The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1938 Page: 3 of 8
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THE GROOM NEWS, GROOM, CARSON COUNTY. TEXAS
MEN AT WORK: 86 FLOORS ABOVE DEATH!
NEW YORK. — Among jobs we
don’t want is that of a window wash-
er on Manhattan’s Empire State
building, where only a sturdy leather
strap stands between the worker and
a sudden death—86 floors below I Be-
fore he goes to work the window
washer makes sure his life harness
fits snugly. Straps are tested to
bear many times their normal
strain. If the window washer should
slip (as sometimes happens) his belt
is fastened to the window frame by
means of steel eyes.
----BEDTIME STORY----------------------
Old Mr. Toad Swells With Pride
Over Buster Bear’s Friendship
—Not Much Money,
But They’re Having
A Very Good Time
By BETTY WELLS
“Don’t start out by feeling sorry
for us,” writes Kay R., “because
we’re having a swell time. Even
if we don’t have much money and
a family of four children to live off
of it. Only don’t recommend any-
thing expensive in the way of re-
furbishings, because we just could
not afford it. The only really
nice thing we own is the radio, but
that’s our chief pleasure so we put
all our entertainment budget on it.
“The living room itself is pretty
dowdy and likely to stay that way
while the children are at the chasing
“Don’t feel sorry . . . we’re hav-
ing a swell time.”
age. The only quiet we have is at
night after they’re all in bed.' But I
do want to freshen things up and
make it as attractive as possible.
I’d thought of tan curtains because
the rug is rather a tan color. And
perhaps flowered slip covers for the
furniture in something flowered on
a natural ground. What would you
suggest? And we can repaper this
spring. What would be the thing
for the walls?”
Not tan! That’s a drab color un-
less it’s highly stylized and so we’d
suggest something that will do more
toward brightening up the effect.
What about a light ground paper
with a fresh green leaf design in it.
Or even a stripe in white and green.
Then full crisp curtains made to
tie back with a valance and tie-
backs in a textured fabric (of in-
terest on its own) in a sort of tan
about the same value as the rug.
For slip covers we’d have plain
green in a live vibrant tone. With
maybe a few odd cushions of the
tan.
© By Betty Wells.—WNU Service.
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
QLD MR. TOAD hopped slowly
down the Lone Little Path. He
usually does hop slowly, but this
time he hopped slower than ever.
You see he was so puffed up that he
couldn’t have hopped fast if he had
wanted to, and he didn’t want to.
In the first place his stomach was
so full of ants that there wasn’t
room for another one. No, sir. Old
Mr. Toad couldn’t have swallowed
another ant if he had tried. Of
course they made his stomach stick
out, but it wasn’t the ants that
puffed him out all over. Oh, my
no! It was pride. That’s what it was.
Old Mr. Toad was old enough to
have known better. It is bad enough
to see young and foolish creatures
puffed up with pride, but it is worse
to see anyone as old as Old Mr.
Toad that way. He held his head so
high that he couldn’t see his own
feet and more than once he stubbed
his toes. Presently he met his old
friend Danny Meadow Mouse. He
tipped his head a little higher,
puffed himself out a little more, and
pretended not to see Danny.
“Hello, Mr. Toad,” said Danny.
Mr. Toad pretended not to hear.
Danny looked puzzled. Then he
spoke again but much louder.
“Hello, Mr. Toad! I haven’t seen
you for some time.”
It wouldn’t do to pretend not to
hear this time. “Oh, how do you
do, Danny?” said Old Mr. Toad with
a very grand air and pretending to
be much surprised. “Sorry I can’t
stop, but I’ve been dining with my
friend Buster Bear, and now I must
get home.”
When he mentioned the name of
Buster Bear he puffed himself out a
little more. Danny grinned as he
watched him hop on down the Lone
Little Path. “Can’t talk with com-
mon folks any more,” he muttered.
“I’ve heard that pride is very apt to
turn people’s heads, but I never ex-
pected to see Old Mr. Toad proud.”
Mr. Toad kept on his way and
presently he met Peter Rabbit. Pe-
ter stopped to gossip, as is his way,
but Old Mr. Toad took no notice
of him at all. He kept right on with
his head high and all puffed out. Pe-
ter might have been a stick or a
stone for all the notice Old Mr.. Toad
took of him. Peter looked puzzled.
