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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-05
GOOD TASTE
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kEMILY POSTD
Photo-CoUered Walls
Belong to the Past
Worlds Foremost Authority
on Etiquette
q Emily Post.
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N EAR Mrs. Post: Will you say a
- word or two about the good, or
bad, taste of having photographs
hanging in ones house? In my
mothers house the chief wall orna-
ments were pictures of the various
relatives on both sides of the fami-
ly, but today, one sees SO few pic
lures of this type that l wondered
if it was no longer considered proper
to have any. And if not, what is one
supposed to do with all the pic
lures given by relatives and
friends?
Answer: In Victorian days it was
the fashion, over here as well as
abroad, to fill ones rooms with
hanging or marching photograph
frames on walls and across all
available table spaces. Old fash
Toned people still like to have many
framed photographs about them.
But since the modern liking for
emptiness has a great effect on
taste, the younger generation keep
most of their photographs in be-
tween the leaves of an album. This
album, by the way, has also no sug-
gestion of the Victorian one wherein
mounted photographs were slipped
into paper openings. The modern
album is a large book bound either
in leather or brocade with plain
leaves like any other photograph al
bum. But all people have a few
photographs either on the walls or
on the tables of their rooms.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-05
Poor Mans Gold
Courtney RyIey Cooper 'e ~sg -s Cooper

quickly forward, her hands caught
his arms. There was a moment of
silence, almost communion. Then:
You'd better take him into the
big room"
Five minutes later, Jack stood at
the door of that big room, queer
look on his irregular features. Ken
ming had been placed on a rough
cot, and a quietly efficient woman
of the Frontier Nursing association,
one of dozen flown in within the
last twenty-four hours, was direct
ing the efforts of the women as they
began the long task of cleansing
and oiling and bandaging.
A door slammed. Hammond
turned. For an instant he looked
into the eyes of Kay Joyce.
"There he is" the man said quiet
ly.
The girl went forward, her steps
slowing as she approached the cot.
Suddenly she went to her knees,
her hands outstretched, lowering
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-05

the following month the giant rag
weed and as September starts it is
the small or common ragweed.
When Suffering Begins.
How severe a victims symptoms
are depends upon the amount of pol
len that is filling the air he breathes
as well as upon his susceptibility.
The amount of pollen is likely to
vary from day to day. 1t will be
stirred up more, of course, when
there is a good breeze, and it will
tend to settle on a calm day. In
some states at the height of the
season it is not unusual to find 1000
to 1000 grains of pollen to the cubic
yard of air. Pollen thins out in
higher atmospheres, but aviators
making scientific tests can find it
mile above the earth.
It is when the air contains pol
len count of Is to the cubic yard
that the hay fever victim begins to
suffer, so you can imagine his mis-
cry when the count reaches 1000!
According to medical scientists,
you should not sit next to an open
window on a train if you would
avoid hay fever, although air-con-
ditioned cars are all right, for the
pollen is filtered from the air in
them. Nasal sprays will protect the
nose in some measure from attack,
and a little white vaseline around
the opening of the nostrils will keep
some of the pollen from getting in.
Victims will find themselves more
comfortable in a dark room where
there are no drafts.
Although ten persons in one hun
dred suffer to some degree because
they are allergic, only one of these
ten, on an average, has hay fever.
Various allergy victims suffer in
various ways.
Sensitive to Horse Hair.
Take the case of the city child
who was accustomed enough to
thousands of automobiles in his
daily life, but seldom, if ever, laid
eyes on a horse. Finally coming
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-05

