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THE ALAMANCE ULEANER
VOL. LI
Hand* Not the Least
of Feminine Charms
Recently 1 asked twelve different
men what was the first thing -that
tliey noticed when they were intro
duced to a woman.
AU were In different walks In life. ;
and I asked them all at different
times, Mary Manners writes in Vanity >
Fair.
One man said, "Her ankles," an
other "Her eyes," a third "Her •
clothes," but, to my amazement, the
other man answered, "Her hands."
I never before realized how iui- 1
portant the hands of a woman are '
in the eyes of a man, so I naked for
explanations.
"I" Jell In love with my wife's hands j
almost before I had seen her face,"
one of the twelve confessed to me.
"She was playing.the piano, and
the way her little lingers rippled over
_ the keys held' me spellbound. I felt
that a woman with hands like that
could do anything, and I was right!"
"A woman's htfhds are so expressive
of her personality,". a naval officer
said. "I instinctively distrust a wom
an with a fat, pudgy hund. She is
usuairy lazy and empty-brained.
"As fot the young woman with the
'lily-white' hands, preserve me from
her! She is too helpless for words
as a rule. All that she is good for
Is lifting chocolates out of a box and
twiddling her rings."
"Give me," said another man, "a
pair of hands that look as though
they can sew, cook, bold a tennis
racket and gvlf club, play the piano,
lift a baby, drive a car, put flowers
in a vase, hold a p»n —and, beat 'of
all, hands which look soft enough to
caress an aching head and graceful
enough to kiss!"
"Graceful enough to kiss!" That
last sentence stuck In my mind-
So many women forget that while
they deplore the death of chivalry
they themselves have pulled down the
pedestal on which they once stood.
Beaufoully kept ltends are a sign
of inward refinement. We cannot all
have our hands cast' In a classic mold,
we are not all blessed with "loug,
'tapering, artistic fingers," but we can
help nature by making the hands
with which she hus endowed us
beautiful, expressive, and Indicative
of our character.
Pork Chops
"Sir Ellis Barker, the famous Lon
don surgeon, warns us to leave pre
served foods alone. He says pre
served foods lack vltainlnes."
The speaker was Earl Akers, mayor
of Topeka. He resumed:
"After that pronouncement, when
ever I hear preserved foods being
praised I think of old Si Hoskins, the
miser.
"A friend dropped In on SI as he
was frying a brace of pork chops.
"'Fine chops, them.' said the ft-lend,
smiling hungrily.
"'Fine chops?" grunted old Si. as
he turned them, all sizzling and smok
ing, In the frying-pan. 'Well, I guess
they is fine chops. None o' yer mur
dered stuff, putlier. That hog died a
natural death."*
Jazz Novels
George Luks, the noted New York
painter, looked up with a sigh from
a new novel of the Jazz or Green
wich Village school. Tlien he read,
now from This page, now from that"
" 'Don't I know itr snapped mother.
"•Ah. whafs eatln' yer snapped
George.
"'I don't care a darn,' snapped
Mabel.
" 'None of your lip,' snapped father.
•"How do I .know?* snapped
mother."
Mr. Luks cloaed the novel and
laughed in his hearty way.
"How's that," he said, "for snappy
dialogue?"
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• Leprosy Cars Reported
The leprosy ease of Miss Florence
Wheeler has attracted some consider
able attention at Manila because after
treatment with the new Philippine cure
she has remained "negative" for two
years, during which she was op pro- ,
bat lon. It no other signs develop la
the near future she will probably be re
leased from the San Lasaro leprosy
hospital. She Is fifteen years old and
the grandniece of Gen. Joe Wheeler, fa- !
mous cavalry leader of the Confed
eracy. The Cnllon leprosy colony has
IB recent years released two cases
when a rare was pronounced definite.
Then He Remembered
year ago a college student living j
In Dearborn tore the coat of bis suit
aad sent It to a Dearborn tailor for
repairs aad pressing. Yesterday be
happened to cater the little shop and
the tailor not only at once recognized
Mi as the person who left the suit ]
there a year back, bat told Mm tbst
all repairs had beea completed, and
that If be did not come for the suit
within a short while be would cbsr#e
for storage. And It was then that the
stodent remembered what he had beea
/ trying to remember for a whole year. ,
—Detroit News.
