Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 63, Number 30, Jasper, Dubois County, 17 December 1920 — Page 6

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By HOWARD a. THE SLEEPING TORCH T11K sleeping porch Is smMhlng which Is :itllrl to a 'house In order to provide more room for fresh nlr and feet. Kvcry night during the heated tenn thousands of nw, expensive sleeping porches art crowded with feet which protrude carelessly from the coverlets, instead of having to be run 'out of a hall 'bedroom wlndow In tlie effort to cool off. All over the middle West, at this time of the year, myriad number of faithful feet wearing patent com pads are led into Nine Times Out of Ten the Sleeping Porch Is an Afterthought. sleeping porches by their owners and put where the mild evening -zephyr and the stray lightning -hug can roam over their surface. Nim times out of ten the sleeping porch is nn afterthought. It is one of the most high-priced thougbts a mnn can have, If he Is p)In& to keep up with some nelphhor who started his sleeping" porch immediately after the cistern wns hitf. It costs more to tie a 1. by 18 sleeping porch td the second story of mi old house than it does to bu.'ld a bungalow from the ground up. Including a hot-air furnnce and openwork plumbing. This Is because the work Is never started until a hot night come:; along and parboils the entire family to a. delicate pink hue. Most people never use the sleeping porch except when it Is necessary to save human life. It Is sad to see men SCHOOL i Brain Youth py GEORGtt MATTHEW ADAMS SoMKONK 1ms given to us the striking sentence: "To the young. Nature does nothing but give: from the old she docs nothing but take away. Your brain i the only Power in your entire body that may not age. Keep Youth alive In Your Brain. To your rrnlii' your Will may say: "Life at its longest is but like the looking back and reviewing of a single day." For Youth never returns to your muscles and to your bones and to your arteries but Youth trots along with your lira in if your Will says so. Keep Youth alive in Your Hrai:i. William K. (Gladstone, past eighty, chopping down trees, translating the I .'lassies anew, tramping the fields and solving mysteries stands out as one of the most striking examples of those who kept their Ilrulns young as their bodies grew old. Keep Youth alive in Your Hrain. It is Interest that puts Youth into your Urain und drives away age. Just so long as you are Interested in the things you are doing, just so long work will grow upon you. strengthening your loyalty and nthuslasm and every ounce of jour effort. Keep Youth alive In Your Hrai.i.

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put hundreds of hard-earned dollars Into n capacious, hard pine sleeping porch and allow it to stand idle and collect dust and autumn leaves. It Is equally sad to see a large family troop Into one of those porous porches on ! the first hot evening and discover that the beds have not been made up since the 31 st of the preceding August. This causes much discontent on the part of husbands who were led to expect different treatment prior to the wedding morn.

LAST NIGHT'S DREAMS

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SHROUDS. I i'EKSON unfamiliar with dream lore might wake up after dream ing of a shroud with a feeling that he had seen an evil omen and be, consequently, depressed in spirits. He would be quite wrong. A shroud may j not be altogether a pleasant thing to see in one's dreams, but it is accounted by nearly all the soothsayers to be a favorable omen to dream of that gruesome object. For one thing such a dream signifies that you are to inherit some money. It is true, though, say he wise ones, that seeing a shroud in a dream is a warning to the dreamer to take better care of his health or he will have a fit of illness which will interfere with his business. But it is merely a tendency to illness which is predicted and not Illness Itself. If you are careful of your health your business will prosper and your fortune increase. If you dream that you see a shroud removed from a dead person you might wake up with affright at the ghastly sight. But really there would be no evil omen in the dream which would call for any worrying. The worst that It could mean would be that you are going to have some little strife and contention with a person with whom DAYS 9 nt xv rr tt n r I COOK BOOK y 'Tis something preat to be a queen. Am! bond a kingdom to a woman's will; To bo a mother such as mine, I ween. Is something better and more noble still. May Illley Smith. Summer Salads. With head lettuce in every garden and an abundance of the leaf lettuce, peas, onions, and other crisp Haver vegetables, one nec2 never want, for salad material. -MILITANT-NARY Ive-tried-to-be ODQltruist.butin Lifeo grilling SCHOOL I've-learned that-folKs-coDt understand:THEY THINK I'M -JUST A-POOL !

