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Show ' 4 V -- J " I V a- Tin: sraABnors CUT FLOWERS FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1938 bulletin Poor Eye Never Earned Good Wages" TWO MILES OF AMUSEMENT FOR NEW YORK FAIR Funeral Designs Corsages 0 KING'S There must be malcular Image on each eye. 2nd FOCUS Inue mutt be fairly well define J. 3rd FUSION There should be n single mental impression. Ut FIXATION Forget-Me-N- ot . FLORAL "Flowers That Satisfy" 2157 Highland Drive Hyland 8199 aasm 4th Remodeling to MMalce The conscious must be free to concern its self with meaning and interpretation. COMFORT attention the World Brighter" But we serve you while we do Dr. W. H. Landmesser THE PAINT POT OPTOMETRIST Member of CUn.'o Foundation it CALL HY. 8733 1333 Ea:l Ilt South SUGARHOUSU F. W. KIEPE GERONIMO EARLIEST THE TAILOR OF PUBLIC ENEMIES Suits made to order and remodeled for Ladies and Gentlemen Cleaning Career of Notorious Outlaw Indian Is Recalled. Pressing 1060 East 21st South zone is shown above in an artist's sketch made from the architects plans. two-mi- le loop. So modern is the type of construction that NEW YORK The largest amusement park in the world, with every conceivable safe and respectable entertainment device and show, will be a part of tfyt New York Worlds Fair exposition. The amusement It will form a the drawing looks "futuristic. 2S0-ac- re WELDING? By L. L. STEVENSON Shoe Repairing Trees: Energetic young Richard Conley, who is head of the worlds largest retail tree nurseries up at Quick Courteous Service PROGRESS SHOE REBUILDERS Ily. 8775 EBBS Flint Dart Believed Roundup, Mont. A flint dart and a tool, believed to be from 100,000 to 200,000 years old, have been discovered near here by Earl McConnell, a rancher. The prehistoric tools, which scientists said apparently dated from the fourth glacial period, Both were perfectly shaped. were of gray flint. The dart is similar to an Indian arrowhead except that it is heavier in the center. Curved to a point on one cuttool ting side, the was about four inches long by two inches wide. g ng Festival of Hanul&lcah an Cld Jewish Celebration Many myths have grown up about the Hanukkah lamps which at first burned outside the Jewish homes as the festival Feast of Lights wcs celebrated in the streets of Jerusalem and the other cities of the an cient world. Later, the festival of Hanukkah became primarily a home festival, and this, coupled with the fear of persecution, drove the lamps indoors. The ceremonial of the Feast of Lights, as explained by an authori- ty, follows: On the first night one light is St, on the second two, and on to the eighth. The lights are set in a place where people on the street may see them, in the window or by the door. They are considered sacred and must not be employed for - ; ' any ordinary purpose. For this reason a "servant light" (shammash) is placed next to them, which is used in lighting them. Rabbinical tradition accounts lor this feature of the feast by the story that when the priests entered the sanctuary after the Syrians had been driven out, to light the perpetual lamp, they found a vial of sacred oil unpolluted, which, under ordinary circumstances was only sufficient for one night, but by a miracle lasted for eight nights, il new oil could be prepared for the lamps for the candlesticks. There are exhibited examples of common clay lamps from Graeco-Roma-n times and brass, pewter, silver and gilded lamps of more recent history, ornamented with his- toric and religious motifs. There ore the upright lamps which were used in the synagogue and hanging lamps for the home, whereon the imagination of the designer was given free rein to embroider the tales of Jewish history and myth and the everyday objects of his life. un-t- - Ridgefield, Conn., is in charge of the landscaping work for the federal housing project over in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. The other day he went to the development to supervise the first big shade tree planting around the fine modern houses built by the government. Two urchins, presumably kids who had been moved from the lower East Side to reside in the splendid new homes, were watching Finally one operations wide-eyeof the lads turned to the other and with reverence in his voice exclaimed, "Gee, its gonna be swell here with all them trees! I guess almost as good as as Prospect d. 100,000 Years Old -- 5 cut-sid- ... World-Telegra- e ... EXPERT dart-maki- Mantis Relative cnecx pouncea ... East Hyland 458 dart-makin- . ... Granite Welding & Wire Works 1059 East 21st So. : . on by a couple of Broadwayites . . . A night club songstress who is not a debutante Or a flight club "Just Bring in the Pieces" 2021 South 11th a restaurant Praying falls to pieces of ifieThsifle of the Busy Grasshopper of a book is found eaten away. No The praying mantis, which deevidence of the presence of the cule stroys harmful insects, is a relative that doesn't advertise, "The most prits inside is