Walkerton Independent, Volume 53, Number 2, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 June 1928 — Page 2

Walkerton independent Published Every Thursday by THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPEN DENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVILLE STANDARD ' 'the ST. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIES “ Clem DeCoudres. Business Manager Charles M. Finch, Editor ’ ~ SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Tear ....sl.s# fill Months .90 Three Months .69 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton, ^nA;_as second-class matter. At least, in the good old days, the hoss and buggy didn’t break down so tar from home. । A lobbyist is a person who is trying , to put over something you think ought not to be put over. ' Undoubtedly the very last word in annoyance is spoken when the parachute fails to open. Rats in cities are a great economic waste; and the worst of all are the sort that walk on two legs. Is it possible that writers for the humorous publications have lost the knack of making clean jokes? It may be necessary soon for pedestrians to take tests before they will be permitted to cross the street. । The prince of Wales landed on bis •• feet when thrown from his horse most recently. Practice makes perfect. j । Overseas flights announced from numerous sources are predicated ou some angel supplying the overhead. War hatreds are almost forgotten • now, and every once in a while you see a former doughboy buying canned ■ beef. * —* Logic is just a slow masculine .process of arriving at truths known •Ito females by the time they learn to Jtalk. “There’s absolutely no way to save the defendant,” muttered the veteran criminal lawyer; “he murdered an ^Uienist.” And yet after 50 years of formal education in domestic science, about 91 per cent of the edible biscuits are cut out with an old baking powder can. The custom of holding spelling bees shows a healthy vitality which may mean more than we now realize to the peace or mind of future employers of stenographers. After many years of study, a Vienna doctor announces that he has discovered a cure for asthma. At last Vienna has done something to atone for psychoanalysis. Palm Beach, to get a news reel, employed eight girls in one-piece bathing suits to direct traffic on a downtown street. It didn’t work, for they only directed attention. Women are said to be crowding the men out of jobs as postmasters. We’ll not be mean enough to suggest that perhaps the literary appeal of the postcard has something to do with it. Maybe it is true, as the beauty expert says, that within 30 years all women will be beautiful, but by that time a lot of them will be too old to care about anything except a cozy corner. The fearsome manifestations of nature prior to the Smyrna earthquake which killed 60, leads us to believe that the man who brags he “has the earth by the tail” is taking on too much territory. We recognize this year as 1928; the Mohammedans call it 1346; the Jews, 5688, the Japanese, 2587, and rhe Byzantine calendar says it is 7436. The chances really are that it is about 1,000.000.000. Remembering what Happened to the price of liver when we found that it had a peculiar “therapeutic” value, we wonder how the honey market is going to react to the news that bee stings can cure rheumatism. The up-to-date murder defense is “communicative insanity.” Well, somehow or other, we always thought it was catching. Otherwise how do you account for all the votes some nut gets when he runs for office? In making his escape from a mob of peeved purchasers a street faker in New York city slipped on a banana peel and was captured and held for the police. This is the first evidence of a skin game working both ways. New York scientists declare they have’ under observation a chicken heart* that is sixty years old. It is indiscreet of them to reveal the fact, since, thousands of restaurant chefs will immediately covet it for their giblet st^ws. We” ; understand that the weather of 1927 set about the usual number of records. In other words it was normal. The*women who are trying to explain “why is a bachelor” might get at the truth sooner if they asked some bachelors. Twoft’arisians have invented a play-er-vio)i»i that is said to provide better music jhan the average concert artist, and dijesn’t tuck a silk handkerchief under Its double* chin. A man was arrested in the house of representatives the other day for talking lou.dly and foolishly. But fie was a spectator. A hypocrite has been defined as a person who pretends to believe what you tell him when he knows you’re lying—^Mineral Wells (Texas) Index. “Old I clothes are new vogue,” the iieadiini writer tells his public. How we uriL to inquire, does he get that way? i"he vogue is as old as Uh clothes hot most of us.

