Walkerton Independent, Volume 54, Number 18, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 27 September 1928 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Everv Thursday by THE INDEPEN I>ENT -NE W S CO. Publishers of the WALKEKTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVILLE STANDARD THE ST. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIES Clam DeCoudres, Business Manager Chaxles M. Finch, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ona Year ..*1.69 Rix Months ............... .90 Three Months .60 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at thr> post office at Walkerton, ^nd., as second-class matter. xne continuing brevity of women’s skirts might well set a needed style for the ballot. The women have to do about everything with their hair nowadays except sit up nights with it. By refraining from talking to himself, a French barber recently shaved himself in 27 seconds. Little Willy wanted to know last night “Who was Diogenes?’’ and Father said he was a posse. “Arrested on Charge Cruelty to Calves’’ —headline. Beating bovines or wearing golf stockings? Today’s idle, wonder is why, in hot weather, postage stamps always stick together but ,not separately. When a woman politician tosses her hat into the ring she is probably careful to select an old one, A New York educator says teachers in the primary grades make the best wives, which isn’t surprising. Another objection to the thirteenmonth year is that it will shorten the time between monthly payments. This is no time for a scientist to be telling us the sun is cooling off. We think we khow a thing or two about that. If we did have a whipping post for certain offenders, some motorist would run against it and wreck the thing. If the weather is trying to make the women take something else off, it would just as well cool off. It can't be done. An eyebrow is tnat arched thing which she raises when Junior becomes a bit slipshod with the ketchup. No sensible man will rail at the filminess of feminine attire. Clotnes , for women were never before so inexpensive. Luxuries of travel have not yet at- « tained a point that makes a candidate anxious to map out a long speaking • itinerary. It is only human for the statesman, eager to hold the ear of the people, to wish he could enjoy a microphone monopoly. Nothing else we know of can fill up the average good-sized sedan as conclusively as a young thing in a wet slicker. Ordinary seagoing vessels and railway train^ still have their disasters. Calamity is by no means limited to aeronautics. “We miss the pigs and the cows.” wrote the country bride who had moved to the city, “but we still have each other.” Just to be different, the great horned wl. says one of our leading nature authorities, is especially fond of skunk meat. A porch campaign often seems possible; but many a guide has impressed the maxim, “You cannot catch fish from a rocking chair.” American liberties cannot be regard ed as in jeopardy so long as every election calls forth a patriotic analjsis of the Constitution. Radio has many political advan tages, but if you happen to say something you regret the following day there isn’t a chance to claim the in terview was garbled. The reign of the college boy as an arbiter of fashion is said to be de dining. We hope this won’t be re garded as justification for another boost in the price of hats. An evident determination to have an inaugural ball may bring up a question of how far modern forms of dancing shall be encouraged in relation to traditional dignities. It is hard to know what people will worry about next, a man in New Orleans having started an agitation for rotary-handled window openers on street cars, similar to those on automobiles. It only costs a cent now to send a souvenir postal, so the vacationer can afford to wish that twice as many people were here. “1 am in quite a quandary,” wrote Dora to the etiquette editor. “I am on a diet and wonder if it is all right to wear a dinner ring.” The Arctic circle continues to hold the lure of mysterious adventure. There never yet was a polar expeditioi that could be rated as an un equivocal success. An old and shrewd referee in bankruptcy one- defined a lie as any assertion which b- gins “Your Honor, I’ll tell you how it was—” An airplane flight that does not quite succeed in its purpose is regarded as a fortunate venture if it brings everybody on hoard back in safety. There can’t be much wrong with the economic status quo, et cetera, when Mary Pickford’s haircut gets ns much notoriety as a cut in the national debt.

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SMART FALL COAT / J \ The dignity of autumn is depicted in this smart coat worn by the beautiful Kathryn McGuire, screen star. It is military in treatment, with Its leather-brown color, its smart, cape and its wide cloth belt and buckle. A feature of the wrap is the unusual sleeve, cuffless, but having straps in lieu of them. Felt hats have departed from the brimless idea, as Miss McGuire’s chapeau will indicate.

