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When Hubby Agreed. -‘Alas,” sighed the shapely wife, "I suppose I’ll simply have to begin wear ing m.v skirts longer.” “You will,” grimly replied the lms fbaiul, “for 1 simply can’t wear these old trousers any longer.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. MRS. M. SNYDER GAINS 20 LBS. Declares Tanlac Overcame Rheu matism and Stomach Trouble, Restoring Full Vigor. “Tanlac built me up twenty pounds, and I am as happy over my new health as my little boy was over his Christ mas toys," declared Mrs. Mary Sny der, 838 Estes St., Charlottesville, Va. “For two years I suffered from stomach trouble, rheumatism and a nervous, run-down condition. I was almost a skeleton and got to the point where, when I went to bed nights, I wondered if I would be able to get op in the morning. 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Fresno, California Please send me copr of your free book,” | “Recipes with Raisins." j Null | Sts »t _ j Crrr-State__ SPEAKING OF THE WEATHER By John Not them Hilliard. “It may not be regular or according to science,’’ said Kancher Gardner, lighting his morning pipe and gazing .-effectively at the cattle in the 80 acre feeding ground across the road from ’■e ranch house, “but it you was to ask me I’d say there was a hefty storm coming. A humdinger. Yes, sir! Never knew It to fail” The day was fair and cloudless— one of those perfect end-of-the-win ter days in Wyoming, when the suave Chinook wind from the far away Pa cific tempers the atmosphere to that of May. The feeling of spring was in the air. Kverythlng looked so tran quil that 1 should have questioned even the authority of a barometer had it dropped on such a morning as this. But I knew there was no barometer on the Gardner ranch—all farms are ranches nowadays in Wyoming—and so I was puzzled to account for my host's prediction. He saw the ques tion marks in my eyes. “All the signs are pointing to It,” he explained, with a little dry chuckle. “Did you notice the cat last night? Well, she sat all evening with her tail to the fire, and this morning, before breakfast, I caught her washing her face over her ears and licking her boat against the grain. The dog, too, was uneasy all night. He was digging ooles in the ground this morning, and when I threw out some meat for his breakfast he wouldn't touch it. Those are powerful signs that I’ve never known to fail, and I’ve been observing animals now more’n 60 years. “But there’s another sign more powerful yet.” He pointed with his pipe to the cattle in the pasture. "See bow those cows are crowding togeth er at the end of the .let? See how their tails are all switching to wind ward? Cows always act like that Just before a storm, just as sheep become frisky and butt each other, and hogs grunt and run around with hay in their mouths. All these signs are just as certain as when the birds stop singing and begin to oil their feathers, or the chimney swallows fly around in iircles and cry. Yes, sir, I ve lived on farms all my life—first in New England, then in Wisconsin and now out here in Wyoming—and I’ve seen a lot of nature one way or another and done a lot of weather studying, and I want to tell you nature knows her busi ness when It comes to pointing out rain and snow, and hard or mild winters, and late or early springs. It may not be regular or scientific, but you can gamble on nature every time. That’s why I’m telling you a storm’s coming. Those cattle smell it. If they didn’t they’d be scattered about every which way, feeding, in stead of standing in a bunch over there, doing nothing.” “You think animals can tell weatl*er a long time ahead?” I asked. “I ha-» always thought that was a eupersl|tion.” "No iuperstitlon about it. And no guessing, either. I don’t know how they manage it, but they do. Why, I knew this was going to be a fong hard winter when Joe Landon brought down a goose last fall. The bones were extra thick and there was a red spot on the breat bone. Those are sure signs of a hard winter. But I didn’t go by Joe’s gooese alone. I sort of checked up with the other creatures. The musk rats were building extra strong houses down at the creek, and the ground squirrels were laying in a pretty big supply of food, like they thought they’d need it before winter was over. Those signs corroborated Joe’s goose bones. You see, animals can’t go to town and get supplies at the store, like we humans do, when their grub stock runs short so they just naturally bank up enough to last them through a long season. i\u, mere jusi isn i any supersti tion about, it my friend. The animals know and what’d be the use of their knowing if they didn’t use what they know. They aren’t careless or foot less like humans. They’re thrifty and look ahead. Why, every animal I’ve ever studied fixes up for winter ac cording to his need. Take the beav ers we used to have back in Wiscon sin. They always cut their .winter wood early. If they toted up an extra big supply, it was a sure sign of a long winter ahead. If they stocked up light, then we farmers always