The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 39, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 20, 1935 Page: 2 of 4
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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
Reaction of Tots to Prying Eye of Camera
*T'HIS picture was taken at a recent baby party given at the Massachusetts Osteopathic hospital in Boston, Left to
-*• right, Bruce MacDonald, one year and a half old, refuses to pose and covers up, while Bobby Werner, six month*, is
entirely indifferent. Katherine McMillan, twenty months, is about to give way to tears, while Jane Batt, eleven months,
merely snaps her fingers.
BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
DANNY MEADOW MOUSE
WISHES HE HAD STAYED HOME
TI7HEN Danny Meadow Mouse crept
▼V into the little hole in the bank of
the Smiling Pool his heart was beating
to fast that it hurt. Then too, he was
80 tired that it didn’t seem to him he
would be able to move again for a long
time. You see, crossing the Smiling
Pool was a long swim for such a little
fellow as Danny Meadow Mouse. He
3iad not been in the water for a long
thne before, and so of course swim-
ming tired him much more than it
would have done had he been in the
habit of swimming- every day. It
wouldn’t have been so bad if he hadn’t
been obliged to swim just as fast as he
possibly could. As it was, the Big
Pickerel who lives in the Smiling Pool
had almost caught him. So between
his terrible fright and his hard work
Danny was quite used up.
He laid down and for a while just
panted and panted, and all the time
Wished that he had stayed at home
where he belonged on the other side
•f the Smiling Pool. By and by his
heart stopped beating so fast, and he
didn’t have to pant so to get his breath.
You know the little people of the Green
Forest and the Green Meadows recover
It Was the Head of Snapper, the Big
Snapping Turtle.
very quickly from fright and weari-
ness. This is a wise provision of Old
Mother Nature. If it were not so they
would not be prepared to meet unex-
pected new dangers.
So it wasn’t a great while before
Danny once more felt quite himself.
'He crept to the entrance of the hole
in which he had found safety and
peeped out. He wanted to see if Red-
dy Fox was still on the other bank of
the Smiling Pool, and what his chances
of getting back home in safety were.
The Smiling Pool was as calm and
peaceful and lovely as if no such thing
as danger was ever known there. Over
on the other bank Danny could see
Reddy Fox. It was evident that Reddy
bad not given up hope of getting a
meal of some kind at the Smiling Pool.
Danny’s big cousin, Jerry Muskrat,
bad just elimbed out on the Big Rock
with a lily root. This he began to eat.
Just watching him made Danny hun-
gry. Grandfather Frog had once more
That dice were so popular
with the ancient Germans
that they would often haz-
ard their wealth and even
their liberty upon the turn
of the “bones.” He who lost
submitted to servitude and
allowed himself to be bound
and sold in the market place.
©. McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.
climbed out on his big, green lily pad.
Danny looked down into the water and
his heart gave a little jump. Half hid-
den under some lily pads was the Big
Pickerel who had so nearly caught
him. Danny didn’t need to be told that
the Big Pickerel was lying there in the
hope that Danny would once more
take to the water.
Suddenly an ugly black head with
wicked looking horny jaws was thrust
out of the water in the middle of the
Smiling Pool. It was the head of
Snapper the big Snapping Turtle, and
the very sight of him made Danny
shiver, for he knew that nothing would
suit Snapper better for a dinner than
a fat meadow mouse. More than ever
Danny wished he had stayed at home.
©, T. W. Burgess.—WNU Service.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I heard a woman tell another that
her husband reminded her of a fur-
nace. What do you think she meant by
that?
Truly yours,
ROSE Z. PESEY.
Answer: She simply means that he
smokes all day and goes out at night.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I heard two men discussing animals.
One said that while in India he saw
a “man eating tiger.” The other said
A SYMPHONY OF SALADS
IS THERE ever any salad jnore ap-
petizing and attractive than nice
fresh shrimp? Take two cupfuls of
cooked shrimp—fresh, if possible,
canned will do—add one cupful of fine-
ly cut tender celery, one-third cupful of
sliced olives (the stuffed ones), one-
third of a cupful of french dressing, let-
stand to season, adding salt and cay-
enne. Then when serving add mayon-
naise and serve on lettuce.
Another well liked salad is
Waldorf Salad.
Take one cupful of diced celery, two
cupfuls of finely cubed-apples, one-half
cupful of broken pecan meats. Cover
with a tablespoonful of lemon juice and
one of olive oil, adding salt and a tea-
spoonful of sugar. Let stand for an
hour, then serve on lettuce with a
mayonnaise dressing.
Who doesn’t like the tender and de-
licious chicken salad?
Chicken Salad.
