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The Gold Hill News, Gold Hill. Oregon p mm “Man If ith the Knife’* Thursday, April 15, 1937 Lights of N e w York Smart, Flattering Dresses bv L. L. STEVENSON Present and Past: Every day at noon, a small, very gray man, usually wearing a gray suit, ac companied by another old man who is stone deaf, walks up Broadway to the Astor. None of the hurrying The Origin of Sitdowns. main aisle crowds pay the slightest ANTA MONICA. CALIF. - attention to either one. When the With the Barnum show there two old men enter the hotel, every thing changes. Greetings fly thick once was an elderly lady ele and fust and when they are seated, phant named Helen. Now, Helen many come to their table to ex had wearied of traipsing to ano change a few words. That noonday about S fro in the land. Broadway stroll dates back 25 Probably she figured she'd seer years. When it was new, many spoke By FLOYD GIBBONS everything anyhow. So each fall, to the two men, many turned to stare after them. The smaller one ERE is a story sent to me by Eva Halm of Chicago—the when the season is Joe Webber, of the famous com she went story of a little girl whose impulsive act saved her from ended, edy team of Webber and Fields. rejoicing b a c k one danger, only to throw her into another one. His companion is his brother M ark home to Bridgeport, , , ^ Vt i ! iaSLKrOi rnJ Up to meantim*. but back in 1907, when she was • • • Conn. just a kid, her dad was superintendent of the trolley car lines over a Nobody ever knew Elusive Winter: Jane From an was barn6 t o ? J ! l , C hlia*? ' T * “ * 4h* day g01ng ,rom on# s,ation ° r C«r- the date of depar chosen queen of the winter sports nl«ht, after dinner, he usually drove down to ture the next spring. carnival at Lake Placid. At her tha biggest station and checked over the others by telephone. There was no more coronation, New Year's day, there were the horse and buggy days. Eva s dad drove a bustle about winter- wasn't even a snowflake on the spirited horse hitched to a light rubber tired runabout, and usually quarters on t h a t ground so her swagger ski equip when he went to the main station in the evening someone in morning than for ment went begging. A short time the family rode with him. weeks past. ago. she received an invitation to But always, when Irvin P“ rticular n‘6ht *t was Eva who was to go driving with him. return to Lake Placid. Use for her J ^ r b^ n, ?°.Te labOr 4rouJbIe on 4,16 Une and some of the men the handlers en skiing outfit was promised since tered the “ bull b am ” to lead forth there was plenty of snow Delay were out to get the superintendent. As a result, he carried a loaded 3fl revolver in a leather holster in his hip pocket. • the herd, they found Helen hun ensued before Miss Froman re kered down on her voluminous ceived the invitation as it had to D a d Took H is G un A lo ng . haunches, which, under that vast be forwarded to her. She was down . , Re *U£ P? 1 thf D™ “* his pocket 011,4 ni«ht as he was starting o u t - weight, spread out like cake battei in Florida basking in the warm sun and then buttoned his coat and overcoat over it. on a hot griddle. She would be shine. Eva noticed that. She knew, too. that there were a couple of uttering shrill sobs of defiance. And pretty tough customers among the men who were “ after" her neither prodding nor honeyed words City Scene: An old law tenement \ I RS. D IC K EVANS has come yards of 36 inch material. dad. and she asked him why he didn’t keep that gun in his over could budge her. • 1 to town and brought Ann and , being remodeled to comply with Puttern 1212 is designed in sizes coat pocket where he could get at it more easily. S? .4hey d '?rraP chalns ar°.u.nd her Are laws Mortar being mixed Eddie LeRoy with her. She lives 34 to 48. Size 38 requires 5 yards But dad just laughed at her. and two of her mates would hitch in a basement . in Palm Beach in the wintertime of 35 inch m aterial plus Mi yurd Colored hod- They got into the carriage and drove along. The station he was on and drag her bodily, she still on carriers wearily plodding