The Bowie Booster (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 14, 1932 Page: 5 of 8
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THE BOWIE BOOSTER
When
TEETHING
makes HIM FUSSY
One of the most important things
you can do to make a teething baby
comfortable is to see that little
bowels do their work of carrying off
waste matter promptly and regular-
ly. For this nothing is better than
t'astorla, a pure vegetable prepara-
tion specially made for babies and
children. Oastoria acts so gently you
can give It to young infants to re-
lieve colic. Yet it is always effective,
for older children, too. Itemember,
Castoria contains no harsh drugs,
no narcotics—is absolutely harmless.
When your baby is fretful with
teething or a food upset, give a
cleansing dose of Castoria. Be sure
you get genuine Castoria with the
name:
CASTORIA
CHILDREN
Eagle Made Much Trouble
When power trouble resulted be-
tween Dodge City, Kun„ and Buck-
lin, investigators found a large eagle
had fallen on the wires and caused
a short circuit. The bird measured
six feet between wing tips and had
a rabbit in its claws. It was a
white-headed eagle, rarely ever seen
in ttds section of the country.
A Promise
Dolly—Is your husband good to
you. dearie?
Polly—I’ll say. He says if 1 lose
my job I won’t need to make any
more payments on his car.
A HEALTH-BUILDER
AND GENERAL TONIC
Texarkana,
Texas — "As a
health-builder and
general tonic I
am glad to praise
Dr. Pierce’s
Gplde-n Medical
Discovery. 1 have
taken this medir
cine and received
wonderful benefit
from it.” says Edwin L. Spahr of 1518
W. 4th St. "My mother was in poor
health, she was down and not able to
do her housework. She decided to try
the ’Golden Medical Discovery’ and by
the time she had taken three bottles,
she was well, and doing her house-
work as usual,” Sold by druggists.
Write Dr. Pierre*# Invalids Hotel at Buf-
falo. IN. Y,, for free mediral advIre. using
the lymplom blank found in package of
Dr. Pierce's Discovery
Hc’« Had Experience
Sergeant—What is a one-way
street.?'
Bookie Cop—A street where you
gef bumped only from tlie rear.
(anstipated?
Take M?—NATURE’S REPIEDY-tonight.
Your eliminativeorgans-will be functioning*
properly by morning* and your constipation
V7ill end with a bowel action as free and
easy aa nature at her beat—no pain* no
griping. Tty it. Only 25c.
The All-Vegetable Laxative
IJ3 TO-NIGHT
IYI tOMpRROW ALRIGHT
Make the test tonight
Even Better
‘‘Now, for oflice we want a man we
can trust.”
"Tills candidate is a big butcher,”
“Urn. Maybe he’ll trust us."
Right ti t":e Frlrt
Ulan (being ft llmv <1 by husky
thief)—Wa’d yer v ,:n« ?
Thief—Want yer wad !
Be Sensible
Be Safe
Always A sic for
THE ORIGINAL,
GENUINE, PURE
CELLOPHANE - WRAPPED
ASPIRIN .£)
W«HVt.r**«t Seller «t !
St Joseph s
GENUINE .
IM'Ri: AS1MN IN
DALLAS, NO. tt-INt
Yerckel Married
His Cook,
88
By FANNIE HURST
<i& by Medium Nowapapei Kiiulitute j
~ IWNU Brrvie.l *
HEK‘ Yerckel married his
housekeeper and cook, the
usual hullabaloo took pined.
Ought to he ashamed. Won-
der Virgie doesn’t turn in her grave.
Has he no shame? At least if she
were young and good-looking, hut a
great big rangy dishwasher like Sim-
mons !
Certainly Simmons was no beauty.
Forty, rawboned, with an angular face
and an angular body, she was a sur-
prising successor to the first Mrs.
Yerckel, who had been a mildly pre-
possessing matron, endowed witli
qualities which fitted her even over
and above her husband, for the posi-
tion his wealth established.
Yerckel, a builder who had grown
rich in a booming city, hesitated not
at all over this second alliance. With-
in twenty months after the death of
a first wife, whom he mourned, he
turned gratefully to marriage with the
woman who had Came in to take charge
of his household after the disintegra-
tion following the death of his help-
mate had set in on the domestic af-
fairs.
For ten years previous to this, -Sim-
mons had been housekeeper at one of
the larger local hotels. Slip had effi-
ciency. speed, handled her servants
well, was not above taking a hand at
the cooking and immediately estab-
lished herself as overlord In. the ser
va fits' quarters where discipline bad
been thrown to the winds since the
death of Mrs. Yerckel.
