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GROTESQUESAREDID
fiuairtt Gargoyles Wftrcti *Aciorn
Notre Dame at Paris.
"Decoratwe Forms of Architecture
Are Older Than These Spouts
jecting From Gutter of A
-Building.
Paris —Few decorative form? in
•architecture are more ancient than
the grotesques .known as gargoyles.
The word means the throat or gul
let. and so was applied to the spent
projecting from the gutter of a build
ing. or .connected with it .by an open
ing. tor carrying water clear from the
wall. They were made cf consider
able length so as to throw the water
well into 'he middle ot the streets of
the old town, which were usually
paved with stone, with a depression
fx; the center so that the water was
carried away from the surface.
These water spouts were sometimes
plain, with •&.© .attempt to combine the
ornamental with the useful; but in the
Middle Ages there was an especial
ttp.de toward the grotesque in art
and in architectural embellishment,
r.artc-ulariy from the thirteenth .to
lh< sixteenth centuries, .and this found
frequent expression in tf veioping the
gargfiee into fanciful or grotesque
images. Commonly these represented
the anterior parte of the entire figures
of men or animals, the water usually
issuing from the open mouth.
While used in ail styles of architec
ture. the gargoyles was peculiarly de
veloped in the Gothic. Ail conceivable
forms have been used —not only the
hufnan and the animal, but The angelic
and the devilish as well. Nowhere,
it would seem, has the artistic faculty
run more mad riot.
Among the more arjcient of these
forms are those found in the temples
of Edfu and Denderah. in Egypt.
A Devil of Notre Dame.
Cvr> rs. made of painted terracotta
and of marble, were prominent in the
decoration of classic and etruscan
temples.
Many interesting ones are to be
found cn some of the older cathedrals
of England, and in various places in
Europe, hut the most famous of all
are those of the Cathedral of Notre
Dame, in Paris. While these may be
-seen from below, and doubtless have
been thus glimpsed by thousands of
hurrying tourists, it is only by ascend
ing to the roof that one may come to
anything approaching a familiar ac
quaintance with these stone monsters,
whose very ugliness constitutes their
claim to beauty.
And it may be noted in passing that
this closer view of the gargoyles is
not the only thing to be gained by
this journey to the roof. It is rather
difficult, in all a climb of S6B steps,
but from no spot in Paris, unless i
from the Tower St. Jacques, does one
get n finer or more extended view of
the city and the course of the Seine,
with its numerous bridges.
LIGHTS CALL NEW YORK COPS
Electric Bells Are Supplanted by
Green Flashes as Signal
for Officers.
New York. —Police Commissioner
Waldo s new system of police signals
was tried out in the old Tenderloin. :
The green lights at the tops of the
new poles responded to the buttons
pressed by the desk lieutenant in the j
West Thirtieth street station, blinked
their four seconds, went cut and then
blinked again, just as they are sup
posed to do.
The police signal boxes have been
put up on iron poles and the poles
have been surmounted with green i
bulbs. Whenever the desk lieutenant \
wants to find a policeman he presses j
the button which communicates with
the district where the policeman ought ;
to be. The green light flashes until :
someone gets to a signal box and
calls the station. The lights take the |
place of the bells now in general use. |
111. —— . . I. ■ ■ I ■ I II I
PERIL IN EARLY SMOKING
Boys Who Use Tobacco Pay for It
When They Reach the Age of
Forty or Fifty.
—l_ j
Vienna. —At the Ipstigatioin of the
Austrian Society of School Hygienb,
Prof. Frank Hoehwart, the scientist, |
has conducted a series of investiga- j
lions of cases of nervous diseases
among smokers. He has arrived at the
conclusion that juvenile smoking in
volves the gravest perils of future
health. The professor found the most
serious cases of nicotine poisoning al
most invariably were those in which
the sufferers began smoking when
very young.
The symptoms of such poisoning
never appear in youth, but usually
take years to develop. They become 1
apparent in most instances be:wesn
the ages of forty and fifty. i
IN THE 'BIG DUTCH CANALS
More Barges and Boats at Rotterdam
Than' Elsewhere —Woman Always
In Evidence.
