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Show THE PAYSON CHRONICLE. PAYSON, UTAH I Majestic Cabinets are Furniture of Charm and Beauty RADIO PROGRAMS N. B. C. RED NETWORK July 21. Model 92 and the neu 45 tubes plus four tuned fac of radio frequency. No hum or oscillation at any wave length. Automatic sensi tivity control gives uniform rangeend power all over the dial. Improved Speaker. Majestic Heavy sturdy Majestic power unity with positive voltage ballast. Jacobean period cabinet of American Walnut. Doors of matched butt walnut with overlays on doors and interior panel of genuine imported Australian Lacewood. Escutcheon plate, knobs and door pulls finished in $-- f genuine Iver.... Vcm. fuboa "XtAJESTIC Radio is manufactured, distributed and installed as one complete, unit. To assure cabinet quality the equal of Majestic performance, this company has created and devel oped the largest furniture factory in the world. To this great plant have been brought outstanding designers of fine furniture true artists who carefully evolve original designs that arte a pleasing combination of the modern and the traditional in style. Mass production makes it possible to give you their finest creations at moderate price carefully assembled, hand finished, minutely inspected. Therefore, while your dealer is explaining those great Majestic developments Power Detection and Automatic Equal Sensitivity, note the Beauty of the cabinets . . . how perfectly it will harmonize with the rest of your furnishings. d T By ELMO SCOTT WATSON WAY buck In the Sevenl teenth century to die Muzurin wus entrusted tlie tusk of a joint;; prince for Ids future career us kins t'ur-dinu- g Licensed undtr patents and application of R.C.A.andR F L.alsa by LeKtiphone, Lowell 4 Dunmore and Hogan Lucent Associate, of France, that career which was to make Louis Quatorze (Louis XIV) foreer famous us the Sun Kins;" and I.e Grand Motmrque." Mazariu found that his royal pupil wus not nearly so much interested in tiie studies which should lit him for ids high position us he wus in other activities, which Inter wer to make the French court notori oils and which were to lead eventually to the downfall of the House of I.our-bon- . One of the youn;; prince's favorite diversions was to "playe at eardes" and the cardinal decided that he might as well take advantage of that Interest by introducing an educational element Into tlie pastime. So lie ordered a maker of playing cards to devise some cards from which the prince could learn such things as geography and history while he was playing the Soon there "us delivered to game. the cardinul two sets of cards, one was a historical set and bore tlie pictures of fatuous queens and tlie stories of their careers. Tlie other was n geographical game, oaili card representing some country with a short description of that land and illustrated with a symbolic ligure, dressed In the native costume. Among the countries depleted thus were certain parts of Xoiih America, two of which, Virginia uml Florida are shown in the Illustrations (No. 7 and 8) in companying this ai tide. Njt urally, the symbolic figures of these two are Indian maidens, hut It is in teresting to note that the "na'ive cos tume," as shown on tlu"-- cards print ed hack in Hit'll, Is not so diiierent per baps at least, lu one ease fiom (huso of today. Take a look at ''Florida" above and, except for the how and ar row, you might almost think that you were looking at the plctuie of a hath lag beauty at Ialm Death, Miami or Some other seaside resort ! It is perhaps futile to speculate upon how much the young prince learned from these educational cards and It might be Jumping at conclusions too hastily to ascribe to them the nvvuk ening of his Interest In foreign countries which made him an Imperialist and led to Frances colonizing expert ments in the New world, lint the fact remains that of all the French of the Seventeenth century Louis XIV was the fust and only one to take an active and enduring intor est in tlie great crusade to the north eru wilderness. He began his person al reign about Hit MI witli u genuine display of zeal for the eMul'li-limeof a colony which would by its rapid growth and prosperity soon crowd tlie Knglish off the new continent , . e men-arcli- s nt A Silly Handshake When King Edward VII was prince of Wales and on a visit to Paris he from a carbuncle whiel Buffered forced him to lift high his right el All tlm bow when shaking hands. lm his of dandies and day eourtiers mediately copied this gesture and some people today still believe they are smart when they hold their arm high in that way. One night while he was attending COMPANY GRIGSBY-GRUNO- 5801 and tills zeal kept on to the end of his reign." Although these cards of the French king, which are preserved in the of the United States Playing Card company in Cincinnati, Ohio, were perhaps the first tints used to Inform Europeans about tlie New world, they were not the only ones. Iu tlie same museum is another set which deals out some American history to tlie visitor. It Is a geographical card game made in England in 1075. (No. 1 and Xo. II iu tlie illustrations above.) On one of them (No. 1) Is given the following quaint description of New England f In a country "abounding with till sorts of Funntiekes one would nntur ally expect to lind the frowning upon such frivolous tilings as playing cards, but the fact is that they were manufactured In this country, even In Puritanunl New England. Isaiah Thomas, In his History of Printing In America,'' mentions James Franklin ns u Heston printer and tells how lie printed "upon cards" verses that the youthful Benjamin luid writ ten about Black Beard, tlie pirate. Ben himself, afterward, refers to them as miserable ditties but at that time they had a large sale. No less Interesting than tlie historical material to he found oa tlie faces of the playing cards is that found upon tlie hacks of tlie cards. In tlie Colonial days It was the custom to use the plain hacks of the cards for various things. In the Cincinnati museum are cards with the hacks printed and used as curds of admission to entertainments. lectures and classes at the University of Pennsylvania, from 1755 to 1771, rind ns invitations to tens and also hear assemblies and halls. directions for