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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-21

sand dollars, took that stake to
Europe, and lost 1t almost as fast as
If he had played the market instead
Of the boulevards. He was good
fellow while he had 1t, but when they
shipped him home his only assets
were first-class hangover and Sec
ondclass berth to sleep it off.
While he had been away, the pro-
cession had moved on and it looked
as IL he might be left standing on
the sidewalk. That is to say, things
were not so good, when suddenly there
was fluttering sound and into the
young mans life Topped an 'angel."
The "angel' was a man who could
write large checks, which never
bounced back, but had great desire
to write book. His qualifications
as novelist were ambition and a
vague idea for plot. He made the
young man proposition
II have great idea for book"
he said, "but | haven't time to give
to the actual labor of construction.
I'll get you an apartment pay for
your meals, and furnish you with
plenty of tobacco and reasonable
amount of liquor If you will do the
work. Pm giving you the plot. All
you have to do is the writing"
The young man finally agreed to
terms. He and his typewriter were
duly installed in smart and COM
Portable apartment and the "angel"
came in every day to see that he was
not being gyped. AS matter of fact,
he was getting the full worth of his
money. AS has been snid, the young
man really could write and he got
interested in his job. He turned and
twisted the idea the man had given
him until 1t was real plot. The
characters began to breathe and grow,
to live and struggle. Even the "angel,"
who insisted upon reading each days
work. could see that he and the young
man were going to write quite story.
He grew most impatient to see how
II would turn out.
At last the young man ripped the
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EeKTQHEN
GBUNET7zzHH
SUMMER HINTS

Turing the hot weather, where
~ there is much humidity, the body
loses much moisture which is most es-
sential to it, so it is wise to drink
freely of cooling drinks to supply this
waste.
Very cold drinks chill the stomach
and are unWholeSome for anyone, eS-
pecially children and adults who are
suffering with heat. Iced drinks when
served should be slipped slowly.
When very warm pour cold water
over the wrists for a few minutes to
cool the blood before drinking any
thing.
Iced tea is a most refreshing bev-
erage for meal time. Lemonade is an
other which never loses it's popularity.
Grape juice, pineapple, orange and
lime juices are all delightful for cool
ing drinks. Add the sugar to the
lemon juice and when well dissolved,
the water and it will be just right.
Piazza DeIight.-Boil one-half cup
full Of sugar with two and one-half
cupfuls of water and the grated rind
of one orange for five minutes. Chill,
add two cupfuls of orange juice and
three tablespoonful of lemon juice
and serve.
Pineapple Punch.-Boil one quart
of water with two cupfuls of sugar
and two cupfuls of chopped pineapple
twenty minutes. Add one cupful Of
orange juice and one-half cupful Of
lemon juice, cool, strain and dilute
with ice water and serve.
Strawberry Shrub.-Select sound
ripe fruit, wash and measure and place
in stone jar For each four quarts
of berries use one quart of not too
strong vinegar. Cover the jar with
q cloth tied over it. Stir the berries
daily for four days. Strain without
squeezing and put into kettle, allow
ing one pound of sugar for each pint
of liquor. Boil slowly for five minutes,
bottle, cork and seal. Dilute with wa
ter when serving. Raspberries make
fine drink prepared in this way.
Co. 1892. Western Newspaper Union.)
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ionable and kind. You would make a

ionable and kind. You would make a
nan fine wife. Why don't you mar
ry?" She didn't answer and he looked
up to find her head bent. 1t seemed
that he had made deep impression.
Was she looking down because he had
said something that made her sad?
Perhaps it was to hide the mist in
her eyes, or perhaps it was just her
well-known shyness. But when she
spoke, it was in an Unconditional and
extremely matter of fact voice.
do you think 1t is true" she de-
manded, "that my feet are as big as
they say?"
70. 1882. Bell syndicate.)-wNU Service.
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Home Built in Tree
Shelters Orphan Boy

Glens Falls, N. "a few boards
laid across limbs of a tree served
as the home of Harold Bennett,
eighteen years old, the last few
days. An orphan, he arrived late
last week seeking a job. Penniless
and friendless, he obtained boards
to build the "floor" and limbs,
blinds and tin to make up the re-
mainder of his abode.
Police found the youth had no
coverings and had not eaten for
day. He was taken to headquar-
tiers, fed and then turned over to
the county home at Warrensburg.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-21
Hunter Provides Coast
Chinese With 'Courage''

