RURAL ENTERPRISE
School in Pittsburg, Kan., Has Nine Sets of Twins
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JUNGLE
With Cheerupj and die Quixies
zfr'Grace Dliy Steward
MRS. SPIDER GETS ADVICE
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here was I T
ing. you know. F irst I have to mess-
ure the doorway w ith my feelers, then
I spin a little silken pad exactly the
right six« and shape. which I make
sticky w ith my own special kind o f
glue. Thia pad I sprinkle w ith bits o f
»aid
M n Si,
Iplder. a a ah» settled down
f,E a piece o f moss beside Cheerups
fo r a good long talk.
“Too were Just telling me about
your wonderful house, ” replied Cheer-
up«; "bow you dig a tunnel two feet
deep «end hide all the earth you have
dug out. so no one w ill discover where
you are building."
“ Tea. that's the very place; and
didn't I promise to tell you Low I
furnish my little home, too? W ell. I
Ju«t line the tunnel I have dug w ith
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T h e s e nine «eta o f tw in * a re a ll a tte i
-g tl.e « s u m » e n u u i
ntud enla have grea t d.fl - ty I I guessing a bo a who.
in
P u te t/u r g ,
Italian Lake Is
T emperamental
Famous Body of Water De-
velops Tide Caused
by Gas Springs.
K a n .,
and
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i e .c ii e r s
and
le iio w
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"N e a rly at the head of the lake la
| 'he little -fl.age « f l.imone. which. It
might reasonably be nup;««e<]. was so
named t«-cau«e o * lfa large production
o f lemons. The story Is really the -e-
verae. for it is said that the fru it de­
rived Ita Dame from this little town,
being the Drat place they ».ere grown
in Europe. Klva. at the northern tip
la set In the pit of a towering amphi­
theater of mountains arid la ihe princi­
pal tourist resort.
Nearby at T o r-
bole. Goethe wrote the flrat o f his
'Iphlgenie' in 1788. Since that tim e
the J ls trii" has l-een a favorite w in­
ter resort fo r w ealthy Germans and
"F o r D),,n-T year« two deg« ruled Its
waves, the northern tip and the city
<>f Riva lying In Austria. Garda was
thus a sort of debatable region o f ro­
mance,
where
l^ tlo
and Teuton
Washington.— Evidence that the Ita l­ ■ touched ellw.ua, and the picturesque
ian Lake Garda had developed a tide gunboats of the customs officers waged
Running boldly Into the center of “ L e t Me See. I Have It, M rs. S p id e r !”
an unceasing w ar again«« more pic-
.
recently my rifle d the natives and ________
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the southern part of the D k e la the
turesque
smugglers.
Since
the
World
two sheets o f silk wfcich I spin myself.
tourlata frequenting this famous body
I narrow peninsula of Sirmlone. once a
It s the same kind o f silk of which
of water
At regular in te rv a l. . r.»e * ‘ r the Iske and the surrounding coun- resort o f wealthy Romans. A short
try have been Italian .
other spiders make th eir wehs. The
and fall of more than a foot was reg
dlstam-e south of the lake is the low er
“T oday
lemons,
citrons.
olives.
lining next the earth Is coarse and
latered.
Investigation disclosed that
o f Ssn M srtlno. a lofty stone niemo.-isi
the difference In level was probably oranges and grapea share with tourlarg w hhh commands a sweeping view o- waterprisif, but the one inside is very
fine and soft.
T hat sounds comfy,
caused by gaseous springs In the bot­ ! the hono^ of being the principal 'ln- the great southern end. It commem­
doesn't I t T said Mrs. Spider proudly.
I
duatry.'
Along
the
sheltered
weal
tom nt the lake, because as the tide
orate« the l.r t o r y of the French and
“I should say so,” cried Cheerups.
receded great portions o f the surface | shore, or Riviera as It la called, the ’ Italian s over Austria at Solferlno In
"but you are forgetting the trapdoor.
lemon
plantations
scale
the
steep
1«I9.
were covered w ith fine bubbles
That seems to me the most wonderful
“To those who know It. however. slopes o f the hillsides, backed by atone
At the effluent, the southeast cor­ part o f all."
