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Show THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT, MOAB, UTAH co Set of Shelves From Spools and Can Lids Kathleen Norris Says: By RUTH WYETH SPEARS ‘THE other day I went to a Hobby Show and there, hanging on the wall with a blue ribbon pinned on it, were the spool shelves from SEWING Book 3! Of course, I searched out the proud girl who had made them, and she told me that she had also made the end table of spools that is in Book 5. I felt most as proud as John James Audubon, Painter of Birds, _ Melancholia May Be Just Selfishness (Bell Syndicate—WNU ~ Now Revealed as an Important Writer Service.) Who Was ‘Witness to Our Heroic Age’ By ELMO SCOTT WATSON (Released _2"BEADS CSTART WITH A LOOP- 7 9 RUN BOTH ENDS DOWN THROUGH MATCH noe Top Ce and she did. All her friends are saving spoels for her and her urgent need at the moment was, “‘something to make for Mother for Christmas.”’ Here is my suggestion. An adorable set of three corner shelves made of a lid from a tin candy box, one from a cracker can and a coffee can put together with wire, spools and two beads. These shelves were painted cherry red and hung up with a brass hook to hold salt and pepper shakers, vinegar cruet, and other things for making salads. Any homemaker will think of a dozen places where this handy set of shelves could be used. All the directions are here in this sketch. ke that MRS. RUTH WYETH Drawer 10 Enclese -j| Name 20e for Books 3 and gratefully .. AGGreSS DON'T BE BOSSED an @®When you feel gassy, headachy, logy due to clogged-up bowels, do as millions do—take Feen-A-Mint at bedtime. Next merning ~thorough, comfortable relief, helping you start the day full of your normal energy and pep, feeling like a million! Feen-A-Mint doesn’t disturb your night’s rest or interfere with work the next day. Try Feen-A-Mint, the chewing gum laxative, yourself. 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KATHLEEN NORRIS NE of the unmistakable marks of approaching insanity, CONSTIPATION THIS MODERN WAY fool, Salt Lake’s NEWEST HOTEL or incipient insanity, or mental disturbance of any serious sort, is what the scientists call the egocentric attitude. Eigocentric, of course, means ‘‘centered in self.””’ A woman whose interest is not centered in herself will not lose her mind. Insanity doesn’t seem to be my usual topic. The questions I answered in this column are usually the normal obvious questions of girls unhappily in love, girls who suppose themselves unpopular, girls who want to shine in Hollywood, or all the varying phases and angles of marriage problems. i But for every letter that I answer here I answer a hundred personally, and destroy unanswered, for one reason or another, a hundred more. Either because they were not written in good faith or because the answer has been given -a thousand times, or because they are simply kind and appreciative and I have to leave sheer them lack unacknowledged of time and for energy. Don’t Center Interest in Self. And in every hundred letters there are three from women who are either going into melancholia, or are afraid of it, or who have had some relative who went insane, and when I answer these letters I always remind the writers of the truism with which I opened this article. A woman whose interest is not centered in herself will not lose her mind. That is, unless some serious physical condition exists. And usually, with the women who write me, it doesn’t. They are women who are tired, bored, losing youth, losing their old close hold over their child or children, losing their keen affectionate interest in the man of the family, and perhaps approaching that time of physical change whose effects. have been so much exaggerated, whose slight and unimportant dis- comforts have been built up into an Ste... TEMPLE SQUARE Oppesite Mormon Temple HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Rates $1.50 to $3.00 _ It’s a mark of distinction to stop at this beautiful hostelry Cc. ROSSITER, Mer. TEACHING A CHILD VALUE OF PENNIES A child of a wise mother will be taught from early childhood to become ar ar reader of the advertisements.Inthatwaybetterperhaps than in any other can the child be taught thegreatvalueofpenniesand the permanent benefit whichcomes from making every penny count. @ @ @ Q e@ . @ @ @ © © @ . ® yet raised by his actual tradition. Expecting to become fretful, nervous, suspicious, sensitive, jealous, lonely, restless, sleepless, ugly, gray, wrinkled and disagreeable at this time, many a woman sinks into the role almost willingly. The