Club 1931, when Jimmy was working for Jimmy was a stock steel-lined, burglar proof vault. A shipment of foreign He and his helper hurriedly vault and started to open them and They wants to know. does. Something always It dropped match to look for it. so they did Jimmy's helper lit a like a puddle of water. “Instantly,” second I was scared stiff. blow the place to bits, For a to my helper to get the others. over it. Then I threw the rest of the sand. stopped. It had banged shut. Jimmy “1 was stunned,’ says Jimmy. rapidly spreading fire. With Then, with fear “None too soon. shattering explosions. fire extinguishers. But boy, did that air Lightning Takes Course Like River Shown on Map The ancient Greeks believed that lightning consisted of heavy spear- like projectiles which had been heat- ed white-hot and cast at offending mortals and objects, with none too accurate aim, by their head god Zeus. The primitive Germans attributed lightning to bolts thrown by a mali- cious god named Loki while the dull-witted war god, Thor, pounded on the sky with a hammer to make thunder. In fact, writes Dr. Thom- as M. Beck in the Chicago Tribune, almost all primitive peoples be- lieved lightning was a sort of ma- terial missile hurled by a vindictive god. This theory died out in Eu rope with the rise of Christianity, since it was difficult to reconcile the idea of lightning as a manifesta- tion of divine wrath with the ob- servation that it seemed to strike church steeples more often than anything else. Still we should not gmile too much at the mistaken beliefs of these long-dead Greeks and Germans. We are not very well informed on it ourselves. The average man knows that it consists of electricity, that it zigzags in Z-shaped straight lines, and that it never strikes twice in the same place. Armed with this knowledge, he is two-thirds wrong. Lightning is certainly a discharge of static electricity, as Benjamin Franklin showed many years ago. But there is nothing at all straight andering course like that of a river as shown on a map. This figure is correct in other re- spects than appearance, for light. ning is actually a river of electric ity. Just as water follows the course of least resistance in flowing from a high altitude to a low, so does electricity move from a high to a low voltage. In a Velvet Gown It is a far cry from the Arabs at El Fustade near Cairo to the looms of velvet on this continent, says the Montreal Herald. More than 2,000 years have elapsed since our earliest records of velvets among the Persians and East In- dians. From the Arabs the art of velvet weaving went to the Span- iards, then to Sicily, and, in the Sixteenth century, into France where it developed under the skill of the most creative and intelligent hand-looms to power-looms, to meet the volume of demand, the process of weaving has gone on. Velvet is woven in two pieces at a time— face to face and cut with a knife afterward, leaving a straight erect pile—the test of all pile velvets, First, heavy thick velvets were made, later finer types of velvets known as Lyons, then chiffon velvets and after that the slenderizing, draping material known as trans- parent velvet. pe -WNU HE industrial and cultural center of Northern Ireland is indisputably Belfast, so ap- propriately nicknamed ‘‘Lin- “A very young city,” Washington, D. C Hervice dents who reckon a settlement’'s age in centuries instead of years. They remind visitors that during the Mid- dle ages Belfast was a minor castle on the outskirts of important Car- rickfergus. Situated near the head of a lough, or inlet, a dozen miles from the sea, where a little tributary joined the River Lagan at a ford, Belfast derived its name from its position. Bel or beal meant an entrance, a mouth, while fearsad was a sand- bank. In those early days Belfast some- times was referred to by another name, and a whopper it was, t00— Ballycoonegalgie! So shallow and twisty was the mouth of the River Lagan that even the smallest craft could not reach the town except at high water. Nev- ertheless, it once was an important military position for maneuvering armies of the continually warring factions, to realize it was given as a present to Sir Arthur Chichester when he was made governor of Carrickfer- gus by Essex in 1604. enough, he is considered founder of the city and today motor cars speed over the creosote-block surface of an important street bear- ing his name. Then the town could boast but five muddy lanes and about 500 inhabitants. Deputy Wentworth gave the trade of the "port" its first major stimu- lus when he purchased from the corporation of Carrickfergus the “right of modities at one-third of the duties payable at other places.” During the linen industry boom of the 1780s, work was started on dredging a winding, shallow channel through three miles of mudbanks to the lough proper. The result was mag- ical Growth of Textile Industry. In less than a generation the linen export figures increased 300 per cent! Also the manufacture of cot- ton goods developed, and