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Show Ideas for Making , Gulf Current Draws Strange Ocean Species Christmas Presents ' By RUTH WYETII SPEABS AN INTERESTING letter this morning says, Our church bazaar is over and in winding up the last details and balancing my accounts I feel that I would be neglecting something if I did not express my appreciation for your Sewing Book No. 2, Gifts, Novel ADVENTURERS CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELFI ties and Embroidery. We found many ideas in it that were real in the Our annual money makers. Christmas sale is now in course of Could you publish preparation. to me, boys and girls, that all the interesting some new ideas for toys in the paper soon?" characters in the world are flocking to this corner of ours to tell Unusually attractive toys may us the big experiences of their lives. Take, for instance, Moe be made quickly and at little cost New Aarons of York City. Moe has been a circus man for most This cotton from cheap stockings. demure yellowish tan kitten with of his life, and for a good part of that time he has held down bright red or blue ribbon is made one of the most intriguing jobs in the circus business. And did Moe lead the band, or swing the flying trapeze, or whiten up his face and do a clown act in the big arena? Not on your life. Moe didnt even travel with the show. For 25 years he has toured the Far East looking for animals with which to stock the menagerie. In that time, Moe has seen plenty, and had plenty of things happen to him. But none of his experiences can ever touch the one he had in October, 1931, with a monster from the dark jungles of Burma. The Monster Hello Box everybody: 20-fo- ot Python Twenty-Si- x Feet Long. I was taking a cargo of unhandled snakes, says Moe, "from Singapore to France on the passenger steamer Az Reveau. The snakes were pythons of extraordinary size, some of them as long as 26 feet, as big around as a stovepipe, and capable of crushing horses to death in their coils. They were kept in wooden boxes four feet square, and I made regular rounds to see that they were all secure, for the steamer carried 800 people, crew included, and I realized my responsibility in safeguarding them from my reptiles." But one day, to hia consternation, Moe found one of his biggest from a stocking leg. The secret gone. To save his life he couldnt understand how that pythons of giving toys of this type charsnake got out of his box but at the moment that was the least of acter is in making the stuffing his worries. The thing to do was to find the reptile and get him firm and tight Cotton or small back in the ease again. Moe hurried to the eaptain, told him not to worry and asked for few sailors to help recapture the snake. pieces of clean, soft rags may be used. Push the stuffing firmly in The captain assigned three sailors to help Moe. Moe searched tha place with a blunt stick. vessel for three hours before he found the python, on a shelf in a secludComplete directions for cutting ed corner of the deck. There he lay, says Moe, "with his tongue and making the body are given in and out of his mouth like lightning. There was something un going 6 cut the a here. For tail, piece ihches long and 2 inches wide. Stitch the lengthwise edges together, tapering toward the end, then turn right side out, stuff and sew firmly in place. It is easy to draw the face. Notice in the sketch how the eyelids curve, the shape of the mouth and how the whiskers slant. Either wool yam or mercerized cotton embroidery thread may be used black or brown for the eyes and whiskers and red for the mouth. Be sure to save the scraps of stocking material left from tha kitten. We will make a doll out of them later. If you are not ready to make Christmas toys now, clip and save this lesson as it is not canny about his appearance. I was chilled at the sight. But the ana contained in either of the books thought in my mind was to get him back in hia box as soon as possible. offered below. I got a stout stick about eight feet long, attached a conp Are you ready for trivance at one end, and instructed the sailors to pull the rope tight NOTE: Christmas? Birthdays? And the as soon as I got the loop over the reptiles head. Moe advanced on the snake, stick extended. He was being next church bazaar? Do you turn careful not to get too close, lest the python strike and get him time into money with tilings to in ita crashing coils. He got the loop over the reptiles head and sell? Mrs. Spears' Sewing Book 2 Moe