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TODAY «nd >rV COCKATOO .... humans My wife and I were awakened before sun-up a few days ago by a cry of "Hello!" which seemed to come from the sky, followed by a raucous screetch which sounded like a child in pain. We sushed to the window. The screetching con tinued. It came from the top of a tail ash tree close to the house. Perched on an upper branch was one of the most beautiful birds I have ever seen; pure white, with a crest of feathers tinged with pale yellow. It was bigger than a Leg horn pullet. The bird screamed "Hello!" at us again, and flew to another tree, emitting loud screetches as he flew. Soon there was quite a gather ing of neighbors on our front lawn, gaping up at the stranger. One of them was its owner. It was a trained Australian sulphur crested cockatoo, he said, which he uses in a theatrical act, and had escaped when he was clean ing its cage. The bird stayed in our trees for two days and nights, refusing to be coaxed back to captivity. He was beautiful to look at, but every time he screeched he reminded me of many people I have met, who are attractive until they open their mouths. • • • BEAUTY akin deep Coming up the path after a long rainy spell my wife saw two beau tiful objects on the lawn which MSWBM J F& S ■ %O EfiJ™** yJi ft q ®°«s^J M w ««ttsl —^ ■ o I&W ?S£r^'« fl opp* g,j»iin* -"' q v>. jH OFFEB HO. 1 OFFER WO. • > TU» M.wipopn, 1 Y».I Thla H.wipap.r, 1 Yr.) rSoSf ,6 £L"3£5 B ($2-10 3 iSfSSS A 152' 40 OFFER HO. 2 OFFER HO. 4 This H.w.pap.r, I Yr.S Four This Newspaper, 1 Yr.\ gj, 2 Magazines II I rot Only O Magaxin.s A I For Only torn Group #i /j, AH A from Group n >m% mm l sraa: B r2- 25 3 asl"; B > »2- 50 □ Americas Boy 42.00 □ Modora Mechanlx * InuttMi 2.25 □ American Pndt Graver 1.75 □ Motion Picture : ,_ 2.00 SAmarican Magaxln* 2.95 □ Open Road lor Boyx 2 yrfc__ 2.00 BtHA Homos and Garden* 2.00 □ Opportunity Magnxine _____ 2.00 Brooder's Gazette ______ 1.70 □ Parents' Magazine 2.45 □ Capper's Farmer 1.75 □ Pathfinder (weekly) 1.(0 1 Child til* • 2.95 □ Physical Culture _______ 2.95 Christian Herald 2.50 □ Photoplay 2.95 Collier's Weekly 2.50 □ Pictorial Reoriew 2.00 Country Homo, 2 yrs. 1.75 □ Popular Mechanics _J US Delineator : 2.25 □.Popular Science Monthly 2.25 Dixie Poultry Journal 1.75 QBadlo Hews (technical) 2.95 Tom Journal. 2 yrs. 1.90 □ Redbook Magaxln* 2.95 Held and DnoL 2.65 □ Rerlew ot RerUwi 9.45 Flower Grower • 2.45 □ Screen!and 2.00 Hobo JUWltUleeralt 1.90 □ Screen Play 2.00 U, House pmd Qardsa 9.45 □ SU-rer Screen 2.00 □ Household Magazine 1.70 □ Sports Afield 2.00 C liberty Weakly 2.50 U Suoeossful Farming 1.70 □ Utsrary Digest - 4.50 □ true Story Magazine 2.25 □ McCaQ's Magazine 2.00 □ Woman's World . 1.90 H Gentlemen: 9 I enclose 9 for which please send me . the magazines I have checked, together with a year's subscription to your newspaper Street or R. P. D. Town and *♦»»« 'had not been there the night be fore. They were globular mush rooms, one as big as a baby's head. She picked them and brought them to the house, where we all admired their beautiful skins, mottled like a leopards' pale brown and white. A couple of mornings later, after they had laid out on the front porch rail in the sun, I found the mush rooms had turned black and their insides were a slimy, stinking mess. They were a perfect example of the truth of the old kdage, "Beau ty is only skin deep." I sometimes wonder at the ef fort and expense to which so many girls and women go to make themselves beautiful. I never see one whose face and hair have ob viously been fixed up at a "beauty parlor" without wondering what there is behind the artificial beauty. I like to look at a beau- j ful woman, as every man does, but, for steady companionship I think I most men prefer the ones who do! not make the pursuit of beauty their main object in life. ♦ * ♦ STANDARDS . beauty measure Men's standards of feminine beauty vary from country to coun try and from time to time, almost from man to man. It is a good thing for the great majority of young women that this is so, and that men seldom pick their wives for their beauty alone. One of the reasons why Shakes peare is the universal and ever lasting poet is that he does not describe his heroines except to tell us they were beautiful. Every man can apply his own standard of beauty to Juliet, of whom Shakes peare wrote only that she was young and beautiful. To the Scandinavian reader that makes Juliet a blonde; to the Italian she is a brunette; to Turks, who ad-| THE ELKIN TRIBUNE. ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA ! Wins Grand Prize 'i i .1 If Miss Adelaide Pleasants, 19- year-old Greensboro girl just grad uated from beauty school, who re cently was winner over seven vet eran beauticians for grand prize in the hair styling contest in Charlotte during the convention of Associated Cosmetologists of North Carolina. Miss Pleasants finished her course in June at King's Beauty School, Greensboro. mire feminine plumpness, Juliet was fat; a Chinese Juliet would be slant-eyed; and if the beauty standards of the African jungle are those of the savage belles we we have seen in the circus and the movie travel pictures, with huge, distended lips, or necks stretched to incredible lengths by encircling brass rings, one can imagine how the African beau would visualize Juliet if they ever read Shakespeare. "Beauty is in the eye of the be holder," an ancient philosopher wrote. No truer words were ever spoken. • • * TALENT . . . without beauty Most of the girls who try to make themselves more beautiful than nature made them attempt, consciously or unconsciously, to look like some popular star of the stage or screen, usually the screen. Many think these actresses are popular because they are beauti ful, while usually the contrary is true. They become popular stars because they have talent as actors, and most of them have to be arti ficially beautified for their public appearances. Most of them make no effort to look beautiful when not on the job of entertaining. Almost without exception, how ever, the ones I have known have been delightful companions. Their charm came from their wit, vi vacity, their voices and their in telligence, rather than from be ing pleasing to look at. The greatest professional beau ty of my time was Lillian Russell. When I last saw her she was in her sixties and still retained the classical loveliness which made her famous. But Lillian Russell was born beautiful. Other Buildings Are Also Listed As Fire Menaces (Continued from page one) the auditorium, and at each of the rear corners of the building. Doors must be cut in the auditor ium walls to give access to the es capes. Outside entrances must also be provided in both the girls' and boys' toilets, and obstructions to the stairways leading from the auditorium must be removed. The furnace and fuel room must be segregated by surrounding the areas with brick walls at least eight inches thick. Entrance to this section of the building must be from the outside onlyf accord ing 'to specifications layed down by the insurance commissioner. Just what action school author ities frill take is not known, but lit has been leafned that if work on the building to make these changes is not begun with in a reasonable length of time, the building is .liable to be locked up, inasmuch as it provides a dangerous fire hazard to all chil dren who occupy it. W. W. Whitaker, chief of the fire department, stated that he had been seeking these changes for the past three years, knowing full well of the danger ever pres ent. He also stated that he had been notified by the Central Elec tric and Telephone company, owner of the telephone building, that they were planning to erect a fire escape on their building at onq^. Baptist General Meeting Monday The general meeting of the cir cles of the Woman's Missionary Society of the First Baptist church j will be held in the church Mon jday afternoon. September 20, at 3 o'clock. All members are re quested to attend. Midway Is To Be New Feature of 3-Day Fair Here (Continued from page one) exhibition building free of charge. The 'track meet and field day will be staged Friday afternoon and the "Big Apple" contest will follow at 8 p. m., Friday night. The secretary stated Wednes day that she would like all Glkin women who can, to aid in the exhibition building during the fair, and asked that all who can help, telephone her prior to the event. The premium list this year, which Includes many fine and worthwhile prizes, is in excess of S6OO. In the tall corn contest, which was planned following consider able comment on the tallness of Surry county corn as compared with the corn grown in two mid western states, a bag of fertilizer \will be awarded as prize. Everyone? is urged to enter ex hibits in the fair. All who plan to do so are requested to notify the secretary as early as possible. Owners of saddle horses, and boys and girls with ponies are urged to take part in the parade here next Thursday, even though these mounts are not eligible for prizes in the horse show. Every one planning to take part in the parade should meet at the Chat ham athletic field not later than 1:30 p. m. Saturday Last Day of Pen and Pencil Offer (Continued from page one) to offer such a fine premium ab solutely free and one that was so adapted to universal use. Sets Ideal For