The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 122, Ed. 1 Monday, July 28, 1930 Page: 2 of 4
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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
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A NIMtEW LIY’LNGSTONE. senior
/\ partner of the (aw firm of
^£5^ Livingstone, Blakesly & Moore,
Was in love. Strange after all
Jiese years of contented bachelorhood
that tie should fall in love. He had
had ample opportunity, of course. Sel-
dom he returned to his club at night
that lie was not handed a sheaf ,of
tnafi!The triVjbnty of the square, white
envelopes being addressed in feminine
flood writing. He was overwhelmed
feifh Invitations to week-end parties,
debutante receptions, bridge parties,
theater parties, motor parties, and in
ispile of aUvfhat he had fallen in loye
with his secretary, Leila Candice; who
was at-this moment in the office- ad-
joining-fits. tier expert white fingers
feuslly engaged at her typewriter. He
trad always liked to watch her fingers;
(ie even thought the third finger of
(the left hand bore a narrow band.
‘ .He had been glad when he had em-
ployed her a year before that her
iume was Mrs. Leila Candice. He had
Lad two or three secretaries before,
unmarried, gay, frivolous, uninterest-
ed in their work, young; of course,
Mrs. Candice was not old; possibly
fcwenty-eiglU or twenty-nine, but she
had given him to understand she
(reeded work badly. .She. h»d never
been late,- bad exhibited exceptional
merit and ability, and he loved her.
Hut. of course- there was Peter!
She had not mentioned Peter for sev-
eral weeks after she had become his
secretary and he hud begun to think
joerhaiis slue was a widow. In fact, he
was so sure she must be a widow
that he had suggested a little dinner,
after which they would return to the
office and finish up that particular
job over which they had been work-
ing together;
“TlUfiifc you, Mr. Livingstone; that
would he lovely, hut I can run home
Oil the subway and fix Peter's dinner
and be back by the time you have re-
turned. But I do thank you so much.”
He bad not enjoyed his dinner that
.ttight, although his favorite waiter
Bad taken particular pains to serve
jhitn carefully with the food he liked
Best. So there was Peter. Hm-m-m-m.
:Wel1. he was a lucky dog—Peter was
•—that girl with her blue eyes and
tnolasses yellow hair coiled low on
(fier neck—no bobbed hair there! And
jibe knew how to wear clothes, too.
'edthough «ihe didn’t have many
fchaiiges. that was true. He hoped
Cetei would get better soon—he must
Be an invalid, or his wife ■wouldn’t
Have to work—and relieve the strain
fon her.. Thbt was eight 'months ago.
"As time went on he was not so so-
licitous about Peter’s improvement,
fewsumed she thought him a heart-
less old wretch, never asking about
$i»m. Selfish old fool, forty-four years
bid and falling in love with a married
'Vvoman and jealous of her husband!
tie should ask about Peter’s health,
of course, but he could not bring him-
self to say “your husband” or even
“Mr Candice."
She. mentioned Peter often in their
tfftt^cfiVltS^drer his big desk; of- tiis
f^ridnesSr-fo^4He water and boats-; of
H*eir cMes on toy* of busses- on muon-
iifehti nights--moonlighf nights—and
feeiia. Oh. yes. Andrew Livingstone,
(brilliant lawyer and chib man. was
very much in love. Every morning,
before pressing the buzzer that con-
nected his office with his secretary’s,
all these thoughts went through his
bead.
. She came in, a notebook in her
band. Hhe wore a pleated silk skirt
of while and a blue blouse with a
found ttfhife collar and white cuffs.
She looked better in that outfit than
post «r the “debs” looked in their
pretty frocks.
She seated herself in her usual
chair across from him and opened Iter
notebook.
“Three engagements this morning.
One at ten with Mr Smythe, Mrs.
fa ice a» eleven-thirty and luncheon at
6ne with Mr. Crockett.” Then she
added. “You look .tired. Mr. Living-
stone. Are you well?”
She was always solicitous about
bis health and it gave him a comfort
able warm feeling about his heart. It
had been such a long time since he
had had'anyone who really seemed to
care. He liked it.
^.Spring fever. I think, Mrs. Can-
dice And yesterday I went on a trip
oh Adams’ yacht down along the
bjtiid and I was bored to death! And
a® tired out—those social hounds
oMke me sick v”
.Efiie smiled brightly. “Peter and I
ivfll such a beautiful day! You will
lijigli when 1 ^pH you where we went
-H'oiiey Island! We sat in the sand
arid watched the surf and had dinner
apa little Italian place and—’’
■ ‘Please take a letter to the Cunard
Hi e. I think I shall go to Europe in
.! y for a vacation. I need it.’**
I -to Peter was able to go to
b and was he. and sit in the sand
agri eat spaghetti? Well, that was
H it He’d go to France. Maybe he’d
g j. over this fool notion, this hoping;
dictated rapidly.
i H think that will be splendid for
Mr Livlngstpne: You do look.
do not mind I think I shall take my
vacation at the same time and go up
In the mountains to ray Runt’a little
camp, there. Peter and I will be regu-
lar Indians—play and sleep and eat
and hike. We love it.”
