q SUCH IS LIFE p ® By Chesles Sughros He's JUST PLAYIN'G HE DOESNT WEW, WE KNOWS NOW, DOGEONE Him! The Household 0 By LYDIA LE BARON WALKER Black has come into prominence in decoration both in main features and in accessories. When for the former decoration, black gives solidity and stability of almost a structural kind, as for instance when floors are painted or carpeted in the nubian tone. When used for the latter accessories, bluck subdues an over-brilliance of main features, The present era color schemes followed drab ness that the effect was often dreary, When the dullness reached its height, the pendulum swung to the farthest stretch of its orbit, and resulted In a used of blzarre r one of such Doing One’s Best to the End By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Late Dean of Men, University of Illinois. “Thompson is leaviog you, 1 hear” 1 said to Jones, “and golng Into an other line of work. How Is he getting on? 1 had known Thompson for years and he seemed to me a bright, energetic young fellow who ought where “He's lost all In terest in bis work.” Jones replied, “He knows he is not going to be with me longer than the end of the year, reason for showing He comes late pretty no more than he has {Oo gel some and he sees no any initiative, often, he does ed both for its startling gloom, or its dust-provoking trait, Secondary Color. Black as a secondary color i8 pleas ing. Touches of it in bright tiled or painted panelling are apt to be intro duced. They lend distinction. In car pets and rugs threads, or elements of design in black accent beauty of color In bizarre wall pa- black Is essential to quell col- and in less pronounced wall pa- per, notes of black give a French ac- cent that Is pleasing. Black is found in all cessories and household appointments today to offset harmonies, pers, or, sorts of ac the profusion of gay Crystal table glassware is rimmed with black, or has a black design engraved on it, Stemware of colored, clear, or white, glass has a black base. Silver light. iz fixtures have lines of binck traceries In colors In decorative schemes, delicate indentations, etc. ir blaze of bright hues. Because the of color was bewildering and confus fing, something stabilizing found essential. No color 18 so effective for this as black. It absorbs color, But it must introduced with d and artistry. Black has its peculiar characteris tics, and these should be remembered, It emupha For ex ample, background or when touches the rugs and “pu are culled over frean carpets becnnae they show tinctly In rare instances have used black for ceilings, but such treatments have not proved a happy one. Black In masses should be avoid was he + . . $rvad sizes spots and dost, a floor painted black is a for brilliant those of light of got) toned rugs tone, particularly black are found In hows dirt of dust or mnst he mon, Black much favor up dust so dis But black qui mies." fittle rolls The fi with a dry gone ntly not found have decorators —— “Neddy” Rem Parchment lamp shades have traceries and bandings of black. An household linens, is In evidence Towels hems, The weft alone is usually black, which a white warp enlivens enough to sug the known as gun metal Bath mats have wide black borders While black is used to a in decoration, introduced in present vivid black have black wost fone always tin degree interior is noticeably WNT Re Air Travel Increases Paris Five are traveling by air ive Cyraey 19053 times as many people from here to Lon in 1902, to Alrwnys re- 2.0550 pa traveling the channel by air, while in 19432 and 1031 there were 074 and 477, respectively. don in the Imperial corded ACross as fecording January REO LOTR So his master’s farm. Counterfeiters Spur Activi- ties in Depression. Washington. —Depression and unem- ployment have brought an Increase in counterfeiting and led to greater vigil lance on the part of the United States secret service. Descriptive warning circulars of seventeen examples of counterfeit notes have been broadcast during the last fiscal year and about unidentified productions of varying types and denominations have been circulated In different sections of the country for short periods. “In all my experience 1 have never known a time when counterfejling was sald Chief W. H, Moran experience he referred century. seventy so prevalent” The to covers the last half recently. Idleness and hunger lead to desper. ation, and desperation has turned wore than one honest man into a coun Rookie Travels Far The rookies world's distance record for traveling to major league spring training grounds is conceded to Ted Nobriga, a pitcher who came to the St. Louis Cardinals’ training camp in Bradenton, Fla, from Honolulu, He