HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1919-1-9, Page 2Mother is Taking Her Chance.
I wonder if yon have noticed hi
70Or neighborhood these pat few
months an increasecj tendency on the
part of herne-keeping warner, towards
self-expression? That is, ,a greater
iumber xf married: women, nothers
and excellent housekeepers who are
beginning to do some of the things
they have wanted to do all their lives
but have never done because of the
press of housework? I have seen
quite a little of it an my own little
circle, and I have been wondering if
lAot do min, of the things whit.
has eecretly longed to (to for vaere,
but couldn't beeause of the claims of
othees? 'Shewfll do taem better
than she ctuld have dons. yeses ago,
for age and experience have taught It is just about 15 years ago, that
her their value, the Wright Brothers made their first
Would it not be a splendid thing for successful flight in an airplane, and
us to think that. school daynever now people are talking about flying
are over ?—D.H. across the Atlantic. Machines lettere
been built in the last year capable of
Hot or Cold. a speed of about three miles a minute;
An aversion for lukewarmness, an aviator has risen 28,900 feet in the
h tl er in matters of and air, and.we have airplanes capable of
RAPID PROGRESS
OF ART OF FLYING
AIRPLANE IS ONLY FIFTEEN
YEARS OLD
•
First Flight Lasted Fifty -Nine Sees
onds, Present Record is Twenty -
Four Hours.
w e
servatious to give them what they re-
quirecl. By this time they had gone se
fur that it was impuosible to discourt
age them, and so they pereevered until
on December 17, 1903, they produced
maehine which rose from the ground
by means of its own poweie made
short circle and alighted safely.
It was near* two years later be-
fore their machine was capable of fly-
ing six miles, This accomplished, the
Wrights had all the capital they re-
quired at their disposal. They were
on the highway to fame and fortune,
and never afterward were they obliged
to look back.
THE FUME OF
THE SUBMARINE
MAY RECLAIM OCEAN'S HIDDEN
it is "purely local," or if it is nation- religious allegiance oe in affairs of lifting 15 tons. The single flip t ie-
TREASURES.
wide. diet, is characteristic of the race. cord is 24 hours, as compared with the
For anstazice, there is one woman And the hostess makes no mistake first 59 seconds' flight of Wilbur
of thirty -sag who has always wanted when she serves a beverage either Wright. It is doubtful if in the his-
to study art. Up entil this fall her piping, steaming hot or very, very tory of invention there has been any
artistic instinet has expressed itself cold; but when the tea. is brought in such record of progress in an equal
in cutting over her old dresses for neither hot or cold, but just in be- time.
daughter, and cutting down father's tween, she is sure of pleasing no one. In view of the thousands of lives
old pants for son. The dresses have One of the first rules •that the pro- that have been lost.in airplane crash -
been really rather wonderful for style, fessional cook is given is to servees it is worth noting that Wilbur
and all cut without a pattern. The hot things hot, and cold things old, Wright lived to succumb years later
mother had excellent edeas, but with and to serve nothing in between, One to typhoid, never having had an :mai-
m training whatever she elltd, not wonders why this is. One wonders dent, and that his brother Orville still
know how to express them. This fall Why, since we have been told that
. survives and bids fair to reach a ripe
•
she made a great resolve. Across
the road from her home is a school
house where night classes are held.
Also Increase Food Supply and Aid
Navigation and Undersea
Engineering.
Will the submarine at the peace cou-
into
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kik thc Land itcstcd
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By Flety Tolbert Barnard
CHAPTER L
- Now that the iiarvest was over the
land looked tired to Ward Townsend.
The impression first surprised, then
amused him, : •
"I shouldn't wonder, old farm!" he
yawned. "That was. some. crop!"
The impression taeraisted, delaying
his sleep after he was in bed. After
a restless hour he rose. He had a
rich imagination but as a rule he was
not fanciful and ho laughed a little
at himself that his searching look at
the moon -flooded acres did not exor-
cise the foolish mood, instead, tb the
look of weariness there seemed now
to be added a curious expectancy,
"What ails you?" he suddenly de-.
mended aloud. "What do you want?"
After a long minute he leaned out of
the open window murmuring a good-
natured threat. "I'm coming to
find out!"
He dressed swiftly and was pre-
sently wandering over the farm like
a friendly ghost but with this dif-
ference; he was not trying -to deliv-
er a message; he was trying to ret
ceivo one.
