Some time ago a scfentist kneeling
on a rock on the eastern shores of
the United States studied with in-
tense care the first known footprints
of a dinesaur,
Those footprints were made not
less than ten million years ago when
the hard rock upon which the record
has been kept was soft and yielding
sand.
Almost at the same time another
scientist on the other side of the
country was locking into the largest
reflecting telescope that science has
ever known and peering millions of
miles farther inte space than human
eye had ever before penetrated.
For the first time new worlds were
visible, new solar systems were looked
upon,
Light which had been traveling for
years at the stupendous rate of 186.
230 miles per second flashed upou the
observer's retina and told him its
story of a world new to human knowl.
edge,
Wonderful as is the instrument that
pierces the unknown of the skies and
interesting as are the footprints of
that ancient beast, still more wondes
ful and far more interesting are the
hrains of those two men piercing time
and distance to learn the lessons of
WES SNS RENO R Oar
SOME HINTS
FREI IR FIEFIOWRRACAOE FAS
By Vola Brothers Shore
FOR THE GOOSE--
HEN you're in the humor, you
can make a banquet outa left
overs. And when jou ain't, you can
spoil a three-rib prime roast
The more friendiy you get with a
eat, the more marks you got to show
for it.
All stones ain't rubies and all wives
ain't wives
A girl of forty wears ha.
ment ring even to bed.
engage
FOR THE GANDER
It ain't gonna do you much good to
have the right o'way over a fallin’
flower pot
In dealin’ with a woman.
think you're wrong you're
right
if you
gen'rully
You can’t shut up a man that's got
the hahit of spoutin® proverbs, cven
with n gun. Unless it's got a Maxi
silencer.
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“Money may talk,” saye lmpecun
fous Imogene, “but it takes a deficit
to raise a yell.”
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By F. A. WALKER
the centuries and the far-off worlds,
To the man who bends over the
impressioned stone all the millions of
years since the dinosaur walked there,
are as an open bock. To the geolo-
gist the history of the world is as
plaln as the written tale or the
branching of the family genealogy.
Upon the bluckboard he can sketch
for you the story of our earth from
far beyond the dinosaur down to the
last layer of forest leaves, He can
tell you the sto~y of the ages with as
great accuracy as he can recite the
unimportances of yesterday.
it is the brain of man that is the
most wonderful thing of which the
finite knows, It. Is the ability to think,
to reason, to put facts in thelr proper
sequence and draw therefrom the log-
ical conclusion, that surpasses nny
other of God's creations.
It was the thinking power of
that made the telescope possible and
man
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The Bumps
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By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
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'VE had my bumps
The same as you,
The same
People do.
Yet when we do,
nd when It's done,
We think that we're
The only one.
us other
ut folks before
Have had that bump
And other cars
Have hit that
Yet, If we lived
[LIke fellowmen,
No ear would hit
That again.
stump
stump
What you and |
And all should de
Is not complain
And just hon-hoo,
But get right down,
When bumps we hit,
And smooih the road
A little blt
Yes If we didn't
Cry about
The bumps, but stopped
And smoathed them out
Life's hardest road
Would secon he free
Of bumps for them
And yon and me
(@ 132% Douglas Malloch.)
Y NAME Is Mcoly Cow and |
have no horns. Moo, moo,
have no horns” repeated Mrs
Mooly Cow
“Moo, moo,
Pell (Cow. "}
either.”
we
i
moo, |
Black
horus.
moo,” sald Mrs
haven't any
“The same Is true of me.” sald Mrs
led oll “and what Is more,
none of our Hitle ones have horns, as
they follow our example,
don't mind It because other
cows like the horns. It's just not our
way.”
“Why
you
Cow,
“We
talk of horns and whether
them or not?” sald Miss
Jersey (ow. “The Important subject
to be talked about Is that of milk.”
‘Milk Is Important,” sald Madame
Jersey Cow. "Oh, yes. there Is noth
ing so important except perhaps cows
themselves and good food for them to
eat.”
have
brought 1t to Its present efficiency.
It was the thinking power of the hu-
nan bralp that has mapped out the
past; placed upon the written page
the accurate history of the earth and
its inhubitants and made each one of
us the heir of nll the pages,
And yet there are men who pay
more money to their barber than they
do to the bookseller; who can find
more enjoyment In the banalities
of a “shew” than in the pages of a
history or the written thoughts of the
world's great masters. .
