THE GOLD HILL NEWS. THURSDAY. JUNE 2, 1932
Pa«e 2
LIGHTS OF NEW YORK
An explore« tells a story wblcb be
wishes you to believe Is true. He
says he received a message from a
wealthy woman who was a stranger
to him. saying that under certain con-
titlona she «as willing to contribute
to a proposed expedition, and asking
him to come to see her. As expedi­
tions always need financing, the ex­
plorer hastened to keep the appoint­
ment. The women asked whether he
really was going a considerable dis­
tance from civilization. He told her
he warn She then wanted to know
whether. If she made a substantial
contribution, the could name an ad­
dition to the party. The explorer told
her It might be arranged and asked
for the name of the proposed mem­
ber.
“It ’s my husband." said the woman.
“I f you keep him away a year. I
will subscribe S2\<W . If you are
away two years I will double It."
"1 came away from there." said the
explorer. "1 was afraid that If she
raised the ante much more. 1 would
Bud myself guaranteeing that he
would be a permanent absentee."
• • •
Senator George H. Moses says that
the finest definition of the word “an
toblogrnphy'’ ever given Is “a United
States senator making a speech."
• • •
Every time 1 pass the corner of
Fifth avenue and Eorty-foarth street.
I think of the old Pelmonk-o’s. That
was a great place, with the room up­
stairs where Charley Murphy used to
hold conferences with his political
lieutenants and the cafe downstairs
where yon always were likely to find
some one yon knew. The Iste Har­
vey Hendricks who gave so much
WAY TO CURE HIM
Grandmother— Does rom still talk
tbont bis mother’s cooking?
M rs Newwed— Not since I Invited
her to come snd spend a week with
us and let her dc the cooking.
Traveler« Ride Train»
Free in F iji Islands
Washington.—Train passengers ride
without paying fares In the FIJI is­
lands the Commerce department has
been Informed There are no com
merclal railways In the colony of FIJI.
By agreement between the government
ind the Colonial Sugar Itefinlng com
pany. a limited, but regular, service
of passenger trains Is o[»erated from
Rarawai (Ba) to Kavsnsasau (Colo
West), a distance of approximately
90 miles, over the company's narrow
gauge light railway.
money to various actentific projects
bad a house almoat across the street.
He did not live (here. He lived In
an apartment oa Bark aveous hut
there were a half dozen old servants
In the house and every once In so oft­
en Mr. Hendricks would go (here and
eat dinner. Just to keep them satis­
fied.
• • •
The lady of the house was looking
over the morning paper and lingered
over the sports pages Finally she
said wistfully:
“I certainly would Hike to make
some bets on the races."
“My heavens woman I" exclaimed
her husband. “Isn’t the country In
bad enough shape now?“
• • •
At first there were only apple sell­
ers but now there are street venders
who offer almost every sort of re­
freshment
As the traffic signal
stopped the cars at a Fifth avenue
corner, a man stepped np to a taxi
and spoke to the occupant.
“Buy a bar of chocolate. lady?" he
said.
“Certainly not." said his prospec-
W ALTER T R U M B U L L |
Communistic Colony
on Crusoe's Island
live customer, severely. “1 am diet­
ing."
• • •
Many New York department stores
now employ experts who give Instruc­
tion and lecture on contract bridge.
In moat of three same stores there
are places where mother can check
the baby while she takes a* bridge
course.
Through the aisles of one store, an
employee dressed as an Italian girl
rolls a little push cart filled with
small bunchee of flowers She does
quite a business
<©, IZZS B»ll »»sdli-at«.»—WXl) Svrvlcs
Valparaiso, Utile.—T w * Gag­
mans who were In the crew of
the German cruiser Dresden,
sunk off Juan Fernandez Islands
eerly In the World war by an
English squadron, plan Io estab­
lish a communistic sort of col­
ony with recruits from all over
the world.
This has been revealed by a
former governess who was here
en route to the former abode of
Kotdnson Crusoe, where the mod­
ern Cnizoee expect to live In
quiet, peace and happiness far
from the hurry sud worry of life
elsewhere.
Dies, Yet Lives
After the banana plant has borne
a single crop of fruit, the plant slow­
ly dies A new plant then develops
from a shoot at the base of the stem
of the old plant.
