Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 75, 7 February 1920 — Page 12

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 192))

What Shall 1 Be?

Answered for Boya

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An Electrical Engineer .

i' By R. S. Alexander

; "Uncle Bill, who is that guy with the fur overcoat who lust SDoke to

tyou?"

- "That's Jack Strange, Vice Pres

dent of the Giant Motors Com

pany.' , "Say, he must be some boy."

. 'lie is. I knew Jack Strange in

high school. He was always tinker

ing around with some sort of elec

ftrical apparatus or else figuring

' out , some prooiem. After nign

school, he went to technical school

.'and took electrical engineering. His I father had plenty of money but

iJack put himself through by wort

ing in summers and part time in

winters while in school.

i ."When he graduated, a number

of opportunities were open to him

7 He could go into the designing and

manufacture of. electrical appuan

-ees: he could work at the sale and

.installtion of such appliances: he

.could set up as a consulting engi

neer; or he could go Into some sort

f electrical research work.

. "Jack chose to go Into the de-

- 6igning and manufacturing end. He got a job with the Giant Company .as a sort of a foreman. He was

.promoted from one position to an

other. Last time I saw him he was

General Manager. Yesterday

heard he had been' elected Vice

President.

"Jack's brother, Bob, took the same training and . graduated a

couple of years after Jack. He first got an overall job with an electrical

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power company, tor a 'While as a

Then he worked salesman of -elec

trical appliances for the Powers Company. He worked up to the position of. Sales Manager. Three years ago he started a -contracting company of his own which deals in electrical supplies , and . does all sorts of work requiring -technical electrical skill.' His company has -swung some pretty, big ' jobs lately. He can . afford a fur -overcoat now Just about as well as Jack." -. "Where could "a fellow learn something more about being an electrical engineer?" -Write to' the 'Dean of any good technical school and ask him for information. - -There . are, several gpod magazines on the subject: You can get a pamphlet on the subject 'from the Boy Scouts 0 America. This pamphlets among other things gives you a list of books on Electricity which ought to tie valuable."

Baby's Foot-prints to Identify it Where Cincinnati Plan is Used

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Today I was going to tell more about the early adventures of Jack and Jane on their trip around the world. But, first, I'm going to describe the airplane in which Captain Brave and Ladydear and the children flew from country to country. The wings of the plane were twice as wide, from one tip to the other, as an ordinary street. There were four of these wings, two below the others. In front of

the wings was the great propeller

which spun around and pulled the

airplane through the air. It was driven by a powerful engine. Back of the propeller, where Captain

Brave sat while he drove the plane and where Ladydear and the children sat with him some of the time were cushioned seats just like those in an auto. The bottom part of the plane was shaped like a boat and the children soon found that the big plane could come down on top of the water and float along just like a small ship. The boat was fitted up just like a small room. The sides were enclosed and you could look out through windows. There was a small stove, a cute table and even some chairs In the room. On one wall was a book shelf. And, when it came time for the children to go to bed, they discovered that in spaces along the sides of the boat were concealed small iron beds, just like those the children had

seen in hospitals. These could be

friends, including Captain Bold and his submarine, went to Beautiful Island, to visit Dr. Cheer, another friend of Captain Brave. At the doctor's home the children found what had given the island its name wonderful gardens of beautiful flowers of all kinds. Dr. Cheer told the children all about them, Captain Brave took the folks high above the clouds in the airplane at night and Dr. Cheer told the children all about the stars and planets, too.

The natives on the Island were strange-looking little brown people. Because of their love for Dr. Cheer these little brown folk gave a big celebration in honor of the children, dancing all their wierd dances around a huge bonfire and serving native foods. Copyright, 1919.

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For Girls to Meke

Homecraft

USEFUL THINGS OR CRETONNE By Carolyn Sherwin Halley Often the shops that sell beautiful fabrics for home decorating have short lengths of bright cretonne, pillow size. Two or three of these will be enough to make several attractive things for your room to go with the new furniture and curt

ains.

pulled out and made up in a half a! THE NEW CRETONNE PILLOW

Miss Maude Reach making baby's first "footprint on the sands of time."

CINCINNATI, O, Feb. 7. There won't be any cases of mistaken

identity of babies after improvements on M. Bertillon's system have

been perfected; There is a movement on foot to have all hospitals take "foot-prints" of babier just like finger-prints are taken by the police of large cities of all criminals. Taking foot-prints of babies before the are

discharged from the wards of hospitals Wilt serve as positive proof and

means of identification

Marvelous a sit may seem with all the millions of babies born into

the wolrd, the lines on no two little pair of feet are exactly alike. There

ate different classes and sub-classes of patterns of the ridges that transverse the skin, but in each individual there are certain individual quirks of the lines that come out under the microscope.

If these foot prints were taken it would be sure that Mrs! O'Brien by

mistake and Mrs. Polinsky wouldn't get Mrs.. Costello's baby through,

mistaken identity. At present these babies are tagged with adhesive tape which often comes off. - Not so with this little fellow pictured at

the Cincinnati Foundlings Asylum where Chief Nurse Miss Maude Roach

is pictured taking his foot-prints.

minute, almost. The children spent their first night away from home in these beds and slept soundly while the big plane was flying through the air. When they awoke the children saw that they were over the ocean. Early in the day Captain Rrave brought the plane down to the wa

ter-alongside a huge submarine

What is the color of your room, blue, pink or yellow? Whatever color matches, make a pillow cover of that color in plain linen or a cotton material. Carefully cut out the flowers or birds from a piece of chintz of a contrasting color and sew them with small over and over stitches to the plain background.