London—l think one may see
barges and canal boats in greater
variety at Rotterdam than anywhere
else. One curious thing to be no
ticed as they lie at rest in the canals
is the absence of men. A woman is
always there; her husband only rare
fy. The only visible captain is the
fussy, shrewish little dog which, sus
picious of the whole world, patrols the ;
boat from stem to stern and warns
you that it is against the law even
Along the Canal.
to look at his property. I
bite is not equal to his bark.
Every barge has its name. What
the popular style was seven years
ago, when I was here last, I cannot re- j
member; but today it is “Wilhehawna.
English suburban villas have not a j
greater variety of fantastic names j
than the canaKcraft of Holland: nor, j
with all our monopoly of the word *
“home.” does the English suburban i
villa suggest more compact cozinesp
than .one catches gleams of through
their cabin windows or down their
companions.
Spring cleaning goes on here, as in
the Dutch houses, all the year round. !
and the domiciliary part of the vessels
is spotless. Ea ery bulwark has a
washing tray that can be fixed or de
tached in a moment. “It’s a fine day,
let us kill something,” says the Eng
lishman: “Here’s an odd moment, let |
us wash something," says the Dutch j
vrouw.
In some of the Rotterdam canals |
the barges are so packed that they i
lie touching each other, with their ;
burgees flying ail in the same direc- !
tion. as the vanes of St. Sepulchre’s i
r t r
m Hclburn cannot do. How they ever .
get disentangled again and proceed I
on their free way to their distant
homes is a mystery. But in the shin- i
ping.Avcrid incredible things can hap- ;
pen at night. |
HULL OF THE TUDOR WARSHIP j
Timbers Found in Thames Supposedly
Those of the Great Harry,
Launched in 1514.
!
London. —What is believed to be the
hull of the Great Harry, a famous Tu
dor warship launched in the year 1514 ;
has been discovered at Woolwich. In |
excavations on the south bank of the •
Thames for new electrical works, i
workmen came on the timbers of an |
ancient ship at a depth of some forty \
feet. The hull of the vessel was im
bedded in the soil. The greater part
cf it was removed and subsequently
sold by the borough council.
News of this reached Seymour Lu
cas, R. A,, Avho went immediately to
Woolwich and inspected the timbers,
lie is convinced of the identity of the
remains with the Great Harry. He
said:
"Everything points to it being the
old ship. The timbers are in excellent ;
preservation, but there is no vestige j
of superstructure. It is on record that I
the Great Harry was burned to the
dock built at Woolwich in 1521. Some
thing in the nature of a landslide oc
curred and the ship tvas sunk in dock
No effort was made to refloat her.-
"There will be no difficulty about re
constructing the hull. I feel it should
be acquired for the nation and kept,
say. at GreenAvich, at the Royal Naval
hospital. There is nothing of this date
extant in ail the world.”
The bulk of the timbers is in barges
at Woolwich. It is understood that it
has been acquired by a firm of antiqua
ries.
GAME NOT WORTH THE CANDLE
! *
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Amount of Radium at Bottom of Sea
Too Little tp Send Divers
After.
• Minneapolis l Minn. —There may be
millions of tons of radium at the bot
tom of the sea. as Prof. Harry Jones
of Johns Hopkins university is report
ed to have said, but radium is in such
minute quantities in the sea and land
that it is not available for human use,
declares Prof. A. J. Kovarick of the
physics department of the University
of Minnesota.
“From a ton of pitchblende may be
obtained l-300th of an ounce oi ra
dium, or an amount as large as a
small pea, and pitchblende contains
1,000,000,000 times as much radium as
sea water. To attempt to extract ra
dium from sea water would be fool
ish.
Professor Kovarick said radium
could be used to cure cancer, as re
cently announced, but only where the
disease is not deep seated.
“Radium will cure some diseases of
the skin,” he said, “but cancers are
usually sc far beneath the surface,
and spread in so many directions, that
the physician cannot follow them with
the rays of radium.”
