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Oak Grovj Shool News
PRIMARY ROOM
Wo are sorry to say that several
of our number have been absent for
several days. We hope every one will
be feeling fine ugain by Friday, for it
would be too bad for anyone to miss
the Christmas tree. We are expect
ing a good time. ,
SECOND GRADE
The Second Grade regrets that they
are losing one of their members—
Hettie Hampton—has moved. We
know that she will soon make new
fr ends as she enters Lithonia school.
Helen Moon, another Second Grade
gi.i, is absent since she had her ton
's ds removed several days ago. We
certainly miss her.
THIRD GRADE
We are still missing Stanley John
son. We hope he will hurry back.
We are anxious for Friday to come
as we are planning for a Christmas
tree.
Ae are being real good little folks
th : s week, so Old Santa will come to
see us.
Our Spelling Contest ends this
wi ek. Louise Reagin is in the lead
now, and we are almost sure she will
be the winner.
We are studying in Geography our
Third Necessity Shelter. Since study
ing this, we have learned to appre
ciate our homes more.
FOURTH GRADE
It seemed that there would be a
tie in our Spelling Contest, but now
we believe Mary Mann will be our
winner.
We have our new basketball now.
We make use of it these pretty days.
We hope this pretty weather will con
tinue, so Old Santa will have a pleas
ant trip and not be delayed.
We have been enjoying the Christ
mas stories in chapel every morning.
We like to sing our Christmas songs
too.
Our bones are already full of
Christmas, but we don’t let it inter
fere with our work.
Our English class Friday almost
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developed into a musical class. Ask
Ray Turner about it. lie acted the
part as a song leader.
The Fifth and Sixth grades are
practicing for the Christmas (play
which they are to have next Friday
at the Christmas tree.
The Seventh and Eighth grades are
oreparing their part of Friday’s pro
gram.
We wish for our friends a Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Mildred Reagin.
TRUTH TRIFLES
The sea of matrimony swamps many
a courtship.
People with sharp tongues make
cutting remarks.
Children who have measles are
bound to be rash.
THE ROCKDALE RECORD. CONYLRS. GEORGIA
Bigamy Is merely an overissue of
matrimonial bonds.
All things come to him who waits —
except the tiling lie wants.
The wise girl looks well to l:er bait
when she fishes for compliments.
Father's only way to win in an argu
men vith the family is to holler.
A double spendthrift is a person
who squanders both time and money.
The woman of the hour is the one
who promises to be ready in a second.
If the pockets are deep enough, a
boy’s first pair of trousers always fit.
Every one Is as God made him,
and often a great deal worse.—Cer
vantes.
The man who steals kisses is liable
eventually t<* find biiuself serving a
life sentence.
Confucius said that the way to re
form society is to call things by their
proppr names.
As nice ns we are in love, we for
give more faults in that than in
friendship.—Henry Horne.
A woman will smile in a pair of
tight shoes, but a man will swear on
tiie slightest provocation.
Milk Is good, and water is good ; hut
that doesn't mean flint Ibo milk pail
should he set under Hie pump.
Efficiency for Pie Makers
Efficiency lias invaded Hie kitchens
of Germany, and I >r. Max Mengering
linusen, styling himself a “household
engineer,” lias eliminated waste mo
tions in pie making. He placed a sinail
lamp on the wrist of a woman while
she was preparing the pastry like
mother did il. A camera recorded ev
ery movement of tlie women’s wrist in
line on a photographic plate. When
these were studied they revealed the
different motions necessary for the op
eration, and suggested hmv more con
venient kitchen equipment nn<l hotter
organization of Hie work might re
duce the fatigue involved in kitchen
labor.
Jiago Speeches
Hr. Ralph Sockman of Hie Madison
Avenue Methodist church. New York,
was condemning jingoism tit a lunch
eon.
“Jingoism,” lie said, “breeds anger,
and anger is the cause of nil wars.
The tragedies caused hy anger arc in
deed incredible.”
Doctor Sockmnn shook his head
grimly
“The angry man,” lie end J, “opens
his mouth and shuts his eyes.”
