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Show THE BULLETIN Ideas for Making Gulf Current Draws Strange Ocean Species Christmas Presents ' By RUTH WYETII SPEARS INTERESTING letter this morning says, "Our church bazaar is over and in winding up the last details and balancing my accounts I feel that I would be neglecting something if I did not express my appreciation for your Sewing Book No. 2, Gifts, NovelWe found ties and Embroidery. many ideas in it that were real Our annual money makers. Christmas sale is now in course of Could you publish preparation. some new ideas for toys in the paper soon?" Unusually attractive toys may be made quickly and at little cost from cheap cotton stockings. This demure yellowish tan kitten withi bright red or blue ribbon is made I l' I IWMIHI ftr ftm''J4 t ijp6! I II 1 ,i I I I STUFFED , torn bits of conon ,; .Ithrmoaiiounoncck -- Him 11 j FACE WITH , from a stocking leg. The secret of giving toys of this type character is in making the stuffing firm and tight. Cotton or small pieces of clean, soft rags may be used. Push the stuffing firmly in place with a blunt stick. Complete directions for cutting and making the body are given here. For the tail, cut a piece 8 inches long and 2 inches wide.. Stitch the lengthwise edges together, tapering toward the end, then turn right side out, stuff and sew firmly in place. It is easy to draw the face. Notice in the sketch how the eyelids curve, the shape of the mouth and how the whiskers slant Either wool yarn or mercerized cotton embroidery thread may be used black or brown for the eyes and whiskers and red for the mouth. Be sure to save the scraps ef stocking material left from the kitten. We will make a doll out of them later. If you are not ready to make Christmas toys now, clip and save this lesson as it is not contained in either of the books offered below. NOTE: Are you ready for Christmas? Birthdays? And the next church bazaar? Do you turn time into money with tilings to sell? Mrs. Spears' Sewing Book 2 has helped thousands of women. If your home is your hobby you will also want Book 1 SEWING, for the Home Decorator. Order by number enclosing 25 cents for each book. If you order both books, quilt leaflet with 36 different stitches will be included free. Address Mrs. Spears, 210 S. St., Chicago, 111. Des-plain- es Much Smoke, Little Rre The community dinner was over at last and the patient guests who had listened to the long address of the principal speaker breathed a deep sigh of relief. "The speaker was all right," the toastmaster's wife whispered, "but it seems to me that he didn't put enough fire into his speech." "X feel the opposite way," answered the toastmaster. "In my opinion he didn't put enough of his speech into the fire." B'nai B'rith Magazine. FEEL GOOD Hare) la Amazing Rallef for Dun to Slugglah Bowata V k IfrautMBkaniuttMa act ante, juaj vy una . an eeeteai nuatim. BO tuoRwca. re. iDvmmtlnv. 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We can imagine the surprise of Ponce de Leon when, sailing along the coast of Florida in 1513, he found his ship borne irresistibly northward in its current The Gulf stream exerts an influence on the spread and distribution of the marine life 'of the Atlantic which cannot be over-estimate- d. Haven of Marine Life The main current warms the whole North Atlantic, and spurs setting in toward the coast have a striking effect on the' distribution of floating life off the Middle Atlantic He managed to get the loop over the snake's head. states and southern New England. however, the warm stream is Here, canny about his appearance. I was chilled at the sight. But the one separated from the shore by colder to in thought my mind was get him back in his box as soon as possible. waters forming what is known as I got a stout stick about eight feet long, attached a conp the "cold wall." South of the Grand trivance at one end, and instructed the sailors to pull the rope tight banks of Newfoundland it meets the as soon as I got the loop over the reptile's head." icy Labrador current which flows Moe advanced on the snake, stick extended, lie was being down from the north, bringing a careful not to get too close, lest the python strike and get him northern fauna and making its inin its crushing eoils. He got the loop over the reptile's head and fluence felt along the shore, particuyelled, "Pull!" While the sailors held the rope tight, Moe dragged larly north of Cape Cod. the python down from the shelf, fell on him and grabbed bis head. The Gulf stream, on the other Then he turned to shout further orders to the sailors. (rhand, extends the range of many rope-loo- "I