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Tale of Tales.
Everybody knows that doggy uses his
to say, “I’m glad,"
And that tabby, near the doggy, uses
hers to say, “I'm mad.”
Strange to say. the monkey uses his to
While help him climb a tree,
the peacock seems to have his just
to show his vanity.
Squirrels hopping through the tree tops
have theirs simply for a show:
Fishes in the purling brooklet need theirs
just to make them go.
Brlndle also has one. and It serves to
Bobby keep the dies away;
put one on his kite to make It fly
the other day.
Scores of animals possess them, from a
lion to a mouse—
Or a heaver, strange to say, who uses
his to build a house.
Still, ’tls puzzling; look at bunny; his Is
very, verv small;
Then consider why a bullfrog hasn’t any
tall at ail.
So it scorns Almost a riddle, little girlie,
little man,
Why these tails are all so different—guess
and tell u# If you nan.
—Brooklyn Eagle.
No Police in Heaven.
Sfnait Isabel’s particular friend, the
policeman on the beat, contracted
pneumonia and died. Isabel was
greatly grieved until her mother con¬
vinced her that he had gone to heav¬
en. Even then she was not quite rec¬
onciled. “If heaven is such a good
place," remarked the little skeptic,
#• I don’t see what God wants policemen
there for!”—New York Press.
Bed-Time.
“Papa, what does yoo fink is des’
the besteat, nicest ling in t|is work?”
l< Why pet, that’s easy. I think a
little, dimpled-cheeked girl about two
years old, with eyes just like her ma¬
ma’s, a lot of long towsley curls that
won’t stay up, dressed in a long pink
striped night-gown tied at throat and
wrists with blue ribbon, climbing up
onto her papa’s lap, getting her two
fat arms around his neck and kissing
one cheek, then the other cheek, then
a good long kiss, then the other cheek,
then a good long kiss, then cuddling
down In his arms to sleep; that’s the
nicest thing in the world.”
“Oh, papa! I des bTeve yoo means
me—don’ yoo?”—London S. S. Times.
«« Slow and Soggy. If
“Slow, was 1?” lazily echoed the
careless small boy who had been sent
an hour earlier to the nearby grocery.
“Oh, well, slow but sure, you know!”
‘Sure! ’ repeated the exasperat¬
ed cook, as she took out her pan of
biscuits; “it’s not slow and sure you
are; it's just slow and powerfully sog
Sf
“Sogginesa” is indeed indicated by
the half-hearted, good-naturedly, in¬
different movements of many people
whom theiir friends excuse as “slow
bat sure,” with a doubtful emphasis
sometimes, it must be owned, on the
“sure.” The old phrase is a sop to
one’s vanity. Nobody cares to be
called plain “slow,” but the qualifica¬
tion of being “sure” quiets the con¬
science and allows one to continue in
that lazy easy-goingness that makes
soch hard going for one’s acquaint¬
ances.
It tires me to see that fellow
work!” was often said of one slow
moving young man who never could
understand why he lost so many jobs.
He was thorough, and he was quick
enough at his books, but when it came
to his muscles he had a habit of “sog
gxness'’ that was simply a wasteful
habit, and could have been corrected
if he had ever roused himself to make
the effort and count the price of min¬
utes.
“Slow, but spirited,” makes a rea¬
sonable motto for the naturally slow
person who would be glad to over¬
come his slowness. Enthusiasm and
■hearty interest in details of work can
be cultivated and tend far away from
“sogginess.” But the “soggy” boy
will never rise to be the successful
man.—The Wellspring.
When Gunda Dances.
When Gunda. the big Indian ele¬
phant at Bronx Park, isn’t busy
munching carrots or attending to his
duties at the receiving teller’s win¬
dow of his personally conducted bank,
he generally will be found swinging
bis gigantic frame easily backward
and forward with a rolling, rhythmic
movement strongly suggestive of
dancing. Keeper “Baldy” Thuman, at
any rate, declares it’s dancing, and he
ought to know, for no human being
knows the big chap and his ways as
well as he does.
