FIRST AERIAL MAIL SERVICE IN ENGLAND
fPECE-l VJHG ThE- VAIL e>AGci
T -1S photograph show# Ar'.ator Hamr! at Hendon, near London, England, In the act of receiving on board
Ma monoplane mail bags from two pcstoffice employees. This winged mail has caught on immensely with
-■e Londoner* and «uborbar i'.e*. the resources of the service being taxed to the utmost to convey the thou
sand# of postal cards and letters en’ rusted to it
ANXIOUS TO LEARN
Oemand for Good Teachers
Greater Than Ever Before.
Reopening of School* Show* That De
ar* for Knowledge Has Kept Bet
ter Then Abreast of Growth
in Population.
New York—“The schools of the
country are opening this month and j
wtth as increased attendance which
.bows that the American thirst for
udacaticm has kept ahead of the <
crowth in population.* This was said '
by a manager of the largest teachers' j
agency hi the country, who from the
nat«r* of his work is In touch with the
-ducat looal situation all over the ‘
••entry Incidentally, be added that .
sood times were ahead tor the mem
ber* of tbe teaching profession.
The last school census showed th^ •
ware enrolled in the tajidas
nstttatioas of tbe counoY While nc
Scwres for the present year are cb
taiaw, tt. id vd.6t.au-d that common
school* alone have at least IS 000.000
puptis
Moid of the public acbccls in the
worth and east open soon alter Labor
day The receptions are some schools
tw northern New England, where, ow- i
tag to the hard winters and the diffi
-Tillies of transportation, sessions are
belts only in the spring and autumn.
It. 'he far south the beat delays
school openings and in some districts
pupils do no* return until November
The latest institutions to begin tbe
year s sort are some at the southern
T- -•'« echoed*, which depend mainly
‘•pea teacher* from the north. Ses
r-otsa there a-r postponed until late in
the fall, ao that ibe northern teachers
tra* wot be subjected to tbe unaccus- j
Corned ci’.mate.
Moat of the colleges and universities
will have begun work by tbe flrst of
•ictober As a rule the state univervl
• -a and normal schoo's start earlier
fcaa the universities privately en
**owed and have longer terms
At the teachers' agencies here it Is
said that the demand for more and
| better teachers is accompanied by in
creases in the cost of tuition. This
J '•* especially true of the private j
schools. especially the boarding !
, schools. ,
"Two or three years ago.” said one !
teachers' agency manager, "a boy ;
could be sent to a very good boarding i
school for *200 or *600 a year. Now
the average charge at such institu
tions is $700 or $S00.
' The colleges that charge tuition of
course do not depend upon these fees
for support; nevertheless many of j
them have raised their tuition !
charges on an average of $25 a year.
The private boarding school business
must be profitable, f<*y the number of j
establishments is increasing.
“This, of course, is good for our j
business, for it quickens the demand
ler teachers and raises salaries The
only educational institutions that are
dec-lining are the old-fashioned day
seminaries. The free state schools are
fast driving them out.”
Remarkable Nest of Wasps.
Liverpool.—A remarkable nest of
wasps has been discovered on the '
Bedfordshire estate of Lord Ampthill.
where a man. using three wire wasp
traps has caught over 4.000 wasps.
The nest consisted of six tiers. !
which stood six and a half inches
high, and measured eight and a half j
inches across. -
The ceils contained grubs and '
young wasps in different stages of j
growth. An elm tree near by was j
covered with wasps In clusters vary- !
ing in size from that of walnut to that
of a tennis ball.
Mule Scalps Boy.
Ixruisville, Kv. — Eleven-year-old i
Charles Polk, playing in the garden ]
of his father's home at Jefferson, got '
too close to the steel-shod family mule.
Today his scalp was sewed on. Fif- ‘
teen stitcaes were necessary to hold i
the warlock In place
CRINOLINE IS BIG FAILURE
Idea Is Seamed by London Leaders ol
Fashion—Narrow Skirts Form
Keynote for Season.
London.—The attempt by a Bond
street modiste to introduce a modified
form of crinoline skirt among t&e
fashions for the fail has been a fail
ure. Tbe Idea nas been even more
laughed at than was the model whe
ventured out on the West end streets
to test public opinion on such a skirt.
