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Mouth Organ Noatty
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Old Musical Device
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M ala, tbe Greek goddess for wheat
the Romans named the lovely spring
month, was the oldest of the Pleiads
or seven
daughters of Atlas and Oce- ,
,
anld I ’lelone. She and her sister, who
were born on Mount Cyllene In Area-1
dla, according to Greek mythology, are
sometimes called the goddesses of the
mountains.
Original e t "Mother Goose"
Very little U kuown «bout tbe j J
origin of the Mother Goose rhymes. j ”
The name "Mother Goose" is sup- | J
The probable ancestor of the mouth
organ was the Greek syrinx, one of posed to have had Its origin In French g
the most ancient of musical Instru- folklore. Queen Goosefoot, mothyr of , f l
«>eots. I t was formed of a number Charlemagne, was regarded as the j ■
j ot ghort holl„ w reedg of graduated special patron of children and her fes- ) B
length«, fixed together by wax
T he • ,,val *• gtui celebrated. Though the i
1 |ower ends were closed and the upper j oan,e orl«l»«led In France the rhymes ’
! onea open aDd on a ,pvel ao , ha, , bg 1 are English. New rhymes have been i
lips could paaa frora ,)De’
hB<rthw. | added to tbe collection from time to |
The modern mouth organ Is the Inven I
moat ot them belng ,aken from
,|„ n of Christian Messner of Tros- I En«llsh folklore. There Is nothing to
alngen, Wurtemburg, Germany, about • U,e ,lo ry “ >•’ the " rl«f°» l Mother !
| ba , ear 1830. The factory that he Gooae was 8 Mrs. Goose who lived In
founded still gives employment to Bo* ,on- As early as 1628 Charles
5,000 workers, not counting 3,000 home l> rr 8 u “ published a book in Englan.l
workers in the town. Messner got the en,1,led the ‘Tales of Mother Goose."
after bUylng a child's trumpet Many
”
"
o f * the rhymes
were probably
old then.— Pathfinder Magazine.
at a fair, to place a number of train
Mala became tbe mother of Mercury,
and was greatly loved by the old Ho-
mana, who, on tlie first day of May.
made sacrifices In her nggie. In Ita ly
TPhouaands o f Year»
she was known as Maa Ila pest a, the j
o f P ra z y e r/ A n sw e re d g<M
W‘‘“ ot 8PriD«-
i
I f you will watch the sky on a spring
1 " ,e, b,n’
el«h,ee“ > e v e n i n g , you w ill see the six stars
In the Alps on the Great Saint Ber | which form the Pleiades. Tbe old
nsrd. about ten miles from the top j Greeks believed that Jupiter placed pets side by side, each giving a d if
of the pass.
llc re 1 found mj Mala and her six sisters together In ferent sound. H e jim duced a piece
Invented in a Dream
tall old monk. As I joined the group the sky, and that they formed for a of wood with breathing holes in It, to
"dream Invention," making pos-
around him 1 heard him say to one of , long time a group of seven. One day which was fixed a
lead plate with slide moving picture shows In brand !
them :
Myaope married a mortal named Slsy- brass tongues.
daylight. Is claimed by a young book-
How much finer and better It Is to phus, who In some way displeased the
From Trusslngen the industry spread blD(kr ,n Budapest, according to a
cross the range up here by the Puss gods.
For punishment he was con
to other plates In Germany, notably dispatch from that city
than to go through the smoky tunnel detuned to spend eternity rolling a
Kllngenthal In Saxony.
During the
Tbe ,nventor proJectg plctnrpg
below. And even In snowstorms
row-storms notv
now stone uphill, so that Myrope hid h er! World war attempts were made by
¿ 7 projects pictures not
It I . safe. For you see that telephone f,„ e from her sisters In sorrow and I other countries such a . Japan and
* m,
7 . ,e ‘ T ™ '
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on the wall. The wire goes ,0 an Inn shame That Is why we see t u , six o, the t n h e d X i n3 gain . f m it lS X
V
d
’a
7 disk covered with
rapidly rotating
green and dark blue
ten miles lower down the pass. Anti the daughters of Atlas shining In the |„ , h|, Industry, but Germany s o o n re
paper, which radiate from the center.
