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WEDNESDAY, DE If Successful Transmutation Of Metals Report Is True ; English Scientist, by Changing the Atomic Struc- ture of Substances, Contends That Gold Can Be Made From Bismuth or Lead by Forcing Radium to Detach Certain Particles From the Substance; | Many Former Experimenters and Seekers of the} Philosopher’s Stone Met Untimely Ends. | By Marguerite Mooers Marshall’ | Copyright, 1910, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Bvenis — we 66 ; 4 echoed when he attained his report the Philosopher's * that Sir Ernest ac UREKA He has driven the into @ yet smaller published story. changed, why not th t It is said that the d particles of electricity contained in each, To make gold from other sub- stances, such as bisrmuth or lead, the, modern scientific alchemist says it) would suffice to detach certain par- ticles from the atoms of the sub- | stances—and Sir Ernest Rutherford's experiments apparently prove that | radium is the force which can effect the necessary detachment. Radium, therefore, would seem to be that magic substance sought only less eagerly than the elixir of life— that mirage of the philosopher's Stone pursued by the priests of an- cient Egypt, Koger Bacon, Cagliostro, | Paracelsus, St. Germain, and many | other of the wise and would-be wise. The philosopher's stone has made the fortufe of charlatans, and it ‘ius brought them to an untimely” end.) Here is its description, according to| the ancients who believed in it: “There exists a preparation, solid in form and red in color, called the philosopher's stone, the grand elixir, | the: red tincture, which when it is) placed in very small doses on melipd liquid silver, mercury, lead or some other common metal, causes a trans- mutation of the same into gold There is another preparation of a white color called the stone of the gecond degree, th little elixir, the white tincture, which is equal to the first in half a degree of perfection and. changes the common metals jnto | If he ran true to alchemist form, that is the cry of triumph | Sir Ernest Rutherford, enjinent English scientist, must have cessful transmutation of metals, working with radiuni. against a stable atom of hydrogen, and broken it down| If the atomic strutture of one substance can thus ve| atom is solely in the number of Positive: and negative | served, CEMBER 10, 1919 | World.) ed success in the quest of the ages | Stone, It has just been announced | tually has performed the first suc- strongest, or “Alpha,” radium rays atom of hydrogen, according to eal e atomic structure of all substances’ ifference between an iron and a gold} | POCKETS TO PROTECT |.” EVENING SLIPPERS harvest: from the court fetes in his Dubois was 0 a dungeon | th he finally that the gold in his cruci came from gold coins which he had filed and melted down, and he was hanged on June 26, 1637 | That episode did not prevent Louis} XV. and Mme. de Pompadour from | “falling for another alchemist, the | Count of St. Germain, He not’ only | declared his ability to make gold and | Jewels but sald he could produce elixirs Of life and beauty, asset rting | that he himself was 400 years old, thanks to his magic arts, nop the safest, w being granted @ magnificent’ palace and a large annuity by the monarch he One’ of Count | tricks was gold mately died in Cagliostro many | maging. He ulti prison, During the reign of George ITI, of England, Dr. | Price, who had pretended to make gold before the very eyes of the King, mmnited suicide when a c ission was appointed to inquire’ into his! methods, Two Americans, Charles Johnson and George Mineat, lost their lives tn their pursuit of the transmutation of A NOVEL SACHET’ FOR MILADY'S GOWN HANGER By Peggy Engelman Copyright, 1919, by The Pres Publishing Co, gold, They had built a big labo fi tory at Fairfield, 1a. in 1896; had DULGAR Tenis gift, -i6 perimented with X-rays on a mixture found in each ‘article of melted metals, and believed them- shown, Each is useful selves on the ‘Ke success when they figere burned to death through | nd casily made and looks like the oWrturning of a crucible of their] ® More costly gift, especially if | metal mixture. well made, pressed, neatly folded Fe es atid and placed in an attractive, retary of the Treasury, by Christmas wrapper much interested in the ative “Adam was the first alchemist,” cording to an old saying, and it