The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 10, 1932 Page: 3 of 4
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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
Ancient Ethiopia and
Egypt Under One Ruler
The country known today as ancient
Ilthiopia, was known to the Greeks
and Romans of that time as Aethiopia
and to the Hebrews as Cush. It lay
to the south of Egypt, and in its most
extended sense it embraced modern
Nubia, Sennaar, Kordofan and north-
ern Abyssinia that is about the region
now known as the Sudan and northern
Abyssinia. The northern boundary of
Ethiopia was the southern boundary of
Egypt, and it is indicated in Ezekiel
29:10, where Syene is mentioned as
marking the border. The Hebrews do
not appear to have had much practical
acquaintance with Ethiopia itself,
though the Ethiopians were well
known to them through their inter-
course with Egypt. The inhabitants
of Ethiopia were a Hamitic, or as one
might say, an African or negro race,
and were divided into various tribes
of which the most powerful were the
Sabaeans. The history of Ethiopia is
closely interwoven with that of Egypt.
The two countries were not infrequent-
ly united under the rule of the same
sovereign. Shortly before the birth of
our Lord a native dynasty of females,
holding the official title of Candace,
held sway in Ethiopia, and even re-
sisted the advance of the Roman arms.
One of these queens is noticed in Acts
3:27. The latter part of this chapter,
beginning at verse 26, tells the beau-
tiful story of Philip coming upon the
man of Ethiopia journeying “unto
Goza, which is desert.” The traveler
was “of great authority under Candae,
queen of the Ethiopians, who had the
charge of all her treasure, and had
come to Jerusalem for worship.”
By Charles Sughroe
on Strange Words
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LIKE BETTER,
TUAAJ A LOAJC* HIKC
r FILLS A FELLOW
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Paris Thinks of Spring
AFRICAN CANNIBALS
CRAVE EPSOM SALTS
LD LEE HOMESTEAD
IS BEING RESTORED
Will Spend Week’s Wages for
a Single Dose.
ill Revive Life and Culture
of Old South.
and even among cannibals starchy
food predominates.
“Witch doctors and sorcerers brew
magic stews and make a lot of mumbo-
jumbo, but the black men have discov-
ered the efficiency of the white man’s
drugs, so they beg to borrow or buy
them whenever possible. They may
continue the treatment prescribed by
their own witch doctor because in
no event would they want to hurt a lo-
cal practitioner’s feelings; but if they
can combine witches’ brew and a good
stiff cathartic, they feel pretty'certain
of complete cure.”
two signers of the Declaration of In-
dependence, Richard Henry ^ee and
Francis Lightfoot Lee, as well as the
home of “Light Horse Harry” Lee and
other generations of the distinguished
family.
It stands on a hillock not far re-
moved from the Potomac in a section
of the Northern Neck which the old-
er generation of Virginians especially
looks upon as hallowed ground. The
estate fronts for two miles on the riv-
er, and within a few miles are the
birthplaces of three Presidents—Wash-
ington, Madison and Monroe.
The house itself, built in the shape
of the letter II, is two stories in height,
with a tall basement, forming the first
floor, and is topped by massive quad-
ruple chimneys on each wing. It was
started in 1729 by Queen Caroline,
wife of George II of England, with a
gift of £300 toward the cost of its erec-
tion following a fire which destroyed
the original manor house, on the site
of which now is located the Lee fam-
ily burial plot.
The House Well Preserved.
The mansion, in a fine_state of pres-
ervation, is built of brick on English
lines by English standards, with walls
of fortress thickness, and was known
as the stateliest house of its time hi
Colonial Virginia.
In restoring the plantation with its
Colonial atmosphere and its arts and
industries as pursued two centuries
ago, the old brick and saw mill, now
in ruins, will be rebuilt and placed In
operation. Spinning, weaving and
wrought-iron craftsmanship will be
practiced for the enlightenment of
visitors and students. The tobacco
warehouse will be reconstructed, and
scenes of the old planting season re-
vived. The old kitchen, with its 12-
foot fireplace, will be fired again, and
the tall brick wall again will hide the
culinary operations from alien eyes.
