t T Pseorge
W~ATER was first discoverea
L and • investigated. by Noah,
who succeeded .in living on it
for forty days.
Most men admire Noah for his
bravery, bufvery few have any de
sire to break his record.
• Water is one of our most useful and
necessary possessions. »it
the earth v/culd be a desert and
worthless," stocks would only yield
a beggarly six or eight per cent.,
and mankind would curl up and die.
A great many men avoid water and
try to get along with a * substitute
which they claim' is • just - as good.
But their widows and creditors sel
dom speak I of js,the j experiment i as i a
success.
There < unliir "ted" supply r of
water on' the planet, but" most of it
is badly J seasoned/ and * is < unflt_ for
drinking i purposes.. are. five
great containing » 160,000,000 (
square v miles * of v water \ and sur
rounded * by **. 200,000 * miles * of sea
beach, giving room for 5,000,000,000
bathers at*one-time. And yet a
great® many I people 4n this world
are no eleaner than they should be.
Water is. very* thin and transpar
ent,' except in" the Chicago and Mis
sourl i lt i is very restless,
and is continually climbing up into
and falling down on base
ball games picnics in the sum
mer, and on new millinery in~ all
seasons. . Water is'very gregarious,
end loves to collect in ponds, rivers,
Jakes. m gulfs, oceans and corpora
•tlons. It is very. unstable, and; the
man who tries to wander around; in
it without a life preservei soon
sinks and dies from swallowing too
much of it. Too much water is
Jesst as fatal as too little.
Waier»is useful for running steam
engines, making soft drinks, soak
ing soiled citizens, increasing the
supply of milk, putting out fires,
making Baptists and Insulating
Americans from kings and " 4 dukes
end iWaldorf Astors. Among!the
mtmwanasßms& ! . .
[the"call of duty^
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By NAOMI H. ANDERSON j
When Uncle Sam began sending his
telegraphic messages to every city and
hamlet of the country that stenogra
phers and typists were needed in Wash
ington, Ann Rogers saw them printed
in the daily news, read them, won
dered if she ought to offer her serv
ices, and 4 then forgot them, for her
daily tasks at Burr & Marchant's
seemed quite sufficient for the sum
total of her existence, and for three
months she ignored Uncle Snm's con
stant and urgent appeals. But one day,
when one of the stenographers came in
and calmly announced that She was
going to Washington, Ann Rogers took
up the newspapers again, read and re
read Uncle Sam's appeals, and finally
decided to follow in the footsteps of
the former stenographer.
Two months later, having followed
the call of "The Great Adventure'* (as
she called it), she was happily en
sconced in one of the offices of the war
department busily checking names of
applicants for one of the branches of
the war service, despite the fact that
Burr & Marchant's had offered her a
larger salary if she would have re
mained, and quite unaware that be
side her an officer, whom she had
hardly noticed, would be a great par
ticipator in her "Great Adventure,*'
and forthwith treated him with de
liberate unconcern. But the days
stretched on to weeks, and each day
the officer by her side began to loom
up of greater and .creator interest on
the horizon of her happy existence.
Finally she admitted even to her co
workers that she thought he was aw
fully nice; and the days slipped by.
Three months later an order came
from the adjutant general's office, or
dering First Lieutenant Downs to go
to camp, and there he would be as
signed to some company for early
overseas duty. Ann had known for
some weeks that the order was coming
through, but the days chased each
other so sublimely that she did not
realize what the order would mean to
her until It came. But when she read
the order that within three days he
was to report to his commanding of
ficer, she knew. The three days
dragged by—they no longer flew —and
the nights were an eternity of tears
and prayers; but on the morning of
the last day when the first lieutenant
said good-by. Ann was smiling, and for
all the world none would have guessed
at the tears and prayers. The week
following his departure dragged
through its course, but the brightness
and novelty of the throbbing, crowded
city had died for Ann.
One afternoon when a letter arrived
from Mr. Marchant asking if Ann
would not come back to her old posi
tion, she dispatched an immediate re
ply to the effect that she would be
back in three weeks. The next day
she handed in her resignation.
"Oh. she's got the blues on account
of a sweetheart back home." confided
the sergeant to the corporal, but Cap
tain Downs knew, and accepted her
resignation.
