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THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 1921.
Congress to Ban
"Cheat" Bottles
And Containers
Co. fHM if nuking an effort to
do away, by legislation, with certain
(ormi of fraud which have become
so familiar that the public at large
hat almost ceased to take notice of
them.
One of these It the bottle with a
bottom to shaped at itself to occupy
a large fraction, maybe at much at
one-third, of what ought to be space
available for fluid contents. Olive
oil bottlet are usually made on that
deceptive principle. Another if the
bottle, commonly used for cherries
Mrawberriet or olivet, which it made
of extra-thick glass, the latter inci
dentally serving to magnify U the
eye the individual fruitt. Another
it the "slack-filled" carton, a term
applied to a paper or pasteboard con
tainer, which, while actually holding
the net weight of product declared
on the label, looks as if its contents
were much larger than .they are in
fact.
Spaghetti it commonly put up in
these deceptive packages; likewise
candy, which is sometimes packed
in boxes with false bottoms. In
some instances the contents are
wrapped in extra heavy paper, - to
help fill the cartons. Oatmeal, rice,
macaroni, pepper, spices and other
condiments "faked" in this way are
on sale at every grocery, the ob
ject sought being to mislead the
purchaser as to the quantity he gets
for his money. When the law was
made requiring that every contain
er of food should declare on its label
the net weight of its contents, an ef
fective embargo on cheating was
thought to have been established.
Attempts to evade that regulation
have been few, because too danger
ous. But clever rogues soon saw a
way to get around the obstacle thus
placed in their path.
The whole idea of the "fake" bot
tie and "slack-filled" carton is based
upon the fact that the average pur
chaser does not take the trouble to
examine the weight statement on the
label. He it is usually she, of course
judges the quantity of the con
nts by the looks of the package.
She thinks in quantity rather than
in terms of weight, and so is de
ceived. Cheats of this kind have multiplied
enormously during the last few
years.' Canned tomatoes and certain
other tinned foods often contain an
excess of water or other liquid, in
creasing their cost to the consumer.
Now congress proposes to , enforce
the use of standard bottles and car
tons, which, it is thought, will serve
to remedy the mischief.
Music Koll rictures.
A novel , attraction for - player
pianos is fo be a pictured series of
grotesque animal and human heads,
which appear to open their mouths
when the keys of the.itistrument are
depressed. The beads form a panel
along one face of a patented box
containing a music roll. When the
box is laid along the white keys the
funny faces are flush with the front
edges of the latter, and, inasmuch
as the lower jaws are omitted, the
animals and queer people seem to be
opening and shutting their mouths
with the fall and rise of the keys.
Just nonsense business, of course,
but amusing. The box, it should be
said, is made just wide enough to
fit in front of the black keys and lie
flat on the white ones. I
Automatic Beacons Flash Weird
Warnings to Mariners
There has been a good d?al of
trouble recently about the lights set
up for the benefit of mariners in the
Philippines, where on many small
outlying Elands our lighthouxe serv
ice has established automatic flash
apparatus.
The contrivance used for the pur
pose operates itself, showing a bril-
of the method, lig'it can he multi
plied to an extent that would hardly
be practicable if men were required
lo operate them. Acetylene is the if
luminant employed, a tiny- flame
Liirniiiff all the time, while an in
geniou uiecliatrum actuated by the
(!hs produce a bright fliire at rrgu
Jar intervals.
-s ie'i tartW A light carrying steel caisson, Ches-
; 'M.'-" II t V- ( " - - Ona of the automatic lights on the
)Jy "I TL. W ''" r - ' Hu'dson
Flaming "Torch of Mars" Fresh
. Horror Developed in World War
Warning bell operated by soda
water gas which sends its call
acrosa the waters, telling the
mariner he is in a dangeroui
locality
Automatic light on Prince William Sound, Alaska
I:ant warning light at regular inter
vals of a quarter of a minute or half
a minute. Native savages are dis
posed to regard the phenomenon as
black magic, attributing it to evil
spirits, and in a number of instances
they have evinced, their disapproval
of it by smashing the installation.
Within the last few years the light
house service .has installed hundreds
cf these automatic lights along the
shores of the Great Lakes, on the
gulf coast and in Atlantic and Pacific
harbors. Several of their, have been
newly set up at points on the Hud
son river.
