Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, October 14, 1921, Page 7

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The natives of Central Africa have a wonderful ay: n of signaling from village to vil- lage by drumbeat, he says. Generally the property of the chief, these official , forming a set a rule, of the species known as incision-drum. This long, narrow hollow cylinder, made from a tree trunk, with the ends By relay a message may travel a thousand miles in little more | than the velocity of sound. The drum telephone depends upon an elaborate code of sounds. European travelers often order their dinner and night's lodging at the next village by a drum message. The villagers use it as we use postal, telegraph and telephone service—and there are no charges. To a European the rhythm of a drum ex- presses nothing beyond a repetition of the same note at different intervals or time, but to a native it expresses much more. To him the drum can and does speak, the sounds produced from It forming words and the whole measure of rhythm a sense. Thus, at a dance | of “companies,” in one measure they abuse the men of another company then the rhythm changes and | the gallant deeds of their own com- All this, and much | pan mor are extolled. , is conveyed by the beating of drums, and the native ear, trained to detect and interpret each beat, is hever at fault. SOMETHING MORE THAN GAME Ingenious Pastime That Is Designed to Give Participants an Idea of Character Reading. Training tn character analysis is made possible by a game just put on the market, says a New York Times writer. In playing it two contesting sides are respectively called “char- acter readers” and studied, The character readers write upon a slip of paper those charac- teristics which vy think best fit the subject. The face pullders then pro ceed to construct @ likeness of the per- son from a number of cardboard pieces on which different types of features ure stamped, These sectional blocks provide a map of the face studied, the blocks representing the three chief facial types, designated as convex, concave and plane, with many tuter- mediate gradations, When the representation is com- pleted by putting the blocks together, a key number on each block gives a reference to a description of the char acteristics revealed by that particular kind of feature. Each characteristic named by the chara readers which agrees with the corresponding charac: stics found by the face builders one point for the character readers. Instead of studying a person present, a photograph may be used with equally good results. scores Keep Up Old Ceremony. A quaint Uttle ceremony which has been enacted on the second day of February for more than 200 years may be seen in the churchyard of Wotton, near Dorking, England. It arose out of the bequest of William Glanville, a member of the Inner temple, who left by his will a sum of 40s, for the boys of Wotton, Five of them were required to stand bareheaded on the morning of February 2, and success- fully recite from memory the Lord's, Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and the Apostles’ Creed, read I Coripthians, chapter 15, and write legibly from dic- | tation two verses from the same pas-| sage. Then the 40s, ts distributed to them. A boy may succeed only once. “face builders,” | some one pot taking purt in the game | being selected as the subject to be | PR See 489A AAR RHEE OE HOA $19,361,657 Allotted for Cur- rent Program of Relief and Service. MILLIONS FOR VETERAN AID Medical Aid for European Chil- dren Will Cost $6,000,- 000 This Year. Washington.—Expenditures totalling $10,361,657 for carrying through tts program of relief and services in the United States and overseas are out- fined In the budget of the American Red Cross for the current fiscal year. This total is more than $5,000,000 low- er than the expenditure during the | last fiscal year, when the disburse- “ments reached $24,492,741, it is an- nounced at National Headquarters in a statement calling attention to the organization by response to the An- if the vital work of the society is to be effectively carried on. Outstanding among the items of the domestic budget is the appropriation of $3,669,256 for work in behalf of the disabled ex-service man and his family. This appropriation represents the amount alloted to this work from | National Headquarters only and does | hot take into consideration the mil Hons being spent in chapters for re lief of the World War veteran. It is in the chapter that the greater amount is spent in meeting this obli gation of the Red Cross, the announce necessity of continued support of the | nual Roll Call, November 11 to 24, | | faithful ment continues, as manifested by ftig- ures of the fiscal year 1920-1921 when | the total was approximately $9,000, 000, of which $2,692,094 represented the disbursement of National Head- quarters while the remainder was the | chapters’ contribution to this field o! Red Cross service. Vast Work for Disabled Chief among the sub-divisions of the appropriation for work with vet- erans is that which concerns Itself with assistance to disabled men and | women in government hospitals, This | item of $1,700,000, an Increase of more than $500,000 over the appropriation for the same work in last year’s bud- get, will provide those personal serv- ices for the disabled and their families which are indispensable to supplement those provided by the government. The director of the Veterans’ Bureau has recently expressed his desire that | the Red Cross should continue and | extend these “humanizing services.” Other items of the appropriation for | creased. An additional appropriation | of $460,600 has been made for Red | Cross work in connection with regu | lar Army and Navy hospitals and with the regular Army and Navy. | For disaster relief, the Red Cross | | has set aside for the current twelve | months an appropriation of $5 | virtually doubling the appropriation | for the samme purpose for the fiscal year 1920-1921. | More than $2,000,000 is provided for | service and assistance to the 3,600 Red Cross chapters by the national organization. | Helping Destitute Children | Other items of the