The Syracuse Journal, Volume 23, Number 11, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 10 July 1930 — Page 3

Youthful Music School Graduate ■r < •il * jm WOMFJCJML v frit Nr • Little Margaret Ann Guest, three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Guest, of Baldwin City, Kan., with Dean Gaskill of the conservatory of music of Baker university, when she received her diploma in music. She Is believed to be the youngest graduate of a music school in the country.

Lights of New York fej

Working Goila. Some 50 girl students of Hunter college, a citylnstitution, have earned about $25,000 in less than five months, •nd one of the girls gctss7 a week for taking a dog for a daily walk. Another earns considerably more giving bridge lessons, and most of the students work in department stores. • • • Properly Stung. ?i'ot always does the owner of a de-jalri-blw, piece of real estate get the prl'-e he is holding out for. A few months ago n real eState firm bought a large parcel of ground near the East river for a de luxe apartment building It tried to get an additional strip twenty five feet wide, but the owner of Ihe strip wauled a large price, ,'llie firm refused, ami built its apartment on n smaller area. Then. On the other side of the profit-seeker. another firm bought iiriotl of parcebof land for-nn-Other apartment. It. too. sought the narrow strip. Th? plrlee was too high, and so another towering building was erected on smaller area. That strip Is now' la-tween Jwb sixteen story bni'dings. 'm d of cotnpara lively little value It isn't big enough, for another apartment building. ■ ami the little l ouse n >w ‘landing-on It Is unpleasantly overshadowed by Its neighbors. • • ■■ • i Odd Contract. A certain playwright of thia town, who has been in all kinds of suits and occasionally under indictment for some commercial misadventure, has signed n strange contract with his new lawyer. The basis of t|»e contract Is that the playwright is not a bad workman. He Isn't In the fatuous class, but he turns out at least vine produceahle show a year, and that Is worth something. So the contract reals that/the lawyer guarantees to keep the playwright out of Jail for the next five years, in return for .'si per cent of the royalties on anything the playwright tarns out. ■ • • • The Wise Street. Broadway, the Street <if the wise boys, has proved a happy hunting ground for a real old fashioned medicine show for the last six months. What fooled our gentlemen in the belted polo coats Is the circumstance that the show isn’t given from the

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back of a wagon, but it Installed in a store. The medicine men rent their space for $2,890. a month. The “Grind" starts at 10 a. m. and continues to 2 p. m. Sometimes they hang out a sign, “For Men Only." Other tiroes

o o oo 0000000 00-0000000000000 0 O o Making the | Readjustment 0 By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK O 0 De*n of Men, University of g 0 Illinoi*. 0 Some one has said that the chief value <»f education is to help one to meet the unex-

l»ected, to adjust himself to a new situation quickly and pleasantly. Whether or not education does give one this ability it is not for me to say. but it Is a clvaracteristic which should he cultlvated w bene ver possible. Life brings

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to many of us quick changes, sudden calls for an absolutely new routine of daily life, it is the wise and happy man who can make these readjustments without wrecking his life or ruining his happiness. 1 have noticed that when men who have readied or passed middle life come up against disaster or are com]>elled by circumstances to change their occupations or alter the Tegular routine which habit has established, most of them are unhappy and many of them die quickly, Cornell, who had been a banker all. his life and who bad made some money, retired a dozen yeti.rs ago or so. determined to take life easy. Having sold his business there was nothing regular for liiin to do. He could sleep late in the morning; he could loaf in the afternoon; he could go to bed as soon as dinner was over. Nobody would be upset, no business enterprise would be interfered with. He was miserable; he could not make the readjustment. He endured the agony for a .few yctirs and then thought out another business and settled happily back into the old routine. Had he not done so I am sure life would have goon ended for him. Snyder is much more adjustable. He meets a new condition without mental or emotional disturbance. Snyder’s business is real estate; his avocation was a young girl U|»on whom his affections were centered,and whom he expected to mnrr.v. The girl for a time maintained the same viewj>olnt. But women’s minds are subject to change, and Snyder’s fiancee ran Into another man more to bee liking and she gave Snyder the gale, so to speak, and married the other man. Was he perturblpd'? Did he grow pale and sink into a decline? Not he. The girl was. of course, a loss, but her marriage opened up a chance for business. The newly married couple would have to live soniewtiere. Snyder had just the house and the. location which would lie perfect for them. He hied him at once to bis rival and sold him a cottage quite to the girl’s taste In a new addition which he bad just opened up. He had lost the girl, but he had put •ver a good business deal at an In-