These designs should be artistical-

He had arranged to meet the sub- ly arranged, not too close together

marine so that the children could have a ride on it. Captain Bold, commander of the submarine, just "fell in love" with the children. In the submarine the children and their friends explored the bottom of the ocean and uncovered a great treasure chest. The gold and silver and precious stones were divided among the children, their friends and even the members of the crew of the submarine. .And everyone received enough to make iueni quite rich the rest of their lives.

Next, the children and theif

the observation of the foreman. After three weeks of satisfactory der the direction of a teacher and

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Every Day Science

for Boy Mechanics

. READING THE GAS METER By Grant M. Hyde " "What does the man do when he reads the gas meter. Daddy?" "He finds out fromts little clockface dials how many cubic feet of -gas we have used during the

simple that you could do it yourself,

! "A meter is a little motor

(through which the gas flows from

the mam into our house-pipes. It ,-has wheels, like olockwork, which are turned around by a little fan

i revolved by the gas as it movejj

taiong mrougn ine pipe, xne ciock' (work is geared so that It records .i . .i j . . i

;uy lurniug ins nanus on tie uiais. ' "In reading the gas meter, you will notice that there are five dials jmarked as follows: cubic foot.

z cuwc leet, i nunarea, l tnousana,

and 10 thousand. The two top dials are not read for they are test dials. Each dial has one tiand, -and you read it by taking Ihe number that the hand has just passed and placing the figures as 10. thousands, 1 thousands, and hundreds. In the

hands shown in the illustration, for example, the 10 thousand dial is between 3 and 4 (has just passed 3);

it therefore reads 30.000. The

thousand hand reads 3,000, and the hundred reads 100. The meter reading is therefore 33,100.. The meter runs continuously, and each month consumption is figured by subtracting last month's reading from this month's. For instance, if it now reads 33,100 and read 32.800 last month, we have used 300 cubic feet during the month. Some meters have but one test dial 'and Others

e;eclr;c:ty and water bills by read-, ing their meters themselves. You can do it for me, sonny." Copywright, 191'0, by J. II. Millar

What Shall 1 Be?

Answered fjr Girls

FACTORY WORKER l!y Caroline M. Weirich lUnrtco Laiiten was not able to

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are Boraeuraus maraeu uiousuimo. i fmjsa uer high school course and

10 thousands, and 100 thousands.

but you read them in the same way. "An electric meter works in about the same way. with four dials turned by a small electric motor that runs whenever we use lights fast or slowj depending on the number of lights and the amount of current

passing around its coils into our house wires. It reads. in kilowatt hours, and its dials are read like those of the gas meter. If it has five dials, the last to the right is a test dial and is not read.

. "Many people check their gas,

rc Lojy-

there was but one thing to do, get

out into the world and make a living. Madge had watched the steady progress of her next door neighbor, Ellen Terry, from her place as an apprentice in the Brown Clothing Factory to Service Director. A similar career should be her aim.

She went straight to the mills. After considering the opportunities of several places, she sought work under Ellen Terry. Two courses presented themselves: the first was for a high

school graduate. There the candi

date was put through a program of

work in every, department in the factory. If after a period of suh work, the pupil proved herself worthy of a responsible position,

she might be given a job which put her in line for a position as an em-

work, she was put into the main part of the factory, the Assembly

room Here she did not stop learn

ing. But by keeping her eyes open

and doing some studying out of

hours she made herself able to fill any vacancy in the room. It was

not long until she had charge of

the clerical end of her section at a

salary of $80.

Her reports to the Planning and Efficiency Department were so

much above the usual standard that one morning Mr. Bklwards, head of

the Planning and Efficiency Work,

stood at her desk. "You will re

port to me, hereafter, Miss Lauten, as you will have charge of all the girls in the factory. Your salary will be $125." The Planning and Efficiency De

partment was considered the brains

to spoil the effect. If you want very gay one use a black cover, sateen or cambric. A TEA SET If you have a chafing dish or a tea service in your room to help in entertaining your girl friends after school, why not make a table cover and small napkins to use with them? I , . Use course, unbleached linen. Cut tiny flower bouquets or baskets of flowers for a length of chinti'that has a small, bright design. Sew these chintz figures to one corner of each of the napkins and to the four corners of the table cover just as you put them on the pillow cover. The stitches will hardly show if you make them fine enough. Last of all, fold very narrow hems and cross stitch them down with , mercerized cotton that matches the prevailing color of the chintz design. The set will be really beautiful, and so different. FOR PHONE NUMBERS The scraps of cretonne that are left will make you a dainty telephone directory. An oblong piece of heavy cardboard about the size of a cabinet photograph is the foundation. Cut a piece of cotton wadding to fit one side, glue it on, and then cover the whole with some sort of firm lining material. Cut a back and front of cretonne, fold the edges in, and oversew them to-

ployment manager

worker. Since Madge was not a high school graduate, she adopted the second course. She went into the Trade school of the Mills, where she was paid a fair wage while learning. First, an idea of handsewing was acquired. This was un-

or a service of the factory

pleased indeed.

and But

Madge was she did not

allow her success to turn her head and studied and worked all the harder. Now she is assistant to Mr. Edwards and has her heart set on his present position when he is promoted to General Manager. Copyright, 192J, by J. II. Millar

gether, covering the cardboard.

Last of all glue a small note book .

or pad to the center of the cre

tonne, add a colored cord, and hang it up beside the telephone. Copywright, 1920, by J. II. Millar

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