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WASH DAY OF THE WORLD Blue Monday More or Less Common fcverytfbere. . .. , CilbTOMS OF THE TUB WIDELY DIFFER in Some Countrys the Wash is a Com munity Affair?Abysrinia Hu a Peculiar Annual Custom?Norweig* y. ans and Germans Wait for Big Accumutation. "Rub-ardub-dub is the litany of the ?' tub, supplanted in partt by the antiphony of washing machines in the mod i em American home. In Italy and Sardinia you may greet yonr linen being ^ washed-. In public troughs along the ? streets, and In Normandy your clothes are dipped in flowing streams, placed ion rocks, and pounded with paddles until you have visions of your little , a pearl buttons floating back to the mollusks whence they came," says a bulletin of the National Geographic * Society from its Washington, D. C., headquarters. "The round little Dutch woman's wash-tub Is to be found almost any?t _L . ? - a AO no la At wnere you iuiu. mvug v? , ? the water troughs and boat landings the roly-poly, pink cheeked . mother -r washes the pink and blue cottons of her Adoir aoid Wilhelmina> in these .stationary dish-pans and wash-tubs of <; her. "Blue Monday" Once a Year. "There is only one 'blue Monday' a - "year in Abyssinia, and then the women don't do the work. Both the women and men wear a robe of cotton wrapped about them, the former over a sort of nightgown and the latter over loose kueeit'rousers. On the feve of St. John the men do the small family wash for .the year. They dig a hole in tho ground by the side of a stream and spread a piece of leather oyer the bottom of It. They put the clothes in, .sprinkle them with a powder made from a fruit restya^iing- the Corinthian grape, and fill the hole tvith water.. Then they tread back and forth upon the clothes for an hour or so, Working up a white foam which the powder has generated. The wet garments, which are said to be as white as snow, are rinsed in the flowing stream. "In some remote parts of Switzerland wash-day comes but twice a year. The Alpine peasant woman is too busy #working the crops and tending the fcattle in the summer to do the washing, and in the winter it Ls too cold, so she does it in bulk in the spring and Jail. She takes, her turn for/several ..|da^S arfyohy "the othec women of the ^VeJghborhpod'at the community tub. which is filled with water piped down from a glacier. Nearby big copper . kettles are sizzling over fires built on k . the ground in order that she may. have hot writer to help loosen the dirt which, ; is most cases, in thoroughly grotind Vn/ to the garments. They do not_rub the .clothes ,but, after soaping, throw, them against an Inclined board. \ Laundry a Semi-Annual Event. "In pgrts af Germany the same sys' tem'ia practiced. Long lines of bouts may be seen coming down the streams r, looking for a suitable spot where the ' semi-yearly accumulation of soiled clothes may be made wearable again. There is usually at the top* of the houses of these people an aired loft In which the clothes are stored pending the coming of wash-day and where lines are hung to dry them when the deed has been done. Wash Day by the Tub of Barel. I ''At Intervals along the banks of rivers and streams in France one may see the peasant woman washing their clothes on stones, and beating them with wooden paddles. In Paris along the Seine there are the 'bateaux lavoirs' or large c'oyered boats where the washerwomen gtr to do their work. In the city streets there are everywhere the 'lawoirs publiques' which are private establishments where, for a small sum housewives can use the tubs, the hot water, the wringer, and the drying room. A veritable army of washer' women camps out along the River ? 11 ? - t*/v%n re bit f ' ! 1-AVUKS UU1IUJ lilLU^* ? ';^5S$iiii3?SspS The soldiers' bonus could be \ paid and ho one burdened in the J process if the United States would utilize the almost untouched resources of Alaska, according to Albert Fall, Secretary of the Interior. In making his ..ilea for 'v liberalizing of the laws governing Alaska and the public domain,' Secretary Fall says that eventualf ly not only the bonus but in time the refunding of the national war debt could be taken care of by an "opening up" of Alaska. MAIMED SOLE Wtronded and crippled exof the general soldier bonus bill, of the World War Patients Cor lame and limb shattered relics ol war told the President. The pi< filing their protest with the nati Ljj?:ii-_ VTI-- " ? 