Woman Breaks Through Prison Walls

Auburn, N. Y.—Cat Eye Annie Lillian McDowell—forty-eight—notorious burglar and one of the most elusive characters of the underworld when outside prison walls, escaped from the Auburn women’s prison, but prison authorities are doing their best to lock her up again. Just three weeks after declining to try for freedom with two other inmates who were captured, Annie sawed her way out of her cell and escaped. Cat Eye, who got her nickname from a peculiar cast to one --eye, sawed through the wood around the lock in her cell door and got over the walls in a manner which left prison officials puzzled several hours aftterward. Only a few days ago she told Warden Frank L. Heacox that Sally Joyce Richards, blond bandit of Buffalo, and Amelia Bascom, badger girl of Brooklyn, approached her to get her to join them in their contemplated escape of April 28. Mystified at the time by this revelation, and puzzled that Cat Eye had turned down the opportunity, prison officials now see her refusal to escape at that time based on a desire to play her old lone wolf part. At first it was believed that she roust still be within the walls, but an extended search' of every nook and corner failed to reveal her. immediately the hunt was started outside the walls by troopers and police through-

it is “Ladies Only.” They sell a health hook and an 'zeroising device for sl. soap for 50 cents and “medicine” for anything up to $lO. The attendance, in the phrase the medicine man. is about 2,500 monkeys a day. Small street. Broadway. (©. 1930. Belt Syndicate.)

terestirig profit. There was no catise to worry. 1 was going to have a quiet evening on Thursday after a tiresome day. I should go nowhere; 1 should see no one; I should lie in an easy chair before the wood tire ami read a detective story; 1 should go to tyed at nine. But it didn’t turn out that way. Mrs. Guyer was having a riot with her lodgers and wanted to talk it over will) me; Green’s appendix had gope

W-l-h Ill' l' l-l H d IH 11 H-4-H-1--F DIPPING INTO J SCIENCE T A.!-;..; | H"l-l-l-l t 11 1 I t-M-l’T •L y T The Raindrop X T The Raindrop is round instead t X r of flat, dr some other shape, be- ? T cause it Is really a great ma-s £ X of tiny little bits of round nipor v T particles, each complete in itself. •C one clings to airother and thus T T a sort of "ball" is formed. When J. + of sufficient weight the drop. T t heads toward the earth. I 4- (■©. 1930. Western Newspaper Union. > T

Nearly Half Century In Bed

Council Bluffs. . lowa. —Mrs. Mary Wickham of Tipton, lowa, whose will leaving all her property to the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Watch Tower and Tract society has just been filed for probate, spent forty years in bed as the result of a vow. The property came, to Mrs. Wickham <>n the death of her husband, and it was because Mr. Wickham had not willed to her all his property tliat she took to her bed and remained there. Forty-five years ago Mrs. Wickham carne from England to marry Mr., Wickham. She asked him to make a will leaving her all his property. He refused, and his will left her only the legal one-third of his estate. The controversy grew warm. One day, at the close of a particularly violent quarrel. Mrs. Wickham said: “I'm going to bed. and I’m -going to stay there until you give in.” “Well, you'll stay there the balance of your life.”, answered the husband. Mrs. Wickham went to bed that same day. The controversy continued for twenty-five years. Then Wickham died. Mrs. Wickham dl<l not attend the funeral. She stayed in bed. Once Mrs. Wickham decided to get up and accept her dower share of the estate. But she discovered

