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The Washington herald., 1922-05-13
Toddles, 200 Pound Infant, Lets Loose
Wild Yells When Molars Come Through
Teething Is No Trifie in
Ringing Hippopota-
Illus Circles.

II YOU. should hear loud squeaIs
punctuated with groans coming
through the mena gerie tent walls
when the Ringing Brothers and Bar
mum d Bailey circus reaches town, do
not conclude that one of the thousand
animals is giving up the ghost. In
stead IL will merely be Tiny Toddles,
the baby hippopotamus, cutting
another tooth.
Teething in hippopotamus circles
is far from a trifling matter. for,
unlike most animals, this species is
possessed of grinders and the ap-
proach OF these is attended by some
discontinue. Since. despite the in
fant mere six months on earth, his
mouth Is all of a foot and a half
wide. a specially designed teething
ring has to be provided. This is
suspended by a cord from the roof of
the def occupied by Toddles and his
mother. Mighty Martha" When the
mite OF a 200-pound infant begins to
moan. Martha noses the ring into her
baby's mouth and all becomes peace
full again.
Tiny Toddles is the first baby hin
popotamus ever sent on tour in
America. Each afternoon and even
ing he holds reception for juvenile
patrons. Were he able 10 talk he
would no doubt tell them of his
grandparents. the famous Mr.. and
Mrs. Murphy. OF Central Park Zoo,
New York City: for Martha" is the
daughter of that noted couple Martha
Is now thirty years old and the first
hippopotamus born in this country
Just before the Ringing Brothers and
Barnum q Bailey circus left Madison
Square Garden to begin its summer
tour daughter and grandchild were
taken to the Zoo to see the old folks.
A thousand menagerie animals and
an additional hundred trained ones
will be on exhibition when the gree
circus shows here for three days,
beginning May Is.
The Washington herald., 1922-05-13

of the tenth house. by Mars shows
that crimes among persons of edu-
cation will increase during the sum-
mer months.
Honor for distinguished army
officer again is foreshadowed.
Conferences Of every sort are well
directed and should bring out wise
counsel.
An uprising Of thinking men and
women is prognosticated and the
churches will be aroused to prac-
tical campaigns.
Great. excitement is forecast for
London some time next month.
Fires will cause great damage in
English cities.
Education is 10 focus interest as
The Washington herald., 1922-05-13
Answers to These Questions VIII
BE Published Tomorrow.

l. BY whom was the term "eul
genics" first used?
2. What, two former Presidents
died on the same day. July 4, 1882
3. Who wrote BLACK Beauty
4. What capital city of Europe
was built in less than nine years?
5. How many miles will a ton of
coal run an. ordinary locomotiveo
6. What are Ave synonyms for the
word abduction?
Z. How are perforating machines
gauged?
8. What new means OF 'communi-
cation was established with Cuba
within the last year?
.. What is sepia" What is it
used for?
The Washington herald., 1922-05-13
Glen Plumb Slightly Better.

Glen Plumb. author OF the "PIumb
plan" for tri-partite labor-capital-
government control and operation of
railroads was reported as slightly i'm
proved at his home here yesterday
His physicians. however. have aban-
doned hope OF his recovery from a
recent attack of heart trouble
The Washington herald., 1922-05-13
@Nezz7lMU@7eHfSZs

e 10. Is porcelain a good conductor
of heat? -. .r. 20: ..-... ..
Answers to -Yesferday's Questions
l. In what mineral is Illinois the
richest? Coal. Z
2. Where is the longest railroad
in the world? How---does 1T COM
pare with the roads of the. United
States? The TranscontinenarsRa
way in Russia. Siberia. II is three
times longer than the longest rail-
road in the United States.
3. Where is the United States
Naval Academy located? Annapolis,
Md. .-...
T. \ mil. a unit used in measuring
the diameter of wires. Is what part
of an inch? Ope-thoussndth.
The Washington herald., 1922-05-13
CONVICTED SLAYER
ESCAPES FROM JAIL

CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va. May IL.
Herman Jarren. convicted nearly
year ago of the murder of John
a. Mcdaniel. a prosperous farmer
of Madison County, and given q
sentence ef fifteen years in the
state ,penitentiary. escaped last
night from. the Jail at Madison
Court House. He sacd,'thc bars to
his cell, .apd friendsson the outside
provided an automobile in which he
escaped = ~ .7,
The Washington herald., 1922-05-13
certi-r.d from v.s,e-..cs

