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Show FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER SI, THE SUGAR HOUSE BULLETIN Ponce de Leon Was Among Noted Victims of Battle SHOEMAKER STILL WORKS AT TRADE AFTER 75 YEARS , Christopher Columbus died May at Valladolid, as a result of senile infirmities. He was about Cobwebs Gather Around Clutseventy years old. Magellan was killed March 16, 1321, upon the istered Shop of Once Lead land of Mactan, in an attempt to inf Workman. subdue the inhabitants of the Philippine islands. De Soto died May St. Louis, Mo. Amid the medals 21, 1542, having wandered through and certificates won at world's lairs the region of the Arkansas river and exhibitions, some of them 50 and selected a site on the Mississipyears old, Charles Leonard Webert pi river for a colony. each day works in a little cluttered Ponce de Leon died in a battle shop at the trade in which he once with natives on the coast of Florida. led the world shoemaking. Miles Standish died at Duxbury, For 75 years he has made shoes Mass., October 3, 1656, at the age for persons in all walks of life. He of seventy-two- . John Winthrop, govmade a pair of hip length boots for ernor of Massachusetts Bay colony, Lillian RusselL He made shoes for died March 26, 1649, at the age of Joe Jefferson, Sol Smith Russell, eighty-twMassasoit, Wampano-aIndian sachem, died in 1661 at Fanny Davenport and Della Fox. For Robert Emmett he made a about eighty years of age. King pair of boots with the hair left on Philip, his second son, was slain in the hide. war, August 12, 1676. Father MarHe made a pair of fine shoes for quette died on the shore of Lake Dion Boucicault and when he deMichigan, May 19, 1675, at a spot livered them to that noted actor, where his followers were obliged to Boucicault slashed them to ribbons stop because of his weakness. with a knife. Roger Williams died at ProviI was astounded and insulted, dence, R. I., in April, 1683, at the Webert exclaimed. Sir, I conage of eighty-fouCaptain Kidd fronted him in my small might, be- was executed on May 24, 1701, in cause he was a great handsome felLondon, where he had been sent aftlow. Sir, in New Orleans, where I er his arrest in Boston. Benjamin come from, men have been chalFranklin died April 17, 1790, in his lenged to duels for incidents more eighty-fiftyear, after an illness of 'trivial than this.' twelve months. Nathaniel Greene Then Its Explained. died from the effects of sunstroke, "Boucicault readied out his hand at Mulberry Grove, near Savannah, 'with $50 in it. 1 want you to make Ga., June 19, 1786, at the age of ime another pair of boots the exact forty-fouJames Madison died at duplicate of these, he said. The his home in Virginia on June 28, whole boots I shall wear in one 1836, at the age of eighty-fivDavid j scene, the slashed boots in another. Crockett was killed with five com"It was all part of a play where panions in 1836 after their surin roisterer gets his boots slashed in render to the Mexicans at Ft. Alasome kind of a cutting scrape! mo, Tex. Daniel Webster flied at Webert came to St. Louis in 1871 his home in Marshfield, Mass.',7 on ; from New Orleans, where his father October 21, 1352, at the age of sevi and grandfather had been bootmaenty. kers before him. For 30 years he .made shoes for St. Louis society and he retains a long list of those Britain's Public House 'clients for whom he has made shoes Signs Have Real Meaning ;for years. Much of Britains history, and In 1893, when the shoemakers to of its manners and feelings ,the kings of Europe had their finest more can be gleaned from various public exhibon of handicraft examples ition at the World's Columbian ex- house signs, seen in villages and hibition, Webert won first award towns, notes a writer in Pearson's iand a gold medal from them. He London Weekly. :said it took him two years and of Many of theseto were selected out the reigning king, compliment cost $17,000 to prepare for that exor manor. of lord the "The Blue hibition, but he still thinks it was Boar was the badge of Richard worth it One of the pairs of woof Henry mans shoes on exhibition there cost III; "The Bulls Head VIII; and The White Hart of him $400. Richard II. i Stacks of Lasts. The "Fox and Hounds and Hare Two walls of his shop are stacked iwith boxes containing the wooden and Hounds were named in complito a sporting squire, and The lasts for the shoes of his regular ment Green Man probably originated of them are There (clients. many mareven now, and he retains their trade when the squires gamekeeper vilto the was and ried, promoted 'and their addresses, although some public! lage in no of them longer are the city. It is thought that the "Saracen's His list of customers, however, is Head a Cruwas thus named discarded a He has pile sader after his return frombythe dwindling. Holy of 10,000 lasts in t':e basement, and wars. The is said to he has been