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out thejicinity. Cities throughout the state were asked to be on the lookout for her. On a previous escape, after 26 hours of freedom, she was found rain-soaked and exhausted, hidden under a pile of straw a mile and a half east of Weedsport, eight miles north of Auburn. A clew to her whereabouts was provided on that occasion by word of residents in that vicinity who said they hatr seen a woman near there acting strangely. She had gone without food for a period of 24 hours. CAPELET FROCK - ■ a kW QU*. ... t:« f S. " f ? * Uh' -4 Bm . Capelet frocks solve the summer wardrobe problem. The one shown here is a red and white print crepe that displays a chic shoulder cape.

on a rampage and he wanted me to see it out. One thing after airother happened and 1 got no rest. It was midnight when I got to bed. Well, fortunately, I have learned happily to make the quick readjustment and still be happy. <©. 1930. Western Newspaper Union.) Nose May Know but Not at Ten-Foot* Distance Boston.—Your nose may know", but not at a distance of ten feet, according to a federal court ruling here; Testifying against Mrs. Catherine Murphy, alleged bootlegger. Dry Agent Charles Donnell said t-hat although six suspected bottles were, ten feet away, he knew they contained liquor because he could smell it. Court doubted the witness’ ability to smell liquor at that distance and let the defendant off with a $1 fine. Cow Bites 40 Persons Belgrade. Jugoslavia.—A cow bitten by a mad dbg ran amuck near the village of Essogg, biting everyone within reach. Forty victims were taken to a hospital, some with hydrophobia.

that during the years she' had spent in bed her limbs bad withered. She was unable to walk. She got back into bed and stayed there. During the first twenty years Mrs. Wickham was cared for by neigh bore, who used to come in every day. Then she turned against these friends ami refused to have anything to do

If the Truth Was Told 5 "no LADY, I AINT HAD A HARD LIFE. I M ~7V Z JUST A LAZY BUM. I'M ABLE TO WORK l|' A* BUT VJHY WORK WHEN I CAN GET A HANDA| OUT?I’M NOT GRATEFUL FOR THIS FOOD 'J 'CAUSE I'VE HAD BETTER" i in f© Ik •fco-

Due to exposure sne contracted pneumonia and nearly died. After her recovery she was taken to Matteawan state hospital in the belief that she was becoming insane. Subsequently she was returned here. The description to the police said she probably wore a blue striped skirt, a blue sweater, black shoes and stockings, and a light top coat and brown She was described as 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighing 120 pounds, with medium chestnut hair and light complexion. Working in the dead of night on her previous escape here, with no tools but a short iron window prop and a spoon. Cat Eye Annie, virtually under the eyes of guards and prison matrons, dug a hole through the brick wall of the cell and, with, the aid of a plank taken from the greenhouse, scaled a low wall and slid down an improvised blanket rope to freedom. Packages of mortar and bits of broken brick were found stuffed in a mattress upon which she had pretended to sleep at night. Her escape was made in the early morning on that occasion. Alcohol Is Easy Winner in Unique Chess Match Budapest.—Alcohol emerged as winner recently in one of the most unusual games'of chess ever played in Hungary. Bottles of wine were used as tiie pieces, the cork being drawn and the contents of the “piece” consumed as it fell before the onslaught of its opponent. Although spectators were allowed to enjoy the spoils together vyith the two players, the game had to be called off even before either of the bishops—represented by bottles of famous Hungarian tbkay wine—had been captured. Drowns in Rain Barrel Hammonton, N. J.- —Falling into a rain . barrel while playing near his home here, two-year-old Joseph Delarato was dr«>o ned LEADS WEST POINT '*. 4 -'.< ? Cadet Capt. Paul F. Yount, of Alliance. Ohio, rated first of the list off 241 in the West Point graduating class of 1930. P.esides being cadet captain. Yount served as managing editor of “The Pointer.” the West Point paper.

with them. After the death of Wickham she hired a companion. There are no near relatives, and it is unlikely that the will giving her share <>f the estate to the Watch Tower and Tract society will be contested. Gas given off by sauerkraut Is almost 100 per cent, carbon dioxide.

