Evening Star Newspaper, November 11, 1923, Page 71

THE World Peace and Armistice Day Another O Editor of The Star who must know that all Fights are di- vided into two (%) umportant branches—when o start and when to quit. ] Dearest S My, cousin Nogi arrive 3o my kiteh- | en Diept. this aum. in tine to enjoy | a haminegg from brekfast of Mrs. & Mr. C. W. Quackmire forswho I were | cooking it. When Nogi Zame around | like that it make me pretty happy | that I am too poor to I)l.‘, charritible. | This time he say he argive on busi- 1 am alarmed. How can I hide | 1% unbierella? | Togo,” he commence, taking a free | of coffer from stove, Scould I bor- | 1 the folowing List of articles to wear over Nov. 11: : | 1. A Patented Leathef shoe (right | hand prefered). | 2. Small slice of Some stingy like 5§ maybe. H “If you will tell me where it was | you left your brain” I relate very i | ness. Blué Ribbon., | amound of cash | measillish, “maybe I could get it back by talefoning. : * % ¥ X CCFJON: Brain are sleeping very com- fortable under my, hair, thank you,” he dib. “While ydi frying | eggs I shall explain to you why I need those arcticles. : I fry. He talk. “That left handed because it are married 1o the right handed one 1 stole from you 2 weeks of yore. That slice of Elue Ribbon 1 wish because T can p: )ticial’ on him and get in Grand Stind, perhaps- iy, amidst flags of all cclors. I must ave 58 to keep my very high posi- tion in socicty while sytting beside Miss Suzi Obi, Japanese Yampier, who will be there to see Perade.” “Perade? I narrat peevly. “Hashimura Togo,” he snork, “you mean to tell you so short- browed you have not heard of Nov. ur “Hon. Mrs. Quackmire are enter- taining her husband's mother-in-law this week,” I narrate. “This keep me so busy with bathing dishes & other appetizing foods that I got no time to read news. “Armistice Day are not news,” de- cry Nogl. “It are History,"” This got me so inflamed that T sit fire to 4 eggs. O tell me al Shbe 1 require very me i some Fax about 1 i * ¥ ok ! ““ Nov. 11, five yrs. of yore,” say Nogi, “Hon. Kaiser of Germany got on a box car and waved a white | flag to show that he had won the war. | Upon that signal every soldiers in! that umperial army stop snonllnk‘ cannons and went into the printing | business to manufacture the kind of German money which persons trade for coupons if sufficiently intoxicated. It were a great day for the Hohen- ! zollern family, ispecially old Mr. | Hohenzollern, who did not need to write any more speeches after that. Nogi pause to ate one (1) peace of | toast which was slightly soiled. “Do I make myself simple?” he ask to know. “You are simpler than Einsteln yet | not so intelligent,” I manipulate. “Now tell me this, Nogi. Were every- body satisfied with this Armistice?” “Everybody,” he negotiate, “axept Senator Hiram Johnson, Senator Lodge and others who think that war should kepe up till it got under a republican management. “So war were .over,” I resum while stirring & mast of flapcakes for brek- Tast, By Wallace Irwin of the Japanese Schoolboy Letters “NOGI AND MISS SUZI OBI WATCHED THE PARADE.” “Ita were nearly over,” decapitate | my cousin, “but it almost bursted out | again when Woodrow Wilson go to| Paris with his Dcetring of Peace. This are dangerus talk In Europe | where armles are too plentiful, and | murder will aways be stylish. How- | everly, thut Armistice were all cov- | ered with famus signatures, by gol- 1y. and all nations happy axcept two “Which two (2)?" I negotiate. “Ireland & Italy,” report Nog “ltaly were pretty darnly mad be- | cause she lost Fiume and Ireland en- | | Joy rage because she could not have | Al London. this were soonly settled by 2 famus poets, Hon. Lloyd Geo. & Hon. Gabriel D. Annuncio. So !now we have Peace and nothing to do | incum tax, if possible.” | * * X ¥ ¢ ARE that reason why you wish | 4 porra so meh drygoods to sit fashionably watching Armistic Pe- de?’ I ask to know. “Are it not pretty eweet to have Armistice?” he slap back spittishly. “Pussibly,” I develop. “It are pretty nobile thing, by golly, to set in bleached seats watching hero boys who won that war. But while those Generals & Doboys are perading, would it not be more industrious for U. S. & Canada to use that Day for to start another Armistice here and there?” “You are talking garbage but pay | he nar- rate. I not am!” I dib. “I are talking very valuable. Almost everywhere 1 look I wish I could start an Armis- tice.” | “Where would you commence?” he require buffibly. “I will relate,” I tell, “following LIST OF ARMISTICES 1—In Oklahoma. Send there a pretty | swift Armistice which would put Gov. Walton in one box car and the Kow Klucks Kleagle in another. | Then ship them in opp. directions. 