Evening Star Newspaper, August 23, 1925, Page 72

THE SUNDAY MOTHER’S BUSINESS BY JULIET WILBOR TOMPKINS. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, AUGUST 23 1925—PART NS . v o, e =2 At First She Thought There Could Be No Compensations for Her. “Tudor is gorgeous name for a dec- | boss. orating firm,” she added. “You may have changed that name in six years.” mother pointed out. She had busied hergelf at her bureau 8o as not to face them. Their nods admitted it. abundant suitors. “We could keep it for the firm quiet voice: “Pussy, I'm going blind. |name,” they said. Betty added that if 1 shall be quite blind in two months.” | she married a man with an ugly name foF usky might have caught the words, {ahe would make him change it to Tu- r er on the train, or any: and Mona said that a her attention had not really left her [man who would do that was a Door own lnner stats. - fish, not worth marrying, and as Bet- h, that's fine,” she said. ty's best sultor was abjectly ready to “T'vé heard how it sounds, anyhow,” | change Funk for nnyth’ln(g, “inere ‘was mother reflected, turning away. They {a squally moment. Mother never ERA10 hor Thought, T Sha'n es ThAl | obes s o ok g THAIEY, Secone 8 later they were trying over Funk-Tu- l\l‘ér l}}'", months, an}e a h'rlsk an- |dor and Tudor-Funk wth gurgles of swer: “Well, I can’t say it's much |laughter, Betty's cheek squeezed los against Mona's. They had always Pussy was talking again, but dis-|done that—squeezed their joyous faces jolmfdly. inattentively. Suddenly she |together with a murmured “Um-um!" &u_uhrsi‘ud:;. arresting sentehice: It | Thiey would do it to her when she told y bl oday. I'm twenty-five.” | them. Mother went siraight for what luy | She had not often in her life said “I back of the words. “Pretty dull for but the words were saying you,” she said. 3 selves now: “I can't tell them.” . };onle did not speak of Pussy’s|It was lfke asking her to cut into their x\'i: n"’,“'";‘ rg:“;mv:uu ;::;ih fltgsbe‘ }:’h\ flesh. What if she simply waited until were t0o delicate about it, for she mel | wete plAnINE. Flenuing. They wees ;‘hlffl direct aproach with a gasp of re- | sure her eyes would be well enough {,-Uh M, .. |for town in the Autumn. - 'rr'm:{'x ul ox;:] noh one knows! “Commutation is vexation,’ Betty et e t ésbbeen four | chanted, and was secretly kicked by T o b lonfl l:m est—truly. | Mona, who declared that it was half £ins s ey, has been kind: the |the fun. Betty instantly agreed. The ot sl én Tve Knagauc- |good children! Why must she, who e aiways toat. .Dut I've known— |had lived to further their lives, be e B : them back? W orstdln o s She had meant to tell them when Tears ‘;u“";;“‘do“_" 'l‘:;:‘ face, | theY finished the dishes. She had her “I want 0 tell you,” she whispered, | Cosin, Deginning all arranged: '“Oh, “Np one diis. Dt with & seset Wit B e T T big s this, you have to tell some|were cailed to the telephone, and then b i et oo it toa a neighbor came in, and then it was - Anfstab , too. 10 o'clock and bedtime. and o first voar 1 was treated & lot, | “T'l tell them in the morning.” she B urt and hurt, and 1 only got|decided, and lay all night staring into “,"”73- ey rushed on, *so I{the dark; but in the morning there ouldn't stand any more. But today |\was no time. 1f you want to move over here for that time, I'll call you a companion and manage a little salary. They don't just like leaving me alone.” Pussy was delighted and would not hear of a salary. She had a dozen reasons why it was just what she wanted most to do, but under them all lay the warm glow of being needed. “And we can watch me get better, then spring it on the family,” she ex- ulted. “Oh, what good things are happenin, “You know, I don't see very well,” mother warned her. me half-blind. That will gort of tle you down, “Well, I don't hear very well; you might call me half-deaf,” Pussy re- turned with happy fllppancy. “That will be & bore for you. 1 might go stone-blind,” mother insisted. “But I'm making it my busi- ness to get ready for that. It won't be much harder on you “If 1 go stone-deaf, I'll drown my- self, 8o that won't be any harder on vou,” Pussy said, and burst into a song about the owl and the pussy-cat. Mona and Betty demurred a little at the idea of Pussy Meadows, but they were too rushed not to accept any solution that satisfied mother. They were. counting the days, yet