(HAVE HEARD COUNTRY'S C A LL
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•f Members of
Wilsen'e Cabinet Are Now Serv
ia« With the Colore.
I
T V memberi of President Wil
l's cabinet have sent their sons to
lit the country’s battles side by
with the sons of fathers in less
station. Ten sous of cabinet
jaaambers are now with the colon.
(Decretory of the Treasury McAdoo
tand Secretary of Labor Wilson head
!tba list with three sons each in the
Issrvice. The McAdoo boys have gone
Ifeto the navy, the Wilson boys into
i army.
Josephus Daniels, Jr., son of the
(secretary of the navy, is a private in
jibe marine oorps, and is now under
lyin g training for a commission at
itibe League Island navy yard, Phils-
idalphia. Franklin K. Lane, Jr., son
«f the secretary of the interior, is s
lin t lieutenant in the army aviation
(sosps. David Franklin Houston, J r ,
Ison of the secretary of agriculture,
Hook the course at Annapolis, and is
an ensign in the navy. Humph*
F. Redfleld, son of the secretary
commerce, is also in the navy.
iWilliam B. Wilson, J r , son of ths
of labor, has heen attend-
; the second army officers’ training
ip at Fort Niagara, N. Y. Jo-
B. Wilson is a lieutenant of in*
itry in the National army at Cam;
M d, while James H. Wilson
I a oorporal of field artillery, now in
(teaining at Anniston, Ala.
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Mother—I hope I’ve no
that on your mind.
The Kid—O-on me what, m af
AVIATOR«' LINGO.
WISDOM IN “ FACING THINGS” WOMEN NOW TRACTOR PILOTS
LIVES DEPEND ON QUICKNESS
Reeple Habitually AfraM te Meet s
•Ituatlon Invariably Ray High
Rrlee far VasHlatien.
•ucesMful Attackers of Trench Must
Work Like Beavers to Get Ready
to Repel Fee.
A writer in tbs American Mag»* According to government reports, The best thing a n . (infantryman
sine says:
the drawing off of large numbers of does is dig. He learns to dig quick
“Tom Masson wrote a remarkable men for work in munition- factories ly, to dig frantically but efficiently,
little article in a Ney York newspa and for the army and navy already ipr many times during a year in ths
per a year or more ago in which he has created a serious labor shortage benches his shovel saves his life, and
made the point that human beings for agricultural work which can only the ground he has won at the risk of
(so many of them) just will not face be made up by the employment of his life. Popular Mechanics de-
things. They will ‘duck’ and dodge women, observes a London corre acribes the work.
and squirm away from an important spondent. That this is inevitable This is beat illustrated in the
situation rather than step right up is proved by the experience of Eng of a successful attack.
and meet i t Of course later they land, where today it is mandatory to The fourth'trench—the last to be
have to pay an enormous price far employ at least 70 per cent of fe taken—is where the real scene of
their ‘ducking’ and dodging and male labor in all industrial plants, activity ensues. One second wasted
squirming.
and where the need for the use of may mean 100 lives lost
“In matters of health this is ever women to work on farms and the The reason for this rush is that
lastingly true. Look at the men past adaptability of tractors for use by it is now a marim of the fighting
forty you know who try to smoke women have been demonstrated.
on the western front that a coun
and eat and sit up nights as if they That women in Qreat Britain are ter-attack may reasonably be expect*
were in the early twenties. They now operating tractors was brought ed within five minutes after a set of
make'themselves uncomfortable and about by an organization known aa trenches has been taken—certainly
say that they ‘don’t feel just right.’ the. Woman’s legion, headed by the .within ten. The enemy, in making •
But they wont face things—they marchioneee of Londonderry, which counter-attack, naturally hits first at
wont face the fact that if they want has been training women tb operate •the trench nearest him, which is the
to feel well and enjoy life tney must these machines. Under the auspices (fourth one captured in the success-
revise their ways of living and ad of the Woman’s legion a large num !ful attack. Therefore, it is vitally
just themselves to changed condi ber of tractors are now being used in necessary to face the parapet ths
the counties of Rutland, Hampshire, (other way, pile up the sandbags,
tions.
