Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1926, Page 83

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., SEPTEMBER 19, 1926—PART 5. Touching Upon Sudden Wealth, College Sports, Wild and Other Life “Now If ] Had Money” Is a Phrase Which Points to Varying Courses of Action BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM. S P. T. Barnum, the man who invented the automatic pocket- hook-opener, once said, “"Money may be the root of all evil, hut what 1 could do with a thensand dollars is nobody's busi- ness!" And the truth of that has always struck me on a real sensitive spot. For a long time now I have fully realized what shame it is for me not to have money. Why, when 1 lonk at some of the folks have it, well, it just don’t seem rea sonable, that's all. I got to this over with Mabel Bush. the other day. the one that's married to that Joe Bush of the Hawthorn Club, and | for once in a lifetime, T and she had a real congenial time. We was speak- ing of the Goofnahs and what a pity it was that people like them should have so much money when anybody could see that they didn’'t know how to_spend it. Well, my dear, T says to Mabel the way that Goofnah woman dresses! Expensive, of course, but did vou ever see such terrible hats? I don’t know where she finds them, yes. said Mabel, and her dresses! course she nuses the most gonde, but they never look like thing. why, if T do say so myself. I Jnok twice as smart and 1 don't begin to pay what she does. Well, Mahel said a mouthful there, whd do | talking | of | expensive | on account everyhody knows them Rushes don’t hegin to pay for any thing, much less finish doing so. un absolutely have to. But I agree with her about Mrs. Goofnah. Why, if Mahel thinks she is dressed heside that woman, can vermagine what 1 couid do to spectalty shop with Mrs. Goofnah's Income! 1 tell you clothes ain't that woman. worst ideas on furnishing the place isn't even comf couldn’t live in a hig barn | conld you? And 1 save no indeed, now it 1 had money. I'd have a nice house, of course, with say or 14 hedrooms =o's 1 could entertain my friends . ] TELL you. Mabel. I says. 1 ean't understand people like the Goof nahs. they are so inhospitall Lookit that big house they got down to the lake. And how many times dn they ask a person out there? Now. if that Mabel, wrong with ha the house dear, savs all that's Why. she * ok ow ox was my house, 1'd have it simply full | know, rd much be a of friends all the time—you people who would appreciate it ask the ones who didn't have themselves, the folks it would treat to. So would T, Mabel, no soclety people, eh? And [ says cer- talnly not, dear. T personally myself would keep my gfand house just full of poor relations-and people from the slume. It would be such a treat to them not to wash the dishes or make their bed, or anything. And I wonld buy them clothes, too, real nice things, just what they wante I tell you another thing ahout thit Mrs. Goofnah. says Mabel. She's as stingy as can he! Why, do you ! now that when they was taking rp mubscriptions for the home fo blind. erippled bull-frogs. all she rive wr $20! No! I savs, meaning yes. dom’t say! Well, I simpl Aderstand that kind a thirg Now, if T had monés. 1 hope to tell you I certainly would be generous with it. There's a le¢ of things I've just heen crazy to do in this world and it T was suddenly to get money rich can’'t un- they would be the first things I would | give 000 | If T had | it | Then there is that poor fam.- | ya wanted t v attend to. T al: Aunt Eata a nice income, A year. and a closed car. . 1'd rush right out and huy ily of Whoot down the street T'd like to send all them kids to colleze, hire a g'rl to help that poor woman. and fix up their house for them. while | they kissed my hands in gratitude. | and ete. T'd give all my friends a money, and T certainly wouldn't hunk of for | | s “I, PERSONALLY MYSELF, WOULD KEEP MY GRAND HOUSE JUST FULL OF POQR RELATIONS well | al AND PEOPLE FROM THE SLUMS.” her | hle, 1] o that, | hats | mentioning things. however. does, T says [ atternoon friend shopping. I to have everythin would insist on hej 1 would of done so mv own personal self no matter how hard Mrs. Goofnah had insisted you long, sayvs. can be so mean. course, if a_person hasn't that the | well