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WHAT DOES DEATH MEAN?
An Artist Called It “the Chance to Ex-
plore the Infinite.”
A new definition of death is that by
a French artist, who has now tested
the truth of his own words. “Death,”
said he, “is the chance to explore the
infinite.” The definition is in the same
mood as that of the late Charles I'roh-
man as he went down on the Lusita-
nia. It is a bit more definite, however,
than “Death is life's most beautiful |
adventure.” It expresses the nature
of the adventure.
This French artist, it seems, was en-
amored of the space idea. He was
ever viewing the world as a vessel voy-
figing. He endeavored with artist vi-
sion to visualize the world as rushing
through infinitude by other worlds or
in a stream of comets, planets, aster-
fod: suns. And his dream was of
flig ts across the gulfs to Mars, to
Veius, outside the solar system, to
Sirivs and the greater suns. With
paint he strove to render what Goethe
exp esses in the song of the archan-
gels in the opening of “Faust.”
Al the kinds of us pass over, willing-
ly, roluctantly. We have no choice.
and there are no exemptions.
bly we Lave no cheice concerning what
deat is to be. Whether it means ex-
tind tion or confers immortality. wheth-
er i is a glorious adventure or ushers
us i to another sordid existence bound- '
ed !| 7 another death, we have;no pow:
er to determine. We await its coming
and its solution, both.
tims or its beneficiaries, but we have
no power to change its destinv. Th»
bold dreamer welcomes it as oppor-
tunity. The tired spirit is reconciled
to it as rest. Perhaps it will bring to
every man his different hope. Let us
so trust.—Minneapolis Journal.
FIT THE MAN TO THE JOB.
Square Pegs Are Not Made to Go Into
Round Holes.
In the American Magazine is an ar-
ticle entitled “Are You a Square Deg
In a Round Hole?” by Herman Schnei-
der, dean of the school of engineering
of the University of Cincinnati. Dean
Schneider has devoted his life to mak-
ing successes out of failures and to
finding the right job for the right man.
He believes that failure is seldom more
than an indication of the right path to
success. Among other things he says:
“Every individual has certain gen-
eral traits; every kind of work has
certain general characteristics. The
problem is to interpret the traits of
the individual, classify the character-
istics of the job and then guide the
individual into the job for which he is
supremely fitted. This is one real em-
ployment problem.
“There are very many human char-
acteristics, but there are a few broad
and general ones which frequently
make for success or failure.
“There is a type of a man who wants
to get on the same car every morning,
get off at the same corner, go to the
same shop, ring up at the same clock.
stow his lunch in the same locker, go
to the same machine and do the same
class of work day after day. Another
type of man would go crazy under this
routine. He wants to move about, me t
new people, see and do things. The
first is settled: the second is roving.
‘The first might make a good man for
a shop manufacturing a standard prod-
uct; the second might make a good
railroad man or a good outdoor car-
penter. A failure in one line of work
aay prove a big success in another.”
United States of America.
The assumption of the title “the
United States of America” first ap-
pears in Jefferson’s draft of the Dec-
laration of Independence, and in this
particular the first draft was not al-
tered by the congress in ordaining the
Declaration. The words are found in
the final paragraph and thus appear
in the official copy on file: “We there-
fore, the representatives of the Unit-
ed States of America, in general con-
gress assembled”— On Sept. 9, 1776,
the congress first officially designated |
the new nation by the title and style
of the United States of America.
Sip Hot Water to Relieve Coughing.
Persons chronically ill, especially
those suffering from
have sudden and wearing attacks of
coughing. In an emergency, the Medi- |
cal Fortnightly says, hot water will
often prove very effective. Water is
much better than some of the remedies
which disorder digestion and spoil the |
appetite. Water very hot, almost boil
ing, should be sipped when the par-! ..,
~OXYySIms come On.
A Hemming Tip.
In sewing hems of towels or sheets
or muslin, in starting them from the
end place a piece of paper under the °
needle and sew through it for about ;
two inches, then on to the hem. This §
will prevent the clogging of the thread
and needle. Then after tearing off the
paper the threads are there for tying
Height of Hopefulness.
