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and of the diamond le
_; learn* the law* gov-
a, velocity, dynamic., the
of projectile*,
r of air, attractive pow-
the ball player, by
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j lawn Many time*
at who make* hie college
j think that the prof, wa*
he laid down
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a baaeball under aktlled
i and control eeetn*. like a
» come aa near violating all the
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until
Une hit* would
In a straight fine
standing on the
jumped and
i hand.
a professor of physio* In
wrote
to the physics of the
later lectured to hts
abject. I asked sev-
pitchers to demonstrate tor
of the professor how they
ball, swung thetr arms, re-
wlth their fingers, and how
per they applied and to what
rface of the sphere.
Clark Orlfflth, a mas-
, woo u-md to he past-mas-
;lce. I asked him to take
to the grounds and show
The result was a note
which he said:
any more bugs to see
it Is that the players do not
sclent!He phenomena they
long as the opposing bate-
lelr healthtes (l. *., swings)
ad miss. The college pro-
car* much whether
Collins out three times
bases so long as he
-rate that the laws gov-
ftCOViviivoQ muuuu,
by the action* of
and baseball as
aloof from each
- a ball game af-
There are basic con-
1, In themselves, are
r atmospheric
w that a man
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the aim iff making a ball
not too ‘dead" and hot too lively.
Th* shock of the bat against the ball
dispels*-the air gradually and at the
■amt time cause* a molecular change
In the rubber to that a hall, after be-
ing betted hard, loses much of Its re-
silient power. Jbe disarranging of
the molecular force causes a ball i
which, to an outsider may seem a*
Arm and aolld a* ever, to become a
"mush,” dead and lifeless, and llksly
to alow the entire game If permitted
to remain tn play. The bats used are
almost all of second growth ash of the
finest and etraightsst grain, and
carefully dried. They are supposed to
retain their resilient qualities Indefi-
nitely, but after a month or two of
hard usage the hat no longer possesses
the "drive" necessary tor hard hit-
ting. Yet bats that have lost "life"
often will, arhen kept In storage a few
month*, recover their lost "ring" and
be as good as ever, although the see1
ond time they "die" more quickly.
This sense of feeling and hearing
among players Is n wonderful thing.
The object of each batter Is to "hit
It on the trad* mark” with that part
of his hat between four and six Inches
from the end. He does not express It
,>#*■ —a. hmt be aim* to hit the cen-
ftC HMMMI flf ftf i ~ tk*
ter of percussion of the bat—so he
says, "square on the nose." Th* cen-
ter of percuseion of th* bat varies ao-
cordlng to the grip of the batter's
hands, and It 1* the object of the
pitcher to force the hell to revolve so
as' to avoid meeting th* center of per-
cussion.
A ball weighing five and eight
ounces end with a circumference of
nine Inches, pitched at an approxi-
mate velocity of 280 feet a second
over a distance of <0 feet. Is struck
squarely upon the center of percus-
sion of a bat weighing 40 ounces and
swinging at a velocity of 1,260 feet
per second, will travel how far? Per-
haps the professor of physics can
figure it out, but If he does he is
wrong. He would have to know more
than these statistics before he could
make the correct calculation. He
should know the forearm strength of
the batter, the muscle leverage, the
meeting angle of hall and bat, the ro-
tary motion of the ball, the condition
of the atmosphere, direction of wind
and a few other things. It la much
easier to have Vean Gregg shoot up
a fast on*, let Larry Lajot* hit It, and
measure the distance, then to take a
post-graduate course and calculate It.
Bvery 'ball that le pitched, or
thrown, or betted has some rotary or
oscillatory movement mil Its own fur-
ther to e«/3i?Hebta attempt* to Solve
problems in baseball phyalcs. The
ball has a wonderful ability to ab-
sorb and retain motion no matter how
Imparted. The spit ball, which was
so fully and exhaustively treated hi
the lectures of my friend the pro-
fessor that I expect to see about 120
Walehee graduate from hie school In
the next two years, is the result of
skillful applying of an unnatural force
to counteract the natural rotation of
the ball. The professor disputes this.
