Walkerton Independent, Volume 50, Number 32, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 8 January 1925 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Bvwry Thursday by THI LYDZriNBKXT-MWg OX Publlahers of th* .fITAUCKBTON INDEPENDENT NOBTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKJVILLJI aTANDAJOP TSE ST. JOSEPH CO. WBBKMM Oao* DeC«mdrM» BadMi Mb Mfr Choriab M, Ewh. Edita r SUBSCBXPTION BATES Dm Tear ......... Btx .M Three Mentha »««-»«» TERMS IM ADVANCE Entered at Um >ce< *Sm at Waltaaata^ tad . aa eecMA-rlbiibJMg^__ : Seen and Heard : I» « I In Indiana UMW»++»«sssssss»»s»sZ Indianapolis.—George N. Mannfeld, chief of the fish and game division of the state observation department here, called attention that December 19 was the last day of the open season for the lawful shooting of any species of wild game in this state other than rabbits and waterfowl. Rabbits can be lawfully killed up to and including January 9, 1925, but the season closes on waterfowl after December 31. The bag limit on wild duck is 15 a day and on geese, 8 a day. Mr. Mannfeld pointed out that the end of the lawful shooting season on wild game does not mean that fur-bearing animals, such as skunk, opossum, fox, raccoon, muskrat, etc., cannot be killed after December 20. Fur-bearers are not classed as wild game and under Indiana laws may be trapped and killed up to and including February 10. Evansville.—The grave of James Bethel Greshem. one of the three first Americans to fall in the line of battle after the entrance of the United States in the World war, marked only by h glass fruit jar, is soon to be marked with a government murker, the slat having been sent out, according to a notification received by Greshem’s mother, Mrs. Alice Greshem Dodd. Patriotic organizations of the city will likely join In a befitting service at the placing of the marker over the Greshem grave. Muncie.—Mrs. Nancy J. Wilson, who died a year ago, left an estate of «everal thousand dollars and included in l.er bequests a trust fund of $5,000 which she turned over to a trust company to be invested for the benefit of the. unfortunate children of ^Muncie. Interest on the investment for the last year amounted to S3OO, and the trust company took 15 boys and girls, recommended by public school principals tc a store and spent $lO for clothing for each child. Ilie owners of the store took nc profits on the garments sold. Anderson. —Mrs. William Gladback of Fisherburg, west of here, has a land grant dated 1817, bearing the signature of President James Monroe, in which 180 acres of ground on the present site of Quincy, HI., was granted her grandfather, Thomas Baxter, f Mrs. Gladback may use the historic land grant as a basis for a claim to a share of the valuable property. She claims that when the ground was transferred her grandmother did not sign the deed. - Indianapolis.—E. R. Root, Medina. Ohio, one of the speakers on the first day’s program of the annual Indiana Beekeepers’ association convention at the statehouse, congratulated the beekeepers of Indiana on the support they receive from the state, and asserted that Indiana has the best law for control of disease among bees ana the best system of inspection in the United States. Indianapolis. —Maj. Gen, Robert K. Tyndall, O. R. C., was selected commander of Indiana commandery. Military Order of Foreign Wars, and Brig. Gen. L. R. Gignilliat. superintendent of Culver Military academy, was chosen senior vice commander at the annual meeting, held at Indianapolis, when Brig. Gen Hugh A. Drum. U. S. A., of the general staff, was the guest of honor. Rockville. —Workmen have been employed day and night in an effort to repair the break in the four-inch pipe extending from the pumping station across Little Raccoon creek to the State Tuberculosis hospital. near Rockville. The pipe was broken in the creek. It was said at the hospital that the repairs probably would be completed soon. Terre Haute. — Yeggmen at Torre Haute robbed two safes and escaped with approximately $2,500. The safe in the office of the Standard Oil company was Jimmied open by four masked bandits and the contents, S9OO, was stolen. At the American theater, approximately $1,600. the receipts of Saturday and Sunday, were stolen. Indianapolis.—Cairy Littlejohn, for six years state inspector of mines and mining, and instrumental in the framing of Indiana mining laws, died at the Methodist hospital in Indianapolis, following a major intestinal operation. Mr. Littlejohn was sixty-four years old. Chicago.—Edgar F. Hiatt, former president of the Dickinson Trust com- | pany of Richmond, must serve five years in the federal penitentiary at At- j lanta. Ga., for defalcations from funds of the bank, it was decided in the Fed- j oral Court of Appeals at Chicago. Kokomo.—The appointment of Mrs. Minnie Bernard ns agent for the dis-~t tribution of automobile license plates in Howard county was announced by Frederick E. Schortemeier. secretary t of state. Xnderson. —Paul Wicker and Elwood Brightman, both age twenty, were artested, charged with holding up and nbbing John Malady, age twenty-four, In his home at Anderson. ferre Haute. —Floyd Black, age twenty-eight, said by police to have a long ixdice record, was captured here after a revolver fight in which he was severely wounded that he was lin- . mediately taken to a hospital In an effort to save his life. Black has hem hunted five days as an alleged accomplice to his brother, Lester, al ready under arrest, in an attempted wrecking of the Dixie flyer, crack C. A E. I train. Noblesville.—John Hare, seventy three years old, local machinist, com- * putted suicide by shooting himself.