Like Sunlight
Yellow, gold and pule orange cur­
tains make a room look lighter snd
sunnier than II really Is
H o w I t S ta rte d
JVgy / r a n
JVrsazfon
“BA D FORM"
MAN'S seating himself at tabls
before alb (he women present
have taken (heir places la distinctly
bad fo rm ; end to aay of anything (hat
It la had form la to brand It as be­
havior that Is not In accordance with
etiquette.
It la a long distance that the phrase
"had form" has traveled front Its orig­
inal application.
For "bad form" In Its present-day
nsage as Indicated Is a meloplior de­
rived from the racing stable, where It
was an allusion to the horae which
did noi perform with perfect smooth­
ness, regularity and co-ordination as
a racer should.
From racing the term was applied
to athletics and sports generally and
finally In the sense previously dis­
cussed.
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Hall Syndic«!«. I- - W N U Svrvlos.
Olympic Park Ready for Athletes of World
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CThe Kitchen
Cabinet
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easy during warm weather to
I T find IS plenty
of salad materials. The
crisp green ones are those most en­
joyed.
When string beans are plentiful use
them freely—“eat what you can and
can what you can't."
Fresh beans prepared as for the
table put to cook Io salted water, us­
ing enough to make them salty to the
taste and enough so that when reheat­
ed with cream, milk or butter there
will he no need for more, cook until
half done, then can and seal In per­
fectly sterile Jars, new tops and rub­
bers.
When you want a dish of
beans, there they are. with a turn of
the wrist and a dash of creatu and
butter, a delicious hoi vegetable.
Use less water in cooking vegeta­
bles and save It all. Use It for gravies
Instead of water or milk, or If there
Is too much, chill It and give It to
those who need it most as a drink.
Teeth and bones nre built up from
the vegetable minerals which we con
sume.
Baked Corn and Tomatoes— Ar-
range sliced peeled tomatoes and fresh
corn cut from the cob In layers in s
battered baking dish.
Season with
salt, pepper and generously with but­
ter. Cover with buttered crumbs and
bake thirty minutes In a moderate
oven.
Green Onlone In Cream Sauce.—
Some time pull a few of the tender
green onions and cook them, stems and
all. until tender. Serve on toast with
a rich cream sauce. They are every
bit as good as asparagus for a change.
Don't forget to add a half teaapoon-
ful or more of sugar to peas, corn, or
In fact any vegetable while cooking;
Cheerio Chapters
•p cades These sre made of twigs or
A CORKING DAY
matches depending upon the depth
of your pan. anchored to the bot­
Every house has plenty ot corks tom and in place by means of small
bidden away, or of not, many can stones or lead sinkers tied to the
be saved from now on. or they can ends, and standing high enough ont
be brought very cheaply In the five of the water so as to form a bar
and ten cent store. There are many rleade through which the corks Io
Interesting things one can do with ptay must pass. When you have
them to wile away rainy day built your barricade (If you wish
boars or make pleasant pastimes to. a hit of plasticine at the end
for holidays One Is a game, ra ile d : nf the twig with a stone Inside to
weigh It will be serviceable to hold
The Game of Corks.
The diagram shown here shows the twig In place), each player puts
the surface of a pan of water his five men or corks In one sec­
wblcb Is the first thing yoo need. tion marked off. The object of the
Four players can participate. Each game Is to gel each of these men
shoald start with five corks of through the barricades and back
equal size and colored differently Into one's own section having been
from one's opporents. The dots In t i l around the pan without touch-
the diagram represent the barrl- Ing a single bar. nor other player’s
MOTHER GOOSE
HO wrote the famous "Mother
.loose Nursery Khymee" we w ill
never know. Some of them such as
•’Bids a Cock Horae Io Banbury
<>000.“ " M ills Jack Horner." and
"Lssdow Bridge la Falling Down." are
obviously of English folk origin;
others huve been borrowed from a fa­
mous collection of French folk tales
called “Tales of My Mother the
Goose." edited In IIM7 hy Charles I ’er-
raull. It Is nevertheless a fact that
our owu country can claim a real
Mother Goose, through whom three
Indispensable nonsense dllllea were
first Introduced to the children of
America.
