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Show Friday. May 13, 1932 MAGNA TIMES. MAGNA, UTAH the scheme of things, that brings little children Into a world of dark MATERNITY WARD 0 nea Hunt - By Fannie (0, a-S KetJar XmMMr (WNU Barries) aymSlaau.) could not b a aura la a a hospital of sevai yean and not hare aoma rather ipeda idea about tha story of mankind. Vesta had. She had seen, through the long period of her association with ..Institution, dedicated to birth, , the mills of the gods grinding out the relentless grist of human dee tiny. Day after day, there occurred In the ward of the maternity hospital the miracle of life or the tragedy of death. Babies, babies, babies; wanted, unwanted, all re and-- kicking. pink, blue, male and female, opened their blue eyes upon an etherlc world bounded by doctors, nurses. Internes, wan mothers and blear-eye- d fathers. The eyes of Vesta bad come to be a little bitter about this business X birth. It seemed to her a sym-- , ol that the new-bor- n child, still 1 ne with the mysterious pallor of 80 glacial hinterlands preceding should first of all, as greeting Ms fellow humans, pucker up to YOU ' tn n tb In. oa liI tra child, Betimes, the new-bor- n yet an hour old, lay in his crib STv firownedr--neff"alreadyle- idtd Isa- - d ridtf Eft iadica in will . n, Wed- - . ah pala-riddle- -- ) " ' tit seemed to Vesta, studying the Jlghts of the stricken parents, that heir sense of responsibility, their barred consciences, must be more ban they could bear. I Sometimes, walking home from le hospital, moving among the Routing, playing children of the mement-llne- d streets, observing elr drab little uniforms of pov-ttheir pale faces, the rickety A It felt, momentarily at least, endurable that she continue to ty her role In assisting mothers give life. dorbld, kald some. Embittered, d others, or sensitive, wicked, old maldlsh, sour grapes, It y. 3or the i .tecs si mist , Vhatever the case, at be were ridges of vicarious suf-n- g around Vesta's mouth and ?g her brow and deep In her eyes , muddy waters of pain, on lived, moved, breathed In a id of pain. !ot that these thoughts predom-te- d the personality of Vesta. Out-fdlat least, she pas calm, effl-j- t, even rather beautiful In a pale assed sort of way. She had gen-es- s and, strangely enough, tt skill In her work, ense of humor, one doctor, chaff- used to tell her she lacked, ae of bumorl Sense of humor at pels, nevertheless, because lve In a world was to learn some-- f to adopt oneself to the injus-- I of suffering childhood, there did ;age to survive in Vesta, even I her sensitiveness to the pain lit her, a Joy of life. was not difficult to, muster m of humor about much of the lal drama that went on about i Almost every evening. In the tment she shared with two e there were hilarious recitals be anecdotes of the dayt The ngs of bewildered mothers, belled fathers and precocious chU-- i into. twenty-five- , y, ms a a SON el i ) Stsaar v .Ihia ; pov- ften the three girls Invited young tors tn to dine wttb them and test and vitality of these par- was Vesta. She was good at f. The Inner torment, the trials the day, the vicarious pain for oanlty, the sense of frustration, her like a mantle once she I from free of the hospital and Us eric aroma. At heart, you are In love with doctor named, (world, a youngused to accuse Income and other taxes are very heavy, especially In Great Britain, where they nr 22 to 23 per cent of Conse very - moderate In cornea. quently many efforts are mad to evade them legally. By s quirk in tha shipping laws, a yacht owner living In his boat is not taxed, and ona such home may be seea at Monta Carlo, where It haa been Of course, long heated discussions of God, metaphysics, religion, grew out of this. Sometimes until long past midnight, the little groups sat weighing the problems of life and death; pro and conning the same dark problems that have caused the wlset tired, harried Idealists of all times to ponder. It was out of these evenings that there spun Itself around Vesta the web of romance. The moat chaffing of the teasing group around her, brilliant young Ainsworth, became her ardent, headstrong wooer. 1 . don't want to marry, eald Vesta, knowing from the first time ho asked her, that she would.' Tve seen too much. Suffered too much of the suffering of others. Besides, my work Is laid out for me. In the end, of course, she did marry him, and they were to establish the firm free clinic of Its kind In the middle western city In which they dwelt But against having children she did resolutely hold out over a period of four years. 1 My own sins are my own. won't bring a child Into a world Into which It does not ask to bo born. The fact that I am happy does not Insure happiness for my offspring. 