Here's Occasion When
It Really Was Cold
A Connecticut correspondent writes !
ui: Rending in the Companion recent- j
iy of a Vermonter who Invented a fly- !
| Ins machine with which he flew from
j the top of a high mountain and landed
on a rock with such force that he
; drove his feet Into the ledge clear up
! to his bips and again a little later of
a Westerner who sawed a sleeping
gray squirrel In two one winter's day
withont waking him reminds me of h
| story told by my grandfather. He
| lived In a very bleak corner, of Con
necticut In the early days when fire
places were the only means of heat
ing. It seemed Impossible for him to
j wnnn the house. At last he became j
desperate, and, going Into the cellar (
j where there was u large fireplace, he '
packed It full with several cords of
good hard wood, set It all alire and ,
then went upstairs to bed.
The next morning he got up early, j
"hoping to find the house warm, bat i
the rooms were as cold as ever; so he ,
went out of doors to see ft smoke were ,
coming out of the chimney. To his
amazement he saw the flames standing
up out of the chimney four or five feet
high, frozen solid!— Youth's Com-j
panlon.
Twcin Had Weakness
for Southern Cooking i
*Mcrk Twain, In his Autobiography, j
pays tribute to Southern dishes, such |
as, for Instance, corn bread, hot bis
cuits, wheat bread and fried chicken. j
"These things." he says, "have never !
been properly cooked in the North— j
In f-.:ct. no one there Is able to learn
the art. so far as my experience goes. |
The North thinks It knows how to i
mnke earn bread, hut this is mere*,
superstition. Perhaps, no bread In the !
world Is qiilte so good as Southern i
corn Tiread and perhups no bread in
the world is quite so bad as the North
em imitation of It. The North seldom
tries to fry chicken, and this Is well;
the art cannot be learned nol-th of tlie
line of Mason and Dixon, nor any
where in Europe. This is not hearsay;
it is experience that Is spenklng. In
Europe Is it Imagined that the custom
of serving various kinds of bread blaz
ing hot is 'American,' but tbat is too
broad a spread; It la custom In tho
South, but Is much less than tbat in
tlie North."
Wet Shoes
If yon are cuught In a rain and get
your shoes wet do something to coun
teract the possible effects If you can
not get home to change your footwear.
Business people who are caught this
way know how uncomfortable It Is to
go around in damp shoes and many of
them know something about the evil
effects that often result. /
It Is a simple matter to lay a few
blotters on top of each other and
stand on them a few minutes. Yon
will be surprised how much dampness
the blotters will absorb. Even If you
are on a shopping tour you can pur
chase blotters and take this precau
tion.
If the shodi have become very wet
or thoroughly soaked, place a blotter
between the stocking and shoe for a
few minutes. This Is a safety-first
suggestion that may avert a cold or
more aerlous Illness.
"Association Test"
It was resolved In the Continental
congress, March 4, 1776, and the re
solve approved by the committee of
safety ui Exeter, April 12, tbat all
males above twenty one years of age
(lunatics. Idiots and negroes excepted)
should be asked to sign the Associa
tion test, whose text was as follows:
"We. the snbscrlbers. do solemnly en
gage and promise that we will, to the
utmost of our power, at the risk of
our lives and fortunes, with arms, op
pose the hostile proceedings of the I
British fleets and armies against the
| Cnlted States colonies."
The Eye Appeal
One of the chief differences between
I such an art as Homer's and such an
I art as Dante'a or Milton's Is that Ho
-1 uier never thinks of any appeal but 1
I through the ear; whereas Dante snd
| Milton both know tbelr verses will
j meet with eyes as well as ears. 'Their
I art Is certainly not greater than Ho
mer's. but'lt has finer modulations of
significance. The thing is. that Dante
and Milton, like every other printed or
written poet, take advantage of the
; eye -appeal without losing the ear-ap
| peal.—Lascellcs Abercromble.
j * Use tor Old Newspapers
Merchants In the countries of the
Far East depend wholly on the supply
of discarded American newspapers aa
I wrappers for purchases in their shops.
! Hundreds of tons of whole snd clean
j newspapers are being shipped monthly
j to the Far East from Atlantic coast
ports. This business formerly fell al
most exclusively to Pacific coast deal
! ers. I.ut with Ihe outbreak of the World
'.war the Eastern firms began pnrchaa-
I leg tl.e newspapers from junkmen las
' foreign shipment.
