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Show Frogs Reveal the Earths Past it cannot be rushed. ' Has Learned of I,ot C ontinents from Them Scientist Vanished ami Seas; Furnish Informati of a Ultra Far Vest. Long-Ag- o tiif frogs rroak you can well with scientific backing, that lungii", the nature songs of lost you nurinenis and vanished seas of the lTo.oHMKiO years. pain a new kind of frog geog- F ti,e records of these lost have been found in living ,y Mavnard M. Metcalf of the jri,, itVi.al museum. His studies are unique method of reading an lie has published ,lie euih'K east, report in t lie oflieia! journal, tlie f.i- These Studied by Mr. Metcalf are the intestinal coimneii-as- , Xhe family opalinidae. A remarkable famD j . t,i. It has dtvelopej L5o species in the gcietiee TRACES DESCENT -t -t -i Tie frog map sliows the tiossilile continent in the a fyut,n. e of great I'aeihc, in Trinssic times, 175,mhJ,Hk) Tliis was Gondvvanda-jarid- . Teai.s ago. of which seien evidences smile I, me found previously by other (londwandaland probably uieihoils. fonnecied with South America. lost frog continent was Anot'ner Leaiariu. It likewise was about 175, years hack, but in the Indian ocean. It appears to have connected Africa, Madagasear, Ceylon, southernmost India, ttie Islands of south-w,.- t M lasia and probably some of pie southwestern Malay arehipelago t'-- is v Islands. Then the frogs show an ultra-fa- r "h.s was a strip of land west present laeitie coast of the fnileil Slates. It ran from Siberia, down pat Alaska, Central America, and perhaps even for a time, Maynard linds, to feuador and Chile. to 100,000,- Its heyday was SO, 000, 000 years ago. In this same cretaceous times, there probably wasn't much Texas. Instead the frogs indicate an arm of the sea there, running up from the western Gulf of Mexico all the way Into the Arctic ocean. finally, 100.000,000 years ago Byrd apparently might have walked to Little America from South America, Australia or Africa, as he chose. Seemingly ttren there was an extended Antarctica, connecting with all three continents. method of reconstructiThe ng the past is through skeletons of animals, hut the frogs left too few bones. Maynard gets his frog map from the commensals of these aniWest, of the mals. A commensal is one who dines nt the same board with another or others." hi human society some commensals are honored positions, but in frogs they are Just plain parasites. Tog. These species are the dews to tlie frogs geographical lie migra! ions ceuldn't swim tlie oceans. There had to he land to neeonat for all the places lie has gmie. Tlie eimmicn-salshow win-rthese places w, re by the changes they underwent and evolved while dining with the frogs s OF BIRDS FROM FLYING REPTILES I Wet-mor- nnr.TTA PAl-- kb. Woman' Editor, New York "There are hardly any women in tlie United States wlu haven't enough dres-e- s and coats and accessories to at least keep them warm and dewe cently clad. One of the tilings have to remember constantly is that we are selling women tilings they don't need to have," said a leading dry goods merchant In a burst of candor. And there you have tlie paradox of fashion, neatly wrapped in cellophane and handed to tlie customer, it is tlie astonishing feat of modern merchants that they can Induce women to go without their lunches and walk to work in order to buy' a hut they do not need and would never have wanted if they had not been shamed into it by the imaginary tv rant Fashion. Men are never tired of asking why we do it. And usually they support their contention of man's greater mental poise by proudly showing a tailor's mark In the suit they are wearing, proving that it was made In 11123. So far as we know there Is only one answer to make, and that Is to explain to thorn Ycblens Theory of Waste and plead guilty to tlie charge of snobbery it involves. This theory, rnesdames, states that as soon as a man or woman lias more money than is needed for the regulation comforts and necessities of a existence the unspent income begins to worry him. lie 1ms worked hard for that money, nnd he wants tlie world to know he lias it. (It Is a vulgar impulse, but there Bv e Complolion of what is described as the smallest printed book in tlie world, a tiny volume of 2s! pages of verses by the 1'ersian siet, Omar Khayyam, was announced recently at Worcester, Mass. The book, so small that Its entire contents would barely cover half of an ordinary postage stamp, contains hi quatrains of Omar's poetry from a translation made several years ago by a Worcester man, Eben Francis Thompson, a widely known student of Persia. The tiny hook is tlie work of Philadelphia publishers, who completed it some time ago, after mere than seven years effort. In its final form, hound in leather covers, it is by of an inch in dimension. It was printed from copper plates. Seven plates, each containing four