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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1915)
IOVT HUPDY' GELETT www carrr ounces SYNOPSIS. ' Halt Bonlatalla, artlat-phetofraphar, tniim tor tha day'i work In hli atudlo. Ha la ramlndad by Plodla Klahtr, hla aa antant, of a party h la to ftva In tha aiudlo that nffhl, and warned that hla bualnaaa la In bad financial ahapa. Mr. IXrmu, attornay and Juitlca of tha Paaca, oalla and tnforma Hall that bla Unci John'i will haa left him RttXi.OM en condition that ha marry bafora hla twan-tr-akghth birthday, which baflna at sal night that nlfht CHAPTER II Continued. FlodU triad to ipeak, hesitated, couldn't "I think 10 " sh finally St out Then, timidly: "Tot, I'm uro iho would!" "By Joto, I'll try It!" ko oielalmod. "Who is ihot" Flodle almost broko down. 8h rpt up to him timidly. "Why why, you know, Mr. BonlitolU, don't you? why, you muit know! It'i soma ono" iho stopped and swallowed "someone you se Tory often." She couldn't look him In the face, but tood waiting fearfully, trembling. "Lord. If I could do It!" Hall went en to himself. "Four millions! Be fore midnight." He paused, gazing at corner of the celling. "Oh, by Jove!" he exclaimed suddely, "I know now! You mean Item Royalton! Why, I never thought of her, before! Of course. Yes, that's a fact! She did call me Hall, the last time I saw her, didn't she?" He turned to Flodle. "See here, Flodle, you're clever how the deuce did you know?" Flodle clutched at her heart and bit her Hp to keep back the tears. He put it to her direct "Is It Mrs. Royalton, Flodle?" Flodie'B smile was a triumph; It had In it a dozen different meanings, It waa wonderful In Its beautiful renun ciation; but It took a full minute for her to control herself, and, meanwhile, she busied herself with the tray. "Yes," she managed to say finally, and choking, she walked rapidly back Into the office. Hall stood and thought it over. He took out his watch and looked at it anxiously. It was already ten o'clock. Once he shook his head. It was too outrageous; then the humor of the af fair seized him and he laughed harsh ly, aloud. Flodie'B white face appeared In the doorway. "What is It?" nhe cried. "I've got it!" he shouted, "we'll have the wedding tonight. The guests are invited already, and they can't get at "Yes, I'm Sure She Would!" the rice. How's that? Won't that be great? Flodie Fisher, you've saved my life!" He grabbed her and whirled her round in a crazy waltz, till she broke away in anguish. "Oh, Mr. Bonl telle," she began, "I'll just have to tell you. I 6an't bear it" At that moment there was a sound of the hall door opening. "What is it?" Hall said. "Anything I can do for you? Want to be a brides maid, or what?" Flodie turned, looked, and saw. "Oh, nothing!" She pat her hand to her head, as if it were aching. "There she is, now!" she sighed. "Mrs. Roy alton!" "Good! Tell her I'll be ready In Just a minute!" Hall rushed into the dark room to load his plate-holders. Flodie went wearily into the office with a curt "Good morning, Mrs. Roy alton," and made a brava attempt to smile. CHAPTER III. Mrs. Royalton was plump and flam fcoyant, handsome, if one didn't mind her pop eyes, which were brown and brilliant. She was a sleek and glossy .woman dressed In the extreme of style, apparently quite assured of her own charms. Her motions were pleas' antly slow she moved about with a stately swanlike carriage. Her vocal tones, too, were slow and smooth; full of a sort of sentimental unction. IT WASN'T THE SAME WOMAN Nevertheless, the British Soldier's De sire to Marry Lasted Through the Year of Probation. There la a famous British general who hates to see his soldiers wed. One day a Tommy came to him and asked permission to marry. The general, hoping to cool the man's ardor, told him to go away and . come back again year from that la S -1 DURGEpp Vastly condescending always, waa Mrs. Royalton, to her Inferiors; suave and flattering to those the admired. She wore white, with a purple hat. "What's the matter, child? Bees crying, haven't you? What in the world does a young girl Ilk you have to trouble you?" "Oh, waiting on customers, for one thing!" Flodle tossed her head like a filly. Mrs. Royalton didn't, apparently, get