THE ALAMANOE GLEAINER
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VOL. L
fM/IS PASSING OF
MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN
Writer Eulogizes Present
Age of Youthfulness
Gray hairs are gone, old age Is out
of date, and a sign of the times is
the disappearance of the uiUldle-aged
woman.
This Is as It should be. So long ns
a mature woirlon does not' ape a
flapper, why should she not keep her
youthful looks Into the forties —or the
seventies? Why/ should a dowager as
sume that It Is her duty to be dowdyT
A black gown and a white heart
are not Inseparable, and dull gray and
goodness do not always go together.
If a woman Is ."all glorious within"'
It Is well thai her looks should make
this manifest.
Nowadays our social world seems
to be divided Into girls, young mar
lied women and women who are great
grandmothers. No more do you see
the middle-aged matron, with her
proud grace and reserved bearing;
or the handsome mother of forty,
with her flow of talk and flock of
dull daughters. And we never come
across the sweet-faced, sad-eyed
single woman—the typical maldon
aunt of the Victorian era.
Sad to say, the ideal old lady has
gone forever, with her silver hair,
white cap, black gown nnd gentle,
dignified manners. Old ladles, such as
those depicted In Whistler's famous
portrait of his mother, or in Manet's
picture of Mine. Manet mere, have
ceased to exist In our social life of
today.
Everything In life—art, dress, rules
of health and beauty culture —tends
toward the exit of the mlddle-nged
woman. And she is out of it on the
stage and in Action. Balzac's "Femme
de Trente Ana" seems a back number,
ns many heroines in up-to-date novels
are well on in the forties and fifties.
And the same note Is sounded in the
plnys of the period.
Most of us live up to this august
example. Women of sixty or seventy
yacht, hunt, shoot, dance, play golf
nnd hookey' and drive their own mo
tor cars. One p&ress, who was mar
ried In the sixties, drives her car with
success, and another of the same age
leads cotillons, although she Is the
proud owner of several grandchildren.
Much can ( be said on the side of
perennial youthfulness. The desire
fo prolong one's youth slmws vital
force and is said to be a sure proof
of national well-being. Every wom
an for her own sake would fain keep
fresh and young, ns she Is well aware
that so long as her looks remain she
ran rule men, and there will he no
"Finis" written on the page of her
hook of life.—The Hon. Mrs. Fltzroy
Stewart In the London Mall.
Great Speed of Air Craft
When speed records established by
airmen are recorded, only those who
are In the game can really under
stand what real speed means. Trains
or autos traveling at the rate of sixty
miles an hour give a thrill, but what
are these compared with "air" thrills.
A very good Illustration was given by
an aviator who took part in one of the
contests, acting as mechanic on an
airplane which was moving at nearly
two miles a minute." "We seemed to
have the whole sky to ourselves one
minute," he said, "and then behind us
appeared one of thp giants. She over
hauled us us If we were standing still,
and was far In front almost before
we realized we were not alone."
Curiously enough even the airmen
themselves find it difficult to estimate
at what rate they are tearing over
the earth.
New Disease Announced
A new disease has been discovered
by Dr. Marshall Clinton, of the (ad
versity of Buffalo. The symptoms |re
sharp shooting pains in the side.
Prior to his discovery, he declares,
many physicians mistook It for np
pendlcltls, gall bladder Infection, kid
ney trouble or some other serious ail
ment. Many women have been oper
ated on for appendicitis, when house
wife's rib was all that was the mat
ter with them. Doctor Clinton says.
The ailment is common and occurs
most frequently among housewives.
Persons who are shortwaisted are es
pecially subject to it. The cure for
costolgta consists of an operation to
remove the tip of the floating rib,—
Pathfinder Magazine.
Reflected Glory
Two artists on tonr took a hack at
Marseilles to visit the city in comfort.
▲t the end of a few minutes the cab
man turned around and remarked:
*TII say you two are no fools."
Astounded, the two friends looked
at each other withont a word.
Five minutes afterward the same
thing happened. *
"Why do you keep telling aa that?"
asked one of the travelers.
