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6 B THE 6MAHA SUNDAY BEE: 'JUNE -22, 1919. The Omaha Bee DAILY (MORNING) EVENING SUNDAY i FOUNBED BY EDWARD ROSEWA1ER VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROPRIETOR MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tlw Asam-iated I'tn), uf allien The Boa Is a member. It ei dull rinltltHl to II, fur Hihllralinn of all news diaiatrhtse ireililnl lu it r not. utlirraiM! rrwl.titl in tlin nair. 1 also Hie lord nun published l.errin. All rights of oublicltloa of our l ctal dlaratrlira are also reaened. BEE TELEPHONES: I'rlrate Bran.h Iirhansf. Auk for tha Tvloi 1 DOH Department or Tartuular I'erjon Warned. a JTlCl X JJJ For Night or Sunday Service Call: Kditnrlal teiartiiieut I'lrculalioii l-rtrneiit AUtertlstnu Iiet4rtnifiit Tyler 10001. Tjler IlKWl Tyler IWL OFFICES OF THE BEE: l"tb and Karnaul. Home Olfli. Hw liuMinj Itrunili .inVi-a' Aniea l North !M!h , Par lii-awn i r 1 1 4 Milltaiy Ave. South Side fount1) HiufTa J4 N. Main Vinton Uk. 2M North 24th I Walnut Out-of-Town tOfficea: New York City Cl'i Wftli Ate j Ya.ilnncton l iilt'fci H.4ii-r Hiilg Lincoln 2615 Lealenwnrth :1D s timet 2ii)7 South lutn flu North 40th mi U Street 1S30 H Street APRIL CIRCULATION Daily 65,830 Sunday 63,444 Average t ut ulatmi, tor Mitt month aubfcorlbed tttld sworn to b U. H- Kaan. ntu'mit'll Manajier. Subacribera leaving tha city should have Tha Bee mailed ta them. , Address changed aa often aa requested Wlicrt in (louiit. ask a policeman if lie's seen Kelly. Signing up avoided. mes harr!, but it can't be 1 NO EXCUSE FOR A GENERAL STRIKE. It is difficult to see how the threat made by the committee of the Central Labor Union wait ing upon the mayor that they will involve Omaha in a general strike if settlement of the ' demands of the teamsters are jiot satisfactorily settled within a specified time limit can be countenanced, much less supported, by the steady sober-minded wage workers of this city.' No such committee has authority to order all the unions to strike or to vote on the ques tion of striking. But if it did have the author ity there is no condition here to warrant the other unions making the demands of the team sters their own. The great body of Omaha wage workers have no special grievances they cannot adjust with their employers and they have every in i terestsof themselves and their families to sub- serve by keeping business and industry regu i larly going and maintaining uninterrupted eni j ployment. The rank and file of organized labor j in Omaha has usually been level-headed and re I fused to be stampeded even when a few of their leaders lose their heads. We feel sure these men will show that they think and act for themselves should any attempt be made to carry out this unralled-for and ill-advised gen eral strike threat. Yes, but what posy did Kink Albert throw Woodiow? Revised version for autoists: Better go slow than be sorrv. S Villa, at any rate, has proved himself a good "flight captain." If our police can't find Kelly, they'll have to hunt for another goat. The 'it's" have it in Germany now, to say nothing of other countries. : Maybe the Vatican controls the League of Nations, but more likely the Vatican't. iA British airplane flew over Berlin. But it was the Germans who were "up in the air." i The Kansas wheat lipids are again. crying for harvest hands. No excuse for the jobless. The Huns complain that this is their "dark est hour." And just when the days are longest, too. In the language of the American Federation of Labor, Burleson is "a misfit." Gently put, but forceful. Those referendum autograph collectors will have to speed up, as time will be called in'less than four weeks. "Mexico Spurns League." Never, says Gen eral Aguilar, will she consent to join it. "No body asked you, sir, she said." " 'tobks as if the district court had "passed the buck" to the supreme court in deciding the validity of the foreign language law. "Cast your bread upon the waters; and it shall return to you after many days." The Bee's 'Free Milk and Ice Fund offers an opportunity to do this. ' Have the Germans, in the fall of the Ebert Sche'idemann government, merely "retired to posifRns previously prepared," as they used to say in the dear old days? You have to go away from home to hear .. the news. An eastern publication tells us that 'Governor McKelvie, of Nebraska owns and operates the largest farm in the state. . The president congratulated King Albert on being democratic. But he probably didn't get so familiar as to slap him two or three times on the shoulder and sav, "You know me, AM" If the Pennsylvania legislature passes that ''bill allowing tenants to appeal to the court when they believe their rents are raised un reasonably, there will be the busiest time the .courts have ever seen. Nebraska druggists have gone on record against the administrative code bill because