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How Playing Cards Are Made.
Did you know that ordinary playing
cards are made of three or four sheets
of paper pasted together? In making
them the sheex on which is printed the
back of the card is iaid down ou a ta-
ble and the white side brushed with
paste. A sheet of cartridge paper is
laid on this and covered with paste.
Perhaps a second sheet of cartridge
paper is added. Finally the sheet
which is to form the face of the card
is placed on top.
When the workman has a great stack
of these pasted sheets he puts them in
a strong press and squeezes out all the
water from the paste. Then they are
separated and dried, which makes them
rough and wrinkled, so that they have
to be ironed between steel rollers and
pressed between smooth sheets of zinc
in another press. After this they are
brushed with a mixture of white lead,
water and glue. When this is dry they
are rubbed with flannel dipped in soap-
stone and polished with a brush to give
them a smooth, bright finish.—Detroit
Free Press.
The Unpatriotic.
We take this little ‘sentence from
Pierre de Coulevain's
Love:” “What constitutes the worth of
a country is the worth of each mem-
ber of it.”
That is a great truth. In the light of
it only a werthy citizen Is a patriot.
The questions are: Who is the worthy
citizen? What are his qualities? What
sort of a life does he lead? When these
questions are pressed with respect to
very many people it will be found that
there are many persons who are real
enemies of tae country rather than its
patriots. Every grafter, every dema-
gogue, every spoils politician, every
drunkard, every gambler, every pro-
fane swearer, every liar, backbiter and
every man who beats and curses his
wife is an enemy of the country, and
as long as they last the. republic will
be an experiment and a problem. One
must be a worthy man to be a friend
of his country.—Ohio State Journal.
Aviation Tests.
Could you learn to aviate?
following tests. which were given to
a number of would. be government avi-
ators who were examined recently in |
the government school of aviation:
Balance thirty seconds on either foot
with your eyes closed.
Walk backward and forward thirty
paces with your eyes closed and see
how far you have strayed from a
straight line.
Sit on a revolving chair and twirl
yourself around a half dozen times:
then, without opening your eyes, name
the direction you are facing.
Put cold water in your ears; then re-
place it by warm water. If the effect
is the same in both cases your ears
are normal as far as susceptibility to
altitude is concerned.—Chicago Trib-
une.
Carnegie's Advice.
Andrew Carnegie,” who for years
yielded an influence in the industrial
world as great perhaps as any living
man, came to this country practically
penniless when he was twelve years
old. His phenomenal rise in life may
be attributed to his following clear
principles and methods. In an address
to students in a commercial college he
said: “Avoid speculation; avoid in-
dorsements. Aim high, For the ques-
tion, “What must I do for my employ-
er? substitute “What can I do? Bégin
to save early—‘capitalists trust the
saving young man.’ Concentrate your
energy, thought and capital; fight it
out on one line.”
Kneeling Horses.
In ancient times, before the invention
of stirrups and luxurious saddles,
horses were taught to kneel to permit
their riders to mount. A beautiful
Greek vase in one of the museums in
Petrograd shows a war horse of many
centuries ago kneeling low before an
amazon. The riders in those days
mounted from the “off” side in contra-
diction to the modern usage. Plutarch
tells how in the first century of this
era certain effeminate Roman riders
found even the horse block of too little
assistance and had their horses trained
to kneel to them.
Hair of the Bear.
How many hairs are on a square inch
of a bear's skin? A count, carefully
checked, because prizes were awarded
to the winners closest to the actual
number, disclosed that one square inch
of this particular bear skin held just
10,543 hairs.—New York Sun.
Punishment Postponed.
“The next time you spill your coffee
on the tablecloth, my dear, don’t try
to hide it by setting your cup on it.
I shall notice it anyhow when 1 clear
away.”
“Yes, but 1 am in my office by that
time.’—Stray Stories.
Her City Training.
It was Phyllis’ first visit to the coun-
“What are you thinking about?’ ask-
ed grandma.
“I's wondering,” answered Phyllis,
“where the cow keeps all the bottles.”
—Chieago News.
It Came Out.
“Well, 1 didn’t think you had it in
you,” remarked the jocose chap as the
gword swallower drew a five foot cav-
@lry saber from out of his gullet—
Jack o’ Lantern.
Writing Backward.
The Chinese and Japanese write in
columns up and down, beginning at
the top of the right side of the page
and going toward the left.
The true man hates no one.—Napo-
leon.
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Menin’s Bid For Fame.