C.Hf'1prS from Ves'r-@c"
Jane did not elope with Norman
Traverse that night. although there
were many DAYS afterwards when
she wished that she had
There is an old superstition that
death visits in threes. Not long
afterward Mrs. Roberts passed out
in Paris. There was a disagreeab BILE
story hushed ont Of the papers.
Then came the next shock-the
third death! Bess Traverse.
Norman teIephoned Jane late one
night
Quick consumption" he ex-
planned, That's what the doctor
says. Probably cigarettes and
drugs"
Jane thought him rather bitter.
IL was Gerald who claimed sym
psthy. Gerald was shattered
"1t's awful" Norman said to Jane
fra-i allv. "He swesrs he will
commit suicide"
Thus. again the wedding was
postponed. Norman couldn't leave
Gerald alone in that big house in
such condition. Jane saw little Of
her fance alone during the next
month. All Of his attention was
given TO the care Of his unfortunate
brother. II was not until after the
holidays that Norman began to
make plans.
IL think. dearest. we could go
now" he suggested.
II was planned that while Nor
man and Jane were away on their
honeymoon. Mrs. Richards. James
mother. would live in the country
house where Gerald was recuperat-
ing.
She had. during Gerald's GONZALES
cence. been a faithful visitor and
comforter Of the poor fellow. who
seemed not to care for life after
one but himself could see had been
his greatest detriment.
Poor Bess" he would sit and
sigh. and Norman was vain In ef-
forts to restore his mind.
You never did like Bess," Ger
aid would complain. and it seemed
only Mrs Richards could mother
and manage Gerald.
He had given up drugs. and
seemed to be surviving on a very
slendr thread of life. His was a
mental case that needed the spir-
itual comfort Of a woman. This
lane and her mother supplied
There were frequent relapses
when Gerald would scream and
rave for morphine. Several times
the doctors gave him up as hope.
less. but Mrs. Richards stayed by
his side and kept denying the con-
dition by repeating: "Of course. you
wouldn't take that stuff. Remem-
her Bess is at your side in spirit to
help you fight. She knows how
terrible il is. but she wants you to
fight-to be stronger than she was.
You'll be all right, or COURSE you
don't want that nasty needle"
Gerald broke down and. wept
until he fell asleep. But he did
not ask for morphine again.
During the ielirium he would
have no one but James mother at
his side.
when it came time for Norman
and Jane to depart on their we'd
ding trip Gerald was dependent
upon Mrs. Richards. who was only
too delighted to nurse him and re-
main in the country. She took
pleasant motor trips daily with
Gerald Evenings they would be
in the library for hOurs-he writing
and she reading the fine old mas
ters that Traverse had shelved
there. 1t was. in all. splendid
arrangement. for James mother
would have been desolately lone
some left in the city apartment.
Jane caught her mother with tears
IN her eyes several times. vet she
was very brave and insisted she
was happy that her daughter was
The Washington herald., 1922-05-13
MN0SCODe
SATURDAY, MAY n, 1922.

Astrologers announce this as
rather an uncertain day. Mars is in
a strongly malefic aspect during the
hours OF business. but later the Sun
has friendly sway.
There Is a sign indicating that
force will be used in settling diff
ficulties in which the people are
concerned
Soldiers should benefit at this
time. which may give them some
sort of sensational activity.
The affliction of Mercury. ruler
The Washington herald., 1922-05-13
o4MNs!Yo$|||!!!'''!!
~ HQS 3
Marguerite Hurter ~ Y
Marguerite Hurtel.
CHARACTERS IN THE STORY

JfNE RCiakDS tiu Secretary eyes opcnsdsn
the business 2Ib. She supports her mother.
MRS. RCHtRlS ato understand The Offices
Hpru
ROGERS. 1riO hires only pretty girls
HINSTON P4NDOLFH S:riHdGHg broker 00O isHeS
on bogus stock ard thin cccGHps Sn.|.yfs -
JEtV REYNOLDS. 1rho Jen only bccaNs he tpsfs
her testimony rcdaa Randolph &sas- ly'sS
HATTIE BRvANT. procsc o. ';nr. little iypid.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-12-22
ENGLAND Cannot PAY
DEBTS, SAYS PREMIER

Londou-Prime Minister Bonar Law
emphatically argued in the house Of
commons the impossibility of Great
Britain paying the American debt
while receiving nothing from Germany,
France or Italy. He said he was con-
WINGED such policy would reduce the
standard of living in this country for
generations.
The prime minister said there was
almost no hope of solution of the
separations question unless Great
Britain and France acted together. He
hoped both governments would utilize
the interval before the reassembling
of the premier's conference on January
2 in finding some common method Of
dealing with the problem.
The British government, he declared,
could not look with eQuanmity upon
any action by an ally which would
have the effect, not of reducing repair
atoms but of making it more difficult,
II not impossible, to obtain them. This
was taken as reference to the French
proposal for occupation of the Ruhr.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-12-22
SCIENTIST DEVELOPS
UTILIZATION OF WOOD
Oregon Professor Develops
SaIvaging Process For
Waste Material.

