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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1913)
s . .v-i&.u-i;4C2it3rjej 'CHUB OLD GAMES FOR THE YOUNG Blindfolded Player Mutt Recognize Othert by Feeling With Large 8poon Instead of Hand. i In the game called "A Spoonful of run," Instead of feeling with hla handi In order to discover who It la that he has caught, the blind man la given a Urge spoon which he uses as wand. Aa in "Silence," the players must all remain perfectly still. Direct ly he succeeds In finding some one the blindfolded player tries, by deftly touching him here and there with the spoon, to discover who it Is. As It Is much easier than anybody who has not tried can possibly imagine to dis cover the identity of a person by spoon touching, It is best for the un blindfolded players to try and disguise themselves as much as possible. Some might stand on tiptoe to make .themselves appear taller, others tie handkerchiefs round their necks or wrap themselves up In shawls; and the boys might remove their telltale collars or put on their overcoats. CLEVER AFTER-DINNER TRICK Plate May Be Lifted by Common Rad- Ish by Butting In Half and I Pressing Against 8urface. 1 Cut a radish in half, press the low er surface firmly against a plate, as Is shown in the diagram, and you can Radish Lifts Plato. lift the plate, to which it clings as closely as a boy's wet leather disk to the pavement. I! BOY'S WORK AND PLAY IN THE COUNTRY 'WMWW7' T ' V?JBn'tl?ftt i&tA -a- A Boy's I One of the most serious troubles that I had when a boy was'the scold ings I received from farmers for dig King up their pastures and meadows in unearthing woodchucks. Rail fences and post piles had to suffer when old Shep chased a woodchuck Into his bole or under them. One of the boys would usually keep an eye out (or the farmer, while the rest of us would throw posts and rails and did for Mr. Woodchuck. One summer nearly every boy in our neighborhood had a pet wood chuck, that was kept in a cage, and some of them became very tame and would eat from our hands, clover, grass, apples and sweet corn, which are their favorite articles of food. Woodchucks usually burrow near or. chards or pastures and are easy to MISS MUFFET AT FOOD SHOW How Much Did She Weigh After Eat ing 8even Kinds of Food and Gath ering Many Packages. - Tou remember that In Mother Goose Miss Muffet was very found of curds and whey. She liked other things, too. Listen: When Miss Mullet visited the food show she ate seven different kinds of breakfast food and gathered ten pounds of sample packages. Then she stepped on the free weighing ma Miss Muffet at Food Show. chine and found that her weight had increased 10 per cent; whereas, if she had eaten twice as much breakfast food the gain would have been 11 per cent Can you tell how much Miss Muffet weighed when she arrived at the food showf At the food show Miss Muffet weighed 1111-8 pounds when she ar rived. She ate one and one-ninth pounds of breakfast food and gath ered ten pounds of samples, which In creased her weight 10 per cent RIDDLE8. What Is the difference between a mother and a barber? The latter has razors to shave, and the former has shavers to raise. . Why are the stars the best astrono mers? Because they have studded (stud ied) the heavens since the creation. Why Is a schoolmistress like th letter CT Because she forms lasses Into classes. Why Is It Impossible for a person who lisps to believe In the existence of young ladles? Because with him every miss Is a myth. 7 .'it?. mm Pet. trap. A No. 1 or No. 2 trap is usually used and Is set in their holes and cov ered with leaves and dirt This 1 not necessary, however, as they are nol suspicious animals and are easily caught In a trap. They are very much disliked by farmers on account of the danger ol farm animals breaking a leg by stoo ping in their holes. . . A full grown woodchuck will put ub a game tight against a dog. anf when in thin flesh in the spring it takes good dog to master one. W. M. K. To Remove Stains. Grass stains may be removed from washable fabrics by . rubbing with fresh lard before washing. 