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The Gold Hill News, (¡old Hill, Oregon Thursday, May 6, 1937 what Talk About Smart Frocks Lights of New York Adventurers’ Club thinks .about: Touring Accommodations. CANTA MONICA, CALIF.— ‘J For the sake of comparison two of us, out lately on a little trip, stayed one night at a way- side motor camp and the next night at the most expensive tourist hotel in three states, rates $25 per day per sucker. by L. L. STEVENSON Meandering» and meditations: A gray-haired, tattered und lorn col ored man leading a goat along low er Broadway. . . und pedestriuns in ; collisions because of turned heads. ' I . . . Windows of steamship agencies decorated with cruise advertise- j ments. . . Busy custom house coun ters where pier pass applications J ure made out. . . Bootblacks hust ling for business in Battery park. . . Old salts, sprawling on benches and gazing w istfully out to sea. . . The j sun flashing on the red brick build ings of E llis island. . . The Statue of Liberty a great green Indy stand ing guard over the harbor. . . The funny little Governor's island ferry nosing out into East rive r traffic. . . A little tug throwing spray high as it rushes past the lower end of Manhattan. . . Those rope fenders on the bows of tugs make them look like kin of the walrus. . . The barge office, which, as viewed from the bay, resembles an immense fire house. . . The dark Ellis island ferry pulling into iU slip. . . An odor of salt water and rotting wood ;) 1280 128*4 At the tourist camp, the company was mixed but neighborly and, for the most part, pleas By FLOYD GIBBONS ant. The only really Famous Headline Hunter discordant note was a lady in the ad IIF E wouldn t be worth living if it weren't for its uncertain joining cabin who, at ties. \\ e wouldn t have half so much fun if it weren’t for all hours, kept wak the tricks Fate plays on us every now and then to— well— sort ing her husband up, apparently for the of keep us on our toes. Here s the story of a lad who had adventure bounce back on him. purpose of telling He is Sidney Smith of Chicago, and Sid set out with a gun one day to him another thing about him that she give some ducks the adventure of their lives. didn’t like. But Fate turned the tables, and Sid wound up in the midst At the exclusive of a hair-raising adventure himself. I t was in Socorro. N. Mex., in November, 1906, that Sid took a notion establishment were Irvin S. Cobb to go duck hunting. He got his friend. B ill Nelson, to go with him and many guests who they started out together one frosty November morning to look for birds seemed to be suffering from severe Traffic disappearing into the cav attacks of nervous culture, being along the Rio Grande, which runs w ithin a m ile of the town. fearful I'd say, that, if ever they ernous depths of the Manhattan ap 5 River Bed Was Full of Quicksands. behaved naturally, they'd give them proach to the Brooklyn bridge. . . n P 16 rive r was low at that time of the year. You could darned near selves away. M ainly they were dull. The cop on traffic duty on that post wa!k across it without getting wet. The dry. muddy bed of the river, or Waxworks, even when animated, doesn’t have any cinch. . . City Hall bootblacks alert for customers. . . din arily fu ll of patches of quicksand, was solid, with a hard crust of usually are dull. frozen sand on the top. . . _ ___ But stopping at a $25 a Say hotel Sparrows wrangling with pigeons over food provided by the kind- Sid and B ill reached the rive r and started to walk across these has one advantage. I find. After sands toward the other side where the ducks had congregated. Walking i t . ’ you can g0 around bragging hearted. . Bob Davis who bought and wading through little rivulets, they came within fifteen yards of that once you stopped at a $25-a- my first novel. . . Now all he has day hotel. This should be a great to do is travel here and there. . . « A UNT ALMA, there’s just one 34-52 Size 36 requires 54* yards h CJIPP?ulte uank' and there thev were stopped by a rivulet wider and and write whatever he feels like. . . help socially. deeper than the others. thing I don't like about my • • • He used to stride up and down new dress—it ’s so attractive I ’m of 39 inch m aterial. The coital A torrent of water was rushing through it so sw iftly that they in contrast requires five-eighths of and shake his fist while suggesting Dealing With Snakes. anew it would be dangerous to cross. Still, thev were w illing to afraid Sis over there w ill appro a yard plot changes. . . Many