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Fire the G reat Destroyer
Fire not only destroys about $300,000,000 worth of property annually
in the United States, but 15,000 people are burned to death and 50,000
are injured by fire each year. Most of the victims are women and children.
It is an established fact that most fires are preventable and due to
the careless habits of the American people. Europe, by being careful, has
an annual per capita fire loss of less than 30 cents. Ours was $2.63 last
year.
More than half our fires are in homes. The majority of these occur
because of defective furnaces and flues, faulty electric wiring, careless
smokers, open lights, thoughtless use of electric appliances, rubbish, care
less use of matches, gasoline and kerosene, and other easily avoidable
causes.
Therefore the following suggestions are made:
Make sure your heating plant and appurtenances are in safe condition
before starting fire for winter. Paper flue-stops court disaster. Place
ashes in metal cans, never in wooden receptacles.
Examine electric wiring for worn insulation and defects in installs-,
tion.
Protect open lights with globes.
Clean up rubbish, especially in basements, attics and back yards, and
keep clean.
Use gasoline, if you must use it, only with greatest care and never
near a fire. The vapor from one gallon of gasoline has an explosive force
equal to 83 pounds of dynamite.
Never fill kerosene lamps while lighted. Never use kerosene to start
fires.
Keep matches in metal boxes and away from children. Never discard
a match until the last spark is out. Place used matches in metal recep
tacles. Never throw them on the floor or in waste baskets.
Oil mops and oily rags ignite from spontaneous combustion. Keep
them in closed metal receptacles.
Never leave an electric iron, or other electric heating device, even for
a minute, without disconnecting at the socket.
Careless smokers cause thousands of fires, costing many lives. Cigaret
butts and cigar stubs should be extinguished befoie being discarded and
care should be used in depositing pipe ashes.
Observance of these and other simple precautions will do much to
reduce our fire waste. It is the duty of every person to assume a sense of
personal responsibility#to prevent fires and to be careful at all times and
in all places under conditions likely to cause fires.
A Side-Show
Romance
*
By JANE OSBORN
( C o p y r ig h t ,
1919, b y t h * M c C iu r *
p a p e r S y n d ic a t e .)
N o w »»
O utside of her Improvised tent Maia
could hear the voices of the eager
young “barker," shrill against the
background of Jazz music th a t came
from the veranda beyond, and the
buzzing of voices of the crowds that
she could Indistinctly see outlined
through the canvas th a t hid her from
the rest of the men and women, girls
and boys who had assembled on the
Woodmere lawn for the fete th at was
to raise enough money to tide over one
of the local charities through the sum
mer.
"This way to have your fortune
told,” went on the persistent young
“b a rk e r;” “greatest gypsy in the
world. Come and have your fortune
told. Learn your past and know your
future. T his way, ladles and gentle
men.”
Then another higher pitched boyish
voice— the voice of the barker for a
rival attraction.
“T his way to see the wild anim als!
G reatest menagerie in the world!
Largest alligator in captivity. Fiercest
bear In the w orld! E ats 'em alive!
Hugs ’em to d e a th ! This way, this
way. Best show on the grounds.”
And then the incessant “Tills way
to have your fortunp told. G reatest
gypsy in the- world. Cross her palm
with silver and she’ll tell you your for
tune.”
And still Mala sat w ithin her close
little tent, none too com fortable be
neath the heavy load of eliains anil
tawdry Jewelry th a t embellished her
costume. Moreover her h air was
hanging loosely on her shoulders and
the mask across her face w as oppres
sive. But w orst of all, she was sit
ting there In her tent w asting her time
and the vocal energy of her willing
young aid with the megaphone outside
without having the satisfaction of tak
ing in any money.
Wasps Are Wise and Vain;
She wondered w hat she would tell
the people when they did come; it
Know AJI About Aviation;
didn’t seem exactly easy. Still, it
Keen on Air Resistance was all In the day’s work, and if Mrs.
Stanley Burton chose to keep her on
Who would be a w asp? The bees get at a g raduate nurse’s salary to idle
T hose who have green crops such all th e credit I B ut our nffection for her time aw ay In this fashion, why it
as w heat, oats, rye and barley for bees Is lnrgely cupboard love, due to renlly wnsn’t going to disturb Maia.
