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FULTON CO. TRIBUNE, WAUSEOX, OHIO, FRIDAY, AUG. 13
Women Olympic Swimmers Leave
Mcmherji of the United States Women's Olympic team on the United States transport Princess Matoika, just be
fore they sailed for Antwerp for the Olympic games. The two youngsters nt the left are the best divers in the coun
try, and re Miss Helen Wulnwright, aged fourteen years and one month, and Miss Aileen Riggen, aged fourteen.
Weary Horses of Boston Enjoy
Son: wearied horses enjoying a
prevention pt cruelty to Animals, at
Why the Indians Are Not Dying Out
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The commissioner of Indlnn affairs has annonnced that Indians In this
country are now, after a long period of decreasing, actually Increasing In
numbers. Families like this one In Oregon are thateason. This Is unusually
lurge, as the Indian families average about threo.
Gram of Radium For New York State
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Elizabeth Damon of the bureau of standards handing to a representative
of th Radio Chemical corporation a tube containing one gram of radium for
ew Tork stat. valued at $120,(X)0. This Is the first shipment tested by the
bureau. It will be used for social service purposes in the New Tork State
Institute for Cancer Research.
WORTH KNOWING
Aromatic honey excelled "in no other
' locality la produced by the bees of
Malta,
The "baby tanks' of the French
. army have been generally adapted for
agricultural purposes.
Nigeria has been added to the lands
, In which valuable deposits of coal
have ben discovered In recent years.
In Cuba the marrlnge laws are very
rigid. Until recently personr divorced
for any cause could not be remarried.
Denver's Manufacturers' association
plans to raise a fund of $1,000,000 for
use in strengthening present industries
and inducing others to locate in the
city.
While "wanten," or isinglass made
from seaweed, la produced In prac
tically every part of Japan where cli
matic conditions are favorable, the
prefectures of Osaka, Kyoto and
jlyogo are said to produce more than
two-thirds of the entire production of
Isinglass In Japan, which was about
2.800,207 pounda, rained at $097,402, In
1917.
vacation on the NVvins fnrui, the property
juetnuen, Alass., near Boston.
There are only five physicians In the
whole of Montenegro.
Study of domestic economy was not
Introduced In schools In England un
til 1874.
More than 20.000 hounds are main
tained exclusively for hunting in Eng
land and Scotland.
The idea that the century plant
lbooms only once In a hundred years
Is a popular fallacy.
The congress has twice censured the
president of the United States Jack
son In 1S34 and Tyler In 1843.
The island of Marken In Holland
was . once wholly submerged, but It
has risen from the water and is now
a thrifty settlement of fishermen. The
water is kept back by means of dykes
and sea walls.
When Colonel Green, son of Hetty
Green, bought a sheet of 100 24-cent
alrpoat stamps, printed by mistake In
May," 1918, with the airplane upside
down, and sold some of the Inverts a:
$2S0 apiece, some questioned whether
they were worth It Recently one of
them sold at a stamp auction for
$675.
for Antwerp
Vacations
of the Massachusetts Society for the
REUC GIVEN MR. PAGE
An ancient umbrella stand and hat
tree, used In the corridors of the cfipl;
tol In the forties, has been found and
restored by clerical workers In the
house of representatives and present
ed recently by them as a wedding an
niversary gift to William Tyler Page,
clerk of the house. Henry Clay, Dan
iel Webster, John C. Calhoun and John
Qulncy Adams, who 'served In the
house after he was president, are some
of the notables who used the tree. On
It now rests an ancient woolly topper
once worn by "Uncle Joe" Cannon.
Mr. Page will take the relic to his
home In Lexington, Ky.
GENERAL NOW MECHANIC
Gen. George d'Hedberg, who carries
scars of nine wounds received in the
wars of Russia, Including the Russo-
Jap war and the world war, and who
having lost his estates In Russia and
France, is now working as a mechanic
In a New York garage.
Winter Sport in Summer.
In parts of Norway, notably the hin
terland, it is a common thing to en
Joy winter sports in a summer climate.
