Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, September 5, 1919, Page 5

LADY DAPHNE CLIFTON i merly Miss Daphne Rachel Multhol- land, who has been awarded a decree against her husband, Lord Clifton. Lord and Lady Clifton were married in 1912. They have two children. Lord Clifton is thirty-two years old and served during the war as a major in the royal artillery. TOO FEW USE THEIR BRAINS Result Truthfuliy May Be Said te Be the Greatest Waste in the World. The recent Invention which renders wireless transmission independenc of atmospher' conditions and the dis- covery by which seven messages can be sent simultaneously over a tele phone wire are striking instances of latent possibilities long unsuspecred For thousands of years we did not even suspect the existence of elec. tricity, and, being ignorant, derived no advantage from It. If we had never heard music, we would say it was merely the dream of a simpleton to expect the most beanti- ful harmony of sounds from a combi nation of wood, intestines of a dead cat and hairs from the tail of a horse But the violin, plus the man who knows how, accomplishes the wonder- ful result. Active talent Is the source of both quantity and quality of production, and that dves not lie fn capital but in men, and it usually is latent. Every man has power and courage, but not all of them know It. David had it, and knew it, and licked Goliath, Foch was not plucked from the “four hundred.” And Lincoln cabin, Not only once in a while, but very often, nature takes a_ particularly “raw” bit of material and shows up what is init. It is a suggestion for use to do likewise with ourselves. The greatest waste in the world is the unused brains. came from a log TAKING HIM DOWN A PEG Visiter’s Comment on the Intelligence of His Host Verged on the Caustic. Two old men, one a bachelor and the other a widower of many years’ standing, have lived on small adJoin- ing farms in the southern part of Wushington county for many years, Not long ago one of them inherited a small amount of money and he imme- diately put it to use by building a rew shack on his land. When the house was completed he asked his old friend and neighbor to come over to spend the night. After supper they sat by the fire and smoked and talked, and finally, when conver- sation began to lag, the visitor turned to his host and said: “ “You say this home Is all done and paid for?” “Yes,” was the short reply. “And you planned it all yourself and hired the carpenters and every- thing?” the guest insisted, “Why,-yes, of course, I did. What’s the matter with you?” “Oh, nuthin’ much,” yawned the vis- Itor. “Only if I was smart enough to buy a house and build it and then’d ast folks to come to see it, I'll be dum’d if I wouldn't know when it was time to say something about going to bed."—Indianapolis News. a Shark Salad Wins Favor. Shark meat !s delicate in flavor and texture, and sharks are plentiful in certain parts of Florida, but the fish- ermen do not catch them because they are not salable. The home demon- stration agent of Monroe county, Flor- ida, decided last winter on an effort to establish in favor this fish now un- der the ban. At her request a fisher- man caught one, but warned her that no one would eat it. Undismayed, she invited a large company of women to a home economies luncheon at which was served a fish salad. When all had tasted the salad she asked for a vote as to how many wanted the recipe. Without exception e women voted their hearty ap- roval, and thus proved to theyselves that their prejudice was without foundation, liked it and | }COULD READILY BELIEVE i¥ USE TIN TO WEIGHT SILK Stage Driver Quite Willing to Accept “Keeper's” Explanation as He Understood it, The New Englander uses the word “natural” to describe one who was unfurnished at birth with the usual and indispensable quantity of brains. Prof. Burt G. Wilder, the distinguish- ed zoologist, tells an amusing story that turns on a countryman’s mistak- ing the unfamiliar word “naturalist” for the familiar word “natural,” A few years after his arrivel in America, Agassiz was one of a small party of Harvard professors who traversed the White Mountain region in a carriage driven by the country- man. Three of them were vivactous, restless, and on the lookout for speci- mens, They would call a halt, leap from the vehicle before tt stopped, dash over the fields, and return with pri In their boxes, in thelr hands and pockets, and even pinned upon their hats. The fourth, Prof. Felton, the brother-in-law of Agassiz, sat quietly in his corner of the carriage reading a favorite Greek author. When the bewildered driver could stand it no longer be elicited from Felton information that led him to view the behavior of the others with compassionate toleration, At the close of the day he thus conveyed his in- terpretation to the innkeeper: “I drove the queerest lot you ever saw. They chattered like monkeys. They wouldn't keep still. They jump- ed the fences, tore about the fields, and came back with their hats cover ed with bugs. I asked their keeper what ailed them; he said they was naturals, and, judgin’ from the’ way they acted, I should say they was.”