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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1921)
NO AIDJOR NOSE let’s pack up and go to California Science Unable to Improve Hu* man Sense of Smell. “ W in ter’s Summer Garden” Really, In That Field, the Leading Thinkers of the World Ara Com pletely Baffle a— Anyway, Would Knowledge Be Desirable? Sooner or later everyone goes to California where the bright warm sunshing greets you; where the delightful climate, the sweet scented flowers and the lure o f the sea welcomes you to this lamd o f beaut.i and charm. Four Daily Trains “ The Shasta'* “ O regonian" * ‘'California Express" “ SanFrancisco Express" Portland to San Francisco and N e w Through Sleeping C ar Service Seattle, Tacoma and Portland to . San Francisco and Los Angeles Provide Com fortable accomodations and excellent service. W inter Excursion Tickets are on sale to Southern California Your copy o f our new booklet: “ California for the Tourist’ ’ will be inuiled FREE on request, Inquire of local agent ror fares, routes, sleeping car reservations and train service, or write Southern Pacific Lines J o h n M. S c o t t , ; General Passenger A g en t Portland, Oregon M r. B a r n e s , U. S. W h e a t D i r e c t o r S a y s : “Eat More Bread A n d r e d u c e the high co st o f l i v i n g . ” Holsum Bread IS T H E C H E A P E S T A S W E L L A S T H E M O S T W H O L E S O M E FO O D ON T H E M A R K E T. B U Y TH A T E X T R A LO A F Y o u r G r o c e r has it Cherry City Baking Co. Hordes of tiny toilers are working In our service night and day to keep the world wholesome and all the races of beings supplied with life stuff. SALADS, SOME OLD, SOME NEW . O-rkshlrc Salad.— Mix two cupfuls of cold rlced potatoes with one cupful of peach meats cut in bits. Marinate with French dressing and serve In n mound o f watercress and garnish with halves o f pecans— Serve overlapping slices of tomato and cucumber, sprinkled with chopped onion. Serve with French dressing. llejLO-c *> »/ ? For any other meal except break fast salads are a welcome part of any menu. Vegetable Sal a d .— Chop four large cucumbers, one small onion and two table spoonfuls of pars ley, mix well, with mayonnaise and stuff tomatoes with the mixture thus prepared. ' Brunswick Salad.— T o one and one- half cupfuls o f flnrty cut celery add one cupful of shredded cabbage and one cupful o f nut meats. Moisten with Boiled Dressing.— Rent into the yolks of seven eggs four tablespoonfuls of olive oil, then add one-half cupful of melted butter, the Juice o f one lemon, three teaspoonfuls o f salt, one-half cupful of vinegar, one tablespoonful of sugar mixed with one-half teaspoon- ful of mustard. Cook all together un til mixture coats the spoon. I > r • V AAW jy * * POINTED PARAGRAPHS A tost opportunity finds Its way back. seldom Gossip Is a deadly gas that is often fatal to friendship. A woman who has no dia monds considers them vulgar. The dog who speaks with Its tall Is something o f a wag. When It comes to selecting a w ife some men are easily pleased. Death Is frequently the re sult o f a man’s effort to make a living. Several people have bumped up against disgrace while try ing to dodge poverty. TAKES PICTURES BY WIRE World Is Now More Open.Minded In It* Reception of New Inventions. A Frenchman has Just telephoned a photograph a distance o f 350 miles, from Lyons to Parts, and his govern ment lots assigned him an experiment al station. The French nation and the world are awaiting developments. How different the reception o f In ventions In these days I d contrast to the past, observes the Boston Globe. It was not many years ago that the Inventor was looked upoD as a servant o f Old Nick. He had to fight a world o f superstition, with backward look ing forces seeking to destroy him. At best he was thwarted— people pointed at their heads wl.Fu he strolled along the street, and his machine became a “ folly." In consequence the Inventor usually went to his grave a pauper, If not a martyr, and years drifted by hefcie his work became useful to man kind home time ago there was held I d England a “ Wonders of Science Ex- hlbltloo" u h Lli served to reveal many marvels to the public unfamiliar with the work done with the microscope, the microphone and the micrograph. The microphone magnifies sound as the microscope does things seen. The micrograph Is the instrument used by the scientist In taking pictures of things shown by the microscope. More people are familiar, to some extent, with the microscope than with the The open-mindedness o f the present microphone. They know It Is possi ble to hear a fly walk or a cater era of science and Its rewards Is il lustrated