Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 29, 1921, Page 4

Slsrwich Bullefin and Goufief 125 YEARS OLD toboggan and no indication that he will right away, Ruth has shown himself to be an un- usual batsman but if the scientific test that was made with Ruth ag the sub- ject in a New York research laboratory fig correct, he is more than the average fplayer. This test, according to H. S. Fullerton, showed Ruth to be about 90 per cent. efficient while the average ef- ficlency runs about 60. He has a set of steady nerves, his quickness of percep- ‘tion runs one and a half per cent. above Sabseription price 12c a week; S50 & month; $8.09 | NOTMAl, his ears are ten per cent. above » year, : Entered «t the Postoffics 4t Norwich, Comn., = second-clam matter. Tolepions Cally, Dulledn Buslmsss Office, 30, Bulletin Edltorial Reoms, 853 mal, his ears are ten per cent. above normal and hiz eyes are better than normal by twelve per cent. Thus it would appear that Ruth is a super baseball batter. Not only has Bullstia Job OTice, 35-3 |he the physical properties for swatting Wiltmsntie Office. 23 Church St. Telephons 186 MEMBER OF THE ASSICIATED PRESS, e Asociated Press Ju exclusively entitied dspatch- o cedited ot or pet otherwise this paper and zeodlted 1o algo the local rims published Mghia of repuMication of meclal des- remerved. CIRCULATION WEEK ENDING SEPT. 24th, 1921 11,312 oo REPUBLICAN TOWN Selectmen . _BAILEY BUSHNELL Board of Assessors JOHN B. OAT R." MAND Board of Reliet C. FITZPATRICK G. PROTHERO Town Clerk and Treasurer TICKET OLD T gistrar of Voters T D. GUY Auditor F. McNEIL Agents of Town Deposit Fund LESTER CPHERSON Constables OET GOOD TOWN GOVERN town tious 1 g0 among the of par- those whose served is headed by Se- nd Pushnell is elected orwich needs and that it those who are act- t is a he sixth cons | achusetts this Andrew, former ry, was 7 a ma- nques- t nded with » ballots and t the distric Harding ad In fact the per- secured by er was the repu to have heen by the pre- candidate prears secured republican tions are Jooked upo to indlcate the way the po blowing, whether sentiment the federal administration erzone any change and if so is that it has taken Massachusetts, while om the senatorial efection in firection > In that it conserned only rict Instead of the entire state, showa ¢ recognized need government in present party. And from the oppo- cour indicate that ts well distributed. It 3 that the sixth Mass- republican, even as ed upon to name a but the significant s that the Influences that were at < in the respective localities to have results reflect upon the administra- Washington not enty fafled but is the re the sions com of the of can senator In each instance they did just the eppo- sita. Thus the political barometer in- dlcateg full satisfaction. BABE RUTH. He 414 1t last year and he has done It agaln this year. How long Babe Ruth tan continue to break his home run a| n by seeing |c home runs but he makes use of them. So well has it been developed what his ability is that it is found that a pitcher must serve him a ball traveling 1-500 of a second faster to work the same de- ception upoh "him as upon the average pla 5 Thus it would seem to be established how he does it. He does it because he is buflt for it. His abllity places him at the top of the list of home run makers with a new record each year, and Inasmuch as he will get the chance it seems to be likely that he will be an important factor in the world's se- ries with his batting eye and powerful swing. ' FIRE PREVENTION DAY, Rresident Harding in his proclama- tion designating Oct. 10, the anniver- sary of the great Chicago fire as fire prevention day and urging the governors of all states to see that it is observed in their commonwealths directs special attention to the great losses that are sustained every year from fire. The point that is stressed is that while it may not be possible to prevent all fires there 1s a large proportion of them that are directly due to carelessness and consequently are needless. Let it be fully recognized that 15,000 lives are lost every year because of such cartlessmess, that a large part of the property 1oss of the last year amounting to a half billlon dollars could have been prevented and that a good proportion of the $85,000,000 worth of timber tha*+ was burned during the year, and therefore diminishing the timber supply of the country without any re- turn whatsoever, could have been avoid- ed by the exercise of a little moge care and thought and there is furnished good and sufficient reason why anyone Wwho has anything to do with firebrands, or who is respunsible for conditions that simply mneed the application of a dis- carded matcl or cigarette, should ap- preciate the responsibility which rests upon his shoulders and refrain from contributing, directly or indirectly, to the nation’s fire loss. Fire prevention day is nothing new. Tt has been regula: designated for a number of years. Just how much has lly been accomplished by it no one y. Nevertheless, conditions exist h show the meed of more fire pre- vention and none too mwch effort can be put forth through such a method to educate the people to consider