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Sailors ' of
Feathered Race
Vis'-': : .
By GARRETT I SKRVIS8.
The romance of the sea Is in the very
name of the "stormy petrel," and the
bird lteelf ia one of the mot Interesting
of the minor Inhabitants of the earth. It
I a great sailor.
possessing the char
acteristic mark of
the true mariner.
which is that the U if . :; - t
harder the winds
blow, and the
fiercer the rush of
the waves becomes
the more com
pletely a t home
It seems to be.
The petrels are
related to the al
batrosses, but are
smnller and owe
their name to a pe- m-jtiW
culiar circumstance
a play of the nautical Imagination in
duced by their appearance on the water.
They skim so close along the surface- as
to give the Impression that they are ac
tually gulling upon It. This suggested to
srme fanciful observer the thought of St.
Peter walking upon the waves, and so
the name of "petrel," meaning "little
Peter," w8j,eBtowed upon the bird. This,
at least. Is the explanation of the origin
of the .name commonly given.
Petrels are also called by sailors
"Mother Carey's chickens," and their
appearance Is regarded as presaging the
near approach of a storm. The explana
tion of the origin of the name "Mother
Carey" la as fantastical as that of the
name petrel. It Is said to be an old Eng
lish rendering of the exclamation of
Italian sailors upon seeing these ominous
birds at sea: "Maria ears!" meaning
"Dear Mother Mary!"
There are about seventy-five species of
petrels known, and they are widely dis
tributed over the oceanic parts of the
globe. In their habits they are almost
as much marine animals as are fish, for
they never voluntarily visit the land ex
cept during the breeding season, and tht
wildest storms cannot drive them off the
ooean. They skim swiftly along the agi
tated surface of a tempest-swept sea,
following the changing curvature of the
waves, safely defying the breaking crests
and the flying spume, and seeming to re
joice In the uproar of the elements.
In the darkness of a great storm, when
ships' masts are bowed to meet the toss
ing waves and canvas Is torn from the
shrouds by the howling gala, the petrel
will sometimes flit about a doomed ves
sel like a malignant spirit of the storm.
Among sailors it is deemed to be a very
unlucky act to kill one of these birds,
even by accident.
The commonest species of petrel seen
on the Atlantic Is a little black bird, with
white rump, about six inches in length.
It will occasionally follow ships for days,
picking up food from the refuse thrown
overboard. It seems never to tire, how
ever long it may be kept upon the wing.
Owing to the externa olllness of Its
-feathers they --are' Impenetrable to water,
and the bird can rest upon the undulating
waves as tightly as a cork, -
The stormy petrel remains a mysterious
bird even when It visits the borders of
the sea for breeding purposes. Its nests
are always hidden among rocks close
along the coast, and are very difficult of
discovery, even by professional egg hunt
en. The more effectually to conceal
their breeding places the petrels, when
sojourning on shore, go out la search of
food only at night, or in dark, gloomy and
stormy weather.
The famous Scilly Islands near the Brit
ish coast, which have been the scene of
so many ship tragedies, are a favorlta
breeding ground of the stormy petrel.
Until reoently it was thought that all
the nests were contained on one site in
the Sclllies, but It has been found that
they are much more widely scattered
than any one had suspected, and the dis
covery la due to a Voracious cat, which,
being an inhabitant of the lighthouse on
Round Island, where petrels were never
seen on land, astonished the keepers by
furnishing Itself each night with a Petrel
for Its supper. Investigation showed that
the cat had found a breeding placa of the
birds on the Wand the existence of which
was previously unknown.
"Nobody Home"
-v By Nell Brinklcy
Copyright. 1S1. Intern'l News Service.
'Wm 'Ul Mmt f M;mXirn
ft ft The Manicure Lady & &
By WIIXIAM F. KIRK.
"I seen a piece In the paper jester
day," said the Manicure Lady, "that
told how a oM gent tvnrrlcd a young
woman lawyer that hod won a case for
Mm. The old gent hnil nothli.g hut
I money, the story said, and I wan Just
wondtrlng. Charge, why It Is that I have
never saw such an . opening. I have read
about trained nursese marrying tl rich
old man that they had nursed back to
life, and I have , read about manicure
-Irla geUIng hooked ' tip before some
Justice of the pence with some old Jnlner,
and now along comna.thls story of the
lady lawyer-and all thin ftme I am
patiently pointing finger-nails and listen
ing the long day through to everything
lexoept matrimonial prospects."
"But you are so young." said the Head
Barber.
