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Nc- Thiads NotTbiind id Any Book. r. If ‘PURE FOOD', Why Not Have ‘PURE SHOES’ THAT pure shoes are nearly as important as pure food sounds a bit unreasonable at first, but when it Is known that the majority of people sutler both from crippled feet and a flattened pocket nook as a result of "improper shoes," made in out landish and impossible models, one can understand the importance of pure shoes. Down in Louisiana the law-makers have taken up most important point in this matter by passing a law which demands that all manufacturers, merchants and salesmen selling shoes in that State must brand each shoe before the sale in plain English just what the shoe is composed of. It is well known that the shoes of to-day, although costing twice and three times as much as they did some years ago, are made of much poorer quality 'eather, and they are also made up with cardboard soles, heels and other parts. In fact, papier mache, thin bits of wood, leather board, straw-board, leatheroid, fibre-board, horn, fibre, Making CLOTHES Out of STONES. STICKS and METALS E XCEfPT in the days “when knighthood was in flower” man has always worn garments made from vegetable and anima) matter, and the armor of olden days could not really be classed as garments, as it was merely worn over the clothing for protection In battle. But to-day inventors are < beginning to turn out splendid samples of Cloth made from quartz, limestone, iron and ether minerals. For a long time men have been wearing iron collars, although they didn’t know It. i Tailors use an “Iron cloth,'* which is literally correct, as It Is made from steel, which comes from Iron, as every one knows. The steel is made Into a fine woolly mass and spun into Cloth and this cloth is used to make the col lars of men's coats stay in place without sagging or wrinkling. But in Russia entire suits are made from a fiber of a filamentous stone, that is, a stone that can be stripped into a floss-like sub stance, like asbestos- It is in reality a form of asbestos. The cloth is woven from these shredded filaments of stone and dyed various colors. It wears like iron and wben it Is dirty the suit is tossed into the fire, not to be de stroyed, but to be cleaned. “Purged as by fire" has, then, become a literal happening. This cloth comes from the fire clean and un injured. It is practically impossible to wear out such cloth. An Austrian has succeeded In making cloth of spun glass that has the sheen and the pliability of silk. A great deal has been Why WOMEN Are MORE HARD-HEARTED Than MEN ’OMEN,” declared Lord Selborne. "are harder-hearted than men.” To this statement many noted “W psychiatrists and other students of human nature have heartily agreed, and they also agree tn declaring this is because men are naturally more emotional than women. It is only by centuries of constant training and hard lighting that men have acquired the power of suppressing their emotions as well as they do. Man's natural desire is to burett into tears with far greater frequency than} ..oman. and it has been solemnly averred; ■hat man's natural place is the home. This, declare those who have made a study < of it. has nothing whatever to de with tuiy( question of equal suffrage Hut the fact re-( mains that women are less emotional than' men. that they can face a crisis better than ■ men, ’hat they possess more native presence, of mind and consequently should be bread winners. i The old-established belief that women are : more emotional than men is a fallacy; men' are still more inclined to shriek and become hysterical during exciting and trying times' than are women. It is a mistaken idea that, woman loses her head in trying times, in, •motional crises, sudden emergencies, sud den illness or real danger, for at just such times as these is it that woman really shines.' It is the mother who will assist in a dan ' gerous operation on her children, while the, father weakens and cannot bear the sight of This is because man is more emotional and also more tender-hearted than woman. in many things man lacks the natural in ' stinctive presence of mind which woman' possesses If the truth were actually told., the majority of men would confess that their emotions are more susceptible, more easily moved, than those of their wives Men's coolness and apparent nonchalance on ex citing occasions Is only surface deep. In wardly he is trembling with nervousness and ■•niotional tear In the days of executions, legal and by religious and political fanatics, ft has always been the men who collapsed at How Louisiana Has Led the Way with a NEW LAW COMPELLING HONEST SHOES pate and many other substitutes are constantly used in the manufacture of shoes. Naturally they do not wear as well as leather, whatever may be said to the con trary by manufacturers, who are just awakening to what this Louisiana law means. Another evil, and probably the greatest of them all, is the manner In which shoe leather is tanned to-day. in the old days the leather was tanned by the natural process, which took a great deal of time, but when the work was done the leather was pliable and maintained all its strength and durability. It would outwear half a dozen similar pieces of modern tanned leather. This is due to the present day greed for wealth and the mad haste to accumulate it. In other words, leather manufacturers cannot wait for the hides to be tanned in the old-' ishioned way, and which can probably never be improt <!; Instead of this they use acids and chemi cals whlci apldly ‘‘tan” the leather, giving it various degrees <. (liability