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The Hagerstown globe., 1937-07-30

been outgrown. Another dscov-
cry that the average nine-year-old
girl takes a Ia size. The new
shoes. The decision to leave out
all party dresses. The decision
to include one party dress. The
new tooth brush. The worry over
whether the young camper will be
homesick.
The question of laundry. The
purchase of the parcel post valise
to send the laundry home. The
later decision to have it done at
the camp. The recurrent worry
over whether Joan or Betty or
Barbara-as the case may be
will be homesick. The matter of
fountain pens and their tendency
to leak into luggage. The 18th
hour discovery that each camper
is directed to take along a flash
light. The transportation prob
lem. The worry over whether
Betty or Joan will be homesick.
The departure. The forgotten
comb and the necessity for buy
ing one along the way. The
worry enroute, whether the young
lady will be homesick. The hunt
for the camp. The eventful dis
covery of its sign-1S by 27 inches
-on a tree. The arrival. The
simultaneous arrival of three
small friends, and the happy re-
union. The strict injunction that
letter be written every Sunday
to mother and father. The part
ing; the worry on the way home
whether the offspring will be
homesick.
The arrival the following Mon
day, of message: Dear Muther:
Will it be all right if / stay at
camp until school starts? l hope
you and father do not miss me
too much"
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Efficient Fisherman


A good idea often comes to a
man when he sits in boat hold
ing line and waiting for the
fish to bite.
The man who relates the follow
ing story likes to fish, and after
long observation he has come to
the conclusion that there is a def
mite relation between good
fisherman and a good salesman.
"a good fisherman he says,
first sizes up his territory. He
picks out a place where, on the
law of averages, the fish he wants
to catch, should Tbe. He takes
into consideration the depth, the
character of the bottom, the size
of the hook and the bait. Having
made up his mind that fish should
be in this place, he casts his line
and waits. He viii wait one hour
two ours-without a nibble,
because he knows that If his
judgment is right his patience
will be rewarded.
"The other type OF fisherman
viii have his line ont before he
is ten minutes from shore. If he
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Big Jim TuJIy

Big Tim Tully washed automo-
biles and did other commonplace
jobs around a garage in New
York for several years before his
death, which occurred not long
ago. He was not ambitious, and
judged by the worlds standards
he did not amount to much. But
he had heart of gold. He was
friend of childhood.
Each week he drew $50 as
wages, of which he used $40 for
his modest living expenses and
saved the rest. When the oppor-
tunity came, he hired travelling
merry-go-round man to set up in
the neighborhood for as many
days as the savings on hand
would permit and turned the out
fit over to the poor children in
the vicinity for their free enjoy
ment. This procedure was re-
peated many times.
When Big Jim died he did not
leave enough money to pay his
funeral expenses, but his children
friends, some now grown up,
Clipped in and gave him a de-
cent burial. Fifteen hundred rag
ged kids of the East Side caused
a traffic jam through their in
sistence on paying a last tribute
to their idol. Their little hearts
were sad, and tears trickling
down grimy cheeks bespoke their
grief because the friend they
loved was gone.
To the world at large Big Jim
didn't amount to much, but he
brought sunshine into the lives
of many underprivileged boys
and girls. besides teaching them
practical lesson in benevolence.
How many of us have done more?
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Strange Medicines

Probably no science has been
evolved from a greater mass of
early superstition than that of
medicine. Still, it is said that
some of the oldtime prescriptions
may posSibly have had a certain
curative value although appear
ing ridiculous at first glance.
A recent writer declares that
the broth of red ants was once
usel for intestinal disorders, and
that modern research finds that
the formic acid in ants is a
strong antiseptic, which may have
killed intestinal germs.
Some believe that the sting of
bees and wasps relieve rheuma-
tism. These insects also secrete
formic acid, the injection of which
through the "stinger' may pos
sibly have a beneficial effect.
Baked toad, ground to powder,
was used by the Greeks as a rem
edy for heart disease. Chemists
find that there are certain aka
loids in the skin of toad which
act as a heart stimulant.
Some other old alleged remed-
les have not yet been satisfactor-
lily explained, however. Among
the innumerable ones may be
mentioned tying picked herring
to each leg for dropsy; eating a
dried and powdered magpie for
epilepsy; carrying buckeye in
the pocket or sleeping with a
black cat for rheumatism; var
ious incantatious for the removal
of warts and so on.
Considering the mystery which
formerly surrounded most dis
eases, it is not surprising that
equally mysterious remedies have
been suggested and applied. And
while we have made amazing
progress in medicine and sur
gerry, the highest skill is still
baffled by a few maladies that
have been studied since the dawn
of civilization.
The Hagerstown globe., 1937-07-30
About the Weather

