HARD TO GET NEUTRAL FOOD.
But Considerate Patron Tries Not to
Offend Foreign Waiters.
• "Do you know," said a well fed look
ing man at a leading New York res
taurant, "this war has made me care
ful in picking out the dishes I want
to eat. Not that I have bad to begin
to economize, but I am unwilling to
offend the susceptibilities of waiters.
Let me illustrate:
"I went to luncheon at a restaurant
where the waiters are of several na
tionalities. I had decided upon a steak
a la minute and some French fried po
tatoes. I gave the first part 0 f mv
order without noticing the waiter. A
snort Interrupted me.
" 'You vant a t'in steak cooked quick,
yes?* greeted me.
"I admitted that that was what I
meant
" 'Und de potatoes?'
" 'Fr'— was all I got out I could
not fling the word French at him. It
would have been like a sortie from a
Belgian fortress. So I made a change.
" 'German fried,' I told the waiter.
" 'Ah, zo,' he approved, and a smile
chased the frown away as he wrote
down the item.
"'UndV* he pursued, with pencil
poised.
" 'A German pancake.' I concluded.
"He chuckled, and I could almost
hear him chant 'Deutschland uebcr
Alles' as he walked away. As a mat
ter of fact, I abominate German fried
potatoes and pancakes. But what is
one to do? It is difficult to preserve j
neutrality when one orders a meal, and !
to be forced to take sides is demoraliz
ing." <
Russia Would Ban All Teutonic Words. ;
Following the change by imperial j
edict of the name of St. Petersburg to
Petrograd, other Russian cities with
Teutonic names are asking that their
names be changed to the Slavonic
form. Such cities in Russia with Ger
man names as Schlusselburg. etc., have
asked that their appellations be Rus
sianized. It has been suggested also
to discontinue the use of German
words, such as "Kammerherr." in
court communications and substitute
the Russian equivalent.
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CONTENTMENT.
The happy state of mind so
rarely possessed in which we can
say, "I have enough," is the highest
attainment of philosophy. Happi
ness consists not in possessing much,
but in being content with what we
possess. He who wants little al
ways has enough.—Zimmerman.
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The Magnetic Poles.
The north magnetic pole is in lati
tude 70 degrees 5 minutes, and wesi
longitude 9G degrees 46 minutes. The
south magnetic pole is in latitude 7J
degrees 30 minutes, and in east longi
tude 155 degrees 30 minutes. A straight j
line drawn from pole to pole through !
the earth would pass at a distance of
750 miles from the center. Aud one of
the remarkable facts about this mag
netic axis of the earth is that it keeps
itself at right angles to a line drawn
from its center to the center of the
sun.—New York American.
Iron Ore.
Next to the United States. Germany
and France are the largest producers
of iron in the world.
Doing Her Beat Anyway.
"In India brides of twelve are not
uncommon."
"I don't aspect to equal record,"
said the belle, "but so far I've been
the fiancee of six."—Louisvijle Courier
Journal.
f Telegraph Wire#.
' A telegraph wire in the open <untry
lasts four times us long as < ..e in a
\\ty.
Taught by Example.
Mrs. Mordecai Hammerfesi turned
pale as her husband entered the dining
room for breakfast.
"Mordy," she gasped, "do you—don't
you feel well?"
"Perfectly," be replied In seeming
surprise.
"But—but you are In your"—
"Tell me something 1 don't know
Pass the butter, please."
She passed the butter, remarking
nervously, "But. Mordy. dear, as you
came in 1 saw you didn't have any
shoes on."
"Well, what of It? Your hair is In
curl papers, isn't It?"
"Why—y-yes."
"And you have on a wrapper."
"Yes."
"Very well, then."
And he went on eating his breakfast
In silence except when he asked her to
pass the butter. Then he went up
stairs and finished dressing, and the
next morning and on succeeding morn
ings she reported for breakfast in reg
ular clothes.—Boston Journal.
Changing Matter.
"Can the diamond be destroyed by In
tense heat?" asks a reader.
Yes. Any substance known can be
vaporized i:i the fierce heat of the elec
tric furnace. The word "destroyed"
6hould not have been used. Diamond is
chemically pure carbon—that is, lamp
black—and the same quantity still ex
ists after the diamond has vanished.
Man is now able to destroy the form of
all matter known to chemists—that Is,
matter disappears as matter, only to
resolve back into its primordial elec
trons. These are pure electricity, and
nothing else exists. These man cannot
create nor destroy. All that any hu
man can create is a thought that had
not been created before. But this is a
theory, for all thoughts may be eternal.
