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*v; V ' \v "^l- Louis XlV's Bathtub PERSONALS Louis XIV's bathtub, exhibited at Versailles, measured 10 feet 6 inches •cross, weighs ten tons and is a charming shade of boudoir pink. Por the last 200 years the tub had been passed from owner to owner, most of the period in France. At one time it belonged to Mme. de Pompadour who used it for the central attraction in a rock garden. It was found at le Vesinet and returned by the Ministry* of Beaux- Arts to the Palace «f Versailles. The. great weight of the .bathtub is caused by its architectural ornamentations, which are an integral part of the tub itself; Miss Jean Beckenbaug'n of Chicago arrived Friday night to spend Jthe rej mainder of the week with her parents, j 3Vfr. and Mrs. George Kamholz and family of Chicago spent Friday with I his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kamholz. '/ Wool Is Unique Fabric in Perfect Elasticity , Wool Is a perfectly elastic material, writes Carleton M. Allen in the Boston Transcript. It is unique in this characteristic. No matter how much It Is stretched without breaking it will, under ordinary circumstances, return to its original length. A single wool fiber. Mr. and Mrs.' Floyd Hopper of CrysIf kept wet and stretched slowly, can tal Lake visited friends here Friday j be extended by 70 per cent o$ its original- length without breaking and when the stretching force is released it will return exactly to tts<former length. evening. I Miss Carmen Freund spent several 'days last week in Elgin. ' Mr. and Mrs: George Miller of Chicago spent Sunday with Mrs. Miller's mother, Mrs. Jack Walsh. Mr, and Mrs. Harry Lawrence of ":.y V •' "•» ' Bow Pockets Started Coat popkets, as is almost universally known, are the outcome of the slit in the coat which was made many years ago to permit the sword •handle to protrude. .* There is an equally good explanation for practically every little to^cH w,thf wardrobe, , * RINGWOOD Wool fibers are fine and light In weight The diameter of a fine wool fiber of 90s quality is about l-200th of an inch. The weight /of such a Chicago spent Sunday with her moth- fh ber- !!"*" J01*' would !,e ,leS f 3 than a millionth of an ounce. In fact, If 90s quality fibers wese placed end to end for one mile, the total weight would only be a Hundredth of an ounce. Therefore, one ouijce of wool fiber of 90s quality wou^d measure 100 miles in 'length. •' * v. er, Mrs. Mollie Givens. Misses Genevieve Knox, Florence Knox and Marie Knox motored to Madison, Wis., Tuesday. Miss Maiie Knox remained for a several days' visit >vitb a school friend. , Dr. D.: G. Wells left Monday morning for Lbs Angelas, Cal.,"„to visit his son. Dr. Glen W. Wells,'who is quite • v • 'ii- •--J ,• i:,. ; . a cici » tuuja ic. „ *v vyi nus uic it»w fart. 'How-:We Perspire : '-i ' g°"e a U-.'conductivity of any fabric, and there- The amount of perspiration ripf- j Mr; - and Mrs. Charles Phalin and mallv discharged by a healthy per^ !-n of^eftoshavttis,". were Sunday The Bunco club was entertained in the home of Mrs. Edgar Thomas on Thursday afternoon. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Merritt Cruikshank and Miss Mae Wiedrich. Mrs. Frankie Stephenson spent the past week with relatives at Woodstock. The Stewing Circle met at the home of Mrs. Louis Hawley Friday. A potluck dinner was served. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wiedrich and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wiedricjj, Jr., attended the Fair at Monroe, Wis., Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. Lester barr and Mr. and Mrs. George Young and son visited friends at Walworth Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Nelson of Batavia spent a few days the past week with Mrs. Frank Fay. Loren McCannon spent a few- days The heat-retaining power of cloth- [the past'week with relatives at Wooding is a factor of great iinpbrtaBce in every climate. . Wool has the lowest son varies; from about one and a half to five pints a day. The amount v.jftCfeases with, exercise / and higil v'.tefriperature., ,• • For courteous treatment and quality merchandise' patronize members displaying Highway 12 emblem. tJ. S. HIGHWAY 12 ASSOCIATION ' Coffee Needs-- GLO Scour your coffee pot every day ; With GLO . . . and preserve that v. delicate, exquisite flavor of your ifevorite brand of coffee. 