Mother Vergoose. her grandchlhlr»»
called her. Her mime was Elizabeth
Vergoose, and the mails her horns
with her daughter snd son In law,
Thoms« Fleet. In Boston, esrly In lbs
Eighteenth reniury. Like many grand­
mothers she held active. If doling sway
In the Flee! nursery, and sang her
charges to sleep nightly with the well-
known rhymes. Thomas Fleet was
a printer by trade, snd Important as
the editor of Boston's first newspaper,
the Boston News Letter llecogntstng
the value of Mother Vergoose's rhymes,
he wrote them down and In I7U> pub­
lished a printed copy which sold, «nit
sold well, sl two coppers each.
Elisabeth Vergoose must be give»
credll ss collector, not as originator
of these pnrsiz But In spirit she wso
a real Mother (loose, "—whose mel­
odies shall never die, while nurses
sing snd babies cry."
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RO BIN A D A IR
W h a t's th is d u ll to w n to m e f
R o b in '« not h « r« t
W h o In 'l I w is h e d to ••< ?
R o b in A d n lr!
HUS wrote the love-lorn Lady Car­
oline Keppel about the famous
English watering plncv. Bath, to which
she had been banished by her father
In the vain hope that “out of sight"
might prove "out of mind." For young
llohln Adair, however well he may
sound as the hero of Lady Caroline's
ballad, was as a real person no great
match for an earl's daughter.
Adair wus a young medical student
who after some youthful scraps, left
bis native Dublin to walk penniless to
lxtndon and was on the way run down
and Injured hy a coach belonging Io a
London society woman. 8h* took him
home with her. superintended his re­
covery. establlnhed him In society and
Introduced him Io Lady Carollue.
Ret to an old Irish air. Lady Caro­
line's little poem became Immediately
popular, much to the chagrin of her
father. Since, however. It failed to
soften hls heart, she took advantage
of s prerogative of her generation,
went Into a "decline" and thus won
her point In s recent Mmdon auction
there was put up for sale so exquisite
miniature of Robin Adslr. Lady Caro­
line and their three children.
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Air view of the completed Olympic park In lx»a Angeles, where the tenth Olympic games will begin July SO
In the center Is the great stadium for track and field events; lower left, the swimming stadium; upper left, the
fine arts building; upper right, the fencing pavilion.
all will be Improved with sugar, ex­
cept those which contain plenty of
their own.
Beal medicine may he pulled daily
from your little back yard garden.
Eat your vegetables raw as much as
possible. Grated raw carrots, finely
shredded beets snd cabbage are all
wholesome and easily digested.
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by W M icro N rw apoorr U nion.!
A society girl's temper Is probably
made of belle metaL
eft. Fun for All the Children
E d ite d
M. Comttoch
dorothy edmonds
M y 'N eig h b o r
▼ ▼ Says: «• •»
B
A K ED tart shells kept on hand can
be used for quickly made ties
serts. Bits of fresh or stewed fruit
or creamed fillings can be served In
them and a dessert made on short no­
tice.
• • •
Keep the small child open-minded
toward new foods by Introducing them
In small amounts, well prepared and
inviting to the eye.
• • •
Sugar for fried cakes shoald be dis
solved In milk to keep the rakes from
absorbing grease while frying.
• • •
Before peeling oranges cover them
with boiling water and let stand five
minutes. The bitter white covering
will come off easily.
Texas Supplies Sulphur
Needs of United States
Austin.—Texas for two years has
been the only part of the United
Stales producing sulphur. As no Im
ports ot sulphur were made during
1031. the ttale'a production supplied
the entire country.
The production, the United Sjates
Department of Commerce reports,
was 2.12S.1CI0 long Iona That Is a
decrease of 17 per cenl from the
2.1K5S. 1)81 Ions of the preceding year.
The supply of sulphur came from
six mines.
BECOMING CIVILIZED
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IW M U S«r»l<-«l
Restores Sight to Man
Blinded by Alcohol
man. He moves his men by means
of one quick shove In the direction
be Is going. Only one push Is al
lowed at a turn. If this Is arcom
pllshed without touching anything
the player then has another turn,
and so on until he has to stop be
cause
of
touching
something
Touching the sides of the pan or
one's own men also counts against
each player. The one who gets all
his men around first wins.