So still was the night - that two
hours later there came to him across
erence be givept from thetable tile alertly inarticulate land a faint
• ythrnie staccato roundelay, He darned if I don't think the spirit of particular pangs are now forgotten;
Townsend laughed and indicated his
farm by a Motion of his' head. "This
land has been asking. something of
rite to -night. That is why I
couldn't sleep. Possibly I'm touch-
ed with fatdgue live& though not
Ito any serious degree, I fancy! When
1 I looked out of the Window just bet
fore .going to bed, the land did look
tired. I eouldn't get it out of my
mind. Another look only made it
!worse so I dressed and came out to
•I discover the thing it was Putting up
WAR HAS AIDED
SURGEON'S SKILL
NERVES RE-EDUCATED, SKIN
AND BONE TRANSPLANTED
Wonderful Achievements of .Array
Doctors Are Result of Experience
in the Battle Zones.
l‘lodern surgery dates feom the,
introduction of auaestheties. Is
not. easy nowadays to realize the
to me de I collide- • Sounds crazy but
r horrors of hospital practice, when
I'd been all over the place when
healed Queen hitthig, it off a mile every movement of the Surgeon's knife
away, and came to the gate just to severed the patient's soul as well as
watch you pass." his body. Prof; George Wilton, the
The older man sat quite still for second patient on whom the famous
several n-xinutes before he asked Syme performed his operation 'of
amputation at the ankle -joint (first
carried out in 1842), has left on record
his emotions during the ordeal.
"During the operation," wrote Wile
steady: •
"What are you going to do tibout
Townsend's voice was both amused
ter—not a - furrow of fall plowing!
and challenging when he answered:
And I shall let it play nex:t summer.
"I shalnelet the land rest this win -
with a fascinated curiosity. Of the
son, "I watched all the surgeons did
'ling -
agony it occasioned rwill-say not .
Then I'll go- on- with ray heaenmg,- I
have tried out the intensive farniing Suffering so great as I underwent cane
I learned at the Ag and have proved not be expressedin words, thus,
it to be successful for six years but fortunately, cannot be recalled. The
the waste basket of civilization—ban- 1.),
thi farm was tryin to remain me but the black whirlwind of emotion,
ned as an "intolerable thing —or wi was in the orchard anefor a second
it remain a, member "persona grate of he thought he was not alone, that that all work and no play is no bet-
ter for land than it is. for a boy."
the navies of the world? What is the some other prowler Was sharing his "Ever read your Bible, Ward?"
iced drinks are not entirely beneficial, old wee. He was in one accident, in future status of the submarine? vigil Listening intently, he relax -
and it has even been suggested that which. he suffered a broken leg, his Fighting the U -Boat and the cow-, ed: chuckling to himself, -
- • silence. Townsend stared. "Not
asked Aaron Dudley. .after another
cancerous 14TOWihs in the dig,estive companion, Lieut. Selfridge, losing his ardly beast•cunningly concealed within 'Guess I've go 'em to -night. That since :I wore knickers and got my
Among other subjects taught is system are sometimes produced of . life and becoming the first victim of
dressmaking design, and a part of very hot liquide—one wonders why an airplane disaster.
the course is lessons in drawing. She there should be an innate repugnance
A Toy Was the Inspiration.
decided to take up the work. Last, on the part a human folk for the i
i It is said that the interest of the
week she showed me a design for lace lukewarm drink or viaed. ,
which she had drawn, and which her This is as good an ettnianation as Wright Brothers in flying was first
teacher said was better than the work: anyone can suggest: Bacteria breed ,. aroused when their father presented
of some of the students in his day in lukewarm tempera.tures. Ththem with a toy called a helicoptre,
ey;
classes who had studied drawing for cannot breed as long as the tempern a fragile thing that would fly for a
is the Desert Queen, steetching eut
its sheer coat of steel has so engrossed Sunday -school lesson under my moth -
a bit over on the Dawson road."
civilization that the question of the
The Desert Queen was a thorough -
future 'Statue of this instrument of bred .Arabian mare, belonging to
warfare. has of necessity been defer- Aaron Dudley, Duzikard preacher,
red. Now, with the time ofteckoning successful farmer, storekeeper,
at hand i a great towering interregna aluminum -ware agent and incorrigia
ex.'s -commanding eye. Don't you
spoil our good friendship by trying , long, deliberate operations of to -day
to convert me!" He laid an affee-1 •
"I'm not likely to, Ward." Aaron vvere 'impracticable.
