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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON Thursday, August 19, 1937 Way Back When Crochet Her a Chic Little Dress Dish-Drying Is a Picnic With These By CHERIE NICHOLAS By JEA NNE FARLE y WAS ONCE A B JOK- KEFPER OT everyone can be an individ N ualist ano blaze his own trail to fame. Some of us are better fit More fun than a picnic . . . dry ing dishes with these cross-stitched towels. Put color into them with cotton floes, and you’ll hava tha gayest, gladdest set ever I Hera’s pick-up work that fairly flies for each motif’s in 8 - to - the - inch crosses. Think what a welcome ted for falling into line as part of an organization. James A. Farley's rise in politics is an example of the rewards which may come to the good lieutenant. Farley was born in 1889 in Grassy Point, N. Y., a small village on the Hudson river. There were five chil dren, and the father was a saloon keeper. When Jim Farley was ten years old, his father died and his mother started a combination sa loon and grocery store. The boy often tended bar or worked as gro cery clerk on the other side of the store. Through these jobs he learned to meet the public, be friendly with strangers and :'iow How Germans Protect Bee Hives. How the Honey Bee Lives and Performs His Very Important Duties Prepared by National Geographic Society, Washington, D . C.— W N U Service. ITTLE does th e a v e ra g e lay m a n know of the active life of the honey bee which su m m e r is conspicuous flying from flower to flower, b e a r ing pollen th a t p lan ts m ay blossom and b e a r fru it in se a son. The young queen bee, a few d ay s a fte r leaving the hive in which she h a s been born, se lects a day for h e r wedding flight. She u sually chooses a c le a r, w a rm , quiet d ay because h e r honeym oon is short, and she m u st m ak e the m o st of it. Only w hen she leaves the hive w ith a sw a rm , probably a y e a r hence, will she h av e an o th er occasion to fly. Mating always takes place on the wing, and if conditions are such that the queen cannot fly she will die a virgin. The strongest drone is her mate, for the queen is a good flyer, and the weak are thus eliminated in this wise provision to maintain the strength and vigor of the race. Before the queen has had time to return to the hive after the mating flight, the drone will have fallen to the earth, dead. Because of her specialized duties and the fact that she does not en gage in outside work and is not sub ject to the hazards of weather and enemies that might prey upon her, the queen may live to the ripe old age of three or four years. When she becomes too old, or when she can no longer produce queen and worker bees, or if she becomes ac cidentally crippled, the bees will raise another queen to replace her and for a while both mother and daughter may work side by side in the hive. But this arrangement does not last long. The old queen will shortly disappear. The marked differences between the queen and worker bee, both of whom come from the same kind of fertilized egg, have already been mentioned. Their difference in be havior is even more pronounced. The worker bee is armed with a straight sting, the end of which is barbed like a harpoon. When a worker bee stings, it cannot disen gage its sting. The violent effort of tearing itself loose from the well- anchored sting so severely damages the tissue of its body that it dies within a few minutes. Normally it can sting only once. When Rival Queens Battle. The sting of the queen, instead of being straight and barbed, is smooth and curved. It is construct ed so that it can easily be with drawn when she uses it. The queen seemingly does not realize that she possesses this very effective weap on. She may be picked up and handled as harmlessly as a kitten. If the queen gets into the wrong hive in returning from her mating flight, a royal battle is sure to en sue, and the two queens fight it out until death comes to the weaker. If the queen used her sting indis criminately, she might easily lose her life in meeting an enemy with which she could not cope. If she were being handled by her keeper and attempted to free herself by stinging him, he might instinctively retaliate by crushing her frail body. Should he do so, it would jeopar dize the future life of the colony, especially if there were no larvae in the hive from which a successor could be raised. For her protection therefore, she depends upon her own daughters or sister workers, who far outnumber her and whose sacrifice is not so fatal to the well being of the colony. The drone usually is regarded as a lazy individual, but, after all, he is the father and is entitled to cer tain respect. He gathers no food, nor does he help defend the family; he has no tools to collect sweets nor has he a sting to defend even him self. During his brief existence, however, he has certain privileges not accorded his sisters. He can safely visit neighboring colonies, workers nor queens are ac L cepted in other hives, but during the breeding season drones are al lowed to come and go as they please. Know One Another by Smell. in When the breeding season is over, and the honeyflow comes to a close, the bees become more economical with their food supply, which must carry them through the long, cold winter. Then they drive all the drones from the hives, thus doom ing them to perish soon for lack of food and shelter. The person who can recall the names and faces of several hun sympathy for their problems. He dred acquaintances is unusual; yet attended the Stony Point high school in a family of 80,000 individuals the and the Packard commercial school bee instantly recognizes every in New York. Graduating in 1906, member. It is evident that recog he was employed as a bookkeeper. nition is not through the sense of Jim was always interested in poli sight; instead, it is effected by the tics; and, before he was old enough more highly developed sense of to vote, he