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Inven tiveness, courage and money united will achieve the feat. The money and th® courage are ready; the third member of the alliance lags a little, because it has an enormous stride to take before it can get into line, but it will take the stride! It is taking it, tentatively, al ready, as our pictures show. There, in one of them, you see the Collier-Jansen tandem hydro aeroplane provided with two en gines, each of which gives 200 horsepower. Here, then, is an ar tificial bird possessing, according to the ordinary way of express ing engine power, the strength of 400 horses. It is but a little while ago when the upper limit of aero plane engine power was only one quarter as great. Great engine power is one of the requisites for a trans-Atlan tic flight because no aeroplane could make such a flight unless it was capable of carrying a con siderable store of fuel, and in crease of weight calls for increase of driving power to counterbal ance it, ¥ It is a formidable-looking ma chine compared with the ordi nary aeroplane. Its two sets of big binlanes alone make it ap pear gigantic, and they also sug " What Is Woman's Real Business in the World? J R. EDWARD SANDFORD h/l MARTIN, from a rather conservative standpoint, discusses the feminine agitation * that is one of the currents merg ing in the large onward sacial movement of the time. His book, given us by D. Appleton & Co., of New York, he calls “The Unrest of Women,” Here is an extract from his opening chapter: “(iirls have a wider choice than they used to have. Besides the old-time callings of dress making, millinery, teaching school and getting married, they can— let's see, let's see—work in fac tories, laundries, stores; be cashiers; be stenographers or typewriters, be trained nurses or doctors; be telephone girls, in dispensable office workers, ac tresses, writers, librarians, soclal workers, deans and presidents of colleges, or go into some other business not done at home. “The wisdom of mothers, a Trouble From Tins. | Many housewives are suspicious of tinned goods, useful though the lat ter are. On opening a tin, at onge plunge into the contents a bright knit ting needle, and iet it remain for a minute. A steel knife would do, but it must be quite clean. If copper poi son is present, it is immediately de posited on the steel. The test never fails. © Other precautions are: Never ac cept a tin which is aented or bulging, or which even looks ancient. Nor if the tradesman takes it from his win dow. Tinned goods make a brave dis play there, but it's the wrong place to keep them. All tinned goods, both in the shops and in the house, should be kept in a cool, dry place, away from the direct sun, or the contents cdeteriorate. Do not buy tinned goods which bear no maker's name. And when you have opened a tin, never allow the fish, or whatever it contains, to remain in it. Empty at ence into a dish. These precautions observed, you can safely “help out” a mea] with tinned food. THE GEORGIAN'S NEWS BRIEFS. gest to the eye a stability that is one of (he great requisites for an aeroplane that would attempt an ocean flight. The car takes the form of a boat, while the machin ery forms a conspicuous part of the whole. The tail structure in the middle, just ahead of the pro peller, consists of the radiators for cooling the engines. Could such a flier alight on the surface of the sea, and then resume its flight, like a migrating bird re freshed by a rest on the cradling waves”? That remains to be seen. But when the crossing of the Atlantic with aeroplanes has become as ordinary an affairs as their pres ent land flights, there will be no descending upon the water, ex cept in case of aecident. The flight will be one long pull, like the voyage of a “liner,” with no rest between shore and shore. One of the terrors that the thought of crossing the ocean by aeroplane has wlways summoned up is that of the plight in which the adventurers would find them selves if a storm wind should strike them in mid-Atlantic. That fear has been robbed of some of its strength within the past year, for the experiments of FPegoud and others have shown that it is possible to fly in the face of va riable winds blowing 40 or 50 miles an hour. By EDWIN MARKHAM body of knowledge derived from instinct, experience and observa tiom, and of enormous value to human life, is a good deal baffled by them. Indeed, it is a current doctrine that the live-at-home mothers are not up to the task of looking after all these out working girls, and that the law —the Gov.rnment—must under take it. “The girls, as they come along and see this great body of out working women, say to them selves: ‘That is what woman's life is coming to be. That is what | must face and prepare for. The old domestic life of house keeping is going the way of the distaff. What is important now for me is to be qualified to hold a worth-while place in’ this new life that is, and is to be. “Lawyers' offices are full of women, extremely competent and useful, but there are but few women lawyers: there are many trained nurses, but comparatively few women doctors: there are girls galore on the floors of the Courage Wanted There. Professor Joksom, though a man ot profound erudition, was essentially a sportsman, and, moreover, a great fa vorite among the undergraduates at the University of Oxbridge. One evening