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iPORTANCE OF i
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CORRECT RECORDS i |
!
birth registration was j
if the value of
r. .roughly understood by everybody, !
\ re would be a rush on the part of j
i; is parents to assure themselves that I
ii. • births of their babies are reg- :
t: rcd as provided by the laws of ;
4
0 „rgia. This understanding, however,
in quite widely lacking, so the State
Hoard of He; 1th should repeatedly sta¬
ph size this subject, according to Dr.
T F, Abercrombie, State Registrar of
births and deaths. ‘
For even militia district in the state
there is appointed a local registrar who
i: ihe official with whom birth and
r; t,ii certificates must be filed and
r " istored. Not only that, hut he is
willing and anxious (.o assist in pre
P :ng them properly. , !
(t is not enough for file parents to
ti; urne that the attendant at birth
Died the certificate as legally re
q :red, but they should insist upon H
Ir mg done and also inquire at tbe
1 <; ,\1 registrar’s office to assure them*
h ives that their child’s legal rights
, : • protected by a properly filed cer¬
tificate of birth.
In the child's future life, matters of
b any must arise, hia legitimacy might
b questioned, his right to vote chal-
1 gad, his legal ability to transact of
f: ;il business be doubted on account
v youthful appearance. Many other
< a urgencies are likely to arise, any
<> (i of Wi.ich might be easily settled
h' the evidence contained in a prop
i filed birth certificate.
'i he registration of deaths is of
;ii Importance in the settlement of
i utes and matters of inheritance,
jn i ions and insurance. Without ac*
< ii rate birth and death records, it is
n. •ix impossihle to determine the
r his of widows and orphans, except
J!,tough costly law suits.
Death records are essential to in
L agent public health work. If epi
<; iiics are to be prevented, Use health
immediate ’ notice
o. Jcer must have
ii ill cases of epidemic and contagious
'i cases-and the number of deaths
from these diseases.
here is no cost to the parents In
I . .istering a birth, nor is there any
>■ t to the family iu registering a
>1 ih. The state and county pay all
< u. You are merely asked to co¬
ir rate by insisting that these Jm
P taut records be filed and that you
is.;'.be sure they are by inquiring at.
y nr local registrar's office.
CHANGE AT ALTO
Georgia has no institution that has
II , best wishes of our people more
r. u the Tuberculosis Sanltorlum at
A ! i; in fact, it is a noble institution
<-. l hundreds of lives have been saved
ii nigh its splendid work.
Dr. Ii. W. (Hidden lias been at the
lit d of this institution for about
i v. ,'ive years, and bis accomplishments
It- <•> been outstanding In the nation.
11 services have been desired by
in nv states, but until now he lias de¬
ls it'd to leave Georgia, bis native
tv, ate.
Massachusetts is building a million
d.-.ilar sanitarium, and they have in
d r ed Dr. Glldden to come with them,
e congratulate them in securing his
sc v ices.
Dr. T. K. Abercrombie, Commission
ct of Health, has announced live »p-
1 ' Ailment of Dr. M. F. Hrtygood to
•;t ceotl Dr. (Hidden. He needs no
i n oil net ion to the people of Georgia,
h .viug eutered into the practice of
v dleiue in Bartow county, and
awards going into public health
work In Troup county, coming from
r. r« to the State Board of Health as
ii cior of county health work. He
1 a Georgia to accept the place
, city health officer at Knor
v Tenn., and from that posi
< n to director of tuberculosis work
j. the State of Tennessee. He is past
rotary of the Southern Tuberculosis
ociation, and is eminently fitted
.
i the position of Superintendent and
dieal-Offioer-in-Chief of our Sant
ti iUtn.
• ho work of the Sanitarium is being
vaondously retarded owing to a lack
of funds for operation. The lnstl
ioil is running several months be
; d with its hills and caunot take its
<; aeity of patients because the funds
f. maintenance are short, as is the
c with other stale Institutions. This
loplorable, as it means that many of
applicants now awaiting admission
J! die before the time of their ad
.
vion is reached.
These facts bring to mind the
r. .esslty of sending the right sort of
r, ii to our general assembly, business
j n. if you please; men who are prov
: ut, who have vision, but are not
v onarv; men who know how to plan
n;nl accomplish things for suffering
i. vanity of the future.