On the morning that she presented
herself at the office of Burr & Mar
chant she found a beautiful bunch of
red roses in a vase on her desk, and
attached to them was a card bearing
WATER o
mostf noted collections"of water "In
the world are the Great Lakes, which
are" 1,000 miles long over all and
entirely drinkable; the Mississippi
River,i the father of water*;* the
Noah'7 Houseboat idea
'
Amazon* River,l the ' greatest female
riveri in|the# world ; < the Great - Salt
Lake* the Dead Sea and Wall Streeiv
Niagara-) Palls' and the; Old Faithful
geyser are% the two f athletic
bodies 'of*water. The* mostUndus
trious water* is the, Colorado 1 River;
which has«burrowed I its way 6,000
feet into the ribs of the earth. The
most imposed upon water is the Chi
-1 cago River, whichwas tifrned
around, r loaded full of : sewage and
madeTto|run backward. ,The. most
restless l y water is Missouri
River/which' changes its bed'every
night. The most neglected water Is
found f in Kentucky, where it is: not
used* for.? anything but storing "cat
fish. And f the' most over-advertised
waters thef world is Minnehaha
Falls,^which"only fall when a stout
man? in r overalls £ turns? on • a'spigot
and begins-to "pump.
Mr. Marchnnt's name. It occurred to
her then he was a bachelor, and she
asked herself, "Is it possible?" but
soon -forgot the question in the busy
examination of, her old desk and type
writer. Later when Mr. Marchant
came in she shook hands with him and
thanked him for the roses.
"Are you glad to be back in this
smoky city?" he teased.
"It's the best eity in the world,*' she
rejoined, laughing.
Again the weeks began slipping by,
but Mr. Marchant was quick to notice
that the happy laughter in Ann's eyes
was gone. -
"You onght to take a vacation," he
told her one day. "You seem so tired."
"Oh. I'm not tired." she quietly re
plied.
"Then, have a doctor.''
"Why?" and her eyes widened.
"You'D. be hi'vitv-r a nervous break
down before you know it," he said.
"Whv. there's nothing the matter
with ; le. or. perhaps it's just a little
tout'i of tlu Lines," she smiled. Brit
she did not go <-0 a doctor.
A du;- '.{'•e 1 : when Marchant.
was watching her ho saw a soft light
in her eyes, and the doubt in them
deemed to have vanished. And he
said to himself, "He has written to
her."
He talked to her of the transports
loaded with troops arriving daily, and
what a fine thing it was that the war
was over, but all he could get out of
her was her quiet. "I am so glad,"
and he knew that it was not the branq
of gladness for her.
And one morning she came in ra
diant. There was a buoyancy to her
step, such a shining brightness in her
eyes that it electrified the whole office
staff, and Mr. Marchant, watching her,
said to himself, "He has come back,
and she had to go to Washington—lt
was destiny." He did not stay in the
office that day. He Wont out and
walked for miles, and finally too tired
to walk back took a taxi home, ever
voicing his prayer, "Oh, I hope she will
be happy," but had he seen Ann at
the moment that he was entering his
room, and had he seen the look in
tfie eyes of the man in uniform, he
would have realized that Ann's happi
ness was complete.
{Copyright, 1919, by the McClure News
paper Syndicate.)
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BRICKS AND CEMENT SWELL
Absorb Moisture and "Grow" to a Con
siderable Extent, According to
English Publication.
How much has your house or the
wall at the bottom of your garden
grown ?
Houses and walls, indeed all things
made of bricks, do grow, and this fact
is known to architects, who sometimes
have to allow for it when making
plans for building, says London An
swers.
. In the old days, when the clay of
which bricks were made was mixed
with water before being baked, the
amount of growth was not noticeable;
now that no water, or very little, is
mixed with the clay, which is there
fore said to be dry baked, the bricks
absorb moisture and swell sometimes
to a considerable extent.
Some years ago in a garden at Ely
a pier was 'built of dry baked bricks
and the garden hose was turned onto
this pier for a considerable period
every day for some weeks. At the end
of this time the pier was measured,
when it was found to have grown
some inches.
Cement is another substance which
grows. That is why you may often see
on station platforms and on wall cop
ings built of cement one of the joints
missed out here and there.
The greatest growth naturally takes
place where cements and bricks are
used together, as happened in a house
of which the parapet was built of
bricks placed endways and cement sup
ported on iron. The growth in this
instance was so great that quite large
spaces were visible between the iron
supports and the parapet.