In times of storm, when a tra v e ler, sky; for ilyrope'a face Is still con-
covered her trade.
Skilled workers. The dlapatch say9 the |nventlon has
leaves the Inn, they telephone up to cealed behind otye of her sister stars.—
cheap production and an old estab
been proved a complete success by ex
us here and one of us goes down with Chicago D ally News.
llslied Industry give the German fac periments and Is already patented.
the dogs. So we reach him before he i
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tories the advantage.
The inventor says the Idea came to
la overcome."
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him In a dream and he Is unable to
“But are no lives lost In winter?” 1 S cottish C ity Coo»
explain It.
Inquired a young American.
p a r B ach fa H fato ry ‘Flip-Jack»" Made No
“No— not a life In muny years.” The
A ppeal to Thia Poet
The city of Glasgow, the metropolis
tall old man was silent a moment
Then In a reverent tone he said, "For of Scotland, had Its origin In the Sixth
Taylor, tbe poet who lived and wrote
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over a thousand years, my son, we century, when St. Kentlgern founded , n ln ‘ he Seventeenth century, eyi-
have prayed for the safety of travel- “ 8U,U|> religious establishment on the dently failed to fully appreciate the
ers here. And He has answered our 1 ,,nnli8 of a tiny stream which flows Shrove Tuesday pancake, or flip-jacks.
prayers at last.”
,u‘ ° ‘ he Clyde at a point where the Dealing with the pancake custom he
The smart young American asked. Sc"i“ l8h city now stands.
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e" r " ” B: C’2!e?
“O r was It the telephone?"
Christianity was then unknown In the Pancake Bell, «the sound of which
The old mountain climber turned and th,l‘ purt of Scotland, and Kentlgern makes thousands of people distracted,
looked at the Yankee with quiet eyes. WB8 ,he flr8‘ to Introduce the faith and forgetful either of manners or hu-
"Yes, my s on _th at Is how God an
ani"n8 the rode people Inhabiting that m anlty; and then there is a thing
swered our prayers."— Ernest Poole In •ectlon.
Beside the clearing in the called wbeaten Hour, which the cooks
H earst’s International Cosmopolitan.
forest where he built his home he do mingle with water, eggs, spice, and
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hung on a tree a bell which was rung other tragical and mugical enchant
.
Io summon the savage Inhabitants to ments; and then they put It by little
Tribute» G enius H a»
Worship, and thus It came about that aud little Into a frying pun of boiling
suet, where It mukes a confined dls-
Paid to Human Voice ' V X Z ' be" “ PPear8 ' be
mal hissing, like the I.etheur snakes In
Shakespeare says:
The saint had trouble later 00 with ' the reeds of Acheron, Styx, or Phlege-
“H e r voice was ever soft, gentle the king of the Strathclyde Briton* and thon, until nt Inst, by the skill of
Later he re the cook, It Is transformed Into the
and low; an excellent thing In woman." had to flee to Wales.
Charles Lamb says:
turned, and a fte r his death, at an ad form of a flip-jack, called a pancake,
“How often you are drawn Irre vanced age, was buried at the spot which, with ominous incantations, the
sistibly to a plain, unassuming woman,
where now stands the greut cathedral ignorant
people
do devour very
whose soft, silvery tones render her bearing his nunte.
greedily."
positively attractive!
Ip the social
circle, bow pleasant It Is to hear a
A» "Will" Would Say It
Melanchthon
woman talk in that low key which al-
Jones and Jenks were arguing about
T he original nume of Philip Me
way» characterizes the true lady. In
Jones contended the lanchthon was Philip Schwartzered.
the sanctuary of home, how such a Shakespeure.
voice soothes the fretfu l child and hard was u genius, and Jenks scoffed He whs born In 1407 and died In 1560.
at It.
“Genius, nothing," he said. He was a German Reformer. In early
cheers the weary husbuudl”
"All he had was a big vocabulary. manhood he was professor of Greek
Longfellow says:
An, one that applied himself to It at Wittenberg university, hut became
“How wonderful Is the human voice!
I t Is Indeed tbe organ of the soul! could duplicate Shakespeare's stuff. 1 a fellow-worker with M artin Luther.