Th« Gre*te*t Economy
The conservation of health is per
J us the most important of our eco
i lie problems, and money invested
Pi health uuits, sanitation and public
1 1 th education is the best paying
t estment a county or state can
i i. ke. The actual returns iu dollars
i. i cents are the largest dividend
y ducers that are obtainable
Invest In mass hygiene and sanita¬
tion.
Civs an, »&£• milk la good food.
Builders Fear Ravages
of Death-Watch Beetle i
The church of reopened St. Lawrence short Jewry time |
In London was a ;
;> s-o after workmen had completed the ,
task of restoring the woodwork that
hud been damaged by hordes of death
watch beetles.
These tiny borers are feared for their
destructive habits and they have long
been associated with superstitious be- )
llufs.
In the quiet of the night, when the
hammering of the insect is heard in ;
the home of the European peasant*.
Hie sound brings uneasiness because
of tbe primitive superstition I bat the
nocturnal tattoo presages the death of
some member of the family or of u
neighbor.
The death-watch beetle and his nu¬
merous cousins belong to the group
I’tinidae. They do not always choose
for their food such structures as Sir
Christopher Wren's church of St. Law¬
rence Jewry, for old books, furniture,
bouse timbers, drugs, ship's stores,
Idles of o)d paper arid tobacco are 1 m
eluded in the pest's diet. One mem¬
ber of the family thrives on opium, an- ,
other feeds on capsicum arid u third
has it pronounced weakness for dried
tobacco,'— If#*/ ?ork Times Magazine,
Golden Words Uttered
by Tongues of Unknown
There are hundreds of people whose
names we do pot know, though their
words have passed into history,
There is the nameless, well-dressed
woman who, meeting Wordsworth
walking by Loch Kuthrlne ons fine
evening, observed, "What, you are
stepping westward?" She gave the
poet tho idea for his poem, Stepping
Westward.
There is Hie watchman who passed
upder Pepys’ window crying. “Past one
of the clock, and a cold, frosty morn- ,
i!ig!''
There is the man who first invented
Hie Breton fisherman's petition as he
imt out to sea, “Dli, God, do thou help
and guard me; the sea is so Wide and j
my boat Is so small."
And who was the poor old dame
who, when questioned hy a kindly
Idshop, held up her dry crust and said,
“I have nil lids, and faith"?
And there are, of course, qij the un¬
known* whose words are sung and
said a round rile world ami will not
puss away.
Disavowal of Liability
"He washed his hands of the en¬
tire affair” we read every now and
then, the Implication being, that the
person of whom lids is said simply re¬
fuses nil responsibility for or interest |
in the particular nnilter under discus¬
sion.
Certainly, If any phrase sounded ;
modern, lids one dees; and yet. sur,
prising as it. may seem, it is a direct
allusion lo Matthew ‘27 .24.
“When Pilate saw that he could pre¬
vail no longer, lie took water and
washed Ids hands before the multitude,
saying. I am innocent of the blood of
this Ju-si person."--Kansas City Star,
Ice Age ''Turkeys’'
Turkeylike birds once nested in the
region now occupied by the city of
Log Angeles, C»Hf. This fact lias been
brought to light in the course of a re¬
view of the Ice age birds of Rancho j
Lit Brea tar pits in the collections of
the I.o* Angeles museum. The review
was undertaken by Dr. llildegarde j
Howard, of the museum, for the ptu
pose of establishing a census of tho
lords of tile region, it was found that
of about 500 Individuals of the extinct,
turkeylike bird. Parapnvo, represented
iu these collections, more than 150
were young birds, many of them only
chicks.
Titled Bartender
Some six years ago, says a writer
In Piccadilly, you could see painted
above the door—where the law or¬
dained that the publican's mime should
be seen—of “The Cider House.” an
Inn at Haddenhnnt, in Buckingham¬
shire, England. “Sir Henry Eehlin,
Bart., licensed to sell w ines and spir¬
its," and if you went inside you would
ho served wife. by Sir the Henry baronet landlord the eighth or j
his was
baronet of his line, and had become
a publican after having been a pri¬
vate in the Life Guards, because four
of bis predecessors bad squandered,
tite family fortunes.
Tragedy of Long Ago
He that diggeth a pit shall fail
therein -A young man of near this
place some time ago sent an under¬
taker with a coffin to the house of a
young woman, who upon sighting it
fainted away and remained ill for
some time. The effect his rash piece
of folly had upon iter preyed on his
mind and he fell into consumption, ;
and required in reality the sad office
he had undertaken for the young lady,
lie was himself buried in tile same
coffin tie hud sent to iter.—Nashville
Whig and Banner. March !>. 1830.
