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•< iV V ' " 4-»: «**y ,;^r ' --'•A.V;*.^ i iffw &T&- 3T4 5>w.« ? ^sr.fx •*• ^ Jir' '" ' ^ " """"" """' *-"--- -' -: - ~ x- - - '- -- -- - • - W, &*&$f• T.3?r.f&i^v?v**• •? PLAINDEALER, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1931 :$# V GRISWOLD LAM , WHY ; £ • , •> • ' * -Mrs. l?Sv:'-"' M. J. Freund and granddaughter'of McHenry, Hr. and Mrs. Fred Smith of Johnsburg and Mrs. Matt J, Mullenbach of Iowa were Saturday guests at the Andrew Steinsdoerfer home. Mr-.and Mrs. Nick Freund of Ringwood and Mr. and Mrs. John Barnings and son spent Saturday in Chicago. m;«« Margaret Steinsdoerfer visited Miss Pearl Foss at Slocum Lake Wednesday. Miss Myrna Bacon spent Monday and Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Earl nes i ium- Potassium, ' _ _ *»,, n Ann enlnnni» A«M Converse at Mylith Park Farm. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Scheid and son of Wheeling spent Tuesday in the Nick Kennebeck and George Scheid homes. Clara Kennebeck and Irvin Nester of Woodstock spent the first of the week at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nick Kennebeck. Mrs. Andrew Steinsdoerfer spent Monday and Tuesday in Chicago with her sister, Mrs. L. Baer In Chicago. Andrew Steinsdoerfer and daughters and son were callers at Crystal Lake Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Freund of Ring: wood were Friday callers at the J. Barnings home. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bacon and sons spent Friday at the Thurow home at Crystal Lake. Mrs. Nick Kennebeck attended a party at the Peter Freund home at McHenry Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bacon and family spent Sunday with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Davis, near Wauconda. Misses Margaret and^Marie Steinsdoerfer were Crystal Lake visitors Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. John Barnings and E. Walters were business callers at . Crystal Lake Tuesday. Wisdom in Tolerance Let the world have whatever •ports and recreation please them, provided they be followed with discretion ,-r-Bu rton. OV A ve-in- Dietiti&ro Advocate Dried Fruits as Food Dried fruits are lauded as quirk sources of energy and also as sources of minerals by Doris McCray in Hygeia Magazine. The energy-producing factor is< the fruit sugar, of which raisins contain 75 per cent; dried figs 56 per cent; dried apricots 57 per cent; dried pears 47 per cent; prunes 39 per cent, and dried peaches 39 per cent. Calcium, phosphorus, iron, magsodium, chlorine and sulphur are all found In dried fruits. Mrs. McCray quotes authorities to the effect that dried fruits are effective In the production of hemoglobif), the red coloring matter of the blood, and are therefore valuable in treating anemia. The fiber content of dried . fruit has considerable value as bulk or roughage, which stimulates peristalsis. Studies of the vitamin content show that prunes contain vitamin A j raisins, prunes, peaches and apples contain vitamin B; and apples and peaches contain vitamin C. - v Why Entire Surface of Earth Is Not Uniform Tfie action of atoms composing the crystals of the rocks Inside the earth causes mountains and tablelands to rise. The arrangement of the atoms or molecules is altered by the high pressure ancl internal heat of the earth. In this process the atoms exert powerful forces tending to thrust the earth's surface upward. Such is the theory Advanced by Dr. Bailey Willis, research associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, wffo made careful studies of the rift valleys of Africa. He says that in the earth are pockets of concentrated heat which sometimes produce volcanic eruptions. These heat pockets affect the rocks for a'considerable distance, with the result that the crystals of the rocks are changed in form and expanded in size. They exert pressure enough to displace mountain iSasses. --Pathfinder Magazine. TRACING tie ACP HAfcGT M Y W»y Moott Is Lifdwts Astronomers are of the opinion that the moon is not capable of sustaining vegetable or animal life in some form. It is an established fact that the moon has no atmosphere, and since the surface Is exposed to the rays of thfe sum continuously for two weeks without the protection of an atmosphere and then deprived of sunlight for an equal length of time, a great range of tem-< perature Is necessarily to be expected. Measurements of the heat which the earth receives from the moon Indicate, fbr the sunlit side, a temperature well above 100 degrees centigrade and for the dark side extreme cold, 'near the absolute zero -of temperature. ~Water Is also known to he lacking. Thus, if tooth air and water are lacking, life as we know it, either animsti or vegetable. 