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wv The: Woman 'ihefWEVesiset, You Know "Then I passed the nizza and he ate himself 1 grogrjr; Just like you said he would. "Then I carefully cut my finger serving the snmoni-and do you know, mama, there isn't a sharp knife in the place and he comforted me. The big tweet adorable lummox, he really loves me, you knot. I can tell the way he breathes on me. i I squeezed my cut finger like you showed me and it bled like crazy and he put a Umlaut looks at his wife reflectively, and gives me that.wottheU's-been-going-on-here look.

But before he can say anything Gessilde trots out her hope, chest and on top is an afghan it took at least a year to make with the groom-to-be's ini-tiale embroidered in every last linens are monogimmad and even the wash cloths have a sweet "Bud" and "Mary Lou" tatted on the corners. "Well, Jud. .1 say to her as am putting on my guess congratulations are in order." "Really," says Gessilde, "one never congratu- lates the girL- looks prim enough to let me know I've put my foot in it, but adds jusLnough smile to tell me it's all right this time. "You wish them happiness and good fortune. but never of fer congratulation, After all, old one, it is the boy who must take the initiative in these And she adds, "I was wooed and won.

The girl is the weaker vessel, you know." Does anyone know how the fights came out niutui a. wwrmwHi Jo-rnaiaa Writer Toasting before the hearth frini Umlaut last week ona night, I was watching the fight and -casualiy dismissing tha merits of femala tolling dogs when I am witness to a little tableau to make the blood of bachelor run thm front door softly opened In the middle of the eighth round and Umlaut's daughter Gee-adde floated in on clood 5. She is beyond words. With left arm outstretched, hand splayed downward, all she can do is scream. "Eeeaeakl i Eeeeeekr and point wildly at a faint glimmer on the third finger.

-V WeIL" says her mother with a quiet amile of triumph, "I see you got him." "Eeeeeekr cries sweet Gessilde. And mother gets into the spirit of the thing with a couple of mild eeeeks of her own, a sniffle or two and a broken, "My baybeeee." Dear friends, jrou have just been witneselb an engagement announcement, formal type. Does it make your scalp prickle But back 'to this gentle scene fat the bosom of Umlaut's family. Tell me, daughter." says mhther slyly, did you accomplish this thing)! last Wednesday night? 111 i am tt 111 1 S4 0U i-r' bandage on it, and I told him, 'Oh, darling, how. did I ever get along without and he says, Oh, really, kiddo, there's no need for and 1 said, real quick, 'sweetheart this is so sudden and the lovable ox is on the hook." 'It's just as I said, dear," says the doting, tweet mother, "timing is "Then today," says Gessilde, eyes swimming and face flushed with victory, "I sprained my ankle in front of the jewelry store and lookitl Just like it was in writing.

Half a karat. Oh, weu. says Ceanlde, this paragon of maidenly innocence, "You know Bud just adores pep-peroni pizza. So yesterday when he Invited me to his apartment to look at a few of his old scratching. I really went to work.

He seemed sort of fill AC' disappointed when I mentioned food, but when he made martinis 1 sneaked mine into his glass and he mellowed real quick. Wrote Shar pshopt Bloody HiStory- BIO fHTTWT Qwilih, Mum Ma and Wow! 1M imli Wm 1U ef UarM-UmxUac They Were Michigan's Most ItaMaa kt mmUI Mm. bat Al IWKoa kiklrf M.ia1a Mm. hat Al I aa nUkt SSO tasty ha aala. -It teadyl Sewll Wise PM Keeps Quiet By VIRGINIA KACHAK CHICAGO (INS) Phil Spitalny Is an expert In handling women.

