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every, 'm'an ,ciin' indulge his fancy to. the fi'llest extent. Horse blanket er feots, fattening sleeves and loud col ors will be the mode. ... O-t-O YOU'LL SEE TfclE."DIVING VENUS" AT THFMOVIES Annette Kellerman: The "movies" have caught An nette Kellerman,' the wonderful water nymph! "I am simply crazy about 'movies,' " vivacious Annette says. "And I am going to appear in one." Herbert Brenon, director of the Universal Film Company, has taken Miss Kellerman and a company to Florida-to produce a real drama with a real story. One of the incidents of the picture is to be a high. "dive"; by Miss Kellerman, from' Brooklyn Bridge, after the company has staged the rest of the play in the South. Her role has been arranged in such a way that she will- be enabled to do a great number of fear-defying stunts. PASS IT:AROUND It has been figured that a man who hought parent stock in the United Shoe Machinery Co. in 1899, as well ..as later allotments, today has nearly three dpllars for one, in addition to having, through this time, drawn 8. .per cent cash dividends steadily and a- number' of small cash dividends extra. ' The same man, if he had bought into Eastman Kodak in the same way, would now have nearer forty, dollars for one, in spite of cash divi dends which in late years have run as high as 40 per cent. So it goes with many "trusts" based on patents. Rarely has' the in ventor profited. Mostly the "fat" has gone to the promoter1, the specu lator or to the courageous or merely dumb-lucky first stockholder. The labor in these patent-right trusts is sometimes well, more often ill, paid, as compared with labor of equal skill in free industries, but in no instance has it shared in the prof its as the parent stockholders have. Parents are. a privilege. Our aim has been to help inventors and stimu late invention. We have stimulated invention, but most inventors have starved because the fruits of their genius were stolen. The patent laws therefore need revision in the direc tion of passing prosperity around. o o THE WAR GOES ON "I thought your minister was to' have a call to Minneapolis?" "He hi expect it, but he went up there to preach a trial sermon and took his text from St. Paul, so it's all off." N. Y. World.