they believe it fixes the fee for examination for druggists' licenses too high. That's a good reason for druggists. Red Cross Geneva Conference - At request of the Red Cross societies of the United States. France. Great Britain, Italy and Japan, an international conference of the Ked Cross organizations of the world has been called to meet at Geneva 30 days after the declaration of peace. The international com mittee has formulated plans for the considera tion of the conference which includes a world wide co-ordination of Red Cross activities in keeping with the spirit of the limes. The world's leading experts in public health, tuberculosis hygiene and sanitation and child welfare will be invited, so that all experience and all knowledge of peculiar and crying needs may be consid ered in the formulation of programs to be sub muted to the Red Cross society of each nation as helpful suggestions. The maintenance' of s permanent working organization at Geneva tr study and report conditions and experiences within the scope of the work of the societies, is another suggestion, j The commute says: "The conception inv-A-es not merely efforts to relieve human suffering but to prevent it; not alone the sufferings of one . people but an attempt to arouse all peoples to sense of their responsibility for the welfare of their fellow beings throughout the world. In brief, the f plan contemplates the formation of what will ' be. in effect, an association in the interest of all humanity. It is a program both - ideal and practical; ideal in that its supreme aim is humanity; practical in that it seeks means and -measures to meet the tragic crises which are daily recurrent in the live of all mankind." ' The Red Cross society is tenderly regarded around the world, not for the ideals it has preached or for-its "attempts to arouse their , fellow beings." but for the ideals that it has fracticed in meeting the great tragic crises, t is these practices that have made the Red Cross what it is and have brought support from all sorts and conditions of people, everywhere. There is a possibility only faint, perhaps that too much stress may be laid on the spreading of opinions instead of the extension of relief. It is a tendency that a large and successful "as sociation in the interest of all humanity" should carefully guard against St Louis Globe Democra . Is It To Be a Riot of Fashion? If coming events , cast their shadows before, this question, ' Is it to be a riot of fashion?" must be pertinent and timely. From Taris, acknowledged fountain-head of latest styles in dress, come warnings of "the audacity of fash- ion", now being perpetrated there. To quote from a reliable authority on woman's correct apparel, writing on the spot: Feminine Paris is dressing in its. finest feathers. Wherever one goes, the Bois, the theater, the races, the restaurants, or private parties, dress is in the height of fashion, and fashion is"" losing her head. No extravagance is too great for her, no indiscretion too dar ing. She vaunts her short skirts, her sleeve less dresses, her decollete bodices with 'a smile that has something reckless in it. She even bares her legs and scarcely covers her toes in shoes that look utterly absurd with toe-caps, ankle-straps, and heels that are three and four inches l(igh. Dresses are worn in the daytime, at public functions, which would have been censured by Queen Vic toria at court, and the apparel .of a ballet dancer is modest in comparison with the chemise dresses that depend for their fasten ing on one button on the shoulder, or on one hook at the waist, on a skirt that is slit from ankle to hip on both sides, or has a cross over open front. vDoes this uot indicate that the fashion pen dulum is beginning to swing to the opposite ex treme from where it pointed a little, while ago when everything was sombre and sad? War time brought out widows' weeds and patriotic self-sacrifice led to wearing made-over gar ments. The gay and the gaudy and the ornate gave way to the simple, unostentatious gowns and accompaniments. But the ending of war. 1 which has taken off restrictions upon foods and I amusements and motor cars and yachts nat ! urally opens the way to license in feminine j dress and the depleted supply of males stim j ulates keener competition to attract. M fashion, I is already "losing her head" in Paris, must if j not be only a forerunner of the fast approach i ing time when these fads and foibles will cross 1 the ocean and begin to display their vagaries I here? Continuous Ice Supply a Health Measure. The points made in the article in our Health Hint column today, discussing the ques tion of the daily ice supply in the summer time from the standpoint of, health and sanitation-, should be hammered down. The writer, who speaks with the knowledge of a trained medical man, emphasizes the absolute necessity in our climate of proper refrigeration