For Maia hnd not been back from
their fowls are fortunate. T here will the honey they provide us w ith, and
be tim es during the w inter when these the wasp has virtues w lilch few people her long months of Bed Cross duty
In F rance many weeks, and even a
crops will do th e fowls much good. trouble to recognize.
W asps a re wise, declares a w riter in respite such us this from the more
B ut w here fo r nny reason no green
I t is doubtful trying sort of nursing w as bringing
crops are available o ats m ay be London Answers.
sprouted to provide green feed for the w hether any action in a beehive is welcome relief to overwrought nerves.
more sagacious th an th e action of a She had gone to Woodmere to take
fowls.
A good way to do this is to get a wasp when he has killed a bluebottle, charge of Bobby B arton’s strained
and Is faced w ith th e problem of c a r knee, hut the ten-year-old Bobby had
few boxes th a t may be easily handled.
lying him home. H e carefully cuts oft recovered rapidly.
Fill th e boxes w ith gnrden loam soli
the legs and w ings, leaving the body ol
Meanwhile Alleia Barton hnd flatly
and put In the barn, cellar or outhouse
its victim quite com pact.
refused to sit In the stuffy tent tell
w here there Is ventilation. Moisten
W hy does he do th is? To save weight ing fortunes, though she had been
th e soil and sow oats In these boxes.
when flying home w ith th e booty? Nol promised by her m other to the com
T he seed may be planted very thick,
a t all. T he w asp knows all about avia, m ittee and duly advertised as one
a s It will be best to set the box out
tlon, and h e gets rid of th e legs and of the “side shows.” As a last-min
and let the chickens have access to
of the bluebottle to reduce ail ute substitute Main, about to return
them ns soon ns the plants a re an wings
resistance!
v
to town, hnd been urged to stay a
Inch o r more above the ground. An
W asps a re stro n g as well as wise little longer for the purpose of ta k
other sowing muy then be mode In the
They enn carry a w eight equnllng 4( ing Alicia’s place. And Alicia hnd
box.
bluebottles. T hey are also more friend
In this way th e fowls may have ly th an one imagines, rarely stinglni gone sniling and Main had been put
enough green food to give them a w ithout good cause. B ut they arc Into tlte gypsy costume specially
good appetite and keep them In lino vain, for yellow and black are theit made for Alicia, and Mrs. Barton was
health and vigor. It Is a very difficult favorite colors. And, w hen all is said sure If Maia kept her mask on no one
would know the difference.
m atter to keep hens in good laying and done, they are a nuisance!
Meantime Bobby Barton, entirely
condition during the w inter w ithout
recovered as to his strained knee and
green food. T he best way Is to sow
more than enthusiastic over the one
green crops. If this has not been done, Students of Flight of
who had brought comfort and diver
then onts may be sprouted as has been
Birds Give Gull Title
sion to ills irksome days of con
suggested.
of “ Master of the Air ’1 valescence, wns continuing to "hark”
outside her tent.
As m inutes passed and no shadow
A stu d en t o f th e flight of birds li
Inclined to give th e title o f "m aster ol darkened the entrance of her tent
WORDS OF W ISE MEN
the a ir” to th e gull, w hich often fol Maia was aw are of a slight disappoint
lows a ship a t sea and lives on thi ment. Then she heard her b ark er:
I t’s th e ensy Job th a t Is hard
scraps
throw n from th e galley. N«
“G reatest attraction on the grounds.
to get.
Today’s decisions may deter- | ; oth er bird, he says, perform s sue! Hey, why doesn't some one come and
seemingly impossible fea ts of flight oi get th eir fortune told?" Apparently
m ine your destiny.
It Is ensy to find rem edies fo r ! looks so completely a t home in th e air Bobby, too, was .becoming discour
Sometimes, by the p erfect adjustm ent aged.
other people’s troubles.
Then through her mask Maia was
A broken friendship m ay be ! of th eir bodies, th e gulls will poise or
outstretched wings and ap p ear to defj aw are th at some one was rapidly
soldered but will never be
th e lnws of gravitation by rem aininj making for the tent entrance. She
sound.
perfectly m otionless; or, again, thej felt an unexpected sense of confusion
Plutonic friendship Is like car
rying m atches In an explosive j may be seen moving w ithout a singl« —stage fright, it seem«>«l—and she
visible effort, straig h t ag ain st a gal« shuffled her fortune cards nervously.
works.
of wind. T h eir flight Is altogethei She hnd gone Into the operating room
O ur Ideals a re not w orth
much If we surrender them a t ; different from th a t of the Caspian te rn duty often with far less nervousness
which Is ns graceful ns it is unusual than this.
th e first attack.
