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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
IJgfyPimpIes
Nature’s warning—help nature clear youe
complexion and paint red roses in your pale^
j sallow cheeks. Truly wonderful results
| Jfollow thorough colon cleansing. Take N)
—NATURE'S REMEDY—to regulate and
} strengthen your eliminative organs. Then
•watch the transformation. Try MR instead
mere laxatives. Only 25c.
The All-Vegetable Laxative ^
M3 TO-NIGHT
■ * 1 TO MORROVV , ALRIGHT^
Make the test tonight
Diplomatic f
Three-year-old Marian and her
mother were visiting in the home of
Uncle Jim. dignified and unimagina-
tive. Events proved somewhat dis-
appointing to the little girl and she
evidently decided to take matters
into her own hands. As her uncle
left home one morning, she said to
him:
“Uncle Dim, if I was a big man
like you and you was a little girl
like me and you came to see me, I’d
det you some candy.”
She got the candy.
iWomen’s Ailments
Ruin Happiness
Women who are victims of those
petty ailments so common to woman-
kind rarely ever get the full plea-
sures which life owes them. Such
women should start taking St.
Joseph’s G.F.P. It helps to quickly
banish petty ills and to build up
abundant vitality and strength. This
rich vegetable tonic is made from
nature’s own roots and herbs. Your
druggist sells the big dollar bottle
of St.Joseph’s G.F.P. on an absolute
money-back guarantee.
Nails Mend Broken Bones
Connecting the ends of fractured
bones with metal nails was demon-
strated recently by Dr. Lorenz Boeh-
ler at Vienna, Austria. Doctor Boeh-
ter exhibited X-ray pictures of the
method and presented a number of
patients. One was a woman over
eighty years old, who is now able to
walk normally.
r - ^Worms-
"v Childhood’s
worsi enemy
/ tSlur ^ child that craves ab-
(I t§P* / normal diets, who inclines
to eat sand or dirt, who
gritshisteeth,criesoutin the nlght,scratches
his nose or squirms about without apparent
cause, is usually afflicted with worms. Worms
are dangerous, disgusting pests and their
presence disturbs the complete nervous sys-
tem. Wise mothers take no chances. They
treat with Jayne's Vermifuge even when
worms are only suspected. It is absolutely
harmless, pleasant and sure to expel round
worms and their eggs promptly. Buy a bottle
today. DR. D. JAYNE & SON, Philadelphia,
OVER 3 6 MILLI ON BOTTLES SOLD
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Plant’s Long Hibernation
After Percy Cogswell of Alliance,
Neb., came from Cripple Creek, Colo.,
23 years ago he tucked a little Mexi-
can plant he had brought along in a
desk drawer. Recently he remem-
bered the plant, and put it in water.
It grew.—Indianapolis News.
STOP RHEUMATIC
PAINS WITH HEAT
OF RED PEPPERS
Relieves Almost Instantly
\
Good old Nature has put into red
peppers a marvelous therapeutic heat
that gets right down to the source of
trouble and almost instantly relieves
the pains and aches of rheumatism,
stiff joints, lumbago and neuritis.
Thousands have fpund it the one safe-
guard against chest colds, too. Now
this genuine red peppers’ heat is con-
tained in an ointment that you just rub
on. In less than 3 minutes you feel re-
lief come. It is called Rowles Red
Pepper Rub. Safe. Will not bum or
Sting. Get a small jar from you r druggist.
Underpaid Teachers
The average salary for rural teach-
ers is $855, against $1,818 for city
teachers.—Country Home.
The tenor of a singei's conduct
should never be base.
Among mortals, second thoughts
are wisest.—Euripides.
ICALLY FOR YEARS
Mount Home,
Texas — “I suf-
fered periodically
for a number of
years; tried sev-
eral different
kinds of medicine
but to no avail.
Finally my hus-
band suggested
consulting Dr.
Pierce by letter and I was advised to
take Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip-
tion and ‘Golden Medical Discovery/
alternately,” said Mrs. W. H. Punk.
After taking two bottles of each, I
was permanently relieved. Two years
have passed and I haven’t suffered one
single time since.”