Eugene, Or.--One of the most out
standing contributions to science yet
made by University of Oregon man
that admits of practical use in the
Pacific northwest and elsewhere be.
came public in the announcement
that o. +. Stafford, head OF the uni-
versity chemistry department, has per-
fected a process for utilizing waste
wood to obtain a superior grade Of
charcoal and wood distillation products
used in number of basic industries.
Because of the great quantity OF
cheap waste wood material available
in the northwest, it is believed that
the lumber industry and other enter
prises will be keenly interested in
Professor Stafford's success. Hereto
fore it has not been commercially
practicable to utilize mill waste in the
carbouization and wood distillation in
dustries.
By the Stafford process fine grade
of charcoal can be obtained as well
as the usual by-products Of carboniza'
ton, acetic acid, acetone and wood
alcohol basic in the manufacture of
such articles as dye, paints, yarnishes,
celluloid, smokeless powder and arti-
fetal leather,
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-12-22
CENTER HABITANT OF
A POLITICAL GENIUS
James Cowan, a Real Scot, with
Real Poetical Genius, Bursts
Into RHYME.


The NeWS-kccord Just received
Ione OF tn" cIeVcrcSt poetic al
dresses that mas ever entered the
Office, and 1t comes from James
Cowan OF Center. Soon as he ha1
imposed upon us the au'y Oh
'Summonlhg the clans we got
p b"'' ho,' r''n nod TIN 0a;Irw NOM
O~;,vv md Doyo Nacl,iS some
niono oISa and aftor = hriof dis
rnsS;on wa oro authoriycd 70 call
= ,nnotir" of tho Rrrns committee
NJ this of,ico an Eridnv evening
nooon,hnr % 70 law Mans for the
biggest Maury celebration
of Burns night ever known.
Here is Mr.. COWan S address,
and if it wouldn't inspire action,
what would2
mia Jonwar, win, will soon he
hlow;n,
Inn +,ron+,. 6F+b ,noiu Ia DAWN
Thot do, ,yho, Scotsman erousclv
crawin',
Cock up their bonnets
| An Burns an Scotland's merits
Shawn
Speeches and sonnets.
Lat. s,,,mor ,tho Scottish clans
In Vashnm on, ~, Many lans
A., ,,,,,.iI,, Io+,, Low am. Mans
To baud sprachle,
| Wi songs and speeches and VI
andS,
An sic like tackle.
nd frs+ LOT . onr neebors hear if.
IOnr nloa wi, others wo wod share
+
Ma, wbarr,s ho horn bnt what's
his sn;r;t
That stamps the man.
An Scots claim no by or mar
merit
To bar and ban.
IOrr Robbie, mind was warl en-.
bracin,
A,l;nas a roco an rank effacin'
And nooer in zach bosom hacin'
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-12-22
POLISH PRESIDENT is SLAIN
Artist Regarded as crazed Kills Chief
Executive,

Warsaw.--Gabriel Narutowicz, first
president of Poland, was assassinated
while visiting an art exhibition.
He was killed by an artist named
Niewadomsd, who fired three shots
Every shot took effect
Wiewadomsld, the assassin, has
long been regarded by his associates
as mentally deranged and his act is
looked upon as due to the motivation
of his disordered mind rather than as
the result of definite plot against
the life OF tIe newly elected President.
President Narutowicz had Just con
cluded an address formally opening
the picture exhibition when Newa-
domski stepped up to the platform in
the line OF people shaking the presi-
dents hand and fired three shots at
close range,
The president dropped fatally
wounded while the crowd pounced up.
on the artist assassin.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-12-22
VANDALs ENTER LIBRARY

