The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 25, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 19 October 1911 — Page 6

Syracuse Journal

W. G. CONNOLLY, Publisher. SYRACUSE INDIANA I, i ■■ ‘ » ‘BEAUTIES OF SUNNY SPAIN •Fair Maidens of Andalusia Often Walt Years for Matrimony, Though Not Willingly. Andalusian girls are, as a rule, singularly graceful, with small hands and feet. Their complexions are pale, (with the exception of those who live ■by the sea or in mountainous places, euch as Ronda, where the women have always been noted tor their beauty. Some say the Spanish skin is the most perfect in Europe, and Gautier describes it as "a golden pallor,” but the Andalusian girl Is "very anxious to hide its fine texture ■under a coating of powder. Weather seems to have little effect on it, for It ■neither freckles nor discolors. Despite their attractions Andalusian girls only marry after very long engagements, sometimes lasting ten years. One girl who has been engaged four years has a lover who comes from a distance twice a year to see her, and yet he has never once mentioned matrimony. He lives with his mother, and no doubt keeps her. for Spanish mothers have great Influence over their sons. When at last a marriage takes place., the bride has often to reside with her mother-in-law, to whom custo requires her to be most subservient. Extremely devoted to their own mothers, Andalusian girls are in no hurry to marry should their doing so require them to live at any distance from their old home. On the other hand, they do not appreciate having to wait ten years, but as they say, ‘‘No hay remedio” (there is no remedy). What Others Are Doing. Somebody has thought it worth while to say that gossip Is as necessary to a woman as food and drink. Why the matter of sex should be dragged in is a mystery. Everybody knows that old women belong to both sexes. The creature who simply lives for gossip is as likely to be found in breeches as petticoats. We all know men whose flow of tittle tattle is not to be surpassed by any feminine ingenuity or industry. Such people, who make an occupation of. what ought to be an amusement, are, fortunately, the exceptions to ordinary existence. But in a decent and modest .way we all love gossip. / Why not? “The pr/per study of mankind is man” —to tata the first of a dozen much-worn quotations that fly to the pen. A taste for gossip means nothing more than an interest In humanity. To like to know what other folks are doing and saying and thinking is not malicious or undignified. It is merely a proof that you are healthily alive. Os course), you can overdo it. You can be too greedy in the matter of gossip, as with other good and stimulating things. But a modest por- , tion serves to keep you in good spirits. To live for it is as contemptible as to be a drunkard. An Island for Duck Shooters. Little Singer Island, only 10 by 22 feet, will be sold this week for $15,000, representing the highest price paid for a piece of land of such small dimensions ever to be recorded in Princess Anne county. , Although Little Singer island only contains 220 square feet .of land rising from the waters of Black Bay, Virginia, its value lies in the fact that it forms a natural battery for shooting ducks, and is located at the lead to the great Virginia and Carolina ducking grounds. The title Includes a strip of land on the mainland, which, how- , ever, has no particular value except for the erection of a clubhouse. —Norfolk Landmark. I The Child That Is Nagged. A child that is nagged at never holds Itself well. Its deportment betrays its mental attitude, and to the trained eye of the physical training instructor shoulder and apologetic air tell their own story<4n the case of a child whose physique otherwise reveals no sign of constitutional ’ The attitude of the body discloses in a marvelous way that of the mind, and many parents would be astonished to learn that the bearing of their children reflected their home influences In a very unflattering light Superior. Little Nelly told little Anita what she termed a “little fib.” Anita—A fib is the same as a story, and a story is the same as a lie. Nelly—No, lt‘s not. Anita-—Yes, it is, because my father said so, and my father is a professor at the university. Nelly—l don't care if he is. My father is a real estate man and he knows more about lying than your father does. —United Presbyterian. Primitive Reasoning. L : “Did you sell your vote?” “No, siree. I voted fur that, feller •cause I liked him.” , “But I understood he gave you >10.” “Well, when a man gives you S4O •taln’t no more’n natural to like him,, Is it?” —Washington Star. Increasing Tomato Crop. i The tomato crop is materially increased if, after the third tier of tomaItoes have set, we cut off every leaf, Heaving nothing but the tomatoes on |the vine.

