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Show R0U23 8b UNIVERSITY O'- - U7E.H VlP ARY DE A Live Democratic Newspaper The Democrat will save you money on your legal notices. For Live Democrats Call Was. 1587. Entered as second class matter, July 18, 1922, at the postoffice at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March S, 1879 $1.50 A YEAR SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1924 VOL. 3, NO. 35 Old Japanese Legend Cookery and Slang of Lantern and Fan in Odd Relationship Lovesy Forces Are Exceedingly Active A story of the origin of the lantern and the fan, as told in Japan, concerns a public ofllclal who had two beautiful As the story goes, the daughters. were who the treasures of the girls, father's heart, longed to pay a visit to a friend in another city. LARGE FORCE OF WORKERS PILE OUT VOTE DURING The father, however, was unwilling CLOSING HOURS OF DAY AND CANDIDATE IS for them to go, as he feared some PUT OVER BY BIG MAJORITY. young man of high degree would win their love und thus take them from Aided and abetted by the Rotary club, the Chamber of Com- him. In reply to their entreaties the promerce, the Republican precinct organization, church organizations father told them theyto could go, to back bring promised viding they and a small army of workers, to say nothing of a daily press him lire wrapped in a paper and wind subsidized by business interests, the Utah Oil Refining Company, wrapped in paper. subsidiary of Standard Oil, succeeded in electing a school board The girls did not know what to do. member from the First precinct at the school election Wednesday. They were in despair until one of their Will II. Lovesy, director and pur maids told them not to worry, but go and consult a certain wise womun chasing agent of the Utah Oil, former Mandy Had Had Enough who lived near the home of the friend high counselor of his stake and mem99 of Tant'lizin9 Husband whom thCy were to visit. After promber of a score of clubs, was the suctheir father they would fulfill Am ising dis Misto combined de The cessful candidate. Gibbs, lawyei handles dlvoce cases? inquired his wishes they set out for the friend's interests backing him packed the what buxom-looking a colored woman, open- home. The futher was greatly surpolling places during the last two prised when, upon their return, the door of an attorney's office. hours of the day with voters they ing I the handle some divorce cases, ad- daughters presented him with fire enknew would "vot eright" and the mitted the Do you wunt closed In a beautifully designed paper lawyer. result was that Lovesy got l,3tl votes one? lantern and wind in a quaint-shape- d Ah suttiniy does. Mah name ant paper fan. Thus, it Is said, accordagainst 333 polled by his neraest comL. ing to a story printed In the PathFrederick Mrs. Bagby. petitor, Mandy I'urdin, an Ah wants to finder Maguzlne the lantern and fan Lovesy was boomed by the daily sot mahsef shet of 'dut husban o mine, Lysunder Puriliu. came into use. press as the man for the job beOn j what grounds? cause of his business connections Groun's? Says which, ground? in Persons Read and his wide club activities. We hope Why, heah In Houston. right Character by Voice he will make a better record in the What Is your complaint against school matter of attendance upon him? What has he done? The similarity of voices is not conboard meetings ' than did his boss, someMisto is Gibbs, Complaints, fusing (to the blind) as a rule. Many John C Howard, who is reported to thin Ah ain't got nothin alse but. are similar, to be sure, but I have hes done ever'thin'. never encountered absolute doubles, have attended four meetings in four An dat low-lif- e But de lates is he's up an gone and In general voices are as sharply dat years, when he was a member. an an went Insured his life to five differentiated as faces in fact, often We are informed that Lovesy re- thousand dollars I Kin yo imagine far more. signed as high counselor fo his stake dat? The only difficulty I have experl- because his business duties didn't But.niy-.good strange)? enough. Localised is no grounds for complaint.' one person's having several voices. All give him time to attend to the ecclesiastical duties. We wonder if Taint, huh? Looky here, suh. of us have; we change tone and qualman done tuk out all dat Insur- ity more or less unconsciously accordDat to more time give he will have any ance when he aint got no idea ing to our mood and condition. But in to school board work. o dying. He done it jes to tant'lize some