" ' THE BALLYHOO GIRL By ALBERT M. TREYNOR C© by Short Story Co.) YOU’VE seen the brazen, rougedaubed females who pose in front of side show's, while barkers scream coarse hyperbole to the crowding yokels outside the tent. They are known professionally as ballyhoo girls. The term, usually, is opprobrious ; but not always, not always. Applied to Miss Madine Vance it gained a new and lovely significance. Miss \ ance was one of the four ballyhoo girls who were employed by the side show of the great Baum and Baggley circus. She was neither brazen nor rouge-daubed. Therein she differed from nearly all of the others. Afternoons and evenings she stood on the small platform in front of the lesser tent with her frazzled and haggard sisters—the center of leering, masculine interest, a blushing picture of tortured and flinching modesty. Once I saw a delicate Corot hung in an auctioneer’s shop between two vulgar, strident lithographs, and my feeling then was a muffled echo of the pang that used to clutch at my heart when I saw Miss Vance in her poor little red dress, standing beside her garish companions. I was sort of an assistant manager and publicity man for Baum and Baggley In those days—one of the pioneer press agents, you might have called me. I’ll have to answer for that, too, I suppose, when my time comes to explain about the things I have done or have failed to do. I knew’ Miss Vance quite well, and I tried to be good to her. Every person with the show, from the most besotten canvasman to Madame Westphalia, the featured member of the Westphalia troupe of aerial Ists, of course, knew why Miss Vance was a ballyhoo girl. There are no closets with a circus, you know, and the skeletons have to be hung up, grinning, where everyone can see. Miss Vance had once been a highly paid aeriulist—a member of the Westphalia ‘Jt, in fact—but she had lost caste. There is nothing worse that can happen to a sawdust artist. You can see h<jw this is true. Yet, Miss Vance loved Harvy Westphalia, the madame's eldest brof’er. That, perhaps, made it worse. Otherwise, she might have found courage to leave the show, e’ en though she was born In the life and knew nothing else. Miss Vance’s fault had been an Involuntary one. She had “lost her nerve." To a worker under the dizzy top canvas that phrase Ims a hideous significance. Performers should take out insurance on their nerve; but I don’t suppose any company would assume the liability. Kubelick bad a policy on his fingers and Gene had one on her toes. There are companies that will protect any one against Hie accidental loss of almost any essential function. I expect there are some that would have taken a risk on Samson's hair. But I’ve never heard of any insurance organization on earth that would agree to indemnify a performer for a failure of nerve. There Is too much uncertainty Involved. Miss Vance's trouble came one hot evening In the mid-summer when the bhr top was straininsr to a capacity crowd. She was working over a net on the flying trapeze with the Westphalias. Young Harvy was hanging by his knees from one of the roving bars. Miss Vance had Jumped for hl« hands, and had brought up cleverly In bls muscular clasp. Twenty feet away the madame was also swinging head downward, waiting easily and confidently for the live weight which she knew would come hurtling toward® her In the next few seconds. The music cue came, presently, Jnst as Miss Vance was flashing towards the madame in the long, graceful curve that prefaces the double somersault through space. Young Westphal la released his hold at the critical second, but. to bis horror, the girl still pulled at his arms. She was clutching at his wrists with the madness of mortal fear in her fingers. The imp of perversity (bat sports with our subconscious selves had tightened her grip, you see. until It was too late to let go. In that moment there came to Miss Vance a terrifying intuition of human fallibility. For the first time, she real Ized that a force, alien and Inexorable, controlled her physical actions, and that the bidding of her own mind was not the supreme command. Unnerved. trembling, shaken to the prin ciple of her being, she could only cling to the man’s wrists while their oscil •.jittons grew less, and she finally flared drop to the net below, her spirit broken, her wonderful self-confidence destroyed. The act, of course, had to be stopped. The madame was indignant. That’s one of the peculiarities of a certain type of professionals. She at

