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Show FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, THE SUGAR HOUSE BULLETIN 1987 THE SUGARHOUSE BULLETIN A WEEKLY PUBLICATION Printed at 2041 South 11th East Sugar bouse, Utah Issued every Friday p. m. Business Office and Plant at 2044 South 11th East Advertising Rates on Application O. C. CONNIFF, Publisher BENEATH HONOLULU i caif come to breaking your nCca without breaking it! Thus the experienced paddler cares not a whit whether he is approaching a medieval walled town, or if peasants are haying along quiet fertile banks, but is there water ahead which is pretty sure to capsize him if he isnt careful and skilledT There must be the sound of rushing torrents, rapids to shoot, whirlpools yes, bring on a dam and let him lunge over itl Washington, D. C. To bicycling hiking, skiing, and other excursion trains add the faltboot special. More than 200 devotees of the new folding boat" pastime recently took their collapsible craft by rail front New York City to a Connecticut river to launch a sport in American-- . waters that has for years been pop-ular on the swift streams of tho German, Austrian, and French! Alps, and in England. A faltboot the german word is generally used combines many of the features of an Eskimo kayalc with those of an American Indian canoe," says the National Geographic society. "Being chiefly composed of rubberized sailcloth, waterproof canvas and sticks, a faltboot can be folded up into two or three compact bundles not much larger than a golfbag and ordinary duffle bags'. The boat may thus be transported easily by train or motor car from home ,to riverside. "Experts, in a few minutes, can assemble this meager baggage into a long slim boat, with watertight compartments fore and aft, and a. cockpit in the center which will hold one or two people. For an eighteen-foone bag may hold the folded boat fabric; one the curved ribs, and a longer narrower aack the paddles and sections of lengthwise frame. Not Easily Tipped. Because the paddler or paddlers sit almost on the keel of the boat and stretch their legs forward along the ribs, a faltboot has a low center of gravity. Consequently it is not easily tipped over and can ride rapids and small falls, breast waves and shoot through sluices that would swamp ordinary rowboats or capsize canoes. "There is no rudder. The craft is d guided by swift strokes of paddles held by the rowers. Faltbooting is at its best in swiftflowing streams with sufficient water volume to prevent striking the thin bottom of the boat on sharp rocks or tree roots. Like automobile tires, faltboot are subject to puncture. But this means merely a ducking and a trip to shore to bail out and apply a Watertight compartments patch. prevent the frail craft from sinking. For freedom of action, and also in case of an unscheduled swim, a bathing suit or shorts is the accepted costume for the sport. For shooting rapids, most boats are equipped with a spritzdecken, or spray cover, which folds back from the front of the cockpit and is fastened around the waists of the paddlers. An inflated cushion and back pads absorb some of the shock of the bounding waves, for faltbooting in rough water is like riding a bucking broncho. Get River Complex. In Europe the sport has advanced to such a stage that many rivers have been completely charted and special guidebooks issued for faltboot fans. Devotees say that after a day in a faltboot one gets a river complex. No two rivers, of course, are ever alike, and 'white water generally has the greatest appeal. When rapids are encountered both skill and nerve are necessary to get through without a spilL Yet paddling on canals and tidal rivers also has its charms and its periods of lazy ease. The boats draw amazingly little water and can be handled almost as readily as a canoe. rt As to wild rivers in general, s. paddlers get to be like 'You do not climb a 14,- mountain after the first six 14,000-foo- t mountains to behold the world at your feet, or for the sake of atretching your muscles,' they contend,, 'but to see how near you Will Salvage Cruiser on Which 400 Died in 191$ . The mystery of the Glasgow. cruiser Nainking of the 13,500-total as the result or an explosion in Cromarty Firth in 1915, drowning 400 men, women and chidren, may be solved when the Stockton-on-Tee- s Shipbreaking company begins salvage operations as soon as weather conditions permit. An attempt to salvage the warship was made a few years ago, but work was abandoned because of the strong current. The sinking of the Natal was one of the great disasters of the war. Children and their parents attended a New Years party on the ship, and were watching a film when the explosion took place. Only a few were . saved. The