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FISH WOULDN'T BE FOOLED* Denizens of the Deep Simply Refused to Be Decoyed Into Any Net Made of Cotton. Even a fish knows that when an ont* sider tries to monkey with American business he makes trouble. It was decided at Washington by the powers that you should be coaxed Into a raging fish hunger. Pieces In the papers were written to make your mouth water for fish ; posters showing beautifully colored fish, lying in beds of parsley, and cool, fresh vegetables were stuck up In your town railroad station and post office. By all the ex pert calculations of the propagandists you were scon shrieking for fish; you were turned Into a man who would perish If he couldn't have his fish every day. "Righto!" they said. "Cotton isn't as strong as linen, but we'll make our nets of cotton, with larger threads. We've got folks hungry for fis!; and now we must get the fish." So down into the clear waters of the Great Lakes and into the cold depths of the sea on the Pacific coast where the salmon disport went the cotton nets in piace of the linen nets that have been used through the centuries by all fishermen. It was a secret In war time, as I have said, but I can tell It now : The fish struck. It was a linen net or nothing with them. Linen meshes are almost invisible to a fish in wa ter, perhaps entirely so, Judging by the number of fish caught In them every year. But cotton meshes "Why a cotton net looks like a white rall fence to a fish," said an ex pert In Herbert Hoover's office in Washington. "He turns around and goes right away frovi lt."-Exchange. BOLSHEVIK COURSE OF STUDY Interesting to Speculate as to Just What Would Be Appropriate Uni versity Curriculum. . The former Danish minister to Pe trograd is authority for the statement that the bolsheviki have established a special revolutionary school at Mos cow under the direction of Professor Radek, the revolutionary leader, where agitators from all parts of the world are receiving Instruction and fitting themselves for missionary work. It would be Interesting to receive a prospectus of Dr. Radek's university and an outline of Its course of study. Presumably little attention will be paid to bomb-throwing, the handling of explosives, and the like, these being purely elementary branches.- One would look rather for special em phasis to be laid upon the Theory and Art of Bolshevlzlng and Ap proved Methods of Dealing With the Bourgeoisie and securing their pos s?dions without using physical force. Advanced students might take up the problems, how to collect taxes with out takirg money away from any body and the counter-revolution and how to ounter lt To Make Statue? of Silver. ' Charles E. Swett has discovered a preparation of silver which may be made In a plastic form like wax or clay, and also thinned down to the con sistency of paint, according to the Lit tle Journal, Cambridge, Mass. Copper, copper alloys and bronzes may be worked in the same manner. B^' sim ple technology the preparation may be reduced to the pure metal without any change In Its form or shape. A sculptor may work lt in the round or in the relief, just as he does his usual materials, or in dilution It may be applied to a metallic surface with a brush. It greatly simplifies the prob lem of artistic work of a high order, although, of course, It ls more expen sive than stamped ware. Medallions and figures may thus be presented in the original without the need of cast ing, and such articles as silver sets may be made of which every member is original and unique. It provides a new medium for artists. The inven tion has been patented. Attractive Bait. "Mr. Dubwaite Is the kind Of a man who dislikes to do odd jobs about the house," remarked Mrs. Dubwaite. "I'll tell you how you can cure him of that," said Mrs. Gripping. "How?" "Buy one of those combination tools at a hardware store. You know what I mean-one that has half a dozen different contrivances concealed in a handle. Leave it lying around the house. I don't believe there's a man living who can resist the temptation to experiment with a thing like that" Birmingham Age-Herald. Where He ls. "" "I wonder what has become of^he old-fashioned fellow who tried to lay something away for a rainy day?" quoth the musing mortal. "Well, I'll tell you, stranger," re sponded the man with the lurid nose as he turned away, shuddering at the mere thought of July 1. "Most of him Is now trying his durndest to lay away something for the dry one."-Indi anapolis Star. Sold Sir Walter Scott's Table. An ancient Sheraton table on which Slr Walter Scott wrote his novels at 39 Castle street, Edinburgh, was sold at London recently at auction. With it went Sir Walter's chair, his ink stand, a penstnnd and a portfolio, the lot bringing $1,300. Among other things which once belonged to the fa mous L??velist was a pair of worsted slippers, which so attracted one buyer that he paid 10 guineas for <hern. MIGNON By MILDRED WHITE. (Copyright. 