She was a sociable soul, garrulous,
fond of sitting a long hour over an
afternoon cup of tea and after her
arrival the evening meal among the
servants enme to he something almost
as much of a ritual as the meal pre-
viously served in the long panelled din-
ing room upstairs.
That was part of the success of Sim-
mons with her staff. She made life
below stairs attractive, granted long
hours of respite from duty in return
fop exceptional service during working
hours, and presided at the servants’
dining table as if she were mistress
of a household. Good, homey, salty
conversation flowed when Simmons
presiiled at her table of eight servants.
Including n fine fellow of a chauffeur,
named Shard. Tt was said among the
domestics, that Yerckel himself, com-
ing accidentally to the servants’ pan-
try one evening, happened to overhear
one of these congenial occasions ami
thereupon fell in love with his house-
keeper.
Whntever the ease, within a six-
month following, they were, married,
and at forty, with only the history of
toH&'"\v??i>s’-''dT'''dtTrfii»Rtfe labor behind
her. Adelaide Simmons found herself
head of a twenty-room home, wife of
one of the wealthiest men in the eom-
munlty and heiress to a social posi-
tion that automatically descended
upon her shoulders ns the wife of her
husband.
The expected happened. Everything
pertaining to flip new social life Sim-
mons nfihorredT TlieUoUg sntemn dfn-
ners in the panelled dining room,
which she had hitherto only viewed
from ,the kitchen side bribe door, be
came anathema to her. Functions
were something to dread weeks before
they took place, and for every snub
she ree«-’veil from "!lie set," wounds
bled In ttie secret places of her heart.
It must he said for Simmons that
she succeeded in keeping practically
all of this from her husband. She
presided, coldly It is true, at his table,
but with sufficient dignity to carry off
the occasions. She had no small talk,
no artifices, no beauty, but somehow,
there was about this graceless woman,
a stability, a firm, earthy quality of
the homely things of life, that made
her rather magnificent.
Her care of Yerckel was surterb. ncr
concern for his well-being, tier occu-
pation with creature and Godly tilings.
She was a religious woman : reverent
towards the spirituality of the great
figures of her Bible, and vigorous in
her condemnations of those who. in
her opinion, violated the Heals of right
-UxlASt_________________
The pompous, ambitious, wbriliy
men. with pompous, ambitious, world-
ly wives, who came to dine at the
tnhle of Yerckel. left her cold, uneni-
mafed and In rigid, although secret dis-
approval of their aspirations and ideas.
What was there to discuss with these
women who were self-conscious of
their God: to whom the homely chores
of life were forbidden subject's, and
win* talked along the lines of frivoli-
ties and shallow pastimes that were
not only alien, hut almost unintel-
ligible to Simmons. ' 1
Your never dared, with thesp women,
as in the sanctum of the dining room
where slip had presided as housekeep-
er, discuss the goodly'. Godly aspects
of every day living. God. rookery.
Toil. The women who came to dine
at the table of Yerckel took pride in
the facts that their Interests had not
to do with such. Country, club, styles,
bridge, motor ears, servant problems
were topics that skidded lightly
around.
t Sometimes It seemed to Simmons, pfe
siding there in a world which was re
mute slid-alien to her. that her heart
was a jhwiI for the tears site was In-
wardly shedding for the old days.
The old days of service, rather than
these flaccid ones of being served.
Fortunately, to the hour of his death.
Yert-kel, whose affection for her was
deep and his admiration great, was to
know little, if anything, of tins.
So far its he was concerned, five
years after their marriage he found
himself on bis deathbed with a sense
of pain nt being obliged to pass from
mortal relationship with this woman
who had served him so well and beau-
tifully Hs wife.
It was after his death came the
shock concerning his complicated state
of mind where she was concerned. He
bequeathed her his fortune, amount-
ing to close onto a million, with but
one proviso. In the event of her re-
marriage, within a period of five years,
Simmons was to forfeit the fortune
meanwhile to be held in trust for her.
Apparently, it was an-expression of
the vagary of a mind that was snagged
with jealousy, the restriction of a man
who had It In him to impose a dras-
tic influence from his grave.
After all, where a million dollars
was concerned, it would not con-
ceivably be hard for any woman to
abide by such limitations.