called house-to-house, smell. getting out the Democratic vote in Every colony has a distinctive Stony Point. family odor, different from that of His first political job was as town every other colony. If a strange clerk of Stony Point. He was cour bee attempts to enter a hive, the teous to all, jolly, a hale-fellow-well- guards at the entrance detect its met sort of man who had a pat on alien odor and drive it away. When the back for everyone. Through Al a colony is divided into two parts, the fred E. Smith, whom he helped elect parts placed in separate hives and governor of New York, and Frank given queens that are sisters, the lin D. Roosevelt, for whom <? was bees in each half develop different faithful lieutenant in the President odors. Within a week’s time they tiä! campaign, Farley forger stead become total strangers to each oth ily ahead. He won the top political er. Were the halves united again, plum in the United States, post the bees would disregard the exist master general. . . . ence of any relationship. It sometimes happens that a bee POET WAS ONCE A LAWYER keeper unites two or more colonies, which separately are too weak to EAD this story ot the conven produce a crop or to survive a hard tional lawyer who became one winter. The usual method is to place of our most famous poets. Not a one hive on top of the other, insert dreaming, unsuccessful lawyer, but ing a sheet of newspaper between a man with a profitable and impor them. The bees from both sides tant law practice, important enough gnaw small holes in the paper, and to associate with Clarence Darrow in doing so, they “rub noses,” but at one time A busy man of com the holes at first are not large merce who became a writer of enough for the bees on either side to songs and poems, sonnets, essays engage in combat. The apertures and drama I permit the mingling of the odors of Edgar Lee Masters was born in the two units, so that by the time the little town of Garnett, Kan., in the holes are large enough for the 1868. His father was a descendant bees to pass through, the two parts nf old Virginia stock- hi mother, have an identical odor. Thus union the daughter of a Methodist minister and descendant o. Israel Putnam of takes place peacefully. If it becomes necessary to place American Revolutionary fame. The a new queen in a colony, it is es family moveo to Petersburg, 111., sential that she be properly “intro and later to Lewistown, where Ed duced.” The old queep is removed gar was raised in the typically re at least an hour before the new spectable atmosphere of small town comer is “presented.” In this in America. He did newspaper work for the terval the colony discovers that it is queenless and it may start con local weekly, learnea the printing trade, inc’ studied law under his structing new queen cells. father, who wrs one of the leading Even though the colony desires a lawyers in the state. In 1891 Ed- queen, it would not do to release the usurper, because her strange odor would antagonize the bees and endanger her life. She is placed in a wire cage to protect her from as saults. Although her new subjects would kill her were she suddenly released, they feed her by inserting their tongues through the meshes of the wire. Must Store Food for Winter. Honeybees help perpetuate their race by their insatiable desire to gather nectar. Unlike bumblebees, hornets, yellow jackets, and wasps, , honeybees cannot live from hand to mouth. They must store enough food during the summer to keep the colony alive throughout the win ter. Of the four other insects Just mentioned, all the individuals in each colony die at the approach of winter except the young mated gar Lee Masters was admitted to queens, and these simply crawl into the bar and practiced in partnership protected places where they hiber with his father. The following year nate. During this period they re hi opened his own office ir Chicago quire no food. where he was a highly successful Among honeybees, only the lawyer until 1920. drones die in the fall. The queen But even in high school, Edgar and the workers live and are semi Lee Masters was interested in writ active throughout the winter. It is ing and he never forgot his am important, therefore, to gather bitions. He contributed to the Wa enough food during the summer to verly Magazine of Boston and the maintain the colony during seasons Saturday Evening Call of Peoria; he when insect activity largely ceases, j wrote poems for a Chicago news At the end of the swarming sea paper. His first nook, published in son, which coincides with the height 1898, while he was struggling to es of the breeding season, the queen tablish a practice in Chicago, was lays fewer and fewer eggs until fall, called simply “ A Book of Verses." when the rearing of the brood en “Songs and Sonnets” followed, but tirely ceases. Cold weather has none of them attracted much at overtaken the colony by this time, tention until his “Spoon River An imposing changes in its organization thology” was published in 1915. Those of you who lament your to cope with low temperatures. In dividual honeybees die of chill at unexciting lives and yearn for op temperatures well above freezing; I portunity, look at his dual person in fact, they seldom fly when the ality, the poet who has won such temperature is lower than 45 de high awards in the realms of lit erature. grees Fahrenheit ©—WNU Service R NE, two, three!