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About The Boardman mirror. (Boardman, Or.) 1921-1925 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1921)
BOARDMAN TRADING CO. "West Extension Supply Store" our fine i now complete for tin- Farmer. We have: Canned Peas, 2 for 35c Canned Corn, 2 for 35c Tomatoes, 15c Peaches, 25c Salmon, can, 15c Some of our prices. Get them before sending away. When I hey ask where you got il. hay Boardman Trading Co. "WKST KXTBNSION Sl'Pl'LY STOKE ' WIT FROM CHINA Eastern Sense of Humor Very Much Like Our Own. 1 . . JM Mother's Day Next Sunday Is the day I aside to give specie t bought In your mol her. pilgtom has decreed that this day be observed with the giving of so me gift ex pressive of your love. Jewelry The Glfl thai Lasts is most appropri ate for such -t 1 1 occasion. So mat ter how small Vi ur gift may he it will he symbolical of your love. If of jewe rv it shows that you desire your re membrance to be the best possible and lobe of en during beauty, Sawtellc's, Snc. Pendleton, JlUOo S re8 The Leading Diamond Dealert Paatern Oregon Diamond Tires and Tubes Mighty Easy Riding Gas Oils Accessories Expert Guaranteed Repair Work At Reasonable Prices Service Car Any Tunc Any Where If your Ford is sick We can cure it. NO cure, no pay Boardman Garage Samples Show There Has Been Little Change in Human Nature Through the Centuries. Although the Chinese may seem serl uis, he is DOt without a genuine sense of humor. His literature is highly seasoned with witticisms and humor ous situations. Unfortunately, brevity. which is essentially the soul of wit of his proverbs, is Impaired In the trans lation into English. Also there la much of Chinese humor, even that found in the hooks of the most famous . Titers, that Is too broad for a literal i ransliiUon. Nevertheless, human nature Is, and lias for a thousand years, been funda mentally the sunie. This is shown by the following epigrams, taken from i he work of a writer. Li Shang Yin. who lived twelve hundred years ago in ihe Flowery kingdom. The trans lation from the Chinese was made by Mr. V. K. .Mayers. The headings are the Chinese author's own : Conditions Out of Place. A poor I'arsee. A sick physician. A fat bride. A teacher who does not know tils letters. A greybeard given to flirting. What One Does Not Despise. When one is hungry course victu als. When one Is on the tramp the sor riest nag to ride. When one is thirsty cold rice water. Comparisons. A courtier is like pumpkins, which grow best In the dark. A crow is like a fiddler, he makes music when he's hungry. A judge Is like a tiger, never moves Init he does some injury. What It Is Better Not to Know. A tiddler had bet lev not know music. or he will be thrown out of work. A woman had better not know poet ry, or she will lose her reputation. A servant had better not know his letters, or he will L'et Into trouble. A scholar had better not know any thing aboul handicrafts, or he will be held In contempt. Vexation. Bitting down to a feast and feeling Ihe stomach ache. finding the bottle empty in the midst of a jolly night. Not being able to get rid of one's poor relations. Extreme of Unpleasantness. Blundering upon matters which are taboo In a friend's house. Meeting a creditor when one enn't pay one's debts. Hearing drunken babble after one has become sober. Tribulations. To Invite a distinguished guest, who fails to come to dinner. To have a disagreeable fellow come on his own Invitation. To he buttonholed by a drunken man. To have no money when things are cheap. To lie seated opposite the man you hate. Growing Follies of the Age. EllV.V, hatred and malice. Invoking the gods when one la drunk. Women clucking about the streets. Mortgaging one's property. QUEER CUSTOMS OF AFGHANS ec-ple Ezt Only With the Right Hand Animal Life of Every Descrip tion Held Sacred. The average Afghan has no particu ar fondness for wine or spirits. Tobacco raised in the-land is of In terior quality; the better sorts are mportcd from Persia, Kussia, India ind Egypt. Amir Habbtbullab Khun tlwnys had a good private stock of Havana cigars. Both young and old levple take snuff. Tea, sweetened and unsweetened, is the favorite drink and is consumed in prodigious (plant ities. When you go to see an Afghan, you can hardly es cape before swallowing four or five cups of tea ; it Is, therefore, no trifling gastronomic feat to pay several visits In one Afternoon, the more so If he polite host (with a view of honoring the European guests) has the tea served in big Russian glasses. The right hand is always used in eating and drinking, the left hand be ing considered unclean. I logs, though numerous and useful, are looked upon as unclean, and pious people never touch them. Animals Mint go badly lame on the march or caiucis that get snowbound In the mountain passes are abandoned to their fate. Afghans never kill such animals, as we might do. to put them out of their misery. They believe that the lives of all living things are In the hands of Allah, and that man sins if lie presumes to interfere with the Su preme Will. Afghans will not even kill lleas or other vermin; they merely pick them Oft and throw them away! Frederick Slraplch and "HaJI Mires. llursein" in the National Geographic Magazine. Columbia Trading Co. General Merchandise Boardman, Oregon Confections Gasoline Lunch Goods Oils Fruits Vegetables Hay FLOUR and FEED Drop in at tun PASTIME Candies Tobacco pool Hoom Barber Shop ICE CREAM POCAHONTAS NOT REAL NAME C. SNIVELY Oregon T ooaramau, - - g Literally Means "Tomboy" and vVas Given to Indian Child as a Tei m of Ridicule. The story of John Smith