The Garden Clubs of Virginia will
complete the restoration picture with
landscaping, terraces, flowers and rare
shrubs such as once were the pride
of the Lees and the delight of their
many distinguished guests.
New York.—Mrs. William S. Sea-
brook, who shares the explorations of
her noted husband, says that a white
man can prosper by retailing epsom
salts to the natives on the Ivory
coast.
“Epsom salts,” she says in the Amer-
ican Druggist, “are white magic to the
people who deal in black magic, people
who will work for a week to buy a
single dose of salts, and consider them-
selves lucky to get it.
“One charming cannibal to whom
my husband and I were indebted made
a single request when asked how we
could repay him for his many favors.
He replied quickly and naively: ‘Yes,
send me epsom salts, and my fortune
is made.’
“His idea was to go into the cut-
rate business and sell epsom salts for
ten cents.
“Natives of the Ivory cbast suffer
terribly from constipation. Here you
have a primitive people struggling
with nature in a dense jungle, afflicted
with a condition which we have been
told results from a civilized and seden-
tary life. The difficulty is with their
diet. They eat practically no greens
I THEY DONT f
1 CHANGE |
British Royalty Seen
Without Its Trappings
One day he (William IV) went to
inspect the Tower of London, and a
contemporary writer gives this picture
of the royal party, wrote Clare Jer-
rold in “The Early Court of Queen
Victoria.” “The king is a little, old,
red-nosed, weather-beaten, jolly look-
ing person, with an ungraceful air and
carriage; and as to the duke of Sus-
sex, what with his stiff collar and
cocked hat bobbing over his face, noth-
ing could be seen of him but his nose.
He seemed quite overcome with heat,
and went along puffing and panting
with the great, fat duchess of Cum-
berland leaning on his arm. The
queen is even worse than I thought—
a little insignificant person as ever I
saw. She was dressed, as perhaps you
see by the papers, ‘exceeding plain,’ in
bombazine with a little shabby mus-
lin collar, dyed Leghorn hat, and leath-
er shoes.”
Lanvin still features metal pail-
lettes, but does it very subtly for
spring in the form of circular cuffs on
the abbreviated straight jacket of a
pastel crepe evening ensemble.
S By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK X
X Emeritus Dean of Men, x
■g University of Illinois. 5
made available. Within a reasonably
short time plantation life of the Eight-
eenth century will be resumed there
in all its picturesque phases.
Completion of the purchase fund
marked the close of another chapter
in a dramatic story which had its start
in Greenwich, Conn., early in 1928.
Mrs. Charles D. Lanier of Greenwich,
head of the William Alexander, Jr.,
-Chapter of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy, while rummaging
through a desk which belonged to her
mother-in-law, Mrs. Sidney Lanier,
widow of the poet, came upon a pen-
ciled manuscript by Lanier, until then
not known to exist.
A Speech on Lee's Death.
The paper proved to be a speech he
had made in Macon, Ga., in 1870, on
the death of General Lee, in which he
urged the establishment of a memorial
“‘by contributions as shall be within
the compass of the humblest citizen
who loved him and who desires the
grateful privilege of laying some trib-
ute on his tomb.”
On the following day Mrs. Lanier re-
ceived a letter from a friend describ-
ing a visit to Stratford and asking
why it could not be preserved. On the
same morning she called a meeting
of her organization, which resulted in
the adoption of resolutions looking to
the acquisition of the homestead.
After months of negotiations ar-
rangements were made with Charles
E. Stuart, the owner, for its purchase,
und the Robert E. Lee Memorial foun-
dation was formed to acquire the prop-
erty and conduct a campaign for con-
tributions in all parts of the country.