they ran home with a new eagerness. “We'll miss you horribly, mother, they kept telling her. When the last evening came, something unknown laid & cold hand on their spirits; they began to mean it so poignantly that it could mot be said. They cried at good-night. Mother had no tears. She only looked at them, looked and looked into their faces as though she learned them by heart. When they were asleep, she stole in with a candle and stood look- ing down until they began to sigh and stir. “I won't see them again, but that doesn’t mean I won't feel them and have them,” she scolded herself. “There's no sense in making such a | fuss.” Her last sight of them was a blur of waving hands and laughing, tearful faces. “Do be careful, mother!” they im- plored. “Go along with you. vour train,” she said, PR PUSSY was not next day. Mother allowed herself 24 hours of stark desolation, of great sighs bursting up from a sick heart; then she sald, “Now, that's enough®” as she might have to u crying child, and went about her business. Puss found her digging in the garden. “We've ulways had pansies her but 1 want something that smell sweet,” she sald. “'Stocks, maybe." “We ought to have a bonga tree, sald Pussy The busy weeks flew past. Puss helped in the garden, in the house, everywhere, and she looked like an ideal sweetheart—any man's idea in the bloom of her growing hope. | Thelr two cases: seemed to keep a mysterious balance—with every leap | forward for Pussy there was & leap | backward for mother. People were s00n only shapes to her, a face was & pale blur. She had to hurry with her prepurations, and became so deft at managing that Pussy sl did not guess all her secret. The letters from the girls came tumbling in, three or| four by every boat, loving, rapturous, | full of sights ard wonders. ller own | letters, typewritten, ran about like| this: “Dear Girls: write so often this morn- | £0od rest—that was what she needed. was in the|“All she needed;” they made it. ed her with a smiling fixity that held hall when they flew off. She Mother stood in the doorway, watch- | something in suspense, and Pussy never offered »d-bye ing the two fade into the general|presently became aware of it. greeting embraces herself; she | brightn auty of the Spring| “I'm talking your head off,” she ad- simply was there, casually, if any one | morning, it seemed to her they|mitted with a laugh that sounded happened to feel like it. Mona and »oner than they had even|breathless. ‘“What have you been do- Betty always felt like | inly sooner than last|in erous of embraces. They , when she had seen them as far | the usual warning the corner. She tried herself out “Mothe be car n various tests, and they gave a star- go out!” tling certainty of lost ground. Her “And_don’t try muddie! | chill of fright took itself out in indig- sy Meadows read to | nation against Dr. Bowen. “Patting and blatting—I don's be- to cross the |lieve he knows much about s or anything else,” she scolded. Her fi thought was that she would go to! town tomorrow with the girls and con- | sult some big man, like Dr. Oscar Stein. The second thought, character- {istically hers, was to dress in haste and take the next train. There was | no sense in making the girls go to work wondering what the oculist would say. ] Patlents usually had to wait for ap- pointments with Dr. Stein, but as she had come from a HE girls were late eyes were fever-bright. Mother watch- ing, and mother Both had tumbled out Mother launched it in her usual , do ul when you to read, adores (o ou do hav with you!" Good sense scoffed in “You'll your along common voice humored mother’ train: she opened the door and they flew like birds from a cu How pretty and how dear they were with their robin brightness, their quick squabbles and_their little murmurs nd grunts of pure love! Flying ily from the old cage to the vast city, into rious sun . was _ sympathetically S t faithfully fiying home | Was sympa - night lest the cage should feel|Dr: SR A women, | her icately lined and hallowed itself deserted, reading loud some . b “Life and Letters” with little | tendrils but stll lifted fousness of what the words|iNto romance by the fine, high nose; They were leading lite them. | What he heard was the martial ring i of common sense. selves and writing letters—what did it Pl S5 s . those dead histories matter to Mona |, “I'Ve been ordered to