is) thought the Egyptian priests really, may have Included the wecret of the transmutation of metals among, the mysterious things they knew. There were Chinese alchemists, too, But one of the earliest and best known in- | dividua' alchemists’ was Roger Bacon, | whose life nearly covered the thir- teenth century. A most remarkable man, credited with the invention of | gunpowder and the air pump, an ex- perimenter with the steam engine, the principle of the magnifying glass / and t@escope, he also believed in and ought for the philosopher's stone. | ‘Another great man who flourished more than 200 years later, Puracelsus, the first to prepare hydrogen and use | Jaudanum, devoted most of his life to experiments in alchemy. Becausa of its «vious dividends in human credulity, the philosopher's stone has been the capital of many | picturesque cheaters. There was, example: Capuchin monk. bois, who tended t. put bullets into his and, with a pinch of his “projec powder” to convert them into gold ‘The King and ¢he Cardinal kissed him in their delight, the Cardinal taking occasion to whisper that His Mayomy would require only 800,000 franca a week of the transmuted gold, | but that he wanted it regularly! Dubois had the time of his life— while it lasted. Finally, the King be- | came impatient with ‘the delay in production of the promised golden he placed the Treasury laboratory} Work bag makes a com¥ination | at the disposal of Mr, Brice and a| that js well to carry ‘along when commiasion of experts. Brice’s for- : : |mula inchided Diack lead© sulphur,| SPending an afternosn with antimony and some other substances, | friends that sew, Work should | [transmutation of the aluminum ca- A sewing apron that is also a | experiments of one K, C. Brice that | and it was asserted that he pre gold, but that the process cost f¢ tmes its value. be a pleasure with this apron. It is made of pink gingham with Another American whose expert- pockets, belt and ties of pink ments in alchemy attracted great at 5 : tention nine years ago was Dr. ¥. W,| ®2d white plaid gingham. Lange of Scranton, Pa, He asserted Use two pieces of material; that he could combine silver matrix cut apron khape 20 inches long, and a base met of which he k . " the secret, in cib n such a way Ww ches wide, Sew together to | as to produce 100 cent. more! form the bag. Slit the apron chionde and nitrate than ever haa| - he ” sheen produced before. It was while| Side 8% inches down the centre watching fascinatedly Dr. Lange's| from the belt and bind in plaid | experiments that the banker Ch | Coulter Dickinson, met his death by inhaling poisonous gases, Just before the war other English scientists, Sir William Ramsey, Prof. | orman Collie and Prof, Patterson, following in the footsteps of KE: | Rutherford who, even then, had gone | far adio-active | minced that the alehe f turning lead into gotd | m of | rare axes, hellum and neon had been pro- duced in X-ray bulbs either by the material; finish with a gingham = | covered button. This slit forms the opening of the bag. The one | large and two small pockets ac- | commodate thread, thimble, and the many small articles used when sewing. A gingham work bag has a | cbarm all its own, Tf a dainty shade is used it has much the appearance of silk. When din ished the bag should measure 18 | inches long and 15 inches wide. A pocket on each side of the bag looks well and practically doubles the capacity of the bag: thode, or of one of the numerous ele ments present in the glass or of hy- drogen, through the rise of electric energy. “It points the way.” he added, “for a change of one form of yatter supposed to be incapable of it into another.” The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCa Copyright, 1919, Iw ‘The Prom Pubbah' (The New York Hvening Work 6s OING downtown to-day, my course I'm going downtown! We been trying to get downtown all week,” replied Mrs. Jarr petulantly. “I've been promis ing myself that his year, for once 4 really do my Christmas shopping early! But it seems to me as though T'm never to be able to get my nose out of doors! You should be thank- fal that you get out into the fresh aip avery day; and yet you are so cranky there's no living with Mr. Jarr, who had risen with char- My to all and matice to none this bright winter morning, blinked at this, "Don't say you are not cranky!” continued Mrs, Jarr, who, foeling out of sorta herself, Me, Jarre