The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1921, Page 17

It’s myste: VYire nd as grow had a treme and Houdini, or even the le: gicians of the s te eat live charcoal, how to walk un- acathed over burning coals, or d beding oil, Houdini himself is ready duced in various ways,” he piece one inch wirmly will extinguish the flames. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1921 Easy to Eat Fire if You Know How HOUDINI REVEALS THE SECRET He Also Tells How to Swallow Swords, Walk on Redhot Stoves and Everything, but : It Takes Practice. Here is 135-pound Cameroni, the “toughest guy in captivity,” holding, The spikes on which he rests don’t hurt him, back “until it is almost imprege Fatty Arbuckle on his chest. because he has toughened the skin of h nable. KEYSTONE Vinw ©O, By Roger Batchelder. Copyright, 1921 HOUGH P. Barnnm may IE and classify the faat always loved to be fooled. As a nation, and as individuals, We love the bizarre, the grotesque, and, above all, the mystic. A smart young man from Tlinois has only. to ew York and announce that © can’ make his ears wiggle, contrary us, remains rubbing w ashing “Georgia Magnet,” can't be moved by Just now the , melt ho says that gh 1 se thut thé American by the Press Publishing 'Co, (The New York Evening World.) have been the first properly to describe people have e are curious, , extreme en’ in df the tecth and.other parts which were to be touched with fire with pure spirits heat, Houdini declares. 7 it was known that by hands and thoroughly mouth, ilps,’ tongue, oF ecedents, and we rush ©f sulphur, the skin would become jo all known xed burned and caute d until it was as fo wee him, or read about him breath- hard and thick as leather. Each Ressly in the press. time this experiment is tried it be- comes’ still easier, and red-hot coals, ling wax, rosin and other matt an be chewed with impunity. five men, is creating more comment One can even swallow these fiery in- than the League of Nations or the gredients if drinks plentifully of 1 warm water and oil before the per- -dumping revelations. c ee formance, and empties the stomach As children we marvelled at our after it is over, who could “chaw a denby, or the pack. e always sus respect for Kellar pus chums ”" produce ¢ a car 3 Take it giv Ds W bei hoop in t pared by bout ser ma- So now, if you want to know how K to put had The “Fire from the mouth can be pro- lls us, letely hid “One way is by the use of a thick Pei@y be cotton st ig which has been soaked ton of the na solution of nitre and then thor- ughly dried. This string, once te breathe. lighted, burns very slowly ‘and ir te long is sufficient fc Up, ¢ hi It is easy enough to accustom the mouth, or any other part of the body, a New “Ford Story” Answers % ‘sly im Business Condition Quiz ‘n° Pc'f N interviov pressing r was recently Henry Ford for ?” he asked. > best an r to that is the ang during thet Z “Looks like it rained all year round out here,’ he sald to th farmer. ‘Does it ever stop?’ “The farmer stroked his chin and replied: ‘It always did be- on Moreover, fore.’ younger “The answer to the question, Will business ey back to @ tack: get ie, kitehen \ normal?" did be- be done over a small hole in the floor, In orde must become touch of metal ample room several blades. sharp p secretly covered with, a rubber cap. ters of tacks, g the like actually s impossible things, ‘and mance ig over. entirely cases, If one can judge from his ac- counts of surgical operations on per- dressing room he ened when one of answer the post-performa many accidents, some of ther which happened to his magical con freres, and at the end of his chapter fire-eating he hale breath f Flame fatal to life.” among the rai generation iempted to swallow swo: or chew on offerings from the dini’s warning, Never try to bite off red-hot iron unless you have a good pair of teeth. from ate, if you plan to attack a barrel- at manner, “it m bending it back one inch the fragment is nearly broken off or by cutting it nearly through with a cold chisel.” One of the et into which were covered w: Mr. Houdini. At any y be pre- und forth end until from the Fire Kings" was wont an iron cage the bars of h cotton satu- to give you full directions. His new fated with oil, He entered the cago ook, “Miracle Mongers and Their C*'tying Aa beefsteak, and remained 5 *, watil the fire had burned out. ‘Then Methods” (Dutton), is not only aM je came out and showed the beef- intensely interesting history of , Which was burned to a crisp, pe ” but it is also a complete | Houdini tells us that the entertainer MATIC tno ctunte end tricks fastened the steak on an iron hook in expose o' stunts 4 one of the upper corners, He wore which have made men famous and gy , tos costume, with a hooa rol, which completely covered the head small opening at the mouth fire being ignited, the smoke com- the performer from He lay down cage, the at the bot- placing his mouth ‘The heat, naturally goifi oked the steak and he was un- ed, much to the astonishment of