of perishable foods every day of the week, including Sun days, and the clanger of ice-boxes of limited ca pacity running out and the foods stored in them having to be thrown away because spoiled, or if by chance eaten, producing sickness. - While in the winter time it may be, easy to tide over a day or two without a fresh supply of ice. in the heated season most households have to have their refrigerators replenished oftener than once in 48 hours, especially if they use any of the ice for other purposes. Keeping the refrigerator in ice on Sunday as well as other dgys in 'summer time, therefore, is above all a matter of health and sanitation, and a situation is presented by the interruption of service which the health department should take in hand as an emergency and refuse to let the city council experiment with through fool ordinances forbidding Sunday sale or delivery. Especially in Omaha, maintaining . a municipal ice plant, it would not be out pf order for the head of the' health department to insist on the city ice stations being open for business during, certain "hours on Sunday through the summer ' months so people may have, the necessary con 1 tinuqus supply of ice for household purposes. ' Where there's a will and some one to execute it, there's a way. The fact that the trans-Atlantic flight was 1 undertaken to pull down a $50,000 prize put up , by the London Mail served as a reminder that a Chicago newspaper once upon a time spent even more money than that to promote a bal loon expedition to the North Pole. The balloon venture failed because of adverse weather con ditions, but it is quite within the realm of prob , abilities that the airplane will do that job at a ' not distant -day. . Read the first chapter, of the new serial mys tery story, starting in today's issue of The Bee. and you will find it so interesting you will i 'want1 to follow it to the end. If you bought the book at the book sellers you would pay more for it alone than a six weeks' subscription to the paper. Views and Reviews ! Fifty Yeats for Two Great and Growing Universities Attention is drawn by the publication of a "Semi-centennial Anniversary Book" to the fact that, the University of Nebraska jfgnalized by its last "commencement" the completion of 50 years since its founding. The anniversary book, it is explained by Miss Louise Pound, who com piled and edited it, is made up of articles hastily prepared with some overlapping of material, but intended to give a fair reflex of the progress of the university during its first half-century period. As usual in such cases a great dea! more space is devoted to the beginnings and more emphasis placed upon the pioneers of the different activities than upon, what has come later. There is no dubt of course that our state university has grown far and away beyond the wildest dreams or fondest expectation of those who laid the foundations. The truth is, if we are frank enough to admit it; the university was scarcely more than a4iigh school or academy during the first 20 jxars of its existence, necessarily so because there was neither the student nor the faculty material to make possi ble anything more pretentious. From the early '90s, however, it began to come to itself and gradually to reach out and cover the field that properly belongs to higher education. Today it is again in a transition state through the process of rebuilding, which will doubtless be accompanied or followed by further re-organization and expansion. The University of Nebraska is young, even among American uni versities, and our state, although it has always taken great pride in its high rank for small illiteracy, will constantly set greater store upon education and special training for its future citizens. Home Health - Hints Reliable advice given in t-his column on prevention and cure of disease. Put your ques tion in plain language. Your nams will not be printed. Ask The Bee to Help You. The anniversary book includes personal sketches of past chancellors, beginning with Chancellor Benton, and going down a list of Fsirfield, Manatt, Canfield and Andrews, but has only incidental reference to Chancellor Mc Lean, and to the present head, Chancellor Avery. I take it that the sketches are inserted on the theory that they are a combination of eulogy and obituary, and that these two are left out because they are still alive, but they really belong to the first half-century as much as do the others. Dr. Canfield was 'chancellor when I first came in touch with the university, and a busy, bustling, pushing man he was. He was an organizer, but also, as I used to tell him, a sort of educational drummer. He went up anil down the state to let the people know what kind of an institution he was in charge of and what he was trying to do with" it and traveled so fast he got ahead of the chariot. He went from Ne braska to Ohio State university, and then to