Women Smoke Cigarettes.
Denver. Colo.. Jan. 26.—Patrons of
a fashionable hotel tea room Avere
startled to see Mrs. H. McAuiey of
Chicago and her sister, Avho is a
leader in Denver’s publicly
•incite cigarettes
THIS WOMAN WAS UNCEBOVERNOR OF OREGON
She was governor of Oregon. In v
- ■ organization there is a
“Madam Presi
“l" ' dent.” “Madam
Chairman” or oth-
Ver similar title to
sipnif> that one
C *m °f the opposite
aex is holding an
W* office once held
sacred to mascu
. mim V* But “Madam Gov
- ' matt ernor” strikes the
" ijt'S’- i e3r ft ß the
Iconoclastic sign!-
V f \ ' ficance of modern
i”; times, and to
i% -sm*\ hear it applied to
• - ;>■ ;■. the chief execu
\[ ;
* to mark an entire
march of progress.
And the pioneer “Madam Governor"
is Mrs. Carolyn B. Shelton of Union
county. Oregon, who now applies the
qualities which once served her in
good stead as the governor of her na
tive state to performing the duties of
private secretary to Senator George
E. Chamberlain.
To en£er a man’s business world,
untried and without any previous
training, at an age -when a youth
would not have yet reached his major
ity, and to have accomplished all she
has, would be an achievement of
which any man of middle age might
be proud.
Mrs. Shelton began while yet a girl
and has forged steadily ahead, until
today, in her capacity of private secre
tary to a United States senator, she
also performs the duties of clerk to
the senate committee on military af
fairs, which committee is one of the
COUNT TfSZA, HUNGARY’S FIGHTING PREMIER
No premier in (he world's history
has had such a ruthless opposition to
face In parlia
me at as Count
' ” ' “fighting premier”
of Europe.
He holds his job solely by his abil
ity,to "fight”--not only to fight with
all the political skill for a> hich the
premier is famous, hut also with
sword and pistol. The Emperor Fran
cis Joseph of Austria, who is also king
of Hungary, selected Count, Tisza for
MRS. WOODROW WILSON’S PERSONAL SCRIBE
Miss Helen Woodrow Bones, who is
a first cousin of President Wilson as
well as the per
scnal secretary of
about her imme
f •' diately after she
I her of the house
f hold at the White
f' ■ Jjjg House.
“Many ot the
11 papers spoke of
111*.... my social esperi
vw: enee," Miss Bones
said laughingly.
t “described me as
\ - ,! having spent my
T ;life extending and
> ■&: /. .< 4S:S<SK
‘ receiving ‘genuine
southern hospitality.’ The truth of
the matter is I have been so busy
earning my living ever since I left
school that I’ve had no time to be en
tertained. and neither the time nor
the money to entertain others.
“I was born and brought up at
Rome, Ga. Besides being related to
the president my family and Mrs. Wil
son's family have been close friends
since long before I was born. When
I reache.i the boarding school age I
was sen: to Princeton because my
parents wished me to be near my
WHAT JUSTICE LURTON HEARD ON THE CAR
Justice Horace Burton of the United
States supreme court recently learned
that his opinions
; —-“"i ma y quoted
by others than
A, members of the
.>•; bench and bar.
? Returning heme
..- In a • crowded
: Wffes* street car after a
••; hard day’s work.
* he observed an
old and feeble
lady en er and
V look vainW around
% ’ f° r a Itn
mediately beside
where she at last
.I l ' anchored herself,
t anti clun £ tottcr
. j-U ing to one of the
o v e j hanging
straps, a ccuple
Of lusty youths occupied comfortable
seats.
Tombstone in a Cage.
Very unusual Is the story connected
with an iron cage erected over the
grave of an Indian officer w T ho was a
keen big game hunter. He had the
cage made so that by undoing the
screws at the end it could easily-be
taken to pieces, and be utilized it for
two purposes. On bis tiger shooting
expeditions he had it covered with
green boughs, when it effectively con
cealed him from his quarry, while at
night it covered him while he slept.
