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ne of the most effective fire extinguishers known. The fuam oats on liquids and sticks to 'walls and 'ceilings. When even a dry On the Links "Do you play golf?" he asked, "No," -she replied demurely. "I cannot. be Tented until the foam don't even know how to hold a cad- % this hod works so well in the ------ : oil fields the refineries why should | "A has made a it not be equally effective in putti tes out biivning Bowsee? Fe, 2 rong Sumplatn that the coffee tastes like British fire chiefs experimented at a convention which they held recently in London. Harrow firemen, looking as if they had been lathered from head = t> foot and standing in suds, showed what might be expected when froth is directed against a fire instead of mere water. A very little foam com- pound was needed to put out an ex- perimental blaze, BLAKE DEEP. "Bartsch Finds Greatest Known Sea Depth; Reports Nine-Mile Sound- irgs Off Puerto Rico," read the head: lines recently. Alas, the finding now proves to be an error. Cruising off the northern coast of Prerto Rico, Dr. Paul Bartsch on El- dridge Johnstons yacht Caroline, now g.ven over to scientific work, system- stically sounded the bottom of "the ocean. 'From San J uan came a cable- gram reading that he had found a depth of 44,000 feet, almost nine miles, thereby adding more than three miles to older soundings in Blake Deep, which lies north, off Puerto Rico. The actual depth measured by Dr. Bartsch' now proves to be 4,400 fath- oms, or 26,400 feet, Blake Deep still holds the Atlantic record with 28,300 feet. The deepest "deep" of all is found in the Pacific Ocean. It is the Emden in the Philippine Trench off Mindanao, where the 'soundings indi- cate 84,000 feet. MORE GOLD ON THE RAND There seems to be little doubt now that geophysical prospecting methods really have di ed the extensi of the famous gold reef on the Rand of South Africa, This Witwatersrand has already yielded over four billion dollars worth of 'gold since its orig- inal discovery in 1886. For years children in the schools of South Africa have been taught that the Witwatersrand was merely the northern rim of a great basin of gold. None knew where the southern rim would be found or how deep the basin went into the earth. The cause of the trouble as a geological fault near the ; ood of Witpoortje. At this fa Te gold reef iy Last October faint rumors reported' that the extension of the Witwaters- rand had been found forty miles be- yond the known fault. Those rumors | of coal, Shoe-laces, india-Tubber." _ Cook (facetiously) -- "Tell him, it was ground this morning." A man can get married on $10 a week, but if he-stays married he has |. to get more than that. Teacher--"Does the giraffe get a sore throat if he gets wet feet?" Pupil--"Yes, but not until next week." "1t is mighty easy to e an optimist when everything is going your way. Cure For Seasickness A plan you might try is to bolt down your meals, "I didn't cry at the dentist's, dad," informed Willie on his return. "Good," sald Dad. "I like a brave boy. I must give you a shilling. Did he hurt you much?" "No, dad; he was out," answered Willie, Clay Mudd, editor of The Brushville Bugle, received from a lady who lives in Pea Ridge, a little poem entitled: "I Wonder if Yon Miss Me?" After read- ing it; Mr. Mudd returned thé poem to the lady, with the following note: "Dear Madam: If he does, he ought never to be trusteC with firearms again." i The world will never get any better until children become quite an im- provement over their parents. Hunter (as he came panting up to one of the party)--"Just met a great big bear in the woods!" Other Hunter--Good! Did you. give him both barrels?" Hunter (wiping his perspiring brow) --'"Both barrels! I gave him the whole 'gun!" The minister asked his little girl if she liked his sermon, and she said "No." i "Well, what did you like--the first part?' "Yes." "Did you like the last part?" "Yes." "Well , what part didn't you like?" "Oh," said she, "there was too much middle," ¥ "Did you keep to the diet I pre- gcribed for you?" "I've tried to, doctor, but it hasn't been easy." : "Nongense! I said you were to eat what your three-year-old baby-boy "eats." i ; ig "Yes, doctor, I know. Candles, pieces gy Ever notice that the tellow Who sits ng| in the 'back seat at church usually lands in a front seat at EE the show? % Loose Change ; avout as hard to drag an 'out at night as it is t lo) Remember, eep a 2 Horlzontal" Father--"So you want to marry my daughter? Have you considered her family in this matter?" : Suitor--*"I have, sir. I love that girl so much I'd be willing to put up with anything." Blessed is the man who can disagree with me without getting mad about it. orated in green--a delicate jade tone. One of the many virtues of the green room from the point of view of the flower-lover, is that it affords an artistic background for flowers in all seasons of the ydar.. RURBIhAID ARBRE British Firm Designs ; Maharajah's Palace A British firm has designed a mod- ern palace for the modern Maharajan of Jodhpur, Building has begun. The palace will cover six acres and stand on a 120-ft. hill overlooking the capital of the State. It will contain: A circular swimming bath sixty feet round. Ballroom. Theatre built on modern lines to hold 200. A bathroom to every suite of rooms --forty in all. \ A zenana, or part of the house for the women of the fan.ily, with a two- ae walled garden overlooking the city. The palace will cost £300,000 (about $1,200,000). It would have cost much more in Englagd, but labor and ma: terials in Jodhpur are cheap. : There will be accommodation for fifty women in the Zenana--but the maharajah has only one The zenana will be used for her relatives and guests. Gy 7 energy. eat. mind.