THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST it, 1010. r For the Children Children of Holland and How They Dress. Although tho llttlo girls In Holland arc not pretty, they arc usually strong and healthy. They dress In a very peculiar fashion. All the girls wear earrings and bracelets of coral. If you see a girl In Holland with a bright scarlet skirt and a tight black Jackpf with a number on tho shoulder you will at once know that sho belongs to ono of the numerous charity schools. In most of the public gardens therci aro playgrounds covered with thick sand, so that tho babies will not be hurt when they fall. In these play grounds aro hobbyhorses, seesaws, swinging ladders, vaulting horses, find on parallel bars are slung deep, strong baskets In which to swing tiny chi' dren without fear of accidents. The Chirping Cricket. Thero Is an old belief that crickets, locusts and other lnsocts give warning of tho coming of extremely warm weather by tho unusual clamor they make at night. As a matter of fact, they chirp because It Is warm, not be cause It Is going to bo warm. A cer tain young man told recently of a dis covery that ho made last summer based on the chirping of tho crickets. Ho no ticed, of courso, that the hotter It was the faster they chirped and tho cooler It was tho slower they chirped, and ho conceived tho Idea of making them servo as a sort of thermometer. Hav ing counted tho number of chirps made by a cricket one night, ho looked at a thermometer and found that It marked (54 degrees. Tho cricket had chirped 100 times In a minute. By noticing It night after night ho arrived at a regu lar rule, which is that for every de gree above C4 tho cricket chirps five times. When It chirps 130 times In a minute, therefore, you will find tho thermometer marking 70 degrees. What queer ways some people have of amusing themselves! Chicago News. A Much Discussed Question. Why aro the trousers that sailors wear so wide at tho bottom? That question has been asked over and over again, and, straugo as It may seem, no one not a sailor knows exactly how to answer it. A seafaring man who Is pretty well Informed in questions of that kind says it grew out of tho old time custom of cutting out sailors' trousers on shipboard, when tho cut ter would simply run the shears straight down tho cloth without mak ing any attempt to give the leg shape. This was due partly to haste and part ly to indlfferenco to style. Another plausible explanation Is the follow ing: Sailors frequently have to row ashore and barefooted step Into the water and pull their boat up on the beach. The width of their trousers at tho bottom allows them to roll their trousers high to keep them dry. Tom Tiddler's Ground. This is an old English outdoor game, which American children have altered to "Dixie's land." it Is played In tho same way. Ono player personates Tom Tiddler, who Is supposed to be tho owner of vast stores of treasure burled on his ground, a tract set apart and allotted to him. Tho other play ers lnvado his territory, and, as tres passers, he tries to catch them. They shout in tones meant to bo tantalizing: Hero I stand on Tom Tiddler's land Picking up cold and silver, or. I'm on Dixie's land. Dixie can't catch me. If Tom or Dlxio can touch any tres passer while on his laud that player becomes Tom or Dixie. Soma special lino should define tho boundary to pre vent any possible dlsputo about the territory. Conundrums. Which Is tho best known composer of modern times? Chloroform. Which Is the best musical Instru ment to have where thero aro chil dren? An upright piano. What la the differonco between a dog's tall and a rich farmer? One keeps a wagging and tho other keeps a wagon and carriage. How did nenry VIII. differ from other men? He married his wives first and (ared) asked them afterward. Daffadowndilly. Vour pretty cown of yellow hue. Dear little garden fairy, I'm sure is much too thin for you, It's made so light and airy. Why did you Itave your winter furat you knew the winds were chilly. May pussy willow lend you hers, Dear tittle daffodilly? youth's Companion. FOR THE OHILOREN A Guessing Gsrrc. Take a sentence in your ulml. of course for Instance, "You are n i,ooil girl" and put It down on paper im follows: ! ! ! ! !! The dots represent the letters, the sin glo lines the ends of words and tho ilmi ble Hues the end of n sentence. Nest draw n rude picture of n gallows, like the letter V, with tho