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MODERN SCJENCE
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HAT would you think
of coaching your I
heart's tender and I
sentimental overflow
in the dots and
dashes of the Morse
code? You can't brush a
the parental parlor
rug with your kmees
by wireless; you can't a
plead with your eyes, when words
tail. wit- a calloused operator in
Cupid's role-yet the thing has been a
done sad successaflly done. Only a
few days ago a young man accom
plished the impossible and brought I
his Heloisa back from a transatlantic 4
trip by wireless. We hear of mar
rages by telephone, proposals by pho
nograph, elopements by special trains,
sad aeroplane romances-now what, in I
the name of things old-fashioned, has
become of the la who used to call
for a year, recite on his knees from
the poets, sad ask father's permission I
and blessing?
The most recent aa$ flagrant viola
tion of the staid old formulas was this
wireless wooing of young Lawrence
Critcholl of Chicagq, but it is simply
an omen p9 what one may expect in
the future. This is the story.
Miss Leslie Miller to Chicago went
to San Fracisco some months ago
With her mother and there met a
punag man who eventually proved an
enterprising Lchinvear. Lawrence
Critabell saw Miss Miller in and about
town ter nearly a week. During this
brief period be unrcosaonaly--or to
be more paychblogicaly exact-sub
consciously became enamored of the
young lady. For some reason this did
not dawn upon him until she who had
inspired the unwonted tremors had
go.ne. Mrs.gGeorge Miller and her
daughter wefe bound for Chicago and
New York on route for Paris. Whog
Miss Miller disappeared from his sight
Critchell for the first time realised
that something was lacking in his
life.
Wireless the Last Resource.
He boarded the next train east and
held up the special at a half dozen
stations to send burning telegrams
after the mother and daughter. All
his haste was of no avail, for when
he reached New York Miss Miller had
already sailed for Europe. There was
nothing left but wireless. It was too
late to pursue her with a tug or any.
thing of that sort, so the wireless had
to serve. His trat message was re
warded with an answer. Yes-she
liked him, but she was noncommittal.
A few more heated messages scorched
the ether and the proposal was ac
cepted, also by wireless. She prom.
ised to return by the next boat and
she kept her word.
She arrived in New York the first
week of the new year and, of course,
as the best sellers have it, they were
ineffably happy in their reunion. They
were married at the Chicago home in
Prairie avenue with all dispatch and
proceeded on their honeymoon accord
ing to the accepted conventions.
This, of course, is typically Amer
Ican, for no one could conceive of
such a thing happening abroad, and it
is of necessity charactertitic of this
age.
Opportunity for Thrilling Romance.
Aeroplanes are still in the hands of
demonstrators and experimentalists,
but certainly the day is not far dla
tant when the outraged parent of an
eloping daughter will rumble down
VAGARIES OF ENGLISH NAMES
Traveler After Much Humiliation Re
turns to New York, Where
Letters Spell Words.
There is a good deal of fun poked at
Americans by English people because
of the American pronunciation, says a
writer in the Outlook. Here are some
of the adventures in names met with
on a recent trip to England. It began
On a steamer crossing the Atlantic.
The American's chair happened to be
placed next to that of a fine-looking
man whose cultivated accent i.stantly
proclaimed him an Englishman. In
the course of events the gracious stran
ger struck up a conversation and hand
ed his fellow passenger a card, which
read: Mr. - Glogher; of comewhere
to Gloucester. When the New Yorker
addressed his acquaintance as Mr.
Gleg-her, the British gentleman never
quivered an eyelash, but said blandly.
-preouneed Klore, if you don't mind,"
and the ignorant American was very
eareful about it after that.
Down in Surrw he wanted to take
upon the escaping couple in his eighty
horsepower car only to see them rise
before him and soar aloft as on a
magic carpet. What a thrilling Jules
Verne romanc could be written right
now with the latest scientific devices
as the nucleus to the plot. %
Take this as a pattern romance.
Father objects to Rerinald's presence
about the house. He is forbidden to
call and Gwendolyn pines alone.