the im- portance of indivi effort in such a The cause is one w0uld be generous co- The importance of checking waste cannot be overestimated. prevention day will not do the whole trick but it will glve much val- uable help. suel REDUCING MAIL ROBBERIES. Somet! wr g more than a slap on the t was bound to.be used in breaking apparently well organized for looting of the United While it may be too early show perman t results it is never- ar that the measures which ast April have called a the t. Handlers of the mail v armed and they are instructed hoot for the protection of the mail. nditions Were getting to an alarm- ing state when this radical departure wag taken. Gangs were lylng in wait for the arrival of loads of mail which were known to contain large sums. Pos- tal employes were held up and millions of dollars at a time were secured. They know when large shipments of money could be expected and they were ready and waiting to receive it. Postoffices were also looted and trains held up. Desperadoes were multiplying because the ease With which they could do Fror general f m he report of the postmaster the past five months show- tha! the mail robberi¢s have amounted to but $13,000 jn that time 3 ng of the postal clerks ha$ car- d its warning to the robbers. Once in there seems to be sufficient re- spect for the penalties attached to the bothering of Uncle Sam's mail to re- duce the number interested in such bus- iness. May the effect be permanent ra. ther than temporary. EDITORIAL NOTES. Babe Ruth seems likely to have Sev- eral chances to win the world’'s series. Massachusetts is now having a ‘“ne accident” week and the football season 1s in full swing, Those who Step on the gas are cap- able of as much deplorable destruction : |as those who blow it out. § Tearn how to use the voting machine use it to insure the continuance good town government, With Harvard having a third more enrollments than last vear it looks Ifke a back to college movement. It it wasn't for the unemployment sltuation there would be many with nothing to do, including Ledoux. The man on the corner says: The daylight savers seem to wind up their season more enthusiastic than ever. When officials declare town affairs can be conducted on a decreased tax rate the best thing to do is to keep them in office. ‘When the president of Mexico sets out to stop gambling, he will have a chance to tell us how to enforce prohi- bition if he succeeds. From the predictions about what will be dome with poison gas in tie next war it is time to see that the supply of gas maskg is sufficient. Those predicting a warm winter are laying in a supply of sour looks from the fellow who is refraining from fill- ing hig coal bill in case the opposite results. - Chicago’s chief of police has been sentenced for contempt for claiming a tudge by his conduct of cases aided crime, and now the police are charged record is a bit uncertain but it is evi- | with being engaged in bootlegging. Chi- dent that he has not as yet struck the | cago needs a real housecleaning. NORWICH BULLETIN sald the ingenious man affably. —s0 I am afraid that my idea must perish.” it is laid away,” begged the man who always thought that he was funny. “I simply adore games!” cried the sweet young thing. - “Well,” began the ingenious man, “it's like this. You make a certain remark and the trick is to follow up with the reply which custom has engrafted upon it. For instance, the starter sight and murmurs sadly, ‘Oh, I'd give anything if I were not so fat!” The answer to that is the immediate cry, ‘Why, you're not fat! Not at all’ ‘I'll give any fat person a million dol- lars who can point with pride to the from that when he made his jnoan in public about his avoirdupois. If an truthful and untactful person should re- spond to the Sobs of the stout person, Yes, you certainly are horriblly fat, and would break up the party and the con- versation would go blooey ! “Next the starter would say that he represented a large, husky man at the nineteenth hole after a strenuous game of golf. ‘As I lift my foaming cup of tea to my lips,’ explains the starter, ‘I growl ‘Oh, that was a roi-ten game I played A bum score I made!” Whereupon the listening circle will, of course, shout in tremendous chorus “What you giving us? That's a remarkable score for you, but I certainly did fall down on that water hazard.” “Why, if ever that answer failed to be given the golf club woilld explode with a loud bang and be no more. It couldn’t stand the shock. That's why they put water hazards in when they lay out th course. You can make that answer even if there isn't any water hazard at all and get away with it because the other man’s ears are so attuned to the sound of those syllables that he expects them. “After this the starter sighs and says how he wishes he could own an automo- | bile, but he can’t afford it. The circle EASY GAME TO PLAY “I have invented a brand new game,” “It's only drawback is that it is too easy. who joins in will win the prize, and that looks like trouble for the hostess. No hostess wishes to provide twenty prizes for a social evening—rents and beef tenderloin being what they are “Give us & glimpse of its face before fact