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• •.:'• " .-• • • ' 1 K " ' '• . ,1-Alil^: )3M I. '•> v:'!^ ? ^^'• i#' Ac"/ For-the Individual 1796 V 1872 3 1952 g£> sc* WHERE OTHERS GIVE VP IS JUST WHERE WE GET OUR > SECOND BREATH. > THIS ACCURACY REVIEW D E P A R T M E N T i$, for co-operation in information to reduce mutually expensite mistake*. It it for mechan­ ical, commercial and professional people; the employer, employe and customer; and consists «/ extracts taken by permission from the copy­ righted letters, the lectures, note books and libraries of jDr. Earl if. Pratt.. TITim you secure on any Object CM idea personally useful to you, and yew wish to give it to him, address him in care •0/ The John Crcrar Library, Marshall Field Jhdlding, Chicago. He is hunting the uhole world •»r for information of every day use to you, Mi he regrets his inability, personally to reply to contributors. So far as possible he wishes to bat* in this space the very ideas you would like to find h ere. You are at liberty to send him tiny suggestion you may care to. His Arcade JMex libraries were started in 1872 and now con-, vnpiMished information dating back to 1796 with systematic plant extending to 1952. Tour •short story of tome example of forethought de posited inths Arcade Index collection may prov* t* ** y#MT muinmnent. Dead Stock Possibilities Saturday morning I had a 10 a. m. appointment with & Chicago man and be had telephoned that he would be an hour late. After debating in my mind and waiting twenty minutes I •decided to borrow paper and find a •desk and start this subject. After writing a few words a man came in and laid a package on the desk and be­ gan talking with a man at a nearby <desk. Thinking he used the desk I was at I left it and again sat down on the callers' couch by the elevator door and before I had written a minute there, my 10 a. m. man walked i n at 10:25. Now, I had reasoned that as he had been de­ tained beyond 10 a. m. he might be released before 11 a. m., and he was. "When he came in he politely explained and as he had a man with him he said lie would see me in a moment. Soon be came out and invited me into his office, saying that he could give me a balf hour. It took us about fifteen minutes to advance our subject a •step and make another appointment lor 10 a. m. Monday. I got there seven minutes late that morning, and he was much later, but I got at this letter again. Now po­ liteness pays. Had I been indifferent to the man who put the bundle on the desk Saturday morning I would not iiave seen my man when he came in. Inquiry pays also, because Just now by more thorough inquiry than I made on coming in, I find my man is sick at his home and not likely to be down this a. m. Waiting time is "deg^d. stock" time and it pays to be ah*(£td Invest it by thinking or writing; The skillful handling of.irritating things produces pearls--Stfin an oyster knows that. A foundry salesman on the road told me if he had to wait two I or three days to see his man he got | so rattled that he seldom sold any- | thing in that town that trip. If he had I studied how to use his time aright 5 while he waited he might have made [ an extra good sale. While speaking to some men at the Ravenswood asso- : ciation I asked the secretary if he had any cards which were printed on only ,• one side and which he intended to $ throw away. He said yes, and got a jl bundle for me. I passed them out to the men, explaining that the cards were known as "dead stock" in the «tock room and that we could bring I them to life, and as I talked to them J? I wanted tnern to write some thought I or question on the back of the cards | tor my work. Then I collected the cards and secured some Information h personally useful to me. I have res- cued a strong catalogue from the waste basket and turned it into a $25 scrap-book. All of us see, hear, read £ and think of things every day which are worth saving and exchanging with other people. There is such a thing as "dead stock" ideas, latent or idle in your head, note book, or in bundles of papers and magazines which you frequently throw away and it is an occasional rescue of such a one you are invited to make for your continued growth, tue benefit of others and the success of The Arcade Index which is an index to indices--a continually growing, unpublished guide to the most reliable sources of up-to-date information on any personal, mechan­ ical, industrial, commercial and pro­ fessional subject. Desirable Longevity Solution of Difficulties i Long walks, hearty meals, steady . $}day and evening work are my ene- * * tales, and I know it. | A very little steady day and even­ ing work will