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f f-Ut.ei S Hl.C f& O EAGLE. b n 1 I I If 0 WHERE TO EAT 4 Congress Hotel and Annex - ' - - ..." 1 Samuel R. Kaufman PRESIDENT LargestFloorSpace Devoted to Public Use of Any Hotel in the World. Michigan Boulevard and Congress Street The Restaurants of HBre&oortf Mote! Invite Your Patronage The primary purpose of Brevoort Hotel is to pro vide the best possible accommodation for the trav eling public. It is essential that the restaurant service shall be of the very highest order and that the prices shall be moderate. The net result is bet ter food, better served in a better environment, than might reasonably be sought at the same mod erate cost under other conditions. Permanent resi dents of Chicago as well as visitors are invited to take advantage of this at breakfast, luncheon, din ner and late supper time. 3 91 S I 1 i 1 3 reOoort Motel MADISON ST. EAST OF LA SALLE ST. No hat checking annoyance. j E. N. MA THEWS R. E. KELLIHER President and Gen. Mgr. Assistant Manager Messinger 's ts w. Ill w. 154 W. rr w. Kb SU SS W. Hm&i IMS W. RESTAURANTS ri X. Ontarto M. M4 Kartk Clark ft. Ml Xerth OWk it. 811 ft WtbMk At. 4 s, nmt& m. ISS B. nalrtXj ft. 11M Baletei It. 4XSV So. HautM 14. in IMS St. Office and Commissary, 237-243 East Ontario Street Phone Superior 7728 CHICAGO BIR K'S BEVERAGES A QUALITY GROUP BUY THEM-TRY THEM SUPERB LIGHT BREW GOLDECK DARK BREW MALT VIGOR (TONIC) Invigorating ROOT BEER delicious BIRK-COLA QUENCHES THIRST GINGER ALE refreshing BIRK BROS. BREWING CO. 1325 WEBSTER AVE. Immediate Service Telephone Lincoln 495 Electric Lighting Supplies . i CdboQ Building, 72 West Adams Circct gi:-7ux::s cords brjsses zggs swmsms mdieors - tariai .. WHY SEEK MOSS? Writer Takes Issue With Old, Well-Worn Proverb. Keep Rolling Until a Good Place to Stop Is Found, Is Advice He Hands Out. "The rolling stone," we are impres sively told, "gathers no moss." But who suggests that moss is a desirable article to accumulate? Uncle Dudley writes in the Boston Globe. One ot the penalties of being young is having it dinged into our ears: "You ought to settle down." - When ought I to settle down? At eighteen? At twenty-five? At thirty five? If "settling down" is taken to mean what it means on most lips one ought never to settle down at all. For on most lips "settling down" means nothing more nor less than stale stag nation. Every intelligent reader knows that many; if not most, of his luckiest finds have come while browsing along tLc book shelves. To be sure, one needs to know how to use a library; how to choose a topic and use catalogues and indexes to dig up the material. But there is something to be got by per sonal contact with the book shelves which no catalogue can give. You wan der along, plucking down now this volume, now that. That one is mild ly entertaining ; this one is dull ; an other might be valuable, when . . . Hello! Here it is! . . . Every page emblazoned as with letters of gold; and the day on which you discovered it was one of the high days. There are a few fortunate people whose natural bents are so pronounced that thtey know at quite an early age exactly what they wish to do as a life work. But such people are relatively few. Do they tell you that it is impor tant to get your life work started early? It is far more important to find the life work which you were meant to do, whether you find it early or late. One t ought never to be so settled down that he cannot take up a new kind of work if he is convinced that it is more valuable to himself or to the community than the kind he is in; convinced, in shortt that it pro vides a better outlet for his powers. The spectacle of a man or woman tied for life to the wrong mate is not half so pitiable as the spectacle of a man or woman tied for life to the wrong job. The father who says to the son in his 'teens or early 20s, "It is high time you made up your mind what you are going to do," is as ridiculous as a phy sician telling a baby It is high time he went out for the football team. In one's teens or twenties it is, to be sure, high time one is busy and active about some sort of productive labor, but to suggest that the job at this age should be one's permanent choice is ruinous folly. It may prove to be the very thing, but if it should not, one will want an emergency exit. Does it ever occur to us that th hope of the world lies mainly in just these untamed spirits who refuse to settle down? TWO FAMOUS YANKEE SHIPS Valparaiso Outdoor Elevators. Sailors attached to the United States fleet that is now cruising up the west coast of South America will find a familiar feature about the port of Valparaiso, in the event that their heme town is Pittsburgh or Cincin nati. For the Chilean city has out grown the confines