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mamn â€" What looks like a champagne drinker‘s dream Is in truth a new : w mvm.n in Pins Mountain, Ga. The unique structure consists of 21 giant h each on a tail, slim base. Resembling snormous champagne glasses, they interâ€" # “’I,Monflnnm.fhmmmnmMmudcmflm. been to Japan have the mistaken ‘idea that geisha girls are callâ€" _ . _ The Truth About Geisha Girls tainers. They are trained to sing and dance and tell anecdotes for tie amusement of guests. An easy friendship prevails, but no more than that. . ‘There is nothing outside Japan to which I can liken it. A club of sorts? Yes, but you can‘t just pay a subscription and become « member. As a rule, some rich man starts a tea house of this kind for the diversion of himself and such friends as he may care to take along â€" in the way that in the old days rich men in England had private orchestras to play from a gallery and enâ€" tertain their guests during dinâ€" into the home but are outside it in a house specially set up for the purpose. And the geishas not only provide the entertainment, but they provide the meal, too, and serve it as well. The guest sits on the floor, according to Japanese custom, and by each kneels a girl. She fills his glass with saki or any other drink he may fancy, puts choice morsels on his plate and might even pop it into his mouth. ‘The girl doesn‘t dine at the same time. She chatters all the while. After the meal come a series of games in which all join, guests and girls. They play romping games. There is singing in which the men join, too. Then the girls perform a dance and sometimes the‘ men join in that as weil cut it isn‘t like our dancing. They don‘t hold each other, but go through a series of solo posâ€" tures to music provided by three or four of the other girls. These geisha girls dress in a traditional manner which I ¢idn‘t find at all attractive. Their foces are painted a dead white ind are quite expressionless. Their hair is taken up in three sweeps, one from each side and the third from the front and piled up on the top of the headâ€" three immense buns held in Ej,lce by/ a comb. They wear 1!f,onos, of course, with large bows on the back. How did I see them if these places are so exclusive? Well, anyoneâ€"can if he is taken by the right man â€" you are then one of the guests But omy men are allowed in, writes R. J Minney in "Tit Bits." You won‘t find any geishas in the nightclubs, of which there are many hundreds in Tokyo. These are run entirely on Wesâ€" tern lines. One of them, the Queen Beé, has 600 dance hosâ€" tesses. You can engage one for the equivalent of two dollars an hour, but have to buy her drinks and possibly a meal as well if she‘s hungry. The geisha girls are enterâ€" ‘The geishas are not brought 1‘ SWAN â€" Fluffy as a baby: thick, this fuzzyâ€"wuzzy creation isâ€"a cocktail. dress _by.. Emilio Schuberth of Rome, done in "blackboard blue" swan‘sdown. A wide sash, trimmed with three buckles, wraps the waist of the strapless dress, which is worn with a matching, wiglike hat. h ‘The floor shows are of the kind you see in London, Paris and New York. So are the songs the girls sing, some in English with an American accentâ€"the The girls are young and pretâ€" ty â€"â€" all of them Japanese but they wear Western dresses, not. Public bath houses abound in Japan. That is because most dwelling houses have no bathâ€" room. In such places there is generally mixed bathing, Men and women strip and get into the same enormous indoor pool of warm water. But it is all very proper. It is just that their conyentions do not make them conscious of nudity. rest have Japanese words to our There are also an enormous number of Turkish or steam baths. In some you can get a private room with a girl to bath you. She then dries you with a towel and gives you a mase sage; but in most cases the rooms are shared by three or four men, each of whom is atâ€" tended to by a different girl ‘These places are run on very. strict lines. Even in the private rooms no familiarity would be tolerated, for an attendant keeps popping in to see that all is well. It is important that we should realize this, for the oddest ideas seem to prevail in England and America about the looseness of morals among the girls of Japan. This impression is fed by traâ€" vellers‘ tales, some of which may be true, but I did not find ‘any confirmation. The girls of Japan are vivaâ€" cious and many of them are exâ€" tremely pretty. In complexion they are as white as Europeans, especially in the towns, where they are very conscious of makeâ€"up and take great pains to look their best. They have their hair done in the Western style, varnish their fingernails, wear smart shoes, even with kimonos, and make up their eyelashes and eyebrows. ‘The girls in China don‘t; there they