The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-15

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There is land available for sale for such purposes
Man the street in the east has his lips curled
over the name Stassen, quite often travellers say.
:. What does Minnesota think of him. Is be too
young? Will he stub his toe? They want to know.
And high-powered boom for Wendell Wikie
is definitely on out there.
Olive Benson, just back from her vacation, says
that getting back to work is the toughest part. .
I'D rather have my teeth out" she qupped
The neghborhood across the river was awakened
in the night not long by reports that sounded
near side of IA years, commented in the family
journal he labors over mo body has been found
Brrrrr
Ruth Ceynar, who is vacationing with Verena
Bromenshenkel, so burned excited about taking off.
:. card to boss Freda OGara after she was gone
one day said: I'm writing because I forgot to say
good by"
I sat and looked at pair of unused hooks on
a porch the other day. And those hooks had some
tales to tell. Tales of swinging hammocks buck
ing feverishly if you didn't land in them correctly.
hammock where Dad, faced covered with the
sports section, snoozed in dreamy Sunday afternoon
shade. :. Where youngsters romped and tossed,
and the hammock bucked like a mustang stuck with
a hat pin. :. And grunting tumbles to the ground
below. Yes, swinging in the hammock was great
fun The art of mounting one of the most cantank-
erous things man has ever invented in which to
recline is fast passing We're getting to be nation
of sissies Anyone, with previous rehearsal at ALL
gracefully mount porch swing, a lawn chair
Though shall have to admit that these canvas
the sitter some surprises There are various ap-
proaches to the hammock we should like to review
before the art passes. 1t stand as our contri-
button to posterity if you will.
There is first of all the ladylke approach
You trip gaily to the hammock the while some gen
tleman hands you into the thing. You seat yourself
well over the middle to prevent ungracefu Hopping
then with swinging gesture recline the body gently
in the middle. A slight rocking is all the effect
you get Very undesirable for younger more thrill
struck addicts. Another approach is the direct
approach. Having made up his mind definitely that
he will sleep flies flies and bother to the rompine
children whose games seem eternally TO take tnem
under the arrangement the man of the house walks
directly without hesitation to the hammock with
the complete relaxation of man who is quite at
home in of the unpredictable swings, he pours
himself LOUDLY into its enfolding mesh. With
an aiming sigh of complete rest, he is almost asleep
at once. +. There is also the indirect approach
You take a meandering course to the hammock
pretending all the while you are not going to sit
in the hammock. Naturally the hammock is not
suspicious type Of thing. Suddenly with quick
movement you seated, and reclining. The ham,
mock may swing violently but if you can hang on
to the rail of ship in high seas then brother you
weather this puny storm. The one approach
adored by the youngsters is the running approach
Like the wind you descend upon the hammock This
obviously has a demoralizng effect on the unsus-
pectng hammock who Is either C) frightened or
(2) acuuiescent event Of the latter you ter
ribly disappointed for it is no thrill at all. In
event Of the first instance, the hammock may rear
Often have picked ourselves of the ground
with a dearth Of breath in our lungs.
Thanks to Mrs. Art Rosenwald and the Girl
Scouts. The Herald happy to be of service.
The report is that Dean Brown, former resident
now of Mankato has been contacted by government
men to go into flying service Dean Is an
amateur Of some years standing
A man of slight stature, fortyish, who grins
readily, swings atop the spre Of St. Pauls Church
that jabs at the sky like lance in the hand Of some
giant Z. The other day his dark glasses, necessary
requirement left one of the lodges on the
steepe. Then he descended forgetting them. Next
day when he returned to the steeple, he searched
every Granny, every gutter along its roof. The
glasses found 40 feet below their perch caught
in the hedge bushes and unbroken. For James
J. Ltchfield, Paynesvle, it represents his most
serious accident Accidents even you and I have
in run of the mill jobs. But to Litchfield,
whose job is considered dangerous by most
adventuresome persons it represents the only type
of accident he can have. In the job Of steeple
lacking he is allowed one major mistake. From
which there is little recourse to turn back from
that. :. He is Of that school Of who live
dangerously who shrugs at danger, who grins when
you remind him of it. He is prosaic almost in
different to the precariousness of his work. I've
been the job % years without fall he said
in the tone that spoke easily why worry about 1t
now. He was telling me about gold leafing.
23karat golf leaf is used. He takes the down,
replaces out cross, with 20 guage "copper" then
applies the gold Once the leaf is applied the cross
can't be touched by hand. So he swings it to its
place atop the spire by rope manipulation without
laying hand on it. Most puzzling aspect of
steepe lacking is how gets his ropes up in the
first place. That depends individual spires. Some
he must lasso using long rope, others equipped
with openings out through which be get a rope.
There is always lot Of hand hand climbing
which may be all right your swing at home, buddy,
but $50 feet in the air is different matter It's
so hard to rest when you're tired A cross like
the atop St. Pauls, completely covered and gold
leafed would cost about hundred dollars he
estimated.
Whoops, sorry dept.-Gene Harvey the genial
athletic director for the school, has not did not and
hopes he will not have the mumps recorded in
this space last week. . This coumnist Is happy
education.
some Of his corn having almost
reached the 11-foot mark. Well