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THE ROCKY MOUNT HERALD, ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1935
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PAGE SEVEN
DIFFERENT AMOUNTS
OF LIGHT NEEDED
for every home need. It takes tha
pressure to give you all the light you
should have.
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A survey shows that 22 per cent "Sunburst" Collar and
of children finishing grade school
Cuff Set for Fall
have damaged eye sight. When they
have finished college, 40 per cent are
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so affected. At age
- 05 per cent
suffer from visual l defects. And at
sixty,
93 per cent have eye deage
fects.
This regrettable Increase in eye
troubles Is In many Instances caused
by eye strain resulting from reading, studying, sewing at night with
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poor light and not enough light.
Science measures light in terms of
foot-candies.
A foot-candle
Is the
amount of light one standard canJEAN NEWTON
a
dle shines on
surface one foot
away.
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jects, 5 foot-candles is sufficient. For
itios,
ON THE WOMAN WHO CRAVES
and therefore needs constant reading coarse print and large stitch
opinaffirmation of her worth in the
PRESTIGE
sewing, you can get along with 10
ion of others. That disqualifies her foot-candies.
For continued reading
entirely
of
a
wife.
for
the
role
may be her virtues
of ordinary print, or doing ordinary
This Collar and Cuff set Is quite a
ImporIt
seems
me
that
ihe
graces,
and her
there is one
to
sewing, you need at least 20 foot-candeparture
from the many models
type of woman who can never be
tance of this point lies not in fol- dles. For reading fine print and fine shown In open net work. The solid
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lowing to its conclusion the question sewing, you require 30 foot-candles,
successful in marriage, a noted auwork gives the pieces more definite
thor tells us. And that Is the womof how the desire for personal presor mere.
form and very little starching la
tige Interferes with the requirean with a sex inferiority complex.
Collar
light may look bright, but It necessary to hold the shape.
Your
Though she may be a perfect angel, ments for a woman's success In
get on your and Cuff sets are going to add atsuch a woman is unfit to be a wife. marriage. We a know that. It Is the Illumination you
traction
to
fall
dresses
more
than
your
eyes
from
ore to the point to work that saves
The trouble with her, we are told, would seem
strain; and this diminishes rapidly they did last spring so a little time
Is that her first interest Is always consider that a craving for attengiven your crochet now will find you
maintaining her prestige. With a tion, a desire for prestige Is very the farther away you are from your
ready when the season
makes its
lamp.
feminine Inferiority complex she is likely to disqualify a woman?or |
change.
Seated with your paper or work 3
not confident of herself and her abll- for that matter a man?for success
Package No. 711 contains sufficient
In anything.
| feet away from your lamp, It will rewhite Mountain Craft crochet cotton
There Is nothing In the world quire a light of at least 275 eandleto complete this three piece set Compower to produce the 30 foot-candles
that so Interfere*, with accomplishplete instructions and set illustrated
needed
be
certain
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enjoyment
your
eyes
as
to
have
ment and with
of life
on a model are also included.
having one eye on what other peo- | enough light to do their work withSend 23 cents and you receive thla
ple will say or think. There is | out danger of strain and permanent
package by mull postpaid.
Instrucnothing so distracting as to be pre- [ Injury.
DISHES BY FAMOUS COOKS
tions and Illustrations will be mailed
occupied in gaining the good will or
If you use electricity, your light for 10 cents.
A S MACARONI, spaghetti and good opinion of others. There Is no company will recommend the right
Address Home Craft Co., Dept. B,
noodles are all such popular surer short-cut io failure than the size bulbs to use.
Nineteenth and St. Louis Ave., St
effort
to
shine.
foods and take the place in a meal
If your home Is not wired, one of Louis, Mo.
People who have creative work,
of other starchy foods such as potathe new 300 candlepower kerosene or
Inclose a stamped addressed
endistinguished
achievement,
Grandmother's Recipe
to
their
enjoy
a few new ways of
toes, we
will velope for reply when writing fot
credit, have succeeded because they gasoline pressure mantle lamps
for Bread
preparing such dishes.
supply plenty of "live" natural light any information.
did their work for Its own sake.