He—After I am out of college, dar-
iing, I may have to wait a few months
before 1 can make enough to support
you. She—It is so hard to wait. He
(bravely)—I know it. But of course
you know the world doesn’t know any-
thing about me yet.—Exchange.
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of the grave.”
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the Best Tire Service.
“Perhaps the greatest and most im-
portant thing a motorist should know
about a car is its weight with the aver-
age load carried,” says an expert. “By
knowing the weight of his car when
loaded ready to run the motorist is in
a position to regulate his tires so that
they not only act as the best shock
absorber obtainable, but are fit to off-
set any injuries which may come from
over or under inflation.
“With the weight of the car known
when preparing for a trip which in-
cludes passengers it is very easy for
the motorist to regulate his air pres-
sure in the tires so that they will run
with the least injury to.themselves.
This foresight will also prevent a
break in the side walls caused by an
overload.
“With the weight of your car, plus
the weight of gasoline, water and
extra tires, with the weight of the
passengers added, you have the totai
running weight of your car.
“For a quick way of Zoterminine |
what air pressure you will carry in
your tires if you have no regular table
of inflation the following table is sug-
gostod:
“or three-inch tires divide the
weirlit ofthe load by thirty-two.
“For three and one-half-inch tires di-
vide the weight by forty.
“For four-inch tires divide the
! weight of the load by forty-eight.
“Tor four and one-half-inch tires di-
vide the weight of the load by fifty-six.
“Tor five-inch tires tires divide the
| weight of the load by sixty-four,
“Tor five and one-haif-inch tires di-
vide the weight of the load by seventy-
two.
“To further illustrate the working
out of the above table suppose your
car weighed 2,880 pounds and you are
using four-inch tires. From the above
we find that for four-inch tires the
weight of the load should be divided
by forty-eight. This will give you
sixty pounds air pressure, which
should be carried in your tires. The
tire mileage will be greatly increased
if the motorist will regulate his air
pressure by the load he carries.”—New
York Sun.
CHARM OF FLOWERS.
Gardening Is a Hobby That Becomes
Akin to a Passion.
Barring the equally ancient and al-
luring pastime of going a-fishing, no
hobby has a stronger grip on its devo-
tees than gardening. At 4 o'clock
of a summer morning Celia Thaxter
could be found at work in her radian!
little island plot, a sister in spirit to
old Chaucer when on his knees in the
grass at dawn to watch a daisy open.
And these were not exceptional, not
extraordinary, cases of devotion. They
were merely typical exponents of the
true gardener's passion.
Nor is this tense enthusiasm fleeting.
Not in the least. ‘It is not more tran-
sient than the bibliomaniac’s passion.
no more evanescent than the collec-
tor’s zeal, which only death can
quench. It is no sudden. youthful
fervor. Indeed, it is rarely found in
youth at the storm and stress period,
while it may be observed to be strong-
est in those for whom the days of wild
enthusiasm are over. The bachelor
clergyman or the quietest of spinsters,
! for whom other passion is nonexistent,
will yet lavish on their gardens enough
{ devotion to have won the heart of the i
most obdurate of persons, enough ten- |
_derness to have sufficed for the moth- !
| ering of a dozen little ones. A garden
| is the world of .the recluse, the passion
| of the lone man or woman, the diver- |
sion of statesinen, the recreation of
poets -and artists of all ages, except
perhaps musicians, who may be over-
careful of their hands.—Frances Dun-
can in Scribner's.
Plan of the Ball Field.
In the Woman's Home Companion C.
H. Claudy says:
“Whoever did the calculating for a
i eld made a fine job of it. It
| takes just so long to run from plate to
{ first, and it takes just about that long,
! a tiny fraction of a second, for
basehall
the average ball to be fielded by the
avornge shortstop and hurled down to
the hig niit waiting for it. The least |
clin, hesi ion, inzelg or wait, and the
going to spread his hands
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palm down for a ‘safe. :
Drained Soils.
