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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-18
TO MAKE AND HOLD FRIENDS
Nnaek That Can Be Acquired by ssswa
Peopfs, and 10 Well Wsrsh
the Having

Few people are naturally blessed
with the happy faculty Of making
friends easily. With most people II
is more or less an acquired art. II
you wish to acquire this art, don't
be discouraged at the apparent ease
with which some Of your friends seem
to get on" with everybody. They've
only learned a few more Of the
tricks Of the trade" 70 to speak.
than you have. That's all. The main
point is that they have learned them,
A person who would have friends
must show himself fiendly. Just yeu
try 1t and see II it doesn't act Ike Z
charm.
Half the battle Is to meet people ~
If It may be taken for granted that
they are glad to see you, and that
you are glad to see them. Nine cases
out Of ten II you are genuinely glad
to see them and show It they VIII be
glad to SEQ you
Don't always expect the other par
son to make the advances Il there II
no good reason why you shDuldn,t
make them. Sometimes the ve1y 20.
sons who seem most ~unapproachA-
Bile" turn out to be quite willing to be
friendly If they are approached In the
right way. Look for the yeo4 y pes-
pie, always, and you win Hkvae1eSuv
d: find It
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-18
OBJECTED TO WOMAN's SKIRT
Peculiar Reason Advanced by China
man for Refusing to Consider
Matrimonial Alliance.

In spite of the success with which
the campaign against the binding of
women's feet has been waged in China,
there are still parts where men will
not marry girls who have natural feet.
Missionaries try, so far as possible,
to arrange marriages between Chris
tan girls and Christian men. One Of
our Christian girls, writes a CORE
Spondent, was getting quite an old
maid. having reached the age Of twen-
weight. Several heather had asked
her, but she refused them ALL One Of
our preachers approached a country
tenant farmer and tried to persuade
him to ask the yeight-year-old
lady. We all thought it would come
or. The man was about the same age
as the lady in question, and had not
yet succeeded in getting engaged. But
to our surprise, he would have nothing
to do with the plan, and gave as his
reason: who would marry Il girl with
= skirt like that" The girl had her
skirt embroidered in Il different way
to the girls and the women in the VIII
lage where the particular swain lived,
and he felt that he dared not make
such an innovation on the fashion Of
his own village. A beautiful pair OF
brown eyes long. fine, black hair, and
q good Christian character counted as
nothing against strange style of skirt
embroidery!
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-18
Happjness in Gladness

'Be glad. When you have said all
there is to say about life's sorrow.
disappointment and pain, about the
seltishness and wrong that sweep over
the earth like shadows, about the
shortness of its days and the certainty
IF its nights. it still remains blessedly
true that the universe is thrilling with
he song of gladness," says helpful
writer.
BE glad for the beauty Of the
springtime. the blue of the skies, the
music of the birds and the glory Of
the sunsets. Listen to the laughter
IF the little children. answer to the
haRdclasp of friendship grow warm
In the lovelight of countless happy
homes and be sure that somewhere
over and above all is a great Love that
makes all these things possible"
The secret of happiness lies in your
own attitude toward life.-Orison
SWEET Marden in Chicago Daily News.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-18
Profitable Pebbles

The flint pebble industry gives oc.
cupation to many women and children
along the French coast lying between
Havre and Dieppe. The pebbles col
lected In and near Havre are selected
for their spherical shape and are used
exclusively for pulverizing In certain
Industries, particularly In the manu-.
facture of cement and In copper mines,
being employed in the interior of large
cylinders. In the cement industry the
slow turning Of the pebbles produces
q powder which becomes an ingredient
OF the cement, while In the copper in
dustry the metal is freed of all impuri
ties by the grinding operation. The
same kind Of pebbles Is used for crush.
Ing purposes in the manufacture of
paint. Another important use Of flint
pebbles is in the manufacture Of porce
lain, the pebbles for this purpose be
ing found between Fecamp and Calais
Philadelphia Press.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-18
Try Smiling.

