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Show THE LEIII SUN. LEW, UTAH pLeFs Play Authors," Says Uncle Sam, And He's Giving Us a New Series of Postage Stamps to Help Us Do That! L ELMO SCOTT WATSON r . . . r Nivnuget Union.) R1 EMEMBER back in the "good old days" when . you used to play ;"authors"? j itwas a card game, you re-tall re-tall but it wasn't the kind that some puritanical folk irowned upon because there as a taint of gambling attached at-tached to it. Instead, your parents and your teachers encouraged en-couraged you to play it because be-cause they considered it "educational" "edu-cational" - it familiarized you with the names of the Vreat literary figures of the world and the novels and poems and stories that they had written. j Well, your Uncle Samuel re-lently re-lently decided that it might UNITED STATES POSTAGE Wi--KNOICA IM.lr.fi - be a good thing to revive that old-fashioned game. At least, e decided that we Americans Amer-icans ought to become more familiar with some of the great literary figures in our pwn past so he's started a tariation on the old game of futhors on a nation-wide cale. You don't "play" it frith pasteboards. You "play" ft with stamps, which your fJncle Samuel manufactures IWEoVrATES POSTAGil and sells you (at a very good profit to himself, incidentally). incident-ally). 1 All of which is by way of call-l call-l your attention tp a new series VfT"s Americans" stamps Jluch the United States post office of-fice department is issuing this t, The fifst set in the series J issued the last part of Janu-7 Janu-7 and the first part of Febru-p; Febru-p; a second set was issued in L wm be piaced J this month and each onth until November will see a t LE0UP f American notables 2 9nnred by having Spsappear on a ew set of te'in6118 first of islf ?? groups which will be ?iJeamoua authors and i fad tte cuntenanees of ! ttat Uncle Sam Was ask- tMhe's goS'tnf8 matter ifcous Ag to honr other iiSSSsP056", art- lg PStaaster !re as to hi announced that I a new series of -I mmmmm mmmm cEKtJ I Tim i UNITED STATES POSTAGE "Famous Americans" which would be composed of peace-time heroes, instead of military and naval heroes, or statesmen. Anticipating An-ticipating possible criticism by some people in regard to the selection se-lection of the men and women whose portraits were to appear on the stamps of different values, Mr. Farley pointed out that the selection of the various denominations, denomi-nations, which include a one- two, three, five and ten-cent stamp for each of the seven stamps of the series, was to be governed by the date of birth of the 35 famous Americans in this new series. In other words, the lowest denomination de-nomination in each of the seven groups was assigned to that particular par-ticular American notable whose date of birth precedes that of all others appearing in this particular particu-lar group, with the notable of the most recent birth being awarded the highest denomination. This chronological birth order has been followed throughout the new series. Thus, no one who believes that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a greater poet than James Whitcomb Riley can object because be-cause the face of the Hoosier bard appears on a stamp of higher value than that bearing the portrait por-trait of the New Englander. The fact that Longfellow was bora in 1807 and Riley in 1853 was the determining factor in placing the picture of the former on the one-cent one-cent stamp and the fact of the latter on the 10-cent. ' Similarly those who love the songs of Stephen Collins Foster can't object because his picture is on a one-cent stamp, whereas those of Edward A. MacDowell and Ethelbert Nevin, of whom they may never have heard, are on the five-cent and the 10-cent stamps, respectively. Of course, it may seem rather silly that Uncle Sam, as represented by his postmaster-general, has to be so very careful to avoid the slightest suspicion of partisanship in such a matter as this. But it's amazing amaz-ing what queer notions people have sometimes, and they've raised a veritable "tempest in a teapot" over lesser matters than this. Having chosen his list of authors, poets, educators, scientists, scien-tists, composers, artists and inventors in-ventors to appear on his new series of stamps, Uncle Sam next decided on the places for "first days," i. e., where each of these UNITED STATES POSTAC? stamps were first to be sold. In every case the home town of the notable or some place closely associated as-sociated with his career was chosen. Thus on January 29 the green one-cent stamp bearing the portrait por-trait of Washington Irving was placed on sale at Tarrytown, N. Y. On the same day the post