The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, April 11, 1913, Page FIVE, Image 5

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KS WITH WEDDING RING. (Beer Behavior of ( irolet When Suspended from String:. This is the mystery of the wedding ring. Can you soive n: .'vououv, <15 jet V ha? been able to account for its! strange convolutions, but maybe you ' will be more clever. ^ W!hat makes the wedding ring swing? | Why does it swing one way for a j man and quite another way for a I woman? Is it the difference in what wise men call "aura?" And a well known Lon - * ?-- j ?I Wt don doctor nas recently aemuusuauui that the aura of the male and female ft difPer widely. Wedding rings often make the people who wear them, and even other I persons, behave in the most unac- j countable manner, but few of us have L iever seen a wedding ring itself inW ' dulge in mysterious performances, P fcayg The Chicago Tribune. And this is not a trick. Remember I It is a scientific experiment, mus trating laws of physics, physiology or | psychology. This is the way to go about it. Take a silver fork and place it be fore you on a polished wooden table.: I The fork should be at right angles, A from your body with the handle nearV ?st you. ^ Seat yourself at the table. Tie a *)ieoe of light string sbout 15 inches in length to a plain gold wedding ring, j After the wedding ring lias been tied to the extreme end of the string, wrap the other end of the- string three times j Around the first joint of the first fin- j ger on the right hand. Hold the string in place around the j fret finger with the ball of the thumb j camp hand Place your right; VI tUV/ ? elbow on the table- beside the fork, with the forearm in a vertical position, and permit your hand to drop at j a right angle from the wrist. This j Hows the string with the wedding j \ng attached to hang directly over the fork. The ring must be suspended about -~tho fnrk. one-quaner 01 an muu auu?^ , and as nearly as possible at its center. Place your left hand, flat and palm downward, upcn the table beside; the fork. Do Vour best to keep your i hand steady, and thus prevent the k string, with its attached wedding ring I from swinging. In spite of your ef-j forts you will find that the wedding j ring moves, i* _ 4c. hni/iinp' the string the; 11 ct IIId IX XO ?c - - w wedding ring will commence slowly to j sway back and forth along the fork, t If a wemail holds th>e string the ring sways across the fork. With some people the movement is slight, while with others it is marked, but at all j times it is unmistakable. Now here's the most curious part. If a woman is holding the string when j aornss the fork has! UIC v~w ^ ? once been firmly established, let a | man place his right hand firmly upon 1 her left hand, which rests upon the! k table. The ring will be seen slowly to stop its cross movement, and after HL- a few moments the motion will be reversed. The ring will' swing the length of the fork. A similar change of movement will j occur in the event of a man holding | the string while a woman places her! right hand over his left hand. Can you account for this mysterious i i behavior of the wedding ring? WHITES IX THE SOUTH. Past Census Decade Shows a Drift of White Population Southward. ? Kew .Orleans Times-Democrat. The last census bulletin furnishes most interesting and instructive infor- j I mation on a point concerning which j wa have had nothing definite hereto-j Hi fore?the extent of the immigration i movement of population into the South | from other parts of the country. While | "we are bidding for immigration from | all parts of the world, we naturally prefer settlers from the North and | "West, farmers, mechanics and labor-i ers, of our race, language, ideas and habits. We know that thousands ofj them, especially of the agricultural classes, are being crowded out of the ! I North by the increasing density of ^ population, the lack of available land v for farming purposes of the excessive i . prices demanded for such land. For the last 20 years the many Southern immigration agents have turned their attention mainly to the North and West, to persuade the people who are "being crowded out that they can fare better in the South, with its fertile soil and splendid climate, than in the distant arid districts of their far West, or the alien, blizzardy prairies of Canada. r4 The census heretofore has always told a very different tale?that the