Announcement
Eye Specialists
Here
Few Days Only
At the Overland Hotel
Dr. H. A. Fach and Dr. W. J. Fredericksen,
eye specialists of Seattle, will examine eyes
and fit glasses here this week. Local pat
rons may be assured of the same service
available at the Seattle Office.
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Outdoor Sports In Brazil
Flourish Under Hot Sun
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 11.—(^>)—
South American soccer football vic
tories in Europe have not surprised
people who are acquainted with the
local development of athletics. Soccer,
or association football is as popular in
Brazil as baseball in the United States.
Every city and village has its teams,
composed of young men and boys, and
the children are always kicking balls
about. There is ample opportunity to
practice the game, as the official play
ing season is nine months in length,
the only exceptions being December,
January and February which are gen
erally too hot for contests.
The three leading football nations
in South America are; Uruguay. Brazil
and Argentina, with Uruguay leading
in the international championship
games.
Recent Brazilian victories in Paris
and the Uruguayan’s success at the
Olympic games last year are based on
the fact that the South Americans
play a faster game and take more or
less chances.
Rio de Janiero is said to have the
largest and best equipped private ath
letic club in South America. It is
located near the center of the city and
cost $3,000,000. A stadium seats
40,000 people. All branches of ath
letics are played by the members, foot
oall, basketball, tennis, volley ball,
water polo, swimming, shooting, ana
there are classes for boxing, fencing
and gymnastics.
BERLIN, May 11.—(/P)-The stabil
ization of money in Germany has
caused an inflation of love. The num
ber of manages has steadily in
creased since the rentenmark landed
on a firm basis in 1924, and is rapidly
approaching pre-war figures.
Prices of furniture are higher than
before the war, but since young cou
ples today know their money has a
stable value, they are willing to take
the plunge into matrimony which
looked too uncertain in the days when
their paper mcney was dropping every
hour.
England Lacks Its Quota
of Marriageable males
COWES, England, May 11.—(fi>)—
Many thousands of English girls
wish to marry, but because of the
shortage of men have not been able
to fulfill their desire, declared Dr.
A. T. Schofield, a well known Lon
don nerve specialist, lecturing in
Cowes recently on the question of
marriage. “There is no other place
in the world where such a state of
things exists,” he said.
Continuing Dr. Schofield asserted:
“It is unfortunate to find in a fam
ily in London, for instance, five or
six girls, every one of whom would
make a splendid wife and mother,
unable to marry for the want of leg
itimate opportunity.”
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WOMEN PERSISTENT
LOSERS BECAUSE
PAUCITY OF POCKETS
LOS ANGELES, May 11.—(£>)—
Women are persistent losers; they
drop, mislay or walk off and leave
purses and parcels with a frequency
ten times as great as men, says Al
fred T. Clothier, custodian of the
lost and found department of the
Los Angeles street railway and stud
ent of the losing habits of mankind.
Nine out of ten lost articles re
turned to their owners through his
department turn out to have been
lost by women, Clothier relates. His
i theory is that women lose more than
men because they have fewer pock
ets, but he admits he has not yet
discovered why mothers will get off
| street cars with their babies and
leave baby buggies behind.
Men make more fuss over what
[they lose, however, than do women,
according to records of the lost and
found bureau. An outstanding case
wTas the man who lost his false
teeth and would not be consoled un
til he recalled that (‘if they don’t fit
the finder any better than they did
me, they won’t do him much good.”
Traveling bags and suitcases left
on street cars frequently contain puz
zling combinations of articles, Cloth
ier says. One recently found, be
longing to a woman, contained two
dainty silk undergarments, a long
sharp butcher knife and a pearl
necklace. Another, the property of
a man, held a pair of rubber boots
with $4,750 in currency stuffed in
the toes, a bottle of whisky and a
suit of athletic underwear.
One of the most unpleasant finds
reported was a box containing a live
rattlesnake boasting thirteen rattles.
It -was claimed by an Arizonan who
said he had brought it here to be
stuffed. Another parcel contained
half a man’s head. A student of
anatomy was taking it home under
his arm for further study, but left
it on the seat when the conductor
called his street.
London Diners Now May
Dance in Restaurants
LONDON, May 11.—(£>)—Menus
have been set to music in London.
