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It Seems to Me HEVWOII BROUN A MONG the tragedies of greater moment and of larger scale my eye was caught the other day by a minor episode. The headline said "Stage fall kills woman acrobat.” And the story went on to describe the manner In which Mary Larkin de Phil, of the Flying Phillips, plunged to her death before 3,000 people. The act was all but finished. Already her husband and partner was taking bows in honor of the final feat. She had but to step from her unicycle to the dismounting platform. It was hardly more than a yard. But here the misstep came. "The Flying Phillips” was a familiar act. Hundreds and thousands of times the

team had gone through precisely the same routine. At fairs and amusement parks they had. often performed as much as 150 feet above the ground and it was a matter of pride with the Flying Phillips that there should be no net to insure safety. For a time New York City had an ordinance making such protection for aerial acta mandatory. But the acrobats themselves succeeded in bringing about its repeal. They argued that the theatrical value of their stunts was diminished as soon as danger was removed.

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I am afraid that possibly there was soundness in this argument, but it remains disturbing. Here again is another evidence of the savagery which lurks below the surface in the greater part of human kind. a a a The Croud Is Waiting AFTER all we have not grown entirely out of the mood of the people for whom Nero put on circuses. We profess a greater sensitivity. Everybody would assert that it horrified him to see an accident upon the stage. And yet the ever present hint of its possibility seems to have some exciting effect upon the spinal column. We hope for the best and we are not together ill disposed toward the worst. I have carried with me for many years the memory of one particularly daredevil performer. His name was Oliver. Whether he still lives I do not know. I saw him just once in Atlantic City ten years ago. At that time my conscious mind and my subconscious had never exchanged a word or been introduced to each other. What latent impulses lay within me I do not know. But insofar as I had awareness it was filled with protest against the trivial rewards of a great risk. Mr. Oliver ascended slowly to a platform 104 feet high. That’s what the announcer said. Even if this happened to be an exaggeration it still, in all conscience, was high enough. From that peak the performer dove into a tank with a fifty-four-inch depth of water. It was a back dive. My lack of enthusiasm for the whole affair was founded on the fact that not more than fifteen or twenty people were gathered together to witness the exploit. The wind blew from the sea and all the other potential spectators were safe indoors. Out of the little knot of the faithful there stepped suddenly a large man and with raised hand he hushed the drums, the saxophones and the clarinets. In the beginning he dealt with facts and measurements. He spoke of the "four foot of water.” In that he shaved away six inches which is a jnargin not justly denied to any orator. But it was his concluding utterance which left me way off on the side lines. “And now, Mr. Oliver,” he said, sinking his voice to a rumbling whisp>er, "you may go whenever you are ready." After that he paused and added ponderously, “And we all wish you the best of luck.” tt a The Show Goes On THE words may appear friendly enough, but there was little good will. We who stood there caught the implication. The announcer meant to convey to us the thought that it was unlikely that Oliver would have any luck to speak of. It almost seemed as if the large gentleman was trying to assure himself of the memory of having said just the right thing in the event that anything untoward happened. The opening for irony was so obvious that I was far from optimistic. The showing of paid patrons was so small that not a soul justly could have complained if the announcement ran, "Mr. Oliver regrets that there will be no show this evening.” But there he was in bright spangles and red tights climbing up the ladder to furnish a Roman holiday for a scattered handful of New Yorkers, one of whom had come in on a pass. Arrived at the summit. Daredevil Oliver went about his business slowly. He watched the flag whipped by the rising gale. He held up the palm of his right hand to judge the velocity of the wind. But to the leap itself he kerned committed. The show must go on. He leaned slowly. There still was time to stop. My protest now against this sort of business would come with better grace if I had shouted out, “Don't do it. What's the sense and purpose?” Oliver leaned farther and now there was no word in all the world which could have checked his progress. The movement still was slow, but it had become inevitable. He fell sixteen feet the first second and then turned a casual, but highly important, somersault in the air so that he struck the water hands first and squarely in the middle of the tank. In two seconds he was out and bowing to the polite applause of the little circle. And then he was off into the night with nothing to do until tomorrow's matinee at 3:30. He went away cheerfully enough. I carried away the regrets and the forebodings. I felt then as I do now that life should not be mocked. It ought to have so great a dignity that not one of us ever would have the audacity to thumb a nose from steep, high places and cry out. "That's what I think of you!” (Copyright. 1934. by The Times!

