HAO ENOUGH
LIKE STORY OF OLD TIMES
Hcppsninoa In Books Written Twenty
or T h irt y Years Ago Puzzling te
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People of Today.
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By L I L L I A N C Y R .
When you go on your vacation
and take some books along you may
include some stories written twenty
or thirty years ago— perhaps an ad
venture or detective yarn. You will
not have read long before you find
yourself puzzled.
Why didn’t the
disabled ship in the Caribbean use
its wireless? Oh, o f course— wire
less had not been invented. And as
you turn over the pages o f the tale
o f New York life, how quaint it
seems, remarks a writer in the
Brooklyn
Standard-Union.
Why
did the suspect flee from the de
tective’ in a Sixth avenue elevated
train? When the beautiful heiress
Waiter— The people who dine
suddenly decides to go to the coun
here are very liberal, sir.
try, the old fam ily coachman drives
Diner— Ah, then there’s no neces
her down to the Thirty-fourth street
sity for my giving you anything
ferry.
N o subways, no motorcars
u a daily incident of life ; the char
T E N S E M OMENT8.
acters in the story do perhaps use
When W illie tried to lick the evi telephones, but they never seem to
dence off the back o f his ears in the have heard o f the game o f golf, and
stolen jam case.
they have “ clubmen” and “ star re
When Alfred, who had just been porters” and “ cub reporters” and
accepted, read in the evening eiira other quaint-sounding designations,
that her father had gone broke.
and some utterly reckless young
When Mrs. Jones told him that spendthrift couple may spend as
the fish he said he had caught were much as $60 a month rent for an
salted herring.— Richmond Times- apartment. You would almoflt think
Pispatch.
you were reading a historical ro
mance of the period of Gov. D eW itt
M A C H I N E R Y B Y A IR E X P R E S S .
Clinton.
By the use of airplanes mining
machinery is to be taken to a mine
in Utah and the output o f the m<ne
is to be taken out, reducing the time
for the round trip to a few hours,
whereas it requires sii weeks k i l l
mule teams now.
BLOTTED I N S U L A T O R S .
For ita telegraph and telephone
the British post office hag
adopted insulators with slotted
heads, into which wires are attached
by screw cap«.
H u m
A N XIO U S T O T R E A T .
“
"Well, well, Bill, I haven’t seen
yon for
years.
Do you know where
we can get a drink?”
“ No.”
"W ell, come in here and have a
necktie on me.” — Louisville Cour
ier-Journal.
N O N M E TA L L IC
GEAR
M A TE R IA L .
Up to a few years ago practically
all noiseless gears were made from
rawhide or hard fiber. Both of
these materials are unsuitable for
timing gears, because they swell and
distort when immersed in oil. Re
cently a number o f nonmet&llic ma
terials have been developed which
have sufficiently high mechanical
properties to permit of their use in
toothed gearing and are nonsonor-
ous and impervious to oil and al
kalis. One o f the latest of these
materials contains two basic ele
ments, a phenol-formaldehyde con-
dehsation product and a fabric.
The material is as strong as cast
iron, is not affected by moisture or
oil, is o f a high dielectric strength
and is inert, insoluble and resistant
to most acids.— Scientific Am eri
can.
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Theed, In spotless wUlte flannels,
-aunteretl aimlessly down the sun
baked sidewalk In Newspaper How. It
was June, and the abhorred quest for
edursflon was temporarily suspended.
In September ne would enter Worces
ter high, as a Junior, an estimable ac
quisition In Theed’s opinion. He slowed
down to a halt In front o f a hitching
post, and, having languidly reached out
for Its iron ring, he twined It absently.
He was In one of those day dreams
hoys have. His eyes remained open;
but he saw nothing. It has to be ad
mitted that three-quarters of Theed's
dreams, waking and sleeping, were o*
Anita, the girl who wore his fraternity
pin, and whose lovely hand he had
kissed In a pageant In which they had
been the star performers.
He turned back up Newspaper row
and down Old South to Anita's home.
He hesitated with bewildering Indeci
sion at her gute, shyness or some oth
er boyish attribute, having seized him ;
then he walked away. He soon re
turned. playing a melancholy air on a
newly bought small Instrument of
baked clHy, called a “ Blrdlolu," said
instrument containing ten holes for ten
Angers and capable o f a series of
« ierd and depressing whistling tones.
He had nearly passed the house
when Anita hailed him from the piaz
za.
"C m on up. and have some lemon
ade.” she Invited.
He pocketed his Instrument and
sank down In a comfortable wicker
chair, while the little hostess presided
over the drinks and edibles.
