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That "the rod "blueblootls" Inf the, world are the blond, blue-eyed beftu? ties of brunette Seville In Spain, wh|> are the" descendants of the Visigoths?. s , V • ' • ' • • - • ' ' - evej^.:ten^,pat8»iiK i grers •who leave the United 'Stages an<l Canada to see Europe are women, an4 that many of thorn are nearly seventf'i years old? * , • ; <• That* you <}ip ,stUl roam In Not-. tlnghamshlre In the ancient forest of- ; Sherwood famous for the exploits of Robin Hood and his men dress id Lincoln green? • That approximately 6.000 ships of 32 countries participate In movingfreight and passengers from the United States to Kurope and o.tber lands across the sen? That the times as many visitors to England as .Canada, according to figures given the Institute of Foreign Travel by thie British board of trade?--Philadelphia Inquirer. NOTES FROM ABROAD The whole of Poland haft but one locomotive factory. The British empire buys W per cent of Trinidad's exports. London has 204 police stations the metropolitan area. V/r.vv-.'?/., In l\ Antrim, northern Ireland, Tias estabhed a speed Jfmlt of 20 miles. Spialri has had compulsory education since 1857,. but,It has.jnot been rigidly enforced. There 'flfe*'^ 'rttthlHpal libraries In Tokyo. Kighty thousand persons visit them dally. Wrestling Is one of the few sports in England that falls to attract liberal patronage. . ^ KowpeaO^prttfuoT^f Suva, na chief port of the FIJI lsumbers "Thie latest motorized country In the world Is Liberia, with 5H automobiles registered--one- for every 28^801 persons. WORDS OF WISE MEN : The malevolent have hidden teeth.-^- Syrus. 1 The child to the father of the wan.-- Wordsworth. Analysis kills love, as well as other things.--Brown. ' ; The Rogues' Gallery TO Twice To 1 4 Tales Itewtsef Interest Taken Frost the Files of the FlalndealW of Tears Age FIFTY YEARS AGO The twenty lap race at the Riverside skating rink, on Saturday evening last, was won! by Frank Colby. According to an old saying we are to have six weeks more winter, as the ground hog could see his. shadow on the 2nd. Six weeks, more of open winter. - , At a meeting of the Village Board on Monday evening last, two village marshals were appointed, H._ E. Wightman on the East side and Cris Hudson on the West side. The Street Committee are having the sidewalks on the main streets and to the school houses cleared of snow and ice.. This is a good move, and one that will receive the commendation of our citizens. Naturally, Back in the Early Nineties Every Young Man Presently "Got Crazy" Over a Girl and Then He Got Engaged to Her and He Went Out With Her All the Time--Floating Round In a Canoe Under a Shadowed Riverbank, and Picking Flowers, and Crooning--in Short, Qutte Crazy. SEX, SEX, SEX--I'M SICK OF IT I I now. are Doubt' yourself.- whom -Boree. "fcttiSr Wars are just to are necessary.--Bu rke. Amusement Is the happiness of those that cannot think.--Pope. Hypocrisy Is vice render* to rauld. the homage which virtue.--La Rochefou- . In arguing'one should meet serious pleading with hunger, and humer with serious pleading.--LecotUlnus. .. The first step, my'son, which one makes- in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.--• Voltaire. By STEPHEN LEACOCK MAGINE that If all the world went crazy--just a " little bit crazy, all In the same way--'nobody would know It. think that Is what Is happening All the generations of today going--no, they've gone--"sex crazy." In the old Victorian days, now passing o.ut of memory women had quite a different place from what they havenow. The men did everything and ran everything, and women represented just the ornamental side of life and the household side. . The only serious job given over to women was that of the rare of sick, j They didn't really know anything about It--bad never seen a cllnleat thermometer; but they filled the sickroom with flowenMcafTTonie acid gas) and sat and Needle work beside the bed. It wasn't bad. People often got well. , Then tilings began to change. Women began • to get educated, to "break into the colleges, to vote, to carry on professions Everybody knows all that. It wouldn't have mattered so much If the ornamental stuff had dropped off with it: women dressed like ash barrels would have sat on committees with men in overalls. But Instead of that there arose all the new "sex-stuff" that has transformed the world since the days of the early nineties that some of us still remember as the days of our youth; From the magazines the girl's face, as the emblem of the present sex enslavement, spread everywhere. A grocery tirm wants to order a Christmas calendar for tbelr customers:--What design do they put on It?