Requeening for Better Colonies Good Time to Plan for Increased Number of Young Insects. Row is a good time to put a good young queen bee into each colony, suggests F„ B. Meacham, entomologist at State college. This will insure a good number of young bees for the winter and a rapid building up of the colony spring. “Where black or hybrid bees are kept, a new Italian queen will change them into Italian colonies in two or two and a half months,” states Mr. I Meacham.” “It is best tq get the new queens as near home as* possible so as to avoid the long confinement in shipment.” Find Old Queen. In introducing a new queen into a colony, the bees accept her best when i well fed. The old queefi and; queen j cells should be destroyed. The old ' queen can be fount’ by carefully look- | ing over the combs, by smoking and j drumming the bees into an empty super. A jueep excluder should then j be slipped underneath the super and the bees smoked back. The queen ' Will be found trying to get through the excluder. After she is fount! and destroyed the hive is assembled as be- ! fore. Where bees are inclined to rob each other, it is best to requeen late in the afternoon so that night will i stop any robbing that has started. Rob Hives Too Close. M. Meacham states that it is a common practice among.many beekeepers to “rob” the hives too close for best results. Each colony should have at least fifteen pounds of honey always on hand and where this is not left. , the colony either dies during the winter or comes out in the spring too weak to store any surplus honey. Do not depend on the summer and fall ■ honey plants to furnish this winter supply rs in many cases these* plants yield very little honey, he states; j Feed Cod Liver Oil to Increase Production I For increasing egg production, securing of a finer texture sKdl on eggs I and raising chicks of great vitality, 1 use cod liver oil in the ration for hens. I is the advice of lowa State college i poultry men. Cod liver oil contains the vitamin ' D which birds get from the sunlight I during the winter months. Influence ' of the cod liver oil upon the_hatchI ability of eggs is still an open ques- • rion but one which is being studied in many places. In purchasing cod liver oil poultrymen are advised to get that which is vitamin tested and guaranteed. Un- : tested oils may contain impurities and I be low in vitamins. | Don’t Overfeed Fowls During Molt Period Over-feeding during the moil must he avoided, there being a tendency for j some hens to increase in weight at i the expense" of their laying qualities. Dirge quantities of grain will tend to fatten them during the sluggish {period. and the same remarks can be {applied to some of the mashes used/I’he chief point to remember is that fertile eggs and strong retirable chicks can only he obtained in any large numbers when the management is right; and the simpler tire diet and treatment the greater the probability of netting first-class results. Corn Planting Lesson i The lesson of planting corn in { squares to get fuller ears Cannot he too thoroughly emphasized,, a comnum sense i discovery of scientific gardeners and experiment station work- { ere. A square planting equalizes the distribution of the |M»llen or dust from the tassels without which deposited upon the silk there can be no corn. I The pollen is sifted over the patch with every shift of the wind. In long j narrow plantings half of it is wasted. ffSHntW. r.^^^r.rrrr-rrr^.r, . ,1 tea,! 9 Forced fresh air ventilation for greenhouses has proved successful In •hecking fungus diseases. ' • • • Successful farming means that the farmer must intelligently market as well as scientifically produce his cpmmoditles. • • • Alfalfa and sweet clover will build up the soil, help clean up the weeds, and provide the best of feed for farm live stock. « • • • Spring housecleaning in the brooder house before the new crop of baby chicks is installed, is one of the best insurance policies against ravages of disease in this year’s flock. • • • Hauling out the manure aids in keeping the surroundings of the dairy barn clean and sanitary. • • • Green feeds are natural and furnish a valuable method of refreshing the fowl’s system. Alfalfa or clover hay will also aid in furnishing nutrients which the fowls desire. • ♦ • It is possible that raspberries would do better than strawberries if mulched with leaves to keep down weeds. Good cultivation from early spring to late summer, July and early August, should give better results. • • • A flock of Leghorn pullets laying 50 per cent must eat from 24 to 25 pounds of grain and mash daily. A decline of 2 pounds of feed from that amount is enough to cause a falling off in egg laying. * * * When spring seeded alfalfa is being Injured by a heavy growth of grass and weeds the weedy growth should be cut with a mowing machine having the cutter bar set quite high so the alfalfa plants will not be severely injured.