Cut the light meat of chicken into
cubes. For each 'quart of the finely
cut chicken add a teaspoonful of salt,
a tablespoonful of lemon juice, a salt-
spoonful of white pepper and a few
dafehes of cayenne. Mix and stand
aside in a cool place. Add two-thirds
as much tender celery cut into bits, a
half cupful of shredded almonds and
let stand until serving time. Cover
with mayonnaise and serve on lettuce,
garnished with olives, capers and hard
cooked eggs.
Almonds, Pineapple and Cabbage Salad.
Shred a tender head of cabbage, add
one cupful of shredded blanched al-
monds and a few slices of diced pine-
apple. Serve with salt, paprika and
sour cream. Line a bowl wi*h lettuce
leaves and heap in it the salad. Serve
with cheese and crackers.
Salmon Salad.
Drain the oil from a can of salmon.
Remove the skin and bones and shred.
Cut four boiled potatoes into cubes, add
three sweet pickles finely minced and
two cupfuls of finely chopped new cab-
bage. Season with salt, pepper and
serve with a boiled dressing.
O. Western Newspaper Union.
French Hat for Spring
Large black picot felt calotte
trimmed with a Scotch feather knife.
Modeled by Roxane.
that once while In Boston he saw a
“man eating rabbit” Do you believe
that?
Yours truly,
IKE KANTSEEIT.
Answer: Well, It’s possible.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I heard two actors talking the other
day and one of them said he was look-
ing for a man to take down some foot
notes. I am a musician but have never
heard of footnotes before. Were they
kidding? If not, what instrument were
they talking about?
Sincerely,
SIM PHONY.
Answer: Foot notes, my dear sir,
come from a shoe horn.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I am a tailor and am at a loss to
know why I am having so many com-
plaints about my clothes. The strange
thing is that my customers all say the
same thing. They claim that my coats
wear out twice as quickly as the rest
MARRIAGE
By ANNE CAMPBELL
A BOVE the din of the children,
a*- Above the sweeping and dusting,
Above the ugly and sordid,
Like a white bird thrusting
Into the heavenly blue,
There rides the thought of you!
Above the worry and planning.
Above the day’s endless labor,
Above the ceaseless adjustment,
Like a shining saber
Cleaving the clouds that will form,
Is your love, true and warm!
Above the mohotonous hours,
Above the wreck of our dreaming,
Above the illness and sorrow,
Like a bright star gleaming,
Shines ever constant and true,
Your love for me, my love for you!
Copyright.—WNU Service.
of the suit. Can you possibly tell me
how to make my coats last?
Yours truly,
A. STITCHENTYME.
Answer: Make your pants and vests
first.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I am a girl eighteen years of age
and for the fix-si time in my life I
went “slumming” last night. I felt hun-
gry and went into a cheap restaurant
and was surprised to see men eat1»?g
with their knives. Can you tell ibe
why people eat with their knives?
Sincerely,
I. PHEEL FINE
Aoswer: Merely to sharpen their ap-
petites.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I heard my folks say as how fish
gives yuh brains. If what they say is
true, what kind of them there fish
shall I eat?
Yours truly,
ALF. ALFA.
Answer: Judging by your letter, 1
suggest a whale.
Dear Mr. Wynn:
I read In this morning’s paper that
some areonaut flew his airplane to ha
altitude of 10,500 feet. Would you like
to be up that high with an airplane?
Truly yours,
Upson Downs.
Answer: I’d hate to be up that high
without one.
©, the Associated Newspapers.
WNU Service.
It’s difficult to curl those back locks
every morning, but did you ever try
winding them around a cold curliDg
iron, gripping the ends firmly and
twisting the iron upward? Slip the
iron out and if your permanent is still
at all tractable the curls will stay in
place.
Furs Milady Wears Come
From Various Countries
Little moles bearing the best pelts,
notes a writer in the Philadelphia Rec-
ord, originate in Scotland. Ermine
comes from Russia. Alaska encourages
seals, and Canada and Alaska co-op-
erate on beaver. Mink, many Amer-
icans are surprised to know, is col-
lected in quantity from the eastern
coast of the states, though some
comes from Russia and Canada. Leop-
ards are spotted over Abyssinia, In-
dia and Asmara. Fitch hails in light
color from Russia, in dark, from Ger-
many. Kolinsky is Russian.
Lots of different kinds of lamb con-
stitute the caracul family. Some of it
Is gathered from China and Japan,
some from Russia. Persian lamb is sim-
ilar to krimmer, but practically the
same fur, and originates in the Bal-
kans, Crimea in particular. The hot
countries—also Russia and China—
“grow” another type of caracul, kid-
skin. Galyak is also a caracul, and
gets its name from nakedness. From
Russia, the lamb responsible for this
smooth fur is killed while yet inno-
cent and young, and before its skin
is much ruffled. “Goly” is the Rus-
sian word for naked.
