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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1928)
Silly Idea Prevalent That Idleness Is Sin America is the only country In the world where Idleness Is one of the seven deadly sins, according to Irwin Edman, novelist and essayist, writing in Harper's. "With us leisure has been a melo dramatic escape Into excitement," he points out, "or a moralistic flight into self-Improvement. We oscillate be tween night clubs and outlines of cul ture. Every one has at some time or other been present at a determined ly gay party. He has seen ordinarily quiet, intelligent people become will fully noisy nnd stupid. He has Been men and women, separately delightful and entertaining, prance about, loudly screaming vulgarities, acting like grown-up babies of the age. And his pain has been Increased by a sense that none of these people cared to do the silly things they were doing. They drank more than they really wished to, and uttered hiccoughing nonsense that they themselves despised. "Every on-, likewise, has listened to a group of people at dinner or after ward, talk with obligatory boredom about the modish books and plays and ideas. Spontaneity, which is the essence of any truly spiritual life, flies out of the conversation and out of the window when 'culture' becomes deliberate." Message Not Exactly Connected With Love "Yon are wanted on the telephone," said friend stenog as she laid aside her powder puff and pjoved her vanity case to one side. He responded. "la that you?" he asked In his best voice. "This Is I," she responded. "You don't know how happy I am to hear from you. Yon have bright ened my whole day by calling." "What's that?" "Ob, is that you', Hattlet I thought at first it was my sister." "Tes, this is Hattle." He thought he detected a little Ice In her voice he wasn't Just sure but he thought so. "I wish that on the way home you'd stop In the market and bring home that salt mackerel I ordered. The clerk toloVme it would be a late delivery and I wanted It for supper." Berkshire Eagle. Cold Responsible for Error of Stevenson's? Robert Louis Stevenson never was in sympathy with those to whom snow ana ice brought Joy. During a cold spell In Edinburgh he wrote: "I feel fit for little else besides nraver. I can not be comforted; my wits are frozen. ... Life Is an amuse ment totally unsuitable for winter. I place a claim to Immortality on that phrase. How can yoq mind about Shelley? STou wouldn't If you were as cold as I am." It may have been' this loathing of cold which, by some psychological twist, betrayed Stevenson's wits Into his worst literary blunder, the Man chester Guardian suggests. When Marcel Schowb sought permission to translate "The Master of Ballantrae," Stevenson implored him to make a variation In the original. "Pray do not let Mrs. Henry thrust the sword up to the hilt In the frozen ground," he wrote; "one of my Incon ceivable blunders, an exaggeration to stagger Hugo. Say she sought to thrust It into the ground." Much Good in Laughter Laughter Is to life what yeast Is to bread. It Is a leaven that lightens and makes palatable an otherwise sod den, lifeless mass. Don't be afraid to smile and "pep" things up a little. Coming to Pendleton Dr. Meilenthin SPECIALIST in Internal Medicine for the past fifteen years "Shopping" Made Easy Probably nowhere, unless it is In China, is the wandering vendor of ev erything Imaginable so numerous as In Slam, where nearly every small householder does all his or her shop ping at home.- The wares offered from door to door cover a wide range, pass ing from beans and the smallest forms of foodstuffs on to combs, footgear and other necessities of life. Garments of all kinds, too, and the material for making ttiem are offered by peddlers at department store prices. Official health figures attest that the peddlers' wares are in every way up to the standard of those" handled by stores, says the Bangkok (Slam) Dally Mall, and, in short, are of real benefit to the great majority of the city's Inhabitants. DOES NOT OPERATE Will be at Dorian Thursday, May 17 Office Hours: 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. One Day Only No Charge for Consultation Pocket Sundial A pocket sundial Is among the many curios in the collection at Old Court house, Hampton court, where Chris topher Wren lived. It has a hinged style with a mov able pointer. At the top end is a compass and on the back are the names of several towns in various countries, each indicated by a num ber. To tell the time at any particular place, the number of the town Is as certained from the list at the back, and the style adjusted so that the pointer corresponds to the number of the town. The dial is then turned so that it faces north, and the time fs given on the dial. London Tit-Bits. "Ash Me Another Questions were being put to an In dianapolis lad, age six, from one of the intelligence test books with which saleswomen canvas the neighbor hoods, and he wondered why bis an swers to two of the questions brought laughter. Here are the actual questions and answers : "From what animal do we get pork?" "The porcupine." "What do we get from bees?" "Stung." CLASSIFIED ' -y For Sale A good, fresh Jersey Milk Cow. Phone 25. For Sale Good bundle hay. John Tompkins, Helix, phone 16F2. For Sale A Hamilton , Player Piano. Phone 561, Athena. For Sale Thoroughbred Jersey bull calf, eligible" to register. Phone 26F5 Athena. Sheep For Sale 70 head ewes and lambs, September delivery. Phone 25F21 Athena. For Sale Three-bottom self lift P. & 0. gang plow. Henry Koepke, Athena, Oregon. Pasture I have good pasture for a few head of stock until harvest at 10c per head per day. Ralph Allen. Phone 24F11. Team Work