that he got a different response you ought to do something about it he tells him as one person, coyly, that it isn’t the original cost of the automobile which counts, it's the upkeep. “Then the starter mentions that he is a woma, any woman. ‘My goodndss, says he anxiously, ‘how awfully gray I am getting. Why, my head is just full of gray halrs—just look at them’ The an- swer to that is. ‘Nomsenss Why, you haven't any gray hairs at all—I can't see a one from over here!” “Or the starter asks dublously, Don’t for a woman of my age to wear? It is almost foolish to repeat the response to this one. No living soul has ventured to vary the other half of this bit of conver- sation since the days of Eve. On Eve's 600th birthday she came home with a new palm-leaf hat, all droopy and trail- ing flowers, like a 16-year-old girl's, and says she to Adam, ‘Isn’t this hat too young for mp to wear? ‘How silly you are!” laughed Adam jovially. “Why, you aren’t old in the first place, and, besides, you are young enough to wear anything you like? “The starter next explains that he is a middle-aged man. most any middle- aged man, whose excess fat has all landed around his waist and stomach un- tfl his outline resembles a foothall. He sees another man looking likewise. ‘Am 1’ asks he of his wife, ‘am I as fat— in the same spot—as thlat man? Honest- lv, have I a bay window like that? ‘Whereupon his faithful wife scoffs mer- rilly. The circle chants her words: ‘T should say not! The idea! “Then there is the question: Now, whom does the baby look like?” This may caus@ a division in the answers, be- cause half the eircle will mechanically cry, ‘He looks exactly like his father. while the others as mechanically wil say, ‘He looks exactly like his mother! ‘Oh, T've got oceans of these verbal twins and it does seem a shame not to put them to some good use! It would be like the old game ‘Authors’ only different “T think it is perfectly wonderfu! sighed the sweet young thing. “But you ‘have forgotten two of the most common: “When did you first fall in love with me? and ‘Am I the first girl you ever you think this hat is too youthful looking | loved? ™ “Well, you see, I don't want to make fhe game too easy” explained the in- {zenious man. “That’s why I barred {hose!"—Chicago News. T T ST AT DRI | ODD iNCIDENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY ATTEMPTED CONSCRIPTION IN WAR OF 1812 When the United States found itself at war with Great Britain in 1812, the question of raising an army became| a serious problem. It was a knotty one for President Monroe and his Cab- tnet to solve. Monroes suggested four plans for the securing of the desirable number of troops: The first was a gen- eral and sweeping draft. The second plan was to divide the militia into three classes, according to age, andj suffer the President to call any p: of either class into service for two years. The third was to exempt every five men from militia service at the time of en dred more for each year of ser After a long wrangle Senate was finally decided upon, W all the earmarks of a conser which idea of raising an army w ry objectionable to the publ No_State in the nion York, yet at a special se autumn of 1814, the I lor Kent declared it to be a lic good. law amid the heat the people and the tion of town state, meetings all over t Maryland ordered five thousand state came that the conscription passed the House of Repres: a committe to report “what m it may be competent to take for main- taining the sovereign rights of state, and protecting the liberty of citizens, against the arbitrary and un- ernment. a state brigade. Kentucky ordered ten thousand men to be enlisted, and Penn- sylvania, when peace came, consideration a bill to raise a military force to be used for the defense herself, New Jersey, Delware and Ma- ryland The various states resenting ywhat they considered was the general gov- men to meet the emergency, and the the Conscription Act in the war of 1812 but this was not the case with the civil war. The Confederate congress on April 16, 1862, having passed a conscription Act whereby all the white males in the seceding stat of cighteen and thirty-five, were plac- ed at the disposal of their executi the Northern States were constrained to follow in their footsteps since the ranks were filled too slowly for exi- gencies of the service. passed by Congress on March 3, 1863, providing for the enrollment of ablebodied male citizens, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five. The President was authorized, from and after July 1, to make drafts at his dis- cretion of persons to serve in the nat- years. A commutation of $300 was to be received in lieu of such service, al- though there were exemptions, pro- vided of certain heads of executive de- partments, federal judges, Governors, the only son of a widow, or of an aged or infirm father, dependent on that son’s labor for support. The passage and execution of this aet inevitably intensified and made ac- “coercion,” Who especially detested the national effort under its present aspects as “a war mnot for the Union but for the ne- gro,” were aroused by it to a more determined and active opposition. But the government