--a ham? a cheese? a Bologna sausage? That's what they used to do, in the early nineties, and a skilled artist of those days could cotribine those three things with a charm that made your mouth water. - But now, oh no!--just a great, girl's face--or at most a girl's face eating a Bologna sausage and saying, "How do you like iny Bologna?" They put girls' faces now on calendars, on book jackets, on posters and placards; next year they are going on hUl^a Int-nlro- anH gnuarnmant DOINGS AFAR India now ranks eighth In modern manufacturing ^ountrie^ Aw'st'raUa^a^populati(ti|i://v'#s placed officially at'6,724,006. ' • been People of England consumed an aver age of 25 pounds of butter each. In the last year. • , , Taxi drivers in Turkey who have not been in an accident for 10 years receive a medal. Boys and girls' agricultural clubs aiie to' twloFganized by the.foyernmeni of Boufn Africa. ' The city of 'ijfa1tfl8rIiis,/6,7»>3 acres of parks and open spaces, but only three acres are actually within the city limits. Vines, reeds, bamboo an^-otlier yege table debris ofien" cover the surface of the Nile with such a solidly inter twined mass that elephants and rhinoceroses are to shore. '• •• • ' ••• J : books. The worst of it Is that presently people began Inventing a new set of words to go along with the new sexstuff. . The biggest and most successful,was "sex-appeal." No one he^rd of anything of that sort In the early nineties. But all the Miss Americas are supposed to have it: and the men and all the women'go round looking for it. This "sex-appeal,"--whatever the thing is,--is now supposed to be quite a qualification. Men who have it Would feel flattered to be told about It. In my time back in the early nineties it would spund like telling a man that be had a skunk tie! to him. Now, it is quite different. I imagine that people now-a-days would get h -job on the strength of it or would lose a job for want of it I think that one thing that helped along all this "sex-appeal" stuff was the fact of women getting Into games. Lawn tennis came first They were In that from the start. Back in the nineties we didn't look on lawn tennis as a game In the real sense. It was jusr a sissy business on a lawn.--played with girls as part of an afternoon party. We could all play it of course but the real games were football and baseball abd cricket. Nobody played tennis well, or wanted to^ Those of us who were six and a half !eet high could beat the rest of us,--by hitting the ball down at us: little short fellers the height of the net fot no show. Then came golf, lo the early nineties nobody played golf but a few Fo«4« C«at*ia!ng Vitamfal A Foods ^containing vitamin A are milk, cream and butter, beans, carrots, lettuce, peas, spinach, potatoes, onions, egg yolks, meat, fruits, cod liver oil. Vitamin A is very widely distributed In nature. |* Rtiilu Are Grapes . Raisins are grapes of a special type that are dried In the sun, or by artificial heat They have a higher sugar eototent, aad a flavor qotte different frott-fresh grapes. fluffy old Scotchmen in pialds and tar tans, pink-faced and wholesome like an advertisement for whisky. We used to notice them knocking a little ball round the landscape, with a flask in their pockets. They used to play in odd corners of the parks and on sheep pastures near the city. We didn't understand that It was a game. We thought it was just fheir way of drinking whisky. We Respected them for It. At their age, we couldn't expect ^hem to stand up at the bar and drink a«f we did. They needed air with it They could hold more. Then the women butted In and the transformation of golf begun. It moved out of the parks and the pastures: laid out vast links and built palaces and let in w.vneu. Nov: It Is all women. Look at any Solf course today, the bright autumn landscape and the pleasant greens ail spoiled by a bunch of tubby-looking women all over the place. Can they play? Of course not They just clutter up the course and spoil the whole thing: a few of them seem able to hit the ball, but not really. Any of us In the early nineties who played the real game could have gone out and pasted thef all over the lot. But they got into the dribs' and started the "sexappeal" stuff and the men went all to pieces and began to deck themselves out in silk golf shirts and Imported neckties, and silly "plus-fours." Look at a couple of these men walking out on the links, with their expensive ties and their soft new clothes, and their heads prematurely bald as egg-Bhdls. All men are bald now. It's the price they pa/ for being so much with women. Back in the early nineties we considered that a bald man was either a professor or that he hadn't lived right We expected a bald man to be a little silly over women. Now they are all bald and all silly. So out they go to the links. Look at them! What the h--1 do they think they