The Ione independent., February 27, 1931, Image 4

Parents and "Contract Baby?
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One of Araerict'i most fanwui babies, Owen "Sunny" Moyer, ten weeks
Td, with bis parents, William Kenneth Moyer, Chicago poet, and Mrs. Moyer,
the former Miss Ethel Olyette Owen, University of Wlsconnln coed, who
started a wide controversy when they married by contract. They agreed to
a divorce after two years If In that time they were still childless. The doctors
hare pronounced the "contract baby" perfect
Eclipse Furnishes New Moon Data
Kluafou Island. The discovery of a
new wave length In the spectra of
the tun's corona and further informa
tion on the movements of the moon
were announced recently by American
dentists as the fruits of their ob
servation of the solar eclipse here.
Spectrographs obtained by Dr. S.
JL Mitchell, scientific head of the
American naval observatory expe
dition, caught manifestations of the
teretofore unknown wave length,
which showed Itself at 6,770 ang
Strom inlts. An angstrom unit is
CH0O0hOOO00kO0iKK
HAVING YOUR
FORTUNE TOLD
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dcaa of Man, University of O
Illinois. O
Very few of us are satisfied with the
present We should like to see ahead,
to know what Is
going to happen to
us next week or
'fLw Vi t year, or ten
-T" years from now.
Are we going to be
rich, or prominent,
or Influential? Are
love and romance
nl beauty to be
our lot. or is fail
ure and insignifi
cance and poverty
and disgrace wait
ing for us Just at
the turn of the
road? It Is our keen Interest in these
things which makes us eager to know
what the cards or the clairvoyant or
STAR HOCKEY PLAYER
Fronk "King" Clancy, former t:r
hockey plnyer of the Ottawa Senator
and wlie was purchuwed by the Twron
to Mm pie LenfH for $10,00. This Is
said to be the highest price ever paid
for a National league stick-wielder.
Clancy Is shown wearing the uniform
f the Maple Leafs for the first time.
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one-hundred-mllltonth of a centimeter.
The data U expected to be useful
In computing movement of the moon
and In forecasting future eclipses.
Coronal disturbances on both the
east and west edgea of the sun were
recorded. These appeared to have
had their origin In eruptive promi
nence. The dotall shown In the
pectrographic line of the coronium
(chief constituent gas of the corona)
did not resemble that exhibited by
the prominences.
Changes In coronal forms shown by
tea grounds have to tell of our coming
fortune.
Now I have no faith In phrenology
or palmistry or the physiognomist who
pretends that by looking you over he
can predict Just when you will marry
and whom and tell whether you'll make
good as t machinist or a manicurist.
My better Judgment tells me that these
people are all fake, who know no
more about the future than I do, and
not so much about my own past, at
least but to me they are nevertheless
Interesting. I like to hear what they
have to say and to try to discover why
they say It I don't believe it; I don't
bank on it, but It gives me a pleasant
sensation to be told about the delight
ful th!n;s I may expect In the near
future.
There was a phrenologist came to
town when I was a small boy. For
twenty-five cents he agreed to tell me
what nature had In mind for me when
I was created. He looked me over,
ran his hand over the Irregularities of
my cranium and proceeded to picture
a great future for me. Law, as I now
recall, was the profession In which 1
was destined to shine because he de
tected In me great powers of speech.
Oratory, spell-binding, holding an audi
ence breathless wa to he my forte.
I knew, and I have no doubt he did
nlso, that I had no particular talent as
a public speaker and that If I ever
learned at all It would be with much
agony of mind and body, but never
theless I enjoyed the words he uttered.
There is nothing that dispels depres
sion so quickly as to have some one
look you over, or hold your hand and
from the scars nnd callouses, and
wrinkles wlibh decorate Its surface,
discover the fact that there Js really
something to you, that fortune, and
success, and a great and glorious fu
ture are waiting for you If you will only
hitch up your belt or suspenders, If
you are wearing suspenders at the
time, and push rlpht ahead to what
you are entitled to. These tellers are
wonderful encourngers; they pat you
on the back; they riture for you a
successful future, nnd a little patting
on the back seldom does a man any
harm.
As I suld before, I know It is all a
fake, that any man with an lotn of
sense will give no credence to what
the fortune teller says, hut Just the
snme whenever I see a sign announc
ing, "Your future foretold," I can
scarcely resist the temptation to go In
and see what the faker will say.
(;, liSO, Weatarn Nwippr Cnlon.)
The Chicago opera compuny lost
$."88,000 lust season.
a Difference!
Lights
Police Commissioner Edward l Mul
rooney Is a rather quiet man, but,
when he is In tho mood, ono of the
most Interesting talkers I know. He
tins a keen, observing mind, a thorouiih
understanding of police problems and
the relation between the force and tho
public, a tremendous knowledge of
human nature, and a grand sense of
humor. Why shouldn't he have with
a name such as Mul rooney? The po
licing of a city such as New York
calls for a commissioner with strength
and Judgment, and Mulrooney has
both. I imagine he can be pretty Arm
and cold on occasion; but yon can't
talk to the man long without hearing
the bent of the warm Irish heart In
him. Yon may aunect that I like Mul
rooney, and I do. Maybe It Is because
we both are old -fashioned enough to
like big league baseball better than
midget golf and agree that the big
Frenchmnn, Larry Lajole, was the
most graceful player we ever saw.