“ What is It?" asked Anita, not with
out soqie curiosity, “ that thing you
were blowing?"
“ This," said Theed, holding up the
Instrument, and adopting the manner
and the fluency o f the young clerk in
the music store who sold it to him, "is
a “blrdlola,’ an instrument of rare
qualities. From It one may induce the
calls, the whistles o f any bird or all
birds— ”
“ Here comes Fred. Hello, Freddie,”
called Anita sweetly. "Oh, I ’m so glad
you brought your clarin et”
"Hello, Laurie, ol’ top,” said Fred,
gayly.
“ How d’y do,” Theed responded,
»tlltly.
He thoroughly disliked Fred
and bis clarinet.
A bit later the two boys rose to go.
“ I ’m glad you boys are coming to my
party,” smiled Anita, “ and Freddie,
bring your clarinet."
The day for Anita’s party arrived.
Theed made an elaborate toilet and
proceeded to Anita's.
A few minutes before the dancing
begun Theed made his way to Anita's
side to claim her first dance.
” 1 just promised Fred,” said Anita.
"Vou promised It to me Monday aft
ernoon when we were sitting In the
hammock.
Don’t you remember?”
asked Theed, pained that she should
have forgotten that wondrous incident.
"No.”
"W ell, this Is my dance, Anita. Vou
promised me first," Theed declared
stubbornly.
Here comes Fred. Hurry, Theed.
Find a partner before the dance be
gins.”
Iheed stared at her In amazemeoL !
"Very well,” he said coldly.
And he did And u partner. A visit
ing girl received him tenderly.
At first he wus a bit bored, his mind
more on Anita's behavior than the
lively tulk of his companion, but she
really was interesting, and Theed
could not help coming out of his sad
mood.
tireut was Auita’s indignation to find
him so absorbed in that visitor that
he hud not returned to her for a single
dunce.
Luring an Intermission Anita bad
►Ted play his clarinet.
At the first
soft tentative toot Theed rose and
slipped out of tlie room.
l ied was part through his ovation
when he was startled by the wild trill
ing o f a bobolink, which was repeated
at Intervals to the end of his recital.
In several parts of his song sheepltke
bleats and “ moos'' suggestive o f cows
exchanged places with the short, tenta-
•Jve toots and issued from his clarinet
in rural discord.
At the end of the
S,,"K. however, polite clapping greeted
Fred.
Anita, ’ he begged, "explain to them.
1 hut bird outside.
Oh, my reputa
tion's lo st!"
He Was breathless and
his complexion assumed a bright pink.
“ Just then through the open window
there flouted a melancholy air. Both
ITed ami Anita recognized the dread
ful whistling tones as those of Theed's
“ blvdlola."
Fred was angry.
Anita
was pleased st Theed's flare of Jeal
ousy.
The mournful tone was touching,
even If the tones were depressing. An
ita ran out oil the piazza and shut the
screen door softly behind her.
“ Theed," she called tremulously.
Anita sat down in a chair beside
him. " I ’ lay for me," she commanded.
Theed brightened visibly and raised
the "birdlola” to bis Ups.
Light-hearted once more, the de
pressing whistling tones of the “ blrdl-
ola' grated on Anita s sensibilities.
“Theed,” she said solemnly, “ your
'hlnllola' has become very dear to us.
i’lease give It to tne and I will keep
It and cherish It forever and ever."
A Wise little miss. Anita.
She was
insuring quiet enjoyment for herself
In Theed's future visits.
It was true
that the Instrument had bridged the
estrangement between them, but It
was a "blrdlola."
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LI TERALLY AS THE BIRDS.
A British inventor stated the
ither day that flying success will
■ome either with what he termed
f'appers” — which are nothing more
ar less than wings manipulated by
he arms— or bv helicopter screws
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to have lifted himself a considerable
distance from the ground with the
aid of arm wings.
An authority on aviation said:
“ There is no reason why a man
should not be able to fly by human
>je gets iVT“ 1 ”
Sailor Week
i i i t i l i t i i i ü
If
which will lie attached above the
flyer’s shoulders and turned through
a geared shaft by either the hands
or feet, much in the same way as
we pedal a bicycle.
These curious machines have been
tested at Rochester, in Kent, and at
Lutop, and one enthusiast claims
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Next Week will be
Sailor week
at
my millinery store.
Three dozen chic and becoming Sailors while
they last will go from $ 5 . 0 0 t o $ 8 . 5 0 .
Come early to get the one you want.
Reduced prices on every hat in the shop.
Newest Fall styles from a semi-tailored to a
dress hat.
MRS. U. Q. CURTIS
Masonic Building
12 5 N. High St.
Salem Oregon
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