the change is dismayingly The Lovesy forces had an organizame! Ynssuh, Jes to tantlize me! marked. One woman, for exumple, tion that couldn't be beat. Employes Cravens, Dargan Company Review. has as many as five voices, each quite of the Utah Oil filled the mails with distinct. The physical condition is also reletters and kept the phone lines busy. Effective but Maybe, vealed by the voice in a striking A big force of workers was busy for normal Done Tuk 9Em" i' Kree both as to change nnd for days before election plastering the excharacteristics. Fat people, precinct wiwth sample ballots and Gen. Sterling Price of Missouri was is voice which a have quality ample, Lovesy literature. There were workers one of the best fighters in the Confed- all but Invariably detectable. at every polling place in the precinct erate army, but he was a scholar in read. Character, too, is eas-igetting out voters and persuading Inverse radio. Complex tactical moveIt seems that churacter is revoters to cast their ballot for Lovesy. ments In practice did not stagger him, vealed in the voice even more fully In some polling places these workers but tradition has It that the simplest and accurately than in the face, no misled voters intending to ballot for problem on paper was beyond ibis doubt because the subject, failing to recognize this, makes less of an atother candidates by telling them their power. of the Civil tempt the During days early to mask the voice. Charles Mccandidate was not running In that war he visited General Beauregard, Gee Adams, in the Atlautic Monthly. district who was a graduate of West Foint, an The Rotary club and daily press expert mathematician, a civil engineer Odd Garden Products out for business reasons. The and an authority on military tn'ctlcs Little and Johnny, who was of school strategy. majority members of the board of on his way home from the was At had age, Corinth, Miss., Beauregard education were subsidized into lendto put his theory Into week-nigh- t prayer meeting, where lie opportunity ing moral support, if not other sup- practice, and had placed about the had fallen asleep, a writer in the port, by political reasons. They had city what "he termed a series of Im- Youth's Companion reports. His their eyes on reelection next time. lie took father, who had hud great dlfliculty pregnable fortifications. When such a combination of power- General Price in his carriage to view in waking him at the close of the servful interests decides to put a man these fortifications, carefully explain- ice, was walking by his side, holding hand. Fearing that the boy would on the school board for business, ing their merits. Then he asked Price his to of what go he the sleep again and that he should system. thought political gnd religious reasons, what's Price straightened himself up and have to carry him, the father quickthe use of opposing. said thoughtfully: Well, ha I nt never ened his puce and, twitching the little fellow's hand vigorously, asked him seen one like er but onct before. They were pretty effective, weren't briskly where he had been that day. Over to Mr. O'Neal's, was the Another Receiver they? KanYep, fine. I done tuk er. drowsy reply. The woman who stood before the And wliut were they doing at Mr. window In the bank was beginning sas City Times. O'Neil's? to get a little restless. She had been Makin garden, standing in front of the receiving Johnny replied Put Her Foot in ft teller for a quarter of an hour and listlessly. to a I went town to small tench he seemed to be quite unaware of her And what did they plant? one found and that school, every no rate he took presence at any Planted lett's an Johnny yawned. seemed to be related to every one else. notice at all of her. onions he an, stumbled, and his At last she became too irritated to That cut me off from all chance for tongue grew thick, an rad'shes an friendly gossip,- for one could never keep quiet another moment. an s's an an rs peas qs tell when she would be gossiping In Why don't you pay attention- to At the father that point picked him front of some adoring aunt or cousin. me? him. and carried up I was explaining this, laughingly, lo I'm sorry, ma'am, we dont pay a girl in the town who had been nice was the short but anything here, me. to Games ' Next window, please. Tailteann polite reply. She remarked. Yes, that Is so, but The Tailteann games which have I am one exception we have no relabeen revived In Ireland Your Ration of Oxygen tives here outside our immediate fam- are sosuccessfully, in called perpetuation