Columbia, where he served as librarian until he died. The next chancellor. George E. MacLean, had s been but briefly installed when I was ap pointed to a short term on the board of regents. Dr. MacLean was a polished gentleman of the old school, not so rough and ready as his predecessor, but smooth and diplomatic, in fact, I thought sometimes, too diplomatic in avoid ing responsibilities that he could conveniently get away from. He nevertheless unquestionably raised the educational standard of the teaching and made' a real contribution in divesting the university of some of its grammar grade and high school appendages. Chancellor MacLean was at last accounts living 'in retirement in Brooklyn. It is vvort(i noting that at the same time that the University of Nebraska was celebrating its semi-centennial, so likewise was Cornell univer sity, which is also a land grant institution that was started out just 50 years ago. Its founder, Ezra Cornell, as well as Sage, who was asso ciated with him, helped swell the fortune which helped to endow Cornell1 through the enterprise of building up the Pacific telegraph, in which tltey were engaged in conjunction with Edward Creighton, who, as we know, also made im portant bequests to promote higher education in the university founded as his memorial here in Omaha. Cornell is almost a state university for the state of New York, beautifully laid out on the plateau overlooking Cayuga lake, an ideal spot for such a school. If Cornell has reached the very highest rank in its 50 years much of the credit must be given the exceptional succession of men who have been at the direct ing helm, first Andrew D. White, then Charles Kendall Adams, who later went to Tie Univer sity of Wisconsin, and for the last half of the period, Jacob Gquld Schurman, who must now be one of the oldest, if not the oldest, in point of tenure, of our American university heads. Cornell has a large company of influential al umni hereabouts, who are rightfully proud of their alma mater. When Railroading Was Young As a historic addition to much present con versation about railroad management, somebody lias unearthed a list of instructions to conduc tors, trainmen, enginemen, and station masters in the days when American locomotives burned wood ana were going very fast indeed at twenty miles'an hour. Engineers were then forbidden to make up lost time. If the train got behind its schedule the order was to "let all the time of delay or detention be added to the running time." When a train was a full hour late the stationatnaster was directed to "start on horse back to learn the cause of the delay." The head brakeman in that day of hand brakes carried a whistle which he blew when he wished to notify the engineer to stop the train; and conductors were ordered "as much as they can consistently with the duty of taking tickets, to keep a look out for dangers and difficulties upon the. road, in all directions, seeing that no objects project into the road at any pointand when discovered 'ave them removed." Christian Science Moni- or. V L) A V The Day We Celebrate. Millard M. Robertson, president of Evans Model laundry, born 1867. J. Clark Coit, with the Lee-Coit-Andreesen Hardware company, born 1872. Bert C. Ranz, cashier of the Farmers and Merchants bank at Benson, born 1885. Sir H. Rider Haggard, noted novelist and publicist, born at Norfolk, England, 63 ye'ars ago. Fannie Ward, well-known actress and mo tion picture favorite, born in St. Louis 44 years ago. Robert S. Lovett, chairman of the executive board of the Union Pacific railway, born at San Jacinto, Tex., 59 years ago. F. B. Brady, general managerpf the East ern lines of the. Canadian National System of Railways, born at Haverhill, N. H.. 66 years ago. . George Irving Christie, noted agronomist of Pursue university, born at Winchester Out., 38 years ago. Already inquiries are coming in for help for the little ones from The Bee's Free "Milk and j Ice Fund. There, is plenty of good and noble work for this worthy charity to do. If you wajit to share in this work, send in your contribution. Omaha retailers are to hold a rally "to show the other business interests that the retailers J are very much' alive." It's a good thing push it along but any one who does not already J known Omaha retailers are b've ones ia dead onqj Thirty Years Ago in Omaha. A fete given at the residence of Mrs. T. L. Kimball for the benefit of the Creche, netted about $250.' The Southern Social club is a ne'w organiza tion to which all persons from south of the Mason-Dixon line are eligible. Officers are: John Heth. president; George A. Joplin. vice president; D. H. Bro.clt, secretary, and Charles K. Cralle. treatsurer. Francis Weir is building a$25.000 home on Harney street, near Thirty-fourth. The Second ward taxpayers held, a meeting at Kaspar's hall in the interest of equalization of tas. Daniel O'Keefe was