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

NEWSPAPERS recently carried the story of the Isolation of vitamin C in pure form as a substance called hexuronic acid. Because this vitamin is known to prevent scurvy, the isolated pure form of the vitamin was called ascorbic acid. The exact place which this substance occupies in the general chemistry of the human body is not yet fully established. It has been shown, however, that it will prevent scurvy in persons on diets deficient of vitamin C. Now additional studies are being made to find out whether this vitamin will affect in any way the constituents of the blood. One group of investigators has felt that a deficiency in this vitamin might, in some way. be related to rheumatic fever, because the conditions when animals are fed on diets deficient in vitamin C are much the same as those seen in rheumatic fever. a a a THE vitamin long called vitamin D. which is known to be the active substance for prevention of rickets, has also been developed in pure form and has been called calciferol. It is believed that the chief purpose of vitamin D in the body is to control the way in which the body uses calcium and phosphorus. Others have felt that the vitamin D acts primarily on the parathyroid glands, and that the secretion from these glands in turn controls the use of calcium and phosphorus in the body. a a a IT has also been well established that proper amounts of vitamin D are not found in most food substances and that the average human being in cities does not get enough sunlight to create the vitamin D that he needs. For this reason the vitamin D is now supplied to the human body in artificial ways. Whereas the average human being needs little additional vitamin D after he has once grown to adulthood, there seems to be evidence that women who are in the period previous to giving birth to a child have a derangement of the calcium absorption in their bodies. Thus, prospective mothers should take particularly the substances necessary to provide them with vitamin D.

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WALL STREET and the DEPRESSION

Traders Basked in Rosy L ight of Optim ism on Very Morning of Crash

The Ova amaitnc financial yara ainre the October, 1939. stork market crash which Inaugurated the depression are reviewed in a series of six searching, vivid articles which John T. Flynn, the nation'* foremost writer on economics, has prepared exclnaivcly for The Indianapolis Times. This artiole. the first, looks backward at the stork crash and its causes. a a a BY JOHN T. FLYNN (Copyright. 1934. NEA Service. Inc.l NEW YORK. Oct. 22.—Never in the history of the world has there been a population so completely smug, satisfied, cocksure of themselves as the people of America, who climbed out of their beds on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 23, 1929, and -vent merrily to their work. There were plenty of dark clouds overhead that morning. But among the technological marvels perfected in America was one called publicity. And with that magic instrument all those dark clouds were colored a soft June blue or a sunrise pink. Those who read their morning papers saw a speech by one of our eminent economists.

The headline ran—" Professor Irving Fisher Says Stocks Are Too Low." Those who dared to suggest there was a ceiling to America’s soaring radius and that the curve of the business cycle would cease its upward sweep until it had curled over the moon were brushed aside as croakers. For a week the market had shown weakness. Prices had slipped. There was a serious decline on Monday. Margin calls went unanswered. Foreign money was flying swiftly, but very quietly, from Wall Street. But next day there was a vigorous recovery. Leonard Ayres had said that a creeping bear was at work in the market. But this was lost in the chorus of rosy reassurances which shone in the headlines. Secretary of Commerce Lamont told the world that business was sound. Bankers issued statements that stocks were sound. On the morning of the 23d there was not. as one financial writer described it, "a single bearish noje in the news.” The market opened with plenty of good humor. Then about mid-morning a good spread to leaders like Steel, Westinghouse, Mont-

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gomery Ward. General Electric. That was the signal for the flood. It must have taken an hour or two for the news to get around the country, for it was not until about 2 o’clock that the storm broke and the selling orders poured in on the astonished brokers like a deluge. In that last hour 2,800,000 shares were sold. By evening five billion dollars in fictitious value had been squeezed

out of the market. One stock sank 96 points. That night lights burned late in all the offices in Wall Street. They did not see it, but what happened was clear. The great golden bull market of Calvin Coolidge—that monstrous, bulbous mass of wind, water and heat in which America had been zooming for six years—had definitely collapsed. a a a IN the crowded five years since that day, what have we forgotten; what have we learned? As one looks back upon it several things stand out. One of them is that the American investing public, in the six years preceding the crash, gave the most amazing instance of invincible blindness the blindness of those who will not see. First of all, it was perfectly clear that stock prices must collapse. A year before, the public was warned by the Journal of Commerce, the Commercial and Financial Chronicle and other observers that prices were utterly out of line. If stocks were too high in October, 1928, when the average level was 230, what could be said for them a year later, when they were 311, and when brokers’ loans had already devoured another two billions of credit? Through the summer brokers, speculators, bankers, corporation managers, investment trust managers, journalists and propagan-