is a product of the University of Hawaii, is twenty-two, and a right-hander, Chief Moran, in- terfeiter, according to who observed that counterfeiting variably incdreases in hard times, Many Are Arrested. The only real measure of the volume of counterfeiting now going on may be found in statistics relative to arrests and to the seizures of spurious money, In the year ended June 30, 1932, counterfeit notes aggregating $540,538 and altered notes aggregating $24,216 were seized by government operatives of the service, and counterfeit coins totaling £40778 were confiscated. About 2.000 persons were arrested charged with counterfeiting and pass ing counterfeit notes, “The counterfeit notes captured dur. ing the year were largely used in evi dence against the makers and passers,” Chief Moran said. “In connection with Investigations and arrests, agents captured or seized 060 plates and glass and film negatives for printing coun. terfeit obligations and securities, in- cluding five plates for foreign notes, 450 molds for counterfeiting colns, in cluding three molds for foreign coins, and twenty-one dies, together with a oated in U. S. large quantity of miscellaneous mate rials and paraphernalia.” A large percentage of the men held for counterfeiting were convicted Methods of vary widely. counterfeit counterfeits detecting Generally speaking, a investigation is begun when spurious money is known to have been passed or when an attempt has made to pass ft. Much of it Is prepared by the photo-engraving ess and Is made from gets by until it been proc. ens! detected. Money engraved plates usual! banks, counterfeits have been reaches few cases cepted even by banking experts. Gets Anonymous Tips Information concerning cour is sometimes received cret service from fo ge nder pre Moran he iin at large for a longer y because of the large said, volume of is warned from time to he secret service of the pres ence of bogus mx of the ney in various paris Formal press together with a country notices are given to the com deseript ie rig ion of the ¥ EpuUrious cur Lo. 3 effects by which it may Church to Exhibit Crucifixion Coat Jesus’ wen from which Trier “cont the the sol Germany withot BORN, Wi th top iroughout for diers cast lots after they had will be to September 3 in the Trier cathedral. This garment, one the relics in Christian world, is reputed to brought Trier more a thousand years ago by Sit lena, the mother of Emperor Con gtantine VI. It has been in the cathedral's treasure chamber since 1198. The cont has been exhibited a number of times in the last cen turies—the last time in 1801, when more than million came from all parts of the earth view It cified him, shown from July 23 of the have than He most valuable been to two Christians to ODD THINGS ‘ Robert W. Bingham Re Sok I i A new hitherto unpublished portrait of the new ambzzsador to Great Brit. ain, Robert W. 1} newspaper publisher and Democratic leader, gham, to, for he is not working for promo- tion, and he feels sure that no matter how poorly he does we won't fire him, It takes a pretty good man to do his best up to the end of a job.” It was Robert Louis Stevenson who, I believe, sald that if he knew he was to die tomorrow, he would go on just the writing his story, finishing striving to do something bet- had Saunders, who was entered in the two mile race, could see before he had done a mile that was outdistanced by ths half the fellows who were competing same his book, ever before done, ter than he he with him. Some of the men who were outclassed dropped out before they had completed the distance and lay on the the finish Not He kept on to the end and best at the finish. He hadn't the ghost of a chance to in. but he who the hest grass to watch 80, Saunders, sprinted his level sportsman that was in him to the 11 win the Some scholarship report showed g very poor work not previously ut he had at An Attractive Costume An ensemble for day wear with shirt white linen and blouse white and red) with a metal buckle on the belt, which shown by Worth's of Paris in their new summer fashion display. ig being TORY ANIMALS. A RATS LIFE - RATS ARE USEFUL IN SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS DE- CAUSE A WEEK IN A RAT'S LIFE 1S EQUAL TO A YEAR IN MAN" Quick RooOT A NEW ELECTRICAL HEATING DEVICE CAUSES PLANTS TO TAKE ROOT IN HALF THE NORMAL TIME, CX p: ll Europe Easily in Lead With Christian Sects Burope is the most Christian of the continents, figures assembled by Dr. Olaf Morgan Norlie, president of the American Lutheran Statistical association, and Dr. George Linn Kieffer, president of the American Religious Statisticians, have shown. 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