Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, January 12, 1923, Page 2

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But if the stranger is tired, he {ts “out of luck,” because hospitality in Congoland is expressed In a strange fashion, To give their guests a real welcome the host and hostess gather all of thelr neighbors and friends around their home and plan for the evening’s entertainment. They dance for him, and are 80 anxious to give him a pleasant visit that they keep the dance up all night. He Is expected to appreciate It and, naturally, should not show any signs of fatigue, After a sleepless night he is sum prised to find his hostess out in the fields, bright and early, with her cigar in her mouth—because In Congo- land only the women smoke; the men prefer to take snuff. They consider smoking effeminate, The women not only do all the heavy work in the fields, but sell the produce as well. The men take over the domestic duties. It is no strange sight to see the man of the house en- gaged in doing the family washing, and then hanging the clothes out to dry on the branches of the trees around his home. After he has his “Monday's work” out of the way he takes his sewing basket and sits down in the shade and does the family mending, and does it well, MALE BIRDS MOST GORGEOUS Females Less Showy Because Nature Knew They Had the Greater Need for Protection. Speaking of classes of birds, includ- ing, for instance, the bulifinch, in which the plumage of the male is more brilliant than that of the female. B. Kay Robinson, president of the Brit- ish Empire Naturalists’ association, Says that in nature it is always the male who has more decoration and a louder voice. This is because the male is of comprratively little value, says Mr. Robinson, It does not matter a great deal whether the miale is discov- ered and killed or not, because there is always another bird to take his place at the head of the family. The Yemale and the young are more impor- ~ tant. The reason why the breast of a bird ig-the place where nature always eems to put colar ig that when a male bird takes 18 Turn on The nest crouch- ing over the eggs Its breast cannot be seen. Young brown owls and other birds of prey, Mr. Robinson explains, are always covered with gray fluff, When the mother bird brings home some animal, usually bleeding, and tears it to pleces, giving each little bird a joint of raw flesh} they make themselves In a great mess. The sult of fluff, according to Mr. Robinson, is really an overall to protect the grow- ing feathers underneath, As soon as . the young bird leaves the nest the fluff, which has gradually become loose, is shaken off. Windmills Tell News In Holland. Births, marriages and deaths in cer- tain parts of Holland are announced by windmills. When a miller gets married he stops his mill with the arms of the wheel in a slanting position, and with the sails unfurled. His. friends and guests frequently do likewise with their mills in token of the ceremony. To indicate a birth the wheel is stopped in a slanting position, but at a more acute angle than that of a marriage, and with the two upper sails unfurled. Should a miller die, the sails of the mill are all unfurled and the wheel is turned round until the arms form an upright cross, in which position they are left until after the funeral takes place. Not Boosting, but— The San Francisco man was speak- ing. “I do not believe in all this ‘boost’ business,” he said. “There Is too much brag about it. Especially I do not believe in running down other cities, other parts of the country. It is making claims to excellence that do not need to be made, and failure to recognize which is the country’s loss, not ours. We should not do it. It is not modest and is likely to arouse jealousy. But I will say this much for San Francisco: Wherever you go from here it is worse.” Sl: Objected to Skunks. A school superintendent received the following note from the mother of ene of his pupils: “In regard to Elliot missing So Much school the first month he was Ill & the Dr. told me not to send him till he got stronger & his Eyes did not Hurt him so Much then he was trap- ping & going to School & the Teacher Sent him Home because he She sald Smeld of Skunk She said he would Have to quit School or quit Trapping.” ~-Everybody’'s, « E, Late Periodical, ryt “You're next.” ‘ “I'm in no hurry, doctor. I'll wait. ‘This ig a corking story I'm reading in one or your magazines.” “Who's the author?” “A chup named Mark Twain. He peas turning out some good stuff twenty years ago.’—Birmingham Age Herald, Liquefying Carbon. Carbon may be melted and main- tained in a liquid condition, according to the experiments of a French inves- tigator. The heating was effected un- der great pressure in the electric fur- nace, and a curious phenomenon was noticed at 1,500 atmospheres, namely, that after a brief failure of the are, the current refused to pass even when the power was much increased. It is supposed that as the carbon passed into a liquid and transparent state, It assumed a rare allotropic form, be coming a nonconductor. The test was too brief for a study of this condition, but was made to Include a sudden cool. ing of the molten carbon by a flooding with water of the interior of the pres sure vessel. The minute diamonds were recognized in the gray powder thus obtained, the result being, how- ever, not wholly satisfactory. FEMININE FACTS, FANCIES The average walking pace of a healthy woman is 75 steps a minute. Girls born on Monday, accoruing to an old belief, are beautiful but jealous. Women first