Write Dr. Pierce’s Clinic in Buffalo, N. Y.,
iop free medical advice. Druggists sell
Dr. Pierce’s iVSedicines
The Three
Hortons
86-
By FANNIE HURST
w. N. u., DALLAS, NO. 10-1932
.© by .McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
(WNU Service)
'V *yIMBLE - footed, nimble - witted,
I were the Three Hortons, and
T ^ their long bookings on wide
vaudeville circuits testified to
it. The Three Hortons were a cheer-
ing part of any bill and almost in-
variably second only in importance to
a headliner like Friganza, Brice or San
Francisco.
There were Beatty Horton, whose
patter was as nimble as his soft-shoe
dancing. Alicia Horton, who could
outpatteim but not outdance her
spouse, and, from tiie age of seven <hi,
Winstead Horton, who could fling him-
self in a bridge from maternal to pa-
ternal shoulders, and sing in a choir-
soprano that had captivated his audi-
ences from the days lie had toddled
on stage with lifted hands balancing
unsure feet.
All that was changed now. Win-
stead was grown, his father Bedtty
had developed a gouty tendency and
had been obliged to cut out the soft-
shoe work, and Alicia, while she still
made up to something of the old daz-
zling blondness and was adorably cute
in her flip line of patter, was never-
theless subject to the relentless eye
of her audience to the extent that they
simply did not want the “young stuff”
from her any longer. Alicia, in rather
severe togs and a slight comedy make-
up, vas getting around that, these-
days, by doing the young matron sort
of tiling, and to a point making her
audience like It. But the fact of the
matter was that by the time he was
eighteen, and his parents were in their
forties, Winstead, single-handed, was
carrying the act.
And carrying it brilliantly. A fly-
ing contortionist, voice for comic,
character and solo singing, a baffling
ventriloquist and a soft-shoe dancer
who seldom failed to get his six re-
calls, tht? Three Horton act practical-
ly rested on his slim young shoulders.
Not that anything of the kind was
ever admitted in the confines of the
Horton family, however achingly
Beatty or Alicia might long since have
realized it to themselves. Regularly,
the Three Hortons held confab for
the refurbishing of their act; periodi-
cally rehearsals were called, changes
inserted, songs revamped and costumes
freshened for each and every one of
the three of them, with emphasis on
the requirements of each. Beatty’s
audiences wanled his sure-fire bom-
bardment of patter; Alicia's wanted
her’s blond and graceful; Winstead's
wanted him the flying, dancing, comic,
vocal young devil.
The Three Hortons. Up to the bit-
ter end, until Beatty’s patter began to
crack in his throat, and Alicia’s ankles
to twist and turn as she danced, there
was no out-and-out admission on the
part of the older Hortons that they
were finished.
The situation racked Winstead and
tore at the very withes of him. They
were such a gallant pair in his eyes;
the dudish, rakish, old • Beatty who
would limp to the wings from his
dressing room, with his face made up
into a grin and the darts of pain
through his ankles like fire; the prank-
ish dear-beyond-the-telling, Alicia,
whose role in life was to pamper ev-
eryone except herself, from her hus-
band and son down to the most ob-
scure performer on the bill. To see
them slowly disintegrate, to see a mer-
ciless public grow cold to them, to be-
hold the hurt in the eyes of his father
and the bewilderment on the face of
Alicia was pathos beyond the telling.
Not but what they gloried in the ris-
ing success of their son, and stood
back with their faces perspiring and
their hearts hurting from exertion and
something else, for him to take the
honors for the act, but there came
the time when there was simply no
easing the fact, for the two of them,
that they were finished. Managers
were clamoring for Winstead, and for
years had been tolerating the presence
of the older pair for the simple reason
that he would not book without them.
But the time had come when it was
apparent even to Winstead himself
that there was imposition in any long-
er asking for bookings for the older
pair. Beatty was winded almost be-
fore he reached stage, Alicia, poor
dear, no longer had the stamina.
Strangely, this realization dawned,
nearly simultaneously, upon the three
of them, sparing Winstead the almost
unbearable pain of telling them their
hour had struck.
