Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 27, 1922, Page 10

| | -~ iEGION'S GENUINE ‘CAYE MAN Parlee: :Gross, Buckege Soldier, Spe- ~cializes on Underground Explora.” ' tion—Says “It's the Life.” Rem@rkably few newly married cou ples ever think of samlng down in a little cave in the Ozark mountains, And 'yet Parlee C. Gross of Mc- Comb, O., says that caves ‘are much warmer than apartments and farmhouses. They ure also much cheaper. When ‘Gross, who is a maga- gine writer con- neected . with the the’ celebrated Ha Ha Tonka reglon ln the Ozarks, he didn't nnderstand Why his Awerlcan Legion post hadn't plcked out a nice ripe cave for its quarters, He sald cave life was the »nly life. *He has become not only a cave admirer, but a cave connofssenr #8 well, and In appreciation of his ex- ploration iichievements, ofticlals have | hamed an interesting- geological for- | “niation which he discovered “Gross's 'Giant Gnome.” The American Legion at McComb Is )rhuv) of ilg genuine “cave man”—par- tlcularly proud of the fact that he has been selected as one of the members of o purty to penetrate the ‘unknown regious of Wyandotte Cave of Irdi- ana and the Great Onyx Cave of Ken- lm'l(y DENVER LEGIOI BOOSTS HER nuuful Actress, thé Centennial State’s Mountains. ' ss Edith Adams, Mewbers of the American’ Legion in Denver testify that all the ex-soldler Aslent this side of the Rockles does; not -compare with a good - looking gir), when 1t conies to putting on-a show. They ‘ure gradually coning - to this concluaion—being some few years iind Broadway minagers, who - djscovered the se- | crét several sum- ‘sers ago by reading old’ Egym.lnn isd Syrian manuscripts. ieglonnaires in Denver didn't breathe 11§ of this'to Miss Edith Adams when asked kér to join'their show, be- ehube, after all, they don't like to ad- nitt” it except® In plenary session, with newspaper men excluded. But the ru- mor is t.hat Miss Adams knew it any- “qhe particular thing about Miss Adams which her Legion friends are | preud of is that she doesn’t “flap.” ‘The foibles of the eastern debutante “fall to Intérest them (or their audi- feti¢e) when they ¢an find an amgteur ress “as.genuine as-their own Col- .grado mountafns.” 7" To ONE IN FLANDERS As on that day, among the red leaves blow! ‘We lay and Wltched the wlld lllwk. . windward throng, "You looked ‘at me-and, like thin Wl(.r flowing, “Time and creed went past; And old earth sang to us her old 'fld 0ong. . AB/on that day—alone, 'mid dead leaves *“blowing, I stand and watch the dark ships sea- ward glide, And wonder if the Flemish autumn’s strowing Red, low-singing leaves Where, 1ike" stopped water, your wild splendor died. Do you vegret, in flelds of ghost-flowers blowing, The sterner love that cleaved our pas- sion here? Or'do you dream my tears are dewdrops glowing Round your unmarked sleep? And do you avake, and weep—I wonder, Dear? ~Constance Lindsay Skinner, {fn the North American Review. NOT FOR PUBLICV PERUSAL Now Yérk Girl. Who Kopt a Dllry " ' Found Méans to Mide Home- Lo I Ruth was npprom:hht her nineteénth year and she conaldered hLerself old elough' to remain at social affples as luhg as she: pleased. Her tolerant tnother contended that a girl her age should ‘be home at 11:30. + Ruth’ Kept a diary.. When she came home one dight after .mother had.gone to bed mother took the liberty of read- ing” her -daughter's diary. =To bed at 12:15 a. m,” she said, the !New York Sun’says. When Rath réturned from the ofiice thlt eveniug mother gnd deughter had w quarrel. It was not long afterward ~Gomings an iMamma, that Rith" again came home from a are-priceless, try to enrich other nations. repair-docks. destroyed. capital. HELD SECRET OF HAPPINESS — John chley’c Nearly Nlnny Years Passed With Remarkably Few Periods of Depression. There was John Wesley. His “Jour- nal,” with its record of indefatigable lubor, Is one of the- cheeriest books in the labguage. What a rare good time he had! When he was eighty-seven he could say, “I do not remember to have felt lowness of spirits for a quarter of an hour since I was born.” . For foore than sixty years this indefatig- able- plensure-secker