The Syracuse Journal, Volume 25, Number 3, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 12 May 1932 — Page 7

SQUAW TELLS TALE ! OF PRIMITIVE LOVE ■ ‘ 9 • ■ . . •j' • Remarkable Story Secured by Smithsonian Man. Washington.—Childhood love and death in a primitive society are pictured in an intensely human document just issued by the Smithsonian institution. It is the life story of a southern Cheyenne woman, told by herself. The narrative was secured by Dr. Truman Michelson. Smithsonian ethnologist. There are many common elements In the life of this child of a nomadic prairie people and little girls everywhere, the autobiography bears witness. “At first," she says, “we girls played what we called ‘tiny play.' Our mothers made rag dolls like men. women, boys, girls and babies. We used forked sticks for ponies and placed the tiny people on the fork of the sticks, pretending to move camp. Sometimes a baby would be born or. a marriage would take place—in fact, anything we knew about older people. We did not allow any boys to play with us. We had rag dolls to represent boyk “As I grew a little older, we played whiit we called ‘large play.’ This play consisted of real people, namely boys and girls. The boys would go put hunting and bring meat and other food. We girls would pitch our tepees and make ready everything as If It were real camp life. Some, of the boys would go- on the warpath and always -come home victorious. They . would relate their war experiences, telling how successful they were. We girls would sing war songs to acknowledge the bravery of our heroes." As she grew older various young breves tried .td force their attentions • upon her but, being an exceptionally proper maiden according to the teachings of her people, she repulsed ail • her suitors. One evening -she came home from a visit to a girl churn to find that a man whom she barely knew by sight had been negotiating with her father for her hand. Slip was told that her parents were growing! old and must, make some provision, for the future of their children. . . ■ . - So, after she had consented, her relatives uscorted her to ir point netir the camp of her intended 1 husband. •There." she relates, “my future bus band s, women folks rhet my, carried me in a blanket the rest ofj the way. and let me down to thp enitrence of bls tepee. I walked In and kat beside him. He was a stranger. He had never come to see me. j "After some little time the, women brought In many shawls, dresses, rings. In the Summer Mode -x z'v /* aJh - ' * t '' i V H V I i fc ?. < ' p ' IB U’ On the left Is a new version of the shoulder caj>e, a dress detail particularly prominent in the summer mode, giving thut sought-after width at the shoulders in a specially attractive yay. On the right, a costume that makes use of the popular bolero. It buttons to the dress to prevent slipping. and when the bolero is removed the buttons remain a decorative detail. —Woman s Home Companion. ! HOUSEHOLD ITEMS Tie a little bow of bright-colored ribbon on the handles of the scJssorS and. they can be quickly found in the sewing basket • • • . 1 Coarse salt, such as Is used In making Ice cream, scattered over the bottom of a garbage jean will prevent garbage freezing to t|he can. A tablespoonful each of butter and of flour added to each quart of soup Is the correct amount of thickening to use when .making cream soup. • • • If dates are too hard to use for cook • Ing cover them with wann water, and after five minutes they will be soft and blend with other ingredients. Grease the measuring cup before measuring sirup or riolasaes and the

