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bociety Notes, VALENTINE PARTY | Pupils of the Ostend school entertained their mothers at a Valentine __ party Monday. Games and a program miHtr op the. entertainment, after a valentine box held the center of attraction. ENTERTAINS CARD CLlIll Mi*. John Schmitt entertained me'm- S bers of her card club Thursday afternoon at her home at Johnsburg. f" Prises in cards were won by Miss Evelyn Schmitt, Mrs. Agnes Marshall, Mrs. 9. J. Sdjfcffer and Mrs. John ! Schmitt. The next meeting will ^ with MM. J. W. Freundl - I NOTICE -- C. D. OFA. There will be no meetlng of tit* Catholic Daughters of A«*rica on Feb. 18. The next in atI hit will take tiaceuXLihe Arst Thursday ih March. fi^itiiLiSi fiiiiffeiMiS 'tlrf-^wmwft^gagh School, gvest speaker and gave an taterettfoff talfepnhistorjr. Games were played Mid little Misa Dolores Vales gave a muting piano solo as a part of the program. Plans were made to sponsor a movie Mrs. Carl. Nelson of Elgin, sister Of Mrs. Mertes, was a guest of the afternoon. R. N. A. INSTALLATION } An event «f interest to its members will be the annual/installation of of- ,ftcers of Riverview Camp, R, N. A., on Tuesday evening, Feb. 23. * S1 . „ . _ l There will be a pot-luck supper at Juveniles ofStClara's Court, 6 0.cl0ck> followed by the meeting and F- C:P' F-'enjoys "Valentine pwty | ingU,Ution ceremonies, to which all Saturday afternoon whence. were members are invited VALENTINE PARTY played amjt valentines were exchanged. Prises in games were won by Betty Regner, Betty Blalre, Elata* <8chaaCar and Eileen Smith. A lunch in keeping with the valentine season was served.. !> ~ Members are urged to Attend, as plans are being made to make J evening a pleasant one. LADIES' AID SOCIETY Members of the Ladies' Aid society met Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. C. H. Duker, where plans were outlined for a Lenten supper to be given in March. This annual affair will take place about the middle of the month," the axact date U> be announced soon. The next meeting of the society will be held at the Home of Mrs. William Spencer. , THE RADIANT LIFE ;•* • • By LEONARD A. BARRETT rf. EIGHTY-61X YEARS MJ) Mrs. Lucy Thomet celebrated her eighty-sixth birthday anniversary on i Feb. 14, at the home of her son, Edgar Thomas, McHenry-. She is living at Woodstock with her son, ^illfem. Mr. j and Mrs. William Thomai and daugh-j ter, Myrtle, of Woodstock; Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey I|anwn of Ringwood, I and Mrs. Frank Wattles of JdcHenry j were callers in the afternoon. BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION A double birthday celebration was observed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Bacon, Sunday; in honor of j their little daughter, Diiane, who was ' four years old Wednesday, and of Mrs. Bacons' brother, Vergil AdamB, who was fifteen years old Tuesday. --About sixteen were* present for dinthat day, including Mr. and | Mrs. Ed Horn and granddaughter, Here are pajamas that let a man Dawn, and Mr. and Mrs. John Horn sleep. They get rid of old-fash- and two children of Barrington, and ioned drawstrings. A flat, wide, Mr, and Mrs. L V. Adams and nephew, John Adams, of this city. comfortable waistband of stre-t-c-h-able rubber holds Nobelt Pajamas up without pressure. ,95 McGEE'S MOTHERS CLUB About"* thirty members and guests of the Mothers Club gathered at the home of Mrs. Charles Mertes Friday afternoon for the regular monthly meeting of the club. Assistant hostesses were Mrs. H. B. Schaefer, Mrs. James Perkins and Mrs. George Kramer. . ~ L. J. McCracken, histprjfteacher at Arrived on Tueeday Morning of this Week. Stop in and look them over. One can almo&t see them grow on our _-jBOLD SEAL ALL HASH CHICK STARTER Special for Saturday ' 10UND CORN AND COB • Ann AA BAL, Per Ton ........... I|p £sAj\) McHenry County Farmers Phone2? JOHN A. BOLOEB, Mgr. "^ McHenry Friday and Saturday SPECIALS No- 2 Can, each ................rtrf;SOC * ; i : . •ZK"* * 5*" ' a;"I5c Bunch Sfiiftach Good Quality, ,x, 9ptuavu No. 2 Can, e Celery Hearts Tomatoes Grapefruit 4« BUquIck ^ Salad Dressing 55 Lamb Shoulder Roast .or Stew P~ er Pound Pork Loin Roast Small Lolas, Per pound, Phone 180 Why do some lives emit radiance and others db not? Some lives beaming with joy and love are constantly sending out rays of light ; others disseminate discouragement and gloom. Why did the leaning tower of Pisa never fall? Why h&ve the pyramids of Egypt weathered the storms of centuries? For an answer, we must look from within and not from without. A house built upon a rock stands in the