USE FOR LUMINOUS PAINT
Material Found Almost Invaluable in
War Might Also Be Well Em
ployed in Peace.
Here is a wartime application of
luminous paint that should be useful
in summer camps, on the hikes of boy
scouts, in peacetime maneuvers of
citizen soldiers, in marking the land
ing places of aircraft, etc.
The British army had disks or but
tons two or three inches in diameter,
coated with luminous paint and having
a sharp spike on the underside. These
were stuck upon the sides of trenches,
buildings, fences, etc., or were swung
by hand to give signals in the well
known code where bright lights were
dangerous or where silence was
golden.
The luminous disks were visible
from 30 to GO feet, so they formed val
uable landmarks. Luminous ribbon
also was used for marking trails
through the woods, and luminous
patches were attached to the backs of
stretcher bearers to prevent them from
being fired upon by their own troops.
The Scientific American suggests
that the names and numbers of city
streets might well be marked with this
luminous paint.
The Fanciuila d'Anzio.
One of the gifts that President Wil
son received in Italy was a silver
model of the statue known as the Fan
ciuila d'Anzio, presented to him by the
Roman municipality. The original is
a Greek statue, discovered not long
ago at the villa of Nero, in the seaport
town of Anzio. near Rome, and pur
chased by the Italian government for
4r>0,000 lire. Admirers of art and stu
dents of archeology ha(J*fraveled from
all over Europe to see it, and the
youthful draped figure, carrying a plat
ter from which the object it long ago
held had been broken, was named the
Maid of Anzio. Then somebody noticed
that the long robe was lifted a little,
as if to avoid tripping over it, that
the biceps muscle of the bare arm was
more boyish than girlish, and so on,
until modern judgment has decided
that the title Fanciuila d'Anzio is a
misnomer, and that the unknown
sculptor was really modeling the figure
of a handsome youth performing some
service in an ancient temple.
Bran Muffins.
Roger W. Babson of the department
of labor said at a dinner in Washing
ton :
"Speaking of labor, it has been a
tough job to eat some of the health
foods that were turned out during the
war.
"A young lady said to a young man
at a Washington dance:
" 'Are you the same young man who
ate so many of my bran muffins at the
Red Cross last fall?"
" 'No,' he answered, 'and what's
more, the doctor says I never will
be.' M
The Sign on the Church.
Many a pedestrian and motorist
looked, observed and smiled Wednes
day night as he passed a church on
Clinton hill. Obvious and elaborate
preparations for a wedding were un
der way. Coaches and florist wagons
were bustling. The unmistakable can
opy was being erected from sidewalk
to door. And i» big letters on the
front of the church was blazoned the
minister's subject for an approaching
service: "This Is the Life." —Newark
News.
Spoiled Her Pleasure.
Husband —Have you had a pleasant
afternoon?
Wife—No: Mrs. Wilkinson and Mrs.
Jenkinson came together and left to
gether. I had a let of things about
Mrs. Wilkinson I wanted to tell Mrs.
Jenkinson, and I had a lot of things
to tell Mrs. Wilkinson, bur. of course,
when they were both together it was
no use.
BLUBBER A DELICIOUS VIAND
Said to Be of Immensely Pleasant
Taste, When Eaten Raw From
the Seal.
It has always betm a mystery to me
why the word "blubber" should carry
srch a disagreeable connotation to mil
lions of people, not one in a
million has ever tasted it, writes Vil
hjalmur JStefansson in Harper's.
I am often asked what seal meat
tastes like and am driven to saying
that it tastes like seal meat, for it does
not resemble any commonly known
type of meat. But neither does mutton
resemble any meat known to me. and
still mutton is good eating, and so is
seal. But the fat is much easier to
describe. When the blubber is eaten
raw, as we commonly eat it by prefer
ence, it has a flavor very similar to
that of fresh cow's cream, but when
boiled it closely resembles the fat of
mutton. For that reason Mr. Wilkins,
who came from the sheep district V)f
Australia, was that member of our
whole expedition who most readily fell
into the eating of the seal fat.
