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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1921)
k / CAME FROM CHINESE BASKET The Rail Origin of Preient O iy Baby Car riage, Though the l«*a Ha« Been Improve« Upen. Scrap Book t FARM JOURNAL SAYS: A mao Is known by the company ha keep« out of. ' The American baby carriage ia really an offspring of the Chinese basket. 'Way back in the days of Moees, Jochebed,* mother of Moses, «roye a basket from papyrus reeds, placed her son in it and sent the cargo adrift on the River Nile. The Chinese woman uses this idea, ex cept that she has improved upon it so that she can carry the basket about without a great deal of dis comfort. The American genius got the idea of putting the basket on wheels, and that is just what the modern baby carnage is. It is also interesting to note that the American baby carriages did not spring up “ over night.” The beau tiful vehicle which is now used has gradually grown up from a rude contraption which tipped over when not in use. In the old days when horse vehicle« had just two high wheels that’s all the baby carriage had. Then came the rig with high wheels in the rear and low ones in front, likewise in baby carriage con struction. Modern days brought the automobile with four wheels all the same size. Baby carriage build* ers followed suit. GOT ITS NAME FROM PERSON Cut Rap«r Portrait Calls« "Silhouette” After Statesman W h o F lo u ris h « « In Reign of Louis XIV .* Sometimes in an orphanage there a n happenings which combine both humor and pathos. The other day is a Hoosier orphanage the children were telling their ambitions. “ I want to be rich when I grow up,” said one of the little girls, “ so I can ba like we learned at Sunday school —a comforter to the widows and or phans.” Now little .Taney’s mother had re cently given her a stepfather who did not care for her enough to take her from the home. Soberly she ■aid, " I want to be rich, too, and I’U give lots to the orphans. But I’m not going to bother taking care of the widows. There are plenty of men who want to do th at” MADE BOLSHEVIK BY TYRANN Y. Krosaiw, the Russian Bolshevik minister of trade and commerce, was bom on the banks of the Tura, Siberia,' where the passing of Si berian exiles filled him with horror. He received an engineer's diploma in Berlin, and ia numbered among tho world’s greatest electricians. He ia mild of manner, melancholy of face and dreassa in sober, shabby Mack REVERSIBLE TURBINE. A reversible turbine, says the Nautical Gazette, the invention of a Brasilian, Fauato Psdreir* Mach ado, ia now being perfected for com mercial manufacture by a company in the state of Delaware. It ia claimed that the new mechanism will revolutionize marine propul sion, as it will coat lees to manufac ture, will reduce operating costa and will be positively reversible. OUT OR TH E QUESTION. Bank Teller (politely)— I’m sor ry, madsm. but vou must bring some on« to identify you some one who ia known to both of us. Istdy (hsughtily)— S ir! Our so cial tpher-'e are entirely too distinct for such s thing to be possible.— Joeteu Transcript. RURAL HOUSEWIVES ARE TAUGHT TO APPLY BUSINESS PRINCIPLES It’s all the same to the hen whether PAPA OUT OF THE RUNNING w« say Bashful Lover’* Weighty "R em ark«" Had Straightened Out the Course of Truo Lovo. prehistoric young man fell In love with the beautiful daughter of a g r e a t chieftain. But as he was bashful.and her fa ther’s stone ax was act bashful, he feared to tell his love. So he procured a brick—that be ing the fashion In stationery Just then—and carved there on his message of devotion. As the gentle ichthyosaurus croaked the witching hour o f midnight, he stole stealthily unto the chieftain’s cave. Then with one mighty heave he cast his weighty remarks into the inner blackness, trusting that his lady-love would lind them on the morrow. And it came to pass that when he awoke next morning the blushing dam sel was seated on his doorstep. "Keggle of the Knotted Knee,” she cried, “ I am thine! The forcible na ture of your proposal removed the only obstacle. The brick caught poor papu a lovely whack on the cranium, and he was so struck with your remurks that he’s past objecting to anything now!” A to The best time to catch «oft water la wbeo it is mining bard. It is easy for a man in health to f preach patience to the sick. f ■ We’re never too old to wish we could go wading In the creek again. Leave growling to dogs; they do it better, no matter how hard you try. Who ever heard pf a picnic without somebody sitting