THE NOME NUGGET
Published Monday. Wednesday and Friday by the
NOME PUBLISHING CO.
NOME, ALASKA
Telephone: Main 125 P. O. Box 610
$1.50 PER MONTH $16.00 A YEAR
W. A. Boucher .. Owner-Publisher
Emily Boucher . Local Editor
Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943, at he postoffice
at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3. 1870.
Nome, Alaska, Friday, January 14, 1949
JOE THE WAIF—TEACHER OF MANNERS
(By Jack Castel)
The other night while I was calling upon a certain de
lightful family I came upon a most unusual bookstop.
It was a copy of Emily Post, a ponderous volume that
sucessfully held back the door to a small room lined
with books cherished by my host.
I sucessfully snatched the book, replacing it with a
heavier volume of “War and Peace,” to keep the door in
place and while awaiting the call to dinner ran through
its pages.
Mrs. Post has answered, of course, a great many ques
tions that will ocur to him who ventures into society or
even wants to get married. But in developing etiquet
into a science, Mrs. Post has forgotten that it really is
art and the only art whose antecedents lie in a religion
—Christianity.
Christianity in its simplest exposition is “Be kind.”
Etiquet, or from here out let’s use the less pompous
word “manners,” is fundamentally the art of making
oneself pleasant to others, or conversely the art of not
making oneself obnoxious.
No one I know who by nature is gentle and consider
ate has bad manners. And among these I number some
folks whose clothing is ‘to put it charitably) shabby and
whose purse is frequently as empty as mine.
Yet I never have known them to be rude; they are in
variably thoughtful and in their nature could not con
ceivably violate any rule of courtesy.
The other night, shortly after midnight, in one of the
few generous impulses I permit myself, I offered a ride
home to two chance urchins I met on the street, their
ages being about 8 and 11.
What they happened to be doing abroad at such an
hour on such a cold night I did not inquire, nod did they
volunteer the information. They preferred to speak of
Christmas and their hopes therefrom. They were in ex
cellent spirits adn had the good taste to compliment me
on my car, which demonstrated extremes of courtesy
and imagination.
Their faces were smeared and their clothing disrepu
table; obviously they were more familiar with the
streets than their own hearth. Yet when they alighted
from the car in a neighborhood of uncomfortable houses
their thanks were gracious and natural and one of them
added: “We are sorry to have taken you out of your
way.”
The latter remark struck me as evidence of a natural
nobility in the mind of one so young and untutored. At
11,1 recall that my own manners were atrocious, if they
existed at all.
Of course my urchin had never heard of Emily Post
and if you were to ask him which was the owner’s seat
in a chauffeur-driven limousine, he would look at you
in wonderment. Yet, because his heart was good, he had
seen that I had traveled out of my way and his thought
was not of himself but of me.
I think that when Mrs. Post revises her book, she can
add a chapter on Joe the Waif, who knew by instinct
the right thing to say.
FREEZE DAMAGE
(Food and Home Notes)
“Does freezing spoil evaporated milk?”
This question is asked frequently by housewives who
have left cans of milk in cold cellars, attics or summer
cottages in winter and on opening find the contents
changed in appearance and texture.
Dairy specialists of t he U. S. Department of Agricul
ture say that freezing damages evaporated milk and
Trtonnfartnrers. wholesalers, and retailers take care
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never to store it where it is in danger of freezing. Freez
ing does not cause “spoilage” unless it expands the can
enough to break the seal and let spoilage organisms en
ter. But even if spoilage has not taken place, evaporated
milk which has frozen is not suitable for most uses, and
cannot be brough back to its original form.
The effect of freezing on evaporated milk is much the
same as that on bottled milk left to freeze on the door
step on a winter day. The fat in the milk turns to oil at
the top, the protein becomes partly insoluble, and the
water separates, as it does when milk sours. The reason
is that in slow freezing large crystals form which break
| the normal emulsion. Also the water in the milk ex
pands in freezing so that cans may swell and break, just
1 as a bottle of milk often breaks in freezing.