like that, that's all. You | and with ali those ¢ you a person a car onct in a while? do Goofn the legs off herself and never so much a You know that as good as 1 de that's all. | of them any time they wanted them. tn o side 1 do think uld be grand to be able to do It certainly would. says Mabel. not | exactly what kind of | Now, that Goofnah woman never Take for a sample how shopping the other bought some things | near every de- | 1 and she went | She for herself fn pretty partment of the Emporium. while all I could afford was one ice pick. she knew that perfectly well, but did she say buy charge did_not! And th me. go ahead. dearle, and | vourself anvthing yvou want and my bili> No! She | Now, if I had money and took a girl | would want her I had: in fact, 1 taking it, not that if she had insisted what 1 mean, dear s that matters, don't | but know i the spirit agree with me? | 1 cor says Mabel with a | wonder to me, she who have money | It isn't as though | didn’t have it. she went on. Of | ot it, why | a different matter. But what I mean is, when they have plenty. 1 can't understand people beins | iinty do. gh. It's a how people they dear, 1 fon. —wouldn't to lend Rut You know! Why. Mrs. would see a neighbor walk Well. neither can I. take another que: of their would offer think they they even dream of offering her a car, | ok YW, if T had finck of autos sce that my friends gzot moner, and a big ike that, I mean the use I'd tell now just whenever yvou want | anywheres, or park a car out vour house or run down street | for a bucket of coal or i why all vou have to do 1 will he delighted to send around the Ran Ate. or whichever N rd lit | Junior zet you, dear, T'd ask vou out on | you preter. That certainly s my idea my vacht., and everthing. it w | things for Your girl friends. a car, but then, as the Goofnahs of the way to enjo: some people suc certainly don’t know how te use their | wealth, Well, Tl tell you, my dear, say: Mabel, T have always felt it to be a great pity that somebody—a intel ligent woman like myself—couldn't go right to Mrs. Goofnah and say. see here, dear. now take it in the right spirit in which wish you would let me show to._spend your money exactly what you I doing with won't cost you you pay ont. Honest, Jennie, it would be doing that woman a kindness, only she probably wouldn't appreciate it No. I says with a sigh. that's just people “seldom appreciate inter- ference with their mone: liar fact, but true. money 1 would he far would be only too glad to have my friends give me helpful suggestions ahout my loose change, helieve a person should he a sucker ar throw their kale away on a hunch of grafters. But money i a_lot of responsibility. even when you haven't zot it. Mabel. and 1 sure have often noticed vich people making terrible mistakes, especially where their chil- dren is concerned. I must say that if 1 had money I certainly would not want to leave too much. T think it spoils a child. especially a boy. T wouldn't want to leave him and a half. just enough to give him a good stari in life and make him earn the That's see th these them trouble. cheap zoing shame! ELL, just W only the doorbell postman with a letter. quite a important looking letter in big, white envelope. with a red seal on the back of it and very few of the letters we get generally have s—usually the flap is merely rou how d ought to Dt s Mabel. yon can in the families of a lot of people go getting ving a lot of and the bovs chorus it's a voung the girls ma foreign out with i then what would ring and it was the Well, it was * it is meant, but 1 do | I know just | be | it, 'and my showing you | a nickel only what | stuck on the inside the envelope so's the cirenlar won't fall out so easy. all except the ones from George's mothe; 1 was dying to see what was inside f it, so I says to Mabel will you excuse me please, this looks | to be quite a important letter, pardon me while 1 see is it important or not. Well, T opened the letter, see, and Hot Bozo! The first lines nearly put me out for the count, T couldn’t be- lieve my eyes, but there it read, plain as day L vour uncle's will, have $2,000,000." that was all the further T account 1 did not want to important letter with you been left Well, got. on read such a v, it's a_pecu- | ow if T had |1 hope, dear? different. 