The bars, however, were not sufficient
Tint SEA COAST ECHO, BAT ST. LOOTS, MISSISSIPPI
most important adjuncts to that leg
islative body.
Three forces carried Mrs. Shelton
through her career. Perhaps her
natural ability had the most to do
with it. Then. Senator Chamberlain
realized that women were capable as
office holders, long before equal suff
rage was granted in his state, and
made her part of Lis official family.
Lastly, a part of her unusual career
was caused by a peculiar law on the
Oregon statutes.
At the time Mrs. Shelton was acting
governor the state the office of lieu
tenant governor did not exist. The
law read that in the event of the chief
executive’s - death the secretary of
m
state should become governor, and it
was the custom that in the absence
of the governor his private secretary
should become acting head of the
state. Oregon, of course, had had
other governors than George E. Cham
berlain. And during the absence of
these men private secretaries had oft
en become the acting heads of the
state. The whole thing, therefore,
hinged upon the fact that never be
fore had a governor had a woman as
his private secretary. Consequently,
several years before Oregon took its
place among the equal suffrage states
there had been a “Madam Governor"
at its head.
And once Mrs. Shelton, for a period
of a week, was actually the governor,
although she was still called “acting
governor.” That w-as when Governor
Chamberlain, elected to the senate,
took the train lor Washington Febru
ary 27, 1909, without having relin
quished his office, to be sworn in as a
senator the following March 4. In
that interim there was no one above
Mrs. Shelton and for those da„vs she
Avas, in fact, governor of the state of
Oregon.
Hungarian premier because he could
fight. No man not a fighter could
long hold Tisza’s post. When all other
measures of obstruction failed to
cause his “fall” a fanatical follower
of one of the opposition parties tried
to shoot him in parliament as an
enediy of the country. The would-be
assassin’s bullet missed the premier,
and Count Tisza did not even suspend
the session because of the incident.
That having failed, the premier Avas
insulted and challenged to fight a
duel. With heavy cavalry sabres the
premier and his former friend, Mar
quis Pallavinci, fought it out. To his
skill he owes the fact that he is still
alive to be premier.
Hungary is the home of the duel.
Count Tisza, the “fighting premier,”
is Hungary’s champion duellist. He
has fought more duels than any one
man in the country, perhaps in Eur
ope. He has never once been seri
ously wounded.' No one has kept tab
cn the number of duels he has fought
since he entered the turbulent politi
cal arena. Even the premier himself
says they haA-e been so numerous that
he has not attempted to keep track of
them.
cousin and his family. Most of my
holidays were spent with them, and
1 w’as back and forth at my cousin’s
Princeton home to such an extent that
I felt almost if not quite a member
of the household.
“After finishing school I took a po*
sition on a magazine in Chicago.
When that magazine went out of ex
istence I got another office position.
This I held until after my cousin’s
election to the presidency. Then
Mrs. Wilson jnv’ited me to come and
li\’e with them at' the White House
and act as her personal secretary.
“Of course you know I am not her
official private secretary. That very
important position is filled by Miss
Hagner, who. as everybody in the
country knows, acted in the same ca
pacity for Mrs. Roosevelt. Though
Miss Hasner’s time is fully occupied
there are a great many letters AA'hich
Mrs. Wilson turns OAer t:o me. These
letters are of a more personal na
ture, most of them from Mrs. Wilson’s
personal friends. Many are from rela
tives, for you know b> -h the presi
dent and Mrs. Wilson fc-tve a rather
large family connectior.
“Though Mrs. Wilson would much
prefer to attend to sue/; letters her
self, answer every one of them with
her own hand, the demands on her
time make it physically impossible.
Because of this she turns them over
to me as her personal secretary.”
Leaning over, the judge quietly call
ed their attention to tbf old lady’s un
happy situation. An ill-bred sneer,
such as only an ill-bred city youth may
achieve, was the only answer.