Stickler for F»irnet»
He declared that a man could kiss
a girl whether she willed it or nor,
while she maintained that it couldn't
be done. Finally they decided the only
way to settle the argument wus by ex¬
perimenting.
The man won after a brief struggle. ;
and kissed tite girl ardently for several
moments. Then lie released her.
"Oh. we'.’i 'aid the gi-i, “you .vdn't
win fairly-' My dot siipp .1. Try it
again."
t TH£ CLEVELAND UlUklEK. CLEVELAND. GEORGIA
France i Has Monopoly
oa Roquefort Cheese
The pUsrint father of all cheese in
America today is Roquefort, which
can trace ils "blue blood’’ as far as
the Firs! century, when Pliny remarked
about Its excellent flavor.
Attempts have been made in the
Cnited .States to duplicate the famous
French product but such experiments
have been fruitless, as the ideal curing
conditions of Aveynm, France, can¬
not be reproduced anywhere in tbe
world. The wholesale price of the
imported Roquefort Is So low, and
Hie flavor so appetizing that American
hostesses are purchasing it in greater
quantities tliau ever before.
Epicures bow their heads in respect
to the shepherd whose misfortune was
responsible for its origin. He left his
lunch of barley bread and native
cheese made of sheep's milk in a cave
near tlie town of Roquefort, in south
eastern France, to keep it cool until
noontime. A sudden storm arose w ide!)
forced him to forget about his lunch.
Two reeks later he passed that way
again, and thought about bis aban¬
doned food. He found the bread
worthless, and the cheese covered with
a curious culiure mold. His curiosity
hp^and arid hunger Found jefag The great, cheese be had nibbled flavor a
u
surpassing any food he had ever eaten.
—Chicago Evening Post,
Three Idioms of Latin
Tongue Long Employed
Ecclesiastical Latin differs from
rlassfcal Latin in various ways, these
changes being due principally So the
origin pi> ( i derivation of ecclesiastical
Latin. Originally tho Romans spoke
Gift old tongue of Latin known as tin;
priseu Intliitias, in (he Third century ,
!’,. C„ Hnnlbus and a few other writ¬
ers trained In the schools of the •
Greeks made certain change* and. on
ouraged by the cultured classes, rims
dgyphlpPfJ the flio classical Latin, The
muss of Roman people, however
confl mod to speak the old tongue, and j
Tier the Third century there were two
oparate idioms, The necessary con
act between the two elasse* produced .
till a third. When the church devel 1
oped a Latin It was necessary to era
ploy a language which would appeal
o the masses qs well as to the literary
•lass; hence some of the rat-tors of ;
each idiom were used. Sr. Augustine i
ays: “f often employ words which
j'h not Latin, and 1 do so that you
may updors|nm| me. Belter that I
should incur the Idame of the gram
mmiaiiH 1 hail pot to.be understood by
flip people," -Washington Star,
F.ffect of a Yawn
One day dorters will be able to tell (
as why yawning is so'infectious, Tbe ! •
other morning ft woman sitting, oppo
■dtp me in the Inis'gave Cent to it pro j
dlgtoti* yawn. writes p well-known !
practitioner. Wlihin a few seconds j
both her neighbor* were yawning also, I
mil shortly afterwards 1 began io I
I1VII myself, uitlinl; h I felt quite 1
fresh and wideawake, I made a do
liberate at tempi to chock-myself, but i
could not succeed, and it was only ;
when my miml hud been occupied by
some other matter that I forgot re
yawll. Probably by now you are yawn
iug yourself The very word “yawn"
"ents ti s infections as ilm habit.—-Ex¬
change.
F.nglish in Switzerland
A traveler recently returned from a
six months' holiday In -Switzerland
gave two quaint examples of English
as she is w ritten in out of-the-way .
inmiutnlu chalets. One notice, taken
from a hotel frequented by rock
climbers, runs as follows: “it Is de¬
fended to circulate In tbe corridors
in boots of as. en-. on before seven
hears of rlie morning.” The other is
a warning to travelers not fo appear
at dinner in evening dress. It says:
“Strange gentlemen are requested not
to dress for dinner, as their costume |
fitters the souls of the maid folk
and no wok is resulted." Which Im¬
plies tiiat Swiss girls are mure sus
ceptibie than Is generally Imagined.