Laugh at Lightning

New York.—The next time the lightning flashes and baby cries ami mother shiver and you swallow hard and tell Johnny, “Pooh, pooh, there Is nothing to be afraid of,” and then duck your own head under the bed clothes—don’t. You are right. There is nothing to be afraid of. The chance of a person being struck in his home is one in several million. And if you chance to be at your desk in some downtown skyscraper, the lightning cannot reach you. You have the assurance for this from R. M. Spurck, tin engineer of the new switchgear plant of the General Electric company at Philadelphia, in charge of the high voltage testing of circuit breakers, where arcs of artificial lightning at from fifteen to twenty feet are played over apparatus to make sure there are no defects and that it will withstand conditions when put into service - out in the open in natural lightning areas. Not Mere Guesswork. “Shooting a million volts into circuit breakers to thoroughly test them before leaving the factory is not mere

On the Other Side J of the World By THOMAS ARKLECLARK ; Dean of Men, University of Illinois. ; I HAVE always thought that things would be very different on the other side of the world—different customs, a different language, different peoples. The South Sea islands have always spelled mystery and magic to me and dusky forms waving strange weapons in the air. India and the Malay peninsula 1 was sure was an other world. My cousin Tracy, who is a banker with nothing to do on occasion but to sail the seas and to stop at strange AUSTRALIAN MERMAID it r I f The photograph shows Edna Duvey who will represent Australia in the women’s 440 meters race at Amsterdam this summer. Her best time for 440 yards is 6 minutes 3 4-5 seconds. And her beauty will certainly help the judges in picking winners.

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guesswork. The fundamentals are based on studies made in the company’s laboratories, field observations, and the classic work of the late Doctor Steinmetz.” Mr. Spurck said. If you reside on the top of a hill with no trees about, you are in a comparatively perilous position. But if you live in the average city home, with houses of equal height about you, lightning is likely to single you out about once every thousand years As for the residents in the house perched upon the hill, the chance is one in several million that they will be struck by the bolt that comes once every hundred years. The holt might tear up the roof, or even set it afire, but likely would get no closer to you. It would encounter the electric house wiring and would he carried impotent to the ground. Or it would hop on to the plumbing system and docilely speed off into the earth. Keep Away From Walls. The safest place in your house is anywhere except where these lightning conductors are centered. Most

and unfamiliar parts has been going around the world recently, an experi ence which is new neither to him nor to his much traveled wife. He sends me a bundle of newspapers from Singapore. Os course you all know what and where Singapore is. 1 do, since 1 asked Nancy, and she, to he certain, looked it up in the Atlas. It is an English possession, I believe, where the papers advertise “snappy bathing costumes” at from nine tn fifteen dollars each—dollars, mind you; gooii American dollars, not pounds, shillings, and pence. They marry and murder in Sing apore the same us we do In this civilized and enlightened country. They advertise motor ears and whisky (without an e) for Mr Volstead’? In fluence has not traveled so far. They have moving pictures, and just at the time when Tracy was there, Andy and Min and Chester Gump were holding the boards. Think of little Chester doing his stuff In Singapore! It seems inconceivable to me. They have political outrages there, nnil men are shot In a manner very similar to the way In which our own unscrupulous politicians are done away with. They seem to have the same motor cars, the same lubricating oils, the same rubber tires, the same varieties of Ice creum and typewriters In S ag apore as in Kankakee, 111. it rather surprised me. There are military training schools and pacifists, and ten nis clubs, and football associations and all sorts of sports and sportsmen In Singapore as there are in our own cities. 'llie other side of the world doe? not seem so different from the side with which we are acquainted uone might suppose. They dance after dinner al the sash ionable hotels, they use safety razors anil eat Quaker oats, ami take patent medicines for rheumatism, and use alarm clocks to rouse the lethargic from their morning sleep, and they sit through plays which depict the an tics of college students the same as we do in our own undergraduate-tilled towns. In fact the thing which impresses me as I read the Singapore Free I’ress is that on the other side of the world things go on much as they do in these middle western American towns of