use neither makeâ€"up nor adornments of any kind. ‘There are two further noticeâ€" able differences between these two peoples who are regarded by us as being so closely akin. The Japanese girls, also tiny, have not the straight, slender figure of the Chinese and.are inclined to plumpness. It is also possible to tell their age; it shows in their faces, whereas Chinese women remain unwrinkled until they are fifty. One of the most interesting: Japanese women I met is an: extremely popular novelist namâ€" ed Itoko Koyama. Her books sell by the million and many of them bave been filmed. She told me, while we sat together at the Toho studios watching a film being shot, that in her new book she discusses the difference between a Jaâ€" panese girl in love and a Wesâ€" tern girl They don‘t regard love in the same way, she said. With the Japanese girl it is deâ€" votion, a desire to sacrifce herâ€" self if necesary in order to deâ€" monstrate her love. "That," I said, "is the tradiâ€" tional Japanese way. But sureâ€" ly the modern girl views it difâ€" ferently. For example. she would rot so readily accept the infiâ€" delity of a husband, would she?" "No," she replied. "Most of the women who write to me comâ€" plain of just that. It isn‘t equalâ€" ity they seek. They don‘t talk of getting even by stepping out and doing the same thing. They would rather go back to the old, but â€" and this is the important difference â€" they want the man they love to be as faithful as they are." "And do you think they will achieve this?" "No," she replied with a laugh. "Men I‘m afraid, are the same the whole world over. It is only the girls who differ." I‘m not sure she‘s right â€" at any rate not when I read about film stars. When Casey Stengel was managing the Boston Braves, he tried to teach Tommy Holmes how to pull the ball to right. "Look, kid," he _ advised, "watch me do it." He took Tommy‘s bat and stepped into the box. The pitcher let go a sailer which conked Casey right on the head. Casey went down like a light, threshed around in the dust, then slowly rose to his feet. "I guess 1 better demonstrate tomorrow," he groaned. ‘"That big ape just put me on base." SITTING ROOM ONLY It was a night for love and romance. A full moon shone as passengers strolled up and down the great liner‘s promenade deck. Among them was a young Amerâ€" ican millionaire who was travelâ€" ling alone to New York. THIS IS THE ARMY???â€"Soldiering isn‘t too unpleasant for these troops of the 51st National Guard Division at Anniston, Ala. Th'oI share the chow with 19â€"yearâ€"old Mary Ann Huff. This Anniston girl is the "official hostess" for this year‘s summer encampment. He was feeling disappointed, having failed to find a pretty girl friend for the voyage. All the young women who attracted him were either married or had Then there suddenly appeared on deck a slim girl of unusual loveliness. She wore jeansâ€" and her fair hair was dishevelled. Goingâ€"to the ship‘sâ€"rail she gazed at the calm, silvery sea. She started when he spoke to her, but the young man had a way with him and soon they were chatting happily. "Fancy you and I not mgeting before!" he exclaimed. "Where have you been hiding yourself since we left England?" She glanced up at him with a look cf fear. "What makes you think I‘ve been hiding?" she asked. "Just my little joke," he reâ€" plied, "but you certainly weren‘t at dinner toâ€"night." His arm crept round her as he spoke. She shivered a little but made no atâ€" tempt to repulse him. Encourâ€" aged, he drew her to him and kissed her. And then the girl, feeling she could trust him, told him her strange story and how she had smuggled herself aboard twentyâ€" four hours before the liner sailed and hidden in one of the lifeâ€" boats. "My twin brother is seriously ill in a hospital outside New York and I felt I must see him, although I had no money to pay the fare," she said. "I packed some sandwiches and brought along a flask of tea and here I am, but I‘m afraid I shall be ‘discovered before we reach the United States." The American made up his mind quickly. He decided to pay for the girl‘s voyage and accept responsibility for her. He exâ€" plained the situation to officials aboardâ€"and eventually the girl was allocated a spare cabin. > The story ended happily. With funds provided by the American the brother received treatment from specialists and recovered. And the pretty stowaway is now married to the young man. Not all girls who stow themâ€" selves away in liners are as lucky as she was. A headstrong American girl who wanted to reach her lover in London stowâ€" ed away im a liner sailing from New York, but was discovered within four hours of the liner‘s departur. _ She was put to work aboard as an assistant stewardess. When the ship returned to New York with her, her father rushed up‘ the