The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, June 3, 1921 Page: 3 of 8
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Marvelous System of Sign?WR|
"Long Been One of the Wonders
of tlie World.
News is carried by drum bent in
Africa at a rate as fast as the tele-
graph. writes A. S. Crawley in the
London Daily Mail.
‘‘The natives Central Africa have
a wonderfuJ system of signaling front
village to village by dfum-beut,” he
says.
“Generally the property of the chief,
these official drums, which tire many,
forming a set of varyihg size, are as
a rule of the species known as inci-
sion-drum. This is a long, narrow,
hollow cylinder, made from a tree
trunk, with the ends closed.
‘‘The drum is placed in either a
horizontal or vertical position, the for-
mer producing the best results. Big
drums carry more than ten miles.
“By relay a message may travel
1,000 miles in little more than the
velocity of sound.
“The drum-telephone depends upon
an elaborate code of sounds. Eu-
ropean travelers often order their din-
ner and night’s lodging at the next
village by a drum-message. The vil-
lagers use it as we use a postal, tele-
graph and telephone service—and
there are no charges.
“For the home service the drum
plays the part also of the church bell,
the clock, the town crier and the^ daily
newspaper. For instance, Rev. James
Roscoe, whose African adventures and
discoveries have recently been report-
ed, notes that it announced a birth
or a death, the new moon and the week-
ly fast day. -
“To help understanding of the mar-
velous code, as complete as a lan-
guage, the remarks of Sir Arthur B.
Ellis (writing of West Africa) are in
point:
V ‘To a European the rhythm of a
drum expresses nothing beyond a re-
petition of the same note at different
intervals of time, but to a native it
expresses much more. To him the
drum can and does speak, the sounds
produced from it forming words and
the whole measure of rhythm a sense.*
“Thus, at a dance of ‘companies,’ in
one measure they abuse the men of
another company . . . then the rhythm
changes and the gallant deeds of their
own company are extolled. All this,
and much more, is conveyed by the
beating of drums, and th^native ear,
trained to detect and irpferpret each
beat, is never at fault.”
^^HEN you Ute Certain-
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sure that it will last long and
protect the surfaces which it
covers.
Certain-teed also covers more
surface per gallon. It hides
the surface with fewer coats.
It retains its beauty and color
for a longer period of time.
These unusual values result
from the excellence of the
materials used in Certain-teed
and the care and thoroughness
of their preparation.
In other words you get from
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only- highest quality paint
gives. Certain-teed means,
“Certainty of Quality—Guar-
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Be sure of satisfactory results
from your Spring painting by
getting Certain-teed from us.
Certain-teed led in price re-
ductions. We are now selling
this paint at pre-war prices.
0. N. Moore,
Joe Clark,
D. P. Mauldin,
K. L. White,
J. 0. McShan, * •
L. B. Howell,
L. Youngblood,
J. A. Hagan,
E. P. Anderson,
have the educational welfare Thos. Dulaney.
ir children at heart, having ob- Mrs. E. M. Hulbert,
$4 with much pleasure the i Mrs. Minnie Wetmore Tufts,
lerful results snd high standard
ir public school touring the year
drawing to a successfunclose,
e realize that much of the
it is due your honorable body
we wantlto thank you for your
J. T. Elliott Lumber Co
Hon.Board School Trustees
r Independent School Dis-
tnttr the Kouged Ankle.
Introducing a new fad for milady-
rouged ankles.
Not content with carmine lips and
blushing pink cheeks, latest fashions
have decreed for ankles of a delicate
pink. At Second street and Broad-
way, the “advance guard” of Los An-
geles’ elite made her appearance the
other day with spider-web hose and
her ankles tinted a delicate pink.
Mere men gasped and halted as the
vision, attired In the most fashion-
able garb, alighted from a street car
and unblushingly made her way
through the throng that quickly gath-
ered.
There was no mistake—the ankles
were rouged and 'the young woman,
according to modistes, was but the
first of the thousands of young wom-
en who will take up the fad.—Los
Angeles Express.
Midget Babies Often Thrive.
Parents whose children are abnor-
mally small at birth can take heart,
for recent figures show that tiny in-
fants frequently grow up quite robust,
and of normal proportions. Accord-
ing to the observations of an English
doctor, a girl baby horn 13 years ago,
to a Mrs. Warwick of Barrow-in-Fur-
ness, for instance, weighed only one
and three-qarter pounds. She now
turns the scale at 150 pounds, and is
an exceptionally healthy and Intelli-
gent child.
Even more remarkable is the case
of Leonard Merrick, who stands over
6 feet high and weighs 180 pounds, all
brawn and muscle and sinew. At his
birth, 25 years ago, he weighed only
15 ounces, his head was not much big-
ger than a billiard ball, the mouth
was only just about the size of the
end of a pencil, and the mother’s wed-
ding ring would slip easily up the arm
as high as the shoulder.
