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Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-08

The Red Cross nurse was at the
school Thursday afternoon and Fri
dav taking measurements of the chill
dren, TO SEQ if they come up to nor
nal. She also visited the school in
the FINLAND district Friday after
noon
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-08

A novel table for workshops can he
turned and locked in thirty.two DIFF.
ferent positions to save the labor Of
moving objects on which work is be-
ing done.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-08
Discuss Next Years Program.

The home bureau met with Mrs,
f. +. Frazer Thursday afternoon and
Miss Monroe, the adviser, from OF
to,ya was here and talked over the
program for the new year.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-08


Under the auspices OF the first Gi
vision of the ladies' aid society, DR.
George C. Poundstone of Chicago.
win give lecture in connection with
the pictures taken by himself. The
subject is Here and There in Ma
lures Garden" 1t is q combination
of the beauty of Nature with the beau
ty OF literature. 1t is from selec-
tons taken from the poets, and the
pictures were selected to suit these
particular poems. BY certain pro-
cess Of color photography the wonder
full colorings of nature have been re-
corded. The slides are the original
plates untouched by handwork of any
kind, and are projected upon the
screen through a especially construct
ed stercoptcon. 1t is to be held at
the NJ f. church Thursday evening,
Dec IA Admission for adults will
be thirty-fve cents and school chill,
dren twenty cents.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-08
Sheridan
Parent. Teachers Meet

A parents.teachers club is to be
formed and the first meeting was
held Thursday evening at the school,
The topic Of the evening was talking
over ways aud means for the teach
ers.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-08
He's Probably WILLING.

Should . bridegroom in Korea stay
IN tie house Of his brides family for
more than three days after the we'd
ding, he must live there for an en-
tire Yenr
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-08
Seriously III.

Mrs. Vernon Morset was very III
"wednesday, having two physicians
at her bedside, She was very much
improved Thursday and is sleeping
quietly.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-08
Times Have CHARGED.

The celebration of a birthday ami
versary, customary among the an-
clients was originally frowned upon
by the Christians.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-08
Mrs. y. l. Abbott was IN ottawa

" tUHtAUdN
George G. Poundstone was teacher
In our school twenty.six years ago.
Mr.. and Mrs, Henry Brimhall OF
Sandwich were entertained at the
Adolph Hess home Thursday, They
were neighbors on the farm when
Mr.. Hess lived there before moving
to town.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-08
Old Time Bazaar.

The Serena ladies' aid society is
preparing an old time bazaar, where
you can get most anything that is
going. It will be held Dec. l6 in the
Serena hall.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-08

Mr.. and Mrs L. y. Hess were at
the Adolph Hess home for dinner on
Thursday.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-08
Eof the Few Who MAXI II

4 few men make Mopav: HE most
Of rs haze 10 earn lt.--noaton Tran
scrip,
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-08
True.

The chap who nesl1cts the job he
Las to think about he Job just ahead
viii never gct the one ahead.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-08
ecture.

Acme Silica Sand Co has closed
down for the winter.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-08

Or b. D. Mosher of Serena was on
the streets Thursday morning, talk
ing to old acquaintances.
Evening star., 1922-04-30

orally jot down enough additional ma
terial to enable them to deliver long
winded lecture before the young men
and women's civic and personal Inn
provement association when they get
back to their home town, and l have
often pictured their appearance as they
ascend the local rostrum to deliver this
immense and ponderous lecture, attired
in carefully brushed Prince Albert, with
white vest, high collar and string tie.
Say, if some of those fellows would only
use the same costume and style on the
vaudeville stage as they do at home the
managers of the vaudeville circuits
would be paying them more than Bill
Hart or Tom Mix gets for thril1ers in
the movies.
"Then comes the schooimarm, who,
by months labor and economy,
has saved up enough money to
by zeal to- instill patriotism. she
comes to Washington to see and
learn. so that she may go back after
the vacation period and impress upon
the little ones Of her class what
wonderful country this is. To her
we always show special attention.
for she really is trying to do some-
thing worth while, but if you want
a real easy, downright cinch couple
to handle grab of a bride and groom.
They are so darn interested in each
other that you can humble most any
thing and get away with it, and there
is no danger of their getting sepa-
rated. because, as a rule, he has a
hold on Ler that is tighter than the
craze for short skirts and silk stock
ings has on the women of today.
These are generally good also for a
lunch. as the groom wants to show
the world that nothing is to good for
any friend of the family, and at lunch
you don't have to bother much with
them at all. because they are 50 taken
up with each other.
\ X
GA MOTHER class is composed of
\ the smart alecks, each Of whom
is determined at the beginning of the
trip not to be impressed with any
thing that he may see. He gener-
Evening star., 1922-04-30
yJob-Ths Guiding of Sightseers Around the CapitC

