The Celina Democrat., September 09, 1910, Image 2

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FEMININE HIGH FLIERS
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When tin- hemier tbim-nlr flying ma
chine wan proved ti be a iiieclmnloal
poNhllilllly It was predicted Utut avia
tion wuulj hihiu become a (ml tdiullar
to tliHt of aiitoniolilllMK or. In tt
earlier day, bicycling. lesplft recent
DiiNliuft in tint ulr which have ookt
tln lives of several experimenters,
this forecast Ht'fiiiH llki-ly to In- veri
fied. Already factories are turning
out all-plains to order both In this
country and abroad, and noon It will
b possible for anyone who fancies an
aerial career to equip himself with an
up-to-date, machine of any one of half
dozen or more typed. Indeed, them
am now at work tievernl thousand
killed artisans tnnktuR airplanes for
public use, and In all probability next
leason w ill boo an airplane owned prl
rately In every large rlty, while) poo
llbly the town that does not possess
k nky pilot among Its followers of
venturesome sport will feel outi hissed
and distanced In the race of progress.
It has Jiiht been announced that three
French monoplanes are now on their
way across the Atlantic, having been
manufactured especially for the Amer
ican feminine market. They are In
every respect the most ladylike mi
dlines that have been turned out thus
far. and It is the hope of the French
manufacturers that niter they have
bet n demonstrated by a trio of exceed'
l:i::!y at tractive l'urisiennes there
will be almost a competition for their
ownership, and the American market
for tin se machines will have been os- 1
tabiished. ;
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even roar M T,V,r mjut!? K i
,f deafens JPsffiUi
Some one over in ntiK'and has dis
covered a lot of n eurits which pi) to
how that if certain things had been
said and .lone by the government
'when George the Third was king"
He ro would have been no revolution
in America and what Is now the
I'nit.-d States nilujht still bo a British
dependency. Perhaps so. Hut some
things also happened on this side of
the ocean which had an effect on his
tory. There was the Declaration of
Independence, the pre-eminent mili
tary ability and statecraft of Geor.jo
Washington, a few battles and Ameri
can victories, such as those at llen
ulnston, Saratoga. Trenton and York
itown, and several other occurrences
:that hail a bearing on the case. And
American patriotism and determina
tion against overwhelming odds had a
:liule something to do with the outcome.
OU are a
thousand feet
iu the ulr.
Your engine
, U working evenly
and your sea
soned propellers
: are beating the air
with an
that half
you. The w In. I of
the open spaces sings In your ears.
The wide wings are lifting you stead
ily higher and higher In great sweep
ing circles as you climb the. air lad
b r toward the zenith. The world lies
piead out betieath you like a colored
nap. You feel as free as the birds
if the air; you long to measure your
ipeed with the eagles.
Suddenly there lb a crashing explo
sion behind and beneath you, and the
Aide and steady planes sevm to
rumple up like a sick crow's wing.-i.
The earth seems to ieap :P " meet
(ou, and the rushing gale of air seems
to tear the bnaib lrom your lungs.
Your senses reel as the tremendous
Work of the Policewomen of Chicago
CHICAGO. Much Interest has been
shown In Chicago's "policewomen,"
hut whn they gather on a Friday
noon for luncheon at Hull House be
fore entering upon their regular week
ly conclave there Is nothing to distin
guish them from any other earnest
working women.
Later on, too, when the hour ar
rives for afternoon tea, In a largo, at
tractively furnished assembly room,
they sit and sip their tea atid chat in
"ing riders." The blue vault of
!aveu Is fretted by thousands of
ruM-Ing propebers and shifting plain s.
I "The bird men" ure dreaming dreams
'of ( ross-eontluont flights. The more
I Im i:'!,ialive of them catch glimpses of
: vi -ions of transatlantic trips, faster
pull of gravity hurls you and your bro- ih,,n the flight of the frigate bird,
ken machine and coughing engine to it may happen the hour of trial
the earth. Karth ami sky seem to run j comes in the very midst of an appar
togelhi r iu an awful burst of flame, j ,.nt success. Knglnes may be working
and blackness and blessed oblivion ' f,.cty and with even beat. The
blot out the clouds and the good green ; mar of the spinning propellers may
earth lor you forever. be droning a song of conofl.lence and
It must be in some such manner ' e urity. Then something snaps; a
that the aviator dies. There Is but Kuy wire parts like a stretched fiddle
little evidi nee of the feelings that riot string, the roar of the engine breaks
through the human brain when . an, sputters, or the big planes
dropped from the clouds to the earth j crumple because of some unguessed
beneath. Few men survive a fall of weakness. Then comes that terrible
any height, in spite of the number nisn OI- ajr ns the machine, engine,
who are nieetii,' with accidents in j r,.nt planes and tnngle of bent and
their efforts to master the air. In j broken framework bears the aviator
spite of the danger, which is admlt
tfdly great, the craze for the aero
plane and the sport of aviation is
btea.lily growing. Yet ten years ago
the heavier-than-alr flyers were mere
chimeras of a scientific brain.