gangway. seized his daughter and spanked her soundly while passengers and crew looked on. Her double trip had cost him about $200. Stowaways cost ship owners tens of thousands of dollars every year and they are often unaware of the risks they run when they conceal themselves aboard cargo boats and foreign freighters. One stowaway, an eighteenâ€" yearâ€"old Frenchman, spent a terâ€" rible fwo days dodging large rolling barrels of cement which had broken loose between decks in a heavy gale. He wa? lucky to escape with nothing worse than a broken leg. Hazardous as the game is Girl Stowaway Finds Romance stowing away is on the increase all over the world. Four men, with the help of a steward, stowed away in a seldomâ€"used refrigeratorâ€" aboard a â€" "cold storage" boat. It seemed that they would win through, but early one morning the steward arrived with the men‘s daily food supply to find the door cold to his touch. Fearâ€" fully he opened the door. Within lay the four stowaways, all dead. tenseâ€"cold seeped into the reâ€" frigerator the stowaways were slowly frozen to death. During the night the wrong valve had been turned on in the engine room and as the inâ€" Three be@raggled figures were discovered in a ship bound from Algiers to London. They said they were deserters from the Foreign Legion. They were locked up together in a cabin, but during the night an officer heard screams. He rushed to the cabin and found two men fighting savagely with knives. The ship put into the nearest port and the men were rushed to hospital, One died. Only then was it discovered that the third stowaway was a native girl over whom the men had fought. The owners of the vessel had to pay for the burial and for the repatriation of the other two. Girl stowaways are fewer nowadays than they were earker this century when they often turned up in ships, having been smuggled aboard by members of the crew. With only six dollars in her pocket a Frenchwoman of twenâ€" tyâ€"nine once stowed away in a French liner before it left the United States. Among the passengers was & famous male French stage and film star and when the woman was asked, why she had hidden herself aboard, she replied: "Simâ€" ply because I wanted notoriety. I wanted my name to be linked to the film star‘s. It was my only chance of fame." As an electric train rattled into Chadwell Heath station some time ago the driver saw to his horror a woman walking straight off the platform. He jammed on the brakes but the cab and seven carriages passed over her before the train shuddered to a stop. Officials rushed to the train znd peered underneath it. She was still alive! They hauled her out and rushed her to hospital and when the shock had worn cff she was asked why she had tried (to commit suicide. . "I didn‘t," was the reply. "I just walked absentâ€"mindedâ€" ly off the platform. Forgetfulness does not imply a bad memory, for some of the world‘s most learned men are absentâ€"minded. If a problem or subject abâ€" sorbs you completely, everything else leaves your brain. That‘s why people in â€" loveâ€" are so "moony". But Thomas Edison, the famous invéntor, couldn‘t lay the blame on love for his worst bloomer. _ On Christmas Day, 1871, he married a Miss Mary Stillwell. After the wedding breakfast he excused himself from the subâ€" us;:ent festivities by saying: have some work to do for a few minutes." He then dived round the corâ€" ner to his laboratory. It was midnight before his best man came looking for him. "You‘d better come home, Tom," advisâ€" ea his friend. "Have you forâ€" gotten that you were married this morning and Mary‘s waiting tfor you?" _ Absentâ€"mindededness can be ruinous. While talking to a friend, author J. M. Barrie reachâ€" ed out to the mantelpiece, picked up a piece of paper, and dipped it in the fire to light his pipe "Good Heavens!" exclaimed the friend, "that‘s a cheque!" It was â€" for $300. â€" Edison‘s face lit up. ‘"That‘s right," he said. "I did get marâ€" ried this morning!" â€" Absentâ€"Minded FOR THE SUN â€" Bernadette Ann Stadler, 8, reaches for the sunflower in Topeka, Kan. It‘s the state flower of Kansas. Norway, Land Of Wind And Waters Whether it is from the sea that you first experince the purple mountains of the west coast or the wooded slopes and islands of the Oslo Fjord: or whether from a plane you witâ€" ness the spectacular plateaux and peaks of the Hardanger Vidda, the effect will be one of magnificent expanses of water and land. Expanses so wide and so sparsely populated that even the major cities appear quite incidental to their natural surâ€" roundings. With only 3% million people to occupy some 125,000 square miles of territory, Norway can offer an average of one square mile to each 26 of her inhabiâ€" tants. By way of compar son, 42 persons must share the averâ€" age square mile in