a w rite r now A CONNECTICUT cong ressman ii. . r aU the ducks were on the opposite side of the river. priate it when I'm not looking. Pattern 1234 is designed in sizes is pushing an act to prohibit famous owes his start to him. . . Outside of that I ’m crazy about it, 14-20 (32 to 44). Size 10 requires 34» B ill Nelson was a six-footer and weighed about 200 pounds. Fight- importation of” venomous” serpents H*ty . Hal1 reP°rters assembled on lng his way through rushing water up to his waist, he managed and I think you’re swell to make yards of 35 inch m aterial. from other countries countries for for » h ih itm r. Lhe front Porch. . . H I could spot it for me. Why—’’ exhibition to get across. But Sid. who weighed only 130, couldn't make it. New Patter« Hook. There was nothing to do but turn back. Sid called to B ill to go ahead purposes. His fear is that an earth Barney Mullady would ask him “ What's this, what's this? If Send for the Barbara Bel) what it ’s all about. . . A panhandler quake or something might shake the - th a t he would w ait on the other side. Maybe some ducks, stirred by that isn’t a laugh. Aunt Alm a! Spring and Summer Pattern Book. B ill s shooting, would fly over to his side He started back to the bank, zoo apart and liberate a lot of dead beating a hasty retreat at the sight Imagine me wanting anybody's Make yourself attractive, practi of a cop. . . Police Commissioner ly reptiles that would start m ulti but by this time the sun had melted the frozen crust on the top of the dress. Why since you've taught cal and becoming clothes, select sand. Sid sank in up to his ankles at every step—and sometimes he plying and constitute a new menace Lewis J. Valentine going in for a me to 3.11-my-own I never wunt ing designs from the Barbara Hell call on the mayor. sank in deeper. to the lives of such of the populace anything I just make it and that’s well-planned, easy-to-make pat • • • as have thus fa r escaped being that. This sport dress, fo r in Sid Jumped Right Into It. killed by automobiles A motor car with Philippine island stance, took me only one after terns. Interesting and exclusive fashions for little children and the The squish squish of his feet in the mud alarmed him. A ll that Without presuming tq assume that license plates. . . the first I ’ve spot difficult junior age; slenderizing, stretch of muddy silt looked alike, and any minute he was liable to sink the gentleman is a bit of an alarm - ted from that for away. . . Though noon.” Praise From Auntie, well-cut patterns for the mature mto quicksand. He picked his way as carefully as he could, and ist, I ’d like to point out that he can ,he other day there was a car in “ I think you do wonderfully well figure; afternoon dresses for the kept plodding steadily on toward the safety of the bank. And luck was obtain m illions of adherents for this Times Square with Polish plates. . . with your sewing, m y dear. You’ll most particular young women and with him. He made the bank. measure among old-fashioned Am er Burgess Meredith, who, when he As he reached it, he heard B ill Nelson shooting, somew’here on the icans by tacking in an amendment isn't playing in “ High T or.” is be making my clothes the first matrons and other patterns for other side of the river. “ Sure enough,” he says, "a heavy flight of to his bill providing that the bars busy getting a 40-acre farm ready thing I know. I feel especially special occasions are a ll to be ducks rose from the opposite shore and started for my side of the river. likewise shall be put up against for for spring planting. . . and when pleased with my new .-pring dress found in the Barbara Bell Pattern They seemed to head for a slough about a quarter of a mile upstream eign-born communists. he has nothing else to do, he writes and I have both of you to thank Book. Send 15 cents today for your • • • and I started toward it, working my way through dense thickets that poetry. . . Stanley Walker, form er for sugges ing this style. It does copy. Send your order to The Sewing covered the bottom lands. I was almost there when I came to a cut How Times Change. ly a city editor, now editor of a rig ht well by m y hips, and it's so about four feet wide. T JUST read what I once knew for woman’s magazine. . . Dick M e rrill comfortable throvgh the shoul Circle Pattern Dept., 149 New “ The ground on my side of it was firm , so I jumped across. 