dragged has helped thousands of women. yelled, "Full!" While the Bailors held the the python down from the shelf, fell on him and grabbed his head. If your home is your hobby you Then he turned to shout further orders to the sailors. will also want Book 1 SEWING, for the Home Decorator. Order Sailors Left Him Holding the Python! by number enclosing 25 cents for his To dismay, they had let go of the rope and fled! each book. If you order both Moe knew fright then as he had never known it before in his life. books, quilt leaflet with 36 differ- "I had the snake by the neck," he says, but he had both my hands ent stitches will be included free. his mouth closed. Meanwhile, the snake had begun to busy keeping Address Mrs. Spears, 210 S. me in his folds. I thought: Lord, I will be crushed to death if I wrap 111. St., Chicago, don't get some help. But no one lifted a finger except my wife, Minnie, who was standing by near the box we had brought down to the repMuch Smoke, Little Fire tile in. She seized the tail of the snake and unwound one put of the folds. She tried to push it into the box, but it came out as fast as she could The community dinner was over get it in." at last and the patient guests who Again and again Minnie thrust that tail back in the box, but had listened to the long address each time it lashed out again to coil itself around Moe. Meanwhile, of the principal speaker breathed Moe was on the verge of exhaustion. The coils that were already a deep sigh of relief. around him were all but crushing tha life out of him. "Bly "The speaker was all right," the strength was ebbing fast," he says. "I was wringing wet with toastmasters wife whispered, perspiration. Blood was flowing from my nose and ears. The folds of the snake had encircled every part of my body from head to "but it seems to me that he didnt foot. Lord, how could people stand around and ace me crashed put enough fire into his speech." to death? "I feel the opposite way," anBut no one made a move to help me. By now the place was swered the toastmaster. "In my crowded with onlookers, but they stood ss if hypnotized rooted to opinion he didnt put enough of his the deck." B'nai Brith speech into the fire. Magazine. Snake Prepared for Final Squeeze. Moes wife alone stuck to him to the bitter end. And Moe claims that it was she who saved him. It seemed as if the snake were preparing for one last, final squeeze. He had hia tail around Moe, and Minnie was working with all her might to pry it loose again. Moe was l Hrt to give up, but hope dies hard. By that time he had worked himready Condition Duo to Sluggish Bowolo self close to the wooden box in his struggles, and with every ounce of If too think all luatlnM act sill i strength he had left in his body, he threw the pythons head and one or allvantak So miliL tl two of ita coils into it. DJ UUnua flek hMdactic At the ume moment, Minnie succeeded in unwrapping the aamrltMS with aoaailpaUon. snakes tail. She threw that into the box, too. With his free without Risk N aot acuchwd, am Um bos mkWIii hand, Moe slammed down the lid of the box and sat on it. That rtfmfl tha parching did the trick. Part of the snake was still outside the box, but when he felt the lid slam down on him he straightened out nnd ALWAYS CAB began drawing the rest of him inside to keep company with hia QUICK RELIEF head. FOR ACID When it was over," says Moe, "I was all in more completely exINDIGESTION hausted thap I thought a man could be and still remain conscious. I felt as though I didnt have strength to keep on living another minute. I couldn't open my fists and there was a vivid red line encircling every part of my body marks of where the snake had entwined me. I had SALT LAKE'S NEWEST HOSTELRY to lie in hot water for weeks before I was entirely recovered. And though, today, I am none the worse for my harrowing experience, the Oar lobby la delightfsQy air recollection of it never fails to send a shiver down my spine." caaled daring the annuaer awatba Copyright. WNU Service. Jtarfla far Entry Jti ZOO Eswaa-ZOZatfta Many Names for Automobile Birthplace of Napoleon When the automobile was comNapoleon was born at Ajaccio Corsica, on August 15, 1769. Corsica monly called the "horseless carbecame French territory by the riage, many names were proposed treaty of May 15. 