ship lies six miles from In sixty feet of water. n , j ot two-seate- r, There is no human life without perspiration because it is a basic factor of the normal physical life, Dr. James O. Nall declares in an article Perspiration The Thermo- stat in Hygeia, the body. Normally this eliminated water cools the body as it evaporates from the skin surface. The temperature of the sweat at the moment it appears at the body surface is slightly lower than the temperature of the blood. This is a natural decrease in temperature that takes place during the short time required for the sweat to traverse the sweat gland tube to the skin surface. As the perspiration reaches the surface its temperature changes to that of the surrounding atmospheie which under most conditions is lower than the body temperature. An increase in the surrounding temperature normally stimulates an increased production of sweat. This is a compensatory response by the body and is necessary in the maintenance of its temperature at the average normal figure. Normal sweat helps to keep the skin moist, soft and pliable. It is aided in this by sebum, the natural oil produced by the sebaceous glands of the skin and constantly secreted on to the body surface. The sweat also serves a definite excretory purpose, but the primary function of perspiration is the heat regulation of the body. Perspiration may be classified as normal, excessive, fetid, colored and cold. Excessive sweating is common in extremely nervous persons. It may be concerned with the state of mind and often is based on fear. Some persons have excessive sweating of the..palms when meeting strangers. Free generalized aweating may also occur if there is too much salt in the food, for this may cause a natural cycle of excessive drinking of water and excessive sweating. It is not detrimental to good health unless it extends to the point of weakening the body. ex-pe- moun-'taineer- 000-fo- of the Body Health Magazine. It is absolutely essential to the proper regulation of heat in the double-blade- ! Book Weighs 63 Pounds Cleveland. Carl Smith, who likes scrapbooks, made one of last year's Great Lakes exposition. Just completed, it weighs 63 pounds. Perspiration Regulates Body's Heat Production ' MWS pairan atn uasa jou sy ajiqsduiejy jo 3aijbu M3JI jo J9Moy bje;s obit; aqj, AnN jsAiou 44444444444444444444444444444444444V4V44444444444444' jx BOSTON FERNS SPEED --TRAFFIC Discoveries Honolulu, Hawaii. Just made by Fred J. Ohrt, superintendent of the Honolulu water bureau, and C. W. Wentworth, geologist, reveal that Honolulu can rival Rome and Paris for its catacombs, with pools of water in which eyeless fish grope, and the skeletons and relics of former generations can be found. The discoveries of the vast system of tunnels and caves underlying the entire city and extending as far out as Diamond Head was made when efforts were undertaken to find new sources of water supply for the city. It previously had been known that a few caves existed under the city, but it was only the recent investigations that developed the fact that the ground underneath the entire city is completely honeycombed with them and that they extend out as far as Diamond Head, three miles away. Once River Beds. Unlike the catacombs of Paris and Rome, most of those underneath Honolulu are believed to have been of natural origin, consisting of former river beds, and of caves forified by the sea thousands of years ago, when the entire district must have been submerged. However, ample evidence has been found that since then, during long periods, the catacombs were used for human habitation the same as were those of Rome when they were occupied by Christiana seeking refuge from martyrdom inflicted by Roman emperors. In nearly all of the catacombs pools of water and even flowing streams are found filled with eyeless fish. Ample evidence exists in the catacombs of the fact that they had been inhabited in the distant past. A few skeletons have been found and also primitive household articles, and piles of charred shells of kukui nuts. The nuts were used both for light and oil. Haven for Fugitives. Various explanations have been put forward as to why the native population hundreds of years ago should have taken to these underground chambers. The most likely seem to be that in tribal warfare they offered a safe retreat. Another is that there were in the past various taboos, consisting of strict religious and civic customs, for whose violation death was the penalty, and the catacombs offered a means of escape for fugitives. It has been impossible to ascertain whether the skeletons found in the catacombs are those of persons who died there or whether they are the bones of those taken there for burial. It is known that one of the