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CAPTURING THE WILD DUCA
| Clever Scheme of the Ghla.ee* Xg Suc
cessful Among the Wary
Water Fowl.
A full-grown wild duck tfe om of the
most wary of all wild creatures. A wa
terman may be working all day long
with shovel and pickax, says the anthg*
of “Bird Life and Lore,” barely a stone**
throw from a large flock of widgeon *u4
wild ducks, and they will not notice him
for they know that he means them ag
harm. But let a sportsman enter th*
meadows and hide his gun ever so care
fully, and make himself ever so small.
It is ten to .one that they will Mae in *
cloud when he is some four gunshota
away from them, and take themselvst
off to a place of greater safety.
There is one method of taking wilt
ducks in considerable numbers, pra*
tlced in China and in. some other cpu&
tries, which is so amusing and so little
known as to deserve notice.
The natives take care that a large
number of big calabashes, or gourds,
should always be left floating on the wa
ter frequented by the birds, till they
get to regard them as part and parcel
of their resorts. The duck-hunter
chooses his time, and, putting one of the
calabashes, with holes cut for his
mouth and eye3, upon his head, he
wades through the lake, taking care to
keep the whole of his body well be
neath the surface. He cautiously ap
proaches the unsuspecting wild fowl,
and, catching one of them by the leg,
pulls him, with a sudden jerk, beneath
the water, causing hardly more commo
tion of the surface than the duck itself
often makes when it dives, or plashes,
©r plunges for its food. He wrings its
neck under the water and fastens It to
his belt. Then he deals with another
and another in the same fashion, till he
makes his retreat, equally unnoticed,
with a whole girdleful of captured wild
ducks round his waist
SOFT-EYED MEN OF PACIFIC
j —————
Loochoo Islanders Who Possess Host
Winning and Remark
able Optics.
A woman traveler who lately visited
the Loochoo islands, in the Pacific, de
scribes her first impressions in the
North China Herald. The first thiog
that struck her on landing was the fact
that the coolies who tumbled lazily
aboard her ship were “very much addict
ed to the use of hats, and very little to
the use of any other clothing.” She
continues: “I can best describe the
hats by an exclamation of one of out
party, ‘What beautiful waste paper
ba. ts they’d make!’ These hats were
fastened on with loops of thick, brown,
hairy palm rope, through which were
passed cotton strings tied under the
chin. Every man’s face was ornament
ed with a thin, brownish black beard
and mustache, and it was often hard to
tell where the beard left off and the
hairy rope began. Wisps of unkempt
hair also straggled about the neck, giv
ing to the man the look of some savage
creature. Taking in these details, my
eyes came at last to the eyes of these
seemingly wild savages, aDd lo! I
looked into large, soft, black eyes, so
wide apart, like those of the ruminating
animals. And in their depths lurked a
good-natured smile) just waiting to an
swer one from me. I never got used to
the incongruous effect of those gentle
eyes and that fierce beard on each
other.”
COLLEGE GIRL AS MOTHER
Collection of Baby Pictures Shows
Conclusive Evidence of
Fitness.
An instructor at Vassar college has an
odd and interesting collection of photo
graphs—the photographs of the babies
of young women who are college gradu
ates, says an exchange, are strong and
beautiful. They number over 300. The
instructor said of them:
“I began to collect pictures of the
children of female A. B.’s and A. M.’s
because I had heard so much talk about
the higher education unfitting woman
for her natural sphere, and so on.
“My collection proves that the high
er education maites motners or an ex
cellece hitherto unknowg. Highly edu
cated womeif don’t weaken themselves
with tight corsets, with overmuch danc
ing and card playing. They are athletic
and strong. Their bodies as well as
their minds are developed.
“They enter upon the duties of moth
erhood with 4 unique courage and wis
dom and strength, and the result is that
their babies are the biggest, strongest,
handsomest little creatures—”
She pointed toward the 300 photo
graphs.
“But just look at those pictures,’’ she
crlsd. “Just look at them.”
Cento Books. •
“This volume,” said the bibliophile,
“is a cento. It is composed of de
tached sentences taken from the wonts
of Thackery. It makes a novel, sen
sible, but short, and it was composed
in seven years by a bed-ridden baron
ess. The best, known cento is probably
the Empress Eudozie’s ‘Life of Christ,’
made entirely of lines from Homer.
There is a similar life composed by
Ross, that consists wholly of detached
lines from Virgil. Centos are often
very valuable. One compiled by Alex
ander Hamilton from Milton’s ‘Para
dise Lost’ sold not long since for $500.
The book was a history of America.”
Placing the Blame.
“But," the young housekeeper pro
ested, “the milk is sour.”
