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You Live on a Wheel With
a Pneumatic Fire
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Did That Ever Occur to You?
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Did you ever n itic* 1 iio-v we take the big things for granted
—and make a great fuss over th** little, freakish things?
Men studied ECLIPSES ■>;’ tin buii and moon LONG BE
FORE THEY BEGAN TO THINK ABOUT THE DAILY RIS
ING AND SETTING OE THE Sl’','.
They took for granted the marvellous truths of the universe
and worried over the little eccentricities of natural phenomena.
If th".*’ I id studied the sun’s apparent movements as they stu
died ’h« eojipses. hey might have discovered much earlier lhat
thr is round- THEY might have dared to go outside
Gil raJtar s Straits, or “The Pillar- of Hercules." with no fear of
falling oft’ the earth's edge, anil they might have discovered
America earlier and wound up the trust phase of life centuries
hack.
Wc have all marvelled at the ingenious pneumatic tire which
upholds us on our bicycle or runs over us on some one else's auto
mobile. The hall bearing axle and the tire of air make us think
and scratch our heads and say. “How wonderful is man!”
What about the big hall of earth you live on?
Did if ever occur to you that the earth runs on an air tire
also, turning round and round on its spiral spin through ever
lasting spare with the ether for ball bearings.’
HOW is the air a pneumatic lire for the earth, do you ask?
It IS that, absolutely. And. besides keeping us alive, that
tire of air saves us and our planet many millions of bumps that
would make life here impossible.
Have yon ain idea how many hundreds of millions of me
teors have struck this earth?
Do you know that we are bombarded by meteors every dav,
as the lire nf 4i flying automobile is bombarded with pebbles? Do
you know that the tail of a eonu t hit us and swiped us. at least
once
Ihe meteors flying masses of rock. iron, copper and other
metals vary in size from small pebble sized dust to stone pro
jectiles Ihe size of a house.
Once in a great while a big one comes through the air with
out being entirely melted and hits.
Without our pneumatic tire. THE AIR. these meteors would
smash down < ■ our earth's surface constantly, slaughtering ns.
wiping out nations at certain times of year when we pass through
millions of meteors in our journey around the sun.
But the dangerous meteor. Hying with speed incredible,
comes in contact with our atmosphere AND IS MELTED. In
spite of the tenuity of our atmospheric air. the friction at sinh
speed suffices io melt the projectiles lhat bombard us. so that
they fall to tb.e earth in harmless, disintegrated dust and do ns
no harm.
Constantly the lust of disintegrated meteors falls upon the
surface of the earth, every year it raises the bottom of the ocean
just so much. And if we last long enough, it will till up the
ocean so that, like the Martians, we shall have to dig canals to
hold the ocean’s waters and prevent their covering the earth
two miles deep all over and driving us to death or a houseboat
civilization.
Does it interest yon to think of these things out of which
not a cent can be made? Do yon like the notion that we little
human creatures simply live inside of a pneumatic tire, breath
ing Ihe air in the tire, and traveling through the immensities of
space shielded by lhat tire from the rough spots in our celestial
journey, and digging our food out of the rim of the wheel on
which we travel?
II is funny Io think of us little creatures adrft in the ocean
of space. We set up onr little machines on this great driving
wheel that carries ns. We struggle with one another, have our
comic tights for newspaper supremacy, political supremacy. tinan
ei.ii supremacy. We kill one another in ipiarrels as to the nature
of the I’ower that rules us. and we row londl,\ when we achieve
some trivial Utile success
There are miserobes in the dusty air ins de the tire of a big
automobile.
If we could hear their talk they would seem to us as funny
as we seem to the big spirits that look - into the ear'h's big air
tire to watch our struggles and listen to our boasting.
Alimony and High Cost of
Living
Not only has the price of food risen to such a degree that the
poor housekeeper is complaining from <>i nd of the land to the
other, but also the price ot wife desertion las gone up
in< hicago and in Baltimore many cases have been presented to
the courts by wives who have felt the pressure of the high cost of
k living asking 'or more libera] allowances, and in nearh all of them
F harmd jurist s have agreed
So perhaps, (he high cost of living mat accomplish some good
: 11 • 1,1 ■ aki ni! hi is band* eon tint to remain a' liotm
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There was an Old Man who said, “How
Shall I flee from this horrible Cow?
