THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBUR&
in
WHY COST OF
LIVING JNCREASES
Demand for Food Will Soon Ex
ceed Home Supply, Says
Commission Expert
JAMES J, HILL'S PROPHECY
We Have Reached a Point Where We
Are Ceasing to Be an Exporting Na
tion of Edibles Effect of Coun
try's Growth.
New York, N. Y. Henry Dunkak Is
President of the New York Mercan
tile Exchange, the organization of pro
duco commission merchants who linn
dlo New York's fresh food supply.
The World asked him why the cost of
living Is Increasing so rapidly. This
is his reply:
"Natural causes a coniploto
change In the conditions governing
our national food supply. Artificial
charges here and there, extra profits
in some lines, combinations In others;
local conditions In cities have tend
encies to Increase certain pikes,
but those are the exceptions, not the
ruling causes. I'nderneath them lies
the basic reason; namely, a demand
for food that Is Increasing faster than
the supply.
"We have reached n point where we
are ceasing to be an exporting nation
of food products. Our population Is
increasing bo rapidly that we are con
suming at home nearly all product
of the American farm. A few years
ago we exported large quantities of
food; to-day we export little save in
special lines; n few years hence we
may bo importing.
"It Is a very simple rule In econom
ics that when the demand proves
irreater than the supply prices rise.
This is the condition we are approach
ing In the food question. This Is why
prices are steadily advancing.
"Mr. James J. Hill the railroad man,
Is considered, I believe, an authority
on the grain supply of the West. He
has stated that we, as a nation, are
rapid iy approaching the time where
we will cease to export wheat and
flour and consume at home every
bushel we can raise. I am not fami
liar with the details of the wheat sup
ply, but I accept that prophecy, be
cause I know the same conditions are
applying to the fresh produce of the
larm the butter, eggs, cheese, milk,
.Yegetables and poultry.
"Until recently
great dairy State.
New York was n
It more than sup
plied this city with Its butter, milk
and cheese. To-day we go far West
for the greater part of our butter and
eggs. The States of the Mississippi
Valley supply the New York break
fast table. The commission merchant
la driven to go further and further
West and South for his consignments'
of farm produce.
"The very rapid Increase In popula
tion has a double effect. First, there
are a greater number of people to be
fed, particularly in the large cities,
who do not raise any of their food
supply; secondly, there is a decrease
In the available acreage in Eastern
States, owlrg to the spreading out oi
communities. Every new town that
springs up or expands Into a city
draws first on its own immediate vi
cinity for farm products, and there
by decreases the supply that former
ly was shipped to the metropolis.
"Thus everywhere the general de
mand for food products is increasing
while the available supply grows very
little larger. The first effect of th
demands is to raise prices at inltia!
points. The fanner can ask and re
ceive higher prices for everything he
raises than five and ten years ago.
There is a steady upward movement
in all market prices.
"Examine almost any staple on the
list, butter for example, and you will
find the average price from the dairy
onward has had an unvarying rise.
The producer, think, has had the first
and largest benefit of this Increase.
"The longer distance from which
New York must bring its fresh food
supply naturally leads to some in
crease in the cost of transportation.
Only a very small part of the total
comes from nearby regions. The
truck gardens of long Island have
been turned into building lots. The
milk trains start 200 miles or more
away from the city. Iowa butter Is
sought after. The States of the South
furnish us with vegetables.
"But it is not merely these special
conditions that is raising the cost of
living. The real causes lie further
back. The population is growing enor
mously. We are wanting and getting
better qualities of food. The demand
is going ahead at such rapid pace that
it is overtaking the supply. The re
sult is inevitable higher prices.
"There is the answer to your ques
tion." Baby Weighs Pound and a Half.
Cleveland, Ohio. Elizabeth Bond,
of No. 7,700 Deulson avenue, is five
days old and weighs only one and one
half pounds. Doctors think she will
live. The baby Is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. Bond.
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MOTHER STILL CODDLES DOLL
Clothed In Fresh, Clean Drees tech
Sunday, with a New Ribbon
In Its Hair.
St. Louis. Although Mrs. Catherine
Adams, who lookH as If she Were sev
enteen, Is the mother of a pretty babj
boy, she still cares for the first ten:
big blue eyed doll her mother g.m
her when she was u little girl.
For the ten years she has owncc'
the doll she has never neglected it,
toilet. Each Sunday finds It with i
clean and bright dress, n new rlbbo:;
In Its golden hair and a ne:it littlt
bow about its nock.