1 myself but had forgotten in the who wants to fly to the coronation. ders. I guess I should diet but in Montgomery Ave., San Francisco, As I landed I instinctively bent my knees in preparation for the rush and bustle of these latter days. . . Because he gets seasick when this dress I feel nice and slender. Calif. Patterns 15 cents (In coins) ja r I expected and—” I t related to the attitude which he’s a liner passenger. . . A pallid Don’t you see, girls, how im por each. C Bell Syndicate - WNU Service. And that movement saved Sid Smith’s life ! America, considerably less than half Broadway keyhole columnist greet tant it is to choose a style that’s Sid jumped—and he landed in a mess of quicksand. Had he landed a century ago, held toward unescort ing a competitor with a grin. . . p articularly becoming? It's abid feet first, he might have gone in up to his neck. As it was, with his ed woman. For instance, as recently Maybe he thought .of something ing by this theory that gives some D r. Pierce's F a v o r ite P re scrlp U u n Is a knees bent, he fell half backwards. A wider surface of his body hit as 1890 not many respectable hotels mean to say about him. . . H. T. women such enviable chic." to n ic w hich tia * been holplng w o m ra The Patterns. o f a ll nges fo r n e a rly 70 years. Adv. the sand, and he went in to a point half way between his waist and his would perm it one of them to regis Webster, whose Caspar Milquetoast armpits. ter. Pattern 1280 is designed in sizes has become an international figure. Says Sid: “ It wasn’t possible for me to work myself out of my rub Some tim e after 1900—in fact, as . . . H. I. Phillips, who spends his 12-20 ( 30 to 40). Size 14 requires Giving and Receiving ber waders. I soon found that out. I began reaching out with my gun I remember, it was about 1910—a summers in Connecticut and his 3% yards of 39 inch m aterial, In giving, a man receives more Pattern 1233 is designed it sizes than he gives; and the more is in gathering in every branch or tw ig I could. As I drew them to me I piled prominent lady was asked to leave winters in Florida. them under my arms. My movements were slow and careful as I could one of the smartest hotels in New • • • proportion to the worth of the make them, for I knew only too well that every violent motion I made York city because she dared to light thing given.—George MacDonald. The queer clumping of a m ilk would only serve to make me sink deeper into the quagmire.” a cigarette in the public lounge. wagon horse that has lost one of its As for women drinking at a b a r - rubber shoes. . . Rubber ash cans Bill Heard His Distress Shots. well, not even the most forward- But in spite of all his care, Sid was sinking into the quicksand looking liberal could conceive of so help a lot in reducing noise in the Big-Town-on-the-Hudson. . . Kath w ith the twigs and branches under him, he lay back, spreading his weight incredible a sight as that. arine Cornell slipping into the Em over as wide an area as possible, and began to fire his gun. Three shots And now just look at the d-.rned pire theater. . . A wild-eyed, beard —closely spaced—a distress signal that he hoped B ill Nelson would hear things! ed man plowing through Seventh and recognize. • • • avenue traffic. . . and holding an But what if B ill didn’t hear it? What if no one heard i t ’ Hardships de Luxe. •‘T h e gaa on m y stom ach w n to bad excited conversation with himself. I could not o a t or sleep. E ven m y It wasn’t a pleasant thought, and Sid didn’t like to think about it. T X T'H E N our plutocratic classes h e a rt seemed to h u rt. A frie n d eug- . . A lot of self-talkers in New Sid waited ten minutes and fired three more shots. And all the time ’ v decide to go simple, they go eeted A d le rik a . T h e firs t d o M I took S rought rne re lie f. N o w l «at aa I ne was sinking, slowly—steadily. Seven times he fired that series of simple, regardless of what it costs York. . . Said to get that way w ith , sleep fins snd n e v e r fe lt better.