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Boy, Fourteen, Well Satis-
fied With Trip Abroad.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Herbert Avram,
fourteen-year-old adventurer, who got
to Paris on a nickel and a lot of self-
reliance, although Colonel Lingbergh
needed an airplane and some letters
of introduction for the same trip, re-
turned the other day on the La Savoie,
the ship on which he stowed away ir
a stateroom.
Herbert returned as a third-class
passenger. But even then he had the
run of the ship, as he was the only
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one in that class, and had the priv-
ileges of cabin passengers. The French
line had decided to treat him as a
third-class tourist and had billed his
father for $175, half fare for the round
trip.
Despite the bill, Morris Avram, an
inventor of Manhattan, was not at the
pier to greet his globe-trotting off
spring. At this Herbert was visibly
downcast. Herbert admitted that he
expected a licking. A friend of the
family, Alexander O'Hara, took him
home in a taxicab.
Mum Regarding Trip.
Herbert would not discuss the trip.
On the eastward passage the boy was
a general favorite with the passen-
gers, who raised a purse for him, but
he has refused to let any glamor be
built up around him. To most ques-
tions he answered, “Bunk,” although
he was not asked about the skyline
or American women. He denied that
he went to see Lindbergh, saying he
went “just for the trip.”
He did have one regret. He was
Jorry he had not taken his five-year-
wold brother along.
“My father expected me to take
care of him at home,” he said. “If I
had taken him along things might
have worked out smoother.”
Would Not Have Him Jailed.
Edme Vasco, purser of the La Sa
voie, said the French line did not like
to turn over boys of Herbert's age to
the police. The usual passport re-
quirements were waived and he was
placed in the custody of his two sis-
ters, Marguerite and Violet, students
in Paris, who cared for him until the
ship was ready to make the return
voyage.
And he came back with more clothe:
than he left, his sisters having out-
fitted him with a bathrobe, pajamas
and two fresh shirts, which he carried
in a small black bag. Whether or not
he still had his nickel could not be
learned.
To Applaud or Not to
Applaud Stirs Musicians
London.—To be applauded or not
to be applauded. That is the question
which is agitating London's music
world today.
There are two hostile camps. One
nolds that a real masterpiece, such
as an opera or a brilliant pianoforte
sclo by Paderewski, should be re-
ceived with a solemn hush. And the
other thinks that approval should be
“signified in the usual manner.”
So far the loud applauders seem to
oe victorious, if the opinions of such
as Sir Thomas Beecham, the conduc:
tor, and Sir Landon Ronald, the com-
poser and conductor, can be taken.
«1 wish people were more demon-
strative,” said Beecham. “Nowadays,
as a rule, we applaud either in the
wrong place or not at all. Concert
audiences sometimes choose the worst
possible moment for their applause—
before the piece has ended, for in-
stance. As long as the applause is in
the right place, the more of it the
better.”
“It’s all nonsense,” said Ronald,
4artists love applause. That’s a thing
that troubles an artist whem he is
making a record for the phenograph.
He sings into a trumpet—he puts his
heart and soul into it—and at the end
there is just dead silence. It seems
almost unnatural.”
One Auto in U. S. for
Every Five Citizens
Washington.—The United States has
one automebile in operation for each
five of its citizens, the automobile
division of the Department of Com-
merce announces, basing its figures en
a recent survey.
Statistics for the world as a whole
showed 27,650,267 machines in opera-
tion at the beginning of the year, or
one for each sixty-six of the popula
tion,
in Canada and Hawali there is one
machine to each eleven of population
while New Zealand has one to twelve,
Australia and Denmark one to seven-
teen, Great Britain one to forty-three.
Argentine one to forty-five, and
France one to forty-six.
1t was estimated that 95 per cent
of all the automobiles operating fin
the world are of American origin.
though a considerable proportion of
them were assembled in foreig
branches of American factories.
Seek Beetle Parasites
for Planters in Hawai:
Honolulu, T. H—F. C. Hadden of
the Hawalian Sugar Planters’ asso
ciation is now on his way to Formosa
to collect parasites te control the
Japanese beetle. The beetle, which is
an epidemic to southern China, fs
kept in check in Formosa by natural
enemies. It is honed that introduction
of the Formosan parasite inte Hawaii
will help control the pest here.
and shearing sheep.