Three, which are visited only once
in six months, are located on rocks
far out at sea off the coast of Hon
duras. One, in the Hawaiian archi
pelago, has not been extinguished for
10 years, save on occasions for read
justment. There are a number of
them in Alaskan waters.
These keeperless light stations cost
so little to run that they represent a
great " saving to . the government.
Furthermore, thanks to the rheapness
Some of tne lights, however, are
so arranged as not to flare d'iring the
clay, the device used to gain this end
consisting of three small metal bars;
Two of the bars are gold-plated to
reflect l;ght. The third is blackened
so that it may absorb the rays. Con
sequently, when doylight comes the
black bar expands and lengthe
flightly, while the others do not, and
thus is produced an enerey sufficient
to close a valve and shuf off the
.icetylenc. At nightfall the dlack bar
contracts, the valve opens and the
intermittent flare is resumed.
A new type of structure for cai Ty
ing an automatic light supplemented
by a warning bell has already been
set up in the Chesapeake and in a
few places elsewhere. It is a steel
shell, which is set upon the sand of
the bottom, ffhen the sand is pumped
out from the inside, causing it to sink.
Wood piles are driven inside of it
and cut off at the water level; the
water is pumped out of it, and it is
filled with concrete. A hclliw cham
ber, however, is cast in the concrete
to contain acetylene tanks.
The structure carries a flarelight.
But to provide for occasions" when
fog might render the light, invisible,
a bell is mounted on the concrete
"deck" of the steel caisson, a piston
energized by the intermittent escape
of soda-water gas from a reservoir
on top of the bell causing the clapper
to strike a loud note at regular in
tervals. -
The airplane hat lent a fretli lior
tor to warfare by rendering it prac
ticable to set fire to enemy property
over unlimited areas beyond the
lighting front.
'Incendiaries" (as they are
cillcd) suitable for this purpose had
not been developed to any great ex
tent up to the outbreak of the late
war, hut during that gigantic con
flict they were, multiplied and made
incomparably more efficient.
Even now our own chemical war,
fare service is working hard at the
problem, in (lie expectation that In
the next war such agents of destruc
tion will be employed much more
extensively.
Early in the recent war phos
phorus naturally suggested itself at
an incendiary agent. To put it out is
almost impossible, and a small pet
let of it falling upon a man will in
flict painful burns that take weeks
to heal. Hence the common use of
phosphorus bombs.
A solution of yellow phosphorus
in carbon bisulphide will take fire
of its own accord on exposure to air,
The mixture finally decided upon
as best bv our chemical warfare
service, for use in "drop bombs,"
consists of these two ingredients, to-
gcther with benzene, heavy oils and
a small Quantity of TNI.
this compound was tested by
hanging a can of it from a support
and firing rifle bullets through the
can. A stream then issued without
ignition until the liquid reached the
ground, when it took fire as it
t read. Thrown upon water it
spreads rapidly and burns fiercely
but for this sort of use, to insure
ignition, small chunks of sodium
(which is set on tire by contact
with water) are added.
A mixture of lubricating oil with
25 per cent of ammonium nitrate
eives. when discharged from bombs,
immense flames which burn for 10
or i minutes, 1 his compound.
used together with "thermit," proved
the most effective "incendiary" dur
ing the war.
Thermit has ' familiar industrial
uses, it is composed 01 aluminum
and iron rust, both finely powdered
and thoroughly mixed together.
When raised to high temperature by
the setting off of a small charge of
high explosive, the oxygen in the
iron rust rushes over to the alum
inum particles (for which it has
greater chemical affinity) with such
violence as to convert the whole
mass into a flaming fluid. -
X he newest intensive type bomii
developed by the chemical warfare
service is loaded with thermit, sup
plemented bv sodium nitrate and a
solid oil. The thermit liquefies the
oil. so that by the time the container
is burned through and melted, there
is a tremendous burst of flame.
Human Hair Ropes
In the great Hongwanji temple at
Kioto, ;Japan,' are preserved 29 im
mense ropes, made of human hair.
They represent voluntary offerings
of tens of . thousands of Japanese
women. .