— Youths’ Companion, MUCH DIFFERENCE IN HUMOR Brand Highly Thought Of in One Coun- try Is Not Always Appreciated in Others, When Coleridge said, “No mind is thoreughly well organized that is de- ficient in the sense of humor,” he ex- pressed a conviction that seems com mon to all civilized men, and makes each nation take pride in its humor and perhaps suspect that other nations enjoy a somewhat inferior brand, Yet comparisons of humor shows, broadly speaking, that the peoples of the world are much alike. In the Tourist, pub- dshed in Tokyo, a Japanese author, for example, remarks that humor “is in deed the flower of life, and life with- out it would be as dreary as spring without its blossoms. To illustrate, he translates a-number of Japanese anec- dotes, “funny stories,” us the United States might call them, but one does not smile over them. Neither, on sec- ond thought, does one smile over many of the “funny stories” in American magazines and newspapers. Humor which really amuses is everywhere rare and precious, a “flower of life,” as the Japanese geutleman poetically puts it, but growing up in company with a great many weeds.—Christian Science Monitor. The Quaker Bonnet. I have heard that there ts a3 much technique in the making of the bonnet of the olden pattern for the Friends as there is in the Japanese art of drinking tea. In Ohio there is a sec- tion that wears the Quaker garb with the bonnet; there is another in Iowa that still keeps to the characteristic costume; in NewYorkin a settlement on both sides of Luke Cayuga are Friends who follow the simple, historle fash- fon; and in Fairhope, Ala., a single tax settlement very largely settled by Friends, are others, Much importance is attached to what is called the “ex- pression” of the bonnet. In the yery simplicity there 1s quite a8 much room for the manifestation of a particular taste as in the more elaborate miilin- ery of “the world’s people.” “yen to half a hair things must be right. ‘The finished product comes in for a close critical gerutiny at every possible an- gle. The true Friend abhors display and self-advertisement, and, therefore, she does not care to have it known when a fresh bonnet Is bought. That Is why ench must be the same as the one that preceded it—-Phirdelphia Public Lodger. Roaster Ate 486 Kernels. A storskeeper at Montgomery City has sprung a new one in the guessing game. ter letting him fast for a day, put him in his show windew with a large pan of corn, the kerne?s of which had been counted. He offered a prize to the persons guessing neafest the number of grains the rogzter would eat in 20 minutes. The rottter had a ravenous appetite aud for five thers wauld not be a single kernel left. But by the time the 20 minttes had elapsed fie had curled up in a corner. fle ¥ad rucceedel in putting away 486 grat A woman whose guess was 498 ot fe pr Karas City Times. Tembstone’s We'rd Stain. In the village chur¢hyard nt Her. | brandston, near Milford Haven, there is the grave of a young army officer (at one time statloned with Tis ‘regi- ment at South Hook Fort, close by) | who mef death from a wovnl by a knife while playing a practical Joke on a bro*her officer. The tombstone, a marble cress, has become slightly discolored. Cne of the discolorations hus taken the almost perfect representations of ® grasping a knife or dagger.—Cardiff Western Mai. : _ ee Fe took a big rooster and, af- | | great names and associations of Gene- hand | mother, in their courtship days, used ‘¢'|-made a counter attack on wondering minutes it looked as if | . Manufacturers Have to Employ Mate- | rial Which Would Seem Hardly __ Suitable for Human Apparel. We have adopted many foreign ideas of comfort or utflity, but no one has sought to Introduee the wooden shoe | from Holland. The .tin stocking is even less suggestive of luxury, and | yet many of us wear them. Of course | a person could not wear a sock of | “eighteen-carat” tin and be uncon- scious of it, but if the tin ts alloyed | and disguised with silk he can wear a considerable amount of it without suspecting it. In cutting round tops and bottoms out of tin sheets in the manufacture of tin cans there remains a certain amount of scrap. Men have sat up nights