Among the visitors yesterday to the
antelope house, where Gunda is mas
ing his happy home pending the com¬
pletion of his own palatial mansion a
quarter of a mile further north, were
a pretty young school teacher and her
class of a score of little girls. Gunda
was just as glad to see them as they
i were to see him, and the big fellow
bad the -time of his life while the oea-
nuts las (led. After he had passed
about a dozen quarts of the tooth¬
some gbooers down into his capacious
interior and had collected all the pen¬
nies in sight and added them to hi3
store, seeing nothing further coming
his way and feeling entirely satisfied
with the world in general and himself
in particular, he began to swing for¬
ward and backward on his toes with
his wonted grace and ease.
“O-o-oo-oh!” shouted ail the little
girls and the pretty teacher in uni¬
son, “he’s doing ‘The Merry Widow
Waltz! » f»
“You’re all right, old boy,” whisper¬
ed Keeper Thuman into Gunda’s ear
after the encore, “gim-me a soul kiss. >»
Gunda responded by laying the end of
his trunk lovingly against his keeper’3
cheek.—New York Telegram.
Sadie’s Flower Picnic.
Sadie’s aunt said to her one morn¬
ing: “Do you want to have a picnic
on the lawn, girlie? If so, we’ll spread
the cloth on the grass and have some
goodies to eat. And we’ll invite Grace
and Tom Moore over to enjoy the pic¬
nic with you.”
“Oh, that’ll be heaps of fun,” cried
Sadie gayly, tossing dollie aside and
clapping her hands. Sadie loved a
picnic better than any other sort of
luncheon or tea. To have her food
spread on a cloth on the grass be¬
neath a great shade tree was such
genuine pleasure.
“Well, while I spread the cloth and
prepare the sandwiches and deviled
eggs, you run over and invite Grace
and Tom to come to the picnic,” said
Auntie. “And after the picnic, we’ll
all have stories, Tom and Grace and
Sadie each telling one. Won’t that
be fun?”
• i Oh, yes, yes! declared Sadie,
jumping up and running to her room
for her hat. “I’ll go at once and in
vite Grace and Tom to my picnic. Pm
so glad that Grace and Tom live so
close to us. They are the only neigh
bors within a mile; and I couldn’t go
a mile any day to invite friends to a
morning picnic on the lawn, could I,
auntie?”
“No, indeed,” agreed auntie. “It’s
very nice to have Grace and Tom for
such close neighbors.
But fifteen minutes later Sadie
came leisurely homeward from Grace
and Tom’s house, her face full of dis
appointment. “They’re gone to town
with their mamma,” she told auntie
in doleful tones. ‘‘And now I can’t
have a picnic at all, for it isn’t a pic
nic with just your dollie and your
auntie and yourself, is it?”
“Well, we’ll have to invite other
guests,” promised auntie. “Let me |
see! How’d you like to give a flower i
picnic. Suppose we invite several '
pretty flowers. Wouldn’t you enjoy ! !
that, dearie?”
• • A flower picnic? Oh, wouldn’t it !
be great fun!” And Sadie was ail ex- !
citement and enthusiasm over the !
idea. “What flowers will we invite?”
she asked of her aunt.
“Well,'I’ll go into the garden and
invite the guests,” said auntie. So
she hurried to the big flower garden,
in the ,, rear of , the , house, ' and , pretty '
soon returned , , with ... an armful . of , fresh- .
ly , plucked . , . a flowers.
“Now, Miss Sadie, allow me to an
nounce Miss Rose.” And Auntie plac
ed beside the white cioth-on which
the dainty repast was now spread—a
fine, long-stemmed rose. “And next
I announce Miss Marigold and Miss
Pink. And here is Mr. Sunflower, and
with him Master Zenia and his cou¬
sin, Master Petunia. And now we
present little Miss Pansy. You see,
a fine company have come to attend
your picnic.”
Sadie was delighted, What fun to |
play the flowers were real people, and
to have them sitting around the cloth,
partaking of picnic luncheon as her
guests! Wouldn’t Grace and Tom be
sorry to have missed this party,
though? But just at this minute, as
Sadie was playing the gracious hos¬
tess to her beautiful guests, all seat¬
ed about her, she heard a call that
sounded most familiar. “Grace’s
voice,” she said to auntie. Then she
and auntie looked toward the Moores’
house and saw Gracie coming at a run
toward the picnic ground. “Oh, Sadie,
cook told me and Tom to come over
to your house, that you were at my
house to invite us while we were
away with mamma. So here we are!
Are we in time for the picnic spread?”
And up came Grace, all out of breath,
to be followed within a few seconds
by Tom, whose face was smeared with
jam and bread crumbs.