whole village of 800 people is em ployejd in the plant. Aifiber, “Prussian gold.” was traded at this little spot on the Baltic coast with (the ancient Phoenicians. Fisher men dredged for it in earlier days but more recently it has been dug ou’

plumbing and heating pipes run up ami down in the middle of the house. Keep away from the walls in which they run. Do not stand between two metal objects, such as a heating radiator and the plumbing pipes. There is nothing wrong with the superstition that the bed is a safe place. In the modern steel office building lightning can’t even get the roof. Most roofs of such buildings are metal and are purposely brought in contact at some point with the steel framework, and this circuit absorbs and carries off any lightning that may chance to shoot down. Perhaps the question of the efficacy of lightning rods has never been fully settled in the public mind. Lightning rods are now to be seen chiefly in the country. There is a lightning rod on nearly every house in the cities, though It may not be visible to the eye. Every plumbing system has an air vent—a pipe—that runs upward to, if not through the roof. It serves exactly as does the lightning rod which pricks the air on the farmer’s house.

History in Wampum

Albany, N Y.— Four almost priceless belts of Indian wampum recently added to the collection in the New York state museum make it one of the finest groups of these “historical documents" in the world. The belts were left to the museum by the will of Anna Treadwell Thacher, whose husband. John Boyd Thacher, purchased them in 1593 for SSOO. The four new belts In the collection are known as the Hiawatha belt, the Washington Covenant belt, the Wampum t<> Mark the First Sight of Pule faces, ami the famous Champlain belt. The Hiawatha belt Is believed here to be the original record of the formation of the Iroquois league. The exact age of the belt Is unknown, but It Is believed to have been made in the middle of the Sixteenth century. The Washington Um mint belt was OQOOOO&OOOCOOttOOOOOOOOOOOO O r, DIPPING INTO SCIENCE ° o o X oooooooonoooocoocoooooooo ~ O* * Q Millions of Insects o O Q C Then* tire het wren hvv and $ ? ten million les of Insects in O 0 the world Many of these are q 0 very nivonry to us. Some g O help In destroying the harmful q $ Insects, others give us valuable $ O medicine, and others still more o o X O useful carry the pollen from g 5 plant to plant enabling them to o q bear their fruit and flower?. M <<El 191* Western Sew»p»wr Union i Q 60C00Q00000C0000Q000Q000a8 ours. People play the same games eat and drink the same food, with only Flight modifications, and In the main follow the same daily routine and think the same thoughts. 192* Western Newspaper Union 1

of the blue clay with machinery. Great hoppers bring up cars ot clay from an area a square mile in extent. The clay is washed for amber in much the same way its auriferous earth is washed for gold. Each season about 3.01X1.000 cubic meters of soil are moved. Amber is found in clusters. The pieces tire picked out and washed with sand in great revolving drums. An army of girls sits at a running band and picks out six recognized standard qualities. Every year the “crop” runs to about 125,000 pounds but only onethird of this is suitable for beads ami ornaments. The rest is ground to powder to make “pressed” amber, or melted down to make varnish and colophony. Amber oil and acid are byproducts obtained by distillation. Pieces ot seven or eight pounds weight are not rare, but the biggest single lump ever found here weighed about fifteen pounds. In the laboratory, pieces of amber of all shades and sizes are kept—bright amber, pale-yellow amber, plain and with flies, bugs or tiny leaves im bedded in them, dating from the ter tiary period when coniferous forests flourished here in a subtropical climate. The most valuable amber bears the quaint name of “sauerkraut” because it is of a pale-yellow tinge and has markings suggesting strands of cut cabbage.

Leave the Green Isle for America •'••••* » J J v * & A **s/ -s IhNkl Thousands of young Irish hoys and girls are leaving Ireland every week with the enlargement of the American Immigration quota. In one week 1.7(H) enthusiastic emigrants, such as are shown here, departed from Queenstown. This picture was taken as a shipload of emigrants sailed.

