New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 11, 1927, Page 2

RIGHT THS WAY LADEES AN GENTS Amusement Parks Invite Public To Cast Aside Diguity | Amusement parks, from hot dogs ta roljer, coasters, present to the tired business man a vacation in a day which is difficult to duplicate. A visit to one of the realms of paddle ‘wheels and shore dinners is equal, on a rushing Sunday, to two weeks spent in any other place not so vibrant. The amusment park s usually visible and audible from approxi- mately five miles in each direction the white turrets of the roller coast- er rising above the scenery and th steady roar of the barkers subduing even the rumble of the Sunday traf- fic. At about two miles distance from the gates to the park, the mo- torist goes into second gear to allow for the parade of cars going into the place and the last 500 feet arc generally made in low gear or afoot as the crowds make speedy driving impractical. i Once inside, a vista of sights and | experiences is opened to the visitor | which should keep him busy for the rest of the day providing his money | holds out or the roller coaster de- | cides to jump the track, a feature which it threatens to do on every | trip but which it never seems to ac- complish. i Probably the first visit will be to the penny arcade. Here the lowly copper comes into its own. Machines | are worked orly through the inser- tion of the smallest of the coin family. One may peer into movie machines and see everything from “Casey and the Goat” to “A Parisian | Experiencs,” and all for the penny which ordinarily needs a group of —Photos by Johnson & Pete MISS ADELE BASSETT Principal, Bartlett School A Adele Bas: besides being an efficient teac priucipal, has gained considerable popularity with the instructors under her and r fellow teachers in the New ritain system of education Among the many honors awarded to Miss Bassctt was her election to the presidency of the w Britain Teachers® club, an organization to which all the teachers in the city) belong. She represents the Bartlett school council. so in Mass., she at- the teachers' | QUESTIONS ANSWERED You can gel ap answ r to any icstion of fact or information by riting to the Question Editor, c¢w Britain Herald, Washington jureau, 1322 New York avenue.| Vashington, D. C. enclosing two| cnts in stamps for reply. sal and marital advice cannot be|started informally in the middle of | jiven, mor can extended research | e undertaken. All other questions|;sg2, and grew until June 7, 1921 | vill recelve a perscnal reply. Un-| signed requests cannot be answered. present quarters at 78 Trinity Place. | All letters are confidential.—Editor Q. How old is Dorothy Mackaill, movie actress? A. She was born in 1904. Q. How should silk be washed? | A. Use lukewarm soft water and a neutral soap in solution or sds. Do not rub soap on the silk. Wash quickly by kneading; do not rub the materfal. When clean rinse thor- oughly and squeeze the water out i by pressing in the hands or by put- { ting_through a wringer with roliers | set loose. Roll in a heavy cloth (a bath towel is excellent) and let Yot) iron or press on the right.side with a cloth over the silk. Q.. How are piano keys cleaned? A. To remove stains use oxalic acid and keep the keys white by rubbing them with a soft plece of cloth we* with alcohol. Bright sun- stand for about half an hour. Iron | on the wrong side with a warm (not | may adhere to the sides of the ket- tle. Stir the sugar and water until the sugar is dissolved. Cook to 300 | degrees and remove l‘om the tire. The kettle should be Nandled care- fully to prevent sny jar of contents | which starts crystalization of sugar. | Have the nuts ready and dip as | rapidly 2s possible. Lay on oiled pa- per to dry. Q. What is a mirage? A. An 8ptical effect produced on an extended plain or on the ocean when the lower strata of air are at a very different temperature from the higher strata, so that the sky is seen as by refiection from the plain, looking like a sheet of water in the desert. Shipa and other distant ob- jects are seen, usually inverted, in the air. Q. What {3 the New York Curb market? A. It is a corporation commonly Broad Street, New York City in when the members moved thel |1t 18 a stock market where securi- ties not listed on regular stock ex- anges are sold and where securi- | ties are sold ~ut of hours. Before | getting their indoor habitation a so- | | called seat on the Curb Market was sold as high as $1,500. Late in 1921 | the membership was full at $3,500. | In April, 1925 it was raised to $8,500 |and late in that year a seat was sold | for $37,500. Farly in 1926 there was 550 members of the New York Curb | Exchange. | Q. What is the basis of reckon- ing standard time at the United | States Naval Observatory at