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A Scented Hanlrbrush,
Waves are scented by touching them
with a brush that is itself scented. A
scented brush is the nicest thing that
can grace a woman's dressing table. It
must he very clean, and must not be
used for geaera! brushing of the hair.
Mwice a week a few drops of jasmine
can be poured upon it and the brush
when not in use lies in a silken box
with a cover upon it. When you are
dressing the hair and have finished
combing it take the brush from the
box and run it lightly « dozen times
through the hair. The result will be
a delightful scent which will pervade
the tresses all day.
“ A Ba: Mademoiselle,”
Parisian women have formed a
league for the purpose of obliterating
the invidious distinction of title be-
tween the married and unmarried of
their sex. Why, they righteously de-
mand, if every man, married or un-
married, is monsieur, shculd not every
woman, wife or maid, be madame?
“A bas mademoiselle” is to be their
battle ery. It is all very well for
French women to take part in this
grand movement, but how are our
American sisters to overcome the dif-
flculty confronting them? We can-
not believe that our maidens fair and
otherwise are ready to drop the Miss
and adopt the Mrs. if the change of
title is to o> effected without tue pres-
ent gratifying ceremony.
A Mother’s Care of Herself,
If the children are to be kept free
from colds, the mother must not per-
mit herself to catch la grippe and sim-
ilar ailments to hand ¢own to them,
since almost all colds and influenzas
are contagious. The careful mother’s
first thought should be to provide her-
self with adequate flonnels, warm
stockings, anG (no matter how she has
always hated them) with stout rub-
bérs for use in wet weather.
It is every mother’s duty and right
to be a healthy, con‘ented, cheerful
/ person, free from all aches and pains
and discomforts of her own, in order
that she may be strong to minister to
the trials and tribulations of the less
fortunate members of her household.
This is not selfishness, it is prudence.
—Carroil Watscn Rankin.
Iceland Suffrage Paradise,
There are clubwomen in town who
say that America doesn’t deserve to be
called a paradise for women and that
the only country in the world which
merits praise is Iceland. Women who
rage against their inability to vote on
great questions in the United States
should start at once for the northern
land. Miss Jessie Akermann, who
has been living there, says the women
: . have more civil rights than their sis-
ters in any other country in the world.
“Their right of franchise is exercised
in all civic affairs save that of election
of members to the Danish Parliament,”
says she. “They manage to get around
that difficulty and sustain their politi-
cal status by forming themselves into
a political league, which has 7000
members and is a factor the real voters
are not able tc igunore.’—New York
Press.
Invalid a Charity Worker.
Even illness of a nature that makes
a woman a permanent invalid need
not necessarily prevent be: doing work
in the wo.ld. A case in point is af-
forded by Miss Mary Merrick, daugh-
ter of a Washington lawyer. She has
suffered from spinal trouble since her
sixteenth year, and she lies on an air
mattress, without a pillow. Yet she
manages to plan and cut garments for
the Christ Child Society, of which she
is president, and she keeps books, dic-
tates many letters daily and, in a
word, is the active head of a society
svhich has more than a thousand mem-
bers. The organization provides lay-
ettes for persons too poor to get them.
At Christmas time toys and candy are
given to children of the poor. The
society is for working purposes only
and never gives entertainments. The
members are organized into bands, the
heads of which report in person to Miss
Merrick every three months.—New
York Press.
Tha Empire Waist.
. Many women seem to imagine that
any dress of which the waistline is
slightly . shorter than in the ordinary
dress belongs to the Empire style.
This is, of course, a mistake, and
the result obtained from following that
notion cannot be anything else than a
decided :Zailure. There are actually
two types of waist—the long, rounded,
and clearly defined waist just above
the hips, and the frankly short bodice,
\ stopping below the bust, as in the Em-
\ pire tashion, the skirt being either quite
{loose or full, or cut o> as to slightly
suggest the outlines of the figure.
