's the Dad whose wife is on
f" I duty seven days a week, twenty-
I jjj, He considers his part of the job
I II the honor of giving the lad a name
jJ nil and of providing bread and
ffiagglMf breeches. The rest Is up to the
good Lord and the kid's ma.
I' 6 ' s the Dad who Is always
worrying lest his son will disgrace
him. It never occurs to him that
he often disgraces the lad.
H® knows a heap more about
/ fjlyv gas engines, and prize pups and
f heavyweight champions than he
t does about boys.
C! Yes, thank fortune, she does;
t she gives them their manners,
* s*'(n la their religion, their Ideals, their
TiP 'l w(Sj(| |f ambitions, their everything that
t T IB 9 counts —God bless her.
* You must get a license from the
state to be a barber or a plumber
*WX/tENOTO'IM, IMBUSY* or a dentist, but any man who
* ■ ... chooses may become a Dad—and
f let his wife raise the family.
f iff) V It. Chcl«y. Denver. Colo >
Important Japmnese Feast
, The "Feast of the Banners" as cele
brated in Japan Is a holiday In honor
of male children, celebrated on the
fifth day of the fifth month, which Is
now May 5. On every house that can
boast of a male child Is affixed a pole
of bamboo, and floating therefrom are
one or more gaudy fish made of paper.
The exact pumber is determined by
the number of boys In the household.
The wind, blowing into the mouths of
the fish, inflates them and makes
them writhe and wriggle with a curi
ously lifelike motion. The flsli are
supposed to be carp, which In Japan
are recognized symbols of health and
long life. Other staffs support pen
nants of every color while banners
blazoned with heraldic devices float ln
the wind. Boys of all ageS appear In
the street In gala attire, some having
little sabers In their belts, some bear
ing on their shoulders huge swords of
wood, gayly painted and decorated,
and others carrying miniature banners.
Tribute to a Painter
Mlllals (the painter) told me of a
real and graceful compliment paid him
by an American who bred ltorses.
When Mlllals had flnlshed the Ameri
can's portrait, he was allowed to see
it for the first time. There was a long
silence while be gazed at the picture—
so long. Indeed, that the painter got
anxious. At last the man said, "I
breed horses, and It Is my habit ev
ery morning after breakfast to stand
at a certain window In my house, and
the fillies come galloping up at the
sight # of me and feed from my hand.
Whefl I get that picture home, I
shall stand It at that window, and I
am very sure the Allies will come gal
loping up."—Sir Johnson Forbes Rob
ertson in the Sunday Times, London.
Hopi and Apache Dolls
The bureau of American ethnology
says that the dolls of the Hopi In
dians are never made of clay, but ar«
manufactured from the subterranean
branch of the cottonuood tree. They
are not necessarily rain gods, although
the need of rain Is so omnipresent and
these Images are copies of certain
Idols which appear ott rain altars, that
they are sometimes called rain gods.
They are, however, not gods, but dolls,
and are made by the parents and
given to the children as playthings.
The dolls of the Apache, as well as
certain other tribes, are often made of
adobe, and are probably used in much
the same way as the Hop) dolls.
"All Fools' Day" Legend
There Is a tradition among Jews
that the custom of making fools on
the flrst of April arose from the fact
that Noah sent out the dove on the
first day of the month corresponding
to our April, before the water had
■bated. To j>erpetuate the memory of
the deliverance of Noah and his fam
ily, It was customary on this anniver
sary to punish persons who had for
gotten the remarkable circumstance*
connected with the date, by sending I
them on some foolish-errand, similar
to that on which the patriarch sent th*
luckless bird from the windows at tfc*
ark.
Water Inside Crystal
Oliver Farrington. curator of the
Field museum in Chicago, brought from
South America a piece of crystal quarts
containing a small amount of perfect
ly clear water wlilrh can be.seen plain
ly inside the crystal According to
geologists, this water may have lieen
in this crystal for 10.000.0U0 or 190,-
000,0)0 years. The cr>)>kal !»elongs to
the AfcWiu r.ge which existed hun
dreds of millions of years uga
Indian Always Ready
for Game of Chance
All Indians of bofii sexes are In
veterate gamblers. They have been
known to gamble away everything they
owned. Including their wives and their
lives, which Is raising the white man's
ante to a considerable degree. As a
rule, Indian dice have but two sides
that are marked. These markings are
of a thousand and one different de
signs and colors. The dice are cast
either from the band, a cup, borvl or
basket. Many of the dice are thrown
on stones, either held fn the hand
or on the ground. The object of
this is to make the dice bound over
and over, thus Insuring a fair cast.
The Indian, even as does the white
man and the African enthusiast,
speaks endearingly to his gaming Im
plements, beseeching the Great Twin
Brethren, the Spider Woman or who
ever happens to be the deity presid
ing over that particular game of
chance to cause "Lady Luck" to hover
Irt his or her vicinity. Some of the
younger generation living on the Mesa
Grande reservation coin their own
phrases, decidedly modern and the
elder men and women chanting gam
ing songs so old that even thj most
ancient of the tribe bnd the
meaning of the words.
W
Roach, Pantry Pest,
Is Native of India
Sir Francis Drake, buccaneer of
three hundred years ago, ouce took as
a prize a Spanish ship loaded with
spices from India. It Is recorded that
on that ship was a strange "black
bugge" which the Spanish called cu
earache, which strictly speaking, meant
"wood louse." This cucaraehe became
the modern cockroach.
It was a native of India, never until
that time seen In Europe. These cock
roaches, however, were sturdy fellows,
given to living ln dark and narrow
places, and therefore happy In the
holds of ships that plied the seas.