"Hal pardl," he answered. "Yon
have engaged, without knowlfig it, the
beat cabman In Marseilles."—Le Hire,
Parts.
Development of Child
Told by Wrist Bone*
A horse's teeth tell his age; a
child's wrist bones Indicate his. By
means of X-ray pliotogruphrf one can
tell how old a child Is or, more impor
tant, whether he is properly developed
for his years.
At one year of age a child has two
bones In the wrist; at Ave he has six;
at fourteen he has eight. Thus he has
what scientists call an anatomical age.
Girls are usually in advance of
hoys In their unatomlctil development
at any given age, says a high author
ity of the lowa child welfare research
station in Hygela, health maguzlne
published by the American Medical
association.
As far us height and weight meas
urements are concerned, girls are ap
proximately as heavy us boys for their
respective heights, but are shorter and
lighter at each age. They are more
variable In growth than boys.
The authority, a physician, has
drawn his conclusions from thousunds
of repeated physical measurements on
nude children and his tables giving the
average weight of boys and girls for
each inch in height frora every age
from five to nineteen are said to be
the most accurate tables for Ameri
can-born children.
Odd Forms of "Money"
Employed in Africa
There are three modes of buying
and selling. The first is to
article for article, direct. The second
Is by using a useful medium of ex
change, which we will call currency.
The third is the AVestem method of
using a useless object In exchange;
this we will call money.
In South Africa we get the natives
using, cattle as currency, exchanging
cattle for goods and the same cattle
changing hands for other goods. More
usually, however, we get barter pure
and simple, Ivory and useful objects
to buy beads, trinkets, wire and other
goods.
Farther north, In the TransTaal, we
get actual money, in the shape bf
home-made wire, with a rough knob
on the end. Farther west, in the
Congo, we find H-shaped ctfpper plates
used as money. On the Upper Congo
we find Imitation swords serving the
purpose, while lower down on the
Stanley Falls we find the ax blade.
(In many South African tribes we get
the hoe so used.) In Sierra Leone we
get an amusing Imitation knife blade;
one end Is thin and twisted, the other
widening to two points. The BaSongo
nnd BaNkutu on the Congo use throw
ing knives.
Field's Tribute to Riley
Among the finest tributes which one
man of genius has paid to anpther Is
that of Eugene his friend
and brother poet, James Wliltcomb
Riley. He put It in the language of
an Indiana villager and the essence
of it was this paragraph:
"Riley has got true genius; can't
call it anything else. When he was
born God give him the tongues of men
and of angels, and threw in chkrlty
for good measure. There hain't no
Shakespeare business about him, nor
no Byron. Jim Is a straightaway poet,
and his pieces are as full of honey
and dew as the flower the hummln'
bird plays tag with in the cool sun
light of an early summer morning.
You don't have to have anybody tell
you what Jim means in them pieces;
there hain't no need of footnotes and
there hain't no disputed passages. It
Is all plain music -from the word go,
and that's the kind of music a feller'»
heart loves to dance to."
Happiness and Hard Work
Happiness, I have discovered. Is
nearly always a rebound from hard
work. It Is one of the follies of men'
to imagine that they can enjoy mere
thought, or emotion, or sentiment. As
well try to eat beauty! For happiness
must be tricked! She loves to see
men at work. She loves sweat, wear
iness. self-sacrifice. She will be found,
not In palaces, but lurking In corn
fields and factories and hovering over i
littered desks. She crowns the uncon-'
scious head of the busy child. If you
look up suddenly from hard work you
will see her, but if you look too long
she fades sorrowfully away.—From
"Adventures In Contentment," by
David Grayson.
Not Unlucky for All
The number thirteen hardly deserves
its black reputation, which it has had
ever since there were thirteen at the
Last Supper at which Our Lord was
betrayed. Hence the firm conviction
that if this number sit down to table
one of them will shortly afterwards
die.
The fact of the matter Is, ai astrolo
glsts tell us. that thirteen is only un
lucky fo certain people. On other* It
has no more potent effect than any
other number, while a few people de
clare that it always brings thetn good
fortune.
