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The man who loves babies is aevei
unpopular'.
The weather bureau never predicts
reign of terror.
Gabriel d'Annunzio Is tbe only living
poet who owes JS0.000.
We never heard of cannibals com
plaining about the high cost of living.
That wife with a primping and love
story reading husband should be en
' titled to do the family voting. -
If you fail to run your business and
allow it to get the upper hand it is
likely to run you into the ditch.
As for Balllnger and Glavls, tbe pub
lic is likely impatiently exclaim, "A
plague o' both your houses," pretty
soon.
"At this time of the year green Is
the unrivaled color," 6ays the Boston
Herald. Particularly if It is long
green.
Statistics prove that it is better to
take care of the boys before they go to
prison than to keep detectives on their
trail after they come out
The public official who takes prece
dent by the tail and throws it over
the back fence, as if it were a dead
cat, is sure to attract pttention.
"No photographer who is an artist,"
says a London newspaper, "will flatter
a patron." But he will not harden
himself to such a course with a
patroness.
Some Eastern New York farmers
are selling their cows and replacing
them with Angora goats. It'mlght be
asked If this is a case of butting in or
butting 'em out
Announcement comes from fashion
sources that "women's hats are
larger." Of course this is a matter on
which man has no vote, and what he
may say or think does not count But
really is it necessary?
What Emperor William and Colonel
Roosevelt said to each other was prob
ably even more to the point and of
greater importance than what the Gov
ernor of North Carolina said to the
Governor of South Carolina.
The Minnesota convict poet is soon
to have a volume of his poems pub
lished, and it is taken for granted that
he will presently appear on the Chau
tauqua platform. These things nat
urally follow such an experience as his
has been.
If you have a bad memory, says one
of the "good thing" pages, safeguard
it by jotting down in a notebook a
little memorandum of the promises
you make, just as a small reminder.
Um! Very good. Believe, at the same
time, somebody could make quite a bit'
of money .by marketing a handy for-getter.
A club composed of married women
of Trenton, -N. J., after a careful in
vestigation has decided that wedded
bliss cannot be Insured without chil
dren. It is to be taken for granted
that the members of the club are not
ladies who Insist on living at fashion
able family hotels and keeping pet
poodles.
It was remarked not long ago thtt
mankind is all at sea concerning what
It Is best to eat It is now proper to
observe that it is equally uncertain
when to eat It. From the frugalists,
who think one meal a day is enough,
to those tireless feeders who stoke th
human machine with breakfast, lunch
eon, afternoon tea, dinner and -supper,
the variety is endless. Not only that,
but when, is dinner? In the consul
ship of Plancus townfolk were distin
guished from countryfolk by taking
their principal meal at 1 o'clock, in
stead of at 12. Nor has the robust
dinner of the fathers yielded to the
ineffectual luncheon, on the farms or
in the smaller towns of the country.
Outside the suburban radius the 12
o'clock whistle summons to something
worth having.- But in the cities the
6-o'clock dinner, fashionable not so
very long ago, is already obsolete.
6even o'clock is tolerable; eight de
rlpieur; those who advocate high liv
ing and little or no thinking are even
agitating for 9. There is hardly an
hour of the day that has not at scene
time been the dinner-hour. The an
cient Romans dined in the forenoon,
and the simple livers of the middle
ages who, as modern diet radicals
will be interested to learn, originated
the no-breakfast idea had their prin
cipal meal at 10 o'clock. The Romans
of the Augustan age dined at 2 or 3;
Horace and Maecenas, more luxurious,
waited till sunset The Elizabethans
stood for the noon dinner; the eigh
teenth century beaux and belles put
off the event till 5. The subject la In
viting, but too large for brief discus
sion. Another Teufelsdrockh is need
ed to wrestle with It Shall not food
have its philosophy as well as
clothes?
