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Show PAGE TWO THE PARK RECORD Thursday, June 9, 193 Clonfinlough Stone Is Ireland's Oldest Monument A suburb of the old town of Clon-macnoise, Clon-macnoise, Ireland, contains the most ancient monument to be found in all of Ireland. It is the Clonfinlough tone, which is said to date back to Neolithic times, or, in other words, the Stone age. It is the pride of the near-by townland of Clonfinlough, with its church, its school, its post-effice post-effice and its little general store, observes a writer in the Boston Herald. Clonfinlough's agricultural area is gmall, but grows yearly, the young men finding pleasure in annihilating that wicked weed of destruction, the furze, and making it give place to growths of value, notably potatoes, which seem well-suited to the ground here. The markings of Clonfinlough etone are said to record a fight to a finish between the local cross-men and the invading loop-men, says one authority, with victory for the former, for-mer, and are similar to rock markings mark-ings to be found in Spain, proving that there was intercourse between the Spanish and Irish long before the days when St. Patrick brought the blessings of Christianity to Ireland. Women Follow Men in Hunt The women in the Kalahari desert of the Bechuanaland protectorate, often with babies on their backs, follow the men on the hunt wherever it leads them. And when the game is killed, they all settle down to a feast of raw meat. After a feast of this kind, especially when the moon is full, the Bushmen- dance throughout through-out the night. The women paint their bodies and faces with blood in a barber-pole pattern, and the men adorn themselves with jackals' tails stuck in their hair, and rattles at their ankles. They dance to the moon, fertility and to the living grass, and imitate the hyena and the eland, mimicking the animals feeding, fighting and gamboling. For music they monotonously chant a few weird notes and clap their hands. Sometimes they strum a single sin-gle wire stretched from a peg in the ground or strung om a bow. "it VJ Watii m .f-jri" j h-ari .W t." A rV - .1 V. Th'o worst YODOI .. J Km 02 m.. The worst body odor comos from P. O. pernplration odor under un-der the arms. Take 1 minute to use Yodora new, amazing deodorant cream that works directly on underarm excretions. Normally Mops odor t to 3 4ay. Yodora also reduces amount of perspiration. Made without lard Yodora la utterly different dif-ferent from stiff, grainy pastes: (1) Soft-smooth Soft-smooth as faco cream. (2) Leaves no sticky film on fliigers or underarms. (S) leaves no "lardy" smell on clothes, tit 60. Oet It todaymoney to-daymoney back If not delighted. Trial size raca. Send coupon. DEODORANT CREAM : FREE! Send coupon for trial sice to McKesson A Bobbins, Fairfield, a Conn. Dept. F-l. address. Sparrow Hawk Smallest, and Is Most Attractive When the handsome little sparrow spar-row hawk begins searching in fields and meadows for insects, the landowner land-owner should feel grateful that his property has attracted such a useful bird. The smallest and the most brightly bright-ly colored of North American hawks, the sparrow hawk (sometimes (some-times called the grasshopper or mouse hawk), prefers insectivorous food to everything else. If insects are not available the hawk will turn to mice and an occasional small bird, says a writer in the Chicago Tribune. It's an easy species to identify because of its size. No other hawk measures just ten inches over all. And no other hawk sports such gay colors. The upper parts of the bird are bright chestnut, and on the head gray, black, brown, and white are blended into a beautiful color pattern. pat-tern. Before it strikes the sparrow hawk poises absolutely motionless with wings and tail spread as if some tricky air current were holding hold-ing it in midair. The sparrow hawk, aside from its size and bright colors, also hai another characteristic which sets it apart from other hawks. It is the only species that commonly will nest in a hole in a tree. The little sparrow hawk is an opportunist. op-portunist. If insectivorous food is not abundant it turns to something else. When English sparrows are plentiful it is reasonable to expect the hawks to go after them. COOKS IN ERIEr- Father Meets Stranger9 Son In Death Fight Swallows Quicker Than Pigeons to Find Homes According to experiments of zoologists, zo-ologists, wild birds, especially swallows, swal-lows, have more of a sense of orien tation and are thus better able to find their homes than even the long-heralded long-heralded carrier pigeon. Swallows, starlings, and wrynecks could find their homes from distances as far as 1,200 miles. The question of the homing of birds is really an ancient one, mention men-tion of the use of homing pigeons having been made in the writing of Anacreon about 550 B. C. During the reign of the caliphs, in the year A. D. 1200, the pigeon post received its highest development. The use of the homing instinct of pigeons was not confined to post-office post-office activities, states a writer in the Chicago Tribune. The development devel-opment of the carrier pigeon for war purposes was put on a grandiose grandi-ose scale by the French