ls Bird Builds Nest on Liner’s Anchor E When the Atlantic finer Aquitania arrived at New York (rom Liverpool the other day it was discovered that a black pigeon had built a nest on the anchor, lid an epg therein and traveled across the ocean. The bird and her exldiy situated home are shown above, THEY CANT ~ SPELL By THOMAS ARKLE CLA™X Dean of Men, University of Iliinois. COME one who bas been probing in L7 to the history and development ot our English language or whatever tongue it is with which we attempt in these parts to communicate with ow fellow men, told me not tong ago thal a few hundred years ago it wus aot considered the part of a gentleman spelt correctly. The higher up in the social scale you were the more leeway sou allowed yourself in the matter of orthography. In fact variety amd orig- finality in the putting together of let ters to form words was a sizn of ern dition rather than otherwise it was not so when | was a boy. no even when my father was going (o school. He had in fact very little tor mal schooling, and yer | was never able to detect him in misspelling »n word. | read his diary au few weeks ago, written seventy-five years ago of more when he was crossing the « : and there wus not in all its pa suisspelied word. Correct spelling was looked upon as an absolute necessity wher -1 was in country district school. We practice which were pronounced to us. We were not stumped by steh simple combinations as “receive” and “seive” and “truly” and “separate” and “ac commodate” which seen to be the wa terloos of our youthful friends today. We tackled “erysipelus” and “daguer reotype” und “charivari® and “chif THE PATTON COURIER Whaling “Comes Back” Washinglon.— Whaling did oot go out with the clipper ships<at the ad- vent of steamn and kerosene. ? The modern whale brings in money comparable with the proceeds of the golden uge of whaling when corset makers paid $5 a pound for whale bone, it was revealed at the whale symposiwan at the United States Nu tional museum under the auspices ot the American Society of Mam mlogists. At the South Shetland islands, close to the Antartic circle, Dr. Waldo L Schmitt of the Natiomal museum told the assentbled scientists. floating fuc tories convert the big cetaceans brought in by the steam whalers into oil for the soap companies, bone char coil for the sugar refining industry and ground dried meat for chicken feed Under this efficient management a single whale will bring as high as $10,000 Doctor Sehmitt declared. The them And secondly. no one has ever mide hil see the real importance oi accuracy in writing “You know what | menn,” he ays, ‘so why be so particular,” He can’t spelt and punctuate correctly because he thinks there are so nuny other things of greater importance, Why waste time on (rifles? (© 192% Western Newspaper (Jnfon.) Claimed to be more sanitary than a brush. a robber bulb and spout to produce Lather for shaving nave been invented. harpooner, the man on whose skill fu hurling barbed death at the huge sea mamials the success of the expedition depends, Is the most highly paid mem her of this modern ‘dustry curried on in the shadow of the South pole. At Eureka, Calit,, is a shore station described by Dr. A. Brazier Howel also of the National museum stall where a similar whale factory oper utes on land, turning the products ot the humpbucked whales of the west coast into the sme useful commodi ties as are shipped from the Antarctic The highest value for a California whale, only reaches around $2.500 The white whales have formed the basis of an industry that has de scended from father to "son in the province of Quebec. Canada, since colonial ties, Copley Andry told the biologists and naturalists. The hides of the big fellows are exported to Scotland, where tne canny Scots turn them all into shoestrings ang appar GIRL'’S CONFIDING UPSETS NAVY TRIP Leads to Finding Four Others on Ships. Washington.