crossplecc hang ing from the top Instead of connected with tho upright line. This piece It. Bupposctt to be the rope. If the guess er falls to guess correctly ho Is to be hanged on this gallows. Now put down the letters of tho nl phabct, A II C D E F G II IJ K I. M N O P Q It S T U V V X Y Z. on a sheet of paper. From this the gucsser chooses a let ter, and If It belongs to tho sentence It is written In place of the dots as many times as It occurs. If he chooses a letter not In tho scntcuco the head of the man goes on tho rope. Each time ho falls another part of tho man Is added his body, arms and legs and should the man bo completed before the sentence Is guessed the gucsser loses his chance nnd has to bo told "If he Is rpilck he may easily guess the sentence by a few guiding vowels." Washington Star. Trapping Lions nnd Tigers. In trapping theso largo animals steel traps are now used. They ure Burled in lilts, and bait Is scattered over the top. The keen scent of tho beasts brings them to pick up tho meat, nnd in nine cases out of ten tho trap Is sprung. Tho trap Is not rigidly fas tened, but has a tlirco pronged nnchor attached to it by a chain. The, nnlmal will run away and drag this through the brush until It la caught. Most of those caught are boasts on which a bounty is offered by the government because they are so destructive nnd dangerous. On ono plantation in Ger man East Africa 404 beasts of prey were trapped last year. He Found Out. A boy named Charles Illllyear, living In Modlua county, O., had a doslro to know how It would feel to roll down hill In a barrel. Ho therefore spent a couple of hours getting an old elder barrel to the top of a long hill nnd then crawled Into it and started off. Charles knows all about It now. He was whirled around about ten thou Band times, received about ten thou sand bumps and Jars, and tho barrel fetched up In a crock, and he was al most drowned before they could haul him out. It was two weeks before his head stopped swimming and a month beforo ho could walk without limping. Spook Pictures. Do you know how to make a spook picture of yourself7 It Is very easy and most Interesting. All you have to do Is to wrlto your name In Ink length wise on a piece of paper and before It has time to dry fold over tho paper close to the place where you have written the name, thus blotting it nnd smudging It In all directions. When you unfold tho paper you will find a nice picture of your spook, which will bo entirely different from anybody else's spook. It Is fun to keep a book let of your friends' spook pictures, which should be signed by their real nutograph nnd the date. Conundrums. What Is that of which the common sort Is the best? Sense. What anlniul would you like to bo ou u cold day? A little 'otter. How can you divide fourteen apples between nine boys If four of the ap pies nro very small? By making them luto sauce. What Is Hint word of three syllables which contains tho whole twenty-sis letters? Alphabet. What Is that which comes with a coach, goes with a coach and Is of no use whatever to the coach, and yet tho coach cannot go without it? Nolso. Origin of an Old Saying. "A feather In one's cap" carries with It u suggestion of light hcartednes: and gayety. Yet this phraso seems to have hud Its origin In war and blood shed. It was the custom of the Hun gariuns In their wars with the Turk' to wear n feather In their caps for every Turk whom they had killed. Balancing the Egg. Eor a variation of tho old trick of making an egg stnud on Its end, cmp ty the egg of Its contents nnd then fill It half full of sand. Cover tho hole with paper. Your egg, with very lit tle balancing, will stand readily upon Its end. A Trick Explained. A iierson may. without stirring from tho room, seat himself In u place where It will bo Impossible for nn other person to do so. Explain this. Answer. The first person seats him self in the other's lap. Cricket's Song. What's the sons' tho crickets sing. Bummer, autumn, winter, spring? When I take my llttlo broom And go dusting through the room, "Sweep, sweep, sweep, a weep I" When I go to bed at night Then I hoar them out of sight, "Bleep, sleep, sleep, sleep!" When I waken every day If it's sunny then they say, "Peep, peep, peep, peepl" But thoy feel as bad as I When It rains, for then they cry, "We, weep, weep, weep!" Chicago Tribune. A NEW WEAVE OF SWEATER Ths Long Effect In These Coats Is Smartest. FOIt THE GOLFING GIRL. If