rest my eves 5 and I've been patted and cheered and and Betty 3 othe ! red. | . ' 1 ‘,’M_“'-h._ "_“l; s Jui‘:m::‘luf | told not to worry, and I've had enough 31 2nd 32—but they wanted ber to be|even ery. Anyway, you nesdn't cars happy, wanted it ‘w passion. A lif' T do. Am T going blinds" asonable mother will uccept that| He gave her what she “Yes, I am afraid you are. She did not cry, did not even seem shocked, or pause “How 5001 miss HIS ANSWER HESITATED. “YES, 'VE COME TO HELP YOU.” HE SAID AT LAST. enfoying it all. Pussy and I get| “I guess I was lonesome,” she de- |voice trailed off as though speect along all right. She seems to like cided. “Funny—he doesn't open his|were almost too difficult it here. We have set out some new |head, yet he's real good company.” | So the trouble was not roses. She wants to hire a boy to| She started to move her chair into{money. There was loss, help with the vegetable garden. I|the shade, and it was done for her.|was also sin. She bent don't_know that I ought to he dropped her cane and as she felt | her eves straining to sec but Dr. Gracle knows of & for it it was placed in her hand.|to tell me?” she urg man who would be glad of the work. |He was very thoughtful | “Iwant to tel . > 3 I miss you both, but I am glad you| “I always did like a nice young |Pushed back table, turning are having such a good time.” And|fellow,” she explained the growing |cidewise s & so on, down to “your loving mother.” fanth; in her heart {on b 1 heard his And ‘yet they were not unsatisfac- * % % \:'1‘1(1; voice it T can. tory letters. Something coul e -3 o 2 be T 1 bod and felt under the words—like the grip| | CWARD noon she left him oul of a warm and steady hand i l‘}g’" in to prepare lunch. She w i ot os It was two months to & day, a|pov o 25 soft, gray morning, and the world | 5" needing e | she whis| {out and needing od meal. She |she whispe was little more than light and|puge her lunch the things 1 “Thy shadow. Pussy having gone to town, | rence had loved. hot muffins and|but m mother allowed herself rather more|pacon and cool salad and her own | There was cane and fumbling than usual. There | perolt “Corae wund spread it an the | every breath were days when she felt & great|verunda, then called him, sending |12 vears. Thr weariness, a longing to sit With|pim upstairs to wash his hands | of ‘rotten hands folded, lke any blind woman. |~ “The end of the Tell she Mimscted | £00d stock It had taken scolding to get herself | pim gk, BROC L Eik to out into the garden, and even scold- | “I'] find it.” His volce was a mere| Her hands ing could not kep her trowel going.|thread, and she could hear the drag|in I he presently let it fall and felt her | of his lameness as he we - (B way to the seat under theold maple, | “1 g TNe asrkea |sitting there with the lifted face of | death,” she apologized, the blind. to bring in the lunc “Well, T didn’t suppose it would be | seated opposite to her, the sunlight any too easy,” she said aloud. I've | gave him a flickering outline. “Why, had fun out of it. all the same An';x: can almost see vou,” she said con- | then something made her aware of | tentedly to come until the |, "\ o once. “Who Is it?” she asked.| “Are you here alone?” There was A husky little cough seemed to § eeling, protest, in the question. dicate 2 shy youth' standing before| She told him about her dear girls Bee oih ha I |and the trip and the young nelghbor “Oh, are you the young man \\»)m;“:‘["k“‘fs sta; )fn_f‘ with her. Suddenly, | is coming to help me?’ She spoke NoLKROWIng how it ga_" st g B Sl ey bridinesy. | was telling him of her coming biind- | His answer hesitated. “Yes; I've |7 oy come to help you,” he said at last.| There wasn't any sense in spoillng | 0" 0 He did not sound like the lad she |their fun” she explained. “T can get +| expected. l;fl»uuY the house just about as well s “Did Dr. Gracie send you?’ ' ; used, so long as no one move: Again she had to wait for an|{lTere, Belng vind tsm't o bad-"| Meadows stocd in the doorway, lovel answer. “I was sent to you.” They|yoy are. Now, being deaf makes them | itk happiness. a llving sweeth were walking toward the vegetable |iross. Queer, fsn't it7 I fuces they |fOT any man’s dream. Lawrence garden and she could hear that he|jie'to put out a hand, but thee haty | Started up. limped. She peered to see him, but |1 noller. Still, you could make a oy . {could make out only a Wavering|husiness of being deaf, just like I'm | mother bese Hojs shape. “You equal to the work?"