best by our attitude toward pillar crawl. Unuy other wonders o f science were men of Imagination und new Ideas. shown at Surbiton, but neither there When wireless was Invented only a nor anywhere else has science demon few years ago the minds o f men Im strated Its ability to help the sense mediately Jumped to it. Hardly had of smell. It can do marvels for sight, the first tick been sent by wireless bearing and touch, but not for the telegraph, than up sprouted the wire humble and useful nose. In that field less telephone, nnd now navigation by the accomplishments o f science have wireless at sea, over und under the water. This month a battle ship will been nil. Let a man stand two miles,, say, to go down Chesapeake bay, without a windward of the point where a herd man on board, controlled by electric of caribou will cross an open plain current handled by a man on shore. over which a fresh breeze Is sweeping All these devises ore the work o f less and It must be apparent that only a d than a decade. Minds o f men seem Infinitely minute particle o f whatever to be ready to bob up from the pil matter may be given off from his body lows o f the past at the song o f the or clothing can possibly reach the nos lark. Just before the beginning o f the trils o f any one deer In the herd. Vet, If the man Is completely screened from century Mr. H. G. Wells painted what sight by a rise In the surface o f the was regarded as a highly Imaginative ground the caribou will nevertheless picture o f a man at home enjoying a catch the taint In the air. They would drama reproduced completely, sight be warned of the presence of a w olf I d i and sound. Our open-mindedness to- ward new Inventions results In their the same way. Yet science Is utterly unable to de- | blessing us with raplrl improvements. tect anything which the olfactory If this mental receptivity which we nerve o f the deer senses and Identifies. seem to have In scientific matters It cannot see with a microscope any could he extended to the realm o f our thing In the air which came from the political and social experimentation, man. It cannot find any such sub the harvest might be even richer In stance with a chemical test o f any beueflts to the race. kind. Instead o f aiding the sense of smell. It Is entirely Incapable o f match Why Cities Grow. ing 1L Here Is another realm for A natural human desire to elude the science to Invade and subdue; but divine mandate, "In the sweat o f thy would the conquest be altogether de fnce shall thou eat bread.” has always sirable? It ts a question whether the average man needs to smell more things or sense more acutely the things he smells already. It Is thought that the gains would not offset the losses under the prevailing conditions o f life. been the sea? o f many our earTTdy trou bles. As Inte-pretcit to menn the kind o f perspiration that accompanies till* lug the soil. It may account for many abandoned farms and the swarming emigration o f the agricultural popula tion to the cities— where. Indeed, the sweating doesn’t stop, hut Is In thou sands o f instances greatly stayed. On the farm physical exertion well- nigh reaches Its inuximuni. Stripped for the struggle with nature, reduced to the merest remnant of clothing, the gladiatorial combat Is curried on. There .ire no fat farmers, unless they become “ landed proprietors" and have delegated all violence o f labor to other hands. It Is the cry from Mace donia now, that the hired man Is no longer to he hired ; and all the rack ing toll o f the farm descends upon one hapless pair ^of shoulders; no one Is to be hud fo r love or money, to share it. The rendering o f the soil into na ture’s hands is quite accountable. And when the rewards o f easier employ ment in the city are so great, even par tial dependence on a sense of conscien tious self-sacrifice Is not to be expect ed.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Was W ell Fixed. One o f the churches in a western town Is so fortunate as to have a young woman us P ■ ;,"s 'r r She was called to Ihe door of the parsonage one day, and saw there a much embar rassed young farmer o f the Swedish j type. “ They said the minister lived In this I house,” he rtaminered. “ Yes," replied Ihe fair pastor. “ W ell— w ell— I'd—er— like to get married.” “T o get married? Very well. I can marry you." said the- miuistress en couragingly. “ Oh, hut I've got a girl already,” was the discoim rting reply. Domestic Tragedy. "H enrietta," said Mr. Meekton, “ you never ask me to water ihe rubber tree or pul the eat out any more.” “ It has been attended to. Leonidas." “ And you don't mind how tunny cigarettes 1 smoke nor how late I stay out at night.” • “ I consider you able to take care of yourself.” “ Henrietta, many a home has been wrecked because of ambition nud busi ness preoccupation. You have grown to be so Interested In woman suffrage I don’t believe you care what Incomes of m e !" TRAGEDY TURNS • INTO ROMANCE Chief Figures in Sensational Epi sode in Chicago Are Quiet ly Married. COMES AS SURPRISE Man and Woman W ere Prom inently Mentioned In One of the Most Re markable Tragediee of the Year— Both Exonerated. Chicago.