There was a fumbling at the tent
T he ignorance th a t Is bliss ; j “U nlike th a t of nny o th er birds, w heth
er of sea o r land,” says som e one whe flap, n sidewise shuffling of the feet
generally leads to the knowl
hns w atched the terns, “it rem inds on« and then n dark face was th ru st in
edge th a t Is expensive.
a little of th e high, ap p aren tly uncer quiringly In. It wasn’t an unkind fare
tain flight o f a large-w inged butterfly nor nn especially ferocious one. and
and It Is in p erfect hnrm ony w ith th« Its expression was on«> more of ln-
Idea of a being w here life is spent qulsitlveness than anything else, but
Ingredients Required for
amid wind and m ist an d fluctuatin; still one doesn't encounter even gentle
brown hears ev«>ry day and It was
Home-Made Apple Butter wave."
with diftiexilty th at Alula changed a
Apple bu tter Is generally m ade w ith
First Woman School Official. shrill scream of terror Into a terrified.
"Oh. please somebody do something.
cider, but this can be left out If de-
slre«I. F our q u arts of sterilized sw eet
Probably th e first woman in America The bear I"
But somebody and a good many
cider should be boiled down to two to hold an elective school office was
quarts. To this add four q u arts of ! Bmnm W illard, th e fam ous educator, somebodies had done something.
apples peeled and cut Into sm all ! who In th e early p a rt o f h er careet Ilohhy hod seen the vanishing black
pieces. If the te x tu re of th e ap- w as elected superintendent of schools legs of Bruno, dropped his megaphone
and hnd seised the trailing rope.
plea Is coarse they should he boiled In th e town of K ensington, Conn.
"Hey, you menagerie people, your
and put through a strain er before be
bear's loose,” he eall«'ii to the group
ing addl'd to the cider. Boll this mix
Wire
in
the
White
House.
of ten is across the path, and before
tu re until the cider «loes not sep arate
Mala had time to think ju st wlmt was
from the pulp. When two-thirds done
In th e W hite H ouse th e re a re about I the wisest course of action when m eet
add one pound of sugar. One-half te a
} 175 miles of electric w ire, providing for ing a M r single-handed, “the mena
spoonful of cinnamon, allspice and
3,000 Incandescent lights, together w ith gerie" people had come, four or five of
cloves may be added. Tour Into steril
a call bell system and a p riv ate tele
them, and had dragged off their en
ized Jars and steum for five minutes.
phone system fo r th e use of th e execu tirely harmless and spiritless beast,
tive household.
who had prow led off in an unguarded
First Elephant Shown.
moment.
Migration of W ater FowL
But every <»ne In th at p art of the
T he first elephant ever exhibited In
Woodmere lawn had heard the com
T he m igration of several species of motion. and like wildfire spread the
A m erica w as shown at Philadelphia In
17IK1. Grown people w ere rhnrgcd a w ater fowl Is from w est to ea st Instead Information th a t a ferocious beer
d o lla r a look and children a quarter. of north to south.
had broken Into Alicia B arton’s tent,
that there had been a narrow escape,
HINTS FOR THE
POULTRY GROWER
that one of the yoong men from the
menagerie te n t had perform ed the
rescue and th a t on the whole the a f
fair had been very thrilling.
T hat seemed to turn the tide to
ward the gypsy’s teut. For now they
came eagerly, they stood In line out
side, and the eager Bobby was more
occupied now in timing the applicants
to see th a t no one stayed more than
five m inutes than in shouting through
his megaphone. And Main, between
those five-minute interviews, noticed
that the tam bourine in which she put
the silver with which her palm was
crossed was getting to look very tem pt
ing, apd some of the “silver" was real
It is the plain, public duty of every
ly paper.
citizen to criticize proposed govern
She rath e r regretted th at Alicia
Barton would have ail the credit, for
ment measures believed to be harmful.
as yet her mask had not been re
moved and she had heard more than
Swift & Company is in a better pos
one rem ark from outside th at Alicia
ition
perhaps, than others, to under
certainly looked charming in gypsy
costume.
stand the meat packing business in all
The afternoon was alm ost over and
its relations to public and private inter
Maia was beginning to feel the strain
of her unaccustomed work when some
ests, even tnough the others m ay have
one came who caused her heart to
been giving the subject a great deal of
beat faster than had the inquisitive
bear.
sincere attention.