Recent hot spells in various
sections of the country naturally
have revived comparisons of heat
with conditions of former years.
In the United States the hottest
spot on an average is a place in
Death Valley, California, named
oddly enough, Greenland Ranch,
where on July 10, 1910, the tenn
perature rose to 234 degrees.
The record for cold in this
country is held by Miles City,
Montana, where the mercury sank
to 65 below zero in 1888.
Higher and lower temperatures
have been recorded in Africa and
Siberia, respectively, although
Death Valleys high mark is with
in two degrees of the worlds
record. 136 degrees at Azizia,
Tripoli, in 1924.
Some interesting cases of ex-
cessive rainfall and snowfall have
been noted by the United States
Weather Bureau. The hardest
rain ever recorded was at Ophid's
Camp, in California, where an
inch OF rain, equivalent to 116
tons Of water per acre, fell in
one minutes, on April s. 1926. At
Porto Bello, Panama, 2.47 inches
Of rain fell in three minutes on
The Hagerstown globe., 1937-07-30

May /, 1908. The heaviest snow
fall ever to occur at a place
equipped for accurate observation
was 25 inches in "a hours at
Washington, D. c., in January
1922.
The most equabIe and pleasant
climate in the United States and
perhaps in the world, is enjoyed
by Key West, Fla, where the
temperature has never gone above
100 nor below Al above zero. It's
average for January is 20 and for
July "a. Even in the heat Of
summer this island city is rela-
lively cool, being famed by the
breezes from the Gulf of Mexico,
which seldom fail when they are
needed.
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The following items were
taken from an issue of The
Evening Globe, dated Septem-
Der %, 1891:
The Hagerstown globe., 1937-07-30
Off TO Camp

The ads, the prospectuses, the
anxious conversations with other
parents whose children have gone
to camps. The selection, and the
vague misgiving that maybe
Camp Idlewild would have been
the wiser choice. The discovery
that last years bathing suit has
The Hagerstown globe., 1937-07-30
REUNIONS AND PIcNIcs

The following reunions and
picnics are scheduled for City
Park: July 81, Ausherman Re
union; July 81, Slime Reunion /;
August 2, Kuhn Reunion; August
/, Barnhart Reunion; August 8,
Royer Reunion; August 5, Zion
Lutheran Sunday School, Will
Transport.
One hundred property owners
in Hagerstown have been given 80
day notices to connect with the
sewer.
The Hagerstown globe., 1937-07-30

The Indian Spring corresnoDs
ent wrote: Although a fnrion.
equinoxial storm is due todav 'gus ~s
are sweltering beneath the bnrn
ing rays of a tropical SIM
breeze from the Arctic regiona
would now be more heartily wal
coined than the announcement ~
a picnic or the visit of a candi
date. The corn cutters have ba
gun operations and already we aro
hearing considerable comnloint
about the big fodder and bsrd
work. The farmer is not com.
planning any. On the contrary be
smiles a smile of angelic sweet
ness as he views his tasselIed
fields and thinks Of his golden
dollars which soon would begin f.
flow into his capacious pockets
Ambrose ManelIe, an Italian
arrested on a charge of selling
malt liquors without a license
was given hearing before United
States Commissioner Alexander
R. Hagner. The man could not
speak word of English and thru
an interpreter said that he did
not know he was doing anything
wrong.
Milton Kohler. advertised for
sale a fine bay family driving
mare, six years old. w. K. Hof.
man had for sale Columbia safe.
ty bicycle, 1890 pattern, price
$50. Jacob Albert was retiring
from the butcher business and
was being succeeded by his sons.
S. H. Weihenmayer offered EN-.
ployment in the Windsor Knitting
Mills which were to commence
operations October 1.
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does not get a bite in two min.
utes he will move on. He throws
out his line anywhere and every
where. He thrashes around in the
boat, changes hooks. switches
bait, spits on the bait and wears
himself out generally.
"On al certain day the latter
may catch more fish than the for
mer, or neither may catch any
fish, but on the law of averages
the first will be more successful,
and with far less expenditure of
energy"
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all styles for 25 cents.