had been dolng as he pleased. Up every day in time to preach at five o'cloek in the morn- ing; then over the hills or through the pleasant lanes to premch again at the time lazy citizens were ready for breakfast ; off again, on horsehack, or by chaise or in a lumbering stage coach, .for more predching. . . . Now and then facidg a mob, or being wet through in a thunder storm, or stop- ping to get information in regard to some old ruin. Between sermons he refreshied his mind with all sorts apd conditions of hooks. On the pleasant road to Chatham he reads Tasso's “Jerusalem Delivered.” On the road to. Aberdeen he loses himself delight- edly in the misty sublimities of Os- slan, “Orlando Furioso” is good Satur- day reading, The eager octogenarian confesses that “Astolpho's ‘shield and horn and voyage to the moon, the lance that unhorses eyeryone, the all- penetrating sword, and I know: not how, many impenetrable helmets and shields” are rather too much for his sober English imagination, .8till, they afford an agregable jnterlude in his missionary journeys. — Samuel Me- Chord Crothers; in “Among Friends.” YOUTH NOT GOLDEN SEASON: Modern Writer Takes lssue With Oth- ers Who Have Dubbed It the it Period of Life. Following is from “The Way of All Flesh,” by Samuel Butler—not the Se\ennemh centery poet, but the Nineteenth century novelist: “To me it seems that youth is like spring, an overpraised season—delight- fal if-it happen to be a favored one, but in practice very rarely favored and more remarkable, as & general rule, for biting east winds than geni- al breezes, Autumn is the mellower xenson, and what we lose in flowers we-ihore than gain in-fruits, Fontell€, at the age of ninety, being asked what wag the happiest time of his life, said he did not know that he had ever been much happier than he then was, but that perhaps his best years had been thoge when he was beétween fifty-five and seventy-five, and Dr. Johnson placed the pleasures of old age far higher than those of youth. Truye, in old age we live under the shatdow of death, which, like & sword of Damocles, mdy descend at any moment, but we,, have so long found life to be an' affair 0t being rather frightened than hurt, that we have become like the people who live under Vesuvius, it without much misgiving.” Fireworks in History. The business of making fireworks and the business of setting off elabo- rate displays are sometimes called “the art of pyrotechny,” the word “py- rotechny” being compounded of two Greek words meaning “fire art.” There 3 un extensive literature on. the. sub- Ject. o Refererices may be found i the writings of Manilius and Vespicus to the fact that-fireworks were get off in connection with the circus in anclent Rome, and Claudlanus, who wrote in the Fourth century, mentions /‘whirl: ing wheels and_fountains. of fire connextion, ¥ ehratio! “1 / the Bullqers of Trade™ -By E. £, PLUMMER, U. 8. Shipping Board Commissioner. and chance | 30U3d Vessela are the messengers, the servants and the builders of trade. ' They are almost as.essential to the proper developmont of markets for Amefican goods in foreign lands as is the presence of the goods themselves. Ships as an adjunct of trade with co\mtnee beyond seas Congress, by passmg the Jones law, came to the understanding how war developments had made the services of Amorican vessels in the foreign trade of this country absolutely essential to our continued prosper- ity. An adequate fleet of American ships would in its mere opetation create a new and well-paid industry which would give di- thlck skin piotects the flavor, and ex- rect employment to tens of thousands-of men and pay to our own people | cept for the stone, the entire fruit is the millions upon millions of dollars which.otherwise go oyt of this coun- But the dominating fact-which brings home a réalization of the truth: that our ships must remain on the sea is the fact that the people of this country have.so increased their production that they have vast surpluses which must find markets in foreign lands or millions of people in this country will ‘have their opportumhes ta produce and earn crippled or Tt is