2—In Pennsylvania. Get up an Armis- tice that will keep Hon. Giff Pin- chot vut of Saloons so that mare |t drunkards can enjoy their wooden alkohol and lose their eyes peace fully. 3—In Art Circles. An Armistice that would stop cross College Profs. from saying that Mr. Rembrandt, who Is in the Metropolitan seem, were painted by Howard Chandler Christy, who too wealthy to do such work 4—Capital & Labor. An Armistice be- tween umployer and umployee which will arrange the behavior of unions, chickens etc. Then maybe the high cost of bricklaying & egg-laying will drop down and be reached by all. 6—An Armistice on the Farm. Some- thing might be thought up which would stop wheat from growing while Hon. Tariff s revising himselt.” I relate this List catigarlick Cousin Nogi while Hon. Quackmire breakfast are on gas stove getting Mu- is too hot to eat. * % ok % IAT you tell is neither hither CATE \\ nor yon,” exp “I merely know that Nov Armistice Day when all patriots of North America will march. Togo, you could not permit your dolling Cousin to set in Grand Stand without more than ona (1) shoe on his feet. And think of it! If sifficiently beautiful maybe I shall marry Miss Suzi Obi whose father erns an enlarged salary Japanese hymns on radlo, so much wealthy in my pocket repay back several i1 maybe I could things 1. 0. u.” “You could, but would you?' I snob. “Nogi, I permit you to go see Perade. Go take girl. But if you are there vou will wear your pudiam- mas for all the stylish garments I shall lone you." “Q ashamed!" he holla. “Togo, are you not sifficiently patriotick to send me to Perade?”" “No, multiplied by 100000001 1 sifficiently pa- home. In that llup. “But T are tick to keen you splandid Dishplay of All Nations 1 hould detest to see Janan represent- »d by such a diluted species of berry like you are” With that lecture T slightly took up a fry-pan which cantained eggs from ove. “Unless you leave me to my pro- fession (cooking) I shall lay those ©ggs on vou,” I narrate wrathly. And I should do so, thank you, but something else happen. of sound Encroaching 1t Mrs. C. W. Qua ing proud but homely, while t at me like a mad ecagl ogo.” she narrate hashl 'who are this depreciated person in here before brekfast eating it while mak- ing loud bellus with his depraved lng? How darest you issue such a noise? Do you not know I was a through door roeyes night? How darest you start t rude gunmanship in my refined Kitchen?* W * ok ok % were discursing World Pea 1 manipulate with meaknes pecuiiar to wounded ants. “I sipposed 8o0!" she burst. “Noth- ing elss could make such murderous excitement. Now I inform you, Togo. Next time vou mention Peace in my midst you shall pack vour satchil (or trunk) and take it elsewheres. Last cook T had were 2 Pacifist and the ¥ she loft off working she threw a lit at my husband. I will not rmit Peace in this residence. We are a respectable family.” I stand frozen very dead whale. With those Cousin Nogi. “& s for you!” she commence. But that report were minus. For my Cousin Nogi had evaporated him- self away, feeling very squashed. Hoping you are the same, Yours truly HASHIMURA TOGO. (Oopsright, 1925.) om quiet like a e turn to The Modern Little Red Riding Hood According to Ring W. Lardner O the editor: Well children, here is the story of little Red | Riding Hood like I tell it to my little ones when they wake up in the morning with a headache after a tough night. Well, one or two times they was | a little gal that lived in the suburbs who they called her little Red Riding | Hood because she always wore a reil riding hood in the hopes that some- | time a fresh guy in a high-power roadster would pick her up and take her riding. | Red had a grandmother that lived | over near the golf course and got in on most of the parties, and one noon she got up and found that they | wasn't_no gin in the house for her| breakfast, so she called up her daughter and told her to send Red over with a bottle of gin as she was dying. So Red starts out with a quart under her arm, but had not went far when she met a police dog. A good many people has police dogs, and brags about them and how nice they are for children and etc. but personiy I would just as leaf have my kids spend their week ent swim- ming in the state shark