Flnse, 50 miles east of Bergen as the
crow flies (but much farther by road
or by rail), Is a favorite resort for
sleighing parties at this time of the
year, and even much later In the sea
son. Opposite the great snowfields of
the Hardnnger Joekul and amid wild
mountain scenery emphasized by gla
ciers, tourists and picnickers in hot
weather jjostumes take tea in
open air upon a carpet of snow.
the
Russian Sunflower.
The Russian sunflower is used as a
forage crop and for ensilage. it 13
sown in rows 30 Inches apart, the
plants standing from nine to twelve
feet high, and yields from 25 to 30
tons of forage per acre in Montana,
vuiu ubii j ucci irttuse like as
well as corn, either green or as silage,
First Nebraska Woman Notary.
j.ne nrst iNeorasKa wooan to be
commlsioned a notary mihite n..
Miss Anna Saunders of Custer county
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STATE SIFTINGS
Wheat yield in the Port Clinton dis
trict is reported exceptionally heavy.
Two auto trucks carrying 400 dozen
pints of whisky were seized ' at
Springfield.
Oil was found in s!x test wells sunk
on the farm of Frank Knowlton. near
Ashtabula.
Fifty-gallon barrel and five-gallon
keg of whisky were seized in a raid
on a Lorain store.
Harold J. Rowe. 15. j evident at the
Licking County Children's home, was
killed by lightning.
Half million foot gas well was
drilled by the city of Lancaster on
the Clint Pence farm, near Lancaster.
Grant Wheeler. Woodfield farmer,
was shot by a gun which he had ar
ranged as a trap in his granary to
catch thieves.
Captain R. W. Schroeder. holder of
the world's altitude record, was in
jured when his plane crashed into an
auto at Wilbur Wright field, Dayton.
Plant of the A. B. Rim company,
makers of auto steering wheels, at
Spencer, near Elyria. was destroyed
by fire with a loss of $60,000.
A grievance against his employer is
given by Arthur Spohn, 37, as the rea
son for burning the barn on the farm
of the National Stock Food company,
Mansfield.
Freight thefts aggregating more
than $50,000 are said to have been
cleared up at Maude when railroad
detectives arrested five men at Ham
ilton. Police are searching Steubenville
for Mike Boskish, 42, charged with
shooting four men at a railroad camp.
One of the victims, Dominic Monacul,
died.
Sherman W. Bishop, 54, died at his
home in Blacklick road,- near New
ark, at exactly the same hour as his
brother, Daniel Bishop, 67, died at
Tiffin.
Abraham Shumaker, 80, farmer at
Clearport. Fairfield county, is dead of
heart failure. He died in the same
room he was born in and lived in the
same house all his life.
Miss Maude Hoyle, trained nurse
and ordained elder in the United
Brethren church, plans to leave soon
for Rotifunk, Sierra Leone, West Af
rica, to enter missionary work.
Fifteen hundred employes of five
potteries at Sebring, east of Alliance,
struck when one employe who was
dismissed from one plant was refused
employment by the others,
George Moore. 22, was held to the
grand jury at Alliance on a charge of
manslaughter in connection with the
death of Helen Coe, 4. who, it is al
leged, was struck by Moore's auto.
Mangled body of Thomas Mercer,
17, elevator operator, was found by
workmen on the first floor of a plant
at New Comerstown. It is believed
Mercer looked out of the shaft and
was caught.
State Prohibition Director J. A.
Shearer revoked prescription permits
of several Cleveland physicians
charged with violation of the federal
regulations in issuing permits for the
use of liquor.
Lowell Lee, 17, of Clarksfield, and
Lucille Sackett, 17, of New London,
were instantly killed at a railroad
crossing, three miles west of New
London, when a train crashed into
their automobile.
Price of the two Cleveland after
noon dally papers, the News and the
Press, and the morning daily, the
Plain 'Dealer, has been increased
from 2 to 3 cents, because of the in
creased cost of newspaper production.
i. Frank Hanly, 58, former gover
nor of Indiana, and Dr. and Mrs.
Charles Baker of Kilgore were killed
when the auto in which they were
riding was struck by a freight train
near Dennison. Hanly was a noted
dry leader.
Willard Miller, a farmer near
Reedsburg, Waj'ce county, bought for
his 6-year-old boy Waldo a pair of
rubber boots so he could take the
cows to pasture. On his first trip the
boy tried out the boots by wading in
a creek. He was drowned.