Possibly he does not know that a ball,
gripped With the thumb ind two
fingere, and thrown directly over-
hand, has a natural tendency to ro-
ute m^ftrd and “hop,” ns the pitch-
era 'tauflr All good fast bail* rotat
log tlSrway take a sudden jump in
the air. The spit ball pitcher wets
the surface of the ball, grip* the low-
er side tightly with his thumb, lets
tbe ball slide off the fingers. The ef-
fect is that two conflicting^.forces
cause the ball to “wobble" for a dis-
tance, and then, yielding to the Influ-
ence of the thumb pressure and the
attraction of gravity, It darts down-
ward. When a ball thus pitched Is
hit It still refuses to surrender Its In-
clination to rotate, it starts toward
the Infield with two forces still
struggling for mastery^ Bach time the
ball touches the earth" It Ukes a dlf-
wttb a pneu-
the rifling In the barrel ol
ve It heavy rotation In any
it was merely an
curve. Wo shot
pounds of pressure, mak
letlmes a hundred
feet. Putting the up curve motion on
the ball (which always tends to curve
In the direction of 1U roUtion), w*
aimed the gun fit a target exactly o*
a straight line, and th* ball, going
straight for perhaps a hundred feet,
suddenly seemed to slacken speed,
then It leaped upward and roe* at
a terrific rate until It passed over the
cross bar of the flag-pole In the cen-
ter field, 70 feet above the ground.
Yet tbe bell was not disobeying th*
laws of pbyeles, rather proving them.
In Its terrific speed it hed encounter-
ed an air billow which It could not
penetrate, and It had bounced off ’hts
denser bunch of air and rolled up-
ward.
One would think that if a baseball
Is hit Into tbe atr Is will follow a ball-
istic curve In ratio to the angle of
ascension reduced by the amount of
air pressure, physles says It should.
It will not, and no man can draw the
ballistic curve that any fly balTwUl
theory
and doubled the feet. Bvery
curve, shoot, "book," "fadeaway,'’ and
slow ball depend* upon the,same prin-
ciples. revolutlou and air pressure. Th*
way a ball curves depends upon th*
force with which It is thrown and th*
amount of rotation. It* direction de-
pends upon the amount of friction ap-
plied by the Angers to a given point oil
the surface of the ball. The ball al
ways curves in the direction of th*
heaviest friction applied by the hand,
and away from the heaviest elr
friction. The curve increases in the
ratio of th* amount of its revolu-
tion.
Perhaps the most frequent question
asked of e baseball writer la, “How
far can a ball be made to curve?"
Of course they mean by a normal
pitcher not using mechanical assist-
ance. I never have been able to And
the limit of the curve, nor, indeed, to
calculate the curve accurately, al-
though I have made some experi-
ments. 1 refer to th* actual curve of
the hall due to It* rotary motion and
air resistance. I do not think that
the real curve of the ball In 56 feet
(distance from the pitcher’s hand
when he releases (he ball, to the home
plate) can be mOTe than 20 Inches.
projectile In theory, Is gained by an
angle of 46 degrees: Military authori-
ties know that, owing to air resist-
ance, the greatest distance ts attain-
ed at an angle just under 40 degrees.
Having both the theory and the prac-
tice, therefore, ball players to make
home runs should bit the ball al ar
angle of 40 degree* minus. One
46
:
mmm
Clerks OriflHH.
a baseball 260 feet on
ground*. New York, on a
m day, can throw the same
set 400 feet on th* Denver
: the physics of baseball
sc* with the chief lmple-
and ball,
of a small core,
i heavy layer of highly treated
then wonnd with two
i yarn, over which la a
> which Is a horse-
i ball Is seml-pneum&t-
and tbe glue upon
Is pasted tending to
even of a
In tbe thickness
i the ball so fast
sd. The
I for years to get
» proper pitch of
finally to have
follow. The greatest range of auf 1 have heard ball players declare the
John Kllng.
Prank Baker's world's series home
runs was near that angle, the other
scarcely 20 degrees, It went farther.
As a matter of fact, even, If a ball-
player could hit a ball at any desired
angle, he could not be certain where
It would go. It would depend too much
upon the rotary motion of the ball.
Last summer I saw a hard line hit
driven straight at Charlie Herzog of
the Giants. He. put up his hands to
catch the ball, then suddenly threw
his head aside Just In time to avoid
being hit in the face, the ball missing
his hands by two feet. Tbe ball had
“shot" suddenly from its true path.
In a game between Washington and
Chicago late last fall, Walter Johnson
hit a ball at an angle of cloae to 40
degrees, and with terrific force. I
should estimate that It waa nearly 90
feet high, at lta greatest elevation.
Had it followed the true ballistic
curve, It would have pasted over the
center field' fence. The ball sudden-
ly stopped, started to drop straight
downward, then caught In another
current of air, and Bodle, who was
running after the ball, overtook It com-
ing toward him, as If the batter had
hit It from center field. Under condi-
tions such as these a study ot aero-
nautics would help players more than
phyBlcs would.