"Race suicide spells race Improve
ment The finest physical types are
found In the smallest families. Re
duction In the size of families goes
hand in hand with Improved physical
development" The redoubtable colo
nel who took occasion to renew his
preachment of the advisability of large
families in his lecture at the Sorbon-
ne, will naturally hold the above quot
ed language to be treason. But it Is
the utterance of a professor of anthro
pology at Columbia University, one
Franz Boas, who has devoted much
time and patience to the study of the
New York Immigrant population. The
fact that he has measured 30,000 heads
of immigrants shows the minuteness
of his observations. This professor
says the first generation of Immi
grants usually have large families, but
In the second generation the size of
the families is about the same as in
the native stock. And a marked im
provement is noted in the quality of
the children. If there Is only on
child in a family it is apt to be taller
and better developed in . every way.
Up to five children the tendency of the
height Is apt to be above the average
of the race, but after the fifth child
the tendency Is for the stature to be
come abnormally low. If Professor
Boas' observations are sufficiently ac
curate to be of value they cannot fall
to have considerable influence upon
the race suicide discussion. It ma;
be said that our ancestors In the early
days of the republic raised large fami
lies and produced a good stock. But
the conditions then were vastly differ
ent There was range enough for the
whole brood to develop and expand.
It was not the heart-breaking task to
feed, clothe and educate a large family
that it is under modern complex condi
tions. The parents usually enjoy a
freer existence with more out-door oc
cupation and recreation. There was
not the same nervous strain. The chil
dren did not require so many things
nor so much attention. In fact, nature
seems to exhibit her usual good sense
by Interposing to reduce the size of
families as the mode of living becomes
cnore difficult and complex.
DYNASTIC NAMES OF ROYALTY.
Why the Late Klnr Selected Edward
Rather Tthan That of Albert.
Most royal families have a given
name they employ as a sort of dis
tinctive dynastic hall mark, the Bos
ton Evening Transcript says. George
and Frederick are distinctively Han
overian, as Edward Is distinctively
English. The late king selected Ed
ward rather than Albert from motives
at once filial and politic. He desired
that his father should stand alone in
his glory as Albert in English his
tory, and Edward was associated
with old and stately traditions of the
Plantaganets . and Tudors. Similarly
tbe French Bourbons usually have a
Louis or a Charles among their string
of names, and the Bonapartes never
forget Napoleon at the baptismal font
Tbe most striking instance of rever
ence for a dynastic name is found in
the princely family of Reuss in Ger
many. There are two principalities of
Reuss, respectively representing the
elder and the younger lines. Every
reigning prince must bear the name
of Henry. Henry XXIV. reigns over
one principality and Henry XIV. over
the other. - All the heads of the houses
for 900 years have been Henrys and
in a grand family council early in
the eighteenth century it was decreed
that the figures should not exceed 100,
after which a new series should begin
with Henry I. As both branches clung
to Henry, a working arrangement was
patched up by which the youuger line
begin a new group numbering wlfl)
each century.
The . first Henry born in the twen
tieth century who shall mount the
tiny throne must revert to Henry I.,
and similarly his descendant senior
among the Henrys of the twenty-first
century is foreordained to be I., too.
Rather confusing is the system to the
reader, but if the people of the prin
cipalities like it no one else need be
concerned.
NIHP 111 FIVE YEARS
Prediction Made That It Will Be
Capable of Traveling 75
Miles an Hour.
WILL BE LIKE A FLYHKJ FISH.
Dream of Magazine Writer, the Ful
fillment of Which Is Not Be
yond Realm of Possibility.
A Remarkable Strike,
A man in Ohio recently sought an
expert in oil because he believed that
he had struck oil on .his land. He
brought a sample in a bottle.
Evidently he had been, in a great
hurry and had hastily grabbed the
first bottle at hand, for when the
chemist had duly analyzed the sample
submitted he sent the following tele
graphic report: .
"Find no trace of oil You have
struck paregoric." Youth's Compa
nion. A Real One.
Tommy Tell us a fairy tale. Guest
Once a man who had a baby that
didn't cry and a dog that didn't bite
went to live in a suburb without mos
quitoes. Harper's Bazar. .'
"There is one thing," every married
woman's expression seems to say,
"that I know all about, and that Is
patience.'