in the pie? A harking dog may never bite, but death by fright lasts Just as long. Home Demonstration in the Kitchen. Girls nowadays must be ashamed of their ears; they never Bhow them. Daylight saving appears to he the only saving a good many folks can make. Speaking of useful Inventions, desn’t the strawberry shortcake Just about head the list? Freckles may have their place, hut It does seem too bad to cluster them on a pretty girl’s nose. EVER-BEARING ORANGE TREE REMARKABLE REMARKS Possibility That Discovery in Florida Will Revolutionixo Conditions in Growth of Fruit. Mystery In Small Lake. What seems to be a natural phenom enon is observed in the Fort Steele East Kootenay (British Columbia) dis trict. A small lake or pond which has been used for some time by a logging company for a mill-pond, la sit uated on tbe high bench land on the north side o f Kootenay river aud with an altitude of slightly over 3,000 feet above sea level. In a small, deep hol low surrounded by blgh wooded banks unaffected by winds and without any streama running In or out of It, or any circulation In it. The water Is dark and brackish, yet when logs are put In the east end of this lake, If left unfastened will, of their own ac cord, float to the west end within a few hours. The mystery Is, do the logs move or does the earth move the logs in Its dally rotation from west ta M at? New Paneling Valuable. The new wood-metal sheet or pan eling, consisting of thin boards be tween two layers of metal, lias given astonishing results. The material, adapted for a multitude of uses, can b« made In sections of any size. Is un affected by moisture, resists abrasion and warping, and combines strength with lightness. In tests made a panel &-16ths o f an Inch thick proved five times hr strong as a solid wood panel o f equal thickness, and 80 times as strong hs a sheet steel panel of equal Harold MacGrath— Humdrum Isn’t Where you live; It's what you are. Percy Hammond— The human knee lien admire clever women, but sel dom marry them. He who boasts o t his goodnee» Is seldom much good. I f you can’t get what you like, try to like what you get. Colorful. A love of colors must bave led a White o f Hnnta county. Nova Scotia, to marry a Mr. White. For after hie death ahe married a Mr Breen. She la now engaged to marry Miss a Mr. Green. FAMILIAR ALLUSIONS. Breeches Bible—An edition In which aprons. Genesis 3:7, Is printed "breeches.” n A clever woman la one who can make man believe that he knows It alL After a man gets Into trouble It la easy for him te aee how he might have kept out e f IL One o f life’s peculiarities Is That the world la seldom watching when a man la doing good. Noah was a great ball fttayer. He pitched the ark without and within and later put the dove out on a fly.— Chleugo Dally News. DEW DROPS AR dew drops are perfectly round. Dew la deposited only on a fluey Hear night. W e got most dew after a hot aura- mar’ s day and a westerly wind. Remarkable Recovery ef Sight. The work actually begun In August 1914, when an agent was appointed IB Erie county, N. T„ on state funds, in 1916, it became a co-operative movement supported by federal, state and local funds. During that year four agents were appointed. In 1919 the number had grown to more than 500. Then war emergency funds were •ut off. and In the following year the lumber dropped to 286. Although In this one year the force of workers is well as state and federal funds were reduced nearly one-half, the ap propriations made by the local peopla for home demonstration work nearly loubled, and agents were retained In ilrect response to requests from the people whom they stored, according to tbe circular. Home demonstration agents afford an avenue by which the state agricul tural colleges and the United States Department of Agriculture offer the practical results of their research and experiments In home economics to housewives of the country. These tgents encourage the rural house wives to bring from their store of practical knowledge and experience the lessons they have learned In home management that will be valuable to ether women In the community, and ■o help to make this Information avail able to all. The home demonstration •gent Is a teacher who makes liberal Honesty Is the beet policy for those who are not rich enough to be flnan- Piscatorial "T rip s." An ex-corporal of the Twenty- eighth Canadian battalion tells of Blind fdr ten years a Northfleld, M a ss . tnan awoke one Sunday morn- Ing te find that he had regained his sight during the night and could aee aa well aa when a hoy. There was ne explanation aa to how It happened Home demonstration work, though .