office at Cooperstown, N. Y., began be-gan selling the red-two cent stamps bearing a likeness of the author of the "Leatherstocking Tales" James Fenimore Cooper. On February 5 the Ralph Waldo Emerson stamp (three-cent, purple) pur-ple) was first sold in Boston and the Louisa May Alcott stamp (five-cent, blue) in Concord, Mass. On February 13 the memory mem-ory of Samuel Langhorne Clemens Clem-ens (Mark Twain, to most Americans) Amer-icans) was again honored at Hannibal, Han-nibal, Mo., with the first day sale of a new 10-cent brown stamp. Thus Uncle Sam started his new "game" of authors and he continued it during February by issuing the five stamps in the poet group, as follows: February 16, the Henry W. Longfellow stamp , 1 If55S' ' ivfsi Z-tW ,4 iff ! j vfc rf"" ' -"" ""V rJp :K;i.jt..:.)itiMjiB.wiiui.i!)jii mnni.mmmmt -fx , ?XJ I 1- , "mi w i iiuii'iMi V' (one-cent, preen) ixrna flrct nM at Portland, Maine, and the John ureemeai wmttier stamp (two-cent, (two-cent, red) at Haverhill, Mass.; February 20 the James Russell Lowell (three-cent. Cambridge, Mass., and the Walt TTTL A i n ... . wnuman wve-cent, blue) at Camden, Cam-den, N. J.; February 24, the udmea wnucomD Kiiey (10-cent, brown) at Greenfield, Ind. Beginning this month with the educators' group the stamps will De piacea on sale as follows: Educators. March 14 Boston, Horace Mann, one-cent, green. March 14 Williamstown, Mass., Mam Hopkins, two-cent, rea. March 28 Cambridge. Mass.. Charles W. Eliot, three-cent, pur- pie. March 28 Evanston, 111. Frances Fran-ces E. Willard, five-cent, blue. ,.,, ,. . , ,,. ........ .... .......... ,. !L I .1 ,1 I, v UNITED STATES t OSTAG&Tj: I f f NTS' CENTS X April 7 Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Booker T. Washington, ten-cent, ten-cent, brown. Scientists. April 8 St. Francisville, La., John James Audubon, one-cent, green. April 8 Jefferson, Ga., Dr. Crawford W. Long, two-cent, red. April 17 Santa Rosa, Calif., Luther Burbank, three-cent, purple. pur-ple. April 17 Washington, Dr. Walter Wal-ter Reed, five-cent, blue. April 26 Chicago, Jane Ad-dams, Ad-dams, ten-cent, brown. Composers. May 3 Bardstown, Ky., Stephen Ste-phen C. Foster, one-cent, green. May 3 Washington, John Philip Phil-ip Sousa, two-cent, red. May 13 New York, Victor Herbert, Her-bert, three-cent, purple. VNrr0 STATES POSTAOE Hi ,:tw- May 13 Peterborough, N. H., Edward A. MacDowell, five-cent, blue. June 10 Pittsburgh, Pa., Ethelbert Ethel-bert Nevin, 10-cent, brown. Artists. September 5 Narragansett, R. I., Gilbert C. Stuart, one-cent, green. September 5 Lowell, Mass., J. A. M. Whistler, two-cent, red. SeDtember 16 New York. Au gustus Saint-Gaudens, three-cent, purple. SeDtember 16 Stockbridee. Mass., Daniel F. French, five- cent, blue. September 30 Canton, N. Y., Frederic Remington, 10-cent, brown. - Inventors. October 7 Savannah, Ga., Ell Whitney, one-cent, green. t October 7 New York, Samuel F. B. Morse, two-cent, red. October 14 Lexington, Va., Cyrus Cy-rus H. McCormick, three-cent, purple. October 14 Spencer, Mass., Elias Howe, five-cent, blue. October 23 Boston, Alexander G. BelL 10-cent, brown. UN tr If " An LA in,1 'V j :X& : ; Vt - . At0 -t:J jtO-j -04"' ' -Mb tjM ! '-V. -. i Americans interest in stamn. has been greatly stimulated by the number of commemorative and special issues put out by the post office department in recent years. Another stimulus but for a different reason has been furnished fur-nished by a book, "Fabulous Stamps: The Romance of the Rarities," written by John W. Nicklin and published by Hastings House of New York. Here are two stories from that volume which indicate the reason for an increase in-crease interest in old stamps: The Widow's Mite. In the year of our Lord 1896, the Rev. F. P. L. Josa served as pastor at Christ church, the Episcopal Epis-copal house of worship at Georgetown, George-town, British Guiana. The parish was in dire need of funds to fur- BRITISH , 7 x e V'icissim 0 CUIANA ther certain charitable works that were dear to the heart of the beloved be-loved cleric. A certain widow, long a supporter sup-porter of Christ church, felt a deep urge to assist the charitable work in which the Reverend Josa was engaged, but was unfortunately unfortu-nately without financial resources to devote to this worthv nur- pose. "What else mieht I con tribute from my meager posses sions?" She wondered. "Those old letters, perhaps? That visitor visi-tor from the old country had said years ago that they were of some value. Especially that one letter bearing a pair of circular stamps they had used for a time in Georgetown when I was but a girl." And so. on the following Sun- day, the widow of Georgetown placed in the collection