caused by house dust which mixes
more actively through the air at
the time of the year when the radi-
ators are turned on for the first
time. June flies cause asthma in
the area about the Great Lakes;
elsewhere butterflies or other in
sects could provoke it; so can GER
tain foods, such as berries, aspara-
gus or muskmelon. Almost any,
one knows somebody who simply
can't eat strawberries without get
ting the hives.
When a person begins to have reg
ular attacks of asthma at certain
time of day or night, the doctor is
likely to examine every article with
which the victim regularly comes
in contact at that time If they oc-
cur at night, it might be the feath-
ers in the pillow, the hair in the
bed mattress or the wool in the
blankets.
Boys Hate Haircuts, Anyway.
Sometimes the doctor has to be a
mighty clever detective to find
them, however. There is the case
of a small boy who had an asth-
matte attack every few weeks. After
much observation it was found that
in a general way the attacks cor
responded to the time of his peri
odic visits to the barber. It was
eventually found that he was aller-
gic to hair-not to his own hair, or
the hair of anyone in his family, but
to the hair of anyone with whom he
was not in daily contact!
The Detroit News reports the case
of doctor in that city who suffered
from asthma every Sunday. He
finally discovered that he was al
lergic to Sunday newspapers! No
kidding. He was sensitive to GER
tain aromas which the various inks
gave forth; because of the much
larger paper on Sunday, he spent a
great deal more time with it. TIE
daily paper did not have enough
time to affect him, but the Sunday
one did.
g Western Newspaper Union.
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across one in the street one day he
approached it closely to examine
the queer animal at length. He be-
gan to choke up and there was Sc
we're excretion of fluid from the
lungs. Now he had played with
cats at times, and he owned a little
wire-haired fox terrier, but none of
these had ever affected him so. 1t
just turned out that he was allergic
to horse hair.
Actually, now that skin sensitiza-
ton tests are common, it has been
found that many supposed hay fe-
yer sufferers did not have hay fe-
yer, but were allergic to their own
dog or cat. You can even be aller-
gic to cigarette smoke. There is on
record the case of a woman who
was sensitive to that kind of smoke.
Her husband smoked a pipe; when
she played bridge at the home of
friends who smoked cigarettes she
would begin to sniff1e and appear to
have a cold. The doctor found what
was troubling her and treated her
for it. Now her companions could
smoke corn silk without bothering
her.
Seasonal asthma is frequently
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-05
CHAPTER XII

Afternoon became night, night
slowly became gray morning, yet
Kay Joyce did not leave Bruce Ken
ning's death-bed. Those who passed
her saw in her features a conflict
of emotions; terror was there, gall
ing sorrow. Selfshness fared its
way across her face, giving way to
commiseration. Anger stirred when
Jeanne Towers, returning from a
brief sleep, came back to duty. Gen
tleness ran it's course and hardness
followed; glittering eyes stared for
long moments. Numbing grief had
its place, and self-pity. Bruce Ken
ming, she knew, could not live. At
last, she bent forward, all but whis-
pering.
Bruce, Bruce dear. Can you
hear me?"
The hungry, horribly patient eyes
centered upon her. She sat silent,
looking at him. This was his only
means of expression. The hands
were motionless, encased, as was
most of his body, in bandages yell
lowed by picric acid. His head was
a mass of stained white. Only the
eyes remained, expressive, implor-
ing, as if for the surcease of death.
Kay again leaned close.
"Move your eyes if you want to
say yes Close them for no. Do
you understand"
The eyes moved quickly. Kay
Joyce bit her lips. She looked about
her. There was no one near to
overhear; the man on the next cot
was almost as badly burned as Ken
ming. For a long time she was
silent. At last:
"Those claims? The ones of Nc
Kenzie Joe that you got from Jack.
Were they in your cabin?"
The eyes said "No."
''Did you have them with your"
Again the eyes replied in the neg
alive.
'Then where are they?"
But the eyes could only stare.
Words could not flow from that
thickened throat; the hands re-
manned impotent. A long time
passed. The girl was silent, as if
fighting for the strength to go on.
At last the selfish look again came
into her eyes, mingling queerly with
compassion. She pressed her lips
close to the bandages about his
ears.
"Jack said they were recorded.
We're they?"
His eyes moved in the affirma-
tive. Again she leaned back, silent
in thought.
The big room echoed with activi-
ty. From far at the end came the
ceaseless grooming of a sufferer,
unable to suppress his agony. The
man on the next cot breathed heav-
lily in fevered sleep. Kay Joyce's
well-formed hands began to knit,
finger, weaving within finger.
Bruce! she begged. Bruce
dear-you, always said you'd take
care of me, q
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-05
Robert Cayelier de la Sale

