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THE ALTO HERALD. ALTO. TEXAS.
ROGERS
BEVERLY HILLS—WeU aH I know
la just what I read in the papera, or
ivhat I see hore and there. We are at]
sttting out hore on
the "Set" taktng the
parade tn an otd
Confederate Re
unions Convention.
I am sitting here on
the running board
or a car with the
typewriter on my
knee, trying to
knock out a tew
"Personals". I have
on the otd Confcd
orate Grey, (the
long grey coat). Its
Irving Cohbs story of "Judge Priest",
and its iayed around 1890, about twenty
iiye years after the Civii War. The pa-
rade is in«a iittie smalt town of Ken-
tucky, and its wonderfui the oid cos-
tumes on ait the men and women, and
even the chiidren. Folks often ask,
''Where do they get the oid ciothes?"
Weii costuming is one of the biggest
businesses out hero. There is just one
company that has a great bunding of
their own, six or eight stories high,
that covers haif a biock. You can get
any suit,( or hundreds of em) of any
time or period in the worid. You can
say I want five hundred Confederate
Greys, and iive hundred G. A. R. S., .oid
period ciothes for five hundred peopie
along the streets. Then there is aii the
"Mother Hubbards" and oid caiicos for
aii the coiored women foiks and kids.
Then the Sfe and drum corps, then the
oid fashioned "Buggys" and "Surreys"
and "Hacks" and aii the horses and
harnesses. Then the iittie reviewing
stand which is about the oniy thing
that hasent changed much. There is al-
ways just about the same amount of
Queer looking peopie in it with high
hats on, iooking down on the "Riff
Raff" marching. Then the dogs, ail
breedB and aii descriptions that wouid
be in a parade. Weii thqts another big
industry. There is aeverai men out
here with as many aa fifty different
breeds of trained dogs to "Act" better
than most of us actors.
Did I aver teii you about the time a
year or so ago I made a "Tramp" pic-
ture, and used a big Saint Bernard dog
!n it? We were for a coupie of weeks
away up in the Sierra Nevada Moun-
tains and I become very attached to
this oid dog. I was piaying with a rope
and I wouid rope him by the hour, and
ho never minded it. Weii ! finnaiiy de-
cided to try and buy him. The trainer
with htm wasent the owner, but know-
ing nothing about what in the worid
tho dog wouid cost, or any other dog, i
Snaily worked up couraL) and gener-
osity enough to say to him, "Say teii
your boss I wiii give him 100 doiiars
for this oid dog." Weii I just figured
that I had the dog, and had just thrown
in 60 or 75 doiiars for good measure.
The trainer kinder grinned and said,
Weii I doubt if you get him Wiii. The
tog gets 150 a week." Weii I knew I
uident afford to pay him that if I
ad him. Especiaiiy just to waik around
,nd be roped at. Then today I see some
hogs along the oid wooden sidewaik.
You rent them, any coior, any breed.
They aint trained much, oniy just to
root and grunt, and took iike a hog.
Theres the oid Southern Court House
with its big pHiars, fronting out on the
park, or square, with the Confederate
Momument in it, and the cannon and
cannon balis piied in each corner of
the park. Now aii this has been put
there, not a speck of it is reai. Its aii
been made just for the picture. The
trees, great big ones, have been trans-
pianted. Yet when this picture is Bn-
iabed and gone, this same spot may be
the Bowery in New York, or the whote
acres of this space taken up with an
Iceberg, or an ocean with a itner on it.
These scenic artists are marveis.
They and the photography are the prtn-
cipai advancement that this business
has shown. Acting
Is just as had. and
so is the stories.
But this mechanics
have improved.
Now I have to
get up and run over
and march again,
for we wiii have to
take this parade
a c e n e a dozen
times, and a dozen
different ways tor
angios). But there
is something about
marching to "Dixie" that you never get
tired. What wonderfui oid characters
some of theso extras are sitting around
here in their uniforms. I am the ieast
reai iooking one in the whoie mob. Ltt-
tie Henry Waithaii, that great actor,
looks every inch tho ex Chapian.
We iay around under the shade here
when not "Shooting" and taik oid time
vaudeviiie with some of em. Shean of
Gaiiager and Shean is visiting the
"Set." and iots of oid timers among
these hundreds of people, or I might
roii over under the shade of the next
trao and taik "Caif Roping" to some
boys that have made Cheyenne, or Pen-
dieton, away back when they were
wiid. There goes that fife and drum
corps with Dixie, you just got to get up
and march, even if there wasent any
camera. Picture making is a "Nutty"
business but its fascinating. There's
Jack Ford, our geniat. kidding, hut ter
ribly competent director yelling, "See
if you can get Rogers on the set." Tho
band is piaying Dixie.
