Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1917 — SCRAPS [ARTICLE]

SCRAPS

There have been several instances Of sleeps lasting twenty years. Bracelets were worn by women in Egypt at the time of the Pharoahs. Montclair soldier boys, are to have a chiropodist and a trained nurse for their feet. Shifts caused by the war hate enabled England to develop its top and phonograph industries. A “submarine kiss’’ is one given under water while bathing. It was invented by a Chicago preacher. There 'are now registered in Ca’iforhia more than 200,000 motor 'cars, or one for every fifteen people. A census' has been’ ordered in of all’ shoes- —-working, [walking, riding, sporting, : evening, I sandals and slipper:-.

Sixsupposed “Jack the Shipper” victims in I’eun ylvania were yo.ung girls who confessed they cut their own hair to get their names in the papers. Venezuela, has a tree the stem of which contains a milky fluid which flbws Out when a notch is cut. It is known locally as. the cow. tree or milk tree. It was long contended that the story of “Lorna Boone,” by Black- ' more, had no foundation in fact, but now- it is declared that the • i picturesque region of Exmoor really jcontained a family of. Boones, the i originals in romance, if not of dis? I grace, of the people described in i the hook. . ‘ .

Women of the press have been fighting lately for the abolishment of the long-standing ruling that;no women are to be allowed aboard coastguard cutters. Two New York newspaper women who recently tried to board one of the cutters which was going out to meet a steamer were refused permission to ride on the boat on the grounds that it was a dangerous undertaking. “Hang your paternal solicitude,” wired one of the women to the officials at Washington. “Business women want a square deal from the government. They have brains and sense to judge for their own safety.’’ It has been decided that women reporters may have" the same privileges as men in this respect provided they sign waivers releasing the steamship companies from liability for injuries they may receive in climbing ladders up the ships’ sides; - ’ . i ■