the sarcasm. "Well, you dont seem to wait on them very much! Isn't Mr. Bonlstelle ready forts yet?" Flodle started to reply, then changed her mind. "I don't know," she said, "I'll see." Hall was blinking from the dark room, loaded plate-holders in hand. "Oh, Mr. Bonlstelle," Flodle whis pered despairingly, "you aren't going to propose to her, are you? Oh, don't, don't, please, Mr. Bonlstelle!" ."Well, what's the matter nowt I thought you wanted me to." "Oh, but I don't now!" "Flodle! You're crazy! Don't you worry! It'll b a happy day for you, little girl, when I'm married! I'll see that you get a better Job than this! Say, Where's that other plate-holder?" "Over on that shelf. Oh, Mr. Bonl stelle, you'll be awfully unhappy I I know you will!" He stopped Impatiently. "Unhappy! With four millions, Flodle? With a private yacht a country house a villa in Italy, per haps automobiles a valet by Jove, I guess not!" Her face was absurdly distorted with pain and anxiety. Her fists were clenched. She summoned her courage for the last despairing stroke. "Oh, she paints, Mr. Bonlstelle! She paints her face like a clown ! You wouldn't " Hall laughed aloud. "For heaven's sake! Is that what's troubling you? Now, I suppose she's the only woman who does It in all New York! Well, put your mind at rest, Flodle; I'll promise to reform her after we're man rled. Tell her to come In." Mrs. Royalton wandered into the studio. She began, as usual, with a simper and a smile. "I don't know that I ought to shake hands with you, Mr. Bonlstelle! You're a bad, bad boy! Why haven't you been to see me, all this long while?" She filled the place with her dulcet personality. Hall inspected her sagely, as one in spects a valuable object he is expect ing to purchase, seeing her, as it were, for the first time. His first re mark lacked conviction. "Oh, I've been busy Rena!" That "Rena" barely saved It. "Busy! Oh, you're always too busy for poor little me! I'm sure you'll take a horrid picture of me and I did so want to get a good one today!" Mrs. Royalton rattled on, taking off her veil and inspecting her hair in the cheval glass. She twitted him on his Impoliteness, she made her big eyes bigger. ' She did the spoiled child kittenishly. Hall still seemed distrait. He broke away nervously and went to work. It was his custom to engage his object In conversation, permitting her to change position, talk, drink tea, flirt, or gesture as she would, while she was unaware, and before she began to wonder why he did not begin, to have managed the exposure of some dozen plates, from one or two of which he was pretty sure to achieve a triumph of art and naturalness. But, at the mercy of his obsession, this method was impossible today, Hall was too busy making up bis mind. and could not do two things at once. "You're not paying a bit of attention to me," she pouted. Mrs. Royalton, babyish, was a picture for a cynic. But Hall was too engrossed In his own thoughts. He caught her with an unlifted finger, cried "There!" and slipped in a plate. "The fact is, I am a bit worried today," he confessed. "Just look a bit over that way. That's right! Fine!" He deftly pressed the bulb. She went up to him and patted his arm. "Oh, you poor dear man! Oh, I wish I could help him out!" "Oh, no, I'm afraid you can't help me," he said irritably. "I wish to heaven you could. Now look up!" he commanded. Then he dived under the focusing cloth, and emerged to say, "It's partly you that I'm worrying about though, Rena." "About me? No!" Mrs. Royalton was delighted. "Yes, I am, really!" He went up to her and adjusted her Jabot Her eyes went off at him like a double-barreled shotgun in an explo sion of coquetry. "I suppose you tell that to every woman you know!" He was in for it now. "Nonsense! It's true, Rena." She opened her eyes still wider. "Whataln the world do you mean?" She was hungry for more. "Walt till I get another picture." Hall wheeled his camera into a new position, wondering what to say next. She was animated enough, now, her big eyes fairly blazed. The tigress had scented the antelope. For some time he held her off while she teased for further revelation, in- day, and if he was then In the same mind permission would be given him to marry. When the year had passed the soldier repeated his request "But do you really still wish to marry?" asked the general in sur prise. "Yes, sir, very much?" answered Tommy. "Well, you may marry now," said the general. "I never believed there was so much constancy in man or woman." The soldier saluted and prepared to qulaltlve, tantalised. Finally he sat, down beside her on the couch under the window, stretched out his hand. obtained hers without much trouble, and felt of It softly. Bh stared at him excitedly. "You know, Rena, the reasoa why I haven't been to you, don't you?" "Oh, some other woman, I'm sure." 