The outfielder who "gets the Jump"
on the ball at the crack of the bat
figured" Its trajectory at a glance,
sprints desperately outward and turns
exactly upon the spot where the ball
will alight, then catches it, has all
the calculations ever devised beaten.
Physics assumes that balls, thrown
with equal force, following the same
angle of projection over the same
range, will be alike. I never doubted
It until 1 practiced at second base with
Malachl Klttrldge and the lamented
Tim Donohue throwing the ball down
baH curves from six Inches to five
feet. 1, tried it once w,ith Orval Over-
all, who bed, I believe, the most
sweeping and widest fast curve ball
I ever saw.
We placed 12 big sheets of tissue
pap^r between slats, 8 of them at
Intervals dYfer the first 15 feet
id-Tront STVke plate, ttib-cest scatter-
ed at wider intervals until the last
one was 6 feet in front of the pitchers
slab, and, to my surprise, his band
struck the paper as the bjiu re-
leased, proving the actual distance
—of the pitch is much shorter than
usually supposed. Of course Over-
all’s reach was much greater than
th# average, but I do not think the act-
ual pitching distance, from hand to
plate. Is more than 66 feet.
Overall pitched bis wide overhand
curve. The ball entered the first
sheet four feet to the right of th*
string, which was placed through th*
center of the two plates at a height of
five feet, and almost six feet above the
ground (be was pitching off a slight
elevation). His hand hit the papei
and tore a hole a foot lower, showing
he had released the ball before hli
arm reached the extreme limit of Its
swing. The ball went through the sec-
ond sheet, which was 10 feet from the
first just four Inches lower than
through the first, and a little over
two and a half feet from the right of
the line. It was less than a foot from
the line when it strlicjc the first of the
eight sheets placed'"Cu>sely together in
front of the plate, and it tore through
the next one a trifle higher. Then It
began its true curve. Nine feet In
front of the plate It "broke” and shot
downward and outward and crossed
the sheet at the home plate ten Inches
above the ground and nearly twelve
inches to the "outside" (that Is,, for a
right-handed batter) of the center of
the plate. The ball had dropped five
feet two Inches downward, through the
force ot gravity, the angle at which It
was pitched and the curve, and had
angled and curved practically five feet.
The closeet calculation we could make
was that the ball actually curved, as
«• result of its rotary motion, approxi-
mately 17 inches.
The air resistance, which was dis-
puted at Tyng’s experiments, has. of
course, became a known facter with
the study of the science of aeronaut-
ics. The amount of resistance can
be computed closely by the use of the
barometer. The ball curves in the di-
rection In which it revolves. The
amount of the curve depends upon the
ferent English. The Inflelder aoooee to m. B*»ohua throw •«*«, *Hfl
' - ‘ ’ seemed harder, yet the ball came Into
the hands as lightly as If tossed. Kltt-
ridge’s thrown ball came more slowly,
but It Jarred and bruised the hands.
This peculiarity of throwers is un-
derstood well by players, and one of
the first Inquiries concerning a new
player Is whether he throws a light
or a heavy hall which r««wr» ttr tHe
striklng force of the ball, and not Its
weight A ball revolving naturally,
and thrown over the finger tips, as a
fast ball Is thrown, has a tendency to
lift, is light. One that loses Its ro-
tary motion, and oscillates rather than
rotates, 1s “dead" and heavy. Every
player throws a different kind of ball,
the variations depending upon the size
of the hands, the length of the fingers
and the manner Of holding the hall.
The man who knew enough about
th* ball and throws. If he clutches
the hall hard enough to kill all mo-
tion. all la well;_If he aelzSs It llxht-
ly A* muin with tne same motion
tbe ball takas fresh and renewed Bng-
Uah as It leaves his hand and is more
likely to shoot out of reach of the
bataman toward whom he throws.
The pitched hall, manipulated so aa
to revolve una»*»raily, takes
Hah" In the air just as a billiard ball
does against cloth and cushion. Many
persons have told me that the atmos-
phere on a still day offers practically
a uniform resistance to a projectile.
It does not. We know now that the
air la filled with eddies, currents and
pockets, even on the calmest ot days.
