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WHITE BLUFFS, WASHINGTON, SPOKESMAN 7 labor hard to extract a plain yes or no from him. ‘“Was the apple crop Man’s Brief Span Normandy Dons large this year?” You ask. His clas- sic reply is: *“Well, for a good apple on Mother Earth Festival Attire year, it is not too good; but for a bad apple year, it.is not too bad!” COMIC SECTION 24 hours stand as rep- OUR day of The to avail himself of Let a tendency 2,000,000,- Greets Spring With Quaint Age- subtle distinctions may account for the resentative of the possible Norman's reputation as a somewhat 000 years of this planet's history, Jeans, British scl- Old Ceremonies. grasping character, and his fondness says Sir James entist, and man's presence on this Geographic Soclety, for legal forms and lawsuits has Prepared by National globe (estmating his tenure at 400,- Washington, D. C.—WNU Service. earned for him and his fellows the in the Lives Little Men represents 17 seconds ORMANDY is planning for ap- title of “the lawyers of France.” Events of 000 years) but ple blossom time. Like Win- For all that, the Norman has his of that cosmic day. And only within last man had chester, in the Valley of Vir- own traditions of fun and good fel- 1-80 of the second has the ginia, and other great apple- lowship. Remember, he likes his ci- any supportable outlook upon growing regions of America, Nor- der! And never Norman more so than universe at all! amaz- mandy fares forth in festival attire one Oliver Basselin, he of the red nose, One's first reaction to this when the buds of its famous apple who sang songs in praise of hard ci- Ing disparity between the age of the trees burst in the spring. der long before Villon roistered and planet and man's little day is one of much Although the French are largely a recited in Paris wine shops. Basselin dizziness, a vertigo reflected in wine-imbibing people, the natives of ran a fulling mill near the little valley of our literature and politics. Normandy drink apple cider. There, known as Vaux de Vire. From it his At the same time, man has no war- you can’t eat a meal without cider, songs took their name, and these, in rant in taking a hopeless attitude you can’t be born without cider, and turn, gave rise to the corrupted term toward his own efforts, especially you can’t get married or die without “vaudeville.” those of this split second of his own The old duchy, slightly smaller creative evolution., What he has cider. Natural Curiosity. than the state of Maryland, is one done is not half bad. In this mo- huge orchard. Thirty ‘miles southwest of Vire, as ment of time man has changed the Even ‘“When it’s apple blossom time the crow flies, on the border between face of his abode, has discovered and in Normandy,” however, the duchy has Normandy and Brittany, towers the used its principal laws, and has in- many world-famous spots that also duchy’s most imposing natural curi- vested the whole process with a attract the attention of the traveler— osity and its finest coastal monument meaning it never possessed in all the Mont Rouen, Deauville, Cherbourg, Havre, of the Middle ages—stupendous long prehuman hours of that cosmice Bayeux, Honfleur, Dieppe, Flalaise, Saint Michel. It is a granite islet day. girt with Alencon. 8,000 feet in circumference, Or compare the brevity of this Northmen swooping down, raiding, immense walls and towers, plastered background with the long hours destroying, but finally settling on the with houses climbing up its sides, and ahead e'er the sun cools and tha an ancient land and giving it a softened form of the whole crowned with eternal shadow falls. Man is scarce- Archangel Mich- their name; stalwart son of duke and abbey, shrine of the ly in his infancy, hardly yet born. of tanner’s daughter crossing the chan- ael, saint of high places. Lovers Against the possibility of the future, asso- nel to make world history at Hastings; the unique find in its historical his progress down to date is about Norman dukes reigning in England; ciations, in the grandeur of its out- that of a baby learning to shake its ward an and a fascina- the king of the English reigning in aspect, appeal rattle, Normandy. Armored knights clanking tion similar to those of Carcassonne The first feeling of vertigo expe- Vire is Kalaise, where Rob- about, in London, Sicily, Naples, at the East of rienced by the race in the face of tomb of Christ. The Maid burnt at ert the Devil, the Magnificent, looked these stupefying facts of science is out the castle Ar- the stake. Daring sons of Normandy of window and saw giving way to a new sense of sta- roaming the seas to fish, to explore