Two women We're talking; one
smiled as she spoke, and the other
frowned. One looked out on the
world with friendly eyes, and the
other scowled into the faces Of
passers-by.
'Well, you see, 1 learned long ago
how to SMILE" said the smiling one
AT first il was not SO easy; then by
degrees I learned to smile even though
l did feel like crying.
Il think that personally I made a
hard study Of the psychology of a
smile. When | went into store, and
faced clerk who was inattentive or
insolent I smiled at her, and then
made known my wants. In most cases
l got back a smile for every one
gave. Not always, of course. but often
enough to learn that smile would go
farther than a frown any day. So
that even though l may feel like pull
ing somebody's hair, I smile. 1t is
contagious, but the health board will
interfere. "-Columbu Telegram.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-18
gum GUILTY or l S6ME1HINe'
Fact That Il Didn't Happen to Do
Larceny Didn't Make Much Of.
ference to Hank.

There is an old New England squire
whose knowledge Of the statute law is
limited, but who has decided views as
to common justice. Not long ago 4
certain Hank Miller was brought b.
fore him, charged with larceny. 1t ap-
peared from the evidence that Hank
had rented horse from a farmer to
do some hauling and that, during the
period the animal had remained in his
possession, he had fed 1t from the own
er's stock Of grain, although the agree
ment was that Hank himself should
supply the feed. He was charged by
the farmer, therefore, with the theft
of two bushels Of oats and corn.
1.-THE statutes made and provided"
the old squire announced ponderously,
"say that theft is to convert to your
own use the property Of another. The
horse is the servant Of the owner. not
Of Hank, and Hank converted them
oats to the horses use, not his-so I
acquit Hank of stealth them oats-he
amt guilty Of larceny"
Hank rose, thanked the squire and
was about to leave the room, when the
old man called him back.
"As I said, Hank" he remarked,
with a CLEAN Of hunor in his eye, "you
amt guilty Of larceny, but you shore
air guilty Of something, and I'm goin'
to send you to Jail for month for IL !"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-18
UNIQUE IN ANIMAL WORLD
Elephant Has Survived Because He
Has Been Able to Adapt Him
self to Conditions.

These is nothing else like the ele-
plant. He has come down to US
through the ages, surviving the con-
ditions which killed off his earlier con-
temporaries, and he now adapts HIM
self perfectly to more different con-
d1tions than any other animal In AZ
rlca, Carl Akeley of the American Mu-
scum of Natural History writes in the
Worlds Work.
he can eat anything that is green or
even has been green, just so long as
there Is enough Of 1t. He can get
his water from the aloe plants on the
arid plains or dig a well in the sand
Of q dry river with his trunk and
fore feet, and drink there, or he is
equally at home living half In the
Swamps Of better watered regions. He
is at home on the low, hot plains Of
the seacoast at the equator or on the
cool slopes of Kenfa and Elgon. So
far as know he suffers from no con-
tagious diseases and has DO enemies
except man. There are elephants on
kenia that have never lain down for
a hundred years. Some of the plains
elephants do rest lying down, but no
one ever saw a Kenia elephant lying
down or any evidence that they do lie
down at rest. The elephant is a
good traveller. On good ground a
good horse can outrun him, but on
bad ground the horse would have no
| chance and there are few animals
that can cover more ground in a day
than an elephant. And in spite Of
his appearance he can turn with sur
prising agility and move through the
forest as quietly as rabbit.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-18
CHINESE GODDESS OF MERCY
legend Popular In the yellow Land
Because 1t illustrates Quality
of Filiai Piety.

The Chinese tell an interesting story
relating to their Goddess Of Mercy"
who was the third daughter of the
king Mas Tsong. Her two elder sis
tiers We're married early, and when
her turn came the third refused to
u1arry, having already given up the
temporal pleasures and devoted her
entire devotion to preparation for the
next life. The king then sent his
daughter TO the temple, where she
was asked to draw water and cook
dinner for 500 monks But this
seemed to be an easy task, for when
she Went to cook. she found every
thing ready for her, dragon being
sent from heaven to help her.
The king was angered and ordered
the temple to be burned but the prin-
cess spat blood into heaven and
new temple fell down to earth. This
angered the king still more and he
ordered his daughter killed and that
her body be eaten by the tigers. AS
time went on, the king vas afflicted
with leprosy, none of the doctors be-
ing able to cure him. A beggar monk
later came and told the king he could
cure him. Upon being given trial
the monk said that the disease could
only be cured by the ash of the
burned hand and eye of q person who
was on certain mountain.
When the desired hand and eye was
finally found, the queen recognized
them as her daughters. The king was
cured by the ashes of this hand and
eye, which made the people honor tka
tame of the princess as the Goddess
of Mercy" for her untold sufferlngs
and her filial piety to her cruel father.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-18
Change Ringers,

