Image provided by: Independence Public Library; Independence, OR
About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1919)
glance. There seemed no graceful W O O L S E T FO R W IN T E R W EA R way of escape. So Bill threw back the long French window und stood bravely waiting for events to happen. “ Irene, this Is my nephew, Bill Shel don, from the East,” called Auntie Bascom from the the other room. Bill gravely acknowledged the intro duction with a bow, striving meantime to down the rising reserve which was By A N N A REDFERN always Intensified by a meeting with a stranger. (Copyright, 1019, by the McClure News “ I ’m pleased to meet you.” Irene’s paper Syndicate.) full-throated voice rang out pleasantly Big BUI Sheldon was decidedly not as she extended her firm white hand a Westerner. One coulil have guessed and raised her blue, blue eyes to his. that fact by his air of reserve— u re She waited for no reserve to melt. In fined, courteous, but nevertheless clear fact, she neither felt nor noticed any ly obvious I-aui-sulficleut-for-uijself such thing. G R O O M IN G C O W S IS F A V O R E D manner. The manner, however, was “ Do you play tennis?” she Inquired, not o f B ill’s own choosing; rather wus with a glance toward the racket In her Animal le Naturally Clean and It Is it a product o f environment. More hand. Dairyman’s Duty to Keep Her over, It wus a source of deep grievance Then Bill surprised himself. “Just So— Means More Milk. to him, for try as hard as hs might he try me,” he answered, "when you finish could not make friends, with a reserve your errand.” (Prepared by the United States Depart ment o f Agriculture.) as impenetrable os the Bock o f Gibral Auntie Bascom heaved a sigh o f re Sightliness and attractiveness are tar rising between himself and every lie f as they walked off together. feminine assets which extend even to one he met. Even the glad spontaneity “ Ireue’U keep him amused fo r u little the dairy cow. Naturally she is a of a merry Western city, where friend while,” she ejaculated, “ although I clean an tidy beast. Unfortunately liness was the rule, rather than the re know he won't approve o f her romp verse, seemed not to melt the Ice. ing ways.” man has been obliged to confine the dairy cow closely in stables during Uow could Ills new-found acquaint Somehow there was not any more certain periods o f the year, with the ances divine for themselves that with talk of going home, und somehow Bill in his six feet bulk o f calm, blond non began to take an Interest in his visit. consequence that unless he dally chalance lny a desire for adventure as Never did Aunt Dellu attribute this brushes and grooms the dairy mat keen as that of some twelve-year-old change to the lively Irene, for there rons, their sleek, seemly coats soon devotee o f Nick Carter; or that the was always a crowd of young people lose their gloss and luster and be wistful look showing forth every now together. Her enlightenment came sud come densely matted with dirt and und then from his deep gray eyes be denly and unintentionally. litter. F or the same reasons that It tokened only the strong desire that pays to groom horses— greater effi Bill had gone uway for the evening. somewhere, sooner or later, some one The dishes had been carefully washed ciency from neat, spick-span coats— it would notice him and really like him and dried. The soft evening breeze also proves invaluable to “ doll up” In spite o f himself. No wonder he blew by the open door with a pulling the dairy cow dally by vigorous appli moped; and no wonder Aunt Della force. Throwing a shawl about her “ Great" fo r fall and winter days cation o f brush and curry comb. Cow stood at her wit’s end to entertain him. shoulders, Aunt Della stnrted across when one lovea to feel the “ bits" of comfort— that lnexplainable condition She had fed him to the fattening the garden patn to her neighbor’s, Mrs. the crisp air yet wants to be properly o f well-being which means animal point; she had introduced him In turn Itoberts, for a chat. It was a walk protected from treacherous chills and satisfaction and the economical pro to every one she knew ; she had waited that she loved. The moonlight was drafts. It Is In tan and brown. The duction o f the maximum flow o f milk on him more tenderly than his own soft and scented. Her thoughts turn little