Q ioji, /**.
n-nt
(TO by JHMMY GARTHWAtTE C\3
PARENTS AGAIN
w
HY do parents always say
"NO" to this and "NO" to that?
"No—you can't go out and play—"
"No—don't tease the cat."
"No—don't do your hair that way/
"No—don't wear that dress—"
Why must they always always say
"No" instead of "Yes"?
@ Harper & Brother*—WNU Service.
PERFECT JELLY, HOW TO MAKE IT
Tasty Combinations Suggested
33 by Expert. ^
By EDITH M. BARBER
*T^HB perfect jeiiy it one which is
* firm, but not too firm, which wiii
turn out of the glass and keep the
shape of the moid, but stiii be siightiy
quivering. The Savor will depend, of
course, upon the fruit or the combina-
tion of fruits you use for making the
jeiiy and whether you use the old-fasti
toned method which produces excellent
resuits, tf successfully made, or the
new-fashioned method which is known
aa foolproof method. With the oid
fashioned method you get what may
be caiied a richer fiavor; with the new
fashioned method you get a fiavor
which is more deiicate, perhaps more
neariy ilke that of the fresh fruit.
For the otd-fashtoned method you
use mereiy the strained juice of ber-
ries or fruit which have been cooked
with very iittie water and sugar. To
be sure that your fruit juice wiii jeiiy,
you must use the proper amount of
sugar. We no tonger use cup for cup.
as the oid recipes teii us. We use
one tabiespoonfut of hot juice and add
to it an equat amount of aicohot and
let it stand two or three minutes. If
this mixture has jeiiied so that you
can take it up upon the spoon without
Its breaking, you may use one cupfui
of sugar to one cupfui of juice. If
the mixture jeities but breaks as you
take tt upon the spoon, you wlit need
three-quarters of a cupfui of sugar to
one cupfui of juice. If it does not
jeiiy at att, cook the juice down or add
bottted pectin or green apple juice
until you get a jeiiy test.
Bottied pectin, by the way, is mereiy
concentrated appie juice. When you
use the newer, more popular, foolproof
method of making jelly you are actual-
iy combining apple juice with your
frutt juice tn targe enough quantities
so that the mixture wtit be concen-
trated. In making jeiiy in this way
follow exactly the recipes which come
with the bottie of pectin. They have
been worked out carefuity after iong
experiments) work.
To go back to the old-fashioned
method of making jelly. After we
have combined the frutt jutce and the
sugar and have stirred the mixture
nnttl the sugar is dissolved, we must
bott it untii we get a jelly test. I make
my test by dipping the spoon into the
airup and shaking it off above the ket-
tle. When two drops wiii hang side
by side upon the edge of the spoon
the jeity is ready to pour into the hot
glasses. It should be skimmed before
tt is poured, but it need not be
akimmed during the boiling.
Whichever method I have used for
making the jeiiy, I add a thin iayer of
melted parafBn Immediately after it
has been poured into the glasses. The
next day. when it is cold, I add a sec-
ond tayer of parafBn before I put on
the covers and tabet it for storage.
I am giving you recipes for jeiiy
made both ways.
Preparing Juice.
Select and wash fruit- Remove the
huiis, stem and blossom ends. Out
hard fruits into pieces without peeitng
or coring.
For soft fruits use just enough wa
ter to prevent sticking. Heat gradual-
iy, mash white heating and cook until
the puip has lost tts color.
For hard fruits, cook with just
enough water to cover untii the fruit
is tender. Do not mash if you wish to
have a clear jeiiy. Strain the juice
through a wet ftannet jelly bag, but
THAT'S SOMETHtNG
"She saya she went abroad to finish
her education. I wonder if she teamed
much!"
"She told me aha had alx new ways
to Bx her hair."
do not squeeze, as this witt give a
cloudy jeiiy.
When the juice has stopped dripping
from jeiiy bag return the putp to the
preserving kettle, add enough water to
cover, heat graduaity and simmer for
30 minutes and strain again through
jeiiy bag. Test for pectin and tf the
test shows suflictent pectin, present a
third extraction may be made. Keep
the juice obtained from iirst extrac-
tion separate from juice obtained in
second and third extractions, as juice
from the Brst extraction usually makeB
a ctearer jetly.
Test strained juice for pectin to de-
termine whether tt contains suBicient
pectin which in turn indicates the pro-
portion of sugar to be used.
Old-Fashioned Jeiiy.
To obtain best resulta tn jetly mnk-
Ing it Is advtsnbte to work with a smait
quantity of jutce. Two quarts of juice
is a suBictentty iarge quantity to han-
dle at one time.