drinking of bollmg Uquor ts made possible by using a glass with a false bottom, and some spoons which use for eating molten metal have/hollow handles. Sword swallowing is possible only The membranes of acoustomed and there ts one's throat for When a sword with nt is used the point is \¢ os others use tind: nade of burning russ, as our fore- the audience, fathers used to do. This will not | The flame, but merely smoulders until the breath Dl it into a glo Flames from lips can be pro- performers duced by holding in the mouth a @ saturated with the ‘pures' cusotine. When the breath is ex- after practice. nated sharply it can be lighted from the throat la torch or a candle, Closing the lips to the im any 8, pebbles and allow these seem- Houdini as- hem after But they ssful in all disgo: succ +4 oi formers of this class, One gentleman ar opinion on future buat- 2 ined Norton was accustomed te ness conditions swallow a number of frogs, On one “Will they ever return to nor- § occasion when Houdini called at mis greatly fright- » frogs did not nee rollcall. story of the farmer and the city But one must not believe that all chan,” Mr, Ford replied. 8 $ these stunts are done without a grat city chap had been in the Q element of risk, no matter how care ‘mer's village for three days @ {fee the performefs may appear when farmer's village for three days § they are hefore us, Houdini tells of time it had fatal, warns, “Never in- while performing with drawn into the lungs ts (The italics are his.) to prevent casualties ns of our adventurous who might be ls, frogs or range, I must repeat Hou Phese tricks can only by experienced men after ou Beat It! Copyright, 1921 by Tho Urwon Puiblinting Ce (The New York Evening Work) HRS JOHN WILL BE IN SOON SHE IS DRESSING ENTERTAIN HER. JOHN WHILE 1'LL SEE WHATS KEEPING HER EVERYTHING IS CIOING WRONG, MAKE SONE EXcuisE for NE HURRY UP! ARS STIFF SHE IS SORRY To DETAIN 200 TEN MENTAL, ARTIST SHE es CANT PAINT PAINT ! \NHAT IS SHE PAINTING 2 BY BE an COUbTSHIp) LUCILE. THE WAITRESS | ~aAINTD : MARRIAGE TY* VINCENT 1 am a girl of sixteen so much in with a young man that | was about to propose to him at the id end of leap year. did not com e to beginning of the what shall | do? Wait until the next four years now, Perhaps you will change your that time and decide that the question” to A.C. mind by you wish to some other young man still, let's hope some chap beats you to it and asks you first. imagine Cupid is so much happler in such cases. At first we two years before announcing our engagement, my youth and for various other rather trivi has been suddenly called out of town and | have found life very empty without hi it would be unwise to marry him within a few months and thereby “pop “Dear Miss Vincent: | am eigh- teen and very deeply in love with a young man of twenty-three, who has asked me to marry him. id agr jal reas e me unt GOING DOWN! Copyright, 1921, by the Prem Publishing Co, (Tho New York Exgning World). EAR EMPLOYEE: eo Ey «+ EetoOe DYVDLEY e Copyright, 1921, by the Press Publishing Co. (‘Tho New York Evening World.) know what the modern ships burn?’ Does 1D you ever travel much on ee ships?” asked Luctle, the dal agg day Pere ioe your boss have to watch waitress, a8 the Friendly poox! Then he gets funny. ‘Say, be you for errors? If he does Patron put a small mirror on the lunch counter in order to be able to watch his coat and hat hanging be- hind him, “A little,” he replied, “Why' “Then I guess you know all the nauticular tarms,” Lucile went’ on. “Well, I don’t and I admit it. I made & lot of mistakes in here this morn says, ‘do you know what side of a ship 1s the port side?’ “‘Sure,' | says again. ‘It's the side the port is on when the ship comes dnto the harbor. “He laughs so hard it gets me finicky. ‘Listen,’ I says, ‘you better go down to the dock and sail before the masthead. You're too fresh.’ “He never says anything more and pretty soon out he goes.” Lucile Prawn Publishing Co, it will be a long time before you ning Work) get a raise. He is AFRAID of you. He cannot rely on you. If you write a letter for him and he has to gorrect it with a pen, it shows the person to whom the letter goes that your employer hires CARE-less people. Be o: love However, he the made a trip to the kitchen. reful in little things and ne} Fé we cn mi ing, talking about ships, but that on" has return she maid, by way of you will draw big salaries, a wasn't no reason why tye victim | explanation, “I was only kidding him Y was talking to should give me the ghout the ‘ours truly, port side. I knew all the merry ha ha. ‘To err is human but to time it was the aide with the port. forgive is fine, you know “Weil, this guy takes a seat at the ALFALFA SMITH, How my t greet My love, my sweet? I dare not sond Dan Cupid, The Blue Law Man, The Par-i-tan, Would pinch the little stapid! E wearsno clo’es— By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Copyright, 1921, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) And, goodness knows, 1 His