But here oue must stop, for our minds
cannot think of the meaning of the
word eternal.—Edgar Lueien Larkin in
&av York Aiuericuu,
NEW PICTURE OF POPE BENEDICT XV.
Photo bv American Press Association.
HUMAN WISDOM
Human wisdom makes as ill use
of her talent when she exercises it
m rescinding from the number and
sweetness of those pleasures that are
naturally our due as she employs it
favorably and well in artificially
disguising and tricking out the ills of
•le to alleviate the sense of them. —
Vlcntaigne.
Watch Crystals.
\ few factories iu Europe make all
e watch crystals used iu the world.
iese comprise five in Lorraine, two in
a nee, two iu Switzerland, one in Al
•c and one in Bohemia. The annua!
put is about 800,000 gross. Hand
>r is employed to a great extent in
ng the crystals, and the wages
•J are very, small.
Wonderful Sewers.
The sewers of Paris are the m*st
mderful in the world and constitute
h of the sights of the city. Visitors
allowed to inspect them on certain
vs each week, and it is certainly an
fiiem e to inane a "personally con
ted" tour of the two main sewers
journey is uiade on electric cars
1 'Mcoi hes. which draw up occasion
.:? stations.
A Militia Drill.
•>'s nothing like a militia drill to
>;th the togs of war.—Washing-
The One Drawback.
town men would like to farm
.• <r doing the farm work.
Fellow.
DAMAGED BUILDING IN ANTWERP.
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The out tgj. * su*ui% Aflt
Uttlm 4isisrb?d. 4 Tiflr
Restoring a Razor.
"Oh. George, before you get your
razor I must tell you that I—l bor
rowed it yesterday."
"What, again!"
"Y-yes. I had to do some ripping.
But it's just as good as ever. You'll
never notice the difference. I sharp
ened it on the stovepipe."—Cleveland
Plain Dealer
Pitfalls of Slang.
Host (iu India) —Do you see that fa
natic over there? He has sat on that
corner and in that posture without
moving for six months. Traveler ifrom
America)— Gee. that's going some!—
Chicago Tribune.
Wireless Help Signal.
The symbol "S O S" as used in
wireless telegraphy simply means
"Hurry up! Drop everything else and
get help to me at the earliest possible
moment!" Apart from this there Is
nothing to the call. The letters were
selected because they are the best cal
culated to carry the hurry-up call.—
New York American.
SUPREMITY OF HONOR.
Better for you to live by life's
crossways, clean, pure," honored and
loved for the goodness erf your heart,
than to sit in the seat of a king when
that throne must be bought at the
price of honor. —Edgar D. Vin
cent.
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Causes of Divorce.
Wiggs—What causes divorce? Wagg
—Men, women—and marriage.—Club
f.'K Pat r ot
During a marriage ceremony In
Scotland recently the bridegroom look-
Ed extremely wretched, and he got so
fidgety, standing first on one foot and
then on the other, that the "best man"
decided he would find out what the
trouble was.
"What's up. Jack?" he whispered.
"Hae ye last the ring?"
"No." answered the unhappy one.
with a woful look, "the ring's safe
enough, but. man. I've lost ma enthu
siasin."—Boston Transcript
Human Stepping Stones.
When a Chinese lady approaches a
moddy place she beckons a boy. The
boy drops on bis I - and knees in
the mud. ami the uses liim us a
stepping stone, for which service she
gives him a small coin.
He—l suppose you think I'm a per
fect Idiot? She—Oh. dear, no; none of
us are jierfect!--London Mall.
Flies' Eggs.
Eggs of flies are so small that you
must use a mkroscojie in order to see
their real peculiarities. Each female
fly lays on the average of 150 eggs
For her cradle she selects h heap ol
garbage or refuse. The eggs hatch
into minute maggots in five days the
maggots turn into little etirysnlids. or
pupae, shaped like miniatur? beans
Within another five days these givt
birth to flies, which develop wit!
amazing rapidity into adult insects
and then the mischief begins.
Feats of a Strong Man.
