The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 9, 1932 Page: 3 of 4
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BROWNFIELD STATE BANK
BROWNFIELD, TEXAS
Conservative- Accomodative- Appreciative
FRESH FISH
Will have a shipment of Fresh Fish every Thursday.
Let me supply you with ICE in any quantity.
Cold Drirtks Oils Gas
G. A. STARK, at Gulf Station
Expert on the Subject
Explodes Snake Myths
The way animals adapt themselves
to environmental changes has always
been one of the wonders of zoology.
When shrews went to sea, they did
not develop fins, but changed forelegs
to flippers and became whales. In
like manner, the reptiles Hint took to
the trees changed scales Into feathers
and became birds. A great subject-
adaptation to changed environments.
Doctor Mosauer, “snake expert,” has
taken away some of our favorite illu-
sions. There are no true hoop snakes,
he save. The “black snake” doesn’t
take Its tail In Its mouth and roll like
a hoop across the prairies as the pi-
oneer believed. Nor can you tell the
age of a rattlesnake by Its rattles. It
gets a new rattle every time It sheds
Its skin, and it may shed oftener than
once a year. Human beings, he says,
shed their skin continuously, snakes
all at once. Snake eyelids are a part
of their skin, the lids being fused to-
gether hut quite transparent at first.
As the skin thickens, a snake sees less
and less clearly—through its eyelids.
When ready to shed, the skin breaks
around the lips where skin and mu-
cous membrane meet, then the skin
slips backward, eyelids and all, as If
pulled by Invisible strings.—Los An-
geles Times.
Wooden Leg Uuinsurable
The Supreme court of California
hns decided that a workman cannot
collect a, workmen’s compensation li-
ability benefit for Injury to a wooden
leg, in the cuse of John Driscoll, a
teamster, whose wooden leg was brok-
en when his horses sided and threw
him. The case was bitterly fought,
three Judges dissenting from the ma-
jority of the bench. It was urged that
b»-s ,-f mi artificial member was a real
disability. The majority held that a
dei-islcn favorable to tiie workman
wo’'.d op; n the door to claims for
d v-o 'o crutches, eyeglasses and
ic ’li.
FOR GLASSES
Odd Human Passion It
Mania for “Collecting"
I know a gentleman who lias devot-
ed the best years of tils life to col-
lecting clay pipes and tiie buttons
from soldiers’ uniforms. He lias, In
effect, married clay pipes and military
buttons, and is living with both In
bigamous content In this marital
union he probably finds happiness
above the average.
It would be Impossible to produce
comparative statistics In proof, but
anyone who has touched the fringes
of this subject will agree that collect-
ing Is on the Increase; it Is one of the
major enthusiasms of our time.
A list of things which are the ob-
jects of the collector’s passion would
sound like the table of contents of a
mall order catalogue—or an Inventory
of the city dump: shaving mugs, mus-
tache’ cups, gilded rolling pins, hat
boxes, cigarette snuffers, miniature
furniture, glass slippers, mapp, old In-
surance policies, conch shells, wish-
bones, wooden Indians, wax flowers,
time tables, playing cards, hymn books,
beaded bags, fans, canes, baskets, bee-
tles, babies’ caps, spectacles cases,
ink pots, buttons, garters, crutches,
talking machine records, petticoats,
old love letters. It Is revealed that
at least one macabre amorist has even
made a collection of tombstones.—
Mary Day Winn In the North Ameri-
can Review.
Speed of Thought
A “reaction time apparatus." which
measures the split seconds between
a stimulated thought and Its emotional
response, Is being used in the psy-
chology laboratory of the University of
South California In efforts to deter-
mine the speed of thought. This Is
quite an ambitious undertaking. For
our thoughts certainly travel much
laster than electricity or light. It
take* millions of years for light to
travel from some nebulae to the earth,
yet we little prodigies can send our
thoughts almost Instantaneously to
those nebulae and let them dwell
there, or leap back In the twinkling
of an eye.
Hit Birthday
By ‘JANE OSBORN
<© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
(WNU Service)
TT WAS on the eve of Griffith Vail’s
A birthday. He probably wouldn’t
have thought about it If now, on the
very dey before, he had not received
a letter from bis mother, who was off
on a year's holiday somewhere la
France with his father. The letter
had reminded him of the fact that he
was to have a birthday and a money
order had slipped from the letter. It
was for a hundred dollars and the let-
ter had explained: “I know you can’t
possibly need the money but I am
hoping you’ll take it and spend It—do
something that you really want to
without thinking whether it is extrav-
agant or not. Do you remember what
fun you and I used to have on your
birthdays?"
So when George sat In his bachelor
apartment that evening he fell to
thinking of those birthdays long ago.
From the time that he was a very
little boy his mother had devoted the
entire day tef him. There had been
other brothers and sisters, so In the
ordinary course fit events he never
saw quite as much of his mother as
he wished. But when his birthday
came his mother somehow disposed of
all other duties and from early morn-
ing until bedtime she was his. And he
could do Just what he wanted to do—
and no one need know what they had
done If it was something that the
brothers and sisters might tease him
about. Once he had wanted to spend
the entire day In her car with her—
not to go where she wanted to go or
where other people went, but Just
where he wanted to go. And they had
gone down through all the dingiest sec-
tions of the city, through narrow
crowded streets, along the waterfront
and finally out In the woods—not to
pick flowers as his mother might have
suggested on any other day, but to
play Robinson Crusoe. One day they
had gone together to tiie seashore and
spent most of the day swimming. An-
other time they had followed fire en-
gines. Once when he was In his teens
he had asked to go to an architects'
exhibition—and it was an afternoon
spent there that had really started him
on his career.
