THE PATTON COURIER
Laugh at Ligh
tning
New York.—The next. time the
lightning flashes ang baby cries and
mother shivers and you swallow herd
and tell Johnny, “Pooh, pooh, there
is nothing to be afraid of,” and then
duck your own head under the hed
clothes—don’t. You are right. There
is nothing to be afraid of. The chance
of a person being struck in his home
is one in several million.
And if you chance to be ‘at your
desk in some downtown skyscraper,
the lightning cannot reach you
You have the assurance for this
from R. M. Spurck, an engineer of the
new switchgear plant of the General
Electric company at Philadelphia, in
charge of the high voltage testing of
circuit breakers, where arcs of arti-
ficial lightning at from fifteen to
twenty feet are played over apparatus
to make sure there are no defects and
that it will withstand conditions when
put into service out in the open in
natural “lightning areas.
Not Mere Guesswork.
“Shooting a million volts into cir-
cuit breakers to thoroughly test them
before leaving the factory is not ‘mere
On the Other Side
of the World
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean of Men, University of
Illinois.
©1000 B10 4190s Be errs Ger BeBe
HAVE always thought that things
would be very different on the oth-
er side of the world—different cus-
toms, a different language, different
peoples. The South Sea islands have
always spelled mystery and magic to
me and dusky forms waving strange
weapons in the air, India and the
Malay peninsula 1 was sure was an
other world.
My cousin ‘iracy, who is a banker
with nothing te do on eceasion but to
sail the seas and to stop at strange
and unfamiliar parts has been going
around the world recently, an experi
ence which is new neither to him nor
to his much traveled wife, He sends
me a bundle of newspapers from
Singapore. Of course you all know
what and where Singapore is. | do.
since 1 asked Nancy, and she, to be
certain, looked it up in the Atlas. It
is an English believe,
where the advertise “snappy
bathing costumes” at from nine to
fifteen dollars = each—dollars, mind
you; American dollars,
pounds, shillings, and pence.
possession, |
papers
good not
They marry and murder in Sing-
apore the same we do in this civ-
ilized and enlightened country. They
advertise motor cars and whisky
(without an e) for Mr. Volstead's in
as
guesswork, The fundamentals are
based on studies made in the com-
pany’'s laboratories, field observations,
and the classic work of ‘the late Doe-
tor Steinmetz,” Mr, Spurek said.
If you reside on the top of a hill
with no trees about, you are in a com-
paratively perilous position. But if
you live in the average city home,
with houses of equal height about
you, lightning is likely to single you
out about once every thousand years.
As for the residents in the house
perched upon the hill, the chance is
one in several million that they will
be struck by the bolt that comes once
every hundred years,
The bolt might tear up the roof, or
even set it afire, but likely wonld get
ne closer to you, It would encounter
the electric house wing and would
be carried impotent to the ground.
Or it would hop on to the plumbing
system and docilely speed off into the
earth.
Keep Away From Walls.
SUCH IS LIFE
© Western Newspaper Union 3
The safest place in your house is
anywhere except where these light-
ning conductors are centered, Most
plumbing and heating pipes run
and down in tife middle of the house.
Keep away from the walls in which
they run. Do not stand between two
metal objects, such as a heating ra-
diator and the plumbing pipes. There
is nothing wrong with the supersti-
tion that the bed is a safe place.
In the modern steel office building
lightning can't even get the reof,
Most roofs of such buildings are metal
and are purposely brought in contact
at some point with the steel frame-
work, and this eircuit absorbs and car-
ries off any lighteing that may chance
to shoot down.
Perhaps the question of the effi racy
of lightning rods has never been fully
settled in the public mind, Lightning
rods are now to he seen chiefly in the
country. There is a lightning, rod on
nearly every house in the cities,
though it may mol be visible to the
eve. Every plumbing system has an
air vent—fa pipe—that runs upward
to, if not through the roof. It serves
exactly does the -lightning rod
which pricks the air on the farmer's
house.
as
AUSTRALIAN MERMAID
5
The photograph shows Edna Davey,
who will represent Australia. in ‘the
women's 440 meters race at Amster-
dam this summer, Her best time for
440 yards is 6 minutes 3 4-5 seconds.