“Oh, you’re just in time to be intro¬
duced to my party of guests,” said
Sadie, presenting Grace formally to
each of the flowers. ‘‘You see, we’re
having a flower picnic—auntie and I
are. And you can be the guest of
honor and may sit at the head of the
table beside Mr. Sunflower.”
“Where am I to sit?” asked Tom.
looking about the cloth.
“Well, you’ll have to wash your
face," said Sadie. “And then you may
sit next Miss Rose. She’s such a
beauty that a boy with jam on his
face would shock her. So run, wash
your face, then come to the picnic. ff
And thd flower picnic was the jol
liest affair that .the children ever had.
—Washington Star.' ' d
• J $:r.
! KEEPING THE GUESTS FROM SUMMER CAMP.
Feed Them Salt Beef, Salt Fish, and Hardtack, end They Won’t Come
Again — It’s Cruel, But Effective—Eat Good Food Yourself
On the Sly ar.d Lei Them Sleep cn the Bare Ground.
New Yorkers who spend their vaca
tlon under canvas in one of the many
tent settlements within a short ride
of the city have had many complica¬
tions to overcome. The chief of these
is trying to entertain friends who in¬
sist upon visiting the campers. No
sooner is the camper installed in nis
tent by seashore or river than his
city friends begin to hint that they
would enjoy a week-end out of doors.
The way the city friends figure it
out is this: “Living in a tent is cheap.
We should certainly be no extra ex¬
pense to -the camper and he should
be glad to see his friends and put
them up for the night. We don’t mind
roughing it a fait, and he knows it.”
If the first hint fails to bring an
invitation there are more hints and
then some more. Finally the camper
comes up with the invitation, He
knows that it will! disrupt th«* daily
routine of tent life,, the quiet life he
has chosen to recuperate from the
grind of business, but there is no
way out of it, he thinks.
But there is one way out of iJ and
that way has been discovered and
put into practice by one of the camp¬
ers now in the city of tents on Long
Island not far from the Rockawav
Park Station. John Engier is one- of
j j th e campers there. He loves the tent
Ufe and ha3 been a camper every
summer for many years
“it j a an expensive luxury, this Hv
i n g in a tent, i 1 said Mr. Engier, the
other day. i t It costs more to live down
here than it does in the city. One’s
friends who have never camped out
do not know this. They think it is a
cheap way to spend the summer, and
they do not think they are asking
much to be put up in the tent over
Saturday and Sunday. Well, it’s all
right, this entertaining business, once
in a while. But when you have a lot
of friends the bills run up to large
figures. Food is high down here. Then,
too, one does not care to have a lot
visitors taking up all the room in
the tent. When we corne down here
we expect to rest. You can’t, do that
and keep open tent to your friends,
P ut up with M for several sum
raers - This season I decided to put a
it. ftop We to the visiting. living And I have done
are in peace fbr one
summer - And the only reason I am
going to tell how the visits were stop
ped to other tampers who have
^xpotienced 1 * know the same that thing my friends know how will
e ang! ^ "hen they see this. But I
am ma lng myself a martyr in a good
ca us< / 80 here Soes:
, ‘.‘ We had ^ een here less than mweek
ia ^ e£U w len v | re got the first bid to
a Wf ' e ' end party of three
f S ,^ . 0 consi ered that we ought
. , ffturday
up and: Sunday.
e ^ D °’ tola them when the
? s ia be g5ad t0
have R , V’ t0 P Ut ” P
with wirn bard nar d rare f and hard a bods. a We ., r are
living noe next to nature out here, and , w e
hov^n’t naven t any nnv of o the i* lhxuries • ,V that eifcy
jj fe g j Ves >
« * 0 h! we don’t mind that bR’
a ‘If’ re¬
plied t he enthusiastic friends you
can stand lt al] s;jmmer we ean £tand
it f or a couple of, days, and will be
gi ad to.
So the three friends were booked
to arrive the next Saturday morning.
My wife and I ! Hustled around to the
supply store and laid in a stock of
salt fish. We also- got some saltpeter
and gave the fish an extra salting
down. Then we. get som^eorned beef
and gave that an extra salting. We al¬
so bought some hardtack.
*< Our friends arrived according to
schedule. We had a breakfast prepared
—salt fish and salt, beef and hardtack.
