inr fl .•ferri--- r:-~-..f INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE EIGHT truant because it was such a sunny CHILD TRAINING AT HOME MANY ABLE TO HEAR COLORS SOMETHING NEW TO MOTHER day. But Barton told Joseph that he wanted to show him something, so, (By Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Author According to Investigator, the Gift Dear Old Lady Had a Good Deal to together they went to schol. They of Wander Stories.) Not Uncommon—Possessed by Learn About the Latest Idea entered by the great front dopr and Reading The Signs -r One Person in Eight. in Silk Stockings. Barton showed Joseph the notice on The primary children did not want the wall that told the school? lav/. to play with the boys and girls from Styles may come and styles may go, Color hearing, or chromaesthesia, It read that a boy or girl must not but an old-fashioned mother like Mill Street, although the Mill Street the constant association of colors with play truant. So Joseph laughed with Bab's can't be expected to keep words, letters, musical notes and noises, children were in the same class. Od JUST RECEIVED abreast with the latest creations. She his big, brown eyes, for the s'gn was is Inherent, the N'ew Orleans TimesPicayune little foreign lads and lassies they is always looking after the welfare says, in one of every eight a surprise to him and he was nat were, wearing fur caps and scarlet of the family, whether It is preparing persons. even late to school. shirts and orange colored scarfs. But father's choice dish or skimping her A few years ago a noted physician After the Mill Street children ha-1 they did not seem to know how to own needs so that Johwiy'or Bab may told his audience that the day was not learned to live in the American town play and there was something worse keep up appearances with the twentieth far distant when sound would be seen and how to play with the Americ in than that about them. century younger set. and color heard, and time has confirmed primary children, they found out A New Line of— "The Mill Street children don Mother recently was going over the his statement. It seems incredible Maud's secret. She had asked the week's washing, putting a patch here, know how to live in our town," said that a beam of light can produce catching a button there and seeing others to help these foreign little the others. "Only see what they do!" sound, yet it has been accomplished to it that the stockings were carefully ones to learn the laws that the signs Maud saw one Saturday afternoon by throwing a ray of sunlight mended. She came across a of the town told. Mill Street knew through a lens on a glass vessel containing when she took her roller skates to WRITING FLUID pair of stockings that Bab had purchased very little about laws and the children, lampblack, or colored silk or the park. There, right beside a sign the week before. They were worsted, or any similar substance. A at first, could not read the that read "Keep Off the Grass," sat the latest thing dictated by fashion, disk having slits or openings cut in it signs. Santa, the little Italian girl, picking the lisle stocking with lace designs on is made to revolve swiftly In the beam Is there a Mill Street in your daisies. the sides, which very much resembles INKS, LIBRARY of light so as to "cut it up" into alternate town the lowly "run." "Oh, please don't do that, Santa," flashes of light and shadow. "And bless you, mother sewed up Maude said. "The sign says not to. When the ear is placed to the glass every one of them," giggled Bab to INQUIRY FOR CLOVER vessel the sensitive ear can distinguish You come with me and. I will show a friend, a few days later, "and they SEED FROM SCOTLAND faint sounds as long as the strange, you a free daisy field." PASTE, MUCILAGE, cost me $8 a pair, too." flashing beam falls upon the vessel. In August this year, Mr. A. Leari Santa looked at the sign. She A still more extraordinary effect is mouth of Edinburgh, Scotland, who touched the letters with her fingers NO MERCY FOR THE FLIRT produced when the beam of sunlight spent several days in Internationa! and then she smiled at Maude as she is first made to pass through a prism, Falls, displayed considerable interest joined her on the sidewalk and the ETC. so as to produce what is known as the According to Dream, Modern Girl Met in the alsike clover crop growing in two hurried off. They had a beautiI With Deserved Condemnation solar spectrum The disk is turned this territory and requested Secretary ful afternoon and on Monday Maud at St. Peter's Hands. so that the colored light of the rainbow Hurlburt of the Commercial club to passes through it and is alternately gathered the primary children together Cortlandt Bleeker was talking at interrupted and transmitted