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Jumping Legs No Longer Disturb Slumber Because He Stays Up All Night Trying ‘Suggested - Remedies.
LAKE CHARLES, La. March 28.—They
say a man is never too old to learn. . I'm old, and my learning capacity always has been limited. But I've just learned two surprising facts: me 1. That half the people in legs that twitch and jump when they go to bed. - 2. That the other half used to have, and now have some cure for the twitches. All this came about as a result of the column I wrote from Key West :a few weeks ago, telling how my legs leap around in bed at night and keep me awake. ~~ "Well, have I had advice, and sympathy! Judging from the letters, there must be enough energy wasted in leg-jumping at night to harness the sun.- Or vice versa. People have written me their own experiences. One young fellow from Ohio wrote that his own legs were well behaved, but that he sufMr. Pyle jump, and he sleeps with Bill : Says this correspondent: “I lie, there and try to keep one eye on ‘Bill so I can jump if I see it coming. “Then when I finally go to sleep, I feel the covers go up in the air and his feet usually come down in the middle of my stomach.” + And from Washington comes this harassed cry in’ the night: = : “Tell me, have your legs ever jumped so hard you turned a complete backward somersault? Mine have, and I can prove it by my barked heels where they strike the headboard.” : And from an El Paso woman: “I always thought I was a freak of nature with my jitterbug legs, but since you have openly admitted your troubles, I don’t feel so badly.” : . ; From Alameda, Cal.: “If you ever learn of a cure
for jumping legs please send it on to me and in return |
come and have a good Swedish dinner with us.” And now for the cures. Oh, boy, the cures: From Cleveland: “Suffer no more from leg jitters. Saturate a towel with ice water, and wrap it around both knees. That's all. You can’t twitch now if you try. Go to sleep.” And also: “Don’t smoke until after lunch. Don’t smoke more than one cigar after dinner.” (Note—If I didn’t smoke till after lunch I'd die before lunch. If I smoked a cigar at any time, I'd die in a few minutes.) : io
Thanks Are Extended :
From ‘Pennsylvania: “You may laugh, but your leg jumping is caused from the nerves in your stomach. Take a teaspoonful of baking soda in water. All steel mill workers use it.” From San Diego: “Eat more alkaline-forming foods, If you don’t know what foods are alkaline, write the Department of Nutrition, Washington, D. C. Deficiency diseases cost us two million dollars daily for doctors and medicines.” There were: others. - To all these friends who have sympathized and diagnosed, I am deeply grateful, and give my thanks. And it may interest you to know that I am cured. I did it as follows: = Every night I get myself all arranged for the evening treatment. I sit on a chair, with various pails; potions, fruits, water bags, soda cans and what not all within easy reach. 4 Then, I hire a little boy to strike a gong at exactly 9:30 p. m. - At the sound of the.gong, I go into my treatment. rs ae From then on my night is like a trap-drummer’s. heaven. It becomes a hectic dousing of my feet into hot pails. cold pails, medium pails, empty pails, sitting
up straight, ‘leaning back, leaning forward, eating
Fait, ladling “out bakitig “ soda, gulping- lemon
~ juice and writing letters to the Department of-Nutri-.
*“npever get to bed any more."
tion. : Almost before I know it, it is daylight, and time to go to work again. Yes, I am cured. No longer do my legs jump when I get in bed, The reason is, I
My Day
* By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Visits With Daughter in Seattle; Finds Difference in Group Thinking.
EATTLE, Wash., Monday. —The trip up by air instead of beginning at 2 o'clock on Sunday morn-
- ing, began at 5. A gentleman from Spokane and I
were the only passengers. He was a very pleasant
- companion with whom I enjoyed talking until he left
at Portland, Ore. Then I came on to Seattle in solemn state. The delay had one advantage, for my family did not have to meet me in the early hours of the morning. John, Sis and Buz greeted me at the airport at 10 o'clock. The stewardess on the plane was completing her ninth year with the company and has flown more
_ miles than any other woman In this country. This so-
called exciting career, which I think at times must be. quite nerve-racking, has evidently agreed with her, for she looked like a young girl without a line in her face. : It is delightful to be back with my daughter and
her family and we did nothing but talk all day yes--
terday, except for a few hours when I went to sleep, not having had a great deal of sleep the night before.