figures of square dances and others various patriotic games, One of the most interesting is that shown in No. 2. It is a silhouette pur- trait of Joseph Ilopkin-oby tilt famous artist, Charles Wilson Iealt. In P'24, when Lafayette catue hack to visit the country whose indepen deuce he had helped to g lin, a New England cmd maker, Jaz II. Ford, issued a set of playing cards in honor of the distinguished Frenchman whose portrait, summit led by symbolic designs, was printed as tlie ace of spades, as shown lu No. 4. Among the Interesting exhibits In tlie museum are tlie playing cards of me Civil war period in which tlie pa t riot ie motif is strong. Instead of having tlie usual suit signs of spades, clubs, diamonds mid hearts, fags, shields and other patriotic emblems were used. An example of this Is No. G of tlie Illustration above in which tlie hew hiskered genera! is tlie "king" of whatever suit is designated by tlie (lag up in tlie corner. Tlie queen" of the Hag suit was tlie symbolic figure Another card of tills of Columbia. same era Is shown in No. 5, in which the figure of the Monitor, famous for Us victory over tlie Merrimae, was substituted for one of the conventional suit symbols. night at the Cottiedie Fr.tn-calsmid was talking to a group of people a dandy asked him: "Prince how did you like tlie play?" Tlie prince turned urnum) n bit and dropped a chilly, "Sir, did not tlonk I had. talked to you." Detroit News You Know the Type Not a had sort of nifty mines from the London Humorist, which speaks ol a cettain blunt, outspoken man in fact, one who us a bridge partnei cal s a spade three spades. Kansas City Star. mu-scu- by some Is Counted a Fart of the (treat Region Canada. It is hounded with Virginia on the South, whire is the Late Conquests of the at prtsent Colled with a Rood City of that Name here Is M.iiylund vvhete is the town of R.iltemore and Caiolina where Is Chat n Ve hut the Capita ot this government Is and other Cons, lorable Towns are p.iistowi, Barnstable Ve the Church' government Is Pi esbv tory Ve this s Country abounds with nil sun of where thev may fled Room to Plant In. Especially tow aids the West It being a Country not well diooered full of Wo )ds V Savage Inhabitants therefore not bounded when their Forces have Strength to advance Other Plantations belonging to the English toward the North are land Whose Cheif Town is Torbav most Considerable for the Fishing Trade North VV'alles South Walles. the ot V are great Regions Cumberland to the English but are little Inhabited as vet. d Few-Yor- les-To- Ho-to- n Fana-tleke- Nevv-r..un- d blue-noses- a (list 1 Monarch Vanity King Homy III, who wus proud of Ids own broad shoulders, sot the fashion In garments to accentuate this breadth, foil will see ilns indicated In the many portraits ot him by Holbein To Build Fire in Rain Is a good test of ones resourcefulness to make a fire out of doors in rainy weather. Tlie best way to go about It depends upon local conditions Dry fuel and a place to build a tire can often he found under big, uptilt ed Inga, shelving rocks, and similar natural shelters, or in tlie core of an old stump. In default of these, look for a dead softwood tree that leans to the south (,'hop off some ol the wood and the bark on the under side split It fine, and build your tire under tlie shelter of tlie trunk. Horace Kephart, authority on camping. It Getting Off Dr. William Ryans Brand, tlie Bnltl more surgeon, was discussing the Vor ounff and other rejuvenation pi ores ses at a dinner. He said: "Vnronoff and his disciples start ed with a great scientific t ruth, hut well, it's like Jed Inmty s deer hunt i I remember Jed ITimty's fust hunt, when lie was green.' said tlie old settler. Young Jed found the deer's tracks and he fullered 'em all right hut lie fullered eni from sunup to dark in the wrong direction.'" Many to Handle Liner oi a large Atlantic liner numbers about 880 members. Six bundled of tills number nre In the stewards' department and In the strict sense of the term are not sailors. Take 'evv 111. Pretty Good One Ilowell Thats a pretty bad cold you have. Powell 1 thought It was up to the usual standard. VY Hanford's Balsam of Myrrh Money back for bof,e if not muted All dealers Lie and Liar Harrington Don't you know where liars go when they die? don't think they die; I Carrington know a lot of living lies. d,-e- - Tlie i Dickens Avenue, Chicago, j Beneath Hi Notice Rogers Hornsby told a baseball Story at a banquet in New York. A Sunday school teacher." tie said, asked one of her hoy pupils: 'Willie, who defeated tlie Phil Istines?' "Willie had been gazing out of tin window in a dream. He gave a stnr and answered: 1 1 dont never diinno, teacher. toiler none o them small league teams. Eaier Suzanne, age six, was taking tea one afternoon with a neighbor. On seeing tlie writing desk she decided to write a short letter to her hostess. Tlie letter ran as follows: Dear Merriman Tommie lias tlie SUZANNE. henpox. On being asked vvh.v she md called chickenpox henpox. she said: Well. It's much easier to write. Barbcritm "Paw, what moan?" asked "Barber, ol father, ns he does the word barbarism little Willie. course." nnsvvered tlie absent mindediy stroked his chin. There will come s thrashing time for those who sow wild oats. The basis of treating sickness has not changed since Dr. Caldwell left Medical College in 1575, nor since he placed on the market the laxative prescription lie had used in his practice. He treated con tipation, biliousness, headaches, mental depression, indigestion, sour stomach and oilier indispositions entirely by means of simple vegetable laxatives, herbs and roots. These are still tlie basis of Dr. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin, a combination of senna and other mild herbs, with pepsin. The simpler the remedy for constipation, the safer for the child and for you And as you can git. results in a mild and safe way by using Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, why take chances with strong drugs? A bottle will list several months, and all can use it. It is pleasant to the taste, gentle in action, and free from narcotics. Dlderiy people find it ideal. All drug stores have the generous bottles, or write Dept. IB, Syrup Pepsin, Munticello, Illinois, for free trial bottle |