From the standard of present devel
opment the airship of 1915 may be
conceived as having a hull of rigid
construction, 1,000 feet long and 80
feet beam, with accommodations for
125 to 150 passengers, with a crew of
forty-two men.
The new air liner will resemble a
submarine, or rather a flying fish, a
writer in the Century says. All its
parts will be compactly built into the
hull. Its under body, S00 feet long,
12 feet wide and 9 feet high, will ex
tend between the elbows fore and aft
where the hull begins to curve toward
Its pointed bow and stern. The un
derbody will hold seven passengers
and eight operating sections, after the
fashion of a compartment sleeping
car. A continuous passageway will ex
tend from end to end.
The prow, glazed with artificial
mica, will furnish an aerial observa
tory. Its Interior will be a series of
grill galleries, connected by steps.
Here will be the "bridge," the air
liner's nerve center, with signal radia
tion to all parts of the ship. A nar
row gallery will reach the extreme
nose, where a small exploring gun,
swung on a universal joint, can be
fired toward most points in space. On
Its several platforms will be the navi
gating deck, the helm, the "wireless,"
the cbartroom and both meterologlcal
and astronomical "observatories."
Below the "bridge" will be a hatch
way to the main passage in the for
ward underbody of the ship, where
there is a companion way which is the
ship's portal. Abaft of this will be the
captain's cabin.
The sides of the "hold," or tunnel,
five feet high and eight feet wide, will
be lined with continuous tanking, con
taining gasoline fuel, to be forced up
ward into the engine rooms, as needed.
The outside of the "hold" will serve
as the airship's rounded keel, and will
enable the craft to float on water;
elastic buffers for landing will be fixed
under each engine section.
The eight motor compartments will
each be equipped with one 200-horse-power
motor. The electric power
plants, for lighting, cooking and oper
ating the escalator, will be in the en
gine coApartments.
The top of the hull, now the Zeppe?
lin's observatory, will become a long
"hurricane deck" of thin, light plank
ing, with side rails. Here, will be kept
service implements; two slender masts,
carrying the "wirelesss" atennas and
the yellow "top lights"; observatories
for cloud trlangulation and taking the
altitude of stars; searchlights, kite
winch and the airship's "boats," two
small, swift aeroplane "scouts" one
fore, the other aft. with ample space
tor launching and alighting. Along the
port and starboard sides five sets of
curved aeroplane surfaces will help to
lift and support the airship or steer
it up and down. They will be
"stopped" to avoid Interference. Be
tween them will be eight small propell
ers, four on each side, at alternating
levels along the hull.
It Is believed that within five years
such an air liner will be capable of
traveling seventy-five, miles an hour,
ordinarily, and often 120 miles, in the
upper levels.
In ten years an airship driven fifty
miles an hour may perchance make
that trip In eight days, flying at a
speed of 120 miles an hour, or 3,000
a day. Is it all a dream? . Ten years
ago a prophecy of the present achieve
ments of German air navigators would
have been received with Incredulity.
SLEEP OF HIBERNATION.
different from Ordinary Repose
and Near Complete Insensibility.
The sleep of hibernation is a very
different matter from the sleep of re
pose. If it be complete, respiration
can no longer be detected. A torpid
bat when disturbed will heave a sigh
or two and, being left alone, again
to all appearances cease to breathe.
Submerged in water of a tempera
ture slightly higher than his own, ttvj
hedgehog not only continues to live,
but appears to suffer neither inconven
ience nor harm. Inclosed in an air
tight receptacle his atmosphere under
goes a change so slight that it af
fects him slightly, if at all.
But circulation does not cease, Har
per's Weekly says. As respiration di
minishes, the Irritability of the mus
cles of the heart increases; and thus,
wtlhout the stimulation of oxygen, al
though much more slowly, the heart
continues to beat la tbe absence of
the fresh air drawn into the lungs in
times of activity, uncleansed and un
revigorated and venous blood passes
on to fill the whole system of circula
tion. A profound lethargy ensues, distin
guishable from death only by the
slight beating of the heart The waste
is very small. The fat accumulated
during the plenty of summer and au
tumn supplies all expenditure until
the coming spring, when earlier or
later the hibernating animal, having
no capital in reserve, begins to suffer
the pangs of hunger. In response to
the demand respiration very slowly
increases. His oxidized blood flows
more quickly and his energy returns.
