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The Sick Baby; the Silent
Automobile—and
Manners
It It It
Sooner or Later We Will Develop a Public Spirit Which Will
Induce People to Behave as Mannerly in Public as They Do
in Their Own Homes.
A policeman stands on a street requesting all motor people
as they pass to make as little noise as possible because a baby is sick
in one of the houses and the noise or silence of the street may mean
life or death to the child.
It is an example of gentle civilization and, while unusual, illus
trates very well an extension of the principle that a city must now
do more than simply govern its people.
The question, however, must arise why should it he necessary
to warn anybody not. to make a nuisance of himself? There are
many sick children, and many sick grown-ups as well, in the homes
along the streets and boulevards; there are, in addition, thousands
of people to,whom unnecessary noise is a nervous torture.
The man who would not whistle in the street car or rattle his
cane along the garden fences, or do any other unseemly thing, will
whirl through the streets in an automobile rattling an open muffler
and taking a particular delight in seeing how many kinds of noises
he can get out of the machine. The sjked maniac is not Ihe only un
comfortable person in the automobile. The noise maniac, while he
may not be so dangerous, annoys an even greater number of people.
It ought not be necessary for the policeman to have to warn
automobilists to make as little noise as possible. The sick baby
should be protected by a code nf public courtesy as strict as a code
of private manners. We are reaching that stage of civilization, al
though onr progress towards the goal is mortal slow.
The railroad president or the head of a manufacturing company
is likely to be the.pink of politeness in his personal dealings with
his fellowmen. He rises when a woman enters the room he keeps
his hat off when he talks to her should he inadvertently jostle her
he is prompt 1n his apologies. The same man will fill her eyes with
cinders from one of bis smoke stacks —will smudge her face and
•oil her clothing and think it an outrageous persecution if the. city
attempts to compel him to use coal or mechanical appliances which,
will prevent his making an unmitigated nuisance of himself.
The particular man in the automobile may not deliberately set
out to splash mud over pedestrians—to scare timid women half to
death—to whizz, by them and startle them with raucous horns —he
would not deliberately wake up perfect strangers to tell them what
a good time he was having, but he whirls down silent streets in the
depth of night, giving as close an imitation as he can of an old sash
ioned Fourth of July celebration, out of pure excess *f spirit any
kind of spirits.
He is likely to regard the frightened jump of the startled wom
an and the exclamation of dismay at the splashed gown as a sort
of a grim joke.
The matter is not one to make those who are worried at the
decay of public manners despair. Sooner or later we will develop a
public spirit that will reach even those who go in automobiles.
When that time comes the man who is unmindful of the rights
of others will be regarded as severely as the man who now fails in
politeness to the woman of his acquaintance, or who otherwise gives
evidence that he has not learned the rudiments of decent manners.
Puny Man and the Giant
Tree
In a bulletin just issued, the government calls attention to the
giant sequoias, many of them more than 4,000 years old.
only are the sequoias the oldest living things, but the
tallest Within two parks there are thirteen groves containing
more than 12.000 trees, ten feet in diameter, some stretching into
the air for 300 feet.
We think the big pines of the Western coast old at 500 years,
but at that age the sequoia is in its babyhood.
.So wonder man looking at these giants feels his insignificance.
They had begun to grow when the Homeric epics were young. They
were still young when Caesar invaded Britain.
I hey serve to remind us that the seemingly endless glories of
Athens and Koine, of Carthage and Tyre, of Spain and Old Mexico
are nothing but flying leaves in the march of ages, since one tree
has outlived them all.
How to Manage a Man
Founded on the theory that man is unreasonable, and that
all men are more or less alike, a Los Angeles matron ventures to
show the ease with which the species may be managed, if one
adopts the right tactics.
Sue agrees with the old saying that “the way to a mans
heart is through his stomach.” This is her first rule. The second
is of equal importanceDo not ask him questions the moment
he steps into the house, especially as to where he has been or why
he didn't arrive sooner.”
Following the first rule, don't give your husband hot soup
|on hot nights, because the cook s in the habit of making it, and
* so on through the menu.
