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ASBUKY PARK EVENING PRESS. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1922. IF THE TARIFF BILL ISN'T VETOED final agreements, as things stand. They could only make tentative engagement subject to the approval of congress. But the mere fact that active American participation is ASBURY PARK PRESS AND EVENING NEWS.

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J. IHtT 5I1LT UU GROW BIG OUT WEST By FREDERIC J. HASKIN. i Editorial Digest NOW IT'S REAL FOOD NOT PROMISES FOR BREAKFAST. Medical Experts Daeislon That Sat factory Morning Meal.

Maka F8r Pl.a.e. Ed some years ago an immigrant gained entrance to this land of the free. He was an agitator, and so successful was his propaganda that an Incredibly short time he had enormous following; largely looked npon favorably in most quarters is hopeful in itself. i The United States as chief cred- 1 itor is most deeply concerned in any adjustme.it of the war debt prob-; lem, and of the reparations prob- lem as it bears upon the other. It is becoming more evident right along that the participation of this government in such councils is not only desirable but imperative.

Editorial Mirror A PERFECT MAN. The recruiting officer of the United States Marine corps, who has charge of the Sioux City station, aays that he has found a man of perfect phyl sique. The man is Howard Inglesen, a young farmer from South Dakota, I among our Best peopie. eo w.ae.y accomplished only as the resu't of was his influence spread. In fact, so effort to stifle the Instinct of strongly intrenched his doctrines, 1 a lifetime.

And now come these that those who stubbornly remained joctors and advise him to eat a outside the cult took on a tinge of breakfast, the one meal cn ignominy. Now, however. red- which he had found the least difll-! blooded Americanism is rising to cuty in economizine." no ennstea in me marine tnis journal have declared unequivocally weel1, for American breakfasts for Amerl- Ingiesen is 6 feet, ISi Inches In ucs Xnd their editorial fellow-cit-height He welgha 205 pounds and jzeni are them almost to WASHINGTON. Sept. 6 Is the justly celebrated climate of Califor- nia breeding a race of giants on the 1'aciflc coast? The scientists of the Children's Bureau in Washington think that it is, altho with true scien.

tide caution they qualify their opinion with a "perhaps." At any rate, it is certainly true that, age for age, tile school children of California are considerably taller and heavier than the run of school children the country over; and the experts in Washington can find no better explanation of the phenomenon than that of favorable climate. Hie discovery that California chil- drcn, and there is nothing in the re- cord to indicate that the same would not be true of children or Oregon and Washington, are physically superior to American children as a whole, was the most notable revelation made in the study of school children during the "Children's Year," as the year 1913 was called. In that twelvemonth soma 2,000,000 American school children, six years old and under, were weighed and measured under the supervision of the Children's bureau. No study of human growth on such a scale had even before been conducted in this country. The records have now undergone analysis by the government statisticians and their conclusions are of great practical interest.

The tabulations show that California children are two-fifths of an inch taller and three-quarters of a pound heavier than children of the same age the country over. These quantities by themselves seem small, but as averages they are large. They are so large that it is probable that an observant traveler, going directly into California from the East, could with his own eyes notice that the raclfic coast children are bigger than those in the rest of the country. American Bred Are Largest. California's showing is the more hpnnnse nf th hirca nor centage Ol Italians among mo sciioui nai a chest measurement of 40 inches and a longer arm than Jack Dempsey.

Inglesen' physical proportions are about perfect and his health is the best. What would ancient Greece have done with this perfect young man? Developed him and used him as an inspiring example to every young Spartan. Why can not the high schools or T. M. C.

A. or some other organization borrow this flne speci- men of physical manhood and let his example become an Inspiration to mi.iions youtn? medicai opinion took away the tra- Why Is Inglesen remarkable at aJl? diUonal American breakfast, and ex-Simply because he is rare. The av- pert medical opinion now restores erage young man is neglectful of his lt," a satisfying indication to the I I I I I i in ainn i I nvora tn lnniw naoi IVia aa uUrn children weighed and measured there. -phe Italians those statistics demon-iuP strate are below the general stature and Weight avenges Child-en of Scandinavian narents in the United 1 ases oC dren states are considerably, and those of German parentage somewhat, above the nati0nal averages in weight and height; yet the percentage of children of these stalwart nationalities is ex-j ceedingly low in California. But with no racial reasons for large sta- ture In California on the contrary an adequate racial reason to'Pnysical types.