hatchery. x K ok ¥ VWELL this special police dog was like the most of them and hated everybody. When he scen Red he spoke to her and she answered him. Even a Uog was better than nothing. She told him where she was going and he pertended like he wasn't paying no tension, but no sooner had not she left him when he beat it up a alley and got to her grandmother's joint ahead of Ber. Well, the oll lady heard him knock at the door and told him to come in, as she thought he must either be Red or a bootlegger. So he went in and the old lady was in bed “WELL, GRANDMOTHER,” SHE SAYS, “YOU MUST HAVE HIT THE incinerating plant, you can either lift out with a penalty of two strokes or | else play it with a penalty of suf- | focation. |drive and the ball rolled into the garbage. He elected to play it and made what looked like a beautiful shot. but when they got up on the Breen they found that he had hit a | white radish instead of a golf ball. A long argument followed during which the gallery went home to get his supper. The hole was finely con- ceded. The 11th hole on the course Is probably the sportiest hole in golf- dom. The tee and green are synony- | mous, and the first shot is a putt, but the rules signify that the putt must be played off a high tee with a driver. Red's father was on in two and off in three more and finely sunk his approach for a birdle eight, squaring the match, Thus the match was all square coming to the home hole, which is right close to grandmother's cottage. Red's father hooked his drive through an open window in his mother-in- law's house and forced his caddy to lend him a niblick. He entered the cottage just as the dog was be- ginning to eat Red. “What hole, are father?” asked Red. “The elghteenth,” says her father, “and it is a dog's leg.” you playing the leg with his niblick and the dog was surprised. “I win, one up,” says Red's father, his two opponents. But they had quit and went home to dress for the club dance. (Copyright, 1023.) Japan’s Singing Insect. THE Fukumoushi, or “Happy Bell‘. of Japan is a tiny insect, with brilliant musical capabilities, which kmire, look- | Red’s old man topped his | Whereat he hit the police dog in; and he went out to tell the news to! SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER 11, 1 923—PART 5. President’s Personal Secretary Has Unusual Equipment for Post BY JAMES A. BUCHANAN. ILLIONS have read of the many things that confront the President of the United States each day that he oc- cuples the White House, but few have ever had a ‘close-up” of the action behind the scenes. The public has not had a chance to note how the men who sort out the thousand and one things that are put up to the | President every day perform their du- ties. A large portion of the general public thinks that all the personal secretary to the President has to do is to dictate a few letters each day, welcome a few friends and have & real good time in general, but if one camped on the trail of Edward Tracy Clark, personal secretary and lifelong friend of Calvin Coolidge, one would find that this earnest sort of a person has no cinch job, and would mentally | cupitalize cach of the letters in the “no cinch job" part. Contrary to general belief, the President's friend and very able as- sistant did not come from Massachu- {setts—that is, originally—for he was {born in Kingston, N. Y., but at the lage of two he left the place of his birth and removed to Northampton, Mass., where Calvin Coolidge settled {after having come down from Ver- mont. There always has been a fas- { i 1 }many a big political deal has had its Ilnrlh in that hamlet. Clark was rather young wiwn he first met the man who was to take { the little chap whose father was the pastor of Edwards Congregational {Church to Washington with him, as his right-hand man. It will be re- membered that the Coolidges, for {many years attended the church over | which Mr. Clark, sr, presided. The {man who now occupies the White | House took a liking to man, although there are not really {so very many years difference in their ages. They often chatted upon | the questions of the day. | Coolidge saw that there was u young {tellow who had, according to his no- tion, the right perspective on things {in general. | Kt * % % D" CLARK. as his Intimate friends call him, grew up just like any other normal New |land boy. He not = milk-sop, he pla; was and they say in that part of the coun- try that he could not be bullied. He | | attended the public schools and was | considered a bright