I will sit on this stile and continue to smile,
"Which may soften the heart of that Cow.’’
From Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense.
BASEBALL AS A HOME PACIELER
\ WOMAN —the woman who
owns the St. Louis Cardinals
has a new cure for the di
vorce exit. Ft is for women to talk
baseball to their hustyinds of an
evening instead of telling them
about how much meat has gone up,
and how bad the children have
been and that the cook is going to
leave. *
She says that the recipe for a
happy home Is for the wife to be
come a fan. and that no man would
desire to wander away from his
own tineside if his wife would hold
him in sweet discourse about ma
jor leagues and minor leagues, and
batting averages, and other thrill
ing dope of the diamond.
To a degree the lady baseball
magnate Is right. Nothing holds
people so much as a mutual in
terest. This is why so many hus
bands and wives are harmonious in
, rlv years of their married
ife. while they are struggling and
saving, and toiling together to get
a start in the world, but who drift
apart as soon as they get married,
and are no longer absorbed in a
common aim
As long as a woman is doing the
cooking and washing, and patching
h< r husband's trousers to help him
pav for a partnership In a little
business, or to buy their first home,
you never hear of her thinking that
she is misunderstood and not ap
. r .'hired. nor does he discover that
she isn't Ills real soul mate. They
are interested In each other be
cause they have a mutual Interest.
Why We Lead.
Undoubtedly one of the reasons
why America leads the world in
divorce is because men and women
in this country touch life at so
few points together. In reality, we
are still provincial, and tend to
ward the Quaker meeting house
state of society, with the men sit
ting on on. side of the house and
the women herded on the other.
Men and women have few inter
ne's In common, anti after the
mate hunting season with both is
past, each sex segregates to itself.
Exit pt with the very young and
the perennially flirtatious, men pre
fer to talk to men, ami women to
women and mixed conversation Is
m v< t so animated or so Interesting
as the heart-to-heart talks that
women carry on at their hen par
ties and men indulge In nt their
clubs
This 'a. k of a mutual interest Is
even mou noth cable in the family
circle th. n It l» tn society. Only
too often the husband Ilves one life
and th" wife another and the Ilf.
The Great Political Show
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1912.
Bv HERSH El ELD.
By DOROTHY DIX.
’of each is a terra incognito that
the other does not even try to ex-
I plore. The husband is absorbed in
j his business. He thinks in the
terms of business and speaks the
language of commerce. ,f he were
to try to talk to his wife about
DOROTHY DIX
puts, and calls, and bull, and bear
markets, and the technicalities of
bls business, she would not under
stand.
The wife, on her part, is absorbed
in fashion and society, subjects
which bore her husband stiff, and
if she were to try to talk to him
about the topics uppermost in her
mind she would be speaking Greek
to him.
So the man goes his wax. and
the woman goes hers, each chiefly
interested tn something the other
cares nothing for, ami this is why
most husbands and wives yawn in
each other's faces, for they have
literally nothing to talk about un
less they quarrel over tile children
or the bills.
H.'iiei the Introduction f base
bull or any other mutual Interest
tp o th> ilmmsft. arena would be a
godsend and II would indeed g
*f happy hour in which hubby took
’he same joy in rushing home to
describe one of Matty's curves to
wifey as he does in standing with
one foot on the brass rail and tell
ing it ail Io the barkeep. It is also
pleasant to think of wifey holding
husband spellbound of an evening
while she recounts to him the va
rious plays of the game she saw,
and that he couldn't get off to see.
Nobody will deny that tile mar
riage tie would be strengthened if
; husband ami wife had a mutual
fad, and took their pleasures to
gether instead of singly. Nor is
there any arguing the question that
the deadly dull conversation that
prevails in the home would be en
livened by having a topic in which
both husband and wife were inter
ested, and if baseball will do this,
heaven speed the day xvii-n every
woman will be a rooter for the na
tional game.