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1924
Man, 78, Start*
on Grizzly Hunt
Long Beach, Cal. —The "one
shot grizzly king," at the age of
seventy-eight, still has the "call
of the wild" In his blood. Ches
ter Ellsworth, known to his
friends and members of the Ad
venturer's club by that appelln
tlon, sailed recently with his
gun packed for the wilds of
British Columbia to hunt the
grizzly.
He will travel to the further
most outpoat of civilization, and
accompanied by one man to
chop wood and tend camp, he is
to go Into the heart of the
woods for big game.
"Let those at my age who
want It have their wheeled
chairs and tepid alrg. Give me
the air like mellow wines, the
spirit of the silent .place, the
feel of a gun In my hand and I
am content," Ellsworth said.
Curiosities Found in
Prague Button Museum
"Button, button, who's sot the but
ton?" They know in I'rQgue where
buttons are to be found, for there is a
button museum In the Czechoslovak
capital in which every form and type
of button ever ' manufactured or
wrought by iinnd is on ekhlWlt. The
buttons museum Is one of the most
unique Institutions of its kind in the
wprld, according to the New York
World.
The museum was founded by a but
ton manufacturer named Henry
Waldes, Within a few years the in
stitution has so expanded that It fills
two floors -of a large house In the
suburb of Wrschowitz.
A study of the materials used Is in
Itself most worth while. There are
buttons of gold, of silver, Ivory, bronze,
porcelain, of precious stones such as
turquois, opal, carneol, etc. Some but
tons date back 3,000 years before
Christ. i»nd showiest but
tons are those of the Eighteenth cen
tury, when Europe Beemed to enjoy
rare luxu#.
The most grewsome buttons ahe the
so-called poison buttons, containing a
tiny phial of poison and surmounted
by a sharp stud. In the days of polit
ical assassinations It was an easy thing
for a man attending a high society
function, such as a ball, to approach
his adversary and. In a crowd, to
brush by him In such n way that the
button scratched his sl:!n. Into this
rent In the skin the contents of the
button would then flow with fatal con
sequences.
/Ambassador Has Many
and High Privileges
The task of being an ambassador la
a very pleasant one indeed. This rep
resentative possesses some remarkable
privileges, and ranks immediately after
the royal "princes of the country in
which lie Is residing. It might almost
he said that an ambassador,-like the
king, can do no wrong, for he stands
above the law of the country In which
he is officleting. .
The courts have no power over him
or his servants, and even a criminal,
if he were known to be residing on
an embassy, could not be arrested
without the permission of the ambas
sador.
Another Interesting fact about an
ambassador Is that the ground on
which his residence stands belongs to
the country from which he comes.
We all grumble nowadays about the
amount of taxation we have to pay.
This Is where the ambassador again
scores. Ambassadors do not have to
pay a single penny In taxes.—London
Tit-Bits.
"Jack Tar"
A waterproof canvas Impregnated
with tar is called a tarpaulin. By ex
tension the wide-brimmed storm hat
worn by sailors In former times Was
calTed a tarpaulin also. Usually these
hats were made of oiled or tarred
cloth. As time went on the sailors
themselves were called tarpaulins.
The word was so used by Dickens and
many other writers. . This was later
shortened Into "tar,'* Finally "Jack"
was added and a sailor was called a
Jack Tar. The popular belief that a
sailor is called a tar because of his
use of tar to seal the seams of the
ship seems to be disproved by the
earlier use of as applied tt
sailors.—Pathfinder Magazine.
Synonyms For Jew,
The name •« usually safe
ployed with reteir.ice us the religion.
Hebrew with reference to the lan>
guage, literature and race, while Jew
la used to reprtasut •
member of the Semitic nice or a fit
lower of the religion of Moan. They
would be distinguished aa "convert tn
Judaism" and "convert to Christian-
Ity" or "converted Jew," so theft
would be no doybt that It was the ra
liglon that was being mwnsi
Let Local Pride Find
Expression at Home
'Local pride is based on affection for
the place In \rhich you live and is al
most as natural a sentiment as family
pride, says the Youtli's Companion.