GRAHAM. N. C.. THURSDAY. MARCH 26,
■ When Terrible Black
Death Ravaged England
One of the first places In Europe
| where the black death appeared waa
| at a small Genoese fort In the Crimea,
the western terminus of the overland
Chinese trade route. The Tartars
were besieging the fort at the time,
and Chinese merchants took refuge
there. The siege was lifted by the
Investing army, which fled from the
plague, thus spreading .the Infection
southward Into Asia Minor, Syria nnd
Egypt. Ships from the Euxlne tar
ried the cor.tagion to Constantinople
and to Genoa, and thence it radiated,
fnnshtipe, throughout the Mediter
ranean littoral.
' In August, 1348. tfhglnnd's first
| black death victim succumbed In Dor
; setshlre. By November It had reached
London. By the summer of 1349 It
, had' dragged Its pall of putrefaction
| over the entire Island, Including Scot-*
I land. Norwich, which had been the
j second city of the kingdom, dropped
, to sixth in size, more than two-thirds
, of its population falling victims of the
scourge.
Cultivation of the fields tfns utterly
j Impossible and there were not even
; enbttgh able-hodled laborers to gather
' the crops which had matured.
roamed through the corn unmolested
; snd the harvest rotted wjiwe It stood.
'--National Geographic Magazine.
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j Newspaper Story Well
Worth Being Told Again
1 Perhaps It's because newspaper men
j are a clannish lot of lads and prefer,
| when not engaged In their arduous
duties, to be of and among themselves
j to seeking the company of others, but
i It strikes this those w(io
are alien to the newspaper profession
i hear few stories respecting the ac
j tlvlties of the boys from the paper
offices. Certainly the young man—or
young woman—who Is engaged In
gathering the news of the day en
counters plenty of adventure, some of
It funny and again some of It not so
fnnny.
. Practically every newspaper man In
the world has heard the story of the
cub reporter who, being of a tlmld na
ture, was assigned by his city editor to
interview the Irascible capitalist whose
lovely daughter had just run ofT with
the family chauffeur. In fear nnd
trembling he rang the doorbell. "Is
Mr. Jones In?" he asked the maid who
answered the door. "No. he Is not."
she replied. "Thank said the
reporter, and fell ofTthe steps.
The story Is so familiar to news
paper men (In fact It Is Incorporated
In many of the textbooks that tjow
aim to teach the young reporter how
to shoot) that one wonders how gen
erally It Is known by the public.
Sacred Steps
The Santa Scala Is a flight of 28
steps of white-veined marble In the
piazza of the church of St. John l.at
eran at Home, which, according to tra
dition. belonged to the house of Pilate
at Jerusalem, and were made sacred
by the feet of Christ as be passed to
Judgment, the Kansas City Times re
lates. Penitents are permitted to
ascend these stairs only on their knees,
and so great has been the number tbat
annually made the ascent that It was
found necessary to cover the step*
with planks of wood to Insure tlielr
protection. It was while ascending
these steps that Martin Luther, then
a monk, thought he heard the words,
"The just shall live by faith." Morti
fied by the degradation to which he
considered his superstition had led
him, be descended and hastened from
the spot y
How 'Quakes Give Warning
To predict earthquakes with aa -
much certainty as forecasts of storms
or floods are now made, may soon be |
| possible The preliminary shifting*
and writblngs of the earth's crust, lm- i
perceptible to human beings bat easily
detected by sensitive Instruments, have
been successfully usedgby scientists at
Volcano bonse. Honolulu, on the rim
of the crater at Kilauea. to give warn
ing of a coming quake. On the first
occasion when a test case was made.
I it was observed during a period* of
about a month tbat there was a de
cided southerly tilt of the crater's
i north rim. This suddenly changed to
' a northerly tilt at the end of the
month, and a few days later veered
back to Its original position. On tb«
strength of the position changes. It
waa predicted that a perceptible shock :
would come witbtu a few daya The j
prophecy was fulfilled two days later,
whea a shock, not severe, but quit#
perceptible, rocked the Island.
How to Make Floor Wax
A good floor wax Is made by melt
lag a scant half pAnd of beeswax
set In a pan of hot water. Add.
gradually, stirring wall, a quart of ;
turpentine, and when mixed a half
cup of ammonia. Cover closely the.
saucepan containing It and set outer
vesael of bot water at the back of
the stove to beat It for tea minutes.
Apply warm with a piece of flannel
and polish with a rough doth.