: — Hasty Sightseers Pass Up Things of Interest

Many villages in England through : which motorists and tourists rush ; without a moment’s pause have some- i thing about them or belonging to them or situated In their immediate neigh- j i borhood which would be worth a stop i — did the traveler but know, says Lon- j don Tit-Bits. At the “Bear,” Esher, Is shown the pair of heavy spurred boots which j were worn by the boy who drove Louis ' Philippe to Claremont after his flight i from France. At Hougbton-in-the-Vale, between East Barham and Walsingham, is a little chapel called “the Shoe House.” When Walsingham abbey was the Lourdes of England, to which pilgrims flocked from all parts of the world, they left their shoes there before proceeding to pay their devotions, j Above the sun dial on the tower of I Eynsford church In Kent is Browning’s famous couplet. Grow old along with m». The best is yet to be. tnd one at Holmwood in Surrey has

SI once saw the truth concerning Miss Vance’s trouble and knew that any performer, herself Included, at any moment, might be similarly attackedYet there was no sympathy in her manner as she slid to the net, swung to the ground, kicked into her slippers and swept off, without a word, to the dressing room. Harvy Westphalia felt sorry for the girl. I could see that much in the glance he gave her as he walked out of the arena with the rest of the troupe. But I could also see that, j from that moment, he would look down upon Miss Vance as a member , of a greatly Inferior social class. The lines of caste are drawn with brutal distinctness among circus people. If, by some supreme effort of the mind. Miss Vance had succeeded in t recovering her old professional contl dence, she would have been restored . to her former position. But no one ; seemed to entertain the thought of . such a possibility. Miss Vance cer- । tainly did not. She knew that she . had lost the grip on herself, and to . that misfortune she resigned herself i without a struggle. » Hale, of the side show, offered her -a job posing with the other girls; and , she took it. There wasn’t anything j else for her to do; and suicide wasn't . quite in her line. 1 One evening, as we were sauntering out of the lot, we happened to pass Madame Westphalia ami her seven 5 year-old son, Teddy. They were uct companied by Harvy. When Teddy f saw us he broke away from his mothr er and danced Impudently in front of Miss Vance. r “Yah, yah! Ballyhoo girl!” he shouted. I Madame Westphalia gave no sign, but Harvy seized his nephew by the arm and quickly drew him away. . For an Instant I felt the girl cringe beneath the sting of the taunt. The । naked soul of her had been flecked by i the words of the demon child; but oh. bow bravely she bore it 1 Almost im- . mediately she regained her self-con-trol, resuming towards me her light, j . bantering tone, as we continued our walk. i s A week later we were playing to | . cne of those record-breaking crowds i that, either a kindly providence or a capable press department, was turn Ing out for us that year. The aerial apparatus was in place, but the act । was not due for about fifteen minutes I was Just strolling into the big top when Madame Westphalia came sprint- ’ Ing past me like a loony woman. “My boy, my boy!” she was shrieking; nnd. sure enough, there was reason for the mother alarm. , Teddy, in some manner, had climbed , to the madame’s trapeze when no one was looking. A childish whim ha<l I caused him to unfasten the tape by which he might have descended. DI rectly beneath him was a pile of hur । dies that had been thrown there at , the end of an equestrian act. The net had not been stretched. Now. on his uncertain perch, be had become fright ened. and was slipping from the bur . — slipping, slipping from the bar! i The big audience was standing on ■ the benches —just standing, staring—i rigid with horror. Then. I felt rather than beard a 1 sharp sigh whip around the human horseshoe, like the sudden intake of a pneumatic copy tube. I saw that ‘ | the concentrated gaze of the crowd ' had been shifted from the boy to a pair of hanging rings, some 30 feet In r the right. A girl in a short, red dress ' bad climbed to one of these rings ’ She was swinging—swinging in a hit eral direction —in rapidly widening ar cs—swinging with all the Impetus j her lithe body and limbs could throw into the movement —swinging until her ' heels dimpled the canvas top. Sud , denly she sb >t out over the arena to wards the boy’s trapeze. There was a flicker of red. a fearsome creaking ' of ropes as the trapeze hauled tau f I and the wom^p caught up securely on • ! the bar with the boy. The shock ; threw him from his precarious resting i place, but a strong, brown hand . 