Walkerton Independent, Volume 54, Number 28, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 December 1928 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Every Thursday by THE INDEPENDENT-NEWS CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVILLE STANDARD “YHE ST. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIES Clem DeC'oudres, Business Manager Charles M. Finch, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES pas Tear ■lx Months .90 Three Months .00 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton, p>d., as second-class matter. “Made in Czechoslovakia” Is yearly becoming a more familiar motto. Good old songs live regardless that they are whislled and sung to death. Science added six years to our lives and then gave us the auto and the 'plane. A hero: A num who can smile In [public when his garters are coming 'down. The first time you hear “I’m not ar,guing with you; I'm telling you,” it sounds funny. Middle age is when he begins to wonder whether the silly season isn’t getting longer. There are a great many things a reformer doesn't believe in, but publicity is not one of them. We don’t know whether a clean furnace burns more coal, but it does certainly give out more heat. The height of affectation to date was somebody’s reference ' the other day to two geraniums as gerania. In this age of specialists, what has , become .of the old fashioned jack of all trades, ami the maid of all work? Old Dobbin has his limitations, but - he didn't stop on the railroad track just because the driver had no sense. Photographs of an automobile junking yard-give some faint idea of what the end of the modern world will look like. When the modern child wants cookies direct from the producer to the consumer he has to go to grandt ma’s. The true emancipation of women began not with the granting of the vote but with the invention of washing machines. Perhaps hearing ourselves as others hear us would be worse than just seeing. John Dayman, aged seventy, has seen his first street car. If he had waited awhile, he might have seen the last one. Back in the Old Home Town when the rubber bladder blew up they filled the football with sand and the game went on. At the last survey, everything In the kitchen had been heavily coated with Chinese red lacquer except the ice cubes. The person who objects to a jazz orchestra with his meals is merely showing proper regard for his digestive organs. We hope that Commander Byrd won’t instill in the minds of the kids that there is also a Santa Claus at the South pole. Enough cradles of mankind have been found by various explorers and scientists to compose a fair-sized antique collection. During a long campaign a busy man gets so expert in handling mail that ; he can hit the wastebasket in nine pitches out of ten. In the old days nobody heard about a man being “taken for a ride.” About the worst that could happen to him was to be ridden out of town on a rail. “Ink Poisons Five College Football ’ Players,” says a headline. This raises an important question: What were college football players doing with ink? A 500-pound box of chocolates was displayed at a New York exposition. If left open over night, we have n; doubt all the nougatir.es were gone by morning For 50 cents Dora got a bargain the other d v in the loveliest stock- ; ing-box full of little empty compartments. Il only took S2O worth of | new stockings to fill them. — It is asserted only four persons in the world understand the Einstein : theory. One of our darker fears is alleviated, however, by the further assertion tiiat Doctor Einstein is among tbe four. In an eight room house, with a family of six, where would be the best place to begin to look for Wil ly’s tennis racket? “The foundry that cast the Liberty bell is still in business in London.” Maybe we ought to send it back for service on that crack. The New York Post’s dramatic critic offers the opinion that there must be had plays to enable the public to appreciate good ones. Yes; but why the overplus of bad plays? “Winter is the shortest season, consisting of only Kit days and a half an hour.” But then, as Dora points out. the nights are longer. The typewriter for composing mu sic, which Ims lust been Invented, is said to be much quicker than lifting the classics with a pencil. Writer on tipping wonders whether abolition of the practice will result in improved service. Another question U whether tippers get better service