The three visitors ate with a show
of relish. Then they went out for a
dip in the ocean. My wife and I got
out some real breakfast and ate it.
Then we joined our friends on the
beach.
n For dinner we had salt fish, salt
beef, and hardtack. The guests did not
eat, so heartily. After dinner they went
out and my wife and 1 got some real
food on the sly. For supper the guests
were also served with salt fish, salt
beef, and hardtack. My wife and I
made excuses for the scant fare and
told the guests that we had adopted
that diet on our‘physician’s order, as
we were not very well. The guests
ate scarcely any of the salt food at
supper, and afterward they went out,
and 1 suspect they made straight for
a hotel and had a square meal.
“When bedtime came we. showed
the three guests to their sleeping
places. We had rigged up an annex in
the rear and had scooped out three
hollows in the sand, with a little pile
of sand at the end of each.
| “ ‘Here are your beds,’ I told the
visitors. ‘You will find it all right here
s on the sand. We haven t enough mat
I tresses to spare. You will sleep a.l
i right, for you don’t mind roughing it,
I know.’
“We left them there. I don’t imagine
they slept much. Next morning for
breakfast we. served salt meat, salt
fish, and hardtack. The three guests
inked at each other askaace.j Just
fore dinner they came in from tlie
beach and told me they had
to go back to town. I hey were not
feeling very well, they said, and did
not W»„, to fall 111 down tare .w,
from a doctor.
“Of course my wife and I expressed
our disappointment at this, and inquir¬
ed if the food had anything to do with
it.
“ ‘Oh, no, not at all/ the guests has¬
tened to say.
“They left on the next train and
ray wife and I hugged each other. The
visitors went back to town and spread
the news that my wife and I were
starving ourselves to death on a salt
meat diet. So I think most of (he old
time visitors of other years must have
heard it, for since that visit we have
had lao more bids for week-end en
tertainments . . . , and , we are ,_____. heartily glad .
of it. For the first summer we have
been here we are really enjoying our
selves selves without without fear real of or interruption mierrup .
New York Times.
TO OXYGENIZE ATHLETES.
Plan of Pirof. Leonard Hill, F. R. S...
To Break All World’s Sporting
Records.
Leonard Hill, F. R. Sv, Professor of
Physiology at the London Hospital,
is of opinion that by the use of oxygen
it will be possible to breaks, the world’s
athletic records and to improve sports
in general. The remarkable tests
whicli , . . , he has far „ conducted , . , have
so
been in connection with runners, and
he gives instances where two run
ners after duci breathing uicaumiB oxvgen & for two
’
or three minutes respectively, each
best his previous record.
Mr. Hill, in. co-operation with his*
demonstrator, Mr. Flack, has been*
for the past twelve months engaged in*
research work into the cause of hard,
breathing, and, speaking on. the sub¬
ject of liis experiments,. he.- said thatr.
the reason why aman cannot.hold his
breath is that he uses up the oxygen
that is in his lilood and tissues and.
goes on producing carbonic acid. The
want of oxygen and the excess of
carbonic acid excite the breathing
centre in the brrdn and fores the man.
to take his breath, The effect of ai
want of oxygen can be staved off for ai
much longer period by breathing pure
oxygen. He found he couM hold his-.
breath three times as long- as usual
fay taking three breaths of oxygen,
whereas Dr. Vernon of Oxford has*
just succeeded in holding his breathi
for eight and a. half minutes.
At the London Hospital Sports, Mrr
Hill and Mr. Flack gave oxygen ton
some of the runners immediately af¬
ter the races and the men’s distress
was greatly relieved thereby. For: the
three-mile race them were only- two •
competitors, hath of whom were given,
oxygen before, the start; One man was
out of training and gave up; the-other
man confessed that he had never, nun:
the first lap with suclli comfort.
Next, Mr. Hill. got. a. first-class- atln
lete to run fDr him,, in the person, of.
T. H. Just, and obtained other, mm
ners to., co-operata.. “Mr. Holding,”
he said, “started, off. with an unpaced
quarter of a milfe. after breathing
oxygen, for two* minutes. His time-was
50:20 seconds. Mr. Just paced! him.
only for the last 15b; yards. Mr,. Holdr¬
ing told ms that. in. the trials for the
Olympic games he- had been unable
to do a quarter iiu less than. 52. sec
onds,. and that his previous best wae
51.20 seconds. The' onlookers declared;
that he was not nsore distressed: than
if he had run 100 yards. With, this Mr.