Why not devote some of the time
you waste, or worse than waste, to the
nequisition of the wonderful soul-stir-
ring facts that other men and women
have dug out of the earth or filched
from the stars and written down for
the world's enjoyment and better
ment?
Good books are plenty and cheap.
There 1s nothing In the world so low.
priced ns information, (intelligence
and wisdom. Five cents’ worth of
fact will be enough to keep you busy
for a week if you give it the thoaght
that properly belongs to it,
(2 by MeClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
a
“Chicago May” Churchill,
former confidential for
in New York
agent
[+ IS embarrassing for a wife to be
obliged to ask her husband for
money. Yet many husbands subject
their wives to this humiliation every
day.
Husband
ife. Yet
pess man making his partner
money to buy clothes or
tickets?
and wife are partners In
who ever heard of u busi
ask for
theater
jut the husband earns the money.”
rome will say. “He is entitled to dis
burse it as he sees fit"
This argument may hold good In
marringes where the wife does noth
ing bot look beautiful. But if she is
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Story for
“Well,” sald Miss Jersey. “1 do give
milk. There [8 no mistake about that
“Now the Guernsey Cows give good
rich ‘milk, ton. They are much the
same ns we are. They belong to the
same great family.”
“Ah, yes,” sald
“that is true
“The Jersey and the Guernsey give
the rich milk. Now the Holstein
ladies say that they prefer quantity
te quality,
“True.” sald Madame Holstein, *I1
would rather give a lot of milk than
a small amount of very rich milk such
as the members of your family do
“It is nice, of course, to give rich
milk, but I think it Is nicer to give
lots of milk. Now, the way we do
means that many, many more people
can have milk than If we did as you
all do,
“You are not 80 generous as we are
Miss GOCuernsey.
Internationn
Swift island
By JOHN BLAKE
wean
taking care of a house or looking after
a couple of children she 1s doling fully
as much toward making the partner
ship a success as her hurband.
The husband who does not
this should take care of a sinall house
for a day or two. At the thint
time he will probably be glad to re
sume his loafing at the office.
* - * . - * ®
believe
end of
Housekeeping Is
wearing forms of labor that can be
found. And caring for small children
is not exactly 8 vacation, either,
Let us admit that the average hard
working wife keeps up her end of the
partnership Why, then, should she
not be treated as an equal?
Why should she have to come (o her
nushand snd beg for money to buy a
new dress? Does he beg her to enok
his supper for him?
it seems to me that the only satls
factory anrwer to this problem is the
family budget. Expenses i'd be
tabulated and provision made for
one of the mos!
ahi
them
A vertaln amount of money should
be allotted to rent, another amount to
fond, npother gwount to clothing
Same money, of course, should go Inte
the savings bank
. . - » - * *
When the budget Is once planned
and found workable It should be ad
Children
That Is simply a family way of yours
But when you do give, you give hand
somely. That i= the way of the Jer
sey and Guernsey families
“Now | hold the world's record for
the amount of milk glven—for the
“The Important Subject to Be Talked
About Is That of Milk.”
greatest amount of milk ever given
1 do not mean that I, myself, hold
this great record, but the Holstein
family holds it.
*A Holstein cow has been known to
THE PASSING OF THE OLD
“DRAWING ROOM"
By JEAN NEWTON
® THIS day of servant troubles and
the three-room suite with kitchen
ette we do not hear po much of the
drawing room as we used to. How
ever, where there is the luxury of a
house we do still find, occasionally, a
relle of the formal parlor style of room
called the drawing room. In England.
incidentally, in quite small “villas.” as
they call suburban houses, the term
fs still used, even though the room
designated is what we would call a
living room, »
On Ite face the word “drawing room”
gives not the slightest hint of its origin
—yot how obvious once It Is re
vealed! For it is merely a contrac
tion for the original “withdrawing
room,” to which the Indies withdrew
after dinner while the gentlemen sat
over their wine!