Montreal.—An operation whereby
the sight of a patient blinded by drink
Ing poisoned alcohol was restored
without treatment of the eyes. Is re­
ported at the Montreal General hos­
pital.
Dr. O. 11. Mathewson performed a
lumbar puncture near the hose of the
patient's splnnl column and withdrew
part of the splnnl fluid once a day for
four days. After the second removal
the man could see snd after the fourth
Ids eyesight was normal.
U n ite d S ta te « B o u n d a rie s
Boundaries of the continental Unit­
ed States, both land and water, total
almost 18,000 miles. *
Missionary— Are the natives becoia
Ing civilized?
Chief— Gradually. Eighteen of the
chiefs played a game of baseball last
week and only four umpires were
killed.
World’s Oldest Map?
Harvnrd authorities believe that a
crude little map unearthed by the
Semitic snd Fogg museums' expedition
at the site of ancient Nuxl, In Iraq,
200 miles north of Babylon, Is the old­
est map In the world. They cellmate
that the map, a clay tablet that may
be held In the hollow of the hand,
dates hack more than forty centuries.
A CORK DOLL
Whole families ran be made, for
all size children. Here is the frol­
icsome Sambo. Have you some flex­
ible picture wire? Your corks are
strung on this for arms and legs
and then fastened to the body por
tlon by making a slight honk In
the end of the wire, or by first
running the whole plsce for both
arms and both legs through the
body and stringing the corks on
afterward, making a hook In the
ends to hold them In place. Hands
and feet are mads with colored
wire held In place by a pin stuck
up Into the soft cork, and the head
Is Joined on by wire also. Eyes
and other features as well as but
tons and belts and clothes can be
painted on with -rayons or paints
Be sure and save your corks, so
that the next rainy day may be In
stead a “corking" day.
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Clock Marvel of Ingenuity
T i l l s marvelous cluck. recently
completed for the Paris observa­
tory, will tell the time whenever a
telephone ta ll Is made on the ob
servutory, s robot voice making
the announcement. It gives the ex
act time every ten seconds. The
building of the clock took many
months.
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LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY
ivian buunktt in au prota-
blllty was sever guilty of wearing
• short-trousered, black velvet suit
with a big white cellar, sod surely he
del sated long curls snd wide brimmed
bats with streamers as much ss sny
of the numerous seven year olds who
did wear there. Nevertheless. It was
Vivian Burnett who was responsible
for this amazing Juvenile fzzhlnn some
years ago. For II was he who In­
spired hls mother. Frances Hodgson
Burnett, to write the hook that set this
style, “Little l-ord Fsuntleroy." and
the quaint ways, the sweetly candid
eyes, the friendly, kind little heart
that endeared Its email hero to all
renders, were Vivian's.
Mr. Burnett tells the story In hls
own book, “The llomantlc Ijidy," a
biography of hls famous mother
“I
shall write a hook about an Ameri­
can boy with arlstiM-rntlc English
connections,” Mrs. Burnett exclaimed
one day. “and Vlvlnn shall be he.
Little Lord Hornet hlng or other IVhat
a pretty title I Little Lord —, what
Lord —
whsl?” A day later she
had written on n slip of pn;>er still
preserved, “Little Lot*d Fsuntleroy"
ten times In a column, ns though test­
ing out Its nppearance and sound.
Nobody knows Just why she chose
Fauntleroy, though It Is a common
enough English name. Indeed, shortly
after the book was published one mnn.
quite unknown to her, wrote Mrs Bur­
nett asking Just why she had chosen
hls name!
I© 1*31 W ««l»rn N »w«p«p«r U nion.!
H is to ric B ook P late «
Book plates i.re ancient tome of ths
siRnll tHhleta found In Assyrian li­
braries must have heen hook plates.
Japan had them In the Tenth century.
Modern book plates are nearly contem­
poraneous wllh printing. The earliest
actually known Is a hand colored her­
aldic wood cut nf nhoul LISO.
C o u n try
W a ll
N am ed
Not more than one fourth of let«
land Is Inhabitable. The rest of the
country Is composed of eleva.ed des­
erts, lava streams and glaciers
It
was for thia reason, undoubtedly, that
the land was rolled Icelnnd.