Well known In the old buffalo da>
of Saskatchewan was Joe Beaupr*
famed a thousand miles as the bigges
eater in the north. Joe was not si?
feet tall, but he was a broad, deep
thick sort of man. with a hand like >
ham and a stomach like nothing els*
In the world. He would eat an entir*
boxful of apples at one sitting and thinl
nothing of It. Once, having encounter
ed a gentleman who thought he was
some eater. Joe consumed fifty-three
pounds of buffalo meat iu oue day and
topped off with a raw turnip, a six
pound piece of pork, some lard and
two loaves of bread. The best his
competitor could do was thirty-seven
pounds of meat. Beaupre was so strong
he never would fight any man for fear
he should kill him. One day, while
sledding on a narrow trail with an
obstinate horse, he became angered,
struck the horse on the head with his
fist and killed it. He loosened the
harness and threw the dead animal on
one side of the trail. He never really
knew how strong he was. Beaupre
died of rheumatism while still a young
man.—Saturday Evening Post.
The Seventh Inning Stretch.
It Is a simple ceremonial, but 1m
presslve. like all manifestations of the
soul of a multitude. I need only close
my eyes to call up the picture vividly.
It is a day of brilliant sunshine, and a
great crowd of men. is seated in the
open air. a crowd made up of all con
ditions, ages, races, temperaments and
states of mind. The crowd has sat
there an hour or more, while the aft
ernoon sun has slanted deeper into the
west and the shadows have crept
across greeusward and hard baked
clay to the eastern horizon. Then, al
most with a single motion—the time
may be somewhere between 4 o'clock
and 5 o'clock—this multitude of divers
minds and tempers rises to its feet
and stands silent, while one might
count twenty perhaps. Nothing is
said. No high priest intones prayer
for this vast congregation. Neverthe
less. the impulse of 10,000 hearts is ob
viously focused into a single desire
When you have counted twenty the
crowd sinks back to the benches. A
half minute at most and the rite is
ever.—Simeon Strunsky in Atlantic.
The oil of the peanut has a quieting
effect on the pneumogastric nerve, the
largest nerve supplying the stomach.
Many nervous persons who like pea
nuts and do not kuow why, like them
for this reason. They quiet the nerves
of the stomach. These persons should
eat a few fresh roasted peanuts after
each hearty meal, as many nervous
conditions are due to an irritation o1
the pneumogastric nerve, and the pea
nut oil acts as a sedative to this nerve.
Of course the nuts must be crisp and
well chewed and not too many taken
To get the best sedative effect a hand
ful of the hot peanuts should be eaten
just before retiring. This presup
poses that the powers of elimination
are in good repair. The peanut, a
member of the pulse family. Is nutri
tious and would clog the system if
not eaten correctly, as it Is almost
equal to meat.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Putting It on the Map.
Captain Cook shows in his "Voy
ages" how some of the mouth filling
place names on maps are evolved.
"Off New Zealand there is an island
called by the uat 5 ?s 'Matuaro.' One
of my officers, having asked a native
the name of that isle, the latter re
plied, 'Kematuaro.' putting 'the' be
fore the name, as is the custom. The
officer, hearing the sound imperfectly,
repeated his question, whereupon the }
native repeated his reply, emphasizing
it with the word 'oeia.' which means
Indeed.' So in the logbook Matuaro
was transformed into 'Kumettiwarro
weia.' "—London Globe.
Qnlntus Hortensius, the Roman ora
' tor, would have come down in history
with great fame had any of his speech
es been preserved. Fie died in the
year 50 B. C. He was a soldier and
| statesman, and his mentality can be
Judged from the fact that he was a
rival of Cicero.
Cold Feet.
Not Perfect.
Virtue of Peanuts.
He Rivaled Cicero.
ooetne.
Besides his five or six consummate
; works, which by universal consent are
practically above criticism, it may be
said that Goethe's songs are the best
in the world. He is the greatest ol
i all literary critics, and in subtle and
abundaut observation of human lift
and in the number and value of hir
wise remarks and pregnant sentence*
he is one of the greatest writers of al
time. Goethe may be classed us om
of the "greatest men."—New Yorl
American.
At ths Foot.
Pater (sadly)—l don't know what to
do with that hoy of mine. He's been
two years at the medical school and
still keeps at the foot of his class.
Perrins (promptly)— Make a chiropo
dist of ' '~
Japanese Child Jugglers.
Among the itinerant street entertain
ers in London are a number of tiny
Japanese children, usually boys. Tbey
make their way into hotel and public
bouse bars, saloons and restaurants
and. producing a sheaf of knives from
their pockets, suddenly begin Juggling
with them in the most expert manner,
accompanying the performance with a
monotonous siugsoitg winch seems to
be Inseparable from the exhibition.