But admitting tfiat It la uniform In
density, a ball does not' follow the
physical law o? constant decrease In
speed in ratio to the resistance of the
air. It even la capable of accelerated
motion, and ot both In the same 60-
feet. That Is, a ball may he made to
slow np and then resume a taster
rate of speed. The professor of phys-
ics doubts this, yet it is a fact that
any experienced ball player will vouch
for. They have seen a ball seem to
hesitate, and then proceed at an ac-
celerated gait. . It may sound impossi-
ble but at soma spot In the path
of every spit ball, slow ball or knuckle
ball, It suddenly changes pace.
physics, and'also about baaeball. could
fill a book oirtthe physics of pitching.
It Is simple, while seeming complex.
It was not to very long ago that
Tyng. the Harvard pitcher, developed
a curve ball that*started a protract-
ed argument which finally resulted tn
a group of learned professors gath-
ering to decide whether x ball actual-
ly could be made to curve In tbe air.
The professors who doubted the pos-
sibility ot a ball curving based tfieir
doubt* upon the alleged lnsufflclency
of air resistance. They admitted the
Christy Mathewson.
rate of rotation and the weight of air.
The 'entire science, of pttebing con-
sists 1q the deft application of frio-
tion upon some point of the bail which
makes it rotate in a certain direction,
or, which counteracts Its natural ro-
tation and cause It to ’’wabble’* or
float with little revolving motion. The
slow balls, fadeaways,t knuckle balls,
all have as their object the preven-
tion of rotary motion, or to give false
rotary motion of “reverse English.”
The ball that presents the most air
surface to the resistance of the at-
mosphere slowa up quickest and yields
more rapidly to gravitation. The one
that spina oftenest (not, necessarily
fastest) curves most ''"
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need aot aek for ''aUmoay" from hi*
WlfA
This earn* about through tbe recit-
al of Mrs. Tharp* that eh* bad eup-
4 tor II year*, be
la hare**." fib*
af
mony, stipulating only that tbe
•hquld not be disturbed la th* us*
of a room la a bouse owned by
her busbaad where she had a ma-
chtne sad earned her living as a seem
This was also Inserted In th*
liome dli
that whenever hie wife disearded her
gowns for good they should be turned
over to him. He was called a "tight
fisted" man by thoaa who mildly dis-
liked him, and
miser" by on t and-out eaemte*. He
"I Know of One Argumerit Which Will Convince the Average Man; Bur-
glary Doesn't Psy^
PASSING OF HIE
“Frenchy” Rooney Reviews His
Career and Tells Why He Be-
came a Burglar.
By WILLIAM ("FRENCHY")
ROONEY.
New York.—I have been a burglar
ever since 1 was fourteen years old,
and I know the business from top to
bottom. There isn't a genuine pro-
feslonal in the country that I am not
acquainted with, and at some time or
other I have not worked side bp side
with the most of them.
Until 20 years ago burglary was
a pretty good business; that is, so
far as any kind of crookedness can be
good business. In the last few years,
however, a whole lot of things have
happened. People have begun keep-
ing their valuables In safe deposit
vaults. There have been some big Im-
provements In police methods. Most
ot all, the general public has come to
pay some attention to criminals in-
stead of Just sending them to prison,
where they are bound to get worse In-
stead of better. The result has been
that burglary as a trade has grown
less and less profitable and the young
fellows, instead of starting into it,
have either turned straight or
gone into some siller kind of crooked
work.
I think I am right in saying that
nine-tenths of the professional bur-
glars alive today are old-timer^ like
myself. We got our training in the
dayB when people kept the bank ac-
count under the bed. We used to have
some pretty soft pickings, all right,
and if things were still as easy as they
were then I den t think all the po-
lice and prison reform In the world
would do any good. But times have
changed and the profits aren't big
enough any more to attract the kind
of men wbo turn their work into a
profession.
1 don’t say all the present-day Jobs
are pulled off by old-timers. There's
a lot of work done now, just as there
was 20 years ago, by kids. The
difference is that under the old condi-
tions the kids generally turned into
professionals, while, as things go now,
they get caught after a Job or two.
and when they’ve done a lltle stretch
In atato prison either reform or get
«ui« line of work that pays
better and costa less.
......You can take my own case, for in-
stance. I was a fourteen-year-old kid,
peddling papers on the street, when
"Red” Leary picked me up and taught
m$ the business. You wouldn’t see
anything like that happening now.
The juvenile docletles would get busy
and queer the game before it got
started. If there'd been a Juvenile
society 40 years ago 1 might have
been saved a whole lot of trouble. As
It was, I learned tbe business under
one of th* best professionals In the
country, and when 1 was eighteen
year* old knew enough about It to
start out on my own hook.