The little girls of the neighborhood
know about the hie doll
to see it. Tehy have never handled
ii, xnougn, because it Is bcccr.nl nv
more valuable each year ns an heir
loom.
Little John Qulncv Adams tint n.t
a year old, is not neglected, however.
Decause or the mother's fondness fot
the doll.
The doll is about two feet high n:iii
has a wax face and natural hair. It
Is generally dressed In white.
"I think a great deal or therio'I,"
Mrs. Adums said; "but of course I
think a million times more of little
John Quincy. It's a different kind ot
love I have for him."
Aeroplane Hat the Thing Now.
Chicago. The National Assocl.it -on
of Retail Milliners, assembled nt Hat
Arts Building, launched the ucroplant
as the new style of headgear, pi:t i:
ban on the peach-basket hat ami c!e
creed the three-cornered hat of t
Louis XVI. days as the stunning bon
net for the coming winter months.
The new creation In milllnerv art
resembles an nlrship In shape, having
two long feathers on either end a::c
a curved rim. Its dimensions nn it:
by 18 inches, and. because of Its light
trimmings, it weighs considerably
less than a pound.
MARRIES MAN OF HER CHOICE.
Girl Sends Distasteful Suitor After
License While Wedding Goes On.
Cincinnati. While Philip Fisher
was securing a license to marry Alice
Carney, a wealthy young woman of
this city, the clerk remarked that a
license had been Issued to Winifred
Carney of the same address a few
minutes before and asked if the two
were sisters.
Fisher dashed out of the court
house to the home of Miss Carney,
where she was being married to Thos.
Kllgour, and attempted to make his
way to the room where the ceremony
was in progress. Friends of the cou
ple kept him on the street until after
the knot had been tied, but he made
a scene and finally left the house In
high dudgeon.
Mrs. Kllgour tonight gave out the
following statement before leaving for
her honeymoon:
"I have been engaged to Mr. Kil
gour for some time past and I have
known Fisher but a few months. He
was persistent In his suit, and flnall)
In a Joking way I told him to go ahead
and get the license, but my friend
and acquaintances well know that I
was engaged to Tommy. I suppose
FIslrer took me at my word, and that
is how the mlxup occurred. But 1 Hm
happy, and that is all I have to say."
A NEW UNWRITTEN LAW.
Man Acquitted of Murdering Man Who
Paraded Naked Before Family.
Grand Rapids. Mich. That William
Shultz was Justified in killing Ray Ed
wards for parading naked be!o-(
Shultz'a wife and children was tin
verdict of the Coroner's Jury am
Shultz was released.
Public sympathy was strongly witt
Shultz. William Wlddicomb. a mem
ber of the board -of works and ownei
of one of the city's biggest furniture
factories, offered to be one to k'.vi
any amount needful to defend Shultv
and he was Joined in the offer b,
Henry J. Heystek, C. S. Udell, Ralph
Tietsort and others. Tietsort took
Shultz to court in his automobile.
Shultz Is a laborer and has eight
children.
LIGHTNING TANS BULL ALIVE.
Black Hide Untouched, but All White
Hair Burned Off.
Ogdensburg. N. Y. A Holsteln bull
at pasture on Thomas Winthrop's
farm near here was almost tanned
alive by lightning. The beast was
struck by a bolt between the horns
and the current passed down the broad
white blaze at its nose, the white
stripes on the neck, fore-shoulders
and forelegs into the ground.
The black hide was untouched, but
the white hide and the skin of the
bull's nose were burned hairless and
tanned to the appearance of leather.
The bull was stunned, but will live.
Leaves Thirty-Eight Children.
Indiana, Pa. Thirty-eight children
mourn the death of their father, John
w. Miller, aged siventy-slx years, who
died at the country home here, where
he had been an Inmate for several
years. Mr. Miller was married four
times. One wife survives him,
As Observed.
"Golf Is a good deal llko the piano,"
observes the grouchy old sportsman
' Its generally played by peoplo that
don't know much about it"
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lp DEEP 8EA FISH. jfTI
Startling Changes Take Place Wlien
, They Are Brought to the Surface.