count ed on an early spring. I never knew those signs to fail. I always calcu lated my spring work according to the wood supply the beavers laid up. "Another sign you’ve got to watch out for is the pelt of an animal. All animals put on extra thick overcoats of fur when a tough season is com ing. They don’t buy their overcoats; they grow ’em. Maybe a young ani mal is foolish now and then and doesn't put on all the fur he oughta, but he learns better when he grows older. I've never known a middle aged animal that didn’t know how to dress proper and according to season, and that’s more’n I can say for som* middle-aged humans I've known. Maybe animals don’t go in much for fancy styles, but they sure do know how to dress for comfort." The ranchman paused to relight his pipe. "As I said," he went on, "it may not be regular or scientific, but you'd be surprised to learn how much re spect some of the government weath er sharps have for these signs. I've talked with lots of them and 1 know. Stands to reason they would have, if they were honest and open minded. When you figure wit that human be ings have been watching nature and studying birds and bees and animals for thousands of years, it'd be mighty queer if we hadn't learned a little something to go by In the way of Greek statesmen are quoted as say ing that the only way in which Turkey may be brought to agree ■with the Allied proposals la to give her a good drubbing. Is Smyrna so soon forgotten? bom* folks are too proud t’ beg, but they don’t neind tollin' tickets that nobuddy wants. You’re alippin’ when your wife sug gests that you buy a livelier necktie. —Abe Martin. Valuable Bull Dieo from Eating Nail. The recent death of a $50,000 bull from this cause ought to provide food for thought for the man who persists In leaving loose nails scatterel around his farm. Nalls are mighty ustful things, hut their usefulness ceases *khen they are left scattered around the granary or feeding room. N'allJ may be kept to advantage in a box with compartments. The compart ments make it possible to have the nails sorted all the time. The time It takes to lnsall u nail storage is amply repaid when you wqn nails of a certain size in a hurry. Children often scatter nails about; if they know they ought to keep the nails in order, they win do so and not only save a great deal of trouble, but also learn habits of orderliness. S. C. McGregor. ______ knowing what the weather’s going to be. Take all the weather proverbs we have. They’re based on the long ex perience of the race. Of course, all these proverbs and sayings nre not accurate, but they average up toler ably high and are just ns likely to go by as the scientific reports the gov ernment sendp out. Personally, I don't wait for the government forecast to tell me what kind of weather to get ready for. I Just come outside and take a squint around, things about nature there are 100 ways of telling what the weather's going to be. Take that old saying about everything being lovely when the goose honks high. Like most of the old weather proverbs, that say ing was based on close and accurate observation. If K hadn’t been. It would never have become a weather proverb. And it Is Jwst as true as ‘two and two make four.’ Geese do fly high in pleasant weather and low in bad. Why? In pleasant weather the barometer Is high. That means the air Is dense. That’s why the what the weather sharps call a more sustaining density. In plain Engl! \i, It’s easier to breathe and fly when the air is dense. That’s why tht geeso and other migratory birds hit it pp for the clouds when the weather’s fine and no storm's on the way. So, you see, there'B a powerful lot of fact In those old proverbs." ‘‘Did you ever see a bee caught out In a shower?" I asked. ISO, sir, and you never did, and you never will. Bees are mighty weather wise. They know when It’s going to rain and they know when a storm is on the way. They’ll never swarm before a near storm. They’re pretty reliable l&ng distance prog nosticators, too. If you find bees swarming in the late fall or winter, it’s a sure gamble that M’a going to be an open winter. I know. I’ve kept bees for 50 years. "Oh, there are all kinds of ways of telling weather. Horses sweating in the stable—that’s a pretty sure sign of rain. Doors and windows ar« hard to shut in damp weather. Salt gets heavy before rain. When rain is on the way tobacco gets moist, guitar strings shorten, ropes get slimpsy, moss gets soft, lamp wicks crackle, candles dim, soot falls down the chimney and smoke swoops tf the ground. If the soot in the flr» place glows on the links of the chair., if small sparks come and go, If the wood won't burn properly and only glows, if the teapot on the hearth sweats, if the pump becomes damp, If odors won't leave the house. If your socks keep slipping down, then it’s up to you to get out raincoat and rubbers. Ants are mighty busy, gnats bite, crickets are lively, spiders come out of their nests, and flies flock into the house Just before rain. And any fisherman will tell you that Just before a rain storm is the time