reputation’s shocking! f Yo pious heart Will take his part i | AM so pure— I'm hardly sure Valentine rhymes are proper; Woman and song— They may be wrong Like wine, s0 I must stop. Er. If no Why should 1 | no one peeka, If no one sneaks, To-give my dear A kiss, since this is Monday? one tells Dame Grandy— fear «lt LITTLE WOODEN GODS KEEP EVIL HOODOOS FROM AFRICAN IBOS. AVE you a little wooden god in. your home? If you were @ member of the seml-civilized Ubos tribe, in Southern Nigeria, Af- rica, you'd never be without one. The two “Ikengas’’ shown above are char- acteristic samples. ‘The backward- counter and says he's noticed ome body had smallpox in a ship's steer age. J ask him how a sick man could steer the ship and he laughs. “They don't steer the ship in the steerage,’ he says, “Where do they steer it—in the compass?’ I ask, Or, better I rather Covyriaht, 1921, by the Pres Publishing Co, res lif ho e ua tes vax mee ween it of my life, or should I have stuck to him in spite of her nagging “He laughs. ‘In the pilot house,’ he YOUNG woman writes tome as and being abusive toward me. says. ‘The captain stays on the follows: “His mother has broken my heart bridge.’ Gk tie ehonth Time iy @ healer and 1 hope that my “‘Gwant’ I says, ‘They ain't any wR ik tran awe Tread ® wound will be healed within a «hort to wait’ about Tidges over the ocean,’ very interesting article of yours en- time. I spent my years with him in “That tickles his jocular, too. titled ‘Meddling Mothers,' which case misery on account of his mother, but 1 b f avery ship has a brid he says. referg to my own. Wor four years [ fy ald BY best to suffer now than partly becau: o' ‘Sometimes the captain steers the jay, M an A atiean! ARTE Ow can any man forget four ship when the pilot is under sus- "@Ve suffered the insults and abuses years of courtship and a girl who ons. Now he Pension.’ of his mother. I always tried to be helped him along in his business ca- i “Oh, I says, ‘It's a suspension nice and to overlook at times these reer and made a man of him? Now bridge, eh? Well, what does the Dur- insults for the sake of her son, whom ¢¥erytbing is ended iby his silene suer do? [ ask, would say to this young woman. Do you think “You mean the purser,’ he tells | /0ved. Before I met his mother she you have acted wisely, | have sald me. ‘Why, he looks after the purses Would always try to discourage her before it is better to suffer a | of the passengers.’ now the pain of parting than to keep son and make it unpleasant for him erhaps risk sharp criticism from “What Is a stoker” T ask to that he should keep away from UP % Wrangle and aggravation for friends and relatives? Or, should “‘He looks after the fires. Do you %° that he should keep away from years to come with a selfish mother I wait patiently, though perhaps . Be hana a met, but with all her nagging it did in-law 4 unhappily, through the two yepre? not help her, for h@ loved me. a You are quite right Give Father “UNCERTAIN.” : a + have been since Time @ chance and he will hew! any Along onsagement is perhaps a & QO) S for fam engaged and have been since wand. ‘if all is true aa this young Malla ots ettreeticnal tut ts eeane pen season yne and a half years and we were woman says, then there is ane thing ittle more conventjonal, but in a cas %, 8 é ey} ‘i el to get married this year, to understand, It js th » yours, where the young man {s » ton a. Tt | asia d out of town, a marriage “a | Chinese Editors but, unfortunately, hts father died ,, If that man’s love is big enough and brief engagement” is permissible OURNALISM is a dangerov and his mother took him into her fenice het ono Cee ee mother Why not take your happiness whea ocevpation in Canton, Chin 7 wan willipe tb. $a wa NE nA The Le eee it comes to you and not pine from ~All a pray hands, 1 wa ing lo ¢ work him and the ret! love of his life, Any sheer lopeliness? according to th P and assist im in every way until we girl who ha ded a man to maxe ent there of the Central News. re ulated some money to take %#mething of himself and he is will- “Raer Miss vincent: Lam deep: Quoting the Canton Times, he oping a ink tO he parted from her is not ly in love with a young man id an mes, he ¢ up housekeeping. I am considered @ worthy to be beld r give such twenty years of age. | am seven- says “Every military Governor very good bouse-girl at home and am a one up. teen. This man shows that he has had at least one editor shot $ not extravagant There are other g cecextho me, but | don't know how | meing iid term of oiion iainca “Recently mother, in order to of them. It is fallacious to g¢ should show my love toward him PEG Ne On OT Ne eID ca oat cir wedding date immulted a theory that there ls only one without letting him think | am the ealablishment of the repub n such a manner that’ 1 could not » world. Very, very often it running after him. lie, numerous Canton journal Bland it any longer happens that this very man on whon “STENOGRAPHER.” sts have been executed by of Now, Miss Loeb, I you this t ws