1919, by Western Newspaper Uni Mignon sat perched like a lil brown bird, upon the tall show ca in *he queer old shop. It was fr here only that she could catch glimpse through a small high wind of ihe teeming street outside. For i queer shop was in a basement of old stone city building, and throi Its humble doors came often th? known to fame. Old Monsieur Martinet, who li crossed the seas and settled there m:iny years ago, had gained a uniq reputation, as a costumer in his o' small way. Monsieur would attend but one customer at a time, as 1 wo iderfully correct costumes were of his own making. Actors came ht io*" particular work, and now, moti picture actors and actresses as we and little Mignon, monsieur's 01 daughter, possessed a certain skill mending and transforming, for n< roles, garments which her father h made. Mignon's life as a child was hapj Her energetic French mother hi bustled about the shop then-a made pretty playthings for Mign from bits of leftover satins. Wh the young mother was gone forev< the' father had been most kind, ai Mignon in her effort to comfort ai help him had almost been hap; again. Then-the stepmother can lt was difficult to believe In the ste mother; to realize that another woi an boldly Siled her own raothei place. And like an olden tale th Mignon had read, the stepmother hi daughters of he own and broug them with her to ..ie home rooms ju behind the shop, which Mignon mother had made so pleasant. At jas time went on, It was the daughter Lucy and Lucille, who enjoyed tl privilege of music lessons, poundii out their scales upon her mother dearly bought piano. Lucy and Lucille also wore preti frocks and went to high school fi away on the street cars. Monsieur was Irritable now, too, a most it seemed that he had forgotte his French daughter in his t?rele; assistant The stepmother formed L habit of making fun of Mignon's dar face-perhaps Its piquant resemblant to the pictured face which monsiei insisted upon keeping in thu parlo may have aroused some jealous d' men. But Mignon could not kno1 that. She could only regret, wistfull: her own plainness. There were those who, coming Int the shop, thought the shy. dark-eye girl appealingly attractive. Men c the stage who would go away saying "Tf we could but have the face o Martinet's silent daughter to portra sueh or such a part-" But Mignon, high on her windon seat, bent over her fairy stitches am wordered-wondered-if lt was al ways to be so-the music and laugh ter of young people in the evening be hind the store, and she-workini weary-eyed at accounts which neve would come straight. And one evt Dine when they had all cone merril; together to the theater, Monsieur Mar tinet, one of the party, little Mignoi struggling to finish sewing a long long seam, fell asleep and dreamed i dream. It was she, herself, a wonderfully transformed Mignon, who stood ant bowed from fhe stage which her peo pie were watching. And all abou eager faces were upraised, and friend ly hands applauded. Mignon saw her self with flashing eyes and loosener hair going through each role; now she was the little "Lady Babbie," anr now-she. was driving home in hei own closed car, to a beautiful place where books and flowers and all the 1 f?i;:gs which she so loved pervaded Lucy and Lucille came to her there, and strangely respectful was their at titude. The stepmother, too, laughed, but not so harshly, and exclaimed : "Who would have thought it of the brofrn wren !" Then, all in a pleasurable excite mr>i.t. Mignon laughed herself, and the musical sound awakened her to con sciousness. \ "Well." said a mah who stood lean ing over the counter, "I thought you never would wake up. I've come for my waistcoat." And Mignon who had known the friendly actor for some time, although her shyness had not allowed her to speak much to him, under some influ ence born of her dream, came near and told him all about lt. Even, she loosened her hair like Lady Babble of the play, and laughed at him through Its veil to show exactly how lt should be done. "By George!" cried the movie Idol, his voice sounding pleased as one who ha?? come upon a surprising discovery. "I'll teach you," he added enthusias tic? Hy, "I will make you. I'm com ing in to see your father tomorrow." And he did. That was the wonderful part of It all, more wonderful than the dream which came true. Foi' little Mignon found not only her triumph, but the lover who was later to be her hus band, and the home which was her own. And when you sr><* her now ga::ing wistfully across the picture screen, ! remember that it was not her tri umph, but ninny patient' hour:? spent in tl.? light of tho tiny shop window, which gave