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The Washington times., 1929-05-08
SECRETS OF
HEALTH
BY DR.. Louis E. Bisch-

A CATARACT is a condition Of
"A opacity, an obscurity Of the
lens or Of the capsule which en-
closes it.
The lens, you must know, Is
suspended crosswise inside the eye
and directly behind the hole in the
eve or pupil. Farther back of the
lens. at the rear OF the .eyeball, as
it were, are the retina and optic
nerve which perceive light i'm
pulses and images reflected from
the outside world and through the
lens.
In normal health the lens Is
clear and transparent, but when
cataract exists there il something
wrong with the lens itself. which
makes 1t either difficult or impos-
sible for light to penetrate through
it. That is why persons who are
developing a cataract notice that
their vision is not as acute as it
used to be. When the cataract is
directly in the center of the lens
and the opacity of the lens is
spread outward then vision is like
ly to be diminished.
When, on the other hand, the
opacity in the lens is toward the
outside, then the vision of the pa.
tient may only be slightly dimin.
ished. ..... ..
When the opacity is In the CEN
ter Of the lens the individual sees
best in a dim light, because, in a
dim light, the pupil is dilated, and
therefore light manages to get
around and past the central
opacity.
With developing cataract there
may also be a degree of near
sightedness or myopia. This is due
to the fact that the lens sub
stance has become more dense and
changed tho refractive power of
the lens.
Where such a myopic condition
exists a patient may sometimes
believe that his sight is improving
because he can do without his
reading glasses. Indeed, such a
condition Is often referred to as
Second sight 1t Is plain, how
ever, that the sight is not actually
improved, but that a physical con.
dition has resulted which only
temporarily produces an increased
n1agnifying power for near OBJ.
jects.
A cataract may develop with
out there being any other eye
trouble, or 1t may develop as a.
secondary result to some other
condition of the eye, as, for in.
stance, glaucoma.
Progressive cataracts are us.
ually to be found in old people,
although children are occasion
ally born with such an eye defect.
Under 35 years Of age all cata-
racts are soft in consistence and
white in color, while after this
the cataract tends to become hard
and OF a yellowish tint.
Inflammatory signs are absent
In cataract and often the condi-
ton can be helped through proper
glasses. at least for a time.
When the question of removal
of the cataract arises. the patient
should, of course. consult an
expert h thaA SAla 4
The Washington times., 1929-05-08
LISTEN WORLD!
ct doth not yet appear wht we shall BE-"
By Elsie Robinson

was amazed. Maggie looked like a
different woman. She'd lost a
nervous twitch she'd had in her
cheek and that way of looking at
you out of the corner of her eye,
sizing you up. She told me both
she and Nick were on the wagon
and they certainly looked fine.
Busy and beaming-already their
little cart was doing land office
business.
That was nine years ago.
Today Nick owns a chain Of
sandwich shops and they have as
pretty little home as you'd want
to see. They've adopted couple
of youngsters and Maggie is az
contented az a clucking hen look
ing after her brood. She's taken
on a good deal of weight and
she's a leading member of the r.
T. A. Only a few know about her
past. But sometimes, when the
doors are shut, we talk about 1t
together and smile at each other
through mighty glad tears.
Maggie'd be surprised to know
that she reminds me of a Bible
text-a grand and solemn one at
that
BELOVED, NOW ARE WE
THE SONS OF GOD, AND IT
DOTH NOT YET APPEAR
WHAT WE SHALL BE"
I don't pretent to understand
all that text means.
l haven't the slightest concep-
tion of what God is. but it's plain
to me that, even at their lowest,
Maggie and Nick had something
in them beside booZe-soaked flesh
and lust-crazed blood.
Something burning like a light
in the darkness
Something that eventually led
them out of the darkness.
No psychologist on earth could
have foreseen what Maggie and
Nick, would become, or engineered
such transformation. Only that
Light could have done it
Sometimes when I'm pretty we'll
discouraged about myself I think
of Maggie and Nick and take a
fresh grip.
The Washington times., 1929-05-08
MEDITATIONS
OF A WIFE
By Helen Rowland
The Bachelor Hunt

