Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1937 Page: 3 of 8
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V
CONNALLY BELIVES
AMERICANSSHOULD
GET OUT OF CHINA
Dallas, Sept 16. (UP)—
Americans living in China owe
it to their country to get out of
the Sino-Japanese war zone,
U. S. Sen. Tom Connally, Dem.,
Texas, said in a speech here
last night.
“American citizens reading i
in China owe a duty to their j rmuung is more uireaa
country, no less than citizens ^ian ■ worn-out welcome,
residing at home,” the Texas * _ * . ...
junior solon said in a radio - , me makes a fellow
broadcast feel Pros^ _._
An enemy may give better
advice than a friend.
^ /
Remember that no person
ever selected his parents.
Some people hate sin be-
cause they are too old to enjoy
lit
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Nothing is more threadbare
"I bid three spades”
roper accompaniment
'oscanini broadcast. —
Kreisler.
P'
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The fool needs only an op-
portunity to tell you he is one.
Lets Talk iMQothes
TEXAS STATE COLLEGE
KW .
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FGMEN (CU.)-I
Denton, Sept 21.—Simple
logic will answer your ques-
tions about accessories this
fall. Here's the way it works
—black rules as background
favorite, black b somber and
dark, lovely ladies need color
to set off their charms. Con-
clusion : accessories supply col-
or.
Manufacturers worked out
the problem too, so now milady
needs only to get an idea about
her. color desires and the
stores will furnish all necessary
materials. Among the ideas
that she might dig up U the
currently popular one of
matching her gloves and
hosiery. These two articles in
beige worn with black will in-
stantly mark her as ar. expert
In subtle style.
New shades of green, wine,
brown, rust and gray are oth-
er accessory colors that will
accent black costumes. They
are reflected in bags, gloves,
hats and shoes, but one must
be careful not to have over
three articles in the same color.
Cloves are somewhat longer
and more flared this season,
with patent leather, doeskin,
kid and suede being used as
trimming for fabrics and glace
kid promising a wide appeal.
Suit gloves are still wrist
length, but are made more
feminine by stitching and intri-
cate patterns. Students at
Texas State College for Wom-
en again choose the crocheted,
square-fingered, gayly colored
innovations of last year to be
worn on the campus with
i matching scarfs.
Polished surfaces sre the
newest note in bags, since a
new process has been Invented
to give that metallic finish. One
will see bronze, copper, and
silver bags this year as well as
the old standbys of suede, pa-
tent and smooth leathers. As
in fall dresses, folding, dimp-
ling and pleating w31 form
many bag trimmings, the
shapes will be softer and
quainter, and fastenings must
be new and original._
KNOW TEXAS
T.S.C.W. Feature Service
i Bigger and Better Bottler
Denton, Sept. 21.—A whole
town bottled up—such is the
situation in Three Rivers-
where over 100,000 bottles are
turned oat a day. Milk bottles,
beverage bottles, food contain-
ers and medicine Bottles are a
few of the bottled goods pro-
duced by the large glass fac-
tory located there. The neces-
sary raw products are furnish-
ed by a heavy deposit of
white, fine-grained sand near
the town, which is located mid-
way between San Antonio and
Corpus Christi.
Tree Publicity Needed
Although the widespread
plainlands with their romantic
cowboy figures have received
more publicity than any other
aspect of Texas, its wooded
areas eould well claim their
share of the glory. In 19S0 the
total commercial forest area
was 12,624,000 acres, and
three state forests in Cherokee,
Montgomery and Newton coun-
ties added 5,600 more acres.
Principal kinds of wood are
yellow pine, oak, red gum and
tupelo, but with the state
forests as laboratories, experts
are now making research to-
ward growing new varieties.
•
Queer Names and Why
Five towns in Texas have ev-
ery right to be dirty—their
names are Mud, Clay, Earth.
Sand and Grit. Among other
odd names is that of Round
Top, so called because it has an
old log house with a round
dome situated on a round hill.
Origin for one of the most op-
timistically named towns in the
state, Rising Star, has never
been discovered. And then
there is the town named Floy-
dada by mistake, because some
post office employe could not
read the handwriting which
designated it as Floydalia.
Ribbons for all makes of
typewriters. The Times.
