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R 1 Our Wasted By H. B. ^taller. ^ MDDED interest in the I provement in the Ui f I of the National Wa IpMMMS extensive tour of th chairman. Senator 1 y study has been made improvements now and Prance. With the assistant sion Inspected, among other moi of the Danube and the Belgian ci gated the canals of France, Oeri servatlons are of special interest of American waterways, and tht matic scheme ot waterway inipn Comparing .American with J ton suggests many reforms inspl gated on his comprehensive tour tal supervision or control of raili | prevails between land and water between St. Louis and the mout has spent more money on that upon the Rhine. Yet the Germ; ; freight as goes up and down this t. fundamental reason why Amcrir portation purposes. They do nc from doing so."?Putnam's. j' : Young Invc Experiments of Jm to R t By Frances Arnoli f ^J ^^HU0T:GH0VT the ? 'at ^ I aviators are strut J Among these junio BBC* for distance in flyii among the grown-u ISsSEmJ abroad are watchei tof aeroplane, a bip reproduced by scores of model) new wing or new plan for lnsi the steering device, or some ne\ & ject or earnest discussion amoi Nor are Junior aeronauts m fc , of the air, the fascination of a i to the American temperament, might and main to build airst to be real progress. Thousand! put to actual test. This army n eighteen years, some of whom to do great service as time go >V Nicholas. m The Price < By L. Hi. Stowe. 2,000,000 miles c fT its discredit are as mate consumer" as 0, B9g999S"f uce brought from t because of the exce 10 tbe point of shi almost two cents m to the station nine miles away. New York to Liverpool, 2,100 m must, be made up by the farmer in charging more for the flour, 1 finally, of course, by the "ultlm As the farmer and the miller ai transportation really levies a ta been about the need for system facts and flgurs such as these 1 calculated to All the proverbial of Public Roads.?Putnam's. JB& I I The Junior By Krancis Arr Junior Aero Clu ^ ^ I seven brancheg thi I JL I members. The Ju mhrmI Aero Society, ha; IfPPBl in tlle ot^er cl these clubs, but th ton, Philadelphia, 1 coast such clubs are growing i The event of the year In t be the grand international met lea and Great Dritain. Dy a s elected as an all-Amerlcan tet In Great Britain. The America Horn, one of the pioneers of \ boys will be selected by Lady League of Great Britain. On tt will meet, one in New York, while the results will be cablt established.?St. Nicholas. The Lives ftBy Plildegarde si 1<JW, or an me goo< ^ h. 1 I the number of 111 % I I really takes ns ou mmmmJ Into some one els tales dJd It better writer can do barriers, and we teenth century, or follow the , leather-clad plainsman or bacl turning the pages of a book.? y.1 1 " Curiosities of Fear. "Many human beings are a . v one or more of a multlt i Hling fears," writes Wirt \ In Harper's Weekly, "whl ? bH ^stances so slight or i coa?hiled that they are beyo LfflJ taction by others snd the Ind la considered normal. But let awn breakdown occur and th Kg sains a Arm hold upon the st "fll wko mAy be doomed to a life f with much misery." These dl | $S Vtfwphobia. or fear of llghtnli fc?af@RUM?B I Waterways i question cf river and inland waterway imtited States has been inspired by the return terways Commission from Europe after an ie Continent. Under the supervision of its "heodore E. Burton, of Ohio, an exhaustive i of the marvelous waterway and engineering under way in Germany, Austria, Belgium e of European official experts, the Commisluments of engineering skill, the Iron Gates uial system; they sailed the Rhine and navlnony and England. Th-* results of their ob: in view of the almost utter demoralization ? nascent demand for a national and systenvpnifint in the United States 'uropean waterway conditions. Senator Burred by the conditions which he has investl, chief of which is some form of governmen oad rates between points where competition systems. "Take, for lrrfr.nce, the Mississippi 1 h of the Ohio," he says. "1 ulc Government section of this one river than has Germany an stream hauls a hundred times as much i section of the Mississippi. Now there is no nns will not use their waterways for transit do so because they have been prevented j?? jg? mtor./*. trior Aeronauts are Helping eal Progress. A Collins. country today upward of ten thousand boy ;gling with the problem of the airship, r aeronauts the record for height and that ig are matters of quite as lively interest as PB The great contests of aviators here and 1 v ith intelligent interest. Let a new form lane or monoplane appear, and it is quickly s and its virtues put to an actual test. If a iring stability is invented, a new thought in v application of power, it is instantly the sub- | ng the junior aeronauts the country over, erely imitators. The mystery