The price was fixed at $240,000. The
mortgage wras cleared away by an un-
conditional advance of $115,000 by a
prominent Delaware woman.
Stratford hall is more than two hun-
dred years old and bears the distinc-
tion of having been tlie birthplace of
In Wool
One of the most wearable of the new
frocks is cut on the famous Vionnet
lines, and molds the figure most clev-
erly. This dress is in light weight wool
and is untrimmed.
We change very little after we are
beyond the high-school age. I may
have emphasized
t‘vne or an°ther be-
XA|| fore^ jg more
lr%V 1 ' I pressed upon me
I flS time goes on‘
,1 Between fourteen
I and eighteen our
j| habits are pretty
olution or' a crisis
will effect any material change.
I used not to think so. Going to
college or getting married, or taking
up a business of some sort, I imag-
ined would work miracles in the de-
velopment or the modification of a
man’s character. I see now that none
of these things makes very much dif-
ference.
I hadn’t seen Maguire for more than
thirty-five years until he dropped upon
me a few weeks ago. He was the
wittiest, cleverest man in my class,
cheerful, happy, ready for a lark and
ready to laugh at a good joke even
if it were on himself. He did his
work easily and well; he had a keen
insight into human nature and a de-
pendable judgment in critical matters.
He was clean-minded and reverent.
When he decided to enter the legal
profession we all thought he had
chosen wisely, and then having fin-
ished lgw he suddenly decided to en-
ter the priesthood of the Roman
church. I hadn’t cast him in that role,
but the qualities he had revealed when
we were young fellows are admirable
qualities for a leader of the church.
He had not been in my office ten
minutes until I saw that, priest that
he is, he has not changed excepting to
strengthen the fine qualities which he
had revealed when we were boys to-
gether. He still has the happy out-
look upon life and the keen sense of
humor which is so characteristic of
the Irish.
(©. 1932, Western Newspaper Union.)
Winter Colony on Catalina
Famous Bank Vaults
Specially constructed vaults have
been provided to house the gold re-
serve of France. These vaults are in
a big chamber, covering two and a
half acres, 200 feet below the earth’s
surface. Above the ceiling is first 40
feet of water and then 50 feet of solid
rock. This safety deposit was built
since the World war. A place was
planned which would not only be safe
from bombs but where the bank force
guarding it would be safe from gas
attack. A supply of fresh air is drawn
into the vault chamber through a se-
cret source. The fact of the vaults
being under water is explained as re-
sulting from the flow of a river be-
neath the city of Paris. This was dis-
covered when the opera house was
built, just before the War of 1870.
ABBY
ERTIE
This unusual close-up of the “winter colony” on the rocky shores of Cata-
lina island near Avalon bay, shows Admiral Seal and his sisters and his
cousins and his aunts basking in the sun. In spitet of their fur coats the
whole family likes the late William Wrigley’s warm island playground as a
winter rendezvous.
Britain’s Varied Climates
There is no other country of similar
size which has so many climates as
Great Britain. A man traveled in Feb-
ruary from Aberdeen down to London,
and next day went on to Falmouth.
Around Aberdeen the country was
deep in snow. The Cairngorms were
absolutely Arctic, and on Deeside curl-
ing was in full swing. Forty-eight
hours later, at Falmouth, the sun was
hot, daffodils and other spring flow-
ers were in bloom, and it seemed lika
another world. From northern Perth-
shire up to Braemar is a great stretch
of country where snow falls at the
end of October and as a rule lies until
the following March. i
Honored for Valor
| POTPOURRI $
*:* Lard and Perfumes *!*
T Y
*:* Choice perfumes are made by *:*
a process known as cold enfleur-
age. A thickness of cold lard %
♦j* is placed on glass slabs in wrnod-
X en frames. Flowers are placed X
on this lard. Each day fresh jj*
X flowers replace the old ones un- X
*:* til the lard becomes saturated *:*
♦*. with their perfume. The lard is
X then dissolved with cold alcohol *t*
which evaporates, leaving the
X extract. X
*!• (©, 1932, Western Newspaper Union.)