Judge Lurton’s chivalric indignation
was aroused. Beckoning the conduc
tor he called his attention to the aged
Avoman swaying unsteadily in the aisle
and demanded that he compel one of
the youths to give her his seat.
“Can’t do it, sir,” replied the con
ductor. "I’d like to, but it’s against
the law and if I’d rout out one o’ these
young brutes he’d sue the company,
and the verdict would be another fel
low’d get my job. One of the judges
o’ the supreme court decided that
question, and”
But Judge Lurton had returned to
his afternoon paper. He remembered
what judge it was!
The man who can write verse is not
always a versatile fellow.
ly close to make him quite secure,
and one night he was so badly mauled
by a tiger that he died of blood pois
oning.—London Strax|d.
Bad Haiit.
“Has your husband amy bad habits?"
said the inquiring relative.
“Yes,” replied Mrs. Torkins.
“Cards for instance.” t
“Does he play poke*”
“No. That’s the worst of his bad
habits. He thinks he playt poker and
doesn’t-”
TIME TO EXERCISE CAITIOfI
Strenuous Exertion of Any f id is
Not for Those Who Have Rec, aed
* Middle Age.
The danping craze has brou ,ht tip
once more the question of exercise
for mlddie-aged people, and both sides
hare been taken with fervor. A pro
fessional strong man is quoted as say
ing that golf is too severe for men
who come to it late, and recommend
ing a week-end of complete rest rath
er than exercise for people of years
who feel ran down. Perhaps that is
the safer side to take if one must
generalize, but generalizations upon
such a question are very difficult. Age
is not properly to be measured in
years, but in the actual condition of
the individual; so great are the ef
fects of heredity, habits, environment,
etc., that a man of sixty aqd one of
forty may be contemporaries. But cer
tainly after middle life is reached It
is the part of prudence to make sure
that there are no weak spots before
going in for a more active life. There
is something in the saying a man
is as young as he feels, but one is
apt at times to feel younger than
he is, and in ope of these paroxysms
of youthfulness, such as the contagion
of the tango may bring on, he can eas
ily by indiscretion do himself an in
i
jury. No doubt those who stand most
in need of caution are those who in
youth have been notecT for strength,
agility and skill, and who have long
led a sedentary life. They are apt to
be impulsive and energetic: they have
a pride in physical accomplishment
and a high standard: what seems to
them a mere romp may be really a
severe tax upon vital organs long ac
customed to inactivity.—Springfield
Republican.
LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP SURE
That Meeting of Affinities is Inev
itable Is Opinion Advanced by
This Novelist.
There are people in life one never
more than just brushes by; from
whom one gains nothing; to whom one
gives nothing. People who, though
they may be the pivot of another’s
life —and that’s always very difficult
to realize and remember —are no more
to you than a faintly penciled draw
ing. You may be introduced to them
again and again, know all their rela
tions, their personal history, admire
and approve. But that is all. It is
no use arranging meetings; striving
to know’ each other better: you’ll nev
er get any nearer.
Love and friendship are as inev
itable as all else in this inevitable
world. You may first meet at the an
tipodes and each go opposite ways—
perhaps without even speaking. But
if you are native to each other you
will meet again and again. People
lose half their energy in contriving
and planning. They arc like men who
w’ould try to hurry on an express train
by getting out and pushing: or —to
use a very homely simile —like cer
tain impatient persons, who. instead
of waiting for a bus, imagine they
save time by walking on so that it
may overtake them. —Prom “Simp
son,” by Elinor Mordaunt.
The Higher Life.
A big Chicago concern has solved
' the problem which confronts many
I large business houses of providing a
! recreation spot for their employes, by
; utilizing the roof of its new building.
In one section of the space the men
I and boys play indoor baseball behind
strong wire netting. A continuation
of this space, roofed ever and fur
nished with plenty of comfortable
; chairs and settees and made attract
ive with flower stands and palms, is
a lounging room and smoker; and this
opens into the dining-room.