--Seneca. £ GGA True joy is a serene and sober mo- tion; and they are miserably out that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheer- fulness like the resolutions of a brave 45--Type unit 20--Beverage 1--To drink , 47--Circle 22--Paths 4--Lower animal 49--Divided 28--Up to ' 9--Salil §3--Dog 24--Part of "to be" 12--To be due B57--Hole 26--Chiet 13--Listlessness 58--Vegetable dish 28--Conjunction 14--One-spot 60--Spanish for river ~~ 20--Parts of machine 16--Rang 61--To mimic 80--Itém of property 17--Transfixed 62--Grin 32--Poem oS Syace. 63--Japanese coin 33--Child B 35--Later than 22--Jewel Vertieal 39--Musical note 25--High mountain 1--To cut ' 40--Organ of head 27--Senatorial robe 2--Fear 41--Comparative ending 31--Number 3--Edible seed 44--Selt : 32--Musical compositions 4--Beverage 46--Stale of confusion 34--Adjoining 6--Tries © 48--Knot 36--Fuss 6--Article 49--Watering place 36--Electrified particle 7--To eat b50--Part of body 37--While 8--Row 51--Consumed 38--Dissimilar M 9--Small load 52--Obstruction 41--Before 10--~To 'cool b4--Arid 42--Narrow board 11--Couch b55--Falsehood 43--Pouch 16--Song 56--Age 44--Former 18--Point in Panama 69--Fifty-one. -- he sings in the rain. The only thing Answers to Last Week Puzzle that travels faster than light, to a wo- : man's mind, is a run in her new chif- A[R|T| [A[B]o]V|E| [B|U|S fon hose. Asked what he did when his stolY! |MiolRIATIL} (EIRI|E wife started to give him a lecture, a PIE|RIS|OINEATI|ALIEIN]T man said: "I listen." Arguments ALC make few friends. The man who RIE NET comes home whipped at night is usual- LIUINIA SILIAIP ly the man whoswent out whipped in IE] N{TIR L EV E the morning. Fools rush in where [E{TPZIFIO[BEZAG[O|BEAA|T wise girls fear to wed. The more a K|I{TEZN|A TRA [17] man really knows, the less certain he S is that he really knows anything. b : : D N A D A 2 , . =] , Gladys (indignantly) -- "Smoke a 2A RIA x MAID LRA cigarette! Good gracious, I'd rather ElGIO] |MIODIBIL| |PIUIG kiss the first man who came along*" D[o[R] [E[RJO[S|E] (TIE|E Edith--""So would I, but have one 2 * while you're waiting." ie > Expert to Produce 459.41 Degrees Below Zero Berkeley, Cal.--The coldest spot on earth will be in a laboratory at the University of California here if equip- ment now being installed will produce the 459.4 degrees below zero Fahren- keit it ig expected to produce. This point is known as absolute zero, or "no heat" point. As absolute zero is approached, molecules and wtoms lose more and more of their At this point they would, theoretically, have little or ncne, ac- cording to Prof. W, F. Giauque who with vther members of his department have developed the apparatus. Natural scientists hava for years sought the absoluts "no heat" point, it is explained. By means of the evap- oration of liquid helium it has been possible .to get within 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit of absolute absence of people' had been crushed to death trying to get into the hall to hear them. "Was that so, General?" asked Miss Ferber, "And how many were crushed trying to get out after you started?" ' Coming from a lecturer "as is a lccturer," this from Stephen Lea- cock is amusing: "No one likes lecturing except those who can't do it. A dull lec- turer enjoys his own performance immensely." Professor Leacock is telling (in| "Mark Twain"--a little masterpiece 'of compressed biography) how poor | Mark grew to abominate lecturing, | but, alas! needed the money. Following his marriage to Olivia Langdon--his beloved "Levy" -- in February, 1870, Mark Twain lived in Buffalo, N.Y., ii. a house presented by his father-in-law. Here is a bully picture of the "Innocents at Home," done in the best Leacock manner. "Behold then Samuel L. Clemens-- now become for everybody Mark Twain, the great American humorist --the rough days of his western life put behind him, settled down at num- ber 472 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, trying hard to be respectak ie. Ld » . | "Here he lives the model life of a family man, joins in morning prayer and listens as best he caa to the daily reading of the Scriptures. More than that, he even makes desperate efforts to give up smoking. "He has his wife at his side, his desk at his elbow, and the world at his feet. After all, what does to- bacco matter? Let's have another chapter of Deuteronomy. -. Ld » A story is told of a book publisher vho, wishing to rid himself of his bothersome authors, determined to write his own books; did so, and lived happily ever after. That does