English peals are rung by q man to
bell, the bell swinging on a heavy
mounting, starting at an inverted po-
sition when it is at rest. The bell is
attached to a wheel over which a rope
is strung pulley-wise, each ringer hav-
ing the two ends in his hands The
ringers-they call themselves change
ringers"-stand in a circle, with a con-
ductor in the center. It takes a year
of training, one night a week, to make
a change-rfnger. 1t requires strong
tower to stand the strain of the swing
ing bells. The effect of the swinging
is to give more beautiful tone than
that of a fixed bell.
Change-ringers usually are trained
church folk. The Ancient Society of
College Youths, founded in 1887, is
their London organization. There are
more than a thousand members who
meet monthly and ring special peals
in relays On the kings birthday, cor
onation day, peace day and others,
there is such q demand for change
ringers that the bell foundries are
called upon for their professional band.
But none of the other change-ringers
are paid-London Mail.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-18
New British Wheats.

Sir Daniel Morris stated at the last
meeting of the British association that
as result Of the recent plant-breed.
ing work done by Biffen. at Cam.
bridge, new wheats have been grown
over extensive areas In eastern Eng
land, yielding crops at the rate of so
to 60 bushels per acre, and even II
bushels in the case of one area of 81
acres. The average yield in England
Is 80 bushels per acre. Besides being
more productive, the new wheats are
less liable to disease and make better
-four than the ordinary English
wheats. In India, the Pusa wheats,
developed by the Towards, will soon
be grown over an area Of 100000
acres, and are expected to increase
the value of the wheat crop In India
10 the extent of $2500O,000 annually.
Scientific American.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-18
Results Of Hybrid Mating.

Here is a strange set of facts, prov,
en- by three different investigators in
three different parts of the world at
three different times.
In matings of so-called pure" races
that is to say. Englishman with Eng,
fish woman, Frenchman with French
woman, German with German woman,
etc, 104.54 more males are born than
females.
In hybrid matings, that is to say. of
different nationalities, there is a more
significant excess Of male over female
births.
In matings Of United States whites
the ratio is about the same as that Of
European hybrids.
In matings of United States colored
folks there is a significant excess Of
females over the ratio of British West
Indian colored who are relatively pure
bred
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-18
How Leaves Purif, Air.

It has been calculated that single
rec is able through its leaves to purify
the air from the carbonlc acid arising
from the respiration of a considerable
number of men. perhaps a dozen or
even more. The volume Of carbonic
acid exhaled by human being in the
course Of twentyfour hours is put at
about 100 gallons, but by Boussin.
gault's estimate a single yard of leaf
surface. counting both the upper and
the under side of the leaves, can. in
favorable circumstances. decompose at
least gallon of carbonic acid a day.
One hundred square yards of leaf sur
face then would suffice to keep the
air pure for one man, but the leaves
Of tree Of moderate size present
surface of many hundred square
yards. All other forms of vegetable
life act similarly In abstractin the
noxious carbonic acid from the atmos-
phere.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-18