of the Nitrogen does not support life, but ily you may gossip to me about any- name of who tradition Tailte, Queen oxygen is the greatest one. some hunover Ireland says reigned on earth. It is the breath of power Well, the people I want most to dreds of years before Christ. Being life, but nitrogen dilutes the oxygen gossip about are some1 newlyweds she adopted a youth named childless, normal makes and comfortable and dont know their, name, but she calls Lugh,' who succeeded to the throne at life possible. With every breath we him darling Donnie dear, and they In her death. grateful memory of his take In oxygen and give out carbonic are too silly to be around sane peo-ol- foster-mothe- r. King Lugh organized add. Man and animals exist on oxyan Aonach Tailteann that is, forgen. Trees , and plants live on carhad friend. "I Oh, replied my to which each Irish Tailtes festival bonic add and give out oxygen. gotten about my brother Don and his chieftain star athletes, his his brought consumes 400 gallons of wife theyve been married about a grown man best his most harphorsemen, oxygen dally. month, but we dont think they are ists. The festival, once expert established, sillier than anybody else. Rehoboth was continued, with certain InterrupSunday Herald. tions for nearly 2,000 years. . Then Definition of a Helpmeet . it lapsed, to be revived by the Free A wife is a person you ran teach to Arrests at State government. Night drive a car without hugging her. San wantIn unless Sweden, Jhe'person Francisco Chronicle. . ed by the police is a desperate criminal, his arrest Is usually deferred until night In order that he shall be Wrong Roads A Common Place You can always tell when you are spared the Ignominy of being marched The chief danger In platonic friendon the wrong roads. There art no captive through the streets before the ship is that it so frequently ends In gaze of the public. detour signs. matrimony. Duluth Herald. good-fonoth-- In j I . W -- woman,-bis-InsurhifM-enced,- by-hlms- - ll In-fac- t - - life-supporti- . e. Why the business of the cook should be used as a vehicle of scorn and revenge is a mystery of our mysterious language. We boast that we have settled his hash when we have squashed a man and when counsel very severely a witness, or a misa servant what is commontress gives of a her mind, we called piece! ly a both Jolly good roastgot say that been thoroughly has If anyone ing. bamboozled or made a fool of we say he has been done brown. Why do we say that certain circumstances or happenings have put a man Into a pretty stew, or that a certain young man has got himself Into boiling water, which almost certainly refers to the dropping of some living nnimal, like the lobster, into the pot? And why do we refer to some one who has shown a lack ; of Intelligence as only half baked? The phrase Ive cooked his goose has an ancient origin. When Eric, king of Sweden, reached a certain town with very few soldiers, the enemy hung out a goose for him to shoot. Finding, .however, that It was no matter for Jest, the townsfolk, sent heralds to learn what he wanted. Ills reply was: "To cook your goose for London Tit-liltyou. Sky Problems That Are Made Old Man Feel He African Oil Palm Has Puzzle Scientists to Hadn't Realized Worth Great Variety of Uses Scientists have the Unlike the date and the coconut palm, the oil palm Is not at all well known. Nevertheless, It is exceedingly useful. In the Congo, writes Mr. Isaac F. Marcosson In An African Adventure, and for that matter in virtually all of the West Africa, it Is the staff of life. Thousands of years ago the Egyptians used the sap for embalming the bodies of their kingly dead. Today the oil palm not only represents the most Important agricultural Industry of the colony it lias long since surpassed rubber as the premier product but it has an almost bewildering variety of uses. It is food and drink and shelter. From the trunk the native extracts his wine ; from the fruit comes oil for soap, for salad dressing and for margarine ; with the leaves the native makes a roof for his house; with the fiber he makes Ills mats, Ills baskets and his strings for fishing nets. The wood itself he uses in building. An oil. palm will bear fruit within seven years after the young tree is planted. The fruit comes in what is called a regime, which resembles a huge bunch of grapes; each fruit in the cluster is approximately the size of a large date The outer part, which is called the pericarp, is almost entirely yellow oH Incased in a thick skin. Imbedded