Then he hurried down to tell Dan-
ny Meadow Mouse about it.
“Oh,” said Danny, “he’s been to
dine with Buster Bear and now he
has no use for his old friends.”
Pretty soon along came Johnny
Chuck and he was very much put
out because he had been treated by
Old Mr. Toad, just as Peter Rab-
bit had. Striped Chipmunk told
the same story. So did Unc’ Billy
Possum. It was the same with all
of Old Mr. Toad’s old friends and
neighbors, excepting Bobby Coon,
who, you know, is Buster Bear’s lit-
tle cousin. To him Old Mr. Toad
was very polite and talked a great
deal about Buster Bear, and thought
that Bobby must be very proud to be
related to Buster.
At first everybody thought it a
great joke to see Old Mr. Toad so
puffed up with pride, but after a
little they grew tired of being
snubbed by their old friend and
neighbor and began to say unpleas-
ant things about him. Then they
decided that what Old Mr. Toad
needed was a lesson, so they put
their heads together and planned
how they would teach Old Mr. Toad
how foolish it is for anyone to be
puffed up with pride.
© T. W. Burgess.—WNU Service.
For Spectator Sports Wear
Victoria Crosnier of Paris puts a wide brim to shade the eyes on this
hat of powder blue felt. It has a crown with a peaked drape at the front
and banded with wine colored belting ribbon.
Mobilize Peasants
Against Invaders
SUCHOW, CHINA.—Shortly before
invading Japanese troops captured
this sector, members of the Wom-
en’s War Area Service corps in the
fifth mass mobilization group spent
long hours preaching to stoical peas-
ants the full meaning of resistance
to the Japanese and the importance
of complete co-operation with the
national government.
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for June 19
CLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT
SCHOOLS
SCHOOL OF AERONAUTICS —Welding,
Drafting. Day and Night classes. Low tui-
tion. Swallow Airplane Co., Wichita, Kans.
THE SUFFERING SERVANT
LESSON TEXT—Mark 15:22-39.
GOLDEN TEXT—For even the Son ol
man came not to be ministered unto, but to
minister, and to give his life a ransom
for many. Mark 10:45.
PRIMARY TOPIC—God’s Wonderful Love.
JUNIOR TOPIC—On Calvary.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
Self-Sacrifice for Others.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
Love’s Supreme Sacrifice.
“A Christianity without a dying
Christ is a dying Christianity. His-
tory shows us that the expansive-
ness and elevating power of the
Gospel depend upon the promi-
nence given to the sacrifice of the
Cross. An old fable says that the
only thing that melts adamant is
the blood of a lamb. The Gospel
reveals the precious blood of Jesus
Christ, his death for us as a ran-
som, as the one power that subdues
hostility and binds hearts to Him”
(Alexander Maclaren).
We consider today that darkest
of all days in the history of the
world—when wicked men with cruel
hearts and hands crucified the lov-
ing Son of God. But, thanks be to
God, it was also the day when bright
hope shone forth for sinful human-
ity, for in His death Christ bore our
sins upon the tree, the veil was
rent, the old sacrifices were set
aside, and the “new and living way”
was opened into the “holiest by the
blood of Jesus” (Heb. 10:20).
I. Crucified—That We Might Live
(vv. 22-28).
The details of and circumstances
surrounding the crucifixion are of
deep interest to every Christian. We
stand with Luther and weep as we
see Christ’s unspeakable agony, not
only of body but of spirit, and we cry
as did Luther, “For me, for me!”
How can any believer contemplate
the cross and withhold self, sub-
stance, or service from Christ?
Equally earnest and heart-search-
ing is the message of the cross to
the unbeliever. He knows he is a
sinner (Rom. 3:23), he knows that
“the wages of sin is death” (Rom.
6:23), and he knows that “neither
is there salvation in any other, for
there is none other name under
heaven given among men whereby
we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
Here at the cross he meets that
one “who his own self bare our
sins in his own body on the tree,
that we, being dead to sins, should
live unto righteousness: by whose
stripes ye were healed (I Pet. 2:
24). There were two malefactors
Who were crucified with Him, and
one railed at Him. The other said,
“Lord, remember me when thou
comest into thy kingdom”; and
Jesus said to him, “Today thou
shalt be with me in Paradise” (Luke
23:39-43). Unbeliever, who reads
these lines, will you not just now
take the eternal life which Jesus
died to make possible for you?