pupil, not a “phe- | great sufferer from home-cocktalls| nom,” just a real good student who | applied himself to his tasks and |learned what had been set out for {him to learn. After finishing the course at the public school in Northampton, he en- {tered Amherst and graduated near | the top ot his class in 1900. During { the time that he was in Amherst, the | same institution thot had as pupils, {Calvin Cooltdge, Frank W. Stearns, {and many other men who have {achieved fame, he paid particular at- | tention to political economy. Mem- bers of the class of 1900 say that Clark was mighty hard to down in an argument that concegned that sub- | ject, or any other for that matter, as he had an extremely clear and | analytical mind. They seem to be that {way in Northampton. ! “Clark graduated with the degree of {A. B., and then came to Washington as assistant clerk to the committee on the Philippines, which was under | the direction of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. The senator is withoul doubt one of the best read men of the pres lent day, and this association with {him proved to be the turning point !in the Northampton man's career, for | Lodge, appreciating the young man's | worth, appointed him his private sec iretary. The position was more than that of a secretary, however; it had a | closer and more intimate touch. Clark had a chance to meet the leading citi- zens, not only of this country, but lalso of the world. He has “sat in, | { important conferences and committee | years in the country, and never once was always nice to the reporters and gave them all that he could give out, but when it came to saying something that should not be said, he had the sphinx beaten the proverbiak-mile. He could just exude gilence. * k% * NOTHER angle that he secured while with the Massachusetts senator was how they do things in national conventions, for he was with the man who has been chairman so many times that memory falleth, and who, when he was pot holding the gavel, was chairman of the committee on resolutions. This experience in itself is an education, for a large pro- portion of the work that is done at national conventions by all parties is finished before it reaches the floor— that is, finished except for the neces- sary motions and the form of voting. It has to be 80, for delegates to a con- vention have other things to do at home, and they cannot spend days and days doing the things that the com- mittees should do. The reader may understand that this sort of a political education is.of great value to any man, and Clark was studying all the time that he was with the distinguished senator from his state. He studled law at night and graduated with honors from George Washington University. Those who have heard him speak say that if he had embarked on a personal po- litical career he would now be onc of the leading figures in his state. Onme thing to be noticed about the personal secretary to President Cool- under the most trying circumstances. l bothered and annoyed by the persist- cination about the town for many, ! ‘and it Is a matter of general talk that | the young! and Calvin | Eng- | i the games just as earnestly | and as roughly as did the other boys, as they say up at the Capitol, on more | meetings than most any man of his | was he guilty of making a break. He| Been Acquaintance sity. { | from the firm of Stone & Webster of Boston, Senator Lodge accepted Mr. | Clark's resignation, wnd the | went to the Bay state capital, he was made executive secre of twelve of the subsidiary companies |of that concern, and was making name for himself in the business iworld. where * ®xw HE election of 192 a his friend jwas chosen as one th 8 iard bearers of the republican party. !Then Clark was sent for {offered the post of private secretary |to the Vice President. He could not e the offer that had been made came and | all the objects that man has ever used as a means of clothing or embellishing his body, the glove is, perhaps, the one least subject to the changes of an ever inconstant fashion, for the !stmple reason that its destination prevented it from altering its shape Who would think that the insign cant looking little leather bag, a | tached to it, which we call a glove, |looks back on an ancestry of hun- dreds—nay, of thousands of vears Our learned archeclogists have dis- . covered that the use of the glove was known to the prehistoric cave dwell- ers. Of course, we must not imagine any likeness between the coquettish hand- covering