The Lexington Leader (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 31, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, January 27, 1922 Page: 4 of 8
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MICKIE, THE FKlH i bK 'S DEVIL
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your lucky day and lucky Icwtl.
GLADYS.
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THOUGH popular 111 the chorus
and frequently In use lis the l-*r-
ulne of popular lift Ion, where j
Gladys de Montmorency was consld-1
ered the height of feminine elegance,
Gladys comes from a dlguMied old Ho- |
man family, the Claudia™gens. The
Claudll gained much fame In early
Rome atlil figure In most of the trage- ,
dies of the city, and the Emperor j
Claudius, through Ills conquests In 1
Britain, spread his nume throughout
Europe.
The first feminine Claudia, was the
daughter of a British prince who sent
her greetings to St. Timothy In St.
Paul's epistle. The masculine form,
Cladus, or Gladus, as It was sometimes
spelled, became popular In England
and was taken over liy the Welsh, who
are responsible for the feminine
Gladys.
Gladys came to be considered the
equivalent for Claudia and as such was
reverenced, but her name never
achieved the popularity of Its equiva-
lent because of Its harsh sound.
Though recognized as Gladys it was
more often given In baptism as Clau-
dia, or Claudie, as the French call it.
France rejected Uludys completely,
preferring the softer tiaudlne, and
Claudie, while Italy and Spain chose |
Claudia, leaving Gladys complete-
ly to English use, whence It was
brought to America and allowed to
j flourish unmolested and non-confused
by Claudia.
Agate Is the tallsmanlc gem assigned
to Gladys. It is said to avert peril
from Its wearer, to give her courage
and a large degree of charm.
Line old legend contends that her every
wish will come true when she wears
this gem. Tuesday Js her lucky day j
and 7 her lucky /lumber.
Invents New Wrench.
A lever pivoted to a handle and |
controlled a thumb nut forms a i
new wrench which its inventor claims
will hold a nut of any size or shape. \
THE IMPATIENT KOB1N
RoUIN had started too early from
the South that year. His little
wife told him so, but he would
uot listen. "I suppose you want all
the nice locations to he taken when
we arrive," he said to her.
So they arrived one morning, and
though the sun was shining, the air
was chilly, and poor little Mrs. lied-'
breast sat shivering on a limb of a
tree, huddled acalnst the trunk, while
her lord and master sat on the end of
a branch singing lustily.
"What did I tell you?" said Hobln.
"We are not a bit too early; and now
let us find a home."
It was some time, however, before
the warm spring days came, but they
did, and with them the blossoms and
the leaves, ami then the fruit began
to grow—cherries and apples and ber-
ries and all the things that the robins
like to eat.
ltobin was Impatient. He wanted a
nice cherry pie, and when his little
wife told 1dm the cherries were green
and hard he began to scold.
"My mother used to make the best
cherry pie 1 ever ate," said he, "and
1 know she used to use them jylien
they were hard, because I used to
atone them for her."
"Stone them !" exclaimed Mrs. Robin
with wide-open eyes. "Whoever heard
of stoning cherries for a pie? My
mother never did. What did she do
with the stones—make a soup?" in-
quired Mrs. Robin In rather a sarcas-
tic tone of voice.
"Yes, she made a soup, now I come
to think about it, and that cherry-
stone soup was the best I ever ate?"
replied pert Mr. Robin, thinking that
was a clever Idea.
"Well, will you make a cherry pltf
today?" he asked.
"But, llobln, the cherries are not fit
to use yet," pleaded Mrs. ltobin. flut-
tering about at the very thought of
such a thing.
"All right, I'll make one myself,"
said Robin, bristling his feathers. "I
can make a pie as well as anyone."
""All right, make one," said Mrs.
Redbreast; and off she flew.
When she returned late that after-
noon everything was covered with
flour—even Robin's bill and wings—
and a strong smell of something
burned was In the air.
"I made that pie all right," he said,
nodding Ills head toward the pantry,
"but I did not say I could bake one
1 guess it is a little overdone, but the
Inside Is all right, I am certain."
On the pantry shelf stood a pie al-
most as black as Johnny Bhtckblrd's
coat, but Mrs. Redbreast did not make
any remark. She looked around the
kitchen and asked: "Where is the
cherry-stone soup, Robin? I declare
I am quite hungry for some."
Hobln rubbed his bill and stood on
one foot and then on another. "Well,
I do not seem to remember-about that
soup, after all. 1 guess 1 was mis-
taken. It was applecore soup she
used to make Instead of cherry-stone,"
he said.
"I .am glad there Is one thing I can
make that your mother did not know
about, for if you once had tasted
cherry-stone soup you would never
forget It," replied Mrs. Redbreast.
"Now, you fly out and sit on a limb
and sing a while, and I will call you
Not for the Natives.