Like family pride. It may be useful und
stimulating, or it may be futile and
deadening.
A proper local prlile manifests Itself
In study of the history of the commun
ity and Its founders, In a desire for w
thorough knowledge of the Institutions,
industries and people of the commun
ity, and In acquiring familiarity not
only with thfe topography and the ex
ternal aspects of the place but also
with Its spirit. Anyone whose local
pride is strong enough to Impel him to
such study will become imbued wllh
an ambition to contribute to the Im
provement of the community; he will
he In hirturn one of the makers of Its
history.
, Local pride that finds Its expression
at home Is an udmirable trait. There
Is, however, a kind of local pride that
Is frequently exhibited only by people
who are away from home, jmd that Is
not to be commended. It Isjjsuully a
mark of narrowness and prejudice. A
man need not sarrlflce or abate his
love of home In order to recognize the
superior claims to general Interest that
some other place offers, i'rovlnclullsm,
as local pride Is likely to he called
when It expresses Itself away from
home, Is usually bumptious, hyper
critical and petty, retards the men
tal growth of the man who suffers
from It, for he Is seldom one who at
home shows any local pride of a con
structive character.
Better Hornet Make '
. for Better Living
The Bettor Homes exposition, which
has made the public hall on£e more the
speclul center of attraction and Inter
est In Cleveland might well be called
a "Ttetter Living" show. The
so much the heart and soul of life that
the vum of existence, for the average
man or woman. Is very* nearly the
measure of success or failure In home
making. If the home Is happy the world
usually looks bright and well worth
while. If the home Is not cheerful
and comfortable life Is heavily handi
capped.
This la so true und the truth la no
vital to the state, the whole nation,
that whatevef tends to hulld up and
guard, beautify und make more attrac
tive, the hynies of a great rlfy or of
nnj large community. Is of speclah Im
portance to the puAllc, near and far.
What one city does In that field may
I well prove the source of similar gains
for contentment and happiness In many
other places.—Cleveland News-lender.
, Kansas City's Example
The greatest Incentive to civic
beauty is the thing that inspires
worthy emulation. Kansas City's resi
dential development has grown from
email beginnings deliberately planned
by Individuals to promote public Inter
. est, to show by example what could
be done with the small lot or the pre
tentluus homeslte, to demonstrate that
beauty may be attained by little addi
tional expens? and that whatever the
additional cost. It Is the best part of
the Investment.
And thus It has come to pass thnt
Kansas City has made u reputation. In
a comparatively few years, for the
beauty of Its homes and their sur
roundings. Its example has Influenced
many other cities. But the greatest
force of that example Is right here at
home. —Kansas City Star.
Serves Double Purpose
In Kuropean countries, where for
estry Is an established department of
government. It is a uniform rule that
no tree can be cut down ufiU-ss an
other one Is'planted to take Its place.
That prevents forest depletion, but It
does not create new foreS'ts. America
must repair Its prodiginu* tlmlwr
wastage of the last half century, be
sides creating vast areas of timber
lands as a counterfoil to nature's own
wantage for centuries.
There Is no belter method of spread
ing the tree-pta'nting habit, in farming
communities, than In bordering all
I sAte highways wlt|i trees.
Rales for Shrub Planting
There Is a great wealth of shrub
bery," both native and imported, from
which growers may select. Be caVe
ful to aelect shrubs hardy for the lo
cality. For thla reason shrubs native
to the section are usually planted with
less risk. Both evergreen and decidu
ous shrubs should be used and grouped
in such a manner as to make the
grounds appear well occupied through
out the year.
How Japaneae Bury Dead
• In Japan a corpse, placed In a bent
position, Is encased In a porcelain or
an earthenware coflln having the shape
and appearance of a jug which Is
usually as tall as the dead. In the
coflln, burled with the body, are some
of the possessions the deceased held
dear In life. The coflln, Instead of be
ing laid lengthwise in the ground, as
sumes a standing position. Its top is
closed by a conical qover of the same
material. '
- No Depilatoriea Then
The women of the Imperial city of
Rome once had a morbid ambition to
raise beards like their brothers and
husbunds. They used to shave their
chilis and smear unguents over .them.