Then the bat flies forth once more
from the hollow tree in 'the wood to
find the warm dusk teeming with in
sect life and the hedgehog comes, It
may be, from the cavity under the
gnarled roots below, to find beetles
worms and slugs once more among
the spring grass.
Hibernation has saved both from
death by starvation, but If their nooks
had not been snug and wisely chosen
they would not have been preserved
from death by frost.
The hiding place also must be secret
and free from intrusion, for the hiber
nating animal cannot bear to be sud
denly roused. Even the little dor
mouse, which conies out at intervals
to feed, when In deep sleep must be
carried Indoors to the warmer tern
perature of a room or revived by the
heat of the hand passing through tht
uesL He liieu waked rti'icoLcJ aui!
full of activity. But he does not sur
vive too hasty an awakening.
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(EDEEKKE
A new method of producing thin me
tallic films by volatilization in a vac
uum was described at a recent meeting
of the Academy of Sciences, Paris, by
Prof. L. Houllevlgue. The metal to be
deposited is first disposed in a layer
on a platinum wire, which is then
heated in a high vacuum. The film
forms on a plate of glass, which is kept
in rotation near the heated wire. In
this manner thin films have been pro
duced of gold, silver, platinum, iron,
copper, zinc, tin and cadmium.
Up to the present time, says F. L.
Hess, the most Important use of tungs
ten is as an alloy 'or steel .tools. From
16 to 20 per cent of tungsten is ordi
narily used for tools. It enables the
steel to hold temper in a much higher
temperature than ordinary carbon
steel. A lathe may be speeded up until
the chips flying from the tool are so
hot that they turn blue. It is esti
mated that about five times as much
work can be done with such a tool as
with one made of ordinary steel.
In scientific annals the Beagle, in
which Darwin made his first exploring
expedition, is almost as sacredly re
membered as "Old Ironsides" in Amer
ican history. This ship has long been
lost from sight and nobody knew ex
actly what had become of it Toyozl
Noda now writes to Nature that the
Beagle was broken up in Japan, where
it was used as a training ship until
1899, and that a part of its ribs has
recently been found in use as a stand
for stones piled up near the temple
of Suitengu, near the Oakl shipbuild
ing yard.
The predaceous beetle, Clerus formi
carius, which has been found useful
In the United States as an enemy of
the pine-boring Scolytidae, is to be in
troduced in Ceylon to make war upon
the "shot-hole borers" which are rav
aging the tea plants in that island.
The experimenters are only doubtful as
to whether the imported insects will
thrive in the tropical climate of Cey
lon. The need of a foe capable of
dealing effectually with the borers is
emphasized by the fact that an allied
species of borers Is attacking the cam
phor plants also.
During his recent expedition in the
Himalayas, Dr. T. G. Longstaff discov
ered a new chain of the Karakoram
range, containing a group of immense
peaks, one of which, Teram Kangrl,
situated in about latitude 35 degrees,
30 minutes, longitude 77 degrees, rises,
according to his measurements, to the
stupendous height of 27,610 feet. Only
Mount Everest, Kinchinjunga, K2 and
Makalu are known to have a greater
height than this. The newly-discovered
peak is said to be the culminat
ing point of a totally distinct massif,
which has hitherto appeared on do
map. Dr. Longstaff has also discov
ered that the Slachen (Salchar) gla
cier is the longest in the Himalayas,
and probably the largest outside Alas
ka and the polar regions. Its length
is more than forty-four miles.
Unprecedented.
"I couldn't believe my ears."
What's up?"
. "My wife told me yesterday that she
discovered a flat that she likes better
than the one we're in now, and the
rent isn't a cent higher." -Detroit
Free Press.
- It takes the grappling hooks of con
fidence to remove truth from the Dot
torn of a well.