I walla for protection against the cblll-
Garda la a lake of many moods.” says
ner. Is Pesciilera. w ith extensive an­
“Oh. no. I'm not forgetting. Mr.
! ing w inter winds.
T a ll, fragrant
a bulletin from the Washington head
cient fortifications. T he city, once a
Cheerups.” said Mrs. Spider. “I'm Just
laurel trees, snd gloomy cypress and
quarters of the National Geographic
com er o f the celebrated Austrian
leaving the best till the last, like frost­
pine, mix th e ir foliage with ante
society.
“ It Is as changeable and
q uadrilateral,' has always been Impor­
Topical palms, yuccas, magnolias snd
varied as the wealth of subtropical
tant I d a m ilita ry and strategic sense.
vegetation that clothes Its encircling j aloes, while the plateaus above Hre Along Its w aterfron t are many gon­
streaked with barbaric reds and yel­
mountains and valleys Tw ice a day
dola-like boats, showing the lingering
with more regularity than the lake J lows— tru ly a paradise for the n atur­ Influence o f the tim e when this was
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alist and the artist.
steamers, cornea the refreshing 'ora.
part of the great m aritim e republic of
Ita
Colorful
Porta.
Venice.
B B R E V IA T E D
or lake breeze, ruffling the cohalt blue
No less colorful and Interesting are
o f the waters and tempering the heat
"Tides or changes o f level In fresh-
STO RY
of the sun. Hometlmea storms whip the many little towns that border the ; w ater lakes sre not itnu«ual. A ¡»be-
the surface Into white-capped rollers ’vhe
flalo, the main port on the "veal Domenon h a t been observed on Lake
snd Garda It a t rough as the sea
i '•oast, runs riot In color. The houses Genexa, and on other lakes a lto
' are painted to look lik e wallpaper. which Is known In Switzerland
THE CAMEL’S BACK
as
Ita ly ’s Largest Lake.
The pinks, greens, yellows and bluea 'Seiches.'
These sre fluctuations !n
"Most of the yearly host of visitors, o f the walla and the Inevitable red
level of the w ater and are caused by r j A H E »eene of today's story. Just for
however, carry back with them Indel­ tile roofs of these swsllow-llke tonnes
ospheric ’
8 change, is the w ild U u rlia r
sudden alteration in the atmospheric
ible visions o f a great Inland sea set perched on the hillside« can only he
pressure.
'Seiches’ runs both longi­ Jungles of Abyssinia
In a background o f enchanting beauty. matched by the fringes of fam ily
T h e natives were In a state o f the
tudinally and transversely, and the
The southern shores are flat and low. washing«. In as many colors, that flut­
wildest disorder, for their troubles
highest on record Is said to be six
eloping easily back from the water ter In the breeze at the w ater front.
were proving too much fo r them, and
feet."
Into ihe sun baked and fe rtile valley of
a revolution was brewing.
Yet the
the Po
A t the lake narrows toward
H a rh a r savages were a cautious bunch,
the north, flrat the Alpine bills, and
and B luhjaw . th eir champion orator
then the higher spurs of tbs Alps fold
and worker-up, harangued them In
In upon I t T he upper reaches sre like
vain to take the decisive step.
a Norwegian fiord, with precipitous
Squx eraw Dlmho s p la w !” he cried. '
cliff» and deep, quiet waters
( 'K ing Dlmbo la a tyra n t and should
e a rth ; then comes another pad of silk
! and so on, until I think the door Is
j thick enough. It's quite a layer cake.”
"W ell, w hatever It’s like. It’s cer­
,
I tainly very rem arkable," said Cheer­
ups. his eyes round w ith wonder. “And
i then how do you fasten It o n !"
“W by, w ith a hinge, o f course,
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I silly," piped Mrs. Spider, "a hinge of
I siik. and I put It on the outside, too.
so the door will close of its own
weight a fte r me. I don't believe In any
more work than necessary. But I do
go so fa r as to cover ray front door
w ith bits of dirt and tiny stones. Then,
unless I am Just coming out, no one
would know It from the rest of the
ground."