Regiment in That War of Long Ago i riiim n1-1 Waitress Mute MiiWIi with For 20 years he's been telling a lot of them some 600, in fact what to do and how to do it. But now he's on a hot spot In spite of his 20 unscathed years of experience, fat refusing to get In the middle of a female controversy splitting hi all-Rirl orchestra. French Fried Saucers' Gome v'- With Biissers ers Mostly Nonsense By DICK MURRAY Jearaal Staff Writer) Tokyo police arrested a young who set fire to a public telephone booth because the operator was too slow In putting through his This may be history's first attempt to apply a hotfoot via phone. 1 i A wesnea at Superior, Was, feft SlSS staffed a eeafcte fraad bar wtt la a eaftee petti gnasur fsisiit lerlfce heirs! An1 attractive San Francisco model kept rescuing firemen waiting atop a ladder while she returned to her smoke-filled apartment for her Like A novelist going bock for his typewriter. A la Oklahoma propose the use ef a "time eraser" a gadget that automatically would remove the remaining meter time whea a ear leaves a sarklag space.

It's this sort ef thing that may make free-loading a lost art Forty-five convicts in an eastern prison are talcing courses on how to win friends. On parole boards, maybe. By BUM.TTI1 BABOBOW PARIS NEA) Flying saucers and cigars piloted by Martians art showing a definite predilection (or la bell France. Within the last few month French men all over the country have lived la the nope of aeeing and meeting either or troth. People ejulver with delirious apprehension at the thought suddenly they may find themselves face to face with one of these strange beings from another planet, whether jfars.

Venus or Uranus. mttef hard day In the fields. Collective hallucination" la Antnln took his usual short cut lt' t- Wl Famous crackling in the Wilderness when the Michigan Sharpshooters marched for Spotsylvania. On June 17 the brigade commander reported that the First Michigan Sharpshooters held their position "with great obstinacy and as a result of that dayVfighting, Pvt. Benjamin F.

Youngs was promoted to sergeant for gallantry in capturing the colors of the 35th North Carolina. Late that same night Color Sgt George A. Caine, believing the color guard to be sur- See SHARPSHOOTERS Page The Whatnot Shelf Kathryn Coffey Glennon's collection of the wisdom of children gives the Whatnot these additions to Its Children's, Corner: "She's quite old but her face doesn't look like she's lived much. Something happy is out" Tour mother calls your father 'dad' It must make him feel feeble!" "I don't think things are expensive. I bought nine gifts and had change from a dollar!" TIME STOOD STILL At exactly noon on Nov.

18. 1883, all local time was corrected by moving clocks either backward or forward so that each area had two noons. This adopting of standard time zone boundaries by the country's railroads did away with about 100 different times over the United States. And this day has come to be known as "the day of two noons." FASONATIV FACTS- Hydrogen is odorless. Many criminals are mentally 111, 'but physical sickness in confirmed criminals is quite exceptional.

While asleep, a person's body grows larger while his brain grows smaller. DID YOU KNOW that figuring In terms of 30 years to one generation, the United States is less than six generations old? THIMBLE THOUGHT "When the infant begins to walk, it thinks It lives In strange times." Turkish proverb. You sometlmej wonder If some man get married because they can't afford to go steady any longer. Mte Crea mbm mIiIIL "Bineot es Mr -It ail er hi aletare asatng. wnpn suddenly a few feet ahead he sign tea a strange ngure.

A tough guy, over six feet tall. Maxaud had never been afraid of anything, yet suddenly he was stricken with untold terror. Some Instinct warned him that tits being was more than strange- Ha could not distinguish hit features because he wore a helmet with a kind of visor such as motor-' cyclists wear. About five feet high, the figure swayed slightly from side to side. Maxaud gripped his pitchfork tightly, ready to defend himself.

But the figure advanced a few step, silently seized the farmer's hand In a tight clasp, then kissed him. Before he had time to recover hit senses, the Martian was already walking away. Maxaud shook himself and made for his farm at fast as his legs could carry him. But he had barely gone 10 yards when he saw the "thing." There It was, some 30 feet ahead, an elongated, glittering machine, about IS feet long. It took off with a rustling Dolce, slowly gaining al titude.

UNEXPLAINED Maxaud recounted his terrify ing experience to his wife and son. Soon the whole village heard about It. The authorities' sent In vestigators, But no trace of the Martian or his machine could be found. But to the whole coun tryside, the mysterious appari tion could oniy.be one of those mysterious inter-planetary visW tors. About the same time.