|inaking a business of being blind. It's| Lhen she broke off wi she asked kindly. |real interesting. 1 declare, I don't| e sunset glow had com Oh, yes.” He evidently wanted it|know when I've gabbled so,” she | QD€ d a curta very much, poor fellow. “I'm all|broke off. “There's something about | 9 her B SYecy right,” he insisted { vou—Ara you eating vour lunchz* | ©4ld find only the He scemed to know by instinct |’ His answer a sharp sigh. She knew | 1,415 M =un whera the tools were kept, and he |that kind of sigh "‘.’.\.-‘;l |worked so steadily and silently that| “You're in trouble.” Bead, e ol mother decided to call it a full day,|her kindly directness. i v «ven though he had come so late. |sick e T s Taeis e o b She sat within sound of him and her | “Oh, ves—six months in a hospital.” | f1re" tHeY Were questioning her litted dark mood passed, leaving a new and | He &poke as though that were nothing. | *“'Glorjous? rich content. The sun, coming| “And I suppose You've come Out|in u deap bi through the grayness, seemed to|without « cent it e warm her to the soul. . 1 have—mon . health « and there said, and Her | placed him as older than a ' though to sked fo d for a gentleman, pe down and | than to the uccess Their fervor fc All planted fc b ambition, anythi t thougl i hard work and keep th ,h!“]“',f.'“v“k],f 5 ing to do it on charr that would help. Lawrence. “Well, after all, I'm not so sur And it was sed,” she said in a surprised tone gested that th leave the gues 1 knew it, more or less, or the cit he girls had beer down underneath cerned about roots He tried to something kind “You'll m mother!™ Jabout her courage, but she was wholly | I have been to a new man, and he| After all, Sunday morning would be ¢ church, rong- | outside of herself, as impersonal as a | S the old treatment was all Wrong | petter; they would have all day to get 1y, “has bored me for 35 1} mechanician with a broken machine. |and that there is hope, there is g0od | ysed to the idea and make their plans. £0 beca it 1 don't, Dr “The thing how not to be a |hope—oh, he thinks I can be cured!” | Reprioved for five days, mother went comes and calls, and that me | nuisanc told him, and went out | The eager young hands, burning hot | briskly about her new business of be- even wor more strongly than she had come in. | through thelr gloves, were clinging o | coming the smartest blind woman in They loved her for that: but |, There it was, the eager little girls | mother’s. She made no bodily re-|the country. She learned the rooms 2l miss your old friends,” they | tearing off to their work, believing in (Sponse, and her words were, as always, | and the garden paths by heart; she in- ned. | the righteous splendor of careers as | calmly sensible: *Well, that's real nice | vented pricked labels for kitchen con- ome of them,” she admitted. “But | voung soldiers believe in the Cause, | for you, Pus I'm glad to know it." | diments; she spent hours mastering I can do_without Flora Willey's gos- | going headlong in the good direction [ But no one ever found her unsatis|Betty's old typewriter; she simplified sip and Mrs. Van Dyke’s symptoms, | Where her hand had always polnted. | factory. her clothes and did up her hair in the and it will be a relief not to have to| Must one of them be jerked back to| “It is only a hope,” Pussy warned |dark. She was busy from morning shriek at Pussy Meadows. She says|potter about with a blind woman? |herself. “I won't breathe it to the |tiil night I am the only person who takes the| Either would do it, readily, pitifully, | family until we are sure—but 1 love ‘m kind of enjoying it.” she ad- trouble to speak distinctly to her, but| With her {mpatience very seldom | vour knowing it. You have been so|mitted to herself. *I always did like she means who's willing to yell the|bursting up through her goodness [ kind! And vou never told me about being smarter than other people!” The skin off her lungs and her desolation usually hidden in | affiicted people who took to geology or | girls found her in her usual even They loved her for that, too. her own room hey would do their | bugs or electricity, and they were so spirits that week and told her that why the average mother will sturdy best, her Mona and Betty; but [ happy when