1?..ln? la-1 inoH fill 110I1 ttl 1-<I loc, aiiu uuTii.n that the visitors to the ie?ort require that their clothes be white, they use strong soaps and acids, and pound them with stones. He Who Runs May See. "Italy seems to have Its washing out everywhere. Intimate garments greet the visitors on the roadways and along all the streams and some of the cities always have the appearance of bel^jg decorated for a gala occasion. "The Norwegians follow the same plan that the Germans use of letting the clothfs accumulate for months in an air loft and then have a siege at the job. But they distinguish themselves when It comes to the ironing. They use a long box on rollers filled with stones, and by placing one woman at one end of a board and one at the other they roll this weighted press over the clothes. ' r > "Each little village in India has Its public pool where the natives wash their clothes. The faithful of the Hindu faith plunge lnt<? the Ganges and* the Jumma and other rivers of varying degrees of sanctity for salvation. They wash their bodies, their fips and tongues and wear their clothes awaj' wet in order to preserve their 'purity' as long possible. . "Cleaning up" Haiti. "American manufacturers have been doing their best to 'clean up' Haiti. Numerous shipments of washing machines have been sent to that country. Women in Egypt dip their 'duds' into the waters of 'Father Nile,' just as they have dope since the days of Rameses. "England is typically conservative about displaying her wearing apparel to public view, but there are many public wash-houses in the large cities just as there are in this country. The same is true of Ireland. "The sampan dwellings on the rivers of China are covered with flags of family belongings wnicn nave ueen dipped in the dirty streams." LADYBUGS DORMANT Ten Thousand of the Tiny Creatures Found In Mountain High Up A convention of ladybugs is as rare as it is interesting. One week recently Olaf Eriekson, a trapper, of Index, Wash., stumbled upon a mass of these tiny creatures, tens of thousands of them, huddled together, dormant with the cold, on a sunny side of tllacior Peak, in the Cascades, at an altitude of 7,304 feet. The ladybugs are small beetles living upon aphids and minute insects. They have been in demand in the Western states for years because of their work in eating the green and red aphis from fruit trees and berry bush es. Horticulturists and farmers prize them highly. Two years ago thousands of these tiny beetles were imported from China, where they are propagated to aid in keeping mulberry trees from insects. The imported bugs were distributed throughout several parts of Washington. Each autumn ludybugs disappear and it was not known for some time whether they died or hibernated. It is now believed they live for years, because reports have been received from various localities in the Cascade Mountains of the finding of rock crevasses filled with ladybugs. Why instinct should urge them to seek high altitudes for a winter home* is a mystery. So far as known birds will not eat them. 'The aggregation of these beetles found this week near Index covered the rocks over an area equal to a city lot. Every crevass was tightly packed with the creatures and those unable to find a crack into which to hide were clinging to the bare rocks. All were cold and inactive. When one was placed in the palm of the hand for a few seconds, life immediately revived, the minute feelers of the head moving: perceptibly and the legs kicking vigorously. While thus dormant, Chinese gardeners are said to carry ladybugs from the mountains' to their valley farms, so Krickson is busy boxing up his host of bugs to ship into California fruit regions. ? Chili has opened an official pawnshop to advance loans on reasonable terms to wofkingmen. . HERS FILING PROTEST V JTN, [ Hj Hp , an H L j ?MKp \ ^ :>: 1?^J^ \ Bfev -' s1?' 1? ^PP-< ' , ;< ~v ^^iiririr ^?3^^tv^<--v- - ^pHRPj .xi'-^ service men have planned a new move Personal visits to Senators and Repre nmittec as a sequel to their call npon : the battle fields have a right to considt :ture shows a committee of world war j on's Executive. BUSINESS LOOKING UP Annual Report of Reserve Board Optimistic in Tone. Business throughout the country, progressing through well-defined cycles, is nenrlng the point of tho upward swing of the economic pendulum, nopnrdlne- tn the annual report of the federal reserve board transmitted this week to congress. "There are those," the report said, "who believe that the beginning of a revival Is not far distant. When it does definitely set in it will be followed in due course by a new era of prosperity." Business, in one of its long swings" from prosperity, the report said, has followed its usual rotation, which it described as business activity and increasing production; excessive expansion and speculation, followed hitherto by panic %nd forced liquidation; a long period of slow liquidation, business depression and stagnation; and then, revival. "In the light of recent experience," the report warned, "we should remember, when we again en- ; ter a period of full prosperity, that a reaction will follow sooner or later; and if the'(flow in the incoming itide can be controlled so that the crest may not be reached too rapidly nor j rise too high the subsequent reaction will bo less severe and the nexc period of industrial