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The next year T taught fn a little
cenntry school outside of Winona
(I1innesota)— a small school with
all eight grades and about thirty
To toy small class of farnt boys,
the multiplication table WAS sante•
-thing less tiuun.interesting,
;i0 then I made up a teaching ma-
chine. On the wall I put a dial
similar to a clock dial, reading from
one t0 twelve with a pivot nail in
the middle of it. On this was a
spool w'th a pointing hand. Below
the blackboard was a nail and a
airing ran from the nail up over
and around the spool. dorm to a
screw eye in the wall through
which the string went and then
forward to the front sear
A long rubber ,band bet -ween the
,,sail and the string gave stretch
to the lower end of the string.
Since the string went up and around
the .pool and down again when.
the string moved, one could sit in
the front seat and by pulling the
string stop the pointer any any
number from one to twelve,
With this device and the problem,
say; of learning the sixes, John,
sitting in the front seat, would
pull the string. If the hand stopped
on four, the first one who said
twenty-four, which was the right
answer, got a mark.. , And the
first one of the class who got five
marks could sit up front and pull
the string!
In six clays' time every pupil in
the school, including little Frieda
who was not yet six, knew the mul-
tiplication table forward and back-
ward and couldn't be stumped.
Thus began the mechanization of
education in the rural schools of
Ivfinnesota. — From "So Away 1
Went," by William Bushnell Stout.
Unhorsed—Londoners gaped as
they saw members of the Royal
Horse Guards, aristocratic, col -
cavalry unit, arriving at Horse
Guards Parade in, of all things,
a plebian bus, like 1'-e Guards-
man above. Guards are now
horseless and will remain so un-
til November while their stables
at Whitehall ere being re-
paired.
Bouncing Glass
You may think of glass as a brit-
tle material that will have a sharp
cutting edge whenever it is broken.
But modern science has produced
glass with the resilience of rubber
or the softness of cotton -wool,
Glass has, in fact, turned out to
be as many-sided a material as plas-
tics, and manufacturers are already
turning out glass that can be saw-
ed and nailed like wood; glass that
floats; glass that bounces; glass
that can be turned inside out, twist-
ed into yarn and tied into knots.
It was during the war that these
new angles were developed. Cloth
woven from bendable glass fibres
.was found to be one of the most
resistant of all materials to pene-
tration by bullets.
Aeroplanes were covered with a
forst of glass cloth that was twice
as strong and half as heavy as the
conventional aluminum covering.
Peace -tine uses are even more
numerous. It is used to make
household fittings, furniture, and
even complete prefabricated houses,
Glass ball bearings have been
trade that will withstand a degree
of heat which causes metal to flow
like water. A porous brick has
been produced from glass that is
tighter than colic and far more
buoyant.
it has been found that glass
comes' nearer to perfect elasticity
Vh:„n any other Material, ilp tp the
point of winch it breaks it will re-
turn instantly to its original shape,
Another advantage lies in its
<htrability. Where most metals are
liable to corrode or disintegrate
ender constant use, glass appears
to be just as strong and practically
everlasting..
Our Indians Did
Marvellous Weaving
The basic principle of weaving is
the same everywhere. There must
be a warp and woof or weft, which
is woven through the warp to form
a textile. Also there must inevitably
be a frame or loons upon which to
string the warp and to hold the
threads in place while the weft is
woven through it . .
To the customary warp and woof
the Indian weavers added a distinc-
tive technique, which was rarely
if ,war elsewhere to be observed.,
They employed a variety of bast
fibers (various vegetable fibers) plus
hairs of certain animals, skins and
furs of animals and plumage of
birds. 'Phase were added to the
rat o r e conventional foundation
threads for woven material of linen,
wool and cotton. From all these
added materials unusually lovely
fabrics were evolved.
Some of the oldest known ex-
• =pies of American Indian weav-
ing art" reputed to be finer than
those found in any other place in
the n-orkl. They even surpassed the
textiles woven by -the highly skilled
Coptic weavers of ancient Egypt,
whose work has long been celebrat-
ed for its marvellous technique,
\Ve do not generally realize that
these tribes of American Indians
were as widely different in ideas
and customs of living as were the
nations of Europe. In terms of
handicraft there were weaving tribes
and non -weaving tribes. As a rule
those Indians who shaped the skins
of animals for their coverings did
not do weaving. Some of them were
almost exclusively devoted to such
occupations as hunting and fishing,
while others spent their time at
farming. The Navajo people of our
southwest have won chief fame
among all the North American
tribes as weavers.
