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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1916)
FEARLESS MOVIE STAR f J ) 1 Helen Holmei. Film actress, whose feats of daring portrayed on the screen huvo mude her popular among movies funs throughout the country. Birds That Talk In England more than In this coun try do we find birds that are taught to talk. The raven, the Jackdaw, the mag pie and the Jay may all he trained to Imitate Bound and to utter words and even sentences distinctly; but more fumlllar to most people are the talk birds of the parrot tribe, which ac quire the. gift of speech in fur greater perfection than uny other of their species. The voice of the parrot Is also much more human In Its tone; the raven Is too hoarse, the Jay and the mugple are too tdirlll; but there are modulations In the parrot's notes when speaking that are sometimes absolute ly uncanny In their weird resemblance to the "human voice divine." This su- i perlorlty Is due to the construction of its beak, Its tongue and head. The par rot, too, hus a wonderful memory, und rarely forgets whut It has once thor oughly learned. Woman Cooks for Front. Five hundred more women have been accepted by the British war of- lice as army cooks and will soon be sent to the front to Join 1,500 others who have been satisfying Tommy's up petite. , These women wear khnkl, live In camps and barracks, mess, draw ra tions and are the nearest approach the army hns yet seen to Thomaslnu At kins. Mother Should By SIDONIE MATZNER GRUENBERG She Is Their Companion and HAVE you seen that woman lately you know her name who Is so devoted to her children that she hns not left them for a single day In these many years? Did you again envy and admire her devotion ns you used to? Or, now that you know some thing more about children and about mothers, did you rather pity the chil dren and the mothers? At first thought it does seem so ad mirable that a mother, In her con scientious devotion, should bo con tinuously looking after the details of her children's welfare, so thnt they (ire hardly ever out of her sight. But when we consider the purpose of such devotion wo may well question wheth er, after all, the thought and care of Buch mothers are wisely applied. If we were to be merely the tenders and housekeepers for our children it would be well, In tho Interests of the chil dren, that we took an occasional day for resting and refreshing the spirit. The mother who assumes her task In meek resignation may glory In her martyrdom ; but she Is likely to be come dreadfully monotonous which is not very good for the children. For we expect the mother to be more than a nurse or housekeeper. She Is to be their companion and constant source of Inspiration. This she cannot be If she allows herself to become a slave ito detail and routine. In emergencies we nil know that It 1 possible to arrange for a hurried departure and an Indefinite absence from our regular duties. With a little forethought It should be possible to There Are Trades That Cure As Well as Some That Kill. A great deal Is written about trades thut kill for Instance lead poisoning In the potteries, "phossy Jaw" In the match factories, and so forth but few people are aware that there are many trades which are medically rec ommended by the profession on hy gienic grounds. Thus, men who lay asphalt In the streets rarely suffer from a duy's Illness, while those employed In places where a large amount of electricity Is generated enjoy a surprising abun dunce of vitality. Workers In salt mines enjoy almost complete Immunity from rheumatism. The healthiest occupation for all is said to be that in the American pe troleum works. Here the men never suffer from sore throats, diphtheria, quinsy, or kindred ailments. Indeed, petroleum fumes are so good for the throat that It Is Quito common for sufferers from throat affections to "take the fumes," Just as people "take the waters" at Harrogate or Buth. A well-known tenor who was In dan ger of losing his voice once took on a Job in one of the petroleum refining rooms as an ordinary employee, with the result that he was soon able to re sume his work on the concert plat form. Which reminds us that singing Is excellent for consumption. Sometimes it assists as a cure, but it Is nearly always effective us a preventive. An swers. I Now They're Sorry. c L Harvard students no longer use that hackneyed phrase, "I beg your purdon." The new idea is "I'm sorry." Harvard men dread being answered, pre ferring to do all the talking themselves. For that reason nowadays when they step on the