The Children's Year Lingering- for the marginal five drlnki briefly and Is gone. A hearty breakfast would demand short rising in the dark. Impossible boiling of food and apricting across the dewy pavements of the big city or of suburbs." Worse still, the PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC LEDGER comes along with this unpleasant thought. "It is tha observation of most of us that the peraon in sedentary occupation ii more concerned with how he tnd particularly she) may lose a pound, not one often thjs hag been in medical edicts, the PHILADEL- PHta RECORD observes that ing any doctor can tell you can be of aa much value to you us the meg' sage the breakfast itself likely to telephone to you later In thj day." Foreign Opinion. DANISH VIEW OF" REPARATIONS Tn9 0f the present treat- ment of the reparations problem is clearly pointed out by a writer in the Politiken.

He says: "Everybody is asking today what is going to happen. The stock exchange gives the answer. The mark has now arrived where the Austrian crown was last year. And as the i pIlcate(1 ana serlous than the AuBtr. an quegtlon, thls mean8 once again that the time is coming when 60 mil- lion individuals will no longer be able to buy raw materials and food from foreign countries and when the home prices will bring famine and misery to thousands of families.

"The Frankfurter Zeitung shows that in July the en gros prices had risen more than 50 percent. In January last they were only 42 times higher than those of July 1914; in July and August of last year 130 times pre-war prices. vnai win De me rise this montn? finTYl A Irian tzn Via mnla I rr, nig mau vn Aug. i uup uui-i lar could, buy 630 marks, and now 1,130 marks. I "The French governments thinks according to a semi-official note i from Havas that the collapse evi-1 ent by these figures, the earthquake, of which we already hear the first rumblings, Is quite easy to explain and need frighten nobody.

It is nothing but an exchange speculation on the part of the German government ln order to become bank rupt and thus oblige the allies to grant a loan wnicn wouia again ensure 'the economic hegemony of Europe' to Germany. "Absurd point of view. It Is utterly absurd to think that the Ger man government purposely arranges a financial and economic, a political and social crisis, with such disastr- ous consequences. "But it is believed in Paris, and the press speaks of the reparations question in a frame of mind and a tone which Is appalling in Its want of realism, It is just as if they were struck with blindness In face of this huge storm which is advancing on Europe. Let us give one single ex- 1 ample which illustrates clearly the present madness of the reparations.

We are thinking of the deliveries of 1 German coal which amount at pres- ent to 1,725,000 tons a month. The situation Is as follows: Germany, which thru the peace treaty, has lost I 26 per cent, of her coal production i is suffering now from a. coal famine and was obliged to import in June 1,900,000 tons, mostly from England, that is to say more than she is obliged to deliver to the allies. France and Belgium, on the have too much coal. So that German coal Is now sent at great expense from i the Ruhr to France and Belgium, from whence some of it is often sent back again to the Ruhr.

At the same time the Rhine barges which have taken the coal to Rotterdam, to be sent on to French ports, load up again in Rotterdam with English coal and take it back to the Ruhr to replace the deliveries made. "It is difficult to imagine anything more absurdly stupid from an economic point of view. The German government even asked to be allowed to make some of its deliveries in English coal, to avoid sending the Ruhr coal to Rotterdam, which is substituted then by English coal. The request was refused. "This is only one example, but one which characterizes the madness, the crime against Europe which the present treatment of the reparations problem is causing.

"What are things coming to Nobody knows yet what resolution Poincare is going to take, and ln what this liberty of action is going to consist. Hut the exchange shows plainly whither we are going automatically If Poincare continues with the consequence which has been until now his policy." DO YOU KNOW THAT Application of searchlights of the type used nt sea on battle- ships to the marking of landing fields for night-flying airplanes was demonstrated at Dayton, Ohio, recently. The humming bird, smallest of all birds, crosses the Gulf of Mexico, flying over 500 miles in a single night. Altho canned fish from Portugese waters are exported all over the world by ship-loads, the people of Portugal like cod-fish and send fishing fleets to Newfoundland to get them. Milk is the most eiricient of all foods in insuring an all-around adequacy or tho diet, ilt is important as a source of energy, protein, mineral elements and vltantines.

