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LIGHTS • TRUMBU1X of NEW YORK eroun. Several years ago there was a chef ":'*t one of the New York hotels, who ; „ '"^T^had an International reputation. The y. xjj ..sauces he mixed were poems. The -* * j:i special dishes he planned were dreams. < ,A big new hotel In ChlcagiS persund- '• '"**«- 'jt e<* h'm to K° there and he was the -fr ^ same-great success. But he had, two . < x . lambltions. One was fo return to New J York and the other to, open a place of £ h,a own- Anally,' he-did both these • 'things. He had friends among the bet- •*Y, - , "V*er -artfcts, advertising men, writers and publishers. They all r^-K . ,, '* united to give him » great, send-off. ' (*£ -vh*; s •Art,sf8 decorated his place and drew V^v * t- ^,es'8n8 ^or h's menu cards and news- 7 • " - /paper copy. Advertising men not only j * ^iwote the latter, but actuallymanaged ' 1 I f to have some publicity donated. There ' >4-r *<v'en was an editorial or two concernt " ^ " '>»* the chef's hew venture. For the .~iu \ + . / few tisyg the meals he served f beyond compare. Then they be- ./ „ '-'J to fall off.' As the food grew worse ** ^."^Wftomers grew fewer. ' "What- !«., fhe matter?" asked one ' > '.W '" »*• "of the well-wishers of another, *'£*!?•' v I'The latter wana mixture of cynic and. > f "Jphilosopher. *, '*•." "The trouble Is plait enough,** he i ' • aatd. "He has to use his, own butv , t«." - - • • ' ' • • e, V - That la a remark I never have for- . gotten. When I spe men, who have 7 Deen with concerns which were will: • ing to spend money freely, going op- • v •timisticaliy into business for them- •selves, I wonder whether they realize / that they will have to use their own -'butter. Some of them start 'modestly build up surely, but others begin 7, as if they still had the same old -financial backing. A man , who can 'make money for others can't always / make money for himself. There are, • , «of course, always the others. They - ; Hare the ones who-give the rest of us a mark at which to ^hoot. • • • • ' - Bob Kelley told me a funny football tory {he other day. He says that several years ago it was evident to th€< - Notre Dame coaches that an opposing : ^earn was gaining through the line because one of their tackles was punch ... «lruni. They sent in a substitute and sail gains ceased. Something seemed in bit out of the ordinary to the other team and finally it took time out to <-heck up. One mathematically Inclined player idly counted the Notre Dame men and found they numbered twelve. They had numbered twelve for the better part of a quarter. The Substitute had come in, but the .injured tackle had neglected to go out sand, reinforced, had been doing valiant work. It's a g<**l story, and Mr. Kelley sticks.to. it. I I ' To my personal knowledge^ taxicabs are being -driven in New York by -women, and by men who originally T^ere lawyers, preachers, aviators, carpenters; singers, actors and electricians. I even know one former cowboy who drives a cab. I suppose that •Among the thousands of drivers almost '<*very profession and trade is repre- ; tented. It always has seemed to me " that there was a noticeable difference In temperament between the night and *tiay drivers. The former are, some- "how a more adventurous type, al- - though nobody could ask for more adventure than-^ he gets driving with -fome of the more reckless day work- 7 A well known and high-pHced^lllnstrator once rode in a New York taxi * 1o the extent of fifty cents on the > meter. When he got out and started to pay the driver, the latter called ' lira by name and said: "Say, I've always thought your stuff In magazines was O. K., If you'll take my address and send me one of your original drawings, this ride won't coat yon a nickel." , An Irish driver told me recently that a quiet, nice looking woman carvying, a bag hailed him and that, Just as he stopped for her, the bag came ' «pen and "the biggest snake that St. - Patrick ever drove out of Ireland" «tuck its head out. V "What did you do?" I asked. "What did I do?" he said. "I alfBOst ran down a cop on a corner three •» blocks away." <<a. JMI. Bell Syndicate.)--WNU Servtw. Student, Tired of Quiz, Asks Savant Question Nc# Haven, Conn.--Suspected of be- - mentally deficient, a schoolboy was faken to Yale's Institute of human re- Iptionjg for examination by psycholofiStS. "Bow many ears has a catf* asked * bespectacled scientist "Two," the lad replied instantly. "And how many eyes has a cat?" the psychologist asked. "Two.** - - - * "And bo* many legs has a cat?" tlie savant persisted. The boy looked at him suspiciously. "Say," he inquired, "didn't you ever •;:';^!|ee•a•Tat?•, New Yorker Makes tfee of Trophies of Hunt '7'*."""'Hie "*ork.