Horrors of Old-time Surgery.
bionate hand on the preacher's knee.
dropped a short, broad, practical- • If the hospital • was a torture-
tlon point emerges from the thin mists ble meddler in the affairs of his looking hand over the hand on
of the sea at the bow of the suborn-- neighborhood. Nor did the neigh- knee•and involuntarily picked lusj chamber then, the battlefield was an
meddler, for his meddling was like for closer inspection. in the pale rig
1.7.1 inferno. The visitor to the scene of a
ine; upon its slippery decks and evil- borhool resent the meddling or the
a • "You got a nice hand, Ward. Strong, great action (so weare toldy
h one
"You never can tell what you're go- breeding, and likewise did not long survive,
ts
the impending. inquisition, le se ec
eyed periscoPes is cast this shadow oi
that of Jethro, 11rloses' father-in-la'w, fine, knowing and skillful, A kind who went over the stricken field of
kills bacteria i any
In the famous case in Exodus, great -
she says, and "Tom and I thought I teaches the savage to drink water 1 of the boys, though years were to
searching sun of a reclaimed civilize- edh of thinking hand. No! I've notiged . Solferino) had an illusion of being on
that if folks are let alone, they gen- tile seashore; the miserable cries of
ing to be called on to do these days," already developed. - Hence instinct wonders never faded from the minds
full and free upon the culprit by the .dar to the advantage a the one en
I' tery led with. • erally get around to converting them -1 the wounded resembled 'the rhythmic
might as well be getting prepared. If from the pool ethoze water is cold and m ene before they betran the seri-
- n tion. .-Alrea.dy it has been decreed that "G d I
oo o d ecout," Ward Townsend selves. I just thought you might! i
I can do something With dressmaking to avoid the pool or spying where the ons study of the flying problem.
• . . Germaant must Pale and pay to tlie ut- mused, looking clown the road. "Who have been reading -Levitical law." lc Mot. 0 NAV s,
in the air from the blood that had
f A 7 e • there a It t
-as a sa ang
"'What has that to do with me an
ootintry down on ine?" surgeons, always far too few, was
been poured out. The progress of the
a fool whim that will get the whole
"i\Tothing v mused the older mani
. mar'ked by the breaking out here''
the horror of great darkness, and the
sense of desertion by God and man,
bordering close on despair, which
swept through my mind and over-
whelmed my heart, I can never forget,
however gladly I would do so.
Time was torture then, and the
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t • uite as unfavorable to their' short distance, The plaything nature
I'll be in better shape to take care of water is warm. Or rather nature At schoolin Dayton, Ohio, they most, for the diabolical carnage ongia says there are professors of phdosoe
myself. And, anyway, I've always makes the one palatable and the oth- said to have taken little interest in neered from the turrets of the Utoats phy but no philosophers nowadays?
wanted to draw. I hoped one of the er unpalatable. the literary or artistic branches of and from the chambers of the German Somebody sick and sent for him, .1
'children would take it up, but they ..-___---....-.:-- their study, but early showed them -
can't draw a straight line, so I am at , ITEMS OF INTEREST selves possessed of a strong analytical
it, after all these years wishing." — faculty and were keen on mathematics.
Then there is the woman next door. Relating to War Activities in Which Their school studies were cut short,
Before her marriage she studied mu- Women Have a Part. however, and they opened a small
a.--e.eie. But like many another woman In the NV o m e n' s War Museum now bicycle repair shop, which they later
music wed into the discard when the, on exhibition in the Whitechapel Art developed into a modest little factory-,
babies arrnree and dishwashing and GallerY, London, there is a stall de- Here; besides making a comfortable
Admiralty, where "unreetricted war- suppose. If -he sees me, be will
fare" was ordered by the arch-villians stop—he will be so blamed curious and added, with a sudden chuckle, I there of dismal wailing. War has
of the world. The case of the sub- to know what 'Im out at one o'clock "Yon bet the. whole country will be. been purged of half its horror by the
marine vs. the world is about to be ' for!" - As the hoof beats turned the. down on you. Three hundred .acresinvention of anaesthetics and of more
corner a quarter of a mile away, of the finest tend in Ontario lying .