'No; I Just didn't dare. I hadn't the courage.' She drew her hand away, but per milled It to be recaptured with ease. You must know what I've been think ing," ha went on. "You must have seen It la my eyes." "Why, your eyes look all right Mr. Bonlstelle. I haven't any Idea what you're talking about!" Bh was a forty-year-old baby, now. "I wish I could s torn of It In your eyes, Renal" "What In th world? Be what?" "I'v admired you ever sine I first saw you, Rena!" He plunged In, now, over his head. H shut his eyes for th Jump, to glv it Intensity. "I can't get yon out of my mind I I lor you, Rna, didn't you know that?" Bh moved away, as If a bit alarmed, and withdraw her hand. "Why, Mr. Bon Hall! I had no Idea you thought of m in that way. It's absurd. You haven't known m but a tew week" "Oh, I'v known you long enough. I'v been desperat about It" Hall began almost to . mean It "Rena, you're th only woman I vr loved!" "Hall," sh paused and gav him a long languishing look. "Why, I cant "Then You Like Me a Little, Rena?" believe it! When did you first dis cover that you loved me, Hall?" she cooed, drawing nearer. , This stopped him for a moment "Why since since the second time, I think it was " "You think It was! You mean that time you came to dinner? Why, I thought you were much mora Inter ested In Carolyn Dallys!" "Don't you believe me, Rena? I tell you, I can't stand it any longer. I've simply got to have you. Don't say no yet Just listen! Give me some en oouragement, Rena, Just a bit!" She looked at him with immense delight. "You poor boy." Softly she patted his hand. "Then you do like me a little. Rena?" He seized her hand firmly. Rena was pleased and happy, radi ant. "To think that you're la love with just poor little me!" "Then you will say yes and make me the happiest man in th world th richest man in the" Mrs. Royalton would squeeze every precious drop out of the orange. "Do you really love me so much?" "Oh, do I! Why, Rena, I simply cant wait I want to marry you im mediatelyas soon as possible today, even " Rena rose. "Oh, that's Impossible! Her voice lost its unction and became lmmediatelymatter-of-fact "Dont be silly. Hall. Why, I haven't said 'yes' yet I must have time to think it over." Time?" Hall's face dropped. "I want to be sure, this time!" She shook her head in swift retrospection. "Don't torture me, Rena! You know how I must suffer. Think of my being deprived of the opportunity of " "Of what?", Again her cowlike gaze disconcerted htm. "Oh, of everything of you of hap piness of, of you know!" He looked at her helplessly. She still smiled, proud of his ardor. Something in her pleased eyes encouraged him, and he put his arm about her shoulder, tried to draw her closer, had his Hps ready for the kiss, when she sprang up. (TO B3 CONTINUED.) Largest Rose 19 Inches. R, S. Hardle Baugh, a rose enthusi ast of Ontario, Cal., is displaying a bloom of tha William Bhean variety which measures six Inches in diame ter and nearly nineteen inches In cir cumference. The rose is perfectly formed and fragrant Mr. Baugh de clares that a fertilizer of rotted pota to parings was responsible for the mammoth blossom. In color It It of a delicate shade of pink. He's Only a Volunteer, "Where do we find the most miser able of men I" exclaimed the exhorter fervently. "You don't have to find him," re sponded the man in the fourth row, center, "he hunts you up and tells yoi all about It leave the room, but when he got to the door he turned around and said: "Thank you, sir, but It Isn't the same woman." Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tel graph. Crowded Out "I understand you ara planning new house." "I started to." "Why did you drop It" "I didn't drop it My wife and thi contractor got together and I haven' been able to put in a word since." itoli ft ,. ii t-'J n i i. i. Li 9 V1DN IN POZZUOLI IT IS thought by tome that Paul' defective eyesight may hav pre vented his appreciating natural scenery. However that may have oeen, it seems impossioie mat n should not hav been Impressed by th, splendid views that anyone tail ing up the coast of Sicily through th Straits of Messina and along the south Italian shore enjoys, says Rev. Dr. Francis E. Clark In hi series, "In th Footsteps of St Paul," In the Christian Herald. He would have seen at first smiling, vine-covered hills; and before he had gone far, glorious Etna, snow capped for much of the year. An ever-changing panorama delights the eye until we come to Reggio, the ancient Rhegium. Alas, a pitiful sight there greets the traveler today, Mes sina on one side of the narrow strait and Reggio ou the other were both wrecked almost beyond recognition by the disastrous earthquake of 1908, On the Messina shore one sees great rows of little wooden houses scarcely larger than henhouses. These are the port able bungalows which were transport ed from America, ready-made, to re lieve the sufferings of the houseless and homeless people. They are still occupied, for little has been done to build up the ruined cities. Between 8cylla and Charybdls. Shortly after leaving Reggio we pass between Scylla and Charybdls, the fabled monsters of antiquity, the rock and the whirlpool, which have been robbed of all their terrors since steam navigation came to bless the world, and to make the traveler's bur dens and dangers light. Soon after, the active volcanic mountain of Strom- boll, on one of the Llparl Islands, Is seen, and all the way along the glori ous South Italian shore reveals Itself; splendid mountains rear their heads In the near distance, their sides clothed with vineyards and olive and orange orchards far up their slopes. As we approach the Bay of Naples the scenery becomes constantly more entrancing. We see the promontory of Sorrento across the Bay of Saler no, and soon Capri with its blue grot to comes In sight on the left, and tow ering Vesuvius with its constant plume of smoke on the right. Sailing across the Bay of Naples, past the spot where the notable city of the present day Is situated, a place which was then comparatively Insig nificant, our travelers came to Pute olt, or Pozzuoli, as It is now called, at present a decadent suburb of Naples. This miserable and dirty town of some 16,000 inhabitan's, as it now Is, is connected by trolley and steam rail way with Naples, and Is often visited by the modern tourist who wishes to see the remains of the ancient tem ples and amphitheater and the mighty mole, which still tell of the ancient glories of Puteoli. Nearby, too, is the volcanlo field of Solfatara, not a mountain, but a flat plain, the crater of a low volcano, Into which one can thrust his cane In many places and find smoke and sul phurous vapor issuing from the hole as he withdraws It. Probably there are few more dreary or disreputable places In Italy than this modern suburb of Naples. It has not the ragged pic turesqueness which somewhat redeems the worst slums of Naples, but Is a squalid, unwholesome town of the worst type. Waa Noted Roman Resort, It Is difficult to realize that It once might have been called "the Liver pool of Italy," that here was the Lm- crlne lake, which supplied the pam pered Romans with their famous oy sters, and that tho whole bay was covered with the beautiful yachts of the fashionable folk who made Balae, Just beyond, the most noted resort, as corrupt as It was noted, for the in valids and fashionable Idlers of Rome, There were famous springs here, which attracted the sick from many quarters, and it is said that the an cient name came from the sulphurous stench which they emitted. Puteoll is no longer a fashionable watering An Epoch for India. In the annual report of the Kash mir Medical mission Dr. A. Neve says this year "marks an epoch from which everything will date afresh." He writes: "It is certainly an epoch fo India, so many of whose gallant princes and troops are In the firing