9s Impossible. In the opinion of most astronomers the moon is an arid* .bar- *"""" -vT^V •Wfcr -<OI» Virginia Is called the Old Dominion because It was the first English colony in the New world. When the English settled in Virginia the term "Virginia" referred to all <of North America between the 34th and 45th degrees of latitude, and Virginia was bordered <oa the east by the Atlantic ocean and the west "by the Pacific ocean. Th<r "term "Old Dominion" probably comes from the fact that in referring to Virginia in partlament and elsewhere It was always referred to as "his (or dwrr) majesty's most ancient eplony and dominion *<Jf Virginia." -- Kansas Qty Times. -- • • STRAIGHT EIGH t] ENGINE J ness, smoothness and ' power are added (i.5 Buick's famous dependability sod long lift by this new VihV In-Head Straight Eight V •?S .jf.; Why Messages Wars Barred Saltcoats, Scotland, has given local Authorities power to prosecute those who write -messages with >ohalk .on •treet pavements. The action followed the chalking -of a pa vement -out- Ale a church with reference to the rnissinti Tellgious persecutions, -City officials declaring that, the messages were Intended to cause bad leeling ga&ojqg party factions. . . JWhy Cafs Kin L3^M* ^ h cat (s said to have *ritne Hves" Is really--save that nine was one of the sacred numbers--nothing but a tribute 1/) Its body. Its spine Is very tough, its paws are thickly paddedi and its body Is extraordinarily fierfble. -W. Why BMrk(i k Dtft* JDoctor Stephenson of Cornell university says that rickets is the usual cguse of dogs becoming bow-legged. Ood-liver oil, butter-fat and sunshine am both prevention and cure for this condition. •nd np tu*b. Flint, HE Overton & Cowen Boick Motor Cars phone 6 West McHenry •'•a;*1- • • THE EIGHT AS BVICK B U I L D S I T Why Rmhsm Is VubUac Scientists say the moon Is getting farther and farther from the earth, which may explain why the present generation Is less romantic than some of its predecessors.--Haverhill Eveninwg G4 azette. • S Why Water Colors Fad* In the fading of water color paintings and old illuminated manuscripts, It is the short wave lengths of light --blue, violet and the invisible ultra- •ioifft--that are most destructive Why Djres Held Coler The chemical type of dye rather than color is the big factor in determining Its ability to withstand fading from light or washing, says the bu- «t standards - The Turks Learn ffhpwtd by tb« National Geographic ' Society, Washington, D. C.) HE great mystery of the alphabet, the most important intellectual tool that mankind ever invented, seems nearer solution as the result of the recent digging up of tablets with a new sort of cuneiform Inscription at Ras Shamara on the coast of Syria, at the eastern end of the Mediterranean sea. The tablets have not yet been deciphered, but It has been determined that they are written in 28 characters, which seems to indicate the use of a real alphabet. The part that alphabets play in the life of a people is indicated by the change In Turkey not many months ago from the Arabic .to the Latin alphabet. The decision of Turkey to "throw overboard the alphabet she had used for many centuries, and to replace it with the alphabet of western Europe and the Americas, was £pt so revolutionary a step as it at first appealed. It was wot as It Turkey were' uprooting some cherished cultural- growth ®nd setting up in its place a foreign substitute. No true alphabet can be found In use today by a people who has originated it. When It comes to •alphabets all the world has borrowed. It Is an amazing thing, but the problem of resolving human speeclr into Its thirty-odd sounds and representing them by symbols seems to have been •solved only once--within historic times, at least--and from this happy 'bit df analysis and invention ail the 'true alphabets In use today appear to ihave descended. The English alphahet came directly from the Latin. It Is, in fact, the saihe alphabet that Rome used save for such minor changes as the add! {Jon of a separate "J" (the Latin "I' Served for both "I" and "J"), and the expansion of the Latin MUVn into "UVW." The Romans, in turn, borrowed their alphabet from the Greeks, changing the forms of the letters somewhat and dropping some characters. And the Greeks, as evidence and tradition show, took their letter system from the Phoenicians, even retaining the nameq with slight variations. Greeks Added the Vowels. In passing the alphabet through their hands, the Greeks gave it one of its most important additions. They added definite vowel symbols to the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted1 solely of 22 consonants. The Greeks "tinkered" further with the alphabet so that the Athenian version, Including vowels, came to have 24 letters. They also