elected chairman and M. H. Redfield". secretary. Sunday f.aws apt! Health. Our recent experience with tropi cal heat in connection with the ordinance forbidding the sale o4 ice on Sunday brings to the foregone more and emphasizes how sadly our lawmaking bodies functionate. At any time of the year the stor age of perishable food in the home is a' subject of much concern to eVery housekeeper. She knows that when a food spoils and is inad vertently eaten (and this may hap pen because an odor and a had taste may he absent), very serious results in the way of sickness may follow, and even death in a short time. For the preservation of perishable foods refrigeration is necessary, and for this we use ice in households gener ally. In winter nature is our great est aid n preventing food stuffs from spoiling; but in summer we need ic. and lots of it, the warmer the weather the more ice we need. It is a well known fact that few house holds have ice chests with sufficient ice capacity to last more than 48 hours in moderately warm weather, the same being capacity for only 24 hours when the weather is as warm as we have been experiencing the last week or more. Such weather is not the exception in Omaha at this time of the year, and it is a safe pre diction that we will have this hih degree of heat from six to eight weeks each year. At such times every housewife knows that even with an abundance of ice such articles as milk, soup, raw meats, ets., are kept fresh with difficulty and only through eternal vigilance. Not only is ice a neces sity for the preservation of food, but' it is also a most valuable adjunct in sickness, and in preventing sickness through the lowering of the body temperatures by t taking cooling draughts and palatable cool foods. The appetite is notably in abeyance in hot weather, warm food too often offering no inducement to partake; so there is danger of undernourish ment from lack of appropriate food. This, is particularly the case with children. To those so affected by the heat, cool nourishing drinks, and cooled foods are prone to be at tractive and even appetizing, to pro duce which we of course need ice. In spite of all these cogent rea sons for-an ample supply of ice. without forethought as to the inval uable assistance of ice as a pre ventative of sickness, and its use in sickness, our commissioners pass a law making the sale of ice on Sun day a misdemeanor. And no move has been made to modify or repeal the law, although the emergency is great. This being the ease, it is high time to inquire whether there is not some way by which this stupid law cannot be nullified, at least dur ing the hot weather. Fortunately we have most excel lent laws defining the powers of our health commissioner, the official whose duty it is to prevent disease through- such measures as he deems best. These laws give him the wid est discretionary powers in emer gencies, permitting him to act inde pendently of the council, and his orders undersuch circumstances are subject to court interpretation only. If our health commissioner so wills, he can declare the sale and delivery of ice on Sundays during summer an essental for the prevention of disease and for the promotion of health of the people, and it is a safe prediction that no court In the land will overrule this exercise of benign arid wise authority. If the commis sion do not act on their own initia tive it is up to our health commis sioner larking action by the latter official, citizens generally should protect their health even if they ignore the ordinance, for the courts would interpret the law on the ques tion as to whether a justifiable emer gency exists, and physicians with out number would testify in favor of such an interpretation. HOT WEATHER HUMOR. lift's Pis More Goltl. Omaha, June 20. To the Kditor of the Bee: Tlie press of theiTnited States often repeats the statement that there is plenty of gold in this country, and it leaves you with the idea that gold does not cut much figure with the finance of the na tion. The true answer to this ppint of view is found in asking the qiis tion, "What gives England her su premacy in the financial world?" Not her navy, her manufacturers, nor her products, but the fact that she controls the gold product of the world, enabling this nation to estab lish the rates of exchange. Lady IramMii; nurse) Jlave you hail any exprri. :.. . with children'.' ' Applicant v., n,Um. Shure. Oi uscl to be a t-htiii menelf. Pearson's Vekly. Tha r aU hre with me." Philadelphia North American. TV ache r me who rh Hilly H. lea. I'arto. tell "i any of you children -'opln'r Columbus Wiia? I he guy that got up Amer Mauitzlne. "I've hoen tpyltifc for a week to gat nn Interview with mptalti of Indtialry." "Made any proKrms no far?" "ih, ye. I have Just auteeeded In p r. Bunding hia ltant private neoretary i accept a cigar." Ulrmlngham Ai Herald. Tom A i Eva I :m T"in liu! uhat 'l!amoni rini; ? Eva Oh, I ni not deaf" to my pleadlnffs? If I were to offer you stone deaf. Success. He ivai applying for a nonltlon aa at lenilant In an ln.ine asylum. "Have you had any experience hsn JIlliK Irrational peraona?" he wai askerf j "Some." ua hia response. "1 waa i ! noiion-picture director for several yeara ' And he was hired forthwith Him f ui. Mrs. Sinn siin -I suppose you have for gotten that ihia Is the anniversary of your wedillni: dav" Simpson V.h'.' What? Pear me' Is 11 really? And when Is yours, dear? Tit-Hits. the English pound the basis thereof Great Hritain and her colonies produced in 1916. 