Reginald is for a time frantic, then
despondent, and then an inspiration
is born of his despondency. Gwen
dolyn owns a phonograph. Acting on
the inspiration Reginald invests in an
outfit and breathes passion into the
tin horn after this fashion:
"Darling Owendolyn, do you recog
nise this voice? I know it is strange
in your ears, for sorrow has clouded
my soul and the tones that were once
merry, which vibrated with the joy
that I felt in life"-and so forth for
three-fourths of the record; then the
following in hurried, dramatic whis
pers: "Gwennie, dear, be at your win
dow Wednesday night at 9:30 and
we'll put one over on the old man.
Slide out into my six cylinder and
we'll beat it to my aero shed, where
the boys will have the biplane ready
for us. Mind you, Gwennie, no
trunks." This is not exactly amorous
diction, but under the pressure of
emotional excitement the best lover
will lapse into the vernacular.
Gwendolyn, the Unsuspecting One.
Owendolyn in the privacy of her
rooms to which she has retired to
pine receives the record with the next
consignment from the dealer and after
playing a few ragtimers and reproduc
tions of Caruso and Melba she slips
Reginald's record on the machine and
faints at the first words, just recov
ering in time to hear the elopement
plans. They elope. Father pursues in
his aeroplane. They capture .a par
son and embark with him on a sub
marine and come to the surface just
in time to see father's specitlly char
tered turbine liner bearing 4own up
on them. hp npews of the w ding is
transmitted by wireless telephone and
lorgiveneas is forthcoming by the
same medium, whereupon they all re
turn by transatlantic dirigible which
happens to be passing.
Even this scheme of affalrs--on
which, by the way, no rights are pre
empted--fails to include a proposal
by telepathy and a marriage over the
wireless telephone. There have actu
ally been proposals by phonograph
with strange complications. There is
one instance on record where the ob
streperous parents received the
canned message first, ran it off on the
phonograph. and intercepted all the
plans. There have been marriages
over the telephone where the run.
away couple were besieged in such a
fashion that they could not reach a
parson or magistrate to tie the bow
line knot so they just called one on
the phone and had him read the serv
Ice over the wire, they making the
responses and transferring the ring
in the most approved fashion.
The marital bureau was a novelty in
its day, a radical departure from the
conventiops of wooing, proposing,
eloping and wedding, but the telephone
wedding, the wireless proposal and
the aeroplane flight in no wise con
flict with the sacred formulas of mat
ing: they simply use new instruments
to facilitate the most ancient and
time honored ceremonies.
the train for Pontefract Common. He
asked the ticket seller for a ticket to
the place, pronouncing it as it is
spelled. "No such place, sir, said the
clerk. "Surely." the tourist protested,
"here it is, and, fumbling for his pre
cious map, laid a triumphant linger up
on It. "Oh, Pomfret!" said the pale
eyed ticket vendor, and smiled pitying
ly. "That's it-Pomfret," the visitor
said bravely, and pocketed his heavy
change.
At the station at "Pomfret." a
quaint old omnibus stood waiting with
a sign on the side announcing that it
conveyed passengers to the St. Leger
Inn and Wrensfordsley Hall for six
pence. The man from the west asked
the sleepy-looking driver which was
the smaller house, the St. lager or the
Wrensforsley, but was met with that
blank, dazed look which he had now
learned to connect with his bad pro
nunciation.
"See here, my good man," he said,
"how do you pronounce this namer
pointing to St. Leger with his stick.
"Why, Sillenger, sir."
"Oh! ! !" said the astoalshed tar
Now, for instance, if a young man a
century or so hence finds it impossi
ble to reach his beloved in the hour of
his inspiration he is really commit
ting no sin against convention by
transmitting his immortal question
through the medium of the Impalpable
ether. A proposal by telepathy, if it
be properly directed and not permit
ted to wander astray and settle upon
the wrong recipient, should be qdite
as proper and should be as impartial
ly considered as a kneeling petition
on the aforesaid parental rug.
