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'Augnxt 23, V3CX
Making a Living
HK NATURAL, ingenuity of 1he
feminine mind has In the pant I ad
small outlet beyond tlie building
of wonderful hats and gowns
from the scrapbag contents, con-
Cooling appetizing meals from scanty cup
boards or piecing out the household fur
nishings with various home made make
shifts. Now, however, this some Ingenuity
la cropping out In woman's business life.
Unlike the average man, who Is knocked
out If ho can't get his particular wedge
Into the business world, the clever woman
tries the various wedges at hand until she
makes one fit. The artist who finds the
ducats coming In too slowly from her
works of art, tries her hand at artistic
photography, -designing ads or teaching art
classes In the schools. The musician who
falls to get pupils or engagements turns
to stenography, the would-be doctor makes
biology serve her and tho trained nurse
Whose strength proves inadequate to her
calling, lectures on hygiene or gives In
struction In domestic science.
An Interesting caso In point, related by
the Brooklyn Eagle, Is that of two New
Tork women who withdrew from the social
world to form a partnership and engage
In business as florists and decorators. While
this line ot work proved by no means a
failure, It occurred to the Arm to add to
their Income by utilizing space at the back
of the shop as a lunch and tea room. The
result Justified the most sanguine expecta
tions. The combination of greenery and
lurch proved particularly happy, giving a
suggestion of al fresco dining. Tho front
room with Its potted plunts, palms and
(lowers makes an Inviting entrance to the
lunch room at the back. Here, too, na
ture is much in evidence In the shape of
palms and flowers. Potted plunts decorate
the window sills, tall palms the sides of
the room and bouquets of cut flowers the
tables. The effect of greenery Is helped
out by a ceiling decoration of radiating
feathery palm branches.
This Is the sea sou when the young woman
of musical talent frequently finds unex
pected and profitable opportunities for the
display of her ability. A couple of years
ago s pianist In a Long Island town gavo
muslo lessons during the summer to the
children of a city woman who was spending
tho warm months In the town. Tho next
season the city woman took quarters early
In the season at a new hotel In an hd
Jolning town,- and, remembering her chil
dren's music teacher of the previous year,
Induced the proprietor to engage the young
girl to play for dancing every evening.
The arrangement proved satisfactory, and
In addition to her hotel engagement she
secured several piano pupils among the
little folks of the hotel, engaging a room
nearby In which to give lessons and super
intend her pupils' practicing.
Another young pianist in a Long Island
town made a nlco Income last season by
acting as accompanist for a Manhattan
singing teacher who opened a small school
In her native town during hla summer stay
In the vicinity. Theso are but a couple
of Instances of success ot this kind.
Taking up the case of a city bred young
woman who has recently achieved success
In a musical line, It la Interesting to note
the way In which she built up her business.
Left a widow, she turned hesitatingly to
music as a possible means of support for
herself and her young children. Bhe had
only a moderate amount of talent and
. knowledge of music and was "rusty." Bhe
studied hard for a season with a good
teacher and then set about obtaining pupils.
Incidentally she discovered that she was
a success as on accompanist and now her
principal work Is accompanying. Bhe lives
In a large city and Is recognised as the
best woman accompanist In her locality,
a number of well known church and con
cert singers being counted among her
patrons and pupils.
Sea's Rottoni is Falling
Scientists tell us that, counting from the
sea lever, the lowest body of water on the
globe Is the Caspian sen. For centuries Its
surface has been gradually settling, down
until now It la ciahty-flve feet tower than
that of Its near neighbor, the Black sea.
which also lies far below the level of the
oceans. Tho common conclusion all along
bas been that the Caspian was .. simply
losing Its waters by evaporation, but re
cent investigation shows that this Is not
the case Soundings made and compared
with records of soundings made over 100
years ago reveal the astounding fact that
there is even a greater depth of water now
than then. This leaves but one hypothesis
that would seem at all tenable that the
bottom of the sea Is actually sinking.
A Revolution in Nature
The structure of matter has been a fa
vorite subject of speculation ever since
the days of Lucretius, and It la little won
der that any clue, however small, to this
costnio mystery Is eagerly clutched at.