any girl can go through the sum mer without a sweater sho Is a rare specimen of femininity. Its uses are intinlto and too mnny to enumer ate. Each year the type of sweater varies. Last season we had tho long style, and this summer tho longer lengths are still modish, but the differ ence In this year's sweater Is in the weave. Tho Illustration shows one of the newest and smartest of the sea son's weaves, a broad fancy stripe. which Is very becoming to tho figure. Charge It to the Woman. That cheerful farce known to the public 'as an "Inquiry Into tho causes of tho cost of living" assumes more amazing proportions day by day. Some body or something Is to blamo for the prohibitive prices which mock our In digence, and under no circumstances may tho sensitive feelings of the pro tectionists bo hurt Consequently po litical economists who are not calm enough to share the frank Indifference of congress offer us strange and art less solutions of a problem which has grown too formidable for play, says Agnes Iteppller. Tho most original of all thoso sug gestions comes from an Instructor in economics In the Wharton School of Finance at tho University of Pennsyl vania, who holds that food is dear be cause women buy it and women "have no basis for estimating tho value of what they spend." Money to a man represents so many hours or days of labor. Money to a woman stands for no economic effort. The prlco of all commodities is unreasonably dear be cause of the "extravagant willingness of women to pay for them." If this be true all that Is needed to reduce tho cost of living is that men shall shop and market. The poulterer will not venture to ask $2.50 for a pair of chickens; the dairyman will blush at tho mere thought of demanding 50 cents a dozen for eggs when confront ed by tho wage earner of the family. Hogs wcro quoted recently at a fig ure calculated to make theso lordly animals swagger In tbclr sties, but they will Boon bo reduced to humility and moderation if the father of tho family buys the morning sausage. Even the cook will cheerfully accept $4 a week instead of $7 when her master pays her wages, especially if sho can bo brought to understand that bo Is philosophically indifferent to his food and that it was only tho "extrav agant willingness" of her mistress to pay her $7 which mado her ask bo much. Tho Charm of Enthusiasm. navo you ever realized what a charm there is In enthusiasm? Life Is so often monotonous that wo like occasionally to bo wakened up with in terest, and tho person who Is radiant over small things Is always a delight. Tho girl "who carries enthusiasm into her work as well as Into her play will find that she holds a winning card. Work that is done for tho "Joy of working" Is likely to bo well done. Lack of interest makes for dull rou tine, remarks a writer. It brings dis content and often failure. Tho men who succeed aro the ones who can In spire both themselves and others by their magnetic personality, and thero is nothing so magnetic ns enthusiasm. Peoplo will follow us. llko us and ad mlro us if wo havo It. It Is worth cul tivating if it Is not natural endow ment Pleasantness a Tonic. Don't bo afraid of being pleasant It cannot hurt you and will bo as good as a tonic for all you meet What though you do think yourself superior to most of your acquaint ances, Is It good taste to placard your belief by a freezing countenanco? Thero is nothing llko affability to conceal ono's family Bkolctons. A haughty manner is a direct bid for the rest of tho world to rako up ancestral secrets that you thought buried. BATSMEN TAKE LESS OF A CHANGE In Old Days Pitchers Would Go Far to Gain Advantage. IT'S VERY DIFFERENT NOW, Even With the Chango In Method tho Batter Is In Danger Many Instances Where Being Hit by Ball Affects Playing Ability. When Frank Chance, manngcr of the Chicago Nationals, was struck ou the head by a ball hurled by Pitcher Cas per of Cincinnati recently It recalled tho fact that many star baseball play ers havo lost their effectiveness through being hit by thrown balls. That more batsmen aro not Injured by being hit by pitched balls speaks well for tho skill of the present day pitcher. In tho old days tho pitcher would not Infrequently let one go straight at tho batter's head In order to drive him away from the plate. Such n proceeding Is rare nowadays Working tho edges of tho plate seems to havo proved more effective. Never theless tho fire tho batter faces