“We’re finished, Beatty,” Alicia an-
nounced to her husband one evening,
as they sat around trying wholeheart-
edly to discuss plans for a next sea-
son’s act. “What’s the use beating
around the bush? They don’t want
us. We’re dead weight around Win-
stead’s neck. Let's face the music.”
Tt was with a sense of what seemed
positive relief that Beatty capitulated.
Actually, his old face seemed for the
first time to allow itself to fall into
the luxury of wrinkles.
“T sruess ym’re right, Alicia. We’re
done.”
There was not any money scare.
Winstead, of course would see to that,
and besides the Hortons. Beatty and
Alicia, simple-living, simple-minded
folk, had put hy their little penny.
It was fear of Winstead that lay in
their hearts. This hoy, never out of
his parents’ tracks, suddenly alone on
the road! Fear of Winstead had
squatted on their old chests, both of
them, ever since the shadow of this
day of their retirement had begun to
cast itself across the circuit. He was
such a child, Winstead was. A help-
less, confiding genius-like fellow. No
good at money, for instance. Had to
have it handed to him every morning.
So much for taxicab. So much for
lunches and little luxuries. So much
for tips. No good at watching himself
against colds, to which lie was subject.
It took all his mother could dp to keep
after him effectively with mufflers,
rubbers and precaution about drafts.
No good at eating well. His father
was forever giving him the second
helpings of food without his even
knowing it, stacking his plate when
his attention was diverted and then in-
sisting that he eat.
“But I have eaten, father. Didn’t
you slip some more potatoes on my
plate?”
“Nonsense. Eat. I say!”
Imagine a boy like that, a helpless,
off-in-the-clouds fellow who had never
had to think much for himself about
the creature phases of life, off sudden-
ly by himself on a circuit. It hurt
the heart of Alicia so that she cried
most of her nights. It threw such a
dread into Beatty that his efforts to
pretend to Alicia that all was well
were pathetic to her almost beyond en-
durance.
Well, it had to be faced and the
sooner the better. The Hortons pur-
chased for themselves the inevitable
chicken farm in New Jersey, that ha-
ven of all good retired vaudevillians,
and Winstead, bewildered and a little,
frightened with his released, began re-
hearing a new act with a young girl
with the stage .name of “Yvette,”
whose singing and dancing had attract-
ed the admiration of the Three Hor-
tons.
It was a whirlwind turn of fast,
amusing young-blood talk, really ex-
quisite and highly diverting soft-shoe
and toe-dancing, and some pretty duet
singing that marked them for almost
instantaneous success.
After a tryout in Newark, Winstead
and Yvette were booked over a forty-
week cycle and the pair of the older
Hortons settled down to what gallant
resignation they could muster.
And muster they did, except it ac-
tually did seem that with the letting
down of the strain and excitement of
their life-time of years on the circuit,
Beatty and Alicia were destined to fall
apart like the proverbial one-hoss
shay. Bad health set in for both al-
most the month after retirement. An
old pair were nearing the final turn
in their road.
It was quiet and peaceful and even
beautiful in a way. Sweet, come right
down to it, growing old out of a youth
that had been so long and tumultuous
and vigorous. It was Winstead that
brought dread to the heart—Winstead,
who had been so babied.
His first visit home after the forty
weeks brought peace to the heart on
that score. He and Yvette had come
back to the farm to be married. She
is a tumultuous little thing. Dances
like a whirl and can fling herself in a
horizontal bridge from the neck of
Winstead and start whirling.
She is young, vivacious, beautiful
and a whirlwind for making Winstead
toe the mark. Rubbers! Let him try
to venture out on a damp day without
them. Appetite! Let him try to skip
that glass of fresh cream with his
lunch. Money ! Yvette holds the purse
strings and doles out to him as if he
were a child.
There is nothing left for Alicia and
Beatty to dread about the twilight.
Dogs With Titles
The amazing history of Pekingese
has been told hy Mrs. A. 0. Dixie who
spent a long time in China. A thou-
sand years ago these small bundles of
trouble were worshiped as symbols of
Buddha, and invested with the highest
titles an emperor could devise. They
were created princes and dukes. They
were granted gigantic revenues. They
were honored with literary degrees.
