The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

COMWG BACK .•"S^e^r-Sfc'i r:*i --'^®f on 7the R lyer FoftchOW. f M M HEKKY PLAiNDEALER THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3,1931 "TT 'V-:- W" >$r Crowded Shipping •€*»**«* 'the ,NS.tioji>i•:ps«.ikr*phic.. .j^strfcefcs,/ andtlfe Witli Society. Wft«h'r,*+on, DC) j th(>js{, oJi £he ()rlent - OOCilOW^ v which ; f. ';; -it :tfe*' t rafelfer st £ps WtVa 'Fb'O:' i ipiofflg- ?h.«4ea-pott8'=6.t^5ifr -tiyrtri ; ctiffrr .side street,be; st^psinto ap era .and fheti^ tjpb d^flUes «go, : -centuries past. 'Streets that to Ceylon and- japan, is staging, *i|-"fwist and turn and come to abrupt 1 A T. comeback. ' /' V • j The steep slopes of F.ukien province, of which Foochow Is capital and i leading city,« again are covered with thriving tea bushes; big-hatted men,/! women and children throng the j plantations,. picking tea leaves fronri dawn to dusk; tea-laden porters form"]" - an almost endless parade from the : ," plantation to the tea warehouses; and I ^tOi|rt8;0ii -the""MSp", "piled with packages ! of tea recall the days when clipper §hips cleared Foocftow with ^cargoes of fragrant leaves, destined to. American teapots. Foochow jiort is rei^Hy not In the *r city's suburbs. The nearest'fate the city's five-mile, vine-clad wall Is more than three miles from the north . JMnk of the Min, about 34 miles from the'sea. s " Few travelers visit Foochow. To roach the port, one must go by boat, for railroads .and good roads are not to be found' In this region. Oceangoing vessels from Shanghai and Hong Kong make regular trips up the Min which penetrates the Chinese, coast opposite *the north end of Taivfc (Formosa). Th£ vessels may st up the river as far as Pagoda Anc age. There passengers are vtr ferred to launches which, after tniles of dodging matting-covered sam pans and grotesquely carved, highpooped junks, deposit their human . cargo at the city's suburban docks. If one wants to "go native," however, he may board a native "boat with the ownstop$ were marked features, of Foo- . chow's early city planners. For example, the tortuous, route of one street nilghll be visualized by drawing a dia- .grani. It begins by running eastward find (hen northward,* eastward, northward, eastward, northward, eastward, southward, westward, southward, southeastward, southward, westward, southward, eastward and southward. Travelers Use. Sedan Chairs. 1 The whole course of this thoroughfare is', equal to but $ few , American Vcity blocks in length and nowhere 1.C It. wide enough- for even a jinrikisha to-ptrSs without driving playing children and their playmates---'filthy dogs and pigs--into bordering doorways.- The sedan chair is used by most travelers to penetrate the Foochow passageways wher« the odors permeating the atmosphere are so" overwhelming to foreign nostrils that chair bearers are -urged on. to the nearest breathing spaces. ... " v • Ancient as Foochow' seems, to be to . the westerner; it is a sort of wild west of China to the native^ of Canton and I'eiping. Jn the days bf Confucius all ^China-looked upon the region that now is Fukien.province as the bailiwick of barbarians; The wall that encompasses the city did" not rise until the Ming period which covered the years that America was discovered and colon- ° ized. ' ' .. ( While poor-transportation facilities for reaching Foochow have constit^ed family, foWts7 (lf.frs "aftd-Trt?rs^d---an te^mrtitnt fat-tor in teeepmir t+r^Tity; travel in the unwesternized atmosphere of the Min. •' The river's obstruction at Pagoda* AncTi orage i» artificial, formed whea irtone-laden barges were sunk there to prevent a French fleet from reaching the city during: the Franco-Foo- (dkow trpu/bkgg in 1SS4. It is the charrfstic of the Chinese- love for things as they are that Foochow busi-' n^ss men have waited so Jong to take 'steps to clear the channel and thus avoid the endless annoyance of reloadingof cargoes. . i " :V.'