guess yes! When I got through
pumping the hot air into those con-
stituents of his he topped it Off by
taking them all to lunch. 1t must
have set him back three or four hun
dred dollars at that, for they sure
were a big-eating bunch, but, even
like virtue being it's own reward,
this little stunt of his was the means
of his being reelected the next time,
was just exactly the number of the
party I conducted through the Cap
itol. Sc you see a guide can some-
times be Of help even to a congress-
man.
Il guess you are familiar with
the acoustics in statuary hall. Well,
anyhow. there is stone on which you
stand. and when you speak your
voice is thrown right back at you.
Zone day 1 was showing a party
through and the crowd was very
much interested in hearing their
voices thrown back from the floor
happened to notice that one of
the crowd was getting redder in the
face every minute and he finally
strobe toward me, with fists clenched,
and exclaimed:
Its a downright shame the way
you are humbugging these people
and taking their money for such a
bare-faced fraud as you are perpe-
trating.' Naturally, asked what his
grievance was, when, with choleric
demeanor, he declared that 1 was a
ventriloquist. I finally offered to go
off in the middle OF the rotunda and
let him use the stone. He accepted
the challenge. Well, to make a long
story short, he apologized, and 1
guess that for three or four years
afterward / used to get letters from
Evening star., 1922-04-30

Therefore, no would be oblivious to
the rest just as the little girl who
thoughtSshe knew the twenty third
psalm was oblivious of the existence
Of the word or meaning of shepherd"
psalm was read to her because the
idea was not of her ken or contact.
But her daddy did have a chauffeur,
and the child did have an appercep-
tion mass concerning the word chauf-
feur.
X X X X
ITO come down to dull brass tacks,
a definition is probably necessary
here. To speakin q loose way. but
close enough to develop the point Of
this article, in apperception mass is
a group Of sensations. percepts, con-.
cepts, ideas, clustering around a CEN
tral idea, the mass being built up by
old ideas assimilating and absorbing
the new.
A farmer has big apperception
mass built up III hts mind about the
idea Of crops. He has also an apper-
ception mass concerning weather.
though 1t cannot compare with the
weather apperception mass Of q me-
teorologist; and an apperception mass
concerning stars that Is nothing at
all like that Of an astronomer.
= He, the farmer. observes the world
and makes judgments upon the world
according to his own apperception
masses. So does every one else.
For instance, an artist CAME to
spend q few days recently on farm.
One evening when the sun was set
ting behind the slope, the farmer, the
artist. the farmers wife and his
Evening star., 1922-04-30
Have You Examined Your Appercepton Masses?

