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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-19

CHICAGO.-A few hours after
enlistment IN the army Arthur FL
gle drowned while bathing.
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WORLD FAMOUS STORIES
THE SEA CAPTAIN
BY THOMAS FULLER.

/, father by creation, though not the
church to his mother, and God will
avenge his innocent blood, taken thus
In vain.
But our good sea captain counts the
image of God nevertheless his image
cut In ebony as If done in ivory, and in
the blacklist Moors he sees the repre-
sentation Of the King of Heaven.
In dividing the gains he wrongs none
who took pains to get them. Not shift
ing of his poor mariners with nothing,
or giving them only the garbage Of the
prize, and keeping all the flesh to him.
self
In time of peace he quietly returns
home and turns not to the trade OF
pirates. who are the sea vernin, and
the devils water rats.
His voyages are not only for profit,
but some for honor and knowledge-to
make discoveries of new countries, imt-
tating the worthy Christopher Co
lumbus.
Our good sea captain is likewise
ambitious to perfect what the other
began. He counts 1t a disgrace, seeing
all mankind is one family, sundry
countries but several rooms, that we
who dwell in the parlor $50 he counts
Europe) should not know the outlodg-
ings of the same house and the world
be scarce acquainted with itself before
Of final judgment.
He daily sees and duly considers
Gods wonders in the deep.
example of uprightness, fortitude and
devotion to be set before all men,
whether Of the sea or Of the land born
and hFed
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friends said out of his hearing, We'll,
now that he is man of wealth. he
can afford to dress the way he pleases,"
We do not believe that his wealth
has anything to do with his attire.
Many men of riches dress In the latest
mode. Many men in moderate circum-
stances dress poorly, or at least indif-
ferently. when they could afford better
garments. For some unknown reason,
1t is thought that the wealthy can af-
ford to appear in queer-looking habili-
ments. Perhaps they give less thought
to what we think they think than We
think.
The other night we listened to
reading Of one of the stories written by
the late Frank Baum, author Of THE
Wizard of OF" and innumerable other
fantasies. A wise wag. sitting mutely in
a corner, said: THAT stuff was good
when we were kids. but why bore US
today with such bunk?"
Bunk! OF such stories are dreams
made. Two-fisted fighting men recall
that the COW jumped over the moon"
Thousands of men remember the Frank
Merriwell tales, which for eXaggeration
are entitled to the pearl chapeaux Ho-
ratio Alger and G. A. Henty produced
boyhood classics never TO be forgotten
Their heroes performed feats Of valor
out Of range of even the keeneSt imagi-
nation of youngsters. Who can say
that they did not influence the minds
of kids?
With the passing of Frank Baum
America lost one of its most prolific and
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Food Which Accents Artistry
BY LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER.

freshments. Thus in Summer flowers
can be simulated In many edibles and
have a charming appropriateness. Spe-
cial holidays can have their features
stressed in food shapes. This Is notice
able today in the firecracker candies,
in shapes and colors of sandwiches, etc.
Wedding cakes and brides cakes are
no longer the conservative, plainly
frosted, round or oblong shapes once
considered the op'y correct ones; NOW
they are decorative centerpieces for the
brides table or the one large breakfast
or refreshment table. These cakes
tower high and ere crowned with en-
blems. 1t seems much more appealing
to get a slice from some one Of the
several ornate layers than 1t once was
to get piece from the plain and or
binary appearing old-time cake.
Ices in shapes Of wedding bells, Gala
lilies and all sorts of wedding emblenS
piQue interest at weddings. Delicately
modelled animals call out screams OF
delight from little tots at birthday or
other party celebrations. Flying ma
chimes in variety are featured at avia-
ton entertainments. In candies there
is q bewildering array OF shapes, en-
blems. flowers, bouquets, animals. etc.
In all Of these there Is either artistry
or whin1aAy.
Making foods tempting through their
shapes should be stressed when pre-
pairing edibles for invalids and per-
sons whose appetites must be tempted
or trained in a direction to aid good
health. There are all sorts OF molds,
cutters and utensils that can be bought
for the purpose, and the ingenious
woman can devise shapes with the aid
of knife, fork, spoon, spatula and pas
try tubes that will give interest to
commonplace edibles.
(Copyrisht, 1927
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Rread.And.M Milk Club.