the unsold surplus that closes the factory door, that cuts off the weekly pay check, that sends men into the streets hunting for work. Yet those. direct benefits coming from American ships constitute but one feature of this national problem. factured goods, fruits, sent abroad, not only brings to our own people its equivalent in money or value, but it also furnishes an opportunity for our people to produce another cargo to replace that which has been sent abroad, and thus it gives additional employment both to home labor and home Every cargo of coal, grain, manu- e fain fe;fi\ Alss TS and which should fot be confounded with mere bonfires, were set off as spectacles and ceremonies during the reign of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Elizabeth and other English monarchs. In those early English days dragons spouting fire were a popular form of fireworks. In a book written on tlie subject in-1648 there js a reference to “trees amd fountains of fire sent high' up into the air.” Barley Basis of Weight. Duripg the reign of Henry VII standards of length and weight were eatablished with actual grains of wheat -and ‘barley as a basis. Three barley corns were aninch, snd from that-was bullt up our table of inches, feet, ells (yards), perch and cre. One restriction was that the barley corn must be dry and taken from the middle of the car and laid end to end. Under thls same system 30 grains of wheat mude a pennyweight, and from that as a basis they worked out the Troy poynd in which 12 ounces still make a pound. Originally the sizes of shoes were based upon grains of barley, and it is said that these are the same today as in the early days. There were 18 gnm of barley to each size, “Furiong” is.an old Exiglish word fice meaning “furrow long” and Is based -Gpon the length ‘a farrow would be in u square ten-scre field. Starboard and Port. The anclent rule of the road was to keep to the right and drive from | the left, because the. first animals driven in civilized countries were cat- tle and the driver, walking beside his oxen, plied his gad with-the right hand. Italian sailors made starboard the right side of a ship in their earliest voyages, The term was evolved by the British from “esta borde,” mean- ing this slde, while larboard came from the helmsman, first probably with gestures of the hand accompanying the call, In heavy weather, and under other adverse conditions, the two terms be- came. confounded frequently in speech. Larboard was dropped and in its place port was employed, for port mesant port wine, which s red, and red is the color of the light on that side of the ship. Mystery Explained. In Lake Manitoba there is a little island from which issues a mysterious sound. The Indians supposed this is- land to be the home of Manitoba, the speaking god, and from this is derived the nane of the lake and the province. “The real cause of the sound is the beating of the waves upon the huge pebbles lining the shore. On the north- ern coast of the island is a long low lift, composed of fine-grained lime- stone, which, beneath the stroke of-a lhamimer, rings like steel. The waves breaking at the foot of the eliff cause the falling ‘limestone fragments to claxh one against the other, and tha thus produced resembles the chiming of distant bells, ‘THE UNCERTAIN RACES “When | go to the races | get the lady I'm with to shut her eyes and her hatpin through a name on the programme. Then | play tha Naflvn of .India Have. Good. Reason to Think Righly of That Realty Wonderful Tree. ! —— Mango trees line the roads on-the hot Indian plains - which stretch out level “like the palm of a hand,” as far as the eye can see, These trees, abont 40 feet in :height, clothed. in thick, lieavy' foliage, hot only afford & welcome cool shade in the hottest day; but a varlety of frult which is sald to have no rival in sweetness, flavor, deliciousness aind food value. Under these trees the village school 15 kept“fn the forenoon,’ apd ‘the vil- lage children:learn to love them from their chilghood. Nature Js very prolific in the tropics, for one mango tree may yield almost half a ton of fruit_in one season. The mango