What a boon this same telepathy
will be to the separated lovers! The
young woman sits in the parental
homestead under a revere matronly
eye. Suddenly a message begins to
rattle upon the keys of her trained
and receptive mind. "Hello, Mabel,
this is John. I have a scheme for our
elopement, etc., etc." "All right, John,
dear." says Mabel, as she picks the
lint off her father's coat and hands
him his hat, "I think we can shut poor
old dad's eye this time," and the elope
ment is executed or interrupted, ac
cording to the feasibility of John's
scheme.
A more commonplace and yet a
most modern and effective medium for
romance has been discovered by the
apple packing girls of the fruit grow
ing west. The young woman who
slips red apples into a crate wearies
of the society in which she has been
placed. So she secretly ties tags to
the stems of several handsome apples,
giving her name, address and Inti
mating that she would be delighted to
hear from the recipient if the re
cipient should happen to be a male.
Now these buxom maids of the
healthy and hearty west often make
good wives and the lonely bachelor
who eventually purchases the apples
is delighted with the prospect of com
ing in touch with a pretty girl, differ
ent from the staid and conventional
maidens of his acquaintance. He
writes a breezy letter and receives a
cheery response and a picture. He
packs a shirt and two collars int9 his
grip and starts west. They meet,
blush, giggle and talk through a meal.
A week or so later they start east
together-the happy culmination of an
apple romance. Of course, they do
not all end this way.
Missives Go Wrong.
Unhappily many of these little mis
sives fall into the hands of the un
available. But romances have come
from them and such affairs are not
confined to apples, but apples are the
latest and the girls behind the apples
need little recommendation, if all ac
counts of the apple country are to be
credited.
This is terribly plebeian, compared
with the future wedding of a girl in
Chicago with an impatient lover in
Hongkong by wireless telephone and
such things as submarine elopements.
In this age of special trains and scores
of gilded swains who can afford to
ride in them, a man can pick up his
beloved in one town, a justice of the
peace in the next, and be married en
route before the pursuers have run
their automobile out of the shed. A
troubled mother may endeavor to rush
her daughter away from London to
evade the attentions of a suitor who
does not fit into the family ideals of a
husband, but by taking a fast train
to Dover or Plymouth and running
out bn a lighter, the energetic Lochin
var can get aboard and' persuade one
of the numerous pastors always to be
founds on a trans Atlantic liner to per
form the ceremony while the watchful
matron is congratulating herself on
her cleverness.
Results Discouraging to Others.
Everyone remembers that Lina Cav
aliers was captured by cable, but this
must not be dwelt upon, for the re
sults of the Chanler wooing might be
discouraging to those who contem
plate a similar campaign upon the
heart of a maiden far removed.
Lawrence Critchell's success in his
pursuit of Miss Leslie Miller is a more
wholesome example and in view of
this episode it would seem that there
are really no obstacles to true love
any more. Every gain in speed of
transmission and transportation is a
gain of Cupid. Every obstacle over
come by science makes a breach for
the clever and wily little invader.
Now think what would happen if there
had been no wireless. Mr. Critchell
would have had to wait for the next
boat and continued his pursuit to
Paris. There he would, doubtless,
have found that the Millers had gone
to Italy. By the time their stopping
place had been discovered in Italy
they would have returned to America
and whatever the optimistic may have
to say about absence and the fond
ness of the heart, love in these days
of hurry and impatience is not as
everlasting as it was in pastoral Ar
cadia.
Perhaps the wireless was wholly
responsible for the success of a real
romance-perhaps there would have
been one anyway, but at least it saved
time-enormously. And then it dem
onstrated beyond refutation that love
is a god wide awake to advantages,
not so highly perched among the
mists of Olympus that he cannot de
scend to use the man made devices,
without which the gods manage to get
along somehow in their own relations,
if tradition is worth anything.
eigner. "And now how do you pro
nounce this?"-his stck on Wrens
fordsley.
"Rensley, sir."
"Well, drive me to 1Rensley Hall,
then." And he got in-and made an
other entry in his note book. Among
numerous other instances was a Mr.
Colclough who sold fish in a Surrey
village and pronounced his name Cok.
ley, without rhyme or reason. A Mr
Magheramorn was clerk of a hotel, and
got Marramorn out of his name. The.
visitor was introduced to a Mr. Munle
and found out afterward that he spelled
it Monzie. A lovely young English
widow was the lady at the American's
left at an English dinner party; she
was called Raven, but he learned af.
terward that it was only an alias, her
real name being Ruthven.
