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New York Women Now Acting as Police
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Something to
Think A b o u t
B, F. A. WALKER
’TEENS AND TWENTIES
EXPERIENCE the child soon
finds that food satisfies hunger,
that water quenches thirst, that
a bard blow gives him pain.
As be grows older he learns that
his own actions produce certain re
sults which to him are pleasant or
unpleasant.
As a child he avoids doing things
that cause him bodily pain.
If be burns bis hand or cuts his
finger, he dreads fire and sharp-
edged tools. He knows that If he
takes undue liberties with them he
Is sure to suffer physically and men
tally.
• • •
Deductive reasoning In children at
the age of three or four years Is as
keen as the edge of a razor, but
through some trick of time when
they merge Into their 'teens, their
childish caution flits away
and
leaves them Imprudent and venture
some.
They flash a red light to warn the
old folks to beware of the wisdom
and superior cunning of youth.
“Teens and twenties are the forma
tive, red-light ages In which both
sexes, consciously or unconsciously,
shape their destinies.
If In these dangerous ages indulgent
parents permit their offspring to have
unrestricted freedom, allow them to
have their own way af the turning
point of the right or the wrong road,
the chances are that they will waste
their time and substance and drift
through life without forming even a
nodding acquaintance with success.
• • •
To you who are In these perilous
periods, running along madly In pur
suit of elusive nymphs of pleasure,
“stop, look and listen I"
Stop to consider what you are
doing. Look about you at those who
are climbing the hills. See how cau
tiously they step. Listen to the words
of wisdom, and especially to the ad
vice of your elders.
They have trod the worldly way
and know how treacherous It Is; how
pitfalls are hidden by alluring
glamours. Intended to deceive youth;
how pride, wantonness and vicissi
tude take at last to sorrow, eleventh-
hour abnegation and finally to brok
en health and poverty.
You have the power within you to
rise to success and distinction.
It Is for you, for you alone, to
make use of this power, to overcome,
to press forward and to make your
mark.
Keep on the right path. Hold fast
to faith, and at some turn In the road
the vtsta will brighten and yon will
find yourself at the hilltop, thrilled
with unspeakable delight.
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Because of the need of extra police In New York city during the milk wagon drivers’ strike, 2,200 women were
eworn In, given uniforms and placed on duty near the schools to direct truffle. Here Is a squad of the “coppettes”
receiving the day's orders.
1921 Healthiest
Y
in History
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Insurance
Figures
Indicate
Marked Lowering of Death
Rate in United States.
AUTO DEATHS UP 15 PER CENT
Records Show 8uicides and Homicides
Four Times Normal Rates— Influ
enza Almost Wiped Out— De
crease in Tuberculosis.
New York.—The year 1921 was the
healthiest year I d the history of both
the United States and Canada, ac
cording to the records of 37 leading
American Insurance companies. The
figures for the first ten months Indi
cate a lowering of the death rate
among policy holders from 9.80 per
thousand last year to 8.24 per thou
sand In 1921.
Among the striking things shown by
the figures, which cover 27,000,000
persons, are that Influenza has al
most disappeared from the United
States and Canada, and that pneu
monia has decreased 50 per cent from
1920. On the other hand, mortalities
due to automobile accidents—"bacillus
nutomobllls’’ It Is referred to In the
report—show a 15 per cent Increase,
with an Indication of 10,000 deaths
from this cause. Homicides and sui
cides ulso show large Increases.
The figures were analyzed by Rob
ert I.ynn Cox at the annual convention
of the Association of Life Insurance
Presidents, held here last week.
"The 37 companies constituting
these figures transact about 80 per
cent of the life Insurance business of
the country,” he said.
"Combining
both ordinary and Industrial life In
surance business, these 37 companies
report that, while they experienced In
the first ten months of 1920 deaths
numbering 205,941, for the same peri
od this year only 184,800 deaths have
occurred. This shows a reduction of
21,1*81 In the actual number of their
death losses this year.”
one In nine of all deaths that have oc
curred In 1921, we have in mind for
purposes of comparison the fact that
no longer than ten years ago Its ratio
stood at one In four.
Deaths from
pneumonia, as reported In these tables,
were only 13,708 In 1921, as compared
with 22,243 In 1920, an actual reduc
tion from this cause alone of 8,535
deaths, or nearly 40 per cent. If we
take Into consideration the greater
number of lives at risk In 1921 we
might say that pneumonia Is only
about one-half as serious a cause of
death this year as it was last year.
The most amazing factor In the health
situation of the year Is the almost
complete disappearance of Influenza
us a cause of death. Only 1,730 deaths
are reported for ten months of 1921,
ns against 14,941 for the correspond
ing period of 1920, which was not re
garded as an epidemic year.
