Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1924, Page 69

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 13, 1924—PART 5. 7 Golden Slippers as Worn by Christmas Pantomime Fairies Arrive TWO MODELS IN BLACK AND WHITE KID THAT ARE TO BE WORN WITH SPORT CLOTHES FOR FLORIDA. THEIR SHAP- ING SHOWS THE RENEWED INTEREST IN THE OXFORD TIE FOR THE OPEN. THE THIRD PAIR IS OF BRIGHT BROWN LF FOR WALKING. IT IS CUT IN SECTIONS TO - SHORTEN THE FOOT AND SLASHED ACROSS THE IN- STEP. THE FOURTH PAIR HAS AN EXAGGERATED OX- FORD FRONT, THE MATERIAL IS ALLIGATOR S IT 1S USED AS A WALKING SHOE, DESPITE THE FRENCH HEEL. THE TWO LOWER SHOES ARE OF BROWN LEATHER WITH PERFORATED TRIMMING OF BLACK PATENT LEATHER; THE CUBAN HEEL IS USED. THE OTHER IS A SPORT SHOE OF LIZARD SKIN MADE LIKE East and West Meet in the New Budapest, Rapi BY FRANK G. CARPENTER. BUDAPEST. Ob, east is east and west is west, And never the twain shall meet Till earth and sky stand presently t God's great Judgment seat. UDYARD KIPLING is wrong. The east and the west have met here at the capital of Hungary. Dudapest is the beginning of the east and the begin- ning of the west. The two are joined in this city, and they reach to Con- stantinople and Paris. Hungary is a great succotash of the nations. The Hungarians are the result of migra- tions from Asia, or rather from the little mest in the Ural mountains where some seven Turkish tribes joined together more than a thousand Years ago under a prince cailed Ar- pad, made their way across the steppes of Russia, gathering up a seattering of Finns who had drifted down from the forests of the north, and captured this part of the rich basin of the Danube. Before and since then other nations have come from the east and left their mark | here. The Huns were among them, | and Attila was thelr leader. The Goths had their turn, and hundreds of years later the Turks came up from Constantinople and held Hun- gary for a century or leaving their oriental marks on Budapest So much for the east. And now for the west. This bread basket of urope has always been coveted by the nations. The Romans wanted it, | and long before Christ came they had fought thelr way Into the valley of the Danube and built theif settle- ments here. I can take you outside Budapest in a thirty-minute motor car trip and show you the remains of ©ld Aquincum, which was a city of 60,000 {nhabitants in the days of Dlocletian, who, as you will remem- ‘ber, persecuted the Christians, Or, if you want to save money, we can go there by trolley. The ruins of an amphitheater which once held 20,000 spectators are still 10 be seen, and we can walk over the sites of great baths, among broken ®olumns, the relics of temples and of & theater which accommodated 8,000. There s & museum there, with a shed hard by covering a mosalc pavement ®epresenting a gladiatorial fight. 1t was about the year 1000 that the Christians got thelr hands on Hun- gary. The people then had a king who was crowned by the Pope, and they still call him St, Stephen I. He brought in German settlers from the west and established German s0, 2 s Z53 b 5 A MAN'S LOUNGING SLIPPER. THE HEEL IS NOT ONLY FLAT, BUT EXAGGERATED IN BREADTH, WHICH 1S THE NEW SPORT FASHION, TAKEN FROM PERUGIA OF PARIS, JEVEN the present parliament butid- ing, where the one house of the Hungarfan Congress is now sitting, is a combination of the east and the wost. It has a mighty oriental dome in the center and more than a dozen Gothic spires rising from its walls. I wish I could take you through this national capltol, which almost laves its feet in the Danube. It cov- ers as much ground as our National Library at Washington, and it cost more to build. It was almost twenty years in- bullding, or just about the same time that it took to erect the great pyramid of Egypt. The actual krea is more than four acres, and the dome is three-fifths the height of the Washington monument. On the out- side there are ninety statues, and within you stub vour.toe on & na- tional hero at every step. The win- dows are of stained glass, the floors are of parquetry or marble, and the walls are marbles in many colors In- laid with gold. Some of them remind me of that gorgeous hall at Delhi— known as Dewan-i-kas, in which there is an {nscription in Arablc reading: “If there is a paradise on earth it is this! It is this! It is thi Some of the little things about the building are exquisite. Had it been { built in Pennsylvania by the patriotic public servants who constructed the state house, I venture all the barges of the Danube would have been need- ed to carry the money expended. The gigantic electric chandellers are of bress, and even the cigar holders, fastened to the window sills or the ledges outside doors leading into va- rious rooms, are of the same highly polished material. Each brass cigar Rolder is a plate of solild metal two feet In length and three inches thick, with twelve grooves on each side the match box and scratching surface, S0 