1| | So Mahel sa not that 1| over a million | | and what a great responsibility money <ociety millionaires. look at how | into | that Mabel Bush looking at me. So, while nearly suffocating from ex- citement, 1 merely folded the letter up with trembling hands, and sald nothing. so Mabel says not bad news, And 1 says oh no, ha! ha! no. not so pad’ vs well. to read T can see you | want to be alone your let ter. 1 do hope it isn't bad news, well | Then she | feit in her pockethook for her com- | T must be running along! pact, and then she says. by the way. dear. would you mind lending me a quarter? T ¢ome out with only the carfare to get over here, I dunno how, but T forgot to put any money in my purse, T was lucky T had the dime. And 1 sa don't ‘know have T got that much money. So T looked in my purse and commenced to take out a quarter, then T remembered how rich 1 was, was, a person really had ought to be very careful of it. . And so I put | and give it to Mabel. Sorry. dear. says. 1 only seem to have a dime. hut that's all vou'll really need. isn't 1t? And she says why thanks dear, I'll mive it back to vou. Then she went off and 1 had n chance to read the | rest of .my letter and this was all the | rest there was to it **By vour uncle's will you have heen left $2.000.000.° Suppose vou re. ceived a letter beginning as ahove. How would you invest the funds? We are fully equipped to act as trustee In all such cases. or what have you® “The Insecure Trust and Bust Co.. authorized capital 98 cents.” (Copyright. 1926.) Unconscious Humor in College Circles | Truly yours, | vou give the bank two weeks' notice. | s well, er, let me see, T| the quarter back and took out a dime | 1 BY ED. WYNN. EAR Mr. Wynn: 1 don't know what to do, 5o am asking you to help me. I hate to see my husband intoxicated. T sit up for him every night and he always comes home drunk. Gee, how I hate to see him when he comes home? What can I do? Sincerely, POLLY ANNAH. Answer. Don't sit up for him any more. Dear Mr. Wynn: My grandfather is -an old sea captain and he tells me all soris of tales ahout the ocean, but whenever he mentions the ocean he calls it the “angry ocean.” Why does he call it the angry ocean? Yours truly, ANN GLOE SAXON. - Answer. He thinks the ocean is angry because it has been crossed so often. Dear Mr. Wynn: A friend of mine ds in the hospital with a fractured skull. The doctor says that all my friend keeps saying is: “I was hit with a sandwich.” Do you think it is possi- ble for him to get a fractured skull from being hit with a_sandwich? P. KNUTT BUTTER. Answer. It must have been a ‘“club” sandwich. Dear Mr. Wynn: I have just left schaol and have a position. Iam very ambitious and am going to start to save money. [ may want money some time in a hurry, &0 what T want to know i% can I draw my money out of the bank the same day I put it in, If T put it in a savings bank? Sin: cerely, IKE EEPBOOKS. s MAKE A L) New Explanation for the Angry Ocean Is Inspired by Query to Perfect Fool LAW COMPELLING4PICKPOCKETS TO WASH THEIR HANDS, Answer. You sure can as long as o Dic AABY LAY Dear Mr. Wynn: I saw a policeman | he was arrested stop an automobile and arrest thqgsald because he had only one eye.| and the policeman B o/ i THE MAN WANTED TO OW WHY HE WAS ARRESTED. | married gave me an engagement | dlamond in it. pocket to the Government that will prevent | driver. The man wanted to know why | What charge can they place against a man driving a car just hecause the man enly has one eye? Yours truly, D. SEMBER. Answer. He was probably arrested | for driving because he had one lamp out. Dear Mr. Wynn: A girl friend of mine took a position in a photograph studio. only only been working there for three and | A half months and she now weighs 163 | | pounds | that? the job she She has When she took weighed 124 pounds. Hhw do vou account for Yours truly p S JGH MERHER. Answer. She, most likely, Is working | | in’the “deyeloping” room. Dear Mr. Wynn: I am engaged to be | intended husband | and my ring with a M. Truly vours, PEARL NECLASS, Answer: Try and soak it. Dear Mr. Wynn: The other day 1 saw a filthy-looking man walk up te another the man's <t something man and pic Can’t you sugs father says it is an | fmitation and 1 say it is genuine. Will | vou please