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^ : W" '7 ^ ' ' W ,1 "> ' " " £ " ffipl M'HENftY PTJOHDKAIJElll'HUttSDAT MATICH 6,1930 *» f}p.. rf*•^1 &- vp ALONGL r^TRAI By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK tw He*. Csirmtt; of Illlnota. THE ROMANCE OF YOUTH - •« i^yp s* •j'-H PARROTS BALLYHOO BARKERS OF BIRDDOM Now Accused of Being Carriers of Disease. t wu thirteen when the narrowgauge railroad between West Lebanon, Ind., and Havana, 111., was built. I say Havana, III., though the construction was never completed farther than Leroy, I believe. It was a project which was to revolutionize agriculture in that tjatt OB children a thrill. We traveled very little In those days. When we did go It was afoot «* horseback, or in a farm wagon. I had never seen Inside a railway coach when I was thirteen, but I had ambitions to do so. Ed Bailey and Taylor Curtis and I used to climb to the roof 4>t the barn and watch the train, a little more than a mile away, creeping along the narrow track, or puffing up the grade which took it over the glacial morain toward the East and out 4ft sight That train spelled romance to us!" We were not going to be farmers dragging our feet behind a plow or a harrow, not we! We were going to be engineers racing our trains along at fifteen or twenty miles SB hour. I ran onto Billy a few days ago as X was coming home at noontime. Billy bad been our neighbor a few years before and then had passed out of our domestic life for a time. Now here lie was again, healthy and rosy and thirteen. "Where do you live now?" I asked, «« 4U*d he told me. •Are you going to school?" He was in the seventh grade, as a normal boy his age should have been, and his •chances of flunking or passing his examinations for promotion were About flfty-flfty. "But I'm not going to college/' be «onflded to me. j "No?" I saii Iftan Interrogatory tone of voice. * "I'm going to aj/"avlation school. It Isn't any more dangerous flying now It is running an automobile." ^ It's awful good pay, too!" ' -4 remembered that an engineer got 4Nle hundred dollars a month when contemplated taking up that profession. It seemed a lot of money. I didn't try to dissuade Billy. What It education as compared with the comance and the thrill of sailing through the air at a hundred miles an iMur or more? The romance of youth! (©. 1928. Western Newspaper Union.) ,1* Mask «• History ;ory of music goes -bsek t» Antiquity. Bven the primitive races tinve some forma of music and In Ancient Egypt, Assyria, Greece, Ohlna, etc., there was considerable development of music and musical Instruments. There are records of the harp In Egypt before 3000 B. C. Of course it is Impossible to say who ftas the first musical composer or 'f|lten music was first composed. Washington.--Polly wants a friend! The sociable parrot, cherished companion of man, has suddenly become suspect as a dangerous carrier of disease. "Although hunters are believed to have completely exterminated the only member of the parrot family native to the United States, the parrot population of the country Is very large," says a bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the National Geographic society. "How large no one knows. But It Is estimated that there are 30,000 parrots in the city of New York alone. The Immigrant Pslttacls. "More than a half million live birds are imported into the United States annually. Most of these feathered immigrants are canaries, of course, with members of the Psittaci family, which Includes parrots, parakeets, macaws, cockatoos, love birds, and lories, probably second in numbers. Parrots are chiefly tropical birds. Some species, however, range deeply into temperate regions. The Carolina parrot, which, like the passenger pigeon, has been wiped out, used to be reported as far north as Albany, New York and Wisconsin. Regions of New Zealand penetrated by some hardy parrots lie as far south of the Equator as Labrador is north of it. "Charges of transmitting communicable disease have been laid against the Amazon, a green parrot, and one of the best talkers among approximated 500 species of parrots. The Amazon and the African gray parrot, a large gray-feathered iblrcl. with u red tail, are the most noted'conversationalists of their voluble order. "A few parrots are quiet, retiring birds dressed in modest Quaker colors. As a class, however, they are the ballyhoo barkers of