plate of Christ church an old and faded letter bearing two copies of the two-cent British Guiana stamp of 1850. The Reverend Josa later sold these to a E. C. Luard for a sum in excess of $1,000. Tha good work went on the widow's mite had accomplished far greater great-er good than she had hoDed it would. Everyone was pleased, especially Mr. Luard, who subsequently subse-quently parted with his purchase at a handsome Drofit. This wid ow's letter has an approximate present valuation of $30,000, a sum sufficient to build an entire church. Treasure in a Cornfield. , In 1925 a stamp hunter was working on a clue he had unearthed un-earthed concerning an old bank whose records he believed to be in existence in the general vicinity vicin-ity of Baltimore. After a painstaking search he was Chagrined to learn that the bank in question had been out of business over 50 years and its records long since destroyed. He learned, however, that there was a family of the same name in a country district not far distant. So he went to the farm of the family believing there was small chance to find any old stamps in a place so abandoned as the district dis-trict appeared to be. Upon reaching the general vicinity of his destination he had the farm in question pointed out to him. As he turned his steps without enthusiasm toward the old farm house he noticed that it was flanked by several small outbuildings. When the path he was following brought him abreast of the first of these, he noticed a few bits of paper scat tered about the ground just near the edge of an adjoining field. Stooping, he picked up the first. It was a letter. Turning it over. he was amazed to see that it con tained on its face a five-cent Bal timore stamp, worth about $1,000. Hardly believing his sense's, he remained rooted to the spot, staring star-ing at the bit of paper in his hand. He hardly noticed that the lady of the house had been approaching ap-proaching and now stood before him. Trying to hide his great excitement he asked if he might look through the old papers that lay scattered before them. "Surely," said the lady, "they come from the old granary. We are clearing it out and are destroying de-stroying the old papers of grand father. They are no use to us now. In fact, half of them have been burned up already." The net result of the ensuing search was a total of eight more five-cent Baltimore stamps and a number of other valuable specimens speci-mens of lesser rarity, chiefly of the 1847 general United States issue. is-sue. The house cleaning so fortu nately interrupted had proceeded to such an extent tnat about half of the papers had already been destroyed. What did these contain? con-tain? More five-cent Buchanans, nerhans a few of the rare 10-cent stamps. Who can tell? I I 1 l M (ft Kathleen Norris Says: Wives Who Constantly Complain Become Pests iBell Syndicate "When you hai u husband uho $leepi until th very last momtnt, th laid, "and rushes tlirough breakfast, nothing you can say aQecls him." By KATHLEEN NORRIS A LMOST any woman would be Avery much happier if someone else wai just a little different. Usually it is several someone else who make the trouble. Ha mother-in-law. her children's teacher, her kitchen assistant, her friends at the club all fall her in various small ways. She spends a good deal of time wishing tney would see things as she does. As for the husband and the children: chil-dren: welL their faults keep her nervous and fretful. Sh spends countless hours in trying to maKe herself beautiful but she forgets the worried little frown that is perma nently between her eyes. She wants to be considered a woman of culture, cul-ture, a woman other women envy, admire and secretly copy, but she never thinks of the tones of her rasping, critical, dissatisfied voice. In a New York bus the other day I sat next to a well-dressed woman of perhaps 35 or a little less; she had met a friend and she was telling tell-ing the friend all about matters at home. "My dear, when you have a husband hus-band who sleeps until the very last moment" she beean. "and then rushes through breakfast, nothing you can say effects him! I scold until even the boys are taking George's part, but what good does it do? He simply goes on scrambling scram-bling through the paper. The children chil-dren stop eating, of course, and then their breakfasts are cold. Perhaps Per-haps some women can get their children to concentrate on eating when they're at the table; I never can. Who are they with this morning? morn-ing? Oh, his mother. I never leave them with Carry, she has a beau and her one Idea is to keep her hair curled and one esr on the telephone. tele-phone. Not that she ever gets a message of mine straight "George's mother is a darling and the children adore her. But she is a real farmer's wife, and she drops all her 'g's' and says she's goin to lav down, and the children pick up her expressions, of course. She spoils them, too, Junior always cries to go back with grandma when she goes. A Stupid Day Ahead. "Where am I going? Well, I've got the stupidest day ahead of me that you can imagine. In the first place I'm taking that bat back. I left the tag In, but you know how they are about changing a hat Then I'm going to the Lost and Found bureau. bu-reau. I'm still convinced I left that purse at the glove counter. After ward the dentist; my cuing came out I do think they could put in fillings that would stick, and I'm going to tell him so. Then Larry's shoes, he goes through a pair about every six weeks, and then I pick up George. He was to have the car . . ... . i . . . . . nxea ana ne aian v irusi veurj,ei so we have to go out to the club with the Greenwoods; and even if she was my bridesmaid, that giggle of Harriet's simply gets me down. I ought to have had my hair done, I'm a sight" We bad reached her corner; I heard no more. But I had beard enough to know that living with this woman, despite her pleasant appearance, appear-ance, and her evident devotion to home, husband and children, would be heavy going. She wanted every-one every-one to change, apparently It never occurred to her that she herself is the one who should change. She never really has faced the fact that her husband, being a hu man being, has minor faults. He is late; be is hurried; he is negligent If he wasn't these things he might b a martinet who fretted her to death about details and hammered all happiness, joy and contentment WNU Service. DOWT BE A rEST When there is trouble within the family circle it isn't always the husband's hus-band's fault, according to Kathleen Norris. Friend husband may have his faults, to be sure. Hut after all he's only human. And m human without faults, just wouldn't be e human. Sometimes it's the little wife who must make few changes in her manner of living. Check-up and find out where the trouble is. Don't just keep blaming it on someone else. out of the lives of his children. She doesn't know that all elderly women, unless they are social auto mata, get a trifle slipshod in grammar gram-mar as well as in house shoes, and that spoiling grandchildren is one of the legitimate rewards of a mother's moth-er's life. She Is the Real Pest. She won't concede that a "general" "gen-eral" servant, a young creature who washes dishes and sweeps floors and answers the door and the telephone, has a right to be pretty and to encourage en-courage a sweetheart, and that if this girl was the mental force that her employer evidently expects her to be she wouldn't be working in anyone's kitchen. The little flaws of dentist, saleswoman, sales-woman, old friend, the loss of a purse, the delay in repairing a car, the sturdy wear a small boy gives his shoes all these and a thousand other matters she exaggerates into serious troubles; her shrill complaining complain-ing voice makes so much of them that in the end she herself becomes much more of a pest than any of these annoyances, or all of them put together. Seeing her go off on her complacent compla-cent competent way; pretty and brisk and with a head full of plans and a purse full of money, I wondered won-dered what sort of drilling through marble it would take to convince her that she herself is the person to change; that a little common sense and self-control on her part would make the difference between dark and dawn to husband, mother-in-law, house-maid, sons and friends. What an amazing surprise for them if suddenly Jean became an altered woman! If lenience and good nature took the place of that eternal criticism criti-cism and impatience. If the nervous nerv-ous comments stopped, and an amiable ami-able tendency to live and let live took their place. If Jean began simply sim-ply to make allowances for Carry's young vanities and giddiness, for Junior's stamping little feet for George's absent-mindedness, for grandma's indulgences to the adored grandsons. Husbands Won't Change. Tor husbands will continue to gulp breakfast to the end of time. Dentists Den-tists will sometimes insert fillings that don't stay in. Friends will giggle, gig-gle, or develop some other trying trait Maids will decline to become deeply and passionately absorbed in the welfare of the family that is paying pay-ing them $33 a month, to the exclusion exclu-sion of all other interests. Purses and rings and tickets will get lost; repairs on the car will take longer than the garage man originally suspected. sus-pected. Why not take all these