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The umbrella, which lost much of
Its popularity when dosed autos and
porte eoeheres came In, seems to he
coming hack Into its own. in Europe
the other day the umbrella of a prin¬
cess kept, her from being Injured by
the flying glaiw from a shattered win¬
dow ; in Chicago a woman chased her
former husband and poked her um¬
brella in his ribs and lie thought: it
was a gun and called the police; then
be was pinched and had to calrli up
on his back alimony, says the Hous¬
ton Post-Dispatch. In Houston a po¬
lice officer took charge of a crossing
while lire apparatus was passing and
directed traffic with art umbrella.
The cost of the last great war.
$400,000,000,000, would have provided
u comfortable home, It Ims been said,
for every family in at least leu coun¬
tries of the world, or a Vi,500 house
erected on a five-acre lot, furnished
with $1,000 worth of furniture, for
every family In the United Slates,
Canada, England, Ireland, France,
Wales and Russia, and would have
given a $500,000 hospital and a $10,
000,000 universily to every city In
these countries of over 200,000 Inhab¬
itant a. Even then there would have
been money left over.
Toledo’s kidnaper-murderer who had
the courage to kidnap and murder a
child, was very much lucking in cour¬
age when it came, his turn to die, and
went to Hie chair with lips moving in
panic-stricken supplications for mercy.
Before you transgress Hie laws, try to
compiler lmw you will feel when called
upon to pay, says (lie Houston Pout
Dispatch. Two hoys who thought it
a heap of fun to hold people up nod
frighten and rob (hem have just been
sentenced to spend five years behind
the walls, and are beginning to realise
that It Is not so funny on pay day.
Perhaps we would obtain a dearer
idea of the problem of modern Husain
1f we realized bow complicated it Is.
It Isn't just, a Russian problem. It
covers a land occupied by a hodge¬
podge of 577 tribes speaking 150 dif¬
ferent: languages, says the Los An¬
geles Times. Under the. circumstances
it appears amusing to have some
writer from Chicago or New York
spend a couple of months in Moscow
and then publish a large hook embrac¬
ing the whole solution of questions
that half the Inhabitants themselves
have never beard of.
It must be admitted that at least
one monarch (s a success. The world
rejoices in any happiness the king of
England may enjoy and honestly sym¬
pathizes when hours of illness befall
him. Even the citizen radically in¬
clined fair mindedl.v admits that there
Js no fault In being born to a throne,
and that there i* great honor due to
one who holds his relationship to the
people iu terms of affectionate sympa¬
thy.
The late Bayne Whitney died worth
$200,000,000 net, and is praised for
Ids careful investments and bis close
attention given to them; yet In the
bottom of his bank box are found
$50,000 worthless stocks and bonds,
commonly called “cats and dogs.”
which fact goes to prove that even
tlie best business men make mistakes.
(•tinmen sometimes are not caught
until other gunmen decide to give
them up. The mysterious secrecy Of
Chinese colonies has been imitated in
the underworld life of our own time
and people. A way should be found
to snap out of remote ancestral com¬
plications.
The reallocation of wave, lengths
was a boon to 1he radio anglers whose
completed Jogs had robbed their sport
of Us zests, and they now complain
that pauses for station announcements
are loo infrequent for a satisfactory
bag before bedtime.
And wlmt lias become of the old
fashioned droll fellow who, wanting
to “knock wood,” used any nearby
head?
“Waiter,” said the Old Crab In a
>
restaurant, "can you keep a recrei".
Then 2 want you to take back thU
task."
Cop Serves One Man •
A traffic cop who serves one man
Is stationed In Washington, says the
Sr. Louis Post-Dispatch. < *n a drive
w.iy letulinu to the office of the sec¬
retary of iijfiiwilture Is a cross
In". Jt “Im "fit wbiit is known as ilie
Mall liie parkway extending from the
Onpltol to 1 lie Lincoln Memorial. Ev¬
ery morning about8:30 the guardian
of tlie (Tossing appears, turns four
signs reading “No left turn” and
waits until the automoldie of Sec¬
retary Jardine comes along. Then uf»
goes the copper’s hand, and traffic
stops to- let file secretary pass. As
soon as he lias gone by, the signs
are reversed, and the policeman de¬
part*, About < :20 in the afternoon
the policeman shows up again and
repeats the performance as tneSecre
tnry passes on Ids homeward way.
