VERNONIA EAGLE. VERNONIA, OREGON
Uncle T^kll
Could We But Hear—
We laugh over the “private
lives’’ of the ancients. What will
posterity think is the 'funniest
about ours?
You can not really like an ego
tistic man, but at times you ad
mire him.
It is softies who object to critics.
Criticism — good criticism — is
what there is not nearly enough
of. But there are overwhelming
oceans of gush. A good scold is
preferable to a smearer of mo
lasses.
A woman with little money, but
much taste, will make a small,
shabby house into “a vineclad
cottage.”
One regrets his past about as
much when it has been full of emp
ty boredom as when it has been
full of sinfulness.
But It’s True____________
AROUND
the HOUSE
Fitting Your Hat—If you have
a tight felt hat, hold it in the
steam of a boiling kettle. When
the felt is thoroughly damp it is
easy to stretch it to the right size.
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Milk Puddings — Orange peel
shredded very finely makes an ex
cellent flavoring for milk pud
dings. It is a pleasant change
from nutmeg when added to rice
pudding or baked custard.
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Cleaning Combs, Brushes—A
weRi ALL
teaspoon
of ammonia in a quart
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of water will remove all grease
and dirt from combs and brushes,
after which they should be rinsed
and dried in the sun.
queen
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Devilled Egg Lillies—Hard cook
kept a diapv roR
as many eggs as there are to be
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servings. Chill, then peel care
fully. With a sharp knife cut
Mr. Davies predicted his feat before lie entered college.
Chiang Kai-Shek, for instance, would be Mr. Chiang. And in China strips from the large end to the
center; remove yolks, mash and
it would be Mr. Roosevelt Franklin Delano.
Items of Interest
to the Housewife
season with salt, pepper, mayon
naise and a little Worcestershire
sauce. Carefully refill cavities
having the white strips form the
petals of the “lily.” Lay each on
a bed of curly endive. Accom
pany with cheese straws.
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Protecting Mirrors— Keep mir
rors out of the sun—it will cause
spots and other blemishes.
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Rust Remover— Onion juice will
remove rust from tableware.
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Save Stockings—If stockings
persistently wear out at the toes,
try buying them one-half size
larger.
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Making Cocoa—Cocoa loses that
raw taste if made with half milk
and half water, then boiled. More
nutritious and digestible, too.
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Stewed Macaroni — Boil one
pound macaroni in milk and wa
ter for three-quarters of an hour,
adding one-fourth ounce butter,
salt, and an onion stuck with
cloves. Afterwards, drain the
macaroni, add three ounces grat
ed cheese, a little nutmeg, pep
per, and a little milk or cream.
Stew gently for five minutes and
serve very hot.
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Keeping Cheese Moist—To pre
vent it from becoming dry, keep
it wrapped in butter muslin, or
in the glazed hygienic paper in
which some bread is wrapped.
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Tough Pastry—Too much water
will make pastry tough.
pick your opponent. Why not just
take marijuana weed? This writer
speaks with feeling on this subject,
having observed one citizen chew
ing another’s ear off in a mountain
A General Quiz
hamlet in southern Mexico, quite a
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few years before the weed became
an extra-curricular interest in BiiMMlll-flllllUBlfiWi«
By Lemuel F. Parton
American high schools.
ON FLOWERS • FRUITS
1. When was the “conscience
I had joined in singing the quaint
VEGETABLES & SHRUBS
fund” in the United States treas-
"La Cucaracha” song about the
Demand original sealed
cockroach that got so full of mari I ury started?
Gallant Crusader Against
bottles, from your dealer
2. How far away from the earth
juana
weed that he couldn’t walk
the Marijuana Weed
home. There was nothing in the I is the nearest star?
EW YORK.—The good song about the drug’s peculiar in 3. From where was the inscrip
on the Liberty bell in Phila
men do isn’t necessarily citement to mayhem. The song will tion
Man a World
distasteful to anyone who delphia reading: “Proclaim liber
Man is one world, and hath an
interred with their bones become
if
WNU Service.
seen marijuana at work—also ty throughout all the land unto all
other to attend him.—Milton.
they have co-operating wives. has
the
inhabitants
thereof
”
taken?
my experience near Mazatlan,
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The late Hamilton Wright’s where a peon was shooting up the 4. From where did the word
“
geyser
”
come?
world war on narcotics has town and lunging at passersby with 5. What is the size of Yellow
l/ou can land, a battel
been shoved on down through a machete.
stone National park?
19 years of tireless fighting by It was about eleven years ago 6. How many different types of
that the Brooklyn police arrested
f
| holly are there?
his widow.
Andrew Huerta, a Mexican sailor,
Getting a better job is really
7. What is the net area of na-
At
Richmond,
Va.,
recently,
Mrs.
who
was
selling
marijuana
ciga
easy when you know how to
Wright pleaded to the National Con rettes. In a backyard In Queens, he | tional forests in the United
apply. Send 50jf for your copy
gress of Parents and Teachers for showed them a knee-high crop of States?
of “THE PROPER APPROACH ”.