BEARS GREAT NAME ^* 7 -। ■ HZ* A 4 X M 1 C 1 I ‘Maj. Gen.” Robert K Lee IV, whose ancestor led the Confederate armies, snapping a salute to the Just Kids Safety club in New York. The little general was outfitted In a suit which Is an exact duplicate of the uni form worn by the great general. It was purchased by Mayor Walker, and the young military man has been made 11 member of the mayor’s staff.

Government Is Asked to Alter Girls’ Dress Rome.— Bare arms, I>w necks and short skirts would be taboo for Italian high school and college girls if Minister of Education Eedele took the action asked in a letter now before him. The body known as “the national committee for the correctness of the mode” has petitioned him requesting that ail those whose costume “does not conform to that modesty which is dictated by civilized Christian usage and sentiment” be barred from the institutions under his control. The school supervisors in several large provincial cities have already publicly admonished girl students for “immodest dress,"” but with little effect. P ppppppppppppppppppppppppp g . g a German Waiters Again g g Will Work in England g 6 Berlin. —German waiters are $ g to work in English hotels and g P restaurants again for the first p g time since the war. Pour Ger g P man waiters have left Germany 0 g for England and others soon g g will follow them. p p According to German esti g g mates, more than 40 per cent of <5 S all employees in English hotel- g g and restaurants before the war g p were Germans. g The Neue Berliner Zeitung g p states that the first group of p g German waiters to resume work g P in England and who have just p g departed, have been engaged for g g a period of five years at wages p g between S3O and $35 a week— g g far more than they could earn P g in Germany. g $ P pppppppppppppppp-pppppppppp

the one most highly prized by the wampum keepers of the Onondaga nation. It derives its name from its use during the Presidency of George Washington as a covenant of peace between the thirteen original states which he represented and the six nations of the Iroquois, the great Indian federation. The third belt was made by the Iroquois to comtm'inorate the “sight of the first palefaces.” but It is not known whether this reference is to Spaniards, French or Dutch. The Champlain belt is virtually a duplicate of the Gen. Eli S. Parker belt, also a part of the collection. - It commemorates the excursion of Samuel ehnmplaln into the country of the Iroquois in 16(t9. Russian Girls in Japan Get Licenses as Geishas Tokyo.—All geisha girls in Japan are not Japanese. There are at least six Russian geisha maidens, all with blond hair and red cheeks, entertaining the tired business men of Kobe, (•-aka and Nagasaki. Now there is om* in Tokyo who has adopted the professional name of “Helen Doran.” Miss Doran appeared at metropolitan police headquarters recently and made an application for a geisha llcense. The invasion of foreign girl entertainers is not encouraged by the authorities, so the young Russian candidate was given a rigid examination In her knowledge of the Japanese language and ability to strum the shamisen. She qualified in every particular am! the license wa? given. She told the police she had been born in Moscow and brought up in Harbin, where she earned her Fiving as a cabaret dancer. It was in that “wickedest city” of the Far East that she began learning Japanese. Subsequently she came to Japan and com pleted her study of the language.

I IN BLACK TAFFETA /. t ) y Myrna Loy proves her talent for designing by this simple yet beautiful dinner frock of black pussy-willow taffeta with overdress of black dotted lace, showing the uneven hemline. Two large bows at the hips of taffeta and lace add a touch of smartness to the gown, ami a colored flower at the shoulder completes the effect. A large black satin and tulle hat is most appropriate with this dress.

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«(cg 19-s. Western Newspaper Uuiun t What ever is past Is over, ana I’m thinking you have no more to do with it than a buttertly has with the empty chrysalis from which he came. The law of life is growth, and we cannot linger—we must always be going on.—Myrtle I Reed. SUMPTUOUS CAKES •* From lea rooms and coffee shops, restaurants and wayside inns, one

gathers re c i p e s which are found so popular. Many of them are more costly a? to time and material than the majority of housewives find available, yet it

