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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1921)
-m -tim.jmmniMnmm vmstMimmmm ' -y f i mijii mir T.iil" ' " ' 1 "jfi"" "'' JAVA N . iilUi Ji lhlllliIvyj Seashore, Mountain, Park and Road -- i Cl .1 iN vVJir C DC L -eM exa- THESE are the darn when lh tired business man let busl nu go bu (or a few min utes In the afternoon to (am dream ily out at blu skies and fleecy cloudt framed by his office window. In bli mind' eye he sees a Ion stretch or sandy beach upon which white-crested waves break gently Shapely young things in swimming suits disport themselves in the water or loll upon the beach. Pretty women, with a proper regard for their com plexions, recline In awnlng-covcred beach chairs. Children dig In the sand, fill buckets and make wondrous bouses, castles, trenches and towers. Beyond the stretch of sand the boardwalk looms. On the broad, plank promenade the rolllng-cbalr proces sion Beyer stops. Olrls In summery dresses and youths in Summer flannel stroll there. Under the walk pater fa- Present Wave of "Prolonged" Youth N II ONCE, long ago, when 1 was very youthful, I created an errone ous Impression In ft friend's mind about a certain woman of our ac quaintance, writes the observant wom an. The woman was then about 28 or 9. In my youthful callousness I thought that all youth had fled from her for ever, and that because at the moment she had no prostrate suitor on the doormat, her chance for romance and happiness had faded forever. "Ob, she's past her beaut," I ex claimed to my friend, who made in quiries about that subject so Intensely Interesting to all young girls. My friend, a little older and a little longer-sighted than I, understood me to say, "pastor beaux," and spread the tale abroad that our acquaintance had long string of clerical suitors. This girl had always been the qulot wheel horse of her household. Men bad never Interested her. The loss of most of the family fortune obliged her to go to work. She had always been fond of gardening and bad an exten sive knowledge for an amateur. Now she took up horticulture as her occu pation and started a small nursery 'or perennial plants, ' . Opportunities Limited. Her opportunities to work In it were sometimes limited by household re sponsibilities. During the war extra labor was almost Impossible to secure. The girl struggled on undaunted. Each I I I' CftT" mlllas, As rast bulk clothed In a hjred bathing uit made for a smaller man, snores the hours away, while his worthy wife, her new "Sunday" hat awry, nods drowsily. But ever and anon, she starts up to see that Jchnny and Charlie and little Annie do not stray too far away. Having dreamed of all this the tind business man pushes the button tbst summons Jimmy, the office boy. "Jimmy," he says, "run over to the railroad station and get me an armful of those beautiful folders that tell alt about glorious days by the sunny year she made larger profits. She et- tended her nursery as her .business grew. She"' received orders from all over the country, and came In contact with all sorts of people. She overcame her shyness and made normal and Interesting friendships with seyeral ment who shared the same tastes. She has reached her middle thirties, but she looks younger and prettier than her 26-year-old sister. She has learned how to dress and takes a keen Interest in clothes. In all probability she will marry acenturles this latent bloom would nev successful professional man who is er have been allowed them. They about her own age and already looked would have been repressed into dismal upon as ft leader ln his community.. old maids, with fancywork and other A few years ago the girl would have people's duties to All their lives. But been Incapable of attracting this man. In these enlightened days the quiet Her shyness and lack of confidence woman can look forward to the SOs would have handicapped her in the and 40s as the prime of her life. If she prominent position In which she will wishes to marry she need not despair, be placed. as there are plenty of older attractive Hard-Wa Success. and eligible bachelors floating atnut Now that the assurance of hard-won The majority, of these men do not success Is hers, she takes .her place want a sweet young thing, but some wlth ease In any sort of asssembly. body that will be a suitable companion. She can even deliver talks on ber spe- agreeable to their friends and manage clalty, the cultivation and propagation a smoothly-run home, of perennials, though she passed This wave of prolonged youth has af through hours of nervous agony before fected even the novelist. Sir Water she first stepped on the platform. Scott's heroines averaged between 16 At the end of her first lecture she and 18. His women were sged at 34. found that her articulation had' been The authors of the middle Victorian era Indistinct and ber voire had failed to allowed them to creep up to 20, and carry. With infinite pains she hsd set there they stayed, until early In the herself to conquer ber defects, with the present century they were allowed to result that she has developed one of mature till their early SOs, and occa- 4m I In 1 ' v sea3. Get 'em even If thoy have poetry in 'em. I c.