She left the office on Saturday far
her vacation- and he was to sail 'he
following week.: He was going to
drive up to Boston to see his si'iter
for a few days before sailing, and
would leave his car there. While he
told her all this, when she came In
to say goodby, he held her hand in
his—the little white hand he loved to
watch. She was looking up at him.
He wanted to hold her close and for- .
get Peter.
“If you drive to Boston,” she was
saying, “you will go straight by the
road that leads into our camp. If—
if you have no particular dislike for
camp life, won’t you stop and have
lunch with I’eter and me on your
way up? We would love to have you.”
Her blue eyes told him she wanted
him. He didn’t want to meet Peter,
but he accepted with alacrity. It
would mean lie could see her again.
U was very hard to say “goodby” to
Leila Candice.
She gave him minute directions to
their camp and. lie found her waiting
for him when he drove up the next
Tuesday. She wore a blue checked
gingham dress and her usually sleek
hair was disheveled by the wind.
“We are having a beautiful time al-
ready, Skipper, the dog, and Peter
and me. Had a picnic yesterday and
saw such a beautiful sunset over the
mountains.” Siie whistled shrilly, a
peculiar call “Lunch is ready and
I’eter is down at the trout stream
fishing,” she explained.
He was sitting with his back to the
door watching Leila as she moved
about in the little kitchen beyond,
when he heard steps on* the gravel
walk. Peter was coming! He found
himself tense as he waited. He was
going to meet Peter at last, and then
Something whirled through the air and
landed, plop, on the knees of his care-
fully pressed trousers. It was a very
small, very slippery, very much alive
fish, attached to a string that extend-
ed over his shoulder to the out-of
doors behind him. He jumped to his
feet and swung around. He heard
Leila gasp and then—
“Pe-teer! You naughty, naughty
boy. What have you done?”
“I’m sorry, muvver,” said the small,
sun-browned overall-clad boy in the
doorway* as lie slowly wound up the
slack line- on his reel, drawing the
■‘squirming fish toward him across the
fioor. “You see. Skipper jumped at
the fish and l frew it up in the air
to fool him, and the line unwound
and it came straight in the door.” He
turned to Livingstone and looked up
at him with Leila Candice’s blue eyes.
“I’m sorry,” lie repeated, “cuz muv-
ver said I must be a very, very good
boy when the nicest man in all New
York came t.o see us today, and she
said she liked him most as much as
she—did me.”
“Peter*” said Andrew Livingstone,
“how long will it take you and me to
drive to the nearest telephone? I have
two calls to make—one to cancel my
reservation to Europe, and the other
to tell my sister Pm stranded for a
week or so by the wayside, but she
can expect us all later on our honey-
moon.”
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A Vista In Barbados, West Indies.
Tanning Process Traced
to Prehistoric Times
Since the days when our early an-
cetors used sand and wood ashes in
preparing the skins of animals for
clothing, until the present day when
close to one.,hundred chemicals total-
slag many thousands of tons yearly are
/consumed : by the leather industry,
H’hemistryv has played an important
/part in leather production, says Chem-
icals Markets, business magazine of
the chemical industry.
Primitive man did not realize that
when he used sour milk and various
oils and fats he was a pioneer in the
use of lactic acid, neatsfoot oil and
tallow in leather manufacture. And,
of course, he could not foresee that in
modern days flie bichromate would re-
place, his oak hark methods, reducing
the 12-months’ process to a 12-day one.
The history of tanning goes far hack
into prehistoric times, being an even
earlier stage of man’s development
than agriculture. The original process
of curing skins was probably simply
cleaning and drying. Later on smoke,
sour milk, various oils and brains of
animals were found to improve the
texture of the skin. Even today the
seal killed by the Eskimo is still
skinned by the family, snd the ’hide
chewed into pliable material for gar-
ments by the women. w
But among primitive peoples it must
he remembered that the leather was
in but slight danger of decay or de-
struction by vermin, since the garment
was in constant use. As civilization
progressed, and man changed his
clothes, better preservative methods
became necessary.
Confused
According to Marco Heilman, the
financier, romance is fast disappear-
ing in the advance of sophisticated
youth.