But in no case should the waistline
come half way, possessing neither the
originality of the Empire style nor the
harmonious proportions of the long-
waisted bodice. This applies to gowns
only, as coats are enjoying a large
amount of fanciful mitigation in their
tfacon.
A remarkably attractive teagown
of the short-waisted persuasion is in
ivory crepe de Chine, a wide band of
turquoise blue, with applications of
Venise, hemming the skirt. There is
an apron effect, obtained by a large
entredeux of Venetian lace, outlined on
each side with a narrow depassant of
turquoise, panne, and decorated with
graduated bows of the same material.
The tiny bolero is also of panne, with
“applications of lace and a jabot of
The draped sleeves are made
Venise,
of the same lace over crepe de Chine,
Blames Wives For Crimes of Husbands
Among the points brought out by
Mrs. Atherton in her article, “The New
Avistocracy,” in the Cosmopolitan,
which has set the whole country talk:
ing, is one that American wives are
largely responsible for the forgeries
and embezzlements of their husbands,
Mrs. Atherton says:
“So great is the glamor of New York
society that it is the ambition of every
woman who has suddenly risen to so-
cial position in her own town to tragis-
port her husband's millions to this Mec-
ca of American life. And this factor
of feminine ambition, to say nothing
of feminine rapacity, is one that counts
significantly in the system known as
graft. The influence of American wom-
en over men to-day is greater than
woman's influence, except in isolated
cases, has ever been before. American
men are not only indulgent and kind-
ly, but a strongly natural desire to
please women is their most famous
characteristic. There are thousands of
American women that influence men
for their good, but there are an ap-
palling number of others—and most of
them respectable wives—who, passive
ly by extravagance, or actively by that
form of mental pressure known as
nagging, force men to reach out for
more money, at any cost. Sometimes
the result is the defrauding bank clerk,
with whom we are all so familiar;
when there are more distinguished
gifts to develop, smaller fry than banks
are annihilated to swell the individual
fortune; and, :n the present condition of
American laws, stripes are avoided.
But that among latter-day millionaires
there is a large majority of criminals
no one pretends to deny.”
She Trains Boys and Girls.
Mrs. Harriet Taylor Treadwell is the
successor of Margaret Haley as the
head of the Chicago teachers’ united
movement to win pure democracy for
the schools, and thereby to make bet:
ter and nobler citizens of the boys and
girls of the city. For the past year
she has ably served the Chicago Teach:
ers” Association, having been elected
president in April, 1905.
Mrs. Treadwell is a native of New
York State and a graduate of the Os
wego (N. Y.) Norma! School. Her
teaching career has extended over a
long period. She was married in
1897 to Dr. Charles Treadwell. but did
not give up her professional work. Her
record as an educator began at nine
teen years of age, when she commenced
teaching in the Chicago schools, ad:
vancing steadily to the post of instruct-
or in English at the Forestville School,
which she held for eleven years, until
she was made principal lost year of the
Joseph Warren School.
Mrs. Treadwell is a specialist in chil
dren’s reading, and has instituted a
“Book Review Day” in her school,
when teachers and pupils listen to re:
views and discuss the worth of a book
and its writer. The right direction is
tactfully given to children’s reading.
“I pever say to a boy, ‘You shan’t
read this book,’ or ‘it’s horrible to read
dime novels; but, rather, I suggest
various good books, until at last he is
spoiled for the improbanple, the false,
the vulgar and the vicious,” she says
Mrs. Treadwell is deeply interested
in all things that tend toward the ad
vancement of women; and is enlisted
among the active workers for suffrage
in the State of Illinois.
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Both big and little hats are seen,
but none of medium size.
Tiny gold roses are seen on some of
the smartest of ihe dark, rich hats.
Velvet is first favorite this season for
all dressy occasions, and it is as soft
and as supple as chiffon.
Velvet ribbons are used to a very
great extent at this moment for the
rimming of hats, in bows, ruchings and
rosettes.
One of the latest fads is the wearing
of white lace sleeves on sheer black
evening gowns, such as those of net
or mouseline de soi.