Rooms for the use of women em
ployes, a library and a rest room and
an emergency hospital are on the
other side of the building, and open
ing from this section is a roof garden
exclusively for women’s use. Wind
ing walks are bordered with flowers
and palms, and in them the w r omen
and girls may saunter during their
•recreation hour, gaze far out over the
city and lake, and forget the “nerves”
sharpened by the daily grind.
Heart of New York.
I So much is heard of the heartless
! ness of New York business men that
I it is refreshing to hear another side of
I the story. A young woman had been
- employed by a large wholesale house
i for three months. It was her first
! position. She became ill, and, believ
ing that conditions surrounding her
work were unsuitable to her, resigned.
The firm then sent a check for two
weeks’ salary and wrote that when
she recovered if they could help her i
in any way, either financially or to se- |
cure another position, she was to call
upon them. Fortunately she didn’t
have to, and now no one dares to tell
her that New York is cruel and heart
less to the struggling new-comer.
Pennies -Worth Much.
The familiar old English saying,
“Take care of the pennies and the
pounds will take care of themselves,”
proves its w’orth whenever a big coin
collection is sold. In London a few
days ago a penny coined in the reign of
Ethelred brought SSOO (£100) by auc
tion. One which was minted when Al
fred was king was sold for S2OO. These
were coins dug out of “finds,” either
the secret stores of the thrifty of one
thousand years ago or the ruins of
some ancient disbursing office. There
is a great deal of hidden treasure in
the earth, and if Ethelred pennies are
to be found in veins it would pay Eng
lish capitalists to start mining opera
tions.
The amateur political orator had
rambled along for about 40 minutes
and the crowd in the hall had grown
uneasy. The orator stopped and
turned to the chairman of the meet
ing.
“Mr. Chairman,*' protested the ora
tor, “there is so much noise in here
that I can’t hear a word I’m saying.”
“Cheer up! * yelled a voice in the rear
of the hall. “You ain’t missing much.”
After Trials.
“So she has taken another husband.”
“Not as she considers it. The atbeoj
vert cml; samples, "—^Tudge.
LONDON FULL OF BEGGARS
Mendicants and Cadgers Appear In
the Great Metropolis in All
Sorts of Disguises.
There are many professional beg
gars in London, who have their own
copyright methods of extracting coin
from a sympathetic and credulone pub
lic. You may perhaps have come
across the distressed governess, out
of a situation, who asks you in Oxford
street the way to walk to Turnham
Green, and is so staggered at the dis
tance that you ask her to accept the
bus fare, v
Then there is the transatlantic
journalist stranded in the metropolis.
He is too proud to seek aid from some
of his millionaire friends at the Cecil,
but if you could? —and perhaps you
do.
Most artistic of all mendicants is
the old lady of grandmotherly appear
ance dressed in black silk. She iup
in London for the day, and someone
has robbed her of her purse. She has
called on her solicitor, but unfortu
nately he was out. What shall she
do? You give her the train fare and
she promises to send the money on to
you if you will give her your address.
But if you are wise you decline, and
thus escape a shoal of begging let
ters. For addresses of benevolent
i persons have a market value among
I the cadging fraternity. London
j Chronicle. •
j MAKES PRETTY EVEN MIXTURE
■ Problem Play' and Mental Arithmetic
in About Equal Quantities Met
With In Life.
Life is an even mixture of problem
i play and mental arithmetic. The other
• fellow is a perplexing problem and
; sometimes a vexing one. It is asion
; ishing that he does no better. He does
i nothing but make a mess of things
Experience to you is never a predi
gested breakfast food. It is a nut to
crack, and only good mental digestion
will get away with it after you get to
the meat. Everything that happens to
you is backed by a rule. Its start and
finish are the inexorable logic of ap
plied or misapplied principle. That is
i where you do your figuring. Light
ning calculators have been known to
figure ahead. That is where the say
ing of looking before leaping comes
from. It is the spiritual parallel of
intricate calculus. Some people never
were good at figures. Life keeps
sweet because there never was any
body who did not like to try.
Doll Collectors.
