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WITH HEAD TO THE NORTH
Reasons Why That Position in Sleep
ing May Be Beneficial, Especially
to Those in Poor Health
In answering a subscriber’s ques
tion as to why one should sleep with
one’s head to the north, Dr. Robert
T. Morris in St. Nicholas says:
"Electric currents run north and
south, through the earth. An object
is said to be in a state of better elec
tric rest is its long axis is in line
with the earth’s electric currents. It
is my impression that the custom of
sleeping with the head to the north
was adopted before anything was
known about these currents. If that
is the case, I take it to mean that
certain persons are so readily af
fected by these influences that they
find themselves disturbed if they try
to sleep with the short axis of the
body in line with them.
"I have purposely made the exper
iment and have asked friends to
make it when we were in camp.
None of us noted any connection be
tween our sleep and our position in
regard to points of the compass. We
were strong and well, however. It
might be quite different with inva
lids.
"The volume of these terrestrial
currents is not commonly appreci
ated. Drive any iron rod into the
ground at right angles to the plane
of the earth’s surface and it at once
becomes a magnet.”
GETTING OUT INTO NATURE
Pathetically Brief Time In Which Man
Should Prepare for Life
Hereafter.
It is not all loss to be driven back
to the soil, remarks the Univerealist
Leader. It is not all gain to be even
an Adams in New England. The
burden of respectability is great.
Family traits and traditions are
sometimes stifling to originality. I
Some people are little more than
copy plates of their forbears. There
is some comfort in venturing forth
upon the friendly road for a joust
with nature in a colored shirt with
out fearing the rebuke or frown of
some eminently straitlaced critic of
our vulgar ways. There is something
humorous in the remembrance of the
friend who is always genial in the
club, but never secs us when in blue
jeans we are sweeping the gutter or
digging in the garden. There is a
pathetic side to the existence of those
who do not think they are really
alive unless collar and cuffs are prop
erly adjusted. Naked we came into
the world. Naked we will go out
of it. During the little time that
we linger between these two door
ways to the infinite perhaps we shall
be wise to cultivate a little more of
the robustness which will enable us
to live in that great out of doors
which is certain to be our eternal
abiding place.
LATEST KITCHEN.
The sanitary and most satisfactory
kitchen has glazed tile walls and the
ceiling is sheathed with pressed sheet
iron painted white. The range has
lioods over it to carry off the odors
and heat and to make the room cool
and comfortable. The floor is of
~cork tile or of cement, with strips of
matting laid upon it—these can be
easily taken up. A drain in the cen
ter carries off the water from the
floor after washing.
PIG IN A “POKE.*
1 Poke is an older form of the word
pouch or bag. The Celtic word was
' "poc” or "poca,” whence also is our
"'word pocket. We have just been in
formed that "the word has come once
more to the surface in the speech of
Alaskan prospectors, where poke is
=■ commonly used in designation of the
'buckskin pouch in which their tak
ings of gold are carried.”
FULLY EXPLAINED. ,
Mrs. Bacon —What’s the matter
with Tommie’s face and hands?
They are badly swollen.
Mrs. Egbert —You see, they of
fered a prize at his school for the
boy who would bring in the greatest
number’ of dead wasps and Tommie
won. „
ENERGETIC PROCESS.
"I shrink from studying this
question. How can I ever come to
a conclusion?”
“Go to it!”
ITS MERIT.
"There is one thing which is really
magical about a cellarette.”
"So many men use it when they
are out of spirits.”
13 NO LONGER AN ORACLE
People Have Ceased to Look Upon the
Dictionary as an Authority That
Is Infallible.
The dictionary is ceasing, gradu
ally, but surely, to be an oracle. Its
position as such was never quite se
cure. Even when Samuel Johnson
first essayed to set the standard of
English usage he had to encounter
both scoffers and Scotsmen; the
scoffers organized, the Scotsmen
triumphed. So that step by step,
pushed forward by the omnivorous
industry of German scholarship and
lured onward by commercial compe
tition, the dictionary, unlike the pro
verbial rolling stone, has gathered
much moss by rolling—down hill!
To cite from the dictionary is now
proof,, not of the correctness of a
word or idiom or pronunciation, but
merely of its existence.