—Five girls who sought adventure on the high Seas might still be sailing with Uncle Sam's navy had not one of them confided to her ehumn that she intended to ship on a de stroyer as a stowaway. But she did SUCH LIFE Zz Tharles Wire Tans Rear! Cor UMBUS OHIO MR. OHIO? HA! THE GO-GETTER \VHO DISCOVERED \VAS | eoLuMBUS rn lz \VAS HIS FIRST NAME ently make money by the transaction. Remington Kellogg of the United Stutes biological survey issued a plea to members of the society to turn in information about any logs of old whaling vessels that they might chance to run across. From such records us this scientists are digging out valuable data about the migra- tions of whales. Sometimes, Mr. Kel- logg pointed out, au purasite of known soutliern origin found on the body ot a whale in northern water will reveal useful information about the animal's wanderings. The boitle-nvsed porpoise fishery at Hatteras, N. (,, was described by Howard 1. Wordell. sought for the oil case in the top of its, head that furnishes the most ex- pensive oil known to commerce. It (8 highly prized by watchmakers be- cause it is practically the only oil that does not dry out. About two quarts are obtained from each animal. met adsailor named Kramer at a soft- drink stand in St. Petersburg when the vessel wus anchored there. She board the destroyer. “He persuaded me. but | wanted to | £0,” Cynthia told Judge J. L. Gavan, | ! nearly full.” | ih whose custody she was placed pending arrival of officers from St. Petersburg to return her to her par- | ents. Believes in Sixth Sense; Calls It “Cryptocosme” Paris.—"Cryptocosme” is the anew | name given the sixth sense. by Charles Richet, eminent! scientist and member | of the Institute ot France. ln his latest published justification ot this uncanny power -Richet veaf- firms nis conviction that” some per- sons cup read the writing withiu sealed envelopes and reproduce draw- ings they have never seen. Richet reminds people they already admit the IRISH FLYER’S MATE This porpoise is | awistence of phenomena | his wife put a | CANT PRAISE = POOR BUT HAPPY ———— “You have heen coming to Washing ton a great many years® “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum “and | have shown my love of coun try in doing so” “You mean you have mude sacri ices?” “Well, | don't exactly suy 8 govern ment is ungrateful, but It doesn’t | measure up to a big corporation In | making up a liberal pay roll.”—Wash ington Star. With the Spaces Knobrayne—Iivery evening before | £0 to bed 1 write down my thoughts in my diary. Interesting, don't you added that Kramer, who is being neld think? by the authorities. persuaded ber to | Nina—0Oh, most. How long have you been doing it? “About a couple of years.” “Then you must have the first page BALLED UP RIGHT Hubby —"1'oo1 old Browo 1s balled up right this time.” Wifia—"Been one of his little toots?’ Hubby—*"No, night.” Significant Silence I'he orator may tind his skill Into oblivion sinking, While he with gifts for keeping still Gains credit tor much thinking. Heavy Dogs Madge—So Juck is no longer in your good graces. You found your fdol had feet of clay, eh? Ethel—\Worse, I danced with him and found he had feeteaf lead. IT ENOUGH Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Helped Her So Much Kingston, Mo.—“I have not taken anything but Lydia E. Pinkham’s m———— Vegetable Com- pound for 18 months and I cannot praise it enough. I weighed about 100 pounds and was not able to do any kind of work. My housework was done by my mother and my :§ out-of-doors work . was not done, I have taken four bottles of the Vege- table Compound and now I am well and strong and feel fine. I got my sister-in-law to take it after her Inst baby came and she is stronger now. I cannot praise it enough.”—Mgs, Harrie V. Eastiy, R, 1, Kingston, Missouri. Emperor Raises Rice The emperor of Japan is daily eat- 38 bul.et into him last | Ing upland rice grown by his own hands in the palace grounds as a means of encouraging Japanese farm- ers: to undertake the cultivation of dry rice farming to a greater extent. Most of the soil of Japan adaptnhie for paddy fields is already under cul tivation, but it Is not suflicient to grow the rice consumed by the nation Last fall the emperor experimented with rice grown by the dry method, and finds it so palatable that he is eating it exclusively at present,—Iix change. How Extraordinary Mistress—Sarah! I found my slip in” your trunk. Sarah—Just fancy, and it was only the other day you thought you had lost it.