New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 28, 1927, Page 2

2 Y0 H0! FOR LIF " O A BESTROVER “Gome Back on Big Ship”, Ex- Gobs' Choras to Lindbergh *What Price Glory?” is the ques- Hon former service men who served ! on destroyers in the United States! navy are asking when they read of the offer of the government of a destroyer for the return of Captain Charles Lindbergh to this country from his triumphant conquest of | France and all Europe. “It is sure an ungrateful government that wants to take the joy out of lite by making an aviator suffer the fi days’ life on a destroyer such *“Lindy” would have to if he comes home on one of them,” says George Lawson of this city who served all during the war on one of the ships | that made life miserable for the | German submarine officers. Speaking of life on a destroyer, | Bailor Lawson gives a graphic ac- | count of some of the happenings on | board during the trying days of | 1917-18 while serving as a member | of a’destroyer crew which convoyed ! troop ships to the shores of France. Today in the service the destroy- ors are ofl burners, the old system of coal burning having been done | away with since the end of the war. *Now,” the former gob says, “things are different because during the war | we were required to put our oil on with a shovel whereas now they put it on with a hose.” Below decks on a destroyer, the eompartments were very small, many of them bordering on being tiny. No fresh air could be had and if & member of the crew wished t got a breath of pure ozone, it was | necessary to go on deck. Up above, | he would get the full blast of the belching smoke from the funnels full in the face with soot, cinders and all other refuse while to escape t, if way was made to the forward deck, there he would receive the full force of a heavy wave square in the | back and be forced to hold on for life to escape being washed over- board. “Goodnight, and Sweet Dreams”| Getting into bed at night, it is necessary to strap himself in or clse hit the/deck with a thud with the first broadside of a wave. “It Captain Lindbergh wants to | come home fast, let him take a de- | stroyer” is the chorus from the ex- gobs of the destroyers crews,” but| J? he wants to come home whole, ' let him get the biggest ship afloat | and ride home on that.” Conditions such as these exist not when a destroyer is in a storm but in an ordinary sea where the waves are considered calm. In the bowels of the ship, a "gob” is tossed about on all sides and when the boat is, making speed, cutting through the waves, making turns, taking the #eas broadside or any way, bruised hips, elbows and other more painful ' injuries become a momentary oc- currence. “Captain Lindbergh spent 33 un-| comfortable hours in a plane on his | trip from New York to Paris,” the | chorus continued, “but five days on | & destroyer would make him a fit subject for the hospital and he would think his airplane trip a pleasure.” Captain Lindbergh had five sand- wiches and water to drink but the | ex-gobs assure him that after rolling about in a destroyer, he would have | no stomach for sandwiches or| water. “Then agaln,” the ex-gobs con- tinued, “if he should strike a gale en the Gulf Stream, he would pray to be in his plane fighting the ele- ments in the open air rather tha meeting hard steel in a destroyer. Nothing To Do But Work Description of a coal burning de- stroyer bears out the warnings of the men who know. The ship has| & carrying capacity of 150 tons of | coal giving it a radius of 1,000 miles. The ship returns to port every four days to coal up. The first day is spent in getting every- thing ready. The second is spent in getting the coal on board. One crew gets on the lighter, another on the stage and the third on deck to have the bags of coal passed up and dragged to the bunkers. Coal dust settles everywhere and on the third day, from the bottom up, the crew hauls to and washes and paints. On the fourth day, the ship is put in trim and away from port she goes. Outside of all this work, the members of the crew have all the rest of the time to them- welves. During the war, the destroyer on which Bailor Lawson served, did coast convoy duty on the other side of the big pond. Every fourth trip out, the ship would do land mark duty, - that is, it would stand out to sea and sight the convoys of troops coming in and give them the bear- ings direct to their port. Then the: would be escorted to their anchor- | age. Most of the convoys which his ehip met, Sailor Lawson l'x;\l:nns.l were made up of ““Spiggoty Tramps,” Spanish trawlers which moved about nine knots an hour. The destroyer could travel 