Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 29, Number 33, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 14 October 1908 — Page 2

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O'U have heard what Hearst Ysays about Foraker, Bryan ami Haskell; what Roosevelt —s — r- says about Foraker, Haskell ••• an< * Bryan; what Foraker "" * says about Taft, Roosevelt and Hearst; what Bryan says about j Tafi, Foraker and Roosevelt, and what Taft says about Bryan. All this persiflage contained in "statements given out to-day attacking,” etc., simmers down to a mere question of a fouryears’ leasehold upon the White Jfoagej. the presidential domicile at Washington. No doubt it’s worth money to you to know whether Bryan or Taft is to be the successful “Bill.” The author of the puzzle embodied in the accompanying diagram knows. He figured it 'out several weeks ago, merely awaiting corroborating circumstances before he submitted it to the editor. Hence, by a little mental exertion you may find out for yourself who is to be the next president. The problem is this; If William Howard Taft, Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States, starts from Columbus, .0., capital of his home state, same time that his opponent in this ocean-to-ocean race, William Jennings Bryan, Democrat, starts from Lincoln, Neb., his home capital, which one of the pair woufd reach Washington, D. C., first, after having touched every state capital in the country? Os course, they both travel at the same speed. ‘ , The puzzle manufacturer gives- you this assistance: The smallest qumber of miles in which either can - travel the prescribed distance. Os course, the candidate who has , the shortest distance to traverse wins, ■ Now, which onfe is it? That’s up to you, and there is not a citizen of the United States who wouldn’t accept advance information on the next occupant of the chair after President Roosevelt steps out to hunt the wild denizens of the East African jungle. One of our esteemed citizens, who stood behind the editor’s chair when the representative of the puzzle factory gubnvitfted his qompiex proposition, and who rates himself something of a "kidder,” exclaimed as if insulted in having his mental ability ques-' tioned: “Why, Bill will win, of course.” One lonesome smile crept round the room.— it- lighted up the face of: the E. C. citizen). Yes, Bill will win. But which Bill? Billjßryan or Bill Taft? -'""we might even go as far as allowing Bill Randolph Hearst to depart from New' York touch every capi-, tal in the United States, eventually arriving in Washington., and then ask you which Bill'wiH win-,-- , . You’could arrive at a partial solution of that problem by the process eft' elimination, but then you might imagine there was some trick connected with it, which'there isn’t. It is just a plain puzzte'in the simple science of addition, commingled with an ounce or twetof reasoning-nower-.-..;. The map gives the distances between the adjacent capitals. These, of course, must be used in order that the puzzle may Work out correctly. A Straight line is the shortest distance between two points, you were taught if you, studied geometry, and that ought to help you a little bit, but you

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need not possess a geometrical education to solve this. It just takes a little ingenuity and addition. ’ Os course, it is . evident that Mr. .Taft. ai-lhf,beginning q! his journey will be several miles nearer Washington than Mr. Bryan. Is this an advantage? Again, it’s Up to you. Choose your own route, correctly following the lines of cities as given in the map. You need not cover all the lines, but you must pass through each state capital. Mr. Bryan certainly would and so would , Mr. Taft if the victory of either depended upon it. in order that you may work at this during your spare time and be unhampered, it might be best to cut out

YOU CRAVE FHME? . , THAT VOICE! BY CARL PREETORIUS.v- , - —-

During a recent performance of the Metropolitan Opdra Cos., a well-known .fashionable late-comer drew to herself much attention. She was so graceful in, her manner and so beautifully attired that for a moment, even. the famous Caruso was eclipsed. The, stirring beauty of his voice, however, quickly cast, its spell again. It was at the close of the first act and Caruso. had Just, finished an entrancing theme when a harsh, nasal voice broke the silence, “Oh, John, I wish-j you could sing iike that!” So beautiful a wish but so discordant a tone caused all eyes to turn in that direction. The .unmusical voice belonged to the beautiful lady. Her fashion circle Was visibly disappointed-—and she probably wondered why her social aspirations were never realized. Although she possessed all other assets necessary for social supremacy, she lacked that most*lmportant personal asset —a pleasing Voice. “ if".\ord!ca sang in. her throat, the clearness of her beautiful voice-would disappear. She produces her Aones right on the lips. If you watch her lips move, youi will see that she grips the tone vibrations with them. If the tone formed in the throat, is driven- to -the outside air through the flesh of the neck and face, we rob the voice of its natural power. Nordica says 'that pyery tone must be pro-, ducpd right out on the very edge of the* lips. The throat is for another purpose. In the throat there are two" little cords tfyat vibrate the trrfeath. When this vibrated breath reaches the lips, they form it into soupd. If you force- the throat to perform a wrong duty - ! you hamper it in performing the right one. Brilliant tonp is possible only when the tone wave is so formed that it can move on without obstruction. • The lips, the teeth and the tip of the tongue are amply sufficient, to form all consonant and all vowel