We have lmd to wait for the cen¬
tenary of Schubert’s dentil to learn
that Ids genius was only an inferior¬
ity complex. The celebration|n Viett
ntt was slightly marred by llte stafe
mont of a learned professor that
Schubert was “a Self-satisfied, hum¬
drum individual, a harmless little
schoolmaster conscious of Hie inferior
value of his sout,” and Hint It was
’’only when lie began |o suffer, and to
realize Ids inferiority that Ids music
became lofty." says (tie Springfield
Republican. Front the stupendous
Quantity of work Which lie did, how¬
ever, In the short adult function of
Ids Si years, we may doubt whether
tie Itad much leisure to Indulge an In¬
feriority complex.
Fount Franz Larlsch voiced « pro¬
fessional complaint Hfter his arrival
in New York aboard Hie Thuringia.
He is an oceanographer of (handing
and made the trip to gather data on
winds and waves, says liie Baltimore
Sun. But the storms of the last few
days, which treated the 46,000-ton
Olympic very roughly and messed up
a number of other vessels, simply re
fused to go ' near ilie 11,000-ton
Thuringia. And that, when « .scien¬
tist Is wailing for them, Is very pro¬
voking to the scientist. There Is no
way of Including in exact calculation
such remarks as‘that “Ilie race Is not
always to Hie swift nor the baltle to
the strong," even though they are
true.
Few literary stocks have jumped in
value as lime the Pickwick I’apers.
according to John Eckel, on American
authority on Dickens. Eckel esti¬
mates that the value on the original
copies of the "Posthumous I’apers of
the Pickwick (Tub" 1ms Increased
$500 a year for the last 152 years. The
Inst copy of the original was disposed
of for $ 10 ,:tnn in New York, says Hie
London News. ..Richard (Umbel, Phil¬
adelphia. owns Parts 11 and III, re¬
garded the most valuable of the set.
lie paid $2.'UK) for a corroded Part
II and $1,000 for a Part III, reason¬
ably priced In comparison to later
sales.
There are now fewer insane patients
In Alaska than at any time since the
Klondike gold rush, siiys the San
Francisco Chronicle, lnsnuity gener¬
ally was described as caused by the
long winters and isolation front hu¬
man society. Miners, trappers and
reindeer herders were Its victims.
Radio and airplanes have reduced tills
malady, physicians at Juneau declare.
Practically all Hie distant camps have
radios to tell of events around the
world and diffuse entertainment Al¬
most daily airplanes may he seen in
every section of Hie territory, bring¬
ing letters, newspapers and supplies
t* the most isolated settlements.
A postcard, untiled at Philadelphia
In the summer of 1906, was delivered
In New York-November 30, 1928. The
card contained tlie' message; “Hflvinjjf
a good time: wish you were here!"
The sender, having died in the mean¬
time. (lie greeting was slightly star¬
tling until the postmark was noted,
though Hie cheerful tone belted the
Impression that It bad been mailed
from the place where the recipients
of such vacation messages usually
wish the senders of them would go.
A Kansas City thinker says the
average farm would be more success¬
ful if conducted bn the lines of a
bunk. So the first thing would be to
select a group of substantial repre¬
sentative farmhands to get up a sur¬
vey.
A fortunate editor in Tola. Kan.,
lias no trouble finding a subject for
an editorial: He just discovered that
one of the .government’s flood relief
schemes would put his office 35 feet
under wafer.
If Eliza walked around on the ice
she must have tracked up the kitchen
floor something aw ful.
“Beginning in mid-July,” says a
travel prospectus, "Americans pour
Into Baris." And vice-versa, perhaps?
Some people think they are waking
up their minds when they are only
tterlig Uerr uti following the srswU.
t'HE CLEVELAND COURIER, CT.EVELAND. GEORGIA
Draw on A!J Sources
for National Music
National music . . . hag p,
discovered r.mt clad in beautiful forms,
1 at as popular nivtlis and legends are
1 «mulli to tight and crystallized into
Immortal verses by great poets All
that is required "ts a good ear, a good
. memory, and a faculty for molding
fragments of past generations into a
harmonic whole A few days ago i
'end that liralims, according to his
own words, took folk-tunes as motives
for his new collection of Stings and ■
nrrangcd tliem for piano. Liszt in his
'Impsmlies did the same, and Hrhn
mann in tjis “Two Grenadiers” used tlie
Marseillaise. The Irishman Baifeused
a Hussite choir iu his “Bohemian
tllrl,'' all hough nobody knows where
iic got ii from. Thus sootier or later
popular music attracts the attention
of and liiols its way into the works
of greal composers. ... I know
that the (|uestion whet iter Inspiration j
drawn from some stray .melody or
folk song Is siitiicieni to'lend higher
musical works a national character
j'ct beep solved. Neither Is
n certain whether national music as
such deserves priority. I fof myself
believe firmly Unit that music wldch
is the most characteristic of a nation
deserves the greatest recognition.— j
Dvorak in a Letter Written From !