Intelligence of Trees
Trees have almost it* wonderful a
sense of direction as birds. Should
there he leak in underground '
a an wa
0 r pipe In a park or graden. a neigh
boring tree is almost sure to tirul it ■
out. and, extending its roots in that
direction, project a shoot through the ;
break into the pipe. Even more ex
raordinary is the performance of tiie
rattan, a climbing palm common in
tropical countries. When ii has climbed
a tree, it goes over the top and comes
down again fo the ground. Then, !
growing at the rate of a foot every 2 t
f.ours, it sets out straight for the next :
1 roe. which may he qver 50 yards
aw a.v.
Tastes Smart
A little animated mw-L--- -- , was
cartons as to the contents of a hot
■e tlmt'bis mother was using to cure n
headache. He wished to smell it. too.
He persisted until he got one whiff
from tiie smeliing salts bottte. After
recovering enough to talk, he said:
“Whew, that tastes pretty smart in
ny nose: how does it taste ip your
nose, mother?'’
Frankness
Little Jane was visiting one of the
neighbors, and talking ail the time,
finally got to comparing the neighbor's
home with her own.
“We have a nice dining.room, '-jo.'
she said w i a v-ukhe** "hut v- >• only
cat in it whet; we have company.'’
Stone Carving* Thought
! lo He of Bronze Aje
! On a hill m-.-.r Ailinge, in Bornholm.
j . leunntrk, a large block of stone carv¬
j ings lips been found on tin* face of
{ t -c rock, which, it is thought, belongs
to tin: Bronze age. The carving- are
made with flint, end show a vessel
about forty-three inches in length, with
a smaller one above if. Tbe date is
supposed to he from 3000 to 5oo If. i
There will lie difficulty in removing
the stone, as the ground is at present
-• quarry but it is proposed to divide
J: ifito parts and remove it to the
.‘tonne museum garden. Rocks of tbe
| S 'tui age have 1 wen found in purls of
Denmark, but this is the largest one
yet found of Hie Bronze age, in that
country.
English coins have also been plowed
up in Denmark and Germany recently.
Toe coins are about LOW years old,
ad are from the reigns of Sven E
li'idsPn of Denmark, Canute the Great.
Hardicnmite and Magnus the Good.
These consist of pennies, with the
names, in runic letters, of umbers of
coins, Amur and Alfvik, and ilm arms
if Lund, Kxeler and lfoskitde i$Rhc
d.-nl.s (ill one side, the other having
:ne figurehead. — I’llibidelphi.y inquirer.
Average Printed Word
Not Long Remembered
In n work pubfishoij in ISit is
: :u<( tliero were ;ir tiiat time 1.0OU
!»’)ok.s published yearly in OnnU VM l U*
ii, on boo uf wliidtj | tmre was a com
Miorclat loss, oft no gain, nnd only
>n 1()0 auy considerable profit, Uf
ibe total, 750 are forgotten |ft ft >fao
anoiiter l‘.K} witidft & year?,, ^pother
iOO in ft vorus, not more Uihu -‘0 nur*
ive 7 yonrs t»nd only 40 ar<* tbotiydu
of after '40 yefns,
Of Urn fjO.OOO books published In
’:0 Hwmoorttli century, tin? volume
Dili's, not 50 aro remembered. Of \|\<*
jiuidisbed in tile Jduhtee.nlft yen
;;try, n »t inure than are yonstdered
. ortb reprinting.
Since the first vvnliilfcfs, f.nwt >enrs
>efoi'6 Obyist, |ft ft‘4 eotlfttHcs, uUi>
: boiu fWN» worlds of alt writers bad i
nsiained fliic de
muring Influence of time,
America** Great Charift
Not ail the yhnnyo.s iit the fercud
■ f travel have talcen pliice from this
■•wintry hi lairope. if po f«»roi^Jtei
*ver comes to this cuuptry for flu
a me reft soft Americans [ravel abroad
that is. in Ken reft of beauty, culture
or eniertainment - •■-■we can console our
selves with tho knowfedye that the
Knropeau hulustrlsil reyards ns with
tlie keenest curiosity.
Mmss production and the wonders
.accomplished in the Gnited States art
on tin* lunatic of every business man
and HWHiut’aetiirer in Fntropo. The\
near tales of extraordinary uehteve
ments and they are condiii? to this :
country in Increasing nuinhers to sec
\vhether the ttlcjc Is turned and, it
so, how. Nation’s Ibtslness.
