Funny Things Do Happ This Is Not a Hun, It Is a Pojato, Dressed to Accentuate Its Strangely Human Resemblance. By Clive Marshall HEN people say, "The world will never be Wo same again," they are thinking of the y awful upheaval of the war, the wrench the conflict has given to all sorts of traditions, and the strange physical as well as spiritual hangéds brought about by theunprecedented unpleasahtness. The fact is that the changes in the world have already reached out far beyond any points having contact with the war, Life has been transformed. Much of the transformation is temporary. Much of it will be permanent, We have become accus- tomed to all sorts of queer conditions, none of them more perplexing at times than the new per @ underwood H a Now Lift All Borin of Tinie lo on the Ground : : High in the Air. In This Solemn World They Have Noi All 'Been Associated with the War, but Many of Them Do Suggest That the World Has Become Hysterical. * @ undevoved Gr lndetwuod How a German Shell Near the Fighting Front in France the Top Floor of a House en Into the ET Pod Sonal relations to the.world occupied by men and by women who once led humdrum lives, A Time of Queer Happenings But while the world is earnestly pursuing a great enterprise and all the duties growing out of it, and while it: seems at times to be a dreadfully solemn world, odd things are happening which, _ While they often have no / connection with the general upheaval, somehow seem in key with it One expects to hear in.any quarter that a queer thing has happened, I have no doubt that the fishermen on Long Isi- and sound who saw a fullrigged summer cottage, a sizeable 22-room cottage with all its windows shining," comfortably salling over the smooth water the other day, may have decided that it was just what you might expect nowadays. It turned out that the house had been floated on two monster flatboats, supported by which it made a safe voyage from Bell Haven to an island near the mainland, without a scratch or a started seam. The engineering effort with regard to the house recalls the fact that enginery is accom- even pie has come under scrutiny, plishing astonishing feats. In loading vessels, for example, huge cranes are lifting guns heavier than ever were lifted before, transporting heavy automp- biles, sections of locomotives and other enormously difficult freight. As a spectacle these air journeys of objects that belong on the ground constitute a real challenge to the imagination of the artist. Probably the farmer who dug up that potato that looked like a Hun--or at least so he described ft--and the other agriculturalist who found a carrot that looked like a human hand--you can call them fingers of fate ff you like, pointing to Berlin--thought that Nature understood well enough that nothing need be expected to grow quite as usual. Of course, food changes have introduced oddities into life. There are funny new tricks in restau. rants--sugar allotted in paper bags, or put in the tea or coffee whether you ask for it or not. Paper napkins multiply, and wait-on-yourself devices muil- tiply. Conservation bas its humors as well as its high purposes. For example, take the crustiess pie, Although so reverefitly regarded as an American institution, Even though Showing How a Modern Country House Took 'a Water Trip on Long Island Sound, en Crustless Pies Are the Latest Invention, and a Statistician Has Figured Out That the Eliminatiom Would Save the Country a Pie Crust Equal to a Strip Nine Yards Wide and - Circling the Globe at the Equator. some ple--pumpkin, for example--has only one crust, crusts have been called to account as not indispensable, They are marked as luxuries. Why not, then, the crustless pie? This means a dish, but the dish is not wasted, and it is pointed out that no spiritual satisfaction is lost by letting a dish do what once had to be done by the lower crust whether it had a supporting upper crust or not, : Perhaps the Pacific const must get the credit of the crustless pie. Los Angeles residents bite into 21,000 big pies daily, or 7,500,000 & year. "Two- thirds of the crust of these is unnecessary," ac- cording to estimates, and this has resulted in the making and serving of "one man" ples at the Los Angeles Athletia, Club restaurant. John E, Fencel, manager of the club--former bankere-figured out the excess and invented a new bottomless pie, with a thin top crust, which is sérved in the dish in which it is baked, eliminating all waste--and even the upper crust has been banished in a spirit of daring inhovation. Mr. Fencel has figured that each week in Los Angeles, pie crust sufficient to cover four acres of ground is unnecessarily made. On the basis of 4,000,000 big ples bitten into by the nation daily, it is estimated that there is af annual overpro- duction of a'strip of ple crust nine yards wide and long emough to begirdle the globe at the equator. The innovation at the Athletic Club restaurant is - being exténsively emulated in other eating houses in California. Queer Tricks of War, The war itself performs some grim tricks. The things that shells do make up a familiar horror, The things they Won't dp often constitute a kind of jokes "Luck!" exclaims a man who just escaped the action of a frightful explosive, Well, there is sometimes a droll side to luck. Men learn to laugh at it. It is well for them that they should occa~ sionally have the vent of a laugh; Take that case pf the house in the little French village. The picture on this page shows what happened. A shell blew out the whole lower part of the house and simply dropped into the street the upper story with the roof intact. How would you feel if after a convulsion under your feet you suddenly found that you didn't need to go down stalrs to reach the ground--that your window sill led directly to the street? oh If you were in France you would have learned to shrug your shoulders and say, "It is the war!" It wasn't the war that stopped that long train on the Canadian Pacific. It was just caterpillars. Millions of them started a summer drive--they had all their reserves with them--and their line of movement was on the Canadian Pacific tracks. Then came an eleven-car train. The caterpillars bad the initiative and they won the first onslaught ~--with immense loss of life to their forces, but they won, The train stopped. Couldn't move. Help was sent for, additional engineers came and all of an afternoon and evening was spent in get- ting that train up a grade from Sebols to Browns ville, It was funny. At least, it seemed do at first, But the engineers were swearing before the counter-offensive succeeded, The psychologists like to tell of amazing things that happen to the human mind in war time. Nat- urally war injuries and diseases, shell shock and the like produce' extraordinary mental reactions that belong to the terrors of the period. Yet there is a freak side to mental reaction that has shows itself far from the war zenes, yet often connected with wartime influences. These have had an ele ment of the comic--the rather sad humor of hysteria.