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- / ' zJiili.-,. i.i iw i . ' « '." I .: --f-- TBI MtHXMSY PLAntDXALKB , Jaauiyt, 1838 THE SILVER JOREEN-.^ LEONARD A. BARRETT Although educational methods are not alike in all communities, it may be safe to assume that a child spends on the average of 20 hours a week in the - public schools. The influence of this form of instruction i£ incalculably important. But another source of influence is affecting the * development of our youth, and under the spell of it many children sit in the movies on the average of two holirs a week. In addition to the forces of organized education the three most dominant factors, in the jrnolding of. mental attitudes of adults and youth, are the radio, the newspaper, and the movies, the latter being the most popular. Not less than 70,000,000 people attend " movie theaters at least once a week, The eye :s more sensitive to impressions and apprehends external objects rnojre readily ahil exactly than any of the senses. It has been estimated that 90 per cent of what a child sees in a movie is remembered from three to four months afterward, and, that pictures which portray calamities and painful emotions "have an effect similar to shell shock on soldiers during the war, and which sow seeds of serious nervous disorders." In other words, the movie is a powerful weapon for good or evil. Lasting impressions , of heroism, courage, and other virtues may be instilled into impressionable personalities; or the reverse is possible when a way to crixne is first learned from' the silver screen. Life itself is a perpetualmovie where are daily enacted both comedies and tragedies. What we see in this kaleidoscope of human experience makes an indelible impress and determines character and destiny. Hawthorne's story, "The Great Stone Face," is illustrative of a fundamental principle of life: we grow to resemble what we constantly admire. The very presence of Napoleon put courage into the heart <Jf the French soldiers. Something more than mere .curiosity impels us to want to see a great personage. The courage and strength we witness in others inspire us to claim the same virtues. The explosive power of a great love is possible because we have seen our ideal in the personality of a friend. Always seeing the best in others is a certain solvent of many problems. What we see on life's silver screen is a reflection Of our inner selves. Goodness interprets in terms of goodness; evil, in terms of evil. It is a sacred experience when we discover, after long observation, something that we never saw before. One person may live longer in one glorious moment than' others do in a year: a moment which inspires purpose aod determines destiny. Such moments come to those who have eyes to see the "good in everything." "The eye is the pulse of the soul." The single eye: the steadfast ideal: the strong personality--this is seeing, striving, achieving. © Western Newspaper Union. ' £My Gb^ighbor m- Dip onions after peeling and slicing in milk and they will fry more easily. r • • • , Butter may be easily cut into ismall pieces by using a wet thread instead of a knife. * • • ' • • • • t When making glass curtains be sure to allow for shrinkage. They sometimes shrink three inches. • • • ' If a small piece of butter is added to cocoa it may be substituted for dwcolate in cake recipes. < * * * A little chopped green pepper or pimiento gives zest to scrambled eggs to be served for luncheon or supper. * • • Soak the roots of house plants frequently. Set the potted plant in a container of water, removing it when water has soaked up and iroistened the soil. £ Associated Newspapers.--WNU Service. POTPOURRI Stained Glass Artistry America leads the world in the art of producing stained glass, obtaining effects impossible to duplicate elsewhere. Oxides of ferent metals produce the varrous colors--iron creating pale yellow and green, copper a deep green and blue, gold a ruby shade, manganese a pink, amethyst and violet, and copper a ruby red. .' © Western Newspaper Union. *;•» YOLO r'\ Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Eddy of Grayslake, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dowell and daughter, Dolores, of Elgin, Mrs. Chas. Dalvin and daughters of Wauconda, Mr. and Mrs. George Dowell and family and Mr. and Mrs. John Passfield spent New Year's Day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Passfield. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Dunker and family visited Mr. and Mrs. William Ritt at Algonquin Sunday.( Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher and family enjoyed a goose dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Lohmam. in Libertyville Monday evening. Sarah Elizabeth Raven of Slocum's Lake spent a few days here with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dowell. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd BenweJl and daughters of West McHenry, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rushing of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Vasey, G. A. V&ey of Crystal Lake enjoyed .New Year's Day with Mr. and Mrss Herman Dutiker. Ed. Bacoft of Round Lake called on Miss Vinnie Bacon Sundaji,.- - " ' The Volo Home Bureau unit will meet at the home of Mrs.' 