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SUCH IS LIFE? He's Trying! I AM -vpo ? -TEACHERS SAY? I'M -V\V AAOjST "TCC/lMef Sov IN ROOM/ By Charles Sughroe V'/^> I iu 7 Demand for Liquor Not What Expected Consumption Is Not a Half That of Pre-Dry Era. Washington. ? Either the American thirst for liquor Is not what It used to be or the bootlegger Is doing a better business than his legal , competitor. Whatever the cause, It now appears that the consumption of legal liquor In the first year of repeal will be consid erably less than half the amount con sumed In a normal year of the pre Volstead era. The legal liquor Industry that sprang np almost over nlsht after 13 years of drydom. Is finding Its dream of quick profits only a dream, and heavy losses are threatening to close down distilleries and retail establishments throughout the country. Imported wines and liquors are lying In ware houses and there Is more than ample liquor now on hand to satisfy even an unprecedented demand. In short, figures Issued by the Treas ury department and by the code au thority for the distilling Industry In dicate a surprising failure on the part orf the drinking public to consume the j amount of liquor It had been expected to consume on the basis of past per V>rmances. Blame Bootleggers. Spokesmen for both the government and the distilling industry were in clined to attribute this failure to the continued competition of illicit liquor, rather than to any loss of appetite on the part of drinking Americana. They blamed the high price of legal liquor Set* World Record It has been officially announced that Bergt. A. M. Stanwlz of Troop <j; Now York* state troopers, made n . new world's pistol record at Albany, by scoring 45 bulls-eyes out of 4I> shots, firing the aripy dismounted course with a ,3ft eftllbftf' rfcvolvdf; Oaroful Inves tigation' showed this perfect snore was without precedent. and representatives of the Industry went further to blame the high prlcea on high taxes. What with federal taxes of $2 a gal lon, state taxes ranging even higher In some places, and heavy licensing fees In nearly every locality, members of the industry argue, prices of legal liquor cannot be low enough to com pete with the prlcea of illegal liquor on which no tax is paid at all. Moreover, according to the Indus try's spokesmen, reppal did not com pletely change the drinking habits de veloped during the thirteen years' reign of the bootlegger. The Illicit dealer Is still highly patronized, they declare, and In one quarter it was esti mated that for eveO' gallon of legal, tax poid liquor consumed, two gallons of Illicit, untnx paid liquor has been distributed. During prohibition, It Is estimated, some 100.000,000 gallons of bootjeg liquor were consumed each year, and the legal liquor Industry argues that because of high prices, which they blame on high taxeV much of this huge Illicit traffic still exists. Dr. James M. Doran, chairman of the Distilled Spirits Institute, distil lers' code authority, estimates that more than 30,000,000 gallons of legal liquor will be consumed this year on the basis of consumption up to June. This, he pointed out, la Just about half the amount of liquor consumed In even the leanest pre-prohlbltlon years. An nual normal consumption prior to the dry era, according to Doctor Doran, was about 84,000,000 gallons a year. Imports Are Down. While the domestic Industry Is con fronting a serious problem due to the unexpectedly low demand for legal spirits, the foreign producer and Im porter Is likewise faring badly !n the American market, figures compiled by the Treasury department authorities show. Since repeal became a reality on December 5, the treasury disclosed, Im ports of liquor have totaled 8,204,227 gallons. Prior to that date, some 40, 111 gallons were on hand In bonded warehouses, bringing the total supplies of foreign liquor In this country up to June 80 to 8,804,338 gallons. Only 3,748,818 gallons have been withdrawn, however, leaving 4,500, f>20 gallons of Imported whiskies and spir its still unused in the warehouses. Allowing for present stocks on retail shelves, the treasury's figures would Indicate that less than 3,700,000 gal lons of foreign liquor have been con sumed In this country In ttie eight months since prohibition ended. At the same time the lack of de mand has caused Importers to fall far short of the amount of foreign liquor they expected to bring to American shores after prohibition ended. Im ports have amounted to only two fifths of the quotaB allowed h.v the control board for the period between December f> and April 30. Only about one-fifth of the December- April quota, moreover, has moved Into consump tive channels. ODD THINGS AND NEW? By Lame Bode Concentrated wealth 1fhE flNY AREA OP THE Sudbury held in Ontario mas * YIELDED HALF A BILLION DOLLARS A OP nickel AND PLATINUM. Jfj I Fighting t| PORCUPINE" \ T A PORCUPINE ATTACKS ITS ENEMY BY RUSM/N6 AT IT BACKWARDS, IMPLANTING its tipped spinrs. m I))f. %9 TM lM > ??' ?