The Brussels Post, 1919-10-2, Page 6Overhaul Your Car. t the siren and let the earth ;weenie
- How a!,out your motorcar? toe, well rubbed into the eluteh facing;
course, yt'o let her lore class some f,at cat the operation until the clutch
what during the war. IL was unpatri holds,
otic to use labor or puint m your ear! --
at a time when Canadian inriustry i Dust May ;Spoil the Finish.
was working at tap s+•eec 1 to produce A little dust on the body ur the
tho material neeessa.v for the win- hood is i 0 0itint irritation to the
ninlr or the tear, new owner and so he tipos it off with
Ilut the war is over. a cloth, grinding the grit into the
Now is the lona, to 411 .:0 up that eelieli sunt coon epee:— the finish.
motorcar. to put that n retry coat A lis•:;lt (b.1 -t i,ruh of flee heir may
of paint an and to overhaai it genera% t t:=411, but the only ,litisfe.elery way
ly. You will be doing n patriotie , ,_ .e ,lira is to flow water o11 it.
eservicerviee to o cerinr,• m ".'c .
the t t"'3' c a -
PUZZLES OF THE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
FORMING PLURALS OF NOUNS
IS FREQUENT PITFALL.
What the Unfortunate Foreigner htas
to Endure While Trying to
Master Our Language.
'Thorn lois recently been a (Mos
slue in n daily paper So to 1110 0o0rec•t
pltual of the worse "rhinos •ons," and
this correepolulent poil'(1
lt out that
while the furan "rhinecereeese w'ae
that most frequently used, the teirreet
plural. from a c11111sieal puint of view.elm "Thin, i rotes,"
Boyo at altlunl groan evei' Irrench
ire -nodal' 3. 01', -hut. the er1•neheme
seedier or two tO da th s o. 3011 for yam Take ;'.aur 13e1 1Vith You. might well _ti mit that they aro it j .1•'
There is no mere need fit eel, r: - ti atobila itself roul,''r,d vitt on: plural, 11.
enc • economy, Minor repaire a .11 o re -
Never .,n,.L 1 i
9 l.a; '•Sen +''fo' i:.l Saul ? :. t !t! tvilh gem, ei :' I , mbev 1031nblg Engle h i;
1' , s Sint adds life to
141 .Ifo t f thio.... P n + rte:
t! rt loses �.r ,.n ..1}
the belly of the car. elrwre :tit your Rt. la,'Apr :..,::1 a :tes'r .r ::1c Satoh ilt
engine. Renew these worn P.u" to t e used with it that
Four Sar will go q03 t tlO, tele 1••1 1
nh•a:1n:. a. l
star her and wear on it will la,te tee r AA test u'o rut.
li, icer' _l3.;:!! ','.' tl e not :03' o:r the Mr ur
Materials aro eget-melee new fry nis!,1,•ea fafac2 t '1.. t
paints, machine Palms, eoet ^n11•e tl.nn t ovrr-
they n (
th e 8eN Claim 1.]13, 11.13 i t f :.1 n a3,..;
they
+• let 31�11t lift ;rte: In i•:
in.t will sate more than their ya ;'b1e c t ;' _ 111 1.. I; weighs
in their ,cerise to the ear. '...1 '1` l stn Le ] "1
than 1 , arms. ser p
Don't v:adt for tlzatc:•'a.e to came t
time at a.l.
ins - .-1t.on ,'.n• as: in 1.
doe -n, Thee u',+li e, Ratter the ('3 , „ e • 132 the cermet meal of 'boa."
t t 1 t i And is
:'then r.rr, in •:se it is f 1 up and -1.11. ,t I
Hent .,at, there .. ,o out of thef animal; are amezei ly 13.
put on an extra _oat of paint, end reg3t1tr with respect to piural
more parte va. wear out. "Sprite t3.: v:a
e.
m p - With the s!+1: ^r-.. lr.mw'n 0:10 "\,u<e,' Car Met � .c(:', which ha tl-" -.
your car nova. tc ! really a1112z100 plurel of "mice.'
has a. .+,..3.,c 1 1 .,1.,-c, d � seri r..;
e uamte ,.1'..3 a :'.1:'1.01!, ane ne• '•33r -n e," a medlar word. appear, to
How to Treat a Worn Clutch. ;01/1fe - =a, la ;. c.1. Two c ct; tit have no \dura) at 3111. At. airy raw.