changed the direction of writing. The Phoenicians wrote from right to left; the Greeks adopted the left to right direction now employed by all the western world. The greatest problem In connection with the alphabet is to determine where the Phoenicians got It There have been widely divergent theories las to this, ft has been variously suggested that the 22 characters were adopted from the hieroglyphic^ and the hieratic writing of Egypt, the cuneiform characters of Babylon, and symbols of the Hittites, Cretans, and ancient Greeks. No evidence so far found seen^s sufficient to determine f,thls matter. Probably the most generally accepted theory Is that the Phoenicians, familiar because of their trading voyages with the various cumbersome writing systems around the Mediterranean, chose from them such symbols as they needed, stripped off the complications and simplified writing for the first time to a nearly true i alphabetic basis. i The Phoenicians are supposed to haS^ been urged to this step by the desire ^to conserve time "In keeping their Accounts and records of trading ventures. Pictures and Symbolsi The earliest written records were fnade in pictures which represented Ihlngs and actions. Abstract ideas could be suggested only In the crudest round-about way. After centuries of use these pictures became conventionalized 4nto symbols, such as the ideograms of the Egyptians, and the Mayas of America, and some of those still used in China [today. The next step was a marked departure from the (previous development and a tremendously Important one. It was to represent by symbols not the things themselves, but instead the CITI! War SeMlers The soldiers drafted Into the tfalon nnay daring the Civil war were between the ages of eighteen and fortylive. The first draft law of the Confederate states, 1862, gave the age limits as eighteen to thirty-live--this was later Increased to forty-fire. The act ef 1SS4 drafted into military service alt-whlta-pen _ twtweea sqeanteea and fifty, those between seventeen and and a ruwia " ",-••• - * • : ... a New Alphabet, sounds of the spoken words, for the first time man wrote his language as he spoke It. The sounds of entire words were symbolized at first; then, after a while, the syllables which formed the words. This pave a writing system of considerable fluency. In It were written the Chinese classics (with an admixture of the older ideographs and symbols). This syllabic writing appeared in a purer form in the cuneiform of Mesopotamia from records In which the modern world has learned of the Intimate daily lives of these people oflong ago, their business transactions, their highly developed laws, and their religious customs.^In Egypt syllabic writing was early developed, but tft the end the Egyptians mixed with the syllable characters all the lumber of hieroglyphles and ideograms. The Egyptians even took the final step of adopting symbols for letter sounds; but these, too, they Jumbled In with the other varied characters. The ultimate step in spjlttlng op the syllables, adopting an alphabet of characters to represent the component sounds of speech, and building all written words from these simple characters, was taken by the Phoenicians. "Heretofore It has been believed that this step was taken about 1000 B. C. Records of about 1400 B. C. discovered in the various countries of the eastern Mediterranean disclose no alphabetic writing; the non-aiphabetle cuneiform was then In general use even In correspondence between Egypt and Babylon. Alphabet Born About 1000 B. C. Records of about 800 B. C. show the Phoenician alphabet in use, and apparently in use for some time. The birthdate of the alphabet, therefore, was taken roughly as about 1000 B. C. The latest discoveries at Ras Shamara, however, point to the origin of alphabetic writing In Syria as early as the Thirteenth century B. C. The resolving of writing Into the alphabetic form was somewhat like science's analysis of matter. First, students accepted matter Itself; then found It to be composed of molecules. They pushed their analysis further and resolved the molecules into atoms; and these, finally, Into electrons, positive and negative.. The vowel and consonant symbols, last to be discovered, may be considered the positive and negative electrons of written language, seldom existing apart from one another. When alphabets came into existence in the Near East, their use spread rapidly, largely through trade channels. Before many centuries they were adopted In northern Africa, the entire Mediterranean region, Arabia. Mesopotamia, Armenia, and Persia. Some students have asserted that the Rrahml alphabet of India originated Independently; but others are convinced that this alphabet, too, was introduced from Syria (the home of the