Mrs. W. P. odell, East Antietsn
street, left on a visit to friends s''l4 u
Springfield, III. Jacob Poaas.a 9 a.
was on a business trip to PbiIa. Ts'
delphia. Ind
The Hagerstown globe., 1937-07-30
BY THE OLD LAMPLIGHTER

The following items were
taken from an issue of The
Evening Globe, dated Septem-
Der %, 1891:
The Massachusetts State
Board of Agriculture was to soon
issue a pamphlet showing that re-
turns received from all but 13
towns in the state gave a total
of $50 abandoned farms in the
commonwealth.
A bigger and better Hagerstown
Fair was advertised for October
1916. There were TO be twenty
five races, steeple chases, hurdle,
chariot and running and trotting
races. The Myrtle Peek combina-
ton was to be the big attraction
in front of the grand stand. P.
A. Wilmer was secretary and
John w. Stonebraker, president.
George B. Oswald announced a
meeting of the West End Improve
ment Co.
Conner and Smith, No. 1 Court
Place, had from $4,000 to $4,000
in sums of $1,000 and $4,000 to
loan on mortgage security.
Lowenstein Bros, wanted a boy
to learn tailoring; the silk mill
wanted girls at once; young man
was wanted at Stevens Shoe
Store, West Washington street,
and Alfred Henson advertised for
four good hands to help set up
his brick kiln.
Grove Bros, were showing a
great line Of overcoats," also a
full and complete line of suitings,
pantaloonings, fancy yestings, and
full dress suitings.
A grand excursion was advertis-
ed to Stonebraker Bros. Oyster
Parlor, opposite the Market
House. Oysters were served in
does not get bite in two min
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A grand excursion was advertis-
ed to Stonebraker Bros. Oyster
Parlor, opposite the Market
House. Oysters were served in
Evening star., 1937-01-30
Manners
of the
Moment

MAYBE it is funny when the fat
man on board tries to get his
life belt to meet in front. But you
know it's really not nice to laugh
right in his face. He's usually mad
enough already. You shouldn't take
any chances with explosives.
If you must laugh, it would be far.
far wiser to bury your face completely
behind the book you're reading. Then
if the fat man sees the shaking OF
your shoulders he can probably per.
suade himself that you're really
laughing at Jeeves.
In fact. 1t is a very good plan to
carry a humorous book under your
arm at all times when on a cruise.
1t may be that people on cruises
really are funnier than other people.
Or it may be simply that you don't
have much else to do but laugh at
them. But If you take your man
ners seriously you'll want to protect
them with q book You can always
duck behind it until the spasm is over.
JEAN.
tcopyright, 1881
Evening star., 1937-01-30

, Being small. he fits into car or house.
Willies dark-colored coat makes his
hair easy on the furniture. A more
even-tempered canine never chewed
q bone.
With all his manners, the dog Is on
the scene when trouble presents itself.
The Welsh terrier can work in the
field or guard the baby equally we'll
Though not a show-off, he must
have the respect of his fellows.
There is Welsh terrier by the name
of Sunny who lives nearby. Like all Of
his kind. he isn't inclined to pick q
fight, but any question of hi- might
or bravery is always taken care of to
the last growl or hair. One day Sunny
ambled over to the drug store with his
mistress. AS they entered, an object
jumped into his face. The Welsh
terrier fled around the drug counter.
Gathering himself together, he peered
around the corner Just In time to see
what had startled him. The creature
was a very puffed up Pekingese.
Sunny was covered with embarrass.
ment. He sided up to his mistress and
tried to explain that he hadn't meant
to run. but things happened so sud-
denly. . At that moment collie
started in the door. Quick as flash,
Sunny sprang at him. The big fellow
darted back. Sunny strutted over to
his owner, his honor washed as white
as snow.
The collie's probably out looking for
4 great Dane!
Evening star., 1937-01-30