Sailors Left Him Holding the Python! To his dismay, they had let go of the rope and fled I Moe knew fright then as he had never known it before in his life. SEWER PIPS COPING Here is the beautiful but whip ray, a denisen of tropical Atlantic water. dan-gerou-M Looking deeper, you finally perceive, extending far into the depths, a whole series of cordlike filaments, spirally adorned with close-sbeads similar to those on the shorter strings, but larger. These slender cables are continually extending and contracting independently of each other, thickened knots passing each other up and down on neighboring strands like elevators. et Vapor From Bush Will Burn The burning bush or gas plant, Dictamnus fraxinella, is uniaue in that its stalk, branches and leaves exude a resinous or oily water that is so volatile its vapor can be ignited on a hot, dry day. The bush, however, is not harmed by the fire, says a correspondent in Collier's Weekly, as the flames do not come in contact with the plant itself. Tea Known Since KOO B. C. Tea has been known to the Chi nese since 2700 B. C, but was used as a medicine rather than a bev erage until about 500 A. D. It is grown in eight provinces, four crops a year, ox which the first crop is the Dest. Many Statues in Cathedral The second largest Gothic cathedral in Europe is the Duomo, of Milan. As part of its massive archi Weight of Elephants male elephant tecture the visitor can count more The average than 4,000 statues. weighs five tons or more. It. I1.M Jae A sudden breeze ruffles the water surface. The floats change shape, twisting in such a way as to "trim sail." The long, submerged cables, being attached to only one side of the bladder, act as a drag anchor, enabling the craft to head up into the wind and thus counteract a too rapid leeway. On board the boat you have a tall glass jar. Reaching over the side, as the vessel drifts with the current, you pick up a fine example of physalia, being careful to lift it by the float and thus avoid contact with d streamers. any of the This caution is essential, for every bead is a battery of powerful sting cells loaded with minute barbed threads, thousands of which, at the slightest touch, will penetrate the skin and inject an irritating poison. Once while wading near Ponce, on the south shore of Puerto Rico, a scientist attempted to lift one of these, creatures into a pail of water. The trade wii.ds were blowing strongly, and, as the streamers came clear of the surface, the wind caught them and blew them around the bare arm with which he held the paiL Immediately a pain as of living fire shot through it. He quickly dropped the physalia into the pail and began to unwind the clinging streamers with his free hand. When he had finished, each finger pained like a toothache. 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C, had the excluShen Nung Emperor sive right of planting one special kind of rice, and four other kinds were planted by princes of his fam- h Snake Prepared for Final Squeeze. Birthplace of Napoleon Many Names for Automobile When the automobile was com Napoleon was born at Ajaccio Corsica, on August 15, 1769. Corsica monly called the "horseless car became French territory by the riege," many names were proposed treaty ot May 15. 17G8. in which the for the new invention, notes a writRepublic of Genoa gave up her sov- er in Collier's Weekly, among them ereignty over the island, which had being autogo, autokinet, autovic, ca lasted since 1347 interrupted by nu- bine, carleck, gasmobile, ipsomotor merous revolts. kineter, sineque and victorine.- - rlU UTAH Constant Movement Again and again Minnie thrust that tail back In the box, but each time it lashed out again to coil itself around Bloe. Bleanwhile, Moe was on the verge of exhaustion. The coils that were already around him were all but crushing the life out of him. "My strength was ebbing fast," he says. "I was wringing wet with perspiration. Blood was flowing from my nose and ears. The folds of the snake had encircled every part of my body from head to foot. Lord, how could people stand around and see me crushed to death? "But no one made a move to help me. By now the place was erowded with onlookers, but they stood as if hypnotized rooted to the deck." WNU Servica. I A it ""POTS- '- WALL get it in." Copyright Bal.T sES II M. CLAY PRODUCTS had the snake by the neck," he says, "but he had both my hands busy keeping his mouth closed. Meanwhile, the snake had begun to wrap me in his folds. I thought: Lord, I will be crushed to death if I don't get some help. But no one lifted a finger except my wife, Minnie, who was standing by near the box we had