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, • * " MaMiMB " r" .- V. ** {? mm TFIE SPIRIT OF UNCERTAINTY By LEONARD A: BARRETT ,,fo. i fljV JY Mimm ' 4/S& ^V)V; V^\, A spirit of uncertainty is abroad In the land. An early .j manifestation of this attitude was the converting of stock securities Into government bonds, Liquidity was the the universal cry. People bec^n to lose confidence in banks, to withdraw their deposits and hoard them In strong boxes. In the business world credit was difficult to procure and loans were made - by banks only on th« most liquid form of collateral. During the past eighteen months a remarkable change has taken place. Onrideiue has been restored In the banks ami security values have greatly Im-rwised. This clearly Indicates tha-t; we-.h-iv gradually emerging Intfr the light <»i better days; ' However, the Spirit of 'tinoeriiiint \ lias not entirely disappeared It Vr about like a haunting ghi»M disturbing the peace and confident-** <>' many who have devoted the large* part of their lives in diligent econom-- servfce. The man past forty-five mi fifty years of age Is n<ii always sumof holding his job today. Young iimmi are displacing older 'men in Imsiinland the latter having been "let out. ' find It almost impossible to <>l>;aif another job. The s%called "retiring age" Is also gradually bein:; lowered from seventy to sixty-five ye.irs, and 'in some cases, particularly in the professions, to sixty years. Just at the time when experience enables a man to render his most efficient service, he is placed on the .shelf.' It is not surprising that this element of tjneertainty has caused either a nervous breakdown or has given rise to a sordid form of pessimism with revolutionary dangers. Employment Insurance, old age pensions, and other solutions of the problem of uncertainty have been proposed. But all of these will ultimately fall, for they are powerless' torn--tconfidence in one's self. The feeling of certainty Is the result of confidence When confidence in that individual security which guarantees to every person the inalienable rights of active, useful citizenship is destroyed, we again face the danger of revolution. Now that the "feeling oi security in th# banks and in many economic values has bean restored, the next step neccsis to restore to every person a of confidence and security in There Is innate ability the competi Uve economic world has never discovered. The financial and economic problems arising from the depression are being solved gradually, but no serious efforts hare ^ thus far been made to solve the "human problem."' Without the solution of this human URnneia, there can be no complete or permanent "recovery." • WMt*ra Newapapcr Union. My Neighbor knife ? iSays:== r •.sir h If water in which puddings *r® boiled is not kept boiling while pud dings cook, they will-be soggy. • • • A teaspoonful of vanillu and a tea spoonful of almond added to cake mix MOT will give cake a pistachio flavor. - • • • fierce the leg of a turkey if in doubt si# to whether or not it is thoroughly cooked. If the blood is pale pink, it is done. • • • • Never leave egg whites after they have beea beaten stiff. They will flat- ,*n oat if allowed to stand and will not beat up again. • • •" ; When stitching tine material like muslin or crepe de chine on a sewing machine, a seam is often spoiled by being puckered. This may be avoid ed by placing a piece of paper under the seum. When it is finished the pa jier can easily be torn away froiu the stitching. 0 Aaaociated Newspaper*.-- W.VU Service. LOCAL MEMBER WRITES AGAIN , McHenry, IH.. Dec. 27 • I will tell you about an open air concert a few years back, which they had at Gage town,, or the west side. They tide the horses to a post and the man go up into the wagon and started preaching about medicine, when all of a sudden somebody said, "Runaway," and, of course, everybody ran. Ma, Edna and myself got into some wagon wheels. That was where Laurie has his blacksmith shop, west of Nellie Bacon's restaurant. I got my foot in the wheel and if it hadn't been for John Brents I would never have gotten, out, as everybody was excited. Ma had on her new black hat. It was very pretty and she kept saying, "Where is my hat?" They said never mind the htft, but we found it across the road, no worse for wear, They threw Willie Nickels under the wagon for safety and his mother was looking all over for her Willie, but they found him safe. The horses didn't pin away, it was a false alarm. So we never went to an 'open air show again. • J - My father and Chester Howard were great hunters and fishermen. In the summer my father used to go fishing and catch a lot of fish and ship them to a fish market in Chicago, and in winter he would fish through the ice, so