--The hind foot of an elephant is used for 'a waste basket In the office here of James I* Clark, « florer. He also has a walking stick 7, • fiade from the hide of a rhino he shot. When Clark goes out on busjness calls 7, lie carries his papers in a brief case * ®iade ffom the hide of the same eleffhant that furnished the waste basket liMitin'i Pr»r*|»lh* The President of the United States be summoned as a witness in a "lawsuit, but precedent is against such -'a practice. Thomas Jefferson when ISWsident was summoned to Richmond to testify as a witness at the trial for treason of Aaron Burr. He failed to return the summons, explaining that for Oie President to be subject to the k beck of courts would leave the state ^without a head. This has since been ,:\«i*wded-asi:a 'wiis* ' ' v . A Muticfan of ths Oamsroun. warQ for TJX) miles, to the new administrative capital, Yaounde. To reach the terminus of the first --the Chemin de Fer do Nord--one crosses the Douala river to the village of Bonaberi. The daily train, following the ignoble custom of civilization, leaves at a fiendishly early hour, an hour when the fleecy "dawn mists lie on the river, permeate one's clothes, and unglue the labels from the baggage. Passengers ofNboth colors intensely dislike each other, as Is natural before breakfast, and embarkation is accompanied by profanity In something over thirty languages. The engine burns wood, frequently such trifles as ebony and mahogany, and the rain of blazing sparks makes It incumbent upon the pasengers to remain close within the carriages. Almost at once, however, the multiplicity and grandeur of Cameroun become manifest and one can no longer be dull. All the way to Nkongsamba the line climbs upward, slowly -for three-quarters of the distance, then sheerly. For the first £lx hours the route lies through the region of the great equatorial forest'. At either side of the narrow eut rear up the mighty, regimented trees. The tops, flaring flat and wide to take the sun, are often 200 feet above"the ground. Some of the trunks are four feet through and all are wrapped and tangled In vines that make a continuous, eternal pattern. Bushes, weeds, ferns the size of apple trees, choke the ground. Everything is green, superbly living In Immortal summer. Plantations and Uplands. Occasionally the forest breaks and the train passes plantations of tobacco (certain grades of Cameroun wrapper sell for $2.50 a pound wholesale) banana, palm oil, and cacao. Less frequently, there are native villages of half a dozen ramshackle "long houses" of the Bantu type, and now and then larger towns with the ubiquitous corrugated iron "factory" in evidence. Then, on higher ground, the train begins to go through open clearings, stretches of lush, rolling meadowland of a sort unimaginable in ordinary tropical "bush." The trees begin to dwindle, the vegetation thins down and becomes more orderly. At a few miies from Nkongsamba there is no more Jungle, only what a northerner would accurately call "woods." The equate rial forest, in less than 100 miles and, -more importantly, with 3,000 feet of altitude, has been forced out From Nkongsamba an auto goes 1ST miles north and a little east to the native city of Foumban. It is a lovely road, speaking strictly from the standpoint of scenery, not roadbed. Foumban Is Surprising. After a tiring day's drive in a bumpy truck, Foumban is astonishing, so complete is its contrast with what has gone before. The city stands upon a hill aod is surrounded. by an elaborate system of ancient trench fortifications dating from the ye^rs of the Fulah raiders. The trees, which have been planted along every street, give it a wooded effect wholly absent among the neighboring grass meadows. One has an immediate impression of order, prosperity, civilization. Many of the houses of Foumban are of sun-dried brick and are roofed with native tiles or grass thatch. The com* pound fences are neatly constructed. The market, made of brick and tile, is modern in type and perfectly clean. an imposing three-story structure set in the midst of elaborate gardens. It is the palace of NJoya, sultan of the Bamoum and overlord of Foumban. Everything--order, bricks, and gardeir --is indigenous. Foumban existed when tht white man was no more than a myth. Even now outside influences have touched it only slightly. The sultap and the majority of bis people are Mohammedans. In accordance with the curious rule that people of the African deserts and prairies readily adopted Mohammedanism, and that the people of the African forests almost invariably did not, the Banioum scarcely recall a time when their life was not strongly Influenced by the Arabic belief. In the center of the town, facing the sultan's palace, Is the mosque, a frame buildii.j,' of strongly Moorish type, even to the vertical stripes of red and white paint. Here, every Friday, the elite of the Bamoum gather. (Prtwua %9 MatioMl 0*o«raphlc Society: WashinRton. D. C.)