Young Man’s Country
A most interesting letter has comé to me from a young man who is abroad surveying youth conditions and the trend of young thought in different European countries. I shared that letter with my daughter and son-in-law, and then it was time .to go to the train to meet Miss Thompson, who had journeyed up from Oakland in a more leisurely
~ fashion than I did.
In Texas and out on this coast, you feel that it is more a young man’s country. Perhaps that is because the country itself is younger, but it seems to me that there is also a distinct difference to be found in group thinking. Texas is a little more tied with the South. Perhaps coming out to the
- ‘Northwest was a trifle more difficult and tempted
Day-by-Day ‘Science
* By Science Service
even more adventurous souls. In any case, the impact of thinking you get out here is not quite the same as what you feel in the South. There is something a little more windswept about it. ; In northern countries one is said to be more “dour” but there is enough softness in the air of our Northwest to keep one gently humorous, but not enough to make one peppery. The: United States is a great country from both the physical and the human standpoint and its variety makes travélifg forever interesting from both points of view. ¥#*
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MERICA can have a new billion dollar a year in< A. dustry if it wants if. . Children cry for it—those
~ who have had a taste qof it.
- gartens. But intensive educational experiment and |: A
- greatly benefited by a special kind of schooling for}.
No, not candy, but nursery schools. Conventional schooling starts at 6, or 5 where there are kinder-
pioneering practice since the World War shows that the whole future lives of little boys and girls are
those from 2 to 6. Nursery schools under the guidance of trained teachers, supplementing the benefits of the
"home, bring the children into a happy, effective world
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ideally fitted for them. They like it, it is good for them, their parents appreciate the advantages and: the child grows faster in intelligence as the result. Public education has had its greatest development in America. Fathers and mothers have wanted their children to have more advantages than they themselves had when they were young. There are about 600 to 700 private and public
nursery schools in addition to the 2000 WPA nursery | d available |
schools created in the last three years: only- to children of those in the ve W his means -that little mor
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% ' The British Navy gets the honor of transporting King George a
TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1939
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Elizabeth on
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trip. Above is the British battle cruiser Repulse which will carry the royal party across the Atlantic.
(Here is the first of a series of articles revealing the behind-the-scenes preparations for the visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth to the United States and Canada in May.)
By Milton Bronner J _ONDON, March 28 (NEA).—On a spring day early in May a modest, sincere young British couple, accompanied by 10 of their friends and perhaps a dozen servants, will. drive from their residence in the heart of London’s verdant parks to the Waterloo railroad station. . Their baggage, ancient and battered and making no pretense of matching, will have preceded them. At the station the party will
‘board a special train bound
for the quaint English shipping town of Portsmouth on the southern coast. There may be a few cheers as their train moves slowly out of London and there may be more
at Portsmouth as they step aboard the trim, 32,000-ton British bat-
tle cruiser, H. M. S. Repulse. The
party and luggage aboard, the Repulse, will sound her deep bass horn, weigh anchor—and Xing George VI and Queer: XKlizabeth
“will be on their way for a 48-day,
16,000-mile visit to Canada and the United States. On this trip, the first visit to Candda ever made by a reigning British monarch, King George
‘ will leave all British politicians at
home. To permit Canadian statesmen to entertain Their Majesties without sharing honors with their English. brethren and to avoid implications that the side trip into the United States is for political purposes, King George has surrounded himself and his Queen with personal friends, mostly veterans in royal parties. In charge of arrangements for the trip is Alan F. Lascelles, 51-year-old acting privaté secretary to the King. A relative by marriage .to the Royal family, Lascelles -will: be invaluable throughout the journey. He lived in Canada from 1931 to 1935 as secretary to the then Governor-gen-eral, Lord Bessborough, and toured Canada and the United States on the last trip made by the present. Duke of Windsor when he was Prince of Wales. 2 ” ” HE projected voyage is giving . Lascelles few: headaches. He is accustomed to handling trips which entail many, and often per-_ .plexing, problems. The reason is that the King and Queen have placed themselves, with few reservations, in the hands of their Canadian and. American hosts.
