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KITCHEN CIRCULAR CHEMICALS REMOVE
MOSS AND HELP
GIVES NEW PLANS
FOR RURAL HOMES
LAWN GROWTH
The secret of convenience in a
kitchen is to have it planned to
eare for all the uses it must serve,
and in the average farm family
home these are many and varied,
points out Miss Maud Wilson,
home economist at Oregon State
college, in a new station circular,
131, entitled
“Planning the
Kitchen.”
The circular has been prepared
especially for the use of Oregon
farm families planning to remo
del a kitchen or build a new one
and confronted with the problems
of what size the room needs to
be, what arrangement is most de
sirable, and what types of built-
ins are needed. It is a condensa
tion of a previous larger bulletin.
Profusely
illustrated
with
drawings of many types of ar
rangements for kitchens of var
ious shapes, as well as individual
drawings of different kinds of
cabinets, wood boxes, wood lifts,
sink arrangements, dining ar
rangements, work tables movable
and otherwise, coolers, cake and
bread storage spaces, and even
detailed drawings of silver draw
ers and knife racks. These were
worked out as the result of a sur
vey of the needs and desires of a
large group of Willamette valley
farm women.
The uses of a kitchen custom
arily include food preparation,
cooking and dishwashing, but the
majority of farm families like to
have space to eat in the kitchen,
even when there Is a dining room.
Miss Wilson found. Whether
meals are served there or not, the
average household wants a “fam
ily” center, where children can
play or adults can rest or sit at
work.
The new circular is an ab
stract of station bulletin 356,
"The Willamette Valley Farm
Kitchen,” to make the informa
tion more easily usable by farm
homemakers. It is free on re
quest from county extension offi
ces or the college.
The second mild winter in suc
cession in Oregon has left many
lawns badly infested with moss this
year, which can be largely eradi
cated by the use of chemicals, ac
cording to recent tests made by L.
E. Harris, assistant agronomist at
OSC, who has been conducting ex
tensive experiments in weed control
of various kinds. The most com
plete kill of moss was obtained by
the use of Sinox, an organic dye,
which, so far as known, is yet avail
able at retail in Oregon, although
supplies may be obtained through a
r e c eln 1 1 y established California
agency.
The best combination results, in
cluding fertilizer value, were ob
tained by use of ammonium sulfate
at the rate of 2 pounds to 130 square
feet either applied dry or dissolved
In two or three gallons of water.
The ammonium sulfate gives 60 to
75 percent kill and greatly stimu
lates grass growth.
A more com
plete kill is possible when the moss
is raked thoroughly before applying
the chemical.
FLYING CLUB
ORGANIZED, TR AIN
PILOTS AT O.S.C.
OREGON STATE COLLEGE— An
Oregon State Flying club, composed
of 41 students taking actual flight
training, has been formed here and
officially recognized by the college.
The students contract with the local
flying for training at group rates.
Only registered students and those
with written permission of parents
or guardians are permitted to Join
the club, says Ben F. Ruffner, asso
ciate professor of aeronautical en
gineering, who is faculty adviser.
It is believed that an active club
¡of this sort will aid in having OSC
designated next year as one of the
college centers for the training of
civilian pilots by the federal govern
ment.
Fluorescent tubes, a new discov
ery in illumination, have been used
exclusively in the million dollar
lighting program on Treasure Island.
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THE HERMISTON riERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
Hermiston, Ore.
Penguin* Good Husband* j
Affectionate With Mate*
Midget’s Condition Due
To Affliction of Gland*
Of all the strange birds that in
habit the earth, the emperor pen
guin, which breeds on the rocky
shores of the Antarctic regions, is
one of the strangest.
The penguin is the largest of the
wingless and flightless swimming
birds, the adult standing about
feet high and weighing around 90
pounds. He has a small black head
and a strong pointed beak. His back
is black, too, and his abdomen is
white. His short clumsy legs are
feathered down to his webbed feet
and in place of wings, he possesses
a pair of flippers which enable him
to swim under water for a long
time.