Is going to be the outcome: whether
men are going to abandon the cling
ing vine as the ideal type Of wife. or
whether women are going to throw up
their jobs and flop once more on the
masculine breast.
The situation is full of portents Of
war in any household. For here is
the modern girl, intelligent. college
bred. capable in business, taught to
think for herself and stand on her
own feet and make her own decisions.
She marries and, nine times out of
ten, she discovers that her husband
does not want an intellectual equal.
nor wife with any individuality OF
her own.
A famous novelist said not long ago
that any wife could get along with
any husband as long as she kept mur-
muring "how wonderful" to every
thing he said and did, and to large
extent this is true.
X
he reason SO many men marry
feminine fools Is because they are
trying to get wives who are their men
tai interiors.
So long. then, as men have this
head-of-the-house and superiority-to-
women complex. what are the wives
who are clever themselves going to dc
about it? Stand up for their rights
as individuals? Try to educate their
husbands up to new standard for
wives? 1t can be done. It is being
done.
The easiest way is the old i'm
memorial way of the wife who never
lets her husband find out how smart
she is; who asks his advice and then
goes along and does the way she had
determined to do anyway. and who
never wearies in exclaiming: How
wonderful"
Evening star., 1937-01-30
Show
And House
WARNINGS
Two Popular Types
of Informal En-
tertaining.
BY EMILY POST.


DEAR MRS. POST: Is it in ques-
tionable taste to give a shower
party for a friend who is still young
but who is divorced and marrying for
the second time?
Answer: 1t certainly should not be
expected, but if some of her friends
want very much to give shower for
her there Is no reason against it.
DEAR MRS POST: Have you ever
written anything about asking
both men and girls to shower for
their friend who is to marry soon?
Almost all the showers I have ever
heard of. and certainly those have
ever been to, were woman's parties
but thought perhaps it would be fun
to have an evening party and ask both
so that afterward we. could take up
the rugs and dance. And If mer
might be included, is there any type
Of shower which you think would be
more suitable. Had given the party
for girls, would have named it a
lingerie shower and asked the brides
friends to bring presents all Of that
one type.
Answer: 1t seems to me that some
where have heard of a mixed shower
Certainly it would not be lingerie
shower, but I think it would be very
amusing to make it household gadget
shower to which the girls send kitchen
utensils and the men, tacks and
hammers and everything the husband
might be expected to need when max
ing himself useful CD around the
house. The men might also give him
furniture polish and floor wax and a
shoe backing box.
DEAR MRS. POST: realize that
~ the term "housewarming" is given
to any type Of party as long as 1t Is
the first real one given by new owners
or tenants. But is one kind Of party
more usually given on this occasion
and tell me, if there is. how you would
suggest going about giving it?
Answer: It is rarely other than an
informal late afternoon or early eve
ming at home. Very simple refresh
ments are set either on the dining
room table or on a card table in the
living room. The principal feature is,
Of course, that the entire house Is
open for the visitors inspection. And
this means the whole house!
NEAR MRS. POST: My sisters
~ friends have asked me to give a
shower party for her at my house,
since I have better space for having
parties. The shower Is being given
because a baby is expected soon
Since they have asked me to give it,
do you still think it would be insult
able for q member of her family to
do this?
Answer: II the two or three who
proposed this party will send out the
invitations on their cards, the fact
that the party will be in your house is
not important.
tCopyrigh., 1879
Evening star., 1937-01-30

temporary expression as well as the
more traditional. Both, we must re-
member. are interpretations Of gra-
cious living and have much that is
lovely to offer. On the traditional
side lie richness Of design, ornament
and pattern-the individuality OF
craftsmen expressed-and, for the
older generation. sentimental associa-
tions. In contrast, the modern school
gives us order, precision, ingenuity,
convenience. fresh use of color, a
wealth Of new materials and a re-
freshing formula in harmony with
modern-day demands.
In making our choice OF furnish
ingS we cannot, of course. always be
guided entirely by the comparative
pleasure which We derive from one or
the other mode. We must naturally
decide upon our period in relation TO
our needs and problem. The person
who possesses fine Sheraton table, a
Chippendale chair and an empire
sofa should perhaps build her room
around them with eighteenth century
pieces. And the owner of a country
farm house will certainly not want to
ask modernist to decorate It'll
On the other hand, If one has no
pieces of importance and can start
from the ground up" in a town
apartment, the contemporary style is
admirable and very exciting to work
out. Think how interesting an apart
ment furnished with modern sectional
pieces would be! One could move and
switch furnishings TO the feminine
hearts content and at last appease
in some measure that love of change!
Evening star., 1937-01-30