to go fishing. Fish bite lively then. Yes, sir. If you keep your eyes open and your wits working there’s no more excuse for your being caught out in the rain than for a bee to get lost in a storm. An outdoor man ought to know as much as a bee. And when you're weather wise there's not much excuse for your go ing very far wrong on the seasons. If crows fly south, if wild geese go honking the same way early in the fall, then it’s up to you to get in your winter supplies early against a long hard winter.” Rantiher Gardner took another look at the cattle which were in the 80 acre pasture. “Yep! Storm coming. Sure as shootin’. You can gamble on it. If I were you, son, I wouldn’t ride very far from the ranch today." That night a blizzard swept down from the western mountains and kept us prisoners in the ranch house for three days. .■ m ■ How the Fairy Talea oD Come True. | From collier's. - | At a stately Waldorf-Astoria dinner the Italian ambassador, Prince Gelaslo Caetanl. spoke, among other things, of his gratitude to Chris Corning and Fred Bradley, who grave him his first Job. pushing a slag car at the Daly-West mine, near Park City, Utah. That same night, in Philadelphia, Dr. Lee De For est received the Elliott Cresson medal for his invention of the three-electrode vacuum. The experiments which led to this discovery were made in a two-dol lar-a-week room in Chicago back in 1900. Next day one A1 Smith talked to some 40 newsboys. He knows how, be cause he started out as a 10-year-olu newsie himself. Since then Smith has been twice elected governor ®f New York State. That night we happened to go to one of the silkiest and costli est shows on Broadway. The man who managed it w'as once the “singin’ kid" I waiter in a tough Joint in Chinatown. An Italian boy from the slums recently bought the country place of the man whom he had revered 30 ypars ago as the big boss of the city. Maybe all your luck needs is a little help from you. H. M. Lord, federal budget direc tor, expresses the fear that there will be a $1SO,000,000 government deficit at the close of the present fiscal year. A most inopportune time for Mr. Lord to make such an announcement. Just when everything was lined up for giving Mr. Hard ing a clear track ahead for the 1924 presidential marathon. A large proportion of the upper classes In China are near sighted, and. be cause of their flat-bridged noses prefer spectacles to sysglassss. So Human—A Pervading Quality j ' —-..........................4 Don Herald in’ Life. There never was such a rush upon the part ofrpractically every body to joint the human .race. The way eveiybody is trying to get into it, you might think it was terribly exclusive. “He’s human,’’ press agents exclaim. All the candidates for office are human. All big mem-in publio office are really very human “when you know them.” Our great business men are human. We have editors who are human. “The •ecret of his success as an editor is that he is so human,” we read. I*resident Harding, Vice President Coolidge, Rudolph Valentino, and Mickey Walker, the new welterweight champion, are all, all human’ (underneath, if not on top). We find it out about all of them sooner or later. “It’8 humanl” the advertisements announce. Plays, maga zines, books, department stores—all are human, or putting it on. “We do our best to keep our'business, in spite of its magnitude,' human.” Even hotels are human, and one hotel keeper has won fame and fortune by doing his best to make hotel clerks human. If a business or product can’t do better, it can, at least, have “the human touch.” It is strange that no one has pointed out how human, how very human, little children are and how wonderful it is that they should be so human. Why have we overlooked the children? They are so human. j And fathers. How human is the proud father of from one toi 15 children. Human father! i And mothers. Someone will be calling our attention, next, to the hurftan, the extremely human side of motherhood. Motherhood, after all, is about the humanest of all things. It would not surprise us to read that the electric chair operator; at Sing Sing is “the most human sort of man.” People not only want to join the human race, but they want to be the first to discover that this person or that is eligible. Some can even offer proof. Hardly a day passes on which we do not see photographs showing that some celebrity has home life— and that certainly shows that he is human. Maybe the great man | will be shown surrounded by his wife and children. Human! Whati is the saying? As human as an old shoe. > Is it possible that there will be so much of this that we shall, eventually have a reaction? Are we ever likely to see the adver-( tisement that “There is nothing human in this book,” or will a can-1 didate for public office ever be presented with the recommendation j “He’s inhuman?” r Waldemar' K*©mpffer t in Asia Magazina. Journalists«and even scientists, who ought to know better, re-1 gard Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose as an ethnologic paradox. That an J Indian steeped in the age