And her beauty will certainly help the
judges in picking winners,
fluence has not traveled so far. They
have moving pictures, and just at the
time when Tracy was there, Andy and
Min and Chester Gump were holding
the boards. Think of little Chester
doing his stuff in Singapore! f(t
seems inconceivable to me. They have
political outrages there, and ‘men are
up
with the enlargement of the
enthusiastic emigrants, such
This picture was taken as a
DOOOOONOICOOIIROONNNOBORROIIPOCIIORIIBBIEIOCNOIEDD |
Leave the Green Isle for America
FOOOOPOORNPRNRENINNPPPPPRPNERNPPHNOPPPNIHOPPPDPDOD
EELS
Thousands eof young Irish boys and girls are leaving- Ireland every week
American immigration quota. In one week 1,700
as are shown here, departed from Queenstown.
shipload of emigrants sailed.
Histor
y in Wampum
Albany, N. Y.—Four almost price-
less belts of Indian wampum recently
added to the collection in the New
York state museum make it one of
the fnest groups of these “historical
documents” in the world.
The belts were left to the museum
by the will of Anna Treadwell Thach-
er, whose husband, John Boyd Thach-
er, purchased them in 1893 for $500.
The four new belts in the collection
are known as the Hiawatha belt. the
Washington Covenant belt, the Wam-
pum to Mark the First Sight of Pale-
faces, and the famous Champlain belt,
The Hiawatha belt is believed here
to be the original record of the forma-
tion of the Iroquois league. The exact
age of the belt is unknown, but it is
believed to have been made in the
middle of the Sixteenth century.
The Washington Covenant belt was
the one most highly prized by the
wampum keepers of the Onondaga na-
tion, It derives its name from its use
during the Presidency of George
Washington as a covenant of peace
between the thirteen original states
which he represented and the six na-
tions of the Iroquois, the great Indian |
federation,
The third belt was made by the Iro-
quois to commemorate the “sight of
the first palefaces,” but it is not
known whether this reference is to
Spaniards, French or Dutch,
The Champlain belt is virtually a
duplicate of the Gen. «Eli S. Parker
belt, also a part of the collection. It
commemorates the excursion of Sam-
uel Champlain into the country of the
Iroquois in 1609. !
shot in a manner very similar to the
way in which our own unscrupulous
politicians are done away with.
They seem to have the same motor
cars, the same lubricating oils, the
same rubber tires, the same varieties
of ice cream and typewriters in Sing-
apore as in Kankakee, Ill. It rather
surprised me. There are military
training schools and pacifists, and ten
nis clubs, and football associations.
and all sorts of sports and sportsmen
in Singapore as there are in our own
cities. The other side of the world
does not seem different from the
side with which we are acquainted as
one might suppose.
They dance after dinner at the fash
ionable hotels, they use safety razors
SO
7
No Hurry Whatever
/
and eat Quaker oats, and take patent
medicines for rheumatism, and use
alarm clocks to rouse the lethargic
from their morning sleep, and they
sit through plays which depict the an-
tics of college students the same as
we do in our own undergraduate-filled
towns.
In fact the thing which impress
me as I read the Singapore Free Press
is that on the other side of the world
things go on much as they do in these
middle western American towns of
ours. People play the same games,
eat and drink the same food, with
only slight modifications, and in the
main follow the same daily routine
and think the same thoughts.
(©). 1928, Western Newspaper Union.)
S
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By Charles Sughroe
HCHO
DIPPING INTO
SCIENCE
HCH HCHO HHH HE
Millions of Insects
There are between five and
ten million species of insects in
the world. Many of these are
very necessary to us. Some
help in destroying the harmful
insects, others give us valuable
medicine, and others still more
useful. carry the pollen from
plant to plant, enabling them to
bear their fruit and flowers.
(©. 1928, Western Newspaper Union.)
DHHCHOHOHCHHOHOHH HOH
HOH HOT
CUTE LITTLE
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Youll BE LATE FOR
FELLOW,
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German Amber Town
Palmnicken, Germany.—With frost
out of the ground, quarrying for am
ber has started again at the great
Prussian amber mining works here,
which is the only plant of its kind in
the world.
Palmnicken lives on amber, The |
Just What They Are Looking For
THATS TH’ JOB
FOR ME —
whole village of 800
ployed in the plant.
Amber, “Prussian gold,” was traded
at this little spot on the Baltic coast
with the ancient Phoenicians. Fisher-
men dredged for it in earlier days,
but more recently it has been dug out
people is em
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“third of this is suitable for beads and
of the blue clay with machinery.