To steal one was to run a certain risk
of enjoying that death known as the
“Death hy ten thousand slices.” To-
day the Peke is guarded with some-
thing of the same stringency, but in
Tibet and not in his native birthplace.
China last her hold on him when the
Summer palace in Peking, was sacked
in 1800. and an English general
brought a “sleeve dog” home in his
hat as a gift to Queen Victoria.
Britain’s Red Tape
The sleepy little village 'of Upper
Tean, between Uttoxeter and Stoke-on-
Trent, is where the government ob-
tains its red tape. Officialdom ties it-
self up with tape from Upper Tean.
Tt also uses the same tape to tie up
the parcels of restrictions which go to
make Britain what it is. Old women
with kindly faces turn out tape by the
mile. It falls in cascades from the
looms and, on the floor, great piles
of red tape may be seen. There Is
enough tape to trip up the nation when
handled with the cunning dexterity of
Whitehall.—Montreal Herald.
Dying Request Denied
Though England has produced great
painters, oddly enough the only one
commemorated in Westminster abbey
is Sir Godfrey Knelier. portrait artist
from the time of Charles II to George
I. Still queerer, Kneller’s dying words
were : “By G—d, I will not be buried
in Westminster.” To make absolutely
certain he designed his own monument
and paid $15,000 for ’ the stone and
work and chose a spot in Twickenham
churchyard. But due to a dispute of
In's widow with Pope over the rights
to this plot, Knelier was buried in the
abbey in spite of himself.
Neal's Mother
Has Right Idea
Within a few
months there will be
no more feverish, bil-
ious, headachy, con-
stipated, pale and
puny children. That
prophecy would sure-
ly come true if every
mother could see for
herself how quickly, easily, and harm-
lessly the bowels of babies and chil-
dren are cleansed, regulated, given
tone and strength by a product which
lias proved its merit and reliability
to do what is claimed for it to mil-
lions of mothers in over fifty years
of steadily increasing use.
As mothers find out from using it
how children respond to the gentle
influence of -California Fig Syrup by
growing stronger, sturdier and more
active daily they simply have to tell
other mothers about it. That’s one of
the reasons for its overwhelming
sales of over four million bottles a
year.
A Western mother, Mrs. Neal M.
Todd, 1701 We^t 27th St., Oklahoma
City, Okla., says: “When my son,
Neal, was three years old he began
having constipation. I decided to
give him California Fig Syrup and in
a few days he was all right and
looked fine again. This pleased me
so much that I have used Fig Syrup
ever since for all liis colds or little
upset spells. It always stops his
trouble quick, strengthens him, makes
him eat.”
Always ask for California Fig
Syrup by the full name and see that
the carton bears the word “Califor-
nia.” Then you’ll get the genuine.
First Aid-Home
Remedy Week
Chicago, Hi. — “Insure Yourself
Against Needless Suffering!” is the
intensive slogan of personal action
which prefaces national announce-
ment that the eleventh anniversary
of First Aid-Home Remedy Week
has been fixed for March 13-19. The
National Association of Retail Drug-
gists. sponsors of the plan which
Sterling Products, Inc., dedicated to
the drug world in 1922, is joined in
this campaign for nation wide prep-
araliou to meet unexpected accident
and sudden illness, by the National
Wholesale Druggists’ Association
and the National Association of
Retail Drug Clerks. For the first
time all State Pharmaceutical Asso-
ciations are also co-operating for
greater preparedness for the phys-
ical emergencies of life. Several
governors and mayors of municipal-
ities have by proclamation called at-
tention to the week which lias en-
joyed a decade of increasing success.
“Fill That Medicine Chest Now !”
is the command that has been made
from the first week to the present
campaign, and all of them have
been timed during housecieaning
days. Secretary S. C. Henry of the
N. A. R. D. in an awakening sugges-
tion to the retail druggists predicts
record-breaking co-operation this
year when the week affords oppor-
tunity for live wire druggists every-
where to use timely advertising in
their local newspapers and thus in-
sure additional sales in a helpful
effort to maintain volume.
Nerves on edge. A head that
throbs. You can’t stop work, but
you can stop the pain—in a hurry.
Bayer Aspirin will do it every time.
Take two or three tablets, a swallow
of water, and you’re soon com-
fortable. There’s nothing half-way
about the action of genuine aspirin.
