GOOD FRIEND TO
ALL, IS PATIENCE
Writer Asks Why Impetuous
Youth "Muse Be Served
It would be useful If more persons
understood earlier in life what a very
good virtue and very good friend pa
tience is. Without it men could have
added hardly anything of Importance
to their stock of knowledge.
Darwin had his chief ideas on evolu
tion when he was thirty, but waited
20 years spent In the most laborious
investigation before he wrote . any
thing about it Other men had much
the same ideas, but it was Darwin's
20 years of tireless digging for facts
that put his ideas over. Copernicus
at forty was certain the earth went
round the sun, instead of the sun go
ing round the earth, as astronomy had
it up to his time, but he was sixty
seven when he published the treatise
that proved it
To read even a nontechnical sketch
of Pasteur's experiments makes one's
head ache. One might fill pages with
Buch ; examples. ' Innumerable flints
must have been broken, and knuckles
skinned, before men found out how to
shape a symmetrical arrowhead. Pa
tience is a great virtue and a good
friend.
Most of the world's popular litera
ture, Is romantic, and the romancers
have usually beenjn an unholy con
snlracv to Dralse youth's vice olim.-
patfence ana tor aisiranrgs- ngerr virtue
of patience. We must put a stop to
that The romancers suggest that pa
tience may be very well in a cow, but
ia stultifying in a young person es
pecially when in love: , Medieval
Ancasgln fixed the type of the popu
lar lover. He won't work, he wont
light, he won't talk, he won't eat; he
won't do anything but bellow for Nlco
lette; he must have her right now; the
mere suggestion of patience gives him
fits.
Probably he will always be the most
fetching figure in a novel or poem, or
on the stage. When he is safely Iso
lated In print, or across the footlights,
verybody sighs for him. But who
wants to live with him? In the real
world what is he but a bad-tempered
brat to a candy shop,- bellowing to
have his fill right now?
"Youth must be served" is quoted a
though It were very laudable of youth
to insist on being served regardless
Of the feelings of everybody else In
the shop. Why Is selfishness more
admirable at twenty than at eighty?
Especially at present It seems, a lot
of young persons take the poetry seri
ously and live up to the theory that
they must have whatever they want
If they can possibly get it
Age is at such a discount that the
aged must try to pass themselves off
as counterfeit bills of youth. Grandpa
cries "on with the dancer In brave
falsetto. Grandma has her skirts and
her face lifted, and drowns the twinges
of rheumatism in another cocktail.
They call that hervous commotion be
Ine alive. But a dud Is far more, alive
m mat respect; iiw acme amr perfec
tion of that tort of being alive is found
In a dock walloper's free-for-all fight
However, the moldy youths of the
bight clubs and the cartoons are a
minority. Will Payne in the Saturday
Evening Post
History Repeats Itself
A eurious document has 'come to
light In Germany. It's a manuscript
dating from the Fifteenth century,
written by a citizen of Augsburg. This
Individual wrote a dally observation
on the fashion of the day. He start
ed when he was eighteen, and one day
heard some ancients deplore the ten
dency of "modern" dress, especially
among women. The first ten years the
changing fashions amused him consid
erably. After his thlrtieeth year he be
comes more conservative Forty sees
him ranged with the Lutheran clergy
of Augsburg In a condemnation of low
necks for frauletns. At sixty he Is a
fulminating, roaring denouncer threat
ening dire destruction of the Nine
veh type for his native Augsburg, If
the women do not come back from the
"frivolity and sinfulness" of the fash
Ion of the year 1560. Pierre Van Pas
sen, In the Atlanta Constitution,
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Excavators Rewarded
New light on the life of ancient
Carthage Is thrown by the discovery
of the foundations of a sanctuary dedi
cated to Astarte, or Tanlt, Phoenician
goddess of fecundity and love, In
whose honor the Carthaginians used to
Immolate children. This find Is the
more significant to archeologists and
historians In view of the unearthing
in its vicinity several years ago of a
magnificent .winged statue represent
ing the goddess Tanlt It is now In
the Peres Blanc museum In Carthage.
Excavators among the Carthaginian
ruins usually have to content them
selves with eplgraphical discoveries,
such as epitaphs, dedications to gods
and other inscriptions. Chicago News.
Kongo to Have Aviation,
Commercial aviation has just In
vaded the Belgian Kongo and is giv
ing transportation speedier than ever
dreamed of by residents there. A
company which has secured the ex
clusive franchise for - operation of
civil aviation lines has established
I regular aerial service between- Boma
and EHsabethville, covering the 1,289
miles in two days instead of In 50 by
any other method. Flights are made
every eight days to connect with mall
Steamers from Belgium. Hydroplane
boats will provide transportation
I between the snmll towns and settle
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Proof that Octopus
Must Have "Purchase9
Experiments have been made in a
specially devised tank in order to test
ine trutn or manv stories told of ne.
topi attacking human beings and drag
ging tnera to the sea bottom.
- In the tank with the octnnnn tmnerY
mented with there was placed a
"dummy" of the same specific gravity
as a human beinz. and this was halt.
ed With a crab. Attracted hv thin
tempting morsel, the octopus made
lor ,tne dummy, seized It In Its pow
erful tentacles, and tried to drair It
under the water, but without success.
it then went to one side of the tank,
and, holding onto the edge of the
glass vmii some of Its arms, It
dragged its prey beneath the surface
and crushed the crab shell with its
powerful Jaws.
It is believed that these experiments
afford proof that the octopus can drag
its victims far below the- nrfnw of
the water only near rocks to which it
can- attacn its "suckers."
There is one snot in th Rnv of
JNapies where these creatures attain
a large Size, and now and then a ftah.
erman is reported missing.
"Treasure Island" Inn .
Named for Real Person
Every reader of "Treasure Island"
knows of Admiral Benbow Inn, but
few provubly are aware of the ad
miral whose character Inspired Ste
yenson to give it the name. John
Benbow, a fiery young daredevil, en
tered the British merchant service
very early in life, and finding that the
teas were Infested with pirates pro
ceeded to make it unpleasant for the
swaggering cutthroats with a violence
equal to their own methods. He Is
said to have pickled the heads of a
crew of Salee pirates he had captured
and then to have taken them to Cadiz.
Walking up to the tables where
sat magistrates who had offered re
wards for the capture of any who flew
the skull and crcssbones, Benbow
hoisted up a sack and dumped on the
table his grewsome trophies which he
blithely referred to as "salt provi
sions." On his return to England
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but the little dogs should not be dis
heartened br the existence of the
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