Measure juice, add sugar and boii
raptdty for Bve minutes and stir until
the sugar is dissotved. Sktm when
jelly is done and pour into glasses, and
seal with parafBn.
The top should be ioose to prevent
the jeiiy from weeping.
Ratpberry Jeiiy.
4 cups (2 lbs.) juice
7% cups (3% ibs.) sugar
1 bottie frutt pectin
To prepare juice, crush thoroughiy
or grind about three quarts fuily ripe
berries. Piace in jetly cioth or bag
and squeeze out juice.
Measure sugar and juice into large
saucepan and mix. Bring to a boit
over hottest Bre and at once add fruit
pectin, stirring constancy. Then bring
DECK SERVLCE
"Oh, are you one of the Beet
sailors!"
"No mum, I ain't very speedy. I'm
on the walking team of our ship."
Flour Bags Carry
Messages of Love
Winnipeg.—M. Oison, of Outlook.
Sask., is searching for a wife tn a
novel way. He is sending out pro-
posals in bags of Bour.
Severat women here report that
upon opening bugs of Hour they
have found a note inside, reading:
"Looking for n wife, Mr. M. Olson.
Outlook, Sask."
Olson has hud no tuck so far. for
aii of the women Bnding his notes
are mnrrled.
to a full roiling boit and boii hard haif
minute. Remove from Bre, skim, pour
quickly. ParafBn hot jelly at once.
Malces about eleven gtasses.
a Ben Syndicate—WNU Service.
My Neighbor
SAYS:
X T 7iiHN you have broken bread
W crusts, put them into a tin, brown
them In the oven, grate them fine and
put them in a ciosely covered jar.
You wiii Bnd them very usefui when
cooking cutlets, Hsh, etc.
t * <
Gasoline that has been used for
cleansing purposes and is no tonger
clean, will kill weeds growing in dirt
walks tf poured over them.
* * *
If rubber pads are placed on stairs
before varnish is dry, they will adhere
to the stairs, thus avoiding the neces-
sity of tacking. Varnish the stairs
and then give the edges <9f the pads a
coat of varnish.
< * t
In making cake, sour milk may be
used the same as sweet milk, if one-
third teaspoon of soda is added to
each cup of sour mttk.
° ^WNU^Servic"""^^"^
Leeches to Treat Sick
Still Are Used in Ohio
Cleveland.—Hundreds of Cleveland
foreign-born still cling to the practice
of using ieeches.
The Red Cross pharmacy, a drug
store here, does a nationai business in
the btood suckers as wetl as catering
particutarly to Ctevetand Hungarians.
L. H. Fisher, manager of the drug
store's matt-order department, said he
mails thousands of teeches each spring
to all parts of the country and to Can-
ada.
"We import them att. Our people
betieve tho American teeches are not
good. They are too targe and their
betiies are black, tn contrast wtth the
green color of European kinds.
"We transport them here in piain
earth and they iive on nothing but
fresh water and ait'. They are caught
in European marshes by women and
chtidren, who wade into the water
barefooted and wait untii enough
leeches attach themselves to their
tegs."
Fisher said some persons treat them-
selves with as many as twelve of the
tiny creatures at once. The smalier
they are the more they can suck.
To Restore First Slave
Cemetery in New Jersey
Mays Landing, N. J.—Historical so-
cieties plan to clear the debris from
htstoricai Shore Road cemetery, tho
Brst slave burying ground in New Jer-
sey. The only identiBcation now on
the grounds is a plain marbie slab
bearing the inscription "Angeitna Tay-
ior, died September 5, 1833, aged
eighty-three years." nistoricai writ-
ings frequentiy referred to the ceme-
tery, which marked the Brst foothold
of slavery in the state.
A high percentage of Quakers among
the eariy settlers in this vtcintty pre-
vented great numbers of slaves at any
time. At one time there were 12,000
alavea in the state, however, mostty in
the northern portion.
Pianet Discoverer Finds a Bnde
Uiyde Tombaugh, Internationaily celebrated astronomer who discovered tho
planet 1'tuto some years ago. Is Bhown wtth his bride, the former Patricta
Kdson, Kansas university coed, after their wedding ceremony, ihey spent
their honeymoon en route to Flagstaff, Ariz., where Mr. Tombaugh will do
research work at the Loweii observatory.
