THE PERKINS JOURNAL
Perkins Journal
Frosting First
or Last
Publiimd by the Journai PubNshing ( 'o
E. M. Long, Edttor and Manager
Entered as second class marl matter By MAE LOUISE FOSTER
at the poatoffice at Perkins, Oklaht, nia
under act of congress March 3rd, 1899
. by McOlure Newspltplr syndioate
................................................ ! WNU Service
SIItlS(,RIPTION RATES !
In Payne, Lineoln and l.og - .]..tRLYr' queried Glenn, poking I
-" red-thatched head around the
an counties, 5|)t per year; ()tit door of the tiny apartment which Alice
side $1.00. [ shared with a girl friend.
I "Perfectly punctual," Alice didn't
Resolutions of Respect .... Minimum i look up. Bubbles seemed to burst In
$1.00. Over 20 lines, 5 cents per line. I Glenn's heart and puff away his breath-
All poetry aamepriee, i lag ae he watched her in that ridicu-
lous frill of an apron, preparing din-
" ' '" "' t nerfor him.
I He hoped fervently that this one had
Eye Can Adapt Itself to
turned out as desired. Others, several
Variation in Light Power i others, hadn't. Glenn loved that firm
The truth of the statement that one little rounded chin, but Alice was quite
does not see with the eyes but through
the agency of the eyes Is explained by
a writer In Hygela Health Magazine.
The size of the retinal image of any
object Is based on the visual angle
which it subtends, so that a 4-inch ob.
Ject at 50 Inches, a 6-Inch object at
100 inches and a 9-Inch object at 150
inches appear to have the same dimes.
signs. This phenomenon is not yet ex-
plalned.
Also affecting the power of vision is
the change of acuity, or clearness,
with illumination. Wlly a person can
see better with higher candle power
Is also not explained by science, but
tmewaen daylight and night the eye
can adapt itself to a variation In light
intensity ranging from 10,000 candle
power to a millionth of 1 candle power.
The difference in brightness between
an object and its background, that is
Its contrast, and the duration of ex-
posure are also Important factors in
determining visibility. Glare is pro-
dueed by too great contrasts in illumi-
nation. Summer daylight may reach
4,000 candle power without producing
glare, with Its ensuing discomfort; but
wen the various parts of the retina
are unequally stimulated, as is the
case when a strong automobile head-
light Is seen at night, glare results.
The mystery of the clairvoyant is,
after a fabian, scientifically realized
by the discovery that the x-rays are
readily perceived through dosed eye-
lids by the dark-adapted eye, and lead
letters brought in contact with the
closed lid are seen as black letters on
a bright background.
Guild of Pepperers Wan
Adjunct of Spice Trade
In proof of the great importance of
the spice trade, I would point to the
fct that one of the earliest of the
city guilds was the pepperers, which
was first heard of in 1180, says a writ-
er in London Nineteenth Century and
After. Thle guild, with the Ropers
aml Apothecaries, nominated the offi-
ces in charge of the king's beam. In
11145 the Guild of Pepperers was suc-
ceeded by a fraternity which In 1378 be-
came the Grocers' company. The
word "grocer," to quote from an old
work, "was a term distinguishing mer-
chants of this society, in opposition to
inferior retailers, for that they usu-
ally sold in gross quantities, by great
weights."
Since spices constituted the com-
modities in which they dealt, the word
gradually acquired Its present mean-
ins of an "inferior retailer" in spices.
The weigh-house and public weighing
were vested in the Grocers' company,
a right which they retained until the
Eighteenth century. The privilege of
garbling or cleaning spices was also
bestowed on the company, whose rep-
resentatives were empowered to enter
any shop or warehouse to view spices
and drugs and to garble them.
They were also empowered to con-
flscate any spices that were being sold
without being first cleaned by a get-
belier "chosen, accepted and sworn for
that purpose." The patron of the
company was St. Anthony, in whose
honor the fraternity attended a high
mass annually.
as firm as her chin. No amount of
coaxing could change her determlna-
tlon not to marry Glenn until she had
learned to cook.
Up until a year ago she didn't even
have to comb her own hair. Then
erash ! the family fortune vanished and
much to her sm'prlse she found her-
self holding a Job. Glenn had urged
that if she'd marry him she'd find her.
self cooking Just as she'd found her-
self working.
What If she said no this time---
Glenn's heart seemed to part in the
center to let an ice-cube through. She
couldn't Say no today because the com.
pany was sending him to Argentina Sat,
urday. He wouldn't be back for two
years. Two long years without her?
