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Bellefonte, Pa., October 5, 1923.
PHILOSOPHY ON MAN
AND CHILDREN.
: By L. A. Miller.
‘We can see in part what a man is,
when we see what he isnot. If a
man is neither black, brown, red nor
yellow, we conclude that he is white.
Green is a tint that touches a man’s
character and not his cuticle, and the
freshness suggested by it does not al-
ways indicate purity and sweetness.
‘The model to which I refer will not
be a fast man: One who goes before
he is sent—and where he is sent. The
fast man prefers the stable to the
study; horses to humanity; the race-
course to the course that improves the
race.
He does not like the slow process
of ezrning his living by honest labor,
so he gambles for it. He toils not,
neither does he spin; yet Solomon in
all his glory never wore such wate
seals and chains, such as diamond pins
and gorgeous finger-rings, such flash-
ing sleeve-buttons, and such brilliant
bosom studs. Look at his lily-color,
and “loud” necktie, his vest that ri-
vals the stars and stripes, and his
fashionable coat that covers a multi-
tude of sins. He thinks that hospi-
tality means a man in a sulky behind
a fast horse, sweeping the circle of a
race-course. His paradise is a circus
or heavenly hippodrome, where he can
ride behind fiying feet around a star-
lighted ring. ;
He inherits a fortune; he wastes it
living riotously, scattering it at
haunts of pleasure and infamy, and
along the broad way he travels—con-
sequently, the fool and his money are
soon parted. When his money 1s
WOMAN EXPERT IS GIVEN
CARE OF ZOO REPTILES.
London.—Snakes and crocodiles are
not, perhaps, the most pleasant crea-
tures with which to live, but Miss
Joan Proctor evidently thinks other-
wise. This young Englishwoman has
just been appointed curator of the
reptile house at the London Zoologic-
al Gardens, where she will have en-
tire charge of the cobras, the pythons,
the alligators and all the other rep-
tiles. .
Miss Proctor’s grandfather was a
famous entomologist, so possibly her
interest and aptitude in the subject
are inherited. It certainly looks as
though she is going to become as well
known as he was, for already she is
looked on by zoologists as one of the
greatest of snake experts.
When in her very early teens she
happened to visit the chief of the rep-
tile department at the South Kensing-
ton Natural History museum and so
astonished him by her knowledge of
ophiology—she had kept snakes and
lizards as pets since her tenth birth-
day—that he offered to train her in
the subject. Accordingly, as soon as
she left school she became Doctor
Boulenger’s assistant, at the age of
eighteen, and when he resigned she
was appointed to his post.
The young expert came into real
contact with the zoological society at
the age of nineteen when she read her
first paper, on pet snakes, before
them. A year later they made her F.
7. S. At the beginning of July she
gained another distinction by being
elected F. L. S., Fellow of the Linnean
society, one of the foremost scientif-
ic organizations in the world. .
Being surrounded by snakes during
her attendance at the zoo apparently
is not enough for Miss Proctor, and
she keeps six Brazilian snakes in a
glass cage in her drawing room. These
were sent her as a gift. Noted scien-
tists in South America: and South
gone, his credit exhausted and his
companions refuse to recognize him,
he becomes a tramp, a pauper, a sul-
cide. His life has been a sad iailure.
He has been fast, and he has gone
with the “multitude to do evil” and
what has he to show for his waste of
wealth and life ?
Life with him is bounded on the
east by trotting-road; on the west by
pleasure yachts; on the north by a
wine-party, and on the south by per-
dition. Eventually he dies, is laid to
rest—and forgotten.
The faults of the young and rising |
generation are quite numerous and it |
is to be regretted that the parents, in !
most instances, are responsible for the
waywardness of their offspring.
A hint against the folly and impro-
priety of making the habits of the
youngsters the subject of conversa-
tion with other people. Nothing can
be more unkind and injudicious. If
you wish your children to reform, you
must throw a shield around their
character. However foolish they may
Africa have frequently sent rare and
deadly reptiles to England, knowing
her interest, and most of these she
keeps at her own home.
PYTHON EGGS.