Aut:> Travels on Water
Using a pair of seaplane pontoons,
a Winnipeg man makes trips hy witter
in his automobile, and completed a
I'JO-mile voyage without mishap. The
propeller shaft of the car is discon
nected at the universal joint, and a
marine propeller shaft, rigged on the
framework between the two boats, is
connected. Thus equipped. Hie car
cruises at a speed of about 15 miles
an hour. —Popular Mechanics Maga
zine.
New York Dirt
Tliere is an old expression, “<lirt
cheap,” that does not apply in New
York city. There is a sign in a New
York store window winch reads: “Dirt
—lO cents a quart.” The fact is that
in New York city there is no dirt avail
able for liower pots unless it is bought
at a dirt store. Tins seems incredible
to the rest of the country, but it is
true.—Princeton Clarion-News.
C.vanifcal Fish Trapped
O. 1,. iOrkenbraek of Uepuhlit, Kan.,
went fishing, caught a two pounder
and stain'd it to the river hank during
the night. Next morning, so lie says,
iie found an eight-pounder had swal
lowed the smaller tish and was caught
by the stick through the gills of tiie
two-pounder.
Something Was Wrong
Simpson—These reporters tell awful
fiiis.
Sampson—What do you mean?
‘‘One of them interviewed iny wife
ami said Hint she had nothing to say.”
—London Answers.
Round-Up
The recent fashion mandate from
Paris that feminine iig-ures are to he
plumper than heretofore caused Mayor
Walker of New York te remark :
‘‘l see where we are due for a hack
to the-girth movement.”
In Town
“Do I know you?” asked the young
woman doubtfully.
“Only slightly. I saved your life
last summer. ,s
G'.ory Enough
Blinks —I have no great desire to be
honored.
Jinks —Me neither. I’d be content
it I could write checks that would be.
Breaking up
Housekeeping.
I have a good Piano
and Stool for sale on
Easy Terms, also a
good one-horse \va-
I gon and many other
things to numerous
to mention.
A. O. COWAN
E. L. COWAN
421 College St..
Conyers. - Ga.
NEW WAR MACHINE
IS FAST TRAVELER
A “greyhound'’ army tank that
charges over sand dunes anil plowed
fields at 40 miles an hour and streaks
down highways at a mile it minute is
tiie latest addition to the fighting
strength of the United States. The
speedy war machine, which carries
three men, passes the ordinary tank
as though die latter were standing
still and gets under way before the
more unwieldy machines of the pas!
begin to move, says Popular Science
Monthly.
Tiie spectacular new Jank showed
what it'can do recently in tests con
ducted before army officers -it ('amp
Meade, Mil. Over rough ground. Its
caterpillar treads carried it at 4'_.5.'
miles an hour. When Hie treads were
removed, the armored fighter, running
on wheels, was clocked over a trial
course at Ob miles tin hour. The
machine, which was designet by -I
Waiter Christie, an armament expert,
is about two-thirds Hie size of Hie
average army tank. It is intended,
its inventor point out, for quick
smashing surprise attacks upon enemy
lines rattier than for heavy combat
work.
SMALL BOY’S GUESS
LOGICAL, AT LEAST
Every night, at the Sequoia Na
tional park they have a campfire which
includes an impromptu entertainment,
and frequently a brief talk on the
giant trees or some phase o 1 wild life,
given hy some attache of Hie park.
One night recently, the topic was
reptiles and in the course of tleserili
iug the various snakes that are to lie
found in California Hie speaker re
marked:
“Tiie particular snake to which I
refer, is said to strike with mathe
inaticnl precision."
“I know what that is!” piped up a
small hoy. “You’re talking about an
adder.” —Los Angeles Times.
SELECTED “SHOTS”
Climate itsn’t everything; but it is
more than half.
For as few friends as a cal has, it
lives pretty well.
There's no time like tiie present for
putting off tilings.
The man who blames the woman is
one kind of jellyfish.
A man who isn’t born shiftless can't
acquire that weakness.
One-half of the world knows how
to work the other half.
Investments that pay enormously
are usually matters of luck.