Great hoppers bring up cars of clay
from an area a square mile in extent.
The clay is washed for amber in much
the same way as auriferous earth is
washed for gold. Each season about
3,000,000 cubic megers of- soil are
moved.
Amber is found in clusters. The
pieces are picked out and washed with
sand in great revolving drums. An
army of girls sits at a running band
and picks out six recognized standard
qualities.
Every year
about 125,000
the “erop”
pounds but
runs
only
to
one-
ornaments. The rest is ground to
powder to make “pressed” amber, or
melted down to make varnish and co
lophony. Amber oil and acid are by-
products obtained by distillation.
Pieces of seven or eight pounds
weight are not rare, but the biggest
single fump ever found here weighed
about fifteen pounds.
In the laboratory, pieces ot amber
of all shades and sizes are Kkept—
bright amber, pale-yellow amber, plain
and with flies, hugs or tiny leaves im
bedded in them, dating from the ter
tiary period when coniferous forests
flourished here in a subtropical cli-
mate,
The most valuable amber bears the
quaint name of “sauerkraut” because |
it is of a pale-yellow tinge and has |
|
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markings suggesting strands of cut
cabbage.
Government Is Asked
to Alter Girls’ Dress
tome.—Bure arms, low necks and
short skirts would be taboo for Italian
high school and college girls if Minis-
ter of Education Fedele took the ac-
tion asked in a letter now before him.
The body known as “the national
committee for the correctness of the
mode” has petitioned him requesting
that all those whose costume “does
not conform to that modesty which is
dictated by civilized Christian
and sentiment” be barred from the in-
stitutions under his control. The
school supervisors in several large
provincial cities have already public
ly admonished girl. students for “im
modest but with little effect.
dress,"
HHH EC HI
German Waiters Again
Will Work in England
Jerlin.—German waiters are
to work in Lr h hotels and
restaurants again for the first
time since the war. Four Ger
man waiters have left Germany
for and others soon
will them.
1o
follow
According
mates, more than 40 per cent of
hotels
aird restaurants before the war
were Germans.
German esti
all employees in English
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group
Neue Berliner
that the first
German waiters to resume work
in England and who have jus
departed, have been engaged for
a period of five years at wages
between $30 and $75 a week—
far more than they could earn
in Germany.
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IN BLACK TAFFETA
Myrna proves her talent or
Loy
designing by this simple yet beautiful |
dinner frock of black pussy-willow |
taffeta with overdress of black dotted |
luce, showing the uneven hemline |
Two large bows at the hips of taffeta |
and lace add a touch of smartness to |
the gown, and a colored flower at the
shoulder completes the effect. A large
black satin and. tulle. hat is mest ap
propriate with this dress,
| upon Lila’s worn felt, “if you are go-
| ing to look at hats I will come, too. 1
| would then offer itself.
| tered.
| ing,
| Please show her what you have.”
{| The most she had intended to do was
| to get a bit of trimming for a hat she
| The need
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(© by D. J. Walsh.)
3
ILA GORDON started with dis-
may as Mrs. Warren sat gown
beside her in the street car,
Her smile, however, was so cor-
as to disarm suspicion. Even un-
the other woman's critical stare
she maintain her little air of gaiety.
Yet she was tingling with the con-
sciousness that her shabby winter hat
and coat were in striking contrast to
Mrs. Warren's smart spring attire,
Rummaging for a coin Mrs, Warren
displayed the wealth of her purse.
She was evidently also going down-
| town to shop and Lila, mindful of the
twenty dollar bill which was her all,
bit her lip as she averted her eyes.
She decided to elude her compan-
ion as soon as they reached the down-
town district but when she left the
car Mrs. Warren followed her.
“I am going to look at a living room
chair,” Mrs. Warren said, “Cai’t you
come with me and give me your
opinion?”
“Why, of course,” Lila smiled gra-
ciously. She hadn't the least doubt
that Mrs. Warren’s own opinion was
sufficient for all purposes. It was only
that she wanted to show off. The only
way to defeat her was to behave as
unenviously as possible, Lila therefore
| tried the luxurious depths of great
stuffed chairs, admii the shape and
quality as generously if she her-
self were making a seleetion., But as
she patted the soft cushion she wist-
fully pictured” her husband resting
thereon at the end of his day’s work.
What a difference money made!
Mrs. Warren didn’t stop at buying
chair. She also purchased a lamp and
a table. There seemed no end to the
contents of her purse.