just prior to the Franco-Prussian war. - When a bird properly trained is released in an unknown region it first circulates about the place and then proceeds in the arc of a large circle until it strikes a landmark that it recognizes, and from then on it takes the short path home. This accounts for the fact, so often observed, that pigeons taken to great distances, if they return, do so only after taking an unusually long time. The fact that pigeons get about with difficulty at night also is explained, for landmarks are obscured. By ELIZABETH C. JAMES C OHRAB AND RUSTUM" by Mathew Arnold is laid in the days of long ago, when men fought to gain personal glory and to be known as the heroes of their tribes. The story opens in the gray light of approaching dawn, on a vast plain near the River Oxus of Persia. Two armies sleep in their tents opposite each other on the spreading plain. They are the Persians and the Tartars Tar-tars who have been ,, enemies these many years. ' J In the quietness of " - night, one soicner does not sleep. All night he has lain awake. Noiselessly he slips through the camp toward the tent of Peran Wisa, aged commander of the Tartar army. "Who is there?" asks Peran Wisa, rising in his bed. "It is I, Sohrab, coming to ask a favor of you, oh kind one," spoke the vibrant voice of the young soldier. sol-dier. "What is it that you want, my son?" Peran Wisa asked. "To fight in single combat against the champion of the Persian army," was the request. Peran Wisa sighed. "Can you not be satisfied to be as a son to me and to remain a leader in the Tartar army?" Story of Kustum. But Sohrab held to his request, telling Peran Wisa the .story of his life and why he sought to gain renown re-nown in single combat. Sohrab's father was Rustum, mighty warrior of ancient days, who had left his IS Elizabeth James Development of Electricity In the days of Benjamin Franklin almost the only known manifestations manifesta-tions of electrical forces were those associated with the very tiny quantity quan-tity of electricity at a rather high voltage. For the most precise quantitative measurements of such voltages Sir William Snow Harris devised 100 years ago an electrometer electrom-eter in which the attraction between two oppositely charged metal disks was weighed by a chemist's balance. bal-ance. But almost simultaneously with his invention the researches of Michael Faraday on the manifestations manifesta-tions of electricity when circulated in much larger quantity at a very much lower voltage by dynamos swung the trend of thought in a new direction and led to the development of the electric power industry. ENGLISH CRITIC, POET Dr. Thomas Arnold, head master mas-ter of Rugby Chapel, in reality as well as in the novel "Tom Brown's School Days," was the father of Mathew Arnold, English Eng-lish poet and critic. Mathew Arnold was born in 1822. He attended Oxford university, uni-versity, where he later became professor of poetry. With his family background and his work as interpreter of poetry, he became be-came the leading literary critic of England. His personal attitude toward analyzing literature underlies un-derlies the best of literary criticism criti-cism today. Used "Ejaeulatory Prayers" In Eighteenth-century Scotland, pious persons used to punctuate their conversation with "ejaeulatory prayers," or spontaneous exclamations exclam-ations to God, considering these better bet-ter than long prayers because they rose to heaven before Satan had a chance to spoil them. Eventually the custom died, says Collier's Weekly, because these holy expletives exple-tives began to sound out of place in shops, offices, stables and saloons. A A, A A A u u u u r ' - v immi u.. i n l. rr " 'V' r x-AlcohoI 20 br k 3 to! urns I ,J -AleohoU2 to QUO "iM - . I 1 I f mfJiM Roma California Viines 1 0 Products of EOMA WTiE COMPANY. LodL California young wife for war before their child was born. He had instructed his bride to send him word concerning concern-ing their child, so that if it were a son. the father might return and teach him the art of warfare. But the young wife determined not to lose her son and when Sohrab was born, she sent word to Rustum that their child was a daughter. In the early morning a flag of truce was carried onto the field that separated the two armies. An or der for peace for the day was given. Rustum Agrees to FigLt. The Persian leader approached Rustum and told him of the chal lenge but the warrior shook his head and said that since the Per sian prince favored the young fight ersMn court, he should favor them on the field of honor. But the leader implored Rustum for the glory of the Persian army, so that at last he yielded, but only if he fought dis guised. The two warriors walked onto the center of the plain. They were armed with metal shields and breast plates, and carried swords and spears. Rustum wore no in signia on his weapons. He spoke: "I am a tried warrior. You may meet your death today, needlessly Let us drop this fight and make peace between us and you come and live with me as my son. Feeling a strange sensation, Soh rab cried, "Are you the mighty Rustum?" But the older man thought that the younger one sought to learn his name and then to boast to his com panions of