THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, HERTFORD, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1936
PAGE THREE
V
Lights of NcwVbrk
by LL STEVENSON
3k ! How many persons nave been driven
Quite or almost cuckoo by "The Music
Goes "Round, and Around" cannot be
said by this writer who Is more or
less cuckoo from hearing it IThe other
.evening, after listening to one orches-
, 1 I tra play it three, times, he moved on,
heafd it played twice by another band
land moved on again. Then Ray Wat
son, as a Bpeclal favor, sang U for
him. Your correspondent Judged It a
gooa ume to ui n mgnc ana go
i jhome. He turned on 'the radio and
well, you guessed It Young 'women in
this office, otherwise highly estimable
,and In fact charming, go around sing
ing it and a young man secretary who
r has an excellent voice and Is a right
gay In all other ways, gives it a work-out
during; the luncheon hour. It's Just
one of those things. It got started an'd
jumped right Into a smash hit No less
an authority than Variety predicts that
lts total sales will exceed those of
I that bit of Insanity of a dozen years
i back, "Yes, We Have No Bananas."
NO wonder this goofy song Is get
ting so many that way. It had a goofy
j start on the word of Mike Riley, n
sandy-haired trombonist Some time
ago; Riley picked up a silly looking
jhorn In a Pittsburgh hockshop. One
night, he took it up to the Onyx chib.
xA young woman who had been doing
too much dallying with snickering cat
sup, asked him how he played it Mike
told her he pushed the middle key
down and the music went 'round and
aropnd. "Ho-o-o-o-ooo," wailed the
l.wooiy miss. Eddy Farley, Riley's part
, ner, got the idea -of a song. So Riley
Xwrote it assisted by Farley and "Red"
e ' iHedgson. At first they didn't think they
had much. But when people got to sing
ling It Riley sent a buck to Washing
ton and got a copyright Thus a hit
v. based on an inquiry by a souse.
!
; The next step was a three-cornered
"contract with a publisher. Each piece
'of sheet music sold brings Riley, Far
ley and Hodgson a cent. Each orches
tration brings each two cents. Also
they split one-third of the profits from
;fthonograph records. In one day In
New York, 13,000 copies were sold. In
;10 weeks, the total sales reached 100,
000. That isn't all. Riley and Farley,
junknowns before, got Broadway con
tracts and their names In lights. Ho
' o-o-o-ooo I
Remaining cuckoo, or Just plain
i goofy, there were those two drunks In
I an I. R. T. subway train who, station
after station kept up an argument, the
, words of which were Indistinguishable.
FlnalIy, the train for some unknown
I reason no one ever tells the sardines
(why a train is stalled stopped between
. stations. One of the drunks, with an
unsteady hand, drew out his watch
jand after staring at it owllshly a mo
ment or so, remarked that they were
20 minutes late. "That's the craz
y 'lest Idea I ever heard of," hiccupped
his companion. "How can we be 20 min
iates iate when we haven't got there
iyet?"
: Queer thing that proficiency in kill
ling men should result seventeen years
.later In saving fifteen lives. In mak
.;Ing his rounds over In Brooklyn, Pa-
itrolman Michael Reardon discovered
:that a tenement house was on fire.
'Barred from rushing Into the front
jdoor by a mass of flame, he ran to the
rear and hurled his night stick through
!a second story window. The tenant,
Awakened by the noise, obeyed Renr
; don's orders to give the alarm to oth
ers In the house. All came down the
fire escapes safely. Fellow policemen
said that the accuracy of Reardon's
throw with his night stick was due to
!the fact that during the World war
he was one of the best hand grenade
Tiurlers in the A. E. F.
Street scene: A be Jeweled and be
furred woman leading a Pom on a
fancy leash. The fluffy body of the lit
tle animal encased in a heavy and ex
pensive blanket and on its feet knit
ted bootees. And an overcoatless chest
nut vender trying to warm his blue
hands over his charcoal fire.