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Stores and Sales in the Small City and Rural Area Tww W 10,000 and Uadsr of Populatioa Population in Small City Stores in Small City and Rural Area and Rural Area STATI W Per Cent Per Cent Per Cent * of Total of All of Total Number Population Number Stores Sales Sales California . . . 2,056,650 36 28,130 33 712,170.000 22 Colorado .... 607,703 59 7.222 51 182,032,000 37 Connecticut . . . 525,145- 33 6,741 30 175,118,000 22 Delaware .... 131,783 55 1.693 47 34,040,000 34 Florida .... 909,561 62 11,708 52 192,060,000 39 Alabama . . . . 2.066,667 78 14.223 66 $239,950,000 46 Arizona .... 354,949 81 3,565 71 111,430,000 58 Arkansas .... 1,633,349 88 14,132 78 271,565,000 66 Georgia .... 2.242,797 77 19,024 66 277,290.000 . 45 Idaho 407,017 91 4,373 88 139.520,000 82 Illinois .... 2,661,774 35 31,382 32 644,760,000 17 Indiana .... 1,740.506 54 20,109 48 ’87.820,000 32 lowa 1,754,470 71 22,188 67 - 526.370,000 54 Kansas .... 1,339,835 71 17.234 66 463,110,000 58 Kentucky . . . 2,013,985 77 18,743 69 286,780.000 48 Louisiana . t . 1,441.9’9 69 12,451 53 200,210,000 43 Maine 569,413 71 7,791 70 172,280,000 56 Maryland . . . 720,082 44 7,050 33 165,570.000 27 Massachusetts . . 744,933 18 9.444 18 200,690,000 10 Michigan .... 1,908,647 39 20,964 37 506,410,000 23 Minnesota . . . 1,566.948 61 18,176 59 439,230,000 41 Mississippi . . . 1.772,432 88 13,399 77 280,730,000 68 Missouri .... 2,044,876 56 23,225 49 477.000,000 32 Montana .... 413,918 77 5.010 72 139.280,000 58 Nebraska .... 1,010,011 73 13,124 72 359,930,000 60 Nevada .... 72.529 80 951 72 31,330,000 63 New Hampshire . 234,831 50 3.372 52 71,520,000 3? New Mexico . . . 374.398 88 3,478 83 84,510,000 /0 New Jersey . . , 1.241,617 31 18.839 31 439,360,000 24 New York . . . 2.652,818 21 37.636 20 957.100,000 'l3 North Carolina . 2,577,462 81 20,816 72 441,000,000 59 North Dakota . . 607,925 89 7,009 86 172.430.CXX) 74 Ohio * 2,730,434 41 31.083 37 Oklahoma . . . 1.842,270 77 19.308 70 Oregon. .... 569.355 60 7.882 54 182,370.000 40 Pennsylvania . . 4.368.997 45 52.522 38 1,157,620.000 29 Rhode Island . . 85,904 12 1.090 11 21,540,(£)0 7 South Carolina . 1.503,763 86 11,459 76 176.620,000 - 59 South Dakota . . 600,516 87 7.416 82 184.340,000 70 Tennessee ... 1.912,776 73 14,556 62 241,820,000 37 Texas 4,0’25.253 69 41,250 61 967.560.000 47 Utah 312,542 62 2.933 55 .72,750,000 36 Vermont .... 306,200 8 5 4,381 85' 111,420,000 73 Virginia .... 1.771.830 73 , 16.680 64 258,260,000 43 Washington . . . 771,350 49 9,483 43 215,900,000 28 West Virginia • . 1,385,125 80 12,465 72 243.400,000 55 Wisconsin . . . 1.656.058 56 20,183 51 470,240,000 38 Wyoming '. • • 191,585 8 5 2,363 80 73,830.000 73 Totals . . . 64,434.969 52 698.256 43 $15,415,125,000 30 The above figures tell the story of retail merchandising in the smaller cities—those under ten thousand population—and towns in the United States as determined by the census bureau in the first census of distribution ever taken in this country. The total population of the cities and towns of 10,000 and under and the rural areas was 64.434,969. That is 52 per cent of the population of the United States. The cities and towns of 10,000 and under contained 698,256 stores, including such places as restaurants and others in which food or other merchandise was sold. That represented 45 per cent of the business places of the United States. The total sales of these 698,256 stores or bosinrss institutions amounted to the tremendous sum of $15,415,125,000.00 during the year for which the census was taken, 1929. It meant $22,076.00 per year per store, and an average per capita sale for the people living in these cities and towns of $239.00.

bracelets, and moccasins. Thtn they had me change clothes. They braided my hair and painted my face with red dots on my cheeks." This was her wedding attire; They were married and in the years that followed bad eight children.. Then, she continues, “my husbaiul s health became broken. We summoned trtany Indian doctors and gave away much personal wearing apparel and Some clothing. One day he pledged a sacrifice offering, a sacred ritual,-which Is regarded as a prayer to the spirits for health and strength. But he passed away before «e ; could carry out the pledge. “1 surely loved toy bn<>l>an<l. His death made rnq very lonely and was a terrible event in'my life My hair was cut off Just below my ears. Thijs was done by an old woman. “Before cutting off my braids stve first raised ’both her hands toward the sky. touched the earth with the palms of her hands, and made a downward motion, repeated four ■ times. Thus, my braids were cut off in accordance with the belief that the spirits would be pleased and extend blessings and sympathy to the Is-reavtsl. The old woman was given a blanket and a dress. His death marked the passing of our tepee. If people do not come and carry away something the whole tepee is destroyed by fire." ■ I Young j>eople are led to expect too ijttuch of the world.