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Some enthusiasts use the Sleepia? porch the year around, retiring In the dead of winter with n soapstone, a set of.earlaps. a fur boa and four pairs of woolen underwear. This gives thera plenty of fresh air and also encourages he growth of the unobtrusive chilblain. After a while they get so accustomed to it that they can remove one layer 'of underwear and substitute a hotwater bag, located In the small of the back. Those who think that all of the heroes and heroines wete In the

European war should try this next winter for one week, and jot down their impressions after coming out of the hospital. (Copyright.) O Vancouver Island has no navigable streams. you least expected to have trouble. I5ut the dlflieulty will be of short duration ; you will get the best of the argument and nil will be smooth sailing again. In looking over many hundreds, or rather thousands, of dream Interpretations which have been handed down from generation to generation It is found that the saying "Dreams go by contraries" does not apply so frequently as is generally supposed. But the dream of a shroud Is one 'of the cases where it does. So cheer up if you have this disagreeable . dream. Think of the coining legacy and the flourishing of your business. (Copyright.) O llJj L t - " ' 1 J Juffi Folks By EDGAR A. GUEST WHEN NELLIE'S ON THE JOB. The bright spots In my life are when the servant quits the place. Although that grim disturbance brings a frtwn on Nellie's face; The week between the old girl's reign and entry of the new Is one that's filled with happiness and comfort through and through. The charm of living's back again a charm that servants rol I like the home, I like the meals, when Nellie's on the job. There's something In a servant's ways, however tine they be, That has a cold and distant touch and frets the soul of me. The old home never looks so well, as in that week or two That we are servnntless and Nell has all the work to do. There is a sense of comfort then that .makes my pulses throb And home Is as It ought to be when Nellie's on the job. Think not that I'd deny her help or grudge the servant's pay, When one departs wo try to get another right away. I merely state the simple fact that no such joys I've known As in those few brief flays at home when we've been left alone. There is a gentleness that seems to soothe this selfish elf And oh, I like to eat those meals that Nellie gets herself! lou cannot buy the gentle touch that mother gives the place, No servant girl can do the work with just the proper grace. And though you hired the queen of cooks to fashion your croquettes meals would not compare with those your loving comrade gets, though the maid has quit again Her So. and she is moved to sob, old home's at its finest now, for Nellie's on thejob. (Copyright by Edgar A. Giltst.) Th ftUiA salad bowl of crisp fresh lettuce served with French, mayonnaise. Thousand Island dressing, or even the common variety of boiled dressing, makes a palatable salad. A small bed of mustard (the small black-seeded variety) makes a most exee'.ient salad plant and a fine dish of g'vens. The leaves may be picked and served alone with salad dressing or mixed with lettuce. The pungent tate and good tlavor is most appetizing. Added finely mineed to any vegetable salad from potatoes to peas. It adds to the tlavor. Cherry Conserve. ('over pitted cherries with good vin?ar nn I let stand overnight. Pour off the vinegar and add to the cherries an equal wvlght of sugar. Stir until !he sugar is dissolved. Place In a jar ?overed with cloth and plate and keep in a cool place. Tomato and Cucumber Salad. Arrange overlapping slices of peeled and uniformly sliced tomatoes on a chop plate. Alongside of the tomatoes trrangf peeled sliced cucumbers. Gariish with lettuce or parsley and serve Ith the dressing passed in a bowl.