Designers of women's modes now ad
mit that crinoline or any form of un
naturally expanded skirt is dead.
As a matter of fact, narrow skirts
will form the keynote of fashions
here for the fail and winter. The de
signers say they are only Just begin
Ding to recognize the possibilities ol
displaying the beauties of tbe female
figure by tight dresses, and they now
will depend on the beauty Of form
father than as hitherto on tfce charm
of artistic drapery.
London is also learning at list
something from New York, and much
brighter colors will be work No one
col^r will nold predominant sway the
coming season. Royal purple l» dis
appearing. and Its place is the marked
feature of women’s drees a 111 be
taken by vivid colors.
Tbe leading materials 2b be usee
will te rich velvet, with costly em
broidery embellishments and fur trim
mings. Fashionable dresses will be In
every way the most expensive evei
yet devised.
Complete banishment has been de
clared against the vogne or black, but
black aud white will bold its own. es
pecially later In the season. Somei
modistes are productr g exquisite mod
els of this style.
Woman Builds House Unassisted.
Wakefield, Mass. — Although she
never drove a nail until three months
ago. Miss Henrietta Boyes has just
completed the building of a bungalow
unassisted. The building has five
rooms and bath, hardwood floors
throughout and all modern improve
ments. While engaged in the heavy
carpenter work Miss Boyes donned
overalls and jumper.
French Cigars Are Costly!
Traveler is Urable to Take Alcr.g
Supply Because Duty Is High
Customs Officers Alert.
N»» Tort—“The cigars you buy in j
France are notorious." said a smoker
recently oho baa lately come back
from Europe, "and k is realty Impos
sible to get a decent cigar at retail
at anything like a fair price I knew
ad three places la Paris where you
can get good cigars by the box. one.
which for many years was under the
Grand hotel and is now across the
houlerard Iran It: another ‘.a the
Hue Ste Honor*. Bear the bottom of
the Awraae de IDJer*. and the other
tn 'he Champa Eiysees. a little below
the Elysoe Palace hotel
‘ When I started for Paris from Lon
don I had forty cigars In a box which
had cost me Inst tZ I bad bought
them tn London, thinking that as la
the past I would be allowed to take
forty clears In at Boulogne free of
do'y Aa American a bo live* In
London told me tn the channel boat
'
that a new law prohibited the admis
sion of more than ten free of duty.
"But." he added, ‘the duty is so small
that you need not be alarmed.'
"'Sow, long experience has taught
me that the moment you declare any
thing to a French customs officer you
lay yourself open to trouble. If you
tell him you have anything dutiable
be is very apt to make a thorough
search. 1 remember that once 1
bought a box of twenty-five cigars at
Baden Baden and declared them when
I reacted French Aginccurt, with the
result that not only did the customs
man go minutely through all my hand
luggage, but actually seart ed my
pockets.
"However, at Calais I declared my
forty cigars and banded them to the
'douanier.' at the same time remind
ing him that ten cigars were exempt.
He immediately demanded to see
the cigars and carried them off In
triumph to the bead official. Tnen
| i-e came back end probed my valises.
“Well, they soaked me *2.37 duty
on the thirty cigars, which was ac
tually more than tney had cost me.
When 1 reached Paris and the officers
asked me if there was anything duti
able in my trunk i said. No.1 and it
was not opened.
“The next day I was passing the
cigar shop opposite the Grand hotel
and was surprised by the cheapness
of cigars that were exposed In the
show windows. I v*enf in. filled with
remorse that I had even condemned
the French method of celling cigars,
and found that the cigars in the win
dows were in a sense a hoax.* The
retail price was quoted, but you could
not buy at that price unless you took
a box.**
Eggs Laid for 1,900 Miles.
Middletown. Conn.. Mr. and Mrs. C.
W. Kirkham. Jr., and their four chil
dren have just arrived here by wagon,
completing a trip of 1,900 miles from
Staples. Minn., which they left on June
28. Seventeen Minnesota chickens,
carried in a small coop under the
wagon, were haie and hearty, having
laid their usual average of eggs all
the way.
ELOPERS GET BIG SURPRISE
Parrots of St. Louis Couple Alters
Marriage Ceremony and Give
Thom Wedding Party.