1 |NEARBY i | AND IYONDER

“The Queen Fountain of the World” A PUBLIC-SPIRITED Chicago woman—patron of the arts —anxious to erect a permanent memorial to her noble brother, decided upon a fountain, said to have cost about $700,- । 000, which she presented to ana the । city maintains. It adorns a central I space in Chicago’s groat lake front — Grant park— is “A thing of beauty” । and should prove "A joy forever.” j Rising from a mammoth. Irregularly j shaped pool set down in a beautifullylandscaped space, this monstrous and gorgeous, carved and timed fountain greets the visitor. Its great basins, three in number, rising one above tbe ' other, are 100, GO and 24 feet in di ameter respectively. A great volume of water gushing from a cluster of central jets, rises many feet, falling back into and over the sides of the two upper basins to be caught in the lower basin. Many lesser jets are distributed about the formation. Al! told, many thousands of gallons of water are used per minute. Obviously the effect produced is dream like. Four pairs of massive sen lions, cast in bronze and belching forth streams of water as they appear to he swimming i about in the lower basin, ostensibly guarding the fountain, complete this 1 lovely scene. Beautiful as it Is by day, however, this fountain, to he fully appreciated, should be seen at play after nightfall, brilliantly illuminated in various and changing colors —a sight that is practically beyond power of words to fittingly describe. In beauty as well as In splendor this magiiticent fountain is said to surpass all ottier fountains and is. therefore, “The Queen Fountain of the World.” • • * Uncle Sam’s Printery THE government printing office in Washington is the greatest printing establishment In the world. In round numbers —ISO presses. 375 type 1 composing and 325 binding machines. 4,100 employees, occupies a building containing 17 acres of floor space. 30 motor trucks are kept busv hanuiing raw materials and finished product, a belt conveyor with a capacity of 3GO sacks an hour dumps its mail in the post office—cost to operate, about $12,000,000 annually. Congress is its largest customer — The Congressional Record, averaging 80 pages, of which some 35,000 copies are printed every day when congress is in session, is perhaps its biggest job. The Department of Agriculture, also a big customer, had 27.955 223 copies of various farm bulletins and publications run off during one recent year, while among the jobs for (he Post Office department during ttie same period were 1.596,862,880 postal cards and 720,000.000 money-order forms. Materials and supplies required for a year's operation include 40.000.000 pounds of paper, 12,000.000 yards ot wire, 118.000 pounds of Ink, 4,000 printing press rollers and 60.000 pounds of glue. 3,000,000 containers for postal cards, 200.000 yards of bind ing cloth, 22,000,000 square inches of stamping materials. 2S.<MMLO<M) yards of sewing thread, 10,000 square feet of leather and 4,600 tons of type metal. Its employees own and direct a I cafeteria which seats 1,000 persons at a time, have an emergency hospital, recreation rooms, shower baths, bowling alleys and day and night orchestras which give concerts during luncheon periods. • • • A Master Time Teller I I ZHEN it comes to telling time acI ’ » jurately and in a wholesale man I ner, that mammoth time teller located ; high up in the Metropolitan tower tn Madison square. New York, probably occupies first place in the ranks of clockdom in America. This clock is “up in the air.” Its faces, of which there are four, are almost 300 feet above the street, obviously, they look out over a large portion of the metropolis and the surrounding communities —it having been said that “within range tire visible the ■ homes of over one-sixteenth of the . entire population of the United I States” —and down upon the passing j multitudes. Each of its faces are 26^ I feet in diameter. The figures on them l are 4 feet high. Each of its iron- : frame, copper-covered minute hands ' Is 17 feet long, weighs pounds I and moves on roller hearings. This clock does not keep time. It i merely tells time. The time is kept by another clock in the same building, ! transmitted to it by electrical im- | pulses and this clock, simply though i proudly, passes the time along to the I public. On the quarter hours the ' other clock puts into operation elecj trical impulses which cause huge ham- • tners to strike large hells which an f nounce the time in the notes of the I historic Cambridge chimes. The four | bells of the chime weigh 13,500 pounds, i As night fall approaches, at any time j for which the mechanism is set, the time-keeping clock closes a switch and the faces of the time-telling clock become brilliantly illuminated. (©, 1928 Western Newspaper Union ) Combating Avoirdupois “To bant,” the humorous name for j dieting with the purpose of losing weight, originated in the making of a verb from the name "Banting.” Banting was the advocate of such a system, which bears his name. Variation in Weights In the United States a hundred weight is 100 pounds. In England, however, a hundredweight is 112 pounds. The metric hundredweight is 110.23 pounds.

FEATHERS GIVE CHIC TO HATS; j SLIM PRINCESS LINES ACCENTED

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/■ / M \ ® \ / I .■ J? -F > * K x » I JUDGING from many of the 'V J jaunty daytime felts which * Paris is sending over tills season, an artfully positioned gay feather novelty Is a “touch that tells” of chic and charm. We in America seem not to tie showing so much enthusiasm for clever jH feather trims as are the French ‘ people just now. Nevertheless . while the rank and file of women here are not displaying unusual interest in feather trims, one finds in the exclu sive shops that many of the models which bear the Paris stamp flaunt piquant feather novelties in infinite variety. The models in this picture serve to I show the wide range of ideas ex pressed In feather trims as sponsored I by lending French modistes. The first ' little bat Is interestitig because the American Indian headdress served a< the Inspiration for the feather band and side trim. Both felt and feathers are carried out in beige tones. A cluster of quills gives the modish long-Side effect to the felt toque to the right at the top. The quills rang" from dark green to citron shade an I ; the hat itself is in Lelong green which | is a soft tone of n watercress shad" A very graceful effect is achieve 1 by the handsome black hackle novelty ! on the center hat. In that it sweeps j from the top of the crown, accenting i the much exploited “cheek line." Toi the left below one ot those । sprightly feather ornaments of vivid ; trl-colors Is thrust effectively through ■ slashes in the beige hat which It i trims. A unique crescent shaped ostrich novelty in turquoise blue is effectively posed at the right side of the black