--WNU Service. . N THE Who's Who of former German colonies in Africa, now mandates under the control of the various European nations, Cameroun stands out as one of the most interesting. Wedged in between French and British territory at the inner corner of the Gulf of Guinea on the western coast It was "Kameruu" to the Germans. Now It has become a French mandate and is governed along with French Equatorial Africa, a sizable empire under the tricolor. 'Cameroun is a vast territory itself. It touches the sea for a distance of about 125 miles, and then fans out gigantically to reach the Sahara to the north, the Oubangui river to the east and Gabon colony at its lower boundary, . „/ ,r The steamW which carries the traveler- to this out-of-the-way objective passes through a 19-mile channel between the huge guardian Masses of the island of Fernando'Po on one side and Mount Cameroons on the other, and turns eastward into the mouth of a broad estuary. To the south stretches an endless vista of low mangrove switmp. On the left, 60 miles away, is the mountain, its peak rarely visible in so humid a climate. In midstream, to the annoyance of the captain, is the wreckage of two German ships deliberately sunk'at the beginning of the World war to obstruct the passage. After several Blow miles upstream l>ouala, the "big-town," becomes visible. It lies-on a flat-topped, not very lofty, promontory and continues behind tfte promontory along a glaring beach and hilly ridge. The effect, especially after a month of sea, Is charming. . Douala Is Attractive. The big house of the chief of the local administrative division of the mandate appears white, elegant, and richly shaded in the foreground. Behind the mansion, up and down the hill, are other sturdy, pretty stucco residences, mango, palm, and breadfruit trees overhanging them; and, of course, along the water front are the inevitable and Inevitably ugly trading "factories," their galvanized iron roofs, shimmering In the violence of the sun. On closer examination Douala proves at once the prettiest and the plainest of West African cities. It is a ques- . tion of neighborhood. On the palm oi the flat Douala promontory the Germans established "an exclusive- white residential quarter, complete with parks, bandstand, and double or quadruple lines of trees on every street Alnog the wrist and forearm, to continue the metaphor, they planned a native and trading section which could continue inland upriver as far as It liked, Incorporating as it grew the existing villages of Akwa, Deido, New Bell, New Akwa, and New Deldo. "In times these town names threaren to become repetitious.) This arrangement substantially, has kept" up, though the French government has made no effort to enforce It The section immediately around the park, enlivened by the presence of several cafes, is the best shaded, most serenely quiet and lovely bit of town -on the coast. For the rest--for the mile*'of deep. hot sand along the river's edge, the Innumerable hideous stores and warehouses, tbe noisy recklessness of dilapidated auto trucks and $ven more dilapidated native laborers--one can say little that is kind. It is eommer daily flourishing and trade is growing 7"" "I,u at least. It Is the one logical outlet! "" tOWD 18 for the produce of the entire interior. and the harbor is excellent. In thirty years the population has grown from negligibility to over 25,000, more than 1,000 of whom are Europeans. Douala will never be proud of its climate. In the dry season it is hot breathless beyond belief. A tempera ture of 80 degrees Is absolutely chilly. And in the rainy season one sloshes about in high boots and a raincoat through an almost continual downpour, which, mysteriously, does little to modify the temperature. The average an nual rainfall here is more than 13 feet and at one place on the seacoast the precipitation reaches the pttHMaienal figure of 38 feet. To the Interior by Rail. The two Cameroun railways center at Douala. One runs due north for 100 miles to the terminal town of Nkongsamba. The other, which has no connection witb the first, goes east- J«it mm People who take cold baths in the winter, says a specialist, never have rheumatism. But then thej have cold baths !--London Passing Stow. . Lot* of Praise aaJ PImihk £ha greatest efforts of the raca have always been traceable to tbe love of praise, as Its greatest catastrophe to the love of pleasure.--Rus- *1®. • r"'X 7 ' iXtJLsTiii0M' Orlgia mi '^Germes" U»lmw In English, the word "German" does not occur until the Sixteenth century. Its origin Is not definitely known. It may possibly have been the name giv« en by the Gauls to their neighbors. MUfciai Wlx « FUs It has been found that, flax contains a valuable wax, which gives a very high jjollsby when used on finished pooAt'>-- •••77;f"7! '7 v;r Mrs. B. T. Butler entertained Die "Scotch Bridge club" at her home Wednesday afternoon. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Kenneth Cristy and Mrs. Ray No&l. At the close, luncheon was served. . Mrs. Viola Low entertained the Bunco club at her home Thursday afternoon. Prizes were awarded tdf Mrs. Nick Freund, Mrs. Ed. Thtrfnpson, Mrs. Ray Merchant and Mrs. William McCannon. Lunch was served at the "close of the games. Mrs. W. B. Harrison entertaine4 her five hundred club at her home Thursday afternoon. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Ralph Stecker, Mrs. Roy Harrison and Mrs. €. J. Jepsop. At the close of the games lunch was served. Mrs. H< C- Hughes of McHenry spent Thursday morning in the J. C. Ladd home. ; August Pearson visited his wife at the Lying-lb hbsftital In Chicago Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Sfctepard and family and Mrs. W. A. Dodge weie visitors at £lgin 'Friday.' Mr. and Mrs. C. $*. Jepson and family and Mr. and Mrs. Roland McCan- | «on and son spent Sunday with Elgin relatives. Mr. and Mrs. F. A- Hitchens entertained the five hundred club at a St. Patrick's party at their home Thursday evening. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. B. T. Butler and Ray Peters and Mr. and Mrs. G- E. Shepard. At the close luncheon pwas served. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hawley attended the funeral of Mrs. Schott in Chicago Saturday. Shirley Hawley spent the week-end in the E. Bokemeier home at Woodstock. s Mrs. A. L. Laurence and son, William, spent Friday in Elgin. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Webfcr and family of JMcHenry spent Thursday evening in the Nick Youflg home. Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Beatty and Mrs. Viola Low and children spent Saturday in Woodstock. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Dodge and family spent Saturday in Woodstock. , Mr. and Mrs. Njck Young spent Friday in the Matt Nimsgern home at Spring Grove. Mr. Young also attended a horse sale at Trevor. Wis. Mrs. Fred Gihhs and son, Westley, were callers in Woodstock Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. George Martin and mother were callers in Woodstock Saturday. The Indies* Aid society will hold a dinner at the M. W. A. hall Wednesday, March 30. The Ladies' Aid society will hold an all-day meeting at the home of Mrs. Ray Peters Wednesday. There will be plenty of faocy and plain sewing to be done. A pot-luck dinner will be held. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carr, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Carr and Mrs. Frankie Stephenson Were callers in Woodstock Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. William Thomas and Mrs. Lucy Thomas of Woodstock spent Sunday afternooh at the Edgar Thomas home. Fred Wiedrich and son, Roy, were visitors at McHeiiry Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Wm McCannon Entertained her "Neighborhood Sewing club" at her home Friday. They tied quilt*. At the close of a pleasant afternoon lunch was served. Mr, and Mrs. George Young attended the funeral of the latter'a aunt at McHenry Saturday. . . Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Fredrickson and son spent, Sunday with relatives at Woodstock. Edward Harrison of Elgin stfent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Getfrge Harrison, Mrs. Rillah Foss spent Friday with friends at McHenry. \ Nfr. and Mrs. Edgar Thomas Were visitors at McHeWy Saturday afternoon. , 7' .7. Charles Goete» »f Genoa City, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Carr and family and, Mr. and Mrs- Harold Wiedrich and family spfent Sunday in the Fred Wiedrich home. Roy Wiedrich was a visitor in Crystal Lake Saturday evening. •Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Pearson and August Pearson visited Mrs. Pearson in Chicago Sunday.-- Mrs. Pearson does not improve very fast. Mr. and Mrs- George Yoong and family spent '. Saturday evening at McHenry. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Hitchens spent Sunday evening in the D. C. Bacon home at Crystal Lake. Mrs. Will and, son, Francis, of Chicago spent Sunday in the Roy Neal home. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Hitchens and Mrs. J. M. Butler spent Sunday afternoon in the J. N. Butler home in Elgin; Mrs. Butler remained for a visit with her son and family. -Mrs. S. W. Smith, Bernice and Mercedes, spent Wednesday evening at Harvard. Mr. ajid Mrs. E. C. Hawley'and Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Hawley and family spent Sunday evening in the D. C. Bacon home at Crystal Lake. Miss Ruby Davis spent Saturday in Woodstock. M- Negri returned to his home in Chicago Sunday after spending the past three weeks in the home of his daughter, Mrs. Roy Neal, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Burton Ball arid family of Hunter, 111., and Robert Bail and family of Beloit.JWis., spent Sunday afternoon and evening with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Peters- Mr. and Mrs. S. Bf. Beatty spent Sunday with the latter's father, George Herbert, at Woodstock, and helped to celebrate his 86th birthday anniversary, _ Mr. and Mrs. Ray Peters spent Monday with relatives' at Belvidere. Mrs. Ed- Thompson and daughter, Grace Mary, and son, James, spent Sunday with relatives at^McHenry. David Stanley and Ted Harvey .of Woodstock were callers in the Mrs. Cora Kelley home Saturday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Hal Plumb of Woodstock called on Mr. and Mrs. $ W. Brown Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Frame Hawley of Chicago were callers here Sunday. . .. Evelyn Romie and Will Lewis of Paddock's Lake spent Sunday in the Frank I>ix home. Mr. and Clarence Dates And two children sptiit the week-en4 in Lake Geneva- Mr. and Mrs. James Conway of Libertyville, Mrs. Viola Hawley and Jerry Thorneley of Lake Geneva were callers here Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Block and daughter, of Kenosha, spent the weekend in the Dr. Hepburn home. Mr. and Mrs. G- E. Shepard and family spent Sunday with relatives at McHenry. Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Hanford and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hammel of . Chicago spent Sunday in the S. W. Smith home. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Hopper of Chicago spent Wednesday night with t^e latter's parents, Mr. and Mirs. S. W. Smith. S. H. Beatty was a caller in Woodstock Wednesday. Howard Cairns of McHenry was a business caller here Wednesday. Mrs. Wynne rKelley spent Wednesday with friends at McHenry and Woodstock. * Mrs. Henry Hinze of Crystal Lake spent Wednesday and Thursday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Harrison. Mr. Hinze was heie Thursday. I Mrs. D. C. Bacon of Crystal Lake and Mrs. Andrew Hawley of Elgin called on relatives here Wednesday. Mrs. Albert Purvey and Mrs. s Albert Krause of McHenry were callers here Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Byron Hitchens Chicago were callers in the F. A^,' r - Hitchens home Wednesday. Joseph Freund of Seattle, Wash.f- - and John Zuschnitt of Chicago ar® , visiting in the Ben Justen home. » !,J! Mrs. Homer Mann, Mrs. Ada Mcrr* * - and Mrs. Harvey Arnold of Wood-» ' stock. called at . the home Wednesday. , ' - I Work* Two W«jr« ~ A military officer and a lawyer . ^ were talking of war, and tbe former " was recounting the dangers of his pro- ' ' ,-1 fession, when the lawyer observed * *, "that those who Uve by the sword nnigt expect to die b^ the sword." "By a similar rule,'" titled the 0«- cer, "those who live by the tew afM* • . ji «pect to die by the law;" United Stat** L«a«U , i, The United States produces almoet three times the amount of electricity •} & produced by any other country, or ' .-J about 06,000,000,000 kilowatt hours, Vj annually. Germany 5s second wit»i the production of 22,000.000,000 -'kilowatt ' hoars. ...Great Britain produces 11.000,* v 000,000 kilowatt hours. The next lartf» ' ^ est producers are Canada, France,* V J Italy, Japan and Norway. "1 '• •'*. "• • .'Sf V ^ Thai T*U « til* * ] Ah odd type of advertisement Is 7/ «*- found In the sidewalk of an uptown cross street at a point not far from Broadway. Imbedded in one square slab of concrete are a number of keys, '*» " '*• put there while the material was soft The pedestrian, walking over It la thus made aware that he is a , ' ^ hardware atore. _ ^ • ] ~ - "• ! Brain Power '•*"'• "-7'.^% The United States ' public health v. ^ service says that the theory that the weight and size of the human brain •, 7 evidences brilliancy or lack of knowledge has been advanced, but It has * never been definitely proved. Gener ' * ally speaking. In the animal kingdom •the larger the brain the higher the S»fit§ animal is lp the evn!uflonary PriMaer Greedy fer Time There are some prisoners who cannot be satisfied. This is what a magistrate in the Oolombo (Ceylon) police court learned recently when he sentenced a man to four months' hard labor. .'^That's not enough," said the prisoner. The magistrate added two months to the sentence. "That's still not enough." declared the man, but the Judge refused to go farther, and has a dissatisfied customer on his list 77f|| M • r Xf ~'X£ v>-< an so umns, in our Lost and Found columns, person who is waiting to return / a . - " • • • • 1 • , * . may find it advertised in these colfey every alert loser and finder in I 9 .r's % L * * ! Ir." 7 - . "fi-i