The first Navajo blankets were
made to wear over the shoulders.
They *ere woven in simple dark
and light stripes of natural -colored
wool. A hundred years ago the
simple stripes were broken by zig-
zag lines making a design known as
the "terrace pattern." In the main,
the technique of weaving Navajo
patterns was to work: directly on
the warp as the actual weft, by
using the darning type of stitch.
Some twenty years later the In-
dians tired of these patterns and
inttgduced , diamond -designs.
The Indians were particularly at
-
erected to bright red, and; when -the
Spaniards came, traded anything
they had for a bit of red baize.
This fabric was like billiard table
cloth and is thought to have been
part of the Spanish uniform, The
Indians patiently unraveled this
baize and then wove it into their
textiles. The dye must have been
•excellent since these early • "hay-
- eta" (red) blankets have never lost
their rich color, and collectors prize
them, highly. Later the Navajos
found out how to make other colors
from native roots and barks, and
were given indigo with •w'hich to
produce blue.
Just as the Navajo "rugs" were
really blankets, so, too, up to about
1800 people both Indian and non -
Indian who spoke of rugs oddly
enough did not refer to floor cov-
erings. When the early records men-
tioned rugs, they were referring to
any coarse heavy wool fabrics, such
as bed covers, chimney cloths, win-
dow -sill covers or more likely table
covers. Only if called a floor rug,
or clearly described as for a bed-
side or floor, can one be sure that
the rug in the inventory has our
modern connotation.— From "Am-
erican Rugs," by Estelle IT. Ries.
For thirty years a parrot in :tfaid-
stone, England, named Harry had
been a prime favorite at the Bull
Inn. But, then, to the customers'
astonishment. Harry laid an egg.
The Patter Of Rain On A Plastic Roof—A pneumatic rain hat that protects the wearer and at the
same time leaves the hands free for carrying packages is the ingenious invention of a manufac-
turer. The hat, which is made of lightweight, flexible plastic, is carried in a small case that fits
the purse. It is quickly and easily inflated, left, to the size of an umbrella and ties on with attach-
ed ribbons, as seen at right. The invention prom ises to eliminate the "umbrella -rib -in -the -eye"
hazard of crowded city streets during a rain.
Old time followers of the Tor-
onto Maple• Leaf baseball teats
took more than ordinary interest
in the recent announcement that
Charley Gehringer h a d taken
charge of the front office of the
Detroit Tigers, For Gehringer, be-
fore moving ,up ,tg the Big Time,
used to do his stuff in a Maple
Leaf riniforin and, in our worthless -
opinion at least, was the greatest
player that ever wore one.. .
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We would even be prepared to
argue—in fact HAVE argued—
that Charley was, in many ways,
the best second sacker of all time.
If he wasn't, you could count on
the toes • of Long John Silver's
timber peg the number who top-
ped him. The trouble was that
Gehringer was too good for his
own or his team's financial wel-
fare, doing seemingly impossible
things so smoothly and with so
little fuss that nine fans out of
ten hardly noticed that he was
doing them.
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Making the hard ones look easy
—a thing which Gehringer excel-
led — may be all very well from
an artistic standpoint, but it does-
n't get you Hutch top billing or
many headlines, In this connection
we always think of another Tor-
onto player of long ago—an out-
fielder bearing the striking name
Ot Ycnccr Wtb1ensaul,
Yeucer had the faculty of mis-
judging a fly ball by a far wider
margin than any outfielder we
have ever seen. But he .was spry
on his feet, and was everlastingly
covering acres of ground, leaping
high into the air or diving into
the turf, and pulling off miracu-
lous catches. The late Charley
Good, writing in the long defunct
Honor Foy Designer—During the Canadian tliternationol Stanip
September 21 to 29 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of
Exhibition, being held in the Automotive, Building, Toronto, from
Government -issued postage stamps in Canada, a plaque will be
erected to the memory of Sir Sandford Fleming, the man who
designed Canada's first stamp, Erected .by the Canadian Phil-
atolfc Society on the exact site where the first stamp was designed
in 1851. The plaquewillbe unveiled by Sir John Wilson, Bari.,
C.V,O,, Keeper of His Majesty King George VI's Philatelic Collec-
tions. Pictured here with the plaque is V. G. Greene, president of
the Stamp Exhibition, and Sheila Watson, well known Ontario
model.