Phis subtle lady, while maintaining that non are cranks, be
lieies, nevertheless, that they are worth htunur"w
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The Atlanta Georgian
WHERE AHAB “DID EVIL”
Wonderful Discoveries in Samaria
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PICTURE No. t. on tho top at the left shows the forum, and after Ahab's Samaria liaxl become Herod's
Rate of ancient Samaria and how the Romans at- Sebasteia. No. +. on the bottom left, is a view of the
tered the angle of entrance. No. 2 on the rißht excavations from the top of the Roman steps, the his-
is believed to be the ruins of Ahab's palace, the earli- torical strata of the ruins of Samaria.* while No. 5
<st Hebrew remains found at Samaria. No. 3, the shows the altar, and in the right foreground a crate
targ’ picture in the center, is the colonnade that en- containing the trunk of a marble status of Caesar—
circled the brow of the hill from the gate to the the Roman steps at Samaria.
The Handicapped Wife
It. Isn’t Fat, Nor Wrinkles, Nor Age That Drives the Man Away From Home—lt's the Faculty
Wives Have to Bring Melancholy.
By DOROTHY DIX.
("t <>ME)DY never treads so hard
on the heels of tragedy as it
does in matrimony, and as
an example of It take this story:
\ woman writes me that she is
six years older than her husband,
and that she dyes her hair because
It is turning gray Before she was
married she confided the secret of
her age and her Titian locks to her
betrothed, and he magnanimously
declared that he didn't care; that if
she was ns old as the Witch of En
dor she would still be the only
woman in the wortfl to him, and
that as for her artificially tinted
locks he’d known all along what
they were, for anybody could tell a
block off that her hair was dyed.
Unfortunately, however, since
marriage, it appears that the hus
band has recanted these noble sen
timents. He has changed his point
of view on the age and dyed hair
question, and lie now twits his wife
about being older than he is, and
her false tresses, and she's very
miserable, and weeps barrels of
tears over it, and reproaches him
for treating her so unjustly. And
she wants to know what she had
better do.
Dry Your Eyes.
My advice to her is. first of ail, to
dry her eyes. Quit crying. Hus
bands are kittie cattle, and hard to
manage at best, hut it can never be
none by hydraulic pressure Before
a man is married, when he per
ceives a good-looking lady in dis
tress, he invites her to weep upon
the second button of his vest, but
after he is married to her he tells
her not to make a fool of herself
when he takes notice that she is
tuning up for a good cry.
You can t preserve domestic fe
licity by salting it down in brine,
and any woman makes the mistake
of her life who tries to do so. 'A
man who has worked hard all day
and who has been harried and
harassed by business cares, doesn't
want to come home at night to an
understudy of Niobe Ami further
more, he won't do It. and If you
will tak< notice you will see that
mo'-t of the neglect, l wives of your
inqii.ilntaio , ar, women with (eg
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FRIDAY. AUG EST 23, 1912.
wrinkles, nor age, nor gray hairs
in a wife that drives the average
man away from home to look for an
affinity. It's the faculty wives have
tor being melancholy and sur
rounding themselves with an aura
of gloom. It's the gayety of the
chorus, and not its pulchritude,
that attracts the average business
man. lon never hear oj a woman
\vli(* is jolly and easy going, and
whose laughter is hung on a hair
trigger, figuring in the divorce
courts.
TTierefore, sister, if you want
your husband tn forget your age,
and your dyed hair, and any other
little imperfections in appearance
that you may have, just cheer up,
and make yourself such a brigh*,
lively companion, and your home
such a joyous place to go to, tliat
he won't notice whether you are
16 or 60, or whether your waist is
IS inches or 30. it isn't your gray
hair that matters. It’s your gray
thoughts.
Try To Be Funny.
My next piece of advice, if your
husband twits you about your age, '
or any other peculiarity, is to sit
down and diagram his remarks,
and see if lie isn't only trying to be
funny and witty when you think lie
is being cruel. That's often the
case. There are plenty of men
whose whole supply of humor (-(in
sists in holding th( ir wives up to
ridicule.
Don't you know some man whose
pet dinner table s*ory is about some
foolish extravagance of his wife?
Or another who never gets his wife
out in company w ithout telling how
she signed a eheck, "Yours loving
ly'."' or another man who has
made up a perfectly Killing anec
dote about his wif,'s frantic anxie
ty about him when lie was two
hours mte getting home some eve
ning?