"Lay off on the sarcasm, tJeorge."
snapped the Manicure I Ally. "I know 1
ain't as young as a spring buttercup, hut
I've got a few years to go before I got
Into the Wondering class, and I could
have grhbeUany one of a doien minor
league husbands long before now.- I want
a champion when I wed. Oeorge.'a cham
pion." ' '
"Ton do -rve one," agreed . the Head
Tarber. "You have youth," Intelligence
and beauty. You are one girl In a million,
and 1 have often hoped that ;wlien you
do leave this job to he a blushing bride,
you will be leaning on' the arm -of a
real corker. I wond.'r ah. It Is that so
many of thrm rich old na tnarrv their
nurses." ' - . ' ,
"They say -that a mftir'.ed. woman Is a
young man's slave ami n old man's
nurse," said the Manicure ' Lady. Maybe
that Is the aeniiun the nurses frt the
about-to-dte-rtch fellou'J. But It . would
be Just my lurk, if I was to -turn trained
nurse, to find out that all' tlte rich old
men had tiled or got married, and then
I would have nobody t rurse but am er
gfnoy cases.
"Hrother WllfieJ U getting my goat a
little lately. He don't say mucli at a
time, but h Is all the tltrk throwing out
little lilnts about the friends of mine that
are getting ninriied and settling down.
Xvcry time he hears aN ut a girl friend
tf mine taking the lover's leap he says
something about the girl not being half
as sweet as I am. .1 vri't help wonder
ing, when I hear him going along like
that, if he thinks I am due to be a
bachelor lady."
"There Is many a girl who said 'Yea
Instead of "No" that wishes she was still
a Whelor lady," said the Head Barber.
"The' reason you charming girls ain't
mnrrud Is because yon are too hard to
suit and too good Judges of human nature.
Your hrother ain't got brains enough to
kid. you, girlie, and lint let him think
he has." ' ?i V, '
"George, you was always a great
booster for me," said the Manicure
Lady, "and the reason I like you so much
Is because you ain't got no strings to
your friendship.'' But 1 sometimes wonder
if I am letting my last real chances to
get married slip by. Ton don't know how
a girl like me feels ahiut being lift out
In tie cold after having gave a dosen
fairly good prospects the North Pole nod.
JuKt think. Oeorgo! Ten years from now
I will be getting along toward rrilddle
age. But as President WUson says, lots
of things can happen In ten years."
"Yes," said the Head Harder, "and I
i. i rmtnii out that when a
iman la president lots:)t things cam hap
pen In one.
i w. ' w i id r .tv.f ..wi iv
H I
This Great 7-Piece Ware-Eternal
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"Nobody borne!" Her heart looks red and warm
like any other heart you might come across on the
Sentimental Road, but It's only a bright red gumdrop
with sugar crusted over to fool you, and gumdrops
are hard eating soft but tough. Here in her per
fectly coiffed hair, which is never a minute behind
the times in its fashion of lying on her bead, there
is nothing but an empty casket, bright enough, but
unfilled save for the stray little hard thoughts, like
bullets thoughts of lace and feathers and the flare
of a petticoat, and whether there is a tiny ghost of a
line coming in the lid of one eye ("I must stop laugh
ing If there is," gasps she) that go rattling 'round in
side It, , i
If you listen close enough before you go'sd deep
in love that you can't wade back until the storm's all
over and you get slammed back onto the beach again, '
you can hear these little, little thoughts rattling loose
behind the white forehead and the arching brows that
she'g so vain of. ' .
- Love knocks here, and kicks his toes until
doomsday, for there's "nobody home." So the cynic,
says, sneering at the follies of fashion and the minds j
. of maids.
And while I think oh small maidens who lean
bo' to seeing themselves where their eyes, and their
thoughts linger dark hair has nothing to do with
gumdrop hearts and this case,
have it NELL BRINKLEY.
She just happens to
Advice to Lovelorn
a. aiiniOl VAJmraX
Not Wronor Uaaarerous,
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young girl
and am considered good looking. I am
engaged to be married to a man now In
. BpaJn. In the meantime I am going
about with a young man who spends his
money on me and shows me a great deal
of respect, but I am afraid he Is begin
ning to care for me. My mother knows
I go with him, and I have also Informed
him of my engagement to tills other
man and often ep-ak about It to Keep it
in his rr.lnd. I would like to know It
you think I am doing wrong? M. D.
What you are doing Is not morally
wrong but it Is not the height of loyalty
to your sbsent fiance, and It holds the
possibility of danger for you and the
young man who cares for you In spite of
the fact that you are pledged to another.
Hard Times.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am 19 and for
the last two months have been going out
with a young man five years my senior.
Of late he is quiet. This he attributes to
his money affairs, as he is hard pressed.
As I know him to be of a carefree dis
position, I cannot believe that he should
always think ef this, especially when in
my company. Please give roe your opin
ion in this matter. WORRIED.
My dear girl, when a man Is discour
aged and depressed over his money af
fairs the presence of his girl only aug
ments his sufferings If he thinks of all
the things he cannot do for her and the
impossibility of supporting a wife. This
U the time to prove the sincerity of your
devotion, and patient helpfulness will do
It. Try to cheer hlra Instead of selfuhly
thinking about what be owes roe.
raaawthy.
Dear MUs Fairfax: I have bean In the
company of a young jum for about a
year. I have learned to lovetilm very
much. He told me that he loves me.