of the narrow sea level strip along the water front and has scaled the heights anove. There is the finer residential part of the city, and the citizens, like those of the Pennsylvania and Ohio cities just men tioned, reach the level or business ac tivities by means of the many outdoor elevators or "ascensors." The waters of Valparaiso harbor are so deep that breakwaters have been built only with the greatest difficulty. Instead of the ordinary blocks of concrete or stone, great hollow cement cubes, measuring 50 feet from corner to corner, are cast on shore, towed into position, and sunk by filling them with stones. Such a breakwater Gulliver might have de scribed in his tale of the Brobding nagians. , Old Gunboat Marblehead and Cutter Bear, in Humble Service, Still Are "Making Good." " . Trading along the west Mexican coast carrying panocha, hides, bees wax and other freight is the fate of the once proud American gunboat Mar blehead. The vessel has been sold to Jose Delallave, a Mazatlan ship operator, by the United States government for ( a few thousand Mexican dollars. Del- i unuve nas renamed tne AiarDieneaa the Agua Prieta. Thus passes the old "pepperbox," Capt. Bowman II. McCalla's ship of Spanish war fame, with a proud record of achievement right up to the days of the last Victory loan drive, when the Marblehead left San Francisco as the navy's "victory ship," remarks Our Navy. The announcement of coast guard authorities that the U. S. C. G. cutter Bear probably never will sail into the North again marks a sharp turn in the history of one of the most famous adventure ships flying the American flag. . , After more than two-score years of battling with ice floes and arctic gales, the Bear is under orders to make San Diego her base and serve as a training ship for coast guard recruits. Since the Bear, in charge of Com modore Schley, later admiral, rescued the seven survivors of the Greeley arc tic expedition in 1884 she has been devoted to service in the northern seas with the navy, the frontier rev enue service and in recent years as part of the coast guard fleet. She was built in Scotland in 1874 as a whaler and sealer. The full story of her career would constitute a library of stirring tales. Among her many duties she has kept watch and ward over the Eskimos, car ried the law to the shores where Kip ling said no law extended, protected the fur-seal herd from poachers of the "Sea Wolf" type, and given the sanc tion of the white man's standards to marriages beyond the arctic circle. Natives, teachers, missionaries, traders and marines in the North have for a generation regarded the annual cruise of the Bear as a routine part of their existence. Not a season has passed including the present one that the Bear has not saved lives by imperative operations performed in her sick bay, by the res cue of marooned or shipwrecked crews or by landing provisions to the inhab ltants of Isolated shores. ERE TOY NATIONS Principalities of Europe That Seem a Joke. Phonograph Clock. Little clocks and big clocks, slow clocks and fast clocks, grandfathers and otherwise, take a back seat be fore the twentieth century timepiece Invention, just hot from the operating room. This clock "speaks for itself." Neither dial nor hands appear; the works are contained in a neat oblong box, measuring 16 inches in height by 10 in width and 9 inches deep. A handle appears at the side for wind ing purposes. A voice record is car ried on a band of film, this band be ing very similar to the standard motion-picture film. A phonograph re producer is used to translate the lat ent sound record into actual sounds. Precisely on the stroke of each quar ter of an hour, the voice announces the correct time in deep, bell-like tones. A hidden button, on being pressed, will cause the hidden voice to repeat the time; while another but ton quenches its ardor very effectively. Big Men for a Little Job. The doorkeeper of the European hotel is generally a big man who will becomingly fill a" gorgeous livery and in addition to this requirement, he nrast be of more than ordinary intel ligence, for he is called upon fre quently to meet the guests of the house and to advise and direct them. This 4 important post at the front door of a large Vienna hotel was recently vacated, and among the applicants were a major general, three majors and twelve captains. A Disease, Probably. "Don't you think bolshevism is large ly a state of mind?" asked Mr. Gad epur. "No," said Mr. Dubwaite. "I don't believe a mere state of mind could make people talk and act the way Bolsheviks do. It must be constitu tional." Birmingham Age-Herald. Reforesting the Plains. In the state of Nebraska there are twenty thousand square miles of coun try that Is absolutely treeless. The soil is nothing but sand