concerts. There's nothing but vanity
and vexation of spirit about an enter
tainment of that kind. It's advertised
to start at a certain hour. say eight
o'clock. and you are credulous enough
to think that the specifications will be
lived up TO. You break a hame strap
to get there in time. and when you ar
rive, at ten minutes to eight, you find
you're the first one there. You sit
around, waiting for an hour or two and
people walk on your feet and sit down
on your hat and make things unpleas-
ant as possible.
by the time the curtain goes up,
you are wishing you had possessed
sense enough to stay at home But be-
ing there, and having paid for the priv
ile-e you determine to hold her nozzle
agin the bank. as If We're.
The entertainment usually is
opened by a talkSmith. The man who
makes a few remarks always looms up
at such entertainments. and should be
taken to Jail for obtaining money I'M
der false pretenseS. When he has
said all that he can think of. the art
lists begin to dish up the music. 1t
may be elegant music-it usually Is.
But you can't enjoy it in comfort. for
the gentleman with the large splay
foot. in the seat directly behind you,
persists in heating time with that organ
until he drives you frantic. If you turn
around and dot him in the eye, you
will be elected from the building.
Then you will find that the woman
with a shrill. carrying voice, who has
heard better singers. sits right in front
of you, and she keeps on talking in
maddening way. The last concert /
attended had fine contralto who sang
some stem-winding songs of the kind
We all like. But the woman with the
shrill voice was right in front of me,
and I could hear her saying: Really,
you should hear Margaret Reyes or
Christine Miller sing that selection;
this woman is impossible as a vocal
ist'
Then a man with a hectic voice
and name that he imported without
paving duty on it, stood up and whin-
MED like a doggone zebra, and we were
expected to believe that he was sing
ing a Neapolitan song. I never heard
anything that filed my nerves the way
that voice did. It recalled the halcyon
DAYS when my father used to sharpen
q hucksaw with a raSp. Well, when
he finished his first number, the ap-
plause was frantic. and he reared up
and did it all over again. Then the
applause was louder than ever, and he
whinned something else. They kept
that blamed pirate there for half an
hour and I don't know when / suf-
fered so much.
THE hall was overheated, and I was
damned in the middle of q row of seats
so I couldn't get out without climbing
over number of ladies and gentlemen.
We were kept there for three hours
and when I got out / swore by my
Sunday hat I'd never go to another
public concert.
Next day | bought monograph
and a lot of records Of the kind l like
and now I enjoy my music. start 1t
when I get ready. and quit when I am
tired No punk singers are encored.
No Windy Jims introduce the singers
with a few pertinent remarks. If a
singer displeases me, I stop the ma
chine and throw the record into the
alley. You'd better tear up your con-
cert ticket and come and hear my mu-
sic mill"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-18
TOP or SNoWDON IS SOLD
Ground on erItaln's loftisst Mountain
Has Recently Been Purchased
by Farmer.

Freak purchases are heard OF from
time to time, but It is not often that
the sale Of a mountain Is announced.
For this reason alone the transfer OF
the summit Of Spowdop. including sew
eral hundreds Of acres Of the slope
which Is grazing ground. and the
ground on which Is built the Summit
hotel. by Lieut.. Col. Worsley-Taylor. to
a farmer, Is of more than ordinary in
terest, remarks the Christian Science
Monitor.
Mount Snowden-in Carnarvon-is
the most famous peak in the southern
part Of Britain; Is we'll known to all
holiday makers, and Is Of bold and
rugged outline and forms, with its
subsidiary peaks, an impressive range.
The ascent presents no special features
of difficulty If one of the five we'll de-
fined pathways Is used, but should the
climber be bent on pioneering" and
leave the beaten track. he should be
prepared for anything In the way Of
mountaineering problems.
The view from summit Of Snowdon
on a fine day makes the climb worth
WHILE for spread below is Anglesey,
the Menai straits, and great curve Of
ocean from the far-off extremity Of
Cardigan bay to Rhyl. In the fore
ground are to be seen the well defined
peaks Of the sister mountains. Alto
gether the climb is a most exhilarat-
ing form Of exercise, and although the
boast Of having gained the top does
not carry much weight. there Is GER
tain satisfaction in having reached
ones objective. Gladstone, twenty
eight years ago. after having performed
the climb, addressed a political meet
ing of 5000 people on the summit Of
SpoVdop
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-18
An invisihIa Clock

a public clock which can be hes
but not seen, Is one of London's
rous possessions. 1t Is in the tower
Of St Mary Abbot's church. Kensing
ton. and is the only pubic clock in
the immediate neighborhood. 1t chimes
the quarters and the hours, but com
mits itself no further. 1t has no dial,
no hands, no outward and visible sign
OF any kind to show that it is a clock.
This eccentricity, 1t is explained. is
the result Of two causes-one aesthet
ic. the other financial. When the tow
er was built In 1870 a clock was sug,
gested as an afterthought, but the
architect protested that it would near
the addition of fifteen feet 70 ~ ,o%.
er and the ruin of its c,eYi ed propor-
lions. second point was that the
church, having but slender funds
could not afford a clocl: v IN 4 G:al A
compromise was arrived at by install
ing the works of a Ginning clock in the
elfry without dial or hands.-Pear-
ms
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-18
HAVE RULES AND OBEY THEM
System That Will Do Away With a
Tremendous Number of Avoid
able Accidents.