NEW NEWS of YESTERDAY I "=l By E. J. EDWARDS I '=i

Big Loan Without Security

How John J. Astor Let Gerrit Smith Have $300,000 on the Latter's Word That He Would Execute Mortgage Bond. “I have often thought that the finest exhibition of business confidence of which I have ever had knowledge was the lending of some three hundred thousand dollars to Gerrit Smith by John Jacob Astor simply upon Mr. Smith's promise that he would, as soon as practicable, execute a mortgage bond as security for the loan.” So said to me a few years before his death, in 1902, Judge Noah Davis, who presided over the Tweed trial, was chief justice of New York state from 1874 until 1887, when he resigned, and in 1867 was beaten by Roscoe Conkling for the United State's senate by only two votes in the Republican caucus. “I knew Gerrit Smith well, not only by reputation as one of the the great abolitionists, but personally,” continued Judge Davis. “He was a man of very great ability and very large wealth, and he had some very peculiar Ideas about the ownership of wealth which were almost those of a socialist. He lived up to his ideas, too. for he gave away much the greater part of his Income and many thousand acresof land which he inherited from his father. I suppose that the land which came to Gerrit Smith would, if it were in the possession of the family at this time (about 1895) probably be worth from fifteen to twenty million dollars. It was situated in central New York state, and before he began to give away Smith was one of the country’s largest land owners. And for all he was a radical on the slavery question, he was one the three men —all New Yorkers, Horace Greeley and Commodore Vanderbilt being the other two —who signed the bail bond by means of which Jefferson Davis was released from Fortress Monroe pending a trial for treason. “Wjell, Mr. Smith was very suddenly brought into grave financial peril at the time of the first great national panic, that of 1837; he was then forty years of age. He had assets enough, for he was the owner of many thousands of acres of land, but he, like many other men of wealth, was in desperate need of ready money, in his extremity he thought, of John Jacob Astor, with whom his father had been associated in the fur trade and with whom Gerrit Smith had had some business dealings. Therefore be went to -New York and saw Mr. Astor, saying that he needed a large amount of money, ready cash, in order to prevent bankruptcy. “Mr. Astor, who was a very careful man in all his business engagements and always looked with especial scrutiny at security which was offered to him for a loan, asked Mr. Smith how much money he needed, and was told that about three hundred thousand lollars, which was a large sum for that time, would be required. Mr. Astor then asked what security could be given for so large a loan as that, and Mr. Smith replied that he would give the security of bonds and mortgage

Rescued a Great Classic

James T. Fields’ Story of the Way In Which He Came to Get “The Scarlet Letter” From Nathaniel Hawthorne. One of the great American publishers of yesterday was James T. Fields (1817-81) of Boston. As one account of his life has it: "His charming personal qualities, his sympathy, his liberality to all with whom be dealt, and bls unquestioned literary judgment drew to him most of the best known American authors of the time, and he became the publisher of Longfellow, Hawthorne, Emerson, Holmes, Whittier and Lowell, besides introducing “Tennyson and Browning to American readers even before their true worth was recognized in England.” Mr. Fields edited the Atlantic Monthly for eight years, beginning in 1862, and the last ten years of his life he spent in authorship and lecturing. In the course of a conversation I had with this distinguished publisher on the day of his return from Europe in 1879—his last trip across the Atlantic—l asked him if it were true, as I had heard, that he had rescued the manuscript of Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter” from what seemed to be a permanent burial place. “Yes,” he said, “and I have alluded to that incident in one of my lectures. I had been to see Hawthorne at Salem; he was then an officer in the custom house there, and although he had done nothing in a literary way to make him famous, I was in hopes that he might have by him a manuscript dr that I might persuade him to write something which would be available for publication. He told me that he had nothing, but just, as 1 was about to leave he opened a drawer and took from it some manuscript, toying to me that he was doubtful