It was nearly ten years ago that I
listened to a lecture in which the
speaker, whose name I am sorry to
have forgotten, showed that habits
are like pythons. The python is one
of the most powerful as well as one of
the most beautiful of snakes. With
exquisite grace and poise it wraps it-
self about the body of its victim and
crushes it. :
Yet there is nothing more silken,
more attractive, more soft than a
young python. One may place it in
the cradle with the baby without dan-
ger. One may feed it from the same
bottle of milk.
But let the snake and the baby grow
side by side, and the day will come
when the snake will be discovered
wrapped about the human body, and it
have acted, let them see that you are
anxious to keep open the way for
their return to propriety and respec-
tability. :
' will be found that the human soul has
left.
So it is with habits. A bad habit at
‘the start is often attractive, silk-like,
Many a youth has been driven to i cplorf ahd soft. One may crush it in
wreckless dispair by being upbraided
before strangers for
which never ought to have been
known beyond his family. On the
other hand, many a wanderer has been
encouraged to return, by observing in
those most injured by his follies, a
readiness to reinstate him in their fa-
vor, and to shield his reputation from
the reproach of others. It is not wise
for a mother to speak of the excellen-
cies, or to publish the faults, of her
children, but rather to ponder them
in her heart; to mention them only at
the throne of grace, there to return
thanks for what is right; to ask for
guidance to correct what is wrong; in
all things to make plain before her
face the way of her own present du-
ty in reference to them.
Never frighten your children. We
have no doubt that, by this injudicious
treatment, many serious mental as
well as physical injuries have been the
consequence. Don’t be too harsh, se-
vere and unfeeling. Such conduct
often leads to the commission of the
worst of crimes.
Mothers, particularly, have it in
their power in early life to form the
disposition and character of their chil-
dren, by instructing them properly,
and by giving a right direction to
their thoughts and feelings; by so do-|
ing you determine which class of pas-
sions shall have the predominance in
their minds during life. For there is
no knowledge worth anything, unless
it is founded upon truth.
If a proper example is constantly
set before your children, and advan-
tage taken of every proper occasion
to impress upon their minds the best
of sentiments and passions, the han-
piest results may be expected. In
their presence use every effort in
your power to maintain as habitually
as possible a calm, cheerful, and hap-
py state of mind. Remember, “as the
twig is bent the tree inclines.”
To Train More Reserve Officers This
Year.
A special effort is being made to in-
crease the size of the class in advanc-
ed military science and tactics at The
Pennsylvania State College this year.
A recruiting campaign is now on
among members of the Junior class
and there are indications that there
will be more than 100 men competing
for reserve officer commissions in the
college R. 0. T. C. unit.
Military training is required of all
students at Penn State for the first
two years, and the 1700 of the two
lower classes will make up one of the
largest regiments of cadets ever train-
ed at the Centre county institution.
Reserve officer candidates receive an!
allowance from the government and
ge their commissions upon gradua-
ion.
Eighty Per Cent. of Wool Still Held
by Poolers.
Approximately 80 per cent. of the
wool pooled co-operatively by the
Pennsylvania growers is still in their
hands awaiting sale. total of 50,000
pounds has been sold. The remaining
300,000 pounds of the 1923 clip is
graded and in storage. Counties still
holding their wools are: Sullivan,
Columbia, McKean, Potter, Beaver,
Butler, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango,
Fayette, Cameron -and Green.
‘an instant—-~Jdtvis so: delicate, though,
misconduct, | that one waits until it grows.
“I can stop it growing at any time,”
we say. “I can quit this habit when I
get ready.
But habits are like the pythons.
They gracefully glide to their vietim
and he does not know how strong and
dangerous they are until their coils
are about him and the red tongue is
shooting at his face.
Few of us are snake charmers.
Negative, uninspirational thoughts
are python eggs. From our thoughts
spring our deeds. It is up to us to
choose between the occupation of
snake charmer or gardener.
Our thoughts will produce pythons
or flowers. We can take our choice.
—Wallace Dunbar Vincent.
A —————————— A
ENTRY RECORD IS BROKEN AT
NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW.
Visitors from this county to the
National Dairy exposition at Syra-
cuse, October 5-13, will have an op-
portunity to see the very greatest
number of blue ribbon dairy cattle
ever assembled in one place at one
time. All records of the dairy show
have been broken by 1,329 entries of
Holstein, Guernsey, Jersey and Brown
Swiss cattle. The largest number at
former shows was less than 1,000.