Fort Bragg, Calif.-Frank Taafe,
Fort Bragg hunter, has probably the
most unusual occupation in the world
that of supplying courage" to San
Francisco's Chinatown.
The Chinese-that is, those of the
older generation-believe that to eat
Of the flesh of a wildcat is to endow
the eater with courage and strength.
Taafe supplies the wildcats, which
he traps alive in the mountains near
here, and ships in crates to San Fran.
cisco.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-21
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
How It Started
By JEAN NEWTON

"Hop o. My Thumb"
THOSE of us who have not forgot
i ten our fairy book lore remember
the famous dwarf as "Hop O. My
Thumb"
At first thought, it might seem that
this name was simply one chosen at
random, and a name which is in itself
contains no particular connection with
its meaning.
This, however, would be an erron-
eous conclusion. For, as becomes OBJ
vious after the fact is known. Hop o.
My Thumb is really an Authorization
of shop over my thumb" in other
words, a person of stature sufficiently
small to jump over thumb.
The expression came into use about
the Sixteenth century, and because it
was a natural" Immediately became
popular.
q. Bell Saskatchewan Service.
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Phone Directory Leads
to Reunion of Brothers

Dubuque, Iowa. Andrew Burn
hardt, sixty-one, and his brother, JOS
eph, left home about the same time
forty-two years ago, going in opposite
directions to seek their fortunes. For
years Andrew searched for his broth
err in vain. Every time he passed
through a town in his railroad work
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-21
Current
W.T. VIZ
Hun6QT N
IN THEORY

Husband and wife were seated ins
the garden in the dusk Of summer
evening. He was doing most of the
talking
"Very interesting" she said, when
he finally concluded.
I'm glad to find you're so inter-
ested and impressed. dear, by these
explanations about banking and eco
nomlcs," he told her presently.
"Yes. darling" she replied. 1T
seems wonderful that anybody could
know as much as you do about money
without having any of It,"
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Firemen Are Called to
Rescue Goat From Roof

Bristol, r. bristol firemen, &C
customed to rescuing marooned cats
from trees and recapturing fugitive
canaries, encountered a new one re-
Gently when they were asked to haul
a goat off veranda roof so feet
above the street.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-21

What seems to me the most de-
lectable story I have heard in ages
is told me by kathleen Caesar
"There was" says Miss Caesar, "a
young man of Greenwich Village who
really could write. He worked hard
enough to get together few thou
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-21
Cows Kick Cost. FINGER

Harkimer, N. Y.-Mrs. Margaret
Fulmer had one finger amputated a
few days ago at the Memorial hospital.
Mrs. Fulmer's hand was struck by a
cow, when the animal kicked while be-
ing MIXED. q
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-21

he looked in the telephone directory
hoping to see his brothers. name.
Then he happened through Dubuque,
and as usual, glanced in the phone
book. There was his brothers. name.
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Safety Fir.t-Last

Cop-What do you mean driving
80 miles an houri
Pretty Motorist-My brakes don't
work, and was hurrying home be-
fore had an accident
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Not So Thrifty

"Old Ben Franklin was thrifty"
mot very" answered Miss Cayenne
He did a little early kiting with cleo
tricity, but he did not seem to have
the faintest idea OF its financial posi-
bilities. "-Washington Star.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-21
Down in the Deep

The Diver-Why do you girls look
so blue this morning?
Mermaid Why. some one invited
Mr.. Octopus to our bridge party and
he held SC many hands he won all
the money.
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Friendliness in War

A Scot was accosted by Il military
picket.
''Whc are you?" challenged the SOL
dier
I'm fine" answered the Scot.
"Hoo's yerself?"
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Coming Events

Miss Rabbit--My dear Mr. Snake,
1 just can't look at you without feel
ing charmed.
MIR. Snake-And If look at you
much longer / know there will be a.
lump In my throat
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-21
A,v Time. Any Place

Padget-l always said that Slumgul-
lion would come out on top.
Gadpet-Why the mans too lazy to
get anywhere.
paavet lie didn't have to 20 any
vhoro for his hair to fall out
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Timely Household Topic

.But listen dear spenNing more
money IS the way. you say to end
unemployment"
"Yes, but. my dear wife. dressnak-
ers aren't the only ones ONT of work"
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Must Be Spread

Cheerfulness is like money we'll ex-
pended in charity; the more we dis
pose of it, the greater our possession.
Victor Hugo.
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TOOK HIM DOWN

