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Show CACHE AMERICAN. LOGAN. UTAH AT WHAT AGE IS A MAS iOT WORTH MARRYING? fc UA44 4.J4.44. A It 0 1111 1 K irTr Londoners Ready for Gas Attacks ry NEW MEXICOS GYPSUM Thornton W Burtfess Mf.LllVO in (fie mg barn. It mghl of Hilly Anok's visit when he had killed the tig rat there. As soon as Hilly had left the barn the gray old leader of the rats had sent word around that ell the rats In the tarn should meet him at once at Hu ir usual meeting place under the Hour. As Soou as the word was received euch member of the robber band hurried to Hie meeting place They knew why the gray old leader had WAS night ITwas the So Steve h to ftil fulpifif hit brer and biting Into hit tandnic bet aloor, and he hates It, and feels that he has lout fits pat. ment of the adventure, and thetr f,y KTlILi:K.N NORRIS HAT very few bachelors of Common physical delight in marthirty-fivnd ovet are worth riage hold them together usually for marrying is Lie expressed a few years, perhaps even four or view of Dr. Paui Poponoe, of five, if children come along. Then the Los Angeles Institute of Family comes the rub; they have to meet Relations. This Is not the first time the wild Impulse to separate, to 1 have quoted me views of Dr. get away from each other, to make Poponoe, but If I remember cor- a drastic change of some sort. At As Soon as All the Rata Had rectly on Die last occasion I was in this point unless circumstances Ills Call, the Gray Old direct opposition to him. In this stronger than tins mood of rebelLeader Began to Speak. esse it seems to me that ha is at lion hold them together until the fever subsides and the danger mark hurried to the meeting place there least partly right. There isn't any question that is past, they usually get a divorce. was fear in the heart ot each one ot young marriages, plus character Two years later they often wish them. It wa long since fear had and fineness and self control and with all their sick and despairing been known in the big barn. It was real love, are the happiest mar- hearts that they were together Hie first time some of them had ever experienced fear. You see, riages. Later marriages need more again, but that's another story. With the older pair this disillucharacter, more fineness and they had been so well taught how to and more love, and as a sionment comes almost at once. The avoid traps and poison that they did of rule have less all these elements. ignorant romantic dreams of the not fear those things. They had The field narrows, as the woman late teens and early twenties have made the cat afraid of Uiem, so reaches the last twenties and the long vanished, and the two hearts Uiey did not fear the cat It was man the middle thirties, and the and minds and bodies that have no trouble at all to keep out of the demand.1- - of each increase. The been free for so long struggle madway of the farmer, so they did not fear the farmer. ly against the trap. The man forquality of young excitement and adventure goes out of the marriage, gets that he really admires and But this slim, brown enemy who and new considerations come in. loves this woman, that for months had entered their den so boldly and Both husband and wife have set- he had dreamed of the Joy of havhad run down and killed one of their tled into spoiled little ways; both ing her for his own, he only renumber had brought with him fear. are fearful (hat the whole thing is members that he Is married, and So, as from every direction the a mistake. Curiously enough (rules Uiat marriage is a darned sight rats scurried to that meeting place, are extremely important to older easier to get into than get out of. they continually looked behind them brides and grooms, they go into The girl has always cherished the for that slim, brown creature, who despair and gloom over mole hills, thought of a fine man coming home moved so swiftly and from whom even their gray old leader had run whereas the younger adventurers to her hungry and adoring and comlaugh at very mountains of trouble, panionable, at the end ot day, to away. Most of them did not know make nothing of really serious sit by the fire and talk of books who Billy Mink was. for they had and praise her for keeping him so always lived in that big barn, and probl .ms. no one at all like Billy bad ever The happiest wives I know are comfortable. It is a strange conthe women who have married trast, this new life of nerves and been there belore. As soon as all the rats had an- young, for love, vho have faced idleness and of being criticized. all the ups and downs ot young busiBut even while writing tins I think ness worrrieg and young nursery of many instances of marriages Pumpkin Brown cares, and who have emerged into made when the man was In the the sunshine of middle age sure of late thirties, and the woman past themselves, sure of their mates, thirty, marriages that have been standing firmly in the ranks of the not only successful, but ideal. Marsuccessfully wed. These are the riages in which the