STOCKBRID6E'
COCKATOO.....hummus
My wife and 1 were awaken-
ed before sun-up a few days
ago by a cry of "Hello!”
which seemed to come from
the sky, followed by a raucous
screech which sounded like a
child in pain. We rushed to
the window. The screeching
continued. It came from the
top of a tall ash tree close to
the house. Perched on an up-
per branch was one of the
most beautiful birds 1 have
ever seen; pure white, with a
crest of feathers tinged with
pale yellow. It was bigger
than a Leghorn pullet The
bird screamed "Hello 1" at us
again, and flew to another
tree, emitting loud screeches
as he flew.
Soon there was quite a gath-
ering of neighbors on our front
lawn, gaping up at the strange
bird. One of them was its
owner. It was s trained Aus-
tralian sulphur-crested cocka-
too, he said, which he uses In s
theatrical act, and had escaped
when he was cleaning its cage.
The bird stayed in our trees
for two days and nights, re-
fusing to be coaxed back to
captivity. He was beavtiful to
look at, but every time he
screeched he reminded me of
many people I have met, who
are attractive until they open
their months-
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BEAUTY......ahm deep
Coming up the path after a
long rainy spell my wife saw
two beautiful objects on the
lawn which had not been
there the night before. They
were globular mushrooms, one
as big as a baby’s head. She
picked them —d brought them
to the house, where we all ad-
mired their beautiful skins,
mottled like a leopard’s, 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 ex-
ample of the truth of the old
adage. "Beauty is only skin
deep.”
I sometimes wonder at the
effort and expense to which so
many girls and women go to
make themselves beautiful. I
never see one whose face and
hair have obviously been fixed
up at a “beauty pallor” with-
out wondering what there is
behind the artificial beauty. I
like to look at a beautiful
woman, as every man does, but
for steady companionship I
think most men prefer the
ones who do not make the pur-
suit of beauty their main ob-
ject in life.
• • •
STANDARDS beauty measure
I Men's standards of feminine
beauty vary from country to
country and from time to time,
almost from man to man. It i<
a good tiling for the great ma-
jority of young women that
this is so, and tha tmen seldom
pick their wives for their
beauty alone.
One of the reasons why
Shakespeare is the universal
and everlasting poet is that he
does not describe his heroines
.except to tell us they were
' beautiful. Every man can ap-
ply his own standard of beauty
to Juliet, of whom Shake-
speare 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 admire feminine
plumpness, Juliet was fst; a
Chinese Juliet would be slant-
eyed, and if the beauty stand-
ards at the African jungle are
those of the savage belles we
have seen in the circus and
the movie travel pictures, with
huge, distended lips, or necks
stretched to incredible length^
by encircling brass rings, one
can imagine how the African
beaux would visualize Juliet if
they ever read Shakespeare. ‘
“Beauty is in the eye of the
beholder,” an ancient philoso-
pher wrote. No truer words
were ever spoken.
TALENT . . . without beauty
Most of the girls who try to
make themselves more beauti-
ful than Nature made them at-
tempt consciously or uncon-
sciously, to look like some
popular star of the stage or.
screen. usually the screen.
Many think these actresses are
popular because they are
beautiful, while usually the
contrary is true. They be-
come popular star because
they have talent as actors,
and most of them have to be
artificially beautified for their
public appearances. Most of
them make no effort to look
beautiful when not on the
job cf entertaining.
Almost without exception,
however, the ones 1 have
known have been delightful
companions. Their charm
came from their wit, vivacity,
their voices snd their intelli-
gence, rather than from being
pleasing to look at.
The greatest professional
beauty of my time was Lillian
Russell. When I last saw her
she was in her sixties and still
retained the classical loveli-
ness which made her famous.
But Lillian Russell was born
beautiful.
• • •
VANITY____artificial beauty
After all, the desire to look
prettier than the way one was
created is one of the most nat-
ural and ancient of human
ambitions. There were barber
shops and hairdressers in an-
cient Babylon. Men as well *s
women are vain about their
persona] appearance. If that
were not so there would be no
profit to the advertisers of
cures for baldness. Few men
are as free from this sort of
vanity as was Oliver Cromwell,
who insisted that the painter
of his portrait should depict
the warts which disfigured his
face.
Recently an English news-
paper criticized the current
fashion of colored fingernails,
saying that if originated
among American women try-
ing to conceal evidences of
Negro blood. A historian con-
tradicted this, pointing out
that Cleopatra dyed not only
her fingernails but her toe-
nails. Among the commonest
of relics of early civilization
dug up by antiquarians in the
ruins of ancient cities are the
cosmetic jars used by prehis-
toric belles.