“I am afraid I seem extravagant to
you, Mrs. Gordon,” she said, “but my
husband's salary warrants my pleasing
myself a little. We've been wanting
these things a long time but, of course,
they have never seemed quite possible
until now.”
“In the spring one" seems suddenly
to require so many things,” Lila said
bravely. “Do we part here, Mrs. War-
ren?”
“Why,” Mrs. Warren's glance dwelt
dial
| der
as
simply can't resist hats.”
“Oh, hats, of course!” laughed lila.
She was thinking that it would do no
harm to look into a hat shon.
some way of escaping this woman
They entered the shop together. In
fact Mrs. Warren led the way thither.
It was a shop such as Lila seldom en-
The felt was wear-
like her headgear, came
from humbler places. She gazed about
her at the colorful display with wide,
wondering eyes.
“7 a hat the other day,” Mrs.
Warren said to the saleswoman, whose
sharp eyes recognized the hat if not
the wearer, “My friend wants a hat.
black she
most of
got
Lila flushed with embarrassment.
She had no intention of buying a hat,
had at home. Her twenty-dollar bill
was dedicated to a sterner purpose—
a linoleum rug for the dining room.
for that had been so great
that even Bert had seen the purchase
could no longer be delayed. Her em-
barrassment increased the
woman began to produce charming
as sales-
hats. Murs, Warren insisted that Lila
try on one after the other, They mis-
took the eause of her radiance and
plied her with reasons why she should
buy this or that.
It was a severe test, only a woman
can understand how severe, Lila had
every reason for wishing Mrs. Warren
to think that she could have any hat
she chose. She was proud and brave,
not afraid to say no, but she was in
a peculiar situation, Her air of
bravado seemed to fail her. Owing to
Mrs. Warren's interference she saw
that she could nof® leave that place
without buying a hat. If she did Mrs.
Warren would know what she was try-
ing so hard to conceal and, knowing,
Mrs. Warren would exult. “Indeed it
came to Lila in her perplexity that
Mrs. Warren was putting “it up to
her,” as Bert would say. She was try-
ing to see what Lila would do. It was
this last thought that made Lila reach
over, select a hat and place it on her
own head. It was not that it was be-
coming and it was only
that she had caught sight of the price
tag. It appeared to be marked $5.
“1 will take this hat,” she said care-
lessly.
“Fifteen
woman.
Lila’s heart turned, but beholding
her own fuce in the mirror she saw
that she did not blanch.
“Very well,” she replied, and eare-
lessly handed gut her $20 bill, taking
care that Mrs, Warren should not see
it left her purse empty save for a few
coins. “And now.” She said smilingly
to the other woman, “I think 1 will
just run home with my new chapeau.”
If it had rot been so far she would
have walked by way of penanéde. As
it was no one who saw her in the new
hat knew what was going on behind
her dark eyes. She off at the
corner. Her steps Ligged as she neared
the apartment house, Suddenly the
life seemed to out of her. How
could she confront Bert? What would
he say to her? What would he do?
Le was not at home she saw as she
unlocked the door, but there were evi-
dences of him in the dingy living room.
serviedable,
dollars,” said the sales-
Swing
a0
Perhaps |
Then
She took off her things and sat down
in th@ old morris chair and bowed her
head on the arm and wept, In all the
six years she had been married she
had wept but once before and that
was the other day when Bert lost his
job. Yes, She had wept then, but not
as she wept now, never as she wept
now. Bert out of work, so many things
needed in their small apartment and
she buying a $15 hat! Yet she had
been forced to do it by that woman.
Mrs, Warren had challenged her, sha
had accepted the challenge, The pur-
chase was the result. The terribleness
of chance! If she had taken the pre-
ceding car or the one that followed in
ten minutes she could have avoided
Mrs. Warren ‘and this would never
have happened. And now they must
trip over the holes in the old dining
room rug for a long time to come!
For even if Bert found another job
they would have to economize sternly.
A thing that is done cannot always
bathed face and began to prepare din-
ner by opening a can of salmon. She
was wondering whether to make ecro-
quettes or an escalloped dish when she
heard Bert's footsteps. As he entered
his eyes fell upon the new hat which
she had left in plain sight on pur-
pose.
“Hello! Been getting you a new top-
knot? Let's see how it 1goks on you!”