. >From ^River to Cit^. The journey from the, river to the dty may be made by-bus, jinrikisha or sedan chair. Frequently travelers prefer to be landed on the south side of the river where they get a glimpse of the most modern portion of Foo chow--the foreign settlement. On a small hill are foreign consulates, western churches, hospitals, and handsome residences wlikh constitute, a community almost independent of the Chinese city, while below is a business district with streets lined with foreign and native-owned shops where eastern and western merchandise is on display. Commodious clubs, wide sweeps of glassy lawns dotted with ; towering gardens, a race track, tennis «ourts and pleasure craft on the Min tend to keep the small foreign popuia- ,-tlon contented. : • - The visitor should not hurry into : foochow proper, even If he could, for to do so would be to miss the physical ; -fceauties and fabled history that accentuate each step of the journey from the ocean' to the port. • Along / the Min one may see pearl divers. , j $hould a diver be drowned his fellows . tftoically conclude that he has fallen a Victim to the sea-turtle, Chinese equivalent for the legendary sea-serpent of tbo West. Near Pagoda A nth Lfeak, capped by a tower built by a ^ife to welcome home an oriental Enoch Arden who, when he saw It, thought he had mistaken the river, and sailed away again, never to return,, A mandarin's footprint In a rock com" meinorates the summary punishment of quarrymen who kept right on chopping away its companion footprint, Respite the flow of blood that spurted out at each stroke. When removed to a place in a bridge It registered a protest by kicking its bearers into the ttver, so the companion was not molested. ......... Inside the Foochow wall a few mod- Cm schools and government buildings have punctuated an otherwise low, flat- «ky line of rather dingy buildings. , Telegraph keys click in telegraph of- -•Ifices, electric lights arie available to those who can afford them, a few au- -toniobiles ruay be seen on the main truly oriental^ cholera a^d the bubonic plague have also caused outsiders to give it a wide berth. Perhaps the pleasantest portion of a Foochow tour is a visit to the tea factories and warehouses where tea leaves, scented with jasmines, roses find chrysanthemums, -are sorted from dawiL to dusk by Chinese women and children. Last year Foochow exported more than 7,000,000 pounds of Fukien tea and re-exported-an additional .5,000,000 pounds which were shipped to its "tea perfumeries." There are more than forty tea factories in the city. . The open shops along the Foochow streets reveal thousands of. natives eking out an existence in various Industries. Before one's eyes artisans mak'fe wooden pillows and Images of gods and odd-looking beasts; cabinet makers turn out fancy furniture; potters shape and fire handsome vessels; brick makers fashion their products in all shapes, sizes and colors; both men and women sit silently embroidering, or weaving the dark cloth usually worn by peasants; and dyers, with inky hands, seemingly turn old garments into new of a different-color. Trade with 27 cities and many sinall village* above Foochow which are reached by river boats accounts for much of Foochow's commercial activity. It was not until 1861 when the Min was opened to foregn shipping that the city's "suburbs" spread out , along the Min banks and Foochow merchants beckoned to world trade. SlnCe then Foochow's annual output of tea alone once reached nearly 100,- 000,000 pounds and it bids fair to rfr peat. The Dog Worshipers. On a mountain not far from the «tty one encounters the dog worshipers-- easUy distinguishable by the peculiar of their women'; a scaflfoldlike effect with a cord dangling before the face. Thlf is torn because of a myth which Holds that a dog once saved the city tyid the gods rewarded him by subjecting hin to a proccss by which he was to become human after v t EINOWOOD Mfs. iS.' L. Hawiey- and datifrhtera, Shirley and Mario^ and Mrs. Frank Stohebraker '""WBte Elgin visitors on Wednesday. ~ ^ Mr. and Mrs. George Rasmussen and ?ojl, Lester^ of Chicago were visitors in the Alec ^Anderson home Wednesday. ' . Mr- • and ' Mrs. William McCanhon and Mrs. Minnie Coats were visitors j at Treavor, .Wis., Thursday j Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Shepard and daughter, Gladys, and Mrs. W. ADodge spent Thursday morning at Harvard. . . Mrs. Roy Neal'and daughter, Shirley, and Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ladd were visitors at Woodstock Thursday afternoon. • 1 ' . Howard Shepard; spent - the past week with his grandpaj*»is.