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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1931-05-29, Page 6eete u can buy s big, powerful Eight at the price The Model "8-8O" The Willys Eight "8.80" brings beauty roominess. power and luxury new to its price class. Oierall chassis length 166 inches. 8O.horsepower motor. Speed 75 miles an hour -48 in second gear. 120 ineh wheeI- base. Rubber insulated engine. Full pressure lubrication, internal expanding brakes fully enclosed, hydraulic shoek eliminators, adjustable front seat. Finger tip control, deluxe interior fitments. The greatest eight cylinder value of the year. Get a demonstration. a six Delivered tea you in 'Seaforth Fully Equipped, Taxes Paid for .only X12 With 6 wire wheels $1365 Only Authorized Willys-Overland Dealer in Seaforth CHARLES BARNETT SAWED-OFF SHOT GUNS END SLOANE'S CAREER Roy Sloane, who was murdered by unknown gangsters in New York the other day, was probably a more typi- cal young hoodlum than he supposed. It was his false estimate of his own abilities which led to his murder, for it seems probable that it was his at- tempt to levy some sore of tribute on speakeasies or bootleggers that brought about his death. He was standing in front of a liquor dive when a car drove up and three men emptied the contents of sawed-off shotguns into him. He died shortly afterward in a hospital, not knowing who had shot him. There are prob- ably hundreds of young men whose careers, so far as these points are concerned, exactly paralleled that of Roy Sloane. They grew up, they grew tough, they grew troublesome, and now they are dead. But Sloane, for a time, was almost a public char- acter. For many months he receiv- ed a fan mail of which even radio announcers might not have been ashamed. Girls wanted to marry him. Criminals wanted him to undertake their defence. Idiotic strangers wanted to meet him and shake his hand. These letters confirmed Sloane's notion that he was destined to be the greatest lawyer in the Unit- ed States. But there is little doubt that his earlier ambition, that of being one of the most successful motor car thieves in the United States, was never quenched; and, since he never was able to become a lawyer, it is probable that he will be remembered by the handful who will remember him, as an industrious if not alto- gether successful thief of motor cars. But he will be longest remem- bered as a striking illustration of a criminal who came from a respectable, even a cultured family, with no record of eccentric or criminal ances- try. His father is a former Con• gregationalist minister. His mother, divorced from the father, was active in child wlefare work and is the author of several hooks. She made a special study of Indian religions and philosophies, and would be considered a highly -educated woman. The son had a good home and a good educa- tion and took extension courses of engineering at Columbia University. The parents naturally are silent as to when his first aberrations were observed. The police a are less reticent and say that Roy first came into their hands when he was 16 years old. It was for an automobile theft and he served a sentence in a school of cor- rection. Three years later he stole a car in Pittsburgh and was sen- tenced to from three to six years, but was released after a short while. He was picked up in Washington some time later but the police could prove nothing against him. A couple of weeks later he was again arrested, this time in New Jersey, but again turned loose. In the same month, November, 1926, he was charged with stealing two automobiles in Mount Vernon and on one of these charges he was convicted and sentenced to Sing Sing for five years. Before a year had passed Sloane had become a ring leader in an attempted become and for this was sentenced to an Magical in its beau- tifying effect on the complexion. Soothes sunburn— a subtle fragrance gives alluring clsarm. Try this dainty toil$t requisite. At lout druggist additional seven years. It was after this that he began toread wherever law books he could lay his hands on., His porings had good effect for it was not long before he was able to make out a case for a new trial on the automobile theft charge. Before the jury Sloane acted as his own lawyer and in the witness stand he convinced the jury that he had been the victim of a criminal and perfidi- ous friend who was' the real thief, This criminal and perfidious friend never was caught and in view of Sloane's record it is reasonable to doubt that he ever will be caught, unless perhaps in company with Mrs. Harris. But he had still seven years to serve for his jail breaking exploit, and his legal talents were ,,lien con- centrated upon this problem. He produced an argument to the effect that as he had been found not guilty of the automobile theft he was being held illegally in Sing Sing and mere- ly exercised his full right in trying to escape. It was a bold and ingen- ious plea, but did snot wholly satisfy the court, which admitted, however, that he should have been sentenced on a charge of misdemeanor for car- rying brass .kunckles, and not as a second offender. The novelty of a convict acting successfully as his own lawyer won Sloane