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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1919)
FRFNCH CLEAN UP STREETS OF RUINED REIMS i H0PE U se C ooking B o x as a R efrigerator Oat® that never wholly closes. Opening yet so often In vain! Garden full of thorny roses! Roses fall and thorns remain. By U . Wayward lamp, with flickering luster Shining far or shining near. Seldom words of truth revealing. Ever showing words o f cheer. D epartm ent o f A griculture The fireless cooker can be used to keep things cold as well as hot, be cause heat cannot pass In from the outside to warm the contents any more than It can pass out to cool them. In this respect It works very much like a refrigerator. In fact, both the cooking box and the Icebox are constructed on the same jminciple, namely that o f supplying a eonstnnt-temperature chamber with nonconducting walls. Well-constructed ice boxes nre made with some Insulating material or dead-air spnee between the Inner and outer walls, and the covers and doors close in such a w ay as to prevent heat escap ing in or out through them. O f course the more often the doors are opened the more heat passes in and the more quickly the Ice melts and the tempern- ture rises throughout all parts of the box. Fortunately this Is less serious than the loss of heat when a fireless cooker is opened. When the cooker is used to keep things cool they must be chilled to the desired temperature before they are put in. The more nearly heat proof the w alls the longer the materinl keeps Its original temperature. Ice cream" put in a well-made tireless cooker ought to remain firm ns long as packed In suit and ice in an ordinary freezer. Many cooks prefer to puck such half- Promise-breaker, yet unfailing! Faithless flatterer! comrade true! Only friend, when traitor proven, Whom we always trust anew. Courtier strange, whom triumph fright- eth, Flying far from pleasure’s eye, Who by sorrow’s side alighteth When all else are passing by. Siren-singer! ever chanting Ditties new to burdens old; Precious stone the sage* sought for. Turning everything to gold! True philosopher! Comfort rich to Chider o f proud Pointing to the S. imparting spirits pained; triumph’s madness, unattained! Timid warrior! Doubt, arising, Scares thee with the slightest breath; Matchless chi€^! who, fear despising, Tramples on the darts of death! This view of the Itue Ghnuzy, Reims, shows how the French have made Immaculate the streets of the city though the place Itself was made u mass of ruins by the G. rnmu guns. VICE PRESIDENT ENCOURAGES THE BOY SCOUTS O’er the grave, past Tim e’s pursuing. Far thy flashing glory streams, Too unswerving, too resplendent, Fpr a chjld o f Idle dreams. Still, life’s fitful vigil keeping, Feed the flame and trim the light; Hope’s the lamp I ’ll take for sleeping When I wish the world goodnight. —E. C. Jones. SUMMER SMILES Method in It. Farm er (to new help)— W hy do you alw ays ring that small bell after ring ing the regular dinner bell? Irish Cook— That’s to call the chil dren, sorr. Poor Support. “ W hy Is your w ife no longer your leading lady?”. “ S h e couldn’t support me in the style I had been accustomed to,” r e p l i e d Yorick Hamm, the emi nent actor. Vice President Marshall, addressing the boy scout "flying circus” on the steps of the capitol, declared he hoped they will reach a membership of a million to aid In combating bolshevism. The vice president is nt the left center of the picture with his bund on ills hip. Several m tubers of the senate and house helped him receive the boys. HAREM WOMEN MAKE PUBLIC SPEECHES HELPS HUNT TERRORISTS W ouldn’t Stand fo r It. “Met your husband In his car. H e said he w as going downtown to get a siren.” “Just let me catch any hussy o f that kind riding with my husband.” Not for Him. “Play poker with a dentist? No, sir I” "W h y not?” “H e’s too blamed expert at drawing and filling.” Slightly Mixed. A prospective juryman, o f foreign birth, w as being questioned. “W hat is perjury?” he was asked. “H aving more than one wife,” the man answered. His Smoking Habit. “Y our husband denies it,” said the doctor, but isn’t it true that he smokes be tween meals?” “N aw ,” replied the patient's wife. “H e ents between smokes.” Not to Be Borne. “Henry, M rs. Flibbers next door says she is going to get a new