Imposslblel She must go with him.
The salad was good. So wan the cold
meat. The aparagus was scorched and
after the first taste he neglected It.
But the Jellied fruit and coffee proved
in turn delicious and when Alice pro-
duced a cake dotted thick with pecans,
he leaned over and kissed her. "Per-
fect," he declared,
Whlch?" asked Alice, with a little
smile that shouldn't have looked mold-
ed, but did.
"Both," he asserted, "and the next
time you see me I'll have a marriage
license in my pocket." Gathering his
courage he explained quickly, "That
export Job materialized unexpectedly.
We are leaving for Argentina Saint-
day."
Alice ignored his remarks. Rippling
a little laugh, she asked, "Didn't you
like the asparagus?"
"It wasn't bad," he said lightly,
wishing he'd had sense enough to eat
it. "Why worry about the sldedlsh?
The rest was perfect."
"The rest," replied Alice slowly,
"came from tim delicatessen."
Alice's mouth twisted. "Once." she
said, "I overheard a conversation in
which you declared can openers were
the first step to tile dlvm'ce court. Re-
member?"
But Glenn wouldn't listen this time.
llecaught liar hands tightly. "Just
because this dinner went pbooey is no
sign snottier will. Try again. Try
now. This is a nmtrimouial crash,
Let's lick It. Is a cake hard to make? '°
"I never tried, but I'm sure they are,
why?"
"I,et's try one now and if it's okay,
we'll say its written in the stars, all
signs favorableand Mrs. Glenn will
learn to cook in Argentina."
They were In the kitchenette, ex-
ploring shelves.
"There," she checked carefully with
the cookbook. "Now go away and don't
colne back for all hour."
"I'll go," he told her, stealing a
flourdabbed kiss, "and get the license."
All the way to the license bureau he
was remembering cakes. Oaken his
mother'd made. cakes he'd pilfered
from pantry windows. He saw one
lu a bakeshop window, three layers
witb crinkled frosting. It looked com-
plicated. He suddenly lmted all cakes.
Back in front of the apartment he
shifted from one foot to tim other.
Half an hour more to wait. It couldn't
do any lmrm to sniff outside the door.
One sniff was enough. He opened the
door, the oven, the windows. Then he
carefully sealed the marriage license
and put it in his pocket.
"What s mess?" he groaned, survey-
ing that thing which should lmve been
a cake and was cinders all over the
oven. He found a note on the table.
"Glenn. des'." it read "the cookbook
says it should bake forty minutes. I've
set the alarm and am resting." Glenn
snatched up the clock and praying she
wouldn't notice set it back ten mlnutel.
He swept the debris from the oven
into a newspaper and dashed out. On
the way to the bakeshop he tossed It
behind a billboard.
Half an hen r later he held his breath
while Alice opened the oven door.
There ou the rack was a three-layer
cake with white crinkled frosting.
"Perfect," he cried, holding her
close.
• •
It was Saturday and they were
standing on the top deck of a liner
watching New York sag irregularly
into haze-flung sunset. Glenn's arm
was about her and her scarlet beret
snutgled against hll shoulder.
Fairy Tales
People of ohlen times had little
science and less Investigation, but they
were rlcl in Imagination, and in Im-
agination they flew. owned supernat-
ural servants, and traversed great dis-
tances easily, according to the Knick-
erbocker press. The legends of wish-
ins caps, invisible cloaks, magic rugs,
seven-leagued boots and genii of the
lamp we call fairy tales. None the
leu. they were precursors of the age
of practical magic in which we live.
What ls man lmaglnlng now? None
of the wonders suggested above, for
most of these he has. and many nmre.
The fairy tales of our times mirror a
world In which war will be outmoded,.
where the goods af this world will he
so equally distributed as to make
booms and panics impossible, where
Jobs await all who are willing to work
and where nobody toils to the detri-
ment of his imalth and happiness,
where nation has joined with nation
in a great family of peoplei,
"Glenn, dear." .he murmured in a
'fessilig-ul,' voive. "'You don't know
how near I came to sl)oiliag tbat pretty
crinkled frosting. The recipe didn't
say whelher to pat It nn before baking
or after and I ah-n,t di,in't pat it on.
Wa.n't it qneer th*mh." she lidded,
"that It .nee pill whii whorl 1 made
choco ln t e Y'
"1 saw that nw-C' ,he xhispered,
"and bh] bocaH<o I vollldn't face you.