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the drawing and paste it upon a goodsized sheet of cardboard. Then with a well-sharpened pencil—for there is accurate figuring to do—and a pad of paper, gather the family around and hit it up for Washington. Start either at Lincoln or Columbus. The departure is of your own selection, if you are a , constituent of Debs,

sounds. When you whisper words, as sea, bee, pea, tea, fee, you find that you form the sounds at the lips and teeth. Try it by whispering the following sentence. Nobody- ever thinks of whispering in the throat, in fact, it is.,.quite impossible, Whether you know it or not, Nature has endowed you with a singing and speaking voice which ought to be an asset to you both in business and la social lire. You can cultivate your velce with but little effort and a great deal'pf~pleasure when you once know what tone, really is. Application is energy wasted if you try to do or make a thing without learning first the principles that govern it. If the German Count Zepplen, who is spending his life time in building air ships, discovers-the laws that will make it possible for us to navigate in the air, the building of air ships for our daily use and pleasure will become a simple matter. In order to develop your voice, it. is just ar necessary first for you to know the laws through which tone finds its existence. When you once know the laws, you can easily apply them in practice. In fact, you should give them practical application, else your knowledge of them is of no use. Development demands two things—the knowledge of the law and ..its practical application. Let us now find out the law that governs the existence of tone, or sound. Sound is an air wave. When you speak or sing you disturb the particles, of air about you. When one little molecule of-atr is disturbed it in turn disturbs the next one, and so on. But when the next moleculq puts the one farther from it in motion, it has lost a little in energy. Place four marbles in a row. Give the first one a push—it will strike and start the sec-' ond, the second will .start the third, and the third the fourth. The force, however, necessary to start another marble rolling each time, lessens the

Chafin or William Randolph Hearst you can work it out on those lines for the sake of amusement. Hearst’s start properly would be made from Albany, N. Y„ that being the capital of the Empire state, while Chafin would depart from Springfield, 111., that being the Illinois state capita!. But of course the race apparently

energy by so much. Therefore, It is that you see the last marble moving slower than the first. So it is with the particles of air that push along the sound wave. The energy o t the sound wave must finally, die out and the sound cease at a certain JVefe this not so, the chirp of a bird could be heard around the world. Alf carries sound by forming itself in w*ave motion. Throw a pebble In a placid pool of water —-try it in your basin at home —and you wilFsee little ripples form in even, circular motion. The ripple near the edge of the pool is much shallower than the one in the center. If the pool is large enough the wave motion may disappear before it reaches the edge, because it takes a certain amount of energy to set so much water in motion. Wave motion in water illustrates wave motion in air, only in air the waves travel spherically, i. e., about you on all sides. If the air did not move spherically, your listener would have to stand at certain angles in order to hear you. But you know that no matter where your listener stands, in any radius about you, he can hear what you say. You know now how the air carries sound. If you should try to make a noise in a vacuum, you would find that you could make no sound. Therefore, tone after all is nothing but an air wave that travels to all sides. r The difficulty in singing and speaking arises when we try to make air Waves carry sound a great distance. It is this difficulty' that bars the way to success for most-singers* and speakers. The unsuccessful singer or speaker finds that the energy of his tones dies oujt too quickly to make thtose farthest away hear him. How. to form sound waves with enough* energy to make them reach the farthest listener is a secret which many public singers and speakers would like to know. Ring a silver bell in a room whers