put me into a sick bed, though I do not misB an office day on account sickness for a five-year •tretch. I have read about a man who . forked day and night for a week to i -wave a fellow workman his position. That man and I are extremes on phy- sical endurance, though I may be just as willing to help another as he was. If reasoning pro and con. improves my final Judgment I had better reason i pro and con. However, if reasoning on a subject always reasons It into the ground I baud letter hsadle tt by spontaneous Intuition. So yon see I must know mysegf. la the beginning of the true so- of my difficulties. Aad to rMUQr bfco1* or tfcow that I 11 Very old men with young hearts have always interested me. When I began studying the daily sources of desirable longevity my in­ terest in the healthy-elderly in­ creased. A few weeks ago I met In a Chi­ cago bank a six-foot-six gentleman who had been enjoying life for near­ ly eighty years. After telling him about my new in­ terest in longevity forces and asking him for a talk on the subject, he re­ plied: "Well, you have struck me at a bad time, I am going East to-night for three months." On suggesting that he might give me in a minute a few hints for young men, he told me this: "Extreme regularity in eating, sleeping and working have been my rule. My Sunday is not as regular as other days and I do not feel as well on account of it." On a previous occasion he had told me that he ate what he liked and wanted and that he had not lost an office day on account of sickness in forty-five years. He was a healthy man and enjoyed wholesome food. He had high motives and a shining face. He made money and used it wisely. You can appreciate my intense feelings when I read that a few days ago he was killed by a train while crossing a track in an Eastern town. Collected Paragraphs. Thomas A. Edison says: "I believe the life of a man can be prolonged. Man ought to live to be a hundred years of age." The Chicago Record says: "Within less than thirty years the average dnration of life has nearly doubled in Chicago." "As long as the world hap/ existed mankind has been searching ways to lengthen life. Sensible people nowa­ days think the best elixir of life Is fresh air, sunshine, the right kind of food and a good temper." "Dr. Holmes thought a mortal sick* ness an element of longevity, and it is true that serious weakness is not only frequently coupled with great ability, but with unusually long living also." Sickness is intended to be one of life's stepping stones and a kind warning, but frequently It, by perver­ sion, becomes a millstone around a human neck. More machinery is jerked out than worn out, and many more men arO executed by useless hurry and worry than are consumed by necessary du­ ties. Discriminate, as suggestions useful to the sluggish are unreliable for the excitable. Even a locomotive must take a rest, but it is better for it to run too far than to rest too long. Keeping well is like walking a tight rope. You can fall off either way, and one side is as dangerous as the other. Find your weak spot, as a correct knowledge of yourself is an essential in taking good care of yourself. Now, the question of all questions is how to do as well as you know how and keep cheerful till moving day when we say good-bye to bones and muscles. The Arcade Research Registers are for the registration of valuable scattered and unrecorded in­ formation, and you are invited to con­ tribute a paragraph containing Infor­ mation which you have read, heard, or thought of, which has enabled you Co take better pare of yourself. know requires the rediscovering of old truth. I can hear it, talk it, read it, praise it, and yet not have a quick put-to-us« grip on it. When we rediscover an old basic we think so much of it that it gets in between the reflex action of our ner­ vous system and ourself. This month I received a veor good story of how a man acquired concen­ tration by discovering a plan as old as his ancestors. But his discovery of it is what helped him make good use of it. If it had been forced on him he might never have used it. He says: "My mind, which was a rabbit-path leading nowhere, became a road leading somewhere." All he did was to do voluntarily for a few minutes a day Just what he wanted to be able to do involuntarily all the day--think effectively. I can bat ball because I have bat- ted ball because I Ilk* to bat >"" But if I wanted, to learn how to do something which I did not like to do I would da t a few times far a few tlmas and repeat aad contlao* SOLDIERS ON |fHE STAGE. they Don't Make £3 Best Kind M Theatricafjf Supers. In a recently published letter Sir Henry Irving has a few