1 clutched the looseness of his blouse ; • as be fell, and held him until he could be drawn up to safety. Then —then —and the recognition of her came to me like a slap triumphant | 1 upon the back—l saw that Teddy’s 1 rescuer was Miss Vance. Ah. that was ' a leap! The most daring performer would never have ventured it in cold blood. She slipped to the ground with him. and Madame Westphalia kissed and ' cried over them both, and became quite ' maudlin with emotion. Harvy kissed i her. too, and escorted her from the arena. The ballyhoo girl had regained her nerve and she won back her place on the flying trapeze. The following week Harvy married j ' her and twenty years later she lost her life in a railroad accident caused by the carelessness of an employee who left a itch open in the Soutt Omaha yards. . What became of Teddy? He drifted into railroading when he - grew up, and it was he who neglected r io close the switch.

the inscription, "I ted only the sunny : hours.” At Upware Ferry, on the banks of the Ouse, there is an inn with the legend, “Five miles from anywhere. i No hurry,” painted in large letters on ! its gabled front, while at Hoddesdon in Harts is to be seen the great bed of Ware, mentioned by Shakespeare In “Twelfth Night.” It Is 12 feet square with carved oak pillars. Cheshunt shows a rocking-horse, said to have been the earliest “mount” of Charles I. Hard Punishment Only a few years have passed since petty criminals received punishment that today would be regarded as inhuman. A London magistrate sent a man of eighty to jail recently for three months for stealing an umbrella. The man’s record showed that he had six years’ penal servitude when only nineteen, a ten years’ sentence at twentyfive, and ten years more in 1890 for stealing articles worth only a few shillings. >

Birds Will Eat Injurious Bugs

< Fanner Is Also Benefited by Consumption of Various Weed Seeds. (Prepared by the United States Department _ of Agriculture.) The economic value of birds, especially insectivorous birds In farm districts, cannot be too strongly emphasized, in the opinion of the biological survey of the United States Department of Agriculture. For this reason the bureau is interested not only in the protection of migratory game birds, which Is one of Its Important functions, but also in the conservation of all beneficial bird life. Hardly an agricultural pest exists but has numerous effective bird enemies. For instance, 25 kinds of birds are known to feed upon the clover weevil, and a like number upon the potato beetle, 36 on the codling moth, 48 on the gipsy moth, 49 on horseflies, 67 on billbugs. 85 on clover-root borers. 98 on cutworms, 120 on leaf hoppers, and 168 on wireworms. Devour Weed Seeds. Birds benefit the farmer also by eating quantities of weed seeds. It has been estimated that a single species of sparrow lu a single state —lowa—consumed annually 875 tons of weed seeds. Birds do not, of course, especially single out the noxious seeds or an insect pest for food; but eating indiscriminately and voraciously, the most abundant food is taken first, and this is likely to be the moving caterpillar i or adult insect, or the seeds on the plant or on the ground, where they have been carried by the wind. Mar.y species of birds perform another imj portant service to man through their feeding habits, since they act as scavengers. In districts where the disposal > of waste Is not completely taken care of by community ami Individual effort birds make a valuable contribution to public health. Dome«tlc Cat la Enemy. Next to man himself, wantonly using his gun, the worst enemy of farm birds Ih the domestic cat. Storms also tie ' stroy a great many birds by cutting off I their food supply. Protection against tlie elements cannot often be provided for birds except where refuges or sane-1 tuaries are maintained for them, but