** through loneliness. Deep-throated shots. For seventy minutes, as nearly as he could judge it, he sent ’ em. — M rs. Jas. F ille r . out signals. And on the last try he heard an answering shot. A d le rik a acts on B O T H up per snd A rich couple have just completed whistle blasts from a departing lo w er bowels w h ile o rd ln s ry la x a tlv a a Or was it an answer? Sid hoped so. By that tim e he was buried up a trip out here, following the ancient liner. Why did I read that West a c t on the lo w er bowel only. A d le rik a Indies cruise itinerary? to his armpits. Only his arms and shoulders were above ground. He tra ils of the early pathfinders. Like gives your system a tho ro ugh cleena- School Days ing. brin gin g out old. poisonous m a tte r • • • fired three more quick shots in answer to the one he had heard—and true pioneer stock, they roughed it a t you would not believe w as In y o u r She was a pretty young school » th *stem when that was done just one shell remained. I f that last shot was an in specially b uilt twin trailers, each snd t h s t hss been causing gae Magistrate Louis Brodsky, who teacher, and was reading sen p. »ns. sour stom ach, nervousness and answer, he might have a chance. I f it wasn’t—if it was only the shot of about the size of a pullman but recently fined a doorman $2 for call a hunter shooting ducks—well, then Sid might as well give up and resign much more complete, and were ■ ing a n°n-tipper names. . . and sug- tences to her class, letting them h adachss fo r m onths. Yerk, reporln supply the last word. "The In ( • h it—Hnnl rieenstn«, ¿Jurthn him self to one of the most horrible deaths known. towed by a couple of Rolls-Royces. Rested that a 200-pounder should be fFM tfjr redisres b f t i r b end roion keeOfL** The servants, only six in number, , doinS real work instead of merely Sphinx, she read “ has eyes, but Givei your bowels a R E A L cleansing Rescue in the Nick of Time. w ith A d le rik a an d ess how good you had to put up w ith two much cheap- 1 opening taxicab doors . . Kay it cannot ----- ” "See,” cried the feel. Just one spoonful relieves GAR The gun was useless now. Sid rolled his coat up, tucked it under his er ears. George, singer and dancer, who re children. “ Has ears but cannot end oo nstlpatlon. A t a ll L e a d in g rig ht arm. He laid his gun out at arms length and placed his hands on “ Hear,” they responded, D ru ggists. During the entire trip there was cently was given a screen test. . . I it. Anything U distribute his weight. Anything to keep him alive for an as month but cannot no dressing fo r dinner and thus, As a comedienne! . . . A window extra few seconds. He might need those seconds— if help came. E a t,” came the chords. “ Has w ith true democratic spirit, w a s fu ll of pocket lighters. . . H I don’t Stop at Impertinence He began shouting then, at intervals, hoping to guide some- se but Cannot ----- ” “ Wipe it,” the p rim itive plan of the expedition hurry on I ’ll add another to an al- A wise man ig not inquisitive e ie to the spot. Still he kept sinking. For fifteen minutes he carried out. Every hardship en ready large collection. . . Peddlers thundered ths class. — Border i.ept up his shouts—and then, suddenly, he heard B ill Nelson’s an a b o u t things impertinent. — countered enroute—such as the of spring blooms scattered all over Cities Star. swering voice. Broome. champagne getting all jolted up and town. . . A dime buys a lot of In two minutes, B ill was on the spot Sid had jumped from . In a The Tough H alf nowadays. . . But they don’t few minutes more he had a good-sized branch under each of Sid’s the caviar coming unglued in the flowers L ittle Sammy, a persuasive can — was cheerfully endured. An last long. arms. And with that to start on, it wasn’t long before Sid was out armed guard was maintained a t • • • talker, was hired by a pal to col again. Sid was safe—but the experience has left its m ark on him. She Would: Gracie Allen notes lect a debt of 10 cents on a night to repel kidnapers and hostile From that day to this.” he says, “ I have had to exercise my w ill power Indian tribes. N ature can more quickly expel Infection w hen that the Optimists’ club in St. Louis half-and-half basis. Hearing noth to force myself to wade streams or to walk along the banks while hunt sided b y internal sicdkation o f rccofjnixcd merit I wonder how Jim Bridger and K it is organizing a special service tor ing for some tim e, the pal sought ing or fishing.” out Sammy and* asked him how absent-minded husbands, which w ill Carson ever stood it w ith no butler © — W N U Service. along—in fact, not even a second remind them when a wedding anni he was getting along. HAVE RECOGNIZED MERIT “ So-so,” was Sammy’s unenthu man. versary arrives. Now, observes Som e M e n o f Y e a rs A g o Gracie, all they need is a service siastic reply. ” 1 managed to get end of Chcapside, London, and the IR V IN S. COBB. ©—WNU Service. to remind some husbands that they m y h alf okay, but I ’m having a H a d W o n d e rfu l M e m o rie s articles displayed in each of the are married. shops. deuce of a tim e collectin' yours.” Unwanted Things Some men who lived long ago • • • Tweeds and Peats Another man, named Thompson, What you do not want is dear at possessed extraordinary memories, could repeat the names, trades and The famous H arris tweeds came THE VIOLET Last Lines: Morton Downey be a farthing.