ancient customs of the old Hawaii-an- s was preserving the bones of those of high rank, and it is considered possible that the catacombs were legarded as the best place for safekeeping. From a geological point of view, Wentworth said, the catacombs probably were formed 20,000 years ago by the slow trickling of water. Washington, D. C. "Discussions of a subway for the District of , r. non-smoke- z, th Complete line of Cards for All Occasions. ot f g g-- Hy. 8199 ot x, ld ld 2157 Highland Drive t This winter is Go slogan the popular sports the North, Young Man and bring National the says ladies, too," society. Ski trains plow northward from coaches big cities, their cozy snow laden with skis, ski' poles, skiers, skiers. Ski planes opand would-b- e And snow erate from Chicago. boats' have been leaving New York harbor to give passengers several weeks of slides and tumbles at the famous ski centers of Europe. Department stores offer a free lesson with each ski suit, or pracruns to try tice on out a set of skis. An international winter sports meet was held in New York City, transplanting skiing to an indoor Arctic, homemade with and machines for flakof ice into snow. The 500 tons ing wki slide came down from the raft-vr- s of Madison Square Garden. cliThis burst of enthusiasm maxes an amazing development of skiing as a sport. Eighty years ago a ski was all for utility and not for sport It served as the heavy substitute for a galosh or a hip boot by Scandinavians who had to ,ters' heavy snows. Hunters skied from trap to trap over drifted forest trails. Then some original spirit, not weary with hunting or Ashing or running errands, had the idea that skiing might be fun. New Sport Is Born. In the Telemark district of Norway, about I860, probably with no thought beyond fresh air and rivalry and healthy play, some unsung pioneers started skiing competitions, and the new sport was born. Soon the whole world welcomed wings for its toes. Equipment was simple: some snowy slopes, two skis, two poles to push or brake progress, and two knees not prone to tremble. The ski itself has gone through several transformations. The name comes from an Icelandic word for 'piece of wood,' but four centuries ago it applied also to leather shoes three feet long, with pointed toes curled up and the rear end fastening around the ankle. An earlier variation was a wooden ski with tips like prows of ancient Viking ships, curving cither in or out in a scroll-lik- e curl. Now the national sport of Nor has long been at way, home in that country. Legend claims that the first Scandinavian, named Nor, actually reached his peninsula home on skis. Early setd tlers revered a god of winter, Skade. Skiing Norwegians a thousand years ago astounded their enemies by leaping from mountain ledges and sliding on down slopes without injury. A picture of a carved on a rune stone near Upsala, is believed to date from the Eleventh century. Skiing is essential to snowbound I Lapps when the Arctic winter descends upon the top of the Scandinavian peninsula. They do not use two ski poles.- Their pole is a handy weapon against wolves which may attack reindeer herds; therefore only one is carried, since an additional one would only become entangled in the fray. Wood From Rlinnesota. Within recent years veteran ski makers from Norway and Sweden have been importing white hickory wood from the forests of Minnesota. It is heavy enough to give the skier ballast and is extremely tough. Care is necessary in seasoning and varnishing hickory skis, however, or they may warp. White ash, the favorite bow wood of the Indians, is a lighter substitute, while some skis are fashioned of maple or pine. Machines are little For the proper help in thickness about an inch in the middle and the correct tapering, a watchful carpenter' j preferred. The straight slats are carefolly steamed, until they turn up their toes. Their length varies from 18 inches for toddlers to about 10 feet for adults. Like other footgear, skis must fit, but they fit the wearers height instead of his feet; usually they are as long as the height of the wearer's reach. The use of skis spread from Norway mainly by the advertising of and mountain climbers. Engird is a stronghold of skiers, at though no skiing is possible la their own country. Even Japan, Australia and New Zealand have had a touch of the craze. Popularity in Canada ii traced to college students who encountered skiing on their trips to Europe. Scandinavian immigrants brought the sport to the United States at the beginning of this century. Now New England is an important skiing area, with perhaps the world's most extensive network of downhill skiing trails. About 80 winter playgrounds are scattered through the Poconos and the Alleghenies in