that twenty-four half-burned ci- gars can be accommodated while their owners have gone into the house or to call upon some officlal. I don't know how each man tells his own cigar, but 1 suppose it is semewhat akin to the talent of the meese of the villages here which pasture to- gother, but when the flock enters the town each makes a bes line for its own individual home, During my trip through the bulld- ing the porter accompanied me a figuratively speaking, gave me the keys. I visited the gorgeous house of lords. Its seats are empty today, but as I looked at them my guide sald: “They will be filled as soon as we agaln have a king. “And when will that be? said I. colonles. And the sway of the east and the west waved back and forth, leaving its marks on the coun- try and people and upon Budapest. One can easily ses this in the city today? Here the Gothic spire and the dome of the orlental mosque march side by slde. You see a combination of spires and domes on almost every great bullding, and on many of the private ones as well. The royal palace, or mighty castle, which stands on the helghts high over the Danube, has a half dozen green domes rising above & wilderneas of Greek and Ro- man columns, and its interior blazes ‘with orfental magnificence. It is one of the mightiest palaces ever con- | atructed by royalty. Its front is more than a thousand feet long, and its rooms number 860. It was built by the Empress Queen Marla The- resa three-quarters of a century ago, and today the Hungarian people keep it as a residence for their monarchs of the future. The crown room is still preserved, and when another king comes to the Hungarian throne he will probably live there. Not far | from it is the Coronation Church, which, although built in Gethic style, was used as a mosque by the Turks, the marble statue of the Virgin fac- ing the floor whare the Mohamme- dans bumped their heade in their prayers. “It may be in ten years and it may be ip twenty, but it {a sure to come sooner or later. Hungary has not had a king for 1,000 ye: We like them, and we want one back on the throne.” My way into the top gallery of the house was up winding stone steps like those of a cathedral, lighted by windows with as many colors as the coat Jacob made for his boy Joseph befora he was sold down into Egypt, and when I came out it was into a great dome-shaped room reminding one of a mosque of Turkey or India, Here again the east and the west meet together. The lower house of congress sits in a hall which is a combination of a cathedral, a mo and a palace. Above is a most gor- geous celling with electric lights in brass fixtures. The galleries are di- vided up into boxes like thoss of a theater, and each box has its pillars carved and encrusted with gold, There is a slice cut out of one side of the chamber, and against the flat wall In the break in the circle sits the speaker, and below him pn. the floor at desks running round the four-fifths of the circle in concen- tric lines are the members of the Hungarian Congress. There i & lit- tle arena in front for the clerks, and about this on red velvet chairs sit the ministers of state. The members were dressed in busi- BY ANNE RITTENHOUSE. F the making of new kingds of shoes there fs no end. Those who fit our feet have Teturned to the ways of the ancients and forsaken the paths of the righteously Puritan. No longer does the well dressed woman and her million followers go about in the sturdy sensible shoe that was admit- ted to be 100 per cent American by the other nations. The streets at noonday give the most casual eye excellent evidence of the joyous aban- donmnt of the sensible foot covering. Our busy little workers go about eat- ing their “snatch lunch and no tip” With their lower extremities, as the Victorians sald, covered by the frail things that Jezebel and Cleopatra wore. The shoe intended for the smooth floors of ballroom or the thickly car- peted floors of luxurious houses cavers the foot of the girl out in the rain without rubbers. The sole thing the women folk have omitted from their street footgear Is the silver and gilt slipper, and the light metallic brocade. One expects any day to see Irene Bordoni’s Chinese sandals by Peru- gla, the French bootmaker, clapping- clapping along the pavement In the snow." These sandals have two heels, They are lifted from the ‘floor fore and aft, and held to the foot by a broad band acrcss the ‘Ingtep, a band bullt like a tiara. The two heels are lacquer red or black and gold or pale silver. The sport shoe of lizard skin, with its Perugla heel extending far be- yond the confines of the sole and as broad as it is long, a first cousin to a man’s bedroom slipper. is abroad all hours of the day on the street In con- junction with a strictly tallor-made suit or anything else the wearer hap- pens to chance upon In the closet. All questions of nicety regarding the appropriateness of foot coverings has been challenged, then dismissed as of no importance. If we