After that the traveler thought it
was time to go home to rest, and sc
he sailed for New York, where letters
spell words, and are not just put in
for fun.
Elghty-five thoesand square miles
of land are drained by Labke aperloa
Hats for Matrons
N SPITE of all the jibes flung at
womankind for her fickleness as to
fashions in headwear, there are
some sorts of hats that are always
worn and always in style,'or able to
defy the passing fads of the moment.
Among them are the small toques de
signed for elderly matrons and others
who affect inconspicuous and good
styles, the walking hat, dear to all
women, and the big picture hat, with
broad brim of graceful flowing lines
which is the rose in the rosebud gar
den of hats every seasn. All the
styles vary a little from time to time,
but hardly enough to identify them
selves as belonging to a certain year.
Three pretty and becoming hats for
matrons are pictured here suitable to
almost any season. The variation of
the English walking hat, with brim
faced with velvet, and turning up at
the left, is finished with a very ample
drapery of silk. , The arrangement of
this drapery gives the impression of a
shape turned up at both sides, as in
the regulation walking shape. Such a
hat needs no additional trimming, but
may be adapted to young wearers by
the addition of a smart feather4 or it
may be elaborated for anyone by a
tuft of ostriCh half plumes. One must
look far for a more elegant hat or
a model so universally secoming.
Hats of this character require the
work of an experienced milliner;
nothing short of perfection in draping
and In finish is permissible in them.
Facings must fit; trimmings must be
placed by a practiced eye, otherwise
the hat is a dismal failure and im
possible.
The toque of silk or hair braid
shown in the second figure is easier
to accomplish. It is made on a light
wire frame which has an ample head
size. The frame is covered with chif
fon and faced with maltne shirred on
GIVE COMFORT IN' BOUDOIR
Dainty Bedroom .Sipperp Should Be
a Standard Artlee for Every
day Use.
A dainty piftt bedroom slippers
nay be made . two .lapped' see
tions of shirred treq4bcb ribbon (the
length, of course, depending on the
size of the foot) attached across the
front of a lamb's-wool sole. This foims
the toe and instep portion.
The sides and back of the slipper
are formed of a straight band of rib
bon, lined with satin and sewed to
the sole. If desired, it can be stiffen
ed with bristq board. Flowered taf
feta ribbon is best for this purpose,
but it should not be too flimsy.
A drawstring passed through the
upper edge of the sides may be tied
in a bow in front, or the upper edge
may be finished at the sides and back
by a two-inch wide pbrtlop lined with
the satin in a contrasting cover por
tion, turned down likhe a collar and
caught by a few stitches or a baby
ribbon rosette.
Bedroom Wall Papers.
Some. of the cut-out borders are
charming used with simple, almost
plain, side walls, and chintz or cre
tonne curtains carrying out the design
of the border. Then again, if the wall
spaces are large, it is sometimes inter
esting to divide them up into panels,
either with simple ribbon or flower
borders or with floral crowns and
borders similar to the one illustrated.
The panelled rooms, however, have
the disadvantage of seeming to re
quire a little more elaborate furnish
ing than those in which the walls are
treated simply. They seem to de
mand Sheraton, Heppelwhite, or
Adams furniture.-Harper's Bazar.
Cretonne Shades.
The newest and prettiest thing in
home decoration is the lamp shade of
shirred cretonne or flowered silk. For
these heavy wire frames are purchas
ed, the round shape being the best.
The cretonne or silk is then shirred
tightly, under this frame, and clamped
or glued to it. A narrow border of
PRETTY PRESENT FOR FRIEND
Embroidery Sc;ssors Holders One of
the Most Acceptable Gifts That
Can Be Made.
If you can do even the simplest sort
of crocheting, you must make your
self and your friends one of the little
crocheted silk embroidery scissors
holders. These consist simply of a
cork, crocheted around in silk every
where except the top surface, and
with a crocheted string or handle to
which the scissors are attached. Then
when they are not in use the points
are stuck into the cork and they are
out of harip's way.