of being in the sume state ef mind, “You don't do a thing but) growl, Why do you grow!" ST've not growled,” said Mr. Jarr "Yes, you have! You growled and barked i day lacy Bunday, Wh dog must re ie any, ‘4 ee) pe OO at ig dosired to accuse ond Mrs. Mr. Jarr Receives Strange S \ Nautical Reports Concern- | rdell ing Co, ing the Lady Upstairs : : day it was because it was one of my) During the four years of universal dog days, even if it is winter. OF) battling Mr. Jarr | often heard maybe it because you make mM@/ the term, “war bride.” He had never lead a doy he added. seen a war bride, but taking a quick Unappreciated Humor. glance at the caller and observing “Don't try to be funny!" cried | "hat her face was Ike a fortress, he Mrs. Jarr. "You can go out overy Mentally agreed that Mrs, Blather day, while 1 have to sti in t-e| Was either a war fo 6 a wage house until | have got house nerves, Widow He # mistaken. She was Lil Cea remit te eine nt Cla civilian's second wife, but just the day I'm going downtown and seecit| same she looked Like a war bride, oF I can afford to buy some lithe gifts|&t least she looked like what Mr. even if it’s only in the five and ten |Jarr conceived’ a war bride would peg hy | look . and one from @ cduntry g made this declaration, Mrs. | wher fighting never ceased | ‘oceeded to array herself for! “I was to have come early and go| day's doings. ‘Then her mood |downtown shopping with Mra Kit changed, for whe smiled and said, “I) tingly upstairs, but Mrs, Kittingly \really am going out." was out at @ party all night and has Just then the door bel! rang and | mal Jarr heard the vis- | | f nore or less, | {tor explain. Mr, Jarr wondered how family it, return: |even a gay grass widow in. these ing with the announcement that) Prohibition 4 ould have gotten Mra, Blather awaited without | "Mrs. Blather? This early?’ ech Jarr, “I wonder if any- body Is dead This wos a natural query, To the |teminine mind there in onty one ox-| cuse for calling at an early hour, |with a sorrowful mien; “it was a new 4 that is the Joyous errand, to the | name to me, But the symptoms were ale way of thinking, of spreading | the same as sea sickness, and she said is | news of dole and death. |wormething about « ttle home at day- half seas ver.” as the saying is, that | he should have mal de mers Mcomae right in he hears Mre. Jarr | say, “How did’ Mrs. Kittingly get mal de mer-—isn't that sea sickness?” “I don't know,” replied the visitor, Mrs. Jarr hastened to t Mght in a seagoing bh NGS ol the pollen, BT “Ah,” said Mrs, Jarr, “she always has @ good time! Is she very alcke door and a@ stout Pipe the pockets and the sides, of the bag with plaid gingham. e finishing touch to lingerie is a ribbon ornament. As all ends of the drnament shown are knotted, choose satin ribbon; this makes prettier knots than the harsher ribbons. The rosette requires seven lengths of No. 5 ribbon, 6 inches long. Knot each piece in tre, fold and sew the small piece of crinoline. end that hangs from t the cen- ends to a The rosette is made of two pieces or ribbon 7 inches long and knotted to- gether, It is finished with two 4-inch lengths of ribbon, knotted and sewed to the end, The cross piece is 4 inches long, with each end finished the same as above, trim effectively. A cluster of small silk bags of various sizes filled with cotton ‘Three tiny satin this ornament roses most and sachet, suspended by gold cords that are caught together by a bunch of velvet grapes, is a novel sachet for the hanger of miladi’s best gown. Pockets to protect evening slippers or your best shoes when travelling are easily made, The pockets when finished are 12 inches long and 6 1-2 inches most serviceable wash ma- GOING DOWN! rreas Publishing Co, vening World,) wide and are when made of heavy 1, New Ye DOUBTERS: The ques the answer always g0 If you doubt this (as you sit down and Copy rizh' v DEAK tion and together usua ang swered, his will be CONCENTRATING, and if you have never done it be- fore it will prove quite interesting, Let us start with the assumption that YOU are capable of answer- ing your own question better than , Suppose yae the question you Want an- any one Now comes a display of FAITH, for is not faith the very opposite of doub' To do away with DOUBT we must first concentrate and then— answer the question for ourselves, never “doubting that the answer will come IF we apply our minds FAITHFULLY