>?** Lung use - r All your blood GOES THROUGH YOUR LUNGS 2.000 TIMES A. DAV. WNU Ber via*. A TRIBUTE TO MARIE CURIE By LEONARD A. BARRETT No discovery has contributed more to alleviate human suffering than the research work of Mme. Curie In the field of radium. What Paderewskl does for music, Mme. Curie accom plished for science. Both were horn In the little country of P o 1 a n d. The same spirit of per severance permeat ed both of these Polish subjects, and the Bame altruistic passion motlvnted their tireless work. PnderewBkl continue? to Interpret to the world the finest In music, while the work of Mine. (?urle cnme to an end In her recent death at the early age of sixty-six. "With pernicious anemia sapping her vitality, the little Polish woman did not haver sufficient strength to overcome," ? so read the press dis patches; but, from the h'rench scien tists come the words, "A long accumu lation of rndiatlons during her career as ? scientist was a contributing fac tor to her death." Marie Curie was born at Warsaw in Russian Poland In 18G7. Although the "Absolute Leader" Hubert Schnuch, testifying before the congressional oomnilttee Invest! Rating un-Americin activities, de scribed hlhiseir us "absolute leader" of the Friends of New Germany In the United States, a pro-Nazi organization. He was elected to th? post at' a na tional convention held in New York on July 1, he revealed. wife of a celebrated French chemist, Pierre Curie, she won distinction In her awn name. Among the most no table honors conferred upon her wns the Nobel prize, which wns given to her on two occasions, the only person who wns ever thus favored. After the death of her distinguished husband she continued her research work at the Sorbonne In France. It Is very frequently argued that a career for a woman Is Incompatible with the responsibility of being a wife and mother. Not so with Mme. Curie. Between her hush'ind and herself there was a bond of great love and admira tion. She was her husband's helpmate In his professional work as well as the mistress of his home and mother of his child, for Mmn. Curio dirt have a child, a daughter, who married a scien tist. Humor has It that the daughter nnd her husband will now continue the work of her celebrated parents. The dlseaso which has baffled the skill of phyKidans has been cancer. With the discovery of radium an 1m portant ndvance has been made In ef fecting a cure. When this dreaded disease Is finally conquered, humanity will owe much to the name of Curio. Simplicity Is characteristic of genius. The request of Mme. Curie wns that no display take place at her funeral. Observing this request her frail body was laid to rest In a little cemetery In Paris, ft Is beyond reason to think that either France or Poland will ever let the world forgM Its great debt to the discoverer of radium. ?, W??t?rn Union. Old Army Gim* Jud Tunklns says It's the old Army game for a man to act proud and haughty when you ask him a questions Ihe object being to conceal the fact that be doesn't know the answer. (^f^rJ~/ouse,(\ofS Bvj L-ydia Le Baron Walker Interesting Examples of Plaited Plaid Trimming on Frocks, Sofa Cushions, and Draperies. PLAITED plaids are novel. They form attractive ornamentations for useful and fancy articles and for frocks. The plaids are open showing the "founda tion material as a background. They are of the simplest construction. They require either a very accurate eye ? or a ruler. The latter Is advised, as with It the work Is made very easy. Rule the lines straight with ? pencil. They will be concealed entirely by the ma terial sewed over them. This material may be very narrow folds of a contrasting textile, of rick rack braid, of ribbon, fancy braids, etc. RIckrack Is a favorite medium for making these plaited plaids. One color alone may be used or two or three, each different from the color of the foundation, as well as from each other. Narrow ribbon Is another