St Loots. Mo — Martin E Esse!
bora twenty years old. a sculptor,
and Mis* Edith P Pi orb man. seven
»or% years old. were sweethearts for
the !as» year and a half, with the
fat! knowledge and consent of their
parent*, who had been neighbor* and
friemds far several years, and while
nothing had haea said oa the subject.
Bat. Mlrved by a spirit of romance.
> of several of their friends
Mrrtad recently,
of to Clayton, a
'I.'" £<#' '
'he girl one month of being of legal
age to marry. The clerk advised them
to wait until spring.
The couple returned home, but In
stead of surprising their parents, as
they expected to. mere themselves
surprised Their parents had been
tipped off by the marriage license
clerk, and without waiting for ex
planations the elders accompanied the
eiopeis to the city hall, where they
formally gave their consent to the
union and the coveted license was is
sued.
Frederick Esselbora. father of the
bridegroom, and Eugene Plochman.
father of the girl, hurried them to
Justice Chsuncey Kreuger’s office,
where the young couple were given
another surprise, by finding their kin
dred assembled for the marriage cere
justice Krueger hatted In the midst
of a suit, left the bench and per
formed the ceremony, after which the
Widal party went to the Esselbora
home, where a wedding dinner, which
nad been prepared in baste by the
bride's mother, awaited them.
Wedding presents hastily bought
were brought in by neighbors and
friends who had been notified by tele
phone of the wedding, and the would
be elopers, who had planned to sur
prise everybody, were kept busy be
ing surprised by everybody else up
to midnight, when they departed To
ths home or the bride's parents,
where they will reside until they car
mature plans for a home of their own.
King to Have Irish Home.
Dublin.—It is rumored that the
king intends to purchase a royal resi
dence in Ireland and that in future
the court will move to Ireland once
a year with the same regularity that
it now goes to Scotland! The king's
mansion will have to be near the cap
ital. aa. before all things, the rteyal
annual visit will be for the advance
ment of tilings social aad industrial
In the Melon Patch? P*i“tla* Xam>*
Critic — But where are the mai*
oaa?
Artist—What a foolish question!
BIG WORLD’S SERIES
Expected to Be Most Strenuous
in Baseball History.
Splendid Contests in Both Leagues
Awaken Keen Interest—Athletics
Almost Sure to Represent
American League.
One prediction can be saTely ven
tured at this time, and that is the
world’s series of 1911 will surpass in
interest any ever played previously,
no matter which teams win the pen
nant in the American and National
leagues. The terrific tights in both
baseball organizations tor the cham
pionship have keyed the "fans” up to
a sixty-horse power pitch of excite
ment and the series of games for the
world's title is bound to reap tne ben
efits.
At present It looks like a 50 to 1
bet that Connie Mack's Athletics will
represent the American league in the
battle. Who will represent the Na
tional league Is a mooted question,
and the man who would pick the win
ner of the pennant tn the senior or
ganization would be gambling with
fate. But, granting that the Mackmen
are pretty sure winners, let’s look the
field over.
Chicago last year met the Athletics j
fn the world's series a 3-to-2 favorite
In many circles. The men who fought
for Connie Mack made the Cubs look
bad, winning four of five games
played. It was a surprise and a shock
to Chicagoans. But they have not for
gotten. Nor have they been convinced
that the machine of Frank Chance’s
| building was working smoothly.
And if New York should be the op
ponent of the Athletics. Gracioua!
Philadelphians have not forgotten the
drubbing "Muggsy" McGraw's Giants
handed th? Mackmen in 1905. They
want revel'ge. In fact, many "fans”
are hoping New York will be the Na
tional league contender so that Connie
Mack and his crew can get back at
the Giants. The short ride between
the two cities would also be a factor
In making the series a wonderful suc
cess.
RUNTS AMONG LEAGUE STARS
i _
Many Lending Players Today Are
Short Ik Stature—More Midgets
Than Ever.
"Give the little boys a chance."
Can we ever forget that email
poem of oar Fourth Reader days. Ap
ply it to taseball and think of the
heart pangs of the little fellows of
by-gone days who were turned away
by the big league managers with the
statement: "You're all right, but too
i
Manager Bobby Wallace.
small to make good in fast company.”