The New York hotel which has In-
stalled a "thinking room" is evidently
catering to guests from out of touu.—
Jjlfe.
Why 'Vot-Luck?"
i When an invitation Is Issued to
j "come and take pot-luck" It Is under-
i stood that no special preparation Is
1 made for the Invited guest. There
was a time, however, when "pot-luck"
meant dishing the food out of a pot
and when the guest really took chance*
of getting a good meal or a very slim
one. In the old days—and the prac-
tice Is still In force In some parts of
Europe—nothing came amiss to the
| family cooking pot, suspended from
the pot-hook In the middle of the fire-
place. Everything edible was thrown
in It, and "to keep the pot boiling"
the fire was seldom or ever uliowed to
go out. When meal time came every-
one fished In the pot for himself and
whatever he happened to find wa«
"pot-luck."
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Height of Women Increasing.
The Increase in the height of wom-
eu has gone on steadily for more than
fifty years, but measurements havfe
altered most notably in the Inst two de-
cades. Our grandmothers stood barely
five feet in their shoes, but their daugh-
ters measure five feet four inches, and
their athletic granddaughters of today
measure from live feet to five feet ten
In their stockings.
of fear-thought an* worry, hatred, jeal
ousy, despair, anger, melancholy, dis-
couragement, depression, confusion,
negutlveness, nervousness, fretfulness,
self-consciousness, lack of self-confl-
dence and foreboding.
Fear of failure Is also caused by not
thinking well enough of oneself. To
banish this and all other forms of fear,
one needs another kind of thinking. Re-
place fear-thoughts with faith-thoughts
and systematically cultivate the new
line of thinking until It gets to be a
habit.
Take a mental Inventory today I Seek
out your hidden mental weaknesses
and expose them to the light of fear-
less analysis. Get to work upon your
fears and run them out. Flood your
whole mental region with faith.
Repeat dally and the results will
amaze you.—Forbes' Magazine.
RESTORED MAHAN TO HEALTH
Invitation to Admiral Re«pon ible for
Marvalously Quick Recovery
of Famous Sailor.
A retired naval officer tells a story
of a visit made by an American fleet
to British waters. Admiral Erben was
in command, with the late Capt. Alfrad
T. Mahan, the writer on naval afTalrs,
as his flag captain.
One tpornlng, It appears, Captain
Mahan came to his admiral with an
Invitation he had received to dine
with a duke.
"I can't accept this," said Captain
Mahan, "as they forgot to Invite you."
"I should say you couldn't," growled
the admiral. "I'll answer for you."
Whereupon the admiral wrote: "Ad-
miral Erben, United States navy, re-
grets that Captain Mahan, bis flag cap-
tain, cannot accept the Invitation of
the duke of Blank. Captain Mahan It
on the sick list."
An hour or so later a messenger
from the duke returned with Invita-
tions for-the admiral and the cap-
tain. This time the admiral wrote:
"Admiral Erben accepts with pleas-
ure the Invitation for Captain Mahan
and himself. He wishes also to ad-
vise the duke of Blank that he has'
taken Captain Mahan off the sick
list."—Everybody's Magazine.
eessful campaign at Chalons, when
Attila was stopped by the Franks and
the Romans, the Scourge determined
to die rather#than face defeat. He
built a funeral pyre and was about to
climb upon it when Helga approached.
"My lord," she said, "why do you
not dje as you mete out death *to
others? Behold, it does not hurt."
And plunging her dagger Into he#
ht^art, she fell dead at his feet.
Attila did not follow her example,
neither did he fling himself on the
funeral pyre. He gathered new
courage, and lived to fight again.
When She Returned That Afternoon
She Smelled Something Burned.
when I have the soup ready. Where
are the stones?"
Hobln brought a basinful of stones,
eyeing Ills wife all the time, but she
looked so wise and knowing that he
did not ask any questions or venture
to give advice. In fact, he had done
all the cooking he wished to do, and
gladly flew out to sit' on a limb and
sing.
Robin spread the fame of his wife's
cherry-stone soup far and wide, and
the little wives came to call on Mrs.
Redbreast, nil In a flutter to get her
recipe for the wonderful soup.
Then they all flew home to make a
cherry-stone soup just as Mrs. Red-
breast had cooked it, which goes to
prove that all wives stick together
when It comes to managing a husband.
(Copyright.)
America Has Premier Huntress.
America's premier huntress is Mrs.
Frederick Dalziel, who tins recently re-
turned from a big game shooting ex-
pedition in East Africa with a cargo of
trophies of her prowess—the tusks of
elephants and rhinoceroses, the skins
of seven lions, the horns of buffaloes,
a leopard and a cheetah.
FEAR CALLED WORST ENEMY
SLANDERS ON MANY RACES
People of Most Nations^ as Matter
of Fact, Are the Reverse of
Their Reputations.