a great deal of favorable pub- licity, it being conveniently forgot- ten that in any event he was a criminal who had been in the hands• of the police again and again, fairly tried and properly convicted. When Sloane left Sing Sing he was given a job reading law in the office of a New York attorney, who report- ed later that although he started well he lacked patience and determination. That was last December. In Febru- ary he was caught in an attempted jewel robbery—an affair cif $5,000 and out of his class. He was out on bail on this charge when the aveng- ing shotguns put an end to ambi- tions of all sorts. Perhaps one of his last acts was to steal a car for one was found parked across the street from the dive where he was shot and in his pocket was a key that fitted it. Also in his pocket were found a driver's license made out for somebody else, a special po- liceman's badge and a else mous- tache, He had told his mother the day before that he was going out to get $1,000 which he needed for hie defence and that when the case was disposed of the two of them would leave New York and make a frSii start in life. . GEN. PERSHINGJUDGED BY ONE OF HIS PEERS It has long been acknowledged that what is said is of small importance compared with who says it. For in- stance there would be a difference in value in the opinion eicpressed by a member of the College of Car- dinals and a Grand Orange Lodge, the subject being either the Pope or the Protestant Succession. So it is with the verdicts .pronounced upon military men. The value of those opinions depends wholly upon the competence to judge of those who offer them. That is why, although we have already given our views on the subject of General Pershing's, re- miniscences, we do not regard them as absolutely closing the subject. Now when one better, entitled to be heard comes along we are glad to listen to what he has to say. In this case the critic is Captain B. H. Lid- dell Hart, one of the foremost of liv- ing military authorities. Probably nobody has read more of the volum- inous output of post war memoirs ; and we think nobody is better entitled to assess them. We are confirmed in' this opinion because Captain Hart ad- mits that they are nearly. all dull and misleading. .General Persbing's book, while it does not fly so impudently in the face of ascertained facts as Foch's memoirs, errs just as gravely by ig- noring inconvenient facts. It is not so vainglorious as "Sir Douglas Haigh's Command" which gave the .impression that Haigh was never wrong and that he won the war almost single-handed. But since Haig did not write the book, the blame descends not upon him but up- on his private secretary. Inconcsist- ency is another manifest failing in the Pershing opus. In one place he blames the American War Depart- ment for incompetency, and in an- other blames the British and French authorities for not doing the chores which properly belonged to Washing- ton. As Captain ,Hart says in the New York Times: "The reader is ap- parently to assume that American or- ganization was naturally incompetent, but that as soon as any part of it passed under Pershingls, !control. a miracle happened and it became per- fect. This suggestion seems rather extreme either way." He briefly reviews the admissions of the American general, among them being that when the United States entered the war the army had fewer than 1,500 machine guns of varying type. In 1916 Congress had voted $12;000,000 for machine guns but the War Department had been unable to ,decide what kind to buy. There were only 35 officers who could fly; there were 55 airplanes, and of these 51 were obsolete or obsolescent. No heavy artillery which was up to date 'had been adopted. The French came to the rescue here. Even until the end of the war "no guns of American manufacture of the main types used were fired in battle." Mortars were almost entirely obtained from the British. Because of the delay in building cantonments it was nearly six months before the training of the American army was under way. Some of Pershing^s criticisms are childish, For example, he appears to have been full of the idea that the French were obsessed with the idea of defensive warfare, and had been that way since the Franco-Prussian war. Says Cap- tain Hart, "In actual fact no army in history had been so obsessed with the offensive. It had dominated• their thought for a generation, and to this obsession can be traced the disasters which befell them in 1914. Even then their reluctance to modify it led them to the terrible holocausts of 1915, 1916 end 1917 when they shattered them- selves vainly against the trench bar- rier." The reason Pershing found them on the defensive was that they had fought themselves to a state of col- lapse by the other method. Pershing's great idea was to train an array which would drive the enemy out into the open, and when at last he had the opportunity of putting the theory into practice upon the Ger- mans, morally and Physically ex- hausted, it took him a month to gain an objective which he had expected to reach in 24 hours. The Meuse - Argonne offensive of the American army would; have been another "S,omm,e" or "Niroelle massacre," but for the fact that it was launched