Grade* of Silk
Silk Is graded for tltiekness of
•bread, the size hein.sr measured in
tl.'iders. The French denier wljrhs
" ton weptieib part of a gramme. The
b:t«1» for rnw and thrown silk adopted
by the permamutr committee of tin
Parts tmermmoiwd congress of Pdo<»
was a fixed length and a variabh;
weight, the standard of length hefu^
150 meters and (lie weight the denier
Thus a bale of silk of Id to 15 deniers
moans that a thread is required ot
which 450 \neters, pleasured off, \vfU
weigh hot we* *n 1ft and 45 denier?,, Silk
Is reeled as tine as to lo dtuders and
as coarse as Js to fto dmilers: for some
tiurposcs even to fO denters.
Where “Charlie” Landed
In the Outer Hebrides, vvhert? soli
tnde may be had in wholesale qmmii
ties, lies the tiny island r*f Mrlskay,
about three miles long and two miles
wide. It was in duly, 1715, that
Charles Htumft landed oft this reek
spot, and, feeling the ground of Ids
family’s ancient kingdom under
feet for the Urst time. exclaiuVed, *T
am conn? home," Charles took with
him from J’rafu p so wtt -ecO: pf ip£j
piftK v-onvotvines ami sowe»i them in
<\uhmemorat!on of bis landing and
of tite stun t\tavv iu* had received in
France. This plant still grows mi Kris
kay, and it is believed nm to exist
bnyx\here else in the British isles.
Salesmanship
A youth recently mounted the net¬
work of Brooklyn bridge with the evl
dent object of ending it all.
( ‘Come bark," cnUed ti btg-1.curled
sailor, “you have everything to live
“4 ain’t.” retorted the youth, climb
ink' sill! higher.
“Aw. come on d >\vn mid we lt Talk
it over. Life ain’t ?'-« worst*."
A tittle more eoaxinu. .: ; .<1 the in
tend: e< suicide relented. For tifteen
’ilimtt's life was discussed in all its
eh'.unoSeeu aspects. Then Ibex arose
—and both jumped otT.—Army and
Navy Journal,
Railles* Railroading
ft is related of a certain engineer
ing*officer, fortnerjy of the -V. K. F
liniT. iu the course of an inspection
-our in France. Vm noticeil that most
of ;he ties were scored After several
miles of fine had been inspected, and
’)Q scored ties continued to be much
in evidence, be remarked to the French
officer rtecompatiyiua him.*
“How Ion- did you run Fa* red ,
.vend, anyhow. hePov you 'aid rads on :
:;;e * lL.ilw::> Ai.e.
ii U very gruiLylug Cat not oulj
-.he cuuuty otRciais ui iae suite xav
iuteresicU iu
Urainago for malaria contrui, but in
uividual larmors a iso. Tiiis is espe
cially true ot a low couutica iu tut
uastc-rn pan ot the state it Bfeias
xaat the larmers are t>i:,.uiuJng tv
realize that the malaria mosquito b>
even more detrimeuLai to agricultural
progress than the tioli weevil. U
seems that the farmer is at Iasi be
ginning to realize that the mosquito
u i well as the boll weevil is sucking
tiie protit from his baie ot cotton and
that this insect must also he con¬
trolled.
The spade is now being recognized
as the most valuable weapon against
the mosquito and the farmer s will
to eradicate the insect ia the most
effective ammunition. Farmers iu tin¬
eas tern section ot the stale are hav¬
ing surveys made of ponds togethei
with estimates showing cost of drain¬
age. A good tunny ot these ponds are
Doing drained hy the use of dyna¬
mite, which is a very cheap, effective
and quick method.
Since the Elimination of ponds is
Hie secret ot effective malaria con¬
trol iu Georgia, it is lo be hoped liiai
counties in other sections of toe siate
will take up this work for the purpose
of tnaiariq control.
CHILD HEALTH
Am yftOTECTION
Dr. G. Y. Moore, president of tin.
Georgia State Council for child Heuha
and Protection, has issued a tail toi
a meeting of the c.»c. oiv.of ti'.i
Council at Uui Cnpitol in At,aula on
Sc ptemhw 23.
This association of many groups oi
people in our state who are interested
*M tiie UoUerjnent of conditions for our
children held a meeting m Athens in
ll»o spring, at which time a p nan
Rent Council was formed.