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felt to the right. Light blue and black is a favored combination with the Parisienne this season. The last hat features black and white. The fanshjaped feather trim is worked with long ostrich flues. What a thing of caprice is fashion. Here we are fairly getting into the spirit and feeling for extreme bouffancy for the evening mode when what haiipens? Just this —an entirely new silhouette which accents slender stately princess lines. And so there’s a picturesque war going on at present in fashionable between frocks Fur Hem A princess evening gown of beige satin flares in circular fulness below the hips, dippipg to floor length in the rear. The entire hem is of dark brown fur. The shoulder straps are jeweled. Frilled Peplum The patou blue crepe blouse over a circular skirt in a two-piece frock has a frilled hem that forms a cute peplum below the hipline when the belt is fastened.

/' jr iw mSmL x / . I r F ■■ ■ *** 5 J Feather Noveltiet Adorn Hat*. featuring the robe de stylo measuring yards and yards around, else accenting the bustle, hip poufs and such versus slimness Interpreted through a statuesque princess contour. One theme, both the slender princess and the boi.ffnnt silhouette acclaim anil that Is the uneven dipping hemline which never falls to break into a confusion of fascinating eceen J tricitles. Indei d the ultra modern i hemline contributes Infinite grace and feminine charm to the pi dure nt all times, tl.rough a subtle treatment of draperies, tiers upon tiers, trailing panels and other clever fabric tleviees j which while they coin "al also beguilI ingly reveal pretty silken ankle' Creators of styles beautiful have ' discovered of late, that it tlien Is one i medium more than another which i yields with exquisite' grace to the new princess lines, that >;aw is lovely all | over patterned late It may be silk i or rayon lace in exotic or pastel colorings or it may be resplendent metal lace the motle shows no partiality. It Is a great inspiration to leading designers In thia country that many beautiful laces—laces which challenge those of foreign make In point of exquislte tiesign and workmanship—are

being manufactured right in our very own America. If you are wondering just how successfully American laces make up, the costume here pictured is offered as evidence. For the fashioning of this very lovely gown ot classic princess lines the designer chooses a rarely beautiful transparent American metal lace. The gracefully unevened hemline and the youthful capelet are style details which con tribute prestige to this patrician evening mode. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. (©. 1928. Western Newspaper Union ) JaJe for Jewelry Jade is popular material for expressing jewelry designs at the moment. Pendants or iavaHieres outside of jade are seldom seen. The carvings on the green stone are minute and beautiful and the jade jewelry is very expensive. Elbow Ruffle A dark green coat of fine, soft fabric has a little ruffle of ermine let into its sleeve at elbow height. The ermine collar has ruffled ends.

THE m R KITCHEN^ HcabinetEJ (©. 1928. Western Newspaper Union ! They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak. They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing and abuse Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think. They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. —James Russell Lowell. MORE SALADS A simple salad which is especially appetizing and easy to prepare is:

Lettuce, Peanuts With French Dressing.— Use tender green leaf lettuce ' as it contains more of I the vitamines than the blanched head lettuce Shred with the fingers enough lettuce for the family, sprinkle with freshly roasted peanuts which have been rolled and broken. Serve with

