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Palisadian., 1925-04-17
Morauian Church Has
School in Far North

At Makkovik, in the ice-bound pen
insula of the North American continent
known as Labrador, a country where
one may travel hundreds of miles with
out seeing human habitation, and
where the temperature in winter is
often 60 degrees below zero, there is
boarding school kept by two Eng
lishwomen.
1t is under the control of the Mora
Wan church and Is one of the most
remarkable as we'll as the least ac
cessible schools in the world A mis-
sion steamer goes out once a year with
goods for the Eskimos, and on her lasl
trip along the coast, prior to her re
turn, she takes both Eskimo childrel
and the few white children availabl,
to the Makkovik boarding school.
There they must remain until ii,
long winter is over, for in such ter
rible cold, and with no conveyance
but dog gsledges, it is impossible fol
children to travel. That they are
happy goes without saying, and witt
gramQphone, a piano, end fine ST
lection of lantern slides, as well a.
an excellent library, the children gel
not only a good education but also i,
good time.
Palisadian., 1925-04-17
Idea of GrotUing Old
Far From Ike Fornuni

Ike Farnum was sitting around with
me the other day. Just talking. There
had been too little rain and too much
fire in the woods for US to take our
annual deer hunt this year. and we
were mourning about it. Ike had just
finished telling me of the Springfield
rifle he had just had resighted.
Stripped those military monstrosi-
ties off and put on peep" Ike said.
When in came Maurice Mum. Get
ting bit fat, is Maurice, and a shade
gray and he wears glasses. Other
wise quite all right. He listened to
the concluding stanzas of Ike's epic
and then hurled his wet blanket.
ITS just as well you didn't go hunt
ing" said he. when a man gets to
be fifty years old his hunting days are
over. It's time for him to buy a Bird
dog and scatter gun and stay near
the Shore"
Well, sirs, and ladies, l have never
seen or heard Ike in better form. He
passed his fiftieth birthday more than
one year ago, but If he is a day over
thirty-five you'll have to lick him to
make him own up. He Is as young
and alive today as he ever was, except
that he is harder to kill than a boy
is. A middle-aged man who has kept
himself in good condition gets to be
like dry rawhide. He can't be cut,
torn or stretched.
''Pd have been as fatheaded an old
fool as you are, Maurice" said Ike, "if
I'd let myself slip the way you have.
The trouble with you is that you quit
this life when you got to be fifty and
haven't reached the life to come. No
wonder you're old You act old and
think old and talk old. If l ever said
to myself
"'Pm too old to go a-hunting-
well, I'd be too old to go a-hunting.
But haven't said 1t and never WILL"
Yet l can remember that few years
ago Maurice was tougher and faster
and harder than Ike Farnum ever
thought of being. He has just thought
himself into age. p" in Kansas
City Star.
Palisadian., 1925-04-17
Service Has Many Duties

The United States coast guar,
service was created by an act of con
gress of January 2S, 1915. by com
bining therein the revenue-cutter serv
ice and the life-saving service. IT.
duties are TO render assistance to yes
sells in distress, saving life and prop
erty; destruction or removal of wrecks
and other floating dangers to naviga
ton; extension of medical aid to Amer
ican vessels engaged in deep-sea fish
cries; protection of the customs rev
enue; operation as a part of the nav,
in time of war or when the Preslden-
shall so direct; enforcement of laws
and regulations governing anchorag
of vessels in navigable waters, ant
quarantine and neutrality; suppress
ing mutinies on merchant vessels; en-
forcement Of navigation and Other
laws governing merchant vessels. etc.
protection of game and seal and othe,
fisheries in Alaska and work as an In
ternational Ice patrol OF Newfound
land.
Palisadian., 1925-04-17
Made Shrine of Garments

They tell an affecting little story of
French soldiers. 1t seemed that some
one of the various headless-or rather
a-headed-charitable organizations
operating from our great country got
its donations mixed, and French regi-
ment just out Of the trenches, in place
of some boxes of warm underclothing
expected, got some children's clothes.
There was some idle jesting, some
growing; but in the end that regi-
ment built an altar, enshrined upon it
the little garments designed for chill
dren whom they might never see again,
and the whole regiment passed before
it, and one at time knelt and re-
newed their oath of allegiance to fair
France and the VOW to expel the in
vader from her soil.-From the War
Diary of Maj. Gen. James G. Harboard
in the Saturday Evening Post.
Palisadian., 1925-04-17
A TAX AHsuRDITY