tell me how to find out if it | is imitation or genuine? | talk goot what fs wrong mit him these pickpockets from puttin dirty hands in other peoples poe Sincerely, o; . M Answer. I have ziven you lots of thought and have conclusion the only thi the ¢ ment can do to keep pickpocic putting their dirty hands in people’s pockets is for the ¢ ment to pass a law compellin pickpockets to wash their hand Dear Mr. Wynn: 1 am a hov years old and go to public school English_teacher gave me this tion: “The liquor, what the wmn hought, was soon drunk.” She told me the sentence is wronz and wants me to carrect it. Will vou correct it for me? Yours truly, G. WHIZIT Answer. Instead of “The what the man hought, was saen drunk.” it should he “The man. what hought the liquor, was soon drunk.’ MARDE liquor, If a chentleman voice and ecan't Has he a horse in de troat or has he a enlt Dear Mr. Wynn has troubla wit his |in de head? Yours. A. WEEN SCHNITZE Answer next week THE PERFECT FOOL. BY STEPHEN LEACOCK. | | I l THE HOUSE FLY. HE house fly (fuscus domesti- cus) is at_his very best during the months of Augustand Sep. | tember. 1t is then that his | coat is at is glossiest and that his beautiful back plate, or caparace, shines with its highest lus- | ter. His lovely eves also take on at | this season (the love season of the flv) | | their deepest color. while his soft. { vibrant note is tuned to the voice of | nature itself. | At this time of year the fiy-collector. | or even the amateur, shouid have no difficulty in finding one or more per- fect specimens of this magnificent | | multiped. | “Alone among the odiferous qua- | | drimana_or cephalopods.” writes an eminent buggist, “the flv seems capa- ble of thriving wherever man can | live and takes on with ease the en vironment of our civilization.’ | Indeed, it appears that the house Pets in Season as They Are Presented By Our Enthusiastic Nature Writers L] | step in before it becomes too late. A suitable reservation of land as a Mos- qusto Park may preserve for our de- | scendants a few thousand million spe- cimens of what was once the dom- inant animal of North America v THE SKUNK. The skunk, who is a high faver v high. with the nature lover, i short cylindrical animal with a leg each corner. The skunk is an object of great heauty. Its magnificent fur coat, dark black with two lensthwise stripes of white, is perhaps unexcelled among the fur-bearing or odoriferous animals. \Why. then, in spite of the beauty of the skunk, do we not like him? We jall know, hut we don't say. The skunk ig, by nature. a quiet, | people-loving, tame and affectionate | animal. He asks nothing more than | to be near us. He does not bite, he | cannot scratch, he makes no noise and only asks to be friends and to | forget the past. at Why, then, do we not take him into our friendship? The nature student who wishes to get into close contact with a skunk Appears Among a Hero’s Recollections | iy cer North America. | 8 < ! Singers Midke!s and jgot (hroughithie| oy, oo (oUndBIO L OIS TRe | ; ! ; BY RING LARDNER. : o course in one day, with an hour off | sfrica, and the nature student needs, | Chapter 12 of Autoblography. FTER the \eslevan game fiasco. there was some talk of firing myself and Big Rill Ed- wards off the team and se- lecting other players to rep- resent Princeton at hockev, hut this idea was given up when it was found .that we were the only two men in college who had skates Our second game was With my former alumna, Yale, and Rig Rill, who was then known as Hull on ac- count of his resemblance to that part of a ship, broke it up the moment he stepped on the ice. The balance of the hockey season was spent frying to get him ont of the lake, where the fiah were making vigorous Q. WHAT WoULD YOU DO IF SOMEBRODY HAD A STROKE? IA. SEE THAT THEY COUNTED T about the congestion. The lake was called Lake Carnegie after the lihrary of that name. it heing used as a re- ceptacle for the students’ books. Owing to my delin club, where I played E strin on one of the banjos, my name cam to the ears of the Dean. you registered?” he asked T replied. said Dean Cornwell, “vou Il Ax you up the hest ou can't have a bath because there is an Odd Fellows' con- vention hera this week."” ‘What is his name>" I asked why does he ohject to people’s haxi baths?" The Dean war greatly amuse! at my simplicity and in after yvears we met again and got & hearty laugh out of the apisode. (Editor's nete: I didn't) complaints 1s plent success on the man- | naivete ics. w You are a veil! stayed would have done if he had waited for 'some his deg ee. become known as the Princeton vell.) soon becs I mos: organizations. 