The temple is as large as a Eu
ropean cathedral. Ninety-six mas
sive pillars suoport the roof at a
height of 126 feet.: 1 V
The timbers for the great struc
ture, were all' dragged from the
mountain forests and lifted into
their places by the above-mentioned
ropes, for which no material other
than human hair was considered
sufficiently honorable.
Mot of the tiojtiht dropped by
the Germans in Kngland carried
thermit. The Britinh "baby in
cendiary bomb." extenivrly uti
during the war, was loaded with the
ante destructive mixture, to which
barium nitrate was added. These
babies weighed only six and a half
ounret apiece and were packed in a
tinned iron container which, ac
cording to size, held front N4 to J7II
of them. One Handlry-1'.nje bomb
ing airplane could carry lO.lWO. They
could be dropped in the container,
to fly in all directions when ex
plosion followed impact with the
ground.
The chemical warfare tervice has
suggested to our Navy department
the posiihle advisability of using "in
cendiaries." If it were desired to
set fire to coast cities by long-range
bombardment, they would be very
useful. But. for the present at least,
the navy men are not inclined to
accept the. idea. . They prefer high
explosives.
A Refrigerator
hich Is Iceless
"Anybody who has lived on board
ship in the tropics knows what ' a
''water monkey" is. Indeed; the
contrivance is in rather common use
on land in hot latitudes. It is a re
ceptacle of porous earthenware with
a capacity of some gallons and filled
with water is hung up in a shady and
breezy place. Thereby evaporation
is encouraged and the water is suffi
ciently cooled to be palatable for
drinking. -
A new kind of iceless refrigerator
based on the same principle is the
invention cf Milton A. Snider of
Detroit. It is made of porous earth
enware in sections that fit together,
one advantage of the sectional ar
rangement being that the affair can
be handled and moved about with
less danger- of breakage. The ma
terial of which it is made is rendered
less fragile, however, by wires run
ning through the walls to serve as
reinforcement. It has a tightly
fitting cover (with a knob oh' tc-p
for lifting the latter off), and this
cover is reinforced by wires in , the
fame way. The cover and the sec
tions interlock by tongues that .fit
into grooves, so as to fit tightly and
securely together. And around . the
interior of the refrigerator run ledg
es upc.n which rest wire shelves for
the accommodation of articles of
food. , :, - - .
In use the sections are .first im
mersed in water Until well saturated.
Then they are put together and the
re'frieerator is placed near a window
or in soihe other place where.it will
be exposed to a current of air, there
by encouraging evaporation. The'
more rapid the evaporation the cool
er will be the interior of the con
trivance. "To keep the walls wet'
tnd thus secure 'Continuous opera
tion of the device narrow ring-
shaped troughs that run around -the
outside of the refrigerator are sup- .
plied with water from time to time.?
" An Ambulance for Lambs.
In Canada a motor ambulance
especially designed for the care of
sheep; has become an unusual but'
highly valuable adjunct to an enor
mous sheep ranch in Alberta. During ,
the past season -7,000" Iambs were ,
born on the ranches, and the busy
ambulance was the means of saving
the lives of hundreds of them.
Always Keep Smiling,
Hint of Tetrazzini to
. Singers After Fame
By MADAME TETRAZZINI.
(A few extracts from Mm,. Tttraiilni'i
fort bromine took, "My Life
of Songs.")
London, Sept. 10. Where are the
greajt singers who shall take the
place of Fatti, Melba, Jenny Lind,
Tictjens, and those other prime
donne of the glorious past?
Occasionally a new star appears
in some corner of the globe. hear
the name mentioned, and I say to
myself: "Hat the new prima donna
actually, arrived?" . I wait and won
der. :
When I was singing in -Spain, my
hopes rose high. A young singer
came to me and asked me to hear
her voice. I listened and secretly
exulted. ."Yes. I have found her," I
raid to myself "the new interna
tional prima donna. Sh: is a
genius." .
Notes Undeveloped.
Her voice climbed . to the sky
without an effort The timbre and
quality, the easy bird-like notes.
were such as are only commanded
by the great ones of the earth. But
her notes were not quite developed;
she could not then produce all the
volume and beauty of tone without
more study, more hard work, long
hours of training, of rigid applica
tion, of self-control yes, of self
sacrifice. .