Doctors 10 or 20 years ago left on
preaching that all kinds Of illness and
poor health arose from overeating, but
the near doctors and the queer doctors,
mail order birds and shortcut healers
are still going strong on this theme.
The public seems to like 1t just as the
public likes what Barnum used to pro-
vide. For you see we still have with us
q tolerable amount of stomach trouble,
indigestion, dyspepsia, biliousness, liver
complaint, administration, halitosis,
acidosis, neurosis. pyrosis. avitaminosis
or whatosis have you, and now and
again somebody tires of pills and po-
tions" and strolls down the pike
among the freak shows for a change.
Some folks eat for strength. some eat
for sociability. and some from force Of
example and because 1t Is eating time.
Most people harbor a fond fancy
that one must eat heartily in order to
maintain health and efficiency, for you
know that's the way healthy young
animals do eat Few laymen dwell
long on the picture Of the poor geek on
the verge Of stroke of paralysis
(apoplexy) or heart failure or uremic
coma displaying trenchermans appe-
tite and gorging an enormous meal, the
while he proclainns how he has never
been better than he Is now.
What chance has the true picture Of
health In competition with the makeup
that is indispensable on the cover of
the claptrap magazine? Health is not
pink, rose or rudy, nor yet tangerine;
compared with these gaudy hues health
Is, pale, pale as youth, not CHASTITY nor
efckly nor delicate but natural skin
tint, flesh color. II you're very dumb
and fail to appreciate just what mean,
regard any thlete, man or woman, who
is ready for the race The athletes
blood has more important things to do
than flush the skin. That cheap carl
cature on the periodical. cover (fore
and afO represents rather the abnor-
NAL, pampered, parasitic youth whose
muscles, vital organs and brain require
only minimum of blood. Garry the
caricature to greater extremes and you
produce a picture Of the pre-nephritic
stage Of Brights disease, the incipient
stage Of arteriosclerosis, the primary
stage Of heart muscle failure-a picture
of the beginning Of cardiovascular de-
generation and the end Of that kind Of
career.
The bread and milk club welcomes
members who are Just collecting minor
ailments, preparing to have something
major the matter; healthy folk with
merely functional disturbances which,
unchecked, will eventually grow into
organic disease
Members take no other food than
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The Blithe Merchant.

always like to buy my prunes at
James B. Jingle's store; find him
whistling cheerful tunes, his head is
never sore. go to many marts OF
trade and find an air Of gloom: there Is
an atmosphere decayed, recalling some
old tomb. The dismal merchants shake
their heads and murmur for q spell;
there's no demand for feather beds or
other things they sell. There's no de-
mand for kraut or tripe, there's no de-
mand for hay, and things are surely
getting ripe for paricS. SO they say.
The Government Is much to blame that
things don't progress we'll 1t seems to
be the constant aim of Congress to raise
Heligoland. The tax on business Is a
sin, an outrage and q frost, and one
who would some patrons win must sell
his goods at cost. The tariff is thing
unjust; 1t surely hampers trade; it fills
all merchants with disgust and makes
their souls afraid. When I have lis
tened for while find I have the
blues; all dislocated Is the smile that I
am wont to use. THE bottom must be
falling. out" mutter in dismay. when
demand for whey. When merchants
see no hone ahead, but ruin everywhere,
not right side up with care.'' And then
go to Jing1e's store to buy meat for
my cat. He gayly meets me at the
door, a genial man and fat. ask how
things are stacking up, and he replies:
Just fine!" He does not quaff from
sorrows cup or murmur or repine.
Trades getting better right along" ex-
claims this cheerful hick. ut would
be churlish, base and wrong to file
single kick" I note there is long
parade of patrons in his store, for peo-
pie seldom like to trade with men whose
heads are sore. WALT MASON.
(ConyriRht. 1921
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BRAIN TESTS

