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TIMES. WILLAMINA. OREGON THURSDAY, JULY 21. 1938 T-loyd Uncle Phil&i AROUND ifayis th . HOUSE ADVENTURERS’ CLUB That’« an Acquaintance H E A D L IN E S FRO M TH E L IV E S O F R E O F L E L IK E Y O U R S E L F ! *‘//e IP anted to Live'* By FLOYD GIBBONS ' . Famous Headline Hunter H ello everybody : Today, I’ve got a swell yarn ior you. It’s the story of one of the greatest disasters in the history of the Virgin Islands -—yes, and it’s a lot more than that, too. It s the story of a heroic deed and a darned swell illustration of what the will to live will do for a man—or a boy. Fellow Adventurers, let me introduce to you Harry Zielian of Brooklyn, the man who wanted to stay alive. And now let’8 get on with his story. You’re not friends so long as one seeks to muke an exact return for every favor and sacrifice of the other. A woman will seldom "make a fool of a man" unless she sees that that’s what he wants. Pick stubborn men for friends, they are stubborn in their affec tion for you, too. A man might be known by the company he’d like to keep if he could only get into it. Loving your enemies requires so much arguing with yourself. Tickless Time.—Does the tick- in of the clock annoy you? Cover the clock with a glass bowl. You can still read the time but you won’t hear the buzzing or ticking. • • • "Pre-Shrunk" Goods.—The la bel "pre-shrunk” does not neces sarily guarantee that the garment will not shrink any further; it merely states that some shrinking has taken place. • • • Help Children Help Selves.— Buttons on small children’s cloth ing should be from % to 1% Frosting a Cake for Judges to Sample hems of Interest to the Housewife inches in diameter so that the child can easily button his owq clothes. s e e . Handy Stool.—A folding camp stool makes an excellent luggage rack for tourist homes and saves bedspreads and upholstered chairs from dusty bags. • • • Dull-Bottomed Pans.—Save heat and money by using pots and pans with black or satin-finished bottoms, which absorb heat more evenly and rapidly than those with shiny bottoms. Add Radiant Beauty to Your Bedroom There’s grace and beauty in every detail of this cross-stitch motif which you will enjoy em broidering on a bedspread—it’s quickly done and so decorative when finished. The biueoirds are in ten-to-the-inch crosses, the greater part of the rest of the de sign is in five-to-the-inoh crosses. Motifs to match make a lovely bolster or scarf. In pattern 5940 you will find a transfer pattern of It starts In St. Thomas on the Virgin islands in the year 1907, 10 years before the United States acquired that territory from Denmark. H arry’» father was a judge under the Danish government. He lived in St. John, but Harry and his brother Ed had gone with the local cricket team to play a match with the team of the St. Thomas high school and were returning on the sloop Sea Gull. There were 21 people on the Sea Gull including the entire St. John cricket team and a woman with four young children. They set out from St. Thomas about six-thirty tn the evening on July 13—sailed out of the harbor close-hauled in a freshening breeze. Their Sloop Capsized in the Gale. In three-quarters ot an hour that breeze had become a gale. A few moments later a "spinner” struck the sloop broadside and knocked It completely over. In less time than it takes to tell it the sloop capsized and sank. Harry was sitting at the stern, and he dived into the water az she went over. He called to his brother who had gone below a few minutes before the »pinner »truck but he got no unawer. For a while he treaded water. A» he did so he felt a small body rub against his and raised it to the surface. It was a little boy—the four-year-old son of the woman who had been aboard the Sea Gull with him. He was dead, and Harry let his body go again. It was four miles to shore, and it would be a miracle if Harry got there himself. T h re e B egan the I>ong S w im . Four miles to shore In a raging gale. Yes, It would be a miracle If thlrteen-year-old Harry Zielian made It. But Harry wanted to live. He turned toward land and began to swim. He had barely started when he saw his brother Ed and his pal. Jim my. passing him. He called to them and told them not to swim so fast— to save their energy if they ever expected to get ashore alive. Guided