cap is made In much the same — Is fostered by careful and persistent mother would have done, und still he ed fondly back to the time when she style as the United States overseas grooming during the season when the looked bored. cows need such extra attention, as hud not walked this path alone. Fuss cap. “ I think, auntie,” he suld after the ing slowly along, she stopped for a ordinarily during the pasture period first week of agony, “ that I shall have moment by the summer house. Her U P - T O - D A T E T A B L E S E R V IC E the animals o f their own accord keep to be starting for home. Father can attention was caught by a familiar themselves clean. scarcely run the shop without me— voice: The enthusiastic use o f the brush More Favorable Comment From Dain much as I would like to stay,” he and currycomb, supplemented by a “ But, Irene, are you sure that you tiness Than From Amount added as a polite afterthought. moist cloth, as siege guns against can put up with an old stupid like o f Solid Food. There wus no doubt that Bill was me?” dust and dirt, are good mediums fo r homesick. And whether 6 feet 200 Then a tremulously happy voice The hostess who would be smart Increased production, according to the pounds suffers proportionately more replied: and modern must keep up with all the opinions o f progressive dairymen re than does 5 feet 100 pounds, even Bill "Oh, Bill, are you sure you will nev latest notions nnent table service and ported to the United States depart had no heart to unswer. Blue to the er call me a tomboy?” food garnishing. A square meal well ment o f agriculture. They maintain bottom of his No. 8 boots, he paced Aunt Della wunted to pass quietly cooked Is well enough in Its w ay; that the clean coats and luxurious gloomily nround Aunt Della's sunny, along, but her astonishment held her more Important— vastly more Impor feelings o f contentment induce In comfortable living room, lmputieutly rooted to the spot. Bill sensing the tant— Is the service thereof, and a few creased production o f milk. I f you bumping ugulnst knick-knacks and presence of an outsider discovered her. light edibles perfectly served will give doubt the profits from grooming dairy chairs. Fourteen times without stop He drew the gentle Irene out into the that hostess a higher reputation cows, put It up to Bossie and her ping he paced. On the fifteenth round soft glamor of the moonlit night. among her women friends, at least, stable mates via the referendum-vote he stopped by the long French window “ You may kiss Irene, auntie," he than any amount o f good solid food method. yvlth a Jerk, lie pulled aside the blue generously offered in bold confidence. From a sanitary standpoint, the minus the little touches that bespeak cretonne curtains, und drawing him "You may have known her ever since densely matted, filthy and caked ,coat up-to-dateness. self erect in the soft spring sunshine she was a baby, but I shall even that For instance, the butter knife is an o f the dirty cow is one o f the main he drank in the pleasing sight through up, for I expect to know und love In milk. obsolete affnir; almost as obsolete as sources o f contamination eyes and nose and mouth. her for the rest of her lifetime.” the ancient soup ladle no more seen Filth dries on the body o f the animal, The morning wus clear und fair und on the modern dinner table. Soup Is nnd, unless It Is removed previous to radiant; the clouds were blue and soft served in plates by the maid— no milking, a portion o f It is likely to Murderer’s Oversight. ami fleecy; the lawns were lush and fall into the milk pall and carry un Perlinps the smallest creature thnt tureen or ladle are In evidence* green with young g r u s s; the tre e ^ f As fo r butter, the little squares or desirable bacteria with it. Hence, ever unrolled the curtain from before were newly In leaf. But a fairer sight cubes— now much smarter than roly- than ull tills caught und held his at an unsuspected murder was thut poly butter balls— are taken up with a M rs . G o d d e n T e lls H o w It tention. In a neighboring yard, scarce which convicted the murderer o f Mr. dainty silver two-pronged fork, or ly two rods away, there flashed a nnd Mrs. Newtown in 1898. A sta- M a y b e P a ss e d in S a f e ty "butter pick.” The same little fork maiden back and forth with move tloninaster sold a ticket nt a small sta5 a n d C o m fo rt. may be used at tea hour fo r picking ments as graceful and dainty as those tlon nnd received a silver coin dated Up lemon slices fo r the teacups. 