The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 146, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 24, 1932 Page: 3 of 4
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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
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Lights of New York ^5
By WALTER
TRUMBULL
Many of the artists who now occupy
'ashionable apartments, penthouses
md bis ateiiers used to live in the
>ld Van Dyck studios on Eighth ave-
me. They were happy, young a^d
)oor. Everybody knew and helped
iverybody else. If anyone sold a pie-
:ure or illustration, it was an event
jelebrated by all. One day a painter
;viio now is well known, but then was
just beginning, got an invitation .to a
fashionable wedding. Though he
-bought there was a fair chance that
the invitation was a mistake, he was
more than anxious to go. He always
had heard that at these big house wed-
dings the food was excellent.
The trouble whs that he didn’t have
.the proper clothes. He did have a
fshirt, which would do for a founda
Lion, and he also had a collar, a neck-
Lie and a pair of gloves. The Van
^Oyck turned itself upside down to out-
“tit him. One friend contributed a pair
of striped trousers, another a morning
coat, still another shoes and silk socks.
Nobody owned a silk hat, but one of
ihe artist’s friends knew a man who
had one, and borrowed it. The hat
was a little large for the wedding
guest, so they stuffed a little paper
under the sweatband.
The day came and, with the help of
all, the invited artist was shiningly
arrayed. He wished to walk the mile
across town to the wedding but that
idea was vetoed. By a unanimous
vote of the Van Dyck it was decided
that he should take a taxi. He really
was not going as an individual but as
a representative of a district. With
n due sense of his responsibility, he
entered the cab and stuck his head out
to wave a dignified farewell to all the
friends who were leaning from win
dows. The taxi started with a jerk
T' lk hat, never too secure, toppled
to the street, bounced under the rear
wheel of the car, and became just a
memory. That is one of the tragic
itories of the old Van Dyck.
• • *
T’ ^'se were the days when a certain
SUCCEEDS FROST
Unemployed Are Sold on the Auction Block
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well known Illustrator was so poor
that, while he had a cake of soap and
a tin basin, his only towel was a piece
of an old curtain. This aroused the
finer feelings of a faithful model
Each day she used to bring him a
present of one or two nice linen tow
els Finally he had more than a doz-
en, and they were all marked. They
bore the names of most of the large
New York hotels.
• • •
A New York family has a young dog
of which it is very fond. He is a good
puppy, except for the fact that he will
on occasion chew things he is not sup-
posed to masticate. His worst ex-
hibition in this line happened at the
family’s country place on Long Island
at a time when several guests were
staying over the week end. It was
warm and some of the guests left their
doors ajar. In the morning the dog
was discovered by a member of the
family chewing on something, but ap- ■
parently making little headway. Ex-
amination, disclosed that it was an up
per plate containing the “store teeth’
of a rather sensitive guest, who wished
it believed that his ivory smile was
all hit- own. There was nothing to be
done. Those teeth were beyond wear-
ing. The family could only wait in
horror for their guest to wake to
toothless tragedy.
* • ♦
William C. I.engel; the editor, tells
me that the first book he ever read
of Theodore Dreiser's was “Sister
Carrie.” He thought he should read
it because he was working under
Dreiser at the time, so he bought a
copy for 4( cents. He started it sit
ting on a bench in Central park. He
rear until it was too dark to see. He
couldn’t finish it that evening because.
r>i engagements he couldn’t break, but
the next morning he went down to
the beach, where he figured ne wotih.
not be interrupted, and • i the
boob. After that, he never missed one
Dreiser is another Indiana author, hav
ng been born In Terre Haute. His
drst journalistic experience was on a
Chicago newspaper. At various times
he was editor of half a dozen maga
ziues.
©. 1932. Bell Syndicate —WNT7 Service.
The ancient slave market, around which centered the business life of the early Greeks and Romans, found its
counterpart in the Los Angeles Plaza. But instead of slaves, 15 free men and women, Americans for the most part, down
on their luck and unable to find employment, auctioned themselves off to the highest bidder for their services. Col.