— Ruth Wood, twenty-flve- year-old bookkeeper, who w hs found leaning over the dead body o f Samuel T. A. Loftls, wealthy diamond broker. I d his palatial No, ib aide apartment, was married tw o weeks Inter In Wau kegan to Roy M. Shayne, advertising salesman, whose name was linked with hers In the w idely heralded tragedy. The marriage comes a surprise to both relatives and friends o f the cou ple. They made no announcement o f their Intentions, but slipped quietly from the city. The first announcement cmne In a telegram to Miss W ood’s m other: “ W e are married. Both very happy. On our way to a quiet resting place.” the message read. It was signed “ Roy and Ruth.” »♦ Romance Old— Y et Young. The romance of the pair Is scarcely two months old —and yet lias Insted over a decade o f years. »Then Roy Shayue wus manager o f Ills fattier’» business, the John T. Shayne com pany. dealers In furs. Ruth wns a typist, barely out o f school. She worked for the firm nnd Shayne be came attracted to her. Later she left his employ and for ten years did not see hlin. Then, some weeks ngo, the fates which had de creed their participation in one o f the most sensational “ stories” o f the yetu brought them together again. They met at the Edgewater Beueb hotel, where Ruth was employed. Shayne became devoted to her, and met her dally at her home. H e Intro duced her to Samuel T. A. Loftls, Coins Memorialize Pilgrims. Models for the Pilgrim half dollurs to be issued by the treasury depart ment In commemoration o f the ter centenary anniversary o f the landing of the Pilgrim s were brought to Washington the other day by William Carroll H ill o f Boston, secretary of the Pilgrim Tercentenary commission of Massachusetts, and deposited with Ray Baker, director o f the mint. The models are the work o f Cyrus E. Dallln, the sculptor, and the de signs have been approved by the com mission. The coin w-ill bear on one side- the head and shoulders of a typical P il grim Intended to represent Governor Bradford, with his history o f Ply mouth colony under his arm, and on the reverse side a representation of the Mayflower. The entire Issue of ¡100,000 coins lias been assigned to the commission, which will distribute them through the National Shawmnt bank of Boston. National banks In the principal cities o f the country will have nn opportunity, through the Shawmnt. to obtain an allotment of the coins for their respective districts. The Experiment. There Is a story told concerning a careful mother whose three children horrified her one day by producing for her Inspection three exceedingly bil ious-looking toffee apples. “ T hey’re very pretty, my dears,” she lied bravely. “ But really you mustn’t eat them. I've heard o f little children dying through eating colored toffee ap ples." Then she took the sweetmeats away and put them out o f reach— as she thought— on a shelf I d h e r dressing room. T ie Imagined that would do the trick; hut early next morning she heard a sound out on the landing, and, going to see who was astir so early, found Elsie trotting along the passage. “ What are you doing, dear?” she asked. “ It’s not six o’clock yet." “ Going to see If Lick and Arthur are dead yet." replied the elght-year-old miss. “ I'm cot.” Potato Salad.— Slice all o f the Made to SuiL follow ing ingredients thin : Three small T o the Human Race— What bolls ! Finley P. Dunne— “Mr. D ooley"— cucumbers, three stalks o f celery, ten laid down tils gorgeous Sunday maga small boiled potatoes, four hard cooked were to poor old patient Job. zine section. eggs. Arrange In layers, sprinkling T o Men o f Science1—! ) ----- Judge. "It -ays here,” he observed, “ that each layer with minced onion. I’ our a western scientist Is at work trying over the above boiled dressing and to transform a black man Into a white let stand to season. FARM JOURNAL SAYS: man. and It says, by Jingo, that the Pineapple Salad.— Mix pineapple, diced, with equal parts o f diced cel , \flio ventures to lend loses money experiment Is going to be a complete success." ery and half the quantity o f blanched and friend, Mr. Dunne nodded thoughtfully. — and shredded almonds. Serve In nests v “ Wonderful," he said. “ Wonderful ! A rolling >Sliamrock gathers no o f head lettuce with mayonnaise dress And yet. come to think about It. ing served In the shell o f a small pine Mossroses. they've been doing the same thing for apple. garnished with perfect leaves a great many years by means o f white Don't stop to argue the right of way taken from the top. wash." Cheese Ball*.