If the box says Bayer, you will
get complete relief.
These tablets should be in every
shop, office, and home. Ready to
relieve any sudden ache or pain,
from a grumbling tooth to lumbago.
Don’t suffer with that neuralgia.
neuritis, rheumatism, etc; or lose
any time because of colds or sore
throat. Get some Bayer Aspirin and
just follow those proven directions
for instant relief.
Get the genuine tablets, stamped
with the Bayer cross. They cost
very little, especially if you buy
them by the bottle. Any doctor will
tell you they are harmless. They
don’t hurt the heart. They don’t
upset the stomach. So take them as
often as you have the least need of
their quick comfort. Take enough
for complete results.
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Big Men Not AIway» Strong
W. Leonard Johnson, physical ex-
aminer for the New Jersey civil serv-
ice commission, finds that size re-
quirements for policemen are based
on the belief that big men are strong.
By tests on 450 applicants for police
positions, he found that size bore no
relation to strength in men over 5
feet 6 inches tall, says Popular Sci-
ence Monthly.
Further tests revealed that up to
165 pounds, weight bore some rela-
tion to strength, but above that none.
He said these facts showed that
physical requirements for patrolmen
needed revision.
An effort made for the happiness
of others lifts us above ourselves.—'
L. M. Child.
He that has no cross deserves no
crown.—Quarles.
Dr. Pierce’s Pellets are best for liver,
bowels and stomach. One little Pellet for
a laxative—three for a cathartic.—Adv.
Gettysburg Relic
Mrs. Sarah H. Stetson of Augusta,
Maine, nas an oak tree in her back
yard that has grown from an acorn
picked up on the battlefield at Get-
tysburg hy her husband, now dead,
in 1915. Although Mr. Stetson
brought several acorns from the bat-
tlefield and distributed them among
his friends, the only acorn that
flourished and grew into a tree was
the one planted in Mrs. Stetson's
yard.
Harvard’s Great Libraries
There is plenty of reading mate-
rial in Harvard libraries. The latest
estimate of university authorities is
that the shelves contain 3,371 tons of
hooks, or a j total of 3,168,390 vol-
umes. These Chinese library alone
has 47,775 hooks, While the law li-
brary has 359,-100 volumes.
How dull a dumb man’s ears are
to big words.
Fortune telling is always fortunate
for the fortune teller.
Safe Food Economy
Although you may save money on food, you must be certain
to include the essential elements of diet. Vitamins A and D are
necessary in your meals. These are found in Scott’s Emulsion
of Cod Liver Oil. “A” builds resistance, and helps old and
young guard against winter colds. “D" aids in growth and the
development of children’s bones and teeth. In this emulsion
these vitamins may be had in a form easy and pleasing for
children and adults to take. Use daily during winter. Scott &
Bowne, Bloomfield, N. J. Sales Representative, Harold F.
Ritchie & Co., Inc., New York.
■am "Adventuring with Count
m. over the Columbia
loast Network and Stations KDYL SaU
Lake City and KLZ D
Scott’s Emulsion
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“Helpful” English
An English professor lias chosen
850 words of “basic English” which
provide a vocabulary for ordinary
communication, to be used as an aux-
iliary world language and also for
the use of foreigners who find Eng-
lish bewildering.
Those Dear Friends
“I met your husband yesterday, but
he didn’t see me.”
“I know. He told me.”
In improving the lot of the unfor-
tunate we provide a place for our-
selves.
Works Wonders in the
Care of Your Hair
Massage the scalp with the Oint-
ment to remove the dandruff.
Then shampoo with Cuiicnra
Soap to cleanse the hair and re-
store its natural gloss
and vigor.
Ointment 25c and 50c. Soap 25c.
Proprietors: Potter Drug
& Chemical Corp.,
Malden, Mass.
Peculiar Affliction
A motorcyclist, riding on a main
road near Weymouth, England, heard
a voice calling from a ditch: “Can
you oil my knee joints?” The cyclist
dismounted and found a former sol-
dier, who apologetically said : “I’ve
got artificial legs, and they’ve got
so stiff through sleeping out in the
rain that they won’t work.”
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