words to say ibout the British soldier's connection with the drama: "The first time I re­ member soldiers being employed as auxiliaries on the stage," he writes, "was at Glasgow, in the year 1860. The play was Bouclciult's 'Jessie Brown; or, the Relief of Lucknow.' This was almost the first time that, through the courtesy of the colonel of the regiment, soldiers were permitted to appear on the stage. They marched to and from the theater under a cor­ poral's charge, were a pattern of good behavior and the payment of 1 shil­ ling a night was not thought to be an unwelcome addition to their ordinary pay. Since then I have met Mr. At­ kins In many scenes of theatrical bloodshed. He was very strong at Bosworth field. At Bosworth on one occasion there was a mishap which sorely tried his discipline. Richmond invited his followers to engage in prayers. Unluckily the knee joints of the armor were unusued to geniJjjgBC- tion, and when the soldiers tried to kneel they stuck half-way and could not stand straight again. This de­ prived Richmond's invitation of its merited Impressiveness. A close ob­ server of our military 'supers' once said to me: 'They have only one fault, they can never look surprised.' When provincial actors are in a scene of great emotion it is a little disconcert­ ing to be surrounded by impassive faces, which seem to say to the au­ dience: 'Don't mind 'em; they often take on like this, but we're used to if" CRUDE METHODS IN FRANCE. Writer Compares Them With Those of This Country. An American traveler in the south of France writes: ".Every half-mile we would encounter ' a small two- wheeled sprinkling cart about the size of a barrel, drawn by a lad. This at once provokes Americans to roars of laughter. It is such small business and so ridiculous, don't you know, to sprinkle a road 200 miles long with a sprinkler the size of a barrel. True, this barrel was stamped 'Villefranche,' which is a little town, and farther back there was one stamped 'Men- tone,' which is also not a large place. All along the road there are many bar­ rels. But we do better in our coun­ try. When the roads nea* a small town need sprinkling the supervisors try to raise the money--and fail. They try to buy a big sprinkling cart which, with horses and all, will cost about $2,000--and fail. Then the citizens try to raise the money by subscription and fail. Then the country papers take it up and try to raise the money --and fail. Then all hands bemoam the lack of public spirit and go to work to get the sprinkling cart--and fail. Here the small towns get sprink­ ling carts and do it by hand. It's true the operator is only an 18-year-old boy, but in many of the small towns in our country the same boy would be loafing around the corner grocery chewing to­ bacco." A Valuable Book. Col. Higglnson recalls an amusing incident that illustrates Oliver Wen­ dell Holme's ready wit. Holmes en­ tered the private office of Mr. James T. Fields, the publisher, on an errand. He had a book done up in paper under his arm. As he was going out he suddenly turned and said: "I have here a most wonderful book. It is worth in money value any other book in Boston. In fact, it is worth a whole library. If it could be proper­ ly edited and illustrated, as I would do it, it would be worth the whole public library put together." Nodding to us authoritatively, he shut the door, leaving us looking at one another too bewildered for con­ jecture. Presently the door opened again quietly and Holmes put in his head, his face bubbling over with amusement, and said: "Oh, I forgot to tell you what booh this is. It is Nat Thayer's cheque book!" Then he shut the door. Mr. Thayei was understood at the time to be th< richest man in Boston. Odd Cure for Rabies. Hydrophobia is treated In a highl) original manner by Chinese doctors. Two sand-stone bottles half-filled witb wine or spirit are heated until the liquid boils. The contents are then emptied and the redhot mouth of the bottle is applied to the bite and held there until it is filled with blood, when the same process is gone through witb the other bottle. A decoction is made of glutinous rice, called kian-mi-ou-lou in which seven cantharides are boiled. The flies are taken out and the rice is given to the patient, who is kepi quiet. The celestiajs have no less thai sixteen kinds of cough--the cougb from cold, damp, heat, grief, anger, fatigue, indigestion, the obstinate cough, the night cough being among them. Before a limb is amputated the member is dried up by exposure tc the sun. Plaintive Cry From Newport. The latest function at Newpon proved that the male animal is get ting more and more remiss in hit social