In general most men refrain from
tasting blubber because it is named
blubber, until they become so fat hun
gry that they are eventually driven to
trying it, and when they try it, to their
surprise they invariably find it so de
licious that, if not restrained, they
overeat and, as is well known, overeat
ing any form of fat causes nausea and
other distressing symptoms. After one
or two experiences of this sort I am
now careful never to allow a man to
eat all the blubber he wants the first
time he tries it, gets sick he
is almost certain to blame the seal
and not his own gluttony.
NEED NOT TRANSFER GERMS
Disease Will Not Be Transmitted if
Soiled Hands Are Kept Away
From Mouth.
It is glaringly obvious that the bit
ing of finger nails, the moistening of
fingers in turning the pages of a book,
and similar half-conscious acts greatly
enhance the opportunities for planting
undesirable germs where they can mul
tiply," says the Journal of tne Ameri
can Medical Association. "On the
fingers they may be harmless; trans
ferred to the mouth they have a wide
field for development.
"The soiling of the hands is impos
sible to avoid altogether, but the swal
lowing of germs from one's own soiled
hands is largely under individual con
trol.
"It may fairly be assumed that the
most useful safeguards against this
form of disease transmission are to he
found in such practices as hand wash
ing and in refraining from using the
tongue or the lips as a moistening-pad,
rather than in hysterical attempts at
avoidance of all hand contamination.
Children are best protected through
the inculcation of similar desirable
habits at an early age. In a word,
some degree of hand-contamination is
unavoidable; but the transference of
the contaminating germs to the mouth
is largely under individual control and
is subject to the powerful influence of
early-formed habit."
First in the Field.
The mild surprise with which one
occasionally notes the name of a for
eign city on a penny box of matches
purchased in the United States may
before long include boxes of matches
hearing the far-away name of Dairen,
Manchuria. The world's appetite for
matches is apparently insatiable. An
American company has been studying
Manchuria and Siberia from the match
manufacturing point of view, but so
has a large Japanese concern, and this
concern, it now seems, will be tirst in
the field at Dairen, the chief Man
churian port. But then if Japan were
not first in the field in Manchuria,
where would she be first in she field?
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Dodging Shop. *
They struck up a conversation in the
hotel lobby and finally one man sug
gested a trip to the movies. The other
politely declined.
"Don't you want to see Viola Vam
pire?"
"Nope."
"Nor Yorick Hamm in his latest
comedy?"
"Nope."
"What's the matter, my friend?
Aren't you interested in the various
stars?"
"Not this evening. I'm an astrono
mer taking a night off."
Probably Dogfish.
Blank had had a day off, and when
he returned to the office the following
morning his pals wanted to know why
he looked so disgruntled.
"Everything went wrong!" grumbled
Blank.
"How was that?" one asked.
"Ever go fishing with a girl?"
"Once."
"Did she protest against hurting the
fish ?"
"No. She said she was sure they
were perfectly happy, because they
were all wagging their tails." —Lon-
don Tit-Bits.
One at a Time.
We attended a country wedding and
at the conclusion of the ceremony
were astonished to see the bride start
on the honeymoon alone. When asked
the reason the bridegroom explained
thnt both couldn't be away at the
same time as there would be DO one
to feed the stock and he would take
his Tip down the river shooting ducks
wh«»n the bride came back. —Chicago
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Hit Ruling Thought
One hears a great deal about th#
absent-minded professor, but it would
be hard to find one more absent-mfnd~
ed than the dentist who said soothlnf
ly, as he applied a tool to his automo
bile, under which he lay: "Now, thf*
is going to hurt just a little."
Maybe You're Rich.
Some men are rich and don't know
It —rich In health, rich In a large and
happy family, rich In friends, rich la
Influence and standing In their coro
munitfes, rich In the spirit of charity
and brotherly love. These same men
rflay be poor In this world's goods,
but they're rich, just the same.—*
Crosman.
Just a Little One. Maybe.
While to be sure we believe George
Washington never told a He we al»
ways will wonder how he got around
It if Mrs. Washington ever asked hint
if he didn't think her new way of
serving parsnips made them perfectly
i dellcipus.—Macon Te»> graph. ITALIANI!
Nel recarvi a fare
delle compre nei
varii magazzini di-
Indiana che fanno
uso del Patriota per
la reclame della loro
merce, mostrate loro
il nostro giornale col
relativo avviso e sa
rete trattati con
maggiore con si «t era
zione.