their way and, of course, knows all about contrasting for the collar. heading for was quite a distance away and about three miles from home her rubbery flanks, aboard a wait up stone steps, their backs bowing style. T h a t’s why she wears this New Pattern Book ing car. She’d quit weeping then with their burdens . . . One, darker directoiri type frock that is both Send for the Barbara Bell Spring and wipe her snout and accept what than his companions, grinning as he new- and figure flattering. In the and Summer Puttern Book. Muke fate sent her. follows the line . . . On his right floral print she has chosen she yourself attractive, practical and So please don’t come telling me shoulder, a heavy hod . . . On his is perfectly gowned for the parties becoming clothes, selecting de that the sit-down strike is a new left, a little black kitten. that will be given for her in the signs from the Barbara Bell well- notion or that somebody in Europe • • • home town. The kiddies are wear planned, easy-to-make patterns. first thought it up. Thirty years ago ing the simple styles appropriate Interesting and exclusive fashions Cow Hands: Recently, there was I saw my lady elephant friend, Hel to childhood and therein their for little children and the difficult en, putting on one. all by her four- reference to a Job in early youth— smartness lies. junior age; slenderizing, well-cut one that ended with being fired after ton self. Auntie Rose Sews, Too. patterns for the mature figure; • • • 30 days Writes H. T. M., Dallas: Little Ann is asking Auntie Rose afternoon dresses for the most "As a kid, my first job was driving Taxes and More Taxes. if she makes her clothe-: too. particular young women and m a a cow from town to pasture. The JUST when everybody is taking “ Sure enough, dear,” comes the trons and other patterns for spe comfort from the yodelled prom pay was 50 cents a month and I reply. “ I made this percale for cial occasions are all to be found ises of that happy optimist. Chair worked one month. But there the mornings and have a beauty in in the Burbara Bell Pattern Book. man Harrison of the senate finance parallel ends. I didn’t get fired—I yellow crepe cut from the same Send 15 cents today for your copy. committee, that the government quit. New York is one of my dream pattern to wear to the Bid-or-Bi Send your order to The Sewing will be able to get by for 1937 with cities. London is the other. I have meetings.” Circle P a tte r. Dept., 149 New never visited either but hope to out asking this congress to boost " I'l l bet you can sew fast, too. Montgomery Ave., San Francisco, some day.” And I ’d like to be down taxes, what happens? the way Mother docs. It only took Calif. Price of patterns, 15 cents Eva Used the Whip and the Horse Plunged. Why, in a most annoying way, in Dallas enjoying a Texas spring. her two mornings to make Ed (in coins) each. • • • Governor Eccles of the federal re ® B ril Syndicate — W N U Service. die’s suit and my dress. Won’t thTchfeago river * * * BeImon4 avenue bridge over the north branch of serve board keeps proclaiming that, Commuting Joys: After a long you help me with my doll clothes to make treasury receipts come hard day in the office, a Mam aro now?’’ bJ ldge ,daJ ke5tJ n 4he middle- for on’y the arc lamps at Dr. Pierce’s Plca»ant Pellets are an anywhere near meeting treasury neck resident stopped for a few Srim wh d g3Ve L hey had just about reached that darkest “ Indeed I will, Ann, and then e ffe c tiv e laxative Sugar coated. disbursements throughout the year, revivers before boarding his train. bridge uprighu0118^ dressed man • ‘«PP«1 out from behind one of the we w ill have some of those oat Children like them. Buy now!