Copvriabty
od
LAE HTN
Lucas, young crime expert and
government, whom she is to wed
hered to It makes little difference
then who has charge of the funds, If
the wife has a head for figures she
should be given the task of admin
istering the budget.
the better accountant he
prefer to handle the finances
Under soch 8 system both
and wife will have a certain
of money to spend, Then If the hus
band wants a new golf..suit he will
have to buy It on hls allowance. If
the wife desires a pew hat she will
have to fit {t into ber clothes money.
Put she will have a definite, regular
week on which she can
And she can plon her ex
penses accordingly
No self-respecting homap being
fikes to ask snother for money,
Wives are human beings and most of
are self-respecting.
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FOLD YOUR BILLS LENGTHWISE
By H. IRVING
HERE is a
spread through the country
in folding your money you
fold the hills tengthwise If you would
financially.
short across you will aiways be
up.” The basis of this superstition is
very easy to come at. It is purely |
sympathetie magic—like
like, what Is associated in
associated In fact,
bilis lengthways
at its greatest
‘long green.” not
will proh
ably
arpount
each
Um
Count.
then
KING
superstition wide
prosper
When you fold the |
the money remnine
tength —literaily the |
curtalied nor stunt
diminish them in length—apparently
cut them in two, curtail
way they represent money ex
and folded In the other
There you have
association of Ideas and the
tion of ideas brings about, hy
thetic magic, the association of
fact
in one
tending
cut of
money
clearly the
aesocin
Eympa
actunl
one but is Interesting as showing how
the human mind, even without the aid
of tradition, gnconsclously evolves In
tering of sympathetic magic—nn ex
ample of the persistence of the
conscious primitive In man’s
tality
(I by MeClure Newspaper Byndicate
suh
men
give
day!
“There Ia nothing selfish shout that
Nothing small or stingy
“Ah, yes, our family hoids
world's record for generosity in milk
giving.”
“Well,” sald Miss Guernsey,
good-gized cows and we think that
some cows should not think only of
quantity but should think of richness
and such important things
“We're rather rich looking mar
eelves, splendid looking we've been
told, and we want to give the King of
milk that is like ourselves™
“Sometimes we've been fed up and
given some of the Jersey milk to
make us fat.” sald one of the Hol
steing” for we are fed well when
we're out prize winning: or are hop
ing to be prize-winning cows,
“We're fed well all the time. of
course, too,
“1 do believe that we hold the hut
terfat record, for we've given eight
pounds of hutter a day-—aplece
“Ah, they have a silo on the farm,
and they thresh corn for us for the
winter time, 3
“But we do our work™
The Holstein family wore spotted
black and white coats and Miss Yer
sey wore a lovely fawn-colored cos
tame.
But they talked no more now for
an while as It was milking time, and
they all went and lined up 0 as (0
be all ready.
They felt auite satisfied with what
they eonld do and In the talk they
had had,
(Copyright)
Many German tourists ure now vis
iting the Ypres salient
| The I BABY |
No mother In this enlightened age
would give her baby something she
did not know was perfectly harmless,
especially when a few drops of plain
Castoria will right a baby's stomaeh
and end almost any little ill. Fretful
ness and fever, too; it seems no time
until everything is serene.
That's the beauty of Castoria; is
gentle jnfluence seems just what 1s
needed. It does all that castor ofl
might h, without shock to
the Without the evil taste
it's delicious! Being purely vegeta
able, you can give It as often as
there's a sign of colic; constipation;
diarrhea; or need to ald sound, nat
ural sleep.
Just one warning: it is genuine
Fletcher's Castoria that physicians
recommend. Other preparations may
be just as free from all doubtful drugs,
accomplis
Eystem.
Besides, the book on
feeding of bables that comes
letcher's Castoria is worth Its
im gold,
care and
welght
i
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UN
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an Bono red place in hun-
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Rubber walls in office buildings to
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Words i in Zeslaments
There are 181.253 words in one ver.
sion of the New Testament and 5HOQ.
408 words In the Old Testament. The
New Testament containg 7.950 verses,
the Old Testament, 23.214,
A man who likes to meditate and
philosophize doesn’t mind going fish
ing where the fishing is poor.
Garfield Tea
Was Your
Grandmother's Remedy
For every stomach
and intestinal HL
This good oldfash-
foned herd home
remedy for consti
pation, stomach ills
and other derange
ments of the sys
lem so prevalent these days 18 In even
greater favor as a family medicine
than In your grandmother's day.