Phoenicians) about 800 B. C. Even the runic alphabet of the Norsemen Is believed to have been developed from a Greek alphabet early In the Christian era. The Aramean alphabet was developed from the Phoenician on the edge of the Arabian desert, and from this grew the Hebrew and Arabic alpha bets. When the Mohammedan religion began to spread In the Seventh century A. Dr It took with It the Arabic alphabet. This accounts for the uae of the Arabic characters today over a targe part of southern Asia and northern Africa, ft was when they became Moslems that the Turk«^began the use of the Arabic alphabet While that system of characters had been developed by the Arabs to fit their own language with great exactness. It has never been well adapted to the Turkish language. The Latin alphabet now adopted by the Turks records their language sounds more satisfactorily. and in addition contains about one-third as many characters as the Arabic. The number of the Arabic characters Is swelled by the use of different forms of each letter at tire beginning of words, within them, and as terminal l&terSk Educators believe that heavy Illiteracy In Turkey has been due largely to the complexity of the Arabic alphabet, and that school children can become familiar with the new alphabet In a small fraction of the time devoted to mastering the old. ~ . SLOCUM'S LAKE Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Foss were callers •a| Crystal Lake Friday. [ Harry Matthews and son were visitors at Lake Zurich Friday. » Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bacon and two •sons were callers at Crystal Lake Friday. ' ai Mr. Mulholland of Chicago, spent Monday at his farm here. Leslie Foss spent Tuesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William '»*rrell near McHenry. Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren Were business callers at McHenry last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse and daughter were Wfeodstock visitors iast Thursday evening. , Mrs. Elmer Esping spent last Friday and Saturday at the home of her sister at Crystal Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Pag$ Smith visited Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Whitman near Wauconda. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Williams and son of Crystal Lake were Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mrs Clara Smith. - • ~ Leslie Foss spent Sunday at the »' >me of his brother at Libertyville. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Esping, Mr? ?!arry Matthews and two sons spent mday *ht the home of Mr. and Mrs. •LaDoyt Matthews at Crystal Lake. Mr. and Mrs. George Eisner and children of Barrington spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Winkler, Sr. Mrs. Leon Smith and children of Fremont Center were callers at the ta>me of Mrs. ^Clara Smith last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Geary were visitors at McHenry Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Ray DoWell and two daughters and George Eatinger were callers at Woodstock last Saturday. Mrs. H. J. Schaffer and Mrs. John R. Knox of McHenry called at the home of their parents Friday. Mr and Mrs. Ray Dowell and daughters and George Eatinger were callers at Elgin Wednesday. Henry Geary and son, Jack, were callers at McHenry Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lusk and daughter, Betty Lou, of near Round Lake spent Sunday at the Blomgren home. Mr. and Mrs. William Darrell of near McHenry spent Sunday at the home of the former's parents here. Harry Matthews, accompanied by H. C. Glfkerson of Grayslake* Louis Elsbury and Wm. Sawyer of Gurnee, attended a district meeting of the Farm Bureau at Wheaton Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Nellis of Crystal Lake are now occupying the farm formerly occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Davis. . Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bacon and children and Mr: Heiuner and son, Clarence, were Woodstock callers last Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks and son, •Chesney, were Sunday guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Brooks at Waukegan. Mr. and Mrs John Blomgren and John Nestead were callej*« at Crystal Lake Saturday evening. ^ Unique Efyptiaa An. Egyptian tomb painting show* the daughter of the Pharaoh Cheops as having blond or red hair, which gfves her the distinction ef being the only person of the Pyramid age known to have light hair. - * , Absentmiadedaesa That Chicago man who put his umbrella to bed and slept in the bathtub was not a professor, because in the first place a professor would not have brought his umbrella bor Dally News. - Phalin & Kennebeck i ; ^ . (<*. A. 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