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Show r'inm V 9, m - The Rosse Gallery ' STOEEnr jflJILILAM ,and a Job do Once Had Y Luxury Spread That Is Yours With Thrift l.UMU IX TilAfllHS KUHYtT rr )v( ti.'iwim :i Companion squares In filet crochet make the loveliest household accessories. A square at a time made in spare moments time before you youR never mlss-anknow it youll be ready to join them for a cloth or scarf. As a bedspread, too, this design will be d nnrrn 3 S vvFri c e N v of Famous Cold Remedy 1. Take 2 IAYER drink e full slow In 2 hours. ASPIRIN ef water, tablets end Repeat treat-mo- Q t. Hurtling Death By FLOYD GIBBONS j SMITH claims hes the only man that has evef Tj'RNIE done Wajr back in 1895 Ernie took a ride and he it doesn t think it has ever been duplicated. Since that day people have learned to cruise around in automobiles, and submarines and whatnot, but Ernie professes to be the only man in the world who ever took a ride on a rock! Ernie lives in Waltham Hes reached the age of discretion now, and he doesnt go whooping around the country on rocks anymore, but when he was sixteen years-ol- d well it seems he didnt much care what he traveled on. la those days he lived in the little town of Vlnalhaven, Maine, and had a Job working for a fellow named Coombs who raa a small boat baildlng establishment down by the water front. Blasting Solid Rock to Make a Cellar. Coombs was Just building his shop at the time this all happened. He had the foundation laid and was nailing down the floor. Just across the treet, a fellow named Carnes was conducting some building operations too. Carnes was digging a cellar blasting it out of solid rock. And Ernie andCoombs, plugging away on their own carpenter job,. worked to the tune. of Intermittent thunder as Carnes set off one blast after another. Carnes set of? several blasts without giving them a word of forewarning, but one fine summer day he yelled across the street :Hey you boys better get out of the way. Ive got a little more powder in here this time. So Ernie and Coombs lay down their tools and began looking around for a place where they would be under cover. The water front at Vlnilhaven started with a high sandbank. Below that was a narrow beach, and beyond the beach, mud flats stretched far oat into the water. Welcome home, air, I said u Took Shelter in a Little Shack. I entered. By sending this cheap little Christ-- , mas wire. USED to believe that the That, sir, I explained, Ts depoliticians were unjust in signed for. complaining relatives. tacking the big corpora-on- s; And what are your views about also I used to fall for Number eleven? he pursued. It is designed, I told him, to of ie idea that executives sent by sons and daughters be ese big companies were whose widowed fathers are getting en of great ability; but too lively. !ter my brief experience . I read the verse aloud: ith the telegraph company Merry Christmas, dear Father, But please to remember know better. a horrible mess Its I (ot my job with the telegraph To mate June and December. Penal-eJ. W. mpany through little blond a in Charge of Though be bright and funny lively May Form Its a hundred to one that iliday and Anniversary Mr. is recto usages. Pennigrew Shes after your money. adges unde and he said he was ring me partly so that when I Rhymes With DeUcioue. med some money Madge and I Without comment Mr. Pennigrew uld marry and partly because be turned to another page and read ;ed some verses I had written aloud one of my brief birthday r the CCC paper. formulas: He said there was room for 1m-- ! I send you my best birthday wishes ovement in the form messages Along with love and many kishes. it out Wishes and kishes, he murby the company to help Would you call that a ople with their Christmas, New mured. ;ar, birthday and other holiday proper rhyme? legrams. Oh, yes, sir. In the manner "We desire to increase this class of Ogden Nash. Youll find similar business, he told me. With Naih rhymes in my messages of ur talent lor rhyme you should condolence Numbers 84 and 85. able to put more life into our Number 84 begins: iiday messages. You are to corn'I deeply mourn your Uncle Car-ro- ll s new messages to fit every and every shade of taste, Who drank his whisky by the barroll. shall be away lor several weeks And when the cask was id I expect Mr. Pennigrew cried. Stop! you to have a lot of w material to show me on It! read Tve my turn." I like Number 85 even better, sir: Julian Goes te Work. I deeply mourn your Unde Abbott St Valentines Day was close at hab-bot-t. Who, though he had the liquor ind, Washingtons would Brithday on tollow, and meanwhile the nerican people were having birth-'- J Was eer a man of perfect meekness at the rate of 328,937 per Except when mastered by his weakiy. or 2,302,559 per week. Mr. Pen-Ertness. would not be back for a rtnight Better and Better. 