5 SCIENTISTS HAVE COME TO X
5 NEW VOLCANIC THEORY.— S
X Volcanoes and boll era blow up 5
o from the same cause, too much 2
§ steam pressure: volcanoes are O
g not "safety vnlves" to the molten 2
5 Interior of the earth, for the 9
v earth's Interior Is not molten; S
5 the lakes of boiling lavs In vol- g
2 canlc cruters are hotter at the A
o surface than they are In their v
2 depths. 5
o These and similar astonishing 2
2 statements. In some cases re- a
g versing Ideas at present accept- 2
5 ed about volcanoes, were made 5
2 before the American Association 2
5 for the Advancement of Science 5
2 at Washington recently by Dr. 5
5 Arthur L. Day. director of the y
2 geopliyslcal laboratory of the 5
5 Carnegie Institute at Washing- 2
2 ton and expert on volcanlsm. ft
5 Tbe data and observations on 2
2 which Doctor Day based his 5
g statements were gathered In vol- 2
2 cunlc regions all over the globe, ft
g but attention had been centered 2
5 especially on two flre-moun- 5
2 tains; huge Kilauea in Hawaii, $
o and Mt. Lassen In California, $
2 the only active volcano in the £
3 United States proper. The for- 5
g mer was studied as a laboratory 2
u of lava reactions, and the latter $
2 for the lessons of Its peculiarly X
g explosive eruption of nine yeara g
5 ago- 5
2 At Kllpuea It war found that 2
5 ihe surface temperature of the 5
g lava lake was variable, rising g
5 as high as 1,185 degrees Centl- 5
2 grade, or 2,165 degrees Fahren- §
5 helt. Twenty feet below the 5
2 surface the temperature was 100 2
g degrees Centigrade lower. Doc- g
2 tor Day Is of the opinion tbat X
g this peculiar effect, which Is the g
2 reverse of what would naturally 5
g be expected. Is due to the chem- §
5 leal reactions of the gases that 5
g bubble through the lava, giving 2
5 off heat as they unite and rise. 6
S The Lassen eruption of 1915. X
5 as well as the lesser fhiptlons S
2 that have occurred from time to 2
0 time since then, appears to have g
g been due mainly to a great X
g steam explosion. Doctor Day g
2 believes the water for the gen- 8
g eration of this steam came from g
a the lava Itaelf. SJblten rock, be 5
g found In laboratory experiments, g
g (an dissolve considerable water 5
g In itself, but as It cools and 2
0 crystallizes the water la given o
*g off again and turned Into steam, x
How Printing of Silk
Has Crown With Time
The vogue of printed materials, of
printed silks most conspicuously, sug
gests much of the romance tbat sur
rounds their making. Long ago, as
l far away In the dim past as silk weav
ing was first known. Its lustrous sur
face, was printed with patterns of vari
ous sorts, primitive In the earliest
creating, but growing In artistic Im
portance as the handicraft was per
fected.
In those early days of band looms,
of wonderful dyes, of long hours and
of Infinite industry, the designs con
ceived by artists were blocked by hand,
and there was none other than hand
printed silk. It was worn by the no
bility and by tbe peasants, there be
ing between the two the difference of
quality only. Later, through tbe yean
when other styles have engaged the
attention of a fashionable public,
printed silk has come and gone in
waves. Brocades and embroidered
stuffs have bad each a vogue from
time to time as blgb lights In luxury.
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Words Wrongly Spelled
1 have seen lists of tbe words moat
often misspelled.'* said a teacher
quoted In the New York Times, "but
la my experience the one moat fre
quently sinned sgainst In print is
'gsuge.' I have even found it stamped
'guage' on the manufactured article.
Tbe next moat frequently misspelled?
1 don't know. But for one Infrequently
used. *buoy' certainly ranks high.
•Weird'«eeema to give some people lots
of trouble, and almost everybody on a
test will misspell 'ddeble,' because
tetter acquainted with Its negative,
%dellble.' which has changed Its
original spelling."
Waldo Turned a Corner
Waido'a teacher bad asked him to
write a sentence containing the word
amphibloaa, and aa Waldo waa. but
twelve, be bad some trouble spelling
the word. but. aftei*several calls on
, tescber for aid, evidently got It writ
ten to hla satisfaction. Then ensued
a long period of concentration and
I wriggling. It was broken when Waldo
j saked teacher how to apell containing.