But Simmons did nothing of the
sort. Within two years, she became
the wife of the one-tltne chauffeur of
the Yerekel’s household, over whose
needs she had so often presided in
those days when she ruled the des-
tinies of the servants’ dining room.
Tlie community, the press of the en-
tire country, made a great hullabaloo
over this decision on the part of the
Yerckel widow, and the chauffeur she
was marrying was also held tip as a
paragon of a man, who, for the suke
of a few years, would deliberately
permit his bride-to-be to sacrifice a
fortune of a million dollars.
Apparently, in the minds of Sim-
mons and her husband Shard, there
were never any doubts. They let the
tempest in the teacup over their mar-
riage die down; they removed to an-
other city; they set up their house-
hold in tiie gardener’s cottage of a
vast estate upon which he was the
head chauffeur.
There are two adopted children now,
and Simmons, while not the active
housekeeper, has charge of ilie market-
ing, linens and sliver of the large es-
tablishment on the hill.
There is something vast, wise and
quiet about life as it flows on in the
gardener’s cottage.
New Englanders Balked
at Idea of “Servants”
One of the characteristics of New
England speech which have almost dis-
appeared is the suppression by the
early inhabitants of the verb "to
serve.” When those old Argonauts of
democracy, the people of the Mayflow-
er and tlie Arbella. came to New Eng-
land, they were tired of serving, “Tlie
Nomad” writes, in the Boston Tran-
script. To them, tlie word "servant”
was infinitely distasteful. Conscien-
tiously they abolished it. except as it
might sometimes lie applied to tlie ne-
groes that were imported spasmodical-
ly, or to tlie Indians whom they wick-
edly-—or revengefully—enslaved. (A
considerable element, whose blood at
last affected theirs along the lowest
lines of contact.) If tlie circumstances
of tlie Puritans sometimes appeared
to necessitate helpers, that is what
they called them: "help.” Those who
had been servants in England they
called “hired men" or “hired girls.”
The usage became universal, and it
prevailed well into the Nineteenth cen-
tury. Old people who still live knew
hot tlie words "serve” or "“servant.”
All workers for wages were “hired
help.” Not even tlie most elaborate
meal was“"sef visfl1"—Tf was- “disiieri.1’-
“Mar.v." said tlie housewife to her
hired help, “you may dish the dinner
now.” And Mary was a member of
the family. So was Hiram, the hired
man. After the process of sending
here “bound persons" from England
and Ireland censed, there, was not a
“servant” in New England.
Tliis trick of nomenclature was real
ly a great triumph of democratic prin-
ciples. It proved that the idea of so
dal equality went “all the way through
tlie souls of the New England people.”
It wks' only through the accumulation
of wealth and tlie decay of real de-
mocracy, incident to a wide difference
of daily habit, that tlie "servant” came
back to ns. Even then he—and she—-
had to lie imported. But gradually, at
least in certain spots, the capability of
ftimkevism was redeveloped in the
New England race. That Institution
did not flourish freely. There was
time when tlie nabobs of tlie North
shore, or.some" of them at least. |,nd
Yankee flunkeys. They, are scarce
now Not even now does the New
England race take kindly to “service.'
WHALES PROPERTY
OF OLD TRINITY
That Is, if Cast Ashore
“New York Province.”
“Thar she blows and breeches and
bellows—and ,sperm at that!” Capt.
Esse Boies probably did not give
tlie historic cry of Mr. Simmons, the
finest first mate of tiie good ship
Mozambique,
away with his anchor off G Bren Run,
Va„ recently, and nearly sent the
fishing smack Sea Toy to Davy
Jones.
That marauding animal may or
may not have been a sperm; pos-
sibly it was a right whale, or even
a bottleno8e. At any rate, schools
of whales, though not so common
off the Atlantic coast as they were
In older days, are often seen at cer-
tain seasons, some of them coming
even to the mouth of tlie channels
lending to NeVv York harbor. A
few years ago a small whale ac-
tually got, into the upper hay.
Whales naturally go where their
particular f«od la plentiful;
formerly they came In schools to
I.ong Island and created an offshore
whaling industry for the shellbacks
of East Ilamptsn and Sag Harbor.
One rarely, if ever, associates
whales with churches, even though
tiie Bible gives m the story of Jonah;
but in the vaults of the corporation
of Trinity church there is a unique
document which grants to Old Trin-
ity tlie right to all whales cast ashore
in tlie "Province of New York.”
The charter of Trinity church
was signed Tn New York on May C.