of the modern lady and that of the times before history was. We might surmise that Mr. Cave Dwe never presented his tady on birthday or Christmas with half a dozen pairs of dainty “kid gloves.” On the con- trary. we might almost be sure that it was the woman who cut, from th pelt of some smaller game, a some-| what misshapen mitten, used theani- mal’'s own sinews to knot and fasten the parts together, and, finally, as- tonished “hubby,” coming home from hunting or being hunted by the mam- moth, on a cold evening, by the gift {of a pair of gloves, for Which the German term of “handschuhe” or hand shoes, would surely have been a very ‘fitting designation. These wearer not only against the cold, but {also against the wild animals. From these darkest of dark ages { nistory butlds no bridge of knowledge to less barbaric times. The greatest of all poets of antiquity, Homer, tells us in his immortal “Odyssey” how the crafty King of Ithaca finds his old father Laertes in his garden, work- ing among the trees and bushes and wearing mitens to protect his hands against the thorns. The ancient Persians wore fur idge is his ability to keep his head :gloves. The Romans knew their use,| jand without doubt the nations of Once when he was serving as sec- . northern Burope also, as the Latin|Wwearing retary to Mr. Coolidge, when the|word guantus ls derived from the | claborate latter was Vice President, he was! Teutonic wantus, and the Eng‘l!sh“““els, but this short period of un- | usual splendor seems now to be gone ! ‘glove” from the Icelandic lof—the with | {the five smaller bags or eylinders at- ler | “hand shoes” protected the | teeth and claws of | Son of Former Pastor to Mr. Coolidge Has of Present Executive Since Early Life—Knows Leading Statesmen Amberst and of George Washington Univer- Copsright by Underwood & Underwood EDWARD T. CLARK. PERSONAL SECRETARY TO THE PRESIDENT. _—mmm e s friend of many years, and he came to Washington, came perhaps ter equipped for the job than any 4 the office for yea He broug t only the know: edze of how t be done, but also an acquaintanceship that has since been a most valuable asset When the Vice Pre 1 well that the to be a shou a Clark became dent he did so knowing job was not going by any manner of knew Calvin Coolidge; the latter would take seriously, and that he details of the of- rd work would do it He had lawy secretary o that position means, fr he knew the would fice if b seen Coolidge er th as a young Glove and Gauntlet By E. &Orma When, during the reign the Rishop of Durham in the Tower }-rr the land. lof 1 z | was imprisoned leaped the dangerous hospital | the wrathful king by sliding down Irope, he forgot his gloves and tore { nis hgnds to the bone. In the early days of leather armor the of the warrior were unprotected: but when the coat-of- mail replaced it the armorers lengthened the sleeves, and this ex- tension, covered with metal rings, at length developed into the gauntlet Later on, these rings were replaced by small plates or sheets of metal, as offering a better protection; and in course of time these brass or iron sloves were provided with different mechanical contrivances. Goetz von Berlichinger, the German knight, sur- named “with the land,” who lived at the end of the fifteenth cen- -, lost his right hand in battle. replaced by an iron hand or gauntlet, wrought in such an ingeni- {ous fashion that Goetz could handle a sword or lance with its help; while a single blow from this “iron hand” | would kill an adversary on the spot. Up to the thirteenth century the glove had not been by ladies. It became the fashion then; and, with true feminine avidity for a new sensation, the up-to-date ladies of the period had their gloves made of linen, cut sufficiently lon; to cover the arms above the elbow Like the linen gloves themselves, the fashion for that fabric soon wore out, and the leather glove came to its own. It was manufactured in various forms for various occasions. It was covered with iron for hand of the warrior, it was thickly padded for the falconer, who had to protect himself from the claws and the beak of the tamed, and yet not always tame, falcon, {panien in chasing the heron and the |erane. In the kings' palaces the | courtier and his iy wore gloves {made of the soft, ever | scented Swedish leather. Gloves had their heyday when Elizabeth of England grew fond of them adorned with most needlework and costly enry a hands iron to! left | generally worn | the | his flerce com- | strongly | | had seen him