1768, in which the for the new invention, notes a writRepublic of Genoa gave up her sov- er in Colliers Weekly, among them ereignty over the island, which had being autogo, autokinet, autovic, lasted since 1347 interrupted by nucarleck, gasmobile, ipsomotor. merous revolts. kineter, sineque and victorine. rope-loo- rope-tight- , hotels It Coming Winter Focuses Attention on Queer Air Current even as far as the North sea, bestowing upon the British isles and Scandinavia the inestimable boon of a chastened climate. We can imagine the surprise of Ponce de Leon when, sailing along the coast of Florida in 1513, he found his ship borne irresistibly northward in ita current. The Gulf stream exerts an influence on the spread and distribution of the marine life of the Atlantic which cannot be temperature over-estimate- d. CLAY PRODUCTS SEWER PIP - PIOWZZ aaS WALL COPINALL CLAY PRODUCTS. ,ACP0T8 Looking deeper, you finally ceive, extending far into the depths, a whole series of cordlike filaments, spirally adorned with close-se-t beads similar to those on the shorter strings, but larger. These slender cables are continually extending and contracting independently of each other, thickened knots passing each other up and down on neighboring strands like elevators. per- The main current warms the whole North Atlantic, and spurs setting in toward the coast have a striking effect on the distribution of floating life off the Middle Atlantic states and southern New England. Here, however, the warm stream is separated from the shore by colder waters forming what is known as the cold walk South of the Grand banka of Newfoundland it meets the icy Labrador current which flows, down from the north, bringing a' northern fauna and making ita influence felt along the shore, particularly north of Cape Cod. The Gulf stream, on the other rhand, extends the range of many i OFFICE EQUIPMENT USED NEW AND STTSSk BAND Mp INSTRUMENTS - not iTrue Tone Initnuaanta Are FOX for br Laadin Profsaaionals.AYSBandMUSIC 8UMMERH Catalogue. Labe Cttr. Utah. Mt Saath. First It GIFTS OF GLASS Framing: Mirrors and PictureGlass Constant Movement A sudden breeze ruffles the water surface. The floats change shape, twisting in such a way as to "trim sail. The long, submerged cables, being attached to only one aide of the bladder, act as a drag anchor, enabling the craft to head up into the wind and thus counteract a too rapid leeway. On board the boat you have a tall glass jar. Reaching over the side, as the vessel drifts with the current, you pick up a fine example at physalia, being careful to lift it by the float and thus avoid contact with streamers. any of the This cautfon is essential, for every bead ia a battery of powerful sting cells loaded with minute barbed threads, thousands of which, at the slightest touch, will penetrate the skin and inject an irritating poison. Once while wading near Ponce, on the south shore of Puerto Rico, a scientist attempted to lift one off these creatures into a pail of water. The trade winds were blowing strongly, and, as the streamers came clear of the surface, the wind caught them and blew them around the bare arm with which he held tiie paiL Immediately a pain as of living fire shot through it He quickly dropped the physalia into the pail and began to unwind the clinging streamers with his free hand. When he had finished, each finger pained like a toothache. 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Yam eaa latta. fan lodmlud why thta hatal lai HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Taw eaa alta appraclata vkyi Ma a inarik a dtdirefett fa stop a! imp baautifuf Awslalry ERNEST C ROSSITER, Mgr. mimmmstmmmmimammm i Vapor From Bush Will Burn The burning bush or gas plant, Dictamnus fraxinella, is uniaue in that its staik, branches and leaves exude a resinous or oily water that is so volatile its vapor can be ignited on a hot, dry day. The bush, however, is not harmed by the fire, says a correspondent in Collier's Weekly, as the flames do not come in contact with the plant itself. V' Weight of Elephants male elephant The average weighs five tons or more. Tea Known Sinee 2700 B. C. Tea has been known to the Chinese since 2700 B. C., but was used as a medicine rather than a beverage until about 500 A. D. It ia grown in eight provinces, four crops a year, of which the first crop ia the best. Many Statues id Cathedral The second largest Gothic cathedral in Europe is the Duomo, of Milan. As part of its massive archi- tecture the visitor can count more than 4,000 statues. BALT LAKE Christmas on January 5 Christmas comes to the resident of Rodanthe, on North Carolinas Hatters island, on January 5. Inhabitants observe the holiday on Twelfth Night, following tha old calendar. Cultivation