Increase In Suicides.
bacillus automobllus, whose presence
behind the wheel of his Juggernaut can
be discovered without aid from the
microscopes and whose homicides
might be largely prevented by more
effective policing of our congested
highways. Our experience for ten
months shows that 19,000 human lives
will be brought to premature deaths
In 1921 by motor-driven vehicles, at an
economic loss to the world of at least
$25,000,000.
"The death claims paid by the life
insurance companies of the United
States for the year 1920 amounted In
round numbers to $350,000,000. Most
of this was paid on Insured men, wom
en and children who died premature
ly.”
GETS
A
ROYAL
WELCOME
Fleeing Eskimo Meets Danish King on
High Seas and Is Given a
Cigar.
London.—An amusing story of the
sing of Denmark’s recent visit to
Greenland was recently told by M. Aa-
gaard of the Danish legation, to mem
bers of the Danish club in London.
As the royal yacht was approaching
Greenland, a dark speck became visi
ble on the open sea. It proved to be
a solitary Eskimo in his little cayak
(native canoe). The Eskimo came on
board and his loyalty In having braved
the perils of the sea In such a frail
craft assured him, needless to say, the
warmest of welcomes. The king pre
sented him with a cigar and what the
Eskimos most highly prize, a rifle.
Un landing the king described the
incident to the Danish commissioner In
Greenland and asked him who the man
was.
The commissioner In accents of hor
ror, replied: “The man’s an escaped
convict
He broke prison, stole a
canoe and put to sea. We thought he
had been drowned."
“But there are always some excep
tions to be noted, and mention must
now be made of certain causes of
death that are showing Increases over
those of last year. Suicides and hom
icides amounting to 4,174, have ln-
treased by the number of 1,026, or
about four times what the Increase
would have been hud the rate per
thousand of 1920 remained constant
for 1921. This undoubtedly Is a direct
result of war reactions, business de
pression, unemployment and other
phases of economic disturbance, and
will largely cure Itself as times im
prove.
“A matter of no small concern
among the Increasing causes of death
Is the steadily mounting mortality
caused by automobiles and other mo ASK QUEEN A D M IR E D TO BAR
tor-driven vehicles.
The number of
deaths In 1921 reported by the life In London Templars Suggest She Be First
surance companies that furnished their
Englishwoman Formally
figures for the compilation on which
"Called."
this paper Is based was 2,624, which
Is an Increase of nearly 15 per cent
London.—The Interesting suggestion
over 1920. We talk learnedly o f bac
Is being bruited about In the Temple
teria and bacilli, but overlook the
that the honor of being the first woman
to be "called” to the English bar should
be proffered to the queen. The ad
vocates of this course urge that the
Causes of Death.
; Rector Bans Short
historic occasion on which a woman
for the first time is admitted to the
The causes of death for the first
Skirts at Weddings
English bar would be observed In the
ten months of 1021 with the corre
most fitting manner If the queen ,
sponding period of 1920 are as fol J
Rev. W. C. Robertson of
would consent to stand as the pioneer
lows :
i Christ Episcopul church at Chat*
In this great advance opened to the !
F ir s t T en F ir s t T en
J tunooga, Tcnn., bus Issued rules
M o n th *
M o n th *
highest capacities of educated women.
< defining the length of skirts, and
IMO
1921
Two young women have already been
J
hints
that
any
one
violating
the
t n f lu e n s a ................................... 14,941
1.730
udmltted to the bar In Ireland.
I c n e u m o n i* ( a ll f o r m * ) ... 22.241
13,708 « rules will not be permitted to
T u b e r c u lo s is (n il fo r m « ). 25.288
22.443 J take part In a church wedding
O t h e r r e s p lr a t 'y d is e a s e * 3.48»
2,733 < ceremony.
He asserts that no
Found Eating Wasp Nests.
B r ig h t 'a d is e a s e .................... 14,662
14,369 J dress celled technically an “eve-
Texarkana, Ark.—Eagerly eating
P u e r p e r a l » t a t . .................... 2.429
3.125
M e a s le s ..................................... 1 ,1 «
492 • nlng dress” will be allowed.
wasp nestp, a man who said he was
J
Skirts must not be higher thun
W h o o p in g r o u g h ................
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Mt
John
Zing was found the other day
M e n in g iti* ( a ll f o r m s ) . . . .