1t Is economical to have rules, and
It is economy to obey them.
A tremendous number of accidents
result from the breaking Of rules.
Sometimes the rules are not laws,
laid down In black and white and en-
forced by law, but they are rules, just
the same. Many motor accidents come
because of speeding, driving on the
wrong side of the road, disobeying
traffic regulations in the city streets.
Many accidents by pedestrians occur
because they don't stay on the side
walks and when they must cross the
streets they don't do so at the cross
lngs Many fires start because cans
of gasoline are stored In the linen
closet when we know 1t should not,
according to the terms of our lease
he bought in large quantities, or kero-
Sene is used carelessly about fire,
In spite of cautions from the fire de-
partment.
So it goes. Many of the Ills Of
mankind result from q disobeying Of
rules
This attitude in adults is much like
'isobedience in children-and the re-
rllts are much the same, for punis'
vent In some form is very liked
ONE
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-18
|Shen. Farmers Union.
Woodstock. Va.
HAVE ANIMALS SIXTH SENSE7
Hard Otherwise to Explain How Wild
Beasts Knew That the Great
War Was Over.

Frightened by the noises Of battle
the wild beasts Of East, Central and
West Central Africa went scurrying
north and south, travelling sometimes
hundreds Of miles in their fright and
taking refuge In localities entirely new
10 them.
But just as the ruins Of northern
France have drawn human beings back
to them-men and women who dwelt
there before the German occupation,
home has claimed the Wild animals
and most Of them are now back In
their native haunts
How did the wild beast know that
the war was over?
The elephant, gorilla, giraffe, ante
lope, buffalo, rhinoceros, lion. leoparS
and porcupine are certainly all per-
fectly aware Of the fact!
Human beings have their various
avenues of sending news, chief among
these the newspapers, the post and
the telegraph.
Whatever the method Of communica-
ton, the wild animals certainly got
the news quickly.
Peace was no sooner accomplished
than the African natives began to see
the homeward migration Of :Thole
companies Of wild beasts through their
territories animals never familiar
in these particular communities and
obviously passing through.
Four years previously they had
come crashing through the under
brush, bound in an opposite direction.
They were in great haste then and pos
sessed Of fear; and pachyderms and
carnivora travelled together, the age
old war Of the jungle forgotten In O
common plight.
Birds may become accustomed to
the sound of firing. but wild animals
loathe it. Fear of strange noises In
instructive with them. Animals born
in captivity invariably show this in.
stinctive dread. And It is a well
known fact in geological parks that
apes can be controlled instantly by
the display Of a musket even when
as far as is known they have AlRss
saAn one sni4 A~>
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-18
MAKES NEW USE OF ECHOES
inventors Idea May Do Away With
the Old Practice Known 40
"HeavIno the Lead"

An inventor in Oakland. Cai., has
found a new and practical use for
echoes. and rs a result the time may
come when the practice Of 'heavinE
The lead" ut sea will be known only
in historical novels and old maritime
history. The marimeter, as the new
Device IL called, sends a sound from
the keel Of the ship to the L,ttom Of
the sea: the sound comes back as an
echo, and the Journey. automatically
recorded on q diaphragm, is translated
into terms Of length. The report shown
the depth Of water between keel ane
bottom, calculated from the known
speed Of the sound-wave In salt water,
and the knowledge may be acquired at
the rate Of four soundings a minute,
which IL very much faster than BY the
older methods. The marimeter, to be
sure, has only recently gone 10 ~,
II indeed the steamer Governor, which
will carry the first Of them, has vt
left dry dock in Seattle, Wash. Bat
the Instrument promises y "a ~
eeeial(E - ~ secaE11y g souna ~
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1921-02-18
STAGES Debt to MinstreIsy.

The stage is indebted to minstrelsy
for Joseph Jefferson, Stuart Robson,
Edwin Adams, Edwin Booth, Tony
Pastor, Bob Hart Robert Downing. P.
T. Barnum, Patrick Gilmore and
So,sa. John Philip Sousa was mem
Der Of Simmons and Slocum's minstrels
when AL G. Field was serving his
apprenticeship with that company.
Johnny Hyams of Mcintyre and
Hyams, was minstrel with the Al G..
Field company. Singer Collono of the
Metropolitan Opera company was pop
ular Will Collins when a tenor with
the AL G. Field MINISTRIES. George NJ.
Conan, Willie Collier. Chauncey o.
colt. Eddie Foy, Francis Wilson,
Frank Daniels, Jimmie Powers and Al
Jolson all graduated from the minstrel
stage.-New Orleans Item.