Two men are held in Cleveland in
connection with the theft of $53,000
in liberty bonds, stolen while in
transit between the First National
bank of Cleveland and the Second
National bank of Toledo, while being
shipped for an Akron bank.
Cafe Newman, 0, a prosperous
farmer near Peebles, Adams county,
was shot three times with a revolver
by his daughter, Mrs. Ransey, and in
stantly killed. A divorce suit was
pending between the Newmans. Mrs.
Ransey says her father's cruelty to
her mother forced her to do the kill
ing. She was exonerated.
Sale of the historic Neil House was
authorized at Columbus after the
court had heard arguments and testi
mony in a suit brought by William
Neil, trustee, against other heirs to
the property for permission to sell.
The court held the sale may be made
for $2,180,000.
Employes of Ashtabula Rapid Tran
sit company, who went on strike in
protest against a retrenchment policy
by which a one-man svtem of car
operation was to be adopted, returned
to work following a settlement.
Census bureau announced the fol
lowing 1920 population results: But
ler county. 87.025. an increase of Jti.
754 or 23.8 per cent; Clark county,
80.728. an increase of 14,283 or 21 5
per cent; Fairfield county. 4.88. n
increase of 1.2X3 or 3.3 percent; Ross
county. 40.556, an increase of M87 or
3.7 per cent; Stark county, 177,218,
an increase of S4.231, or 44.. per cent.
Ohio Conservation and Fire Pre
vention association has made more
thap 1,500 inspections of food repos
itories the past year.
Sandusky police seized a Detroit
motor boat carrying 50 cases of Cana
dian whisky and gin valued at $5,000.
Two arrests were made.
New occupational tax proposed in
Cincinnati city council is expected to
raise income, from this source from
$302,060 to $650,000 annually.
Three persons were injured when a
Lake Shore Electric limited crashed
into a steam roller at a crossing near
Sandusky.
Fire destroyed "hay shed No. 2 at
Camp Sherman, including contents
200.000 pounds of oats and 500,000
pounds of straw.
Kirk Hart. 60, New Comerstown,
was killed when the auto he was
learning to drive was struck by a
train near Isleta.
Mildred Mae Heilman, 3, Tiffin, ate
bread covered with rat poison, but
prompt medical attendance saved her
life.
Stark Electric company has asked
permission to increase the city car
I fare ln Alliance from 5 to 7 cents or
uciieis ior j
Former guardsmen are conducting
a campaign at Tiffin to organize a na.
tlonal guard company.
Abraham Annecluon, 26, railroad
conductor, fell under his train at
Wellsville and had both feet cut off.
Rev. Forest Fraser. Washington C
H., has accepted the pastorate of tht
First Baptist church at Newark.
Frank Sammon, 41, Sabina, horse
trainer, died in the sulky at North
Randall track from heart disease.
Dry goods, shoes and clothing worth
$3,000 were stolen from the New York
Central freight house at Fremont.
Mrs. June Shaffer, 34, and Mrs
Marie Poppa, 44. both of Cleveland,
committed suicide because of ill
health.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Asire and
daughter Ruth and Miss Alice Herr
Ada, were killed when a railroad train
hit their auto at Ada.
Miss Eleanor Ward, 88, sister of the
late John Quiucy Adams Ward, Amer
ica's noted sculptor and last of a
historic family, is dead at Urbana.
Two workmen were killed in an ex
plosion at the powder works of the
Grasselli Chemical company, east ol
Lowell ville.
Mahoning county, Ohio including
the city of Youngstown, has a popula
tion of 186,310. an increase of 70,159
over 1910, according to census re
ports. Youngstown steel men estimate
that the freight rate increase will
cost steel manufacturers of the coun
try more than $6,000,000 a year in
materials.
Gambling must stop in Springfield,
according to orders issued by Police
Chief O'Brien, following instructions
from Edgar E. Parsoas, new city
manager.
Twenty-seven persons were killed
and 77 injured in 'fires in Ohio during
July, according to the monthly report
issued by State Fire Marshal William
J. Leonard.
John Whitehead, Toledo prohibition
agent, was exonerated in connection
with the death of Jacob Hare, Huron
saloonist, killed by Whitehead in re
sisting arrest.