881
783 ♦ where the spring of the calf of
under a bridge near death from star
IM u rrh ea a n d e n t e r i t i s . . . 2,391
2.327 J the leg begins, sleeves must not
vation. He said he had been unable
T y p h o id f e v e r ..................... 1.328
•1.379
C e r e b r a l h e m o r r h a g e . . . . 12.732
•12.838 < be shorter thau above the elbow,
to obtain sufficient food by begging.
O r g a n ic d l» c a » o o f h e a r t 23,73«
•24.416 J und hats must be worn.
He was turned over to a charitable
E x t e r n a l c a u s e s ( e x e lu d -
Institution.
In g s u i c id e s , h o m ic id e *
a n d a u t o m o b ile a c r id ta) 10,481
M i s c e ll a n e o u s ................« ... « ,0 3 8
10.084
•47,403
182.871
IBS, 384
an In-
Causes of death showing
crease In the death rate:
H o m ic id e s .......................
A u t o m o b ile a c c id e n t s a n d
I n ju r ie * .........................
B -a rlct f e v e r ................ ........
D ip h t h e r ia .....................
Interesting Visitors From China
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2.862
1.323
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2 .0 4
»42
2.8S1
22.28*
38.498
O d t o t a l ( a ll c a u s e s ) . . . 206.941
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•T h o u g h c e r t a in c a u e e a o f d e a t h »h ow
I n r r e a e t » In a c t u a l n u m b e r o f d e a t h s fo r
1921 o v e r 1930, t h e r a t e p er t h o u s a n d la. In
f a c t , lo w e r b e c a u s e o f t h e I n c r e a s e d n u m
b e r o f U vea a t r isk In IM1.
"We see at the outset that about 28
per cent of «leaths during this year
have been caused by diseases which
under our present habits of life are
pretty sure to continue at high ratios
among the various causes of death,”
sahl Mr. Cox. "These diseases are
eerebral hemorrhage, organic disease«
of the heart and Krlght’s disease. In
the main they are ailments of the
more advanced years of life. There
fore we turn for hope to the other
causes of death, constituting 72 per
cent of the total.
"Though we learn that tuberculo
Mrs. «1. T. Chao, wife of the director of the Chinese educational inlsslou
sis has caused the enormous total of to the United States, with her two children. Merry May and T. William C tae,
22,443 deaths, that la to say about photographed outside their hotel In Washington.
( C o p y r ig h t .)
THE CHEERFUL CH EIW
LYRICS OF LIFE
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
T H E LAST C H A PTER -
T A S T Y GOOD T H IN G S
HE hunter’s Joy la In the tale.
More great thau In the k ill;
ONGUE is considered a great
delicacy. It should always be
The sailor rides the wintry gale
cooked slowly on the back of
Not for the wdntry thrill
the range or over the simmering burn
But that at night-time he may sit
er. When the tongue Is tender take
Before tbe fire recounting IL
It from the fire and let It cool In the
For this men climb the steepest mount kettle. When cool take from the ket
tle, remove the skin. Tongue should
And walk the widest plain,
And bring to firesides an account
not be salted while cooking but dif
ferent flavors may be added, with
Of all the toll and pain—
Tbe toll and pain made pleasure when herbs, carrot, onion, olives and
They tell the tale to other men.
tut nip.
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For Memory Is a healing nurse
Who makes our minds forget
The rocks and rivers that we curse—
No, we remember yet.
And yet remember rather glad
Far every hurt we ever bad.
Life’s an Adventure, like the trail.
The cruise across the seas;
It has Its hill. It has Its gale,
It has its memories;
And we shall sit In quiet age
Made glad by every blotted page.
Yea, Time shall soften every fall
And leave the story dear.
Life shall be lovely, after all.
The hurts shall disappear;
Without occasional defeat
Life's story had not been complete.
( C o p y r ig h t .)
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YOUR H A N D
How to Read Your Characteristics
and Tendencies—the Capabilities or
Weaknesses That Make for Success
or Failure as Shown in Your Palm.
T H E H A ND OF AN A R TIS T
OR a person of either sex to win
success In any of the various
fields of music, literature, etc.—
the hand should be supple, and the
fingers should be long. Short fingers
denote want of attention to details, and
this Is, of course. In the majority of
cases, fatal to the hopes of success
In art. “Genius Is an Infinite qapaclty
for taking pains" la true in art.
Other favorable signs ate the fol
lowing :
A small upper phalanx of the thumb.
If, In addition, the thumb la very flat,
the fortunate possessor hag an excep
tionally favorable thumb for an artist
I If the middle phalanx of tbe sec
ond finger, the Finger of Saturn, Is
well formed and well developed, and
long. It la a sign of great love of the
beautiful in nature.
I The top phalanx of the third finger,
the Finger of Apollo; should be strong,
to Indicate color perception.