hat of an untutored Bostonese J in the course of their gambols they Invariably admit that they nni sii-rv nn,l In If ftrnn rlf'hfr - - j ...... - - - - - - - - . there. "I'm sorry," comes from 4 X England via France via Clilca- T gq, which learned It from New 1 I York. ' I Hfcftfifi,jMfiifitiifiiiijiitfi.fii.tyiiiifi'.ifitfi.ifij Jumpers for Girls. Little girls ore wearing Jumpers for morning play hours. They are cut as a one-piece frock, except the bottom, which is planned to gather up into bloomers. These Jumpers may be pret tily trimmed and they save petticoats. European Paper Excelled. American experts have perfected the highest grade of photographic paper, which formerly was Imported from Eu rope. Have a Vacation Constant Source of Inspiration arrange for a more pleasant excui slon In search of new strength and new spirit. The co-operation of rela tives and neighbors would seem to be as welcome and ns available when there Is a reasonable purpose In view as when there Is grief or dismay to bo relieved. In thinking of the beneficial effects of on occasional vacation, we must not let ourselves accept this as a sat isfactory compensation for years of monotonous and colorless drudgery. Tho vacation should not be a substi tute for a life's program that has In It enough variety to Insure constant freshness and Interest, but It should supplement such a program. The mother who has some serious occupa tion In affairs not directly connected with her domestic problem Is likely to thut extent to be a better mother. Even where a woman is obliged to do all of her housework in addition to caring for her children she Is likely to neglect them so much that she will come to them a little fresher than she would If she gave them all of her at tention. Of course, for mothers In this situation there Is the danger that they will be too tired physically to give up the energy that profitable com panionship with children requires. We must find ways for mothers to have "vacations," for a little while dally, and for complete relief at long er Intervals. In the meantime, the overburdened mother rhould realize that her sense of duty must be guided by an Intelligent appreciation of the needs of her children. ABLE TO GIVE DEADLY SHOCK Electrlo Eels, Found In 8outh Amer ica, Have Been Provided With Strsnye Power. The marshy waters of Bera and Ras- tro In South America are filled with in numerable electric eels, which can at pleasure discharge from every part of their slimy, yellow-speckled bodies a deadening shock. This species of gymnotus Is about five or six foet In length. It Is power ful enough to kill human beings and the largest animals when It discharges Its nervous organs at one shock in a favorable direction. It was once found necessary to change the line of road Unwelcome Visitor. from TJrltucu across the steppe, owing to the number of horses which, in ford ing a certain rivulet, annually fell a sacrifice to these gymnoti, which had accumulated there In great numbers, All other species of fish shun the vi cinity of these formidable creatures. Even the angler, when fishing from the high bank, Is In dread lest an electric shock should be conveyed to him along the moistened line. Ancient "Cures" Still Persist. Superstitions as to methods of cur ing diseases, once very prevalent, are not altogether extinct yet. Some of them were very ridiculous. Much ancient faith clustered about the man drake root, which was carved in the form of a doll, dressed in fine clothes, and kept in a box or coffin concealed in some corner of the house. Each month it was washed in wine and wa ter and freshly garbed. Another uni versal cure was to carry a piece of mistletoe which had been cut from a tree by a golden sickle and caught in a white vessel as it fell. Metal scraped from a church bell or a piece of the rope was supposed to have a similar protective Influence against disease, as also a cloth stained In the blood of a murderer, or the rope with which he was hanged. Catch Aeroplanes by Cowboy Lasso, Cowboys of the air may be the new title of airmen if the invention of Jo seph A. Steinmetz of Philadelphia is pdopted in war. It has been developed from the principle of the lasso. The attacking machine soars higher and suspends a bomb lower than the hostile craft. The bomb is attached to a long wire, on the other end of .which is a heavier weight, which is thrown on the other side of the ene my machine. The weight descends by gravity and draws the lighter bomb up into con tact with the craft. This causes the bomb to explode and destroys the air ship. Mr. Steinmetz