On the seventeenth day of Decem
ber, 19'i::, a thin-faced man burled him
self out into the air from a sandy hill
side down in North Carolina. The ;
to a terrible death.
When wireless telegraphy was In
vuited It was but a year or so until
the country was filled with amateurs,
all busily working on new theories of
transferring messages. As soon as
the Wrights, Farman, Hleriot, Paulhan
and Curtiss and others had demon
strated that a heavier-than-alr ma
chine could actually remain in the air,
It was thought that
he had lKilnted the
plane tipB of his
filer toward the
earth In an effort
to make a landing
and In some man
ner the planes the manner most highly approved for
were capsized. Ho j afternoon teas. Even tho presence of
was crushed to two or three brother "cops" does not
death beneath his suffice to create any degree of police-
heavy motor iu the fall. The French like atmosphere; but then the brother
have been the heaviest losers In officers, too, are attired in citizens'
life of any of the nations Interest- ! garb and handle their teacups as
d In aeronautics. Half a score of though this was their regular occupu
darlng and tomor amontal French- tlon.
men have paid with their lives the t Each of these women officers has
penalty for venturing Into the sky her own precinct which she patrols
suces on frail machines of silk. lu- ; though the quiet manner In which she
milium and piano wire. The Germans makes her dally rounds of Inspection
are the next heaviest losers In life and investigation hardly warrants the
and property. The wrecking of the uso of the technical term. Each has
numerous rigid and somi-rigiddlrigibles her office nnd oflice hours where she
of the Zeppelin fid I'arseval types has may be found and her assistance ob
hit bard the backers of the German talned.
idea In aeronautics. The casualties Why policewomen Instead of pollce
for the viar liiuii were terminated by : men, the visitor starts to ask, but in
WHAT HE WAS FISHING FOR
Texas continues to raise some
things which are very much to her
credit and advantage. Among them
are big crops. This year the 1-ono
Star state will distinguish herself
especially by the corn yield. Tho
latest estimate by the Texas agricul
tural bureau is 21rt,nn0,000 bushels,
against 122..0n,nnn bushels last year
am! 201,io0.i)o0 b'ishels in 100S, the
latter being an exceptional output.
The agricultural resources of Texas
are enormous, and the grain harvest
Is but one part of the business. The
statt; is beating Derinuda in early
onion growing, raises some of the best
and earliest potatoes in the market
and supplies other vegetables. In
fact, it is doing its part in showing
that the natural resources of tho
Tinted Statis are far from exhaustion.
first of the wind riders in the worlds j n a thousand barns, warehouses and
history made a long, gliding flight in ; back-yard woodsheds all over the clv
a biplane on the hill slope near Kitty . iiZe, world men and boys began to
Hawk. Wilbur Wright was the first j try to build for themselves machines
of the bird nu n to rise superior to the . which to spurn the solid earth.
air. Five years later the brother ot Hysterically, the science of aviation J
tho first man to fly was trying out a lllH i,t.n taken up, and with a few-
new ami powenui aeroplane unuei uiu more improvements mo iieatn roll will
glow to even greater proportions. So
far most of the men who have met
the death of the Spanish nvlator, Fer
nandez, at Nice, on IH-cember fi. He
was a martyr to the Idea of lightness
in aeroplane construction. His death
was undoubtedly caused by trying to
fly with a motor that was entirely too
light for the strain It had to bear dur
ing his determined flights. While
sweeping in great circles over tho
aviation grounds of the French city
the tiny motor gave way with a split
ting crash. The watchers turned their
heads away while the nwlft fall lasted.