“The other day,” he said, “a very
charming young lady in my employ
tendered me her resignation.
“‘What’s this!’ I asked in surprise.
‘Are you dissatisfied with your po-
sition, or is, it that you are going to
rried ?’
“ ‘I—I am not quite sure,’ stam-
mered the girl. ‘You see, sir, last
night, Mr. B. came and made me a
proposition but he went about It In
such a businesslike way that I’m not
quite sure whether he wants me for a
.......6,0,.!fw^. ... wife or a confidential secretary. But
ed afyj need a rest »And If yoy 1 I khow he wanfi me.’*’
(Prepared by the National Geographic
Society. Washington. D. C.)
fT-i Li it EE island domains that seem
destined to take on new irn-
portanee with the development
of air traffic were passed over
by the Graf Zeppelin on its recent tri-
angular voyage from Europe to South
America, to North American, and back
to Europe.
The (’ape Verde islands were sight-
ed first. They lie far from the usual
ship lanes and are visited by few trav-
elers. One globe-trotter pronounced
them “the most uninteresting place I
have visited.”
It is true that the Cape Verde is-
lands do not compare with the ex-
quisite Canaries, nearer Europe, in
beauty, human interest, faunal fea-
tures, or salubrious breezes. Baedek-
er ignores them. Y’et, now that they
are taking on new importance as la”d
fails on aerial routes, the islands may
be rescued from innocuous obscurity
The naturalist would find on one of
the islands a seabird unknown else-
where and a plant-eating lizard. The
student of economic geography would
be interested to work out the reason
why the inhabitants of one of the
group. Brava, have developed a land-
owning propensity which leads them
into constant legal wrangles, while a
spirit of “come what may” and indif-
ference to ownership of anything In-
fests the other Islands.
The islands recently developed their
trade to a point where the state de-
partment established a new consulate
on the Island of Sao Vincente (St.
Vincent).
St. Vincent is one of the 14 Islands
of the group which form a crescent
about 300 miles west of Dakar, the
easternmost city on the-African con-
tinent. Porto Grande, capital of St.
Vincent and one of the few large port
towns in the islands, is built in a well
protected location with high moun-
tains at Its hack and in front the
massive heights of the Island of St.
Anthony almost shutting in a wade,
deep harbor from tile sea.
Total Area Is Small.
The 14 islands could he placed on
the state of Rhode Island and only a
few rugged edges would extend over
the borders. Sao Thiago (St. Jago).
the largest of the Gape Verdes. Is
slightly smaller in area than the city
of Los Angeles, while the smallest is-
land is measured by square yards.
AH the larger islands are inhabited,
the majority of the population being
quartered in compact, villages and
towns built in small recesses in the
steep mountainsides, overlooking the
sea But it is in the interior of the
larger islands that one finds the real
native life of the Cape Verdes. It is
said that the ancestors of these peo-
ple of the interior once lived along
the seashore. But for a hundred
years after Spain took control of the
islands the Cape Verdes were plun-
dered by pirates. During this period
the inhabitants fled to the valleys
from which they seldom emerged ex-
cept to trade. Most of these valley
people are black hut one often notes
Portuguese features. They speak a
poor quality Portuguese which is diffi-
cult for the European to understand.
Like Greenland, the' name Cape
Verde is deceptive. It was taken
from Cape Verde. Africa, and in good
English means “Green Cape,” but there
is little on the islands to suggest that
the Cape Verdes deserve to he called
“Cape Green Islands.” Here and
there along the shore and in a few in-
terior valleys are patches of fertile
land, but rocks and sand claim the
greater portion of the area. Fresh
water has always been a luxury, lack
of which has caused serious famines
in the past.
Natives Are a Busy Lot
That tiie natives make the best of
their barren islands is indicated by
the fact that they produce indigo, cof-
fee. castor beans, fruits, tobacco, poul-
try, potatoes and yams. Salt Is also
an important product. Many of the
inhabitants who a.*e not employed in
agriculture or shipping, are good fish-
ermen and adept in making rum. cqr-
ing fish and manufacturing straw hats
and seats.
When the islands were discovered
more than 500 years ago by two
Portuguese sea captains, they were
devoid of human life. The only ex-
citement was the occasional oversow-
ing of a volcanic crater. The latest
eruption occurred in 1680.
For more than 200 years the Cape
Verdes built up a flourishing trade
and became Portugal’s principal out-
post of trade with Africa. Until the
middle of the last century the natives
reaped a harvest frorn the African
slave trade. This probably accounts
for the majority of negroes in the
present population of about 140,000.
Those inhabitants who are not black
are Portuguese or of mixed blood.
