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PAGE FOUR | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Pal Matter. GEORGE D. MANN Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Publisher CHICAGO Marquette Bldg. DETROIT Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH $= NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. a MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS rf The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or = republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise entitled in this paper and also the local news pub- > = lished herein. s All rights of republication of special dispatches herein {2 are also reserved. ce MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION b= ain eetntneids we SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE a3 Daily by carrier, per year.......... nies Dah calees HpMGeO = Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck)... . ShGaTe ces 7.20 he Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).... 5.00 cz Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota...... seeiceees 6.00 55 oe ne ‘ THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) (Official City, State and County Newspaper) INVENTOR OF THE AUTOMOBILE Elwood Haynes who died recently is know as the father of the automobile. He made the first mechanically suc- cessful automobile. The first car made by him bears the date of 1893 and is among the cherished exhibits of the Smithsonian institute. It bears the following label: “Gasoline Automobile Built by Elwood Haynes in Kokomo, Indiana, 1893-4. Successful trips made a speed of six or seven miles per hour July 4, 1894.” How rapid the industry has grown ever since. In 1898 theré was only one car for every 18,000 persons in America: in 1893 there was one motor car for every eight persons in the United States. Of the 18,023,584 cars registered in the world, 15,092,177 are driven in the United States. Incidentally Haynes sowed the seed of a great industry, characteristically American. No single invention has con- tributed as much to the development of the nation as the automobile or more to the happiness of its people. The first cars that “whizzed” down the streets in 1893 provoked mirth. They were used largely as advertising stunts; toys in the hands of many who could not realize what great changes time would work. One writer described the automobile of the early days as: ” by “A hybrid creation secured by crossing a bicycle i with a buggy and installing a noisy, sputtering little i] engine.” é Not such a far span from that to the twin sixes, super- sixes and the purring “eights!” IRREPRESSIBLE TOM MIX i Tom Mix’s entry into Great Britain was as spectacular * as his usual dash over the silver screen. His press agent was on the job and provided a special gangplank so Tom could make a “camera descent” from the Aquitania upon his well known mount Tony. His western garb was perfect , and the rattle of his regalia punctuated the cheers of the crowd and the clique of the many cameras focused upon the idol of moviedom. Fe The London Daily News in an editorial headed “Such is Fame,” comments upon Mix’s arrival and his reception: Seta “Fame in the twentieth century is a very differ- ent thing from fame in the past. While our tradi- tions and our institutions remained as they were, nature and the consequences of fame changed. Fame has become magnified a million times. To be famous nowadays means to be known from Pole to Pole, to be seen on the screen and heard on the wireless simultaneously by innumerable worship- rT: "ae 3. “Such is the lesson which the arrival of the film star serves to teach us, for our musty institutions appear a little inadequate on these occasions. We 4 have distinctions to offer fit for heroes, or poets, of Generals; the freedom of a city is quite enough for a mere Prime Minister, but when a film star arrives, what is there to do? A dozen Mayors in all their municipal glory pale beside the fame of the king of the screen. Clearly, we must revise our institu- a) aH \ A FLYING RAILROAD The new Nickel Plate charter, providing for the latest = big railroad consolidation, is certainly a broad, inclusive and ultra-modern document. It provides for a railroad operated by “steam, electricity, gas, gasoline or other motive power,” for the use of steam- ships and other water craft, of “wagons, automobiles, trac- tors, trucks and other vehicles, airplanes, hydroplanes and other aircraft,” and for the acquisition of “aviation fields ee thal? Hs of “office buildings, restaurants and hotels.” No other railroad company ever thought of lining up legal rights to any such assortment of transportation methods and accessories. If there is any