In spite of the warning conveyed Ijl
his death, many aviators even yet are
sacrificing safety for lightness in their
engines. Delagrange. who was killed
in the first week of January, 1910,
the very beginning of tho reports the
question Is answered, for the cases
reported and discussed are nearly all
considered in the light not ot bow
criminals may be punished but bow
budding crlmlnuls muy be reached and
saved and how those contributing to t
their delinquency may be punished 1
and prevented from continuing thulr j
destructive ways.
This regular salaried, badge provid
ed group of officers, now a year old, la i
an outgrowth of the Juvenile court I
committee and the Illinois Industrial
association before that, when the Illi
nois Juvenile court law went Into ef- j
feet In July. 1899. On June 4. 1909, I
tho committee adopted the name of j
Juvonlle Protective association, which !
through a series of local protective j
leagues directed by these salaried of- i
fleers puts forth its whole efforts to i
secure the utmost protection for the
youth of the city. ;
Each of tho thirteen districts Into
which tho city Is divided basalts i
league of citizens, who watch neigh
borhood conditions and assist in In- '
vestigating and friendly visiting, but
It is the salaried officer in each dis
trict, who is potent In bringing re- :
suits. She spends her time trying to
prevent "can rushing" and cocaine
selling, to keep the children out of dis
reputable dance halls and photograph
galleries and to try In every way to
protect and saf- guard the child. She
may bo found at h r district oflice re
ceiving complaints, out on patrol in
vestigating, or visiting or in court
seeing whether provisions made there
are tending to drag down or lift up tho j
ilttle culpritB.
Mystery on Mare Island That Had to'
Do With Private McCall and
the Rain-Barrel,
i
Boston Babies Are Born the Luckiest
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IT IS BECAUSf
Of THE
tSTHETIC
SlJRROLhXWS
OF
BOSTON
BOSTON. The baby that Is born in
Buenos Ayres has a better chance
of living than if it had been born In
any other of the world's large cities.
In Amsterdam It would find figures
f'apt. Ivan de Kavonsky of the Itur.
elan army, who is now on his way to
Rotterdam, was busy every hour of
the time he spent in New York. While
In this country he purchased Ave mo
tor boats for the use of the Russian
direction of the officers of tlie Linteu
Slates army. On a September after
noon the strange new machine rose in
full flight, carrying Lieuton.mt Self
ri.ige as a passenger. Orville Wright
was at the steering wheel. A guy
wire was snapped by a whirling pro
peller, the great wings crumpled up,
the mass of debris shot to the earth,
and Sellridge, the first of a long line
nf martyrs to aviation, was dea
Fort Meyer.
Since that September afternoon, less
than two years ago, 23 men have giv
en up their lives to conquer the elas
tic and yet stable element the air.
Within one week this summer eight
aviators and dirigible balloonjsts have
been killed. Some notable things have
been accomplished by the earnest stu
dents and the more foolhardy of the
new school of exhibition flyers, but the
price of success and mastery has been
over a score of lives. Some of the
navy and also placed nn order for n
nickel-plated motor boat to be pre- m(n still in the game of flight have
coined to the cznrev.iteh by the off! been dangerously injured time after
cers of the Russian volunteer fleet.
The captain said that the Russian
government considers small boats of
American manufacture the best nnd
speediest In the world. It is not alone
In this view. Wasn't It to American
builders that the German kal:;r-r en
trusted the construction of his yacht?
As yet the "hobble" skirt Is known
to most people only through descrip
tion and pictures. That it may never
be better known Is the petition of the
eane. Mere foolishness often baa
found express'on In odd raiment, but
'Imbecility has but. seldom taken mate
rial form as a fashion. That a woman
.who hobbles her limbs with one of
jtheso absurdities has had first to hob
Ible her intelligence is certain. Every
time. Several of the nations of the
world are beginning to wake up to the
danger of inexperienced and irrespon
sible persons making flights. Austria
has passed laws regulating attempts
of her citizens to conquer the air.
Russia has put the ban on the owning
of machines by irresponsible persons,
but it is generally understood that
this is because of her fear of the new
distance annihilators in the hands of
nihilists and the radical reds.
In the United States a few folk are
beginning to wonder how long it will
be until something has to be done to
stop the growing death roll among
pioneers of the air. Aviators and avi
ation were openly condemned a few
days ago by an influential journal of
Cleveland, Ohio.