Friend-"That passenger tried to
treat you in high handed way didn't
hep Elevator Man-''Yes but | took
him down."
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-21

Suffering loses all its charms for a
woman If she has to do 1t in silence.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-21
Proof Positive

Housewife-Are you certain those
eggs aren't old?
Grocer-You can see for yourself
madam They haven't wrinkle
Brooklyn Eagle.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-21

Overheard at Riding Club
II want to rent horse
"How long?"
1.-The longest one you have. There
are four Of u.s."
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-21
At the Beach

Joggs-What happened to that
handsome guard they used to have.
here?
Boggs-Oh, his wife came out to.
be rescued so often he had to resign.
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RIGHT COURSE

did Mrs. Swift take ner husbands
failure In the right spirit?"
"Oh, yes just as soon as she knew
ne was going to fail she went out and
bought her entire spring outfit"
The Washington times., 1932-09-30

morrow, beating other Cub aces,
but either way it looks very logi-
cal that sooner or later they must
win the necessary two out of the
next five games and so take
charge of the worlds champion
ship in baseball for the season of
1882.
So even if Charley Root comes
along with the kind of game they
are touting him for tomorrow, it
doesn't seem now as though this
can greatly affect the final re-
suit. Thus far the Yanks simply
have been so much the better
club that it seems as though they
can't miss. They have received
two well-pitched games from Ruff
fling and Gomez. Eighteen Cubs
have famed in two days, COM
pairing not unfavorably with their
record at the same point in the
series Of three years ago.
The Washington times., 1932-09-30
Series Slants

ENROUTE TO CHICAGO, Sept.
80 G.N.S.) seemed strange to
see Warneke, the losing pitcher,
going to bat in the seventh with
his club three runs behind. 1t
seemed stranger to see Hartnett,
still three runs to the rear, trying
to take an extra base with none
out in the ninth.
Combs seemed to break War
neke's serenity at the outset. The
Cub kid had two strikes on Earl
but the latter stayed in there
fouled off four and finally walked.
So did Sewell. Both scored, max
ng nine passes by Cub pitchers
that have led to nine runs in two
days. No wonder the young men
are a little perturbed.
Crosetti let Cuyler's smash run
I'D his arm in the first, making
Franks fielding record at that
point 900 Later, he made an un-
commonly fine play on urges to
force Grimm at second and re-
peated with another on Hartnett
in the sixth.
The Cubs looked better with
Memaree and urges in there.
But then everybody sort OF sus-
pected that the Cubs weren't 60
ing to look any worse.
Gehrig cut all the way over to
the shortstop position to take
Combs throw from the outfield
in the first, showing exactly what
a college education will do for
you. And, in fact, to you.
Hartnett was retired on three
successive called strikes in the
fourth. They may tie it some day,
but that's one they won't beat.
The handling Of the ball on
double plays by urges and Her
man was something for failing
eyes to contemplate.
The Washington times., 1932-09-30
FAIL
To DISPLAY
ATTACK
By BABE RUTH

EN- ROUTE TO CHICAGO,
Sept. 30-We had to swing
against one great young pitcher
yesterday. But we had the good
fortune to have another
great one working on our side,
and now we can see nothing
ahead but success in this World
Series with the Cubs. Lon
Warneke, about whom we Ameri-
can League players read so much
during the summer, proved to us
that he has all they said he
did.
Gomez, of course, is better
known. Lefty was star through
1881, and he rang up tWenty-tour
victories this year, seven of them
against the AS. He turned in one
of his best performances of the
year in taking this second game
decision over the Cubs, and he
probably could have beaten any
pitcher starting against him
yesterday. A tumble and a bad
hop alone prevented him from
registering a shutout,
Bit Unsteady
It was our good fortune to have
such pitching on our side on
day when Warneke was working.
The Chicago boxman showed us a
better curve ball than Bush did,
but it struck me that he was a
bit unsteady in the early innings,
apparently from trying too hard.
After the third inning, we did
not get very far with his fast ball
or his snappy curve. Yes. sir, Mr..
Warneke is one of the best
pitchers I have looked at this
year.
They tell me that the Cubs are
tough to beat on their home field,
so we are looking for harder bat
ties when we get to Chicago. The
Yankees have been tough to beat
at home all year and there is no
overlooking the fact that we had
some advantage, slight or other
wise, in playing the first two
games at home.
Sees Pipgras On Mound
I expect to see George Pipgras
do our pitching in the third game
of the series, and if George shows
anything like the form he has
displayed in the late weeks of
the season, we should make it
three in a row tomorrow.
1t looks as it they can't stop Lou
Gehrig in this series, and when
Lou is hitting at his normal clip,
we don't lose many games. 1
think we have two of the best
men I ever saw at the top of a
batting order. They have to pitch
to Combs and they have to pitch
to SeWell. 1t was because of
Combs uncanny ability to judge
a pitched ball that he drew the
first inning pass after Warneke
had two strikes on him almost as
soon as he stepped to the plate.
Combs walk made Warneke
too careful with SeWell and Joe
walked. The two passes were
cashed l later on hits by Gehrig
and Dickey as runs, and we never
trailed after that.
The Washington times., 1932-09-30