midst of the storm. A house; built upon the sands soon falls when the blasts of winds strike it. The Tower of Pisa was constructed in perfect obedience to the laws of engineering. The pyramids of Egypt were first made strong from within. In a radiant life, brilliant lights burn in the heart, Radiance is\^lways the outshining of something very beautiful and luminous. Radiance is not the reflection of a light that shines upon an object; it is the outshining of a light that is inside the object; A radiant life reflects a radiant heart. A radiant mind reflects radiant thoughts. A radiant character reflects radiant ideals. "No one can be a shining until he is a burning light." A diamond may be valuable in the dross, but we cannot evaluate it. It must first pass through the hand of the diamond cutter who cuts triangular surfaces known as facets upon it. By means of these facets e refractive power of its crystalized carbon is revealed in sparkling brilliance. It is impossible to evaluate a human life until the light of some fire from within has literally burned up the dross of malice, revenge, hatred, and all those impulses ot4he heart that destroy the beauty of the spirit and the strength of character. " o When the light of joy, kindness and love replaces the dross of vain and evil thoughts, we have from within an understanding heart and a radiant life. Without light there is no radiance. Why live a life in the shadows of the memories of misfortunes and failures, when we may just as well live in the light of the innumerable blessings we daily possess? Why not humanize some of the ideals like forgiving those who "Wrong us;> practicing integrity in our daily tasks; cultivating a sincere reverepbfe for personality; steadfastly refusing to sell our spiritual birthright for a mess of pottage? Only thus do we make life radiant. "He who works for hatred," wrote Arnold, "works only for confusion." We do not need to be indoctrinated with ideas so much as we need to be infused with ideals which transform life from within and make life radiant. O Western Newspaper Union. ' Beech, Common Tree The beech is one of tjhe common hardwood trees found over most of eastern North America. The generic name "Fagus" com#s from the Greek phago, which means "to eat" and undoubtedly refers to the fruit of this tree. The nuts are gathered extensively all through Europe. Deer, bear and grouse are particularly fond of beechnuts, but all wild creatures will eat them. Unfortunately the beech tree does not carry a fruit crop each year; in fact, a good crop of nuts every three or four years is exceptional The beechnut is a small triangular shaped nut, not much largely than a pea. The husk is rather tough and the meat is sweet and highly palatable Egyptians Had Dogs The Ancient Egyptians had eral breeds of dogs. Some were kept for the chase, others admitted into the parlor, or selected as the companions of their walks; some were chosen for ugliness. Our domestic dog is very different from its wild prototype, the wolf, says an authority in Tit-Bits Magazine. Its brain is far better developed, and it is superior in every way except one. We all know how tired a dog becomes after a hard day's work with the guns, or after a fifteenmile tramp, but the wolf can travel for hours on end with a fast trotting gait. ' ' ' Ancient Use of Salt The Arabs considered, the bating of a man's salt formed a ncred bond between host and guest, after which neither should harm or speak ill of the other. Should a refugee seek asylum and arrive at the Arab's tent with his pursuer hot on his heels, the Arab would fill the palm of one hand with salt, holding this out for the man to lick if he meant to protect hin^ftttteSLit on the ground if hetreftved his aid. WOMEN OWN BUli OF PRIVATE FORTUNES Tip Wealth of 23 •d at 210 Billkmii New York. -- Thai the %«»t United States financial combine is not a grpup of mighty industrialists or Wan Street magnates, but a vast framework of comfortably off, wellto- do, and really rich widows" is the conclusion drawn by Fortune Magazine in an intimate study of the twenty-three richest United States women. Seventy par cent of the country's entire private wealth, or the "skyshooting sum of $210,000,000,000," is the estimate of the- golden floodthat has streamed into the hands "not of the oligarchy, but of a matriarchy," Fortune declares. That this transfer of the keys to the greatest private coffers does not indicate any supremacy of women over men in earning power is explained by the magazine on the grounds that "the overwhelming part of women's billions b£s been left to them." In analyzing its selection of the