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LIGHTS | of NEW IOUKI k~ ;; Forfottea We4dieg» That old phrase, "human document," £* nowhere more applicable tbat^ to marriage licenses, according to Mike Onise, New York's city clerk. Mike has married more couples, probably, than any other living man. and his •office in the Municipal troilding la a fascinating library of his human documents. It is astonishing, according to Cruise, to find how many persons forget when they were married, and come to the Acs to brush up on their memories. It is also astonishing, he says, to learn how many persons don't know if they •W really married or not Many a woman becomes suspicions •of her husband, and decides that he Mjfct have had a past. So she goes *• tile marriage license files to find <Wt If he ever had another wife. • Now Art • ; & a p p e a r s t h a t t h e ^ j o b o f b e - it inksseuse has become a Mgli and •expensive art. I learned the other day that a masseuse >named Sylvia -commands a salary of $300 a week from a single motion picture concern, and she has the privilege of taking outside work at $10 an hour. Her Job in the movies is to keep Gertie Sylph and other lovely start in the |>liik of condition. Sylvia knows where All the glands are, and it appears that there are thousands of glands that seed exercise. If one's ankles are becoming a bit too thick, an ankle gland ^•tofe^Mamed. -• -• * • • g4$j. | Ab.«nt Minted - A certain New Yorker who makes Broadway .his haunt Is known among flip intimate friends as "Shoeless." He g<St the title through his absent-mindedness. Some time ago he appeared before his household ail ready to go to work. His hat and coat were on, and be said gdbd-by as he stepped to the door. Then somebody called to him: "You've forgotten to pot on your shoes." ' A glance at his, feet showed that the accusation was true. That's why he Is called "Shoeless" -and probably will be known as such for years to come. * * • , " • ? > / • A Elndiaf , A» tM^pbaintance of mine h*S^i4iat toe claims is a sure-fire way of squenchlug ambitious clothing salesmen--yon kbow: the kind who try to sell you suspenders, shirts atad handkerchiefs when all you want is a pair of socks. This man's plan is to embarrass the salesman by making him think he has made a breach of good taste. "Come on, I'll show you how it's done," said by acquaintance the other day. We went to a fashionable store and toy companion chose a tine blue-shirt "How about a nice tie to gp with It," encouraged the salesman.* ; "No, that's all." *" " Just as if he hadn't hear9, the salesman brought fcrtk an exquisite blue tie and laid it admiringly against, the shirt. The tie was A perfect •choice. Bat my companion looked horrified. / "What!" he exclaimed. "A blue tie with a blue shirt?" The salesman trembled with embarrassment, put the tie away very quickly, and said no more. IMMNESOTA PRISON CALLED BEST IN U. S. Industrial Organization It Commended in Handbook. St Paul, Minn.--The Stillwater prison plant is characterised as the best of its kind in the country by the third issue of the Handbook of American Prisons and Reformatories, now being published by the National Society of Penal Information. The handbook also commends the prison industrial organizations, 'but points out the need of a more progressive policy in the matter of discipline and in the development of an educa- ?ooal program. The article says in part "This (the prison) is a notable institution in two important respects: Its plant is the best of its kind in tile Country and its industrial system one off the most effective. The plant,, carefully built as one construction Job, gives this institution a physical equipment that is probably unsurpassed in the country. Has Snviabfo ftseortt. "Industrially the institution has an enviable record. Its shops are modern In design and construction, well lighted and ventilated. The working conditions throughout are excellent. "The progress made in humanising the Institution and developing individual Instead of mass treatment has not been nearly as rapid as the progress In institutional and industrial development In fact, the great plant and huge industry tend to dwarf the individual and unavoidably make him •ee that he is merely a cog in a machine and an unimportant unit in a great Institution. "This inescapable problem Is common to every great Institution, bnt It is intensified here by the retention of the silence system, by a monotony of routine and by a regimentation of life, both In the rails and out, which has been abandoned in many prisons of the country. The silence system, for Instance, has been given up for several decades in many states. Plant Called Admirable. "The state is fortunate in having a plant admirable in so