in the oil is the kernel, which contains a finer olL The Calvaries of Paris is boiled down, and the kernels Are Rapidly Passing fruit are dried and exported in bags to Slowly the calvaries of Paris are England, where they are broken open vanishing. The old .walls on which and the oil in them used for making penitence and adoration erected them margarine. have crumbled, haver been swept away, For hundreds of years . the natives and the new walls know no calvaries. have gathered the fruit of the palm Here and there, however, writes ,F. and have extracted the olL The waste G. II. in the continental edition of at first was enormous ; the blacks the- - London Mall, kernels bcaiksp-- they: great and coiv. threw away-fh- e; rowful symbol of the Christian faith were .unaware of the valuable substance Inside. Youths Companion. may still be seen. In remote comers, ' Just out of the swift current of the citys life It Btands unheeded by the busy crowds. Only Legends of First Man the birds sometimes flutter round it, Common to All Races and in the manner of some medieval Almost every race of people has legend, we might believe the feathered hulegends regarding the first man and things cared for something that woman. Among North American InOf such manity had almost forgotten. cordians at the found myths are common. Traditions calvaries one may be ner of the Rue d'Aubervllllers and the trace back our first parents to white and red maize; another is that man, Rue de lEvanglla. It has its place not In one of the searching for a wife, was given the loveliest parts of the great city, and daughter of the king of the muskrats, we might be disposed to question the who in being dipped into the waters work Itself from the standpoint of of a neighboring lake, became a wommere art. But there it stands, and an. One of the strangest stories cona creeper droops half caressingly cerning the origin of woman is told Insofar as around the head of It. It breaks sud- by the Madagascarenes. man the legend of creation the an contour of goes, ugly denly the level wall. And sometimes It may seem is not unlike that related by Moses, that nothing was ever broken in a only that the fall came before Eve manner more wonderful than this poor had arrived. After the man had eatwall is broken by the dolorous cal- en the forbidden fruit be became affected with a boll on the leg, out of vary. which, when It burst, came a beautiful girl. The mans first thought was Police Dogs Wolfish to the pigs ; but he was The police dogs are not a distinct to throw, her commanded by a messenger from breed, but are shepherd dogs police heaven to let her play among the grass The German police dog trained. she was of marriageuntil flowers and should stand 22 to 20 Inches at the make her Ills wife. to able then age, shoulder and show In every line the He did so, called her Burbara, and qualities which he la supposed to posof all races of sess intelligence, alertness, loyalty, she became the mother men. gentleness, courage, obedlence,willlng-nes- s standand devotion. While the Fowl Names ard allows great range of color, those most often seen in this country are The fat plumber was in a philosophiof the wolf colors, dark cal mood. over a tawny or buff hair of tipping There Is simply no understanding muzzle The (unlike that of woman, he observed. ground. a wolf) is usually blackish. Both the mean? the thin carpenGerman and Belgian dogs may be di- ter"Whaddye asked, just to start the conversavided Into three general types nametion. wire-haire- d and ly, rough-haireWell, for Instance, a woman does smooth-haireears erect By their not object to being called a duck. and general expression they betray No. their near relationship to the wolf. And she even smiles if some one happens to refer to her as a chicken. Honest at Least Too true. Her blond prettiness and dainty atAnd most of them will stand for tire attracted a woman as she stood be- being called squab, broiler or turtleside her In the public library. From dove." her chic satin hat to her trim little Yes, yes, but whats the idea? shoes she was the last word in femiJust this, the fat plumber exIts nine smartness. claimed, a woman objects to being She had asked the librarian for the called a hen, and a hen is the most most widely read book of the day and useful bird of the whole blooming the librarian was doubtful whether bunch. Popular Poultry. there was a copy In at present, but after searching a few moments returned and handed her the desired Sterilizing Corks book. Corks for vacuum bottle become