French Makers of Fashion Wake Up

Paris. —There must be a new method established in the creation of French styles for the United States and South America. That is the opinion of M. Rene Herbst, president of the Society of Modern Decorators, who Is spreading propaganda for the creation of special establishments throughout the world for the presentation of French models. He is not alone in his belief, and the French style-fixers are ready to contribute a fund of several million francs to protect their Interests abroad. They have been considerably alarmed, they admit, during the last few years by the tendency of American dressmakers, milliners, and interior decorators to take the French motifs and adapt them to the particular needs of their own country. During tne winter, several groups of French business men are to visit the principal cities of both the Americas. They are to study American methods and American needs. Wheth er they will be able to meet both without ruining their own artistic pride, according to one prominent French writer, is the question that Is worrying them most. •5* *♦* *♦* *♦* *♦* *♦* *♦* *♦* *♦* *♦* *♦* **♦ *** *♦* *l* **♦ *♦* ♦♦♦ *♦* *♦* ♦** I DIPPING INTO f i SCIENCE $ v •7**i**t 4 *J*»J»*t********^*****X* > X* *♦* *!♦ *♦* ♦♦♦ ♦♦♦**♦ ♦***♦* *4**s* **• Food for Unborn Chicks Very little of the yellow and ❖ none of the white of an egg are part of the chicken which de- .j velops within the shell. In- *•’ ! stead, these substances serve >5 * as food during the chick’s de * ♦> velopment. This is accom ►? plished through little blood £ <• vessels which reach out through X this food from the embryo £ »> chick. A portion of the white ♦J Xis eaten just before hatching. ij ((E). 1928. Western Newspaper Union.) ♦I” *♦* ****** *♦* *l* ♦*♦ *** *♦* ♦** *** *** *** *** *** *♦* *♦* *** *** *♦* *♦* *X* *t*-

Combating the White Plague ■ ■RK#®. fc»^P • ' 4® f / / W ■ \BR| X '^/L Lunch time at the white plague camp, San Gahriel, Calif. The boys are find only in trunks, shoes and socks so that their bodies get full benefit of the sun's rays. Eight ounces of milk is given to every child four times a day to build up their weakened constitutions.

| MYSTERY OF PACIFIC"

New York. — For nearly eighty years sea captains have talked of the existence of a “lost” island somewhere in the south Pacific, a lonely paradise of green palms, gleaming beaches ol powdered coral and blue lagoons, all guarded by a ring of saw-toothed reefs over which the tortured sea boils In sheets of foam. Passing ships have reported it lying low in the turquoise sea like an emerald, but when the hydrogr a pliers have tried to locate and chart P they have found nothing but the empty ocean. Some persons have regarded It as a myth, others as one of the strange phantoms of the sen, while the more practical ones have declared it to have been one of the floating islands not uncommon in tropical waters. A few believe it to be so low lying in the sea that it is easy to miss. It was first reported in 187*9. and one year later the United Stales corvette Levant dropped out of sight forever on her way from Hilo io Panama. There was some reason to sup pose that she went to look Jor the island, for, while the corvette was tn port at Honolulu in June, 1800, Lieutenant Stout, her executive officer, ex * pressed great Interest in the Island and talked with several merchant captains about Its probable location. The Levant was heading southeast when she left Hilo and sailing n course which, if continued, would take her across the equator and Into the latitude of the mysterious Island. It was partly around the levant । that Edward Everett Hale wove his