65 per cent of the world's gold; the I'nited States pro duced 23 per cent of the world's sup ply of gold. The United States and its colonies showed a decrease in the production of gold of 13 per cent, thus showing that our gold produc tion is falling off. Immediately after peace is declared a heavy outflow of gold will begin. We will be called upon to return all that has come in here and more besides. The ques tion naturally suggests itself. "Where is this gold to come from?" The answer is, Our government, unlike any other government in tjn world, now races me issue ot now is tnis increased production to be brought about. There are two methods: First: Increase the standard value of gold to $41. Z-t per ounce, or. Second: Pay a bonus of $20.00 per ounce. Few people realize what the pro duction of gold has done for the United States. Its wonderful pro duction of golrT in the west made possible the building of the first transcontinental railroad. Gold of the west saved the credit of the na tion in 1865 and 1917. Gold has ad vantage over all other minerals. No group of mert can control its output or fix its price. After the war European nations will not permit us to retain the large stock of gold that has been sent here. They will compete in an endeavor to rriake their new securities so entic ing, both as to taxation and rates of interest, that after the embargo is released on gold, it will soon flow into their channels, and we will be called upon to furnish more gold to help resuscitate and rebuild he countries now at war. The odds are in favrr of the country that has the gold to keep its commerce alive during the coming crisis. In order to protect our na tion,, we must adopt at once the slogan "Dig More Gold." Our won- Lilerfully rich domain in the Black Hills country and the territory west of the Rocky mountains and Alaska is only waiting development; and when developed it will increase that production of gold to such an extent that we can become the bankers of the world in fact not only in name as we are today. An Increased production of gold in America will go farther toward help ing any condition that may arise than any other thing; it will enable ns to extinguish our national In debtedness, release the increased burdens of taxation, furnish employ ment to the unemployed, stimulate all forms of industry and bring con-' tentment and prosperity to the peo ple of the United states. Let our slogan be "Dig More Gold." HOY M. HAHROP. i "I hear cur fainer is 111." "Yes "Is his malady contagious?" "I hope nut. The doctor pays h Is suf fering f,... ...-aru-nrlf " -Detroit Vree making j Tress. -- Why don't you pronounce thee names rorrectly. Uon't you Know Willi! forelpn ! how ? t'.illis Sure, hut If I did nobody would understand what 1 waa talking about. Judlie. "I'o ou need to study Latin to he a druggist ?" "Some have that Idea. I don't know why. IVople don't order postage stamps and s"da water In Latin." Kansas City Joflrna I. "I can't ral.se $50 that's all there t to that! I got a notice from my hani 'his morning that I had overdrawn!" 'Well, try some other hank. The; oun't all he overdrawn" Vanity Fair. she I never see her anywhere wl'h out her husband. I wish you were n congenial. He I woutdn't be as Jealous an tha fellow for all the money tn the world London Answers. bought why a long skirl, didn't you? "You "Yes. "Then why aren t you wearing it. gll-llo?" "Heeause some mean people suggested that I had to." Louisville Courier Journal. in- "Was Rome founder! by Romeo?" quired a pupil of the teacher. "No, my boy," replied the wise man, "It was .iultet who was found dead by Komeo." Tit-Bits t'rabshaw The war taxes must he hit ting you rich fellows pretty hard old Rockey Sure I'm only wondering why they didn't put a luxury tax on that son-in-law of mine. Life. N'ewedd lld you spend as much money as this before I married you? Mrs. ?tewedd Why. yes. Newedd Then I can't understand why your father went on so when I took v.'U away from him. Hoston Transcript. of intterf:.st to women. How to Incrense Weight. Will you please tell me what I can do to increase my weight? I am five feet, five and one-half inches tall and weigh 118 pounds. Hoping to see same in your paper soon. RUTH H. At that outset I must remind you that some