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Show TIIE SL'GARIIOrSE BULLETIN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1933 THE SUGARHQUSE Eritannia Standard Set far Si!vervrre in 1693 BULLETIN A WEEKLY PUBLICATION Printed at 2044 South 11th East Sugarheuse, Utah Issued every Fiiday p. m. Business Office ard riant at 2044 South lltli East Advertising Rates on Application O. C. CONNIFF. Publisher Salt Lake City, Utah . 1 i Phone copfor news Items and events of Interest to "The Bulletin" or Commercial Printing Company Hyland 364. Copy for news Items, social and sport activities, must be in the office not later than noon Wednesday, for publication In tUe following Issue of The Bulletin. COMMENT-- S THE SHORT MONTH February is the stepchild of the calendar. If business is poor Oh everyone excuses the red ink on the statement by saying1 well, you canJ expect any better, it,' a short month. We wonder sometimes why it couldnt be made the reason for an extra good month. With one less working day than January (this year at least) why not let us think of it as am opportunity to see what can be done in a given period. After all, one day is only 8 working hours, 480 minutes. That means 20 minutes 20 minutes to be saved and used in extra sales effort. a day Instead of the "short " month, we might rename February the 'challenge month a challenge to ingenuity a challenge to imagination a chance to prove to ourselves that we can win with a handicap. February also lays claim of being the birth month of two great men, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Sterling leaders, courageous men, they stand for the true characteristics and real ideals of America as a nation. A nation as a whole that is more than capable of producing great men of the future . . . . . as great and as outstanding as these two. .... . Mother Goose Rhymes Traced to a Frenchman There was a Mother Goose who lived in Boston two centuries ago, but she was not the first to give this name to nursery rhymes. The name came from the French in an indirect way, states a writer in the Detroit News, and is as follows: A famous French author of fainr tales, Charles Perrault, published in 1697 a collection of these tales in eluding the well known Red Riding On the frontispiece was Hood. pictured an old woman spinning and telling these stories, and on a placard nearby was a French inscription meaning Tales of My Motlier Goose. Why he chose this name is not certain, but there was a kindly person in French legend. Queen Goosefoot, who was noted for her incredible stories and for her friendliness to children. A Boston publisher, Thomas Fleet, of Mrs. Elizabeth Goose, published in 1719 a collection of nursery rhymes and Jingles which he called Songs for the Nursery, or Mother Gooses Melodies for Children. This wras just ten years after Perraults book was published in English, and the name was evidently derived from it. It was given as a collection of old jingles that Mother Fleets mother-in-law- , Goose, was in the habit of singing to his oldest child. She did not claim .to have composed any of them. In 1780 John Newberry in London, published a similar book of Mother Gooses Melodies. cyclamen was symbolized by Tne Virgin Mary as blood drops. The Stars of Bethlehem were supposed to have originated from the meteor which burst across the land at the birth of Christ. The mottled marks of the foxglove and cowslip are supposed to have been placed there by elves. son-in-la- w The Hawthorn and Christ The hawthorn is affiliated with the crucifixion of Christ. A robin is supposed to have pulled a thorn from Christs brow and the blood splashed upon the breast of the robin. The holly was supposed by some to have been the wreath of torture worn by Christ. One of the saints is supposed to have wiped the blood sweat from the brow of Christ and veronica plants to this day show a iain human imprint. ....The . h Jean Ilonore Fragonard, century French master, is Eight-eengt- best known for his sumptuous pictures of the extravagances of the French court in the years before the revolution, notes a writer in the St. Louis Fragonard, born in 1732, enjoyed fame and the patronage of wealthy members of the French court in the days before the revolution. He decorated the apartment of Mme. du Barry and one of his paintings, acquired by King Louis XV in 1765 when Fragonard was admitted to the Frsnch academy, is in the Louvre. The artist fled from Paris in 1793, and when he returned, early in the Nineteenth century, lived in obscurity until his death in 1806. He studied under Chardin and Boucher and mastered Boucher's style so thoroughly that he was per- -, mitted to do reproductions of his work. Later, after he had won the Prix de Rome, Fragonard was in-- ; fluenced by the paintings of Tiepolo. Post-Dispatc- h. When Oranges Were Rare of today were When the grown-up- s boys and girls, a quarter to a third of a century ago, the only oranges the boys and girls of the small towns and