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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 9, 1921)
HAO ENOUGH LIKE STORY OF OLD TIMES Hcppsninoa In Books Written Twenty or T h irt y Years Ago Puzzling te * People of Today. “BIRDIOLA” # By L I L L I A N C Y R . When you go on your vacation and take some books along you may include some stories written twenty or thirty years ago— perhaps an ad venture or detective yarn. You will not have read long before you find yourself puzzled. Why didn’t the disabled ship in the Caribbean use its wireless? Oh, o f course— wire less had not been invented. And as you turn over the pages o f the tale o f New York life, how quaint it seems, remarks a writer in the Brooklyn Standard-Union. Why did the suspect flee from the de tective’ in a Sixth avenue elevated train? When the beautiful heiress Waiter— The people who dine suddenly decides to go to the coun here are very liberal, sir. try, the old fam ily coachman drives Diner— Ah, then there’s no neces her down to the Thirty-fourth street sity for my giving you anything ferry. N o subways, no motorcars u a daily incident of life ; the char T E N S E M OMENT8. acters in the story do perhaps use When W illie tried to lick the evi telephones, but they never seem to dence off the back o f his ears in the have heard o f the game o f golf, and stolen jam case. they have “ clubmen” and “ star re When Alfred, who had just been porters” and “ cub reporters” and accepted, read in the evening eiira other quaint-sounding designations, that her father had gone broke. and some utterly reckless young When Mrs. Jones told him that spendthrift couple may spend as the fish he said he had caught were much as $60 a month rent for an salted herring.— Richmond Times- apartment. You would almoflt think Pispatch. you were reading a historical ro mance of the period of Gov. D eW itt M A C H I N E R Y B Y A IR E X P R E S S . Clinton. By the use of airplanes mining machinery is to be taken to a mine in Utah and the output o f the m<ne is to be taken out, reducing the time for the round trip to a few hours, whereas it requires sii weeks k i l l mule teams now. BLOTTED I N S U L A T O R S . For ita telegraph and telephone the British post office hag adopted insulators with slotted heads, into which wires are attached by screw cap«. H u m A N XIO U S T O T R E A T . “ "Well, well, Bill, I haven’t seen yon for years. Do you know where we can get a drink?” “ No.” "W ell, come in here and have a necktie on me.” — Louisville Cour ier-Journal. N O N M E TA L L IC GEAR M A TE R IA L . Up to a few years ago practically all noiseless gears were made from rawhide or hard fiber. Both of these materials are unsuitable for timing gears, because they swell and distort when immersed in oil. Re cently a number o f nonmet&llic ma terials have been developed which have sufficiently high mechanical properties to permit of their use in toothed gearing and are nonsonor- ous and impervious to oil and al kalis. One o f the latest of these materials contains two basic ele ments, a phenol-formaldehyde con- dehsation product and a fabric. The material is as strong as cast iron, is not affected by moisture or oil, is o f a high dielectric strength and is inert, insoluble and resistant to most acids.— Scientific Am eri can. ANNOUNCEMENT I will accept a limited number of patients at my home on South Main Street. Special prices will be extended to the first few cases. Large, comfortable, cheerful rooms, pleasant surroundings, modern con veniences. Mrs . Oliver S m i t h 838 MAIN STREET, INDEPENDENCE Mr. Barnes, U. S. Wheat Director Says: “EAT MORE BREAD And reduce the high cost of living.” HOLSUM BREAD 18 THE CHEAPEST AS W E L L AS THE MOST W HOLESOM E ON THE M ARKET TODAY. BUY THAT EXTRA LOAF Your Grocer H u I t Cherry City Baking Co r— —1 T h e Latent J Arrivals g 3 i t l l . by M cC lu rb Naerapapcr Syn dic at e ) Theed, In spotless wUlte flannels, -aunteretl aimlessly down the sun baked sidewalk In Newspaper How. It was June, and the abhorred quest for edursflon was temporarily suspended. In September ne would enter Worces ter high, as a Junior, an estimable ac quisition In Theed’s opinion. He slowed down to a halt In front o f a hitching post, and, having languidly reached out for Its iron ring, he twined It absently. He was In one of those day dreams hoys have. His eyes remained open; but he saw nothing. It has to be ad mitted that three-quarters of Theed's dreams, waking and sleeping, were o* Anita, the girl who wore his fraternity pin, and