. Egypt
Restless Rich Women Could Find
Contentment in Helping Others
Where Open-Minded People and
Tight-Minded People Differ
Dy EVERETT DEAN MARTIN
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By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY
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Thsro's never a hnart, howe'or downciuil,
However dreary and lone,
But hath some memory of Die pant
To love and cull Us own.
Not to know contentment Is one of
the saddest plights a woman ran be
plueed In, To huve
""" i ho much money
? . -'. . j that her every
0rfy ''' wIhIi may be grnt-
r y ', Stf lfltrd Is a doubt
ful 1) 1 e s I n g t o
ninny a woman.
Many a wife of
wealth does not
know what u hap
py home life
means,
The majority of
rich women spend
their time as they
like and make no
complaint If their
husbands do like
wise. If ho Is sut
lslled to spend
three or four eve
nings a week at his different clubs, en
tertaining his coterie of congenial
friends on his yacht or motoring trips
for weeks at a time, she makes no
demur. They are both In the mad pur
suit of pleasure, If It takes them by
different routes.
Whose fault Is It? Even children
do not bind them to the four wulls of
home. The boys are sent at an early
age to preparatory schools and then
to college, and girls likewise. Even
their vacations they elect to spend
with their girl or boy chums, explain
ing: "Why should we go homt fa
ther or mother is never there. One
is In the mountains for the summer,
Greatest Telescope in
World, Now Building, to
Weigh Above 500 Tons
Several years ago the Canadian gov
ernment decided that It wanted the
largest telescope In the world, to be
net up In tho clear air of Vancouver
for photographing thousands of stars
that had never been photographed be
fore stars almost Inconceivably dis
tant. Light travels nt the rate of
about 180,000 miles a second; yet
some of the starlight to be snared by
the Vancouver Instrument has been
speeding through space for perhnps a
million years since It left home, snys
a writer in the American Magazine.
Of course the Job was given to Bra-
shear, A gigantic parabolic mirror
the largest ever made In one piece
was cast In France. It weighed In the
rough 4,008 pounds and was 73 Inches
in diameter. Nearly 400 pounds of
glass had been taken from that lens
'when I saw It In Doctor Brnshonr's
shop, where it Is kept In an under
ground chamber, protected from all air
currents. When It Is completed and
mounted, the telescope will weigh
liuore than COO tons.
'. An Individual Lifeboat.
1 "Carry your own lifeboat," Is the
motto of nn Italian Inventor, O. I'i
lierno, who has visited England with
"what Is probably the most ambitious
llfesaving appliance on record.
When not In use tho npparntus is
packed Into what looks llko n man's
suitcase, measuring 24 Inches by 1(1
.Inches by 8 Inches, and weighing 20
pounds. When disaster Is Imminent
he passenger brings the suitcase on
deck, breaks the seal, and the appa
ratus opens out and becomes a small
boat.
If It Is necessary to abandon the
Bhlp, the passenger steps Into his pri
vate boat, closes the outer cover, ami
launches his craft by hurling himself
.overboard. Then, according to Mr.
IMperno, the apparatus rights Itself
In the wnter, the top cover Is thrown
open, and the occupant finds himself
sitting In an absolutely unslnkubla
ship.
For Outdoor Wear.
Wnslinhle satin skirts are pret
tily finished by belts and folds
of colored corduroy.
Some of tho quiet, prim-looking
little dress bodices are al
most childlike In simplicity.
Among leather handbags fa
vored colors are brown, blue,
green, amethyst, gray and pur
ple, A well-cut, very simple suit of
navy serge Is given undeniable
smartness by white braid bind
ings. The military belt Is fashion
ably made of suede, with strap
pings of black patent leather and
a small buckle.
Some of the prettiest sports
suits have coats of gray silk
5 stockinet, trimmed with the snmo
S material as the skirt striped
V Japanese crepe, Heavy weight, g
Get Rid of the Flic.
Flies are a menace to health as well
ns an extreme annoyance. They thrive
and propagate themselves In filth.
Therefore, clean up every place about
the premises, especlnlly manure piles,
that might furnish a breeding spot
the other, who cannot endure moun
tain scenery, Is nt the seashore."
