Thursday, June 9, 1938 THE PARK RECORD PAGE SEVEN Ask Me 7X J.Z . jrXlLKjLlLKZL U The Questions 1. What continent is known as "the land astride the equator"? 2. How did the United States acquire ac-quire Minnesota? 3. What ball player pitched the first perfect game? 4. "Minnesota" means what? 5. How many planes are there on the U. S. aircraft carriers? 6. Is hari-kiri practiced by the Japanese in battle? 7. Of what state was Kentucky originally a part? 8. Where is the ranch that is bigger than the state of Rhode Island? Is-land? 9. Who gave the name "Rough Riders" to Theodore Roosevelt's men? 10. How many women are there In the various state legislative bodies? The Answers 1. Africa. 2. Part of it by the Revolution, and the remainder by the Louisiana Louisi-ana Purchase. 3. Under the modern rules, Cy Young on May 5, 1904, pitched the first perfect game no runs, no hits, and nobody reaching first fosse 4. "Land of the Sky Blue Water." Wa-ter." 5. The Navy department says that there are about 80 planes n each of the United States navy aircraft air-craft carriers. 6. When Japanese officers are wounded and unable to carry on, That's Luck Luck doesn't float around the air And light on Tom 'or Dick or Harry Just anyhow and anywhere. The wit to know the thing you want, The will to work, the faith to fight, The strength to use but tern pered tools And only weapon honors bright; The spirit and the spunk to dare, The heart to hope, the grit to bear; And when disaster falls, the grit to grin, and start again That's luck. Crochet Dainty Lace Bolero Pattern 1745. Dress-up your daytime or summer sum-mer evening dresses with this dainty lace bolero crocheted in two strands of string. Pattern 1745 contains directions for making mak-ing bolero; illustration of it and Don't Get Hurt v Below are given some sugges tions for "Safe Gardening" com piled by the National Safety coun cil: Replace split, broken or sharp edged handles. Avoid splinter and other wounds. Carry any cutting tool with the blade facing downward. Get first aid for any cut or scratch, no matter how slight it may seem to you. Never leave a hoe, rake or fork lying or standing with the head pointing op. Btafcif Irium contained in BOTH Pepsodent Tooth Paste and Pepsodent Tooth Powder If you really want teeth that glisten and gleam ... a smile that's bright and attractive, here's your answer! Try the new, modernized Pepsodent, the one and only dentifrice that offers yoa the extra effectiveness of that wonderful tooth cleanser, Irium. A Quiz With Answers Offering Information on Various Subjects they either shoot themselves or commit hari-kari, according to a spokesman for the Japanese army. 7. Virginia. 8. The King ranch in southern Texas consists of more than 1,500 square miles, while the area of Rhode Island is 1,248 square miles. 9. In an article in Scribner's Magazine in 1899 Theodore Roose velt said that the public christened chris-tened him and his men as "Rough Riders." "At first we fought against the use of the term, but, when finally the general of the division and brigade began to write in formal communications about our regiment as the 'Rough Riders,' we adopted the term our selves. 10. According to the Commenta tor, in 1937, 140 women served in 35 state legislatures. An Operator's Dream "I'm sorry I gave you the wrong number," said the operator. "Don't mention it," replied the caller, "I'm sure the number you gave me was much better than the number I asked for, only it just happened I wasn't able to use it." The following appeared some years ago in a wedding report: "Among the gifts of the bride to the bridegroom was a gorgeous dressing down." Spring Daze Mrs. Easley Three moves are as bad as a fire. Mrs. Harder Yes, and one visit of the paper hangers beats a cyclone. cy-clone. Going Down Two cronies met at lunch. "How's things?" one asked. "How are they? Rotten, old boy. Honestly, if they keep on like this it .looks as though my last income tax return will be just about correct!" cor-rect!" said the other, gloomily. of stitches; materials required. bend 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) for this pattern to The Sewing Circle. Needlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York, N. Y. Please write your same, address ad-dress and pattern number plainly. HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS Line the Clothes Basket. Clothes baskets can be kept clean by lining them with washable material, ma-terial, such as oilcloth, muslin, or heavy paper may be used. Outdoor Fireplace. Backyard fireplaces are easily constructed and provide a center for family fam-ily recreation during summer months; steak roasts, corn