“Rut we are losing several million francs of commerce every year simply > because we do not give exactly what the clients want." is the argument be , hind the new movement. “We are t<* > * proud of our own ideas, and unless we , grant some leeway to the creative genius of other nations, France's luxury- . trade is certain to suffer seriously dur- , Ing the next few years.” I ANCY and I get a great many In1 vitat ions to one sort of function or another. We have lived In the i same place most of our lives, and so we know everybody and everybody knows us. We like going, as all gregarious animals do, and we are pleased to be remembered when our friends, young or old, are entertaining. These invitations come to us in a variety of ways—through chance meetings on the street, when some one says, “Oh! we’re going to have a few friends In on Wednesday night at eight, won’t you drop in?" —over the telephone and in formal and informal notes which the posfman delivers at our door. There is a vagueness about some of these invitations and an inac- । curacy which is often confusing if not disconcerting. “Are we going to the sophomore dance on Friday night?” I inquire at * lunch time on Monday. “I'll have to ♦ have my clothes pressed if we go.” ’ “Well, is it formal or informal?” :• Nancy inquires, not answering my :’ question, or answering it by asking > another. > “I don’t know,” I reply. “It has always been an extremely informal as- ;« fair in past years, but I heard some £ sort of rumor that this year there I* was going to be an attempt to force :’ everyone into Tuxedos. What does the invitation say?” We found the badly printed sheet after a thorough search. It was a > mixture of formal and informal form t’ which gave no dependable evidence as to what one was expected to wear;- £ there was a request to R. S. V. P.. > but no suggestion as to whom or f where to address the response. We

imaginary tale of “The Man Without a Country,” in which he prophetically wrote of the foundering of rhe warship, but fixed the date nearly three years later than her actual disappearance, naming the time of Nolan s death TO BE AUTUMN BRIDE ■ jink I ] ■ GrEMfJUC: MDs Laura Volstead, daughter of the former representative from Minnesota. Andrew J. Volstead, has an nounced her engagement to Car! Lomen of Alaska. The marriage will take place In October and they will make their home in New York city. Miss Volstead is a law graduate from George Washington university law school. The portrait shows her in her Red Cross uniform. Dig Up Ruined City Gibraltar. — A group of archeologists have obtained financial backing for a ’ plan to excavate the ancient city of Cartels. Interest tn the project was first touched last year when a Spaniard accidentally discovered a Roman sarcophagus and other evidence of ancient habitation. Line Forms on Left New York. — Wanted: A rich woman ambitious to fly the Atlantic ir a dirigible. Bert Campbell, who came over on the Cedric as a light watchman, says tn' Is an Australian aviator with an airship ready.

************************** * * CONCERNING INVITATIONS S * 5 * * 5jC M* * By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK * Dean of Men, University cf * Illinois. I * looked up the class officers finally and got the information we were looking for; and I sent the right suit to be put into presentable condition. Customs differ in different commit uities, and these customs so far as possible one should familiarize himself with, but the invitation to any social function should indicate the time and the place and the character of the gathering. Most invitations require an answer and the invitation should ' give definite indication to whom and to what address the reply is to he sent. A formal invitation should nev er be issued to an informal affair, nor ' vice versa. Written invitations should be done with care and in good form . X Squash Played 2 000 X ’ ❖ Years Ago in Yucatan ❖ X New Orleans. —Evidence that X X a game similar to squash was X । i- played by natives of Yucatan X 1 X 2,000 years .ago was found by X ’ X a Tulane university expedition. I X which returned from an explor X • X ing trip through Central Amer ❖ r X ica and Mexico. X ? X Dr. Frans Blom of the depart- X ♦> ment of middle-American re- X X search of Tulane, who headed X the expedition, said he found X X courts upon which the game had X ❖ been played by the ancient May- X X an tribes. The courts still were X X in excellent repair, he said, and ❖ X there could be no mistake about X X what they were used for. ❖ X The game apparently had been X X played with rubber balls which X X had been knocked back and X X forth across the court with X X something similar to rackets. X X Heretofore, Doctor Blom ex- X X plained, it had been thought X X such games had not been played X X in that section earlier than 1,000 X X or 1,200 year§ ago. X •** *.* *•* *♦* -*• ♦** ****** •*♦ *;♦ **♦ *** •;* *** ** - *t* *t* **• *** *** •*’ *;♦ *;* *;* "Ka Some men say worse things than JU they mean, and some mean worse i things than ttiey say.