A baby exhibited at one of the meet-
ings of the British Obstetrical society
weighed only 20 ounces and the Medi-
cal Times once announced the birth of
one that turned the scale at exactly
one pound. Both these grew up strong
and healthy, and of normal propor-
tions. In short, a small infant seems
likely to do as well as a big one, al-
ways provided, of course, that it sur-
vives the perils of babyhood.
PAINT VARNISH ROOFING UNOLEUM OIL CLOTH fr RELATED
LOCAL NEWS
In another column will b
announcement of the sale <
Bros. Theatre to Troy How<
will conduct the the theat
the name of Dreamland
Changed mis Min j.
Sharp Dame—I must frankly tell
you, Mr. Meek, that my consent to
your marrying my daughter has been
wrung from me under protest.
Mr. Meek—Eh? Protest?
Sharp Dame—Yes, sir. 1 knew that
if I did not consent she would dis-
grace the family by an elopement
When she wants anything we all have
to give in to her, or take the conse-
quences ; and long experience has
taught me that I might as well try
to fan off a cyclone as reason with
her when she gets angry, especially
if there is a flat-iron or a rolling-pin
handy, and so I just give up at once.
Has the wedding day been fixed on
yet, Mr. Meek ?
Mr. Meek—Urn—er, not yet; and,
in fact, madam , I’m—I’m a little
afraid that I can’t afford to marry.
Goer—good day.
IFe also think no small measure
success has been due to the
ristiaa Character and strong exe-
hre ability of your selection of
lerintendent Prof. D. B. Roark.
/e do not know your plans for
future nor do we want to ap-
r in the attitude of meddlers, but
do ask that in making your ,se-
Paul McCarty was in from Cisco
this week visiting friends and rela-
tives.
Work on erection of the Presby-
terian manse was commedced this
week.
The Ladies Cemetery Association
will meet at Mrs. D. P. Mauldin’s
Tuesday at 3 o’clock.
F. R. Worley sold twenty-seven
bales of cotton Wednesday to a
Fort Worth exporting firm. The
price paid was 10 cents.
. *
Mrs. Maud McCallum attended
the graduating exercies of the Oak
Cliff High School Thursday evening.
Her niece was a member of the
class.
Mrs Taylor Filgo who has been in
a very critical condition the past
week is reported as improving and
an operation has not been found
necessary.
Miss Nell McDavid who was
operated upon Wednesday for a
tumor in the neck, is reported as
resting well, and hopes are had for
a speedy recovery.
Misses Maggie and Katie Stout
are home from Bardwell for the
summer and are making some im-
provements on their cottage in
North Lancaster.
Special announcement is'made for
Saturday night.
Mrs. Flake Keys, of Hollis,
is a guest this week of Dr. and Mrs."
C. D. Bryson, while Mr. Keys is in a
Dallas sanitarium for an operation
on his eyes. Mrs. Keys stated be#*
quadruple daughters, who visited
Lancaster when they were babies,;
were six years old Wednesday indy
are well and strong.
~H. D. Mooney ham left farJ|^#i
Angelo Wednesday night in rft*
spouse to a message stating Mrs. E.
E. Mooneyham, who had been
ated upon for appendicitis had suf-
fered a relapse, and was in
serious condition. Mrs. Cole, of
Sherman went to San Angelo also
to be with her daughter.
Mrs. C. M, Lyon and Miss Kpi^|
Morton attended commenoenitp|
exercises of the Bryan High School,
Dallas, Thursday evening,
niece, Miss Rosa Lyon George, was
a member of the graduating da**
and won third honors, running dose
for second honors, with an average
of 96 17-24 for her senior year. ^
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kidd and
daughters, Missee Dorothy and Mil-
dred, of Springfield, Mo., came in
Tuesday evening and were guests
until Wednesday morning in tba
irk for, another
submitted |
What For?
Ellery Sedgwick, the Boston editor,
detests the best-seller type of novelist
and avails himself of every opportu-
nity to rap best sellers over the
knuckles. ■ >
Mr. Sedgwick, at a Cambridge tea,
was approached by a best-seller nov-
elist.
“Say, old man,” the best seller be-
gan, “I’ll be sending you a thing or
two of mine one of these days. 1
suppose you know about the success
of my best yarn? No? Well, by gosh,
she’s translated into French, German,
Spanish and Chinese.”
“Why don’t you get somebody to
translate her Into English?” „ said Mr.
Sedgwick dryly.
An Isolated People.
How much remains to be done be-
fore we shall have a complete knowl-
edge of the inhabitants of our planet
Is indicated by the failure of an ex-
pedition from the American Museum
of Natural History to get into com-
munication with the Naskapi Indians
of Labrador. The summer the expe-
dition was undertaken it was sup-
posed that these natives could be
reached by way of the west coast of
Labrador, but it was found to he im-
possible. In winter they go to Niteh-
equon, In the interior, 55 (lays’ jour-
ney hv canoe from Rupert’s lymse on
East Main river.