On March 10, 1857, near the Trim
ity river, Texas, Robert Cavelier de
la Sale was murdered by mutinous
followers. He had attempted to
found French settlement near
Matagorda bay, which he had mis-
taken for the mouth of the Mississip-
pi, discovered by him in 1852. Dis
aster after disaster, now culminat-
ing in his death, had attended the
enterprise. Yet the credit due his
former exploit remains undimmed:
he had traced the length of CONT
nent's greatest inland waterway, la
ter to become an all-important fac
tor in the development of American
travel and communication. OF him
the historian Parkman writes:
America owes him an enduring
memory; for in this masculine fig
ure she sees the pioneer who guided
her to the possession of her richest
HERITAGE" }s.ESti IS
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over him as though they longed to
touch him, yet feared it. For
long time she remained silent, her
centered gaze, her trembling, her
intensity, all for him. But sudden
ly she broke.
Her hands clasped tightly. Her
shoulders took on tense, shudder-
ing stiffness. Her usually too-pretty
lips contorted until they became al
most ugly.
"You can't die, Bruce" she cried.
"You can't! Good God-what on
earth will become of me if you die,
Bruce? Can't you understand? What
will become of me?"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-05

The answer to the victims cry is
that he is allergic to something in
the air, probably the pollen from a
plant or weed. What particular
plant it is determines whether it's
pollen rides the air waves in May,
June, July or September.
Time used to be that hay fever
victims, when they began to sneeze,
their eyes started to water and their
noses to sniff1e, simply had to pack
up, leave home and make for the
North Woods or the resorts at
Charlevoix and Mackinac island in
Michigan where the air is compar-
atively free from dust and pollen.
While this made an excellent ex-
cuse for q vacation it was a con-
siderable expense and often a great
inconvenience.
Fortunately today medical science
has made such strides that hay fe-
yer can now be treated with a
pretty fair degree of success right
at home. The big task is to find
out what type of pollen is causing
each individual case. To do this
doctors may have to be expert de-
tectives, for many different individ-
uals are allergic to different things.
Results of Allergy.
All of us are allergic to some
thing or other, whether it be a GER
tain type of food, the hair of a GER
tain animal, feathers from pillows,
some types of dust, or even smoke.
But only about one person in ten is
allergic to such degree that he is
uncomfortable.
By allergic we mean, in a free
sense, that we are unusually sensi-
tive to something. A high degree
of allergy to some of the things
mentioned in the foregoing para
graph may result in any one or
combination of number of Attic
tions-eczema, hives, "colds," hay
fever, headache, diarrhea and other
ailments.
Hay fever symptoms spring from
hives which occur in the nose, ST.
muses. and eyes, causing sneezing
and itching. If they were to occur
in the lungs, causing spasmodic con-
traction of the bronchial tubes and
coughing, they would produce asth-
ma. When hay fever occurs the
pollen to which the victim is aller-
gic enters the nasal ducts, infam-
ing them; the poison passes to the
throat and bronchial tubes, and
finally to the ends of the bronchial
tracts, where swelling occurs.
The hay fever victim need not
even be living in the neighborhood
of the plants whose pollen are at the
bottom of his grief. To follow
hypothetical case, let us say patch
of ragweeds was poisoning in a
vacant lot of some city. A high
wind came, spiriting away the
seeds, lifting them up over the city
and carrying them a hundred or
even two hundred miles from the
place they grew. At last as the
wind dies they settle down, unhappi-
ly, right before an unfortunate soul
who is allergic to ragweed pollen
without ever having discovered it.
He breathes them into his nose
thousands of them, for it would take
$4,000 to cover the head of pin.
Test Skin With Pollen.
Soon his nasal duct is infamed
and he begins to sneeze. Then the
poison passes down through his
throat and bronchial tubes and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-05

is allergic to ragweed pollen. His
protests to the doctor that he has
not been near any ragweed need
not confuse us, for we know how
the pollen got to him. The doctor
explains it to him, too.
Now the doctor orders injections
of the proper type of pollen vaccine
into the blood. Next year, now that
the patients allergy is known, he
will be given minute, but increas-
ing doses of the injection, starting
in February and continuing for a
few weeks until it is thought he
should be immune when the season
comes. 1t does not always work out
that way, and sometimes daily in
jections during the season itself do
not help.
Different pollens do their bastard
ly work at different times of the year
in different sections. In the eastern
and central states, for instance,
June grass causes trouble around
the beginning of that month; in
early July it is Timothy hay, late
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-05