experience comes just at the wrong time, when in a sort of panic she realizes that youth and bloom and love affairs and beauty are all dying; and the combination of miseries really does bring some women close to the verge of mental breakdown. Everything Seems Ended. Here is a typical letter: ‘My dear Mrs. Norris,’’ writes Helene, from Knoxville. ‘‘When I first began reading your weekly articles my three girls were small children, and my problem was that of a busy and distracted young mother. In 15 years I think I have not missed a dozen articles, and many a time they have helped me. Those years have taken me from 31 to 46. And I find myself at 46 with a frightened sense that everything is over. What terrifies me is that there is no ' yeason for my feeling that way even though life is not just what it was. I have a good, steady, if not particularly thrilling mate; we own our home; our faithful Signa has carried all domestic responsibilities for MELANCHOLIA Women who consistently suffer from melancholy have only themselves to blame, according to Kath- leen Norris. She explains that a continually depressed feeling is not natural. This state of mind results only rarely from physical deficiencies; almost always it is caused by centering too much interest in the self. Grape Juice Grape juice will turn brown and change flavor if not properly sealed away from air. . Fifth Wedding’ Anniversary The proper gift for the fifth wed-ding anniversary is wood. fellow- and understand- She advises women who suffer from chronic melancholia to develop outside activities, because they offer the only cure. : many years. Now my oldest daughter is married and a mother at 22; my second shocked:us all by an elopement last Christmas; my youngest is in college and we see her only occasionally. “With the world in the state it is I ought to be deeply grateful for peace and security, I know that. I am not ill, except in spirit. My married daughter lives near and my granddaughter is a darling. But I am so BLUE. Tears are always near my eyes; nothing seems worth while; I don’t sleep well. To be told to busy myself with charities and gardening and club work merely maddens me. My appetite is poor; and I look 60 years old. If my hus- band suggests a movie or a walk my inclination is to strike out at him, to tell him to shut up and leave me alone! Fears It’s in the important than this inclusion of authentic reproductions of Audubon’s paintings in a popular-priced book is the fact that his ‘‘narratives and experiences”’ in it are edited by Donald Culross Peattie. And Mr. Peattie, naturalist and author of such books as ‘‘Singing in the Wilderness’’ and “‘A Prairie Grove,”’ is probably the one man in America today who is most competent THE VIRGINIAN It is at this point in his essay that Mr. Peattie points out how Audubon’s fame as an ornithologist, the renown which has made his name synonymous with the word “‘birds,’’ has obscured his value to his fellow-Americans as “a witness of our heroic age.’’ Moreover, his art as a painter has overshadowed his ability as a writer. For a professional.writer: he was, a man who wrote to sell and who did sell. “T am not saying that he knew how to write history like. the learned Parkman, or style like zest for the adventure personal ardors. He neers A JOHN JAMES AUDUBON self-portrait in oils, made Beech La., Woods, in 1822 Feliciana at the | at parish, age of 37. the choice Thoreau, or that he thought as an equal with Emerson,’ observes Mr. Peattie. ‘I am asserting only that while Cooper went to England while he wrote “The Prairie’ (an unreadably dull.book, to my ears), Audubon was on the prairies. That where Emerson knew his Carlyle, Audubon knew his Mississippi squatters, that while Thoreau was Blood. fringes and upholsteries and bead portiers, and drink chocolate and nibble ‘‘bon-bons’’ when they felt No wonder they went melancholy mad! One woman I knew used to boast that. she was always bilious and used to cry for an hour every morning. Effecting a Cure. So first see that your insides are in order. Then walk two miles a day. Then eat a very light dinner, THE SNOWY HERON, OR WHITE EGRET. and wind up with two big, raw apples, eaten slowly while you read or savored everything, even the untraveling around Concord, Audulisten to the radio after dinner. savory. He saw almost everybon was traveling around North Secondly, ignore tomorrow and thing, from 1803 to 1849, from America. “While Parkman was forget yesterday. Live each hour Florida to Labrador, from New writing history, Audubon was for that hour. The oldest