Small Girl Is Proud of Her Odd Pets Little Marylyn Brown of Los Angeles received a pair of ostrich eggs for a birthday present, and she took pains to see that they were hatched. So now she has the two queer pets with which she is seen in this photograph, and finds them lots of fun, THE PATTON COURIER LIGHTS OF NEW YORK ‘as. It was a jolly party of three: ga man and his wife and a mutual friend. They indulged in refreshments and, late in the evening, one of those little arguments arose which might be called a family disagreement, It culminated by the man hurling a brass paper- weight, with good speed, but no con- trol. The flying missile socked the in- nocent bystander on the knee and knocked him for a loop. Instantly, the husband was all contrition and concern, “Oh, my dear friend,” he said in anguished tones, “I have hurt you; and I only meant to kill my wife,” * * * A man, whose first name for pur- poses of this story was Dick, tele- phoned a girl that he was with some friends at a hotel, asked her to come down to dinner, and gave her the num- ber of the room. The girl arrived, went to the room named and found a party going on, but no Dick. Asking for him, she was told that he undoubt- edly would be along in a moment, The party went down to dinner, and still no Dick. Finally the girl sensed that something was strange and in- sisted upon going home. There she found that Dick had telephoned sev- eral times. but she could not reach him by telephone. The next day he called up and the two of them in- dulged in mutual reproaches., It final- ly developed that the girl had gone to the right room, but the wrong hotel. Smokers Blamed for Forest Fires Washington.—Smokers were held “the greatest single factor responsi- ble for the unprecedented number of forest fires in the East this spring,” in a statement by George D. Pratt, New York, president of the American Forestry association. Exceeding the records of previous years in many states, Pratt said, the’ spring forest fires rendered hundreds of persons homeless and jobless, burned over hundreds of thousands of acres of forest land, valuable in tim- ber and as recreational areas, and have destroyed the wild life of the woods. “Is it necessary to admonish the guilty or beg for future carefulness from those who are held the greatest single menace to our countryside, now that the facts are before them?” Pratt asked. He cited statistics to show smokers have been blamed for 50 per cent of the forest fires in New York, 38 per cent in New Hampshire, 37 per cent in Connecticut, 18 per cent in North Carolina, and 10 per cent in New Jersey, A large number of fires of unaccountable origin also were blamed by United States forest rang- blamed by United States forest rang: | OPPORTUNITY By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, University of Illinois. CD Opportunity, the proverb says, knocks at every man’s door at least once. Perhaps some ears gre duller than oth- ers and fail to hear the knock- ing. Some may be too sound asleep or too deeply engrossed with trivial af- fairs to recog- nize the sum- mons, but at any rate the visitor, receiving the cold welcom e, passes on to the next door, ang pos- sibly never returns again. It is strange how many men are sure that they have never had a chance, and how equally sure they are that if they had had they would soon have had the world by the tail. That is the way Wallace feels, He is an old man now, and I have known him ever since he was a young fellow in the town near which I lived. He was always ambitious, apparently, and eager to do something worth while, but, as he says, he has never had a chance, He has been trying some- thing different every few years in an endeavor to discover some- thing that he likes, something that he is fitted for, something that he can throw his whole soul and energies into, but the opportunity has never come, He wanted to be a lawyer, but, he did not have the money ‘to go to college, and working his way seemed too hard a task. He was a traveling salesman for a time, but he Saw no future in that line of work, and so he gave it up. He bought a little store, but there was so much competition that he went onto the rocks there, And so it had gone; he never got any- Considering the tricks we play with 4 our language, we ! DUR0r not to be sur- brized at those the | with theirs, - €rs on carelessly tossed cigarettes or cigars, Pratt added, “In the state of Rhode Island, where over 90 per cent of all fires which burned at least one-eighth of the for- est land area, have been attributed to carelessness, the disposal of burn- ing tobacco in the wooded areas has been called the