"To Those Who Exalt Themselves,"
the article was headed, and the fol
lowing reactionary Ideas were ex-
iwoman owes to herself such a dress
as In a mouse emergency will permit'; pressed: "The craze for dirigible bal
Iher to mount a chair ! lons !ln1 airships should be legally
' restricted. It. is unthinkable that the
Creator intended that man should in
After riding all night in a taxlcab a habit the air or fly lil!e the Wr(ls. He
jjnan paid the chauffeur two dollars would have furnished him with wings.
,and then tipped him five cents. Such The numerous deaths that have oc-
Ihypertrophled nerve should bo in bet- curred from attempts to fly should
Iter business, such as, for Instance, . warn man that his habitation and
'selling de luxe editions of dead and nome is tlle earth
'defenseless authors.
By screaming louder than her com
petitors a Chicago woman the other
day won a money prize In a shriek
ntest. Perhaps she saw a mouse at
tH psychological moment
Minneapolis policemen have been
(authorized to spank park mashers. If
(necessary the officers may first club
Ithe niaBhers so that they will submit
jto the spanking. We suspect that
Imashers are not wanted in Minneapo
lis parks.
But In spite of warnings, published
and spoken, the craze for aviation re
mains unchecked. A thousand inven
tors are working in their shops, firm
in the belief that they are in sight of
the final secret that will wrest the
mastery of the upper air spaces from
the birds and place It iu the hands of
death have been veteran aviators.
Delagrange, Le Blon, Ferber, Lefebvre
and Fiylls were all well-known and in
ternationally famous in the air fields.
Rut the moment came that found them
helpless despite their skill.
With the multiplying of factories
where the cheap fliers can be con-
at j strucf.ed will come a rush of amateurs
I into the ranks of the aviators. More
deaths are bound to follow when these
would-be man birds have bought for
themselves machines and start in to
perfect themselves In the art of flight.
The list of deaths is bound to grow
as soon as the means of flight is
brought within reach of the average
purse. A shower of would-be aviators
from the clouds to the "too solid
earth" will further demonstrate that
the mastery of the air must be bought
with human life.
An analysis of the accidents of the
past two years shows that death
comes in a dozen shapes to the daring
aviator. The aeroplane is a pitifully
new thing, and even the veterans of
the air are not always able to detect
in their machines the lurking weak
nesses. The first of the aeroplane ac
cidents that resulted fatally was
caused by the guy wire of one of the
planes being placed too near the pro
peller blades. Selfridge died in this
accident and Orville Wright was ter
ribly Injured. It was months before
he again took up the problem of aerial
flights.
It was a year later before death
took his toll again from the ranks of
the air workers. On the seventh of
September, 1909, two men, the fore
most aviators in their respective coun
tries, met their deaths. Rossi was en
gaged in testing a machine of his own
Invention near Rome, and after a few
short and successful flights at a low
altitude h tilted his planes upward
at a considerable angle and shot Into
the air for an ambitious trial. He had
barely reached a height of CO feet till
some of the intricate machinery gave
way and he was dashed to death. M.
Lefebvre, a well-known aeronaut of
France, was killed on the same day
while soaring above Juvlssy In a
Wright biplane. Two weeks later the
pride of the Frenchmen in aeronau
tics, Capt. Louis Ferdinand Ferber, a
pioneer in the art of flying, was killed
In a peculiar accident, one of the
many unexplainable ones that mark
the chronology of flight. He was soar
ing over a field near Boulogne, when
his machine "turned turtle" in the air.
... a , mnra tn ita fnvnr- n i f ImtlcHnn. la
made the opposing mistuKe or navmg -
an engine whose weight was too great "t so big a town.
for his wing area. His planes were In tuo United States Boston has
not sufficiently large to bear up under b,J,'n ,he st place to be born if you
the weight of his heavv motor, when i ,Wi,nt to lilHn(i a good chance of llv-nnd-r
the strain of full flight. Ilela- ,0 at 'st a year old. In HO
grange was the first aviator to carry hag not averaged one
a passenger with him in his aerial . f,"1" " out 01 flv" 1 during
T,..,,i. 1 the year.