Wash- ington, D. C.? A. Transit observation of the stars. The observatory has three standard clocks running in a con- |stant temperature vault, electrically | wound and sealed to keep the air pressure constant. Meridian circle | observations of selected stars (known as cleck stars) are regularly “tarift for révenue only"? A. Protective tariff is a high tariff on impcrted articles for the purpose of protecting American manufacturers from the competitios of foreign commodities which might otherwise be sold cheaper than the home products. Advocates of the |taritf for revenue only maintain that the purpose of duties’ is to raise revenue for the government and not to exclude imported com- modities. Q. Who bulit the Are de Tri- omphe in Paris. France? A. It was begun by Napoleon in 11806 and completed by Louis Phil- ippe in 1836. It was designed by Cahlgrin and is profusely ornament- ed with reliefs representing the Napoleonic victories, in commem. oration of which it was erected. It is the largest triumphal arch in the world and stands at the head of the Medical. | known as the Curb Exchange, that | Champs Elysees in Paris. Q. Are there any wild silver | foxes in the United States? A. Very few. Ninety-five per cent | o the silver foxes are raised In captivity. | Q. From what book was the mo- | tion picturs “The Eagle” adapted? | A. From “The Black Eagle” & ' novelotte by Pushkin, a great Rus- sian dramatist. Giant Blast in Quarry Shakes New Haven Center | New Haven, June 11 (P—A dis- charge of nine and one half tons of | dynamite by the C. W. Blakeslee A. PINKUS Eye Sight Specialist Moved to 308 Main St. Suite 202 company in blasting approximately 125,000 tons of stone from the face of Pine Rock yestfrday rocked the city and surreunding towns. The blast, however, was heard cnl( for % distance cf half & mile. Tall bulldings in the center of the eity shook and the blast was felt in the theaters, offices, stores and other places. William T. Gilbert, superintendent of the company who was in charge of the blast, said that it was carried out with perfect precision and with no trouble. The blast was the largest ever set off at Pine Rock Second Day of Search For Nungesser Fails 8t. John's N. F., Juno 11 (P— Search from the air for Captain continued without result yesterday. The second flight made by Major F. Sidney Cotton in his monoplane Jeanne D'Arc, was over several islands in Placentia bay. No trace of the missing aviators or of their plane. “The White Bird,” was seen. Major Cotton was unable to take oft'in the forsnoon because of thick weather conditions, but in the after- Charles Nungesser and Francois Coll, [noen the visibility improved and he lmlnlus French trans-Atlantic fliegs. {began his search. | taken on clear nights and from {these observations the errors of the | standard clocks are determined and shine on the Ieys will help to bleach them. Q. How should the guest of hon- Born in Harwich, tended Harwich High sc Danbury Normal school. its brethren to amount to much. One unsxpected feature of the penny ar- Up One Flight to Better ool and cade is the fact that in spite of the penny machines, one is soon discov- | sred breaking five dollar bills in order to take a chance at the elec- | trie ritle or have one’s fortune told by the automatic gypsy. Incidentally, | it has never been discovered where | the automatic fortune telling ma- | chines have procured the pictures which are used as photographs of 's ““future husband” or “future e.! When the amusements fn the penny arcade, from the punching | bag to the phonograph which grinds [ out tunes heard during the recent war and makes the customer like it, | harve fajled or the customer has done some quick addition and has found that if he doesn’t get out of the place he will have to walk hom»,.{ the erowd usually drifts over to the | roller coaster. | Here is an instrument of torture much beloved by the patrons of the « average amusement park. It it were necessary to make the dips in order to be rescued from a burning build- ing. half the customers would prefer ‘to burn, but the name and the barkers and the crowd make the average habitue of the place put down his dime and run for a seat nn the rollicking railway. The first 4ip sends him into a state border- ing on apoplexy, the second brings on acute nausea, the third places Lim in a coma and each succceding dip shortens his life approximately five vears a plece, and yet he is! always present when the guards come around to collect for “repeat rides ten cents.” Then comes the tamer things of the park including throwing } balls at stuffed cats which look so topply and in reality need a Dazzy Vance to dislocats them from their perch; rolling balls at the Japanese booth for huge sets of dishes, the prize generally consisting of a tin whistle or a small fan which fall~ apart some three minutes later; ski ball, where one rolls duck pin balls onto a jump, landing the ball {n baskets marked from 5 to 50 and usually into the ones marked 5. A fairly new addition to the zmusement park is “the whip” a new method of taking the back of one's head off for a dime. One sits in a cir, grasps-a bar and is hurled around backwards, the sensation equalling that of a hard attack of vertigo. Another is “the caterpi where an up and down track insures the patron of getting the same re- eults a8 a hard squall at sea on .. 