SPEED ESSENTIAL
FOR +RESERVING
Housewives Will Find That Use
of Pectin Will Hasten Pro-
cess of Jelly Makig
Speed, the great American char-
acteristic, should be applied by every
housewife to her annual canning and
preserving, according to the home
service department of the American
Gas Association, says the Pennsyl-
vania Public Service Information
Committee.
! “In order to have jams and jellies
of the best quality it is still necessary
to subject the fruits and vegetables
to long and slow boiling,” says the
Association. “However, in jelly-mak-
ing, the process may be shortened
considerably by the use of commer-
cial pectin. Time, fuel and effort will
be saved, while the flavor of the fin-
ished product will not be altered.
“Pectin in certain definite propor-
tion and strength is needed if the
jelly is to ‘set.’ Since the ripening
of fruits lowers the native pectin
content, the tendency has been to use
fruit not too ripe, and then to boil
away the juice in order to concen- |
trate the pectin.
“With commercial pectin, riper
fruit may be used, which is usually
less expensive. Less sugar is also
needed, and there is no need for in-
tensive boiling away of the juices. In
addition, with the commercial prod-
uct it is possible to make jelly from
many fruits which it has been impos-
sible to utilize up to now.”
“Gob” of Uncertain Origin
The derivation of the word “gob,”
applied to sailors, is uncertain. Some
authorities say that it comes from the
Chinese; others, that the word was
adopted from England. “Gob” in
provincial English means a “coast
guardsman,” probably from the fact
that the seamen were accustomed to
chew tobacco, since “gob” in English
also means a “little lump or piece, or
a mouthful.”
Earliest Magazines
The American Library association
says: “It is said that the first mag-
azine that really deserved the name
was the Athenian Gazette, which ap-
peared in London in 1691. Gentle-
man’s Magazine, starting in 1731, is
the real beginning of the monthly
magazine such as we know it in re-
cent years.”
Hawaiian Product
The evergreen blackberry came to
Oregon from the Hawaiian islands,
whence it is believed to have been
carried from other islands of the
South seas. It is said that one of
the Fiji islands is so covered with
this shrub as to make an impenetra-
ble thicket.
Material for Gas Bags
Bilk, cotton and linen are the tex-
tiles extensively used in the manu-
facture of gas bags for balloons and
airships, but all of these materials re-
quire the addition of a gas-holding
treatment, such as varnish, India rub-
ber, goldbeater’s skin and so-called
“dopes.”
Waterfall’s Energy
The naval observatory says that the
energy of a waterfall comes from the
clouds in the form of rain or snow
and these clouds are caused by evap-
oration which is the’result of the sun's
energy acting in the form of heat on
the surface of oceans, lakes, etc.
Ambassadors Defined
Ambassadors are ordinary when
they reside permanently at a foreign
court; or extraordinary when sent on
a special occasion. They are general-
ly ordinary in talent and extraordi-
nary in expenses, ignorance and pre-
sumption.—Samuel Johnson.
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In addition to the work performed in the picture above,
electricity is proving itself a valuable servant in many other
directions in rural homes. Among the tasks it accomplishes
cheaply and efficiently are refrigerating, lighting, cooking,
washing, churning butter, separating cream, shelling corn
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ANCIENT BURIAL |
CUSTOMS CITED
Excavations Near Wisconsin
River Reveal Them.
Sheboygan, Wis.—~Excavation of In-
dian mounds near Black river is un-
der way at present, with archeologists
from the Milwaukee museum and the
Wisconsin Archeological society in
charge of the work.
Study of the bones already un-
earthed shows that the Indians buried
there are either of a tribe which did
not use the “cradle board,” or are of
Indians who lived there before the
method of carrying babies strapped to
a board which was carried on the
mother’s back, came into general
usage.
This last theory is most favored by
the archeologists, for there are very
few dishes and ornaments buried with
the bodies, leading to the belief that
the burials took place before the cus-
tom of placing such articles in the
graves became common.
One of the mounds already excas
vated has revealed the skeleton of at
body buried in the flesh, while an-
other is that of a “pack” burial, where
bones of others, previously dead. have |
been disinterred, bundled together. and
buried with the body of another per-
Son.
The latter, it is thought, may have
resulted when all but the head of a
fumily died first, were buried and dug
up again to be re-buried with the last
of the group.
The mounds excavated so far are of
the efligy type, being built in the shape
of animals.