brought down to put the reptile in. She seized the tail of the snake and unwound one of the folds. She tried to push it into the box, but it came out as fast as she could Moe's wife alone stuck to him to the bitter end. And Moe claims that it was she who saved him. It seemed as if the snake were preparing for one last, final squeeze. He had his tail around Moe, and Minnie was working with all her might to pry it loose again. Moe was ready to give up, but hope dies hard. By that time he had worked himself close to the wooden box in his struggles, and with every ounce of strength he had left in his body, he threw the python's head and one or two of its coils into it. At the same moment, Minnie succeeded in unwrapping the snake's tail. She threw that into the box, too. With his free hand, Moe slammed down the lid of the box and sat on it. That did the trick. Part of the snake was still outside the box, but when he felt the lid slam down on him be straightened out and began drawing the rest of him inside to keep company with his head. "When it was over," says Moe, "I was all in more completely ex hausted than I thought a man could be and still remain conscious. I felt as though I didn't have strength to keep on living another minute, I couldn't open my fists and there was a vivid red line encircling every part of my body marks of where the snake had entwined me. I had to lie in hot water for weeks before I was entirely recovered. And though, today, I am none the worse for my harrowing experience, the recollection of it never fails to send a shiver down my spine. - St ST. CEOBGI HOTEL, Salt Lake Eaat Ire! Saath Street - ll.H. With Bala HJi to M.TI Claaa Caavealtat KepaUMt Tic to me, boys and girls, that all the interesting New York toward tropic wacharacters in the world are flocking to this corner of ours to tell ters on a midwinter day, you us the big experiences of their lives. Take, for instance, Moe gaze out over a leaden sea of n color, lashed by the Aarons of New York City, Moe has been a circus man for most of his life, and for a good part of that time he has held down stiff, chilling wind. But the next morning you awaken to a one of the most intriguing jobs in the circus business. And did Moe lead the band, or swing the flying trapeze, or whiten balmy air and go on deck to up his face and do a clown act in the big arena? Not on your life. Moe behold the ocean miraculously didn't even travel with the show. For 25 years he has toured the Far changed to ultramarine blue, East looking for animals with which to stock the menagerie. In that the waves dark time, Moe has seen plenty, and had plenty of things happen to him. crowned withswelling snowy foam But none of his experiences can ever touch the one he had in October, which churns up in the wake of monster from the dark jungles of Burma. 1931, with a the vessel in turquoise turmoil Feet Long. Python Twenty-Si- x "I was taking a cargo of unhandled snakes," says Moe, "from before reaching the surface. Petrels follow the ship, Singapore to France on the passenger steamer Az Reveau. The snakes were pythons of extraordinary size, some of them as long as 26 feet, as skipping from wave to wave. big around as a stovepipe, and capable of crushing horses to death in Toward afternoon a school of their coils. They were kept in wooden boxes four feet square, and I made regular rounds to see that they were all secure, for the steamer porpoises glides in and out of chase, carried 800 people, crew included, and I realized my responsibility in the sea in never-endin- g while flying fishes, glinting in blue safeguarding them from my reptiles." and silver, dart anxiously from the But one day, to his consternation, Sloe found one of his biggest water and sail long distances, flickpythons gone. To save his life he couldn't understand how that ing the wave crests with their tails snake got out of his box but at the moment that was the least of to gain momentum. his worries. The thing to do was to find the reptile and get him You are in the Gulf stream, that back in the case again. Moe hurried to the captain, told him not marvelous river in the ocean, which to worry and asked for few sailors to help recapture the snake. The captain assigned three sailors to help Moe. Moe searched the gives the North Atlantic its unique vessel for three hours before he found the python, on a shelf in a seclud- character and profoundly affects its temperature even as far as the ed corner of the deck. "There he lay," says Moe, "with his tongue North sea, bestowing upon the Britunin and out of his mouth like There was going aalfcal aaliea 1KNO NKVADA Hep at COLD KftK' art larteel Mat aaaalaf hetel Weea la HOTEL Geographic Society, Prepared by National WNU Servica. D. C r Wlltil aaV . di .unilllll tte fc dull-gree- RUN A STRONG . 