of the problems new world of conquest, make a strong appeal With thousands of bright boys working with < lips which will actually fly, there is certaTE s of different models have been designed and of inventors, ranging in age from twelve to will be the aviators of the future, cannot fail es on in the actual conquest of the air.?St. ?3 & >f Bad Roads. K if unimproved roads which the country has to ^ i heavy a burden upon the unfortunate "ulti- i is an excessive tariff. Every pound of prod- ] he farm to the market bears an inflated price ssive cost of its transportation from the farm pment. For instance, it costs an average ol tore to haul a bushel of wheat from the farm than it does to ship a bushel of wheat from lies away. ThiB excessive transportation cost in charging more for his wheat, by the miller jy the halter in charging more for bread, and ate consumer" in paying more for his bread, re also consumers, the excessive cost of road ix upon all. Whatever doubt there may have atic road improvement in the United States, 5nally dispelled. If there was ever any worh "long-felt want," it was the work of the office & Aero Club told Collins. ib numbers 200 in New York alone, while its roughout the country boast more than 1,000 nior Aeronautic, under the auspices of the s 250 members in New York and some [ties. New York has probably the largest ot e movement is very active elsewhere. In Bos Buffalo, Chicago, St. Louis and on the Pacitlc rapidly. he amateur world of aeronautics promises to ?t contest between the boy aviatorB of Airier eries of elimination contests live boys will be iui, wuu win compete witn Ave boys selected > in team will act under the direction of A. E the movement in America, while the English j O'Hagan. the directress of the Aeronautical ] te day of the great tournament the two teams the other in London, and make their flights, < :d back and forth until supremacy has been j jg? m i We Live. Hawthorne 1 things we can get out of books, the best 1? res we get by reading them. When a story it of ourself, as we say, it naturally puts u* i e. And no transformation wand of the fairy , for prince or seventh son than a really good I If we will only let him. Space nor time art ( may ride with the knights-errant of the tir ' i trail through the morning mists with the ( twoodsman of the past generation by simply j -St. Nicholas. i are treated in this interesting article ] fflicted | "Well, Frye doesn't know it." i uuo ui r rye aiant. On arriving at th? < V. Ear- lake be took the flahing tackle ant j ch are trudged off, to return some hourt wo well later very warm and very much bit nd de- ten by mosquitoes, lvidual "Get any bites, Frye?" he wai t a ner- asked. > e fear "Get any bites!" was the Indignant < ifferer, reply. "Look at my face!"?Philadel 1 raugbt phla Record. fferent . 1 mm as Kg, to The Chilean Government b Maces, matlM M miles of rati roe. . 2 I I ?? W? ?Cartoon t Professor J. Laurence Laughlin, Ii ! markable article in which he says: "May it not be the psychological 1 a new aristocracy of the simple life, ity and not for the shadow, for the true rather than for the external, evanescent time to create a free-masonry of those has, nor how much one knows, but wha riches, may be the root of all evil; but of prices cannot be the sole root of the living." EXTRAVAGANCE A Joseph T. Talbert Sounds Warning Ag, The Automobile Craze a Case in Now to Be Extr El Paso, Tex.?Extravagance has exti become not only a national vice butanes* is in fact becoming a national menace 'ind in the opinion of Joseph T. Talbert, mei vice-president of the National City lool Bank, of New York. Mr. Talbert, be who spoke before the Texas Bankers' not Association, said that there does not wea appear anywhere to exist in the con- Ion) duct of national, municipal or indi- slov vidual affairs, that appreciation of mie the economical and prudent use of mea resources and that adjustment of ex- bun pendltures to means and incomes sure which always have been found neces- ecoi jary to the support of prosperity and pen to the maintenance of a condition of to-d solvency. ual The speaker cited the automobile led iraze as a case in point. "We are doii squandering on pleasure vehicles an- amc aually sums of money running into and hundreds of millions of dollars," he not :ontinued. "The Initial cost of auto- as t mobiles to American users amounts and :o not less than $250,000,000 a year, arts rhe up-keep and other necessary ex- use. jenditures, as well as incidentals, which would not otherwise be in- hlgl :urred, amount to at least as much the more. This vast sum is equivalent the n actual economic waste each year very :o more than the value of property expi lestroyed in the San Francisco Are? of tl perhaps to twice as much. This sum, dan is large as it is, does not include the " whole economic loss growing out of loar this single