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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. Thursday, July 1, 1937 Patient Journeys From Orient in Iron Lung Way Back When URGES FIRST AID FOR FARM MISHAPS Specialist in Health Cites the Equipment Necessary. B y M iss F a n n ie B rook s. E x ten sio n S p ecial ist tn H ealth . U n iv ersity o l Illinois. WNU S e r v ic e. With the peak of farm accidents soon to be here in the rush season and the busy summer months, this is a good time for farm folks to check up on first aid treatment. Knowing what to do until a doctor can be reached will go far toward cutting down the toll of farm acci dents. Farm folks should check up on what to do when: A barefooted child steps on a rusty nail, broken glass or other sharp object. A child contacts poison ivy or poison oak. Somebody becomes overcome by sunstroke or sunburn. A child is burned by firecrackers, Frederick B. Snite, Jr., of Chicago inside the “ iron lung,” or respirator in which he was brought from China Stricken with infantile paralysis more than year ago while on a world cruise, young Snite owes h s an injury which may result in te life to'the iron lung. He has been brought to the United States for treatments which, it is hoped, may result tanus unless taken care of prompt ly- in his eventual recovery. A child is bitten by a rabid dog. A child has gone swimming too soon after eating and therefore is “Mosquito Control” Essay Wins $500 C h arles P . T a ft attacked by cramps or acute indi gestion. H ead s S trik e A child receives small cuts and scratches while playing about the M ed ia tio n B oard farm. A good first aid kit which can be Charles P. Taft, son of the late | managed in any home will contain chief justice of the Supreme court, a good book on first aid to the in who is one of the members of the jured; a small drinking glass; two three-man mediation board appoint gauze bandages which are 2 inches ed by the U. S. Labor department by 10 yards; two gauze bandages, at President Roosevelt’s direction to 1 inch by 10 yards; one all-cotton elastic bandage, 2 inches by stan dard; one package of absorbent cot ton; one box of band-aid; one roll of adhesive plaster, 2 inches by 5 yards; one package sterilized gauze of 5 yards; one triangular bandage; six sterilized gauze pads; one tour niquet made of a handkerchief or wide muslin; safety pins; small scissors; tongue depressors; bar of soap, ammonia; camphor, iodine, and mercurochrome. bring about peace in the steel in dustry. The other members are Lloyd K. Garrison, dean of the law school of the University of Wis consin and Edward McGrady, as sistant secretary of labor and the department’s ace trouble shooter. An essay on “The Importance of Mosquito Control and the Gorgas Memorial” brought a check of $500 to William L. Drake, Jr., of Mil waukee, Wis. The check was presented to young Drake m the White House. Photograph shows, left to right, Mrs. Henry L. Doherty, who donated the prize; William Drake, receiving the award from President Roosevelt; Admiral Carey T. Grayson and Senator F. Ryan Duffy of Wisconsin. The essay contest was the eighth-annual in memory of Maj. Gen. William C. Gorgas. Mechanical Reveille Supplants Bugler BRITISH GOLF CHAMP Single Patch Forms a G ay Flower Quilt The quilt of olden-time lives again—the popular “Grandmoth By J E A N N E er’s Flower Garden.” Made of one patch throughout it’s a fas GERTRUDE STEIN DROVE AN cinating and amazingly easy quilt to piece. There’s endless chance AMBULANCE for color variety for each flower ERHAPS your brother or your is to be in different scraps. Here’s father went over to France with the A. E. F. and saw a rattling old French ambulance jolting over the shell-torn roads with two women on the driver’s seat. One, a husky, healthy woman with hair clipped short and heavy masculine shoes, was Gertrude Stein; the other, tall and angular and more feminine, was her secretary, Alice B. Toklas. Gertrude Stein was born in Alle gheny, Pa., in 1872. Much of her childhood, until she was five years old, was spent in Europe. Then her family moved to California, and she was raised in San Francisco and Oakland. After attending Rad cliffe college, she went to medical school at Johns Hopkins. She set Pattern 5802 tled in Paris in 1903, and the world may have lost a great surgeon as a quilt a beginner can piece, and she abandoned the scalpel to carve point to with pride. In pattern out a career as an author. 