we always had plenty of fish and fish eggs, which we girls were very fond of, and also go hunting in the fall and come home with' a big bunch of ducks, mud hens and snipe. Every Sunday we had a big game dinner and have company and they enjoyed the dinner very mtlch. Chester Howard would shear sheep for different ones in the summer and in the winter trap. My father could push a boat with a push pole on either side, but he always pushed it on one side up or down Fox River straight as a string, which I don't think anybody can do. Ask Joe Engeln about it. So Gilbert Howard wrote a piece in the Old Tinkers' -- "ch was very goocL- I am older than him. W** ^^ed to have some nice times staying together when we were children, he being a third cousin of mine. In fact all of the letters are good and I like to read them very much. Do you know that where the Riverside Hotel now stands there used to be a little old cabin called the Baldwin tavern! It burned down and for many yea» there were no buildings there until they built the hotel, now owned by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Justen, so the old timers tell ihe. Well, there are many changes in one's life. I never thought I would be living oil the east side of Fox river, where I have a nice home. I got a letter from Frank Bennett, telling me to write again. I am writ ing a little something, hoping it will pass as my other letter did. I remember when the Old Town burned down, that is, five or six buildings burned. My father was at Fox Lake at the time. It was about 6 o'clock at night. Ma was in the barn milking the cow and we girls had just got the work done in the house. We saw the fire and ran to the barn and told Ma, so she hurried up and came to the house. Of course we «11 went up town and the worst of it all was they didn't have any fire department and sent for them in different towns, and that was the beginning of McHenry to have one here. Well, I hope the old timers will keep) iod? on writing as their letters are very interesting to read. - «Well, - I will say it with flowers. Good-bye and Happy New Year to all. ' DELIA BECKWITH. New Salem, of course, derived its importance at first solely because it was the home of Abraham Lincoln for the six years from 1831 to 1837, Except for the years from 1859 to 1865, that period has probably received more popular attention than any other like number of years of his life-time. It is natural that his bibakes, scrubs and takes care of the ographers should have searched all babies. No monument to them and possible sources for information about when I look back over the old days, not only the incidents of Lincoln's life, with its privations, I cannot remember there, but the place itself, the people, anything ill of any of them. They homes, customs, mode of life, etc. are ALL, ALL RIGHT. , J fhey have in consequence brought out Now you know why I have been the history in, detail of this small setfaithful to the Old Timerp' Club. Our tlement that is probably unequaled old friends are having their praises, elsewhere in this country. sung and every verse is true As we j The State of Illinois has now .made enter this New Year of 1936, let's do of the site a public park, reconstructhomage to the Heroes who top them ed the town and built a facsimile of all. Join our Visiting Club and revive every house that was located there, the Old Days when fathers were fath- Pioneer life is described and ilhatraters and mothers were mothers, and ed in this reproduction so that New glad of it. . Salem now has the double interest of The City Dads and the Plaindealer Lincoln assdeiation and an object les< are planning a big Centennial Home- son of the life of the early settlers in coming. Stir up your red blood, en- the Mississippi, Valley. thuse about it and your old timers, ) New Salem, at its best, had a popu- Herb and Frank, will throw every- lation of only twenty-five families, thing °ve™'*jd and come down and and it existed as a settlement for the paint the Old Town. We are going to short period of about ten years from have picnics and "Do you remember 1828 to 1838. Quite every one had the time that so and so did so and so" moved a#ay by that time. Yet, notgathenngs. Think of it, a torch light withstanding the lapse of so many procession, and a great assembly of years and the smallness of the settleoar townspeople, and, listen, but don't ment, this history has been made so tell anybody, if they should happen to cowplete *s to be unique and quite ask nw to talk, well, you know, there , beyond comparison. are some tales, that can be said, that can hardly be written, so I am saving them for you. Eh ? What say ? REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN-- ff»i . _i j . . , i ,, . • **ww UCBVilVUVC The old