Astronomers claim that there arc no sounds, no floating dust, and no twilight on the moon. i I mm, luic io tauoo iui ouilchhr because of Inability to get coal. And the widespread use of wood for fuel, "ly "ch wood as is best fitted for this purpose be taken, will be of great benefit to our forests. Wood is es- euier tu fall and spring. mii' JT iiotnl nn XT wht.n if a tineelhU Wn tha limlM Just Folks OUT OF THE CROWD.

This much I know, from out the moving throng There are a few whose smiles outshine tho rest, A few who start Joy's tremor ln the breast. The come and pts their way along, Brave souls and good, aglow with mirth and song, But tho in silk and broadcloth they ai dressed. The greeting of a time-tried friend Is best, And he stands out who loves us, right or wrong. The busy people pass us day by day. Fashioned by God as swallows and the bees; Scarce noticed are the straners on the way, Then comes A face the eye enraptured sees Hera Is a friend! The great, the rich, the proud, Are merely men and women ln the crowd.

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1922. ANOTHER IRISH PLEA The United States is about to be made the battleground for another campaign for funds to finance the civil war in Ireland. Mrs. Muriel MacSwiney. widow of the dead lord mayor of Cork, has arrived in New York to "tell the truth about the treaty" and, incidentally, to raise funds to take back to Ireland with which to continue the fratricidal strife which is fast ruining that country.

One wonders just why it is imperative that the United States should be singled out to hear the truth about the treaty." Why should the troubles of Ireland be brought to America for this nation to adjust? Why should Americans be asked to align themselves for and against the treaty and transfer to, this country the rancor and hatred that the warring factions of Ireland feel for each other? When the dispute in Ireland was a. quarrel between England and the advocates of Irish self-government Th Press maintained that the dis-pute was an English-Irish affair and that it should be settled on the other side of the Atlantic. When the imbroglio assumed the aspect of a purely Irish controversy The Press, while regretting the inabil-' ity of the Irish to unite under the constitutional government of COLLINS and Griffiths, still maintained that the quarrel was not for American participation. To that view we still hold. It is the privilege of Mrs.

Mac-Swiney to oppose the only orderly Irish government that has yet been evolved by the Irish people if she chooses. On her and on those who Bide with her in support of the fanatical De Valera must rest the re-, sponsibility for continued warfare in Ireland. But Mrs. Mac Swiney should be made to realize that the Irish quarrel is an Irish quarrel and one in which America is not disposed to interfere. GERMANY RESTIVE Germany is almost as much of a problem now as it was before the allied victory, altho there is no present power for harm apparent.

A racial group of 60,000,000 people, united in language and spirit and possessing an inexhaustible reservoir of energy and intelligence, cannot be crushed out or bottled up. The lid is on Germany for the present, but sooner or later Germany is likely to blow the lid off if the pressure is maintained. It is of little use to argue that the lid ought to be kept screwed down tight on the nation which so lately gathered all her resources of talent and power and hurled them at rival civilization in a war of unexampled criminality and brutality. The fact is that no policy of repression yet devised shows any promise of working satisfactorily. Everything tried yet threatens as much peril to France and her associates, eventually, as to Germany herself.

Blind revenge, naturally, could not be expected to succeed by anyone who knows history. But it does not look as if any program of justifiable punishment can succeed. American tourists returning from Germany say that the Germans are talking of "the next war" as if they were discussing their next meal. They plainly expect another great war. And what is more, alarming, they expect Russia as an ally.

The Germans admit that they have their engineers, surveyors, economic experts and army officers in Russia, introducing "Gorman efficiency," weaving a closer economic union and lining things up for political and military cooperation. They treat Russians everywhere with much consideration. They expect to use Russia to extricate them from their present position and make them dominant in Europe. And Russia, treated as an outcast by other powers, welcomes such effort. Germany deserves international ostracism, but ostracism drives Germany into the arms of Russia.

The other powers, if they are wise, must devote their efforts to international arrangements that will discourage any "next war" by removing it causes or pretexts. THE WORLD'S COUNCIL There has been talk for some time of an international conference to study reparations and war debts, to be held this fall, presumably in one of the European capitals. It is stated on good authority that if President Harding chooses to send American representatives to such a conference there is no existing law to prevent, and congress will not interpose any obstructive policy. It is true that the president or his representatives could enter into no protest, and it appears that the alien whose name la Continental Break fastis ln danger of being deputed as an usdesirable. Seventy-three percent, of the American doctors ap- peaIed t0 ln the matter by medical a man.