:But if ytm'd t:Ik,, th::I mm.]l ro,ll)le to
cover yollr ,,vil',' bJlllldory., well, I
thought it,at if it di+[h'l: matter whether
the ['l'()slhlg ,'1111)o firs! or ]flSi--"
She (]idll't llnlt), ht' couldn't.
Glenn's lips were agaln.t here.
"Fraud," he wlii.pered.
'*q--'W0 i'rtlHds," site whispered back.
Greece Had First Stamps
It appears that the Greeks invented
tl modern adhesive postage stamp
nine years before the issuance of Eug-
land's penny l)htck, hitherto regarded
as the first adhesive postage stamp,
says the Detroit News.
Hitherto the stamp was only known
on cover and among t!e few that have
been found the earliest date was De-
cember 25, 1840.
That the stamp was in existence
before 1840 Is proved by the discov-
ery among some old papers in Greece
of a portion of a sheet, consisting of
nine maml)S, bearing the manuscript
lnscril)tion on the back with the date
May 2, 1831, and the signature of the
governor of I'oroa, where the state
printing works v,,'ere situated at thai
date.
Starlings Numerous
Althougt the starling wss not
brought to tiffs conntry until 1S().
when it was introdaced into New York
state, it has spread and mu!tiplied so
rapidly that it is becoming a well-
known resident of many of our mid-
western states. It is about the size
of a red-winged blm:kbird though
stockier and possessed of a short, stub-
by tail. In spring It is black, but
when It molts its spring plumage the
new feathers are tipped with white or
buff which gives the bird a mottled
appearance.
Chinese Invented peghetti
Macaroni. spaghetti am1 similar
"pastes" are eonshiered by the gen-
'al pnbllc as a typists) and peculiarly
Italian food. and Italy is prolmldy
entitled to llW credit for her (,ally
appreciation of lheh' virtues and hm'
fidelity to them after adoption, but
history credits thelr Invention to the
(inese aud theh- F, Ilropeflll intro-
duction to the (;crmans.
Lonesome Spot
FriendDon't you worry. Tomor-
row ,vbcn yell give your spe(.(:h you
will lmve all Intelligent men on your
side.
Candidate for Parliament--That Is
what Is worTylng me. I would rather
bey+, the luaJorlty.--Lustige Blatter,
]Berlin.
Shoes Weather Prophets
Because poorly tanned leather shrinks
as the humidity Increases before a rain,
shoe.q are true prophets of wet weath-
er. As the slloes shrink, they pinch
the wearer's feet. An authority says
that the school of Involuntary weather
prophets, who predict the approach of
a storm because their feet liurt, could
be eliminated ff the leather in their
shoes was properly treated. When per-
sons suffer bodily fatigue, mental irri-
tability or general discomfm't without
apparent cause, their shoes may be to
blame.
Ancestors of Whales
According it) p:ttevutology, the an-
castors of ")h:tte w,,r,, b(.asts of prey
!Ivlng on lttnd.
Perfume From Myrtle Leaven
Only five omt(.e. of perfutae are ob-
tained from ](,) pounds of myrtle
leaves.
Influenced by Altitude
Birth, death and nlarriage rates are
found to be influenc'ed by altitude.
Fish Sense
()It(' t'lle :t fi'li i),)saesse which
n|Plll (il),,+ I11)1. according h) experts, Is
a lst,ral line running along bor/ slde
of Ill+' l,ody v,'tiit'h apparently serve
S fun('ii(,n ()f responding t<) reflected
WaVe ill lhe water.
Don't Sink In
"I have said many wise. tblngs," said
HI He, the sage of Chhtatown, "which
my ancestors sId long ago, and ofte
with no more practical effect than I
can hope for from my own hamb]e hut
per,i.tont remarks."
Brazil in Tobacco Buslness
With an annual productlon of about
200.000.000 pounds of leaf tobacco
Brazil Is e,thnated to manufacture
7,00,000,000 elgarets and 17,600,000
pounds of smoking tobacco each year.
"Banks" and "Bankers"
Co]loqui:tily. Harrows and strips
paralleling the co'tst of North Caro-
Ilna are referred to as "l)anks." and
residents of lhose Isolated bits of
land are called "b:tnk+,rs."
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Neuritis
Backache
Rheumatism
Lumbago
Sciatica
Muscular Pains
• • Periodic Pains
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