on which no plant grows except a long grass that is good for grazing. Anciently, perhaps seven million years ago, the area in question was part of the floor of a sea. Hence, of course, the sand. But within compara tively recent times the region must have been forested, for here and there are discovered stumps of trees as much as two feet in diameter. Discovery of these old stumps led the United States forest service to be lieve that trees might be made to grow there again. Accordingly, the experiment was begun about eighteen years ago, and, as a result, about five thousand acres of young forest have been successfully established. Some of the trees today are as much as twenty-five feet high. - The trees planted in this area are all of them of coniferous varieties jack pine, Norway pirn? and yellow pine. At Halsey, Neb., is maintained a nursery, which produces two million of these little -trees each year. For planting them, a novel method is adopted. Instead of setting each little tree in a hole by itself, a plow is run along through the sand, and the baby trees are planted in a row in the furrow. Free and Independent, Though Not Much Larger Than Many Counties in the United States. Historic background for Monte Car lo's national and international place' in the economic scheme of things seems to have been discovered at last. A survey of the "littlest pow ers" by the National Geographical so ciety, just published, finds that Theo- doric the Great was a man of most delightful manners at dice." He alone of European conquerors, it adds, gave Monaco respite from wars. Theodoric must also be conceded the title of "good sport," even in these modern times, for the geogra phers have found this comment on him : "If Theodoric loses, he laughs; he is modest and reticent if he wins." But they could find nc smaller na tion to replace Monaco as the littlest power of the world, at least terri torially speaking. Its eight square miles, completely covered with gam ing tables in popular fancy, is un matched down the scale, its popula tion of 23,000 defies comparison. Im ports include visitors, 2,000,000 of them in 1913; revenues come from visiting bank rolls, it appears, and exports are chiefly bulging pockets or blasted hopes. San Marino, completely surrounded by Italy, stands next with 3S,000 square miles, the geographic experts state, and is remarkable chiefly be cause it has virtually no police force. Reason for this is Tound in the retir ing and peace-loving disposition of the good saint after whom the little re public is named, for, having finished helping oppressed Christians to wall in the city of Kimini, San Marino re tired to this spot, so the legend goes, to solitude and simple living, and taught his people to make war only in self-defense. Andora, a bit of Spain, 191 square miles in size and 10,000 feet in air, in the heart of the Pyrenees, is en rolled with the little powers. It is ruled by a first syndicate and smug gling is the national topic of conver sation, it is asserted, and this route between France and Spain is snid to have been much patronized during the war in that way. Then there is Lichtenstein, sixty five square miles, surrounded by Switzerland and Austria, which finds it unnecessary to have any army at all, since 18SG. Luxemburg, well and favorably known to the American soldiers who tramped through it en route to the Rhine; the Gccupied zone along the great German river and Turkey in Europe, reduced to the environs west of Constantinople, also are noted among possible "little powers;" but one name has been dropped from the roll, Montenegro, now part of the kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. , Record of Sunshine. J. B. Kincer of the weather bureau has just published in the Monthly Weather Review a valuable analysis of the available sunshine records of this country. lie presents charts and graphs showing for all parts of the United States the mean solar time of sunrise and sunset, the average length of the day, sunrise to sunset, for differ ent seasons of the year; the average for each month in the year, of the daily amounts of sunshine, in hours ; the sea sonal and annual amounts in percent age of the maximum possible; the yearly percentage of clear, partly cloudy and cloudy days. Data of this character is comparatively scarce, 'for the reason that the instruments re quired to make these records are very delicate and require expert attention. A great deal of meteorological observa tion work is done by amateurs or vol unteers who are not equipped with the necessary apparatus for accurately re cording the periods of sunshine. Genius Never Satisfied. To get the product of genius you are never done. Work done must be con stantly subjected to revision. Every time it is done over there is oppor