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Boys' Room Is
All-Important
Part of Home
By BETTY WELLS
L'BIE M. and I were cronies as
freshmen and I’ve only had fleet
ing glimpses of her since. But we’ve
corresponded all these years, so I
feel as if I knew her whole family
well. Bruce, her engineer-husband,
who can do all sorts of fancy wiring
for electrical gadgets . . . Robert,
aged eight, who is nearly as good a
woodsman as his mother and father
. . . Ebie herself who is a pretty
perky sort of person with a heavenly
complexion and natural platinum
blonde hair.
They’ve just recently bought the
house in town—’twas one they’d
rented for some time. So they’ve
embarked on quite a session of re
furbishing and they’re doing a lot
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A grand room for a boy.
of the work themselves, Ebie writes:
“I think I’m going to join the paint
er’s union and Bruce is eligible for
the plumber’s or carpenter’s.”
Their basement is a joy. In it
there’s a big den or game room, a
spanking laundry, a small room
with Robert’s electric train set up
complete with mountains, stations,
towns, rivers, bridges and all of the
fancifications that an electrically
minded dad would think up.
Robert’s bedroom sounds awfully
interesting too. Ebie drew a plan
for it in her letter. The space (4)
is a small entry made by a closet
(3) that Bruce built in. That made
an alcove for the studio couch (1)
with book shelves (2) built in at
the head and foot. There is a flat
top maple desk (8) with chair (9)
in front of the window. The maple
dresser (6) and red easy chairs (5
and 7) complete the furnishings.
Three walls will be painted ivory,
while the alcove wall will have a
wall paper with red and green sail
boats, green curtains and green rug.
© By Betty Wells—WNU Service.
Rabbits Are Important
Business Now in Kansas
GREENSBURG, KAN. - Rabbits
may be a bedtime story in some
places, but here in Kiowa county
they are business.
For almost 50 years live rabbits
have been shipped from Greens
burg to all parts of the United
States. It was the Crowe Animal
company here whidh gave to the
country the famous black-tailed jack
rabbit of legendary speed.
Catching the rabbits provides
work for men and horses during the
day and for men and motorcars at
night.
The day shift uses a net large
enough to encircle several acres of
land. Men on horses chase the rab
bits into the net. The riders must
leap from their horses and capture
the rabbits before they can gnaw
holes in the net and escape.
At night three men comprise a
rabbit-hunting crew. One drives the
automobile, one works a spotlight
used to blind the rabbits and the
third man throws his hand net over
the rabbit before it recovers sight.
A night crew usually brings back 30
to 40 rabbits in that manner.
Speed is bred into the Kansas jack
rabbit by the necessities of nature.
The prairie offers little protective
covering.
; SCOTCH INFLUENCE
Colorful and a pleasure to the eye
is the beret in Scotch plaid with
torsade in brown and yellow tulle.
The cape is of the same plaid as the
beret.
CANADA TO EMPLOY ESKIMOS AS REINDEER HERDERS
OTTAWA.—Canada’s efforts to i
put the 2,500 Eskimo of the Western
Arctic on a permanent basis as re
gards food and clothing, which has
already taken eight years and cost
more than $250,000, reaches another
milestone when a herd of 800 rein
deer will be turned over to four Es
kimo families.
Eight years ago a herd was pur
chased in Alaska by the govern
ment and the long drive to the re-
Real Playmate for Any Young Person '
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Here’s “Becky,” a little wire-haired terrier belonging to Miss Bar
hara West of Seattle. Barbara has trained this cute little dog to do many
tricks, not the least of which is to ride a teetertotter with the youngsters
of the neighborhood. Among Miss West’s other pets is a swimming hen
and a tame robin that rides around on “Becky’s” head.
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To do a brave deed for yourself
Is much to be commended;
But when you’re brave for someone else,
Why, then the deed is splendid.