When a deep sea fish is brought to
the surface, how gradually and care
fully soever Its bones are often llko
bo much touchwood and Its muscles
like rotten pulp, whllo its eyes aro
burst from its Buckets and its vis
cera are often blown out of the boly
cavity by the expansion of tho air
bladder. It frequently happens that
deep sea fishea aro found floating
helplessly on the surface of tho
ocean, with Iari;o prey In their stom
achs. Their appearance under these
circumstances is accounted for by
tho efforts of their struggling victims
to escapo from their Jaws, rausing
them to ascend beyond the horizontal
ono which they usually Inhabit. Uoep
sea fishes are commonly black or
dark brown. But although It Is
claimed that light Is essential to the
formation of colors, some deep sea
Ashen are scarlet in parts or uniform
red or rosy. Others aro silvery white,
while, according to Alcock, the neo
copcltis is "(mo dazzling sheen of
purple and silver and burnished gold,
amid which Is a sparkling constella
tion of luminous organs."
Stretch Thia Square.
Stretch this square out two feet.
Looks like an impossibility, but it
can be dona. By taking a sharp knife
or a pair of bclssors, starting at the
upper left hand corner and cutting
clear to the dot in the middle, follow
ing the line all around. After you
have done this got some one to hold
on end and you take the other and
sco if it doesn't stretch two feet.
Cactus Yielding Pulque.
Of the many kinds of cactus and
agaves that are found In Mexico, only
ono species, the so-called "Maguey
aloe," may be said to possess an
economical value, becaue the pulque,
tho Mexican national drink, Is tal en
from that cactus. For that reason
tho plant Is being cultivated and
there are found -large plantations
where thousands of this cactus are
found with their horny leaves and
their large slender flask fruits. Only
once In one hundred years Is fruit pro
duced by the plants, but each fruit
gives at that time up to 400 quarts of
juice or pulque that is collected with
a syphon and left standing until fer
mentation sets in. Then the pulque
Is hastily brought to the places where
It is to be sold, because it can only
be used one day after the fermenta
tion has been completed. The d; 'nk
is of a milk color and has an unac.ee-
uble smell. The drink is iutoxica.ing,
although It contains only a small per
centage of alcohol.
Death Sentences In Belgium.
In Belgium the death sentences are
never carried out, because King Leo
pold promised his mother as she vas
dying that he would never sign his
name to a death warrant. Conse
quently, although his statute pre
scribes the extreme penalty, it Is only
carried out constructively. The con
demned person is regarded as dead
in the eyes of the law. In place of his
personal appearance on the scaffold.
the executioner substitutes a broad
sheet bearing his name and sentence,
posts this where it may be read by
tho people, and so leaves It, while
the criminal Is put In prison, to stay
there for the term .of his life.
Ancient Burial Custom.
Skeletons of ancient Britons which
have been dug from the gravel in va
rious parts of England show the man
ner of arranging the body for burial.
The custom was to make the body
occupy as small a space as possible.
The knees are found drawn up at
right angles with the body, the head
pressed back, and the arms folded
In front of the chest. In one case,
tho fingers of the right hand are
doubled underneath, while the left
hand is bent at the wrist. The skele
ton of a woman from Garton Slack
had a crude hairpin back of the skull
and a flint Implement near ffie teeth.
Relics of the Classic Age.
It has been estimated that more
than $200,000 is spent daily on the
averago by foreigners when visiting
Italy. This enormous income is, of
course, dependent upon the historic
associations of the country and lta
many famous ruins. If for no other
reason, It, therefore pays the Italian
government well to preserve these
ruins for the sake of the income thus
derived. Herewith is shown a pic
ture of one of the temples of Diana
In Italy as it appears at the present
day. Like many similar relics of the
past, it Is carefully guarded to pre
vent further decay.
London Milk Fair,
Another landmark of old London
disappeared recently when the au
thorities ordered the destruction of
the milk fair which has boeu a fea
ture of St. James' Park for 300 years.
Tho women who conducted the fair,
with their ancestors before them, had
been in possession of the placo for
centuries and Insisted that long occu
pancy had given them a sort of per
petual franchise.
THE MOUTH LIKE
' THE
E
Secrets That the Telltale L:nea
About the Lips of a Wo
man Reveal
HOW TO MAKE THEM FRAGRANT
The Disposition Indicated by the
Wrinkles About the Mouth Scents
for the Lips A Pretty Mouth as a
Matter of Dentistry.