20 foot cat boat | Then, for a real finish, a trip to the ‘“crazy house" or whatever {t is named in the specific park visited, is the only logical step. In this building are enough devices to outfit a Spanish Inquisition. Ladies suffer indignities at the hands of hidden | Alr vents, one is electrocuted, thrown around, let down through partitions onto a chute, stuffed in rolling bar- rals, jostled by clowns—all the practices of the average lodge ini- tiation are tried, and all for the price of a quarter. Food thera is in plenty, Hot dogs, popcorn, soda, peanuts—all the in- gredients for a good old-fashioned attack of indigestion—all for a dime, ten cents. And the customers love it. NOW YOU ASK ONE Bible Quiz Here s another quiz on Bible t tory. 1-—~Who attempted to set him. self up as successor to King David? 2—Who was the father of Han- och, Palu, Hezron and Carmi? 3—What book of the Bible lows the hook of Job? 4—What was the approximate date of creation, as reckoned by Bible history? 5—Who is quoted the Book of Proverbs? 6—What was the color of the robe put upon Christ whan ha was scourged by Pilate and delivered to the Gentile? 7—Whera twas the Apostls Paul born? §—Who was the father of Jos- eph, husband of the Virgin Mary? 9—How many times did Moses smite the rock to bring forth water? [ fol- throughout sett has also taken extension courses in Columbia, Harvard and Yale uni- versities. Previous to accepting an offer to teach in New Britain in 1919, she was teacher in schools in Brooklyn, Hampton and Kensington. “TIGE GOING OUT, FANGY NAMES IN ,Styles in Dog Cognomens Follow Trend of Times Human nature displays itself in eer forms at the office clerk, the hureau i one form d and matters tabulate are through wh or another are obtai t00 numerous to handled daily. It is particularly s the months o iking during car when dogs are being licep: Several thousand are registered y year, about 100 of the canines after the time limit has expired and it is then that the sometimes interesting, sometimes amusing and sometimes aggravating comments are most frequent. “Why was I not notified that the time had come to have my dog li- censed,” an {rate caller will demand. The courtzous clerk informs the dog owner that it is quite difficult to know “who has and who has not a dog when of:entimes persons aren't quite sure whether they are the er by «ning of the dog that was theirs dawning. A series of e “foolish Not infrequent- uire as to the cost ot licensing, together with the pen- alty for delinquency and, learning that it is &1 more than the regular fee, will leave with a determination to end the dog's days and the neces- sity of paying furth xes. Over- taken by coolness while on the way home, the dog fancier frequently re- turns and pays the fee, though un- der heavy protest. In the cholice of names for dogs a wide range of selection is evident from the reccrds at tha office of City Clerk Alfred L. Thompson. The old time “Tige/" the popular name eral years 2go, is giving way to more colorsome names everyday heroes or popular fig ly a caller will in Mutts,” “Jeffs,” “Freckles” “Tagalongs” have had some following for several year: added to th paper characters broug! orm when a “Major Hoop: gistered vents of the year are in a s6 chronicled in the book of licensed dogs. The names of im- portant characters in very nearly v walk of life are adopted as abel of a dog. and even a cur- sory reading of the license stubs will sugge hundreds of e ts of mport that have oceurred since the office have very and the Ily given to g. while the or some found th prettiest names are u , choppy v dog. | of nency of the 1" on applications te in spite of the own that the per- v Britain s negligivle. contage of canin, which are thoro benetit of Chil. §t. Joseph's Clrcus 14 Triday evening at St parish kall. Admission 50 Public welcome. Door prize. will be Joseph's Miss Bas-| | or be seatad at dinner? A. When dinner is announced the host offers his arm to the lady of honor and leads the way to the din- {ing room. The others follow with their partners and the hostess with the gentleman who is honored comes last. The guest of honor sits on the right of the host, the second lady in rank on his left. 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