1 determined to act Having shown Mr. Pennigrew was staring at me I y productions to Madge, who con-me-d e strangely. my high opinion of them, I Have any members of your famEfl der them to the printer with an ily been well, let us say peculor a million booklets to be liar? he Inquired. iblished at once and rushed to the Father struck roe as a little bit impanys many offices throughout that way, I said. land. Thus Mr. was his peculiarity maniPennigrew, How hen he returned, would not have fested?" fead my manuscript and give the He didnt want me to write mtmg orders, but would find the sir." verse, oie job done and my new formu- Ah, murmured Mr. Pennigrew, In use. I should have liked to know your Jbat he would suitably reward me father. And now, as to yourself. not doubt On the day of his Fave you ever had trouble with your 1 sow to it that one of my Inv had? w booklets was placed consplcu--u Yes, sir. My hair comes out his y.Upon desk, and I was not I have tried all kinds of hair tonic rpnsed when, soon after he came but I havent summoned to his private Have you ever thought of trying lice a horse pistol? This Valentine mes"Welcome home, sir, I said as sage, Number 244. I dont compre9 entered. it at alt Perhaps you can exhend V' Apparently he did not hear. He what you were driving at? fingering the pages of my book-- . plain read aloud: he And nd, 1 stood there for some mo Ah, Valentine, when eer I breathe 'ents before he looked up. oflfe , e did not thy name, let me finish. The tender sweetness of it leaves matter of he hi a me awed; I should like curiosity, er to ask If you And e P yet I breathe lt oer and e eased wth these productions. again proud of them, Mr. Pen-fireIn lovers accents low: Thy name and 1 may add that Is MudT, 1 Kt Spirit of Christmas. That Is a typographical error, LnfATt.dd nythlng he inter-us- t sir," 1 said. The name should of W0ldd he too" much. course be Maud, not Mud. I don t few luetlons. For think it matters, though. -- People me what will realize that it ought to rhyme Jr0ur ld IT boutPfK rYhtlSlma Num with awed' and will see what was me,sa it seven no intended, especially as there is hC menUoned read such name as Mud. . sfcnows;SSaSe Thats where youre wrong! he 1 Cnd -- Your name is Mud, Chrlstma bellowed. yU check 4- He seized a pile of papers see? that youd be In a huff; from his desk end flung them at i5 t Get out of my sightl Get me. SrbehW l8rge thC out of this office." Ieem,th.ink 11 wasn enough, Mr. Pennigrew," I declared with S X rouse cosUy resign. dignity. your ire0 By JULIAN STREET w, . ce w 3 im e Bell I It was Syndicate. WNU Service. . low tide and the mud flats were almost bare. At the edge ot the bank was a fish bouse a flimsy little shack ten feet long by eight feet wide and a few feet away from that was a big, solid wood pile 20 or 30 feet long and well over six' feet high. " Coombs and Ernie elected to stand In the shelter of the fish house. There, they thought, they would be out of the way of flying stones and bits of rubble that Carnes blast might kick up. They gave Pattern 2 If threat b sore, crush and ttlr 3 tAYEI ASPIRIN labiate la glass ef water. Gargle Iwlca. Thit aaMt threat ruwnun 5738 a winner. Use string its easy to work with. Inexpensive, lovely when done, and wears like Iron. If its gifts you're thinking of, use a finer cotton and make a pillow top, vanity set or other small articles that take but a few squares. In pattern 5738 you will find instructions and charts for making the squares shown; an illustration of them and of the stitches used; material requirements. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y. Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. Hot-A- ir The Bags balloon, first device to carry man from the ground in free flight, is staging a comeback. Two Austrian inventors have built such a balloon which hot-a- ir has ascended 8,560 feet. The air in the balloon is heated an intense kerosene flame. No by Carnes the signal that they were under cover. gas, such as hydrogen or helium, Coombs was sitting behind the little shed, but Ernie, who wanted is necessary. The lifting is done to see the fireworks, was standing at the corner, where he could get entirely by hot air. No ballast is a full view of the explosion. Carnes lit the fuse and ducked for cover needed. The balloon may be made himself. For a minute they waited. Then, suddenly, the air was shat- to ascend by turning up the kerotered with a terrific roarl sene flame, and to descend by I was watching It with both eyes, says Ernie, and 1 thought Washington turning it down. the heavens had fallen in. The very air Itself seemed to rock Post. back and forth. The thy wan filled with stone millions of them, of nil sizes and shapes. But what struck terror Into my heart was a great boulder that had shot up oat of that pit and was coming straight for oar shelter! Carried on a Huge Boulder. That rock was a monster. When they measured it later they found it waa four feet long two feet wide and more than two feet thick. But Ernie didnt need any measurements to see it waa big didn't need anyone to tell him that if it ever struck that flimsy shed behind Which he and Coombs were standing it would splinter it to matchwood and knock the very tar out of the man and the boy behind it Ernie let out a cry and started to move. A few steps away was the Inrtantly. Genuine Bayer Aspirin the Thins To Take for Fast Relief Instead of buying costly medicines for a cold, try the way nearly any doctor you ask will approve BAYER as tie modern way ASPIRIN. It is perhaps the most famous and most widely used of all cold remedies today yet costs only 15ff for a dozen tablets or two full dozen for a quarter anywhere in the United States. Virtually Ijf a This will act to fight fever, and pains which usually accompany" colds. Relief comes rapidly. Get the genuine BAYER ASPIRIN by asking for it by its full name: not by the name aspirin alone. 