'Seymour Wednesday. This will be an all day meeting and the public is invited. Mrs. Alex Tough a.nd Mrs. L. Little* fteld spent Monday at Rockford with the .latter'* parents.. : / Miss, Vinnie Bacon speftt Thursday in Waukegan. ' Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher and family, Mrs. Sarah Fisher and John Masek spent New Year's Day with Mr. and Mrs. George Scbeid, Jr., in Wauconda. Miss Dorothy Klemm entertained a number of her friends at her home on Friday in honor of hei; birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hironimus and daughter spent Sunday at the home, of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Croftin in McHenry. Mr. and Mrs. L. Littlefield entertained company from Rockford the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Ford McDonald arid son of Zion, Mr. and Mrs. John Hutzel of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. J. Walker and sons of Norwood Park and Walter Dillion of West Bend, Indiana, spent New Year's Day here with Mr. and Mrs. William Dillion. Mrs. Charles Dalvin ana daughters of Wauconda, Mr. and Mrs'. Frank Dowell and daughter of Elgin, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Vasey and Mrs. George Dowell visited Mr. and Mrs. Roy Passfield the past week. Mrs. Sarah Fisher and daughter, Edna, spent a few days at St. Elmo, Illinois, the past week. Earl Potter of Iowa is visiting friends here at the present. JOHNSBURG JUDGE ADVOCATE Maj. Gen. Allan W. Gullion is pictured as he took up his official duties in his office shortly after being sworn in as the new advocate general of the United States army. He succeeds Maj. Gen. Arthur W. Brown, who retired from the pdst. TRACK STAR AT 75 Items «f fntevset Taken jFrook ,*e Files of ti»» Plafatdeakt y{r , . «f Year* Afs SIXTY YEARS AGO Mrs. Margareth Landren of Chicago is. spending a few weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Joe Karls. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Meyers spent New Ye/r's Eve with Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Schaefer at Waukegan. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Wilkie of Chicago spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Freund. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Oeffling are the happy parents of a son. Miss Kathrine Althoff of Elgin visited the weekend with her mother Mrs. Wm. Althoff. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hbffein and family of Genoa, Mr. and Mrs. George Zornstorff of Woodstock spent New Year's Eve with Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Thiel and family. .Mrs. Katie Pitzen of Chicago spent the weekend with her father, John Pitzen. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Miller and daughter of Richmond called on Mr. and Mrs. Joe King Thursday. Master Eugene King is spending the week in Chicago with his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Freund. Mrs. George King and son spent Wednesday in W,oodstock with her sister, Mrs. Mike Gorskie. Mr. and Mrs. Schultz of Chicago spent New Year's in the home of John J. Schmitt and family. Mr. and Mrs. George Frett and son of Woodstock spent the last of the ^eek with relatives here. Mrs. Peter Smith entertained the f.ve hundred club Wednesday afternoon. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Fred Smith, Mrs. Steve May and Mrs. Chas. Michels. Mrs. Henry Stilling is very sick with pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Pepping and daughter of Crystal Lake spent Monday with'Mr. and Mrs. Joe B. Hettermann. Miss Marie King spent a few days in Woodstock| it h her aunt, Mrs. Geo. Zornstorff. Miss Katie Schmitt of Chicago is spending a few days with relatives here. Nick Bertragh of Aurora visited with relatives here this week. Mr. and Mrs. George Zornstorff of Woodstock spent Friday with Mr. Mrs. George King. H Like Tennyson's brook, Hugh Kent of Carpentersville, III., apparently intends to roll on forever. With 54 years of competitive track events behind him, the seventy-five-yearold athlete can still show a clean pair of heels to many of the youngsters. He is shown demonstrating the crouch start now in general use by runners. In the beginning of Kent's career the. standing start was in favor. The store formerly occupied by the Post office, opposite the Riverside House, is offered for rent on reasonable terms. A splendid new street lamp graces the front of the Riverside House. Hank goes in for all the needed improvements. Since last week the weather lias tak en a severe cold and mud is King no longer. The roads are still rough but we live in hopes: that they will be better soon. ' y , • John Meyers is a public benefactor. On account of the horrid condition of the roads, we came near having a wood famine in our village, when oh Saturday he came down the river with a raft containing five cords and again on Wednesday with ten cords. It was first class seasoned wood, and sold readily at $5.00 per cord. . FIFTY YEARS AGO We are now enjoying the finest sleighing of-the season in t'n.s section. Loads from neighboring towns now come to the toboggan slide afternoon and evening,» Sleighing good. Chas. S. Owen, who is with Patterson Bros. & Co., at the stock yards, Chicago, was out New Years, calling on friends. The thermometer ranged all the way from ten to eighteen degrees below zero in different parts of this village thiis Wednesday morning. We learn that a deer was killed gear Tryon's Corners, one day last week. It is supposed to be one that had been run from the Wisconsin Woods by dogs, and then fell a victim to our local sportsmen. . POISON GAS USED "FORTY YEARS AGO Here a Japanese army officer the chemical warfare department ii holding what the official army spokesman alleges is a gas shell, seized during a raid on Chinese trench mortar positions near Shanghai. In his lap is an ordinary ex& plosive trench mortar shell of the