20 and with the differ- ence in speed, the smaller ghip was| cutting circles about the larger ones! all the time. | “Work all the time” was the| watchword with a convoy because | there were countless duties to be | performed. Should a submari scare occur transports would make frightened dashes in every direction| and the destroyers had to herd them back Into line, at the same time keeping watch for undersea craft, “Ash Cans” Cute Tdttle Things At Pen Marche Point, as the de- stroyer stood offshore, a dirigible would sail out over the nd drop markings where a sub s sighted. The destroyer with full| speed ahead, would turn and man-| euver to get in position to drop depth charges. “Ash can” after ““ash can,” this being the sobriquet for the depth charges, were drop- ped in the vicinity of the “sub.” These were filled with 300 pounds of T. N. T. and as each went off, | the tall of the destroyer was slap-| ped in the air with the ship shak- ing all over.| When the crews first went over to the other side, they were furnished with French mines sea A R TSNl e | for home, the | in the se » | classmate e R tions were made up like a big can full of explosive with float attached to a spring. As the ‘charge was thrown into the sea, the float would serve to pull the trigger and the charge would go off. On one occasion one of the crew threw over a charge but the spring was fouled and the explosion car- ried away the ship's rudder. Into| dry dock the boat was towed and| there repairs were to be made. Ex-| pecting liberty ashore, the crew got | busy and scraped the ship’s sides as! the water was pumped out of the| dock. But, as soon as they reached bottom, they had orders to start painting there until they reached the top. By the time this job was completed, the rudder was repaired and they were ordcred off on an ex- | tra trip because they had lost so| much time in dock Still continuing on in relating ex- | periences during the war, Sailor Lawson stated that Captain Lind- bergh wouldn't give his airplane up for a destroyer if an accident which Lefell the war time craft should befall the one on which he might take passage home. Ship Is Stalled Starting out from Bre bound evaporators which purify the sait water for use in the boilers, went bad. The crew couldn’t shave, there was no water to drink except the salty brine and the ship finally became ¢ bled. The Fannie Luckenbach, one of the transporis e of the big steamship by that name, took the ver in tow. In the Guif Stream, while sailing along as peacefully as on a lake, a storm suddenly hit the craft, The | tow line parted and the destroyer | was left alone and helpless in mid- | ocean. Rigging up the apparatus as best they could, the members of the crew got the ship moving. It took he craft 17 stcaming days to reach | ome. The journey started at the French port on December 9 and the home port was reached on January 3. All this time, the craft was the victim of a capricious sea being tossed here and there and every- ‘where and it was an unkempt-look- ing bunch of bedraggled seamen who finally set foot on United States territory when the voyage was over. The Christmas Dinner On Christmas Day, the crew was just sitting down to a chicken din- ner, served on account of the holi- day. The dining tables are swinging | affairs and it takes a good jugsgler | to keep all the dishes aligned as the ship buffets about the waves. Suddenly a submarine was sight- ed and the crew hastily got to their | stations. IFor an hour and a half the | destroyer dove and bucked, turned and shot here and there dropping | depth charges all around the sea in hopes of breaking up the undersea dox. Finally the orders to return to! mess were given and on returning | to the dining compartment, the company des chicken dinners were under the gun | > carziages, up on the walls or strewn all about over the floor. Neverth less, the cook graciously consent to open cans ol corned beef, “gold fish® and nice, ripe _tomatoe | canned three years before. When the | ip arrived in Philadelphia, the locker compartment with the crew's clothes, was in three fcot of water ) and it wasn't a line of movie actors | that filed off the ship when they | got their first shore leave. Navigating by Compass Speaking of the wonderful trip | Captain Lindbergh made by com- | pass alone, Sailor Lawson said he would like him to stand a wheel watch to see the difference between | lis plan¢ and the destroyer. He would like the aviator to try and follow the compass and sce if he hit within three miles of where he was aiming to get. 5 The destroyer service is the school of hard knocks for the officers, he | aid, and that is