Il lps. .la s. l eiiiei, lie: in ni t,mii.
passenger in the history of the aero
plane, made a flight with him in July,
1 II AC
- 1SS7 there were loss than 190, in 1S01
After the death of Delagrange, the ,Qe cumber wc,nt be(JW lgn in un u
first few months of 1910 were devoid j)ilBKt(j tne no mnrk , lg36 the lg0
of fatal accidents. Aviation meetings aiarki in 18ag the 150 wark an(J ,n
were going on late in the winter In ; inno u sank ahruntlv In its wr t nnn
Back in 1S82 it came close to that
average when 194 infants less than a
! year old died In every 1,000. But in
"New York 'is making a record It
- , .- wi
America, southern Europe nnd in
Egypt. It was April in the present
year before Le Won was killed on the
Spanish seacoast at San Sebastian.
I.e Won was the Idol of the more dar
ing aviators. He had attracted Inter
national attention by his remarkable
flights at Doneastor, England, late In
October of the previous year. lie had
dared the winds to do their worst in
a l'.-mile flight on October 19, and on
the next day he made a trip that all
aviators, even his nervous fellow
countrymen, characterized as fool
hardy. A great gale blew up out of V day cost a La Salle street broker
the Atlantic on the night of October $200,000. Here Is the reason: Two
18, growing steadily worse through j prominent young brokers and men
the night of the nineteenth. It was j about town have the habit of helping
the sort that sweeps the "tight little themselves to cigars In each other's
island" every autumn, a terrific blow i vest on every possible occasion, r
that conies roaring up the channel j this particular day No. 1 decided
from the Atlantic, sending fishermen play a trick on his friend and got .
and channel shipping scurrying for j loaded cigar, one of those nice ones
shelter in some rock-bound harbor. . that goes off like a roman candle and
In the midst of this great gale the j releases a spring, which breaks the
Frenchman announced that he was ' cigar to pieces without injury to the
going to make a flight. In aeronau- j smoker, but much to his surprise and
tical records the flight that he made j discomfort. He decorated this minia-
may well be proud of," says the
American Baby, "although Its start
ing point In 1900 was at 203. Com
pare with that the record for 190S,
141, and bear to the babies tho mes
.sago of hope. I'hiladelphia began in
1900 with 173. diminishing this by
1907 to 19. And western cities, too;
St. Louis is very low, and Chicago,
admitting herself to be high, Is prom
ising important reductions.
In England, as a whole, with Wales
Included, the lnfar.tlle mortality rato
was 15G per 1,000 births in 1900; that
of London, ID I; in Scotlund the rate
ran about 150, and In Ireland a little
higher. In the same year In Boston
It was 147. In all there are sensible
and Important gains for the baby.
In Germany Berlin Is down from
Cnptafn "Bobs" pushed his chair
i Ilttlo way from the tablo, stirred hli'
, coffee reflectively, and listened to the
I surgeon and paymaster us they wran-j
! gled over a question of International;
! law.
j Ho heard little of their conversa-
' tlon Bonslbly; but Captain Hobs sel-i
; doin In his Idle moments ever did hoar
things sensibly,
I , One word, however, opened the cas
J kct of his memory, and Boon be had
begun his accustomed drawl to at
tract tho attention of all the officers
at his end of the table.
"Speaking of fish reminds me of a
true story," he began, writes Lieut.
Giles Bishop, Jr., In Argosy.
"It was while I was a second lieu
tenant of marines and Btatloned at
Mare Isliind that this thing occurred.
"One day, whllo officer of the guard,
I noticed that all the men were
blinking hands with Private McCall. I
Inquired Into the cause, and the ser
geant told me that McCall had Just
received a letter from his home In
Colorado, Baying that a baby named
John McCall, Jr., had made its appear
ance in the household. McCall was
Joyous all day. The next afternoon
he did not go to town on liberty, but
roamed aimlessly about the barracks,
silent and gloomy.
"Ho kept this up for two or three
days. His behavior, from a military
standpoint, was exemplary.
"About a week later tho sergeant
of the guard came to me as I was sit
ting In tho O. D.'a office writing tip
my guard report, and asked If ho
might speak to me about one of the
men.
"It was about this same Prlvato
McCall. For three days McCall had
been seen fishing in the rain barrel at
tho corner of the guardhouse.
"Ho held absolutely no conversation
with anyone, and Ignored all their
questions; bore their chaff without re
sentment. "Anxious to see this curious freak
of the soldiers, I asked If he was fish
ing at that time, and being assured
that such was tho case, I sauntered
out on the parade.
"Sure enough, there Bat McCall,
with a slender polo, hook and lino at
tached fishing.
I "I repeated the circumstance to the
220 deaths per 1,000 births in 1S99 to filcer of the day, and together wo
walked up to the fisherman.