It appears, however, that the'men of
Rome did not favor this feminine ec
centricity, for Cicero mentions a law
that was pn.wed to prevent women
wearing beards.
Freak Lightning
A freak bolt of lighting struck the
upraised shovel of a workman at
Salem, Ohio, split Into three parts and
jumped to three different houses. In
one house It stunned slx-months-old
twins. Weather boarding and plas
ter were torn from the secontf house.
The third house was a bungulfcw, just
completed, which was damaged slight
ly. The workman was uninjured.
Bulldog» Get Name Rightly
In the old days butchers used cer
tain ferocious and tenacious dogs to
catch and hold bulls ready for slaugh
ter. Hence the nnme "bulldog," which
has been handed down. These dogs
could with apparent ease seize and
hold n large animal by the nose, and
either hold him perfectly still or draw
his head to one side, at the order of
his master.
Royal Child Bride
The smallest wedding ring known
was that made for Mary, oldest daugh
ter of Henry VIII, when, at the age
of two years, she was married to the
dauphin of France, son of Francis I.
The wee bridegroom was only eight
months old. Cardinal Wolsey handed
the ring and said mass at that mar
riage of state. —Kansas City Times.
Slitting Tongue of Crow
There Is no truth to the notion that
a crow can be made to talk like a
parrot If the tongue Is silt It la a
cruel practice which has no Justifica
tion whatever. Crows'sometimes learn
lo speuk almost as well as p'arrots,
but It Is not made possible by sjlttlnu
their tongues.—Pathfinder Magazine.
Rattleanake'a Strike
The distance a rattlesnake can
strike Is never greater than the length
of the snake. The reptile has no pow
er of Jumping In the air and away
from the ground. When it strikes It.
darts the fore part of Its body, which
was retracted In several bends, for
ward in a straight line.
Theatrical "Green Roomf
"Stage-glare" caused by the artifi
cial lighting of a theater affects the
eyes of actors and actresses. The walls
of the waiting room used by tbem dur
ing the Intervals of a play were col
ored green because this Is a good anti
dote for the affection of the eyes.
Hence the nume.
Otfferencea in Two Canala
There are great physical difference®
between the world's two great com
mercial conn*. The Suez and the
Panamu canals both divide continents,
but the Suez Is a sea-level waterway,
without sluices or locks. The cost of
the Suez wns about $127,000,000.
Uncle Eben
"When a man has made de same
talk exactly de same way ten or 'leven
times," said Uncle Eln-n, "I can't make
up my mind whether to call It a
speech or a vocal selection."—Wash
ington Star.
Curioua Old Belief
It was a curious belief among peo
ple .of Kurope before the end of the
Fifteenth century -that Just as it grew
colder us one went North, so It grew
hotter as one advanced toward the
South pole.
When John Fainted
Wife (with first checking account)
—Oh, John, the bank .sent me back all
the checks I paid bills wllh Inst month,
so I haren't spent, anything I—Ameri
can Legion Weekly. ,
Army Worm Can Travel
There are no recognized established
records, bat an army worm has been
known to cross an 80-acre field, a dis
tance of one-fourth of a mile, in 24
hours.
True Courage
Any coward can fight a battle when
he's sure of winning, but give me the
man who has pluck to light when he's
sure - of losing.—George Eliot.
Proving That Hasty
" Criticism Is Unwise
In "Sly Book of Memory," Ybuth's
Companion toll;, us, Mr. Silas Hocking,
the English novelist, repeats an nurs
ing story concerning Or. W. B. I'ope.
ouce a famous Wesleyan professor of
theofrfg.v, and of his son Sam.
Tlio son WIIS preparing for the bar.
Occasionally he tried his 'prentice
hand at preaching the gospel In vil
lage chapels. One Sunday morning
Ills father said to him: "Sam, I'm nof
feeling at all well today. You will
have to preach for ( me this morning."