Won't Choke
Chicubs
BY JACK LAIT

ABOARD THE B A S E B A l. l.
WRITERS SPECIAL, CHICAGO
BOUND, Sept. 30.-Two tough
scores to swallow won't choke
Chicago. 1 know Chicago. New
York took its Yankees puShovers
rather indifferently. New York
doesn't get excited any more, at
least out loud, over baseball. The
fans just shrug and say eff Ruth
don't get 'em, Gehrig will" New
York is practically a cinch. But
Chicago is sentimental.
The only drama in a game
where the Yanks participate is
when they are behind-oh, quite
a lot behind and quite late in the
game. Yesterday, when the Cubs
led off, there wasn't a tremor;
when the Yanks tied, there wasn't
a hand; when the Yanks took
the lead, there wasn't cheer.
Gehrig, the surefire, was hit
ting 'em. That was enough. But
there was a whole lot more to
spare. Lefty Gomez was pitching
the Chicagoans stupid. BoX-score
statistics or not, he was. When
ever it smelled like a close situa-
ton he sighted the plate, wound
up his skinny left arm, and it
didn't smell close any more. He
pitched to the Cubs in Spanish
and they couldn't sabe. The
combine of superlative left-handed
pitching and murderouS left
handed hitting was too much
The Cubs have played swell
ball. Not a man of them has
fallen down like Crossetti and
Ruth. The team play has been
poppy, smart and at times bril-
liant. But they simply don't
seem able to stop the Yanks
when the Yanks are doing things
or do things when the Yanks are
stopping them.
The Washington times., 1932-09-30
Roosevelt High Out
Of Grid Series

Roosevelt High has been def
nitely declared out of the inter
high football championship series
as a result of a meeting of the
board of faculty advisors yester-
day.
The board recommended that
Rooseve1t's resignation from the
series be accepted. 1t must be
passed upon by the board of
principals now. but this is ex-
pected to be only a matter of
mere formality.
Ed Towers (Columbia); Paul
agoffin (Michigan) INIT
Brewer (MarylandD and Harry
O'Meara (Gonzaga) have been
selected to officiate the games
this year,
The Washington times., 1932-09-30
MIRACLE ONLY
To SAVE CUBS
BY FRANK G. MENKE

BASEBALL WRITERS SPE-
CIAL, EN- ROUTE TO CHICAGO,
Sept. 30.-It is quite simple to
learn why the Cubs have been
crushed and Inundated upon two
separate occasions; it is quite
simple, indeed, to decide that the
Cubs require some miracle to get
them back into the brawling and
six high-class miracles, plus
complete Yankee collapse, to en-
able them to win the highest
honors of balloon.
1t needs no brilliance as a stu
dent to come to the conclusion
that the Cubs won nothing in
New York but cone-shaped caps
and wreaths of cabbage leaves
simply because they made only
eight runs while the enemy was
running itself almost into charley
horse condition by tripping around
II times. But there is no def
mite agreement on how it came
about.
Because there are more Ameri.
can Leaguers on this Pullman
chariot than partisans of the
older circuit, the idea has been
offered, without much rebuttal
testimony, that things happened
the way they did in Gotham be-
cause the American is the more
powerful organization, has ath.
letes of greater ability and power
and that the Nationals cannot
cope successfully any longer with
the drive of the Americans, or
the defense as demonstrated by
the Yankee tossers.
Others opine that maybe the
Cubs suffered from stage fright
on opening day and a bit of in
consistency on the second. They
are quite certain that in Chicago,
where home town fans toss lem
onS at opposing players who are
not fashioned according to West.
ern ideas, thus aggravating afore-
said opposition no little, that the
Cubs will regain their vim and
vigor, play with the zip and zoom
they flashed in the final six
weeks of the regular season and
provide the Yankee pitchers with
so many headaches that it will
take $17,5O0 worth of powders to
cure one of a size they predict
for Manager Marse Joe Mccarthy.
The Washington times., 1932-09-30
GOMEZ LEARNS
IN PAPERS HE
BEAT CUBS
BY VERNON LEFTY) GOMEZ

