Parent-Teacher
Notes
What the World Is Doin
( A s Seen by Popular Mechanic« Magazine
H andy Holster fo r Revolver
in A u to
Dense forests once grew on the 8a-
iara desert and a race of people who
When a revolver is needed while
ived by hunting and tilling the soil driving, it will be found very conven
inhabited the region, according to ient to have the holeter attached to
Prof. James H. Breasted, of the uni
versity of Chicago, A clue to this
‘‘lost chapter of history” has been ob
tained, he declares, by deciphering
inscriptions end markings on a large
rock in the desert. This monument,
has been called the “Loet Temple,”
but is not a structure made by man,
simply a rock shaped to reeemble a
temple by the winds and sands. Judg
ing from jm all statues and other ob
jects found in ancient graves during
recent excavations, the early Egyp
tians and other peoples apparently
thought of the life beyond as a realm
where joy and merrymaking abound,
Sahara Desert Once a Forest
!
Drinking Glasses Made of Ice
Sanitary drinking cups and glasses
of ice are formed in a freezing appara
tus devised by a Dutch engineer.'
They are said to last thirty minutes
in a warm room and have an outer
oover and an inner core for strength
and easy handling. Besides keeping
the liquid cool, they eliminate the
danger of communicating disease, ae
frequently occurs with a common cup.
F ru it Picker Saves the Trees
Cherries, plums, erabapplea and
Other small fruits are gathered with
out using a ladder or climbing the
trees by a picker that elipa the stems
and allows the fruits to fall down a
chute directly into n large pocket
worn by the worker. It ia therefore
not neceaaary for the human hand to
touch the crop and, besides protect
ing the trees from broken limbs and
damaged bark, the picker is said to
Record D airy-C attle G ro w th
an advanced clam, fully equal In help« him In his attempts to ex
w ith Screen and Camera
all subjects to the average of that prem himself.
class, the mother has probably
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Accurate records of the growth of
handicapped her child. Under the
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dairy cattle on the department of
agriculture’s farm at Beltsville, Md.,
present organisation of our school
the aid of a earner» and
system a child must enter a class
Col/>G DoiW IPtOil are kept with ruled
Hints on Connecting Aerials
screen. The animal
end keep pace wit hthe average In
O tIIv3 lavJJVI IvU a is specially
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When
building the aarial for yoor
led onto a level platform in front of
that class. If he la too far ad-
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the scaled background, which is radio, keep the conneetiona as few ae
vanced he must either go Into Parchaand Ford Roadster—
marked into six-inch squares »«A jg possible. Try to have the aerial wire
the next higher class, or stay In
The Claycon^» Motor Co reporl exactly the same distance from the in one piece; this can be done by
threading the wire through the cod
a class where the work is too the sale of a Ford roadtser to the
of the insulator at the lead-in end,
simple for him. If a child enters American Tobacco Co. at 8an
taking two turns around the hori
school with sufficient knowledge Francisco.
zontal wire and continuing 01» down
so that he la too far advanced
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with the same wire for the lead-in.
for the beginners and Is not yet Purchased FVtrd Touring__
Keep the horizontal part of the aerial
as straight as possible, without bends.
ready for the more advanced
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This also applies to the lead-in wire;
« lass, he Is likely to develop hab- the sale of a Ford tearing to J. L.
do not try to fit it around camera.
its of laziness and inattention if Calvert, of Grants Pass,
When planning the aerial, aee that the
he works with the beginners and
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lead-in wire will reach the set by the
is possibly doomed to failure if Purchased Ford Touring—
shortest way. The ground wire should
put with those more advanced.
The Claycomb Motor Co. report earner* each time a picture is taken, also be as short as possible. For these
The average pre-school child the sale of a Ford touring Yo Guy from the calfs birth to maturity. short connections it is necessary to
Comparison of the photographs shows carefully consider the location of the
has no time to learn to read. Barnet of- Ashland.
the cow’s development in terms of the set in the building and of the serial nearly double the amount one man
There are so many other more im-
.
increased area covered by its body.
on the roof.
can gather in • day.
portant things that he should Purchased Ford Tudor —
leari^ Theer are many habits
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•and qbllltles which. If not de- the sale of a Ford tndor to H. D lages on a long mesa north . o f ! to the accompaniment of fatties
veloed early, will never be as Spencer of Ashland,
here.
shaken by the priests.
easily or as well develoed later.
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{ First the Snake and ^Antelope
In the snake "Kiva”, a sort of
These years are the time for Purchased Star Touring—
clans meet to study various mete- underground council chamber, the
learning muscular c o n t r o l
The Star agency report the sale orologlcal signs and determine the snake charm liquid Is made. ' An
through climbing, running, jumn- of a Star touring to J. E. Rose of date for the dance. Thia year’s Indian basket Is placed on a spec-
ing, cutting, pasting, clay model- Hornbrook.
“ . ceremony was set-for Aug. 11 1*1 altar.- In It are placed sheila.
ing. and drawing. Give the child
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Then come many days of prepara- charms, crushed nuts, and sticks,
Plenty of things to do W ith/his,
Purchased Chevrolet Coach— tion. In no Christian church are A priest, with mhch chanting and
hands. Let him lea/n the Joy of? *rte Automotive Shop report preparations for a sacrament rtiore cerenrfoay, pours Water Into It from
creation. See that he forme th e 1 the sale of a Chevrolet Coach to I carefully made.
the north, east, south and west.
habit of finishing what he starts. Alan Autery of Ashland.