probably why a! delegation of them a short time ago | urged Captain Lindbergh to take | the Leviathan home. Sailor Lawson said that Lindbergh | must have been happy to make such a beautiful landing in France but his joy would be nothing compared | to the relicf and happiness he would | & feel when he set his foot on dry | terra firma after five days in & destroycr. NEWINGTON NEWS Judge E. Stanley Welles has an- nounced the Memorial Day program | which he has arranged. The school children will meet in front of the | Center school at 9:15 a. m. and will 2o to the chapel of the Newington | Center Congregational church where most of the program will be carried out. The program follows: Invoca- tion, Rev. John A. Moir, pastor of | the church; Salute to the Flag;| speech, City Clerk John A. Gleason of Hartford: ‘“‘America the Beauti- | ful”; speech, William H. Mandrey supervisor of tle Hymn of the Republic Latham of New On the Old Camp Ground,” benedictlon, Rev. John A. Moir. 1 Graves of the veterans will be dec- | orated. Mrs, Eva B. Woods will play | the piano for all the songs at the chapel. Ir. and Mrs. Richard H. yesterday on a ten-day antomo- bile trip to South Bend, Indiana. | They have as their guest on ti Miss Margaret Muldoon of Hartford. George and Mrs. Erwin Notre Dame with his pa at the uni Mr. and Mrs. John returned to live in ) ing been out of town for seve years. The i ni Hour” Whist met Thurs Aiternoon =t the hom of Mrs. William O'Donnell. Prize won by Mrs. Fred Hayes and . E. P. Schmidt. Members of Newington Grang will observe memorial Sunday a special program at tha o'clock in the afternoon. are requested to bring flow a short program in the hall, present will march in a tody to the cemetery, Miss Roxy Forbes of Hawley treet entertained several of her friends Thur! afternoon, the oc- | casion being her niath birthday Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Atweil, who have been living at the Center, have | moved into their new home at Maple for depth charges. These contrap- Hill Manor, | Lincoln s [ | OUR SCHOOLS |i —Photo by John & Peterson Mrs. Charlotte H. Headerson Roosevelt School. Mrs. Chariofte H. Henderson, & sixth grade teacher at the RRoosevelt schoo!, has had all of her teaching experience in t nols of this cit She began her profession in 1908 in one of the lower grades of the clementary schools and in complet- ing her studics this year she will look back upon 18 years of succes: ful work in her chosen profession. Besides receiving an cducation fn the New Britain High the New Britain S school, she took cour: mer school, Teachers’ lumbia univers college, First Building Was of One Room 16 Feet Square One hundred and years ago, or more than 20 years be- fore the Revolution, New Britain es- tablished its first school. It was a simple, one-room building, 15 fect square, with a fireplace at one end. Reading, writing, arithmetic and spelling were the only subjects in the curriculum, the main aim being to-prepare pupils to read the Serip- ture and to read and understand the laws of the colony. At that time thare were less than | 300 people in New Britain, which consisted of three se ley Quarter, Ha rter and The largest hamlet, cre the school was located, was st street. From this school came the present school system with its modern build- ings and splendid equipm unusual all, children and adults. For 120 years, or until 1874, each elementary school belonged to a sep- arate school district whose atfairs we settled in a meeting of the voters of the district and managed | committee. | by a separate district This same system is now used in Hartford and although it still has its supporters it is cfficient as the modern consolidated system under which the school de- ! partment of this city is now conduct- ed. All of New Britain’s separate dis- | tricts were consoli district and a gene mittee of 12 members was glected to manage school matters for the entire town and city. A review of the school committe records of years since 1850 discloses many in teresting items. In 1850 the population of the town was 3,029. In the 77 years that have since then, the population :ased to approximately $0,- It was in 1850 that the high to a single Normal school opencd, th this country. It has been found th serious complaints of overcrowding in the schools wereimade as early as 1869. In 1570, Ne city with a population of 9 this same year the teaching o; was introduced into the public chools. One year later drawing was taken up. Probably the greatest building year of the 19th century was in 1857 when present Academic building of the Senior High school was con- structed as well as the original