pages, were made by Two quatrains appear on a page. The completed book weighs a third of a carat. The smallest printed hook previously known was a miniature printed In dev eland, Ohio, in 10O0. Tliis volume, which lias since become a literary rarity, was also a book of Omar's verses, made up from tlie fourth edition of Fitzgerald's translation. It was approximately of an Inch taller than tlie lo- well-ordere- photo-engravin- it one-eight- h Childs First Three Years Character Then Developed Lasts Through Life; Writer Cites a Case Which Would Seem to Iroe Truth of Jesuitical Theory. By L. F. RAMSKY, National Kin- dergarten Association. Ursula has just been to see me. She iswi young composer, in'the twenANDES MOUNTAIN ties, of whom tlie world will hear. TOWERS BEYOND And when recognition comes, as it FAMED EVEREST surely will, no one will he moreIn thrilled than I, who had a share this musical genius. Mount Everest Is accepted as the developing notice that I said, only, "in Please highest mountain In the world. But devoloping." what do we mean by high? ElevaIn the beginning, It just happened. tions are given In terms of sea level. If we measure them from the cen- I used to practice the piano each ter of the earth it turns out that morning during tlie time Ursula's Chimborazo in the Andes Is 2.200 Nannie was having breakfast, nnd meters (7.217.8 feet) higher than from tlie age of three weeks the baby Mount Everest. was brought into tlie room and lay In presenting this argument in Die there while I played. It made no difrrtiH'liau, Dr. G. Resell points out ference whether she was awake or that accurate measurements have asleep; she never cried. When she been made of the distance of sea was aide to sit up I was startled one level from the center of the earth morning to see her swaying backfrom die equator to the poles. Where wards and forwards to tlie rhythm the distance is not known It can lie of tlie music. deduced with an error of hut a few At six months old, she sang her tueters. While it Is true that the first musical sounds, two notes at earth is not a perfect sphere, or even the Interval of a third, in Imitation sn ellipsoid, no correction need lie of tlie sound made by tlie swinging Diade on the score of figure because of a hanging lamp- - At eleven months tiie earth's diameter docs not vary old, she sang the first phrase of a sufficiently. song, of which I had jut played the Measured from the center of the introduction a phrase which did earth, Mount Everest Is exceeded In' not occur in the pianoforte part height not only by Chimborazo but Ursula now began to show strong by Ilnascaran. On bis first flight Mendelssohn's nud dislikes. likes Into die stratosphere Piccard readied "Lied No. 10" in B minor was a faau altitude of 13.8 km. (0.70 miles) she always chuckled when or G.PA2 km. (3,0G5.G miles) from the vorite and Heller's "Studies" apI played It. center of the earth, llis height" pealed to her and Handel's "Harwas therefore about that of Mount Before 6he monious Blacksmith." Everest. Had he ascended from a was a year old, she surprised everyplace on the equator or from one of at a copy of her the mountains of Ecuador he would body by snatching brother's "Little Folks" which conreally have readied an altitude greattained a page of music, shouting gleeer than any ever attained by man. Pian, pian'. As it Is, tlie world's record must fully: of old magazines was A pile he given to any aviators who may she picked out the page and have flown over Chimborazo. Even brought from each one, with tlie music of the Russian stratosphere balloonists "ho came to a tragic end alter same cry. She now began to Identify out: reaching an altitude of I'M ktn. me with the Instrument, calling Pian', pian," directly she caught Ul:!3 miles) did not overtop Picmonths, card, measured by the earth-cente- r sight of me. At twenty-twsuch as fifteen songs, could she sing amiard, inasmuch as they ascend-"Since First I Saw Your Face, and from a more there-fornnd northerly a deeper" latitude New York other old English songs. Times. Site never wearied of listening. 1 e One Sunday afternon, I played to her for over three hours, nnd she sat by tlie piano in her high chair listening intently and occasionally volunteer"Fiat welly jolly! ing a comment: or asking. "What dat called?" One of those popular nirs that spread throughout tlie world like an epidemic was all tlie rage and I played it over one day to Ursula, before she was two. She was standing by the piano nnd had never before Interrupted me, but before I had sung two lines she protested : No, no." Then, as I paid no attention, she threw herself face downwards on tlie floor, sobbing out: "Baby not like! It was just about tliis time that her brother had a humming-tothat was not in tune and Ursula would liowl with her hands to her tars if she heard it. lie thought it n Joke, hut it was no Joke to a child with a