A town crier announces the date Other priests circle about it, <*hew-
Teach him to attend to one thing,!
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' from the hobsetops.'^The priests lr*K >ome desert herb and putting
at least for short periods of time.
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of the Antelope clan meet to set np the liquid In the basket,
Teach him to follow simple dl- CM A If I? flA N C F
the altar. They make a mosaic of I
rectlons. Allow him to do thing« O l a “ Wll
n F r a la V » B J
different colored sands .which areI
for himself. See that his wraps
««»ev are ■ s i v i
sprinkled on the'Yloor, with clouds ' B * 111—— —
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are easy to put on and then let
and
lightning
represented
symboll-
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him help himself. Teach' to put
colly.
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on his own rubbers. It is almpst
Then the prayer sticks are made
a super-human task for a teach-
with
prayers and invocations at
er to bundle up- forty children
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properly and it Is much better for Persons who witnessed I t are each step of the procedure. Each
the child to learn early at home still talking about the annual ob participant smokes the sacred pipe
to care for himself. Develop the servance of the oldest most color and the altar la consecrated and
blessed morning and night. Six
•‘I can’ spirit. There is nothing
ful religions ceremonial on the teen songs are chanted each day.
so conducive to success as self-
North American continent—the
confidence. The mother who con
world-famous
Hop! Snake dance.
tinually aays “you can’t you are
In
all
the
world
there la no cer COME TO THE CHECK
too little,” ia doing Immeasur
emony
like
this.
It
is a religious
BRED FLAG FOR
able harm to her child. See that
the child succeeds In most of.the rite performed exactly as it was
things he starts. Let him know ten, twenty centuries ago a strange
that you respect bis ability. relic of the old atone age, when the
"Nothing succeeds like success” is
an old maxim. The normal child
who goes to school with a faith
In his own ability has already
won more than half of the bat
products of the up-to-date Twen
tle.
New, this wonderful lacquer finish
tieth Century, to watch the desert
Speech
Indians perform rites that were
that dries in half an hour; new, but
Why, or why are parents so time-worn when Europe was an
your Fuller Dealer has it for you. A n d
anxious that their children shall unpeopled wilderness.
show speed— It won’t take 1
learn to read early, and yet are
Long
he'll tell yon how others have applied
A Prayer for Rain
unconcerned over their inability
Try and Block Our
The snake dance la an annual
it themselves; how it gives old floors a
to talk? Baby talk la often en
Driveway
prayer for rain— an invocation to
new lustrous surface tnat will not mar •*
couraged, even admired. It la
the gods that lire In the sky and
“so cunning.” People like tq ,
Williams
Service
Station
nor chip—
—
how old furnitnrp baa been '
control the*clouds and to the gods
Boulevard A Sherman
hear the little felow talk. The ,
that lire under ground, joined * in
made radiantly new. Proof against • *
"THE CHECKERED FLAG”
.family even adopts the dialect for |
by the residents of six Hopl vil-
floap, oils, greases, gasoline ana other
their own use when talking to the
youngster. He enters school. The •
teacher has scant time to try to -
understand his pitiful atteupta at
expressing himself. The children
laugh at h im .. The sound of the
spoken language as he know* and
uses It, does not correspond with
th* sound of the letters as they
are taught In school. Ia It any
wonder that he has trouble both
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How can Johnny know and recog
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to spell the word correctly labor
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ly and speak correctly. The child
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who says. "I seen. I done, al’nt.”
who drops his "g’s” and atari h is
consonants has much to overcome.
SUDDEN SERVICE
Let him start school with speech
hnblte that need. no., correction.
Just dfcrosg from the
This may mean that! you will first
L ith ia ‘Springs Hotel
HOMMA
• Chevrolet Dealers
hsve tp revise your own careless
methods of speech. I know of one —
This ceremony Is supposed to
protect from snake bites in the
dance that is to follow.
▲11 these ceremonies are per
formed by priests of the Antelope.
While they are thus engaged,
the men of the Snake clan go
north, east, west asd south to
catch the deadly rattlesnake for
the snake dance. When a rattle
snake Is found a prayer Is offered,
meal Is scattered on it and It is
seised alive and brought back to
the village. The Indians catch the
snakes with uncanny skill. Four
days are consumed in this snake
hunt.
, On the evening of the last day
of the hunt the Antelope priests
dafcce in the plain. On the mor
row the snake dance begins.
It starts with the race of the
young men. Long before sunrise
the young Indians start for a place
far out on the plain, beside a sac
red spring. They cover the inter
vening miles with remarkable
speed, looping up the sloping mesa
to .the cheers of the crowd. The
Yon are if yon arc getting Good
year Tires—at Goodyear’s pres
ent low price.
You are getting it for no more
money and in some cases even
less—than others are paying for
ordinary tires.
Ignition causes a great deal
of motor trouble. Let our ex
pert workmen check up on yonr
battery, starter and generator.
It paya.
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priests receive them, a«d each run-
ner deposits prayer offerings at
the altar.
Then the captive snakea—Soiae-
tlmes there are as many aa"a hun
dred of them—are washed in the
If you aren’t getting these things,
yon aren’t getting the full mon
e y ’9 worth that we give with ev
ery Goodyear Tire.
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