Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 37, DeMotte, Jasper County, 3 August 1939 — Page 7

Easy-to-Do Bedspread

Knitting with two strands of string speeds the making of these 10 inch squares that even a beginner will show with pride. Keep one of these easy squares at hand to fill odd moments —you’ll be surprised how many you’ll get done. Before long you’ll have enough to join into a lovely hand-knitted bedspread or scarf. Pattern 6411 contairis instructions for making the square; illustration of it and of stitches; materials needed; photograph of square. To obtain this pattern, send 15 cents in coins to The Sewing Circle, Household Arts Dept., 259 W. 14th St., New York, N. Y.

By burning 25% slower than the average of the 15 other of the largest-selling brands tested —slower than any of them —CAMELS give smokers the equivalent of CS&f YOU can enjoy cooler, milder, bet-ter-tasting smoking at less cost by smoking Camels. Read 3 facts revealed in laboratory tests of 16 of the largest-selling brands: 1 CAMELS were found to contain MORE TOBACCO BY WEIGHT than the average for the 15 other of the largest-selling brands. i 2 CAMELS BURNED SLOWER THAN ANY OTHER BRAND TESTED SLOWER THAN THE AVERAGE TIME OF THE 15 OTHER OF TIIE LARGEST-SELL-ING BRANDS! By burning 25GS slower, on the average, Camels give smokers the equivalent of 5 EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK! O In the same tests, CAMELS HELD ** THEIR ASH FAR LONGER than the average for the other brands. Everyone can afford cooler, mellower, delightful smoking. Camel’s extra smoking means real economy with an added bonus of Camel’s finer, more expensive tobaccos... America’s first choice for smoking pleasure. America’s shrewdest cigarette boy! CAMEL THE C/6ERE7TE OF COSTUER TOBACCOS

Floyd Gibbons'

ADVENTURERS’ CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI

i “Another Molly Pitcher ” Hello, everybody: Today’s soul-stirring tale of a brave little mother who was deathly afraid of .guns, but afraid of nothing at all when corporation hirelings tried to grab a piece of her home, is the Battle of Monmouth all over again. You remember, or do you, how in that important engagement at Freehold,! N. J., away back on the place of, her husband, John C. Hays, an artilleryman, after he was wounded, and served his gun. thus preventing its capture by the British. That’s a yarn that every red-blooded American gets a kick out of every time he reads it! It iSv mighty comforting, I want to fell you, to know there are Molly Pitchers generation, stepping forward fearlessly to take the places of their men when necessary. Just such a woman is today’s distinguished adventurer! Meet Mrs. John Doolin, of Lemont, 111. who did a good job at writing her story, one that makes yoiji feel all warm and proud of our womanhood. They call women the weaker sex O yeah? Just put their backs to the wall. If you want the proof, read how Mrs. Doolin, single-handed, whipped a rather highhanded corporation that seemed to be trying to put over a fast one Not long after a railroad came through the village of Lemont, where the Doolins had their home, there were a number of Occidents on a 'sharp curve close to the Doolin property. The company wanted to straighten the line by puiting it across the Doolin yard, Surveyors staked out the new right of way; workers appeared and began digging. John Doolin ordered them off. Then he topk the first train to Chicago and there consulted his good friend; Attorney Alexander Sullivan. Actions of Company Held Illegal by Attorney. Mr. Sullivah told him the company had no right to put its line on Doolin property! without permission. But, he continued (and here’s the catch):, if the company succeeded in erecting the poles and stringing

Her finger was on the trigger and she was all set to pull it.