■omparutively new, Is looked upon as permanent, so beneficial have been 3ie results obtained by home dernon- it rat Ion agents working In rural nomes. The fundamental purpose of Jila work, according to a report Just issued by the United States Depart- uent of Agriculture, la to aaslst the *ural housewife to apply business principles to her dally taaks for the purpose of making the farm home as ifflclent as the farm, thereby produc ing a more satisfactory and perrna- sent type of rural life. The report referred to Is Department Circular 141, which dealt with the results of home demonstration work In the 38 serthern and western states. Became Ca-opsrativs Movement. The High Seas— The see beyond three miles from the coast. More dew Is deposited on cultivated than uncultivated land. fishing trips his company used to make the Arras front In 1918. Kach period In the trenches was known aa a “trip." In April, 1918, the company commander was Capt. Salmon and the Lieutenant was named Walea; his batman was also named Walea. Every day the countersign was the name of a fish, such ks Haddock, Herring, etc. Therefore these |ierlods became known to the company as the fishy trip. Prepared by the United States D ep art ment o f A g ricu ltu re.) When a man keeps hta own coun sel he has not much use for a lawyer. weight on l i •J Beware of excesses of any kind. Learn, like the horse, to say “ neigh.” I b a Joint and not an entertainment. Rtienne de Silhouette, minister An ever-bearing orange tree, which o f finance under Louis X IV , became Citrus fruit growers believe Is destined Policewoman Mary Hamilton—Most si» well known for his policy of to revolutionize the orange Industry of • f the runaway gtrla come from Bos- economy in an age when extrava the state, If not of the entire country, bus been discovered by horticulturists gance was rampant that anything in a small grove at Avon Park, near Glen Bnck— Kara were made for a cheap, such as a cut paper portrait, Tampa, Fla. To protect the specimen, hotter purpose than to hook spectacles its purchaser has placed around it a became known as s “ silhouette.” But August Edouart made it so heavy wire fence 20 feet in height and stationed guards day and night. artistic that its name became some Thomas A. Kdlson— The average col The tree has been in bearing con lege man doean’t aeem to know any what of a misnomer. Born at Dun tinuously eight years, but until re kerque in 1789, he had approximate cently its existence was known only to thing. ly 100,000 silhouettes to his credit the owner and several neighbors wbo, Roy K. Moulton— Only 8 per cent of when he retired in 1849. He was according to dtrua experts, did not the men propose marriage of their own realize its value, but regarded it mere free will. extremely methodical in everything Several of ly as a freak of nature. he did, but particularly so with his south Florida’s largest citrus growers John D. Rockefeller, Jr.— My father advertisements. After relating a have organized a syndicate, purchased does not Judge a man by the cut o f bis number of gruesome tales of how he the tree, leused the grout.d upon which clothes or by his bank account had bean obliged to enter the sick It stands, and already are taking steps to develop Its possibilities by propa Hugh Fullerton— Some folks will room of persons in the last throee gating it through budwoed. with the o f contagious disease that their expectation o f having 250,000’ trees I believe anything about you so long aa It la the worst.— From the Independent friends might derive some consola ready for setting out In groves by (New York). tion from a “ likeneaa,” he summed 1023. The tree Is about fifteen years old. up the whole matter by saying that POINTED PARAGRAPHS Its origin Is a mystery. Its owners | to neglect to visit his studio while believe It will bring forth stock true | Rome men feel more at home when there was yet time “ shows want of to the parent tree and be worth mil consideration for the feelings and lions to the men who hnd the fore- | ■way. affections of friends and relatives.” sight to grasp Its possibilities. HKR VERSION. WATCH FOR FIRES AT NIGHT Evening dew Is anhealthful, being le den with noxloua exhalations. Crocodile Tears— Hypocritical grief; the crocodile was fabled to weep as It ate Its victim. Ages— According to Hesiod, there were five ages of the world; Golden, Sliver, Bronze, Heroic and Iron. The Wise Men of Gotham—Three Individuals, residents of an