musical temperament. At two years old, Ursula recognized any of Beethoven's sonatas and would find tlie one she wanted in the volume. She began then to recognize similarities, and once whet.1 I was playing tlie "No. 10 hied." she reI was marked : Like Pastorale. nnd it is noticeplaying bars able that bars of tlie "Pastorale" are similar. She now began to recognize tlie styles of different composers and would remark confidently: "Dat Grieg!" or "Dat Gounod!" Before she was three, she was taken to a pianoforte recital and sat through it, one of the most Interested listeners. The Jesuit who was confident that if he might have the care of a child during Its early years he need nor fear the- Influence of any later environment has given us food for thought. Ursula seems to support his theory. She will always choose the companionship of good music. She Is a genius, doubtless, because of inheritance, though we know not from what ancestor or ancestors, hut her cultured taste who can doubt that such Idealistic discrimination' is the result o fher early education? is.) What can he do? He can buy something he doesn't really need or intrinsically desire, just to show that lie can afford it. lie will buy six automobiles, although it Is obvious that be can ride In only one at a time, lie will build a 30 room house and live In one wing of It. He will buy Rembrandts, even If he does not care for paintings and diamonds that he cannot tell from glass. After a few generations the wealthy usually grow accustomed to tlie fact that they are rich and are less interested In advertising tlie fact. They can then shed their ostentation and stop huying things they do not want and begin to enjoy themselves. But in almost every instance you will still find them consuming a great many more things than they enjoy consuming because a certain amount of waste Is demanded by the conventions which surround their lives. It Is on this foundation that fashion rests. Formerly It was possible for a woman of high degree to buy silks nnd satins which were prohibitively expensive. Their very frarfl-limarked them as wasteful nnd snobbish possessions, for their appearance proved to all observers that mndame was unaccustomed to tlie scrubbing of floors. And so long as silk was the mark of high estate, so 07-7- 3 73-7- y . . . qlassware stanoa cents . . . A French film actor lias just been sentenced to six months imprisonment for assaulting two strangers in the streets of Paris. lie explained that he did It because lie did not like their faces." Ilis fate may deter olhers from making similar experiments, but a good many people may sympathize with another form of direct act Ion tried by a lady in a New' York bus. When the driver failed to stop tlie vehicle at her request, she politely took his hat and threw it out of the window. But here, too. thorp are a good many possible snags," and tlie example Is hardly out to be followed. Too hasty a reaction to things that annoy us is, indeed, usually a mistake. A British mother discovered that the other day when she thrashed her son because he came home soaking wet She thought he had fallen Into tlie local canal really he had Jumped In to rescue a younger boy who was in danger of drowning. London Answers. in the Extreme North The reindeer, traditional means of transportation for Santa Claus In his trips from tlie North pole, serve a really practical purpose In every-dalife. In Lapland and Siberia the reindeer serves tlie fourfold purposes of horse, cow, goat ani sheep In other lands. The reindeer furnish a satisfactory supply of milk, material for clothing and incut foi the table. Unlike other type: of deer, the female Is as well equipped with antlers as tlie male, the prongs serving to scoop snow aside to bare the reindeer moss and other forms of vegetation on which they feed. The reindeer are comparatively , but still, when domestican draw weights up to 3,300 cated, The IKiuruls at a speed of 10 miles an y STRONG RULERS IN THE ORIENT short-legged- Careers Reminiscent of Arabian Nights. hour. The United Stales government has There are still men in tlie Orient been actively engaged In propagatwho have had careers typical of Tlie ing reindeer In Alaska to aid the naArabian Nights," but even in the tives in the more extreme sections of Orient a certain change seems to the country. have occurred. No longer does the good will of a eunuch, the pleasure of a pasha, or the love of a princess bring advancement, but, remarkable as it may seem, courage, courage, courage with luck and diplomacy added. Mustaphn Kernal Pasha had such a career, rising from tlie position of commander of a Turkish army corps on the Palestine front to ruler of modern Turkey. Itiza Shay had such a career, rising from noncommissioned Cossack officer to Cossack colonel, then from colonel to prime minister and then emperor of Iersia. King Ibn Saud had such a career. He was born