timers drank their tea and of life there a hundred years ago. We coffee from saucers and ate with a can auite safelv annnm* that The Abraham Lincoln Association of Springfield has recently published a very interesting book, "Lincoln's New Salem," by Benjamin P. Thomas This book has many passages descriptive can quite safely assume that life among our early settlers in McHenry cjT" , , • • i County was much the swoe as that in , ?r*n?p* Slafter re^ular,y attend- j central Illinois, and I think it may be eacnurch. j of interest to our readers to quote some of those paragraphs. With the Gene Perkins' father sawed kind_ consent of thi ce „auultHhUori , I4 am with his patent bucksaw that swung in therefoTe"^'^^^^^the" following uwas all that eould be broken in a year. Evan plows had steel shares; but the mouldboards were made of wood, and scoured poorly in the sticky soil. A plow with a long, sloping mouldboard was best suited to the hard or muddy prairie loam. Corn waa cultivated by hand with a hoe, or with a "bull tongue" plow. Grain Was cut with a sickle, threshed with a flail, and winnowed by tossihg it in a sheet so that the wind would blow away the chaff. A few settlers, tried stock rising on an extensive scale, letting their stock ran/ at large on the prairie. 'The women worked "harder than the men. Clarke wrote that "a man can get corn and pork enough to last his family a fortnight for a single day's work, while a woman must keep scrubbing from morning till night the same in this country as in any other." Women prepared the food, bore and cared for the children, spun thread, wove cloth and made clothes, churned the butter, made soap and candles, and performed most of the humble, humdrum, necessary tasks. An English traveler noted that central Illinois was "a hard country for wonien and cattle." Cooking was done over the open fire, sometimes on a "flat oven," or in a "Dutch oven" and with skillet, frying pan, iron pot and kettle. Stoves were unknown, and matches were just coming inte use. The basis of the diet was corn meal, prepared in every way from mush to "com dodgers," the latter being often hard enough "to split a board or fell a steer at forty feet." This was supplemented by lye hominy, vegetables, milk pork, fish and fowl. Honey was generally added to this fare. The women made preserves, bat most families used them only on special occasions or when company came. Men wore cotton, flax or tow linen shirts and pants of the same material. or jeans or buckskin. In winter tion and lore. Whlslfey, purgatives, bitters, made from roots and bark#, brimstone, sulphur, scrapings from pewter spoons, gunpowder and lard, and tobacco juice were tried for various complaints. Cayenne pepper in spirits on the outside, and whiskey within, were good for stomach ache. A piece of fat meat, well peppered, and tied around the neck was a common treatment for colds and sore throat. A bag of pounded slippery elm over the eye was supposed to draw out fever. Raw potato poultice was tried for headache. EVen educated doctors used treatments of appalling severity. They "purged, bled, blistered, puked, and salivated." v Twenty to one hundred grains of calomel was a comi. *n dose. Pills were often as big as cncrries. Wet sheets were wrapped around a sufferer to counteract fever. Severe types of ague were combatt^d by treatment designed to bring on the shakes. "Carry then your patiefct into the passage between the two cabins and strip off all his clothes that he may lie naked in the cold air and upon a bare sacking--and then and there pour over and upon him successive buckets of cold spring water, and continue until he had a decided and pretty powerful smart ebftnee of a shake" SPfcDffr GROVE ; tracts. ex. they wore hats or caps of wool or fur, sometimes with the tail of the animal Perry and Owen sold their grocery and dry goods business and in their farewell in the Plaindealer stated that they had been*the most successful* merchants in the county? C. S. OWEN. EXTRACTS FROM "LINCOLN'S 1 NEW SALEM" At the height of its prosperity New i Salem had a population of some twen- -a . . ' ty-five„ families, with twfenty-five or ?n,*k h,r?',*re thirty log or frame structures, among stoves town , l»«<*«™!r. coal them th. saw or grist mill, the tavern, stoves in town? three or four eener.1 stores, the groc- Bartian Bros, cig.rm.kers, ,<j„r.I ^uter,"" t ltiwin«Tn!£m?laindealer Wth the fo1" •church b"t services were held in the lowing poem? school house. "Why will you stick to cabbage leaves And drive your friends afar?