Few of the restless rich women set
uny tasks for themselves, Once In
a while one hears of an Anne Morgan
who Is an exception to the rule, who
sees to It that many a struggling work
ing girl, too poor to afford a vacation,
gets u few weeks' outing at her ex
pense before planning where she will
go herself. It was she who started the
cult among the rich of making the
lives of the working class happier,
moro worth the living. Some few fol
lowed In Anno Morgan's footsteps.
Tho majority, soon wearied of making
personal efforts to bring Joy Into lone
ly lives, contenting themselves by
sending a check when It was Impossi
ble to evade It, to be used or not used
for the purpose designated, It did not
matter much to them. It was there
fore left with tho few to carry on
the good work.
There would bo less restlessness
among rich women and more content
ed hearts If each one would set an al
lotted tusk for herself of bringing Joy
to ut least one poor, deserving house
hold, finding employment for a brave
lad who could not find employment be
cause of lack of influence, or keeping
a sick mother whose starving brood,
clung to her skirts, to tide over the
cruel weeks of illness in her own
home without having to break It up,
her children placed In Institutions to
be gathered together again about her
knee; perhaps never.
Restlessness would soon vanish if
women would but make themselves as
useful as ornamental in this great busy
workaday world. To each one Is given
an allotted task. Those who shirk
will be held accountable later on.
A Few Smiles.
The Exception.
"Ability to make friends easily Is a
great help to u man who Is running
for oillce."
"That depends on the office he's
nfter."
"Yes?"
"Tho presidential nomination seems
to light shy of a man who's a good
mixer."
Painful Discovery.
"I've Just been
studying one of
those tests t o
prove whether or
not a person Is
feeble-minded."1
"You ' look dis
turbed." "Why shouldn't
I be, when accord
ing to that chart
I've been a moron
all my life and
didn't know It?"
Roughing It
"Those young women are evident
ly taking their military training seri
ously." "No doubt of that."
"Yes?" '
"Why, there Isn't a hair-dressing
parlor In thirty miles of their camp."
His Opinion.
"Do you think the average girl will
accept n man as soon as he proposes?"
"As soon ns he proposes? Great
Scott, man, she'll accept him as soou
as ho begins to propose."
Brilliant Success.
"Was the churlty ball a success?"
"1 should say so. The debutantes
hud about ten thousand dollars worth
of fun and two hundred dollars was
rulsed for the poor."
Appropriate.
"What is the
name of your
dog?"
" 'Macbeth.' "
"That's a curi
ous name for a
dog."
"He howls a
great deal a t
night. I got the
Idea from that
quotation 'Mac
beth does murder
sleep."
A Real Friend.
"Dodge volunteered to lend me
some money."
"Did you take It?"
"No. That sort of friendship Is too
good to lose."
A Flight Every Day.
"Do you think Patrice will marry
that young aviator?"
"Can't say. However, she seems
much taken up with him."
Use for Old Magazines.
Magazines nro often thrown nwny
because of the rapidity with which
they accumulate. Since most readers
care to save only certain articles, a
good plan Is to tear the magazines
apart, removing the desired articles
and blndjng them in a separate vol
ume. If this is carefully and sys
tematically done, and an Index pre
pared, the volume will be of value and
interest
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A CONSIDERABLE amount of
nonsense has been written
about the spell of Egypt.
Cheapened by exaggeration,
vulgarized by familiarity, It has be
come for many a picture post card
spell, pinned agulnst the mind like the
posters at a railway terminus. The
moment Alexandria is reached, this
huge post card hangs across the
heavens, blazing in an over-colored
sunset, composed theatrically of tem
ple, pyramid, palm trees by the shin
ing Nile, and the Inevitable Sphinx.
And the monstrosity of It paralyzes
the mind. Its strident shout deafens
the Imagination. Memory escapes with
difficulty from the insistent, gross ad
vertisement. The post card and the
poster smother sight, writes Algernon
Blackwood, in Country Life.