and commercial activity and general prosperity will be marked by saner methods, greater achievement along constructive lines, and by a longer duration than any which wc have had before." Confined to 1921. The board cbnfined its report to an account of tho operations of the organization for the year 1021, withou; offering any suggestions for legislation affecting the board or the federal reserve system. The earning assets of all federal reserve banks, the report said, amounted on December 28, ,1921, to $1,535,851,000, compared with $3,263,027,000 on December 30, 1020, a reduction of $1,727,176,000 or 53 per cent, and a reduction of $1,SS6,125,000, or 55 per cent, from the high point reached on October 15, 1920. This reduction in loans, the report explained, was accompanied by -a steady increase' in gold reserve pote circulation, the loan reduction continuing despite substantial decline in discount rates. Gross earnings of the federal reserve banks for 1921, the report continued amounted to $122,805,000, compared with $181,297,000 in 1920, the falling off in earnings beb g due to decline in the volume of rediscounts and reduction in rediscount rates. Member bank borrowings, according to the report, showing a continuous decline* from $2,687,000,000 at the end of 1920 to about $1,144,000,000 at the end ' of 1921, due to a reduction of over i $900,000,000 in the volume of fedor.il | reserve notes in circulation, caused by lower price levels and by net imports of gold amounting to $067,000,000 practically all of which found its way into federal reserve banks. As a franchise tax the federal rei serve banks paid into the treasury $59,974,000 for the year 1921. Gold Reserve Dec. 28th. On December 28, the report continued, the federal reserve banks held a gold reserve of $2,870,000,000 and a combined reserve against member banks' deposits and note issues of slightly more than 71 per cent. If the legal minimum reserve of 35 per cent, could be set up against deposits, the report added, there would remain a gold reserve of more thou 97 per cent, against federal reserve notes in civ culation. "For some months past," report said, "there has been a marked easing in domestic rates of interest. Notwith1 standing some unfavorable features in j the revenue laws, the investment I market is now absorbing securities at reasonable rates which could not have been considered a few months ago. Market quotations on Liberty bonds have steadily advanced until they are now approaching par. Good railroad and industrial bonds have also appreciated, and there have been some no /ITH HARDING. * / r'- -V2^ ?}&&? -' .' ... - ' - ' '" ' '>* 'X ^' - r ' >i???3T j^^Q^^UaMCn?q^ ? Snw^^Mn <~iT,r ij-ir*'1iir'i."~ i' "* , , <, TtiYY 'i*v iMl^'wi'.m'iY.v.'.>r nil ,' i\ -'*-? I* in a campaign to oppose passage * sentatives are planned by nffidiais President Harding. Bedridden, ration, the veterans of the >atients on the White House &tdp4 .>? : i' jfy , tlceable advances in standard stocks. High commodity prices and great business activity usually moan lower prices for bonds and other securities yielding a fixed income, while reduced commodity prices and lower money rates bring higher .market prices for bonds." .&, j; SAVED HIS NECKK ?? / Albanian Regent* Told Ha Could Reiign or Lose Hea#^ Turbulent Albania has a sufnihary way of changing government*, a Tiranla, Albania dispatch, Th$?bther day, when the regents got tir&l of the administration of Penned J^vangeli, prime minister, they told him. to resign or there would be bloodgfted. He refused. " .J'-. He was given 12 hours in whiqjh-' to choose between the'fc>3B of Jht* iwsition or the loss of his head. *' At midnight he went to "lift hotel to deliberate on the stern Ultimatum. An hour later a group of representative Albanians, al'<.ong them several members of the government, caneu upon the premier apd told him those In authority would orook no delay in his resignation, Thb emfcsarles were accompanied by soldiers with rifles and machine guns. They explained if he didn't get out blooa would be spilled, innocent people kilfbd, and a revolution might ensue. So he quit. He. was succeeded by Haanru Pristine, who is described by Americans in Albania as an adventured and a born intriguer. Hasan's regime'J^vas short lived, too. His administration was a failure. He aufferoU* the tmmei fate as his predecessor, alth4tig[fr~the terms of his resignation were ftot quite so peremptory or unconventional as those of Evangeli. The regents f* are now casting about for a new chief of state. There has-been a re/olutiopary atmosphere in the Atitv tind trdwble has been momentarily feared. Parliament, however, was gurrded by soldlj^ and machine guns. In ..the midst their relief work among: the widows bnd the children, the American Red.'Cross workers are finding mahy thrill*. They are, however, in no danger, a* their welfare and security is tho>r first thought