the power wire, the only V lirl g Doolin could do wopld be to go to court. John Doolin didn't have any money to pay for long years of litigation so he bent it for home, resolved to keep the company [off his premises. There, sticking up in the lawn, was a nice new pole that had been put up while he was in the city. John sawed the pole half way through, Then he borrowed a rifle and ammunition from a neighbor. A few days idler, on a bright June morning in 1903, a policeman appeared with a Warrant charging John Doolin with destroying public property, John marched away with the law, leaving three children crying, a wife,on the verge of it. No sooner was John Doolin out of sight than a crew of workmen swarmed on the place and began digging so furiously you would think they were being paid a dollar a shovelful!. Was little Mrs. Doolin going to let them get away with it - ’ Ijp to the attic she hurried. There, forgetting she shivered at the very sight of a firearm!, she took from the wall a shotgun that had hung undisturbed for many years. With her children clinging to her aiul crying again, she opened the window shutters, and rested the ancient fowling piece on the sill. Then, in a cold fury, she called down to the working men: ■,j : ' ■; yp: j : 4 ‘Throw down your tools or I'll shoot!" ■ j They stopped working and began to kid her j Foreman Orders Men to Take Gun From Her. Then one bully!, who appeared to be the foreman, ordered: "Come on, guys, let’s go up and take it away from her." Mrs. Doolin leaned a little farther out of the window and lifted the ruijty shotgun, “The first man who takes a step toward my hoijise gets shot,” she called. “Now all Of you drop your tools or I’ll start shooting,’’ And hoys and girls, Mrs. Doolin meant exactly what she said. She was a determined mother, protecting her hohie and babies in the absence of her husband. Of course, she thought the gun wasn’t loaded, but her finger was on the trigger and she was all set to pull it if any one of those men made a move in the direction of the house. But their fools went down. The workmen sensed this was real drama, not a comedy, apd they became sober. One spoke up to say the company had sent them there to rush up a couple of poles. Plucky Mrs. Doolin then explained to them that they were on her property, that the company Had not asked peO mission to use it nor offered to pay for it. j Well. sir. when those men got the low down on the proposition they took off their hats and cheered. “You win, lady, you’re a game guy,” they told her. “We aren’t doing any more digging until you get a square deal.” With that they picked up their tools and went to town. Mrs. Doolin had won her battle, but would the men be* Lack tomojrrow? Would the company have her arrested for threatening its workmeip ’ And what had become of her husband? j Officials Refuse to Prosecute Doolifi. Pondering these questions, Mrs. Doolin went to the door and was overjoyed to see her husband coming up the walk. He hadn’t been in jail at all. The policeman had taken him before a justice of the peace, but no one in the courtroom was willing to prosecute him. He thought he understood why he had been taken away on a charge no one would press when Mrs. Doolin told him the men had been back. But when she told him how she had pointed the sl*>tgun at them and really intended to pull the trigger, he felt a little faint. For that old gun was loaded! Well, there was one thing about the old-fashioned corporation, it always knew when it was licked. The very next morining the worries of the Doolin family were over. Right after breakfast two suave lawyers called to say how sorry they were it had happened. There had been a mistake. The company was willing to pay a good prtice for the land. And they paid, right on the line, thanks to the little woman who didn’t knowwhen she was licked. ‘Released by Western Newspaper Union.!

Odd Book Operations

Some unusual operations are performed on ancient books and manuscripts in ,a special laboratory at Moscow. Two thousand Chinese scrolls taken there for treatment were moldy and partly stuck together, and of fragile paper. An electrical table was made for them, and by charging them to a high potential with static electricity they were opened up successfully.!

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Turkish Chrome Ore

Chrome ore, source of chromium, is important among the mineral resources of modern Turkey. Discovered in 1848 by J. Lawrence Smith, an American, the history of its exploitation was indefinite until the rise of the present government. Under the vigorous action of the Republican regime, production has grown from practically nothing in 1923 to over 200,000 tons in 1938.

Star Dust

★ Real or Reel Romance? ★ Proof in the Pictures ★ Knight Does the Lyrics

By Virginia Vale

VTIVIEN LEIGH, the English * girl whom you’ll see in the movie version of! “Gone With the Wind,’’ arrived in" New York a while ago for a vacation. The vacation had begun a week or so before, but she had spent the first part of it in the country nearby, resting; after 22 weeks of work, with only five free days rn that time, she needed a rest! In many ways she really resembles “Scarlett O’Hara ” She has the squarish jaw and pointed chin that you’re familiar with if you read the book, and her j eyes, though they're hazel, are near enough to being; green so that the effect is almost the same. As for her Southern accent, it should pass muster even with the most critical of Southern audiences. She 111 have to abandon it when she returns to work, for her next assignjment in Hollywood is that of the young wife in “Rebecca," another -popular novel. She will play opposite Laurence Olivier—it’s rumored; that the4r interest in each other is more than mildly sentimental, but in Hollywood that rumor has a way of bobbing up whenever publicity is needed for a new picture. If you want more datia about Miss Leigh tor your scrapbook—she was born in India, received her education in Germany, Italy, France and England, and has a five-year-old daughter. - . It’s a new version of "Smiling Through” that will be Jeanette MacDonald’s first picture under her new