'as Trenton and then relinquished the | 'E MORE 1 HAD DISPLAYED MY N WAS IN HYSTERI( Tean Cornwell next inquired garding my choice of a course. d, “six thousand yards well trapped.” ore 1 had displayed my 4 the Dean was in hyster- el 1 Once saidg he, “I wish vou ‘Lardrer.” rinceton all your life. 1d v at If Lardner had his life, which he (Editor's note: there all he doubtiess would have ! the Dean's influence, T sember of the Dekes. 20 Thi Bein Kappas Realty Roard and the Triangle Club, the isive of Princeton's social ‘They rushed me as !ll“ Aided by re- | | (Red)” Grange, le. IVETE AND THE DEAN chase on my promise to enter the University of [llinois. At Hlin 1 took up the study of medicine, a six months’ course in those days, unless you were bright. Among my classmates were Harold L. M. (Mike) Tobin, C. (Chamber of Commerce) Pyle and Fred (Peaches) Nyvmever. Illinois had the right idea about that bane of most medical students' existenc anatomy. It was the ¢ om at that time for the instructors to employ prominent undergraduate or alumnus and dissect him with a view to showing, for the pupils’ benefit, his general structure and the ion and funetion of his various organs. Yale, for example, used Mr. Taft and it took two ars to go all over him, even in a hurry And the same at Michigan, where Germany Schulz was welectad as the subject. At Illinois, on the other hand, we dissected one of for glee club rehearsal. I was graduated in medicine and awarded my M. D. after only two months’ of study: moreover, I passed the final examination with a perfect mark of 100 and still have a copy of the questions and answers of that ex- amination, which may be of interest to medical students and practicing physicians of the present day: Q. Where is your appendix_lo- |cated? ¢ A. In Washington Park | Hospital. Chicago, unless the cleaning weoman has heen in. Q. vou eat regularl A. Surprised. Q. Describe an ideal hospital. A. | The ideal hospital is built over a suh- | way and between a steam and an ele- | vated railroad, in a neighborhood where they are putting up skyscrapers | and repairing the gas mains. Its | equipment consists chiefly of a siren, | a bass drym and acoustics which will | bring out the full value of a scream | or & dropped trayload of dishes. It's telephone musn't’ work. Q. What has been your hospital experience? A. Terrible. Q. What would you do in a case of an epileptic fit? "A. Call a doctor. Q. What would you do if some- hody had a stroke? A. See that they counted it. ¥ (To be continued.) How does the stomach act when | | therefore, no further apparatus for his | study than to huy a house. A suit-| able house having heen selected, he | ‘may put in one, two or more flies | | with entire certainty of a zood result. | | Flies are not difficult to rear and | feed and with a little care they will | | thrive well and even increase. A pan | | of milk set out overnight, or the | remains of a tin of salmon set on a | plate with a little marmalade, is as | | much as any fly asks or needs when | in good health. | It is perhaps nqt menerally that the fly can he tamed. | the past Summer,” writes Mr. Sum- | mernut, one of the keenest of our | nature students, “I succeeded, after | several efforts. in taming a fly. “When we became better acquainted he would light on the table beside me and nibble at the crumbs near my | plate. Once while venturing too near the rim of my tumbler he fell intol the milk. At other times he would | | actually alight on my shoulder and | rub_his cheek against mine. | “My house fly was at his friend- | | liest during the drowsy hour of the morning just before the time came for my getting out of bed. One heard a gentle buzzing and there was the merry little fellow peeping over the edge of the coverlet, his big eve | sparkling with fun. He seemed to say known | ‘During | FOLDING STEEL SQUAR HERE has been invented a steel square that takes the place of | four tools, as it is possible