Not suspecting her real thoughts,
t told my young genius what she
must do and continue to do if she
would be truly great Her answer
left me sad and sorrowful.
"What!" she exclaimed. "You say
I must start training over again?
Are you aware, madam, that I am a
great artiste?" ,
What could I say in answer?
Here was an undoubted gemus. one
with the makings of an international
prima donna, but so self-opinionated
and uaVrilline- to be helped bv some-
offense at hearing the truth. 1
bowed and said, Oh,. beg your par
don for my presumption." And she
went away.
Today she is making her living as
a professional singer at second-grade
concerts in her native country. No
one outside Spain seems to have
heard of her name. Yet shj might
have been a Jenny Lind or a Patti
today.
Just a Few Hints.
Many of my correspondents write
to ask me to give them-some hints
as to how to become a famous sing
er. One day I may write a book on
this subject In this, "My Life of
Song," I have no space to give more
than a few hints. I counsel every
singer, whether on the stage or off
it, to lose herself in her song, as I
invariably do when singing. I am
the joyous girl in a pretty garden
in far-away Italy; I am a daughter
of Greece, wandering, pensive, in the
shade of a noble temple, or J am the
wild-hearted French maiden sorrow
ing for my ungrateful lover.
Whatever role I am singing I
actually become that person. Even
then, one must temper feeling with
reason. Sometimes when the dra
matic . situation demands sadness I
forget myself to such an extent that
sobs choke my throat tears fill my
eyes, and my voice almost breaks.
The singer must never let herself go
so far. When this happens. I have
to take told of myself suddenly.
"Ho. Tetrazzini," I say, "what are
you doing?"
Then my voice clears ana i am
the character again, but the charac
ter under the control" of Tetrazzini.
- ' Always Smile Slightly.. ,
In stndvinsr a new sone I am in
the hahit of Dracticine in frout of a
mirror m order to get an idea of the
effe-t of a facial erpre?s;on nd to
see that it does not take away from
tne correct position of the mouth.
When singing, always smile
slightly. This slight smile at once
relaxes the lips, allowing them free
play for the words which they , and
the tongue must form. It also gives
the singer .a slight sensation of uplift
necessary for singing. It is im
possible to sing well when mentally
depressed or even physically indis
posed. Unless one has complete
control over the entire vo:al ap
paratus, and unless one can sim
ulate a smile one does not feel, the
voice will lack some of its resonant
quality, particularly in the upper'
t otcs.
Be careful not to simulate too
broad a smile. Too wide a smile
often accompanies what is called the
"white voice." This is a voice pro
duction where a head resonance
alone is employed, without suffi
cient of the appo-gio, or enough of
the mouth resonance to give the
tone a vital quality. This "white
voice" should be thoroughly under
stood, and is one of the many shades
of tone a singer can use at times,
just as the impressionist uses var
ious unusual colors to produce cer
tain atmospheric effects.
For instance, in the mad scene
in "Lucia," the use of the "white
voice" suggests the babbling of the
mad woman, as the same voice in
the last act of "Traviata," or1 in the
lsFt act of '"La Eoheme," suggests
utter physical exhaustion and the ap
proach of death. An entire voice
production on these colorless lines,
however, would always lack the
brilliancy and the vitality which in
spire enthusiasm. " One of the com
pensations of the "white voice"
singer is the fact that she usually
nosscsses a perfect diction.
Eyebrows and Eyelids.
The singer's expression must con
cern itself chiefly with the play of
emotion around the eyes, eyebrows,
and eyelids. Yet complete emotional
scale can be symbolized by these
means. " A very drooping eyebrow is
expressive of fatigue, either thy steal
or mental. This lowered eyelid is
the aspect we see about us most of
the time, particularly on people past
their first youth, i
As it shows a lack of interest it is
not a favorite expression of actors,
and is only employed where the role
makes it necessary. Increasing
anxfety is depicted by slanting the
eyebrows obliquely ig a downward
line toward the nose. Concentrated
attention draws the eyebrows to
gether over the bridge of the nose,
while furtiveness widens the space
again without elevating the eye
brows. In the eyebrows alone you can de
pict mockery, every stage of anxiety
or pain, astonishment, ecstasy, ter
ror, suffering, fury, and admira
tion, besides all the subtle tones be
tween.