.DERHAPS the game Of apperception
L masses Is most interesting when
one plays it with children. For a
child's apperception masses are in
process of forming. One who is with
a child may direct their formation.
and with important results, by pro-
viding what apperception masses the
child has with new ideas, by stirring
up the old into activity and supplying
the new to be assimilated. by first
finding out what ideas the child has
and then building on them.
A persons profession or occupation
in life is invariably built upon some
apperception mass that has been
dominant and developing since, his
early childhood, not upon something
entirely new that he takes up when
he comes to manhood. The example
Of this that happens to come immedi-
ately to my mind is that of Prof. A.
r. Hatton, nationally known special
ist on city charters. member of the
faculty Of the political economy de-
partment at Western Reserve Uni
versity. Prof. Hatton's interest and
knowledge Of his present occupation
started when he was child. His
father was in politics. He heard poll
tic and government discussed in his
home. He found many books OF his
tory and geography in his fathers
library. He developed a taste, a large
and well organized apperception
mass, for this sort of thing.
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JKIE are only "clever" or bright in
w dealing with things about which
our apperception masses are well de-
xeloped. We are dull-minded in
fields Of thought with which we are
not acquainted.
William Glover Of Cambridge has
pointed out in an exposition Of the
Herbartian apperception teaching
that I'VE all Judge. reason, think. not
SO much according to our natural
powers as they are called. as to
our familiarity with the subject we
have under consideration. 1t is often
incorrect to say that such man is
a very clever fellow; we should
rather say ne IL CleNei Az eh'S " 1850
direction."s
The ideal man. Glover thinks. is
ian all-round man with big bulge
in one direction"
In order to be the possessor of
apperception masses that will help us
to rise to all emergencies, we each
should have five kinds. well organ
Iced in themselves and among them
selves, Glover holds. He adapts them
from Herbert Spencer's attempt to
classify the chief activities Of hu-
man life.
These Aye apperception masses
necessary to a full and complete
human life,"' are, he states, ideas
about the laws of health, ideas about
ones trade@or profession. ideas about
the rearing and discipline of chill
dren, ideas about ones social and
political relations, ideas connected
with the spending Of ones leisure.
How well arx- you equipped with
these essential apperception masses?
Have you an all-round mind, OF
are you = Greek professor type iof
person? It was Bernard Shaw or
some one like him who once wrote
something like this: Greek profess
sore know nothing except Greek. and
few Of them know that"
(csvyright. 1871
Evening star., 1922-04-30

him. brought to me by different
parties of his section OF the country.
in which he declared that 1 was the
greatest guide in any capitol in the
world, and around Christmas time he
use to ship me down a ten-pound box
If maple sugar.
x = X X
ct WONDER if you have ever run
across in your experiences the
kind Of an individual who becomes
such an enthusiast that he enlarges
a hundredfold on the story you tell.
I met such a chap four or five years
ago You will remember that you
can hear the faintest whisper from
one side of statuary hall to the
other Well, 1 showed this man
around the Capitol one day-one
Monday. in fact-and he was might
lily impressed, so much SO that he
came up the next day with some
friends and his description of the
acoustic properties of statuary hall
would have done credit to any fiction
writer in the world. He came up here
lOuE udyS oio I 49,
when he went back home that he told
the people they had; place in the
Capitol where you could ask in a
whisper what time it was and the
answering whisper would give the
minute and the hour"
In response to query as to
whether or not people ever asked
unusual questions. the guide replied:
.Oh, yes, lots Of them.
N"An advertising man, one of the
kind that wants to paint advertise
ments on the rocks in Yellowstone
Park, to hang streamers from the big
trees in California or to plaster signs
on the Washington monument, want
ed to know II it was not possible for
him to put in panels advertising a
new soap product. OF course, ]
referred him to Mr.. Elliot Woods. who
has SO efficiently cared for the Capitol
for many years.
r +
e A MOTHER individual, quite in
- terested In spooks, wanted tc
know II It was not possible for him
Evening star., 1922-04-30

ape everything British. declared that
it was an outrage that the justices
of the Supreme Court did not wear
white wigs, as it would give them
such a dignifed and English appear
ance.
Lots of people ask us what the build
ing is worth, how many cubic yards of
material it contains and why the
front of it faces away from the larger
section OF the city. Some want to
know il the senators and members of
House of Representatives live in the
building. Others inquire il only the
bachelors are permitted to live there.
as they have heard that no women
were permitted to live in the Capitol.
Still others ask IL there are gasoline
stations in the Capitol and IL members
of Congress get their gasoline, oil
and tires free. We are often asked
to have the BARRIERS save some Of the
hair cut from the head OF some promi-
nent man. Still other people want to
know If it is true that the democrats
and republicans don't speak to each
other except when they are on the
floor of their respective bodies. I
guess l have been asked a hundred
times if the members OF committee
who are working on a bill are locked
up in the committee room like 1u-
rors who are serving on a murder
case.
GONE lady from Columbus, Kan,
~ said that the wife Of a con-
gresham from another state told
her a number of years ago that her
husband just couldn't get home some
times for three or four days. OF
course that was before prohibition
went into effect and there is no such
alibi now.
Yes. it is hard work being a guide,
but still 1t has its pleasant side. as
you often meet people you like and
who remember from time to time
the interest that you took in them.
1t makes you feel that your efforts
are appreciated when you get let
ter now and then from some one who
has not forgotten you. 1 think that all
of we guides take especial pride
in the Capitol. Before taking this
job I used to have lots Of money
and have travelled nearly all over the
world. and 1 want to say. not because
I am a citizen Of the United States
and a guide. but because I know It
from actual observation, that our
Capitol is the most interesting and
handsomest capitol In the world"
Evening star., 1922-04-30
BY ARTHUR JAMES.
north and south.