many respects and an industrial system that has covered the cost of running the institution every year since 1902. Bat the accomplishments in these Important fields make the case stronger for a more progressive policy in the realm of discipline, the development of education and other constructive features that have proved their value in Institutional life, and a prison regime which makes every possible effort to treat the inmates as individual human beings rattier than as a mass." Commenting on the board of control, the handbook says: "There appears to be a tradition that members of the-board who have served effectively shall be reappointed. The result is a continuity In membership and a corresponding lack of appointments for political reasons such as are made in neighboring states." L/ Now L«i|uaf« J. Wilstach, indefatigable •compiler of similes and slang, has got together a compendium of phrases used in the "talkie" studios. "All bottom" means sound whose low frequencies predominate. "AM fop" Is preponderantly high-frequency sound. Apples or bottles are audio frequency amplification tubes. A blimp is the sound-proof covering around a camera. A bulldog is a deep-voiced male. A footage eater is an actor who talks too much before the micrbphone. Hot lead is a live electric wire. In sink means that sound and action are per- JUlj synchronised. <® br the Belt Bfndtcatet.Iod.) . ' Bear Visits Tow* Bhinelander, Wis. -- Khinelander's main street resembled a small zoo when a mother bear and two cubs strolled Into town ostensibly on a "'shopping tour." Unmolested by huanans, the bears visited here and there until chased away by a pack of dogs. Rob Sheriff's Vault ^tlheeling, VV. Va.--Bobbers broke into the office of W. W. Williams, sheriff •of Preston county, W. V., and took $293 from a steel vault .They overlooked $1,000 in taxpayers' money that was in the same vault Auto Used by Queen Brings High Price London.--London firms find It* • profitable to patronize royalty. This fact was proved again when the qpeenjof Spain visited London. The Spanish queen always hires a motor car when she Is in London. The firm always provides her with a new one, and finds profit In doing so, for it appears that there are any number of persons prepared to pay an enhanced price for an automobile which ha# carried royalty. Couple With 24 Children Air Troubles in Court Atlantic City, N. J.--Twenty-four children figured in the domestic debate of Fred Parsio, an $18-a-week millhand, and his wife, Millie, in Judge Smathers' court here. Mrs. Parsio had her husband summoned on a nonsupport charge. It developed from the testimony of the wife and some of the children, she was a widow when she married Parsio three years ago. She brought with her 13 children by her first husband. Parsio had 11 children by his first wife, who died several years before. "Hie two'groups of boys and girls ranged in age from four to twenty-two years. Judge Smathers decided that Mrs. Parsio wasn't any worse off than before she married Parsio and that h^ would have to pay her only $5 weekly. He agreed ~hnd was freed. Squirrels' Stores of Fir Seed Robbed for Market Ryderwood, Wash.--Lumbermen now save by-prodti^ts of forests. Three thousand bushels of fir seed cones were purchased by a lumber company at Ivongview. where drying operations to extract the valuable seed are in progress. From a ton to one and one-half tons of dean seed will be obtained from these cones. Harvesters received $5 a bushel for them; the lumber company expects $15 a pound for the tree seed. Australia, Europe, Japan and New Zealand as well as tbe United States are in the market Hundreds of bushels of cones were recovered from caches made by gray squirrels, and thousands of these animals will have to hustle other winter supplies. Cones stored by Todents contain the finest seed, dedan foresters. ! BEST LITTER TO USE IN BROODEK Shavings, Cut Straw add Cut : Bay Meet With Fav4fe? One of the commonest questions asked of the poultry department of the New Jersey agricultural experiment station during the spring is, "What is the best litter to use in the brooder house?" For the benefit of all poultry men who are troubled with this problem the station Issues the following statement: There is no best litter, bat there arc certain requirements that litter must meet in order to be satisfactory for use In brooding chicks. These requirements are that it should be: Light in weight, thus allowing the droppings and dirt to work to the floor so the chicks are .not likely to pick up contaminated material; absorbent, and therefore capable of keeping the brooder house floor dry; cheap, so one can afford to replace it every five days after the first four weeks; and clean, which means freedom from mold, mustlness, and