—Sydney Bulletin. True love forgives; but it is seldom accused of forgetfulness. The eyes may not teach love but they have pupils. - LIK PLU GIR » J « (© by D, ISA had always Her elbows s coller bones mouth was 4 in her too well set longingly at all “Why do I have to bones? If my face good looking as Jai Lisa's five feet ti; exactly 100. Hopefu ate rich foods, took cises, The quivering persistently. refused jot. Then Iisa went | She danced and ro picnicked., She was whether she was r Scales and all their porarily out of her “Why, Lisa, how The first person sh turn greeted bh r in “Child, you reall mother held her at looked her over. “Mountain air you,” remarked Lon er dinner. “Want tc Lisa? Some show Lisa pricked up | sulted her mirror, “What are they a she demanded of disappointed. “1 ear any different.” She scales on her way One hundred five! “Whee! 1 did! «I down deep inside, cushions on my elbo I'm going to look lil And from then tractable little needle around. One hundre seventeen. Lisa let bands on two belove “Lisa, child, you marveled Aunt Kat from a trip east. “l know. Isn't ft low necks now and I did hate to be ski eyes laughed out at her mirror, assuring no longer in the de. “Hey, Lisa, you Ut that door sideways. they’ll be wanting lady in the circus.” er on the day the re hundred twenty-two. “Pm just right’ heatedly. I'm only f{ weight an. after al guess that’s due nue “You're getting pre appraised her moth “Your height—" “Now mother, for me enjoy it. Don't me before the nov She kissed the end nose. “That would again. Everybody Ig she laughingly pickec ran down the steps. “H’m, Lisa,” Uncle peddler’s wagon up “ben’t you a leetle n every day. We wrote words on om slates; we stood ap and spelled down; we vied with the children in adjoin ing districts in seeing who could stand Tough! Gladys— So your parents are going ! to have your marriage annuled? Betty— Yes They think Pm a baby. 1 just cant make them think I'm old | CHILDREN WITH WORN NEED HELP QUICKLY Don’t delay a minute if your child has worms. They will destroy his health, If he grits | his teeth, picks his nostrils— | beware! These are worm symptoms. Disordered stom- ach is another. Immediately give him Frey's Ver- : : mifuge. It has been the safe, vege:- you was last time? table worm medicine for 75 years. 0 : AQ ’ Don’t wait! Buy Frey's Vermituge bag of apples dow It at your druggist’s today. ain't fattenin’. You c sat shaking. ~ ’ : - Frey S Vermifuge “Pretty good armfi Expels Worms the heavyweight cla how you're takin’ or i be as stout as your 1 ee me rere rman = : neighbors, with the e: iN D I G E & mT I 0 nN . lifelong acquaintance amused comments orn RELIEVED ears. %. ., QUICKLY “I'm just nice and | WN gratulated herself ha Carter’s Littie Liver Pills think it's funny afte a A ett ap the longest and master the words SURE OF PENNANT iin” op : ln spelled them as glibly as if they had | enough 10 get a divorce. | ——in tt . ; | That AN] | fedeeferforforiosfoferforfedefosforfenferforfonferferfoaecfecfecfeeded | and now five ciils are on land aguin 4 one sailor under arrest, and a court of inguiry will go into the matter The girl who told was Cynthia Ai- berta Poole, fifteen-year-old high school student of St. Petersburg, Fla Fhe chum told Cynthia's parents and her father got in touch with the naval authorities, A search of the destroyer Billingsley resulted in the discovery of the girl and she was put ashore at Mayport, Fla. Poole’'s message also resulted in a general search of vessels in south At Mrs. James A. Fitzmaurice, wife ot lantic waters and four other girls | the [Irish member of the Bremen's were found. Besides the Poole girl. | crew on the transatlantic flight, start- the navy had been informed one girl | ed for New York soon after hearing each was discovered on the light | that the plane had landed on Greenly HE WON'T RUN FAR words like Superstition in Twins Prevalent in Hawaii Honolulu. —tld Jags dents of the Hawaiian islands still cling to many superstitions one ot which is that if a twin dies the other also will die To circumvent the fate which they believe impends for the survivor when one of a pair has died. a dummy is made, using some ot his hair and finger-nail tritnnings I'lien the dead twin and the dummy are buried or cremated together and it is pre tended that both have passed heen words of two syllables But “them days seem gone forever.” Oven the college student takes spell ing lightly and does it frequently with