One of the powers that be in the
collection of the income tax complains
that lot of the-well, we call them
victims-are failing to take the credit
they can deduct for the money they
have earned. The charge of paying
more tax than is necessary is a rare
one, but the guilt in this case can be
understood.
1t is the effect of finding out that
the discrimination between earned and
unearned income, which Congress pre-
tended to put in the law as kind
amendment, is so cut down by whinl-
sical and illogical restrictions that the
resulting diminution is SO small as
hardly to be worth taking. 1t is not
very wise expression of anger at this
deception to let the whole of the de-
duction go merely because it is not SO
large as the words used in describing
it seemed to promise, but at least it
relieves the feelings.
In no case can the whole amount of
the really earned income be reduced
by the much vaunted 25 per cent.
First, for no iminaginable reason, the
personal reduction as the head of a
family must be taken out of the in
come earned before computing the de-
crease, and while any net income less
than $4,000 can be treated as earned,
even though it is not, no more than
$4,000 can be treated in that way,
even though it all is earned. That
restriction probably is due to the dis
belief in Congress that anybody can
earn more than $4,000 in year, but
must steal whatever is in excess.
Palisadian., 1925-04-17

marines, torpedo boat destroyers and
other necessities of the war against
autocracy.
And even in these times of peace
Mr.. Ford's initiative leads him into
the conquest of the air as the pioneer
in airplane service for commercial
purposes. 1t is scarcely an allowable
prophecy to picture the airplane of
the near future as thick in the skies
as Fords on the highways, yet this is
almost certain to happen. Henry Ford
has certainly utilized the force of his
brain to powerful effect, and he ap-
pears to grow bigger and bigger in
stature.
Palisadian., 1925-04-17
MR.. FORD IN THE AIR

Henry Ford in all that pertains to
constructive activities that have led
American interests into the forefront
of world advancement within this
generation is unquestionably the
pioneer. AS the creator of the Ford
automobile, he advanced civilization
points ahead in the race of nations for
leadership in the utilitarian arts. In
handling the labor situation of his
vast factories he raised the workman's
standards far beyond any man who
had ever before undertaken to place
labor in it's proper rank in production,
as far as known history is concerned.
During the World war Henry Ford,
himself pacificist, finally entered
into the spirit of the contest, and con-
tributed a mighty part in the final
victory through the building of sub.
Palisadian., 1925-04-17
Popularity of Dickens

There is a good deal of talk, says
the Providence Journal, coincident
with the proposed purchase of Dickens
old home at 48 Loughty street, in Lon
don, of Dickens revival among Eng
lish and American readers, and If
such a rebirth of interest is actually
in progress no one who is familiar
with the great novels will doubt that it
Is fine thing. Actually. however, If
one is to accept in full the reports of
librarians, publishers and booksellers,
there is no room for renaissance In
Dickens, because interest In the mighty
stories of Oliver Twist and Copper
field and the impecunious Micawber
has never tagged since the day when
they were first published.
Palisadian., 1925-04-17
ACTION AND THOUGHT

There are two requirements to
well rounded life.
There must be action that Is VIVA
work and adventure, and there must
be also thought or contemplation.
A life is incomplete without a prop
er mixture of both of these two. II
goes without saying that if a life is
composed entirely of thought and re-
Election it is wasted. 1t never
amounts to anything.
Thought is only good as 1t is trans
lated into action and the purpose OF
thought is to prepare for action. Be
sides this, the very best thought
comes as a result of action. Without
that, thought can be of little value un-
less it is put into practice.
The opposite, however. is equally
true. that continued action, without
sufficient thought is useless.
On the one hand, as Mrs. Allison
saws in her book, Friends With Life,
a teacher is continually crying:
Come in and reflect. Come to our
libraries and laboratories. Come to
history and literature and science.
Think out what is good and true and
beautiful. Here lies the secret OF
life"
The response often is, especially
from the young: "Oh, no; the secret
of life is not among your musty books
or laws or principles. 1t must be
found on the athletic field, in the ball
room. on the river when the moon is
full, in the automobile when the roads
are shadowy, in friendship, in loves,
in experiments, in adventures, in ac-
ton, action, action"
The true secret of life is found only
by those who combine these two
things. There must be action enough
to justify the thought and there must
be thought enough behind the action
to make it worth while. A life of the
two properly balanced is the only nor
NAL life.
1t is we'll to think carefully before
you act, but it is easy to fall into the
way of thinking too much and not act
ing at all. 1t is always well to re-
member that action is the check on
thought just as thought is the prep
aration for action.
Palisadian., 1925-04-17
Model Chapel Cars