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-77 v.'r ru v . jvoyztz, &4Jmr 27t$zr OVAL Palm .State park ir. Florida is a "thing ot beauty" and ,4a Joy forever." Paradise key Is its 'old-time name. It is an island In the heart of th Everglades. From a biological view it is almost unique, in that it presents a remarkable example ot a subtropical jungle within the United States in which primeval conditions of animal and plant life remain unchanged br man. In other Everglade keys and In keys along the Florida coast original conditions have been changed by forest fires, by the clearing of. forests and by the digging of canals. Through these agencies the original physical conditions have been affected in various ways; moreover, aquatic animals and plants have invaded and found a foothold. Paradise key is also remarkable as a meeting place of many temperate and tropical animals and plants. . It offers a virgin field for students of many branches of natural history. And last and not least Paradise key does not "blush unseen and waste Its sweetness on the desert air." It Is accessible to all nature-lovers and can be reached by automobile highways that mn directly into' the park. Why, then Is not Pnradise key a national park? Perhaps it should lie. Anyway, to the Florida State Federation of the General Federation of Women's Clubs is due the fact that Paradise key is now Iioyal Palm State park Instead of merely Paradise key, m island in the Everglades. There has long been an appreciation of Paradise key by discriminating naturelovers and spasmodic efforts had been made previous to 1015 to get the Florida legislature to set it aside as a state park. Then the federated club women of Florida took hold in earnest, under the leadership of Mrs. W. S. Jennings, president of the state federation. The club women made an aggressive campaign and in 1015 the legislature set aside the key, together with an 'adjacent area of swampland, as a public park. This, with an additional tract afterward donated, has received the name of Royal Palm State parK. 11 contains nnoui uiree square miles. The club women also erected a building and installed a park warden. The automobile highway from Homestead and Florida City to East Cape passes close to the park ;md a spur runs directly into the park. Koyal Palm State park lies in Dade county, about oT miles dircctly southwest of Miami. Paradise key owes its preservation in primeval conditions to Its isolation and to a deep nearby slough, which never becomes dry. Southern Florida, with an almost tropical climate, is sometimes subject in the winter months to severe storms from the north, in which the thermometer falls below tbe freezing point. That these occasional cold spells have not seriously injured tbe vegetation of Paradise key is shown by the presence in its flora of noble royal palms, tropical orchids, and .other tender plants and insects belonging to types essentially tropical. On the other hand xiany temperate species, both of plants Mid animals, extend tlieh range southward to this region; although, us far zt least as the animals are concerned, Moving Telephone Pole To accommodate the building of a Lighway between two eastern cities the local telephone company recently performed the remarkable feat of moving its entire pole line of 4.'tt) poles ten feet to one side without cutting a circuit or interrupting service on any of the wires. The work was done by six men In two gangs, with five pole j:; -ks for lifting the poles from their holes, toys Popular Mechanics, It was starr

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mi lvfefciäii! Ill the temperate species are here represented by varieties or subspecies which take the place of the northern types. The Everglades owe their characteristic features of marsh, sloughs, and shallow ponds, to their recent origin and their slight elevation above the sea level,. Their general surface is not high enough to permit the formation of deep valleys by eroding streams; and the water appears fto ooze slowly seaward, on the west side toward the southwest and on the east side toward the southeast. Koyal Palm State park of course takes its name from the royal palms (Koystonia regia) which possibly form its chief ornament. These splendid palms often rise to a height of 100 feet, dwarfing most of their competitors of the palm family. A worthy rival N the magnificent live oak (Queren s Virginiana), which sometimes spreads its moss-covered brauche.? over an area 200 feet in diameter. In the way of curious forest growths is th'e poison tree (Metopium taxiferum), a giant sumach with a smooth spotted trunk; its sap acts very much on the human skin like the poison ivy of the north. Another tree to be catalogued among the curiosities is the strangling tig (Fieus aurea). It begins life somej what like a mistletoe, sprouting from j a tiny seed dropped on the limb of a tree. It soon sends down threads which take root when they reach the ground, and which grow together wherever they touch one another, forming a meshwork about the trunk of the host which is strangled to death. Tbe photographs reproduced herewith shows a strangling fig embracing a cabbage palm. The list of beautiful and interesting trees is long. Some of the more striking are the gumbolimho (Elaphrium simaruba). called West Indian birch in the Antilles; satinleaf. which takes its name from the golden brown, satinlike lining of Jts leaves; the laurelcherry of the West Indies; a beautiful mimosalike Lysolima, usually callcd wild tamarind, with fernlike foliage and smooth white trunk; the mastic trec or wild olive; the boIs-fi(Jele (incorrectly translated "fiddle wood"). and the pigeon plum. Of course, it is imiossibIe here to catalogue the fauna and flora or Koval j Palm State park. There are many very interesting specimens; some are ed by raising the first five poles one ; foot, then going back and raising the first four another foot, and the first three another, and then the first two a total of four feet. Finally the first pole was lifted clear of tbe ground and rallroadc'd over to the new hole prepared for it by sliding it on a tenfoot oak plank. Burritt's Remarkable Record. "Learned Plarksmith" was tb epithet bestowed upon Fi ihn H;:mu. t!te American reformer, author asd lin