"Do you remember." the ROCK- FORD (111.) REGISTER GAZETTE i inquires, "the campaign tor the breakfastless day? The theory was that you'd be healthier, happier and generally more efficient if you took a mere bite of a crust in the morning, or, better still, ate nothing at all." Now, reports the NEW YORK uriUiJ. wicn me reiorm aneciea and general observance, we are aske(1 to undo lt anQ return to the substantial meal. Expert NEW HAVEN REGISTER that "the world do move." Hereafter, the PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN exults, "when the real autocrat of the breakfast table tries to Justify her bantamweight meal with a malapproprlate quotation from Othello about men putting an enemy Into their mouths to u'eil i away their brains, the husband can retflrt oiiurteously" that scientific authority has established "that the cerebrum needs calories aplenty; in other words that brain workers need a good square meal before tackling the daily task of solving the world's problems." This because it is especially for "brain workers" that the American Medical Review of Reviews Is trying to establish a puncture-proof philosophy in the matter of breakfast. And because of the philanthropic efforts of the medical Journal the HARTFORD COURANT rejoices that "at last the man who works with his brains Instead of with his hands may come into his own. or more accurately, his own may come into him, for medical science has reached the point where a show of hands indicates that the brain worker will be permitted to have actual food for breakfast," a happy state which the paper ob serves in passing "has not occurred before for 40 years." The Idea of these physicians, as the WATERBURY REPUBLICAN explains lt, "seems to be that the brain worker needs to coal up well In the morning," for, the CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER agrees, "in the morning the human stomach Is empty.

The human engine needs i fuel to begin Its operations At no other hour of the 24 Is the human system so In need of stoking," While admittedly "the man who starts the day with a handful of sawdust and a dish of prunes is not open to argument," there is some consolation in knowing that he can no longer look with "contempt on his brothers who eat a man size breakfast, even tho it may include a sirlion or a slab of huckleberry pie." Once more "Amer-' ican good sense" has triumphed over the "wave of effete continentalism" which has been menacing that good American Institution, the honest-to-i goodness breakfast, and the reason, as the BROOKLYN EAGLE sees it, 'is that "we Americans are not going to dawdle thru a forenoon. We're going to work with steam-engine energy. An empty stomach rarely does much hustling in a world of economic equivalents." And with the doctor's permission I we are going to have pie for break-i fast If we want it, "and live In the pie belt." Why not? the NEW I YORK TIMES asks. "For genera- tions pie for breakfcist was the nurse in the colonies and the United States of manly sentiment and heroic en-! terprise, the food of pioneers and Indian fighters, heroes of the wars against the French and the English, winners of the west, makers of em-I pirc." So bearing the seal of ap-; proval of the medical fraternity, the i MANCHESTER UNION, from the heart of the rie belt' soes "the eat i Amprican Pie' fi'owlng with the modest pride or the vindicated. Unfortunately, however, it is again demonstrated that there are people in this country who never approve of anything, and we find that those doctors that crabbed 13 percent.

who declared that the way to start the day wrong Is to eat, have their counterpart In the editors who raise objections to a return to the American breakfast. "It Is not so much lack of size as something else that it is the matter with the American breakfast," asserts the NEW YORK TRIBUNE, rather is it the fact that it must be had "on the eat-and-run principle." At least this Is true so far as New Yorkers are concerned, the NEW YORK GLOBE agrees, and while a heavy breakfast "may be an excellent Idea for normal America," won't work in the cities. 'The light breakfast." the GLOBE says, "has been the New Yorker's lifeline. account for stature lower than aver age the California children nevertheless proved to be as much lugger and heavier than the American average as are the children of pure Scan- i Mnnj, Tf pvMnnt- thc.r,fnrP so far as the children are concerned, Cali- fornia is breeding a race of people as large as the Swedes, Norwegians and Danes. The scientists do not attempt to account absolutely for this fact.