"Who would have supposed," says
Commissioner Mulrooney, "thnt you
ever would see a Tom Thumb golf
course on Fiftieth street? It makes
you think that Manhattan real estate
may not be so valuable after all. Hut
they are keeping these courses open
a little luto. I think an ordinance
the successive spectra Indicated vio
lent motions In the Inner corona.
These disturbances could be traced
to as far as 100.000 mile beyond the
sun's surface, and. as far as Is known,
never have been observed before.
Development of photographic plates
today Indicated the expedition had
been successful beyond expectations.
A shortage of fresh water delayed de
veloping. This became a difficult Job
when fresh water had to be brought
ashore from the U. 8. S. Tanager
aud protected from lava dust blown
In by trade winds.
rhotographa of exceptional beauty
and detail were obtained, especially
nine plates from the sixty-three f ot
tower camera and three from the six-ty-flve-foot
horizontal camera, con
structed a an afterthought from
scrap material and a spare Ions.
Beautiful coronal streamers, with
especlully Interesting strawberry
shaped dome, were conspicuous on
plates of all cameras.
The data Indicates the totality was
of 93.9 second' duration.
Successful photographs of the flash
spectrum were obtained both at the
beginning and end of totality.
Mohicans Take "Warpath" of Whites
Norwich. Conn. The last of the
Mohicans are on the warpath.
They have fured fnrth to fight what
they term encroachment of the white
man on their hallowed precincts and
they have armed themselves with the
legal weapon? of their pale faced
brethren instead of with the more de
structlve Instruments of their aborig
inal forebearera.
The Mohicans, or rather their de
scendants, have brought suit In Su
perior court against the state of Con
necticut, its attorney general, the city
und town of Norwich and others, de
manding $1,000,000 for the alleged
desecration of a smull Indlnn burial
ground near here, in which the body
of the great sachem, Chief Uncns, sup.
posedly Is burled.
Edyth B. Gray and others, who de
scribe themselves 1:1 heirs of the great
Uncns, charge the defendants with
preventing thern from continuing to
use the burial ground as a cemetery,
that monuments there have been de
stroyed or removed, and thnt the so
called reservation has been cut up
Into building Iota.
All told there are not more than
100 descendants of the tribe uhout
which J a me Fenlmore Cooper wove
such fantastic and romantic tales.
None of these are full blooded, vir
tually all being white mixed. They
live on what they call "the reserva
tion," a small plot of land at Mohe
gan, on the west bank of the Tlinrncs
river four miles from here. In reality,
It Is not a reservation, for It Is not
under federal or state supervision.
The burial ground Involved In the
suit Is a 10 acre plot It Is studded
with several gravestones, one of which
marks the supposed last resting place
of Uncas. The noted chieftain's grave
of New York
will be passed to close them at 1 a,
m. That' late enough for any golfer
to got homo. These places are get
ting to need a little regulation."
I suld that Mulrooney had a sense
of humor, lie also hn a sense of
drama. lie can tell you stories that
would keep you listening for hours,
and he always holds his suspense and
drops his curtain on the big thrills. I
asked him whether good detective
work he once was head of tho de
tective bureau was not mainly per
severance, courage and common sense,
lie said a fine detective must have
more than thnt, one of his greatest
qualifications being the ability to put
himself lu tho other man's place and,
from that angle, figure his line of
thought. lie Illustrated his point.
"We got word," said Mulrooney,
"that an embex.lor, who was badly
wanted, was heading for New York on
a railroad with Its terminal In New
Jersey. That meant he would have
to come In on a train ferry, so w cov
ered them all. Those wore the days
of horses; It was before tatlcabs had
come In. We had received such short
notice that by the time the detective
who went to the Twenty-third street
ferry got there, the boat he wanted
to meet was In and the passengers
gone. He knew all the hackmen, but
that wasn't going to get him any
thing. They were a tough lot and It
was not In their code to help a cop.
Still he asked them If they had driven
anywhere a roan such as he described.
No, they had seen no such man. What
with handling bag and the confusion
of a boat crowd, they had not time to
take not of people they drove.
"It wa then." continued Mulrooney,
"that the man showed real qualities) as
a detective.
"'I'm sorry!" he exclaimed. 'I cer
tainly did want to get that fellow.
It's a shame he got away.'
'"What did he dor asked one of
the hackmen.
"The detective knew that If he ex
plained the man made off with a lot
of dough the hackmen would wish him
all the luck In the world, so he used
a bit of Imagination.
"The dirty skunk 1' said the hack
man. 'Now that I com to thluk of It,
A girl may refuse
a man because she
feels sure he will
propose again; but
a widow never tuke
such chances. She's through gambling.