ANIMALS GREATLY EFFICIENT IN CONSUMING RAW MATERIAL

Convert Many Farm Crops Into Valuable Products. (Prepared by th* United Mates Department vl Agriculture > In a talk delivered during the International Live Stock exposition, held nt Chicago, Dr. John It. Mohler, chief of > the bureau of animal Industry, United 1 States Department of Agriculture, told briefly of the Importance of live stock 1 In our national economy. “One may ask," said Doctor Mohler, “why It is necessary or even desirable to have a large animal population In a country such as this with Its millions of i automobiles and trucks and Its vast ' acres for producing cereal grains. The j answer is simple. Our domestic an- i Imais, developed through long years I ; of evolution, are marvelously efficient In converting vast quantities of ■ grasses, forage, plants nnd other products which are of slight direct value to mankind Into valuable animal products. These products include meats, milk, butter, cheese, leather, fats, wool. | mohair and almost countless by-prod-I ucts ranging from violin strings to fer I tillzer. “The United States contains the larg est corn-producing region in the world yet the human population uses onlyDaily Herds Do Well on This Mixed Ration Corn-soy-bean silage, clover hay. ground corn and oats, corn-soy-bean i fodder roughage with a small amount of oilmeal added each day—that’s the ration Charles Beck, Bremer county. I lowa. Is using to produce the 1.000 pounds of milk he delivers daily at a nearby condensery, says a writer in Successful Farming. It does not take a dairy-minded farmer long to see that Beck, whose herd of 40 grade cows are Just starting t..elr third milking seaI son, has the right idea. “Last spring I planted soy beans with the corn I expected to use in my silo,” offered Beck. “I thought that if beans were good in silage, they would be all right in fodder, so I planted a high-growing variety to be cut with the corn for roughage. “Besides cutting the cost of concentrated feeds by reducing the requirements of them, soy beans increase the efficiency of the- silage.” continued Beck, while explaining his system of dairy farming. An abundance of clover hay Is grown i each year by Beck, who started several j years ago to grow Into the dairy business instead of going Into It In a lump sum. A pure bred bull was the first move Beck made toward better dairy farming. Next he began selling his poor cows. That system has made his herd one of the profit makers in the county. Profits Frorr. Apples Careful records kept for the past 20 years of the cost of every orchard operation and the income from the sale of the fruit In a typical ten-acre Baldwin apple orchard In western New York show that apple growing has paid an attractive profit, at least in this orchard. The average yearly net profit on a barrel of apples for the 20-year-period has been $1.51 and the average annual profit per acre for the 20 years has been $120.71. Estimating that the orchard is worth SSOO per acre, the annual net dividend has been 26.3 per cent.