the U.S.A., while 499 human beings elbow one angther in the same space in â€" Great Britain. _ However, there is a simple explanation for the thinness of population in Norwayâ€"her topography. . You take a bus, but this time consistently _ northward â€" riding through Amot and on to Lake Totak and Rauland village on its far shore. Here, 2,260 feet above sea level, is the highland center of Telemark culture, and it you were intrigued by the outdoor displays at the Folk Museum on Bygdoy, this is vour chance to see farmhouses, barns and stables. Be sure to climb that modest, but _ wellâ€"aboveâ€"treeline, _ hill across the road from the hotel and help vourself to an eyeful ot spectacular panorama. Southâ€" east you‘ll see the geological jumble of Telemark; southwest, and far oeyond the waters of Totak, a long, even line of highâ€" ‘and summits guarding one flank cf Norway‘s most secluded valâ€" ley: Setesdal. However, terrain n more immediate interest :o us strétches out north and northâ€" west â€" the lakes, hollows, levels and snowâ€"flecked heights of one surner of the great Hardanger Vidda or Plateau _ . Soon it‘s Rjukan where, f#r a change from bussing, you should, take an elevatorâ€"ride on the mountain â€" cable care . which Rjukanâ€"ites use to get from the cenyonâ€"bottom up into the sunâ€" shine and open spaces of the Hardinger Vidda. Dangling in an enclosed basâ€" ket which rises 1,600 feet in five ininutes, you‘ll have exceiient views of this twoâ€"block @wide town where both the main works of Norsk Kydro and workers‘ dwellings are squeezed between river and cliffs, as well as of 8,000â€"#wot Mount Gausta rising sheer on the other side of the> canyon. ( From Rjukan a narrowâ€"gauge train (which was blown off its rails one windy winter‘s day in 1917) will take you to Mae! on Leke Tinnsjo. â€" From "How to Feel at Home in Norway," by Phillip Boardman. DRIVE WITH CARE of him, selling flags for charity, was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. * n:lu was tall and blackâ€"haired was wearing flg\m-m‘z- ing green eomun: ut what noticed most about her was het bewitching smile. T As he strolled along London‘s Bond Street, towards his office, "Will you buy a flag, sir?" she asked demurely. "It‘s for a good "T‘ll "buy ajflag on one conâ€"= dition," he replied. ‘"You must come out to dinner with me tonight." like that," the girl retorted "I‘m not doing this job to get dinner dates!" And she flounced off to sell her flags to a woman who was beckoning from a car. ed;â€"he ‘was used to easy roâ€" wantic "conquests. "Am I slipâ€" ping?" he asked himself as he hurried on to his ‘office. But the girl‘s‘ rebuff was a challenge to his power of conâ€" quest, so he decided to try to contact her again. ' The only way he could think of doing so was by inserting this advertisement in the personal column of a daily newspaper: "Will the Girl in Green who was selling flags in Bond Street, London, on Tuesday accept the apologies of the man who was so tactless when he spoke to her? His only excuse is that he was caried away by her loveliness and very charming personality" Next day came the reply: "Ginrl in Green will accept apology same place Tuesday, 11 a.m." So he got his "date" after all. Romance often lurks in the personal or "agony" columns of newspapers all over the world. Some of them absolutely ‘throb withâ€"romance; some suggest hidâ€" den drama and mystery; others are eccentric or comic. Here‘s one that was published some time ago in ‘an American smallâ€"town newspaper: "Beautiful, provocative but broke young redhead earnâ€" ing $40 weekly as clerk seeks young, rich and romantic husâ€" band who will pamper her and enable her to live in luxury for rest of her life.4She is temperâ€" amental, intelligent, but bone lazy and rather selfish. Write stating age, income and enclosing recent photograph to Boxâ€"" She was deluged with replies from wealthy young bachelors. After scores of interviews she met a shipping magnate and it was love at first sight Sentimental women readers of a French newspaper sighed roâ€" mantically when they read this advertisement in its personal column: "Pink Rose. I still love you desperately in spite of all that‘s happened. Dearest one, tell me you still love me and that the heavenly week in Paris is not forgotten. Please meet me in the usual corner of the garden at nine on the night of the next full moon. Dovotedly, Pierre." "I don‘t sell flags on conditions Readers imaginatively visualizâ€" ed the probable sequel â€" a rendezvous between the loveâ€" lorn Pierre and his beloved in a flowerâ€"scented garden under a brilliant moon and the exchange of tender kisses. They were wrong. Did Pierre ever meet the girl again? He did not. Two days later the girl‘s renly appeared in the same persona‘ column: "Pierre. No, no, no. All is over, Pink