1826, rather oddly marked. He put of some wood nymph. Small sliver butter spreaders are Fremont, O.— “ I was passing through With a few deft movements she the coin in his pocket und placed an still correct at the Individual places other In the till, and that afternoon the critical period o f life, being forty- drew up the sagging white-string net and the smartest butter plates now six years o f age and and fastened It taut across the tennis showed It to some o f his friends. A ore o f silver, plain and rather flat, had all the symp court. She tried out her balls and man recognized It Immediately as one toms incidenttothat about the size o f a saucer and that Newtown had kept for some time ruckets with a bubbling, boylike ex change—heat flash engraved with a monogram in the cen as a pocketplece nnd lucky coin, nnd ultancy, as If the tonic of springtime es, nervousness, and ter. wan in a general run had found affinity with her feet. tills was the first hint gained by the N o housewife now is completely down condition, so "Yougli,” gasped Bill, and “ Youghl” detectives as to where they should happy until she has coaxed a set of it was hard for me “ Oh, auntie, who's the young lady next look for the murderer, who was sub to do my work. sequently upprehended and convicted. silver vegetable dishes from her bet door?” ter half. And if her cup o f happi Lydia E. Pmkham’s Aunt Della carefully set her pie It mis a minute trifle, this banding V e g e t a b le C om ness Is to be full he will provide also crust in the yellow mixing bowl, wiped over n coin, but It brought the mur pound was recom one o f those stunning silver plate derer to the just punishment which her hands and came at her young mended to me as the his crime deserved. Had he chanced meat platters with n gravy “ tree” nephew's excited call. best remedy for my grooved out in the center, like the old troubles, which it “ That’s no young lady,” she correct on any other piece of money in his Sheffield plate meat platters. surely proved to be. I feel better and ed. “ That Is Irene Itoberts. Why, pocket—nnd It was afterwards known In solid sliver these table belong stronger in every way since taking it, I ’ve known that child ever since she thnt he had a pocketful of money— and the annoying symptoms have disap lie would In all probability have re ings are rather costly: but silver plate was born.” peared.” — Mrs. M. G o d d e n , 925 Na Is not to be despised and meat and mained undiscovered.—London Mall. “ How long Is thut, auntie?” Bob per poleon S L, Fremont, Ohio. vegetable dishes o f good plate are sisted. Such annoying symptons as heat found In many well-appointed homes. flashes, nervousnsss, backache, head “ Well, now, let me see. It must be If Your Eyes Are Tired. Dinner napkins are not the mam ache, irritability and “ the blues,” may twenty years or thereabouts.” Boh Scat yourself on one side o f the moth affairs that they were— perhaps be speedily overcome and the system raised fils eyebrows quizzically, but room, fnclng the wall opposite. Hold because linen became so scarce and restored to normal conditions by this Aunt Della rattled on. “ Yes, and just the head still and raise the eyes slowly precious during the war. But the famous root and herb remedy Lydia E. ns you see her now she’s always been until you are looking ns nearly ns pos really handsome napkin, o f moderate Finkham's Vegetable Compound. —Jumping, running, playing tennis, sible at the celling above you. Now size, has an lnch-wble hemstitched I f any complications present them selves write tlie Pinkham Medicine Co., riding horseback. She's a regular tom lower the eyes, looking nt the floor lie- hem and n beautifully hand-embroid Lynn, Mass., for suggestions how to boy.” fore you. Tnke care, when looking ered monogram or initial across one overcome them. The result o f forty To Aunt Della Irene was Just the down, not to focus the eyes on the comer. Sometimes the embroidered years experience is at your service and same madcap little girl that she had nose, but on the floor at your feet. Re m otif is In the exact center o f the your letter held in strict confidence. always known front