Hut why should women always
be told to interest themselves in the
subjects that interest their Ims-
I bands, while nobody ever advises a
man to try to take any real heart
interest in the subjects that in
terest his wifi'? Isn't it just as
much up to a man to try to enter
tain his wife as it is to her to try
to make herself agreeable to him?
. Why Should She?
Why should a woman discuss
baseball with her hutband rather
than be discuss the new' fall styles
with her? Surely what :s sauce
for the goose is sauce for the gan
der. As a general thing wives do
try to read up and post up on any
subject they think their husbands
like to talk about, but who ever
heard of a husband who v oitld take
tlie trouble to try to find out the
latest news from Paris, or who '>v< r
thought of devoting, in hoqr to a
discussion with his wife of whether
panniers are really coming in, and
[ the short sleeves going out'’
in business and sport men are
wont to deride the feminine opin
ion on the ground of its being ig
norant. yet nothing surpasses the
colossal ignorance of a man on the
topics dear to a woman, and who
can have his wife ask him for forty'
years if her hat is on straight with
out ever knowing whether it is or
not.
There should be reciprocity in
these matters, ami if women were to
interest themselves in sports in or
der to be abb' to entertain their
husbands, men should brush up <
little on the topic.- that l:*ten good
to their wives. Turn about is fair
play
THE HOME PAPER
Hearst’s Congratulations
v**>
Sent to Sulzer and Glynn
New York Now in the Lead
Mr. Hearst Predicts That Wilson Will Carry
I wo-1 birds ot All the States and That Sulzer
ar.d Glynn Will Hut New York at
Head of Democratic States.
The following cable messages were receivt 1 from W. R. Hearst, who Is
in London, William Sulzt-r and Mariin <jlynn:
“Yom- Progressive Priiu-i-des Have Endured fruin
the Beginning. ’’
Tn William Sulzer. New Y .i 1 -':
1 am delighted beyond r.ieoure .it your nomination. I shall place eyprv
force I control at your disposal and s ial: labor with heartfelt enthusiasni fur
your election.
Your long record of wise and loyal service deserves the fullest recog
nition from the people, and, furf'.ter-nore. ins,lies to "the people an able. .-
ficient and progressive s'tate administration.
You and Mr. Glynn should be elected by the unanimous indorsement of
the progn ssive voters of New York for your progressive principles h;m
endured from the b. ginning-, have of'qn been tested and have always pruv- d
genuine. WILLJAM RANDOLPH HEARST.
“I Am Hastening Home to Wmk for Wilson and
Aiar hall, Sulzer and Glynn. ’’
To Martin Glynn, Albany:
Your nomination gives me not: only the gri itest personal pleasure, hut
the highest civic satisfaction. Your splendid as comptroller was a
delight to your friends,-a credit to your id" ami a vindication of the policies
of the Into pendence-League and of true Demociacy.
I have long looked forward to th-’ day when tb.e Democracy of New
York would lead the nation in the adoption of pNsr< . uve principles and
the nomination of progi-sstve caniildati s. That da-.' is now at hand, and I
am hastening home to work for Wilson and Marshall and Sulze> and Glynn.
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST.
I
Garrett P. Seryiss
Writes on
The Bird Man ’ s
Highest Flight
Garros in His Aeroplane Mounted
Higher Than the Loftiest
Mountain in Europe.
By GARRETT P. SERVLSS.
ON the Sth of September, flic -
ros, tlie French aviator, in
his Bleriot monoplane, soar
ed to tin elei 1,900 n
that is, about 16.072 feet, or 396
feet higher than the summit of
Munt Blanc, the giant of the Alp.-.
This is 232 feet more than three
miles straight above sea level.
Long before he had reached his
high. s. point he had disappeared
cornpb tely f’om view of those
watching from below, like a bird
swallowed from sight in the blue
immensity. He avers that he could
i;i-ily bave gone higher but for a
failure of his motor.