farms saw were those deposited in the Christmas stocking. Advertising of citrus fruits created a demand that forced better methods of distribution and made possible lower prices. Today d Chameleon citrus fruits are found in practically d The chameleon every small town at practically all seasons of the year. Thanks to ad- grows to a length exceeding 12 vertising, oranges are no longer on- inches and the males appear to re-- . tain some of the characters of the ly a Christmas delicacy. prehistoric Triceratops, with three curious horns an inch to an in length, protruding for-- . Cacti In Coat of Arms Cacti are used in the coat of arms ward from the nose and between the in Mexico. Wise men in the early eyes. These horns are used with Fourteenth century told the Aztecs extraordinary effect. The males are to build their cities where they would extremely pugnacious and fight fufind the cacti, the eagle and the riously. At times the contests desnake. In 1312 the Aztecs reached a velop into a tedious pushing match, point where Mexico City is now lo- when the horns are interlocked. At cated. One of the myths of the pe- other times a really vigorous fighter riod was, that, if an image of a per- will dispose of its adversary in a son who was to be punished was few moments. The coloration of the made of clay and jabbed with cacti males, chiefly brilliant blue, green needles by the tribal voodoo doctor, and yellow, is particularly vivid and that person would be affiicted with attractive. serious illness or would die. Tbree-IIorae- ' ! I ' For Glorious Modern wonders Washington. of radio communication and the extent to which fadio has abolished geographic barriers yere emphasized by the btoadcasting of President Roosevelts recent message to congress by short wave to many parts of the world, says the Na- tional Geographic society. Foreign radio listeners, hearing the Presidents speech or a trans- lation of it on their short-wav- e sets, perhaps did not all realize that the sounds they heard were traveling to them in a series of giant bounces between earth and sky," continues the bulletin. Waves Bounce Up and Down. Radio short waves, in crossing the ocean, are not content to chug along like a sedate ocean liner. They are far too exuberant for that. They must bounce m' and down between sea and sky, as a rubber ball bounces between your hand and a sidewalk. (They travel on land the same way.) What is there in the sky for them to bounce against? Not clouds, for they bounce far higher than the clouds. Looking upward, nothing is visible, but there is something there. It is a nebulous layer of electrified particles, between 100 and 200 miles up, a kind of shell surrounding the earth as a rind surrounds a melon. Sometimes this is called the radio roof' or the ionosphere. One can see through it. on out toward the stars, and if one were in the middle of it he would not know it was there. But nevertheless it stops the radio waves, and reflects them back toward the earth as a mirror reflects a beam of light. Amazing Speed. Modern radio makes it possible for a mans voice to put a girdle round the earth in far less than the 40 minutes required by Puck in Shakespeares Midsummer Nights Dream.' Not even 40 seconds is required today. In a recent test, a mans voice, traveling by a combicircuits nation of radio short-wav- e and telephone wires, girdled the earth in of one second. How far flung an audience was brought within easy range of the President's voice by radio is indicated by the vast distances bridged every day by ordinary, every-da- y radio telephone conversations between the United States and foreign lands. The radio telephone circuit to Australia, for example, consists of a channel across the Atlantic, linked with another from London that jumps eastward to Sydney, a distance of 10,600 miles. And when radio transmission is better in the other direction, as it sometimes is, the circuit runs westward from London to Sydney, some 14,400 miles. one-thi- three-horne- FRESH FLOWERS '.'Please lier with the perfect Valentine by ordering flowers for her now ! . 2034 South 11th East i Peerless Laundry SNOW WHITE CLOTHES 1206 English Expressions Just as American expressions are peculiar to the English, so are English expressions to us. Its a pretis about the ty middlin affair strongest superlative the English countryman can find for something tragic and harrowing. Their not arf is far stronger than our A tidy few may be very. many, a bit of a draft, a strong gale, and a drop too much, a description of absolute intoxication. Oxygen, Staff of Life Oxygen, rather than bread, is the staff of life. All vital functions require energy, and this energy is obtained when the atmospheric oxygen dissolved in blood attacks and consumes the sugar and fat in the animal organism. But oxygen is a deplorable nuisance when it takes a short cut and attacks human food before we have had time to cat it, asserts an authority in the Chicago Tribune. This undesirable action of