upon several thousand acres of land which he owned in the vicinity of Peterboro, N. Y.. his home. “Now, usually Mr. Astor would-have required a search of title to be made so that it could be known whether or not the borrower had good title to the real estate which he offered as security. In addition, Mr. Astor would have Insisted on a good many other legal formalities; it was unprecedented for him to make a loan and deliver over the money until he had the security tn hand. But he simply said to Mr. Smith that he would lend him the money and that Mr. Smith upon his return to Peterboro could have mortgage bonds made out and executed, recorded and sent to Mr. Astor. A little while later Gerrit Smith started home with the three hundred thousand dollars and Mr. Astor had no other security for it that Gerrit Smith’s word. But he knew Gerrit Smith and realized that his word wa« as good as his bond. “As soon as possible after Smith returned to his home he had the mortgages made out and executed and instructed a clerk to send them s o Mr. Astor. But through some accident the mortgages were not sent to Mr. Astor. They were overlooked and then forgotten. Nor did Mr. Astor ever remind Mr. Smith by letter that he had not fulfilled his promise to execute and deliver mortgage bonds securities for the loans. “Nearly a year passed and Mr. Smith was again in New York when, meeting Mr. Astor, he spoke of the loan, saying that he hoped to repay it

Test of the Mind’s Ability

W. A. Camp, Long Manager of New York Clearing House, Demonstrated the Limitations of the Best of Mathematicians. For nearly a quarter of a century, or from 1870 until 1894, William A. Camp was the manager of the New York Clearing House association. He was a little man with bright, dark eyes, bushy eyebrows, thick hair which in the later years of his life became iron-gray, and a grizzly beard. Mr. Camp was a conspicuous personality in the financial world of New York, not only because he was the manager of the largest clearing house association of the world, but also on account of a delightful quaintness of personality and the whimsical and odd way he had of looking at life, and especially the life of the clearing house. “Although this Institution is called the New York Clearing House association,” he said to me one day, “yet it. is, in fact, the great clearing house of the United States. I should say that at least one-half of the commerce of the United States passes through this institution in the form of drafts, checks and other negotiable instruments. You would suppose, therefore, that somewhere in the United States I could find a young man who would be able to count without assistance of pencil and paper, in excess of 1,000.

whether it was worth publishing or not. He also said that he had been occupied with it in his leisure moments while serving as surveyor of the port of Salem. “I tucked the manuscript in my pocket and took it away with me. it was the manuscript of the ‘Scarlet Letter.’ AH the world knows the rest of the story. I have always felt proud that I should have been the discoverer of that immortal classic.” “But.” said I, “I have heard, Mr. Fields, that you were so doubtful about getting your money back from the publication of the romance that you actually ordered the work to be stopped and the types distributed.” "There was just enough color of truth in that report to account, for its circulation, and yet it was very wide of the mark,” said Mr. Fields. "In those days (1850) we often printed directly from type, not taking the trouble to stereotype a book. After a few thousand copies of “The Scarlet Letter’ had been printed we were so doubtful about the work becoming popular, although we were sure that it would have a good sale among cultivated people, that we did order the printer to distribute the types. But the instant the book appeared we knew that it was to be a popular success; any publisher can tell by the feel of the market whether a book is a dead failure or not. So we ardered the printers to reset the copy as rapidly as possible and the printing of additional copies was begun in the course of a few days. You can judge how accurate our forecast was when 1 tell you that the book sold nearly six thousand copies in a little over three weeks. And the fortune and the fame of Nathaniel Hawthorne were ly that publication secured.” (Copyright, 1911, by E. J. EdwrJr<J». AU Rights Reserved.)

in the course of a year or two. Then Mr. Astor said to him that he had not as yet received the mortgage bonds. As soon as Mr. Smith heard that h« returned to Peterboro, made search, discovered the mislaid mortgages, and then instantly went back to New York with the mortgages in his pocket and delivered them personally to John Jacob Astor. “I don’t believe,” concluded Judge Davis, “that John Jacob Astor at any other time in his career made a business loan to any one without having first received the securities, either in the form of mortgages, collateral or well endorsed notes.’’ t (Copyright, 1911, by E. J. Edwards. AV Rights Reserved.) Killed Lion With Pocket Knife. With a pocket knife a Texas man, Juan Morales, killed a mountain lion a few days ago after the beast had torn his right arm until it hung helpless. Morales had just left his home and hearing the screams of his children returned to find the lion in the middle of the floor over the dead body of the three-year-old boy. The othei two children were unhurt. The lion ’ sprang at him, and Morales, maddened with-rage at the death of his child managed to get out his pocket knife, the large blade of which opened with a spring, and with his left hand began stabbing the lion and finally pierced its heart. Big Sisters and Brothers. The Big Sisters Society is the name of an organization in New York on the same lines as the Big Brothers, a society of Jewish young men. Most of the applicants for the Big Sisters Society are working women, willing to sacrifice their time of leisure tc help less fortunate sisters.