were car- rled in litters we would not be more gorgeous and resplendent ' in our shoes. The way women folk answer the argument that such shoes are not meant for occidental pavements is by wearing them on such pavements. ‘The LR SO much for generalization. fact is established that shoes of the orlentasl housetops, of celestial rickshawe, of luxurious litters, are worn on occidental stone pavements. ‘What do the shoe people offer us, therefore, for the coming year? ‘What new fantasy, what strange and exotlo recrudescence from the Arablan Nights will we buy for six or sixty dollars? Don't, I beg of you, seem surprised at the latter price. Even EVENING SLIPPER OF SII VAMP AND BROAD BUCK! WITH FRILL OF SILVER LACI MIXED, WITH POINTED INESTONES SET IN SILVER, ABOVE. —mnmm—— the shoemakers in the department shops in New York ask fifty dollars to make any kind of street shoe, and the celebrated leaders of shoemaking on 5th avenue ask and get sixty-two dollars for a pair of evening slip- pers. Such prices do not equal those abroad. Zantorny, the famous, gets $2.000 down befors he makes 2 sin- gle palr of slippers, but after he gets it he supplies his customers with the lovellest things one ever wants to see in the matter of foot cover- ings. This price includes shoe trees made to fit each pair of shoes, vel- vet and satin lined boxes for deco- rative mules and frail evening slip- pers, and it means that he goes onm supplying shoes until the years have rolled by and he has worked out his initial price. The arrangement seems perfectly satisfactory to his patrons, among whom are numbered hundreds of rich Americans. The Italian, Perugia, whom Paul Polret found on the Riviera and brought to Paris to make shoes for his mannequins, asks nearly a hun- dred dollars for any palr of slippers. It is he who is responsible for the oriental fashion, back of which Pofret has stood for all the years of his meteoric career. It.ls this Italian who has introduced the Chi- nese shoe, with thelr glory of em- broldery, their combination of black and bright, pale gold. He it is who has made mules the most gorgeous since Haroun al Raschid wore them to prowl the dark, uncanny streots of Bagdad. None of thesa foot confined to Paris, Rome and Lon- don. They can be bought here as quickly as there. The Gth avenue windows show them. They are sold in thelr cheapest imitations around six dollars, and they are made to order by bootmakers who are the fashion of the hour in America for sixty-two dollars. Why the addition- al two dollars? T don't know. There will always be enough wom- en with unstandardized feet to sup- port the expensive bootmakers, as there will always be enough women whose clothes must be fitted to their individual figures, and who must choose special fabrics, to support the dressmake: coverings s 'HERE are two distinctiy sensible foot fashions among the welter of oriental ones that give hope for better days. They came over the horizon from France. One is the actual American Oxford tle, with its English name; the other is the flat- heeled sport shoe with an elongated vamp and instep covering. The for- mer 1s made by expensive bootmak- ers for fastldious women who realize that something s needed for tailored clothes that does not suggest the 1it- ter and the harem. The latter goes to sunshine resorts for all-day wear with sport clothes, The oxford is a rich relation of the broad-heeled, sturdy shoe with slight grace, intended for country lanes and cold climates. It is made of bright brown calf, with.a moderate instep piece and American vamp. There is a blucher opening, which shortens the length. There are black Wooden heels and thin strips of per- forated black patent leather outlin- ing the edges, also a tde tip. The silk laces are black. The heel is a straight Cuban. The reverse in col- oration is fashionable, but not pref- erable. Next in fashion to this oxford, which {s at least smart as well as sensible, there is a strong revival of the colonlal patent pump which Paris was wearing two years ago with street clothes. It is along conven- tional lines, its glory given by the broad Puritan buckle of silver. The novelty touch ie to make the buckle a frame for one’s initials, also In sil- ver. There are afternoon shoes of black velvet which have the initials in silver on the instep held by two velvet straps that cross each other, one going to the heel plece, the other to the toe plece. ‘When straps are put on shoes they hold something in place on the instep or the top of the vamp. They are not merely to fasten the shoe. ‘The two novelties in nighttime foot- wear are the ornate slippers of gllt and sflver and the black satin pump with pointed vamp embroidered in bunches of eighteenth century flowers in faint colors. The latter are $35, by the way, when made by & foremost bootmaker. And many of them are ordered. Once they were for queens, but, as the impetuous and outspoken Elizabeth sald to her gownmaker, “something new must be invented for