Bell 8yndtott. WJTO Servlca,
S Has Complete File of
Clippings on World War
Munich, One of the most complete
flies of modern newspaper clippings in
the world has been Installed In the
famous old "resident" here. Called
the "Rehse Collection," after Its foun
der, the new museum was started In
" 1914. It was founded with the Idea of
' ''assembling' and collating all available
information on the dramatic death of
' Archduke Fraoz Ferdinand, and In
(time embraced the whoje subject of
ithe war. ,
French Women Get
Choice of Homes
Paris. i French husbands . win
have to follow their wives In future,
if a member's bill now before par-,
llament is passed. fi:--
At present French law compels
the wife to follow her. husband
"everywhere" even to a home she
dislikes. She can be .divorced on
grounds of leaving the legal dom
icile If she takes a dislike to the
house or apartment and finds a
nicer one for herself. ,
i A French wife may not, at pres
ent rent a. dwelling without her
husband's consent - But by the pro
posed law, madame-may be permit-led-to
have her own home if she
has good reason for requiring to
do so.' - " i - , -
SOUTH AFRICA HOW
! GETS WORLD TOURS
Cruises Detour Because of
v Ethiopian Conflict
- Washington. "Uncle and the Devil
are smoking fast today I"
; So. say resident's of Capetown when
heavy white clouds, gathering sudden
ly, roll over the plateaulike top of
Table mountain, which rises steeply
'back of the suburbs of South Africa's
largest city. "Uncle" refers to Van
Hunks, a Dutch pirate, who, according
jto the Malays, had a smoking contest
with the Devil up on Devil's peak, and
the clouds are the smoke from their
'pipes. Often, too, the clouds are called
(the "Table Cloth," spread on Table
mountain.
. Recently therowere other clouds on
the mountain, however, and the legen
dary smokers seemed to be pulling
furiously, at , their,, pipes, ' for huge
tongues of flame shot high In the
air as a forest fire consumed more
than $1,000,000 worth of timber and
threatened the official residence of
Prime Minister Hertzog. Large tracts
of fir trees had been set out on the
mountain sides for both beauty and
utility, and many of these were lost.
Increase In Cruise Ships,
'"ilible mountain, a vast mauve mass,
Jutting up with or without Its crown
of clouds from the ocean's brilliant
blue, generally Is the first landmark
sighted by the traveler who ap
proaches South Africa by water," says
.the National Geographical society.
"So completely do Us colossal dimen
sions hide the hinterland that the
Table appears at first sight as an
ocean-girt Island.
' "Modern docks welcome hundreds
of steamers annually along Cape
town's curving waterfront, and the
number of cruise ships has more than
doubled this year because of the Italo
.Ethloplan conflict World cruises that
.once followed the steamer lanes of the
Mediterranean and Red seas have been
'detoured' via South Africa.
"So Capetown prospers, and hopes
that more cruisers will come her way
in the future, whether there Is war or
peace. Her harbor is a true cross
roads of the world.
"Braving the cape that gave Cape
town its name, bold mariners have
sailed around the southern tip of
Africa here since Bartholomew Diaz
dubbed It Cabo Tormentoso, the Cape
of Storms, in 1488. Now the Cape
of Good Hope, it Is the 'Jomping-ofT
place' for whaling fleets that seek
their quarry In the desolate waters
at the bottom of the world.
"But In the show that Capetown puts
on for visitor, trader, and resident
there is no hint of polar bleakness.
Its setting Is a Neapolltanesque pan
orama of red roofs, ' embowering foli
age, outflung white beaches, bold head
lands, with Table mountain, gigantic
'and severe, towering behind and above
it all. In Its subtropical climate
palmettos flourish. Rambling through
its balcony-shaded streets, with the
crepe myrtle peering gaudily over
walls and the magnolia's breath
abroad, one might half Imagine him
self In some gracious old town, aro
matic of the past. In America's south
ern states.
Where East and West Meet
"The Illusion fades In Capetown's
Malay quarter, peopled mainly by de
scendants of slaves brought long ago
from Holland's colonies. Slim dark
eyed girls, grave turbaned patriarchs,
mosques and minarets show that East
and West may meet in Capetown.
"With more than 150,000 Europeans
and nearly as many more of other
races In the city and Its suburbs,
Capetown compares In size with Dal
las, Texas, or New Haven, Conn. Its
points of interest Include the famous
i Snake park, with a collection of South
.African reptiles; Botanical gardens;
an Art gallery; a naval station nearby
at Slmonstown; the South African
i museum; and a public library founded
more than a century ago.
"A dignified building for the houses
of parliament shows that Canetown.
as one or the two capitals of the
i South African union, attends to the
'legislative function of government The
.other capital, Pretoria, is the adminis
trative capital.
; "Dutchmen. 70 of them, colonized
Capetown in 1652, sent out as servants
or tne uutcn East India company un
der Commander Jan van Riebeek,
.whose statue now surveys the town.
-The sturdy old burgher might still
feel quite at home under many a roof
that shelters collections of Dutch
masters, Dutch furniture, models of
i-vuicn gaueons, ana xucnen utensils
once usea to prepare koekles, wafels,
or panekoek,
: "But Jan van Riebeek was destined
to be outshone by Cecil Rhodes, the
empire builder. Under the flanks nf
,Table mountain is the estate of Groote
bcuuut, wnere me great englishman
hnllt hla homa: and.; thsra la ttt
'role memorial to the man whose in-
jnuence on . oouin Arncan civilisation
was v Immeasurable, ' from 'politics to
Nature preservation, from trade to
education. Groote Schuur is the new
site of Capetown university."