mechanical means of transport- ing goods and passengers not included by the Van Sweringen Brothers in their plans for the merger, except possibly sub- marines, it is not, easily discoverable. The aerial ‘provisions may arouse the most interest. Motor busses on land are now being adopted as auxiliaries and feeders to railroads. How long will it be until every up-to-date railroad will have its air feeders? LIVING UP TO ITS REPUTATION The Balkans can start a war or a revolution overnight. It seems to be the national pastime despite the League of Nations. Bulgaria is the hot bed of strife and dissention. Its king narrowly escaped assassination and now a bomb out- rage takes a terrific toll among. innocent persons not con- 2 nected with the government or its jntrigue. Mis HEE tte PO RR ES & acting upon orders from Moscow. Others ® between political factions. j 4 SASKATCHEWAN’S LAW lished agents. How to get it home is to be their own problem. ‘by doing their own rum running. , and landing places, both on land and water,” to say nothing | Some of the trouble, it is said, is fomented:-by Communists declare it is a feud Saskatchewan is going to get some of the “bootlegger’s” revenue and invites every American citizen to come across é the border and “do his own bootlegging.” Citizens of the ' United States can purchase guaranteed “stuff” from estab- But those on the border who still have an appetite for moist things, will probably cut down the cost of high living ‘> We are living in h that spring will make people too Editorial Review = Comments reproduced in_ this column may or may not express the opinion of The Tribune. They are presented here in order that our readers may have both sides of important issues which are being discussed in the press of the day. CAFETERIA (New York Herald Tribune) The navel orange and the cafe: teria came from the same region. They ‘both have also about the same date of origin. Who pro- wuced the first navel orange may be a bit uncertain, but older resi- dents in Los Angeles know when the first cafeteria was established in that city. Now cafeterias flour- ish from Bucksport to San Diego. Like the nave] orange, they owe, their popularity to their conven- fence. A navel orange is not so juicy as a seedy Florida, and a cafeteria is no complete substitute for a first class restaurant. Never- theless, the cafeteria has come to stay, and the spirit of the cafeteria is growing. : By origin the word has romantic Spanish associations. It from the Spanish cafetera, which means coffee pot, refashioneé after words like panaderia, baker's shop, johoneria. soap factory and many others. Originaily cafeteria took a stress on the penultimate syia- ‘le, in accordance with its Spanisi origin, but now the stress is al most always on tho antepenult. The most interesting thing about the word. however, is the way in which it has led to the formation of other words like it. Already gro- ceteriag are common, being merely grocery stores where you he'p yourself and pay as you leav A basketeria is something sim and so also the drugeteria, the candyteria and the caketeria. But the last word in self-help is reac! ed in the hatteria an! the millin- teria. Here one may try on all the hats in the store, dallying as long as one will before the mirror, and be sure of buying at least last to please one's self, not an important attendant. One may not say that the cafeteria has not justified it- self. ar, New York, April 20.—See-sawing {up and down Broadway I saw Helen Gahagan, who looks like a young Ethel Barrymore. Also she has a voice and mannerisms much like those of Miss Barrymore and I doubt not that some day she will be. ac- claimed as great an actress....... Saw Lucie Stern, a little girl of 1 who is already a concert pianist. When little more than six she was admitted to the Berlin State Aca- demy of Music Saw a flap- per in a yellow. dress, red hat and green hose. Looked as though some- one had spilled Easter egg dye on her.. Saw George Jean Nathan, the critic, and Lillian Gish, the car- rot-eating champion of the fillums. Deeply engrossed in each other they were, and so I give credence to the report that they are betrothed Saw four young blades quite con- scious of their conspicuousness in straw hats.............. Saw L. D. Reagin, from Sarasota, Fla., an en- terprising editor of an enterprising paper. So enthusiastic was he about, Florida weather and so chilled was I by a New York April that I asked if he needed a good reporter, to which he replied that he could put an office boy to work Saw a traffic cop talking to a pretty girl in a classy roadster and petting her chow dog and when the traffic signal changed he gave her the right of way around the corner while other traffic halted. Yet it has been set down that we are all born free and equal. Saw Will Rogers point Barthelmess in the audience at the Follies and thereafter many young and old ladies were more interested in Richard than what was going on behind the footlights, albeit Richard did not distract the men folk... .Saw Julian Levy, young artist from Phil- adelphia. Here for a day's vacation, he visited nine art galleries before luncheon........ Greenwich village is often refer- ned to as the Bahemia of New York. That is due to a mistaken concep- tion, There are a few garret ariists in the village, but it lacks the color and the cosmopolitan citizenry to be found in other sections of the city, notably the Chatham Square district on the lower East Side and the Ar- menian sector of Lexington avenue in the Twenties. Lexington avenue in that particu- lar section is lined with restaurants, Most of them are Armenian, but their patronage is derived from Bul- garians, Czecho-Slovakians, Rumani- ans and people of the Near East. Many of them are art or professional students. You will find among them more general culture than is found in the cellar stalls of.Greenwich Vil- lage or the brightlight caravansaries uptown, Meats on the Armenian menu are limited to lamb and chicken, The former is prepared in many ways, but the favorite is shish kebab. That is choice bits of lamb roasted on a spittle between quarters of tomatoes on the same prong.” Several kinds of scientifically fermented milk are served as appetizers. Desserts are dry pastries flavored with nuts and sweetened with honey. A substantial meal prepared under the most sani- tary conditions can be had for 60 to 80 cents. —JAMES W. DEAN. o—___-_______—__ | LITTLE JOE ! "The twee reorie taux You INTO ARE SOMETIMES, WARD TO GET out ; comes |, ;source of joy, they q|why there are so many different THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE OLS e) oO DCOOOQCHOHOOOCK MISS KATHARINE F. LENROOT, ASSISTANT CHIEF OF THE CHILDREN’S BUREAU, DEPART- MENT OF LABOR, PICTURED WITH THE BUREAU'S MODEL PLAYGROUND. By NEA Service Washington, April 20.—America’s model “perfect playground” hay» es-| tablished an international reputati | The model, a fove-acre public play-| fround in miniature, belongs to the| children’s bureau of the Department | of Labor. It is used for exhibition | purposes, to illustrate how an ideal | playground should be laid out. Recently a duplicate model was | sent to the Pan-American Child We'- | fare Congress in Santiago, Chile,| where it so pleased the South Amer- | ieans that they immediately raised | the nec ry funds to purchase it. Now. according to word recei ted here, it is being used as a guide for playground construction throughout our sister continent. It has already served as a model for playgrounds in all. parts of the United States. often keep you from doing things you shouldn't: do.| While children of your own are si | The really hard thing about mak-| ing both ends meet is there are about a. million ends. thai Spring is season in which you often hear “I don't think he is good enough for her. We are afraid for a real rainbow to see the spring styles. It might turn ‘all green with envy. Some people's faces look as if they have been slept in. g Ants are getting out their spiked shoes to wear while rambling up and down picnickers. Several national problems haven't been solved since last month. Being in a rut doesn’t mean you are not getting anywhere. A loce- motive isn’t worth a darn unless :t stays on the track. We hear of the young dentist who asked a girl for a kiss, saying “It won't hurt a bit Accidents, will happen, which is kinds of salads in the world. No matter how warm it gets there will be no cold weather short- age for several weeks. The most reliable financial writer is the bank teller. Thinking about being in love only makes it feel worse. A straw hat is a round object which you wear on your head until somebody sits on it. Bathing suits some of us in bad shape. show the winter left, | Count your fingers after shaking hands with an insurance man. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON Nimble Jack brought the \news back first. “Snitcher Snatch is gone,” he cried. “He had the magic aeroplane hid- den in a button-ball tree and he took it and flew off.” Mister Whizz and the Twins hur-; ried to the button-ball tree as fast ab they could go. But the magic aeroplane was as gone as the ice-cream you had last Sunday. “There is one thing about an aero- plane,” said Mister Whizz though fully, “it doesn’t leave any track.’ “We'll show you the way he went,” said Jack Horner pointing to the sky. “He flew past that church steeple then followed the creek up, the valley and went between those 6" hill . said Mister) “Thank you, boys,” Whizz. “Come, children, maybe we can catch him yet.” And off he started with enormous | strides, followed by the Twins in their magic shoes. “Good-bye!” call ied the- boys of Daddy Gander Town: “Good-bye!” called the Twins and Mister Whizz. “Instead of my aeroplane helping me to catch that fellow,” grymbled the fairyman as they went along, “it has only helpedrim to get ag I should have left it at home. hy, what's this?” So No one needed ‘to, answer that question for it ‘was plain as the nose on the constable’s face—what it was. It waa-the magic aeroplane itself lying ‘on the ground in front of them. ere it was, safe and sound, all by itgelf; aot a chick:or child pear.it— ling separated. U. S. MODELS“ PERFECT” PLAYGROUND 5 aay £05. The “perfect playground” planned by Miss Martha Speakman, former recreation expert of the chil- dren's bureau. In “real life” it ac-| commodates_ from 300 to 500 chil- dren, with a Staff consisting of a playground direetor, a special super- visor for, the younger children, a swimming instructor and a guard. It is designed as a single unit made up of several smaller units. By a system of arranging shrubs and trees, the older and younger children are separated without be- There are two base- for the older and was ball diamonds, younger bi tennis courts bery pool hrub- ming s is the are cut off by and netting. The s' hemmed in by trees, ’ wading pool. This plan of separation is fol- The Tangle LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT TO THE LITTLE MARQUISE, CARE OF THE SECRET DRAWER, CONTINUED Besides, I think, Little Marquise, that I have made John feel that IJ am too utterly devoted to him. I noticed the ther night when I danced with Melville Sartoris he seemed quite as’ surprised as dis- gruntled. His way of describing the episode to Sydney Carton was really funny. I laughed over it heartily even when my heart was aching a little. In that letter he told me more than he told Sydney, for I read be- tween ‘the lines that he expected me to be devoted to him and a wall- flower’ except when he himself danced with me or obtained partners for me. In fact, you may not be- lieve it, Little Marquise, but i| smiled all through Jack’s letter. It was so like him. Someone has said that laughter is the weeping of the soul which is, I suppose, only another way of saying that true humor is dangerously near to tears. I told this to Ruth the other day and she that to her, laughter at times was only the soul weeping over its lost illusions and we poor beings knew that if we did not laugh, we too would also ery. I wonder if Syd will tell Jack that he sent his letter to me. I hope he will not. It would embarrass me to know that my husband knew I had geen some part of his inner con- sciousness that for some untold rea- son he had never shown to me. SOG The basketball and] is Mr. eo Q eo of the rich and the poor. member himself might have given to children. There are samples of their class: both. Character is personal. portunities of the rich and the their station. ig the newspaper. lowed throughout the entire grounds. The model was made by George Robertson, sculptor and model-maker now with the War Department, known for his models of the Wash- ington park tem and the propos- ed Arlington Me1‘rial Bridge. His miniature is perfect in every Even the “Sunday Sup” contains an increasing admixture. of intelli- gent features. If there is still sen- sationalism, it is less “yellow” than its predecessors; if some things are plainly which used to be sug- gestively insinuated, that is at least more frank. detail. Miniature figures are play-|" ang in. the advertising columns. ing on the tennis’ and basketball] , Qmd in the scvertis 13 : courts, baseball diamonds, indecent advertising {s gone an fraudulent and deceptive advertising is going. Quack doctors have nearly disappeared and quack medicine grows constantly less. Blackmailing collection agencies are unknown; get-rich-quick —specu- lations are largely banned; there is of course no liquor or saloon adver- tising; and there is a ban on bogus “bankrupt sales” and immensely higher standard of ligitimate com- mercial advertising. Berate the newspapers all you like. ‘They doubtless need it still. But before you praise too much the “good old times” when editors call- ed each other liars and thieves and made part of their livings from ob- scene and fraudulent advertising— look up some old files, to remind yourself what they were like. teeter-totters, slides and rings. They are swimming in the tank, wading in the pool, and sit- ting on the “story bench” listening to childrens’ stories. ‘ ce of playground equipment ng. Rest house, bath houses eball grandstands are com- design and construction. plete “in uctic There are even miniature drinking fountains ~at- convenient places around the grounds. I am very glad he sent it to me, however, for taken in conjunction Enna with what Paula Perier told me of | BRITISH EMPIRE QUIETLY what she had learned of men, I feel| BECOMES AN ASSOCIATION as though sometimes I am “implac-|OF NATIONS ably unforgiving. 