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The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 37

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Ogden, Utah
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37
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1 ih lh piv tieoes would it was th i ci ib tl act So Annie and Lon 0 do cc dioanti of the life cinematic raj ire ly social one The comj ny a whoopee party lor the pi I ao everyone swapped gigs ami bor tiL daw 11 Three days Eva and nrie fount motor cars abandon in tl ow forlorn aftermath to the tbut-d id tard months before At Noith 7 cme comioit and orb hnty o'fical njtoeraphng at iN to in-dor this and tbit aiM 1 '-hot sr-g st ions Irom hu band- 1 1 it Mten dav was enoub Rut INu an Annie plugged They were out of the tirohorlend no' with wohes and lx ar ia itrd and the downhill tim ikmg tl nr-iwy easier Some 'hwj ie oL -i Towns loomed U) oftcnei Tiee a hotel dhng to take thni in free till they reached! the Mu Luka Lakes Playgrounds for thou rah n-Rummer tho-e lakes and 1 land are deserted Winter sa-e for an occasional trapper or ice harrtr Stopping they fished for dog buttons for bait to 1 the fish responded eamily TL 11 tmo the rock country wth stock farms and daily newspaper N-Indies The enow was fast disipj' ir ing At Orillia the roaL urn 1 rr SVighs fchd slowly through rk Twenty miles further on at BielBud on the Holland River theie ws 10 snow So roller skates were unrolled from blankets and strapped beige the sleigho This proved a fiasco Then a couple of pcooters wo commandeered but they were too high As if in answer to two hardy ladies! prayers snow swept in from the LVt 1 r9 rest of the journey wa3 a pm hover and the arrival at Toronto wa cm la n-y the payoff Curiosity-ieelprs wanted to buy the motN dogs and there was an enthu mastic reception to the two calm' but sorely tired women It would make a touching Ernest Hemingway effect at this point to announce that all the $195 had had been sold and that groaning beneath disappointment Eva and Annie strangled one -another But that is not true No irppprted ehapeaux ever gleamed more proudly than the modest bun nets they bought Homeward bound in a radio-equipped library- car the two adventurers placidly read garish accounts of ther Odyssey in the newspapers The dogs forward in the baggage oar had no such narcisstic impulses They only dreamed of succulent bones with perhaps a white hen to ehae when they reached General Headquarters Eva looked at Annie quizzically we dfd our she sad was a tough trip but worth it How do you like this hat now really? And how do you Replied Annie: de She settled tha pluia on her bonnet comfortably 4 I I Jass IssSliaerace Evesa' I 6 Soda Flavors Sarvoy Sfiouvs INJUDICIOUS GOURMAND Rover Head Dog of the Edlond-Bullock Pack-train Who Partook of Passe 1 Moose Meat en Route and Passed Out 'V A 1 I 'I! I 4 A Characteristic Close-up of Mrs Edlund of Swedish Descent baying A second bridge loomed up The dogSt took it without a whimper On the third bridge they sulked panting in the snow But shouted commands finally brought the desired results on Aftep eighteen hours of this sort of thing Eva and Annio canae upon a flag station the tioor of which was open Aj round-bellied stove gave them a welcome there was a lamp on the wall Mrs Edlund went outside to gather chips She returned with pine needles and dried Mrs Bullock took the lamp to pour oil over the wood But there any oil They opened their packs and took out a metal match case one match being ignited in the process and igniting in turn all the others Thrown into the stove the blaz-I Ing matches' sputtered and died The thermometer registered twen-' ty-eight degrees below zero The dogs kept up their chorus of whines far off tne wolves sounded like peevish Pomeranians Home was five days away Toronto lay 540 miles squth For food they had dry corn meal frozen fish and chocolate bars Recalling these facta today Eva and Annie laugh but with a wry remembrance! was our worst night of the they agree Curious people they encountered as if in a dream One of them was a middle-aged Arhb mysterious withdraw and exoticlooking Half a hemisphere from ht3 native Algeria he made his living by weaving trout creels from bark In the viVrf1 a more highly concentrated age and now this stjlcs in soft drinks is fbr sti onge fruit flavors Jut as made is jazzier art rtiore modernistic clothes bighei -toned and peifume more 1 ii 1 and compelling to soft dtunka hpve been sjxedtd up nai vou step up to a sod4 fountain arid a-k Hr a dunk you can take jour choice of almost any flavor any eqdoi and want was once ju-t an iti of cnbdnated iter- stocked by drug-gi-t- has become a major industry employing tc entuts reealch buuaus arid experimental laboratories For fruit tiftks are complicated well as cUntu ntrated 'Alconol i still the prmcpll solvent and natural fruit jtueco aiel made by dif-tillation with alcohol -pile the efforts of (henasts to find another sohint I'rut juicis mixed with carbon ted waters caused fermentation spoiling the taste and cauuKig cloudi-r ass in the mixture It was then that olutions of so-called fruit ethers were irtioduced such as amyl acetate which when mixed in alcohol was called pear essence Plain fruit iuiecs lvrtown the trade as are used in syrup factorh According to an article by Henri Po'aA the formulae and processes in the flavoring essence buuness are closely ghardthl trade seen ts Manufacturers do not apply for patents and as the creation of a newer and 'truer fruit lavor can make a fortune for its sponsor a great air of se-ciocy prevails in the scientific departments of the soft drink manufacturers The younger generation' has found the pure fruit flavors too weak and so chemists and scientists have evolved essences containing essential oil and artificial aromatics such as vanillin and coumai in When you drink a glass of imitation grape juice your beverage contains methyl anthranilate which is stronger than the real grape flavor Raspberry and strawberry fruit flavors are a triumph of the manufacturers skill for not only is the original flavor and aroma isolated but it is blended with the original color and acid just as correctly as the natural product It is the aim of most manufacturers to create as pure an essence as and this has led to the discarding of fruit ethers much used years ago These were aliphatic ethers such as ethyl butyrate formate and amyl valerate mixed with alcohol But dyen today many people prefer these Artificial flavors to the natural ones and they are much used in the manum tuie of candy Si'JA A menacing The dogs crouched and growled One of them tried to break loose but the harness held tight Annie and Eva looked at one another and tried to remember whether bears are camivojous Tien Eva burst into high laughter a read Yorkshire guffaw She was thinking what a hug would be liked In silent contempt the animals lumbered dhgustedly away Eva stonjed laughing The going was comparatively easy in the forest Forty-one miles were covered the day the bears made their appearance And before dusk Eva Annie were initiated intoj the mysteries of the movies A Hollywood location outfit was grinding out one of Northwestern jThe two-gun heavy was just being trapped as he tried to smother the French Canadian heroine with kisses mushere could see she did nothing but sit at home and dream about the dead men Yet cupboard shelves bed hearth were spotless Once near Swastika gateway to the gold camps of Kirkland Lake and -the copper mines at No ran da and Rouyn another dog team hove 'into view all male huskies with a Chinese in charge On the necks of a dozen dogs the hair rose and they made at each other like the Light Brigade at Balaklava At first eager to tear one another to bits they were separated quietly Gentlemen.

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