,1• 11o1', ,' ell rate.' :r ear,. one Meyer sees in print this wee;
After an automobile t oat has ant f r, t 0 lees ' ,'.•te." r113
. The freer. leets .la iea'1,: m• forward "hrottsea;' mu 11 t.s. �.1
been tightened to its last Hatch a
often begins to ,ti!+ at a time when It i+'1 the n,. ,, ,ny , ., 3.•f 1 1L•a';•I of "louse;' on the ether liana.
to refeee it promptly, +'!. l h + 3 .- . rem, .n is quite rei;ulal•, !..,. g merely
is impossible i i^arr 10.131 .
When ,en iourtbin'; tryst , -. 11T :, ' ;
dpnen flu. the way . word which has
em*+ornry r.�- .. .. •. al. 1 1 1. 1 a i.e:;t.i�ni "t , , ' i•
done in fat , t o' the 11, +, . i. :alar Mara} of
.air if th<. ;•,t3. is le be nue-d. ' u t, .., he curve. 1
I 1,: ' etto;1_,(1 ,s "get .r but .ti d, not tank of. a
r�� to overcome this sl of ,,.i...s- •, The c
A _'rd tim t fe • Lade herd- of "111(10.. lvl:'-:n you mesh a
inthe ordinary e^:1_ , i feet l.,3..•: .,t• tam . n
1(:Q' "'r a time, _•, _ animate Known as
Mem; � hoards i., J/ !tall' i::: �.. , ,, , member hr'9' Of CII: i.liJ alliiml
clutch, is to r.hp0•:e the door .oat,. ,t ,,r�,e,•,
1 .sed ,n the middle (0.' severed 1 l,..,l "1:1
f the raHush in elle cinch Pedal 0
t, tomb 3.s will -.e .�t+-;: c:_,a<. Tw•:, '. ,�3 bites the Ti:.: word "ox" stat retains it; oeI•
3.o that the ,.then n e .
,.,. 1 cent h.eh_ Mehl nod Plural of 'os -'n:' and "(hill.'
e nthe fa, o thea Sift. Pallet earth- :-an. 1 ( the 1
e3. to r1i•'.( tut d.f•.:.<ace i3., 111(• (allyls Its pineal in a similar but even
e3. the Esus Of the clutch. (:':r• ruluplieated fashion by all :te
Start the motor, and then ants, rete ht of the _eat oohs,
the syllable "ten," and bccon1 11
(old that the 7 d rule is that `al•
enter tire m'.t p11 le by telling an
' :3.101;--uleectcnf3. ai''1 lo,
Sart he begins merrily: rril : "H?i;' "ll.t '
-book," Meets": ' Bend," "lu: '
lnd,
"foot,' "foots
"Step!" say the teneliet•. "That it
wlemO. The, l,ln:':3..l of 'foot' is 'ie.t'."
The 110:,1 word in th''e list 13 00t,"
411(1 tl, r�g,11 very 1113.11relly gives the
pita• 1 1 Leet and d1--, of 00110S0,pnr-
rI',d `. Ixv told that 'beet" 1a a \'
:wl rat n to : spec, e3. , n; 1 you ,riser 1 1'1 111e t0n•le1"' .•«ek of the is "boots."
wait a little too luno, you 410111 lk300 to ;r '`'Sous n
echildren.
ORIGIN 03. "3'014 MEN." fame:? in the helmet of .("4111, Kin: ,.f q•11., plural of "matt" is "men." and
THE OR1 x i ,
__--. :411.• :i;, ,,,,,in m rt, of ('r:'
,t: l.- 1 by tit_
�' - strict r. ,+,u the }?t.:;l._,1, Lu a
German Motto .ow Three O
of Wales' Crest. rests; of 1.C.`le?- sled '11 1,11'1, "nut'',
Feathers an Prince
fought the chivalry of -v rinse, and in
Many Canadians made 1piltrim'l0i'3 a t,„„.11,1, 11.,1131 to 1.'ad ca':c'pitet' 3:'it11
to Canterbury ('athedrel during the 111ner.0, l,.,ttle axes. ,:er(1•'. and flag•
war. x111 t iewt-d the tomb of the Illar e3.,, em„, : r:-,'`tattl'n in - :try meats.