queens, as the plain people have so much money they can dress like we do.” She also Invelghed against the luxuriousness of the common people having such extravagant things as glass windows in their houses. “What {s the world coming to?' she querte; way of Hard Times Experienced in All Cities of Hungary—Attempt to Stabilize Currency—Mighty Palace Which Awaits King—Gorgeous Parliament House With Vacant House of Lords. House of Commons and Woman Socialist — Among the Magyars — A George Washington Celebration—College Boys Who Make Their Own Shoes and Print Their Text Books. SHIPPING WHEAT DOWN THE DANUBE FROM THE GRAIN FIELDS OF HUNGARY. neas suits, all except one. The latter ‘wore silk and I venture she had high heels on her shoea She was a black- haired, black-eyed woman; the only female member of the Hungarian congress. She Is a soclalist, L T people of Budapest show everywhere evidence of the eaat and the far west, although einoe the treaty of Trianon carved up these countries there are more of the pure Hungarians or Magyars than in the past. The faces show the mixture of races with the life and fighting spirit of the Magyar everyvran pres- ent. The women are especially beau- tiful, more so than I have ever seen snywhere. They have olive com- plexions, derk luxurlant hair and great dark eyes. They walk with a spring and a swing, and they have glorious forms. There is a prome- nade of a mile along the Danuba known' as the Corso, where every evening the crowd of men and women which form the well-to-do people of ‘the oity stroll back and forth. They go singly and arm in arm, lovers sweethearts, and wives moving on side by elde. There are officers in gorgeous uniforms, Trepresentatives of a dozen different natlons,: the Greek Catholic and the Roman Catholio, the Protestant and the Jew mixed up together. This Is the social meeting hour of the city and it is spent in part by taking tea and drinking coffee and liquors at the many cafes which line the route. There are tables on the street and thousands sit about them while they listen to the musio of the gypsy bands which, it seems to me, are constantly playing from sunset to far into the wee hours of the morn- ing. The crowd is well dressed. The women know how to buy thelr clothes and how to wear them. ‘Whether they make them themselves, I know not but they look as though they had just stepped out of the boulevards of Paris. The men are especially particular . about their dress, and the dandies have s fash- fon of harmonising the colors from stockings to collars I had thought of this part of the world as having & divilization & little lower than that of the other great capitals. If so, it does not show in the dress, the talk, nor the actions of the people On a court occasion- the men are meticulous as to their ocos- tumes. The uncomfortable silk hat still holds sway and at day time events the morning cutaway sult is everywhere in evidence. They make me think of that sf member of the Crawley family In “Vanity Fair” of whom Thackerey sail: “He would rather dle than sit down to dinner without a white necktie.” And speaking of dining, these peo= ple here remind me of the Moham- medans in the month of Ramazan when their religion forbids them to eat a bite or even swallow their spittle from sunrise to sunset, but who gorge themselves from dark- ness to dawn. Every one eats late here. At seven o'clock there is no one in the dining rooms of the hotels, and the bands do not begin to play umtil nine. It ia only after that time that you will find crowds in the restaurants. Eating goes on from then until after midnight, many people taking nothing untll after they come home from the theatre or opera. % The gypsy band at the Dunapolata Hotel, where I am stopping, plays for the diners from nine until two o'dlock in the morning. This late- ness of dining is uncomfortable at first, but one soon comes to like it and I have changed my dining hour to nine or nine-thirty. The meal is so slow it takes a full hour. Many peaple have tea at five or six o'clock, but as a rule they go without any- thing but a snack from midday till late in the evenin| ‘The food at the hotels Is good, and the pastries and sweets are shipped from here all over Europe. The beet, mutton and pork are equal to those of Chicago.’ They have some dishes similar to ours such as kukueres whioh means corn on the cob, and one bites it off just as he does In America. Another favorite dish 1s paprikahuhn, which means chicken dressed with red pepper, and another is gulyas or goulasch which is a steamed dish . highly _peppered. Getulltes paprika is pepper. pods filled with mince meat, and. they have also & chowder. called.halaszle. They gerve a kind of & macaroni with chicken, called tarhonya, which has -| = permanent resting place in one’ HUNGARY IS THE HOME OF THE GYPSY. FRANK G. CARPENTER HAD HIS PO“RTUNE TOLD, AND THE GYPSY HIT THE MARK. GOING ON A LONG JOURNEY,” AND E RPENTER SHE SAID: “YOU ARE THIS IS ALWAYS A SAFE PREDICTION WHERE CA 1S CONCERNED. stomach, and other dighes the names of which indicate nothing. The coffee is good, and it i served black in French or Turkish style as ordered. *x k% T is difficult for the tourtat to know what to eat by the bill of fare, for it is printed In Magyar, where the letters mean nothing to him and one cannot tell how to pronounce, owing to the consonants and marks over the vowels, The words are ‘always accented on the first syliable. In the use of names the family name is always pyt first and the personal name follows after. For 1 attended an celebration here when the crowd hur- rahed for George Washington, The THREE PAIRS OF HOUSE SLIPPERS WORN WITH THE DECORA- TIVE HOUSE GOWNS AND NEGLIGES WIDELY ADOPTED BY 'WOMEN OF AFFAIRS AS BY THOSE OF L OF PATENT LEATHER WITH RED HEELS STITCHERY; ANOTHER PAIR ERED IN BRIGHT TURKISH ; THE THIRD PAIR IS THE CHINESE SANDAL / h THE FRENCH BOOTMAKER, AND SHOWN HERE BY IRENE BORDONI, THE MU I DUCED BY PERUGIA, 'HE advent of the glit slipper brings back a fashion that always suggested a Christmas pantomime for children. Once upon & time the smart belles—they were called that in those days—wore high buttoned boots of gllt. When copled in black satin they were worn with red stockings and called “rouge and noir” Which proves that our sainted ancestors were not averse to being consplcuous despite their predilection to deride the present generation. The new version of the gllt slipper —did Cinderella once wear it, I won- der?—is a mixture of gold and silver, one applied to the other in small and eccentric designs. The cloth used is the best imitation of paper. The ob- server thinks it Is a painted slipper. By the way, here is a fashlonable trick which none are so rich as to of gold or silver j speaker who started the cheers yelled out “Heep, Heep, Heep-Ooray,” with the accent on the “00™ and the cry was for “Washington, George.”" This celebration waa held July 1. It was to celebrate the Fourth of July, and Sunday, the lst, was chosen be- cause more Hungarians could assemble that day. The place was in front of the great bronze statue which the Hun- garians of America have erected in the most prominent place of the central perk of Budapest to show their appre- clation of their adopted country. Every one here seems to like the United States, and no greater tribute could be given our nation than the thousands of all classes who assembled that Sunday about the statue of Washington and in the brolling midsummer sun stood for more than an hour with bared heads, while the speeches were made. Among the speakers were tho mayor of the city, some of the leading statesmen and our consul general, ffeorge Horton, who did such noble rescue work while he was in charge of American affairs at Smyrna when the Turks were burning and sacking the city. I am surprised at the growth of Budapest. At the time of the world war it had less than 800,000. It has now more than 1,100,000 and is in- creaaing right along. Like all of the capitals of this part of the world it has had large accessions on account of the changes In the boundaries. The Hun- garians olaim that they are persecuted In Rumania, Csechoslovakia and Jugo- avia, and euch of them as wish to re- tain thelr citizenship in the mother country are flocking back home. Many who owned property that was once a part of the kingdom have been com- pelled to sell at low prices, and as @ result there are more than a hundred thousand refugees in Budapest. This is one of the chief reasons for the increase of more than three hundred thousand in population within two or three years. It causes also a great lack of housing faeilities, and the prices of apartments and rooms are steadily rising. Not only in Budapest, but {n all’ the cities of Hungary, times are exceedingly hard. The currency here has been bob- bing up and down like that of Germany, and today the actual value of the crown 1is something llke fifteen thousand to the doliar, although in order to maintain something like stabilization, the govern- ment has passed a law that the value of the dollar is 8,300 crowns. If I cash my lotter of credit at the bank they will give me only 8300 crowns for a New York draft which is as good as gold. If I have the American money in bank notes, I can sell it on the quiet for 15,000 crowns, or almost twice as much. As the result I am using the spare greenbacks which I carry for such emergencies. The crown used to be worth 20 cents. It now takes 150 crowns to equal 1 cent. On this basis the conditions of clerks and all classes of the intsilectuals is pitiful. Thousands have lost all their property, and many are etarving. 