[T from north and south, from
X east and west. from the big
cities and from the cross
roads. from Jayville and Jop-
lin, from Chicago and Cheyenne. from
the logging camps of Minnesota and the
everglades of Florida. come each year
thousands of visitors to view with awe
the most splendid ,edifice of its kind in
1 the world, the Capitol of the United
States.''
This was the introduction of n story of
how the visitors to Washington ac;
when they come to see the sights.
The speaker was an old-time guide,
one who had piloted thousands of Wis
ftors through the Capitol, and that he
had been close student and observer
OF human nature WIS evideaeed by the
following account OF his experiences of
a score or more of years:
j 'iThere are several kinds of visitors
who come to view the beauty and the
wonders of this. the finest capitol build
ing in the world" he said. There is
the earnest student who revels in things
of a historical nature: the man who,
long before arriving in the city, has
gone to the public library in his own
home town and saturated himself with
all the facts and figures concerning the
building, and who generally pushes him
self to the front of the crowd that is
being shown through the building and
asks a million or more questions. If it
were not for the fact that We guides
have given years of study to our subject
We would often be stumped.
= X x
lsXJ-HEN you finish showing around
a party of visitors with one of
these ant-to-know-it-all kind your
mind feels as if it had been run through
a vacuum cleaner. These birds not only
get their 80 cents worth, but they gem
Evening star., 1922-04-30

| to verify the statement that had been
made a number of times, that at the
hour of midnight ghosts of the Illus
trious men whose statues have been
placed in statuary hall come forth
from the marble reproductions and
hold converse for an hour or so. He
stated he believed he was mentally
in tune with the ones who had
passed beyond, and he felt that by
communing with the spirits OF the
departed ones he might be able to
secure from them words of guidance
that would help settle many of the
problems that veH US today. He was
particularly anxious to talk with
George Washington's ghost and even
offered to go down and stay in the
crypt. and did not seem bit an
noyed when I told him the remains
of the father Of his country had never
rested there, but were enshrined at
Mount Vernon. He insisted Wash
ington's ghost. because Of his love
for his country, would come up from
Mount Vernon and repair to the spot
which had been designed for his last
resting place.
"A funny one happened some time
ago when a party came up bearing
in his arms a wreath and asked that
he be directed to the little room off
the House OF Representatives gallery,
where Daniel Webster used to sit
and drink his toddy with boon COM
panions when his presence was not
needed on the floor of Congress. He
wanted to place the wreath not only
as a tribute to Webster, but also as
a rebuke to the passers of the VOL
stead law.
"A sweet young girl graduate from
Michigan came up to me the other
day, and wanted to know what steps
to take to have a statue Of Henry
Ford placed beside that Of Fulton,
who sits with a model OF his
steamboat in his hands. She argued
that Ford, in giving the world his
gad-a-bout, had done just as much
for humanity as had Fulton. / told
her to see the congressman from the
Detroit district.
ga GREAT many people ask US
why the justices of the Supreme
Court always wear the long silken
robes. and a sweet young he thing
the other day. with one of those Chap
lin mustaches and an evident desire to
Evening star., 1922-04-30

