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?AN LIVE CHEAPLY IN HAITI Food Costs Little, and Tips for Scrv ices Rendered Are Hardly Worth While Considering. Xabor and living are cheap in Haiti. There is a hotel in Port au Prince, Tated as the best, that charges only .$4 a day for a room and three square meals. True, the rooms are smail, with the ancient washbowl, and unlockable, with concrete floors and ragless, but they are clean and comfortable. The same meals could not be ob tained anywhere in the United States at double the price. Luncheon is a regular dinner and dinner is much like an eight-course feast. ' They never serve less than two ot three meats, when one, according to the American habit, would be enough; There Is fruit in abundance in Haiti, -and a boy standing on the front porch, overlooking the sea, often picks the breakfast orang?s. ' The favorite dish is the chicken, served 305 days in the year without the least variation. Nobody ever wants to see a chicken after staying three weeks in Haiti. A Haitian boy, walting faithfully .on a guest for 21 meals, beams his - delight when tipped 3 gourdes, which is 60 cents. The maid, whose chief duty is to spread the mosquito net. almost drops to her knees for the same fee weekly. The boy who fetches the water and fixes the shoes gladly slips a man extra towels for 3 gourdes a .week. Laundry at American rates would .cost more than room and board in Haiti. If there were laundries. There is much to go out from each room -daily .to washerwomen, and lt conies back spick and span at nominal cost. But Haiti has not reached the point where it may bid fer tourist travel. A man, stopping at the best hotel here for the first time feels rather foolish when he asks for room and bath and ls conducted to a little house 50 feet away, where he may get a shower. It's a hard lifo for women. ' , The best, however, is in sharp con trast with the worst, for the laborer rgets 20 cents a day, and thousands of natives live only on fruit that grows wild everywhere, the year round, like tthe roses. Forests in Bohemia. In the Bohemia, lands (Bohemia, I Moravia and Silesia) the needle for-| ests predominate. The pines and firs cover 78 per cent of the forest area, the leaf timber 9.1 per cent, and the mixed about 12.9 per cent. lu Slova kia and Carpathian Russia, the new territories, it is noteworthy that the Ueaf forests prevail, forming about 67 per cent of the whole, and the needle forests make up the balance, or 33 per cent. Ownership of these forests ls singular. The state owns about 1, 400,000 acres, charitable institutions own.600,000 acres, municipalities hold 2,500,000 acres and the large estates, ?held by private owners, cover 8,000, OOO acres. It must not be taken for Stunted that the extensive Czechoslo vak forests were given over to the use of the whole people. On the con trary, all the benefits to be derived ?enured to the foreign nobility and the wealthy owners, when the mere walk ing through one of these private for ests was presumptive evidence of a wrongful intent. Of the vast estates held by Individuals about 64.35 per cent of the whole in Bohemia were owned in parcels larger than 1,250 acres in extent, while minor holdings, those less than 1,250 acres In area, were h?ld by the poorer classes. Beware. . ? Oreen, Brown and Johnson were in vited to Robinson's Christmas dinner. On the way there Brown remarked to Johnson and Green: "By the way, you fellows, I just want to give you a friendly warning. Beware of Robinson's champagne!" . So when the drinks were produced. Johnson and Green said they would .drink nothing stronger than lemonade. Much to their surprise, however, Brown did not follow their example, but drank the champagne. So on the way home they asked him: "What really was the matter with Robinson's champagne?" "Oh. the quality was all right," re plied Brown quietly, "It was the quan tity I thought would be deficient-not \enongh for everybody."-London Ideas. I .Miniature House Helps. C A paint dealer has In his office a little house which ls made of inter changeable parts. The roof, for in stance, ls black and the side walls and porches are of some contrasting color. If hi? wishes *n show the customer the . effect of different color combinations i he|simply exchanges some of the parts . of the house for other parts of differ ent shades. s Me says it has helped him In many .cases to secure contracts which other wise 'he could not have closed so eas ily. The expense of the contrivance .ls not great nnd it paid for itself in a short time. . New Study of Child. Child study from the standpoint of the mother ls the subject of a course offered by the College of Industrial Arts at Denton, Texas, which Is the state college for women, according to a recent issue of School Life. The course conists of lectures, library read ings and psychological tkborntory work, arid Is intended to flt trie young woman to be mistress of a home and the moth er of a family. Child Instincts and interests, heredity and environment, subnormal and defective children, disease? of children, and the moral and religious nature of children are all fully studied. , MEDITATIONS Conduct Is three-fourths of life. Intoxication ls the thief of time. . A happy man needs no philosophy, j Joy is a sunbeam 'twist two clouds. The perfect man is a terrible pest. Ancient Greeks were very fond of hare hunting. Happiness consists in tho mind's contentments. - \ Obey orders first, and, If still alive, kick afterward. Many a full dress suit covers an empty stomach. Eden, as history proves, was too big a job for Adam. He who, makes me think better of myself Is my friend. Even the tallest man iq the world ls not above criticism. There are a thousand good talkers to one good thinker. Common sense would abolish a great deal of the fun. .Woman's sphere nowadays seems to be the, big round earth. \ Love of money is the root of all evH-and of some good. When actors quarrel they can re sort to the makeup box. Money makes the motor go and the motor makes the money go. When a farmer tickles the earth his fields laugh with crops. Contract with a too-sharp man dulls one's confidence in humanity. The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself.-Bruy?re. , Nothing goes as far with a woman as a little masculine remorse. Charity for all is likely to verge closely on pity In many cases. Real Indians never use smokeless powder in their pipe of peace. Don't raise your voice and your temper will never get very-high. He that is good is always great; but he that is great is not always good. The man who marries for wealth ls a gambler In boarding-house futures. Self-restraint is the one remedy to lure the world to sweet repose. ' The first lunacy laws in England were made in the reign of Edward III. Truth is mighty and on certain oc casions should be imparted In driblets. Admitted that*one has the brains to succeed largely; but has one the en ergy^ Better be driven out from among men than to be disliked by children. Dana. Diplomacy is the ari of getting what you want by pretending you don't want lt. Some classes are like treadmills; they're always moving but never get anywhere. The man of grit carries. In his very presence, ? power which controls and commands. Affection makes and ,holds more friends than service ; but you can't al ways evoke lt. Those who will abandon a friend for one error, know but little of the- hu man character.' Manhood is above all riches, over tops all titles; character is greater than any career. A boy never gets much comfort out of his first cigar, but he gets a great deal of experience. Cold baths in winter ought to pro mote the will-power; and they do pro mote the, yell power. The five o'clock tea would be even more popular with women if it were marked down to 4:57. Faith moves mountains : though , it may have had to wait until steam shovels were invented. Jud Tunkins says it's a mistake ever to say you have lost a friend. You can't lose a real friend. We shonld not forget that life is a flower which Is no sooner fully blown than it begins to wither. American politics consists of the rolling of logs, the pulling of wires and the laying of pipes. Where love has entered as the sea soning of food, I believe that it will please anyone.-Latin Proverb. Then) ure, as you well know, dear reader, three sides to every argu ment: pro, con and bughouse. FACE TELLS TRUTH Not Infrequently Reveals One's Calling to Observer. Characteristic Look ls Partly Devel oped by Nature of Work Which ls Individual's Occupation. It seems to be pretty well agreed among those in a position to speak authoritatively that associated with the various occupations lu life there ls undoubtedly a type of face which more or less betrays the calling of its owner. Medical men, especially in hospital practice,.find acquaintance with these types valuable. They may not be able, with ' the shrewdness of Sherlock Holmes or of other acute persons, to read a man's past, present and future hy a glance at him in the street, but they are able to gauge with consider able accuracy how far the history of the case, as given by the patient, is a truthful one, and how far it fits with his probable occupation in life. Calling must certainly have some In fluence over the physiognomy of the cabman, the butler or the groom. Each frequently possesses a type of face which wears so characteristic an ex pression as to ,make it not difficult to Identify the vocation accompanying IL We speak also of the legal face, the musical face,'the dramatic face and the military face. This is merely a broad classification, and the best authorities disbelieve the claims of the keen ob server that he cari differentiate to a finer degree. There are tales of hospital physi cians who claim to be able to say frdhi a glance .at the face that this or that man Is a butcher, a grocer, a bank clerk, a lawyer's clerk, a commercial traveler, a stock broker, and so on. It is thought that the fame of these medical men as rougi? and ready de tectives has been largely manufac tured for them by enthusiastic friends. But that many medica^ men do possess great insight Into the occupations of those who come before them is true. The question" Is often dehated wheth er physiognomy Is a growth cf voca tion or whether Itjshows that the vo cation chosen is in "accordance with the particular cajmcit? and abUity oj the person <o whom it belongs. In other words, if the lawyer does not show the "legal face," the aspiring minister the "ecclesiastical face," the medical student the "physicianly face," the soldier the "military face," the question arises. Is that a sign that they have mistaken their calling? Is the man who "doesn't look a blt like a doctor" likely to fall because his physiognomic qualification ls want ing?, Or will he, whatever his original features, gradually come to acquire the type of the profession to which he) ! belongs? The answer to the question Is, of course, that both theories are right. A certain kind of face, the so-called scientific face, ls so often seen among medical students as to prove that the owner of that cast of countenance is likely to adopt medicine as a career. Conversely, whatever the original cast of features a medical man may have possessed, the anxious, delicate and absorbing work of medical practice will put a stamp upon them. Rat Heroes. From Paris comes the news that the authorities are making war on fats. But the despised rat once did the French a good turn, according to Colonel Repington's history of the war. He says: "On the parapets of the front trenches are what look like window flower boxes. They contain chemical materials' for making a smoke screen to lift the German gas when lt comos. All the rats in the trenches congregate round these smoke boxes when the gas comes, as they realize that tiley save themselves from suffo cation. This process of lifting the German poison gas was discovered quite by chance. During a gas at tack some straw was set on fire by ac cident and f jrced the German ^smoke up. The rats came in swarms to squat round the burning straw and gave the French' tho hint." Energy in the Atom. The knowledge of radioactivity, which has been growing since the dis- ' covery of the X-ray and of radium, has revealed the atom as a tremendous storehouse of energy. The atomic en ergy, contained, for example, In ?the two-inch piece of chalk with which the lecturer makes his diagrams is calculated to be 300,000,000 foot tons -enough to raise 100,000 tons 3,000 feet. At present we do not know how to liberate the power. We know that lt exists only by observing the spontane ous disintegration of radioactive sub stances; but knowledge sometimes comes quickly; persons now living may see the ?lay when atomic energy will be used.-Youth's Companion. Cruel and Inhuman. . "On what grounds did she seek , di vorce?" "Slie claimed her husband forced her to ride behind him on a motor cycle." "She got her decree?" "Certainly. And the judge told her with tears In his eyes that she was entitled to alimony."-Birmingham Age-Herald. Suspicious. 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