1 can't quite] The prime minister of South Af- swallow my pride yet and let Jack|rica explains that the objection of see that I do want to forgive and|his people to the further granting forget and start from that Land-of-| of titles of nobility, among them is Beginning-Again that he is always] not democratic squeamishness as to talking about, the titles themselves, but opposition After all, Jack is my husband. 1 am his wife and it is a silly notion 7. that I have that we should set up such a hypocritical performance as living in the same house and ‘pre- tending to the world that we are, husband and. wife while all the while I have erected 4 barrier bi ween us so high and so impe ctrable that neither of us can sur-/™on as they once were, thanks to mount it. the fight against the malaria mos- Now, 1 am going to inaugurate a’ quito. new plan which I think will meet) However, many acute diseases be- with your approval. For some” rea-| pj in with a chill, and are followed son I have always thought that youj.with fever. The fever subsides after were a bit, of a flirt, Little Marquise, : [rine and. ia follgwed by a second and that you kept your kingly lover) chill. ‘The doctor usually prescribes by not seeming too anxious to keep|a dose of quinine. him. Here is the plan: I am going! Reaction during the chill should to be as gay as possible and Iam go-|be promoted by application of hot ing to flirt a little. I know that/ bottles or hot water bags at the feet Sartoris is’ interested ‘in me—|and under the arms, covering the erory, woman knows when a men [patient with warm flannels and giv- Chills and fever are not so com- THE GOOD ARE GOOD AND THE BAD ARE BAD By Chester H. Rowell FABLES ON HEALTH CHILLS BRING ILLNESS — Lady Astor and a Labor member had an unparliamentary tiff in Parliament over the comparative faults of the wives Whereupon Lady Astor insinuated that the honorable takep better care of his 18 children if he had come nearer to exemplifying her prohi- bition principles. Mutual apologies ended the incident. It is a futile question, anyway. ‘There are rich women who lavish dogs, or worse, the attention which should, be poor women who come home drunk and smother their children. Neither are respectable, ‘And there is noble devotion and heroic sacrifice among The temptations and the op- poor differ, and to that extent their families and triumphs take different forms. But the good are good and the bad are bad, whatever Is the world getting better? Look into its mirror, which Consider the improvement of its news columns, in the things they include, and of its advertising columns, in the things they leave out. : So many things are now news which the editor of a gen- eration ago would have rejected as beyond the interest or knowledge of) his readers — foreign news, art and musical news, archaeological and palaeontological discoveries (in other words, King Tut and dinosaurs) science, religion, edu- cation —all these are treated with a fullness indicating a recognition of the wider intellectual interests of readers. to’ the imposition of a “foreign” sys- tem on them. If this keeps up, throughout the British Empire, Sinn Fein, in Ire- land, may ag well shut up shop. By merely keeping automatic pace with the rest of the dominions, its aspir- ations will be realized without the d| trouble of fighting for them, “The past decade has seen a peace- ful revolution, _characteristically British in its indefinability. There have been no Declarations of Inde- pendence, and there is nothing which a lawyer would call independence; yet the dominions are increasingly independent. What was.once the empire has| become an association of free na- tions, bound by ties of little more than tradition ‘and sentiment. they were Frenchmen, they would insist on a logical definition, and if they were lawyer-ridden Ameri- cans, they would have to havea written document, for courts to con- strue. Being British, they let it do itself, and do not inquire whether it is either logical or consistent. Mes Ses TPE Oe US eS ‘A THOUGHT | eS My grace is sufficient for thee. 2 Cor. 12:9. The mother grace of all the graces is Christian good will.—Beecher. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) Stimulants should not be given without .the doctor's permission. When the fever comes on, ice and cold water may be given. A cooling laxative usually is ordered, as cit- tate pf magnesia, The body may be sponged if the temperature is very high. A cloth, wet in alcohol, and bound on the forehead, will help to relieve the headache. It should be kept wet without removing it from the head. When the fever decreases the pa- tient perspires profusely. Then the body should be, dried from time to tim flannel night dress put on, the room darkened and the sufferer likes her even if he does not tell her| ing warm drinks, such as hot lemon- —so, with malice aforethought, I am| ade and hot milk. going to flirt with him a little. I wish, instead of being. long years dead, you were here at my elbow and could tell me what you think of my plan. LESLIE, (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) now but sneeze. All I can do with this old machine is to make it turn somersaults, So take it and keep it and welcome. I don't need it any- way. My long legs are enough even D certainly not a%goblin with a long nose. “Well, for goodness sake!” cried Mister Whizz. “Will surprises never stop happening? Now, ‘why do you suppose that rascal left my aero- plane here? And why didn’t he—” Suddenly Nancy saw something. | EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO = Me, TRVE, THINKING HIS = CHAIR (NW (TS USVAL POSITION, — SITS DOWN FARTHER THAN INTENPED, THANKS To THE OF FICS PRACTICAL JOKER, We if they are crooked. I'm not going to let you have the snuff box until I am through with it. if the Fairy Queen did give it to her uncle for his birthday. Goblins can only have fun when they are doing something they shouldn't. I can’t help it if I'm a goblin. Catch me if you .can. “Yours in haste, { “Snitcher Snatch.” “Where do you suppose he has gone?” said Nancy looking around. “Are you looking for someone?” asked a voice close by. And then the travelers noticed something they hadn’t seen before. Their old friend, the beanstalk, stretching to the sky. It was th little green beanstalk fairy talking. There he was, stretching out of one of the windows of his tiny green house. “There's a note!” she exclainied. “It’s pinned on one side.” Niok took it and opened it and the others crowded near while he read: “Dear Mister Whizz and_ the Twins: Some of the magic snuff got up my nose and I can’t do anything “Yes, we're looking for Snitcher Snatch,” said Nick. (To Be Continued) Hetco— Jones Evererr Teves. Orrice CHAIR CIKG Soup mG. YES. SEND ME. UP A Goo> (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.) -U. N. D. GIRL DEBATERS CLASH Grand Forks, N. D., April 20.—Girl students, will, clash in intercollegiate debate at the University of North Dakota this evening for the first time in the -history of the institu- tion. Three girls from Macalester College will meet three U.N. D. girls on tl question, » “Resolved, hat Congre: ould have the power to override by a two-thirds vote deci- sions of the supreme court declar- ing acts of Congress unconstitution- U. N. D. debaters, who will uphold the' ae pve of the question, are el % Co.t THis Is Doroth; ison of Flaxton, Maud THS one “ev Cast Dickinson, of Minnewaukan, and (GH lary Jeffery, o' jannah. larol Abe ae Johnerud, of the Moorhead State Teachers College) will Judge. - fomen debaters from the Uni- serve as versity are scheduled-to clash in a dual debate with Jamestown College next Wednesday evening. The sa: me team will represent the University on the home floor, and Alice Angus, of Hannaford, Lucy Johnston, of Walés, and Lois C: Grand Forks, will. debate. RATS WITH RABBITS Lincolnshire, Eng.; April 20—Rats, both: brown and. gray, have 'found living with rabbits in thei holes, by tat-catcher he: I don’t care} H put to bed. DOCTORED ALL WINTER, FINDS RELIEF “I doctored all winter and it didn’t pele. a bit, but FOLEY’S HONEY & TAR COMPOUND was just the thing for my cough and cold,” writes Mr. len Daniel, Bereyabure, Penn. FOLEY’S HONEY & TAR COM- POUND is one of the. largest selling cough medicines in the world. Con- tains no opiates—ingredients are printed on each carton. Good for old and young. Refuse substitutes Insist upon FOLEY'’S.—Adv. LONGEST TUNNEL London, April 20.—Britain will possess the longest tunnel in Eu- rope when the scheme for carrying the waters of Loch Trief and Loch. Laggan to a’ hydro-electric station at Fort William is completed. The tunnel will be 15 miles in length, than some two and a half mites longer the Simplon tunnel, and in places will be 2000 feet under the mountain. YOU LOOK AS YOUNG as your hair. «Your age is not betrayed if your hair pe hacia faded, and a oatlae o Took older BeAr AY ne Transformation, Wig, Switch or Pompadour will take,off many years. Write for our Free Catalog of UARANTEED G x HAIR coope