GIVE PLANT FOOD TO STRAWBERRIES Fetilizer Should Be Placed Close to the Plant. During the fruiting season strawberries need an abundance of readily available plant food close to the plant as the roots do not extend much beyond the spread of the leaves. Furthermore, where commercial fertilizer is used, it should be applied on the surface and carefully worked into the soil so as not to disturb the roots. Strawberry roots are very fine and come close to the surface and if broken by plow or cultivator there is danger of burning add injury to the plants. The strawberry , bed should be worked out in August and fertilized with about 800 pounds per acre of an 8-4-4 fertilizer su as to promote plant growth and strong fruit crowns during the fall months. Where plants in November in three foot rows, 800 pounds of fertilizer should have been applied in the row and well worked into the soil before setting the plants. Early in the spring as soon as your plants show signs of blooming, fertilize again, using 800 pounds per acre of a fertilizer anttlyzing about 4 per cent nitrogen, 8 per cent phosphoric acid and 9 per cent potash. More potash is needed during the bearing period to make the be’-ries firm. If you have an 8-4-4 fertilizer on hand, if you will add 10 pounds of muriate of potash—or 10 pounds cf sulphate of potash would be better if you can get it—to every 100 pounds of your 8-4-4 fertilizer, this will answer fairly well, ■only be careful to mix it in thoroughly. To do this, pile your fertilizer on a tight floor, put the potash on top, then-begin at one side and shovel over into a new pile, putting each shovelful on top of the pile. Then repeat this operation twice —making three times all together—and your fertilizer is ready for use. This, by the way, Is the process to use if you mix your own fertilizer. Dusting and Spraying ■ to Control Many Pests Dusting has come Inty more general hse than formerly during the past few years. All who have made a study of both dusting and spraying- will acknowledge that ‘each has-certaip advantages which are generally* will known to the best fruit growers. Where for any reason the roughness and slope of the l.jnd, the labor difficulties, or other fActors make it unprofitable. to spray hn orchard, dusting is to be -ecommetided over an inefficient or poor job of spraying. It must be remembered, however, that where aphids ami scale are to be controlled, sprays are necessary. Moreover, orchardists generally are relying chiely upon spraying should with our present information continue to place their chief depemlence for the control of pests upon spraying operations instead: of dusting. Dusting may at times, however, serve the grower very well, indeed, by supplementing the spraying work. This is often particult rly true when the ground is wet and soft, making the operation of heavy spray tanks over the ground practically impossible. Dust applications may also be made near er harvest , time with less danger of an- objectionable spray residue being left on the fruit. Many Leaves Will Make Big Apples and Pears Dr. J. R. Magness of the United States Department of Agriculture reported at the I‘tcitic Pear Growers’ conference held at Medlord, Ore., the extremely interesting results of an . experiment made while with the \Vash4 ington state college, showing that under normal conditions the number of leaves per fruit is the most important factor determining the size and quality of apples and pears! The striking effect upon the s.ze of Bartlett pears was shown by the fact that when an average of only 10 leaves for . ear h pear were left on a tree, the fruit averaged 229 to i box. With 20 leaves per fruit the average was 157 per box, with 30 leaves 128, and with 50 leaves 101 per box. About 60 leaves per fruit were found necessary to produce the best size of Anjou. Since plenty of leaves are of such prime importance in manufacturing fruit of the best size and quality, Doctor Magness pointed out the necessity of promo.ing in the spring the growth of wood, upon which the spurs are so directly dependent. for Peaches Peach, growers should spray their trees for curl-leaf whether the fruit buds are alive or not, because a severe attack of curl-leis weakens the When 'a consid?rable percentage of the peach buds have been winterkilled it is best to prune only very lightly or not at all. Pruning -such trees may mean cutting down the yield. Where all the buds are dead it j may’ be a good opportunity to reju- ! venate the trees by heading them back. Remove Residue The grower can always clean or remove the residue from his fruit and generally at snail expense. In the case of apple worms and diseases, such as scab ard blotch, affecting the fruit at harvest time, there is nothing that the grower can do about it. He may look at the apples and say: “Well, it is too bad. They are wormy, scabby and blotched." The result is a greatly redt.ced price or a, total loss on a large portion of the fruit crop.