dust Shavings, cut straw, and cut hay meet these requirements. They are not the only materials that one can use, but they are among the best. Straw or hay used for Utter should always be cut If the straw or hay Is not cut It becomes matted and covered with droppings, and Is therefore of no value for litter. Bscillary white diarrhea, coccldlosis, and intestinal worms are spread to « large extent by the use of dirty litter, the experiment station warns. One rule in brooding chicks that should be followed, if aft others are forgotten, Is: "Clean the .brooder house every five days." This means removing the litter, sweeping the floor of the brooder house, rfbd putting in clean litter. /A Produce Good Pullets at Reasonable Expense At the Pennsylvania state college 026 pullets were raised to maturity at a cost of $1.26 per bird after deducting the returns from 924 cockerels. Most of the chicks were leghorns valued at twenty cents each. Tbe cost of production included feed and coal, labor at thirty-five cents per hour, and interest at 6 per cent on the investment in equipment, feed, and chicks. The pullets were also charged with depreciation on the houses at 5 per cent and the depreciation on the equipment at 10 per cent. Undoubtedly th* results in brooding and the mortality rate were very satisfactory to produce good pullets at the laying age at a cost of $1.26 per bird. Many poultrymen sell leghorn pullets at eight weeks of age at about $1 each. At three months of age they are worth* about $1.25 to $1.50 each. Pullets that are r^ady to lay are seldom sold by poultrymen for less than $2 to $2.50 each unless they have a surplus. WEEKLY PERSONALS COMERS AND GOERS OF A WBEK IN OUR 0ITY As Seen By Plaindea&r Reporters and Handed In By Our Friends C. W. Gibbs was a Woodstock visitor Friday. * Mat La ores was a Woodstock visitor Friday. Fred Justen was a Woodstock visitor Friday. Gerald Carey Was a Woodstock visitor Friday. Miss Elveroa Freund waa, a reoent Richmond visitor. Joseph Buch of Chicago visited relatives here Sunday. .Miss Leta Jacks of Evanston visited friends here Sunday. , Miss Laura Sohaefer ijBpf Mil week-end in Chicago. Frances Bonslett of Chicago visited in this city Sunday. Ben Wegener of Chicago spent Monday at his home here. Mr. and Mrs. John Kegner spent last week in Chicago. Mrs. George Young of Ringwood visited relatives here last week. Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Freund of Woodstock visited here Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Robinson of Woodstock visited relatives here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Weir Keck of Waukegan visited McHenry relatives Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. H. Kamholz of Cary spent one evening last week with her mother here. Mr. and Mrs. Dana McKnight and children of Chicago visited relatives here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Weber and son spent Sunday in the Nick Young home at Ringwood. Mr. and Mrs. George Schlitt of Chicago were Sunday visitors in the Math Laures home. Mr. and Mrs. Ray McGee attended the Legion minstrel show at Woodstock Friday evening. Mrs. Robert Thompson, Mrs. R. V. Powers and Mrs. Ella Wheeler were visitors at Woodstock Friday. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Rettid of Chicago spent Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Sc'haefer and family. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Newman and children and Mrs. Alma Thomas visited relatives at Elgin Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Adams of Desplaines were Sunday visitors in the home of Mrs. Mary K. Adams. Miss Josephine St off el of Chicago was a week-end guest in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin StoffeL Mrs. Nellie Bacon and daughter, Rita, visited relatives in Elgin, Friday. Mrs. John F. Knox and Mrs. Ed' ward Buss were Elgin visitors last Friday. Mr. and Mrsc A1 Webber of Milwaukee, Wis., visited relatives here Sunday. Mrs. Lucille Givens and son, Carter, of Elgin called on relatives here Sat urday. Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Klein of Waukepan visited relatives here over the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Joe May and Calla Vasey were Woodstock visitors Friday evening. Phillip May of Waukegan visited in the home of ICr. and Mrs. Joseph May one day last week. Mrs. Rose Mueller and son, Lyman, called on Mrs. Walter Grube in Chicago one day last week. ' Mrs. Angie Gaudsen of Chicago spent the wee,k-end with her paernts, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Thies. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. N. Young and daughter. Eleanor Catherine, motored to Waukegan last Thursday, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Behlke and little daughter, Jane, of Chicago visited relatives in thin city Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Guffy and son, Billie, of Woodstock were weekend guests of McHenry relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Adams spent Sunday evening with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Thompson, at Ringwood. Richard B. Walsh and son, Richard, Jr., of Evanston visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Walsh, Saturday. Mrs. N. H. Petesch of Oak Pa^ spent several days last week and the first of this week with friends in this city. Mrs. Mary Powers and daughter, Jean, were guests of relatives at Long-Lake a few days the last of the week. Dr. and Mrs. Zimmerman and daughter of Woodstock were Sunday truests in the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Wheeler. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Winkelman and little son bf Elgin were Sunday visitors in the home of her mother, Mrs. Anna Knox. Misses Floribel Bassett and Eva Adams and Lyle Bassett aqd Henry Vogel were Woodstock visitors Sunday evening. Mrs. Lee Woodward of Racine, Wis., spent several days the past week in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Vycital. Mrs. L, C. Ben well attended a Home Bureau meeting at Richmond Friday where she gave an account of her recent trip to the Home Bureau convention at Urbana. Miss Ellen Walsh of South Bend, Ind., and Miss Kathrine Walsh of River Forest spent the week-end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Walsh. * Marionette* origin of marionettes and pets has been lost in obscurity. They held a prominent place in the lives of the people of ancient India, were used In the early Roman days and by the Egyptians. / . They Can Be Tuaed Out television, when it is perfected, will not mnke it possible to hit th* -crooning teripr with a ripe tomato.-- ffoigllA Town in North Alaska Hears Continuous Radio Point Barrow, Alaska.--This northernmost tip of Alaska is enjoying one continuous round of enjoyable music gathered in by radio from all parts of the world. Because of the strategic radio position near the top of the world and the almost continuous darkness, combined with remarkable clarity of the atmosphere and differences in time. Point Barrow radio fans receive perfect programs from Japan. England, Germany, the United States and all corners of the globe. Show Last < ' wweft a woman recently applied foi thO authorities of Cardigan, Wales, for a new pair of shoes, she declared that tbe ones ahe was wearing bad '"H 27 years. Poultry Facts It Is also generally considered better to feed all rations dry rather than wet, tor turkeys. • • • Watch the old hens in your poultry flock. They are dangerous spreaders of poultry tuberculosis. * h • • * Milk, sour or sweet, is excellent for: breeding stock. Beef scrap or other animal meal may be left out if a tiful supply of milk Is availably * * * Feed and protection aid In keeping turkeys fit Vitamine A supplied in yellow corn, cabbage, alfalfa, clover, and most greens, Increases resistance to colds. Cod liver oil also Is beneficial. - , • • • As a sanitary measure place a disinfectant mat at the entrance to the brooder house. This mat can be made by filling a square box with gunny sacks soaked in soma reliable fectant •' ;• ft Isolate all birds "from ttie poultry flock as soon as they show symptoms of disease. Then decide what method of treatment to follow. • • * Many turkeys are graded as number two or thrown out entirely because of failure to starve tbem out properly before dressing. • • • Small eggs produce small chicks, and these should not be Incubated. Eggs uneven in shape are not suitable, nor are extremely long and very short ,round eggs. • • • Tbe practice of reproducing the flock with eggs laid by bras Insures a better quality chick tban breeding from pullets. • • • Red mites may cause a drop In egg production. A satisfactory treatment for the pests is to paint tbe roosts and roosting cabinet with carbollneum. « « • • In commercial poultry plants where fowls are kept in quite large numbers, the artificial lighting of the houses, morning and evening, proves profitable during the winter. ~ > * ** ** f r * m m m m ^ *-*~ii~ii~rw>i*VSnr*~>r\nrinriiifijn/uiw Mr. .wad Mrs. John McMahon o€ Chicago were McHenry visitors Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George F. Sills and the letter's mother of Elgin, were guests of Mrs. Ella Wheeler Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rosing and son, Alan, of Libertyville visited in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph May, Sunday. Misses Leone and Kathleen Givens were Chicago visitors Saturday, where they saw Eddie Cantor in "Whoopee" at the Illinois theatre. Richard Stenger of Waukegan visited friends here over the week-end. Mrs. Math B. J^aures spent Tuesday as the guest of Chicago friends. Nick Freund of Hope, North Dakota, is spending several days in the home of his sister, Mrs. N. J. Justen, and other relatives in this vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Wkrren Howell and daughter, Mary Louise, of Chicago were guests in the heme of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Walsh, Saturday afternoon. Find Petri {ted Fish Head 30,000,000 Years Old San. Francisco.