a French dressing, using three tablespoonfuls of oil to one of lemon juice or vinegar. Ginger Ale Salad.—Soak two table spoonfuls of granulated gelatin in one-half cupful of cold water for five minutes, then dissolve over hot wa ter. Add one-fourth cupful of ginger ale. Combine tbree-fourths of a cup ful of diced canned pineapple, threefourths cupfuls of chop|»ed grapefruit, one-fourth cupful of seeded malaga grapes, one-third cupful of shreddt'd almonds, a few grains of salt and paprika and three-fourths cupful of ginger ale. Add the gela tin mixture. sir thoroughly and l»our into individual molds which have been rinsed In cold water. Chill thoroughly, unmold and serve on lettuce leaves, garnished with mayonnaise. Salad Mousse. — Whip three cupfuls of cream ana combine lightly with one cupful of stiff mayonnaise. Dis solve one teaspoonful <>f granulated gelatin in two tablespoonfuls of boiling water and stir can fully: add this to tbe cream ami mayonnaise a little at a time, stirring well. Then fold > in one nnd one half cupfuls of mixed fruit, which may be pineapple, eherrles, oranges or other combinations l’a< k the mixture solidly In a well • hilled mold and <-over with greased paper, the greased side up. Adjust the cover nnd bury In Ice and salt, using one part suit to four parts Ice ! Allow to stand for four hours, un- , nmld on crisp lettuce nnd serve with mayonnaise nnd browned crackers Norwegian Salad. - Separate the whites and yolks of three hard cooked eggs. Chop the whites fine and s’ir 1 li- lit!v into one cupful of red shredded cabbage nnd one choppe 1 green pep- j p>-r. with one half cupful of diet’d cel-I ery. Add the mashed egg yolks to j one third of a cupful of French dress- i ing and pour over the cabbage mix-! ture. Arrange on a bed <>f lettuce and garnish with tnayonnai.se. Stuff stoned • bites with a small cream cheese which has been softened with cream and arrange the dates around the : salad ns n border. Tuna and Apple Salad.—Peel, core and dice four small apples. Sprinkle with the juice of one lemon. Add ' flaked tuna from h seven-ounce can, ; I add one and one half cupfuls of diced j celery, mix well with a fork, then , chill. \\ hen ready to serve, garnish with rings of green pepper. Serve with mayonnaise. A Chapter on Chowders. A chowder is such a good appetlz- I ing and nourishing dish that one may

have a large variety; j they take a large place a moll g the important ( and economical dishes. if one lives near the seashore where salt fish are plentiful, the chow | der is an almost daily food. nian d, where

fresh water tish may be had freely, it is not too well known. But even in places where neither are to he obtained we still have dried, smoked i and canned tish which make very : good chowders. Then, too. we have I i the vegetable chowders with none of ; these, as the following: Corn and Cele r y Chowder.— Dice one-fourth pound of salt pork and [Hit into a frying pan. When the fat begins to try out add two onions j chopped fine, cook until the onions ' are tender ami the pork is brown. Cut one head of celery into half-inch lengths and cook in just wafer enough to cover. Add the celery and water, one quart of milk, two cupfuls of diced cooked potatoes to the pork and onions. When boiling hot add one can of corn, reheat and serve with split crackers, buttered and browned. Clam Chowder.—Clean and pick over one quart of clams. Heat to the boiling point and chop. Strain the liquor. Cut one and one-half mel cube of salt pork into dice and fry out, add one sliced onion, two fable spoonfuls of chopped celery and one tablespoonful of chopped green pepper. Cook until a light brown. Par boil four cupfuls of cubed potatoes, then brown in the fat. Add the chopped clams and two cupfuls of boiling water and cook ten minutes. Add a quart of milk and eight milk ! crackers cut into half. Melt two tablespoonfuls of fat and stir in one tablespoonful of dour, cook and add to the chowder; add just before adding the clam broth, as it is apt to curdle the milk. Protecting its Seeds When a dandelion is going to change into a puff ball, it lowers its head to the ground and remains there, as it dead, until the little seeds are ready to tiy. Then it raises itself into an upright position again, so that the wind may carry them away. Gave Nickname to City The capital city ot Thuringia Wei nar. was called the Northern Arben.* luring the residence there of Schillei wd Goethe.

(^GAIN the bells ring out to The story angels told. ’ The blessed tidings of His birth, That never can grow old. world is thrilled and \ \ I \ \ \ i auncu, \\y\ \ \ / With gladness men rejoice, \ A \ \ \ \ y And happy thoughts and wishes \X\ \ \ \ true nW\ In every heart find voice. \ \ \ /?7 — T~* — — 7 i \ V \ 7V / \ With smiling face friend calls / /-/ / ! to friend 1 / / A greeting most sincere, i And friendship ties and ties \ t /♦• A / v of kin \ - / $1 Have grown more strong and dear. iI \ \ / Once more the joy of Christmas Ift \*\ ' ' fills -I \ \ \ The hearts and souls of men, \ \ \ I j Once more in Bethlehem’s,little \ \ \ L town \ \ > A Child is born again. I \ • \ (C). 1928, Western Newspaper Union) I \ \ cLOJiiyXkjZi

such T IPONDERFUL^ CHRISTMAS CuLILU / z 1 RUTHERFORD/ z MORRIS -- ... * n • A GNES LOWDEN looked from her l /® second-story bedroom w indow in VjEn the downtown district upon a i 7typical Christinas eve scene. 'Die street was aglow with lights. “How lovely I” she murmured, and I then added, "but what a mockery 1 So much happiness mingled with dire unhappiness. oh, God, help me not to ■ lose faith I” Turning to her bed she threw herself upon it face downward and burst into violent weeping. So this was the 1 disappointing close of the day for I which she liad so long waited —the day | Rob Roy was to come to claim her as his wife—his Christmas gift. Six months before Agnes had sei him