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
People who are most highly regard|||
By ANNE CAMPBELL
Rector's Spaghetti and Chicken
ed by the world are those who have
Salad.
cared little for the world's acclaim.
SAMMY JAY BRINGS
to know what It was. It was a
Take one-half pound of elbow People who have the greatest expegun. Yes, sir, It was a gun; a terit had
LIGHTFOOT WORD
in a book
cupfuls
of diced chickspaghetti, two
rience of happiness are those who
rible gun.
long been spread,
en, one cupful of chopped celery, pursue the even tenor of their way,
Sammy,
"Ha!" exclaimed
and I found Grandmother's recipe for one tablespoonful of onion, one teaJay is one of those who quite
doing their best according to their
forgot that his stomach was
bread,
spoonful of salt, one-half cupful of lights, playing the game for the sake
believe in the wisdom of the old empty. "Now, who can that fellow
and
hand,
by
Written
her dear
mayonnaise, two tabelspoonfuls of of the game, without thought to anMiying, "Early to bed and early to
be after so early in the morning?
placed inside
Doable Action
Double Tested
chopped green pepper, one tableother's opinion, or to admiration or
rise." Sammy needs no alarm clock I wonder if he is going over to the
long ago, for me, a spoonful
cook-book
A
of pimiento or minced red applause.
to get him up early In the morning. Big River after Mr. and
by baking powder Specialists
Manufactured
Quack,
bride,
Mrs.
tablespoonful
capers,
of
pepper, one
He Is awake as soon as it is light or If he
who make nothing but baking powder
is going to the dear Old I had not tried It for a dozen years, lettuce or watercress.
Cook the
enough to see and wastes no time Brier-patch
For the Class Room
to look for Peter Rabunder supervision of expert chemists.
And gazed upon it now with falling spaghetti until tender. Drain and
wishing he could sleep a little longbit, or if he is going to the Old Pas
tears.
remaining ingredier. His stomach wouldn't let him
chili.
Add
the
or IfIt
if he wanted to. Sammy always ture in search of Reddy Fox,
ents and mix lightly. Serve on letis Mr. and Mrs. Grouse he hopes to For I could see her silver head once
25 ounces for 25«
wakes up hungry. In this he is no
tuce or cress with goldenrod sauce,
kill. I think I'll sit right here and
more,
which Is made by rubbing several
different from all his feathered
You can also buy
watch."
Bent to a little child beside her hard-cooked eggs through a sieve.
So Sammy sat in the top of the
II lO ounce can for lOm
door.
be
used
in
may
Salmon or tuna
So the minute Sammy gets his tree and watched the hunter
lUll IS ounce can for 1{«
with I smelled the home-made bread she place of chicken.
open
eyes
he makes his toilet, for the terrible gun. lie saw him head
baked for me,
Highest Quality?Always Dependable
straight for the Green Forest.
"It's And churned for Grandmother In
Liver With Noodles.
Mr. and Mrs. Grouse after all, I
memory.
Take five ounces of noodles, cool;
guess," thought Sammy. "If I knew The buttery door stood open, for no
until tender in boiling salted water.
just where they were I'd go over
bar
Drain. Line a casserole with them
and warn them."
Kept me from Grandmother's
tall and set aside to become firm. Cut a
But Sammy didn't know Just
cooky jar.
pound of liver In slices and scald
"
where they were and he knew that
f
v
in a cupful of boiling water. Drain
it might take him a long time to The curtains blew
Fry
In
the
October
and
fine.
a
carrot
and
oncut
find them so he once more began
air,
ion In three tablespoonfuls of bacon
THIS BREAKFAST
IS GREAT,
to think of breakfast; and then, Her bird sang, telling me the
world fat, using one-half cupful of onion
right then, another thought popped
was
fair.
and one-fourth of a cupful of
Into his head. He thought of Light- The carpets made of rags, the tidies'
chopped cooked carrot. Add three
foot the Deer.
fold
tablespoonfuls of flour, when brown
Sammy watched the hunter enter
Upon the Morris chair, like her, add one and one-half cupfuls of soup
the Green Forest, then silently folgrown old.
stock and the liver. Season well,
lowed him.