“Yes’m,” replied the honest milk
man; “it’s' shameful how laxy them
farmers is gettln’. Ye see, ma’am,
1 they’ve been oversleepin’ thelraelves
; lately and before they git their cows
milked the stuff turns.”—Philadelphia
Press
/
NEW NORTH POLE HUNTER
“Musher” Will Be There the First
When a Gold Stampede
Is Started.
There is a popular belief in the ex
treme northwest that the north pole
will be discovered by a musher, and net
by any scientific polar expedition, says
the Sunset Magazine. This belief is
based on the conviction that a gold
(stampede will eventually be started
toward north latitude 90 degrees, and
that the mushers will rush in wherd
arctic explorers hays feared to. tread.
So completely unknown to fame is this
newcomer in the race for the pole that
to the majority of people the name sag.
gests nothing but cereal breakfast food.
Gilbert Parker, the novelist, whs
finds his most congenial theme ts
French-Candlan life, has made his read
ers familiar with “Marche-t'-en!” tha
cry with which drivers of dog teams
urge forward their panting animals.
French-Canadian trappers were among
the earliest white men in the far north
west, and American prospectors on the
Yukon soon learned to goad their dogs
on with the same cry, without, however,
understanding the French, which, in
their mouths, was rapidly corrupted to
"Muchon!” to this day an Alaska dog
driver’s equivalent for "Gee up!”
Dog drivers generally rush with tha
team and therefore from “Mush-on” has
come the noun musher, used all over
Alaska and the Yukon territory to des
ignate a trailsman. The musher is gen
erally prospector, stampeder and trails
man all rolled into one, and Alaska trails
are such uncertain quantities that ha
has frequently to make his own prece
dents over newly frozen sea and track
less snow. The musher achieves most
of his stampeding to new gold fields dur
ing the arctic winter, for then the rigid
sea becomes a highway and mighty
rivers need no bridging.
RAVAGES OF THE SOUVENIR
What Was Once a Harmless Fad Ha*
Become Almost a Univer
sal Mania1.
The vogue of the illustrated souvenir
postal card has assumed the dimensions
of a literary peril. What was once ■
harmless fad confined to more or less ec
centric visitors in out-of-the-way placeq
has become all but a universal mania.
saVs the New York Post. The Boston
post office reports handling 25,000 of
these yellow imps in a single day. The
so-called comic valentine once tainted
the postman’s bag. Its influence, how
ever, lasted but for a day, while the sou
venir postal card ceaseth cot day cor
night to cry for a destroyer.
From the point of view of growing
popularity these postal cards but evi
dence anew the danger with which
modern mechanism is continually en
compassing the other handicraft arts.
The printed book has driven out illus
trated missal. “The quarter-sawed oak"
of Kalamazoo has displaced Chippen
dale and Sheraton. And at last the illus
trated postal, with cheap ready-made
sentiment and chromo lithograph
threatens the letter of friendship, travel
and description. The residuary field of
the epistolary art was long supposed to
be safe from the inroads of the printing
press. Political intelligence such as
fills Horace Walpole’s six stout vol
umes of private letters has for over a
century been disseminated in the news
papers. Scientific news has long sines
found similar media of publicity. But
the intimate unbosoming of friend to
friend at a distance has held at bayy all
the devices of modern machinery unti'
the advent of this substitute for a real
SPEAKING WITH EMPHASIS.
Calisthenics Accompany the Words
of Neapolitans When Dis
cussing Weather.
“Give a Neapolitan a pair of dumb
bells and ask him if he thinks it is like
ly to rain, and before his answer is
finished he will have taken enough
healthful exercise to last him all day.’1
Once, says the London Clarion, a trav
eler sat with'a friend in a cafe at
Naples. Near them were two Italians
engaged in conversation. The younger
of the two seemed much excited.
With his hands he made reaching and
clinging motions, as if climbing. Then
he seemed to be groping for cherries in
the air, as he reached right and left
above his head. Next, without slacken
ing his conversation, he put the thumb
and forefinger of his left hand together,
and holding them before his eyes, went
through the careful movements of one
threading a small needle, and all the
time he talked.
Suddenly his manner changed. He
made overhand motions, as if throwing
something. Then he apparently imitated
a swimmer, and immediately afterward
described several circles with his left
hand, giving the impression of a rapid
ly revolving wheel.
Finally he leaned forward, and with
his right hand acted the part of a per
son endeavoring to put a key into a key
hole.
The traveler was overcome by curios
ity. He turned to his friend, who un
derstood Italian, and asked him what
the plot of the story was.
“Oh. nothing,” replied the other.
“They’re chatting about the weather.”
A Kindred Job.
"Met Scribblerus the other day; say*
he is going to give up writing poetry
and go into the gas business.”
“Not such a great change; he never
could manage to make his meter work
right.”—Baltimore American.
The Usual Type.
Young Playwright—How do you Ilka
my melodrama?
Manager Fiasco—Most realistic—es
pecially the burglars. Even their dia
logue is stolen, isn’t itl—N. Y. Times.