In the early days when New Eng-
land was famous as a whaling cen-
ter, many of the crews of the vhalers
were recruited in the Cape Verdes.
Those who did not return to the is-
lands settler] in southeastern Massa-
chusetts in the vicinity of New Bed-
ford. “Bravoes,” the name by which
they are sometimes known, comes
from the name of the island from
which most of the recruits migrated—
Brava, the southwesternmost island o1
the Cape Verde group.
Barbados Densely Inhabited.
Quite different is Barbados, one of
the most interesting and less well-
known of Great Britain’s possessions
in the Western Hemisphere. Pear-
shaped. solitary, farthest east of the
West Indies, Barbados generally is
accounted the most healthful of the
group, even though it is the most
populous country in the world, per
square mile, except China; and al-
though George Washington carried to
his grave the marks of the smallpox
contracted on a visit there.
The island—there is but one despite
the misleading plural name—is but an
eighth the size of our Rhode Island,
hut has twice as many inhabitants per
square mile as our smallest and most
densely populated state.
Seldom does a volcano become an
asset. But volcanic eruptions have
contributed largely to the fertility ol
Barbados. When the sun was ob-
scured throughout one day in May
1912. the Barbarians were panic strick-
en ; but when the gentle rain of black
dust subsided, the deposit was found
to he ashes from an eruption of St.
Vincent’s Soufriere, nearly 100 miles
to the west, and an enrichment for
the soil.
Hot, Dusty Bridgetown.
Bridgetown, the island capital, is a
hot, dusty city of about 30,000 peo-
ple. It is especially busy on Fridays
when planters flock to town for busi-
ness and buying. Its cathedral was
built principally by funds obtained
from a lottery authorized by the legis-
lature. after the original building had
been blown down by a hurricane in
1780.
Labor is so plentiful that men com-
pete with beasts of burden. But this
condition was greatly improved by the
use of considerable Barbados labor in
building the Panama canal.
The third important island visited
by the Graf Zeppelin was Porto Rico.
But it was really San Juan, the capi-
tal city, rather than the island to
which the great air liner paid its re-
spects. After cruising over the city,
it turned sharply northward and put
out over the Atlantic.
San Juan has a population of more
than 114,000 and has nearly doubled
in size since the island came under
American control. It was from Sam
Juan that Police de Leon set sail, like
another Jason in search of the Golden
Fleece, for the fulfillment of his
charming, if boyish, dream of finding
the Fountain of Youth, which, we all
recall, resulted in the discovery of the
southermost end of the United States.
San Juan was a settlement half a
century before St. Augustine, Fla., the
oldest town In the United States,
came into being, and a full century
before the Pilgrims landed at Ply-
mouth Rock It began to take on the
semblance of a city. More than two
and a half centuries before the Unit-
ed States began to buiTd the White
HAusq In Washington, Spain started
the construction of the Casa Blanca,
the governor's palace
PROVISIONS FOR
WEEMD TRIP
Everybody Enjoys Outings
Which Are Inexpensive.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
There Is now one motor vehicle for
every five persons in the United
States, according to the United States
bureau of public roads, or one for
every family. There is no doubt but
that a great number of families of
moderate means who would not have
dreamed of taking frequent week-end
outings a few years ago are now able
to enjoy the possession of a car and
the opportunity to use it for recrea-
tion in the open air.
Considerable distance may be cov-
ered in a Saturday-noop to Sunday-
night trip, or more leisurely driving
to favorite nearby picnic or camping
grounds may be preferred. From the
mother’s point of view such outings
are a blessed release from the former
drudgery of Sunday spent cooking
and clearing up the biggest dinner of
the whole week. Everybody enjoys
them, and with a little planning they
may he both easy and inexpensive.
Keeping Quality Important.
In planning what food must be car-
ried, as three or four meals will prob-
ably he eaten on the road, the prime
consideration is the keeping quality.
Unless some sort of traveling refrig-
erator is taken along, it is best tp se-
lect for the second day’s meals .foods
that do not require icing to be pala-
table or safe to eat A small camp
An elsctric icebox hooked on the
back of a car to preserve foods while
on outing trips.
cooking kit is a very satisfactory
part of the week-end equipment. It
should include a frying pan and a
saucepan, a coffee or tea pot, and
some plat.=a and cups suitable for
serving hot foods and beverages.