Louis Byrens, who conducted a similar auction years ago in Boston for returned soldiers, immediately after the war,
presided over the strange ceremony.
cThe Kitchen
, Cabinet
New portrait of Prof. Otto Struve
yho has become director of the great
£erkes observatory at Williams Bay,
Wis., succeeding Prof. Edwin B. Frost,
who has retired.
Wrath at Pranksters
Restores Man’s Voice
Port Jervis, N. Y.—William Jones,
fifty years old, still is talking about
how he recovered his voice, which he
lost in an illness a year ago. Know-
ing that Jones was speechless, some
boys who touched oft .a large fire-
cracked just behind him on Monday
were shocked when he jumped and
bade them be quiet in such a way
which showed he has forgotten none
of his vocabulary.
Physicians said that the fright and
the jar of the explosion had restored
his speech.
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS
p\ URING the season for berries of
VJ various kinds, many housewives
found time to can, preserve and make
jelly or them. There are those who
canned the juice and will make jelly
late in the fall or winter, when they
are shut in by the cold weather.
There is no Christmas present more
welcome to the city cousin than a box
of home-made jelly or jam. Where
fruit is plentiful one may provide for
many such gifts.
We all know how attractive a glass
of fresh jelly is and there is no rea
son why it should all be made in sea
son of berries.
Sugar is being appreciated more
and more, not only as a food but as an
accent in blending flavors. It is added
to meats and sauces, not only Irnprov
Dogwood Growth
While numerous factors affect the
rate of growth, it seems that dog-
woods' in natural stands may take as
much as 15 to 20 years to make an
inch of growth. Those individuals
growing In openings in better situa-
tions will probably reach one inch In
diameter, 4y2 feet from the ground in
7 to 10 years.
LIKE ALL STORMS
“How about the storm your wife
raised at that society meeting?”
“Oh, it all blew over.”
Cheerio Chapters
NOW HERE’S A FUNNY
THING
A flyer by the name of Broccoli
landed his plane when it was dis-
abled in a spinach patch.
Keeper Thurman of the Bronx
zoo in New York said the worst
trouble he had was rubber balls.
"Footballs, baseballs, tennis balls,
golf balls, ping-pong balls, billiard
balls, marbles, they’re all bad,”
said he, “but the worst of all are
those ordinary rubber balls that
the children bounce. They bounce
them up near the cages. The ele-
phants gulp them down. Then they
get sick.” He said a hard rubber
ball killed a hippopotamus in Cin-
cinnati and nearly killed one in
New York. It took two weeks of
nursing to save a bronx tapir
named Julie who ate a soft rub
ber ball. And Mr. Thurman said
he knew only one elephant who
could digest rubber balls.
A man in Washington, so the
story goes, raised a school of sal-
mon from eggs and kept them in a
Fun for All the Children
Edited by DOROTHY EDMONDS
CRISS CROSS
Write a five letter word from the upper left to the lower right cor-
ner meaning “a light boat,” and another word from the upper right to
the lower left corner meaning “an ancient spear.” You will then have
five complete words reading across.
pool underneath his office window.'*
He has trained them to rise at
his call, eat from bis hand and
even jump from the water through
a hoop.
What do. you think of this? A
man in New York tried to commit
suicide by grinding up five elec-
tric light bulbs and eating them.
The doctor found he had only a
slight case of indigestion. But
that was a vgood joke on the man
for he had forgotten that he used
to be a glass eater in a side show
of a circus. He decided he’d have
to try something else.
And in Chicago a man drew all
his money out of the bank, it was
about $10,000. A few days later
the bank failed. The man said, “1
am lust Jucky, that’s all.” And he
locked his money up in a trunk.
In a few days a burglar stole it.
Now, what do you imagine he said
then ?
FOR YOUR SCISSORS
Cut out these pieces and make
yourself a horse and rider.
(©. 1932. Western Newspaper Union.)
ing the flavors, but adding that rich
brown color so well liked on meats
and in'sauces.
We find that our drinks are much
more attractive if served with a base
of sweetened lemonade. Tart jellies
beaten until soft added to it make
most attractive color effects as well
as being most flavorful.