1 dont want A baby. At the end of four years, when she was her most beautiful, there was to bo a child, and once more the convictions of Vesta went down before Inherent love of life. Well name it Vesta, said moored t groat-grandso- We'll name It Gregory, said Vesta. When the twins were born, they named them Vesta and Gregory. a;- td A Quantities of Mexican Silver Used by Chinese Chinese financial transactions are generally made In terms of Mexican dollars. For Instance, newspapers will report that the government of Chinn has appropriated 11,000,000 Mexican for this or that purpose. The Mexlcas dollar or peso la worth lightly leas than SO cents la American money. During tha early decades of the Nineteenth century the Spanish dollar was Introduced Into Chinn by western tradera Previously to that time there was no coin in general circulation In Chinn except the small copper piece known ns the cash. In large transactions uncoined silver bullion wan employed, ona Chinese ounce of silver bring called a taeL Chinese merchants found tha western coins mors convenient than bullion ns n circulating medium, and Spanish dollars were Imported la large numbers. shortage in the supply of Spanish dollars led to tha Introduction of Mexican dollars about 1840. Within s very few years these coins, minted In Mexico by the Mexican government, circulated freely everywhere In Chins and were practically the only currency which had universal acceptance in that country. Their only rivals were British dot lara coined in India or Hongkong and circulated la Chinese tea porta The continual exportation of Mexican dollars to China and other oriental countries on a silver basis became an Important factor In the distribution of Mexican silver. In 1902 China signed a treaty with Great Britain In which aha agreed to establish a uniform system of Tnan Bhlb-kduring currency. bis regime, coined Chinese silver dollars In the hope of Initiating currency reforms, and sines then-man-y efforts have been made to substitute native coins for Mexican dollars. Consequently, although Chinese finances are still reckoned In termeof Mexican dollars, the coins themselves era becoming scarce In Chinn and their place la being rapidly taken by sliver dollars of equal weight and value colnedjn China orHongkong. Pathfinder Magazine. In love with a universe it fosters little children In on to torture them; In love with ITed. for yean, The author, Compton Mackenzie, n novelist, hat leased the tiny Island of Jetbou, which Ilea with its smaller sister, Herm, Just east of Guernsey, in the Channel Islands. Curiously, this lease la taken from the British government, at an absurd figure amounting to perhaps week-e- nd 81 If tha novelist Uvea there aix month in tha year he may live la England Itself the other six month and entirely escape the Income burden, By virtu of bis investment, ha may fly his own flag and assume many feudal privileges of tha ancient duchy of Normandy, for these Islands ire a part of that dukedom. Thar are no taxes on tobacco, spirits, on gun licenses, nor has ha a tax to pay to his local government. Harm, next door, also was leased In a similar way, and has a curious history of Its lease to Prince Blueh-e- r of Waldstadt, Germany, of Blucher, tha general of tha battle of Waterloo. The lata Prince Blucher was strongly attracted to the Australian kangaroo and bred them es Hem. - Tba islaad la now In Its original stata and tha kangaroos have vanished. well-know- Steam Roller Singapore (Prepared by tha National Oaotrrapbla Social?. Waahlnvtoa. U 0.) (WNU aerriea.) - - - - uncompleted British naval at Singapore again may with workmen. Tha , swarm baa has been a political football la British official circles for more than a decad Construction began in 1921 but before much progress was mad tha project was Interrupted In by political quarrels until 1928. that year tha base alt was tba acena of much activity, but work again 1 eapital of tha British crown eol-ifas halted when the Labor party, ony commonly called tb 8tralts Setwhich opposed the project, cam tlement Thla colony embraces tha Into power. Province Wellesley, tba Dlndlngs To the military strategist, Singa- and Malacca on the mainland, and pore la one of England's main links tha Islands of Penang and SingaIn Its chain of defenses that stretch pore. More than fifty steamship lines from Gibraltar through Malta, Suez, Aden and Ceylon, but to students ot and Its cable net and radio stations geography and readers of fiction, it tla Singapore up with adjacent reIs the Crossroads of tha East, and gion and British Malaya, tha Dutch East Indie and Slam cona city whera East meets West, la all the swift, significant stitute e unit in commercial gechanges wrought by white men in ography which centers at tha the East, no ona event stands ont great port- -' more conspicuously than tba rapid Tba Melting