Behind this glare and glitter there
hides, however, another delicate yet
potent thing that is somehow nameless
not acknowledged by all, perhaps be
cause so curiously elusive yet surely
felt by all because it Is so true ; in
tensely vital, certainly, since it thus
survives the suffocation of Its vile ex
aggregatlon. For the ordinary tourist
yields to It, and not alone the exca
vator and nrcheologlst ; the latter, in
deed, who live long in the country,
cense to be aware of It as an outside
Influence, having changed Insensibly in
thought and feeling till they have be
come it ; Jt is In their blood. An ef
fect is wrought subtly upon the mind
that does not pass away. Having
once "gone down Into Egypt," you are
never quite the same again. Certain
values have curiously changed, per
spective has altered, emotions have
shifted their specific gravity, some at
titude to life, In a word, been empha
sized, and another, as It were, oblit
erated. The spell works underground,
and, being not properly comprehensl
ble, is nameless. Moreover, It is the
casual visitor, unburdened by anti
quarian and historical knowledge, who
may best estimate Its power the tour
ist who knows merely what he has
gleaned, for Instance, from reading
over Baedeker's general synopsis on
the voyage. He Is aware of this float
ing power everywhere, yet unable to
fix ,It to a definite cause. It remains at
large, evasive, singularly fascinating.
Creates Blur In the Mind.
All countries, of course, color
thought and memory, and work a spell
upon the Imagination of any but the
hopelessly inanlmnte. Greece, India,
Japan, Ireland or the Channel islands
leave their mark and Imprint whence
the educational valfle of travel-psychology
but from these the traveler
brings back feelings and memories ho
can evoke at will and label. He re
turns from Egypt with a marvelous
blur. All, in differing terms, report a
similar thing. From the first few
months In Egypt, saturated maybe
with overmuch, the mind recalls with
definlteness nothing. There comes to
Its summons a colossal medley that
half stupefies; vast reaches of yellow
sand drenched in a sunlight that
stings; dim, solemn aisles of granite
silence; stupendous monoliths that
stare unblinking nt the sun ; the shin
ing river, licking Softly at the Hps of
a murderous desert; and nn enormous
night sky literally drowned In stars. A
score of temples melt down Into a
single monster; the Nile spreads
everywhere; great pyramids float
across the sky like clouds; palms
rustle in midair; and from caverned
leagues of subterranean gloom there
Issues a roar of voices, thunderous yet
muffled, that seem to utter the hiero
glyphics of a forgotten tongue. The
entire mental horizon, oddly lifted,
brims with this procession of gigantic
things, then empties again without a
word of explanation, leaving a litter of
big adjectives chasing one another
chaotically chief among them ''mys
terious," "unchanging," "formidable,"
'terrific ." But the single, bigger mem
ory that should link all these together
Intelligibly hides from sight the emo
tion too deep for specific recognition,
too vast, somehow, for articulate re
covery.
The Acropolis, the wonders of Japan
and India, the mind enn grasp or
thinks so ; but this composite enormity
of Bamesseum, Serapeum, Karnak,
Cheops, Sphinx, with a hundred tem
ples and thousand miles of sand, it
knows it cannot The mind Is a blank.
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Egypt It seems, has faded. Memory
certainly falls, and description wilts.
There seems nothing precisely to re
port, no interesting, clear, intelligible
thing. "What did you see In Egypt?
What did you like best? What impres
sion did Egypt mnke upon you?" seem
questions Impossible to answer. Imagi
nation flickers, stammers and goes out.
Thought hesitates and stops. A little
shudder, probably, makes Itself felt.
There Is an Important attempt to de
scribe a temple or two, an expedition
on donkeyback Into the desert ; but It
sounds unreal, the language wrong,
foolish, even affected. The dreadful
post card rises like a wall. "Oh, I
liked it all Immensely. The delight
ful dry heat, you know and one enn
always count upon the weather for
picnics arranged ahead, and " until
the conversation can be changed to
theaters or the crops at home.
Yet behind the words, behind the
post card, one Is aware all the time of
some huge, alluring thing, alive with a
pageantry of ages, strangely brilliant,
dignified, magnificent, appealing al
most to tears something that drifts
past like a ghostly full-rlgged vessel
with crowded decks and sails painted
In nn underworld, and yet the whole
too close before the eyes for proper
sight. The spell has become operative 1
Having been warned to expect this, I,
personally, had yet remained skeptical
until I experienced the truth. . . .
And It was undeniably disappointing.
After time and money spent one had
apparently brought back so little.
Monstrous to Some.
For some, a rather dominant Impres
sion Is undoubtedly "the monstrous."