of the Albanian and Italian authorities. It is generally folt among thes foreign colony that there can neveri.if>e a '.f stable government there so iong^ "as the regents are In power. It is^-dald some of them cannct even read^or write. Nevertheless, they are in absolute control of the country. The most hopeful friends of the Albanians sometimes despair of their ever developing into an orderly efficient, self-governing people. TO REJECT DECISIONS. Mustapha Kemal Pasha, head of the Turkish Ntaionalist Government, has announced that In view of the exclusion of Turkey I from the Genoa conference .the 1 Angora Government will refuse to accept any decisions Jaicen at the conference relating to Tur-. key, unless its representatives are adjnitted._ ? CHILD PRODIGIES Statistics Show That as Usual Tiling They Turn Out Well. NUMBER OF GENIUSES ARE RECALLED Predjudice Against Permitting Children to Assert Themselves Dying Out?There Are and Always Have Been Certain Wonder Children. T7< r Uaol/ln 13 y riCUCIlCIV J. Iiucntii. New York City?What becomes of child prodigies after they grow up? Do they go right on being prodigies, or do they lose their pristine precocity? The answer to this question, recently given by several prominent New York educators and psychologists, is that child geniuses invariably turn out well. They not only develop into adults of unusual intelligence and energy, but they often exhibit rare creative ability as well. In the old days When children were supposed to be seen and not heard, there existed a general prejudice against encouraging youthful manifestations of genius. The Juvenile brain was regarded as something very frail and unstable and very likely to collapse under unusual strain or pressure. The child who showed superior talent in the classroom was looked upon in the community as one unquestionably headed for an insane asylum or a life of crime, and his parents were more often the objects of neighborly compassion than .congratulation. This attitude probably originated in jealousy on the part of parents whose own offspring exhibited no undue indications of brightness, and from what we know of the power of suggestion today, it may haye had its own harmful effects. But it was, modern scientists tell us, altogether without foundation. | For research has revealed the fact that there ia not only much less Insanity among geniuses than among the common lot of people, but that they are usually exceptionally healthy folk as well. Innumerable examples could be quoted In proof of this, but a few'conspicuous ones recently set forth by Professor Rudolph M. Binder, of New York university, will suffice. Socrates Did Weil. "Let's begin with Socrates,'.' said Professor Binder. "The great philosopher served as a hoplite, which means that he was a member of what we in modern terms would designate as shock troops. He was seventy years old when he was compelled to drink the henjlock. , , "Coming down many centuries, Sir Isaac Newton lived to be elghty-flve and was strong and hearty and a hard worker till within a short time of his death. Darwin was born with a rugged constitution, which he ruined by his failure to take care of it, but it enabled him to accomplish a remarkable amount of work before he died at the age of seventy-three. "If proof were needed t)mt Herbert Spender was born with an iron constitution It would be brovided by that incident in his boyhood when, at the age of thirteen he walked forty-eight miles one day, forty-seven the second and twenty the third, and with very little food during the throe days. Spencer is another man whp injured his health by lack of care of himself, but -ff he had not been naturally strong he would not have lived to oe eigniythree. "Even Shakespeare, who died at the age of fifty-two, might be said to have lived a good life . considering the amount of work he did as playwright, actor and manager. Goethe, an exj ceedlngly busy man, was in good health almost to the time of his death at the age of eighty-three. "Of the four probably most famous Italians, Dante lived to be only fiftyeight but his life was one of arduous labor; Lenonardo da Vinci, an athlete who outstripped far younger men in foats of strength, was nearly sixtyseven; Michael Angelo worked furiously most of his ninety years; and Galileo enjoyed good health until his death at seventy-eight." Ldaping abruptly back to the twentieth century, we have the distinctly rubust example of Joseph Hoffman, famous pianist, who clearly demonstrated his remarkable musical talent when he was but two and a half years old, and was on the concert stage at the age of eleven. INew Sprim Men's Ste They just arrived yei new and right up to t kind of style that goo have?and they are G | THERE'S A STYLE FO] A SHADE FOR EVE Your shape and your ?Seal, Moth, Carboy I Gray and Blacks?Ri | STETSON'S IN STAPLI Sure they are here?