Thus it huppens that there has recently
been built up about the really remarkable
phenomena of radium and Its allies a new
hypothesis, sufficiently startling In Itself,
and exploited in terms so striking as to
arouse even the Jaded attention of the
Bewspaper-readlng public. It Is somewhat
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JOHN 8TEINKR, SHERIFF OF DU
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ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE
INTERSTATE SHERIFFS' ASSOCIA
TION. difficult to formulate the doctrines which
Sir William Crookes and Sir Oliver Lodge
are irumulgatlng, for they arc, so far,
rather nebulous, partly from luck of data,
partly from their intricate speculative
character.
In a general way, the new hypothesis im
plies the breaking up of what had previ
ously been regarded as tho ultimate pur
tlcles of matter Into electrons, so-called,
and also further suggests that this break
ing up Is spontaneous and continuous with
recombination of the electrons into other -forms
as a natural sequence. We are thus
confronted by the Idea ot what we know
as matter being In perpetual change, dis
solving into electrons and reforming Itself
into matter ceusclessly,' and In cycles long
as geological time In some instances,
shorter than human history In others. Un
til the rise of this Interesting speculation
the generally received unit of matter was
the so-called atom,' ths minutest uniform
subdivision of on element which Is capable .
of preserving Its Identity In spite of all -chemical
and physical changes. Now this !
atom. Lodge and his followers hold, can
be crumbled Into electrically charged dust,
as you would crumble a bit of dry earth
between your fingers, and, indeed, is con
tinually sifting away, perchance to gather
elsewhere Into another kind of atomic lump.
Each so-called atom, then. Is made up of
some hundreds, or thousands, of electrons,
always the same average number, for the
average atom of any kind, but with
a perpetual tendeijcy of olectrons to drift
away from the atoms somewhat, as the
particles ws smell evaporate from a piece
of camphor. In the case of radium, tho elec
trons are supposed to stream away po fast
that the oldi-st radium must have beou
spontaneously formed within a few thou
sand years. As to the relation of the
electrons In the atom, opinion seems to
favor a definite structure of some ktn-1
with appearances In favor of orbital move
ments, so that the atom may be looked
upon as a michocosm of the solar system,
or perhaps of Saturn's rings, described by
Maxwell as a "flight of brickbats." And.
finally, there Is a strong disposition to ro
ll. FRANK TROMBO, SHERD7F OF
OTTAWA COUNTY. ILLINOIS
PERMANENT SECRETARY-TREASURER
OF INTERSTATE SHERIFFS'
ASSOCIATION.
gard the electrons as
themselves rlmply parti
cles of electricity, what
ever that may mean.
Such aro the principal
tenets of the new faith of
which Crooks and Lodge
are high priests. It is, to
put it mildly, somowhat
sensational to think of
atoms built up of whirling
particles of electricity and
perpetually undergoing de
struction and reorganiza
tion, the old elements dis
solving and forming new
ones, unstable to the end of
time. Some - recent addi
tions to the creed are even
more startling. . For in
stance, since radium keeps
its temperature above its
surroundings. It can' be)
computed on the electron
hypothesis that enormous
energy must be stored in
the radium atom and
spontaneously given off.
The amount demanded la
over 100-horse power hours
per grain. At this rate a
fast liner could cross ths
Atlantic on the energy
stored In four pounds . ot
radium,' could its output
be controlled, one pound ot
radium being capable ot
doing 1.152,000 times the
work of one pound ot coal.
The present status of
tl'.ese doctrines Is, how
eve, very far from general nccrptatton,
and mot conservative physicists regard
them f3 not yet constituting even a well
defined working hypothesis, but rather cs
a brilliant and daring speculation which
may lead to important discoveries, but at
present rests on a very slender foundation
of ascertained fact. Louis Bell In Har
per's Weakl). ,
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JULIUS MEYER, NEWLY ELECTED
PRESIDENT OMAHA METROPO
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NENT MERCHANT OF OMAHA.
Men for Ministers
Statistics of the Northern Presbyterian
church show that ordinations of men for
the ministry have fallen from 230 in 1898 te
1st last year. Tho money with which t
engage and support men, and fields la
wliich they may work, far excds ths sujb
ply of men, ,