English village, were noted for tlielr folly. Field of the Cloth of Gold—A plain In France where Frauds I met Henry VHI, so called from the magnificent display. King Can Do No Wrong— Meaning the Sovereign Is not responsible, but his ministers are, for the mistakes of the administration. Smell o f the I .amp— A too labored literary work; Pytheas first applied the phrase to the orations of Demos thenes. who studied constantly In a cave lighted by a lamp. SAVING CAR FARE. A downtown dairy lunch had hewn having very good sales on a special sandwich, relates the Indianapolis News. It was just a sliced hard Dew will not stay on rose leaves, be boiled egg and ham between two cause these have an essential oil In pieces of bread, but it looked good. them. , No one had ever questioned the val (lew rolls off cabbage and like leaves, ue of iL so many paid 20 centa because they are coated with s fine apiece for the sandwiches very will waxen powder. ingly. But one dav a waiter noticed that Llttle or no dew la ever deposited on smooth stones, polished metal, or a girl who hail been in the habit of 1 woolen material. buying one every day at lunch, was buying just a plain ham sandwich Dew la moat abundant In exposed situations, there being less to arreet which was just 10 cents and a hard boiled egg which was 5 centa. And the radiation of the earth's heat. as she sat down at the table where Nature’s wisdom Is shown by the fnrt there were a number of other girla, j that plants with woolly leaves require , moat moisture, and It la those leaves she said: "H ere’s where I save my 1 which radiate most heat, and therefore carfare home tonight by slicing an egg.” get meet dew. There Is no dew after a windy night; It la evaporated aa fnat aa produced. use of practical demonstration rather than the lecture or text book. The most successful home demon stration agents, according to the cir cular. aim to train local leaders who, by putting the beat practices Into their own homes, extend the Instruction to larger numbers of women. At least two-thirds of the agent's time I* spent with farm women in their homes, dis cussing the varied problems of house keeping and other matters In which farm - women ure Interested. Aside from Interesting women In better home management, modem conveni ences, food production and preserva tion, better food for the family, home nursing, and the selection and making of clothing, the agents are devoting their efforts to promoting community enterprises. Three types of such enterprises are developed: The economic type which Includes food preservation, tbe hot school lunch, co-operative laundries, co-operative buying and selling asso ciations, labor-saving devices, and sal vage shops. The social type is con cerned with such things as recreation centers, civil Improvements, and rest rooms. The educational type em braces farm home tours, libraries and magazine circles and the like. * Local Al« Needed. A county organization In extension work which desires the appointment Of a home demonstration agent should first communicate with the extension service ut the state agricultural col lege, or with the agricultural agent In the county, the circular suggests. It le necessary for the local organiza tion or county to give some financial support to the home demonstration agent, though the greater part is sup plied by the state and federal funds. To supply that share which Is re quired of the local organization there have been organized within the past two years in the majority of the 33 northern and western states what Is popularly known as the "family" or "new” farm bureau. This Is an asso ciation of people Interested In rural affairs, the membership of which com prises men, women, and young people who generallv pay a uniform member ship fee of $1 a year. Forest Branch ef Cana«lan Govern. ment Expect* Goo« Rooult* From Thia Ue* of Airplane*. Aircraft patroling the clouds in the dead of night will defeat forest fires in the great reserve* of western Canada. A squad of planes has been obtained by the Dominion for estry branch. Two main flights will be made daily over the southern Al berta district*. Enough night pil grimages will be made to spot the smallest outbreak of Are. These flights are made in the timbered foothills of the Rocky mountain« weat of the rich agricultural coun try of southern Alberta, now being rapidly settled. Beside« adding pro tection to the forest product«, the new aerial patrols will minimize danger of fire in the vast grazing sections of the reserves, where thou sands of head of cattle