blrddom, the noisy, clever, sideshow performers of the tropical forest, blatant, bizarre In dress, comedians In motleys trooping on to the silent, tragic jungle stage. "Arrival of a flock of screeching cockatoos will turn a Malayan forest glade Into a bedlam beside which 'radio row' under the Manhattan elevated Is a peaceful retreat. Known to Ancients. "Scientists believe that It was the ring parrot of India vhich Alexander the Great lntroducedito the Western world. Parrots in cages of tortoise shell and Ivory with sliver wires were among Nero's extravagances and they were certainly among the first importations from the New world after its discovefj by Columbus. "Neil M. Judd, leader of the National Geographic society expedition to Pueblo Bonito, found in the 1,000-year-old New Mexico ruins perches and 30 skeletons of great macaws, which were totems of certain Indian clans. "Parrots 7r.ry In size from small birds, scarcely larger than sparrows, to huge macaws that measure three feet from bill to tip of tail. All members of the Psittaci family are distinguished by the short, stout bill, the upper half of which extends beyond and turns down over the lower half, and by the fact that two toes of each foot are directed forward and two backward. Although they flock together parrots are notably monogamcufl." Half and Half Story Writers By JANE OSBORN OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (CopyMsht) O YOU'RE the new English In- -*RINOWOOD ppfy Bird* Named Th»mi»lfM The peewee named Itself by its call, snd bob white wrote Its name Into Ills greeting. By his call, the cuckoo tupa made himself an international character, while the chickadee has Individualized itself In Its utterance. Vhen asked what's in a name, the birds might reply: "We have put most ett ourselves into them, and they have Most excellent advertising " "Catty Sark",. ' i ' : ' Catty Is Scotch and North English onr word "short" and Sark ia a and English dialectical word tbr shirt. Stric lerson Czech Actress Objects to Nudity in Sculpture V Plague.--Ann Sedlacek, the noted CzecE actress, does not relish appearing partly uncovered in public, even In the form of a statue. The sculptor, Foit, holds a contrary opinion and because of this must answer a court suit that Miss Sedlacek has brought against him. The actress was present at an art exhibition at which a work by Foit, for whom she sat as a model, was to be unveiled. As Miss Sedlacek appears to have understood it, the work was to have been a "head"; instead it turned out to be a "bust," and completely unclothed at that. She demanded its removal, but Foit refused. The court action resulted. Iowa Youth Whistling Way Through University Independence, Iowa.--John Plank. Jr„ whistles his way through school. When Plank started school at the University of Minnesota two years ago he needed funds. So he began whistling, an art hp acquired as a youth. He soon went on the stage ani at present is playing on the west coast. But Plank Is after an education, so next summer he will quit the stage and return to the university. But he will keep on whistling to pay bis way through college, be said. scrutinizing the young woman across from him at one of the small tables of the College inn In the small college town of Klngsberg. "And you're the new associate professor," she said with something In the same tone that Blalre had used In addressing her. "Is there anything remarkable In that?" he asked. "Only that you dont look like a profes&or or even an Instructor, and you don't act like one," she said. "And you don't act any more like an instructor," he said smiling. Then in spite of herself Jane Holland laughed and Biaire O'Neill laughed loud and long--laughed as perhaps ill, became a newly appointed associate professor of English. "It was really quite funny," she agreed. "What would staid old Professor Ormsby, bead of the department, say If he knew that on the way to Klngsburg his new associate professor and his new instructor, neither one knowing the Identity of the other, had mildly flirted for an hour or so. If I'd known who you w^re I would have been very reserved when you began by asking me if I wanted to borrow your magazine. I wonder why you ever decided to be a professor--you look more like a budding young author." "Thanks awfully," said Blalre. - "I didn't say you looked exactly like a budding young author. Only more like one than a college