The Coconino sun., 1920-12-24

One of our local ladies wears lock- ct. A friend looked inside it the other day and discovered that it contained lock of hair.
 "Whose hair was that ?" she asked.
 "My husbands"
 "Why, 1 never knew that you were married twice."
 "I haven't been."
 But then, why,-your husband isn't gone"
 ''No, but his hair is,' was the re- tort.
 Which calls to mind young Jimmy Johnston's retort when his dad, Alex, told him he ought to have his hair marcelwaved to keep it in place.
 No waves for you daddy" said Jimmy. You're all beach,"
 We grow by doing, not by thinking of our thoughts and feeling of our feelings.
 When trouble comes, wise mea take to their work; weak men take to the woods.
 It's better to laugh at a joke you don't understand than to weep over the efforts of your friend to explain it. Bill Doney's Philosophy.
 Joe Jackson says that beauty may be only skin deep, but the average ob- server doesn't see below the skin; to which Ross Denman retorts that it may be only skin deep but it's deep enough to have made lot of million aires out of complexion manufactur- CTS.
 A. J. Fenstermaker, of Cornviue, re- ports that he had great success this last season raising pumpkins, though the crop gave him quite little trou- ble. He planted about an acre of the fruit on May 25 When he had finish ed planting, he started across the field to the house and tripped over something that at first he thought was snake, but when he looked clos CT he discoveredNit was vine that had already grown from a seed he had planted that morning.
 Next day, Jim Cook, a neighbor of Fenstermaker's, rode over and asked the latter to do something about those pumpkins. It seems that they had spread over on to some range owned by Cook and Frank Spear and the lat | ter's cattle were getting tangled up in | them. Fenstermaker grabbed an ax and went out and chopped off all the vines. But it took him several days | to gather up the pumpkins, some of l which he found beyond Sedona A | good many of them were damaged by | being dragged over the rocks by the | fast-growing vines and some had been | stolen. He says he will have to put a | hog tight fence around his pumpkin | field next year to keep the fruit at home.
 J. W. Etter, out on Dead Mans Flat, also had quite an experience raising pumpkins. He got the seed from w. J. Osborne, one of his neigh bors, to whom it had been sent by a cousin back east, who recommended it very highly. Etter planted sev- eral hills with the seed, but only one vine came up. It required a great deal of care, to prevent it's knocking l down all the corn growing around it. Etter had great anticipations of pumpkin pies this winter and was very proud of the lone vine. But, to his great grief, he discovered one morn- ing that one of his horses had broken the vine off.
 Having more milk than he can use he has a fine COW from which he gets a gallon of milk three times day and which he says would give gallon an hour if he had time to milk her that often-he put some of the milk into big jug and stuck the end of the vine into the mouth of the jug. Soon tn leaves revived and the vine bloomed. Etter filled the jug as fast as the vine drank the milk. Soon there grew pumpkin on the vine, and thrived and grew until, last month, when ripe, it was the biggest pumpkin ever seen in these parts.