obligations. "Give, us men,' is the cry of the society queens sum mer and winter--"men who can dance; men who on occasion will make monkeys of themselves; mer addicted to the noninebriating bever age infused with rum and devoted t« the rigors of the shopping tour. Giv« us men, for to-day's poor tfubstitutet for the chivalry of other days dc nothing but the world's work in offlc* and factory; play nothing but goll and other health-giving sports; spend the night in nothing but sleep--an4 they will not dance." Toa Swift Concurrence. An Atchison man, newly married, was sounding his wife's praises to his men friends. "Why, she is sc much better than I," he said, "I don'l see how she came to iftarry me." Hii friends all agreed to'Sthis so promptlj that he got mad, said he was as goo4 as his wife any day, and wanted te »|a , HtphllM Globe. & -.VV-- " I •, '/ ?>. ^ - Novelty in Feathers. Among the novelties In millinery which are eyed with favor at our coast summer resorts is the soft plumage of the Japanese duck. One does not know if this is only tho trade name of an arrangement de-. vised by a cunning milliner, or wheth­ er it be the species. At any rate it is stylish, whether used as soft breast plumes or the stiffer wingofeatherfc The general law In summer millinery favors flat or horizontal effects, and most of the feather trimmings, wheth­ er curling ostrich plumes, stiff wings, or curved breast feathers mounted on crinoline, are trained la this direc­ tion. ular distances on the pillow top, makfe an excellent pattern. The denim and embroidery may be of any tint or con­ struction that the taste of the embroid­ erer may suggest. Grape Juice a Refreshing Drink. According to a pamphlet recently Is­ sued by the-department of agriculture, grape juice is a healthful, refreshing and delicious beverage, and one which may be used in a great many ways. For invalids, two tablespoonfuls of grape juice should be put in a glass, to which add the beaten white of an egg and a little chopped ice. Sprinkle powdered sugar over the top. The drink is popular in certain sanitar­ iums. T " ' • • Outdoor Coat. It must be loose, it must be short and it must have large sleeves, and all these are absolute necessities on such a garment, which has to be easily slipped on and off. Fawn, jvhite and champagne color are, perhaps, the knost useful, but the royal purple and black relieved by white find many ad­ herents. There are plenty of black glace coats worn, many enlivened by bright colored embroideries of Bul­ garian or a Russian nature. Do not throw away food tidbits, not a thing, but use them soon. Induce a draft every morning into the closet by opening the doors and windows opposite the kitchen. Be sure the water fe at boiling point before putting in vegetables to cook; otherwise their freshness and flavor will be lost. Sweet as a nut should be the kitchen closets. Shelf papers should be frequently changed and the shelves washed with hot water and soda. Ventilate the closets and do not let them give up the ghosts of all the fried and boiled dinners of a centuries as soon as the closet door is -opened. Washing soda or strong soap suds is a good disinfectant. One a day at least flush out the pipes of the kitchen sink by pouring down a quart of boil­ ing water in which a handful of wash­ ing soda has bean dissolved. Every house mistress ought to go through kitchen and pantries at least once a week, poke into closets, turn out dark corners, and see that every nook and cranny is cleaned, aired and sunned, and that all odds and ends which so quickly gather, are effective­ ly disposed of. For the Porch Pillow. An effective sofa pillow top is made of denim, with a conventional decora­ tion in the form of Renaissance but­ tons, arranged in tiny triangle, open square or any other design that the fancy may suggest, and working out from that as a center a Maltese cross of embroidery silk in cross stitch. Sev­ eral of these designs, arranged at reg- Blouse With Pelerine. Bloufte of white silk gauze, covered with a deep pelerine of the same, trimmea with bands and motifs of cream guipure and motifs of black guipure. The little turn over collar is of cream guipure, and a band of red panne forms a sort of cravat* fas­ tened in front with white passemen­ terie buttons. The full sleeves are finished just below the elbow with wide turn-over cuffs trimmed with motifs of cream and black guipure. The corslet gir­ dle is of black panne or satin.