electric runabout.” “That’s good. Maybe she'll take you out fo r a little ride.” “Oh, d e a r) Oh, d e a r!” “ W h a t V t h e matter now?” “You can sit there and calmly talk about your w ife being subjected to public humiliation Exclusive photograph showing native Cairo women addressing a crowd In one of tlie principili streets of the Kgyptlan city. The speakers are urging Kreutet patriotism and loyalty to their land. Tills Is the first time Huit lCgyptlan women have been permitted freedom of speech in public. HEIRESS AND AVIATOR HUSBAND Alice Gordon Drexel, one of America's greatest heiresses, only daughter o f Mr. and Mrs. John It. Drexel of New York and granddaughter of the late Anthony Drexel o f Philadelphia, and Capt. W illiam Barrett, air force, U. S. A., with whom she eloped recently. Their marriage “shocked and surprlaed” the bride's parent». WORDS OF WISE MEN The work of Dr. Charles E. Munroe, explosives expert In the United State» bureau of mines, is expected to be one of the most valuable aids In discover ing the bomb terrorists. Once the au- torltles estnbllsh definitely the ma terial used in the bombs they have a better chance of finding out where they were made. Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions and lost by one. Good manners include not merely pleasant things said and done, but unpleasant ones left undone. The gold o f our best motives is so mixed with the dross of selfishness and unworthiness that we can neither take too much credit to ourselves for any o f our good deeds nor af* ford to throw discredit upon any performed by our neighbor. W hy Short H o jr i Are 8e»t. That meii accomplish more ln*short spells o f severe labor hroken hy longer spells of rest Is illustrated by the story of a wager between two officers at the front ns to the time necessary to dig two equal lengths o f n trench each with an equal number o f men. Major Army Officers’ Salary $141 A. C. Fnrquhnrson told it to the Brit Month to $10,000 Year ish house of commons in n debate on hours o f labor. United States army officers are paid One officer let his nten work ns they according to the rank held by them. pleased, hut hs hard ns possible. The A second lieutenant receives $141.67 other divided his men into three initial pay a month; first lieutenant, squads, to work In rotation, each squad $106.67; captain, $200; major, $230; digging Its hardest for five minutes lieutenant colonel, $291.67; colonel, and then resting for ten. The second $333.33. with an Increase o f 10 per squad won easily. cent known as longevity pay, fo r each period o f five years o f service, pro Valuable Tralnload. vided that such increase shall not ex One train left Monte Vista, Colo., ceed 40 per cent. The pay o f a briga recently loaded with hogs and pota dier general Is $6,000 a y e a r; major toes with n market value o f $>2,430. general, $3,000; lieutenant general, $0,- It consisted of IS cars of fat hogs from 000, and a general, $10.000. These of the Monte Vlstn sections, six more ficers receive no increase fo r continu cars of hogs brought In hy the San ous service. W hile on foreign serv I.nls Central, and 19 cars o f pota toes. The hogs were worth about ice officers receive an increase o f 10 $3,000 a carload, and the potatoes $330 per cent of their base pay and lon gevity pay. • car. Home-Made Fireless Cooker, Showing Outside Container and Cushion for Fill ing Space Above Cooking Vessel. frozen desserts as mousse or parfait in the receptacle of a fireless cooker rather than In a freezer because there is less danger of their getting too cold and hard. It is often convenient to make cold drinks, like lemonade or fruit punch, some hours before they are used. B y chilling them and then putting them into the cooker they can be kept cool without Ice. Sometimes a little ice is put into the box with the food to make It cooler, just as hot soapstones or bricks are put in to make It hotter. Because there Is less space to keep cool much less ice is needed than in the chamber of an icebox. The ice in the cooker melts very slowly and so keeps the tem perature down much longer than if It were used In an open pitcher. W hat receptacles it is best to use for things to be kept cool in the cooker depends on their kind. The material can often be put directly into the pail, just ns If it were to be cooked. For