Recalling those other birthdays he
decided to spend the next day as he
bad done with his mother—doing just
what he wanted, all day long. He
would do Just what he wanted—and
yet as be thought about it he couldn’t
come to a decision as to what it
should be.
By the time morning came he had
somehow managed to. get himself in a
perfectly irresponsible mood, but he
found himself eating Just the same
sort of breakfast that he usually did
In the same little restaurant where he
always went He left the restaurant—
and strangely enough his impulse led
him in the direction of his office. Yes,
that as whdre he really wanted to go.
He wondered why—yet all the time he
really knew. He didn't like to let the
day pass without seeing Edith Lee.
Edith worked there as a draftsman,
and a mighty good one she was—shy,
curly-haired, freckle-nosed little Edith,
who somehow felt that to work In an
architect's office was the consumution
of all her ambitions. Or, at least
George thought that was what she
thought.
Swart Optical Co.
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Lubbock : Texas
Definition of a Food
• A food may be defined ns—Any sub-
stance which, when absorbed Into the
blood, will nourish, repair waste and
furnish force and heat to the body
without causing injury to any of Its
parts, or loss of functional activity:
neither must It call for constantly In-
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Natural Gas—The Most Eco-
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Well, he went to his office, and when
he said good morning, Edith smiled,
and George rather surprised himself
by asking her If she had a great deal
to do. Perhaps she could get time to
go with him to the next county to see
the new church in which they had each
in their own way had a hand. Edith
had a good deal of work before her,
but while she hesitated, she decided
that she could take the work home
and work till midnight to get It done.
Then she said she would go with
him.
George and Edith took a taxi to the
garage where George kept his car that
he used only when he went to the
country, and while they sat together
George smiled to himself to think that
he was really there with Edith. Ordi-
narily he wouldn’t have thought of
asking her—because ordinarily he nev-
er acted entirely with an Idea of hte
own personal satisfaction. He called
on certain girls because for some rea-
son or other he thought it was his
duty to do so. And there was no
earthly reason why be should be spend-
ing time with Edith, except that he
found pleasure in doing so. He didn’t
even think that she cared about It.
8<> It was that, after they bad seen
tho church together and talked about
It as one archtect to another, he asked
Edith to lmve luncheon with him—be-
cause at the time it seemed as If noth
Ing else In the world would be so
pleasant. Then they went on another
drive in the country. He asked her to
have dinner with him and to go to the
theater, too. Edith said she couldn't.
She had work to do that night and be-
sides—“It seems so strange thst you
really wanted to be with me," said
Posts Builders’ Hardware Wire
Gaines County
Lumber Co.
SEMINOLE, : TEXAS
LUMBER
Windmills and Supplies
Lime and Cement
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Edltfi. 'Tve often thought It would
be fun to be with you, but you’ve bare
!y looked at me."
George, sitting in his car beside
Edith, explained about bis birthday.
Then he drove to the curb and stopped
the engine. “Edith.” he said abruptly,
“I believe I’ve been in love with you
for months. I believe I can never love
anyone else. Forget the work—I’ll
help you with It tomorrow. It Isn’t so
pressing. Make the day perfect, conic
to dinner and go to a siiow with mr
and before we part promise you’ll mar
r.v me." And Edith promised.
Warriors of Gideon
According to Scripture. Gideon’s 1100
followers each was armed with a
sword, trumpet and earthen pitcher
containing a lamp.
Liberty’s Symbols
The torch held on the Statue of Lib-
erty Is in the right hand. The left
hand supports a tablet inscribed July
4. 1778.
Nugget of Wisdom
The greater men are, tiie humbler
they are, because they conceive of a
greatness beyond attainment.
Agreeably Modified
When asked to express their candid
opinion, tactful people generally candy
it first.—Boston Transcript.
By All Accounts
“What Is single entry?" asks a cor
respondent. All that appears In most
new dlnrles.
Finds by Archeologists
Link Past and Present
Some of the games children play
during the evenings or at week-ends
are very ancient Indeed, but possibly
one of the oldest of all is the Indoor
Snakes and Ladders. A gaming board
suitable for playing this game, or one
very similar to It, was discovered dur-
ing excavations at Ur of the Chaldees.
A number of other interesting finds
have been made by archeologists.
For instance, an old standard, carried
Into battle by the ancient Egyptians
8,000 years ago, has been found on the
banks of the Nile. The design was a
white cross on a crimson field—the
Scottlah st. Andrew’s cross.
Then excavations at Jericho have
confirmed absolutely the Biblical story
of how the walls of the city fell to
admit the Israelites under Joshua.
Their collapse seems to have been due
to an earthquake.
This earthquqnke would also explain
the imagery of one of the Psalms:
“When Israel went out of Egypt . . .
the mountains skipped like rams and
the little hills like lambs."—London
Answers.
Frogs Capturo Factory
Frogs to the right, frogs to the left,
frogs above, frogs below, frogs every-
where, brought all work at a large fac-
tory at Chalon-snr-Kaone, France, to a
complete standstill recently. Hundreds
of thousands of the hoppers Invaded
water pipes, machinery and elevators,
aud even the electric power supply
was affected.
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Stone, Harry N. The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 9, 1932, newspaper, June 9, 1932; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth577017/m1/3/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gaines County Library.