to set and |lock it at any angle, giving all me- | chanical cuts known to the trade and | in.this way serving the purpose of !the square, miter, hevel and try- square. This square also has marked on it a new rule in simplified form showing all the cuts used in carpentry 'and how to obtain them, thus saving much time and mengal calculation in I solving the problems of rafter cut- ting, ete. The greatest advantage of this fold- Ing square is jts convenience in car- |rving. The c8nvenlence to the car- penter of such a square will be fully | appreciated, for the many trials and troubles experienced on account of the railroaa and express companies’ disinclination to ship the tool box, with the old rigid square protruding from the chest or when moving from job to job are now things of the past. The square problem has been solved hy eutting a dovetail of 65 degrees and swinging on a solid steel rivet, butting against dovetail shoulders which lock by tweo hardened tapered screws that have been sold and used by the | beat earpenters during the past few ars has proved beyond the possi: The number of these squares | E. bility of a doubt that they are abso- lutely reliable. ! There are more than squares manufactured annually United States, of which 1,000, disposed of yearly to the carpenters and all classes of mechanics in this country, and the balance abroad. Curious Filaments. 'HERE is a sort of electric lamp in- vented by Meusel which is re- markable not only for its excellence in practical use, but also for the novel manner in which the filaments are made. Alloys of chromium, manga- nese, molydenum, uranium, thorium, zirconium, platinum, osmium and iridium are first disassociated in water by the electric spark, and. being pre- cipitated in inflnitesimal particles, they form a colloidal mass, which, be- cause of its plasticity, can be molded like wet clay. After drying, the fila- ments thus molded become sufficiently hard and resistant to bear all the manipulations needed for their in-| troduction Into electric lamps. | s00n as they have been heated to red- | ness by the passage of a current they return to the metallic state, and thus | torm fllaments of pure metal, parfect- 1y homogeneous throughout and of | uniform caliber. jout of bed and take a run on the lawn. As | c “HIS HIGH PERSONAL COURAGE ENABLES HIM TO ATTACK SINGLE-HANDED AN OPPONENT 20,000 TIMES HIS WEIGHT.” No use | ‘Peek-a-boo-—time, to get up!” i to wave him away. Back he came again with the same, friendly buzz as if inviting me to hop| The only thing to do was to take a | towel with a knotted end and swat him over the head with it. This would | from which the light glitters in all di-| jdeter the Iittle fellow and I would rections, are | then see him fly across to the window great sweep of his gossamer W pane and sit rubbing his head with! his hindleg as if discouraged. ! 11 THE POTATO BU! | The potato bug (buggo Colorado) | does best in a rich, sandy sofl. It can be brought to its greatest natural perfection by planting within its easy | reach a crop of potatoes either in rows or hills. “It was my good fortune last Sum- | mer,” says Prof. Allgone. the famous | author of “Parisites and Paris Green,” “to come into possession of a splendid pair of potato bugs, male and female. “Both bugs were set out in the gar- den in.a spot shitably chosen near a potato plant. ek “To my great delight on visiting the | garden on the third day 1 found that the two young housekeepers had laid | a rich nestful of eggs carefully set on the under side of a potato leaf. The | joy of the parents reached its maxi- | mum when a few days later the eggs hatched into a group of tiny little | buglets. “Indeed, there is no telling to what height the ecstasy of the whole family might have gone had they not acci- dentally stumbled on some paris green carelessly left within their reach.” 