in state, had seen him in the guberna- torial chair, he knew how he had a habit of getting at the root of things, Edward Tracy Clark did not for an inst imagine that he was letting himself into easy- chair job. He knew that Coolidge would be well informed about all branches of the government long be- fore his four-year term had expired. The friends of the President say that he has an uncanny ability in picking the right man for the place. Sometimes it be S0 at once, but it generall out b, and they n of Clark as anot Cocl- idge's farsighte Just what his duties are is the ural question th minds of those who | in his office and watch, Th wer to that answer in detail | everything that cecutive hould do. He is the personal liaison officer. o to spes many of the men “on the HillL" He is the old friend of many the President's | personal friends, and that number is egion. He is the man who can tak a knotty problem and work out a i solution. He is the man who remem- this, that and the other thing that must and should be done. and he the who the abllity { make and keep 1s for his chie Personally, he kindly athe “ourteous and obligi he writer knows of a case that hap- pened tim when | deserving woman had not at the hands of her government what | she thought was justice. It was n a matter that concerned the Whit House, but Clark interested himself in her behalf and saw that the wom an rece t dues. It wz inot a matter that meant any politica ! gain, it would not help in any mattor of state, but he did it because it is ! way they have up in Northampton drop into his office * k ¥ ¥ Iv you b Whi House and look at his desic you wonder how he ever gets through the but if you sit there for a while you find that during the intervals when he is not talking to some caller he busy dictating to the three very capi- | ble stenographers who compose hi office force He takes up a matte | and. like President, he appears to sense what is required in the prob- n before hi He dictates, not rap- idly, but with a clearness that makes i the work of his aids much ea He does not appear to be i @ hurry at any time, and it is quite bevond realms of fancy to picture him tered and losing his head. In greeting visitors Clark does hurry. At least, he does not appe to hurry into the subject matier. He rather makes the visit an informal one, and he does this, no doubt, for the reason that if a man t case he is more likely to say what he desires to say than if he is not q ire as how his proposition is to be received The writer h the perso secretary to the President gree | man thay he has met only once or i twice and yet almost tantly he was able to recall some detail of a meeting. 1t is truly remarkable how imany persons he knows by name. He is very human and has absolutely no frilis shams. He has a keen sense of humor and tells a good story * ¥ ¥ the senate of their and any does not appear to turn point of does most k, for of bers is man has fric a person ic. some 0. a ver received in ulated mass of papers. wi i sier . seen or EFORE Mr. Coolidge went to the White House Clark took an hour or so off, now and then, and essayed to play golf, but those who have ! watched him on the links are unani- mous in the declaration that as a golfer he not shine with any greater brilliance than does Samuel Blythe, and that is going into the realm of big gcores. Clark has a however, Lut does not often a chance to ride it. His favorite ion iling a boat, and when it comes to handling a craft he is en- titled to a seat among the real sailor- men, In 1914 he married one of Massachu- setts' fairest daughters, and Mrs. { Clark has been his companion and ! chum ever since. She is as much in- | terested in things political as is her | husband, ‘and that is saying a good deal. If you really wunt to probe the depths of his friendship for the Presi- dent of the United States ask him why he thinks that Calvin Coolidge should be nominated and elected. You will find that he can give you many reasons why Mr. Coolidge should re- tain his present office. Back of his desire to have the President stay in the White House is an earnest desire to have a man at the helm of the nation who is what we are all pleased to call “a real American.” Clark lcombines his personal wishes with a luve for country. s | { Miles of Cable. that there are about 500, of cable in all at the , representing $5 000,000, each line costing more than $1,000 @ mile to make and lay. The average useful life of a cable nowa- |days is anything between thirty and