man alive York city to Fort Union on the making and witnessing it.” has no more. The youngest baby borders of Montana. He lived Considering these facts, it only has that hour. Perfect it and among Pennsylvania Quakers, in seems strange indeed that until polish it like a jewel. Make your Kentucky among pioneers from now no attempt has been made expression pleasant. Don’t answer Virginia, in New Orleans among to bring together into one volume the telephone as if speaking from the Indians. He explored Maine and a general selection of the firsttomb. Be a bearer of good tidings. South Carolina, Texas and Florhand narratives of what Mr. Realize that you are going through ida. Peattie calls “this shrewd and a change, amuse yourself, take life Wide Variety of Experience. -eager observer of all conditions easily. Forget slights, disappoint“In the nearly 50 active Amerand aspects of American men, ments, fears,—forget yourself. Inican years of Audubon’s life, what manners and scenes.”? This has stead try living, in your mind, your other individual had such a vabeen due partly to the fact that husband’s life for a day. See just riety of experience? No one, cerAudubon’s writings have been how much fun and peace and pleas- . tainly, was at once so sensitive / scattered through a wide assortantness the old man is getting. and so lusty. No one with his ment of volumes, many of which blue. and his brush... .” cialists in American history. For these reasons Americans generally know little about Audubon, the writer, even though they may be familiar enough with Audubon, the artist, and what they do know about him as a chronicler of the period in which he lived is when he is quoted ‘in evidence for «the unbelievable numbers of the passenger pigeons, or the destruction of the buffalo, or on some other point in natural history.” Therefore the great value of this book is that it ‘“‘makes up in some measure for neglect of Audubon’s precious testimony.” For, as Mr. Peattie says, ‘‘as editor, I have preferred to bring forward less as the natural- ist than as one who knew river captains and roustabouts, pio- “The real trouble is this. My mother’s brother died in an institution for the feeble-minded, and my father’s two first cousins were genuine cases of melancholia. So you see it is in our blood. Do you know any physician who handles cases like this; I would travel anywhere to find a cure.”’ Yes, I do know a Physician whose treatments never fail in cases like this. You don’t have to travel anywhere, physically, to find Him; you may have to make something of a spiritual journey. But I’ll come to that later. Just now what you have to realize is that a generation ago all families had their mental cases, because women dressed idiotically, never exercised, knew nothing of hygiene and ate three times too much. Your Victorian relatives used to shut themselves up in unaired houses, among pen OPOSSUM. libraries and are therefore known to only a few scholars and spe- him to act as an appreciative and understanding interpreter of John James Audubon, p witness to and an interpreter of our heroic age. Some of the most charming prose that Mr. Peattie has ever written is included in ‘‘What Audubon Knew,” which serves as an introduction to the book. It says in part: “The source of history is the narratives of those who lived it . . . Now of all those who ever lived here, traveled and greatly adventured, none could bear more fascinating testimony than John James Audubon. He had the advantage of being a foreigner . . . 90 that he took nothing for granted, and in the perspective of a more mature culture, all things American struck him as fresh. He had the further advantage that he was a genius, and a genius of art at that, so that to observe, to depict what he saw, was habitual and instinctive. “But Audubon had, too, a genius for the art of living. He lived with and with First a appreciative more ‘Brainstorm’ Delphin Michael Delmas, attorney for Harry K. Thaw, at the turn of the’ century, was the originator of the words “brainstorm” and “dementia Americana.” . He first used the words at the Thaw trial. to ing witness, he was one of its best interpreters. Such is the theme of a new book, whose publication by. the Houghton Mifflin company of Boston, was a major event of the 1940 publishing .season. The book is ‘‘Audubon’s America —- The Narratives and Experiences of John James Audubon,”’ illustrated with nearly a score of facsimiles of his prints and paintings in full color. By «.cccoce -Used those That is because he was ‘“‘a witness to our heroic age’’ and, as But 5. has Americans. In a sort of panic she realizes that youth and bloom and love affairs and beauty are all dying, and the: combination of miseries really does bring some women close to the verge of mental breakdown. York art post name to a business reply card are prohibited by the postal laws. They carry a maximum penalty of $5,000 fine and a five-year prison term, dubon should be remembered SPEARS New of Dunning on Card Illegal Dunning of a debtor on a ecard and the signing of a fictitious —reason why John James Au- & Hills preservation Leading Sports in France . The five leading American sports according to. their attendance are basketball, softball, baseball, football and ‘horse racing. Union.) ornithology.”’ Yet there is another—and possibly a better There is time to make the hanging book shelves in Book 3, or the end table in Bobk 5, before Christmas, if you mail your order for these booklets today. Send or. der to: P Bedford Newspaper feathered denizens of America which were his life-long passion. We remember him also as the author-artist of a set of books which a fellowscientist “once called ‘‘the most magnificent monument BEAD-BACK TO BOTTOM: TWIST * by Western O MOST Americans the name ‘‘Audubon’’ is synonymous with just one word—“‘birds.’? Three species bear his name, as does the society which is dedicated to the study, protection i= 27 SPOOLS -7’OF WIRE-SCAN Lips} Mada, SPACED 70 Lueky for Vitamin A ‘Purely’ by. chance, physicians of_ ancient Greece found that animal livers contained something that would cure a certain eye disease. And now, 2,000 years later, scientists have named this substance vitamin A. . are to be found only in the larger and men of letters, Indians and scientists. This without, of course, slighting his natural history writings but reducing them to some reasonable proportion to the whole. That. whole is the. America of his day, America as he, and perhaps only he, knew it —Audubon’s .-America.”’ How richly that promise is fulfiled is shown by a reading of the chapters which follow the introductory ‘What Audubon Knew,” and Mr. Peattie’s evaluation of ‘“‘Audubon as a Witness.” The titles of.those chapters are indicative of the diversity of Audubon’s experience, the catholicity of his interests and the scope of his ‘‘traveling around North America’’—‘‘Kentucky Days and Nights,’”’ ‘‘Hunters’ Tales,’’ ‘‘Pioneer ‘Types,’’ ‘Deep South,” “Four Proud Fowl,” ‘“‘Down East for Birds and Subscribers” and “Out West With Buffalo and Indians.’’ To those who think of Audubon only in terms of birds, the amount of his writing about animals will be revealing. After completing his monumental work, “The Birds of America,’’ he began work on “The Quadrupeds of America’ and ‘‘into the new project the old master entered with all the zest, so fe avrote his young friend Spencer Baird, ‘that he had once felt*for birds.’ So it is appropriate that this new book reproduces almost as many pictures of animals (seven in all) as it does pictures of birds (eight). Not the least interesting feature of the book is a “‘Biographical Note” (a long ‘“‘note’’ albeit, since it covers 22 pages!) which tells in interesting fashion the story of his life from the date of his birth, April 26, 1785, at the port of Les Cayes or Aux Cayes on the south coast of the republic of Haiti until his death in New York city on January 27, 1851. This biographical sketch discusses the much-disputed story of his paternity and cites the fact that available documents prove conclusively that he was the natural son of Lieut. Jean Audubon of the French navy and a Creole woman of good birth, whose family name was either Rabin or Fougere. Says Mr. Peattie: ‘This should set at rest the preposterous claim that has recently (and only recently) been set up for him, that he was none other than the lost Dauphin, Louis XVII, majesty disguised as a wandering artist! This legend would be too far-fetched for notice if it were not, unfortunately, the one story about Audubon that sticks in many minds. Two women biog- HOTEL When in RENO, HOTEL NEVADA. GOLDEN—Reno’s most popular stop at the targest and hotel. WASHING MACHINES a2 Maytag -. Apex - Dexter — $10 - $20 - $30 olls Repairing, All makes HOMER HANSEN MAYTAG SHOP 426 So. State Street Salt Lake City PIANO BARGAIN Chickering, Autopiano, Kimball, Story & , Clark, own and many other makes $49.50 and up. Write us for more details. HOM SERVICE COMPANY 45 West 8rd So Salt Lake City WATCH BARGAIN A $15.00 value for only $8.95 Ladies 7-jewel wrist watch. 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