- One word on the subject of cor
sets. There is no reason in the
world why a singer should not wear
corsets, and if singers have a ten
dency to grow stout a corset is
usually a necessity. A singer s cor
set should be especially well-fitted
around the hips, and should be ex
tremely loose over the diaphragm.
If made in this way it will not inter
fere in the slightest degree with
the breath.
Never Wears Collar.
Though every singer must . take
care of her health, she need not
necessarily wrap herself in cotton
wool and lead a sequestered exist
ence. At the same time, one cannot
retain a position of eminence in the
domain of song and also indulge in
social dissipations.
The care of the health is an indi
vidual matter, and what agrees well
with me would cause others to tall
ill. I eat the plainest food always,
and naturally, being Italian, I prefer
the foods of my native land. But
simple French or German ccokery
agrees with me quite as well. And I
allow the tempting pastry, the rich
and over-spiced patty, to pass by un
touched, consoling myself with fruit
and fresh vegetables.
Personally, I never wear a collar,
and have hardened my throat to a
considerable extent by always wear
ing slightly cut-out gowns in the
house, and even when I wear furs I
do not have them closely drawn
around my neck. Fresh air has
been my most potent remedy at all
times when I have been indisposed.
THE ROAD OF KA.TE J
Continued From Pug-o Three M.
"No. I'm not dead, Ellen and I've
ridden vour road at last "
Hours later the fog cleared with
the waning afternoon and the coast
basked again in . turquoise ana am
ber, Walking , Ann dragged weary
feet to the camoiiiff piacc m we
canon.
With tired slowness she' laid out
her blanket in neat exactness, kin
died the fire under the grid, set out
her crackers and a pile of green figs
and sat down to wait the boiling of
the coffee pot. Not until it bubbled
under its lid did she even think; then
with the first reviving sips of it a
smile of recollection settled down on
her face. '
"Yes, you sure got to hand it to
Ellen Glynde, she nodded. Mies
irot sand, that woman. Never a
tear nor nothin,' just a wave o' her
hand and what was it .".he says:
'Since you've come tc my house at
list, Jane, you better make it your
home I .
She pondered that seen awhile.
The picture of those two sisters go
ing together up the steps, each sus
tained in that moment by the memo
ry of her particular' triumph. Ellen
Glynde by her 30 years of steward
ship over those locked gates; Jane
Donohue by the reflection that the
man they had both desired had been
given to herself.
As Terry followed them, his eyes
black in a face of paper white, Ann
had gone to his side. Only as far
&s the hall, with the colored prisms
of its front door, its sacerdotal stair
way and its atmosphere of incurable
mustiness.
They faced each other in the chill
of that hallway; a barren moment,
sterile with impossibility, its center
the figure of Jane Donohue, already
quavering under the triumph she
could not quite sustain. Then her
son spoke.
"So this was just a trick." he ac
cused from between set teeth, and
at the sound of it his mother col
lapsed into a chair. 4
"Ellen," she moaned, all the hbit
; of 30 years before asserting itself
in that appeal to her stronger sister.
But Terry went remorselessly on.
"No consideration of my feelings,
no consideration for our neighbors,
or for anything but your own stupid
hot-housed hate."
'Terry remember I am your
mother." "
"If I were not remembering it I
should be saying a great deal more,
he answered. "After this ,ne thing
is understood, the Nacimiento Ranch
is mine and I shall run it as I see
fit."
"You turn your poor mother out
of her own home," wept Mrs. Dono
hue.
. "My mother will always have a
home in my house and my wife will
make her welcome I shall see' to
that. Lucy," he turned to wtere
the. girl waited, "pack everything
you can rightly call your own and be
ready in IS minutes. We will drive
to San Luis and be married this
afternoon."
"Lucy I" ejaculated Mrs Glynde
but from halfway up the stairway
the girl faced her in a stillness of
exaltation.
"Yes, aunt; Terry and I have been
engaged for nearly three years."
, In the silence that ensued Terry
was going; an almost crushing si
lence, broken only by a bubble of
song as Lucy dashed up (he stairs,
and across it the two sisters faced
each other in a realization of the
futility of their 30 years of warfare.