item of indulgence. The crea thousands of young and able-bodied tain men employed in manufacturing m4- thei :hines and in running and caring for in 1 :ars, all arc withdrawn from produc- shai tive usefulness; they become consum- lncc srs of our diminishing surplus pro- not lucts and constitute an added bur- mot ien to the producers. The economic why influence of this withdrawal from the divi producing and addition to the con- luxt suming class, is bound to be mami- pari tested in a tendency to higher prices, com its effect already must be consider- loar able, and is comparable only to the alve maintenance of an enormous stand- cam Ing army. run "Thousands upon thousands of our evei people, frenzied by desire for pleas- paid lire and crazed by passion to spend, lten bave mortgaged their homes, pledged M their life Insurance policies, with- ger drawn their hard-earned savings trad from banks to buy automobiles; and vera have thereby converted their msdest lten assets into expanding and devouring to t liabilities. The spectacle is astound- of t Ing. mat "In the matter of individual ex- 000 penditures It is the fashion now to be spei AMERICA'S GREEI Cambridge, Mass.?Dr. Charles W. proi Eliot, Harvard's president emeritus, bapj asserts "that the lust for gold and furt the thirst for power, considered by wea Americans as the main objects of ex- but Istence, have caused the present reign mor of discontent which is sweeping over "1 the country." and "The object of life with the in- scrll dividual as with the nation results wor Ltvui iud buccchiod oi pieuurMbie navi "motions and feelings," he adds. proi 'Progress Is measured by happiness, lstei not by dollars and cents. The aver- stre ige workingman falls to realise this, orei Neither social prestige nor riches can atlo >rer 500,000 Workmen Injured " Back Year In the United 8 . . v ! Mew York, N. Y.?At the ai sonvention of the National As Ion of Manufacturers at the Wal rf Astoria the Important subject i k < . ?nslderatk>n was the mesne of renting accidents. During the past year preren leddsnti In tared half a million * ii*r n the liJnlted States and ent i of |&SO.OO<MOO to man el / IE ON NT TRAIN!" I \ vl \wj / r r^IBi by Trigga, in the 2iew York Press. 1 i the May Scribner, writes a retour to call for the creation of of those who care for the reuli inward pleasures of the mind t show? May it not be high who do not ask how much one it one is? Gold, in the sense of gold, in the sense of a standard evil In our increased cost of v NATIONAL VICE ainst Reckless ExpenditurePoint?It is the Fashion avagan* avagant to the point of wasteful ;, and the tashton is running riot ividual thrift is considered nol ely miserly hoarding, but ted upon as a vice and a thing tc despised. It is said that this it a day of small things, and thai 1th, as wealth goes now, may nq ;er be accumulated by th< t process of savings and econos. This may be true if we shall isure wealth only by billions 01 dreds of millions, but, just ai ily as there ever existed virtue in lomy, of contentment and indedence in frugality, they are ther? ay, and just as surely as Individand national extravagance evei to a day of reckoning they ar? >g so to-day. Among nations, and tng individuals, permanent wealth material progress are the results, so much of rich natural resources hey are the products of economj thrift; not alone economy in thq of production, but economy ol The maintenance of the present i level of prices is dependent upon sustained purchasing power ot indlivdual which in turn depend* r largely, if not wholly, upon th? inslon of credit. Herein lies on? he chief elements of weakness and ger In the situation. If the banks may by lncrea3ins is create credits, which In turs .te purchasing power and a sused demand for high-priced goods, eby still further advancing prices the benefits of which all classes -e except those who possess fixed imes, It may be asked why this is good; why not continue to proe the general ability to .spend; ' not continue giving to each indual an amount of enjoyment, I rV AT>/1 nlnoen.A W-# ?v. p.coauio uuMiuna ueiore, Ocularly when all this may be acpllshed by merely Increasing is? The simple but comprehenand truthful answer Is that it not be done because in the long every act of wastefulness and *y Item of extravagance must be I for to the last farthing; every i consumed must be earned." [r. Talbert also discussed the dan. of the country losing its favorable le balance and of adding an ad< le trade balance to the other debit is which run against this country he extent of hundreds of millions lollars a year. Mr. Talbert estted these Items at a total of $900,,000, Including f-200,000.000 it abroad by American traveler?, ? OF GOLD. note happiness or retard It. The pines* of a community can be hereu not by Increasing Its total 1th or distributing It more evenly, by Improving Its physical and al welfare. Sensuous pleasures, like eating drinking, are sometimes debed as animal, and therefore unthy, but men are animals and ? a right to enjoy without retch those pleasures of animal exnce which maintain health, ngth and life Itself. These pleasi taken n.tnp.ll. ? ??? ?