Sum demurred. The father Insisted
and suggested that he had two hours
to make a sermon, and If he could
not do It In that time -he was not
(It to be a barrister.
Sam went away to the study. Then
he went off to chapel. Unknown to
him, bis father followed and found
a seat hidden behind the pulpit. He
heard the sermon and then hastened
home again.
"Well, Sam," said lie on his son's
return. "I've heard you preach, and
a poor thing you made of It. I thought
you could have done better than that."
"You think the sermon was not very
Rood?" the son Inquired.
"Good?" the old man replied. "I
think It was one of the worst sermons
I have listened to!"
"Well, father," said Satn, "I* thought
It was a poor thing myself, but I
turned over a big pile In your study,
and It was the best I could llnd."
National Hero Just
Small Boy to Mother
A Dutch salvage firm is scouring the
bottom of the Caribbean sea looking
for a part of the treasure that went
to the bottom In the Seventeenth cen
tury when I'let Heln, admiral of the
Dutch fleet captured eight Spanish
galleons loaded with silver and sank
others.
When Plet lleln captured the Span
ish "silver fleet," the power of the
Dutch republic had already started on
Its decline, I'lerre Van I'anssen tells
us, In the Atlanta Constitution. The
news of the admiral's victory there
fore sent the country Into frenzies of
enthusiasm. When he arrived at Rof
terdum, members of the government
were on hand to greet him and the
aristocracy '*f Amsterdam und Haar
lem In lace and cloth cheered Itself
hoarse at the sight of the popular
young admiral. All Holland was In
gala. I!ut when the admiral ap
proached the little cottage In Delfts
'invert* whe* his mother lived and he
rapped on the door there was a voice:
"Is that you, I'let?" "Yes, mother."
"Then wipe your feet on the mat, my
hoy. It's a little muddy outside to
day."
Beaver a in Real Wild a
Few places now exist Where (leavers
may be seen living wild. In natural
surroundings In Europe. Forty years
ago the lust one disappeared from
Scandinavia, where they lingered
longest near Arendal. In southern
Norway. A correspondent »f the Field
reports that a small, but thrl„'n« and
increasing colony of these animals
now exists In the same region (at Niel
Five), In a very Inaccessible part of
the country, no luiman dwellings any
where near, md the ground covered
with thick undergrowth and trees of
birch, aspen and pine. No indication
of their origin is given, and it seems
jioxglblc that a small remainder of the
old stock has been hidden here all
this time. .
Gull Beautiful Bird
Many feathered scavengers are un
couth. repulsive and awkward In
flight, but the herring gull Is a thing
of beauty and exceedingly grneeful
tinder wing, in master of tjie air cur
brents. gliding with perfection. He
soars over the city, follows the river
craft, perches upon the channel buoys,
and may often be found In Hocks rest
ing upon the waters of inland ponds
and reservoirs. Unlike other water
birds, he Is not shy; on the contrary,
he Is very friendly, perhaps because
lit* has few enemies and is pro I get ed
not only In th.- harbors Init In the
breeding rookeries.
lit Origin Uncertaih •
The phrase "Lynch law" has been
variously; traced to a Virginia soldier
and to a Vlr '.nln farmer of that name,
to one Lynch, who was sent out from
Fngland
and to a major of (Julway. In Ireland;
while yet another tradition refers It
to Lynch creek. In North Carolina,
where the forms It a court-martial
and execution were gon • through oven
the lifeless body of a Tory, who, had
already been precipitately hanged to
prevent a rescue.—Chamber's Ency
clopedia.
Washing Bottles.