same size said to have been seized in the same raid. Charles B. Whittmore, of Huntley, has been appointed Public Administrator for McHenry County, by Gov. Tanner. J. D. Lodtz, merchant tailor, has a new floor in his shop, and made other improvements and it now presents a very neat and tasty appearance. We understand that Miss Johanna Doherty will give a Euchre party this Wednesday evening, at the residence of her father, in this village. The marriage of Benj. Getzelman and Miss Jennie Chapell, will take place at the home of the bride's parents in Elgin, Wednesday. Miss Chappell is a daughter of C. E. Chapell, and a sister of S. S. Chapell, of this village. THIRTY YEARS AGO There were no offerings nor sales on the Elgin board of trade Monday. Butter was declared firm at 29 cents. Our villagers are anxious to know why the new city lights are not being installed. Ladies skirts have been given a moving price at Block & Bethke's. On Tuesday morning while performing the duties assigned to him at the local Borden plant, F. G. Spurling slipped from the platform onto the icy surface below, sustaining internal injuries and bruises about the body. A new harness shop has been opened in the old Schiessle building on the West Side, the new enterprise having been launched by R. Patzke and Co., with Robert Patzke in charge. TWENTY YEARS AGO Where Tea Is Popular tn "Australia and New Zealand, most homes and hotels serve tea seven times a day--before breakfast, at breakfast, at eleven in the forenoon, at lunch, at four in the afternoon, at dinner and at bedtime. Most industrial and commercial concerns, says Collier's Weekly, also serve it to employees at eleven and four. GABBY GERTIE ^PEAKINfr Of SAF^ry -.VYHEN BOAT RAC€S BOAT »Ts t«r\lung WHEN/ RGNter* RAC€S BOY,. FUN.'. WHEN MORSE RfcOES 1-tORVE, VT5 THfc*5POR.T OPKINQS11 WHEN MOTORIST RAC6S TRAl Kff itS SUICIDE --National Szfaty Council Somebody Give This a Naifii • \ This contraption, owned by Ed Hall of Phoenix, Ariz., has the engine and wheel of a motorcycle in the rear, the frame of a light automobile, the cockpit of an airplane, and is steered with the stick of an airplane. It can move along the ground at the rate of 65 miles an hour. LEARN YOUR LIGHTING This locality was visited by a heavy fall of snow during the past few days. However, the snow is very light and does not make good sleighing. The ice men resumed work on the Borden ice field here last Saturday and since then good progress has been made. Some of the thermometers registered twelve and sixteen below zero last Saturday morning. This sort of weath er does not help the coal conservation any and should the weather man give us many more such spells, war inay be declared against him. "A girl who wouldn't sacrifice her life to keep down expenses will cheerfully dye to keep up appearances." Subtleties, Part of Banquets The subtleties sometimes spoken of in old cookery books as forming part of a banquet were compositions either of pastry, sugar, or made up of different kinds of vegetables and fruits, very similar in their form to the compositions in butter or spun sugar which are shown at ex- Ipositions or other occasions. They were placed upon the banquet table to. markMhe beginnings or ends of the separate courses and were usuall not to be eaten. At the coronation banquet of Henry IV of England one of the subtleties was a pelican sitting on her nest, another represented St. Catherine disputing with the doctors, and the end of the banquet was marked by a peacock in full panoply. Careful lighting, low and to one side, gives this "character portrait" its unusual firelight effect. ' - HAVE you ever tried shooting away a whole roll of film on one subject, not changing its position in the least but merely altering the way the light strikes it? It may seem foolish and extravagant but It can be one of the most important photographic lessons you ever took. Try it on this theory: that the objects in a picture have no real interest in themselves but that all the interest is in the way they are lighted--how the light strikes, how shadows are cast. Or, in the words of a great French photographer, that the subject is nothing, the lighting is everything. Take a photoflood lamp in a reflector and arrange a number of small objects--say some fruit spilling from a bowl--on a white table top. Have enough general room light to give detail in the shadows. Now set up your camera firmly with the light right beside it, for your first picture. Take another with the light far to the left and high up. Take one with the light directly over the subject. Take one with it behind the subject, shading the bulb so that no direct light shines into the camera lens. Try as many positions as the length of the film roll' allows. When the pictures are developed and printed, the differences will astound you. Study them and you will learn what can be done with light when it is properly used. If you don't like still life, try a series of portraits, using the same person and the same pose but different angles of lighting. From picture to picture, facial expression will vary astonishingly--dead with flat front light, sinister with the light low and directly in front, startled or even terrified with the light low and to one side, and so on. The same is true of landscapes. With each hour of the day they change, the deep morning shadows dwindling into noon and growing again into the grandeur of evening. Light is the photographer's working material, the plastic clay from which he models his pictures. Study it. 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