1 talked yesterday with a man in a book store, who told me he was getting 120,000 crowns a month, an amount which equals $8. The man was the manager of the store. He spoke five languages and conversed with me in English about his travels in England, Blberia and Egypt. University pro- fessora here, and Budapest has large universities and some of the ablest scholare of Europe, are now getting from four to seven dollars & month. Those who can tutor in addition to their classes do well if they make fifteen or twenty dollars in the course of a year, £0 that their total annual incomes are in the nelghborhood of $100. The teachers in the common &chools receive about $3 a month, and those in the technical high schools and academies but little more. = * k¥ K I AM told that the war has greatly in- creased the number of students in the universities, Hungary has four uni- versities, including one here at Buda- pest which has more than 10,000 stu- dents,_ It has a school of economics SURE. PAIR 15 1.D CORD KID EMBROID- COLORS WITH COLORED TOE S INTRO- AL COMEDY STAR. liquid, a bottle of jade green, of Peking blue paint is used to trans- form white slippers and other kinds Fortunately the fashion for bright- colored kid slippers, highly slazed spent itself last summer. e the circular flounce it was the plaything of a season. It went no farther. Col- ored kid In strips of decoration con- tinue to appear or afternoon shoes Green and henna are two colors chosen to go with black and brown Rhinestone buttons with dripping tassels have had their day. The large eighteenth century buckle dominates It often costs $35, but that's an ex- travagance. The baby French heel appears to be slipping out of the limelight. Flat heels take its place on brocade evening slippers; Cuban heels on street The high French heel continu No reform is apparent. (Copyrigh ) dly Growing City with 19 professors and 2,500 students, and a technical school with more than There are many other schools and colleges, so that the class of intelleuctuals is numerous. The war has ased the number in the universities, as many of the soldiers have again taken up their studles after ten years' abscnce, and some of the older men having bee tellectually by the fight going to school. Cou: well known pro raphy, tells me he has 800 men in attendance upon his lectures and that one of these is an old general of sixty- three, who takes notes side by side with beardless b of nineteen and twenty. Most of these students are compara- tively poor. Many of them have lost their all in the co 's cut off from Hungary, and the families of others have been ruined by the fall of ex- change. A large proportion are work- ing their way through the universitles by clerking or other labor during the day, going to their classes at night or after office hours. Some have places i the banks which close here at 1 o'clock, and others in the jewelry stores which close at 4, notwithstanding the other mercantile establishments run on until 6 when everything shuts, and steel shutters come down over the store and office windows, hiding everything from the sight of the passersby until late the next morning. Among the w: of reducing ex- penses, the students have established co-operative societies. They have cloth- ing factories where they work part of the day to make clothes to sell to each other at cost price or a little more, and shoe factories where they make their own shoes. They have established printing house with & half dozen presses where they print certain of their text booka and lectures, and they equipment for binding t tributing them at a profit. They have cther enterprises along the same linc, and altogether they are making a hard struggle and a brave one to get an education. Carpenter's World Travels Copsright, 1021 a THE constantly incrtasing fmpor- tance of india rubber in varfous {ndustries makes the question of the cultivation of the rubber plant, as well as that of the production of syn- thetic rubber, one of general interest, Careful investigations appear (o show that the wild Parg rubber is superior In quality to that produced from cultivated trees. A wise manu- facturer, it is pointed out, would not dare to buy any quantity of culti- vated rubber and store it for six months, for fear of grave deteriora- tion in quality, but he would buy thousands of tons of up-river fine Para, with a full knowledge that it would grow better in storage. As to synthetic rubber, it is asked hgw we can have that when we do not vyet fully understand the chemical com- position of the components of natural rubber. Testing Auto Tires. AX automobile tire company dis- plays in its salercoms in New York one of the most perfect ma- chines yet devised for demoustrating the working of a tire under road con- ditions. Mounted on a heavy stand, a big iron drum {s driven by an electric motor. An axle and wheel are mount- ed over the drum, with the tire in contact with it and bearing its weight. The tire is under the same pressure as if on a loaded touring car. The test, & most severe one, consists in driving nails, spikes, etc, into the tire and tube and then running with them in at a rate of about twenty-five miles an hour. The machine is oper- ated by electric power and Is also equipped with a speedometer, which sives a correct speed of wheel, as it in real road use.