interstate movement of population was in the other direction?to the northward, not southward. Virginia and Kentucky furnished a large part, if not a majority, of the > arly population of Ohio. They and North Carolina helped to settle Indiana and Illinois, and the lower halves of these States are Southern in their origin, th?ir people, ideas and points of view. Oregon was originally settled almost exclusively from Missouri. In Calfornia, North and South met in aDout equal proportions, with the Southern -element dominating socially and politically. In the first six decades of the 19th century the South lost several millions of her sons and daughters, who moved North because they found slavery unpleasant and inimical to them. There was a steady tide of white population northward. The negroes did not go, tn-m t./1Q patio 11r-i naftocco r\7 in montiAn IUi 1 LUOUU O UliiiVV/VUUUi J tv Jl ilVUUVil, except those that travelled by the underground railroad, and their number has been grossly and absurdly exaggerated in the prejudiced histories of the times. For more than half a century the South was losing a poriton of its white population to the North, and in this way was losing ground in wealth, industry, population and influence. We had hoped to see this tendency reversed when the prejudices caused by evil strife ended, and when the tide of white population, veering around, would move on the South. The last bulletin proves that this natural condition has finally come about. During the past decade the white population of the Southern States increased from 16,521,970 to 20,547,420, or 24.4 per cent, while their negro population grew only from 7,922.969 to ~ ~~ * ~ ~ ? - * * ? x mi 8,74y,42 i, or iu.4 p-er cent, me supuintendent of the census explains this remarkable and unprecedented change very clearly and very correctly, stating that it is due to the fact that many many whites moved from other parts of the country to the South, while a considerable number of negroes drifted North, under the delusion that they were ^oing to enjoy different and betonH nnlitinal conditions UC1 OUViUi Uiiu ? ? - _ there. The census figures fully support this explanation. While the whites Increased 24.4 per cent in the South, they increased only 20.3 in the North and West, in spite of the millions of European immigrants settling in the latter sections. On the other hand the negroes grew 29.3 per cent in the North and only 10.4 in the South. The Southern States are evidently growing a white man's country more rapidly than ever before, not from foreign immigration, but from the incoming of settlers from other parts of the country. There are in the south today 46,582 New Englanders. 289,479 persons from the Middle States' and 1,113,168 from the West, and a total of 1,732,524 people who are not Southerners by birth, but who moved into this section by preference because they think it offers them better advantages than their old homes. This is a most gratifying showing, and it is the first time we have ever been able to make it. We may expect this movement to make stiii iurtner progress in the next decade, as those who have settled in the South and have fared well let their relatives, friends and neighbors know of their success. Backbone of Winter. Bj Walt Mason. The winter seems eneded, the soft vernal breezes come up from the southland, refreshing and sweet; we bid a farewell to the north wind that freezes, we think we are done with the snow and the sleet; and just when we're sure that old winter lies bleedin' as dead as the deadest of petrified men, the wind swings around to the northwest of Sweden, the backbone of winter gets busy again; that fussy, old backbone, that volcanic backbone, that militant backbone gets busy again. We tire of cold weather; we view it with loathing, j;nd soon as !a robin is seen on the lawn we say, I "it ic time* for our light undercloth I ~ - - ? ling;" we take oft' our flannels and put them in pawn. And then we've the grip and the jumping pneumony, we furnish a snap for the medical men; they fill us with pills and with remedies phoney; the backbone of winter is busy again; that doagasteu DacKbone, that jimtwisted backbone, that dadbusted backbone is busy again. It is not safe to bet that the winter is over till hens go to setting and horses shed hair, ill ees are a-buzzin' around in the clover, and flies are so thick that they make father swear. So often we're fooled by the harbingers