Many a backward child who refuses
to eat his morning cereal will enjoy it
if garnished with a bit of fruit or a
cube of pretty jelly.
When curtain rods are small place
a thimble on the end when putting
them into freshly laundered curtains.
It will save the tear on the curtain as
well as the nerves.
When you are gracing fresh carrots
always leave the stem end on, at least
long enough to hold while grating.
This will save many a sore finger. Try
this when grating horseradish, too.
A few juniper berries, obtainable at
any drug store, if you cannot have the
joy of searching for them yourself in
the woods, placed in a heated frying
pan, will release aromatic fumes which
will dispel any odor of cooking in the
house.
(© by Western Newspaper Union.)
Offers “Black Light”
to U. S. for Defense
Dayton, Ohio.—Gisbert L. Bos-
sard. inventor, believes he'has in
“black light” a useful means of
defense should United States be-
come involved in another war.
“Experiments have been curried
on to the point where a person
hiding in a field on a dark night
can be located by these invisible
light rays, or ‘black light,’” said
Bossard. “This is accomplished
by the use of apparatus in the
hands of an observer. In this
manner the navy can detect the
presence of enemy ships at night.
This form of national defense lies
in utilizing the light rays which
lie outside the visible spectrum.*
More than 100 patents have been
issued to Bossard in this country
and abroad.
My lS[eighbor
▼ ▼ Says: ▼ ▼
*TpO KEEP bread and sandwiches
soft and fresh wrap in a dry cloth
first, then cover with cloth wrung out
of cold water and set away until ready
to use.
• • *
Small articles for a kitchen shower
for a bride can be purchased for 10
cents or less and will prove very use-
ful. Included are apple corers, straw-
berry hullers, knife sharpeners, bread
boards, gelatin molds, steel skewers,
pot cleaners, asbestos mats, glass per-
colator tops, measuring cups and
spoons, ball of twine, wooden spoons
and pencil and pad.
* * *
A little lard rubbed into grease
stains quickly removes them.
♦ * *
Mashed potatoes placed between two
slices of fish and baked, make a very
tasty dish to be served for dinner.
(© by the Associated Newspapers)
(WNTT Service)
Bread, From Prehistoric
Times to the Present
However it came about, it seems
likely that some ages after the discov-
ery of fire, prehistoric man in his hunt
for food found that by picking and
eating the heads of the grain, that
grew in the fields, he could satisfy his
hunger. To avoid eating the whole
plant, he learned to grind the grain a
bit between stones, and it is appar-
ent from the worn off teeth of mum-
mies that he also ate some of the
ground stone along with his grain.
However, there we had the first flour.
To make the cracker grain go down
better, some one thought of adding
water, and, ergo, the first dough.
A few generations later one of the
youngsters grew careless and dropped
some of his grain and water mixture
on a hot stone. Every one looked and
tasted—and started dripping more
dough on more hot stones. They had
discovered that bread was good.
Then one day a careless cave lady
forgot and left her dough sitting out
over night. She didn’t know it, but
in that time it picked up some wild
yeast floating in the air. In the
morning when she started to make up
the day’s dry, flat pancakes, she dis-
covered that the batter bubbled and
rose on baking and the bread was de-
lightfully tender and moist instead
of hard and dry. Then dough was
left out over night—and leavened
bread was born.
Tough British Bandits
Are Ordered Whipped
London.—Said to have boasted that
they were gangsters, John Alfred
Wright, twenty-two, a laborer, and
Clifford John King, twenty, a butcher,
were recently sentenced to an old form
of punishment (in addition to impris-
onment) on a charge of robbery with
violence. They were ordered whipped
with a birch rod. Wright got 18
strokes, and nine months in prison;
King got 15 strokes and six months
in prison.
THE USUAL THING
OW IT STARTEl
By JEAN NEWTON
“To Have Seen Better Days"
;<'T'HOSE„ people have seen better
A days,” we are told. The implica-
tion is that they have met with re-
verses as we say, that their resources
or financial condition has been re-
duced.
