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NO TALK BUT AMERICAN
TALK
This country is at war, and we are
going to win or know the reason why.
In the meanwhile, we haven’t any use
for any talk about the war that isn’t
straight American talk.
A few years ago the indignant citi
zens of a Western town took a few
of their neighbors out into the woods
and gave them each a coat of tar and
feathers. It was a rough way of do
ing justice, and not to be recommended
without qualifications, but the offense
was one that the law couldn’t reach,
or at least didn’t. Un-American as
well as anti-American talk should not
go unchallenged or unpunished, and
the loyal people of the Western town
apparently felt just that way about it.
Spies and traitors deserve only the
end in store for Rolo Pasha. L'tt what
shall we do with the talkers whose
offensiveness is just short of the point
where it becomes a case for the Gov
ernment to take action? Americans
have a duty in this matter. If they
shirk it. they show a lack, of patriot
ism. They should report the talkers
to the t iovernment. The least weapon
they can use themselves is ostracism.
They ought to make a neighborhood
or a club too hot to hold anybody
whose talk is other than straight
American.
SOME REVENGE ON THE
KNITTERS
There are a few touches of humor in
the countryside revival of knitting,
such as the over large hags and the
envious feminine group about (lie lady
who, with poe tised skill, deftly turns
the heel of a sock, hut behind it all is
a fine display of service. When you
see a sweater or muffler in process of
evolution it may interest you to know
that the work is being done just about
as it was when the art was in its in
fancy, I here have been great improve
ments in knitting machinery, however,
and the first of them was directly due
to a somewhat common malady tin
reciprocated love
The K«-v William l.eeof Cambridge
t,'diversify, so the story goes, was
deeply smitten with a maiden of his
native town, Woodboiniigh, Not ting
It k mm'
hamshire, but in spite of his ardent
wooing could make no impression. The
fair one calmly kept on with her knit
ting, then the common occupation of
English women.
In revenge the Rev. William swore
he'd invent a machine which would
destroy the market for hand work.
He kept his word, but Queen Eliza
beth refused to grant a patent and to
give her financial support because too
many of her subjects would be de
prived of their means of livelihood.
So the inventor took his machine to
Franee. This story may be entirely
fanciful, but in 158!) William Lee did
revolutionize hosiery making by pro
ducing the knitting frame, or stocking
frame. American names in the list of
those who have labored to perfect
knitting machinery are W. C. Gist, Al
met Reid and Griswold.
Knitting is not one of the oldest
arts, being much less ancient than
weaving. It is supposed to have been
invented in Scotland in the fifteenth
century, from which country it spread
to England and France, soon becom
ing an established domestic industry.
American women at work to-day on
sweaters and mufflers have an inspir
ing example for their war time occu
pation, Martha Washington. Two
Morristown women, dressed for a
high social occasion, called soon after
she joined the General at his head
quarters there. They found her,
plainly gowned, knitting as fast as
her needles would fly. She gained the
reputation of “an inveterate knitter,”
and every day except Sundays during
the dark winter at Valley Forge, she
gathered the officers’ wives and all
available women about her to knit
gloves and socks, patch garments and
make shirts for the heroes of the
Revolution.
THE BEVERAGE
Since Mr. Bryan, when Secretary of
State, served it at a dinner in place of
wine, grape juice has sometimes heen
referred to as the “national beverage.”
Now comes science to point out that
the nation might do much worse than
adopt the juice of the grape and the
orange as its steady drink.
The Journal of the American Medi
cal Association says that, in addition
to organic acids which lend a tart lla
vor to them, these beverages, provided
directly by natmc, coni,-tin a consider
able portion of sugars, which lend a
distinct and valuable food value to
the product Drink an ordinary glass
ful of grape juice and you will have
consumed “no calorics (heal units);
and orange juice is about ball as rich
in food values,
According lo the computation of
I’rofessot h’isliri and Dr. biske of the
l ife b stension Institute, v’tid calories
are vvliat you get in two small lamb
chops, two large eggs, a dish of baked
beans, two ounces of cheese, two or
dinary side dishes of sweet corn, two
large potatoes, two good thick slices
of bread or two shredded wheat bis
cuits, two thirds of an ordinary piece
of pie, two dozen peanuts, eight
prunes, four apples, two large bananas,
one canteloupe, half a glass of cream
or a whole glass of milk.
HE SHOULD WORRY!
Dr. E. I. Eliason, as reported in the
Journal of the American Medical As
sociation, operated on one J. S. J. S.
was prone to melancholia. Pate nts
taken that way have been known 10
contract odd appetites. J. S. had a
rigid bulge over the right upper quad
rant of his abdomen. “Gall-stones,”
decided Dr. Eliason; and operated—
removing 213.
And yet, much of the rigid bulge re
mained—in fact, as afterward discov
ered, three pounds of it, all contained
within the stomach and packed pretty
tightly in and against the right open
ing of that organ, which resembled a
bag containing stones, j. S. had vomi
ted a rusty brown fluid, which was ex
amined for blood and found negative.
What, then, was the nature and sub
stance of this anomaly? Opening the
stomach, 452 foreign bodies were
found: to wit, nails, pins, tacks,
spoons, hooks, glass, type, forks, keys,
etc. The printer’s type was wedged in
so tightly that it had to be pried apart
before it would come loose. The stom
ach thus emptied was sewed up and
the patient was returned to his bed in
the hospital ward.
So far as is known, J. S. is still
well and going strong. Which only
goes to show how much the human
system can stand.
ONLY ONE CAN DRESS WELL
“Her husband must have a big salary.”
“W'liat makes you think so?"
“The way she dresses."
"Well, go now and take a look at
the way her husband dresses, ami
you’ll change your mind"
HIS REFERENCE
"I sent Harry a lot of kisses by parcel
post."
"I guess Harry would rather have
them l>\ special delivery ”
HOW GERMANY DID IT
A I’niied States Senator, whose
knowledge of international atVairs <■>
unsurpassed h\ any othri man in ton
gress, was asked tins nuestion b\ the
,\ e
"How did Hrrmam put Russia out
of the war
here is the Senator’s answer
"l!\ telling Russian nacitists t.er
maitv’s army could not be beaten. ami