Charge of second degree murder
has been placed against City Detec
tive Gallagher, Cleveland, in connec
tion with the shooting of Andrew Le-
bion, saloonist.
Three armed automobile bandits
held up the offices of the Walsh Con
struction company at Cleveland and
escaped with $4,000 in cash after bind
ing two acting paymasters with ropes
Ruth Thomas, wife of Peter Thorn
as, a Roumanian grocer at Mansfield
has applied for a divorce because her
husband tried to sell her with the
stock of groceries to another for
eigner.
Ohio fair price commission will not
tolerate any present increase in the
price of food commodities, milk or
otherwise, at this time. This was an
nounced by the secretary of the com
mission.
Ashtabula has a population of 22,-
082. an increase of 20 9 per cent since
1910. Washington C. H. has 7,962
increase 9.4; Dover 8,101. increase
22.4; Cleveland Heights 15,236. in
crease 415.6.
Fire at Bradford, Miami county, de
stroyed the Kuntz Lumber com
pany s storage yard, First National
bank, postoffice, a score of stores and
10 fine residences. Loss estimated
at $1,000,000.
Walton B. Bliss or Columbus w,a
named assistant state superintendent
of public instruction. He is a grad
uate of Heidelberg university and for
three years was in school work
Marion county.
As the alleged result of a grud
of years' standing, said to have arisen
over a debt. Harry Belcher, 20. shot
and instantly killed General Chat-
field, proprietor of a store at Sheri
dan, Lawrence county.
Rachel. 13-year-old daughter of
Charles Kline. 45. Port Washington
was fatally injured and her father
was seriously hurt when his automo
bile was struck by, a train at Wolf
crossing, west of Uhrichsville.
David H. Griffith, 48 and legless
arraigned before Judge Mouser at
Marlon to plead to an indictment
charging' him with slaying his own
daughter, entered a plea of not guilty.
His trial was set for Sept. 14.
Joseph Embry of Newark was killed
and his brother. F. E. Embry of Dres
den, and Thomas Ramsey of Newark
were so badly injured that they may
die, when a train struck their auto
mobile at a grade crossing at Dres
den.
George Francis Burba, 55. chief ed
itorial . writer - of the Columbus- Dis
patch and former secretary to Gover
nor Jams M. Cox, died suddenly from
heart trouble at his home in Colum
bus. He was one of the best known
newspaper men in Ohio.
Bullet wounds from guns in the
hands of auto bandits caused the
death of Mrs. Betty McCarrick. 32, at
Columbus. She had undergone an
operation for removal of a ball, one
of five sent into her body. Her com
panion. J. A. McDowell, shot five
times, is in a critical cop-tion at a
hospital.
Henry Miles. 35. South Barberton
was shot in a three-cornered figh
which resulted when one of two men
held by the police used abusive lan
guag-e to Mrs. Miles when she refused
to give bira a drink of liquor.
Operators of Youngstown steel fur
naces say the initial producing cost
of , a ton of pig iron will increase
about S1.60. Quo to the freight rate in
crease. i
Ohio Blectric railway will ask 20
per cent increase in passenger, bag
gage and milk rates.. W. S. Whitney
general passenger and freight agen
announced at Springfield.
Crooksville's eight big stoneware
plants are idle as the result of a walk
out of jiggermen. turners and ware-
machine men when their demand for
a 25 per cent increase was refused
Toledo prohibition enforcement
agents rounded up 26 men at Leipsic
alleged to have been implicated in
the theft of 16 cases of whisky from
a Nickel Plate railroad car.
Marion council adopted an ord
nance granting the Columbus, Dela
ware and Marion Electric company
the right to charge 6 cents instead of
5 for local streetcar fares. It will be
come effective ln 30 days.
City of Martins Ferry filed a peti
tion in federal court asking the court
to enjoin the Wheeling Traction com
pany "from operating or maintaining
its street railway in. over or upon the
streets and highways of the city of
Martins Ferry." It is charged fares
were increased contrary to provision
of the franchise.
Fred Hotel and Joseph Schott. fire
men, were, killed in explosions follow
ing a fire in the plant of the Refiners'
Oil company. Cincinnati. Eight other
firemen were taken to hospitals. Two
of them are said to be in a critical
coaiition. - '
AS WORN
New Frocks, Hats and Shoes Are
Most Attractive.