line. In future, things cannot be the same. . . . The spirit in which we Eng lish now meet our Indian fellow sub jects Is that of co-operation, and should lead to closer friendship In future. That the spectacle of Chris tian nations fighting among them selves Is unedlfylng goes without say ing, and especially that there Bhould be such barbarities practiced on non combatants; but perhaps the people of this land may thus be brought to see the distinction between real and only nominal Christianity, and the corollary that religion is a matter of the heart, not of hereditary creed and ceremonies." Freezing Fish Alive. M. Pictet, the brilliant Swiss man of science, has succeeded in freezing place, but from other causes the same nam might be applied to th mod ern Pozzuoli. Yet here we Can look upon many of th things which St Paul saw; the sea Itself, fresh and clean as ever; th encircling hills, no less beautiful In their spring greenery than on that spring day when Paul sailed within their encircling arm. Wa can even see the 17 piers of the great mol which stretched far out Into the bay, within whose shelter vessels anchored, one the Alexandrian grain ship cn which Paul bad arrived. Today wa can see the ruins of th temple of Serapls, or the splendid marketplace as It Is now thought to be, which very likely was In it pristine glory when Paul landed. - Tens of thousands of travelers from many lands sail Into the famous har bor of Naples every year, but com paratively few of them realize how near they are to the footsteps of St. Paul, and ho7, after a short trolley ride from the city, they can plant their feet where he trod. Let us take the electric car from Largo Vlttorla, where the beautiful park, Naples' famous promenade and Rotten How, begins; a park that stretches for nearly a mile along the water front. Soon, however, we get beyond the fashionable quarters and the Innumerable hotels. The car makes Its slow way through a slummy re gion where the air is rent with the raucous cries for which noisy Naples is famous, and the nose is assailed by more than the seventy odors of Co logne. Tunnel Under Poslllpo. Shortly a tunnel Is reached under the green hills of Poslllpo, a tunnel, almost as ancient as Naples Itself, for It was dug by the Romans to avoid tho steep climb over the precip itous tufa rocks of Poslllpo. Seneca, we are told, grumbled at the dust and darkness and the odor of this tunnel, and they have not been improved since his day. The noise Is deafening from the clatter of horses' hoofs, the pat ter of herds of goats, the grinding tor ture of the electric car wheels, and above all the brazen throats of the Ne apolitans who urge on their donkeys with an indescribable noise, guttu ral and grating, which seems to come from the innermost parts of their anat omy. Another slum awaits us at the other side of the grotto, followed by vine yards and orange groves and truck farms, until, after a ride of four or five miles, the last part of which! affords glorious views of the bay and its islands, which never lose their charm, we at last find ourselves In an other slum, more hopeless than any we have yet Been on the way, and find that we have at last reached the old Puteoll, and that the electric car leaves us but a few steps from the spot where the great apostle must have come ashore, The Immediate surroundings of the great pier where St. Paul landed are as filthy as any other part of Pozzuoli Indescribable old hags leer at us from the doorways; ragged and dirty chil dren, wholly unacquainted with the use of a pocket handkerchief, swarm around us. Several small fishing boats are drawn up on the shore, and a little church, called St. Paul's Chap el, stands Immediately behind the an cient mole. The modern pier, built over the an cient mole, is a truly magnificent one of solid cut stone, which runs far out into the sweet, clean water, and by going out to the far end we get be yond the reach of the importunate tout. It one can forget the approaches to the pier, he can here enjoy the en chanting scenery of sea and shore, while his mind is stimulated by mem ories of the mighty past. But the volcanoes have brought blessings as well as curses, for the ash which they pour forth becomes In a few years