He placed it upon her head, studying
her downcast face tenderly. “All right
—TI like it. Took here, what are you
crying about?” >
“Because I am a fool,” Lila sobbed
against his shoulder. “I paid $15 for
that hat—I1 really thought the priea
tag read only $5—1 couldn't hack out
—bhefore Jack Warren's wife. On,
ert! You know why.” She poured
out the details incoherently. “She
bought over a hundred dollars’ worth
of furniture—I saw her do it. I
couldn’t let her think we were down
and out just because her husband had
got your job away from you. I acted
as if we had all the money im the
world and not a care. I—I think I
fooled her. But, oh, Bert.”
He held her close, bending his fair
head to her dark one. .
“You are some girl,” he said softly.
“Some little wife!
It is all right, 1
I understand.”
She looked at him piteously.
“I wouldn't have said a * word
you'd—kicked me,” she said.
He roared boyishly.
“You game little girl!
love.
Stop erying. love.
am glad you did it.
8
it
Listen here,
While you were going through
the agony of that hat deal I was out
hunting a job, 1 got Start in
tomorrow. Forty dollars a week and
a chance for promotion. Go
ahead and wear your new hat and en-
joy it. That's not the only thing you
are going to have.”
“Bert!” she clung to him joyously.
They kissed, long, sweetly.
“Say!” shouted Bert. “What's he-
one.
spiffy
come of that steak I brought home?
Where did I put it? And the other
things? Hurry up and put the fry-
ing pan on. We're going to celebrate
—do you hear? Celebrate!”
Matter for Wonder
In these scientific days it is hard
to believe that a man, less than a cen-
tury ago, could have been a master
of law and medicine, an authority on
war, statecraft and political economy ;
one of the leading art eritics of his
day; so keen a scientist that he near-
ly stumbled on the Darwinian theory
half a century too soon: so ardent a
wooer that twelve women are famous
only because he loved them.
Add this catalogue of achieve-
ment that he was probably the great-
est literary genius since Shakespeare,
and we can hardly fail to eche Na-
poleon’s brief and heartfelt comment,
“There is a man!”
to
Goethe's child-mother gave him
imagination; his father gave him
depth. Who gave him, we wonder,
that passion for being in love?
Gretchen. and Annette, Friederike,
Charlotte and Maxmiliane, Lili and
Charlotte again (this one the mother
of seven children), Christine and Bet-
tina, Minna and Marianna (he was
sixty-five then), and last of all Ulrike,
whom he wooed when he was seventy-
three—each of these, passed
through his life, left some mark on his
writings.
For Goethe's work was not merely
the product of his inspiration. It was
the product of his life.—From the
Continental Edition of the London
Daily Mail,
as she
Pomp and Circumstance
Related of Benjamin Disraeli,
“Collection and Recollection
Who Has Kept a Diary”:
“His style of entertaining was more
showy than comfortable. Nothing
could excel the grandeur of his state
coach and powdered footmen; but
when the ice at dessert came up melt-
ing, one of his friends exclaimed: ‘At
last, my dear Dizzy, we have got
something hot; and in the days when
he was the chancellor of the ex-
chequer some critical guest remarked
of the soup that it was apparently
made with deferred stock.”
in
by One
Stork Was Just Teasing
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Poquette of
Chicago were=expecting a visit from
the stork. Poquette wanted a son, his
wife pre®orced a daughter. When at
last the stork arrived the anxious fa-
ther was informed he had a brand new
Almost before he could get
ever the shock the nurse told him of
the arrival of a second daughter.
When a few minutes later the nurse
daughter,
again approached DPoquette he braced
himself for another shock. This time
le was told he had a charming boy.
the father cheered up; at last
he had got his wish,
be undone and Lila resignedly arose,
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county, Illinois, w
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shown is a member
organized by the
onstration agent.
various pieces of
ment in turn, so tl
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vidual household.
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help to keep the bq
dition. Vegetables
flavoring for soups
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are simple. Canar,
have been added ray
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chase ready mixed.
does not furnish a |
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and summer rape.
seed in prepared se
is of a species that
not eat, as it is pun
flavor, but all relish
true summer rape.
COMFORT .
Army Shoes Are
by the United
of Agricul
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ghoe for the United
maximum of comfor
for the wearer was f
forms to the correct
described in Farmers
in that it is broad a
toe and straight along
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fee: against injury |
uneven surfaces and
and slush, so that it i
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