A new color in coral beads is a shade
between mahogany and rich crimson.
The beads are real coral, but unlike
any previously seen. A necklace of
graduated ones costs $75.
For a girl who prefers green to coral
beads there are the jade strings. If
she will wear a string not quite up
to the mark as to color, she will have
to pay only $125 for it. From that fig-
ure the prices run up to almost any
amount.
The Empire style has brought the
plain skirt into favor; for the long,
slim effect does not allow of ruffles or
elaborate trimmings, although it does
demand embroideries and applications
that trim without interiering with the
rippling hem.
There is almost a barnyard of coral
animals that can be used as charms,
although nothing is quite as satisfac-
tory as a lucky pig. Those who are
drawn to the grewsome will like the
skulls, which are as disagreeable in
coral as in any other form. Little roses
are pretty in coral stickpins.
It is said that in Australia there is
*Present-Day
Charity a Failure.”
Better Conditions For Self-
Respecting Poor Only
Preventive of Pauperism.
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By Rosenrt HUNTER, Avtnor ov “Poverty.
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USED to think that the
x problem of poverty and the
© Q problem of pauperism were
Roe] In the early days of my
slum work I took up, with
some enthusiasm the propaganda of
the many useful charitable organiza-
tions. To the charitable worker these
problems of vagrancy and pauperism
seem possible of solution.
I am almost sure to-day that, neither
taken together or even separately, is
there any solution of their degradation
in the current charitable efforts. The
old methods, that is of friendly visit-
ing, of workrooms, work tests, model
lodging houses, which in the early
nineties were eagerly taken up as a
reform movement in the right direc.
tion, do not reach the distress of the
world's abyss,
The insurmountable obstacle that
confronts every student of the slum
conditions in London, or Paris, or Ber-
lin, or New York. is the phy cal en-
vironment of the poor, half-starved,
half-clothed, badly housed people who
are born in them and who are by the
heredity of such conditions, unfit for
an equal struggle with the world.
The slum environment in New York
is not as bad as in London, but places,
for instance, like Minetta lane, are
about equal io the worst conditions in
Paris, while the slums of Berlin are
not so bad as those of New York.
There are two classes in the abyss
fn all large cities—the self-respecting
poor and the degenerate poor. The
latter have lost their grip physically
and mentally through generations of
suffering and neglect.
The first class of these unfortunate
people work often fifteen hours a day
at anything—sometimes for starvation
wages. They are physically weak, or
they have lost a leg, or an arm, or an
eye, and that has incapacitated them
partly for well-paid labor.
They still have home ideals; they love
their children: they would not beg for
the world. But the wages are merely
a tantalizing symbol of starvation, and
gradually they are exhausted, and
sooner or later sink to the bottom of
the pit among the second class—the
paupers, the actual dependents,
There is a ghod deal of contentment
in this abyss. notwithstanding. Its in-
habitants setile down to conditions that
are less irksome than the severe
standards of painful labor, honesty and
self-respect.
In the first class there is a hopeless
ambition that things may be better; in
the second class there is an absolute
surrender {o conditions.
In this community of workers several
thousand human beings are struggling
fiercely against want.
Day after day, year after year, they
toiled with marvellous persistency and
perseverance. Obnoxious as the simile
is, they worked from dawn until night-
fall, or from sunset until dawn, like
galley slaves, under the sting of want
and under the whip of hunger.
Theirs was a sort of treadmill exist-
ence, with no prospect of anything
else in life but more treadmill. When
they were not given work in the mill
they starved; and when they grew des-
perate they came to my office and
asked for charity.
Here was a mass of men whose ways
of living were violently opposed to
those of the vagrant or pauper. They
were distorting themselves in the
struggle to be independent of charity
and to overcome poverty.
That they hated charity must be
taken without question. ‘
The testimony of scores of men is
proof of it, even if, indeed, their very
lives were not. But, despite all their
efforts the lived in houses but little, if
any, better than these of the paupers;
they were almost as poorly dressed;
they were hardly better fed.