and Poca hontas Is known to everyone who has at tended school In the United States, but lew know that the name l'ocahun tai was only a nickname, ami meant so unpoetieul a thing as "tomboy." Her real name was Ma-ta-oka. When she was ubout ten or eleven yean old she was engaged la turning u scries of handsprings at the door of her father's hut. He was the chief of the tribe, unci was known as l'ow-ha-tnn. al though his real name was A-bun-so-na-COOK. Ka-bun-ta, an Indian runner, came leaping through the forest with a 111 CSS!! go for the chief. He turned the corner of ihe hut just as the little daughter of the chief made one of her most vigorous wheels. Her Hying feel struck him in the chest and knocked him down. helium dearly love a rough joke, and a great shout of laughter went up, although the chief was anything bU' pleased, and called his daughter sharp Ij io him. "This is nut maiden's play," he said. "Will you never Cease to he a po-cn-hun-tusV" The children caught up the name, and it clung to the little girl ever afterward. The English changed the spelling u bit, but the name ',:is CO me down in history almost i us h was given away back in l(j07. ghway Inn O. H. WARNER, Proprietor IARDMAN, - - OREGON The Hi -In connection- Boardman Auto Livery "We r anywhere night or day" WE SELL LAND Ol show you a homestead, We saw it first. Let us show you. Checkers Played by Nile. Checkers Is one of the oldest games played today. Sixteen hundred yenrs before Christ was born the Egyptians were playing a game along the Nile that was essentially our game of checkers or drafts, as the Itrltlsh pre fer to call it. The undent (Jreeks had Ihe game with but slight variations, ami through all the intervening cen turies It has Interested and enter tained people. Some now prefer chess, another very old game, claim ing that there Is more mental work Involved; but the game of checkers, simple as it Is, presents a demand for ihe use of mental powers quite) equal to these of the average person. That Ihe rules of the game have become very well established Is Indi cated by the fact that Joshua Sturges's "t'ulde to the (Janie of Drafts," which was (list published In 1800, Is still the standard authority on all points of dis pute In the game of checkers as played today. Women's Hair Price Increase. The price given by hairdressers for women's hair has increased enormous ly dining the last 12 months. While some women in America and Itritain sell their liair. the real trade In this on Kilty is done in continental eouu tiles. Peasant g'rls in France, Bel glum and Italy sell their hair at reg ular periods to dealers. This hair Is mostly of the fair and black variety while most golden hair Is obtained from Scandinavians. Variability. IM you retard poker as a gentle Mian's giiinc?" "So far as that goes," replied Cac t us Joe. "it's like every other game from iMdltles to penny ante. Whether It's ii gentleman's game or not de pends entirely on who happens be ptaytn' it." Mrs Beans m You ceal gei wtille io bathe before breakfast. Ilcnhaiu No; h says he never wa-hes his fine on mu empty stomach. - -fckuusais City Star. Chang Smoked Pipe. Id Hung Chang was the tirst to pay me a visit ill my capacity of minister of finance, Count Sergius Wilte late HUBS Ian diplomat, writes in the World's Work. When we bad taken our tea, I Inquired of Li Hung Cluing whether he did not want to smoke. He emitted 11 sound not unlike the neighing of a horse. Inline. lintel) two Chinamen came running from the ud Jueeiit room, one carrying a narghile and the other tobacco. Then began the ceremony of smoking. Li Hung Chang sat quietly Inhaling and ex haling the smoke, while his attendants with great awe lighted the narghile, held the pipe, took It from his mouth, and put It back. It was apparent that Li Hung t li nted to impress me with all these ie.ei.ien.e-. On my part, 1 made believe thai I did not pay the Slightest at tent 'on to the proceedings. Silks Caurjht Feminine Fancy. Silk and fashion are closely linked through OUt the centuries. Modes changed to ronfnnn to the new fabric as If was luouj.. I into each country. There were lite ladies of Greece who llrst discovered that the heavy ori ental fabrics could he unraveled and row-oven, like their linen garments, in to rlltuy, translucent materials of wondrous beauty. Ornamei. it - iks were not Intro duced Into Europe until BOO A. 1)., and with theiu came the Influence of Ity zun t i tun on the styles of the day. Jt was through the wars waged by the Crusaders that silk weavers were brought Into Italy, and the fame of Venetian and Florentine tasbJODJ spread abroad. Profit in Perfume Hunting. There seems to be no goixl reason why in ibis country the gathering of UWeat smslltng herbs and flowers for the perfumery trade might not be found prottiable. It has rei-ently be come ti considerable Industry in rural parts of England, a great many wom en and children having takeu It up. In April the picking of cowslips be gins, these Be wew being In demand us a cure for sleeplessness, mid also for "potpourri" 1111,1 sachets-. Broom aud eider flowers follow. Mullein and mal low, Uergaiuot. peouy petals, rose pet al snd red popy petals bring good prices; likewise raspberry leaves, sage, malt, balm and thyme. Fire Insurance We will write it for you. For Notary Work See Us If you have anything to store Hay, Wool, Furni ture, Etc. See us. We have ample room. When you want your new build ings. Remember we are exclusive agents for the National Builders Bu reau and will give you the best of service. eeeooe-eeeeeee J. C. BALLENGER and W. A. MURCHIE Successors to J. C. Ballenger Lumber Co.