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CM 1 1 ' K- l ROYAL niMjUZ-IttZrC found nowhere else In the I'jd'ed States. Northern eyt-s, for example. seldom hop the Jointed liana (IIipp era tea volnhills) which Is shown hanging along the trunk of the live oak In the photograph. It is one of nature's agents to keep the balance. It works its way to the crown of a tree and then covers It so thickly that its host is often crushed by Its weight. It brings more trees to earth than storms or parasites. The ferns are legion, and nclude Spanish moss, festooning the tres. Orchids, climbing plants that bloom, and flowers In great variety are everywhere. There's the Identical spider that spins webs from which silk Is made. The moths and butterflies are many and beautiful. The zebrn butterfly (Hellconius charitonius) Is the only representative, of its family in the Unitel States; it has such an unpleasant taste that insectivorous birds will not eat it. The mosquitoes are many, but do not communicate disease to human being. The fishes are many and some of them are rare and curious. The 11kmouthed bass (Micropenis salmoides) here sometimes attains a weight of -0 ami even 4J5 pounds. The mudfish is believed to survive periods of drought by burying itself in the mud. Yet local sportsmen say It is "one of the hardest fighters that ever took a hook." A mature female leastfish is only an inch long and a male threequarters of an Inch. The killlfisb brings forth Its young alive. From the warden's lodge the alligator can be heard bellowing in the big Nslough. If you are enterprising you can dine on alligators' eggs; they're as good as turtles' eggs when fresh. Snakes there are in plenty If you go looking for them rattlesnakes too. and the water moccasin. In birds the park is rich both because of its climate and because It is on tbe highway of migratory birds which spend their winters in the West Indies. In southern Florida many wellknown birds, as well as mammals, are represented by varieties or subspecies quite distinct from the typical forms ,oceuring farther north. Thus we have the Florida quail, Florida crow. Florida wren, and the Florida cardinal, all of which are essentially Floridian. and the Florida wild turkey, which Is fast disappearing. One of the most beautiful birds, a tropical species now fast disappearing from Florida and occurring nowhere else In the United States, except in Texas, Is the roseate spoonbill (A Jala njaja). The Seminole Indians of the Everglades are comparatively recent Intruders, who retreated to the swamps from the lower Creek towns in the eighteenth century. Most of them have been transferred to Oklahoma. In the time of Columbus, the most Important tribe of this region was the Caloosas; it was they who repelled Ponce de I-con in 151.?. Very little is known about the aboriginal Indians. The Tequestas, who occupied the i Everglades before the Seminoles. an 1 described In the narrative of Jonathan f Dickenson, who was shipwrecked in j 1099 and became their captive. guist, who liven! from 1S10 to 1STP. He began his career as a blacksmith about 1SU7, and worked at that Wide for many years, during which time he made himself proficient In numerous ancient and modern languages. According to Mathews Getting On In the World." Kllhu Hurritt acquired a mastery of IS languages and 22 dialects, "not by rare genius, which he disclaimed, but by Improving the bits :ir.d fragments of time which he could Meal from bis occupation us a l'liick smith."

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