8. What city is known as the
united and effective action against marijuana. This led to the arrest
It tells how to proceed, contains
the marijuana weed, murderous of racketeers, growing the weed and (City of Hills?
specimen application letters,
9. What is the greatest height
important rules for applying,as
Mexican narcotic smoked by school selling cigarettes to soldiers.
at which birds fly?
well as valuable information
children. She calls it the "most
She—Now, Frank, I want you to
Every
year
or
so
there
is
an
ar
which has helped others to
10. What is the estimated world
pernicious of drugs.”
rest.
The cigarettes are made total of unmined coal?
give me something cheap for my
secure profitable employment.
In New Mexico, twelve years ago, from the dried leaves and the flow
birthday.
Answers
the state narcotics commission ers of the weed, which is known as
A/our!
He—I was going to offer myself.
found growers and cigarette manu "wild tobacco” and looks like a to
1. In 1811, by a contribution
Send 50< in stamp«, coin or
Money Order to Dept. A-1O,
facturers pressing a campaign mato vine. It is a tough growth from some anonymous person
among children, and they found the and so is the habit If somebody whose conscience hurt him. The
HERE'S A REALUf
children smoking marijuana. They bites you on the subway, you will fund has grown until today it to
MARVELOUS
passed a law. The use of the weed know what is the matter.
tals over $650,000.
INCORPORATED
BARGAIN IN
crept on to New York, Rhode Island,
2. About 25,500,000,000,000 miles.
All states, as Mrs. Wright reports,
510 Commonwealth Annex
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Tex have laws against its growth or use.
3. From the Bible—Leviticus
SELF-POLISHING
PITTSBURGH. PA.
as and several southern states.
except South Carolina, Kentucky and 25; 10.
FLOOR WAX-A
At the Richmond congress. Mrs. Tennessee. But, so far as this writ | 4. Geyser is an Icelandic word
FULL QUART FOR
the original pronunciation being
Wright represented the federal bu er can learn, there has been no
85< NO RUBBING-
reau of narcotics. In 1921, she be unified or vigorous action, there is ¡“geeser,” later changed to “gay-
40 BUFFING WITH
gan her service as one of three in meager information and there is ac ser” and finally Americanized to
THIS AMAZING NEW
ternational members of the opium cumulating evidence that with re “gyser.”
advisory committee of the League peal, some of the more resourceful I 5. It covers 3,438 square miles
of Nations, and has since waged her liquor racketeers became agricul | of territory, of which 257 are in
Montana, 25 in Idaho and the re
fight against the drug traffic in ev turists.
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mainder in Wyoming.
ery country where it originates. She
6. There are 175 different type
Lost Atlantis Again.
was Elizabeth Washburn, the
daughter of the late Senator Wil
For more than thirty years. Pro or species of holly found through
liam Drew Washbum, who had been fessor Leo Frobenius has been tak out the world.
minister to France.
ing the shine off our modern civili 7. More than 162,000,000 acres.
8. Lynchburg, Va., is so called.
Hamilton Wright traveled, agitat zation by demonstrating that a lot
ed, organized, wrote and lectured of it is old stuff. The famous Ger 9. Aviators crossing the Andes
for years against narcotics. When, man archaeologist, lecturing in the report condors seen at 22,000 feet.
In 1918, he went to Paris as a mem United States, is one of the leading 10. Estimated at 7.8 trillion met-
ber of the peace conference, he was defenders of the lost continent of | ric tons.
killed in a street accident. Mrs. Atlantis theory. Now sixty-four ____________________________
Wright, highly placed socially in years old, he delves tirelessly in In
Washington, left her pleasant home dia, Africa, Egypt. Tripoli and Tur
and her four children and picked key. The son of a German army
I f.
up her husband’s gage where it had officer, also an author and scholar,
he made his first expedition in 1904.
fallen.
In Chins, Turkey and Persia, she Of all savants, he has turned up the
lorious 11-day, 2000-miIe vacation cruises
fought against the world tide of poi most convincing evidence that
through An Aisle of Isles, th« land locked
many
strata
of
great
buried
civili
son. She traced the green capsule
Inside Passage, with calls at Ketchikan, Peters
of the poppy, from the fields of Yun zations underly our house of life.
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burg, Wrangell, Juneau and Sitka. Modern,
nan and 8hensi provinces to the
WNU Service.
yacht-like cruise ships with every comfort and
slnms and stews of world capitals.
She rounded up the story of the for
Indians Used Perfumes
convenience. Sailings from Seattle 10 a.m. every
eign wars waged against China to
The Blackfeet Indians of olden
Friday, May to September inclusive. Write
make her admit Indian opium. With days used a number of perfumes,
today for illustrated, fully descriptive folders.
Ellen La Motte, who wrote "The sweet grass being the most popu
It’s s vacation you’ll never regret —or forget!
Backwash of War,” she pieced to lar among the women. They also
gether a narrative as unlovely as used beaver musk, red cedar, punk
any chaplet of horror which ever from the cottonwood tree, buds
rested on the brow of the nations.
from the balsam poplar and dried
There are so many things to be ; blossoms of dog fennel
meadow
against these days, It is hard to | rue.
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