Because they stand so erect, pen
guins may be mistaken for human
beings when seen from a distance,
writes Burt Hause in Our Dumb
Animals. They behave like humans,
too. When making love, the male
struts proudly around the female in
or<jer to show off his good points and
manly bearing. Then he suddenly
stretches out his neck and touches
his beak to hers as though in a kiss.
Penguins are also very inquisi
tive. While swimming far out at
sea, they will draw close to a pass
ing ship and inspect it like a natur
alist inspecting the bones of some
prehistoric animal. Misery loves
company and, like human beings, a
depressed penguin seeks compan
ionship. During the moulting sea
son when he loses his feathers, he
invariably leaves home to And those
of his flock who will sympathize with
him.
Happily, divorce suits are un
known to a penguin family. With
them, love is eternal. Even after
wooing, the husband is constantly
kissing his wife with his beak and
embracing her with his flippers at
the most inopportune moments.
Midgets are not dwarfs. A dwarf
has the torso of a normal-sized per
son. Heads are broader at the top
than the jaw and there is a deep
indentation at the bridge of the
nose. Legs are short, especially the
thighs, and the pelvic region tilts
forward. They are susceptible to
heart trouble, which the midget is
not.
Midgets are people with bodily
proportions of normal childhood ex
cept that their limbs are shorter in
proportion to their trunks. Cheeks
are fair with little or no hair and
there is more than a normal de
posit of fat in cheeks, hips or waist,
or in all three. They are extremely
youthful looking, especially the
younger ones. This is due to the
fact that they have a dormant pe
riod between 6 and 12 which curtails
their development.
Midgets may appear in any fami
ly since their condition is due to
non-functioning glands, according to
Harlowe R. Hoyt in the Cleveland
Plain Dealer. When their growth
first ceases, parents as a rule seek
to bolster them with medicines.
Sometimes they succeed to the ex
tent of an inch or two, in which
event they frequently ruin their
child’s opportunity to make a liv
ing. Four feet is the limit in height
of exhibition midgets.
About 22 per cent of all midgets
marry. Of these, about half marry
other midgets and the remainder
normal people. Of all the midgets
who marry, only 41 per cent have
children. Midget women who have
children have normal-sized babies—
normal at birth and normal as ad
ults. No midget woman has given
birth to a child without a Caesarian
operation, necessitated by the small
pelvis.
Old Roman Maginot Line
Protected Claimed Land
Imperial Rome once held back the
menace of savage German tribes
men with a predecessor of the
Maginot line. The ancient fortified
line was on what is now German
soil, however, and was located con
siderably to the east of the present
French defenses.
The Roman line, known then and
since as the Limes Romanus, states
a writer in the Kansas City Star,
started at the village of Rheinbrohl
on the Rhine, about 20 miles below
Coblenz and on the opposite bank
of the river. It ran 200 miles over
hills and through valleys, with its
other end at Eining on the Danube.
Thus it protected the Roman-held
territory on the interlacing head
waters of the two streams. Below
its two downstream ends, the broad
rivers, patrolled by Roman galleys,
were deemed sufficient protection
for the empire’s frontiers.
The Limes Romanus consisted
simply of a strong timber palisade
when it was first laid out. Later,
at the end of the Second century
A. D., the palisade was replaced by
a continuous earthen wall, re
inforced at intervals by stone “cas
tella” or towers.
In an Indian community prior to
the discovery of America, and dur
ing early colonial times, no individ
ual owned land, but the right of
each to the plot which he cultivated
was respected. A man’s weapons
were his own, but generally the tools,
and often the food, and among the
tribes of the plains even the tepee
belonged to the women. Personal
belongings were often buried with
their owner, that their souls might
accompany him to the future home.
Remaining property was distribut
ed in the tribe or bestowed upon
heirs.