and various shades and tints, but at tli time this chemical method takes all of the vitality or "wearability” out of the leather, causing it to crack easily. Modern shoes for the most part are made of this chemically tanned leather. In addition some of these above-named substitutes are put in the soles, heels and other places about the shoe, because they are so much cheaper than even the cheap, unenduring, chemically prepared leather. In this manner the public has been paying more and more for its shoes every year, and at the same time has been getting shoes of a poorer and poorer quality. The result has been rapid and increased profits for the shoe manufacturers and dealers and a constant increasing drain upon the purse of the wearer It is claimed that we pay 1600,000,000 a year for written about the lost art of making glass pliable. This inventor claims to have done this and a member of royalty in Austria has worn a purple dress made entirely of the spun glass. Paper "cloth” is not new. We have long worn paper vests and such garments, and during the Russo-Japanese war the Jap sol < Tiers wore paper clothing, finding it much j warmer than the other sort. But manufac turers are going even further now, making' bath robes of a sort of blotting paper that are almost as strong as cloth from wool or cotton and these garments have the added advan tage of absorbing all the moisture as soon as one steps from the bath. Gloves are also being made from paper in England which are said to be as durable as the kid gloves and also possess the quality of cleaning much more readily. An English manufacturer has taken old ropes and cordage and by a secret method woven it into a most durable and not unattractive cloth or fabric. A large trade for this so-called rope-cloth has grown up, especially in the British colonies. Woolen clothing made from stones Instead of sheep’s covering Is being manufactur'd extensively, and the remarkable thing shout this mineral wool is that it comes from lime stone. One would think that at least a fibrous stone would be needed, while limestone is of a granular nature. But the limestone is powdered and mixed with chemicals, the secret of the inventor, and thrown into a great furnace when the limestone is blown out of the furnace into fluffy wool. the last moment and the women who went to j their death unflinchingly. In time of great J danger the majority of women appears self- \ possessed, calm and alert. > This, the experts declare, is because ? woman is less emotional than man and that I she is less emotional because she is harder- ■ hearted than man. She does not feel so deep- \ ly as a man. nor is she so susceptible to the ) influence of other people ’ Why Cheap ENAMEL WARE May Be DANGEROUS less a personage than Emperor Will iam of Germany has condemned the use of the ordinary cheap enamel ware N" in tin household, especially for cooking, ami the versatile ruler of the Teutons apparently has excellent grounds for this, because scien tists have discovered that particles of the enamel chip oft’, get into the food, then into the intestines, and cause gangrene, appendici tis and other troubles that, frequently prove fatal. I'he Italian Government health department was probably first to recognize th'.- danger, but Kaiser William also promptly -aw the ■anger, md lie supports these Italian scien tists and health officials and has made publiv in his country the declaration that such enam eled ware is dangerous. Ami the Empeior makes this announcement In spite of the fact that nearly all. or at least a great portion, of our enameled ware is made in Germany. It has lung been anown that enameled wave was more or less undesirable, and some few have believed it dangerous, but not until scientists discovered the exact dangers was It known just how dangerous it was. Enamel ware, even the very best, wifi hip, and the poorer quality chips easily. It Aw - ® w WRONG RIGHT MODEL MODEL SHOE. ADOPTED SHOE. BY WAR DEFT [TIIW W w AJr/ XEAY OF FOOT X RAY OF WAY THE CRIPPLED BY Foot RESTS IN WRONG THE NEW ARMY model, Shoe YOU MIGHT TRY- In Case of Fire. HOUSEKEEPERS who use oil lamps, alcohol stoves or can | dishes should always keep a sand box handy. Never throw i water on burning oil or alcohol, as it only serves to spread the flames. Throw a handful of sand where the flame is the thickest, and ; iu nine cases out of ten it will suffice to extinguish the blaze. In the . tenth case throw on two handfuls. Popping Corn. PUT two heaping tablespoonfuls of lard in a roaster and let it. get hot, then put one and one-half cups of popcorn in and the cover' on securely and shake it about on the top of the range in which is a very hot fire. When it stops popping the roaster will be full. This 1 is a great saving of time, as one can pop so much more at one time than J in an ordinary corn-popper. Ammonia for Plants. AMMONIA water applications are good for plants that do not seem to thrive. Soapy water is also good for the soil about plants. Saving Scrubbing Brushes. SCRUBBING brushes after use should be put away with the bristles downwards. If turned the other way, the water soaks into the * wood of the brush, and the bristles are apt to become loose in consequence. The Creaking Door. RUB the edges of the door that creaks with a little soap. This, with the addition of a few drops of oil on the hinges will remedy the nuisance. Grease From Silk. REMOVE grease from silk with a piece of magnesia rubbed wet over the spot. Let it dry, brush off the powder and the grease spot will have disappeared. French chalk is also used, but it is used dry and brushed