Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1919 — Page 2

Cho-Cho is Corning Children!

4®BMBMaia^HO-<T10! Cho-Cho! 1 £L ■ <• h <>*• <’h <»■ t»li_eJ ■ w>w~" cla u h!’* - 1 ;. , <I,. (I the “s'X> ■ ; z ~W—eluhii ( ii paekedTigw 1 IL,, ■ I mill I ljct ’he >’ig assembly ~ - “~~'T'TTt~>xti < 7iTt • I Sure* enough. it ( , ho-Chd'.'~~Tntr m health clown. The fairrihar figure xvirlk cd out on the platform ami every chilli there could see at a glance Unit—he was n really-truly, sure-enough circus clown, with his white face with red spots on it, his big white ruff, full trousers and coat, marked with the brightred-dia-monds. In one hand he carried a metal baby) -and on the other arm'-a- market basket filled with green vegetables, from the midst of which peeped a fry-ing-pan and a coffeepot and a pint bottle of milk. “Hello, children!" he called out. “Glad to see you?" And he tripped over an imaginary obstacle, nearly losing his hold on his market basket, to The unholy joy of the youthful specta tors. “Ho. ho!" he roared.- “Almost lost my dinner that time. dTrns-e vecvmhtes are precious. I eat ’em alive and get big and strong." The white figure advanced to the center of the-platform by slow stages, because of a continuous dropping of the .various nrtieles contained In his basket. In picking tip a carrot he dropped a beet and in picking up the .beet he dropped a-crrtrhage, and so on: and how these children laughed.’ At last he deposited his burdens safely mn the bench. ' “I’ve been to the country and the things and his wife. Shad I tell you about The delighted .yell that went up was answer enough. So ChceCho toldTabouTj it. The farmer and his wife showed him how the cows were milked and they told him that these animals were working overtime to get milk enough for the city children, who insisted bn drinking milk instead or tea and coffee because it makes them grow tall and i strong. This reminded him that he had had " no milk since breakfast and he must fnter e'UTESmr—ishment. for milk is a food as well as a drink and he makes it a point to drink at least a quart a day. He took tlie i bottle Of milk from Ids kskct. re moved the paper top, wiped the neck i of the bottle, carefully with a, paper napkin, explaining that he always this to any bottle or glass or cup from which he drank, as one never knows who used the article or whether or not they had whooping coughor measles or mumps or any other disease that one might catch.' Then, with much joyous blinking of the eyes and rubbing Of the stomach and wiggling of the,toes, he drank the entire contents of the bottle. He found the eggs, which the hens had laid in 'the hay, and learned that there is asifnuch nourishment in one egg as there Is in a good big piece of beefsteak. The vegetable garden was visited and he learned that spinach, a fegetalde for w’hlch he never <n»red, contains a vast amount of Irpn.

EAGER FOR GREAT ADVENTURE

Men of Today Vastly Different From Those Who Went Exploring With /'. J' Christopher Columbus. They had to bribe men in the earnest and timorous days of Colu'mbus to ship for the first Atlantic trip. Sailing towards the edge of a perfectly flat earth had no particular charms, even for criminals sand “broken men” who were offered indemnity If tyey would go. Use imprisonment, to safety,