1697 in tlie ninth year of tlie reign
of King William HI; hut before that
the "Manager* of tlie Affairs of the
Church of England” had begun the
construction of a church. On Septem-
ber 9, 1096, in anticipation of tiie I
charter, the royal governor granted
a potent to tlie wardens and other
managers “to seize upon and secure
all Weifts Wrecks Drift Whales and
whatsoever else Drives from the
high sea and is then lost below high
water mark and not having a lawful
Owner within bounds and limits of
his Majesties Province of New York."
Tlie managers were also empow-
ered “to tow ashore and then to
cut up the said whales and try into
oyle and secure the whalebone,” ap-
plying tlie proceeds “towards tlie
building of tlie church aforesaid and
to no other use whatsoever until the
same he perfectly finished.”
Later the privilege was extended
so as to give the vestry of Trinity
the right to whales that drifted
ashore on the island of Nassau.—
New York Times.
Demand for Dwarf* Met
by Inhuman Exploiter*
Dwarfs were the lapdogs of medi-
eval times. And So popular were
they that many merchants special-
ized in selling tiiem to the nobility.
“Marc Antony owned a dwarf,"
writes M. R. Warner In Liberty,
whom be called, Ironically, Sisyphus.
"In Rome there were dwarf merchants
who, when they could not obtain
natural specimens for the emperors
and nobles, manufactured dwarfs by
rnn undernourishing normal babies.
by binding their limbs to prevent full
development.
“Tiberius, Domitian and Heliogabu-
lus paid high prices to their dwarf
merchants, who experimented con-
stantly to supply the demand. Cath-
erine de Medici, in order to secure a
| regular supply of dwarfs for her
court and as presents for her friends,
caused all the dwarfs of her estab-
lishment to be married In a lurge
scale effort to produce a race of mid-
gets. The marriuges, however, were
uniformly barren, and her majesty
was sadly disappointed,” ■
Blue Star Kills
The Itch Germs
To get rid of Itch, tetter, rash,
ringworm, foot Itch, eczema or
other skin troubles, cover the af-
fected parts with Blue Star Oint-
ment. it melts at body heat, turn-
ing to liquid that goes into the
skin pores carrying tested medicines
that kill the most stubborn types
of Itch. It then soothes and heals
raw inflamed skin. Clean and pleas-
ant in odor. Money back if It fails.
Sold by all drug stores. (Adv.)
A Chaud-Frokl
Lieut. Apollo Soucek, the airman
who won an altitude record, said in
Los Angeles the other day:
“The cold, 30,000 feet up, Is so ex-
traordinary that when you tell peo-
ple about It you feel as If you were
a liar. Yes, you feel ltjte the farm-
hand.
“ ‘The coldest day I ever seen,’ the
farmhand said, ’was back home
wunst in pig killin’ time in the Ver-
mont mountings. Why, it was so
dmn cold that ‘day that”we had a
kittle of b’illn’ water a-settln’ on the
stove, and when we took It out *n
the yard It friz so dum quick that
the ice was hot.’ ”
Setting the Stage
As she wus going to entertain a
literary lion, she hustled out and
bought a copy of his current oojk.
"And cut the leaves.” she directed
the parlor maid. "He’s apt to pick
it up.”
“Pant*” Oddly Restored
Walter F. Stanley was gassed in
tlie World war. Moved to a hospital
in England, they took away his uni-
form and gave him civilian'clothes.
He went back home to Charlotte, S.
C„ and resumed ids trade. Recent-
ly. needing a uniform for a parade,
lie went to a salvage store and asked
for a pair of O. D. pants, the only
thing he lacked. The pair on top of
the pile looked as if they might fit
h'.tn. They did. Inside were his
name and serial number. The pants
he lost in the hospital had come
home.
Of Course
“The fact is,” said tiie trainer, “we
give our horses very little to eat on
tlie morning of a steeplechase.”
“I see,” said tlie paddock visitor;
“that makes them fast.”—Boston
Transcript.
Germanium and Arsenic
Found in Meteorite*
Arsenic, favorite of poisoners, and
germanium, a rare element that has
been used ip the treatment of anemia,
are both present in some meteorites
that fall to the earth from the skies.