Feat is the chief essential for plant
vith. and one of the principal fac-
in makin: soil warm is good
! drainage. The surface soils of well |
! drained lands are almost invariably |
{ several degrees warmer than those of |
poorly drained lands. Drained soils also
warm up faster after cold spells and |
much earlier in spring. It is certain |
that dynamiting heavy soils will pay. |
KNOW THE CAR'S LOAD. |
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Method by Which a Motorist Can Get |
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{ of platmum and then gilded.
IS SINGING A LOST ART?
For the People at Large It Certainly ls,
Says This Critic.
Singing, as far as most people are
! concerned, is a lost art. Thousands
attend operas, recitals and musical
comedies; tens of thousands wind up
phonographs. But, as for singing them-
selves informally at their work or play,
they have forgotten how. In times
past people of all ranks sang together
as as matter of course. Sailors sang
at their work; peasants, shepherds,
cowboys, ali had their favorite and ap-
propriate songs. The songs of children
at games, the lullabies of mothers, are
in the collected ballads and folklore of
many peoples.
“The pastimes and labors of the hus-
bandman and the shepherd,” says An-
drew Lang, “were long ago a kind of
natural opera. Each task had its own
song; plowing, seeding, harvest, burial,
all had their appropriate ballads or
dirges. The whole soul of the peasant
class breathes in its burdens as the
great sea resounds in the shell cast
up on the shore.”
Nowadays the whirl of machinery
makes all the noise. The workers in
miils might find it unsatisfying to sing
at their work, but it is doubtful if they
would sing even if their voices could
be heard, while singing in an office or
store would pretty surely be stopped
by the “boss” or the police. Thousands
congregate every night in the silence
of moving picture theaters, and even
in the churches where singing by the
congregation used to be customary the
attendants now usually listen in silence
to a paid singer.
Singing in this age is largely confined
to the professional performer, drunken
men and phonographs. — Indianapolis
News.
BAD HABITS OF POSTURE.
They Lead to Deformity and Chronic !
Disease if Not Corrected.
The significance of the postures habi-
tually assumed by individuals is the
subject of serious consideration by
physicians at present. Exhaustive in-
vestigations seem to iadicate pretty
conclusively that bad postures, such as
stooping shoulders, contracted chests
or protruded abdomens, are not merely
the result of careless habits in the
individual, but are due to some slight
physical deformity which should be
corrected. Generally speaking, persons
who have bad posture habits are not
very robust. 7
Every one has observed that persons
who are fatigued drop into bad pos-
tures temporarily, and there are many
examples of unusually robust I ) ons
with ‘whom bad posture is chronic.
Nevertheless, tendency to bad posture
undoubtedly adds to the trend tg
weakness and chronic disease, ‘partic-
ularly in individuals who are not nat-
urally rugged. :
The robust child or the adult who
takes an adequate amount of recrea-
tion from work does not usually fall
into bad habits in sitting or standing;
in fact, he is able to combat the condi-
tion of study and w «k which make
for bad posture. The less robust child
and the overworked or too sedentary
adult, on the other hand, are obliged
to make persistent efforts to avoid bad
posture habits. And, although these
habits may have no very detrimental!
effect upon the general health during
childhood, they are likely to result in
chronic diseases later in life as a result
of the anatomical deformities ' pro-
duced.-—Exchange. v
Platinum In Coins.
The only instance in which platinum
has been used for coins was by the
Russian government between the
! years 1828 and 1845, when they made
pieces of 3, 6 and 12 rubles. Coins
and medals have been struck in this
metal by other governments simply for
commemorative or experimental pur-
poses, but never for circulation, like
the case of the Russian government.
Up to within fairly recent years coun-
terfeits of gold coins have been made
That
was only when the price of platinum
was about half that of gold.
Nervous Systems.