called. growing nearer in a steady crescendo idle with no excuse that on a night by than half its destructiveness .of life
the aseptic technique, which pre -
Provide An Antidote. of rhythm, Ward added to himself, in the last half of the moon, the land 'd
marine may settle the future of the The old boy probably needs sleep out keeping you out ex the asylum. vents infection, and has put an end to
the "hospitaletliseases" that so puz-
Science that gave the world the sub- "If he doesn't see me, I'll not speak. looked tired! I have my task all cut
e • worse than I do." But maybe you'll feel different, come zled the pre-Listerian practitioners—
scrubbing stiffen, her fingers. The voted to the Queen's War Work. for living, they developed their rnechamc- ,,
girls are now fiftegeaand seventeen Women Fund. Among the many ex- al skill. Which of them thought of antidote that will completely neutral- He stood still, keenly conscious of ! morning. Seen Rhoda Brookes yet?" some of them actually proposed th
s orpion o le eep Y 1
periodical destruction of hospital
years old. They have had sever0.1 hibits is a portrait of Queen Mary the flying machine' first is a moot ize the "sting" of the hidden monster. that insistent'expectancy which hov- The hand Aaron Dudley was still
terms a piano lessons, and still have -which is being given to every woman point. It appears that the idea was' Indeed, it is a not altogether unlikely but whieb. ceased at his fence, notered behind hint and at either side looking at grew tense but ToNvn-
that when the curtain is fully lifted invading the road in front of him nos
buildings as a heroic remedy.
and the remarkable exploits of our touching the farm across the road.
naval scientists revealed it will be It came to him, with a fleeting smile,
found that the U-boat his been robbed that the land across the way was not
of its terror. Already we know of even dreaming, to say nothing -of
depth bombs, nets, smoke screens, pestering its poor owner with its
wakefulness, even supposing
"zigzagging," torpedoes, mines, sound d. =la
its owner were capable of being pes-
detectors. underwater guns, magnets tered by moon -haunted land!
and various other anti-submarine de- Aaron Dudley reined in sharply.
vices. In peace time the submarine "What you doing out here at this
may be made ineffectual altogether time of night, Ward?" he demanded
for wartime.without preliminaries. "Had a
That the submarine may serve hu- mutt to let me go by, didn't you?
inanity in peace times in various ways Well, Ivgot a mind to stop! Nothing
Already it develops that the submarine wrong . '
is contended by those in 'authority. Townsend opened the gate, going
out to stand between the wheels.
will lead the way in undoing some of "No, nothing is wrong. I'm just
the wrong of the U-boat. In the sal-
vaging of sunken ships and the re -
to be driven to practice. A'. naenth, in India who had a relative killed in in the mind of both for years before
ago the mother said over the Back the war. either ventured to speak of it serious.;
fence: tatie of the trades calling for the ly to the other for fear of good -
"I want the girls to begin their mu- greatest skill is the making of corn- natured ridicule.
eic, but I dread it. There is al- passes. This work had never been. un- However, the notion at last got it -
ways such a time to get them to dertaken by women until dilution of self expressed somehow, and they
practice. Seems funny, when I've labor became necessary. Of the in- set to work in their spare time with
always loved it and would give a finite number of delicate parts de- the conviction that in the development
good deal even now for their chance." mending absolute accuracy, women of the idea of the gliding plane lay
I thought of my faiencl who is have succeeded in making all but two
drawing. "Why don't you take the or three and even these will shortly be
chance?" I asked, "Let the girls wash
the dishes and mop the floor and you
take the music lessons. T„hey are
old enough to show some talent, if
they have it, and if they don't care
enough about music to practice for
love of it, why drive them to it? You
spend the money on yourself."
"Do you think I could?" she asked
Wistfully. "George wants me to.
We were talking about it just last
night."
"Of course you could," I said. "You
can play better now than either of the
girls."
A. half hour later I heard her at
the piano, and for two hours she
played scales and finger exercises.
At noon she called across, "My fin-
gers aren't near as stiff as I thought
they'd' be. I am going down this
afternoon to see about my lessons."
Perhaps the most surprising per-
son, though, is the quiet neighbor
around the corner who always comes
in if anyone is sick and does more in
ten minutes than the average woman
would do in an hour. She has had a
large family, six children. The
youngest is now fourteen, and they all
assume that mother is their personal
property and, incidentally, that she
isn't quite so wise as they are and
needs careful watching. They have
been in the habit all their pert young
lives of telling mother what she ought
to do and deciding things for her.
This fall she made a decision for her-
self. She decided to go down and
take the Red Cross nurses' aid course.