which makes one strong so that one can win races ;ind..pij.eh basebulLs_bcirli r limn any of Hie oiln‘< ft - our - gang? m ml iw-tmr —- -- And- what do you think! \\ hen he got back after chtiiig'Tlrese things tlmt Inake otic strong and healthy he had gained a whole pound. hp^'eH’Ty’tTamTimroirthe scaTet amF letting one of .the children read the FiTgures. A whole pound ! and a normal child is only supposed to gain half a jiuwul its ti whole month. He pranced about and laughed with glee over this glad hews. • And then he produced the frying pan ami the coffeepot. which he brandished in the air as he pranced gbout, Zdeehirllig t !hi4 i hey-—weTe t Ii'eAbTFtFEL enemies of all children, and the only thing that should be put in them was Igdes. Nothihg cooked in a frying pan (H* a coffeepot was fit for any child to take into his system, and he hurled them from him in a rage. TlieiTire gave a side-splitting imitation of a boy going to bed. He undressed with great care and carefully folded each garment and placed it on a chair, yawning and rubbing his eyes the while. "What does he do next?” he asked his audience. “He brushes his teeth!” vyas the reply. "He sure does,” answers Cho-Cho, “and this ts how' he brushes them, up and down, up. and down, in the new style, instead of cross-ways in the. oldfashioned way. And then he gargles his tfhroat like this, to get rid of all the dust of the street—-and next?” "fie takes a bath !” “Hight again," says the clown, and you never saw such fun as Cho-Cho _htld in l)iS-bu.Lb a= Sj ; , rtibbing himself aiuL and getting soap jn his' eyes and Tffotftli,TnnT s[rifrfFrfng”and laughing all at once. One* never realized that a bath could be such fun. ~ “And now," said he. as he rubbed his back with the imaginary towel, “what next?” “He opens his windows!" came the chorus. “Of course," Said Cho-Cho. “he opens them at the top and the bottom, like this, so that Mr. Good Air can come in and Mr. Bad Air can go out. And now - he drinks a glass oi nice. ££h£ tTiTfiks four ol' these every day and this is his last—mm. mm. it's good L Now. he jumps into bed and the first thing you know he’s snoring away_ like this." • ' 1 “1 must go now. But remember I If you do these things you'll gain half a pound a. month." So he backed away and out the door, kissing his hand and shouting "Good-by” at every step, though The children yelled so that he eoulil hai'dly be luuird at all.- = This is a true story. "It happened just this way in' New York city and is going to happen in many other cities. Cho-Cho is a real clown and he is working in this thing.Jfor Cnele Sam to make the school children, strong and healthy. , The school hygiene division of the National Bureau of Education of the | Interior Department Is carrying on a ! national health contest among the school children of (he country.. At : present thgre are, according to SecreI tary Lane. 6.<XX\OOO underweight chil-

seemed better— than high adventure terminated at any moment by a sudden cataclysmic death. That was 427 years ago. Now, says the New York Evening Post, there is -no need to call for criminals to niryi the first Atlantic trips in air. They had to turn men away from the crew of the R-34 on the first voyage by llghter-than-air machine, and even then one stowaway got himself aboardand made the trip. The idea was to keep the tremendous dirigible as light as possible. And so, with all this

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dren in the country, and 1.>,000,01)0 suffering from dgfggts whidL. * could be prevented or corrected. The i bureau of education's 'health contest aims to reach iliese children. “Health, strength, joy” is the motto of the division, and its methods are I all directed toward making health education real fun. Health charts which 1 children till in for themselves, showing ■ their weight and height and how much • <>a < h of them gains, are sent—by.-the~ }.,iivi«i f .n t., _« 11 ■ hmfir and teachersi which a-k for them; Brightly colored pttmpblets for teachers and children, ' and personal letters, give advice about i health problems. And best and latest H>f all, Cho-Cho. real circus clomt, has been employed to make amusing and helpful talks on what jt child should eat. wear and do to be-strong and well. It is a fact that at least 15 per cent of our children today are suffering from nullnutrition, resulting not so much from eating too little as from ea ti ng an d d rtnki n g th e wrong Id nd of - food. All sorts of methods have been tried, with very little success, to remedy this condition, to induce the parents to provide and thfe, children to eat the foods that will nourish and give tliem st reng th. Cho-Cho and a pair of scales, on which each child can be weighed once a month, is a combination tlmt will go a very long way toward bringing about the desired results. .... The monthly weighing is a most important factor in this work. Johnny and Jenny, who have rigidly lived up weeks, step onto the scales wiTh ilieir eyes .shlhhlg ahd their hearts pounding with excitement. If they-~luive —gaitted ~ more than-1 he desired half a pound, their cup of joy is brimming over, and If, on the other hand, they ttre not quite up to the mark, their ghilty consciences remind them of the coffee which they have drunk or of the baths which they neg- ; lected to take, or the green vegetables | which they refused to eat, and they realize that Cho-Cho .was right—one cannot do these things and still gain his Imlf a pound a month. _ Cho-Cho is very busy these days. He is booked solid for months to come in various cities. But one clown cannot ~ao~nTFtlie work of the country, and so" other Cho-Chos are being trained. It i« a nation-wide campaign, which they are waging to better the condition of the boys and girls who are to constitute the next generation of our citizens. , —: r-ts “What the Dickens.” Shake peare as well as Dickens anticipated some modern catch phrases, such as the popular injunction to keep your hair on. “You are like to lose y our tifur '”—remarks one of the characters in, **the Tempest." Then we find Falstaff exclaiming: “The game is up.” “I cannot tell what the dickens his name is." ~~ And a thirsty soul In “Antdny and Cleopatra” confesses: **l have yet room slv-stnntehya. more.”—London Chronicle. -

eagerness for fl yin g. the R-34’s. c rew was smaller than the crew of the Santa Maria, which of 52 ignorant and fearful men, who had no .dea just why they went, or where. On‘the three ships together, the Encyclopedia Britannica says, there were 88 men, 52 on the sailing ship Santa Maria, which Columbus commanded himself, and 18 apiece on the caravals Pints and Nina- •’

r / xCheap bargains are dear.—‘Spanish Proverb.