,' "'What are you doing, McCall?'
! asked the O. D.
"'Fishing, sir,' was the reply, as the
man jumped to attention, and saluted.
" 'Well, sir, I thought I might catch
112 in 1907. Vienna from 19G to
144. Budapest from 167 to 155, Co
logne from 251 to 195, while in Russia,
Moscow has declined in tho same
years from 319 to 2GC. In French
speaking countries the news for the
baby is most excellent, for Paris in
1SU9 was really leading the world at
only 110, and by 1907 had decreased
to 104, with Nice a close second at
118 to 105. i
Loaded Cigar Costs Broker $200,000
f HIOAOO. A joke cigar tho other
that day Is set down as being "a fool
hardy flight In a great gale."
The death roll has grown rapidly
in this, the summer of 1910. On May
13, Mlchelin was carried by a strong
wind against a derrick, and in the fall
that followed sustained injuries that
caused his death. Eugene Spier was
killed at San Francisco whllo prac
tising on a "glider." M. Robi met his
death In a meet at Stettin. Wachtei
was killed at Reims. Charles Stewart
Rolls, hero of England by reason of
his remarkable flight from Dover to
Calais and return, was killed at Bour
nemouth through a rudder of his own
invention falling to answer the lever.
Kinet, a Belgian, met his death during
a recent aviation exhibition in a
French town. Eugene Ely, while try
ing for the third time to make a con
tinuous flight from Winnipeg to Port-
ture bomb with a band from a 50-cent
cigar of a well-known brand and
placed it conspicuously In his vest
pocket.
He met his friend in the lobby of
the La Sullo hotel and, after greeting
him, drew back his coat so as to dis
play the cigar to advantage. No. 2
immediately spied the cigar and with
a lightning pass, made perfect by long
practice, was soon possessor of this
tempting bit of tobacco.
"Ah!" he said, "I see you are smok
ing belter cigars now. I'll smoke thh?
for you later."
Just at this point a man from New
York with whom No. 2 had a business
deal on Involving more than $200,000
joined the group. Shortly the New
Yorker and No. 2 excused themselves
to No. 1, and strolled away to trans
act their business.
They seated themselves at one of
.he tables in the lobby and No. 2 of
fered the New Yorker his recently ac
cuiircd cigar. A match was applied
in the usual way and the fireworks
started. The cigar blew up as per
schedule and, Incidentally, the $200,
000 deal blew up with it.
Now No. 2 is looking for No. 1 with
fire in his eye, because No. 1 allowed
him not only to "swipe" a cigar, but
because ho allowed him to present It
to his New York associate, whereby
he is minus the profits on a big transaction.
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City to Have a Municipal Laundry
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the park board are carried out.
Kansas City will have a municipal
laundry, which probably will be the
age la rraine, leu jrom a ir-,b,.i ui , first lnBtitution of Its kind in the
several hundred feet ana was Kineu.
The dirigibles have been the occa
slon of nine of the twenty-three i cjty where the women of the conge.
deaths of the last two years, un
September 25, 1909, the French war
balloon, the Republlque, on its way
to Meudon from the field maneuvers
at La Palisse, was destroyed, sup
possably by a propeller blade breaking
off and ripping open the walls of the
craft. Four men were billed In the
fall of 400 feet, that followed the utter
collapse of the dirigible. In the de
sfruction of the Erbsloeh, at Leich
lingen, Germany, a few days ago, five
men, including the Inventor, met theli
doom.
Private McCall Fished In Rain-Barrel.,
something. I wouldn't have fished
here, sir, if I had thought there'd be
any objections.'
" 'Oh, no, go ahead and fish, but'
you won't catch anything,' said the
O. D.
"'Thank you, sir. I may,' said Mc
Call, and as we turned away the man
solemnly dropped his line overboard
again.
"For a week longer the same thing
happened. Every idle moment, in
Zl , L !3 1 Eu.r0Ie- Het scess as to fish, Private McCall,
says it would cost about $30,000 to j fished in the rain barrel.
Danger in the I ig Hat
The horrifying discovery Is made
(that ladles wearing hobble skirts can
jnot walti or two-step successfully.
However, the new garb does not inter
ifer with bridge whist.