whose lovely hand he had kissed In a pageant In which they had been the star performers. He turned back up Newspaper row and down Old South to Anita's home. He hesitated with bewildering Indeci sion at her gute, shyness or some oth er boyish attribute, having seized him ; then he walked away. He soon re turned. playing a melancholy air on a newly bought small Instrument of baked clHy, called a “ Blrdlolu," said instrument containing ten holes for ten Angers and capable o f a series of « ierd and depressing whistling tones. He had nearly passed the house when Anita hailed him from the piaz za. "C m on up. and have some lemon ade.” she Invited. He pocketed his Instrument and sank down In a comfortable wicker chair, while the little hostess presided over the drinks and edibles. “ What is It?" asked Anita, not with out soqie curiosity, “ that thing you were blowing?" “ This," said Theed, holding up the Instrument, and adopting the manner and the fluency o f the young clerk in the music store who sold it to him, "is a “blrdlola,’ an instrument of rare qualities. From It one may induce the calls, the whistles o f any bird or all birds— ” “ Here comes Fred. Hello, Freddie,” called Anita sweetly. "Oh, I ’m so glad you brought your clarin et” "Hello, Laurie, ol’ top,” said Fred, gayly. “ How d’y do,” Theed responded, »tlltly. He thoroughly disliked Fred and bis clarinet. A bit later the two boys rose to go. “ I ’m glad you boys are coming to my party,” smiled Anita, “ and Freddie, bring your clarinet." The day for Anita’s party arrived. Theed made an elaborate toilet and proceeded to Anita's. A few minutes before the dancing begun Theed made his way to Anita's side to claim her first dance. ” 1 just promised Fred,” said Anita. "Vou promised It to me Monday aft ernoon when we were sitting In the hammock. Don’t you remember?” asked Theed, pained that she should have forgotten that wondrous incident. "No.” "W ell, this Is my dance, Anita. Vou promised me first," Theed declared stubbornly. Here comes Fred. Hurry, Theed. Find a partner before the dance be gins.” Iheed stared at her In amazemeoL ! "Very well,” he said coldly. And he did And u partner. A visit ing girl received him tenderly. At first he wus a bit bored, his mind more on Anita's behavior than the lively tulk of his companion, but she really was interesting, and Theed could not help coming out of his sad mood. tireut was Auita’s indignation to find him so absorbed in that visitor that he hud not returned to her for a single dunce. Luring an Intermission Anita bad ►Ted play his clarinet. At the first soft tentative toot Theed rose and slipped out of tlie room. l ied was part through his ovation when he was startled by the wild trill ing o f a bobolink, which was repeated at Intervals to the end of his recital. In several parts of his song sheepltke bleats and “ moos'' suggestive o f cows exchanged places with the short, tenta- •Jve toots and issued from his clarinet in rural discord. At the end of the S,,"K. however, polite clapping greeted Fred. Anita, ’ he begged, "explain to them. 1 hut bird outside. Oh, my reputa tion's lo st!" He Was breathless and his complexion assumed a bright pink. “ Just then through the open window there flouted a melancholy air. Both ITed ami Anita recognized the dread ful whistling tones as those of Theed's “ blvdlola." Fred was angry. Anita was pleased st Theed's flare of Jeal ousy. The mournful tone was touching, even If the tones were depressing. An ita ran out oil the piazza and shut the screen door softly behind her. “ Theed," she called tremulously. Anita sat down in a chair beside him. " I ’ lay for me," she commanded. Theed brightened visibly and raised the "birdlola” to bis Ups. Light-hearted once more, the de pressing whistling tones of the “ blrdl- ola' grated on Anita s sensibilities. “Theed,” she said solemnly, “ your 'hlnllola' has become very dear to us. i’lease give It to tne and I will keep It and cherish It forever and ever." A Wise little miss. Anita. She was insuring quiet enjoyment for herself In Theed's future visits. It was true that the Instrument had bridged the estrangement between them, but It was a "blrdlola." New ] Coats 7} w ill not only please you W 1 1 \T ^ \ but w ill prove to be just what you were looking for. $ $ Suits, $28.5 0 to 98.50 'oats, 18.50 to 100.00 resses, 18.50 to 65.00 $ $ $ ì New Fall Tweed-O-Wool Suits are here $ 2 8 .5 0 to $ 3 8 .5 0 VALITONS 114 N, Liberty St, Salem , Ore , LI TERALLY AS THE BIRDS. 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