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP a a a a a a By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—Congress may be asked this winter to reorganize its senate and house of representatives into a single legislative body. Senator George W. Norris, who has labored for years to make the machinery of government more responsive to popular will, has proposed to Nebraska voters that they reshape their legislature in this form. They will vote on the plan Nov. 6. If they agree, Senator Norris may extend his project to the federal government. He already has succeeded in having lame duck sessions of congress done away with, and his idea for abolishing the electoral college has been approved by President Roosevelt.

It would take an amendment to the Constitution, approved by twothirds of the states, to change the form of congress. The purpose of the change is to strengthen the popular branch of government. Liberal congressmen have complained. for years, that existence of two houses made it possible for a third small body, working behind closed doors, to dictate to both. The third body is the conference committee which whips into final shape every important piece of legislation adopted. a a a THIS is the way the legislative machine works. A bill originating in the house of representatives is passed on first of all by a committee controlled by the majority party. Important amendments often are added on the floor of the house. The bill then goes to the senate where a committee controlled by the majority party again has first say about it, and where again there is a chance to amend from the floor. When the senate finally passes the bill it may be very different from the form in which it passed the house. The procedure then calls for appointment of a conference committee composed of members of each house to reconcile differences between the two measures. Ranking members of the committees which handled the bill are always selected for the conference committee. They meet behind closed doors, compromise and delete, and as a rule when they emerge their bill is back very much in the form desired originally by the majority perty. Several years ago the senate adopted an amendment to a tax bill placing a 3 per cent tax on private power companies. When the bill came from conference committee the tax had been transferred to customers of private power companies. Until recently it was customary for members of a conference committee to write provisions not considered by either house into measures coming before them.

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dists sat puffing away at the tubes which fed air into the swollen bubble. In the summer of 1929 I became convinced that the break was near at hand. a a a HT'HAT being so, it was obvious •“* that certain things must immediately and necessarily happen when the break came. Here they are: First, speculation is done with borrowed money. It formerly came wholly from banks. But anew source of credit had developed. It was called bootleg loans. Billions were loaned by large corporations and private persons directly. The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey had as much as $90,000,000 in the market in a single day. The Cities Service Corporation’s loans were as high as $240,000,000 in a single day. Here was a real peril. If a break were to come banks could be depended upon to behave rationally and to proceed in an orderly way to protect their loans. If necessary they might even increase credit. But these bootleg lenders, unfamiliar with this new business, could be depended on at the first sign of trouble to demand their money. It was clear, therefore, that if a break came from natural causes, that break would be immediately exaggerated by the frantic withdrawal of bootleg money. Second, stock sales are handled through the stock exchange. The exchange is a machine made up of

WHEN the recovery act was passed a year and a half ago, bitter feeling was expressed in both houses over changes made by the conference committee. The house was given no chance to offer amendments from the floor. The senate approved a large number of amendments, some of which were supported strongly by a considerable number of house members. Nevertheless the amendments had disappeared or had been changed when the bill emerged from its secret revision. Senator Robert M. La Follette charged in the senate, that Pat Harrison, who headed the senate conferences, had said openly he would fight for only part of the amendments. Senator Cutting charged that the house was kept from voting on the Borah antiprice fixing amendment through a request made by Harrison. Senator Clark reads statements of a house conferee indicating the house had tried to indorse the senate’s amendment for making public records of income tax returns. but had been defeated by senate conferees theoretically supposed to back up the 56 to 27 vote for this amendment on the senate floor. Senator Norris believes unscrupulous men sometimes knife legislation in the secret conference room which they pretend in public to support and may even introduce bills in order to be paid for killing them. Vermont had a single legislative body for fifty years but eventually changed to the system in general use. Pennsylvania and Georgia made short trials of the single body in early days. Denies Ax Slaving of Mother Bp I'nittd Prrt* BELLEVILLE. Ontario. October 22.—Harold Vermilyea. 49. of Ontario, Cal., accused of murdering his 76-year-old mother with an ax here two weeks ago, today insisted his innocence as he awaited trial on Oct. 27.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1934