and sheep feed. Aircraft patrol» have been started by the government in other forest districts'. Forestry report*, showing Canada ha* 225,000,000 acres of merchantable timber, declare that the annual lose ia being greatly re duced through aircraft service. FINDS SAFETY IN DISTANCE Greek Reeervlat in Unite« State« Jok ingly Refute« Offer of Employ ment by Cenetantine. After serving five year» in th« Greek army, with rank of firat ser geant, receiving hi» discharge last January and coming to Marysrille three weeks ago, wh»re h» obtained work in a local cafe, Edward Kallas received a letter from tbe Greek war department informing him that his das* had been called into service against the Turks and requesting that he report in Athens as soon a* possible, says the San Frandsco Chronicle. Kallas immediately wrote a per sonal letter to King Constantine as follows: “ Dear K ing: Your letter received and contents noted. After serving five years in the army I have done my bit. As the walking is not good between Marysville and New York and the swimming between New • York and Athens is worse, and ow- j ing to the fact that you did not send * transportation, I will be compelled to refuse your kind offer to come back aud mop up the Turk« How ever, you have my beat wishes and I hope you do well.” WORDS OF WISE MEN The worst solitude le no true friendship. — PO W ER FUL MACHINE A gigantic machine, with jaws which open to take in timber ir a» sembled wood structures 30 feet in height and which can crush them like egg shells when the jaws close together again, has recently been erected at the forest products lab oratory of the United States De partment of Agriculture at Madi son, Wis. This machine is to be used for testing very large wooden columns. It is possible to exert a force of a million pounds with it, and it is built to crush a wooden post a foot square. Its great range of testing speeds enables it to apply its tre mendous load with the fatiguing slowness of a building settling on its foundation timbers or with the speed o f s train dashing onto a wooden trestle. Architects and en gineers have very little data of the kind which this machine will supply to the scientists at the laboratory. to have j He la most powerful who has J himself In his own power. t Leisure cannot be fully en- I Joyed unless It Is won by e f £ fort. * _ f The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on his own stock. Tact Is more Important than j talent— always remember that f people are more easily led than J driven. j I • I Because of the constructional conditions attending submarine de sign, according to Admiral Sir H. Bacon, a craft which navigates be low water loses a large per cent of it* surface fighting efficiency. Ton for ton, the fighting and scouting efficiency of a submersible craft of whatever size is only about 15 per cent of that o f the surface vessel. Sir George Owens Thurston, naval director of Vickers, Ltd., gives figures to show that a submarine of 5,400 tons, having a surface N EW PENOLOGICAL IDEA. speed of 30 knots, could mount sn armament o f only one 5.5-inch and The officials of a penitentiary are one three-gnch gun. trying a new experiment by re "C O U R TS MAKE WOMEN TOUGH.” painting the four cell-blocks and al lowing each prisoner to select the One of the deputy sheriffs in a ril color he likes for his own cell, for court is opposed to woman jurors. the psychological effect it has upon The atmosphere of the oourt tends the malefactor. The corridors of to make them cynical, hard-hearted the cellhouses are being painted a and heartless, he believes. light brown. The cells are being “ Why, I know a woman in this painted in attractive tints o f yellow, building who isn’t afraid of a mouse blue, brown, buff, etc. Xone of the any more,” he said, acoording to the cells, the warden explained, is to Milwaukee Journal. “ The other have somber settings, but are all to day a mouse came into the room b« bright and cheerful. The penolo where she was and when she gist is always an optimist. couldn’t find anything else to throw HUMAN IN T E R C H A N G E . “ Hiram,” said Mrs. Corntossel, “ what is the new hired man com plaining about?” “ He isn’t reallv complainin’ . Talkin’ about his troubles is just a hired man’s way of bein' «oeiahle and friendly.” at it she pulled off her pump and was going to kill the poor thing with iL When she came into the court some years »go she wax the meekest little thing. “ Yea, sir, keep the women out of court if you want them to retain their gentleness and kind-hearted ness.”