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HER IDEAI»
Inventor: That
machine can do
the work of
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Visitor:
G an
whla!
My wife
ought to
hava
married Iti
A m a n Is n e v e r a s t o n i s h e d o r s h a m e d
th a t h e d o es n o t k n o w w h a t a n o th e r d o es,
b u t h e Is a l w a y s s u r p r is e d a t t h e g r o s s
I g n o r a n c e o f t h e o t h e r o n e n o t k n o w in g
w h a t h e d oes.
Braised Tongue.
Wash the tongue, skewer It Into
shape, put Into boiling water and sim
mer until tender. When cool, remove
the skin, dredge with flour, salt and
pepper. Slice one onion and-brown it
In hot fat. Put In the tongue, add two
tablespoonfuls of turnip and carrot
cut fine, two cloves, a peppercorn,
a bit of celery root, or a sprig of
parsley. Cover with boiling wnter,
put on the cover and let cook slowly
In a moderate oven for two hours.
Turn the tongue after the first hour
and add more water If necessary.
There should be about a pint when the
tongue Is done. Remove the fat from
the gravy, thicken with flour wet with
water and add one cupful of tomato.
Strain the sauce over the tongue after
placing It on a platter.
Banana Toast. V
Take one pint of boiling water, one
tablespoonful of cornstarch mixed In
i
a little cold water, one tablespoonful
of butter, four tablespoonfuls of
fe
By JOHN BLAKE
sugar and a salt spoon of sa lt Boll
until clear, stirring constantly;- add
five bananas rubbed through a sieve,
stir and boll a minute longer, then
MR. TAFT’S AMBITION pour
over thin buttered toast. This
makes a fine Sunday night supper
ROM the day he left law school It dish.
was the ambition of William II.
Taft to be chief Justice of the
Barley Fudge.
Supreme Court of the United States.
Brown one cupful of barley In the
Through the years, Mr. Taft bent
oven, being careful not to burn It;
his energies to the achievement of that put It through the meat grinder. Boll
ambition. He became a Judge early In two cupfuls of sugar, one-half cupful
life, and made a good record.
of corn sirup, one-half cupful of milk
He left the bench for service under
to the soft ball stage. Add the bar
President Roosevelt, believing that
ley, one teaspoonful of vanilla and
through work for the nation be would
cool. Stir until thick, then pour Into
be better able to reach his goal.
a buttered pan and mark off Into
When he was offered the post of sec
squares.
retary of war, Mr. Taft made It known
to Mr. Roosevelt that he would pre
fer a place on the Supreme bench.
No place was open at that time and
he accepted the secretaryship with the C o p y r ig h t, 1121. W estern N ew sp a p er U n ic a
understanding that his ambition might
be gratified later.
Then the exigencies of politics made
him a candidate for the presidency, an
honor no American of ability la likely DO OUR FACES KEEP W ARM IN
to refuse.
COLD W E A T H E R !
Mr. Taft became President, yet his
real ambition had not been achieved.
UR faces do get cold, as may be
Now he has been given the post he
proven by the application of
so long wanted, and will, most people
what Is known as a "surface
believe, fill It with great credit.
Of course, few men can single out a thermometer,” but we do not feel the
particular high post as the object of a cold because the nerves by which we
life ambition with any hope of attaln- are conscious of a change In tempera
ture are accustomed to this state of
lng IL
Yet It was because Mr. Taft wanted things and take no notice of IL If we
to be chief Justice that he developed were accustomed to go out barefoot,
the ability that made him first gover but with our faces covered, the pres
nor of the Philippines; then a sort of ent condition would be reversed and
roving commissioner for Mr. Roose we would not “feel" the cold In our
feet, but our face would be very un
velt and later secretary of war.
If he had not wanted. With all his comfortable the moment we removed
heart, to be chief Justice, he would the covering.
never have been President Content
The same principle Is apparent In a
ment with a federal Judgeship would number of other things—In the tem
perature of water which la too cold
have kept him always In Ohio,
Tbe golfer who plays a strong, to bathe In but hardly cool enough to
steady game, sometimes achieves the drink ; In country persona who find
well-nigh Impossible and makea a hole difficulty in sleeping in the city on ac
la one. The carelesa, half-interested count of the noise and city people who
can't sleep In the country because “It
golfer never does.
Honest ambition may not get a man la too quiet"; In those who are accus
what be wants, but It la sure to make tomed to work In the giare of a blind
him abler and better qualified for high ing light and those who labor in com
position, and brings him some Impor parative darkness. In other words, It’a
merely a matter of babiL
tant reward.
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