figuring the maximum number of such pieces of various sizes that ean be cut from a sheet of the tin, and still there Is the waste left over that cannot be worked into sheets | again, Tellef 1s found in the demand | of the manufacturer of silk, who needs some substance to welght his goods. A silk garment hangs and fits and holds its shape better if weighted. Everybody knows how soft and light are the unweighted pongee silks. So the manufacturers of tin cans and of silks co-operate. One disposes of his tin waste, and the other converts the metal into tin chloride and works ft Into the woven silk, Virtually all the waste of tin can factories is put to that use, Some silk stockings contain as much as 80 per cent of tin. The use {is entirely legitimate, since the | trade demands a silk that is firm and heavy for certain garments for which the purchaser desires a perfect fit. Silk waste, such as worn-out and cast-off garments, becomes in turn a | source of tin worth attention, Rag pickers give little heed to silk rem- nants, but carefully collect linen and wool. ‘The rag-pickers’ union, if there is such a body, might well take notice of this information, The tin chlor- ide in the silk 1s easily converted into tin oxide by burning the material, and from the oxide the metal can be re- solved.—Youth’s Companion. PARK A PLACE OF WONDERS Yellowstone Has Many Marvels Which Will for All Time Furnish Attraction for Tourists, In writing of the Yellowstone park, John Muir has sald: “In some of the spring basins the waters though still warm, are perfectly calm, and shine blandly in a sod of overleaning grass and flowers, as if they were thor- oughly cooked at last, and set aside tu settle and cool. Others are wildly boiling over as if running to waste, thousands of tons of the precious liquids being thrown tnto the air, to full in scalding floods on the clean coral floor of the establishment, keep- ing onlookers at a distance. Instead of holding limpid pale green or azure water, other pots and craters are filled with scalding mud, which ts tossed up from three to four feet to thirty feet, in sticky, rank-smelling isping, belching, thud- ding sounds, plastering the branches of neighboring trees; every flask, re- tort, hot spring and geyser has some- thing special in it, no two being the same in temperature, color, or com- position.” masses, With The Mangrove. The mangrove tree, specimens of which are in the Arnold Arboretum, the tree museum of Harvard univer: sity, has a very interesting method of sending its seeds or fruits into the world. Growing as it usually does in shallow water, it Is necessary for the young fruits actually to begin growing before they leave the parent plant. The fruit, which resembles a large in- | yertea berry, sends out large leaves at its upper end and a long root, some- times 18 Inches in length, from the lower end, while yet attached to the parent plant. Then as if by magic, the parent plant drops it into the mud Where the plant aready growing begins | to develop Into a larger plant and soon fs firmly established. If it were not prepared Immediately to begin to grow in the mud it would prebably be wash- ed a A single mangrove is oft- thoes able to start a smail tsland by Its manifold roots and arms, Some Nomenclature. | A Baltimorean recently received a letter from a Pennsylvania town tell- ing of the christening in that town of a baby in. whem patriotism trium- phantly, {f vicariously yelled when the name was announced as “Victury Un- cle Sam.” In this same family were two other children dowered with the names of “Italy” and “Liberty.” A friend to whom this story was told ears by telling of two unfortunate chil- dren in West Virginia, who, antedating | the war and its triumphs, were given | the names from adjacent localities of “MeAfee’s Knob” and “Jabel Doon.” And yet even omniscient Shukespeare | | | wanted to know what was in a bame, | Historic Geneva. | Any one at all familiar with the | ve will constantly trace them in | the streets—the Rue Calvin, the Rue | Neckar, the Rue Voltaire, the Rue | Farel, and, above all, the Rue Jean Jacques-Rousseau, where Rousse father lived; the Grand Rue, where | Rousseau himself was born, the house | yeing marked with a memorial tablet, and the Promkenade de la Treiele, where, as he relates, his father and | to walk up and down of an evening. ee a A Se anes Hussman Lumber Company “The Home Builders” The Chronicle SS TEES BOD Penny Wise and Pound Foolish THAT’S WHAT THE N AN WHO THINKS HE IS PUTTING MONEY IN HIS PURSE BY PUTTING OFF THE BUILDING OF GOOD SHEDS TO PROTECT H IDLE MACHINERY FROM THE ELEMENTS HOW IS IT WITH YOU SIR? 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