Prince and th:, crested helmet am: has thrill^d •„ enerat!',uo . bays, ;;min-
ruety enirees which ha:1„ above it n ed a gloriou.• victory. T11 t3. t:lo took
the stillness of the ancient nave. Title ' place on it:, Aegnst, is 10). 17.1 years
hero of 1,ld I:nelnnd, son of E310.0 a;^ J"1:1u of 1 •alma; vas covin;'
It, was that Prince of Wales whose as a vnittnteer with the French army.
knightly needs won the crest and tete ; Edward, the Black Prime, in re•
Getnl::n motto which have fallen to spcct to iia father, Edward It. who
the present soldier Prim: 01 W.^le:, commanded the English army that
note in Canada, wilt, t,, u, has faced ; day. although it was the Prince who
the foe upon the teelds Preece and, won the battle adapted the motto
won ills emirs. 1 which has since been borne with the
"Ich diem" (I sereel the motto 1111-, fe1(thers by the hells to the British
der the elutuo of us,ri.h f::;tthcr,, 03:3..;, .10011.
A ! -ap es Story
1 am an old loan now, says a veteran 0.1331, Lot with the angry mother bear
hunter, but to my (dying day I'll never :nJuststll then noticese dtwul�reestgrow.
forget the trap, that au old she -bear ing irour fi::sures in the Toch and lean -
and I got mixed up in one repr111114 1118 out over the abyss below. With
morning back in '82. I do not relhem• the brute's hot breath on the .back of
ber why I was out on the narrow ledge my- neck. 1 tools one leap, praying that
running round that part of the 111)01(1' the rents of the tree would not break,
tarn, with no gun for may protection; The tree e wayecl, but stood firm, and
but I do remember vividly that I 'wee I teireh',d out and up,
there. At lily left, the mountain rose The old hoar stood growling and
almost perpendicularly for at least _-going me for a moment; then, plac-
three hundred feet, with no chance at fug her two front feet on the trunk of
ail for a hurried foothold. At my right, the tree, she et tried to climb up after
the drop of fully a thousand feet, with me
stere and there a tough little tree cling-
ing to some fissure in the rock, made
me almost dizzy.
The thing happened at a turn as
sharp as a street corner. Not dream -
Ing of clanger, I stopped for a moment
just after malting the turn, and was
looking down Into the flood -washed
valley, Suddenly an ngly growl smote
mY ears. There, not ten feet away,
was a she -bear and her one cub. She
was a massive brute, and her eyes
were wicked.
Suddenly the tree quivered, and I
felt 111e rents snapping one, by one,
The cotebined weight of Po'.two of us
waa too great. I gave one swift look
round tae; trier. I macre a supreme
leap, and .aught with a death grip the
slender trunk of the other tree. The
bear tried to shuffle back to safety,
but she was too late; in a moment,
tree, stores, bear and all went plung-
ing down to the rocks below.
For a time I closed my eyes and
clung tenaciously to my tree, but final.
I turned ane ran for dear life. the ly, after regaining nerve and strength,
bear following at tcrrif.c ap'1ed, only I climbed bash to the t•01i, where I
to find that at blockade of loose stones fond thy: little cub waiting for the
had fallen f1'pl:t the mountain above mother who would never return. Al-
and had eat off my chance to escape. ter a little manoen eriug, I caught it
It would have been possible, to cross and c urieti it to 111y cabin, and later
safely if I had 11ac1 time to pick lay f left It et a zoo.
3.f •0un1101" 'wonrn"; but the word
-brethren," wham was universal as
the plural of "brother" 111 Saxon
times. hiss now given way to the More
or Mary "brothel's."