Times innumerable has that remark
blasted the hopes of some promising
player who was given the cold shoul
der because he did not weigh so-and
so or was not of such-and-such a
height.
The scene seems to be changing,
however. The season of 1911 saw
more midgets performing in the big
leagues than ever before. And they
were not the weak members of the
teams with which they played. On
the contr-axy. some of thani were the
stars of their clubs.
In almof every position on the dla
j mond the little fellows were repre
I sented t>y some star. Some of them
are;
Outfield—Josh Devore. New York
Giants; Birdie Cree. New York
Yankees; Tommy Leach. Pittsburg.
Second base -Miller Huggins. Car
dinals; Knnbe Philadelphia Nation
als.
• Shortstop—Manager Oobbv Wal
lace. St. Louis Americins; Hauser.
Cardinals; Oeen Bush. Detroit.
Third base—Bobby Byrne. Pitts
burgh Pirate?'; Elberfeid. Washing
ton.
Pitcher- Jack Warbop. New York
Yankees.
Catcher—Jimmy Stephens. St. Louis
Americans.
Every one of these is a bona fide
midget star.
Bustling Busy Browns.
Mc.rdecai Brown of the Cubs and
"Butter" Brown of the Rustlers will
have to go seme next season to hold
their honors as the leading Brown cur
Tent in the fast set. President Bob
Hedges of the St. Louis Browns has
picked up two Browns for trials next
spring, n "Lefty" Brown and n
“Righty” Brown. The southpaw va
riety halls from Brriington of the Cen
tral association and appears to be the
original "Strike-Out Kid." Among his
recent feats are two sixteen strike-out
games in two days, while he also has
an eighteen and a nineteen strike-out
game to his credit. "Righty" Brown
is pitching for Akroa. O.. and has wan
twenty out of twenty-four games to
data.
POSITIONS OF HARD HITTERS AT PLATE
Birdie Cree of New York Highlanders.
Many good batters keep their feet
close together, but Birdie Cree. one of
the best, keeps his wide apart. He
faces the pitcher with body as wel| as
head, his feet, one in front of the
other, both pointing out toward the
diamond. Apparently he carries the j
weight on the forward foot and bats
off of one leg. He makes a flagpole .
out of the bat and waves it. grasping
it at the end. He gets his whole
weight in his blows, but without being
a body swinger. Body, legs and arms
all play their part effectively, though
not gracefully, co-ordinated.
Wagner’s “form” varies according
to his mood. Usually the great Dutch
man stands with his feet well apart,
but he ran hit from any position and
sometimes changes. His body is in
his swing and his arms more so. Some
times he swings so hard he ail but
falls down If he doesn't land, and
sometimes he takes a slow swing. He
is a batting genius w ho can afford to
disregard canons about the ball com
ing over the plate and occasionally of- ,
I fers at balls over his head or across
the plate from him. On a hit and run
play he and Chase have been known
to lunge across the plate and clout a
rear wild pitch safely past the in
field.
Another star hitter, Eddie Collins, is
loose and shambling at the plate. His
movements, however, are under per
fect control. He hasn't The quiet
poise of the more statuesque Lajoie,
and his bat is held in various posi
tions. though he doesn't wriggle it as
do some batters. Wherever held, he
brings it into use with the swiftest
of motions when ready to hit. He is
absolutely unconstrained at the bat,
the picture of unconcern, but for all
that alertly confident. Though com
paratively small, be, like Byrne of the
Pirates, hits the ball almighty hard.
Ponderous or agile, awkward or
graceful, style and form are of as
much variance among the best batters
as there are batters. One thing they
have in common, the discriminating
eye.
Mentioning recent “comebacks"—
what's the matter with George Mul
lin?
Double-headers seem to mean uni
formly two games won for the Ath
letics.
Quinn, a young catcher from Man
chester. Mass., has reported to the
Phillies.
Whenever Waiter Johnson isn’t
pitching the Senators to victory, he’s
winning games for them by his pinch
hitting.
The White Sox have sent Catcher
Cooper to Dubuque. First Baseman
Jack Beatty of the Dubuque team has
been bought by the Sox.