A century of encyclopedists has
accomplished this. When Diderot
began his work his aim was to sys
tematize knowledge parallel with a
given philosophy of things; today
the encyclopedist takes, with Bacon,
"all knowledge for his province.”
The dictionary has followed closely
behind. The gain, after all, is ours.
Standards are now set, and disputed,
in a separate place assigned to them;
the dictionary gives us the whole
wealth of words from which to draw
at will. It would seem that the prin
ciple of inclusiveness could scarcely
be carried beyond the position
reached today, unless to include the
necessary popular formations that
must continue as long as the lan
guage lives.
HIS SCHEME
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First Actor—l wish 1 had some
money.
Second Actor—What would you
do—pay your board bill?
First Actor—No; so I’d have
enough money to move.
GIVE LIVES TO GOOD CAUSE.
A school is located in a little
building erected by the missionaries
in an Eskimo settlement on one of
the Aleutian islands. The nearest
land is Siberia, over forty miles
away. It is a bleak place. During
the summer the temperature is sel
dom above fifty degrees, and more
often around thirty. A few wild
flowers appear in August, but most
of the year the island is an icy waste.
Forbidding as the place is, the two
teachers say that the eagerness for
light on the part of the pupils makes
up for the loneliness and privation.
Sometimes it is exceedingly difficult
to keep warm in the little school
schoolhouse in midwinter and there
are no luxuries.
FORGETFUL HUSBANDS. |
Mr. Bacon—l see there was a,
heavy falling off in the number off
postcards sent to this country from*
Berlin last year.
Mrs. Bacon—Evidently the hus-J
.bands over there are just as careless >
as they are over here when it comes
to dispatching their wives’ mail.
JUST LIKE THEM.
Yeast—You say they live together!
like cats and dogs.
Crimsonbeak—Yes; they seem to
live on “scraps.”
THEIR PLAN.
“Why did the suffragists go to
Washington for their convention?”
“I guess they thought it would be
a capital idea for congress.”
NATURAL WAY.
• “It certainly does cost a city a lot
to keep the streets clean in winter.”
“Os course it does: cold cash nat
urally goes into banks of snow.”
ITS NAME.
“Pop, I want to know something.”
“What is it, my son ?”
“Is an aviary a place for the bird
men ?”
CANDIDATE FOR HERO MEDAL
Long-Suffering Pittsburgher Braved
Woman's Rage and Scorn ..i Putting
a Stop to Nuisance.
Maddened by the tickling of his
nose, the jabbing of his cheeks and
the menace to his eyesight from a
paint brush ornament which reached
from the hat of a woman occupying
the seat in front of him, a desperate
man on an Avalon car took the mat
ter of censoring the styles of wom
en’s hats into his own hands—or
rather into his mouth, for he grabbed
with his teeth the brush on the end
of the long, bare stick which was
supposed to ornament the hat and
held it fast till the end of his jour
ney.
The wearer of the hat was power
less to turn around and see the mean
man who thus had interfered with
the time-honored privilege of wom
an. She squirmed and twisted, but
the relentless man still held her
feather in his clenched teeth, while
everyone else on the car enjoyed her
discomfiture. When at last the man
left the car the glance she gave him
was one of mingled grief, scorn and
mortification. —Pittsburgh Dispatch.
MAKES FOR PERFECT DISPLAY
New Idea in Show Windows Seems to
Be the Thing Merchants Have
Long Been Seeking.
A show window which renders ob
jects on display as clearly visible as
though there were no glass at all has
recently been installed in one of the
big New York department stores,
says Popular Mechanics Magazine in
an illustrated article. The new
"shadow-box” window eliminates all
reflection and thus avoids the com
mon and annoying fault in the or
dinary display window which reflects
sky, buildings, street traffic, etc.,
more brilliantly than it displays the
merchandise the store offers for sale.
The new type of window, which is
patented is divided into an upper
and lower light, the latter extending
to a height well above the head of a
very tall person, and each glass is
curved inward. The curve, which
has been determined after careful
study of optical laws, diverts the rays
of light from the street, downward
or upward at an angle at which the
diverted light rays strike a black
plate which absorbs them.
GERMAN WOMAN WINS HONOR.
Unusual honors have been won by
Fraulein Rachel Hirsch, who is the
first woman physician in Germany to
acquire the coveted title of professor.