* When you can purchase for a dime, Our Monogram Cigar?" John Olson, cigarmaker, proudly announced a baby boy? John Lodtz opened his tailor shop and turned out some mighty fine suits? • : Dr. H. T. Brown and his black bay were a familiar sight on the streets ? Dr. Auringer was a real "country doctor," apd, besides his good wife, had a son and daughter, Clara and Ralph? We called Ralph, Jumbo, he was so fat. Mr. H. C. Mead had a brother and family in McHenry? Two of their children were Ed and Grace. Grace was ten when I was six and she was one of my first loves. About 1888 they moved to Beloit, Wis., and I hsv* never since heard of them. Mrs. Holmes, mother of Mrs. O. W. Owen, and other daughters, was an old, old lady during the 1880-90 per- IaH ? HEROES AND HEROES St. Paul, Minil. Men have won a nation's praise. Sometimes they deserved it, They had served their country well, Down the street a carriage comes. Horses wildly bearing, While within a 'woman shrieks, Calling HELP! Despairing, But a ragged tramp has heard, Swift the street he crosses, Saves her life, v The woman faints and He steals the horses." . . „ The Hankiiui atyjl sons, A1 and Geo, lived across from the Taber house? The Scott-Serrick musical troup headquartered in McHenry? Mr. Scott was blind. Will Mead copld find time to write to his old friends ? stead lof an onlooker ? smoke him out. That ought to The back row m high school was occupied in order by Harry Hanly, Frank Bennett, Nellie Clemens, Mary .Raymond, Jennie Covell and Stella Nordquist just ahead of her? 1 It was a typical pioneer town. Almost everything needed was produced in the village or the surrounding countryside. Cattle, sheep and goats grazed on the hillsides. Hogs rooted in the woods and wa^owed in the dust a^d mud of the road. Gardens were planted about the houses; while wheat, oats, corn, cotton and tobacco grew in the surrounding fields. Sunflowers bloomed profusely on the prairie. In the spring and summer, bass, sunfish, catfish and suckers could be caught in the river near the dam. Sometimes there waa good seining below the mill, and occasionally fish could be gigged. Wild turkeys abounded in the woods, and deer, while becoming scarce, could still be had. Quail, prairie-hens, ducks and wild geese were plentiful. Prairie wolves, a small species about the size of a fox, were rapidly being exterminated, but were still a menace to sheep. All the houses exeept one residence were one story high. -Occasionally they had a loft above. With few exceptions theyxhad one or two rooms. Writing of the early one-room house, Onstot said: "At meal time it was all kitchen. On rainy days when all the neighbors came there to relate their exploits, how many deer and turkeys they had killed, it was. the sitting room. On Sunday when the young men all dressed up in their jeans, and the young ladies* in their best bow dresses, it was all parlor. At night it was all bed-room.' Houses had woden hinges, latches, and locks. In those built later, these fittings were often of iron. Those antedating the mill had puncheon floors, and were of cruder construction than those for which planks for floors, ceilings and siding could be sawed at the mill. Fireplaces were made of stone or brick, chimneys of stone or of the "cat and clay" type--logs and sticks chinked With mud or plaster. When a chimney was built on the inside of a cabin, between two rooms, it dangling down behind; while in sum- (Too Late for Last Weelc)' The Euchre club met at the home of Mrs. William Britz, Fox Lake, Thursday afternoon. Three tables of euchre were in play and the lovely awards for high scores went to Miss Kate Keefe, Mrs. Wm. Engels and consola*- tion to Mrs. Fitzpatrick. At the close of the afternoon a supper was served. On Thursday evening Mrs. Charles Freund entertained the members of her card club at her home. Five hundred furnished the evening's diversion and prize winners were Mrs. Schmeltzer and Mrs. Frank Sanders while conf mer plaited hats of wheat straw, oats | spiation went to Mrs. Joe Berthin or rye were the style. Boots and shoes were supplanting the mocassins formerly worn by both sexes, although mocassins were still to be seen. Women were supplementing their dresses of wool, flannel and' flax with cotton and calico clothes. Cotton handkerchiefs, sunbonnets and straw hats were all used for feminine headgear. Children were often clad only in a long tow linen shirt. In summer most of them--and sometimes their elders as welt--went barefoot. Each family produced most of what it used. Almost every family kept a cow. Beside the houses gigantic woodpiles mounted during summer and fall, and dwindled as winter passed. Rain barrels caught the "soft" water that dripped from eaves. Lye for: soap-making was leeched from woodashes in hoppers in back yards. Furniture was of the simple pioneer sort. Some of it had been brought from former homes, often with greal difficulty; other pieces were homemade. Poor families had tables made of puncheons