forced to add 175 lasts refer to the Chequers Stuart kings, whose jto it during the last two years. was "cheeky. shield His shop is dusty and cobwebby "The Spread Eagle, being the now, but he still sits and works at arms of Germany, indicated in past his shoes, surrounded by the certifithat German wines were sold cates which explain that Charles days in that inn, and the Castle," being : Webert was the greatest of shoethe arms of Spain, signified that of shoes while the makers making Spanish wines were sold. by hand, rather than by machine, Most inn names have real meanstill flourished. ' ings, some easy to discover, as The Horse and Groom, some more difj Offer Reward for Return ficult, like The Goat and Compasses, which is a corruption of Skeleton of Old Prison God encompasses us, originally London. A reward of $25 was so named in the Puritan days. posted for the return of a skeleton stolen from a prison cell. The Magi The skeleton, chained upright to The Magi the name means literan oaken chair, was stolen from ally wise men, or magicians or ,Rye house at Hoddeson, Hertfordsoothsayers were a priestly order shire, scene of the famous Rye of ancient Media and Persia. The house plot against Charles II. three Magi of the east who brought The castle now is a tourist attracgifts to the manger of Christ were, tion. Its owner, T. Green, said he traditionally, Melchior, Gaspar and was Balthazar, three kings of the east believed the "kidnaping of kind The first offered gold, the emblem of joke. .somebodys "grisly The Rye house plot was a scheme royalty; the second, frankincense, by one of Cromwell's republican in token of divinity; and the third, officers to murder Charles II anc myrrh, in prophetic allusion to the the duke of York, later James II, persecutions which awaited the in 1683. The plan was to kill them Child. Melchior is said to mean when they returned from the Newking of light; Gaspar, or Caspar, the white one, and Balthazar, market races, but it was foiled when the lord of treasures. Medieval they returned a day ahead of schedule. legend calls them the Three Kings The plotters were arrested and of Cologne, and the cathedral there the missing skeleton is supposed to claims their relics. They are commemorated on January 2, 3 and 4, be that of one of them. and particularly at the Feast of the Epiphany. 5 Pound 12 Ounce Girl 20, 1508, o. g, r. h r. j e. ! ! : i - ! ; i ld . Born to Midget Mother Minneapolis, Minn. Mrs. Frank n Delfano, who weighs her fondles now pounds, twelve-ounc- e baby,, who is over a third as tall as the midget mother. The baby, bom by a Caesarian 18 operation, is a healthy girl, 10 inches inches tall. Mrs. Delfano is 3 feet tall, and Delfano, who weighs eighty pounds, is 4 feet tall. The couple at one time were dancers at the world's fair in Chicago. sixty-seve- five-poun- . ; ! d Thieves Take Rodents Used to Test Poisons lookChicago. Police are on the out for thieves with an unusual idea of values. W. W. Scott, of Arwell, Inc., an exterminating company, reported that burglars made away with 40 live rats and mice used to test poisous. Growing Chair On: Ont jnagun, Mich. Visitors to in thechair that sit to like tonagon congrew, owned by Joseph Felix, The fectionery store proprietor. chair was formed by the growth of s tree. Plants Make RapiJ Growth Within Few Hours Look at a great swede turnip and Some Watch, Lons Buried, Needs Only Some Oil A few drops of oil then at the tiny seed from which it has grown. In a few weeks that seed has been enlarged by soil, sun, and air to something 27,000,000 times its original hulk. Many English plants, such, for instance, as sunflowers, will grow at the rate of an inch or more a day in a warm, moist weather, observes a writer in London Answers Magazine. In tiie tropics a shoot of the DENTAL CHARTS TO giant bamboo which reaches CO feet IDENTIFY CROOKS in height has been measured to grow 9 inches in 24 hours. With a strong glas.-- one can actually watch Sure Aid in Crime Detection, its increase. Claims Dentist. There are other plants which can almost match this growth, given the right conditions, Chicago. Criminals may deface the whorls on their finger tips, but none of them can hold a candle shorten their noses, or lengthen to the fungi which are found everytheir chins to avoid identification, where and under almost all condibut they can do nothing about their tions. Even in our own cool country the growth of these plants is pheteeth. Therefore, permanent standnomenal. ard dental records, like a standard A specimen of the largest British in are index, necessary finger print crime detection, according to Dr. fungus, the polyporus squamosus, Edward J. Ryan, past president of was measured when full grown and the Chicago Dental society. Dr. found to have a diameter of 7 feet 5 inches and a weight of 34 pounds. Ryan explains his stand in the JourIt had taken 28 days to reach that nal of Criminal