Is dan gerous. One of tho worst cases of head hit ting was that of nugh Jennings, now manager of tho Detroit club, by Amos Huslc. Jennings, with Baltimore then, was noted for his close hugging of the plato and his willingness to ac cept a base by being hit by the pitch er. He relied upon his quickness of eyo to minimize tho effect of the blow. Itusle had a wide, Jumping curve ball. Jennings was willing to turn his shoulder, accept a deflecting blow or let it hit bis shirt front or the slack of his knickerbockers. Ho could do this with pitchers of average curve, but Itusle'B curve was too sharp in tho break and too fast for blm to avoid. Jennings stood close and got ono full In the head. Ho fell flat For four days his life was despaired of, but a powerful constitution pulled him through, though he never was tho same nervy man again at tho plate, and It was months before ho could play. Jennings, by the wny. is an extreme ly durable person. While at Cornell he dived face first against the concrete bottom of an empty swimming tank. Tho man is a marvel of vitality and energy, no sustained two shocks that would have killed tho average man, yet ho is as full of energy today as a dynamo. Roderick Wallace, the famous lnfleld er of the Browns, had his batting effi ciency seriously and permanently im paired twelve years ago when ho was hit In tho hend by a ball thrown by "Chick" Fraser, who was then with the Louisville club. Wallace was knocked flat and It was many days beforo ho went to bat ngaln. A con stitution of iron enabled him to with stand tho shock, but ho never was quite tho samo hitter afterward. Dan noffman, the center fielder of the Browns, was the victim of a fear ful blow at tho hands of Jesso Tanne hlll, then with Boston, some years ngo. Hoffman was at the time deemed tho most promising young player In the American league, no was having his first season, and a brilliant ono It was. Ono day he made n triple, a dou ble and a single against Tannchlll in three trips to tho plate. The fourth time up Tannohlll hit him a terrific blow over the right eyo. It almost killed tho trained and muscular young athlete, noffman lay as If dead, and It was four days beforo ho recovered consciousness. Then his nerves were ruined. From 170 pounds he declined to 128. He could not sleep or cat for six months, and the following season ho had to get along ns best ho could with only ono eye. Hoffman says that It has taken him six years to get back his full strength. He has never been able to hit left handed pitchers since tho day he was hurt. Now, six years after, noffman Is ut tho mercy of tho average left handed pitcher. Johnnlo Lush, tho star pitcher of the Cardinals, was hit by Andy Coakley on the neck nnd all but killed. Ills neck has nover been straight since that time, nnd for years his health was se riously impaired. Itogcr Bresnnhan was hit and severe ly hurt by Jack Taylor in 1904. For a long time nfter this Injury Ilresna han woro a semi-mask that protected tho exposed sldo of his head against the pitcher. Hundreds of lesser lights havo been hit nnd injured to a degreo less seri ous than thoso mentioned. It all goes to show that baseball is not without Its great dangers, especially to men nt tho bat Most of tho injuries on tho field have como about through colli sions between fielders, such ns the one that cost tho Ilfo of "Hub" Collins. Collins' fatal collision was with narry Stovey nt Boston many years ago. Batted balls injuro very few play ers, though tho way men hit thorn about in prnctlco would often mako ono wonder that accidents nro not inoro frequent Tho most notable ac cident of this sort was when Schrivcr of Pittsburg hit William Hart of the samo club on tho chin with a ball bat ted in practice. Tho drivo shattered Hart's Jaw. It was wired up ngaln. Hart is now fifty years old and Is rat ed high among tho pitchers of the Southern league. THE TROTTING OUTLOOK. Fast Wor! Pror.naeJ By Country's Leading Titck Hcrtea. The Hi-iusoii of llilu pro .1 1 -.- to li graced by some of the mum xtlrrlir; free-for-all trots mill others In tin ex trcmo fast classes that iiii cut Imsiant could dcxli-e. At least that Is what u survey of the material for n mtius nt such races would uppenr to give tut, warrant for. The following H ti iwi Of trotters eligible to such events tli it are now In active training or soon will be: Uhlan. f.OZM. bl. r.. by Illngen. !i:0SV, Jack Lcyburn. 