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Old Roman Fountain
Credited to Domitian
ome has the reputation of being
the city which possesses the largest
number of artistic and monumental
fountains, which all help to give her
a most attractive aspect. But certain-
ly very few people in Rome, writes &
eorrespondent of the Christian
Science Monitor, could tell you which
is the oldest of all, and guides often
miss pointing it out to the tourists and
other foreign visitors.
At the foot of the road leading to
the Coliseum there lies the so-called
Meta Sudans, a fountain whose name
is probably derived from its conical
shape, similar to the “metae” of the
circus. The fountain is believed to
have been erected or embellished by
the Emperor Domitian, and it was re-
produced on the special medal struck
on the occasion of the formal opening
of the Coliseum. The water issued
from numerous small holes in a bronze
globe at the top and fell in a veil into
a large circular basin, lined through-
out with marble. This fountain is
mentioned by the philosopher Seneca
in one of his epistles, when he com-
plains of the noise which was made by
a showman who blew his trumpet
close to the fountain,
Gretna Green Unlike
Town of Olden Days
The big increase in the surplus of
idnglish women, as indicated in re-
cent census returns, has robbed Gretna
Green (Scotland) of hopes of staging
a comeback. The good old days of
romance are gone forever, aver the
townsfolk.
Daughters were far more scarce &
hundred years or so ago than now
when parents so rarely try to shoot
any young sports who purloin them.
Gretna Green did most of its rushing
marriage business between 1754 and
1856.
One of the popular paintings is that
of romantic passengers in a post-
chaise hurrying to the town on the
boundary line between England and
Scotland and showing the pursuing
father’s vehicle in a ditch with the
wheel broken down.
This pleture is more in demand
than the village blacksmith himself
who used to lend a helping hand to
parties bent on clandestine marriage
to avoid the English law.
Ancient Topography
fhe road followed by the dead on
their way to the Elysian fields, based
on the actual topography of the Nile
valley, is depicted on one of the earli-
est maps known. In a lecture before
the Royal Dutch Geographical society,
Dr. F. C. Wieder said that the first
map makers of whom there is any rec-
ord were the ancient Egyptians and
Babylonians. The way to Elysium
was pictured on a sarcophagus of the
old empire of Egypt now in Berlin.
A plan of the Nubian gold mines, he
continued, is preserved on a papyrus
of the Fourteenth century before
Christ. Road maps made into a house-
hold necessity by the artomobile had
precursors in the clay tablets into
which the Babylonians baked charts
of their roads 50 centuries ago, ac-
cording to the Dutch scientist.
Careless Letter Writers
Post office employees in congress
say be pardoned if their estimate of
the public's intelligence is somewhat
low. Letters still come addressed to
Mark Hanna and Boise Penrose. for-
mer senators and now dead several
years. Uncle Joe Cannon's mail is
quite heavy yet. Senators and mem-
bers of the house are mixed up indis-
criminately by letter = writers. So
many letters are received for mem-
bers of state legislatures who should
have been addressed at their state
capitals that a membership roll of all
legislatures is kept on hand for as-
sistance in forwarding such mail to
the proper address. Why are letter
writers so careless?—Exchange.
Selected Big One
albert, age six, was very fond ot
squeezing tooth paste from the tube.
His mother warned him not to take
too much. One morning he said:
“How much may I take, mother?’
“Oh, a little,” she replied, “about
as big as a bean.”
Then Albert pinched the tube and
out shot the ‘paste.
“Oh, oh!” exclaimed his mother.
“Not so much. I said as big as a
bean.”
“Yes,” said Albert, “this is a string
bean.”—Youth’s Companion.
Happiness in Work
There are social and economic
maladjustments, and many of them
lead to failures. Failure is umhappi-
ness. But no man fails if he likes the
job. Ford is right. Life’s real thrill
is in the job. That is what we mean
by ‘the “pursuit of happiness” in
America; it was the quest of the men
who built this wonderful American
government for us, and {it still is the
thing which lures us on to larger
achievements. Jobs are full of thrills
if we wish it so; but we get these
thrills only when we fit the job,
when we like it, and give it the best
we have in us! when we put some-
thing of ourselves into the thing we
do.—Mobile Register.