Pot of Asia. they rise of Singapore, From Jungle call this prolific, potent peninsula, Isle, where tigers at men at night, because of tha babel of race color to a magnificent city, tenth among and casts which its wealth of robthe ports of tha world. In less than ber and Un has drawn to It But In n century I all thla industrial army of EuroIts place on the map, its strategic pean Chines Ja panes Tama!! position her at tha crossroads of Hindus and assorted South Sea Istba East, forced it to a growth at lander tba Chinese are the most once unique end astonishing. Last numerous and powerful Tba Malay himself la too lazy year nearly 10100 ships cat tha cohalt-blue seas of tha Malacca strait, even to be a good fisherman. He tying up the trad of Singapore with grows a little ric a few coconut Europe, Africa and India with Aus- and nets the fish ha need but Natralia China Japin and tha Amer- ture Is ao kind that it la said ona hours effort a day will support him T, ica. And how Singapore cam to be a and his family. roIt is tha Chinaman who la the tin dty Is ona of the latter-da-y mances of tha Orient Away back miner, the farmer, shopkeeper, artiIn history, before the days of Marco san, contractor, and financier. Natnrea motion picture, ns your Polo, tha Malays had founded their powerful states and set up an em- ship swings into tha narrow, Singapore road la Uka pire on their peninsula Then came tha Portuguese and laid west to n vision of some fabled Dream tba 'strongholds of tha sultana leav- Isles of Delight. Cruising through these strait ing , colonists whose descendant bearing Jong, aristocratic names your ship creeps so close to certain oddly out of place among Malay cog- lslea that you can actually see the nomen are still found throughout natives going about their dally life, and you can clearly make out Intitha Indie After tha Portuguese cam? the mate details of the Uny palm-lea- f which stand on atlltllka Dutch, aweeplng from Malacca to shack Manila only to be followed later by piles ont over the water. ' tha British, who, with their genius When Not So Charming. for colonization, are her to this Bnt on certain hot, steamy days Aa cleat Cheesecakes day. It was this British adventur In early autumn, when no air sUre The sweetmeats of tha early epi- about a hundred years ago, that and tha tide has run very low, these cures are fully recorded In the lured Stamford Rafflea horn at sea Island on closer Inspection, are painstaking dialogues of the Athen-aeu- Into this restless region of the then not all so charming. Then tba recedwho lived and loved cheese- unknown East. . And Fate, willed ing waters leave vast, flat hanks of cake In the latter half of the Sec- that ha should found this great slimy stinking.' mud, alive with ond century. Ha lists tha various Singapore. crawling creatures pursued by In known Greek to the types Slnagpore waa not conquered like birds; and tba myriad manickling profusion. Another early Hindustan, nor acquired na a ready- grove trees that hug tba shore are historian describes them as bring made colony, Uka Hongkong; it was left standing with tbelr naked d compounded of, cheese end milk simply bought ns New fork crooked roots alt exposed an oddly and honey almonds with soft rind, settled, when 81r Stamford repellent plcthre, suggesting the and nuts, which boys are very fond elected it aa an outpost for colls of n million monof. In such high repute was this British traders on tha China route wet, slippery ster their bodies all twistserpent prime table delicacy held among the and purchased It for the East India ed together,-seemi- ng to crawl tn classics that s village was named company from the sultan of Johor and ont ot the fonl steaming oos to histhe Cheesecake, according Island then, It waa U Jungle-covere-d Ton are glad, then, when your torian Demetrius. peopled by a few score savage Ma- ship haa poked her restless nose . lay fisherfolk. past these reeking mud flats and Now tt Is a wonder dty, with mar you come to the anchorag KwowmIiImm tying np bla bank buildings of singular amid as. strange a fleet as ever the We . cannot, but admire .the, of the pupil who wrote down beauty and great stone law courts sun ehon on. The whit mans life today In On their beads, la answer to a and government edifices and Chrischurches all In striking con- Singapore, aa in other tropic question as to where the klngi of tian part to tba ornamental Malay la eaty and comfortabl England were crowned, and n sim- trast Her near the Equator, days and ilar naive reply was given by an- mosque the carved temples of the and the fantastic Jobs night are about equal; toward dark other student In - response to the Hindu the din of barter and sals subsides Explain what happens houses of tba Chines question, A Jungle Reclaimed. and tha streets begin to