10c a . package at grocery stores every- . Where! Ask your grocer Today; ibout the FREE GIFT offer With GLO. WQM MAIM BY guests bf\Mrs.' Ella 51. Wheeler. Mr. jPhalm's 'irtmher, who had spent a few ..days here, risturned home with them. ! - Lester Barton and Larry Huck, state Ihighway police, went to Springfield on "Friday, Aupust 14, for diity at the state fair.;, They-expected to leave on Sunday for Danville for duty at the State Legion Convention, returning home about the middle-of this week. Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Klontz were Chicago callers Monday. Mrs. Joanna Comiskey, Leander Hughes and Eugene O'Keefe of Chicago spent Sunday with relatives .and friends here. Mr. and Mrs. A1 Wagner and Victor Larsen of.Chicago were local visitors Sunday. Arleen Bacon of Waukegan spent the weekend at her home here. | Mr. and Mrs. Howard Cairns and son recently visited Mrs. Mary Whiston'at Richmond, who is ill. Mrs. George Phalin of Cleveland, O., is spending several days with relatives here. She will be accpoipajiied home by her daughter, Terry, Who has spent several weeks here. "Rep. Thomas A. Bolger'and Robert Knox returned home last week from a business trip to Spripgfield.' Mr. and Mrs. William B. Tonyan, daughter, Caroline, and son, Donald, enjoyed a trip to Springfield Thursday. . • , Misses Genevieve Knox and Lola Boyle, with Mary and Bernice Donohiie of Chicago and Georgiana Donoj hue of Huntley, motored to Holy Hill "Thursday. • Miss Genevieve Knox spent Friday 'and Saturday at Huntley, where she I attended a one o'clock luncheon given ;by Mrs. M. Dwyer Saturday. Maxine Bacon spent a few days last week with her sister at St. Charles. Mr. and Mrs. John Freund and children attended the White Sox ball game Saturday. Bert Reed of Ashton was a weekend guest in the home of his niece and nephew, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Krug. On Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Krug and fore will retain Jieftt in a warm body which it covers for the lpngest time. Wool is a bad conductor of lieat. As wool prevents the body warmth from escaping, It obviously will riot allow the cold to penetrate the .body.; Wool is twice as slow as cotton in increasing its conductivity due .to,; nwislure and will retain heat better even when getting wet. Must Not Kill Monkeys, But Can Shave Pilferers There are parts of India where a monkey may not be killed because he Is thought to be under the special protection of a god. Unfortunately, observes a writer in Tit-Bits Mdgnzlne, the monkey does not behave any better on that account, and sometimes is not only a thorough nuisance himself--pilfering and raiding villages--but he is the leader of a band of female monkeys who Imitate his mischief and do a sort of crazy foiiow-my-leader through the plantations and fields. They spoil and steal wherever they go, and this is the way--since the leader may not be killed--that the village rids itself of this marauding band. First of all, the leader is trapped. A cunningly-concealed noose amongst the branches of a tree usually does the trick. Then he is tied up securely and his head nad face are covered with a lather of soap. And after that he is shaved. When he is completely bald he is allowed to go. s What happens to him next? Why, the females of his b'and gibber arid mock at him and finally drive him into the forest. Until his hair has grown again they will not let him lead them, and In the meantime the ' pack is broken up. Schaefer's Grocery and Market Mr Reed attended a reunion of the Paddock family at DeKalb. Mr. and Mrs. John P. Knox and Mr. : and Mrs. A. W. Kidell and son of Chicago were Sunday guests of Miss Kate McLaughlin. • Mrs. Cha Colby and son, Ora, of Chicago spent the weekend with her sister, Mrs. Peter Freund. Mrs. Ed Brahan of Chicago was aweekend guest of Miss Kate McLaughlin. Mrs. Robert Weber and infant son, i Robert Louis, returned home Friday : from St. Joseph's hospital, Elgin. | Mrs. George Miller of Chicago is ! spending the week, with her mother, j Mrs. Jack Walsh. ; j Mr. and Mrs. Fred Adams of Des- I Plaiiies spent Sunday with his sister, : Christine Adams, and with her they j visited relatives at Grass Lake. I Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Boger and : baby of Chicago were Sunday guests in the H. J. Schaffer home. Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Schreiner have Freight trains nowadays act like express specials. New freight schedules are sofast, I sometimes wonder if everythinghastobedeliv ered day before yesterday. • Many of our passenger trains are running faster schedules, too. Well, one thingis sure. We make faster runs, but the first railroad commandment is still " Safety First." That's one rule they won't change. 0 • - Western railroads and allied industries provided jobs for 750,000 workers last year. Some of them live in our town. Good neighbors. • -Passenger farea are now the lowest in history with substantial reductions on round trips. And no more surcharge for riding in sleeping cars. • ' This new Free pick-yp-and-delivery of less than carload freight--I heard some traveling salesmen, talking about it on the train yesterday. They said it saves shippers a lot of money and centers all responsibility on the railroad. The railroad picks up the freight at shipper's door and delivers to receiver's door. Of course, local delivery men get the haul from door-to-car and car-to-door at both ends. The railroad handles the whole transaction. • When railroads are busy, I notice towns along the railroad are prosperous. The merchants put more ads in the newspapers. • Weareproudofrailroadachievements, appreciate the public's good will and increased patron* age, and pledge continued progress. WESTERN RAILROADS <uu) Tin PULLMAN COMPACT Wassailing Orchards Wassailing th§ orchards is an old custom, which has its origin in central Europe and^s still kept up In the Tyrol, Bohemia, and Germany, as well as In England. In Devonshire and other cider countrysides, thfe farmer, his family, friends and servants march to the orobard, one*member bearing a huge pitcher filled with cider and roasted apples, still hissing. They encircle the biggest and most productive tree and toast it thrice. Then it Is sprinkled with cider, or a bowl of cider is dashed .against It, after which is murmured the quaint incantation, "O tree! O tree! O tree! Bear fryit and flourish. Thy owner nourish. Give wealth and plenty." This cere^ raony over, they all repair to the house' for a feast. Wassailing varies in different parts of England. Sometimes cakes are Immersed in cider and hung from the branches.--London Tit-Bits Magazine. * - 'stock. Shirley Jean and Robert Salzman visited relatives in Chicago "the past week.', . /•' Mr. and Mrs. Nick Young .rind Mr. and "Mrs. Joe Weber attended the Fair at Milwaukee Monday. < "Miv-and Mrs. George Young' Spent Monday in Elgin; < Nick Young was a visitor at Racine Tuesday; . Wayne Foss visited friends at Woodstock and Hartlajid over the weekend. - Mr. and Mrs. Axel Carlson and family of Chicago spent Sunday in the Clayton Bruce home. The 4-H Useful Cooks met at the home of Dorothy Krohn Thursday afternoon. Plans for a benefit card party to be givem Sept. 11 at the C. J. Jepson home were made. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Hutton and granddaughter of Columbus, Ohio, are visitihg with Dr. and Mrs. Hepburn. Mr. and Mrs. Robert VanDusen and family of Elgin spent Sunday evening here with relatives. Miss Estelle Bruce of Keenes, 111.,, is visiting in the home of her brother, Clayton Bruce. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Carr arid sons spent Saturday afternoon at Woodstock. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Olsen and family spent Sunday in the Frank Wiedrich home. Ethel,- Lora* Marion and Leslie Wiedrich spent Monday morning in McHenry.