oxygen is not exactly the same as that which takes place in the The latter is a complete body. oxidation, similar to burning, in which the fat and sugar are entirely converted into carbon dioxide and water. miles and covers an area of about 1,750 square miles. The principal islands number seven and include Fremont, Gunnison, Carrington, Antelope, Stansbury - and Bird or Hat islands. They- are generally high and rocky and contain an abundance of bird life. The largest is Antelope island, 15 miles long, with a large cultivable area, on which is located a cattle ranch and where alfalfa is successfully cultivated. In axieniian telephone within cuim'i teach extension tele phone costs about 2 cents a day. Pays for itself in steps saved. our business office today cr order from any employee. Perfection The great Italian sculptor, Michelangelo, was once visited by an acquaintance, who remarked, on entering his studio: Why, you have done nothing to that figure since I Yes, was the washere last. reply; I have softened this expression, touched off that projection, and Ohl made other improvements. said the visitor, those are mere trifles. True, answered Michelangelo, but remember that trifles make perfection; and perfection is no trifle. East 21st So. ' The first violins made by Antonio maStradivari were of terial, varnished in a thick yellow varnish, and of a solid build and those of proportions following Amatis smaller pattern. This small pattern Stradivari adhered to, with one exception, until 1684, when he turned his attention definitely to larger instruments. While he proved himself an uncommonly skilled craftsman in these early violins, says a writer in the Washington Star, it was not until the year? between 1684 and 1700 that he showed progress in those experiments which were to culminate in perfect form and balance in his instruments. In 1688 there appeared the first marked alteration in the detail of his work, when he outlined the curves of the scroll and the back rib of the scroll in black. Every year he gained in the beauty, accuracy and finish of his work, in the cutting of the "IT holes, the carving of his scrolls, and the exquisite precision of the purfling. In 1690, to crown his perfect craftsmanship, he built the long Strad to a new set of proportions, suggested by a Maggini violin which he had seen. Searching for increased tone value, he gradually increased the breadth of his instruments year by year. There was a change, too, in the varnish used by Stradivari after 1684. It became deeper in color, and on the long Strads it is rich amber and light red. Stradivari adopted this long pattern almost entirely until 1698, when he returned to proportions used previous to 1690. poor-qualit- rd Jurisdiction Over Lakes Shared by U. S.f Canada 17ew York. A Lady Godiva halfpenny, worth a hundred times its original value, was discov- ered recently among coins tossed by tourists into the Spanish wishing wall in Rockefeller Centers Sky Gardens here. The Lady Godiva coin, struck in Coventry, England, in 1792, bears up on one face the figure of Lady Godiva on horseback. It was identified by Howland Wood, president of the American Numismatic society, from piles of pennies, nickels, dimes and coins from China, Canada, Holland, Italy, Germany, Russia, France, Great Britain and the Philippines. Oldest coin from the wishing well is a soldo, piece cast by Austria in 1777 for the northern provinces of Italy, which it controlled. The soldo is not valuable today. The boundary between the United States and Canada runs through the center of the four border lakes and their connecting channels (Lake Michigan, of course, being entirely within the United States); and jurisdiction over the lakes is Bhared by the two countries, observes a writer in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Both countries have an interest in maintaining the natural level of the lakes in order to keep the water power at Sault Ste. Marie and at Niagara undiminished, and in order that the depth of harbors and the channels connecting the lakes may not be lessened. There is a permanent International Waterways commission, consisting of three Americans and three Canadians, that has control of the waters bf the lakes for power and other purposes. Within the territory of the United States, shipping and navigation are subject to the same laws and regulations as prevail on the other natural waterways of the United States. On the Canadian side shipping observes the Canadian laws. Each country provides the necessary aids to navigation at its own ports. Half-Penn- nt one-ce- ' ' I I nt i Hunting Coyotes in Auto Is New Sport in Alaska Seward, Alaska. Ingenious Alaskans, who perform such unusual feats as transporting livestock and mining machinery by airplane, hailed coyote hunting by automobile as the latest in winter sports. Lake Kcnal, a large body of water thirty-si- x miles long and frozen over with a coat of thick, smooth ice, is the scene of the hunting parties. To date the number of bounties claimed on coyotes bagged by this new method has been negligible, but promoters of the Sport declare it is lots of fun anyway. Dogs Tumble, Then Make Meal on Rabbit tumRegina, Sask. A ble down an old coal mine shaft didnt spoil the appetites of the hunting dogs of Joe Howe, Read-lySask., fanner. Howe took his dogs out to do a little rabbit hunting. A rabbit was spotted and away went the dogs in full cry. Suddenly dogs and rabbit disappeared. Howe found an old mine shaft. He thought his dogs were dead. But he got the owner of the pit to take him into the mine, by way of an air shaft. The dogs wore found at the shaft bottom, greedily making a meal of the rabbit.