Pitcher Swindell of the Naps, who
balls from the Winston-Salem team,
has the strikeout record of his league
—the Carolina association.
Rube Oldrlng. in the Athletic-Bos
ton double-header of September 6.
made eight hits in ten times up. five
in the first game in five times at bat.
The Cincinnati Reds have no cham
pionship games on October 2. 3. 4. 5
and 6. and will make a trip through
Kentucky if satisfactory dates can
be arranged.
Out of all the criticism of Philadel
phia's apparent efforts to help Chi
cago. the Curtis-Rowan trade seems
to be one in which the Phillies really
got something.
Lewis Simmons, who was killed by
a motor truck at Reading. Pa., re
cently, was years ago. manager of the
old Athletics of Philadelphia. He
was seventy years of age.
The Western Canada league doses
with Moose Jaw a winner and Cal
gary second. Edmonton third and Sas
katoon fourth. Bill Harley managed
Moose Jaw and Matt Stanley Cal
gary.
Horace Fogel ts in the limelight
again. In connection with his talk of
putting Earl Moore on the market.
FVed Clarke toM him he couldn't trade
Moore without the consent of Charley
Morphy. Jot fbr that Horace Is go
ing to have Clarke np before the Na
Rube Waddell's strikeout record will
go shattered If Marquard can keep on
at his present gait
Detroit has signed a Providence lad
named Emmett Crotty, who has
played good ball for Dean academy.
Lonergan is said to be fielding bril
liantly for Boston, but he fails to
cover second on force plays in a way
a player should.
The Phillies now have but one first
baseman, and if Luderus were injured j
they would be In a hole. But the
Cubs had to have help.
Lee Hart an infielder sold by the
Pulton Kitty league team to the Phil- i
adelphia Nationals, makes the fourth i
Kitty leaguer to go to the Phillies.
Centralia wins the Washington j
State league pennant Centralia has
won every series, taking 17 out of the '
IS games with the South Bend team.
The National commission in the
case of Player David Rowan, sustain
ed his claim for salary from the Pe
oria club of the Three I league from
June 20 to July 19.
“Win or lose. I've got a team that
is doing the best it can." said John J.
McGraw. "They’re out there trying,
and if they succeed they are better
pleased than their friends.”
Pitcher Ed Stack may be wiM at
times, but the opposing side find his
delivery anything but easy to hit. The
Phillies might have worked him soon
er to their own advantage.
It is rather amusing to read in the
Baltimore papers that Connie Mack
paid Jack Dunn $7,000 for Catcher
y.g»n when the fact of the matter is,
that Mack loaned Egan to Baltimore
under an agreement which gave him
'the privilege to recall him.
Lew Richie, the joke of baseball
for several years, is now the pennant
hope of the Cobs. Richie has twirled
wonderful hall this season, and if
Manager Chance and several of the
other members of the dub are to be
believed. "Lurid Lew" should not
have been beaten but one game all
season, had his support not failed him
tn a pinch.
SOME BREAD RECIPES
FOODS MORE OR LESS OUT OF
THE ORDINARY.
Raised Tea Biscuits Will Be Appreci
ated—For Boston Brown Bread_
Popovers a Delicacy That Is
Popular With All.
Raised Tea Biscuits.—Ingredients
one cupful of scalded milk, onefourtb
cupful of butter, three yeast cakes
.one tablespoonful of sugar, one-half
teaspoonful of salt, white of one egg,
and four cupfuls of flour.
Make a nice sponge, letting it stand
in a warm place in a pan placed in
warm water; then add the flour, knead
it for twenty minutes, and divide inu
biscuit-sized pieces. Let these rise
in the baking pan until twice the first
size, and bake.
A single loaf of raised bread may
be made of the same ingredients ir,
this manner.
Boston Brown Bread.—Ingredients
two cupfuls of white cornmeal, twe
cupfuls of yellow meal, two cupfuls <>!
graham flour, one cupful of molasses
ane cupful of sour milk and one ol
sweet milk, two cupfuls of boiling wa
ter, salt to taste and one teaspoonfm
of soda.