a soil of almost Incredi ble fertility, like the volcanic soil of the Yakima valley on our own Pacific coast live fish and reviving them several weeks or months later. He put 28 live fish In a box that contained water rich In oxygen, in which several pieces of ice floated. He then reduced the temperature of the water very slowly until It froze. At the end of about two months the cake of Ice was eradu. ally thawed and the fish were found alive. According to the renort of the . perlment It Is essential that the water De very gradually frozen, and that shall have contained pieces of Ice for from fifteen to eighteen hours before the whole mass Is frozen. The process of thawing must also be verv slow Is believed that through this process Siberian sturgeon and Alaskan salmon can bo exported alive to distant coun tries. TIt-Blts. Good Advice. "I suffer terribly from Indigestion, doctor. What shall I take for it?" "It Isn't so much what you take," replied the physician. "It's what you stop taking." Whereupon he proceeded to make out a long list of the things his patient must not eat. LITTLE BOY'S GOOD EXCUSE Couldn't Comb HI Hair Bafora Going to School Bacaua Family Comb Had Baen Lssnad. Her I a story that was told at a recent dinner by Mis Sybil Baker, wbo was chosen queen of Ros Fes tival, at Portland, whsn referenc was mad to th wonderful excuse In vented by th rising generation. On morning th teacher of a pub lic school in a western village was glancing over her pupils, when bar y suddenly fastened ou llttl Wil li Brown. "Willie," said sh In a stern vole, "didn't I tell you not to com to school without having had your hair combed?" "Yes, ma'am," was th rather meek ful rejoinder of th youngster. "Well, then," demanded th teach er, a little mora severely, "why didn't you do it?" "Becaus I couldn't comb It, Mis Mary," was th startling rejoinder of Willie. "W lent our comb to th 8mlth last night and they didn't bring It back." Philadelphia Tale-graph. Limit of Delsart. Friend Doe th Delsart system teach you haw to act when proposed to?" Bride "Yes t I studied that part carefully." 'Did you use It?" 'I used it with three or four whom I rejected, and I did It beautifully, I know; but when dear Tom proposed I forgot all about It" New York Week ly. HELPFUL ARTICLE. "Modern Inventions are great." "Yes; before long It .will be the cor rect thing for a child to take a pocket adding machine to school to help In the solution of mathematical problems." Interurban Prejudice, "Is this a through train?" asked the Impatient man from New York, "Yes," replied the conductor. "It makes only one stop between here and Philadelphia." "That's a good Idea. It gives a man who has started for Philadelphia a chance to think It over." Tha Query Dlicourteous. "So glad to see you again, dear. And I've got such a lot of news for you. Did you know I was interested In business now?" said the first sweet young thing. "Whose?" asked the second, and then the conversation lagged per ceptlbly. Discouraged. "How did you happen to leave your last boarding place?" "The landlady had such mournful eyes." "I don't understand you." "She always bent them upon me when I asked for a second helping." Engineering Triumph. "Why are you studying that dachs hund so Intently?" "I consider him an architectural tri umph of Mother Nature's," explained the bridge builder. "See how nicely the stress Is calculated to the span." Judge. No Help Then. "Hints on courtship abound. Every magazine will tell you how to win a wife. Anybody will gladly post you on the etltquette of love making." "What's on your mind?" "But after a man's marries he haa to shift completely for himself." Settled. "Our minister has received a call from somewhere at a higher salary, and I understand he Is at home pray ing for guidance." "What does bis wife think about It?" "Oh, she's packing up." His Gait. "That old sea dog at the banquet last night seemed to be continually steering for the wine on the side board." "Yes, I noticed he bad quite a list to port" Force of Habit "What's the matter with this ho tel? I can't get any answer to my ring." "Sorry, sir, but you see all the bellboys have made a rush to th front" Uninformed. "What were the Seven Wonders of the World?" "I