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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH Weighing Uncle Sams Gold Hoard while some skis are fashioned o maple or pine. Machines are little For the proper help in thickness about an inch in the middle and the correct tapering, a watchful carpenter is preferred. The straight slats are carefully steamed until they turn up their Hippos Are the Zoos Film Stars Gold in the Sand g. toes. me there are particles in a dish of sand and I might look for them with my eyes, and search for them with my clumsy fingers, and be unable to detect them; but let me take a magnet how it draws to itself the particles by the power of attraction. The unthankful heart, like my fingers in the sand, discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings, only the iron in Gods sand is gold! H. W. Beecher. TELL Their length varies from 18 inches for toddlers to about 10 feet for adults. Like other footgear, skis must fit, but they fit the wearers height instead of his feet; usually they are as long as the height of the wearers reach. The use of skis spread from Norway mainly by the advertising of and mountain climbers. England is a stronghold of skiers, although no skiing is possible in their own country. Even Japan, Australia and New Zealand have had a touch of the craze. Popularity in Canada is traced to college students who encountered skiing on their trips to Europe. Scandinavian immigrants brought Could you ask for a daintier, the sport to the United States at the more Now of New this Springlike wreath? Heres century. beginning England is an important skiing a bit of embroidery thats unfailingly lovely, and always easy to area, with perhaps the worlds most extensive network of downhill do! Pattern 5570, which will give an old or new bedspread a quick skiing trails. treatment. You can use beauty 80 About winter playgrounds are scattered through the Poconos and gayly colored floss both for the the Alleghenies in Pennsylvania, in the Catskills and Adirondacks New York, the Green mountains in Vermont, the White mountains in New Hampshire, the Berkshires in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and the Rockis and coast ranges of the Far West. Ski trains pour city sportsmen into mountain hamlets which would otherwise be contentedly snowbound. word-of-mou- th snow-sportsm- Hippos are the stars of animal film actors. They command a salary of $100 a day. A definite wage-scal- e for aniin drawn mals, just up Hollywood, gives the following figures: Hipare worth pos, if well-behave- d, a day; trained chimpanzees can collect $25 to $100; trained deer, $30; alligators, pythons and camels, $25; zebras, $20; and buzzards and badgers, $5 each per day. Dogs and cats can earn a salary in accordance with their ability, but in their case there is always a possibility that they will strike the public fancy, and thus develop into leading stars. $100 Touch of Spring on Linens Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, director of the United States mint, and Edwin H. H. Dressel, director of the Philadelphia mint, shown watching weighing of gold bars at the Philadelphia mint. This gold is of the vast hoard which was recently moved from Philadelphia topartthe new United States gold repository at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Each bar shown here is worth $8,000. Skiing Has Taken First Rank as Popular Sport i Growth as Winter Pastime Has Been Amazing. . Washington, D. C. This winter the popular sports slogan is Go North, Young Man and bring the ladies, too, says the National Geo-- graphic society. Ski trains plow northward from big cities, their cozy snow coaches' laden with skis, ski poles, skiers, and would-b- e skiers. Ski planes operate from Chicago. And snow boats- have been leaving New York harbor to give passengers several weeks of slides and tumbles at the famous ski centers of Europe. Department stores offer a free lesson with each ski suit, or pracd runs to try tice on out a set of skis. An international winter sports meet was held in New - borax-covere- RESCUED FROM MINE progress, and two knees not prone to tremble. The ski itself has gone through several transformations. The name comes from an Icelandic word for piece of wood, but four centuries ago it applied also to leather shoes three feet long, with pointed toes curled up and the rear end fastening around the ankle. An earlier variation was a wooden ski with tips like prows of ancient Viking ships, curving either in or out in a scrolllike curl. Now the national sport of Norhas long been at way, home in that country. Legend claims that the first Scandinavian, named Nor, actually reached his peninsula home on skis. Early setd tlers revered a god of winter, Skade. Skiing Norwegians a thousand years ago astounded their enemies by leaping from mountain ledges and sliding on down slopes without injury. A picture of a carved on a rune stone near Upsala, is believed to date from the Eleventh century. Skiing is essential to snowbound Lapps when the Arctic winter descends upon the top of the Scandinavian peninsula. They do not use two ski poles. Their pole is a handy weapon against wolves which may attack reindeer herds; therefore only one is carried, since an additional one would only become entangled in the fray. Wood From Minnesota. Within recent years veteran from Norway and Sweden have been importing white hickory wood from the forests of Minnesota. It is heavy enough to give the skier ballast and is extremely tough. Care is necessary in seasoning and varnishing hickory skis, however, or they may warp. White ash, the favorite bow wood of the Indians, is a lighter substitute. lilaq clusters and their dainty bow, and just the easiest of stitches blanket, single, outline, lazy daisy and French knots. In Pattern 5570 you will find a transfer pattern of one large spray 15 by 20 inches; one bow-kn4 Inches; two by 12 3 sprays by 5 inches and two sprays 3 by 314 inches; color ot ski-sho- "Quotations" A ski-runn- Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady of New York, widow of the utilities magnate, whose forthcoming marriage in Rome after Easter to William J. Babington Macaulay, Irish Free State minister to the Vatican, was revealed by friends recently. It was also reported that the ceremony probably will be performed by Cardinal Pacelli, Papal secretary of state, who was a guest at the Brady mansion at Manhasset, L. I., during his recent visit to this country. Beware of Chiselers If you kin mind yoh own affairs, said Uncle Eben, you is gotter look out foh people dat sizes you as a willin worker an wants to merge deir business wif yours. ld thirty-six-year-o- coal mine operator, who was rescued alive from the Pitts-vei- n mine at Flemington, W. Va., after he had been buried by a cave-i- n for a week. CCC workers and other volunteers, aided by the entombed mans dog, worked 18 hour shifts, 24 hours a day to save Deserts Bridge Table for Handball York City, transplanting skiing to an indoor Arctic, homemade with and machines for flaking 500 tons of ice into snow. The ski slide came down from the rafters of Madison Square Garden. This burst. of enthusiasm climaxes an amazing development of skiing as a sport. Eighty years ago a ski was all for utility and not for sport. It served as the heavy substitute for a galosh or a hip boot by Scandinavians who had to ters heavy snows. Hunters skied from trap to trap over drifted forest trails. Then some original spirit, not weary with hunting or fishing or running errands, had the idea that skiing might be fun. , New Sport Is Born. In the Telemark district of Norway, about 1860, probably with no thought beyond fresh air and rivalry and healthy play, some unsung pioneers - started skiing competitions, and the new sport was bom. Soon the whole world welcomed Ellen Meyers, Chicago miss who has deserted the bridge table for wings for its toes. Equipment was simple: some snowy slopes, two handbaU generally regarded as an activity for men exclusively. Some skis, two poles to push or brake form in that serve, boys! -- Dont Sleep on Left Side, Crowds Heart GAS PRESSURE MAY CAUSE DISCOMFORT. RIGHT SIDE BEST. you toss In bed and cant sleep on If right side, try Adlerika. Just ONE dose relieves stomach GAS pressing on heart so you sleep soundly. Adlerika acts on BOTH upper and lower bowels and brings out foul matter you would never believe was in your system. 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