Lights of New York iA. STEVENSON
Standing at Wait and Nassau streets,
my imagination went back to 145 years
ago. The stone structure, once the
United States subtreasury, now the
passport oiiice, changed to a much dif-
ferent buitding—the city halt of Col-
ontat times, which was also the cap-
itot of the province of New York. The
hurrying crowds of bankers, brokers,
panhandiers, messengers, runners, tele-
graph operators, typists, Bting cterks
traders, mtiitonaires and down and
outers changed to those who had wit-
nessed the birth of iiberty. The hur-
rying ceased and Colonials massed tn
front of the city hati. Then the
Ward statue of George Washington
changed from bronze to Begh and
blood. On a ptatform were the mem-
bers of the Brst congress of the United
State of America. With them were
generals who had fought under Wash-
ington. Beside Washington stood Rob-
ert H. Livingston, chanceilor of the
state of New York and grand master
of the Masons. Heads were bared and
there was a great stiilness. Chancetior
Livingston was about to administer
the inaugural oath to the Brst Presi-
dent of the United States.
Instead of administering the oath,
Chancellor Livingston turned to Gen.
Jacob Morton, marshat of the day.
There was a whispered conference at
the conciusion of which Generai Mor-
ton hurried away while the crowd won-
dered. From the platform, Genera!
Morton Bped to the Otd Coffee house at
Walt and Water streets, the meeting
place of St. John's lodge of Masons of
which he was master. He was gone
onty a few moments. When he re-
turned, he was carrying a targe Bible
resting on a cushion of crimson vel-
vet. He had taken that Btbie from
the aitar of St. John's lodge. Then tt
became known to those on the piat-
form at ieast that white other details
had been attended to carefuiiy the
matter of a Bible for administering
the oath had been overiooked.
Washington, according to Ossian
Lang's "History of Free Masonry tn
the state of New York," piaced hts
hand upon the page containing the
forty-ninth chapter of Genesia from
Tablet in Honor of Genera! Bamett Unveiled
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=*%!!'!
This is the beautiful bronze tabtet which was dedicated tntbe Washlntrtnn ,
BMMtt, commandant of the United States marine corps during the World WM. t h!LIt!!n!is^flhyeorp^""''^
verse 13 untit the end, more particu-
larly Jacob's blessing of Joseph, "the
prince among the brethren." Foltow-
tng the administration of the oath,
Washington kissed the book reverently.
There was another moment of sttence.
"It ts done," cried out Chancellor Liv-
ingston. Then waving hts hand, he ex-
claimed wtth a joyous shout, "Long
Live George Washington." A great
cheer arose. The Repubiic was at ita
beginning. "Move on," said a voice
In my ear, "you're biocking trafBc."
And I smlied at the statue tooking
down benlgniy on the passing throngs.
* * *
The Bible on which the hand of
Washington rested and which he kissed
on that historic day is stiil tn exist-
ence and is stiil the property of the
lodge that owned it at the time. Wtth
the spelt of the past sttii on me, I'd
have liked to see it. But that was im-
possihte. So precious is the relic
that it ts kept under tock and key ex-
cept when used in lodge work, and Is
permitted to ieave the lodge onty on
unanimous vote of the members. Then
tt must be accompanied by a commit-
tee of Bve, three of which must be past
masters of the todge. The historic
pages are covered with transparent
stlk. The Bible was presented to the
todge by Jonathan Hampton, Novem-
ber 28, 1775, the ntght on which he
was installed as master.
* . *
Recently, a young woman wrote
asking about the chances of getting
her song pubttshed. The head of the
largest Brms in the country totd me
that the chances are remote since es-
tablished song writers are having di(H-
culty in getting their wcrks produced.
The state of the song business, he add-
ed, Is reBected by "Smoke Gets Into
Your Eyes," the hit number of "Rober-
ta." Despite its popuiarity, the sales
have not reached 100,000 copies. In
the oid days, they woutd have been
well over a mtttton.
<!*). Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.
j How nt Started
j JHy /MM
"Bread of AfHiction"
'CyiHEIRS indeed la the bread
* affliction."
It was in these words that an !n-
vestlgator recentiy epitomized the
fruits of the working day of a large
portion of our poputatlon, engaged in
a certain industry which for decades
hns been considered uneconomic; and
which, probabiy chteBy on thts ac-
count, has been beset wtth ati the trials
and trtbutattons inherent tn industrial
disputes.
The "Bread of Afftiction" is a met-
aphorlcai aliualon to a bare living,
earned under circumstances so patn-
fut, under conditions so unpleasant
and distressing, that those so "af-
Bicted" are prone to wonder—tf their
minds are not too duited to wonder—
whether or not It is worth while to
keep on ttvlng.
The expression comes to us straight
from the Btbte where tt ts found used
in a similar sense in Deut. 16:3.
e Beii Syndicate—WNU Service.
Of
HOME CONSUMPT!ON
Irate Wife—How tong were y«t< on
the water wagon whli" I was ,
iluhby—onty a few days; the plan'*
used tf alt up.
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Weimar, F. L. The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 19, 1934, newspaper, July 19, 1934; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth214707/m1/2/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stella Hill Memorial Library.