Thursday. February 13, 1930 Vernonia Eagle, Vernonia, Oregon ly recogulze ouisehes r.o.óoo or Oil.- 000 years from now.—Exchange. Say» Powdered Gla>. Safe Iver Sherer of Keasey spent Tuesday in Vernonia. G. W. Ford attended a con ference in Portland Tuesday. Tom Crawford was a Portland business visitor this week. Ambrose Schmidlin of Brauns was a Vernonia shopper Mon- day. Mrs. C. Krieger hae been re­ ported confined at her home with a cold. Mr. and Mrs. Judd Greenman and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Davidson were Portland visitors Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Allyn of Beaverton spent Tuesday at the V. L. Powell home. Mr! and Mrs. Joe Banzer of Mist epent Tuesday in Vernonia on a shopping tour. A. G. Greenburg of the Stan- dard Oil company of this city visited his brother in Portland over tlje week end. Exploding the stories that the Borglas and other notorlo'.n pel m ers of history mi d ti I v pur dered glass In foe I and drink* for their victims. Dr. Roche Lynch re­ cently demonstran d to the Medico Legal society of London tout this supposedly deadly material ..-ually passes through the human d- < live system without causing <1 th or doing serious damage. Kat ■ r lurk* in larger pieces of glass with sharp edges, he added. convalescing. Mrs. Lloyd Baker and children visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Powell in Riverview Sunday. County Judge John Philip I and County Roadmaster Chand­ ler visited in this city Tuesday ! afternoon on business. I The Trusting Heart Shall not the heart which Ims re A. C. Knauss left Tuesday for reived trust the power Corvallis where he will instruct t hy which so It milch. liven? May It not quit in a special session for lumber- oilier leadings, and Men to ro s' n The pupil really I, ¡ .is only as ho la able to assimi­ late tjio nc w meanings of fact» and prii:dp es with his previous The Lapse experiences. ActlvP'c» therefore A woman of Intellectual tnjrfcs constitute the pivotal force around found It tllfilcufl Io collect all the which faro gio.tp d tho new tao- facts she wished to remember. She tors In education. Tho primary re- therefore secured the services of n I memory system expert. spnnsib lity of tho teacher Is to Scarcely hnion, nnd precious stones have occupied an Important position on »•(•count of their form and color. The history of gems runs parallel to that of humanity, and has been as (»chited with the development of religion and science from the most remote times. Their connection with the church can be traced from the offerings of Jewels in temples of the pagan gods to their place by the end of the Fifteenth century as the chief possession of the “treas­ ury’’ of Christian churches. Authentic Giantess Ella Ewing, known as the MIs- sour! giantess, was born in Scotland county, Missouri, of normal par­ ents, and at birth weighed pound-’. She grew abnormally be­ tween the ages of eight and twen­ ty two years until she reached the • -•I'l’inotis height of K feet 4 inches. She wore a number 24 shoe. It took 30 yards of silk to make a dress for her. When she stopped nt hotels two ordinary beds had to be placed side by side so she could sleep across them. She made a fortune traveling about on ex­ hibition nnd died at the age of forty years. Decatur’s Schooldays The dashing Decatur who hum filed the proud dey of Algiers, and after whom so many New York I k ■. i were mulled when he was In the zenith of hl* naval glory, lived In Powder MUI lane nnd went to -. ' ad at the Lower Dublin academy In Holme burg, Pa. For nil Its pretentious name, the ‘'academy” was a small tug nud. stone struc­ ture with only two front windows mol a shingled roof. Stephen De­ catur did not take kindly Io study, lint lie Is said Io have curved Ills imine on every desk in the school room. —New York Times. Ma ter of Long Dispute The true, origin of the expression “O.K." Is not definitely known, though several explanations have been (lerivcd from n Choctaw In­ dian word meaning “It Is so”; It lias been attributed to tin Indian chief, (till Keokuk; it has been con­ sidered tin* Initials of “Orl Kor- rect”; It has been called nn error lor “(> It." (ordered recorded). An other authority ascribes it to Aux Caves, pronounced o kay, lit Multi, front whence lite best runt and to- h.-'c.-o was exported In Col,mini days. Coluxr.bus’ Coat of Arm» It was hi “the spacious times of good Queen Bess’’ when the Span lard was Lord of the Earth. All knew the story of his “Invincible Armada“; hut It had an unforeseen result through one of the vessels being wrecked on the Fair Isle, off the coast of Scotland, and some 200 of the crew being saved. During a stay of some months there, the Spaniards taught the women their quaint patterns. One of the pat terns is a golden anchor on a blue ground. This was the coat of arms granted to Columbus by the Span­ ish sovereigns ns one of the re­ wards of his discovery of the New world.