15 3 FOR A DOZEN FULL DOZEN FOR 25c lc A TABLET VIRTUALLY tablet. The way you use ituia this: Two BAYER tablets when you feel a cold coming on. Take with a full glass of water. Then repeat, if necessary, according to directions in each package. Interesting Ads for Interesting People annum wood pile, high and solid, and he started to run for that But I never made It. he says. Instead, the rack made me. It landed on a atone ledge beside oar half completed boat shop, bounced off at an angle and came rocketing straight st me. The next thing Ernie knew the rock was landing for Its second bounce RIGHT AT HIS FEET. Ernie had presence of mind enough to Jump, but the jump did him no good. Suddenly he felt the rock come up under him and be was being carried through the air. After that Ernie couldnt tell you exactly what happened. And small blame to Ernie for that Coombs was standing behind the fish shed watching the whole business. He had hls eyes glued on Emin all the time, and he couldnt tell you exactly what happened either. AO he FEET out into the knows la that he taw Ernie carried tor THIRTY-TWmud flats they measured the distance afterward and then the rock went on over the flats leaving Ernie behind flat on his back in the muck. When Ernie got hit bearings again he was in the mud. The rock was still rolling, twenty or thirty feet farther out He taw it, stop, and then he heard somebody on the bank cry out Carnes has killed the Smith boy!" O Not Dead By a Darn Sight Bat I lay there la the mad, says Ernie, saylnr, Not by a darn sight he hasnt It took me a few momenta to work my feet and hands clear of the mod, and then, te the surprise of a dosen people I got np and walked ever the Hate toward the sand bank. Not a man offered me a band as I started to climb the bank. They Just stood there petrified, looking as if a ghostwas coming at them. But when I did get up they asked me what happened. No one seemed to know except Mr. Coombs, who had been watching me, and he wasnt any too sure himself. Two doctors bad just landed from a boat at a wharf close by, and they looked Ernie over. Except that hla clothes were practically tom to ribbons and his right side had a few black and blue spots, they couldnt find anything the matter at alL The next day Ernie went back to work again, and his first Job was had Juggling ROCKS clearing away about two tons of them that come out of Carnea excavation and showered all over Coombs half-lai-- d boat-sho- p floor. C WNU Service. Kings, Other Commanders Participated in Battles field In the days of the battles, especially at critical moments, kings and chief command-er- a themselves went Into action. Reclining on the crossed pikes of six grenadiers, Charles XH of Sweden, sorely wounded, had himself carried Into the thick of the slaughter. Gustavus Adolphus died while leading hla horsemen. In the meantime hla adversary, the great Duke of Frledland. rode through the Austrian rank encouraging the bold, terrifying the timid with the At Kolln glare of hia baleful eye. the great Frederick, gathering up a few ahattered remnants, led them against an enemy battery. Field Mar- Aged aeventy-threCount Schwerin fell f at ha! Prague. Snatching the colors from the hands of a wounded ensign, the old gentleman steadied a wavering regiment and led the way. Pipe In mouth and saber in fist. SeydliU and Blucher rode with their men. At Munda. 46 B. C Imperial Caesar himself fought a a common dissoldier. Hia body, enfeeblefihy soul carried his intrepid sipation. old-sty- e. on. Commodity Dollar Waa Invented Many Years Ago The commodity dollar was actually in use in Hingham a century ago, states a writer In the Boston Globe. Manuscripts uncovered In the Watertown Public Library by the Federal Historical Sourcea Survey show that Hingham paid Its minister on a commodity dollar basis In 1803. The minister was Rev. Henry .Ware, - afterward the first Hollis professor of divinity at Harvard. Rev. Henry Ware went to Hingham in 1787 and the Inference it that his salary was $500 e year, enough and plenty In a period ot low prices. But during the late there had been a "very great demand and high prices for all the necessaries of life and the minister waa at hia wits end to make both ends meet, for his salary remained stationary. The remedy adopted by the parish waa to adjust his pay on the basis of the average pricea of the great staples between 1787 and of the 1803, and this settlement .problem was accepted by the , the full purchase price, plus postage! (If you live in Canada, address General Foods, Ltd, Cobourg, Ont) Give Postum a fair fna.drinic it for the full 30 days! DOESNT HELP YOU Postum contains no cafiein.lt is simply whola wheat If you are one oi tbos who cannot tafely and bran, roasted and slightly sweetened. Postum y tmt. comes in two forms... 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