professor." "The trouble Is I'm only half a writer," said Blalre with something of a sigh. "Which half?" asked Jane. Tm all right on characterisation, personality, local color--that sort of thing," said Biaire. becoming much interested in the trend of the conversation, "but I'm lacking In plot sense. Plot doesn't appeal to me." "How funny," said Jane, eyes wide with Interest. "Plotting Is the only thing I can do." "Between the two of us we ought to make one first rate story writer. Let's go Into partnership." Thus was created the individuality of Blalre Holland, whose short stories soon appeared with remarkable success In the magazines and whose first novel published the following autumn was one of the two or three best sellers of the season. Before autumn had come both associate professor and Instructor had tendered their resignations from the faculty of Kingsberg college, but no one there guessed that the Identity of the much talked about Blalre Holland was really these two rather quiet and unassuming personages. By this time they had rented an office In the city and spent four -or Ave hours a day there--sometimes longer --collaborating, writing, rewriting, amending, planning. "I was just thinking," said Jane one morning after she had seen her partner dancing Interestedly with another girl the night before, "I was Just thinking that perhaps for our mutual protection we odght to draw up some sort of contract--" "Exactly what I was thinking,"'said Blalre O'Neill, with a curious unsteadiness In his voice. He was thinking of the Interesting stranger who had danced three dances In succession with Jane. "Together we can make a more than enviable income and can have the joy of writing really successful stories. If one should draw ofT the other would be In the lurch. Of course you would be more likely to desert. I'll always have to earn a living anyway. It doesn't seem ffclr for me to ask yon to promise--" "But I want you to promise, too. If you--you should marry--some one-- that some one mightn't like having you spend so much time with another girl every day. She might he Jealous." "Little chance I'll ever marry--at least anyone that would be Jealous of you," said Blalre. "Of course, I shan't marry." Then In their embarrassment their •yes met and each held the other in a long glance. Blalre walked slowly over to the chair whefte Jane had been sitting correcting manuscript. He carefully took the papers and pencils froui her lap and then sat down on the floor at her knees. "Suppose we marry each other. It occurred to me that first day we met --when we were going to Klngsberg-- that you were the woman I wanted to Hair Buy Youf Fountain this New a*d Better Way The point that es» actly suits your writins stroke and the holder that exactly suits your taste < be selected separately and perma* nently combined-- by us-y»*«*»| doit. Calls Police but Pack of Wolves Had Vaxifslietl Baclne, Wis.--The wolf, or rather wolves, were at the door. Jacob Maiers was nonchalant. He called a policeman. When the police arrived they found that Maiers heard a scratching at the door. He flung It wide open and surveyed a pack of wolves. The pack bad disappeared when lice arrived. Mrs. Viola Low enfertainetT 'the Bunco club at her home Thursday afternoon. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Thomas Doherty, first; Mrs. Nick Young, second; Mrs. Edgar Thomas, third; and Mrs. Ray Merchant, the consolation. At the close of the games a cafeteria lunch was servecj. Mrs. F. A. Hitchens entertaihed her bridge club Thursday afternoon.. The Ladies' Aid Society held . a dinner at the M. W. A. liall Wednesday. There was not a very large attendance owing to the bad roads. Mrs. Walter Harrison and Mrs. Louis Schroeder entertained sixteen ladies at a one o'clock luncheon and bunco party at the home of Mrs, Schroeder Thursday. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Roy Harrison, first; Mrs. E. C. Hawley, second; and Mrs. George Harrison, the consolation. Each one p^jd 25 cents, the proceeds going to the home bureau. Mr. and Mrs. Claus Larson celebrated their silver weeding1 anniversary Saturday evening by entertaining 200 friends from Woodstock and Crystal Lake and a few neighbors. The house was beautifully decorated in pink and white with baskets of roses and carnations. Dancing furnished amusement for the evening, also a mock wedding. A Chicago orchestra furnished the music. At a late hour refreshments w^re served. Mr. and Mrs. Larson received many nice gifts of silver, flowers, etc. Mrs. Edgar Thomas and Mrs. Viola Low were McHenry visitors Monday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Frennd attended the masquerade dance at Woodstock Friday night. Miss Lorena Jepson was a Woodstock visitor Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Hitchens spent Sunday with relatives at Forest Park. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Thomas spent Wednesday in the William Blake home at McHenry. Mr. and Mrs. Clark Kuson of Elgin spent Thursday in the C. J. Jepson home. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Peters spent Friday afternoon at H enter and Poplar Grove. J. F. McLaughlin and daughter, Julia, were McHenry callers Sunda> morning. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Jepson and family spent Sunday with relatives at Mundelein. Mr. and Mrs. William Rothermel of Springfield, 111., and John Zuschnitt of Chicago spent several days last week in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Justen. They came to attend the funeral of Mrs. Rothermel's sister, Mrs. John Zuschnitt, which was held at Johnsburg on Wednesday of last Robert Stephenson and Charles Bullard of Woodstock spent Wednesday with Mrs. Carrie Stephenson in the Eli Chase home. Will McCannon was a business visitor at Greenwood Wednesday. Fred Olser, and Mrs. Summers of Chicago spent Thursday afternoon in the home of Elmer Olsen and family. George Bacon and Lester Nelson of Antioch and Delbert Bacon of Crystal Lake were visitors with Mrs. Jennie Bacon Saturday. Frances and Gertrude Turner of Solon Mills were Sunday callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Noble and family. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Olsen and daughter of McHenry were Sunday visitors in the Elmer Olsen home. Sunday guests in the George Stevens home were Mrs. Agnes Jencks and daughter, Mary, of Chicago, Earl Jencks of Barrington, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stevens and sons of Milwaukee, Wis., Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rahn and Harold Stevens of Elgin. Mr. and Mrs. Math Nimsgern ' of Spring Grove spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Nick YofUng. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Walkington were callers in the home of their son, Davis, and wife at McHenry Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. George Noble an l children, Mrs. E. P. Flanders and Mrs. J. F. McLaughlin were Woodstock shoppers Thursday afternoon. Fred Wiedrich and son, Harold, were Richmond visitors Saturday. Mrs. Walker and son, Fred, were visitors in the Irving Walker home at Waukegan Thursday. Adrian Thomas of Chicago spent Thursday night and Friday with hi* parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Nichols of McHenry were callers in the George Young home Saturday. Wayne Foss of Greenwood spent the lfeek-end at his home here. Mrs. Mary Green of McHenry was a Ringwood caller Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Young, In company with Mr. and Mi*. Math Nimsgern of Spring Grove were Elgin Mr. and Mrs. Lester 6arr and son spent Sunday in the Fred Wiedrich home. Miss Eva Williams of St. Charles spent the week-end in the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. George Shepard and family were guests in the J. F. Claxton home at McHenry Sunday. Mrs. S. W. Smith was a week-end guest of relatives in Chicago.' Charles Coates of Genoa City spent Tuesday in the Fred Wiedrich home. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Turner and daughter and Mrs. Fannie Turner ot Evanston spent the week-end in the George Noble home. , Mrs. B. T. Butler and daughter, Helen Rath, were Woodstock and McHenry visitors Wednesday. Mrs. James Rainy spent Friday with her mother at McHenry. Mrs. Leonard Franzen of Richmond attended a one o'clock luncheon and bunco party at Mrs. Schroeder's last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Neal and family spent Sunday with Chicago relatives. Mr. and Mrs. George Young entertained a few friends at 500 at their home Saturday evening. Prizes were awarded to Mr. and Mrs. Kane first, and Mrs. and Mrs. Peter Weber the aonsolations. Refreshments were served. Miss Lora Harrison entertained a few friends at "500" at her home Saturday evening. Two tables were in play. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. F. A. Hitchens and Roger Stevens the consolation. At the close refreshments were served. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Harrington of Woodstock called Sunday on Mrs- Carrie Stephenson. Mr. and Mrs. William McCannon were Woodstock visitors Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Karls of Richmond were dinner guests of Mrs. Jennie Bacon Sunday. S. H. Beatty and Henry Witt were business callers at Woodstock Monday afternoon. Jones & Winter, real estate company, gave a moving picture show of Wonder Lake at the M. W. A. hall Monday evening. This was very much enjoyed and a good crowd attended. SCHOOL NOTiS Primary Boons Those neither absent nor tardy for five months are: Amy Harrison, Douglas Noble, Pearl Smith, Rita Mae Thomas I Merchant, Marjorie Noble, John No- $ ble, Kenneth Noble, Virginia Jepsoa, >:J| Dora Anderson. • 'Wk It is interesting to note that four .'flf of the above are from one familyv , Amy Harrison, Dora Anderson anil - -# Lawrence Frennd celebrated their birthdays this past month and treated the room to cupcakes, cake and canCty. Mrs. Lewis Hawrey and daughter Marion, and Mrs. Alec Anderson arid son, Robert, were recent visitors ait ; school. We are now practicing for oarJ operetta "Feter Rabbit" which will ba given at the M. W. A. hall the firs? week in April. <>} The instrument* for the toy ban! r have arrived and we practice daily. . Dora Anderson of the fourth grade had perfect spelling lessons for the month of February. Upper Grades Those who have been neither absent ; >ung, Richard Kelley, Ellen Smith, Geerr ald Noble, Mercedes Smith, Helen Harri" son. Mary Cetide Adams celebrated hf* birthday on Feb. 12 by treating thai room to candy. Granville Carlson has returned $* school again after being ant wwi scarlet fever. marry. Then you turned out to be an .visitors Friday afternoon. English Instructor and I was afraid to I Paul Stephenson of Grand Kapi , ask you, and then we went Into part- j Mich., spent a few days tne pas week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs Test of Human Nitiri Benfleet, Essex, England.--The vicar of Benfleet estimates that during the average marriage a man sees his wife's face at breakfast 10,000 times, "a pretty severe test of human nature." nershtp and you seemed so much preoccupied with your work that 1 thought you'd never want to think of marrying-- me." "I'd been wondering, said Jane, "what I would'say If you ever should ask me to marry you, though I didn't much expect you would. And then last night there was that other girl, and I just made up my mind you'd have to marry me. I'd made up my mind If you did marry anyone else I'd never work with you again." WABL SVmSBARP (JktecrnxJL'Ol&ini: 1: MOUNTAIN FEN9 $he McHenry Druggist WhU Reduce Cn< "If every man spoke right out «^ll what be thought," said Uncle Eben, "a heap o' conversations wouldn' be more dan two minutes long."--Washington Star. Mutri«M BMftn have been known U> drag, logs more than 250 yards, although the average distance this industrious rodent drags a log is from 100 to 300 . . * * • Dirty Cloadb Marjffrte, age three, who "few fceen oat playing suddenly came In, saying: "Mother, I believe It Is going to storm." "Why, dear?" asked mother. "Why, just look how dirty clouds are," Marjorie replied. TT ~ JiMt a Dreaai It Isn't often we envy a person who loses money, but when we read about a man dropping $50,000,000 In the market we sorta wish we foold do It.--Dayton (Ohio) News. History The contact with stanners then .to education; and this Thucydldes appears to assert when he says history la philosophy learned from examples.-- Cwmyslus. H. M Stephenson. Mrs. Jennie Bacon returned to her home Thursday night from a weeks' visit with relatives at Woodstock. C. J. Jepson returned to his home Thursday evening from a two weeks' visit with relatives at North Adams, Mass. Mrs. Viola Low and family, Mrs- Sam Beatty and Mrs. Carrie Stephenson spent Saturday visiting relatives at Woodstock. Kirk Schroeder and Clyde Carr were Chicago visitors Saturday. Miss Lora Harrison of Evanston, Edward Harrison and Ruth Owen of Elgin spent the week-end in the G. Harrison home. Edward Thompson and lady friend of Chicago spent Wednesday in the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Thompson. 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