--Neu-, este Blousen. What Young Girls Wear. Young girls are wearing a good deal of hand-embroidered muslin or batiste and this is very dainty. Spotted and figured foulards are also used for pet­ ticoats, but chiefly .to form flounces of trimmings on a plain silk founda> tion. These in black and white, blue and white, and green and white are suitable for wearing with our dark serge mourning frocks, cut short and very full around the feet. , , „ " HOUSEHOLD TALKS To serve tomato salad in French style slice the tomatoes into a glass dish and garnish the edges with large rings cut from raw tfhite onions. Fill the center of the dish with mayon­ naise or whipped cream dressing. Heavy linen in, natural color makes an excellent table cover for summer cottage use. A decorative touch is Imparted by embroidering in gay tints, and the more elaborate covers show an edging of linen colored lace. Light-weight burlap in rich red covering has been utilized to good advantage in a shade for a tall lamp for a summer cottage. Among the silver novelties are ber­ ry baskets in filigree work in genuine Louis XVI. pattern. Tiny silver cream jugs, with covers, accompany the bas­ kets. Coming Street $ults. The fall and winter street suits wlU be made with skirts of Instep length and the long-fitted coat. TJiis coat in various adaptations will be the pre­ vailing model for street and carriage costumes. Its skirt grows longer-- quite to the knee, indeed, and below it for dress wear. These are the de­ velopments of the present season's fashion. We do not have nowadays the radical changes that used to be considered necessary. The good style of one season becomes the leading style of the next. It is perfected and adapted, the right material is found for it and by the third season it is evolved into a fine and satisfactory style which holds for a longer period than formerly. This is the history ol the Russian blouse, which existed with slight changes for seyeral . years. :. . •rS Lucile Waist. One of the smartest fads in this season's shirtwaists is the military strap down the shoulder. And added to its general effectiveness it adds width to the shoulders, which is so much desired in this summer's fash­ ions. The Lucile carries out the mil­ itary effect in the entire waist. ..It is cut to fit very trim and the plaits in the front are held in place with military cords. The back is the same as the front, except that it is finished without the cords. A black peau de Bole tie finishes the stock. Monograms in Gilt a Fad. A pretty fad much followed this season calls for the monogram or crest of the owner in gilt (to match other decoration) upon each white and gilt plate in the set. Occasionally the insignia occurs in the center. A prettier faftcy Is to have it inscribed on the rim. Everything to match. Rich combinations of lace and fur are promised. A pelerine yoke ornaments tbo autumn frock. It's a French' touch to add just a bit of brown to the white get-up. Many of the newest traveling wraps have capuchin hoods of silk plaid. Wide hemstitched stationery .^^with elongated monogram is the thing.* Separate waists and skirts are not dressyi but a jacket like the skirt saves the costume. Dame Fashion frowns, upon a feather boa unless it be ten inches wide and reaches the floor. The girl who got a long, light jacket in the spring will find it quite up to date for fall wear. Motifs of ecru lace studded with bits of opalescent shell make a trim­ ming affected by the novelty-loving Klri. ^ To Make Hair Fluffy. To make the tresses so fluffy that they appear to be twice as plentiful a course of electrical brushing is rec­ ommended. This also has been found to cure many of the ills to which the hair of those poor in health is subject and to alleviate neuralgia and insomnia. The process is simplicity itself. To brushes and combs electricity ll conveyed by means of wire connec tions, and all the operator has to do is to use them gently in the ordinary manner. > THE STOKER'S PERIL LIFE IN THfi DEPTH8 LANTIC LINER Accidents Almost Unavoidable front the Workers at Every Turn-- . . "Delicacies" Scot TJ*$0»., from -4 • Cabin. Three walking suits appropriate to development In roffe, tUrmWy, yoke effect in the center and tfca fVsave of the bolero to the right C / Life among the stokers on board an *. Atlantic liner is described by a con­ tributor who put in a voyage as an amateur coal trimmer. As a coal trim- mer, he says, I had to wheel my bar- v *" row through a narrow tunnel, fill it with coal from the bunker, wheel it back again, empty it at the stokers* ^ ^ feet and keep on until the watch waa ^ over, but this apparently simple oc- cupatlon was not without its perils. The glass cylinders which show the depth of water in the boilers may >1* burst twice a day, but -save for an oc- " casional scalding a man is not often „ injured by this. Far more serious are " • the consequences