JJerl.n. and indeed most of Germany, is suffering from the shortage of coal. The photograph shows a Berita wuitftTgTUFToai outside the yard of a gas company.

WORST FOREST FIRES IN YEARS

Forest Rangers Fail to Con- " quer Timber Land Flames. mm IMG .ESCAPES Settlerr Endangered by Sweep of Flames—Record Loss in Missoula District—l. W. W. Makes Tfouble for Fire-Fighters. ’ i j , j. ■ ?;■ Washington, D. C.—Stirring reports rre coming froiit fm'cst rangers fightIng fire in the Northwest. At headjuarters. Here the situation is said to be the most critical in years. The regard sinh ni er of 1910 may have been equaled in the acreage burned over and timber destroyed since June. As fires are still raging, the loss majTbe greater than in that season. 1 There lutve been many thrilling escapes of settlers from the sweep of the Hames; there have been a number 'oT^aHng r- rescuesT _ Tbss of ITfe Tfas been leagHhari usual in forest fireSr— Qno hUtsthnding expedience oT~ eminent fire fighters occurred in Idaho. F. C. Wilfong, who had been detailed along Crooked creek was trapped with his crew’ of three men at a point where three fires met. Getting out alive seemed impossible. Their 13 horses were taken to a bunch xrass hill in the hope that they might >e saved, while the men continued to tght for their lives. Their camp, provisions and clothes -Svere burned. Wilfong and his men finally jumped into Sei way river, and oy covering their heads with wet blankets, pulled through. They found all their horses, but one, alive, but the pack saddles had been burned off their ..backs. - ~— ~Devastation In Missoula District Most damage is being done in Idaho and western Montana. It is called the Missoula district. It is the best part of the country’s timber remaining from what was once thought were inexhaustible preserves. It is here the burnings ten years ago

Captures Shark With His Handkerchief

Saugus, Mass. —John Hobbs, nineteen, captured a mackerel shark 3 feet 9 inches long, by tying a handkerchief about its tail. Hobbs’ sister was on her way home from a grocery store when she heard a spashing in the water on the edge of Riverside cemetery. Investigating, she found the shark trying to get into the river. It had become! stranded when tlie tlde turned. She ca 11 ed her broth er, who wound his handkerchief around the slim tail of the shark, dragging it ashore.

Opens Wonder Place

Automobile Road to Span Ten Thousand Smokes. Will Give Tourists Access to Territory Where Nature Freaks Are Seen. Cordova, Alaska.— Completion of a projected automobile road of 18 miles up the beds of “painted streams” is parts of the world the valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, in the Mount Katmai region of Alaska, about eighty miles north of Kodiak island. Enterprising motion picture producers, following scientific expeditions into the . strange galley, have returned here with films of the myriad “smokes” and with reports of a shorter and easier route into the district. / ” When the Katmal volcano erupted tn IDl£ and covered* thousands of

BERLIN SUFFERING FROM LACK OF COAL

did most damage. The areas devastated totaled neatly five millions of acres. More than six billion board feet of lumber were destroyed and th’e big tree loss was $14,880,724 aside from the ruin of $9,000,000 worth of timber not big enough to cut. ~ —— —- This loss may be trebled by the fires this .summer. They have been constantr—Thirty of thenr"tnrre~~ench'~con~ sinned everything hut the rocks on areas of one thousand acres or more until the aggregate is already several millions, with no break in the drought most to come. Next in seriousness to lack of rain or water from dried-up streams is-the-scarcity of labor. —Fire fighters Clin HUT be‘ found in sufficient numbers in such an emergency in the forest region. Employment offices have had to be opened in Great Falls, Billings, Anaconda, Butte and Spqkane. Trouble From 1. W. W. In the fatter city, the I. W. W. gives trouble to the fire rangers seeking help. Great care is .exercised to prevent any members-of this organization frqm getting into the forcessent to the forest