These stories don't in the least
indicate, as they seem to. that these
men consider their wives tools and
idiots, or wasters of money, or.
the contrary, the men admire their
wives very much ifnd wouldn't have
them ('hanged, and have no idea
that lli(‘ t v stall their wives In the
ln.nl (Very liin, they tiriki the
woman's w,; Iw ,uid mistake
I a subject ut iivii.qou-
Men's idea of humor is something
women never grasp. Perhaps none
of us has much of a sense of humor
when we are the butt of the joke,
but before a wife breaks her heart
over her husband's jeering at her
she should give him the benefit of
the doubt and realize tliat he Is
perhaps just trying to he witty
when he seems most unkind.
Finally, it is the part of wisdom
for the wife who has any sort of a
handicap to realize that it is up to
her to make an extra effort
to please it' she is tn succeed as a
wife In other words, if you are
short on one good quality, you must
bring up ;he average by an extra
supply of something else. It is a
great thing for a woman to be
young and beautiful if she wajits
to hold a man’s fancy, but it isn’t
every thing by any means.
Gains Experience.
It is one of the wonders of life
that it never quite robs us. It
always gives us something in place
of the thing that it takes away, and
when it steals away from a woman
her youth it bestows upon her ex
perience.
So tlie woman who is a few years
older than her husband should be
crafty enough to turn that disad
vantage to her own advantage. Un
less she is an utter goose, the years
should have given her tact, and
diplomacy, and self-control; and
they should have also taught her a
few things about men that no
young girl ever knows, and that
should square all accounts with
age.
Tlie old woman can not compete
with .the voting in physical attrac
tion. and she is foolish to pit the
rouge pot and tire hair dye bottle
against Nature's roses and gold,
but she can show a man a sympa
thy and a comprehension; she can
ply him with a delieatt flattery, she
can subordinate herself to him in a
way tliat plays upon his vanity and
his seitishtK ss to a degree tliat
grapples him to het with hooks of
steel.
Therefore. I bid the woman whose
husband twits het with her age not
to de pair, but to b, of cheer
Hl ( • up \(.d ,ak .. f vou> r.ge it
biv-Miuji nuivud ul u mis; rtune,
THE HOME PAPER
Garrett P. Serviss
Writes on
The Deepest Hole
in the Ocean
It Has Been Discovered
Near the Philippines and
Is More Than Six Miles
Deep.
Bv GARRETT
THE depths of the ocean have
a perpetual charm for the
. imagination, all the stronger
because, being invisible, they pos
sess an element of mystery. Who
has not shuddered on looking down
into the black water of some deep
‘pool of unknown depth? When the
bottom is SEEN it becomes less
terrible.
Almost every person making a
sea voyage for the first time asks
himself, if he'docs not ask some one
else, “How deep is this water under
us?" And usually he shivers at the
reply: “It is two miles or three
miles deep."
The height of a mountain does
not seem fearful, except to one who
stands on the top of it. But the
profundities of tlie ocean cow the
spirit througli the imagination.
The ancient navigators had no
means of measuring the depths of
the open sea. They sometimes
thought of it. especially those who
did not know the world was a
globe, as being bottomless. The su
perstition of a bottomless ocean
occasionally crops out even yet. On
my last voyage across the Atlantic
I met a man who actually cher
ished the belief that there were at
least some places where no bottom
exists!
Rut the real facts are imposing
enough. Recently the German ex
ploring ship Planet has found, a
short distance north of the, island
of Mindanao, in the Philippines, the
deepest spot yet discovered in any
ocean. It sinks about 31,842 feet,
or 162 feet more than six miles,
below the surface. Hitherto the
deepest place was believed to be
near the island of Guam, where a
few years ago a sounding line was
sent down to the dottom a depth of
31.619 feet. The newly discovered
abyss is 223 feet deeper.
Great Depths.
the deepest spot in the Atlantis
is a short distance north of Porto
Rico, where the bottom lies at a
depth of 27,965 feet. The average
depth of the Pacific is 13,448 feet,
and that of the Atlantic 12,660 feet.
There is a point on the steamer
lane, south of Newfoundland, where
the depth is 21.290 feet.