he gave a dinner par ty. to which he invited a number of kis yvouthful friends. Afterward, when the ball of reminiscence began to roll. ne suldenly took down a magnificent sword which hung Cfcr the fireplace, and, brandishing it above his head, exclaimed: f “Never shall 1 forget the day when for the first time I-drew this trusty blade!"” . The company immediately became alert, expecting one of the professor’s tarilling if somewhat tanciful stories. Then asked an awe-stricken fresh man: “And where did you draw it, sir?” “Where did I draw it?” said the professor. ‘Oh, in a raffle.” A Curtiss flying boat over Manhasset Bay. If the crossing of the Atlantic is not complished this year, it _at least seems certain that an earnest attempt will be made. Preparations are under way on both sides, and, while America is far behind in the number of aeroplanes in commission and In the variety of investifations un dertaken to settle the principles of practical aeronautics, she is abreast of Europe in the skill and courage of her “airmen,” and the perfection of some of mner ma chines. Oné of our photographs shows a Curtiss flying boat soar department stores, and some womeén hold excellent positions in them; but a woman in the firm is a great rarity. Women are admirable helpers in business, cheaper than men, more tracta ble, often more agreeable; but they do not stand on the same level with men in these undomes tic employments. “What is the reason” “The reason is this: That all this out-of-the-home work is to man his vocation, but to woman at large no more than her avoca tion. Her great vocation is moth erhood. _“lt is in that that she is in dispensable and unrivaled; and in that is the basis of her com plete equality with man. In that she is the principle, not only in bearing children, but in rearing and training them, as well “That is by so much the most important calling to which wom en must look forward, that for the general run of women all the other employments are of negii gible moment in comparison with : Sacred Deer. From time immemorial deer have been held in reverent regard by the Japanese, Herds are kept in compounds, and the highest respect is paid to the animals. In olden times the shogun gave the peo ple such a strict order to protect the sacred animals that if any one happened to hurt or kill them he was put to death on the spot. It was a period of terror. Even at the present day the deer are so tame and abundant in the shrine grounds that they, in fine weather, stroll round to -the streets by twos a? threes and surround passers-by. as ing for food, and sometimes hold ing the sleeves of the latter in their mouths in an affectionate manner. Once a yvear some of the deer are caught by means of a net with' a handle by several tamers in service of the Ka suga Shrine Office and taken to an in closure, where their splendid horns are cut off with a saw, while a crowd of spectators watch the work with breath less interest (admission v.gn sen, equal to about 5 cents). This done, some of the sacred horns are, as a custq)), awarded to the spectators by means of lottery. ing over Manhasset Bay, and a special boat of this description is being constructed with a view to the transoceanic flight. To cross the Atlantic in its narrowest part, between Ireland and Newfoundland, would take about 30 hours at 50 miles an hour. But that is not where the crossing will be made when it be comes a regular feature of inter contimental communication. Then the speed will be at least 100 miles an hour, and the crossing lanes will lie between the Eng lish Channel or the shores of the Bay of Biscay and New York. it, and have to be considered on a basis of their relation to it. To that calling the great mass of women in due time find their way. “They marry and have chil=- dren. The extraparietal wage earning work some of them do before marriage may be com pared with the years of military service which young men have to give in France and Germany, “It is a temporary employ ment, necessary and often very valuable as a training, but in a field of ‘endeavor from which they expect to withdraw as soon as they can. “To marry and have children and raise them is the natural destiny of women, the same now that it always was and always 9 will be. It is for that, primarily, that girls should be trained; to that they should be encouraged to look forward; and their train ing should be such as will help them to marry wisely, to have children that are worth raising, and to raise them well.” ’ Those Chickens. ~ Pouter and Pooke dabbled in poul try. Most of their evenings were spent iin relating stories to illustrate tha intelligence of their own chickens. ' “Wonderful creatures hens are,” an nounced Pouter one night. “And s 0 ‘adaptable! 1 have one boss-eved old cackler who would hatch out a bottle If you sat her on a piece of broken glass! As a matter of fact, only a few weeks ago she hatched out about three pints of water from a piece of ice! It came in useful at the time, {oo!"” “Ay, ay,” answered Pooke. “It's a wonderful thing, is Nature. An old hen of mine—name of Virginia—don’t care a brass straw what she's fed on, iand last week, for a joke, my boy gave her sawdust every day. But she never said a word—not she! But she ‘luld seven eggs right enough—and sat on 'em, too! VWaen they hatched sut six of 'em had a wooden leg apiece, and the seventh was a wood= pecker!”