In the following sentences severa
words appear in parentheSes. One Of
these words is the best word to use 1r
that particular sentence. Underline II
or cross out the others. Time limit
three minutes.
a. Christopher Columbus found
invented discerped, discovered, created)
America.
(O julius Caesar was attacked, as
sassinated. killed, overpowered, sur
roundedD by Brutus and his accomplices
90 Philadelphia was tounoed, dis
covered, built, reclaimed, abandoned)
by William Penn.
a. An island is body Of land
washed, covered. situated, surrounded
reached) by water.
(5) The Pilgrims who came over In
the Mayfiower (lived, fought, died
worked, settled In New England.
(6) william and the NormanS
Cbought. stole, conquered. cultivated
found England.
CO Henry Ford Is famous as a
(driver. manufacturer, purchaser, re-
pairer, INVESTIGATOR Of automobiles.
90 A ton is form, quality, type
question. capacity, uniDso weight.
In choosing the proper word take the
one that is best suited to the sentence
Others may be permissible, but only the
best one should be chosen.
Answers.
(l) discovered, ca assassinated, go
founded. az surrounded. CO settled
t6r conquered, CD manufactures, Cd
unit.
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LITTLE BENNY
BY LEE PAPE.

Me and pop was taking q wawk, just
taking a wawk, and he sed, BY gollieS,
dident your mother tell me to get some
thing for her. or something?
G. pop, that's rite. its a good thing
you remembered, I sed, and pop sed,
Well what was 1t?
I forget, sed. and he sed, Your
about as much help as a hose line In
thunder shower.
And we kepp on trying to remember
and forgot even verse, me saying, Why
don't you 60 back and ask her, pop?
It won't look very dignifled but per-
hapS nobody will be looking. pop sed.
Meening he dident feels like 1t but
he would anyways. Wich he did, going
in the house and calling up to ma, I
say, Pawleen. would you mind settling
a bet?
How do you meen? ma sed starting
to come down, and pop sed, Well. the
question Is. weather I made a mistake
In what you wunted me TO bring home.
Was 1t a duz2en eggs? he sed.
My lands do you meen to say you've
brawt home a duzzen eggs with the
house alreddy flooded with eggs as it
tsp ma sed. and pop sed. should say
not. I should hope wouldent be weak
enough to give way to an impulse like
CnaC. haven't RoL Single tSB, III
submit to a sertch by the proper author
ties. Was 1t lemminS? he Sed.
Willyum p. Potts, does lenmins
sound like bananas? ma sed. and he
Sed, No. they don't even look like them
and even the smell Is diffrent.
And me and him quick went out agen,
pop saying, What you just witnessed
my lad, was q remarkable exhibition of
diplomacy.
And on the way home he forgot the
bananas agen and so did I.
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This Colorful World.