5802 you will find the Block Chart, She paid to have her first book an illustration of the finished printed, because no publisher would block in actual size, showing con accept it. Wide recognition came to trasting fabrics; accurately drawn her with the publication of her pattern pieces; an illustration of book, “The Autobiography of Alice the entire quilt; three color B. Toklas,” in which she uses schemes; step-by-step directions for making the quilt; and exact yardage requirements. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y. Please write your name, ad dress and pattern number plainly. P Of INTEREST TO THE HOUSEWIFE Fire Prevention.—To avoid fires keep all cleaning cloths that have been treated with oil in a covered metal container. • • • Preserving Broom.—Soaking a broom in boiling salt water every two weeks will help preserve it. • • • Picking Raspberries. — Red raspberries will keep better if picked early in the morning. • • • Cheese Molds.—Pour 114 cup fuls milk over 2 cupfuls soft breadcrumbs; add 3 well-beaten eggs, 1 heaped cupful grated cheese, 1 teaspoonful salt, pepper to taste, and 1 tablespoonful melt ed butter. Pour into buttered molds and bake from 20 to 30 minutes in a moderate oven. • * ♦ Removing Peach Stains.—Fresh peach stains can be removed from linen with a weak solution of chlo ride of lime. • • • Washing White Gloves.—White gloves can be kept white by wash ing them after each wearing with a soft brush and a pure soap. her secretary’s life story as a means of praising her own accom plishments. There she asserts that her book, “The Making of Ameri can;.'.” is the greatest ever written. Her motto, “A rose is a rose is a rose,” and some of her sentences Proso Is Recommended such as “Toasted Susie is my ice as a Feed for Poultry cream,” or this one from her play, Plan for a patch of proso this “ Four Saints in Three Acts” (there year for the poultry. Proso is also were actually many more saints known as hog millet, broom corn and there were four acts), “If a millet and Russian wheat. It is an magpie in the sky on the sky can enormous yielder and matures a not cry if the pigeon on the grass crop in a very short time ; our alas can alas and to pass the pigeon plantings in July were ready to on the grass alas and the magpie harvest in less than sixty days, in the sky on the sky and to try and states a correspondent in Wallaces’ to try alas on the grass alas the pig Farmer. It grows more rapidly, eon on the grass the pigeon on the stands a lot of hot, dry weather, grass and alas” have made many and matures more quickly than other critics think that the strain of am grains; reaches a height of three to bulance driving may have been too four feet, stools and branches, mak much for her. • • • ing twelve to twenty heads instead FANNIE HURST LIVED LIKE of one, one head having as many HER CHARACTERS as 1,185 grains by actual count. That is why it is an enormous yielder—up WNU S e r v ic e . AVE you read “ Back Street," to sixty or seventy bushels p e r or ’Five and Ten” ? Have acre. Proso makes extra fine poultry you wept and thrilled over the shop feed, fully the equal of wheat. It girls of Fannie Hurst’s short sto is also an excellent hog feed. It may ries? Fannie Hurst, herseli, was be fed either as clean grain or in once a waitress, a nursemaid, a bundle form, as the kernels are salesgirl, and a sweatshop worker. Had you met her then, you could readily scratched out of the heads hardly have known that some day she would be hailed throughout -OVfAHXMRr America as a leading novelist. Vaccination for Mastitis Fannie Hurst was born in Hamil We have hot found vaccination for mastitis to be satisfactory. There ton, Ohio, in 1889. She was raised Of Good or Evil seems to be no satisfactory treat in St. Louis, Mo., an