—here they are, O a trio of pretty little crocheted frocks worn by a trio of pretty little girls as pictured. And do little folk of feminine gender love the dresses that doting mothers and big sisters crochet for theml Well, just show this picture to wee daughter or sis ter or niece or little girl neighbor and we wager that their opinion on the subject will make elders seek crochet hooks, yarns and books of instructions instanter, forthwith and without delay. These cunning frocks are sup posed to be party dresses—that’s the way the designers thereof listed them on fashion’s program, but for our part charming as any one of them would be to wear to a party, we believe your little girl will be wanting to wear her crochet dress every day. Why not? The idea of general wear will be found perfectly practical, workable and demonstra ble for it is crocheted of fast dye mercerized cotton yarn that washes like new and is so much easier to launder than a dress that has to be ironed each time. Serviceable, too —almost no wear-out to it! Speaking of smart styling In cro chet fashions for little folks, never have professionals paid so much at tention to this angle as during re cent years. The result speaks for itself in the three models pictured. There is the charmingly styled prin cess worn by little Miss Six-Year- Old (possibly she may be seven); anyway the dress shown to the left reaches a new high in swank so far as children’s fashions are con cerned. It is crocheted of mercer ized cotton, and we leave it to you to visualize it in the color your little girl happens to like best. It has puff sleeves as stylish as can be and is buttoned all the way down the front with crocheted buttons a la smartest mode. It really does not take long to crochet this dress and it is delightful pick-up work to inspire you to “ improve each shin ing hour." Little Two-Year-Old, who stands NEW SLEEK BLACKS By CHERIE NICHOLAS centered in the foreground, has on a fluffy-ruffle type of dress with bows on the shoulders and a ribbon rur. through the waistline of the very full skirt. It is just the sort of be-ribboned dress that makes an adorable child loo® more so. Why not make two of ’em, one for Sun- day-go-to-meetin’ dress and one for everyday service? Party days for a small girl mean ribbons and lace, cambric tea and ice cream and cake. What could be nicer to wear at such festive times than the lacy dress which the cunning youngster to the right is wearing? It is crocheted of deli cate mercerized cotton quite to this miniature queen’s taste, you may rest assured. It will also prove a boon to mother for it is dependably serviceable for all its fragile ap pearance, will wash, of course, and all that has to be done is to pull the lacy crochet into shape here and there caressingly with your fingers —doesn’t require the least mite of ironing. Here’s a suggestion or two to mothers who are making over dresses for little daughter’s play and school wear. Leading Paris couturiers are combining crochet and various materials. The idea would work out admirably in “fix ing over” children’s clothes. A cloth or sturdy linen dress that needed lengthening could be made attrac tive by adding desired inches of plain crochet done either in the iden tical shade of the fabric it is to trim or contrasting it. Make a matching crochet belt of the mer cerized cotton and carry out the idea further with crochet buttons and perhaps decorative pockets of the crochet. £) Western Newspaper Union. NEW FABRIC TRENDS FOR AUTUMN SEASON Trends in the silks and rayons which Paris fabric houses have pre pared for the fall costume collec tions : New plain silks have a softer, more velvety touch, a duller surface than before. Rayons of intricate weaving are dull, pebbled, “ crushed,” have fine matelasse patternings, Ottoman ribs, plain or fancy, and many nov elty surfaces obtained by uneven yarns. Serge or twill weaves appear in delicate silks or rich metals. Neon lights have inspired a whole group of lames made with colored metal yarn, also new changeable, mosaic, cashmere and jewel effects using the same colored metal. Novelty velvets are made with pile that is completely dull or has only a medium luster. Also with printed gold backs or satin backs. Metals and lames are finely pat terned or quite plain, elaborate in texture and often have small Pais ley, Persian, Byzantine, Oriental and Eighteenth century designs. To all appearances much is "go ing black before the eyes” of fash ion. At any rate there is nothing in the way of a frock so outstanding in early fall style showings as sleek black gowns of either gleaming sat in or of slinky, slenderizing, flatter- ing-to-the-figure Jersey which may be either a pure silk weave or of synthetic texture. The vogue for , this type of frock is pronounced. Deft drape effects predominate in the fashioning of these stylish all black gowns somewhat after the manner pictured. Top them with a tall draped toque or one as shown. Capes Replace Jackets in Early Ensembles for Fall First autumn ensembles often re place coats or jackets by capes, and are trimmed with sleek, flat furs. One such is Martial and Armand’s three-piece costume of brown wool, already ordered by several smart women. The skirt features front fullness and is topped by a leopard gilet which shows beneath a hip- length circular case of the brown wool finished with a tiny flat collar of leopard skin that is knotted un der the chin. Pleats for Autumn Autumn will be a season to wear box-pleated numbers with built-up waistlines, and the newest mannei ot raising a waistline is to build the skirt up at the sides only. Pattern 5858 gift just a pair of these would make at bridal shower or house warming. But chances are you won’t be willing to part with a single one of this handy set. In pattern 5858 you will find a trans fer pattern of six motifs averag ing 5 by 7 inches; material re quirements; color suggestions; illustrations of all stitches used. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern 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. Of IHTEREST10 INE HOUSEWIFE For a Delightful Odor—Add a drop of perfume to starch as it cools and children’s dresses, which require starch, will have a delightful fresh odor. • • • Keeping Apples—Apples will keep longer if rubbed over with a little glycerin, which can be washed off before the apples are used. • • • Sparkling Glasses—To get a beautiful sparkle on cut glass, wash in cold water to which a few drops of ammonia have been added. 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