H. Forsaken—That We Might Be
Accepted (vv. 29-36).
The railing, head wagging, and
other abuse that men heaped upon
Jesus as He hung on the cross,
must have been a grevious thing for
His tender loving heart to bear.
But it was as nothing compared
with that hour when, covered with
all the sin and curse of the world,
He who knew no sin “was made
sin for us” (II Cor. 5:21), and God
turned away from Him.
We cannot fathom the full mean-
ing of that hour, we dare not at-
tempt to explain it, we can only
accept it and thank God that be-
cause He did become sin for us we
may be “made the righteousness of
God in him” (II Cor. 5:21).
III. A Veil Rent—That We Might
Enter (vv. 37-39).
The death of Jesus was not the
pitiful weakening of a human mar-
tyr. Here was the Son of God, cry-
ing with a loud voice (v. 37), giving
up His spirit to the Father (Luke
27:46), declaring that the work of
redemption was “finished.”
As a visible indication of that part
—and as a declaration that the old
dispensation of law had given place
to the dispensation of grace, God
tore the temple veil in twain. Only
He could have done it. No man
could have torn this sixty-foot long,
twenty-foot wide, and inch-thick
curtain from top to bottom. It had
hung in the temple to keep all but
the High Priest out of the Holy of
Holies, and he entered with fear and
trembling but once a year as the
representative of the people. Now
all this is changed. We have now,
“brethren, boldness to enter into
the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
by a new and living way, which he
hath consecrated for us, through the
veil.” Therefore, let us draw
near with a true heart and full as-
surance of faith” (Heb. 10:19-22).
Homely Simile
He shall cover thee with his
feathers, and under His wings shalt
thou trust: His truth shall be thy
shield and buckler.—Psalms 91:4.
Lofty Companionship
Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it
is good for us to be here, and let
us make three tabernacles.—Luke
9:33.
Power of Faith
I can do all things through Christ
which strengthened me.—Phil. 4:13.
Make Lace Bolero
In Jiffy-Crochet
Dress-up your daytime or sum-
mer evening dresses with this
dainty lace bolero crocheted in
two strands of string. Pattern
Pattern 1745.
1745 contains directions for mak-
ing bolero; illustration of it and
of stitches; materials required.
Send 15 cents in stamps or coins
(coins preferred) for this pattern
to The Sewing Circle, Needlecraft
Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York,
N. Y.
Please write your name, ad-
dress and pattern number plainly.
Don't Get Hurt
— A—
Below are given some sugges-
tions for “Safe Gardening” com-
piled by the National Safety coun-
cil:
Replace split, broken or sharp-
edged handles. Avoid splinter and
other wounds.
Carry any cutting tool with the
blade facing downward.
Never leave a hoe, rake or fork
lying or standing with the head
pointing up.
Always cut away from you in
using a knife.
Get first aid for any cut or
scratch, no matter how slight it
may seem to you.
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Philosophy, when superficially
studied, excites doubt; when thor-
oughly explored, it dispels it.—
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Sentinels
of Health
Don’t Neglect Them I
Nature designed the kidneys to do *
marvelous job. Their task is to keep the
flowing blood stream free of an excess of
toxic impurities. The act of living—lift
itself—Is constantly producing waste
matter the kidneys must remove from
the blood if good health is to endure.
When the kidneys' fail to function as
Nature intended, there is retention of
waste that may cause body-wide dis-
tress. One may suffer nagging backache,
persistent headache, attacks of dizziness,
getting up nights, swelling, puffiness
under the eyes—feel tired, n ervous, all
■worn out.
Frequent, scanty or burning passages
may be further evidence of kidney or
bladder disturbance.
The recognized and proper treatment
is a diuretic medicine to help the kidneys
get rid of excess poisonous body waste.
Use Doan's Pills. They have had more
than forty years of public approval. Are
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Wade, W. Max. The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1938, newspaper, June 16, 1938; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1180406/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.