TUST about this time of year.
d there is secret crusade 60
ing on, of which very few people
are aware.
It is the Great Annual Bachelor
Hunt. The frantic search made
by the big summer hotels for per-
sonabIe bachelors with which to
adorn their piazzas and fill up
their bathrooms,
Next/to fresh vegetables and
full nights sleep, the hardest
thing to find alta summer resort
is bachelor! Yet the hotel
bachelor is as necessary a part of
the equipment as the potted
palms and the white shirt-fronts
of the walters, and as important
as the dance music and the moon.
Oh, much more important! For
you can manage to worry along
without the orchestra or the
moon, if there are plenty of un-
attcahed men about, but what is
dance music without a partner?
And what is moon, If you have
to walk under it alone?.
All sorts Of inducements are
offered to bachelors by the hotels,
from cut rates to free board and
room. Yet the bachelors continue
to remain obdurately in the big,
wicked city. They are as shy ana
elusive as timed deer. Nothing
would induce really cautious
bachelor to. place himself in the
danger zone for more than a
Weekend! NOTHING!
But, why, after all, concentrate
on bachelors? Why not offer a
few Inducements to summer wild.
overs and married men--and SEE
the grand rush! Bachelors flee
when no woman pursueth-but
married men are bold as lions.
You can. scarcely tell a married
man from a bachelor, these days,
anyhow-unless it is by his re.
luctance to make love. The
BACHELORS reluctance.
Once, married man was
plainly marked. You knew him
by that married look" and by
the fact that he kept glancing at
his watch, as though he were
waiting for somebody. He had
something on his mind-probably
his wife.
But now. not even a wife and
seven children seem to weigh on
his consciousness. He doesn't
even APOLOGIZE for being mar
ried. He BRACES about it! He
thinks that wife in the offtng,
somehow, adds piquancy to his
already Irresistible charms.
The bachelor has lost his place
in the. sun, since the summer
widower came into vogue as a
competitor A man who is al
ready safely tied is always so
much more grateful and eager
for q girls smiles and dances,
than one who regards every
woman as menace to his free
dom.
When the snow begins to fly,
bachelors may again be the pre-.
ferred risk: but in white plus.
fours and sport shirt one man
looks Just about like another,
So why should BACHELORS get
all the cut.rates?
A summer resort Is place
where a girl will resort to almost
ANYTHING for a nttle amuse-
ment, anyway
The Washington times., 1929-05-08
Rigid Prohibition Laws Being
Planned for Washington

nj oTHING but fixed program of legislation for the
special session Of Congress prevents probable passage
during that session of exceptionally drastic prohibition laws
for the District supplementng the gors Of the law
Authors of several bills planning carry forward their
fight to single out the District place in the country
that shall have the distinction of living the most rigid
prohibition laws in the United States.
In the light OF past experiences too Congress willing to
try anything this city which is an experimental staon
Tor all sorts of freak laws ancul schemes and dubious
Representative sproul Of Kansas has before the House
sample OF bone dry legislation for the District and If
other dry Representatives add their schemes to this
measure the outcome will be the most severely drastic
imaginable.
The sprou bill makes it absolutely necessary that Dbv
sician prescribing liquor shall KNOW that the liquor is for
medicinal purposes and will afford relief some known
aiment Every physician MUST keep complete record of
prescriptions including dates amount prescribed to whom
issued, the ailment and clear direction for use.
Any structure where liquor is made sold kent or
bartered is declared to be nuisance The person
maintaining the nuisance is guilty of mdemeanor The
who the house. ROOM boat or structure il sub
ec to lien and the property may be to pay all fines
and costs assessed against the person convicted
of maintaining q nuisance.
All violatOrs Of the prohibition act whatever FORM
may be deemed "a and restrained bv iriurct;on
violation of which brings conviction for CONTEMPT Of court
and severe penalties.
Search warrants may for any building or nlace
WHETHER IT CONSTITUTE DWELLING OR HOME Of
an individual
Permits shall be issued POSSESS Intoxicating liquors
and be without permit and to possess is prma face
evidence of intent to violate the prohibition laws.
Among other heavy penalties imposed is one for perjury
in prohibition All members of the District police force
required to enforce the prohibition laws and vagrancy
law provided that the police may reach hold and prose
cute all persons not able to support themselves and de-
pendents, if able to work or to get work.
The vndctveness of the Jones act will be mild compared
to Of the bone dry laws contemplated for Washington
These laws passed. will undoubtedly lead to increased
crime and to peretaon of violent acts by those who fear
possible nfliction of heavy penalties
Corruption avoid arrests and possible convictions viii
to q before
forcenent officers with the schemes of volators
Convictions in the courts will be fewer and virtually al
respect for prohibition laws will disappear
Crime conditions here and elsewhere largely due prohi
btiOn becoming menacng that Congress by next
of unwelcoe laws That will be the only thing that win
prevent Washington being inflicted with drastic laws that
lwlu add 10 eEtmsA.
The Washington times., 1929-05-08