But I have never been able to find e young man of that capacity. “I learned a year or two after I became an officer of the Clearing House association that I could not count 1e excess of 500 or 600 without having pencil and paper before me. And when I learned that fact in reference to myself, it occurred to me that this institution afforded a good opportunity of testing the capacity of the human mind to count consecutively. There are, of course, some phenomenal, almost abnormal, intellects which are able to count without the assistance ol pencil and paper far up in the thousands. Zenas Colburn, the mathematical prodigy, could do that, although b« never knew how he did it. “One day there came to see me a young man from somewhere in the west who had been recommended to me highly because he was of excep tlonal capacity as a mathematician. “He asked me to test him with columns of figures. I made two parallel columns, each one containing, I should say, 15 separate sets of figures, some of them in hundreds —as, for instance, 895. Then I put tfie example before him. he looked at it a minute, and, with a sort of whiff of his breath, set down the correct answer, having added the figures almost in the twinkling of an eye. “I tested him the same way with complicated examples in subtraction, multiplication and division and he gave me the correct answers almost in an instant. “Well, I said to him that those were remarkable qualifications, but what 1 was looking for was a young man who could count without assistance above 1,000. “He seemed disposed to laugh at my suggestion, intimating that it was easy enough to do that. “I told him to go ahead, sit there in my presence, begin with one and count up. He got along all right until he reached 600. Then he began to stagger mentally. I saw him eye a pen oil and pad of paper, but I would not let him have these aids. You see, having got up to 600, he wanted to start all over again. He broke down completely before he reached 700, although I think fie went farther in his mental count than any young man whom I ever tested. “I presume that a young man of mathematical ability can train himself to count much higher than 1,000, but my experience as manager of the clearing house has satisfied me that the average intelligent young man, even though he be possessed of fair mathematical ability, cannot count consecutively without aid much above 600 or 700. “Os course, from on* point of view, this is of no consequence in the management of this association. But I have heard so much said about the capacity of the human mind to grasp figures that I have always tested that capacity when opportunity afforded. I think I have demonstrated that it is practically impossible for the human mind to count consecutively and without aid much above 1,000. And I have never found anyone—banker or employe—whose mind has been able to grasp the magnitude of the figures which represent the transactions of this association, for they reach far up Into the trillions.” (Copyright, 1911. by E. J. Edward*. Al! Rights Reserved.)

MI Sil 800 DAYS

Present Congress Like Those 01 Early Day.