TORONTO NEWS, used to jok-
ingly dub him "Wonderful Weidy."
Readers took it seriously, The
name stuck; and most of the fans
who can remember far back prob-
ably think of him as a ball hawk
of unsurpassed calibre, and prob-
ably wonder why he never caused
any sensation in the Big Leagues,
Charley Gehringer was the exact
opposite. He went about his busi-
ness with a minimum , of fuss,
bother and noise. One player who
was his teatiintate. formany years
r said that Charley would say "How
aree you" whenhe reported for
the :season, "So long" when he
was :packing his grips at the end
of it, and that those five words
constituted the sum total of his
,conversation .for the baseball year.
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That, undoubtedly, was, an ex-
aggeration—but not such a great
one at that. Doc Cramer came
close to summing Charley up
when he cracked, "All you need
to do is wind hien up on opening
day and he runs on and on, doing
everything right without a mis-
take." e a k
Ty Cobb was manager of the
Tigers when young •Gehringer
broke in at Detroit, and one of
baseball's most widely circulated
stories is that Tyrus Raymond
pegged Charley as "good field, no
hit" and predicted that his stay
in the majors would be a short
one. -
The trouble is that the tale, like
s0 many sports stories, has no
truth in it. Cobh spent many a
long hour that first year working
on Gehringer in the batter's box,
He Was instrumental in getting
Gehringer to change his style ,and
filially adopt the batting stance
which made his] a ,321 lifetime
hitter in the American League—
and as that 'lifetime" covered a
period of seventeen years, the
coaching must have been worth
while.
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Anyway, Gehringer is back
with the Tigers once more, and
will be the man chiefly respons-
ible for trying to get the Tigers
out of the pit into which they
have been tumbled. Everyone who
admires a fine workman and a
grand sportsman will wish him
well, including the many adlnirers ,
he made during his labors on
Ontario soil, Whether or not
Charley Gehringer will be suc-
cessful in his hard tasty only time
can tell, to coin a phrase. But we
don't mind predicting that whe-
ther be makes it or whether he
flops, he'll do so with the very
minimum of either squawking or
boasting. That is, unless the pas-
sage of the years has changed
hint a whole lot more than we
imagine it has.
Really "Ate
His Words"
Joseph Delunty of New York has
just eaten his own words, He
wrote a book on .American foot-
ball tactics, and made a bet that if
a local team did not win after stu-
dying his treatise he would eat it
.page by page.
The teals lost, so Joseph solemn-
ly tore up a copy of his book, boil-
ed the pieces in a pan, added salt,
pepper and sauce to taste, and ate
the lot,
He must have heard about the
famomus French cookery expert,
Grimod de la Reyniere, who de-
clared, that one„ could eat anything
provided it was cooked properly.
To prove his point he prepared
a areal consisting of a ponderous
tome he had written, entitled "Man-
ual of Gastronomy," mixed up with
vegetables and sauces. Then he
sat down and had a good tuck in,
In the Soup
Theadore Reinking, a philoso-
pher who lived in the 19tH cen-
tury, also ate his own words—but
not very willingly. A book he had
written had offended King Chris-
tian IV of Denmark, so he was or-
dered to retract his remarks by
eating the book.
He tore it up in small pieces and
stewed them in soup. He managed
to eat the concoction, and by do-
ing so escaped with his life, for
King Christian had threatened hint
with execution if a single word of
the book remained.
Not long ago a case was reported
in the "British Medical Journal"
concerning a child who would eat
nothing but paper. And in the
olden days a sovereign remedy for
rheumatics and asthma was a whole
page of the family Bible eaten and
washed down with water.
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