0O CtM.UA TC Cafftt r,M" SJ"" ' Wl.AH 'A Markets of the World Art Open for ii i oaay, and the Supply Seems Undiminished. If you ask any dealer what Ivory cnieny used for at the present day, he will renlv at nn. "Ti.nn Jteys." America Imports Ivory from the fast cant of Africa exclusively for billiard balls, cutlery handles, brush- ware ana toilet articles. It also en terS into the ninnfantnra nf nnmhsii less little ornaments and articles of general use, such as statuettes, cruci fixes, paper cutters, workbox fittings, toys and chessmen. The most Valu&hla nf all la tha "scrfvalloe," to which I have referred as oeing used la the making of bil liard balls, and on an tvnran threa Dana or line quality are got out of a ouiw: ma, ivory balls, however, have now formidable rivals In ben sollne and other comnonitlrm m-to- rials. and In regard to quite a num- Der or articles which used to be fash toned out of ivory, celluloid and bone take its place. There Is little wasta product from ivory. A use is found for cuttings, shavings and scraps left over after mam processes have been completed. India takes large quantities of the rings lert after the turning, of bil liard balls, and uses them to make women's bangles and small toys and models, in which the cunning hand of the native craftsman excels. The dust Is used in pollshlnK and In the preparation of Ivory black and India ink, and I am told it may also be utilized as food in the form of ivory Jelly, a delicacy of which I have no personal knowledge. Elephants are carefully nreserved in many districts. If . the ancient quadruped is really destined to fol low the mammoth and the cave bear, and cease to walk the earth, he is in no hurry to go. He would be a rash man who would venture to predict wnen the last tusker may be expect ed to vanish from the scene and the last parcel of animal ivory be deliver ed at the 'London docks. London Post Too Many Prominent People. We desire to call attention to the alarming increase in prominent peo ple. If this thine keens un we shall all be hopelessly Involved. There was a time wnen it was possible to know practically all of the Drominent people there were. For Instance, in tne old Roman days you could keef track ol Julius Caesar up in Gaul, and Cicero, Lucullus, Horace, Vergil and all the others that were worth know ing could almost be counted on the fingers of both hands. But today everybody is more or less prominent, and becoming more so. The only solution that we can think of Is to become acquainted with the people who are not prominent. They fill a small but select society and they are better people to know, anyway. They have modesty and are not push ing themselves forward, and they wear better in the long run. Life. Smile Means Much. " "The smile is one of the greatest assets of the successful salesman or saleswoman," says the manager of a department store linen department "It makes friends for the store as readily as do moderate prices and good goods. "The ability to smile for eight hours a day Is a trait hard to acquire and possessed by few store help. Yet it can be gained by constant practice the watching of oneself and not pei mltting at any time the slightest indi cation of a frown. "I recall my first purchase in a New York department store. I was direct ed to the counter where I could find the special article of my choice. I was met by a gruff 'What is It?' from the salesman. I recall I said. 'Noth. lng,' and I haven't been in that store since." Small Mercies. The young English tourist who had been staying for a week at a hotel in the Scottish highlands, for the pur pose of taking advantage of the fish ing, was, at the end of that time, rather Inclined to think that the fish ing had taken advantage of him. He had caught nothing, and his expenses, of course, had been none the less heavy. On thn last day of his stay, how ever, he landed a fine salmon. "Well, Donald," he said to a canny Scot at the hotel, as he proudly sur veyed the fish; "it's a nice catch, and so it ought to be. It has cost me 16 at least" "Aweel," replied Donald calmly, "it's a gr-great bleasln' ye dldna catch ony malrr Cassell's Saturday Journal In a 8trange Place. Little Alice was visiting her grand parents In an eastern city. One Bun day grandpa took her to church with him. When sermon time came Mary looked around a little, and, seeing a relative up in the gallery, whispered shrilly: "Oh, grandpa, look up there! See Cousin Mary sitting on a shelf 1" A GREAT many Americans who go to London never visit any but the small area confined in Fleet street, the Strand. Regent street, Piccadilly Cir cus and the district of the hotels. shops and theaters. But it is safe to ay that if one has a taste for tha ancient and the picturesque, a month or more could be spent to advantage in exploring the dlnsv. foe huns lanaa of the great English caDital In search of the monuments of the past a writer eays in the New York Evening Post This does not means such well known structures as Westminster Abbey, the Tower. Or St. Paul's hut thn houses and buildings which once knew the tread l bygone eenlua diatinA. tlon. In a City where cheaD the rata la lfi rnt motor vehicles traveling about is too easy to be regarded as a task. This is all the more true when the general excellence of London's m athnHa nr 11 r ban and suburban transportation are considered. The various underground unes, me tramways and the motor buses link UD the various ritatrVta nf the great, rambling community on the Thames, while the railroads' suburban