fighting the mighty Rustum so he cried, "It does not matter who I am! On guard!" They began to fight. Long and hard they waged back and forth over the plain. Then swinging his cudgel, Rustum hurled it and the shock threw him to his knees." Enraged at being on his knees with both armies watching, the older old-er man seized his spear and roared, "Rustum!" Sohrab was surprised to hear the name of his father and he dropped his shield and stepped backward. The charging spear of Rustum thrust through his side. Sohrab had received a death wound, but his spirit was not killed. Rustum taunted him, but Sohrab answered with burning tone, "Wait until my father, the mighty warrior Rustum learns that you have killed his only son!" Rustum turned pale. "Rustum never had a son," he cried. Sohrab showed the sign of the grifiin on his arm. The other man fell to the ground. He seized his arms and would have killed himself had not Sohrab stopped him. The younger man in a weakening tone urged tus fatner to live. Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. Naming Canadian Passenger Cars Canadian National railways use this plan for naming their passenger passen-ger cars: Sleeping cars are named after stations, sleeping room cars, or chambrettes, take their names from seaports. Parlor and parlor-buffet parlor-buffet cars are named for Canadian lakes, cafe-parlor coaches for Canadian Cana-dian rivers. Capes are the source of names for compartment-observa tion-library cars, while another type of this car, equipped with a buffet, draws its name from famous forts. Judge Uriah Milton Rose Arkansas' First Citizen When the state of Arkansas moved to make its first gift to the capitol's hall of fame, it chose a native of Kentucky for that honor, writes Leslie Hartley in the Washington Wash-ington Star. Uriah Milton Rose as a young man, however, followed the trend bf his day to "go West" and moved to Arkansas. There he became be-came known as the state's "first citizen." cit-izen." Though born in 1834 of a wealthy family, Rose was orphaned when he was fourteen years of age and, the' family fortune having been spent, went to work as a clerk in a store. At night he studied law and later became a charter member of the American Bar association and its president in 1901. Arkansas also called Rose the "Friend of Presidents." When he was chosen to entertain President Theodore Roosevelt during the lat-ter's lat-ter's visit to Arkansas a strong friendship between the two developed. devel-oped. Roosevelt often remarked that Judge Rose, who was widely traveled, had the '.'wisdom of Socrates" Soc-rates" and in 1907 appointed him as one of the delegates to the Second Palace Tribunal at The Hague. Judge Rose's last contribution to his state was made after his death in 1913, Round Head Optimistic If your head tends to roundness both front and back, you are optimistic, op-timistic, resourceful, and speculative, specula-tive, according to a psychologist irt Pearson's London Weekly. Your weak points are impulsiveness, recklessness, and a tendency to gamble. Work which entails risk and adventure, and an element of chance, will have a special appeal for you. You might make an excellent ex-cellent journalist. Many first-class athletes come from the "round head" class. In order to get the best out of yourself, you should curb your extreme speculative instinct. Investigate before you gamble, and do not take so many "long shots." Associate with people who are mora cautious than yourself, but avoid th extremely cautious type. The Blue Grotto of Capri The Blue Grotto of Capri is 164 feet in length and 98 feet in width; the height of the entrance is slightly slight-ly over 6 feet and about 4 feet wide. The grotto was known to the Romans, Rom-ans, but it was rediscovered in 1828 by the German painter and poet A. Kopisch. One is astounded to see the water like a blue-burning fire lighting up the entire vast vault. Everything gives back the reflection, reflec-tion, including the bodies of the bathers, which gleam with silver. 114'inch wheelbast tord Cab-Over-l:n gute truck chassis hat a CIA dimension dimen-sion of 9l' 10 mortthatt tbt regular 157 eaasstu own - cho.tef i ml or JW ... load -uierV 1 P' ' Vcjvia. ''TT' ProWo' f aster v- s L.SZT"" ZX CPr Over-U v.8 perform 1 .- - - . ' ' ' . 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That's why, in your stop-and-go driving around home, ONE mile on your speedometer may be TWO miles to your engine. It depends on how much of the driving is in low and second gears. Shell engineers found that getting into high gear Irom a single stop can ivasre enough "undigested" "un-digested" gasoline to cany you y3 ol a mils. To cut this waste, they rearranged the chemical structure of gasoline, making every drop usable under all driving conditions. YOUR GEAR RATIO IN HIGH GEAR IS ABOUT 4 TO 1 IN SECOND GEAR IS ABOUT 8 TO 1 IN LOW GEAR IS ABOUT 12 TO 1 The more you STOP and START, the farther your engine travels in comparison compari-son to your wheels . . . and the greater your waste of "undigested" gasoline. (Cm Saves on Stop :&t3 1- You can save on your stop-and-go driving costs by the regular use of Super-Shell. Try it and see for yourself. IT-, i. 1 E 5 v AND K20 r i 5. 9 s ! i i |