School Children and parents are find ing these sets ideal for school re quirements and that is one reason why so many of these premiums are moving out. Parents can make a substantial saving by getting these sets for their children. More than one set easily obtainable, simply by paying for additional subscriptions for yourself, rela tives or friends. Offer Expires Saturday Like all good things, an offer of this kind irfust come to an end. This one expires next Saturday, September 18th, a matter of only two or three days, but there is yet time for every reader to obtain one or more sets. Those who are unable to call at the office or have someone call, can mail their order in and if 5c additional is added for postage the set will be mailed to them to any address specified. Still Time for Distant Subscribers All letters postmarked Septem ber 18 will be accepted, and so there is yet time for every Tribune reader, even the most distant sub scriber, to obtain a set or two. However, action must be taken immediately. Saturday is the final day. Patronize Tribune advertisers. They offer reai values. I Checks Sale Of Arms In Far East As Result of War (Continued from page one) trality act still remains on "a 24 hour basis." He said the question of invoking the act always is un der consideration and has been for w^eks. Whether any specific attempt to ship arms on government ves sels prompted the President to act today or whether he was moti vated only by general apprehen sion for the future was not made clear. There was immediate specula tion, however, as to whether the President's edict will apply to the steamship Wichita, now en route from Baltimore for China with 19 large airplanes. The Wichita, gov ernment-owned but privately op erated, sailed from Baltimore in August. It was scheduled to arrive at San Pedro, Calif., today, ac cording to available information here. Some observers considered it likely that the maritime commis sion would order the vessel not to proceed with its present cargo to China. Holcomb-Long Clan in Reunion (Continued from page one) Journal and Sentinel, whose sub ject was "The Family and the Church." He developed the theme of pro gress in the families, and their record for supporting the church Old Center is but one of the churches they have built and maintained, he pointed out. "The church as an institution will never perish," Mr. Martin as serted. "They bade it goodbye in the Dark Ages. It revived, greater than ever. Now some of our out standing commentators believe it is declining. They are wrong." "The challenge of the world to the church today is not going to hurt the church, but make it stronger." W. A. Speer, of Winston-Salem, presided at the reunion. Rev. R. L. Speer led prayer at the morn ing service. New and old hymns were sung by the crowds under the leader ship of a choir directed by Mr. Pendry. Picnic lunch in old-fashioned copious style was served on long tables over the church and camp grounds. W. A. Speer read a history of the Holcomb family. The name originated from a town in Lan cashire, England. John Holcombe was mentioned in the "Visitations of England." He was a crusader. His effigy rests in old abbey at Dorchester, near Oxford, Eng land, American Holcombes in the South began with Andrew, of Devonshire, England, who came first to the Barbadoes and then to Virginia, early in the eighteenth century. The Holcomb and Long families have furnished Yadkin and other sections with a good, substantial citizenship, that the county is proud of. May their descendants of the future live up to the civic and religious standard set by the passing families. BURGISS REUNION TO BE HELD SEPT. 26TH ' The annual Bufgiss reunion will be held at Plat Rock Baptist church, near H&mptonville, on the fourth Sunday in September. The program will be in charge of the president of the organization Dr. O. H. Burgiss, of Waxhaw, N. C., who will be assisted by the secretary, Rev. Grady Burgiss, a short talk to be made by both. Friends as well as relatives will be given a hearty welcome, and are asked to bring a basket lunch. Every hour approximately four persons throughout the world are buried unidentified. elite BEAUTY W\7 SHOPPE ' Modern ... Well Equipped Good Work at Reasonable Prices! SPECIAL FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Bereza Facial With Russian Masque o\/V Phone 31 Elkin, N.C. 3 ° 0 J YOU BET! We Appreciate Your Business and We Have a Complete Stock of All Kinds of BUILDING MATERIALS Just Let Us Know Your Needs \ ELKIN LUMBER MFG. CO. y "Everything to Build Anything" Phone 68 Elkin, N. C. I " Thursday, September 16, 1937 Guitars—Banjos w. 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