Every citizen of our state should
affiliate with this Council, as v,e aro
sure that ai( fire interested in the
betterment of our children.
The meeting above referred to is
for the purpose of outlining a program
and fhe appointment of comntiUces to
hi range for a state-wide meeting ot
tiie people in our stair who wish to
enlist with the Council in doing con¬
structive work for Geoigia children.
HARD TIMES AIXD HEALTH
In seasons of financial depression
there are dangers that some ot us
overlook, or, perhaps thinking of them,
undervalue the influence that strin¬
gency in financial affairs brings about.
During such titties health must not
under any circumstances be neglected,
it should not lie under any circurn
stances, but, when money is scarce
and people Unemployed, no ope can at
lord to get sick oi bp. under par.
Appropriations of public funds, city,
county and state, should be increased
curing such periods, that more effect¬
ive means may be instituted. .Sani¬
tation should be more closely watqUed
and inoro work done.
Food that Is of the right sort and iu
the proper quantity should be con¬
sumed. gUutiiiff the family ration to
buy gasoline la poor economy. The
state should have funds, that general
supervision could be given to rural
communities by health oficers and vis
i’ius nurses.
Any good county ran have such su
pervtslou by the expenditure of 5 cents
per ami am per capita or Eds. TU.-s-,
is no investment that will pay h.• per
dividends or bring more happiness,
in times of stress especially manpower
Heeds to he preserved in its fuih-n
capacity.
{iealth first, ar.d other things will bo
added unto you.
Rubies Still Prevalent in Ca.
During the first seven months oi
mo, more than 1,600 people iu Geor¬
gia have each taken pat leso than
twenty-one injections of ouU-rabic
treatment, is the statement made by
our efficient and ever alert State
Board of Health. During this same
period, the brains of 331 ani-mis
heads have beou examined at tho
State Board of Health Labbratory and
found to be infected with rabies. With
five months yet to go, we have al¬
ready far exceeded the record for ibyj
during which year 1,400 persons wore
treated and only “SO animal heads
were found to be infected.
Already two children and one man
have died of rabies in Uc, Ail three
,
deaths were the res it. of ua gleet. In
addition thousands of valu; ibis anl
trials have died.
Rabies is spr vi almost ei ltirely V.s
dogs and yet who voutd ti¬ * so silly
ns to say tiiat the do -: - . ,.j sponsible
for the prevalence of rabies? The peo
i>K* of Georgia are entirely responsible
not oniy for themselves, but tor tiie
anlmais. Furthermore, onr clitklren
are not responsible, and yet the grea
majority of the victims are children
We wish to urge every parent and
well-wisher of Georgia ’to eniist in
the P. T. A. summer roundup. Gei
Georgia’s 1S2 000 children ready f, )r
school. Vaccinate against smallpox
typhoid and diphtheria. Do not detav
a single day. Being physical^ fi.
means a great deal toward j being
mentally equipped
Sarumte; vaccinate.
Wide Variation as to.
Significance of Kiss
j '1 ! :■ !ii tory <-t ilie-kics is vague. The
t Hi Wo reemuis it as n salination of n :
.
' ; ei-r. but prehistoric history gives the
' origin ro cannibalism, contending tiie
modern bias is oniy u uxoilUlcd bite.
si“ueb.v giving the impression thin
. ■'fun hived
'o Woman he wished to in¬
; dicate she was good enough
j to eat
I Among the oriental races the kiss
bus been known from time immemorial.
j Kisses me not used in Madagascar
. parts of Polynesia, Africa, South <*«
j islands and Japan, In ancient Greece
■ it death penalty offense
was a lo kiss
j in public.
The Malay kiss (the nil,lung „
noses) also is used in Greenland aim
parts of Russia.
I tn Egypt they kiss one hand
mm
place it on top of the head as a «jg.
of affection.
The Romans had but three words i.
•dgiiify the l;iss. while tbe Greeks
four, the French have twenty and the
Germans have thirty. Among the lat
ter cognomens is one which might be
highly recommended to the world ...
large: it is culled "nechkitssen," mean
in.- “malting up for kisses that ham
been omit led."
In olden times, to kiss a pretty won:
an was considered a sure cure for :
headache.
Remember Plural When
Speaking of Molasses
“Molasses" comes to us through the
Spanish from the Latin “lnellaeeus."