“Perhaps you had b etter knock
off. Miss B arton,” he began. “You
Swift & Company is convinced that
must have had quite a frig h t from
interference with its legitimate business
th a t beast.” It was Dr. Rodney Hill
—Rodney Hill, by whose side Maia
function by governmental agencies,
had worked during those most trying
however well intentioned, would be an
days and nights In F ra n ce ; Rociney
Hill, who, when they parted four
injury to every man, woman and
months ago, had held Alula’s hand In
child who wants meat to eat, as well
his own and had told Alaia th a t she
was the pluckiest girl in the world
as to the men who raise the meat and
and had told her th at he didn’t know
to those who dress and distribute it.
how he was going to get along w ith
out her. Alaia had not heard from
Maximum service that cannot
Doctor Hill again, and there were
times when she had had to confess to
monopolize because of keen competi
herself th a t in her disappointm ent
tion and lack of control over sources
there w as g reater cause for the ex
haustion she had felt during these
of
supply is furnished at a minimum
months back in America than was the
of profit— a fraction of a cent per
memory of all the work in France.
Maia didn’t intend to take off th a t
pound from all sources.
mask even then, but once she spoke
Rodney H ill knew her and he knew
Therefore Swift & Company is
it was not Alicia Barton, to whom he
taking every legitimate step of citizen
had been sent to give any profes
sional aid th a t she might need after
ship to prevent such interference.
the bear episode, which had been get
ting more and more interesting as the
These advertisements are intended
afternoon passed.
to
help you, and to help Congress
He was holding her hand again and
telling her th a t she was the pluckiest
decide what is best to be done. Mis
girl, and Bobble had been told to give
takes are costly and apt to be harmful
them “double tim e,” which m eant ten
minutes.
in these trying times.
“But I didn’t know you were one
of these people—money and society
and all th a t sort of thing,” he told her.
“And I never dreamed that you
Let us send you a Swift “Dollas.”
were,” she said. “You never seemed
like these Woodmere people or th at
Address Swift & Company,
you knew girls like Alicia Barton."
Union Stock Yards,
Chicago, 111.
“B ut I’m not, and I don’t,” pro
tested Rodney. “You see when I
got back from France I’d rath e r lost
my grip. I had Just finished raedicnl
college when I went over, and ex
hausted as I was I w asn’t in shape
to p ut up the fight th a t would be
necessary to s ta rt in on my own.
Then I got In touch with these million
aire Dorklnses who wanted a resident
TH IS SH O W S
doctor for the summer to look aftei
WHAT BECO M ES OF .
old Dorklns’ gout and Grandma Dor-
THE AVERAGE DOLLAR
kins’ bad temper. Well, to tell the
R E C E IV E D B Y
,
truth, it was because of the fa t salary
^SWIFT
&
COMPANY^
FROM THE SALE OF MEAT
th a t w ent with It th at I accepted it for
AND BY PRODUCTS
SS CEN TS IS PAID FOR TH E
the summer.
LIVE A N IM A L
12.06 CENTS FOR LABOR
“I w anted to make sure I had
EXPENSES ANO FREIGHT
enough to keep the pot boiling for a
2 .0 4 CENTS REMAINS
W IT H
year and then I was going to look you
SWIFT «.COMPANY
up and ask you w hether you’d help
AS PROFIT
me to sta rt. I wanted to tell you back
there in France, th a t night when we
W hat “Cenotaph” Means.
left, but I knew we had both been
i f V C Rests. Rclresbes. Soothes,
'
Heals—Keep your Eyes
through too much to think of ourselves
T he word is derived from th e Greek
Strong and Healthy. If w ords “kenos," m eaning “em pty” and
then. Besides, I w anted to have a
they Tire, Smart, Itch, or
home to offer you before I asked you.
Bum, if Sore, Irritated, j “taphos,” m eaning “tomb.” In other
Alaia dear—”
Inflamed or Granulated, i words, a cenotaph is a sepulchral mon-
“Ten m inutes is up,” called out the use Murine often. Safe for Infant or Adult I um ent erected in honor of a person
cheerful barker outside, and tiicn, At all Druggists. W rite for Free Eye Book.
whose body lies elsew here.