by it. and told them a secret about forward to him several pounds of the Now, if the ear be placed to the glass Piping Rock about the modern girl. the Mill Street children. Then such seed from this year's crop, which was "I had a dream last night," he vessel containing the silk or other ma-, done. This week Mr. Hurlburt received nice things began to happen! AT said. "I dreamed that a modem girl terial, it will be noticed that the colored a cablegram followed by a letter Jean had a big police puppy that he died and appeared before St. Peter. lights of certain parts of the from Mr. Learnmouth asking "She wore a gown of filmy, almost had brought from Havre, France, but spectrum will make sounds, and those The PRESS OFFICE what amount of seed was available transparent tissue. She was very he would take it out on Mill Street, of other parts will not. For example, and the price. Mr. Hurlburt immediately beautiful, and she had a conquering •_ if the glass vessel contains red worsted and even further, without muzzle. a got in touch with those having and the green light is flashed upon air. But Harold, who sat next to him 'Let me In, please,' she said. 'My quantities of the seed in storage and it, there will be comparatively loud school took him to the big town hail sweethearts were numberless, but my sounds, and when the red and blue replied by cable. and showed him the sign about dogs virtue remained unspotted. Though I parts of the rainbow fall upon the being muzzled and Jean's father When here Mr. Learnmouth was of skated over miles of thin ice, I never vessel tliere will be faint sounds but the opinion that soil and growing bought him a muzzle so large and once fell through. I am a modern other colors will produce no sounds soft that the puppy liked to wear it. conditions in Scotland were similar to girl.' at all. Northern Minnesota and that alsike "But St. Peter frowned and said, Barton was going to school one day pointing downwards with his forefinger and he met Joseph going the other clover could be grown there with CIVILIZATION PROVES FATAL way. Joseph had not gone to school success and that he wished to make "I condemn you to the same an experiment. in Russia, and he had decided to play Passing flames to which you condemned South Sea Islanders Are Rapidly Away as Result of White your foolish lovers.' Man's Coming. Put to Good Use. One day my husband invited a former There are today but 2,500 persons school chum of his for dinner, in the SO Paumotu Islands, separated writes a correspondent. He arrived from each other by about 40 rqiles of about four o'clock, but my husband water in the South seas, where 15 had not yet come home. Our little years ago there were more than 4,000. son Philip was playing around with If equally distributed there would be INTERNATIONAL FALLS guest, who gave him a quarter. our but 30 persons to each island, but on When it came time to prepare dinner more than half of them no person I discovered that I did not have lives. Epidemics have cut the people S. ARMY STORE enough potatoes and the only money down in throngs, and it is the belief I had was a ten dollar bill. Fearing of Frederick O'Brien, writing in the to send the little fellow to the store Century Magazine, that the time is with it, I called him out and told him not far off when the last Paumotu to go and get the potatoes With his will curse the white man for the gifts quarter and when daddy came home I he may have brought. When Captain give it 'back to him. Seated Cook made his survey of the Tahiti Would later at the dinner table the man islands there were 70,000 happy, BIGGEST AND BEST BARGAINS IN INTERNATIONAL FALLS AND VICINITY playfuly pinched Philip's cheek, and healthy people, and today there survive U. S. Army Goods and Other asked him what he did with his quarter, scarcely 2,000. They were not to which Philip responded, "O, slain, but perished by diseases concomitant mother took It to buy potatoes." with Intercourse with civilized men. The Tahitians and the Paumotuans A Valley Forge Kettle. Merchandise According to the Carthage Press, understand each other easily, though Charles Sanders, a resident of many words are different. The former Carthage, has an iron kettle that has lived with Europeans for 100 an interesting history. It was used to years, and they soon became the most bake bread for General George Washington cultivated race of the South seas, A GUARANTEED SAVING OF 30 TO 70%.. .WE INVITE YOU TO VISIT OUR STORE AND TAKE ami his army during the severe while the Paumotuans remained the winter at Valley Forge. The kettle coarse, primitive savages that they ADVANTAGE OF ITS MANY BARGAINS OFFERED was given Mr. Sanders by his mother. have for centuries. The Paumotuans It is the heavy Iron type that was