There are women whoHO mouths do
not suggest roses. The main fault Is
the shape. The rosebud mouth should
bo rather short and a little wider than
It is long. It Is a little short to be
classic. The trouble with the faulty,
mouth Is generally first Its shape,
then Its expression, and lastly Its ap
pointments. The mouth should be
filled with rows of white, even teeth.
The lips should be a deep pink, more
pink than red.
The rostibud mouth suggests the
rosebud in other ways than In shape
and color. It must have the scent of
the rose. Women who can alTord It
scent the Hps with a drop of attar of
roses.
The HtUr being slightly oily will
not dry out tho lips. It may keep
them from chapping, and It "certainly
makes thorn pink and fragrant.
Women who do not want to spend
half a dollar a drop on attar can do
very well with substitutes. A drop of
any oily perfume will do the work
nicely. Oil of rose geranium- is one
substitute.
Of course one must not use a heavy
sweet odor. - Then the personality of
a woman must be taken into account.
One drop of the oil of pessamlne Just
suits out woman. Others prefer spice,
and if not used crudely there Is a cer
tain fascination about the slight odor
of splco.
The woman of Judgment will be
careful of the clove or the stick of
cinnamon. She can use both or either,
In connection with violet. A strong
clove olor is not to be desired by the
woman.
The rosebud mouth must have no
wrinkles around it. There are wom
en who carry a great number of deep
wrinkles always around the mouth.
The'ie are the set wrinkles of deter
mination. These are the shape of
parnteses, and they surround the
mouth as though one had marked
around it with a pencil. The deter
mination wrinkles look as tho- gh
they were there to stay, as they gen
erally are unless treated.
There are wrinkles that are really
marks of happiness. They are the
smiling wrinkles. There are always
a few dimples along these happy
lines, and the laughing woman need
not worry about them. They are pret
ty, and people will tell her she has
a happy look.
There are other wrinkles that are
not of happiness. There was a wom
an who once had a rosebud mouth.
One day a couple of teeth were taken
out on the same side of the mouth.
The result was a crooked mouth.
No mouth can stand two missing
teeth on the same side. The Hps
drew a little to one Bide, and when
the woman smiled there was an ex
pression of sourness.
It took a dentist and a masseuse to
straighten her face.
If a woman has a crooked mouth
her first trip should be to the dentist
She will ot course seek a cosmetic
dentist who alms to make her face
belter looking. Most dentists merely
supply fillings regardless of looks, but
the right kind ot dentist will do work
that does not show.
No mouth looks like a rosebud as
long as there is a deep wrinkle ex
tending from the nose to the mouth.
It Is seldom seen in the young, but
It is almost always present In the
face of maturity.
Mouth wrinkles are treated entirely
differently from other wrinkles be
cause they are of different origin. They
are disposition wrinkles. You can
Judge a woman's disposition by them.
"Don't marry a woman whose mouth
is set in deep round and round lines,"
advised a phrenologist. "Such a wom
an will have too much of a will ot her
own.
"Don't marry a woman with a line -running
down one side ot her mouth
to her chin. Such a woman will be
cranky. She will have opinions. Mar
ry a woman with an eveuly balanced
mouth.
"Don't marry a woman whose
mouth lines are heavy and whose up
per Up Is long. This means selfish
ness. The prominent mouth and the
retreating chin in all cases mean that
a woman Is looking out for herself and
her own interests.
"Don't marry a woman whose lines
are like spider webs enclosing the
mouth as in a network. This means
that the woman is a worrier.
"Marry a woman with a ripe red
mouth set in a tranquil face. Don't
be afraid to tell your wife after you
are married that you married her for
her pretty mouth. The woman who
knows that her mouth Is pretty will
be much more apt to preserve her
beauty than the one who Is in Ignor
ance of the fact that a good mouth
Is her chief feature."
Four-Flushing.
Women are four-flushers, too. Many
a time a woman says "pass the cream,
please," when she knows well that
there's nothing but milk in the pitch
er, mighty thin milk at thut.
RED
FRENCH
SAVINGS.
The "old woollen stocking" In
which the savings of France are
horded, according to tradition, ap
pears to bo as inexhaustible as the
purse of Fortunatus. According to an
estimate recently published in Brus
sels the sum extracted from It In the
last two years to be lent to foreign
States and cities reached the petty
total of four thousand million francs,
or $S10 ,000,000.