T he Intellect of man sits enthroned could do It myself." At that moment He drew up the Augsburg confession,
visibly upon his forehead and In his two very bow-legged men turned the and mannged with consummate skill
eye; and the heart of man Is written corner and wulked toward the dispu the conference with the opponents of
upon his countenance. But the soul tants. "Here's a chance to show how the reformed religion held at Worms
“How and Ratlsbon. By his skill and wis
reveals Itself In the voice only, as God good you are,” said Jones.
revealed Him self to the prophet of old, would you describe those two fel dom he did much to save the Refor
"T h a t’s easy," suld Jenks. mation from excesses. On the death
in ‘the still, small voice,’ and In a lows?"
“T here’s only one way to describe of Luther he became the leader of
voice from the burning bush. The
aoul o f man Is audible not visible. A them, Shakespeare himself couldn’t the Lutherans. His most popular pub
sound alone betrays the flowing of the say anything but ‘Here come two bow- lication was a book thHt is regarded
legged m en.'”
It was what Jones as the first great Protestant work on
eternul fountuln, Invisible to m an!”
was waiting for. “He couldn't, eh? theology.
Shakespeare would have said: 'H o !
Famou» French Palace
What manner of m >n are these, with
The Objective Mind
The Louvre Is a famous palace In legi that ciatld serve ns parentheses* I"
Cnn you bring all your faculties to
Paris originally
the resilience o f
the front, like n house with many
French kings, hut since the French
Famou» Roman City
faces at the doors and windows; or
revolution used as 11 museum of nrt
The name “ Hadrian's V illa" la given do you live retired within yourself,
and antiquities. The Louvre derives
to a great number of superb struc shut up In your own meditations?
Its name from an ancient hunting
chateau that stood on the site of the tures, now In ruins, erected at Tivoli, The thinker puts all tlie powers of
18 miles east o f Rome, by the Emperor his mind in reflection; the observer
present palace, In the midst of a fin
llailrlan (117-138 A. D .), who wished puts all the powers of Ills mind in
est Infested with wolvep and known
Io reproduce the most striking objects perception; every faculty Is directed
as the Louverle. It Is said to have
he had met w ith In Ills extensive trav outw ard; the whole mind sees through
been a royal residence In the time of
els.
According to antlquarlnns, the the eye and hears through the ear.
Dagobert (028). The foundation of
space enclosed In tills way whs about He has an objective turn of mind as
the present building was laid by Fran
eight or ten miles In circumference opposed to a subjective.
A person
cis I In I M I , and the structure was
When, about 70 years a fter the time with the latter turn of mind sees lit
enlarged and adorned by successive
of Hadrian, the Emperor Caracalla tle.
If you are occupied with your
kings, particularly Henry IV noil Louis
built at Rome the celebrated baths own thoughts, you tray go through a
X IV , the Intter being the Inst king io
that hear hla name, the famous build museum of curiosities and observe
live In It. The work of uniting the
ings of Hndrlsn's villa were rifled of nothing.—John Burroughs.
Louvre and the T nllerle* In one struc
I heir superb marbles for purposes of
ture was completed In 18.17; and the
decoration.— Kansas City Star.
combined Louvre and Tullerles covers
Boiling Water in Bag
an area of 48 acres. —Kansas City
Here Is one from Australia on a
Times.
Odd Entriea Into Life
novel way to holl water. The old
Many babies are born at sea, but It fishermun Is speaking: “I left ray
Is doubtful If any entered ouch a trou wllllani-rnn at home one day. The
Recognized Joke»
blous world as a Gentian baby girl born prospect of dinner without tea did
The Scuta are making an effort to
In mid-Atlantic during a recent ter not oppenl to me. Fishing In the
•top the hoary old Joke that they
rible storm. Steerage babies often tucker hag, I found a sound paper
never spend any money.
Scientists
provide an event for passengers to ling. Making a tire, I propped the
who have gone Inti« the antiquity of
talk about. A subscription list Is al bag, full of water, near It. By con
Jokes and made a study of the sub
ways opened, with the result that the stantly pouring w ater Into the hag.
ject say that there are only about six
baby receives a substantial start-dff the top of it was prevented from burn
original example* and that all humor In lire.
Ing. The w ater boiled, the tea was
ts based on them.