One of the latest contributions, and
not the least interesting, to the Vati-
can missionary exposition, held in con-
nection with the Ammo Santo, consists
of models of chapel cars" operated in
America by the Catholic Church Ex-
tension society. The contribution is
made in the name of the society by Ed
ward f. Carry Of the Pullman COM
pany. 1t reproduces in miniature. but
in the most exact details, the travel
ing chapels. whereby the society brings
the ministrations Of the church to res
idents of distant sections that cannot
maintain permanent church buildings.
Three such cars are in operation on
American railroads.
Palisadian., 1925-04-17
Bows Real GalIontry

SIR Walter Raleigh, in all his glory,
never outdid boy, about fifteen years
of age, who, when it was raining the
hardest, stood in water above his
ankles and, after obtaining some
boards and placing them from the
building shed to the sidewalk in front
of the new Selig building in West
Washington street. stood there and
aided girls and women across the
plankS.
III. e. Mccarthy, 622 Continental Ma
tional Bank building, who reported the
incident, said that it was one of the
most gentlemanly acts he had ever
witnessed. "He may have been boy
scout doing his daily good turn, but
whoever he is and whatever he is, Pm
for him." he said.-Indianapolis News
Palisadian., 1925-04-17
His Decision

"Say, what the dickens is all that
yelling about, out back of the smoke
house?" demanded Gap Johnson of
Rumpus Ridge, aroused from his doze
on the porch.
"Maw was making soft soap and got
her dress afire," replied Banty, one OF
Johnsons offspring. "She's rolling on
the ground now, trying to put it out,
and the children are watching her and
hollering about it."
saw, well, If l want any dinner
reckon I'd better go and help her,
Kansas City Star.
Palisadian., 1925-04-17
Spirit of Loue

You will find as you look back upon
your life that the moments that stand
out, the moments when you have real
ly lived, are the moments when you
have done things In the spirit Of love-
-Drummond.
Palisadian., 1925-04-17
Wisdom Here

"You amt gineter get much good
FUN readin' de Bible" said Uncle
Eben, "if all you's lookin' foh is sum-
pin to staht an argument about. -
Washington Star.
Palisadian., 1925-04-17
First Called South Sea

Balboa gave the name of South sea
to the Pacific when he discovered 1t In
1913. At the point Balboa came upon
1t, the Pacific forms the southern
boundary of the Isthmus of Panama.
Palisadian., 1925-04-17
Announcement

Nicholas ]. Schweitzer and Nor
ris B1oomberg announce the
formation of a partnership for
the purpose of carrying on gen
eral real estate and insurance
business in Clifside Park with
an office located on Jersey Ave
nue. in Clifside directly opposite
the Borough Hall. They further
announce the establishment of
an employment bureau III con-
nection with the real estate and
insurance business.
Palisadian., 1925-04-17
Uncle Eben

'De man dat gifts de most benefit
FUN religion" said Uncle Eben, 'is
de one dat keeps thinkin' bout 1t 'stid
O. talkln' bout it."-Washingto Star
Palisadian., 1925-04-17
Old Astronomical Map

The oldest map Of the heavens Is In
the national library at Paris. 1t was
made by the Chinese about 900 b. G..
and denotes the positions OF l'4oo
stars.
Palisadian., 1925-04-17
grish Prefx EXPLAINED

The prefix 20" before the names Of
so many Irish families Is an abbrevia-
ton Of the word "ogha," meaning
grandchild.
Evening star., 1925-11-05
THE WIDOWS MIGHT
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR

were interesting. The tolerance OF
that smile was not lost upon Elsie
who interpreted 1t exactly as Fay
had hoped she would. The next mo.
ment Jack was towering over the two
girls and Elsie was presenting him to
Fay.
For time the three Of them chat
ted. They talked about the hotel
about Shadow Valley, and Summer
resorts in general. Jack and Elsie did
most of the talking, and Fay respond
ed with a soft laugh or some remark
that brought an admiring look from
Jack. Elsie noticed several of those
looks and after a time excused herself
prettily. There was smile on hel
face when she left them. but the min
ute she had vanished into the lobby Il
disappeared mysteriously.
Elsie was not any too we'll pleased
with the advent of Fay. She suspect
ed that before long Fay would have a
monopoly on every man in the hotel
There was sophisticated charm about
her that was unmistakable. She always
seemed able to say the right thing al
the right time, and she dressed beauti
fully, too.
IT wonder if Jack will find out any
thing about her husband" she said tC
herself thoughtfully. "Of course, II
her husband makes an appearance
later 1t will make a great difference
Continued in Tomorrow'S Starr
Copyright 1925)
Evening star., 1925-11-05
AUTUMN
BY ID. c. PEATTIE.
Persimmons.