have before me q remarkable book
by remarkable woman. It Is an I'M
portant scientific contribution on how
and why we see colors. Had you ever
thought how drab the world would be
without colors, and did you 90 on to
speculate how 1t Is that you see colors,
and why Just those rainbow colorss that
splash over your retina when sunlight
Is sifted by raindrop prisnaS? And II
YOU asked next how Is 1t that with that
simple palette the artist paints ma
lures portrait throughout the color
changing seasons, and the color schemes
of animal creation, and the racial and
the individual complexion Of the hui
man face, and the chemist produces
that find their way from the enticing
shop windows to your person and its
surroundings, you took yet another step
to consider q most difficult question
which this book attempts to answer.
Great men have been attracted to this
puzzle OF color. Goethe speculated on
it. and Gladstone found the color vo-
cabulary in Homer more limited than
our own.
There are not. thousand or . hun
dred different things going on In the
rptlna to give uS that COlOrflll panorama
of the world, but only a few. II we
know what goes on when we see red,
when we see blue, we should solve the
riddle of color vision. It Is probable
that men didn't always see colors as we
see them. Our very remote ancestors,
including such animals as had retinas
at all similar to ours, may have had
eyes to see only q less colorful world.
They may have been insensitive to the
reds and greens. If that part Of your
color-seeing apparatus were lacking, you
would still see the blues and yellows, as
well as the blacks and whites. Does
that happen? It doesl And when 1t
does you have the most common form
of color blindness.
What q strange record Of q far re-
mote past. retained in the infinitely
complex laboratory OF heredity, that
here and there q retina fails to develop
that latest addition to the colorful world
and. retains only the older, more lin
tied scheme of color vision. It's hard
to imagine an impoverished color world,
deprived of the red and green family
and their relations, but that's how some
of our color-blind friends see this world.
And very rarely there occurs . totally
cclor-blind retina that sees the world
only In neutral shades from black to
white, like the colorless pictures on the
movie" screen. That combination goes
back to q period when these micro
scopic elements In the retina were not
sufficiently developed to react differently
to light waves Of different lengths, for
that 10 all that, color vision means.
And did Eon eEeg 1edect why Ts7
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for $4,000. The owner would sacrifice
it for an immediate sale. Why should
any one be without boat, when they
can be purchased for such a small
amount Of money?
This. though, is the spirit of modern
America. 1t was not so many years
ago when the ownership of horse and
buggy was a distinction. Few had
them.
About one out of Ave persons pos
sesses an automobile that will go far
Their and faster than the best horse
that ever logged in harness. For
couple of hundred dollars our fathers
could have purchased nice looking
outfit, including whip and fly net.
n 4
A man known to millions arrived in
the city recently. He was an ordinary
appearing fellow. His clothes did not
represent what the Summer man OF
1929 is wearing. N fact. they needed
pressing badly, and his hat might have
been reblocked. He had accumulated
millions Of dollars.
In his youth he was the hashiest
dresser in town. He wore diamond
ring which has long since been aban-
doned. He has no jewelry indicative
of his success. and his sole means OF
TRANSPORTATION In town was a taxi HIS
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took bacon and one frankfurter apiece.
She did not approve Of these. but she
purchased the best she could and. There
were buns which she split and between
the havles Of which the children put the
broiled meat.
She also had some sandwiches made
Of grated raw carrot and shredded
lettuce mixed with mayonnaise.
She washed some Strawberries and
hulled them. These were sweetened at
home and served in small paper sauce
dishes. With the berries there were
plenty Of gingerbread boys and girls.
She had hot cocoa for lunch.
Later in the afternoon there was mild
lemonade not too cold. The children
were all back at home by In the after
noon.
Write TO Nancy Page, care Of this paper,
inclosing a stamped, self-addressed enve-
lope, asking for her ieafiet on Child Care.
(Copyright, 1920
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KEEPING MENTALLY FIT
By JOSEPH yASTRow.

can't see colors ut night, or, Is the
French say, why ut night all cats are
gray'2 And II you had eyes like an
owls, that are best at night, would
there be any colorful world? Yet In
making . serviceable eye for your uses
under varied conditions nature provided
an apparatus that could see under both
high and low illumination. Color vision
Is part Of vision in general, and came
along with the evolution OF man as an
eye-rninded animal.
Touch any part Of the human equip
ment by which we find our way in the
world and adapt to 1t In the interests
Of mental efficiency and the enjoyments
Of life. and you tap an interesting psy-
Geological story. Mrs. Cor rather Dr.)
Christine Ladd-Franklin, who lectures
at Columbia University, has devoted
much Of her long life to studying how
we come into this heritage of our color
full world: 1t is her researches that
am describing.
(Copyrisht, 1922
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life travelling ABOUT tne NOtlu SoAASNVA~
strange bits Of information.D
Conceive the good sea captain now
In a man-of-war, with his letters OF
mart, well armed, victualled and ap-
pointed. and see how he acquits himself.
The more power he has, the more
careful he is not to abuse it. Indeed, a
sea captain is a king in the island that
is his ship, supreme judge, above appeal,
in causes civil and criminal and is sell
dom brought to an account in courts Of
Justice on land for injuries done to his
own men at sea.
He is careful in observing the Lord
day. He has a watch in his heart,
though no bells in a steeple to proclaim
that day by ringing to prayers.
He is as pious and as thankful when
a tempest is past, as devout when 1t Is
present; he Is not clamorous to receive
mercies. and certainly he is not tongue
tied to return thanks.
Escaping many dangers makes him
not presumptuous to run into them
needleSSly.
In taking a prize he most prizes the
mems lives whom he takes, though some
Of them may chance to be Negroes or
savages. II Is the custom of some cap
tairs to cast such men overheard and
there Is an end of them-for the dumb
fishes will never tell any one any tales
But when such action is taken the
murder Is not so soon drowned as the
men What, is brother by half-olood
no kin? A savage has God to his
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personal HEALTH SERVICE
By WILLIAM BRADY, M. D.