.•’leaning honoylike. Siio-p the singula -
and I'iural forms are spelled the same
;iie word is often construed as a sin
rnifir vvlien if should he construed ^
a [dural. Hence “molasses are," “ttu-
nirdasses,” and “tiiose molasses" art
■oionion expressions, especially in the
South and West. They are incorre 1
except in those rare eases when the
spanker or writer lias in mind differ¬
ent varieties of molasses and really
desires to use the word in tiie plural.
‘ Those usolus-es are good," is not cor¬
rect when ilie speaker refers to mo
lasses on tin- dining table, lie should
say, “Tills molasses is good.” Cm
I lie other hand, it might be correct.
though awkward, for a merchant to.
”, r.Re, -Idense send me if) gallons each
f both of ihose molasses I ordered
h at year,’' when.be referred to dif
r-went varieties of the product,—Paths
hnler^ Magazine. /
Cyrano Not Imaginary
Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, n
Freneii ronmnee writer and dramatist
as horn in Paris March 0, Hill*, At
• he age of nineteen he entered « eorp
of the guards, serving in the cam.
aliens of KPiD and iOld, and began tiitv
•cries of ex-pioits tiiat were to make
i.im a. hero of ronmnee. After ten
years oi 1 tilt-, life Cyrano left the serv
b:e pn«l began to write tragedies. Cy¬
rano's ingenious mixiure of science
nd romance furnished a model for
unity winders, such as Swift and Poe
lie died in Paris in September, lt;,W.
M. Edmond Rostand's romantic plu>.
'•Cyrano de Bergerac” (1S07), revived
interest in him.
Shepherds First Golfers?
Tt is now said that .shepherds Tti
Scotland originated the game of golf
obO years ago. Although it has been
claimed ibni the game began in Hol¬
land in it seems [tint it made its
urst ajipeafance in Scotland live ceu
luriv ago, Tim sliepherds, tending
flocks, were in the habit of knocking
stones wi‘h a stick at other shepherds
• iio.--e i'oi’ks were beginning to in¬
termingle with the first group.
1 - rota Ibis means of warning an
other shepherd of the trespassing of
Ids flock grew tile game of golf. Grad¬
ually the practice became a sport, the
oMeettve being to hit small objects
with the stone.
An Historian” Incorrect
“A” is tiie correct form of the article
before words beginning will) conso¬
nant sounds. Therefore we should say
"a historian" and “q utiion," not “un
historian” and "an union.” A few
writers in thus country adhere toy the
old practice of using “an" before word
beginning with a consonant sound,
when the tu st syllable is not accented',
but this practice is now regarded n
incorrect. It is a holdover from the
lays when “an” was used indiscrltn
nnlely iieiore words beginning with
vowel and consonant sounds.—Path¬
finder Magazine,
Quaint Inn Signs
Help Me Through” is the name of
a lieei iscd lumse ;ir Biiton, I.am an
Sshire, Lmrhind. Iis sitrn depicts a
fClolw* V nli the head ami feet »*f a man
protr.ii* hBg a? the pi{> and bottom re
spt*ct i v ' 1 1 ;■ ■ t* t* is ai.so “Savne 1 e -
.
>!l Sim: .ane, Rhiales, Fa it<ls. d h«*
o rig-in a 1 on me *»f Urn house \v;i> '"’i'h*'
Red 1.1 on. it was being rede**ornfed
and \\ iien a slgn-wKiei' asked what
name v . rt'tpbved. tie r»*eeive ?1 ttie ix*
piy. "S •rue yet,” and forthwith com
plied. Amd s., it rem.ahis to this day.
Durability of Fur»
rr , S S ■ ( id that if otter, tiie strimg
est fi ir. i> given <*t Ih i per cent durabil
dy n iTill’T. other of j] ie furs rank thus:
Rea v« er, tjO t '-'u’m ”i }.i ; Imre, o : rivet
ural ff*X. 40; dyod f"X. 25; battm or
pine * 'a 'ft: tlyrfl marten. 45;
mirk , 70: dyed mink ft-*: raccoon, 05;
-
,. raceo »U, r.fi; S: 1. • e. l5f): dyed sa!de r
45: s k unk. tip!in d skunk. 5o; hair
scab SO: t iyefl 7-5; fur seal. TO;
sqnir rel. 2 ■ *: fivea se (iiirrel, ftn; » ney.
20 : 5 v lx. - i; nade, 7; muskrat. 45;
.
dyed iLHskrat, ft-j,