Pennsylvania, the Catskills and Adirondack In New York, the Green mountains in Vermont, the White mountains In New Hampshire, the Berkshires In Mansachusetts and Connecticut, and the Rockies and coast ranges of the Far West. Ski trains pour city sportsmen into mountain hamlets which would otherwise L s content-tdl- y snowbound," ' 'T Washington, Columbia are reminders that this is the only major national capital of the world today without this type of rapid transit, says the National Geographic society. England, France, Germany, Japan, Argentina and Soviet Russia-- all these world powers have underground railways. Italy, joining the countries with underground transportation this year, broke ground in February to plant four miles of subway at the roots of ancient Rome itself. Even countries which do not have marked traffic congestion have provided their capitals with subways Hungary, Spain, Scotland, and Greece. Chile has approved subway plans for Santiago, and Czechoslovakia has started on fifteen underground miles for Prague. "Londons 'tubes,' Paris 'Metro,' Berlins white U on a blue ground, the broad flaming 'M' over Moscows subway entrances, crowds tunneling into the sidewalk hoods of New Yorks subways all are the talk of tourists and the speedy escape from tangles of surface traffic. Many Subway Systems. About seventeen cities in the world have subway systems, with underground tracks, stations, and appropriate cars or trains. Four others have underground sections in their street railways, where surface cars go undercover for several stations, then emerge farther on. "A great many more street railway systems employ underground passages where track and train dip below the surface to avoid a hill or a congested area, as hi Pittsburgh and in Los Angeles, and at the Kobe end of the line between Japans metropolis of Osaka and its port Kobe. Chicago has a subway for freight but none for passengers. "So far, the closest approximation to a subway in Washington is a midget underground railway which has no schedule, no tickets, and only the most distinguished patrons. It shuttles back and forth beneath the Capitol and the senate office building, carrying senators from office to oratory without exposure to traffic or weather hazards. "In Liverpool, Newark, Rochester, and Athens the street railways lead a Dr. Jekyll-MHyde existence, going underground for only part of their career. "London blazed the subway trail, with an underground steam railway in the 1860s. Glasgow, Scotland, followed suit in 1836. "Berlin, another pioneer, now has over 40 miles of subway. Instead of separate cars for different classes of passengers, as in part of Londons underground system, it makes a distinction only between smokers and with red cars for the former and yellow coaches for the latter. Some of its subway stations, such as the Alexander-PIatwith its pictures in tile of old Berlin, are three stories high, and serve the elevated railway as well. Paris has an even larger system, an underground spiderspreading Funeral of Gypsy King web beneath the city's foundation, Marked by Gay Festival with 296 stations. In contrast to ' Vienna When Peter Vados, His New York's simple coin-in-the subways of Paris reMajesty, the Gypsy King," leader entrances, of all Austrian gypsies, died in St. quire tickets for first and second-clas- s travel. Poleton, Lower Austria, 6,000 gypThe subway has even reached sies were invited to the royal fuAsia, for Japan now uses this rapid neral. Not only from all parts of Austria, transit solution for two of her rapidbut from Hungary, Czechoslovakia, ly growing cities, Tokyo and Osaka. Roumania and Jugoslavia they Moscow a Newcomer. flocked to St. Poleton for the fuA newcomer to the subway cirneral, which they described as one cuit is Moscow, with thirteen staof the most splendid and colorful on three routes radiating from festivals" ever held in Central tions the Okhotny Ryad station in the Europe. new business and hotel The funeral procession was led by center of thetheir section. In spare time voluna mounted body guard of 100 young teer in the labor of workers joined men, and 100 picturesque gypsy earth and tunneling through marshy followed coffin. the At the girls The stations are marble quicksands. grave a band of 200 musicians free of advertising, and mechanical of favorite dead the songs played ventilation and unusually lofty ceilGypsy King while funds were col20 feet high instead of 15 lected by heads of the gypsy clans ingsmore to usual 10 give an impresthe for construction of a monument in sion of airiness. his memory. Subways are an old story in the New World, for Boston has had one Lunches on 366 Apples, since the beginning of this century. narrow streets made Then Plans for Dinner Philadelphia's that