roasts, and marshmallow toasts are only a few of the many reasons for building one. Slow Oven for Sponge Cake. Sponge and angel-food cakes should be baked in a slow oven so that the air which has been beaten into them has a chance to expand and lighten the cake before be-fore the eggs sec and give the cake a shape. Soft Pillows. One housewife washes all the discarded silken articles of the household, cuts them into tiny pieces and uses them to fill pillows. They are very soft and fluffy, besides costing cost-ing nothing. Try This and Please Hubby. A tablespoon of borax in the water wa-ter in which white collars are washed will take away that ugly yellow tint and make them as white as new. wife wbW; For remarkable Irium gives Pepsodent greater cleansingpower helps it to qu ickly brush away dingy surface-stains and polish pol-ish teeth to their full natural radiance! Its action is speedy ...thorough. ..SAFE! Contains NO GRIT, NO PUMICE, NO DRUGS! Get yours today! UncU PtiIQ When the Good Work Begins There's a good chance for your getting ahead when you get dissatisfied dis-satisfied with yourself instead of the job. Once a father sends his boys to college, every generation of that family has to do it. If you know how to spend your money you can seem like a magnate mag-nate on $3,000 a year. Two of a Kind We have discovered that the man who talks in a whisper doesn't know any more than the fellow who bellows. It is a tragedy when a man gets late in life what he thinks he wants and finds be doesn't want it. A big-hearted woman is one who when she gets into society tries to help her friends in. A retired farmer still can't learn to sleep late. Willing to Wait The tiny brother of the bride was given a piece of wedding cake to put under his pillow. The following fol-lowing morning his mother said to him, "Well, Bobbie, did you sleep with the wedding cake under your pillow and dream of your future wife?" "No, mummie," replied the boy. "I ate the cake, 'cause I wanted my wife to be a surprise." Gone Forever They were both writing letters, but suddenly hubby stopped and looked worried. "What's the matter, dear?" asked his wife. "Why er I had it on the tip of my tongue and now it's gone." "Never mind," she said, "just think hard and it's bound to come back." "Thinking won't bring this back It was a stamp," said hubby. WHY CHANGE? Don Don't you ever change your mind about anything? Joe Very seldom. I have found I was just as wrong the second after af-ter I had changed it as I was before. be-fore. Any Excuse-One Excuse-One day a neighbor came over and wanted to borrow Grandpa's new rope. Said Grandpa: "No, I've got to use that rope today to tie up some sand." After the neighbor had left a friend said: "Grandpa, you know you can't tie sand with a rope!" "Remember, my boy," replied the old man, "you can do pretty near anything with a piece of rope if you don't want to lend it." When she thinks he's perfect, she's in love. When she makes up her mind to improve him, she means marriage. A Substitute Willie While mother was sleeping sleep-ing the baby got sick licking the paint Caller Off a toy? Willie No, off mother. Madness? Kulper What reason have you for marrying my daughter, young man? Fogmore No reason at all, sir; I'm in love with her. A Glorious Inheritance If we do our best! if we do not magnify trifling troubles; if we look resolutely, I will not say at the bright side of things, but at things as they really are; if we avail ourselves of the manifold blessings which surround us, we can not but feel that life is indeed in-deed a glorious inheritance. John Lubbock. j ! V A aSl. M WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON pZECIIOSLOVAKIA and all that may hang on its destiny is just an added starter in the up-and-coming cosmos of A. W. Robertson, chairman of the Robertson board of the West-Has West-Has Remedy inghouse Electric for Gloom & Manufacturing company. It is the always assured and hopeful hope-ful Mr. Robertson who announces his company will spend $12,000,000 on additions and betterments this year, and, from where Mr. Robertson sits, that's just a couple of white chips compared to spendings to come. Mr. Robertson is the II. G. Wells of industry. His "shape of things to come," which he has been outlining outlin-ing for the last year or two, includes the following specifications: Migratory humans, shifting north and south like the birds. "Just whether the children will be born in the North or the South," he said, "is not quite clear to me, but I expect we -will follow the policy of the birds and have the children in the North." Windowless houses, pasteurized pasteur-ized air, and artificial