TN ANNY and little Miss Nanny
Meadow Mouse were having
just the best time ever. You see,
they really were very much in love
with each other. Danny thought lit
tle Miss Nanny the most beautiful
Meadow Mouse in all the great
world. Hadn’t she seen him fight a
splendid battle just for her? And
hadn’t he brought her the very
nicest things to eat? What more
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“H-m-m!” said Reddy to himself,
“I smell Meadow Mouse.”
could she ask of anyone? And so
they had a perfectly happy time to
gether in the sunshine on the Green
Meadows, and quite forgot every
thing and everybody but themselves.
Now, it never does to forget. No,
sir, it never does to forget. For
getting is what brings most of the
trouble to the little people of the
Green Meadows and the Green For
est. No matter how busy or how
happy they are or how peaceful ev
erything seems, they must never,
never forget to watch out for dan
ger. But most of them are very
much like little boys and girls and
some older people—they do forget,
particularly when they are having a
good time. Old Mr. Trouble always
seems to be looking especially for
those who are having a good time,
probably because he knows that that
is the time when they are most
likely to have forgotten and so are
not watching out.
That is the way it was with Danny
and Nanny Meadow Mouse. It was
so very beautiful and they were so
happy and having such a good time
that it didn’t seem possible that dan
ger could be anywhere near. But
it was. Something had put it into
the head of a certain gentleman in
red to go over to that part of the
Green Meadows where little Miss
Nanny made her home. It was Red
dy Fox. He had no particular busi
ness over there. He was just out
for a walk. But Reddy Fox never
goes out for a walk without keeping
ears and eyes and nose wide open
for anything which may prove in
teresting or important. This time
it was his nose, that wonderful lit
tle black nose, that warned him that
there was something worth looking
into here.
“M-m-m,” said Reddy to himself,
“I smell Meadow Mouse, and it re
minds me that I am hungry. A fat
Meadow Mouse is just what I need.
I must look into this.”
Right away Reddy began to fol
low that little, black nose, and it
serve on the Arctic coast east of
Mackenzie river delta began. Five
years later, in the spring of 1935,
the herd, slightly under 2,500 strong,
arrived at its destination, travel
worn and after almost incredible ;
hardships had been suffered by the
deer and herders.
Dr. J. A. Urquhart, who has su
pervision over the herd, has pre
sented his first oral report of the
progress of this national undertak- .
Case Is Air Conditioned
For Stradivari Violins
WASHINGTON—The Stradivari
violins in the Whittail collection at
the Library of Congress will be air
cooled when their new exhibit cases
are completed.
Glass front chambers for each in
strument—three violins, a cello and
a viola—are being built in the Whit
tall pavilion. Each chamber will be
equipped with separate air-condi
tioning apparatus to maintain con
stant temperature and humidity.
Care of the instruments — more
than 200 years old and among the
finest rare old violins in the world—
has been a constant problem since
the library acquired them in 1936.
To maintain them in perfect condi
tion they must be played regularly
and must not be exposed to violent
changes of temperature and humid
ity. The cooling system, it was
said, will cost $30,000.
GARROTE ONCE USED
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Miss Rosa Willis of New Bern,
N. C., demonstrates how the royal
governors of colonial North Caro
lina dispatched unwanted persons.
The garrote, an execution method
still used in some Latin countries,
was found in the remaining wing of
Governor Tryon’s palace at New
Bern.
led him along one of the private lit
tle paths of little Miss Nanny. He
stepped very softly, and every few
steps he stood up a little on his
hind legs to look ahead over the
tops of the grasses to see if he could
see any of them moving where a
careless Meadow Mouse was run
ning. And every few steps he
stopped and listened for the sound of
scurrying little feet. So, little by
little following that wonderful lit
tle, black nose of his, he drew near
er to the place where Danny and
Nanny Meadow Mouse were having
such a good time and were so for
getful. At last as he raised him
self to look he saw little Miss Nanny
run under a little bunch of over
hanging grass. Reddy smiled, and
it was a cruel, hungry smile. Then
he stole forward a few steps.