The woman who lias tact invari
ably knows what not to do.
If moral aphorisms reilect experi
enee, they are guides to live by.
A jealous man is always in love,
blit it's more self-love than anything
else.
Strangers in a city are never in a
hurry, and they see more than any
body else.
It is those who don’t know how to
do anything who clamor for Hie most
vacations.
If you disapprove of dancing, lea in
to dance and see i.’ it doesn’t change
your views.
We shall he judged, not by what
we might have been, hut what we have
been. — Sewell.
Profess affection, and changing your
mind is always resented as if you laid
no such right.
Even the optimist who sees nothing
hut sunshine is shy about lending his
umbrella to a friend.
in condemning tlie vanity of worn
en. men complain of the lire the>
themselves have kindled.—Lingree.
High-Priced Clay
Even clay seems lo tie high priced
in these days. Kaoim, from which
high-grade pottery, porcelain, wall
paper, oilcloth and other products are
made, was produced io the extent ol
496,000 tons last year, and the value,
at approximately $S a ton, was $4,-
085.003. More tiian 4,000,000 tons of
all types of day were produced, and
the total value was $14,000,000.
Lakor Problem
Visitor —Why do you take ttiese
magazines? There's nothing in them
Lmt serial stories.
Housewife —Well, tlie servants get
interested in them and stay on just to
see how the stories end.—Montreal
Star.
The Real Question
Father —I shall allow my daughter
a hundred a year when she marries.
Prospective Suitor—That's very fair,
sir. And what were you thinking ot
allowing her husband? —London Opin
ion.
Not Only in the Auto
“Does your wife drive from the back
seat?”
“Of course.” said Mr. Chugging, “and
from tiie library chair and from toe
dinner place and every oilier kind of
seat there is."
Some Don’t
“Tell me something."
“You have coaie to a well of wis
dom. Shoot.’’
“Is the expression T don’t think’
correct ?”
“Frequently.”
Apperception
The* Herbartian theory of apper
ception states that mental activity
consists in the clash of two factors
that unite to form experience. Her
bert conceives them to lie. on the one
hand, n new datum for experience
and. on the other, the mass of organ
ized experience through which the
new datum obtains meaning and in
terest. The mental resultant of pre
vious experience wherewith we meet
and receive anew experience is termed
apperceptive or apperception masses.
War nr.J Monkeys
Eight-year-old Jean was being men
tally measured by a professor in the
education department! of the Stale uni
versity. The college class was ol>
serving the method.
“What is the difference between
revolution and evolution?” asked tiie
professor.
“Revolution is war, ’ Jean answered
promptly, “and evolution has some
thing to do with limit keys I don't
know what.”—lndianapolis News.
Camoufaga for M'ce
Camouflage, which helped to win
the World war. is being employed in
Europe to catch mice. <>n tiie theory
that rodents of today know their traps,
inventors have produced, for use in
office desks, a mouse-catcher shaped
like a harmless paper clip. Another,
for general use. resembles an old tin
can whose top doses suddenly. Si ill
another resets Itself automatically to
catch mice ail night and damp them
into :i vat of waiter.
Woman Shipmart^r
Miss <Jmirun Trogstad, twenty-one
years old. lias just keen awarded at
Oslo tier shipmasters' certili<ate, thus
becoming llie first git in Norway to
gain such a distinction. She is now
entitled to he captain of vessels up
to 200 tons displacement. She took
a course at the Oslo Seamen's school,
and lias gained practical experience in
a Norwegian lake steamer.
Plan Study of Gorilli
Scientists front Yale tiniversify. plan
to make a year's study of gorillas in •
the Belgian Congo tiHenrn if there is
any similarity between the conduct of
ape and man. — Providence Journal.
WHAT grace and beauty an
electric percolator cv an elec
tric urn set adds to a dinner
or party the careful hostess
has prepared l
What a splendid suggestion
for a Christmas Gift!
If not one of these—then an
electric toaster, waffse iron or
table stove. Perhaps an elec
tric iron.
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range purchased before Christ
mas, an 18-piece set of Viko
Aluminum Ware. Range terms:
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ance.
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