When the bottom dropped out of the financial world . . . Bewildered throngs stand outside the New York Stock Exchange (right) wherein was transpiring the Great Crash of October, 1929.

human and mechanical parts. Like all machines, it has a load limit. A vital part in that machine is the ticker. Without it you can not tell what the market is. If it falls behind the speculating public*is left in the dark. The tickers had been perfected to handle a volume of a million or two shares a day. But between 1924 and 1928 the volume of trading had increased 400 per cent. In 1929 it increased another 33 per cent. In actual practice when the exchange had a 2,500.000 share day the ticker would begin to fall behind. For six weeks—in the summer of IC'29—sales were running 4.000,000 shares a day. The ticker was almost habitually behind, some days as much as 38 minutes. a a a IT was clear that if a break came and bootleg money took to flight and anything resembling a real disaster were to appear that trading would rise to ten million shares a day. I predicted this then and the Stock Exchange officials -indignantly scouted the idea. But I felt certain that with ten million share days the ticker would break down altogether and

OGDEN MILLS TO TALK ‘ BEFORE C. OF C. HERE G. O. P. Leader Announces Speech as Nonpolitical. Ogden L. Mills, treasury secretary under President Hoover, will be the second of a series of speakers for the Chamber of Commerce, when he addresses a meeting Thursday night at the Columbia Club. Donald R. Richberg, chief co-ordinator of recovery activities, opened the series last Monday night. Mr. Mills has announced his address as nonpolitical, dealing with business and governmental problems now in the limelight. Burns Kill Boy, 13 Charles Connelly, 13, Negro, of 1523 Massachusetts avenue, died yesterday at city hospital of burns sustained Sept. 26. The boy was said to have daubed his clothing with shoe polish, which he ignited.

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the exchange and the whole speculating public would be left in total darkness. It was easy to see that if a break occurred, with bootleg lenders in wild flight and the exchange in darkness, we would have something resembling a theater with its lights out and the cry of fire in the air. These dire forebodings, wholly kept from the public, were fulfilled in the fullest measure. When a warning drop in shares occurred in September, foreign lenders of bootleg money began to withdraw it. When the Oct. 23 shock his the market, these bootleg funds were already in full flight. Billions were drawn out of the market in a few days. On Oct. 24, stock sales Went to 12,894,640 shares. On Oct. 29 they rose to 16,410,030. The ticker was hours late. The crippled exchange was swamped and on Wednesday, Oct. 30, the exchange did not open until noon and when it closed at 3 o’clock it remained closed until the following Monday. The machine had broken down. The exchange knew of the inadequacy of its ticker system and was busy installing a more modern one. That has been completed since, but it*still can not handle ten million share days.

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—Florida’s Senator Duncan U. Fletcher, chairman of the senate banking committee and of its banking investigation, is urging President Roosevelt to get behind a sweeping inquiry into the operation of life insurance companies. No congressional probe of these potent concerns ever has been made. Fletcher's advocacy of such an inquiry is based on bits of information incidentally uncovered during the banking investigation

concerning the behind-the-scenes business connections and manipulations of big figures in the insurance field. There are in the United States 65,000.000 policy holders and more than 20 billion dollars invested in life insurance companies, and Fletcher contends that a thorough