Three times during the past few
weeks the door Of the Vashon pub
lie library, which is housed in the
rear portion of the theatre build
ing, has been entered, books scat
tered about the room and ON one
occasion considerable damage
done by throwing a number OF
books in the stove. Mr.. Barton
the librarian, is not certain as to
the time it was entered, as the Ii
brary is open but once week, The
first time the door was forced in,
the screws from the lock.
Books were scattered about The
second entrance was effected by
breaking the lock. That time the
damage was the throwing Of cig.
arctic stubs on the floor The last
time entry was made the books
were stuffed in the stove, damag.
ing them considerably Since q
heavy hasp was placed on the
door. Mr.. Barton has noticed foot
tracks about the entrance iudicot
~
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-12-22
Bennie's Christmas That
Was Different 1o ,s,' Dsv W. sn fa s

! in the corner Of the room, he felt
so foolish he had to laugh all the
more.
When he had the loaf again III
| his arms he said: Il was thinking
so much about Christmas that |
guess | forgot to count the
houses. y
"Oh, hol SO it's Christmas
that was the cause of the mistake
was it?" said the jolly little man.
"And what might you have
been dreaming Off Toys, and
goodies no doubt and good time
with your brothers, cousins and
boy friends"
Bonnie looked up at the smiling
face, but his own face was now
quite sober, in fact he looked al
most ready to cry-only Bonnie
was too much of little man to
cry-so he said very solemnly
"No, sir. | was thinking oil
what a dreadful Christmas it was
10 be without father. He's away
in California, you see, on business,
and | haven t any brothers or sist-
ers and our cousins and amueS
and everybody all live away back
in Boston, and we're new here
that is, - | mean,-wc don I
know any one very Well"
well, now, that makes things
look much different" said the
old gentleman. perhaps we can
help you out in some way
"Oh, GrandpaI Oh, Mother!
exclaimed the little girl. Can t
| he borrow, too
"That was what was think
ing" replied her mother.
| "Borrow!" cried Bennie. ooh,
my mother never borrows, never,
indeed she tells me it not a nice
thing to do, and that"
sob, b,d this borrowing is diff
erent, said the little girl, Moth
er will tell you all about it, won I
you mother9'
Eyes, dear, but think that this
| little boy may be on an errand for
some one, and perhaps he can
come in again and hear about it.
"That will be fine" said Ben
ME. Mother is going out shop
ping as soon as we have lunch and
III ask her to let me come over
while she is away"
Bonnie hurried out, but took
time to see that he had ran into
the third house from the corner,
instead of the fifth house, which
was the one he lived in. How
silly of people to build houses
alike" thought he. II will never
do a thing like that when | grow
up. 1t muddles folks up terribly.
After lunch he hurried right
over to the third house again, but
not alone. Bennie's mother went
with him as far as the door, and
Imet the lovely lady, and the jolly
gentleman and the little girl
promising to call for Bonnie on
her return from shopping.
What Bonnie learned about Dor.
rowing, we will read next week.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-12-22

Grays Harbor county taxes for 1922
will be greater by $132 1926 than
those of 1921.
The public schools at Enumclaw
have been closed for two weeks owing
to an epidemic of smallpox,
Hold carriers of Everett have voted
raise from Sc to 81 day. the new
scale to 90 into effect March /.
The car shortage situation at Lyle
is improving, So cars of apples having
been shipped from there during the
past 10 days.
Approximately 1000 loggers are idle
in Snohomish and Skagit counties, the
snow forcing so per cent of the camps
to close down.
Raymond, 11.year-Uid son of Guy f..
Townsley, was killed in Seattle when
he rolled off his sled and was run over
by streetcar,
Aberdeen business men have con
tributed $3.50 as the beginning of a
fund to be sent to Astoria in response
to its plea for assistance.
Fifteen out of thirty applicants were
granted final citizenship papers at a
hearing conducted in superior court al
Everett by Judge Guy C, Aston,
Annis Stupps, 40, logger employed
at Moose. died in the Raymond hos.
pital where he was taken after being
struck by the engine of a passenger
train.
The East Stanwood plant of the Car
nation Milk company is filling rush
order of 5000 cases of milk to be ship
ped to Europe by way of the Panama
canal.
Benjamin A. Gugenbickler, AZ, died
at the Aberdeen general hospital as a
result of an accident in which tree
fell on him and broke his back at
Wynooche camp No, /.
The 237 cows tested in the Grays
Harbor County Cow Testing associa.
tion during November produced an
average of S01.6 pounds of milk and
29,7 pounds of butterfat each.
A total of eighteen coyote pelts and
two bobcat pelts have been brought
to the Kittitas county auditor for
bounty this fall One bobcat and one
coyote were turned in by women.
Patrons of the Point Defiauce-Gig
Harbor ferry paid $27,7SG.35 in fares
for the first II months OF the year, or
an average of $2521 month, accord,
ing to the records of County Auditor
Campbell.
Endorsement of the principle of the
ship subsidy program before congress
was contained in the resolutions adopt
ed in the closing session of the Pacific
Northwest Foreign Trade Conference
at Tacoma.
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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-12-22