;1 str.tng"d3• irregular plural is teat
of the every -day worn "penny," No
foreigner could possibly guess it as
"43:1ee," The French scl:aolboy would
be equally puzzled by the problem of
Meting the singuiar of the word
'dice," which is rarely used "die."
Some Have Nene At All,
Words ending in "f" have their pe-
euliarites. "Half" becomes "halves,"
and "tiller" 151lnllarly turns itself into
"thieves." "Wife" and "knife" are
two more examples of irregular Phu,
ale. becoming respectively ''wives"
end "knives.,,
Ti1,en we have words ending in
double "s," to which we have to add
at syllable t0 make them plural. Ex-
amples are "dresses,' "messes," and
"recesses." Some words with only a
single "s" form their plurals i11 similar
fashion.
A peculiar and unique plural is that
of the word "no" when applied to dis-
sentient voters. It is, of course,
"noes."
Compound words have their pe-
culiarities. We talk of "mothers -In-
law," but of "spoonfuls."
We have quite a number of words
which have no singular, "Deer," for
instance, "swine," "hose," "sheep,"
Also "scissors," "breeches," "tongs,"
"wages," and "bellows." And there
are others which have no plural form,
among which niay be cited "Wheat,"
"thyme," "goodness," "malice," and
"prudence."
The Justified Hen,
Why does the leen cackle?
Well, why should site not cackle?
She would crow, if she could,
Anyway
She has a perfect right to cackle,
Behold the egg!
It is worth five cents,
F0:13. the farm Meyer.
Let the leen cackle—
She has just laid
The foundation of our national p
perity!
On tt; 131 not the farmer
The bedrock of national being?
COMMON DISEASES
OF WATCHES
REASONS WHY TIMEPIECES VARY
FROM DAY TO DAY,
Proca+.'tlons to be Taken to Ensure
Your Watch Keeping Accurate
, Time .Under All Conditions.
'1'o most people the w.ltn e and ca-
prices of a1 w1(1111 1m'' a deep mystery.
The ninny parts of a tnl ;1!cee ap-
111it'enttly miter felt, a (onen11•ety t0 the
0.13. that the ew'ne1' may (1(Iss trains.
ferries and business appointments.
\Viten 11 fat11'ly ,gond \vetch 1cavve
the. hands et a reputable watcln0,lkcr
it is alwicy-e 111 tireschee emeditien,
1:'d if it ;ems not L.Ji.,ee 2313.' 3. after.
weal it is generally tee fault. el the
im'1a c1' w,r,t,it1 who mime it.
One very common e ,1131' of the
0:aG-h . i. 4113.3 of I (5;13 1f 0:' r11.:Po-
..Itlelt 1:3.3rle of It ,,t ti:;1113. 1( you Wear
a 1,211111 nest to your b,rly flaring the
day mud ptare it on a teed 311111. -i., as
a 1a,rble miettlepiece, ut liiilht, or ane•-
w-hele in a cold room. the evetch is
sure either to gain or lose, told
-1u..,ee contraction of 1110 11101:113 a;d
n 3.11e.construct!o11 of a watch and the
watch conoquently gains.
HURRY AND ASO DRi; w3Ei?
WE ARE 401N TO THE.
5M1THS'e .,,'., FOR t1INNEt1.
ros-
Parses That Kill Sheep
Sheep raising in New Zealand Is
threatened with calnlltity from an tut-
xpectetl source —a parrot that attacks
ftthl•gl'hw•Il sheep and withclaws and
heals literally teat's Its unfortunate
victims in pieces. '('his bird of des-
tt'nctioe is called the 1tea. It is small-
er dram an I:nglislt rook, says (t New
Zhalitnd correspondent of the London
Times, and has the hrilll'ult, s(111ih1e-
ta1110 sheen or many other ('0lhuiel
birds. Venn:,111 the wings are Mimc-
color(d patches, The body is Co111-
e:u`t and very muscular, but most of
the power scenes to be tendered in the
neck, the surveil, cutting heath and the
strung, tearing talons. The slat's will
dig Into 11es11 as if it were butter, and
one sweep of the beak of a bird that I
rlro;alit was dead has cut cic,(u ac•rovs
a pair of heavy cord bu"sie"s. The
ken's 11!.;ht is as swift us lieu, of a
wind -(hi\ -'n t,heioiant, and it can jump
into the air Sad be off before its
scat .ell is ended, liar let no lnie'e he
he Ander: the ken is not a sporting
bird in ;niy :...aC it is treated as vet'
ton and ,but on sleet.