Fraulein Hirsch, for the past five
years, has been the chief assistant of
Professor Kraus, and has conducted
a polyclinic for both men and women
patients of the university medical
clinic of the Berlin Charity hospital.
Fraulein Prof. Dr. Hirsch, which
will henceforth be her full title, has
not only been active in hospital serv
ice, but has also done superior re
search work in the fever and bacteri
ological fields, also in connection
with diabetes and kindred diseases.
SHOT PROWLING BEAR.
Mary Smith, a brave girl, of Glen
spey, N. Y., will have a fine bearskin
coat made from a bear of her own
killing. Bruin had been stealing
corn from her father’s corn field for
some time and she vowed that she
would get him. So, armed with a
rifle and an electric flash light, she
lay in wait for him at night. When
he appeared on the scene she flashed
the light on him, and taking careful
aim she fired and the robber dropped
dead. And yet if you read in books
of fiction about girls doing such
things you would say they couldn’t
be so.
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SARCASTIC.
"I can give you any number of
' five-room apartments with all the
modern improvements.”
“How suite of you!”
EQUIVOCAL.
“Did it cost you much to have the
kitchen range fixed?”
"Well, I may say we were under
grate expense.”
A TRUE CASE.
"The convict failed to effect his
escape because he forgot to hide his
file from the keeper.”
“What criminal carelessness!”
A FASHION HINT.
“How are automobile caps to be
worn this season?”
"I believe on the side at all head
on meetings.”
DOLL IS OLDEST HUMAN TOY
Plaything of Children Mentioned in the
Earliest Historical Records
of Antiquity.
The era of reform has reached the
doll, than which we can conceive
of no better or longer established
institution. Dolls were known in
ancient Egypt and Asia Minor; the
children of Greece and Rome re
joiced in them. The nine-year-old
wife of Mahomet is said to have in
duced her prophet-spouse to join
her in play with a favorite doll. The
natives of Africa have long cherished
them. Cortez found Montezuma and
his court amusing themselves with
elaborate dolls and the Indians of
North America and the Eskimo of
Alaska are credited with having pos
sessed this toy from times unknown.
The modern doll of civilization
has undergone an interesting evolu
tion, both as to material and con
struction ; but it is only recently that
we have witnessed the passing of the
expressionless face of waxen beauty
and the appearance of what the ad
vertisements call “character dolls.”
Now we have dolls that are quizzi
cal, dolls that are impertinent. This
age-old and universal toy is being
humanized. The caricaturist is at
work on it, and there is nothing in
art more human than the caricature.
Even the hands, that so long had
but one attitude, are now being made
to convey a hint of mood or a sug
gestion of animation. It is an in
teresting development of possible
psychological significance. Study it
for yourself in the toy department.
OF COURSE NOT
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First Critic —She’ll never make s
success in grand opera.
Second Critic —Why not?
First Critic—You can understand
every word she sings.
STRANGE MONUMENT TO WIFE.
Projecting from the wall of a
house overhanging the lake of Thun,
in Switzerland, may be seen the bow
of a small rowing boat, with the
name Petronella painted upon it.
The wife of the owner of the house
was drowned from this boat while
rowing on the lake. Her husband
determined, as a memorial to his
wife, to build the boat into his house.
The room destined to contain it,
however, proved too short for the
whole length of the boat, and the
bow projects from the wall, just be
neath the balcony. The house is
close by one of the steamboat piers,
and the unaccountable appearance of
this strange memorial excites much
curiosity among the passengers on
the steamers.
GETTING BEFORE THE PUBLIC.
"That rude person had the assur
ance to say that they never read
your books,” said the admirer.
"I shall speak to the publisher
about it,” replied the author, com
placently. "He will insist on adver
tising my works in the literary col
umns instead of on the sporting
page”
CRUEL ONE.
<f What’s the most unusual sight
you ever saw?”
“A co-ed on the street without a
man.”—Wisconsin Sphinx.
SURE THING.
Marcella—Percival blushes every
time he opens his watch.
Waverly—l’ll bet there is a wom
an in the case.
ITS WEIGHT.
“Cholly told me yesterday that he
had something on his mind.”
"I know; I saw him put it on. It’s
hair dye.”
THE LOCALITY.
"Are the suffragists going to call
on the president en masse ?”
"No; they’re going to call on him
ba the White House.”
{23,317 Postmasters Appointed by-
Burleson.