vernal, the previous bud and the premature wren, and wake from our dream to conditions infernal?the backbone of winter is busy again, that foolish old backbone, that impudent backbone, that heartbreaking backbone is busy again. Good Roads as a Good Example. Spartanburg Journal. The Spartanburg Motor Club is much elated over marked improvements that have been made in several of the roads in the country-since the suggestions were made, which, if fol% 7A/s 4 | a I giv ?to the man i ing of buyin car: The difference b< mers "Thirty-Six" ft/ car you may be thir probably about $300 But the difference honestly assure yo' $1000. Nowadays it is r that an automobile r that much for grants wv, f irrm cVirn KsCLL If 11CC U J uu kjxxvy v. manent satisfactioi looks, elegance of want a car you can b want a car that will ' 8 years from now. ! The Chalmers "T1 car. Builc in the Chain factured?not assen best materials, and rigid inspection, the all you can ask in a ) are going to spend ; for a motor car, isn'i to put $300 or $40' iiiake your first inve: W< the 1WR G i | I lowed, would mean that all residents j sweeth* 1 of the county co-operate in securing ed foil better thoroughfares. It is the only j suicide, possible way to build good roads un- j sistent : less a bond issue is floated, as the j of the i i ji-vi- tho r>7V>fiPnt ar- i thp Ma avanauie muus uuuti ^ wn>. ? . | rangement are not adequate to even j "Wh? | maintain the roads. j you're On the Howard Gap road much in- I mill po , terest has been aroused and in many j Neve: | places the improvement has been 1 he said j great. Similar conditions exist on the j "Ven i Glenn Springs road. Farmers have them," i awakened to the fact that they must But f do their share if they are to benefit. man sti Good roads must be built. They j feited t i must have a foundation that can and ed thei will withstand the most sevrre winter j rains. They must have a good, hard | me >? ^ foundation of a substance that will; for a r not be washed away every raimj; present : spell. They must be well rounded ino. for | at the crest so that the water will tie(1 flow off either side and they must j caR't n also be properly drained. in ? The roads that are now beflng built in this county should prove not only an example but a stimulus to Arm other sections of the county and the a(jventl sooner the farmers learn what can ? may ai be accomplished by co-operative a n methods, the sooner they will aid in Y road construction. County authorities have also awak- niay ag | ened to this need and are doing good j tion js work on the Glenn Springs road in iost art repairing the macadam, in hauling street sand which is placed on top of the ocnveni mud and which will make a good, th-ey ar solid foundation. kind of ,mm and ph ThoogbtfuL of the A young mill hand, having lost Ms not toe 4 $1950 Fully equipped. aimers "Thir > es the answer 1 *vho is think- ?to tl g a cheap ing of car: stween the Chal- Justw and some other high pri !_- i? i P!ha1mer< iKmg 01 uuyiug is or $400. you go a in value, we can ^an Jou u, isn't less than Can yc iot merely enough ^or^* v j. i nience to un. You can take , ? ;d with almost any an ' rid look for is per- , , i, comfort, good Pie cno?s equipment. You cause th< >e proud of. You be good 5 or 6 or more the simply b lirty-Six" is such a a mediui Six" woi it lers shops, manu- **? *<J lbled?made of the ing out i under the most than the "Thirty-Six" offers car as th motor car. If you To all your money at all Six"; rid : it wise economy It is a C2 0 more to it and I that will stment really good? 1 the cost >n't you give us the opportunity of c ^ Chalmers "Thirty-Six"? Please p DY MOWER, NEWf iKKc M?r)iini>rv Co.. Columbia. S. C., J 7 iart, through his own hot-head- again. They ar y, first threatened to commit' William B. Horn and then became vulgarly in [two years old, in his demands for the return' eight-one years presents he had given h?r, says ( sons, eighty-foui nchester Guardian. | Windmuller, se\ it good will they be to you if, Walking is s< goin' to drown yourself in th' | chauffeur to hir ind?" she scoffed. j no babies to ru) r you mind. I want them back.'', to watch, no bik evasively. 