or unplaned boards, crude chairs, and "scaffold" beds, the framework for the latter being made by erecting a forked upright in a corner of a cabin about six feet from either wall and laying a pole upright to each wall. Families of moderate means had rush seat chairs, cord and' trundle beds, chests Of drawers of plain but skillful workmanship. The boys were delegated to keep the woodbox, always found beside the fireplace, filled with logs. Corner cupboards were adorned with glass and chinaware. For those who could afford them, Seth Thomas clocks were the style. Rifles and shotguns hung on wooden pegb or brackets, or on deer or cow horns, oyer doors and on th% walls. Toq^s, spurs, bootjacks, candle moulds hung l>eaide the mantels. At night candles in brass or iron holder* shed soft light through the roomsl^) They were of the third wave of migration, having been preceded by the roving hunters and trappers and therestless squatters, who stayed a few months and moved on. They were mostly farmers, many of them, with some stock and capital, who bough At the conclusion of cards a lovely lunch was served. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Schmeltzer on Jan. 9. A party of friends gathered at Mrs. Wm. Bowmanrs home Saturday afternoon in honor of her birthday. Tables •"were arranged and five hundred played during the afternoon. Prizes were won by Mrs. Joseph Brown, Mrs. Nick Freund and Mrs. Mollie Harms, consolation. Following cards lunch was erved by the guests and Mrs. JBowman was presented with a gift. • Mr. and Mrs. A1 Schmeltzer visited in Round Lake on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rauen motored from Chicago Sunday to spend the day with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Kattner. Mr. and Mrs. Anton Meyer and children and Mr. and Mrs. George A. May and children spent Sunday in the Fred Meyer home. Charles Freund and eon, Tommy, called on Mrs. M. J. Freund at McHenry on Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Norbert Klaus was hostess to the members of her club Sunday afternoon. Ten members were present to enjoy the afternoon which was spent at cards and the prizes for high honors went to Mrs. Arthur Rauen and Mrs. Arthur Klein, while consolation went to Mrs. George W. May. Christmas gifts were given out and each one received a lovely gift. A delicious lunch was served to complete the party. Those from out of town who atteiyied the meeting were: Mrs. Arthur Rauen, Chicago, Mrs. Clarence Amann, Mundelein, and Mrs. Steve Schaefer, Fox Lake. • nice crowd attended the Christmas play at St. Peter's Hall Sunday afternoon. Santa Claus was tfttgre and distributed gifts to all the children, To the choir and the ushers. The Community Club held its regular monthly meeting on Monday night. Cards furnished the evening's pasttune and refreshments were served. The McLeod girls would do the Hi-:was invariably made of stone because j people of New Salem land, or hoped to do so soon. They were home builders, who expected to remain and eventually to attain to a standard of living comparable to that of the regions whence they came. They too were restless, however, and many of them moved on, hoping to find better locations farther west. Like Westerners in generat, the were young, en- CtDURMA8 NUfrj All subscribers and readers of Fox Valley Mirror received their Christmas number just before great holiday and enjoyed jta contents and read the Christmas greeting* by the editor, Leonard Fowler. He assures that the world is filled with love, courage, patience, faith and hope. He says in part, "Faith may be renewed through Kindness and Courage; Patience is a staff upon which to lean and Hope sheds a guiding though the path be rough i But Love, even as the glowir „ of a candle gleams through the approaching dusk, Love ever reveals the Way." Subscribe for The Plaindealer. 5k INSURANCE * urn V Preseatlm Reliable Ootupaoifrr WhtOL ton need iaaunioce of asy kM Phone 4J er Sl-M Pries Bldg. - ' Pheae 43 VERNON J. mi ATTORNEY AT LAW Pries Bldg. S OFFICE HOURS Tuesdays and Fridays Other Days by Appointment ;Tv McHfeary ALTORD H POU8E ATTORNEY • AT-1AW Beaten St. Weedsteck. UL Phone Woodstock Ift; ,;: McHenry 278 Telephone No. Me Stoffel A Belhinsperger iasarance agents fer all sis seep af property in tfce best wpaaies. WEST MeHENBY ILLINOIS S. HI Fraud & SOB OONWACTOM M W1LDBB8 FheaelM " 0«r wjerlMw W «l Y< Ispviti is Vrar Waake , A. P.Fvemi v.;- LATE STYLE NOTE ABBY QERTIE I heard a comedian recite the above land fling and sword dance at enter-, of the danger of fire. On windy days ! thusiastic, self-reliant willing to take in a burlesque show about thirty years j tainments? And could they dance! Persons with "cat and clay" chimnevs 'a chance Equality of opportunity was ago. Not