wedding ot oldvery foundation of all civilized so- er minds, wiser intellects, more fincieties; the real servants of the ished characters has resulted In commonwealth, although they nev- such happiness as few younger couer get any recognition for it ples know. The love of a fine man Is a miracle of content to a lonely When a girl waits for her thirtieth birthday before making her woman who has sacrificed all her choice of a mate several difficul- young years, perhaps, to the need of ties beset her. For at least twelve an old parent, or the perfecting of years she has been her own mis- herself in her profession, and what tress; the man has been doing the tenderness and companionship things in his own way for longer of such a woman means to a man than that Worse, perhaps he has only that man so long an outsider If had a mother and sisters to spoil to domestic Joys, could say. him, to determine that Davy is go- parenthood comes to such a pair it ing to be so happy at home that he is what parenthood always should be and so rarely Is, a sacred renever will want a wife! In such questions as their atti- sponsibility, a pride and delight tude toward intimate old friends, as beyond any other that life can offer, to meal hours and reading lights a miracle never to be placed beand the acceptance of invitations side the other commonplaces of evlie countless pitfalls. The dreams ery day. they have dreamed for a score of In my library is the biography years are ended in a rude awaken- of a certain Englishman of letters, ing. Jane doesnt like late little a man who was never famous In cosy suppers, after all; she seemed his own day, but whose rare volto, when they were engaged, indeed umes are coming more and more she used to cook them herself for steadily into their own. He came Steve. But now she says, laughinghome from college to a household ly and pleasantly enough, but yet of mother and sisters; the girls firmly, that personally she never married one by one, in the rather will eat a bite of anything after din- difficult fashion of girls in English ner, it is the quickest way in the countrysides a hundred years ago, world to get fat! So Steve has to the mother died. The man went sit gulping his beer and biting into to London for a yearly stay; came his sandwiches alone, and he hates back to books, fireside, dogs, old it, and feels that he has lost his trees, old lanes, old neighbors. At pal. forty-twhe married his Annabelle, He brings his friends home for a quiet woman of thirty-threwho Rich pumpkin brown is the color dinner; Jane is amiable enough. was keeping house for a widowed of this attractive camel hair fabric But she protests mildly that Bob brother, and being an angel-aun- t coat made v ith full sleeves, a set-iand Dick and Joe don't contribto three small boys on a nearby esscarf ano big lynx collar. It is ute anything. They happen to have tate. . worn over a soft natural kasha been his intimates since college The story of the wedded love of dress having a curved buttoned days, Steve comments icily, who these two is one of the most royoke and a leather string belt. would she suggest in their places? mantic one of the most And so into the late new marpassionate, of all the books I riage come fearful hours of despair, know. Juliet, leaning at delicious when the handsome popular unmarLove, Honor eager fourteen from her balcony to ried man who was Steve, ringing her forbidden love, stretchthe doorbell at Janes apartment, whisper ing herself on her tomb, never tastcoming in with a great box of roses, ed the deeps of it. The letters of to And seems disappear completely. to his wife, during this the clever bachelor maid who was their essayist few short separations, could Jane, always so trim and not have been a hunand happy, always so much dred Romeos. pennedhadbytwo sons They in demand, vanishes likewise. In and a the boys they kept, their places are a silent, be- the daughter; left them in her fourth daughter man wildered, deeply pondering their letters and diaries tell whose possessive thought is wonder year; the story, and it is one almost too out of the how he can get tangle exquisite for other eyes than theirs he has stepped into, and an embitto see. tered woman who tells her few inNo, fine men and women can martimate friends that it was all a ry at any age, and find happiness in dreadful mistake. their mutual love. And men and And yet, if the two will but weath- women who arent fine, who don't er this dark hour without a break, mean to be patient and there may be great happiness and try to draw success ahead for them. For after all, the from the difficult situation of early Is a more choice of twenty-eigh- t married days, ought not to marry reasonable choice than that of at alii But that late marriage is eighteen. different from young marriage, and To live on peaceable terms with demands a slightly different hananyone takes tremendous charac- dling, a very decided philosophy ter and sooner or lat- and constant doses of saving laugher. The young lovers find It later; In