In other words, these men, women
and children were, to my mind, strug-
gling up the face of a barren precipice,
not unlike that up which Dante toiled,
sometimes in hope, sometimes in de-
spair, yet bitterly determined; the
abyss of vice, crime, pauperism and va-
grancy was beneath them, a tiny ray
of hope above them.
Tlitting before them was the leopard,
persistently trying to win them from
their almost hopeless task by charms
of sensuality, debauchery and idleness.
The lion, predatory and brutal, threat-
ened to devour them, enriched by their
labors.
Some were won from their toil by
sensual pleasures, some were torn
from their footholds by economic disor-
ders; others were too weak and hungry
to keep up the fight, and still others
vore rendered incapable of further
struggle by diseases resulting from
the unnecessary evils of work or of
living.
However merciful and kind and valu-
able the works of the charitable and
the efforts of those who would raise
up again the pauper and the vagrant,
they are not remedial.
In so far as the work of the charita-
ble is devoted to reclamation, and not
to prevention, it is a failure.
Not that any onc could wish that less
were done in the direction of reclama-
tion. The fact only is important that
effort is less powerful there than in
overcoming the forces which under-
mine the workers and those who are
struggling against insurmountable dif-
ficulties.
Or.
one,
when, If the latter are to succeed, they
must be made to take up again the
battle with
those very destructive
forces which are all the time under:
mining stronger, more capable and
more self-reliant men than they, The
all-necessary work to be done is not so
much to reclaim a class which social
forces are ever active in producing as
it Is to battle with the social or eco-
nomic forces which are continuously
producing recruits to that class, The
forces producing the miseries of pau-
perism and vagrancy are many, but
none so important as those conditions
of work and of living which are so un-
just and degrading that men are driven
by them into degeneracy. When the
uncertainties, hardships, trials, sor-
rows and miseries of a self-supporting
existence become so painful that good,
strong, self-reliant men and women are
forced into pauperism, then there is
put little use in trying to force the
paupers and the vagrants back into the
struggle
The distinetion between the poor and
the pauper may be seen everywhere,
In pauperism there is no mental ag-
ony; they do not work; there is no
dread; they live miserably, but they do
not care.
Then, close to these lethargic ghosts
of a dreadful past are the millions who
possess no tools.
They work, yet they eain nothing.
They know the meaning of hunger and
the dread of want.
They love their wives and children,
They try to retain self-respect.
They give to their neighbors in need,
yet they are themselves the children
of poverty.
And vet men who will suffer almost
anything rather than become paupers
are often those who never care to be-
come anything else once they have be-
come dependent on alms,
It is deep and terrible, this abyss of
the world, and the charitable methods
in existence to-day cannot abolish it.—
New York World.
FELLOWSHIP OF DOCS.
Humans May Learn Much ¥rom Them
in Regard to Life's Philosophy.
I have seen a few wretches in my
day; but I never one so utterly lost to
decency that he could not be flattered
by the friendly attentions of a strange
dog. There is a great lesson in that
No matter how superior we try to seem
to ourselves and others, a small vice
within us will not let us wholly forget
what humbugs we are. In the pres
ence of our kind we are brazen. The
calm gaze of a child sometimes shakes
our self confiderce; the knowing look
of a dog shatters it. There is some:
what in brute psychology that per-
plexes the intellect of man and disor-
ganizes his intuition. Man is so made
that what he cannot understand exer-
cises greater influence over him than
that which he can, In the presence of
many phenomena he reveals himself
openly and quite unconsciously. He
is then no longer master of the forti-
fications of his soul. He drops his
his mask—his grctesque outer garb—
his brazen shield falls to the ground,
and he either cowardly retreats or suc-
cumbs without resistance.