The family was aghast. The idea
of mother going down town to do
anything was beyond them. They
told her outright ,she was too old,
and politely hinted that she wasn't
bright enough. But for once mother
was "sot."
"I've always wanted to be a
nurse," she stuck to it, "and doctors
all say do better in a sick-roore
than lots of trained nurses. You
never can tell what's going to hap-
pen. Father may drop 'off any mi-
nute with his weak heart, and the
children won't want me in their
homes. I'irx going to get in .thape to
be independent if the need comes."
So mother carried the day, and is
now, and proudly tell everybody how
lessons she brings home, on her
bwfee-
a-week trips down to her classes.
The family think it quite the thing
now, and produly tell everybody how
the folks in charge of the course say
that mother is the best in the 0IaSe.
don't knowtwhether it is the war
which has. brought these women out
But whatever it / no it. has been adopted by TingIa,nd with
Or not,variations suited to the climate. and
(Andrea arc out of the way 'and mo -
the nationality of British maimed
Oar still has a long time to We, Why
to their credit.
The Roll of Honor of British women
who have given up their lives that Bri-
tain might endure now numbers 650
and the list is by no means complete.
This roll regards service and not rank
and shows that, to England, this "choir
invisible" is indeed immortal.
It is the intention of the British
Government to make the Imperial War
Museum a. record as complete as is
humanly possible of the way id which
England did her part in winning this
war. Every British subject should in-
form himself thoroughly as to what
this exhibit includes. Where each
works at high pressure to contribute
the part expected from him he is not
prepared to either know or appreciate
what other equally devoted patriots
have given as their share towards vic-
tory. This exhibit will do much to dis-
pel that lack and create genuine ap-
preciation of the fact that all work
was equally valuable.
During the war the corporation of
Glasgow employed women in its parks,
on its trametays, in its clerical de-
partments and its bacteriological la-
boratory.
Mrs. Burleigh Leach, Chief Control-
ler of Queen Mary's Auxilliary Corps
(Waac's) began doing "her bit" as one
of the first recruits of that splendid
mother of patriotic British women's
organizations the "Viromen's Legion."
That was in September, 1915, and
from that day Mrs. Leach has never
rested. When the armistice was sign-
ed Mrs. Leach had under her 40,000
women and girls of whom nearly 7,000
were in Fra,nce. She was about to ask
for 30,000 more, Although one age
limit was' eighteen years, Mrs. Leach
refused to plaee the other limit, say-
ing she had found that some women
at sixty were infinitely more useful
than others at forty. In spite of her
real importance Mrs. Leach Is one of
the most unassuming women imagfin
able, therefore delightful. she has
none of the pushing, masculine traits
of the woman who commandek badly.
Her smile is ready and her laugh in-
fectious and genial. Knowing Ger-
many thoroughly she prophesied the
war long before it came, Her husband
is BrIgadier-General Leach, in com-
mand of the famous South Wales
Borderers.
In November, 1914, the Mayor and
Council of the city of Lyons worked
out a system of re-educaticm for the
Vrenelt disabled soldiers and the work
was begun the following month et
L'eole,Toffre. That work spread even
at Mt early date all over France and
the secret of ultimate success. Their
first model, a sort of improved kite,
gave them reason to believe that they
were on the eight track, and after a
couple of experiments they built a
bigger model on the same principle.
Model followed model, each a little
bigger than its predecessor, and each
of them adding to the enthusiasm of
the young inventors.
How They Obtained Capital.
Then came the time when they had
spent about all their motley, without,
. . Millions of dollars' worth of 'vauable been driving quite a clip." When the
blanket had been put over the friend-
ly, spirited little mare and he had
come back to his place between the
'wheels Uncle Aaron added, "Can't
sleep,i h?"
comparatively shallow. Engineering "You having the same trouble?"
thought now is directed toward the de- smiled Townsend. "Or how do you
velopment of the best diving aud.lIft- account for being abroad at such an
ing apparatus for this work.
rversatlile preacher chuckled.
Peace Time Pursuits. ihoThur
" 'Abroad!' Real fine -sounding
Navigation under ice fields is an- word for driving to Dawson and back.
other peace pursuit mapped out for
the submarine. Portshbound with ice
fields during great parts of the year
may be made communicable, accord- got to wondering of she hadn't coni-
ing to submarine engineers. North mitted the u npardonabie sin!" He
pole explorations via the submarine laughed richly. "Got so worked up
also are hinted at, , the underwater over it, she had Henderson send fax
craft escaping the long rigorous de- "
lays due to ice fields. As submarines
in wartime have dynamited their way
ahead with torpedoes, so, it is held,
may they clear their pathway of ice
Ma SSes.