City Gave Name to Hats
Leghorn hats take their name from
Leghorn, an important seaport of Italy
and a strong naval station, 15 miles
south of Pisa. Leghorn, with a popu-
lation of 100,000, exports straw hats,
silks, wines and dried fruits. :
Constitution’s Timbers
fhe Century Biographical Encyclo-
pedia says that the timber used in
building the Constitution (“Old Iron-
sides”) came from Cumberland island.
near the northern coast of Florida.
There Are Such
it is easy enough to be grouchy
when things aren’t coming your way,
but the prize old growl is the man
who «will howl when everything's go-
ing 0. K.—Winnipeg Tribune.
Truly an Abnormality
from an exchange: “Daniel coming
anscathed out of the fiery furnace was
an abnormality.” It was all of that,
seeing that what he had entered was
a lion’s den.—Boston Transcript.
Where Aliens Take Jobs
Almost half the foreign workers who
come to this country enter mechanical
and manufacturing pursuits, while less
than 15 per cent go on farms.
Tender Sprinters
Countless thousands, including men
women and children, and tiny babes in
arms, raced across the field.—San
Francisco Chronicle.
Uses for Whalebone
Whalebone, once used so much in
che making of corsets, is now mainly
employed as bristles in hair and other
brushes
Origin of Window
Window comes from a Norse word
.neaning wind-eye, unglazed windows
being originally nething more than air
holes.
Angel Voices
Los Angeles not only speaks for it-
self; it shouts.—Woman’s Home Com-
panion,
Pc ia ma BE
WASTING OF WATER
IS ACTUAL MENAGE
Supply Companies Warn Public
to Avoid Excessive Sprink-
ling and to Stop Leaks
At this season of the year the
water company men begin to watch
the consumption of water more
closely, remarks the Pennsylvania
Public Service Information Commit-
tee. The danger of an extra dry
summer and consequent drought is
always present.
Inspectors are sent out from water
companies to keep a strict watch on
the use of water for sprinkling pur-
poses. With the advent of spring
both the amateur gardener and the
home owner who has a lawn are firm-
ly resolved that garden and lawn
must be kept in better condition thap
in previous years.
Automatic sprinkers have been
found to be particularly wasteful be-
cause they are often left in operation
in one spot for many hours. It is
in order to protect the public from
such water waste that inspectors try
to educate home owners to co-operate
with the water companies to cut down :
the consumption.
BELL SYSTEM HAS
12,816,000 PHONES
Fiftieth Anniversary Reveals
Company Operates 998,330
in Pennsylvania
At the end of 1926, which year
marked the fiftieth anniversary of the
Bell Telephone, the Bell System in
the United States had in operation
12,816,000 telephones, according to
the Pennsylvania Public Service In-
formation Committee. Connected with
that system were 4,758,000 other tele-
phones, giving the nation a compre-
hensive communication system of 17,
674,000 telephones.
Service in the Bell System is ren-
dered through 5998 central offices and
requires the use of more than 61,
000,000 miles of wire, more than
ninety per cent of which is in cables.
The Bell Telephone Company of
Pennsylvania at the end of 1926 was
operating 998,830 telephones with a
total of 3,955,862 miles of wire, of
which 8,789,125 miles, or ninety-four
per cent, was in cables.
Havoc by Shipworms
Mollusks, of which there are sev-
eral hundred species at present known,
include some of the best friends of
man, like the oyster and clam, and
some of his worst enemies. The dam-
age done in the United States alone
by shipworms annually is estimated
to reach $10,000,000.
English Cathedral City
Rochester is a cathedral city o.
Kent, England, on the right bank of
the Medway. It really forms ont
large town together with Chatham ané
Strood. Charles Dickens, who livel
at Gad’s Hill, three miles from Roch
ester, frequently introduces the cit)
into his novels.
Camphor-Yielding Bug
Possibility of a camphor bug indus
try similar to that of raising silk
worms is seen following the discovery
recently by an English naturalist oi
a small insect that yields a milky fluid
having the properties'of camphor. The
new drug producer was found in
Sumatra.
Almost Universal Belief
The belief that animals containet
within their bodies stones endowed
with magical properties is one that is
common to almost every race and civi
lization, and refers to a large variet}
of creatures, says a geologist writing
in the Popular Pictorial Magazine.
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