From the way the Are memories of precious years, cook until thick, pour Into the cashunter moved Sammy decided that
long sped.
serole,
cover with crumbs and
he wasn't thinking of Mr. and Mrs. Caught
In recipe for making bread. brown.
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Grouse.
"He's Coming!" Cried Sammy.
"It's Lightfoot the Deer,
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sure as I live!" muttered Sammy.
Dark brown soutache is used efSammy is very neat, and atarts out "He ought to be warned.
He cerfectively to trim this two-piece
to hunt for his breaktf'St. Long ago tainly ought to be warned. I know
dress of brown and white shepherd
Sammy discovered that there Is no right where he is. I believe I'll warn
check woolen, which is designated
safer time of day to visit the doorhim myself."
for classroom wear. The skirt is
yards of those two-legged creatures
Sammy
Lightfoot right
found
pleated all around. The velvet ass
fl'
called men, than very early In the where he had expected to. "He's
f
cot scarf, leather belt and buttons
myrnlng. On this particular morncoming!" cried Sammy.
"A hunter
are
dark
brown.
ing he had planned to fly over to with a terrible gun is coming!"
Fool
The
EAST OR WEST
THE FLAVOR'S BEST
Farmer Brown's dooryard, but at
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Grave Oddly Marked
the last minute he changed his mind.
Over the ancient grave of an unjust
bath
he
locked
the
dooryard
Many
Wynn:
door,
Instead he flew over to the
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Dear Mr.
and
identified person in Wilmington, N.
of another farm. It was so very
Tar, obtained during the manuA friend of mine always tells me packed his things and went away C., stands a monument bearing
as quiet as possible.
early In the morning that Sammy
facture of gas from coal, is the he can't afford to run an automocarved designs of snakes, a devil's
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didn't expect to find anybody stir- base of more than 2,000 byproducts, bile. Vet I know he owns one. What
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head and the head of an elephant.
ring so you can guess how surprised
including dyes, antiseptics, scents,
do you make of that?
he was when just as he came in flavoring essences,
aspirins,
Truly yours,
and
sght of the dooryard he saw the moth balls.
P. ANNO.
3oor of the farm house open and a
Answer: Thnt's why he knows he
man step out
City of Leontopoli*
can't afford to run one.
Sammy stopped In the top of the
The city of Leontopolls was an
nearest tree. "Now what is that ancient city in the Delta of Egypt.
Mr. Wynn:
man doing up as early as this?" The name is also a later designa- Dear
What does it mean when It Is said
muttered Sammy. Then he caught tion for Nicephorium, a fortified
a man is in the "cream of society?"
light of something under the man's
town of Mesopotamia, on the EuSincerely
phrates.
*rm. He didn't have to look twice
N. V. USS.
Answer: That simply means he
Is thick.
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Dear Mr. Wynn:
I stopped to look in the window
of a drug store today and I saw
the window filled with red rubber
you'll think I'm
gloves. I suppose
dumb, but I Just must ask you.
What In the world are rubber gloves
used for?
Tours truly,
JIMMY NEEWHISKERS.
Answer: Rubber gloves, my boy,
are worn by people who want to
wash their hands without getting
them wet.
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Dear Mr. Wynn:
I advertised in the papers for a
servant and today my ad was answered by a man who said he just
left your employment. In answering my question about why he left
you, he said that he absolutely left
you without any angry words. Is
this true?
Sincerely,
I. N. GAGEDHIM.
Answer: It Is true. I was in the
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left, and his brother, J. W. Rolllnson, thrifty reslso they have built, at
Oklahoma, believe In preparedness,
own
expense,
small
their
cotllns. The caskets ere all ready, even to the
pillows,
style
to
receive
the
owners
satin
In fine
at the proper time.
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