In engineering lines also it is ex- an important sin, can you ? inter-
pected to work revolutionary 'changes. rupted Aaron DuelleY. "Well, she
"In general submarine engineering didn't either, even if she was so
work," says an expert, "in the con- worried about herself.. She hasn't
struetion of breakwaters, lighthouses, spunk enough to have committed
driving piles and building abutments, even. a middling em if she had hap -
and in the deepening and improve- riled to have thought up one. It's
unny! Itt.• it would be if it wasn't
ment of waterways and harbors, the forlorn. Now don't you go telling
submarine will be utilized. In pros- that to folks for a good story. Not
'meting for and the recovery and sep- 'unless You happen to tun aerhss John
have been. found to be very efficient
seacoast )bottoms, submarine devices Wife and you're the only one with -
citation of gold from river beds and Tracey. He is the only man with a
out,Doinde,,yIoutalkgetot iihuleirecreceotn1
iYinirtecl?"
and economical. A new method of
proposed in which adaptations of the grinned Townsend.
laying tunnels under water has been asitee. e even proved it to her!
And then all the way home I've been
submarine will play a great part. Thus wondering if maybe she hasn't em-
it is evident that the submarine has mated the only unpardonable atm
a utility entirely apart from that of a after all,' She has worked herself
military weapon," about to death. What ails her is
' . es. what you'd call extreme fatigue. She
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needs to rest a little while and then
To keep the cut edge of a cheese play a long tinte. " I'M of the opin-
from hardening, Smear a little butter 1°11--"
"I've got; it!" shouted Townsend,
over %anti; so keep it from the air.
When boiling fish always tie it up "Pero got it!"
suddenly interrupting, in Ws turn.
in a thin cloth and add a little vine- "You sound some. like it! But
gar to the water. This makes the what'?" stared the preacher.
"My farm wants to rest and then
fish firm and keeps it White.
playlb ,
It has been estimated that Noah's' Aaron Dudley
ark was 547 feet long, 91 feet broad; poering scrutiny. "I never heard
leaned closer in
and 54 feet high. Its .capacity, act' of you being a drinking man but your
cording to Bishop Wilkins, was 72,-' apple eider, now? Maybe it's turned
having a seance with insommia.
"Ineommia, eh?" Aaron reached
covery of lost cargoes the submarine under the seat for a thick, soft wool -
will play an important part. Even be- len blanket, which he handed to
for the war this was oved feasible. Townsend. "This., air is chilly and I
of course, having ce
merchandise awaits reclamation on
return. It became necessary that they
the bottom 6f the sea. Many vessels
should either give' lip the fascinating
weee sunk in the North Sea and the
pursuit or raise more capital. They
English Channel, where the water is
appealed to their father, a retired
bishop of the 'United Brethren Church,
whose sole property, consisted of a
small -farm in Iowa, and he, without a
moments hesitation, sold it and gave.
his sons the necessary cash.
With the first machine built with
these funds they moved to the sand
dunes of North Carolina, there to
continue in more favorable ciecum-
stances the investigations that they
had begun in Ohio. Their first tenta-
tive flights were made at Kitty
Hawk in 1900, and their machine
was supposed *to fly on the kite prin-
ciple and carry a man against wind
blowing from 15 to 20 miles an hour.
The first experhnent was successful,
although there was no man aboard,
and they -concluded- that 'they had only
to increase the wing'surface by a
comparatively small area to get the
necessary, lifting 'fewer. To their
astonishment they found that this in-
crease made an almost imperceptible
difference, and they came to the con-
clusion that they were either on the
wrong track altogether 'or that 'the
tables of air pressure in common use
were at fault. It developed that the
latter was the case, and the Wrights
continued. •
. For some time thereafter they con-
tented thernselves with gliding down
the hills, against the wind, and found
it was easy to Make flights of several
hundred .yards in this way without
danger or difficulty In 1902 they
built their first motor. It weighed
750 pellicle, but here again they re-
ceived a check.
Obstacles Encountered.