net apply to Grant Richards, well- krown English publisher--although he has written a nuraber of books-- for he so obviously enjoys the com- pany of authors, and artists, judging from the stories about them in his reminiscences "Memories "of a Mis- spent Youth"--thoagh why "Mis- srent,'] can't imagine. * Ld - Grant Richards--named After his talker, telling the was repugnant to him. front rank, him, equal to Maupassant's best?" says Richards). pulled in "galley with the least poss jective, of omitting that comma resembled" that of Walter "iter or, uncle, Grant Allen, the novelist--re- calls Frank Harris, alway. a mighty "magnificent stories he afterwards published" to a group of literary friends, including Grant Allen and Frederic Harrison, who regularly wintered on the French Riviera. When it was suggested to Lim that he ought to write them, he declared that to write and 'publish chort stories less good than the best "But your stories are in the very Harris," they assured "Yes--you think so. But are they Next year Harris returned with come of the stories set up in type He had had them " go that he might, ible trouble, sub- ject them to correction and correc- tion. All his friends had to read the proofs and listen to arguments about the advisability of altering this ad- Meticulous? Yes, indeed. His case d ' subject of paragraphs. But it is true revertheless. The philosopher carried clips in pocket so that if the conver- sation was not to his taste, or if he thought it unworthy of attention, he could apply*them to his ears and fall buck on his swn thoughts for com panionship." te Here's a story of Zola -- told by Sir William Rothenstein, the artist, and retold by G.ant Richards: "Zola sat to me in Paris," Rothen- .tein--then a young artist -- is re-| g, ported as saying. "He was very cross that morning, I remember. It was just after he had come back from Lourdes and he was wearing a monk's habit as a kind of dressing gown. He said 'that he never looked at a pie- ture show now,' and so I remarked that books had lately entirely ceased tu interest me. After that he never spoke till I had finished the draw- ig" meeting with Oscar Wilde took place in the London apartment of her vpice after the presentation had been made, "I was born in Chicago," Mrs, de Koven replied. "There was a look of horror in his expression," declares Mrs. de Koven in "A Musician and His Wife," "as he answered: 'Never, no, never; your parents have deceived you!" Ld LJ . W. Somerset Mavgham, who has made a lot of money from his playa and novels during the last thirty years, is also one of the ablest physi- cians and surgeons in England. He is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians. Maug- ham's first novel, "Liza of Lam- beth," took literary London by storm. - - td Dr.» Maugham has a brother, Fred- erick Harrison Maugham, noted bar- rister and a King's Counsel, who also wields a literary pen. He is the an- thor of "The Case of Juan Calas," | being a study of a real case--that of a Huguenot cloth merchant who was sentenced by the Parliament of Tou- louse to be broken on the wheel for the murder of his son. That was in the "good old days," of course! a City Woods "Go to the woods, little Son¥ There are no woods out here." He leads me to a spot Where, sharp and clear, Against the sky they stand-- A dozen trees or s0. "See? Aren't they near?" A tiny clump of woods In the midst of a city's roar; A brave little patch of trees With branches high that soar To catch the breeze and rustle it Amid the leaves they wore. Closer month by month The city creeps. Dwellings, stores, the railways want more land. Hard by a lumber yard reaps Frequent harvest, Flaunting triumphantly its lumber Stacked in neat white heaps, To him it was a forest vast. To me? But yes. As I look upward through the trees The city sounds draw back. I see Wins Pop-Corn Contract ma, who pop corn Again the deep, cool woods back home, With wild flowers blooming Underneath each tree. --Lois King Backus, --ll Queen Mary Favors Green and Gold h For Color Scheme When the Queen re-decorated her Classified Advertising ARTICLES FOI SALE. BEATTY PUMPS ARE BEST AND most economical to operate, Write for free illustrated catalogue to Beatty ros. 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[]) ONEY FOR Y{) AT HOME M favorite sitting-room at Bucki Palace, she chose a charmin scheme in green, white and gold, the green Leing in a particularly restful shade, with the white and gold intro- uced in the ceiling decoration. of the private rooms in a Palace vy lere the pleasant home-like atmos- yhere is desired without, however, producing an effect that is out of keeping with the background of an color 1t is not easy to rlan the decoration |' Quickly Heals Cuticura official royal residence, but her Maj- ¢sty possesses a natural flair for cLoosing gowns that suit the occasion, and d tions that harmonize with their setting. Greer. rooms are already having a vogue and their popularity is likely to increase in London with the Queen's example. Possibly, indeed, the Queea may ba regarded as the Jeades of the Tetived green-room n. 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