2:(HVi. ch. r . hv Alto Loyburn, 2:!1V4 Venlea Maid, 2:0tli, b. m by I'vnmint. Sil5. Padcrewskl. 2:03Vl, ch. c, by Cnnste tmro, 2:10. 8onoma Girl. 2:CVi. br. m.. by Lynwnod W.. 2:20. Margin. 2:03, ro. m.. by Time Onwnrrt Bob Douglass. 2:O0U. er. h.. by ToM. M4i. Sterling McKtnney, 2:0CU. br. Ii.. by Mc Kinney. 2:114. Wilkes Heart, 2:0SVi. br. b., by Oreat Heart, 2:12Vi, pacing. Alien Winter. 2:00H. br. h.. by IM Win ter, 2:12. Inner Guard. 2:0iiH. b. g., by Guards man, 2:23H- Ituth Dillon. 2:0CV4. b. m.. by Sidney Dil lon. General Watts. 2:00. b. h.. by Ax worthy. 2:15. The Han-ester, 2:OC7i, br. h.. by Walnut Hall, 2:03. Spanish Queen, 2:07. b. m., by Onward Silver, 2:0CVi. Here nre fifteen trotters with rec ords from 2:02Vi to 2:07. to which may QEOIiar, OANO. I be added one or two others as possi- bllltles. They Include the gray gelding 1 Locust Jack (2:00V9, reported as i switched to tho pace, at which gait ho Is to bo raced in the future, but whose reappearance ut the trot will bo not unlikely. Early Alice (SiOffJi) is also named. , TJhlan is tho property of Mr. Billings, who never races his horses In regular , professional races for money prizes, so ' that the champion gelding may be de scribed as hors concours except in , some special event In which ho may bo i nllowed to race. It Is also unlikely that General Watts may bo seen in any races, as It has been reported that tho plan is to prepare him solely for an attempt to lower the world's stal- j lion record, the 2:02 of Cresceus. ; But In any event there are n suffi cient number of ellglbles to Insure a series of races which should be In tho , highest degree notable and In which more thnn one record will bo In dan- , ger of being broken. TAKES BRAINS TO RUN. 1 Sheppard Says Fellow Can't Break ! Record With Feet and Legs. ' When a fellow learns how to run ! when he breaks records you can bo sure that he does not do all with his feet and legs," remarked Melviu Shep pard recently. "There Is only one wny to run in record time, nnd that Is for tho fellow who Is attempting the feat to use his brain," continued peerless Mel. "Some acquire tho necessary trait, but I havo always found that calculating out just how and when to run came uatural to me; that's tho reason why I lowered I.on Meyer's figures for the CG0 yard run and beat the world's mark estab lished by Lunghl for tho 700 yard run. "There's nothing to Itl I've trnineu moro faithfully within the past few weekB than ever before, but 1 could never run us well as I did tbe other day Just on the strength I havo gath ered since starting conscientious work. It was Just that I have tho natural gift of knowlne when to do the running that counts In n race that gave me the two new records," said Sheppard. Sheppard, running against a cold, damp, penetrating wind, created two now world's records recently that will probably stand for years to come. At the COO vard mnrk ho broke tho tape In 1 minute 21 2-5 seconds. Just three- fifths of a second faster than Meyers traveled the distance twenty-eight years ago. At 700 yards Sheppard crossed the lino 1 minute u i-i sec onds, which was exactly three-fifths of n second better thnn Lunghl's record. DIAMOND CHIPS Oscar Stanago of tho Detroit Tigers is n much Improved catcher over what ho was last year. "My payroll Is now $85,000," says Frank Tarrell, owner of tho New York Americans. "My total expenses for operating tho team aro $135,000." It Is soft to bo an uraplro today com pared with five years ago. Then tho players fought tho umpires. Today tho players cannot talk or thoy get put off tho field. Cy Young Is about dono for as a pitcher. But ho has a fortuno, so what does ho caro? Ho Is tho grand old man of baseball. 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Trains leave Union depot at 7.20 a. m. and 2.48 p. m., wool: days. Trains arrive Union depot at 1.50 and C.45 p. m. week days. Saturday only, Erie and Wyoming arrives at 3.45 p. m. and leaves at 5.50 p. m. Sunday trains leave 2.4 S and ar rive at 7.02. - ;-,ir-n Time Card In Effect June 19th, 1910, SCRANT0N DIVISION 'J IK) l k. Station Mill I A lfl! Ul S 11 H "V :olArX.V.W.MBt.LT US, iAi 1 HUM " I 00 li l " uaawiut i.ti ...Hanqoclt.... " ..Starlight.... Preston l'arlc " .Wlnwood... " ..Pojrntelle.. M Orson l'laasantMt " .. Unlondale.. " .Forest CUT. C-rb'ndaleVd " .Carbondato. " Wbltollrldife " .MayflelH YO. ,...Jermrn... " ..AicMbald.. " .... 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