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is a pleasure to read them over, and think, “Some day 1 want to try thaL” Heaven’s Food.—Beat the whites of four eggs with one-fourth teaspoonful each of salt and creum of tartar to a stiff froth, add one cupful of granulated sugar and beat again, then add the yolks of three eggs that have been beaten until light ami fold in one cui»ful of pastry flour. Bake in a round pan that has been well buttered and floured. Turn out to cool and prepare the second layer. Dissolve one and one-half squares of chocolate in four tablespoonfuls of water over hot water, then add one cupful each of suger, thick sweet cream and cook over hot water three minutes, add one-half teasiHMiufui of vanilla and two tablespoonfuls of gelatin softened in two tablespoonfuls of water and stirred into the hot mixture. Pour into the same mold as the cake was baked and eet aside to become firm. Unmold on top of the cake which has been spread lightly with an orange filling or with whipped cream, and cover the top with cream ami sprinkle with chopped pecans or pistachio nuts and candied ▼ioleL Surprise Cakes.—Take one-half-cup-ful of butter, one and one-half cupfuls of sugar, and when well creamed add the yolks of three eggs; beat them with the resL Add the grated rind of an orange, one cupful of milk alternately with two and one-half cupfuls of flour sifted with two and onehalf teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one-fourth teaspoonful of suit. Fold in the stiffly beaten whites and bake in well-grease^ gem pans. When cool cut off the tops and fill with orange custard. Replace the tops an 1 cover with a thick marshmallow frosting. Sprinkle pistachio nuts or decorate with candied violets. Orange Custard.—Beat one egg, add one tablespoonful of soft butter, threefourths of a cupful of sugar, one tableepoonful of cornstarch well blended with it. one-half cupful of milk and the grated rind of an orange. Cook until well done, add the juice of half an orange and cool before using. What to Eat. When the fruits and fresh mint are at their best try this famous old recipe:

English Mint Chutney. — Chop and mix together one-half pound of ripe tom atoes. one pound of tart apples, three large sweet peppers, six small

onions, one and one-half cupfuls of raisins, and one-half cupful of fresh mint leaves. Scald three cupfuls of vinegar, two cupfuls of sugar, two teaspoonfuls of dry mustard and two teaspoonfuls of salt, adding one small hot pepper if desired. When cool add the chopped ingredients and seal in cold sterilized jars. Let stand ten days before serving. When the children refuse to eat beets try them with this—it never fails: Beets With Orange Sauce.—Cook the beets until tender, slice or chop a-? preferred and pour over them the following sauce: Cream one tablespoonfu! of butter and flour, add two tablespoonfuls of hot water, one-eighth teaspoonful of salt, one-half tablespoonful of brown sugar, one-half cupful of orange juice, the grated rind of one orange and a dash of paprika. Cook over hot water and pour hot on the hot beets lightly buttered. Here Is another, perhaps better known way of serving the wholesome vegetable: Harvard Beets.—For one-half dozen tender beets chopped rather fine take one tablespoonful of cornstarch, onehalf cupful of sugar, mix well, add font tahlespoonfuls each of te-non juice, cook until smooth and thick, add two tabiesjkoonfuls of butter, a dash of pepoer and salt, and pour over the beets. Let stand over hear for fifteen minutes. Remember that fruit juices are far superior to vinegar. Cse lemon, grapefruit or pineapple juice when possible in place of the vir gar which is so unwholesome for children especially. Adults may endure it. hut lemon juice is best for them as well. Rice Omelet.—With a h If cupful of cooked rice in the ire chest, and mayhap a bit of cold meat or fish, mim-e ami mix with the rice when preparing an omelet; just sprinkle it over the egg lightly when it has be.-n put into the pan. This not only saves leftovers but makes the omelet more filling and nutritious. Orange Icing.—Grate the rind from an orange. sq : a-ze the juice am! mix. let stand for half an hour, then add powdered sugar to make of the proper consistency and spread. Sunlight and Health A British physician says that since the importance of sunlight to health has been realized, the summer months are no lot st rhe most fatal to babies, hut the first throe months of the year when there is Ie st sunlight have the most ’nfant deaths. The Wise Men All are fools or lovers t -t or last, s: 111 Dr <1 r ; ‘ t r satile chaps know how to be a little of each.—Farm and Fireside.

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