Streams of cash are constantly
flowing from tho great banking houses
of Paris to all parts of the world. At
the present time there are nine nego
tiations In progress for great foreign
loans. Brazil, which has borrowed
43."i,000,000 francs in two years, Is
now In the market for a further ac
commodation of 40.000,000 francs to
establish an agricultural loan fund for
the State of Sao Paulo. Nicaragua
lias virtually concluded a deal for a
loan of 30.000.000 francs. The Finance
Minister of Hcrvla has opened pour
parlers for tue floating of 100,000,000
francs worth of bonds, the money to
bo devoted to railroad building nnd
the purchase of armament. The l'p
rnwa Fondawa or mortgage bank, a
State institution of service which
makes vast advances for agricultural
work, is also looking for an advance
of .10,0().000 francs.
The canton of Berne has made
known in financial circles that It will
soon be ready to begin negotiations
for a six million dollar loan for public
works. It Is only wnlting for the nec
essary authorization to be embodied
in a law by the Cantonal Council. St.
Petersburg wants $24,000,000. Bucha
rest asks a modest sum of $r,000,000
nt 4 per cent. Buenos Ayres Is well
advanced In negotiations for $15,000,
000, nnd the Kongerlget Norges Hypo
thekbank, a Norwegian institution
to the Servian mortgage bank, is in
process of floating 110,000,000 worth
of paper which It has recently decid
ed to Issue.
This makes a total of $111,000,000
sought in loans nt one time In Paris,
yet none of the operations if of first
rate magnitude and none of the sor
rowers of first rate Importance. It
represents merely the routine 'busi
ness of the owner of the inexhausti
ble stocking.
MENTAL THERA
PEUTICS. The influence of the mind over the
body has been recognized In all ages.
The knowledge of that which could be
done by playing upon the hopes an(J
fears of men and women singly or In
groups and masses has furnished the
narrow-minded priest, the charlatan,
the astrologer, and the necromancer
with the means of subduing their fel
lowmen. The grossest superstitions
have been grouped around this knowl
edge; but also some of Its noble uses
were known and practiced. In our
time the facts of human experience
which were well known to the anci
ents have been brought out Into the
light of science, and we begin to
study the operations of the mind
without fear and with a freedom hith
erto unknown. The Improvement
comes not so much from an advance
In knowledge as in a better interpreta
tion of that which everybody knew,
but did not understand.
A NEW
TERROR.
According to the report of Profes
sor James H. Hyslop in the current
number of the Journal, of the Ameri
can Society for Physical Research a
new terror has been added to death.
A goldsmith obsessed by the spirit ot
a dead landscape painter has taken up
the brush and is painting pictures In
the manner of the deceased artist.
What will happen to the picture trade
If the ghosts of Academicians revisit
the glimpses of the moon, there to
find the living who will paint at their
bidding! It is a question of terrific
import, and perhaps it will give a
new twist to the problem of "repro
ductions" of old and new masters.
Spirit photography is bad enough;
this is worse.
FATIGUE ANTI
TOXIN.
According to Weichart, meat Juice
beet tea supplies to the system a
fatigue antitoxin, and is not simply
mild second-class food, for Its active
power in removing and preventing
fatigue is altogether out of propor
tion to its food value. Those who
labor with their brains and skilled
artisans whose crafts demand men
tal attention and little muscular ef
fort will find their powers best on a
light breakfast, slightly more plenti
ful lunch and a generous, hearty meal
at the close of day, provided three to
five waking hours are allowed for the
brain and mind to contribute their
share of nervous Influence toward di
gestion. BENEFICENT
BACON.
It Is a well known fact that bacon
cut thin, well cooked, brown, crisp and
dry, can be taken regularly and for a
long time by those who find all other
facts intolerable. This makes it a
valuable article for delicate children
and others who are weak and fastidi
ous. FACT AND FANCY IN
AERONAUTICS.
The uresent indications nm that
the airship and aeroplane of the fut
ure, even when they fcave been de
veloped to ' their ultimate perfection,
will find their field of usefulness ex
clusively in the work of scouting and
me carrying or dispatches.
The Gluten Club, of Amherst, has
proved that life can be supported on
four and one-half cents a day. Would
life be worth living It it were as
cheap as that?
POfcMS IN
PROSE.