chief factor,” he con- tinued. Although conclusive figures are not yet available the extent of the damage caused by the fires is indicated by the fact that in one day, May 4, more forest was burned in Connecti- cut than in the year of 1929. An air patrol was used in New Jersey and normal crews of ten men to fight forest fires were expanded, in many cases, to forty, to which have been added special crews that num- ber from fifteen to several hundred, made up of special local groups and of imported help from the railroads, The long arm of coincidence had swept her into a room of the same number, where there also was a party. She doesn’t know yet whether there was another Dick and the persons she met thought she really belonged to their crowd, * - » A man entered a small barber shop the other day and asked the head bar- ber if he might wash his hands. The barber did not reply, but the man went ahead, using water, soap and towel. As he started for the door, the barber spoke, “Ten cents,” he sald, “for washing your hands,” The man waxed indignant and de- manded to know whether the barber also wanted a tip. He said he did not, but he did want the ten cents, . . . Supposing that the man fad been one of the patrons of the shop, a cus- tomer in the chair asked the barber if he didn’t think this was pretty tough treatment. Then the barber ex- designed from mottled woolen coating. de chine in the the United States army, navy and marine corps, coast guards and others. shade. matching color complete the costume, + LIFE ««_ TAILORED SUIT ATI O This tailored suit fis gray I'rench The blouse is crepe popular off-white A gray fox scarf and beret in fashionable POP IT IN THE , IFYOURE SURE ITS A LOST BALL Ci wert, HAY Hat fil OH, SURE (T WAS LOST! FOUR MEN AND FOUR CADDIES VERE LOOKIN' plained. He said that, the man had aever been a patron of the shop, but that this was the third time he had been in to use soap and towels, He waited until all the chairs were occu- pled, then came in and cleaned up, usually saying: “I have to go up to my office, but I'll be back in a few moments to be shaved.” But he never came back, According to the barber, five or six persons a week pull this trick. He lets them get away with it once, and Sometimes twice; but the third time he collects. It costs him three cents to have a towel laundered. This pet- ty graft has become so common that the Barbers’ association is taking it up officially. - . * In the West Sixties in New York is a dog hotel. It is run by a former English boxer and he does a fine busi- ness. When people go to Europe or travel to Canada or the Yellowstone in the summer, they close their apart- ments and have to have some place to board their dogs. The dog place of which I speak is really run like a hotel, When a dog arrives, it is reg- istered and assigned a room, The rooms are of various prices, depend- ing on the size. It is possible to en- gage a regular suite, with all sorts of luxuries. Other dogs have what correspond to hall bedrooms. * * * There is a lot of talk of “Sunday drivers,” but statistics show that there are more automobile accidents on Sat- urday afternoon than on Sunday. It looks as if persons were more anxious to hurry away for the week-end than to hurry back. . LE Jose Raoul Capablanca, forme: chess champion of the world, attend- ed Columbia university, where he played a bit of baseball. Capablanca lives in the Buena Vista section of Havana. He now has a job with the Cuban government. I think his title is inspector of consulates and lega- tions. It permits him to travel around the world on an expense account, He might almost as well be a tennis play- er. Capablanca, a few years ago, won the main prize in the government lottery. As he had sold half of his ticket, his share of the prize was $50,000. . * . Zeke Bronson was playing a small golf course outside of New Haven with the president of the club. Com- ing to a dog-leg hole, he happened to hit a drive just right, so that it skimmed the trees, which angled out into the course, and, slicing around them, kicked off a hill and bounced merrily down the fairway around the corner. As Mr, Bronson got up to the ball the caddie handed him a brassie, saying that was the club everyone used for a second shot on this hole, Mr. Bronson insisted on taking a No, 4 iron, put the ball within 7 feet of the cup and holed the putt. “My gosh!” wailed the club presi- dent. “That’s the longest hole we've got.” (©. 1930, Bell Syndicate.) Will End “Guessing” at Weather Washington.