~ Louise and Antone Williams spent Friday evening in the Lester Carr home. Mrs. Fredrickson and children of Walworth are visiting in the George Young home. Fred Wiedrich and daughter, Mae, spent Monday afternoon at Richmond. Mrs. Mabel Johonnott* of Terra Haute is visiting with Mrs. Agnes Jencks. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Frey and family of Deerfield spent Sunday afternoon in the S. H. Beatty home. Mr. and Mrs. William Wurtzinger are the parents of a daughter, born August 23. Mrs. Wurtzinger was formerly Miss Ellen Smith. Mrs. Jennie Bacon is visiting relatives in Elgin. J. D. Smith and son, Earl, of Urbana are here making improvements on their farm." JOHNSBURG Mr. and Mrs. Leo Gerlach motored to Arlington Heights Wednesday evening. Miss Annabel Meyers and brothers and Eugene King were Waukegan callers Wednesday. T Mr. and Mrs. Joe Schaefei* '"Wfjfe Milwaukee callers Wednesday. * John M. Pitzen spent a few days in Springfield recently. Steve May was a Chicago caller on Thursday. Mrs. Fred Smith, Hubert Weber, and Mr. and Mrs. Happy Weber motored to Ottowa Saturday. Mrs. Leo Gerlach, son, Billy, visited with relatives in Chicago Thursday. Miss Katherine Schmitt of Chicago spent the weekend with relatives hei-e. Miss Mildred Freund" of Spring Grove spent Sunday with AJr. and Mrs. George Hiller. Peter Pitzen of Chicago is spending a few days with his father, John Pitzen. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Freund and (laughter of Chicago, and Mr. arid Mrs. Ray Horick of Woodstock spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Smith. Mrs. William Sattem of Woodstock visited with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm, Althoff, Sunday. " Miss Constance Jackson and Miss Mary Meersmann were Kenosha callers Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Joe Karls wag- a Woodstock caller one day this w£ek. Mrs. Wm. Tonyan visited with Mr. and Mrs. Nick Miller at Richmond on Friday. Visitors in the home of Mrs. Stephen F. Schmitt last Friday were Rev. John Regan, his mother, Mrs. Patrick Hhursday* August 27,1930; Regan, Ven. lister Helen Jean, Sr. Mi Odella and Miss Mary Schmitt of Sterling, 111., Mrs. Math Lay and Dorothy Lay of Spring Grove and Mrs,. John Schmitt. 4 * Mr. and Mrs. Math Lay of Spring?? Grove spent Sunday with Mr, and. Mrs. Stephen Schmitt. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Wilkie of Chicago j spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs.. Peter Freund. Mr. and Mrs., Peter Oeffling and children motored to Oregon, DL, oo Wednesday. Old Adriatic City Murano has be^n the center of the Venetian glass ' industry for 700. years. Here was the art school that' gave us Bellini, Tintoretto, Giorgione and Titian, but there is little: to see now besides the glass collection at the Palazzo Communale and the decaying cathedral. • v:i | as their guests this week Mrs. Joseph L. Golden and Miss Kate Hudson of j Kansas City* nieces'of Mrs. Schreiner. | Miss Genevieve Knox and nephews, I Dick Conway and Claire Whiting, and ; friends from Huntley visited the ; Brookfield Zoo, Wednesday. | Mr. and Mrs. Mat Laures and family, Bob Knox and Mrs. Elizabeth i Laures arrived home last week Wedi nesday from a ten days' vacation Lindale . Invented Musical Notation Pope Gregory in the Sixth century had a crude system of musical notation, consisting of dots and scratches. Guldo effected many improvements in the Eleventh century. Square notes were used, and also colored ones, before the round ones came into use. They were called . Maxima, Larga, Lpnga, Brevls and Semibrevis. Tbfe vocal stave was fixed at five lines and the treble clef was introduced about the Seventeenth century. The change from square to round notes came about the same time. U. S. Loses Trade foreign Nations Dump Products Here Under Latest New Deal Policial* f -pent at Bay resort, Wis., and'Vermillion Lodge, Minn. Mr. and Mrs. John Freund and children were visitors at the Springfield State Fair last week. ITS A PERCH Many Cannot Cry Many persons cannot cry because their tear ducts do not function; many have a constant fever without any apparent disorder to cause it; many develop a temporary condition in which their fingers do not bleed when cut, while others have a form of defective vision in which they see only part of an object--such as. only half of a man as he walks before them.