—Subscribe for the Watchman,
Gulf Streant's Width
Put at Fifty Miles
The Gulf stream flows out of the
Gulf of Mexico between the coast of
Florida and the Bahamas, and then
northeastwardly along the American
coast. Iis width, in the narrowest
portion, is about fifty miles, and its
depth some 2,000 feet. After ft has
passed between the Bermudas and
the ooast of Carolina it is divided
into several streams, about 100 fath-
oms deep and altogether 150 miles
wide. Its temperature up to this
point is several degrees warmer than
that of the surrounding ocean.
Beyond the 40th parallel of north
latitude and the meridian 60 degrees
west, the Gulf stream can no longer
be distinguished from the rest of
the ocean drift by temperature, mo-
tion, color, saltiness or otherwise. It
has no further separate existence, but
is lost in the general drift of warm
water from the southwestern Atlantic
toward Europe—a general phenom-
enon having little or nothing to de
with the Gulf stream proper,
Combination More Than
Fifty Per Cent Good
In a sketch of John Hay by Charles
F. Thwing, president emeritus of
Western Reserve university, included
in his book, “Guides, Philosophers and
Friends,” is this Lincoln story tol”
to Doctor Thwing by Hay:
“I know that most of the anecdotes
told about Lincoln are apocryphal,”
said Mr. Hay, “but this one is true.
In the campaign which led, as ft
proved, to his election, I was out with
Mr. Lincoln on the ‘stump.’
“We had a reception given to us in
one of the cities of our campaign. In
the line there came up & man who
getting close to Mr. Lincoln, said:
% ‘Mr. Lincoln, down our way, in
Buffalo, we kind o’ think if we can
have you and God we can pull the
old thing through.’
“Getting close, himself, to the man
Mr. Lincoln replied:
“I kind o' think you are more thar
half right! ”"—Kansas City Star,
Blessing the Beasts
A quaint ceremony is that still ob-
taining in some parts of Normandy,
the benediction des bestiaux. The
oxen and the draft horses are assem-
bled in front of the church. There
may also be a bullock or two and per-
haps some cows. The procession of
peasants. clad in their very best, is-
sues from the church to the sound of
a chant that is droned by the priest.
The venerable cure sprinkles a few
drops of water on the heads of the
beasts and when all the animals have
received the benediction the next fea-
ture of the ceremony is to place at
the pedestal of the cross facing the
church certain bundles tied in coarse
linen. “These “bundles contin breud
and salt, which are to be given to
those beasts not able to attend the
ceremony, says the Washington Star
Power of Love
Once when John Ruskin and
Thomas Carlyle were discussing the
literature of their day, the latter said
to his companion: “Can you tell me
why it is that works on subjects of
vital interest to the race, splendidly
written by men of profound scholar-
ship, command scarcely sufficient sale
to pay the cost of publishing; while
trashy novels, false to history, false
to philosophy and false to the facts
of human experience, and altogether
lacking in literary merit, will sell by
scores of thousands?”
After a short pause, Ruskin re-
plied: “There is but one explanation
of that fact, but the explanation is
all-sufficient; the novel has love in
it and the other has not.”—Scrib-
ner’s Magazine,
Good Idea
Coperscope had arrived home tired
and hungry, but the beds had not
been made and neither was there the
faintest sign of any dinner. Presently
he surprised his wife reading & novel
in the drawing-room,
“Do you mean to say that dinner
sn't ready?‘ he asked, with danger-
ous calm. “Very well, I'm going back
to town to dine at the Criterion.’
“Just wait five minutes,” replied his
wife, throwing aside her book.
“Will it be ready then?’ he queried
nopefully.
“No,” was the cheerful answer,
“but I'll come with you.”
Bagpipes in Spain
specimens of bagpipes are found on
old Spanish manuscripts. In the
beautiful volume of the “Cantigas di
Santa Maria,” which was made in the
Thirteenth century of King Alphonso
the Wise, there are 51 separate fig-
ures of musicians. These form an
introduction ‘to the canticles, There
are three pipers among them with
bagpipes. Another Spanish manu-
seript of the end of the Fifteenth cen-
tury, illustrated by a Flemish artist
for Queen Isabella, shows many mu-
sical instruments, among which are
bagpipes.
Relic of Indian Art
4A relief of the old Mathura schoo)
of Indian art is in the possession of
the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It
consists of a thin slab of red sand-
stone, carved on both sides. It is a
pediment decorated with a repeating
ornament of three varieties, the same
on each side of the slab, and was
probably part of the main or only
entrance to a temple which may have
been entirely of stone, but more likely
‘of brick except for the doorway,
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CHINAMAN'S BRIDE"
CAN'T COME HOME
Dilemma of American Girl ir
the Orient.