to assist in checking the spread Of
the disease, but also in bringing the
little sufferers back to normal after
the dread paralysis has done its work.
For remember, in the years am
speaking of it was very different. In
the Summer of 1917, following the
great outbreak, the sight to break the
heart Of man or woman was the dread
full line Of little crippled children on
all the beaches, struggling back to
shadows of their former selves, with
arms and limbs wasted and shriveled
to nothingness being bathed in the
warm, salty water. 1t is no wonder,
after seeing their pathetic despair,
that every mother clasped her own
sound boy or girl close. in an agony Of
fear at the mere whisper Of infantile
paralysis!
NOW, however, they can breathe q
l little easier-although. Of course,
there is yet much to be done. The
greatest skill and intelligence Of our
doctors and scientists are being brought
to bear on the various phases Of this
disease. Each year brings further i'm
provements and carries us nearer to
the time when, like the childish
scourge Of grandmother's time-diph-
theria-this miasma will be controlled
and purged Of its horror.
And, in the meantime-what Of the
little victims that have become It's
prey in the past? They, too. are
profiting by the advances Of science.
and treatments of different types,
surgery, exercise and skillful nursing
are bringing them back to normal In
astonishing numbers. Mothers are
being taught the value of proper treat
ment in the early stages of the dis
ease-and they are also quicker to
report any suspicious symptoms to the
doctor.
All over the country tonight peo-
pie will be dancing for the sake OF
those childish feet that, without their
help, might never dance again. At
the same time they are celebrating
the birthday of a, victim Of infantile
paralysis-one Of the greatest men in
the world.
Once a young girl said to me,
when I think what can happen to
them-I don't ever want to have chill
dren! Better they should never come
into the world than to be stricken
by this horrible diseased"
She, and others like her, may now
| take heart. Science is forging to-
ward its goal, feet are dancing that
money may pour into healing Golfers
and before us always is the shining
example Of President Roosevelt, CIV
ing renewed hope to every mother and
father In the country through his own
winning fight against odds.
Oh yes. parents, especially, wish for
the President the happiest of birth
days!
Evening star., 1937-01-30

find and spent nightmare hours I'M
egining that symptoms were already
closing In on me.
Probably I had read too much IN
my time-I can recall that one OF
nv favorite volumes contained Defoes
narrowing account Of the great plague
in London-and very likely I made
myself million times more miserable
than I had any reason to be; the
fact remains, however, that in those
days infantile paralysis to the average
layman was a complete mystery-a
thing Of unutterable horror that de-
fed all control.
EOR the whole thing was paradox.
One child in household would
be stricken-and not one other men,
Der of the family would contract the
disease. A youngster, living in the
seclusion of the country, on a farm
miles away from any others or possible
carrier, would become victim. 1t
made no sense. Like lightning, no
one could predict where it would
strike, and no one could feel that any
quarantine or regulation would defin-
lily protect the children from its raw
ages. No wonder We were given to
grasping at straWs, to listening to
wild theories. When the isolated child
on the farm took sick" We pointed
to an old wives tale that birds carried
the disease. When several children
in a crowded community all became
Ill at the same time, we fortified
ourselves with more rigorous quaran-
tine. They said raw fruit might cause
the disease-every thing was cooked
to a crisp. They said it was in the
air and entered the body through
the nose and throat-we wore gauze
masks and shifted camphor!
This last idea. Of course. is appar-
emily the most tenable one OF them all
and is the one on which present-day
doctors are doing the most expert
menting. And strides have been made,
as we all know-not only in measures
Evening star., 1937-01-30
BY MARY ALLEN HOOD.

I@H H, MAMA, look at the lit
[ tie Airedale'"
J "Shush, darling. the
~ lady might hear you. Be-
sides, it isn't an Airedale; it looks like
q sunburned wire-haired fox terrier,
or something"
How did it get sunburned and why
isn't 1t little Airedale?"
"Well, let us sec oh! don't ask
so many questions. Besides, If told
YOU, you'd forget. Look it up when
we get home"
Maybe little sister found the right
dog picture in her encyclopedia. If
she did, the text told her that the pup
was a Welsh terrier. He's not cross
breed Of a fox terrier. Neither Is he
a dwarfed member Of the Airedale
family. Willie Welsh terrier has a
family tree of which he can be proud.
His lineage is much longer than that
of most of his better-known contem-
poraries. Old literature shows pic
lures Of WiIlie's ancestors for ages
back. Great, great, great-grandpa
looks almost the same as his progeny.
No dog is more deserving of popu-
larity than the Welsh terrier. He is
the pup who should escort baby car
riages. Toy dogs especially the Pc
kingese) are i'll suited to that job. The
little Welsh canine eats it up. He Is
very affectionate and not liable to
wander far from the hand that pats.