Thus these argosies of commerce have
served as a means of broadcasting the
cockroach, and It Is found in abund
ance wherever man dwells. Ills bones
have provided suitable breeding and
dwelling places for these children of
the warm countries.
New species, one In America and
one in Australia, were found nnd dis
tributed. So have world-rlrdllug multi
tudes of them appeared where l>efore
there were none at all or but local
tribes. This Increase In the range and
numbers of the cockroach Is typical of
the man Influence ln the Insect world.
Purr-rr-rr
Unlike Dickens, Thackeray did not
delight In placing among tlie men and
women of his novels unforgettable lit
tle portraits of their dogs and cats,
parrots or canaries. Xor do we think
of Thackeray as having that l*-r*onal
fondness for domestic creatures which
wuk characteristic of Dickens, whose
own dogs no less than bis favorite
raven, Grip, figure largely In his let
ter*. But Thackeray's daughter. Lady
Ritchie, gives In her recently published
letters several delightful little glimpses
of her own and her friends' pets; and
la one brief and chancing note she
even ventures to Interpr t a few words
from Felinese Into English. She write*
to her friend, Mrs. Gerald Ritchie:
"Solomon (the cat) has been purring
messages, tell Peggy. He proposes to
write, but says It Is superfluous to
say how um«-h he misses her. and that
he I* purrfectly lost without her to
stroke bis back. He has tried luy lap,
but he doesn't much like It; he finds It
too purrpendlcuiar, and he sends his
love purr me." —Youth's Companion
Nvy. 12.
BUREAU OK HEALTH EDUCATION,
N. C. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
FRECKLES
g " ti'f 'OTISTICAL human Ueinga
» i>^ e to think about and bras
«S '"&£** about the things they do
6. . not need to do wbich ordi
nary mortals mast of neces
sity do.
Back in the past history of man
kind when ire were still a primitive
people, only the favored few coald
remain at leisure inside the shad*
end protection of tent or dwelling
while the majority toiled outside, ei
"l-osed to the sun. Freckles indicated
exposure to t>un and wind and, hence,
people clauti the freckled with the
common people, or at least as not be
longing to the favored few.
With advancing knowledge people
have learned that not'- 2; is mora
conducive to rc'jaw iie&kh than
spending much time out ia the open.
General condition* have so changed
that the pale "shut ias" are now
looked upon vcith pity rather than
with envy. Although a firmly fixed
icjea is hard to change and there are
-still those who dislike freckles, it is
now much more popular to be
healthy, although freckled than to be
unhealthy although lily white.
Freckles are no-Jongcr a disgrace.
In the aprics of tfee year wh'ea the
barefoot bey firs; takes to the swtaa
min' hole he is likely to return wiin
uls shoulders severely blistered.
The actinic rays from the sua ham
the delicate cells of the skin, and we
eail it sunburn.
Nothing diiufltfii. our sifc.ill hoy
again must go swimming, Ujt this
time hi 3 back is noticed to be some
what brown and tiis tims be blisters
much less. Prasently his back be--
comes as brown as leather and ae
finds himself perfectly immune to
sunburn.
What has happened is that nature,
ever a!ert to avoid damage, haa de
posited in .the,deeper layers of skin
a blanket of color ins matter fpis
•oient) irhlch iaterc._pts the buraing
rays of the sun. The boy has become
; throughly tanned.
Now it happens that sometimes
. ihti blanket of protecting coloring
natter i? not evenly and smoothly
;.read. Here and there are blotches
i truch thicker thun the rest. These
botches are freckles. For some
reason bloods and red-haired persons
I do not spread this biaaket of tan so -
j evenly and hence are more tikely to
be freckled.
1 Freckles can only be quickly re
, :nuved by removing the basal layer
.1 cells of the epiueraiis. This is a
j.ro:e'.iiTre. Lotions par
porting to rtma-.e ekics are k»>
ugs, i'-uru _::4 simple. Some lotions
.ill, to a ceriiiu d2i»ee. troteet t«_.»
kin (rosi the sua »ud to that d»-
■ree will prevent tanning and
.r. ck'es, but ott -j the pigment of taa
ni3 b?cn 1 1 ;o)it>:d they will not re
move it'
yhe p.: 0 a who has freckles
hould be 1 road of tl.em. Why try
.•» rc.i.o.'c frc-ckies?
Lighting for Pictures
Every picture has a right to tie
best light that can be found for ft.
It 1s often true that a wall space on
which there Is not the right light for
one plctnre It quite the proper place
for a picture with different colon a*
: details.
While vivid flower pieces and gar
| den scenes, sunlit landscapes and
bright interiors do much to enliven
■ somber corner of a room. There is
no picture 4 hlph may not be seen to
better advantage if well lighted. (This
does not meap glaringly lighted.)
Amber in United States •
Amber Is found In Colorado, Boul
der coanty, and In adjoining counties
' particularly In the Boulder coal fields.
Amber Is a fossil resin of vegetable
, origin It is usually of a pale-yellow
color, sometimes reddish or brownish;
It is sometimes transparent, BO met lutes
almost opaque. It occurs In round, ir
regular luniks, grains or drops; has a
I perfectly conchotdal fracture, is slight
ly brittle, emits an agreeable odor
when rtibbed, melts at s£o degrees
Fahrenheit, and burns with a bright
flame and pleasant smell.
"In Durance Vile"
This conversation Is said to have
taken place la an exclusive underworld
circle:
"Here's a paper," said Languid
Lewis, "which tells about a horse run
; nln* away with a woman, an' die was
laid up for six weeks."
"That's nothln'," rejoined Boastful
Benjamin. "A friend o" mine ran awajt
with a horse, an' he was laid ap for
Six Ifars."