Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 29, 1919, Page 2

pe s WOO0D CUTTING LATEST WAIST LINE REDUCER (By United Press.) Los Angeles, Cal., Nov., 29.—Intro- ducing wood-splitting, king of out- door sports, successor to golf as a waist line reducer and the newest tad of the wealthy tourist. D. M. Linnard, manager of a string of California tourist hotels, sponsors the sport. Linnard has installed at his hotels in Santa Barbara and Pasadena just a common, old-fashioned woodpise, well equipped with axes of various weights and not too sharp. Guests are welcome to chop to their hearts’ content. Linnard is willing to furnish ali the woo. they want. The sport is popular. Henry Ford was responsible for its introduction in southern California. When he was here last winter he and his son, Ed- sel, seldom missed .a day without an hour at the woodpile. At Santa aBrbara it was whispered that Willlam G. McAdoo raised a cal- ous on his right hand at the wood- pile last winter. Native Santa Barbarans, who ex- pect President Wilton to join their colony for at least a few weeks when he gets a real vacation, have a tree all selected for him to demolieh. But it war Linnard who has brought wood-splitting to the masses —that is the masses of tourists. ‘““Theodore Roosevelt inspired the idea,” Linnard declared, ‘‘He believed wood-chopping the best of exercise an a heap of funm as well.” WEALTH IN BAMBOO GROVES Southerm Their Cultivation in the States Is Expected Soon to Be a Recognized Procedure. . One thinks more readily of gn Amer- ican farm with & wood lot than of one with a bamboo grove, but bamboo gtoves may yet become common in the Southern states, If the idea of “in- #trict the farmer” in the desirability of planting them makes reasonable progress. It will be a new idea to the farmer, and he will have to think it gver. - Meantime the country has. one important bamboo grove flourishing in the state of Georgia, where it stands in' the custody of the United States department of agriculture, to serve as an object lesson. The young bamboo shoots provide an early spring vege- table, said to have a flavor much like that of sweet corn, and the stalks have a wide range of uses which should make a bamboo grove profit- able. It is worth the farmer’s consid- eration, for example, that millions of small canes are yearly imported from Japan, and fishing rods inade out ot them, for which the United States pays annually about $5,000,000. Mard to Account for Figures. Statistics have recently been pub- lished in Germany which' are so strik- ing that the: Medical Record’s Geneva (Switzerland) correspondent says they “need confirmation.” It is stated that for every 1,000 boys born in the later years of the war, 1,088 girls have been born. Before the war the ratio was 1,000 boys to 1,024 girls. “Noth- Ing,” writes the correspondent, “is known with certainty as to the con- ditions that determine sex in the hu- man species, but there is quite a large amount of evidence in support of the generalization that during wars and famines, when the conditions are gen- erally adverse, especially with regard to nutrition, the proportion of male relative to female births Increases. If there is any foundation for this gen- eralization, then we must conclude elther that the figures are wrong or that Germany was mighty well nour- fshed during the war, or else that some entirely aberrant influence was at work." WORK GF PLANT INVENTOR His Ckill Produces Variations That Naturo Would Resquire Thousande of Years to Accomplish, With a watch glass und a fine cam- el's-hair trusia the plant inventor per- forms miracles, He causes more changes in six generations than Nature, unaided, would produce in 100,000 years. Two piants may be growing in his garden, native of countries sep- arated by contlnents. Thelr strue- tures, habits, hereditary tendencles and identities have been preserved through thousands of years. The plant inventor takes the pollen from one, transfers It to his watch glass, carries it to the other, and frem the glass transforms it to the bloom. The resultant seed is sown. The new plants may resemble one plant or the other, or they may be like neither, or they may be the veriest monstrosi- ties. There are thousands of disap- pointments for one success in the work. Luther Burbank chose one seeding out of 65000 when he invented the primusberry. The rest were remorse- lessly destroyed. The new primus- berry is a cross between the raspberry and the blackberry, but has a fruit much larger and fmer than either. Mr. Burbank has produced 300,000 vari- etles of plums, 60,000 peaches and nec- tarlnes, 500 almonds, 5,000 walnuts, 8,000 apples, 2,000 grapes, 2,000 pears and thousands of different kinds of berries, flowers and vegetables in equal profusion. C. R. SANBORN, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Oftice: Miles Bloek House Phone 449——Oftice phone §§ .| for a railway. LONGEST LIFT BRIDGE This Is the longest lift bridge the world, recently completed at Clilcago It is 300 feet long, has ' a balance welght of nearly a million pounds and took two years in building. The Tarantula. The sclentific name of that Ameri- can spider called the tarantula is cten- iza Californica, and it is one of the trap-8ogr- spiders. It is common in New’ Mekico, ‘Arizona and California, According to Kingsley this spider digs 1ts hole 'th a fine soil which when dry is nearly as bard as brick. These epider holes are sometimes nearly an ftach in’diameter and vary iy, depth from two to three inches to nearly a foot. 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