Law and Criminolsize, growing at the rate of 19 ogy. Dental enamel, Dr. Ryan writes, ounces a day. The giant puff ball is swifter still in growth, and will is the hardest and most indestructreach the size of a small pumpkin ible tissue in the human body. Fur24 hours. within extraction even the after thermore, of all teeth, he points out, the residThe power of the growth in fungus ual bone retains certain individual is equally remarkable. At Basil. y characteristics. Toothless fungus growing beneath some jaws or false teeth are as subject to newly set paving lifted a stone 22 classification as a mouth of 32 teeth. inches by 24 inches, weighing no Victims of civil catastrophes, of less than 83 pounds. crimes and of accidental death, says Dr. Ryan, are frequently identified by their teeth. John Hamilton of Guinea Pig Long in Use John Dillinger's gang was identified to Trace Human Disease in this way, he recalls. So was The guinea pig, sometimes a pet, Ann a Distelhurst, Dorothy anNashville, Tenn., girl, kidnaped was first domesticated by the in on her way to kindergarten. So cient Peruvians; his flesh, similar were the bodies of American sailors flavor to that of the opossum, has who lost their lives in the sinking of long been used as food in South America; further, because he qs the submarine But dental charts now in use are well as his cousin the rat is apso complicated and involved, he parently susceptible to almost evhuman disease, with the notexplains, that a dentist in ore part ery of the country, not familiar with able exception of malaria, he has the method of charting, would have been of invaluable aid in determining the causes and cures of many difficulty in interpreting the markof our ailments. in used another by a dentist ings so like the human The region. A uniform chart is needed that hemonkey, is a comic supplement, is that a police official or other lay- also invaluable in this respect; he man can interpret." too is thought very tasty in some In a study made among thirty-eigand perhaps cannidental colleges, he writes, it of the world; and balistic corners was found that no two colleges used r, writes Victor G. the same system of record keeping. on occasion, M. D., in Colliers Weekly, he In addition practicing dentists have to evolved various other methods until helps the Italian organ grinder earn a living. more than 100 different types are in The dog, who is nearest to the use. of man, contributes also in all heart A beginning toward a universal of these categories. He is a soldental system could be made. Dr. dier of no hunter following science; if a standardized Ryan concludes, is complete without his dental chart were adapted for use in dim trails hound; the huskie of Alaska, the fedand marine army, navy, corps, collie of Scotland, the amiable draft eral and state institutions. of the Netherlands, are essenFiled with other data," he sug- dogs tial to man and his vocations in gested, it might prove an extremethese countries; and the Igorot dog ly valuable record at some later lovers of the Philippines for many date. years esteemed the village curs of the islands most delectable morsels. Arena, Wis. restored a watch to running after it had been buried for ten years in a field on the farm cf Thomas Lesley Jones near here. A plowshare turned it up in a field where Fred Olson had lost it a decade ago. t green-leave- X-ra- ld S-5- Sakai, Japan. Tochi Miki, thirty-on- e years old, proprietor of a bathhouse, strung a huge sign across the Omar Khayyam of Rubaiyat fame in youth had a friend, like him very poor. This friend rose to great heights and, remembering his boyhood friend, sought Omar out, begging, as the king's own vizier, to do something for Omar, even to givIn the ing, him half his wealth. plain of Nishapur (answered Omar), where I was born, there are 150 villages. And, among them one small village which produces the best grapes in all Persia. Let me be overseer of this village! And there he died and was buried. Grand Teton National Park Grand Teton National park is approximately 150 square miles in area, lies south of Yellowstone and close to the western border of Wyoming. The greater part of the Teton mountains lies within this playground. Most travelers agree that the rugged beauty of the Tetons is not surpassed by that of any other mountain range in the world. The Grand Teton, 13,766 feet high, rises 7,000 feet above the surrounding country. The park itself was not created until 1929. ex- . Donald Sears was so much in love with his landlady, Probation Officer John F. Lillis told the judge, that he: Ripped her sink from the wall. Broke the bed to pieces. Kicked apart the stove. Smashed dishes and glassware. Ripped up rugs. So the landlady had him arrestBuffalo, N. Y. ed. Thats a funny way to show your Judge Harry Zimmer told Sears, as he imposed a brief jail sentence. Taper No Longer Used as Guide to Suitors' Stay . Vineyard