of his opening the t doors of his furnace without first shut- ^ ting off his forced draft. A careless 'i mail--perhaps one who has boarded- ' ; the ship the worse for liquor--may, on starting his watch, forget to shut off the three checks at the side of the fur­ nace which regulate this detail. On, opening the door a blinding draft will fly into his face and probably scorch him frightfully. There is no limit to the number of minor casualties. As I trimmed at my barrow the ship would give a sudden lurch, and my spade would fly out of my hand. If I wheeled it through the tunnel Without knocking my head' against the side I considered myself fortunate. With the roll of the ship tools would fly about in all directions. A rake which had been lying idle at one side of the stokehold, would como violently sliding toward one. If you stood ill the neighborhood of a hatch anything might come suddenly down On your head. Perhaps a shovel has • been mislaid somewhere above, so down it would come with a crash. During a gale it was no unnsual thing for a miniature Niagara to rush down the ventilatoi and drench any­ one who happened to be standing,. near. A sea, too, will sometimes alight on a mass of clinkers and save the trimmer his task of extinguishing them, scalding him and his neighbors the while by an upward rush of steam. The stock dinner dish in the stokehold is "hoodie," a mixture of meat, pota­ toes and soup. For breakfast, hash; for tea, meat--of a kind--and bread. * At 8 every night the chief steward sends the men on the watch just over a huge tin containing the leavings from the saloon passengers' dishes. It is received from the steward by a trimmer--who no doubt gets his first whack at some dainty morsel. Meat, fish, mayonnaise of lobster, green vegetables, pastry, tarts, fat from joints are all jumbled together in a mixture of gravy and soup. As to who gets which is a matter of phy­ sical contest The "blackies" simply rush for the pan, and sometimes topple over the trimmer in charge be­ fore he has had a chance himself.-- Royal Magazine. £ ' • WAS THEIR CHIEF FAULT. Whistler's Idea of the Trouble With Modern Pictures. James Abbott McNeill Whistler was a man who lived to see the full devel­ opment of the' myth about himself. His name is linked with endless good stories, many of them, of course, apocryphal, but nearly all worth th» telling. Here is one of them: When the artist was requested to paint a portrait of Carlyle for one of the leading cities in Scotland, a deputation of citizens called to confer with him with regard to the work. They first asked him how much he wanted for it "A thousand guineas," he replied promptly. "That's a braw price, Mr. Whistler," said the spokes­ man wjth great earnestness, "a braw price for a moodern pectur. For th» coolors in your moodern peotures doon't keep the coolors like your an­ cient pecturs, mon; the coolors in your modern pecturs fade, they fade* mon, they fade." Whistler looked at the group for a moment, then he shook his head sadly and replied: "No, my dear sir, you are mistaken; the/ colors in the modern pictures don't fade. And therein lies their damnation."--Philadelphia Press. What the Wind Brings. Which is the wind that brings the coldt The north wind, Freddy, and all th« snow. And the sheep will seam per into the fold When the north wind begins to blow. Which is the wind that brings the heat? The south wind, Kutjr; the corn will grow, And peaches redden for you to eat. When the south beglas te blow. Which if. the wind that brings the rain? The east wind, Arty; and farmers know That cows come shivering up the lane When the east beglas te blow. Which 1s the wind that brings the flow­ ers? The west wind, Bessy; and soft and low The birdies sing in the rammer hours When the west begins* to blow. --Edmund Clarence Stedman. Made Meat of Garden Seeds. "The Americans are very fas­ tidious," said John Hare, "but an actor I know took the palm when be got up an impromptu luncheon while his wife attended a rehearsal. "I had a fine meal on your new ce­ real," he said to his better half, when she returned. "What do you mean" that half in­ quired. "I haven't any new cereal in the house." "Why, that nutty sort of stuff you left on the dining-room table." "You brute!" she exclaimed, "you've eaten up my roof garden. All my petunia, nasturtium,, and sweet pea seeds." "And he's been buying flowers to square himself ever since."--New York Times. • Indian Elephanta. The Indian elephant is found thoughout that peninsula and also in Burma, Slam, and the French East Indies, but his range among the isl­ ands of the archipelago is confined to Sumatra acd Borneo. He Is not kno wnln*Jfv*.