Rivals.
Gilbert K. Chesterton said the oth-
er duy in New York :
“I am sick of the great horde of
free verse poets that has sprung up
among us. These little wretches grind
out a few hundred words of silly twad-
dle that Is without rhyme and with-
out reason, and then they think them-
selves the superiors of Swinburne.
“At the Greenwich village tea yes-
terday a scrawny little free verse poet
said :
“Tin awfully sorry D’Annunzio
has capitulated, you know.’
“’Are you?’ asked an old maid In
sanda!s. ‘Why ?’ ”
“ ‘Notwithstanding our already over-
crowded market,’ said the poet, ‘that
duffer Is sure to start writing poetry
again.’ ”
Woman’s Responsible Position.
Miss Sophie H. Hamant Is the only
woman among six persons handling
a foreign exchange department In this
country. She manages such a depart-
ment in the office of the Cincinnati
representative of the Guaranty Trust
company of New York. One hundred
and thirty-five banks, merchants, and
manufacturers depend on Miss Hamant
for their dally information about for-
eign exchange rates.
Tastes Much the Sams.
“How’s business?”
“Pretty fair," snid the pressing club
proprietor who deals in ‘moonshine’
as a side line, “hut I had a vexatious
experience this morning.”
“What was it?’
“I sold a customer of mine a quart
of gasoline Instead of the stuff he
wanted.”
“He soon found out the difference,
didn’t he?”
"No. He didn’t know he was drinking
gasoline, and I didn’t know I’d sold
him any until I noticed that my supply
for cleaning purposes was running
low.”—Birmingham Age Herald.
Hf. A. Wilis,
t* A. Beesley,
C D. Smith,
fp£ L. Ferguson,
G. D. Bryson. D. V. M
F. B. M^Jurdy, =
A. T. Hash.
|§L R. Rea,
xf. A. Foots,
W. E. Hutchins,
fi. R. Howell,
W. G. Harris,
C. 4Gordon,
W. R. Brogdon,
W. £ Brw»d.
H. Sk Strain,
J. M. Billingsley,
T. G. Ham,
J.DSooK,
F H. Martin,
T. I. Smith,
J f\Ro*ty,,
Grasshopper Plague?
Mr. Arthur Gibson, Dominion ento-
mologist, states that there is every
prospect of a serious plague of grass-
hoppers In the western provinces this
year. As many as 3,000 grasshopper
eggs per square foot have been found
In Manitoba, and large numbers also
In the other prairie provinces.—Mon,
treal Family Herald.
The Methodist ladies society held
a very pleasant social meeting at home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
They made the trip by auto, lg#|a|
ing Springfield Sunday fsorni&i^
Wednesday they left far San An-
tonio and will stop in Lancaster oo
their return trip. Mrs. Pierce is
Mrs. Kidd’s aunt. -
the church Monday. Mrs. J. S. Tur-
ner, conference president, and Mrs.
Frank Gilbert, Dallas District secre-
tary, both of Dallas, were present
and added to the afternoon program.
Novel Coiffure.
Oil-soaked hair Is a novel form of
coiffure introduced by the Russian bal-
let, which recently opened In Paris.
The women dancers have cut their
hair short and so saturated it with
oil that it looks like a skullcap. Their
eyebrows are painted In a long fine
line, which runs right back to the
roots of the hair, giving the face the
appearance of a Polish doll.
Accidental.
Caller—Why did you teach your par-
rot to swear so terribly?
Hostess—We didn’t do it intention-
ally. It just happened that her cage
waa near the telephone.
Dr. Robt. McElroy, brother of Dr.
S. A. McElroy received the appoint-
ment from President Hardin of min-
ister to China, but declined the ap-
pointment. Dr. McElroy has spent
two years in China on a lecture
tour, and next year will go abroad
in his present work, and this caus-
ed him to decline the President’s
appointment.
Milk and Batter
Townzen’s Barbecue is I
famous. Better try some.
Have 5 or milk delivered every
evening. weetmilk 15c per quart,
7 Ac per *,»at; buttermilk 8c per qt.;
butter 60c per pound. All sanitary
measures used. Broken or misplac-
ed bottles charged to your account.
J. K. P. Barnes.
Practical.
“The time has come,” said Mr.
Brick’s wife, “when woman may for-
sake the light, ephemeral things of Ufa
and take up the heavy subjects.”
And hor husband rejoined, wearily:
“Are you going to make bread at home
again, Maria 7*’
You can get ice at Martin’s Mea
Market.
The Presbyterian ladies
a social on Mrs. J. C. Hat
Thursday evening. June
cream and cake 15c per pi
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Tufts, Minnie Wetmore. The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, June 3, 1921, newspaper, June 3, 1921; Lancaster, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth542964/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lancaster Genealogical Society.