Haven, Mass. Candles were used as time guides in the old days on Martha's Vineyard island. Records reveal that when the boy friend called he could tell how long he could stay by the length of the candle. If the candle were short and stubby, he knew he was an unwelcome guest. A tall taper was a symbol of welcome. Little Terriers Are Used in U. S. War on Coyotes Denver. W. E. Riter, Colorado district agent of the United States biological survey credits . wire-haire- d terriers with playing an im- portant role in the extermination of the dreaded coyoxe in the Wert. The diminutive terriers su: .: ment the work of hunters by lessly going into the small of the dens and bringing oj. .... one, the litter of coyote the dens. .i Dealer in Red Underwear Doing Thriving Business New York's only playground with a keyhole entrance is on West Forty-nint- h street between Ninth and Tenth avenues. Its also known as a tot lot and the name and unique entrance go together. A survey showed the Boys Athletic club, sponsors of the new playground, that small children, especially in have little tenement districts, chance at recreation spots, swings and other apparatus being taken over by the larger and stronger. So the tot lot" was devised. To limit the size of. those who use it. a silhouette of a girl was taken and the entrance cut to fit. The opening is three feet, six inches high and less than two feet across at its widest. Thus should a big kid try to get through hed get stuck. Even parents are excluded. There is an entrance for adult employees but that is kept locked constantly. So fathers and mothers who wish to see their offspring at play, lock through portholes in the high, galvanized iron fence. The tot lot is in the Hell's Kitchen section. It's a crowded district with few places for recreation. There is no scarcity of children, howwver, the survey having shown more than 100 to the block. The playground accommodates 300. It is fitted with apparatus of various kind, including monkey bars, a slide, seesaws, swings, sand boxes, etc. There are even murals so that the tenement youngsters, to whom a trip to Coney is a big event, may imagine themselves on a beach. A peek through one of the portholes showed a happy and busy lot of children. And a volunteer from the neighborhood demonstrated the fact that the keyhole entrance serves its purpose excellently. pression "Sent to Coventry originated, or how Coventry came to be street: singled out. One theory is that durTo girls: the Civil wars, Oliver Cromwell I am planning matrimony and ing used the city as a prison for capwant to marry a girl of the followtured royalists. Whenever a cavaing qualifications: lier was missing from his circle of 1 Of good pedigree, tall of stafriends, with no news of his whereture and strong of health. abouts, it was said he had been 2 No preference as to occupasent to Coventry. Others believe tion, educational qualifications or that at one time soldiers were so but is who a to age, willing girl unpopular in the city that anyone start a business career. seen talking to a soldier was 3 Let a brave maid enter the shunned. Hence, sending a soldier portals of the Izumi bath house. to Coventry meant that he was Direct negotiations welcomed. left without friends. Pearsons Lon. TOCHI MIKI, proprietor. don Weekly. House Almost Wrecked as Swain Shows His Love C Bell Syndicate. by L. L. STEVENSON "Sent to Coventry No one seems to know how the a nickel in the collection plate Sundays and then goes out and spends a quarter for cigarettes. WNU Service. Lights of NcwYork Hei-se- Japanese Seeking Wife Hangs Sign Across Street She drops Bustop eavesdropping: ht love, Plea to Omar Khayyam Answered d Flax Is Pulled From Ground Flax is pulled from the ground, not cut, to preserve the full length of the fiber. Harvested, it is first and then soaked retted in large vats of water, a process which rots the stalk from the fiber. The retted flax is loaded and carried back to the open field, where it is wigwamed to promote drying of the retted stalks. Next comes the scutching process, in which machines separate the woody material from the fiber. The fiber is then combed, or hackled, ready for sale to spinning mills. 