Costumes Featured by Simplicity:
Defy Reproach; Represent Best
Kind of Dressing.
The old gaieties are gradually com
ing back to Paris, and every day some
renewal of the social season, as we
formerly knew it, is announced, writes
Paris correspondent in the London
Times.
In the Bois for tea and tenuis most
attractive frocks and hats are worn.
Navy blue allied to white, to cherry
color, and to -copper color, is more
than popular. Occasionally It is worn
with vivid emerald. Numbers of smart
women keep rigorously to tailor-mades
for all ordinary occasions. These cos
tumes are simplicity itself, and defy
the reproach of finance ministers
and moralists, but they represent the
best and most expensive kind of dress
ing. They exact the most perfect de
tails, and a hat, which is the last
thing in smartness, as well as a dress.
Fine navy blue serge, embroidered
lightly in jet .or dull silver, in white,
oi in some color, is much seen. Open
to the waist, where it fastens with
one button, the coat discloses some
striking' color note in the blouse of the
!nmper, or short tunic pattern, low at
the throat or quite high, with draped
collar band. The hats vary greatly.
from the ribbon toque, with a chin
strap, to the wide-brimmed lace-covered
frame trimmed with flowers or
feathers.
Black and white are as popular as
blue. Foulard, plisse silks and cre
pons, offer a wide choice. Lace plays
an important part in gowns, and em-
A summer' toilette in ivory tussore
embroidered in ivory ' and black,
worn with a black ribbon sash, black
hat and a chiffon sunshade in black
and white.
broidery has lost none of its charm;
but striped and checked black and
white taffetas look well, and may be
counted among the less expensive
luxuries; for it represents less hand
work, and consequently saves time and
labor. It is noticeable that skirts are
most moderately draped, and are de-
Roses on Most
Miniature Blossoms Enhance the Love
liness of Dresses Appropriate
for the Warm Days.
Roses bloom on most every summer
frock and enhance its loveliness. All
those little organdies, for instance,
would lose half their charm if you
took away the organdie roses that are
scattered over the skirt Those same
roses can add a good many dollars to
the frock, too. and so it might be a
good plan to learn how to make them
at home.
One of the prettiest frocks of the
season had its roses made from accor
dion plaited organdie, in strips a lit
tle over an inch wide, says a writer in
the Philadelphia Record. The edges
had first been picoted, and the mate
rial was then plaited and wound
round and round from the center out,
the center being filled with knotted
ends of yellow soutache braid to look
like stamens.
A button mold covered with organ
die and beaded with crystal beads
made the center of some lovely little
wild roses from deep pink organdie
which framed the girdle of a paler
pink organdie frock. These were five
petaled roses, the petals made In the
simplest way. in the world from a bias
strip of organdie doubled and shirred
in zigzag fashion so that when the
shirring was pulled up, it shaped the
band into little puffed and rounded
petals.
On a very stunning frock of dotted
Swiss large white organdie roses were
appllqued. The bias material had
Feather on Hat Underbrim
Clumps of Ostrich Offer One of the
Popular Trimmings for Sum
mer Headgear.
Feathers on the underbrlms make
up one of the popular new trimmings
of women's hats for summer. Little
"clumps" of ostrich are tacked on the
underbrim over the ears of the wear
er. In the case of one attractive copper
colored hat, a bandeau raised it slight
ly from the hair, thereby giving more
depth' to the brim in order that a long
ostrich quill of the same color could
be laid on the underside and be fin
ished off with a curly little tip.
Another novel hat, of fine black
Neapolitan straw. Is made with the
brim partly curled under at the edge.
A fluffy ostrich band follows the under
line of the brim and a second band of
ostrich is similarly placed above it
Dresses Easily Lengthened.
, Moat mothers with daughters in their
IN PARIS
CHARMING SILVER FOX SCARF
A silver fox neckpiece like this beau
tiful model gives the needed finish to
the early fall costume.
cldedly longer. A woman dressed ln
black and white foulard, gracefully
draped on the hips and softened
round the shoulders by a fine organdie,
fichu, looks extremely welL Her hat
is in fine organdie, also embroidered
in black silk, and she carries a sun
shade to match. Her shoes are
strapped patent leather, and the heels
are not high. The sleeves of her dress
are short, and she wears long white
suede gloves.