Rose‘s love wili never bloom again and is for ever dead. Goodâ€"bye" Well, you can‘t always have happy endings to love stories, especially in real life! Bachelors must have blinked and then reâ€"read with special interest a revealing "agony" adâ€" vertisement in a London newsâ€" paper which ran: "A young gentleman who is on the point of proposing to a girl who is devilishly pretty but whom he has only known for three weeks is desirous of meeting a married man .of exâ€" perience who will dissuade him from such a foolish step 0 Romance Lurks in Personal Columns REJUVENATION PROJECT â€" An airplane is being used by Raiph Davis at BoonviH®,"M4., to seed Missouri River bottom fields destroyed by the recent floods, Davis says it‘s &n @xperiâ€" moent to collect information dbout livability of crops andâ€"seedingâ€"rates. unrmtm. Association is cooperating by furnishing seed. Crops being seeded trom the air are whéat, milo, sargo, rye and sudan grass. It will be several weeks before form equipment .can get into the saturated fields. "ako. Ever since these "personals" them to cloa Police nowadays keep a sharp Eonmmuh.-nd mz?u-lhq:m;n uhw{:«dlv.uu- pear sentimental on the surface but contain hidden meanings, ‘The personal column has alâ€" ways been a source of hope to people with rich aunts or haltâ€" iorio?hnwdultod. "Bome day," they think, "we may hear of something to our advantage 4 we keep watching these adâ€" insert "leg â€" pulling" advertiseâ€" ments in the personal columns. One that nearly got into a fam~ ous national newspaper read: "Stuart. Died on August ist, at Kensington, Anne, dlupmt of James Stuart, aged 49. Only at the last moment did somebody notice that whoever sent in the advertisement was trying to get the newspaper to publm:lthe fact that Queen Anne is dead! than thirtyâ€"six million pounds of snuff last year, reports a firm _Four million American men and women sniffed up no less of New York snuff makers. Yet in spite of these official figures â€" which are not to be sniffed at! â€" there is evidence that the historic habit of snuffâ€"taking is slowly declining in the United States. â€" In Britain, too, were snuffâ€" taking stages a partial comeâ€" back every few years or so, fewer people are taking snuff than during the war period, but snuff is still made there at the rate of about 4,000 tons a year. Snuff is simply a ‘powdered preparation of tobacco and,/was first introduced into. England in the seventeenth century. Many people still use it as a prevenâ€" tive against influ:zu and colds. During one of the biggest ‘flu epidemics there were no cases among workers at a famous Briâ€" tish snuffâ€"mill There‘s a shop in London that sells snuff from the same jars and shelves that were there in the days of Beau Brummell who, iike other Regency bucks, went there to select special blends. How Many Sneezes? Coal miners forbidden to smoke during working hours used to put snuff in little musâ€" lin bags and sutk it. Snuff taken in drink was condemned as harmful by. magistrates earlier this century. Doping gangs would watch for likely victims in tavern bars, dropping a pinch ‘PARDON MY.ELBOW‘ â€" Pitisburgh Pirate catcher Bill Hall: (left) and first baseman Dick Stuart collide in the third inning of game with Cubs in Chicago as they go after a popup hit by lee Walls. Stuart was shaken up on the play but remained in the game. of smuff into a selves, Printers and then the principal Some, not content 1 had a small silver s boxes to shovel 1 quantity into their "The Gift Of Geod â€"The Friend Of Man" . Therein is material pertaining to the love of trees inâ€"all part; of the world and anâ€"eagerness to protect trees. k quotes a sign that appears at the entrance to a public park harken ere you harm me.l am the heart of your hearth on.the cold of winter nights; the friendâ€" ly shade screening you from the summer sun; and my ffuits are _ ‘The text on the park sign/will appéal to all friendsâ€"of trees, especially the men and women who have grown fond of trees in their yard. We may be certain that where trees are ‘planted, cared . for . and . admired"is «sure refreshing draughts quenching I am the beam that holds your house, the board of your table, the bed on which you lie, and the timber that builds your boat. I am the handle of yourshoe, the door of your homestead, the wood of your cradle (and; the shell of your coffin.).I am«the gift of God and the friend of to be a pleasant placein .Which to live. â€" Pueblo (CéIG:)1Btar Journal. TAXI ON THE IMAGINATION "Yeah," said Ruth, "that‘s why I used to send a cab for you the day you were gonna pitch. I never wanted you to get lost in the subway." "Forget that cousin stuff," Earnshaw rejoined. * "I â€"#ould strike youâ€" out leftâ€"handedâ€" the best day you ever saw." > .. "Ye who would pass by and eA setce trees T4 1|