me dium ready to use, and so also are trimming braids. Textiles can 1h> made Into narrow strips for plaiting by cutting strips from % to 1 Inch wide and seaming the lengthwise edges together. This can be done without basting if edges are even and are pinned together at intervals. Run a small safety pin through one end of a Rtrip and shut It securely. Push It down through the tubing and when It comod out at the other end of the strip the tubing will be turned right side out and . all raw edges be concealed. Ruling the Lines. Rule lines In parallel rows on the material to tie ornamented. Cross these lines with equally spaced lines extending over the first ones at rl^ht angles. Allow plenty of room between lines. Just what this distance shall be In determined by the width of the braid, ribbon, or textile strands. When using rickrack It must be reckoned I w> as the distance between tips on one edge and the other. The braid is undulating, and so, while narrovr in Itself, this waving line spreads to , two or three times tho actual width | of the braid. The braid or textile strands, etc.. when basted to the foundation must weave alternately over and under the crossing strands, leaving the openwork Bpaelng. Narrow strands can be stitched by machine through the lengthwise center. Itlckrack Is gen erally so sewed on. When strands are wide enough to curl when sewed down so, have each edge stitched down. The trimming is delightfully effec tive In corners of sofa cushions and table covers with two or three of the middle strands running straight and uncrossed between the corner pieces. Or the plaiting can be In triangular form across opposite ends of a square sofa cushion cover, with an untritnmed diagonal section through the center. A row of plaited plaid makes a smart finish or border around the lower part of n blouse, down shoulder sooms and for cuffs. I ?. Doll Syndicate. ? WNU Service. Hay Fever Caused by Russian Thistle Salt Lake City, Utah. ? The Rus sian thistle Is the greatest single source of hay fever In America, Dr. Hay M. Halyeat of the Univer sity of Oklahoma told physicians from western stntes gathered here in their annual convention. 'Hie female cottonwood tree, also n pro lific source of the ailment, should be banned by Inw, he declared. Cedars and elms likewise sprend Irritating pollen, l?e said. First "New Deal" Cabinet Baby lilttlo MnrriiN Woorlrtng, won of Anoint not Hocrotnry of Wnr nrnl Mrs, HAri*5 WoodrlnR, h?? tho honor of halng tho flrwt hnhy horn In tho KoospvpH en hi not. Tho photogrnph nhow* tho hoy with hi* pnrentfl nt their ?'stat? nonl Clinton, Mrt. FROCK BETTY-LOU WILL REMEMBER PATTKllN 1913 Not every mother keeps In mind all the time quite how important a little girl's frocks are. Of course sho should look pretty every day of her young life . . . that goes without snyiiu! But don't you remember your "little girl" frocks? Well. l>;?tty Lou is going to do tin same thing. Here Is a charming thing for her to recall. Epaulets that Hare crisply over youthful shoulders and turn Into a little cape In the back . . . neat, trim pleats which look smart and permit a girl t( play to her heart's content. Lovely In swlss or dimity or voile. Pattern 1013 is available in sizes ft, 8. 10. 12, and 14. Siae 8 takes 2*4 yards 30-lnch fabric and 3V& y?r<ls edging. Illustrated step-bystep sew ing Instructions Included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) In coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this pattern. Write plainly name, address and style number. BE SUIU3 TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Sewing Circle Pattern Department, 243 West Sev enteenth Street, New York City. EXCELLENT REASON Her father gravely surveyed th? young man. "So," lie said, "you are asking for the hand of my daughter?" The young man nodded nervously. "Can you wash, darn, sow, nurso children, and keep house?" asked fa ther. "R-bbut why should I need to do those things?" the suitor stammered. "Because my daughter can't," said the other. Tho Generous Gesture "I note that you occasionally In dulge In a Joke." "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum. "Kven If It doesn't happen to be a very good Joke, it gives my constitu ents the assurance that I am anxious to do what 1 can to make them hap py."? -Washington Star. llnrd I.uck "1 lost, my p?cketbook at th? races." "Was there much In it?" "How do I know what was in It! [ had not had it five minutes."? ? Hummel Hummel (Hamburg)..