Being very small, they seldom depart
without receiving a shower of coppers,
to which tbey respond at the doorway
with a little chant of thanksgiving. It
is difficult to guess the age of Japn
nese children, but none of the tiny tots
engaged in this business appear to be
more than seven years old.
Lincoln's Religion.
I have never united myself to any
church because I have.found difficulty
in giving my assent without mental
reservation to the long, complicated
statements of Christian doctrine which
characterize their articles of belief
and confessions of faith. Whenever
any church will inscribe over Its altar
as its sole qualification for member
ship the Saviour's condensed statement
of the substance of both law and gos
pel. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, and with all
thy soul, and with all thy mind, and
thy neighbor as thyself." that church
will I join with all my heart and all
my soul.—Abraham Lincoln.
Illustrious Barbers.
William Winstanley. to whom we are
indebted for the "Lives of the English
Poets," began his career by soaping
faces. Farr, who introduced coffee
into England; Dr. John Taylor, whose
eloquent voice so often sounded in SL
Paul's; Jean Baptiste Belzoni. giunt
and explorer; James Craggs, secretary
of the south sea bubble; Herbert In
gram of the Illustrated London News;
Allan Ramsay, the "Gentle Shepherd;"
Lord Chancellor Sugden. Lord Tenter
den, Jeremy Taylor and Bizet, the com
poser of the opera "Carmen," were
born and bred and were trained In bar
bers' shops.—London Notes and Que
ries.
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fident that the quality of our product will create a big demand. Our
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Mr. L. Giammerini has expert knowledge and experience in Macaroni
preparation.
To the retailer.
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your wholesaler, or if we have no representative in your town, write
us and we will refer your name and address to your nearest wholesaler.
If you desire a special kind of Macaroni, we can supply you. It will
pay you to stock the highest grades. If our product is given an oppor
tunity, we are convinced that your costumefs will always ask for
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of course being made in Western Pennsylvania, you can buy INDIANA
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In Westminster Abbey.
St Edward's chapel is the most sa
cred spot in Westminster abbey, for it
incloses the laxly of Edward the Con
fessor. the first king who has any his
; toric claim to be called its founder. It
is entered by a flight of ten steps from
the north ambulatory. On Oct 13,
1269, the wainscot chest which con
tained the confessor's body was
brought from the palace to its new
nesting place. Henry 111., his broth
er, Richard, king of the Romans, aal
his two sons bore the coffin on their
shoulders.—London Standard.
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ANY UTTLE I CAN DO.
If any little word of mine
May make a life the brighter,
if any little song of mine
May make a heart the lighter,
God help me speak the little word
And take my bit of singing
And drop it in some lonely vale
To set the echoes ringing!
White Socks Diplomacy.
She—Jimmy wears different socks
•very day. He—How to you know?
She—By Just looking at them. Sundays
he wears white ones; ou Mondays ho
wears them shaded under the ankles,
and on Tuesdays he has a cute little
ring around them next to his shoetips.
He—And the rest of the week? She-
He wfears high shoes.—Detroit Fre*
Presa.
Black Headed Grosbeafc-
The black beaded grosbeak of
west takes the ,">lace of the rosc. _<-xsi *
in the eas. and. 'ke It. is a flue x.iv '
•ter. It feeds on •*. rries. apricots Mud
other fru s met some damage
green pea. ami L>an* but It is so v.
tive a foe o. • ertain ho. 'cultural pests
that we can efford to overlook Its
faults. For each quart t fruit con
v*v "ned it destroys 'n actum ulk more
thiA. one and a half quarts v* Mack
•Jve wv-ales and one quart ot 'ower
besides a generous quAntity of
codling moth pupae and cankerworma.
bcttriting bcandal.
"I understand that demure little
Mrs. Jinks always crooks her elbow on
a certain occasion."
"You don't say so! When was it?"
"When she carries the baby on her
arm."—Baltimore American,
No Chance of That.
The beggar accepted giatefu/Jy a
nickel from the professional humorist.
"Thank you. sir," he said, his %oice
vibrant with deep feeling. "Oh. thank
you, sir. and may you live to bo as
old as your jokes."—Washington Dost.
To Wash a Greasy Bottlo.
To wash a bottle or a glass that has
contained oil use very hot eoffeo
grounds, if the glass be badly iucrust
ed wash It with a mixture of bichro
mate of potash and sulphuric acid in
equal parts, being careful not to get a
drop of this upoD the fingers, hh it is
a powerful caustic. Then wash in sev
eral waters.
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r Italian interpreter J
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