tilt mole ('043,11511, the \tea is bet a
wary bird; It sometimes let:, hulnctn
beings ,lpprn.eell it e.lesely and liar
even been i(hnown to enter dwelling
111)1t"ee raid tents. P"reduently tweet
will stand by in apparent stupidy whet
theft matey are tieing killed.
Thlrty-llle years ego this parrot was
.;31:3.1 only in the 111:'h totwtry of Otago
1(14 the mountain site l(erts of the
Howkdnni had a legend teen of on
Change of Tert!peretere,
When the heat of the holy eans00
the p,:rts to expand the pivots and
''carbo;, will tlghten nit and the v itch
1.111 lose time, 'Flom your ‘latch es
.low when you 1i !l(1 and feet when
p get up. It 3V,1! '• 1v according to
the temperate re : , w11i(11 it in rum
eine'. An elle ., ,ve NV:t011 03111011 hu,
.r compeeenting 11,11e.nce is, of course,
net afteettel b1 e•lranges of tempera-
ture. Some 111(tele czp0url in cold and
ethers centrale., end the compensating
Galan e 1 made of built kinds 0f me-
tals, so that the contraction of nine
elm- Indent., the exp\ neion of the
ether.
Iverybody knows that the proximity
of a dynamo will 1101-,n,:'tize the steel
arts of a watch at1(1 rude itfar the
Cele helve. A wretch may be effected
by tle(teleity witheet the owner hav-
ens been near a. Oneonta '1'}141 amount
of '.:Ietarie}t1 in some people is so
0.toat that it alreets the steel pees of
a watell. Watt,le., elite 1113 magnetized
re open broegl1t to the watchmaker,
who demagnetizes them. When do -
livered to th • owners they are (153.1'
1111)311 to keep away from (lynanl041.•
But when a nein l:tc1:: tete some trouble
vontinua3ly it is proof that the elec-
tricity in his body has affected his
watch, •
An observant watchmaker said that
dark people are more likely to affect
their watches in this tray than light
people, and women more so than men.
The an10111(t of electricity in the
human 00113' is, of course, very slight,
but a very small amount is. required
to magnetize the delicate steel parts
of a watch. Persons of high electric
organizations should wear a watch
with a steel case if they wish to re-
tain an accurate timepiece.
that killed a sheep, It came north
with 113e horde, and al the time the
31lacltenele country w•ae+ opened:It was
ell::1.(ed with mysterious killings of
sheep that took place more and More
frequently. Twenty -live years ago it
was seen on at. Ja11n11a unci 81. 11:lelu;,
Inst was lml:nowu 041 the plain or (n1
1110 11111 statim forty lades Mv11y. To-
day it has bell seen in 111000eim; it
ventures to the plains and flies 111,x1,011'
lug over Ilanluer Sprlmge, At. one
1 point by the Public road, between Cul-
verdell and Reamer, It slew le3yeety
t as w0rdk-
in night. Where I t
:a i t }
zee
P
,r,
(
tl
ingit killed 1 1
at C111Iunrs,tOlt,
big Curried:do rams—tho strullg(+st
einem in the world- between dusk and
dawn, within one hundred yards of tllo
inane:deed \;11(11101's.
lu Immo mete of the country small
bountiee were paid fur the kens, but
the birds del their work so secretly
that tete sheep rni•:ors were slow to
uepect thein 231„anw•lhil' the l:cats 1u-
crenzctl 141 numbers and laid heavier
loll, and knotty' the evidence 1.3111nst
• the winged terror 1100/1110 0vc'rwlehn•
1,:. '1'l,e farmers and eeltlers began
to de.,U•uy the (',41st,, but more t(nd
1:107,• Leas came, anti 11003 there is tir-
,'oat need th•It the government of New
/.t gland take 1 :i: 3.o ln010,tlres ;1 the
:hemp of the co,lutry are to be saved.