Put crushed egg shells In small bit*
ar a fqv carpet tacks or a small quan
tity of gun shot Into t bottle. Then
till one-half fell >f strong snap suds;
shake tlromngiily. Then r'.i:se In clear
»oter and tl» buttle wHi '*• cleansed I
NO. 43
Could Fiction Writers
Find Anything Funnier?, 'i
The story of the British civil serv- |
unt who, after ten years' absence *
from lila office. returned to It to find
that he had risen In salary and senior
ity while away, and was now a prin
cipal clerk, has Its parallel in real life,
A certain young man became a mem
her of the French civil service in 1922,
and from that time a hat, a coat, and
a pair of gloves at his desk bore mate
testimony to his existence. This evi
dence was confirmed by his regularity i
In collecting his salary. But, other
wise, he was never seen or heard of at i
his oilire.
He was transferred to another of
fice, and his hat, coat and gloves
chunked their quarters. But other- 1
wise there was no change. Eventually
It was discovered that he v&is a pro- j
feKslonal dancer, and was too busy to
attend the office.
The authorities were shocked, and
resolved that the young man must be
punished. But the only two possible
punishments were dismissal and re
duction in grade. The first seemed too
severe; as for the second, the young
rpan was already. In the lowest g/ade. ,i
Finally, the Gftrdian knot was cut —
the young man Avas promoted, and
ttien Immediately reduced to his for
mer status
Famous Roman Baths
Have Been Overrated
We go to the movfei and see scenes
arranged to impress us with the i
liixury of the old Uoman baths In use
2,000 years ago; and very few of us
realize how superior the up-to-date
bathroom is to those costly undent
edifices. So says a well-known malter
of up-to-date bathrooms. "
The ltoman baths, he continues,
were built, as a rule, by the emperors,
their cost being too great for a private
indivjdual. Crude and clumsy was the
method hy which the water was heat
ed and carried from one pool to an- \
other. Although It was changed con
tinually, every one bathed in the same
water, and soap was unknown. The
baths wbre open only at certain hoars
of the day, an admission price was -
charged and their use was limited to 3
nobles and freemen of the city.
In Greece marble slabs were hoi- '
lowed out and filled with water, which
was splashed or poured from urns over
the head or body of the bather. Down J
through the Middle ages plumbing fix- ,
tures, as we understand the term, were
unknown. ,
Live (p Fear of "DeviUP •
In practically all parts of New
Ouinea the natives believe that the
"tamurangs" or evil spirits come out
as soon asilt Is dark and are constant
ly on tiie watch for stray negroes,
says the Detroit News. Fortunately,
however, the devils are quite unable
to pass fire at night, so u village Is
protected by a ring of small fires about
it. Sometimes the fires are placed in
a circle around the'
sometimes Just four are made, one at
each corner of the place. Inside this
protective belt, the negro has no fear
wluitever of the "tamarangs," but In
the case of the bush natives especially
all the tinned ment and Jew's-harps in
New Guinea would not tempt him out
side it bwfore dawn in districts known
to be aflllcted with devils.
His Excuse
Mother's face wore an exasperated
lnok rapped her little son
smartly o#tfie knuckles.
Johnny would persist in putting the
food into his'mouth-with his knife in
stead of his fork, and time and again
mother had told him about It
"Sonny," she said angrily, "how
many times have I told you that you
must not eat with your knife. Use
your fork."
"Yes; but mamma," objected the
little boy. "I must use my knife, 'cos
my fork leaks."
Left-Handed Compliment
Stories about clowns are In v
one concerning Bill Buck "a fat: ous
clown of half a lifetime ago. would
have delighted that artist of the flour
paste countenance.
Two old ladles, standing In a queue
for the pit of a theater, fell to dis
cussing the merits of the various
clowns they had seen.
Said one, summing up her 'impres
sions: "But I think I Hk* Mr. Buck
best of them all—such a nice clown!
There's nothing vulgar about hiiu—he
never makes you laugh."
Belief Seems Justified
A Greenville (Me.) newspaper says
that it is a very old Indian tradition
that all the bull moose of eastern and
northern Maine make Journeys to the
west shores of Mooseliead lake at the
close of the year for the purpose of
casting their antlers. "Though the
story has passed for fiction among the
residents, there are not a few old
hunters and woodsmen who believe it,
and relate tales about the abundance
of moos? antlers among the maple
woods "miles north of this village."