This willingness to face things Worcester and Northamptonshire. i piles and other obstructions fox
comes pretty near being what marks The tractors pull four bottoms and : breastworks, throw up barbed wire
a continuously successful man. I t u plow from five to six times the acre and fasten it to a tangle of stakes if
certainly what marks a wise man in age done by a team in the same time. time allows, and generally transform
questions pertaining to health. There American women in various parts what has been the enemy’s fourth
is nothing but trouble in store for of the United States are now operat- line of defense into a new first line
the man who insists on blundering ing farm tractors. A number of en- , trench ready to repel an attack.
ergetic American girls have been The problem is a huge one.
ahead with his eyes shut”
driving tractors on the land of the
agricultural
school at Farmingdals, ’ GIVES HOME OVER TO BIRDS
SEA OTTER QUEER SWIMMER
N. Y.
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Animal's Favorite Position Is on Its
Book— How Ono 'Throw Scars*
Into Fisherman.
Some of the habits of the sea otter
are very interesting. For example,
an otter.always swims on his back,
his tail serving as a rudder and his
head slightly raised so that by look
ing over lys shoulder he can shape
his course. When about to_dive, how
ever, he turns on his stomach, re
maining in that position while un
der water, but changing again on
coming to the top. Swimming a few
feet below the surface, an otter very
much resembles a sailor in his oil
skins. An amusing story is told of a
tourist fisherman who, seeing one of
these animals swimming in this
manner, hurried ashore and related
a wonderful tale about having seen
a sailor man, apparently drowned,
yet swimming with all the vigor of
life-six or seven feet under water;
and who, when he, thinking the man
might be alive, rowed to his assist
ance, went down and stayed down.'
The fisherman would not believe it
when told that it was probably a sea
otter, and he returned immediately
to his Eastern home convinced he
had received a supernatural warning
of some dire calamity about to hap
pen.—St. Nicholas.
The air service, like most specie,
branches, has its own vocabulary, foi
some of which we are indebted ti
Everybody’s Magazine.
“An officer of flying status, be
who for some reason does not fly, it
called a ‘penguin.’ This name is alat
applied to a type of failing machin«
which does not rise from the ground
An officer in the flying service with
I out flying status is called a ‘kiwi’ aft HAIG OW E« LIF E T O FR A N C E .
er an Australian bird. A pilot ii Notwithstanding the fact that
generally called a ‘quirk.’ A fligh* Field Marshal French was ousted
is called a ‘flip,’ and if it is a distin from command on the western front
guished failure it is called a ‘wash
Sir Douglas Haig appointed to
o u t’ An airplane is usually called i and
take
place, a close bond of friend
‘bus.’ The great hope of the airmai ship his
between the two and has
is to* ‘apiksbozzle’ or bring down i : since exists
the
Boer
*Zepp,’ or one of the smaller non- On the day war.
that (feonje’s white
rigid dirigibles they call ‘blimps. flag of surrender,
over the
The airman’s pest is the ‘onion’ oi lines of Paardeberg, floated
Major
Haig
large flaming antiaircraft shell about to cross the Modder river. was
which ‘Archie’ sends up as a sort of horse plunged and the officer His
was
bouquet—with sometimes an un hurled into the water and he seemed
- pleasant smell. ‘Archie’ is the gen perilously near drowning. Another
oral name for the antiaircraft gun.” officer went to his rescue and saved
his life. It was Qeneral French.
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R A TTLIN G AROUND.
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A L L F IX E D UR.
First Rattlesnake—What’s tin
'Blatter with the kid snake ovw “Well, there’s one thing I can
J there?
say,” she exclaimed proudly.
Second Rattlesnake—Why?
“What’s that?”
\ “He’s making so much noise."
"I
finished his sweater, his wrist
"Oh, he has an idea ho can fill hit lets and
hia helmet And when Jim
father’s shoes. Hear him ra ttle r— does Anally
go into the tranche« he'll
Yonkers Statesman.
be as well dressed as any of them."
R EAD Y-W ITTED .
M O TH ER 'S OPINION.
i •
"You need a change of
n the people who a n coming
"But, doctor, I’m a traveling this "A week-end
of any social promi
nence, mother?”
| "Why—er—that’s the point Sta] "Dear me, no child I They a n all
at home a while and see somebod]
.besides hotel rooms and railroad sta your father’s friends."—LifA ,
T H E R E T O R T DIRECT.
itiona.”—Boston Transcript
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T H E MODERN W AY.
"I find it hard to live within my
inoome," complained the manager.
T im es have changed."
"Maybe," growled the bom "But
“In what way?"
,
you would And it a whole lot harder
"I can remember when the firn to live without it"
need to fire a man; now it asks fl«
rr¿ k in d .
hie resignation.’’
