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----Ife and Mrs. Elmer Gottschalk alid ron of Lake Zurich^ spent Wednesday evening' at the liome Mr. and Mrs* Lloyd Fisher. Mr. and Mrs'. Mraz of Twin Rivers, ,Wis., Mr. and Mrs. Mraz of Lena, Wis., Mrs. John Baumruk, Mrs. Ed Baumrjik of Berwyn were Saturday dinner guests at the home of Mr. arild Mra. Frank St. George. Mrs. Charles Dalvin and daughters of Wauconda spent 'Wednesday at the home of her parents, Mr. and " Mrs. George Dowell. , - . • Richard Donley is suffering with in- 1 fection in his hand, caused from a spider bite. • Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Brown and ' family of Crystal Lake visited Mr. . , and Mrs. Joseph Wiser Sunday. • C l Mr. and Mrs. William Waldmann, vV;' Adolph Waldmann, Mrs. Hazel Remington and family of Chicago spent „ the week here with Mr. and Mrs. H. £ Waldmann. - Mr. »nd Mrs. Ben, H. Meyers of Racine, Wis., were visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Meyers Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Condon, Mrs. Maryaret Landre, Mrs. Jimmie Barbley of Chicago spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Jc.e Karls and family. Miss Katherine Althoff of Elgin spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Althoff. Joe Schmitt of Beloit, ^is., was a. visitor here Wednesday. \ Mr. and Mrs. Fred J«. Smith and family and Joe Schmitt motored to Chicago and visited A Century r of "Progress. - Mr. and Mrs. John Rauen,. Mrs. Math Rauen of Spring Grove were callers in the home of John H. Freund Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Chamberlin and daughter, Bernice, and Berniee Schroeder of Chicago spent Saturday and Sunday with John Fitzen. Mrs. Peter Smith and son, Walter# Qualifies as Head of Unlucky Club Charlestown, W. Va.--Edward C. Kirk, fifty-seven* became unofficial president of the West Virginia Unlucky club, and his -chronology for the last two years tells * by: On November 15, 1931, an auspicious day, he was struck by a tr.iin and lost a leg. A.year later,he was hit by an automobile and lost his left eye. Recently he was dressing. He -readied for his artificial leg on the left side of the bed. Ills glass e.ve didn't register the giln on the dresser. , He knocked the gun to the floor. It discharged a bullet into his. right arm, shattering the bone. ' As a result, he spent most of the atorityng ,at fountain " Stjjte hospital, where * surgeohamputnted the arm. ' •/ ' "/•. Fountain^ Mich., spent Monday jhere with the latter's sister, Mrs. ; G< "A. Woodstock k Mr. and Mrs. E. F Pratt and their.,, , daughter of Highland Park visited r,aiw* Mrs. Fred Smith left Moth J Mr. and Mrs. Roy Passfield Sunday. | £y for a trip to Iowa to visit With Mr. and Mrs. William VanNatta of ^l an^ Mrs. Math M^ellenbach- . Frank Michels and daughter, Doris Jean, and Mrs. Albert Huff and her ^y^Vasey. :J - daughter, Shirley, and Helen and Irving Wagner and Earl, Sutters of » • Chicago were Wednesday dinner guests at the home of Mr. and. Mrs. Eddy Rossduestcher. Dorothy Lee Wagner is visiting her aunt and uncle, Mr., and Mrs. H. J'. Martini in Chicago. Miss Sarah McEmmeel of Racine, Wis., spent the week-end here at the X home of Mrs. Anna Lusk. ^ -daughter, Florence, of Waukegan Miss Hilda Oeffling of Waukegan • spent the week-end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Oeffling. Mr. and Mrs. Brozowski of Chicago visited' Mrs. T. Bacon and daughter, Sunday. George Tekampe of Cuba called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. Fisher, Sunday. Mrs. Beatrice Dowell was on the sick list the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Eddy of Grayslake, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Passfield and son, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Passfield and family enjoyed a goose dinner at ' the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Passfield, Sund&y. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lenzen visited *„ at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Garrett at Elgin Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Moberg former residents of Volo spent Monday and Tuesday here with relatives friends. Mr. and Mrs. C. Tompkins of Libertyville visited! the lather's1 sister, Mrs. Herbert Michalson, Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Eddy Rossduestchet, and son visited, Matt Rossduestcher, at Round Lake Wednesday evening Mr. and Mrs. William Wirtz and family spent Sunday at Lake ViHa. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Maypole of Fox Lake spent Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Michalson. Mrs. Bud Ford of Waacotuia visited her mother Mrs. Catherine 'Frost Sunday. The American Legion ha£l a party at the community hall TSatorday evening. Mr. and Mrs. William VanNatta, Mrs. V. Lockwood of Richmond were Wednesday dinnervguests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Vasey. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mayers and son, M. Mayers and son, Ray Mayers, of Stacyville, Iowa, *"Were Sunday guests at the home of Mr. and Kirs. Joseph Lenzen, Mr. Lenzen accompanied them to Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Hefferman and daughter of Frearorit Center visit ed Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Wiser, Sunday. •INVENTION CLICKS, IT ENDS HIS Discouraged Chemist U*es the Clarence Michels were Lethal Gas Route. shoppers Thursda y , - • . T V * . " • J • ' ^ 1 • •• ' V r l - " ' ' " - . ITie Lady Foresters held'their meet-j Cjhjcago.--^After years, of unsuecessing Tuesday evening with twenty-sixtoil on Inventions^ Victor C. Goodsisters present. - "ridge, forty years old. inventor ami Mr. and Mrs. Ben J. Schaefers are • chemist, hit, upon one invention that spending a few days M Chicago with clicked. He ended his life with It. relatives and friends.x .He was found dead in his apartment Mr. and Mrs. Fred Diethorn and Tat Kimbark avenue. ,on a table were visitors here Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Freund and Mr. and Mrs. John M. Pitzen motored to Chicago Monday. Mr. and Mrs. William Althoff and Miss Mary Althoff and Bernard Althoff and Mrs. Elizabeth Tonyan -attended the funeral of Mrs. Anthony Dauben at St. Charles Catholic church at Burlington Tuesday. Joseph Freund was a Chicago caller Saturday. ' Mrs. Joe King and family were Burlington visitors Friday evening. Miss Florence Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Smith was taken to the Woodstock hospital for "tin operation Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. John Degen and daughter. Jeanette, visited at Woodstock Saturday afternoon Alfred Oeffling and Miss Marie an(j Hiller and Mr. and Mrs. William Oeffling motored to Iowa Saturday to spend a week with relatives and friends. Mrs. Steve Kitig visited with her sister, Florence Smith, at Woodstock hospital, Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Landwehr and Miss Katzmeyer and Miss Katherine Althoff motored out from Elgin Sunday afternoon to visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Althoff. The fedies of the community club met at the home* of Mrs. William J. Meyers Monday evening. Pri2es were awarded to Mrs. Joe King, Mrs. Stew May and Mrs. Leo Freund. Lunch was served. Uses Cleaver on Self Kansas City, Mo.--"Lawrenee R. Uanavan has discovered that a meat cleaver is a poor tool to use in committing suicide. It took 55 -stitches to sew up Hdnavan's sctflp and face after he tried it Five Babies at Oaci Rome.--Antoinette Coppola, wife of a day laborer of Foggia in southerp Italy, recently gave birth to five children at once, three sons a nd two daughters. Nothing New. Ifetal plating is not a discovery of recent years, according to a professor of Columbia university. He has announced after a study of a copper kettle in the Metropolitan museum, thousands of years old, that It has a metal base of copper and a silvery plating of a thin coat of antimony. PRETTIEST WAITRESS Tea Leaf Dirt Enabfes^ Bunny to Beat Up Dog Passais, N. J.--This Introduces Frisky, the champion rabbit of New Jersey. Frisky is not that In name only. He is 4>usky, fcate and hearty, and his eight-year-«ld owner, Charles F.