in the Autumn of 1918. Capt. Hart notes that in the general allied of- fensive which began on Sept. 26, 1916, Pershing formed the right pincer and Haigh the left, By Nov. 11, Pershing had taken 26,000 prisoners while Haig had taken 100,000 besides advancing nearly twice as far. Captain Hart sets this down to the greater experi- ence of the armies under Haig. But the most important decision that Pershing was to make was to wait until the American army was practically full grown, and equipped in every department before permit- ting its real weight to be thrown against Germany. Perhaps President Wilson was as much to blame for this as Pershing, although we cannot doubt that if Pershing had been as sagacious as he was determined he e would have recommend to Wilson a different course and it would have been followed. As matters were, he would not permit his army to be used to fill the gaps in the allied ranks. If his idea was to build up a tremendously powerful American army his course was the right one. If it was to end the war as quickly as possible it was the wrong one. In our review of Pershing's book we said that his attitude prolonged the war. Captain Hart says: "If it did not prolong the war it undoubtedly pro. ,longed the strain on the French and British and increased the drain on life." It is '-not, therefore, the part of British or French to praise his handling of the American artily. SAVING THE DAY Joan was newly married and her husband was away on a short trip. "I shouldn't be so silly, but I am lonely," admitted Joan. "If Mum were -only here!" Then came the idea of telephoning. A good chat with mother over Long Distance— and Joan felt like a new person. WHEN BOSS TWEED LOOTED ' NEW YORK Now that New York citizens are organizing to make an attack upon Tammany Hall, they are being inflam- ed and incited by the stories of other Tammany scandals and successful public risings to end them. The most celebrated was undoubtedly that which is recalled by the name of Boss Tweed. This man was probably the most brazen and successful buccaneer who ever looted a modern state or city. For a period of twenty years he pillaged almost at wall. Because of the slack bookkeeping methods employed, it is impossible to get any idea of the extent of his plunder. The lowest estimate sets it at $30,000,000, the highest at $200,000,000. It is known that when exposure seemed imminent Tweed offered the New York Times $5,000,000 to discontinue its attacks and Nast, the cartoonist, $500.000 if he would leave the coun- try and pursue his art studies in Eur- ope. Both offers were refused. 'But it was neither the paper nor the cartoonist that finally laid Tweed low. It is possible, even probable, that he could have continued to defy them, as he had defied other critics and enemies in the past, if it had not been for a rift in the loot, so to speak; in other words, a quarrel among the thieves. Thus was born the informer who went to the Times with sensational information. This was published serially and made about the most exciting reading the people of New York had had for a generation. Other crooks saw a chance to save themselves by giving evidence against their acicomplices, and in a short time Tweed was left alone to face his accusers. An up- rising at the polls followed, and Tam- many receivedthe worst defeat in its whollL history, only one seat in the council being retained, that of Tweed himself, whose grateful poor remain- ed loyal to him. William Marcy Tweed came of honest, thrifty Scots folk who had lived' in the United States for many years. He himself was neither thrif- ty nor honest. Itis father was an industrious chair .maker, and handed over his business to his two sons. But it went bankrupt because Wil - re 'used Wilt his time Banging xa ee with the Volunteer Fire Irl-partinient. These volunteer fire companies' head- quarters, sinee they were. Ike," where men congregated) Were- po Pangs' cal centres, and Bill Tweed obtained: his first 'knowledge of New York pole - ties Ecom' the volunteer firemen,"and similar ruffians. The firemen had a bad name, for it was more than sees pee ed that they set places on fire in, order to have the excitement of ex- tinguishing the flames, and that they assaulted rival comipanies in their efforts to be first at the scene of a fire, and also the scene of the loot- ing that was ail too common. In- deed it was the evil reputation of the volunteers that told • against Tweed when he first ran for office in 1851. He concluded that he had better choose some more respectable companions and quit the volunteers. On his• next attempt he was elected alderman, and began the career that has became a 'byword for depravity and corruption. He began to collect graft almost from the first, and as .. here was plenty of it to be had ough the sale of city franchises it ' _ '= cant long until he was a comparatively wealthy man. Gradually he advanced • in the Tammany organization until he be- came Grand Sachem. Then he formed his ring, which included besides him- self, A. Oakey Hall, the mayor; Peter B. Sweeney, city chamberlain, and Richard B, Connolly, controller. Fur- ther to protect chem they elected two judges, George G. Barnard and Albert Cardozo. As an