A splendor of awful dream, yet never
quite of nightmare, stalks everywhere,
suggesting an atmosphere of Khubla
Khnn. There Is nothing lyrical. Even
the silvery river, the slender palms,
the fields of clover and barley and the
acres of flashing popples convey no
lyrical sweetness, as elsewhere they
might. All moves to a statelier meas
ure. Stern Issues of life and death are
In the air. and In the grandeur of the
tombs and temples there Is a solemnity
of genuine awe that makes the blood
run slow a little.
Those Theban hills, where the kings
and queens lay burled, are forbidding
to the point of discomfort nlmost. The
listening silence In the grim Valley of
the Tombs of the Kings, the intoler
able glare of sunshine on the stones,
the naked absence of any sign of ani
mal or vegetable life, the slow ap
proach to the secret hiding place
where the mummy of a once power
ful monnrch lies ghastly now beneath
the glitter of an electric light, the Im
placable desert, deadly with heat and
distance on every side this picture
once sen, rather colors one's memory
of the rest of Egypt with its somber
and funereal character.
And with the great deiflc monoliths
the effect is similar. Proportions and
sheer size strike blow after blow upon
the mind. Stupendous figures, shroud
ed to the eyes, shoulder their way
slowly . through the shifting sands,
deathless themselves and half-appal
lng. Their attitudes and gestures ex
press the hieroglyphic drawings come
to life. Their towering heads, colffed
with zodiacnl signs, or grotesque with
animal or bird, bend down to watch
you everywhere. There Is no hurry In
them; they move with the leisure of
the moon, with the statellness of the
sun, with the slow silence of the con
stellatlons. But they move. There Is,
'between you and them, this effect of a
screen, erected by the ages, yet that
any moment may turn thin and let
them through upon you. A hand of
shadow, but with granite grip, may
steal forth and draw you away into
some region where they dwell among
changeless symbols like themselves, a
region vast ancient and undifferenti
ated as the desert that has produced
them. Their effect In the end Is weird,
difficult to describe, but real. Talk
with a mind that has been steeped for
years In their atmosphere and pres
ence, and you will appreciate this odd
reality.
The spell of Egypt Is an other-world
ly spell. Its vagueness, Its eluslveness,
Its undeniable reality are Ingredients,
at any rate, In a total result whose de
tailed analysts lies hidden In mystery
and silence inscrutable.
Thcro aro just two kinds of people in tho world, open-minded people
nnd tight-minded people. Open-minded people aro nuturuiiy born gnn
fcroua. They aro tolerant. They arc not easily scundulbcd. They do
their own thinking, and they let others
of names or party labels, nnd when it
of a living human being than they
are not like little hard wnds of truth,
flowing. Somehow, open-minded people- have a way of feeling that lile
is bigger and more reliable than our
are not worried for fear the world is
itual atmosphere changes.
But tight-minded peoplo do not
They go through life all cramped up
afraid of everything strange. New ideas shock them. Naked truths em
barrass them. They are such strangers to the great realities of life that
they never recognize them walking around in new millinery. Tight-
minded people are a little suspicious of progress; they always take their
intellectual silverware to bed with them. They are afraid to trust reality
in the dark. They also want to keep everything in this universe tied up in
neat little bundles and stored away in bandboxes. They are very "old
maidish" in their methods of mental housekeeping, never having given
birth to any new ideas whose play upsets the perfect orderliness of their
minds. Tight-minded people are like
all of life that does not come within
call the frightful wastefulness "conservatism." Tight-mindedness is a
kind of spiritual convulsion. It is a
WASHINGTON PLAYERS ALL
SWEAR BY WALTER JOHNSON
Star Hurler's Disposition Is as Valu
able an Asset to Him as Hi
Wonderful Pitching Arm.
With few exceptions star ball play
ers bring about a condition on a team
which proves detrimental to its suc
cess. Walter Johnson, however, Is a
player who differs from most stars
in this respect. Were it left to a vote
of the players he would be unani
mously chosen ns the most popular
man on the team, and It's all becnuse
of the Ideal disposition of the young
man who holds the distinction of be
ing the greatest pitcher in the game
today.
Johnson's success has never affect
ed his head. He is wearing the same
sized hat today that he wore the eve-
Walter Johnson.
nlng he reported from Welser, Ind.
He does not consider himself above
obeying orders and never objects to
anything he Is told to do. But, best
of all, Walter is loyal to his team
and his teammates. He roots hard
for the other pitchers, and has never
been known to complain when errors
have lost him a ball game.