I marked by an obelisk monument
about aeven feet high. Across the
face of one aide la the inscription
"I'ncas."
The obelisk has an Interesting his
tory. It base was luld In mi In the
presence of President Andrew Jackson
and a few members of his cabinet,
who Journeyed by stage coach to Nor
wich especially for the occasion. Then,
Sights We'll Never See
THE HENPtCKtU HUSBAND WHO
FINALLY r1SERrj MIMStir-IMD
UZJi AWAY WITH IT
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By
WAUTH.
TRUMBULL
I do remember a man like that one
you describe. The driver who took
him Isn't bnck yet, but he'll be back
In a minute aud we'll find out wher
ho went. You wait.'
"So the dclccttv walled. Pure
enough, the driver returned and all
the hackmen gathered around him,
us eager as the detective for news of
his fare. When he heard the details,
he took tho detective In his hack and
made good time to a hotel. Ther was
the man, who soon was on his way to
the police station. The harkmsn Cor
tnluly had dono their bit In the cat
tu re, but they lind acted under a slight
ly mistaken impression.
"You see," concluded Mulrooney,
"the detective hadn't mentioned em
bezzlement. He told them that th
mnu had murdered his old mother and
cut oft her head with n roxor."
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CEREMONIAL BEAUTY
The Soft texture of velvet swrves to
set off the regal beauty of this eve
ning ensembln. The gown of royal
blue velvet follows the princess sil
houette, and the Jacket Is elaborately
embroidered In silver metallic thread
aud appllqued with silver leave.
The wide cuffs aud shawl collar are
of plutluum fox.
Bosinf I N.w "5tulr"
Aberdeen, 8. IX lloxlng has eeen
added to the curlculuin of the North
ern State Teachers' college.
It seemed, the Norwlchltes forgot
about finishing the memorial until the
full of lHO, when the money to com
plete it was collected at a Harrison
Tyler campaign meeting.
Finally, on July 4, 1h2, the obelisk
was raised over the buse.
Sheep were first brought to America
by the pnnlurd under I'orouado.
By Charles Sugliroe
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THAT SOUR LEMON, ADE
Ceorge Ado, In hi quality of cynical
bachelor, luld at (ho Chicago Athletic
club:
"I was sitting with a little girl of
eight one afternoon, 8he looked up
from her Hans Andersen und said;
"'Ioes mirage spell marriage,
Mr. Adur
"Yes, my child,' I sald."-Mlnn
apolls Journal.
THE LAST WORD
Frmer Hug Yes, we'r very up-t
flute her now. We've been getting.
ur mall by airplane service for quit
t while!
Emarftncy Csie
Summon danllst
For Willis Mlh
II ond a built
With hi latth.
Laagklar Dfinl
Pupil (to learned professor) What
rauses laughter?
Professor My boy, a laugh I a pe
culiar contortion of the human coun
tenance, voluntary or Involuntary,
superinduced by a coucntenatlon of
external circumstance, seen or heard,
of a ridiculous, ludicrous. Jocose,
mirthful, funny, facetious or fanciful
nature, and accompanied by a cackle,
chortle, ca'hlnnatlon, giggle, gurg'f,
guffaw, or roar.
T Ike Ltlr
"Listen," laid the biucksm
Ith to Tat.
who Just got (he Job helping
"I'm going to bring this
from the Or and lay It on
when I nod my head, hit It
Uils hammer."
I'at obeyed Instructions
blacksmith never nodded
(gain. Tit lilts.
the smith,
horseshoe
the anvil;
hard wltb
and the;
his hiud
Defined
Tescher Alfred, you may spell the
word neighbor.
Alfred N e-I g h b o r.
Teacher That's right. Now. Tom
my, ran you tell me what a neighbor
Is?
Tommy Yes, ma'am. It's a woman
that borrows things. Chicago Ially
News.
BECAUSE OF HIS LEGS
"Do you caU him your beau because
he' your sweetheart?"
"No; I call hi in my bow bucause
of hi legs."
Preti Agnt Triumph
Th critic's psc I cannot strike,
I'rtisi I'd btttar quit,
for every show I most dlsllk
Turns uut to be a "hit,"
May Be Good Thaory
Say a New York financier; "Tha
future look bright to (nose who will
work hard and attend to their own
business,"
And can you think of any two
things a lot of people you know care
less about doing?
la Kentucky
The Major Over there I tho colo
nel; a fine Judge of horseflesh.
City Visitor So am I I've dined
at restaurants for the Inst 20 yenr.
I Lev Tkm
Friend of Relumed Motor Tourist
Hello, you people! Hack again. Mad
a good lime?
Returned Tourists Topping, thank '
Such quaint little hospital! London
Opinion. Strong Family Resemblances
Friend Whom doe your little son
look like?
Happy Father Ills eye are mine,
the nose la my wife', nnd his voice,
I think, be got from our auto born.
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