In contrast, sweetened condensed milk is not likely to
be damaged by low temperatures and may be left safely
through the winter even in summer cottages or outdoor
lodges. Because of its high sugar concentration, con
densed milk has a far lower freezing point than evapor
ated milk. Only a few ice crystals form, even at zero,
and all the water in the milk (28 per cent) will not;
freeze except at very low temperatures.
FLUORIDE TEAM IN ALASKA
A. C. Hodgins, D.D.S., senior dental surgeon, United
States public health service, and his wife are now at Mt.
! Edgecumbe sanatorium making toplical applications of
| sodium fluoride to reduce dental decay.
Extensive studies in the United States have shown
that a two per cent solution of sodium fluoride reduces
the incidence of dental caries as much as forty per cent
in children.
Treatment consists of cleaning the teeth, drying with
compressed air, and then applying the sodium fluoride
solution. This process is repeated four times, at inter- :
vals of twice a week.
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FELLOWSHIP
(W. Waldemar W. Argow)
Surpassing the farthest ranges of human thought,
there is a feeling of kinship with Something beyond the
stars and within the mysterious soul of man. Sometim?'
it is evoked by a lovely sunset, a dust-covered cradle, a
flower’s fragrance, a warm hand clasp, or a Hallelujah
Chorus. When touched by its mystic influence our lives
are changed, and we find a strange courage to sustain us
wftrile an ocean liner sinks, while shadows play about a
vacant chair, while a whiff of ether stings our nostrils.
Through its kindling rapture the stars grow friendlv.
the grove echoes a song, grief sheds its forbidding mask,
and friendship empties its precious gold into our lap
Then, for the boon, a longing mother pours forth her
love for a lost son, until that longing turns into affedior
for other sons who have lost their mothers. At last, when
each hos borne and been borne in turn, there comes the
blessed assurance that fellowship is the silver cord that
binds man to man, and man to God.
CHURCHES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
■sunuay Masses at 8:00 and It*; ’()
Evening Mission 7:30 p.m.
Monday through Saturday
Mass at 7:15 a.m., followed by in
struction.
Mass at 8:00 a.m.
Evenings—Mission at 7:30 p.m.
LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSION
Pastors • Rev. H. R. Amundsen
and Rev. Theran McGrew
Sunday:
11:00 a.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Evening Service.
Vednesday - 3:30 p.m - Chi.
jLen’s Miracle Book Club
Thursday - 7:30 p.m. - Prayer
Meeting.
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
SERVICES
at
Pastor's Residence, corner of B St.
between 3rd and 41h Ave.
Round table discussion each
Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock.
People of all faiths are invited to
participate.
Sabbath School—10 a.m. Saturday
Morning Worship—11 aun.
Visitors welcomed.
Fred H. Wagner. Pastor
FEDERATED CHURCH
Sunday
10:00 a.m. Sunday School.
PENTACOSTAL ASSEMBLY OF
GOD
Third Avenue Wes!
Pastor A. E. Capener
Sunday—
Sunday School.10:30 a.m.
Evening service .7:45 p.m.
Wednesday—
Bible Study .7:45 pm.
EVERYONE WELCOME *
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Third and Division ]
Paster—Lewis I. Hudgins
‘‘The door of opportunity is
nned by pushing.”
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School classes.
11:00 a.m. Morning message.
7:00 p.m. Young People’s Meeting.
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and special
music.
3 0't p.m. Evening message.
Chaplain A. Darling will speak
at the Sunday evening sendees.
Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Melody and
Prayer.
You are ever welcome to attend
these services.
Come and bring your Bible.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of
Alaska Evangelisation Society
Rev. Vern Rimling. Pastor
Sunday:
2:00 p.m. Sunday School for
boys and girls.
Preaching service in the Eskimo
language by James Savok.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Tuesday:
7:30 p.m. Prayer and Testimony
Thursday:
2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Bible Club for
Boys and Girls.
Friday:
7:30 p.m. Bible Study.
Mr. and Mrs* Donald Bishop are
the parents of a baby girl bom
yesterday at the M. C. Hospital.
Mr. Bishop is with the CAA.