—Adv. he’s afraid it’s going to be neces The car was hot and be promptly meal cookies you like for lunch." Talent and Genius . t dad bad 40 puU “ P ‘he horse. Often, when he couldn’t be sary to raise the rates on incomes dropped off to sleep The next thing The Patterns. and profits higher than ever. he knew, he was in Stamford, Conn. Talent is that which is in a reached by phone, a pitman was sent from a nearby station to give him Pattern 1272 is available in sizes And meanwhile state governors a message at this point. Annoyed no end, he boarded the 14 to 20 (32 to 42 bust). Size 16 re man's power. Genius is that in and civic authorities scream with next train back, only to go to sleep quires 4% yards of 39 meh m a whose power a man is —Lowell. There Were Two of Them. agony at the bare prospect of any again and slumber until he reached terial and 2M yards of ribbon for -WeU6 what’ is i t r ’*“ ” * * “t° P “ he apProached the man and said, reductions in Uncle Sam’s allot Grand Central. Fortunately, he Hara-Kiri in Japan tie belt. ments for local projects. Obligatory hara-kiri waa abol didn’t have to wait long for another Pattern 1275 is for sizes 6 months But at that same moment another roughly dressed Bzurr A balanced budget would seem to train. Once more he fell asleep and ished by Japan In 1868 Voluntary to 4 years. Size 1 requires 1*4 stepped from the other side of the bridge and caught hold of the be like Santa Claus, something when he awakened, the train was hara-kiri is aometimca pructtced. yards of 32 inch m aterial. Dorse s head. everybody talks about but nobody just about to leave what he thought Pattern 1403 comes in sizes 2, F ° r a,Jn.‘.n'ite n° one sP°ke- Then- suddenly it dawned on Eva that ever expects to see. Large National Forest was his station. After he hit the 4, and 6 years. Size 4 requires lMi these couldn t be men from the station. I f they were why didn’t thev Lolo National forest. In Idaho and platform, he discovered that he was answer’ And if they weren’t - w e il- t h e n they m ^ t be a couple of thoZe Self-Determination. Montana, hai the largest gross area j in New Rochelle. He gave up then fellows who were trying to “ get” her dad. of any national foreat. F O R M E R L Y the states jealously and took a taxi. . ? heP uE ^3 saw something else. The fellow up front by the 1 guarded their sovereign per dim bghtCad hSd some4hlng m b“ hand which gleamed dully in the quisites. Once—but that was so Cincinnati, Covington Bridge Moving Trees: Hundreds of trees long ago many have almost forgot Cincinnati waa first connected toi within a hundred miles of New York Covington. Ky., by a bridge in 188T. ten it—they fought among them Eva Had an Inspiration. have been photographed and care selves one of the bloodiest civil wars - kA ’T “ ! ’ R i«bt then was when Eva acted on impulse. She jumped fully catalogued. The World’s F a ir Spain's First SUmpa h" ie®4’ reached over the reins in her dad’s hands and snaUh^d in history over the issue of states' is the reason. Recently bids were Spain’s first stamps. In 1850, bora the whip from its socket. As she grabbed that whip she thought of the rights. opened for 500 large trees to be the likeness of Queen Isabella ® her dad s P<**et’ buried under those buttoned-up coats ?where he Now we see them complacently moved to the site of the fair. In surrendering to federal bureaus horse’s b ic k U iih aU h e r ' s U ^ “ “ WWp and br° ught i4 down th* cluded are American elms with those ancient privileges—and may trunks 18 inches in diameter and W NU—13 15-37 be, after all, that's the proper thing heights of from 48 to 55 feet, with to do, if in centralized authority lies a branch spread of from 34 to 40 A Great Gift the hope of preserving a republican feet. Since the requisition calls for The first great gift we can be Faulty Shakespeare sideways. Just in tune her dad reached out and caught her form of government. The class had been studying stow on others is a good example. But for his quick action," she says “ I would h a v . .u earth balls of unusual size to pro the bridge and probably knifed to death’.” been thrown 40 Still, one wonders what English tect the roots, the total weight of English poetry and was now un- —Morell. dqfjgoing a quiz on that subject. . , Bpt 4hai nJ0Ve of ber dad’s was disastrous. In reaching out for her men would do under like circum some of the larger specimens will stances, since Englishmen are fussy run up to 25 tons each. The big Tiie instructor had taken from one he had