Charleston, Wn., Bank Robber Routed.
Bremerton, Wdgh-Attempt of az
mmasked robber to hold up the Bank
OF Charleston at Charleston, near here,
Saturday was frustrated when an en-.
ploye of the bank sounded Il burglar
alarm, frightening the man away. ac.
cording to a report to Kltsap county
officials.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-12-22
ISLAND FOLK GET PUBLICITY

Vashon-Maruy island folk and
farms have come in for quite a lit
tie valuable publicity the past few
days. The magazine section of the
Sunday Post-mtelligencer (and by
the way this appeared in all Of the
Hearst newspapers) in the article
on Western Washington poultry,
made mention Of Frank Gilbert S
world record breaking hens.
Then the Washington Farmer,
published at Spokane, in last
wccks's issue, made mention of
three Vashon farms. One was a
little story of R. J. Bowling s
poultry and berry farm. 1t gives
him credit for having the Oldest
loganberry patch on the island
10 years and still bearing nicely
Another given mention was Il. c,
Bcall, Jr Nearly a column was
given over to a description Of his
poultry plant, his strain of poultry
and his methods of caring for the
birds and the rationS fed. The
otehr is a short article descriptive
of ]. A. Campbell's sour cherry
and goosebcrry plantation" 10.
Gated near Yasbon Altogether
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-12-22

Shucks!" when provoked or ter
ribly disappointed, and this time
was most terribly disappointed,
The mail man had gone away
down the street after dropping
some letters into the mail box,
and mother had been right there
almost at once, for she was eX-
expecting a letter from Bonnie S
father, who was away ON business
away off in California. Benne
had looken on the map and found
it.
Well, sure enough, there was a
letter from father, and after his
mother had read it, she had told
Bonnie that his father could not
get home for Christmas. There
was a lot more in the letter, how
good business was, and what they
must do to have good time at
Christmas,-"But, shucksl There
Just wouldn' be any real 'lhflsI-
mas without Daddy"
Bonnie was thinking all this as
he sat on the top step of the front
porch steps, his elbows ON his
knees and his chin in his hands
Bonnie and his mother had just
moved into the cozy little house a
few weeks before this time. There
were seven of them-houseS, /
mean. Seven houses, each just eX-
actly alike. Five broad stone
steps leading up to a wide porch
with heavy door that was mostly
all glass. Then on one side was a
very wide window that looked out
upon a pretty little piece of lawn
that was green all the year, for the
town where Bonnie lived was on
Puget Sound. OF course there
was snow sometimes and Bemle
hoped there would be just little
at Christmas time, to make 1t
feel like it was Christmas, he
said.
But, oh, dear Without faith
er. well,-it didn't matter wheth-
er there was snow or not! !"
As Bonnie was sitting there
thinking all this. the door opened
so suddenly that Bennie gave a
jump. But it was just Mother,
and she said:
Bonnie, dear, please run down
to the little bakery at the corner
and get loaf of nice fresh gra-
ham bread. Be as quick as you
can as | must go out and do my
Christmas shopping as soon as we
have lunch. Daddy says in his
letter that we must have our little
tree and our usual dinner just the
same as though he were here.
Bonnie jumped and ran, because
he was used to obeying his moth
er at once. But he kept saying
son, dearl Shucks!, what good
is tree and fine dinner for just
us two. and we don't know any
one in the whole town--that is, not
well enough to make Christmas
real jolly"
He came flying back with the
bread, bounded up the steps "one
two, thrce, four, five, he counted
as he flew in at the door, into the
entrance hall, and-there he stop.
ped so suddenly that the loaf OF
bread shot from under his arm
aud went rolling away across the
living room floor. Bonnie stood
there in the doorway staring at
three people: lovely lady, little
girl about five years old, and a
Jolly, white-haired old gentleman
They were eating lunch, or had
been, until Bonnie had startled
them most out of their wits.
Now they were looking at Ben
ME with wide open eyes; so very
much surprised that they hadn't
said a word. Then the Jolly ole
gentleman found his voice.
"Well, well, what does all this
1;iNl, ,,on9 What cor
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1922-12-22

Mrs. Nina Van Vert is i'll with
the grip ut her home at Roy and
this will prevent united family
dinner at the Gmvin home on
Christmas.