* ? **** 1U UIUUQ1* n, are all pure-and honorable." r Conditions Roseate, -Soy Typothctae Delegates. ngton. D. C.?Delegates to ity-fourth annual convention nlted Typothstae of Ameriri oaeatevlew of conditions In ' - Ml*. Business Is good, they .u: labor troubles are scarce, printing business of the tates Is so free from com pi 1iow that this paeetlng might be called a printers' lovt .* i Ud one of the delegates. ? tbe convention tbe qnee pprentlcee .will be taken ngt . Ijlgii SQUARE WITH WORLD AT 35. I In address on "Hygienic Living," I given in the Gilbert School recently, | Dr. E. H. Arnold, of New Haven, lecturer at Tale Medical School, said that curvature of the spine frequently resulted from sitting In a certain position In school. "Eight girls are thus afflicted to one boy," he said, and be attributed this to "the boyish spirit of deviltry," which keeps lads constantly shifting about, while the girl, ever anxious to please the teacher, assumes a position and keeps It. "She suffers from having been good," said Dr. Arnold. The average child of parents In ordinary circumstances, he went on, represented an investment at one year of $50 to $100, and' at fifteen or sixteen years of $2000. These estimates are not In regard to the value to the parents in afTectlon, nor is the actual expense to the community In schools considered. "At eighteen," Dr. Arnold said, "the average child begins to keep himself, and at thirty-five, the results of his labors considered, he is practically 'square with the world.' Thus, a person dying under that age goes out of the world indebted to the community. Consequently the community should leave nothing undone in protection for its children, for if the results are not whRt they should be the community is the loser." AMERICAN HUSBANDS. "In America the vast majority of women get no social help from their husbands," says Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, In Harper's Bazar. "The latter o , P. o 11 Chicken Croquettes.? p <? with a little pepper, salt OC S" | a little cream. Roll the ci ? with cracker dust until t g ? Beat one egg light and d t?. ? cracker dust. Fry in a ci a | light brown. The stock 1 w b j may be used instead of c I a S j! tou Star. | take the position that all the duties pertaining to society belong exclusively to the wife, little realizing the bur! den laid upon her. Their own duty they consider fully discharged when I they supply the funds and present themselves at the appointed hour, l correctly dressed for dinner or opera. 1 - Too often they fail to appreciate the | wife's Intense ambition to represent adequately their name, their fortune, j- their standing in the community, i "The fulfilment of social obliga| tlons by no means represents the I whole of the duties of a society worni an's existence. There is no end to 1 the demands of church work, charities, reforms, and every kind of philanthropy. Practically each woman has one or more special objects with I their call for board meetings and peri sonal investigation and service. With I modern life has come the new de1 mand for ceaseless Intellectual cul! turo through lectures on art, music, [ science, and literature. In recent years this has been supplemented by I the desire to keep abreast of current I events, to understand the problems of the hour, and this is attained i through constant attendance on 1 classes for their study and considera! tlon. To the culture of the mind is [ added in these progressive days the , systematic development of the body? woman entering the field of athletics I - U..1 ? ? ? its uii it ill Uicio lio c jiij jJtJLiLur ui iuuli iu i what has heretofore been his own ex> elusive domain. Golf, tennis, riding, ' shooting, driving a motor, have now [ absorbed any f-agments of leisure ! that might have been left to women." RESTAURANT ETIQUETTE. ! A girl who has been Invited for the first time to dine In a restaurant writes to ask what she shall wear i and how to conduct herself. To the first query I say she may wear either j ; her dressy cloth gown or a pretty silk, | and I favor a cloth suit with dainty separate waist. Her dress hat should , be worn, for she must look attractive i without being conspicuous. Her escort should call at her home, and 'lien they enter the restaurant he should precede her. When her escort notifies the head waiter that a i table for two Is required, according i to the custom In this country, the girl follows the waiter, preceding her host; but If she wishes to follow the European custom, and allow her escort to go first, he will be directly behind the