"The meeting of crows over títere
OYNICAL CONCLUSION.
sounds like they were swearing at
"How fluently your parrot talk»* one another."
"Yea; when we were away ha wm "I suppose it is « kind of caw-
f»
ken care of by the maid at a warn
•
I’scltth."
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EVEN SO
MINISTERS HAD BUSY YEAR
Weddings In New York Show Large In
crease Over Preceding Twelve
Months— War Given aa Co ties.
Lee Angelas Man Converts Bungalow
Into a Shelter for His Foath-
Weddings—war, slacker and or
dinary varieties—increased more
than 10 per cent in New York ia
1917. The war, which caused a big
jump in April and a decided drop ia
May, when it became known that
marriage itself was not a ground foe
exemption from military duty, ll
given credit Jor the increase.
Some of the increase was due, Oitg
Clerk P. J. Scully Bays in hia annual
report, to those who married in the
hope of escaping military service,
and probably much more was caused
by soldiers and sailors marrying be
fore they went, away to training
camps or naval stations.
Marriage licensee issued in the
five boroughs of New York during
1917 aggregated 73,901, of which
Manhattan had 41,963, as compand
with 66,787 in 1916. Deputy City
Clerk Michdel Cruise played the role
of principal accomplice to Cupid by
officiating at 18,688 marriages in the
municipal bnilding daring the year.
To all bridegrooms he regularly gave
this advice: “Kiss your wife now I"
The old custom of throwing rice
at newlyweds has been put under the
ban at one of New York’s leading
hotels in an effort to conserve food
products. This'notice was posted
at the room in the hotel where mar
riages take place:
“Don’t throw rice—save food and
help win the war.”
James Henning of Loe Angelse,
Cal., likea birds so well and claimi
that his understanding of them ia so
much mote perfect than it ia of the
ways of man, that he removed all ths
furniture from hia bungalow at 1167
' Leighton avenne to. make room for a
permanent home for over 1,000
members of the feathered tribe.
Birds of common and rare species,
including parrots, free to fly and in
cages, today occupy every room in
'Henning’s home with the exception
of the kitchen. Porches, brandies of
¡trees and railinga have replaced Mouse—And they want to vote !
chairs, tables, bureaus and couches
BERLIN, 191«.
and
painting! hong birds'
First Musician—So he’s an organ nests where
adorn the walls.
ist, eh ? Ia he good ?
Dining together one evening in a
'
Henning
retained just one piece of well-known
Second Musician—He ought to be
restaurant, we were con
—he plays in church twice every (furniture—a small mahogany table versing in English. Sqated at,the
for his pipe and .tobacco, but hia bed next table was a quartette of officers,
Sunday.
he gave up in favor of a hammock home on furlough. Presently a wait
'swung between folding doors con er stepped up to us and said that the
FA IT H IN P R A Y ER .
necting the two large rooms when
objected to our speaking the
A guessing contest was conducted most of hia feathered friends are officers
English
tongue. Knowing that we
by a merchant in a suburban town. housed.
were
well
within our rights, we re
The one who guessed the correct
fused
to
discontinue
the conversa
GOOD SUGGESTION.
number of seeds in a pumpkin was
tion.
The
four
officers
rose,
the winner, and the lucky man hap Maj. Frederick Palmer, head oi stood stiffly at attention, then
and
de
pened to be a minister. The prize the military prase bureau’ in Paris, manded that we be ejected from the
was a set of aluminum ware. The
visited at his dtfice in the fine restaurant. I t was a very unpleas
minister was not present when the i was
Ste Anne the other day by an old ant and humiliating experience ; but,
seeds were counted and the winner’s friend.
as we look back, we cannot fail to
name announced, but the little son
see the humor of it, with the men
The
friend
said
from
hia
cloud
of
was there, and he harried home to
standing so ridiculously straight in
tobacco
smoke:
tell the good news. After a little
the
center of the place. The Ameri
“Palmer,
I
want
to
do
my—hie—
while he said: “Mother, do you know
can,
as host, approached the group THEIRS IS ROMANCE OF WAR
bit.
I
want
to
be
in
at
the
finish
of
how we happened to get the alum
and
endeavored
to explain; but he
the
Hun.
I’ve
got
alcoholic
son
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inum set ?”
Gertrude Vanderbilt, American Heir-
was
swept
aside
with
haughty
ges
throat,
a
tobacco
heart
and
a
hard
She" said, “No, only that papa
Corporal Locquell
guessed the correct number of seeds ened liver. It would be difficult fox tures Upon returning to the table, «• «, and Are Lance
Quietly Married.
me, I’m afraid, to give up my soft the proprietor informed him that he
in the pumpkin.”