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away that both might learn through long ■ eparation if each meant to the other all that was needful to Insure their fuj ture happiness. And she had told I him to come; that nt last she knew her heart’s desire; that on Christmas eve she would wel- ' come him and go i with him to the I very end of the 1 earth.

In vain had she listened through the long hours of the day for a telephone call, a telegram, or his ring at the door of her boarding house. When Agnes awoke with the dawn of a clear Christmas morning she looked out upon a far different scene than that which the glowing lights of the night before had presented. But hark! There broke upon the nir clarion notes of cathedral chimes proclaiming to the world the birth of the Christ. The grand old hymn with Its martial strain brought to the mind of every listener the glorious words:

People Who Belong to the Christmas Season

i THERE are some people who seem to belong to the Christmas sea son by nature. They are: People whose hopes always bloom anew at tho approach of a New Year Mothers whose eyes still twinkle and laugh when they talk to their children, Fathers who like to surprise mothers with presents they really want. Brothers who appreciate sisters. Sisters who don’t try to economize on brothers' ties. Children who want to leave sugar for Santa’s reindeer. Houseowners who do not forget that the mailman is entitled to more than the bag of presents he carries for others. People who never think decorating Is any trouble. People who Just love the smell of Christmas greens. People who think there Is nothing lovelier than holly. People who think there la nothing

“Joy to the world, the Lord is come. Let earth receive her king.” Agnes stood with bowed head until file last note of the last stanza had died away, struggling hard to grasp the true spirit of the day, though her torn heart was unable to entirely cast aside the bitterness of the great disappointment she had suffered. A little later, from a near-by church the crowd of early worshipers came pouring out, and as she looked, came the thought: “All of those people are happy. With joy they can think of their Lord and King, their loved ones, little tokens of affection and appreciation to cause their hearts to swell with unbounded joy. But what have I? Only emptiness and hopelessness. Ah. Christmas hut mocks me with its revelry.” Determining to fly at once to some unknown address where Itoh would never find her, Agnes arrayed herself hurriedly for tiie street. At last she pulled her nobby, close-fitting little hat becomingly into place, drew on her gloves, and turned for her coat when the screech of colliding cars directly under her window called her back once more. “Oh, some one is hurt!” she almost screamed, and her nurse's instinct to offer first aid sent her rushing pellmell down the stairs and out into the street. Agnes forged ahead to the side of ■ the machine just as a taxi arrived to ■ receive the injured person. “Oh, Agnes, is it reallv vou?” “Kobi” Without a word of explanation to anyone the frightened but happy girl ; climbed into the taxi by the side of Koh, forgetful now of everything except getting him to the hospital as quickly’ as possible. ‘•Didn't quite make it on time, dear.” he said with his head on her shoulder, “but I was doing my level best. And to think tins should have hap- ■ pened right in front of your house.” t “And to think I was about to run away from you when that truck struck you. No, 1 didn't know it was you. but something just made me fly to tho scene and—” “You were watching.'Agnes?” “Yes, dear, I was watching, but had given up hope. I thought you didn't care; that 1 had called to you in vain. I was crushed.” “So none of my messages reached you. Too bad! I had to trust them to others. But now that we are together, dear, you will not leave me for a single moment, will you, until wo are man and wife? “Never! It is going to be such a womlerful Christmas aft: r all. Rob, and I had thought It so desolate. “Yes. dear, a womlerful Christmas!* (©, 1925. Western Newspaper Vnlon.)

more glowing than a real fireplace. People who love candle light People who are coy near mistleo-e People who like Christmas cards. People who like calendars People who like nuts and raisins. People who like turkey all the week People who like plum pudding all the week. These people seem to belong to the Christmas season by nature.—By Mary Graham Bonner. <©. 1928. Western Newspaper Union.) Boar’s Head and Peacock Yuletide celebration in England reached the height of magnificence in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries Great quantities of food were server at the banquets, where the buir’i head occupied the place of tmm>r, while the peacock whs vxf in im portance