JEANETTE MacDONALD

Metro contract. The well known author, Alice’ Duer Miller,! is writing the adaptation, and as usual the studio will spare no effort to make the MacDonald production an excellent one. : ■ 5 Another foreign actress, Ingrid Bergman, makes her bow; to America soon. The picture, “Intermezzo," is an American version of one she made in Sweden. She is returning to Sweden when it is completed. And, while we’re on the subject of Sweden, Paul Muni’s superb acting aided greatly in obtaining tor Warner Brothers permission to screen the life of Allred Bernard Nobel. Hal Wallis, of Warner Brothers, talked with his nephew and showed three Muni pictures, “Pasteur,” “Zola” and “Juarez”—the most convincing argument that could be offered. i fc -- No less a person than Sir Robert Vansittart, chief diplomatic adviser to the British government, has been engaged by Alexander Korda to write the lyrics and dialogue for Korda’s forthcoming technicolor production, !“The Thief of Bagdad.” He’s doing; it between diplomatic assignments. Korda is shooting the works on this new picture; }t is one of the most ambitious productions even to come from his studio. Michael Fitzmaurice has been typed as an unlucky suitor so frequently on the air that he’4 afraid it will affect his private life. In one day not long ago fie was jilted in “When a Girl Marries,” treated as just a brother in “Myrt and Marge,” and taken fqr a ride after winning the heart of a gunman’s moll in “Gang Busters." As you’ve probably noticed by her pictures, Deanna Durbin is growing up. Gloria Jean, just ten years old, is booked to become her successor to those roles presenting a j lovely young girl who can sing. Little Miss Jean has the lovely Deanna’s charm and naturalness, and has a beautiful voice as well; I ~i If Ralph Graves has his way, you’ll seo his! last screen performance in “Eternally Yours.” He has accepted an associate directorship at the 20th Century-Fox studios. ODDS AND ENDS—John Loder mil he the first actor to fly from London to Hoilyuood . . . James Cagney has signed a new contract uith l Earner llrolhers, though the current one runs until October . . . Dorothy can't get out of the South Seas; she*s to co-star uith Robert Preston in Paramount's “Typhoon,’* and also, inevitably, in a sarong . . . Those who fiaSk teen parts of “Pinocchio ,** the next full-length Disney film , say that it outdistances *Snow White” (Released by Western Newspaper Union.)

AROUND the HOUSE

Tipless Shoestrings.— ls metal tips come off of shoe strings dip them in mucilage. This will stiffen the ends and make it easy to put them through eyelets. # • • When Making Blueberry Pie.— Mix one teaspoon of ground nutmeg with two tablespoons of flour and Sprinkle the mixture on the berries, then add sugar. • * * Oil Up!— Don’t forget to oil your vacuum cleaner and electric washer. Oiling keeps them in good condition, and they wear longer. * * * For Mosquito Bites.—A little household ammonia added to the water with which mosquito bites are washed will remove the sting. ,#* * . Chilled Fruit Juices. — Store a jar of fruit juices in the refrigerator for emergency use in hot weather. Add a few mint leaves. Then serve the juices in chilled beverages or mix them into desserts to be frozen. Such juices may be stored for four or five days vs ithout impairing their flavor.

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Items of Interest to the Housewife

Identifying Sheets. —ls you use sheets of two different sizes, one for single and one for double beds, fold sheets for double beds in a large square and those for a single bed in smaller squares. You wall then have no difficulty in finding the right sheets. • •* • A Household Necessity.—A knife sharpener is as essential a piece of household equipment as the coffee pot. Not even an expert carver is able to do much with a dull knife. 4 * • Cut Flowers With Razor Blade. —Take a safety razor blade with you when you go into the garden to cut flowers. It is more satisfactory than sicissors for cutting delicate flower stems.

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