The young son answered thought habits and live in the cold mud oi would be unable to serve the rest of It just recently become known
fully,^‘Well, that isn’t the real rea the tranches. Still, Palmer, I’m de the meal, and we were compelled to that Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt,
son—it’s because I prayed for it for termined to do my b it There’s sure leave the restaurant—Adele N. adopted daughter of Frederick
ly eome billet I could fill with honor. Phillips and Russell Phillips, in At Washington Vanderbilt, the million
five nights.”
lantic.
Well, what—hie—is it?”
aire, has been quietly married at
CO N TRAST« IN RAID PICTURE.
“George,” said Major Palmer,
Seaford, Sussex, to Lance Corporal
H EN C E HIGH P R IC E»
“the only suggestion I can make ii
Locquell
of the Canadian army, says
The archbishop of Canterbury was that you go to the front as a tank.”
the
Dundee
Advertiser.
“The fanner nowadays is monarch
conducting an induction service at
Mrs.
Locquell
met her husband at
Lambeth when an aerial bombard S T A T U S QUO A N T E BRICKBATS. of all he surveys.”
Seaford,
whither
she had gone after
“Not quite all.”
ment began, but no interruption oc
an
operation.
She
was reclining in
or
curred, says the Manchester Guardi “Me name is Meginness,” an “N
a
seat
when
the
Canadian
an. The service went on as if no nounced Pat, “and Oi’m ready te “The middleman takes a look at passed. Their glances met, but soldier
danger threatened. A clergyman foight as long as there’s breath left the fanner’s profits and adds a bit was all. She met him next at a that
so
for himself.”—Birmingham Age-
who was present says that after the in me body.”
cial function, when they were thrown
service the archbishop and his pro | "Yie,” hissed Mike, “that’s phwatj Herald.
into one another’s company. They
you
Meginnesses
foight
with.”—
cession of clergy withdrew to the
A8 A PRECAUTION.
were
married at the pretty old
Life.
shelter in one of the old Norman
church
Seaford.
•
towers of the palace, and there re
Mrs. Fussbody—If I don’t get a I>ance of Corporal
NOT AS Y E T .
Locquell,
mained for a time. One likes the
letter from you every day I’ll feel so in the Canadiag army, is of although
Portu
color and contrast of the picture— "The ‘Village Blacksmith’ ia a lonesome Pd come right back horns. guese birth. His fathej is a profes
the ancient background of the pal classic.”
¡ Hobby—Never fear; I’ll write sor at the University of Oporto, and
ace, the archbishop and clergy in i "W elir
twice a day:
has two brothers Roman Catholic
their traditional robes, and overhead "But so far the garage keepei
priests, one in Paris and the other
a firmament of modern warfare hasn’t inspired any sentiments]
CRETON N E»
in Rome. He has another brother,
which would have made the stoutest poetry."—Louisville Courier-Jour
who
joined the American flying
Norman heart quake with the fear of nal.
The word cretonne means cotton | corps. has The
lance corporal joined up
black arts.
and was first made in India. Eng in Quebec, and
came over with one
land has had to give up many of its of the first contingents
IN AN EM ERGEN CY.
of Canadi-
P U R E W A T E R ROR E M P L O Y E E »
factories for government supplies,
"Should one kias a young man and, shipping facilities being inade
River water ia filtered, refrigerat good-night r
the supply of English-made Now that a motor boat has been
ed and sterilised, then circulated "If you can’t get rid of him tin quate,
cretonnes
js limited. This has made driven at the rate Af over seventy
through 12,000 feet of one-inch pipe other way I consider it permimibl»" the American
manufacturer go very miles an hour, while automobiles
to 36 aanjtary drinking fountains in
deeply
into
creating
new designs, and have exceeded that record and air
N E X T STEP.
a manufacturing plant at Hannibal.
he has been wonderfully successful. planes have more than doubled it,
Mo., by a supply system recently in
For the first time American buyers note« the Providence Journal, the
stalled at an expense less than the "They’ve named the leading ao» have co-operated with the American old
phrase, “a mile a minute,” ia cer
old system of supplying the work rasa in the new play the Comet"
mills.—Price’s
Carpet
and
Hug
tainly
out of date as a synonym fox
“I suppose next thing she will W News.
men with cooled water in b^rala.
speed.
coins on a star route-” .. ...
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