Long Sessions May Equal Those in Washington’s Time—Officers Prepare Estimates on Cost of Operating the Navy Washington.—President Taft is certain to have at least two more sessions of Congress in this administration, one nq*t December and another in the December following. In the history of the country only two other presidents have had six sessions of Congress in one administration. Grant had six in his first administration and Hayes had six in his term. In the duration of congress in an administration, however, President Taft probably will break all records except that established in the first administration of George Washington, when the government was in such a state that it was exceedingly difficult to get a quorum in congress. Since the adoption of the constitution of 1789 only seven congresses have sat in excess of 400 days in two years. The first of these was the first congress under George Washington which not only had to legislate for the new country, but had to establish a, system of procedure for congress. This session lasted 519 days. The second was the twenty-seventh congress, which came into being with the administration of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler. That congress undertook to revise the tariff, with the result that three sessions lasted 434 days. The next long session was held by the Fortieth congress, the second congress in the administration of Andrew Johnson. Reconstruction legislation and Johnson’s impeachment dragged out this congress for 705 days in two years, the longest congress in the history of the country. The next longest session was 20 years later, when the Democrats undertook to revise the tariff in the first Cleveland administration. The congress lasted 412 days. In the Fiftythird congress, in the second Cleveland administration, both tariff and monetary legislation served to prolong congress through three sessions, lasting 447 days. In the Fifty-sixth congress, which was the first of the McKinley administration, the Spanish war was prosecuted and congress met in three sessions, lasting 435 days. The Sixtieth congress, which was the first of President Taft’s administration, also tasted 435 days. These are the seven Instances in which one congress has sat in excess of 400 days. The longest single session of any one congress was 345 days in the Johnson administration. Record of 800 Days Probable. Assuming that the next session of congress, beginning in December, will last until the middle of June, 1912, as such sessions usually do just prior to the national conventions, and also assuming that the short session of congress, which meets in December, 1912, will continue till March 4, 1913, as such short sessions always do, the present congress, the Sixty-first, will be in active existence in excess of- 400 days. This will give Mr. Taft more than 800 days of congress during his four year term, a figure not exceeded by any other president except Washington and Johnson. Mere figures hardly afford an adequate basis of comparison between President Taft a.nd his predecessors with respect to meeting of congress in their administrations. Taking into consideration political conditions, probably the fairest comparison would be afforded by a close study of the second Cleveland administration, in which the Democratic party was in a process of pclitica’ disintegration, and the present administration, in which the Republican party has split on the rock of tariff revision. Notwithstanding the Wilson-Gorman act, which was so roundly denounced by President Cleveland, who refused to sign it, the Fiftyfourth congress, Which completed the second Cleveland administration, remained in session only 280 days, although it was Republican* while its predecessor was Democratic. Furthermore, it had no extraordinary sessions. Both of the congresses in the Taft administration have been ushered in with extraordinary sessions. Even the problems growing out of the Spanish war did not detain the Fif-ty-sixth congress, the last of the McKinley administration, in Washington wore than 276 days. Following the ieath of McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt had four congresses prior to turning over his office to William H. Taft. The Fifty-seventh congress lasted 305 lays. The Fifty-eighth congress 263 days, the Fifty-ninth congress, which passed the Hepburn rate law, the pure food law and the meat inspection law, ran 299 days, and the Sixtieth congress, 268 days. As stated, the Sixtyfirst congress, which ushered in the Taft administration, ran 435 days. FIGURE ON NAVAL CASH. Estimates* for the maintenance of the navy for the next fiscal year have been completed with one important exception, namely, the provision fofi the construction of new ships. This item has been permitted to remain open awaiting the personal consideration of Secretary Meyer. It is pretty well understood that the secretary will adhere to the program which has governed for the last tew years to suggest the addition of two first class battleships and a corresponding number of submarines, torpedo boat destroyers, colliers and other tuxiliaries. These battleships will

probably be of about the size of me New Y’ork and Texas, being laid down at New York and Newport News, though strong pressure is being brought to bear to have the size increased to 30,000 tons, in order to give the ships more armor protection than is planned for the New York type, as well as more and heavier guns. It is urged that the recent striking tests of the effect of high powered naval ordnance upon armor belts as dem-* onstrated in the firing upon the San Marcos, once known as the Texas, has made it plain that none of the battleships now afloat is safe against such guns as it carries. The practical objections, however, to further increase in the size of battleships, such as the limited number of harbors that would be open to such big ships, and their excessive cost and difficult handling are believed to incline the majority of the members of the boards which submit recommendations to the secretary of the navy for new construction to a conservative course at present. While the dreadnoughts Florida and Utah, which will soon be ready for active service, are the largest vessels in the United States navy, they will be manned by smaller crews than many other American battleships. The complement of each of the new ships will be 824. sailors and 66 marines.'exclusive of officers, while, for instance, the battleship Arkansas is manned by 901 bluejackets and 73 marines, ar.d the battleship Connecticut, flagship of the Atlantic fleet, by 892 sailors and 6? marines. Naval experts say this is be cause the batteries of the new dreadnoughts are more homogeneous and consequently require fewer men to man them. i ' Despite the fact that ihe crew of any one of the great battleships is equal in number to the population of a small town, the navy department foresees no difficulty in supplying the dreadnoughts which will soon be add cd to the navy with adequate crews A sufficient number of recruits already ifrs.been enlisted to give the •Utah its full complement. About 590" men have been assigned to the Fiot • : da, and long before that vessel -is ready 'for sea the remainder of the 321 bluejackets will have been secured. WAY TO STOP EGG WASTE. To stimulate a movement for the proper caro ,of the egg product and thereby reduce the $45,000,000 loss annually sustained by farmers and other egg producers, the departtment ol agriculture has been- conducting an in vestigation during the last year, the results of which have just been announced. This loss is largely due to improper handling on the farm" and at the country store. It is believed that the keynote has been struck in the solution of the problem by bringing about the organization of the egg buyers with the co-operation of the state authorities to the traders in eggs to buy on a quality basis only. This means substitution of the “loss-off” method of buying for the prevailing “case count” system. The movement has been rapidly spreading into many states and the officials art confident of success. Suggestions, art offered in a bulletin issued to farm ers. the country merchants and cash buyers, railroad officials and carload shippers. Incidentally it is pointed out that the products of the American hen aggregate in value $620,000,000 annually—*a sum equal to the value of the hay crop, the wheat crop, the combined value of' oat a,nd poptato crop, and nearly nine times the value of the tobacco crop of 1908. BLISS SCORES THE ARMY. ' The maneuver camps of the army under present plans, are sharply criticized by Brig. Gen, Tasker H. Bliss, commanding the department of California, as failing to. accomplish their primary purpose of training the soldiers under simulated war conditions. In a report to the war department Gen. Bliss also points out that there is a “wasteful and indefensible use oi the nation’s money” in the transporta tion to these encampments of militia organizations which have not received the preliminary training essential to participation in the broader maneuver instruction. Orders published weeks or months in advance, Gen. Bliss says, announce the general details for the movement of troops and scope of instructions. Quartermasters, commis saries and other staff officers of the regular army are thus enabled leisure ly to establish what in time of war would be considered a semipermanent camp. Gen. Bliss urges that the maneuver camps be developed to afford more practical training under campaign conditions for the regular army and a real test of the efficiency of the organized militia. None of the militia organizations attending the encampment held in California last year, Gen. Bliss declares, was instructed sufficiently to take up maneuver work. There also were a large number of absentees from the enlisted force of the organizations. In the light of this experience he recommends that no militia organization be permitted to attend the maneuver encampment unless 90 per cent of the enrolled strength be present and unless the same proportion shall have received a thorough preliminary training. Artists In Glass Eyes. Glass eyes are made principally in Lauscha, a German town 20 miles from Coburg. The trade is a flourishing one, with constant improvements, of value though in minor details. As in many occupations in Europe, the artisans hand down their acquired knowledge and skill to younger members of the same family.