- Sewell, says IPs all because Frisky knows his tea leaves, / Two years ago Frisky was Just a weak little bunny that shied at any rustle of leaves. Last Kuster. while he was participating in Charley's seasonal festivities, a neighbor's fox terrier romped onto the Sewell lawn in the midst of the egg-rolling. He was alongside Frijky before either animal was aware of the other's presence. Frisky swung aboutface and struck out with his hind legs. Putting all *he power of his eight pounds into his kick, he caught the fox terrier flush on the nose. The dog fled. Charley Insists the rabbit's tea-leaf diet was responsible. - 'Frisky began eating • tea leaves shortly after Charley got him, about two years ago. Now It's a regular part of his diet, to the exclusion of tender Miss Marjorle Kavanagh, twenty- lettuce sprouts and succulent carrots • one years old, was chosen as Ameri- --unless no tea leaves are to be had. ca's prettiest waitress In a ^contest Charles claims it is the innate sasponsored by the Americafi'Restaurant! gadty of his bunny that led him tQ association at its annual convention at • take up such a unique diet In preferthe. * Merchandise Mart io Chicago.] ence to the orthodox rabbit menu. Miss Kavanagh has brown hair and} eyes, Is 5, feet 2 inches tall an4 weigh* beside him lay dozens of gadgets and appliances, products of his genius. In another room, assembled in queer array, stood his fatal and successful invention. For want of a better description police called it a death machine. From this instrument, a product of Goodridge's chemical and inventive, skill, had flowed «r lethal gas. * This killed him, - - S Goodridge's bojly was found lying on a couch close to the kitchen. From his side and thrqugh a small hole bored in the kitchen door ran "a long, thin rubber hose. ~ The hose led to the death machine. This consisted of four small bottles on top of a gas range oven and a. larger bottle standing above a gas burner, In each was a quantity of . chemicjal liquid of varying colors. All five bottles were connected by small tubes. The larger container, evidently the master bottle, possibly contained the chief poisonous Ingredient. Death probably was swift and painless, polfce said. In any event it was deliberate, they said. On a dresser. they found a note addressed his friend. Attorney Warwick Shaw, 77 We^t Washington . street, announcing tha't he was "taking the great adventure." . Attorney Shaw said 'G^odridge had worked for various "companies here as an electrician and chemist, but had fceen ldle several months. He had ex- "pe rim en ted in chemistry and tried his iiand for years «a inventions, he said. People Store Things in London -- Repository Old Mystery Londo^'repository which has its Storehouse beside the Thames has the world's strangest collection of goods. In ose room, relates a writer in the Montreal Herald, tbefe Is an electric brougham which has been in the repository for over 30 years. It has a special kind of steering wheel, and was left there by an old lady while these carriages wfre still in fashion: It is Only one of the mysteries which are to be found in every room. Some people use it for storing tfiejr cars. There are machines of every type, shape and make, some of which have heenj there for over ten years. Others, who have no wine cellars/ store their wine there. When they heed some they go with a case and take, away two or three bottles. A special room is reserved for storing musical instruments, it is kefft day. and night at S temperature; ittf.OGk degrees., ^ • '• The repository tyill move goods left in Its charge to any part of the globe. The furniture -of President Hooveri; who. lived fojr many .yea>s in Lonclmir wa*s mftved across |be Atlantic in thjs^ way. a;,. - And npon one. occasion, an S.tKKl ton steamer w^s chartered to - carry tile furnltuhe -of- an' eriti^ hotel* Vo Cerm u d a . ' ' , Why Siberian Point U -- Coldest Place in World Verkhoyansk. Siberia. - holds the world's blue ribbon for frigid winter weather, compared with any other place where temperatures are regularly measured. Vladimir Zenzinov, In HThe Road to Oblivion," quoted by Charle? Fltzhugh Talipan in his Science Service feature. Why the Weather? says of some effects of the sevecs, cold:, "You take a glass of water and dash It; high into the air, the liquid will come dowiv In the form of ringing crystals'of Ice. Spittle will freeze'before reaching the ground. All live things seek deep shelter during the winter. Partridges dig themselves far into the snow and stay there. There have been cases of their falling like stones while in flight, freezing to death In the air. Marmots hide In under ground holes where they hibernate, assuming the shape of a little claylike ball. The ice becomes so hard the px rebounds from it. Live wood becomes petrified, and when one chops It, sparks fly as If from Ain't"--Literary Digest." ortabte - half on u»i lion for Right (fver his utUk vcidr shade newspaper more r a longer Why Called "Hi|li Seas" One of the definitions of the Word '•high" is this: "Of relatively great Importance^ chief; main, principal." The high seas are the main seas, just $s highroad is a main thorough-* fare. The term Is applied to waters which do not lie within the body of a country, and are beyond the territorial Jurisdiction of any government. The United States Supreme court, though with a division of opinion, has held that the unlnclosed part of the Great Lakes Is Included in the term "high seas,' as bavbig the general characteristics ef seas «nd being open to the largest vessels and international trade.. i lamp shook •EDITOR'S' NOTE:- Protection artd conservation of eyesight by right lighting in th^ home is a subject of increasing interest to the specialist, the lighting engineer, and every n ber of the family. Facts in the followirg article, first in a series of four on the proper use of light in the home written for The McHenry Plaindealer were gathered with the aid and have the approval of Dr. E." V. L.Brown, head of the opthalmological department of the University of Chicago; | Dr. W. A. Fisher, president of the Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat hospital; Dr. Oscar B. Nugent, dean of the staff of the same hospital; Dr. Charles P. Small, former editor of tfte eye section of the Practical Medicine Series; E. D. Tillson, leading illuminating engineer; and»R. G. Raymond, managing director of the Chicago Lighting Institute. With a gusty sigh of content, born of a day's work finished and a good meal within, the head of the ,,house lights his cigar and settles into the most comfortable chair in the living room. He turns on the reading lamp and spreads his newspaper. No stepping out tonight. Hardly. Puffs of blue smoke, snorts of unvoiced comment, and the occasional crackle of a turning page bespeak masculine relaxation. Let the kids dash out to the movies. Not for him. His smoke, his paper, and the light streaming over his shoulder are ail 106 poundg. Plaindealers for sale, at Walsh's. * Word* and Music Recorded Words and music can be recorded and reproduced by an Instrument la. which Is embodied a "talking wire." Why "Pooh" Appear ia Highway* It often appears there are pools of water on the highway ahead which disappear as yonir cur aproaches. Of course It Is a an I rage, but then what causes a mirage'? Mr. Webster defines it as as «rpticu I effect due to the total reflection <of light at the surface common to two strata of air heated differently. On the desert, country roads or paved highways one may often see whnt appears to '>e water. In the middle of the ocean ejects may be seeh which are not there "t all, but are reflections of objects far away. Wky Trouser* Are Creased. A tailor declares It was a gradutl broadening of the Idea among men that trousers -so treated hang better than those not creased. At one time most men disliked the Idea of having those razor-edged creases in trousers, hut fashion. It seems, decreed that the man desiring to be anywhere near the style simply had to have the crease It was a sort of evolution In the mas% cullne Idea of trousers as tbey should be.--Kansas City Star. he wants.- And of the three, he's least conscious, of the light. Doesn't think of it at all except when he flips itU.n and maybe again when he turns it off. 4 Is he getting the tig^^-iieeids? Chances are, he is. * : r "Don't worry about the head of the housef and the reading light he gets for his newspaper," remarked a leading eye specialist. "He'll get what he wants." But he may not be getting all he is paying for. And his session with the newspaper is better' relaxation, over a longer time according to the same specialist, if the light is right. Avoid glaring light when reading, is the first injuncton of the eye^, specalist. But don't rob yourself iff1 the light- you need and are paying for the lighting engineer cautions, by using a reading lamp with a too-deep shade, which sharply narrows the cone of light, or one with a dark, unlined shade that absorbs half the light. Experiments with dark-lined shades and1 shades lined with cream-colored material show that the dark shade absorbs all but 45 per cent of the light that should be for reading use. i: I,', The cream-lined shade brings this efficiency up to 70 per cent. The modern lighting specialist measures the light of your favorite, reading lamp as easily and accurately as your grocer measures a quart of string beans. His instrument is the "sight-meter," a little gadget hardly as big as your hand. It