dunno," answered Mr. Rufnek. "I never could remember much about what I saw in a dime museum or a sideshow." Had Been to New York. "A Washlngtonlan has discovered a way to remove the bones from a shad." "Huhl I'll bet there are New York ers who could do It without the shad knowing It" But Hubby Pays th Freight His Wife Don't you think my new bonnet Is a perfect dream? Her Husband It's more than dream, my dear; It's a genuine night mar. IIS III THE AIR Novel Defense Planned to "Get" the Zeppelins. Hydrogen Balloon Carrying High Exploslv Bombs Ar t B Used a Protection Against th Dreaded Dastroyirs. An American with a German nam Is th designer of a system of defeat against Zeppelin attack, which I be ing tried out In both London and Paris. Literally, Joaaph A. Stain met of Philadelphia would mln th air against the monster dirigible. When th war brok out and th menace of th Zeppelin first loomed, British Officials coldly rejected Mr. Stelnmetx's plan to mln th London fog against Zeppelins, but with a tow raids on Pari and English coast cities, the Britishers hastily sent tor th plan and now ar said to be ready to glv them a trial In cas of another Zeppelin Invasion. Small hydrogen balloon carrying high exploslv bomb will fly from every building of importance In Lon- Bombs In Position. don and Paris if the Stelnmetz plan is adopted in its entirety. The balloon will be held by a fine but strong wire, weighing but four pounds to the mile, and having a tensile strength of 120 pounds. , The wires will be controlled ' by windlasses. , The raiding airships, sighted, by . a lookout will be permit ted to come almost within range of the hydrogen balloon. Then, when too late for the Zeppelin to turn back, scores and hundred of the bomb car rylng balloons will be released. A the Zeppelins are 900 feet long, they would have a bard time In escaping one or more of the bombs. Each bomb Is surrounded by a ring of hair triggers and the slightest touch will cause an explosion which would undoubtedly ignite the gas In the Zep pelin. The hydrogen balloons carry a number of hooks to be ensnared In the silken hide of the raider, thus Insuring that the hair triggers on the bomb come In contact with the gas bag. An extension of the Stelnmetz plan contemplates a fleet of aeroplane also carrying several of th bombs suspended on a long wire. It would be the object of the aeroplanes to get above the Zeppelin and drag the line with the bomb directly across th huge bags. Curious Headdresses. In Russia the maiden who 1 free may dress her locks as she wishes, but not so the wife. She must hid her hair. As a recompense tor the sacrifice she dons a hood which may well be called weird. In shape It Is not un like a bishop's mitre, and It is adorned as the fancy or the purse of the wear er dictates. Gold, silver, and even precious stones have been used in decorating the kokoschlnk, as it 1 called. In certain parts of Spain a hood sim ilar to the Russian style is worn. Par ticularly is this popular with the danc ers among the Toledo peasantry, al though It must be very hot and un comfortable. The Dutch maiden of Amsterdam pins her faith, and her head, to a hood which resemble in shape an inverted flower pot. It may not be the ityle most suited to her round, placid face, but she would not change It for th latest thing in Parisian millinery. Using Glass to Grind Glass. It Is not generally known that glass will cut glass. If a llttl work on smoothing the edge of some glass ob ject Is desired, procure a circular disk of glass, such as a round eyeglass or watch crystal, and mount It as follows: Turn a wood base to fit in the chuck ot a Jeweler's, or other, lathe and fasten the glass with the concave side against the wood by using some shellac as a cement If It la properly centered and made to revolve rapidly, the edge can be used to grind and smooth other, glass pieces. Popular Mechanics. An Example. "You don't see a lot of women star Ing at a man," snapped the woman. "You don't?" suggested the mere man; "look what happen to a man when he doesn't get up in a car to give some woman his seat." Phila delphia Ledger. Just It Foreign Nobleman Sir, I would wed your peerless daughter. American Millionaire Yea, and h la going to stay paerles. 0 ?