At last he laid the results of bla la
bor on the teschar's desk, and this la
whst she read:
"My teacher baa aaked me to write
a sentence containing tbe ward am
phibious.Philadelphia Ledger.
Paper Cup* and Dishe*
Mad« by Electricity
Exemplifying the many diversified
applications of electricity, Ingenious
machines are now uaed for making pa
per cups and dlahaa by a manufactur
ing concern In Brooklyn. Tbe crea
tion of thane paper, cups Is an inter
esting process. Mechanical Angara on
an Ingenious electric-driven machine
pick up a single disk of fine quality
paper and place It in a section of the
machine for pressing. This pressing
gives the cup. Its shape, plaiting the
sides for strength snd rigidity. The
piece is then transferred to another j
unit; of the same machine, where It is
sterilised by heating.
When the second step has been com
pleted, tbe cup has assumed Its final
form with plaited sides, natural curved
Up and- tumbler ahapea. But, aa a
measure of added efficiency, It la put
through a third process, being sprayed
with hot paraffin, which seals the
plaits and gives Increaaed rigidity and
crispness. From this point tbe cup
passes Into a baking chamber, where
tbe paraffin Is drained off. Tbe flnlahed
cups are carried along on an endless
conveyor past a fan, the breeze from
•which haatens drying. *
Relieve* Worker* of
Stigma of Sa*picion
To save workers In factorlea which
employ In their products gold, silver,
or precious stones from suffering the
Indignity of being selected for search
ing, a Danlah engineer has Invented
a special apparatus.
Hitherto, the custom baa been to
stop a certain propo/tlon of the work
era leaving such factories at night,
thus apparently casting suspicion upon
the individuals selected. By tbe new
invention the worker asked to adjourn
to the searching-room Is chosen by a
machine.
Tbe apparatus consists of a con
tainer holding a number of balls, cor
responding to the number of wojrkers
engaged in the factory. Some of the
bulla are made of a material conduc
tive of electricity. As the workers
pass to the exit t|jey press a button,
when a I*ll Is released. It rolls out
of the container and a white lamp
glows for a moment. In such case the
worker passes on. ,
Should one of the conducting spheres
roll out, the electric current turns on
a red lamp, which means that tbe per
son Indicated la one of those to be
searched.
Wife Was His Memory
"Your story of the sbsent-mlnded
minister," writes a contributor to tbe
Youth'a Companion, "reminds me of s
minister whom I knew In a little Wis
consin town many years ago. He had
a wretched memory, but for all that
he waa nothing leaa than a saint.
"His absent-mindedness waa chronic.
He seldom could remember his text,
and, being averse to notea, he depend
ed on his good wife to come to his
rescue. He would lean over the pulpit
and say, 'What was my text for today,
my dearf
"She would tell him, and be would
them proceed to preach a fine aermon
from It.
"One Sundry after the singing of
tbe second hymn he opened his Bible
and, leaning down, made the usual re
quest: 'My text for todsy, my dear?"
"1 don't know, I'm sure,' composed
ly replied his wife. Ton forgot to tall
mat*"
Butterless Land
The supply of fluid milk In tbe Do
minican republic la fairly adequate,
and although It Is in general uae for
adulta, modern methods of production
and dlatrlbotlon oo not prevail. A
large amount of condensed, evap
orated and powdered milk la Imported
Into tbe country each year and one or
the other of the*% preserved milks Is
slways used for Itofsnt feeding. No
butter Is msde anywhere In the re
public and tbe demand for thla com
modity In the local market la met by
Importations chiefly from the United
States snd Denmark. New York
Times.
Irish Wake
A wake la a vigil with a corpse
The word la derived from "waecan,"
Anglo-Saxon for a watching. It la still
customary In many countries for
friends and neighbors of the deceased
to sit up nights with the corpee until
it la buried. Tbe custom probably
originated In tbe ancient superstition
that unless carefully guarded a
corpee waa in danger of being car
ried away by apirita from Ha dee. The
Irish wake Is especially notorious. In
some part a of Ireland tboae remain
lag up nlghta with a corpse spend the
time In drinking, (tearing snd telling
jokes and stories. It la a highly fes
tive occasion. Grace Greenwood In
her "Stories of Travel" hss this to
say about tbe Iriah wake:. "A wake,
sure It's an entertainment a man gives
after be Is dead, when hla dlaconao
lata friends all assemble at his bouse,
to discuss his virtues snd drink his
poteen."—Pathfinder Magazine.