1IIt is 11 curilms fact that 0(031 )ittle
is known about the habits of the Ikea,
1Vies and where it nests is a mystery.
, There is ao echoed of yoeing birds be -
Ing seely 031113 the ones that attack the
e elieel.1.
,
lumber her of years without ailing, but
the wear and tear (01 a w•st.h in which
tate oil is dried up is 1(111011 greater
than when it is reg111arly endproperly
oiled. Never attempt to oil your
watch. Let a watchmaker ettelul to it..
Change of Position,
A watch should never be laid hori-
zontally at night, but should always
be hung upon to nail. Change of posi-
tion w111 1101 affect a mechanically per-
fect watch, but such a watch is yet to
be niacle. Should the pivot of the bal-
ance wheel be in th'31 least worn the
change 111 position will make the
watch gain or luso. The jewel on the
under side of the bada1100 wheel is
known as the cap jewel, and the pivot
does not go through it. Unless the
pivot flits right up against this cap
jewel a change in position will make
the watch lose. Therefore always
keep your watch in the same position
night and day.
It is well known that a watch will
stop for 8on10 unexplained reason and
go on again all right if it is given a
slight jolt. The same trouble may not
occur again for years, This is an ac-
cident to which all watches are liable
when worn on the person. It is clue
to the delicate hairspring catching in
the hairspring stud- or in the regulat-
ing pins. The cause is generally a
sudden jump or quick movement,
such as boarding a car, &c, A jolt is
given t0 the balance wheel am hair-
spring, and this renders the catching
possible. The jolt must comp at a
'Particular fraction of a second during
the revolution of the balance wheel,
otherwise the spring would not catch.
A watch should be oiled every eigh-
teen months, Imeairse no oil can be
made which w111 not dry up In that
time, A watch will sometimes run a
u
Irregularity in Winding.
In r -mein/ ii.g ,1 031-3')) 111.1.;11g111 111 to
be ullairedl the t3. ictim,..,a•s nearly
all 11-11: tt the SA1110 001M1±, Fired they
t •
examine the hands to see .( they are
caught. then. they lake out the bal-
e:Ice wheel, Ionic at the pivots and the
ruby pin. Neat they let them( the
mttilisprieg :all 0X11111111e the wlhetr10.
The last part they examine fs the es-
eapement, which is almost always in
good order. Sometim0s 11 watchmaker
will puzzle for days over an irregular
watch, One of the most perplexing
faults to fend is a little burr on the
tootle of a wheal. This rarely happens,
but when it does it causes a good deal
of trouble. -
11'onmcn and watches do not agree.
In proportion to the number sold there
are twice as Many watches 00111(1x011
for women as for 111e11. Women rarely
wind a watch np regularly. A watch
should always be wound every horn-
ing, so that the spring shall be at its
strongest tension during the day,
when the watch will be jolted more or
less. At night the weak spring has
nothing to disturb it,
Army Training.
11Irs. Green: "Has life in the Army
done your husband any good?"
Mrs. Brown: "He's a different lean,
my dear, He sweeps trio floor, washes
the dishes, and peels the potatoes
without a word."
RIISMAN CROWN
JEWELS LOST?
UNHEARD OF SINCE THE FALL
OF 1'!•lE ROMANOFF•S,
Treasures of the Empire Formed a
Magnificent Collection of Fabulous
Splendor and Worth,
Tine fete or: tete lnegnlflccnt (lad fab-
ulously. valuable crown jewels of Rus-
sia it la n mystery that msy never be
solved, It is e1101(1oudeti in the mantle
of tragic secrecy wlticll lees cloaked
all events 111 I11131111 since the fall of
the Peumannffo, 11 Mae Mem removed
that befeam the abdication the ezmiva
transferred the tree:;nrr+. o1' the em-
pire to v:allts in elenat ly, Also it
lam been reported that there wax 1(11
time to :lava the pricelese 501119 and
that. they All with the Kremlin of
Moscow Info the hands of the li,dsle-
vikh 13ut their disposition has hoon
only a matter of conjecture. :No ser
risme; news 01! what 11.1: heeeme of
1113.131 11331 untried through r.ry •11:tiou•.
ury ce1111)3 hip to rho out id,• tvor1:1.