A great many people collect dolls for
their own pleasure, and at the mo
ment the collection of china puppets is
popular. A variety to add to the store
are the newly introduced pantomime
folk, charmingly rendered in the tra
| ditional raiment of the old-world
i Christmas trio.
Columbine is the demurest little
lady with a mid-Victorian charm; her
sleek black hair is parted in the cen
ter and she has on a white frock loop
ed up with bunches or rosebuds and
foliage. She is poised on tip-tqes and
I looks, with her downcast eyes and
folded hands, the picture of fascina
tion and conquetry. Harlequin is just
the harlequin of one’s dreams, slen
der as a reed, inconsequent, all-con
quering. His parti-colored and skin
tight suit is a vivid contrast to poor
eld pantaloon’s white and baggy cloth
ing, and to that subservient and much
injured ancient is given just the ex
pression that provokes others to make
him the butt of their foolish jokes.
Trick of Ski Jumping.
The art of ski-jumping is not so
easy as it looks before trying, nor so
hard to learn as it might appear after
the first attempt. At the start, or
takeoff, come down as though you
were coasting on the ski, then at the
moment of the take-off bend the body
well forward from the hips and throw
as much of the weight as possible into
the knees. As you leave the edge of
the jump straighten quickly at the
hips and secure as much as possible
the effect of jumping straight out into
the air. While in the air hold the arras
as still as possible in the position that
best preserves the balance, keep the
ski points slighWy down, as near as
possible parallel with the slope of the
hill. The body should be perpendicu
lar to the slope and the skis kept
well together. On landing, advance
one ski a* far as possible without up
setting, bending the knee of the leg
that is advanced. Keep the skis to
gether and parallel. The rest is prac
tice —and more practice. —Outing.
The Dancing Bushman.
That wonderful Bushman who lived
for several years at Kimberley and re
sisted the temptation to learn a word
of English, .Dutch or "any known
South African language,” while con
versing volubly in his own unknown
tongue, is now back from Paris. Once
more he has been put under the mi
croscope, the horoscope and all the
other instruments of the Cambridge
Anthropological laboratory. Professor
Duckworth assures us that this is not
only a Bushman, but a “type of Bush
man unrecognized hitherto.” We sus
pect, howerer, that he will go down
to history, or whatever may be his
destiny, as the Little Legpuller. For
our Bushman signalized his reception
at Cambridge by giving "an exhibition
of dancing to a large audience in the
new' examination hall of the univer
sity.” With the tango all the rage,
why not establish a chair of dancing
at Cambridge and Install this already
distinguished South African? —South
Africa.
The Ruling Passion.
“Great Scot, but this is a noisy
town! Does the racket keep up this
way all the time?”
“I should say not. Today is an ex
tra occasion.”
“What’s all the hurrah about?”
“The* Antinoise society has just put
over another one of its pet ordinances
and the special committees are cele
brating the victory.”
Natural Fireman
“Is your husband one of these men
who always want to run to a fire?”
“Yes,” replied Mrs. . Gorntossel;
“and then sit down In front of it and
go to sleep.”
i EVER give up, there ar*
JL chances and changes
A.ciping the hopeful, a hundred to onev
And, throught the chaos, high wisdom ar
ranges
Ever success, if you’ll only hold on.”
HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS,
A large chicken is much more e<*>
comical to buy than a small one, as
the pro portion of meat to bone is
i greater. After all the meat is re-
I moved, the bits too small to serve on
| the table may be used in a salad or
|in a cream sauce on toast. Put the*
bones and a stalk or two of tho
; coarser outside leaves of celery into
a kettle with one onion and any v other
I bits of vegetable which may be left
over. Simmer gently in water to
cover for several hours or in a fire--
less cooker. This stock may be served 1
with a tablespoonful of cooked rice
in each bowl or with barley or sago.
Boiled Chestnuts. —When one de
sires a change of vegetables, try cook
ing some of the large Italian chest
| nuts. They are not expensive for oc
! casional use, and are very nutritious
and appetising. Make a little crosa
with a sharp knife on the flat side of
each shell, cutting well into the nut.