Rhubarb Shortcake.
A pieplant shortcake is an inexpen
sive, palatable dessert at this time of
year. Make a nice biscuit crust Roll
In two thin cakes, butter one and lay
the other upon it, bake, until done;
separate and fill with two cups of
stewed - and well sweetened pie plant
and one cup of raisins chopped and
stewed. Whipped and sweetened cream.
spread on top is an Improvement.
Quick Coffee Cake.
Sift two cups of flour and four level-
teaspoons of baking powder together,,
add one beaten egg and mix one cup of
milk. Turn into a buttered tin and
pour a tablespoonful of melted butter
over. Sprinkle with sugar and a little
ground cinnamon and bake. Serve
warm for breakfast and break instead
of cutting. The same batter may be
baked in gem pans or muffin tins.
Scalloped Potatoes,
Have a quart of thinly sliced pota
toes (raw), butter an earthen puddlng
disn and put in a layer ot tne poiaioei.
season with salt, butter and sprinkle
over a few cracker crumbs; continue
in this way until all the potatoes are
used. Cover with crumbs and pieces.
of butter and pour over milk until it.
can just be seen even with the top lay
er. Bake slowly and brown lightly.
Rice Muffins.
These are particularly tasty, and:
one egg will enrich a dozen. To the
beaten yolk of one egg add a cupful
each of cold boiled rice and sweet
mHk. Mix thoroughly, then beat in.
one and one-half cupfuls of sifted flour
Add two teaspoonfuls of baking pow
der and beat again. Lastly, fold in.
the stiffly whipped white of one egg:
Strawberry Cocktail.
For a strawberry cocktail with,
which to Introduce the dinner or
luncheon, cut large berries Into slices,
cover with strained orange Juice and
let them stand in the Ice box until
serving time. Put Into punch glasses,,
filling one-third ' full, adding enough,
powdered sugar to sweeten and
enough chipped Ice to thoroughly-chill.
Whole Wheat Puffs.
' Beat together until perfectly smooth. -the
yolk of one egg, a cupful and a
half of fresh sweet milk, a pinch ot
salt and one pint whole whea flour
Beat until very light, fold In the whip
ped white of egg and bake at once
As no rising powder is used the bat
ter must be lightened by aeration,
that is, by beating the air into it
Canned Rhubarb.
Cut and wash the rhubarb and put
it into the preserving kettle. Set at
the back of the range, where it will
heat slowly. When steaming hot add'
for two quarts of rhubarb one sliced
lemon (slice very thin) and three
pounds of sugar or more if needed.
Boll until the mixture is thick and the
lemon is transparent.
Strawberry Shortcake.
Make a rich biscuit dough, roll thin-
ana cut into rounas aoout tne size ot
a bread and butter plate. Place one
on top of another and bake in a quick
oven. Have the berries washed, crushed
and sugared. Spread between the lay
ers and on top and serve hot with
whipped cream, plain cream or ice
cream.
Fruit Dlancmanae,
Grape juice or the juice from any
canned fruit may be used. Place the
sweetened Juice over the fire In a dou
ble boil-; when boiling stir in corn
starch and a pinch of salt, wet with
cold water, allowing two tablespoon
fuls of corn starch to each pint of
Juice. Pour Into molds.
Raspberry Creams.
Line little, patty pans with paste,
fill with raspberry jam, sprinkle with,
a pinch of sugar and another of flour
and bake. Cool and when ready to
serve put a spoonful ot whipped or
beaten cream on each.
. Cafe Mousse.
Beat the yolks of three eggs, add
one cup of hot strong coffee, and cook
one minute; cool, add one pint ot
whipped cream and one cup of sugar
Pack in a freezer and let stand with,
out stirring seven or eight hours.
Hints About the Honse.
Cretonne curtains may be washed la
alum water, if done quickly, without
losing their color.
When peeling an onion the eyes will
be less affected If one peels from the
stem end upward.
Hardly nay better dusting cloth can.
be found than the old-fashioned red.
bandana handkerchief.