Oh, goodness, no 1 It has too many musty if not properly cared for. Alter pages ; I heard so much about it I Just uae boil the corks, adding a little bakthought I should read It, but thats too the water. Then tie the much of a job, and thanking the girl ing soda to neck of the bottle Instead to the cork very sweetly, tripped out of the build- of in it place. putting ing, leaving a faint trace of perfume librarian behind ber. and a wide-eye-d cross-examin- es s. so-call- ed d, d. Geese and Pillows An idea of the number of geese that are plucked to supply feathers for pillows may be gained from the fact that the feathers on 90,000 geese were used for the pillows of a. hotel recently opened. Simplicity Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge, or rather, I should say, banish elaborateness; for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart, and carries into daylight its own modest buds, and genuine, sweet and clear flowers of expression; I allow no hotbeds In the cardens of Parnassus. Charles Lamb. planets, weighed and the moon; we know the distance of stars whose light takes centuries to reach us, and we can even measure accurately the minute amount of heat given by distant stars. For all that, the sky is still full of puzzles which astronomers are attempting to solve. Take, for Instance, the problem of dark stars. Possibly It has never occurred to you that there are such bodies, yet for every bright star you can see on a clear night there must be thousands which have gone cold and are therefore invisible. Yet, dead as they are, they are still plunging through space at appalling speed. On February 2, 1901, there blazed out in the constellation of Perseus g star of amazing brilliance. It was not, of course, a neT star. What had really happened was that one of these dark stars hud either bit another, or, perhaps, struck one of the big gas clouds which hang in space. The result was an explosion on a scale we cannot even imagine. These dark' stars and gas clouds are among the greatest of sky puzzles. It is only three years ago that a Dutch scientist discovered a mystery cloud 140,000,000,000,000 miles in length and twice that distance from the solar system. It may be gas, it may be dust. We do not know and probably we never shall. the Every Bun, business executive knows what it la to give and to receive letters of character. Some are given without much thought f the man at the other end of the line. And as a result, all are read with a grain of salt. Philosopher Ed Howe out In Kunsns. epitomizes the situation by saying, A J man came Into my office with the finest bunch of recommendations that a mun ever had. He proved such a bore that 1 would have written him one myself to get him oat of my office. Which reminds me of a story, says Merle Thorie In The Nation's Business. An old negro from the southern rural districts had gone to the city seeking employment. Everywhere he went references were asked for. Finally he gave the no .res of former employers and In due time returned for a decision. Some of the letters were read to him in w:Jch he wai praised very highly, as d his work knd loyalty, greatly landed. The old mans eyes opened wide with surprise and pleasure as be remarked, Well, Ah declar, Ah wus such a good ef I had as dot Ah share nuff would nigger have got more pay. Job of Breadwinning Cramping to Genius When Homer smote his lyre he was probably inspired by an urge more noble than hunger. But in more mod-etimes there has been an incessant lament on tbe part of men of genius whose expression has been hampered by tbe necessity of degrading their muse to the position of breadwinner. Dostoebskl, the great Russian writer, gives striking testimony of this in let-ie- v m Odd Harvest Customs Observed in England In spqjiking of harvest, it must be remembered that wheat is called com in England. Sometimes the prettiest girl of the village was allowed to cut the final handful of com. "their tied Up "and trimmed to represent a doll, and was called the Corn-BabIt was brought home In triumph, set up In a conspicuous pluce at supper, and often kept in the fanners parlor for the rest of the year. In other parts of the country the doll was supposed to be a representation of Ceres, the goddess of fertility. In Hertfordshire the final handful was called a Mare," and the reapers would throw their sickles at it, crying: I have her, I hove her!" "Wliat have you? the others would say. A mare! A mare!" was the answer. This custom, called Crying the Mare. refers to the time when the com, being