they found a beetle with |she was getting better all the time. being so moral, when it is } mmoral | What would life be to her, knowing |a new stripe that they didn't mind if | They noticed that she moved more impulses that bring her children|¢Yery day the full measure of what |they were deaf. Beetles! Who cures [securely. She let them rejoice in it closest. But— |she was teki how many stripes a beetle’s got without comment. Sunday morning You've lived in this house for 33 Old nuisan she said aloud, and Men can care about things like [would be time enough. Eiiley A T had to cover it with a cough. that,” mother said, dublousl “1 Py Mother looked about the living room | Her mother would have pointed out | don't know as we can. Though I do with a judging candor. She had come | that sacrifice made character. “But |like to raise flowers " JRRIDAY night they came in with th & & iall wisp of with do sacrifice, every day, only ! drooping blond tendrils and a fine, high | th®Y'Te 5o sweet and happy _they nose to give her an air of romance and | 997't call it that,” she argued. “Their 2 mind us fresh and pungent and home. | Characters are getting ail the devel- Iy the radishes she grew behind the | opment they need. Spoil a girl's life barn, Dr. Tudor hag always found |in order to make a fine character of roars of laughter in the contrast be-|Mer Buiee (notee Bt MW o tween how his wife looked and what | PP she said. I could h over Lawrence, too, they r aved their first-born; but he had fall. | en under the child’s spell and could | only worship, like every one else. No| one but his mother ever ecriticized \’A ]\\'rt‘{ur‘s‘.)v\er held him up in a clear ight for his own fnspection: and so | waitress was friendly, and the words he had built a wall on the side toward | nearly uttered themselves—-The doc. her. There was no possible way for (tor says I'm going blind. he wanted her to have his love and yet keep her| (o tell the gateman at the ferry, and truth. When the smash cume and in|when the conductor, standing by his that very room Lawrence had had 10| train, recognized her by name. she face the ‘cold davlight of judgment, he | stopped short, the news at her lps, had known how to make his father|and had to iubstitute some foolish reak down and forgive him and his | question. With the awful need 1o tell employer offer him another chance,|went a sharp reluctance to having it but he had no way past his mother's | known. tragic silence. He could not forgive | I guess I want the fun of seeing them for having seen him stripped of | them Jump, but don't want ta be of- Jis splendor, wo he had walked out of | fered ‘consolations.” she told herself. iis home never to return. His father | Then the sight of Pussy Meadows presently died of it all, and his funeral | pearing down on her seat brought oo Iorp:pcenetstatiped ion ithe |y i makeritiob) itoviors inithor: & Bt . '\\':n"ir el g e could tell Pussy in perfect safety! “Well, it we'd had any money to| pyggy Meadows went to town a good M'T:», rl‘y(:;u\\fi‘ \\(nlhhn\nv(rlud a few| geal and in the streets she was & other homes, mother said. *“Now,| jelightful young woman going about with vou girls getting raised every| per important affairs; then the clock it won't hurt us to pay a|n the ferry stri and she went | home, poor Pussy Meadows, who was . getting deafer all the time. The sweet O it had been joyously settled. And|animation of her face, the smiling then mother’s eves had begun to | depths of womanhood that made distances nge | s gers wish they knew her, were horse into some vague, 'Ibst in a strident gayety that oppressed 1 the ic er alone | and exhausted. Tired neighbors would in the city streets was inconceivable, | resort to strategy or even miss a train %0 the move was put off until she|in order not to share a seat with should be cured. One of the old family | Pussy Meadows. friends was an oculist—getting « little| Today her mood seemed abnormally vague about the eyes himself. but full | strained; she chattered as though to of encouragements and pattings. eep out some sound, and her averted folded, work w cess, 10o. reir lives pain thre about two gre o operation, months, nothing m, P ag- | p d toward 1 rou most to| He came a and hurried | ting her finge When he was [found it we ch worthy to be calle against her breast hand in h wrence told her You'll miss always. bore: nd s | Queer | go on| us “Whoo-00 ough ‘the house, and then Pusey here’'s my son Lawren " ’uu;.