obtained from an of the grasshopper, according to an in a writer states examination, beautiful girls in the world" A timA of authority in the New York News. the Detroit piece broadway legitimate show that publicizes what George Jean Nathan ber that appears perfect from the outside may be nothing but a shell. The grasshopper eats plants. But A press agent said about it detectis An this does not suit the mantis---hinfested timber easily out to a send until story refusing must eat meat. The mantis is a canwith a gived hammer, pounding by he is sure he has all his facta corsound. nibal. It thinks nothing of eating A song plugger going out ing a hollow or shell-lik- e rect its own kind. The female has been of his way to avoid meeting an orThe termites cannot be detected chestra leader. by listening to their boring. They known to eat the male after the are fought with poison gas, with ar- mating is over and the male is no Truth: Alice Cornett and Genesenical smelter dust blown into their longer of any usefulness in preservvieve Rows attended a play pre- burrows, etc.; timbers are treated ing the race. miere recently. Miss Cornett with creosote, while metal and creoThe female is larger than the turned to Miss Rowe and asked, sote barriers between the founda- male. It is claimed that the mantis Who are those three fellows tion and woodwork to prevent concan paralyze its victim with fright. marching down the aisle with such tact between the termites and the This is easy to understand because an air of importance?" soil or other source of moisture are of its enormous size in contrast to the size of the insects which make "Theyre critics," whispered Miss effective. Rowe. up its food s&pply. "I see," snipped Miss Cornett. The mantis rears itself by means "The Hiss Parade."1 of the hinges in its back and holds Be to Marino Claims San Bell WNU Scrvics. Syndicate. 6 arms aloft. It then remains moWorlds Oldest Republic its tionless. When a luckless beetle Surprise, Surprise! The little republic of San Marino, flies past the mantis reaches out Breese, 111. William Truemann, in central Italy, claims the distincwith surprising swiftness, in comSt. Louis, arrested for reckless drivtion of being the oldest republic in moing, was fined $5 and costs for the world, holding itself to be bIeo parison to its usual slowness in one with arm. and strikes tion, Now, Breese when he j the oldest state in Europe, dating speeding through the arms are lined with barbs and pleaded not guilty because he didn't back to the Fourth century. have no difficulty in capturing and see any town. The oldest consequential republic, holding the choice morsel. however, is certainly Switzerland, The luckless insect cannot get asserts a writer in the Cleveland away, no matter how it tries. SomePenguins Practically Ilelplcss times the mantis sits as if in prayPenguins are so aquatic they are Plain Dealer. On August 1, 1291, the men of Url, er. Suddenly it sees an insect appractically helpless on land. The wings are too small for support and Sch'vyz and Lower Unterwalden enproaching, rises to full height, puts are best described as flippers. Cov- tered into a defensive league. In out an arm, throws wide' its wings. ered with tiny scale-lik- e feathers, 1353 the league included eight can- The mantis is thus so frightful to they use them to propel them tons, and in 1513 thirteen. Various its victim that it is paralyzed and falls an easy prey to the powerful through and beneath the water and allied or subject territories were acwhen we say they fly under water quired either by single cantons or ogre. That the mantis feeds on othwe are not exaggerating, for it is by groups of them, and in 1648 the er insects makes it a boon to man. formally indepossible for them to outswim even league became fish, says a writer in the Los Anpendent of the Holy Roman Empire. No addition was made to the numgeles Times. They pick out the most Author of "Go West" isolated islands in the Antarctic where ber of cantons until 1798, in which The expression, "Go West, young they are safe from attack, return- year, under French influence, the man, go West, was first used by ing each season to the same spots. Helvetian republic was organized. John L. B. Soule in an editorial in Sociable, easily tamed, they stay This did not satisfy the Siss, and the Terre Haute Express, in 1851 in clans. There are several variin 1803 Napoleon gave them a new Soule was editor of that paper and eties, varying mainly in color and constitution and increased the num- in his editorial he stated that Horsize and style of beak. Some have ber of cantons to nineteen. ace Greeley could not give better the ability to jump or leap as much and in- advice than this. It became a faThe neutrality perpetual as three to four feet out of the water violability of Switzerland was guar- vorite saying of Greeley, who used e or rock. to land on an anteed in 1815 by Austria, Great it in a letter to W. II. Verity in 1854 and again in "Hints Toward ReBritain, Portugal, Prussia