twenty-thre* "weightiest members of this matriarchy," the Fortune article shows that these huge fortunes "derived from two sources. About half were made in .finance and basic industries. About half in merchandise sold over the counter, with motorcars remaining for transportation from one to the other." The first type (banking and basic industries), is older than the second and, as would be likely, of more solid social background. Only one of the twenty - three wealthy subjects of the article is credited with occupying her position because a woman took a hand in founding her own wealth. She is Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilks, daughter ol "America's only great woman fortune builder, the sensation of another age: Hetty Green." The other twenty-two constitute the richest United States women today "not because they amassed fortunes themselves but because they were the wives and daughters, heirs and assigns of some of the nation's richest menv" " |25,000,090 the Smallest* The minimum riches of the twenty- three who form the basis of the Fortune article is placed at $25,- 000,000. "On the basis of certain key qualifications and characteristics," these twenty-three women "tend to split up into smaller groups." They are not "one obvious type," although they are "not so many unrelated and distinctive personalities," the article states. "Fourteen are in social registers, nine are not. Just about fourteen (not by any means the social register fourteen) go in heavily for society, about nine avoid it. Half of the women take little or no interest in handling their affairs, half take an active interest. . . . Eight of the women a re'young, eleven are middle-aged, four are old. Besides those who manage their estates, one woman is a sculptor, one has a bookshop, two are proprietors of racing stables. None of the women is strikingly active in politics, very few are active in religion, but better than a half take an interest in ^ philanthropy." A footnote explains that "certain women are potentially wealthier than" some of those "who are considered" in the article; "but they have not yet come into their money." It cites Josephine Ford and Ailse Mellon Bruce as examples. Roster of the Rielu.; fortune's roster of the twentythree "richest United States, women" reads as follows: Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilks, Mrs. Payne Whitney, ? | grs. Harry Payne Whitney' rs. Charles Shipman Payion, Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Mrs. Moses Taylor, Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. Roswell Miller, Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice, Mrs. Hugh Dillman, Mrs. Alfred George Wilson^ Mrs. Dodge Sloane, Mrs. John T. Dorrance, Mrs. Edward V. Hartford, Mrs. Vadim Makaroff, Mrs. W. B. Reilly, < Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, ' ^ Mrs. Charles E. F. McCamv Mrs. James Donahue, Countess Haugwitz-ReventldW, Mrs. Charles H. Babcock, - Mrs. James H. R. CromweQ, Mrs. Duke Biddle. - ^ In the course of the revealing biographies of each of these heire s s e s , the m a g a z i n e o u t l i n e s the various sources of the immense fort u n e s t h a t have g r a v i t a t e d i n t o twenty-three pairs of hands. They range through banking, Wall Street, Standard Oil, steel, traction interests, the Dodge motor car earnings and those of Campbell soups; two great chain store systems, the A & P. and the Woolworth itores; breakfast and other food products which contribute to the Post fortune; and the Reynoldlh|nd Duke tobacco industries. A L«tter FromDala Skunk Is* Mascot Los Ga,tos, Calif.--The Alma fire suppression rangers have adopted a skunk as a mascot. As a consequence they have been able to ascertain that a skunk loves liver and apples and sleeps as peacefully in a roll of screen wire as in a hollow log. ty BARBARA ANN BENEDICT • A«aeelated Newipeper*.--WNU Serviea. ILLICENT BUSHNELL, who is the wife of my fishing companion, Peter Bushnell, told me this story one afternoon last week. "Twenty^years ago," she began, "Dala Holmes was as pretty a girl as you'd wafit to see. Small and light • haired and blue - eyed. She graduated from high school and then went to a secretarial school, and later secured a position as<a stenographer in a law firm. , "Roderick Dfuce was a junior -partner in that law office. He was young then, just out of college, and seriousfar interested in his work. He was tall end dark, with expressive black eyes. Dala wasn't a flighty person, but something turned over inside of her when she saw Rod Druce. She fell in love with him. "Rod was obviously more interested in his work than