The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-04-20

such goings-on, but remember this. We thought
in II fighting for starry-eyed crusade;
today We're on the same path. What we really
fought for was the so-called balance of power in
Europe. Germany became too powerful to suit
England and France Again that's happening.
suppose 1t is more sweety sentimental to be on the
that it makes whit of difference who dictates
the ways Of Europe. That's what we fought for in
Europe 20 years ago. Let's let it be Europe s
fight-if Europe fights!
Flash item-Rumor persists that S. Lewis the
man of letters, is in Hwood dickering to launch
Sinclair Lewis productions What on the flicker
ing screen! The same Lewis who taken
up with the legt theatre that he would write
a message for a plaque to be hosted in the home
town theatah. Perhaps the slappings that An
geia" took had something to do with it.
Look alikes-Ed Dickhaus has visage much like
that by Spencer Tracy, the moveeman &.
Miss Faye Awkward, sister Of Mrs. Roland Bentley,
is quite similar to Rosalind Russell And they
call Sylvia Telling, the Coffee Shop waitress, Gloria
Swanson-on accounta she looks much like her.
Now if we had one that looked like Hadee La
MARI.
Fewer and fewer grow the barns that found
in these city limits of Yet persist Once
a staple article when building home the barn rose
accompanying every alley in the city. Today many
have undergone conversion. A conversion, that
with the coming of the motor car, has found barns
surrendering before onslaught of carpenters who
cut them down, removed them entirely made
them over into garages. One, remember seeing,
has undergone the mechanical change without yield
ing the accompanying physical change. The barn
of Mrs j. A Caughren serves garage but it's
architecture has been kept. Every often it is
neatly painted, in white, and presents kept appear
ance. One in back of the Congregational parsonage
retains interesting wooden cupola. 1t has
always been quite mystery why barns have to be
painted red. It's violent. But I suppose there
are good and sufficient reasons.
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Were you to pop into farm home at ap-
proprate time you would perhaps be interested upon
finding dozen more farm housewives Industrious
ly working some project another And then
you would be further intrigued believe in finding
that this little group is part of statewide pro-
gram that teaches more adequate ways to handle
the multiple managerial and mental tasks that fall
to the lot OF our farm women. Out on the farms,
when winter isolation cuts from another, these
women busy themselves with home demonstration
projects and that may include furniture redecorat-
nts to blend colors tremendously for redecorating
rooms to name a few. In one local group alone
nearly $50 benefited in single winter from these
lessons to give you insight at the scope. En-
thusasm runs high, and it's brought surpris-
ing results that going to be felt long down the
line of years. Lessons provided through tho
University, demonstrations and lessons are started
by the appearance of the county home demonstra-
ton agent Last winter it happened that furniture
refinishng the main bill of fare. A day will
go perhaps something like this Women of the group,
perhaps numbering dozen, will arrive at single
home, about ten. They will go to work removing
stains, and other tasks preparing to refinish the
housekeeper's furniture. When days end comes
there several pieces all handsome and new.
What is more unique about it is: that not only do
these women learn Of these things; they, by
doing the work themselves, Immediately put it to
This winters project brought these results
It brought out countless pieces of heirlooms
antiques stuck away in attic woodshed
Pieces in mahogany, walnut, oak that might have
hat
had gone into the discard, have come back to take
new important places in the farm homes of the COM
munity. But to these women it means more than
the obvious reasons for tidying up their homes or
fixing furniture. It will mean much, they believe
toward making in the next generation, the farm
home-the home beautiful. For these things will be
passed from mother to daughter.
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Mrs. A. F. Moynihan just back from Rochester
found it an interesting and friendly pace-that u.s.
if one has to be ill. It's the custom she says to
is going to be there longer. Open your door and
visitors pop in from nowhere at all. . Several
were there from Lima, Peru, she said You could
hear them talking in Spanish. They bring their
entire families with them having just scads of money
apparently. Biggest oddly to those people from
the down-under America our blondes . Near
her was old fellow from Alaska who had rum
mayed in fossil remains And get this: she was
the only one on the floor from Minnesota! -.
Mrs. A. NJ Forsberg, for SO years American
yet loves her native Norway News of the projected
royal couple visit to this city stirred girlhood
les for her. Now in her seventies, Mrs Forsberg
girl of IA left Norway, the fords, the background
of mountains, the rushing streams. She lived in
rural Norway where the sun in summer shines the
day around, night never falls. e. It's memory of
these girhood days and its pleasant associations that
dsquiets her now and then. In all those sixty
years, she has returned for a visit Even
as girl, when she made the month-long trip
the Atlantic she said she felt she would never re-
turn. I'VE took in everything" she said
train across England, they scarcely slept It was
new, strange country, never perhaps to be viewed
again. 1t must have been idyllic set in which
she lived. farm, near rushing stream that began
to trickle high in the mountains and gained to a
rushing torrent when it hit the ford nearby 1.-THE
wind scarcely blew" she said The long spears
of grass stood straight motionless. q. =. Wreathns
it all, setting 1t apart the fringes Of mountain
like painted background There was music in
those mountain streams" she remembers. Sitting
on the banks like listening q fine orchestra