They suggest favorable climate ns a possible cause. They also suggest another reason which may command Itself even more 6trongly to the biologist namely, the principle of selection In the parents. The human stock of California is a pioneer stock. The pioneer is a person of superior courage and initiative. It Is reasonable to connect courage and initiative with rugged health and health with superior physique.

Thus the parent stock of California may be regarded as physically select. Iowa furnished an interesting study for the scientists in that the percentage of native parents in that state was higher than in any district studied. Less than 20 percent of the children examined had foreign-born parents. In New York city it was Just the reverse, less than 23 percent of the children examined having native parents. The Iowa children were slightly above the national average In height and slightly below it in weight.

New York children averaged more than half an inch shorter than average American children of the same ages. The New York chiMren were weighed in their underclothing, and so the scientists have made no attempt to compare their weight with I those of other children. On the aver-j age, New York children are nearly an inch shorter than those of California. I Children Thrive in the Country, Whatever satisfaction tho cities of America may take in their low death rates as compared with the rural death rate, It Is shown by this study that the country is more favorable than the city to the growth of a child. Rural children measured in 1918 averaged one-quarter of an inch taller jand nearly one-quarter of a pound heavier than city children.

Colored children averaged shorter and lighter than white children. The weight and stature deficiencies In col ored children, however. Off1 rrM pnysicai development, xne average man is sub-normai physically. The sight of a young man like Inglesen makes the average young fellow want to go home and keep himself out of sight. He has this recation because the average young man knows he couid give himself better care and develop a higher standard of physical efficiency.

The physical perfection of the human race could be encouraged if young women insisted on physical fitness. CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE. FARCE OF MARRIAGE. "Kid" McCoy's application for a ninth marriage license is his own personal business or pleasure or whatever you like to call It. Every American is free under the law to do whatever the law allows.

It must occur however, to many who consider a marriage certificate as( something more permanent than a dance program that if moral duty and social convention are not sufficient to preserve the strength and sweetness of the nuptial tie there should be a national law to limit the practice of overindulgence In strong drink. Actually, the proportion of Amer- leans who take advantage of our lax divorce laws is infinitely small compared with those who stand by their marriage obligations. But these cases get a lot of publicity while, as often been remarked before, men and women don't go around publicly vertising how happy they are tho married. Too much discussion of the constantly recurring stories, often unfortunately with well known names attached, of mismated and unmated and remated couples, like poorly assorted left-overs displayed on a cheap bargain counter, tend to make a farce of marriage. And in imma-i ture minds the farce of suggestion acts strongly.

If "Kid" McCoy would go oft to some desert island beyond reach of the radio he might remarry nlnety-and-nine times more and no one would care a whoop. LOS ANGELES TIMES. THE RIGHT OF SILENCE. The traditional reserve of the Englishman has nowhere bepn more noticeable than in his own railway coaches. An English court has Just punished a man who offended, in this of all places against his neighbor's inalienable right not to be spoken to if he did not wish it.

At Nottingham, near Robin Hood's old haunts, an Englishman has been fined the sum of one pound Jerllng. He bought, a third class ticket and wickedly climbed Into a first class coach. There he found a fellow passenger. He not only addressed this person not known to him but persistently tried to engage him in conversation. Unwarned by the other's silence, untaught of tradition, he kept up the attempt with persistence worthy of hotter cause.

At length lie became abusive, as conversational people sometimes will. The court fined him, but the dis- patch fails to tell how many ings he had to pay for merely calling his fellow traveler bad names and how much for the trespass of privacy. The right not to be talked to has had at least some vindication. It has not hitherto received quite as much attention as the right of free speech. ROCKFORD REGISTER GAZETTE.

Three thousand boxes of soap have been shipped to Russia where the boxes are in great demand. PARK-ERSBURG NEWS. We may not be able to take the credit for winning the war but we gave the credit with which the war was won. ASHEVILLE TIMES. Let's have a national grouch week so everybody can take part, ST.

JOSEPH NEWS PRESS. lvigion th American Assocla. Mohammed c(ith hill." 111 LUi CI cli o'ci-iris uu nui imm; to them either. Dr. Holt's aver-1 are based on the msasurements i a relatively small number of chil--1 brought to him in his private i practise, ln fact, othf-r standard ta- bles of measurements for children i show averages higher than the new Bureau.