por- tion of the Central Junior High school on Main street and the old 100l The I school was abandoned a few weeks ago and is on the market. With the building program there an expansion and extension Britain ' became 10. o In of the tivities. In common with the schools of all other progressive cities, the New 1 n schools have undertaken those newer developments and changes that the whanging social and ind of the times Dies thrust upon the educational sys- tem. ollowing are the im- of com- s for some of Introduction cial cla nt and ph Gildien in the open ior high school wi eguate organi probler 1 of to better nutri- 18 sale tion and i con- ment superintendent of Stan or to Ke with t) Special Notice Barber Shops will be closed all day Monday, Decoration Day—adve ty-four | arate han | \ence to remaining :nt and the | ducational opportunities for | not considered as | the | musie | 100l program and school ac- | PUBLIC APATHETIC ON CITY BUSINESS Shows Little Interest in Boards Conducting Government Although scarcely more than 100 lcity officlals spend nearly $5.000,- 000 of the public's money annually, few taxpayers go to the trouble of attending meetings of the common council and the variotis boards, this in spite of the fact that in almost every instance the open to the public. Aside from the serious phases of the question and the desirability of knowing how and why one's funds are being laid out, there are nu- merous instances where this lack of | interest prevents the public from | sharing in the hearty laughs that punctuate the deliberations of city | fathers. The incidents are, generally | speaking, not eufficiently germane to the cussion to find their way into the columns of the press and therefore | they go unrecorded. “Star Chamber” Meetings “Star Chamber” meetings are not entirely cobsolete functions. Some- times the public as represented by { press correspondents, is told blunt- |1y that it cannot be admitted. A fow years ago a prominent public | omicial adopted another course. In { the ante-room ieading to the cham- Ler in which a certain board was about hold a meeting, this oficial representatives of three apers. The newshounds were they weren’t especially wel- come but they had planned to be attendance, this fact notwith- standing. But, the officlal stalled them with upraised hand, and said: o I'm going to tell you a little y. I am entitled to be heard, but if at any time you wish me to dis- continue you may tell me ab and go your way—but if you insist on go- | ing Into the meecting, then I insist on the courtesy of being heard. Now | it scems there was a huge pile of is:md on the roadside. A small ant crawled up to pile, plcked up one grain of sand, brought it to a dis- tant point and then returned*to take {another grain of sand. This grain was carricd and placed beside first. The ant then returned and took a | third grain of sand and brought this | to place beside the second.” The speaker digressed a moment to say: | “Remember boys, this was a huge | pile of sund and the ant was a most | persistent creature, bent on carry- ing through his work to completion. Well, anyway, to return to the ant, it came tack to the pile and took a fourth grain of sand and brought {t | to place beside the third."” At this point he was interrupted by the assurance of the reporters that they had elected the alterna- | five of going their way in prefer- until the story of how the entire pile of sand had been removed, grain by grain, had been told. A short time ago members of a commission were hard pressed for the solution of their problem as to how they might reward an employe who had given the use of his pri- vate automobile on city business over an extended period of time. which customarily goes to repre- scntatives of boards who employ their own machines Finally a commissioner came out ith the suggestion that the com- mon council be asked to buy him a set of tires. When he came to a | realization of how unusual his re- quest was an how it would sound when read off at the common coun- il meeting he joimed in the laugh and withdrew the recommendation. A recommendation made at a meeting of the board of public works some time ago to employ et cleaners on a “piece-work bas- was _short-lived. Bills for Fire Water | As a suggested method of increas- ing the revenues of the water de- partment 1t was proposed to the charter revision committee four ars ago that the department bill the fire board for water used in fighting fires. Probably apprehen- sive of a program of economy as & result of such an order, other mem- bers of the board demurred at once, and the fire department was as- sured the water is available