~»t~-Mc- Henry. r1"":™;: . Mr. andt Mrs. Edgar Thoraafe apd family spent S,unaay in the Clarence Draper home near McHenry. . Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Howard and j fafnily of Elgin, Mrs. George Bacon, Mrs. Lesteir Nelson and daughter of Antioch and Mr. and Mrs, W; A. Dodge spent Sunday in - the L^o|> Dodge home. / ' IVR's. Nici: A%ms and Dorothy P^et } visit.ed aftornoon. . , "/ .- Mr. and Mrs, Jo© Weber and family of McHenry spent Sunday in tht^ 'Nick'.;Young home, . Mrs; S. H. Beatty" and Mrs. Viola ;L&\V and children Were Wdodstock yisitors Friday; - . . Mrs. L. E% ,Hawley and daughters, Mrs, E. C- Hawley aind Mrs. Stonebrake? spent Thursday at Barrington, Mrs. Kenneth Cristy is entertaining her mother, Mrs. Nelson, of Waupaca, Wis. . Mr., and Mrs. Lyle Hopper of Chicago are enjoying a two weeks' vacation here with relatives. j Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Dodge sp^it] from Friday until Sunday in the hoiljfil of their daughter at Antioch. Mrs. Moss of Libertyville spent Friday and Saturday with Mrs. Ruth Hopper. Mrs. Nick Young spent Friday afternoon at McHenry. Mr. and Mrs. G. 35. Sheparti and family attended a picnic at the Fred Beers -farm near- Richmond Sunday. There were twenty-eight present. Miss Eleanor and Clara Peterson and Harold Godsen of Chicago were callers in the L. E- Hawley home Sunday .morning. Alsena Low of Muskegan, Mich., spent the past" week m >fche home of her aunt, Mrs. Viola Ldw. Mr; and Mrs. Charles Frey and family of Deerfield spent Sunday with the latter's parents, Mr. arid Mrs- S. H. Beatty. Mrs. Albert Purvey of McHenry and Mrs. Hal Plumb of Woodstock called tin Wynne Kelley Thursday afternoon; ' Mrs. Erma Richards Qf Woodstock called on her Cousin,- Mrs. S. W. "Brewn, Wednesday^ "T-~;--:-->--7 Mrs. Moline, Perry Miller and Mr. Norling of Chicago * were guests- o.f Mrs. L. E. Hawley Saturday afternoon. ,/_ ^ - • Mrs. Viola Low spent the week-end with relatives at Myskegan, Mich. I •J- V. Buckiand and Miss ; Flora Taylor"" spent the past week at Wim low, 111. . Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Laurence spent Thursday afternoon at McHenry. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Simpson spent the past week with relatives at Benton, 111. , Mr. a'nd Mrs. Charles Carr. wei r visitors at Woodstock Saturday after noon. " ' Mr. and .Mrs. Harold Wiedrich wet ' callers at Woodstock Saturday even <ng. ' . . .. ; ' . • George Huber, Mrs-„Emil Qetz> I and daughter, Irene, of Highlati 1 Park spent Thursday afternoon" wii1 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wiedrich family. Charles Coates of Genoa City -spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Fr»-1 Wiedrich and family. Mr. and Mrs. Ejnil Johnson of McHenry spent Saturday in the Augu t Pearson home. > Mrs. Fred Wiedrich,and sop, Frank, spent Sufiday morning at Crystai Lake. • -. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Balfe of Wil hams Bay, Wis., spent Sunday in th<> Frank Fay home. Mr. and Mrs. George Sprenzel and Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hildebrandt of Chicago were callers in the L. K. Hawley home, Saturday morning 1 Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kelley '.and' daughter, Betty Lou, were guests if relatives at Belvidere Sunday. •Joe Welter and family of Chicago spent Sunday in the M. L. Welter home. _ Mr. and Mrs. Frank Block and daughter, Marion Jean, of Kenosha spent Sunday with Dr. and Mrs.'Hepburn. ,,Mrs_ ^ E- Stonebrakor, Mr. ami Mrs-. E. C. Hawley and Mrs. L. E. v Mercedes Whiting returned to her home in Chicago after spending the past week in the Lewis /Schroeder home. J Edna and Alice Peet Spent Wednesday and Thursday at Crystal Lake. Edward Harrison of Elgin spent the week-end here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Harrison, ... Mrs. J. F. Claxton of McHenry spent Monday afternoon with her daughter, Mrs. George Shepard Mr. and Mrs. George Harrison and daughter, Lora and Mrs. Charles Peet, were visitors' at Woodstock Saturday.- r Mr. and Mrs. Nick Young and Mrarid Mrs. Frank Hay spent Tuesday at Madison, Wis. )W. P. Stevens of Solon Mills spent Tuesday in the E. Flander home. Mrs. J. C. P<*arson was a Woodstock ca!lec..Saturday, -i Mrs. Ed Peet and daughters were Woodstock visitors Monday.afternoon- Mrs. Lester Leedle and children of Zenda, Wis., spent Wednesday in the j. C. Pearson home. Mrs.J^eedle was formerly Mrss Laura Wet«r; a teacher in our school. > > - • . . f - PruM Production Ait-- pruntis are plums, though #of;; ail i) 1511ns do for prunes. A prune may Iw any vartety <tt pluni wliich cat! be ,j>Uc<e«|sfuHy, cured ^irbout ^removing ;the pit. Only thojse varieties which have a large proportion of solids are coasideted , good; prunes. In some felnds of piunrs^a fertn nt^tiofl occurs ground the pit in the process of Great Paintar'a Hnmor The saying "I sell my landscapes and give my figures into the bargain" Is attributed to Claude Lorraine, the French landscape painter. L*yiaf Ocean Cackle , Sttoets to lay a cable across the Atlantic were begun in 1857, but It was not until 1866 that a successful , attempt was made. fitted Only for Depths Deep-water ^sniinals" ajre so codfftnic^ d thtff the water is able to penetrate their bodies. Crabs which live oh the sen bottom are full of water, so that the pressure inside Is practically the same as that outside. Thus when such sea-bottom creatures are brought' to the surface they explode.-,,." •-- Early Sprinkling* 0 cvices Tlte tirst automatic"•sprinkler'-"of which we find 'record was patented ih England in 1.723 liy Atnhrose Godfrey, a chemist. It Is referred^to in Bradley's Weekly .Messenger November 7, 1729. The first autoinaiic device using wa ter Hi rough a System _of pipes was ideviged by John, furey in 1S0&. • "•••• ' Typewriter Ribbon** The fabric used in the better grades of typewriter ribbons Is the finest quality of imported nainsook, closely wov-. en o'f fine, even thread and spun from the best, long fiber Sea island cotton. This is well adapted for absorbing and retaining the Ink. The inking is done by special machinery so that syery fiber, li thoroughly soaked. "r •^^," Measuring Temper at ur«a The bureau of standards says that*- high temperatures are measured by means of thermocouples, optical pyrometers, pyrometric cones, rtc^ and that temperatures below tJie freezing point of liquids are meaFured by the gas thermometer. .'""Tbs recipe for is to be satisfied with your opli and content with your knowledge bert Hubbard., AND I R O N IN V* THE T I M E ? You can lit d< own to your job when on an electric ironer. Ail you do is guid1^ the Individual pieces on to>the padded roller --r pick them up as fhey come sliding ofF. smooth and warm. It does men's shirts, aprons and fussy pieces as well as flat things. You'll hardly call it work at all--and you're through in fourth the time it used to fake. ' ne: s^tiorsm -'idi 'driyfable'. $ti4}7 down "Little by LitH*" . r' A J U N I O R WASHER llito «i p<#rC»lQin-topped tabia when not iin *10952 ; down F O R Little by LltHsf JUNIOR WASHINGS the mid-week'wosh .. .for boby's "doily dftiao".., for filmy jjnderthings that must gently laundered, we recommend the Whirldfy ~a midget electric washer that works as efifc ciently as a grown-up model. Only 18 inch#* high, it has a five-shirt capacity. Washes cloth»| dean, then spins them almost dry. Let us shtiMitl youhowsimpl^xuMlhandyttts. Ts>ter