“It is barely possible that had there
been no Menin there might have been
no world war, for it was at the siege
of this little Belgian city in 1794 that
the Hanoverian army officer, Scharn-
horst, won his first distinction. Sub-
sequently he wrote a military paper on
the escape of the Menin garrison, and
this brought him to the attention of
staff officers of various German states,
and he was offered several commis-
sions. He accepted service under the
king of Prussia, and from this time
dates the beginning of activities that
eventually resulted In the establish-
“ment of the Prussian military system
which was the genesis of the bholo-
caust of nations. It was Scharnhorst,
the hero of Menin, who induced his
sovereign to put aside the Prussian
professional long service army which
had been shattered at the battle of
Jena and to inaugurate the policy of
universal service. This was not order-
ed, however, until after the origina-
tor's death from a wound inflicted at
the battle of Lutzen in 1813.—National
Geographic Society Bulletin.
Possibilities of Bad Verse.
No one has yet written any adequate
appreciation of the possibilities of bad
verse—the verse, I mean, that is com-
posed at the crises of life. on the
niountain tops of exultation and in the
joyless valleys, by persons unskilled
and ordinarily unpoetic; the verse
that is hidden away in vases and bu-
reau drawers, never to be shown and
always produced in some moment of
vanity. Only a true poet could write
a just appreciation of bad verse, and
from his pen the words come too much
tainted with the implication of irony.
The quality of bad verse is not strain-
ed. It is written to suit no magazine's
policy. It is rewarded with no check.
It is a brave denying of reality, a
prayer that is its own answer. It is,
to use Maeterlinck's phrase, “a making
or invoking of wings” by creatures
that creep on their bellies.—New Re-
public.
Famous Men's Favorite Hymns.
Favorite hymns of famous men make
an interesting catalogue. Gladstone's
special choice was “Praise to the Holi-
est in the Height,” and it was sung at
his funeral. Tennyson's favorite was
Heber's “Holy, Holy, Holy.” One of
Ruskin’s preferences was ‘Jesus. Here
From Sin Deliver.” upon which he
preached a sermon to some 300 school
children, his guests one afternoon at
Brantwood. Matthew Arnold's choice
was “When I Survey the Wondrous
Cross’ (Watt's masterpiece), the third
verse of which M. A. was overheard
reciting to himself only an hour before
his quite unexpected fatal seizure.
And Henry Ward Beecher declared, “1
would rather have written ‘Jesus, Lov-
er of My Soul’ than have the fame of
all the kings that ever sat on the
earth.”—London Standard.
How the Camera Man Fools Them.
The life of the camera man who takes.
the weekly news motion pictures is not
always one of glory. When Mrs. Van-
derrich, for instance, asks him to take
a picture of her poodle when he wants
permission to take pictures of her y acht
he finds himself between two fires, notes
the Popular Science Monthly. Either
he must waste some precious film ou
the dog or he must refuse and be shown
the quickest way back. One wise cam-
era man, howevér, improvised a fake
The
| erank arm fits loosely on the shaft of
the film gear in the camera, When the
poodle is going through his antics the
turning arm slips on the shaft, and not
a foot of film is exposed, although to all
appearances a picture is being made.
White Sands.
The sands at Blackpool, in Lanca-
shire, are said to be the whitest in
the British isles. From Penzance to
Land’s End, on the coast of Cornwall,
the sand on the seashore is very white,
while in St. Mary's, one of the Scilly
islands, the sand on the shore is’ ‘ex-
ceedingly white and glistening. On
the other hand, the sand about Plym-
onth is bluish gray in color, probably
owing to the shells of mussels broken
and mixed with it, and on the coasts
of the North sea the sand of the sea-
shore is yellowish brown or reddish.—
Pearson's Weekly.
Bacteria Long Lived.
How long some bacteria may live un-
der proper conditions is brought out
by M. W. Lyon, Jr., of George Wash-
ington university in a letter to Science.
Iie tells of a culture of organisms of
paratyphoid beta kept for more than
ten years sealed in a test tube at How-
ard university, which, when transfer-
red to another medium, produced the
reactions that proved the bacteria to
be alive and active.
His Reason.
“Hiyery man should be studying
something.” -
“I’ve taken up the higher mathemat-
ics.”
“Where?”
«In the household expense accounts.”
— Washington Star.
The Secret Elopement.
He—We had best elope about 2 in
the morning. I will bring my motor to
the next corner, and— She — Oh,
couldn’t you make it a little earlier,
dear? Pa and ma do so want to see
us off, and I don’t like to keep them up
so late.
Japanese English.
A correspondent of the Chicago Trib-
une reports having run across the sign
in Tokyo: “T. Cockeye, Tailor, Respect-
able Ladies Has Fits Upstairs.”
He who loses money loses much; he
who loses a friend loses more; he who
loses his spirits loses all.
Bad Health and the Mouth.
Dental educators and high grade
practitioners have for years urged
medical men and the public to recog-
nize the importance of mouth condi-
tions. But only recently has the men-
ace of pyorrhea, “blind” abscesses and
other diseases of the mouth been wide-
ly accepted as important factors in
general health. By the romance of
the microscope and X rays we are
learning many things before unknown,
and through these agencies the dentist
is enabled to put his finger on dis-
eased centers that would otherwise not
be seen or positively determined.
