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Hints for the
Household
When buying tea, before using it
sgpread it on a sheet of paper and place
it in a warm but not too hot oven from
ten to fifteen minutes. By doing this,
the tea will be made to go much far
ther, and the flavor will be greatly im
proved.
Sprinkle dry flour over any japanned
trays that are beginning to look shab
by. Leave for an hour or so, then rub
off the flour, and nolish with a soft dus
ter. It is wonderful how *his treatment
will improve even a shabby tray.
To remove the smell of fish or cab
bage from a saucepan, burn a piece of
brown paper on the fire and turn the
saucepan down over the burning paper.
This will remove all odor, whatever it
ts, in a few seconds.
Salt will remove black beetles. Put
plenty of salt where the beetles fre
quent, and keep it there for a week.
Do not leave any water where the in
gects go. When they eat the salt it
will dry up their bodies.
To prevent milk from boiling ovef
place an ordinary pie-chimney in the
center of the pan of milk. When it
commences to boil it will boil up
through the little chimney and not over
the side of the saucepan.
The popular cabbage is useful for
drawing and cleansing a gathered fin
fé{ or poisoned hand. Take a cabbage
f, roll it out with a bottle until the
juice comes, and tie it on the affected
part.
New potatoes should be placed in boll
fng water to which salt and a little milk
have been added. The milk prevents
them from turning black.
' If anything on which paraffin has been
#pilled—hands included—is rubbed with
raw potato the smell will immediately
disappear.
A very easy and quick way to skin
sausages is to Immerse them for a sec
ond or two in cold water.
Common bracken fern laid down in
places frequented by cockroaches will
drive them away.
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; Those Swburban Homes.
, Audrey’s mother had just taken a
house in the Garden Suburb, and Au
drey was vastly pleased with her ‘‘arty”
bedroom. il
She was at that moment deep in
‘thought over the knotty problem where
to hang a photograph of her own dear
‘Cecil—Cecil, of the white spats, who
‘'was going to be a vaudeville artist one
day.
Yes; there was the place—between
Browning and Richard Harding Davis.
‘Seizing a mighty hammer and a big
pail she proceeded to hammer with
& big nail she proceeded to hammer
with much care and energy.
After a while there was a knock at
the front door, and the next door neigh
bor asked if he might be allowed to see
the person working in the top room.
Audrey came down.
“I'm so sorrv if I am disturbing you,”
said she. *‘l know it's rather late, but
] must get the picture hung to-night!”
“Oh, you're net-disturbing me!”" an
swered the visitor, “I only called to ask
if 1 might hang a bookshelf on the other
end of the naiil”’ ’
THE GEORGIAN'S NEKEWS BRIEFS
With Credit Only.
“Did youv occupy your last pulpit
with credit?” inquired the church
trustees.
“I certainly did,” responded the ap
plicant; ‘“there was never amy cash
cont ected with it”
Right.
“There is a machine that can be
graduated to measure the millionti
part of an inch.”
“] know,” said the railway passen
ger. “They use 'em in the refresh
ment rooms on this line when making
ham sandwiches.” i
Mrs. Smith’s Luck.
“Mrs. Smith invariably has abom
inable weather for her afternoon teas,
hasn’'t she?” said a woman to a man
guest,
“Yes,” said the man as he reached
for his hat and stick, “she never pours
but it rains.” ,
| What He Meant.
| Olive and Gerald, while out walk
ine met a vicious bulldog, and Ger
‘ald’s conduct in the next few moments
‘left much to be desired. When th-y
‘had safely passed, Olive turned to
Gerald and said, reproachfully:
“Why, Gerald! And you said you
would face death for me.”
“l know I did,” answered Gerald,
“and I meant it. But that bullduog
wasn't dead.”
Overdoing It.
Messrs. Doolan and Rafferty were
examining a fine public building with
much interest,
“Doolan,” said Raflerty, pointing to
an inscription cut in a huge
stone, “phwat does thim litters,
MDCOCXCVIL’ mane?”
“Thot,” replied Mr. Doolan, “manes
eighteen hoonderd an’ noinety-sivin.”
“Doolan,” said Rafferty after a
thoughtful pause, “don’'t yez t'ink
they're overdoin’ this sphellin’ reform
a bit?”
A Tie.
The argument grew more heated,
and the rival captains persisted in
wrangling, heedless of the referee’'s
presence and authority.
“You're a . fool!” yelled the cap
tain of the Wasteground Wanderers.
“And you're a liar!” roared the
captain of the Sandrut Nomads.
The referee saw his chance, and
geized it. “Now that the captains
have identified each other,” said he,
“we will proceed with the game.”
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1 Business Is Business.
} The Rev, Dr. Aked has always been
known to be very outspoken, and has
‘often been in trouble through ex
lpressing his opinions. Not very long
‘ago he shocked many people by de
claring that here was such a thing
as too much zeal in religious mat
iters.
| “Neither with the heathen nor with
our own people,” he said, “does it do
‘to advocate religion on mercenary
grounds. For instance, 1 know a man
‘ufacturer who last Easter told all his
Ihands that he would pay them if they
‘went to church. The hands all agreed,
and a fine show they made. The man
{ul’acturer, gcanning their ranks from
‘hiu pew, swelled with joy and pride.
