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Show 'Thursday, February 3, 1938 THE PARK RECORD PAGE THREE THE CHEERFUL CHLRV5 My do is 5icU ur6. perhaps Ke'll diG , Fly ke-trt jvst txkes witVv care . Still iF sorrow is one of ike ftxts oF life I wwjk. to heir my ' J V WNU Service. Asparagus au Grain ASPARAGUS AU GRATIN is just the dish to serve when you are looking for something especially good to eat that is easily eas-ily and quickly rrade. The recipe given here calls for a medium-thick medium-thick white sauce, but instead of making it you may prefer to use a can of cream of mushroom, pea, or celery soup. The soup adds flavor and eliminates the task of making sauce. If you use he soup, heat it with the cheese and serve over the asparagus on toast. 4 tbsp. butter Salt and pepper 4 tbsp. flour 1 can asparagus 2 cups milk tips Va cup grated 6 slices toast cheese Melt the butter, add the flour, and stir until smooth. Add the milk and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add the cheese and season with salt and pepper. Heat the asparagus tips in their , own liquid until they are hot. Arrange the tips on the toast and serve -with the hot cheese sauce. Fried slices of pineapple would be good to serve with the asparagus. aspara-gus. Sprinkle the slices ever so lightly with sugar and brown in butter. MARJORIE H. BLACK. 2 Steps in Fighting Discomfort of n ENTERS BODY THROUGH (STOMACH AND INTESTINES TO EASE PAIN. RELIEVES I Wlf.M THROAT PAIN, RAWNESS. All it usually costs to relieve the misery of a cold today is 3 to 54 relief for the period of your cold 15 to 257. Hence no family need neglect even minor head colds. Here is what to do: Take two BAYER tablets when you feel a cold coming on with a full glass of water. Then repeat, if necessary, according to directions in each package. Relief comes rapidly. The Bayer method of relief is the way many doctors now approve. You take Bayer Aspirin for relief then if you are not improved promptly, you call the family doctor. 2 FULL DOZEN 2Sc Virtually 1 cent a tablet WNU W 638 SALT LAKE'S NEWEST HOSTELRY O Our lobby Is delightfully air cooled during the summer months Radio for Every Room $ 200 Roonw 200 Bath ji j 4 3 ''.,. f. HOTEL Temple Square Rates $1.50 to $3.00 The Hotel Temple Square has highly desirable, friendly atmoa p here. You will alwayafind it immaculate, immac-ulate, supremely romfortable. aod thoroughly affreeahlcVou can therefore there-fore understand hy this hr tel is I HIGHLY RECOMMENDED You can also appreciate why i lt'$ a mark of distinction to stop at this beautiful hostelry ERNEST C ROSSITER, Mgr. I . V I I a JT I X 1. I FOR 12 V TABLETS uTiW iW Q " . CL X J ADVENTURERS' CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF! 'Tito Terrible Deaths'" By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Headline Hunter HELLO, EVERYBODY: This is the story of two adventures rolled into one the tale of a couple of lads who were facing not one death, but two and right smack up against the task of making a choice between them. And it all came about over a girl who didn't even appreciate appre-ciate the trouble those two lads went to. It's a yarn that packs a couple of surprises so watch out for them. James F. Kilcullen of Nutley, N. J., is today's Distinguished Adventurer, Ad-venturer, and the bird who tells this tory. The tale takes us back to June, 1917, when Jim was working as a weaver in a cotton mill in New Orleans, La. That was in the early days of our participation in the World war, if you'll remember, and there was a lot of excitement in the mill among the men who were waiting for their numbers to be drawn by the Draft board. Jim, himself, was getting pretty impatient with the Draft board. Jim wanted to enlist right away, and there was only one reason he didn't. He bad a pal a young lad of eighteen named Davie and the pair of them had been buddies for a long time. Jim didn't want to enlist unless Davie went with him, and Davie had a particular reason for not wanting to enlist. They Went to See Davie's Girl. Davie's reason was that he wanted to see his girl before he went to war. The girl yved in a little town in Texas, more than three-hundred miles away, and neither Jim nor Davie had enough money to pay the railroad fare. But at last Jim had an idea. He told Davie he'd probably prob-ably be drafted soon, anyway, and if he wanted to see his girl now was the time to do it. And since he didn't have railroad fare, he'd just have to beat his way on the baggage. Davie's answer to that was that he'd go if Jim would go with him. And that's how those two lads came to start on the trip that came literally within an inch of being the death of both of them. They told their boss, Mr. Rickman, just what they intended to do. Rickman tried to make them see what a risk they were taking. "But when a chap's in love," says Jim, "he sees no danger. We took a ferryboat across the river to a town on the other side, got a time table at the railroad station and picked the fastest train on the Texas & f?: OL-V iff; M j ill The Railway Messenger Was. Shooting to Kill. Pacific. It was a hot-shot to Dallas solid Pullman except for two mail cars on the front end. It was about eight o'clock of a Saturday night when the train pulled into the station, and as it started to pull out we swung onto the bumpers, between the two mail cars." The train started rolling, and, boy, how she rolled! Jim says she was hitting a sixty-five mile clip a good part of the time. The hours passed. The train listed and swayed. The two lads knew that to fall asleep or to lose their grip on the hand bars meant instant death, but