It was just that very instant that
Danny Meadow Mouse happened to
see Reddy Fox. He knew just what
was going to happen, and it made
his little heart almost stop beating.
Then what do you think he did? It
was just the bravest thing! He ran
right across in front of Reddy and
squeaked a sharp warning to little
Miss Nanny. Did you ever know of
a braver act than that?
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ing to the government.
In addition to reindeer slaugh
tered for food to supply the herders
and some 200 slaughtered each year
to provide food for Northern mis
sions, the herd has increased to
about 5,000 in three years.
The average weight of the herd
today is at least 15 pounds greater
than when the reindeer arrived and
they are much improved in general
. fitness. Weight of the steers ranges
Teodi’ Tea Has
Curious Effect
On Indian Tribe
Use in Religious Rites Stimu
lates Feeling of Broth
erly Love.
CARSON CITY, NEV—The old
frontier day proverb that “the only
good Injun’s a dead one” is being
disproved among the Washoe Indi
ans of Nevada, who along with
many other tribes of the West and
Southwest, still make use of a na
tive drug known as “peodi.”
“Peodi” is an herb, and when
brewed into tea and drunk, has the
astonishing effect, according to ob
servations, of not only making bad
Indians good but good Indians bet
ter.
So far as can be ascertained, it
has no harmful effect on the Indi
ans physically, while the psycho
logical effect is largely of a reli
gious character.
According to Indians, the feelings
engendered by the use of the bev
. erage are those of goodness, a de
r sire for kindness toward all other
i men and promptings to perform
। good acts to less fortunate people.
Native of Arizona.
The herb is a native of Arizona
and is used there by some of the
tribes in religious rites to stimu
. late brotherly love.
On a ranch near here where a
' Washoe is employed, the Indian, un
• der the influence of the drug, told
' his employer he would not drive
’ any piece of farm machinery that
necessitated turning toward the left.
’ It was against all good principles
1 to do such an act, he declared.
As a consequence, the Indian, rid
‘ ing a potato digger, and coming to
the end of a furrow where a left
turn was to be made, jumped off
the machine and turned twice to the
! right, once for himself and once for
' the “sinner” who was riding beside
him.
Associated With Devil.
Another tribesman refused to use
red-tipped matches, because, he de
clared, the color is associated with
• the devil.
Still another Indian, working on a
1 Carson valley ranch, burned a new
and expensive sombrero in a bon
fire because, he insisted, it was im
bued with the spirit of the devil.
While the use of the drug is not
general among the Washoe Indians
in this vicinity, nevertheless a few
of the tribesmen openly boast of
the wonderfully good effects it has
on the soul, and the manner in
which it improves the religious na
ture of those who use it.
Coal Converted Into Oil
In New Pressure Process
COLLEGE PARK, MD. — High
grade American bituminous coal
can easily be converted into oil,
Dr. H. H. Storch, of the bureau of
mines, reported to the University
of Maryland college of engineering.
The change, he said, is made un
der pressure in a reaction vessel.
In about two hours, approximately
75 per cent of the coal is converted i
into heavy oil. The other 25 per
cent is released as gaseous hydro
carbons.
He said the bureau of mines
planned to experiment with lower
grades of coal to see if they could
be reduced in a similar manner.
Although America is not faced with
an immediate oil shortage, Storch
said United States coal deposits
were much more extensive than oil
deposits. He said plans for break
ing down coal would be particular
ly valuable to some European coun
tries which have few natural oil re
serves.
WORLD’S SMALLEST
Fl -
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Arnold E. Dibblay of Van Nuys,
Calif., through 32 years of breeding,
has produced the world’s smallest
Plymouth Barred Rock hen, weigh
ing only 10 ounces. The hen is two
years old.
from 165 to 170 pounds and the does
from 145 to 150 pounds.
Owing to the highly developed
herd instinct, it is impossible to seg
regate fewer than 800.