old beliefs of his country should be the; peer of any western experimental physicist and should have en- i riched biology with discoveries of far reaching import is to them a freakish phenomenon. But five minutes conversation with Bose is enough to shatter the illusions that the average American or European cherishes about the limitations of the oriental intellect. \ True, Bose is devoutly religious but religious devotion is no more incompatible wrth science in an Indian than a firm belief in the Holy Ghost is incompatible with the science of a Jesuit astronomer. If j you. expect a Eurasian blending of Indian mysticism and half j hearted acceptance of western scientific teachings, with Indian1 mysticism in the ascendant, in Bose, you are sure to he disappointed.1 He is an incarnate proof that there is neither an oriental mind nor , an occidental mind, but just mind. This thick set, middle aged man in a priestlike garb, mobile of feature and sparkling of eye and wearing gold pince-nex, astonishea yon when you question, him. His poise, his dignity { his utter lack of vanity, would impress even if he were' not so precise and clear in his exposition. He talks and lectures like a western scientist-—; only with the rich vocabulary and with the cultivated Engliah ac- J cent of a Cambridge man who knows his Shakespeare and his Wordsworth. In 4he European scientist the steeling of the mind to anything that smacks of a personal interpretation of nature has often been accompanied by a withering of the feeling for beauty. Darwin bitterly lamented the fact that his researches in biology had completely atrophied his appreciation of poetry. With, Bose it is otherwise. Science has but enhanced his emotional reactions to the plants that he has studied. He is a physicist to his finger tips, with a complete technical command of all the resources of his science, but his conversation, instead of being the usual colorless discussion of graphs and formulas, is a vividly imaginative presentation of laboratory re sults, which arrests even the attention of one to whom physics is about as intelligible as esaterie Buddhism., When he speaks of plants, to the physical study of which he has devoted the better part of his maturer life, they cease to be mere masses of green fiber and leafage and become.sentient organisms. Though he does not telli you that they have souls, you feel that he regards them as bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. Somber Blacks and Grays, Apron Gowns, Shuffle Hats Seen At Paris Pace Course BY C. F. BERTELLI, Universal Sorvio* Correspondent Special Wireless Dispatch. Paris, April 1.—In memory of Sarah Bernhardt black has miracu lously jumped Into the fashions again, after being completely eclipsed In the February forecasts for sum mer. The Auteull race course, whore the president’s prise was run Sunday, was a somber sight. This great gath ering of stage and society folk unan imously discarded bright chiffons, varl-hued chintz, or scintillating or gandies for mourning colors of black, mauve or sky grey. Despite the atmosphere of grief, the mannequins displayed three notable style Innovations. The first was the "apron gown," a black sllp-on coat Easter Day. Christ the Lord Is risen today, Sons of men and angels say: Raise-your Joys and triumphs high, Slngi ye heavens, and earth reply. Love’s redeeming work Is done, Fought the fight, the victory won: Jesus’ agony Is o’er, Darkneae veils the earth no more. Vain the stone, the watch, the seal Christ has burst the gates of hell; Dead In vain forbids Him rise, Christ hath opened Paradise. Soar we now where Christ hath led. Following our exalted Head; Made like Him. like Him to rise; Our* the cross, the grave, the eklea. Charles Wee ley. ftnly these foreigner* whose presence Is absolutely required In Germany will bo permitted to enter the country here after. made of the flimsiest crepe. It vu designed to protect delicately colored fabrics from the hot sun and also to give an unwonted effect of opening at both sldea The second surprise was the "snuf fle hat." a coneshaped .affair, the eon cave brim of which comes down so far that the wearer must throw back her head to see straight ahead. It gives the exact effect of an old fash ioned night cap, but Is made of varl gated straws. Then there was the "half and half* gown, launched by Madeleine et Mad eleine. It “consists of ,a long tailored Jacket buttoned In front, and when taken off, reveals a backless evening gown, thus permitting the fair wear ers to go from dinner straight to th* races. China la reported rapidly turning from agriculture to manufacturing because Russians are now too poor to buy tea and England is getting most of her tea from Ceylon. Another development to ponder over for those who consider Isolation by legislative action possible. Did anyone ever hear of a tax one* levied being repealed, or of a tax which started eut moderately that wasn't eventually Increased? th* Kansas City Times wants to know. Someone with unlimited time for research should tackle that on*. They might find gp* instance.