Mix the two meals, the flour anu
the salt well together; atm the boiling
water. Put the sweet milk and me
lasses together and add them to first
things. Then dissolve the soda in the
1 sour milk and put these in. Put the
mixture into a round covered tin buck
et and steam It for three hours; un
j cover and bake in the ovep for hall
1 an hour. This bread may be eaten
| hot or cold and be toasted when
I stale. In New England baked beans
go with it.
Pulled Bread.—Take a perfectly
fresh loaf of baker's French bread
: Break off irregular pieces of the
spongy Inside and dry them in a very
slow oven until a delicate brown
These must be reheated in the oven
when served, a!.d the "pull” is good
with chocolate, coffee, tea or boullion
The inside of fresh homemade bis
cuits left over from a meal may be
treated in the same way, and the
crusts or them toasted and kept for
i shells for creamed dishes.
Popovers.—Ingredients two cupfuls
i of milk, two cupfuls of flour, two egg?
j (whites and yolks beaten separately.)
i salt to taste.
Mix salt and flour well together,
j Put the beaten yolks with the milk
; and then add them slowly to the flour,
making a smooth batter. Then turr
in the whipped whites, folding these
gently into the mixture. Put the bat
ter immediately into hot greased pans
half filling them, and bake in hot oven
for thirty minutes. As popovers fal!
when cold they must be eaten as soot
as baked.
Raised Cornbread.—Ingredients one
i cupful of fine sifted cornmeal. one and
a half cupfuls of milk, two eggs, one
tablespoonfdl of butter, one teaspoon
ful of baking^sowder, one teaspoonfu!
! of sugar, salt.
Scald the milk and pour it over the
meal. Let co^J and then add the but
| ter (melted), halt, sugar, baking pon
der and yolks of eggs. Stir all togeth
■ er quickly and thoroughly; and tber
fold in the whites of the eggs beater
to a stiff froth. Bake in a flat pan it
a hot oven for thirty minutes.
American Marmalade.
One each orange, lemon, grapefruit
and two very small apples (green
ings); shave very thin, in small
I pieces, rejecting seeds and cores;
use all peel and pulp; peel the ap
pies, measure; add three times the
amount of water and let stand in a
granite pan over night; in the morn
ing boil for ten minutes; let stand
mother night, then add an equal
amount of sugar (cup for cup) and
! boil until it jellies; stir as little as
• possible and don't cook too fast. Pour
into jelly glasses and when cool cover
with paraffin and seal. It will be a
beautiful amber color.
Marshmallow Fudge.
Put two cups granulated sugar anu
one cup cream or rich milk in t
saucepan and heat. ' Add two square;
chocolate, grated, and boll until H
hardens when dropped In cold water
When nearly done add a level tea
spoon butter, little by little, and t
half pound marshmallows, crushing
and stirring with a spoon. Add the
last of the marshmallows after the
fudge Is taken from the fire. Pout
into buttered pans and when nearl>
cold cut Into cubes.
Canape Careme.
A fanciful concoction is "canape
Careme.” which calls for the chopper
meat of half a small lobster, a truf
fie and two tiny pickles. Dredge then
with pepper and salt and mix all witt
two tablespoonfuls of mayonnaise „
dressing. Spread the mixture ovei
round pieces of toast about two incbei
In diameter and decorate the centei
of each canape with half a teaspoon
ful of caviare.
Chili Sauce. Made Without Spices.
Here Is a recipe (or chill sauce with
oo spices which has been in my fam
Uy for years, and pronounced fine by
all who eat it It makes about foul
quarts, or eight pints: 24 large rip«
tomatoes, three green peppers, sli
medium sized onions. Chop as fln«
as desired and add ten tablespooni
sugar, two cups strong vinegar anc
salt to taste. Cook together until thlcl
as desired-—Boston Globe.
Bran for Matting.
Instead of salt water some house
wives use bran for cleaning matting
A bag of cheesecloth is filled with
bran; this is moistened from time tc
time and the matting scrubbed with
it After the bran wash the mat
ting is wiped off with a fresh cloth
dipped In salt water.
A Garden Hint
To Keep the bugs and insects which
infeet your trees from killing the bios
soma ot* leaves, wrap a piece of cotton
around the center of the body, and
cover the cotton with a piece of fly
paper This is invaluable. Try It
Use sorky side out
t d