35-year- old Marlua Dewiide. steel worker In northern France, was quietly reading a magasme In his ktteh-. en. It was 10:43 p. m.

Suddenly his dog Kfttl started barking vehemently, as though strangers trying to penetrate the front yard. Seising hit flashlight, Marius went outside to Investigate. Beyond the paling which separated his garden from the track, he saw something? which looked Ilka ah abandoned peas ant's cart. Thought 'Marius: "I must wan the station ma iter." But KIM was still barking, and when Marios turned his light, be ef Maria's rwlwrirt a bat Um after watching Personally Speaking QUESTION: Hov do yon feel about junior high school tootbaUt The following answers were given to Jim Mosher, State Journal Inquiring photographer, by inaivMuais interviewed in downtown Lansing. PAUL BOWSER Ledge Xavy Rett alter -Vet In Jamie high seheel.

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Larch at. "Why not? They are gehsg te pksy feetball sealer ai seheaL They might as well get la gaad rsnamaa early. Better be feetban than Wtupt Move Mover WESTPOKT. Conn. OfV Con rad Goaselin, 25, was riding on tne root of a bouse being movea.

His head brushed a wasp nest on tree branch. The next stop was a -The Idea la gaad If, and I lzrAj sneaaahtglFt A they have the I Baa: and if -y. e. MBS. REVA fcUSaT, IS Porter St.

on both sides of the Civil war, this was far from the truth. And so, by late 1862 the need for accurate markmanship was recognised In Washington and it was decided to raise an entire regiment of sharpshooters in Michigan a logical decision since Michigan was largely a frontier and its 'young men were accus- tomed to handling firearms. Recruiting started at once, nnd Charles V. DeLand of Jackson was named as colonel of the regiment DeLand had held various state offices, including that of state senator, during the decade De-lore the war. He was among the first to respond when the call for troops was issued after Ft Sumter.

As the captain of Company Ninth Michigan Infantry, he was wounded in the savage fighting in eastern Tennessee, and was taken prisoner, while wounded, at the Battle of Murfreesooro. He was exchanged within a short time, and returned to Michigan at the close of 1862 to assume his new duties of raising and organizing the sharpshooters. QUICK ACTION The regiment was formally Into federal service at Dearborn ha July, 1863. First active service of the Sharpshooters was not too far from home. John Morgan burst across the Ohio river from Kentucky, carrying the war into the north, and the Michigan men found themselves trudging through the heat and dust of July and August in Indiana.

Morgan was finally captured, and shortly after, the Michigan men were transported to Chicago, where they called- on for duties far removed from what they had bargained upon enlistment The First Michigan Sharpshooters became guards for Confederate prisoners of war at Camp Douglas. There can be no doubt that everybody in the regiment welcomed orders in March, 1864, transferring them to the Ninth corps -of the Army of the Potomac. On arrival in the eastern theater of war the regiment' became a part of the Second Brigade of the Third division of the corps. The regiment at this time included 24 officers and 420 enlisted men a small regiment by modern standards, but a big one in the Civil war. It was but a short time that the First Michigan Sharpshooters advanced into the Wilderness with Grant They crossed the Rapldan in the hours before daylight on May 5, 1864, and for the next three days were tangled In the burning woods, firing at close range with terrible accuracy at dim figures that emerged from, the smoke and haze.

Ground was gained, lost and regained. The first casualties were suffered. The lull of May 7 found that four soldiers had been killed, 24 wounded and several were missing. In the confusion of the fighting in the thickets and haze, the Sharpshooters had been fired upon by another regiment of their own brigade. BACK TO BATTLE There was no tune for rest or recuperation.