~
\A/ Cincinnati. in the year
" ~ 1912. built the first in
stalled bathtub in this
country newspaper editorial writer's
denounced such an unheard-of con-
trivance as being contrary to the idea
of democracy and the pioneering
spirit. Doctors stated that such lux
urious bathing with heated water in
a mahogany tub lined with sheet lead
oh, such elegance!-would be un-
healthful. That first American bath
tub didn't connect easily with the ap-
perception masses of the newspaper men
and doctors.
When the little girl recited the
twenty-third psalm, THE Lord is my
chauffeur" her hearers laughed. But
the child had made the best connec.
ton she could with the apperception
masses her baby mind had acquired
in her short life and through her
environment.
When Livingstone's African serv-
ant, who had always lived in the in
terror and had never seen a body OF
water of any size, found himself,
while on the way to England with
his master, on a ship with water all
around him as far as the eye could
see, with all land disappeared from
view. he was so crazed that he leaped
overheard. He was drowned because
he could associate the situation in
which he found himself with no ap-
perception mass within his limited
savage mind.
"Apperception mass?" you may ques-
tion..
yEIELL the game of apperception
w masses Is the game Of mental
life. It's fascinating game you can
play, hobby you may ride, with ex-
ceeding benefit to yourself, intellec-
tually. socially. recreationally.
One plays the first round Of the
game solitaire. He writes out list
Of his chief interests, of the groups
Of ideas that are active in his mind
daily, day. after day.
Then he arranges these interests in
what he thinks Is the order Of their
degree Of activity or energy. He is
frank with himself. :.
He examines the list Of interests
written down in the order Of their
strength in his life. Perhaps 1t brings
him to a realization that for his own
good he ought to change the order of
Importance Of the ideas that are max
ing up his life. But, anyway, it gives
him plain cross s-section of his men
tai and moral makeup.
For man is what his interests, his
pet groups Of ideas, his "appercep-
ton masses make him. BY his ap-<
perception masses is he limited and
is he developed, and are his reactions
to situations determined.
When Confucius said, 'Tell me your
past and will tell you your future"
he was Offering to read q mans char
acter and life by his apperception
masses and the probabilities they held
forth.
Given the apperception masses IN
the mans mind. he could prophesy to
q certain extent what reactions that
man would have to the world.
The man would live. think and feel
only In and through his own particu-
lar apperception masses. He would
so through the world IN tho center OF
his own little individual universe OF
apperception masses, move only In,
their orbit, beyond or outside Of
which his mind would not work.
r.
Evening star., 1922-04-30

0THERE are lots Of senator's and
representatives that go out of
their way now and then to do us a
little favor. There was a repre-
sentative several years ago who came
to me one day and told me some peo-
pie from his district were coming up
soon and he wanted me to impress
upon them the fact that he was one
Of the big men In Washington. He
slipped me a ten on the side.
Did I deliver the goods? Well.
Evening star., 1922-04-30

DO you see the senator walking
through the corridor there? Well. I
want to tell you a story about him.
He's from the middle west and stands
very well up in administration cir
cles, and I want to emphasize the
fact that he is one Of the best friends
we guides have ever had. Whenever
he sees US with party he generally
stops and says something that runs
about like this: John. I see you are
showing the good people around the
Evening star., 1922-04-30
Sugar Fungus.
TT is reported that an expert

TT is reported that an expert Of the
Department Of Agriculture has dis
covered that the spelling of granu-
lated sugar, stored in damp places,
results from the development OF mi
croscopic fungus. seen in the form OF
threads and round bodies. and capable
M being artifcially cultivated. so
that experiments can be made In In
occulating sugar previously free from
the growth. Three species OF this
fungus were found in some barrels OF
sugar which had become unfit for
use. 1t grows readily on all kinds Of
cooked vegetables. but chiefly ON raw
vegetables.
Evening star., 1922-04-30

Capitol again today whereupon
generally introduce him to the party
of tourists am conducting, and he
tells them what a good guide I am.
1t helps me, as it makes these peo-
pie think I am a personal friend Of
one Of the nations big men, but II
happen to meet him walking alone
and start to thank him he generally
says, Don't bother me. I'm trying to
work out a detail on that blankety
blank tariff measure"