Nine years ago Maggie Allen
was q years of age and about
as hopeless a piece of jetsam as
you'd find in the whole tender
loin. She looked twice her age
and she had acquired that bitter.
sneering manner which girls get
when they begin to lose their
grip.
She used to come in and talk
things over with me. / got her a
job once or twice but it was no
use. Sorry as l was for her, I'd
have bet anyone that Maggie was
done for. A couple more spells in
the Detention Ward, real bad
cold and Maggie'd be off the
streets for good.
Then one night, Nick Allen
picked her up in a spirit of
drunken bravado. married her.
Nick was about as far gone as
she was. He'd been first mate on
a tramp steamer, the Southern
Cross, a dinky little tub in the
coastwise trade. The Southern
Cross wasn't choosy but Nick's
poozlng and temper were too much
even for it. So one day after he'd
nearly murdered the Chinese cook,
he was kicked off. He'd been on
the beach month and he hadn't
a bean when he married Maggie.
That was their start. You
couldn't imagine worse one.
don't know what they did at
first. Stayed drunk as long as
they could, 7 suppose. But the
next l knew they had managed to
scrape up enough to open a little
lunch wagon down near the docks
and were doing pretty we'll at 1t.
/ was surprised. Surprised, t..
begin with, that they'd stuck to-
gether at all. Marriage didn't
seem exactly in their line. But
somehow they'd taken a shine to
each other. And they weren't
such bad people when they were
sober. Maggie had a good nature
and generosity and Nick had been
a big, jolly husky before he went
on the liquor.
I went down to see them and I
The Washington times., 1929-05-08
The knowledge Test for
Readers of The Times

Fill each blank:
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booker
z Jonathan -- "Guliver's Travels"
g. is supposed to have invented the organ and harp
a. Thomas --- is known a the Bard of Erin.
5.---- designed ST. Pauls Cathedral in London
Match correctly with words that the
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T. Apex indifferent
g. Apathetc belt
D. Juvenile bondage
TO- Servtude ton
Do you know:
H. About many bones are there in human skeleton?
H. What is the pupil o the eye
1S What is meant by quarantine?
a. What is a bungalow?
To- In what century did William the Conqueror livs3
Answers On Fiction Page
The Washington times., 1929-05-08


It's good to have money and
the things that money can buy,
butts good too, to check up once
in a while and make sure you
haven't lost the things that
money can't buy. -Lorimer.
Be glad of life because it gives
you the chance to love and to
play and to look up at the stars.
Van Dycke.
II wrinkles must be written
upon our brows let them not be
written upon the heart. The
spirit should not grow old.
Garfield.
Work ls the mission of man.
kind On this earth h,-Shaw.
The Washington times., 1929-05-08
WORDS FROM LIPS OF WISE MEN

I had rather have a fool to
make me merry, than experience
TO make me sad.-Shakespeare.
We live in deeds, not years; in
thoughts, not breath;
In feelings, not in shadows on q
dial.
We should count time by heart.
throbs. He Most lives
Who thinks most, feels the
hoblest, acts the best.
Bailey.
The world is a looking glass,
and gives back to every man the
reflection of his own face. Frown
ut it, and 1t in turn will look
eourly upon you: laugh at 1t and
with it, and it is a jolly. kind
pnmpanion. -Thackeray.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-19

-.
OGEMA

Mr.. and Mrs. David Bryson, who
have spent the summer at their cot
tage on Razor lake, left Monday for
Iowa.
Jack Linehan has the basement for
his new house completed.
Fred Thayer and Elder Bostrom
each lost a cow last week.
Charlie and Nellie Hanson are down
with the measles this week.
The birthday party given on Mrs.
Bostrom Sunday at her home was
! largely attended and Mrs. Bostrom
was showered with gifts from her
friends and neighbors. A very nice
supper was served after which the
crowd left wishing Mrs. Bostrom
many happy birthdays.
! The bridge building crew has COM
pleted the bridge on Crooked Creek
by the Ed SOens place and will put
in a new bridge at the next crossing
up the creek.
Harold Bostrom, who is employed
at Shaffer, spent the weekend at
home
| Donald Mackenzie left Sunday for
st. Paul, where he will be employed
! for a few weeks.
James Hegge returned last week
| from the Dakotas.
Mildred Anderson visited with Mrs.
Grove one evening last week.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-19
(FrOm Another Correspondent