The reason probably is that he average ascertained by Individ-1, uals are affected to some extent by the unconscious selection of better averages, based on the measurements of nearly 2,000,000 children from all sorts of homes and from every section of the Unite'd States, represent the true crosssection of American childhood. Rippling Rhy: GEMS OF SONG. To James the blacksmith I repair, to have him shoe my old blind mare, since she is going lame; and when his useful toil is done, and I am handing out the mon, he says, "I'm glad you came; I have an ode I wrote last year; I wish you'd read it while you are here, and tell me what you think; is it a grand and soaring song? Is it too short? Is it too long? Or is it on the blink?" The tinsmith, ere he! mends my boat, pulls out a bundle from his coat, a bale of inainiwipt; "Sit down," he says, "and read this lay, while I repair your ancient dray, that is so badly hipped." The tailor, as he plies his tape, remarks, "I wish I could escape from this depressing trade; the odes and madrigals I write would be acknowledged out of sight, if by good critics weighed." The barber, as he dyes my beard, quotes passages from poems weird, that he composed yest'reen; "with all my being I aspire," he sadly says, "to punch a lyre, but ah, the fates are fhe waiter brings mo ham and eggs, and, as I eat, he mildly begs; five minutes of my time; he have i me read a little book he wrote con- Jointly with the cook, and which he thinks sublime. Oh, poets sell me oil and gas, and poets mow my stretch of grass, and poets shine my shoes; and each one things his noble dope would rank with that of Burns or Pone, if he but had his dues. (Copyright 1922, G.

Matthew Adams) StraiTUTES FOR COAL ftlt. ASM AvATl AUI iu niLnui.1, Shortage of coal this winter. will make it necessary for many domestic consumers to use some substitute for the particular kind of fuel to which they have become accustomed. This will be especially true of anthracite users. The best substitute available is i LU1VC.

null me U1LUJIUUOU9 Will IJ1U- duction getting back to normal. U. S. Um-nnil nAS tF V.aka i ui uu til, jiniiva uiiiLidiH Brt.v. mcic i it necessary, however, find it necessary, however, to burn soft coal.

Only small quantities should be fired at one time. Care should bo taken not to cover the en- Hro rf tha hiirntnn- rn.lt with resh Coal. If the entire surface is covered at one time, the gasses are driven off from the fresh coal but there is not enough heat to burn them ana tney are lost up me smoKe pipe, i I in some secuuna, espeumuy in iuiui regions, mere is picniy ui wuuu wmtii i uul "cu 111 a.ra lunw with a few minor changes which are cab' made. The simplest way to UFe wood ln a coal furnace' however. and tho most effective in producing heat is to combine it with coal.

One-quarter to half of the coal ordinarily used can be saved by substitution of ot wood can be useA that win R0 int0 the fire poti and will burn with good efficiency when surrounded with coal, With enormous supplies ot wood widely distributed over much of the 1 i i i i i I Any reader's questions will be an-swerad by Tha Asbury Park Prees Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haa'cin, Director, Wa-shlngton, D. If a two-cent stamp la enclosed with the query. The bureau cannot give advice legal, medical, nor financial matters nor undertake exhaustive rseearch. Give full name and address.

Reply will be aant direct nquirers. Q. What was the mystery or atory In connection with the famous question aa to who struck Billy Paterson? A. B. A.

Various versions have been published of the Billy Patterson mystery. A reoent one locates Billy in England and makes him a victim of college prank. According to this story there was a feud between Oxford atudenta and the river boatmen of whom Billy Patterson was the leader. One night Patterson was captured by the collegians, given a mock trial and sentenced to death by the guillotine. Tha prisoner was conducted to the execution chamber, shown the beheading block and the headman armed with a huge battle-ax, and then blindfolded.

bound hand and foot and forced to kneel with his head and neck In the block. At a given signal the victim was struck on the back of the neck with a cord that had been wet In cold water. It was only a light blow, but It proved aa fatal as If lt had been delivered with the headsman's ax. Billy Patterson's heart would not stand the shock. The fright ened students removed the body to tha river bank and left it, and "Who Struck Billy Patterson?" became a mystery that has never been solved.