Educated Horses Are Not
Used in the Trick Acts
Some people imagine that the horses
which are used in the liberty and high
school acts are also used by the trick
riders. This is not so; the trick rider
requires a far different type of ani-
mal. Their horses are huge and mas-
sive, for one sometimes has to sup-
port an entire family on its back! The
trick riders’ horses- are usually of
Flemish breed. A thoroughly-trained
one is of inestimable value: it has
been taught, no matter what happens,
never to change its feet. Should it do
so when an artist is somersaulting
from one horse to another, the result
might be serious.
When they are being broken for
the ring, part of their training is to
accustom them to unexpected noises
and disturbances.
Not all, however, of these great
horses come from Flanders. One wom-
an rider bought the most reliable horse
she ever rode straight from a milk
cart. When this “rosinback” died her
whole family went into mourning!—
Pearson’s Weekly.
Relative Humidity
Humidity has to do with the damp-
ness of the air. Absolute humidity
is defined as the actual quantity of
moisture present in a given quantity
of air, and it may be expressed as a
certain number of grains per cubic
feet or of grams per cubic meter. The
relative humidity, expressed in per
cent, is the ratio of the actual amount
of water vapor present in the atmos-
phere to the quantity which could be
there, at the given temperature. A
method of determining the relative
humidity at any time is to measure
the drying power of the air with a
wet and dry thermometer. The wet
thermometer has its bulb covered with
muslin that is kept damp. The dif-
ference in the readings of the ther-
mometers, referred to a chart, gives
the relative humidity.
Kept Many Indian Names
Southeastern Massachusetts has
perhaps retained more Indian names
of towns, rivers and other geograph-
ical units than any other section of
the country. Among them are Appona-
gansett, Assonet, Assinippl, Cataumet,
Chappaquoit, Cohasset, Pocasset, Co-
chituate, Scituate, Ootuit, Cummaquid,
Cuttyhunk, Humarock, Manomet, Mat-
tapoisett, Megansett, Menauhant, Mon-
omoy, Muskegat, Nantasket, Coatue,
Nantucket, Quidnet, Siasconset, Tuck-
ernuck, Wauwinet, Nonquitt, Nobska,
Padanarum, Pautuisset, Ponkapog, Sas-
saquin, Segregansett, Seekonk, Sippi-
wissett, Squantum, Squibnocket, Touis-
set, Titicut, Watuppa, Wianno and
Pokonoket.
Medicinal Plants in England
London, England, is the great center
for trade in medicinal roots, barks and
herbs. Canada is the sole supplier of
one important medicinal plant, senega
root. Cascara bark is almost of equal
importance and this comes from the
Pacific coast, both Canada and the
United States - figuring as important
sources of supply. The bark increases
in value with age but most of the im-
porting firms prefer to import the new
bark and age it themselves. Other
medicinal plants supplied by Canada
are snake root, hemlock, grindelia and
hydrastis or golden seal root.—Mont-
real Herald.
England’s Foggiest Spot
In London, the empire’s foggiest
spot, statistics show that each of the
inhabitants pays, on an average, a fog
bill of about 30 shillings. This sum is
expended between October and Febru-
ary in heavier lighting expenses and
extra transport fares. It does not in-
clude chemists’ and doctors’ bills in-
curred through coughs, colds, and sore
throats caused by fog.—Answers Mag-
azine.
Quivering Aspen Leaves
One of the oldest legends in the
Christian world concerns the constant
quivering of aspen leaves, even in ap-
parently still, air. A large number of
persons believe the aspen tree sup-
plied the wood for the cross and has
never ceased to tremble for the part
that it played in the crucifixion.—T.
B. Lawrie, Winnipeg, Canada, in Col-
lier’s Weekly.
"QUOTES"
COMMENTS ON
CURRENT TOPICS BY
NATIONAL CHARACTERS
FREEDOM IMPERILLED
By JACOB H. RUBIN
Wisconsin Writer.
TtX7TTH 250 million Europeans
VV enrolled under absolute regi-
mentation of body and soul, we
find dictatorship challenging demo-
cratic forms of government. And even
here in the United States there are>
some people who seek a dictatorship
and regimentation. There can be no
freedom of speech, of press, or of in-
dividual initiative in such a government.
Mussolini is trying to make Italy a
better place for Italians aud Hitler is
striving to arouse the national feelings
of the German people. But Stalin and
his doctrines are international in
scope. They say that a world half
capitalist and half communist cannot
exist. Through propaganda they are
waging an actual war upon American
institutions.