They had supposed that there were
in existence tables by which they
could calculate fram their own know1-
edg,0 of air pressure the speed at
which it would be necessary fax the
propellers to spin in order to drive
the machine. They learned that there
were no such tables, but only a set of
attiquated empirical formulae. Here
again they had to make their own ex -
Abroad! Kind of traveled -sounding.
No. I haven't got insommia to -night.
A woman in Dawson had it though.
Let it get aggravating. She even
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"Henderson!" echoed Townsend.
"Not Curt Henderson's. wife?" At
the quizzical affirming nod, he ejacu-
later, "That faded little old lady! It
is too—"„
"You can't imadne her committing
periraente and rely on their own ob- 626 tons,
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send's voice betrayed no emotion as
he said:
(To be continued.)
WOOD AND THE WAR
Many a Lovely English Landscape
Has Been Despoiled.
Those of us who have taken a holi-
day in the country this year have beeni
saddened by the sight of vast tracts
of land, once beautifully wooded, now
left naked to the heavens, says an
English writer. The recital of just a
few of the most obvious uses of wood
in war is sufficient to explain this
wholesale tree -felling.
Wood is needed for shipbuilding.
Wood is needed for thousands of army
huts, for pontoons, for duckboards in
the trenches, for army waggons, for
railway sleepers at the Front. Food
is packed in wooden cases for our sol-
diers, and even if cardbpard is used,
wood has been necessary to make it.
Soft, absorbent, surgical cotton is
made of wood cellulose in many .cases;
splints, crutches—a thousand and one
hospital necessities—are made of wood
Charcoal, used in gunpowder, comes
from wood. Wood alcohol is used for
munitions. Rifle stocks are made of
wood. Poles for telegraphs and tele-
phones wires at the Front are made
of wood.
About 200 feet of the choicest tim-
ber' is used in making an aeroplane.
That means that 10,000 feet of timber
must be cut to get enough perfect
wood for one aeroplane. The Hun is
not only devastating the fair land of
France; he is ruining many an English
landscape. And every time we see a
bare hillside, once tree covered, we
shall remember, and, I hope, remember
to seine purpose.
"It's a good Vian to put something
by for a rainy day;. a little sunshine,
for instance."
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To -day the surgeon can carry out
the most complicated example of
"reconstructive surgery" with the
deliberate carefulness of a chessplayer
and he can be sure that the wounds
will heal healthily without matter
forming to destroy his artistic handi-
work. And the present war has so
vastly increased his opportunities and
experience that he can now accomplish
feats of physical reconstruction that
were utterly undreamed • of in peace
time. Nobody who knows the pro-
gress made by surgery on every scien-
tific front in the last four years is
likely to challenge the saying of a
famous military surgeon: ,f'There is
something to be said foa, a great war,
after all. A century of peace -time
practice could hardly have told us
what we know now—ancl our new
knowledge may in the end enable us to
save more lives than the war has cost
usl"
Wonders of Modern Surgery.
The transplanting of skin, flesh and
bone—often contributed by others—is
the new method which most amazes
the lay mind. In one military hospi-
tal there is a patient whose defects
have been made good by bone borrow-
ed from three comrades. The repair
of shattered and dehumanized faces is
another crowd -compelling wonder. But
the making of new joints, the re -plac-
ing and re-education of nerves, ad,
above all, the new idea of a useful
stump, though less easily explained,
are even more wonderful,. Th
advance, which is men due
to the Italian surgeons, is nothing
less than a revolution in amputation.
It is no longer a question of preserv-
ing a mere stump—every bit of muscle
and sinew that can be kept is now
utilized as motive powers for the mov-
able Parts of wonderfully designed
artificial limbs. As a wounded soldier
told me the other day: "Why, can
feel and think down this new leg of
mine!"
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Happy Friends.
If we had not very rich, we gen-
erally had very happy, friends about
us; for this remark will hold goce17,
through life, that the poorer the •
guest, the better pleased he ever is •
.
With being treated; and as some men
gaze with admiration at the colon
of a tulip, or the wing of a butterfly',
so I was by nature an admirer of
happy. human faces.
However, when any one of our re-
lations was found to be a person of
Very bad character, troublesome
guest, or one we desired to get rid
of, upon his leaving mg house 1 ever
took caro to lend him a riding -coat
' or a pair of boots, or .sometimes a
horse. of amall value, and. I always
; had .the satiefaction of finding he
neverohiiniteah..
me back to return them.--
GTo prevent glare -an automobile
Nvindshield has been patended that is
so curved that it refleets, sunlight
downward,