A meek man’s idea
of a roaring good
time is just once in
his life to roar like a
lion and make his
wife jump.
ODD THINGS AND NEW—By Lame Bode
“Those who get an early start find
it less difficult to make ends meet.”
Peat Still Popular
In many places in the British isles
peat is still exclusively used for heat.
The custom of cutting the 'peat and
drying it for use during the winter
months still persists in the very north-
ernmost part of Scotland, the county
of Caithness. One of the features of
a peat fire is the “iazy hole,” so-called
because its contents, the ashes which
fall from the fire, need only be re-
moved once a week. The last mem-
ber of the family to retire at night
removes the embers from the hearth
to the “lazy hole,” where they smolder
among the ashes throughout the night.
When morning comes, the embers are
replaced on the hearth, and in the
company of a fresh piece of peat soon
break into a cheerful blaze.
Goalie of Hawks
To keep velour hats in good condi-
tion rub them with a piece of velvet
the way of the nap.
lUOO'K STEAPILY AT ?h£
wtine spot on -mis
PRAU/ING fOR A MINJT6,
ANP 1AEN AT A LIGHT
mu ANP the HEAP WILL
reappear on -the mu -
is
Apples will not break when baking
if they have been pricked with a fork
before they are put into the oven.
^ON COUEAMp-
SpajiisJ* fcigh mire migard-
IS THE ONfYMAN
U /n the worlp that
CAN MAKE A REVERSE
Mb. SOMERSAULT ON A
HIGH VJIRE
If you sprinkle salt over the coal
in liberal quantities it will make it
burn more evenly and prevent “clink-
ers.”
362-Pound
sQUASH
WAS GROWN BY
VJM. WAR MOCK
o$ Goderich,Onl,
If shoes do not polish readily give
two coats blacking, let dry before put-
ting on third codt, then polish and you
will get a good shine.
The Cheney award, consisting of a
plaque, a certificate of award and a
substantial cash contribution, was
awarded to Private John B. Smith of
the United States army air corps. The
award, made annually to the officer or
enlisted man of this branch of service
performing the outstanding act of va-
lor during the year, was made to Pri-
vate Smith who. when a plane crashed
into the building in which he was
working, dived head first into the blaz-
ing cockpit and liberated the pilot’s
foot which was firmly wedged in the
rudder bar. Smith, though injured by
the crash, then removed the uncon-
scious pilot to a place iff safety,
Planes’ Adaptiveness
The army air corps says that a bi-
plane is stronger than a monoplane
because the two wings permit truaa
construction for combat, or where the
plane gets sudden strain a biplane is
better; also it permits the use of
shorter wings to get the same lift.
A monoplane has the advantage of
getting full efficiency out of the wing,
and permits greater visibility. The
monoplane’s disadvantages are that it
is designed for one particular pur-
pose, such as straight flying or long,
di stance.
Always put your knife in boiling
water for a few seconds before cut-
ting cake that has been iced. You will
then be able to cut without breaking
the icing.
GhuclT Gardner, goalie of the Chi-
cago Black Hawks, has made an en-
viable record during the ice hockey
season.
CONYfflBWtP BY
The \
> COW0IRp- /
ALWAYS LAYS V
ITS EGGS IN
OTHER &IRPS ’MESTS
MSS. 2. SAMPS£i
Mix a piece of butter with a blanc
mange while it is still boiling and you
will have no* trouble turning it out of
the mold when the pudding is cold.
Moreover, it will have a much glossier
appearance.
“Twine” Is New Shade
There’s a new shade in novelty
cottons—it’s called “twine.” It has
a little more beige than eggshell.
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The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 10, 1932, newspaper, March 10, 1932; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth894355/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lampasas Public Library.