If we compare the greatest ocean
depths with the loftiest mountain
elevations we find that the sea car
ries off the palm. The highest
known mountain is Mount Everest
in the Himalayas, whose elevation
is 29,002 feet, according to trigo
nometrical surveys, made from a
distance of a hundred miles, for
even the foot of the great mountain
has not yet been reached. Adding
this to the depths of 31,842 feet,
just found in the Pacific, we have
60.844 feet, or a little over eleven
and a half miles, as the vertical
difference in elevation between the
loftiest point on land and the deep
est depression of the sea bottom.
If a man could drop from the top
of Mount Everest in a straight line
to the bottom of the Pacific near
Mindanao, he would, neglecting the
resistance of the air and the water,
fall the entire distance in a trifle
over ONE MINUTE. He would
strike the bottom with a velocity
of about 1,970 feet per second.
Let us consider for a moment the
conditions prevailing at those im
mense depths. The pressure of wa
ter increases directly as the depth.
At a depth of 31,842 feet the pres
sure would be nearly seven tons to
the square inch. Yet this immense
“The City of Dreadful
Night”
By H. E. H. *1
/A 1 n V (by day) of towers and streets;
■Cx A city of promise and fame;
A city of progress and business feats;
A city of mighty name. j,
A city (by night) of a million lamps;
A city with shameful blight;
A city of greed and murderous deed;
she City of Dreadful Night.”
A city (by day), of power and strength;
A city most fair io see;
A city enormous in breadth and length;
A city of dignity.
A eiti (by night i of thug and thief;
A eit.v of fear and fight;
A eiiv of graft, and cunning craft;
"The City of Dreadful Night.’’
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P. SERVISS.
pressure would not prevent any
body that readily stinks to the bot
tom of a glass of water from sink
ing to the bottom of the deepest
hole in the Pacific. This is due to
the fact that water Is almost ab
solutely Incompressible, «o that Its
relative density Is very slightly in
creased even at a depth of six
miles. If, then, any body Is denser
than water at the surface 1t will ba
denser also at the sea bottom, and
thus nothing will prevent It from
continuing to sink, as long as theirs
Is any water under it. Elven a piece
of cork, if once immersed deeply
enough to be greatly compressed by
the pressure of the water, would
inevitably sink to the bottom.
No Sunlight.
There is no sunlight In the ocean
at a depth beyond a few hundred
yards. The blackest of black
nights prevail there. The most
brilliant electric light could ba
seen but a short distance away.
Whether there is any life in the
deepest abysses we do not know,
but we do know that wonderful
creatures live at depths of many
thousands of feet, and possibly
there may be such inhabitants even
in the profoundest depressions.
The creatures of the ocean Mva
in a land of wonderful valleys,
plains, caves, mountain ranges and
peaks. The water is their atmos
. phere. Nature has not left them
without light, although she has de
prived them of the sunshine. Many
of them make their, own light. They
possess a chemistry far more cun
ning than ours. If we ever master
its secret there will be a revolu
tion in industry.
• Here is a legitimate field for the
Imagination. If we could drop
down into that abyss near the Phil
ippines, it is possible that as we
approached the bottom we should
look down upon a marvelous spec
tacle. We might think that we
were drawing near to some magical
city, illuminated with stationary
and moving lights, tmttattng the
soft splendor of millions of glow
worm and firefly candles. Over
the rocks and the red ooze would,
crawl creatures such a* neither
science nor fancy has ever drawn,
their long, pendulous bodies
adorned with rows of phosphores
cent lights, like the battle lan
terns of an old-time frigate. In
some the lights would be concen
trated about the head, surrounding
the huge eyes with circles of
strange incandescence and project
ing pale green rays into the encir
cling gloom. Wonderful shadows
would play through the passages of
that submarine city. Darting and
struggling forme would be seen—
for the creatures of the ocean, no
less than those of the land, are
subject to the law that life must
feed upon life, and they are as mer
ciless as anything that lives in the
sunlight. We might see, issuing
from cavernous holes, cteatures a
glimpse of which would make us
turn and hasten away upward,
where they could not follow.
These, to be sure, are fancies,
but they are not unwarranted, by
" the discoveries that biologists have
already made in the ocean deeps.
The fact is, we are too fond of
setting limits to what nature can
do. We should meditate on what
the great French mathemattetan
and. physicist, Henri Poincare—
who died the other day—said.: "The
human mind is only a lightning
flash; but that flash is all we
have.”