finding the anawer Try it! to Puithfully, * ALFALFA SMITH, . . This Is the Second of a Series of Articles in Which Peggy Engelman Describes Dainty and Practical Xmas Gifts That Can | Be Made at Home by the Clever Woman | | "j | the popular Dethi tonsorial artist. | of his feels the slightest qualm of fear Dainty Gifts That Cost $1 Eachto Make Below Are Shown New and Original Designs for Evening World Readers: Originated by Peggy Engelman. . A GINGHAM woRK BAG wiry POCKETS ON BOTH SIDES A_PINIC AND BLUE LINER WORK BAG - CRETONNE TRIMMED inches long and trimmed with a butterfly ‘cut from cretonne. Baste the butterfly firmly place and applique with button- hole stitch, SEWING BAG- ALSO A WORK in APRON - | Pink and blue linen | charmingly combined in the work bag or basket shape, The upper half and handle are blue and the bottom half pink, Hem- | s#titehing makes’ the dividing line look well and f§ an attractive finish for the edges. Pink and blue roses used as trimming are cut from eretonne and appliqued. are terial of Hnen or cotton, The | flap is 6 1-2 | 2 inches wide and 4 By Bide Dudley Copy 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) o Her Poem to a Corkscrew Impresses P. Silas Pettibone Very Much Indeed. DO not care whether you like these po®ms or not.” |It was “h Ellabelle Mae Doolittle. was| belle Mac Speaking. Possibly you do not know her, dear reader, And then possibly you do—by reputation, Well, what| of it? little." was called “The Corkscrew,” mouth watered, hey" latest poems to P. Silas Pettibone, Mr Pettibone is left-handed, yet no patron friend, Then he read as follows: Oh, corkscrew, you are done; No more we need your uid, What a loss in revelry and funt Tam calling a spade a spade, You used to be a great invention, But now you are pretty punk; Seldom now do they you mention; In sorrow my heart & sunk, while in his chair, He is so dextrous ia his manipulation of the blade, But that's away from this narrative, it is, The poetess and Mr. Pettibone wore ence reported engaged to be marricd, Notice the “once!” A quarrel came, ‘its said, and they gave up speaking to each other except when absolutely necessary, However, he had met her on tho street as she was carrying home two volumes of her lateat rhymes and had bogged for one book. “I will pay you for tt,” he pleaded, “You will not,” she replied, But he forced a quarter into her hand, Then It was that sho sald: “1 do not care whether you Ike these poems or not." Mr, My atater’s child, Teoney Ricketts, Threw a banana at a lady, Teeney, you are very obstreperoua, You knocked off the lady's cady, But, gotting back to the corkscrew, You belong to yesteryear, fool.” Having said what she did, Miss Doo-/ the sentiment of the rhyme. Col \1ittle turned on her heel and walked| Kelly Prather was in the first chair Phere, ate " and to him Mr. Pettibone went, straight away. The nod P. Bilas! PS has ca eagle ‘ il JAbby of the British Istes and often has had half a dozen of her stories Ellabelle Mae Doolittle” He looked at the title of the book. vention Rhymes, by Ella- And then he,went to his emportum and read, The first rhyme he found and his “['@ admire to have a whale of a Mixs Doolittle had handed @ book of| grink, sald Mr, Pettibone to a dear Whenever a man tries to flirt with TI merely say: “Get away, you old Pettibone was impressed with Pottibone holding the book. It seemed yea Hllabelle ‘Mae Dooutte' PA 4 wo.pecullar. eoomal” | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER.10, 1919 ‘The New York Girl Gauges Depth of Man’s Love By. Amount of Money HeSpends . May Christie’s Observations |The New York Lover, Has to Take His Beloved to Shows,.Cabarets and Entertainmegts; The Lon- don Lass Entertains Her Laver Her Home, ‘and He May Ask Her to Go to “Movies” Twice a Week. This articte is the fourth of a serics by Miss May Christie, an English authoress, who urrived here Nov. 12. She is considered the Laura Jean running simultaneously in the British papers. Her theories on “Love” and “Marriage” are entertaining and pique the curiosity of the feminine reader, By May Christie Copyright, 1919,; by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) HE top of a Fifth Avenue bus was once described to me as cy York's municipal courting ground.” Arid so—to obtain impressions—I ascended there. It was evening, and a romantic star was twinkling in a deep blue firmament. The roof was crowded—yes, with