"Terry my son you are killing
me," gasped Jane Donohue. She
fell back in all the appeal of one of
her "spells." but Terry was beyond
the reach of that now.
"I hardly think so, mother." he an
swered. Mrs. Glynde, since you
are the real cause of my mother's
sickness, 1 will leave her tn your
care.
He went at that shouldering aside
Fred Glynde, who, between him end
the door, tried vainly to hold his
ground. As the door clashed shu:
beh'nd him Ellen Glynde spoke.
again in that relapse to the relations
of 30 years before as if all that had
since happened were wiped out.
"His father's temper, Jane."
"Yes, poor , Terence always did
just what he wanted and here was
no changing him as you well know,
Ellen,
"You were . never fitted to bring
up a son, Mrs. Glynde veni on, but,
with a stray trail of jasmine falling
over one ear, Jane Donohue flashed
back in weak asperity:
, "Not a . word against Terry;
won't have it He's quite right and
a better son never stepped, and if
your Fred there had the spirit to talk
to you like that you'd be a different
woman today, Ellen,
"Jane, how did you comi to think
of doing such a senseless thing as
thisf her sister demanded.
"I didn't; it was Walking Ann
who suggested it.
Now, in the evening quiet, of the
canon, sipping her coffee and clos
ing her eyes, Ann dwelt long and
deliciously on that moment. The
fretwork carvings; herself, with sun
bonnet, blanket, and staff, the sud
den center of all eyes as with meekly
downcast gaze, she dropped a decent
curtsey.
"Yes ma'am; I be the 'good wo
man as sot by your .gate, Mis
Glynde."
She had gone at that, out of the
door and down to where Xcry
awaited Lucy, pacing solitary under
the log-dripping cypresses That ap
proach took courage, for in that mo
ment even the friendly men who had
accompanied him were leaving him
alone. Ann marched straight up, se
cretly glorying ,virr what she had
aroused in him.
"Well, lad?"
"Get out of my sigh, you med
dling old harridan," he answered, his
voice a smooth sluice of cold anger
It was yon who put my mother up
to that infernal trick."
"Aye, 'twas me," Ann calmly
agreed, - "and tm time is coming
when you'll get down on your ham
cold colors of the leaded glass in the
front door, the staircase and itsf She sat on in such still serenitv
bones and give thanks as I had the -
j , . .
sana. . -
. "You have estranged me from my
own ' mother,". Terry accused.
"That s all you know about it." re
torted Ann. "Your ma's in there a
stickinV up i,for'; you . agin'i Ellen
Glynde right now." .
"She is?" he exclaimed, i
"She- sure is. And let me tell you
this, lad; there never was a body vet
9 aiiivuiiivu j biij uiiu until Mivjr
first took and wrang the neck o'
their family in some way or other. "
And the harder and quicker they
does it the more their family thinks '
of 'em." .
She left him to think that over,
stalking away into the-- fog, a self
reliant old figure that gradually
dimmed until the drifting vapors
hid her entirely.
"Them was true words as I spoke.
1 rue as gospel, a bit bitter in the .
mouth, as thi Book says, but sure'
sweet in the belly."
"That Ellen and Jane," she pon
dered on. "There won't be . no
sejjaratin em atter th's. , 1 hey II
live on there, -maybe for -20 years,
havin' a good time a pickin' at each
other. But thanks be I made a man
and a master out o Terry Donohue
tnis day.
that a little Kangaroo rat ran out on
a log at her side, dashed at a frag
ment ot cracker, and hopped off
tgain. carrying , its treasure in its .
tiny forepaws.- A' lonesome sound
ing breeze sighed down the canon.
sending a brown sycamore leaf ;
swirling to Ann's feet.
The wild critters is layin up their
stores and the mountains is closing
down for the, winter," she mused.
" Tis time I was nackin. mv old
fmnfa awav in T .' 11 n.H
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April" .
A smile curved her lios as she con
templated the last scene of alL The
splintered debris of what had once
been those gate of wicked hate, and
Terry and Lucy, the jasmine-decked
wagon now a lovers' chariot drivinir
cut across it while the throng that
had gathered for a funeral now
shoutingly followed to a wedding
"Well, I ain't done a thina- I
aimed to when I started last spring."
Ann noaacd, but 1 sure none a heap
tise.