An accompantment of this, not quite
so new, but very useful, is a tiny glass
medicine vial without a lid, crocheted
all over very finely. Into it are
drop-ed broken needles and bent pins,
and they are far safer there than
thrown carelessly on the Moor or in
thd wastebasket When the vial is
fall slip off the silk-a little drawing
0string at the bottom permits ths-
and empty it, buryin the needles i
The coronet is covered with ruf
fles of the braid and the crown is made
by puffing a drapery of braid over it.
Black satin ribbon three inches wide
is puffed to the toque brim from the
back to a point at the middle of the
left brim. Here a ribbon plume is
set made by sewing short loops to a
wire support. Two jet ornaments or
pins fasten the plume to the hat. and
add a pretty touch of brllliatce to the
lustrous surface of the ribbon. The
hat is good in any dark or rich color.
but is at its best in black. The mae
terials of which it is made must be ex
cellent in quality.
A hat with drooping brim and large
crown, of black hair braid, is made
strictly a mode of the teason, but, as
it is patterned after the CorQay hat, It
is not likely to ever be out of style
It is an elegant bil of millinery, trim
med with ropes of Tuscan straw and
an applique of .eaves made of black
satin forming a close set wreath. One
or two plumes mounted at the side,
complete a bat to be proud ot
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
CREPE DE CHINE WAIST.
This attractive waist is of white
crepe de chine made with tucks in
different widths and trimmed with
bands of cream lace or embroidery.
The gulmpe is made of bands el
valenciennes Insertion, the collar
edged with black velvet, of which the
knot on the front of the waist Is alse
made
furniture guimpe conceals the joining
place.
In tapestry this rariety of lamp
shade becomes really gorgeous. The
idea, of course, can be applied in any
of these materials to candle shades
as well.
Wedding 8Uver.
The necessary silver for a bride is:
Four sets of spoons, which Includes
soup, dessert, tea, and after-dinner cof.
fee: butter knives; four sets of forks,
including oyster forks, and .two sizes
of steel knives with silver handles.
If the carving is to be done oa the ta
ble, two sets of earvers will be needed.
The newest and prettiest chest to
hold these comes without drawers
now, and the silver is arranged in
piles, with the two sets of knives
spread in the cover of the box-the
whole lined with soft ooze leather.
the earth or throwing them into tae
fire.
These two little sewing contriv
ances, attached by a bit of ribbon in
the same color, will make charming
favors for the next luncheon of your
sewing society.
Crepe Blouses.
Smart and new are the Canto. crepe
blouses in creamy white. with the
Paisley border interwoven in such a
novel manner as to show the tor
shawl corners in the front, back and
elbow kimono sleeves. The breshy
touch comes In black satin appliques
on the collar and cuffs. Wee buttons,
covered with black satin, are also used
in the decoration, seemingly to tie the
design together.
Metal Pabries.
Metal tunic draperies at- the ack,
flexible and glittertg, are a marued
feature in dressy godns, tlling trem
between the shoudmers. gs, amd
smae metal dLes oa tahi as tw
meanh dite to a so&
FOE OF CHILDHOOD'S ENEMY
In the laboratories of the
ler institute, near New York,
mon Flexner and his corps of
ants believe they are about to
that dread disease of childhood,
tile paralysis, now epidemic in
parts of the United States.
of monkeys are giving their lves
ery year to the aid of scienc t
quering this dread disease, the
key being the only animals in a -
list of those suitable for ex
tibn that they have succeeded
ulating with the disease. The
organism of the disease has
lated and an early announ
expected that a preventive,
and safe serum has been
Infantile paralysis, or anterior
myelitis, as it is known to the
cal profession, has long badled
cal science. Ordinarily it
children between the ages of )1%
3 years, but older children and
are not immune. Although the
rate is not so high as in cerebrospinal meningitis, the train of
deformities. which follow infantile paralysis makes the disease fully as
dreaded. Only about four or five per cent. of (hose attacked sucontub,
fully 80 per cent. of the cases result in permanent paralysts.