slacked up on the rerns and lost control of the horse. " about their inheritance of self-de fellows will come to the fair on fiat of Wordsworth's poems the follow The horse got the bit in its teeth and away it went ing line to explain: “ The child is But at last dad pulled the horse up and turned it into the street lead- termination. Perhaps the distinc cars and barges. Others will be tion is this; fng to the station. When it was all over he turned to her and said- “ Yon father to the m an.” transported by trucks at hours when In democracies there exists the 'traffic is extra light. must never do that again. You might have been killed ’’ One young man studied the D o n ’ t Neglect T h e m I But Eva still wonders whatwould have happened if she hadn’t done it. false theory that all men are bom question in perplexity for several • • • N a tu re dealgned the kldneya Io do • free and equal. So the Englishman O — WPiU S e r v ic e . minutes. Finally, he wrote: “ This m a r.d o u a job. T h a lr leak I . t o k X p i h j Night A larm : A lesser known sing insists on having his freedom, which flowing blood stream fraa of an riraaa of was writen by Shakespeare. He er who aspires to the heights sud ‘ ° » S fmpurltlea. T h a a rt of riving— I l f , is a concrete thing, and laughs at often made this kind of mistake." Love of Card Games Is i ± { - k COL,,P n" 1' » " * ’ “ <'<"» waate (swords), Copas (chalices), Dineros the idea of equality. Whereas, the denly lost his voice. T ry as he —Indianapolis News. !?, l T,r remove from would, he could not make a sound. (money), Bastos (cudgels or clubs), N o ted in B rito n ’s T a lk American abandons his individual When tha kidneys fall to function aa The Briton’s love of card games is french cards have a Pique (pike- freedom provided he m ay cling to Gripped with horror, he summoned w L t.U.r* J nI * n<1‘" ’ ,h<'r" J" retention ol Brief Remarks all his energies and endeavored to 7,— c f í m ,y •“ “’ r w ld e dte- reflected in his speech, says a m an), Choeur ( choir-man), Car- the fetish of equality. A speaker, who had been asked tree«. One m ay Buffer nagging b arker he. burst into a mighty yell. At that writer in London Tit-Bits Magazine. naux (tiles or artisans), Trefle Yankee tweedledee and British pert atent headache, at tar kit of dtaainn«. to make his after-dinner remarks r»ttln g up nlghta, swelling, puffinXei “ That’s the card,” we say when (clover or farm er). tweedledum may be brothers under moment, a loud knocking caused as brief as possible, rose and Our English “ Spades” are a m ix the skin, but they have different him to leap from bed and rush to a person does the correct thing, i. e., said: the door. Outside, he found a com Frequent, scanty n r burning neeaaeos he has played the right card. We ture of the French symbol, a pike, skin diseases. “ I have been asked to propose •» > '!•» « • of k i d n e y » • • • pany of excited neighbors. Then he caR ,,a sbarP fellow “ a knowing ?,"d ‘ b? sPanish name, espados; bladder disturbance. y or the toast of our guest and I have learned that in his nightmare, he card” ; a man of personality “ a t rcrognlaed and proper treatm ent Clubs picture the French trefoil, The Parole Racket. been told that the less said the great card.” “ A queer card” de but adopt the Spanish name: T T IS astonishing but seemingly had been screaming like a siren. i ’e? í d o f"' " ” dlc,n? 10 •“'I p "> • kidney! ÍÍL n 0 ♦ polaonoua body waste. better.” • • • Uee Doan • Dille. Th e y have had morn scribes someone we don’t quite un 1 true that, of five young gang Hearts is a corruption of t h e l h d n r¿ d Zi í ’ * r* ol P“ ' ,lle approval. Ara derstand, or don’t quite trust. French Choeur into Coeur. Looking much like a clothing ad, sters recently caught red-handed in H IG H V O L T A G E “ When in doubt play trumps” is win e. Hold a t all drug at oree. a crim inal operation, not a single he stood at Forty-second and Broad advice to play the bold game in way waiting for the traffic signal one was a convict out on parole. Is Unique Islamic Custom life—to go all out for a win. there no way to bar rank