bis senses dare deny. their youth, the novelty and excite ter, nobody WN'U Service. C Bell Syndicate. f II e o e breath-tak-ingl- l, swered his cat) the gray old leader brgBn to apeak. "1 hav, called this meeting.'' laid he. to decide what we had beat do. A terrible enemy haa come among ui and, ai you know, hai killed one jf our nunv . He hat left the big barn, ai I know, because I witched him. For the time being we are quite aafe. Hut when he again becornci hungry he will return. Who li he iqueaaed a young He didn't look very big to rat mi If we all get together. I don't aee why we ihould be afraid of him. We drove out that cat and that cat li a great deal bigger than llni fellow Who ii he, anyway?' He li Hilly Mink,' replied the gray old leader gravely. And who ii Hilly Mink? iqueaked another half grown young robber. He Ii lure death to any rat he may Hart out to catch.' replied He belongi to the the old leader. Weasel family and all memberi of thti family are enemiei of the rat tribe, and more to be feared than any oilier enemy we have. Why can't we hide when he comes? asked another young robber. I never have iccn any one 1 couldn't hide from. Then, unless I am greatly mistaken, you are likely to have a chance, mapped the leader. U-r- tT. W. Burim-WNUN- The White Sands of Alamogordo. rrjM fl- - gai chamber recently installed by a Lonof its employees in the event of gas raids The chamber is proof against every known with air filters, first-aistation, food lockers r d roller-coast- UNUSUAL By DOUGLAS rtlr. Of which I often highly speak. In hours poetic even rime it. They landed in a burning sun, The hottest known in many seasons. And so my boasting days are done. For many reasons. TWHftpS CO ; MALLOCH INVITED up some of(oiks last week sample our climate. Eve's EpiGrAns a AS ; AJr. i j View ot the interior of don firm for the protection on the English metropolis. form of gas and is equipped and water supply. on does pay Jot hi 5 success but the. stantly. sun went down, the clouds came up, The rain began to run in rivers. And, when wc sat us down to sup. The guests began to get the shivers. Just what they thought that night of me. Who bragged about this place of places. They did not say, but I could see It iq their faces. The little the credit If It Is interior decorating, says Ironic Irene, her ambition is more often realised for most women end up cooking for a man. CJonen. Gets t, Hell Sndicate. .NU Service. had three days of fog (I'd bragged of sun, times without number). green peas and the same of diced carrot Cook all together 20 minutes, stirring frequently. FAMILIES where meat is too expensive to buy oftir. the following dishes will furnish all the flavor of the meat with a small amount of it: Veal Paprika With Noodles. Take five ounces or more of noodles. cook in salted water until tender, then drain. Sprinkle four or five cutlets of veal with salt and pepper and dip into egg and crumbs. Fry in a little butter until well cooked. Make a sauce of two tablespoonfuls of butter and four of flour, add salt and cayenne to season and two cupfuls of milk, cook until well blended. Place the cutlets on a hot platter, add the noodles to the white sauce and pour over the meat. Garnish with parsley. N Yankee Rice Fudding. f Mix cupful of rice with f half teaspoonful of salt cupful of sugar and one quart of milk with the grated rind of half a lemon. Place in a baking dish and bake three hours, stirring every 15 minutes for the first hour, to prevent the rice from settling. Serve either hot or cold with thin cream. The foghorn blew, that croaking frog. And no one got a wink of slumber. It rained from seven until ten. And then it blazed from ten till seven. I'll never boost a place again. Not even Heaven. C Douglas Mallorh WND Rervlca one-hal- one-hal- PAPA KNOWS I Q Western Newspaper Union. THE LANGUAGE OF YOUR HAND By Leicester K. Davis Public Ledger. Inc. Chili Noodles. The noodles may be homemade (which are probably cheaper if used in large quantity) ir the package noodles. Cook as many as are needed in boiling salted water, drain and add the following: One small onion chopped, also one green pepper, one pound of round steak cut into inch pieces, brown in two tablespoonfuls of suet, then add cupful strained tomato, one cupful of water, one cupful of teacooked kidney beans, spoonful of salt and a few dashes of cayenne pepper. Heat thoroughly and serve with grated cheese. Fop, what is a spine? Human dice. Beil Sjndicate. ANNABELLES one-ha- lf ANSWERS one-ha- lf By understanding of the of the hand increases, you'll find its practical application helpful as well as entertaining. Knowledge of the significance of the types of hands alone will inform you of their owner's characteristics and enable you to gaugi both business and social contacts with certainty as to the kind of man or woman you are dealing with. The Spatulate Type of Hand. This type will be readily recognized by its irregular shape, which is sometimes most noticeable on the palm side, in the space bounded