Of quite a different aspect Is the
toilette of a vivid brunette. She weara
navy taffetas, with a full tunic-skirt of
tartan muslin ln brighter colors than
any Highland chieftain could imagine.
Her hat is in black lace, and the tar
tan Is repeated in her sunshade, which
shows a navy blue foundation, with a
deep plisse tartan hem.
STRIPES IN SUMMER MODES
Dresses and Millinery With Lines of
Various Widths Among the
Popular Styles.
Stripes are one of the features In
this summer's fashions, says a writer
ln the London Times. Whole dresses
are to be seen in silk with colored
stripes varying in width. The material
Is used In both ways. The skirt may
have two deep plisse flounces with the
stripes perpendicular, and the bodice
may show them horizontally. A skirt
In cloth may be plain and have
striped coat, or the other way round,
and, again, there are some smart lit
tle dresses all ln striped material, silk
or voile, with which plain cloth coats,
handsomely braided, may -.be worn.
Striped ribbon Is much used In millin
ery, and when r'bbons of two colors
and widths are used together they are
made to look as If they were striped.
Black and white and black and royal
blue are the most favored.
Foulard Frocks Favorites.
Foulard dresses are favorites this
summer. Graceful trailing draperies
are features of the newest foulard
frocks. Many sashes are used, their
long ends more often -than not trail
ing below the edge of the skirt
Touches of red on foulards that are
navy or black ln their major tones
are featured by some of the best de
signers and - the effect Is decidedly
pleasing. , ,, j..,..
Summer Frocks
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been folded again so as to leave no
rough edges, pulled Into petal shape,
puffed up realistically in the center
and held to the material with long un
even stitches of black silk.
Even the gingham dress cannot es
cape the rose trimming. The cutest
gingham rose can be made, from plain
chambray to match the gingham color
ing, using the bias band again folded
and the folded edge whipped over and
over With a coarse white mercerized
cotton. This rose is rolled cabbage
fashion, rather tight ln the center and
looser toward the outside.
To Clean Gloves.
White kid gloves merely soiled at
the finger tips can be nicely cleaned for
the first time before resorting to gas
oline, if the fingers are rubbed against
a moistened cake of castile soap. Re
move the soap by rubbing off with a
bit of clean white flannel. . Another
first cleaning recipe is to rub the
gloves thoroughly while on the hands
with French chalk. Lay the gloves
away for a few days and then shake
the white powder off, with which will
come all soil. Dark gloves can be
cleaned with gasoline, but great care
must be taken to wet the gloves evenly
all at once and not to rub off any dye
particularly with an Inexpensive pair.
Leather Belts.
The narrow belts of leather in col
ors and patent leather are used to a
considerable degree on washable frocks
of gingham, linen, organdie, voile and
novelty printed cottons.
teens probably find it quite a task to
keep letting out their skirts to keep
pace with the young misses' amaelng
growth. In lengthening skirts the
hardest part of the Job is to rip out
the machine stitching. This wtork can
be lightened considerably by sewing
the hem as- follows when the skirt is
being made : Use coarser thread above
(No. 60) and fine thread below (No
80). Then set the upper tension slight
ly tighter than the lower. This will
draw the under thread nearlv
through the goods. Then when ripptne
out the thread on the wrong side of
the hem, the coarser thread can be
easily withdrawn.
Satin for Overdress.
One of the new afternoon gowns re
verses material and uses satin for its
overdress and georgette for the foun
dation. Tucks and embroidery are
used on the blouse and the under
skirt of georgette, while the overdrew
la black satin and very scant
I PJfS'
FAMULI:
dOMB.1
AUTHOR.
FLOWER RACES.
"I am the steeple bush or hardhacfe
flower," said the flower we will call1'
the Steeple Bush flower as it is Its
most usual name.
"I stand so straight and tall that '
that is why I have my name. Dont
you think I'm nice with all my little
pink feathery blossoms?
"I'm a wild flower, of course, but I
do like the world so much that I try
to be just as beautiful as though I
were grown in a garden with great
care.