amateurs to change. A sudden gust of wind For about 1,200 years, a unique We say of a successful man that from a profession calling for prior whisked his stylish soft hat from Islamic custom has been practiced he "played his cards well.” T o experience and proper background? his head, carried it high in the air “ throw up the cards” is to cease to in Muna, Arabia. As enjoined in And can it be that the various pa and laid it right in the path of a struggle. When the other fellow ap the Koran, every Mohammedan role boards over the union are not crosstown trolley car. With a wave pears to hold every advantage, we passing through the town on his way turning loose qualified practitioners of a gray-gloved hand and a smile, complain that he “ holds all the to Mecca, has stopped at the rock fast enough to keep up with the de he turned into the nearest men’s pile and thrown 49 stones at Satan. cards.” establishment. Nonchalance! ---- v ----- Satan s Abode,” indicated by a mand? Maybe we need self-open A queer thing about a pack of e B ell Syndicate.—W N U Sarvlca ing jails. An adequate revival of interna- Lem —Clark calls himself a hu cards is that it is like a calendar. sign, says Collier’s Weekly, is the tional trade w ill he the moat pow* Those sentimentalists who abhor man dynamo. There are 52 cards in a pack, and official target and gentlemen who the idea that a chronic offender be erful single force for easing nolili- Dun—Well, why shouldn’t he? cal tensions and averting the danger 52 weeks in a year. There are four playfully hurl rocks in other direc required to serve out his latest sen Urge Use of Garlic Everything he has on is charged. of war.—Cordell Hull. suits in a pack and four seasons in tions are arrested. tence should take steps right away Morals, whirh rhange so slowly a year. There are thirteen cards in to correct this thing before it goes a» Spice for Peace are changing today like clouds bo-’ A w riter muses on what the each suit, and thirteen weeks in Ale-Wives in England too far. Our parole system must New York. — International sit fore the wind. If'ill Ituranl. half-century-old Statue of Liberty each quarter. Counting the Aces as Centuries ago, we read of Alreck, be vindicated if it costs the lives uations and probably wars are The great scholars of the world would say If she could speak. 1, the Knaves as 11, the Queens of Hordoland, choosing Geirhild as and property of ten times as many caused by too many cooks pre ■re the captuinr of the modem She’d probably claim to be still In as 12, and the Kings as 13, the pips his wife on account of her skill in innocent citizens as at present. world« army of progress.—/Vichofot paring too much food badly, ac her twenties.—Rochester Tlmes- in a pack total 364. Add 1 for the brewing "noppy” ale. Ale-wives IRVIN S. COBB. Murray llu ilrr. cording to Ford Maddox Ford. Union. Joker and we get 365 pips in a pack. held a monopoly in the beer trade © — W N U Service. I aannot stand a sad expression He told the Gourmet society that Different countries use different m England 500 years ago, says I on someone’s face. I wish to see ev people cannot be amiable as in The Shoe Fit symbols to represent the four suits. Pearson’s London Weekly Magazine, I Festival Bills Elephant Fight eryone hanpy, smiling and enjoying dividuals or as nations if they Germany used to use Leaves, and so brisk was their trade that Solicitor—You pay a small de Elephant tug-of-wars, in which himself, ignore Jon Piuti*rrwrki. are not properly fed. The solu Hearts, Bells and Acorns. In Spain, they were forbidden to sell ale on the beasts locked tusks and some posit, then you make no more Any woman who likes it could tion, he said, is a wider use of Columbine, Roses, Pinks and Rab London bridge because they ob- 1 times struggled for hours, were a payments for six months. be a sneressful explorer.—Mrs. Mar. spice—especially garlic. bits have now changed to Espados structed the traffic. Lady of the House—Who told feature of a festival recently held tin Johnrnn. you about us? near Calcutta, India. 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