America. „■*' wnf
Why Known at* “Dumbbell*.•’
Why do we call the wooden exer¬
cises we swing dumbbells? Why
dumb? Because centuries ago a fa¬
vorite exercise was in the pattern of
the apparatus by which Hie heavy
bells of a church are swung—a task
Which calls for considerable energy
on ins part of the ringers. This ap¬
paratus was used sometimes for the
purpose of training hell fingers, and
it is probable that its use its an ex¬
erciser was first suggested In this
way. Later on, less cumbersome
means - of taking exercise were
evolved, hut “dumbbell" was still kept
ns the name.
get down?”
ry gallon of PAN-AM gasoline enters your tank
-AN. PAN-AM is watched through every
ling process, guarded from field ro the pump, to
vour motor clean, dependable gasoline. .And
motor means steady, high performance.
your way home tonight, fry PAN-AM.
American Petroleum
Corporation
GASOLINE
w^or o xN r
even
all at oqce. In driving an automnbih?
we do not expect It to jump from low
Speed to high speed;- we first put i!
into second.—Forbes Magazine.
S “ntot tn“Hi» Line
Wittle doingsotnehistorical research
recently, an Indianapolis woman
stepped Into a cigar store seeking in
format loir concerning a tablet in the
vicinity, supposed to represent the site
of the first school building In Indian
spoils.
in response to the woman's ques
tlofi, liie man behind tlie counter re
turned politely, “We don’t keep tab
lets, lady.”—Indianapolis News.
l,o*t Walk in Spiral*
Persons lost or blindfolded natural
! y walk In circles or spirals, not be
cuuse one leg is shorter than the
other, lint because of a special “steer
ing mechanism” that takes control
scheii the eyes are unable to function
as directing agents.
Varieties of Spiaers
Have Communal
Some spiders live in l.irgt
in dose intimacy imi only w ith spider
of dilTerent species, but with othei
insects. In Mexico in regions a* an
altitude of 2,5<ki yards, spjd-Ts an
found tltnt live in sociidics :d con
.
■‘trilit ColilIIIOfl no-;. of large dimen
•sioiis like Hie nests of ants am! bees.
Tin* nests are in great demand among
tile natives of the country, who take
fragments of them and hang them
about their rooms as traps for die
and mosquitoes.
The uests are surrounded with
threads that serve as hiding places
in which the spiders lie in wait for
their prey. All the insects caught
arc used as food for (lie colony. In
tiie nests, which the spiders never
(cave for any reason or under any
Age and Exercise
Amounts of physical activity re¬
quired by healthy persons at differ¬
ent ages, as compute') b,v various au¬
thorities, are summarized in an article
"ii exercise by Dr. James <». Nall.
The program quoted calls for:
Four hours daily at fin- age of five,
five hours daily from seven to nine
.vours, six hours dully from nine to
eleven years, five hours daily from
eleven to thirteen years, four hours
dally from thirteen to sixteen years,
lines hours daily from sixteen to
eighteen years, two hours daily from
eighteen to twenty years, and one
hour daily for persons over twenty
*
years of -ct. I
giit A against mart was her charged wilt, with kissing a
and during ^
proceedings the girl went Into the
box.
“l’ou say.” said the counsel for the
defense, “that ray client took you by
surprise, and that you gave him ao
encouragement?”
“I do,” replied the girl.
“Doesn’t it strike you at strange
that he should have managed to kiss
you as you were unwilling?" added
counsel. “Look at my client, and
then consider your own height, why,
you must be nearly a foot ralier than
he is.”
| “Well, what of it?” retorted the
i girl, "f can stoop, can’t f?”
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1 Tiie wise farmers, when bothered
1 woodchucks, by
resort to one of three
methods in thinning them out. Thev
insert either calcium cyanide or car
turn disulphide lu the chuck's bump*
and seai it over. The fumes in *.
short time will penetraie every part of
the burrow and Mr. V'omlehfk* is
gassed ro death. Another method is
that of attaching u hose to the ex¬
haust of a tractor engine or aoiotao
bile and inserting down into tiie bur¬
row. sealing rite entrance and racing
the engine. Carbon iuouoxid|fe doe*
Hie rest. Hunting chucks with fire¬
arms is a long drawn out Job and has
never been satisfactory.
Narrow Etcaps
A small child who muefi disliked
milk pudding had been made to' finish
it before leaving the fable. When she
itad at last eaten It She asked‘If she
might get down.
“Yes. when you hav* said grace,”
said iter mother.
"But I’ve nothing to be thankful
for." answered the child sulkily.
"Very well then,” said the mother),
“stay where you are.”
Tills was too much for the child, so,
putting tier two small hands together,
she said, in a loud, clear .voice,
“Thank Hod i wasn't sick Now may;