Place in the oven, and in a few min
utes they will shell very easily. Boil
in salted water until tender; mash
with a fork, season as on© doea
mashed potatoes, and serve hot. Or
the nuts may be left whole and served
in a rich cream sauce.
Fig and Nut Pudding.—Take two
cupfuls of boiling water, a half tea
spoon of salt, one-half cupful of sugar
and stir into this enough graham flour
to make a thin mush. Cook a half
hour, then add a half cup of chopped
figs and a few Brazil nuts; serve with
; whipped cream. This Is a pudding
i one may make in an emergency w hen
j the unexpected guest arrives,
j Candied Orange Peel.—Take the
halves of oranges or grape fruit left
j from the breakfast table, throw' them
I in cold water and let stand until you
have a sufficient quantity, then put
; them into boiling water and scald,
! pouring off the water, adding fresh wa
j ter three times to remove the bitter
taste. Then scrape out the white in
ner pulp and put the yellow skins
! back into the water; add salt and cook,
until tei jer; cut in thin strips and
i boil in a heavy sirup until all the s
| gar is absorbed. Lay on plates to dry.
This confection may be used lor any
number of dishes, as a garnish for a
i dish of orange ice or ice cream it is
especially nice, and may also add to
j ihe appearance of the dish if nicely ar
ranged.
When a fellow knows his business, ho
doesn't have to explain to people that ho
dots. It isn't what a man knows hut
what he thinks he knows that lie brags
about. Big talk means little knowledge,
—George Horace Lorlmer;-
STUDY OF CHOCOLATE.
The great excuse for lack of train
i ing along the lines of household econ
| omics in our country and village
schools is of course untrained teach
| ers and lack of equipment. The fi*st
requisite will be an interested teach
er. This training may come from:
reading, if in no other way, and it ia
indeed a poor school which has no fa
cilities for boiling water. The ideal
instruction nowadays is that which
takes what the child knows and builds
on and adds to that knowledge. Whac
could be more interesting in connec
tion with the geography lesson when
studying the countries where the ca
cao tre' grows, to enlarge on that
knowledge, for the language lesson or
for writing: then at the noon hour
make a pot of cocoa, leach the girl.n
as well as the boys haw to make it
well? An ordinary box stove may bo
the means of starting many a girl
with the right teacher for an inspirer
on the road to a broad knowledge of
household economics.
Our own country was the first to
use this wonderful bean; in Mexico,
years before we were discovered, the
natives prepared it by mixing with the
ripe, ground bean, spices and corn
meal. This was before pure food laws
were in force.
The seeds were ground into rid*
oily paste and pressed and dried l
cakes.
Chocolate Cup Custards. —Heat a,
quart of milk, peat four eggs and add
five tablespoonfuls of sugar; pour this
scalded milk slowly over the eggs,
beating all the time. Add five table
spoonfuls of grated chocolate and
pour the custard into cups set In
water; steam on the top of the stove
or bake in the oven, always remem
bering to keep plenty of water around
the cups. When the custard begins
to set, remove the cups, set. them into
cold water, which will drive the heat
to the center.
Her Opportunity.
Maid —“I’ve come to give notice,
ma’am.” Mistress —“Indeed?” Maid —-
“And would you give me a good ref
erence, ma’am? I’m going to Mrs.
Jones, across the way.” Mistress—*
“The best in the w’orld, Maggie. I hate
that woman.” —New York Globe.
Danger in “Scorching.”
An eminent doctor says he has
found a cyclist’s pulse to beat as high
as 250 times a minute immediately
after making a fast mile. This illus
trates the danger of “scorching.”
Think It Over,
Our colleague at the adjacent desk
has just cogitated this: If a man haa
nothing, he must do something to
have anything. But if a man has
something, he needn’t do anything to
have nothing in short time. —•
Boston Transcript.
How It Happened.
Ethel —“Did you''know Josie had
thrown Frank over?” Mabel—“ Goo
dness, no! Why?” Ethel —“Oh, the
wretch stopped calling and writing,
and all that, 1 understand,’’*--Judge,