Dr. Jacob I’apish and Zaida M. Han-
ford, Cornell university chemists, re-
port on results of a series of analyses
of six meteorites. Traces of germa-
nium were found in all of them, while
small amounts of both germanium
and arsenic were actually extracted
from two. ' —-------", _
Tlie meteorites were studied by
placing portions of them in an electric
arc and studying the light from the
arc with a spectroscope. Certain
lines, known to be due to germanium,
were clearly apparent in ail the speci-
mens studied. By a complicated
chemical treatment, which started
with distillation of hydrochloric acid
in which the meteorites had been dis-
solved, perceptible amounts of ar-
senic and germanium were extracted
from one that fell.in Mexico and an-
other that fell in Canada.
I'p to the present, tlie only place
outside tlie earth in which germa-
nium has been located is in the outer
layer of the sun, where it lias also
been found with tlie aid of the spec-
troscope. Claims have been made in
tlie past of tiie identification of nr-
senie in meteorites, but there lias
been some controversy about it.—
Kansas City Star's Science Service.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are the orig-
inal little liver pills put up 60 years ago.
They regulate liver and bowels.—Adv.
Fine Distinction
Father—Have you done any think-
ing qi bout how you nre to meet your
debts?
Son—No. dad. hut I've done the
deuce of a lot of wondering.
It is the peculiarity of small minds
to want everything they don’t like or
understand to be suppressed by law.
What some people don’t know they
are always talking about.
Won’t
Eat
here's a
reason-
When your child refutes lit meals, is Irri-
table, rettleu or feverish, the chances or*
worms are the cause. Careful mothers boat
promptly with Or. Jayne's Vermifuge, the
foremost remedy for intestinal parasites.
Worms ore not always patted in recognis-
able form, but an Improvement in your
child's health will show that your lodg-
ment was correct. Your druggist will tell
you that many of your friends have used
Dr. Jayne's Vermifuge successfully. DR. D>
JAYNE & SON, Philadelphia.
OVER 30 MILLION BOTTLES SOLD
Jayn e’s Vermjfu/jc
Austin liewbrrry. McDonald Blackberry
plants. 100, *1 .200, U.40;5tH>, $3 25.Concord
Grapevines.30,Jl. Prepaid Satisfaction jjuar.
WashlnKton Co. Nursery. Greenland. Ark.
The- Subtle Sea
The Dear Daughter (affectionate-
ly)—Papa, you wouldn’t like me to
leave you, would you?
Her Proud Papa (fondly)—Indeed
I would not, my darling.
“Well, then, I’ll marry Bob. He
doesn't mind living here.”
Bowl
“What is this?"
“Our football bowl. Here I have
seen assembled 30,000 pretty girls.”
“•What a lot of sugar.” . . .............
Kind-Hearted Plus
“Sir, would you give $5 to bury *
poor saxophone player?”
"Here’s $30. Bury six of ’em.”
Some men muk< a specialty ofpos-
ing as horrible examples.
Fools Them All
They never gue9s his age... miss it by ten
years at least... always think he’s younger.
Besides, he has such a young, attractive
wife who simply is devoted to him.
Why doesn't he ever feel run down and
out of "pep"? The answer is Fellows’
Syrup, the wonderful tonic which restores
f rayed nervesand tired bodies. You quickly
feel the good which this medicine does to
the entire system. Get a bottle at your
druggist's, today. Remember, doctors
recommend it.
FELLOWS' SYRUP
A former on a big load of hay in
; a city street) still, looks as grand as
j lie ever did.
| We know men who are never In a
hurry, who don't accomplish much
I after all.
St. Fillan’t Bell.
The crude quadrangular bells o:
iron and bronze found in 'Shetland ntx
invariably associated with the" tin tilt
of a saint, date back in some ruse,
lo the Seventh century. They um>
have been used as church hells^ or for
exorcising evil spirits. They vary ii
size, some of them standing nearly a
foot high. One of St. Filijtn’s hell-
lay on a tombstone1 in Ktratfil'an kirk
yard for the cure of lunacy and othe:
d'serders until stolen by an English
tonrl«t in lTflff. It wiis returned to
Scotland and in 1869 was deposited in
tiie Queen Street museum. Edinburgh.
Odd Bird Home.
fommonltlts at social weavers <>f
Smith Africa construct «n umbrella
Shaped r<*nf In a tree, tieneath which,
rrmy be Kid bird homes. An acaciii '
tree, with a* Wroleld. 'ItiMiofJi Wpih:~
■that prcdareous/fi.njmaIs cannot climb.
Is i 'ici, selected. Renter birds are
also cluir.iOterixed by a remarkable
halnt of const meting bowers or run*
which have nothing to do-with nest
log. but are apparently built for tpur:
and esthetic satisfaction.
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