'My little leaves go up my stem a
long, long way and then foV quite a
distance at the top all my feathery
pink flowers can be seen, and all of
me is straight and tall like a steeple.
Tm so pleased that many folks Fve
heard like me and think that I'm a
pretty wild flower.
'In fact I heard one person say who
was passing along the road near where
I am, that her ' two favorite flowers
were the purple rocket flowers which
were so sweet and fragrant ln the
early, early summer in the garden and
the cheery, bright steeple bush flower.
'Well, what I had to say was that
the King of the Clouds was having a
talk with me and he said to me:
" 'Steeple Bush, do you know I am
making the flowers come out each day
In perfect leaps and bounds.'
"I said : 'Yon don't mean to tell .
me that flowers are leaping and bound
ing?'
"He laughed and answered: i
" 'Well, not exactly that, but they're
coming out so fast that it seems as if
"Having a, Talk."
they were almost leaping and bound
ing Into full bloom.
" Ton see,' he went on, the sun has
done a great deal of work and so have
L I've seen to It that my Army of
Raindrops played gently and cooled
off the flowers without soaking them,
and knocking them over as sometimes
they do when they forget themselves.
"'And between old Mr. Sun to make
them grow well and my own work and
the work of mv helners we've Inst had i
them coming out one after the other,
and sometimes a lot at a time.
"The people who own the gardens
are delighted for they say that we "
rain lust enonch to keen the jmrrten
beautifully watered and not too much. ;
" 'We've kept It cool for the birds f
ii r i , i n vn nnnn n imisr 1 1 -. , , 1 1 1 int. -
nowers.
- -in tact we ve aone a great ceai
ui along rue counirysiue.
" 'We have made the early golden f
rod pop open Its eyes and look about, t
" 'We have cooled off the parks and
the grass and the leaves of the trees
In the city so the city people could get t
a little of the freshness and coolness
they so need. -
"They have gone to the parks and(
the cooling grass and the coolihsr'
leaves have done a great deal of kind
work for the city people.
" 'And the little toads who help the
MTdpnfl have fmnii rtnt- fn this vrnrm
weather and top, there has been some
nice cooling rain. They have found
plenty of bad Insects to eat and they
have done their big part toward mak
ing the garden beautiful. -,
"Mr. Sun and I have helped the
vegetables too. We have made the
three or four peas ln each pod very
fine ones Indeed. It has been a fins
summer so far for flowers and vege
tables ln this section of the world, or
of the country,' ended the King of the
Clouds.
"'Of course,' he added, 'everywhere
we can't do just the same, but in the
neighborhood where you are, Mr.
Steeple Bush, It has been fine so far.
And the flowers have really run
races with each other to ee which
would win I It has been most excit
ing.' "And I said to the King of the
Clouds, Tes, you made tne come along
ahead of time! And Tve heard that
the little apples are growing ' ripe
ahead of time too. All of Mother Na
ture's children seem to be running
races and what glorious winners there
are among some of the flowers!"
Being .at Your Best
No one is at her best who Is ex
hausted by lte hours, or whose head
aches fron eating unsuitable food at
unsuitable, times. No one is at her
best who) is thinking gloomy, depress
ing thoughts. No one is at her best
who does not have an ideal and strive
to livoj up to It The body, mind and
spirit Jail have a part in putting us at
our best And we must be at our best
In order to do ourselves justice in our
wort. Girls' Companion.
How to Make Butter.
"What is butter made from?" asked
the teacher of the little city girl. t
"I can answer that please m'am,"
was the reply. "It's part cow and
part grass, with one chewin' the other,
and then you shake it a lot and what
gathers on top is what you asked to
know."
Usher Is Defined.
Little Bobby What's an usher?
Small George He's the man who
shows people where they mustn't Bit
in church.
Musk Oxen.
Musk oxen should be taken to Alas
ka because of their adaptability to
that climate, Is the opinion of Stefans
son. He declares that they are not
the enemies of the Alaskan reindeer
and that in a few years the two spe
cies would supply cheap meat for the
entire Pacific Coast ;
Woman Aided Anatomy Study.
The first wax preparations for the
use of students in anatomy were mad
by a woman.