Flames were still Z--JT bM JUDGE JAMES E. By COL. CLARENCE CLENDENEN (C. 8. Army, Retired) Grant was Just starting his hang-on campaign at the Wilderness in May of 1884.

when the First Michigan Sharpshooters saw their first real action. Previous Union commanders, on receiving a reverse had fallen back to reorganize and re-equip, but Grant grimly threw in more troops and continued fighting. The famous Michigan regiment advanced into the Wilderness in those opening days of May. And from then until the end of the war there was never a week and seldom a day when they were not in combat And in the bitter struggle between the states, the Michigen Sharpshooters carved out an al- 1 most legendary name with its. deeds on tbe torn field of Yet hundreuVpas dally by the monument erected in honor of the yW' Michigan Sharpshooters without see5 it It stands in the corner of the capitot grounds at Capitol ave.

and Allegan the stone statue of a man sighting his rifle at a foe which long ago returned to the misty' past PROUD NAME 'i The world has been afflicted with greater and more terrible wars since the Sharpshooters thinned the ranks of advancing Confederates, but they were a famous and deadly organization In the Civi war, and their rec- ord should be known to everyone who is proud of being a Michlgander. There is a popular modern belief that Americans of a century ago were adead shots. Fortunately for the men who fought RYAN 1 4 the conclusion which serious- sninaea errnca rorn nn immi at It hat the mam of casting aspersions on the good faith of their compatriots. The post-war popularity of science fiction, the technicolor movie The War of the released In France early this year, plus optical Illusions, can well be responsible for all these Incidents, say the scientists. They tS rKXXCH aewsaaper cartoea, mea from Man meets eirl ea Paris street Says abet "Me? rm (rem Yoaas." point out that the -apparitions" have occurred mainly In those provinces where the film has been shown.

But apparently there is yet another problem. -Why Is It," asks SamedVSoir, "that the first flying saucers were Initially seen in the U. S. A then the epidemic Invaded Europe, particularly France? Why Is It that In the V. S.

A a Martian has never set foot on the ground and that several have been reported outside their space ships in this coun-tryr MAKTIAX KISS Fifty eight year-old 'Antolne Maraud, who farms In the Cor-reze, tome 330 miles south of Paris, is the first and, so far, only Frenchman who boast of having been bussed by a Martian. His experience, which happened early tn September. It the following: Returning home at nightfall The eirls. including Spitalnys 0 wife, Evelyn of the "magic vio are in the midst of a snort hair vs long hair dispute. As director of his famous all- gtrl Spitalny has been deriding for 20 years what his girls should wear (filmy white gowns); what they should weigh (not more than va pounas, ana at times even ruled on their dates.

But this time Phil Is not giv ing any orders. One thing I've learned through the years." he said in an Inter view, "is that In keeping an all-woman orchestra together you've, got to keep "hands off when the feeling run to extreme. No two women are alike so how can I expect them to agree on how to wear their hair?" Evelyn, though. Is not so reti cent. She has taken sides, and long hair gets her vote.

Even though only seven other members of the group side with her' the rest having short tresses "to be in style" Evelyn ,1 seel-. UVF lung I Id 11 1 BC7l "It more feminine," the said firmly. Which hasn't settled the argument, but does prove that a woman still will step in where her husband won't Texan Trouble MIAMI, Fla. (JPt An airline employe adds this one to the Texas legend: A wealthy Texan asked for priority on a flight home to meet a personal emergency. When the sympathetic airline employe asked If someone In his family was ill.

this dialog followed: "Oh. no. Nothing like that Just had a S50.000-a-day gusher come in on land near my house." "That doesn't sound like an emergency." "Yes It is. I've got to get It plugged pronto. It's ruining my wife's Japanese garden." By SHEWELL-MOXGEAD With all the time we seem to be saving, who's got any on deposit? X-ray: The Inside story.