grown in open spaces, was often trampled down and spoiled by wlid mares. In Devonshire the last handful was called the Nack, and the crying consisted of the one word This was supposed to signify our nag, and hence owes Its origin to the same idea as Crying the Mure. y. I know Ar-nac- k. Norse Gave Name to Ship in fishing smack The Dunes and Norwegians called their vessels shek-k- a or shake. These were long, "lean galleys, and the resemblance was further suggested by the dragon's or snake's head which often formed their figure-heaLater on in history, when the Dutch became the great seafaring people, the word passed into their language, slightly altered (to suit their The Dutch boat tongue) to smak. was of different build, being fat and broad-beameWe in turn took the word from the Dutch, and turned it Into our own smack, using it at first for the small sailing cutter which used to act as a sort of passenger tender g for ships. Now, when steam Is almost universal, we confine the word almost entirely to the fair-size- d open sea fishing boat which works by sail. The word smack Is of Norse origin. d. d. sea-goin- Curiosity and Fire If you were to get a letter In the mall with, one corner of the envelope burned off, wouldnt It arouse your curiosity? One day not long ago about 4,000 people In a certain community all got letters which came In envelopes that bore marks of fire. The corner on each had lower left-han- d been burned away. This unusual little thing attracted much attention. A merchant about to send out circular letters to the 4,000 people on his mailing list wanted to be sure of getting people to notice the letter. Scorching the envelopes did the trick. It Is our belief that on all the we have ever mailed we have never had anywhere near so large a percentage of them read, states the dealer In discussing the outcome of the experiment. Good Hardware. dr-ula- rs ' Duly Announced , , have It in me to write great books, be said books and stories In which I would condense all my thoughts, all my observations of existence und its deceptions, blighted ambitions nnd false pleasures. But I cannot do It. Who will realise, who has not gone through It, the feelings of a man anxiously waiting for the postman to bring him Just enough to live on for a few days, and bis disappointment when that postman fails to put in an appearance? And yet this is whnt I am enduring every single day of my existence. How can I labor for hire only, sell for cash my literary faculties anl abilities without these faculties undergoing 'complete deterioration? 1 Parson Was Handicapped The local sportsman met the vicar, who was returning home with his fishing tackle. The sportsman, who prided himself on being a great angler, and often said so, In- all-rou- quired: Hello, vicar! Any luck? Yes," replied the vicar, tapping his I have a trout in here a basket. a balf that I pulled out and pound from the lower brook. Oh, thats nothing! bragged the other. Tve caught dozens of fish of two pounds and over In that stream. Ah, bat you have the advantage of me, complained the vicar. "Advantage, vicar? exclaimed the Same brook, and you sporty one. have better gear I know that, retorted the reverend But you Just remember gentleman. a am that I parson and you're not Philadelphia Inquirer. I. Heroic Monkey A monkey may be said to have heaped coals of fire upon the head of the entire feline race by a single kindly act. It Is well remembered that a d monkey was the original cats paw, pulling hot chestnuts from the lire for the benefit of a scheming cat. A restaurant owner in Iloxie, Ark lias long had two pets, a monkey and a cat. They are said to have become great friends. Recently the man's restaurant caught fire and was completely destroyed. The manager seized the monkey and carried It to safety. But the rescued creature struggled free and dashed back into tbe smoke and flames. When it reappeared It was at a window with the cat in its arms. Both animals are safe. good-hearte- Realizing Ambitions Every one possesses possibilities of Those realizing loftiest ambitions. who may achieve In every field the world has yet opened may today be working in some humble capacity but dreaming of tbe bright future they will Little Sister (calling upstairs while visitor waits In the hall) Oh, Viola I realize.--Gr- it. You know that man you told mother Cleopatra Died in Rags? would sooner Vralk a mile than pay That Cleopatra died In bed, starricar fare? Well, hes come to see you ng aud In rags, is tbe contention of again. an English writer. |