- Most of the details are being han-
dled in North America. As Ladies-in-waiting, . Elizabeth will have two of her: favorites, both personable and at= tractive. Lady Numburnholme, 35, a daughter of the Marquis of ‘Bath, was _a bridesmaid at the
Side Glances
skirts, shorter hemlines, silk and chiffon afternoon dresses designs in pastel
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‘Fhe visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth to Canada was suggested by the Dominipn’s Prime Minister, W. L. Mackenzie King, dur-
ing the coronation in
London. Pictured at right, above, in jovial meef~
ing with his sovereign, he will replace Neville Chamberlain as the King’s Prime Minister during the royal visit to Canada,
weddings of ‘Queen Elizabeth and THE King will bring along a
the Princess Royal. Lady Katharine Seymour, 38,: at one time
was a Lady-in-waiting to Queen Mother Mary. They were made
Ladies of the Bedchamber in 1937. Others in the party will be: Lord-in-waiting, the | 39-year-old Earl of Eldon, a wealthy landowner; Lord Chamberlain, the Earl of Airlie, Lord-in-waiting to the late King George V, who accompanied the royal couple on their successful trip to Paris last
summer; Capt. Michael Adeane,.
young assistant private secretary, who lived in Canada for two years recently as aide-de-camp to the governor-general; medical officer, Surgeon Capt, H. E. Y. White, widely traveled veteran servant of the royal family; equerries to the King, Lieut. Col. Piers Legh and Comm. E. M. C. Abel-Smith; press officer, smiling, somewhat cynical Gecrge F. Steward, who for many years has
handled newspapermen : assigned
to No. 10 Downing St. » ” »
MM AYFAIR'S most exclusive couturiers are beating a
daily path to Buckingham Palace to prepare Queen | Elizabeth’s wardrobe for the trip. | It will include 50 dresses, as many coats and a hat for each :daytime ensemble. -: Features clothes closet will be a new ensemble trimmed in “smoky” fox
_fur from Canada, gracefully .cut
frocks of fine wool georgette with long matching -coats, pleated
with floral shades.
The Queen will, leave her veils
at home so that people will be able to see her face better.
give her: added height, will be decorated. with artificial flowers instead of ‘the usual feathers. : Workmen' . already are busy
preparing the Repulse, a speedy
‘and smooth sailing ship, for the voyage. New cabins for the party and - their servants, special - bed-
rooms for the King and Queen,
new sitting rooms and a private dining room have beer construct= ed.
of Her Majesty's
printed
Her hats will have built up crowns to .
closet full of state uniforms - “and regalia for use in Canada. He
may also bring to Canada the $2,500,000 imperial crown of state. Never before taken out of England, it would ‘be used when the
" King appears before Parliament -in Ottawa. He will not wear his
ceremonial regalia in the U. S. His lounge suits, mostly blues and grays, include two-button doublebreasteds. and ‘roll front singlebreasteds fastening at the bottom
- button.
"His black morning coats will feature a single button fastening at the waistline, tails reaching
. barely four inches below the knee.
His Majesty, who has never taken
to a stock and pin, will: wear an
open end tie with his gray morning outfits. ro 2 2»
ALE way across Canada on S
King George VI will stop at old
Ft. Garry Gate in Winnipeg,
Manitoba.
As his private car comes to a halt, an officer of the Hudson’s
‘Bay Co. will step forward, wel-
come the royal couple to the company’s domain and present the
. King with two elk heads and two - beaver skins.
This tribute, mandatory under the company’s ancient ‘charter whenever a British sovereign might visit its domain, will be the first—and perhaps the only—one King George VI ever will receive from his Canadian subjects. The moment: His Majesty enters Canadian waters next May his status immediately changes. His position and his relationship to the Canadian Government are established—unlike the elk-head-
.and-beaver-skin tribute—by. re-
cent law. - Once in Canada, George VI becomes King of Canada, which he was specifically crowned in Westminster Abbey in 1937. He acquires an entirely new set of advisers. . His Prime Minister no longer is umbrella-toting Neville Chamberlain but the gracious Ca-
‘nadian: premier, W. L. Mackenzie
King. Technically, at least, Mr. Chamberlain is out of a job as long as the King is in Canada. The King’s expenses are paid
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Can the i President of the United States veto a decision - of the Supreme Court? 2—Who promoted the Gregorian calendar? 3—On which ‘ballot was Eugenio Cardinel Pacelli elected Pope?