Holding agreed.. Noticeably absent was
the: stiffness o£ the muscles and. greg
giness in the legs which follaw. a. great
running exertion.”
Mr. Hill is now trying to. get a
world’s record' breaker to, rim for
him, as he fe. convinced fihat remark
able results; will be obtained b,y the
use of oxygen. Its use, he believes,
ean only cia good to the athlete, while
:t relieveSs gr * at dlstres * su ^ as was
seen in tlce- case of Dor#ncfcx If Doran
do had been given oxygen on the last
mile or two of his run Mr. Hill be
lieves he would have won easily.
sarse l jrocess would certainly
app in }^ that to direction race horses wifi and shortly experiments be ar
ranged.
She Was Satisfied.
I Mrs. Maloney was before the judge,
i charged with assault on Policeman
Casey. She had been unusually atten
| t j ve . throughout the proceedings, and
aow the judge was summing up the
| ev i d ence. “The evidence shows, Mrs
Maloney,” he began, “that you threw
a stone at Policeman Casey.” “it
>dl0WS m0 re than that, ye-r honor,” in
, !errup ted Mrs. Maloney; “it shows
'• that Qi hit ffi !”_The Argonaut
m
i Rides in Rush Hours.
“Would you give up your seat to
a woman in a car? ’
. “How do I know? Never had a sea/
yet myself.' Philadelphia Eiedgeir,
CAN A WOSSAN LOVE TWO
MED AT THE SAME TIME ,
Love them both Everett equally, but in a difijrcr* uTv»
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Explicit Information Wanted.
An American, while visiting King¬
ston, Gaui,. recently saw. flames is¬
suing from a house he chanced te
tbe passing, at noontime. Rushing
round the:- corner, he burst into a
fire engine station; shouting “Fire!”'
At his entrance and. cry an old
man, the only occupant off the station,
! who sat reading a newspaper, slow¬
ly rose, carefully deposited his paper
on the chair and! hobbled over to a
desk, OK* which, was. a large book.
“Now,” said lie, taking up a pencil
and opening this volume, while the
American, stared Itk; amazement.
“Wot’s ’the street and' number?”
I don’t know, but' it'S just around
the comer.
“Weii, you'd’ better go back and
find' out the number,”' advised the
old man, shutting the book. “When
the boys git' back f trrm dinner and
bear there’s a fire, tileyTl be pretty
anxious to know just where it 1 e!”
Death By Lightning.
The Supreme Deity in the Greek
and Roman’ religions, Zeus of Jupiter,
was supposed* to be the manipulator 1
of the lightning; .amd the person
struck down by one of the fiery holts
was especially distinguished, inas¬
much as he had’ been felled directly
by the King of the Gods. The dig¬
nity' of the killer- was reflected u-pon
the killed'. In addition to ifflis, the
opinion was quite universal that the’
bodies of those struck by lightning
were ill corr uptible,—T he Ame rican.
ASTONISH1C© THE DOCTOR
! Old Lady Got Well With, Change of
Food.
j scientist has said 1 we can
A. great
put aft “old 1 aige” if we can only aour
ish the body properly. food,
To, do this the right kind of
off course, is necessary. The- body
manufactures poisons to the stomac
certain kinds ot ^
amd! intestines from
food stuffs and unless sufficient of the
tight kind is used, the Injurious d 6 *
ments overcome the good. ol „
My grandmother, ?1 years ,
writes N. Y. lady, had been an m
a was
1 valid for 18 years, from what stomae
called consumption of the
j and bowels, Tho doctor had give 11
her up to die.
“1 much about Grape-, u
saw so O
* j that I persuaded grandmother anything to °
, lt. She could not keep min
her stomach for more than a few
utes.
“Shw began Grape-Nuts with on
teaspoonful. As that did retain not d^ tr ® .
her and as she could
took a little more until she cou’•
all of four teaspoonfuls at a mea '
“Then she began to gain and gr
strong and her trouble in the stomacn
gone entirely, She got to * nJojr
was and * e
good health for one so old,
know Grape-Nuts saved her Hie.
“The doctor was astonished - “
1 Instead of dying she got we... »
without a drop of medicine e’s &
began the Grape-Nuts.” 1
Reason. »»
Name given by Postum Co Battle
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