are? Play? Oh, yes, of course the poor nuts can play That's Just the trouble. Now-a-days they go at these "half-games" like tennis and golf so desperately that they play too well. There Is no fun left In It: only effort and "sex-appeal." ' Back In the nineties we looked on women as "a dangerous drug. You had them all you could. Of course there were odd times of exception--evening parties an 1 dancos, once in each blue moon--but to go round with them every night! Good Lord! The kind of feller who did that was, the kind who got bald. Naturally, back in the early nineties every-young man presently "got. crazy" over a girl (we called it that^rwe knew the right name for it), and then he got engaged to her and he went out -with her all the time--floating round in a canoe under a shadowed river bank, and picking flowers, and crooning---In short quite crazy But we understood it: the man was jiist knocked out for the time being,, Presently he'd either marry the girl or else she'd throw him over. Anyway he'd "be all right later on--ba^k in the bar again practically the same as ever, but anyway quite cured. The bar, of course, we had to ourselves. There were no women there. We could stand at the rail and talk for three hours on three beers and a ham sandwich (fifteen cents the lot) and never have to think, of oyr "sex-appeal" at all. Now If they start the bar again, the women will be right In It: they re-name everything: they'll call it a solarium, or a herbarium or a piscatorian, or something of that sort. And the men. will have to wear litle bar-room shorts and drinking jumpers. But still what's the good of talking: you can't alter things: I may as well stop writing: and anyway I have to go out with some women. © Stephen I-eaeoek--WNU.ServIc*, attack of illness which came'over him very suddenly last Thur^ay. . - Our Washington • Letter • --iBy-- WaHtmal Editorial Aiiid»Hw Washington, February 12 -- It is pitifully true that the fashion of the day is to measure all governmental action by the political yardstick FORTY YEARS AGO Walter Evanson has. returned from his southern trip, arriving here on Saturday last. A. L. Howe has been on the sick list the last week, but is able to be around again. Harry Holmes has been sick and confined to the house for the past four or five days. Old La Grippe has him in charge.' Despite the hard times fourteen new names have been added to our mailing list within the last week. Algonquin is likely to have a three story brick hotel. Wm. Seyk having bought three lots of A. Fritzek for $6,000 for that purpose. . TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO * ^Butter was declared firm at 26 cents on the Elgin board of trade Monday. Frank Holly of Lake Geneva who was quite severely injjured in a fall from.a scaffold several weeks ago, is up and around again. Grayslake Times: Mr. E. W. Howe of McHenry has purchased the Bon Ton from John Stoffel. Mr. Howe intends to restock the place with a new line of goods. M. W. Merriman is confined to his home in thi? village through a severe TWENTY YEARS AGO Butter on the Elgin board o{ trade •old at 30% cents per pound last 'Saturday. The employes of the Hunter Boat company will enjoy a 7:00 o'clock banquet at the McHenry House next Saturday evening. The, event will be quite elaborate. t The heaviest fall of snow of the season fell during last Friday night and since that time excellent sleighing has been enjoyed, altho'the automob i l e - i s s t i l l i n e v i d e n c e . . . . . . . . Miss Kathryn Bueh won the silver cond|t,(>n 18 obviously an outgrowth of tea set given away by the North ' ?n. e . j. y®®1- w^en individual self- American Concert comany at the ™eres^ displaces the public good. Central opera house last Stonday even- t 5r,® , s, "een Plenty of preaching ing. The prize was offered for the r ® doing of a constructive namost popular lady. ture in the hal1? of Congress. The ; -, sole exception was the bonus bomb- •' TEN YEARS AGO shell. In fact, the Congress has been carloads of cattle/ *e*i?t&^#in session live weeks with the sporadic the T.B. testing, which has been going meetin»8 involving Httle more than a on around McHenry for the last few £ lsan ^ab-fess. The high-tone talk days, were shipped to Chicago last as .masked weeks of inaction as night to the slaughter yards. partisans endeavored to jockey for Edward Buss and family moved poluic#l advantages in a t, campaign from a flat in the Brefeld building on ye?5\ ; , ' . - ' : Waukegan street, West McHenry, lo Unbiased observers concur in the the Pouse home on Main street which °Piruo" ^ia^ Democratic and Republiho recently purchased. can office-seekers, and the factions In order to accomodate his clients ?v -n these major groups, see eyein. McHenry and contiguous territory, ^"eye on.one point