There is some hope tor the man who
is capable of feeling ashamed in the
presence of an honorable dog. That
man has avenues open to him for ad-
vancement. His soul is still fit for ex-
pansion. His brain is something more
than a dried nut. His heart has not
turned entirely into a thing of rubber
and valves. When a strange dog
greets him, he thinks better of himself
—unconsciously he reascns: “Villain
that I am, I am not so bad after all as
I might be. You can’t fool a dog; and
a dog is no hypocrite; therefore, I have
good in me which he recognizes.” The
fellow is a little surp-ised at himself
and not a little flattered. If a noble
dog shows him marked favor he be-
comes stuck up almost immediately. If
several dogs should display great pref-
erence and affection for his person he
would soon become unencurable to so-
ciety—quite too vain for association
with men. Contraiwise, should dogs
bark at him, generally or perchance
should one.bit him, he would not feel
himself good enough to assoclate with
snakes; but would forthwith get him-
self ocked up as a victim of hysterical
rabies; and if he had any pathetic kin-
folk at large *hey would at once insist
upon having the dog put to death.
For my own part, I have learned a
great deal from dogs. If I am natural,
they set me the example in early child-
hood. If I am faithful to a friend
through his disgrace and disaster, I
cannot deny that a dog revealed this
nobility of character to me for the first
time in my life. If I have gratitude, 1
saw it first in a dog. If I have enter:
prise, he did not neglect my early les.
sons. If I have initiative, so had my
first dog friend; if I am afiectionate, so
was he. If I am patient in adversity
and without arrogance, I could not
have acquired this poise of mind bet-
ter .rom men than fron dogs. If I am
watchful over weakness intrusted to
my care; if I am forgetful of self in
guarding my beloved; if I have the
courage of my conviciuions; if I have
any heroic instincts, I could have had
no better teacher than u dog. Indeed,
the love of dogs, their association and
example—have filled my life with joy.
—The Cultur st.
Oysters as a Nerve Cure.
Over in France, says What to Eat,
there has been discovered what is
called the oyster cure for nervousness.
It consists in eating all the oysters
a person can consume to the exclusion
of other foods until the cure is ef-
fected.
The theory is that in nervous disor-
ders an excessive amount of phos-
phorus is eliminated from the sys-
tem. This ‘loss can be compensated
by taking food containing a large
amount of phosphorus. It is said a pa-
tient taking this cure can eat oysters
fresh from the sea at the rate of about
It is an almost hopeless task to re-
a regular traffic in lending engage-
ment 1ings
generate the degenerate, especially
} six dozen a day.
A MODERN CORTEZ
—_——
of Jamaica."
In the World's Work Rugene P.
Lyle, Jr, tells the remarkable story of |
“Captain Baker and Jamaica;" how
this gentle Cape Cod fisherman became
the King of Great Britain's richest
West Indian isle, The .distory of the |
conquest began thirty-five years ago,
with an armada of one lone schooner.
She bad two wmasie. and could carry a
hundred tons, Her owner and skipper
was Lorenzo Dow Baker, the son of a
whaler, and a child ef the sea as well.
He took a cargo to Angostura and on
his return trip carried a lot of banan-
as. But by the time he reached New
York they had all rotted. The next
time he got very green bananas. The
fruit was not plentiful, so he began
to teach the people how to grow
them, “The first man who has ten
acres in bananas will be a rich man,”
he told them with earnest conviction. |
He touched intimately the lives of |
the blacks. He was known ‘in their |
homes and at their church socials,
and he helped them to build the
chapel for which, inevitably, they
were collecting money. He talked to
the school children, rooms full of bright
eyed little tots, and he told them of the
good of money. Then he told them
how to get it. “Grow bananas,” he
said. “Grow them whegever your
mammy will let you have a foot of
ground.”
Captain Baler had to push his cam-
paign of education at both ends. In
Jamaica he taught people to grow ba-
nanas, but in the United States he had
to teach people to eat them. They
were not yet an ordinary article of diet,
and moreover the yellow kind from Ja-
maica was comparatively unknown.
But he succeeded. He revived the
island from economic prostration, and
it is flourishing. He did it by making
the sanana trade.