that didn't bother them too much. They were being plenty careful. It was a tough job, too, hanging on to that swaying train all night long. But, on the other hand, they were making time clipping off the miles at a rapid rate and that cheered them up considerably. Messenger Began Shooting at Them. As day began to break they had crossed the state line and were well into Texas. A few more hours and their trip would be over. "We were in good spirits," Jim said, "and we began congratulating our-selvs our-selvs on our good luck in not having been caught by the train crew or the railroad police. And just then the train began going around a horseshoe turn." A horseshoe is supposed to be good luck, but that horseshoe turn was bad luck for Jim and Davie. As the train went around the bend they saw a porter standing in the vestibule of the rear Pullman and that porter saw them. He took one look at them and disappeared from sight. And the next thing those two lads knew, there was a railway messenger standing in the vestibule they stood on, TURNING LOOSE ON THEM WITH A .45 AUTOMATICl That railway messenger didn't have any heart. .Without the slightest warning he started blasting away at them through the canvas storm hood. "He was shooting to kill," Jim says, "and four lead slugs went through the tail of my coat. Davie, on the other bumper, turned white as chalk. The messenger kept shooting and yelling to us to get off. But the train was out of the curve now and picking up speed. We couldn't jump off without getting killed." Escaped With Only Scratches. Jim saw Davie look first at the storm hood through which the shots were coming, and then at the ground speeding past below. And then, all of a sudden, Davie fell at Jim's feet in a dead faint. By that time the messenger in the vestibule had stopped firing. "Believe me or not," says Jim, "I had one heck of a time holding Davie to keep him from falling off. I was clutching him with one hand and grasping the hand bar with the other. Either God was with us, or the railroad messenger gave a signal, but in a few minutes the train began to slow down. It slowed ' until it was crawling along at about ten miles an hour, and then, with all the strength I had in me I picked Davie up and heaved him off. Then I followed." Those lads had had enough of baggage car riding. Neither of them was hurt except for a few scratches. They walked to the nearest town and wired for money to go on as passengers. When they arrived at the town where Davie's girl lived, Davie was a happy boy. "But not for-iong," says Jim. "To his surprise, and mine, this 'best girl,' as he called her, had been married for months. He took it pretty hard, and inside of three hours he was on a train back to New Orleans." But Jim didn't go back with him. And he didn't see Davie again until December, 1S31. Then Jim was in New Orleans and went to visit him. Davie had forgotten all about that "best girl." He was married and had a bunch of kids and he had a job as a RAILWAY MESSENGER I And I wonder if Davie ever cuts loose with his gun at the hoboes riding on the baggage cars. Copyright. WNU Service. Suitors Must Stand Pain Suitors in the Egyptian Sudan must be able to "take it" if they would win the hand of a Sudanese maiden. The ability to stand severe pain is the first prerequisite in becoming be-coming eligible as a husband. When a girl is unable to choose between be-tween two men she ties a sword to each of her wrists, sits between the men and brings the sharp sword points slowly down on their thighs. The man who can endure the most pain wins the girL ) A J) tfil J .. 1 7. fa ? sV U Wedding Ring Customs There are many customs connected connect-ed with the wedding ring among different peoples of the world, yet it would seem that all the wedding ring ideas had a common origin, which is shrouded in mystery. Among the Zulus there is a custom, calle Khehla, of wearing a ring on the head. It is made of polished wax and worked in with the hair. As soon as a Zulu marries he wears the ring and he discards it only for a time if one of his wies dies. Many Kinds of Sponges, Suitable for All Uses There are more than eighty varieties vari-eties of usable sponges, and thousands thou-sands of useless ones. The kind used in the bath is known as wool. Another sort, called velvet, is used to wash automobiles, and in Holland Hol-land cows just before they are milked. The reef sponge is used in gas masks and in hospitals,, and shipped in enormous quantities to Japan. Englishmen use this variety after shaving. The grass sponge is the cheapest grade. The hard head is used by tailors and potters, and the yellow sponge by painters. Sponge fishermen locate their prey through a "water glass," which is an inverted bucket with glass bottom that smooths out the ripples when it is held on top of the water. The fishermen pull the sponges out of the sea with a pronged staff. When taken from the mud, the sponges are put in kraals, where they are kept until the flesh decomposes, when it is beaten out with sticks. At Nassau the sponges are taken to storehouses, where they are sorted sort-ed and graded, trimmed . and pressed. Some are dyed and perfumed. per-fumed. When royal persons visit Nassau they are given rose-scented pink sponges. There is a place in the Bahamas called the Mud, unromantically and libelously named, for the water is clear as crystal. It is from the Mud that the sponges come. The Name Doris The name Doris is of Greek origin. or-igin. Two authorities agree on it. But when it comes to the meaning of the name, these same authorities disagree widely and strangely, for one says that Doris means "a sacrificial sac-rificial knife" and the other that it means "of the sea." No reason is given for the first meaning. The second is explained by the fact that in Greek mythology Doris was a sea goddess, daughter of Oceanus and Thetis and mother of the sea nymphs. Doris is also the name of a small mountainous district of Greece and of a genus of mollusks. So it may likewise be a Greek word for a sacrificial knife. But as a name, it would seem that "of the sea is the more logical meaning. Dogs Travel on Ice Arctic sled dogs pull sleds over all types of country. There are gravel and rock stretches swept absolutely clear of snow, ice caps and yawning yawn-ing descents. They pull heavy sleighs through the bush country, harnessed two by two on a main line, or across windswept sea ice in fan shape formation from the main trace connecting the heavy sleds. They travel barefoot, or moccasin shod over bare sea ice to protect their feet which would otherwise other-wise have the skin torn off by the extreme cold of the ice. They must even fight sand storms in the extreme ex-treme north where the fiercest winds sweep island shores clear of snow and choke dogs and men with stinging sting-ing sand. The Arctic sled dog has great endurance. Even though those dogs may not have been fed for days they can still travel far distances over ice and snow. First Free Rural Mail The first free rural mail delivery in the United States is said to have originated from the postoffice at Thibodaux, La., 60 miles west of New Orleans. It comprised territory terri-tory between Thibodaux and Laba-dieville Laba-dieville Crossing, and also on both banks of the bayou. The service was established as an experiment and proved successful, due to the dense population of the section. The territory from Thibodaux to Race-land, Race-land, along the south bank of Bayou Lafourche, is the most thickly settled set-tled rural population in the world. r Bigger, freshly styled ..with a smooth, quiet, V8 engine that owners report, gives 22 to 27 w miles per gallon! IF1 - 3 - it Air Spaces In Eggs The air spaces in eggs are supposed sup-posed to aid in the development of the embryo chick. The chick makes use of the air in this pocket during dur-ing the brief period between the time when it begins to breathe and the time when it is strong enough to break through the shell with its beak. This air sac enlarges materially ma-terially during incubation, and in a normal egg the chick at hatching time always has its head pointing toward the large end of the egg and the air space. It is the opinion of the United States bureau of animal industry that the air sac is formed by the contraction of the contents of the egg immediately after it is laid. The temperature of an ordinary ordi-nary hen's body is about 107 degrees de-grees Fahrenheit, and it is reasonable reason-able to suppose that as soon as an egg is laid the yolk and white contract con-tract somewhat. Because of the peculiar pe-culiar shape of the egg the air space is nearly always formed at the large end. Now and then it occurs on the side, but never at the small end. First Color of French Flag While it is not usual to associate red with the French monarchy, it was really the first color of the king's flag, called the oriflamme. It is only because red was also adopted by the English king that the French gave it up for blue. It was under the blue flag that Huguenots Hugue-nots came to America first as loyal subjects of the king of France. However, How-ever, the red flag was preserved on the galleys of the Mediterranean fleet where terrible suffering was endured by the unhappy men who could not understand the injustice of the king. . I I nlkUw ASchenley li ll 1 iff HXxl "Markof Merit". PI ?1T No. 223 Joi. S. Finch & Co., Inc., Schenley, Pa. SCHENLETS RED LABEL BLENDED WHISKEY. The wralght whlsklej In thii product are yean or more old. 30 ttraitht whiskey, 70 neutraj plrlu dutilled from American (rain. 24 Knight whiskey 2)i yean old, 6 Knight vhukxj J yean old. 90 PROOF. Wreck of the "Griffon" According to Farmer's History of Detroit, the "Griffon," the first sailing sail-ing ship on the Great Lakes, weighed between 45 and 60 tons and was armed with five cannon. She was built by La Salle at the mouth of Cayuga creek near Niagara in the spring of 1679 and was launched in May of that year. After several short trial trips, she started heri first real voyage on August 7, 1679, with 32 persons aboard. Sh reached Detroit on August 10 and continued through the lakes to Washington island in Lake Michigan. Michi-gan. After taking on a load of furs, she sailed on September 18 and wai never seen again, but portions of the wreck were found among th islands at the northern end of the lake. Fogs, Mists, Are Clouds Fogs, or mists, are really clouds close to or in contact with the ground. The conditions necessary, are the presence of dust and water vapor in the atmosphere and tha falling of the temperature of the air below a certain point. When this happens each particle of dust receives a coating cf moisture, and mist is formed. This is white. In its early stages mist easily dissolves if the temperature rises slightly. If there is smoke about, each drop of moisture acquires a covering of oily film. This hinders evaporation and also gives the mist, now fog, its dark color and unpleasant flavor." Extensive fogs also occur where, currents of air of different temper j atures meet. This, says Lomdon An ; swers Magazine, is the reason why j the region around Newfoundland is' the foggiest in the world. There J the air warmed by the Gulf Stream meets the cold Labrador current. I A I |