Soldiers Make Good Employees.
"Whet r'spet'ienee have. you had?"
a:,keel 1111 employer of a etuiwurt young
nl,plicant for a job in his office,
"I was in the war, sir," saute. the
aswm',
Soldiers melte good leen. You're
hnired."
And the yO 11(i eter, who had left col-
lege to go to Fra( ee, found err heli
then and there a na.rlber of the great
hldu-trial world, The etaploe (1 is (:1e
of the wisest leen in iiie export onsi-
nesa to•d tl wise because 110 13.1115
feet and dements old theories as soon
as bettor (ns11 present themeelvee.
The old theory was that a soh1i01•
waa 11 1'011111(7 313(10, 1111 adventurer, a
hero, if yell V:11 1, but no l:asinese tient.
The new theory is that War training
and ,11:31' :tae tench a n1a11 qu•'.lities
that are assets to hint in basins,:
the value of quick judgment, of etaitoch
loyalty W the job, of concentration
and of nuninehing courage in crisis.
Moreover, he las learned to do ono
or tee, definite jobs as a military nam.
He may have learned to build roads,
to cool(, to muse, to handle machinery,
to drive a car, 0i• to drill men. What-
ever it was, lie learned to do it well
Sed thoroughly and it has made him
a Jacek-of-One Trade, at least,
Keeping It Dark.
Master of the I'Iouse: "Why did you
tell the mistress what time I came in
this morning, after I expressly paid
You and told you not to?"
Tho Cook: "Sure, sir, an' 01 didn't
tell her, 15110 asked me what time you
got in, an' Oi tould her 01 was so busy
getting the breakfast that 0d didn't
look at the clock.'
Cloning the Argument
The Bolshevik', when they are not
doing. worse things, are either sleep•
ing or eating or arguing. They will
argue about anything and everything
—from murder and loot to the habits
of the army mule.
In Vladivostok, according to Mr. Ken-
neth L. Roberts, they tell a story of a
Bolshevik who emerged from a dark near the centre of the town, 'rho Rus -
Ile y nod pushed a large automatist 811111s wore entranced by these strange
animals and held endless arguments
over them. One Russian In particular
kept visiting the picket lines, bringing
friends each time; and every time he
Same he would argue about the mules,
and his Mende would argue, and the
noise of the al'gillnente would Oven
CSUCO the mules to roll their oyes sag-
gestively, One afternoon this chief
arguer came down 03rdh a party of
4i'1onds anti started an argument, In
the course of it he laid hie hand light-
ly on the hip of a large, mean -looking,
mouse -colored mule, The mule kicked,
and the arguer flew eight feet through
the air and descended with a dull
thud, He had to bo carried away in a
wheelbarrow 1 and ever after that the
Russians viewed the mules with un -
and came away with it in his side poc-
ket, right, near the watch and the wal-
let that the Bolshevik had originally
demanded.
Another argument, however, ended
lose fortunately. When the Allied
troops first reached Vladivoetolk, a
number of army mules wore picketed
pistol
against
a dwealthy
emand for his wallet
and watch.
Tho citizen, with rare presence of
mind, neither resisted, ran, nor called
for help, He started an ttrgumint.
Looking carefully at the pistol that
threatened his life, he pointed at it
tentatively and asked, "Sltolko stolt?"
(Flow much is it?.
The Bolshevik, somewhat taken
aback, pen(1e1Od deeply and finally an-
nounced that it was worth four hum.
tired rubies. The wealthy citizen, hor-
rified by this demand, put up a violent
argument, declaring that the gun was
not worth a cent over a hundred and
My rubies. After forty-five minutes
of feverish conversation, tho wealthy
citizen finally obtalned the pistol for abated interest, but without 1101410'
01v0 hundred and twenty1100 rubies menta.
The "Astrakan Cep,"
The crown of 11be11tie1 1`e+, M0101101
culled the "Astrakhan COP," i,; per.