lovers! Two and two, to- ether in the little seats! On the roof of many a London motor-bus I have observed “'Arry” and his “'Arriet” entwined. But these New York lovers aren't quite so frank in their embraces. I didn’t see them reach the kissing stage, for instance, as.our 'Arry and his 'Arriet are wont to-do. In the New York courtship, I gather that the young man has a goog | many obstacles put across his path. His lady-love is spoilt—a shade | IN LONDON. IN NEW YORK. lexacting—accustomed to male homage—and keeps him thoroughly in his place! | The shoe is on the other foot-in Britain! ‘Tis the young man there j who very frequently is spoilt, exacting, The London girl too often humors bim. ‘The initial fault lies in ‘his home-upbringing. The British youth is ||taught by his parents that he is “superior” to the girls of his family, He |bosses them. |. ‘This theory he naturally carries out in courtship too. He “bosses” | his best girl, to an amazing extent> | But in New York I perceive noth'ng of the sort! | The New York lover has to take his best-beloved about—to a round jof shows, of cabarets, of public entertainments. It seems to me that the |depth of his affection is gauged by the amount of money that he spends upon the little lady | The London lover—of the same income ‘much upon his girl, Nor does she expect it home, and 1s happy to have a couple lif he asks her! | It strikes me that there's more real camaraderie between the sexes | iv New York, Co-education does it, I suppose. And I thjmk the American |mother trains her son from boyhood to be chivalrous téward all women. | This shows, too, in his courtship. | But I think he very often is long suffering! He works so hard—so appallingly hard, to our British minds!—and _ spends his money freely—on his wife or sweetheart! and status—won't spend 60 She entertains him in her of evenings a week in the movies~ I think the American boy is not only a harder worker than the British, but is more “impressionable” to feminine influence—more 6us- ceptible, I often wonder if his girl appreciates that fact? I like his little courtesies—particularly his habit of caning his girl by the elbow, and clinging to her as a limpet to a rock, as though afraid that she'll escape. from him! I like his qitiet, protective ways. I like his frankness. In a Broadway moving picture palace yesterday I watched the part- ners in a New York courtship, holding hands. The film was sentimental. To my astonishment I saw “the lady was a-weeping over the sorrows of the heroine, while th her sweetheart’s eyes stood frank and sent!mental tears! We solid, stolid Britishers admire this unexpected streak of sentiment What Eve Said ABOUT CHRISTMAS ae 2: By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1019, by The Press Publishing Co. (The Now York Evening World.) HE friend who will not understand you if you don’t buy him a present wi ig not worthy wf the name. Let us have peace at home and good will to shop assistamts, Seek the safe and sane Christmas. Prepare for peace on earth and good will toward women, Above all—late shoppera never hear any good of themselves, And: A little conrideration from now till then is relished by the best of shop as sistants. Even a grouch must turn at the Christmas spirit. Get the Christmas spirit—but there are 364 other days in ere to show it. Make your lst come well within your means. Don’t spend yourself in the process of spending. If an unexpected present comes don't feel that you have to rush out and buy something In return, Remember the useful things are welcome always If you have paid for services rendered all the year ‘round don't give because you feel that you are expected to. Christmas ts fargely for children, and if you have something to stye, rather give to the dependent child around the corner, Don't give for the sake of giving. a AS #oon Cat & toad as read) clapped their hande—with great guste, All were pleased tr Mr. Pettibone was perplexed, tn his heart he still cared for the poetess, | and yet he wisifed to keep the trade | ADVERTISEMENT, Fe ts asia Kitchen Burns “Very well! ¢ Noted lonsorialist then took the bene Rowan the sireet to Hoosick's | When you burn yourself by tomektiag - livery stable. There he found seven | [M@ hot door of the oven, a hot iron er men shooting craps. Interrupting the hot handle of a kettle, apply VEELO+ Nat ones. 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