TIMES. WILLAMINA. OREGON
THURSDAY, JULY 21. 1938
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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.
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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.
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