Since the *bull market” of recent
years followed by the other extreme
of depression, the phrase “To have
seen better days” is enjoying special
popularity in common speech. So
many people have now met with re-
verses.
The term, however, is -not modern.
It comes to us from the old but ever
modern genius of Shakespeare, having
been used by him first in the second
“And how did you spend your
month’s vacation?”
“Well, I spent the first two weeks
trying to look as if I were just going
away and the last two weeks trying
to look as if i had just gotten back."
act of‘As You Like It.” That makes
the expression more than three bun-
dred years old.
(©. Bell Syndicate.)—WNU Service.
British Birth Rate at Lowest
London.—The British birth rate for
1930 was the lowest ever recorded
since the establishment of civil regis-
tration, 16.3 per 1,000. It was the
lowest of any country except Sweden
for the year.
The Rescue
City of Halifax Linked
With American History
Halifax claims to be one of the most
strongly fortified cities in the world.
Its citadel, or Fort George, standing ,
on an eminence above the city, took
nearly thirty years to build. Its splen-
did harbor is spacious enough to hold
the whole British fleet. Point Pleas-
ant park is reserved by the crown for
purposes of defense, but is leased to
the. city for a pleasure ground for the
sum of a shilling a year for 99 years.
Its Martello tower was built under the
direction of the duke of Kent in 1796.
The Northwest arm, famous for its
scenery, and its facilities for all kinds
of aquatic sports, also boasts a memo-
rial tower, built at the time of the ad-
vent of representative government In
1758.
St. Paul’s church, Halifax, is the old-
est Protestant church in Canada, and
contains memorial tablets to such his-
toric figures as Sir John Wentworth,
a governor of New Hampshire before
the Revolution, and afterward gov-
ernor of Nova Scotia; and Right Rev-
erend Charles Inglis, D. D., first
Protestant Bishop of British North
America.
Vaccine’s Beginning
It must have been at a date almost
coincident with .Testy’s and Jenner’s
experiments with vaccine that Lady
Mary Wortley Montagu brought to
England the Turkish method of inocu-
lation for smallpox, writes a corre-
spondent to a London paper. The
inoculation was not with vaccine, but
with the poison of smallpox itself, as
stated on her epitaph in Lichfield
cathedral, in which Henrietta Inge,
daughter of Sir John Wrottesley,
wishes to express her gratitude to
Lady Mary for the benefit she her-
self received from this “alleviating
art which softens the virulence of
this malignant disease.” Lady Mary
Tike Jesty, first tried the experiment
of inoculation on her own family. The
epitaph is dated 1789. For a time,
one supposes, the two methods of in-
oculation went on side by side, but
the Turkish method, proving injurious
In too many cases, was dropped.—D*
troit News.
Happy to Oblige
Two Englishmen in India spent their
feave shooting bear. Their first day
they had no luck until sundown, when
one got a chance of a shot and killed.
It transpired, however, the victim was
an old native woman, and no bear. As
they were discussing the matter the
headman of the village appeared. They
pointed out how sorry they were such
an accident had happened, and offered
to make a reparation. The headman
suggested the sum of 200 rupees—or
just over $60. Three years later they
went to the same district again shoot-
ing bear. They arrived at the bunga-
low at night, and once again the same
headman appeared. He made a simple
request. “If you sahibs have another
200 rupees, I have another old woman
for you to shoot.”
“Pilgrim Fathers”
The term “Pilgrim” is used in ref-
erence to the earliest immigrants to
Massachusetts, but more especially to
the settlers at Plymouth in 1620. The
term must be distinguished from Puri-
tan, which was that given to a body of
religious reformers who sought to re-
form the Church of England. The Pil-
grims were separatists from the first,
who had already left England and
formed an independent congregation in
Leyden, whence they came to New
England.
English “Public Schools”
The term “public school” does not
mean the same in England that it does
in the United States. Eton, Harrow,
Winchester and the like are the fa-
mous public schools, but tuition is
charged. The schools in England
which compare with our owu pub-
lic schools are called “free schools.”
Only the poorer classes attend for the
most part. They are not considered
as having as high standards as the
thousands of private schools in Eng-
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