4 1 a protective public sentiment, supported by effective laws, will lessen the damage done by man and domestic animals. Birds may be still further encouraged and increased by the provision of food trees, such as the mulberry, which will serve the double purpose of attracting them away from , cherry or other fruit trees and supplying them with suitable food. I Orchard Draining Needs Most Careful Attention Many fruit growers fail to realize that orchard land that is inclined to be wet requires drainage just as much as land for general crops. This is 1 particularly true of peach, cherry and apple orchards. The pear, plum and quince usually withstand a more moist soil condition. Where the land Is heavy and naturally poorly drained the trees make a slow growth, are Inclined to suffer from root rot and winter Injury, the bark is reddish in color and they are often short-lived. Neither good culture nor fertilizers will overcome this trouble. Also good surface drainage Is no assurance that tiling is not needed. The most observing orchardlsts are using more tile and there is unquestioned evidence that it Is paying well in better trees and crops. This is a good Mme of year to make a critical survey of the orchard and determine whether certain depressions or basins need an outlet for the surplus water in the spring. If so, a ditching machine may do the work better and cheaper than to dig the ditches by hand. The tile are usually laid about two to two and one-half feet deep, although on some level areas It Is necessary to put them deeper In order to secure enough fall. The main lines of tile will follow the natural depression, even though it Is quite Irregular, and the laterals will follow the minor depressions that lead into the main one. Additbmal laterals should be laid so as to give drainage ■to the entire area that Is wet and springy In the early part of the growing season In more level fields the main lines are usually about two rotis apart, depending upon the nature of the soil.

about one-tenth of that crop directly ns food. The public appetite much prefers to use the corn crop in the f< rm of Juicy steaks anil savory hams. Through the stockman’s skill our do mestlc animals are becoming gradually more efficient In converting coarse feed into refined and concentrated products. As alchemists for the refinement of base materials, cattle, swine and sheep —to say nothing of goats—have an enviable record.” Contrivance Holds Bait Easily Reached by Mice Recent experiments have demonstrated the value of a wooden poison station that may be easily and cheap- I ly constructed to make poisoned bait readily accessible to mice without exposing It to the weather. Square pieces of 1 by 8-lnch boards are cut for bottoms. A depression to contain the poisoned bait is made across the bottom board with a chisel or. if made at a planing mill, by a group of circu- i lar saws. The two walls of the station are cut from 1 by l^-inch strips into 6-inch lengths. The whole is fastened together with four nails. Mice are attracted to these poison stations and have often been observed running around them. Use Tractor to Shell Corn and Grind Feed 1 Make your tractor shell your corn and grind your feed for you this winter. Don’t let it stand idle in the shed eating up Interest money on your investment. It is much easier and warm- i er to grind your own feed at home > than It is to harness up a team of horses and drive to a feed mill in cold weather. “If you have several tons of fertilizer or feed to haul, hitch your tractor to two or three wagons and make one trip take the place of several trips to town,” says F. W. Duffee. of the agricultural engineering department, Wisconsin College of Agriculture. “There are only a few jobs for a tractor during the winter months, but ; if they are done w’ith the tractor the interest on your money invested will more than be returned. “A tractor has the advantage over horses that when It is standing idle it does not use feed.” farmotes In the book of successful farming, there are many clover leaves. Moldy corn Is always dangerous feed and the flock should not have access to it. The droppings boards, perches and nests should be treated for mites. The pullets also should be examined for lice. • • • The Purdue laying ration with cornmeal has given excellent general satis- ! faction. A good grade of flour mid dlings will give much better results than standard middlings. • * e No use talking—chickens do not like rye grains. About the only way to get them to eat rye is to grind and make a dry mash with corn and oats. Chickens do not seem to like wheat bran either.