placed a firm hand those who resented the carrying out of the conscription through draft ri- ots. (Tomorrow—Imprisonment for Debt) READ YOUR CHARACTER By Digby Phillips, Copyrighted 1921 You've met lots whose motto The Procrastinating T of those people “Never do today what can be done tomorrow.” People with call impressive educations this tendency “procrastination.” Others call it laziness. In realit; it's a very human tenden- cy. There's a little bit of it in all of us, and it names only gets either ef the above when it is excessive. who would find one to enlist for the war. ‘The fourth was to give the recruit one hundred and fifty acres of bounty land ce. in both the and house a compromise bill ich had ption bill, ot warmly supporting the war than New on in the slature, with the reports of the burning of Wash- ington fresh in the mind, passed a bill authorizing the raising of twelve thou- | sand men for the defense of the state. | As the troops were to be gathered in by a sweeping conscription, Chancel- spirit of the Constitution and the pub- condemnation of igorous denuncia- Connecticut bade her Governor bor- the conscription bill, convene the troops to b& raised, and when word |chd her own House of Delegates ordered this constitutional acts of the general gov- Virginia made preparations to gath-|f er a state army and South Carrolina|s ad under of ernment’s interference with state rights and raising a sufficient number of early termination of the war, overcame between ths ages The Northern Conscription Act was all ional armies for not more than three tive the spirit of opposition to the war. Those who detested every form of| save the coercion of the republic by the Confederacy, with those There's a little element of laziness in it, but it is in far greater measure mere lack of discipline, for you'll often find it in people who realy are not lazy at all, but who simply rebel at the idea that a thing ought to be done. If it made no difference whether it was done or not they would probably be in- terested sufficiently to do it. But the mere fact that it is expected of them. or that their own interest demands it, makes the little task distasteful to them, whether it is the paying of a | bill, the writing of a letter or the call- ing of some one on the telephone. The signal of this tendency, as hand- writing reveals it, is in the crossing of the “t” like the signal of impatience But, unlike the signal of impatience, all or the bulk of the cross-stroke is to the left of the stem of the letter. So if you get a note from some one telling you he or she will call you on he telephone or meet you at a speci- | fied hour, and you see the -cross- ings projecting to the left, do not be »i urprised of the telephone call is late or | neglected, or the appointment not kept on time. Tomorrow—Big Ear Mounds Stories That Recall Others row $400,000, buy 2,000 muskets, use any part of the militia he saw fit in : in the defense of any adjoining state Sweet Dreams when invaded, and, if Congress should| Like most three year olds Dorothy pa: I.Y::no is alw S very msismn[‘ on having Legislature immediatel {her own solutions. One evening she de- In Massachusetts it was decided that|cided she must ve something to eat ten thousand men sheuld be enlisted to | ing to bed and on a survey of serve for a year or duri the W | try decided on raw potatoes. However big sister objected to this “Dorothy Jane, you must not eat raw potatoes before going to leep, you will have bad dreams.” “Well, then, give me sweet potatoes; they make me have sweet dreams.” An Easy Task Some people believe that the switch- hoard operators in all telephone ex- changes should be persons of wide in- ation, of tact and a high degree of skill, and that to Serve the public per- fectly they should possess the rarer power of divination, mind reading and second sight. This is all indicated by almost daily occurences like this: ( “Please give me Miss Brown’s hom The operator asked for the number. “¥ell, I haven't the number, said the sweet voice, but it's Miss Brown who lives, I think, in the northern part of the town.” The hello girl was prompt to ask Miss Brown's first name. “I don’t remember,” the volee replied, the firmness now more evident than the sweetness in the tone, “but you can easi- Iy find who it is. It's Miss Brown who lives up town, as I said before, and she used to teach in one of the schools, lease get her right away.” ve| IN THE DAY’S NEWS Burgenland: The Graustark of 1921 Burgenland, scene of Europe's most recent “side show war,” might just as well be Graustark so far as its exist- epce upon the usual map or in the general reference work is concerned, according to a bulletin from the Wash- ington, D. C., headquarters of the Na- tion Geographic Society. Explaning what and where is this scene of hostilities between Austrians and Hungarians the bulletin says: “By Burgenland is mean the West Huyngary of 1,684 square miles some 345,000 people which was carved from Hungary and given to Austria by the Treaty of St. Germain. “The strip resembles nothing so much, perhaps, as an old shoe, with COULD HARDLY STRAIGHTEN UP. When the kidneys are overworked or isordered and fail to