by the base of the fingers, the wrist and edges of the palm. The fingers and thumb of this type may vary, in some hands being of medium length, in others possessing surprising length. The fingers, as well as thumb, however, are characteristically broad and chisel shaped, with large, fiat pads on the side opposite and extending beyond the nail. The thumb is somewhat and more often than not is of almost abnormal length from the beginning of tne nail Joint to the nail tip. The men or women whose hands are of this type are usually inclined to restlessness if their creative and emotional natures are held too much In conventional restraint. The palm much spatulate type, with wider at the finger bas- - than wrist, indicates a fair measure of emotional control. When the reverse occurs, there Is apt to be a decided AS Macaroni With Vegetables. Fry one chopped onion in two tablespoonfuls of butter until brown. Add teaspoonful of salt, three cupfuls of boiling soup stock, f pound of uncooked macas of a cupful of roni, f cupful of string beans, one-ha- WNU Service. lf one-hal- three-fourth- one-hal- y and Obey loose-lookin- g i RAY THOMPSON YOUR Dear Annabelle IS ITTEUE THAT A BACHELOR IS ONE WHO doesnt understand women? Ko-xsr- Dearfo-fo- - NO- - HES r A BACHELOR BECAUSE HE DOES UNDERSTAND THEM.vf tendency toward impetuous speech and conducL Those with spatulate type hands are happiest and most successful in activities which lose their tremendous powers of energy, quick thinking, originality and creative abilities amid surroundings that are as free as possible from conventional restraints. WNU Service. Underlying the Tularosa basin are beds of Permian limestone and sandstone, between the layers of which are interspersed thick beds of gypsum. Borings made in recent years reveal that the gypsum Is hundreds of feet below the present valley floor and that water is encountered at depths of a thousand feet or less. The nature of the sedimentary rocks above the sands is favorable to upward seepage. As the water on its upward course passes through the gypsum deposits, it dissolves that material and carries a rather full load to the surface. The limestone through which the solution passes is not readily soluble; very little in addition to 6ypsum is carried by the evaporation rising water. When takes place at the surface a fairly pure crust of gypsum Is deposited, which, under action of the atmosphere, crumbles to form crystalline grains. The prevailing southwest wind sweeps these crystals from the surface upon which they were formed and piles them in huge drifts to the north and east of the point of origin. The wind erosion excavates basins, the flat floors of which may be 10 to 30 feet below the surface of the plain and 50 feet or more below the tops of the dunes. water-bearin- And then we NOODLE AND MACARONI DISHES bt National CnrrM,hl Soclat, W ajthihicion. It. c W.Mj jtorvtc. ONE stands upon the heights of the San Andres mountains in the neighborhood of Rhodes Pass, New Mexico, one looks out upon an ocean of white. South and east stretches vast sea on which the glint of white-cap- s appears as real as the rocky shores. The view Is a startling mirage. Closer inspection reveals that the billowing snowy expanse Is the White Sands of Alamogordo. The windrowlike dunes seem velvety in their softness, yet many of them are firm enough to permit motorists to roll their cars from one crest to the next in fashion. Some of the hills have at-- . tained a height ot 100 feet, but 50 feet probably represents the average. Curious stories of the origin of the sands have circulated since they have been known to Americans, but the truth Is not less interesting than the fanciful explanationas. The processes of making are going on con- j g Basins of Moist Sands. Nearly everywhere In the basin floors moist sands are encountered at a depth of a few inches. Ordinarily sand erosion does not develop flat surfaces, but the flatness of these floors is manifestly caused by the water table which limits the depth to which the sand can erode. The largest of the basins from which the sands are blown is a boggy lake bed at the south end of the dune area, but many of the smaller flat floored depressions are scattered through the area. The size of the depression apparently affects the height of the sand piles built up to the lee of it Hills and mountains surrounding the Tularosa basin contain gypsum, and it is evident that some of the deposit is brought from this source by surface waters that feed it to the large natural evaporation pan at the south end of the sands. Whether the source is the deeply buried beds or the visible deposits in the mountains, the processes of evaporation, crumbling, and drifting with the wind are the same. The end product is invariably beautiful, white, winnowed, and clean. The picture afforded in this expanse of white sand is unlike anything known. The white environment has produced a notable effect upon the limited animal life of the sands, and zoologists look to this natural laboratory