By George Clark

ANOTHER ingrained American delusion played its part in those days. It was that the disaster was something business men understood. It was the delusion that because a man knows how to make money he also understands everything else, particularly the obscure and mysterious laws of economics. And so it was supposed that somehow for the moment the wild horses of the market had gotten out of hand but that presently the titans would seize hold of the reins and put things right. The technique of the rescue crews then was the old trick by which they had gotten the market up—ballyhoo. Ballyhoo to make people buy. The wondrous bargain counter spread out before the American people was advertised by business men and statesmen— Great Liquidation Sale of Stocks —Were 250, now 198. The catch was that before the blurb was cold on their lips the bargain had sunk to 180 or 160 or maybe to 100. The forces set in motion Oct. 23, 1929. on the stock exchange have never in these five years abated. President Hoover told the country over and over that fundamental business was sound. He called together the captains of industry Nov. 30. They assured the country that all was well. Mr. Julius Barnes, the head of the President's conference, announced that the storm was over in April. Mr. Henry Ford raised wages. Mr. Jimmy Walker, not to be outdone, raised his own pay from $25,000 to $40,000. a a a BUT all the time prices continued remorselessly to sink. The storm broke again Oct. 28. Dec. 12 another crash rocked the market. By Christmas stories of widespread unemployment were being whispered about. Up to then there was no recognition that this was anything more than the puncturing of a gambler’s boom. But now we began to hear about cities which could not borrow any more money. Towns began to raise funds for the relief of the poor—the new poor in the land which only a year before was talking about abolishing poverty forever. But even this was smothered in the gust of optimism which filled the skies as the new year dawned —the old promises of bigger and better business, the usual gaudy greetings. There was not the slightest notion that we were entering one of the great remounding episodes of history, an era which before it ended would sweep into poverty or exile or the discard most of the rulers who then sat in the places of power in business and the state; which would set conservative America to questioning all its institutions and which, I have no doubt, will take a place in history with the expulsion of Persia by the Greeks, the conquest of Rome; the rise of Christianity, the reformation and the renaissance, the American and French revolution, the industrial revolution and the great war, as one of the great episodic turning points in the long history of civilization. TOMORROW—The Depression Years.

public airing of their financial affairs and practices is desirable. It is not generally known, but the senate, just before it adjourned last June, renewed the investigational powers of Fletcher's committee. Likewise, only a few insiders know that this was done at the express request of the President. He privately told floor leaders that he had nothing special in mind, but deemed it worth while to have the committee primed and ready for action. While its life was extended, no additional funds were voted the body. Therefore, if an insurance probe is decided on, Fletcher will have to go back to the senate for more money. There is also a question as to whether additional specific authorization for such an investigation would not be necessary. Fletcher does not think so. holds the committee has adequate power. But the insurance moguls —certain vigorously to oppose an investigation would be sure to raise the point. aaa T>RIGADIER-GENERAL LOUIS LITTLE, United States marine corps, has just come back from withdrawing all marines from Haiti. Asa young lieutenant, Little advanced against Peking during the Boxer rebellion. Twenty years later he commanded the marine guard in Peking. He has served most of his life overseas. But his most unique record was in winning over the Haitians to friendship with the United States. His chief ace in doing this was football. General Little taught the natives to play football and they loved it. Arriving in Washington the other day. he was greeted by Henry P. Fletcher, ex-diplomat, now charman of the Republican national committee. “I’m glad,” he said, “to meet the man who took the hate out of Haiti,”

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Fair Enough MMEGIfIt nnHE bridge players were at it again in London in an international tournament for something called the Schwab trophy which resulted in a squawk of "outrage” by members of a British committee. Those, who in the love of sport, hold communion with her visible forms. spe*k a various language to express a single thought. Thus, when Tom Sopwith. the skipper of the defeated English sailboat, remarked that he was disappointed bitterly and when the members of the

British bridge committee uttered their cry of "outrage" they both meant the same thing that the prizefight manager has in mind when he exclaims "we was robbed.” The dress-up sports, however, are muffling the free expression of their emotions. They do things better in the prizefight clubs. Neither in yachting nor in bridge do they have a cry which can rival the hearty honesty and force of a cheer which the prizefight customers used to roll down from the galleries in the old Madison Square Garden on certain occasions when Jack Delaney was fighting.