4—To which family of fruits do
oranges, lemons and grapefruit belong? .5—Name the capital of the Republic of Nicaragua. 6—What is the correct pro= nunciation of the word audi ometer? | 7—In which mountain range is the famous peak Jungfrau? 8—Name the American Am~Jassador to Chile. is * 2»
Answers 1—No. 2—Pope Gregory XIII. 3—Third. . 4—Citrus. 5—Managua. 6—Au-di-om’-eter; not au-di-o-me’ ter. 7—Alps. 8—Norman Armour.
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+ advice. cannot-be given nor can
_ tendants during the . visit
ing and Queen!
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Simplicity Will. Mark Departure of Britain’s Rulers for America’
When the King and Queen debark in Canada, His Majesty may wear the admiral’s uniform which he donned for a recent naval review. Such ceremonial attire will be restricted to his Dominion appearances, while the United States will see him in civilian clothes.
transcontinental * * tour -
Their Majesties’ personal atto Canada and the United States. The Queen’s Ladies-in-waiting are shown above. Left, Lady Katharine Seymour, and right, Lady Nunburnholme. The ' King’s attendants are below, Lord-in-wait-
ing the Earl of Eldon, left, and
the Earl of Airlie, Lord Chamberlain, :
not by the tish but by the Canadian liament. Responsibil-
ity for his safety rests-not with Scotland Yard but with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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EORGE VI will be the "first J British King ever to reign in person in Canada and he was the first one ever to be crowned specifically King of Canada. His coronation was with a definite ref-
erence io Canada as ‘a nation,
“equal in status” with the United Kingdom and all other British dominions and with its own King. Other mpnarchs had been crowned “King of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas,” with . Canada still considered a British “possession.” In 1926 Canada led the British
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dominions into full nationhood. They brought about at the Imperial Conference of that year the Declaration of London, confirming Canada’s full autonomy, with the crown the only empire link. Today, only the Canadian Government can advise the King on any affair respecting the dominion. 8 8 8 : HE King's permanent representative in Canada is Lord Tweedsmuir, the governor-gen-eral, sent to Canada from England with the consent of the Canadian Government. But Lord Tweedsmuir, after greeting Their Majes=-
i ties, will fade into the back-
ground, remain in Ottawa while the King and Queen go: touring. The Prime Minister will accompany the royal party on their journey. The program for the visit is under his direction with details being handled by the Undersecretary of State. ; In each province the leading dignitaries will be the dominion cabinet - ministers from the ‘province. The lieutenant governors, Canadians who represent the Crown in the provinces, will be in charge of affairs. King George decided to visit Canada on the suggestion of Prime Minister King at the time
the premier was in London for
the coronation and advised His
* Majesty on Canadian affairs. The
King agreed, but before the trip could be undertaken, the consent of his British Prime Minister was necessary, : ea” HE Canadian Government has . appropriated $350,000 for the royal tour and an additional $75,000 for the program in the Capitol. Most of the $350,000 will be spent on transportation. Each province will bear the cost of entertaining the King’s party in its own domain and each city will finance its own show. - : And while the King is in Can ada, the King can do no. wrong. The Prime Minister must shouider all responsibility for all the King says and does. But the King will say and do all that the Prime Minister says he should say and do.
NEXT—How Canada will guard the King and Queen.
Movies—By Wortman
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ur Town By Anton Scherrer
Wherein We Fill in Gaps Gonceining That Cannon German-Americans Used on Washington's Birthdays.
JR DWARD J. KAPPELER, who runs a jewelry shop on Indiana Ave., knows a lot about the lost cannon I mentioned the other day, the one the German-American Veterans used to fire salutes with on Washington’s birthday. In the Court House yard
—remember? Mr. Kappeler comes by -his information honestly enough. His father was the “thumb man” of the squad and the secretary of the organization for almost 50 years. The old cannon, says Mr. Kappeler, was a Confederate weapon brought to Indianapolis to do duty in Democratic rallies during the 1880 campaign. Sim Coy, the Democratic Boss in Indianapolis at the time may have had something to do with bringing it here because after the campaign was over, the cannon was haned to : his saloon on E. Washington St., : where it served to decorate his Mr. Scherrer place. That’s when the Veterans got the notion that the cannon ought to be put to better use.