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
By HOMER S. CUMMINGS
U. S. Attorney General.
TET me give an example of my
-L* contention that circumstan-
tial evidence can be more conclu-
sive than direct testimony under cer-
tain conditions. Assume that after a
light fall of snow in the early hours of
the morning an animal passes over the
ground near a house. Hours later an
expert can tell by examining the foot-
prints whether the animal was a rab-
bit, opossum or fox.
Assume, on the other hand, that
three men standing at a distance in the
half-light of dawn saw that animal
pass. The chances are that no two of
them would agree as to the breed of
animal they saw. The eyewitness tes-
timony would be much less conclusive
than that of the expert who never even
saw the animal.
BASIS FOR CONSTITUTION
By A. A. HE RUE, JR.
New York Lawyer
r | ^HE only force which can up-
J- set the Constitution is a com-
bination of stupidity and dishon-
esty. It is interesting to note that the
Supreme court, although divided
sharply on the legal issues, could come
to a unanimous conclusion on one i»-
sue, and that the issue of fundamen-
tal honesty.
There was no constitutional right to
be dishonest. There is a sovereign
power to be so, inherent In the mere
existence of sovereignty. No constitu-
tion can avoid this. If one may draw
the conclusion, it is that whichever
way the tide goes, whether to the left
or to the right, if the result has an
inherent integrity, the Constitution
stands up; otherwise, it does not.
BORAH’S PLAN
By DONALD R. RICHBERG
NRA Official
OENATOR BORAH’S plan to
O scrap all of the NRA except
minimum wages, maximum hours
and the prohibition of child labor is
what the most reactionary monopolis-
tic rulers of big business have been
urging privately and sometimes pub-
licly for several months.
Under this program the wage-earner,
consumer, and small business man will
be stripped of any real protection
against unfair competition. Monopolies
will flourish, unemployment will in-
crease, farm prices and wages will
fall and relief burdens will rise.
SHIP SUBSIDIES
By BENN BARBER
Admiralty Counsel.
ANOTHER mileage method
must be devised to replace
the demonstrated faults of the
present system. With the wealth of
statistical information at hand through
practical operation of American-flag
vessels since the war, a single simple
measure can certainly be formulated.
It is suggested that the differentials
on each direct route shall be accurate-
ly computed and reduced to a mileage
figure and that this mileage figure be
averaged on all direct routes and that
this average be the subsidy allowed.
VALUE OF DISCIPLINE
By DR. ERNEST M. HOPKINS
President of Dartmouth.
T AM not interested in military
J- training from the point of view
of preparedness for war, but I am
very much interested i» it as a train-
ing In discipline, which is the most val-
uable thing a young man can get. I
feel personally in regard to the CCO
work, which I understand has been
somewhat successful, that it would be
more beneficial to the public interest
if it were more definitely under the
military regime; that is to say, for its
disciplinary requirements.
CONFIDENCE NEEDED
By HARRY F. BYRD
V. S. Senator From Virginia.
TA E.COVERY must be founded
J-V on confidence, for without
confidence capital will not venture,
and without new capital Invested busi-
ness will not expand. There is plenty
of "apital available, but the confidence
is backing. The succession of many
experimental devices to recapture
prosperity confuses and frightens the
bus'ness man.
Copyright by Public Ledger, Inc.
WNU Service
Picture of San Francisco Bay in 1937
© Calif. Toll Bridge Authority.
T TPON an aerial photograph of San Francisco bay, with Oakland in the back-
^ ground, architects for the San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge have drawn in
to scale a representation of the world’s largest bridge,) 8% miles long (nearly
four miles over water), which will connect Alameda and San Francisco counties.
The west half of the bridge is a suspension structure comprising twin suspension
bridges anchored into a huge concrete monument in the center. A double-deck
tunnel pierces Yerba Buena island, occupied by army, navy and lighthouse serv-
ices, and the double-deck bridge continues over a 1,400-foot cantilever span, 5
through truss spans, and 14 deck truss spans before it lands on a fill extending
out from the Oakland shore. At the eastern shore, trestles carry the bridge
traffic on to three branches—one for Berkeley, one for Oakland, and one for the
business section of Oakland and Alameda. The piers of this bridge—51 in num-
ber-set new marks on engineering frontiers, going deeper below water than any
previous substructure has heretofore been built. Some of the piers go as far as
237 feet below low tide. The two suspension bridges have 2,310-foot main spans.
The lower deck carries two tracks for interurban electric cars and three lanes
for heavy trucks, and the upper deck carries a 58-foot highway for six lanes oi
automobiles. The clearance for ships at high tide Is 227 feet, 37 feet higher thas
the masts of any ship now afloat.
iUESTION BOX
by ED WYNN, The Perfect Fool
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