is a fruit varying in size from a small pear to a large coconut. The used in muany ways It is eaten raw, or rather sucked, cut in slices, made in- ‘A great fleet of ocean-going vessels would to jam, pickles and mango cakes, and give direct employment to tens of thouszands-of men in our shipyards and | is used as a flavor for bothsour and sweet foods. _~ Mango ice,cream I8 & very delicious food,. but, perhaps,’ of all the tree's products, ‘mango chutney is the most famots, Mango 13 also used'as a medi- which it cures almost Instantly, The | poor Judian peasant'loves, this tree o almost adoration because of its won- dertul qualities. BEGIN “GOING” ANDiKEEP oN kife's Prizes Belong to Those Who Get a Good Start and Refuse to Be Sidetracked.- It isn’t a good thing to:see every- motto and keep on going. - A few extra criticisms will only‘smart you up a lit- tle and supply the grit that keeps folke' going, A And hearing everything won't help you to advance, eitlier. Suppose folks do complain. Remember, they wouldn't feel hnppy if they didnit have some- You're too busy to do anyflflng b\lt to keep on going. 1f you're ever going tolead, you must start going fow: Every fellow -is go-.| Ing to wear the blue ribbon ene of these days. To excel, you must begin as a youth to make good. Old-age prodigies are scarcer than hen’s teeth. The habit ef success will spare you many & beart-ache. Thoughts of fail- ure are the best means of insuring it. Vision that sees only life’s promise, and will ‘that thinks only in terms of victory,. rises from what threatens de- feat able to cope with any circum- stance. It keeps on going.—Grit, Elephants on Rampage. Stqries of how an elephant occasion ally upsets a circus are not uncom- mon, but one Tarely hears of an orgy of “destruction like that which oc- station, pulling down the stationmas- ter’s kitchen and bathroom. They did the same to the clerk’s quarters and then tackiéd the station while the of- ce force looked.on from trees. -One elephant took off’ an automatic weigh- log machine as & souvenlr of the raid, ‘but finding 1t heavy, threw it down on the track, One of trumpeted the recall aud they all went back into the jungle excepe one who fell in a well and had to be got out by human aid, By the time help arrived after a gen- eral telegrapbic alirm the huge beasts bad entirely disappeared. \ * Fireworks Development. Few industries have shown more development within a century than that of making fireworks. The fire- works makers have not only made {m- portant contributions to the art them- selves, but hdve taken advantage of many discovérfey and Tefinements made by others in chemistry and me- ¢hanics, produced by mineral salts, copper be- ing made to produce green and blues hafl,\lm' green; sodium, yellow cal- cium, red, \and stronttum, . crimson. These salts are arranged in combina- tion with meal gunpowder and the recipes for star compositions, rockets, squibs, roman candles and the like [are almost without number. | Amdong the “set pieces” are portralts,‘lettued designs, “fixed suns,” fountains, palm trees, mosaic work and ships. First Mothed of Advertising” =In Old-Testament times, when the countries bordering oo the Nile, the Euplrates and Tigris rivers were the center of trade, the Carthaginians twed to 84N alogg the Mediterratean with-a boatload of théir manufactures Which they would unload on thie coast near the'goods, returned to their ships. ‘The inhabitants, knowing by “the bon- fire that the Carthiaginians had some- thing to sell, would come out of their plle up gold near the merchandise and retive duto the city. “The Carthagi- niaus would land agaln, examine the gold, and if in their judgment it was equal in value-to the goods they left, they would take it and sail away. \Tuig' bonfire custom is the frst ) imethod of advertising ‘of which kis- tory, tells. \, ~ Werth Trying, Anyway. who see them, but actually help those who smilei them to aecomplish “more. "’-"r*'x 'rouble s, sven that system isn't fallible. : Try it. \ | - I g&&“&m it € cine, and s a specific for sunstroke, |11 thing. ' Make “thiis one thing I do” your | thing to Wwhine about. Let them