1 HELLO r svrniott At Attention on Queer Air Current Waehlnfton. f" I HOTELS m.vmK.: Coming Winter Focuses The Monster in the Box H ff ""WJPr Ik HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! . INSIDE m InieSzSZt&jl IT L ADVENTURERS' CLUB t fly. Ichlhyologists hail Kith delight the capture of this inch and a quarter sail fish, smallest ever recorded. Caught in a net at Miami city yacht basin, it prove! that saUfish spawn in the tropical wafers around Miami, according to fi$h authorities. The spawning place of the deep sea fighters hat long been a matter of guesswork. West Indian and other tropical spe- ing the next day. Fortunately he cies far to the northward during was not seriously affected, but some the summer, some of them being people, more susceptible, have been borne to the British isles, so that known to collapse. the pelagic life of the Live in Colonies is more tropical in character than The cluster of individuals immethat of the same latitude on the under the float is of several diately coast. North American kinds, each having a special funcSail out across the Gulf stream in a tion. The blue, d memsoutheasterly direction, keeping your bers are feeding polyps, with mouth eyes open for evidences of its float- openings at their lower extremity. ing life. Suddenly you see a grace- They do the feeding and digesting ful, translucent object, like an oddly for the entire community. The elongated bladder, floating on the green, tapering fingers are feelers surface. It is brilliantly colored blue and tasters, very sensitive. The fineand crimson, the hues more intense ly divided pink clusters, reproducat its tapering ends and shading tive in function, develop the sex into a play of delicate transparent cells. Male and female cells are found only in separate colonies. tints along iU sides. As you come nearer you see still The streamers, of course, are others, and soon you realize that fighting polyps, the longer ones, as you are steering into the midst of a above stated, having a stabilizing fleet of these fairy craft. Each one function as well. Fishes or other erects a crest resembling a succes- organisms that chance to swim sion of iridescent, foamlike bubbles against the streamers are immealong its summit, bordered with an diately stung to death and drawn up by the contracting filaments to come edging of deep crimson. in contact with the mouths of the These are the Portuguese (physalia pelagica), an or- feeding polyps, which suck out the ganism related to the hydroids and victims' body fluid, digest the food, jellyfish, but consisting of a whole and pass the excess on to the mouth-les- s members of the colony. colony of connected individuals A species of small fish, the Porflouting as a unit. At first glance only one member tuguese fish, appears to of the colony is visible. But, as you be immune to the sting, and seeks shelter among the tentacles from its look downward through the transof enemies. In return, it perhaps see masses you water, parent smaller-tub- e acts as a lure for larger fish preyed shaped projections from its lower side just upon by its host, and doubtless nibbles at the feastl beneath the surface. - mid-Atlant- ic tube-shape- man-of-w- ar man-of-w- -- ng Largest, Smallest Counties The largest and smallest counties In the United States are San Bernardino county, Calif., with 20,175 square miles, and New York county (Manhattan borough), N. Y, with 22 square miles, respectively. Uses for Tung Oil Chinese tung oil has the highest specific gravity of all known fatty oils, with the exception of castor, oil Its characteristic quality is the readiness with which it sets to a hard jelly on being heated for a time. Besides being used for paints and varnishes, it is also used for dyes and as a lubricant for motors. It is used in China for water-proofing paper. Largest Dam Failure The worst dam failure in world history occurred at Johnstown, Pa., in 1889 when the South Fork dam broke and killed over 4,000 persons. Rubber From Poinsetlla The poinsettia is listed among the plants from which rubber can be obtained. Being Absolutely Frank "There is danger in a man priding himself on being absolutely frank," said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown. "He gets so in the habit of surprising people that if he runs out of facts he is tempted to make them up." ar Taxes on Used Cars The hidden taxes on the operation of a used car each year amount to about the cost of a pair of movie tickets for every week in the year. a |