Mr.. and Mrs. julius DobOzenski
and son, Victor, returned Monday from
st. Paul after spending the weekend
visiting their relatives there.
Mr. and Mrs. J. e. VERIFY and family
of Duluth, spent Sunday at Mrs. Jul
ia Dobozenski's home Mrs. Zofia
Krieger and Roy Hurst of ST. Paul
were also Sunday callers there
Mr. and Mrs. j. F. Dubie spent Sun
day evening at Denham as guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Weinberg.
Mrs. R. B. Wood returned home
from the Twin Cities last week. where
she had been to see her sister Mrs
Hodgin, at the Bethesda hospital.
Sofus Stockey is here visiting OLD
friends and neighbors for a few
weeks, after having spent the past
half year working in the Duluth
Steel plant
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-19
GLOVER TOWNSHIP

]. Beaufeaux and son, Merle, and
]. Utley of Ogema. visited at the
Charles Robertson home Tuesday eve-
ming of last week.
Miss Leona alderman, who is
working near Hinckley, spent the
weekend at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. alderman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Neuhring spent
Sunday at the home of Henry Ander-
mann's.
Charles Robertson. who has been
assisting with the work at the State
fair, returned to his home.
Miss Alice Sanburg spent the week
end at her parental home in Hinckley.
S. A. Daley and sons and daughter
spent Sunday afternoon at the home
of Charles Robertson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emery Huntley and
sons of Ogema, spent Sunday at the
Hastings home.
Raymond, Lawrence. and Miss Els
Their Irons, and Miss Myrtle Huntley
visited at the Sanburg home near
Hinckley Sunday.
Mrs. Paul Babcock of Markville
visited at her sisters school Monday
afternoon.
Mrs. Ben Irons visited at the Has.
tings home Sunday afternoon.
Lem Irons had the misfortune OF
losing COW this week.
The new bridge between Glover anC
Ogema town on crooked Creek is now
| completed.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-19
NORMAN TOWNSHIP

Albert and Elmer Berg drove here
from Minneapolis to spend Sunday
with their brother, Walter Berg and
family
Oscar Nelson and Les Landu drove
here from Duluth Sunday to spend
the day at the Olaf Nelson home.
Adolph braves and wife and Adolph
Nelson and family spent Sunday at
the Olaf Nelson home.
Geo. Hyatt called at the Olaf Mel
son home Sunday.
Julian Thompson is spending a few
weeks here visiting his aunt. Mrs.
Olaf Nelson and family.
A number of farmers attended the
fair at Willow River Saturday.
Les Landu and Oscar Nelson and
Ethel and Alice Johnson spent Friday
evening at the Nelson home, as did
also Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Berg, Mr.
and Mrs. Adolph Nelson. and Mr.. and
Mrs. Adolph braves and Miss Kelly
it being Mrs. Nelson's birthday.
Oscar Nelson and Les Landu were
callers at the Walter Berg home Sun
day.
There has been lots of sickness
caused by the sudden change in
weather lately.
Mr. Crosby from the Jean Du Luth
farm was a caller in this neighbor-
hood Friday as was also Mr.. and Mrs
]. T. futile
Roy Berg and wife and Andrew
Hasselroth were visitors at Walter
Berg's home Wednesday evening oil
last week Roy Berg is working in
Michigan and was here on a visit and
Mr.. Hasselroth is from Braham.
Mrs. j. Marihart and Mrs. Victor
Marihart from Bruno. spent Friday
afternoon at the Olaf Nelson home.
Potato digging has started in this
| neighborhood and it is understood
that the quality is good.
Omer Forsyth is the proud owner Of
| new Whippet Tudor sedan.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-19
(TOO Late for Last Week.

H. E. Waechter of Bear River, Wis
tied at the A. B. Irons home last week
A large number attended the Gospel
meeting held at the Ogema hall Fri
day evening. All were delighted in
having the Rev. Paul Hendricks with
them again.
Miss Thelma Stevens is teaching
school at Greenbush this year.
"A party was given at the Glover
hall Friday evening in honor of Mrs
Kanis of Milwaukee, who is visiting
at the home of her mother, Mrs. S. A.
Daley.
Mrs. Fred Golf returned to her
home, after visiting with her mother
at Grand Rapids, Mich.
Miss Marian Jones, who is attend
ing high school in Hinckley, spent
the weekend at her parental home.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Irons and daugh.
ter, Esther, H. E. Waechter. and Mrs
John Caauwe attended the State fair
and also visited friends in the Twin
Cities, last week.
Miss Alice Sanburg of Hinckley, has
again resumed her duties as teacher
in school district SO "a" Miss Eliza
beth Swanson of Danforth, is teach.
ing in the "B" school this year. Sc
far the "a" school has enrolled TWEEN.
ty-one pupils and the "B" school
seven pupils.
Carl Neuhring is busy hauling ruta.
bagas to Askov this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Christ Rasmussen and
family were dinner guests at the f. T
Irons home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs G. Thompson spent
Sunday afternoon at the Christ Ras.
mussen home.
John Caauwe. Merle and Betty, and
brother-in-law, Elmer Miller, visited
at the Lundquist and Tasting homes
Saturday afternoon and evening.
Grandfather Orr had the misfor.
tune of tipping over with his truck
Tuesday, between the "A" school ant
the Ben Irons farm. AS he tells it
his dog riding with him knocked his
hand off the steering wheel. He was
not hurt.
A. B. Irons is saving logs for Clar-
ence Currie and Mr.. Orr.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-19
WILLOW RIVER