11 THE MOSQUITO. ‘With the exception of the house fly, the mosquito is perhaps the most widely disseminated of our domesti-| ated insects. He is to be found al- most anywhere on verandas, on up- per and lower balconies, on front and back stepe, but he is seen at his best when tucked away behind the little | scope. is white bed curtains thet are specially provided for him. L3 It is here that he can most success- fully he brought to a hand-to-hand conflict which is his delight. A mosquito, as seen under a micro- to the naturallst, an ohject His four pairs of refracting lenses of equal delight. eyes, with double by the ngs equaled only and the beautiful articulation of his, 16 legs. Most striking of all is his powerful bill, armed on each side with teeth, like & double crosscut saw, with which he bores through the cranium of his enemy. The mosquito knows no half measures. He is out for blood. Hence comes his high personal courage which enables him to attack, single- handed and unsupported, an nppnnvnli of 20,000 times his own weight Odds are nothing to him. He rushes into battle singing as he goes, se lects the stoutest of his enemies, and seizes him in & death grip in the fat-| test part of his neck. The British bull- dog and the American eagle are cow- ards beside the mosquito. Protection against the assaults of the mosquito has always presented a serfous problem to the settlers and campers in our Summer wildernesses. But by the trained naturalist, or na- ture lover, the difficulty is easily over come. The naturalist befors setting out on his study smears himself with ham fat and oil of citronella, over which he spreads a thin layer of beeswax and asafetida. He then sprays his clothes with coal ofl and drapes himself from the head down in a long white net. Thus prepared the naturalist need fear nothing outside of Bengal. It is a pity to think that the mos- quito, like the house fly, is threatened with extinction. There are said to be only a few billion million left. Even | these ‘are zoing—falling victims to their own high courage in their flerce assaults against our civilization, like the Crusaders dashing against the Saracens. ¢ But no doubt the efforts of the new Mosquito Presarvation Socletr, one of the latest of our animal philanthmpy efforts, will indues the Government to and to see him at short range (his range is ahout 9 feet and a half) must visit him in his own fastnesses in the northern wilds. “I had the good luck last Summer," writes Mr. Sleepout, the distinzuished nature student, who spent seven week s in the Adirondacks. with no other | food than a combination suit and a bow and arrow, “to meet a skunk al most face to face. He was a splendid llow. easily 18 inches long. with a utifully arching hack ‘and swesp of tail. 1 had full time to admire the dainty way in which his ears joined * his head and his head ran inte his neck and his neck ended in his body. “Crawling cautionsly toward him, [° was almost within touching distance when the beautiful creature elevated® itself on its glorious hind legs. sniffed | the air about me with jts”exquisite snout and then beat it into the deep’ woode." (Copyright. 1 o < I Field-Glass Gun. A FIELD-GLASS gun has been de- vised which serves the purpose of both a light gun and a powerful glass. | A short barrel is rigged between a pair of telescopes, and a bar with a re- | coil pad extends to the forehead to take the “kick” from the discharge If a heavy caliber is used, a shoulder stock can also be provided so that the shooter will not suffer too great a * i shock The telescope gun daes hetter work than the ordinary rifle telescope he. cause it gives the advantage of a pair of binoculars and ix much lighter and { more convenient to handle. The old rifle telescope, which has hecome fair- ly common, does not allow enough light to reach the eve, so that its hest use is confined to target shooting. A deer hunter in the woods is hardly able to distinguish an animal he has seen when he sights through the telescope. Two well constructed tale. copes, mounted as a part of the gun as in’ this device should prove of great value, and may replace the old type, just as binoculars have replaced the telescope in a great many uses of the latter instrument. Auto Power Adaptor. For some time there has heen of- fered in the market a simple power adapter for bélting an automobile to farm engines. The adaptor is a hase plate with a spool-shaped roller mount- ed across cach end. The extended shaft of one roller carrjes a three- inch pulley. When one rear wheel of an auto- mobile rests on the rollers and the other on the floor or ground energ can be delivered through the differ- ential and the rellers made to pre duce as much as five-horsepower.