—Accurate weath er forecasts soon will be made months in advance through the use of machin- ery, Henry C. Clayton, Smithsonian institution meteorologist, predicts, The weather is not a haphazard oc- where; he never had an opportunity, It never occurred to him that other fellows whom he had known as a boy with no more money and no more op- portunity than he had had were pret- ty well up in the world now. Miller was looked upon as the most success- ful lawyer in that part of the state, and he had started with noth- ing. Connor owned a line of chain stores and he had begun as an errand boy in the little grocery store on San- gamon avenue, and Carson, who had been Wallace's seat mate in grammar in a special way, owing to changes in phase and amplitude. currence, but is subject to calcula- tion, and this will lead to a revolution in the present methods of forecasting, he said, adding: “The forecasting of pressure and temperature will be made in much the same way that ocean tides are pre- dicted, except that the periods used at any point on the earth would make it possible to project the period terms ahead to any length of time desired. Since there are variations in the amplitude and phase of the periods, it is necessary to redetermine the pe- riodic terms at short intervals and Groceries, butter in iced vacuum jars and bread are being shipped 1,000 miles through tropical America by air- plane to supply customers in remote sections of the Brazilian jungle, to limit the time in advance which they are made to cover, he explained, Thus when these in the periodic term become calculable, this method of forecasting will replace all others, in Clayton's opinion. Food by Airplane Port of Spain, Trinidad, B. W. I.— will be solar periods rather than lu- nar periods and will need to be treated “Processes will be simplified and machinery like tidal machines will be introduced to handle the immense amount of data which will be needed for world-wide forecasts, or even for forecasts over a large area like the United States.” It has been proved that compli- cated pulses of the sun's radiation oc- school, was nationally known as an aAu- thor and a scientist. He could not see that they, having no apparent op- portunity had made one, each for him- self, and by hard work and persistence had conquered difficulties. The trouble with mest of us is that what we mean by an opportunity is an easy chance to do something that is pleasant, and that is sure without effort on our part to result in a soft bed. “What I'm looking for,” a young feilow said to me once, “is an easy job with a big salary attached.” He nev- er found it. “Opportunities might be more easily recognized,” a newspaper writer re- cent’y wrote, “if they did not so often come disguised as hard work.” Taal’s the difficulty. When oppor- tunlty knocks we expect to find sn expensive automobile waiting outside fo convey us to a soft job, (@ 1020 Westarn Newsoaver Union.) cur both as long-period changes in the terms of years and also as shorter variations of only a few days’ dura- tion, These pulses in the sun's radia- tign, according to Clayton, are at- tended by variations in atmospheric pressure, which increase the con- trasts in pressure and speed up the circulation of the atmosphere, When solar activity increases, the pressure falls in the equatorial re- gion, rises in middle latitudes, and falls in the polar regions, The regularity of these changes is interfered with by the distribution of land and water and by the seasonal changes, so that the rate of progres- sion of the atmosphere waves is greatly complicated, he pointed out. Clayton's method of forecasting is by means of tdess period vibrations in the sun and atmosphere. Analysis of such period terms in the weather The End of the Skid! FECL MEAN ? 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To assist in obtair relief, the Du Pont ¢ sion section has pu its corps of explosiy disposal of county a agricultural colleges state agricultural ai onstrate the use of construction of tren storage and the ex holes for the conse for farm live stocl With a view of fac and reducing the c¢ ods of blasting, usin explosive, have been in breaking hard, d mit its quick and means of teams anc the constriction of t a recently develope mite has heen made blasting of water ho GREEK E OF Wiped Them Out Dowery; Caugh pective | Athens.—The “Dr Peter Kulaxides, a G Pontus, accused o seven wives after si jes, was arrested wh dinner with a beaut whom he had entic name, to be his ¢ arrest was effected ( new marriage. Evidence against exists only as rega who was found abot an abri of the trenches, in a state but bearing signs o On the discovery laxides fled. This picion of the police gating his past, fo
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