—Montreal Family 11 er- aid. tnrr~n trst ■sn ann "try to Tbrani gists, in ma"ng exciiTnTIorrM m TliTs connection with the testboard. region, have uncovered ruins thou­ There was some trouble obtaining sands of years old, among which the connection. The youngster lis­ have been found broken sculptures tened a tew minutes and rushed of the date palm, together with ref­ Into the house, exclaiming, “Mam­ erences to the use of Its fruit as a ma. come out here quick. There’s a food. According to an old, old man up a telephone pole talking to Arabic story, after (hid had i-rented heaven." Adam, some of the suit cluug to “What makes you think he ts His hands and He molded It Into a date palm. The leaves were set talking to heaven?" “ ’Cause he hollered 'Hello t in n feathery crown at the top the So It hello! hello! gixqj lord, what's the same as lie created man. matter up there; can’t anyone Is only naturul that the palm should be ns nearly perfect a tree as Adam hear?’ ”—Forbes Magazine. was a human being. Cold Bath, A friend. In tlie ho piiul In the win ter, found his recovery Imztened by fresh ulr wdtlch was udiidtled t< his room despite the zero temper- rture. If the window remained ,*lo«ed tong lie felt “wilted." The fresh ulr wns a tonic. Fortunate­ ly, he find been prepared to stand cold temperatures hy dally cold plunges. The frequent bath Is something tvlilch the Western world learned from the Far East In din taught the British conquerors the value of the dully hath. Ort ental peoples lm■* end he gave a prod ills yawn “Excuse me,” he said. But the club bore was a mate!; for the best where rudeness was concerned “That’s quite all right,” he said “It doesn’t hotlier me at all. You see. I’ve lived close Io I tie trance of a railway ti.'imel for last five years. It has been said a good many times over. In this generation as In others, but President lllbbnn of I Princeton did well to remind the students of bls university that they should be on their guard against a flabby mind. Just as watchfully ns against flabby muscles. The old Roman who spoke for “a sound mind in a sound body’’ • :t the mind first, let us remember—mens sana In corpore sano—but in our modern quotation of the saying we are almost always throwing the em phasfs on the body. As civilization becomes more and more complex, the flabby mind, unequal to the task Coronado Cretonnes New Clock Hosiery Y A beautiful line of NEW SHOES Hard to Picture Orient Without the Date Tree For untold ages the date has been it - tuple article of diet In the Orient. 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"T ■ ■ W During the Next Two Weeks if Date is Made In Advance 7-CC “Spoiled’’ Child Handicapped Bellinger Hardware Mike Anderson A. C. Brown O. A. Anderson E. Brown Chester Bell Cass Bergerson / A. C. Bloom A. Bucklev W. C. Black A. E. Adams J. Angelo F. C. Braum Bert Arthur H. Beaver J. H. Beaver Columbia Co. Fire Assn. of Jewell. Oregon Columbia Co. Dist. 9 W. C. Childsworth Oregon Gas & Elec. Co. Col. Co. Fire Assn.. W. E. Crawford Culver & Co. Ed. Devine E. Carrigon H. Fielherg M. E. Erickson A. E. Erb Joe Gruber Vernonia Marshall Wells Associate Store No. 523 GOOD FOODS At the Vernonia Hospital PLEASING ACCOMMODATIONS FOR MATERNITY CASES NEHALEM MARKET AND GROCERY Your shopping can be done by phone, with as»urance of having as care­ ful selection of goods ordered, as if you personally had picked each item. —FREE DELIVERY Your inspection invited MRS. R. A. OLSON Registered Nurse 1117 State Street New Silk Undies 89c Real Quality A small boy laid watched a tele phone repairman cl huh a pole, non Complete Set of Attachments Many parents feel that tlie first few years of a child's life ere an unimportant twilight before the real dawn of personality and ut­ terly Ignore the Importance of those early years for development, observes Clara Bassett In Hygela Magazine. Careful study of the spoiled child problem shows that web chil­ dren do not outgrow their early habits, aa parent» often think they will. Many of them go through life with these attitudes and then develop mental and nervous break­ downs when they And they are not equipped to meet bravely the vlcis- sltndes and responsibilities of adult I existence. been employed as a clerk in the G. W. Ford, superintendent of local Safeway store. Eurcle McCollum of Treharne the Oregon Gas & Electric com- . j returned to his home at St. Ig- pany, returned Friday from a natius, Mont., a week ago Mon­ visit to Tacoma. Unnumbered Victims of Dream cf Eaey Wealth Fi.h Armed With Knives A ’•physlehin’ fish, accoutered with razor edged lances winch lire used to wound, however. Instead of heal, lais been listed with the Smithsonian Inst II it lion's vast I'lill Ippine collection. It Is known as the surgeon fish. On each side of Its tall are sharp pieces of car tllnge, so keen that they are ver Itili,le knives In an Instant they .-an bo made to stand out from the body for a rlppin„ blow A slight slap from the tall Is siifildent to cut >1 man's hand to the bone Mirny