Even then it things had been the
way they are now 1 might have turned
straight I didn't have wbat you
would call the criminal instinct I
was a pretty bright kid with a quick
mind, lots of health and a knack of
making friends. 1 didn't have any
more bad habits than the average boy.
I liked to wear good clothes and chase
around with the girls, hut I didn't
hav* any desire for drink and thing*
along that line. 1 came of honest
hard-working parents, and the chances
ar* that with half a show I'd hav*
tur..ed out the same way myself. The
actual business of stealing didn't
make any hit with me; I knew it was
wrong and that there couldn’t any
good come of It Right here I want
to say that I feel the same way about
stealing today, although I have been
a thief all my life, and If 1 got out of
prison would probably be one again.
It wasn’t the wish to do wrong that
made me a Crook. It was just that
I wanted money and burglary looked
like the easiest way of getting it
It was easy, too. The first trick I
turned alone netted me $450, and at
that I only got about a third of the
real value of my haul, owing to the
fact that I did not know any reliable
fence and had to dispose of my stuff
to a pawnbroker. I then tied up with
a couple of experts named “Chuck”
Sullivan and Jim Rice—both dead now
—and we toured the country together,
averaging $200 or $300 each a week.
No professionals alive could do that
now let alone a kid just starting In at
the business. When we got Into a
house all we had to do was to locate
the place were they kept the jewelry
and we were ready to beat It with a
good profit That wouldn’t work now,
because most people who have valu-
able jewelry keep it in the safe de-
posit vault. But It worked then,
and for six years I made money as
easy as though I were picking It up
out of the street.
In 1883 I dropped for my first ex-
perience in prison. I had got Into a
house in New York city, and while
going through It was surprised by the
return of the owners. There were two
men. I put up the biggest flg>tpf my
life, but they got me. I pleaded guilty
to a charge of burglary, and was sen-
tenced to Elmira reformatory. I want
to say right here that it would have
been better for myself and better for
the community if I had been sen-
tenced to die. Any reform I had in
me was soon taken out. The reforma-
tory is still bad, but In those days it
was simply a school of crime.
It’s a funny thing, when I stop
to think of any of the fellows I’ve
worked with. It's fifty to one that I
met them in prison. Two months after
I got out of Elmira I was working
with the former Lew Warner, who
while I was behind the bars had
coached me for the examinations
.which I had to take before I could get
my parole', For years afterward I
kept remeeting old prison mates, and
'on at least two occasions when 1 had
determined to turn over a new leaf it
was these meetings which put me
back where 1 had started. Nearly all
my pals have been men I have met in
Elmira, Sing Sing or Dsnnetnora—not
the people I have become acquainted
with on the outside.
“It will be this way, 1 suppose, just
as long as prisons exist Only those
who are acquainted with sujL condi-
tions can realize the advantages of the
present system of paroling first of-
fenders. Any way I look at it the state
was fooljsh to send me to Elmira. It
dldn t Impress me with the majesty of
the law, because I got out by a trick,
just as lots of others do. Lew Warner
not only coached me for my examina-
tions but framed it up with a friend
on the outside—a fence—to vouch for
my future good behavior. It was a
careful frame-up and It worked. It’s
just as well that It did. because the
reformatory wasn’t teaching me any-
thing but bad. There were official
abuses, just as there are and always
must be in all prisons, and these made
me hate society.
Now, I had been a thief for a good
many years, but I had never before
felt It was justified. After my re-
formatory term I always excused my-
self with the thought that I was get-
ting back at society. My three bits in
Sing Sing and Dannemora—I have
spent about 15 years In prison
altogether—served to strengthen this
feeling. Experience has taught me
that 99 out of every 100 professionals
feel the same way.
Ac y one can see that this Is a bad
thing. The recent prison reforms have
done a good deal to remedy It, but It
can never bo made completely right
until things are fixed so that every
prisoner will feel he 1* getting a
square d^l. 1 don’t mean by this that
he ought to be given feather beds and
porterhouse steak, but I do think that
he should be treated a little more like
a man. He ought to be paid, for In-
stance, at the rate of five or ten *<ents
a day for his labor, so he will have a
little money when he gets out. But
this Is a long subject and I will not
say any more about It Just heye. A
good deal has been done, and at any
rate conditions are a whole lot better
than they used to be. In proportion,
I think, to their future improvement
the number of professional criminals
will grow less.