EN- ROUTE TO CHICAGO,
Sept. 3O.-I'm something like
Will Rogers. Maybe he won't
admit it, but just the same I'm
like him. I read in the papers
that I pitched against the Cubs
yesterday.
All know is what I read in
the papers, and I've been read
ing that no left-handed pitcher
can beat the Cubs. But the papers
say that the score was 5 to 2, and
the papers say it was the Cubs.
I felt like hugging Ben Chap
man when the game was over.
Ben made the single that put
the game on ice. Warneke walked
Ruth in the third and Gehrig
singled. Lazzeri was out on a
fine play, and up came Dickey.
1t was the right thing to do to
pass him and Warneke did just
that. It filled the sacks with
the score 2 to l. Chappie singled
two runs home and from that
time on the game was on ice.
Gehrig Does Bit
Of course Lou Gehrig did
plenty to the Cubs with his stick.
He got three hits in four times
up. He drove in a run and
scored two. There was fine
play by Sewell in the fifth on
Stephenson that cut off run.
That was important.
I kept on telling myself all
through the game that the Cubs
never could beat me. I felt it
and knew it. I worked carefully
on their good hitters and kept out
of trouble. Stephenson is a good
hitter and got two hits off me.
He hit Ruffing, but I think we've
got enough information now to
stop those boys.
Great Catch by Demaree
Frank Demaree made a great
catch on Crosetti in the sixth IN.
ming. He ran a mile for the best
hit ball of the day. I would have
given a lot if that ball had
dropped safe. 1t meant a lot to
Crosetti, who is a fine kid:
Confidentially, I had to win yes
terday. My little sweetheart, June
O'Dea, was at the game. Now, I
ask you, what would you do?
Well, that's what I did, too.
The Washington times., 1932-09-30

That is, $4,000 people who saw
the second game of the World
Series back in New York yeSter'
day agree that the body belongs
to the Chicago Cubs, champions
of the National League. Whereas,
this simply cannot be. because
the Cubs say they aren't dead
yet, and I've always found that
when a man says he isn't dead
he usually is not.
The New York Yankees, cham
pions of the American League,
won the first game of the world
Series on Wednesday by a score of
IL to 6, beating Guy Bush, the
first Cub ace.
They won the second game Of
the World Series yesterday by
score of S to 2, beating Lon War
neke, the second Cub ace. They
may or may not win the third
game of the series in Chicago TO-
The Washington times., 1932-09-30
ChicHbs Tie Record
For Double PLnuS

NEW YORK, Sept. 3O.-Even
IN defeat the Cubs tied rather
antique world series record by
making double plays in the
fourth, fifth, seventh and eighth
innings yesterday. Only twice
IN world series history has
team made that many two-piy
killings in one game. The Ath-
letics did it to the Boston Braves
In 1914, and the Boston Red Sox
slapped four on the Dodgers in
one game during the 1916 classic.
The Washington times., 1932-09-30
Lou Whole Show

I recall, too, my undiplo-
matte answer to young Fred,
which was something like this:
FIRED, if and when Lou Gehrig
ever becomes a great first base
man. you won't have to inspire
write-ups for him-you won't
be able to keep him out of the
papers"
Well. a lot of beer has been
dumped in the sewers since
that day, and Lou Gehrig has
grown big and strong and
smart since then, and per-
sonally am happy to doff my
cap to him and say that
extensively and defensively he
has been the 1882 world series,
as it goes into it's third game
at Chicago tomorrow,
The Washington times., 1932-09-30
RAIN MAY HALT
THIRD CAME

CHICAGO, Sept. 3O.-Old man
weather today vaguely threatened
to spoil the party tomorrow at
Wrigley Field where the New
York Yankees and Chicago CUBS
are scheduled to resume ho5tili-
ties in the third game of the
world series.
Increasing Goodness" was
the forecast for Saturday given
out by C. A. Donnel, Govern
ment weather observer. That in
dictates a possibility of rain, said
the weatherman.
A frost descended in outlying
sections of the city this morning,
although fair and warmer weather
was predicted for later in the
day.