For the first picnic supper one may
choose among the entire range of
fresh cooked meats or chicken, or if
tim weather is cool, bring hamburg
patties or chops to broil over the
camp fire. Salad Ingredients like to-
matoes, lettuce, celery and cucumber
may he carried, to be put together
when wanted, or potato salad made at
home and brought in a glass jar or
cardboard carton. Except for toma-
toes and cucumbers, which keep well
because of their skins, none of these
foods should be planned for the sec-
ond day. The more perishable fruits,
such as berries, cherries, fresh pine-
apple cut up and put in a glass jar, or
fresh apple sauce, are best the first
day. Hot coffee and ice cold milk
may he brought from home in ther-
mos hottles. If lemon juice is squeezed
and sweetened ready for mixing into
lemonade it will be a refreshing bev-
erage to serve. If sandwiches are
wanted, have them the first day. Loaf
cake, enp cakes and cookies all travel
well, especially if put in a tight tin
box.
Camp Fire Dinner.
For a camp fire dinner *iie second
day, the bureau of horn? economics
suggests frizzled dried beef and
scrambled eggs. Both the “makinV
for this dish can be safely transported
without ice. Let the boys of the fam-
ilv help to cook this dish. With it
have tomatoes or cucumbers, and
buns, either plain or•= toasted, as they
will not dry out as much as loaf
bread. Fruit for dessert on the sec-
ond day may be oranges or whole
pineapple, cut up in sections when
wanted. Some of the cake from the
day before may be left.
A good hot dish for supper the sec-
ond day will appeal to everybody. A
vegetable chowder may be made of
potatoes, bacon, or salt pork, canned
or dried milk, onion, and celery if
possible. Or one of the excellent
canned chowders, reheated on the
spot, may be depended on, with
crackers as the breadstuff. Cheese
may he served at this meal, with the
crackers, and marmalade or jam. Bot-
tled grape juice will be good for a
fruit drink the second day.
In the picnic kit, in addition to
whatever cooking utensils are liked,
one might keep permanently a bottle
opener, can opener, bread knife, table
knives, forks, spoons; plates and cups
of metal, or paper; paper napkins and
waxed lunch paper; salt, pepper, loaf
sugar, a small can of evaporated milk
—and a box of matches for the camp
fire.
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| THE MOTOR QUIZ |
5k How Many Can You Answer? 5jc
5k Q. Why is it customary In sk
the Philippines to hire cliauf- %
-k feurs? *
% ' Ans. The operator of a mo- *
^ tor vehicle which injures a pe- ^
* destrian is subject to arrest sk
ij; and imprisonment until he can
* prove that he is blameless. For *
£ this reason most of the car own- E
sk ners employ a chauffeur. *
Q. What is the motor ve-
hide registration of the Philip- ^
:£ pines? *
^ Ans. Approximately 29,000. *
5k Q. How many cars are reg- *k
^ istered in Canada? s£
* Ans. 1,076,819 or one car to *
^ every nine persons. %
* Q. WhaJt effect is produced ^
* by “choking” the carburetor? sk
ji: Ans. Pulling out the “choke” *
5k causes a raw mixture of gaso- ik
* line to be drawn into the en- *
5k gine, which fires readily in cold *
^ engines. Excessive use of the ^
jk “choke” causes fuel waste, soot- *
£ ing, oil dilution, fouled spark ^
^k plugs and irregular running of ^
the engine. When the “choke” sk
* is used properly, according to *
^ the instruction book, and the 5k
^ spark plugs are in good condi- %
5k tion, starting should not be diffi- Jk
cult even in the coldest weather. X
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Belgium to Start Eigkt
Production This Year
Production of new eight-cylinder
cars in Belgium is expected to start,
in quantity, during the current year,
according to a report received and is-
sued by the automotive division of the
Department of Commerce. This shows
that production in Belgium during the
past year was 6,090 passenger cars
and 1,000 trucks. There was a con-
siderable increase in the number of
six-cylinder cars at the expense of
four-cylinder oars. The new models
of Minerva eight-cylinder ears are ex-
pected to reach quantity production
during the current year.
AUTOMOBILE NOTES
A young hitch-hiker in the neigh-
borhood reported a lame shoulder,
after the week-end, from swinging a
thumb over it.
* • *
“Let me see something that’s gone
187,000 miles,” said a college boy to
the man on a used ear lot. “I haven’t
the time to break one in.”
* * *
With these automohiles that get up
to 240 miles an hour, we assume you
jog along at a nominal 190-mile gait,
the first 500, to get them properly
broken in.
* * *
A Wisconsin lad completed a high
school course in a year by doing
everything four times as fast as usual.
This would require driving the coupe
280 miles an hour.
* * *
Another rather jolly impasse is
when a local driver, accustomed to
making inside left turns, meets a visit-
ing motorist who is equally accus-
tomed to the outside type.
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museum, was one of the earliest models built by Siegfried Marcus, first to use
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