in 1800 it was estimated 27,000 people were employed in that industry within a ten-mile radius of Belfast. Although shipbuilding had been carried on in a small way since early times, the completion of the waterway project by the middle of the century naturally stimulated this industry, too. Belfast reached its majority when it was created a population comparable to that of Stormont, where the resplendent new Parliament building stands, is your way there you cross one of the four bridges which span the Lagan and enter the section which is in Rows and rows of workers’ houses line the side streets. Made are only about twelve feet wide. staircase, to the left of which is the living room with a fireplace. To see the different styles you look down each cross street. Some rows are perfectly plain, of yellow brick; many are of red; some have little porches, others simply a pro- truding entranceway. But all are in groups, like quintuplets or oc- tuplets; never one with a design all its own. These are for the greater part the abodes of shipbuilders and rope- makers, for this is a city of indus- trial workers. Their homes spread fanlike in all directions, encroach- ing upon and, in many instances, even completely engulfing the pre- tentious mansions of captains of in- dustry. From Cave hill on the northwestern outskirts of the city, the panorama of roofs and chim- neys, punctuated only by the nar- rowing arms of Belfast lough with its shipyards, unfold like the fan of some giantess. No Tenements or Slums, have little gardens and hedges. Be- fore reaching Stormont, you notice several conspicuously beautiful places with spacious lawns sur- rounding them. On a sloping hillside in the center of a large park stands the imposing white limestone Parlia- ment building, a present to North- ern Ireland from the British govern ment. For those who object to the four-mile trip to and from the city, attractive new homes have been erected nearby. Back in Belfast, one finds the city's magnetic appeal lies in its industries. Linen and shipbuilding are undeniably paramount, but rope-making, cigarette and flour manufacture, and distilling also are important, The ropeworks has its lure, and you are conducted over the most in- of plant. Your eyes travel over bale upon bale of a dirty brown fiber im- ported from India, Russia, Italy, and Belgium. They stand ready to be transformed into cordage, rang- | ing from the heaviest anchor rope i to binder twine and ordinary string. i You pass on into other acre-area | departments where men sort, clean, | spin, braid, and twist hemp, flax, and cotton. Long lines of noisy machines suggest vast armies drill- | ing—drilling to double-quick time. Making Trawl Nets, You are glad to reach that quiet | section devoted to the making of | trawl nets used by ‘‘drifters’’ the | world over, especially in the North | Atlantic food fish regions. Each | individual fisherman has his par. | ticular idea as to sizes and shapes, | and these vary widely in different { localities. This variety, and the | gradual change, from top to bot- { tom, in the size of the mesh, make | it necessary to manufacture these | nets entirely by hand. It is surprising how quickly girls are able to turn out one of unwieldy fish catchers which may measure 100 feet from its "wings" to its tip. The nets are finally thor- oughly immersed in a tar bath for protection from the action of sait water. The ropewalks where three strands are twisted into rope are most interesting, though nowadays they are being replaced by im- proved patented machinery which takes up less room and requires fewer operators. When sailing ships ruled the waves, almost every seacoast town had its own ropewalk, some a quar- ter of a mile long. In Belfast there were about a dozen, but by 1880 most of this business was handled by a single company closely afli- ated with the shipbuilding indus- try. Most of the smaller works dis- appeared and gradually the rope demand lessened as steamships supplanted the sailing vessels. The advent of the reaping ma- chine literally saved the day for rope-makers and now their largest volume of business is with Canada, the United States and South Ameri- ca, to whom they supply twine for binding grain sheaves. factor in the city’s life. Such liners Britannic were constructed in Bel- to the Allies. nese! Tea upon first awakening, tea at luncheon, tea at five, tea at ten, There is “high tea” and “low tea” and simply ‘“‘tea’’—depending upon the amount of food served with it. If you are invited to stop in ‘fer a drap o’ tea,” you are safe in calling any hour of the day or night. Often, in midsummer, one returns from a dinner party or even from the theater by daylight, as the does not set until very late beca of the city’s northern location. fast is about on a line with northern Aleutian islands and nearer the North Pole than W/ HER Oh feminine wards wouldn't through take the addition mod : a member of Tt Pattern 1914 with a future. It practical. 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