childhood up. Not peat this ten times, but take care not napkin, which Is folded by the laun to over weary the eyes. T rap p ers N otice — Wanted furs, all kinds. so to BUI 1 He stood by the window dress so that the monogram conies in Ship now while the price is up. Your and watched his lively young neigh Now look as far to the right ns pos the center o f a square. money same day furs received and top Grooming Increases Cow Comfort and prices. Send for quotation cards. Those bor’s gyrations with distinct approval. sible, then slowly shift the gaze to the furs, keep them coming to us. O. M. Makes for Clean Milk. “ She Is flame and action,” hs mused left. Repeat ns before. Bunting & Co.. 57$-46th St. Brooklyn,N.Y. H E A D -D R E S S MORE O R N A TE ns her red-brown bobbed curls flashed For a final exercise, imagine a huge grooming cows Is a fundamental safe In the sunshine. Altogether he ap circle In the air before you, ami with It’s a queer world. I f you don’t inferior, germ-laden French Milliners Inaugurate Style guard against proved of her—of her trim white flan out moving the head, follow the out milk. Where cows are groomed dally think so try to count all the good Hailed aa Omen of Lavish nel dress and high-cut russet hoots, of lines of this circle with your eyes, be during their period o f close confine friends who have been away on vaca Season of Old. her well-knit, graceful figure swaying ginning at the left, nnd going to the ment an attendant requires only about tions that you haven’t missed. In the sheer delight of motion, nnd her right for ten times, then heginnihg nt French milliners have shown the e f two or three minutes a cow to prepare frnnk boyish activity. So much did tie the right nnd moving toward the left. fect o f the dnwn o f peace more In the and gloss up the animals as though Governor Sends Troops. approve that the wistful look came When your exercises are over, bathe creation o f their elaborate and ornate fo r a banquet. On the other hand, it back Into his deep brown eyes, nnd the eyes In warm water to which you Seattle, Wash.— Company F of the head-dresses than In nnythlng else, for Is difficult and time-consuming to the homesick feeling formed a hard have added a pinch o f boraclc acid, these ornaments are so essentially a clean off cows which have been kept Third Washington infantry was order lump and settled In hts throat. then close them and rest for five min luxury nnd Intended to be worn only without grooming In a dirty stable. ed to Contralla Tuesday. Tbe com That she had no companion In her utes. The commendable practice is to with the most sumptuous o f gowns. game seemed not to bother Irene nt pany was said to be about 75 strong. groom and clean the cows daily at The most costly fRhrlcs have been all. Back nnd forth she scintillated, Telling Fortunes With Oil. employed In their making, nnd French such a time between the milking A t the office of Brigadier-General her tennis ball now on one side of the Among the Kherrlas of India a very pearls are used in large quantities. periods that there w ill be abundant Moss, adjutant-general o f the state, net, now on the other. curious marriage ceremony Is report Paradise branches finish the ends o f opportunity fo r the dust put Into cir here, it was said by General Moss Suddenly she threw down her ball ed. Taking a portion of the hair of many o f these pearl bandeaux, and culation to settle so that it will nnd started toward Bill’s point o f ob the bride and bridegroom In turn from heavy cloths o f gold anil silver are not contaminate the milk as It is that whether further troops would be servance. "Auntie Bnscoia,” she call the center o f the forehead, the priest bonnd about the heads, hardly show drawn from the cows. It Is necessary sent would depend upon the situation ed, " I ’nt coming In to see you." fo r best results to wipe off the udder at Centralia after the arrival of Com draws It down onto the bridge o f the ing the hair. Bill's experience o f twenty-two nose. Then pouring oil on the head, and flanks o f each cow with a moist, pany F. Many o f these head-dresses or ban years, did not Include Instruction In he watches It carefully ns it trickles deaux were worn showing the elab clean cloth just before milking, in or chain-lightning action. Of course, he down the portion o f hair. I f the oil orate use o f