The'crlgiti of national slanders Is a
mystery. Some one starts them, oth-
ers continue tlfem, and the rest of us
accept them as gospel, and give them
further currency.
Englishmen are alleged to be super-
shy and reserved. Our life on an is-
land is said to be responsible. Rub-
bish ! We have been, and are, the big-
gest travelers of all natforis, observes
a writer In London Answers. If Eng-
lishmen were shy and reserved they
wouldn't have been the pioneers in
colonization, empire building, conquest,
commerce, and the like.
As a matter of fact, the average
Englishman Is snpersodable, and If
any proof of that Is needed It Is to be
found in the fact that this country is,
par excellence, the home of sport.
Sport demands sociability. Imagine
a tennis boom among "super-shy, re-
served" people!
Scotsmen are alleged to he mean—
unco' careful wi' the bawbees. Thous-
ands of Jokes have been built upon
that slander. But, as a matter of
fact, the Scot, as all who have had to
do with him know, is extraordinarily
generous and kind-hearted. Ask the
treasurer of any hospital. There's
the test.
The Irish are doubly slandered.
They are alleged to be a gay, witty
race, carefree and careless. This Is a
slander. The Irish are a sad people.
All their beautiful melodies are in a
minor key. "Irish humor" doesn't
really exist. The Irish are really in-
tensively serious. And as to being
"rtireless," It is a fact that they are
thrifty, clean, and supermoral.
The J rench are supposed to be ir-
responsible and excitable. An obvious
slander, which the great war killed—
or ought to have killed.
Then there Is the "wily, unspeak-
able" Turk. For a fact, he is about
as simple as they make 'em! The
Dutch are alleged to be "stolid," and
all that the term implies. It's a slan-
der for the Dutch are very much all
there! The tale might be continued,
but the. result would be the same,
whether dealing with the "cute" Yan-
kee, the "emotional" Welshniah, th&
"treacherous" Spaniard, or the "gay"
Italian. Slanders all I
Primitive Condition* of, Life.
The natives of some unexplored re-
gions of South America make little-
clearings, usually one or two, but
sometimes as many as 20 or 30 acres.
These gardens are disorderly affairs,
with the half-burned stumps left stick-
ing up. They plant them without ap-
parent method. They generally have
a great deal of casava, our tapioca,
which la their form of cereal. It
also furnishes the native drink, In fer-
mented form. .
As to meat, they eat only what they
gin catch and kill, wild meat, exclu-
sively, and they hunt largely with bow
and arrow. It Is no rare sight to see
an Indian starting off with a great
bow six feet long to shoot birds, for
which he uses a blunt arrow, says Pro-
fissor Gleason. They use barbed tx-
Kwi to ahoot fish.
Sunflower State Reflection.
The thing that made me sick on my
motor trip this summer was the
thought that after we are dead and
gone the next generation will have
good roads.—Manhattan Mercury.
SCHOOL DAYS
Ita Banishment From Among tha
Human Race Would De Wonder-
ful Step in Evolution.
The greatest enemy of the human
race Is fear.
If we could banish fear in fill Its
forms Is would mean more to clvilza-
tion than any previous step in evolu-
tion. Health would be Immeasurably
Improved; much unliapplness would be
wiped out; efficiency would be greatly
Increased, and success would be the
rule. With the removal of fear would
come real human brotherhood. True
democracy would begin.
If you are not ns well, as hapjfy, as
efficient or as successful ns you would
like to be, you may find the Why in
your fenrs
"As a man thlnketh in his heart, so
Is he"—physically, in disposition and In
circumstances. Fear-thouglit Is toxic,
destructive and harmful. Some forms
WORTHY WIFE OF HUN CHIEF
Attila, the "Scourge of Gc.H," Hac!
Devoted Helpmeet and Advisor in
His Consort Helga.
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Attila the Hun was a thoroughly
house-trained husband. Helga. the
beautiful Norse wife of Attila, wes a
fitting ninK to this barbaric warrior.
AniaJ.otiian In figure, gigantic In
! strength, she accompanied him on all
his raids. She actwl as Attila's aide
<ic camp, his secretary and liis chief
ti stalf. She planned the campaigns
that led to his ascendency over most j
of the civilized world. For all her i
during and strength, however, she
was still a woman. It had been At- J
tila's custom to carry off the women of I
the vanquished tribes, but Helga put ;
an end to this, giving as her reason ;
that the women impeded their prog- ;
ress. Her real motive, it is believed,
was fear that she might lose her j
sovereign position. So it became the ,
custom, instead, to kill the womerv
Another example of her feminine
instinct was the trouble she went to ,
for the sake of her beauty. On all
their travels she caused to be brought1
along a drove of asses, so that she
-might have her daily bath in their
milk.
Helga was as courageous In death
as she was In life. After the unsuc-
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