Insist Man Is Dead

Government Sends Four Official Death Notices. McGuire,iMuch Alive, Wonders About His Invalidation Home t?y Army. Wilmington, Del. —Alfred McGipre of 801 West Ninth street, is beginning to wonder whether the government is “spoofing” him or whether they have a grudge against him. Since he was invalided home on the discharged list last January, having served .with the Three Hundred Twelfth infantry. Seventy-eighth division, his family has been notified four times that he was dead—either killed in battle, died from diseases or accident. : T see I am dead again,” Is McGuire’s way of passing off the matter when he beholds a letter addressed to his mother bearing the frank of the war department. The fourth notification of his death came the other day, but as McGuire, and Mark Twain before him, said: “The report of my death is greatly exagger. ated.” Each letter that came has been answered either by McGuire himself or his mother. Notification has been sent to the authorities that McGuire is living, but they still insist on killing him off with clock-like regularity. ' The nocontain the information that he was a cook, a wagon driver, a sergeant of artillery or any other such rank, while McGuire plaintively states that a man has to be killed before his rank is

square miles with ash and pumice, killing all. vegetation and game and wiping out more than one settlement, it was regarded as a great calamity. But the eruption uncovered a strange formation which is declared to be one of the wonders of the world. The “smokes.” literally thousands of them. nre clouds or jets of stea in under various pressures, emitted from holes and remarkably colored caverns In the sol id ified vo Ican i c clay. The en t ire valley, which is shaped somewhat like a clover leaf, seems to be gradually solidifying. The Indian who recently guided a motion picture party said many square miles, covered wjth semiliquid hot mud a year ago, are now crossed without difficulty. -* In one of the three arms of the valley is a “live” glacier, at the foot of which is a beautiful cobalt-blue lake of hot water. In another arm is the Falling mountain, down whose face

fire line. There they can give an immense amount of trouble and frustrate efforts to put out a blaze. Their favorite way is to create discontent - among the crews as to pay and food and induce them to quit or do as little work as possible while the trees burn. In spite of the care taken, some of these plotters have got into crews .. and are doing mischief. Some bosses have been reporting that their men are “laying down on their jobs” and have been told to discharge them incontinently. This is done under guard, but formerly only to the edge of civilization. This ca li-be- doneoulyin #case the man has worked out his transpor--tatlon and cost of keep and few fall~ to do this before discovery. -In that ease' the armed guard must take him to the city from whence he Came. Nothing can be dpne_to him, as he has tenance aml -must lie taken- back w ithout expense, according'*!© contract. Now and then an overzealotis I. W. W. gct'klrosyiOosobn in the woods, it he has not earned his expenses, ire may be arrested for defraudihg the government. -* \ Two "thousand gas masks have been loaned by the war department to the forest service for trial by fire fighters. While the fire situation in Oregon and .Washington is not so serious as in Montana' and Idaho, all the crews there are fully - --kr

raised apparently, as he was “nothing but a buck private.” McGuire fought during the St. Mlhiel drive and was hit by a piece of shrapnel and was invalided home. After recuperating from his wound, which was not severe, he was discharged and began working for the Harlan shipbuilding plant. In addition to telegrams, a letter .was received from the chaplain of the regiment .telling Mrs. McGuire of the heartrending circumstances of his death, full details and a complete description of his surroundings, grave, etc.*, accompanying the letter. The chaplain was from Gerinantown, Pa., and Mrs. McGuire wrote a letter to him, thanking him for his sympathy, but spying she was glad it was mis-.plaoedy-as her sog-was-jiet-dead, but~

LITTLE GAS SAVED IN BERLIN

German Housewives Face Year In Jail for Wasting Supply in Stoves. - ■ / Berlin.—Berlin’s reduced gas schedule has just become effective, but the saving promised by it is so small that the Berlin Coal association is conferring with the authorities on other steps to meet the shortage. Housewives violating Uie new rules restricting the use of kitchen gas ranges will be liable to a year in prison and a fine of .$2,000. Supplies drawn on coal cards are regulated according to the size of a family, the municipality issuing minute instructions to landlords and tenants regulating the supplies.

Rheumatism Was Needle and Thread in Hip

Cape Girardeau,. Mo.—Mrs. Helen Curry of this city hhs been relieved of a long-standing ' pain in her hip by an operation, in which a needle and thread were removed. _ Some month's ago she began to notice pain in her hip. She consulted several doctors, who treated het for rheumatism. An X-ray revealed the presence of the needle add thread. How they got there is a mystery.

roll continually huge boulders broken off near the snow-capped peaks by variations of temperature. Besides the scenic possibilities the valley is said to possess vast deposits Of virtually pure sulphur, arsenic and other chemicals. Black sand was found in the many streams indicating poask, bifities of gold.