He left the city on account of business
and promised to correspond with me.
tils friends told me that business is very
slow and that he feels very depressed.
He has not written to me. Would you
a'lvioe me to write to him? ' I. F. L,
If ou feel that this young man Is ill
and discouraged over the state of his
affairs, you might write hlra a friendly
little note to cheer him.
Little Mary's Essay
Love, and Its Effect on
Men and Women
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By DOROTHY DIX.
Love is something that makes you feel
all nice and purry Inside.
Love Is like the measles you generally
catch It when you are young, and the
worse It breaks .- .
out on you the
sooner you get
over It. Love
doesn't hurt the
young much, for
it seldom strikes :
In deeply, but !
when an old man !
or woman gets a J
bad case It gener- i
ally provea fatal. j
You ran always ,
tell when people j
are In love, be
cause they go
about with a
tooth-powder smile
on their faces; also
they tell people all
about their symp
toms, which makes
everyone hate them.
that he would rather meet a woman w)h
had Just undergone an operation in a
hospital than a man who ts in love, and
be'd rather meet a raging lion than either
one of them, because - he would, prefer
being torn alive to, being bored to death.
My mother says that my father should
not talk that way because once he was
In love himself, and 'my father says.
"Well, it I was I took the love cure that
Is called matrimony, and got over it,"
and when he said that my mother said
he was a brute, and she rushed out of
the room and slammed the door behind
her that way that makes a door sound
like it said "damn."
My father says that love la Hl -"-'"k.
and that a man who is tn jve acts
Just like a man does who is intoxicated.
He says that love goes, to a man's
bead and takes away all of his brali.s
so that hs hasn't got any Ju.lgment left.
and, goodness knows, that'a lucky for
the women or else there'd bo lota mora
old maids. ' '
My father also says that lore and
liquor make a man see things that aren't
there. My father says he's known men
who saw pink elephants sitting on the
My father says
WHEN FLIES PLAY 'POSSUM
It la not only in the summer that the
enemy of the fly should be busy, ac
cording to a bulletin Just Issued by the
committee on pollution and sewerage of
the Merchants' association of New York,
but In the winter as well.
"Kill the winter flies," Is the burden of
the committee's appeal, and It declares
that now Is the time to begin next sum
mer's campaign. ,
' "Most of last season's flies, having com
pleted their life cycle, are dead," the bul
letin reads, "but those hatched late hajve
loft their eggs tn a favorable place for
Incubation In the early spring, and these
eggs will survive, the winter unless dis
posed of. They will hatch out during the
winter In an even temperature.
"These winter files will become the
progenitors of next summer's countless
billions. At the first approach of cold
weather, the files seek warmth and pro
tection in houses and stables. From cel
lar to garret they hide in nooks and cor
ners. Keep them out. If any succeed
tn' getting In, kfll them. -
"Don't trust the cold to kill them!
Don't assume that they are dead when
you find them lying pn floors or window
sills In unused rooma They are 'play
ing 'poeaum,' and Will revive when the
temperature rises.
"Clean up the house and give special
attention to every out-of-the-way placa
where flies may lurk. Make sure there Is
nothing left which miy harbor their eggs.
One flv that survives the winter will be
come th4 parent of hundieds of millions
next summer "
mantelpiece making faces at them, and
men who, when they were in love, court n't
tell the difference between a red-heaJed,
freckle-faced, cross-eyed living skeleton
sort of a woman and Lillian Rustcll.
My .father says that when a man's
drunk he always wants to confide in
you, and that he takea you by the but
tonhole and holda you until he tells you
the afory of his life, and that when he's
In love he does Just the same wsy, only ;
he tells you how wonderful and beautl-1
ful, and what an angel the young laly
la that he Is In love with. . And my .
father says that when you see a man
coming whom you know, who is either (
In liquor or in love, the only safe thing
Is to run the other way as hard as you 1
can.
And my father says that aTter a man
has been drunk he wakes up the next
day with an awful head and a dark
brown taste in his mouth, and he won
der why he did it, and my father says
that after a man gets married he has
about the same sort of a katsenjammer.
Ladies do pot get drunk, and when !
they fall in love they Just cry on every-1
body's neck when they tell that they are !
engaged, and the spend their time writ
ing letters to the gentlemen they are en
gaged to, and when the man leaves a
cigar stub on the ash tray they tie a.
blue ribbon around It and hang It on the
wall.
Also they telephone a lot, and they
have fits if the man has to go out of
town on business, and they make every
body very tired, but all the other ladles
aay, "Oh, poor dear, let her alone; she
won't feel this wsy after she's married."
- It must be awful nice to have some
body in love, with you if you are a young
lady, because he sends you randy and
takes you to the movies, and don't never
dispute what you aay like a husband
does. My mother says love la the great
est thing In the world, but I'd rather
havej an automobile.
'That's all at present about love.
Worth Sj
sTlli. ox BALK
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