Washington, May 11. —Postmaster
General Burleson today pointed with
pride to the fact that since he be
came the head of the postal estab
lishment fourteen months ago he
had appointed 23.317 postmasters,
5,171 of whom were of the presiden
tial grade and 18,146 of JtheJJfourth
class. /There were at the beginning
of the present year in the United
States and its possessions 8.610 pres
idential postoffices and 48,930 fourth
class offices, a grand total of 57.540.
They Didn't Know Him.
Tn a certain home missionary
movement every participant was to
contribute a dollar that she had
earned herself by hard work. The
night of the collection of the dollars
came, and various aud droll were
the stories of earning the money.
One woman had shampooed hair,
another had made doughnuts, while
another had secured newspaper sub
scriptions, and so on.
The chairman turned to a hand
ome woman in the front row.
"Now, madam, it is your turn,”
he said. "How did you earn your
dollar?”
“I got it from my husband,” she
answered.
“Oh!” she said. “From your
husband? There was no hard work
about that.”
The woman smiled faintly.
“You don’t know my husband,”
she said.
What He Left.
Residing in a little village is a law
yer who is famous for drawing wills,
in which branch of business he has
long enjoyed a monopoly of the coun
try for miles around.’
A few’ months since a wealthy man
died. There was much speculation
as to the value of the property, and
the town gossip set about to find out
the facts. He hunted upthe lawyer,
and after a few preliminary remarks
about the decased, he said rather
buntly:
“I suppose you made Brown’s
will?”
“Yes.”
“Then you probably know how
much he left. Would you mind tell
ing me?”
“Not at all,” the lawyer answered,
as he resumed his writing. “He left
everything he had.”
Indigestion? Can’t Eat?
No Appetite?
A treatment of Electric Bitters
increases your appetite; stops indi
gestion; you can eat everything. A
real spring tonic for liver, kidney
and stomach troubles. Cleanses
your whole system and you feel fine.
Electric Bitters did more for Mr. T.
D. Peeble’s stomach troubles than
any medicine he ever tried. Get a
bottle today. 50c. and SI.OO at your
Druggist
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for Eczema
Standing By the Butcher.
“How is it,” inquired a young
bride of an older married friend,
“that you always manage to have
such delicious beef?”
“It’s very simple,” said the older
woman. “I first select a good, honest
butcher, and then I stand by him."
“You mean that you give him all
of your trade?”
“No; I mean that I stand by him
while he is cutting rhe meat."
Keep Bowel Movement
Regular.
Dr. King’s New Life Pills keep
stomach, liver and kidneys in healthy
condition. Rid the body of poisons
and waste. Improve your complex
ion by flushingthe liver and kidneys.
“I got more relief from one box of
Dr. King’s New Life Pills than any
medicine I ever tried,” says C. E.
Hatfield, of Chicago, 111. 25c. at
your Druggist.
Identifying Himself.
One of the guests at a wedding,
seeing a dismal-looking young man
who appeared to be on terms ol «
familiarity with the principals,
asked:
“Are you related to the bride or
to the bridegroom elect?'
1 “No,” was the gloomy reply.
“Then,” said the guest, “what in- I
terest have you in the ceremony .
“Well,” replied the young man.
“I am the defeated candidate.
A TEXAS WONDER.
The Texas Wonder cures kidney
and bladder troubles, removing
gravel, cures diabetes, weak and
'ame backs, rheumatism and all
irregularities of the kidneys ami
bladder in both men and women.
Regulates bladder troubles in child,
ren. If not sold by your druggist.
’ will be sent by mail on receipt of SI.OO
1 One small bottle is two months treat
ment, and seldom fails to perfect a
cure. Send tor testimonals from this
and other states. Dr. E. W. Hall.
2926 Olive street. St Louis. Mo
Sold by dru 'gist.
Uneeda Biscuit
A crisp, clean, nutri
tious food. For
everybody—
where. Fresn in Trie
moisture-proo? pack
age, 5 cents.
Zu Zu
The funny little name
of the famous little
ginger snap that puts
fresh “snap” and
“ginger” into jaded
appetites. 5 cents.
Graham Crackers
The natural sweet
ness and nutriment
of the wheat are re
tained, giving them
a delightful flavor.,
xo cents.
Buy biscuit baked by
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better still, obtain a bottle from your druggist.
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