Many National Parks
in the United State*
There are 19 notional parks. They
are: Hot Springs, located In middle
Arkansas and containing 40 springs;
Yellowstone, in northwestern Wyom
ing; Sequoia, middle California; Gen
eral Grant, central California, created
to preserve the General Grant tree, 35
feet in diameter; Mount Rainier, Wash
ington, with 28 glaciers; Crater Lake,
southwestern Oregon, extinct volcano.
Wind Cave, South Dakota, with miles
of galleries; Piatt, southern Oklahoma.
, containing sulphur springs; Sully Hill,
j North Dakota, a game preserve; Mesa
Verde, southwestern Colorado, with
prehistoric cliff dwellings; Glacier,
northwesrern Montana, with SO small
glaciers; Rocky Mountain, middle Colo
rado, with peaks 11,000 to 14,255 feet
high; Hawaii, including the volcano
Mauna Ix>a; Lassen Volcano, northern
California.
Mount McKlnley, AJnftn, highest
mountain In North America; Grand
Canyon, northern Arizona; Lafayette,
Desert Island, Maine, with group of
granite mountains; Zlon, southwestern
Utah, with canyon 2,000 feet deep. '
In addition to these there are sev
eral dozen smaller reservations, with
caves, natural bridges, battlefields and
similar places of natural or historic
interest. These are known as nation
al monuments.
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Scientific Basis for
Chances of Greatness.
The older the parents when tiie
child Is born, says an authority on
heredity, the surer its chances for
greatness.
The first and last born are more
likely to attain eminence.
The more children a mother has
the longer she lives —and the longer
she lives, the longer the children live.
Children of professional people
lawyers. physicians and the like —hare
a better chance for fame than those
born to wealth or those whose
lacked educational advantages.
The offspring of fathers under thir
ty-one are more likely to become sol
diers; artists come from fathers be
tween thirty-one and forty: between
forty-one and fifty there Is more of a
tendency toward statesmen; over fif
ty-one come the philosophers like Con
fucius. Bacon and Franklin.
Ninety per cent of the Investigated
criminal cases show them to be the
offspring of younger parents.
If your father is than sixty,
and you are the youngest child In a
large family—you should become fa
mous.
Franklin and His Kite
Of timely Interest, in view of recent
donbt cast upon Benjamin Franklin's
kite experiment, is the recent discov
ery of a letter written by Franklin on
the subject In a book published In
London In 1774, now in the library of
the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia,
says Popular Science Monthly. After
describing how to make the kite with
a pointed wire on the upright stick.
Franklin says:
I "As soon as any of the thunder
| clouds come over the kite, the pointed
wire will draw the electric fire from
, them, and the kite, with nil the twine.
( will be electrified, and the loose fila
ments of the twine will stand out
. every way and be attracted by an ap
j profiting finger."
"Sit on the Woolsack?'
This ezprtsslon signifies "To be lord
chancellor of England." The lord
chancellor, presiding officer of the
house' of lords, occupies a seat on a
cushion stuffed with wool. It is a
Isrge square bag of wool, without
back or arms, and covered with red
cloth. In Queen. Elizabeth's reign, an
act was passed to prevent the expor
tation of wool from England and en
courage woolen manufacture. In or
der flat this source'of the national
wealth should be kept constantly In
mind, wool sacks were placed In the
bouse of lords, where the Jndges sat.
Teacfwig Parrots to Talk
The burff a of biological survey says
no hard and faat rule can .be laid i
down for teaching a bird to talk. This 1
Is entirely a matter of patience and
perseverance In dealing with- the bird.
At first the bird ahonld be kept In a
room by Itself* and the cage covered
I on three sides. Do not talk to the
I bird except In repeating simple
, phrases over and over again. Only
| one phnise should be used in a single
t day In the early training. Gradually
work until several phrases are report*
. s4 over and over to the bird each aay.
How Fog Bells Operate
. A strand wf several human hairs is
( stretched between two supports In one
. fit Uncle Sam's most modern llght
i houses. On this strand Is a link. As
t the fog-lsdened sir gets moist the hair
stretches, lowering theltnk and mak
| ing an electrical contact which starts
. an electric motor operating the fog
bell atrlker. Thus, that pld, old say
| lag about being "Saved by- a hcli" has
(MM true
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Neglect of Punctuality
Often Source of Strife
Perhaps one-third of the unpleasant
nesses that occur between husbands
and wives come from not keeping ap
pointments promptly and accurately.
