Show PARIS TO SIMPLIFY SPELLING Lines Advocated by Roosevelt Will Be Followed Paris Simplified phonetic spelling upon the lines advocated by President Hoosevelt is to be Introduced In the public schools by M Doumorgue the minister of public Instruction This reform which is to be strictly limited to various groups of double consonants conso-nants received the approval of the French Academy the arbiter In all matters pertaining to the orthography and construction of the French language lan-guage as long ago as 1893 but has not heretofore received government sanc i tionThe The reform while it will be Introduced Intro-duced In the schools during the present pres-ent school year will not be obligatory a sort of edict of tolerance for the new fashion of spelling SEARCH FOR RICH CASKET SEARCH FOR RICH CASKET Queer Mission on Which Chicago Man Has Set Forth Chicago A weird mission has been assigned to John F Goodrich 168 i Fortylifth street He is to search through all the graveyards In New Orleans Or-leans for a casket thought to be burled there that Is equipped with I rich gold plates and solid gold handles The wood of the casket Is of a rare mahogany grain Inlaid with jewels and hand carved in costly workmanship workman-ship In fact the coffin Itself Is a treasure Goodrich Is a traveling salesman and was given the task of finding this grim treasure by C H Carston a wealthy Chicago manufacturer by whom ho is cinployed The casket according ac-cording to the family history of the Cnrstcns was brought to America from Franco over a half century ago by a grandfather of the Chicago Cars ten When the Carsten family came to America the elder Carsten thought ho was coming to a wild and desolate country and as he did not expect to I return to his native home again ho bought t and look I with him I a magnificent magnifi-cent casket In I which I he hoped i that his remains i would be buried In America however Carstn did not prosper I as he had expected lie verses came and little by little ho lost all lie had At last Caruleu was obliged I lo I trade I lie provision he had made for his death to provide for his living He sold the rich coffin for aIn a-In uge sum to t n New Orleans undertaker under-taker I And afterward when ho h did die he was buried in a plain pine box Fortune favored his grandson C It Carsten who Is a welltodo Chicago manufacturer The grandson Is advancing ad-vancing In I roars and has long cher ished an ambition to hunt out and locate lo-cate the rich coffin brought over by his grandfather Tho task was given to Mr Goodrich who Is now on his way to New Orleans |