a son of an exiled Arabian monarch and set out at tlie STOP THE WASTE OF 1 GALLON OF GAS age of eighteen to win hack his faIN 10 . . . HAVE YOUR SPARK PLUGS thers kingdom, Just as the prince In CLEANED IN THE AC SPARK PLUS CLEANER "The Arahian Nights" goes to do bata plug tle against the evil Jinnee. only And between these three soldiera When your spark plugs are oxide-coate-d, ruled a fourth king from "The ArIntermitthey mis-fir- e abian Nights," living in Bagdad, tlie This wastes as much as 1 tently. He, too, city of Harun gallon of gas in 10. Ask any was a new iiuhi on the throne, who Registered AG Dealer, Garage or had also commenced ids career on Service Station to stop this loss of the field of battle. He, too, was a money by cleaning your spark figure out of "The Arabian Nights, plugs with the AC Cleaner. but King Faisal of Irak was a very Replace badly worn plugs with different kind of man from his three New ACs. neighbors. Look for tha The delicate descendant of a line of aristocratic priests, lie adapted himself to the more robust methods of the new politics of the Orient. 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Our Soda sprinkled on a damp beautifully bright and clean Get it from your grocer Reindeers Great Value Tuna in: Well to Think Before Taking Direct Action cleans white enameled woodwork, bathtubs, our Baking Soda will cleanse long could fashions Jog quietly along with few changes from season to season. But manufacturers devised ways of making silk so cheaply that all classes could afford It, and Its possession ceased to he a proof of solYet the snobbish Impulse vency. How could it be exremained. pressed? Well, you and I and fifty million other American women know the anInstead of swer to our sorrow. a dress one year, our taffeta buying grande dame began to buy twenty. And each one was so differently devised from Its predecessor that tlie onlooker knew It had come smack out of a shop window within a week. Irett.v soon we were all trying to keep up with her panting a little, blinking our eyes, giving into bankruptcy, hut wearing the dress of the month Instead of the very pretty model left over from last fall. is why And that, grandchildren, there is no such tiling ns fashion in any socialist community. King Tbn Saud, his southern neighbor, is physically the strongest man In bis kingdom, a man of unlimited vital energy who has been married 150 times, although he never lias more than four wives Ht once. Ills western neighbor, Riza Shah, Is at least as big a man as Ibn Saud, and, wherens tlie king of Arabia Is a comparatively slender man, tlie shall of Iersia looks like a Pomeranian Junker, bony, muscular, with a square bead and powerful Jaw. The dictator of Turkey is built in the same way. He Is an old soldier who can always summon up his ultimate physical reserves for battle or pleasure. Dr. Wolfgang von Weise in the None Freie I'resse, Vienna. THE QUALITY A soft cloth wrung from a Baking Soda solution safely World-Telegra- raj-- Seven Years Work on Worlds Smallest Book Ail birds descended fiotn thing reptiles with teeth, according to' Dr. Alexander Wetniore, assistant secretary of tlie Smithsonian institution, lie has traced the family history of the birds back to tin grotesque areheopteryx and archeornis, nature's first attempts at bird making. At tlie top of the scale of evolution are tlie songbirds, while the most primitive birds living today are tlie ostrich arid tlie penguin. The story of tlie Wright brothers is well known. Rut how did tlie first flying reptile manage to "take off?" There were few airports at that time and those were not equipped with modern safety devices. None of tlie animals or reptiles had made a c flight or a journey to the stratosphere and there were no birds to soar and glide gracefully through the air. Flying existed only in tlie mind's eye of the lowly though imaginative reptile, and while it had a good set of teeth, it could not use them in such an undertaking. Tills happened about 150,000,000 years ago. nnd we are frequently reminded that evolution can accomplish wonders in millions of years. But cal book. trans-Atlanti- Fashion Sells Women Things Not Required? The coppcr-rattlesnakes, water moccasins ami tdack snakes of the Ozurks have never sprouted wings, nor has any one of them ever been heard to sing ike a mocking bird. Their offspring always lack both the ambition and the ability to fly. But that does not mean they will always remnla ns they are, unless, indeed, evolution sometimes runs into a blind nlle.v, a possibility suggested by Doctor himself. lie ventures tlie opinion that birds may have reached tlie end of the evolutionary road, because lie soys, civilized man is disturbing the natural conditions of tlie earth. And If birds will never become reptiles, perhaps reptiles will never become birds. St. Louis Globe Democrat, Busina, established in th year 1846 |