*1 I ta, the Courier, etc., | 4'Boss Raw Edge" Si ! SEE OUR SHOW WINE Better still?step ins J. M. SI * / Super-Children in Two Classes. | "There are and always have been | certain' wonder children," Professor Edward L. Thorndike, of Teachers College, Columbia university, telis us. "and they have turned out to be great men and women later. It Is evident that children genuises may be divided into two classes?those who are creative and Inventive and those who i Knt?n nvn/intlrtno 1 mo mrwloo and <lh. sorbin^ powers. ^ The child of creative ability is the real wonder child. There are many children who have exceptional memories, and while it is true that some of these children have greater capacity than others, the faculty is not indicative of us high development as the creative or Inventive gift." Professor Monroe, also of the Teachers college, declares thut our present system of public education is greatly to be censured because it makes no special provision for children 'of superior ability. "We In this country are so democratic that we look out for the mass," he says. "Our entire educational system is gauged to mediocrity. We need some new way of scaling our classes, so that persons of exceptional ability will not be held back to the level of their mediocre companions. Sometimes this lack of occupation In school while they are waiting for their slower brothers and sisters to catch up is harmful to the children of superior talent. They become restless or indifferent. "Wider Recognition should be given to the child prodigy. The hope of education is to bring out all the nutlve talent and ability each child has. Naturally some children will have more to show than others, but each child should have .a chance to develop to its highest point. "I do not believe in too much freedom or too much superintendence of the child's education. There is a medium which offers encouragement to the child to use his own initiative and at the same time furnishes guidance without which he might become oneaided." United States Is Stage For Prodigies. The United States has provided the exhibition stage for a large number of In tho nnat ta/n vPflfS V.IUJU plUUJfiiCO U> %??v ? .. , J In fact, almost every European nation and several South American republics seemed to have two or three ready for us as soon as the war was over. We have marveled at the ability of the little chess wizard, Samuel Rzeshewski; of the little girl Pamela Bianco; of the young girl dairyist introduced by Herr Freud, and of a long list of youthful musical artists. And recently we have been asked to admire our own American prodigies in groups?so fast are they developing. Last year little Miss Bianco held an art exhibition of her own which was well praised by ( astonished art critics, but lo! this year a whole group of New York children are exhibiting work 'just as good. As the prejudice against permitting children to assert themselven dies out, we seem to be developing greater and greater numbers of super-normal children. If the increase continues and If tbe day ever comes when tfke public/ schools adopt special measures for developing Individual talent,- genius may possibly become common among our population. CLASSES OF COTTON Congressman W. F. Stevenson Introduces Important Bill in House. Representative Stevenson of South Carolina on Tuesday .introduced a bill in the house providing cotton exchanges shall eliminate ?ii'Jdling fair< as a grade, and divide al. >ther grades into three classes of three trades each so that a purchaser may b-i ;issured of securing the grade of cotton Contracted to buy. This bill is almost identical with the bill introduced in the senate some days ago by Senator Dial. , Senator Smith of South Carolina has agreed with Senator Dial that In substance his bill was correct and necessary. Senator Smith will Issue a statement to that effect witnin a day or two. Senator Dial is much encouraged j that Ws bill will be enacted into law this session. He left for South Carolina Tuesday night, fie will be gone only a few days. On .his return he will press his measure before the agriculture committee of the senute ami secure its report to the senate. Representative Jacoway of Arkansas X Styles in ! tson Hats 1 . . . ? < > rterday?they are brand I he minute in styles?the <? d dressers want and will < > ermine Stetson's, too. | I EVERY HEAD !RY TASTE? color is here?The colors < I 1, Iron, Filbert, Pearl ; j ghtly priced, too. <; C SHAPES? < Phe Columbia, the Dako- | , and also the popular <! :etson. <1 i ?OW? 1 :ide and try 'em on. | * rRoup *V*?- - * . V* .m declares that if the Dial bill is enacted, and If it will brine about the results that it promises, it will le worth more than all" other bills preocnted to congress this session.' HEAL ESTATE $$$$$ If You UT Want Tliem, See 80ME OF mv OFFERINQ8: Fivp Room R*iidence^<On Charlotte street. inA.be town of York, on large lot. 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