Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1910 — IN THE 5-CENT THEATERS. [ARTICLE]

IN THE 5-CENT THEATERS.

A noiseless cannon? The next thing will ba a uniform without gold braid. The coming race Is likely to be one between some comet and a flying mar •bine. A Washington boy baby Is said to be In great danger of Inheriting SIOO,••0.000. The Indications are that the Englishman still loves a lord, but not as fervently as he used to. A fortune awaits the man who can Invent an alarm clock that will have a pleasant sound at 4:30 a. m. Germany Is agitating the question «t abolishing prison stripes. Has'Germany been sending any bankers to Jalir With a last effort to be Impartial a New York woman willed SIO,OOO to her dog and a stlmlar amount to her husband. A Cleveland paper is trying to trace the relation between poetry and insanity. We care for our insane, but neglect the poets. In Denmark every egg that Is sold must bear a stamp showing just when it was laid. People have time to watch the nests over there. There are still a few old-fashioned mothers in the country. One of them broke her hand while spanking a 10-year-old boy the other day. A Kansas City judge has advised all women out there to carry revolvers for their own protection. The Innocent bystander will, therefore, take notice. The wife of an English baron has •loped with a young man who possesses no title. A lot of American heiresses will regard this as decidedly careless. Caroline Bartlett Crane says dairy cows should be bathed all over every day and wiped dry with Turkish towels. They should also be provided with napkins while eating bran mash. The man who claims that the extravagance of American women Is responsible for the high cost of living probably forgets that he wouldn’t wear socks and mittens knitted by his wife ts she were willing to furnish them. A New Hampshire farmer claims to have a hen that lays three eggs at one sitting. We are compelled, owing to the fact that he is not "rich beyond the dreams of avarice,” to doubt the truth of the New Hampshire man’s statement.

A suggeetion comes from New York that hockey ought to be reformed. As ft is now played the game is said to be brutal and a mere excuse for the development of rowdyism. One of the best things we know about hockey is that nobody is compelled to play 1t against his will. Norway has for the first time elected a woman to the Storthing, its national parliamentary body. The woman who gets this distinction is a teacher in the public schools. She is elected as a deputy, or alternate, and has a vote only in the absence of the regular member from her district. Nearly a hundred and fifty million dollars were given last year, in large sums, for educational and philanthropic purposes in America. It is estimated that the total of such gifts tn the last seventeen years will reach more than a billion dollars. Yet there is need for more, and the small sums given by the persons of moderate means are as welcome as the millions of the weatlhy. Anthropologists have long held that the shape of the head was an Infallible indication of race, far more trustworthy evidence than that offered by language, complexion or national customs. Now an inquiry made under the direction of a professor from Columbia University seems to demonstrate that It takes only one generation for the "cephalic index" of immigrant peoples to show a marked change. Children of long-headed Sicilians and* those of round-headed Russian Jews present an almost identical intermediate head form. This fact, if verified, makes it appear that many of the most pronounced variations of race are superficial, and point to the development sooner than was at first thought possible of a homogeneous "American" racial type. The new administration building of the Carnegie Institution in Wsshfafr ton, which has recently been completed at a cost of 1220,000, gives HtUe'suggestion of the magnitude of the work carried on under the auspices of the institution. It will bo recalled that Andrew Carnegie gave (10,000.000 a few years ago to endow the institution for assisting In investigations In any department of science, literature or art, and to co-operate to this end with governments, universities, colleges, technical schools, learned societies and individuals. The fund is In the hands of a group of representative men as trustees. They have made appropriations for Investigations in anthropology, archeology, astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, economics and sodstogy, engineering, geography, geology.

history, literature, mathemtlcs. meteorology, paleonotology. phonetics, physics, psychology, zoology and other subjects. -The Washington headquarters are occupied by the executive of the institution, but the research work is conducted in all parts of the world, wherever a man is engaged on an investigation of importance and needs money to carry it on.

R- T. Crane, a wealthy and wellknown Chicago captain of industry, not only feels, like a certain village worthy, that there. are lots of lunkheads in college, but believes that ths college may spoil good raw material and produce lunkheads In defiance of the original plana and gifts of Mother Nature. The indictment Is so thorough that It condemns both hallowed traditions and the practices of'pur own day. Educational reformers who have sneered at the old academic idea are left far In the rear. All the time spent in the higher institutions of learning Is wasted. While the college boy is throwing away precious years, the fortunate youth who Is denied the former’s opportunities, so-called, Is acquiring tlhe best kind of learning In bls brekuwlnnlng work and Is laying up capital for the future. Let It be admitted that there Is truth in the picture. Many a college graduate who has failed to make a financial success of life has cried out In bitterness of spirit that his education Is worthless and that he should have gone Into business earlier. There are even men of professional training who would consign both the college and the professional school to the bottomless pit when they themselves by dollars and ceiifta But It Is also a fact that there are very successful business men who lament their lack of a college "training. We have here a very complex question of values. There are other measures in addition to the dollar. And there are college graduates who have acquired great riches in business and who have never found the college education a handicap. There are men who believe that It has a value of its own and that It has actually helped them to get on In the world. These are statements of facts that lend themselves to pages of Interpretation and argument. But passing from Individual cases, the all Important fact Is that the experience of the world leaves very little encouragement for Mr. Crane’s crusade. The higher education responds so well to the needs, aspirations and ambitions of many men and women that before it can be destroyed humanity will have to be made over. The crusade will not stand Mr. Crane’s own tests because it is futile and, therefore, not a good business proposition.

I'ecnllxr Characteristic* of Many of the Motion-Picture People. After having seen some hundreds of moving picture shows a New Yorker has reformed, says the ‘ New York Press, and now possesses a hazy notion of what he has seen and the following convictions: The funniest thing in the woiid is a fall dowq stairs or into water. All men who get into financial trouble are fat and elderly. All professors and scientists are thin and foolish-looking. All acts of heroism are performed in the summer. It would be asking too much from hero and heroine to take a plunge into Icy water and run around in cold weather. Servants are never kept for other than comedy purposea When you see people in evening clothes look out for some dark deed or villainy. Except in "society” pictures, tall hats are made to be sat upon. Valuables in detective pictures always are concealed in the most conspicuous and accessible places. Country boys are always skinny, bent, shambling and semi-lmbecdle. Country girts are always plump and pretty. A drunk is as surely good for a laugh as Vulcan's game leg used to be among the gods on Olympus. School readers are the source of most of the novel and stirring tales depicted. It is perfectly proper to maltreat a fat lady. Of course, there are other minor points that are strictly observed, but the above are the leading ones. If they are followed carefully you have the typical moving picture.—New York ’Press.