additional safeguard they appointed a city auditor, known to be corrupt and in the hands of the ring. The scheme of plunder was simplicity itself. Everybody who sold anything to the city was instruct- ed to raise the bills, and hand over the extra money to Tweed or one of his representatives. The plunder was then divided with Tweed taking 25 per cent., Connolly, 20 per cent., Sweeney, 10 per cent., and Hall, 5 per cent., the rest presumably going to Tammany. If the contractors were not willing to do this they received no more contracts. But few of them had any qualms, for they were per- mitted to charge whatever they lik- ed so long as the ring received its share. Under this system the court house was built at a cost of $12,000,000. Later on when some of the items came to be scrutinized it was found that there was an entry of $41,746 for awnings and an items of $41,190 for "brooms, etc," The surae of $541,- 594 was presumably paid for plaster- ing the walls, but before the job was finished the contracting plasterer re- quired $1,294,684 to repair what he had done. In 1866 the voices of Henry Ward Beecher and the eccen- tric "Citizen" Train were raised against Tweed, and the taxpayers noted that their taxes had risen from $36,000,000 in 1869 to $97,000,- 000 in 1871. There were angry cries but Tweed induced some of the lead- ing citizens, including such men as John Jacob Astor, to issue a reas- suring financial statement. Later it was discovered that these gentlemen paid no taxes. The trouble came rather abruptly in 1871 when Jimmy O'Brien, the sheriff, wanted the Board of Audit to pass bills which he had padded by $250,000. The ring thought that this was too much for the sheriff and refused. He planned vengeance, and watching his oppor- tunity went to the Times with the damning documents which destroyed Tammany Hall—for a few months. ENGLISH AND SPORT AS SEEN BY AMERICAN By special request we have been glancing through Price Collier's Eng- land and the English, published in 1909, with special reference to a chapter on sport. Mr. Collier is, or was—is, we hope—an American who travelled widely and his acquaintance with the English people seems to have been acquired through frequent personal contacts which extended over many years. He writes with dis- cernment, but with cordiality, and on the whole is to be listed as a friendly critic, aware of shortcomings, but equipped to discount them. We won- der how many such books written before the war could be read now by the authors without a blush? We doubt if the England Mr, Collier saw and loved exists any more. ,01 course, we do not suppose that English char- acter—if anything essentially and actuallly\ English in the way of char- acter ever existed has ceased to be. But habits, have changed. Points of view have changed still more. The things for which Englishmen were heartily praised a generation ago are not precisely the things for which they would welcome, praise to=day. For example, we doubt if any but the infantile and the senile would think it complimentary to be told that their nation was more addicted to sport than any other nation in the world. Much therefore of what Mr. Col- lier has written will be of interest mainly to historians of the Victorian era. But he makes some shrewd re- marks on the' subject of sport and some that we have never hear be- fore. To our mind the .most inter- esting things he says is in his comparison of British with American sports. The comparison is altogether in favor of the British. What he wrote then is probably less true to- day; but it is at leas partly. The difference and super, sty of British sport over American sport, or any other Boort for that matter, is that it is not wholly or mainly controlled by boys. It is controlled mainly by adults. More than any other peo- ple in the world, the English not only are interested in port but they have at one time or another pleyed games. When they leave school they do not cease to play games. They con- tinue to play. Moreover, they play with their sons and their sons' friends. This is especially true of cricket, which may\ be held to be the most English of games. Upon youngsters who are as likely as not playing games with either their fathers or men old enough to be their fathers thee* is imposed a cer- tain restraint, a word whieh in this case we may freely translate as mean- ing good manners. IUIr.,,,,Colli'el says, . xi el alone, ', : ?l t7i A OT '$h adult. and aatddleia 4 extent generally ill. 114 4,, upi ttrt emu . is for the wide viiiferens Mthe ay in which sport is :regarded? ded? anda way in which games 'aro' laved," '`1VIiere boys and youths are ulatttmed to play their ' games, erre tet xnyore particularly, with grown menx: pit ititeeduces an element of so- briety, ecurtealn, and reticence in their War 'and Ilyeha'viour' whieh . are lack- ing to soave ;;extent among boys and youths who play exclusively among theme/veal. Cams played in such 'eat/Pic-ions. surroundings assume their relative place and receive their pro- per value, for `rieen do not receive de- feat so keenly nor do they look upon such victories as the greatest of all achievements." This seems. altogether reasonable. In England games. and sports receive their