are a quiet people, serious and contemplative, used for baking before the appearance THE FOLLOWING ARE SOME OF THE BARGAINS LISTED:— while the Tahitians are of ovens and cook stoves. Mrs. William laughter-loving, light-hearted, frenzied Satterfield used it when she was living 50c dancers, orators, music worshipers at Valley Forge in 1776. It was an] feasters. Genuine U. S. Army O. D. Wool fiO fi/v later given her daughter, who used Webb Belts it until her death, at 110 years of Shirts, reclaimed Ghost for Fish Bait. age, when it was given to Mrs. J. V. Si«'.nii'.se fishermen do most of their Sanders, the mother of the present U. S. Army O. D. Wool Breeches ff A Wool Coats, all wool IS.A fishing by means of what is known as owner.—Kansas City Times. each Reclaimed, per pair 14.00 a ghost boat. This consists of a long hoard, psiinted white, and arranged in Popular—Indeed. Cartridge Boxes gA^| O. D. Wool Mackinaws, new portion in the water. The top must Mrs. W. had just brought home her each 3UC* each not I too high above the surface of new hat nnd was exhibiting It to her $2.00 the wiiter for the fish it is desired to husband hoping to win his approval Pistol Holsters to leap over. When in posiiioji thereby. He looked at it critically. O. D. Wrapped Leggings I he ghost resembles very much "Yes," she chirruped, "It's real oldfashioned. a 9 the white side of a boat or punt. The Just look at the flowerspoppies fish, smeing this white board, become and petunias and nasturtiums Off A A British Officers' Coats, new Canvas Leggings Af* frightened, and in fear they leap over and see here—this wheat." each per pair the hoard. At the back of the board, "Um huh," Mr. W. nodded his approval. however, nets are arranged in such a "But if you wanted this hat AA O. D. Wool Shirts, new Steel Folding Cots position that those fish that succeed to be popular. Mary, why didn't you 99m 9 in leaping the board land in the nets have them change tills wheat on your each each and are caught. The amount of fish hat to rye?" caught by the employment of ghost Regulation Rain Coats, double ^A J%A U. S. Army Rubber Hip Boots, ^4* A A boats is very large indeed, and the Bamboo for Paper Making. back, new new, per pair 12.00 method has the advantage of preventing to Sir Harry Johnston, According the smaller fry from getting into the famous African explorer, the inexhaustible Officers' Belted Raincoats, new Sweaters, all wool, irew A A the nets, as they are unable to leap supply of grasses, reeds over the board. each 99At%9 and "rushes of tropical Africa can be .00 utilized in making paper. William Raitt, the cellulose expert of the Brit-, Cartridge Belts $1 Leather Vests ^*7 ff A AND Largest Venomous Snake. •9\f ish government, points out many serious each each 9 UP The bush master is the largest difficulties In making paper from linovm venomous snake. It inhabits these grasses, but says that these are the Amazonian region in South America. not found in bamboo, which renews itself lis teeth and poison: apparatus Heavy Wool U. S. Army Blankets $6.50 annually. resemble those of a rattlesnake, and the fapgs are very large. Death has Earthquakes in the United States. been known to occur within 10 minutes In 1910 the Uclled States was shaken after the bite of one of these reptiles. eighty-seven times by earthquakes. Big Bargains in Overalls, Mitts, Socks, Galvanized Pails, Holters, Etc. It lives in dens and holes in the In 1918 It was shaken 127 times. Few ground, frequenting river banks and of these quakes were sufficiently sot climb does trees. This snake at.a *i!te Saturday Morning, Nov. 13th strong to be felr •xcept by the seismographs length of to feet the 12 15 of the United States weather color of Its body is yellowish pink, bureau. with brown patterns tints of purple. and. 8plendld Achievement. To free oneself from the restraint of Place to Boil It" Then. ~r outer authority may not be difficult, International Falls U. S. Army Store At die bank of the Missouri1 river, but to make one's new freedom sub* one mile west, I questioned a ftan, ject to the shaping and guiding power of inner law is the supreme achievement who replied that he had heard nothing of the human will.—Ralph Philip about Sitting Bull. I then asked him Boas. whether it was true that they drank the Missouri river water, trblch was INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINN. ILTIS BLOCK—4TH AVE. SIDE rolling by as like a tidal wave of sand. Walter, One Diah "Milhil" The Chinese are very fond of an extraordinary "Ha," he said, "we can't do that, but we oft« break off a piece ana: suck dish called "milhl." which is made of live .new-born mice dipped It like molasses candy."—Fred Qmt. £8 Itend in the Touth's Companion. hi ho»iey.»|if^S!f -1. DEFECTIVE PAGE