Aerial surveys, conducted thou
sands of feet up, test the air for
hay fever pollen.
swelling occurs. His eyes redden,
his nose itches "where he can't get
at it to scratch it," and he begins
to sniff1e constantly.
Perhaps our friend thinks he has
a cold. But the doctor says, "Hay
fever" and tells him he had better
find out what type of pollen is caus-
ing the trouble. The customary pro-
cedure is for the doctor to begin
making skin sensitization tests. Lit
tie scratches are made on the arm,
and into each of these scratches
one drop of pollen solution is
placed; different type of pollen
is used on each scratch. The suf-
ferer is allergic to the type of pollen
placed in any scratch which red
dens and swells.
Well say our hypothetical victim
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-05
Rats Multiply Fast

A pair of rats will multiply to
700 in one year, counting grand
children and great grandchil-
dren. Rats will gnaw through
cement to get something they want
and can climb pipes and cords.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-05
Cities Having Largest Areas

The FIVE cities in the world that
have the largest areas are: Greater
London, 443 .449 acres; Los Angeles,
Cal, 281, 509.6 acres; Berlin, PATIO
acres; New York City, 7,728 acres;
Chicago, 129, 155 acres.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-05
Hay Feuer Is No Longer Such
a Mystery to Medical Science
Skin Sensitization Test Can Now Find What
Allergy Is Troubling You
By WILLIAM G.. UTLEY

r /A-CHOOO-OO-OO! Ha- ha- ha WISHeeeeeeee! Snifle
snfle, wheeze-gib be haggichff, qig! Hey, hey it's
the good old summer time and the hay fever is
open
Why OH why, do have go through every year?is
the wall of the hay fever sufferer and well
hardly acon relentless its unwelcome annual visits
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-08-05
Coed School Should
Educate in Courtesy

~ educational college and in the
dining hall the girls and boys sit
together, an equal number at each
table. Do you think it would be a
good idea for the boys to seat the
girls? And what about when the
girls turn up for meals late?
Answer: Certainly the men should
seat the girls. After all, college
should be a training ground for
manners as well as for minds. The
girls should be on time, but when
being late is unavoidable, girl
should take her place as quickly as
possible so that she will not throw
her table into confusion by making
it necessary for all the men to rise.
Better Send FLOWERS.
n EAR Mrs. Post: When my sis
- ter died some friends of an
other sister sent flowers to the fu-
neral. The flowers were very beau
tiful and were addressed to Mother,
but neither she nor I know them
at all, and now someone in their
family has died. So will you kindly
tell me what, if anything, is Moth
er's obligation to these people?
Answer: I take it for granted that
your sister who is their friend will
go to see them and send flowers,
and unless she is away from home
there is no "obligation" that you
need meet. But it would be kind
certainly to send a note of SYM
patty, or flowers to the funeral from
all of you.
Making 1t Official.
n EAR Mrs. Post: Soon I expect
- to announce my engagement to
a man whom I have been expected
to marry for years, SO the news
can not possibly surprise anyone.
Under these circumstances, don't
you think it would be silly to in
vite people without explaining at
the time that we are announcing our
engagement at this party? Please
tell me frankly what you would sug-
gest.
Answer: It would be best, / think,
to write or telephone invitations to
party celebrating your engage
ment, and also notify the papers the
evening before the party so that the
announcement will appear on that
day.
Better Entertain Yourself.
ID EAR Mrs. Post: | have received
~ a wedding invitation with re-
ceptiOn card included, and notice
that the former is taking place late
in the afternoon and the latter not
until eight o'clock in the evening.
If this lapse of time between the
two is proper, what are guests sup
posed to do in the time between
especially if they come from nearby
towns?
Answer: The only answer ! know
is that they are expected to either go
home or have dinner somewhere
and then come back again. Con-
ventionally, of course, wedding re-
ceptions follow Immediately after
tne ceremony.
No 'Informar' Ceremony.
n EAR Mrs. Post: l am ether go
- ing to wear a travelling suit or
an afternoon dress at my wedding,
but am asking a number of rela-
tives and friends to the church just
the same. The number is really suf-
ficient to have wedding invitations
engraved but mother seems to think
that formally worded engraved in
vitatiOnS would be improper in my
case.
Answer: Engraved invitations will
be proper, irrespective of the type
of clothes chosen by the bride. In
other words, it is impossible to have
an informal ceremony.
WNU Service.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-03