forty years, according to circum- stances. About 10,000,000 messages |are conveyed by the world's cables | throughout the year, the working speed being up to 100 words a min- lute under the present conditions. About 90 per cent of these are sent in code or cipher. T s s 000 mi! bottom of the Largest Block of Jade. T is said that the largest plece of jade In the world is that in the American Museum of Natural History, in New York. At first glance it looks almost as large as Plymouth rock; OLD HAIR TONIC LAST NIGHT.” { actually it Is seven feet long und foar It is not so heavy as Ply BT tho (oK Sut Doe needs no particular care except feed- | ence of a person who would have|palm of the hand. | forever. Then he put on some pajamas and laid down in the bed and pertended | like he was her, so pretty soon Red come along and knocked at the door | and the dog told her to come in| and she went up to the bed to hand | him the quart. She thought of! courss it would be her grandmother laying in the bed and even when she seen the dog she still figured it was her grandmother and something she had drank the night before must of dizagreed with her and made her look different. *“Well, grandmother, she says, “you must of hit the old hair tonic last night. Your arms looks like Lals Firpo.” “I will Fipo you in a minute,” says the dog. But listen grandmother,” says Red, “don’t you think you ought to have your ears bobbed?’ “I will ear you in & minute.” says the dog. “But listen grandmother,” says Red, “where did you get the new store teeth?” says the dog, “so I bought them to eat you with.’ 8o then the dog jumped out of bed and went after Red and she screamed. * k2= the mean wile Red's father had been playing golf for a quarter a hole with a couple of guys that con- ceded themselfs all putts under 12 ft, and he was $.75 looser coming to the 10th tee. The 10th hole is kind of tough as your drive has to have a carry of “I heard you was a tough e§g."50 yards or it will fall in a garbage ’ ing once a day on a bit of tomato, cucumber or lettuce. Water is not necessary. This little creature will charm its owner, and, indeed, every one else, by singing merrily with sil- very, flute-like voice. After some years of cross and careful breeding It has been brought to a high state of perfection, and, in its tiny case, measuring a few inches across, it charms all who hear it. The Emperor of Japan and members of the royal family have taken a great interest in the “happy bell,” so the insect en- joys a fashionable status as & pet among the smart set of Japan. been thrown out the window by the average person. Clark kept his tem- per and the man, finally realizing that he had made an exsggerated ‘donkey of himself, feebly apologized and went away. It Is safe to sy that he departed with a feeling of respect for the man who had to stand the brunt of many an onslaught, for even when Mr, Coolidge was presiding at the other end of the Avenue, he had no easy task to perform, largely for the reason that he took his job seri- ously. In responze te numerous requests But, well known as was the glove| to almost all nations of antiquity, its| use was by no means a general one. As late as the ninth and tenth cen-| turies the present of a few pairs of gloves was considered a valuable gift, which even princes accepted with good grace, as did Hthelred II when, during his reign, at the end of the tenth century, German merchants, to secure his protection for their trade, offered him, among various gifts, five pairs of gloves. A bundred years later the use of gloves had spread among the notables Today the use of gloves has become | feet wide. so much a matter of course that we | mouth rock, but weighs approximate- can scarcely realize how, in former It was found on South times, their very costliness and ex- treme rarity made them a symbol |representing holy and immortal (things. From ages almost Iim- | memorial, the gift of gloves from a conquered or tributary nation to a victorious ruler was a sign of sub- mission. After Christianity had be- come an cstablished religion, gloves were regarded as an Integral part of the pontifical vestment of the popes, the bishops and the abbots with the rank of princes. i i, |1y three tons. | Island, New Zealand, in 1902, and is of the green variety of jade, with shades that range fron; apple green | to rich emerald. Solomon’s Luck. From the New Haven Register. Solomon was esteemed a wise man in his day, but, then in Solomon's day no one had ever seen a college grad- uate,