A Long Plunge,
In ascending curves he wound
upward, Piking one hour and five
minutes to attain the vast eleva
tion that marked th? summit of his
fb 'lit. His retu: a was almost a
plunge earthwa d. occupying only
fifteen minutes. His vertical de
scent must have been made at the
rate of more than I.OOu feet a min
ute. but the actual speed was far
greater than that, since, as in as
cending. he wound downward in
curves and long ■w ■ ps. Yet. he
landed without a- -ie- nt.
If he had fall'-n from a height of
16,000 feet he would, neglecting the
retarding effect of the air, have
leached the eartii in about .01 sec
onds. and would have struck it with
a velocity a trilli abose 1,000 feet
per second.
Yet. hit ’esci-nt resefnhled a fall
to the eyes of the startled specta
tors. But at no time did lie lose
control of his apparatus, or of his
nerves.
The highrst previous ascent of
an aeroplane was achieved by the
Ac. : "ian, ’ 'la.- elite, in 1911. \\ iio
attained .hi •'evation <>f Lil'bi me
ters, or about 1:1.972 feet HARRY
ING A P'.SSENGER. It I’appensf
that I ■ v-' is e-u st .■x. i i't ‘ / the
height of Pike's Peak.
At ~m ■ - ai!■ m 'f mil’ s
above sea level th<ya tnc sphe. e be
comes relatively very thin. The
pressure sinks to about one-half,
and tile prop, rtinn of oxygen is no
tieeably diminished so that breath
ing beeom's more difficult. Garros
avoided all trouble fioni th s source
by car ying "it!’ biin a. . . atus for
siipp’.. g oxygen, as : mm fre
quently done by the climbers of
high mountains
A Useful Feat. t
<if cou’-s. performance- like
those vs G.-iri g and Bli.sehtc are
lip’ • f.-its but th ■ at- useful as
showing the i-ire of the u-roptan.
to attain heights « :ach
Mr ■'*' w*
iB -A?
Shsi
•* j
*■* "ation. On**
have said that the mere diminu
tion of the weight of the air wouM
havt prevented'the effective opera
tion of ’lie driving apparatus, espf
rfially since tile ability of these ma
chines m soar depends upon
support which they derive from ■
air. The secret is in speed. A
skater can shoot safely over mi i
it"' that vvo'uld break beneath him if
ile went slowly.
-Man Inis-now shown that, by me
chanical means, without 'he aid f
the asoensi<m:il force of hydrogen
gas ineiosto in a ba’lloon, iie can far
surpass tl.e loftiest flight of the
birds. No eagle ventures so high,
and perhaps no other feather'd
creature, with the possible excep
tion of the great condor of the An
dos. ever .-it'nins an eleva'ion f
three miler, I’on.ider how rapidly
tiiis power of human flight has
been attained. It seemed nut yes-,
terday when the Wright brotrnrs
wei e astonishing thousands of
trifled spectators by •heir eir< tlkT
flights a few yards above tile - ’ii.
and now mon sail securely aw ax up
in th' b.ue. beyond the utmost
reach of watching eyes, surpass
ing the summits of mountains ""it
seem to support the don: ■ of :he
heavens on their broad b.i'l-.-''
Serves to Give Confidence.
Xnoiher effect of th<*so
lofty flying is that they tv :o
give confidence to those who have
no ambition to mount so
achievements of i> Napoleon in-pi;' 1
many a genera! who is
that ho possesses none of the -
llius of tlie great conqueror, ami
the inimitable wink of Slink'
lireallies something of its p"” ■ '
into the mind of the humb' r
writer
It has always been so in oxw
human advance. I’irst come
daring spirits which disregard
obstacles and laugh nt all d.tn-' "■
and after them follow those xvh" ■ •>
pand the novel powers that in"
■on given to man on a more < n
monly useful level. The adm'r’-
tioh and wonder that Caries ■
excited will result in drawing i’
tlie field of aviation many r
who, without seeking to riva’
feat, w ill perhaps more usefully
velop the new art of flying "
w hi' b Lord Kelx in. the
si lentitic authority living at ’
glnnihg of the twentieth c-nri"'- •
declared to be beyond hum
achievement Would that h"
have lived a few years lone',
read in bis morning pope"
man had flown, with min" 1
wing", higb.-r than Mont Hum' ■