“This way to see the greatest gypsy Narine Eye Remedy Company, Chicago, II. S. L
in the world. Learn your past and
Medicine From Stag Horns.
Consider th e Centipede.
know your future.”
S tags are bred in China for their
It is a m istake to suppose th a t all
instinct in Spiders.
centipedes have a hundred legs. The j horns, the h orns being cu t w hile soft
Spinning webs is second nature with nam e is m isleading. T he m ost common each year and used in th e m anufac
spiders. A fter they are hatched from variety usually have 34, b u t th ere are tu re of medicine.
the eggs in a cocoon they cling to o th er species w ith as m any as 100 or
gether for about a week. Then they
Good Reasons foi Optimism.
separate, but th eir legs do not carry 200 legs.
T
he
little world of ours is not grow
them very far. Facing the wind and
A Lady of Distinction.
standing on the tips of their legs, the Is recognized by the deliente fascin at ing w orse to th e men and women who
baby spiders raise their ahdomtms and ing Influence of th e perfum e she uses. are doing th eir b est to m ake it better.
em it a silken thread. The faintest A bath w ith C utlcura Soap and hot
current w afts the gossamer in the air,
w ater to thoroughly cleanse th e pores,
and when enough is let out to perm it
followed by a dusting with Cutleura
of aerial flight the Insect d rifts away.
Talcum Pow der usually m eans a clear,
When it wishes to land It hauls in the
thread. W herever it lands it can spin sw eet, healthy skin.—Adv.
webs w ithout the slightest Instruc
Bends, but Cut Glass.
tions from older spiders. Older male
An Am erican steel com pany, making
spiders seem to lose this gift. There
a re about 550 species of spiders in all grades of electric tool steels, an
America, but only two, the house and nounces th a t It has produced an alloy
garden spiders, are well known.
chisel steel w hich can be m ade so hard
th a t it will cu t glass, y et m ay be bent
Plume Birds Failing.
by being ham m ered over the edge of
New Guinea Is the home of a large
an anvil.
percentage of the world's birds of
paradise. The supply of these beauti
Have Some.
ful birds is fast falling. Not only do
Okolehao. which is H aw aiian moon I
the women of Europe and America
demand feathers for th eir bonnets, shine, is sim ilar to a com bination of
says the Savannah News, hut the na vinegar and alcohol.
tives o f New Guinea and surrounding
islands tnnke lavish use of the plu T r a p p e r s N o tice— W a n te d f u rs , a ll k in d s.
mage as headdresses. Some precau S h ip n o w w h ile th e p ric e is u p . Y o u r
m o n ey s a m e d a y f u r s re c e iv e d a n d to p
tions are now taken to prevent visitors p ric e s. S en d fo r q u o ta tio n c a rd s . T h o se
to New Guinea from kitting the "most f u rs , k e e p th e m c o m in g to us. O. M.
B u n tin g & Co., 579-46th S t. B ro o k ly n .N .Y .
beautiful birds in the world.” hut the
k r m Von t it i e f i e J ?
BEHNKE-WALKER
natives are left alone and they con
w e i »a sansneo :
b u s in e s s c o u x c k
H A V E Y O U A SWEETHEART
tinue to deck themselves out In capes Son or Brother In camp o r training foe defense’ Is t h e b ig g e s t, m o s t p e r fe c tly eq u ip p ed
B u s la e s s T ra in in g S chool !n th e N o r th
and headpieces more gorgeous than I If ao. mail him a package of Allen'• Foot E m «. w e s t F i t y o u rs e lf f o r a h ig h e r p o eltlo a
Powder for T ire d . Aching. Swol- w ith m o re m o n ey . P e r m a n e n t p o sitio n s
any seen on our stage M n l l e s or the j the i -eptie
and p r -r e n ts Mister« and «ore spots, a s s u r e d o u r G ra d u a te s .
d sk e s welhine eees.
'
wives of our mil!icniiir«>s.
W rits for sstalog—Fourth sad Yamhill
Criticism and
Citizenship
S w if t & C o m p a n y , U . S. A .
P o r t la n d . ____________
Steam Not Needed.
Literal Minded.
M rs . X . (returning home) “M erer!
In Death valley, California, the sum
However did the child get that awful m er tem p eratu re in artificial shade
bump?” Green Girl—"Ton told me to soars to 135 degrees, w ith 1 per cent
let him play on the piano, and be fell
of humidity.
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