and Rusnew cantons were form in the form Go West, young and three sia, Draeonian Laws in Greece man, and grow up with the counThe Draconian laws in ancient added. try." Seitz's biography of Greeley Greece are noteworthy primarily mentions that on his western trip for their cruelty. The death penalty to. Buffalo and Detroit in 1833 he Hellenes The was attached to almost all crimes, About 5,000 years ago white had yet to cry, "Go West, young even the petty ones. This code of reached Greece by an man, go West, for he concluded a tribesmen Draco is said to have made the first route from the north or letter by saying: "If I were a farmoverland legal distinction between voluntary er without a satisfactory farm, I and involuntary homicide and to by boats from Asia. Minor. These setmight emigrate to the Far West; called often "Hellenes, people, have made a murderer liable to punbut I should be quite as likely not ishment by the state. Theft was tled in the beautiful land, and found to wander beyond the western bounexcellent climate. it an blessed by made punishable by death and debt of Erie county, Pennsylvania." dary were Around small the but coasts exposed a man to the danger, of setwere these and islands, pretty 51 or The ephetae slavery. special tled. The Hellenes, or Greeks, did judges were probably Draco's creaMemorial to Terrier not become civilized so soon as the tion. Near Greyfriars churchyard in people of Egypt or Babylonia. It is believed they were taught the alEdinburgh, Scotland, stands a mefountain and statue, erected morial who sailors Phoenician by of phabet View Porto Rico Cotatnbns' in honor of a t little Skye terrier Christopher Columbus had the came to trade with them. As time named Greyfriars Bobby. For 14 passed they became the most adright idea about Porto Rico, Amerin after the death of his master the ancient of all nations vanced island years ica's possession at the gatein 1858, says Collier's Weekly, Bobworld. way to the Caribbean. Returning by guarded his grave day and night, to Spain from his second voyage to protected from the weather only by the new world in 1493, it is recorded, Pocahontas Coal a simple shelter and fed by a reshe excitedly told the queen about the Pocahontas coal takes its name taurateur. One day he was found, little island of Porto Rico. She lying across the grave, dead.- And asked him what it looked like. The from the coal fields of Pocahontas, which town was named for the in tribute to his lifelong loyalty and Va., of a sheet explorer crumpled paper devotion he was buried beside his and tossed it on the table. "It looks Indian maiden celebrated in the colonial history of that state. "And master. like this, your majesty," he said. because this little Indian maid stood for the best of the native product Busiest Termites Blind of old Virginia, states "The Story Cyrano de Bergers c, Author and Avoid the Daylight of Pocahontas, a good Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac was The species of termites comnr.cn coal, her name has been associata French author, born in 1619. He in this country live in old logs, dead ed with the best natural products was distinguished for his courage in or decaying wood, in sills of build- of our country, and the word Pocathe field and for the number cf his ings, or in the ground under stones. hontas" whenever we see it associduels, more than a thousand, most They select for their food mcist ated with anything always means to of them fougiit on account of his wood or books or papers stored in (is best." . . . And because these monstrously large nose. His writmoist places. As the workers ' are now famous coal fields produced ings include a tragedy, Agrippine," the best steam coals in the world, and a comedy, blind and avoid the light, and The Pedant the bodies of termites are soft ar.d they have become known as the Tricked, from which Cori.eiiIe and coal fields and have Moliere have freely borrowed ideas, not able to withstand drying, the "Pocahontas injuries from these pests are hidden carried the fame, and name of Pocalie was made the hero of Edmond hontas to the farthermost parts of Rostand's famous drama bearing and often uokncrvn until suddenly his name. building collapses or .a piece of fur- - the earth.' up park." ' Wildlife: That the campaign for national wildlife restoration week, which is to be next March, is "bringing together nature lovers, sportsmen and the great mass of Americans who have a deep, in stinctive love of the outdoors," is the conviction of Fred Jordan who is the man behind the movement. National wildlife restoration week is sponsored by the General Wild life federation composed of such or ganizations as the National Federation of Womens Clubs, Garden clubs, Izaak Walton league and clubs. Headquarters at 400 Madison avenue are a busy place with a constant stream of mail, mostly from volunteer workers. Jordan, once a reporter on the Punxsutaw-ne- y (Pa.) Spirit, is now a chief of a big advertising agency. 