very much in itself, but when . had to go outside frequently and look in large'tlegree a fact, and courage, l!? ®"U&|"U® Tisd a Hut "on Hanly's them to be sure they were not on "endurance and engemrity were the re- A | the story is taken as a parallel, we can see that itr is apropos of the coni duct of nations when they make war. j A great hallo to arouse public senti- ' ment and justification and the younjf men enlist and to martial music go forth to murder and commit murder. Thenr when the war is over, the vict-j ors "steal the horses." .; Disgusting, isn't it, when one comes to think of it? The victorious soldiers return home and parade and are out of a job. The generals are heroes and v#2 erect monuments to them and Wf-i'ite songs about them and few of the high officers ever risked their hides. Or ever intended to do so. Now, that is one type -of hero, but how about the father and mother, who rear a family arid have the barest necessities, so they mfcy raise their boys and girls and send them to school ? i They hav6 no speeches to pep them up I The father works and he cart just get by, or not" quite. The mother washes, Pond? fire. Roofs were built of clapboards or quisites of success, i Wealth, "kinin- law didn't count a cuss." Govern- T ^ *!• McHenry boys could visitm shingles--sometimes called "snakes", ment was of, by and for the people, Johnsburg but they h*d to be mighty I -held in place by nails or by logs,' with public opinion as the most efcaieful not to "step on any toes" "while knowij • as "weight poles," laid across feetive force. there ? FRANK BENNETT. T|KANKS, MR. OWEN In the develoment of the l^tory an<i narratives of New Salem, nunoi3, We who are attempting to bring to light the recorded and unrecorded, and On the Fourth of July and during political campaigns, barbecues were held. Some one would donate a heif • them. Walls were of logs, notched and fitted together at the corners, and chinked with sticks and plaster made of mud and hair. Doors were of frame! er, another a shoat, still others turk construction. Those with wooden' eys, . chickens, pies and loaves of j latches had buck-skin latchstrings, I bread. Long trenches were dug in, which were tied to the latch and pass- which the fires were lighted a day or j ed outside through a hole above it. two before the event, so that a bed ' almost forgotten events in. the past ^ hen only friends were about "the of red-hot coals would be ready for ! hundred years of McHenry and its | latchstring was always out," but in | the cooks. The beef and pig were' environs, have a splendid example of itime °f danger it could be pulled in' quartered and hung over the fire on' what it is possible to do. Not that we through the hole. j long iron-rods. Every few minutes,1 could ever equal that accomplishment,' Most settlers in this vicinity made' as the rods were turned, the cooks 1 or approach .it. That would be un- , their living from the soil. To break basted the meat with melted butter.) necessary for our pui pose. But what , the hard-baked, untilled prairie, cover- j After dinner came patriotic orationft [ has been dbne for New Salem is a ed with long, thick-rooted, matted or political speeches, followed by ath-1 lesson for us. We can do for Mclienry grass, with oxen--sometimes several letic feats. j at least a little of what others have Vftfee--was arduous labor for the Pidneer remedies were a combinaaccomplished for that place. ^strongest men. Twenty to forty acres tion of domestic experience, supersti- Dull leaf green In a novflty weave crepe Is enchanting with brown fur. A collar of stitched-down fan pleating Is draped softly at the thi>iat of this sujart frock nnd *t pleated ruffle ed^es tts sklrt and sieves.* ret 104Jf MeHeery> Dswas Mater Express Tfcfr Ktittr Line Operates daily between McHenry end CQricafo Wabash 751* KWT A COMPANY AU Kinds af I N S U R A N C E liend with the nest reliable Companies ; Oeae in aa^ talk it ever nbeas MeHenry • f Charlie's Repair Shop Just East .of Old Bridge Over Fox River (Rear Schaefer's Tavern) is Repaired, jxxues and Fenders Straightened Sign Painting Truck Lettering Acetylene Welding CHARLES RIETESEL •j i e Unless your hutband has nonskid liar buttons he's prone to discover iws in your housekeeping." ' _* hk.V. K--"* LEAP YEAR • A4 «nidnight Tuesday the new year Of 1936 was ushered in with its extra day. This is leap year with the Bhort month of February having 29 days ^ and for the first time in 28 years the ^honth will have five Saturdays. 'Tis gaitS that this has happened only sis] #roes In 176 years. Bur I'M /vor FiSHttj FEP* FISH* I'M Ft?W FER fauioieMr DUKIUO; Aiwr , CAU<?wr NONE SOU ID JENS* f WMUT IM -TARMATiOM SQUlPJEMT IS LIFE • e AiMrr Auomor' Fim -tUAR By Ckarleft'Slifluee -tvxey AlHkTNQNE