New York.—The wedding ring which
sealed the elopement of a beautiful
Brooklyn girl, a Columbia graduate,
with a native-born Chinese has be
come the bar which will forever pre
vent her return to her native land.
The information came from China.
where Mrs. Pao is literally marooned
and her Chinese husband, formerly
president of the National university
in Peking, a prisoner in the hands of
the Nationalist troopers.
“You will have to get a divorce be-
fore you get an American passport,”
Mrs. Pao was told by American con:
sular officers in China, according te
the information sent here.
“If you get a Chinese passport you
can go to Ameriea for only six months
and cannot remain permanently. As
there is no Chinese quota, you cannot
return as an immigrant,” the officials
further advised her.
Mrs. Pao has protested to her Amer-
ican relatives that she is deeply in
love with the Chinese husband whom
she met when both were students ir
Columbia, five years ago.
“I have mo intention of divorcing
him, I love him, but I want to return
to America, and they say I can’t with-
out a divorce,” the American wife of
the Chinese professor insisted. “I
have never regretted our marriage.” ..
Since Professor Pao’ was ‘captured |:
by the Nationalist forces five months
ago, his wife seldom has been permit-
ted to communicate with him and has
never seen him.
Carried Half Mile
in New York Sewer
New York.—Swept more than half
a mile by the swirling underground
waters of New York's sewers and
finally washed into the East river.
seven-year-old Anthony Agostino was
little the worse for his experience.
The boy fell into a sewer manhole
while playing with several com-
panions in a subway excavation at
Third avenue and Fifty-third street.
Cries of his companions attracted
watchmen, who notified the police and
fire departments,
Manhole covers along Fifty-thira
street and Second avenue were opened
and firemen lowered with ropes and
flashlights. But each time the res-
cuers were too late—Tony had had
already shot by.
Jiremen, police and members ot
che United States volunteer life-sav-
ing corps gathered about the sewer
outlet on East river to await the ar-
rival of the boy.
Ainutee passed.
the sewer
Tony had been in
Suddenly from the outlet from which
three to four fect of water rushed
came a mud-covered body, which be-
gan to kick and squirm ae it struck
the river. Several firemen jumped
into the water and hauled the boy
into a boat.
“It was terrible cold in there,” re-
marked Tony as he was rushed to
Bellevue hospital. There it was found
he was suffering slightly from sub
mersion and several bruises.
Feared Ellis Island
Havre, France.—Fear of detention
at Ellis island was expressed by
France's minister of commerce, Maur-
ice Bokanowski, when he sailed for
New York aboard the France, because
he did not have time to get an
American visa on his passport,
Turn to Pharmacy
Madrid.—The feminist invasion of
masculine professions has been sud-
denly turned toward pharmacy. Dur-
ing the last year 250 women received
licenses to operate drug stores in
Madrid alone.
Church Parade in
London Comes Back
London.—The Sunday church
## parade has come back to Hyde
x park. For a time it appeared
¥ that the important event of old-
% en days, which tourists included
¥ in their itinerary along with
% the Tower of London and West-
¥ minster abbey, had become an
% obsolete function. But the show
X has returned in all its old-time
% glory and current styles in
x feminine dress have made fit
more colorful than at any other
period.
X Fifteen or twenty years ago
% nearly every one who wanted to
X be somebody took a place in the
park on Sunday morning, imme-
x diately after church services,
sharing in the procession of life
x and fashion. But during the
it war the big parade fell off tre-
mendously, and it never became
% its real old self until this sum-
% mer.
¥ Time has changed the cus-
toms. The best-dressed people
do less promenading than for-
merly, and are content to oc-
Xx cupy a back seat or a bench
p¢ under a tree, watching the oth-
er half of the world go by for
an hour or so.
Manikins wearing all the lat-
¥ est Paris fashions have added
% zest to the parade, as have girls
# with Edwerdian frocks. Some
§ are trailed by dogs selected to
¢ match their costuvves to the dot. 3
POH
waters 20 minutes ‘and
hope of ‘his rescue alive began ito ebb.”