Johnson's disposition Is as valuble
to him as that wonderful pitching
arm, and there is never a time when
every man on the team with him Is
not trying to do everything possible to
help him win.
Taking Nitric Acid From Air.
All the explosives used In this world-
war are formed from such apparently
harmless bodies as cotton, glycerin,
nnd tar products, by treating them
with nitric acid, the strength of which
has to be maintained by admixture
with sulphuric acid. Until quite late
ly the nitric acid essential for the pro
duction of the explosives now in use
could be made only by distilling such
nitrates ns those of potassium nnd
sodium with sulphuric acid, and if we
had still been dependent on this source,
all the powers engaged In the present
war would have been stalemated by
want of explosives, so enormous has
been the amount of acid used. During
the last few years, however, methods
have been discovered for making nitric
acid from the air. and at the present
time, wherever cheap water ' power
can be obtained for the generating of
electricity, the acid Is being produced
In sufficient quantities to make up
the necessary amaunt
do the sumo. They are not afraid
cornea to a iinal test, they trunk moro
do of an abstract idea. Their ideas
but aro streams of life, free and
little human notions, and so they
going to the dog3 every time tho spir
feel quite at home in this universe.
and shivering, so to speak. They aro
cooky cutters. They throw away
their own little circle, and yet they
disease. .
POULTRY POINTERS
Too many beginners make the mis
take of trying to raise four or five
breeds or varieties of poultry. This Is
a serious mistake as very few experi
enced poultry men, let alone a begin
ner, cun mnke a success of more
than one breed. "One breed bred
right" is better than two bred wrong.
Buying eggs is a mighty cheap way
of getting new blood. In many cases
we can procure eggs from birds that
simply couldn't be bought nt nil. In
many case, a single bird raised from
a setting of eggs, Is worth many times
the cost of the entire setting.
Hens that are set during hot weather
should be given a reasonably cool and
comfortable place. If they are set
where it Is hot during the day or night
they are likely to overheat the eggs
and sometimes become so uncomfort
able that they leave the nest.
Fowls and chicks that are kept In
yards must have a good supply of ten
der, fresh green food every morning.'
Fresh cut young clover, fed while the
dew Is on, Is good for this purpose. ,'
Separate the growing cockerels from
the pullets, and give the former an ex
tra allowance of food, especially if you
are growing them for market.
Great size of an abdominal pouch
In a goose Indicates great age, a fact
that Is useful In purchasing breeding
stock.
Never try to keep a hen with chicks
after she wants to wean them for if
you do, she Is likely to Injure them and
perhaps kill some.
A few guineas on every farm will
eat a lot of bad bugs and grow Into
semlgame for some epicure's table.
They bring good prices.
There Is no better way to aid the
enemy than by allowing filth to abound.
A lousy hen eventually becomes a di
seased one.
No green food is better enjoyed than
fresh lawn clippings, which are a treat
to both old and young stock.
Dog Hero of the Trenches.
"We had a French soldier brought In
frightfully wounded," says Dr. Mary
Crawford, a Cornell graduate, who
served in a French hospital, in the
Cornell Women's Review. "One leg
had to be amputated, and, besides that,
he had a half-dozen other wounds. His
dog came with him, a hunting dog of
some kind. This dog had saved his
master's life. They were In the
trenches together when a shell burst
In such a way as to collapse the whole
trench. Every man in it was killed
or burled in the collapse, and this dog
dug until he got his master's face free
so that he could breathe, and then he
sat by him until some re-enforcements
came and dug them all out. Every
one was dead but this man. Isn't that
a beautiful little story? We have both
dog and man with us. The dog has a
little house all to himself in the court,
and he has blankets and food and lots
of petting, and every day he is allowed
to be with his master for a little
while."
An Original Club. '
There exists in one of nor creot-
western cities a unique secret club
called by the members Get-Out and
Get-On club. It was organized 17
years ago by 10 ambitious men who
looked UDon themselves ns nnt rot-
having won success. Membership for
ii years nas neen limited to 50. The
rules are what makes this club differ
ent. No member may call himself a
success until the club votes him one,
nnd when the club votes any member
a success he is expelled and his place
Is filled bj another. But before a
success Is expelled a dinner is given
in his honor and to welcome the new
mpmber. At this dinner the success
must read a paper explaining to his
fellows how and why he won. These
papers are preserved. American Mag-sine.