Ingretiient will not stick to the sides of the cup and there will be no waste. • • • The clinging odor of fish to dishes and cooking utensils may be removed ly adding a few teaspoopfuls of vinegar to the dishwater. Successful Flight Made in Wingless Airplane London.—A successful flight in a wingless airplane was made by Juan De La Cierva. Spanish Inventor of the autogyro, according to the Sunday Express. s - The new plane is reported to be small enough to be housed in an ordinary motor-car garage. The ship Is understood to be able to riae vertically from a roof-top and yet has so little wind resistance that It will shoot through the air at great si>eed.

SHORT SEA CRUISE BUSINESS BOOMING Tourists Desert Atlantic Lanes for South Seas. New York.—Hard times are booming the “short haul’’ cruise business f»|T the steamship companies these days. New liners, many of them drawn from j Use once crowded but now all but deserted transatlantic lanes, are joining Ute teeming fleet between here and Bermuda, Cuba and Central and South American ports almost monthly. New lines are' entering the s<-..table tor “chicken feed" profits every season. It’s an iiLtrade wind that blows no steamship line good in these times of changing business methods and standards. A survey of the different lines terml natlng here revealed that the number of tourist passengers making the four to sixteen day vacation trips between this port and such favorite playgrounds as Nassau, Havana and the Canal Zone during the winter just past will probably double those of the previous winter. None of the competing Companies was willing to furnish exact figures on its business and some of them insisted that they had even suffered a decrease but the consensus of "guesses" was that when the final re-

Film Studio’s Arsenal Looked Into by Police New York.—The gun cabinet in the property department of the Paramount film studio here resembles a veritable gangsters’ arsenal. One hundred and three revolvers, ranging from Lugers to “22*8." hang on numbered hooks. Blank cartridges to fit every gun are found In a nearby drawer. Rifles anti shotguns of every description can be found in ‘ another compartment. The New York police department Some men are born liars, while othera are* not clever VmH enough t<> tell any- — —-—FA 7 :) thing but the truth.

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turns are In a good 50 per rent jump in cruise profits will be disclosed. Part of the increase is, of course, at the expense of transatlantic travel. The depression has made European junkets too expensive for hundreds of purses formerly able to stand the strain and many of these which have had to take the count are compromising on little flyers to nearby ports. For Instance, statistics show that only 624,050 fare-paying passengers made the trip between European and American ports last year against a total of 1,288.630 in 1930 and 1.139,910 the year before. Passport figures “to June 30. 1931.” were 89.323 (excluding 17,373 renewals), as compared with 145,906 “to June 30, 1930." In 1929 the total was 196.930 and in 1928 it was 189.308. • But a good share of the “short haul" increase can be traced to the growing popularity of the “ocean vacation" Idea with the rank and file. Thousands. literally, who never dreamed of being able to.-take a trip to Europe in the old days have discovered to their great Joy in the last two or three years that a little “run down to the Bermudas" or some othet- nearby port is well within their reach and that it costs no more in the lone run than a vacation spent at some of the more popular playgrounds of this country. Whale Stop* Traffic Cuxhaven. Germany.— A 12.000pound wh.-le streyed into harbor here from tie North sea and disrupted regular traffic until it was captured. Baby Weighs 19 Ounces - 'MB % soil v ( A ft. In tiie Queen Auguste-Victoria hospital of Berlin a baby was born with a weight of 540 grams, about 19 ounces. It was eight days old when the picture was taken. It is 32 centimeters In length (12Vk inches). It has a diet of milk.

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makes a checkup of the arsenal two or three times a month. One permit ! covers the whole collection, but every gun must be accounted for and a report made qf its use when the inspector comes around. Eats 42 Plate-Sized Pancakes to Win Title Lanesboro. Mass.—Consumption of 42 pancakes, plate size, at a single sitting gave Herbert Leslie Buckley, nineteen, the title" of pancake elating champion of Berkshire county. Herbert eats his pancakes with sausages and hot coffee. Hoarded Money Appears Albany, Ore. —Hoarded money is loosening here. A Linn cdunty dog owner placed 200 pennies at the county clerk’s pleasure to pay the animal’s 1932 tax.