\'(:]e;rd onl ;‘he h;sl :l'_t;rd | the shout of good news. Mother, “I've hated flowers,” she said. “They | e 4 o smelled like all the things I couldn't | S3thering M Q;fiugh fous have. But now—oh, do you suppose [ o St GO Bhs oot “She’ll take you with her? For “Good things can happen,” Mrs. | g - |four months?” she repeated mechan Tudor admitted, and went home re-\i)|y “and then, hating to kill their treshed and steadied. “It's the young 3 |joy in its first splendor, she added & that matter. Old folks can get along,” f,;ml,mzm:. ane Rast Think o0 RS iowaplt. girls are pretty promising!” bl S 8 She thinks we're wonders,” Mona HE house was as she had left it. |declared, and Betty added, ““Tudors,” AJPEE houes gua e e A ot It ind they laughed richly over the old gave a shocked air of bad news, and | J°%®. " she hurriedly produced order. The -But. of course mother. we will girls must be told gradually, and after | e oo A 4 they had eaten a good hot dinner. As (‘3:‘\“’:]"; and | ‘-an;pm"k: with she worked she experimented in going |Somi°f(nE arms and cheeks, 1heR without eyes, with poor success. > . Y - months among Old World treasures The Kitchen tuble's been on that|\c;ui3 4o for them professionally. spot for 35 vears; you'd think I could |0 walk around it in my sleep,” she ecold. | L1} bet she means to band on the ed, holding a brulsed hip. *I guess |g RUCEE 0 E I'm too tired to learn my business to- | “Tpey must be told; the moment had night. But vou walt! I'm going to be | ope "¢ they had looked into mother’s the emartest Sllnd womenm in the [o0me. 1T (hey had losked tute mother Bunntey. : |news without words. But they were e e o gy "8, the Irls | hauling out thelr clothes for inspec- e ot iy thelr Dour came |tion. Betty thought Mona's serge look- Mother trembled so that she could|.q gnebby and Mona retorted that it scarcely go about her work. They |Sege n wond deal freshor than Betty's were so happy, the little girls! And so crepe, and there was a sharp spatter kind. The experience would enrich a | cp iype miye: e thin nature, but they didn’'t need en with you: *" Then a gust of laugh- riching. They were darlings just &8 ter cleared away wrath, and the warm they were. In her mOUTRINg over | oot and ducky” were back in them she quite forgot that the hurt their speech. AR L 0 Dl “You know, muddle, we're sailing They made it harder by GOmINg|next Wednesday,” they threw out. home in tearing spirits. Roth had had Mother went to her room and closed promotions in_responsibility. and onlype door. For a moment it almost the train they had conceived a scheme | coomed 1o hey that she needed some of going into business together half a |gutside help. One must stay home, dosen vheis Seiee one must go burdened with the other’s “T'll know the business from A t0 Z|joss as well as with the family sor- by that time and Mona'll know the |yo decorating,” Betty explained, drying her face at her mother’s door because she could not wait to talk. Mona was behind her, comb in hand. vet,” Lawrence’s volce answer she sald with i ® % &k “You been QHE ot her tea and a pretense of lunch at a dairy next door, yaguely surprised that she could see to help erself, for it seemed as though at st two months had gone by since she had received her sentence. The she repeated, then spoke reath, “Glorfous. Well, so You are good to 1 am glad vou are enough.” !Hsl (Copyight Mineral Beds, Even Under Water, Revealed by Electrical Methods BY CARL SHOUP. | O you remember the grizzled | old prospector who was al-| 1025.) Down through the ice, down through | where the men were holding the little | straight line in their journey through 30 feet of water, down’through 10| wire coil. the ground from one wire to another, f?!il o; m}m, and llhon—down into “;, As e(;‘on as 'lh:‘sc m;:fneno ‘?