The Misses Anne and Gustie GOlp-
fert and Esther Frederickson of Min
neapolis, spent the weekend at A. e.
Wahlstroms.
ThOs. Macmillan and son, Junior, of
Duluth. accompanied by Chas. Mac
MILAN and son, Bruce, Mrs. Louis
Minogue. and Mrs. Alec Macmillan
spent Sunday with the formers moth
er, Mrs. Thos. Macmillan, and sister,
Maude.
Miss Maude Macmillan, Mrs. A. H.
Anderson and daughters visited at the
Per Larson and L. ]. Larson homes
Sunday.
Arlene Anderson visited with her
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Per Lar
son, over the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Eden and Mr.. and
Mrs. Roy Eden and family of Anoka,
were here Sunday visiting at the
Sharlow home.
Juno Johnson and Edward Clough
motored to Sand Creek, Wis, Saturday
afternoon on business. They returned
Sunday.
The Rev. o. C. Fillinger and family
accompanied by DR.. and Mrs. w. c.
Ehmke spent Sunday at Isle and
Waukon.
Mr. and Mrs. A. e. Anderson, accom-
panied by their son, Maurice, motored
to Duluth Sunday to visit Leona, who
is attending Cathedral high school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene McCortney OF
st. Paul, visited at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Wilson September
and 8.
Albin Lundgren and Mrs. Ann An.
derson went to ST. Paul Saturday, re-
turning Sunday with two new FOrds
Mr.. and Mrs. Graydon Bachmar
spent the weekend at the Linsley
home.
Mrs. John Logan and daughter
jeanette, arrived Tuesday from Book
to visit with relatives
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-19
.DEBENTURE IS REVIVED
Brookhart and Norris Stir Up All
Proviso in Senate During
Tariff Debate.

Neutrality-suspicious. that old
time issue of the farm bill. flashed in.
to prominence in the senate when
Senator Smith w. Brookhart of Iowa
as it's chief sponsor proposed not only
to make the debenture apply to wheat
but to every commodity that needed
that form of treatment. The Iowa SEN
ator proposed to apply 1t to industrial
articles as well as to farm products.
Senator Norris, while fearing the time
is not yet ripe to introduce 1t as an
amendment to the tariff is quoted as
being all primed to do that when op-
portunity comes.
Senator Brookhart wanted it known
that his debenture proposal was not
an idle gesture. calling attention to
the fact that the national grange is
also working on the subject with
most farm organizations lending SYM
pathetic ears, with Senator Capper a
possible convert to the idea, who ad-
mits he is studying its possibilities.
Seantor Brookhart opened up on
the farm issue after Pat Harrison had
taken few good natured falls out Of
the steel schedules, Senator Brook
hart said the farmers have had no
voice in their marketing at home or
abroad; that the house and senate had
failed woefully to redeem it's repub-
lican party pledges, reading the plat
form to show what had been agreed
upon. and charging the bills violated
the pledges in every particular. The
farmer, he insisted, should receive
profits equal to those of industry.
Senator Brookhart denied that
there was any prosperity either in in
dustry or on the farm and cited let
ter received from a Boston editor say
ing that new England was suffering
from great industrial depression.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-19
(FrOm Another Correspondent

Mr.. and Mrs. Steve Purull and
Lille visited at the William Bonnin
home Wednesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Kowitz motored
to Duluth Saturday and spent the day
with friends.
large number of neighbors and
friends went to the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Olaf Nelson to help Mrs. Nelson
and Mrs. Bud braves celebrate their
birthdays. They received many nice
gifts and good lunch was served.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM Bonnin and chill
dren, Mr.. and Mrs. Steve Purull and
Mena, and Mr.. and Mrs. L. H. Kowitz
and family went to Bruno Monday eve
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-19

ming to help Mrs. Joe Marihart cele-
brate her birthday. The evening was
licious lunch was served. All wished
her many happy birthdays.
Omer Forsyth is driving a new
Whippet coach car.
Mrs. Gust Overbecke entertained the
day.
L. H. Kowitz visited at the Steve
Purull home Sunday evening.