throw out waste matter from the system, it causes aches, pains, lame back, swolien ankles, sore joints, dizziness, floating specks, etc. J. W, Seabock, Chester, Pa., writes: “My kidneys and back hurt me so when I got out of bed in the morning I could hgrdly straighten up. _Had to rup the small of my back before I could Walk. I could hardly button my shoes. I haven't fe the sorencss _ since I took Foley Lidney ahout this act, and dealt severely with Pills. Lee & Osgood and | 1t | ness before the p its flattened heel touching the Danube opposite Pressburg (or Pozsony), its instep arched along the Austria-Hun- gary border, its toe nearly tipping Jugo-Slavia. “In Burgenland the parenthesis comes into its own. The map or time table which neglects to give one al: ternative for a city or town, and sometimes a third choice, will handi- cap its user. Tact also would require that if one speak of the principal city of the region to an Austrian he call it Odenburg (also spelled Oedenburg); but that if he mention the same city to a Magyar he speak of it as Sopron. “Odenburg has claims to fame on its own account, notably its Church of St. Michael, completed eight years be- fore Columbus discovered America, and its cattle markets of the days be- fore the war. But its principal as. sociation is with the names of Este: hazy and Szechenyi. “Both north and east of Odenburg are castles of the Esterhazy family Along the Neusiedler See is the ‘Hun- garian Versailles' where Haydn was conductor of the private orchestra of one Esterhazy, Nicholas Joseph. At Mattersdorf (Nagymarton), where Austrians have establishled a provis- ional government, is the chateau of the family among whose scions were a platine of Hungary, one who re- fused the kinship of Hungary, an- other who was the emissary of Louis XVI to Marie Antoinette, and one who, in 1917, formed the Hungarian cabinet representing the parties opposed to Count Tisza. “The castle of the Szechenyl family is nine miles southeast of Odenburg. Kossuth, his poltical oppoent, called Istvan Szechenyi ‘the greatest of the Magyars,’ and time seems to confirm this,unbiased judgment. Figuring first as a sort of Paul Revere, in his ride through enemy lines to convey a mess- age of two emperorrs to Blucher and Bernadotte, then as a Magyar L'Enfant in his effeort to make Buda a capital beautiful, this nobleman has to his credit such other diverse achievements as pacing the first steamboats on the Theiss and Danube, suggesting canals between the two rivers, writing a book on horse racing, and giving a year's income to furthering the wider use of the Magyar tongue. tria and Hungary with berg, near Odenburg. In the vicinity, too, are the towns of Ruszt and Balf, centers of wine production. miles wide, half its size. - i CHILD TRAINING AT HOME I e e T S The Educative Value of Mother Goose By Anna May Brady Every child should have access to a well illustrated copy of Mother Goose, not only because these little jingles rep- | Lo oni"S, 2nd measuring the energy resent the heart beats of the race but because they have within them great ed- The tiny babe is lulled by the_ primitive in him responds and his eye is caught by the pictures long before he is able to in- Grown-ups never outlive ueative value. their rythm of which all terpret them. them. Poor indeed is the chud who is denled this foundation of the classics, Mother Goose represents the first at- tempt of the race to give us a literature. Away back in the beginning of time, long before the days of books, these ver es developed. The race no doubt was in that rythmic stage where people loved to swing and sway their bodies to mu- sic, queer music it was, too, for we hear that it svas often made by beating siones or sticks together, but always the rythm was the appealing thing. e So, too, the sounds of rhyming words tickled their ears and when they first developed these jingles they were so pleased With them that they repeated them over and over handing them down f{rom generation o generation, each generation refining yet leaving the plot unchanged. These rhymes whiie but a gemtence or two in length are well-night perfect in construction. They will pas any test to which we subject adult literatnre. There is a plot. introduction, climax, and conclusion. The characters dance on and off again, yet so clearly are th‘)‘I represented that as lonz as life lasts we have a clear picture of them. With only a few words to describe them, Little Bo Peep, Jack and Jill, and Little Miss Muf- fet, have as well defined places in our our minds as Othella, Hamlet or Lady MacBeth. Our children of the pre-school and kindergarten age are in this same stage of development. They too are suscert- ible to rythm, they love to ewing axd sway and hop to music, and their ear is also caught by the sound of rhyming words. They need material like Mother Goose for it is to them what Shal peare is to the adult. Bécause these rhymes are the product of many minds they are richer than any thing one per- son can give them. Many of us used to think that Mother Goose made up these rhymes in Bos- ton Town long ago, and we liked to think of them as- distinctly American but such is not the case. These jingles came down o us from the primitive races and Mother Goose was only a very cleve teller of these tales,—a woman who made so many children happy that In her honor we call them Mother Goose rhymes. The child Who is brought up on Moth- er say them pictures. units and is able to recognize words in different rhymes. Th him with a working vocabulary is of inestimable value when he enters school. Best of all it has not been work but only play. A list of Mother Goose collections is appended: A Book of Nursery Rhymes Edited by Chas. Welsh, Published by D. C. Heath & Co/ Chicago The Nursery Rhyme Book, Edited by Lang, illustrated by Leslie Brooks, Pub- lished by Frederick Warne & Co. 