Experience of the last three years
has enabled the herders to protect
the animals from warble fly, foot-rot
and wolves, three enemies of the
reindeer.
Eskimo have shown an aptitude
as herders for the government.
Berchtesgaden, Hitler’s Eyrie ■
Now Popular as Tourist S J
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Here is an exterior view of Wachenfeld, Chancellor Hitler’ t ■
tage at Berchtesgaden, his retreat in the Bavarian mountains irlTßs
Hitler’s first meeting with Prime Minister Neville ChamberuK
took place. Berchtesgaden is closely guarded at all times. ■
Prepared by National Geographic Society.
Washington, D. C. —WNU Service.
Berchtesgaden’s flare into the
news headlines during the first
meeting of Britain’s Premier
Chamberlain and Germany’s
Fuehrer Hitler, suddenly thrust
the Bavarian retreat on to the
list of popular places to be vis
ited in Europe. Recently a
Paris tourist agency included
Berchtesgaden on a brand new
tour out of the French capital.
Berchtesgaden, called Ger
many’s second capital, lies in
one of the most beautiful regions of
Germany, steeped in history and
folklore, but also identified with
much modem German history-mak
ing.
Long before Hitler rose to power,
Berchtesgaden was a health and
holiday resort, noted for its moun
tain air and the stern beauty of its
tree-clad mountains crowned in
winter with snow and ice. Beneath
the waters of one of its neighbor
ing lakes, the Konigsee, a fabulous
golden treasure is supposed to be
hidden, guarded by elves. A pistol
shot fired from a boat on the lake
echoes and re-echoes as much as
nine times from the bordering cliffs.
Legend of Charlemagne.
From the flower-decked balcony
of the Berghof, Hitler can look out
upon many towering mountains, no
table among which is the Unters
berg. Beneath it, says local leg
end, sleeps Charlemagne, ruler a
thousand years ago of the Holy Ro
man Empire of the West, which in
cluded much of what is now Ger
many.
When Charlemagne’s beard has
grown three times around the great
stone table at which he sits, the
legend goes on, he will awake,
emerge, and fight the last great de
cisive battle of the world. Then
the day of judgment will dawn.
But there is nothing legendary
about what lies under another part
i of the mountains near Berchtesgad
en. There are salt mines which
were worked as far back as Roman
times, and for centuries they were
China Digs in
At Chungking,
New Capital
Japs Will Have Trouble
Driving Defenders
From Refuge
Prepared by National Geographic Society,
Washington, D. C.—WNU Service.
Since the beginning of the Sino-
Japanese conflict, Chungking’s pop
ulation has grown rapidly, especial
ly since it was recently declared
the capital of the war-torn repub
lic. Thousands of safety-seeking cit
izens have sought protection within
its fortresslike walls.
This deep-inland refuge of the
Chinese government is 1,500 miles
up the Yangtze from the coast. It
is sheltered in the giant bowl of
Szechwan province, 218,000 square
miles of isolation in the middle of
west central China.
Mountain barriers hem the prov
ince in so steeply that the opium
poppy is a leading cash crop; only
lightweight exports, such as opium,
can be sent to the outside world at
a profit exceeding freight charges.
Drug firms have headquarters in
Chungking to buy up the highly
taxed opium and other medical
products, including dried rhubarb.
A city of more than a half-million,
Chungking perches like an eagle’s
nest on a ledge of a cliff. A stone
wall 100 feet high and five miles
around shuts it in, with only 8 of its
17 fortified gates open to traffic. On
three sides the gray cliff-city’s foun
dations drop away another 100 feet
to the river curling around its base.
Stone staircases 20 feet wide, not
streets, slant steeply down from the
rampart gates to the river landings.
Yangtze Gorges Only Gateway.
So important are waterways in
rugged Szechwan that Chungking
has become an important trade me
tropolis because it is situated at the
junction of the Yangtze river and
the Kialing river, which rushes
down from the north to meet Chi-
claimed by bishops a[s( j k , rrs- ®
coveted their revenues.