by the lighthouse at the entrance to the harbor of St. Thomas, they swam ° n "For a while," he says, “ we could hear yells and cries from people who were still afloat, but after an hour all was still except for the break of the waves as the wind continued to lash the sea to fury. We swam for another hour, then Jimmy began to tire. Soon he was in a bad way. Harry dived as the sloop went over. I swam to the windward side of him, the better to protect him from the waves and put my right hand under his left armpit. When I got tired, Ed would relieve me. This went on for quite a while but eventually Jimmy became so tired he couldn’t raise his hand. He sank for the first time and grabbed my shirt as he came back to the surface. I went under and would undoubtedly have drowned if Ed had not come to my assistance.” Ed kept H arry’s head above water, but poor Jimmy went down. He clung to Harry a few seconds and then sank. There was nothing Harry and Ed could do about It. They were lucky to get out alive themselves. Both boys were tired now—dog tired. BUT TH EY WANTED TO L IV E . They kept on swimming. "We had been swimming for at least three hours.” Harry says, "and the shore seemed no nearer than be fore Suddenly we heard a voice calling and for a time we did not answer for fear it might be a drowning man who would puil us down with him as Jimmy had almost done. But at length we ¿warn in that direction and found Louis, Jim m y’s brother, captain of the Sea Gull. How the Two Lads Saved Louis. By this time all three of them were all in—so far gone that they agreed to swim apart so that if one went down he wouldn’t try to drag Ihe others with him. They swam for another hour. Then, suddenly ihey heard Louis calling. “ I ’m going down,” he shouted. "Ive got a cramp in my leg!" Ed and Harry swam to him. One on each side, they held him up until the cramp had passed. Louis kept his head. If he had lost it and fought them, all three would have gone down together. After that they swam on again. They were swimming in a daze, almost dead with fatigue, BUT T H E Y WANTED TO L IV E ! More hours passed. They kept on swimming. At last they felt bottom under their feet and half-stumbled, half-crawled up on a sandy beach. It was then between two and three o’clock in the morning and they had been swimming lor seven or eight hours. Exhausted, they dropped on the beach with the waves lapping their feet, and fell into a dead sleep. It was morning and the sun was shining brightly when Louis awakened the other two. They walked up the beach m search of other survivors but there were none. Then they walked to the cabin of a na tive woman who fed them and got a boat to take them home There’s a sequel to that story. A month later the H. M S. Ingolf of the Danish navy steamed into the harbor, and shortly after that the officers of the ship were drawn up before H arry’s home while Governor C M T Cold presented Harry and Ed with life saving medals awarded them by the king of Denmark for their rescue of Louis. They wanted to live, those two kids—but they weren’t too busy at it to help the other i e l l ° W’ C opyright.—WNU S ervice. Prairie Chicken Hard to Shoot The prairie chicken, owing to its wariness and choice of open range as habitat, is one of the most dif ficult of game birds for hunters to bag. It usually rises far ahead of the hunter and out of the range of shot. Young Spiders Take Flight In autumn each year young spi ders take flight like the birds. They spin a thread and allow it to fly in the wind. The insect cuts this loose and clings to the end, and if con ditions are favorable it goes on a long voyage. A professional cake baker, frosting one of the hundreds of cakes which were made up in the Experimental Kitchen Laboratory, main tained by C. Houston Goudiss In New York City, in the course of selecting the winners in his recent Cake Recipe Contest. The scoring system was highly scientific. And we can say with conviction that no matter how close the race, the winners defi nitely outpointed even their clos est rivals. Pattern 5940. First Prise Winner. The first prize of $25.00 went to a motif 15% by 20 inches, Mrs. D. F. Kelly, 1004 Charles St., one reverse motif 5% by 5% inches and one motif 4% by 5% Whitewater, Wis. inches; a color chart and key; Second Prize Winners. material requirements; illustra The five second prizes were tions of all stitches used. awarded to Mrs. H. Harshbargen To obtain this pattern, send 15 of 2427 Fifth Ave., Altoona, Pa.; cents in stamps or coins (coins R. A. Williams, 12075 Rosemary preferred) to The Sewing Circle, Ave., Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. C. A. Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Burns, Box 788, Oakland, Miss.; Fourteenth St., New York City. Miss Sadie Cunningham, Avon Please write your name, ad more, Pa.; and Mrs. Laura Mey dress and pattern number plainly. er, 107 Pleasant S t.,. Plymouth, Wis. W om en in Baseball Third Prize W’inners. One of the few women holding Mrs. T. H. Fjone, Flaxville, Mont.; Mrs. Lester Ralston, 127 an executive position in major South Judd St., Sioux City, Iowa; league baseball is Mrs. Barney A whole tableful of white cakes, Mrs. H arry A. Kramer, 16 Marin Dreyfuss, chairman of the board with and without icing. Chocolate Road, Manor, Calif.; Mrs. F. D. of the Pittsburgh Pirates. She and cocoa cakes of every possible McDonald, Route 1, Amherst, was married to the late Barney type. All manner of cakes, fra Texas; Vera Tygar, Commodore, Dreyfuss in 1894 and has been grant and delicious — spice, ice Pa.; Mrs. George Ahlborn, R. D. connected with the game for more cream, honey, caramel, maple No. 1, Mt. Plesiant, Pa.; Mrs. B. than 40 years. Miss Dorothy Hum syrup, nut, date, pineapple, or mel, assistant to Will Harridge, ange, lemon, butterscotch, jam , A. Robinson, Box 578, Emmett, president of the American league, Idaho; Jean Guthrie, 4712 Camp banana, raisin, oatmeal, cocoanut is another woman who has suc and marble cakes. Cakes baked bell St., Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs. ceeded in this line. She has had Walter Richter, Bonduel, Wis.; in long sheets, square cakes, Mrs. P. C. Blakely, Alden, Mich nearly 25 years’ experience in the round cakes, layer cakes. Old- American league and handles all Honorable Mention. fashioned cakes from grand details connected with contracts, mothers’ recipe books. Very mod Emogene Williams, Damon, assignments of umpires and finan ern and up-to-date cakes. And even Texas; Mrs. Simon Moen, Norma, cial matters. one that was said to have been a N. D .; Mrs. Dick Collins, Mason favorite with General Robert E ville, Iowa; Mrs. B. F . Herman, Lee. I ’ve never seen anything to Box 1118, Crosby, Miss.; Mrs. compare with the collection, even Paul Lorenz, P. O. Box 225, at the biggest State Fair! Strathmore, C alif.; Mrs. S. S. Ar- Do you wonder that the home entz, Simpson, N ev.; Mrs. Vida economists on my staff required Hilger, Box 257, Rockland, Mich.; several weeks to pick the win Mrs. Grace H. Peterson, Box 335, ners? For with such a wealth of Amherst, W is.; Mrs. Cecil Skin exceptional cakes from which to ner, Bedford, W yo.; Mrs. Joe Fur choose, selecting those for top nace, 317 West Twentieth St., South Sioux City, Neb. honors, was indeed-difficult. M y thanks and my compliments The cake bakers were trained for their work. They followed the to every homemaker who submit A Man of Wealth recipes precisely. They measured ted a recipe. I only regret that A learned man has always accurately. They checked oven everyone who submitted a recipe riches in himself.—Phaedrus. could not win a prize. temperatures. By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS aturally , i am accustomed to seeing exhibits of delicious and interesting foods in the Exper imental Kitchen Laboratory that I maintain in New York City. But in all Jhe ycax>.pi its existence, it has never been a busier nor a more inviting place than during the last few weeks when the home economists on my staff have been busily testing and judging the many fine cake recipes sub mitted by readers of this paper in our recent Cake Recipe Contest. Imagine, if you can, a big cheer ful and colorful kitchen filled with long tables upon which row after row of handsome cakes were arranged—proudly testifying to the skill of the homemakers who cherish the recipes from which they were made. Every Type of Cake Entered. N Surface - Stains on Teeth Yield to Pepsodent with IRIUM BOTH Pepsodent Tooth Paste and Powder contain Marvelous Irium • There’s a reason why Pepsodent can make your teeth glisten and gleam as they naturally should! T h e answer? 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