Captain Baker still lives at Port
Antonio, which is not only an Ameri-
can town, but a Boston town. In the
summer he goes back to Wellfleet,
there renews intercourse with May-
flower descendents like himself, tries
periodically to wring an appropriation
from Uncle Joe Cannon for the Pil
grim monument at Provincetown,
quietly looks after his charities, and
puts hiz sturdy shoulder to any enter-
prise for the beautifyiag of life along
Cape Cod. Port Antoni: flies the
American flag, although it is a British
possession. The originel plar was to
alternate the flags. “It's the coolie’s
business to change ‘em,” Captain Bak-
er explained, “but I'm afraid he does
not know his business very well.”
Watching the Market.
It is quite evident that some persons
are born for a business career. That
is demonstrated in some cases in very
early life. The other day Mrs. Cobb
saw her ten-year-old son Edward going
out the gate with a neighbor's boy.
“IWhere are you going?’ she called
from the window.
“We're going down to have our pic-
tures taken at the tintype place,” an-
swered her boy, tossing a ten-cent piece
in the air.
Mrs. Cobb had been wondering what
queer train of thought had awakened
this vain desire when suddenly she
heard once more the click of the gate,
Looking out, she saw Edward coming
in alone, munching a banana.
“Was it too cloudy to have the tin.
type taken?’ she asked.
“No, ma'am.”
“What was the matter?”
“Well,” said Edward, “Tommy had
his taken, but I didn’t. I found out
that bananas bad dropped to three for
ten cents. So I bought ’em. You
never can tell the price of bananas,
but tintypes is always the same.’—
Youth’s Companion.
Rug Weavers.
The Ouchak rugs are called after the
name of the chief city of Asiatic Tur-
key. These are woven by Moslem wo-
men and girls, and an antique of this
:lass may be known by one thing; if
green is seen in the coloring the pur-
chaser, in spite of all the eloquence of
the seller, may be sure it is modern,
{or the Mohammedan law forbids the
faithful to use green! ‘The rug weaves
ors of Asiatic Turkey—these are
slassed Turkoman—are conscientious
workers. They are very careful that
their dyes are “fast” and steep the
wool in alum and water. The Bokhara,
Miss Holt tells us, is the most popular
Bastern rug in America. Certainly if
is one of the most readily recognized
when once known. The octagonal fig.
are is usually of white or ivory, laid
on a soft red or old rose field; orange,
plue and green are often seen.—New
England Magazine.
Kitchen Utensils,
It is among the singular oversights
of our boasted civilization that kitchen
utensils are made by millions or bill
ions without the slightest regard to
efficiency, without scientific purpose,
without thought of culinary economy.
Half the ranges sold to househedlers
cre frauds. They waste coal. Most
of the heat goes ur the chimney. The
ovens cre tco cold to toast Lread in.
Why should a saucepan have a half.
rounded bottom? Why shou'd it re
quire twenty minutes io boil water?
Give me the old fashioned “spider” and
‘skillet” tor good cooking at home.
What a different taste they give to the
food!—Vietor Smith, in New York
Press.
Novel Danger Signal.
A remarkable invention for prevent
ing railway accidents bas been tried
with success on the Wes'ern railways
of Yrance., The invention is placed on
an engine. If the driver for any cause
passes an £dverse danger signal the ap-
paratus blows a whistle on thc engine
continuously, and also throws up 4d
Cape Cod Fisherman Became, the “King |
A Wilkesbarre (Pa,) man has carried
a one-inch uail in bis veck for iwenty=
six years.
Hereafer British members of Pare
lament will be able to get a twenty
five cent dinner in the House restaus
rant if Jey don't wish. to pay more.
Dainty little india-rubber boots are
now offered tor sale in Londo fer the
“feet” of toy terriers or other dogs that
may be the pets of wealihy unistresses.
These are ied round the logs with
silk cords
The report of the proceedings of the
House of Lords used to be considered
a breach of privilege, but in 1831 gale
laries were erected for the use of re-
porters, although it was not until
1835 that they were erected in the
House of Commons.