One .of the easiest things in the world
to do Is to get mixed up about the
place or the hour set for meeting in
the heart of a city. Haven't you often ,
seen a woman with knitted forehead
standing In a shop vestibule half an
hoar at a time peering this way aad
that to look for the friend who never
comes? Or an impatient husband walk
lug up and down a hotel foyer, watch
in hand, getting wrathler every min
ute?
In the first place, do not be indefi
nite about the place, the Kansas City
Star enjoins. Don't say : "I'll be at
the Main street entrance of Blank Jk .
Oo.'s" when Blank St Co. have several
entrances and you may be thinking of
the Broadway entrance when you say
Main street. Yon will go to the Broad- ;
way door and your friend will go to
the Main street door, and Just as you
decide that she may be at the other
entrance she decides that you are prob
ably at the othef door, and you miss
each other in passing. An entrance is
a poor place to meet, anyway; better
go a little farther and set an absolute- i
ly unmistakable place, such ss a small
specialty shop, candy store or one-door |
alioe store.
If possible, always meet your hus
band In the same place. Set a con*
. venlent, comfortable central building;
with chairs to be had, and always go' .$
to that same place unless there la
some good reason not to. Early in
your married life pick out your favor
ite rendezvous and go there in fea
eral, though sometimes it may be beat .
to set some other place. If you changa
or meet In some strange city be very *
explicit; and when you have set n
place, go tbers and stay there. Don't 3
move about and try some other atand.
Last of al, be prompt Give up soma ■
of break away from '
i frlendfflor the matinee, cut short n
concert—but be there when you say
you will unless your train breaks
down or you are knocked down by an -
automobile. The greatest compliment
any husband, wife or friend can givs
Is to say:
"He (or she) will be there on tlia»
if it is a possible thing." •
The Family Tweeters *
When you recall the old days back
in the boyhood home there is nothing
dark about the picture except the
thought of the tweezers and mother's *
firm Inquiry, "Andrew, what are yon
limping about?"
"I didn't know I was limping," yon
sal«l, at the same time putting year .
foot down flat to show her that every
thing was ail right
Taking your word for what it wsa
worth under the circumstances, she
asked to have a little look She mads
you get down on the floor and pad
your foot In her lap, while yosr
brother kindly volunteered to get ths
tweezers.
You reasoned with her, pleaded with
her, and even accused her of wanting
to hurt you, but she worked away until
she finally brought a terrible aereaai
from you snd an ugly splinter from
yonr foot.
Even now a shudder comes over yon ,
when you think of those tweezers and
those swful words:
"Andrew, what are you limping
about?"— St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Hindu Women Adoaneimg
In 1914 an American woman. Dee
tor Sendber, founded a school of
medicine in India, but It was not till
1018 that the first native students ha- !
gnn to attend. "Hindu women are
not Intelligent enough to take their
degrees," was the verdict of the di
rector of the Madras School of lledl- '
cim>. The results of the last yeera,'
however, have proved the exact con -i
trary. Up to the present 03 per cent j
of womtn student* have obtained ;
their doctor's degree, while only 29.
per cent of masculine studeata oh-1
, tulned It the Dayton News says. 4
If we remember that out of 165,- j
! 000,000 women there are only 150 who, *
1 havo obtained the right to practice
'I medicine ami that many Hindu worn- &
' en would rather die than be examined .'
'j by a man, we must hope that this *
; feminine vlctA-y will spread and that
1 , the number of student's will Increaas J
1 In tlie different schools of medietas g
1 in that country.
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, Landmark to Disappear
r The ancient Pictish capital of Scot
• land, Fortevlot. ts shortly to disappear, j
. and n new modern village will rise in
Its place. Lord Forteviot having decided
to rebuild the hall, school, and dwell- 3i
Ing houses. Perth, overhangs the May
, water, which flows into the Earn. Ac- j
cording to the legend of the foonda-J '
tlou of St. Andrews, the king of the!
Plots built a church at Fortevlot (tben J J
called Fortevleth). and In his palace j |
there Kenneth MacAlpia died In 800. j "
It was on the "Miller's Acre," near the J
Ualyblll, that Edward Ballol's armyj|
encamped before the battle of Dup-I |
pllß (1332.) ' j