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"ELDERBERRIES POPULAR, SAYS FRUIT GROWER The elderberry may become a strong competitor of the grape in the fruit market, is the opinion of many orchar- dists and fruit growers in the middle west. “Measure for measure, there is no other berry that will corme as near pro- ducing as much juice as-the grape excepting the elderberry.” declared one of them. “The elderberry is a fast growing bush, and is an annual producer. It will grown almost anywhere and thrive on soil that a grape vine would shun. I predict that its cultivation will be a most general and profitable business within a few years.” There is as great a demand for the blossom as for the fruit, and either bring a high price. Elderberries on the stem sold for $3 a bushel this sum- mer. The bloom brought about $1.50. A bushel of either may be picked in about 10 minutes where the growth is thick. THE SUN AS A STOVE Baking bread and roasting meat on the summit of a mountain without fu- el is possible by the use of a device invented by a scientist of the Smith- sonian Institute, Washington, D. C. The intensity of the sun’s rays is har- nessed, the unusual energy is capital- ized, and food can be cooked beyonl the line of perpetual snows. An astronomical mirror at the Smithsonian Institute is capable of of the sun rays, calculating that in summer the solar luminary transmits upon each acre of land energy equiv- alent to 7,500 horse power. The so-termed “solar cooker” ists of a half-cylinder of iron lined h mirror g which catches the rays of the sun and concentrates them upon a metal tube that is the half- Judge Landis Condemned For Taking Baseball Money COPYRIGT KEYSTONK VIEW CO. NEW_YORK. The American Bar Association has expressed its unqualified con- demnation on the action of Federal Judge Kenesaw M. Landis, of Chi- cago, who took part as the Na-' tional Commissioner of Baseball, while still on the bench. In a resolution the Association states that it is conduct unworthy of a 'Judge and harmful to the bench. ....$L75 essie Wilcox Smith, Published by Chas. Serib- ner's Sons, New York. $3.00 National Rhymes of the Nursery, Edit- ed by Salntsbury, Published by F. A. Stokes Co., ceee$2.25 con-| cylinders axis. The tube contains oil which expands and becomes lighter tg'b.l.he heat as it passes throughsibe The latter is continued to form loop outside the half-cylinder, thus making a sort of endless chain, Passing through the loop, the oil cools. However, the sur’s heat forc- ing the oil through the portion of the tube inside the half-cylinder, compels the cooled oil to follow it, otherwise ther® would be a vacuum. So while the sun shines there is a continuous circulation of oil. The “loop” passes through a box which contains an oven. Heat from the oil warms the oven and does the desired cooking.—Exchange. WITCHES IN WALES Superstitions of the country folk of Wales are discussed in the quasteriy report of Dr. Arthur Hughes, medical health officer of the County of Car- marthenshire. Despite the fact that fortune telling and witchcraft are pro- hibited under the English law, large numbers of the Welsh peasants bring their ailing children to the witch &oc- tors rather than to medical practi- tioners. One fetish that appeals tc these superstitious people is that a witch doctor can cure a child of back- wardness by means of making a slight incision in the cartilage of the child's ear. The operation must be performed during the waxing of the moon and the art is handed down from genera- tion to generation, the “doctor” usual- 1y being a woman. If a cure does not résult the operation is repeated until the child is cured. It is said that many ‘women practice this art and that the people pay large sums to have dull children treated. GLOVES BAD LUCK TOKEN The vagaries of musicians are so well known that one should never be surprised at any report of what they said or did. The last concerns John Philip Sousa, who has just started on a tour through the United States and Cuba. What do you suppose John Phii- iip Sousa did before he started? Why. | ordered 200 pairs of white kid gloves at $5 a pair. The gloves are not for the members of the band; they are made for himself, for Sousa has long made it a practice to put on a fresh pair at every concert. ‘This particular superstition is not the evil eve, nor a cat running across the road, but that if he wears the same pair of gloves more than once some- thing will happen. 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