The animals are the prize winners
in every State, the aristocrats of the
dairy world, worth going miles to see.
There will be 329 Holstiens, the big-
gest show of this breed and the finest
ever assembled. The Ayrshire show,
280 animals, is also the greatest in
number and excellence ever shown.
There will be 223 Jerseys, 230 Guern-
seys, 77 Brown Swiss and more than
100 calves and grade cows of the dif-
ferent breeds.
Combined with the interesting ex-
hibits showing practical and inexpen-
sive methods for the farm, gigantic
displays of dairy machinery and
equipment, the night entertainment
and horse show, the human welfare
display and other features, the expo-
sition more than promises to be one
every dairy farmer and every one else
interested in dairy industry should
see.
World is Asked to Keep Bread and
Soup Sunday for Near East
Relief.
Officials of American relief organi-
zations at London have asked all the
countries to join in a great movement
to save the destitute orphans and wid-
owed mothers in the Near East.
December 2 has been set aside as
“Golden Rule Sunday.” On that day
the people of the United States and
other nations will be asked to observe
the broad principle of the Golden Rule
by foregoing their usual noonday
meal and eating instead the frugal ra-
tion of bread and soup partaken of by
the parentless children of Greece, Ar-
menia, the Caucasus and other strick-
en regions.
" The world then will be asked to con-
tribute the difference in the cost of
the two meals to the relief work.
Charles Vickery, executive head of
the Near East Relief, who arrived on
the Leviathan last week, has said that
President Coolidge will be asked to
set an example to the American peo-
ple by observing ‘Golden Rule day at
‘ the White House.—Ex.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
The knack of making good use of mod-
erate abilities secures the esteem of men,
and often raises to higher fame than real
merit.—La Rochefoucauld.
It is the flare conceding to the
straight line silhouette that fall’
brings, rather than the other way
about.
That is to say, we have flares and
fullness today in the new coat dis-
plays, but the polite thing is not to
notice them too much. They do not
seem to wish it, only to hear it re-
marked again and again how much
ye are keeping to last year’s straight
ine.
So when a wrap front reveals a bit
of fullness shirred in, causing it to
cross in a double-breasted way, the
emphasis is stil! on the pencil line
produced when the coat is closed.
A little godet here and there, so long
as it does not interfere with the slen-
der line, is permitted, or a flounce
from the knee falling in a straight
line, with the effect of willowness only
increased.
Straight, slim and beltless is the
rule; or sashed, a la Russe. Pile or
nap fabrics lead for daytime coats
and for evenings, velvets foremost
for the last. For sports and utility,
the worsted look, in stripes, plaids,
block designs or tans and grays in
novelty fabrics. Everything, virtual-
ly, is fur-trimmed.
We used to think ourselves made
when we had beautiful furs without
doing anything to them. Those sim- |
ple days are past. Intricate braidings
and embroideries are wedded to lovely
furs of the flat type, raising the age-
old question, “Whither are we drift-
ing?” the answer being, around to
simplicity again, after a time, fashion
route being always the circle or spi-
ral. Let’s be gayly and expensively
coated while we can and if we can.
A black broadtail coat, seen in one
of the shops, has clever and unusual
. soutache braiding giving a novel ef-
fect to its top and bottom.
and is sashed after the Russian. Black
lynx, highly favored this year, trims
collar, cuffs, and skirt border. The
sleeve is particularly interesting—
this season, too, sleeves will bear
watching—for it is a combination of
fitted and peasant fashions that ap-
pears on many coats. On fur gar-
ments this looks exactly like a bar-
rel-shaped muff that has slipped up
on the arm.
_ Fur collars on coats run to upstand-
ing or round types, and in the later
imports seem to get narrower. The
fur border is greatly employed, often
in hem-like effects, produced by hand-
ling stripes of fur to make a pattern.
The same patterning then appears
wherever else the fur is used on the
garment.
Concerning lengths, the full length
dominates wraps meant to be worn
with semi-formal and formal frocks.