Q. What does T. H. stand for after Honolulu? H. H.

T. A. The after Honolulu stands for Territory of Hawaii. Q. How tall Is the statue of the Venus of Milo? A.

The height of the Venus of Mllo Is 2 metres 38 millimetres, or a trifle over 6 feet 3 Inches. Q. What Is the correct version of the mountain and Mohammed proverb? P. N. A.

In Bacon's essay on Boldness, it Is given as "If the hill will not come VO Mohammed will come to A. The femur is the largest, longest and strongest bone ln the human body. I Q. Where does "Annie Laurie" tha writer, live? W. T.

J. A. Annie Laurie is the pen name ol I Mrs. Charles Bonftls, who also writes under the name of Winifred Black. Her home is ln San Francisco.

Q. What was the name of the other mn wnn rooe wnen rau Keveia uiu jto epread the alarm? N. H. O. A.

William Dawes was the other man who rode to warn the colonists of the coming of the British Q. Where did epsom salts get that name? S. P. R- A. Epsom salt takes Its name from its occurrence ln dissolved form ln a mineral spring ot Epsom, a market town in the count of Surrey, 14 miles southwest of the heart of London.

may be prepared also from dolomite, by decomposing the mineral by the addition of sulphuric acid. Th' long dreadful months o' th' coal strike are over an' we kin all git down t' business an' quit worryin' tempor-ariily. Th' trouble with lookin' unusually well an' hearty Is that some body's alius predictln' that we'll go all at once some day. should be plenty of this cleanest of fuels. Coke eliminates smoke, re-he, duces the necessity of cleaning the i furnace and flues, requires less at-for I tention than soft coal, and gives a uniform temperature in the house, But d0s take UP more room in the anrt requires more attention i tnan anthracite.

Some anthracite householders may tun hc y- Ae th of Pe'08 wh ch' 5f ar chaeological research workers are correct ln their estimates, was a flourishing community even as long as 600 A- D- ur. a. v. K.iaaer, wno nas Deen in charge of excavations for Andover college for four years, told of his ln- vestigations on this site now owned bv the School of American Research at Santa Fe. He has disclosed much Qf thg and cuUure of the lnhaW tants of Pecos from the eariest times until J837, when the pueblo was evacuated by its Inhabitants, who went over to the pueblo of Jemez, 75 miles farther west, where their descendants are still an Important portion of the community life- A community independent and democratic ln government, considerably ad- vanced in culture practicing a beau- tiful religion, and living an admir able philosophy, was pictured by Dr.

Kidder. The walls of the ancient city are still standing ln part. The excavation of one of the great community houses has disclosed walls two and three stories high. Trench across the patio of the older community house have laid bare one of the early underground sanctuaries and it was taken much interesting material, to which Dr. Kidder and his expedition have added year after year.

When first visited by the Spaniards ln 1540, eighty years before the Pil-grams landed at Plymouth Rock, Pecos probably had 2 500 inhabitants, altho the early chroniclers in their reports magnified its size ten- Nevertheiess. their description the community house and its life was fairly accurate, as is proven by Df- Kidder's excavations. The ma terial taken out was fairly accurate, as is proven by Dr. Kidder's excavations. The material taken out is being placed in the Peabody Museum at Andover, except that portions of it will be kept ln the Museum of New Mexico at Santa Fe.

Colonel Ralph E. Twitchell the New Mexican historian, told of the Santa Fe Trail, the centenary of which was celebrated by the Santa Fe Fiesta, which closed the day be- fore. rhiMrer. in () if negro racial characteristic to grow slowly the first three years of life and then to gain weight and height at an accelerated rate as compared with growtn or wnites. The less serious physical defects to which children are subject ade- num.

or niser.scn tonsils, or mm Bt-rjiieu 10 nave no great upon neignt ana weignt, altho "m-leu were snorter ana linter innn tne average, Kickets and miftnutrition, however, WPre shown bv marked deficiencies nutrition'resuiting in children an inch and one-third below average height nearly three and one-half pounds! below average weight. Dr. Emmett Holt books on the rear- Ing of children are the standard text- books of the nursery. It may be of comfort to parents whose children fail to come up to Dr. Holt's weight and only the younger ages.

From age four on. colored children proved to if anything, a little taller and heavier than white ones. The reason this may be that the high child mortality among negroes kills off the stunted and starved victims of poori nutrition and leaves at age four and onward only the vigorous survivors who f.ivm-M,. i.