status and character from men; in the 'United States it its from boys that they receive their status and character. This fact also ,explains. the different behaviour of American and English crowds. In England any sporting event is likely to have among the spectators a large element, per- haps a majority, composed of men who have themselves competed in that particular sport, and know its traditions as well as its fine points. They are absorbed in watching for these 'Ane points, and they also feel themselves charged with the responsi- bility of maintaining the traditions. They are not, therefore, so inordi- nately keen to see a victory. They are interested mainly in seeing a game well played according to sound and venerable precedent.. Outbreaks on they part of spectators are, there- fore, rare, although it is to be ad- mitted that they have occasionally marred football games played by pro- fessionals, which are strong attrac- tions for men and boys who have never played any game. ' . Mr. Collier says that the English by racial inheritance are not belligerent people, despite the fact that their earlier sports were of the most bru- tal kind. Their love of the land is perhaps their most salient character- istic, and with this love goes• natur- ally a love for out -door life. A love of sport follows almost as inevitably even if it should take the perverted turn of the love of the •bptcher who explained that he was attracted to his gory calling by his fondness for animals. There was a time when the adventurous nature of the English- man found its outlet in exploring, and eventually conquering, foreign countries. When there were no more worlds to conquer the Britons took to sport as a means of keeping fit ment- ally and physically so that they could retain what they had seized. With them sport is not a dissipation for idlers. It is a philosophy of life. -One good thing about it, as Mr. Col- lier' points out, is that this philo- sophy tends to save the British Isles from becoming the fecund mother of quack religions. CHINA'S PERRENNIALLY UNEMPLOYED China has no unemployment prob- lem, and yet China has more unem- ployed men than any other nation on the globe. Long ago China's unem- ployed banded together. Their answer to the perennial unemployment situa- tion is organized mendicancy. As far back as the days of the Sung Dynasty the beggars had a collective voice in civic affairs. When a certain emperor paved the streets of his capi- tal, they made themselves vocal. "No longer," they complained, "can we lie down in the warm, soft dust." And gradually the povement slabs were carried away to become the founda- tions of houses, the coping of fish- ponds, the paths of private gardens. So that to -day the beggars have their Second Cloak, the mantle of gray dust in which they huddle. In New York, a few days ago, an ill-favored main stationed himself near the door of an exclusive shop, and ex- tended a begging hand upon which ugly red splotches were visible. Trade fell away sharply till the proprietor gave the beggar a fee to decamp. A thousand years ago Chinese beggars were working that game. I saw this method of extortion on a somewhat larger scale in operation in Peking. The shop owner had evi- dently refused to pay the Beggars Guild its usual protection money; for suddenly before the doors appeared a mob of China's unfortunates: the halt, the lame, the blind. Each whined his appeal and displayed deformities. A Chinese gentleman who was about to enter the shop instinctively turned aside. He gathered his skirts meticu- lously away from those hands; he averted his bland, moon-shaped coun- tenance. And, with a sudden sharp flick of the wrist, he unfurled a paper fan and held it before his face—to signify, of course, that he was in- visible. This pantomnne took place a score of times during the afternoon till a man emerged from the shop with a bag that clinkedl. The contribution was handed to the leader of the mob. The beggars swirled for an instant about their spokesman and then scur- ried away to divide the spoils. It is precisely this_hriats action, di- rected by the Beggars Guild with al- ternating 'boldness and strategy, that makes the mendicants of China al- most a menace. Certain prerogatives they always demand. They assume, for instance, a proprietary interest in every wedding that takes place. In the beginning it was undoubtedly a happy thought that the poor should share in the festivities attendant up- on a marriage. To -day it has come to be a scheme of extortion. The beggars have devised a uni- form of green cloth, splashed with huge white dots encircling patches of red, which they slip over their rags. Thus garbed, they march in the wed- ding procession. It is their privilege to carry the chests with the bridal trousseau and gifts. And no article is ever missing if the guild has re- beived its feee Elven the bride in her sedan chair is carried on their shoul- ders. A wealthy young Chinese of my ac- +'quaintanee who had travelled abroad planned la wedding without these marchers. The bride was conveyed to the der'en'iony in an automobile. But she was unable to enter the com- aeon lout Pl ' taawtba Palin pound. Before the gate surged, a,masas of gaunt, starving