is convinced that it is not necessary to catch the enemy aviators asleep in order to effect the maneuver. Quickly Recover From Wounds. A remarkable recovery among the Austrian wounded Is reported. It Is stated In Vienna that no less than fi per cent of the total wounded soldiers In 1915 recovered so completely as to be fit for' service again. Of the re mainder 8.8 per cent were retired, and only 1.7 per cent died. These figures show a considerable Improvement over the returns at the beginning of the war. In August, 1914, out of 100 wound ed 85 recovered, twelve were retired, and three died; but after this the per centage of recoveries rose gradually, though varying somewhat in differ ent months. The highest rate of com plete recoveries was reached in the summer months 91.7 in June and 91.8 In Way and July. In December, 1914, the death rate had been reduced below 2 per cent, and in January and Feb ruary, 1915, it was only 1.4 and 1.3 re spectively. , Make Use of Derelicts. The utilization of trees which have been washed loose along the river bot tom, has developed into a remunera tive Industry in Nebraska, on the Mis souri river. The floating logs are made Into rafts and floated to the town of Decatur, where a sawmill has been erected solely for the utilization of this salvage timber. More than 20.000 feet of good lumber were made last year from these derelicts. The indus try is under the control of one man. He frequently digs out logs which have been submerged for years. He asserts that if a log is fully sub merged, so that co air reaches It, no deterioration comes from Its being un der water, while half submerged logs begin to rot in a few months. Putting Him to the Teat. , "I can't toll vou how sorry I am to see you In such a plight," said the ready sympathizer to an old friend In distress. "Don't attempt to tell me," replied the old friend. "I know you are a busy man and I don't want to take up much of your time. Just show me and I will be on my way." The Crux of the Matter. "It Isn't the high cost of living that causes so much trouble in the world." "Vou surprise me." "It's the high cost of living up to a more or less Imaginary position In Ufa which people think they are bound U maintain." VOTING AGE VARIES Franchise Right Not the Same in All Countries. Belgium Punishes Those Who Fall to Exercise Their Privilege of Cast ing Ballot Women to Vote for President This Year. The great army of stay-at-home voters have no pride In what Doctor Holmes describes thus: The freeman catting with unpurchased hand The vote that ihakci the turrets of the land. We get our word "vote" from the Latin "votuin," and origlnully a vote means a vow or pledge. An old Itoman method of custlng a vote once consist ed In striking n spear aguinst a shield, und from the Lutlu expression describ ing the resultunt noise we get our word suffrage. 'Ballot," too, has an ancient origin. The Greeks on Important occasions cast secret votes by using pebbles, und their word lias come down to our time. A recent perusal of our newspapers, however, will show that present-day politicians don't stop with easting peb bles. They carry It to the point of slinging mud. Anywhere in the United States one must have lived twenty-one years be fore he can vote. Not so In many other countries. The Hun votes at twenty, but the Austrian, In the other half of the em pire, must be twenty-four. Prussians cannot vote until they are twenty-live years old, and that is the minimum age limit In a number of German states. Twenty-five is also the age In Hoi land, Belgium und Japan. Denmark Is a believer In the wisdom that conies with age, hence no one there under thirty can vote. English-speaking races may vote at twenty-one. In many countries soldiers are dis franchised, and under the Portuguese kingdom no domestic servant or gov ernment employee had a ballot. Sum Suiter never lived in Belgium, system of multiple voting. College graduates, for example, have three votes, and so do many others who ful fill property requirements. About 300,000 Belgluns have each three votes, and more than that num ber have two votes. And notice this, Mr. Stay-at-Home, failure to vote in Belgium is punishable as a misde meanor. Idaho withholds the ballot from big amists. Election bets disfranchise men in some states, and one duel will keep uny man from the polls In Florida for all time. A pauper cannot vote in Massachu setts, while neurly all states specifical ly debar Idiots, felons and Insane frord the use of the suffrage. More than 4,000,000 women will be able to vote in the United States this year, and