Later, we are told, we shall see a
great deal of three-quarter length
separate coats, but at present, in the
It flares |
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| CULTURE SPREAD BY WARS
French Soldiers Brought Artistic
Treasures and Ideas From Their
Campaigns in Italy.
“At the recent silk ghow in New,
York, which was seen by 200,000 peo-
ple, the silk manufacturers of Ameri-
ca laid their products before the Amer-
fcan public,” said Horace B. Cheney,
the noted designer, “just as many
years ago artists brought their finest
work to kings.
“At the order of Francis I, great-
est of the Valois, Benvenuto Cellini
was summoned to the court of Paris,
there to produce the miracles of his
art which were astonishing Italy.
Writes Cellini, ‘We found the king's
court at Fountainbleau.. I went to his
majesty with a basin and jug which
I had made, and when I had come into
his presence I kissed his knee, and he
gave me the most gracious reception.
“The name of Francis I Is asso-
ciated with the culminating moment
of the Renaissance. The wars of
Charles VIII and Louis XII, though
they dealt a death blow to Italy,
brought new artistic life to France.
French warriors returned from Italy
with the wonders of southern Europe
on their lips and her treasures in their
hands. So that at the time of Cellini's
arrival in France in September, 1540,
French palaces had become fitting
shrines for the works of such a mas-
ter, as well as for the sumptuous fur-
nishings that formed part of the loot
obtained in the Italian wars.
“The American soldiers of the Twen-
| tieth century, in turn, have lived for a
! brief time in the atmosphere of I'rench
| art. Is it not natural that they, too,
should acquire a discrimination which
will influence all with whom they come
in contact and thus spread an appre-
' silken fabrics?”
UNSAFE TO TEASE SWANS
Blow From the Male's Wing Has Pow
er to Break the Ordinary
Man's Leg.
Swans can fly at the rate of 100
miles an hour. No one knows how
long they can keep on the wing, but the
trip from Scandinavia to Britain seems
to be merely a pleasant flutter. They
pass from one side of Canada to the
other in huge flocks at certain times
! of the year and at very high altitudes.
1
i It is not safe to tease or seek fa-
miliarity with swans in summer time
| ciation of that ‘touch of French genius’ !
which marks so many of our exquisite |
| when cygnets, as young swans are
called, are about, says London Tit-Bits.
! The male swan is very pugnacious
; then, as a bather in the Thames found
| to his cost quite recently.
early views, that length seems to Cobia: __There is a traditional impression that
fine itself largely to coats meant to "a blow from a swans wing will break
} an average man's leg, and there is on
be worn with frocks of the same ma-
terial as three-piece costumes.
An enormous revival of interest in
velvet has taken place. It is to be the
leader in fabrics for evening coats and
for costumes.
In coats its earlier representatives
share the gusto for allover trimmings
and embroidering.
A black velvet, full-length coat is
embroidered all over with cut steel |
beads. Its plentiful “furring” is done
with Australian opossum. This fur
shows tremendous style vitality, Its
American cousin is liked, too, misting
over with fine black hairs, but being
of a livelier pattern, is more com-
monly used with coats of the sports
variety. The uniform tone of the
Australian variety makes it a hand-
somer finish for the handsomest fab-
rics.
Overblouses achieve distinction with
four-inch borders in such designs
placed at hem, at wrists, at neck. As
black and white in combination has
taken on a new lease of life no wom-
an need pucker the brow in choosing
colors.
The Chinese neckband is too fre-
quently used on new clothes to be
looked upon as an experiment to!
shorten the life of the bateau open-
ing. You know what it is, don’t you?
Just a straight, narrow band, usually
highly embroidered. The
adaptation of it would not be familiar
to a Chinaman¢ It is cut twice as
long as the neck size, half of it is at-
tached to the neckband of the frock,
either back or front, and the ends are
tied loosely over the skin. Chanel
cuts her frocks down in front and ties
the collar band there. Jenny and Lan-
vin do the opposite. There are deco-
rative and plain bands; there are nar-
row fur ones, especially of white er-
mine or rabbit on black rabbit.