--Receipt of the petrified head of an armored cretaceous fish that swam along the shores of what is now Texas, some 30,000,000 years ago, has been announced b.v Professor \V. D. Matthew, director of the University of California Museum of Paleontology. The new addition to the museum was received from Dr. Charles L. Baker, geologist for the Rio Bravo Oil company, now working & $****• i^yv • Jail for Ckarcb Meal Birmiifcham, Eng.--Hungry for two days, Walter Cales broke into a church and ate the sacramental bread an$ drank the wine. Then he surrendered and was sent to Jail. „ » | Hog Trees Black Bear That Attacked Her Pig Vashon, Wash.--A strange tale of black bear's being treed by a j hog is vouched for by Stein i Dunkel. 1 The rancher came upon the 4 scene Just as the bear had at- j tempted to steal a baby pig. 5 lie hastened home for his rifle, j Upon returning he found the big j bear was In a tree with the hog 2 patroling its base. j Love Mait Be Present We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.--Mrs. Jameson. *EKKA OOTtA . ---- * " Raymond J. Riley of Chicago Sunday at his home here. Miss Ethel Gracy spent several days recently with her aunt, Mrs. Feaeodk, at Spring Grove. Miss Mabel Knox of River, Forest visited at her home here Saturday aad* Sunday. Glenn McMillan of Chicago spent Sunday at his home here. Nels Person of Chicago spent Sofday with his wife here. Mrs. B. J. Shine and Raymond J. Riley visited relatives in St. Charles Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sund and daughter of Carpentersville called at the home of Henry McMillan Saturday. r Mr. and Mrs. M. Knoz called A* relatives in Woodstock Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank McMillan and daughter, Eleanor, were Spring Grav# visitors Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bernston e£ Elgin were puests of Mr. and Mrs. ft Shine and family last Tuesday. Mr and Mrs. Frank Peck of Chicago were guests at the home of Henafy McMillan Sunday. h George R. Cook of Crystal Lake • ited friends here Sunday. . 4 Mr. and Mrs. L. Anderson and daughter, Ruth, P. A. Huffman aid daughter, Phyllis, *«ni Misses Florence, Mabel and Marie Knox attended the basketball tournament in Woo*, stock last week. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Hundt aid daughter, Lucille, of Chicago called the home of P. A. Huffman Sunday. | Mrs. Edward Malone and son. Frask Knox, of Elgin called at the home & * M. Knox Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wilcox ot Chicago visited at the home of F. A. Huffman Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Freund and the letter's mother, Mrs. Margaret WikWl of Elgin were calling on Mr. and Mfft. P. A. Huffman and daughters Sunday.- % A. Elk in Montana Spam >E^ Chance to Roam PreserW Martinsdale, Mont.--Thirty fat eUt take the position that it's far better to be on the inside looking out than on the outside looking in. Released from the DuRank elk ranch pastures so that they might live within the nearby elk game preserve, these sleek animals refuse to leave the vicinity of their former home. Life was easy there and food waa good--why change? . As a result the elk have been loit# 14 ? Ing close to the ranch fences, apparently begging to be taken back. Their I; attitude has given rise to a problem of animal salesmanship--bow best to V., sell them tl» advantagee ef a fti* | serve. IT* & K'. • '•Mi- S€BEEM-GRIO R Railroad Men's Watches The requirements of railroads whick maintain time inspection are that watches must run within 30 seconds' ?$il&tion a week. Aadnl Pkillstia iif Hncfent geography the eoontry of Phillstia lay to the southwest of Palestine, along the Mediterranean. Tbe principal cities were Ascaion, Ashdod, Gaza. Gpth and Ekron. Happiness 1W« can only have the highest happi. ness by having wide thoughts add much feeling for the rest of the «orl(L--Geofge Eliot. •m. k NO NOTE too high--too low--too feint--for the Atwater Kent Screen-Grid! Not a breath of sound is missed bf this greatest of all radios ! ^ Just the flow of pure melody that makes every listener la Our store exclaim: "Now that's what I call perfection!" 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