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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH, UTAH Zoos New Signs Reject Legends About Animals The staff has grown weary of the erroneous stories that parents tell their children about the animals, and so new signs have been put up that will keep the record straight. The old story about the hoop snake cant be used to amaze the children any longer. The new sign reads: This snake cannot roll into a hoop. No one has ever claimed the $500 reward for producing a snake that can roll. Stark realism is embodied in the new label on the woodchuck cage which tells visitors that there is no basis for the legend of groundhog day. The signs identifying each animal, reptile and bird now give miniature histories of them, rather than a simple label containing the English and Latin names as formerly. Theres a lot of common sense in the new signs, too, such as the one in the monkey house which says: Boys and girls get stomach aches from eating improper food. So do monkeys. of Phil- Philadelphia. adelphias Prospective customers listen with interest while a street salesman In Geneva, Switzerland, demonstrates special lamp shades for use in time of an air raid. Many devices such as these are now on sale in d European cities as preparations for giant drills are planned to zoo ASK r.7E ANOTHER O i Quiz With Answers Offering Information A on Various Subjects 1. How many bachelor Presidents has the United States had? 2. What does the abbreviation non sec stand for? d 3. How does a dog correspond to age in a human married while he was in the Presidential office. 2. Non sequitur (it does not fol- was low). 3. A dog twelve years old is as as a man at eighty-fou- r. being? 4. Air naturally and horizontally 4. What is wind? in motion with a certain degree 5. Who was the Greek cynic phiof velocity. losopher who lived in a tub? 5. Diogenes. 6. What is the procedure when 6. It withdraws the amount of a bank certifies a check? the check from the drawers acAnswers count, and holds it for the purpose 1. Two James Buchanan and of paying the check which it Grover Cleveland, but Cleveland guarantees. twelve-year-ol- old PRIZE WINNER air-rai- darken entire cities. Coffee Again Is Making Headlines in World News . Brazils Changed Policy Mys- tifies Producers. Washington, D. C. Coffee, famous bean that contributes to millions of American breakfasts, is making world headlines again. Brasil, worlds largest producer of coffee, has reduced her export tax on the commodity and world coffee producers are wondering how this may affect their fortunes. More than 3,000,000,000 coffee of all there are in trees, three-fifth- s the world, are busily producing coffee in Brazils cool uplands, and 38 or more other countries and colonies are adding to the world crop, which reached 2,500,000 tons in the last crop-yea- r, enough to make two and a half pounds for every human ANOTHER CARUSO? has consumed far less coffee than it has produced, and coffees success story has changed lately to a tale of woe. With Brazils own production increasing, and other countries planting coffee trees to compete with her, coffee prices have dropped. Hoping to improve the situation, Brazil began destroying part of her crop. Long before the United States began plowing under cotton and killing off pigs to boost prices, Brazil was burning surplus coffee by the ton. Since 1931 nearly 52,000,000 bags, or 3,432,000 tons have been destroyed. Some of the ash was used as fertilizer on Brazilian farms. Leading Producers in New World. BraIn the crop-yeof 1936-3zil alone produced a million bags more of coffee than the world consumed in the same period. (The standard bag of coffee weighs 132 pounds.) World coffee production in that crop-yewas 13,000,000 bags in excess of the amount consumed. Leading coffee producers next to Brazil are Colombia, Netherlands East Indies, Venezuela, Guatemala and Salvador. Once Called Intoxicant. Coffee trees thrive best on land from 1,000 to 4,000 feet above sea level in the tropics. They are evergreen, and blossom two or three times a year. Coffee blossoms are pure white and fragrant, and the berries are dark red, very much like cherries. The coffee bean is the seed of this berry. Strangely enough the leaves of the coffee tree contain more caffeine, the stimulating alkaloid found in coffee, than coffee beans. In some regions, for this reason, a sort of tea has been made from coffee leaves, but is not an especially pleasant drink. Because of the stimulating properties of coffee, it was once con- ar ar Shown during a rehearsal for his appearance on a radio program is Enrico Caruso, son of the famed operatic tenor. Young Carusos favorite number is a song beloved by his late father, O Paradiso, While critics from LAfricaine. declare he is a promising singer, they do not predict a career paralleling that of his father. being on earth, says the National Geographic society. Coffee is an immigrant from ancient Ethiopia that made good in the New world. On the highlands of the old African kingdom recently conquered by Italy, coffee trees have grown wild since early times. Legend says the stimulating properties of coffee were discovered by a priest who noticed that goats refused to take their ordinary rest after eating coffee berries. From Ethiopia coffee crossed the Red sea to Arabia, then traveled to Java, and finally came as a vegetable im migrant to the Americas. Coffees Success Story. There began coffees