only child who What a day may bring a day ment for this disease because nu had many lonesome hours for read may take away. merous kinds of drugs, vaccines and ing. At fourteen, she submitted other treatments have been relative blank verse to the Saturday Eve ly inefficient. The acute attack of ning Post. Spurred on by ambi ILL! mastitis probably is best treated tions, she wrote until three and four the morning while a student at LICE with hot applications, or, if neces in Washington university, came to sary, a suspensory bandage. Most New York to Columbia university, "Cap-Brush 'Applicator , essential, howaver, is the preven and for "BLACK LEAF 4 0 j wrote without having tion of the disease. It is contagious, a single years FAATMM story accepted. From the DASH IN P 1A T H IR S _______ t and infected animals are danger O R S P R E A D O N R O O STS ous to the rest of the herd. Animals infected with mastitis should be seg regated at one end of the barn and 28—37 WNU—13 milked last. The hands of the milker should be carefully cleaned and dis infected following the milking of each animal. Platforms on which the animals stand should also be disinfected. —C. P. Fitch, chief, Di vision of Veterinary Medicine, Uni versity Farm, St. Paul. H Black« Leaf 40 1 G O MUCH Private Frank Kaufhold, of the Second air base at Mitchell field, N Y„ seems amazed as he hears Mitchell field’s new mechanical bugle blow the familiar strains of “ Reveille.” His own bugle is now outmoded with the new contraption that has been adopted here. Although it takes some of the romance from army life, bugle calls, mechanical ones we mean, now have exceptional clarity and perfection. A close-up of Robert Sweeny, handsome Anglb-American, with the cup emblematic of the British ama teur golf championship which he re cently won in a 36-hole final match with fifty-year-old Lionel Munn at Sandwich, England. The twenty- five-year-old American-born Lon doner won by three and two. Quoddy Village Comes to Life Once More ..... iîtiîf W ” jüifïf C L A SSIFIE D DEPARTMENT Farm Notes A farm of 97,000 acres is adver tised for sale at Johannesburg, South Africa. • • • Veal calves should be at least four weeks old before they are slaughtered. • • • Depth for planting sweet corn va ries with the soil and season, ac cording to the College of AgricuU ture, University of Illinois. • • • Rye, oats, millet, buckwheat, and soy beans are common annual cov er crops used in the orchard. • • • The color of egg shells depends on the breed of the hen. It does not indicate differences in the food content. • • • The United States now has 87# dairy herd - improvement associa ♦ k w . mpmbers of the National Youth administration, at work on the new baseball dia- tions. One of their main jobs is to A grading crew of boys, members oi tne n a u Ouodd„ village, Eastport. Maine, the model com- find out exactly what each sire is able to do in building up the pro duction of a dairy herd. PHOTOGRAPHY ROLLS DEVELOPED 8 p r ln ia J d o n b le w e lrta te n la rv w tu e n to , o r j o u r c boles» o f 14 p r in t« w ith o u t e n la r g e m e n ts 24o coin . R e p rin t« So e a K iA T M W M T PHO TO 1 W V IC I r ,„ . n o r th D s b r t a Saturday Evening Post, alone, she THE CHEERFUL CHERUB received 38 rejection slips. Her first encouragement came from R. H. Davis, editor of Mun The n ic e s t re a d e r sey’s and success followed swiftly. w ro te And A sked Her first book, a collection of short stories, was published in 1914, and I f I could d in e w ith her works appeared regularly there h e r .som ew he re.. after, including "Mannequin” in 1928, which was awarded a prize I ’d lo ve t o came b u t of $50,000 by a moving picture cor h o n e s tly poration. Fannie Hurst now lives in luxury I h x v e h t in New York city. A handsome A n y th in g woman, she loves fine furs, rare laces, and brilliant colors. What a to v e t r . contrast to the humble scenes that A-Tc**! made possible her successful inter pretation of shopgirl hearts and aouls are the rich surroundings her persevering ambition has won for her! A __ « m a i l K e r v t a i a,