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The Angry Man—l see the scoundrel th your face. The Calm Man —That’s a personal reflection. * RASH ALL OVER BABY’S BODY Itched So He Cojjld Not Sleep “On July 27, 1909, we left Boston for a trip to England and Ireland, taking baby with us. After being in Ireland a few days a nasty rash came out all over his body. We took him to a doctor who gave us medicine for him. The troubld started in the form of a rash and was all over baby’s body, head and face, at different times. It Irritated, and he would scratch it with all his might. The consequence was it developed into sores, and we were afraid it would leave nasty scars on his face. “When we reached England wo took baby to another doctor, who said his condition was due to change of food and climate, and gave more medicine. The rash got no better, and it used to Itch and burn at night so bad that the child could not sleep. He was completely covered with it at different times. It was at this time that my. mother advised us to try Cuticura Soap and Ointment. After using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment for about nine months the places disappeared. There are not any scars, or other kind of disfigurement, and baby is completely cured by the Cuticura Soap and Ointment. We have no further trouble with baby’s skin. Nothing stopped the itching, apd allowed baby to sleep but Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment.” (Signed) Mrs. Margaret Gunn, 29 Burrell St., Roxbury, Mass., March 12, 1911. Although Cuticura Soap and Olnfr meat are sold everywhere, a sample of each, with 32-page book, will be mailed free on application to Cuticura,” Dept. 14 K, Boston. This One Is on Hugh. “When I came into the Union station the other morning, after traveling all night,” said Hugh Reilly, at the Commercial club, “I went into the barber shop. ‘When you spend the night in a sleeping car,” I said to the barber, *lt doesn’t improve your personal appearance, does it?’ “‘Well.’ said he, as he looked me over, ‘I don’t know how you looked when you started, but perhaps you’re right”—Washington Herald. X THE TRUTH ABOUT BLUING. Talk No. 3. Avoid liquid bluing. Liquid bluing is largely water. Water is adulteration, adds nothing to real value to the consumer. Think it over. Be wise. Use RED CROSS BALI* BLUE, the blue that’s all blue; make* the laundress smile on wash day. AT ALL GOOD GROCERS. The Kind. “Don’t lauh at Miss Gladys Gooseberry as trivial. She is a scientific woman.” “She scientific? What kind?” “You must admit she la a chemical Blonde.” « \ _