When they got that tar, they discovered that the gun carriage was ready to fall apart. Immediately, Louis Ruth and Mr. Kappeler’s father remembered that the cellar of the State House was full of discarded gun carriages which, as far as anybody could ‘see, weren't doing anybody any good. Together they called on Governor Porter to see Whether they couldn’t get him to part with one. Governor Porter told the two Vets that the gun carriages belonged to the U. S. Government and couldn’t be had for love or money. Nor could they be given away. But, said the Governor, if a gun carriage took a sudden notion to walk out of the State House, neither he nor any=body else could help it. And so Mr. Ruth and Father Kappeler. deliberately went to the cellar and walked away with one of Uncle Sam’s gun carriages. “And that’s the truth, so help me,” said Son Kappeler.
Driver From the Circus
After that, the cannon was kept in Peter Lieber’s brewery on Madison Ave. and Mr. Kappeler distinctly remembers that it took four (4) black horses to haul it to the Court House yard on Washington’s birthday. "The driver was a fellow with a big black mustache, the biggest ever seen around here, and came to Mr, Lieber by way of a circus. He was the same driver who hauled Mr. Blaine around Indianapolis in the Presidential campaign of 1884.
After the circus driver left Indianapolis, or died (Mr. Kappeler doesn’t remember which), Frederick Schmidt had the honor of hauling the cannon to the Court House yard. Mr. Schmidt, who succeeded to the circus driver’s job, never used more than two (2), horses, however; not even when he hauled the cannon to the top of Crown Hill where Riley’s tomb now stands. I was glad Mr. Kappeler brought up the Crown Hill incident, because I had forgotten that the Vets used the same cannon to fire salutes on Decoration Day. When prohibition set in, it looked pretty bad for the old cannon. ‘For one thing, Lieber’s brewery went out of business, and there’s no telling what might have happened next had not Conrad Bauer offered his home in Haughville as a refuge for the old cannon. Mr. Bauer died a couple of years ago, and heaven only knows where the cannon is today. I'll keep you informed, though, if anything turns up. - And while I'm at it, I might as well tell you that 338 Indiana Ave., where Mr. Kappeler does business, is the oldest jewelry stand in Indianapolis. Not the ‘oldest jewelry business, mind you, but the oldest jewelry stand. You'll catch on in a minute. It was started by Leonard Schurr who came to Indianapolis by way of the Black Forest and set up a clock shop on N. Pine St. : In 1860, Mr. Schurr moved his clocks to Indiana Ave. and in 1873, he built the present store. He was succeeded by his son, and in 1907 Mr. Kappeler took over the business. All of which is the same as saying that 338 Indiana Ave. has been a clockmaker’s shop for nigh on to 80 years. :
Jane Jordan— Daughter Should Have Other Dates, Mother, Worried by Quarrels, Told.
EAR JANE JORDAN—I have a daughter 18 years old. She has a boy friend who is 21. They have been together off and on for a year and nine.months, They have lots of quarrels and stay mad for eight or nine weeks. During this time he goes with no girls and she goes with no boys. Other girls and boys do not interest them. : He has told her that he did not want to see her with any other boy. For her part, I know she loves him, and since he only goes with boy friends it seems to me that he cares for her. But they have so many quarrels and play-outs that I wonder if it would be right for me to advise the girl to quit going with him
and go with someone else, . TROUBLED MOTHER.
Answer—By all means advise your daughter to go with so! else. The fact that she goes with no one else while her boy friend is pouting is not indicative that she loves the boy but only that she is afraid she will not succeed any better with another. The girl is low in self-esteem or she wouldn’t go back to the boy after so many quarreis. A little self-searching will show her that timidity is the only thing that keeps her from making new cohtacts. If only she could get someone better, she never would put up with this unsatisfactory situation. . Purthermore, the fact that the boy goes with no other girls during his mad spells does not necessarily mean that he cares much for your daughter. His interest in girls may be fairly low. He feels more at ease with his boy friends. When he comes into coneflict with a girl, he flies back to them for comfort, re nouncing all girls,
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Fe JANE JORDAN—I am 17 years old and have been going with a young man of 20 for
| two years. I can’t understand him. He takes poute ;
mba
good are those-six- suits.
ing spells and does not speak nor come to see me for five and six weeks at a time, but still he tells me he does not want to see me with any other boy. 1 have tried not to love him, but he is my whole life, and when he is on those spells life is mighty dark to me. He gets mad if I can’t always be talking and said I was too still. Do you think that this
young man cares for me or not? LULA B.
Answer—The answer to the. first letter covers your question’ also. JANE JORDAN.
"Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jord answer your ns in this column daily. aa. wae wil .
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