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COLLEGE GIRLS GROW FAT
Soon After Entering the “Ereshiee*
They Begin to Acquire
Plumpness.
“In a couple of months from sow,”
said a woman who was matron at a
women’s college for several years,
“there will be a flood of letters from
girl freshmen to their mothers, all
containing one complaint: 'I’m grow
ing so fat that my clothes won’t flit
me.’ And the mothers will worry and
fret, and wardrobes, will be sent home
to be let out
“Freshmen at the women’s college
always grow very plump, and they
astonish their fMends and relatives
when they go home on their first vaca
tion by the amount of flesh they have
put on. And it Is all due, I betieve,
to the healthy, normal life that a girl
leads at eollege.
“The food is always palatable, nour
ishing, and of the best, and even the
most finicky maiden learns^ to eat
everything. I have seen girls who
entered college with the idea that they
could get nothing but the white meat
of Chicken and lemon ice, contentedly
eating fried veal and onions a few
weeks later.
“And these meals are always served
at a regular time, and with plenty
of lively conversation to make them
digest easily. Let me say right here,
too, that the popular notion that col
lege girls have midnight spreads of
:ndigestibles is a wrong one. Such
things belong to a boarding school, but
not to a women’s college.
“Then there are' regular hours foi
retiring. Lights must be out at ter
o’clock, and that means eight hour,
of good, healthful sleep. The out
door life also contributes to the plump
ness of the girls.
“College girls stay indoors only
when they have to, and plenty of fresh
air makes th$n strong aad muscular.
The gymnasium 1b another factor. Its
purposes is to develop a girl physical
ly, and each freshman is examined
that she may get the exercise she most
needs.
“Under all these conditions the
freshmen rapidly grow plump and rosy
and this plumpness they rarely lose
during their college course. Even the
thinnest girl finds Bhe can wear a
decollete evening gown after she has
been at college three months, and the
fat girls find their superfluous flesh
turning into hard, firm muscle.
“And one thing more. College girls
are always happy, and every woman
grows fat when she is happy.”
THE JEWISH PHYSICIAN.
Members of the Medical Profession
in History Who Belonged to
That Race.
An interesting survey or Jews as
members of our profession is to be ob
tained from a little work entitled
“Judische Aerzte und ihr Elnfluss auf
das Judentum,” which, Says the Med
ical Record, has been issued by Dr.
Simon Scherbel. One of the most
prominent of the earlier personages
mentioned is Chasdai, who became a
minister under the Calif Abdul-Rah
man III., and did much to establish
the position of the Jews among the
Moslems in Spain during the tenth cen
tury, as well as to foster the study of
the Talmud in that country. Jehuda
Halevi, who lived 100 years later, was
a busy physician who was also the
author of distinguished practical and
philosophical works. The great
Maimonides of Cordova is included
among the list of physicians by the
author, who says that he created what
is almost a new Talmud, and alleges
that Richard Coeur de Leon wished to
make him his court physician, in spite
of the edicts of Popes Eugenius, Nich
olas and Calixtu^ that Christians
ehould not employ Jewish physicians.
In Spain many years before they were
practically the only practitioners of
medicine. Somewhat later Pope Alex
ander VI. had as personal physician »
Jew, Bonet de Lates, who subsequently
became attached to the court of Louis
X. The edict against Jewish physi
cians was finally raised by Sixtus V.
largely at the instigation of two then
celebrated physicians, David de Pomis
and Elia Montalto. In the latter part
of the eighteenths century Mendels
sohn’s efforts in behalf of his com
patriots were ably seconded by his
friend, the physician Marcus Herz, who
contributed much toward the elevation
of the Jews in Germany. In still!
more recent time Ascher, Steinhelm, '
i Erter and Johann Jacoby have been :
prominent, and the author closes his
enumeration with the widely known
names of Strassmann, Neumann,
pagfnsky and Senator. jl
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Sit of Westmoreland.
The Westmoreland hills are the re
mains of an infinitely older world—
giants decayed, but of a great race and
ancestry; they have the finish, the
delioate or noble loveliness—one might
almost say the manner—that comes of
long and gentle companionship with
those chief forces that make for nat
ural beauty—with air anu water, with
temperate suns and too abundant
| rains. Beside them the Alps are in
human; the Apennines, mere forest
grown heaps—mountains in the mak
ing; while all that Scotland gains from
1 the easy enveloping glory of its heath
er, Westmoreland, which is almost
heatherless, must owe to an infinitude
of fine strokes, tints, curves and group
ings, to touches of magic and to lines
of grace, yet never losing the wild
. energy of precipice and rock that be
longs of right to a mountain world.—
Century.
Mammoth Moth.
The largest moth known is the Giant
Atlas, found in China, the wings of
which measure nine inches across.
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