in what- ever quantities are desired, gratis. At last week’s meeting of the com- mon council a resolution was adopted which, had it not been re- considered, would have left the city without police and fire protection every Saturday afternoon. For many years past, laborers in the em- Ploy of the board of public works and the water department, have been allowed Saturday afternoons off with thelr pay so adjusted as to al- low rfull wages. A resolution to cover this point was introduced in | the common council, but instead of specifying what workers were to henefit, the motion tvas that “all eity employes™ be given Saturday after- rnoon oft. A unanimous vote in favor was recorded. A moment later Chairman Rodman W. Cham- berlain of the police board whispered o a member of the common coun- cil to advise that such action, though very evidently not intended to do so, | would allow policituen and firemen to quit work on Saturday at noon. By reconsideration of the motion, the matter speedily adjusted. A proponent of mechanical devices | for city work recently arose and ob- jected to “scraping roads horses.” “flow are vou going to scrape a road with a ho " Alderman Wil- liam H. Judd asked, and the argu- ment was brought to an end before it w ell under way. i Price on Patching Dress | A very well dressed young wom- an came before the claims commit- tee of the common council last year and asked for compensation for personal injuries and reimburse- for money when she torn fell over a raised sidewalk. One member scanned the d when he found the full of the dress was asked, he in-. quired if the young woman had s a price on having the dress cd. The petitioner's indignation g *he accompanying embarrass- |ment to the city father furnished her members of the committee | with a hearty, though advisedly a ]mufflfld laugh. Another member of the commit- va meetings are ( important subjects of dis- | He had not received the allowance | in city work.' with | spent for a dress | tee about to Vg not damages should be given a man who tripped over a sidewalk defect, first demanded to know if the appli- cant was walking on the right side of the walk. Recommendations of several com- mitees having been rejected in suc- cession by the - common council, Alderman Judd recently eountered to a proposition of & new committee of five members, by saying: “Why inot have a committee of 30, em- bracing the entire council’s mem- bership, then we might be able to agree on acceptance of a committee report.” GAME OF CRICKET. ONCE GREAT SPORT Resideats of By-Gone Dags Con- sidered It Thrilling The game of cricket is desplsed, i contemned, and ridiculed by modern | sporting enthusiasts ot New Britain, who call it “too slow” or “too Eng- lish,” but it once attained the popu~| larity here which baseball has reached today, drawing hundreds of spectators to th more important | games. Just as the Englishmen are proverbizlly befuddled by the intri- | cacies of baseball, so are present- day Americans puzzied by the fine points of the older game. The rules | are so different that it was inevi- table that they should conflict and that one should crowd the other off | the sporting map, while the com- parative leisureliness of cricket was a determining factor in deciding | which game was to pass on. | In the middle of the 19 century | cricket reached the height of its | popularity in Connecticut. Clubs | were organized all over the state and engaged in inter-town matches which aroused all the enthusiasm of world's serles. In New Britain the Phoenix club i was organized, with the late Philip Corbin as president. Other members, whose names mean nothing to fol- lowers of the National Guards, the { All-New Britains, or the Falcons but will bring memories to older resi- | dents, including William H. Hart, ! William Kinlock, Willium Hotch- | kiss, Judson Dickinson, John Stan- L d, Charles Andrews, George Gil- Bert, Daniel Gilbert, William Bur- | ritt, Monroe Stannard, Charles Wet- " more, John Burritt, Walter Stanley, | Walter Parsons, Henry Mather, An- | drew Hart, Charles Gilbert, William ‘;}L Riley, C. M. Talcott, Thomas H. Bingham, Andrew Corbin, Robert i Kenyon, Frank Stanley, J. C. Baggs, Thaddeus Butler, Frank Beck! Joseph Warner, John Perkins, and | Walter Judd. | New Britain Wins, 310—1412 Probably the greatest game this organization played wah in 1858, when it met the Winsted club in | Waterbury for a dinner. The game | | began at 11 o'clock in the morning, | for cricket cannot be played in the | short time which bascball requires. | New Britain batted first and scored | i6 runs before the side was retired, while Winsted scored a puny 59. De- spite