1 have no desire to change
human nature. 1 couldn’t if I
wanted to. The girls car
change from redheads to plat-
inum blondes, from boyish
j bobs to pigtails and back agair
j so far as I care. It’s all rivhf
with me until they begin dye-
* ing their hair green.
bale Carnegk
5-Minute Biographies
Author of "How tm Wtn Friend*
LEO TOLSTOY
HE WAS ASHAMED OF HAV INC WRITTEN TWO OF THE
WORLD’S GREATEST NOVELS.
Here is a life-story as in-
credible as any tale out of the
Arabian Nights. It’s the story
of a prophet who died in oar
own time—in 1910, to be ex-
act—and who was so venerat-
ed that for twenty* years be-
fore he died an unbroken and
unending stream of admirers
made pilgrimage to his home
in order to catch a glimpse of
his face, hear the sound of his
voice, or touch the hem of his
garment.
Friends came and lived in
his home for years at a time
and took down in shorthand
every word that he uttered;
even in the most casual con-
versation, and described in
minutest detail even the most
trivial acts of his daily life.
These records were then print-
ed in huge volumes.
Nearly 23,000 books—not
2300, mind you, but 23,000
books—and 56,000 newspaper
and magazine articles have
been written about this man
and his ideas; and his own
writings fill 100 volumes—a
gigantic amount of words for
any man to have written.
The story of his life is as col-
orful as some of his own novels.
He was bom in a forty-two
room mansion, surrounded by
wealth, cradled in the luxury
of the old Russian aristocracy;
yet in the last part of his life
he gave away all of his lands,
stripped himself of all his
worldly goods, and died with-
out a dollar in a lonely Rus-
sian railway station, surround-
ed by feasants.
In his youth, he was a snob,
walking with mincing steps
and spending a small fortune
in the tailor shops of Moscow;
yet in his later life he dressed
in the rough crude clothes of a
Russian peasant, made his
shoes with his own hands,
tended his own bed, swept his
own room and ate his simple
food on a bare table from a
wooden bowl with a wooden
spoon.
In his youth he lived what
he himself described as "a
dirty vicious life,” drinking,
duelling, committing every sin
imaginable—even murder; but
in later years he tried to fol-
low literally the teachings of
Jesus and became the moat
saintly influence in all of Holy
Russfau
In the early years of his
married life he and his wife
were so happy that they
actually got down on their
knees and prayed to Almighty
God to continue their heavenly
bliss, their divine ecstasy. Yet
later on they were tragically
unhappy. He finally came to
loathe the very sight of her,
and his dying request was that
his wife should not even
permitted to come into his
presence.
In his youth, he failed in col-
lege and his private teachers
despaired of ever poundinc
any sense whatever into his
thick skull; yet thirty rear?
later he wrote two of the
greatest novels that the world
has ever known, two novel:-
that will live and endure
throughout the centuries—
War and Peace, and Anna
Karenina.
Tolstoy is more famous to-
day outside of Ru*3*a lhan s'-
the Czars who ever ruled tin'
dark and bloody empire. Yet
did the writings of these great
novels make him happy? For
a while—yes. Then he be-
came utterly ashamed of them,
and devoted the remainder of
his life to writing little pamph-
lets, preaching peace and love
and the abolition of poverty.
These booklets were printed
in cheap editions and trundled
about in carts and wheelbar-
rows and sold from door to
door. In four short yesrs 12,-
000,060 copies were distribut-
ed.
_A few years ago it was my
privilege to know Tolstoy's
youngest daughter in Paris.
She acted as his secretary dur-
ing the last year of his life and
was with him when he died.
She is living on a farm now
near Newton Square, Pennsyl-
vania, and .1 learned from her
own lips many of these facts
about Tolstoy. Since that
time, she has written a book
about her father, The Tragedv
of Tolstoy.
Truly Tolstoy’s life was a
tragedy, and the cause of his
tragedy was his marriage. His
wife loved luxury, but he de-
spised it. She craved fame
and the plaudits of society, but
these frivolous things meant
nothing to him. She longed for
money and riches, but he be-
lieved that wealth and private
property were a sin. She be-
lieved in ruling by force, hut
he believed in ruling by lore.
And to make matters worse,
she was consumed by a fierce
and fiery jealously. She detest-
ed his friends. She even drove
her own daughter away from
her home, and then rushed into
Tolstoy's room and shot at the
girl’s picture with an air rifle.
For years die nagged and
scolded and screamed and
abased him and, as he said,
turned his home into a verita-
ble hell because he insisted on
giving the people of Russia the
right to publish his books free-
ly without paying him royalty.