1937 Toledo, Ohio. Toledo is the E. M. Ilulce says capital of the world. Hulce is the proprietor of a shop which sells only underwear and hosiery. He believes he has the finest list of red underwear customers in existence. When he started building up his clientele it was in the days when people bought red underwear because it was wool, not because it was red. Nowadays, the conservatives who still wear flaming garments next to their skin do so because of tradition. "It's not red underwear unless it's really red, they say. ilulce says he sells by mail order to customers all over the world. kind of folk that Not the wear one kind of underwear one week and another the next. But solid citizens who know value when they see it. Hulce points out that the garments are a fine investment. They seldom wear out. Models and styles never change. Nor do prices. Thats fixed at $3.89. Snakes In Sooth Africa South Africa is a snaky place. Outside the mamba the most feared reptile of the region is the ringhals, so named by early Dutch settlers because of black rings around its neck. Hals means neck. Upon sighting an enemy the ringhals rolls on its back, feigns death. As the victim nears, tiie snake suddenly rises, squirts venom into his eyes, blinding him. Within fifteen feet the snake is deadly accurate. Aiv other terror is the puff adder. Short and stocky, its powerful jaws sink deadly fangs deep into the victim. ld long-ter- m . . Decorations Told of Traits Prussias famed Frederick the When Guy Lombardo finishes his work he drives out to his near Lindenhurst, L. I. There place is a complete garden, rustic seats, running water, electricity and even telephone connections on the place. But there is not the slightest sign of. a residence. That makes no however. Anchored difference, Lombardo close by is the yacht, Tompo. Immediately on his arrival, Lombardo goes aboard. The captain starts the motors and the Tempo gets under way. At about 10:30 or 11, there is a return to Lindenhurst and Lombardo has his breakfast. Vegetables served at all meals come from the place. The orchestra leader likes to live aboard a boat he sleeps better with the engines running but he also likes shore conveniences. Thus the combination of land and sea. nights j 60-fo- ot Great had the honor of once entertaining the great French philosopher Voltaire, and impishly had Voltaires bedroom redecorated with apes, foxes, peacocks, parrots and jackdaws as the scheme of decoration, to remind the philosopher he was as ugly as an ape, proud as a peacock, vain as a parrot, sly as a fox, and garrulous as a jackdaw. Longworths Offer Refused Nicholas Longworth, grandfather of the late speaker of the house, bom in Newark, N. J., became one of Cincinnatis pioneers and he accumulated much wealth buying land. In the Mexican war he offered to finance a regiment for Uncle Sam on one condition that he pick out the men! His offer was refused. Dropped into the Museum of Science and Industry in Rockefeller Center and listened to my voice over the telephone. Automatic devices have been installed and all one has to do is talk five seconds, stop and his voice is thrown right back at him. To overcome mike fright, which strikes many dumb as soon as the green starting light appears, a number of sentences are printed on a card which they face. It was a repeat performance for me but again I couldnt believe the voice was my own. As a matter of fact, it sounded exactly like that of my old friend George Stark. .First Cheap English Tableware Liverpool, England, earthenware decorated with a fine drawing printed by transfer in black as though drawn with India ink, was the first attempt in England to produce an 'inexpensive tableware with scenic, political or even comic decoration. This process dates from about the middle qt the Eighteenth century. five-seco- Passing the Charles M. Schawb mansion on Riverside drive, I recalled that a friend had told me the steel man smoked cigars from which the nicotine had been removed or that he had done so in years past. At any rate, he made his purchases from a Madison avenue establishment and at Christmas time he gave orders for hundreds of boxes which were sent to his friends. He also supplied the manager with a list of names and dates so that friends received nicotine-les- s cigars on their birthdays, Celery un Old Plant Egyptologists opened a tomb at Sheikh-abd-Kurneh, near Thebes, they found a garland of celery on the breast of a mummy of the Twentieth dynasty. This dynasty came to a close about 1100 B. C. So when you crunch the crisp white stalks of celery at your dinner table, observes a writer in the Indiana Farmers Guide, it might be well to remember that the Egyptian rulers more than 30 centuries ago may have done the same thine. "When you grossly sum up much. When el Preparing for Mt. Everest- - British aviators have flown over Mount Rakaposhi in the Himalayas, Z5;S50 FEET HIGH. Notable Monuments in Lima In Lima, Peruvian capital dating from the early Spanish days of the Fifteenth century are notable monuments reminiscent of the viceroys, the University of San Marcos, the oldest scat of learning in the Western Hemisphere, and the finest examples of Spanish colonial architecture in existence. Adjacent to mod cm Lima are the ancient shrines of the preconquest peoples and the dead city of Coeval, which vies with Babylon in its antiquity, High "oltage A NEW ELECTRICAL GENERATOR THREE The $ 9 Mi OF MILLION. mra VISITOR The ground hog GIVES A. VOLTAGE s girls clothes the net total isnt toeV is ALSO CALLED WOODCHUCK, ROCK CHUCK AND MARMOT. No WEATHER PROPHET IT POES ttV APPEAR UNTIL MARCH. |