on the Levant, after fifty years of voyaging and transfers from ship to ship, as May 11, ISG3. in latitude 2 degrees 11 minutes south and’longitude 131 west, somewhere near 1,500 to 2.000 files southeast of Honolulu. On that date the Levant had In all probability been lying at the bottom of the sea for nearly three years, as she left . Io In August, ISGO. and vanished. No vessel ever spoke to her at sen after sh' disappeared Into the regions of the trade winds. While at Honolulu. Lieutenant Stout, with much pride, showed to his ship's visitors the stateroom Phillip Nolan was supposed to have occupied. Turpentine Soaked Girl Burns Self to Death New York. —Apparently disappointed In love. Miss Louisa Amelia de lios tos. thirty-eight years old. set hersel! afire in her upper west side apartment and died at Harlem hospital. Miss de llostos. said by a friend to be the daughter of Eugenia de llostos, a I’orto Rican educator for whom a monument has been erected in San Juan, came to New York to seek ■ career ns an author. At the hospital It was said she had saturated her clothing with turpentine and. after climbing into the bathtub, had applied n match. She left no message accounting for the deed.

New War Vessel Like Fine Hotel

London. —H. M. S. Nelson, the new eSt addition to the British navy. Is ••quipped with a soda fountain. Aside from the armament, she has many oil or points of interest which would surprise the tars who sailed the seven seas lUO years ago. In tier domestic arrangements the Nelson sets a new standard. When going to sea she lakes along l.G’Mi gal lons of rum. laG.UOO pounds of flour 1 42.1M10 pounds of sugar. 7.<MMi pounds of tea, 43,(W tins of condensed milk The last one I received had neither my proper street address nor was my name spelled properly. Now there are few things which annoy one in a more iriitating way than to find his num-* misspelled by some one who has known him for twenty years. In the case I mentioned I am sure it was one of the children who wrote the invitation ami his work had not been properly vised. Brady had a few men in the other night to meet a friend of his. The gathering was informal in the ex treme. but Crane was there in a dinner coat —though there was no dinner —and a stiff shirt and went about looking like a butler and feeling quite dressed up and out of place. He had evidently received the wrong sort ot invitation or had misread what he had gotten. (©. 1928. Western Newspaper Union.) Hens Not Wanted Atlantic City. N. .I.—“ Visitors to 1 this resort do not come here to heat cackling hens and crowing roosters." asserted Recorder •’oric in imposing a fine upon a citizen who had started a small poultry yard within the limits of the city Bird Has One Wing Franklin. N. IL—George Dunn cap tured a one-winged bird ami is keep ing it. It is a swallow and has one perfectly developed wing. There is no sign of a second wing and no place where a second wing ever appears to have been attached.

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CONQUERS CHANNEL k A \ I I a JL j Wuf J r 1 Miss Ivy Hawkes, twenty-one-year-old Brighton girl, who successfully swam the English channel, completing her swim at St. Margaret's bay, near I Dover. She was accompanied by the । tug Alsace, which carried her trainers j and witnesses.

20.000 pounds of frozen meat, 40,000 pounds of vegetables, 5.000 (tounds of tobacco and 10.000 pounds of soap In [ addition she carries large quantities ' of fresh meat and other consumable stores. The catering department of the Nel son is equal in its equipment and organization to that of a first-class h<> tel. The men’s meals are prepared by a staff of expert cooks in kitchens that have all sorts of modern electrical up pliances. In the bakery all the work • is done by machinery and the food U not handled. The mess decks where the crew liv* are lighted by scuttles instead of art»ticial light, which is used in most wai ships. Every section of the crew hails own bathrooms. There are comfortable recreatioi rooms supplied with papers and m.-tga zines for the use of the men who are off duty and there is a well-s»o«-ked general shop at which the men buy whatever they need. Moving picture entertainments are provided for the"» and there is a fairly large chapel Vcluntee:s Replace Professional Mode. Is Paris.—Professional artist models are dying out as a class in this citadel of art. Never before have there been so many artists in Paris, so many schools and so man., galleries: but models, particularly women, are a vanishing race. With a few rare exceptions, the professionals have been replaced by an anonymous crowd of out-of-work manikins from dressmaking establishments. chorus girls and. above all. by disinterested persons devoted to the cause of art. Art is so much the fashion that painters and sculptors often find their choice of models limited only by the list of their acquaintances. Many American girls, well educated, of good families, consider it an honor to pose in the studios of Montparnasse and Montmartre. A Chinese typewriter requires aMuJ 4,(X)0 characters.

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