tunity for eliminations or additions. Sometimes you will have to recast the whole thing as your study leads you deeper into truth. But what of that? The work you put on it will be for gotten in the joy of a more perfect production. Every revision shows where improvement is possible and the very working over makes the final result the more perfect. Young men have seldom patience enough to stick to a thing until it's put Into Its best possible shape. But the man of genius Is never satisfied. To him work is nev er finished so long as improvement is possible. To him the Ideal is the end to work for. Anything less than this is little better than an irritation. Sleeping Sickness. Medical experts disagree in their conclusions as to the exact nature ol sleeping sickness. Some forms ol "sleeping sickness" are not unlike brain fever, while others Indicate symptoms much similar . to spinal meningitis. Physicians advise caution against undue exposure to the disease until more exact knowledge of its cause Is ascertained. Smugglers in Clover. Smuggling over the Dutch and Dan ish frontiers, which the German gov ernment had gone to great efforts to suppress, again is flourishing "on a colossal scale," and at some points with the full knowledge and connivance of many government officials, according to reports. Smugglers are declared to be out bidding the government for the aid of dishonest officials, and the "veritable at my of customs officers on the bor der have permitted millions of marks' worth of tobacco, cigarettes, coffee and sugar to cross the border duty free within the last few months." Flying squadrons of customs officers have leen organized by the govern ment "to catch the smugglers," who are said to have so thoroughly system atized their operations that "customs receipts are rapidly falling back to nothing, for custom control is again only on paper." Enter the Rouged Ankle. Introducing a new fad for milady rouged ankles. Not content with carmine lips and blushing pink cheeks, latest fashions have decreed for ankles of a delicate pink. At Second street and Broad way, the "advance guard" of Los An geles' elite made her appearance the other day with spider-web hose and her ankles tinted a delicate pink. Mere men gasped and halted as the vision, attired in the most fashion able garb, alighted from a street car and unblushingly made her way through the throng that quickly gath ered. There was no mistake the ankles were rouged and the young woman, according to modistes, was but the first of the thousands of young wom en who will take up the fad. Los Angeles Express. What For? Ellery Sedgwick, the Boston editor, detests the l?st-seller type of novelist and avails himself of every opportu nity to rap best "sellers over the knuckles. Mr. Sedgwick, at a Cambridge tea, was approached by a best-seller nov elist. "Say, old man," the best seller be gan, "I'll be sending you a thing or two of mine one of these days. I suppose you know about the success of my best yarn? No? Well, by gosh, she's translated into French, German, Spanish and Chinese." "Why don't you get, somebody to translate her Into English?" said Mr. Sedgwick dryly. Woman's Responsible Position. Miss Sophie II. Hamant Is the only woman among six persons handling a foreign exchange department in this country. She manages such a depart ment in the office of the Cincinnati representative of the Guaranty Trust company of New York. One hundred and thirty-five banks, merchants, and manufacturers depend on Miss Hamant for their daily information about for ei2n exchange rate. TOneo. Ebepfc gL Co. a" sno Uivei-sey Parkway II v Luibliiner & Triinz mad the Following Hirb CUm au urer ihm City: I4U litmtn Auim AEDW THZATBB. MM Nrtk flu m. . XAMOTTKT THXATKX. SMS KOwmmk Atmm E. S1SS LtBMt Atmm TmuLTMK. Xrth Clem mod Wt Z4 1iniii TalkATU, ShmrtdMm RmuI aft WHm a THBATRK, Dra mat CUrk MniU OKAnut WmUti Atmsm ud M1 SUite HARRY M. LUBLINER JOSEPH TRINZ 801 Kimball Building WHERE TO EAT Briggs House Cafe Newly Remodeled Open from 7 a. m. till 9 p. m. Serve $1.00 Table d'Hote Dinner Every Night from 6 to 9 p. m. BRIGGS HOTEL COMPANY Fred F. Hagel, Vice-President W. H. Stunner, Secretary and General Manager Northeast Corner of Randolph and Well Street Chicago Boost Chicag o S e e The New Camel Palace Garden Finest Cabaret in Town Nothing Like It in Chicago Just a few blocks from the Loop At NORTH CLARK and ONTARIO STS. TALENTED ENTERTAINERS TJCLKFHONES: BUSINESS, PUfKTUOB MS HALL, 8CPKKIOB SIS4 1 HIV ATX, tcrEBlOB S4S North Side Turner Hall CHARLES APPEL, Manager Largo Halls for Rent for All Occasions 820 NORTH CLARK STREET Always something food to cat hom cooking at riwrnMs ADAM ORTSEIFEN President H. TEMPLE BELLAMY Vke-Pre. tad Tres J. A. 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