4-- H high-powere- Paradoxes: Leopold d Stokowski, conductor of symphony orchestras, listens to swing music for relaxation . . . John B. Gambling, who broadcasts morning setting-u- p exercises, never follows his own advice . . Willie Howard, the comedian, wants to be a playwright and even went so far as to produce his own play on Broadway. But it didn't click . . . Alfred W. McCann, food expert, puts it up to his wife to choose the home menus . .. . Gene Fowler, who earns fabulous sums in Hollywood, gets his greatest kick writing poems for friends for noth. Joe Glover, who wears a ing Vandyke beard and looks like a grand duke, writes the hottest of hot arrangements for the leading swing bands. . .. So What: Do you know that Don Prindle, Joe Penners script writer, is a graduate chiropractor . . . That Jack Fulton, romantic tenor, once drove a laundry wagon . . . That Margaretta Shanna is a direct descendant of General Putnam and General Goff of Revolutionary war fame . . . That Waiter OKeefe cairies a pocketfull of photos of the two tiny O'Keefe heirs and that he takes the pictures himself . . . That Phil Baker never plays an accoiy dian other than his own because his has a specially built, reversed keyboard. Buddy Clark, whose Strange: voice was dubbed in for Jack Haley during the singing scenes in "Wake Up and Live, submits this list of "Manhattan Miracles: "A street A premier without a picket where no autograph houqds .turn ... ice-flo- - - 1863-191- 5; u . - st I I Washington, D. C. The career of me of America's earliest "Public Enemies No. 1" Geronimo, notori-ju- s Apache raider is recalled by she death recently of Brig. Gen. R. A. Brown, who assisted in the pursuit and eventual capture of the jutlaw Indian in the Southwest Li the eighties. "Various Indian leaders had saused trouble for Americans of the 'rentier for nearly half a century," says the National Geographic society, "but the long series of skirmishes and campaigns against these trouble-makewas climaxed be- tween 1883 and 1888 by what is cnown as the Geronimo war. "The hatred of Geronimo for the whites dated from a raid on an Apache camp by a military governor of the Mexican state of Sonora, in which Geronimo's young wife and their three children were massacred. "Geronimo had been on a trading expedition with other Apache braves. Returning to his camp in the wilds of Chihuahua, Mexico, he discovered the depredations which had been committed and began straightway his career of vengeance. Raids Into Mexico. From 1858 until 1873, he led repeated war parlies into Mexico, from his headquarters in New Mexico. In 1876, he was arrested by Indian Agent John Clum, and taken to Fort Apache, Ariz., for imprisonment. However, on the arrival of a new agent, the warrior obtained his freedom. He fled to Mexico, killing Albert Sterling, chief of the agency police, on the way. This brought about the game played by the fierce Apaches and the United States army between the years 1883 and 1886 a long series of raids, massacres, escapes, captures, and surrenders. "Finally, under Gen. Nelson A. Miles, a veritable army of 5,000 soldiers and 500 Indian scouts undertook the task of catching Geronimo. The campaign was precipitated by Geronimo himself with a terrible raid, which left a trail of blood all the way back to Mexico, whence the Apache outlaw always fled when it was necessary for him to hide. Capt. H. W. Lawton pursued Geronimo into Mexico with a group made up of 1,000 American soldiers, 100 Mexican irregulars, 500 Indian scouts and 1,000 ranchers. Geronimo at this time had only 18 warrs , hide-and-se- riors. "Lawton's scouts, by means of heliographs, kept him continually informed of the Apaches' whereabouts, so that the fugitives were forced to keep constantly on the move. Geronimo's hatred, embit- -' tered by the relentless pursuit, drove him to slaughter all whites who crossed his path. Seven hundred white men were killed during the period in which Geronimo was at large. Finally Captured. "Lawton finally captured the Apache camp, appropriating food supplies, ammunition and ponies, but Geronimo was not yet through and he led Lawton's men a harrowing chase, forcing them to endure terrible hardships. After three discouraging months, word came unexpectedly that the Apaches were willing to give themselves up. Lieut. Charles B. d set cut to contact Geronimo, taking with him two loyal Indian scouts, who found the Apache camp by following the trail of the two squaws who had delivered the Apache message. Next day accompanied by General Brown, then a lieutenant, arranged Geronimos surrender. "The Indians were taken back to the United States and sent to Florida. There they were kept at hard labor for three years, though the government had promised that they would be reunited with their families. This was finally brought about through the efforts of the Indian Rights association. They were moved to Alabama, then to Fort Sill, Okla., and later to a reservation in New Mexico," - Gate-woo- Gate-woo- d, |