‘| Aristotle Cleverin
Evading Royal Wrath
Alexander the Great met defeat
when he tried to obtain ownership and
exclusive control of the writings of
Aristotle. During the philosopher's
second sojourn in Athens he gave in-
struction to the youthful world con-
querer and prepared a number of com-
positions especially for his royal pu-
pil's instruction. A little later Alex-
ander wrote the following letter to
Aristotle:
“You have not treated me fairly in
including with your published works
the papers prepared for my instruc-
tion. For if the scholarly writings by
which I was educated become the
common property of the world, in what
manner shall I be distinguished above
ordinary mortals? I would rather be
noteworthy through possession of the
highest knowledge than by means of
the power in my possession.”
To which Aristotle ingeniously re-
plied:
“It is true that through zeal of ad-
miring friends these lectures, orig-
inally prepared for thy instruction,
have been given out to the world, but
in the full sense of the term they have
not been published. For in their
present form they can only be under-
stood when accompanied by the inter-
pretation of the author and such in-
terpretation has been given only to
vou."—Kansas City Star.
Lightning Thought to
Drill Hole in Glass
It any resder should find one of his
window panes perforated by a perfect-
ly round hole, without apparent cause,
the first question he should ask fis,
Has there been a thunderstorm in this
neighborhood recently? If the answer
is in the affirmative, he may conclude
that Jupiter Tonans, the lord of the
thunderbolts, in playful mood has sent
one of them through the glass. In
ordinary English, the pane has beer
struck by lightning.
That is what probably happened to
the plate-glass window of a New York
building recently. A minute hole ap-
peared mysteriously in the glass.
Three employees were at work inside
the window, and all three heard a dis-
tinct report. Particles of glass fell
on one of them. Search failed to re-
veal any bullet or other object that
might have caused the hole. It seems
to have been due to one of the mys-
terious pranks of lightning.
Disraeli’s Birthplace
The late Lord Beaconsfield was al-
ways very vague in his mind as to
where he had been born, but at one
time he firmly believed it to be the
house at the southwest corner of
Bloomsbury: square and Hart street.
Actually, says Mr. Charles G. Harper
“in “A Literary Man's London,” he
Mid not go to live in that house until
he was some twelve years of age, and
today a bronze tablet on the house
testifies to that. Yet when he was
the prime minister he visited this
Bloomsbury square house, and sat pon-
dering “in the room in which he was
born!" Another anecdote Mr. Harper
has to tell is of Disraeli when he was
nearing his end. When his sovereign
wished to call and bid him farewell,
he refused, because he said, “She only
wants me to give a message to the
Prince Consort!”
Motors Lift Bridge
Most railroad bridges of the lift type
in the United States are operated by
electric motors served by a power sys-
tem. However, the Pennsylvania rail-
road has a bridge across the Chesa-
peake and Delaware canal that has no
sasy access to central station power,
30 a gasoline engine generator set was
installed to supply the lift motors with
energy. A 110-kilowatt gas engine set- ;
serves the two 120 horse-power mo-
tors. The lift span of the bridge, car-
rying two tracks, weighs 700 tons and
Is raised to a level that clears the wa-
ter by 90 feet. If a boat approaches |
the bridge can be lifted to its top posi:
tion in 90 seconds.
lguana’s Accomplishments
In northern Australia ,the iguana
is seen quite often. This is a very
versatile reptile that “can run like
a horse, can swim and dive, shin up
a tree, digs its burrow, and, when
necessary, can fight like a demon.”
The iguana may go down its hole to
sleep for months, it can go foodless
for weeks; at other times it will eat
or swallow anything. Mr. Terry says
that snakes, old socks, or even an un-
opened tin of jam are alike to it,
when its throat can gulp down such
tasty morsels.
Love Story
“You love me, don’t you?” he said,
ooking into her beautiful face. A
‘loving look was in her eyes as she
snuggled her head on his shoulder,
He slipped his hand into his pocket
and drew out a little box. Opening
it, he withdrew a sparkling cube of
sugar. He slipped it iAto her awali-
ing mouth, and with a low whinny she
galloped off to the pasture.—Path-
finder.
Voiced Her Desire
¥ne day while four-year-old Heler
and her father were out walking, he
took her into an ice cream parlor, He
thought she had decided to have a
chocolate soda; so, when the waitress
appeared, he said:
“Helen, tell the lady what you
want.”
Imagine his surprise when Helen in
nocently replied:
“A baby brother.”
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