of Rice in India The cultivation of rice in India was subsequent to that of China. In the Twenty-eight- h century B. C Emperor Shen Rung had the exclusive right of planting one special kind of rice, and four other kinds were planted by princes of his family. Largest, Smallest Counties largest and smallest counties in the United States are San Ber- FEEL G.00D i Week No. IMS The Ichthyologists hail with delight the capture of this inch and a quarter sailfish, smallest ever recorded. Caught in a net at Miami city yacht basin, it proves that sailfish spawn in the tropical waters around Miami , according to fish authorities. The spawning place of the deep sea fighters has long been a matter of guesswork. West Indian and other tropical spe- ing the next day. Fortunately he cies tar to the northward during was not seriously affected, but some the summer, some of them being people, more susceptible, have been borne to the British isles, so that known to collapse. the pelagic life of the Live in Colonies is more tropical in character than The cluster of individuals immethat of the same latitude on the diately under the float ia of several North American coast. kinds, each having a special funcSail out across the Gulf stream in a tion. The blue, d memsoutheasterly direction, keeping your bers are feeding polyps, with mouth eyes open for evidences of its float- openings at their lower extremity. ing life. Suddenly you see a grace- They do the feeding and digesting ful, translucent object, like an oddly for the entire community. The elongated bladder, floating on the green, tapering fingers are feelers surface. It is brilliantly colored blue and tasters, very sensitive. The fineand crimson, the hues more intense ly divided pink clusters, reproducat ita tapering ends and shading tive in function, develop the sex into a play of delicate transparent cells. Male and female cells are found only in separate colonies. tints along its sides. As you come nearer you see still The streamers, of course, are others, and soon you realize that fighting polyps, the longer ones, as you are steering into the midst of a above stated, having a stabilizing fleet of these fairy craft. Each one function as well. Fishes or other erects a crest resembling a succes- organisms that chance to swim sion of iridescent, foamlike bubbles against the streamers are immealong its summit, bordered with an diately stung to death and drawn up by the contracting filaments to come edging of deep crimson. in contact with the mouths of the These are the Portuguese (physalia pelagica), an or- feeding polyps, which suck out the ganism related to the hydroids and victims' body fluid, digest the food, jellyfish, but consisting of a whole and pasa the excess on to the mouthcolony of connected individuals less members of the colony. A species of small fish, the Porfloating as a unit. At first glance only one member tuguese fish, appears to of the colony is visible. But, as you be immune to the sting, and seeks look downward through the transshelter among the tentacles from its parent water, you see masses of enemies. In return, it perhaps projections de- acts as a lure for larger fish preyed side just upon by its host, and doubtless nib, its lower from pending bles at the feast! beneath the surface. mid-Atlant- ic tube-shape- man-of-w- ar man-of-w- smaller-tube-shap- ed ar nardino county, Calif., with 20,175 square miles, and New York county (Manhattan borough), N. Y, with 22 square miles, respectively. Uses for Tung Oil Chinese tung oil has the highest specific gravity of all known fatty oils, with the exception of castor oil. Its characteristic quality is the readiness with which it sets to a hard jelly on being heated for a time. Besides being used for paints and varnishes, it is also used for dyes and as a lubricant for motors. g It is used in China for paper. water-proofin- Largest Dsm Failure The worst dsm failure in werld history occurred at Johnstown, Pa., in 1889 when tha South Fork dam broke and killed over 4,000 persons. Rubber From Poinsettia The poinsettia ia listed among the plants from which rubber can be obtained. Being Absolutely Frank "There ia danger in a man priding himself on being absolutely frank," said Hi IIo, the sage of Chinatown. "He gets so in the habit of surprising people that if ho runs out of facts he is tempted to make them up. Taxes on Used Cara The hidden taxes on the operation of a used car each year amount to about the cost of a pair of movie tickets for every week in the year. |