Old Jokes come
The record In strange birthday sur made and there was no prouder man
back Into style or else appear wearing
roundings Is surely held by the baby In nil the land than I." T ry this some
new habiliments. Excursions Into new
hoy who was born 0,600 feet up In time when you haien't anything else
fields sometimes are dangerous and un
the air. Ills mother was traveling by to do.
profitable, T lie plumber Joke may not
airplane from Budapest to Naples
have been one of tlie early sextet, Init
when the event took place.
It has been a favorite not only with
Japaneae Constitution
the almanacs, but with the comic
The constitution of Japan was not
«trippers and the higher class weekly
Ocean Area
patterned nfter that of any other
funny magazines. I f the plumber Joke
The oceans of the world have sn country. It was promulgated In 1880
has to go, the Joke writers merely
area of about l.'til.OOO.OOO square and was formulated by Prince Ito,
w ill understand that they have one miles and their combined volume Is
who, a fte r Investigating the constitu
less subject upon which to work.
about 302.000,000 cubic utiles.
The tions of the various nations, modeled
average depth Is two miles and the the constitution of Japan largely after
deepest known depth Is five miles. A the Prussian.
It Is divided into 76
V a lu e o f C o u rte iy
gallon of ordinary sea w ater contains articles Hnd provides for a law-making
Courtesy Is the one medium of ex
about one-qnarter pojind of «alt. From body of two chnnihers, the house of
change linn Is alwa.t.1 accepted at par
a study of the bells of rock salt un peers and the house of representatives
^hy the people of every country on the i
derlying Strsssfort. Germany, New
The emperor convokes, opens and
“fclolie. C o u r te s y r a d ia te s a spirit of
York state, Ohio, Michigan and Kan closes the diet, has all executive au-
wl feeling and suggests that we are j
sas, snd Cheshire, England, It Is sup thorjty, and all laws are submit I cd to
working entirely for the material
returns of work, but for the friendly j p o se d these areas are all drled-ap him for sanction.
Inland seas.
human associations as well.
Life is (
not too short, and we are n e\e r too :
Rough on the Preacher
Real Sportsmen
busy to lie courteous.
The Bunday school girl» of a certain
On
the
fishing
stream
a
man
Is
pa
Courtesy Is the outward expression
church put flowers In front of the
and an Inward consideration for oth- ! tience personified. He waits hours for
pul|dt each Sunday.
a nibble and congratulates himself
ers Is always un effective Inhrtrant
Olte «as asked by an elderly per
thst smooths business and social re when he finally secures one. Why
son what they did with the flo«ers
lationships,
eliminating
friction.— ! can't he he as food a sportsman In
a fter the service.
Ills home or place of business? If
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
"Oh, we take them to people who
lie's s real sportsman he will be.—
are sick nfter the sermon,” was the
Squirrel Pest
Despite hla pretty ap|iearsnce and
amusing way«, the common red squir
rel la said to be one of the most de
structive pests found In the woods to
day.
Ornithologists claim that his
depredations among birds rank second
only to those o f tlie hunting cat, anil
that he not only kills young birds, as
does the cat. bnt he w ill destroy the
eggs before they are hatched. Arournl
farm buildings he Is considered a nol
same because of hla |>rii|ien-lty for
chewing a hole through acme building
which he baa selected «« a likely idace
It» »tore hl» wiBter's/supiily of food.
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Oscar Wilde Sarcastic
1
,
An American publisher once wrote
OsPar W1|(,p „ „ „ ordprpd g
of 100|000 wor(Jg.. for which hp Qf.
fpred t0 pgy , gpp(.,fl(. pricp T ,|p ,dpa
of havlng hlg warpg nieasurpd „„ „
"y “ yard stick offended the poet's sen-
sltive gou,
A fpw d
,atpr hp
back ,o Npw Y ()rk . .«r)par 8Jr;
, rece,Ted your cbarmlng Iptter and
hav# gppn, two or (hrpp „
|n dp_
| ,lgbtfu, contemplation.
I should like
to w rite the story, hut I do not see
how I can do so. Unfortunately, there
are not 160 000 words in the English
language.”
A storia— C ity has foray In d u s tria l
plants, employs 5 ,0 0 0 people, an-
1 nttal p ayroll Is « 3 ,500,000, and year-
ly o utput Is w orth «15,000,000.
Exclusive Representatives of National Builder« Bureau
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