McNicholls’ “The Amerindians”
says that the conditions of land ten
ure obtaining in America upon the
arrival of the Europeans was such
that the view was held by them
that there was no occasion to bother
about acquiring title from the na
tives. “It was convenient for the
colonists to conclude that the Indian
right itself was but imperfectly and
partially secured. It was conven
ient also for the colonists to con
clude that neither tribes nor individ
ual Indians were clothed with the
requisite authority to enable them
to make perfect conveyances of
their rights or claims.”
Heaviest Man on Record
Daniel Lambert was the heaviest
man on record. Bom at Leicester
in 1770, he was, during his youth, of
normal build and fond of exercise,
but began to put on weight with
amazing rapidity in his early twen
ties. In 1806, on deciding to ex
hibit himself in London a special
vehicle was constructed for his con
veyance there. He was 5 feet 11
inches in height, and, to quote his
epitaph, says London Answers mag
azine, “he measured three feet one
inch round the leg, nine feet four
inches round the body, and weighed
52 stone, 11 lb. (14 lb. to the stone).”
At his death it was found neces
sary to take down the window and
wall of the room in which he lay
to allow of his being taken away.
His coffin was 6 feet 4 inches long,
4 feet 4 inches wide, 2 feet 4 inches
deep, and consisted of 112 super
ficial feet of elm. It was built on
two axle-trees and four wheels and
was rolled down a slope to the bot
tom of the grave.
How Ants Store Honey
Bees store their honey in cells
manufactured by themselves; bul in
Mexico and the southwestern United
States there is an ant which stores
its honey—in other ants.
Many species of ants collect hon
ey-dew, store it in their crops and,
on returning to their nests, feed
their brood or other members of the
colony by disgorging the sweet liq
uid. The Mexican honey ant, how
ever, has gone one better in organiz
ing food stores, says Pearson’s Lon
don Weekly. In each nest of this
species there is a class of workers,
known as “ repletes,” the abdomens
of which are so tremendously swol
len that they are veritable honey
pots. The “repletes” never leave
the nest. They stay there and the
honey dew is fed to them by another
class of workers which go out to
forage for it. During the winter,
when other members of the commu
nity wish to be fed, the “ replete”
disgorges some of its store. It is a
living barrel of stored-up food.
Life of a Needle
The neat and nimble needle is a
very complicated piece of work
which from first to last takes nine
days to produce. Special steel wire
from Sheffield is cut into lengths,
each length making two needles.
After being made perfectly straight,
says London Tit-Bits Magazine, the
length of steel is mechanically
sharpened at both ends, then flat
tened in the middle to take the
double eyes, punched out either by
machinery or by hand—an expert
hand-puncher getting through 25,000
a day. The double needle is divid
ed into two, and the eyes smoothed
and polished by hand. The soft wire
needle now has to be hardened,
tempered and Anally polished all
over ready for use.
Why Fish Are Dumb
Fish are plain dumb because they
are low in the evolutionary scale,
asserts a writer in the Los Angeles
Times. Fish are the most primitive
of the vertebrates, only one step be
yond the Crustacea. All our data
point to the conclusion that intelli
gence is an evolutionary develop
ment, and that the forms later in
time in developing have more of it.
A fish, therefore, is extremely un
likely to be sm art as a newt, a newt
as a frog, a frog as a lizard, a liz
ard as a snake or a bird; and all
the mammals are smarter, have big
ger (proportionately) and better de
veloped brains than the cold-blooded
animals.
Stephen Collins Foster Memorial
There is a Stephen Foster me
morial building in Pittsburgh. A
chapel was erected on the campus
of the University of Pittsburgh to
the memory of the composer. It is
known as the Stephen Collins Fos
ter memorial of the University of
Pittsburgh. It is located on the uni
versity’s Cathedral of Learning tri
angle, on Forbes street facing
Schenley park. The chapel, which
seats 700 persons, is built in Gothic
style of Indiana limestone. The left
wing of the building houses the com
poser's relics.