The hen's admirers grow. Constant
Is their Increase. The first official aut
of Nebraska's new Lnbor Commission
er was a formal appreciation ,,f th,
pillnr of society. According to m
Maupln. this fowl brought SIS.ooo ood
worth of eggs to market In Nchra'.
last year. The Commissioner u un
prepared to estimate the value of her
offspring In the way of friend chicken
She laid 1,200,000,00) eggs n ym'
Placed end to end these crks would
reach .around tho earth and overhn
12.000 miles. They would inaUc nn
egg walk three feet wide reaching
from Omaha to Ogden. With hum thry
would furnish breakfast for fioo.nuo.
000 peoplo nnd make an omelette odd..
talnliiR 025,00 J cubic foet. Tim hen
was worth more to Nebraska than
the boasted wheat crop of $1'G,0"0.000
almost twice ns much ns the oat crop
of $tG,000,000; twenty times as much
as the barley crop; twenty time ns
much as the rye crop, and one third
as much as the much-tnlkedof crop
of corn. The Commissioner believes
Nebraska needs another seal. Is he
not right In thinking that upon that
seal no figure so well domands rccog.
nltlon ns the everpatlent, busy, nnd
unpretentious hen?
WHENCE SPRANG
MAN I
Where did man spring from? Pro
fessor Keith addressing tho Hoyal
College of Surgeons on the subject
of man-like apes, advanced the theory
that about 1. "0.000 years ngo there was
a group of animals from which sprang
the gorilla, tho chimpanzee and man.
Asked for evidence to support this
theory, he pointed out there wera
elgbty-serrn bodily markings common
to the gorilla r.nd man only, and ninety-eight
which aro peculiar to chim
panzees and man. He estimated that
there were more than 100.000 clilra.
panzees and 10,000 gorillas alive to
day, but that within 200 years there
would probably be none left. "Think,"
said he, "what a gap there will then
be between man and all other living
animals!" Tho professor pointed out
that the biggest and best teeth were
found in the gorilla, and that teeth
got worse ond worse on through the
orang-outang and chimpanzee down
to man.
SMALL FOES THAT
COST.
(Ireat enemies are met and van
quished. Small foes thrive while the
ways and means for their banishment
are sought in vain. As a case in
point there comes an official statement
from Washington that the Norway rat
is costing the country $100,000,000 a
year.
Similarly, the cost of enduring the
cotton-boll weevil threatens to reach
a far greater sum each year; thero
are a score ot fiends of the beetle
family chewing up $200,000,000 of for
est trees annually; the chinch-bug
genus has been equal to the destruc
tion of about $330,000,000 in cereals in
a decade, and its capacity increases
yearly. Besides which, the codling
moth In the apple trees, the borer
among the peaches, the Hesslon fly,
the brown-tall and gypsy moths and
many other swarming -pests help to
pile up a total annual insect cost ot
hundreds of millions.
A DUAL AFFLIC
TION. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps In a paper
on "How to Endure Invalidism" In
Harper's Bazar, says among other
tilings: "We may have to force our
selves to learn that invalidism Is a
dual affliction and that the patient
does not bear the whole of it There
Is little enough that we can do for
people who have the dreary task of
taking care of us. ... An Irrita
ble word Is a poisoned arrow, flying
heaven knows where and hitting God
knows .whom. We have yet to learn
that It does any less hurt because the
trembling hand of an invalid bent tho
bow. It is not in human nature to
love people sick or well who are
continually shooting at us."
OBEDIENCE TO
LAW.
"The greatest service to the na
tion, to every state and city, to-day
would be the substitution for a term
of years of law enforcement for law
making," says Mr. James J. Hill. What
Is wanted from all, both great and
small, is a spirit of obedience to the
law. In a self-governing democracy
law enforcement Is nearly synony
mous with voluntary observation ot
the law. Perhaps if the people took
the laws more seriously they would
make fewer of them.
A SUGGESTION
FOR JERSEY.
In carrying out New Jersey's law,
which provides for "protectors" in
community to watch out and tell the
liquor sellers who are the actual or
potential drunkards, the authorities
should fill the new offices with wom
en. Some women like this sort of
thing, and It's an even chance that a
man who tried It would get his bead
knocked off.
The opera grows more expensive
every year, whllo the Invention and
skill of composers and librettists seem
to be waning. Most of the best-liked
works in the modern repertory era
more than fifty years old.
A sanatorium for healthy persons
has been opened in Vienna. Well, why
not? Is it right that the sick should
monopolize hygienic facilities?
A man may be a good farmer but a
poor salesman. It he has sense enough
to know it he should turn the selling
over to his wife.
An easy way to be unhappy to-daf
Is to .worry about to-morrow.