thnt will bring the total pos sible vote for presidential electors up to nearly 30,000,000, or double the number east four years ago. Philadel phia Ledger. British Soldiers' Canes. Tou have heard of the short yellow- knobbed cane that is carried by all oflicers of the British army and very many private soldiers? It Is a cane that Is ubiquitous. Small fortunes have been made out of It, yet no one comes forward to claim Its invention Its price at all places is one shilling, but Its name varies. I see it billed variously at shop doors as the army stick, the Whangee cane, the Panama short and the swagger cane. The real swagger cane, though, Is of older date, und Is as a rule a short piece of cane or other flexible ma terlal with n ferrule ut each end. One vendor of the knobbed article yester day nssured nie its name was "Imita tion miliaria," but I think she meant imitation Malacca Exchange. Thrashed by a Man "of Peace. A Torkshlre village -will have a foils tale about the conscientious objector long after the war is over. This conscientious objector told the tribunal that he would not defend his mother and sisters. The two sisters worked at tho mill and were twitted unmercifully about their chicken- hearted protector. The appeal fulled, and the conscientious objector had to report himself at the barracks. On bis hist night at home he waited for the chief tormentor and thrashed htm And now every time that patriot goes out, he Is laughed at by all the village us the man who met a consci entious objector. Manchester (Eng. Guardian. Use for the Gourd Crop. None of our plants or flowers last summer were any more worth while than the small ornamental gourds which we had In our garden. Of course they made handy stocking "eggs" for darning, but more than this, they proved to be Ideal tops. My own baby likes to piny with the one thnt always floats in his bath ; others afford him amusement as rattles and ham mers. We had quite a "crop" of these gourds and kept a whole boxful, which are always a diverting novelty for visiting children, who usually take some home with them. Good House keeping. Porcine Propinquity. Visitor My good man, you keep your pigs too near the house. Cottager That's Just what the doc tor snld, mum. But I don't see how It's asoin' to hurt 'em! London Punch. Genius Is Useless by Real Energy By DUDLEY CRAFTS WATSON Director Milwaukee Art Institute The only happy people in the world are the successful ones, and the successful ones are the workers. Downright laziness on their own part is not only the chief reason for the whimperings of those who have failed, " but is the root of their lack of judgment. A 'person may be dead wrong, vWnninr hiir. (mod. bard labor noon bring sound judgment. This is especially true in the art world, the tech nique of painting, sculpture, music, imparted from teacher to pupil, but the of this knowledge and to bring forth a through an esthetic background, or by I will bank upon a stolid plodder with ambitions, whether no nns ,much genius or not, ahead of any genius who docs not have the ability to concentrate, and a ceaseless industry. he absolutely becomes a master, but no genius, lazy, ever became anything but an exotic fop winning the sympathy of his friends, the love of a few more weaklings and the scorn of the rest of the world, and when he dies in poverty and without honor, the world says : "Oh, how sad, such a beau tiful spirit, and wonderful genius unappreciated by the world, which should have received him with open WILD BILL'S FAMOUS SMILE CAN CHANGE INTO A FROWN Hugh Jennings Tells How "Fighting" Disposition of New York Manager Showed at Times. According to Hugh Jennings, the De troit manager, who had several years experience with the subject of this sketch, back of that famous smile of Wild Bill Donovan there was a mighty "fighting" disposition. 'Bill has lost his smile on any num ber of occasions," says Hughle. "I can recall numerous instances when the Tigers were fighting for the pen nant In the years 1907, 1908, 1909, that Bill frowned quite as often as did any of the rest of us. For several weeks in the season of 1907 the Tigers were in front, but they couldn't gain on the Mackmen. Then came a series with Cleveland. Just "Wild Bill" Donovan. prior to the Tiger-Nap engagement the Cleveland team had played three games with the Athletics and had used second-string pitchers. When Detroit showed up the Naps had Joss, Rhoades, Moore, Hess and Bernhard ready and we were beaten in three games. "After the third game I spent a few minutes jawing with Addle Joss. Bill joined us and right afterward Rhoades lipped In. Then Doc Fnyne, the Cleve land trainer, inserted his voice. This was too much for Bill. "Turning toward Payne, he yelled : "'Now, you get out of this argu mentand stay out. I know you have a reputation as a fighter, but either show something now or get on your way.' "Payne left." Ten Health Commandments. 