to her eyes their appeal ing charm. CARRIED THEORIES INTO WAR Famous French Commander Made Good Use of Strategic Maneuvers He Had Taught Like President Wilson, General Foch was a college professor before the war, according to Howard Wheeler, who tells us In Everybody's that "Foch taught military strategy, to be sure, but he was a teacher, a theorist; and when he became a commander in actual war he did not drop his the ories. He practiced them. Many of the leaders under him had been his students. He called upon them to do In the field in the face of a savage, clever enemy, what he had asked them to recite in the academy. One of his staff, Colonel Requin, told laughingly one day how some of these other* gen erals, practical men, were shocked at orders he took to them from Foch. " Tt was a common experience of mine,' he said, 'to take an order to a division commander in' the very crisis of a fight, directing him to perform at once a well-studied, typical maneuver. The troubled, busy general would take the order, read and reread the clean, careful writing, and then turn to rae and exchtira : "Impossible ! Why, that would be hard enough to do In maneu vers, but in battle- Here? Now? My God, It is impossible !" ' The general, of course, would per form the movement, academically, un der fire. "And," said Colonel Requin, "when he tried it, It worked out. And It was those things that won the bat tle that won the war." ALL HUNGRY FOR CHOCOLATE War Children of France Actually Had Never Tasted That Delight ful Confection. Children born In France since the beginning of the war have just made a glorious discovery. They have tasted chocolate. In a congested quarter of Paris, writes an Associated Press correspondent, a line stretching for more than 100 yards waited a chance to enter a grocery store. Four policemen were keeping order among the crowd and women were actually struggling for a place In the line. "What are they fighting for?" a po liceman was asked. "The store is selling a quarter of a pound of chocolate to each one," re sponded the officer. "That Is the rea son you see so many women bear ing their thlldren in arms; they are allowed half a pound then." The correspondent asked one of the women who had with her a fine child and was stubbornly holding her place on the slippery, slushy sidewalk, whether she thought it was worth while to risk pneumonia in order to get half a pound of chocolate. "You see," she replied, "this baby has never yet tasted chocolate," Wise Doctor. For weeks she had been ailing. At last the poor husband willing to as sume the expense rather than suffer the suspense summoned the eminent physician. The doctor viewed her tongue with alarm. He slandered the action of her pulse. He asked all the questions In the catechism of medical lore. "Sir," said the eminent plllist, "your wife needs a change."' The poor man bowed his head In his hands and al lowed two large tear drops to race to the tip of his nose rand dive off. "What sort of a change, doctor?" "Her poor nerves have finally given way under the strain of listening to the same old talking machine records. Buy her some new ones and we'll soon have her on her feet." The man nodded. Then the great doctor left the un happy home, hurried to a telephone and calling up the phonograph place, told them to l?e on the look out for a smallish, brokish looking man with a pale bald head who would be in in about one hour and out about $15. Transparent Mystery. An Englishman returned from India bringing a native boy with him as a servant. The boy knew nothing about Ice, and one winter morning he came running to his master with a large piece from a bucket in the yard. "Look, master." he said, "what a large piece of glass I have found." His employer said It loked very wet and jokingly told him to put it on the back of the stove to dry. He did so, and presently came running back with the partly melted ice In his hand. "Master, It's the queerest glass I ever saw. The more I dry It the wetter It gets."-Boston Transcript. Heating Rivets Electrically. With the employment of women In many forms of work heretofore con sidered too heavy for them, it has been necessary to modify the equipment and form of work in numerous instances. Such a case Is the heating of rivets by electricity in charge of .women. In stead of portable, sooty forges oper ated by turning a heavy crank, there has been introduced an electrically heated forge which is clean, simple tn operate, and readily portable. It will heat a standard rivet in 30 seconds. Scientific American. British Crops Were Large. A preliminary statement giving the estimated total products and yield per acre of the potato and root crops in England and Wales this year has Just been issued by the board ol' agricul ture. 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