liquids It Is sometimes more convenient to use a low bottle or a fruit ja r which will set into the nest. I f ice Is to be used it is usuully cracked and packed around the bottle or dish. Duets Are Common Between Pairs of Birds of Various Species Authorities Say The singing o f birds is taken for granted. Yet there must mave been a beginning of bird-song and some real reason for it. Nothing merely happens. It was not beneath the con sideration o f Darwin, who held .that the discovery of the voice first came from fea r and pain, the agony com pressing the muscles of the chest and forcing the air through the glottis so ns to create a sound. W hat originated in fear afterw ards developed into an nrt or accomplishment, so that gradu ally, during the ages, many birds de veloped “calls" to others of the oppo site sex. Ornithologists say that, any bird-cry which induces one bird of n species to approach another o f the same kind is a “call note,” whether It be a cembat- cry or an alarm, which were the earliest, to be followed later by the love-call. At the beginning of the breeding season birds of opposite sex cnll to each other, and this vocal exercise is especially performed by the males. Songs \^ere actually mere repetitions •of call notes, and only later came the development o f pure song as under stood by men. W hen nightingales are courting they utter a gentle, subdued warbling. Duets are common between pairs of birds of various species. Real song, however, does cot seem to de pend upon the breeding season at all. Newlyweds’ Fortunes Are Told With Oil in India Among the Kherrins of India, a curi ous marriage ceremony is reported. Taking a portion o f the hair of the bride and bridegroom in turn from the center of the forehead, the priest draws It down onto the bridge o f the nose. Then pouring oil on the head, he watches* It carefully as it trickles down the portion of hair. I f the oil runs straight onto the top o f their noses their future will be fortunate, but if It spreads over the forehead or trickles off on either side of the nose, ill lnck Is sure to follow. Their fortunes told, generally to their own satisfaction, the final part of the cere mony takes place. Standing side by side, but with faces strictly averted, the bride and bridegroom mark each other’s forehead with “sindur” (ver milion). Apes as Farm Hands Prof. Richard Lynch G a m e r Plana Nation of Gorilla* In U . S. Prof. Richard Lynch Garner has an nounced his intention o f establishing n nation of chimpanzees and gorillas in the United States for the ultimate purpose of uplifting the entire ape race, says a N ew York correspondent. Professor Garner has just returned after two and one-half years in the French Coftgo gathering specimens fo r the Smithsonian institution. The upes today, in their uncultured state, are second only to the human family in-point o f intellect, the profes sor said. H e believes that apes, if given the advantage o f modern educa tion and environment, would develop into a race that would sow und reap and toll in the mill, hi refined young lady apes the professor sees a possible solution o f the servant problem. “Sam, a boy ape that shared my home in Africa, learned to fetch things I called for,” he said. “ H e became as particular as I about bed sheets being smoothed out, and he couldn’t go to sleep without a pillow. I f a man could train a dog to herd sheep, man cud make a farm hand out o f an ape.” Casein of Milk Makes the Best Enamel Covering for Wings of the Airplanes Scientists recently have discovered that the casein o f milk makes prob ably the best enamel covering fo r air plane wings. T he paint from casein dries quickly, is as smooth ns enamel, and in a few hours becomes impervi ous to weather conditions. Casein after being extracted from skim-milk and dried has four principal uses: 1. In the preparation o f plas tic masses and galnllth ns a substitute for horn, ivory, celluloid. 2. As a painting material. 3. As a mucilage and cement. 4. A s a dressing and color-fixing medium In textiles. It is used in plastic masses fo r the making of combs, collar buttons. Imi tation linoleum and leather, and bone and electrical Insulating material. Onlalith, meaning “milk stone,” is made from casein Into Imitation mar ble, colored furniture decorations, electrical insulations, and the like.