1. Keep windows open day and night. 2. Do not spit 3. Breathe through the nose by keep ing the mouth shut 4. Drink pure water. 5. Eat slowly, take well-cooked meals, and cultivate regular habits. 0. Wear loose clothing of reason able material. 7. Take regular open-air exercises In sunshine If possible. 8. Wash whole body at least once a week.' 9. Work, but do not worry. 10. Get house drains certified by sanitary authority. Elizabeth Gregg in Health. Accidents en Common Carriers. Fifteen thousand accidents on steam railroads, street railways and other common carriers during the year end ed May 31, 1916, is the record In Pennsylvania, says the public service bureau of accidents. toiifiiiaiai Unless Backed may have an altogether impossible finds the many experiences which architecture ana acting can oe real art which, 'is to inspire the use worthy result, can only be gained experience. When the genius is also a worker, arms." Laziness is the major trouble. Mother's Cook Book. Spanish Rice. Take a cupful of boiled rice, four tablespoonfuls of grated cheese, four tublespoonfuls of sifted tomnto, one teaspoonful of onion, two tablespoon fuls of butter, one teaspoonful each of chutney, mustard and curry powder, salt and a dash of pepper. Melt the butter In a saucepan, put in the onion and curry and cook for a few minutes. Add the rice, cheese, tomato pulp, mus tard and chopped chutney; mix and beat well together. Season and turn into a baking dish. Sprinkle with browned crumbs and put into the oven to hent. Serve very hot with brown bread and butter. Raspberries In Snow. Pour a cupful of cold water and a cupful of sugar over a package of gel atine, stir until the sugar Is dissolved, and let stand until stiff. Add a cup ful of boiling water and the juice of two lemons. Beat the whites of four eggs until frothy, add to the gelatine and continue to beat until white, when it is ready to set; fold In a pint of ripe berries, pour Into a mold and set away to harden. Serve cold with whipped cream. Frozen Dainties. Even a cupful of fruit juice may be combined with a little orange or lem on juice, some cream and sugar, and when frozen make a most delicious dessert for a hot day. Grape juice, one cupful, a tablespoonful of lemon Juice to make the color more brilliant, and sugar to taste, with a pint of cream frozen, Is the most delightful bit of color served In sherbet cups, and tastes every bit as good as It looks. Good Things for Warm Days. Rice lends Itself In many ways to give us attractive dishes. The sim plest of these is rice baked with milk. Two or three tablespoonfuls of rice added with the same amount of sugar and n little salt to one or two quarts of milk, with or without raisins, and baked In a slow oven for three or four hours, makes n most satisfying pud ding, good for little people as well as their elders. pT0T0T5'5"oXo"omTtnnrf)Tf)T0"S Organdies in High Favor. I Some of the loveliest frocks of the summer are of organdie. ' Organdie lends Itself well to the o billowy effects in fashion and yards and yards of the crisp, o sheer fabric go into ruffles, flounces, puffings and shlrrlngs j.ui me uc mguuiuu messes. An organdie frock for a young girl has a skirt eight yards around, tucked from hem to belt by hand; the bodice is also tucked across to match and the to sleeves are little puffs with P hand-hemmed ruffles. The com. plete effect is delightfully girl- , ish and charming. There is 3 youthfulness also In a second R organdie frock, a model with rows of shirring around the hips. Only a slender, girlish fig- ute could stand this very bouf , fant frock, with Its full, gath l ered waist drawn down Into a tiny ribbon sash. The sash is I vjolet In color. ;C0Q000OOOQO000ceeooqpnpp Lingerie Frocks Worn. There is an effort being made to make lingerie frocks fashionable again by some of the fine dressmakers. Now that laces and embroidery are in again this seems to be the moment. Some lovely frocks are seen made of finest white batiste with heavy French em broideries in very high relief and com bined with flounces of eight or ten inch filet or lace of the Valenciennes type. The loose fencelike collar, at tached to a wide shallow decollete, and made of lace lightly wired, Is general ly seen on these frocks.