— Tak e Neufchatel or with a skunk. any cream cheese, add cream, chopped Silent Embarrassment. The man who can bottle up his tern- i chives and blanched almonds with a “ Nobody taiks about the bathers' per is a corker. little chopped pepper. Make Into costumes any more.” small balls, arrange on lettuce and "N o," replied the beach coostable T h e crooked stick la at the farther j serve with boiled dressing or mayon "They've got to be so Improper you end o f the wood. naise. dasti't let on you noticed 'em." Against the coming o f midwinter, a new lot o f coata, fo r lucky little girls, have come to light In the shops. I f they ever get close enough to Jack Frost to apeak to him their wearers will be sure to laugh In his face fo r it will take bis bitterest mood to prove him an enemy to their comfort. These ~oata are most often o f thick, soft woolly cloths made douhle-breanted ind having the coziest o f collars. Rome of them look as I f M ary’s faithful lamb had been skinned and Its pelt converted Into a coat without going through the hands o f the spinners and weavers. Lovely and cozy describes :hem and they are, <Jt course, thg prod- act o f the looms which flo miracles with wools. The little coats o f thick cloths are plain w ith Inset pockets ind sleeves’ that reach to the knuckles, to that hands thrust Into pockets are Entirely lost sight of. They are mnde with turnover collars and narrow belts ) f the material and they are long enough to reach below the knees. T here are some pretty coata o f vel veteen lined with silk. These are sometimes made with blouse and skirt tnd sometimes straight. Cuffs and very wide muffler collars o f fur fabric with deep set-lo pockets show them -quaI to battling with the cold, even though they are not aa sturdy looking wealthy diamond dealer. That night they announced thetr engagement at a dinner given by Loftls. Girl Met Loftls by Appointment. Six days later Loftlh called Miss W ood at the hotel. “ Come to my apartment. I want to talk to you about Roy's future,” was his message. Miss Woods went. Loftls met her at the door dressed only In pajamas. Drinks followed. Five hours later 8hayne, awaiting her arrival at her mother's home, received as the woolly coats. Besides these a pbone call. It was Ruth. there are many plush coats made lik e i ‘Coine and get me. I am at Loftls" the w oolly ones, usually In dark colors hc,ne! And hurry 1" waa the message. with plush collars that imitate heaver Shayne went. and buttons covered wIth beaver plush. An hour later officers caine rush They are ns warm as the woolly coata ing to the house. L oftls lay dead on und as dressy as the velvet ones. the floor. Shayne was awaiting. Miss Finally, there are fur coats for little Wood had fled. folks. These days one cannot even Shuyne refused at first to. tell her name— but flnnlly consented. Both whisper “ fu rs" without saying “ money” Both were grilled. in a loud tone o f voice, so only little , were arrested. rich girls w ill find themselves wearing j Both obtained “ scare heads” In the coata that are made o f pelts that once j papers and both faced the searching (lances of officlnfs and spectators at defended small friends o f thelrn against the cold. Rahblta. muskrats anlt squir a coroner’ s Jury. Th eir story wns s Anil rels linve been sacrificed to make warm 24-hour sensation o f Chicago. coata fo r the small girls, white bnnnlea both were exonerated. fo r the tiniest ones and Just plain rnb- ( Babe's Appeal Touches Father. bits fo r glris aa big aa the little miss j New Castle, I’ a.—Contentment pre pictured. The shaw! collar looks aa If It were sealskin but It la not. Motile vails In the home o f Betty Jane Reno, Cottontail furnished the fur and the nnd her brothers. Jack nnd Ralph, ai New Castle, Pa. furrier dyed It. I f Is not prettier or Mr. Reno, who was In Cleveland, more com fortably than the other coats, but It requires much more work to read Betty’s letter to the paper, and make It— and thereby hangs the tale ( wns touched by the appeal. “ I was o f Its tong price. Such a coat coats a Just gelng to work.” he wrote home to his wife, “ and saw B etty’s letter In little more than a hundred dollars. the paper. 1 simply couldn’t work. I had no Idea how the kiddles would suffer.” He forwarded a money order with the letter, und stated that he would return and "play square" with the fam ily be bad deserted.