‘;.s it is certain that they are going out - > | vein of rich copper-bearing rom the ore body underground hit|of their way in order to get an easy y"‘(,’u’nu‘;’::“:;f’“fihr‘;‘u:h el 1t is not luck. It is because those | the cofl they generated electricity in | passage through some hospitable hed A er o i i | men with their coils of wire and their | it, Provided it was held at the correct | of metallic ore. The trick, of course, ing countre? His is & fast-vanishing | Fasoline engine have heen able to angle. The amount of electricity thus |is to plot the paths of these currents I O Y iose o his hesls comes s | locate the copper with the aid of | Eenerated in the coll was registered | That is complicated. Involving the use e e e her e & Whe {3 | magnetism and higher mathematics, |OD & voltmeter. When the prospec: | of _teleph receivers and much T o orrant o, e’ avniliag | oven though the ore was hidden be. (ors reached that point on the lake | cerebral gray matter. fraditional figare. With the heip of | aeath the bottom of a frozen lake. |where the voltmeter registered the | 1l another process, known ag the electricity and magnetism, he finds| All tiis actually happened a short | MERSST they knew that directly be-|Tibof method, docs not require any mineral deposits before he or any |time ago. Using the Sundberg system, - 5 body HIRE Ol es S on the grour other living being has seen them which Involves discovering and plot- Siul‘!m:";ss 5:"& of 00\!:1!9. T«}ulte s [eels i ting magnetic disturbances given out it may sound. he pros- S - = Paathematically trained brain in place| INE engineers discovered a 6 per cent|knowledge of the geology of the ter-| duarters are in New ¥ork has done of the searching eye that used to be|COPPer ore body beneath Lake Men. | ritory they were exploring, and th “‘l tyr S ‘{u{m “1 k\ i e s 301 Yocused 1o cnten the Slint of gold. | straesk, in the northern part of Swe-|had to know how to interpret the re.|4nd corporations in New Mexico, o ATor LA Eink & e ob Leabing | dew: sults they got with their little wire|2ona, Utah, Wisconsin and Michigin, T O g o P erotome e | The gasoline engine furnished power | coll. Electrical prospecting s no) and the demand for the new metl celvers to his ears and listens care. | for 4 little generator, which in '""iirg;:im:gg OO rhmne 10F /an eauy| G0N can be Qiscoversd when i the v supplied electricity to the big loop of | I'03 v . n: LSO S L S00Ner = et fully or notes the slight waverings of | SuPPLed, Sectriclty w the big loob OF) (ollytions that have 1o be called into| Presence of some more conductive le rent. oo s e e has not been confined blur ¢ whose head 1d spoil-sport,” she muttered, and even thought of death, but was too sensible to encourage the idea. “‘That wouldn't help much. But I might just wait till morning. They ean’'t do much Al nating current ran back and forth|Play would drive old desert rat to|netal. and otl bodies can be before morning,” she decided, and again lay staring into the dark all night. What she saw there finally brought peace. She let the girls race happlly off after breakfast, and as soon &s her house was in order she telophoned for Pussy Meadows. Pussy came with a lonely eagerness. “It {3 too soon to tell yet, but he belleves he can cure me,” she began, her face lovely with its new light. “The family doesn't know a word about it—they think I'm gadding to town all the time. Oh, I am o happy!"” Mother let her talk about it until Pussy herself remembered. *You wanted to see me,” she broke off. “Yes, T did.” Mother meditated her beginning. “How would you Iike a Job?™ Pussy sighed her desire. “Oh, it there were only something I could do!" “There is. My girls are going to Europe for four months with their MONA AND BETTY TUMBLED OUT THE USUAL WARN- INGS: “MOTHER, DO BE CARE- FUL WHEN YOU GO OUT.” “IF YOU HAVE TO CROSS THE STREET—" ’ in all seasons, on arid lands or in the snow. Indeed, he can even discover a deposit of ore hidden beneath a lake bed! “‘Electrical prospecting’ is the gen- eral term that is used to cover this latest form of treasure hunting. A dispatch just received from Sweden tells of extensive work done there for the government. Valuable ore fields have been found in the northern part of the country by the new methods, known as the Lundberg-Nathorst and the Sundberg systems. Word has just come from Germany, too, that a Leip- zig firm intends to manufacture in large quantities Hermann Jeastor's re- cently developed ‘“radio emanator,” which, the inventor declares, is so sen- sitive that it can detect minute explo- slons occurring among the atoms that make up the gold hiddea underground. Some dramatic discoveries are cred- ited to the Swedish systems, under conditions which make the achieve- ments sound almost like falry stories or the dreams of a Jules Verne. Stretch your imagination a bit and plcture this scene: It is the dead of Winter in