paradise. Some bandeaux der to remove all the surface dust Locusts in A lgeria have found a wanted to meet the girl. For what tuna straight onto the tip o f their o f sliver or gold braid supported a and dirt which has escaped the previ dangerous enemy In a fly which fol else had he bees planning during the nose their future will be fortunate, coronet o f nnefirled pastel-tinted os ous clenn-up processes. It Is recom lows them and lays Its eggs where last fifteen minutes hut for this? How hut If It spreads over the forehead or trich handing standing high about the mended that dairymen exercise spe they lay theirs. ever, this was sudden action. As Irene trickles off on either side of the nose. hair and allowing a knot o f It to come cial care to provide plenty o f material called he hnstlly drew back from the Ill luck Is sure to follow. Their fo r through the crownless top. so that at all times they may use window and began measuring with his tunes told, generally to their own sat Keep your Eyes This Item In particular railed forth clean cloths In preparing the cows for eyes the distance from his window isfaction, the final part of the cere much comment fo r the reason that milking, as too commonly the wiping Strong ai and Healthy. I f they Tire, Smart. Itch, or to the kitchen where Aunt Della kept mony takes place. Standing up side every one hailed It as the omen o f a cloth, unless carefully handled, be Burn, if Sore, Irritated, busily at work. In the open he could by aide, but with faces strictly avert lavish season and the return to the comes a source o f contamination. It Inflamed or Granulated, have covered It with three leaps, but ed. the bride and bridegroom mark old-time seasons when dress hats is also advisable to clip off the long nee Murine often. Safe for Infant or Adult here there was furniture to Intervene, each other's forehead with “ alndur” ■0 much in demand. hairs from adder and flanks o f each At all Druggist a. Write for Free Eye Book. cow. lo o , Irene had seen him at her first (vermilion). . ■«Me E y i w i fy C f » —y.Ofc—o.B.S.i. A Springtime Thaw * a package before the war 6 ° a package during the war Sc a package NOW T H E FLA U 0R LA S TS SO DOES TH E PRICE! THAT CHANGE IN New Houston Hotel WOMAN’S LIFE Sixth and Everett St».. Portland. Ore. Poor blocks from Union Depot. Two bloeki from New Poetofflce. Modern and fireproof One 100 ontslde rooms. Kates 76c to 12. X. P. G. MORGAN, Manaaer. 8 - -« Patent Pie Pan. An inventor has patented a pie pan in two sections that can be taken apart without danger of breaking its contents. W e can all do good work, for all that is required is to follow directions laid down by other people who have done good work before us. It may be that we can improve on what other people have done, and after a while it may be that we can strike out a line for our selves. Most of us w ill find that if we do the best we can, even in the most plodding way, we shall find ourselves improving and rising, step by step, in our chosen task.— New York Evening Telegraph. Fish Live in Ice. During several months of each year some of the great rivers of Siberia are frozen solid to the bottom, but the fishes imprisoned in the ice maintain their vitality and resume their active life when the ice melts in the spring. BEHNKE-WALKER BUSINESS COLLEGE Is the biggest, most p erfe ctly equipped Business T ra in in g School In the N o rth w e s t F it yourself fo r a h igh er posltioa with m ore money. Perm an en t positions assured our Graduates. W rite fo r eata lo g— F o s rtk and Y a m h ill Portland. Are Yon Satisfied? NAME ‘BAYER’ MEANS ASPIRIN IS GENUINE Get relief without fear as told in “Bayer package” The “ Bayer Cross” is the thumb print of genuine “ Bayer Tablets of As pirin." It protects you against imita tions and positively identifies the gen uine Aspirin prescribed by physicians for over eighteen years. A lw a y s buy an unbroken package o f “ Bayer Tablets of Aspirin” which con tains proper directions to safely re lieve Colds, Headache, Toothache, Ear ache, Neuralgia, Lumbago, Rheuma tism, Neuritis, Joint Pains, and Pain generally. Handy tin boxes o f twelve tablets cost but a few cents. Druggists also sell larger “ Bayer" packages. Aspirin is the trade mark o f Bayer Manufac ture of Monoacetlcacidester o f Sallcyl- icacid.— Adv. P. N. U. No. 47, 1919