vwwwwvwwwwwwwwwww HOW TO KEEP WELL DR. FREDERICK R. GREEN Editor of “HEALTH" (©. 1V25. Western Newspaper Union.) WHO SHOULD DRIVE 1 AUTOMOBILES? XI7HEN you get on a railroad train V* and roll into your pulimun berth, j you go to sleep with perfect confidence jn the intelligence and ability of the man at the throttle. You know that the engineer of a passenger train is sure to be a tried and tested employee of years of training and experience. You know that his eyes and Isis nerves and his heart have been examined and tested, that he does not befuddle his brain with whisky or drugs and that his ability to think clearly and act promptly in an emergency has been proven. i This was not always true. In the | early years of railroad building, many ( accidents were due to unfit men in the ■ ] engine cab. But gradually it was ‘ learned, often by costly mistakes, that 1 the safe and successful engineer must 1 be a man with keen and perfect vision and with nerves and muscles always under control. | ; But a new method of travel has developed in the last 20 years. There are today over 12,000,000 motor cars in thia country. Traveling as fast as the average train, carrying every day many times more passengers than all the ■ railroads put together, automobiles are I today far more dangerous to life than I railroad trains. This is shown by the I large number of people killed every I year by autos, as compared to the com- I paratlvely small number of lives lost I by railroad accidents. j j We are just beginning to realize that t the same qualities of mind and bodj are required to drive an auto as to run a steam engine. Before the World war. practical busi ness men had a market! contempt for scientific men. They were all right in lecture rooms and laboratories, but they had no connection with every-day business matters. The physical and i mental tests used in classifying and sorting the men in the draft opened j the eyes of many captains of industry. The other day the management of the Yellow Cab company asked Prof, t A. J. Snow of Northwestern university to apply psychological tests to their 3.000 cab drivers to determine if any of them were unsuited for work as chauffeurs. Professor Snow used three tests to determine the mental alertness. rapidity of nerve and muscle reactions and sensory acuteness of these men. He reported that IS per cent of the oldest drivers in the employ of the company were unfitted to drive cabs and should be given inside jobs or dismissed. The officials were skeptical and to prove that the psychologist was wrong, they diecked up the record of each man. They found that the 18 per cent of drivers pronounced unfit wert responsible for 48 per cent of all their accidents. Do you know that the driver of the car in which you ride has keen eyes steady nerves and muscles which act j immediately to meet an emergency: I If you don't, keep out of his car. Do you know that you are fit to drive a car yourself? If you don’t, find out or , let someone else drive. REMOVING WRINKLES BY PARAFFIN ■^JEWSPAPER dispatches from Lot Angeles state that a beauty doctoi has disappeared following the death of one of her patients. The "doctor” performed some operation on the woman’s face to remove wrinkles. Unfortunately, infection followed and the operation removed the patient, wrinkles and ail. What the operation was we do not know. Several methods have been in- ; vented for removing wrinkles. One is the injection of paraffin. Paraffin lias been used in facial surgery for over i2O years. It is of great value, for instance. in repairing a broken nose or i in building up a fallen bridge of the nose. The melted paraffin is injected by a syringe under the skin, filling out j the sunken space. While it is soft, it can be molded into the exact shape desired. Then some beauty doctor got the bright idea, that paraffin injected into the cheeks would fill them out and, by stretching the skin, would pull out the wrinkles, just as blowing up a toy balloon stretches the rubber bag and makes it smooth and round. Paraffin was supposed to be harmless. The operation was only a needle prick. Many women who wanted plump . cheeks without wrinkles had them I pumped full of paraffin, hoping that they'd look youthful and lovely once more. Since then, most of them have been wishing they hadn’t and trying to find someone who could dig the hardened wax out of their cheeks. The trouble is that, after the wax is injected, it hardens and the pressure stops the blood supply. The cheeks are plump, alas sometimes they are too plump but the skin over the mass of । paraffin is bloodless and dry. It looks like, and really is dead skin. It can be covered with rouge and powder, but ■it has no color or vitality. It is esI peeially liable to infection, having nc । resistance. The paraffin may melt and ; one’s cheek run down into one's neck, • which is most unpleasant. Don’t be fooled by enticing adverI tising or foolish friends. You can't buy a good complexion in a drug store or a beauty parlor. Fresh air. pure i water, inside and out, good soap, stm- < pie food and plenty of outdoor exerj else and open-air sleep will bring betj ter results and no regrets. OU Religious Houses Double monasteries were religious i houses comprising communities of both ! men and women, dwelling in contiguous establishments, united under the rule of one superior and using one church in common for their liturgical offices. Ireland presents only one known example—Kildare. Nothing Gained by Hurry Business dispatched is business well done; but business hurried is busines* 111 done. —Bulwer-Lytton.

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as I could not stand because of the bear-ing-down pains in my back and abdomen. I sat down most of the time and did what I could do in that way —as washing dishes, etc. One day a book describing Lydia E. Pinkham's medicines was put in my mail-box. I saw how the Vege-

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