people are constitutional ly stout, and some are lean, and that where this is the case much diffi culty may be experienced in pro ducing desired . results. However, there are few persons who will not respond in a degree to appropriate dieting and living. The indications for you are to eat an abundance of starchy food, such as potatoes, car rots, cream of wheat, oatmeal, etc. Also drink a regular amount of milk daily, say a quart. Then sweets are not interdicted, in fact, ice cream, candy, and desserts, all promote the laying on of fat'. Get an abundance of sleep. That is very essential. Resting one-half to an hour after meals, if you can do so, will also promote the laying on of fat. Dis position is also very imnortant, a phlegmatic attitude making for a gain in weight; nervousness, irrita bility, restlessness, etc., working the contrary. I take it for granted you take a moderate amount of exer- 'cise. and indulge in congenial di versions. If you do not, then get the habit. A Woman Ruler in India. Bhopal, the second greatest Mo hammedan state in India, has been ruled over by a woman for several generations: The present Begum is the granddauthter and the daughter of ruling Begums, and she is said to be in njany respects the . most 're markable of the three. -Among her other claims to distinction is the discarding of the purdah, or veil, which, among Mohammedan women especially, is considered the only cor rect manner of appearing in any public place. The Begum, more over, has displayed marked loyalty to Britifh "rule and was a liberal con tributor to the cause of the empire during the late war in Europe. MIll"wl""mll"UMII''"ll"'imMm"'mff Six women are holding office aa probate judges in KanSis. In India only 12 women out of every 1,000 of full age can read and write. . . ' Eighteen of the 39 county School superintendents in the state of Wash ington are women. An eight-hour day for women workers will become operative under a new law in North Dakota July 1. Under the law no woman under 21 years of age is allowed to be em ployed as an elevator conductor in New York state. A co-operative bungalow colony for bachelor girls is soon to be es tablished in one of the suburbs of London, Ontario. The first national woman's rights convention ever held in the world was that which assembled at Wor cester, Mass., in 1S50. Of the numerous women elected to public office in Idaho the past year Alma Josephson of Oneida county, is the only one to hold the office of county sheriff. The National American Woman Suffrage association has been pre sented with the gold pen used by Speaker Gillett and Vice President Marshall in signing tjie federal suff rage amendment. The woman suffrage organizations in the United States are planning for a big jubilee next February in celebration of the ratification of the federal suffrage amendment and in honor of the centenary of the birth of Susan B. Anthony, to whose early efforts is due much of the credit for the victory recently achieved in "c6n gress. A communfty sewing room, a community valet room, a community laundry and community kitchenettes are to be included among the fea tures of a mammoth hotel for busi ness and professional women which it is planned to erect in New York city. Rooms in the hotel will rent for an average rate of $25 a month and may be obtained Either iur nished or unfurnished. Old Master I understand ' that he painted cobwebs on the ceiling so per fectly that the housemaid wore herself out "trying to sweep them down. New Master There may have been such an artist, but there never was such a housemaid Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. She was much interested in prison re form and was vfsitlng a large prison one day, "Don't any of your friends come to see you on visiting days?" she asked of a big. burly ruffian. "Xh," responded the former burglar. THE VIKING. Mlna Irving In New York Sun. The noul ot a vtktntr wan tiered down ir t hp wake of n rtmrinK tfH le om 1 he frozen herns in l he polar e t htU Ions drni! Norsemen sp II, The. crystal. fleets from trip Klari- IrruiH'hed that lift thflr uho.-tly m;,-. In th flifk'T and flare of the North"1 r Lights and the gtpam of the co:t hitp. sturfl. . "I want a ship," snid the, vlklnR'x pun' "t' speed in the tt'tnpest tetd h When tho lash of the wind Halls fat an hard the foamlnK waves heneath. I wruld feel the thrill that f felt or yov. hen I nan to the rhythiuie sweej ;5 And a" new shore ruse for my ronquerin. from the ha2v of unknown deeps." lie came to the wild Newfoundland Coas and paw in - a lonely placp A KtrnuRp, lone ship that tU!?Kd and tor. like a stallion Iceen for a race. "Now" her-." ho rued. "Is V nohle craft Ho! this i the uhlp for me." And h? leaped a hoard the long C-5 ant sailed awny tn sea F.ir up in the chill Bray foK that han;. and curtains the northern skte. 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