One of the less lovely fashions of
the season is the sheath frock with-
out a belt. It is not new. It hasbeen
worn by fashionable women for two
years, and for one year by those who |
buy often and cheaply. Yet it is con- |
tinued. Sometimes it has a small cir- |
cular ruffle below the knees, which is
another fashion one fancied could not
live into autumn because of its com-
monplace usage during the summer.
The large resorts gave the observer a
chance to count up to a hundred |
every day. It is ugly, itis ungra- |
cious, it has been made in every cheap
fabric at a minimum price.
France offered it again to eur com-
missioners in August and it is her- |
alded in these States as a fashion of
merit.
The sheath frock with drapery at
side is gracious and wearable by the
well-poised woman, be she fat or thin.
The addition of a Cavalier cape, such
as Worth of Paris, put on it, is also
good. The straight sheath gown of
the hour minus drapery or belt, is a
dangerous thing. Don’t put money
into it without care and considera-
tion.
straight lines are to continue, but you
can manage them somehow without
Wearing a bolster with a frill at one
end.
Happy to ‘relate, there is an effort
to give freedom of movement to the |
feet, even when the line is straight.
modern
Yet |
You may feel assured that
| record a case of the death of a fox
| from such a hlow.
| The force of the swan's wing blow is
{ emphasized in a story from Bucking-
~ hamshire, which records the attack of a
| male swan on a boat being rowed near
i the nest. 'The pinion struck the gun-
+ wale of the craft, and as a result was
| laid bare to the bone, being stripped
of both feathers and skin.
The Main Point.
Mrs. Wombat had another cook and
the first dinner was a sad affair. The
potatoes were soggy, the steak was
raw and the odor of scorched soup
greeted Mr. Wombat as he entered
the front door. He knew this signal
of yore, but advanced cheerily.
“How's the new cook?” he asked his
wife. r
Mrs. Wombat put it all into a very
brief sentence.
“She can’t cook!”
Nothing, however, could dismay the
incorrigible optimist.
“Perhaps we can cure that,” he said.
“The question is—will she stay
awhile?”
Order Has Spread.
The Order of De Molay was organ:
ized in Kansas City, April 1, 1919, by
Frank S. Land, secretary of the social
service and employment bureaus at
the Scottish Rite temple. Since that
time the movement has spread from
coast to coast and to several foreign
countries. De Molay ° > order for
young men between tl of sixteen
and twenty-one, It asored by
the Masonic lodge. The ...er is based
on the closing events in the life of
Jacques de Molay, grand master of
the order of Knights Templar, burned
at the stake in 1329 by decree of Philip
the Fair, king of France.
Wanted It Settled.
The old man regarded his last un-
married daughter critically.
“Let me see, Alice,” he reflected,
“young Smythe has been calling on
you regularly for six or eight months,
hasn’t he?”
| “Yes, father,” simpered Alice.
| “Well,” continued her,parent, “if he
asks you to marry him when he comes
tonight tell him to see me. Under-
stand 2”
| “Yes,” giggled Alice. “But snppose
| he doesn’t ask me to marry hin?”
| “Hm!” reflected papa. “In that
case just tell him I want to see hin."
Does Away With Ocean Peril.
The latest in wireless direction find:
ers has been installed on the steam-
ship Mauretania. With this device it
is possible to ascertain in a few sec-
onds a ship’s bearing toward any one
land wireless station. If touch is se-
cured with two or more stations, the
exact position of the vessel is found
by cross-bearings. The value of such
a direction finder in thick or hazy
weather is obvious.
PLANTS THAT HAVE “SIGHT”
Either That Sense or Instinct Whick
Would Seem to Answer the
Same Purpose.
We know thaf plants are sensitive
to light and darkness. Many of th
move during the day to tin the
faces of their flowers always to the
sun, Others open only when the day-
light Is dying, and when the moths on
whom they rely to carry their pollen
are abroad.
Climbing plants, such as sweet peas,
seem to fling their tendrils in an al-
most uncanny way in the direction of
anything that will serve as a support.
A scientist engaged recently in tak-
ing photographs of leaves through the
microscope was surprised to discover
that some of them showed hundreds
of little round patches, each of which
reflected the image of some object,
just as do the facets of the compound
eye of an insect. Closer examination
proved that each of these patches con-
sisted of a cell whose rounded outer
wall formed a perfect lens.