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Louis J. Alber says in the Com
mentator: “ In 1831 Ralph Waldo
Emerson wrote: ‘I am willing to
come to Waltham on the date you
suggest and lecture to your Lyceum
for the $5 fee you offer, but I think
you should also give me four quarts
of oats for my horse.’ Daniel Web
ster was the first lecturer to receive
a fee of $100; Abraham Lincoln lec
tured at Cooper Union for $200, and
in 1880 Henry Ward Beecher was
paid the first known fee of $1,000.
After finding Livingstone in Africa,
Henry M. Stanley received $100.000
and all expenses for a hundred lec
tures."
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Stephens and Gus Francoalus spent
Tuesday at Attalla assisting In
clearing the tracks of a wreck
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By RUTH FISHER
♦ between a Union Pacific and North
The Irrigon high school enter ern Pacific train.
tained the Boardman students Wed
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nesday afternoon, February 21,
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By Lois Hutchison
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Mr. and Mrs. Willard Baker, Mrs.
Mrs. Rachel Johnston Is conval-
W. A. Baker and Mrs. Klltz motor esing at the home of her sister, Mrs.
ed to La Grande Sunday to spend Dorothy Dlxson In Tigard, after
spending three weeks in the Good
the day visiting.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Douns of Spicer, Samaritan hospital in Portland. She
Missouri, visited at the J. McLoregh underwent an appendicitis opera
tion.
home this week.
The harmonica band, unde., the
The Grange sponsored a dance direction of Mrs. Emil Zlvney, en
which was given in the hall Satur joyed a picnic at the Ralph Keener
day night.
home Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Tubbs of Castle
Spring work is well underway in
Rock, Wn„ and Mrs. Della Tubbs Columbia district.
visited at the home of Earl Hood
Lester Colpitts is employed at the
over the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Dixson farm .
Earl Tubbs are going to make their
Mrs. Tllford Stillings and son are
home on the project.
111.
Horace Hodges is employed at the
Lester Hammer home this week.
t UMATILLA NEWS t Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Douglas and
Miss Myrthena Martin were visitors
By MRS. GLENN OSTROM
at the B. Hutchison home Sunday.
Bryon, infant son of Mrs. Mildred
Duane Lathrop left Tuesday for
Fromdahl, is quite ill with the flu. La Grande and Wallowa county to
Bob Meyers had the misfortune be gone a week or ten days. He re
of breaking his arm while working ports Mrs. Lathrop as Improving.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hammer and
with the engineers.
Mrs. II. B. Hull was hostess to M¡88 Dorothy Ferguson were busi
members of the Ladies’ Aid Mission ness visitors In Pendleton last week.
Joy Emprson is employed at Ar
ary meeting last Thursday.
John Mustard spent Thursday In lington.
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Struthers
Portland on business.
had as guests Sunday, Mr. and Mrs.
Rex Moses spent last week with Ray Armstrong and Merl Galbraith.
his mother who Is quite 111..
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. McCulley were
Mrs.- Don Isom Is staying at the callers at the H. A. Wilson home
Rex Moses home while her husband Sunday.
has gone to Coulee dam.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Foster were
Mr. and Mrs. A1 Darr took Mrs. Irrigon visitors Sunday at the Batle
Bob Meyers to Pendleton Saturday Rand and George Rand homes.
afternoon to see her husband, who
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Struthers
was in the hospital.
went to Pendleton on business last
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Chapman Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hammer moved
of Pendleton were Sunday visitors
to Hermiston last Sunday. They are
at the Ervin Chapman home.
Mr. and Mrs. George Sampson residing in the house recently oc
and family of Stanfield visited at cupied by Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Neill.
Edward Shaw has been working
the home of his parents Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. James Byrnes, A1 for Mrs. Mary Harr this week.
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