whine. || curred in the Malay peninsula. A herd |- of wild elephants attacked a railway | the elephants |- 3 but was not- detained. |’ The colors given to fifeworks are i of Lybis; and having Ughted a bosfire |. ety to inspect it. Then they would | " Cheertul- smiles not only hup‘ those . e shower Saturday helfin The music a¢ t night was furnished by John ip|and orchestu Bob Higgenbotham called .on Vierne:MacRae: at the J. A. Laneville home Tuesday. Miss Rosella Rasmpssen and Wal- lace Whelan spent Tuesday evehing as guests of Mr. and Mrs. _Laneville, Mis Mina Stodt, who has ~been quite ill, has. fully recovered. Miss Mina Stou-,, who has been ner were guesty' of Mr. and Mrs, Higgenbotham .Friday afternoon. They returned home with thirteen skunks. ‘Alfred ‘Allindslee ‘was quite with a _bad cold last ‘week, but has iully recovered, Verna Mac Rae is spending a iew days of freedom at the R. G. Bi- ladeau home. - Mrs, J. B. nggenhothnm is quité 111 with pneumonia. Her friends wish hew a speedy recovery. ‘Mr. and Mrs, J. A, Laneville are leaving - for Bemidji Wednesd, morning to do their spring shopping. \Polar Pie Mndo From Langdon’s Sanitary Ice Cream POLAR PIE . " '* The Popular Ice Cream Bar. _ASK FOR IT- LANGDON MANUFACTURING €O. ISLAND LAKE (Omitted Last Week). . Mrs, J, A. Laneville was sent to Beniidji: Saturday, ‘as a ‘delegate to the Kepubliéan convention. She re- turned Monday evening. She reports a very mtelestmg convention: The shower gwen Saturday even- ik at the J. A. Laneville home for Mrs. Whelan wus well attended. Dancing in Whelan’s new home on Pleasgnt -and Lake Boulevard, was the diversion of the evening. - All report a very good/time. Paul Winebreaner left for Bemidji Saturday via Ked Lake .Special Harvey Rustvold visited Miss Oliv- ia Roy at the Stout home over the week-end. He returned. home Mon-~ day afternoon via Island Lake stuge Mr. Walker . called at the J. Laneville home Sunday morning-. Miss . Rosella Ragmussen, who for- mely stayed at the ‘Belaveau home is now staying at the A. G. Biltaicsu home on Pieasani and Lake Boul- evard. Walhce Whelan _was a business caller in Pupgsky Tuesday. Anderson_called ,on Mr- and Mrs, J A Laneville Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrsy Paul Englund were the guests of Mr. and. Mrs. Dan Oberg Tuesday evening. Miss Olivia Roy spent Thursday and Friday at the Tom Anderson home. - .Mrs.. Andersen has been ill but, all her. friends will be glad to’ know that 8he is convalescing rap- Mx‘ .and -Mrs.. A.' G. Billegdeau “DEMANDCERTAIN and J-- A. Laneville: spent Sunday ESSENTIALS e;renmg at d:;he F. W. - Stout -home b ey pl nymg car: < ing_your Willie Wheldn. and Clarence Al- tion filed Make sure that your physician’s written in- landslee were skunk hunting Sunday structions:are carried out to = the letter, _that all .drugs used are | pure, and strong. - r prescription ‘.‘VVE SELL THE FAMOUS service is second to nqne " STAR BRAND ALL LEATHER SHOES —for every member of the family, at reasonable prices. ‘Look:-at ._oz‘ STAR BRAND signs in our show windows. BEMIDJI1..SHOE .STORE 315 Minnesota Ave. Qity Drug Store LAI.IB!RT! & ERIGKSON Phone 82 i ACK near the begifining of things, our prehistoric forebears would have perished from the earth if they had. not understood the science of readmg adver- 1smg 4 ¥ . # o Thé cavemen didn’t know much about undéerwear, hair tonic or phonographs, but they did have to eat. The one who could follow the tracks of the gamehe hlmfed or read the meaning of a tmsted leaf or broken thg', was best off in life. & 2 Then as now; the most consistent réader of advertising was best dressed, best fed and most contented. There has been something of an evolution in advertis- ing in the last few thousands of years, but the principle is just the same.: The conm{'tent reader of the advertisements is invari- ably best mformed on what to eat and where to get it; what to wear and how much to pay for it; what to do and how to do it. He’s up on the most important: things in life. Consequently he gets most from life. Throughout the ages, advertising has done much to | make life livable and pleasant. We owe-it much,