Today modern n :L ;eery
electric lights assist m the
Rocks shot through with veimS
salt are cut out and eoaked
lake far below grouno. Then the®
suiting salt solution is pumpej^B
boilers and the water evaporai^E
Toy-Making Is Popular. B
Berchtesgaden’s 5,0" i people wtß
not only in the salt mines bui B
wood-carving and toy-mak;ng.
tors to the mountain resort can
der over many attractive moEsK
paths, and in winter skiing is B
popular sport. Some of Germanyi^]
best downhill skiers learn their isl
at Berchtesgaden. A show placeß
the village is the Stiflskirche, B
house of worship completed in 1222,1
though since modernized. f?
The two-story house of the FiaM
rer stands on a steep tree-covereß
slope above the town and aboß
3,000 feet above sea level, withß
giav.t snow-clad mountain peak asß
backdrop. It’s white walls. genllß
sloping roofs and dark brown wcdß
work are in harmony with Bavariaß
architecture. E 1
The Berghof and its surrounds®
estate are heavily guarded. acccriß
ing to newspaper reports. Near I®
house are new barracks for Hl®
ler’s own bodyguard, the Schutzstasß
fel men, distinct from the regal®
army. There are buildings to hou®
representatives of the Reich cha®
cellery. K
The Berghof itself, formerly jo®
a small mountain chalet, has be®
enlarged and improved. The museß
now can accommodate 40 guei’®
On the lower floor is the large,®
cheerful dining hail, 1 mmardir.giß
magnificent view of mountain see®
ery, and opening on to the balcony.®
A large central hall, with a fire-B
place, and other rooms for social®
functions also are on this floor, and®
it is here that Prime Minister®
Chamberlain of Great Britain via®
received by the Fuehrer. ■
Herr Hitler’s own rooms are in I®
separate wing of the house, a®
other wings contain offices a®
quarters for the secretarial stall
and various functionaries. ■
na’s main artery practically at I
right angle. Chungking serves as
a center for the network of impor
tant Yangtze tributaries which gives
Szechwan province its name of
[“Four Rivers.’.’
The city has some of the modem
qualities of Shanghai at the river’s
mouth, and its shops display the
, tapestries and jewelry of Tibetan
mountain regions where the river
has its origin. Missions make
Chungking headquarters for work in
China’s rugged west, and consulates
here handle the wholesale trade of
a deep hinterland.
The only way into Chungking from
eastern China is the Yangtze. A ne*
। air service from Hongkong has
been interrupted by the war. There
is no railroad. A bus service over
1 a new road to Yunnan-fu in the
south gives Chungking a route ®
, join the railroad through French >
' do-China to the port of Haiphong,
t Chungking is virtually the
f ern limit of navigation for Yang®
» steamers. Special flat-bottome»
f boats are necessary for year roiw
traffic. Below the city the Yang®
plunges down a treacherous and
1 ruly course through the mountains
f of central China.
, Junks Still Popular.
1 Steamboats were put to work ®
• this stubborn stretch of river a
1 early as 1898, only seven years an
s er Chungking was opened by treaty
1 to foreign commerce. But ju
• of ancient design are still n°
, generally used, though they may,
s quire more months for the up-n'
s trip than a steamer takes cays,
s Chungking’s riverfront popular
s of junks is almost as numerous
i that of the giant port of Hank'
- With as much as 50 tons of f rel • .
t junks are towed upstream throug
. the gorges by coolie “tracker>
t China’s Volga boatmen. As m
J as four dozen of them may tug ■ *
. junk along, often a quarter «
mile in advance, climbing over *
1 row tracks across faces of c -‘ :
I spite of modern invention, t:.e
- lie tracker is still the most us
: motor on this stretch of riVe , r ' nce
1 converts his daily cabbage and
3 into manpower which mecnan*"
- horsepower has not replaces-