the early start, it was growing dark when the final Winsted bats- man, was put out and the locals won by 310 to 141. The game had at- i tracted much attention, and crowds llined the playing field, while a | thousand spectators gathered on a | nearby hill to watch the cricketers play the game. So late was it when the game ended that the Winsted club had to forego the dinner purchased with ! its own money. The players hustled | |to the station wnd took the train | home, leaving the victorious New Dritainites to eat in solitary triumph. ners returned home, arriving about ) midnight. Word of their glorious i victory had preceded them, and they were met at the station by a huge crowd of fans (although they were not called that in those days) A | band provided music and there was a torchlight procession aroung Cen- | { tral park, on which a huge bonfire | was burning. Several enthusiasts | {carried a huge banner {nscribed | “Welcome Home,” and the demon- | stration was almost as wild as that which greeted Lindbergh on hi arrival at Paris. Crowded Out By Bascball Cricket gradually lost its hold ml New Britain, although it held on | longer here than in many parts of | ! the country. The new game of base- | hall was growing more and mere | | popular and was threatening it. The | ! newcomer was professionalized and | ! leagues were formed. It was much | | faster and more exciting, Dbeing | therefore more suitable to the ! American temperament. Cricket con- tinued to Le played for years, but | the Jeaders in the sport were mostly 'Englishmen who had come over | trom their native land and when, | they grew 0o old to play thelr was {nobody to tzke their places. | Playing tields were none too nu- ! !merous, either. Building operations 'began to cover up the open lots . within driving distance of the cen- | iter and the few which were left{ | such as Rentschler's park and Elec- | tric field became baseball dia- ! monds. Cricket hung on in a forlorn way until the end of the century, ! and spasmodic attempts were made | to revive it, but after 1900 no suit- able playing fleld could be found {and none of the cricketers were en- | thusiastic enough to buy and lay themselves, so cricket, as it was sometimes | called, passed out of the sporting | picture. Today there are but few | persons in the city who even know the rules in the vaguest sort of fashion. | Policemen assigned for parade | duty in connection with the corner- | stone blessing exercises at the Sa- |cred Heart of Jesus (Polish) echool tomogrow are the following: Sergeant John C. Stadler, commanding; Of- ficers Peter McEvoy, Thomas Tner- ney, John Smigel, Anthony Milew- i ski, Anthony Dombrauskas, Anthony Kozlauskas, Peter Skierkowski, An- | thony Ustach. For the Memorial Day | {parade at 10:30 in the morning the platoon will be comprised of the fol- lowing: Sergeant Thomas J. Feeney in command; Officers James Sulli- van, George Collins, William Gra- | beck, Daniel Cosgrove, Ernest Bloomquist, Edward Carroll, Wil- llam O'Day, Charles Weare. After the meal the win- | | Buchanan, Johnson, Garfleld, | 1-2 pimento, gpe hard boiled QUESTIONS ANSWERED You can get an answ r to any question of fact or information by writing to the Question Editor, New Britain Herald, Washington Bureav, 1322 New York avenue. Washington, D. C.. enclosing two cents !a stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. All other questions will recelve a perscnal reply. Un- signed requests cannot be answered. All letters are confidential.—Editor. Q. Does it say in the Bible how many children King Solomon had? A. No mention is made of the number of children. It simply states that he had 700 wives and 300 con- cubines. I Kings 11:43 sa; 'Reho- boam, his son, reigned in his stead.” Q. What is the address of the headquarters of the National Fed- | eration of Musical Clubs? A, 1200 Columbia Peorla, Illinois. Q. Who wrote: “My boat is on the shore and my bark is on the sea”? A. Lord Byron in his poem “‘To Thomas Moore.” | Q. In what part of the United States is the movement from farms to cities most pronounced? i A. Figures show that in the New Terrace, | England States 72,000 persons left the farms las! year and 52,000 went to farms; Middle Atlantic States | 155,000 persons from farms and 101,000 persons to farms; East North Central 319,000 from farms and 164,000 to farms; West North Central 338,000 from farms and 193,000 to farms; South Atlantic 354,000 from farms and 133,000 to farms; East South Central 266,000 from farms and 101,000 to farms; West South Central 402,000 from farms and 194,000 to farms; Moun- tain 130,000 from farms and 95,000 to farms; Pacific 119,000 from | farms and 102,000 to farms. | Q. Why does thunder cause milk to sour? A. This beliet arises because there are certain bacteria which feed on the sugar in the milk caus- | ing it to acidulate. The air is usu- ally warmer just preceding an elec- trical storm and these bacteria mul- tiply much more rapidly a4 warm temperatures. The souring of the milk and the electrical phenomenon are in no way directly connected ; nor does the thunder cause the milk ; to sour. l Q. Will salt water freeze? | A. TIts freezing temperature is| four degrees lower than that of fresh water. Q. When registering at a hotel how should a man sign his name? A. If he is alone he writes his | ! full name (James M. Brown) and after it the name of the place where he resides. When accompanied by his wife he signed Mr. and Mrs. James M. Brown. If he has other members of his family with ifm he signs “James Brown, Mrs. Brown, | James Brown, Jr. Miss Margaret Brown, Baby and Nurse.” Q. How are Pecan made? A. Boll two cups brown sugar and 1-4 cup boiling water. Add one cup pecan nutsmeats and two table- spoons butter. Cook five minutes, remove from fire and beat one min- ute. Drop from spoon on buttered | pan, Q. Pralines ‘Where do chiggers come from | and is their bite dangerous? A. These creatures inhabit shrubbery, grass, weeds and woods, and are more abundant in damp locations. They burrow into the skin and die. Soon afterwards a small* red &pot appears which spreads sometimes to 3-4 of an inch in dlameter. When the lesions . caused by these mites are unusally numerous, the sufferer becomes fev- erish and the affliction causes him to lacerate his flesh by vigorous scratching. Serlous results are ex- ceptional and undoubtedly point to mpurity in the blood. Sulphur sift- ed into the clothes from the knees downward and into the shoes and stockings or rubbed over legs and ankles 13 & good preventive. After exposure, {ll cffects may be pre- vented, if a bath is taken in hot water or water containing salt or strong soap, Wwithin a few hours. After a long exposure, a bath has practically no effect, and direct remedies are often necessary. Q. How many of the Presidents of the United States have been Masons? b A. Washington, Jackson, Polk, Me- Kinley, Roosevelt, Taft and Hard- ing. Fillmore was a Mason at one time but recanted. Q. How s dressing made? A. Chop fine 1-2 green pepper, €eg and a small amount of chives. Mix well 1-2 cupful whipped cream and 1-2 cupful of mayonnaise. Add a small amount of tomato catsup and a dash of tarragon vinegar. Stir well together. Q. How.did Wall Street get its name? Where Wall Street is today a wall bullt by the Dutch settlers was erected in 1644. It was in reality a guard built to keep out wild ani- mals, and as a protection against In- dians. In 1653 Governor Stuyvesant Thousand Island | bullt a real wall consisting of pali- jsades 12 feet high and 18 inches thick. The last portion of this bar- ricade was removed in 1698, The name Wall Street clung, even after the disappearance of the wall. Q. Where was the Red Cross or- Zanized? A. In Switzerland. Q. How can I ramove shine from the back of a skirt? A. Sponge the garment with hot vinegar or ammonia (one tablespoon ammonia to one quart of water). Cover with dampened cloth and press on right side. Remove cloth and brush. Q. When is the best time to plant peonies and what kind of soil do they need? A. Plant in August or S8eptember in a rather heavy soil which must be very rich. Do not move the plant after it is once in the ground. Live Monkey in Show By, School Children The Literature club of the Cen- tral Junior High school gave the play, “The Little Princess,” which was well attended, yesterday after- noon in the school auditorium at 4:14 o'clock. The play’ was unique in the sense that it had a live monkey In it. It was through the kindness of Robert Andrews that the monkey was made available. The play, which was written by Frances Hodgson Burnett, was well acted. The cast of the characters was as follows: | Sara, Adaline May; Miss Minchin, Anna Manghisi; Bicky, Fanny Hal- pern; Lavinia, Veronica Markavich; Janet, Mary Kelly; Mazle, Ro Maletta; Lilly, Anna Dombrosk Donald, Julia Link; Ermingarcle, Adeline Carlson; Mrs. Carmichall, Mary Rand; Mr. Carmichail, Mary | Hunt; Ram Dass, Elizabeth Man- gan; Barrow, Angelina Cecire; Car- risford, Henrietta Peyser; James the servant, Alice Johnson; Emma, Ella Lucas; Grust, Cynthia Warren. The acting was directed by Miss Porter. During the intermission the Boys' Glee club, under Miss Given's | direction sang, and several dances were given by Ida Greenburg. 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