Infantile paralysis is a comparatively new disease Its symptomms
been described In medical literature for about 25 years, but only in the
four years, since the epidemic of 1907, has it been brought stroegly to
attention of the profession in America.
The disease is not striking in its symptoms. It usually begins
languor, quickly followed by nausea, inertia, this last lapsing into
paralysis and absolute cessation of nearly every muscular function.
the passing of the acute stage the patient either recovers, provided it
not result fatally, or is left with some muscles of the body paralysed,
those of the arms, legs or back.
ADVOCATES GOOD HIGHWAYS
W. Page, direct of the U
States oces of puble roads ad
/ dent at the new AIperlican
for Highway Improvement.
the the United States suers a
\ ees at $40,00,000 anally on
of lacerreot and inadequate
in the co trunctiom , maintensace
•\ adS·intatration of public roads.
This enrmous loss is nothing
pared with the indirect lossk
excessive cost of t p
which e caed by the burden
S bad oads impose upon the
and others who uoe the b
this eat, according to It.
report reaches the impressive
SSPMW .0,0uae0 evay year.
Miense fam eris
o tiro] tmes a muh ito
products market as the m"t
tills the ground in hape, sat'
added ast of transportation W.
to be an impertant totsr a
cost of riIs pobtera. Road
say conditions here and abrad are mLast moly avresed, due
bad roads.
Director Page has described the aeditis at the reds of the
States In making an announcement that the AWlssa Assdstem No
way Improvement has opened ofces n Wa~U2 o. Thie
this association followed a~conference of said a th6i i1 --g read
of the country, the presidents of Ite at the Iarge rsiosed systssm
representatives of automobile manufacprer ad pbsang intarse .
Aocording to President Page sad ther ofeas0 at, the eglstinwd
principal work ahead is to correlate and hIraialS O' mdAs8i of all
organizations working for road improymesat to Is ralfm rad
tion in every state, and to seek coatinomu ad stemastie
all roads. * :,
DUKE IS TO GQVERN CANA
It is oHcially sanoucel
duke of Cosasught will
Grea Im 0sptebter ad
eral ot Ceasda. He will bold
paitment for two years and
rid may be extemded.
The sam nseems that
4s _t% ato Comaa oht wilt be th net
nor gseral of th Doe mias
calved lt Ottawa with mrt
tics. bAside rse his general
to threaight the earte. M'
that the presenoe of so
a membet d the roygal m!"
taws will gse the capital
ml au nd aS porm es t01
has had.
The dubsk t oanght is
surlvlvnt bmlher of the late
ward. ae:$ isty years of e .
marshatl i the British army
a pesOW.Sl 4. caomp to
klsi, tae iwteld tht be
pisept agi lite m t. This its
dryt trilp 1 Ad> as he
the Fenila raid of 1170. He is grand neater o t0o re Min s ofe si
Besides the title by which he is commonly known ha is the N rl o
a prince of the United Kingdom and of BSazsen af aid Gohs and
Lazony. His wife; was Princes Louisa Margaret of Prues.a.
Varous, reports have been current fron time to tta, parti .
Canadian sources, that the duke of Connaught would et be the
nor general of Canada, although on the original samansenoent of his
meat, shortly after the death of King Edward. it was odltaly
had been the wish of the late king that the due of mmaut, his
should go to Canada as governor generaL
SUCCEEDS SENATOR BURRO
Perhaps beI u of his own
ailty as well as because be is
- cesoor of the old veteran,
ir Burrows, In the United
ate, Charles I Townsend is
as a fure st considerabl
,aZ in national stbs.
( Whena i rgency br .e e.d,
boause of representatives
rule t 8peaker (anneo
who had ben eleted to
1908, became one at Its pwr
saupporters. His name was .
Steoned thast of an availale
date against Uncle Joe. Thn
sesaer ol last year he been
wide campaign in Ylebian
the senatorial toga from the
Unole Julius. who was a v
he ose of representatives
ownrted was a student and"
ready were the togs wheo
was a plodding lawyer in
emasty with never a dream
at future legislative hono'
Senator Burrows was beten in the prImarle, thereby nrings.i
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