picturesque inaccuracy and thinks nothing ot his errors. This fact Is ese resi recognized even in North Carolina where education, | am told by experts matters, has not freeones forenoon forionio in pedagogical renched the state of perfection which it has done in California and Massa chuselts, for example. A gentleman wishing a stenographer who had some accurate knowledge of orthography is sail to have inserted the following gotice in his local paper: “Wanted —Stenographer for special from cruiser Concord, the destroyer Sands | island. Purely Vegetable Laxative , ro 4 : : v ars.’ work after hours. Prefer one who “ gia ; Sie and the destroyer repair ship Dob a assist nature in its digestive years. I'he remaining twin is regard > duties. May times one of Then Lisa went to these little piils taken after meals or at bedtime 3 2 ire will do wonders, especially when you have dress. Small mirror overeaten or are troubled with constipation. peered over her shoul Remember they are a doctor's prescription 1 i and can be taken by the entire family Her thoughts turr All Druggists 25¢ and 75¢ Red Packages. shut her lips just in t ing gasp. Surely that CARTERS IT: PILLS in - ye reflection. “Why, I,m bins. Dispatches from Florida. how ! ever. accounted for a fourthe besides | that cinnot be perceived directly by Miss Poole any of their five senses, ‘such us wire- The four gave their nuies as Billy | ess waves, ultra-violet and ‘nfra red | Lacer, ltuse McGuire, Flussie lice una | 's § and magnetisn, Why then. he tamilda Avary. Placed ashore al . deny the possibility of other un hus no college education, as the work wiil require correct spelling and punc- ruation, nnd the use of common sense.” Why doesn’t the high school gradn ate and the college student Know The photograph shows Miller ilug something of the simple elements of ed as a “vobody” until he or she can be taken lo the temple fo receive a new name and to be considered ever after us a new member of the fu" "Dida git hold oi any dough, Jack since you broke jail?” “Yeh d got 100 bneks for runnin’ ex- penses.” as known vibrations? sheefreieefrielestoriefeieforfesterirfoforfonteefecirecfecforioeioresiosteeioertosfesinfer oie tenleele Inttmacy With Genius ofp hie eisdi gins, mite manager of the New York | correct orthography and of punctu ofoeteriorforerfesfecforforfocforocferfocfocferpotonerferfortee | Key West by the Concord. they suid ysis A i - THEY See ; ait Yankees, champions ot the world aud | ation? Perhaps the tirst reason is mr————————— they had “shipped” at New Orleans BD I ho While he kept silence, he seemed great Kill All F lies FH ig in open : : he . . ’ ai in: Pails av sla aint avice. mis i y : is ur s fine : 'aced anywhere, DAISY FLY KILLER “1 didn’t know 1 look ot ue ; certain thers | that with all the training in Buoglish A new burglar alurm device may | to return to their homes in Phila rop loug ne His art was fine In paint or putty {ls ull ff 2 y Sttracts and Awerican league, who is certain th i 8 He talked an hour—to Indicate it af Sica, Neat clean, ornament, copvonien; sad solid—pudgy. All th be attached to the doorknob. so that New York, —="Cat” perhaps {8 too hard for New York publie school chil- delphia where they were employed as waitresses, All were given fares back is nothing ‘in the way of his team run. | which he has had. he has really never ‘That maybe he was kind o' ‘nutty! waist!” S74 can’t spill or tip over; ping rampant this season to caplure? the Ganfalon again given any serious thought fo these when the knob is turned the alurm details. [Me hasn't had his mind on rings. a Beauty eekers T New York.—"0, Harold. your beauld ful, wavy hair thrills me to death. | mean it really does, Was it always ¢hat way?” “Why, 00,” replies the young mab modestly. "1 just dropped inte the Beauty Shoppe this morning for my weekly marcelle.” This might well be typical conver sation nowadays between the tlapper and her well-groomed, wuvy-haired shei%. for am ever increasing aumber of men ure patronizing women's Seauty parlors in order to enhance their mas <culine “appeal.” Aany he-mer will roar at this stale ment, but ft is inside dope, straighi from the proprietor of a beauty shop who says that the beauty parlors, once devoted entirely to the ladies, are now sro more sacred to the fair ones