But after the service one of the fore
‘men approached him. ‘Excuse me,
gir,” he said, ‘but the fellows want me
to ask you if they come to chur:ch
again to-night do théy get over
time? ™ . y e
The Mysteries of Science
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
' &' AN and the globe he lives
1 on seem both tg be going
the same way, toward a
similar end.
In the course of time the face
of the earth will become a vast
sand heap. Already immense re
gions ‘in Northern Africa and
Central Asia, where vegetation
once flourished and States and
cities arose, have been turned
into desiccated expanses of roli
ing, wind-driven sand. Unless
tremendous geological upheavals
should reshape the surface of the
planet, its atmospheric agencies
will eventually disintegrate the
rocks, wear away the mountains,
léevel] down the continents and fill
up the sea basins, while at the
game - time the oceans will dis
appear and little but subterra
nean water will remain. b ¢
That is the most logical expla
nation of what has overtaken the
planet Mars.
The moon, too, although the
wrecks of its gigantic mountains
yet remain, appears to have suf
fered a similar fate. ~ Everywhere
photography reveals underneath
its vast plains the submerged out
lines, like half-disinterred skel
etons, of its former topographi
cal features. If a great tempest
should strike the moon, its face
would disappear, swallowed up in
clouds of blowing sand.
A world lives as long as it pos
sesses sufficient variety, and dies
when uniformity stifles it under
the blanket of monotoncus same
ness.
Sand is the very type of unifor
mity and monotony. This mental
impression which sand makes is
emphasized by some recent ex
periments of Dr. Vaughan Cor
nish. In sifting desert sand he
found that no less than 94 per
cent of all it grains are retained
by a sieve of 1-48-inch mesh,
while only 2 per cent are caught
by a 1-24-inch mesh, and not
more than 4 per cent are small
enough to pass through a 1-96-
inch mesh.
The explanation lies in the long
and constant rubbing together of
the grains, which reduces all to
one pattern, and has no mercy
for individuality. The moral world
presents a striking similitude.
For centuries mankind. has been
slowly tending toward uniformi
ty. Conquests, trade and me
chanical invention are the winds
and waves which gradually tritu
rate humanity and reduce it all
to a single measure. In our time
this tendency has been enormous
ly accelerated by the advance of
science. Now all the civilized
world dresses alike, eats allke,
lives alike, looks alike and thinks
alike. It is becoming a vast heap
of human sand. Some persons
think that thls is the manifest
destiny of man, and rejoice over
it, and make a gospel of it.
It is intererting to look a lit
tle more closely into the effects of
upiformity as revealed by sand.
In doing so we may, perhaps, get
a more vivid impression of what
the gzospel of anti-individualism
means.
From time immemorial there
has been a myster'ous natural
phenomenon, manifested in all
parts of the world, which has ex
cited either abject superstition or
puzzled wonder, according to the
mental makeup of various ob
gervers. It is a phenomenon of
sound.. Along the seashore it is
called, sometimes the “Barisal
guns,” sometimes ‘“‘mistpoeffers,”
sometimes “brontidi,” according
to the varying languages of the
people on whose corasts its boom
ing is heard. In Egypt and other
sandy regions it is called “sing
ing,” or “vocal sands.”
This last term betrays the ex
planation of the mystery that
science has discovered. All these
strange sounds, even when they
appear to be altogether subterra
nean, as in the case of the “Moo
dus noises” in Connecticut, are
believed to be due to vibrating
sand, and they could not exist if
the sand were not composed of
grains of uniform size and shape.
It is the voice of a crowd, which
is powerful only because it is
multitudinous.
One of the clearest accounts of
this phenomenon with which | am
acquainted comes from a recent
tourist of rational mental habits
who observed it in Egypt. While
descending a slope of sand drift
ed against a cliff in the Nile Val
ley, his feet started a little rill of
sand flowing downward. Pres
ently a weird sound thrilled
through the air. Quickly it be
came magnified, although the
quantity of flowing sand was not
greatly augmented, until it
swelled into a veritable roar that
that seemed to issue from the
ground. Then a close inspection
showed that the entire mass of
sand resting upon the slope was
vibrating in unison. The puny
voice of each particie would have
been totally inaudible, but mil
lione of such voices, all united
and accordant, shook the air as
with the bellowing of some im
prisoned monster under the earth,
This implied, as Professor A,
Mallock has remarked in com
menting on the story, that each
grain of sand was “doing the
same thing, at the same time, to
a considerable depth,” which
could not have happened if they
had not all been of very nearly
the same magnitude.
The same explanation, it is be
lieved, applies to the mysterious
noises that many travelers have
wondered at in the neighborhood
of Mount Sina!, and which, for
some, have greatly increased the
guperstitious awe with which that
celebrited mountain is regarded,
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