Show the new york legislature has passed abill a bill to provide pensions for needy widowed mothers mother and it has become a law by the act of governor whitman in affixing his signature to it i lillie klima an 18 bear y earold ear old baltimore girl recently embarked in the new jitney bus business in that city she drove her own car collected her own fares and did a rushing business P during her first days pei lence aa As a measure of economy the amerl american i 1 express company is employing women to take the places of men in its main office more thin than men have been given to women an official says that in one department nine women a are re found to do the work quite as well as nineteen men did it il before margaret schmitt a french woman who by her own confession I 1 accepted 40 from the germans to enter the french lines for the purpose of obtaining strategic military hi information formation was court recently at huneville Lu neville france and shot as a spy before the eyes of the troops of the garrison there mrs josephine hill of millbrook rook ala is thought to be the you youngest digest grandmother on record she was married at the age ae of 32 became a mother when 13 and was widowed at the age of 16 when she was 20 she was married again and the day after her sath ath birthday her fost first grandchild was born A 0 although the sons recently born bom to itts A E loomis in minneapolis are twins their birthdays will be celebrated tina different months and three I 1 daya a I 1 t p is baji biti wi ti jicy r twins to be to 3 hours t apart asi but there is seldom a difference as great as three days mother and children are reported to be doing well the illinois central railroad is experimenting peri with women ticket punchers for its suburban lines out of chicago one of the new new women employees gives as reasons for the change the fact that women have more patience than men they dont get i grouchy and are always polite courteous and optimistic on the allegation that while from anti ann arbor to detroit Mich Mrs mary marv carr carried her infant child upside p down and that while absorbed in a conversation she dropped it under the feet of her companion W E smith who trod on it mrs carr and smith were placed under arrest when the train reached detroit A A resolution has beer been introduced into the territorial legislature of hawaii proposing to ask congress to extend the franchise to hawaiian women A movement is also on foot for the enactment ent of a statute to eliminate the japanese picture bride system in in hawaii the movement is being encouraged cou raged by prominent japanese editors tors ministers educators etc who recommend that only hawaiian born japanese la girls be taken as brides by hawaiians Hawaii ans an investigation conducted by the U S department of 0 agriculture concerning the needs of farm women has brought out numerous complaints of a lack of sanitation and modern improvements of the long hours farm women must spend at house work and the need of power for operating mechanical mach anical household di devices vices many farm are well contented with their lot and are arc satisfied that the country is to superior to the city as a place in which to ilive the investigation appears to to indicate that the condition of farm WO women men is largely aap dependent on oc pros A motor not larger than an ordinary watch and capable of developing one horsepower at a speed of about revolutions per minute was exhibited at the national inventors show in new york recently two gyroscopes operated by compressed air steam or gasoline give the piston two impulses per revolution miss julia lathrop ol of the federal childrens bureau advocates pensions for mothers as a safeguard guard against de vencent children belag brought up in ia destitute circumstances under the pension systems of denmark and new zealand she says children are given a chance to amount to something in later years and she would like to 10 tee see such a system adopted here according to dr N A cobb of falls church va the dreaded hookworm which Is ii being ought by the rockefeller foundation in all parts of the world is not a worm at all but with hundreds of thousands of other parasites 13 s a nematode and therefore might properly be called a ad nema dr cobb has a collection of some nematodes some of which uk the so called hookworm and the archina rc hina found in pork are harmful haim hium ful in a bulletin A method of fumi gating seed which it will furnish on application the department of agriculture explains the use of acid gas in destroying injurious insects in seed the grain to be treated Is placed in a chamber from which the air is partially exhausted and the gas which is a deadly poison is introduced the method is effective eff and the exposure required is considerably sh shorter rah s r go w w e i albert beaudoin Bea of springfield mass dropped dead a few days ago at the undertaking estable establishment to which the body was carried it was discovered that he hc was a woman miss beaudoin for 30 years she had lived as a man and had earned a mans wages nag es without anyone suspecting that she was a woman it is i s believed she adopted the masquerade in order to increase her earnings and support of herself and her widowed sister with whom she resided A novel form of moth trap consisting of a bright light in a glass globe and supported over an open tank of oil is used with much success on california beet ranches for the purpose of 0 destroying moths particularly those of the cutworm cut worm variety the moths fly against the glose glob e surrounding sur the light and fall into the oil ahert they perish hingle traps have been known to capture from 1300 1500 to ol of the insects in a single night As many of these are females it is apparent that the devise prevents the hatchiro hatch hatchi ipg rg of million of destructive wo worms ms in the national museum at washington is the most complete fossilized skeleton known of the genus stegosaurus which is thought to have flourished some years ago the skeleton which wax was found in a qumy quarry near canyon city colo indicates that the specimen must have been 19 feet long and over 11 feet high at the hips I 1 it t was covered with a tough scaly studded at intervals with horny knobs of armor A row of sh sharp rp spines exi tended along alone its back glang it a roost most formidable appearance its hind legs were large and powerful but its fore legs were small and short indicating that it probably could sit U up p like a kangaroo its teeth indicate that it must have subsisted on herbs its skull Is small indicating indica an extremely small brain the skeleton Is exhibited in the museum in almost the same position as ai it was found in the sand stone lonc i harold lutzic a seven year old savannah ga boy has what the doctors call a mirrow eye as a result of which he sees everything as in a mirror that is when ids his brain is made conscious of objects through the eye eve it obtains a sort of reverse picture he starts at the wrong side of the paper to read or write his condition is 13 believed to be hereditary since one ode one of his uncles writes rulof all of his characters backwards and atre has been mother another case of the kind in the family t fires an fn iffla mable liquids especially especial ily when the latter are confined it ri tanks A mixture of bicarbonate and sawdust ix is even more effective because carbon dioxide is 13 generated when the mixture comes in contact with the flames the virtue of the sawdust for this purpose lies largely in the fact act that it floats boats and shuts off 08 orylen instead of sinking into the burning liquid as sand does although the ocean has been sounded to a depth 0 of six miles but few traces of life have been found at depths below four miles scientists say this is due to a lack of food rather than to the enormous pressure that obtains at great depths pressure increases the solubility ol of the water to a considerable extent so that organic materials from the surface which are arc not devoured by sea creatures as they sink are bissol dissolved ved and so become unavailable for food on the theory that the undesirable physiological effects of coffee result from certain products formed in the roasting process rather than irom from the caffeine it contains conti ins coffee berries have been roasted with a coating of some such substance as kolin or china clay to absorb the poisonous products with out removing the caffeine to which the effect is due it has been found that coffee made from berries roasted in chii manner is practically free from the harmful qualities often found in ordinary coffee A chinese student in new york city has invented a typewriter which makes characters and can be used for writing chinese or japanese lie le believes it possible with practice to write 40 words a minute with his invention the characters are m made ada up of corri combinations bl of radicals or base characters and some ome 50 of these combinations are poss possible ble the machine Is operated by means of three key ione ane a back spicer spacer one a spice space key and the third I 1 lat by which the characters are impressed on oa the paper if your roof leaks ask parker warner lumber co about crescent roof C cement e |