There is a widespread belief that the
persimmon does not ripen till the first
frost has touched the golden fruits.
This is not, the scientists tell us,
strictly true. especially not in regions
where the frost comes late. 1t Is.
after all, the sun that ripens all
things, persimmons included, although,
in our latitude, it is true that the per-
simmon does mature about the same
time that the first frost comes.
So, at least, speak the botanists. but
in the minds of most of us Washing
tonians there fingers a mental reser-
vation about the frost and the per-
simmon. For the ripe fruit looks in
deed as though the frost had actually
given 1t an icy kiss. Over its old-gold
skin there is d family rose or blush
or purple cast and bloom like the
color of the miStS that rise from the
Potomac on these Autumn days. 1t
bears, indeed, the very spirit Of the
crisp Autumn weathers-cool, lus-
Cious, heavily ripe with the boarded
beauty of the year.
To bite into a persimmon before it
is ripe is almost necessary in the ex-
perience Of every one-if for no other
reason than that when you have done
it once you will know enough not to
do 1t again. For until 1t is wholly
ripe tand you may assure yourself of
that by pinching it; it should feel soft
and f1abby) the persimmon is full of
tannic acid, making the lips pucker.
Our native perSimmon, on which the
opossum dotes, has never received
much attention from plant breeders
and is consequently quite inferior TO
the Japanese persimmon, which has
been improved through centuries of
breeding, and is larger. a beautiful
reddish color, and practically free from
any tannic taste.
Evening star., 1925-11-05
Cream Cheese Salad.

This is a good salad. 1t consists of
cream cheese into which chopped
pecans or English walnut meats have
been beaten. Remove all the seeds
from some sweet green peppers, wash
the cases in cold water and allow them
to drain for at least half an hour.
Press the cheese firmly into these
pepper molds and set on ice to become
very cold Make some thin mayon-
naise dressing and add some whipped
cream and tiny cucumber cubes.
When ready to serve, cut the pepper
cases crosswise into quarter-inch
slices with a very sharp knife
and add a spoonful of the dressing to
each portion, then serve. Some cooks
think that the green peppers are
more delicious and easier to digest if
they are simmered for about 10 min
utes after the seeds have been re-
moved. If care is taken that they do
not become SO tender that il is i'm
possible to handle them, they can then
be used in the same way as raw pep
pers. Another delicious stuffing for
peppers can be made of cabbage, hard
boiled eggs and d few stuffed olives,
all finely chopped and bound together
with a little mayonnaise dressing.
Evening star., 1925-11-05

mendously important for the rest Of
the day.
One thing you may yourself have
observed-that with frocks made as
they are today. pockets must either
be put on in quite conspicuous fash
ion or else they must be handled with
great deftness. 1t Is no easy thing to
hide or half conceal a pocket now
adays. There seems to be a revival
of interest in pockets placed one at
each side just at a convenient place
for the hands. The sketch shows an
interesting street frock of dark green
cloth finished with gray fur pockets
on either side. There is an upstand-
ing gray fur collar and bands of gray
fur OH each arm. just above the wrists.
On evening frocks there are some.
times cleverly placed little pockets
made just to accommodate a powder
puff or lip stick-for whatever else a
woman does not carry in her pockets
nowadays she seems to need these
requisites. In the sketch you may
see one of these pockets hidden by a
large silk flower appliqued on an eve
ming gown. There is also a large
pocket made of gold braid trimmed
with a long gold tassel, used on a
beige kasha coat.
Copyright. 1925)
Evening star., 1925-11-05
How to Feel Beautiful Tho Not.