Each cell was, in fact, a perfect eye.
It was tempting to jump to the con-
clusion that plants could see. Actual-
ly they do not. The “eyes” serve quite
a different purpose. A plant lives by
the process of bottling up sunshine,
whose action produces chemical
changes within the leaves and the
stem. The leaves focus the sun's rays
and enable the work to be done effec-
tively. '
Plants are sensitive to light simply
because when the sun shines the
chemical changes within them go on
with increased speed. Climbing plants
find supports by groping. The tendrils
follow the sun, and as they move
round they touch and hold on to any
thing suitable that lies in their path
LONDON THIEF USES CANDLE
Burglar Always Carries Stump ane
Matches in Cigar Box and
Leaves Them.
There is an old-fashioned burglar in
f.ondon who has mystified New Scot-
land Yard detectives for a long time,
the Cincinnati Enquirer says.
At every home he breaks into he
leaves a cigar box. About two dozen
cigar boxes have been collected by the
police and deposited at various stations
in the north and northwest suburbs.
The cigar box is used as a candle-
stick. He puts the stump of a candle
and some matches in the box, and,
KEW HOPE FOR SIGHTLESS
French Scientist Asserts That It le
Possible for Persons to See
Through Their Skins.
A Frenchman hgs lately sterug thé
world with the extraordinary theory
that the sightless may yet see—through
their skins!
The eclentist is Doctor Farigoule,
and he points out that there is no
gcientific law which in itself opposes
his theory that man may be made to
“see through his skin, even though he
cannot do so with his eyes.
There is scientific proof that two
creatures which have no eyes at all
can yet see. These are the ordinary
earthworm and a certain beetle which
only comes out at night.
Many living things without ears, or
any apparatus corresponding to ears,
seem to have a fine sense of hearing.
It is a well-known fact that our skin
not only feels, but breathes, and to
a certain extent does the same work
as the kidneys in expelling waste mat-
ter. Doctor Farigoule states that the
skin is an organ of sight, not as
efficient es the eves, but better than
nothing.
It is not suggested that a man may
close his eyes and suddenly see
through his skin, but it is asserted that
a man who cannot use his eyes may
be trained to use his skin instead, and
by this means distinguish colors and
shapes and even read figures and let-
ters.
Scientists are learning new things
about the human skin every year, so
that these wonders may yet come true
LEGEND OF CYPRESS TREE
Mythology Has Many Interesting
Stories Concerning It—May Have
Been Used at Crucifixion.
The story mythology tells of the
cypress tree is that Cyparissus, son of
Telephus, while hunting one day acci-
dentally killed one of Apollo's favorite
stags. He became so filled with re-
morse at the mishap that he begged
Apollo, his dearest friend, to put him
out of his misery. The god compas-
sionately metamorphosed him into a
tree; hence its name. Its floral mean-
ings are despair, mourning, or Sorrow.
Cypress wood was used in the con-
struction of St. Peter’s gates at Rome,
After eleven hundred years’ use they
were taken down, comparatively new,
to be replaced by brass.
when, in the early hours of the morn-
ing, he forces the catch of a window
end enters a house he lights the can-'
dle and quietly makes a search for
jewelry.
Having filled his pockets with all the
valuables he can find he leaves the
cigar box with the candle and the
matches on a chair or table and goes
home. : |
Cypress was said by scme to have
been the wood the cross was made
from, while many refer to the material
as hewn from oak; but the aspen is
the more generally accepted as the
wood used for the cross of the cruci-
fixion.
According to the Missouri Botanical
Bulletin, the oldest known tree in the
world is a bald cypress growing in
Nobody has yet been able to find out | oo Maria del Tula, Mexico. It is
anything more about this mysterious '
burglar. The police think (without
prejudice) that he is an old man, who, |
after leading an honest life for some
years, has returned to the evil habits of |
his youth. They base this theory on |
the supposition that if he were a young
man he would despise such an anti-
quated thing as a candle and carry an
electric torch, but, being old, he cannot
! bring himself in line with the ideas of
the modern burglar. ;
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Seasickness a Thing of the Past.