Restauranters have taken this step
in an effort to keep pace with the
dancing craze, and at the same time
keep the pots in the kitchens boiling.
Dancing between courses, it is main
tained, whets the appetite and tones
up the system, this being the con
enion years ago of Barbary Coast
dance hall managers in San Fran
cisco, where the idea of a whirl on
the hard-woods after each dish is
said to have originated.
The menus are so arranged with
the music in some of the popular
i London cafes that the liners may en
joy one course after another with
out skipping a single blast of the
saxophone which gives them the sig
nal to take the dancing floor.
Court Balks When Asked
to Prohibit Woman Talking
LOS ANGELES, May 11—(/P)—Wo
man’s right to talk not only was up
held, but the generally admitted im
posibility of restraining her from
indulging in speech was legally recog
nized recently by Judge Walter Gates
in Superior Court.
Robert B. Stacy-Judd, a prominent
young architect, sought an injunction
to restrain his wife from talking about
him. After hearing the arguments,
Judge Gates remarked that some of
the things said had been “indeed a
bit catty,” but he candidly admitted
that he thought no court possessed
sufficient power to stop a woman from
talking.
PRINCE EITEL NOW A FARMER
POTSDAM, May 11.—tyPl—Eitel
Friedrich, second son of ex-Emperor
William 11, calls himself farmer in
the new city directory of Potsdam.
He omits the long list of military
and Hereditary titles which the Ho
henzolierns have thus far added to
their names in the city and telephone
directories. The designation of prince
is part of his name under pcs: rev
olutionary German law, and not a ti
tle.
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THREE YEAR PROGRAM
OF ECLIPSES MADE BY
U. S. NAVAL SCIENTISTS
WASHINGTON, D. May 11.—
(/P)—Prolonged study of the vagaries
of the sun and moon has enabled sci
| entists of the United States Naval
Observatory here to work out their
eclipses tor the next three years.
Under the direction of Captain W.
S. Eichelberger, U. S. N., they now
are starting on the 1929 eclipses.
An annular eclipse of the sun—an
| eclipse where the rim of the sun
! shows outside of the eclipsed area—
is forecast for July 20-21, this year,
but will be invisible in the United
States. A partial eclipse of the moon j
is due August 4, being more or less I
visible in the eastern states and
wholly visible on the Pacific coast.
i \
There will be no eclipse of the
moon next year but there will be a
total eclipse of the sun on January
14, 1926. It will be visible only
from Africa to the Indian Ocean, and
the naval observatory will send a
party from here to Sumatra to ob
serve it. An annular eclipse of the
sun will be visible July 9-10, 1926, in
the central Pacific Ocean, and as a
partial in northern Australia, the
eastern edge of Asia, the United
States and Mexico.
In 1927, there will be five eclipses
—three of the sun and two of the
moon. Seven eclipses in a year is the
maximum, five of the sun and two of
the moon, and the least number in a
twelve month is two, both of the sun,
as will be the case in 1926.
An annular solar eclipse, visible
in the southern Pacific, will occur
January 3, 1927. A total of the moon,
June 15, will be visible in the At
lantic Ocean, North America, ex
cept the northern border, South Am
erica and the Pacific Ocean. A total
of the sun, June 29, will be visible
in Europe, appearing as a near-total
at Nome, Alaska. Another total of
the moon in 1927 will take place De
cember 8, visible generally in the
Pacific Ocean and in the northern
part of North America. A partial
eclipse of the sun will occur on De
cember 24.
Another heavenly phenomenon will
be seen in 1927 in the transit of Mer
cury, which will appear as a dot on
the sun. On November 10 the trans
it will take place, visible generally
in the Pacific Ocean, Australia and
Asia, except in the northern and
western portions. It will be visible
at Honolulu, Manila and Samoa.
In 1928 three of the sun and two
of the moon will be the order of
eclipses. Captain Eichelberger con
siders that the total solar eclipse
of May 19, that year, will be a curi
ous one, only part of the resulting
shadow falling on the earth, appear
ing as a piece on the south of Afri
ca, and the southern part of South
America. A total of the moon, June
3, will be visible in thewestern parts
of North and South America, the Pa
cific Ocean, Australia and the east
ern border of Asia. Partial solar
eclipses will occur June 17 and No
vember 27, visible in the western
hemisphere.
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