lette, the tanner’s daughter. Another bility and security. Man is turning and colonize unknown lands, from with new zest to the business of liv- Newfoundland to the Antarctic, to the ing wholesomely and courageously. South Seas, around the world. Jor- He is finding a new meaning in life mans building lordly castles, chateaux, by giving it a meaning of his own. cathedrals, and abbeys of distinctive He is writing down such strange “Norman architecture,” painting pic- words as peace, truth, knowledge, tures, writing poetry, plays, and novels friendship, brotherhood, justice. He of enduring fame. Poussin and Millet, {s building on this planet a kind of Pierre Corneille, Alain Chartier and life his ancestors would not recog- Malherbe, Flaubert, De Maupassant, nize, could they return, and others—a Norman galaxy. FINNEY OF THE FORCE A Recipe She Should Know Time, space and matter are im- Normandy does more than sit pressive as we know them today. around and dream of the long ago. But the most impressive thing in the Through Havre, second seaport of known universe is man himself— France; through Cherbourg, it saw Utica Observer Dispatch, some of the legions pass to the western front. It has greeted kings and queens, admirals and generals, and heard the roar of cannon salutes, the hum of sky craft. Through these ports today pass travelers from the western world, and processions of con- Bou TR R, suls, agents, buyers, salesmen, ambas- sadors of commerce every kind—- SEE N of Norman Women Astroll. L hunters all, scenting the romance and ‘aséj;éséz}:f::f’%BARe ,/is s adventure in foreign trade, in anything story goes that he first saw her wash- from anchovies to antiques. ing clothes at the fountain one day g AN DFOIIRRR: *AR AR ;J'v' VIR Dress designers, looking to Paris for when he was returning from the chase. s ‘”;“3 o the first.and.-last -word on-fashions, However, it was, her “pretty feet twin- RPREaRs " 7‘.,; RN, ""‘\"3' ‘scouts” to golden kling in the brook” led to her becom- SR e send the beaches .ey 00 of Deauville and its less aristocratic ing the mother of the Conqueror. vis-a-vis, Trouville. Here, where the North of Falaise is Caen, a Norman bean monde disports itself in season Athens and unrivaled center for the . ’ beneath gaily striped tents, at the ca- study of Norman art. Here the Nor- to train BABY'S sinos, along the promenades, and at mans’ extraordinary faculty for adap- How the races, the gods and goddesses of tation appears at its best. Thqugh style display their latest creations on they invented little that was new, they beautiful women. adopted from other countries, devel- Back from white chalk cliffs and oped and improved. French language literature, Babies, bottle-fed or breast-fed, sandy beaches stretches a green and and French feudal doc- with any tendency to be constipated, pleasant land of winding streams, fer- trines, and Romanesque architecture would thrive if they received daily tile grain fields and pastures, hedge- in particular bear the stamp of their half a teaspoonful of this old family rows, orchards, well-kept farms, and genius. In Norman hands this archi- doctor’s prescription for the bowels. villages of thatched cottages. There tectural form from northern Italy be- That is one sure way to train tiny are hills and dales and glens, forests came a distinctive, living thing, marked bowels to healthy regularity, To and waterfalls, and the typically Nor- by great size, simplicity, and massive- avoid the fretfulness, love of geometric ornament. crying, failure to gain, and vomm%other man long, straight roads. ness, and constipated babies. The two abbeys founded here by the of Famous for Cattle. Syrup Conqueror and his wife are superb ex- Dr. Caldwell’s Pepsin is And cows! Innumerable herds spot for any baby. For this, you hove amples of the architecture which pre- he word of a doctor. Forty= the lush meadows everywhere, but es early fzood l'famous_ ceded the rise of the Gothic in of practice taught hnp pecially in the Contentin, the penin- the Thirteenth century, and which also seven what?'carsbabies need to keep their sula which points toward England. It crossed the channel even before the i'UStittle bowels active, regular; keep has given its name to & Norman breed (Conquest. little bodies plump and healthy. For beef, Caldwell in the treat- of cattle famous for but more The Conqueror was buried in one Dr. specialized so for milk production. Paris drinks ment of women and little ones. He of these abbeys, and Matilda, his cous- over 3500 births without Normandy's milk and cream, and both attended in-wife, in the other.

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