I am prepared to do all kinds of team work at reasonable prices. I will give special attention to plowing garden grounds, CLAUD DICKENSON. Dr. Meilenthin is a regular graduate in medicine and surgery and is licensed by the state of Oregon. He does not operate for chronic ap pendicitis, gall stones, ' ulcers of stomach, tonsils or adenoids. He has to his credit wonderful re sults in diseases of the stomach, liver, bowels, blood, .skin, nerves. kidney, bladder, bed wetting, weak lungs, rheumatism, sciatica, leg ulcers and rectal .ailments. Below are the names of a few of his many satisfied patients in Ore gon who have been treated for one of the above named, causes: H. H. Blake, Marshfield. Elmer Booher, Condon. Bessie Eckles, Empire. D. G. Horn, Bonanza. W. C. Helyer, Kent. ' P. M. Koster, Mt. Angel. Mrs. L. H. Martin, Moro. Davis Steinon, Allegany. . Fred Shields, Klamath Falls. Joe Sheoships, Gibbon. D. I. Wagenblast, Portland. Remember above date, that con sultation on this trip will be free and that his treatment is different. Married women must be accomp anied by their husbands. Address: 224 Bradbury JJidg., uo Angeles, California. PINICS PLACE has as nice assortment of Awnings They add to the looks of your car and shade you from the sun come in and look them over. "Pink's" Place Third Street "Service with a smile" Few Readers Who Do Not Enjoy Pictures There Is a Chinese1 proverb, the pur port of which is : "One picture Is worth a thousand words," says Rear Admiral Snow In the Antiquarian Magazine. A reason for this saying, centuries old, may lie in the fact that the written language of the Chinese peoples, though truly pictorial, can only be mastered by prodigious exer cise of the memory. However out of perspective are their drawings and pictures, it Is much easier to gain an Idea of a situation from one of their pictures than It is to commit to mem ory the Chinese Ideographs used to describe the episode. The oriental people are not, how ever, alone In their estimation of the value of illustrations as a means of quickly conveying Information. Any .occidental who has observed at all carefully the action of children upon picking up a new book, or running through a favorite old one, must have remarked their InclinnC .i, first and last, is to look through the pages and, from the pictures scanned with concen trated attention, fix in their minds the persons, places and incidents about which they are going to read. We are often told that "grown-ups" are very much like children wearing a' mask. In looking at pictures or old prints we older people do gain useful Information and experience much pleasure; we are like children. , Inattentive Suddenly a cloud seemed to over cast the bride's features and with an anxious note in his voice the groom asked what was wrong. . "What Is It?" he cried, tremendous ly perturbed. "Why are you sobbing like that?" "Be-be-because you are growing cold towards me. You don't love me any more!" "Oh, my dear," he walled, "how could--you say that?" "Well." she said. "1 saw vou look out of the window twice.'? RITNER Republican Candidate for .Congress IS t 1 I V V Oregon has five lawyers at present in Gongress. Eastern Oregon is an agriculture district. Elect a farmer who under stands its problems. Write the name in thus: X Roy W.Ritner (Paid Adv.) DR. S. F. SHARP PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Athena, Oregon DR. J. L. GEYER Dentist Post Building, Athena, Phone 582 Victoria Rayon Bloomers At The quality, fashion and fit of these Bloomers at such a low price is indeed remarkable. They're made of an extra heavy, durable quality of Rayon and are fashioned in a way that marks them unmistakably worth a much higher price. . H, CORAL, PEACH, AND ORCHID. Choice of Five Colors; NILE, FLES STEVE'S GROCERY Quality Quantity, Service. Phone 171. Athena, Oregon 1 DR. W. G. COWAN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Athena, Oregon Dr. W. Boyd Whyte CHIROPRACTOR i Stangier Building, Phone 706 Pendleton, Oregon. 957 J WATTS & PRESTBY1 Attorneys-At-Law Main Street. Athena. Oregon State and Federal Court Practice The Athena Hotel MRS. LAURA FROOME, Prop. Courteous Treatment, Clean Beds Good Meals Tourists Made Welcome Special Attention Given to Home Patrons Corner Main and Third Athena, Oregon It Pays to Look Well! To look well you should keep .your hair properly cut your face shaved and massaged In fact everything in the Barber line. Come in and see Herb Parker and I. Perm Harris Barber Shop Agency for Troy Laundry and Twin City Sanitary Cleaners. Phone 583. S33 Farmers Grain Elevator Company Grian and Feed SPECIAL A Full Line of Sperry's Chick Feed Phone 382 LEE WILSON, M'gr. 359 "He that tooteth not his own horn, the same shall not be tooted." Insurance of every kind and description. Farm Loans at rates and terms that satisfy. B. B RICHARDS, Athena Conoco Gasoline Quick Starting Packed With Extra Miles Motor Oils Greases Bryce Baker, Agent Phones 761 and 31F11, Athena THE KILGORE CAFE GERALD KILGORE, Proprietor Icy Pi Something New-Try it Today . Gerald Kilgore, Proprietor - - Athena, Oregon THE ATHENA MARKET Bell & Venable Phones 125 and 24 Two Auto Truck Drays Always At Your Service City and Country HAULING and Horse Team Work We carry the best Meat That Money Buys Kippered Salmon, all Kinds of Salt Fish. Fresh Fish, Oysters, Crabs, Claras, Kraut in Season. A. W. LOGSDON Main Street Athena, Oregon. The Lumber You Need If you are planning alterations or ad ditions to your building, let us give you an estimate on the Lumber need ed. You will be pleasantly surprised at the reasonble total we will quote. Wood and Coal Fence Posts III Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co. Main Street, Athena