Calorie controlled beer: the Bottle of the Bulge. Why shouldn't a movie actress keep her maiden name It's silly to keep changing it! Russian courts seem to have a way of capturing the Imagination. Oxford was the first Knight SChooL In baseball the umpire Is a real thumbody. How come somebody hasn't tried to convert leather into Gripet The shortest interval 6 earth. And you know what I mean, Is the time it take to hear tome horn, Soon as the light's turned green! Another guy that bums me up, It when I blow to pats, Instead of holding hit tame speed, Why, he tteps on the gatt How do you like the crazy yap On every road you 1 Who will not keep his distance back, But drives too close behindT My biggest gripe of all the folks, Who lead Death's parade, It the silly, reckless, crazy fool, WhoU past on a marked grade! And usually when wrecks ensue, For rules they 8uch drivers do not get a scratch, it's you and I who pay! The Diet Is Cast Right at the -Peaches and Right at the start you are bound to run into GERALD a JOKER whom brain is solid bono funny bone I "Eat.

drink and be merry, for tomorrow we diet I Ha-ha Tlow about a cutting out food and living on beer Hee-heef MYSTICAL MYRTLE is the lassie with the chassie she claims she mamtama by tha divine art of Yogi She gets all dewy-eyed at the prospect of. getting you to ait on the floor with your arms folded and the soles of your feet clamped together. In this way you are supposed to be able to concen-' trata away that excess poundage. vt ATHLETIC ANNA, a muscle-bound, double-jointed msniar, believes you can eat anything as, long as you get plenty of exercise, a good swift game of tennis, 16 laps in the pool, 18 holes of golf, a seven mile hike. 'After which you have a healthy appetite and a consuming thirst.

So you eat and drink and feel fatter than ever. So you exercise some more, after which you eat -and drink a vicious circle! V. MEDICAL MACK is a nervous neurotic with more pills, than potions but not many more! Dieting, says Mack, shrinks the stomach, thwart the thyroid, muddles the metabolism, bothers the blood, hurries the heart why, you'll ruin your health if you lose as much as a single ounce. He is By MARTHA HARmlS Roughly two months ago I put on a pair of shorts cor-rection: I tried to put on a pair of shorts I Whea I turned for. side view in my mirror.

I had to quit kidding myself. No more desserts. Down with eating between meals! This seemed a simple enough decision. But during the nest eight frustrating weeks. I learned that in order to stick to diet you need die tact of diplomat, the silver tongue of an orator, the strength of lion, die fortitude of boa constrictor about the only thing you don't need and con-ataatly have too many of, is friends! For some reason, the minute your Intention is known, dietary experts are crawling out of the woodwork.

You are bombarded with Working Girl Diets and Diets for Housewife. They send you other little booklets about the mortality rate among the overweight pamphlets Writh titles like: "You. Youth and If it isn't yogurt, it onion diets, egg diets, diets of fruit juices, milk, malt or ice cream or cottage cheese or bananas. They push expeusive high pro-. tain diets of nothing but beef steak; and rare, exotic diets of dandelion greens or dried watermelon sssJs.

.1 la the face of so much authoritative Lterature. it's difficult to remember that all you wanted to do waa cut out dea- sorts and quit eating between maalst But even If you can fight winning battle against thk paper ww, you an st3 far 4 A. so graphic in his descriptions, that it isn't long before the i mere thought of a diet actually nauseates you! And dear POLLYANA PUT-OFF! the, helpful I harpy you meet for luncheon in town, and the minute you mention the low calorie salad special she begins to pout. "Oh, now don't start that silly dieting today; darling be-. I cause I'll just die if you and 1 get to see you so This is a real party, and who ever, heard of a party without dessert? What's one more day, anyhow? You can start first thing in the morning please? For me?" But take heart, gentle reader.

Dieting may be as full of obstacles as the Grand National, but there is a way! You've i heard that charity begins at home? Well, so does incentive! J' Proudly I announced my decision to the man I married and for whom I was trying to recapture my lost ring." "Dieting! You, honey? What for? The more there is of you to love, the better I like it!" Lovely worda which soothed me through the last cupcake in thevbread Box. We adjourned to the market to do the week-end shopping. Ah-ha a special on canned peaches. "Hey. this looks like a bargain, dear.

Dear)'? But he doesn't hear you because he is oggling a "peach" on hie own! And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how 1 lost 10 life today is just a bowl of cherries, when U.might well have become a mesa of peaches and cjeam.1..,-..- t. 'UIBl sewf bw um weeufc.