in anything else. He went ahead fast. But instead of being glad,' Dala Holmes was j e a l o u s ; j e a l o u s b e c a u s e he was more interested in realizing an ambition thaft in winning her love. x "More maddening still was the fact that Rod was nice to every girl who came into the office. He treated them with the same respect and courtesy as he bestowed upon Dala. And gradually she began to realize that she meant no more to him than they. He sometimes1 took her to lunch; once or twice they spent an evening together, but always he was the same; a little aloof, ajittle distant; never personal. "The things-began to wear Dala down. With each passing day the misery in her heart became more poignant. At last she' found the situation unbearable. She'd have to quit her job, get away from hijn.' "And so with this Tn mind she went ope morning into Rod's private office and announced her intention of leaving. Rod appeared surprised and not a little disappointed. He asked if she were dissatisfied with her salary. But Dala shook her head. It wasn't money. "And then Rod began to talk. He'd had experience in talking, Rod *.iad. Persuasive talking. "He told her he was sorry she wanted to go, reminded her she hadn't been with the firm very long, and it wouldn't be so easy breaking in a new secretary. After all, a job was a job these days, and it might •be difficult for her to find something new. When he finished Dala was convinced that it was her duty, a sort of moral obligation, to remain with the firm.r - ,v "And so she stayed for1 another month. At the end of that time she was near a nervous breakdown. Not once ha<£ Rod asked her to lunch; not once had he looked at her with anything but that impersonal stare she had come to know so well. "She told herself that noble or no noble she was going to quit. And this time, in an effort to guard against the possibility of Rod's persuasive measures, she decided to get herself another job before announcing her plan. The morning paper carried a 'stenographer wanted' advertisement and she immediately got the agency on the 'phone.'" "It so happened that Rod dropped into the office before she was through talking and heard the tail end of her conversation. She turned to face him, blushing guiltily, sensing by his expression that he thought,her method was pretty underhanded and sneaky. "Dala felt miserable. She went into the lavatory and cried and thought the whole thing over. Later she returned to her typewriter and wrote Rod a letter. She tried to explain, did her best to make him understand; clung to a last forlorn hope that he might want her to stay because he loved her. "She sealed the letter and gave it to him in his office. Then she went back to her own desk and waited. Pretty soon Rod came out and stood close to her and spoke to one of the other men about some trivial affair. And while he talked he tore to bits the letter that Dala had written him, and let the pieces fall into her Waste-basket. "Dala's heart was near to breaking. She stood up, eyes brimming with tears, and went out, without speaking or looking at him." Millicent paused in her rftofry, and I s a i d : "So t h a t ended the romance?" "No," she smiled. "No, that's not how it ended. Dala went back to the office that night to . get her personal things and leave her key. She found a letter on her desk. It was from Rod, and by the tone of it she knew he'd written it that morning before she'd qui* She read it through, and then hunted around in the waste-basket for the pieces of the letter Rod had torn up. She found them--the pieces--only it wasn't her letter he'd torn. It was a piece of blank paper. Rod' had come out and stood by her desk for an excuse to deliver the letter he'd written in reply to Mrs, without being conspicuous. "Dala had played her part well, for Rod hadn't even suspected that she loved him. As a matter of fact he had to appeal to her sense of honor that time she first announced her intention of Quitting, simply because he couldn't bear to have her leave the place.* He confessed it all in the letter, which is why Dala called the agency and told, them she intended to Stay oa in her present position." • Northwest Territory Names For the names of the states to be carved out of the Northwest Territory, Thomas Jefferson in 1784 suggested: Chersonesus, Assenisipia, Sylvania, Pelisipia, Hlinoia, Polytoamis, Mesopotamia and Michigania L. F. Newman visited in the Louis McDonald hoigje at Woodstock Monday. Mm. Louis- Stotal visited in the hotftt <rf herhrethwr et BarUagtoa on •i cotiMm MiiiiicrttgpBg fsring^and sacrifice. 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