sunlight. One-man planes, with folding wings, kept in the hall rack, with the umbrellas. Pocket radios for two-way talk with anybody, anywhere. Noiseless cities with double-deck double-deck streets. Flat houses, with a push-button crane which will park the the auto on the roof. He was a farm and village boy at Panama, New York, chore boy and rustler in his youth and hence not through grammar school until he was seventeen. Then he studied law in a country office, entered practice, prac-tice, got corporations for clients and then began owning and operating them. At forty-six he was president of the Philadelphia company and now heads a $200,000,000 company. He pays liberal wage bonuses and urges friendly, co-operative relationship rela-tionship between capital and labor. TT WAS only a year ago that Rob- ert R. Young, thirty-nine-year-old Texan, quite unknown to Wall Street, rode herd on the straying v Van Sweringen Young Texan system and cor-Rode cor-Rode Herd on railed it. It was Rail System a11 bewilderingly complicated, but, finally sifted down, it appeared that Mr. Young had picked up a $3,000,-000,000 $3,000,-000,000 rail "empire" with an original orig-inal investment of $225,000. He is a quiet, inconspicuous, unassuming un-assuming man, and now the feature writers are just getting around to calling him a "Titan." lie won a rock-and-sock proxy battle for the control of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway. rail-way. Within the last few years, he has infiltrated gently into high finance, which is just now becoming acutely conscious of his presence. His family was in and around Canadian, Texas, before the battle of the Alamo. They started the First National Bank of Canadian, which is now in the hands of the fourth generation. At Culver Military academy, Robert Rob-ert R. Young was graduated at the head of his class, Career at its youngest grad-Culver grad-Culver Was uate, and later he Prophetic "attended the University Uni-versity of Virginia. With the Du Ponts in 1916, he got his preliminary work-out in finance and joined General Motors in 1922. In 1932, he founded his own Wall Street firm, with Frank F. Kolbe, his later associate in the Van Sweringen putsch. Mrs. Young is the former Anita Ten Eyck O'Keefe, of Williamsburg, Va., sister of Georgia O'Keefe, the painter. In 1935, they leased Beech-wood, Beech-wood, the Astor estate,' in Newport. Mr. Young, a Democrat, like his father paid $15,000 for a consignment consign-ment of those famous Democratic convention books, which congressmen, congress-men, badgering him at a senate hearing, insisted wasn't nearly so much of a bargain as the Van Sweringen deal. "You are a bigger big-ger sucker than I thought you were," said Senator Wheeler. Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. Languages of Nations Switzerland is not the only nation having more than one official language. lan-guage. Palestine has three recognized recog-nized tongues, English, Hebrew and Arabic. Actually more than one language is spoke in every country in Europe bui one. Portugal is the only nation having a single language. lan-guage. In Asia, India has 220 distinct dis-tinct vernacular languages. But even with four languages Switzerland Swit-zerland is not finished, says the Washington Post. There is still one more obscure dialect called Ladin, spoken by a small group of people. Carefree Cotton Fashions "THESE two designs are partic- ularly good inspirations for summer daytimes they're cool, simple, becoming and easy to make. More than that, they are 3tyles that adapt themselves to all seasons and many different materials, so that you can use them over and over again. The house dress can be made in a few hours, with a diagram, and the jumper frock includes a de- tailed sew chart, so it's no trouble at all. House Dress in Large Sizes. With darts at the waistline and inside tucks on the shoulders, this dress has an unusually good line- trim and slenderizing. 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The Barbara Bell patterns are well planned, accurately ac-curately cut and easy to follow. Each pattern includes a sew-chart which enables even a beginner to cut and make her own clothes. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Room 1020, 211 W. Wacker Dr., Chicago, 111. Price of patterns, 15 cents (in coins) each. Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. ' r Stop where you see this sign sensitive Pa. The Spirit of Friendliness and Fair Dealing which. Prevails at the Ef W HOUSE In SALT LAKE CITY Has Established Its Reputation as One of the Nation's Most Popular Hotels. 400 ROCMS-400 BATHS Rates: $2.00 fo $4.00 Single MAKES 10 fj"' K P K i