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. Dry and polish with clean
tissue paper.
• • •
When Using Soda—To prevent
the soda taste in foods in which
soda is used as a leavening agent,
dissolve the soda in a small
amount of liquid called for in the
recipe before mixing it with the
other ingredients.
• • •
Testing Fish—If fish is fresh and
has been properly refrigerated
from the time it was caught, it
will have a little odor. If it has
■ strong odor do not serve it. Let
your nose and eyes tell you wheth
er or not it is usable.
W N U S ervice.
666
LIOUIO, TABLETS
U LV E . NOSE DROPS
checke
COLDS
nnd
FEVER
f ir s t d a r
0 nlwtu.
T ry " ■ ■ k -M y -T la a r—W erM -t Best U nlm eat
C L A S S IF IE D
DEPARTMENT
PHOTOGRAPHY
ROLLS DEVELOPED
8 p rin t« 2 d o u b l« w e lg b te n ln r g e in e n ts ,
o r y o u r c h o ice o f Ifi p r in t * w ith o u t
e n la r g e m e n ts 2&o ooln. l i e p r in t« Sc ea.
N O R T H W E S T P H O T O S E R V IC K
F s rg e
•
M e rth D a h e ta
WNU—13_______________ 33—37
Sentinels
of Health
D on’t N eglect T hem 1
N ature designed the kidney« to do •
marvelous Job. Their taak is to keep the
flowing blood stream free of an excea» of
toxic impurities. Tha act of living— ff/e
flttlf— la constantly producing waata
matter tha kidney« muat remove from
the blood If good health ia to endure.
When tha kidneys fail to function an
Nature Intended, there la retention of
waste that may cause body-wide die-
treat. Ona may suffer n agri ng backache,
persistent headache, attacks of ditxiness,
getting up nights, swelling, puffiness
under the eyee— feel tired, nervous, ail
worn out.
Frequent, scanty or burning passages
may ba further evidence of kidney or
bladder disturbance.
The recognised and proper treatment
f t a diuretic medicine to help the kidneys
r e t rid of excee* poisonous body waste.
Use Doaa's P ilU . They have had morn
than forty years of public approval. Am
endorsed the country over. Insist on
Doan't. Sold at all drug stores.________
D oans P ills