“ Now I call that very com plete!"
salil Cbeerups a d m irin g ly ; “Just a per
fectly snug little home! W h at more
could anyone w a n tT
"Yes, It Is that, s ir; It's all o f that,
and yet," sighed Mrs. Spider, " it ’s not
as safe as it sounds. I f an unwelcome
visitor wanted to come and pull up
the door be could. In spite o f me.
There's something lacking, hut I can't
think w hat It Is ; yes, something lack­
ing.”
"M m m m m m ,” murm ured Cheerups,
“Let me see. I have It, Mrs. Spider!
Spin some threads of silk, fasten them
to the inside of your door, and then
sit on the other ends when you don't
want to be disturbed."
“T hat's a splendid Idea. M r. Cheer­
ups. How good you are to help me
out.
But suppose an enemy came
| along who was stronger than I and
NOW LOBSTERS ARE BEING
HANDLED BY BOOTLEGGERS
"fih e rtt.” Cruettceans Lets Than Four
Inches. Smuggled In A lo n g
Jersey Coast.
Highlands. N J.— Lobster bootleg
gets are active off the New Jersey
roast
Lying outside the three-inlle
lim it of state Jurisdiction, they buy
"shorts" and smuggle their contraband
•shore to resorts snd even to the
larger cities
A "short" Is a lobster
measuring less than four and one-
elglith Inches from butt of tall to tip
o f the born at the head.
This traffic has reduced the average
weight of the lobster caught In three
w aters from live pounds to one.
It Is an Icy day that k e e p s the lob
eter men »»bore W orking usually two
to s bust. 2ft feet 11 lx Inches over nil.
open, rsh lnlrss and unprotected from
w eather the fishermen In their q u es t
eavw h ere from three to ten miles out.
net sn average of shout 110 a day.
Four lines each containing from twen
ty to th irty pots keep two men busy.
The pot Is a wooden fram e covered
with laths one Inch s p a n and contain­
ing sn opening through a knitted cord
arrangem ent which narrows from the
entrance
Decaying menhaden, caught by the
flshertnen of Randy Hook bay. sre
threaded to the inside of the pot with
copper w ire and among the Inedible
sea rrshs and unixqm lar lin g — a quick
dying fish— Is found an occasional
crustacean
Sometime« It 1« a "short."
Occasionally s heavy lobster Is
brought up, one taken this year hav
ing weighed seven imumla. Sometimes
the pots yield a "shedder” In hks an
ual round of casting off the old shell
and putting on a new one
a prime
delicacy, the la tte r die quickly and
nre o f little commercial value to the
lobster men
Blind Pair Marry
After Long Courtship
DEATHS NEVER SINGLE
T T IS a rather common superstition
all over the country, especially In
the rural .districts, that deaths "never
come singly.” In some sections they
say that If one person in a fam ily dies
there w ill be three deaths In thut fam ­
ily before the year Is out. In other
sections they say tw o deaths. Those
who believe In the superstition do not
lim it the operation o f (be omen to the
i
New York — T h e blind led the blind
to the a lta r in Adams M emorial ITen-
hyterlan church, where Joseph I,. Ben­
nett and Mias Eva Brasseur, both
blind for more than twenty yeara,
were m arried by Rev. Harold S.
Rambo.
As he stood at the altar, the hand
of his bride In his. Bennett, who Is
fifty-three, remembered her as a girl
o f tw enty, his sweetheart then. She
is now forty-nine.
"That Is the way I shall always
ll.ln k of h e r ' he said.
Mrs. Bennett became blind 22 years
ago.
Bennett's hands fumbled as the bride
shyly held oer Anger to receive the
ring which neither w ill ever see. But,
they smiled.
T he bridegroom
lost
hl»
sight
through the explosion of a stick of
dynam ite in a mine.
L ittle .
B ro w n
A
Co »
Im m ediate fam ily of the deceased per­
son— the death of any relative will
suffice to fu lfill. In th e ir opinion, tha
prognostic.