only--no taxes at Attorney William M. Carroll of Wood- ,sessi<>n- But the real problem stock will be in McHenry every Wed- c®nfron,t®.the *olons is to justnesday. ^ .in ^e public mind- their marked An entertainment and dance will fvoiclance of ^ vit*l issue. Actualbe given at the Community High y' course, n«!w taxes at this time School Gym on Tuesday evening, Feb. i jeopardize the political fortunes 16. The affair is being sponsored by °r , legislators. They feel so the McHenry Protective Association ®trongly on this subject that the Presiand is given for the benefit of> the denthas been convinced that the boys quarantine fund. on Capitol Hill owe a duty to them- • -- selves when faced with fatal reaction RESIDENCE CHANGES traceable to public resentment against Mr.-and Mrs. John Kilday moved a11 *orms of. ^ taxation. last week from the Vandenboom house The P^Ky feeling prevailing on Waukegan street to Kate's place. amon£ those seeking political prefer- Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kinsala and fam- men^ at the Pol,s next has clearly ily moved Friday from Main street emPhasized the dangers of class legato -the Vandenboom house. lation. The bias inculcated in the leg- Mr. and Mrs. Ray Conway have 'slative pattern by class interest adds moved into their house on Riverside the confusion. It is an old story .Drive recently vacated Mrs. Albert Barbian. by Mr. and ANNOUNCEMENT I hereby announce myself *8 * #6" publican Candidate for re-election to the Office of Clerk of the Circuit measures and the imposition of rev Court and ex-officio Recorder of Mc- enue Producing laws. No housewife that a class never looks beyond its own nose and therein lies the havoc Created by factions. The Federal fiscal situation is a tangled mess due to the juggling of figures in a frenzied effort to steer clear of inflationary Henry County and will appreciate the support of my friends at the primary election on April 14, 1936. 37-tf WILL T. CONN. Henrietta Cloth » Henrietta cloth Is a lightweight wool dress fabric similar to casnmere, but more lustrftus In finish. Originally It wa<» made with silk warp. has struggled more to ward off the butcher and the baker by last minute economies than the Administration and the lawmakers, who have •pent billions with a free hand and dread the. day of reckoning. Cutting down expenses necessarily involves the removal of the political favorites from government payrolls with the possibility of a howl from political bosses fearful of the backwash from the disgruntled victims of this thrift policy. With congressional, sentiment demanding a "thumbs down" policy on taxes for the payment of the veterans' bonus, it seems that the farm problem will require a special tax assessment which eventually falls on all consumers of foodstuffs. The substitute for the A.A.A. will be rushed through at an early date so that farmers will know what they may expect from the Federal government before the spring planting season. It seems likely that The the final draft will provide for the cooperation of the Federal government with the states similar to the roads building plans, which has been in effect for many years. This proposal of agricultural control was contemplated at the time the Agricultural Adjustment Act was drawn, but in the ordinary course of events it would not become operative until 1938. However, the Supreme Court decision wrecking" the A.A.A. forced a stepping up of this farm plain to permit direct financing aid to favored groups. The new soil erosion control is part of the general picture which legal experts on the Democratic and Republican sides <>f the Capitol have openly voioed their doubts as to its constitutional aspects* As it takes money to make the old mare go, so it is with the latest; wrinkle, in rural relief measures. "A tax bill now under consideration attacks the revenue problem on two fronts. The first is a somewhat retaliatory effort to recover the processing taxes which the Supreme .Court recently ordered returned when invalidating the ill-fated A.A.A. The objective would be accomplished, under the old A.A.A. The second idea is to invoke excise taxes similar to the processing imposition and probably extended to other agricultural products. State governments, which yelled loudly against the intrusion of central agencies at Washington, now protest a proposal to drop relief financing into their laps again. ^Placing the responsibility on the commonwealths for handling problems relating to the unemployed forecasts heavy state taxeti with all the employed political liabilities. The decentralization theory is one method of curtailing the Federal agencies spending orgy, but it is nothing more than passing the buck down the line to the states. 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