appeared on the stage in the latter half of the Seventeenth century, The hat worn by woman in 4,000 B. ©, Is stated to be very similar to models worn today, American women have the best fig- ures in the world. This is because they are the most active. Jumpers made of woven wool and laced up the front were worn by women many centuries ago. The longevity of woman has in- creased In the last two decades and they now Live longer than men. Women’s ankles are growing larger, say observers. Golf, tennis and other Sports are held responsible. Statistics show that the majority of divorces are sought by women be- tween the ages of twenty and twenty- five. A dry goods expert says that the number of women who take 40-inch bust size or over Is about a third of the whole female population. BOTH GETTING EDUCATED “The old man is giving Bill a lib- eral education.” “Yes, and Bill is certainly giving the old man an education In liberal- ity.” “Little boy, don’t you know It’s wrong to go fishing on Sunday?” “L ain’t goin’ fishin’. home.” I'm coming WIN ONE LOSE ONE AT NEZPERCE, Cottonwood Girls Win From Nezperce Girls—Boys Lost Game. The Cottonwood high school basket ball teams broke even at Nezperce, Saturday evening. The Nezperce boys’ team defeated them in a hotly contested game, the score being 23 to 17. The local girls, however, managed to defeat the Nezperce girls by the seore 18 to 9. The feature of the girls’ team was the playing of Rose Terhaar who made the entire 13 points for Cottonwood. The lineup of the boys’ game was: Cottonwood—Forwards, Hom- ar and Schinnick; center, Nims; guards, Tacke and Rink. Substi- tutes, Frank for Tacke. Nezperce — Forwards, Cook and Ellis; center, Mockler; guards, Fahley and Cargill. Sub- stitutes, Jameson for Fairley. Seoring—Schinnick, 6; Nims, 11; Cook, 8; Ellis, 6; Mockler, 9. Referee, Bob Wright, Nez- perce. Lineup of girls’ game. Cottonwood—Forwards, Agnes Terhaar, Rose Terhaar; center, Lenore Nims; Barbara Terhaar and Tillie Schroeder. Nezperce—-Forwards, Thelma Daffenett and Georgia Rowe; center, Wilma Sherer; guards, Hazel Stellman and Vera Rowe. Scoring—Rose Terhaar, 18; Georgia. Rowe, 5; Wilma Sherer, 4 Referee, Harold Stapleton. After the games the Cotton- wood players were entertained most royally by the Nezperce high school students who gave in| their honor a fine banquet in the domestic science room. After 2d banquet dancing was enjoy- ed. LARGE REVENUE. Sales of tobacco and real! estate licenses in the state of Idaho during the year 1928 are| predicted to be larger than eith- er of the two previous years in which the law has been in effect, it was declared Friday by Har- ry Fisher, director of the state bureau of license. In the four working days of 1923 in which the bureau has! | been sending out licenses, 111 tobacco licenses have been mail- ed out in various parts of the state. This number far exceeds | between the price paid the farm- -# ers and the price paid on the Kansas City market. Lyda Hosford, a farmer of { Hickory M., testified that 150 4 farmers formed -a cooperative shipping association in Novem- ber, 1920, “because we felt we were not getting enough for our stock.” At that time, Hosford said, farmers who sold to ship- pers in the country were getting irom $1.50 to $2 per 100 pounds less than the top market price for hogs in Kansas City for the day. Now the “margin” has been cut by the same shipper until it is fixed at 75 cents be- low the Kansas City price, he said, “and sometimes better.” J. M. Travis, a farmer of Clio, Iowa offered similar testimony. He is in charge of the Farmers’ Union Shipping association at Clio. The price paid the ship- per by the Fowler Packing com- pany at that point, he testified, was formerly $1.50 per 100 be- low the Kansas City price. Now, he said, it ranges from 55 cents to 80 cents. Former shippers to the Fowler Packing plant, which with Armour & Co., was accused of the record of 1922, Mr. Fisher said. Last year 1645 tobacco licenses, at $50 eech, or a total revenue of $82,250, was turned! |into the state treasury by the| bureau. Mr, Fisher believes the | number will pass the 2000 mark this year. | In addition to this, the bureau collected $5090 in license fees from real estate dealers in 1922, | The rate for these licenses is $10, and the bureau issued 509 of them. The director thinks ae at least 550 will be issued in | FARMERS BOOST OWN HOG PRICES, | | | How “Margin” was Cut in Half | at U. S. Hearing in Kansas, | Farmers were told recently at | | the department of agriculture’s | | hearing on hog marketing prac- | tices how they succeeded in get- | ting a larger share of the price | hogs brought to the Kansas City | market. Farmer shipping as- | sociations, according to two wit-| nesses, cut in two the “margin” | “unfair marketing practices, tending to depress the price on the open market,” elso testified. All witnesses questioned on the shrinkage of hogs shipped direct to the Fowler plant agreed that it was greater than in the case of hogs shipped to the open market. J.C. McCombs, Cam- eron, Mo., said the shrinkage in hogs shipped to the company was regularly 200 to 400 pounds greater per carload and some- times as much as 500 pounds. McCombs testified as did C. R. Wells, Allerton, Iowa, a farmer- packer, that when there was Competition in their fields they bid up the prices paid farmers for hogs and that when the com- petition was eliminated they lowered the prices. rds for sale at the Chronicle office. We repair all makes of bat- teries. Cottonwood Garage. 80-tf If its lathe or machine work | We can save you money. South & Frick. ?