We are told that a large percentage
of our ills, other than contagious dis-
eases, have their origin in the mouth.
As bad health is one of the most
dreaded and one of the most expen-
sive things in life, mouth conditions
must, therefore, be among .the most
important things in life. If a healthy
mouth is so large a factor in general
health, mouth hygiene should be an
important part of our children’s edu-
“cation. It is essential that i levery child
should be carefully taught bow totake
the best care of the teeth. We owe it
to the coming gencsafiousesSatyriay
Evening Post.
Man and Civilization.
The marvelous progress of the last
fifty years has lulled us into a sense
of self confidence and security as re-
gards our racial progress, says Dr. Eu-
gene. Lyman Fisk in the Scientific
Monthly. Dr. Fisk believes that “civ-
lization” has not improved mankind.
He writes:
“I do not think we bave any evi-
dence that man as an organism, wheth-
er in regard to his physical or mental
capacities, now presents a higher aver-
age type than characterized the na-
tions of antiquity. Indeed, so far as his
physical structure is concerned, there
is much evidence to the contrary, and
I think we may Dbe assured that the
great minds of antiquity would have
made equally good use of present day
knowledge if they were with us today
and in a position to utilize it.” !
Submarines and Speed.
The size of the submarine must be
limited by its ability to maneuver, and
to maneuver quickly. In quick sub-
mergence lies the only hope of safety
for the submarine attacked on the
surface, It is figured that a boat built
to make twenty-five knots on the sur-
face would, through its great size, take
nearly ten minutes to submerge. A de-
stroyer traveling at thirty knots
would cover something like six miles
in that length of time, which simply
means that the commander of such a
submarine, cavght on the surface by
a torpedo boat or a’ destroyer any-
where within a radius of six miles,
might just as well surrender his ship,
for if he did not he could not escape
ramming and sinking.—San Francisco
Chronicle,
Joan of Arc’s Bell.
In the cathedral church of Notre
Dame, Paris, there is a bell which
dates from the days of Joan of Arc—
“the blessed bell” which sounded the
tocsin when the Maid of Orleans ap-
peared in August, 1429, and Paris was
besieged Ly the English. This historic
bell, referred to by Victor Hugo in “No-
tre Dame de Paris,” was given to the
cathedral in 1400 by Jean de Montaign.
It was refounded in 1686 and then re-
baptized under the name of Emmanuel
Louise Therese in honor of Louis XIV.
and Marie Therese of Austria.—London
Globe. ;
Detecting Shortcomings.
Do you wish to find out a person’s
weak points? Note the failings he has
the quickest eye for in others. They
may not be the very failings he is him-
self, conscious of, but they will be their
next door neighbors. No man Keeps
such a jealous lookout as a rival.—J. C.
and A. W. Hare.
A Grave Question.
When Daniel Webster was asked
what he considered the most mormen-
tous question in life he is said to have
replied, “Man's individual responsibil-
ty to God.”
Widow's Weeds.
Jack—ThLere's one good thing about
widow's weeds. Tom—What's that?
Jack—They rarely interfere with the
growth of orange blossoms.
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Phosphorescent Skunks.
Patrick Brennan of Phoenix, Ariz,
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large black, the black and’ white and
the hydrophobia skunks are phosphor-
escent in darkness, giving off a con-
tinuous blue flame, the head being of a
more fiery red, then tapering off into
blue to the tail tip. This fact may an-
swer in a degree for the blue marsh
gas flame, the jack o lantern and ma
lantern (of the southern states) and
the night ghost lights of all states. I
make this suggestion from my experi-
ence in trapping in deserted mine tun-
nels in this state.”
Wonderland of Australasia.
The hot spot district of New Zealand
is called “wonderland of Australasia.”
It is said to be to Maoriland what the
Yellowstone park and Hot Springs of
Arkansas are to the United States.
Maori women: have no need to light a
fire to cook meals. An old can or pail
sunk in hot mud or set on a steam jet
answers admirably for a boiling pot or
oven.
Then She Smiled.
“Dear me,” she wailed, “I'm getting
a double chin!”
Hubby tried to console her. “Your
chin is so pretty,” said he, “that you
shouldn’t kick because gratified Moth-
er Nature is giving you another one.”—
Kansas City Journal
Great Britain's Great Seal.
Measuring six inches in diameter and
made of silver, the great seal of Great
Britain is kept in the custody of the
lord high chancellor, and a new one
is prepared for each reign.
Quick Time.
Ada—Men are slow! It took him
nearly two hours to propose to me
last night. Floss—And how long did it
take you to accept him, dear? Ada—
Just two seconds.
If thou shouldst lay up even a little
upon a little and shouldst do this often,
soon would even tkis become great.—
Hesiod.
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