bread and milk each Monday, begin
ming as early In the morning as they
wish, with glass of milk, hot or cold.
or buttermilk, or skim milk or sour
milk, or fermented Or cultured milk II
preferred, and 2 by by u inch
slice of bread or toast, or q plain or
graham cracker. The milk should be
slipped slowly. The cracker or bread
should be munched 1eisurely. This
meal may be repeated at three-hour
intervals throughout the day. Each
such meal yields approximately 400
calories.
Temperance for day gives the sin
ner fine sense Of righteousness and
his metabolism a chance to catch up.
If you're sick. keep out. If you're
just scared. come on in. The B. & M.
is no blooming luncheon club, can
tell you. If you do come in you had
better not smoke on Blue Monday, but
suit yourself about that.
(copyriEht. 1920
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DOROTHY DIX'S LETTER BOX.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. This Girl Marry
to Please Her Mother?

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OUR CHILDREN
ny ANGELO PATRI.
His Brother.

'aThers you 60 again. Now your
brother would never do thing like that.
Why do you do it9"
A mother cannot help feeling that all
her children should be like the one she
thinks Is the best, usually the one that
gives the least trouble. She is right in
picking the best one at that, but we will
all have to remember that If the child
had had any, choice in the matter he
would have been as good and better
than the best. When nature formed his
core she gave him no choice. She
reached into her storehouSe and took
up handful of hfe-dust and that was
the new child. Just an experiment,
maybe better than the one before, maybe
not as good. But there he is.
That need not brighten us. There is
enough good, enough power, enough
talent in every normal child born into
the world to make him useful and happy
and successful. The thing is to develop
that good to the place where it becomes
carrying power
That isn't done by reproaching the
pesky child with comparisons as to other
noble children. Comparisons that are
not favorable to a child make him un-
comfortable and whenever he Is uncom-
Portable he is irritable and cross. He
resents the pattern child and instead
o. following In his footsteps he avoids
doing so.
ra Aa THEE b be fsnn Rise R IKE Ike taa s
that he has the same father and mother
does not necessarily mean that he Is TO
be like his brothers and sisters. No
two are alike and we have to find what
each needs to perfect his growth and
see that as far as 1t is humanity possible,
One child wants to learn to play a
cornet and does well at 1t, but his
brother cannot tell one note from the
other. One likes to be in company and
shines when there, while another men,
Der of the family hides or becomes sulky
in the presence Of visitors. One child
does well In school while the other
never gets rating above the middle or
lower group.
and guard against making him hate his
brothers and sisters by comparing his
achievements with theirs. 1t is unfair
to both sides. The good child Is not
good because Of his own effort It costs
him little to be good. The peSky child
has to struggle against his original set
Of body and mind to- meet your stand
ard. Any thing he does that Is good
ought then to be heralded with the
nightly for his good deeds 30 that he
viii feel repaid for his effort.
One successful effort sets the stage
for the next. Time Is better spent
In drawing the child forward toward a
success rather than In comparing him
with his good brother or sister or friend.
That way trouble lies and plenty Of 1t.