domestic budget | include $498,546 for miscellaneous ae tivities, including contributios re stricted for special purposes und $763, 600 for management. h of these items represents large reductions over similar appropriations of the previous year. From a fund of $10,000,000, 000 of which was contributed thr the European Relief Council cam and $5,000,000 allotted by the Cross for child) welfare work Europe, there remains $8,765,108 stil! available, of which it Is estimated that $6,000,000 will be required for this work during the current year For Red Cross participation in the joint effort to famine condi tions in Russia, for final work in the China famine, for Junior Red Cross and other overseas activities including the closing of the old eral relief program in Europe $4,978,000 Is made available. In announcing the national budget, the Red Cross makes it clear that the figures do not include chapter ex penditures or place any cash estimate on the Invaluable service of volup teers in chapters. relleve CARRYING ON SERVICE FOR DISABLED VETERA? OF THE WORLD WAR THAT IS COSTING $10,000,000 A YEAR, THE AMERICAN RED CROSS IS HELPING FULFILL THIS NATION’S OBLIGATION TO ITS DEFENDERS. HELP THE RED CROSS CONTINUE THIS WORK BY ANSWERING THE ANNUAL ROLL CALL NOVEMBER 11-24, 1921. | hereafter to Hve by myself. jand—" Richard (@, 1921, Western Newspaper Union.) Kichard’s little buat went drifting down stream; the water lay like a sil- very lane with budding trees on either side. Richard had never traveled the silvery lane early in the springtime. ‘The cottage nestling farther on its | banks would be barred and forbidding, Lut of this Richard was glad. He had no desire, in his present mood of dis- appointment and disillusion, for human companionship, Rather, like a grieved hermit the map felt, in bis wish for solitude and meditation, The twin cottages faced him as he rounded the bend “Mother,” that word around which centered all boyish hope and admira- tlon. It was for sake of mother, early widowed, that Richard intended to be ull those wonderful things which she had dreamed for him; for her, that | be studied and tolled and reached at last his measure of success, And how that mother was made comfort- able through his efforts, he planned eagerly to reach out for even big- ger things that she might be more proud, and glad. And mother had failed him, Never, in all the storles that he read, had such an unheard of thing happened. Usually, it was the un- grateful son who eloped with a maiden of his choice, forsaking fillal devotion. For a mother, his own comforting mother, to have deserted her son's protection for that of a strange wife-hunting man—this was the inexplicable stunning fact which brought his disappointment, She had written bim from their apartment in the city of this new up- | believable step sbe had taken, while Richard was in New York on business, Hastily returning, he found his mother still away upon her wedding journey, and dazed and troubled, he ‘had made his way out to the lake shore cottage, where he and his moth- er had spent so many bappy hours to- ether, There were no roses in evidence now, but Illac bushes sent their fra- grance across his tired face, and in | spite of his sadness the spring sweet- hess revived in some way his sinking spirit. He would be quite alone on the beach, he reflected, turning the key in the lock, but Richard was mis- taken, Immediately from an upper window of the twin house next door, came a shower of dust sent from a swaying mop, while a girl grasping the mop handle stared down at him bel- ligerently. She was far too pretty a gir) to frown, and to all reason, It seemed that Richard's should be the indignation. He flicked the dust from his uncovered head as she shot @ | defiant question, veterans’ relief are proportionately in- | “What,” asked this angry, unusual young person, “are you doing here? If you have been sent out In order to persuade me to go back, you can tell them both, it's of no use. I intend 1 came out to the cottage merely to gain time was alarmed to see the girl suddenly burst into tears, “be- cause there was no place else for me to go,” e ended miserably. With- out reply he hastily entered the silent cottage and made his way up the stairs, From the window of his home he | would be better able to face the girl | in the twin house. When he was close enough to reach over and touch her hand she raised a tear-stained face “It was at that very window,” she accused, “that your mother began her match-making slege on Dad, Dad never jntended to marry again, I know he didn't, That is why he had me study domestic science so I could go on keeping house for him. And just when I was doing beautifully, and we were so happy—oh!—" the blue eyes flashed hatefully—“I hate your moth- er,” finished the girl, Richard drew a long breath, the sit- uation grew more confusing, “WII! you tell me,” he asked quietly, “Just who you are-and how you happen to speak of the Gray's cottage as your own? Old Mr. and Mrs. Gray have upled the place next door, from the r it was built.” “Mrs. Gray,” the girl explained, “Is my aunt. Father and I spent the remainder of last summer with her here, after you had gone to New York. Oh, we heard enough about you at the time from your mother, and I did think she was the sweetest thing, un- til she and Dad got to strolling off to- gether,” the girl ended abruptly. “Did Dad come back to our apart- ment and find me missing, and send you out after me?” she demanded. Richard looked down to the Milac scented porch below. “We could talk things over better down there,” he suggested. It was at sundown, that Richard's oe | little boat went slowly on up stream. And now, behold, the silvery lane was changed to gold, and a pretty girl sat at the helm. “I think,” sweetly, said the girl | “that your plan is the nicest plan ever head, and I am sure Auntie Gray | may be coaxed out to the cottage to spend a spring month, We will fish and row, you and |, and when those blessed old deserters return, they will find us not so inconsolable after all.” Richard smiled in vast satisfaction. “Quite the reverse in fact,” be em- phatically added, avd the girl an- swered his smile, SSE ee ee