oil after twenty-four hours. DID you ever notice, when riding through a tun nel, especially a submarine tunnel, a queer sen sation in your ears? If you have not, either the tunnel was a most remarkable one, or the drums of your ears are either remarkable or destroyed, for every normal person who takes such a ride feels a peculiar and somewhat unpleasant pressure upon the ear drums. This is caused by a change in the air pressure, and the snore sudden the pressure, the greater is the dis agreeable sensation in the ears. If you do not make many tunnel trips you have little cause to worry, but ( wfC , —S Cf L 1 K 3 / / I / / 31 Emperor Will’am Has Discovered the Dangers in Using Cheap Enamel Ware. Why Riding in TUNNELS Hurts Your EARS iootwear. Most of us believe these shoes to be made of good leather, but the same authority that brought about the passage of this remarkable and most laud able law in Louisiana claims that between 80 and 90 per cent of the shoes we buy are made up of chem ically prepared leather and foreign substitutes such as previously described. Right away the justice of this new law in Louisiana may be understood. For soon one may soon go into a store In that State, pick out a pair of shoes, turn them over and find stamped on the bottom “Not all leather, substituted material in heels and soles,” and many other such things, dependent upon how the shoes are made. In this way the purchaser at least has the com fort of knowing that he is buying an inferior quality. If shoes are found to be different from the way they are stamped there is an extremely heavy penalty at tached, including a fine of not more than $250 or sixty days’ imprisonment. The shoe manufacturers have become alarmed over this law, which goes into effect July, 1913, and are making a great agitation against it. The representative of one big shoe manufacturing concern declares that some portions of the heels should not be made of solid leather in even a high-priced shoe, but that this law will compel them to stamp “Not solid leather" on the th °This argument is not good logic. If all shoes really need some foreign filler in the heels, then every pair shoes need not be stamped "Not solid leather,” but "heel not solid leather." The public will then very soon . that all shoes are made with foreign substitutes il d Uie heel, and that If the shoe is all pure leather otherwise, it is a thoroughly good shoe. • U For a long time the War Department of the United if you make from fourteen to twenty-eight trips a week through such tunnels, you had better make a few sim ple experiments to learn what ill effects this sudden ange in air pressure is Having upon your ear drums. Ah < very one knows, the drums of the cars are ex reme y sensitive. It is said that even the slightest a sH-t “ aiF preEßUre is felt almost instantly, although Hokinn, P re ssure is not uncomfortable, and so people what the^eeHng^ rCaUy Bt ° P tO rGaUZO jUBt blocking of the ears is well understood by the , may be that by chipping it becomes unclean , ■■ ”1 affords :•< v■ < lor in- . but the real danger Is of getting the sharp , h.tie particles of the enamel, which are like 1 flakes of glass, into the stomach and intestines. I A number of Italian pathologists, at the re- ) quest of tile Health Department, made a spe- j cial study of the conditions of the intestines J at all post-mortem examinations and dis- < ered that in several the caecum, which is a j pouch or cavity open only at one end. eon- I tained several particles, while in three the actual cause of a gangrenous appendicitis that ' had caused death was found to be a piece of ( enamel of this character. It was upon their > reports that the Italian Government drafted ( and Is considering n law requiring the destruc- \ tion of all chipped enamelled cooking utensils. ( This measure, as a sanitary regulation, has > been adopted by four Italian cities, and tue ) sentiment is spreading. « I The porcelain-lined kitchen utensil is re- I warded as much more desirable, or as Kaiser \ William pointed out in a recent visit to a new i ly opened home for children, nickel is still be. ter. Nickel cannot be readily chipped by a careless over-busy wortter at the kitchen sink, and is fully as cleanly, although it has not the sama spotless effect. How the DOCTORS of BIBLE TIMES Worked THE first mention of physicians in the Bible is when Joseph commands "His servants the physicians to embalm his father” (Gen. 1,2), showing that it was the duty of the physician in Egypt not only to heal the living, but also to give the last care to the body by embalming it. That the He brews had regular physicians who were paid for tending their patients is shown by the law in Exodus, xxi, 19, making it incumbent upon any one who had injured a person to “cause him to be thoroughly healed.” It was natural that the early physicians were called upon chiefly to heal outward wounds, but later they practised healing of every kind. It is notable also that the early physicians were associated with or belonged to the priesthood, and that even the prophets practised the healing art. Isaiah is using a metaphor which must have been easily understood when hb says. "From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. (Is. I, 6.) Ezekiel shows that they knew how to care for a fractured arm, for he says: “I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, and lo! it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong.’ 1 (Ez. xxx, 21.) The proof that the physicians also treated inward diseases lies in such passages as: “And Asa was diseased in his feet, untii bis disease was very great; yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord but to the physicians.’’ (2 Chron. xvi, 12.) . States has known that its shoes are not the right thing for our soldiers. Army statistics show that at least thirty p • cent of foot trouble in the army is due to improperly made and "modeled shoes. This conclusion hasn’t been jumped at by any means. Experts have been experimenting for four years, and one of their greatest of aids have been the X-rays, which have shown how the bones of the foot are im properly squeezed together by wrong models. Foot trouble has been the bane of armies since sol diers left off wearing sandals in the days of the Roman and bound their feet with hides. So startling was the report of the experts, and so impressive, • that it has been accepted by Secretary of War Stimson and a modern shoe adopted. As soon as the supply of old-style shoes now on hand is ex hausted the new shoe will come into universal use among all United States military forces. Comparison between X-ray photographs of the posi tion of the bones in the naked foot of a soldier standing with his 40-pound marching equipment on his back and those of the bones in the foot of the same soldier in cased in the regular army shoe disclosed the fact that the shoe was causing great displacement of the bones of the foot. Examination of the feet of thousands of soldiers showed that through the wearing of improper shoes for many years the position of the bones of the feet, in a majority of cases, had become permanently abnormal, thus leading of course to improper balance of the weight 1 of the body, improper walking and tending to produce > all sorts of sores and growths on the feet. And what is happening to the feet of our soldiers is happening to the feet of millions of American then and I women! The effect of music was understood even in the tjme of Saul, for it was because of the "evil spirit" in the king that D.ivid was sent for to play. The famous exclamation of Jeremiah (v.il. 22), “Is there no balm in Gilead?" has a di rect reference to the use of this balm for healing purposes. Scholars hold that physicians increased in number during and after the Babylonian Exile, and that they used balsams, plasters of figs (‘ And Isaiah said, ‘Take a lump of figs And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.” 2 Kings, xx, 7). salves and the leaves of trees ("And the leaf thereof for medicine." Ez. xlvii, 12.). The use of mineral baths was well known, according to John (v), and Elisha prescribed bathing in the Jordan to Naamau, the leper (2 Kings, v, 10). Honey was used as an internal remedy, ac cording to Prov. xvi, 24, where it is called "Health to the bones.” The important part played by the priests, especially in the diagnosis of the plague and leprosy is presented at length in Leviticus (xiii-xv), showing that the priests played the part of physicians at that time, deciding upon the separation of the afflicted and how they were to be treated. It would have been most surprising had the Hebrews not practised the healing art, tor they had learned both iu Egypt, where meiil cine had advanced to a high plane, and in Babylonia and Assyria during the Exile in the New Testament there is much ot healing, for Jesus does not disdain to heal, and St. Luke is claimed to have been a physician. thousands of people who daily ride under the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey, although I # same sensations are felt by passengers in any sub marine tunnel and also in many of the long land tunnels. 1 he next time you ride through a submarine tunnel watch the people about you, and you will doubtless notice that a number of them almost unconsciously pinch their nostrils gently together with their thumb and forefinger. J hey are doing somehing else, but you cannot see this. They are forcing the air gently into their noses, in doing this yourself you will readily understand bow this will help counteract the external air pressure ou the ear drums, for by blowing into the nose when it i» held closed with thumb and finger, the air is forced against the inner side of the ear drums. Naturally this ousels the outside pressure ami brings relief. Marly every one who has suffered with a severe cold has i, ced that at times when using their ham: kerchiefs vigorously they cause sharp pains in the ears This is because they force the air too hard against the tuner side of their ear drums. Dr. Edmund Prince Fowler, of New York, has made some interesting experiments concerning air pressure in the Hudson tubes. He finds that the Increased pressure amounts to a quarter of a pound to the -qua ■■ inch, varying from a few ounces upon entering and leaving the tube up to the full'quarter of a pound when in the center of tile tube and deep down below the river lied. lb also found that the greatest pressure was in the first ear. a less pressure in the middle cars and the least pressuri in the rear car. His experiments were made with an accurate and sensitive aneroid barometer. • t time.- using several at tne same time in various parts of the train. To people suffering from certain tubal and catarrhal troubles this constant riding or twice-daily trips through the tubes might have an injurious effect, de clares Dr. Fowler. To the normal car no trouble should result. If the sensation is quite painful, hold the nose tightly, gradually force the air into the nose and so against the inner sides of the ear drums and at the same time swallow, if this does not bring relief after on have tried it. several times, you should go at once to an otologist, or ear specialist.