aafte Be your natural self, ‘Talk and § feial order and al others @ @uestion: Did { do the thing in all. p 1 ‘ rong on laugh and simply be real without base as rs " fhg.the man L loved for t No man w r no his wearing your heart upon your sleeve. asanosinated Ww Micials as ake of nother, so as avoid any wt ut t 1 whom hi Never try to assume qualities you do accomplices, future differences and ther caus- has agreed make his wife, No man Rol yoeseas. ing my tuture to be unhappy for the who las aby bigness abuul bin at all | ithe satan —_ : eo 4 t ees to pe ro kn = 16 DROSPECTIVE MOTHER AW » 2 will remain away from the woman he loves because of a petty quarret, He will overcome all obetacies all along the way If he has not done this, the thing to do is to try your best to forget him There is only one extenuating oir- cumstance in this case If the mother has no other means of support and the man does not wish to desert his mother, Yet there is no excuse, since the young woman in the case is will- ing to help to shoulder even this r sponsibility There is nothing more terrible than a nagging woman who thinks only of b because any mother who thinks so much of herself that she cannot seo the love her son may bear to a young girl is truly selfish, She cannot hope to keep her son forever, It ia the law of nature that he find his mate. Mothers should adapt themselves to circumstances and try to meet the love affairs of their children as far as possible, At any rate, real love affairs should not be stopped because of selfish motives on the part of the parent, The song of the mother-in-law is changing its tune. Women are be- sinning to learn more every day the rights of their children. ‘They are interfering less than in years gone by, They are adopting a saner view of life and its joys and sorrows, I am confident the nagging mother-in- law to-day is somewhat of an ex. n tiff were a girl and found such would run away from her and save myself unnecessary quar. els. If a man loves enough he will fad 4 wey tO Weck the selon | 1 B a one I FAMILY BY ROY L.MSCcARDELL Copyright, 1921, ty the Prem Putlidriog Fie “See York ™oreaing Wartke ‘6 PLL, if we are going: to the} theatre to-night let’s start, If we are not going day, so!" snorted Mr. Jarr, impatiently,! “These aren't free passes with the war tax to pay. They are t for a good show and cost me mehey.”*| “I'm ready and you are not! res Plied Mrs, Jarr. “It's a sloppy night’ and you haven't your rubbers om, “I've got good, thick, high shoes, expostulated Mr. Jarr, “and ‘I oe need rubbers.” “You do need them this weather! You'll get your feet wet and be down, with tonsilitis again and have me waiting on’ you hasid and foot and you cross as a bear with a sore back{” “I hate the darn things!” gruinbled Mr. Jarr. “The English cadl them by their right names—goloshes, Anybodys wh® wears goloshes deserves «whats they get.” “You'll get sick if you don't*wea: your rubbers and you'll deservel that,” Mrs, Jarr retorted. “Bot I) won't deserve the worry of having! to make you take your medicine and? putting up with the you act! when the least thing is wrong with! make my feet burn, I hate the. saat things!” Mr. Jarr raved on, all your perverse imaginations, You put on your rubbers or L.won'd So out-of this house with yeu.ond Mrs. Jarr declared. itd |) “The darn things are slit along thd! soles,” grumibled Mr. Jarr, as hé bent over to put on the offending overs, shoes that Mra, Jarr brought to him,| “They will keep your feet dry, the sung” maid Mra. are, deus! mined to carry her point. pac | “I never suw such a womamtih alt my life!" Mr. Jarr feel the darn’ things deer feot already.” This was t foe he only had one of the otf rubs bers half way on as he spoke. -“And I know Tl bave a before ‘we get to the theatre!” he tort “You won't have a headache if, you don't will it so; you are like! i that simply to say to me, ‘I 3 sol’ Dut I dont care; it is no weather for any one with ten grains of sense to go out in unless, they keep thetr feet warm and dry! “Well, don't say an; about it!" snarled Mr. Jarr, got the pesky things on, and I hope you're satisfied!" “E don't seo why you make sucl™w fuses about precaution ev: aR should take this weather,” Tepid Mrs, Jarr. “If people only little sense the world would be off. It's an old saying but a one that an ounce of prevent worth a pound of cure.” Dil “Ob, all right! AW right!” eonied Mr. Jarr, “Let us be on There, dog gone it! Y never have corns tH! I Nave to put on those darn rubbers.” ran And all the way to the theatre ho was grouchy, although Mrs, Jarr told look after themselves they sensible persons around them to com- At the theatre, Mr. Jarr the tickets and stooped down reat Scott!” he cried as. h htened up. “You've come. ou’ and no overshoes.” ow wears long skirts “AS fu stockings and opera slippers, weuldn’' the And then they went ia. him when people were too foolish . pel them to do it, them up. iad this sloppy night with @ short ekir: replied Mrs. Jarr.” they'd look nice with. sili Bisa serra