In man and all of the higher animals
the nervous system centers in the
brain, and life is dependent upon:the
condition of the brain. so that. the
slightest injury te it means death: or
derangement of faculties. But in the
case of the worm and other creatures
of the lower kind the nervous tissues
are distributed over the body and do
not center in the head. so that a worm
| may be cut in half and still live.
Speak to the Horse. :
The human voice has more or less
marked influence on all animals.’ 'In
managing horses especially the voice
is of the greatest use. It should be
quiet and, though confident and mas-
i terful, not loud and boisterous. No
Moss Bread.
A kind of bread is made along the
Columbia river by the Indians from a
moss that grows on the spruce fir tree.
This moss is prepared by placing it in
heaps, sprinkling it with water and
permitting it to ferment. Then it is
rolled into balis as big as a man’s
head, and these are baked in pits.
Doesn't He, Though?
Bach—Ceonfess, now, Henry, yoy
don’t pay as much attention to your
wife as you did before you were mar-
ried? H. Peck—Lord, yes! I mind
twice as quick: now.
Not Necessarily.
“The “face as the index of the mind,
it Is said =
“Oh, § don’t k
one should ever touch a horse without
at the same time speaking to it.
Love and Strife.
Of a truth love -and strife were
aforetime and shall be, nor ever, me-
thinks. will boundless time be emptied
of that pair. And tiey prevail in turn
as the circle comes round and pass
away before one another and increase
in their appointed time.—Empedocles.
His Little Task.
*“Very suspicious man, they say.”
“Very. h lictionary last
week i » words
to se Et as the
publishers claim.”
John Adams.
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Oppenheimer Clothes are made of qualities that
wear well. That is the basis of their goodness
| —dependable fabrics. They are fashioned ac-
That 1s the basis of their
style — good designing. They are tailored by
highly skilled craftsmen.
fit—good workmanship. These features combined
explain the Oppenheimer leadership in the medium
price clothing field. Spring models clinch the truth
of all these statements.
Suits, $15 to $28.
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Parentheses and Brackets.
Know all writers, compositors and
proofreaders by these presents: Marks
of parentheses (which are frequently
required) are not to be confoundec
with brackets {“Hear, hear!”], which
serve a different purpose. The use of
one for the other [vide almost any
newspaper page] is extremely sloppy
(if you know what we mean) and ex.
hibits lack of familiarity with or in-
difference to the technique of writing.
[Applause.]
Milk a Pain Kitler.
‘“Bverybody should know that milk
is an excellent pain killer,” says Farm
and Fireside, “first, because it gives
almost immediate relief and, second,
because milk or cream is’ nearly al-
ways available. If a person should get
tar in the eyes, put in a few drops of
milk or cream. It will also afford
great relief if cement or a gnat shoula
get in the eyes.”
Hens and Water.
From the hen’s viewpoint, water is
worth just as much as feed, for she
can't make an egg with either one
alone. Therefore the man who pro-
vides high priced feed, but neglects the
water supply, is making a big mistake
and will have to be content with a lim-
Yed egg yield.
That's Different.
“What's tire matter with wie. doctor?
“You have a stireh in the back.”
I can’t tell
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my stylish O 4d They would lang!
at me.
“This i of tl hionable new |
stitches.’ 3 yst
control, tl life to sove
reign power.— Tennyson
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Dou; suffer Irom
When travel-
ing, attending
a Theatre or
Function, or
if Shopping,
don’t forget to have
DR. MILES’
=Antis=
PAIN PILLS
with you. They are in-
valuable for Headache
and all other Pains.
25 Doses, 25 Cents.
IF FIRST BOX IS NOT SATIS-
FACTORY, YOUR MONEY WILL
BE REFUNDED.
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BRING DESIRED RELIEF.
“I have used Dr. Miles’ Anti-Pain
Pills for some time and find them
an invaluable remedy for headache.
I have always taken great pleasure
in recommending them to my
friends, being confident that they
will bring the desired relief. I am
never without them and use them
for all attacks of pain, knowing
that they will not disappoint me.”
MRS. W. H. BENSON,
West Haven, Conn.
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