-.n enjoy almost any thing today." Jimmy returns with both arms full. "The man says y' kin have all the lita-cbiire y' wants," be informs t':e T. B. M. -But cten this threat haa no terrors. Spring Is here and the call of Spring is ln the blood. Lat month the coal pile stared hltn ln the face. Now he has let the beater Ore go out. He looks out upon the world thct is new and fresh and green. He clutches the folder and plunges Into the mystic niaie of words. . the pleasaatest and clearest speaking voices that I know of. She added about SO per cent to hef attractiveness, and a fat sum to her yearly Income, So she struggled through one phys- leal handicap after another, as she saw bow It would help her professionally, quite unconscious of the effect It would have on her friends or her future, Typical of Others. This girl is typical of many others whose development has been checked qr suppressed, in their youth. In past sionally a fair lady was permitted to reject suitors until she had reached 25. Then, becoming worried over her prospects, she usually picked the ner est young man and embarked upon the course of true love. Their Big Chance, In a recent novel the heroine waa actually 29 and the hero 42. The heroine was a most Independent young woman and hsd no particular desire to marry. She accepted tho hero moa ly out of pity to protect him from the demands Of a most exacting family. Last year waa the matrimonial har vest for the "old girls," as their friends Jocularly called them. Most of these Women married as wisely and well as they would have in their 20s. Soon some daring novelist will make an at- - i "COllu JLJmJL -urtvA . Smelting With Coal Dust n RICH aa It Is in metal, the form of magnetite known as "iron sand" has hitherto presented insuperable obstacles to the smelter, for the obvious reason that the finely divided ore blows out of the blast fur nace. By a 'new process, coal dust is inti mately mixed with the sand that Is gathered directly from the beach and. as described ln Popular Mechanics, the granular compound thus obtained tractive heroine of over 30 who Is nei ther a widow nor ft divorcee, who still retains a cheerful outlook on life and Is not In the least despairing of her lot llllilf H'ui . 'If la placed in a baking furnace, kept at a temperature that turns the coal to coke. The result Is a solid mass of "ferro-coke," a form of artificial iron ore especially suitable for the smelt ing operation. Placed in baskets, with a small addition of limestone flux and raw iron sand, this substance is then dumped Into the blast furnace from an elevated platform, the mouth of tho furnace being plugged with clay. At the proper moment, the clay Is pierced, and the clean molten Iron flows out Into the molds. The pig iron so ob tained Is of such excellent quality that the finest and most intricate castings may be made from it This Crater Still a Puzzle a THE so-called "crater" of Canyon Diablo, In Arizona, is still as much a mystery as It ever was, says an unidentified exchange. The supposition is that It waa formed by the impact of ft giant meteor. Per haps the projectile waa ft comet The crater is circular, three-quarters of mile in diameter, and 200 feet deep, but if it waa made by ft meteor be lat ter was presumably ft good bit smaller. Strong support for the meteorio theory is given by the finding of thou sands of fragments of meteoric irons, some of them weighing many pounds, in the Immediate vicinity of the hole. Repeated attempts have been made to dig for the meteor. It should be a mass of metal (chiefly Iron, presum ably) big enough to be worth getting hold of though, of course, its chief value would be as ft curiosity of in terest to science. One company or ganized for the purpose started to ex cavate at the Crater's bottom, but its operations were brought to a pause by quicksand, which the machinery could not handle. Now another concern, calling itself the Crater Mining Com pany, is drilling with two powerful rigs on the inner edge of the hole, lc Is thought that the huge projectile from the sky may have struck at an angle to the vertical, and that conse quently the mass may lie not directly below the crater's center, but off ftt one side. In some of the scattered me teoric fragments above mentidned were found tiny diamonds, which lend addi tional interest to the problem. , o MYSTERI OF SEALS. No one knows where the seals go la the Winter. In Alaska they begin to appear on the Islands of St. Paul and St. George about the end of April or the first of May, and toward the latter part of August or in the first weeks ot September they disappear aa strangely and mysteriously as they came. This is one ot nature's secrets which she has kept most successfully hid from scientists as well as the prying eyes of the merely curious and inquisitive. Even In the days, years ago, when the seals numbered five millions or more, apparently some signal un known to man would be given and the next day the fog-wreathed rocks would be bare, the seals having de serted the islands. With their slipping off Into Bering Sea, all trace of them was lost until their return the fol lowing Spring. Then some morning they would suddenly reappear, disport ing themselves ln the water or OA the shore.