- 2182-218- 3 ' Lilies Mentioned In Bible Lilies have been known since time immemorial. PI y y Lady Godiva Discovered in New York one-ce- Hyland Stradivari Improved cn His Violins Every Year inch-and-a-h- long, with a maximum width of 50 ill BRANDS FLORAL SHOP i Speed &nd Extent of Commu-nicatic- n Modern Wonder. Fragonard, French Artist, Patronized by the Court Islands in Great Salt Lake (-- GEOGRAPHIC BARS During the last quarter of the Seventeenth century when the extravagant display of wealth at the court of the Stuart kings and in the homes of the nobility reached a height which caused historians to call it the silver age, demand for plate became to great that silversmiths, faced with a shortage of bar silver, melted down coins to get material for. making tiieir wares. Naturally, by the end of the century there was a distinct scarcity of coins and of silver for the mint, writes Alice II. Coutant in American Collector. Accordingly, in 1606 it was decreed that all silver objects, other than coins, should be made of a eterlins, higher standard than namely 953 parts pure silver in 1,000. This became known as the Britannia standard because it was marked with the figure of Britannia in place of the lion passant. It was enforced from 1696 until 1720. After the latter date, it was allowed if a craftsman wished to develop a piece in the finer metal. Whenever this happens the piece is always marked with the figure of Britannia. Much of the "Jubilee silver was made in this standard. London is and always has been the most important assay town in Great Britain, From the year 1478 until the end of the reign of George III in 1821, the mark was that of a leopard's head crowned. Since then the leopards head uncrowned and looking more like the face of the famous Cheshire cat has been in use. Great Salt lake is about 75 miles A liamly residence RADIO ABOLISHES The Bible mentions several occasions. One of the legends pertaining to lilies is that lilies on Christ, while walking through the garden of Gethsemane, saw many flowers which drooped their heads in humility as He passed. One :! the lilies, however, kept its head u;X,n ceei" the WIDEST SELECTION in the City TO CHOOSE FROM East 21st South in Sugarhouse 1069 raJL- -. ..ujeuiaieiy dropped its head. To this day many varieties of lilies still hold their heads in apparent humiliation. The lily signifies purity. The early Greeks and Romans crowned the bride and groom with lilies and wheat. In Spain lilies were supposed to restore human form to those who were bewitched. The lilies of Caucases are supposed to change color, according to mythologists. If a lover gave his betrothed red lilies which indicated that he was true to her and if upon receiving them the maiden noticed that they changed to yellow it was a sure indication that the boy friend was unfaithful. Light, Sound and Ballet Light travels very much faster than either sound or a bullet. The relation between the speed of light and sound is illustrated by the length of time which elapses between the flash of lightning and the thunder that follows. The of light is 186,324 miles per second through the air, while the speed of sound, through the air at ordinary temperatures, is about 1,120 feet per second. The speed of a bullet is measured at the point of leaving the muzzle and is called muzzle velocity. As soon as it meets the I resistance of the air and the puli' of gravity its speed begins to slacken. The muzzle velocity of the regular army rifle is 2,700 feet per second, and a sports rifle has a muzzle velocity of 3,900 feet per second. Introduced the Dahlia The dahlia was known hundreds of years ago but a Swedish botanist by the name of Dahl was the first man to really introduce it. The birthplace of the dahlia originally was Mexico. Empress Josephine of France planted one of the tubers in her garden and would not permit it to be taken from there. However, a Polish prince who visited Josephine bribed the royal gardener to steal some of the tubers. The empress upon discovering the theft refused to cultivate them from that time on. ed 50-fo- ot n, - Station W-A-N-T s If you have anything to Sell, Trade, Exchange or Rent; or rent ft place, buy a place, or need anything, let the public know in this Department. W-A-N- -T PHONE THE BULLETIN Hyland 364 |