Every inch of skin except the soles
and palms is covered with hundreds
of hairs. In certain areas, say the
scalp. this lisa heavy growth of more
or less visible hair, though so nSht
and fine in some instances that 1t Is
visible as discouraged fuZZ only
when viewed by transmitted light.
On the face of a woman the halr Is
a soft down which you do not notice
unless you look sharply. A lot OF
us. all ages and sexes, but particularly
young girls, form the bad habit of
ScrutiniZing our compleXlonS 100
closely, and this habit leads TO the
discovery Of the down in thousands
of cases daily. and the shoddv maga-
zines and fake beauty specialists
readily persuade the unhappy dumb
bells who have made this discovery to
start monkeying with cosmetic nos
trums which purpo.t to destroy this
hair. The day a young woman begins
monkeying with such things she
ought to say goodbye to any aspira-
tionS or hopes of beauty she may
have had, for she is deliberately Waiv-
ing her natural claims in that respect
and accepting unacceptable subservi-
ence to or dependence upon artitice,
and that can give only a poor imita-
ton at best.
Now, then, that's that. On the
other hand, woman may shave and
shave and be Il beauty already yet,
at 20 PAGES. Plenty Of movie and
stage beautS shave regularly, meChan-
ically, chemically or otherwise. If
woman starts growing a mustache
or a beard without just cause and
proVocation, there are several per
fectly proper courses she may take.
Well go into the latter question pres
emily, but first it is necessary to con-
slider what is just cause and proyoca-
ton for such superfious hair.
1t is a familiar trick of the trade,
aided and abetted by the booty spe
CialistS subsidized by the trade, to
propagate the notion that certain cos
meticS, certain creams and the like.
will grow hair" while certain others
will not. There is reall- no known
preparation which will grow hair or
make the fine invisible down become
heavier or cOurSer or noticeable
That's the scientific fact. II il were
not so, do you imagine for a moment
that nearly all of us really intelligent
men would remain bald? No. no, Nora
we'd absorb all the dope rejected by
the fiappers as likely TO "roW hair.
Although there is no reason to
imaginl that this or that complexion
stuff viii grow hair frequently or
Evening star., 1925-11-05
Playing Safe With Antiques.

The vogue for antiques has been
the cause of more money changing
hands without value received than
almost any other thing which has hap
pened in the shopping world.
Practical people are sometimes in
clined to condemn the whole thing
as fooliShness. Certain il is that the
great majority of antique buyers
have no appreciation at all for the
antiques beyond the fact that other
people want them. But that is no
worse than any other fashion in
clothes or furnishings. except for the
extreme prices which are charged for
sometimes worthless objects.
AS matter Of fact, the beginning
of the hunt for antiques had a very
praiseworthy inspiration. 1t was
merely a search by the lovers of art
for some of the authentic pieces
which were turned out by the masters
of an earlier day. And the really
important antiques of our time are
just such things. whether in the field
of painting, sculpture, furniture, or
whatnot.
Evening star., 1925-11-05
Cranberry Meringue Pie.

One and one-half cups sugar, two
cups cranberries, one-half cup cold
water, one tablespoon flour, two eggs,
one tablespoon butter, one-half tea
spoon vanilla extract. two tablespoons
powdered sugar. Cook sugar and
water to a sirup, add the cranberries.
Cook until they pop. Cool a little. Mix
smoothly in a bowl the -four and yolks
of eggs, add three tablespoons of the
juice of cooked cranberries, then add
to the berries and simmer for three
minutes. Stir in butter and vanilla
and set aside to cool. Turn filling into
deep pie crust previously baked; cover
with meringue made from stiffly
beaten whites of eggs and powdered
sugar. Place in cool oven to set and
slightly brown the meringue.
Evening star., 1925-11-05
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. ID.

regular slight irritation or stimula-
ton, as by friction or massage or daily
applications of complexion dope of
one kind or another does tend to in
crease the growth of hair, in my
opinion, just as shaving has a ten
dency to make the beard heavier.
On this theory-it Is only a theory,
which / don't know how to prove
l base the advice to young women to
avoid monkeying with the complexion,
unless they have said goodbye to
natural beauty and accepted instead
Il lifetime of artifice. And this Is not
to imply that a woman should not
make artistic use of cosmetics If she
can thereby enhance her attractive
ness. Obvious makeup Is not only
the badge of moronity but in too many
instances an ugly mask for a fair de-
gree of natural beauty.
The woman who will or must mon
key with her complexion may rest as
sured that whatever harm her ia
vorite beauty dope may do, 1t will not
grow. hair"