The prizefight customers used to yell, in resounding unison, "Delaney is a bum! Delaney is a bum!” and Mr. Delaney understood the precise shade of their meaning every time he heard it. On the other hand. I am not sure that he would have caught the idea full in the face, so to speak, if the customers had restricted themselves to a modulated cry of “We are disappointed bitterly! We are disappointed bitterly,” or even a burst of “outrage! outrage!” a a a Difference in ‘ Behavior ’ r I 'HE more the great international bridge experts reveal themselves in their famous tournaments, the more the great mass of nonaddicts enjoy the quaint humor of those who profess to regard bridge as a game for ladies and gentlemen. There can be no argument against the proposition that bridge is a ladies’ game. It is distinctly feminine in character and even the males who jilay at it often indulge in catty and shrewdish behavior, sometimes culminating in whirls of ugly passion as happened the time one expert tried to cauliflower another expert's ear by tweaking it good and hard. But ladylike behavior and gentlemanly conduct are entirely different. Ladies, in sport, when they are being strictly themselves and strictly feminine, do not go in for gentleman lines. They do not pretend that lasing is a sweet sorrow and in the large tennis tournaments the patrons and the press long ago ceased to attach much importance to the refusal of one lady to accept the hand of another who has just given her a good licking in public. In the bridge tournaments, the sedentary gladiators do not remain on speaking terms very long after the deal has started. An atmosphere of suspicion and fault-finding sets in and the males, who seem even more feminine than the ladies in their bickering and gossip, may be encountered in the ante-rooms in the intervals ready to complain and alibi to any one who has nothing more important to do than lend an ear. The cry of "outrage” is a familiar sound. ana Bitterness—The Shrill Type A MONG the professionals the bitterness is even shriller than in amateur bridge contests. This can not be explained wholly by the fact that professional bridge is an easy and highly profitabie racket of itself and an introduction to circles of society to which a card-shark of any other type could hardly expect admittance. The old-fashioned tub-worker who put in his time crossing the Atlantic, over and back, trimming suckers at stud or draw poker, was looked down upon as a low specimen although he used the same tools and aimed at the same objective in life as the distinguished bridge expert. The bridge card-shark has his racket at stake when he enters a big tournament and he hates losing with a special dread which never occurred to the poker shark. The poker shark always could dig up another live one, but the bridge shark puts his reputation and his earning capacity on the line. If he is beaten his racket suffers severely in the loss of book royalties and mail-order lessons. Still, it must be the peculiar nature of the game which makes for snoot-pulling and the sticking out of tongues. In pugilism, too, the expert puts his reputation and his future on the line, but it is no uncommon thing to see the defeated champion cross the ring to the youth who has given him a brutal licking and tousle his hair in a playful embrace. This does not happen in bridge tournaments. The bridge experts might pull hair. But playfully tousle it, never. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.l

Today's Science

BY DAVID DIETZ

SHREWD business men are beginning to realize the importance of odors in the manufacture and marketing of their products, according to Dr. Marston T. Bogert, professor of organic chemistry at Columbia university. Dr. Bogert cites the example of a recent upholstery material just put upon the market. This is manufactured by subjecting pig hair to the action of a mechanical "picker” which separates and fluffs the hair. The hair is then sprayed with rubber lastex. Each hair becomes completely coated, resulting in an exceedingly light, tough and springy felted mass of rubberized hair. But both pig hair and rubber lastex have odors which most person.’ find disagreeable and so it is doubtful if the product would have found much of a market. The manufacturer solved this difficulty. Dr. Bogert says, by incorporating less than one-ten tR of 1 per cent of perfume in the rubber. Business men are discovering that an appeal to the nose is sometimes more important than an appeal to the eye, Dr. Bogert says. aaa THE sales appeal of perfumes may be used to draw favorable attention to an odorless product or to mask the disagreeable odor which the product may normally possess. "When a prospective customer picks up a cake of toilet soap or a package of cosmetics, her first impulse is to smell it,” Dr. Bogert says. “If the odor pleases, the other merits of the goods are likely to be inquired into, whereas if the goods are odorless or carry no special appeal, the examination usually goes no further.” aaa HIGH-GRADE silk stockings are often faintly perfumed to increase their appeal to the prospective customer, according to Dr. Bogert, who reveals that perfumes specially designed for use in fabrics are now upon the market. A field where he believes there is still room for considerable improvement is that of the moth-proof-ing and insect-proofing of fabrics of all kinds, such as furs, carpets, and the like. "In tne light of recent discoveries,” he says, “it should be possible to accomplish ’his without leaving the goods permeated with objectionable smells. Os course, in the case of furs this has been avoided by simple storage at low temperatures. "The so-called Russia leather has always had a special appeal for me and possibly for others, not because the leather itself Is any better than other brands, but because of the agreeable scent Imparted to it by the birch oil used ir %r preparation."

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