Imps the racheet of the collect:on. Sur'
(noontime tee splefictrlly jeweled arch
1s (111 immense Pierced totem, 3.11,3,30
and below which is a pew]. It oleo
bears a flat, pierced sapphire. lin oc-
tagonally cut sapphire of a vele blue
color, and numerous other smaller
ones, as welt •11f1 m1111y sp111013. Thyro
is also a square cut emerald of fair
quality frr-m :limo, Columbia,
The tiara, 00 cap, of 1'elier the Great,
1111(11 the Russian; coil the "Ulumond
Clap," is studded with diamond:'. .1t
the top, beu01i111 a diamond 10 Is a
Mute Opine 1, which ie, however, 1 i• 1 let
opaque. 11elem from the :.b'c e. ,.
tering at the base of the cep •_'3.o
'(cisme large but 3.1-1'7 11Abt c.•:::,."d
emeralds 114311 three 1,t•e roinel , 3411
plena,' and mounted 011 st:an 1i:'
011113'141 q'
An inters 'l.:ng element < the , -
` eeem (''ran..- i-. all
at leu
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Imperial ehielti, made of 103-311e, avcr-
ed with crilm;n(1 lard eclret yawl elm '.
ly studded with medelllma of v (rielr
designs, richly executed in beatified
enamel mud genie of Sine quel;ly.
The crown that has been need :1t the
eeren'onies of the coronation attire
1762 Is that executed for Catherine H.
by the court jeweler, Pauzie, a (Gene-
van by birth. Its form is Byzantine,
On elle browband are twenty -rix largo
diamonds, which with many smarm:
ones go to form two palm branches
dazzlingly brilliant. Rising from these
orltntnents, the arch of the crown
bears a row et magnificent diamoli'ds;
capping the arch is an uncut spinel,
which, despite its rather pale flue, was
considered 1111725 to be worts the sun
of 00,1000 rapes (6,30 000). Surmount-
ing this spinel ie n cross formed of live
large and fine diamonds. On either
side of the arch of the (Wean there is
tt section rising from the eirelet and
bordered with thirty-eight penile of
largo sio and splendid quality. Small-
er pearls and precious stones number-
ing about twenty•ilve lluucire,l go to
complete and round out the nrtistio
beauty of this historic crown,
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World's Flneet Elect( Pearls.
tl'lte Russian Orlov diamond Is sot
in tho imperial scepter for tho corona-
tion, aid the orb las, beteides thirty-
four large diamonds, it bluish -green
sapphire overtopped by a diamond
cross composed of thirteen line stones, .
Tule ,Russian imperial crown has been
valued at 3400,000 rubles ($530,000),
The late Empress of Russia had a
wonderful collection of black pearls,
one unrivaled in the world. She hail
Pour strings of thole with eseOpLioial-
ly large pendant pearie, and also
bracelets and earrings set with this
rare typo of pearl, Each of the oar -
rings c011015ted of two large- pearls,
one suspended from the other. In ad-
dition, the czarina poeseesed a coro-
net, in the jeweling of which black
pearls alternated with diamonds. A
smaller jewel, but one of groat value,
was a .ring as long as the fleet phalanx
of the finger, It liras set with a largo
and lustrous black pearl surrounded
by a circle of smaller ones,
The imperial love (1 gents extended
beyond the superb crown jewels, Gem
material was lavishly employed in the.
decoration of certain especially slmlp•
tootle rooms in several of the Russian
imperial palaces, For example, at
Zarskoe Selo, the iuselan Versailles,
one of the rooms occupied by Cather.
ine II, is entirely overlaid with agape,
and the bed (Malabar or Marie Alex•
anth'ovka, wifeof Czar Alexander IL,
has rte floor 1111141(1 with (1101110r -of -
pearl, Evou' more impre sive is the
"Amber Room" which ie completely
tiled with amber, while on the walls
and the table are dieplayod numerous
artistic) objects carved out of this
material. Another beautiful apart-
ment, th0•„w'0nderful 'Lapis Lateen
Hall, was eumptxt0usly adorned with
this *dolt hued blue stone, enhanced
by the use of gold,
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