—Cato. observes a w rite r in Pearson’s Lon particulars of every shop from Lud- into being through an accident of lieves that as far as Tin Pan Alley don Weekly. gate H ill to Piccadilly after walk nature. The freezing winds which songs are concerned, “ dissonance Magliabechi, of Florence, was ing the distance once only. swept across the barren islands of lends enchantment.” And as for called “ The Universal Index and F inally we have the case of a the Outer Hebrides, off the coast of the influx of foreign stars it would Living Cyclopaedia” and died in memory-man named Woodfall who Scotland, made it imperative that seem that “ accents make the heart 1714 at the age of eighty-three. could carry in his head a complete the natives have w arm wind-proof, grow fonder.” From all account-- he could recite debate, and repeat it, word for weather-proof garments. With no C Bell Syndicate.— W NU Service. H elp Them Cleanse th e Mood from memory everything he had word, a fortnight after it had been ' where else to turn, the women of of H a rm fu l Body Waste ever read or heard. spoken. the islands took advantage of the He—Last night I dreamed that I Your kidneys sre constantly Altering Then there was P „. Beronicious, waste matter from the blood stream. liu t unusually thick fleece which was m arried the most beautiful woman Museum Has Rare kidneys sometimes lag In their work— do who knew by heart Horace, Virgil, in the world. the winter coat of their sheep, and Aesop's Fables not set as Nature Intended- fall to re Cicero, Juvenal, both the Plinys, move Impurities that. If retained, may She—How lovely! And were we Chinese Animals Aesop is little more than a from it they wove for their men poteoa the system and upset the whoU Homer and Aristophane He died shadow of a name He was a slave the first crude H arris tweeds. Be happy? body machinery. Philadelphia.—The Free Nat at Middleburgh in 1676 so was alive from Samos, who probably livec in cause they had nothing but the Symptoms may be nagging backache ural History museum here has persietent headache, attacks of dissln««, in M agliabechi’s time. Mother (to careless daughter)— the Sixth century before Christ. His natural dyes made from lichens and getting up nights, swelling, puffiness the only habitant group in the A man named Andrew Fuller was fables were of a political nature in crottle, and nowhere to steep their under H»* •Y»—• fueling of nervous Broke yer father’s saucer, ’ave world of the rare Sze-Chuan Ta- and loss of pep snd strength. said to have been able to repeat the time of the Greek tyrants, when wool except over peat fires, H ar yer? Well, I don’t know what Other signs of kidney or bladder die- kin of West China. 500 lines without a mistake after unveiled speech was dangerous. ris tweed has always been charac order may bs burning, scanty or too 'e’U say when he has to drink out Takin, which are distinctly re frequent urination. hearing th< m read twice. It was Two hundred and fifty years later terized by a peaty outdoor odor. of ’is cup. Thera should be no doubt that prompt lated to the Rocky Mountain not even necessary for him to read Demetrius of Phaleron collected a These tweeds had been worn in the treat ment is wiser than neglect. Use goat, range the thick bamboo for Doan 9 P illt, Doan'9 have been winning them to him self as is the case with large number of fables and called Outer Hebrides for many years be Think, Mon new friends lor mors than forty years. ests from the shadow of the H im so many memory-men. They have a natlon-wlds reputation. them by Aesop’s name. These were fore the fashion centers of the world Pat—Have you seen m y boots alayas to the far western moun Are recommended by grateful people the F uller could also tell, either back turned into Latin by Phaedrus, but discovered them and elevated them anywhere? country over. Ask your neigk&orl tains of China. They m ight be wards or forwards, every shop sign it cannot be said definitely that any to the front rank of sports fashions. Mike—No. Are you sure you described as a cross between a fro m the Temolp to the extreme of them originated with A psod . had them on when you took them goat and a cow. o ff! “ S an d s o f D e a t h " ss L On the Funny Side Gas, Gas A ll th e T Im e ,C a n ’ t E a t o r S leep F O R CO LD S Saticon Tablets i. m " Watch Your Kidneys/ D oans P ills