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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH THE CHEERFUL CHERUB First in War and in Peace I love to ee.t in restaurants with music All through my dinner sweet notes . weave-7Ln- d glide-Lik- e sauce for everything and when tve finished I always feel so musical inside. F.Iultiplication Is the Way of Life and Love We Foreign Words and Phrases Mirahile dictu. (L.) Wonderful are all either stretching or to relate. shrinking. Our world, home, work, business is becoming bigger or less. None can stop still. A business that does not grow ceases to pay dividends; a shopkeeper that does not continue to get new customers may well shut shop. A man who does not accumulate ideas and visions is donning old age, however few years he has lived, for age is not a matter of years. The woman with no friends cannot live like the woman with a large circle of friends. By adding there is growth; but subtracting there is death and WNU Service. HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS Items of Interest to the Housewife Quimporte? matter? (F.) What does it Parvenu. (F.) A person of low origin; an upstart. Qui vivra, verra. (F.) Who lives will see. Regnant populi. (L.) The people reign. (Motto of Arkansas.) Sanctum sanctorum. (L.) The holy of holies. Usque ad aras. (L.) To the very altars; to the last extremity. Ventre-a-terr(F.) At full galbreakneck at speed. lop; Trink-gel(Ger.) A gratuity. Vive la bagatelle! (F.) Success to trifles! Trifling forever! e. d. Self Conquest Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves ; without that the conqueror is only the first slave. Thomson. A little starch added to the cake. When the cake has risen water used in washing windows, and begun to set, lower the heat mirrors and other glassware will a little and move to a cooler shelf. not only help remove dirt but will To test whether your cake is cooked, touch lightly with one give a lasting polish. finger; if cooked, the surface of To remove brown stains from the cake will spring back when light colored ranges, dip a cloth the finger is removed. in turpentine and apply to stains. With a little pressure the stains A little sweet oil applied to reoiemanjiEATisft will come off. bronzes after they are dusted, followed by a brisk rubbing with a LIGHTS INSTANTLY NO WAITING the iron that will smooth your way off cut When broiling a steak, chamois skin will bring out their onHeres ironing day. It will save your strength excess fat around edge to prevent rich tones. ...help you do better ironing easier and quicker at less cost. it from catching fire when placed A Real Instant Lighting Iron ... no heating below glowing fire. d When serving pickled onions use with matches. ..no wai ting. The base irons garments with fewer double sugar tongs instead of a fork. It strokes.pointed base slides easier. Large Sliced almonds make a pleasant is easier to get them out of the Ironing time is reduced Heats itself too . . . costs . . . use Economical, it anywhere. addition to chicken salad. an hour to operate. See your local jar. only evenly-heate- glass-smoo- th one-thir- d. V4 t Put a small bowl of water in Bluing spots on white clothing the oven and your cakes will not can be removed by boiling in clear burn. Light the oven a good ten water. GEORGE WASHINGTON minutes before putting in your was actually purchased in 1860 for a shrine. Then the Washington family left the estate. With breaking out of the Civil war, Miss Cunningham appealed to the commanders of both armies to preserve Mount Vernon. As both General Scott and General Lee gave orders that no armed man should enter the estate, the shrine was the only neutral spot in the United States. For several years members of at least four families of the Mt. Vernon slaves remained to care for the place, in the employ of the associaWashingtons tion. Some of the children grew up home, Mount Vernon, there and a few of the adults stayhas not been a residence for ed long enough to gain the title of nor has it been owned years, many aunty or uncle, which was a by a member of the Washington typical Southern respect for an aged family for three quarters of a cen- negro. tury, says the Washington Star. Today Mount Vernon, a national Mrs. Eleanor Washington Howard, is a perfectly preserved shrine, daughter of John Augustine Wash- plantation with mansion, green- ington, the illustrious Washingtons was th last private owner of the estate. She first saw the world from the most historic home in America in 1856. Though General Washingtons slaves, numbering more than 150, ; were freed by his will, his nephew, Bushrod Washington, who inherited Mount ; Vernon, John Augustine Washington Bushrods nephew, and his son, John Augustine Washington, Jr., who in turn fell heirs to the estate, were slave owners. George Washington, who is said to hav6 been worth several hundred thousand dollars in todays values, had a salary of $25,000 a year during his presidency and added resources brought to him by his marriage with the rich Martha Custis. With such wealth he was able to keep his estate of 8,000 acres in fine condition. This was despite the fact that he was constantly enter- Washingtons Colonial Home Now a National Shrine. taining visitors. -, inwas , By the time the property house, kitchen, servants quarters, herited by John Augustine Washingcoach house, smoke house, dairy, the 1829, in plantton, his nephew, carpenters house, ation had been reduced to 1,225 spinning house, house and plantation ofwhich of gardeners 100 acres acres, only about fice. were suitable for farming. When his Perhaps the estates closest touch son, John Augustine Washington with esWashington are the beautiful of the Jr., came into possession in the grounds near the mantate in 1860, after, his mothers trees which were planted either by sion wealth such that death, he realized or by his direcGeneral Washington had e posgreat-unclGeorge as his ; , . tion. restore to sessed was required Mount Vernon and maintain it in its Americas most famous home, former splendor. Mount a Miss but two Vernon, underwent not one According to tradition major enlargements during Ann Pamela Cunningham of South the of the First American ownership boat Carolina, who was a Potomac believed who apparently, that the John passenger about the time whenMount of an American citizen first duty A. Washington wished to sell to his family was to provide a comwith so impressed Vernon, became fortable according to a writthe tolling of the bell and the his- er in thehome, Post. Washington Washof George torical importance about , first When 1743, the built, she became acingtons home that an was home of unpretentious Virginia tive in working for the purchase plantation house of one and the estate. the central see In 1858 the organization she had stories, comprising mansion. of the tion Lapresent Vernon Mount formed as the ; Just before his marriage to Mardies association of the Union conCustis in 1759, Washington and mansion tha tracted to buy the the dwelling into a house women of the the patriotic appeal lf stories by addand the efforts of Senator Edward of two and but did not one who ; story, complete of ing Massachusetts, Everett ' toured the country and raised $68,- - increase the floor area. Washingtons Associated Newspapers. WNU Service. hardware dealer. FREE Folder Illustrating and telling all about this wonderful iron. Send postcard. 8819 THE COLEMAN LAMP AND STOVE CO. Dept. WU319. Wichita, Kans.s Chicago, 111.) 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