And God lived with Abram, teaching him
and working miracles through him. And it
came to pass that the Listians in their ram
bles, selling wares, told the slaves of the kings
about the wonders of Abram.
And the slaves fed from bondage and went
into the wilderness in search of Abram. And
when they came before him, he spake unto
them, day by day, they came, saying:
God brought you Man of himself doeth
nothing. Search then, the records of your gen.
erations.a for ye are descended from the Faith
lists of do 81
$50 3Dram led them thence and came into
Lower Howd-Lutz. And ii came to pass that in
the next year after they departed out of She
a-do-wan famine came upon the land, and
the enemies of God were cut off, and could not
pursue Abram and his people,"
IT WAS hundreds of years later that Thothma,
who was to build the Great Pyramid, became
King of Egypt. Apparently his prosecutions of
the Iz'erlites was more severe than the hard
ships suffered in Persia. Thothma decreed their
Punishment. He called his army to drive them
out-and according to Oahspe 100000 were put
to death and 100000 driven out, after their
possessions had been confscated There re-
mained in Egypt some 100000 Iz'erlites and
Shepherd kings who were promptly declared
slaves Ut is interesting to note that much the
same action is being taken by Hitler in Ger
many today-one of the predictions of this
strange book to be fulflled.) Ia
"Osiris then instructed King Thothma to
drive out of the land of Egypt all the Faith
ists especially the Shepherd kings. who could
not be made slave of.
s,s"Thothna impressed an army of warriors
and drove off the Shepherd kings putting to
death more than 3,fD0 900 of them. And from
the Faithists he took all their possessions, such
as houses and lands. and suffered them not to
hold any mortal thing in possession: neither
permitting them to till the soil, save as serv-
ants And there went out of the land of Egypt
to escape the tyranny of Thothma- 5000, 900
The Washington times., 1937-04-01
Honolulu Fun
With Binq

waikiki Wedding" q lulu of a
musical comedy from Honolulu,
with Bing Crosby, Bob Burns and
Martha Raye, with other funsters
going giddily native, will be the
attraction that will succeed May.
time" when that musical romance
exits from the Loew's Palace
screen.
Bing is a press agent for a pine
apple cannery who finds it neces-
sary for himself to fall in love so
that he can carry on his campaign
to "Sell" Hawaii as the glamor
spot Of the universe. This cam
paign" romance turns into a real
one.
To complicate matters, Bob
Burns and Martha Raye have
been hitching their own romantic
wagons. And there's a succession
of hilarious incidents with these
three, George Barber, shirley
Ross. Left Erikson and about $50
native dancers participating in
fit of buffoonery in the South
Seas.
Several melodic tunes of the hit
kind are included, as are some
novel dances. It's gay and giddy
comedy, with Bing said to be at
his best.
The Washington times., 1937-04-01

House, where he meets his bride,
O-Lan, for the first time. Then
it becomes the story of Wang and
,O-Lan, of their rejoicing at the
birth of their sons, their starving
during the great drought; their
perilous times through revolution
and terror in the south; O-Lan
struggling almost wordlessly for
her men and her children, accept
ing brute labor and suffering as
her daily fare.
Walter Connolly, along with
lilly Losch, Charlie Grapewin and
Jessie Ralph, heads a cast that
numbers thousands. More than
1000 Chinese players we're col
lected from various professions to
lend authenticity to the back
ground. Many thousands of feet
Of film were shot in China and
incorporated into the picture to
make the Chinese scenes living, &C.
tual pictures. The tremendous
climax of the picture, which shows
the plague of the locusts that
bring Wang back to the land from
the soft ways of the city, is a
Photographic recording of an &C.
tual plague.
Sidney Franklin directed the
picture, with corps of assistants
to handle the thousand details of
the sweeping, panoramic docu-
ment.
The screen play Is by Talbot
Jennings, Tess SleSinger and Clau-
dine West, adapted from the stage
play of the novel by Owen and