city also dig deep for a solution Hatboro, Pa. "Tony the Barber" to its traffic problem. The subway took time out to eat 368 apples in city par excellence, of course, is his shop window. New York, where miles of Two hours and six minutes later track are counted not by fives (less a nineteen minute pause for and tens but by the hundreds, and photographs) he appraised himself a nickel buys more underground and said: I feel fine. Why, thats travel than anywhere else in the world. In some spots, routes were nothing." The man with the big appetite is blasted through solid rock without Tony De Laurentis, bachelor, thirty-si- disturbing tall buildings on the surwho weighs 174 pounds. Three face. or four hundred persons gaped Farthest south subway is that of while he put the apples under his Buenos Aires. Three systems conbelt at the annual affair. nect the central business district For breakfast a couple hours with the outlying suburbs of earlier he said he had six soft boiled Palermo, and Saavedra. The eggs, a pound of fried ham, a quart tunnel of one is large enough for of wine, half a package of cereal, regular railroad trains." and three cups of coffee. After he Bans Tipsy Flying had eaten the apples he said he Selma. Ala Selmas city council planned to have a "good dinner" in about two hours. approved an ordinance prohibiting persons under the influence of liquor or narcotics from operating Old Dobbin Progresses an airplane over this municipality." A farmer Ont. St. Thomas, hare has "modernized" his horse Old Coffee Rlill and buggy. He has installed a radio A Ark. Melbourne, the under the seat. He grounded wala and mill coffee set by trailing a wire behind the nut chest are still in use c.t the in the steel the used and buggy, home of Joseph Jones here. buggy for aerial Bel-gran- All New Plants $1.50 and $2.50 Forget-Me-N- JO sub-surfa- ot KingS . Type of Rapid Transit Used Growth as Winter Paitime in Most Countries. Has Been Amazing. Bones, Relics, Eyeless Fish in Caves Under City. phon4 ropy for newer items and events of interest to The Bulletin" 864. or Commercial Printing Company-Hyla- nd must be in the office and social news activities, sport Items, Copy for for' in the soon following issue of not later than publication Wednesday, The Bulletin." Faltbooting Offers Thrills for Outdoor Folks. . . Salt Lake City, Utah AMERICA IMPORTS HEW WATER SPORT j SKIING TAKES RANK AS POPULAR SPORT UTILIZE SUBWAYS. CATACOMBS FOUND o, D. C. Geo-graph- ic Visual 'Demand 1st FIXATION There must be a imIwiIm Image on each eye. 2nd FOCUS Ima& must be fairly well defined. There should be 3rd FUSION mental impression. single conscious The COMFORT 4th attention must be free to concern Its self with meaning and Interpretation. Dr. V. H. Landmesser OPTOMETRIST Member of Clinic Foundation 1090 East 21st South SUGARHOUSE borax-covere- d -- Fredova Dance Studio South 11th East 2040 Hylsnd 2877 Classes Beginning SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9th Register 9 A. M. to 12:30 P. M. TAP - BALLET - TOE ACROBATICS "Circular sent on Request" FREDA W. VERNON Principal WANTED A PIANIST BOY THIS FLEETWOOD BICYCLE HAS EVERYTHING! AND IT COST ME ONLY I13B ski-sho- r, - g. . - word-of-mou- snow-sportsm- en th AiarDies and Boyhood Marbles are more universally sociated with boyhood than any er pastime. as--' othj Underground Rivers of Ice Underground rivers of perpetua ice are found in the Modoc (Calif.; lava beds. Palm, Bamboo Useful Although the palm tree is generally regarded as the most useful plant, bamboo runs a close second. Not a tree, but a grass, bamboo sometimes grows 100 feet high, a foot thick. Chinese yfrobably use ii more than any other people. A Chinese tills his fields shielded from the suns rays by a bamboo hat. In the evening he goes to his bamboo house and may eat the seeds oi young bamboo shoots. Then he lies on a bamboo bed and rests his head on a bamboo pillow. The yellow, tough stalks even entered into sports. Once hardwood poles were used by pole vaulters. But aftei such a pole split and impaled a jumper on the jagged point, bamboo was substituted. Though the latter may break, it leaves no sharj points. The Ceasing Plant The ginseng plant is ten to twent inches a single stem fror a spindle shaped root that is ofte branched. From the top of th stem three compound leaves rad ate, each composed of five leaflet radiating from the top of the pi tiole. The two leaflets next to th petiole are much smaller than th others. From between the leave rises a cluster of small whitish flov ers followed by berries that ar bright red when ripe. The roots n quire six to ten years to becom full size. The Chinese provide th market as they believe them to b important in the cure of many di: eases. tall-wit- h .i |