'no cutting up o: r well, I'll see that yoi have t^rs 0f pedestriai the girl reluctantly agreed. | f0r the people i ive days passed, and the young; can talk with It 11 bemoaned the loss of the for- 'is democratic; r rinkets. Once more he request- level; conversat r return. map. Who is tb ?.. tl. . Dnrr Cnni lad, I wish you'd stop worrvni* r v> ghed the girl, anxious by now | into the &reen I econciliation. "I've gi^cn t' another person i s up long since. They're waic-hngis conductivi you at t' bottom o' th' mill pond j *s n0 monotony ) in a red handkerchi?*; yo.i | wha.t other exer iiss but see'em when yo.i Jump j 0n8 is ^ercisinj feel that he is ? patch. A Revival of Walking. id Pujol found many joyous ^sn ires in walking about, and so In the fall th lybody. The truth is realized a New York the umber of prominent men of ma by a new drz ork City, who have formed a that even the c - ? rovt mnrr I club; walking for pleasure ucan uvav ? w- > ain come into fashion if imita- truth about it. j strong enough among us. The act, when the : of walking should be revived were writhing i cars and motor cars, great man sitting we' iences and time-savers that gan to utter loi " 1 "nneniroH tn roh man- kindly disposed C, JLICLVT^ tuaopi* vu w v ^ a source of much help, mental chorus and in ar ysical. The charter members guided play-wrij New York Walker's Club are what he though1 > old to learn how to walk and wac standia, i F. o. b. Detroit, ty-Six'' to both lie man who is thin! buying a high price vwAtin /-3/\ TTAII rvnf in Q licit muic uu juu gci in c* ced car than you get in t 5 "Thirty-Six," at $1950? C ny further in a day or a mqnt go any faster, (except at gr? >u ride with any greater co an you get any more com > mota> rlrivino' pasv and rile; ,UU1W X nestly believe that many pi ;e high priced cars simply I sy are high priced. tow of many who have pj (n they really needed to paj ecause they didn't realize tl n priced car like the "Thir lid give maximum service, nw these same neocle are o: v 1 1 A non!;hly far more in up-k< y would need to pay for sue! le "Thirty-Six." such we say, "See the "Thir e in it; try it out thorough ir you can be proud of?a < . save you money?but not of satisfaction." lemonstrating hone or call. IERRY, S. C. Distributors. e Mayor Gaynor and bowing his a] iblower, each sixty- ling inarticula Joseph H. Choate, | When he a old; John E. Pear- ( himself, the s * years old, and Louis' turned upon h -enty-two years old. "What in th? o cheap There is no demanded the e, no gasolene to buy, thor! like that a over, no speed limit "1 wasn't ye] e cop on the trail and the fat man . w/i_ I "I was yellini [ aeau auiumwc j j acquaintance. Walk1 Evening Post. that you will see and i f you wish. Walking, jn ^jarc nen meet on the same! panj011) Grace ion is from man to: e(jitor of thai tere that does not en-' article on spi uts their long "hikss" i Blie gjves the jlaces? Walking with cjpie point of s good; solitary walk- eration is to ri e to meditation. There j Following is a about walking". Ofj ..Seriously> : cise can that be said? she had gone ; and yet one does not the grotesque -Richmond Times Dis- ^ g0 to the jr and now, the J mm ing no; and it nderstood. too, let me tell ere was presented at Ob, yea indeet ;atre a historical dra- fashion as imatist?a play so bad fashion! Paris ritics didn't have the originality. P ling to tell the whole shinning Amei \t the end of the third fell you that suffering spectators i and the prospe I o /-minlr and n their seats a stout ? h-*? II down in front be- same unique id cries. A number of pocket-book n( persons took up the trolling nerve, tother minute the mis- frost. gbt had responded to "So the edi< t wae s curU'Q call moderation wll g before the footlights spring fashion; 4 I # tf kid ny ;he an ft? iat m/e aseo Dei lid ' r? lat tyiy* :ep i a tyly. ;ar at / J Dpreciation and munibt? words of thanks, uthor had withdrawn tout man's companion im angrily. e world did you mean," friend?"yelling for au[ling for him," answered with much indignation, I for etner."?saiurua* h Woman's Home ConMargaret Gould, fashion t periodical, writes an ing fashions in which latest news. The prinh-er report is that modlle in fashions this year, n extract: Paris is getting scared, from the extravagant to in and was about itiecent. But right here Lmerican woman is say; is a big, emphatic no, [ you. Paris has hetrfl. 3, she can take a hint well as give a hint in is devoted to her ultraaris is also devoted to rican gold, and let me the lure of the latter, ct of not getting it, has telling effect on thto ; originality. Paris's irve, which is her conis highly sensitive to * 21 has gone forth that il be the keynote of tk? i oC lfU." \ # -f -~jiUW