This superstition has Its origin In
the conception o f the ancients with
regard to the relations existing be­
tween the living and the dead and
th e ir Idea of the needs and require­
ments o f the w orld o f shades. Atten­
tion has been called to the idea of
p rim itiv e man th a t the spirits of the
dead desired companionship; that In
their Journey into the "great darkness"
they ought to be accompanied by soin»
of those who were near to them In
life. Hundreds o f slaves end captives
were slaughtered upon the grave of
A ttila In order that his spirit might
have on the stygian shore a retinue
appropriate for so great a king; and
Indian widows met death upon the
funeral pyre of th e ir husbands In or­
der that the departed rajah might he
consoled beyond the veil.
T here appears also to have been an
Idea thRt when these attentions were
not bestowed the spirit of the de­
ceased m ight possibly and under cer­
tain circumstances, exercise a power
o f summoning companionship from
the living world ; and In the classic
stories of the H eroic ages we find
now and then ghosts that w ill not rest
until human sacrifice has been made,
actually or by substitution.
b y M c C lu r e N c w a p a p e r S y n d ic a t« I
U?tiO SAID
“ L a b o r conquer»
a ll th in g » .“
•®
b r M c C lu r a N e w a p a p a r S y n d ic a t » .)
?
Is the Chinese gem of life and Is be­
lieved to bestow upon Its w earer the
blessing of the gods, which Is health,
wealth and happiness.
Sunday Is
Eve a lucky day and 4 her lucky num­
ber.
Curiously enough. Eve has never
been a popular name In England. On
old pariah registers It appeared In
Isolated Instances when a pair of
tw ins was christened Adam and Eve. 5
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But the Latin form, which became Eva
,
in Ireland and Scotland, also flourished
] In England and became popular In 6
I Uermsny.
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In this country. Eve has had great­ 2
er prevalence than Eva. The former A
’ Is a fa r more euphonious name, as
,
I well as the finest of the old Rlhllcal
g
j appellatives— a fset which appealed
i strongly to the P u rita n s
We have i
I also revived the title o f the Alexan- = >
i drian Jews snd Zoe Is frequent In
Yon can't Judge a diming by tbs tone | modern times.
of the dinner beU.
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Jade Is Eve's tallsmanlc stone It
by
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Facta about your name; in histon
rv; meaning; whence It
was derived; significance, your lucl
icky day and lucky jewel
T T IS Utting that Eve. the oldest
L name In the English language,
should mean "life .” "T he mother of
all living" was originally called hy
the title Chavva. which the Alexan­
drian Jews, coming upon In their
translation, rendered as Zoe. Later It
was Latinised as Hevs and finally
becomes Eve on English lips.
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EVE
pulled open my door by force. I could
never hold It down w ith those threads ”
“Then build a little side tunnel lead­
ing from you r house to run Into until
the danger is past. Mrs. Spider," said
Cheerups.
“ W ell really, sir, you astonish me,"
gaspied Mrs. Spider. " I thought 1 was
clever, but you are both clever and
kind, and that's much better. I shall
try not to bother yon, hut I shall cer­
tainly call again when I want advice.
Good morning, s ir!” and the tiny trap­
door clicked behind Mrs. Spider a* ah»
dropped Into her cozy little home.
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HAT’S IN A NAME
'7Ü
Popular Irena Rich, the “movie-
star, ia a prime favorite with the mil.
liona of oeople who like moving p,o.
tures.
Miss Rich seems to b< htted
to the parts the plays as If they wars
especially w ritten for her.
This Is
one of her very latest pictures.
¡By H. IRVING
KING
be dethroned. H e allows us only six j
wives apiece and Imposes ruinous taxes
fo r every additional w ife !” )
"S krix shrox” ( “ No use acting hasti­
ly ” ), muttered the populace.
"Klncan yaybo wlmbo y a n !” ( “ H e
allows the common people one meal a
day while he eats seven!”) cried Blub-
Jaw.
"D lth y ram hiia” ("D o n 't let's be
rash”), murmured the mob.