AS GOOD AS HIS NEIGHBORS By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Emeritus Dean of Men, University of Illinois.

Goodwin is running a little church up in a country village where. If the truth be To Id.

there are perhaps too many churches striving to put across their own particular dogmas and at the same time to maintain an existence anti a semblance of influence. “How are you getting on?” I inquired of Goodwin when we met at the club in the city. I had known him

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years before when he was a younger and a more energetic man. “Ohl moderately,” he said, “we don’t have the interest or the enthusiasm which I should like. The membership Isn’t increasing as one would wish it were, and it’s pretty difficult to keep our heads above the financial waters, but I suppose I should not complain or be dissatisfied, for we are quite as good as our neighbors.” I didn’t tell him that to be as good as one’s neighbors is often to be commonplace and ineffective, for the neighbors are not always getting on in any amazing way. Blake is running a store down town. There is nothing In his show windows to attract attention. If in walking down the street you should pass his place of business, you would not hesi- f tate at his door attracted by anything more ordinary in the display. Blake's stock Is surely as good as that of some of his neighbors; the attention you would if you went within would be 1 the ordinary attention of clerks who are a little bored with their jobs and not incited by any business ambitions some day to be the best salesman in town. Possibly they are as good as their neighbors, but that Is only faint praise at best. (©. 15(32. Western Newspaper Union.) Kidnaped Physician Is Held Captive for Month Kansas City. Mo.—A tale of torture by kidnapers, who held him captive for almost a month, was revealed to police here.by Dr. Philip Maier, thirtysix, of Beulah, N*. D. The doctor exhibited fresh burns and welts on verify his story. He said he was anducted In Aberdeen, S. D., where omrv>f his captors forced him into a/inotor car at the point of a pistol, ire said.

i POTPOURRI Clocks The Chinese are said to have Invented the clock about 2.000 years before the Christian era. The art was lost, however, and i was not known to western civilization until about the Fourteenth century, when the Germans first produced time pieces. The Monks in the same century also aided greatly in the development of the clock. (©. 1931. Western Newspaper Union.) 1 Sprint a Bit Don’t think because you have a walk - in life that you shouldn’t put on a bit of speed.—Boston Transcript

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MICROPHONICS “I see that whiskers are again In vogue in England." remarked Ray Knight, the radio comedian. “Personally, I prefer my mutton chops on the inside of my face.” Principais in the hew WABC-Colum-bia comic sketch of the prize ring, “Joe Palooka,” could come to blows in what might be termed the battle of the century. Four of them have worked out inside the ropes. There’s led Bergman. 2tM)-pound Palooka of the act, who once in his varied life managed a New York gymnasium. . . . And heavyweight Ham Fisher, cartoonist-creator of the comic strip on which the act is based, who

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Rare Books Filmed The rare and valuable volumes of the Sterling library of Yale are being preserved by copying on tiny films. In this way persons interested may be allowed to consult and examine the works without the necessity of risking the originals. Thirty-two hundred pages may be copied on 200 feet

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Transparent Aluminum Transparent aluminum has been produced by a German chemist bj substitution of substances in preparing an alloy which retains all the properties of the original metal, yet permits the passing of light. So far. the emerging light has a yellowish tinge, but the' chemist is working to

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sparred in school, hobnobs with all the fighters anti still works out with them. . . . Ted Busing, ring-side commentator at Palooka bouts, who took It on the chin while in the army. . . . Harry von Zell, program announcer, once an amateur lightweight boxer of the Pacific coast. That accounts for all but 130-pound Frank lleadick. who plays the part of Knobby Walsh, Palooka’s classy manager. He'll toss in the sponge. Jessica Drngonette, NEC’s songbird, returned from a short holiday in Bermuda with a new definition of a zebra. She says she overheard a native describe the black and white striped animals as “sports’ model mules."

' of film and at the rate of 300 or 4UB pages an hour. A book of 250 pagW may be copied on a film which whjß rolled is no larger than a cotton. The films when cared for are almost Youth likes to "talk recreation.

eliminate this color and make a glass-clear product. A Guest Request • Mrs. Nabor—Shall I call up your mother and say you’ll stay until it stops raining? Little Peter—Yes. thank you; say I’ll be home after dinner.