than the barber shops. reserved for men “The men arte now beginning to real ize.” she explained, “that they nrust fake advantage of art in order to nmke the hest of thélr personal "appeniunce for business and social success.” ’ Within the pust (wo years, eshe cially, have the boys been invading the benuty shop. not only for mar celles, but for facial treatments, hair dying and even for permanent waves DIPPING INTO SCIENCE The Dog an Cld Animal The dog was a friend to man ¥ tong before historical records 1 were made, He #2rves the ks and the white man the world & over. tle is descended from % wolves and juckule, wad it is & believed that were he left en tirely to himself, he would in time revert to the wild habits ot his ancestors, (®), 1928 Westérn Newspaper (Jalon. ) p kimo, the cannibal, the Sudan © 800000000000 vEPCIOCPOPIE Some of the customers are irregular but many of the establizhments have their weekly male patrons, The wom en often resent the intrusion she said so her own shop doesn't encourage this trade. Most of the boys are very awkwurd about coming in, she related. -Either they flush and drop their hat vr are too nonchalant to be convincing. They are quite docile under treatinent, us a rule, but are apt to be afraid of rhe formidable looking permanent wave machine, When a man is put in a chair the big contraption fastened on to .is hair in about twenty places and the current turned on. he usually moins and nsks the operator to hold his hand. Middle aged business men and pre maturely gray young ones come in regularly to have their hair dyed In their case personal vanity plays ne part. There in a strong prejudice against gray katy, So they disguise Qt under the wore rouathivl shade of dark browa. — to New Orleans Cynthia was suid to have told the commander of the Billingsley that she Pop Knows WHATS TH’ Se SY, pra — rE Sa dren to spell before they ure nine years old. It has heen omitted from a list of 1060 words for beginoers. Everything! - = To KEEP 'ER | rom BITING TH' OTHER Cows oF COURSE, if asg—— Not Too Harsh Dot-—So they're married. Why, she's | old enough to be his grandmother. Margy—Don’t be unkind. But she is old enough to be his mother, No Courting House Otficer—You can't Kiss that girl in | here! Harold— Bul we're here to get mar ried Isn't this the courthouse, Officer— Yes, but not the courting house Left Him Nothing “You say that advertising rulns vour husiness?” 1 tried that dast year, and the peo ple bought out everything 1 had in the store.” More Sophisticated “Dearest,” he said rather sadly, “It doesn’t seem like the same old | smile you used to give me.” “No. Jacek.” she returned. “this is a | new one. I've been studying at a | school of dramatic art’ Telling Her Symptoms Doctor (meeting patient's hubby) — I don't suppose she suffered any aft. er-effects of her Illness? Husband—No, but everybody else did.” will not soil or injore anything. Guaranteed. y Insist upon DAISY FLY KILLER from r dealer, (AROLD SOMERS Brooklyn NE Worms expelled promptly from the human system with Dr. Peery's Vermifuge “Dead Shot.” One single dose does the trick. 50c. All Druggists, DrPeery's ROMAN EYE BALSAM er ET RN hy aT At Druggists or 372 Pearl Bt, N. YX. City. |For Barbed Wire Cuts Try HANFORD’S Balsam of Myrrh All dealers are authorized to refund your money for the first bottle if not suited, i - KREMOLA Skin bleach. Wonderful and sure. For proof use one complete box of Kremola. Cures the rg Trg yl . ents wanted. «0, H. BHRB +0., Dept. B. 2076 Michigan AE iB | “Stout,” “heavy,” “bi ful words climbed up.o memory ‘and danced | her stricken head. “l won't look that she told herself all and picked up an ar the first magazine he when she got there. “Lisa, are you dre table her mother stare eating your bread di © “I—] don’t care fo yon, mother.” Silly. Why should he flame at just that mo looked. : “Not care for—" “She’s dieting!” wh ning like a gargoyle. to reduce!” What power of fie gave nine-year-old mas maddening faculty fo nail’s head? I'm a little upset marked evenly, looking mother and ignoring “I ‘thought I'd be a lit my eating, that's all.” “That doesn’t explai salad.” put in her fat Lisa lookec at it cor usual generaus plate salad, more than half ber father's amused e}
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