waiter. Then, if the location does not Butt, the man can object before the girl has seated herself. Whether she precedes or follows her escort into the restaurant Is optional. The girl takes the seat opposite to her host, the chair of which should us urawn oui eimer oy toe Dead waiter or the escort. Only when the table la very large, so she could not talk to her hoat comfortably, does | the girl alt bealde him. k As a rule the man selects the dini nor. The girl has a menu card given r her by the waiter, but unless she Is requested by her host she makes no > suggestion as to what shall be or' dered. If he does ask for : er preference, or If she likes one or more dishes he mentions, she ts at liberty , to express an opinion. Some men dislike oxder a dinner and ask a guest 7" T ^ " % to asBist in choosing the courV^Anjf; **** dishes she likes she may thenBjngest to him, but it is good form him politely to eliminate those he doea not care for. After dinner finger bowls are served and the tips of the fingers are dipped in. The napkin is not folded. but IaIH r?n tho tnhlo a a tobon from the lap. It Is good form to remain at the table while the man smokes. Leaving the restaurant the girl, as a rule, precedes her escort, but European custom, which is gaining ground here, has her follow him, on the theory that a man should go first in a public place to make wTay for the woman accompanying him.?Rosanna I Schuyler, in the New York Telegram. THE BODY'S KITCHEN. | Mrs. Mildred Manly Easton gave a living picture entertainment at the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday. If the women who attended didn't know when they left how they look when they live in the kitchens of their bodies?that is to say, the stomach? ? and the highbrow aspect which dwelling exclusively in the library?the ' head?gives them, it was because they hadn't kept their eyes on the ? plump little lecturer. Mrs. Easton said a good many human bodi ?s were like a big house she once lived in. , "The main object imposed on us by the neighborhood was to keep the mable doorsteps clean. The house was full of servants bumping into each other doing useless things. There was a nice drawing room, but I never had any time to live in it, -Chop cooked chicken fine, season and butter mixed with one egg and * -oquettes on a bread board sprinkled hey are shaped like little cylinders, ip them in it, then roll again in the oquette basket in boiling fat until a of chicken, veal, lamb or mutton :ream to mix them with.?Washing???? because I was a slave to those servants and the house and the marblo steps. "Don't let your body be like that house," Mrs.Easton adjured her hearers. "Have the servants that look af ter the kltcheu part of it so well trained that they don't have to be looked after, and you live In the drawing room, which Is your heart. Don't live in your kitchens, like those big buxom women that eat all the time and want to give you a recipe every time you meet them. "This is the way you look when you live in your kitchen," and the speaker let herself down about five Inches. "If I wasn't dressed this way I could Bhow you better," she added,, regretfully. "The straight front kind! I knew it!" murmured a woman who had just wandered in from the Legislative League, which was imbibing suffrage further down the hall. Mrs. Easton's next lightning change was into the woman who lives in her drawing room. "How do you do? I'm so glad to see you!" she exclaimed, lifting her chest, putting out her hand and giving a sweet smile and bow. "That's the way you look when you live in your heart and entertain all liumaniity, and don't let the front doorsteps and the servants swallow up your life."?New York Tribune. Poplins are In vogue again. Coats are shorter and closer. Braiding is very much In style. Bath slippers of raffia are finding favor. Buckles of cut steel are to be quite the rage. Never were mauves and grays in greater demand. For dressy occasions large flat hatsflV predominate. Maline or lace is excellent for the mid-season hat. Malines of all shales will be used to veil bat crowns. Ostrich plnmes are back with an unexpected prominence. Favorite materials for school coats for the little ones are the heavy tweeds, plain or with double face, and ' with wool serges. Pretty semi-evening gowns, which the French call casino gowns, are being worn with but slight deOAllat a spa an/1 ~ * vvMcvafto uuu uousyaivui ?uiuipvs UL tulle or mouesellne. Blouses tor evening wear are In net, both black and white,' and trimmed with lace. They are all made with the high stock collar, the collarleas Dutch neck not being considered smart as a finish to a dressy separate waist. Many ot the new cnlrass gowns are designed to hook under the left arm. This leaves an unbroken line at the front and back and It helps to oarry out the Idea of armor plats i which formed the original cuirass. .