men. Rims, tshe hopelessness of argumen or force, the groom stalked out and paid ,the mendicants the sumof - while '<,1hey felt they had been ribbed." • It is from the ranks of the more or less able-bodied that the attendants of weddings and funerals are recruit- ed. But. in the Beggars G'uil'd,, these' are outnumbered ;by other, more li- able specimens: the crippled—or ose who have purposely maimed t ienx- selves in order to gain sympathy. There are schools for the teaching of beggary, where the applicant --•for an infinitesimal sum—may learn to disjoint his legs and ec,me and to pitch his voice • in the peeper tones. I knew a Chinese beggar whose eyes were blinded by eataraets. A foreign doctor examined, him and of- fered to operate to remove these im- pediments to sight. But the beggar objected, How could he plead for the few brass cash for his daily needs, if not by moving people to compassion by' his affliction? Occasionally a man whose own powers of exhibitionism or eapolery are insufficient, will steal a child from a country district and bring it into the city to aid him in begging. The muscles •of the child's arms and legs are cut, the growing limbs encased in a harness so that they beeome mis- shapen. I once saw one of these chil- dren crawl toward me on all fours, dragging his naked, distended belly, scuttling sidewise in a horrible agil- ity, so that he resembled a huge spid- er. From that queer insistent cry of his, from the speed of his skeletonic limbs weaving so close to, the earth, there is no escape, even in recollec- tion. Among the beggars who became well known to the foreign colony in Peking was a strapping big coolie with a wide, infectious smile who car- ried on his back his emaciated, tooth- less and equally broad -smiling mother. He sprinted along, able to keep pace with the fastest moving rickshaw, extending one grimy hand for alms. Rarely did he fail to get his, coppers. During one year, to my certain knowl- edge, he had three "mothers." And while he keeps his pace and his con- vincing smile, I am sure, the supply of helpless relatives will not give out. Another of this fleet -footed tribe was a woman with bound feet and tiny, .pipestem, atrophied legs, able to keep within range of a rickshaw for an incredible distance, In her arms she lifted a baby suffering from small- pox—and thrust it at the foreigner. Whenever this woman appeared, I stood not on the ceremony of my giv- ing. Among China's poor there are all kinds of mendicants. There are the conjurers who hover about one's door, pathetically eager to display their skill in a coin trick or in the swallow- ing of a sword. Many of them are so old that their fingers tremble as they attempt their sleight-of-hand and their subterfuges deceive no one. There are the files of blind musicians who move through the city lanes at twilight in their dust gray robes. The left hand of each man rests upon the shoulder of the man in front of him; the leader makes his way slowly, tap- ping the ground with a staff. Often they stop to play their bamboo flutes, their two -stringer fiddles, their ban- jos of taut python skin. Their music is weird and sad. 'China has been a land of extremes, and it is in mendicancy that the ex- tremes meet. Not many years ago, when the last of the Manchu rulers was still in possession of the Dragon Throne, certain princes of the blood often crept out of their palaces at night. They changed their silken robes to rags; they spattered mud ov- er their perfumed bodies and sprin- kled their hair with ashes'. These princes ranged the lanes, imitating the beggars' whine. When at last they tired of the sport, they trooped into a tea house. They found it hilarious- ly bizarre—still in their shredded clothes—to order the most expensive viands; beche-de-mere, sea -slugs, eggs pickled in lime and buried. But in the collapse of the empire many of the Manchu nobles are begging in earn- est, turning their talents to amateurs in mendicancy to the bitter business of pleading for a handful of rice. HOUSEHOLD DISCOVERIES Safety Rinse. One ounce of alum added to the final rinsing water of children's clothes makes them non -inflammable or so slightly combustible that they will take fire very slowly and will not flame. * * r To Dry the Inside of Rubber Boots. To dry the inside of rubber boots, use common sawdust and make it hot in a dish in the oven, or in a shovel on the stove. When heated, pour it into the rubber 'boots, allow it to stand for a short time, then shake it out. It dries the boots thoroughly in a very short time, and the sawdust may be kept in a tin and used over and over again. This will be found very useful in households in which the' man of the house labors at work which causes him to come home with wet feet. .a * * After running tape or elastic in children's blouses ore pyjamas, tack at centre back and there are no more lost tape ends. • * +. If baby's woollen garments are basted on a piece of cheesecloth be- fore washing, they will keep their shape beautifully. * * m. When storing clothing in boxes or trunks, make a list of the articles and fasten to the Iid with a piece of adhesive. It is very, convenient when anything is wanted. 3r. 441 ary ant tem erix and deo 'fort