Ballarat, Australia, bas just cele-
brated the golden jubilee of its munis
cipal existence. In the course of the
jubilee banquet it was stated that in
the half century gold of the value of
$360,000,000. had been taken out within
a radius of three miles around {he Bals
larat city hall.
The extent of New Bedford's inter-
est in the whaleships that are believed
to be caught in the Avetic ice trap, be-
tween Baille Island and Point Bar-
row, can be measured by the fact that
of the 440 men on the whalers about
100 live in New Bedferd and neighbor-
ing towns.
At one time the London Zoo had a
standing offer of $3000 for a good
adult male giraffe. Not only are the
animals sc re» in Africa, but the work
of transporting them oversea is the
despair of every wild beast importer.
And even when after infinite solicitude
and care they landed safely in New
York, Hamburg or London, ther are
apt to die.
It is a curious coincidence in connec-
tion with the re-election of Mr. Lloyd-
George for the Carnarven District that
when the returning officer ascertained
the figures the illuminated clock out-
side the Town Hall, -vhere the count-
ing took place, gave by its time the
exact majority to the thousands of peo-
ple who were waiting outside—viz.,
2.24 p. m., the majority being 1224:
Sometimes it pays a man to keep his
wife pested &s to his business. “A Cot-
feeville man,” says the Journal of that
Kansas town, “advertised in a local
paper that he would like to buy a
second-hand lawn mower. He received
an answer which struck him favorably,
and after corresponding some time
found ou: that his wife was trying.to
sell him their oid lawn mower to get
money for Christmas sresents.”
A “Supermarine’”’ Boat
A novel form of high-speed boat has
recently been devised by a French en-
gineer, M. de Lambert, which involves
a radical departure from all previous
designs of hull. It is termed a ‘“skat-
ing,” or “supermarine,” boat, for it is
constructed to glide along the surface
of the water rather than experience
resistance by beingimmersed and pass-
ing through. This is accomplished by
means of five inclined planes whic
are fixed on the the bottom of the hull,
and which, when the boat is at rest,
are a few inches in the water. When
the engine is started the hull is raised,
so that the boat runs with less re-
sistance on the inclined planes, which
then rest on a mixture of air and
water. |
With a twelve horse-power petroleum
motor it is reported that a speed of
from twenty-six to twenty-eight knots
an hour can be made, a rate not always
attained by motor-boats with eighty
horse-power engines. The new boat
is also capable of being handled with
considerable facility and stopped read-
ily.
The attainment of high speed by
motor-boats which run on the surface
of the water, rather than through it,
has attracted some attention lately,
and an English high-speed boat was
built where this idea was considered in
designing the hull, but the use of the
inclined planes to diminish the resist-
ance as carried out is quite novel, and
will doubtless be tried further.—Har-
per’'s Weekly.
Private 1sland in the Pacific,
Off the southern coast of California
out in the Pacific Ocean is a string of
interesting islands, the chief of which
are nine in number. The principal isl.
and of the group is named Santa Cata-
lina; it is twenty-two miles long and
contains 53,000 acres. Practically the
whole of the island is past by the
Banning Company, which has. its head-
land of California. About forty lots,
however, on the island are owned "by
private persons, each of whom has a
right of way from the water's edge to
his own piece of land. But he may net
=o to the right or left of his own land,
for he would be trespassing on private
property. He cannot even walk along
the seashore, as the path was con
structed by and belongs to the Banning
Company. He cannot visit the town of
Avalon, its shops, hotels, or restau-
rants, because to reach them he must
trespass on the company’s property.
To get his letters he must row down
to the postoffice and receive them from
a window opening toward the ocean.
As a result of this peculiar state of at-
fairs, and of ¥he extremely hilly nature
small light under the engine driver's
nose, This will render all accidents,
| xcept wilful ones, impossible.
of the island ome of the approaches
to the house€ qall for strenuous exer-
tion.~London Tatler.
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quarters at Los Angeles on the maitie.