About eight months after leaving
Elmira I invented the “gas inspector1
game. It was the best thing I ever
thought up. Under cover of wanting
to Inspect the meter I would size up
a house, and If It looked worth the
trouble, come back laier and go
through It If the opportunity was
good I sometimes did my work on the
spot. It was a good game ana made
me many thousands of dollars, but,
like all Buch things. It finally played
out I haven’t touched it for 15
or 20 years, but it was so good (hat 1
still read occasionally of some amar
teur using It with success.
This is a good point to Illustrate the
difference between the old-timer and
the modern burglar, so-called. The
old-timer, being a professional, turned
all his brains to his business. The re-
sult was that he invented new games.
The "burglar” of today, on the other
hand, doesn’t invent anything. He
simply plays the old games. As every-
body, even the police, knows them, he
gets nabbed.
1 made—and spent—a half-million
dollars In 30 years of burglary. If
1 were starting put today I would be
lucky to average the wages of a day
laborer. I know of one argument that
will convince the average man when
everything else fails. That argument,
so far as my experience goes, applies
in an abstract way to all forms of
crookedness; to burglary it applies
in terms of cash aa well.' It doesn t
pay.
CRIME AMONG THE ANIMALS
They Imitate All of the Many
etles of Human Wrong
Doings.
Vari-
It has recently been asserted by fol-
lowers of Lombroso, (he great special-
ist of criminals and their particular
brain processes, that every variety of
human wrong doing finds its counter-
part In the crime committed by ani-
mals, and birds, and Insects.
Among beeB, for instance, are found
frequent Instances of deliberate thssft.
These thieves of the hive In order to
save themeslves the trouble of work-
ing attack, the workers in masses,
kill them, rob the hives, and then
carry oft the booty. After they have
done that a few times they seem to
have developed a criminal taste and
form into large and formidable bandit
colonies that terrorize all peaceful,
hard-working and law-abiding mem-
bers of the bee family. Curiously
enough, it has been, proved that the
bellicose members may be produced
artificially by giving them honey and
brandy to drink. After a few doses of
the mixture they become irritable, dis-
inclined to work, and if the drink jjL^,
given to them for any length of time
they refuse absolutely to work and
when they become hungry, turn to
plunder and attack the well supplied
hives.
Owners of doves tell stories of how
in every dove cote there are birds
that are too lazy to gather materials
for their own nests, but will try by
every means to steal that which has
been gathered by their more energet-
ic companions.
We have also tbe word of a distin-
guished veterinary surg<A>n that in
every regiment of cavalry one can
find horses which rebel against all
discipline and let no opportunity es-
cape for doing harm to their own
kind. It is necessary, therefore, to
be always on guard and sometimes to
separate them from the others, as
they will steal their companion’s food
whenever opportunity presents. What
is perhaps the strangest of all is
that the skulls of such criminally In- 1
clined beasts have an abnormal for-
mation, the forehead being narrow and
retreating.
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On Modern Man.
. ‘The late Emerson Taylor, our con-
sol at Port of Spain,” said a Wash-
ington official, “bailed from Dry Run,
and he had a fund of happy Dry Run
humor. •,'
"Taylor once compared a disgruntled
brother consul to a Dry Run house-
wife.
"This woman, he said, often took a
queer, disgruntled view of things. Thus
she said one day:
“ T don’t think the prodigal son was
so bad, after all.’
“ ‘He wa’n’t no good to his family,1
said her husband.
“ ’That’s a fact,’ said the Dry Ron
woman, ‘but when he got home, all the
same, he knowed enough to keep his
mouth shet. If he'd been like the twen-
tieth century man, by crlnus, the first
thing he’d don,e would a-been to find
fault with the way the flatted calf wa*
cooked.’ ’’
Handing It Back,
en ar<
le man
hard
to become'Ynan’s equal.”
“Oh, I think you wrong us. All th*
women I know seem ambitious to g*
forward rather than backward.”
Strawberry Wla# Praieed.
Regarded medicinally, strawberry
win* Is bald to bs superior io grope
wine. Spanish doctor* who bare In-
ittsr report thnt
gives the greater
constitution
r-*--
■
.•ears
face by the roots, and especially 1*
this the case with the women. The
persistence in this practice through-
out generations resulted In th* weak-
ening and final destruction of theae
organ# In th* eUn which tend to pro-
thus accounting tor th* gen-
The modern separation
enment and virtue, ot
conscience, ot the
tocrecy from th* 7
crowd, is the i
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