empty. The when there is an eclipse of the Through tha thick Jungle, where houseboat fotks of tba river and the sun, when be answered, truthfully wharf workers quiet down. Chinee enough, A great many people go once led only the elephant path out 4o see 1L Christian Advocate wide.level roads have now been built, shopkeepers shuffle out to put up and tha hoarse squawk of the their shutter High nbov the star motor born ha drowned tb fierce pictures of heaven are bung out Avoid Lilas Rats , ot tha lurking tiger. the sprawling Scorpios and the maButs are the bane of human ex- growls Forty-fiv- e years ago a few Para jestic Southern Cros Long before istence yet there ere few of us rubber plants smuggled out of Bra- ten o'clock this magic, mongreLdty who do not unconsciously slide into fruited her of tin, trad and ' turbulence la Today, them and then try our best to re zil the world's rubbev of comes sound asleep. No speeding Joy mnln there Rise above your envl ronment Adjust yourself to changed from thla region. And in this magic rider, owl car, or roof garden Jazs slave to (development Americans bar played breaks tba delicious stupor of Its conditions.,. Never be repot your suroundingx Grit THE THESH are net patent medicine 1 children. Their appetite needs no coaxing. Their tongues an never coated, cheeks never pal And their bowels mors Just uka clockwork, because they have never been given laxative. You can have children like this and bo as healthy yourself if you follow tba advice of a famous family phyridan. Stimulatt tht tital orvam. Tba strongest of them need hap tt time .growi pepsin is When a youngster doesnt do well at school, it may be the liver thats lazy. Often the bowels hold enough isonoua waste to dull the sense I spoonful of delirious syrup pepsin a habit-formi- ng r Flak Graalte la Highway Pink granite from the mountain-aid- e was used to build the ('recently The Pope's Railroad opened hlgfawty In Cadillac mounThe new railroad in the Yatlcan tain, the highest on the Atlantic seaboard, la Acadia . National park, City la only 600 feet long (half of Mount Desert Island, Main It haa which la tunnel) but la double a granite fence on the outside of the tracked, baa an elaborate station and n of tba moat elaborate trains In road. tha world. Tba latter, for tha pope'a Wise Is bs who learns from tht aspect al us la made up of three ceache One carries n thron an experience of other - once or twice a week will avoid all this. It contains fresh laxative herb active senna, and pure pepsin, and does a world of good to any system young or rid. You can always get this fine prescripUonal preparation at any drug store. Just ask them lot Dr. CaldwcUi syrup pepsin. Get some syrup pepsin today, and protest your family from those bilious day frequent sick spells and colds. Keep a bottle , in tha t A medicine che that'io' ofte constipation. Dr. Caldwell's syrup pepsin can always be employed to give dogged bowels a thorough cleansing, with none of that painful griping, or burning feeling niter ward.lt isnt expensive. other a private chapel and the third combination dining - and Bleeping car. All coaches are ot steel, painted maroon with the pontifical emit ot arms In bronr t If a man hasnt the germ ot uprightness In him, praying for guidance gets no reepons al s, long-legg- palate-t- wa-an- Raffles-s- - ' , three-fourth- In love with the world H she Theyve Never Tasted a Tonic! I ar premonition were upon him. jot darling, Vesta found herself lag. i pink, cherub Opened Its eyes jn s ward of pain; grew up In eets and tenements of gloom I grime, wait out Into a world of appointment and chagrin and In "n gave life. . T Ot course, there was the other ect The bright wanted babies io were born Into bright, loring Bea. The youngsters who thrived I prospered and begot happily In n. But somehow, from the van-- e of the hospital ward, the odds med so against that, rhe tired, broken-dowpoverty-'cke- n with babies the mothers, d t thwarted futures med so greatly In the majority. Iking along the rows of cribs, was difficult not to feel your rt hurt Even In the private ma, where they lay swaddled In enslve layettes, the odds seemed Inst them. Anyway, after seven rs of the routine of seeing them n, something akin to chronic n lay In the heart of Vesta. .Vhat s grave responsibility to e life. How sure one needed to How thoughtless, unconsciously aet, reckless and Ignorant were t of the parents who dared to Jly with the miracle of creation. It made one fearsome, unventnre-icautious and tinged with alto aiat No Injustice, social tyranny, erty and bad health EVADE INCOME TAX IN DEVIOUS WAYS s ed Food elements in both were the same two baby foods can be alike. same percentage of The exactly carbohydrate, fat, protein, mineral salts. 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