is between the two original Bills — Bryan and Taft —so perhaps in order that your advance information may he of truly authentic character, perhaps if would he best to try starting from Lincoln and Columbus. This problem is not alone for the man who is vitally interested in the presidency, although he may value the

there are no obstructions directly about the bell. The sound will be clear. Now wrap a cloth arpund the bell and ring it again. The sound you hear is no longer clear, but muffled clouded. You have placed an obstruction between the object that produces the sound and the air wave which transmits the sound. The cloth breaks the sound vibrations. The waves that reach your hearing nerves are the broken waves outside the cloth and, therefore, you get a muffled sound. But what has this to do directly with singing and speaking, you ask. When the tones of the voice can vibrate immediately upon the air without encountering an 'obstruction, they reach the ear of the listener as clear, unmuffled sounds. The that the tones of the singer or speaker usually find is right within the mouth. The face acts like the cloth about the bell. When the face becomes an obstruction, 11 18 btecauklß the tones are formed in the throat instead of on the lfps. When tone is formed by an opening between the lips, the outside air can immediately* lv take up the vibrations. The sound waves, then, will reach the ear of the listener unhampered and unbroken. - - ■ * .■ • • ' Watch yourself when you talk. Let the front part of your mouth "do all the work. Make the consonants pop out the words. Apply this Idea In your daily business talks and keep it in mind Whenever you speak or sing. Your voice will quickly gain in poWer and you will gain an ease of expression. But your greatest gain will come through the musical quality that is bound to result wheßWthe tone Is produced brilliantly. A musical voice, every one knows. Is one of the greatest assets that a personality can possess either in business life or in the social world. (Copyright, 190*, by Joseph B. Bowles.)

returns most. It is for boys, girls, young men, young women, middleaged men and women; for the aged, halt, deaf and dumb alike. Even a one-legged man may solve it. He doesn’t have to actually traverse the distance, so his defect doesn’t count in this sort of a race for the presidency.. The beauty of deciding the presidential struggle in this way is that it’s all over in 15 minutes, the returns are in in less time than it take's to tell it, there is only a scant possibility of needing a rficaunt. The pantomime' loser congratulates the pantomime winner; the latter thanks him and promises to never,

never run for the office again, and it’s all over. You are then ready to settle down and wonder who is going to get annihilated in the message to congress and whether .the senate will stand for being bossed. There are no speeches to listen to; no periodical cry from Wall street -that there should be no executive pf* fleers; no photos of the candidate’s family seated upon the lawn at “the modest homestead at Minne-ha-ha-on-the-veldt.” There are no campaign press agents to wrestle with, no spellbinders and no worry. It’s all ovef in a few minutes, the time being gauged by the ingenuity of the persons engaged in endeavoring to arrive at a plausible solution. They say the solid south iB for Mr. Bryan of Lincoln and the* solid north is “for Mr. Taft of Cincinnati, and that if Mr. Taft can win Missouri and a part of Kentucky he will win, while if Mr. Bryan can capture the southeastern corner of Indiana and Idaho his will-be the victory. So yon see the manner of,, settlement which is presented here doesn’t allow you to worrg* about Indiana and Missouri. Here is a good system, if you are a bit puzzled about the way to start after a solution: Cut out the map and paste it on cardboard. As you trace the route from city to city write down the name of each city and the number of miles from the city last touched until you reach Washington. Then add up the figures on your pad and you will have the total distance traveled. ' - This puzzle is fascinating. Most problems which qome from the regular puzzle manufactories are hard, but oftentimes they cannot command your attention long -entfufch foe you to arrive at a solution. There are puzzle fiends,. of course, who study days over the hardest sort of problems, bat it takes something really interesting to amuse the American populace for a stretch of 20 minutes. And we have it here. Parisian Chickweed Sellers. The vender of chickweed in Paris is a welhknown figyre. The sellers are numerous and their cry is one of the most noteworthy^ 1 those that resound in the morning in the streets of the French capital. According to ths Bulletin des Halles there are about a hundred thousand canaries in the capital and the daily consumption of chickweed is estimated at $2,000. This sum looks large, but it only all/ows two cents for each bird. A Paris contemporary points out that a goodly portion of land between Suresnes *nd Courbevoie is set aside for the cultivation of the weed. **