The gigantic hat Is still fashionable
In London and Paris, despite the ridi
cule heaped upon it by masculine crit
ics. A London hair specialist now de
clares that the big hat is dangerous as
well as ridiculous, a London letter to
the New York Sun says. He warns
women that if they persist in wearing
big hats they will lose their hair. The
tpeciallst Baid;
"As grass t'vrna yellow under a
mushroom, so women's hair will lose
its color and deteriorate under the
gigantic hats which are now the mode.
There Is every possibility of the fair
sex going bald unless a revolution In
hats is effected.
"First of all, these enormous moun
tains of millinery shut out the health
giving sun and air. Secondly, they
present such vast surfaces to the
wind that they tug against the detain
ing hatpins like a kite on a string.
For both reasons they injure tht
hair."
Usefulness Is Better Than Frills.
It Is a fine thing to personally train
up a boy In the way he should go, and
not rely too much On the guidance of
higher education. We know a happy
father whose 18-year-old eon baa just
given up college In order to devote bit
time to keeping the family touring
car In condition Cleveland Plain
Dealer
United States. The board plans
build a laundry to be run by
ed districts can do their washing and
ironing under sanitary conditions,
and with improved machinery. The
park board has been discussing this
Idea for about three years along with
the public bath proposition.
The idea has been suggested to the
board and recommended that systems
s'milar to those used In the munlci
P"I laundries of Europe be used.
George E. Kessler, landscape archi
tect for the park board, studied the
From Eight to Six.
"Enjoy the days of thy youth," en.
the old codger. "We never lose any
of the years that have been added to
our ages." '"Wrong again, mister,"
piped the eight-year-old youngster. "I
loso two years off my age every time
nia U&es me on a street car."
Of More Importance.
Scribbles "I have finished the man
uscript of a book entitled 'How to
Travel.'" Dribbles "That's all right
M far as It goes, but what you should
do now Is write a sequel entitled 'How
to Oit the Money to Travel On.' "
build a bathhouse and laundry ac
cording to general plans discussed by
the park board.
Almost all tho larger cities of Ger
many and France have the municipal
laundries. In Berlin they are kept
busy every day and are comforts to
thousands of housewives. The laun
dries open early In the morning and
often the women are standing in line
with their bundles of clothes. Either
Ihey furnliih their own soap, bluing,
id other Incidentals, or they are sole
them almost at cost by the city,
he customers are required to pay
lor heat, water and light.
The municipal laundry is not a char
ity BCheme and the poor women real
ize it. In addition to removing a bur
den from their shoulders a munici
pal laundry does much toward the
prevention of disease. Where now
the women often do their washing In
dark cellars, a municipal laundry, run
with all scientific principles, would
prevent disease from spreading by
means of clothes.
The Gorilla.
Of all the existing man apes the
gorilla is beyond question the rrjost
formidable, a large male standing not
Infrequently over five feet six inches
In height, and bones being known of
one which apparently measured In life
no less than six feet two inches, says
the London Times.
"Finally the matter was reported to
the 'kom'; McCall came up for office;
hours, but the examination elicited.
The Lily as Food.
The lily is extensively eaten In
China. Among the edible flowers of
the Occident, are artichokes, cauli
flower, cloves, capers and chrysanthemums
nothing beyond the fact that 'he,
might catch something.
"A report of the matter was sent to
the commandment of the station. A
survey was .ordered, and the three
medical officers on It' watched McCall
first, and questioned him afterwards.
"They found him sane upon all sub
lloets except this one thing fishing In
the rain barrel.
, "Finally they decided to give him a
'disability discharge,' and shortly after
It was delivered to him.
"Not a line of McCall's face changed
but putting the paper in his pocket
he walked out of the oflice, and five
minutes later we saw him fishing as
before.
"When the boat for the mainland
left that afternoon, McCall stood on
the deck looking at the men who had
gathered on the landing to say good
bye. As the steamer shoved off, a
broad grin spread over his face, then
waiving his discharge In one hand and
his hat In the other, he yelled:
" 'Good-bye, boys. I'm going home to
see the kid. I've been fishing for this
for two months. Good-bye.' "
He Wouldn't Stay Bought.
A guest was expected for dinner and
pobby had received five cents as the
irice of his silence during the meal
fie was as quiet as a mouse until, dls-
:overing tnat his lavorlte dessert was
being served, he could no longer curb
its enthusiasm. He drew the coin
'rom his pocket, and rolling it aoross
the table, exclaimed: "Here's youri
hickel, mamma. I'd rather talk." '
Buocess.