"Slux nindo y lth te r w o w !” (" H e has
forbidden ua to sm oke!” ).
“Osh kosh !” ("W e d better not do
anything reckless").
'T o o ra l Chaplox nlnskl F alrb ln x !
Y ln x !” ( “He's ordered all the 'movies’
to shut down and now we can never
see Charlie Chaplin or Doug Fairbanks
any m o re !")
T h ere was a m ighty guttural roar
as the long-suffering public rose to
a m is and rushed toward King Dlmbo's
bungalow.
<<$ frF O ffio rt« M a t t h e w A d a m e . )
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HE WHY tf
SUPERSTITIONS
M athews Wins Mitchel Tronhy
"Garda la Italy's largest lake and.
w ith the exception of Geneva and (Ton-
stance. Is unsurpassed In size In the
Alpine region
|| Is about th irty four
miles long, hut varies In width from
three to eleven miles, being gourd
shaped w ith a long narrow neck ru n ­
ning Into the outposts of the Tyro leer
Alps
"In many respects It Is more like a
sm all Inland sea than a lake. Ita deep
W'te coloring Is like that of the Medl
terra n r an and. unlike Its »later l-om-
bsrdlan lake«. It ha« real «sllhosts
« I I I . two masts. th eir brown and yel­
low sails contrasting prettily with the
blue of the w ater and the green hack-
ground of the hills
Over the surface
of Garda hangs a heavy haze at time«
confirming the resemblance to the sea
In the w inter months gulls enliven the
w ater front with their sharp cries
"Lake Garda was once an Important
link In the trade route between Verona
and Trent, but Ihe construction o f the
railroad up the nearby and more di­
rect Adige valley has left the lake
again the quiet dwelling place of beau
Lieut. Thomas K Mathews ot the army, by winning the John L. Mitchel
ty of which poets, even as fa r hack as trophy, won the right to represent the army In the P u lltxer race next year,
Roman days, have sung. Garda bss llils trophy Is offered by Col. W illia m M itchel In memory o f his brother. lu
»hared with t'otno the attention of this picture Lieutenant Mathews, right. Is being congratulated by MaJ. T. G.
poets and w riters of every age
Lanpliler and Mrs. J. L. Mitchel.
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A LINE O’ CHEER
By John Kendrick Bangs
D E P A R T IN G S U M M E R
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I fn e l she s o rt o f w i s t f u lly lo o k s
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A n d m a y b e t h a t Is w h y S e p te m -
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S t ill h o ld eo m u c h o f s u m m e r I«
t h e ir w a y s .
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W
T T IS said th a t when Homer, tha
great epic poet o f ancient Greece,
was alive he lived In poverty and
traveled about from place to place
existing on the sparlug hospitality of
those who would shelter him for
the sake of hearing his adventures
related. Years a fte r his death, when
his work begun to be properly appreci­
ated, no less than seven cities of
Greece fought for the honor of calling
him a native o f their locality. And to
this day it remains a mystery where
the man's real home was located.
Modern knowledge of Hom er rests
upon his known works. When he was
horn Is as much a mystery as where
he was born. Historians agree In fix­
ing the year of his b irth sometime be­
tween 1000 and 700 B. C., and his
birthplace "somewhere in Greece '
The poet's best known works are his
Illla d and the Odyssey. T he IHlad Is
the story o f the siege o f Illium , or
Troy, and relates the attem pt to res­
cue Helen, w ife of the king o f Sparta,
whom Paris, son o f the king of Troy,
had abducted.
T he Odyssey concerns Itself w ltk
the adventures o f Odysseus or Ulysses,
as he Is better known, on his way
home from the b attle o f T roy and of
his welcome by hla fa ith fu l wife, Penel­
ope. and the punishment o f her p r^
sumptuous suitors.
By all o f the great poetry critics of
the world Homer's work is ranked as
among the finest.
H is memor) ha»
been fu rth e r kept alive by nunterou»
busts— all of which, o f course, are
wholly Ideal — W ayne D. M cM urray
1«, by Unorsn Mattbnw «dam n.)