services apnroach and excelienca known In the United States. Only Drawback the Climate. Of the amusement facilities of inn. don it is scarcely necessary to speak. u it were not for the climate and its inevitable effect on the temperament of the Londoners the city would nmh. ably have as much of a reputation for gayety as Paris. There are plenty of means of diversion besides slrhtaoa. lng. Theaters abound; the shops, es pecially those for men's clothes, are extremely good, and the hotels are the best in the kingdom. Drinciuallv lu. cause the Increasing number of Ameri can tourists visiting London has com pelled local Hotel proprietors to cater to their wants. For the rest even the most nnintcm. estlng sections of the city have their I lit crtAErrcRnousL attractions for the traveler who Is willing to pass a little time In seldom trodden byways. Even so compara tively prosalo and uninteresting a sec- lion as Marylebone road can boast of connecting links with great names of the past At 1 Devonshire terrace Charles Dickens lived from 1839 to lf(l, and here he wrote "Barnaby Rudge," "Dombey and Son," "The Christmas Carol" and others of his works. Sir John Herschel, the astro nomer, spent more than a decade at 66 Devonshire street WImpole street, one of the divergent highways of the district Is that same "long, unlovely street" of which Tennyson spoke in, his "In Memoriam." Henry Hallam lived at No. 67. At 7 Bentlnok street to the east of Manchester square, Ed ward Gibbon maintained his bachelor quarters from 1772 to 1783 and wrote the first half of the "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." This single neighborhood is cited as typical of the countless similar streets and quarters which tourists seldom visit where the memories of the past are thick for those who can appreciate them. From the statistical point of view, London's sire Is almost appalling. The population of all England in the reign of Edward III., when the victories at Crecy and Poictlers raised England to the position of paramount military power In the modern world, was scarcely 2,000,000. The population of Greater London today Is 7,637,000, and is spread out over an area of 700 ' square miles. London proper, or the administrative county of London, has an area of 18 square miles and a population of about 6,000,000. It con tains 8,000 streets, more than 8,000 miles long; 6,600 public houses, 1,700 coffee houses and 600 hotels and Inns. London Is said to number among Its citizens more Scotchmen than there are in Aberdeen, more Irish than in Dublin, more Jews than Palestine and more Roman Catholics than In Rome. There are 16,000 American residents in the city, and more than 100,000 pass through It every year. Captlal's Commerlcal Quarter. -The city, the old city of London, and the east end, or that part of London east of the temple, from the commer cial quarter. The west end is the quarter that snends money makes and regulates the fashions. This Is the part best known to tourists. Here are situated the nalaces and man. slons, the clubs, museums, picture gal leries, theaters, hotels, barracks, gov ernment offices and principal build ings, joined together by broad, hand some streets and wide parkB and open spaces. Across the Thames, on Its right bank, "the Surrey side " Ilea tha ancient borough of Southwark, known irom time immemorial as The Bor ough." continued to tha went hv Lambeth and Battersea, the three forming tne principal Industrial and factory district of the cltv. And he- low Southwark, stretching toward the mouth of the river, lie the several con stituent muncipallties of Bermondsey, Rotherhlthe, Deptford, Greenwich and Woolwich, all crammed with trade. It Is a very proud city, Is London, set In its ways, and impatient of In novation, for It traces Its being far back through the misty records of Anglo-Saxon times to the reign of the Emperor Constantine in the fourth century, when the massive Roman wall, remains of which are still to be seen, was built around the city by that ruler's order. William the Conqueror found London a city of more than 30,000 inhabitants, and though he built the keep of the present tower to in sure peace among the citizens he was very chary of London's liberties. One of the earliest English charters of which there Is record Is that which he granted the men of London in re turn for their allegiance and which says: "William King greets William bishop and Oosfrlth portreeve and all the burghers within London, French and English, friendly; and I do you . to wit that I will that ye be all law worthy that were in King Edward's day. And I will that every child be his father's heir after his fathar'a and I will not endure that any man ouer any wrong to you. God keen you." . " Love Is blind esniniiv , n isV ' AlUIA III love that attacks egotluU,