Strange Whatisitof - .
Sea Is Big Puzzle
' Boston. What is it ' that has a
head like a serpent, body like
an eel ani a tall like a rati That
was what marine.; biologists were
trying - to determine : after the
strange creature 12 Inches long,
bad been picked up. In a fishing net
off Georges Bank, 200 miles east
of Boston. Fish experts agreed It
was not a baby sea serpent
LAUGHS
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Hints To" Gardeners
by Gordon Morrifon
Breeding Expert
Ferry Seed Itutitute
I
Prepare Soil Early
IN gardening as In Christmas shop
ping an early start Is important.
Size up your garden plot now to
determine what can be done to im
prove the soil.
Spade or plow early. If a handful
of soil gripped firmly can be crum
bled readily upon release, the soil
is In condition to- be plowed or
spaded. If the handful of soil does
not crumble readily but remains
packed, put off the Job until a later
day.
Any soil i enriched by manure.
Clay soils are Improved In texture
and sandy soils are improved in'
water holding capacity by spading
under manure, rotted leaves or lawn
clippings or rotted garden refuse.
Complete commercial fertilizers
are everywhere available. Ask for
a "4-12-6" or similar mixture. Broad
cast and rake in about tour pounds
of this per square rod lust before
planting.
It is important that fertilizer be
used cautiously, for an excess Is
often harmful, particularly when
dealing with production of fruits,
that is, tomato, cucumber, pepper,
etc.
Garden preparation effort is
wasted if you do not plant seeds
from dependable sources. Select
your favorite varieties at the nearby
store before the supply is depleted.1
Make sure they are freshly packed.'
To gardeners who also -like. to
maintain an excellent lawn earii-'
ness of renewal again is important.'
Take advantage of a comparatively
warm, early spring day when, the
surface is almost bare and the air
is calm.
Sow about a teacupful of seed to
100 square feet of lawn. Melting
snow carries the seed into the soil
and subsequent light snows will be
beneficial. Tender seedlings thus get
a good start before the days become
too warm.
Folk Leader
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, Gertrude Knott, noted authorityoa
.folk lore, is supervising handling of
the third annual national folk festival,
which will opea at the Texas Centen
nial Exposition in Dallas June 14. Spe
cial attention win be paid this year te
the songs, of the eld Southwest Miss
Knott's staff plans to make the festival
the largest on record.
Equal parts of ammonia and tur
pentine will remove indelible ink
marks from white fabrics..
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FROM THE DAYS
.ROSES ARE RED VB'LETS
TARE BLUE, FACES ARE
! LONG rVHSH TAXES ARE Dm.
A bottle of furniture polish rubbed
into a clean dry mop will give hard
wood floors an excellent polish.
lib sua ssro
at this great spring
SMALL DOWN
PAYMENTS
Easy Monthly Terms
Used Cars You Can Depend Upon At
Guaranteed Lou Prices
Every car we otter in this sale is a Real Bargain
We guarantee the car we sell you. We guaran
tee the price we quote you. Owing to the popular
demand of the new 1936 Chevrolet, it has brought
us a flock of Used Cars and Trucks and they must
be sold regardless of price.
We have the best stock of Used Cars and
Trucks ever offered in this section. All models
from 1926 to 1936.
lowest Prices! Convenient Terms!
OEE UG FOR DEGT VALUED -TODAY!
Kl welQ COnewoDett $
HERTFORD, N. C.
NEWS !
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STUDYING the effect on digestion of smok
ing Camels above). Hut ty and worry slow up
the flow of digestive fluids. Camels increase
this necessary now. iry Camels
clearance sale o$
QUEER SLEEPERS
Rio de Janiero. Explorers pene
trating the widls of the Brazilian
jungles where live the Urubu Indian
tribes bring back word of their
quaint custom of sleeping. Accord
ingly, the oldest of the tribe sleep on
the ground, the middle-age lie on
top o fthem and th youngest on the
top of the middle-aged.
Modern Method
Printing
Improved printing and faster
service, for better results.
Esual attention to jobs wheth
er small or large! Econom
ical! THE
PERQUIMANS
WEEKLY
Phone 88
664 PARACHUTE JUMPS-
record of Joe Crane (below);
He says: "I'm a hearty eaten
Camels help me get more
enjoyment. They stimulate
digestion set me right!"
yourself. $
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One 1934 Chevrolet
Truck, 131 - inch wheel
base, in good condition.
One 1935 Chevrolet
Truck, 131 - inch wheel
base, in extra good condi
tion. One 1935 Ford Truck,
157-inch wheel base, in
good condition.
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FOR
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