real success story. Like many human immigrants, coffee made good in the New world to an extent far beyond anything ever dreamed of in the old country. South America became its greatest producer, and North America its greatest consumer. In Its 7, pwMVMv.v,vAv.,Kv.vv.wAv.mw.VMmyAVi(wmsV.w.v.w This is the picture that won both the class prize of $500 and the grand prize of $1,000 in the newspaper national snapshot award, for Edgar T. Clewell, bakery machinist of Allentown, Pa. A picture of his little A Dressing Table Skirt dressing table has a curved front and hinged arms on which to mount the skirt so that it can be opened to permit daughter, it was adjudged the best access to the drawer. To mount of 408 snapshots entered by 102 the skirt it must first be sewed to newspapers in the national contes a band of covered buckram. Cut the buckram in a strip 2 inches held in Washington, D. C. wide. Cover it with a straight piece of material as shown here sidered an intoxicant among ortho- at B. dox Mohammedans and therefore Make the heading at the top of was a forbidden drink. But coffee the the depth of the skirt nevertheless increased in popularity thickness ofjust table edge so that the among the Arabian Moslems, and it will cover the edge of the table became as closely identified with when the arms are closed. Use Arabia as is tea with China. cable cord for the shirring. Until the close of the Seven- This is sewed to a safety pin and teenth century, practically all of the run tucks stitched in the through came coffee from of worlds supply material as shown here at C. Yemen, in southern Arabia, and the The top of the ruffle is also seaname of Mocha, a Yemenite shirred with cords. When the shirof sort for a became synonym port, are all finished, sew the top coffee. Later coffee culture spread rings to Java, and for a time this East of the skirt to the covered buckIndies island led in production, so ram strip as shown at D and then that its name also became a syno- thumb tack it in place as at A. Every Homemaker should have nym for coffee. a copy of Mrs. Spears new book, ' SEWING. Forty-eigThe District pages of directions for making The mining field known as the district is a district ap- slipcovers and dressing tables; proximately 10 miles wide by 40 restoring and upholstering chairs, miles long, with Joplin as the cen- couches; making curtains for ev- ter, falling within the three states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri. The district produces more than a Glass Curtain quarter of the worlds supply of zinc and from 10 to 20 per cent of In the National theater of Mexthe worlds lead supply. ico City, known as the Palacio de Bellas Artes, a huge glass curtain executed by Tiffany of New York, is one of its most striking features, and is perhaps the only one of its kind in the world. It is composed of thousands of pieces of glass and the novel lighting arrangement red veals the volcanoes, Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihu-at- l, at sunrise, midday and sunset. Vi-in- ch Tri-Sta- crop-yea- r, 68 ht te step-by-st- ep With Corded Shirrings ery type of room and purpose. Making lampshades, rugs, ottomans and other useful articles for the home. Readers wishing a eopy should send name and address, enclosing 25 cents, to Mrs. Spears, 210 South Desplaines St., Chicago, Illinois. Changed Sea Code$ On a vessel at sea, the captain ordinarily is supreme, but on Soviet boats the crew is permitted to criticize his actions. Such severe methods of punishment as flogging for insubordination have disappeared from the sea with the advent of steam, and today the merchant seamen of all nations enjoy many privileges. Desertion, for example, was once punishable by arrest and imprisonment, but today a deserter is subject only to the loss of his clothing left on board and his wages. Moreover, the deserter cannot be compelled to rejoin his vessel. Washington Post. Tri-Sta- te Popular at Northwestern Brazil alone Martha Towle (left), and Helen Sethness, Northwestern university per cent of grew approximately the worlds coffee production, and coeds, battle in the crisp winter air. Field hockey is one of the most the United States usd half of all the popular feminine sports on the Eyanston campus. Miss Towle has just hit the puck from under the stick of Miss Sethness during an intracoffee consumed in the world. But the world in recent years mural contest. the, 1936-3- 7 'T'HIS vari-color- ed snow-crowne- What a difference good bowel habits can make! To keep food wastes soft and moving, many doctors recommend Nnjol. INSIST ON GENUINE NUJOL Copi.1987, Stanoo loo ffiie ECiaseAjnfie --Res- earch Professor of Economy SHES not a Ph.D. or an LL.D. She hasn't a diploma or a cap and gown. Her research is not done in the laboratory or the library. As a matter .of fact, her findings are made, usually, in the street car, in the subway, , in the suburban commuter's train. She reads the advertisements in this paper with care and consideration. They form her research data. By means of them she makes her purchases so that she well deserves the title of "Research Professor of Economy She discovers item after item, as the years roll on, combining high quality with low. ' It is clear to you at once that you . . . and all who make and keep a home . . , have the same opportunity. With the help of newspaper advertising you, too, can .graduate from the school of indiscriminate buying into the faculty of fastidious purchases! |