hi rL. h* y : . . finished in colored enamel it i, - $49s?. 45.07 down "Liitis by Littkt** .. .. y'; vC"- ",'t At your Public Service Store you'll also find a display of regular-size washing machines (some with ironer attachments), automatic electric irons that hold any heat you want, and laundry stoves for heating water boiling hot. ^Your Neighborhood Appliance Dealar also carries this for Mm hoarfe, foundry. •t PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS -- LARKIN. Dist. Mjfr. - : ' Williams St., Crystal Lakt Crystal Lake Phone 280 •'7 ^ •r CO > f Make this store your headquarters for school shoe^--gym shoes~hosiery-- underwear--prints and trimmings for school 4ress^s:::-boys, shirts and blouses--and also the finest, purest and most wholesome groceries and foods to make the -school children glow with health and happiness, * ty days. An Impatient provincial I'an dors lifted the cover when all but his. head had been transformed and thus left a dog-headed man. In going to claini his bride his face wus covered so his canine features might not offend her. So, to this day, the women of the mountaAi / wear the headdress in honor of him and, on New Year's dav, they worship the image of a dog. Near the eity is Doctrine hill, which derives this one of Its .many n^imea from the residence there pt a certain learned man who accumulated a library a 540-Volume shelf--known aa the "Doctrine of the UnlverMtP^:.-"• Gaily decorated dinner pails, double handles, 25(^ Tablets for ink or pencil, each. . 10^ and 5^ Round tin dinner pail with pie tray :j_5^ • Library p^ste in bottles and 5^ Eite rite propeller pencils, each . 5^ Note and composition books, each 5^, 10^, 25^ Note book fillers, fine smooth paper, large sheets Gummed cloth reinforcement rings, 100 in box for 5^ „llcl hawley an^ daughter, Marioiv-spo(,t his Incarceration for seven times f0r" undai7 afternoon in Woodstock. Fancy penholders, each 54 Cu Work Both Ways 'ij . • - "De "man dat don't trust anybody," ^ , fcaid I'ncle Eben, "is "mighty liable to fgiirevout moral responsibilities in a I P sray daPll prevent anybody fum^trostoln' him."--Wasliington Star. f roduct of German Braiffs long important German invenfipuf claused the following: Leyden Jar--Von Kleist; gas engine, Otto eyto; Diesel oil motor--DieSel; Inventors'Ideas Recent inventions realstere<j at t^ftj United States patent office range, from1- ^snowplow to a new kin<T of h^n's nest, replacing, the conventional straw variety so long in ijjse, and to an imtype of sea wall. Wealth in spiritual head 68,000,000 medans --in Fred Wiedrich attended the fair at Madison, Thursday. Mr- an4 Mrs.-August Pearson an ! Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Pearson wt, , S«®sts of McHertry friends Sunday. Mrs. Fred French, Mrs. 'Mark Hut son, Mrs. Fred Harv«-y and Bula and Marjorie Hutson called at the Wm Kelley home Thufsday. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Adams attendi the carnival at Richmond] t School started Mondt with Rolkndt upper grades^and Mrs. J. C. Pears the lower grades. 1 The Home Circle will meet /fr Mrs. Lonnie Smith Wednesday, S ' tember 9. : 1 . Olive • Jepson spent from Tues< until Friday with relatives at W conda. Mrs. Mabel Johonnott and t Sheldon^ spent the week-end • w • • relatives at Evanston. Mrs. Edward Thompison, Mrs. N ; k Adams, Mrs- Nick Young and D-m othy Peet spent Monday afternoon a' Woodstock. . Edward Thompson of Chicajfo sp :.- Monday Sight and Tuesday with his parents, Mr..and Mrs. Ed Thompson. ' Note book binder, inside ring fixture for 8'/2xll inch paper, imitation leather cover, each 254 T.po/j p«>npi1g^ ftfyfh .Fountain pens, point, each ... lifetime guarantee, gold 1.04, 54; 2 for 54; 3 to* 54; and J.4 plated pen $1.50 Rulers, brass edge, each -54 Phone 154 Main Street MCHENRY, ILLINOIS BOYS AND GIRLS ATTENTION! A real power driven airplane that really, flies---special with ong pound of Ferndell O. B. Q. Coffee for. 69c " •r. . . /A ... m . . . ^ ' "... . | V;