northern Sweden, where the days are only a few hours long and the cold is continu- ously intense. On a frozen lake where the icé is three feet thick we see a small group of men. One of them is holding a wooden frame, and inside the frame is a small coil of wire. Around the group on the ice stretches & huge circle of larger wire, about 250 feet in circumference. A little gaso- line motor s kicking up clouds of steam nearby, and its put-put-put is the only sound that breaks the frozen silence. The men move around from time to time, and whenever they stop at a new spot on the ice they hold the wooden frame at a certain angle in the alr and carefully watch the antics of a voltmeter attached to the coil within. They mark down certain fig- ures in a notebook and move on again. { ‘This goes on for several days. Then the men disappear. taking their wire and motor and other paraphernalia ‘with them, and the ice-covered lake is once more deserted. For three months nothing happens. But one day a crowd of men, much bigger than the first band, arrives. With them they have a large drilling machine. They haul it out on the ice to a spot indicated by one of the men of the first expedi- tion and there begin to drill down through the frozen sheet that covers the lake. fl through this huge single loop, the in- visible magnetic field, which alw accompunies_electrical currents, fluc- tuated first in one direction, then in another, through the ice and the water and the ground beneath. Whenever it struck an ore-bearing body in its rapid back-andforth movements, it aroused in that body a momentary electrical current. This current, of course, gave out its own magnetic fluctuations, which reached up from the ground, through the water, through the ice, and up into the air HERMANN JEASTOR, GERMAN the verge of suicide. The method described here is not the only one in use. There is the Lundberg-Nathorst system, which uses two bare wires laid in a4 shallow trench. Klectricity is sent through the ground from one long wire to the other, and the course it takes indi- cates where the ore-bearing bodies are. Minerals, such as copper, lead and tin oxide, are easy for electricit to’ pass through—much easier than the surrounding earth. So if the electrical currents wander out of a|crossings, the INVENTOR, AND HIS “RADIO EMANATOR,” A NEW_ DEVICE FOR LOCATING PRECIOUS - METALS HIDDEN UNDERGROUND. A -| escape ted with a . Copper, lead and tin oxide are the most import There are probably many deposits of /' underground the United ted out by thie ctions ¢ 1 be ferry bund. various metal New Colors. color blind ght signals at raflroad wedish state railwavs have decided, after an exhaustive in- zation, to abolish the green light Using aid the in distin guishing vest | in favér of bluish-white and to adopt a special of red which tests have shown to be most easily recog- nized by all automoblle drivers. Fur- thermore, the lights installed at crossings owned by the state will be additionally differentiated by blinking at different speeds when there is no dan, nd when a train is approch- ing, so that even if a person cannot tell any color from another, he can- not fail to observe the frequency with which the light flickers. The state railw eve spectalist, Dr. C. G. Bostrom, conducted the experiments and has found that be- tween 5 and 6 per cent of all males are color blind, and that since prac- y one in Sweden wants to ar it would be unjust to deprive these men of the privilege as seriously proposed in the Riksdag At the same time many accidents have been found to be due to the inability of drivers to tell the green lights from the red, so that from July 1 this year the new double pre- caution will be adopted. Another device to safeguard rail- road crossings hus been invented by a Swedish engineer, A. Westfeldt, and tests have been made at certain crossings on the state lines. It con- sists of a bar that swings out 7 feet above the ground whenever a train approaches and a row of short chains that strike any car trying to_pass under without Injuring it. Being placed about 80 feet from the cross- ing, the bar gives. the driver warn- ing in time to stop before reachi the tracks, but at all times it re- mains high enough in the air to being crashed into. It is operated automatically by the ap- proaching trains and when danger is over it swings back alongside the roadway. shade