contains a "light target" holding a photoelectric cell, which transforms light energy directly into electrical and measures it neatly ofi a dial. It's part of the kit of every ing engineer, and many light companies nowadays are sending staffs of young engineers equipped with these ar.d other light-testing :: vices to correct the householder's rors in lighting. So if dad is in deubt about the light that falls on his newspaper, a ready check is at hand. Dad generally gete what he wants, as the high-ranking o^thalmologist pointed out. But Junior, now in high school, and Dorothy, a grade school pupil, are more careless. And what about mother, with mending, which required four to five tifhes the work from her eyes dad's newspaper does from his? The Word "Chime" The word "chime" Is derived from the Latin "cymbalum," a cymbal. The Old English form "cliymbe" appears In many medieval documents. The term was originally applied to bells and the machinery which operatedcthem, but In recent times the music produced by the bells Is also known as a chime. The "Queen of Roads" The famous road that leads to the Appian Way. also called by the ancient equivalent to the present-day rubber-necker, the "Queen of Roads," has been made a unit by a span over the Garlgliano river. The bridge, one of the finest of modern Italian constructions, IS of concrete, steel and limestone. Crest and Coat of Arms The terms crest and coat of are not synonymous. The crest Is the figure appearing above the shield and Is not an essential part of the ar morial bearing. The design within the shield Is the distinguishing symbol and is called the charge. An elaborate terminology describes the background of the shield. The crest Is a decoration and the same crest may be borne by more than one person or family. The coat of arms itself Is distinctive. Glass Bricks Glass bricks are translucent, admitting light, but not trui ridges in the through Daa Patch, the Pacer - The famous pacing horse Dan PitCfe was foaled in 1806 at the stables it D. A. Messner, of Oxford, Ind. Son* of his pacing records have never been surpassed. At St. Paul, Minn., September 8. 1906. he paced a mile In t minute, 55 seconds, with dust shield a runner In front and at one side. At Memphis, Tenn., October 27, 1903. pacing to wagon, he made the mile in I minute, 57^4 seconds; on the sanM date he paced a quarter mile la >7$ Youthful Marriages _ Marriage records show that girls young as twelve, thirteen and fourtw marry In New York city. Unemployed Folk Run a Co-Operative Hotel I Why India Does Not Make Salt The governmenj of Bngland does not prohibit the people of India from mak ing salt, but f<W a great many years the small tax on the manufacture of salt has been a source of government revenue to defray the expenses of the government. This Is similar to the tax placed upon lienors, iobacco, etc., by the United States government Why Coin Is Called "Dime" Dime is derived from the Latin, decern, meaning tenth. , A dime* was originally used to denote a tenth parts a tithe paid to a church, or to a temporal ruler. The first use was in 1377. From* this It came to, mean s tenth of a dollar. In 1780 there is record of Its use lb connection with Con tinentar currency. Why Death Masks Were Used Masks were employed to perpetuate the appearance of the living after death and placed upffn the .mummy to aid In its revivification, according to their belief. Why Cent Size Way Reduced Copper 1-ceHt pieces Were reduced in size in 1S.">6 because of the greater convenience of the small sized coin. Otter* Iti ves In Burrows The otter lives in burrows constructed above the waterline in banks along streams and usually produces only two offspring a year. This small natural reproduction Is the principal reason why otter never can be overly numerous. " - ******** °* C\o»« *ntp , « ..V D*tal ApPe8T#oC# Runn'm9 0-|\T^6e^ Greasing litebine *n;\r^eTh- % WOV? Under the direction of the Union Methodist Episcopal chur.-li ami the board of foreign missions of the Methodist | Episcopal church of Yonkers, N. Y., about 45 members--unemployed young persons--have set up a co-operative community ^ house. The housing experiment has been started at Wallace Lodge, ah p)d hotel atop a high hill overlooking the Hudson. desk for their morning mail, "• • • ' - '• *•' • ^ Florida's Game Birds Daw and quail are the prlMfeal game birds la Florida. Carey Electric Shop Street, McHenryyllL 7-^---r---.-r