things as tha inevitable little roughnesses of living in the complicated and imperfect im-perfect world of today? The astonishing aston-ishing thing Is that matters aren't Infinitely worse. If s only the very fortunate women of the world whf can afford to carp at these trifles. For the more real and the more desperate our troubles grow, the more silent and heroic we women become. HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS Coconut Marshmallows. To roll marshmallows in coconut, shake them one by one in a bag of shredded coconut. When cleaning celery use a vegetable brush. It gets Into the grooves and cleans the celery better than it can be cleaned otherwise. oth-erwise. Use Dry Holder. Never use a damp or wet cloth or holder in removing a hot dish from the oven or stove. A dry one prevents the heat from penetrating and scorching scorch-ing the fingers. Cooking Fork Sausage. Pork sausage requires slow cooking. If much fat collects, drain it off to prevent greasineas. Pierce link sausage several times with a ' fork to prevent them from bursting burst-ing while cooking. To form a brown, crusty covering on sausage sprinkle them with flour just be-. ore they are cooked. Cleaning Mica. Hot vinegar will remove stains from mica windows win-dows on stoves. ' Wash dully-waxed furniture with a chamois skin that has been rinsed frequently in warm water. Doing so will remove the dirt film. Then rub the furniture thoroughly thor-oughly with a soft cloth saturated in furniture polish. Afterwards wipe the furniture dry with a clean soft cloth. Electrle light bulbs should be dusted frequently and washed every ev-ery five or six weeks. Wash with lukewarm water and a few drops of household ammonia. Do not use soap and do not let water' come up above tha glass of the globe. The volume of light will' be increased if the bulbs are kept clean. COUNTRY NEWSPAPERS I'TT should be borne In mind that the maintenance of the country new-papers new-papers is a matter of vital importance to the entire country. It U tlia moot typically American Institution that yet remains. Nowhero li th American typo of government and tho inilividualitic form of society being more ably An-fended."!. An-fended."!. S. Representative John W. Lrwynne. Relief At Last For Your Cough Creomulslon relieves promptly because be-cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to loosen germ laden phlegm. Increase accretion and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender. Inflamed Inflam-ed bronchial mucous membranes. No matter how many medicines you have tried, tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomuision with the understanding that you are to like tha way it quickly allays the couch or you are to have your money back, CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis A Gentleman Somebody has said that a king may make a nobleman, but he cannot make a gentleman. Edmund Ed-mund Burke. FEEL GOOC Hot Is Amazing ftsllcf of CondlUons Due to SluggUh Bowol n,ttlJ?.T,t,, If yon think bB k dik. tuat try tlua II tatabl laiathx. cuuii, uiufuux't. refreshing, invigorating. De. pendabla relief front aick hcariachfa, Ulioua aprlia, tired feelinc haa aaoclatrd with eonatipaUea. Ufithnti Pick 2St boi of N K from roar fllUlOUl lUilV dnwiat. Mak tha teat then If ant orJIxhaarl. return to but to aa. Wa trflt refund tlx aurchaa Get NH Tahlrta anriav. WNU W 1040 Food's Influence After a good dinner one can forgive for-give anybody, even one's own relations. re-lations. Wilde. ToSn't TrmIariT f Vtun't Filit, after many year ef worid-4 worid-4 BM, tmrerf rant 1 be aecentej aa cvidenca) I of atuarry w. I Aa4 favor aWa MbNe opinioa mnsorta tnat t lit aUe hTteu.ns wb teat tk rtXat til Dmu's aaacr exacting laboratory conditions. Tbeae ahrifieiaaM, too, approve ererr word of adWfcaiog ye read. th objective of which ia anVy a recoaiaiend Votm't Pals ai goad diuretic, treatment tar disorder of the kidney function and far relief ei the pai end wrry It cause. If awe people) were aware el kw e Henev neat naatiatly remove waste that tuaat May ia the bteed without is-Jary is-Jary to health. tWa would be better tra-Vr tra-Vr tn 'lint of wtiy the whole body rvm wbra hi tiney la and diuretic aaeuica-toon aaeuica-toon would he mere oftta employed. Burning, aeaaHy er to frerment trrina-Coa trrina-Coa aooKti mea warm of disturbed kidnry function, Tom way auffer earring baric-the, baric-the, perHtnt headache, attack ! dlz-", dlz-", geuiatr as aigbta, weiUn. tjuffi- aarter tea eye ieel weak, aerroa, all played eroC taa PSU. It k better ta rely aa medicine that ha woa world-wide ao-daia ao-daia than ea aoanethfng icat bearably known. Ask jgwr etigkborl UuoTEsiF ftnwfrwt ftetuw nu- j |