for possible answers to questions bearing upon Botanists long ago adaptation. turned to the White Sands as a field in which to study the responses of plants to unusual physical influences. In places large cottonwood trees nearly covered up with sand live a strange existence, producing roots where upper branches once grew. When the sand drifts and exposes their modified anatomy, they still stand, amazing specimens, with with dead roots interspersed branches much along trunks changed as a result of long burial. Disinterred specimens of the yucca are to be seen that have struggled in an effort to keep their beads above the shifting sands until their stems have elongated to some thirty feet. Red Lakes Come and Go, For several years the appearance and disappearance of red lakes in the sands have caused conjec ture among biologists and chemists. Studies made during the last few months have tentatively identified an organism which may be responsible for the strange color changes that take place in the waters of certain ponds and pools. Apparently the vermilion lakes can exist only when the water has evaporated to a condition of high salt content, for the organism is known to grow only in salt water ot high concentration. Sites once occupied by an ancient people are well known to the present residents of the region, and obscure reminders of early Spanish activity are to be aeen in many places throughout the valley. Three centuries ago Spanish explorers and missionaries frequented the Tularosa desert and wondered at its white sands. They noted the unusual chemical properties of the nearly 300 square miles of drifting gypsum and, quite likely, wished for means of transporting this abundant supply of pure alabaster to the settlements and churches a hundred miles to the north. Recently, at the mouth of Dead-ma- n canyon in the San Andres, just west of the White Sands, a prominent son of the state of New Mexico uncovered unmistakable evidences that the Spanish Americans of a generation long dead had entered the Tularosa desert area with vehicles. Divulgence of this forgotten travel came In the form of two massive wooden wheels from an early Mexican oxcart If an authentic story could be woven about those relics, perhaps the period of the bullwhacker who abandoned bis conveyance would be established as no earlier than the Nineteenth century. However, maps of the padres and dons definitely point to Eighteenth century routes east and west across the Tularosa as well as north and south, where the trails parallel the mountain boundaries of its basin. Many Uses for Gypsum. The value of these sands for plaster of parts and fireproofing material is well recognized, and repeated attempts have been made to make commercial use of them. Gypsum finds a multitude of uses in commerce and industry. As a fertilizer and soil conditioner it U distributed as agricultural gypsum. As mineral white it finds use as a filler in paper, paint and fabrics. The makers of Portland cement require it as a retarder. In sculpture and the making of decorative devices in architecture and building it is known as "alabaster." Even the school boys crayons utilize much gypsum. When natural gypsum is dehydrated by heat, it becomes the quick - setting cement known as plaster of paris. About four million tons of this calcined gypsum are used each year for wall plaster or stucco. Plate - glass makers imbed their glass in plaster of paris preparatory to polishing. Plasterboard, wallboard and gypsum lath require much gypsum each year. Gypsum blocks and tile are used in partitions, roof construction, and flooring, where fireproofing and sound insulation are important Surgeons, dentists, and artists demand the finer grades of calcined gypsum for casting plaster. Dreaded By Pioneers. It appears on first thought that here in the nearly pure gypsum of White Sands is a veritable fortune in plaster. But Tularosa is far removed from large markets. Old settlers of the region have watched, feared, and hated the White Sands for half a Century. This, one of the worlds greatest deposits of pure gypsum, has grown before their eyes, threatening homes and land that might be useful. These pioneers cattlemen, sheepmen, farmers, and lumbermen had few interests outside their own business. The spreading sands, ever increasing in volume, struck dread into the stockman, who came to believe that the snowy-whit- e mass would creep upon and envelop not only his ranch, but the towns of Aiamogordo and Tularosa now 15 to 20 miles from the heavy white sea. With the Increase in population in the little cities about the basin there came the realization that the alabaster dunes provided charming sites for church picnics, school parties, and lodge gatherings. Intimate and happy association with the sands caused fear to turn to love and pride. In 1930 the communities of Alamogordo, Las Cruces, El Paso, Carlsbad, Artesia, Roswell. Mescalero, Ruidoso, Cloudcroft, and Tularosa joined forces in an effort to create a national reservation in the White Sands. |