--rCollier's Weekly. ; T T I I |? I iI ftT tt f T • * D-A'N-'C-E YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB of McHenry Township McHenry, 111. THURSDAY, SEPT. 3 Good Music Adm. 25c person - - Nil* Lies In a Gorge : Through Its entire course through the mountains "of Abyssinia the Blue Nile runs between volcanic rock walls .,1.000 to 6.000 feet. high, there being no break in this depth sometimes for a distance of SO miles. The river Is impassable during the rainy season. The River Hawash. the second largest In Abyssinia, has no known outlet. The traditional small boy who fishes our country ponds for perch would think that he had eaten too much pie and was just having a nightmare if he fished in the Blue Nile of Egj'pt. The happy nimrod here is thinking more of the big Nile perch that he will get some day more than the little fellow he is leading to the pan. Nile perch of 200 pounds are not uncommon while other species run up to 500 pomids. The fish -shown here weighed 60. pounds. Sotftce- of Our Ginger The ginger that gives the pep to oar American gingerbread, ginger cookies, a«l flager beer comes from the root stock of a plant that closely resembles the canna. It wns fTiltivated in the Bast ladles in earliest times. > Washington, D. C.--American foreign trade balances are shrinking rapidly as a direct result of the New Deal Party's reciprocal tariff treaties, latest figures released by the Department of Commerce show. The United States is losing daily with every country with which the New Deal treaties have been put into operation, the figures show. At the same time, United States imports jumped upward, from $1,- 644,055,000 in 1934, before the treaties went into effect, to $2,047,287,- 000 in 1935 after the. agreements were in operation. Only Germany Barred. Germany is the only country in0 the entire world that does not reap the benefits of the tariff reductions in the New Deal treaties, because Secretary of State Cordell Hull ruled Germany out of the" reciprocal tariff system. All in all, for the first six months of 1936, foreign trade books of the United States wer^ in the ' red $9,011,000 as compared with a black ink showing of $29,645,000 for the corresponding period in 1935. Meanwhile, the American trade position with Germany improved more than 400 percent. The report reveals that with 14 of the 51 nations of the world, American exports actually declined in the first six months of 1936, causing Americans to lose millions^ of dollars. Cuba Shows Gains. - The negative balance of trade with Cuba, which is always present because of heavy United States sugar purchases, jumped from $31,628,- 000 to $51,935,000 under the reciprocal treaties. The favorable balance of trade with Brazil dropped from $26,111,- 000 to $24,712,000. The favorable balance with Canada dropped from $28,038,000 to $24,662,000. With Sweden, in 1935, the United •States had a favorable trade balance of $851,000, the report shows, 'but in 1936, after the New Deal's tampering, the United States had a negative b«danoe with Sweden of *1,337,000. aet a huner* tn\\*s M #[| Mrs. William Smith and two daugli ters of Chicago spent a few days over the weekend in the home of her parents, Mr. and Vm. Clarence Martin. TUST looking at Axel Adverse, you know " that he constantly crusades for truth. No one is going to pull the wool over his eyes when it comes to claiming gasoline mileage. Anxious to be fair about the whole thing, we'll go a big step beyond Axel's contention andconcede that no one gets "a hunert miles a gallon" with Standard Red Crown. But we do have every reason to believe that this excettent motor fuel gives as many . miles per gallon as any gasoline you can buy--quite possibly mora. 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