The day when a cross-Channel jour i
ney or a long voyage will become a
real delight rather than (to many) a
distressingly trying discomfort is at
hand, comments the Westminster Ga- |
zette,
Engineering has accomplished this
by the perfection of what is known as
the gyroscope stabilizer, the first of
which, in this country, has been con-'
structed by the Metropolitan Vickers |
Electrical company at their Trafford
Park works, Manchester. The man- |
ner in which the gyroscope steadies |
a ship is simple. If a wave comes
along and seeks to push the ship over
in one direction the gyroscope quietly
pushes it back, exerting an equal!
force directly opposite to that of the
wave.
Entitied to Peace.
“This is the arena of the Coloseum,*
announced the tourist, doing a little
lecturing for the benefit of his wife,
“From yon grim portals the lions en-
tered. Yonder sat Alexander the
Great to supervise the combats.”
“Don’t display your ignorance,” re-
torted his better half. “Alexander the
Great was never in Rome.”
“He was.”
“He was not.”
The husband subsided.
“All right, my dear, I won't dispute
you. This arena has seen enough bat-
tles.”
Strange Experience.
One evening after I had finished
helping mother dry dishes I decided
to read my story book. I began where
I had left off—about the middle of the |
book. Soon I fell asleep. I dreamed |
of a strange story, something like the |
one I was reading, I dreamed to the
end of the story. The next day when
I finished my book I found it was ex:
actly as my dream had been and alsa
ended the same way.—Chicago Journal
Cement for China and Glassware. |
A cement for mending broken china
and glassware may be made as follows: '
Mix a cupful of milk with a cupful
of vinegar, then separate the curd from
the whey and mix the whey with the
whites of five eggs, beating the whole
thoroughly together. When it is well
mixed sift in a little quicklime and
stir until the mixture is of the con:
sistency of thick paste. Cement made
in this way dries quickly.
about 125 feet in circumference and
from 4,000 to 6,000 years old.
Oil Has Enriched Indians.
Statistics compiled for the secretary
of the interior show that the Osage
Indians of northern Oklahoma com-
pose the richest Indian community in
the world. Oil leases of their lands,
since oil was discovered there eighteen
years ago, have brought $136,014,397
up to May 1 to the 2,229 Osages, every
man, woman and child sharing in the
distribution. Between 1915 and 1923
these 2,229 Osages and their heirs have
received an average of $1,000,000 a
month. This means a yearly payment
to each Indian of $5,875. In April
bonuses and royalties paid these In-
dians amounted to $6,069,000, or $2,722
for each Osage man, woman and child.
Last May’s income was expected to ex-
ceed this figure. In addition to their
prior receipts the Osages received $26,-
079,300 in 1922. This gave each man,
woman and child $11,700, according
iv ee secretary of the interior’s fig-
ures. On the Osage lands 8,360 oil
wells have been drilled. Of these only
five were dry, the smallest proportion
ever known in oil drilling operations.
Old Roman Road.
Watling street is an ancient Roman
military road in Britain, extending
across the island in a westerly direc
tion. Commencing at Richborough or
Dover, it ran through Canterbury and
Rochester to London, and thence
across the island to Chester and York.
Portions of the road still exist as
an important highway, and the part
that extends through London retains
its name to the present day. Wat-
ling street, in the days of the Britons,
was a mere track through the forest,
but was converted into a military
highway by the Roman general, Vitel
i lignus, whose name was corrupted into
Watelain, and this later into Watling.
The term “Watling strect” was fre-
quently used in Jngzlund during the
Middle ages to denote the milky way.
Increasing Use of Radio.
Britain is behind in the development
of rudio snd the aithorities are heing
criticised for tuelr ‘failure to promote
radio comminication on a world scale,
and wit) permitting France, Germany
and the United States to occupy this
lield to the exclusion of England. It
is pointed out that France is planning
a great station at Pondicherry, India,
and that in July she wili ¢pen a high-
power station at Buenos Aires. Later
in the year two other stiutions will be
ready in South America, These will
be in direct communication with the
Y¥rench station at 5t, Assise, with
Nauen in Germany. ¢ud: with Lohg Is-
land, New York: ‘Krom St. Assise
France by radio wiii reach India,
China and Japan on the east and North
and South America ou the west.