When he opposed her, ahe
threw herself Into fits of hys-
teria, rolling on the floor with
a bottle of opium to her lips,
swearing that she waa going io
kill herself and threatening to
jump down the well.
The Tolstoys were
SOMMYRWOI
LESSON
b Charles E. Daw
God in tbs Makers oi a Nation
Lesson for September 26.
Deut 8:11-20.
Golden Text; Deut. 8:11.
, Ten years ago America was
nding on the crest of a ware of
optimism. The war waa safely
over, a minor business depres-
sion had passed, prosperity
was in full swing, and science,
with it* marvelous advances,
seemed able to save the world.
What a change today! We
have, just been through the
most devastating depression of
our history, and its wounds
still bleed. But worse than
economic disaster is the de-
pression in morale. Maxine
Davis, after using the cause
method of personal interviews
with many young people in all
kinds of situations, summarizes
her conclusions in her book.
"The Lost Generation,” in this
heading, "Mope — hope-
grope.” The June, 1936, issue
of “Fortune” presents the re-
sults of n careful study of the
state of mind of college youth,
and the picture it presents in
far from encouraging. Accord-
ing to its findings the unwill-
ingness of youth to challenge
the social order is on the in-
crease. Thus while the knowl-
edge of social studies has ad-
vanced, there is a failure to
apply them. Moreover reli-
gion occupies a very limited
place in the cultural interests
of the college world.
“Take care not to forget the
Lord your God," says oar
Golden Text But our genera-
tion renders little heed to this
solemn warning. Its lack of
religious vitality is striking.
How often folk assume that
there isn’t very much In re-
ligion, that religious attitudes
are mere escapes from reality!
We live in a time .when the
majority seem far adrift from
religious moorings. The
triumph of secularism is com-
plete over Urge areas of our
common life.
In the face of such a peri!
how much we need the teach-
ing of our lesson. “If you ever
forget the Lord," cried Mose.',
"I warn you today tint you
shall most certainly perish.”
Our tragic era, in its fury of re-
bellion against the Christian
gospel, desperately needs to
hearken to this warning voice
of old.
he fled from his wife on the
night of October 21, 1910—
tied into the cold and dark-
ness, not knowing whither he
was going.
Eleven days later he died of
married j pneumonia in a railway sta-
tion 1 house, saying, “God will
arrange everything.” His last
words were, "To seek—always
to seek.”
almost half a century; and j
sometimes she knelt at his
knees and implored him to!
read her the exquisite, poig- j
nant love passages that he' ---
had written about her in hi* ■ MAN WANTED for Rewlearh
__r D s. BAft f. li: —r
diary forty-eight years previ-
ously, when they were both
madly in love with each other.
As he read of those beautiful
happy days that were now
gone forever, both of them
wept bitterly.
Finally, when he was eighty-
two years old, he was nnable
to endnre the tragic unhappi-
ness of his home any longer, so
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ITER HEALTH
srDe J. ROSSIYN EARP
The mouth is one part of
the body where a cancer can-
not easily hide. Sore* on the
lips are obvious not only to
the patient hot to his friends.
Growths inside the mouth can
be felt with the tongue at a
be very early stage. And yet there
is an average deUy of ten
months between the appear-
ance of a growth and the first
visit to a doctor’s office.
on the tongue begins to get in
the way. But there is no pain.
Time still passes. Now there
is sometimes a little bleeding
bat still nothing has begun to
hurt The patient is a little an-
xious but would rather not see
a doctor in case he should sug-
gest an operation. And anyhow
this is a busy time; in a month
or so it would be more conven-
ient to go to the hospital. Time
still passes. At last there is an
When the growth first ap- ache and the lump is tender to
the touch. little lumps have
began to grow in the neck.
Pain drives the patient to the
doctor in the end. But by that
time it b too late.
Treated early no less than
95 per cent of cancers of the
lip can be permanently cured.
Cancers of the tongue are more
rapidly dangerous but at least
half of them can be complete-
ly cured if only they are taken
in time.
pears it has nothing horrifying
about it The patient feels per-
haps a little roughness in the
mouth. He may think he has
a small wart Very often he
will say that there is a "cank-
er sore.” There is no pain, no
real discomfort. Time passes.
The sore on the Hp does not
heal; or the wart In the mouth
gets a little larger; or the
lump on the tongue begins to
get a little larger; or the lcr;_
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